Looking for a Ruthless Protagonist Who Rises from Nothing and Only Does What Benefits Him 求猪脚白手起家,心狠手辣,只做对自己有利益的事
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Do What You Want: If You're Reborn, Live Life Your Way 想干就干,重生就要过得顺心如意
After more than a decade of hard work, Lin Xiangdong finally built a fortune worth over a hundred million and achieved financial freedom. But just as he began to enjoy life to the fullest, he inexplicably found himself reborn in 2008. From the start, Lin Xiangdong goes all in with high-interest loans, uses one resource to generate another, and builds his fortune. From Brother Dong to Uncle Dong, from a nobody to a titan!
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When the Demon Tide Rises: My Talents Are Tied to My Reputation 魔潮起时:我的天赋与声望挂钩
[Apocalyptic Cataclysm + Racial War + Spiritual Qi Revival + High Martial Arts] People cannot choose their birth, but they can create one. But when Li Ming opened his eyes again, he found that every road led to a dead end. He wasn't even given the chance to create anything. So what was the point? He might as well flip the table and start a new game. Then the world said, “I'm with someone!!!” And chaos was a graveyard, but also a staircase. When worlds begin to collide, it means both destruction
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- 3 The Apocalypse’s Most Ruthless Survivor 末世之第一狠人 [Apocalyptic Catastrophe + Racial War + Struggling to Survive + Farming] Blue Star has existed for 4.6 billion years and endured five mass extinctions. Yet the wealth accumulated over all that time was exhausted by humankind in a mere few centuries! The Way of Heaven takes from what is abundant to make up for what is lacking. The way of man is different: it takes from what is lacking to serve what is abundant. Humanity has always taken and destroyed, never given anything back! What has humanity 7.5kReads8.1Score489Shelves
- 4 Showbiz System: Win Over Actresses to Get Stronger 华娱系统:攻略女星就变强 [Not Reborn + System Comeback] In 2004, after failing his arts entrance exam, the stubborn Su Yan went to Hengdian to become an extra. Dreams were grand, but reality was harsh. Playing corpses and cannon fodder day after day made him feel like his whole life was going nowhere. Then, on the day he joined the cast of The Return of the Condor Heroes, a screen suddenly appeared before his eyes: [First Goddess Bound: Heavenly Immortal] [Give-and-Receive System Activated] From then on, the rule 129.6kReads8.9Score13kShelves
- 5 Hong Kong Crossover: I’m the Big Winner 港综:我是大赢家 Ding! You have a new mission. Become famous throughout the city? Too easy. You know Wu Song, right? Watch me spill blood at Mandarin Duck Tower. Ding! You have a new mission. Become a billionaire, a legend of the underworld, and a powerbroker who rules over all? Yikes... Should I study the life of Lai Hao or Al Capone? Never mind. New place, new game plan. I’d better get some startup capital first... 94.9kReads9.2Score7.2kShelves
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Underworld: From Delinquent to Godfather of the Streets! 黑道:从不良开始成为江湖教父!
[Pure underworld + no System + first-person + not brainless + I already have an acclaimed older book with two million words. Quality and updates are guaranteed, so jump right in! Early chapters focus on school delinquents; later chapters are all about the underworld, with knives, guns, and cannons! Everyone who reports me can take the hit for me!] A gambling-addicted dad, a mom who ran off. A broken family, and I was broken too! With a terrible hand in life, I stirred up the underworld! A boy th
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The Texas Underworld 德州江湖
A tale of hooligans in Dezhou, Shandong, China? No. A tale of gangsters in Texas, USA? No. Texas hold 'em? Getting warmer. There are no miraculous gambling skills, no tense showdowns at the poker table, and no underdog comeback story. All there is is a poker table and the assortment of people around it: cops, businessmen, spies, brothers, high-ranking officials, lovers, and lowlifes. The worlds of money, power, loyalty, and love are all deadly. They aren't gambling on cards. They're gambling on
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Chinese Showbiz: I'll Claim Both Fame and Fortune Standing Tall 华娱:我要站着名利双收
