The Top 10 Must-Read Novels from Tomato's Annual Rankings 历年番茄排行榜前10神书

1. 1351 木 A Hibiscus Love Story 木槿之恋 Water Leaves No Trace水不留痕Modern Romance221k WordsCompleted The tangled loves and hatreds of three couples: Mu Jin and Zhang Chaoyang, Wen Qiongfang and Lin Shiyuan, and Fang Yuan and Peng Guangyuan. How long can love last? What holds a family together? Love, marriage, family, and money intertwine in an intense tangle of feelings and desire. Who is right? Who is wrong? Fate lends a hand in everything, yet every choice is our own… There are no perfectly faithful couples here, only human nature. 33kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves

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   This book is the most delicate emotional novel I have ever read. I highly recommend it!

2. 1352 人 A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史 Mark P. Donnelly马克·P.唐纳利Historical151k WordsCompleted 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 10.2kReads9.6Score1.5kShelves
3. 1353 穿 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 The Little Cat Fell Asleep小猫睡了Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 31.7kReads9.6Score3.3kShelves

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   Highly recommended, very interesting. The heroine was pregnant when she was in the book. She was weak and had no money. It was a hell mode. The heroine was making money while taking care of her body. Suddenly Zai Zai's father appeared with a bag on his back. The male protagonist was super wifely. He listened to his wife in everything, did all the work by himself and doted on Zai Zai. The couple runs a restaurant together, which is warm, healing and sweet

4. 1354 侯 The Marquess's Wife Wants to Die of Old Age in Peace 侯府主母要寿终正寝 Winter Melon Eats Pears冬瓜吃梨Ancient Romance553k WordsCompleted A history major pulls an all-nighter and dies suddenly, only to become Chen Yuhu, the matriarch of an ancient household, with no golden finger whatsoever. But you have to learn to be content. As a modern, clear-eyed college student, Chen Yuhu wants to tell the original matriarch: don't be such a lovesick fool. Treasure your life of immense wealth and status. She certainly does. She sends her biased mother-in-law away to cultivate in seclusion, keeps the obedient and pretty concubine around to pl 36.7kReads9.2Score3.5kShelves

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   Classics, watch them over and over again

5. 1355 温 A Tender Rose Becomes His Cherished Favorite in the Apocalypse 温软玫瑰沦为他心尖偏宠【末世】 Fallen Today落今朝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse360k WordsCompleted [A post-apocalyptic setting + a trash man’s regret + the arch-enemy villain takes the lead + love triangle drama + mutual salvation + swoony romance + romantic aesthetics + both leads are devoted to each other] [Gentle, steadfast beacon of righteousness x refined, unhinged smiling schemer (irresistibly wicked)] Even as she lay dying, Wen Yao couldn’t understand what she had ever liked about Shen Yichuan. Was it his coldheartedness, or his selfishness? As his partner, she had risked her life for 50kReads9.5Score5.6kShelves

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   Come on [attention][attention][attention][attention][attention]

