Now This Is the Kind of Novel Chinese People Should Read 这才是中国人该看的小说
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1901
Honghuang: Rising from Ziwei Star God 洪荒:从紫微星神开始崛起
Pangu creates the heavens, the Dragon-Han Calamity, the battle for supremacy between the Wu and the demons, the Sages' struggles, the Investiture of the Gods calamity... Zhou Xuan, an office worker, transmigrates into the primordial world and becomes the innate divine Ziwei Star God. He is born alongside two supreme treasures, the Zhoutian Star Chart and the Ziwei Imperial Seal, and learns the Zhoutian Star Art. Armed with knowledge of the future, he quietly builds his strength and carefully pla
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- 1902 Cultivation Is a Philosophy 修仙是门哲学 This is my story of cultivating immortality, an unknown story, a story full of mystery... [Short Story Collection] [At the End of Science Lies the Supernatural] [Understand the stories in this book, and you can cultivate immortality] I am a real cultivator living in the modern world... I seek to become an immortal, free and joyful as the heavens. Cultivate immortality through science, ascend through physics. 382Reads—Score106Shelves
- 1903 A Heart Flutter After Marriage: The CEO Says One Thing and Means Another 婚后心动,总裁他口嫌体直 Hearts Stir After Marriage: The CEO Says One Thing but Does Another 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1904 The Record of Lanling’s Return to the Present 兰陵归今录 When other people transmigrate, they become princes or imperial consorts. At the very least, they can recite a couple of Tang poems and thrive. But when our family transmigrated, all five of us, ancestral home included, landed straight in the twenty-first century as undocumented people. My name is Xiao Ran, an ordinary corporate drone. Then one day, I got a call from my hometown: “You’ve got a bunch of Tang Dynasty ancestors in your family shrine, trying to figure out how to burn incense to a Wi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1905 A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史 For thousands of years, humanity has devised many ingenious and cruel ways to inflict pain on its own kind. This tragic yet seemingly universal trait has corroded the civilization humanity strives to achieve. Though we now seem to detest torture, for more than 3,000 years it was part of the laws of all Europe and much of the Far East. A Brief History of Human Torture explores the many forms of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It takes readers into the arenas of ancient Rome, medieval 7.6kReads9.6Score1.1kShelves
- 1906 One Stock, Wealth for Three Generations 一只股票,富过三代 One Stock, Wealth for Three Generations 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1907 Xu Zhuoyun on History: The Rise and Fall of Modern Civilization 许倬云说历史:现代文明的成坏 How did the dominant civilization that has shaped human life for three centuries arise? What twists and challenges has it faced? Where will humanity go from here? With a sweeping perspective and accessible prose, Xu Zhuoyun paints a grand panorama of modern civilization: from religious revolutions to the rise of nation-states, from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution and the great expansion of modern capitalism. Clear and concise, he traces the formation and development of modern soci 207Reads9.4Score108Shelves
- 1908 You Can’t Steal My Sister, and the CEO Only Wants Me 妹妹抢不走,霸总只要我 My Sister Can’t Steal Him Away. The CEO Only Wants Me 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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1909
A Comprehensive Guide to Business Warfare: Power Plays in an Era of Disruption 商战通鉴:破局者的时代博弈
This novel brings history to life and stays close to everyday experience. Its characters live through the changing times and ride the waves of reform. Opportunity and luck aren’t gifts from heaven! They dare to break with the old and build anew. With honesty and courage, they bring resources together; with wisdom as their spear, they overcome one challenge after another; with sincerity as their shield, they hold fast to their principles. Facing pressure from foreign companies, joint ventures, an
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1910
Ride Out to Battle, Peach Blossoms in My Wake 桃花马上请长缨
The short drama adaptation of June's novel, Power and Favor 3: Power and Favor in the Capital, is now available on Hongguo App. She cared for her in-laws and used her dowry to support the General's household, only for him to use his hard-won military achievements to ask for the female general's hand as his equal wife. Zhan Beiwang mocked her. “Song Xixie, do you know that your fine clothes, rich food, and glittering jewels all come from General Yi Fang and me fighting bloody battles to hold back
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1911
After Fleeing My Wedding, I Went to Dongguan 逃婚后我去了东莞
