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- 101 Too Many Fish to Clean, My Mother Beats Me Until Tears Run Down My Face 鱼获太多宰杀忙，母亲暴打泪两行 A laid-back story about fishing and gathering seafood. Su Ye, an unemployed young man, planned to go home and rest for a while. The ocean, blue skies, and white clouds were the best cure for a weary heart. Su Ye realized that fishing, gathering seafood, catching fish, and keeping a cat or dog seemed like a pretty nice way to live. His parents, though, seemed to be looking at him more and more strangely! On his first day fishing, he caught a large grouper, and his mother beamed with joy. On the s 16.4kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 102 Dumped and Back on the Island, the Ocean Becomes My Golden Fishing Ground 分手回岛，大海成了我的黄金渔场 [Everyday life + seaside foraging + lighthearted + tycoon] I spent four years fawning over her and gave her everything. After Ye Tiantian got into graduate school, she dumped Jiang Han without a second thought. Heartbroken, Jiang Han decided to return to the island. Everyone had written him off, but then he unexpectedly awakened the Extreme Scanning System. Beneath the sand, under the rocks, on the seabed... He could see all the precious seafood others would never find. Mantis shrimp, moon snail 29kReads8.4Score2.5k14d adds
- 103 Sweet! The Beautiful Army Wife Searches for Her Husband on the Island and Gets Doted on Like a Queen 甜！漂亮军嫂海岛寻夫后被宠上天 [Transmigration + 1970s + devoted couple + sweet romance + multiple babies at once + slice of life + obnoxious characters + alternate universe] Warning: Weird and obnoxious people everywhere!!! She has worked herself to the bone for her husband's family for five years and gets nothing in return. Now they're about to kick her out. After her mother's funeral, she faints at the grave, and when she wakes up, she finally sees the light. She's no longer Lin Zaozao, who lets people beat and scold her. 3.3kReads8.9Score25614d adds
- 104 Back to the Sixties to Snatch a Husband: I Married an Officer in a Flash and Hit the Jackpot 重回六零抢个婚，闪嫁军官赢麻了 [Period drama] [Space + dual powers + farming + beachcombing] [Face-slapping + awful relatives + no forgiveness] Back to the Sixties to Snatch a Husband: A Whirlwind Marriage to an Army Officer Her younger cousin Lin Shuang was orphaned, then adopted by Lin Man’s parents and became the darling of the Lin family. Lin Man, meanwhile, became the family’s punching bag, unloved by her parents and pushed around by her brothers. Lin Shuang ate candy while Lin Man watched. Lin Shuang ate meals while Lin 21.8kReads8.8Score2.7k14d adds
- 105 Hokkaido: From the Start, the Neighboring Auntie Asked Me for Help 北海道：开局邻居阿姨拜托帮忙 [Deep-Sea Fishing + Building a Fleet + Daily Life + Multiple Heroines] Schools of blue-ringed sea snakes, squid season, sardine storms, migrating salmon, prized tuna… The ocean holds endless riches, but they belong only to those brave enough to ride the waves! Gao Zhiqiang transmigrates to a fishing village in Hokkaido in 1953, becoming a humble fisherman. The island nation's fishing industry is on the brink of a boom, and the opportunities are boundless. He starts with a small wooden boat, grad 16.3kReads9.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 106 Crazy in the 1980s: The Island Beauty Is Fiercely Savage 八零疯疯疯，海岛美人她过分凶残 The story has only just received a rating. Once there are more chapters and the ladies leave likes and comments, the score will climb in no time! [Alternate Period Setting + Sweet Romance + Island Life + Military Marriage + Delicious Food] Chu Yao had just woken up when she realized she'd transmigrated again. This time, she'd landed in the role of a cannon-fodder supporting female character. The female lead, Chu Ruyan, stole the original owner's personal jade pendant and used it to live a life o 6.1kReads9.0Score65614d adds
- 107 Seaside Town: The Carefree Fisherman 滨海小镇：逍遥渔夫 Just after the new manager fired him, he walked into a lottery shop and scratched off a 400,000-yuan jackpot. Tired of the grind of city life, Chen Xiaoyun headed straight back to his hometown, a fishing village on the coast of Nangguang Province. There, he was lucky enough to find a Shanhai Pearl by the sea. From then on, he enjoyed a leisurely life fishing, going out to sea, and raising chickens and ducks. The carefree fisherman sets sail at last! (This is entirely fictional. Just think of it 33.4kReads9.1Score2.6k14d adds
