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  1. 401 Taking Shelter from the Rain in a Brick Kiln with My Wife, I Was Dragged Off to the Firing Squad 和媳妇砖窑躲雨,被拉去打靶 Urban1.6M WordsOngoing A billionaire worth billions had his soul transported into the body of Zheng Qingren, a suspect in a major 1985 crime crackdown case. The case was about to be closed. After his trial, the rural young man Zheng Qingren was due to face execution, and the soul that had just been reborn panicked. Zheng Qingren was innocent. The real culprit would not be caught until a month after Zheng Qingren was executed. He had to clear his name! And demand compensation. He also had a daughter he'd never met, wai 6.6kReads8.2Score503Shelves
  2. 402 My Sweet, Adorable Wife Is a Policewoman: Three Shots Take Down the Robbers from the Start 软萌娇妻是女警,开局三枪爆劫匪 Urban747k WordsCompleted Su Ming is a rideshare driver. His wife, Qu Xiaomeng, is a police officer at the Shilihe police station. On the first day, while picking up a fare, Su Ming collided with a robber crossing the street. The robber thought he'd been exposed and grabbed a passerby as a hostage. Su Ming: “Honey, someone's holding a hostage.” The next day, Su Ming picked up a thief, then stopped by his house to pick up his wife, telling the passenger they were sharing the ride. The thief saw a cute girl with a soft, in 7.1kReads7.0Score964Shelves
  3. 403 I Faked My Death After the Performance, and Now My Master and the Demonic Maiden Are at My Door 演完就假死,师尊妖女全找上门了 Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Love triangle drama + powerful backers + strong man and strong woman + pursuing the man + occasional humor] Su Yi'an accidentally transmigrated into the cultivation world and became a professional stand-in. On one assignment, Su Yi'an became the stand-in for Chu Qingxian, princess of the Immortal Dynasty. His meticulous care and tenderness in every little detail made Chu Qingxian the envy of all female cultivators. But the princess had always carried a white moonlight in her heart, until one da 9.1kReads8.1Score751Shelves
  4. 404 You Were Supposed to Conquer Goddesses, So How Did You Become a Succubus?! 让你攻略女神,你怎么成魅魔了! Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + playboy + Goddess System + jaw-dropping looks + male succubus + satisfying comeback + exes groveling for him] Shen Qingling is top-tier handsome and meticulous. He can play aloof or act innocent, combining the best of every approach to become the ultimate playboy. Who could have guessed that after dying one day, he would be bound to a System and transmigrate into the tragic real son in a story about a fake and real young master? In the original story, his childhood sweetheart t 65.9kReads9.2Score6.8kShelves
  5. 405 In the Apocalypse, I’m Blessed With More Children, More Blessings 人在末世,我却多子多福 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse642k WordsCompleted [Multiple heroines + apocalypse tower defense + family survival + more children, more blessings] “The apocalypse game has arrived. Everyone must do their best to survive as a family.” “Families must have at least two members, with no upper limit. The more people in your family, the greater the pressure from attacks, but the more points and rewards you may earn later.” “Your home is your haven. Protect it well.” Cao Shuang woke up to find himself in a strange room in an unfamiliar residential com 11.5kReads6.1Score1.2kShelves
  6. 406 Siheyuan: From the Start at 48, Selling My Art on the Overpass 四合院:开局48,天桥卖艺开始 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.4M WordsOngoing Wang Minghao is a top-tier star in the cosplay world. He has just finished attending a convention in Shanghai when he gets into a car accident on his way out. The thing is, he wasn’t the one hit by the truck, so why is he the one who transmigrated? Is it because he shares a name with the person who got hit? Did the rookie System, fresh out of college and newly on the job, grab the wrong person? And once he transmigrates, there’s no going back? Damn it, pay up! With tears in his eyes, he accepts 62.4kReads6.9Score3.5kShelves
