Down-to-Earth Urban Money-Making Stories About Ordinary People 正常点的都市赚钱文，普通人就行
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- 201 Reborn: I Really Wasn't Trying to Jump Off a Building 重生：我真的没想跳楼啊 [Reborn]+ [No System, No Enhancements]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Establishing the Wagner Corps]+ [Founding a Nation]+ [No Yanderes]+ [Business and Making Money]+ [Youth and Campus Life] The greatest kind of wish fulfillment is reaching the heights and seeing the most beautiful views without any cheats. Who says you can't reach the summit without one? I ask this vast land: who will rule its rise and fall? In this life, I'll drink only the strongest liquor and chase only the prettiest girls! Life las 11.6kReads8.4Score810Shelves
- 202 Before My Treasure of a Desk Mate Is Exposed, I'll Convince Her to Be My Wife 趁宝藏同桌没曝光，忽悠她做老婆 Chen Sheng, now middle-aged, is reborn at the age of eighteen. It is the summer of 1998, the day before the college entrance exam, and the rusted gears of fate begin to turn slowly… This book: rebirth ☞ one heroine ☞ period setting ☞ business (don’t criticize me) ☞ tycoon fantasy (it won’t help if you do) ☞ pure urban life ☞ career + romance 11.7kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 203 Reborn in 2006: Building a Super Conglomerate 重生2006，创建超级财团 [Finance + internet + energy + technology] An Xin had spent more than a decade in the capital markets. After a wild party, he inexplicably found himself reborn in 2006! He takes every step with care, builds a solid foundation, and plans for the long term, eventually creating a super-conglomerate. [The focus is on delivering both excitement and a story that follows the basic logic of everyday life and how capital works.] 14.8kReads8.7Score981Shelves
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Daily Intel: I Get the Aloof Landlady Under My Thumb from the Start 每日情报：开局拿捏高冷女房东
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is my motivation to write, and I will strive to tell every story well!
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1958: Starting Out as a Porter! 年代1958，从搬运工开始！
In 1958 Beijing, Li Fugui was assigned by the neighborhood office to work as a laborer at a supply and marketing cooperative. As the commune system expanded and Systems merged, Li Fugui became a procurement officer. From then on, he used the supplies in his spatial storage to gradually build a network of connections and ride the waves of this sweeping movement…
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- 206 I Plunder Billions of Skills, but I Can't Keep Them Hidden at College 掠取亿万技能，我在大学藏不住了 He topped the national college entrance exam, but his adoptive father died tragically, leaving him deeply in debt after paying for the funeral. With nowhere else to turn, Chen Yang set up a fortune-telling stall and unexpectedly awakened a divine skill: Every time he told someone’s fortune, he could steal one of their skills! Repairs, electrical work, combat, trading, programming... Once he read your fortune, all your skills became his! Other people earn a living with their skills. He becomes a 136.9kReads8.5Score16.9kShelves
- 207 At Thirty, I Dreamed I Could Cash Out My Loans! 三十而立，我梦里贷款能提现了！ [New Urban Premise] [Make Money in Dreams, Spend It in Real Life] [Thrilling and Satisfying] [Gets Better as It Goes] As he approaches thirty, Meng Yuan starts having strange dreams. Each one generates a random identity: today he might be a delivery driver, tomorrow a wanted criminal, a hacker, an official, a business owner, or a monk... No matter who he is, he can bring 1% of everything he earns in his dreams into the real world, with no liability, no harm, and no side effects. He borrows a 131.9kReads8.1Score16.9kShelves
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The Cooling Era: My Factory Connects to Absolute Zero 冷却时代，我的工厂联接绝对零度
A hardware workshop owner fishes a cold, black box out of the river, and his life is changed forever. With his astonishing cooling technology, he can effortlessly slice through divine weapons with a kitchen knife he made by hand. Starting from a single hardware workshop, he tempers peerless materials and forges an industrial legend. This is a story about temperature and resilience. When metal cools, it is reborn. The same is true of people.
