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1. 1 你 Why Pick on Her? She's Got Powerful Backing 你惹她干啥！她下面有人 Yueyue Loves to Take a Look悦悦爱瞅瞅Modern Romance670k WordsCompleted *Original title: “CEO, Your Wife Is Pawning Knives Again” A knife is a pledge, and a word is a promise. When a prophecy comes true, it’s time to collect the reward. That’s what a knife pawnbroker does in the world of mysticism. Tu Shanjiu is the 283rd-generation knife pawnbroker. Her talent for the mystic arts surpasses everyone else in her family. Her divinations are uncannily accurate, and she can communicate with ghosts and gods. Unfortunately, because of a curse placed on the Tu Shan family 34.6kReads9.2Score4.7k14d adds

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   The male lead is just a plot device; everything revolves around metaphysics.

2. 2 总 The CEO Won't Let His Wife Practice the Supernatural Arts 总裁不准夫人搞玄学 Xing Hui星茴Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + powerhouse + adored by the whole family + hilarious chaos + ridiculous antics + unleashing ultimate moves nonstop!] Word has it that the Nan family had a mix-up involving a real and a fake heiress. The real heiress was a metaphysics powerhouse who opened the door to a whole new world for the Nan family. One day, the powerhouse was heading out to “take care of business.” Twin Fifth Brother: Little sis, take me with you! Movie Star Fourth Brother: I wanna go, I wanna go! Doctor Thir 24.6kReads9.4Score3.1k14d adds
3. 3 勾 The Seductive Siren Binds a Baby-Making System [Quick Transmigration] 勾人妖精绑定了生子系统【快穿】 Sibona Xiu斯博纳修Ancient Romance1.7M WordsOngoing 15.1kReads8.0Score87314d adds

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   The author's greatest strength lies in the fact that despite having multiple male leads, they all manage to coexist peacefully. The female lead's skill in managing her husbands is truly remarkable. I love reading stories with multiple handsome male leads who are all devoted to the female lead. The romance progresses quickly, without any messy misunderstandings, making it a truly satisfying read!

4. 4 钓 Lure Away Your Fish, Then Wreck Your Fishpond 钓走你的鱼，再掀了你鱼塘 Jun Yang Dong Dong君阳东东Modern Romance711k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration + ambitious heroine + revenge + Mary Sue + seduction + all male leads are virgins + 1v2] The male lead is not split into multiple versions A comic adaptation with the same title is out now~ The “Ling Weis” of parallel worlds, their souls incomplete, have become stepping stones for wicked women, suffering both physical and emotional abuse. Until a powerful soul returns: I’ll claim the career I want, and I’ll gladly take the male leads too. [World One: Mute Cannon Fodder vs. 22.9kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
5. 5 重 Reborn: After Failing to Lie Flat, I Had No Choice but to Enlist 重生之躺平失败后，只好从军了 Fairy Village Director仙女村主任Ancient Romance2.1M WordsOngoing [Alternate world + reborn + woman disguised as a man + light ensemble cast + onscreen comments + growth-oriented heroine + goofy comedy + villainess + military life + not a power fantasy + slow burn] A car accident sends her into a new life as Zhao Sanhua, a farm girl. Before she can even cry, hundreds of onscreen comments float before her eyes. The screen is full of people cursing her as the villainess in a short drama. She throws her head back and howls, then gives the heavens the finger. To s 9.7kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds

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   This book is very good. It features a strong female protagonist who disguises herself as a man. The synopsis says she eventually becomes the emperor. Many of the plot points seem to overlap with recent major social events. The female protagonist strives to create a new world in a world she dislikes!

6. 6 山 A Divine Medium Came Down from the Mountain 山上下来个女神棍 Make a Name Across the Sea扬名大海Modern Romance365k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + feng shui + ghost hunting + demon capture + comedy] “Who are you, what kind of demon are you, and why do you keep appearing in my dreams?” Li Muqian “I was about to ask you the same thing! Why are you in my dreams?” Gu Shaofan “So you're not a ghost. You're just an ordinary person, yet you can enter this Taoist nun's dreams. Interesting.” Li Muqian “With a mouth that sharp, you're a charlatan, then!” Earth Fiend spirits? What's that? What? There are also Dem 261Reads—Score12014d adds

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   A female master of metaphysics, effortlessly and humorously catching ghosts, with plenty of blind boxes!