[Rural] At 22, Bai Qing went on a blind date over the New Year holiday. On her very first date, she lost her virginity to a man she didn't like. With no other choice, she ran away from her wedding and went to Guangdong to work. While working in Dongguan, she met her true love, Li Changsheng, a rich second-generation heir. Not long after they began dating, Changsheng sent Bai Qing to adult college. After many intimate encounters, she became pregnant. Then Bai Qing dropped out, got married, and ga
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- 1912 The Overbearing CEO and the Fairy Who Gives Away Money 霸总与散财仙女 The Domineering CEO and the Generous Fairy —Reads—Score—Shelves
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1913
Back in My Second Year of High School, the Nation Became My Backer 重回高二,国家爸爸给我当靠山
[Reborn + top student + uplifting + satisfying read + patriotic + heartwarming + no awful characters] [No System + no pocket dimension] Xu Nian was an overworked corporate drone who nearly worked herself to death saving enough for a down payment on a home. Then, for no apparent reason, she returned to more than a decade earlier. Back in her second year of high school, all she wanted was to study and quietly outdo everyone else. And then… Homeroom teacher: First place again? Principal: Won anothe
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- 1914 Number One War Sovereign 一号战尊 Commanding a million-strong army, shouldering half the realm! Unmatched in this age, I alone am the Asura War God! 9.1kReads9.1Score847Shelves
- 1915 A Wrong Turn into the CEO’s Room 误入总栽房 A Mistaken Entry into the CEO's Room 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1916 The Pivot: China Over 3,000 Years 枢纽:3000年的中国 The central question of The Pivot: China Over 3,000 Years is: What exactly is China? In this book, Shi Zhan takes a question-driven approach that transcends the limits of any single discipline. Drawing on geography, history, philosophy, economics, public finance, currency, military affairs, demography, sociology, law, international politics, and more, he offers a unified framework for interpreting China’s complex history over several thousand years, as well as its successes and failures over the 304Reads9.2Score124Shelves
- 1917 The Hall of Heavenly Kings 天王神殿 He is the God of War of Huaxia, with four great generals under his command and hundreds of thousands of troops! Betrayed by his brothers, he was thrown into a jungle prison! When he learned that his family had been murdered, he flew into a rage, unleashing a storm of bloodshed and flattening the entire prison! At the wedding of his good friend and former fiancée, he sent 999 funeral wreaths! 21.7kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
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1918
Reading Books Grants Stats: The Path to Godhood 看书加属性,成就通神之路
[Boosting Stats vs. Gaining Abilities]+ [Personal Growth vs. Plotting Across the Universe]+ [Protagonist vs. Author]+ … [Blurb 1: Reading books boosts your stats. The more you boost them, the more you read; the more you read, the more you boost them. And so you slowly grow stronger. Since the protagonist grows by reading, the change happens gradually. Give it a try if that sounds like your kind of story.] … [Blurb 2: Whether in fiction or reality, reading books gives you knowledge. What would
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- 1919 A Mechanical Genius Reincarnates as a Science Whiz: Taking Off from the Start 机械大佬魂穿理科学霸:开局起飞 [No CP] [Career-focused] [National University of Defense Technology] [Creating a New World] Gu Yi, a mechanical engineering genius from the 25th century, transmigrates into the body of Zeng Li, a top science student in 1999. From then on, she lives each day planning two hundred steps ahead. She overcomes every obstacle and leaves her rivals in the dust, eventually becoming Huaxia's youngest general. Just as she leads Huaxia to become the world's leading power, she also happens to establish a new 1.2kReads9.3Score228Shelves
- 1920 The Marquis and the Village Girl 侯爷与小村女 The Marquis and the Village Girl 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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1921
I'm a Goofball, You're a Goofball, We Were Born to Be Geniuses 我沙雕你沙雕,我们生来是天骄
This novel is also known as The Tough-as-Nails Heroine Makes Her Name Through Being Ridiculous [The nation's darling + mysticism + entertainment industry + no romance] When the Ghost Realm heard that Lin Yao had become a celebrity, they breathed a sigh of relief. Surely she wouldn't torment them anymore now that she was famous? So they went to the human world to cause trouble, having the time of their lives. Lin Yao flashed a talisman and smiled. “Three sentences, and I'll make you die 108 times
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1922
Transmigrating to the 1960s to Change My Family's Fate 穿越六零改变家族命运