  7. 407 I Brought a Fortune to the 1970s and Became the Boss of the Family 带着巨额财产穿七零,成家中一霸 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period drama + military marriage + pocket dimension + family life On the first day after Lin Xiangnan transmigrates, her family gets into a huge argument over sending someone to the countryside. At first: “So what if I have to go to the countryside? I've got hundreds of millions of supplies in my pocket dimension. How could I possibly fail to get by out there?” After helping her second great-uncle weed his fields for two days: “There's no way I'm going to the countryside. I'm lazy, gluttonous, a 103.8kReads9.3Score8.8kShelves
  8. 408 I Went Home for New Year Without Renting a Car, and the Whole Village Thought I Was Down on My Luck 过年回家没租车,全村以为我落寞 Urban527k WordsCompleted Last year, Qin Mo went home for the New Year after working away from home. Wanting to look successful, he rented a car for the trip. He even donated 50,000 yuan toward road repairs in the village. Everyone assumed he was doing well in business, but this year he hadn’t earned a penny. Not only did he rent no car, he was forced to return to his hometown early. When Qin Mo came back, the villagers assumed his business had failed and he was down on his luck. What Qin Mo never expected was that, afte 5.4kReads8.7Score255Shelves
  9. 409 Tycoon System: I Spend Money to Raise Kids in a Period Novel 神豪系统:我在年代文里氪金养崽 Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted (1990s setting + tycoon System + spending money to raise the kids + no romance + building a business empire + wish fulfillment) When Ye Xiaolin woke up, she had landed in a world formed from a fusion of several period novels. She’d become a wicked woman who despised poverty and loved wealth, abandoning her children and running away in pursuit of a materialistic life. She was bound to a tycoon System. To complete its main quest, she created the persona of a wealthy overseas returnee and embarked 8.8kReads7.8Score664Shelves
  10. 410 Back to 1978: The Uncle Who Returned from Abroad 重返1978:归国的小叔叔 Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Wealthy Tycoon]+ [Family Life]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Heartwarming Period Piece]+ [Infrastructure Development] Zhao Qiming, a wealthy Chinese American, follows the diary his father left behind and returns to China with his father's ashes and his son, Zhao Haodong, to seek out their roots. But an unexpected encounter sends father and son, car and all, transmigrating back to China in 1978! Their gleaming Bentley and flashy outfits become the most eye-catching sight of the era. Armed with immense weal 11.7kReads6.3Score554Shelves
  11. 411 Ordinary World: Faking It as a Returned Tycoon in the Eighties 平凡的世界:在八零伪装归国神豪 Male-Channel Fanfiction580k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Returnee Tycoon + Film and TV + Entertainment + System] Modern-day corporate drone Jin Junfeng wakes up one morning to find he has transmigrated into the novel The Ordinary World. Right beside him is Wang Manyin, a notorious drifter. Luckily, he’s bound to a Reputation System that lets him exchange reputation for all sorts of things. So he pretends to be a wealthy returnee, helps Shuangshui Village prosper, invests in factories in Yuanxi County and becomes an honored guest, the 2.3kReads6.9Score100Shelves
  12. 412 Raised by the Richest Man in Hong Kong, the Tragic Romance Hero 香江首富亲手养大了,虐文男主 Urban595k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + 1960s Hong Kong + Redemption + No Romance] This story involves raising a child. Some readers say that a male lead without a romance is basically a nanny story. If that's not your thing, feel free to skip it. After brain death, he transmigrates and wakes up in 1960s Hong Kong! Tycoon System: Gratitude points equal a mountain of gold. Give money away to buy more time! Cheng Su throws money around his way to becoming a big shot, but the System informs him: “Your real mission is to 11.9kReads8.7Score1.5kShelves