[System] [Reborn] [Harem] [Not Brain-Dead] [Profit-Focused] Zhou Ye was a penniless nobody with no house, no car, and no savings. He dropped dead while treating his buddies. He transmigrated into the body of a first-year student at Beijing Film Academy in 2002. He even got bound to a System. In his previous life, he knelt and still failed to make money. This time, he wanted to try standing tall and claiming both fame and fortune. Others relied on capital; he relied on information advantages. Oth
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The Pinnacle of Black Power 黑权顶点
(Ignore the rating. This is a black-market thriller with guaranteed thrills.) Qin Hui only wants to sell watermelons in peace, earn a little money, and find himself a wife. But the street thugs at the market bully him until he can barely get by. At the end of his rope, he finally picks up a watermelon knife and strikes back. “A man needs either money or power. Better to stand up and fight than live like a spineless loser.” An ordinary man transforms into a big shot, eventually reaching unima
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Reborn in 1942: While Others Flee on Tree Bark, I Eat Stewed Meat 重生42逃荒别人吃树皮我吃炖肉
[Fleeing famine] [Reborn] [Pocket dimension] [Decisive and ruthless] [Killing Japanese invaders] [Killing people and looting their bodies] [Multiple heroines, no single female lead] Ma Tian was a hitman who had only recently entered the profession when his fixer set him up. He was sent to assassinate a Southeast Asian general, only to discover it was a trap. At the last moment, he detonated the explosives in his hands, taking his enemies down with him. He transmigrated into the body of Su Chen,
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Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Run with the Gangsters? 都重生了谁还混社会
Short drama: "Loyal to the Skies: Starting Over" is now streaming The novel was originally titled "Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Would Still Run With Gangs?" [Reborn + business + lots of underlings + no groveling + no cowardice + taking the righteous path + law-abiding] A big shot from the underworld returns to 2010. Should he repeat his old mistakes and keep running with gangs, or abandon his underlings and take the road to a brighter future? No! I won't choose! In this life, I, Qin Jiang, wil
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Hong Kong Crossover: Bosses Can Do Whatever They Want, Of Course 港综:大佬当然是想干什么都行啦
Li Yao transmigrates into the world of Hong Kong films and wants only to become the most feared boss around! Someone gets in his way? Send them all off to sell salted duck eggs! Someone tells him to go straight? Tens of thousands of his men, and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, depend on him! So tell me, is he black or white? Starting out with a Hong Kong Island gang, he gradually expands his territory throughout Southeast Asia, extending his reach into North America. The enti
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Building Dreams in Hong Kong 香江筑梦
The novel has been partially adapted into a comic drama, now streaming on Hongguo under the title The Port City Comeback: From a Down-and-Out Youth to the King of Watches. Please give it a watch, and thank you for your support! [From Rags to Riches + Industrial Empire + Feuds Between Great Families + Brotherhood and Honor + Beauty Pageants and Film + Based on Real Events] In 1978, a young man from Chaodong crawled ashore in Hong Kong from the jaws of a shark. Later, one of the brothers climbed i
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I Can't Believe I've Become a Capitalist 我居然成了资本家
Tian Yi was a young man who got bound to a System right after graduating. He should have had a smooth, perfect life, with a wife and children waiting at home. But because of his own character flaws, he instead embarked on a turbulent journey of struggle in the business world.
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- 15 A Tycoon Doesn't Have to Run a Big Business 神豪,不一定必须做大生意 This is also a System novel, but my System doesn’t just hand me money, houses, and companies. Is it a bit of a letdown compared to the other tycoon Systems? Looks like I’ll just have to use the System to do something worthwhile, one step at a time. 514Reads5.5Score—Shelves
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He Shen in the City 和珅在都市
On February 22, 1799, Heshen received a white silk cord from the Jiaqing Emperor and met his end. Somehow, he found himself in the future, in 1983. As an ancient man in a modern city, how will he make his way in the world?