6. 1356 她 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反 Warfires Stain All烽火尽染Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 145.1kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
7. 1357 我 My Little Madman 我的小疯子啊 Cat for a While一时猫Modern Romance293k WordsCompleted [Scheming seduction, face-slapping revenge, bloody madness, and the aesthetics of violence] Everyone is crazy, and everyone has a mental illness. If that bothers you, don’t read. Care for your mental health by reading novels. * Reborn after death, Su Jinyi has too many scores to settle. She refuses to sell herself for beauty or take the path of degradation. Instead, she chooses a more direct, more unhinged way to get even. But first, she needs powerful allies. So Su Jinyi checks herself into a p 4.7kReads9.2Score650Shelves
8. 1358 说 They Said She Was Only Fit to Be a Concubine? She Married Into a Powerful Family and Became Its Mistress 说她只配当妾？转身嫁高门做主母 Su Youran苏悠然Ancient Romance627k WordsCompleted [Neither the male nor female lead is transmigrated or reborn, and there are no golden fingers. They are natives of the ancient world.] They say the Third Miss Yang Liu of the capital has a willow-thin waist and skin like ice, a rare beauty. But when the family split, she filed a legal complaint against her own uncle, earning him a notorious reputation and leaving everyone shaking their heads. Who would marry such a fierce troublemaker? Even her fiancé called off the engagement... Chu Yan, the el 11.9kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
9. 1359 说 You Said You Wanted a Substitute, So Why Are You Crying Now That I'm Done? 说好的替身，真不玩了你又哭 County Princess of Jiuzhou九洲县主Modern Romance574k WordsCompleted [A crazy, lovesick villainess VS a cold, refined man in power] [Villainess revenge power fantasy (not mindless wish fulfillment, with many hidden clues) + female-led relationship + male stand-ins treated as playthings + training him like a dog + the husband’s long road to winning her back + a battle royale of rival men + all male characters are romantically inexperienced] [A personal male-torture fantasy. Read the first chapter’s content warnings!] Jiang Nanxi spent two years as a stand-in by Hu 3.9kReads7.8Score471Shelves
10. 1360 和 After Breaking Up with a Creep, I Forgot to Turn Off the Shared Payment App 和变态分手后，忘记关亲密付了 Little Duckling小鸭鸭Modern Romance466k WordsCompleted (Short drama now available) (Signed for publication, awaiting release) [Sensitive catlike, sweet-faced but secretly ruthless girl × gloomy, obsessive, pathological male lead] [Mutual identity reveals | Sweet romance, both devoted to each other | Pathological love | Flirtatious push and pull] After hearing the transmigrator and the System’s inner thoughts, Yang Ci Ci learns that she is living in a novel and that her boyfriend, Pei Yanchuan, is the male lead. As for her, she’s just cannon fodder. 85.1kReads8.8Score11.8kShelves
11. 1361 月 The Moonlight Kissed the Wildly Growing Vines 月光吻过疯长的藤 Tong Si橦肆Modern Romance213k WordsCompleted The short drama is out: [Wolfish Younger Brother] vs. [Sweet, Gentle Older Sister] [Mad, Black-Bellied Crown Prince] [Older Sister-Younger Brother Romance, Obsessive Coercion, Long-Standing Scheme, Childhood Sweethearts] Sheng Shuran had always thought she was Chi Heng’s older sister. Until he said, “Sis, I feel awful. Help me.” That was when she realized she had raised a wolf. A cuddly little puppy? Not a chance! He never acts cute or begs for attention! He’s a madman with no humanity! [My brot 25.5kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
12. 1362 谁 Who Wants to Steal Men? I'm Always the One Getting Stolen From 谁要抢男人？我都是被抢 A Little Ying一个小莹Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration + Mutual Exclusivity + 1v1 + Yandere + Intense] Shu Yao is unexpectedly bound to a System and sent through small worlds to complete missions. But in every world, a mad dog lurking in the shadows sets its sights on her! [World One] Unhinged yandere hostage prince x spoiled, beloved princess After enduring endless torment, how will the hostage prince from an enemy kingdom take revenge once he gains power over the delicate princess? Of course, he’ll lock her up and lavish her 37.5kReads8.6Score2.8kShelves
13. 1363 模 After a Thousand Simulations, I've Mastered the Escape Game 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法 Eat a Billion Less少吃亿点Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 260.7kReads9.6Score50.4kShelves

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    I only read this book after reading it with a score of 9.7. This book did not disappoint me. It is really beautiful. What a masterpiece this is. Help! I really fainted from laughing. It is a super funny article and it is so exciting that I feel like I want to finish it in one breath.

14. 1364 乡 The Country Doctor’s Good Life 乡村神医好快活 A Stone Blooms石头开花Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [Rural Miracle Doctor + Little Guy’s Rise to Success + Business Fortune] To protect Xu Taohua, Song Qian offends Wang Mazi and is thrown into a cave in the wilderness. By a twist of fate, he encounters the Lotus Immortal Empress and receives her legacy. To help Song Qian return her to the world of cultivation, the Lotus Immortal Empress expends her strength to pass on all the cultivation she has accumulated in her lifetime. With this legacy, Song Qian begins his path to turning his life around. 54.7kReads8.9Score3kShelves

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    The Book of Tomatoes is so exciting that you can't stop reading it.