- 108 There's a Dragon in My Well 我家井里有条龙 After failing at a matchmaking meeting, a poor young man stumbles into a Dragon-Suppressing Well, witnesses a dragon’s corpse, and merges with its dragon core. Day One: He gains the ability to see inside his body! His body is cleansed and renewed! He becomes immensely strong! Day Two: He can control and part the water! See underwater! Breathe underwater! Day Three: Catch fish! Scoop up shrimp! Pick crabs! Earn his first fortune! Day Four: He finds an old clam spitting out a pearl and unexpec 11.1kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 109 Transmigrated as a Poor Fisherwoman in the 1960s, I Use My Pocket Dimension to Raise Seven Kids in Luxury 穿成六零穷渔妇，空间富养七个崽 [Period setting + stockpiling supplies + pocket dimension + fishing and gathering seafood + food + everyday life raising children] No romance Complete!!! After a freak car accident, strongwoman Zhang Siyu opens her eyes in the 1960s as a weepy young widow raising three children alone. After beating up some bad guys while crying, Zhang Siyu gains a golden finger and a three-bedroom, one-living-room pocket dimension. It comes stocked with rice, flour, cooking oil, and other supplies she'd put away 2.6kReads9.1Score19214d adds
- 110 Ocean Hunter 海洋猎人 Poor young Lu Xiaolv makes a living catching eels, until an accident gives him a remote-controlled metal crayfish. Find schools of fish and haul up treasures. From then on, Lu Xiaolv is on top of the world. “Ocean, here I come.” 9.3kReads9.1Score84114d adds
- 111 Sold Off, the Fake Heiress Is Taken to an Island to Be a Soldier's Wife 被卖后假千金被叼回海岛当军嫂 Period setting + parallel world + devoted couples + space + sweet romance + adorable children + cute pets + a few rotten characters The whole story is lighthearted and cheerful, with a slow pace. Other heroines are out conquering the world, while all she wants is a pot of braised goose. (There are cute pets, so don't read if that's not your thing.) Song Chucheng had just bought the first seaside home of her life. She hadn't even started enjoying her retirement yet! Then, to her dismay, she trans 14.6kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 112 I Take a Boy Band to Survive on a Deserted Island 我带男团荒岛求生 [System + all-around heroine + sharp tongue + comedy + shipping war (the male lead is set)] Yan Li, an adventurer who loves surviving in the wild, wakes up one morning to find that she has become someone else. Worse still, she ends up stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash... “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've bound yourself to this System. Once your points reach one million, you can return to your original body and receive a ten-billion-dollar reward!” Huh? She's not the only one s 13kReads9.1Score2.4k14d adds
- 113 Sent to the Countryside on a Sea Island, Raising Little Ones with My Frog 下乡到海岛，带着蛙崽养团子 [Alternate-History Period Setting + Joining Her Husband on an Island Posting + Frog Companion's Pocket Dimension + Family's Cherished Darling + Raising Kids + Food + Foraging by the Sea] When Qi Mengyu woke up, she was blowing bubbles in the sea when Yan Qing, a cool, long-legged man, hauled her out. She discovered that she'd transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder supporting character in a period novel. To cherish life, stay away from the male and female leads. Marry a thoughtful, go 3.1kReads8.9Score26114d adds
- 114 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Keep Busy Growing Vegetables on the Island 穿越六零，海岛种菜忙 [Period]+ [military marriage]+ [Transmigration]+ [no storage space]+ [superhuman strength]+ [building a career] In 2023, swimmer Jiang Jiaojiao and her teammates are on a team-building trip at the seaside. While trying to save a child who has fallen into the water, she is swept away by a huge wave. In 1964, Lin Baoni jumps into the sea to save a People’s Liberation Army soldier in distress. A huge wave carries her away, and she eventually dies of exhaustion. Reborn in Lin Baoni’s body, Jiang Jia 13kReads9.3Score1.2k14d adds
- 115 After Draining My Scumbag Father and Stepmother, the Heiress Joins the Army and Heads to an Island 掏空渣爹后妈，资本小姐随军海岛 [Short-Form Drama Adaptation Out + Military Marriage + Feel-Good Revenge + Island-Group Pocket Dimension + Exceptional Female Lead, Possessive Male Lead] Jiang Yan, daughter of the richest man in the country, owns assets worth hundreds of billions. Her daily routine is living off her parents, lazing around, and shopping. One day, she went out to pick up a food delivery and got brained by a brick. Then she transmigrated into a brainless period novel written by her jealous cousin! In the book, Jia 16.3kReads8.8Score1.6k14d adds
- 116 I Gain the Water God's Inheritance, and Fishing Is No Longer Hard 莸得水神传承，钓鱼不再难 Nan Canghai had his achievements stolen and was fired from his job, so he went out for a walk to clear his head. Caught in a sudden downpour, he happened upon an old, dilapidated Water God Temple by the river. Curious, Nan Canghai ducked inside to take shelter and look around. By a stroke of fate, he merged with the remnant soul of an ancient Water God. Not only did he inherit the Water God's legacy, he also obtained a treasure that controlled water: the Black Tortoise Banner, one of the Four Di 752Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 117 How to Chase Away Worries? Fish Until Your Cooler Overflows 何以解忧钓鱼爆护 Zhang San used to be a street vendor selling leather shoes. When the city launched a campaign to become civilized, street vending was banned. Just as he found himself out of work, his girlfriend betrayed him and ran off with the savings he had built up over six years of selling at his stall. Drunk, Zhang San went fishing by the river and unexpectedly hooked a Shanhe Ring. The ring had been forged by the Primordial Immortal Venerable from fragments of worlds and various heavenly treasures. It con 1.4kReads8.7Score10314d adds
