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Transmigrated to a State-Owned Factory in the 1970s: From the Start, I Land a Cushy Job 穿到七零国营厂，开局考上萝卜岗
1970s + no rural assignment + multiple Systems + career building + strengthening the nation through research Overnight, Shi Xia becomes a minor supporting character in a period novel, an unemployed youth at a state-owned factory. Her mind is in turmoil. The good news: she has a bunch of Systems. The bad news: every one of them is still in beta. No matter. She'll handle it. The male lead who failed his blind date? No need to waste him: let him go to the countryside and suffer. The womanizer who c
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The Middle-Aged Slacker's Comeback 中年颓废男人的逆袭
The story is about an unemployed man in his forties whose life is going poorly. After accidentally ingesting something, a tiny stream of energy forms inside him. Through long experimentation, he gradually grows stronger and uses his inner power to change his life. The story depicts the man's transformation and everything that happens along the way, touching on physical health, friends, relatives, Taoism, officialdom, the entertainment industry, sports, and more. This is my first novel. You're we
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I Just Became His Disciple, and My Master Ascended! 刚拜师，师傅就飞升而去！
Huang Hua, a 17-year-old from E City in the Yanhuang Kingdom on Planet Earth, is beaten black and blue by a group of thugs. By chance, he runs into the Venerable Wufa, a powerful cultivator at the ascension stage who is passing by Earth. The Venerable says he and Huang Hua are fated to meet and wants to take him as a disciple. Thinking he’s run into a con artist, Huang Hua refuses a thousand times over. The Venerable Wufa takes him to Kunlun’s Forbidden Realm and puts him through such torment th
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Cast Out, I Slaughter My Way Through the Northern Frontier with a Gun Dao System 被逐后，我靠枪道系统杀穿北境
Above the ancestral hall, thirty clan elders watched with cold eyes. Shu Wangchuan's limbs were broken, and the Rift-Splitting Spear snapped in two. “You stole the Dragonblood Bodhi. A good-for-nothing like you doesn't deserve the Shu name!” In the mass grave, he clutched half a broken spear and laughed through a mouthful of blood. The spear-shaped mark in his palm suddenly grew hot: [ Ding! Spear Soul System activated. Newbie pack: rebirth through shattered bones, Stone-Splitting Spear Art! ] T
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The Poor Little One Becomes the Darlings of the Monsters in Infinite Worlds 小可怜在无限流做鬼怪们的心尖宠
[Two Male Leads + Infinite Flow + Everyone’s Favorite + Silly and Healing + 1v1, Both Pure + Mutual Salvation] A vampire who can turn into a cat and is the strongest top x a cute, pitiful bottom with no fear meter (Not a traditional Infinite Flow story. The bottom is an ordinary human but plays an NPC. The further you read, the more lighthearted and funny it gets.) After Xu Xingyuan’s mother passed away, his father remarried in a hurry. His stepmother abused him in secret and usurped his place i
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I Cosplayed as a God, So How Did I Become One for Real? 我cos神仙，怎么真成神仙了？
The God of Wealth has arrived! Everyone, get out of the way! Lu Li. Male, 22 years old. 1.9 meters tall, athletic and a longtime fitness enthusiast, with peerless good looks and the bearing of a celestial immortal. On the surface, he’s a top-tier star in the cosplay scene. Underneath, he’s a bit of a chuunibyou, loves to gripe, and knows how to enjoy life.
