Great Reads Recommended by a Veteran Reader with 10,000+ Hours of Reading 老书虫1万+时辰推荐的好书
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Siheyuan: Starting at Ten, I Flee the Famine with My Little Sister 四合院十岁开局带妹妹逃荒
Lin Shitou transmigrates into the body of a ten-year-old boy. Before Liberation in 1948, his entire family starved to death while fleeing famine. Only his two younger sisters survived, one five years old and the other four. Lin Shitou takes his sisters and flees all the way to the capital, settling at Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. But when he finally gets settled, he discovers that the familiar “old neighbors” next door are none other than the hypocrite Yi Zhonghai, the power-hungry Liu Hai
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Pretty Boy Goes to the Countryside: Marrying Into a Female Officer's Family Is a Sweet Deal 小白脸下乡，入赘女军官软饭喷香
[One heroine + older sister heroine + mountain foraging + handsome live-in son-in-law + convenience store pocket space + playing dumb while hiding his strength] Lin Chen inherited the convenience store that had appeared in his dreams. Just as he reached a turning point in life, his biological mother pressured him to give his job to his stepbrother and go to the countryside to work as a peasant. Instead, he sold the job, used his trip to the countryside as an excuse to get his stepfather and moth
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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？
[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
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Answer Me! You Call That a Self-Discipline System? 回答我！你管你这自律系统？
[Not Invincible] + [High Martial] + [No Female Lead] + [Age of Cutthroat Competition] + [Comedy] + [Healthy Values] This is a world where anyone can earn their just rewards. 996? That's just the basics. In this age of cutthroat competition, working sixteen hours a day is what normal life looks like. Chen Sheng crosses over to a High Martial world and awakens a Self-Discipline System, which claims it can plan his growth and help its Host achieve any goal. Chen Sheng sets his sights on becoming th
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My Sister Has Been Exploiting Me from the Start, and Now She Wants Me to Help Her Cultivate 开局被姐姐压榨，要我助她修行
“The cheap drugs rich people refuse to take? I'll take them!” “Banned drugs and secondhand drugs the rich don't dare touch? I'll take those too!” “In short, as long as it helps me train in martial arts, I'll take any drug.” “Intravenous or intramuscular injections? Only women get shots that way.” “Real men inject into an artery. It works faster and lasts longer.” Facing a powerful enemy, Lin Feng laughed, pulled out nine long needles, and drove them fiercely into his heart. “Trenbolone, testoste
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The Greatest Military Governor in the Late Tang Dynasty 晚唐藩镇，天下第一节度使
The Tang dynasty was at the height of its glory, yet its political failings could only be reversed by a hero of the ages. As the saying goes, rise and fall are governed by fate, and after reaching its peak, prosperity must decline. After three hundred years of glory and turmoil, the magnificent Tang dynasty finally crumbled. That year, Chen Congjin arrived in this world. He would bring this chaotic era to an end.
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Reborn in Another's Body: I Became the Foolish Son of a Financial Tycoon 借尸还魂：我成了财阀家的傻儿子
After drowning and spending years at the bottom of the water, Qi Luo's deep-seated resentment remained, and he continued to exist as a spirit. Then one day, a voice suddenly called out to him. And just like that, he came back to life, becoming the foolish son of a wealthy tycoon.
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Fine, I'm a Bandit, But My Territory Is Pretty Big 摊牌了我真是土匪不过地盘有点大
[Hilarious] [Bandit Farming] [Rustic Black Tech] [Laid-Back Conquest] After transmigrating to a parallel world in 1936, Lin Hao finds himself surrounded by Eastern Island devils from the start. The bandit stronghold is on the verge of breaking apart, and Lin Hao, who has some vague knowledge of agriculture and mechanical engineering from his university days, is completely at a loss. Luckily, the [Anything Can Be Brainstormed Into Existence System] activates! “Marshal, you had us mix plant ash an
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Join the Army and Get a Wife? I Marry Eighteen Women in a Rage 当兵就发媳妇？我怒娶十八房老婆
“What? You can get a wife for free if you enlist? Then I’m joining the army!” Li Wannian is reborn into the declining Li Tang imperial family. He proceeds carefully, extending the Li Tang Dynasty's life by three hundred years!
