Novels About Craftsmen 工匠类小说

1. 51 哥 Big Brother Goes to Cultivate Immortality, Little Brother Comes to Farm 哥去修仙，种田弟来 Book Silkworm书蚕虫Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsOngoing [No System] [No Items] [Farming] [Management] [Science + Metaphysics] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, with no System and no wise old mentor, he has to flee for his life from the start... While others are still fighting to the death over half a tattered manual or killing for a few cultivation supplies, Chen Fei glances at the data from the Spirit Realm: 80,000+ Yellow-tier techniques collected, 5,000+ Black-tier techniques, Earth-tier... The traditional path to immortality: Kill → 6.1kReads7.5Score392Shelves

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   A craftsman in the cultivation world. Promoting Chinese in another world, engaging in a price war for elixirs, and turning tribulations into furnaces. This book has an incredibly imaginative concept and a unique setting, which is why it lost money on Tomato. It slowly develops from a small border army into a top-tier power. Rune computers, communication talismans, internet, computer-generated cultivation techniques, an online library of cultivation arts… The so-called spiritual power setting is very scientific, the logic is sound, and there are no major flaws. It's very well written! The novel constructs a unique narrative of technological cultivation, showcasing a very exciting story of workshop management and technological innovation in a cultivation world. It blends cultivation elements with ancient social changes, and the main storyline of the collision between science and cultivation civilization has the potential to develop a unique cultivation worldview… No female lead, no cheat codes, no system, no powerful backer—how can it subvert the cultivation genre?

2. 52 工 Industrial Inspection: The Foreign Powers Are Actually Me! 工业大摸底：列强竟是我自己！ Mighty and Majestic雄风赫赫Urban463k WordsCompleted Because Western countries have restricted access to technology, the Dragon Kingdom’s military industry has been slow to develop. To assess the strength of private businesses, the government secretly launched the “Great Industrial Survey” initiative. After conducting the survey, the rabbits discovered that they weren’t short on long johns at all. They’d just been wearing them backward! Guangqi Paint, you use it to evade speed-detection radar? Aircraft carrier arresting cables? The Eagle guys have 1.9kReads5.8Score100Shelves
3. 53 刚 The Industrial Revolution Has Just Begun, and You're Telling Me This Is Journey to the West? 刚工业革命，你跟我说这是西游？ Salt-Baked Braised Egg盐焗卤蛋Eastern Fantasy690k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead + Doubled Rewards + Beating Up Buddhists and Daoists + Humanity’s Rise] After binding to the Tycoon Knowledge System, he transmigrates into the Tang Dynasty as Li Ke, Prince of Wu. The System is incredibly powerful. In just a few years, the technology in Yongzhou City, under Li Ke’s command, advances by leaps and bounds. It reaches the level of the twentieth century. In the thirteenth year of the Zhenguan era, a severe drought strikes the Guanzhong region. Just as Li Ke is desper 699Reads8.2Score101Shelves
4. 54 头 My First Time Running a Scam, and the Government Took Notice 头一次搞诈骗，竟被国家关注了 Jiujiu Jiu啾啾旧Urban96k WordsOngoing “How much did you scam them out of?” “Four million… dollars!” Everyone was stunned! They thought he was just some pretty-faced little con artist. Who knew he was a supersized croc! “Where are your accomplices?” “I don’t have any. It’s just me.” “Then what were you selling?!” “Weapons.” “You agreed to sell weapons to someone?” “I didn’t sell guns. I sold missiles!” —Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 55 因 I Look Too Much Like a Woman, and I Can’t Hide How Powerful I Am 因为长得太像女人，太强藏不住了 Yan Huangzi炎黄子Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Reborn after transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Xi found that the System had given her a bizarre newbie mission from the start. Three years later, after graduating from a Taoist academy, Chu Xi enrolled at Nearshore University and successfully unlocked the System's choice missions. But the System played dirty. From the start, the choices were either a free aircraft carrier or a satellite. This was enough to send her blood pressure through the roof… 3.6kReads8.9Score228Shelves