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Selling Tickets to Transmigrate on Livestream: The World's Billionaires Go Wild 直播卖穿越票，全球富豪杀疯了
[Already published and available from Taobao, Dangdang, and JD.com under the title A Plane-Hopping Travel Agency] [Changing history’s regrets + patriotic spirit] Jiang Ye inherits a travel agency on the verge of bankruptcy. After becoming a tour guide, he takes his customers to some very unusual destinations. Other guides take people to beautiful four-star and five-star scenic spots. The destinations Jiang Ye visits are either the Qin dynasty two thousand years ago or the Great Ming dynasty five
76.2kReads9.0Score8.7kShelves
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Immortal-Slaying Platform 斩仙台
After transmigrating into the Primordial World, he became a rogue immortal. But from the start, he was on the Execution Platform, about to be executed by the Heavenly Court and the Western Church working together. Even the gods couldn’t save him. With death at hand, he awakened the Life Editor System. This System couldn’t be upgraded or provide magical treasures. Its only function was to let him freely make up his own past and turn it into “reality”! [Edit: I studied at Lingtai Mountain, and I’m
39.2kReads7.6Score56.7kShelves
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Beast Taming: After I Transmigrate, I Become the Myriad Beasts' Favorite 御兽：穿越后我成了万兽迷
[Beast Taming + Interstellar + Evolution + Competitions + Showing Off + No Female Lead] Song Shao transmigrated to a beast-taming world and became a high school student working three jobs from the start! You think he's unlucky? No, not at all. His spirit beasts are willing to duel just to form a contract with him! Rare spirit beasts are happy to humble themselves for him! Even god-tier spirit beasts show up with their fortunes in tow, eager to join him! Want to know Song Shao's secret? Song Shao
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College Students Are Naive and Foolish? Watch Me Outsmart Them All 大学生清澈愚蠢？看我智商超群
[No heroine + mystery-solving + brains over brawn + interstellar + livestreaming + national destiny + power fantasy] Rules-based horror descends upon Earth. Those selected are sent into a bizarre world to face challenges on behalf of their respective countries. While every other contestant fights for their country, one gentle young man says his wish is for everyone to get along peacefully. Everyone: "Peaceful my ass! Do you think this is kindergarten?" Then they watch as this mild-mannered young
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The World Is Stunned! You Call Your Brother Ordinary? 全球震惊！你弟这叫普通人？
Ye Nan gets a System and, in just a few short years, becomes a global financial titan, the world's top assassin, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, a national treasure of an actor, and an art master... Yet just as he reaches the pinnacle, weary of scheming and backstabbing, he conceals his identity and returns to an ordinary life with his older sister! Sister: My little brother is so ordinary, and so lazy. What will become of him? I’m afraid he won’t even be a
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I Achieved Emperorhood, Then Rode a Nine-Dragon Coffin Back to Earth 已证道成帝，乘九龙拉棺回地球
[Spiritual qi revival + invincible protagonist + for readers of any gender] After transmigrating through a hundred thousand years of the Age of the End of Dharma, Wei Buqi breaks through the shackles of the myriad Dao and proves his Emperorhood. He becomes a man surrounded throughout his life by myths, legends, invincibility, unrivaled greatness, and brilliance across the boundless Dao Domains. Now Earth is under attack by myriad races. Sensing the call of his earthly bloodline, Wei Buqi returns
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I'm an SSS-Rank Ghost Emperor, Summoned at My Daughter's Graduation 我SSS级鬼帝，被女儿毕业召出
This is an age when horrors descend upon the world. In the year everyone finishes their senior year of high school, they get a chance to summon a vicious spirit and become a prestigious Ghost Tamer, rising to the top and becoming one of society’s elite. My name is Jiang Xin, and I couldn’t care less about any of that. I just want to use this chance to summon my dad, who died protecting me. Even if he can only come back as the lowest-ranked vicious spirit because he hasn’t been dead for long, tha
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Thriller: Why Keep Striving When My Wife Is a Ghost Emperor? 惊悚：有个鬼帝老婆还努什么力
What’s it like to transmigrate into a horror game with a Ghost Emperor wife secretly helping you from behind the scenes? Warlord Zhang: “What!? That human took my bride? Every ghost in the manor, pretend to be blind! Nobody gets in his way!” The caretaker of the haunted dorm: “I’m not going to break your door. I’m not going to eat you either. Come on, I’m just messing around.” Meanwhile, the viewers in the livestream all began singing together: “You’re only pretending to be sad, just like an
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: A Peerless National Scholar, Blessing Generations to Come! 直播算命：国士无双，福荫后代！
Ye Chen took over his master's Daoist temple. He should have been content to live as an ordinary young Daoist, but instead he started livestreaming fortune-telling. “Daoist priest, do you think I can land this 50-million-yuan project?” Ye Chen scolded him: “You've committed countless evils and used up all your ancestors' accumulated virtue. You already have the look of a dying man!” “Daoist priest, why am I so unlucky?” Ye Chen replied coolly, “Your fate is cursed with loneliness and calamity. Y
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Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
874.1kReads9.6Score148.2kShelves
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Heaven’s Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
1.8MReads9.9Score179.5kShelves
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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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Mad, All of You, Mad. Being a Little Mad Is Good! 癫，都癫，癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
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Wait, Bro, How Did You Become a Succubus Everyone Loves? 不是，哥们？你是咋成魅魔万人迷
(Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Isn't It Only Natural for a Slime Like Me to Crush a Dragon? 我一个史莱姆吊打巨龙很合理吧？
[Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a..
