Looking for Books by the Author Lao Pianmen, About Going Straight and Leaving the Underworld Behind 求作者捞偏门，最后金盆洗手写的书

1. 1 服 After Thirteen Years in Prison, I Expose the Gray Market’s Secrets 服刑十三年，我狱中写下灰产内幕 How Can You Blame Me for That?无乃尔是过与Urban378k WordsOngoing This story is based on real events. Over three years, Yang Jun, an ordinary ticket scalper, racked up more than 33 million yuan in charges through plane tickets, flight delays, and insurance policies. He flew to buy Maotai, stayed in hotels for stranded passengers, and waited for insurance payouts. He thought he was just making quick money in the cracks between the rules, until a text message landed him behind bars. Thirteen years later, Yang Jun walks out of prison, with one person's name still 306Reads—Score253Shelves

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   Haha, the author himself is here! He's out of prison, so he hasn't really retired from crime. [Smirk]

2. 2 走 The Crooked Path 走偏门 Li Er Bu Ha李二不哈Urban3.5M WordsCompleted [Adapted into the short dramas Fishing in the Shadows, Taking the Crooked Path, and The Mastermind; and the animated dramas Fishing in the Shadows: Drifting North, A Crooked Road to Comeback, A Thousand Faces in the Underworld, and Tales of a Shady Deal. Check them out if you’re interested.] What is the crooked path? Those who walk it seek a way to survive for themselves and plot certain doom for others. Once you step onto this path, it stretches as deep as the sea. You’ll roam far and wide, mix 23.5kReads9.1Score3.6kShelves

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   Then you've come to the right place! ① The protagonist's third uncle, the eldest disciple of a legendary master from an unorthodox sect, is well-versed in various plotting techniques and psychological analysis of people's hearts. It's a story about a small-time figure from the mountains who rises to prominence in the martial arts world. ② A modern urban novel where the protagonist wanders on the fringes of the city and skirts the edges of legalism. ③ The stories inside feel vivid and reveal the truth of human nature!

3. 3 灰 Gray Industries: On the Fringes of the City 灰色产业：游走于都市边缘 Little Salty Salt盐小咸Urban1.0M WordsOngoing In 2005, the college entrance exam took me from the countryside to the city. I thought that if I worked hard enough, I could make a life for myself there. But reality taught me that in the face of power and money, hard work counted for nothing. For people like me, born with nothing, making something of ourselves means taking a road less traveled. First-person narration, no cheat powers, no over-the-top melodrama. My values are more respectable than my looks. Come give it a try. 102.2kReads9.1Score10.8kShelves
4. 4 老 The Gambler: A True Autobiography 老千，真实自传 Southern Traveler Under the Banana Tree南方蕉下客Urban420k WordsOngoing My life changed in the winter of 2008. With nothing to my name, I relied on cheating at games to get a mansion, four cars, and savings nearing eight figures. It all started with a disc covered in static. Shuffling, keeping track of cards, cutting, dealing, switching cards. Poker, mahjong, pai gow, Chinese dominoes... They built my life from the inside out. This novel is for reference only. I accept no responsibility if anyone tries to imitate it. 22Reads8.6Score—Shelves
5. 5 老 The Swindler: Through Fire and Water for You, Uncle! 老千：赴汤蹈火啊，二叔！ A Cup of Iced Lemon Tea来杯冻柠茶Urban1.2M WordsCompleted If you learn the art of cheating, you’ll see me as a mayfly sees the heavens. My name is Feng Shiqi, a veteran swindler who came out of the mountains. PS: The best quit-gambling novel on the whole internet, and the most wholesome swindler story online. ⚠️ Don’t open it at night, or you won’t be able to sleep. 16.7kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves
6. 6 曹 Cao Yang's Journey South 曹阳南下记 Great Demon King Peacock孔雀大魔王Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Passionate and exhilarating. Now complete. Read with confidence. Cao Yang heads south to seek refuge with his older sister, setting off wave after wave of upheaval… 40.9kReads8.9Score4kShelves

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   They are all written quite realistically and brilliantly.

