Novels like A Good-for-Nothing's Second Chance at Life
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Good-for-Nothing's Second Chance at Life, best match first.
- 151 The Golden Age Against the Tide 逆流黄金年代 Reborn in 2000, Lin Xiaolei finds that real estate has yet to take off, the internet has just weathered a downturn, and the retail industry is only getting started. As the tide of the times rolls in, what will he choose? Lin Xiaolei says, “I want to make money.” “And after you’ve made money?” “Make even more money.” “What do you need all that money for?” “Make money with money...” 2.7kReads8.2Score167Shelves
- 152 Back to 1993: Breaking Through 重返1993之突围 Rebirth + farming + morally gray protagonist + business wars + cultural warfare + financial warfare + technological warfare He returns to 1993, an era on the cusp of great change. The big brother has only just fallen. Negative talk about Daxia is everywhere on the international stage. Capital is fleeing in a frenzy. The idea that it's better to buy than to build dominates at home. Large numbers of scientific researchers are going abroad. To fulfill his mission of overcoming Daxia's technological 299Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 153 Dust in the Wind: The Days of Sharing a Job 生如尘埃：打工搭伙的日子 In a bustling city, how many people shine brightly, and how many struggle just to survive? The two protagonists in this book represent two very different kinds of lives. Only after going from innocence to worldly wisdom and enduring life's hardships can they slowly come to their senses amid the mundane world. 11.5kReads9.1Score961Shelves
- 154 A Country Doctor's Daughter Enters the Capital 乡野医女入京华 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Fate Is a Sunny Day 缘是晴天 Memories of youth, growing up, and heartbreak, buried by time and kept close to the heart. May the love shared by Xie Qiyuan and Jiang Ziqing touch your heart. Because they loved each other so deeply back then, their love turned into countless tears. Even so, at a fork in the road with no hope in sight, they would keep waiting for him to come. 24Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 156 I Earn 2,500 a Day, So I Rented a Trillionaire CEO? 日薪两千五，我租了千亿女总裁？ [Lighthearted Wish-Fulfillment] + [Reborn Heroine Pursues Her Husband] + [Romance and Encouragement] + [One Heroine, Increasingly Sweet] + [Face-Slapping Relatives] + [Dotes on His Little Sister and Repays His Parents] “The bride price is 880,000, and you have to take my daughter’s surname.” Under pressure to get married, Chen Mo was forced to go on a blind date before the New Year. But he ran into an utterly unreasonable woman. He paid only for his own coffee and walked away, refusing to be mad 31.4kReads8.8Score4kShelves
- 157 The Company President Is Actually My Ex? 公司总裁竟然是我前任？ Also known as [The Things Between Me and My Former CEO], [I Knew You Were Rich, But I Didn't Know You Were This Rich!], [A Love That Goes Both Ways], [One Heroine], [A Little Yandere], [Game Development], [No System], [Slow-Paced] After transmigrating, Ping An worked hard for three years and led a team in creating the hit game Blade & Soul. But on his very first day after being promoted, the company maliciously fired him! Was Ping An going to put up with that? He sued them on the spot, took the 399Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 158 A Tender Betrayal 温柔的背叛 Betrayal in marriage and human greed have made my heart grow colder and colder... A vivid portrayal of marriage, family, and all walks of life. From the author Huoshaofeng, so you know it’s a quality read! 357Reads8.6Score143Shelves
- 159 A Marriage of Spies 婚战谍中谍 This book contains toxic material. Readers who are not emotionally mature should read it with a guardian. Married readers should read it alone while their spouses are away. This story is entirely fictional, and all events are dramatized for the plot. Please don’t compare them to your own experiences, and remember to cultivate sound values, a healthy outlook on life, and a proper worldview. 15.7kReads8.6Score2kShelves
- 160 A Golden Radiance, Book 21 金辉万丈第21本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 161 Reborn at 18: From Campus to the Business World 重生之18岁：从校园到商途的崛 A down-and-out office worker in his thirties is reborn at eighteen, in his senior year of high school. Armed with memories and experience from his previous life, he gets a fresh start! At school, he turns his academics around, outsmarts bullies, and finds love. Once he enters the workforce, he seizes the internet boom and starts a business, going from his first pot of gold to building a business empire. His success seems unstoppable. His love life faces long-distance challenges and misunderstand —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 From the Start, I Confess to the School Beauty, and the Comeback System Arrives