6. 56 重 Reborn in the Republic of China: An Industrial Powerhouse 重生民国：工业强国 Wandering Cantaloupe游走的哈密瓜Urban236k WordsOngoing Reborn in Northeast China in 1930, Shen Ming unexpectedly acquired the “Technology Makes the Nation Strong” System and became the son of the richest man in the Republic of China. With the fall of Northeast China looming, he knew that passion alone could not save the country. So he lay low in a remote corner, quietly building strength in a small, out-of-the-way city, secretly developing industry, cultivating talent, and gathering resources. From building roads and bridges to opening factories, fr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 57 鹰 Eagle Sauce: Bunny, You Call This a Developing Country? 鹰酱：兔子，你管这个叫发展中国家？ Lazy Bug, Lazy Bug懒虫懒虫Urban2.2M WordsCompleted Xu Hai was born into a family of researchers, yet became the only “devoted son” in the family who couldn’t even get into college. Fortunately, Xu Hai bound himself to a Black Tech System and gained access to countless strategic weapons far ahead of their time. As Eagle Sauce flaunted its strength and tried to choke the Rabbit’s supply chains, Xu Hai waved a hand and said, “Go ahead, doubt me all you want!” “You have a 0.3-nanometer lithography machine? Sorry, then what’s this 0.1-nanometer one y 1.8kReads6.5Score236Shelves
8. 58 科 Science and Ruthless Tricks: A Spoonful of Non-Dairy Creamer from the Start 科技与狠活，开局一勺三花淡奶 My Family Has No Money我家没钱Urban454k WordsCompleted Zhang Fan was just an ordinary, obscure food-review streamer. On a desolate street, a System suddenly streaked across the sky and came to him. With just a glance, Zhang Fan could see how any food was made and what ingredients it contained. After using every food additive imaginable to synthesize all his ingredients, Zhang Fan finally became the restaurant industry's public enemy. Whenever he opened his livestream, it was packed with viewers. "He's here, he's here! It's him, the food-review strea 37Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 59 工 Industrial Inspection: You’re Making Movies with Black Technology? 工业大摸底：你用黑科技拍电影？ School Beauty, Don't Make a Fuss校花别闹Sci-Fi & Apocalypse686k WordsCompleted Also known as: “Everyone Else Is Still Exploring Industry, and You're Already Digging Into Sci-Fi?” “I’m a Movie Mob Boss! From the Start, I Use a Nuke to Break Into the Eagle Sauce Market?” The Rabbit's industrial inspection revealed that the world's leading powers were actually… us. Aircraft carrier arresting cables, unmanned bombers, stealth coatings… These were all treasures! But just as the Rabbit thought these companies would land on Eagle Sauce's sanctions list, it turned out that the com 247Reads5.4Score—Shelves
10. 60 开 On the Brink of Bankruptcy, I Used Technology to Conquer the World from the Start 开局濒临破产，我用科技逆袭全球 Feng Yuzhu峰羽筑Urban1.8M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chen Fan takes over his family’s bankrupt gas-canister factory. From then on, the Middle East has a new arms supplier. Later, Chen Fan starts making fishing gear, and the Air Force gains a supplier of stealth materials. Then he moves on to toys, only for the state to take over the business outright... 17.1kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves

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    Industrial technology innovation and scientific and technological personnel are truly amazing and impressive. The long-awaited technological breakthrough...