7. 7 开 Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾，我靠囤百亿物资躺赢 Cheng Jiajia程加加Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsCompleted [Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r 59.5kReads9.3Score5.3k14d adds

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   Both the male and female leads are strong, but the female lead is generally independent and can solve any problem on her own. The title is a bit of a letdown, but it's really super good. I pick it up whenever I'm looking for something to read and have reread it several times.

8. 8 全 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6k14d adds

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   This book is arguably my number one favorite female-oriented novel on Tomato Reading. It has a grand scale, with each event meticulously planned and interconnected. The romantic relationship between the male and female leads isn't overtly defined; it feels more like a spiritual connection. Unless you read to the end or hear from others, you won't really feel like the male lead. There isn't much of a romantic subplot, so even those who don't want a specific couple can read it without worry. Honestly, I wouldn't have known there was a male lead if I hadn't heard from others. The friendships and family bonds within the sects are also handled very well. Everyone has their imperfections, and there aren't any truly villainous characters. The character that left me most heartbroken was Wen Fu. He was ultimately affected. His intentions were good, but how could a once-proud prince, sitting high above the clouds, bear to fall into the mire? He thought he was saving their lives, but wasn't he also pushing them into another abyss? If it weren't for that incident, he and his junior uncle would have been very happy.

9. 9 边 Back from the Border, the Little Heiress Is Everyone’s Darling 边境归来，小千金成团宠啦 Mountain Queen女山大王Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [No romance + strong female lead + coming-of-age + genius top student + tough and taciturn] Ye Qing saves a group of wealthy heirs. After coming back from the border with the resolve to become a good person, she accidentally discovers that she's the An family's true daughter, who went missing years ago. A status-obsessed father, a biased mother, a sister vying for attention, and a quiet girl. She doesn't care about Grandpa's hundreds of millions in inheritance: she can win that much in a hacki 12.3kReads9.3Score2k14d adds

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   Strong female lead, satisfying read, with a romantic pairing [Sparrow's Masterpiece] 👍

10. 10 管 Call Me a Fake Heiress If You Want, I'm Born Lucky as a Koi 管你真假千金，我天生锦鲤好命 Grape Milk Tea with Pearls芝芝葡萄加珍珠Modern Romance519k WordsCompleted [Everyone's Favorite + Fake and Real Heiress + Secret Identity + Childhood Friends + Satisfying + Admiring the Strong + No Angst, Extra Sweet] After living for seventeen years as the Tang family's heiress, Meng Wan very sensibly left with a million yuan when the real heiress showed up. Her family was simply too poor? No problem, she happened to have a teeny-tiny bit of social connections~ Her parents were unemployed layabouts? Her younger brother with autism was an artistic genius? Her second br 90.2kReads9.4Score6.1k14d adds
11. 11 七 Seventh Master! The Second Miss Keeps Blowing Her Secret Identity 七爷！二小姐的马甲掉不停 Awakening at Ten夢醒十分Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Short drama now available) [Double-Clean, Both Powerful + Secret Identities + Everyone's Darling + Face-Slapping + Illogical Wish-Fulfillment + Fictional Modern Setting] The Second Miss of the Ye family, missing for ten years, has returned. Everyone laughs at her, saying that despite her pretty face, she's an uneducated nobody who never even finished elementary school. Until one day, everyone discovers that... She's the world's top hacker. She's the mysterious miracle doctor. She's the king of 21.4kReads9.2Score2.9k14d adds
12. 12 血 Bloodstained, a Wild Rose with an Unyielding Spirit 血染，傲骨野玫瑰 Jun Luo Qing君落轻Modern Romance282k WordsCompleted [Women's Fiction] Important note: The heroine is not actually Xi Lianyue. This will be explained later. Because she looked like someone else, she was made to take the blame. Four years in prison were not enough. Even after her release, she still couldn't escape the mire of reality. She was forced into a pond of piranhas, used as a live test subject, made to fight Tibetan mastiffs, and had both legs broken. After all the persecution, the truth was finally revealed piece by piece. The men who had 4.4kReads9.0Score42314d adds
13. 13 七 The Seven Brothers’ Beloved Little Darling Is Actually a Master of Secret Identities 七哥哥的团宠小可怜竟是马甲大佬 Autumn Crane Returns South秋鹤归南Modern Romance393k WordsCompleted When Mu Ziqiu was three, she was kidnapped after her bodyguard betrayed the family. Her brothers scattered across different fields in their search for her. Fifteen years later, eighteen-year-old Mu Ziqiu contacted the Mu family herself. At first, her family thought she was a poor little orphan. But then… CEO eldest brother: “Ziqiu, you’re the CEO behind the QH Group!” Lawyer second brother: “Ziqiu, you’re the Jinqiu lawyer who never loses a case, where losing means death or life in prison!” Movi 6.1kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
14. 14 七 Transmigrated into a Book in the 1970s: Your Golden Finger Is Mine 七零穿书，你的金手指归我了 Tomato洋柿子Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Period setting + light supernatural elements + a heroine who grows into a powerhouse + System space + military marriage + the male lead barely features] Song Miao transmigrated into a period novel about people born with great fortune, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character who would eventually be tormented to death by her stepsister. Her stepsister was the heroine of the book. To secure a spot to stay in the city, she pushed Song Miao into the water, ruining her reputation and forcing he 51.8kReads8.5Score5.7k14d adds