The death of Zhao Mingyang’s father filled him with grief. While sorting through his father’s belongings, he accidentally transmigrated to the 1960s. Back then, his father was still unmarried, his eldest uncle had not yet been imprisoned, and none of the things that would bring misfortune to the family had happened. With his ability to transmigrate and transport goods, he could change the family’s fate and, along the way, bring some modern technology to the 1960s ahead of its time, starting with
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- 1923 I Went Viral on Tomato Novels After Retiring 退休后我爆红番茄小说 I Became a Hit on Tomato Novel After Retiring 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1924 What Makes China China? (Ge Jianxiong Collected Works, Vol. 8) 何以中国(葛剑雄文集⑧) Where does China’s long history begin? How did Chinese civilization take root and flourish, enduring through the ages? How did the Chinese people grow and prosper, becoming the great family of 56 ethnic groups we see today? In dozens of recent essays, Professor Ge Jianxiong draws on his profound knowledge of history and unique insight into the present. He tells the story of Chinese civilization’s origins and development, from the oracle bones and bronze that carried the first glimmers of civiliz 43Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 1925 The Heiress Returns: My Vision Is as Grand as My Motherland 千金归来:我的格局是祖国 [Completed, Cool-Tempered Heroine + True Heiress of a Wealthy Family (The Family’s Real Darling) + The Main Story Is About Soldiers and Family Bonds + No Male Lead] Liao Xu, the long-lost heiress of the Su Group, one of the capital’s top wealthy families, returns after fourteen years. The upper crust is thrown into an uproar. Everyone assumes a prestigious family must care about appearances. This true heiress, they think, has nothing going for her but her stunning looks. How could she compare to 12kReads9.4Score1.3kShelves
- 1926 In the 1960s, I Took My Little Sister to the Countryside 人在六零,携妹下乡 Han Mingyu, from the twenty-first century, died... Liu Yuzhu, from the 1960s, died and came back to life... With a stepmother came a cruel father, and Liu Yuzhu’s life was a living hell... A hellish start, but thankfully, he has the transmigration essential: a golden finger, the Happy Farm System. 38.9kReads7.8Score2kShelves
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1927
On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天,我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
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- 1928 The Life of a Rich Second-Generation Heir Turned Scavenger 富二代沦为拾荒者的一生 The Life of a Rich Second-Generation Heir Who Became a Scavenger 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1929 Rise and Fall: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Governance 兴亡:中国两千年治理得失 Why did Confucian thought become the core set of values in the development and evolution of ancient China's system of governance? Which eight emperors played decisive roles? Which institutions shaped the control and mobilization of social resources? This fresh take on the political history of ancient China reveals how the imperial power system operated after the Qin unification. It seeks to identify patterns of change, explain the dynastic cycle, and draw lessons from history. Combining the stor 45Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 1930 The 1970s: You Have Space, So Why Not Hunt and Trade? 70年代:有空间你不打猎倒卖? [Travel between two worlds ➕ resell supplies ➕ raise hunting dogs ➕ hunt ➕ raise wild animals ➕ fish for rare giant fish ➕ build a wellness resort ➕ bring technical documents for missiles, aircraft carriers, and fighter jets, along with high-yield hybrid seeds, to the 1970s and 1980s] He transmigrates to 1977, an era when guns and hunting are unrestricted and wild animals are unprotected. Yang Guangshu, fifteen Chinese hunting dogs, Tibetan Mastiffs, Xiasi dogs, and East Sichuan hunting dogs, pl 24.5kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves
- 1931 A Modern Medical Doctor Becomes the Divine Physician Princess 现代医学博士成神医王妃 A loud crash rang out in the medical lab. When I opened my eyes again, I had become the most hated princess consort in an ancient prince’s household. The original owner had lorded it over everyone, relying on her father the chancellor. Every last person in the household hated her to the bone. When I arrived, she was raising a vase to smash someone, then slipped, hit her head on a rock, and died. Looking at the servants kneeling across the courtyard, trembling but glaring at me with hatred, I qui 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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1932
Stardust on the Immortal Path 仙途星尘
Born with a special constitution, a young man becomes a pawn exploited by the major powers of the cultivation world. When he learns of the conspiracy behind it all, he sets out to take control of his own fate. After enduring trial upon trial, he uses stardust as his game pieces and shatters the shackles that have bound the ages. Trapped in a vast killing game laid by the great powers, he carves out his own path to immortality.
