Novels like Fortunes Rise in Macau, but the Road to Wealth Is a Little Rocky
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Fortunes Rise in Macau, but the Road to Wealth Is a Little Rocky, best match first.
- 151 Dad, Take It Easy. Our Family's About to Go Bankrupt 爸，你稳重点，咱家快要破产了 Would you dare listen to a song all the way through? Memories crash over you like a flood, devouring your pounding heart bit by bit until you can't breathe... After traveling back in time to 2004, Chen Lichuan finds that at eighteen, with the summer ahead of him, he can have anything he wants. But the youth they shared still hurts, even after the breeze has passed. 50.5kReads9.0Score5.8k14d adds
- 152 Do What You Want: If You're Reborn, Live Life Your Way 想干就干，重生就要过得顺心如意 After more than a decade of hard work, Lin Xiangdong finally built a fortune worth over a hundred million and achieved financial freedom. But just as he began to enjoy life to the fullest, he inexplicably found himself reborn in 2008. From the start, Lin Xiangdong goes all in with high-interest loans, uses one resource to generate another, and builds his fortune. From Brother Dong to Uncle Dong, from a nobody to a titan! 29.3kReads8.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 153 You Tore Up My Critical Condition Notice, So I'll Cut Off Your Group's Lifeline 你撕我病危通知，我断你集团命脉 You tore up my critical condition notice. I’ll cut off the lifeline of your entire conglomerate. 191Reads—Score214d adds
- 154 The Storms of Beicheng 北城风云 Synopsis: (This story is entirely fictional. Its original title was Northern City’s Turmoil.) What is the jianghu? Wherever there are people, there is a jianghu, and wherever there is a jianghu, there is conflict! The jianghu is about fighting, killing, and the law of the jungle, but it’s also about human relationships and social conventions. This book will take you back to the jianghu of the 1980s and 1990s, where you’ll witness the extraordinary path of Chen Yanan, a generation’s ruthless hero 13.3kReads9.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 155 From the Start, I Had Financial Freedom, But I Just Wanted an Ordinary Life 开局财富自由，我只想当个普通人 Ordinary people are always dreaming of financial freedom, beautiful women, luxury cars, yachts... But compared with material things, Chu Fang wants something more: a sincere love to accompany him through the rest of his life, as he peacefully admires the mountains. [Everyday life, one heroine] ... ... 38kReads7.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 156 A Single Man Is a Flower at Fifty-One 单身男人五十一枝花 In middle age, Ding Changsheng unexpectedly discovered that his wife, whom he had loved dearly for nearly thirty years, had stayed in touch with her first love all along. Though she hadn’t cheated on him, he still decisively chose to divorce her. From then on, he began a very different life… This novel has been adapted into a short drama. Please check it out. 2.4kReads6.9Score13614d adds
- 157 They Laid Off the Group Chairman's Heir 裁员裁到集团太子爷 They Laid Off the Group's Heir 686Reads—Score914d adds
- 158 A Trader’s Journal 操盘手札记 People say business is a battlefield, but how many know that the futures market is the front line, where the fighting is so fierce that bayonets draw blood? Life is like a candlestick chart: some candles are bearish, others bullish. What kind of life experiences led the male protagonist to lament, “Look left, and everything is clear. Look right, and all I see is confusion!”? Step into this novel and explore the characters’ inner worlds. Witness the protagonist’s emotional journey amid fragrant b 3.4kReads8.6Score38314d adds
- 159 Golden Eyes: The Jade Gambling King 黄金瞳：赌石王 [Stone Gambling + Appraisal + X-Ray Vision + Revenge + Underworld] On the brink of death after being hunted by his enemies, he accidentally awakens the Golden Eye through his family’s ancestral jade. From then on, he can see through solid stone and recognize every rare treasure under the sun. The stone-gambling family that stole the Lin family heirloom years ago has now become an industry giant. They sneer at me: “You think you’re good enough to gamble on stones?” That is, until I open three pie 1.3kReads6.8Score10114d adds
- 160 We’re All Reborn, Yet My Grandson Still Plays the Backup 都重生了，孙子还当备胎 An overworked wage slave with millions in mortgage debt is about to be crushed by the endless grind of everyday life. His days feel empty and dull. One autumn day, he casually takes a little jump and finds himself back in his vibrant college years. When Yao Yuan comes to his senses, the first thing he thinks of is a once-in-a-lifetime bargain he remembers from his previous life. Just then, the campus beauty from his college days suddenly calls him, but he can't be bothered to answer. Now that he 21.8kReads8.3Score1.5k14d adds