11. 61 科 Technology: I Asked You to Make a Nut, So Why Did You Drive the Yanks Crazy? 科技：让你生产个螺母，你把鹰酱逼疯了？ Lucky Cat from Planet Meow喵星人来福Urban1.3M WordsCompleted From the start: After Chen Mu inherits his father’s machinery factory, he obtains a super-futuristic technology System. The anti-loosening bolts he manufactures are so advanced that Eagle Sauce puts them on its sanctions list. Longguo’s Foreign Ministry: “These super-sci-fi nuts are so advanced that we must respond to Eagle Sauce with equivalent countermeasures.” Longguo’s Ministry of National Defense: “We’ll start by signing a contract for an order worth 100 million yuan. There’ll be even more 187Reads5.1Score—Shelves
12. 62 工 Industrial Investigation! You Call This a Small Business? 工业大摸底！你管这叫小微企业？ A Xiang from South of the City城南阿湘Urban501k WordsCompleted [Cutting-Edge Technology, Sci-Fi, Interstellar, Parallel Universes, Mind-Bending High-Dimensional Ideas] At first, Lu Xingchen thought his transmigration was nothing out of the ordinary. This world's Blue Star was no different from the one he'd known before. But after some time, the world began growing more complicated and chaotic... From a sweeping industrial audit to an alien invasion. From pursuing a hobby to uncovering secrets. All Lu Xingchen had wanted was to start a small business and con 1.4kReads—Score105Shelves
13. 63 工 The Rise of Industry: From the Yellow Earth to the Sea of Stars 工业崛起：从黄土地到星辰大海 Nature Made天成自然Urban217k WordsCompleted The nation rises from the predicament of industrial backwardness. From handicrafts to light industry, then to heavy industry and cutting-edge technology, Bu Zhan joins hands with his childhood sweetheart, Mu Ying, and uses bamboo fiber technology to spark an industrial revolution that sweeps the globe. 28Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 64 穿 Transmigrating to 1978: The Road to a Military Industry Boom 穿越1978：军工崛起之路 Mongoose of Beka Valley贝卡谷的獴Urban331k WordsOngoing An accident sent him from 2020 back to 1978, a special era full of opportunity and challenges. He had hoped for an ordinary life, but an unexpected family crisis forced him into the maelstrom of the defense industry. His father and uncle were arrested for “violations.” As the investigation unfolded, they discovered a huge conspiracy lurking behind it all. Facing complicated workplace struggles and unknown dangers, he relied on his deep understanding of future technology and extraordinary intelli 30Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 65 重 Reborn: The Rise of Industry 重生：工业崛起 Nine-Needle Pine九针青松Urban267k WordsOngoing Reborn, doting on his wife, factories, development, passionate action Reborn thirty years in the past, Wang Chong sets new industrial manufacturing standards for the world! As for the protests from the overseas powers, raising prices and cutting off supplies? We’ll talk about that after I finish discussing it with my underlings... 41Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 66 情 Love in the Courtyard: Bixia Yuanjun 情满四合院之碧霞元君 Recluse of Mount Tai泰山居士Male-Channel Fanfiction2.9M WordsOngoing With the protection of Bixia Yuanjun of Mount Tai, also known as Granny Mount Tai, Wang Shengwen's soul transmigrates into the story of Love in the Courtyard in the 1960s. He carries out the duties of “helping the nation prosper and its people thrive, aiding those in peril and rescuing those in danger, rewarding merit and punishing wrongdoing,” using real events as they happen to change the outlook of the people of that era. The protagonist has been deeply shaped by traditional Chinese Taoist th 2.4kReads8.1Score107Shelves

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    This book is about industrial courtyard houses, and it explains the principles behind various machines. People who are interested can give it a try.

17. 67 异 Celestial Wonders, Masterful Craft 异象天工 Seven Years Later七年之后Sci-Fi & Apocalypse80k WordsCompleted When cracks in blue-and-white porcelain become the genetic chain of the universe, Su Yao uses "Heavenly Craft Intelligence" to tear apart the veil of space and time. In the quantum abyss, she glimpses the ultimate form of civilization: consciousness flows like glaze through an eleven-dimensional kiln, while painful memories are forged into the patterns of galaxies. By the banks of the Gusu River, she uses a shard of porcelain from her mother's fatal fall as a key, while Qin Feng uses a magnetic- —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    "The Ingenious Craftsmanship" - A Must-Read for Bookworms: Quantum blue-and-white porcelain tears apart destiny, Eastern cyberpunk strikes at the soul. When the cracks in blue-and-white porcelain become the key to quantum tunneling, when the torrential rain in Suzhou flows backward into poetry in the event horizon of a black hole, this masterpiece blending ceramic aesthetics and hard science fiction will completely shatter your imagination of "Eastern cyberpunk." The protagonist, Su Yao, breaks through the impasse with a blood-stained porcelain shard, engaging in a game of chess with her century-old family on a virtual boat of reincarnation. Every business battle brings her closer to the truth behind her mother's fall. The mad scientist Qin Feng uses his own body as a conductor, allowing electromagnetic pulses and Suzhou storytelling to resonate in ten-dimensional spacetime. Every image in the book is a sharp blade: a Dior lipstick hides a nano-weapon, a jade bracelet is engraved with cosmic coordinates, and a bronze coffin holds the bones and blood of civilization. The author uses words at 1280°C to forge humanity, allowing pain to crystallize in the glaze into a redemption that transcends dimensions. Readers in a reading slump should proceed with caution—after reading this, you will see subway turnstiles as if they were kiln fire sites, and feel the cracks in a teacup as if they were scars of time.

