Are There Any Era-Setting Novels More Ruthless Than This? It Doesn't Have to Be Set in a Siheyuan 有没有比这个狠的年代文，并不一定要求四合院

1. 51 四 The Siheyuan: The Sincerity They Offered Mr. Gao 四合院，她们向高先生献上的诚意 May Fifth, Money Money Money五月初五发发发Male-Channel Fanfiction589k WordsCompleted After the male lead, Gao Yang, arrives in the siheyuan, everyone’s life is thrown into chaos. Silly Zhu wins over four beauties, while Yi Zhonghai helps him raise a child, thinking the child is his own... 233Reads7.4Score180Shelves
2. 52 四 Siheyuan: I, Jia Dongxu, Want to Be Reborn Too! 四合院：我贾东旭也要重生！ Kiss My Feet, Your Majesty吻住朕脚Male-Channel Fanfiction775k WordsCompleted [Love in the Courtyard; wish-fulfillment!!!; comedy; transmigration; one female lead (Qin Huairu); pocket dimension] Silly Zhu next door has been working himself to the bone around the clock. It's about time I, Jia Dongxu, got to be the main character!!! Reincarnated as a man doomed to die young? This time, I'll hold this family together! You won't teach me properly? I'll cut ties with Yi Zhonghai and find myself a new master! Yi Zhonghai: “Dongxu, I was wrong!” Caught Jia Zhangshi sneaking 29.7kReads8.6Score1.7kShelves
3. 53 四 Siheyuan: If You’re Not Satisfied, Come at Me 四合院：不服就碰碰 The Bald Monk and the Ox-Nosed Taoist Are Good Friends秃驴和牛鼻子是好朋友Male-Channel Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted After his shift, supermarket worker Zhao Hu sat in his dormitory, sipping beer and watching TV. He nodded off in a daze. When he opened his eyes again, Would you believe it? He'd transmigrated! What a perfect fit, what a wonderful turn of events. 6.2kReads8.0Score279Shelves
4. 54 四 An Ordinary Life in the Siheyuan 四合院的普通人生 Betel Nut and Cigarettes, All Five Poisons in One槟榔加烟五毒俱全Male-Channel Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted A story about a courtyard house, seen through the eyes of an ordinary person. It's full of negativity, but there's positivity too. No invincible heroes, no toilet humor. Thank you for your support! 56.3kReads8.3Score1.8kShelves
5. 55 四 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Daqing, Why Should I Care About the Qing Dynasty? 四合院之重生我为何大清 Leslie AdriftLeslie飘零Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted After transmigrating, He Daqing became He Daqing. Will he still run off to Baoding? Will he let Deaf Granny and Yi Zhonghai get away with scheming against him? With He Daqing around, will Silly Zhu still let the Jia family take advantage of him? Experience a different kind of siheyuan courtyard. 13.6kReads8.0Score519Shelves
6. 56 重 Reborn in the 1970s: An Old Woman Takes Down Her Scumbag Husband and Ungrateful Children 重生七零：老太撕渣男打不孝儿女 Year After Year in the Mist雾纪年年Modern Romance469k WordsCompleted [Reborn in the Late 1970s + Feel-Good Story + Family Feuds and a Fierce Old Lady + Later, She Buys Houses and Becomes a Landlady + A Touch of Ensemble Cast] In her previous life, she was an unpaid nanny, serving her husband and children until her stomach cancer reached its final stage, only to be dumped in the woodshed to die! Her husband held his mistress close and demanded a divorce, while her children fought tooth and nail over her property. “Good. Just great!” When she opened her eyes again, 2.2kReads8.3Score126Shelves
