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To protect user data from unauthorized access, vast volumes of sensitive information are encrypted before being transmitted to and stored on cloud platforms. Nevertheless, encryption inherently limits the platform\u2019s ability to manipulate encrypted data, like direct search or matching on ciphertexts. Traditional Public Key Encryption with Equality Test (PKEET) schemes address this issue by enabling ciphertext equivalence verification without decryption, but they lack support for multi-ciphertext scenarios and fine-grained security. We propose a novel quantum-resistant Public Key Encryption with Multi-ciphertexts Equality Test (PKE-MET) scheme, the first to be constructed based on the Learning with Rounding (LWR) problem in lattice-based cryptography. We prove that the scheme achieves Chosen Ciphertext Attack (CCA2) security under the standard model, addressing the limitation of the existing Learning With Error (LWE)-based PKE-MET scheme which only reaches Chosen-Plaintext Attack (CPA) security. Compared with LWE-based solution, our scheme eliminates the need for complex discrete Gaussian sampling and adopts a smaller modulus. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that our proposed scheme exhibits good ciphertext scalability. Compared with the LWE-based solution, it requires only approximately 1\/3 of the ciphertext storage. 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