Early 开局表白校花，逆袭系统来早了 [Lighthearted daily life] + [Multiple heroines] + [Middle-Aged Comeback System] + [Campus] Come on, man! The college entrance exams are over, and I just confessed to my first love. I’d only just taken my childhood sweetheart’s soft, fair hand when this Comeback System thing showed up. What the heck? [At thirty-six, your marriage has failed. Standing at a crossroads in your life, you remember the decision you made as a teenager that you would regret for the rest of your life. If you’d known thing 15Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 163 Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Blossoms Fly 春潮起处落花飞 [Urban Life + Countryside + Campus + Period Setting + Modern Romance + Childhood Sweethearts + Family + Marriage and Romance + Youthful Inspiration + Strong Female Lead + Building Wealth] Love and hate flow east with the river; partings and reunions scatter like falling flowers. Ice and fire, blood and tears, humiliation and glory, failure and success: every flavor of life can be found in "Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Flowers Fly"... Set from the 1970s through the turn of the century, ag 9Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 164 My Whole Clan Eats Thanks to Me, and I’m First on the Family Tree 全族靠我吃上饭，族谱单开第一名 [No System, no space, no golden finger + stockpiling supplies + everyday family life] Seriously ill Jiang Shui did a good deed. But when she opened her eyes again, she had become the vicious ex-wife of a powerful minister who could control everything! While Huo Yuntian was serving labor duty on her family's behalf, she ran away with her childhood sweetheart, a scholar, only to be sold to an elderly widower and abused to death. That was worse than just dying outright. Wait, she thought she could 46Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 165 The Billionaire Who Rose from a Sea of Women 女人堆里走出的亿万富翁 A contemporary setting, lighthearted humor, laugh-out-loud everyday life, playful banter, heartwarming inspiration, and no harem. He's penniless, yet popular with women. He's sincere, yet works in the most hypocritical industry. He's handsome, talented, and witty, and could have led a life of endless romantic conquests, but… Set in Shenzhen, Guangdong, in 2008, the story follows the remarkable career and business journey of Li Zhe, a young man from a farming family who rises steadily to success 2kReads5.9Score108Shelves
- 166 Reborn in 1971: A Brilliant Political Career 重生1971：官运亨通 Do you believe it? A person’s fate is decided by heaven! One’s destiny is in heaven’s hands, not one’s own! Chen Haotian refuses to believe it. Reborn into a new life, he decides not to follow the same path. Now that he’s been reborn, who would still go work in a factory? This time, he’s going to become an official! He believes that to become an official, you need connections. So the day before his wedding, he breaks off his engagement and marries the child of a high-ranking official. Who could 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 The Silent Battlefield Between Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law 婆媳没有硝烟的战场 The conflict between Lin Xiao and her mother-in-law, Zhang Cuilan, keeps escalating. Then Lin Xiao undergoes a dramatic transformation, becoming independent and self-reliant. She lives life on her own terms and rewrites her future, until the road ahead finally opens up... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 Back at Eighteen, I Have No Choice but to Make a Comeback! 重返十八，我只好逆袭！ [Reborn in College]+ [Urban Slice of Life]+ [Business and Making Money]+ [Youth and Campus]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [No System] Lin Mo is reborn, back in the summer of 2011. He’s returned to the best age of all: eighteen. This time, he’ll live a more exciting and freer life. 939Reads7.2Score106Shelves
- 169 What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛 Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 My Small-Town Girlfriend 我的小城女友 No matter how long people live in a big city, they eventually return to a small town. Xiyang, a genius who made his fortune through stock trading, finds his life going nowhere after his girlfriend cheats on him and his career hits a wall. He leaves Chengdu, a city full of memories, and returns to his hometown, where he meets the girl who will become his small-town girlfriend. This is an ordinary book, but the small-town life it tells of is anything but ordinary. 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 I Made My Start in Real Estate 我做房地产中介起家 I Got My Start as a Real Estate Agent 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Two Abnormal Humans and a Motorcycle 两个非正常人类与摩托车 Love that defies social norms has often been seen as a symbol of courage and freedom, admired and celebrated. This is the one kind of love people will always despise. This is not a novel, just a story from real life. There are no thrills, no climaxes, no pacing, only despair and oppression. It might be of some small help to people who truly love motorcycles, but be prepared to be mocked. This story has an unconventional outlook on life, values, and the world, and portrays a world of abnormal peo 1.3kReads—Score214Shelves