7. 57 窝 A Reborn Old Woman's Revenge: Taking Down the Ungrateful 窝囊老太重生八零，手撕白眼狼 In the Dream of the Tide汐梦里Modern Romance323k WordsCompleted [Period setting + rebirth + satisfying read + a touch of ensemble cast + everyday family life + ungrateful children] Li Meiying lost her husband young. She poured every ounce of herself into raising three daughters and two sons, struggling to help them marry and start families. Yet in her old age, not only was she driven from home by her great-grandson, she also suffered an accidental fracture. Her children all looked down on her. She died a miserable death, but when she opened her eyes reborn, 199Reads8.0Score—Shelves
8. 58 瞎 Blind Corn! Rotten Potatoes! Worthless Children, Get on Your Knees! 瞎苞米！烂土豆！极品儿女靠边跪 Lucky Cat招财猫儿Modern Romance3.6M WordsOngoing [Period] [The 1980s] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Reborn] [Feel-Good] [No Golden Finger] [Family Life] (Also known as: Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Lady Leaves Her Children Behind) Seventy-year-old Wu Zhiqiu is Reborn in the era when her children still depend on her hard work and sacrifice! In her previous life, she played favorites and ended up alone and miserable in her old age. This time, she refuses to repeat the past. The old lady decides to leave her children behind and enjoy the rest of her lif 192.7kReads9.3Score8.1kShelves
9. 59 四 Siheyuan: The System Sends Me to Cultivate Immortality 四合院：系统让我去修仙 Nangong Long of Cyrus锡罗斯的南宫龙Male-Channel Fanfiction2.3M WordsOngoing Chen Xian acquired a game System that was supposed to transmigrate him into a game world. Instead, he ended up in the world of the Siheyuan. [The dog demon is getting closer and closer to your family members. Host, drive it away or kill it as soon as possible to protect them.] Chen Xian stared blankly at the one-eyed stray dog at the entrance to the Siheyuan, spraying urine at the wall, and sank into deep thought. [The family elder has appeared and is covering your flank. Host, drive away or kil 226Reads6.7Score—Shelves
10. 60 四 Siheyuan: Beating Up the Matchmaker from the Start 四合院之开局从暴打媒婆开始 I Won't Drink This Cup of Wine浊酒一杯我不喝Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted [There will always be new books serializing on my homepage. If you like them, stop by and have a look.] [A fusion ♢ No Regrets Tracking] In October 2024, the down-on-his-luck Song Guoan wanted to make a quick buck in the stock market, but instead lost everything. In a fit of despair, he jumped from a building. But Silly Zhu, whose soul had been wandering for fifteen years, chose him to live another life in his place. Arranged by the Black and White Impermanence, Song Guoan arrives in the past an 17.1kReads7.7Score699Shelves
11. 61 年 Period: The Day My Mother Returned to the City, I Chose to Go Up the Mountain 年代：母亲返城当天，我选择上山 Bubbles the Lazy Sheep懒羊羊吹泡泡Urban2.4M WordsOngoing [Fateful Choices | Resilience and Survival | Coming of Age in a Turbulent Era | The Pain of Family] The very day modern man Chen Jun's soul transmigrates into the countryside of the 1970s, he learns that his biological mother is returning to the city! This is not a story about complaining! The winds of an era swept away a generation's youth, but there are always people who manage to grow wheat in the cracks! 29.3kReads8.3Score1.8kShelves