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- 17 We're All Reborn, So Who Wants to Be a Doormat? 都重生了,谁还做老实人啊 [Reborn in 2014] [No System] [Following His Heart] [Multiple Women, No Harem] [Everyday Life] [A Trip Down Memory Lane] The lessons Yang Zheng learned growing up told him to be an honest person. But life later taught him not to be a pushover. Nice guys come after jerks, and honest men come after nice guys. Unfortunately, Yang Zheng realized that too late. Luckily, fate gave him another chance. Back to 2014. Yang Zheng has just finished the college entrance exams. What was the hottest thing that 20.7kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 18 We’re All Reborn, So Who Isn’t a Rich Second-Generation Heir? 都重生了,谁还不是个富二代? I’m Jiang Lai. I woke up one day and found myself reborn in the days when my dad was still the richest man! Ahem. Sure, he’s only the richest man in the county, and he’s about to land in prison, but don’t worry, Dad. I’ll take care of it! I’m Jiang Lai, and I’m a vulgar guy. If I’ve had to get rained on, I want everyone else to get soaked too. I’m vulgar, with no grand ambitions. I just want to be an arrogant, domineering rich second-generation playboy. I’m vulgar. Bullying girls doesn’t make me 48.9kReads8.8Score4.4kShelves
- 19 Hong Kong Crossover: The Ultimate Smuggler 港综:最强大捞家 In the world of Hong Kong Island, the Money Empire era has just ended. The four great detectives are long gone, and the underworld is in turmoil. The mighty tide of a new age surges in. He Wenyao, who has lived two lives, travels from north to south, crossing the sea to arrive. When the bells of the new century ring out and Lighthouse magazine asks its question, he looks around and finds no equal in the world. 61.2kReads9.3Score3.9kShelves
- 20 Reborn in 2005: Rising from a Shady Brokerage 重生2005,从黑中介开始崛起 Also known as Reborn in 2005: Rising from a Shady Agency, My Secretary and I Were Reborn Together, and My Golden Finger Is My Girlfriend [Two people reborn] [50% urban slice of life + 30% entrepreneurship + 20% romance] [No System] [No tired tropes] Ning Yu, a mob boss, is reborn in 2005. He knows nothing about the stock market, can't remember lottery numbers, and has neither resources nor connections. How can he earn his first pot of gold? He doesn't want to repeat his old mistakes this time ar 9.3kReads8.8Score594Shelves
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The Eunuch Who Transmigrated into a Book Is Far Too Good at Reading the Room! 穿书太监太会审时度势了!
Su Rui has transmigrated into a book... And not just any book, but a political intrigue novel where the power levels keep climbing. The catch is, the novel already has a protagonist of its own. So... How can you get by without a System? Luckily, Su Rui is a eunuch, and nimble enough to adapt. The books hold golden mansions, The books hold beauties, The books hold the answers.
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From the Start, I Got Divorced and Became Shanghai’s Biggest Tycoon! 开局离婚,我成沪上巨鳄!
[Reborn, feel-good story, get rich, investing, take off, no saintly heroine, popular with women] Lin Chuan froze to death beneath a bridge in 2023. He never imagined he’d be reborn on May 18, 2000, the day that changed his family’s fate. In his previous life, his wife Liu Mei and childhood friend Zhang Lei got him drunk and tricked him into signing over the machine factory his father had run his whole life. They sold it for just 100,000 yuan. Later, the Zhang family made 80 million yuan from the
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- 23 Reborn and Living the Good Life: Starting with a Breakup with the Campus Belle 重生风流,从和校花分手开始 [Rebirth, No System, Stock Trading, Entrepreneurship, Business Empire] Lin Ze was reborn. When he opened his eyes, it was the day in 2014 when the college entrance exam results came out. He had missed the English exam, and his total score was 559, just one point short of the cutoff for a key university. In his previous life, he obediently followed his parents' and girlfriend's advice, retook the year at school, and got into Zhongshan University, hoping to land a stable, well-paying job. But whil 14.7kReads7.0Score643Shelves
- 24 We're All Reborn, So Who Still Confesses Their Love? 都重生了,谁还表白啊 [Reborn + stocks + twins + multiple heroines + financial freedom + entrepreneurship + business empire] The moment he opened his eyes, Lin Lingkai was back at the teachers' appreciation banquet after the 2013 college entrance exams. “Wait, you're telling me to confess to the school beauty?” “I'm reborn. Who would still confess to her?” Just as Lin Lingkai left the banquet, ready to give up on everything, he ran into the school beauty's twin sister. By pure chance, he passed her test and some 8kReads8.1Score598Shelves
- 25 Reborn in 18: Demanding Compensation from the Woman Driver Who Caused the Crash from the Start 重生18:开局索赔肇事女司机 [Reborn in 2018, college, multiple heroines, futures and stocks, entrepreneurship and building a business empire] A man spends his whole life striving for wealth, women, fame, and power. Chen Junkai is reborn as a college freshman, returning to this pivotal moment in his life. He decides to take a bold gamble: turn a bicycle into a motorcycle, and borrow money to invest in methanol futures, a market he knows well. He does what he once never dared to do, makes his distant dreams come true, builds 9.9kReads8.2Score584Shelves
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The Official Road, Starting at Level Three 官道,从三段开始
My name is Bu Qingyun. (I hold a senior government post and have a fortune worth over a hundred million.) Let me tell you a secret. Ever since I was in elementary school, entering politics has been the light of my ideals and the flame of my ambition. It was buried in my heart like a seed, ready to take root and sprout as soon as the soil was right...