  13. 413 The Returnee Tycoon: Building Up My Hometown and Making It Rich in the 1980s 归国神豪之人在八零发展家乡致富 Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + System + Feel-Good Story + Powerhouse + Tycoon + Married Couple + Building a Business + Cozy Daily Life] Carrying out his late grandfather's final wish, Chen Dong, a wealthy businessman returning to China, sets off with his wife and children to find his roots in Lianzhai, the hometown his grandfather often spoke of, and give him a proper resting place. But they run into a time-space wormhole and transmigrate to Shantou, Huaxia, in the 1980s, car and all! In this era of scarcity 15.7kReads6.8Score725Shelves
  14. 414 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Urban1.5M WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.4kReads5.8Score297Shelves
  15. 415 Reborn in 1984: A Fake Overseas Chinese Brings Back Billions in U.S. Dollars 重生84:假华侨带回百亿美刀 Urban116k WordsCompleted In 1984, the nation is rebuilding from the ground up, and foreign currency is in short supply. He Xingzhou is unexpectedly reborn and gets bound to a global trade profession System from the start. Every quarter, the System refreshes with a brand-new profession, from “international goods trader” and “scrap machine tool dealer” to “semiconductor technology tycoon.” Using the System’s direct channels overseas, he sells the village’s unsold produce on Wall Street and brings discarded heavy machine t 6.7kReads—Score334Shelves
  16. 416 Posing as a Returnee Tycoon in the 1980s 在八零伪装归国神豪 Urban887k WordsCompleted [80s Era] [Feel-Good] [Big Shot] [Tycoon] [No Female Lead] [Building a Career] [Everyday Life] The story of a fake tycoon with nothing to his name who becomes a real tycoon worth billions. Good news: After transmigrating into the 1980s, his heart condition is gone and his body is healthy. He also gets a Reputation System, which lets him exchange reputation points for assets. Bad news: He transmigrated with his whole body, so he has no official identity. And right now, he’s flat broke, with poc 36.3kReads8.2Score2.8kShelves
  17. 417 Transmigrate into a Book: A Female-Oriented Novel? Get a Taste of Overlord Power from the Start 穿书女频文?开局霸王之力了解下 Historical1.6M WordsCompleted [Slow transmigration + transmigrate into a book + System + male lead + scheming + satisfying read] This is not a quick transmigration novel. The first world is complete, so feel free to dive in~ My name is Chu Heng. I’m a man, I like women, and I’m a veteran gaming streamer. Because I was too talented, a dubious System tricked me into binding with it and dragged me to all sorts of strange worlds. And then it actually told me to be the female lead’s bodyguard?! Chu Heng: “I refuse!” “Ding! Beginn 9.4kReads8.5Score604Shelves
  18. 418 Imperial Exams in a Matriarchal World: A CEO Transmigrates and Is Forcefully Claimed by a Madman 女尊科举,霸总穿越被疯批强取了 Ancient Romance325k WordsCompleted [Gender Bender + Female Lead with a Male Accessory + Children + A Deranged, Obsessive Push-and-Pull + Happy Ending + Secondary Couple] A deranged, obsessive, cruel younger female lead × a meticulous, scheming, soft-hearted older male lead CEO Song Yu worked hard until the age of thirty and could call himself a success. Then, unexpectedly, a car accident made him transmigrate. He lands in the middle of a bloody mess, caught while trying to escape, and ends up in the hands of a cold-blooded youn 13.2kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves
  19. 419 Starting with Time Stop, Beginning at a School Where Time Stands Still 时停起手,从时停校园开始 Urban510k WordsOngoing [Time Stop + Superpowers + Perks + Campus Beauties] Zhang Feng gained the ability to stop time. He started with one minute. Collect time fragments to increase the duration. Congratulations, you found a time fragment on the campus beauty’s toy. Duration increased by 1 minute. You obtained 10 time fragments from a female celebrity’s pet. Duration increased by 10 minutes. Congratulations, you obtained a skill in a time rift. Time Reversal. A Thousand Years in an Instant. Time Acceler 135.9kReads7.6Score14kShelves