- 173 After Making a Comeback, My Ex-Wife Wants to Remarry Me 成功逆袭后，前妻找我复婚 Ding Peng and Fang Jia graduated from the same ordinary university and were among countless ordinary wage earners. They fell in love in college. Ding Peng was handsome, tall, and strong, while Fang Jia was gentle and beautiful, with a stunning figure. They built a happy family that everyone envied. Wherever they went, people admired them as a couple. Ding Peng had always been very clever. As a child, he watched martial arts movies and took up martial arts because he wanted to become a great hero 161Reads5.0Score—Shelves
- 174 You Take Care of Your Best Friend's Husband, and I'll Take Care of Your Best Friend 你照顾你闺蜜老公，我照顾你闺蜜 Jiang Yuan died in a car accident and returned reborn, determined to make the adulterous couple pay and trample underfoot everyone who had looked down on him. Watch me shake up the stock market. 937Reads6.5Score108Shelves
- 175 My Blind Date Is Actually a University Counselor? 相亲对象居然是大学导员？ [Feel-Good Story + Sweet Romance + Older Woman/Younger Man + Workplace + Easygoing Daily Life + No System] Right after graduating, Shen Yan's dad forced him into a blind date. Shen Yan planned to go through the motions and get it over with, but the woman he was supposed to marry turned out to be Zhao Jinshu, the university counselor who had supervised him for two years! The two began pretending to be a couple for their own benefit. While fake-dating his counselor, Shen Yan set the workplace stra 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 A Man's Journey: Starting with Fighting Back Against My Cheating Wife 男人成长录：从反击出轨娇妻开始 Boxing coach Zhou Yuming had never understood one truth in his twenty-eight years of life: no woman is domineering in front of the man she loves. He happily married his lovely wife. After they married, faced with his domineering wife, he handed over all his income and trusted her unconditionally. He thought this was love, and that it was worth it! It wasn't until he was hospitalized with a broken leg and needed to pay his hospital bill that Zhou Yuming realized his wife didn't love him at all. S 879Reads—Score111Shelves
- 177 Reborn: I Just Want to Make Money 重生：只想搞钱 [Reborn + Daily Life + Lighthearted + Fun + Making Money + Building] Lu Yi is reborn, and uses his foresight as a golden finger to make money like crazy. Uses a game cheat to get things started. Then cashes in on another round of compensation from a demolition project. Wait, this jade pendant is about to skyrocket in value! He runs into the campus belle he used to grovel after. What are you, anyway? Get lost! Reborn once, all he wants is to make money. Women will only slow him down. Just kee 142Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 178 So Sweet: The Secret Campus Beauty Is Pursuing Me 高糖：我被隐藏校花倒追了 Sweet romance + one heroine + lots of sugar + rebirth Su Youyu: “Yang Yu, please be my boyfriend!” Yang Yu: “Well, if you leave the Funeral of Love crew and become a normal person again, I’ll think about it.” Half an hour later, after going home to wash up, Su Youyu said: “OK, I’ve left the Funeral of Love crew. Take a look, am I ugly now?” Yang Yu: “...Uh, did you get a face transplant?” 141Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 179 Reborn Before the College Entrance Exam 重生回到高考前 In his thirties and still single, Chu Chengmu is reborn in 2003, just before the college entrance exams. Looking back on his youthful past through the eyes of an adult, he realizes that many of his old regrets could have been avoided. The times he chose to lie flat, backed down, or got caught up in worry and indecision will all be changed for good. In this life, he has a much stronger starting point and a broader perspective, along with more audacious ambitions and heavier responsibilities. This 1.5kReads6.7Score101Shelves
