Great Books on Your Shelves Worth Reading Again and Again 你们书架上那些二刷三刷四刷的好书！
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The Strange World: Barbarians Roam Across the Heavens 神诡世界：野蛮人纵横诸天
Zheng Da, a native butcher in a world of demons and the uncanny, is cursed by a pig. Every day, he falls into another world and experiences slaughter firsthand. Faced with endless zombies and Fallen, Zheng Da can only transform into a Barbarian and roar, fight, and kill... As he establishes a foothold in the other world, spiritual qi revival begins in his original world, where demons and uncanny phenomena run rampant. Watch as young Zheng the Butcher battles the uncanny and demons, honing himsel
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- 2 Reborn in 1960: From Bachi Alley to Hongjiagou 重生1960：八尺巷爆到洪家沟 After leaving Eight-Foot Alley, Hong Tiejun found an empty corner and tossed the cornmeal into his pocket dimension. Before he had even made it to the mouth of the alley, he had already wolfed down the cornmeal cake. Feeling the money and ration coupons in his pocket, Hong Tiejun couldn’t help reflecting... Hongjiagou lay at the foot of Dahei Mountain, and it was still a desolate place. Nestled against the mountains and water, Hongjiagou had fields stretching out in every direction... Hong Tie 1.2kReads6.7Score—14d adds
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He Has Always Been Restrained 他素来克制
[Instinctive attraction + intense push and pull + clearheaded, powerful heroine + high-status hero with an unexpected side + ensemble cast] Web novelist VS investment mogul My name is Gu Yin. I write novels. That night, I meant to find a wholesome college boy, but through a twist of fate, I ended up dominating an investment mogul. He saw the most humiliating side of my family life and said, “Be my woman, and I'll take care of all your problems.” My reply, “I won't be your mistress. Let's make a
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After the Cicadas Sing Comes the Plum Rain 蝉鸣过后是梅雨
[Ensemble Cast at School | Slow-Burn Bittersweet Romance | Fated Bond | Gentle Girl, Troubled Boy | Realistic | Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Xia Shanshan's red-lacquered bicycle was stolen. She crouched beneath a camphor tree and cried. On the third floor, someone folded her orange candy wrapper in half, then in half again. Later, she met Fu Siyun. The boy leaned against the wall, looking carefree as he teased her softly: “Are you afraid of me, senior?” She ran from him for three y
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- 5 Sailing Together 共舟行 [Small-Town Fiction | Slow Burn | 1v1, Both Leads Chaste | Ensemble Growth | Working-Class Struggles | Realistic | Period Setting] “Across a thousand miles, the boat speeds on; a letter of love rides home on the wind.” A small town in southern China in the 1990s A young man holds an unremarkable bouquet of roses And lays his feelings bare beneath the night sky From scraping by with a street stall to finding a way forward together Through wind and rain, they share life's many ups and downs This i 3kReads—Score17314d adds
- 6 A Mole Behind the Ear 耳后藏痣 [Contemporary Realism | Workplace Taboo | Slow Burn | Older Man | Strong Female Lead | Cohabitation] "A mole behind the ear, and someone hidden there, too." Late autumn in Shanghai, in the heart of an old Western-style neighborhood in the west of the city. A bar with no sign. An empty bottle of Great Wall Cabernet Sauvignon, a snakeskin bag with a broken zipper. She picked up the bag and said, "Follow me." He was too drunk to stand steadily, but he followed anyway. At thirty-two, she called the 290Reads—Score—14d adds
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My Undercover Brother Is Covered in Wounds, and His Good Girl Brings Him a World of Light 卧底哥哥一身伤，乖宝赠他满身光
Now available in print | Energetic comic artist × cold, world-weary undercover narcotics agent [They save each other + devoted couple + happy ending] On the first day after moving into her rental, Tong Yan saw someone picking the lock on the door across the hall. She kindly called the police, only to discover that the handsome “thief” was actually her neighbor. Later, Tong Yan found out her neighbor was a man of many jobs: food delivery guy / designated driver / rich second-generation / PTSD suf
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- 8 The Psychological Anatomist 心理解剖者 [Signed for publication] Genius Forensic Doctor VS Tough-as-Nails Police Captain [Mystery + deduction + sweet romance + high-IQ crimes + serial murders + criminal profiling + suitable for the timid] Original title: The Psychological Anatomist Schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, high-IQ crimes... This is a world overrun by psychopaths. The Cat-Fetus Man case, the Couple Butchers, the Angel of Death... Twisted fantasies of evil always burst into reality alongside violence. A corpse is 99.2kReads9.5Score13.5k14d adds
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The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事
[Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn.