- 161 An Unforgettable Romance at the Factory 工厂里的难忘爱情 Xu Bo heads to the city to find work, where he meets a girl from a neighboring village. They travel to the city together and find jobs. At the factory, the female boss takes a liking to him, and from then on, good fortune keeps coming his way. He rises from a workshop worker to workshop supervisor, and eventually is forced to start his own factory. His life becomes anything but ordinary. This is a story that feels grounded in real life, with sorrow and joy, laughter and tears. The plot never dra 44kReads9.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 162 Survival Journal: Back to the World of Ordinary Life 求生日记：重返烟火人间 Not a wish-fulfillment story, no cheat powers, no rebirth: a realistic struggle to survive against the odds. An innocent only daughter meets the ultimate scumbag. He tricks her into love, saddles her with debt, then runs off, delivering a triple blow. She tries to take her daughter into the lake with her, but survives. Having died once, she finally comes to her senses. There’s no one to catch her when she falls and no one to save her. Every meal and every bit of warmth must be earned with her ow 5.6kReads8.8Score39514d adds
- 163 Love Amid the Fireworks of Life 烟火今生情 The story of a young woman studying biopharmaceuticals as she grows from an inexperienced college student into an adult making her way in the world, encounters a terrible man, and struggles through a thorny path. Along the way, she finds a close male friend and a soulmate, and grows through her independent efforts... 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Dongguan Years 东莞岁月 Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this novel tells the story of migrant workers represented by a group of young men and women from the countryside in southwestern Henan. It paints a sweeping picture of their arduous struggle to make a living in the unfamiliar city of Dongguan, vividly recreating the bitterness and sweetness, hardships and joys, love and heartbreak experienced by young factory workers during that fiery era. 2.1kReads7.7Score15614d adds
- 165 Golden Eyes: King of Antiques and Gemstone Gambling 黄金瞳：鉴宝赌石王 [Stone gambling] [Rise to power] [Satisfying read] [Tycoon] [Bargain hunting] [Antique appraisal] [Face-slapping] Ye Fan’s life hits rock bottom: he loses his job, falls into debt, and gets abandoned. Then a fragment of a mysterious ancient jade streaks across his eyes. When he wakes, the whole world has changed. In the scrap yard, stones bloom with the radiance of Imperial Green wherever his fingers point. At ghost-market stalls, his sharp eyes reveal a genuine Tang dynasty Buddha hidden in a p 93Reads7.1Score3014d adds
- 166 The Gangster Tycoon Who Rose from the Hutongs 胡同里杀出来的流氓大亨 Previously published under the titles Dragon City Years and Thirty Years in a Bloodstained Underworld. This is a lawless age where every corner is ruled by a big shot. This is the story of a naive young man who turns into a bloodthirsty beast just to survive. This is an underworld tale full of thrills and passion! Welcome to the 1980s… 40kReads9.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 167 My Brother Is Calling for Help, but Grandpa Says Never to Look Back 弟弟在求救，祖父却说千万别回头 My younger brother was calling for help, but Grandfather said, "Whatever you do, don't look back." 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 After My Ex Cheated on Me, I Struck It Rich on Gemstones 被前女友绿后，我赌石暴富 [X-Ray Vision + Appraising Treasures + Stone Gambling + Underdog's Comeback + Underworld + Treasure Hunting + Tomb Raiding] After He Jianghai caught his girlfriend cheating, the other man retaliated by blinding him. When He received a corneal transplant donated by a kind stranger, he unexpectedly gained X-ray vision! From then on, he rose to the top and became a winner in life. [An exhilarating underdog comeback story, well worth a read!] 1kReads7.0Score10114d adds
- 169 Heavenly Eye: King of Stone Gambling 透视天眼：赌石王 [Jade gambling] [Power fantasy] In a single night, his family was ruined, his company went bankrupt, and his father died with a grudge in his heart. He fell from the heights of success and became a lowly apprentice in the jade market, struggling amid endless mockery and despair. Then the jade pendant passed down through his family merged with his eye, unexpectedly granting him the power to see through everything and discern the glow of treasures! From then on, no flawed jade or hidden treasure c 865Reads6.8Score10214d adds
- 170 King of the Underworld 江湖枭雄 An ordinary-looking confrontation pushes a callow young man to a crossroads in life. Faced with fate’s mockery and the crushing weight of life, he chooses to stand tall and fight back. 33.2kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 171 My Wife's Secret Past 妻子的秘密往事 Zhang Xixi, the wife of Chen Sijie, worked late into the night, then came home drunk with a hickey on her back. Was she cheating, or was there another explanation? As Chen Sijie investigated, he uncovered a shocking secret… 5.1kReads8.6Score32414d adds