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- 1933 Reborn in 1985: From the Start, I Cut Ties with My Whole Family 重生85,开局跟全家断绝关系 [Reborn in a Bygone Era + One Heroine + Devoted Husband + Making Money + Golden Finger] Qin Tian is reborn in 1985. In his previous life, he valued family and tirelessly gave everything for his relatives, only for his sincere devotion to be trampled on. His university place was stolen, his fiancée changed her mind, and he was forced to donate a kidney to his half-brother! After the kidney donation, Qin Tian's health rapidly deteriorated. He fell ill in the hospital, and not one of the so-called 2.5kReads8.3Score186Shelves
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1934
We Who Don't Know How to Love 不会爱的我们
[A brave heroine who grows on her own] [A realistic story, not a wish-fulfillment fantasy] [First-person perspective] [A broken family of origin] [The heroine has sound values (she is 16 when the story begins, and still immature enough to have the occasional bad thought)] [Clear-eyed about life] If your very birth was a mistake, how would you make the most of the life ahead of you? Shui Qingqing: Live for yourself and on your own terms. Wield a gentle blade and carve out a kingdom of happiness
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1935
From the Start, I Hand Over the Transmigration Gate, and the National Team Enters the Fray 开局上交穿越门,国家队入场
Zhang Yu, a 21-year-old history student, accidentally activates a bloodstained jade ring while sorting through his grandfather's belongings, opening a time gate to 1937! On his first transmigration, he faces a living hell: Japanese bayonets and his compatriots' anguished cries. Shot and barely making it back alive, he realizes that in the face of that blood-soaked history, one person's bravery is little more than a drop in the ocean. Looking at his pale face in the mirror, Zhang Yu makes a deci
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- 1936 A Peerless Patriot: Reborn in Officialdom, 1976 国士无双:官场重生1976 First: Liu Hongyi is a top science student with two roles, one within the government system and the other as a university professor. Reborn in 1976, what must he do? You guessed it: enrich the nation and build a powerful military! Using his vast knowledge and insights far ahead of his time, he leads the people to prosperity while building powerful technology and armed forces. A great nation rises, the dragon soars in the East, and the foreign powers turn out to be me! Second: This is a genuine, 15.7kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
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1937
The Women Who Were Scammed into Northern Myanmar 被骗去缅北的女人们
My new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 1938 Extraordinary People: Historic Moments in the Lives of 20 People 非常之人:20人的历史时刻 The historical figures we think we know may be no more than shifting illusions, continually reshaped by the writing of history. This book focuses on twenty people who played important roles in the grand sweep of history but have since been overpraised, distorted, vilified, or obscured. They include Confucius, Emperor Wu of Han, Li Guang, Yang Xiu, Sima Yi, Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Kublai Khan, Wei Zhongxian, and Nian Gengyao. Drawing on historical sources and offering fresh 55Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 1939 Back to the 1960s, Without a Single Regret 重回60年代不遗憾 [Period setting] + [pocket dimension] + [Transmigration] + [farming] + [genius] Li Jianyao is struck by lightning and sent back to the 1960s. The only relative he doesn't see is his great-grandmother; he reunites with everyone else. The meteoric iron he found as a child turns out to contain a pocket dimension. He can grow crops and raise animals inside it, and it even contains an entire sea. Using the pocket dimension, Li Jianyao helps his family and village survive years of famine. With his ext 5.2kReads8.4Score363Shelves
- 1940 Transmigrating into Bright Sword, and You Ended World War II Just Like That? 穿越亮剑,你直接把二战结束了? [Drawing Sword + Transmigration + Two-Way Transmigration + Material Aid + Li Yunlong] Li Yuanchao, a 996 office drone, accidentally activates a yin-yang fish jade pendant and discovers he can transmigrate to the world of the War of Resistance series Drawing Sword. Knowing one person’s power is limited, he resolutely reveals everything to his country. The cross-temporal strategic plan codenamed “Kindling” is now underway! [Drawing Sword World: From millet rifles to a steel torrent, from improvise 4.6kReads7.4Score181Shelves
