Any Novels About a Protagonist Making a Living with Traditional Crafts in a Modern City? 有没有那种主角在现代都市靠老手艺吃饭的小说
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He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡,这个道士正到发邪!
[Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot
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A Legacy of a Hundred Skills: I Only Know a Tiny Bit of Everything 百技传承:我都只会亿点点
After Xiao Yunyi and his wife parted amicably, he took their three-year-old daughter and returned to the countryside. Then, while fishing one day, he unexpectedly acquired the Legacy of a Hundred Crafts. From then on, he could gather the faith of all living beings and learn traditional intangible cultural heritage crafts in his dreams. For example: bamboo weaving, wood carving, oil-paper umbrella making, Chinese martial arts, embroidery, iron painting, and iron tree silver flowers. As time went
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- 3 Gourmet: The Truth Is, I'm a Max-Level Chef 美食:摊牌了,其实我是满级厨师 [Completed] [Illustrated throughout] Xu Lai was a max-level chef who transmigrated to a parallel world, only to end up as a one-star vegetable washer. The restaurant got shut down? No big deal! My cooking is out of this world. I can make it anywhere. Worst comes to worst, I’ll open another restaurant! Buried in debt? No big deal! Win a cooking competition and you get a ten-million-yuan prize! Lost my sense of taste? No big deal... Wait, what? You’ve got to be kidding me. How can a chef lose his 3.4kReads9.1Score33814d adds
- 4 Antique Restorer: My Craftsmanship Made Me the World's Richest 古董修复师:我靠手艺成世界首富 After three years of hard work, Lin Haoxuan has nothing to show for it but a mountain of debt. He retreats to his hometown and struggles to get by running a shabby little shop on Antiques Street. But even there, scammers won’t leave him alone. They actually dare to come looking for trouble! Enough is enough! His right hand awakens a mysterious power. He outsmarts the scammers and, from the start, swindles an unscrupulous property developer out of 500 million! With his brains and talent, he quick 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 The warmth of everyday life is what comforts the human heart most. [Food + street stalls + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + street-stall guide + slow-paced everyday life + detailed recipes + no harem + the author genuinely wants to teach readers to cook] Chen Feng has studied cooking for years and mastered the four major regional cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang. He became the youngest person in the Dragon Kingdom to earn the title of National Banquet Master. Af 4.1kReads8.9Score27014d adds
- 6 Selling Bento on the Roadside, Causing a Massive Traffic Jam 摆摊卖盒饭,公路堵疯了 Shen Li has just transmigrated to a parallel world when he learns that his father is buried in debt. As his son, he has to take responsibility. The family can no longer afford the rent on their restaurant, so they have no choice but to set up a street stall. Then some little potatoes from the south come to visit, and they can’t tear themselves away from Shen Li’s stall. Overnight, the humble stall becomes a sensation, drawing more and more little potatoes from far and wide. “Is this the braised 545Reads8.3Score10414d adds
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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I Write Songs for Fun, Not Money. Money Means Nothing to Me 写歌只为开心不为钱,对钱没兴趣
[Entertainment industry + multiple female leads + band + slice of life + behind the scenes] Jiang Yue Bai accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world and is forced to start a band. Two close friends who are like brothers, and four girls with very different personalities. Step by step, they go from being unknown to becoming a legendary band celebrated around the world. From concerts where thousands sing along, to rock and electronic music in open-air parks, traditional-style concerts at histor
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I Really Am the King of Bargain Finds 我真的是捡漏王
His father is framed and sent to prison, his mother is gravely ill, and he is cast out of the family and reduced to a discarded son. Just when he’s at the end of his rope, he gains the supernatural ability to appraise and restore treasures! Starting today, he vows to rewrite his fate and rise from the ashes! “I’m not going back to the Zhang family. I’ll crush them underfoot!”