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With an Angry Rooster for a Pet, the Descendant of Guixu Stops Pretending! 怒晴鸡当宠物，归墟后人不装了！
Chen Jianghe was having a perfectly nice time at home when he suddenly found himself in a tomb-raiding world. Not only had he become a descendant of the Hentian Guixu, he also got the essential transmigration golden finger: a System! What Mountain-Moving Sect? What Ridge-Unloading Sect? Chen Yulou and Zhegu Shao would both have to treat me, Chen Jianghe, with the utmost respect! With the System’s help, Chen Jianghe exchanged for more and more years of life. Immortality? Am I the Xiao Ge of this
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The Great Wilderness: I Ascend to Immortality Through the Grotto-Heaven Method 大荒世界：我用洞天法登仙
[The ratings just came in and are a little low, but they're steadily rising! Also, at least 5,000 words updated daily! Give it a try!] [Worldbuilding] The Great Wilderness is a furnace that refines all races. Divine beasts roar across the nine heavens, while ancient clans rule the eight corners of the world. Tribes vanish with every breath, and powerful figures fall at every turn. Even dragons, phoenixes, and qilin bleed, and immortal legacies eventually turn to dust. [Cultivation Systems] ① Ort
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Rotten Potatoes, Stale Cornbread, and a Brat in Tow: Get Lost! 糟土豆，烂窝头，带着拖油瓶滚球
In 1975, Zhao Jianguo is reborn on a heated brick bed. Before him are four frail daughters and a dilapidated thatched hut. In his previous life, his adopted son buried him alive. Only as he lay dying did he learn that none of the boy's blood was his, and that his daughters were the ones who truly cared. In this life, he sees through his wife's affair and the boy born from it. He resolves to divorce her, kick the boy out, and make his own way. By chance, he gains memories of the future and gets a
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At 70, I Refuse to Be a Sucker: I Head to the Countryside, Hunt in the Mountains, and Marry the Village Beauty 70不做冤大头，下乡赶山娶村花
In the 1970s, as society descended into turmoil, Xiao Zhendong was reborn into a world where he was being framed for sleeping with his sister-in-law, forced to take the blame and give up his job, caught in a family power struggle, and sent to the countryside full of resentment. His eldest brother's girlfriend was in his bed, while his third brother was having an affair with her, leaving him as the scapegoat. His father held power, his mother had lost her mind, his adopted-child status was kept s
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Abandoned on Wolf Mountain, She Thrives by Taming Beasts 被扔狼山她靠驭兽风生水起
As the Great Zhou dynasty's power waned, a prophecy spread: “When the spirit maiden appears, the realm will know peace.” Shen Zhiwei, a modern doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, transmigrated into the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, abandoned on Wolf Mountain and clinging to life. At a moment of mortal danger, she accidentally awakened an ancient spirit beast's pocket realm. Within it, she could use a sacred spring to grow medicinal herbs, tame all manner of beasts, and hone her
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A Scholar from a Humble Family, Inventing Things in Ancient Times 寒门探花，我在古代搞发明
Amid the aristocratic clans' power struggles in the Dayin Dynasty, A Fu, a girl from a humble family, once died a tragic death as the Song family's fake heiress. Reborn, she rejects the Song family and enters the Yun household as a concubine-born daughter. By chance, she gains the knowledge of a modern top student: she can study the classics and history, crack mechanisms, and solve problems with physics, medicine, and more. These abilities help her distinguish herself in household and palace int
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The Cat Consort Reigns Supreme 喵妃在上
Qin Li, emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, is a violent, unhinged tyrant, and the titles he gives his concubines are bizarre. Modern woman Qi Miao is murdered and finds her soul transported into the body of the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor. She stutters and has a sharp tongue. Whenever she curses someone with bad luck, her curse is sure to come true. She also faces plots by enemies of the marquis's household. Then she unexpectedly acquires a golden finger. This golden f
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The Cannon Fodder Lady Official's Heaven-Defying Change of Fate 炮灰女官的逆天改命局
When Shi Yao opened her eyes, the bronze mirror in the Department of Palace Affairs reflected a face both strange and familiar: the very female official she had written to her death with her own hand. At that moment, the boundary between reality and fiction collapsed. Fate was a game of chess whose moves had long been decided, and she was the only piece that knew their order. New to the palace, she found herself at the heart of a storm. The consorts traded open blows and hidden barbs, currents