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I'm Not a God of Theater 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
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- 11 EN 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 12 EN 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 520.5kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 13 EN 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 702.1kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
- 14 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.2kReads9.6Score22.6k14d adds
- 15 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 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 479.8kReads9.7Score65.9k14d adds
- 16 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [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 492.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
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Online Game: Rebuilding My Life 网游之重塑人生
Qin Feng used to be a hopeless romantic. He gave his girlfriend his whole heart and treated her like a queen. And what did he get in return? She casually tossed out, "You can't give me the life I want," then turned around and walked away. Qin Feng was completely crushed. He holed up in his rented apartment every day, questioning his whole existence and wondering what the point of living was. Eventually, with nothing else to do and no other options, he plunged into an online game to kill time.
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Great Tang: From the Start at Xuanwu Gate, I Am Immortal 大唐：开局玄武门，我长生不死
[Longevity] [Undying and Immortal] [Everyday Life] [Xuanwu Gate] [Everyday Life] [Slow Pace] Chen Chang'an, a 26-year-old advertising company wage slave, visits Xi'an and buys a stall vendor's ancient jade for forty yuan near the ruins of Xuanwu Gate. He touches it casually, and transmigrates. He wakes up in the Great Tang, in the ninth year of Wude, on the eve of the Xuanwu Gate Incident. Even more absurdly, he discovers that he seems unable to die. An arrow pierces his chest, and it heals in m
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- 19 I Became the Stepmother of a Rebellious Heiress 穿成豪门叛逆女主的后妈 [Transmigrate into a book + livestreaming + sweet romance + devoted couples] Xu Shu never thought she'd transmigrate into a book one day. Unfortunately, she hadn't gotten very lucky: she wasn't the heroine, beautiful and from a good family, or the second female lead competing with the heroine for the male lead. Instead, she had become the heroine of this school-life novel's wicked stepmother. - After transmigrating into the book, Xu Shu had to keep completing livestreaming tasks assigned from ab 415Reads9.1Score10214d adds
- 20 A Rich Heir Makes Money, Raises a Child, Takes Down Scumbags, and Courts Handsome Men in the 1980s 富二代在八零虐渣搞钱养崽撩美男 [Family Life + Raising Children + Pocket Dimension + Multiple Births + Getting Back at Scumbags + Getting Rich] In her previous life, Li Luo was an inexperienced college student. By accident, she transmigrated into a period novel with a strong female lead, becoming a cannon-fodder character destined to give Pan Mujin a golden finger and a son. She died in childbirth. Whether it was caused by someone or truly a difficult delivery remains to be investigated. The golden finger? Dream on. She wouldn 3kReads8.6Score21914d adds
- 21 From Ancient Times to the Present: The Reborn Lady Takes the Entertainment World by Storm 古穿今：闺秀重生娱乐圈后爆红了 Gu Chaoxi, the legitimate daughter of the Duke Who Guards the Nation, was raised from childhood to become the Crown Princess. She mastered every art, from music and chess to calligraphy and painting. But when the battle for the throne ended in her family being wiped out, she opened her eyes again in the body of a streamer everyone loved to hate. Her new self's parents are both dead, and she has a little brother to raise. Gu Chaoxi can only pull herself together. Making money comes first. One by 16.7kReads9.5Score2.5k14d adds
- 22 After the Real Heiress Returns from the Hehuan Sect 真千金从合欢宗回归后 [Contemporary romance + transported back to a fantasy world + scheming male lead] Also known as: I Know You're Ridiculous, But Don't Be This Ridiculous Rong Huan is twenty-two and graduated from a university of traditional Chinese medicine. Just after graduating, she was found by the Jiang family. The Jiang family had an adopted daughter who seemed better than Rong Huan in every way. People hate being compared, and Rong Huan was no exception. She was probably so furious at her own brother for co 20.4kReads9.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 23 Over-the-Top Devotion: I'm Just His Plaything 顶级狂爱：我只是他的掌中玩物 A godlike Western male lead × a resilient, delicate Chinese heroine The main story is complete. [Dominant daddy type + transnational forced romance + wild and unhinged + mature man who takes the lead + devoted husband + jealous of everything + height and build difference + eight-year age gap + heroine is vulnerable early on] A carefully planned scheme gets Qiao Yimo kidnapped and sold on the black market. She can't speak the language, has no one to rely on, and is put through hell. Only one for 132.1kReads9.0Score12.5k14d adds
- 24 EN Letters Tracing the Rain 溯雨信笺 [The physical book is now available. Its published title is Letters in the Rain] [Small-Town Literature | Bittersweet Slow Burn | Mutual Healing | 1v1 | Happy Ending] [Gentle and Resilient x Jaded and World-Weary] When Pu Yu was seventeen, she transferred to a remote town in southern China. There, she met Yuan Su. He had once been the town's brightest star, a prodigy destined for greatness. Now he had fallen from grace, and everyone avoided him. Everyone except Pu Yu. - An old street. A repair s 253.8kReads9.6Score52.5k14d adds