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- 10 The Peerless National Healer 无双国医 Why do expert department heads from the country's top hospitals keep showing up at a neighborhood clinic? Why do renowned experts and professors from across the country so often visit a township health center? Yun Heng, a master's graduate in traditional Chinese medicine, had just started his new job when he offended the hospital's department head and was driven out. With no choice but to make a living at a neighborhood clinic, he somehow turned a township community health center into a national 61.3kReads9.5Score7.4k14d adds
- 11 Reborn as a Florist in the City 重生之都市小花匠 Reborn by chance + suddenly gaining supernatural powers? What could be more fortunate and wonderful! But why does the bad luck from my previous life still cling to me and refuse to go away? The inheritance I missed out on in my previous life finally falls into my hands in this one. But why is there a homeless man in the house? As if eating and living here for free weren't enough, this man has now become my husband?! 4Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 12 The Chef God’s Study Guide 厨神学习手册 [Updated daily. Please subscribe, recommend, and comment! (ノ>▽<)ノ] The world is so big, you have to go see it! And then he arrived in a new world... To keep developing his skills as a chef, he had to start from scratch! New ingredients, new cookware, and a whole new family! The one thing that never changed was his devotion to delicious food. And so, Li Xiaomi became Li Xiaomi. Li Xiaomi: "I'm still a baby, really!" If you want to become a god, start when they're little! 1v1, slow burn, updated d 1.7kReads9.1Score16314d adds
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I Chose Corpse Driving as My Profession, and the Police Are Losing It 个人职业填赶尸,警察麻了
During summer break, Jiang Bai boldly ventured into the mountains of Xixiang and became a corpse walker. He rings the soul-summoning bell, strikes the ritual gong, and walks between the realms of yin and yang. Even ghosts and gods give way! As Jiang Bai leads corpse after corpse out of the mountains, a passing streamer happens to capture it on camera. The whole internet goes wild! "Holy crap, that's the first time I've seen someone offer a cigarette to a corpse. I'm impressed! Old Liu from Shang
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After Retirement, My Wife Brought People to Arrest Me 退休后,老婆带人来抓我了
From the start, a beautiful woman proposed to him. Liu Xuedong was a fake psychologist and, in reality, an S-Rank Cleaner. Just as he was happily anticipating a perfect life, he realized things weren't going quite the way he'd imagined… Wait, isn't my wife the one I hate most? (A professional writer registered with the Provincial Writers Association. Credentials verified, so read with confidence.)
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Supernatural Hong Kong Crossover: I Grinded Paper Control into Immortal Arts 诡异港综:从控纸术开始肝成仙术
[Multiple Series Crossover] [Folklore] [Nostalgic Hong Kong Films] [No Harem] After being hit and sent flying by an unlicensed dump truck, Tang Ning transmigrates to a vast world where multiple film and television universes have merged. Here, zombies and red-clad female ghosts are real, and beneath the shadows, cults are plotting to summon evil gods! Fortunately, Tang Ning awakens a transmigrator's cheat package. Not only can he control paper figures, he can also use his lifespan to simulate cul
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- 16 This Protagonist Won't Take Orders, So I'm Done 这届主角不服管,老子不干了 [Recruiting protagonists + ensemble cast + slow start] The black-hearted System gives me an impossible mission: make the urban war god, the miraculous doctor, the martial arts prodigy, the Dragon King God of War, the reincarnated emperor, the blind Sword Sovereign, the reincarnation, the reborn one... submit to me. What the hell? They’re all absurdly powerful protagonists. You expect them to take me as their boss? I quit! 99.4kReads9.6Score11.3k14d adds
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He Said My Craft Was Worthless Trash 他说我的手艺是上不了台面的乐色
He said my craft was worthless junk that didn't belong on a stage.
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This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟,摆个地摊还到处走
[The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and
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I’m a Ghost Officer, So Why Are You Asking Me to Marry the Campus Beauty? 我一个鬼差,你让我跟校花领证?
[Just Started College, and I Married the Aloof Campus Belle] [I’m a ghost officer. You want me to marry the campus belle?] [College Student Ghost Officer] [Campus Belle Wife] [Marriage Before Love] [Ferryman] … Synopsis: On his first day of college, freshman Cao Ning is forced to marry Xia Shihan, his betrothed, whom he has never met. He thinks it’s just a minor incident, but when he returns to campus to register, he discovers that the beautiful upperclasswoman at the registration desk is the ve
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My Years as a Con Artist 我做老千的那些年
The short drama adaptation of the Old Cheater series is now streaming on Red Fruit and Tomato. Come check it out! I'm a professional gambler. At the table, I can turn the odds on their head. But I want to use my own experience to tell you a simple truth: stay away from gambling. Because nine out of ten games are rigged, and you lose every time!