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- 209 I Command You to Defeat the Entire World All by Yourself 我命令你凭一人之力打倒整个世界 [Invincible Protagonist + Player Perspective + the Myriad Worlds + Fast-Paced Thrills + Simulator] On the eve of the college entrance exams, a mysterious game appears in Ji Liu's mind. It offers absolute freedom, and any martial arts skills his character grinds out can be extracted into reality at 100% strength! In this interstellar age where martial arts reign supreme, Ji Liu has an epiphany. He immediately gives his game character the highest-priority command: "Find a secluded corner and grind 108.5kReads8.5Score12.8kShelves
- 210 I, the Necromancer, Obey the Law 我，死灵法师，遵纪守法 I don't know whether you're alive, but I know whether you're dead. Xie An receives a Necromancer inheritance System. He has no idea where the world is headed, and doesn't want to trigger a zombie apocalypse and get blasted into oblivion. As a notorious necromancer, what else can he do? He can only show off! Do his job properly. Be a decent person. Make money on the sly. Live life happily. Of course, following the law only applies within the country. 186.9kReads8.3Score25.6kShelves
- 211 Daily Intel: Enjoying Every Day at My Own Pace! 每日情报：悠闲自在过好每一天！ [The rating just came out, and it'll rise later!] [Daily Intel] [Multiple Female Leads] [Slow Pace] [Everyday Life] [The story won't move too quickly at first. Building wealth takes time, and the goal isn't to become the richest man, just to achieve financial freedom and enjoy life!] After graduating from an ordinary second-tier college, Chen Yang follows the tide of people heading south and struggles to make a living as a wage slave in Yangcheng. Working grueling days from ten in the morning un 40.9kReads8.1Score3.9kShelves
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You Reported Me for Selling Fake Medicine and Want Me Dead? Then You Can All Die! 举报我卖假药想让我死？那你们去死吧！
Lin Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the Medicine King System, saving countless families. But pharmaceutical giants bribe his fellow patients to report him for selling counterfeit medicine. “You scum who sells fake drugs, why don't you just die!” “Whether it's real or fake doesn't matter. Staying alive is what matters!” Lin Mo once made saving lives his life's mission. Now, he suffers the most crushing betrayal. Patients, friends, and family all turn against him. He decides h
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Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人，当然赚钱啊
[Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once!
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Hahaha! Seven of Me, I Have Seven of Me! 哈哈哈！7个我，我有7个我！
[Redo + Comeback + No System + Satisfying Read] Lin Mo was killed in his previous life by his wife and a mysterious stranger, then reborn in 2007. Seven versions of me from different timelines join forces to solve cases and build a fortune.
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The Legendary World System Helps Me Soar 传奇世界系统助我起飞
Jiang Feng accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world with the legendary World of Legend game System, where one person can learn all the skills of three classes. But this is a world without spiritual energy, and the System's game rules have been rewritten. There are no monsters to fight and no equipment to use. The only way to level up is to pay! Fortunately, some skills have mutated: Mind Detection can see through things, appraise treasures, and predict the future; Healing helps the people
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- 216 Global Capitalist: I Became the Richest Man Starting in College 全球资本家：从大学开始当首富 Urban rebirth + business strategy + financial investment + tech entrepreneurship + showbiz + a sharp-minded protagonist Reborn in 2014, Ye Feng gets rear-ended by superstar Yang Mi, giving him his first fortune and setting him on the path to becoming a global capitalist! That year: Domestic smartphone makers were just getting started; the food delivery industry was ablaze with competition; the ride-hailing market was rife with fierce rivalry; short-video giants were mired in copyright crises. Th 100Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 217 After Being Reborn, I Became a Tech Mogul 重生后我成了科技大佬 (Satisfying power fantasy + golden finger + cutting-edge technology) (You’ll earn $1 billion by Chapter 16. The main technology storyline begins in Chapter 80. If you don’t like the everyday-life sections, you can start reading at Chapter 80. The first 80 chapters are about the protagonist’s sudden rise from a nobody to a life of wealth. After Chapter 80, he begins his journey to leave the world far behind.) After an unexpected fall from a building, Lin Chen is reborn in the summer of 2010, righ 14.6kReads8.0Score640Shelves
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Back on My Feet: I Paid Off 500,000 Yuan in Online Loans with My Own Hands 上岸：我靠双手还清五十万网贷
On a farm in Northeast China, Wang Chen, a 33-year-old married farmer, falls deeper and deeper into online-loan debt as he struggles to pay for his daughter's medical treatment and keep his agricultural business running. This is the story of how he eventually turns his desperate situation around.