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    The first book is a period fantasy novel. It's a light fantasy and very good. The second book is a gossip-filled story, and the third book is a modern fantasy novel. All are very good.

15. 15 被 After Their Minds Were Read, the Real and Fake Heiresses Joined Forces to Gossip 被读心后，真假千金联手吃瓜 Xiao Xiao Sheng潇潇声Modern Romance815k WordsCompleted [Fake heiress and real heiress + mind-reading and gossip + entertainment industry + satisfying read] A meteorite fell from the sky and struck You Xiaoxia, who had just died, sending her to another world, where she became the cannon-fodder real heiress in a novel. The real heiress was a cowardly loser, utterly inferior to the fake heiress in every way: insecure, sensitive, and suspicious. But You Xiaoxia couldn't care less. After all, she'd been bound to a gossip System, and if she didn't consume 5.1kReads9.1Score60314d adds
16. 16 算 My Fortune-Telling Is So Accurate, Even Foreign Clients Weep and Call Me a Master 算命太准，外国客户都哭着喊大佬 Sugarcoat糖衣衣Modern Romance3.8M WordsOngoing [Fortune-telling, feng shui, the occult, ghost-hunting, no romance, episodic stories] After a great calamity, Lin Xi, the ninth-generation female leader of the Taixuan Sect, arrives a thousand years in the future. She becomes the granddaughter of the sect’s last disciple and inherits a rundown feng shui shop. With the sect in decline and the occult arts fading away, Lin Xi begins her quest to restore the sect from the shop no one ever visits. Fortune-telling, divination, feng shui, exorcisms, an 46.5kReads9.0Score4.6k14d adds
17. 17 嘘 Shh, Don't Tell Anyone I Have a Pocket Dimension 嘘，别说我有空间哦 Two People, Eight Mouths hy二人八口hySci-Fi & Apocalypse266k WordsCompleted Apocalypse + Superpowers + Spatial Storage + CP + Mutants The apocalypse is coming. Yin Ling'er learns about it in advance, rents an apartment in a newly built complex, and brings her cat along so they can spend their final days together. By a twist of fate, her old, sick cat becomes a mutant, and Yin Ling'er, who is also on the brink of death, awakens a superpower. Death isn't scary. What's scary is surviving long enough to go hungry. So Yin Ling'er, terrified of starving, sets off with her cat —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    How about a post-apocalyptic setting? Basically, all the men are just tools for the female lead.

18. 18 玄 The Fake Heiress With a Gift for the Mystical Arts Is the Real Heiress 玄学假千金才是真千金 Find Joy in a Peaceful Heart清心自乐Modern Romance600k WordsCompleted [Fake and real heiresses + Satisfying metaphysical fantasy + Two powerful leads] Su Xiwan was the fake heiress mistakenly switched into the Su family. After the Su family found their biological daughter, they kicked Su Xiwan out. After leaving the Su family, Su Xiwan happened to catch the eye of the Mu family. That was when they discovered that she was the real heiress who had gone missing from the Mu family, one of the four great families of the capital. Back in a wealthy household, Mu Xiwan re 32.2kReads9.3Score4.1k14d adds

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    The pinnacle of metaphysical fiction! A loser's rise to power + magical artifacts + guidance from powerful beings; if you don't have enough spiritual energy, just absorb it! Every chapter is incredibly exciting and addictive; you can't stop reading even if you stay up all night! I've read all of these myself, they're so good!