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The Detective World Is Anything but Logical 柯学世界不科学
[Completed] [Detective Conan Fan Fiction] [As of Chapter 144, the single heroine is confirmed to be Ai Haibara] [Constantly switching between the Black and Red sides] [Lighthearted] [Slice of Life] [The System barely features] (Since the story is completed and the chapters can no longer be revised for long, there may be some inconsistencies between earlier and later sections. Please understand.) “Inspector Megure, I hear the eldest young master of the Suzuki family is an outstanding detective, o
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Chinese Showbiz: A Lounge Singer Takes the Entertainment World by Storm 华娱:驻唱歌手纵横娱乐圈
(One heroine + showbiz + everyday life + everyday life) In 2022, a struggling bit-part actor decides that after one last stunt-double job, he'll call it quits and find a stable job to see out the rest of his life. But then his stunt wire suddenly snaps, and he crashes into a protruding rock, transmigrating into the body of a recent graduate about to finish school in 2014. Starting out as a bar singer, with Back to Field as his dream, he gradually makes his way to becoming a famous star... (The t
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Showbiz: Preserving the Glory of China, Divine-Level Portrayals of Past and Present 娱乐:典藏华夏,神级扮演古今
[Feel-good story, no angst!] Zhao Yizhou was originally just an extra. But from the start, he activated the [God-Tier Acting System]. "As soon as you put on the costume of a historical figure, you will instantly become immersed in the role and receive the Actor God BUFF: Acting +99999, Charisma +99999..." He joined the program Treasures of China from the start, playing Qin Shi Huang with the grandeur of swallowing mountains and rivers and an unrivaled domineering presence! Audience: His portraya
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Mr. Embroidered Uniform Guard, You Dropped Your Cigarette 锦衣卫先生你烟掉了
Xiang Niannian is an expert in restoring ancient paintings and calligraphy, and runs a small gallery to make ends meet. Unlike other experts, the figures in the paintings she touches come to life. Each one stays in the human world for seven days, then returns to the page after fulfilling a wish. Only that Jin Yi Guard refuses to leave, shamelessly lingering around her. “Visitor’s Guide to Gallery No. 13” 1. That live-action Calabash Brothers lookalike is not Wang Zulan. Don’t ask him for an aut
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Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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Rebooting 1988 重启1988
Millionaire Qin Lang returns to 1988. Seeing his beautiful wife and adorable daughter struggling in poverty, Qin Lang, who lost his way chasing money in his previous life, decides to climb to the top once more, with family in one hand and career in the other, and shape this wild, fast-growing era!
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What?! This Person Has an Absurd Number of Martial Spirits 惊!这人的武魂多的过分
[Invincible + incredibly satisfying] Qin Hao transmigrates to a high-martial world where vicious beasts run rampant and everyone can awaken a powerful martial soul. But he awakens an Infinite Martial Soul System, which rewards him with a top-tier martial soul from the start. Better yet, all he has to do is observe other people’s martial souls to awaken an unlimited number of them! “What? You say you awakened the top-tier superhuman-type martial soul, Seraph of the Throne?” “Funny, I have that to
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I Really Didn’t Raise a Dragon 我真没养龙啊
[A completed older book with over two million characters] [More focused on story and plot, with plenty of action too] An accident leaves Ye Kong reborn as a little carp! Raised by his younger sister and childhood sweetheart, he uses the System’s power of evolution to start evolving like crazy! When the world mutates and spiritual qi revival begins, his family finds themselves in danger. A colossal dragon suddenly surges out of the ocean! “I really didn’t raise a dragon!” Under the stunned gaze o
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What a Pain! The Cool Campus Beauty Chases Me Every Day 好烦啊,高冷校花天天倒追我
How annoying! The aloof campus beauty keeps chasing after me every day. But I have a fiancée. Can't we keep some distance? “Brat, we haven't seen each other for only ten years, and you've already forgotten me? We're getting married at the end of the year!” “Don't you dare run away on our wedding night!” Ding~ [One: Run away from the wedding and forfeit all your wealth] [Two: Enter the bridal chamber and double your assets] Of course, I'll choose... Just as the whole school thought Zhang Cheng wa
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Guardian God of Huaxia: Sign-In With the Human Saintly Physique From the Start 华夏守护神:开局签到人族圣体
Lin Mu is reborn in his university days, with just nineteen days until the invasion of Earth by the monsters of another world. Given a second life, Lin Mu gains a god-tier Guardian Sign-In System and gets the Human Saint Physique from the start! He cultivates both martial arts and the body, all to hold back the demons of another world. Yet when the alien races of the starry skies descend, humanity is ultimately no match for them. Time itself is broken, the beautiful rivers and mountains are gone
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Thirty Years of Sign-In in the High Martial World: I'm Invincible Under Heaven! 高武签到三十年:我举世无敌!