18. 68 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
19. 69 天 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 Mu Xiao Sansheng沐潇三生Eastern Fantasy6.4M WordsOngoing (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 976.7kReads9.4Score99.9kShelves
20. 70 从 Cultivating the Dao Through Carpentry 从木工开始修真 Northern Geese in Flight北雁飞舞Urban620k WordsCompleted Cui Shiguang was an apprentice carpenter. While following his master deep into the mountains to cut timber, he fell into a cave while fleeing from a venomous snake. There, he obtained the legacy of a cultivator and began his journey toward immortality, one step at a time. 3.8kReads9.0Score334Shelves

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    This novel tells the story of a carpenter's apprentice who unexpectedly obtains a cultivation inheritance while logging in the deep mountains, thus beginning his path of cultivation. Through continuous effort and practice, he gradually masters cultivation skills and embarks on the path to immortality.

21. 71 大 The Pillars of a Great Nation 大国重器 Xuan Lanhu玄蓝狐Urban1.5M WordsCompleted The most important thing in a nation is its people. Agriculture is the foundation of its survival, and manufacturing is the key to its strength! Televisions, telephones, cars, engines… He knows all the principles and can even reverse-engineer the complete blueprints. But without sufficient manufacturing capacity, it’s all just talk, and imports remain the only option. Only when a nation has mastered powerful manufacturing capabilities can it truly stand among the world’s strongest. This is an ag 3.1kReads8.7Score255Shelves

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    🔻1 The younger sister is seriously ill and urgently needs a large sum of money for surgery. The protagonist cannot afford it, and his life is plunged into darkness. At this moment, the protagonist thinks of the mysterious inheritance left by his father. He opens the box and obtains a glove with mysterious power. With its help, the protagonist picks up the wood carving skills again and gradually becomes a master craftsman.

22. 72 重 Reborn in 1976: The Industrial Internet Empire 重生76：工业互联网帝国 Flowing Spring Washes the Inkstone流泉洗砚Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Ren Jie, a professor in the metallurgy department of a university in Yanjing, never married after his girlfriend was assaulted by thugs and jumped off a cliff to her death while he was sent to the countryside for reeducation. By a twist of fate, Ren Jie is reborn in the countryside where he was once sent to work. Amid the intertwined love and hatred of two lifetimes, he pursues revenge and roams the land as a fugitive. See how he survives in the cracks of his era and, after enduring countless tr 405Reads8.3Score100Shelves
23. 73 重 Reborn in 1985: A Young Man with a Bright Future 重生1985，少年大有可为 vRunning Snailvv奔跑的蜗牛vUrban2.0M WordsOngoing At forty, Shen Mo returned to 1985. The child of educated youths sent to southern Yunnan, he was left behind when his parents returned to Shanghai and divorced. “Dad has a home, Mom has a home, and I'm left all by myself. Am I just in the way...” The lyrics from a TV drama he'd once watched had become his own life. Shen Mo was now an unwanted burden, unloved by both grandmothers, but he still had his second uncle. “Xiao Mo, the city registration fee is nearly four hundred yuan, but your second u 189.4kReads8.5Score17.1kShelves

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24. 74 重 Back to the Layoff Wave of the 1990s: I Lead the Whole Factory to Prosperity 重回九零下岗潮，我带着全厂发家致富 Wen Yi文屹Urban2.1M WordsCompleted When he was young, Cheng Shi, a factory worker, was forced out of his job after someone else took credit for his work. He headed south to find work and, through his own hard work and talent, became a top entrepreneur and electromechanical expert. Because machine-tool technology, hailed as the “mother of industry,” lagged behind, he and his fellow Chinese spent their whole lives being crushed by the West, swallowing their indignation year after year. And because he missed his chance to be there f 320Reads7.7Score149Shelves