15. 1365 逍 The Carefree Mountain Village Divine Doctor 逍遥山村神医 A Stone Blooms石头开花Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [Alluring countryside, passionate sister-in-law, multiple heroines, rags-to-riches comeback] While in college, Fan Yunpeng offended the powerful and had one of his legs broken. He returned to his village and took up work as a pig castrator. Then, by a stroke of luck, he obtained an immortal inheritance and became a master healer. From then on, he soared to success... 11.7kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
16. 1366 七 Military Marriage in the 1970s: After Joining the Army, She Became the Talk of the Family Compound 七零军婚：随军后她风靡家属院 Yan Hui胭回Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Stunning artist x tough, prison-style military officer] [Pocket dimension, limited appearances + sweet romance + satisfying wish fulfillment + no awful characters] Shi Tingyu is a young painter with a modest reputation. One day, she transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes the daughter of a weapons researcher. Before she can enjoy her new life, her parents face the prospect of being reported and sent down to the countryside. Unwilling to let her suffer, her parents quickly arrange a blind date fo 71.8kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves

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    A high-scoring finished work on the bookshelf. The book is well completed and enjoyable to read. It is worth reading!!!

17. 1367 小 Locked-Room Warning! I'm Being Hounded by Another Love-Crazed Psycho 小黑屋警告！又被恋爱脑疯批缠上 He Wanfu鹤晚浮Modern Romance1.2M WordsOngoing "Just got a rating, it'll go up later~" [Quick transmigration + male lead in terminal stages of lovesickness + love at first sight, madly in love with the heroine + dark, unhinged, yandere + if she doesn't love me, I'll go crazy; give me a little love and I'll act sweet + somewhat skewed values + heroine doesn't suffer] Shu Mian dies unexpectedly, and the System assigns her to play a wicked supporting female character in various mission worlds. In those worlds, she is malicious and selfish, sp 64kReads9.0Score6.5kShelves
18. 1368 校 My Campus Belle Wife Saved Up to Buy a House, but Got Shut Out by Purchase Restrictions and Burst into Tears 校花老婆攒钱买房被限购，急哭了 This Person Is a Little Lazy这个人有点懒Urban128k WordsCompleted Xue Yao’s biggest dream in life was to build a stable home with her husband. She worked hard and lived frugally to reach that goal, and at last saved enough for a down payment. But when she happily went to apply for a home-buying permit, she was told that purchases were restricted! Xue Yao panicked. “This is my first home, and I need it to live in. Why am I subject to purchase restrictions?” The clerk replied, “Ms. Xue, according to the housing bureau’s records, you and Mr. Jiang jointly own mor 2kReads8.4Score100Shelves

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    💥Cracked Wall Recommendation [laughing]: The heroine works hard, thriftily manages the household, and finally saves enough for the down payment. When she happily applied for the qualification to buy a house, she was told that the purchase was restricted! The heroine was anxious: This is my first time buying a house, and I just need it. Why is the purchase restricted? [Laughs] Staff: Ms. Xue, according to the information from the Real Estate Bureau, you and Mr. Jiang have more than a thousand joint properties! Hostess: ??? Shocked, she followed the address and came to check one by one. Every door that opens is a world that subverts her understanding of the protagonist.

19. 1369 让 I Told You to Cultivate Immortality, Not Wreak Havoc in the Cultivation World! 让你修仙，没让你祸害修仙界啊！ The Angler Who Catches Big Fish钓鱼佬钓大鱼Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsOngoing [Comedy][Sneaky Schemer][Lighthearted][Absurd][Gets Better the Further You Read] [This book focuses on comedy and fun. The pace is somewhat slow, so please do not read it if that bothers you.] Year 17,863 of the Cultivation Calendar When Emperor Qin Yu became an immortal and ascended, powerful figures from every realm came to see him off. Firecrackers exploded, and everyone had tears in their eyes as they murmured their farewells. Sect Elder: “He's leaving. This scourge is finally leaving. We ca 154.2kReads9.1Score12.7kShelves

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    They are all very good books [Chigua] [Chigua] [Chigua] 5000 hours of personal testing [I understand] [I understand] [I understand]