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Reborn and Married a Educated Youth, Leaving Her Ex-Husband Stunned 重生后嫁知青，前夫傻眼了
Su Wanqing was reborn in 1969 in Qingxi Town, Jiangnan, during the final years of the campaign sending educated youth to the countryside. In her previous life, her husband, Jiang Yuancheng, and her sister-in-law, Shen Lanzhi, had killed her. Reborn, she was starving and freezing, and her former husband even interfered with her arranged marriage. By chance, she rescued Lu Chengzhou, an educated youth who had fallen into the water, and the two agreed to marry so they could weather the hardships to
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Reborn in the 80s, the Family's Beloved, Leading Everyone to Prosperity 重生80团宠，带领全家致富
In 1985, in a small city in the south, Lin Yao was reborn. In her previous life, she had mistaken the wealthy Chen family for her own, leading to the deaths of her adoptive parents. After returning to the past, she rejected the Chen family's offer to claim her and protected the poor but loving Lin family. By chance, she gained memories of her previous life, giving her the ability to foresee business opportunities and crises. She used those memories to spot opportunities in matsutake mushrooms an
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The Eight-Year-Old Little Ancestor Who Tames Spoiled Brats 八岁小祖宗专治败家子
In the modern-day wealthy Chen family, eight-year-old Chen Jinghuai is the reincarnation of the Ninth Prince from ancient times. He faces schemes from his cousins in the third branch and his uncle and aunt in the second branch, while the family business is in decline. Then he unexpectedly awakens the Golden Eye and an Appraisal System. The Golden Eye can see through objects and appraise treasures, and unlocks the Eye of Retrospection, while the System can assist with appraisals and issue mission
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The Eight-Year-Old Investing Pro Who Makes Everyone Rich 八岁天才投资王，理财带飞全场
In the modern city, the economy was constantly shifting. In his previous life, Shen Yan was a Wall Street investor who died after a disastrous trade. Reborn at the age of eight, he faced a crisis of trust within his family and struggled to put his investment skills to use. Then he unexpectedly gained the “Wealth Awakening” System. The System set tasks based on real economic events, guiding him in navigating the markets, and could unlock new modules to help him handle crises. This gave Shen Yan a
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A Little Dancer’s Song and Dance 小小伴舞踏歌行
Music and dance flourished in the Great Sheng Dynasty, and the fortunes of those registered in the music rolls depended on their dancing skills. Lin Zhixia was reborn as a seven-year-old orphan girl on the music rolls. Her family had fallen into ruin, her mother was timid, and her aunt was greedy. By chance, memories of her past life as a dance champion gave her the chance to turn her life around. Drawing on modern ingenuity and the muscle memory of her former life, she started as a backup dance
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Exiled to the Northern Frontier, I Defy Fate with the Language of All Things 流放北境，我靠万物语逆天改命
In the final years of the Dayin Dynasty, the court fell into chaos and natural disasters struck one after another. The Su clan was convicted for speaking out and exiled to the northern frontier. The family's youngest daughter, Su Mingyue, was possessed by the female protagonist and awakened the ability to speak with all things. At the time, the whole family was being transported in prison carts. Their journey into exile was full of danger, with bandits, droughts, wolf packs, and more threatening
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After the Whole Internet Heard My Thoughts, I Became Everyone’s Favorite 被全网读心后，我成全民团宠
Jiang Yao, an ancient Daoist matriarch, transmigrates into the body of a disgraced fringe actress despised by the entire internet. The moment she opens her eyes, a livestream camera is shoved in her face. The original owner’s scandalous rumors have set the internet ablaze. Scandals cling to her, everyone is calling for her to be driven out, and her marriage is little more than an empty shell. By chance, she gains the ability to read minds. Her inner commentary is broadcast live to the entire int
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Live Crime Solving: I Can Read the Language of Corpses 直播探案，我能读懂尸体语言
In Jiangcheng, a city shrouded in fog year-round, criminal police officer Qin Ming gets lost while chasing a fugitive. By chance, he gains the “All-Purpose Side Job” System. Completing tasks unlocks skills and rewards. It all begins with a riverside fishing task to retrieve a body and find an object, leading him to solve a cold case and unexpectedly go viral. Using skills such as “microexpression analysis” and “interpreting the language of corpses,” he livestreams investigations while taking on