25. 75 超 Awakened Superbrain: Turning Things Around from the Mental Hospital 超脑觉醒：开局精神病院逆袭 Panda Wu Xiaobao熊猫吴小宝Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Ruthless and Decisive, No Saintly Heroics] Chen Ye is struck in the brain by a burst of gamma rays, and suddenly finds himself with a wealth of new memories and knowledge. Memories of spies, officials, special forces soldiers, hackers, doctors, professors, and more... In that moment, he knows his chance to turn his life around has finally come. Diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder and considered extremely prone to violence, Chen Ye has been tormented in a psychiatric hospital for six ye 9.2kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
26. 76 哈 Hahaha, Great Ming 哈哈哈，大明 Weiwei's Wei微微的薇Historical3.2M WordsCompleted In an age when everyone is rebelling, to survive, you have to be more ruthless than every rebel king. You have to become the greatest rebel king of all. Take down Gao Yingxiang first, then Zhang Xianzhong, then Li Zicheng, and after that, go straight for the Eight Banners. You Manchus, your emperor is back. 460.1kReads9.4Score66.8kShelves
27. 77 全 My Clan Raised Me to Greatness, So I Gifted Them Purple Robes 全族扶我青云志，我赠族人朱紫袍 Uncle Jianghe江河大爷Historical2.2M WordsOngoing After dying suddenly from overwork, workaholic Chen Yan is reborn as the only son of a newly born provincial graduate in the Great Liang Dynasty. His father is successful, so Chen Yan promptly decides to lie flat and enjoy the good life, with food brought to him and clothes laid out for him. But when he learns at the age of six that he was switched at birth with a farmer's child, his life takes a turn. The day the fake young master returns to the Chen family, he goes out to work in the fields an 214.1kReads9.3Score21.3kShelves
28. 78 穿 Between Two Worlds, with an Armored Tide at My Back 穿梭两界，我的身后是钢铁洪流 Boundless Rivers and Mountains无限江山Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsOngoing [Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Calling in the Parents] + [Steel Torrent] + [Mechanical Fantasy] + [Across the Stars] + [Smart Characters] Ultimate Summoning Technique: Motherland, I need you! Transmigration means hacking through thorns and blazing a trail, struggling through hardships, facing deadly battles and danger at every turn. After fighting tooth and nail in another world to carve out a tiny territory, the enemy is about to reach his gates. The foolish nobles have abandoned my country. Th 47kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves
29. 79 从 Industrialization in Another World: Starting from Scratch 从零开始的异世界工业 As a Child, I Was Like a Cat儿时像只猫Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsCompleted [The Rise of the Red Demon] [Germany] [Soviet Union] [Magic] [War] [Tech Tree] [Beast-Eared Girls] No System, no wise old mentor, just the memories of a mechanical engineer who loves technology. My name is Leon. I’m from Earth, but a truck sent me to a world full of magic, where I became a lowly lord exiled to the legendary wasteland known as the Land of Sin. I thought that was the end of it, until the moment I arrived in the Land of Sin. That was when I realized: an era that belongs to me, that 8.6kReads8.3Score826Shelves
30. 80 魔 Magic's Industrial Revolution 魔法之工业革命 Zhou One大周一号Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsOngoing This novel starts off a little slowly. The first ten chapters mainly lay the groundwork. Transmigrate into a world of magic and combine magic with technology! Take inspiration from Minecraft redstone circuits to create [Logic] magic arrays! Apply the principles of magic to build refrigerators, guns, cannons, and mechs, and invent more efficient machines! Free people from manual labor, boost productivity, create wealth, and spark an Industrial Revolution in a world of magic. [Raises a gun] T 11.1kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