7. 7 红 The Red and Blue Battlefield 红蓝战场 Yi Nan2020一楠2020Urban257k WordsCompleted Of everyone I’ve lost, the person I miss most is myself. In gambling, the scariest thing isn’t winning or losing, but the temptation of desire. A decade of bets, a lifetime in chains. The neon lights of Macau baccarat once illuminated my ambition. The chips at tables back home in Texas built up a false sense of prestige. The “guaranteed win” pitches in online gambling pop-ups ultimately dragged me into a bottomless pit. I thought I had desire under control, but I had long since become a puppet o 2kReads8.0Score106Shelves
8. 8 活 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Black Armor Warrior黑甲武士9k WordsCompleted Living Sacrifice 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves

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   The authors of these two books cover a wide range of topics, their writing is powerful, and they are all truly masterpieces by a bunch of talented writers—they could be adapted into movies! The setting and plot are absolutely brilliant!!

9. 9 我 My Years as a Ghost Constable 我当鬼差的那些经历 Black Armor Warrior黑甲武士7k WordsCompleted My Experiences as a Ghost Constable 547Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 10 从 From Picking Up Scrap to Southeast Asia's Big Boss 从捡破烂到东南亚大佬 Wang Dongdong, a Late Bloomer大器晚成的王冬冬Urban238k WordsCompleted No System + Southeast Asian Compounds + Crime + High-Octane Power Fantasy + An Underdog’s Rise In 2008, after his family is destroyed, sixteen-year-old Chen Ye is heartlessly kicked out by his stepmother. He drifts to Shangdu Railway Station, surviving by collecting scrap. He learns to read people and navigate the streets, steadily rising through the ranks. After amassing a vast fortune, he risks everything to flee to Southeast Asia. With ruthless moves and careful planning, he claims territory 45Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It has to be arranged, it has to be good-looking, a story of a nobody's rise to power and quietly making a fortune.

11. 11 被 Lured to Southeast Asia, I Must Survive in Hell 被骗东南亚，我要在炼狱里活下去 Wang Dongdong, a Late Bloomer大器晚成的王冬冬Urban313k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 289Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 我 I Roam Jianghu with Fortune-Telling, Seeing Through Hearts and Breaking Deadlocks 我靠算命闯江湖，看透人心破死局 Refracted Light, Dream Narrative折光叙梦Urban160k WordsOngoing [Period Mystery + Jianghu Secrets and Arts + Wits and Schemes + A Battle of Human Nature + Underdog's Rise + No System] In 2002, I was twenty years old, yet everyone within ten li addressed me respectfully as "Mr. Chen." When the village Party secretary married off his son, he came to me to pick an auspicious date. When a pig farmer lost a pig, he came to ask me where to look. Then one day, the town mayor's wife knelt outside my house, begging me to divine the whereabouts of her missing daughter 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Worth reading: niche period novels

13. 13 黑 Underworld Tyrant: Those Who Follow Me Prosper, Those Who Oppose Me Perish! 黑道暴君：顺我者昌，逆我者亡！ Please Let Me Go Viral Just Once拜托你让我火一次吧Urban983k WordsOngoing [Class Beauty, I’m out of prison. You’ll pay for what you did!] Framed by the class beauty he loved, Wang Erchui was wrongfully imprisoned for three years. The misery of prison transformed the once-ordinary boy into a hardened man. But it was only after getting out and seeking revenge that he gradually realized there was a terrifying story behind it all. The truth was, it wasn’t that love affair that had ruined his life. It was a vast, carefully woven web of darkness. His enemies had already ris 9.5kReads8.9Score582Shelves

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    The beautiful class beauty falsely accused him of rape, and his gorgeous sister-in-law was brutally humiliated by thugs. Wang Erchui could no longer tolerate this messed-up society. Watch as he fights his way up from the bottom to the throne of a gangster tyrant... (This is a thrilling story full of bloodshed, beautiful women, extravagance, and passion!)