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1941
The Mighty Little Constable 神通小捕快
“One leaf riding the wind, roaming ten thousand miles; a dashing constable, famous throughout the land.” The most righteous men are often those society looks down on, and heroes rise from the streets. The spring breeze and I are both passing travelers, but your name alone belongs to the martial world. Ye Fei, a lowly errand boy at an inn, is rejected by the Su family because he's nothing but a nobody who runs errands! Who could have guessed that after getting drunk, saving a beauty, and catching
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1942
Lanbi Wannian's Tenth Book 烂笔万年一第10本书
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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1943
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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- 1944 Man-Eating Monkeys 食人猴 Man-Eating Monkeys 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1945 Youth Talks: From the Start, a Japanese Girl Kneels and Listens to History 青年会谈:开局小樱花跪听历史 Youth Roundtable: From the Start, Cherry Blossom Nation Kneels to Hear History [Patriotic] + [A Guilty-Pleasure Story with No Logic] + [No Female Lead] + [Cultural Heritage] + [Heavily Revised Later for Certain Reasons, You Know What I Mean] Chu He transmigrates to a parallel-world Huaguo and discovers he's appeared on the global program Youth Roundtable. Lighthouse Nation: “What good is five thousand years of history?” Chu He: “Lighthouse Nation has less than three hundred years of history. How 2.1kReads9.1Score250Shelves
- 1946 After Being Reborn, I Devoted Myself to Huaxia: A Peerless National Scholar! 重生后,我身许华夏,国士无双! Before Gu Ran took the college entrance exam, no one understood what the greatest upheaval in a century truly meant. With China facing an uphill struggle, the distinguished academician Gu Zhiqiu was reborn on the eve of the college entrance exam. He flipped the chessboard, tossed away the pieces, and then announced to the world: “It's China's turn to counterattack.” 10.6kReads9.0Score791Shelves
- 1947 An Ordinary Man’s Official Career: A Police Chief at Twenty-Four 凡人官途,二十四岁的公安局长 [A genuine political-intrigue novel] Cheng Bo was just starting his career and was thrilled to become an assistant to the town mayor. But after taking up the post, he discovered that he had also been saddled with a daunting mission! 44.8kReads7.9Score3.8kShelves
- 1948 The Qin Dynasty Was Actually a Lot of Fun 秦朝其实很有趣 Based on official histories and bringing together the research of historians over many years, this book respects the historical record while telling the story of the Qin dynasty in witty, humorous, and insightful prose, with a lighthearted yet dignified tone. It uses historical events to reveal the complexity of human nature, looks beyond the haze of history to understand the past through human nature, and restores the truth of what happened. 300Reads9.3Score104Shelves
- 1949 My Future CEO Self Can Read Minds. What's the Big Deal? 我未来霸总,会点读心术怎么了? This is a female-oriented novel!!! [An outwardly aloof, gentlemanly male lead who’s a complainer on the inside x a beautiful, poker-faced female lead who’s actually a goofball] When people transmigrate into a book, they usually become either a wicked supporting character or a pretty extra. Shi Liaoliao transmigrates into a book as the male lead’s personal servant. “It’s been so long since I’ve seen the young master smile so happily.” “This is the first time the young master has brought a woman h 11.9kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 1950 The Underworld: Beautiful Women by My Side on a Wild Jianghu Road 黑道:红颜伴我野性江湖路 (Feel-good period drama + multiple heroines + top student and leader + fast-paced + passionate and explosive) With a blood feud to settle, he claims his enemy's daughter on the very first day after getting out of prison! He once thought he was an orphan, never imagining his libertine father had left behind many younger siblings! On the blood-soaked road through the underworld, stepmothers keep appearing. There are also brothers and sisters bound by deep affection, and a prodigal son who turns ov 13.3kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves

















