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    I can read period dramas.

12. 62 重 Reborn in 1986: Hunting My Way to Financial Freedom 重生1986，打猎实现财富自由 Ten Suns in the Sky十日凌空Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [No System + no pocket dimension + authentic period setting + hunting + ginseng gathering + cute pets + one heroine + lighthearted daily life] Liu Qingshan returns reborn, armed with more than ten years of hunting experience from his previous life. Living off the mountains, he builds a fortune through hunting. When he has nothing else to do, he takes the dogs for a stroll up the mountain and goes hunting, taking down wild boars, black bears, lynxes, and Amur leopards alike. 16.1kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
13. 63 重 Back to the Late 1970s, I Have a Choice System 重回70年代末，我有选择系统 Old Li the Foodie爱吃的老李Urban766k WordsCompleted A modern food-delivery rider was hit by a heavy truck while saving someone and sent back to the 1970s, reborn as an educated youth about to take the college entrance exam. Ding! The choice System has been activated. A choice has been triggered. Choice One: Take the college entrance exam? No way. You can return to the city freely in a year, so stay in the village for another year. Reward: Become the village secretary's live-in son-in-law. Choice Two: The college entrance exam is the only way to c 17.9kReads7.0Score1.1kShelves
14. 64 1 1981 Mountain Foraging Diary: The Wilderness Is Mine to Roam 1981赶山日记：大山任我浪 Call Me Sweet Potato叫我地瓜Urban503k WordsCompleted Ginseng hunting + hunting + treasure hunting + decisive action Gunplay is a kind of technique, and a bullet’s trajectory is a kind of Way. Chanting scriptures a thousand times is no match for lining up three points. Vast and boundless Changbai Mountain is rich in resources. Lin Daofeng goes into the mountains to search for ginseng, yet beasts are always setting their sights on him. As he presses onward, how many beasts will fall to his gun? How many secrets hidden in Changbai Mountain have yet 6.2kReads8.2Score392Shelves
15. 65 1 1978: My Hunter's Life Goes into Overdrive 1978，我的猎户人生开挂了 Hermit of the Northwest Mountains西北山人Urban2.1M WordsCompleted In 1978, in a poor mountain village, my mother was branded a parasite who was bleeding the collective economy dry. My elderly grandfather had to go hunting in the mountains in winter to put food on the table, and my little sister was expected to marry a cripple from the neighboring village just to provide the family with an heir. The only reason was to bring me home a wife in exchange. These things had already happened before I was reborn. If they happened again after I was reborn, what would ha 44.7kReads8.0Score2.3kShelves
16. 66 7 The 1970s: Going to the Countryside with My Household Registration 70年代：带着户口去下乡 I Won't Eat a Single Piece of Fatty Meat一口肥肉都不吃Urban665k WordsCompleted [Period setting + educated youth sent to the countryside + System + spatial storage + hunting + one heroine + no cultivation] Life in the countryside is great! The countryside is great! The mountains are full of treasures! Hunt only as much as you can eat, and sell whatever you can't finish~ By some strange twist of fate, Dong Weijun rescued a child playing with a ball on the road, only to be hit by a truck and sent flying. His soul transmigrated into the body of a big, dim-witted man in the 197 17.8kReads8.0Score881Shelves
17. 67 重 Reborn in 1988: I Start Digging for Ginseng in the Mountains! 重生88，从大山挖参开始！ Northeast's Top Web-Novel Author东北网文一姐Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [Reborn + Northeast China + digging for ginseng + making money] Li Ze remembered how, before he was reborn, his father had dug up wild ginseng and become one of the village’s wealthiest men, only to be tricked out of the bride price and reduced to poverty. Whenever he thought about it, he’d get up in the middle of the night and slap himself twice! Luckily, he was reborn. He knew exactly who was good and who was bad, so why not get a new wife? The vast forests of Northeast China in the 1980s were 2.9kReads6.8Score163Shelves
18. 68 跑 Mountain Running: Contracting Fierce Beasts and Taking Over the Entire Mountain 跑山：契约猛兽，承包整座大山 Eat, Eat, Fool吃吃痴Urban2.7M WordsCompleted (Now complete and ready to binge) [Everyday life in the 1980s + hunting + lighthearted + pets] A lonely old forest ranger is reborn in 1984. From the start, he stirs up a hornet’s nest and unexpectedly activates the Beast Servant System. He contracts hornets as beast servants. No beehive on the mountain can escape their tracking! As their master, Shi Lin reluctantly follows behind them to collect the honey. He contracts a sable as a beast servant. Wild rabbits, pheasants, cuckoo birds... There’s 79.5kReads9.0Score5.2kShelves
19. 69 重 Reborn in a Fishing Village in 1983: Making a Fortune Gathering Seafood 重生83小渔村：靠赶海发家致富 Dong Changxin东长欣Urban3.0M WordsOngoing [Period drama, everyday life, gathering seafood, hunting, farming to support the family, working the land and sea, no showing off and face-slapping, family matters, small-scale ambitions. If that's not your thing, don't read.] Chen Yefeng is reborn in a small fishing village in 1983, giving himself a chance to make up for the regrets of his past life. He embraces his family and starts a leisurely life through gathering seafood and farming. There are no schemes, only ordinary happiness and hard w 16.3kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves

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    Simple daily life of beachcombing and fishing, habit rebirth, getting rich quick through beachcombing and fishing.