- 172 Reboot: Living Life as I Please at Work 重启：混在岗位上的恣意人生 A new book in the same vein, Restart: Small, Certain Joys of Office Life, is already 800,000 words long. You’re warmly invited to give it a read! A carefree life doesn’t require tens or hundreds of billions in assets, power that lets you look down on the world, or throwing punches and kicks at people showing off... It’s enough that I feel my life is going well, and that the people around me can see it, imagine having it themselves, and feel inspired! Given another chance, Yang Zhan has a better 53.3kReads9.3Score2.9k14d adds
- 173 Back to 2001: Allocate Points and Level Up 重回2001加点升级 [Reborn + Pocket Dimension + Status Panel + Proficiency + Daily Life + Cultivation] Luo Zhengyang, a middle-aged man, was laid off and returned to his hometown after many years away. When he woke up one morning, the world had changed, and he was back at the start of middle school in 2001. Then, by chance, he awakened an attribute panel that let him add points, record skills, and continuously raise their levels through practice. Luo Zhengyang realized that the things he had cared about in his pre 5.5kReads7.2Score29614d adds
- 174 Reborn and Rich, I Fooled a Pair of Twins 重生暴富后，我忽悠了一对双胞胎 [Reborn and becoming wealthy + tycoon + twins + mature older women + secretary + financial freedom + farming] On the brink of death, Fang Yuan was reborn in 2014. Armed with the informational advantage that came with being reborn, Fang Yuan won the lottery during the 2014 World Cup and made a fortune overnight, taking 450 million yuan from the bookmakers. When the A-shares market took off in 2015, Fang Yuan made another killing, leaving countless major players in the dust. In just two years, he 16.4kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 175 The Golden Phoenix Isn't a Chicken 金凤不是鸡 An age when lovers were everywhere, an era dominated by online loans, and the emotional high of a night at a karaoke club… Wealth became the sole measure of success, affection turned into a bargaining chip, and labels of status rose above personal character. Amid the drunken, glittering world, he and she were drawn into a chain of scams woven from money, power, and desire. Each tried to stake a lifetime of innocence on finding an answer to the question, “I’m not a prostitute.” They were willing 315Reads9.3Score3014d adds
- 176 A Pastry Chef Slacking Off in the Siheyuan 四合院里摸鱼的糕点师傅 A food blogger transmigrates to 1948. Does mentoring apprentices bring triple returns? “No Qin family, no Lou family, no hostility.” While everyone else who transmigrates into a siheyuan is busy fighting scoundrels and seizing opportunities, Shen Yan just wants to live like a lazy salted fish: as a pastry chef at a grocery store, he has little work and few worries. After work, he takes the homemade pastries from his pocket dimension, sits by the courtyard gate, cracks sunflower seeds, and watche 72.5kReads7.7Score4.3k14d adds
- 177 Tycoon: From the Start, I Make Trouble for My Beautiful Landlady 神豪：开局祸害美女房东 [Rich Protagonist] [Multiple Heroines] [Lighthearted Daily Life] [Enjoying Life] After spending one passionate night with his beautiful landlady, Qin Shiyao, Gu Yong unexpectedly activates a tycoon System. Get cash back for every dollar spent, with random spending bonuses: earn ten million dollars a month. One beautiful woman after another becomes part of his everyday life. While everyone else works like a beast of burden to pay off their mortgage, he lives in a mansion and drives a supercar. Hi 5.4kReads—Score31814d adds
- 178 Reborn After the College Entrance Exam, I Achieve Financial Freedom Over Summer Break! 重生高考后，暑假实现财务自由！ (Reborn + multiple heroines + urban everyday life + business and making money + no System) Jiang Yu was at a loss. He had been on his yacht, discussing life and dreams with a group of young women. Then, for no apparent reason, he was reborn into the days after the college entrance exams. I really didn’t want to be reborn! The campus belle said, “Jiang Yu, you seem like a different person. I’m mad at you for treating me like this!” Jiang Yu slapped her, leaving her stunned. I spent long enough be 1.8kReads8.1Score12014d adds
- 179 The Master of Jade Gambling With X-Ray Vision 透视赌石高手 [Stone gambling + antique appraisal + casinos + an ordinary man's rise + multiple heroines + scratch cards + farming + everyday life] At a company team-building event, he accidentally spots his stunning female boss using the restroom in a small grove. By a twist of fate, he awakens the power of X-ray vision. From then on, he uses his X-ray vision to appraise antiques and find hidden treasures, win big with scratch cards, dominate the casinos, discover valuable antiques and paintings, and gamble 801Reads6.3Score10314d adds