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- 27 Adoption into the Family 过继 This is a novel about a man growing up through blood and tears. Along with the cruelty of reality comes the trickery of fate. But if you’re a man, wipe away your tears and face every hardship. Make yourself tough as steel, unbreakable... 29.9kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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Southeast Asian Widows Help Me Become a Tycoon 东南亚寡妇助我成大佬
Multiple heroines, exotic settings, mature women, young women, and foreign beauties. Decisive and ruthless, with no frustrating setbacks. When it's time to indulge, he does so without hesitation. Wang Da Qiang, a crime boss, is caught in the act from the start. Then a System that appears out of nowhere and vanishes just as quickly dumps him in An Nam in the 1980s. With the help of all kinds of beautiful women, he rises to become a Southeast Asian crime lord.
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- 30 EN Reborn to Rise Above the Rest 重生之出人头地 This is a story set in Hong Kong in the 1950s. It was a passionate, turbulent era. In those fiery years, there were countless big bosses and their underlings, and no end to tales of lives tossed about by hardship. There were also countless beauties and talented people, and no end to tales of romance and passion. You could call it a dark age, a chaotic world where good and bad were all mixed together, but it was often an age in which heroes rose to prominence. 32kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
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Reborn in 1992: A Tycoon's Rise to the Pinnacle of Wealth and Power 重生92,枭雄崛起之财权巅峰
[No System · Business · Multiple Women · Pure Wish Fulfillment · Legitimate Path · Plenty of Underlings] Cao Kun, a small-time gangster, is reborn in 1992, on the day that changes his fate. He has an ambiguous relationship with a powerful gangster’s lover. The boss flies into a rage and sends men to hack him to pieces. Cao Kun has no choice but to strike first. He takes down the boss and accepts his inheritance with tears in his eyes. To clear his path, he also takes care of one underworld facti
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War of Resistance: Counterattacking from a Cannon-Fodder Regiment 抗战:从炮灰团开始反攻
Xu Su closes his eyes and opens them to find himself in China's devastating War of Resistance against Japan. A mostly useless System saves his life, but he is powerless in the face of the brutal war. From Jiangnan to the southwest, he retreats all the way. In a small town in western Yunnan, he discovers that he has entered the world of My Chief and My Regiment. The counterattack at Nantianmen, the fierce battle for Changsha, the great counteroffensive across the entire front... The fires of war
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Lao Wang from Chongqing 重庆老王
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 34 My Sixteen-Year-Old White Moonlight 我的16岁白月光 Modern city romance, pure love, slice of life, feel-good male-oriented fiction, campus romance, campus belle, first love, mother-in-law, fiancée, heiresses from Beijing's elite families. Contemporary romance, the husband-chasing crematorium trope. 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Shanghai Auntie’s AI Male Model 沪上阿姨AI男模 The protagonist, Wang Chen, struggles to survive in an apocalyptic world during the Great Depression, then unexpectedly transmigrates to an alternate-world Shanghai in the 1990s. And so Wang Chen’s happy life begins! 4.1kReads7.1Score270Shelves
- 36 The Irresistible Playboy 极品桃花男 [Urban feel-good story] [Slice of life] [Set in the 2020s] [Realistic everyday life] [Multiple female leads] [Dongguan Prince Hotel] [Transmigration to the apocalypse] [Genetically enhanced super soldiers] 419Reads8.5Score105Shelves
- 37 Ten Days, Eighteen-Year-Old Great-Grandma, I'm Not a Scumbag 十日十八岁太奶我不是渣男 [Urban Imagination] [Surreal] [Multiple Female Leads] [Beijing-Circle Heiresses] [Beautiful Women Around the World] [Entertainment Industry Stars] [Web-Novel Heroines] [Most Beautiful Heroines on Screen] 251Reads6.9Score145Shelves
- 38 The Feng Family’s Treasured Mother and Daughter 风家的宝贝母女 A novel about love, marriage, and redemption. If I don’t wear the golden headband, how can I save you? If I put on the golden headband, how can I still love you? A love story about the mother and daughter of the Feng family! 1.1kReads6.5Score—Shelves
- 39 I Become a Scoundrel in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils 我在天龙当曹贼 The male lead, Yin Qiancheng, worked himself to death in Shenzhen, then transmigrated into the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. He obtained a brain-development and dream-insertion System AI. To return to the future, he brought all the female leads of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, those beautiful older sisters, back to modern Shenzhen. 3.5kReads6.9Score140Shelves