20. 70 重 Back to 1981: The Little Fishing Village 重回那年，1981小渔村 Poor Ghost Having Fun Alone穷鬼自嗨Urban3.6M WordsOngoing A laid-back slice-of-life story about earning a living and supporting the family, nestled against the mountains and facing the sea. Climb the mountains, explore the sea, and enjoy a relaxed life, with no overpowered showboating or face-slapping. A period story about everyday life: gathering seafood, raising children, farming, and all the little things that happen in a family and village. 28kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
21. 71 九 The 1990s Fishing Village Era 九零渔村时代 Yun Cheng云呈Urban1.4M WordsCompleted If Heaven gave you another chance to start over, what would you change? The ways you let your family down? The regrets you have with friends? Or would you stop the woman who gave everything for you, yet lost it all, from suffering the same fate again? Lin Yong is lucky enough to get that chance. He returns to his reckless youth. His wife has just given birth to a daughter and is anxious, but Lin Yong treats her with tenderness. In this life, neither of you will ever suffer the slightest grievanc 306Reads5.5Score—Shelves
22. 72 赶 Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海：开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩 Mountain Peak山峰Urban4.6M WordsCompleted (Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke 128.4kReads9.4Score12.1kShelves
23. 73 留 Left Behind in the Great Northern Wilderness 留守北大荒 Engineering Dog工程狗Urban2.0M WordsOngoing Zhang Hongqi was framed and nearly sentenced to prison for profiteering, but fortunately, a benefactor came to his aid. However, he was still disciplined and was about to be sent to a settlement for educated youth, then returned to the city. Zhang Hongqi faced two choices: return to the city with a disciplinary record, where people would look down on him and his family would suffer for it, or settle in the Great Northern Wilderness and give up his status as an educated youth for good. 86.7kReads8.5Score6.8kShelves
24. 74 搬 She Cleared Out the Family Fortune, Married an Officer, and Won Without Lifting a Finger 搬空家产，资本家小姐嫁军官躺赢 Daji Loves Watermelon大吉爱吃瓜Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Period Setting + Strong Female Lead + Awakening + Dual Transmigration into a Book + Stockpiling Supplies + Capitalist Heiress + Space] Ruan Yunxi awakens just as someone tries to trick her out of her space full of supplies. She sees through the calculations of the dual transmigrators, the male and female leads who want to leave her with nothing, and activates her space ahead of time. She stockpiles supplies, gold and silver jewelry, antiques, and calligraphy and paintings, l 7.2kReads7.9Score632Shelves
25. 75 六 The Siheyuan Compound in the 1960s: I'm Eight, but I Have Twenty Years of Work Experience? 六零大杂院，我八岁二十年工龄？ Little Goblin of the Lanruo Temple兰若寺小妖Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Period] [Reborn] [Big Courtyard] [Comedy] [A Kid with an Adult's Mind] [Everyday Warmth] [Leisurely Days] [Over-the-Quota Family] [Space] (The story has progressed into the 1970s.) What can you do after waking up in 1960, an era of shortages and hunger? Baogen says that as long as you have the right mindset, nothing is impossible. First, he needs to get his hands on six stripes. The story begins at the big courtyard at No. 67, Little Suzhou Alley, just one street away from Nanluoguxiang. An old 23.9kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
26. 76 灾 Reborn in a Year of Famine: Saving the Capitalist Heiress from the Start 灾年重生：开局拯救资本家大小姐 Zhengxin Chicken Cutlet正新鸡排Urban1.9M WordsOngoing Xu Feng is a notorious bastard in the village. He drinks heavily and constantly beats and berates his wife. When his sister-in-law Lin Xixue racks up a huge debt, his wife Lin Xiyue begs him for help, but Xu Feng ignores her. In the end, Lin Xixue is hounded to death by her creditors, causing his heartbroken wife to miscarry and completely give up on him. Only when the sisters' family comes looking for them does Xu Feng learn that they are both heiresses of the Lin family! When the Lin family fi 24.5kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves

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    Interspersed with stories of courtyard houses, the story of living a good life during a year of famine.