  20. 420 Surviving at Sea: This Succubus Loli Won’t Be Anyone’s Pet 航海求生,我魅魔萝莉才不当宠物 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse542k WordsOngoing [Gender Bender, Bratty Imp, Little Jerk, Upgrade Resources] Everyone transmigrates into a sea-survival world. Su Mo awakens a Sequence from the start, but the price is that all she has is a single piece of driftwood. In desperation, Su Mo takes out a loan. To avoid paying it back, she blocks and deletes the lender in one smooth move. While others struggle just to afford a packet of instant noodles, Su Mo achieves financial freedom with loans. There’s just one problem: the repayment deadline is d 10.4kReads7.5Score1.5kShelves
  21. 421 Saving the Apocalypse: Residents Secretly Spend Big Because They’re Afraid I’ll Go Bankrupt 拯救末世:居民怕我破产偷偷氪金 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse532k WordsCompleted Qin Dong transmigrates to the apocalypse and becomes the head of a small shelter. Just then, zombies run amok, food runs low, people lose heart, and the situation teeters on the brink of collapse. In his despair, he binds himself to a disaster-relief System Shop. Everything he spends on refugees can be bought at rock-bottom prices! Qin Dong throws up his arms and calls out: “Anyone who joins the Eastern Shelter is my brother! All food is sold at cost, with no limits!” The refugees are moved to t 5.2kReads7.3Score395Shelves
  22. 422 A Galgame Protagonist? They Want Me to Pledge My Loyalty 旮旯给木女主?她们让我献上忠诚 Urban416k WordsOngoing [Gender Transformation] [Girls' Love] [Everyday Romance] [Clear one hundred galge games and you’ll meet your fated heroine.] Su Qing writes this line down in a post and, just to see what happens, fulfills the requirement. Then, impossibly, she is transported to a world that seems to be a galge game. The bad news: she has become a girl. The worse news: she can’t see the characters’ dialogue boxes. The even worse news: what’s with her deskmate telling her to pledge her loyalty? Help, please. It’s 15.8kReads8.4Score2.7kShelves
  23. 423 Reborn in 1978: The Fall Guy Awakens, Why Are You in Such a Hurry, Ex-Wife? 重生七八:炮灰觉醒,前妻你急啥 Urban528k WordsCompleted Jiang Chuan transmigrated into a period novel as the doomed ex-husband, with only a year left to live. This cannon-fodder husband, whose only purpose was to be a stepping stone for his ex-wife, got a Tycoon System that gave him cash back whenever he spent money on his daughter, giving him a chance to stay alive! What? Spend 5,000 yuan on his daughter within ten days, and he'd not only get cash back, but also an extra year of life. Heaven had sent him exactly what he needed. But wait. He had a fi 838Reads6.9Score107Shelves
  24. 424 It's Been Eight Years, I'm Still Going Strong, and My Girlfriend's Lost It 八年了,老当益壮,女友心态崩了 Urban541k WordsOngoing "Mengmeng, stick with me and I'll treat you right." "I'm 68 already, an old man with only a few days left. I have no children. As long as you keep me happy, my savings, car, and house will all be yours someday." Zhao Hong'an patted Mengmeng's little hand and didn't move his own away... Ten years later, crow's feet had appeared at the corners of Mengmeng's eyes. "Sir, didn't you have high blood pressure and heart disease ten years ago? How come you're getting livelier with age?" The young woman o 136Reads7.1Score—Shelves
  25. 425 Siheyuan: From the Steel Mill to the Pig Farm 四合院:从轧钢厂转战养猪厂 Male-Channel Fanfiction2.3M WordsCompleted Also known as: The System Is in The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, but I'm in the Courtyard Good news: I got a System. Bad news: It took me to the wrong set! Ye Xiaonan got a System that promised to take him to the world of the courtyard. But while he was away, the System accidentally ran off to the neighboring world of The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. The good news is that he can still connect to the System. The bad news is that these quests seem a little off. [Main Quest: In the martial world, stre 13.4kReads7.1Score1kShelves