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My Sister and I Are to Marry the Same Man? I Won't Marry the Crown Prince, I Want the Regent 姐妹同嫁？我不嫁太子我要摄政王
The possessive, jealous regent x the sweet, silly Princess Mingyue The heroine is the kind of person who doesn’t have to lift a finger for someone to fall in love with her! "Historical romance + reborn + in their previous life, the hero secretly loved her and died with her + in this life, he competes for her and refuses to let her go + both are devoted to each other + happy ending + sweet romance + no angst for the heroine" In both their past and present lives, Wen Ruan is Shen Ye’s wife. In t
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- 26 Long-Planned: The Chief Councilor’s Daily Devotion to His Wife 蓄谋已久：首辅大人的宠妻日常 “The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later.” Sweet, delicate beauty × scheming powerful official. A marriage that turns into tooth-achingly sweet love! “The aloof beauty comes down from her pedestal of her own accord.” A spring palace painting leads to “bedroom lessons,” and the heart-fluttering moments just won’t stop! Reading guide: Both leads are virgins, happy ending, sweet romance with no angst, sugar from beginning to end! Qin Nuan married Shen Yanqing, the Chief Minister who was the 31kReads8.9Score2.9k14d adds
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A Rose-Colored Life 玫瑰人生LaVieenRose
Set against the turbulent Republican era, this is the story of Song Guoshu, known as Rose, tracing her love and personal growth from girlhood to middle age over nearly twenty years. [In just two or three days, all of Shanghai was abuzz with the news: the “Underworld Emperor,” Ninth Master Chen, had fallen for a peerlessly beautiful woman. He lavished a fortune on her, gave her a private car and bodyguards, and kept her in the most luxurious surroundings at Begonia Villa.] Author’s Notice: This
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The River Rehe Seal: Season One 热河印第一季
Seventeen-year-old tour guide Guan Xiaofei sees a stone lion open its eyes on a rainy night. Half a bronze seal burns into his palm. Only then does he learn that he is descended from the Seal Keepers. His blood is the lock, his life is the seal, and his duty is to guard what has been suppressed beneath Rehe for three hundred years. The seventy-two scenic spots each have their own spirits. The Four Symbols guardian beasts are covered in old wounds, and a demon dragon sealed away for three hundr
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The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍
Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.”
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Where Thorns Meet Warmth 荆棘遇暖
“Since you're so eager to make this marriage official...” He began fulfilling his duties as a husband... Again and again, they lost control, sinking into pleasure until neither could stop. She endured in silence and bravely stood by him, while love spread through both their hearts… Through all the thorns, they would eventually find warmth. He declared firmly, “She is my wife. There will never be anyone else.”
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One Chapter of Quick Transmigration: The Great Demon King Never Misses a Kill 一章快穿大魔王一刀一个准
[Quick transmigration + strong heroine + no romance + revenge] The title couldn’t be changed because the book was already under contract. So the first part is one chapter, and the rest is several chapters. ❤️ The great demon king Su Ning was ambushed. As she lay dying, a System bound itself to her. If she accumulated enough merit, she could return to her original world and find the culprit who had tried to kill her, then take revenge. And so the great demon king Su Ning transmigrated into one tr
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- 32 Sweetness Hidden in Time: Changge and Their First Meeting 藏在时光里的甜：长歌与初遇 Come on in! This is a sweet, angst-free romance set against the sunset. The everyday moments between Chuyu and Changge are filled with tender little things: sharing sunsets, singing together, and playful bickering. Their slow-blooming, mutual feelings grow quietly over time, and every moment is sweet enough to warm your heart. You won't regret giving it a try! 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Things in the Candy Jar 糖罐里的事 The story of Chang Ge and Chu Yu continues. I'm Chu Yu, an ordinary girl who writes sweet romances. I met Chang Ge, a steady, reserved nurse. He transferred jobs to be by my side, joined me in taking on the Spicy King Challenge, saw through my little moods, and gave me a tenderness and devotion meant only for me. Osmanthus cakes in the morning light, walking side by side beneath the sunset, and the understanding and affection tucked away in the passing years. The Things in the Sugar Jar is about 11Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Allure of Darkness 黑色之诱惑
By chance, Xia Xue’er steps into a casino and catches a fleeting glimpse of Chen Feng, the underworld boss. It proves to be a trap laid by fate. From then on, she is seized by the demon of gambling and takes one step after another toward the abyss of crime. The curtain rises on her tragic life…
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Big Sister, Be Good 姐姐要乖
My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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My Glory Days in Dongguan 我在东莞的高光岁月
My name is Chang Da Qiang. I was born in a small, underdeveloped county town in the late 1980s. My parents were farmers, and in those days, when everything was desperately poor, I graduated from a junior college and looked for work in my hometown. After hitting one dead end after another, I made a bold decision: I headed south to Guangdong to try my luck. Through hard work, I finally had the experiences that inspired this novel.
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