27. 77 开 I Called Off the Engagement from the Start, and the Little Space Dwellers Won’t Stop Moving Things! 开局退婚，空间小人不停搬搬搬！ Mo Moshen陌魔生Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The short drama is now streaming on Hongguo and Fanqie! [The 1970s + transmigrate into a book + tiny people, a pocket dimension, and a spirit spring + military marriage + sent to the countryside in the Northeast + no saintly heroine + immense strength + family drama + making money and punishing scumbags] Su Niaoniao transmigrates into a period novel as a cannon-fodder character destined to give the heroine her golden finger. Her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and the r 116.1kReads8.0Score18.7kShelves

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    Novel and original historical fiction with a golden finger effect 😳😳

28. 78 荧 Fireflies in Daylight 荧火虫的白昼 Autumn Pond, Spring Water秋池春水Modern Romance227k WordsOngoing A great period drama. Ignore the awful title: this realistic work comes from a seasoned writer, about a woman from out of town living in Shanghai, in the vein of Blossoms Shanghai. Neighborhood gossip and jokes that hit you right in the heart. No mystery, no wish-fulfillment, no fantasy, nothing added. Just the daily grind: food, rent, petty squabbles, and family affairs. 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Pure gossip, written by a pseudo-realist about ordinary people in the city.

29. 79 七 I Sold My Iron Rice Bowl, Stocked Up My Pocket Dimension, and Headed to the Countryside in the Seventies 七零卖掉铁饭碗，囤满空间下乡去 Beef Potstickers牛肉锅贴Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Family squabbles + cozy everyday life + pocket dimension + hunting in the mountains + a wife who grows on you] The short drama “Sold My Iron Rice Bowl in the Seventies, Stocked Up My Pocket Dimension, and Went to the Countryside” is now streaming. Lu Qingyang transmigrates into the role of a doomed lovesick fool in a period novel. His cousin steals his job, and he is sent to the poorest region to cut timber. He marries a woman with a shady past, lives a miserable life, and even the children are 14.8kReads7.8Score941Shelves

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    They're all things I feel are alright.