- 40 Living the High Life as a Young Master 天上人间当少爷 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 2.4kReads8.3Score118Shelves
- 41 [Dream-Stealing Space] My Dreams Can Charm Girls 【偷梦空间】我的梦境能撩妹 A feel-good urban story about the entertainment industry, with multiple heroines, celebrities, campus belles, and a touch of the surreal. The male lead obtains a Dream System that lets him enter other people’s dreams and plant whatever scenes and stories he wants. 7.6kReads7.4Score503Shelves
- 42 Ten Scumbags and a Woman Who Hates Cilantro 10个渣男不吃香菜的女人 The story of a young woman's growth and her ten men. At its heart is the story of how one woman navigates her way among men, exploring how women in modern society view marriage and love! 192Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 What Can I Do to Save You, Little Dragon Girl? 小龙女我拿什么救你 Ao Xi, an 1,800-year-old dragon girl, runs away from home to explore the world, but ends up trapped in an underground chamber for 2,000 years. By accident, she activates a teleportation array that transports Li An, the male lead from Earth, to the Silvermoon Continent in another world. The two are trapped in the underground chamber, and a few years later, the dragon clan comes knocking! 212Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Live-Action Anime World 真人日漫界 In the future, global attitudes toward marriage and relationships have become warped, and nobody gets married or has children. As a result, the population has plummeted, leaving only 120 million people worldwide. Eastland has 38 million survivors, its cities lie in decline, and human civilization stands on the brink of extinction. 515Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Betrayal: This Is the Last Time I'll Love You 背叛:是我最后一次爱你 Betrayal: This Is the Last Time I'll Love You 288Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in 2008: Doubao Became My Cheat 重生08,豆包成了我的外挂
[Thrilling business battles] + [The male lead isn't a saint. He's a little lecherous, but no womanizer] + [One female lead] + [Making his brothers rich alongside him] Programmer Xia Dong dies suddenly from overwork and opens his eyes to find himself reborn in the 2008 college entrance exam hall, at the turning point of his fate. A phone from 2025 in his pocket is his greatest advantage. Regretting his English score of 40? Easy to fix! His family's factory facing bankruptcy? AI Doubao shows him t
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Global Transmigration: The Emperor's Game 全民穿越:帝皇的游戏
[Emperor’s Rise] [Ruthless by Any Means] [No Beef from the Start] [Let the Underlings Do Everything] [Do Whatever You Want] What should you do if you become a subject under a lord from the start? Ding Yuan’s choice is simple: Kill the lord, seize the village, and take a band of outlaws to the hills! Seize people, claim resources, take villages, and capture cities! He annexes one rival after another, wages war in every direction, sweeps across the land, and ascends the throne as emperor! The
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- 48 Hong Kong Crossover: I'm a Triad Undercover Who Specializes in Arresting My Own Guys 港综:我三合会卧底,专抓自己人 1967, Hong Kong Island. This was an era of black-and-white disorder and savage growth, the worst of times and the best of times. Song Tianqi transmigrated here and was reborn in 1960s Hong Kong Island, where Lei Luo, Cripple Ho, and the Four Great Families vied for supremacy. He became a gangster planted in the police force by a criminal society as an undercover agent. [In the 1970s, he was the most formidable detective] With a police pistol in hand, I set the rules. Gang bosses bowed their head 95kReads7.9Score8kShelves
- 49 Heavenly Villains: My Conscience Was Eaten by a Dog 诸天恶人:我的良心被狗吃了 He jumped off a building but survived, and in return, bound himself to the Villain System. He transmigrates through worlds based on TV dramas, farming “villain points.” His score has just come in. Trust me, it’ll climb in no time. “Nothing But Thirty”: Xu Huanshan is sent to work a sewing machine, while Gu Jia? I’ll “take care” of her. “Love in the Courtyard”: First Master, the paragon of morality? I’ll make sure you can never hold your head up again. “Dwelling Narrowness”: Deep friendship betw 119kReads8.7Score9.2kShelves
- 50 Reborn in 1977: I'm Yuan Hu of the Seven Little Fortunes! 重生77,我是七小福元虎! [The rating has just been posted and will rise later!] [Reborn] [No System] [Multiple Heroines] [Hong Kong Entertainment] [Chinese Entertainment] [American Entertainment] [Note: Multiple heroines, multiple heroines!!!] Yang Xiaohu, the king of stunt doubles, had an accident on set and was reborn in 1977 as one of the Seven Little Fortunes! From the start, he had a gambling-addicted father, a little sister, and himself fighting tooth and nail! Starting with Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, he fought 69kReads8.4Score6.8kShelves
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