14. 14 救 I Saved a Stunning Beauty, and She Tried to Hack Me with a Knife by the Bed 救了绝色美女，她在床边拿刀砍我 Meticulous to the Last Word一字不苟Urban644k WordsCompleted Chu Lingtian is a legendary man known as the "Grim Reaper Wolf King." He returns to the city for a top-secret mission, never imagining that on his very first day back, he will spend the night with a beautiful woman named Liu Bingxue. Afterward, Liu Bingxue takes him home and passes him off as her boyfriend. But it turns out she has a twin sister, Liu Huohuo. The older sister is cold and aloof, while the younger is uninhibited. Sharing a room with these twin beauties is certainly thrilling. After 11.6kReads8.7Score1kShelves
15. 15 灯 A Gu Beneath the Lamp 灯下有蛊 Carefree Gaze at the Horizon逍遥望天涯Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted A single Nether Lamp brought a century-old feud to light. One journey unfolded a tangled tale of grudges, gratitude, love, and resentment. Secret Miaojiang arts and Golden Silkworm Gu! Yin-Yang magic to drive out ghosts and guide souls! Grave robbers who read the earth to locate tombs! Three people from different factions, each with a distinct personality, come together and set out along a road illuminated by the Nether Lamp. Along the way, witchcraft and Gu wreak havoc, vengeful ghosts claim so 227Reads6.1Score—Shelves

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    There is a curse under the lamp.

16. 16 男 Before a Man Turns Forty 男人四十之前 Bespectacled Roughneck戴眼镜的粗人Urban1.0M WordsCompleted This is so realistic! Read with caution! If you insist on reading this book, I believe you'll find that, to some extent, you see yourself in it! It's frustrating, uneventful, even absurd and stifling, but that's what life as an ordinary wage slave is really like. That's what it takes to wake millions of ordinary people up! 8.3kReads7.4Score873Shelves
17. 17 我 My 27-Year-Old Female Teacher 我的27岁女老师 Ji Liren济离人Urban607k WordsOngoing [Based on real events] [Older woman-younger man romance] [Two female leads] [Realistic fiction] [No System] A new author with a new book. The rating just came out, but it’ll go up soon~ Based on the author’s own experiences, with pictures of some events in the comments. A realistic look at everyday life as a Chinese master’s and doctoral student. Before starting graduate school, Jiang Huai suddenly found himself surrounded by beautiful women! His underclassman Qiu Yuchang came right out and con 11.3kReads6.9Score806Shelves
18. 18 第 The First Secretary 第一秘书 Snow Wolf雪狼Urban7.0M WordsCompleted Also known as The Perplexing Road to Office. Take one step while looking two ahead, and plan three moves in advance. How can one cut a path through the perilous world of officialdom, with beautiful women by his side? Watch as an unassuming young man from the grassroots slowly builds a brilliant future of his own. 9.3kReads8.9Score985Shelves
19. 19 昨 Yesterday Flowed into the City 昨日流入城 Thorny Bougainvillea有刺三角梅Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [Officialdom] + [Workplace] + [Business World] + [Family] A scholar, two business magnates, three boxing champions, four great families, the Gao family's five tigers, the Twelve Beauties of Jiangling, and 108 concubines... A man who had lost all hope and decided to lie flat is thrust into officialdom overnight, only to become the talk of the whole city as he indulges in wine, women, wealth, and power... Where does his path ultimately lead? Will there be an ending? 293Reads9.2Score366Shelves
20. 20 短 Short Story Collection: Ninety-Nine Kinds of Women 短篇集：九十九种女人 Big Brother Xiao Mo小莫哥哥Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Short Story Collection] Each chapter is a standalone story about a different woman. Among them are a landlady, a female coworker, a female boss, and a neighbor. There is deception and devotion, true love and sweetness. The world is full of every kind of person. No two are alike. 5.7kReads7.3Score660Shelves
21. 21 湿 Accomplices on a Wet Night 湿夜共犯 Marguerite玛格绿特Modern Romance487k WordsCompleted Gold digger × entitled rich boy | Mature man and woman | Female lead isn't a virgin, male lead is | Coercive love | The powerful one becomes a dog | Old flames reignited | Everyday life | Happy ending Cen Liu was a gold digger through and through. After working hard at it, she successfully latched on to Shen Tan, a locally renowned rich man. Hoping to rise in status through a child and marry into wealth, Cen Liu flew to the city where Shen Tan was on a business trip to provide “door-to-door ser 113.5kReads9.3Score16.9kShelves
22. 22 开 Black Gold System from the Start: I Lend Money to the Campus Belle 开局黑金系统，我给校花放贷 Moshan磨山Urban252k WordsOngoing 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! 42Reads8.0Score—Shelves
23. 23 我 My Years in the Jianghu 我的江湖岁月 Little Cabbage小白菜Urban1.8M WordsOngoing The day I went to stay with my cousin, I caught her calling a client “Dad.” Lesson one about society: my beautiful cousin was mixed up with the wrong crowd, and she even let me sleep in her bed? I thought city life meant factory lines and dormitories. But what I found was deceit, scheming, and steel pipes and machetes. My cousin said, “This place eats people. You have to be fiercer than a wolf.” I remembered that. From throwing punches at the factory to blades flashing in the nightlife district. 3.2kReads7.5Score731Shelves
24. 24 杏 Divine Doctor Zhao, the Old Man from Apricot Blossom Village! 杏花村神医赵老汉！ Wind Through the Forest风过林海Urban1.7M WordsOngoing Fifty-two-year-old Zhao Dazhu had been a bachelor his entire life. With no one to rely on in his old age, he was mocked by the villagers and bullied again and again by the village tyrant. He thought that was how his life would end, but he unexpectedly obtained a mysterious inheritance and mastered peerless medical skills. From then on, his life became a series of cheat-like victories! Anyone who took from him would have to pay back double. Anyone who bullied him would have to kneel before him, k 6.3kReads8.0Score560Shelves
25. 25 江 No Shore in the Underworld: An Undercover Agent's Fight to Survive 江湖无岸：暗子求生 Hard Work Is a Boat Across the Boundless Sea无涯苦作舟Urban295k WordsOngoing I am a hidden operative, a ghost living inside someone else's script. To keep my mother safe, I went from Chen Jianguo, a gambler in Bincheng, to Chen Guohua, a courier in Hong Kong. My memories are fake, my identity is fake, even the scar on my forehead is a carefully designed brand. My mission: get close to Song Wenchang, a Southeast Asian crime lord, press the button on my watch, then disappear “quietly.” But I didn't press it. Because in the darkness aboard a yacht, he looked at me and sudde 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist went through too much, and finally found liberation.