- 118 I Have a Penglai Immortal Island 我有一座蓬莱仙岛 Also known as: After Finding a Divine Artifact, She Became Famous Through Her Fishing Livestreams A theme park called Nevernight suddenly becomes famous across China. It features the “Penglai Realm,” protected by a seventh-tier grand formation; the “Sea Monster Castle,” where mermaids are rumored to live, with glass tunnels leading straight down into the deep sea; the mysterious and eerie “Yellow Springs Road”; the opulent “Divine Capital”... Everyone who visits even once starts questioning real 7.9kReads9.2Score90514d adds
- 119 I Fish with Dragon Blood, and Every Fish and Shrimp in the Sea Goes Wild 我用龙血钓鱼，海中鱼虾都疯了 Fishing with dragon blood sends every fish and shrimp in the sea into a frenzy. Tempering my body with dragon blood and making a name for myself with dragon fists. I use dragon dung and urine in my space to grow ginseng and tea plants. Every year, I drip another drop of dragon blood beneath the tea plants. Regularly drinking the tea they produce delays aging, strengthens the body, promotes longevity, fortifies the bones and sinews, beautifies the skin, turns white hair black, and even boosts vir 711Reads8.6Score17114d adds
- 120 A Fisherman Across Time and Space: A Blood-Soaked Fight Against Japan 钓者跨时空：浴血抗日行 In a parallel world, in Heishui Town, Hanjing City, a false nation on the Dark Star, Zhou Jianhua accidentally discovers a time machine created by the previous civilization in its final days in an attempt to save the world. The time machine can take him to worlds from the past, but it cannot reach the future. Inside the machine, Zhou Jianhua obtains the Repentance Fishing Boat, which can be upgraded. The Confession Time Machine itself can also be upgraded, and he can travel through time three ti 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 I Dug a Fishing Pond, and Anglers Across the Country Hailed It as a Sacred Site 挖了个鱼塘，全国钓鱼佬奉为圣地 Farming + everyday life + family and village affairs + comedy + development + fishing + no female lead (focused on work). A leisurely pace, starts slow and builds momentum, so dive in without worry. After three years drifting in Beijing, Li Fan unexpectedly obtained a fishing-ground System after a night of drinking at a club. He returned to his hometown, Ligang Village, dug fish ponds, and opened a fishing park. Starting with one small fish pond, Li Fan gradually built his business up step by st 34.3kReads9.2Score3.2k14d adds
- 122 Reborn in 1960: The System Helps Me Rule the Hunting Grounds 重生60：系统助我猎界称雄 Li Changsheng became a thirty-year mortgage slave after buying a home with no down payment. With housing prices falling and his job gone, he was on his way home when he kindly helped an elderly person who had fallen, only to be extorted by them. So he simply dragged them along to die with him, ridding the world of two bad people. Unexpectedly, he then received a Cloning System and transmigrated, reborn into the body of another Li Changsheng in 1960. See how Li Changsheng uses the Cloning System 990Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 123 Reborn as a Cow: Ruling the Dark Planet 重生成牛：称霸黑暗星球 Ye Daniu transmigrated and was reborn in the body of an African buffalo that had just been killed by a lion. Using human intelligence, he killed the lion and became the King of the Buffaloes. From then on, the African buffaloes began practicing martial arts and forming battle formations, wiping out prides of lions and packs of wolves. They exterminated the hyenas, unified the grasslands, and became its overlords. When the apocalypse arrived, the King of the Buffaloes led herds of buffaloes, zebr 144Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Book Transmigrator Gets a Waist-Hugging Flirt from the Army's Toughest Man 穿书女配被全军第一硬汉搂腰撩 Jian Yuelan had transmigrated into a book years ago, but the plot only kicked in after she followed the army to an island! Good news: sweet romance and a happy ending. Bad news: she and the second male lead were killed off early. A sweet, doting marriage in the 1970s? That’s all complete bullshit! Every character was just there to pave the way for the male and female leads to ascend! With no plot to follow, Jian Yuelan created her own, racking her brains to change her fate. Fortunately, her man 12.2kReads9.3Score84914d adds