30. 80 七 The 1970s: Moving Everything, Clearing Out the Family Wealth to Build the Southern Frontier 七零：搬搬搬，搬空家产建设南疆 Barley and Pork Intestine Congee薏米肥肠粥Urban204k WordsOngoing [Mountain foraging + rural life + period setting + pocket dimension + everyday family life + famine] Yu Wenshan was reborn in 1970 and gained a hundred acres of space with a spiritual spring. From the start, he packed up all the family’s assets and moved to the countryside in the southern frontier, heading for a settlement full of Russians. There, he also met Alina, a blue-eyed, blonde beauty. After moving to the countryside, Yu Wenshan used his spatial powers to farm, raise livestock, and fi 39Reads5.7Score—Shelves
31. 81 9 Divorced in 1994, I Possess the King of Beasts and Roam the Countryside 94被离婚，我附身万兽纵横乡野 Little Qin from Kindergarten幼儿园小秦Urban594k WordsCompleted [1990s + Urban Farming + Get Rich in the Countryside + Tomb Raiding and Treasure Hunting + Face-Slapping Power Fantasy] Fang Ye is discharged from the army after being injured and gets divorced, leaving him with bleak prospects. But after he happens to save the village beauty's sister-in-law from drowning, he obtains the Soul Seal of Ten Thousand Beasts. Not only does he recover from his injuries, he also gains the ability to possess any animal. From then on, he makes a fortune and turns his lif 4.2kReads8.1Score497Shelves
32. 82 四 Siheyuan: The Happy Life of an Eighth-Grade Worker 四合院之八级工的幸福生活 Divine Words Yu101神言羽101Male-Channel Fanfiction937k WordsCompleted This novel has no System and no over-the-top melodrama, and things are relatively harmonious. Synopsis: Lin Yu transmigrates into a courtyard in the 1950s and gets a terrible start. Through his own hard work, he gradually becomes an eighth-grade worker and gives his family a happy life. 47.9kReads7.9Score2.1kShelves
33. 83 为 I Faked My Death for My True Love, Then Reborn and Remarried. What Do You Regret? 为白月光假死，重生改嫁你们悔啥 Shallow Summer Meow浅夏喵Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn in a bygone era + System + pocket dimension + revenge + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + sent to the countryside + both leads are pure and devoted + mutual devotion] Only as she lay dying did Jiang Linyue learn that her husband, who was supposedly dead, had faked his death and was living it up elsewhere with his old flame. That old flame was also Jiang Linyue’s best friend, and the child she had raised was their illegitimate son. Her whole life had been built on lies. She had worn 6.9kReads8.3Score679Shelves
34. 84 重 Reborn in the 1970s: I Emptied My Family's Home, Went to the Countryside, and Lay Flat 重生七零搬空小日子家底下乡躺平 Secretly Flowing by the Pillow暗向枕边流Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted No CP, strong female lead, feel-good revenge story + reborn + 1970s + spatial storage + mysticism + patriotism + payback against the Japanese. This book starts slowly and picks up later. The early part, where she goes to the countryside and takes on the fake heiress, can be a little dull. Feel free to skip it if it’s not your thing; the later chapters are incredibly satisfying. Check the reviews for details. Almost everyone who’s finished the whole book has given it five stars. The reviews are g 4.6kReads8.7Score472Shelves
35. 85 娇 A Beautiful Young Mother Searches for Her Husband at the Military Base, Shocking the Entire Garrison 娇美人带娃部队寻夫，震惊全军区 Sweet Tofu Pudding甜甜豆腐花Modern Romance439k WordsCompleted [Radiant, Beautiful Capitalist Heiress x Tough Military Officer with Incredible Stamina] (Military Marriage + Sweet and Satisfying Romance + Twins, a Boy and a Girl + Mutual Flirting + Cozy Everyday Life) Jiang Tang transmigrates into the daughter of a capitalist family sent down to the countryside in a period novel. She's fair-skinned, beautiful, and dazzling, but supposedly pretty and stupid. She looks down on her rough, taciturn military officer husband, abandons the twins at home, and elopes 8.2kReads8.2Score822Shelves
36. 86 杨 Yang Ming's True Story: Starting with Transmigration to the 1980s 杨明实录：从穿越八十年代开始 Zou Yun, Who Loves Tofu Puffs Braised with Meat爱吃油豆腐炖肉的邹云Urban3.1M WordsOngoing Yang Ming woke up to find himself in a dilapidated house in Beijing in 1980! He had become a fourteen-year-old boy from a fallen family who could barely afford to eat, with nothing but a job collecting scrap and a pile of problems left behind by the original owner. Who could have guessed that this “poor kid,” armed with memories of the future, would defy fate by riding the wave of reform and opening up? Seizing opportunities and overcoming hardship, he made his start among piles of scrap in the 24.1kReads8.2Score2kShelves

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    A genius, very lucky.