- 180 Getting Something for Nothing 不捞而获 When 36-year-old divorced “ordinary gold digger” Sun Xiao decides to use a zero-cost “karate” playbook to extract resources from worthwhile men, she must remain coldly rational as she carefully screens each target. Otherwise, her six-million-yuan safety net will eventually run dry. Meanwhile, a deadly game far beyond the limits of her understanding is quietly closing in on the everyday life she thinks is safe: a counter-harvest orchestrated by a true high-level predator. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Power and Ambition in the Underworld: The Road to a Comeback 权欲江湖：逆袭之路 He Yu Hui started out as nothing more than a humble doctor. What opportunities did he encounter? What did he do? How much did he accomplish for the people? How high did he rise in government? What kind of story did he live as a man? This heartfelt work will show you one man’s path to growth and the rise of an honest official! [Grounded + Beauty + Political Career + Smart Protagonist] The early chapters are a bit cautious, but the later ones are incredibly satisfying. A must-read gem from Tomato 30Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 182 I Confessed with Chocolate for the Campus Goddess, but She Gave Me a Sports Car 表白送女神巧克力，她却送我跑车 [Sweet Romance]+ [One Love Interest]+ [Goddess Big Sister]+ [Older Woman/Younger Man Romance]+ [Super Sweet]+ [Everyday Life] Older woman: “Xu, thanks for bringing me chocolate. Let me get you something in return. What would you like?” Xu Fan: “I want you.” Older woman: “Well... You should give it some serious thought. Whatever you're missing, I can get it for you.” Xu Fan: “I only want you! I don't want anything else.” Older woman: “Uh... How about a Ferrari? I'll buy you one.” Xu Fan: “???” .. 19Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 183 My Company Refuses to Pay, So I Fight Back 公司赖账我反击 I simply fronted 9,999 yuan for a proposal on behalf of my company. My manager said to pay it first and claim reimbursement later. The company used the project, but then said I hadn't gotten approval. When my contract expired, they pressured me into signing a blank form, trying to make it look like I'd left “for personal reasons” and “resigned voluntarily.” Worse, they told prospective employers during background checks that I'd had a dispute over expenses, was difficult to communicate with, and 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 184 Groped from the Start, the Ice-Cold Campus Beauty's Persona Crumbles 开局被非礼，校花高冷人设崩了 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Reborn: The Campus Belle Is So Sweet, How Is She Cold? 重生：校花这么甜，哪里高冷了 [One heroine + campus belle + urban wish fulfillment + sweet romance + billionaire protagonist] Su Chen was once a wealthy bachelor, but his wife betrayed him. Gravely ill and lying on his deathbed, he wakes up to find himself reborn in his sophomore year of college. Soon after being reborn, a twist of fate seats him beside the campus belle, making him the enemy of the entire school. All he wants is revenge and to work hard to make money. But why is this aloof campus belle so sweet? Even Su Chen 181Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 186 The Secrets of My Wife: The Truth Behind the Phone Calls 妻子隐秘：电话背后的真相 Liang Xiaojun had always worked for his father-in-law. One day, after returning home from the construction site, he heard his daughter, who was gaming, say she’d received a strange blackmail call. After looking into it, he uncovered a huge secret about his wife. Faced with a cruel reality, what choice should he make? 678Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 187 The Urban Hunt 都市围猎 This story follows the tangled struggles over power, profit, and desire within modern corporations. Everyone is a hunter, and everyone is prey. In the end, justice catches up with them: each person is destroyed by the consequences of their own actions. Then a new hunt begins somewhere else. The novel features a large cast of characters, and the author has done their best to pack a miniature society into its pages. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Celebrating Mountains and Seas 庆山海 [A new book from a veteran author, with a completed story guaranteed. He plays the pig to eat the tiger in the early chapters, then moves into the urban underworld later. Smooth, polished prose.] Calling someone a playboy is a worldly prejudice; ignorance is the root of suffering. So come closer to me, then worship me as a god!!! Qing Shanhai 167Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 189 The Strange Life of Jin Xiaoli 金小鲤的奇异生活 During the summer after her final year of high school, Jin Xiaoli gets a spiritual spring, and her mother's illness is cured. She spends her days gardening, playing with cats, and studying. Life is blissful. Sure, she runs into little bumps now and then, but she's already got a golden finger, so there's no need to complain. No matter what, she has to keep giving it her all every day! 340Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 190 Gu Hong, Dare to Be Happy! 辜鸿，请大胆快乐！ Gu Hong, why are you afraid to be happy? Is it because you make too much money? Liang Shuang, why are you afraid to be happy? Is it because you have too many boyfriends? Wu Kun, why are you afraid to be happy? Is it because getting your doctorate is too hard? Wu Peng, why are you afraid to be happy? Is it because being an executive is exhausting? Yu Yang, why are you afraid to be happy? Is it because big shots are too boring? Tell me, why are all of you afraid to be happy! 11Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 191 Reborn: A Ruthless Rise from Poverty 重生寒门逆袭全靠狠 Xu Dazhi was a humble man from a poor family, and he spent most of his life getting nowhere. He never expected to be reborn by chance. With a new life ahead of him, shouldn’t he make the most of it? Making money and turning his life around should be a piece of cake! He never wants to go back to the cowardly life he led before. In this world, starting with nothing and trying to make a good life for yourself means you have to be ruthless! 214Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 192 Live-Streamed Bad Luck: From the Start, I Made the Campus Belle's Gaming Partner Cry 直播毒奶，开局逼哭校花陪玩 This story features: a System, livestreaming, jinxing people with compliments, laugh-out-loud comedy, and pure silliness. Chu Nan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a small-time streamer on the Miaojing platform. By chance, he obtains the Invincible Jinx System. From the start, he jinxes a campus beauty while playing games with her, then never looks back from his jinxing ways. He jinxes thugs, viewers, haters, competitions, and all kinds of famous people. There's nothing he can't jinx 88Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 193 My Ex-Wife Vs. My Ex-Girlfriend: I Sit Back and Drink 前妻PK前女友，我在一旁喝大酒 [Urban] [Multiple Heroines] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Entirely Handmade] My name is Hao Qilai. My ex-girlfriend burned funeral offerings for me, and my ex-wife made me spend two years as a carrot inspector. Recently, I became a lifeguard at a seaside bathing beach, selling balloons on the side while collecting rent. I thought this was all life had in store for me, until the day I rescued my landlady and my ex-girlfriend. My ex-wife was there too. And things got even crazier: in the game I play, the 46Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 194 Reborn: I Can Hear the Sweet Thoughts of the School Beauty, My Wife 重生：我听到校花老婆的甜蜜心声 Original title: Reborn: Sweet Inner Thoughts, A Love for You Through All My Days [Reborn + campus beauty + doting romance + System + one heroine] In their past life: Luo Yiran died for Su Qi! In this life: Su Qi was reborn for Luo Yiran! Su Qi: I can hear her inner thoughts? Luo Yiran: My first kiss just got stolen by a pig? Su Qi: My future wife is so sweet! Luo Yiran: Why are you so good to me? Su Qi: Can I really tell her I was reborn? Luo Yiran: I don’t want to live with you! Su Qi: I just w 19Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 195 Forging Youth Anew 再铸青春 If you had the chance to live your life over again, what would you choose? Newly reborn, Ye Feng is already facing a breakup. In his previous life, he begged and pleaded. What will he choose this time? 275Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 196 My First Online Girlfriend 我的初恋女网友 My First Online Love 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 A Ride-Hailing Driver's Romantic Adventures 网约车司机的桃花史 A Ride-Hailing Driver's Romantic Adventures 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 I Only Wanted My 10,000 Yuan Back 我本来只想要回一万块 I used to be just an ordinary programmer. In 2019, I moved to Chengdu and joined a company that didn’t look like much, but would change the course of my life. At first, I thought I’d simply run into a poorly managed small company that couldn’t keep its promises: my probation period dragged on, my salary was changed, they failed to pay my social insurance, mishandled my housing fund, and kept putting off raises until next month, the second half of the year, year-end, or after the company reforme 10Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 199 Meeting Chen Yu 遇见陈宇 Tired of over-the-top dramas? Try this modern romance based on real experiences, with no System and no contrived drama. While picking out a bracelet for her best friend, Lin Xue meets Chen Yu, a cheerful, sunny programmer. The two weather life’s storms together and make several good friends, earning the nickname “The Seven Swordsmen.” The seven of them travel to Gumu Village, where one mishap follows another along the way. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 A Legacy of a Hundred Skills: I Only Know a Tiny Bit of Everything 百技传承：我都只会亿点点 After Xiao Yunyi and his wife parted amicably, he took their three-year-old daughter and returned to the countryside. Then, while fishing one day, he unexpectedly acquired the Legacy of a Hundred Crafts. From then on, he could gather the faith of all living beings and learn traditional intangible cultural heritage crafts in his dreams. For example: bamboo weaving, wood carving, oil-paper umbrella making, Chinese martial arts, embroidery, iron painting, and iron tree silver flowers. As time went 3.5kReads9.0Score290Shelves