  26. 426 I Stole Xiaoe Away in the Siheyuan, and Now I'm Surrounded by Rich Young Ladies 四合院截胡晓娥我身边全是大小姐 Male-Channel Fanfiction2.3M WordsOngoing [System + Storage Space + Supplies + Multiple Heroines + Let’s All Be Animals] Lin Weidong, a young man from a later era, transmigrates to 1956. For him, getting a second life is a pretty good deal, and he eagerly settles into the times. A year later, his father receives some kind of message and hurriedly takes Lin Weidong’s younger brother and sister to the south, leaving him with only a letter and 200 yuan. Knowing where the era is headed, Lin Weidong studies for a technical school diploma. In 29.6kReads6.3Score2.3kShelves
  27. 427 Siheyuan: The Unbridled Cao Section Chief 四合院之肆意妄为曹科长 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted [Multiple heroines, don’t read if that’s not your thing] [System] [Slice of Life] [Siheyuan] [The Story of Zhengyang Gate] [Man Is Iron] Cao Dalong inexplicably transmigrates to the 1960s. After three years of military service, he is demobilized and assigned to the security division by his adoptive father, Zhao Dezhu. He earns rewards by putting the courtyard birds in their place and quickly builds a fortune by taking control of the black market. A story about winning over beautiful women along 10.4kReads6.6Score534Shelves
  28. 428 Siheyuan: Lou Xiao'e Is Actually My Lucky Star 四合院:娄小娥竟是我的锦鲤 Male-Channel Fanfiction643k WordsOngoing As soon as Su Ye transmigrated, he set his sights on Lou Xiao’e. He had planned to use her to escape to Hong Kong, but unexpectedly unlocked a double dose of good fortune. When he spent time with Lou Xiao’e, System quest rewards doubled, he always found hidden treasures while appraising antiques, and his cooking skills improved by leaps and bounds. As he cleaned up the courtyard’s mess, he and Lou Xiao’e set off together toward a brighter future, with the luck of a koi fish helping him breeze th 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 429 Siheyuan: I Just Saved Enough for the Bride Price, and You Marry Jia Dongxu 四合院:刚攒够彩礼,你嫁贾东旭 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.8M WordsCompleted Qin Huairu: You’ve saved enough for the bride price, but Jia Dongxu has a house and a job. You don’t even have a job. Qin Huairu: We’re not right for each other. Let’s break up. You’ll meet someone better. Before he was reborn, Jiang Yueshen was engaged to Qin Huairu. To save up for the bride price, Jiang Yueshen sold all the furniture in his home and even sold his blood for money. At last, he had saved enough, but his already impoverished family was pushed to the brink. Who could have guessed t 19.4kReads7.1Score930Shelves
  30. 430 Siheyuan: Laughing as the Beasts Ruin Themselves 四合院之:笑看禽兽把自己搞破产 Male-Channel Fanfiction634k WordsCompleted [Period setting + transmigration + spirit spring + pocket dimension + special abilities + lighthearted] Tang Ren never imagined he would transmigrate. When he woke up, he found Huaihua lying beside him, a lovely young woman right at his side. Should he give in or not? After transmigrating, Tang Ren never dreamed he would become the Jia family's live-in son-in-law. He couldn't believe it. Whoever wanted to be a live-in son-in-law could take the job, but he wasn't doing it. Still, he couldn't just 5.7kReads6.8Score230Shelves
  31. 431 I Just Awakened in the Siheyuan, and Qin Huairu Has Set Her Sights on Me 四合院,刚觉醒,被秦淮茹赖上 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted [System] [Multiple Heroines] [Mildly Violent] [No Major Changes to the Original] Alternate title: Courtyard: E'e Is Still Young, and Aunt Tan Is Still as Alluring as Ever Cao Kun was an upstanding young man in the 21st century, but an accident caused him to transmigrate into the story of Love in the Courtyard. He has no parents, only an elderly doctor who raised him from childhood. A few days before Cao Kun transmigrated, his adoptive grandfather passed away as well. However, Old Cao had once sa 23.8kReads6.6Score2.1kShelves
  32. 432 Period: We Share a Home but Not a Bed, I'll Drive You Crazy 年代:结婚不同房,虐到你发狂 Urban549k WordsCompleted [Period Drama]+ [Urban Farming]+ [System Space] In his previous life, he married a woman who constantly put her younger brother first. They shared no room for three years of marriage because she was saving her chastity for the man she loved, waiting for him to return after finishing his studies. After Zhou Jinfu was drained dry, she kicked him to the curb. Now he’s reborn on the day he’s being forced to divorce. Will he choose to divorce her, just as he did in his previous life? Zhou Jinfu says 7.7kReads6.6Score518Shelves