- 125 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 14.7kReads8.1Score80914d adds
- 126 Reborn in 1960: I Have a Divine Cauldron Space 重生60，我有神鼎空间 Zhao Guoqiang died alongside the demolition crew, never imagining that the incense burner in his own main room was a divine artifact. After accidentally becoming the master of the Bronze Divine Cauldron, he was reborn as another man named Zhao Guoqiang. Inside the cauldron's space were towering mountains, lakes, and mighty rivers. What delighted him even more was that the cauldron could condense holy water. Time already flowed ten times faster inside the space than in the outside world. With the 394Reads7.4Score9114d adds
- 127 In 1979, I Helped the Whole Village Become Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households 我在七九帮全村成就万元户 Chen Sheng and seven good friends explore the Nanshan Cave and obtain the innate spiritual treasure, the Boundary-Breaking Pearl, which lets them travel back and forth to an era thirty years in the future. From then on, they begin a career smuggling goods between the two worlds. Back home, they open brickworks, a sand quarry, clothing factories, and furniture factories. They buy up centipedes and leeches, and become the first in the world to cultivate bamboo fungus commercially. Once every house 615Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 128 Exiled to Hainan, I Made My Fortune by Foraging Along the Shore 流放海南后我靠赶海发家 Jiang Wan is incredibly unlucky to get into a car accident, but she's also lucky: she and her mother, Yin Huaixi, transmigrate to the same dynasty and are still mother and daughter. As soon as they arrive, they learn that her mother's family has been exiled for life to an island, where they're forbidden to leave. What?! The place of exile is just like Hainan Island?! Jiang Wan's mouth waters so much that she starts to cry. She picks up her old beachcombing skills and brings all kinds of seafood 8.8kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 129 Global Livestream: I Build an Animal Farm in the Arctic 全球直播：我在北极打造动物农场 Liang Jun transmigrates to a parallel world and joins an Arctic research expedition. His mission is to stay at the impoverished Arctic research base and get its systems up and running. A rescued polar bear likes your fish and asks the System to give you an Arctic gift pack. The White Wolf King thinks you took great care of his cub and asks the System to give you ten portions of reindeer meat. An orca thanks you for scraping off its barnacles and says it loves you. Affinity +100. Feed a seal pup 1.2kReads9.4Score18714d adds
- 130 Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海：开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩 (Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke 126.7kReads9.4Score11.8k14d adds
- 131 The 1970s: A Sweet Island Life for a Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Character 七零之炮灰女配的海岛甜宠日常 [Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy life raising children + entrepreneurship] Lin Xia gets into a car accident on her way to a matchmaking date and unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel full of angst, becoming the foolish cannon-fodder woman who brings about her own doom. The original Lin Xia sabotages the male and female leads at every turn, so the male lead takes revenge by sending her to the countryside, where she eventually meets a tragic end. After reading a 15.8kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds
- 132 The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表 {The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the 22.4kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 133 A Little Zombie Went Looking for Brains, Ended Up in the 1970s, and Joined the Army 小丧尸找脑子找到七零后，随军了 [Island military romance + transmigration + super-brain genius + special abilities + real and fake heiresses] Zhou Shi is a zombie with brains. She pushes a shopping cart around looking for supplies. Because humans say that if you have food, you have nothing to fear. She uses her brain as a mouth to talk, because she’s heard that if you don’t use your brain, it’ll rust. Her goal in zombie life is to become the most high-class Zombie Queen. High-class means pretty and smart. So this little zombie 13.6kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 134 Surviving at Sea: My Raft Leads to Peach Blossom Spring 海上求生：我的木筏通桃源 When she woke up, the world had turned upside down. Countless people had entered a game called Survival at Sea. From the start, all they had was a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Every supply had to be caught on a line. Sharks, giant beasts, bitter cold, hurricanes, and merciless hunting between people. Survival became incredibly difficult, and supplies were scarce and precious. Lu Xingchen entered the game and obtained a god-tier pocket dimension on her very first day: the Peach Blossom Sanctuar 61.7kReads9.1Score6.7k14d adds