20. 1370 系 System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊 Song Xiangbai宋象白Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ... 35.7kReads9.6Score4.4kShelves
21. 1371 无 The Invincible Mountain Village Miracle Doctor 无敌山村神医 Stone Simmered Soup石头熬汤Urban2.9M WordsCompleted Feel-good medical fiction | Rags-to-riches comeback | Farming and fortune Xiang Yunfei, an orphan with an intellectual disability, had endured countless sneers. While helping a friend, he unexpectedly awakened a divine healer’s inheritance! One needle cures a hundred illnesses, one medicine brings the dead back to life! From then on, the village bully feared him, his neighbors respected him, and beautiful women fell for him! Put the worst troublemakers in their place, heal the sick and save live 8kReads8.9Score1kShelves
22. 1372 都 Urban: The Prodigal Turns Over a New Leaf, and the Nation Calls on Me to Crack a Major Case 都市：浪子回头，国家请我破大案 Codonopsis-Stewed Chicken党参炖鸡Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [The new book, Jianghu: I Became a Big Shot by Selling Goods to the System, is now available. Readers are welcome to check it out and share their thoughts.] They say that nine times out of ten, life doesn't go as planned, and that people are born to suffer. But Zhang Yang doesn't agree. He was abandoned at the gate of an orphanage as a child, but fortunately, he met a kind-hearted director. Fate had other plans, though: to make a living, he became a universally despised pickpocket. Then, by chan 27kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
23. 1373 驯 A Day Spent Taming the Sinister Villain Like a Dog 驯服阴鸷反派当狗的一天 Occasionally Semi-Permanent偶尔半永久Modern Romance341k WordsCompleted [Pseudo transmigration into a book + villain] [Heiress of a tycoon family + sinister illegitimate son] [Villainous couple] There was a saying circulating around Shengde Academy: Gu Ye was Yin En’s obedient little dog. “Daring to confess to him? Did you get Yin En’s permission first?” 28.4kReads9.0Score3.9kShelves
24. 1374 智 Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责 Uncle Luo洛叔叔Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied 39.5kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
25. 1375 乱 Chaos! Utter Chaos! The More Chaos, the Better! 乱！都乱！乱点好啊！ One Smile Through the Spring and Autumn一笑春秋Urban413k WordsCompleted [A wild, passionate power fantasy for adult readers] Chu Tian finally scraped together enough for the bride price and prepared to get married, never dreaming that it was all a scheme. The so-called marriage was nothing more than a plot to get their hands on his bride price. Through a twist of fate, Chu Tian acquired the Disease-Devouring System. When a beautiful CEO learned that Chu Tian possessed peerless medical skills, she publicly confessed her love for him at the hospital, becoming his stea 17kReads7.5Score1.5kShelves
26. 1376 和 After Switching Lives with a Tycoon, She Turned the Ultra-Luxury Socialite World Upside Down 和大佬互换后她炸翻了顶奢豪门 Shen Nanxin沈南辛Modern Romance470k WordsCompleted [Also known as: The Overbearing CEO and the Celebrity Who Swapped Bodies and Reformed the Entertainment Industry] Third-rate actress Zhong Ruanxing has faced endless controversy over her sexy figure ever since her debut, with scandalous rumors constantly swirling around her. She is suppressed by industry bigwigs and dragged down by rivals, while smear campaigns come one after another. For years, she has been unable to shake her image as a sexy star, and her career has been severely hampered. Son 67.7kReads9.6Score10.6kShelves
27. 1377 糟 Oh No! The Substitute He Found Has Someone Else in Her Heart 糟糕！他找的替身另有白月光 Xiao Xiao in My Heart心上肖肖Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted (Complete) The South Wind Knows My Heart, Blowing Dreams to Xizhou [Shen Zhiyi and Fu Xizhou, one-on-one, both pure, dual stand-ins, sweet romance with no angst, mutual salvation, both reaching for each other, childhood sweethearts and first loves] Just how devastating can a first love be? Lu Qingzhou always believed Shen Zhiyi loved him to the bone. She would gaze at him in a daze, look at him tenderly with eyes full of affection, and carefully put on his glasses when his eyes grew tired from h 1.8kReads8.8Score165Shelves
28. 1378 爆 Breaking! The Top-Tier Star Queen Is Being Deliberately Flirted with by the Movie Emperor Again 爆！顶流女王又被影帝蓄意撩拨了 A Crescent Moon一剪月Modern Romance620k WordsCompleted [Also known as Galaxy Landing] [Two top-tier stars + secret crush + hilarious + everyone’s favorite + sweet romance, satisfying read] After being reborn and bound to a ridiculous System, Yan Qing wreaks havoc in the entertainment industry! From the start, she roasts her haters and lands on the trending list. She rides an adorable alpaca down the red carpet, winning countless fans, and transforms from a washed-up nobody into a bewitching star who rules film, television, and music. The white-lotus 3kReads9.5Score428Shelves
29. 1379 诱 Tempting Kisses With a Wild Rose: The Lovesick Tycoon Can't Get Enough of Me 诱吻野玫瑰，病娇大佬黏我上瘾 Pineapple Year菠萝年Modern Romance416k WordsCompleted [Mad, wicked prince VS cool, seductive heiress with a wild heart] Zhou Jinyue will always be behind Qiao Ling: a hidden blade in the dark, a ghost in the sunlight. He goes mad for her and is obedient for her. He lives his entire life for two words: Qiao Ling Between adults, forget the undercurrents of ambiguous flirtation. Give me only waves of surging lust. 6.6kReads9.2Score561Shelves
30. 1380 官 A Hothead in Politics? I'm on a Rampage 官场愣头青？我杀疯了 Ants Dating蚂蚁搞对象Urban2.9M WordsOngoing [Everyday Police Work + Decisive and Ruthless + Beautiful Women + No Saintly Heroics + No System + Patriotism] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Yu became a police officer. On his first day on the job, he was ordered to crack down on prostitution. He jokingly called for the wife of a crime boss, only to discover that her husband was the ringleader of a new drug case. After interrogating her, Lin Yu cracked a major drug-trafficking case and earned a First-Class Merit. A husband report 89.5kReads9.2Score4.4kShelves