37. 87 年 Sent to the Countryside in the 1970s: Heaven Rewards the Diligent 年代下乡：我有天道酬勤 Naming Is Too Competitive起名太卷了Urban2.4M WordsOngoing Going to the countryside, hunting, farming, gathering herbs, and hunting for treasure! Reborn in the 1970s! He lucks into a girlfriend, only to find out she isn't looking to get married! After moving to the countryside, he hunts, gathers ginseng, searches for treasure, and lives a carefree, comfortable life... 62.5kReads7.9Score5.5kShelves
38. 88 重 Reborn in 1959: Little Everyday Moments in Nanluoguxiang 重生59南锣鼓巷之小日常 Gluttonous Badger贪吃獾Male-Channel Fanfiction2.9M WordsOngoing He transmigrates to the capital and settles on Nanluoguxiang. He fishes and farms, living a carefree life, learning to cook, appraising antiques, occasionally trading barbs with Zhang Haixing, and picking on the courtyard busybodies now and then. 67.8kReads8.2Score3kShelves
39. 89 我 My Comprehension Is Maxed Out, Yet You Want Me to Guard a Sword Tomb for a Century 我悟性满级，你让我剑冢守墓百年 Leng Buyi冷不易Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted Lin Xiao transmigrates to a fantasy continent with max-level comprehension. He can master any divine ability or cultivation technique in an instant. Just when he was struggling to find cultivation resources, he was captured by a demonic sect and made one of the guardians of the Brahma Sword Tomb. His daily job was to wipe swords. Wiping the sword Lihuo earned him a Heaven-tier sword technique. Wiping the sword Miming let him comprehend thirty percent of the Sword Intent of Annihilation. Wiping a 73.9kReads9.0Score8kShelves
40. 90 半 I Fought a Female Ghost for Her Shadow at Midnight, and She Got Pissed 半夜和女鬼抢影子，她红温了 Youth Isn't Afraid of Pants Exploding青春不怕裤子爆炸Mystery695k WordsOngoing That day, I became a ghost. I looked down at a mirror and saw a thousand ghostly faces. Windows, tiles, glass doors, even phone screens: wherever there was a reflective surface, there was my shadow. In the dead of night, a line of bright red text flashed across the TV: I am the Immortal in the Mirror. I am everywhere. In his third year of college, Jiang Shi ran into a woman in red who turned out to be a ghost. From the start, she gnawed off his shadow. After designing a trap to kill the evil 82.7kReads8.8Score15.2kShelves
41. 91 年 Period: Riding the Wind to Rise in 1976 年代：1976乘风而起 Below Fangcun Mountain方寸山下Urban6.2M WordsOngoing 1976: The northern Bear is at the height of its power. 1976: The Western beacon struggles in the quagmire of stagflation. 1976: In the glow of the fiery red era, dawn begins to break for us... 23.2kReads8.0Score1.9kShelves
42. 92 重 Reborn as a Zerg Hive Queen, and I’m Loving It 重生成虫族母巢，我好爽 The Whole Family's Hope全家的希望Eastern Fantasy565k WordsCompleted When other people are reborn, they at least come back as human. I, Song Yun, was reborn as a Zerg hive. After cursing and grumbling for an hour... I’m sorry. I was a little loud just now. The Zerg are really fun. I love playing with them. Zerg, move out! Go kidnap those sect prodigies, gorgeous sect leaders, and empresses, and turn them into Zerg! Become a Zerg Saintess, a Zerg Empress... The Zerg army will crush the entire otherworldly continent. 11.6kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
43. 93 欠 My Indebted Daughter, I'm Sorry. I'm a Good-for-Nothing Aunt 欠债女儿对不起，我是没用的阿姨 Readers Are So Handsome读者太帅Urban858k WordsOngoing [Multiple heroines, no fixed pairing + age gap + feel-good power fantasy + reborn] My name is Du Zhe. I was once deceived by the campus beauty, and after lending her a million yuan, she fled to escape her debts, forcing me to flee overseas. Now I’ve been reborn, and once again the campus beauty has come to borrow money from me. I simply took her phone and opened the “Borrow with Confidence” app. Let’s see where you can run this time. My name is Chu Mengyao. I’m a beautiful art student determine 1.6kReads8.7Score152Shelves
44. 94 7 Bureau 749: Is It Legal to Make a Female Ghost Work the Night Shift? 749局：你让女鬼上钟合法吗？ Speeding Three-Wheeler飞驰的三蹦子Urban611k WordsCompleted My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 168Reads6.6Score—Shelves