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Little One Hunts in the Mountains, Serving Fierce Beasts for Dinner 小不点进山打猎，山野猛兽端上桌
During the Tianqi era of the Great Zhou dynasty, Ye Xiaohua, the youngest daughter of the Ye family in Qingshan Village, transmigrated into this world. Her father was gravely injured and unconscious, her mother was frail and often ill, and the greedy, biased elders of the family made life hard for the Ye family. By chance, Ye Xiaohua obtained a god-tier survival System. Completing tasks like surviving in the wilderness, hunting, and cooking earned her supplies and skill boosts. With the System's
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My Boasts Come True, and My Daughter Makes Me Rich 吹牛成真，我靠女儿暴富了
Lin Hao was once a live-in son-in-law, but after losing his job, his wife abandoned him. He struggled to get by, living in a cramped urban village with his daughter. One day, his daughter bragged at kindergarten, and Lin Hao unexpectedly gained a System. It could turn whatever his daughter bragged about into reality, producing cash, luxury cars, houses, and other goods, while also granting Lin Hao skills such as top-tier design. With the System's help, Lin Hao began his comeback, delivering face
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Sign In to Wealth, I Became a City Tycoon 签到致富，我成了都市神豪
Shen Yang grew up in an orphanage and worked himself to the bone as a corporate drone. Every day, he struggled to make ends meet while dealing with rent hikes from his landlord and doubts from his colleagues. Life was tough. Then, while moving house one day, he unexpectedly acquired the Tycoon System. From then on, all he had to do was show off his wealth and check in on his social media Moments every day to receive 100,000 yuan. The more likes he got, the better his chances of winning luxury ca
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What? My Eyes Can Scan Barcodes? 什么，我的眼睛能扫码
Li Mo is an ordinary office drone, always struggling to make ends meet. When he discovers his girlfriend has been cheating on him, his anger unexpectedly awakens a special ability. His eyes can see and scan the QR codes of anything and anyone, revealing the truth about things and letting him read people's thoughts. With this ability, he goes from office drone to winner in life. He dishes out face-slapping to cheating men and women, turns his career around, and finds sweet love. In the end, Li Mo
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Fierce Beauty Makes a Fortune by Crushing Scumbags 重生七零：疯批美人虐渣致富
In the 1970s, Ruan Xianxian is reborn and returns to a life in which her cousin and grandfather conspired to bring about her gruesome death. After her rebirth, she faces the hardship of being sent to the countryside and must deal with her biased family. By chance, she gains the help of a System that lets her transfer her grandmother's dowry. With the System, she can speak many languages, repair machinery, and show extraordinary intelligence. Unlike her tragic past life, she now outsmarts and pun
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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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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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The Reverse Maze 逆位迷宫
On the day of his eighteenth birthday, Bai Ze's life begins a countdown. Survive or perish: that is the choice. // Three lives, six paths, a mist-shrouded maze. Nothing is harder than choosing one's fate.
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应
Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist
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Ten Days to the End 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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Above the Immortals 仙人之上
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no brainless characters, and no wish-fulfillment. Read at your own discretion.) The ancient Immortal Court had crumbled into ruins, and the immortals of old had fallen into slumber. The world changed with every passing day, and seas became fields. All that remained of ancient times existed only in myths. Thousands of years later, the ruins of the Immortal Court once more rose above the nine heavens, and the sleeping immortals be
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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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
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Lord of Eternal Corruption 永蚀之主
[Nontraditional Savior] Eastern Fantasy + Cthulhu + Sequence Evolution + Dark + Passionate (High Conflict + Fast Pace). Mysterious, Suspenseful Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland (Richly detailed settings well suited for screen adaptation).
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Other lists with Siheyuan: Starting at Ten, I Flee the Famine with My Little Sister