31. 81 抗 War of Resistance: An Industrial Powerhouse 抗战之工业强国 Feng Zirui Loves White-Cut Duck爱吃白切鸭的凤子睿Urban1.6M WordsOngoing Slow to warm up, detailed, no System, with a realistic style... This is a realistic story about logistics! I mainly want to explore just how much an ordinary worker could accomplish in the era of resistance against Japan. So if you’re looking for a System novel, this isn’t for you... Also, the protagonist arrives in the Taihang Mountains in 1938, so he gets there early. Stop asking him to seek out powerful patrons! Note: The base areas were in their formative stage from 1937 to 1940, in their c 4.6kReads7.6Score202Shelves
32. 82 火 The Red-Hot Era: Rising to the Top by Building Cars! 火红年代：从打造汽车开始崛起！ The Flying Emperor飞翔的大帝Urban297k WordsOngoing Liu Yong, a top automotive expert of the new era, is unexpectedly reborn in the fiery years of the past. The new republic is just getting on its feet, with everything waiting to be rebuilt and its automotive industry a blank slate. As luck would have it, Liu Yong awakens an automotive knowledge base and resolves to help develop the country's auto industry! Starting with hand-built motorcycles, he moves on to military trucks, airborne trikes, self-propelled artillery... Helping the country's 134Reads7.1Score—Shelves
33. 83 大 Great Qing: Building a Strong Nation Through the Industrial Revolution 大清：从工业革命开始强国 Pure of Heart心净Historical12.5M WordsOngoing Great powers competing have always had special historical periods in which they can overtake their rivals by taking a sharp turn. From agrarian civilization to the Industrial Revolution, and then the First, Second, and Third Industrial Revolutions, every technological explosion and brief period of rapid productivity growth has offered backward nations a golden opportunity to overtake their rivals. At the end of the nineteenth century, another rare window of historical opportunity appeared, and t 285Reads8.8Score—Shelves
34. 84 修 The Age of Immortal Cultivation and Industry 修仙工业时代 Chopin of the South南广肖邦Eastern Fantasy551k WordsCompleted [Cultivation + Industrialization + Farming + Smart Protagonist] Once humanity invented cultivation techniques and created practical methods for using spiritual power, the edifice of cultivation studies was complete. All that remained was a little patching up. The cultivation techniques devised by later generations, along with all kinds of equipment that used spiritual power, such as magical artifacts, talismans, pills, and formations, were merely patchwork repairs to the edifice built by their p 68Reads6.7Score—Shelves
35. 85 重 Reborn as an Industrial Overlord 重生工业霸主 Nine-Needle Pine九针松Urban998k WordsCompleted In a dream, he returned to thirty years ago and took over a car factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Wang Yu resolved to build an industrial powerhouse and become a pillar of the nation’s heavy industry. 664Reads6.7Score—Shelves
36. 86 商 Business Empire: There Are a Billion Tech Innovations 商业帝国：黑科技有亿点多 Stir-Fried Baby Bok Choy醋溜小白菜Urban3.5M WordsOngoing [Feel-good fiction + urban life + business + technology + sci-fi + military industry + national strength] Every physical attribute improves tenfold; The performance of metal materials improves tenfold; Rice grows ten times faster; … Liu Sen uses his golden finger to enhance the attributes of all kinds of things, gain the knowledge that comes with them, start companies, and develop new technologies. He starts by raising capital with the simplest products: alcoholic drinks and beverages, building 29.1kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves
37. 87 重 Back to 1975: The Kingdom of Materials 重回1975：材料王国 Flowing Spring Washes the Inkstone流泉洗砚Urban535k WordsOngoing Rebirth + industry + the internet + the integrated circuit industry chain + Period setting + sent-down youth + business strategy + capital battles + love and hate... A carefully planned car accident sent materials expert Mo Zheng back to the passionate era of the Down to the Countryside Movement. Yet he never expected fate to mock him again and again. The dust of history lay as heavily as a mountain along its inevitable course... Capital is like an invisible hand, using the industrial chains it 36Reads6.1Score—Shelves