19. 19 震 Shocking! The Wicked Mother Is Actually a Mystic Grandmaster 震惊！恶毒亲妈竟是玄学老祖 Another-Dimension Home异次宅Modern Romance557k WordsCompleted [The short drama is now available] Li Zhi failed to transcend her tribulation and ascend, and was struck dead by lightning. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself reborn in the body of a woman with the same name, and had become a mother without the pain of childbirth, gaining a five-year-old son for free. Even the most powerful mystic ancestor has to earn money and raise a child. She starts livestreaming fortune-telling on her phone, and sometimes even has to work overtime and go 6.1kReads8.5Score77514d adds
20. 20 傅 Mr. Fu, Your Wife Has Gone Fortune-Telling on the Street Again and Again 傅总，您夫人又又又去摆摊算命了 Mu Fufeng木抚风Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Mysticism + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + comedy + wish fulfillment] After her master passes away, mystic prodigy Lin Xi comes down from the mountains to set up a fortune-telling stall, earning money while searching for her fiancé. “Master, when will my son meet his destined woman?” Lin Xi: “There’s no destined woman, but there is a destined man.” “Master, I keep dreaming about a ghost. Please get rid of it for me.” Lin Xi: “The ghost is your father. You’ve been visiting the wrong grave. He 63.7kReads9.3Score7.7k14d adds
21. 21 穿 Reborn as a Pitiful Nobody, a Metaphysics Master Takes Down the Wealthy 穿成小可怜，玄学大佬虐翻豪门 Cen Maidong岑麦冬Modern Romance324k WordsCompleted [Real and fake heiresses + substitute marriage + livestreaming + metaphysical face-slapping + brothers chasing their sister after losing her + everyone dotes on her] Song Jinshu, a powerful master of the mystic arts, transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl from a wealthy family. The poor girl is the Chi family’s real daughter, but her parents don’t love her and her brothers don’t care for her. They bring her back only to make her marry in place of the fake heiress who stole her life. Song 496Reads9.0Score10514d adds
22. 22 被 After Being Kicked Out of the Wealthy Family, the Metaphysics Expert Drops the Act 被赶出豪门后，玄学大佬她不装了 Watermelon Youyou西瓜柚柚Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The truth about fake heiress Su Jin's birth is exposed, and she is thrown out of the house that very day. Everyone says that fake heiress Su Jin is uneducated and uncouth, and that her birth family lives in a remote, impoverished mountain village. If she goes back, she'll have to toil in the fields and marry someone off in exchange for a bride price for her brother... Everyone in Yancheng waits to see the fake heiress make a fool of herself. But as they wait, they watch the fake heiress transfor 9.4kReads8.4Score1.1k14d adds
23. 23 玄 The Metaphysical Girl Comes Down from the Mountain to Find Her Seven Brothers! 玄学少女下山寻找七个哥哥！ Capital C大写字母CModern Romance400k WordsCompleted [No romance + ghost hunting and fortune-telling + finding her brothers] Yu Panpan from Qingyuan Temple on Wutong Mountain is heading down the mountain! Before her master died, he told her to find her family, but after she came down the mountain, she was stunned. A quick calculation showed that her relatives weren’t all in the same place. Fine, she’d head to the nearest address first. What? Her fifth brother had been kidnapped? But he’d managed to escape on his own. Not bad, not bad. When he got 5.8kReads9.0Score58714d adds
24. 24 玄 Fortune-Telling with the Occult: The Special Administration Keeps Borrowing the Big Shot 玄学算命，大佬又被特管局借走了 Jiang Qingci江轻辞Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [No romance + livestream fortune-telling + hands-on ghost hunting + metaphysical expert] Su Ning fails to ascend, and her soul transmigrates into the body of a wealthy family's fake heiress. To return to the cultivation world, she decides to tell fortunes through livestreams. A fortune-telling streamer goes viral. Netizens who've never watched her stream show up to debunk her, while those who've seen it beg her to tell their fortunes. “Master, will my girlfriend and I stay together for the re 3.3kReads7.9Score34114d adds