  33. 433 After a Hundred Thousand Years of Qi Refining, I’m Already Invincible 炼气十万年,我已经无敌 Eastern Fantasy209k WordsCompleted [Ten Thousand Years at the Qi Refining Realm + Invincible]+ [Reviving His Sect in the Lower Realm]+ [Taking Disciples]+ [Defeating Every Villainous Sect]+ [Slaying Demons and Exorcising Evil]+ [Free Travel Between the Human, Immortal, and Demon Realms, as well as the Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Timespaces]+ [Protagonist's Halo]+ [An Incredibly Satisfying Power Fantasy] Zuo Xiaoyu had spent a hundred thousand years in the Immortal Realm, stuck at the Qi Refining Realm. One day, he discover 335Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 434 Siheyuan: I Quit Trying, and Lou Xiao'e Keeps Me 四合院:不努力了,娄晓娥包养我 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsOngoing [Multiple heroines + System + Living off a rich woman + Taking down the courtyard beasts + Invincible physique + Super satisfying] When Lin Chen wakes up, he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard and become a draftsman at a steel mill. From the start, he activates the "God-Tier Lie-Flat Sign-In System"! It gives him grain coupons, a pocket dimension, and even a perfect physique! While everyone else in this era pinches every last bit of cornmeal, Lin Chen counts gold bars 23.3kReads7.0Score2.1kShelves
  35. 435 Period: Breaking Off the Engagement From the Start, Then Getting Rich With My Sister-in-Law 年代:开局退婚,带小姨子暴富 Urban518k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + System + farming + comeback + face-slapping + one heroine] Lin Ye was reborn. One moment, he was in a hospital bed, being cheated out of his inheritance by his ex-wife. The next, he was back on his wedding night in the 1970s. Since he’d been reborn, he was going to make the most of it. Breaking off an engagement and swapping marriage partners, he got everything done in one go. No money? The System would help him find treasure. No food? He could catch all the fish and shrimp he wanted 21.7kReads6.7Score1.1kShelves
  36. 436 Hong Kong Films: More Children, More Blessings, and I Can Summon an Endless Army 港片:多子多福,我能无限爆兵 Male-Channel Fanfiction980k WordsCompleted [Multiple heroines, no exclusive pairing] [More Children, More Blessings] [Decisive and ruthless] [No holier-than-thou heroine] He transmigrates into a Hong Kong movie world, becoming the heir to the East Star Society and binding himself to a More Children, More Blessings System. He can grow stronger simply by having more children. Chan Ho-nam: Big B, there are too many of them. We can't win! Big D: I have more men and money? Compared with Luo Tianhao, I'm just a nobody. “Ding...” Successfully e 31.7kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
  37. 437 After Being Reborn, I Choose to Take It All and Win Over the Campus Beauty 重生后,我选择连吃带拿泡校花 Urban2.8M WordsOngoing What's the first thing you do when you get a second chance at life? The jerk gritted his teeth and said bitterly, “Get a room!” “Get a room? With who?” “That gorgeous idiot who dragged me off the rooftop in my last life. She owes me!” And then? “Eat her food, drink her drinks, use her money to get a room, and use her money to win over a gorgeous, brilliant senior student.” “She's so smart. Can you actually win her over?” “She taught me how.” “Holy crap! You people are wild. What next?” “Make mon 63kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
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  38. 438 Reborn: Back in the 1980s to Make My Fortune 重生:回到八零当富翁 Urban1.8M WordsCompleted A rebirth story set in a bygone era, with no mindless wish fulfillment, a single heroine, no courtyard-house drama, and a warm, everyday feel. Xu Erlong is reborn, returning to the eve of the day his family forced him to haul bricks at a black kiln to pay for his cousin's university education. Why should his cousin get meat while he has to make do with bran? Why should his cousin go to university while he is forced to haul bricks? Xu Erlong refuses to put up with it any longer and decisively 18.9kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