38. 88 我 My Technology Library 我的科技图书馆 Dreaming Again After Waking梦醒梦依然Sci-Fi & Apocalypse941k WordsCompleted Li Fei obtains a stone that looks completely unremarkable. By chance, his blood gets on it, and he discovers that it contains a wealth of books on technology. From then on, he uses the knowledge in those books to establish his own company and embark on a glorious path. 3.2kReads8.2Score145Shelves
39. 89 黑 Cutting-Edge Tech: Sanctioned for Building Ships! 黑科技：从造船厂被制裁开始！ Starsea Joy星海悦动Urban507k WordsCompleted [Cutting-Edge Tech] [Arms] [Patriotism] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chen Jin used the Super System to turn a run-down old shipyard into a world-famous megafactory. Its technology not only terrified Western nations, but also drove the Middle Eastern tycoons wild! It had superyachts that could reach speeds of 85 knots, fire-support frigates capable of carrying 144 missiles, and a super vertical launch system that could fire 12 missiles in a single second! And then there were solid-st 755Reads6.8Score101Shelves
40. 90 大 A Great Nation's Military Factory: Is a Little Black Technology Really So Unusual? 大国军工厂，有点黑科技不正常？ Fierce and Beautiful凶颠美头Urban1.1M WordsOngoing An abandoned arms factory! A factory director with no one under his command! The future is so bleak he can see exactly how it will turn out! Jing Shang: “Isn’t this basically just a job guarding the gate?” System: “Ding! Weapons System activated automatically!” All kinds of blueprints for making cold weapons fill the screen. The Chiwen saber, sharp enough to slice through iron like mud! The Hive cannon, with firepower that blows your mind! A helicopter as imposing as an aircraft carrier! The wor —Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 91 1 1979: A Great Nation's Leap Forward 1979大国飞跃 Peng the Great Is Reserved大鹏矜持Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [A note: This novel requires some knowledge to read and leans toward realism rather than wish fulfillment. Beginners, stay away! Beginners, stay away!] [Modern urban setting + period drama + technology + global perspective on competition between great powers + slow burn] [Contains science fiction elements + leans toward realism + has a golden finger] Zhou Xia Yan, the head of a high-tech company, was struck by a meteor and transmigrated to the end of 1979, becoming a young educated urbanite who 3.5kReads8.2Score231Shelves
42. 92 人 In the Republic of China, I Rise Through Industry 人在民国，从工业开始崛起 Pineapple Without a Sea菠萝没有海Urban460k WordsCompleted [Low-key System + Industry + Commerce + Fighting the Japanese + The Eagle Sauce as Supreme Patron] After transmigrating to the Republican era, Lin Yi becomes a rich second-generation heir to a family business and obtains a Technology Upgrade System. Simply designate an item, and its technology can be upgraded. The national industry is being bullied? With technology upgrades and commercial maneuvers, he’ll start by using the basin-footed chicken as an example to make his stand. Starting with 75Reads6.7Score—Shelves
43. 93 1 1890: Starting the Great Voyage by Climbing the Tech Tree 1890从爬科技树开始大航海 Slacking Off, Paddling Along, and Taking Naps摸鱼划水睡懒觉Historical1.2M WordsOngoing [Slow burn, national industry, rural development, great-power rivalry, hard-hitting naval warfare] Tang Xiaoyi found himself in a parallel world where the Age of Discovery had reached the late nineteenth century. The technology, wealth, and rivalries accumulated by every nation were on the verge of a final tipping point, ready to erupt. “The introduction of steam engines as ship propulsion ushered in a new revolution in navigation.” “Shipping grew faster and faster. It took just dozens of hours 147Reads9.2Score—Shelves