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- 219 I Failed the College Entrance Exam, So I Led the Whole Village All In on Bitcoin 高考落榜，我带领全村梭哈比特币 Chen Fan is reborn in the days after failing the college entrance exam. His first thought is how to make money! When he discovers that Bitcoin is still only ten dollars a coin, inspiration strikes. From the start, he borrows his relatives’ life savings and goes all in on Bitcoin. When Chen Fan drives back to the village in a sports car to repay the money in style, the villagers are stunned and flock to him for advice on making money! Chen Fan simply leads the entire village in mining Bitcoin. “W 7.4kReads8.2Score430Shelves
- 220 Reborn in 2010: Father of the Mobile Internet 重生2010之移动互联网之父 One moment he was asleep; the next, he discovered he’d gone back to his senior year of high school, just as the mobile internet was about to take off in 2010! Since he had been reborn, he’d do something truly earth-shattering: build his own mobile internet empire and trample every business empire in the world beneath his feet! 49Reads6.7Score100Shelves
- 221 Reborn in the Nineties: The Wild Years 重生九零之野性时代 Li Fei was betrayed by his best business partner and his beloved young wife, leaving him trapped in a power struggle among the heirs of wealthy families. Unable to fight back, he leaped from the tower of his company building and ended his life. To Li Fei's surprise, he didn't die. Instead, he was reborn in the 1990s, just after finishing his college entrance exams. His mother was still alive, and his father was still at his post. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of his past, he began amassi 30.2kReads8.7Score2.2kShelves
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Siheyuan: There’s a Door in My Mind 四合院：我的脑中有扇门
Terminal illness, unemployment, and a broken family: after one blow after another, Bai Anbang settles in a small village. He spends his days walking along mountain paths, gazing up at the stars in the courtyard, and clearing his mind in the warm afternoon sun. He only wants to spend the rest of his life in peace. When he opens his eyes again, the world has changed. With earthen houses and old slogans all around him, he initially thinks he’s simply returned to his parents’ generation. Then he rea
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- 223 Siheyuan: My Life Starts Over 四合院：我的人生重新开始 A top student from the future accidentally arrives in the world of the courtyard houses. He wants no part in the petty squabbles in the neighborhood or the scheming at work. All he wants is to enjoy a peaceful life at home, whatever storms may rage outside. 7.1kReads8.4Score198Shelves
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I Jumped Off a Building, and You Tell Me the System Just Arrived? 跳楼了，你告诉我系统来了？
[System] + [Getting Rich] + [Single Heroine] + [Everyday Life] + [Travel] + [Gourmet] + [Ensemble Cast] The day he found himself ten million yuan in debt, Chen Jun leaped from a rooftop. “Ding! Loan Repayment System binding...” A translucent panel appeared out of nowhere before his eyes, clearly displaying a single line: Every time the Host borrows money, the full amount, principal and interest, will be returned to the Host’s account when the loan is repaid. From that day on, he started borrowin
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- 225 Siheyuan: A Young Hunter’s Arrival in the City 四合院：小猎户进城记 Su San grew up roaming the jianghu, but unexpectedly found himself in the 1960s. In this life, he doesn't want to stir up trouble. All he wants is a warm home with a wife and children. A little wine and meat every day would make it even better. 2kReads8.7Score100Shelves
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Ten Years of Compounding, a Billion in the Bank, and You're Still Playing It Safe? 十年复利，都十亿了，你还苟着吗
Orphan Wang Xu was adopted by his grandmother and grew up supporting himself by collecting scrap. With no one to rely on, no family backing, and no connections, he loved to read. By chance, he came across a stock-market novel called The Ordinary Man's Dream of Becoming a Millionaire Stock God. He studied hard and persevered for ten years, recording market trends every day, researching industries and sectors, and analyzing stock charts. Over those ten years, through the power of compounding, lone
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Starting in 2008, I Took Over the Whole World 从2008开始收割全世界
I woke up to find myself back in 2008, at the age of eighteen, inheriting a fortune worth tens of billions from the start. Yang Chen: “With decades of future memories, making money should be as easy as lifting a finger, right?” “That year, I walked with my hands in my pockets. I didn’t even know what a rival was!” “I have two rules in business: first, I never rip off my fellow countrymen. Second, I rip off foreigners for all they’re worth!” “I’ve been reborn, so taking a little from the whole wo
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The Nation’s Heart, the Merchant’s Soul 国心商魂