26. 26 跟 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Ding Xingxing521丁星星521Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa 34.8kReads8.8Score3.1kShelves

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    Is Feng Shui considered unorthodox?

27. 27 澳 The Legendary Life of Macau’s Wash-Money Hua 澳门洗米华的传奇一生 Surrounded by Bullish Candlesticks我被大阳线包围了Urban1.4M WordsOngoing "Wash Yinhua" was once a legendary figure in Macau's gambling industry, known as the "New King of Asian Gambling." His life was full of drama. Starting out as an ordinary casino loan shark, he built a vast junket empire before ultimately landing behind bars for cross-border gambling crimes. 644Reads—Score100Shelves

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    Tomato's pinnacle masterpiece

28. 28 我 My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐 Zeng Yi曾呓Urban2.4M WordsOngoing Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.] 197.5kReads8.9Score9.8kShelves

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29. 29 澳 Macau Memoirs 澳门回忆录 When Fog Rises in the Deep Woods林深起雾时Urban673k WordsCompleted In 2020, I arrived in Macau and experienced dizzying highs and lows. One person, one city, a stretch of memories, and a bitter regret. This is the story of the pain and passion of that time. I may be unwilling to let go, but I still have to face reality. 50Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a must-read book.

30. 30 乱 Fortunes in a Chaotic Era: The Winds of the Desert 乱世偏财：大漠风云 Mr. Naughty坏坏先生啊Urban401k WordsCompleted In 1992, a country boy set off for Beijing with two hundred yuan in his pocket. A fortune-teller said he was destined to make money through shady ventures, and would never stay on the straight and narrow. He believed him. From then on, Wang Lei was the name his family knew him by, while Damo was what the underworld called him. Street vending, steel trading, opening karaoke bars, fighting for territory... Three women, three ill-fated romances, one high-stakes gamble. Those who play by the rules a —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommended. A story about an ordinary person struggling in Beijing during the 1990s who is blessed with unexpected wealth. Multiple female leads.

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