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    Recommendations from 10,000 Hours readers include reading in various genres. There are fewer and fewer books that can be read in full. I hope to meet like-minded book lovers here.

31. 1381 甜 The Sweet and Gentle Boy Is Wild and Wicked 甜兮兮的温柔少年他很疯很坏 Mao Tutu猫屠屠Modern Romance520k WordsCompleted [Reborn + Darkening + Sickly Male Lead + Reconciliation After a Breakup + The Male Lead's Redemption] After living her life over again, Wen Yisheng swore she would stay far away from Wen Zhi! She'd rather sleep on the streets or under a bridge than live with the Wen family again! Because the Wen family's eldest son, who seemed gentle and refined to outsiders, never smoked or fought, studied hard, and loved helping people, was a mad and wicked monster underneath! He was cruel and obsessive. “You 22.4kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
32. 1382 无 The Peerless National Healer 无双国医 A Gentleman Like Jade君子如珩Urban3.1M WordsCompleted 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 64.9kReads9.5Score8.5kShelves
33. 1383 要 Oh No! I Got Him Wrong! He's a Unhinged Villain 要完！认错了！他是疯批反派 Qiao Yiqian乔亦浅Ancient Romance340k WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance + devoted couple with no other partners + yandere + both leads are unhinged + descent into darkness + powerful male and female leads + sweet on the outside, dark within + coercive romance] Gu Xi transmigrates. On her first day in this new world, the System points to a young man on the ground, being cruelly bullied by everyone, and says, “See those three red exclamation marks over his head? That huge warning has to mean he’s the male lead!” Gu Xi: “Are you sure?” The System pa 15.3kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
34. 1384 娱 Godfather of the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈教父 Heading North向北Urban3.0M WordsCompleted A down-and-out keyboardist breathes his last in a hospital bed. From playing accompaniment in dance halls at sixteen to scraping by in Sanlitun at thirty-two, he'd tasted every sweetness and hardship life had to offer. When he opens his eyes, he's back in Northeast China in 2002. His young body houses a heart weathered by life's vicissitudes, along with classic melodies that shouldn't exist until the future. No System or cheat ability, just a lifetime's worth of musical talent and experience. In 46.2kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
35. 1385 这 This Guy Is a Bit of a Rascal 这个家伙有点坏 E Fo Ge鄂佛歌Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea 70.4kReads9.3Score6.7kShelves

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    Absolutely beautiful and worth recommending