This novel follows Tang Xiaoyu, a special forces soldier who returns reborn. In his previous life, he fought for his country, failed the girl he grew up with, and watched the woman he loved die on the battlefield saving him, a regret that haunted him for the rest of his life. He also had a wife with whom he shared a life of mutual devotion. This time, he returns with the X-Star Orb and memories of the future. He’ll build a fortune and strengthen his country, protecting it with fiery devotion, bu
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- 229 An Ordinary Man's Dream of Becoming a Millionaire Stock God 平凡男人的千万股神梦 Synopsis This is the story of Wang Fan, an ordinary middle-aged man from the countryside, and his comeback in the stock market. Facing a midlife crisis and the burden of supporting his family, Wang Fan resolutely entered the market. After five years of losses and confusion, he nearly broke down under the weight of his debts. Then, by chance, he encountered the philosophically rich "Chan Theory," beginning a dual journey of technical study and self-cultivation. By day, he hustled for a living a 24Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Finally Know the Joys of Being Rich 有钱人的快乐，我感受到了
Tycoon, multiple heroines. This book is also known as The Happiness of the Rich Is Beyond Your Imagination and A Tycoon’s Everyday Life. After getting the Tycoon System, Xu Zimo never thought about investing to make money or anything like that. He just wanted to do things that made him happy. What does it feel like to be rich? Xu Zimo used to think he was into mature, sexy women. Later, he realized he just liked beautiful women.
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- 231 Seizing the Moment to Become a Tycoon 踏准风口成巨富 In his previous life, Li Shun was a nobody, a poor wretch crushed by life until he could barely breathe. Time and again, he bowed his head to life's demands, only to scrape by from one breath to the next. In this life, Li Shun is lucky, and so are his friends. They can rely on one another and stand shoulder to shoulder through the tide of reform, rising with every new opportunity. The great waves wash away the sand, leaving heroes behind. Blessed by the Goddess of Luck, Li Shun also finds his ow 11.6kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
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A Common Man’s Reborn Years 平凡人的重生岁月
[Everyday Urban Life + Campus Youth + Making Up for Regrets + Believable Logic] A portrayal of youth as it really was: no posturing, no face-slapping. This is simply the everyday life of an ordinary person after being reborn. People remain consistent; being reborn doesn't suddenly make someone all-powerful. Their old flaws are still there. They simply get to live their lives over again with their memories and life experience intact. Everyone has a limit to how far they can go, so if you're looki
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Don't Let Me Touch You, or I’ll Uncover Every Secret 别让我摸到你，啥秘密都藏不住
Watch out! Whatever Ding Xia touches, you’d better not let him get his hands on it. He has an incredibly strange ability. Touch an object, and he can replay its entire past. Once he gets his hands on anything, he can make a perfect copy. Ding Xia is a man who cares deeply about his country. He got his start repairing household appliances and made a fortune through sheer skill. As his business grew, the people coming to his door weren’t just customers, but law enforcement officers, too. An ordina
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The Neighbors on Either Side of Xingyao 星遥的左右隔壁
Shen Song Xingyao is a girl whose name carries the story of her parents' unusual relationship. She grew up in a unique family arrangement, with her parents living in apartments next door to each other. Her father, Shen Yizhou, is a carefree, laid-back editor, while her mother, Song Qingru, is a meticulous, rational accountant. They never had a marriage in the traditional sense, yet through an unspoken understanding few outsiders could comprehend, they raised their daughter together. From her inn
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- 235 The Silent Battlefield Between Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law 婆媳没有硝烟的战场 The conflict between Lin Xiao and her mother-in-law, Zhang Cuilan, keeps escalating. Then Lin Xiao undergoes a dramatic transformation, becoming independent and self-reliant. She lives life on her own terms and rewrites her future, until the road ahead finally opens up... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 236 A Flower in the Dust, Blooming Toward the Sun 尘埃里的花，向阳而生 This story follows Shi Xiaoying, beginning at eighteen when she elopes for love. It traces her marriage through sweetness, betrayal, and endurance, culminating in her awakening. Woven through the story are her children’s perspectives and the kindness of those who watch from the sidelines. It portrays a woman struggling between betrayal and perseverance before finally breaking free and embracing a new life. Exploring responsibility and self-worth in love and marriage, it reveals the resilience th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 237 The Bill for Time 时间的帐单 Set in a modern city, this story focuses on the clashes and eventual reconciliation between two generations of the Jiang family over their views on love and marriage, painting a realistic picture of contemporary society: elders rush their children into romance and marriage, while the