  39. 439 We're Reborn, So Of Course We Should Break Up First! 都重生了,当然要先分手! Urban688k WordsCompleted [Food + cooking + farming + reviving a time-honored brand] [No cultivation] [The System plays a very minor role] [Food, cooking, business, and realism take center stage] Feng Bin is reborn in the 1990s. After breaking up with his wife from his previous life, he chooses to ride the wave of the times and seek his fortune in a big city. By chance, he takes over a time-honored restaurant. It all begins with saving the old establishment. With his superb cooking skills, Feng Bin revives the venerable 2.2kReads8.7Score107Shelves
  40. 440 We’re All Reborn, So Who Still Wants to Be Someone’s Lackey? 都重生了谁还拉帮套啊 Urban1.7M WordsCompleted In his previous life, Cao Chaoyang acted on impulse and chose the path of becoming his sister-in-law’s live-in helper, moving into her home. He worked hard to support his elder brother’s family for twenty years, only for his brother’s legs, crippled for years, to suddenly recover. Thrown out of the house overnight, he had no choice but to get away from people and become a forest ranger. Reborn in 1973, when his sister-in-law once again knelt before him, Cao Chaoyang said firmly, “No!” He would n 17kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
  41. 441 On a Snowy Night, I Took the Female Educated Youth to a Dugout 风雪夜,我把女知青拉进了地窝子 Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Live-action and animated short dramas are now available.] “Brother Dashan, please marry me!” On a windswept, snow-covered wasteland, Wei Dashan led a beautiful educated youth into a dugout. From then on, Wei Dashan had a wife who brought him good fortune. Whenever he went into the mountains to hunt, his wife could always spot the game. Whenever he chopped a hole in the ice to fish, she could always cook him delicious dishes that looked, smelled, and tasted amazing. His educated-youth wife could 14.8kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
  42. 442 After Turning into an Old Man, the System Makes Me the God of Love 变成老登后,系统让我当爱神 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted At thirty-five, with nowhere left to turn and suffering from kidney failure, he takes over the body of a seventy-five-year-old fisherman with dementia. The good news is that he finally has a pension he can count on, rain or shine, and a System. The bad news is that he doesn’t have many years left, and the System is a little unhinged... Tell your beloved “I love you” once a day, and you get to draw a huge treasure chest. All sorts of surprises await. System bro, are you planning to turn me in 6.4kReads8.7Score615Shelves
  43. 443 The Seventies: A Reborn Village Tyrant Marries a Mute Woman 七零年代:重生村霸娶哑女 Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Rebirth, bygone era, village bully, multiple female leads, daily life, countryside] Zhang Wei is reborn in 1977. When he wakes up, he finds a woman hanging from the roof beam. She's a mute woman his uncle forced him to marry so she could bear him an heir… Distant memories come flooding back! He got drunk last night, went on a rampage, beat up his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and demanded the return of the 200-yuan bride price. In a desperate attempt to stop him, the mute woman Li Hui k 26.4kReads6.4Score2.1kShelves
  44. 444 The Young Detective of Republican-Era China 民国小侦探 Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing (No romance) Fu Ning is a small-time nobody trying to scrape by in a chaotic age. He takes whatever work can put food on the table for his family, but ever since he encountered a black cat, his fate seems to have taken a turn, and all kinds of strange, baffling cases have begun to haunt him. In these troubled times, knowing too much is no good. But charging ahead is the only path he has left. Then charge ahead he will. The heavens are watchful, and good and evil will be repaid in kind! (This sto 3.4kReads8.5Score400Shelves