[Modern high martial arts + Devil Fruit from the start; an overpowered protagonist] An ancient tree pierces the moon, and monsters descend upon the world. Xiao Nan transmigrates into a high-martial-arts world and, from the start, devours Kaido’s Fish-Fish Fruit, setting out on the path to become the strongest! At the martial arts exam, one flying kick blows up the testing arena. On the monster battlefield, he withstands a monster king’s attack with Armament Haki and saves thousands of martial ar
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Rising to the Top of the World Through Endless Reincarnation 从无限轮回开始制霸全球
Lu Jiuxiao transmigrates to a parallel world made up of movies, TV shows, and anime. While players around the globe struggle to clear dungeons and earn rewards, Lu Jiuxiao, who knows every plot inside out, smiles faintly. I Am Legend: Develop the serum at lightning speed. Train to Busan: Take out Kim Yong-guk from the start and beat down hordes of zombies. The Mummy: With the Golden Book of the Sun in hand, he can do whatever he wants. My name is Lu Jiuxiao, and I’m the strongest man in the
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She Drops into the Trending Topics! The Top-Tier Star’s Flirty Teasing Steals the Show 空降热搜!顶流小撩精秀翻娱乐圈
[Hilariously Unhinged + Metaphysics + Face-Slapping + Everyone's Favorite + Two Powerful Leads + Sweet Romance] From the start, she carried a suona down the mountain to send her whole family on their way. Her scumbag father cursed and schemed against her? She raised the suona and smashed his head open! "You dare call yourself my father? My name isn't even on your household register. How can you prove it? I'm your father!" When her scheming, fake-sweet stepsister made trouble, she retaliated by t
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Paper Effigy Maker: From the Start, I Summoned a Hundred Ghosts! 扎纸匠:开局扎出百鬼夜行!
Su Changsheng transmigrates to Blue Star, where horror is on the rise, inherits a funeral shop, and obtains a divine paper effigy System. With only an illustrated guide, Su Changsheng can craft the corresponding ghosts and gods of the underworld. Craft ghost soldiers and ghost generals: a procession of a hundred ghosts, ghost troops crossing the land! Craft Black and White Impermanence: seize souls and punish evil spirits! Craft the Ten Great Judges: distinguish good from evil and decide who liv
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I Failed the College Entrance Exams, So I Can Only Become a Corpse Herder! 高考落榜,我只能去赶尸了!
[Corpse Driving + Spiritual Qi Revival] After failing the college entrance exam, Chu Fan returns home to inherit his grandfather's funeral home. When he awakens the Corpse-Driving System, Chu Fan becomes a corpse driver. Spiritual qi revives, and supernatural phenomena begin occurring all over the world. In Chang'an, an imperial corpse that has slept for thousands of years is about to awaken. In Tokyo Bay, a giant serpent with eight heads opens its gaping maw. In Western Europe, werewolves and v
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Treasures of China: From the Start, I Talk with the Ten Greatest Emperors 典藏华夏:开局对话十大皇帝
Jiang Yi transmigrates and becomes the most promising host at the national television network. From the start, he's hosting "Treasures of China" and plans to find actors to portray the great figures of history. Luckily, the System arrives, granting Jiang Yi the power to cross between past and present and speak with historical figures! Li Shimin asks, “If I sign the Treaty of the Wei River with the Turks, will it keep my empire and people safe?” Jiang Yi replies, “Your empire will survive, but yo
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Married for Three Years, and My Wife Finds My Chef’s Certificate! 结婚三年,厨师证被老婆发现了!
For three years of marriage, Su Yueling has been a full-time wife, doing the laundry and cooking. She tried to get Ye Nan to learn how to cook, but everything he made was downright awful. Then one day, Su Yueling happened to find several certificates in Ye Nan's storage box. She opened them and was stunned. A Michelin three-star chef qualification certificate! An honorary certificate for winning the Bocuse World Cooking Contest! An honorary certificate for winning the International Culinary Olym
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Villain: I Became the Heroines’ Shared Boyfriend 反派:我成了女主们的共享男友
Su Han transmigrated into a world where several novels had merged and became an unremarkable sidekick to one of the villains. Just as he was lamenting that his life was going nowhere, the System awakened and launched, instantly sending him to the peak of his life. “Ding! At the client’s request, you have received 99+ Charm.” “Ding! At the client’s request, you have received Divine Medical Skills.” From then on Su Han came ever closer to becoming the perfect male idol. The villain boss: “Why are
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