36. 1386 开 From the Start, I Beg Zhu Yuanzhang for a Mandate, Protecting Great Ming for Three Hundred Years 开局讨封朱元璋，庇护大明三百年 Peaceful as a Distant Mountain安如远山Historical220k WordsOngoing Zhang Chen transmigrates and becomes a snake! Luckily, he's bound to a System that lets him devour things and cultivate! After a hundred years of hard cultivation, he finally reaches the point where he can undergo tribulation and transform into a dragon! But the System warns him that spiritual energy is depleted in this world, and the death rate for those who take human form during the heavenly tribulation is as high as 99%! Zhang Chen grits his teeth and decisively chooses another way to transf 3.1kReads6.2Score135Shelves

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    💥① Hilarious🤣, the protagonist traveled through the Ming Dynasty, was reborn as a snake, and was about to survive the tribulation and transform into a dragon. It happened to be that Zhu Yuanzhang was building the Qinhuai River dam. "Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, do you think I look like a dragon?" "I think you look like the Ming Dynasty Protector Dragon!"

37. 1387 从 Starting in 1998, I Became the Godfather of Football 从1998开始，我成为足坛教父 Scallion Potato Pancake香葱土豆饼Sports2.9M WordsCompleted Soccer + System + management, coaching, and playing + a master plan spanning the five major leagues … What? The future convict and the national team coach are on my team? Get rid of them, get rid of them! We can’t keep people like that! What? The Football Association has rules against freely trading players? What kind of ridiculous rule is that? To hell with it! Why is it so hard just to play a decent game of soccer! … In 1998, Longguo soccer was still among the best in Asia. Twenty-four years 4.1kReads9.0Score345Shelves
38. 1388 雪 Snowflake Town 雪粒镇 Sister Corpse尸姐Modern Romance130k WordsCompleted [Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue 86.5kReads9.7Score11.6kShelves
39. 1389 硝 When the Smoke Clears 硝烟散尽 Xiao Mao肖锚Urban473k WordsCompleted 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! 24Reads8.6Score—Shelves
40. 1390 家 My Father Is Emperor Wu of Han! 家父汉武帝！ The Wise Man's Mutt智者的土狗儿Historical1.9M WordsCompleted [Winner of the National Library writing contest] [Top-tier historical storytelling + no System + rebellion + political intrigue + a love-hate relationship between father and son] Reborn in the womb as Liu Ju, the eldest legitimate son of Emperor Wu of Han. His father is Liu Che, the most powerful carbon-based life form on Earth in the second century BCE! And his maternal family’s lineup is even more outrageous! His mother is Wei Zifu, his uncle is Wei Qing, his cousin is Huo Qubing, and his youn 87kReads9.2Score8.7kShelves
41. 1391 从 From Eunuch to Emperor 从太监到皇帝 Bubble's Cat泡泡的猫Historical5.5M WordsCompleted Long Chen transmigrates to ancient times and finds himself in the castration chamber, about to be made a eunuch. Luckily, the man wielding the knife is an old acquaintance, and Long Chen narrowly escapes disaster. Using his wits, he rises step by step to the top and becomes the strongest emperor! 51.6kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves

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    [The strongest "Sick Yangzi" in the world of cultivation is online!] Transformed into the cannon fodder of a sadistic novel, Lin Du looked at Man Zong's love brain: All the wild vegetables have been dug up, and his life is about to be lost? In order to save her life, she was forced to rescue her fellow sect members who had been disemboweled, disemboweled, and turned into demons. However, she discovered that the sect's style was outrageous—the leader stewed a goose, while the elders grew spiritual vegetables? The most frightening thing is that the senior brother sneered in black: "Can't ascend? Then send the enemy to hell!" Everyone frantically issued a warning. Can this sect be saved? ## Reversing the abuse of scum, sick young man overturns the world of cultivation!

42. 1392 软 A Gentle Seduction 软诱 Jiujiu Qi久久萋Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us 73.3kReads9.6Score8.8kShelves
43. 1393 好 Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女 I Took Great Pains我煞费苦心Modern Romance361k WordsCompleted [Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co 46.6kReads9.5Score6.2kShelves
44. 1394 病 Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春 Sweet Melon甜甜的瓜Ancient Romance476k WordsCompleted [Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles 237.6kReads9.5Score34.2kShelves

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    Tomato 🍅9.8 Masterpiece!!! Beat 90% of the novels currently on the list!!!!! The plot of the first book is super brain-burning, even if you don't have a brain, you can't understand it🍁🍁The heroine of the second book is the legitimate daughter raised by a century-old family, and she can easily defeat the time-travelling girl!! ✨✨The third book is Quan Mouwen, which is a bit like the female version of Langya Bang, especially clever! It's so cool🌟🌟The fourth book is a family, country, world type, and the writing is very good.