  45. 445 Two Heroines in a Tumultuous Era: A Shanghai Legend 乱世双姝,沪江传奇 Modern Romance905k WordsCompleted An epic saga of a top-tier family spanning nearly a century, from the chaotic final years of the Qing dynasty to Shenzhen's reform and opening-up! She was a noblewoman caught in the turmoil of the times, forced into a life of prostitution. Once he bought her freedom, a business tycoon showered her with love and lifted her into the clouds! As the nation crumbled, he poured out his entire fortune and sent 23 cargo ships to save the country, spending his life keeping her safe. He was loyal to the w 13Reads6.9Score—Shelves
  46. 446 Transmigrated to Republican-Era China, I Live Off Women and Give Nothing Back 穿到民国硬饭软吃 Historical1.3M WordsOngoing Qin Que, who arrives in the late Qing and early Republican era, has no grand ambitions. He just wants to survive the chaos with his beautiful wife and beloved companions. But Yuan Shikai appoints him military governor of Shanghai. What can he do? This hot potato is impossible to refuse, and it isn't easy to lie flat in a place every military power is fighting to control. Thankfully, Qin Que doesn't give up. After taking office, he keeps trying to find a way toward the laid-back life he wants. Bu 6.3kReads5.9Score275Shelves
  47. 447 Beauty and Hairdressing in Republican-Era China 我在民国美容美发 Modern Romance757k WordsOngoing Spy thriller [No romance + entrepreneurship + espionage + not a power fantasy + no arrogant, all-conquering hero or Mary Sue + kindhearted, not malicious + everyday street life + no romantic melodrama + slow-paced] [Author's note: Feel free to read two or three chapters before deciding whether to continue. Don't blindly follow the reviews when judging a book's worth; decide for yourself.] Zheng Xiaohe brings modern skills with her when she transmigrates into the granddaughter of a barber in Ji 2.8kReads9.0Score267Shelves
  48. 448 Arriving in Bright Sword, the System Urges Me to Repay a Debt of Gratitude 初到亮剑,系统催我去报恩 Urban2.6M WordsCompleted [Arms Dealer System + War of Resistance + Arsenal + Spycraft + Logistics + Behind-the-Scenes] What's the biggest thing in Bright Sword that left fans feeling it could have been better? Sun Desheng: “Regimental Commander, using Tiger tanks to take out those Japanese tin-can tanks is so satisfying. Shame we've got so few.” Li Yunlong: “No rush. Use these for now. Another 200 are already on the way.” Zhang Dabiao: “Regimental Commander, my First Battalion is nearly 5,000 men now. We can't fit any m 27.8kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
  49. 449 You Were Asked to Promote Cultural Heritage Preservation, and You Made The Grave Robbers' Chronicles? 让宣传文物保护,你拍盗墓笔记? Urban601k WordsCompleted After transmigrating, Qin Feng is reduced to a third-rate film director, scraping by on small advertising gigs. Then he lands a job from the Anti-Fraud Bureau, which asks him to make an anti-fraud educational film. At a loss for what to do, Qin Feng receives the ‘All-Round Director System’ and starts letting loose! When "No More Bets" hits theaters, the whole internet is stunned! “Look into this director. He might be the head of a fraud ring!” “We asked you to make an educational film, and you m 8.7kReads7.9Score986Shelves
  50. 450 Reborn: Back to Before My Campus Belle Wife Died 重生,回到校花老婆死亡前 Urban309k WordsCompleted In high school, Qin Zhiqiu was the school beauty, the unattainable dream girl of countless people. Her cool gaze and impressive family background were enough to keep everyone at a distance. In college, Xu Qi unexpectedly became entangled with her, and only then did he realize how terrifying and abhorrent Qin Zhiqiu's need for control was! He suspected she had gone crazy, never realizing that she had been a lunatic from the very beginning. She threw his childhood friend into an icy lake, leaving 9.4kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
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