45. 95 洪 Honghuang: I Took Over Sect Master Tongtian From the Start 洪荒：开局夺舍了通天教主 Wood Feeds Fire木生火火Eastern Fantasy4.8M WordsCompleted Chu Feng transmigrates to the Primordial Era, takes over Sect Master Tongtian’s body, and becomes a Heaven-Appointed Sage! He awakens the Invincible Sign-In System! From the start, he opens a grand prize pack and obtains a Primordial Dao Embryo, a million portions of Great Dao merit, and the peerless weapon Great Luo Sword Embryo! He signs in at Kunlun Mountain and obtains the Three Purities’ Origin Qi, reassembling Pangu's Primordial Spirit. He signs in at the Heavenly Court, suppresses Di Jun 35.8kReads8.7Score3.2kShelves
46. 96 文 The Grandmaster of the Way of Literature 文道祖师 Jiang Wan蒋万Eastern Fantasy3.5M WordsCompleted [The Way of Letters, no System, traditional fantasy, decisive and ruthless, no-brainer] In this world, people can master literary energy through reading. Those who become scholars can travel between heaven and earth, move mountains and fill seas, and bring things to life with a stroke of the brush. But every book capable of imparting literary energy is monopolized by aristocratic clans and wealthy families. Ordinary people can't afford to read them. Now the court is in turmoil, and the Way of Le 18.7kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves
47. 97 我 I’m a Tailor in Paris 我在巴黎当裁缝 Author Huluwa作者葫芦娃Urban1.4M WordsCompleted The protagonist, Ye Chen, is a fashion designer active in the fashion and entertainment industries... An open-source work from Tomato. Iron bones hold the clouds above the Seine; golden needles bring spring to life. He cuts cloud shadows into folds of rainbow robes, and embroiders phoenix feathers into flowers at her temples. A hundred turns of fragrant breeze sweep through the streets; ten years of lamplight temper the passage of time. Beyond the Louvre, stars surge; one breathtaking figure des 265Reads8.8Score—Shelves
48. 98 刚 I Just Married a Young Educated Woman, and Now I Have to Rise from Infancy? 刚娶女知青，让我从婴儿开始逆袭？ Get Rich暴富Urban1.8M WordsCompleted [Period setting + educated youth + hunting and farming + rural life + pocket dimension + wish fulfillment] After transmigrating to 1972, Li Yunfeng has just married an educated young woman when he awakens the Baby Comeback System. The System’s missions are rather ridiculous: walk one meter in a minute, and get a solid-gold longevity lock as a reward. Li Yunfeng: “What? One meter in a minute? Even someone with a blood clot in their brain could walk ten meters!” He then sprints half a kilometer. S 906Reads8.5Score143Shelves
49. 99 四 Siheyuan: A Great Physician in 1950 四合院：大国医者1950 Summer's Big Melon夏天吃大瓜Male-Channel Fanfiction380k WordsOngoing A medical intern from the future transmigrates to the Korean War battlefield and awakens a lottery System, dazzling everyone with his exploits on the front lines. With the smoke of war barely cleared, Lin Lidong returns home early with honors, only to be unexpectedly assigned to Courtyard No. 95 in the capital. He thought he had found a peaceful, stable home in peacetime, but instead he stumbles into a bizarre courtyard full of "monsters and demons." Among them are: The Supreme Sage of Morality, 1.6kReads5.1Score—Shelves

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    Super New, released on July 27, 2025. A new book in July. The author is an orphan who lives alone in a different hospital. He is a family member of a martyr, a doctor, has multiple female protagonists, has a system, and does not cultivate immortality.

50. 100 重 Reborn in the 1980s, I Was Switched into a Marriage and Became the Compound's Beloved Daughter-in-Law 重生八零被换亲，我成家属院团宠 Lin Guo'er林果儿Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xia Xiaohe and her cousin Xia Lanxiang are both reborn. In their previous life, Xia Xiaohe married a poor farmer, while her cousin married a college-educated youth sent to the countryside in the city. Her cousin followed him to the city and enjoyed a comfortable life, earning everyone’s envy. But in the end, Xia Xiaohe and her husband worked hard and made a name and fortune for themselves amid the tide of the times, living in splendor. Her cousin’s life in the city, meanwhile, was a complete mes 5.8kReads8.9Score579Shelves

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