younger generation prefers to take things slowly. The two generations struggle with love, marriage, and life choices, then look back on their lives, ultimately finding acceptance and insight in middle age. Everyone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 238 Dawn in a Dream 入梦之晓 Dreaming at Dawn tells the story of Jiang Xiao, a woman from southern China who gradually awakens within a traditional marriage. Once a housewife dependent on her husband and silently enduring her circumstances, she transforms into an inspiring woman who is financially independent and in control of her own life. Blending the realism of urban life with the fantasy of entering dreams, the story is told from Jiang Xiao's perspective and explores women's struggles and breakthroughs as they navigate 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Lithium Night's Faint Glow 锂夜微光
My name is Liu Shugen, a poor student who just joined Lixin, a lithium battery giant. On my very first day, I caught Manager Lai Hongwei openly taking credit for someone else’s work, while Zhang Song, the production department’s local tyrant, watched me like a hawk. Here, connections beat code, and office politics trump technical skill. My mentor’s words, “Here, debug yourself before you debug your code,” made me understand. If I wanted to use code to build the backbone of an era, I first had to
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- 240 After My Comeback, All My Women Left Me 逆袭之后，我的女人都跑了 After My Comeback, All My Women Left Me 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Nightfall in Jiangcheng 江城夜色
Jiangcheng, 2007. Chen Hao, a township civil servant earning 820 yuan a month, could see exactly how his life would unfold. His mother was diagnosed with a serious illness, and the 80,000-yuan medical bill crushed the family. His longtime girlfriend gradually drifted away as the gulf between their circumstances grew. To survive, he resolutely quit his job and threw himself into the surging futures market. Leverage rose and fell, and people were impossible to read. Brokerage firms were rife with
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- 242 My Potato Boyfriend 我的土豆男友 My Potato Boyfriend 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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Starting at a Vocational College, I Built an Entertainment Empire 大专开局，我建立了娱乐帝国
After graduating from a vocational college, Ma Yu goes through family upheaval and spends thirty years stumbling through life. Burdened with regrets, he is lucky enough to live again. In this life, he sets out to make up for his regrets and achieve financial freedom. He finds his way forward one step at a time. A vocational college graduate can live a remarkable life too.
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I Only Wanted My 10,000 Yuan Back 我本来只想要回一万块
I used to be just an ordinary programmer. In 2019, I moved to Chengdu and joined a company that didn’t look like much, but would change the course of my life. At first, I thought I’d simply run into a poorly managed small company that couldn’t keep its promises: my probation period dragged on, my salary was changed, they failed to pay my social insurance, mishandled my housing fund, and kept putting off raises until next month, the second half of the year, year-end, or after the company reforme
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Reborn and Taking It Easy at School, I Really Don't Want to Compete Anymore! 重生留校躺平，我真不想再卷啊！
[Slice of life + entrepreneurship + university] Reborn at the moment of his university graduation in 2011, Jiang Hao faces another chance to stay on at the university. He gives up the grueling 996 work schedule he endured in his previous life and chooses to stay on as a librarian. Drawing on the memories from before he was reborn, he originally only wants financial freedom. But as his fortune grows, he ultimately becomes someone others admire as a success!
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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
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I Found a Diary Full of Regrets 捡到一本遗憾日记
Jiang Yuan finds a diary of regrets written by someone unknown. It mentions only a few vague events from the future, but as Jiang Yuan waits for them to unfold, he finds himself rising to the pinnacle of success without even realizing it.
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Reborn in 2001: I Start Boxing and Live Life to the Fullest 重生2001从练拳开始快意人生
[Rebirth + Pocket Dimension + Top Student + Traditional Martial Arts + Pressure-Point Techniques for Five Hundred Coins] Everyday urban life, reborn in high school, keeping a low profile at school, an ancestral martial arts manual, cultivating inner energy, mastering pressure-point techniques, dual-cultivation methods, a harem of multiple women, wealth, companions, techniques, and territory, exploring mysteries and searching for treasures, doing business and managing enterprises, fighting foreig
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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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- 250 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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