45. 1395 不 Wait, How Did My AI Girlfriend Cultivate into a Sword Immortal? 不是，我电子女友咋修成剑仙了 Universe's Invincible Tyrannosaurus Roast Goose宇宙无敌暴龙烧鹅Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil 200.6kReads9.3Score61.3kShelves

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    🍄🍄[Salute] The [Crazy] masterpiece [Smile] in Tomato [Laughter and Cry] is very funny, [Love] is full of laughter!!! It's not easy to hold back laughter under the quilt at night [Send Heart] [cover [stunned] face], this [smile] book [cover face] was also recommended to me by my classmates. With the mentality of giving it a try [smirk], the more I read, the better and better I get. [Smile][almost crying]

46. 1396 孽 The Rebel Son and the Lonely Minister 孽子孤臣 Wild Horse in the Mountains山林野马Historical1.8M WordsCompleted After transmigrating and being reborn in an ancient marquis’s household, he was poisoned as a child. His father abandoned him, his grandmother watched coldly, and the culprit went free. Jiang Jingchen: “If Heaven hates me, I can forgive it. But anyone who harms me deserves to die... Every last one of you can forget about getting a happy ending.” His half-brother stole his position as heir? He’ll destroy his ability to have children and turn him into a cripple. His stepmother has overreached? He’ 8kReads8.3Score662Shelves

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    Great book on the history of tomatoes, is that what you mean?

47. 1397 百 The Many Flavors of Life, Part One: A Snowy Night of Lost Souls 百味人生第一部：失魂风雪夜 w Nankew南柯Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Family, love, and adultery. This small mountain village seems peaceful, but undercurrents run deep, and human dramas of sorrow and joy unfold every day. On a bitterly cold, snowy night, a young and beautiful mother is assaulted and becomes pregnant. Afterward, she lives every day in fear and pain, desperately trying to keep the secret. When the truth comes to light, the demon who has appeared in her dreams countless times has never really gone away. What will the mother do? This book offers a 13.6kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
48. 1398 被 Fooled by Overseas Netizens, I Turned Out to Be Making Gun Barrels 被境外网友忽悠，原来我在造枪管 Powerful Dopey Goose强大的呆头鹅Urban749k WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Jiang Yuan becomes an ordinary mechanical engineering student at Shanhe University. There really is a System, but all it gives Jiang Yuan is MAX-level mechanical manufacturing ability. For a college student, this ability is completely useless. Luckily, some helpful foreign internet users teach Jiang Yuan how to make things people like. After running his business for a year, Jiang Yuan gets a call from the Public Security Bureau. The police chief: “I 223Reads7.9Score112Shelves
49. 1399 绝 I’ll Never Let You Go 绝不放过 Seven Parts Alive七分生Urban2.3M WordsCompleted My career went bankrupt, and my beloved wife betrayed me! There’s no such thing as an easy life for adults. No transmigrating, no being reborn. No wishful fantasies, just reality. Keeping my feet on the ground, taking one step at a time, I’ll turn things around against the odds and rise to the top! This one’s for readers born in the ’80s. If you’re thin-skinned or haven’t been battered by life, read at your own risk! Better not read it! 36.8kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
50. 1400 鬼 Ghost Emperor! Your Wild Consort Is So Incredible, Even the Demons Kneel 鬼帝！你家狂妃太绝，妖孽全跪了 Qi Yi Zi七一子Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Strong female lead + power fantasy] During the upheaval at the Heavenly Puppet Palace, Shi Xi’s eyes were gouged out and her life-bound puppet was stolen. She was tossed into a forbidden zone like a stray dog! At death’s door, she awakened spirit eyes that could see countless souls, drawing the attention of the Ghost Emperor, Gui Li. “Little girl, help me restore my body, and I’ll help you get revenge.” From then on, a peerless prodigy was born in the forbidden zone! You gouged out her eyes, se 13.3kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves

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