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The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局
[Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions
244.6kReads9.4Score19.5kShelves
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The Spoiled Young Heir 纨绔世子
[New book release: The Rebellious Son Is Invincible, the final installment of the Empire Trilogy] Guan Ning transmigrates, hoping to live a carefree life of wine, women, and luxury as a young prince. Instead, he becomes a prince consort whose engagement has been broken off. Rumor has it that no dynasty can last more than 300 years. The Great Kang Dynasty is at that very threshold: a golden age is in turmoil, loyal ministers are being persecuted, and an age of chaos is about to begin. He will top
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Suspended from the Start? I Join the Discipline Inspection Team Instead 开局停职？我转投纪委调查组
His superior was investigated, his girlfriend cheated on him, and petty people conspired against him, forcing him to take a leave of absence. Yang Dong faced the darkest moment of his life from the start, but he was not nervous in the slightest, because he had already experienced it in his previous life. Having returned to 2008, he could deal with all of this more calmly. What he never expected was that the course of his life would change because of a single phone call. To save his superior, he
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Reborn, I’m Taking Shortcuts to Help the Nation Get Ahead 都重生了，让国家走点捷径怎么了
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资
Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war
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From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世
The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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The Antiquities Restorer 做旧师
[Entirely handmade, with no AI whatsoever + Behind-the-scenes industry secrets + Authentic antique identification with images and text + National vendettas and family feuds] If you want to truly understand the antiques trade, start by making fake antiques! Start by learning to age forgeries! My name is Mei Jiu. I was just a temporary odd-jobber on a film crew, but after I helped them repair a broken bowl, I was promoted to assistant prop master. I fix props, so why are they asking me to make fak
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Setting the Trap 做局
A mastermind uses the martial world as a game board and people as pawns. Those drawn into the game are at their mercy. My grandfather was a Feng Shui master and a master schemer, yet he died after a charlatan set him up. My father was killed, my mother took her own life after being humiliated, and I ended up in prison. To avenge my family, I joined the Golden Sect and became a charlatan myself, rising to become a master strategist. I’ve set countless schemes in my life. Living schemes and deadly
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The Crooked Path 走偏门
[Adapted into the short dramas Fishing in the Shadows, Taking the Crooked Path, and The Mastermind; and the animated dramas Fishing in the Shadows: Drifting North, A Crooked Road to Comeback, A Thousand Faces in the Underworld, and Tales of a Shady Deal. Check them out if you’re interested.] What is the crooked path? Those who walk it seek a way to survive for themselves and plot certain doom for others. Once you step onto this path, it stretches as deep as the sea. You’ll roam far and wide, mix
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The Thousand-Faced Thief King 千面贼王
My name is Xiao Wu. I was a wild child no orphanage could keep in check. At nine years old, I charged into this dog-eat-dog world. I saw through it then: living was like clinging to a moving train. You either held on or fell and were crushed to pieces. The first steamed bun I stole wasn’t because I was hungry. I wanted to see whether these hands that picked pockets could grab fate by the throat. The juvenile detention center, the shelter, and the detention center were my schools. The thieves wer
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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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Possessing a Body in Northeast China: Saving the Nation in the War of Resistance 魂穿东北，抗战救国
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!
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