25. 25 豪 The Beloved of a Wealthy Family, the Metaphysics Master Rises to Power in High Society 豪门团宠，玄学大佬在上流圈杀疯 A Sour Little Mandarin一颗酸桔子Modern Romance519k WordsCompleted The rating just came out. It'll slowly go up! [Occult powers + feel-good wish fulfillment + strong heroine + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + pampered by everyone + no romance] [Main plotline + episodic stories] There's a new piece of gossip among Xincheng's elite: the Shen family's long-lost youngest daughter has been found. As soon as she returned, she severed her eldest brother's romantic ties, tormented her younger brother until he was skin and bones, and even dared to hit her own grandmoth 10.7kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
26. 26 惹 Mess With Her? This Unhinged Metaphysics Master Will Calculate Your Whole Family's Fate 惹她？她疯批玄学大佬算你全家 Ruanruan Doesn't Eat Candy阮阮不吃糖Modern Romance574k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Livestreaming + Ghost Hunting + Power Fantasy] Jiang Ruanning, a powerful cultivator of the mystic arts, failed to ascend. A bolt of heavenly lightning struck her back into her first life. Faced with the scumbag who had used her as a blood bank for the woman he loved, Jiang Ruanning kicked the bastard away and left without looking back. At this point, she had less than six months to live. To extend her life, Jiang Ruanning decided to return to her old trade, live 6.8kReads8.8Score76814d adds
27. 27 玄 The Metaphysics Master Is Spoiled by Everyone After Becoming the Real Heiress! 玄学大佬穿成真千金后被团宠啦！ Dai Yan黛砚Modern Romance404k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + wild imagination + comedy + everyone dotes on her] Jian Qi failed to ascend to immortality. To save her life, her master kicked her into a story about a real and fake heiress, where she became the villainous real heiress. After being brought back, she found herself in a family where her father didn't care for her, her mother didn't love her, and her brother favored his white-lotus younger sister. She decided to tear up the script and stop playing a supporting role. She'd be a meta 241Reads7.1Score10114d adds
28. 28 真 The True Heiress Livestreams Fortune-Telling, and President Pei Is Completely Smitten 真千金她直播算命，裴总他超爱 Haha Erjiang哈哈二将Modern Romance435k WordsCompleted Word has it that something major happened in the Jiang family: a case of a real heiress and a fake one. The real heiress, a powerful master of the occult, comes down from the mountains and shows the Jiang family all sorts of things they've never seen before. One day, the real heiress says she has to go out to “take care of something.” Her goofy third brother: “Sis, take me with you!” Her prickly Best Actor second brother: “Sis, I can help you.” Her aloof CEO eldest brother: “Sis, I've got money 304Reads7.0Score10714d adds
29. 29 她 She's a Deity! Of Course Catching Ghosts and Exorcising Demons Makes Sense 她！神明！抓鬼收妖很合理吧 It's Shushu是舒舒啊Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Alternate Universe + Goddess Descends to the Mortal World + Real-World Ghost Hunting + A Few Adorable Monster Companions] Luo Sheng is a baby who fell from the sky. She grew up with her master at a Taoist temple, and only came down the mountain when she started university... On her first day of school, she meets an upperclassman plagued by yin energy and pursued by a female ghost. Her roommate is being stalked by a water ghost after saving someone's life. She forms a contract with a thousand-ye 11.5kReads8.8Score1k14d adds
30. 30 重EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 Bian Lu边鹿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse758k WordsCompleted (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5k14d adds

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    This isn't the typical "strong female lead, even stronger male lead" kind of novel; it's a very novel post-apocalyptic fantasy novel with a tight, interconnected plot. While the male and female leads don't have a lot of screen time together, their mutual trust and understanding are evident. The author's choice of names is also very meaningful: "An" from "a prosperous and peaceful era," "Fire Seed," and "Yu" from "May the autumn winds bring favorable weather for generations to come." I almost cried several times while reading it TT

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