Some of these stories are solid 4-star stories. Most are fine. A couple are 2-stars.

My two favorites:
A Counterfeit Life by Chen Si'an: about a man who accidentally discovers he can make a good living by pretending to be the person others are waiting for it. It starts when he is mistaken for a late wedding MC. By loitering around different places and dressing in certain ways, he discovers people will often assume he is the person they are waiting for. He gets more daring and braver, and can pull of just about everything. And then he begins recruiting others that are down on their luck--just as he was--to do the same sort of thing.

Flourishing Beasts by Yan Ge: About a species of woman/tree, who live and are raised at The Temple of the Antiquities. They have human women there to help tend them, as the main character's mother did when she was a young woman.

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Lip Service by Zhu Hui: there are quite a few sentences here that would fit right in on r/menwritingwomen

The Mushroom Houses Proliferated in District M by Enoch Tam: Interesting, but mushrooms are NOT plants (translation issue or from the original?). Mushrooms are fungi, and are actuaklly more closely related to humans than to plants. So, yeah. ( )