44. 94 重 Heavy Industry Rises: 1980 重工崛起1980 Ride into Battle策马Urban3.8M WordsCompleted Wang Chaoyang was a senior engineer at the Aviation Administration. During a spacewalk, he was struck by cosmic rays and transmigrated to the passionate, high-spirited 1980s. Drawing on his knowledge of machinery, materials, and energy, he built an industrial empire of his own. 417Reads8.0Score104Shelves
45. 95 重 Reborn: I Screw Over My Dad from the Start, Using Fake Tech to Conquer the World 重生：开局坑爹，伪科技龙腾四海 Being Ugly Is Not a Crime丑不是罪Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [No System + Period Piece + Business Warfare + Strengthening the Nation Through Technology + No Female Lead] Su Wu, a top hacker, is attacked and killed after stealing a trove of foreign technological data, then is reborn in 2001. With a photographic memory, he carries countless technological breakthroughs from the future in his mind. What should he do without startup capital? First, fleece his dad... Recreate the formula for cola, pirate nanometer-scale chip technology... He intends to put the 1.6kReads7.3Score102Shelves
46. 96 坠 Plane Crash in the Arctic: I’m the Only Survival Expert 坠机北极我是唯一的求生专家 Burnt-Out Cigarette燃尽的香烟Urban325k WordsCompleted [No special powers, no System] [Realistic survival in the Arctic] [Extreme cold survival] [No harem, no simping] [Survival expert] A passenger plane bound for Norway suffers a malfunction mid-flight and makes an emergency landing in the Arctic. Ren Ye is a survival blogger who came to the Arctic to film survival videos, but he unexpectedly gets caught in a plane crash. When he opens his eyes, he discovers that the plane has made an emergency landing on an ice floe. The plane has broken into thre 4.6kReads8.4Score387Shelves
47. 97 逃 Fleeing Famine to the City, Conquering the Era 逃荒进城，征服年代 Misty Rain in a Quiet Mountain Village寂静山村烟雨蒙蒙Male-Channel Fanfiction398k WordsCompleted A former elite soldier is reborn in the body of a thirteen-year-old refugee, with his six-year-old sister on his back. After a long, arduous journey, they reach the capital and pass by a courtyard house, where he unlocks a pocket dimension. There, he lives a very different life. 22.4kReads8.9Score812Shelves
48. 98 穿 Transmigrate to the 1950s: Starting by Leaving a Mountain Village 穿越五十年代：从走出小山村开始 Salty Fish Liver咸鱼肝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [A delightfully ordinary young man + everyday life + college entrance exams + hard work + one heroine] Just as Zhou Xingran's life was getting back on track, he suddenly transmigrated to a remote mountain village in the 1950s. His father doesn't care for him, his mother doesn't love him, and his family is dirt-poor. No matter. Relying on others is worse than relying on himself. So, first things first: he might as well get into college! P.S. The golden finger is very minor. The protagonist mainly 13.4kReads8.9Score700Shelves
49. 99 江 Jianghu Dragon: Underworld Storm in the Northeast 江湖枭龙：东北黑道风云 Colorful Victory彩胜Urban4.3M WordsOngoing Three years in prison, and everything had changed. After his release, Lu Tao found himself at a crossroads in life. The snowstorm that year was so fierce it bent Lu Tao’s back. The friendship that year was so warm it helped him emerge reborn and fight his way upstream. Watch as a close-knit group of friends stand shoulder to shoulder, stride through a turbulent era, and build something magnificent! 19.7kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
50. 100 人 Life in the Jianghu: An Electrical Engineer's Extraordinary Adventure 人在江湖：一个电力工程师的奇遇 Year Three Provinces年三省Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Li Fangao, an electrical engineer, unexpectedly gains supernatural powers. In a daze and against his will, he finds himself stepping into the modern-day underworld. His powers bring him one extraordinary encounter after another, and with each new experience, his abilities continue to advance. Moving between the underworld and everyday life, he thrives in both. The underworld today has no more flashing blades or torrents of blood, but it is rife with open and covert power struggles, with deadly d 14.5kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves

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