- 180 X-Ray Eyes: Appraising Treasures and Gambling on Jade 透视眼鉴宝赌石 [Underdog comeback + X-ray vision + treasure appraisal + stone gambling + satisfying wish fulfillment + bargain hunting + tomb raiding] Zhang Wei is a miserable low-level wage worker. Unable to pay his rent, he works for his landlord in lieu of payment. While fixing the landlord’s faucet, the landlord’s husband comes home. Zhang Wei hides in a closet and accidentally cuts his finger on a nail, awakening his X-ray vision. From then on, his life takes off. Money, beautiful women, luxury cars, mans 318Reads7.8Score12514d adds
- 181 Reborn in 2008: This Time, I'm Taking Off! 重生2008，这波我要起飞！ After nearly becoming a complete sucker who took the fall for someone else, Yang Fan is reborn. He's had enough of the miserable life he lived in his previous life. This time, he'll make money, get foot massages... and live life to the fullest! Successful men wear watches. Mature men wear jade bracelets. Yang Fan is determined to become a mature man. Note: This is a slow-burn story, not a brainless power fantasy. Please don't read if that's not your thing. 14kReads7.8Score1k14d adds
- 182 At Middle Age, I Turn My Life Around with Jade and Become the World's Richest Man 人到中年，赌石翻身成世界首富 [Stone gambling + bargain hunting + X-ray vision + tycoon + everyday life + feel-good story + underdog comeback] After his divorce, Lin Fan awakens the ability to see through things and sets his sights on the stone gambling market. With precision, he makes his moves, and the jade he cuts out shocks the industry. Wealth, status, and beautiful women come flocking, leaving his former wife, who once betrayed him, far behind. 320Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 183 Divorced in Middle Age, I Strike It Rich Through Stone Gambling, and My Ex-Wife Regrets It 中年离婚，赌石暴富，前妻后悔 [Stone Gambling + Antiques Appraisal + Underdog’s Rise + X-Ray Vision + Tycoon + Farming + Everyday Urban Life + No Harem] Unable to bear their frugal, impoverished life any longer, he decided to take a chance for his family. He used years of savings to open a hot pot restaurant with a friend, only to get cheated by that friend, lose everything, and end up owing a huge amount in loan-shark debt. When a gang boss came to collect, his wife immediately asked for a divorce, and he left with nothing. 1.8kReads7.6Score18514d adds
- 184 Reborn, I Let My Fiancée and Her Lover Stay Together for Good 重生后，放手让未婚妻和奸夫牢牢锁死 Reborn, I let my fiancée and her lover bind themselves together for good. 137Reads—Score414d adds
- 185 X-Ray Vision: Gambling on Jade and Appraising Treasures 透视眼赌石鉴宝 [X-ray vision + stone gambling + antiques appraisal + underdog comeback + bargain hunting + antiques] While making a delivery, deliveryman Su Ming came across a beautiful woman whose faucet was broken. As he helped her fix it, he suddenly gained X-ray vision. From then on, his life was like a cheat code, carrying him all the way to the top. 2.4kReads7.6Score33014d adds
- 186 I Can Barely Keep My God-Tier Algorithm Hidden 我的神级算法快藏不住了 New book, just received a low rating, but it'll improve later. Please stick around! [Lighthearted power fantasy + financial insights + human nature + patriotism + stocks and futures + golden finger] What would you do if one day you had algorithms and big data? Ask Ding Qing, an office worker in Shanghai. He'll tell you that all he wants is to keep his head down and stay alive. He's the lowest-ranking researcher at a securities firm, and he doesn't want to become someone else's research subjec 1.4kReads6.1Score10114d adds
- 187 Number One Spender: I Got Rich by Squandering Money! 花钱第一名，我靠败家暴富了！ This is an uplifting rags-to-riches story that will leave readers in a good mood. The heroine rises from rock bottom, and her determination to give back to society is admirable. There are family squabbles and domestic chaos, as well as the joys and sorrows of everyday life. The System's spending tasks don't just change the heroine's life, they also give her the means to help more people. Li Muyan is an ordinary girl who, after obtaining a spending System, rises from the lowest point in her life 835Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 You Try to Guilt-Trip Me and Pull Strings? I'm the Kind Who Shows No Mercy, Not Even to Family 道德绑架还想走后门？我可是六亲不认的主 You try to guilt-trip me and pull strings? I'm the sort who disowns even my own family. 242Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Embezzling My Entire Clan’s Money to Trade Stocks, I Lost Everything? Now I’m Making Billions! 挪用九族炒股亏炸？我狂赚百亿！ My new work is out! You can 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! 15.2kReads8.6Score69014d adds
- 190 My Daughter Wants to Sell the House to Start a Business, So I Flipped the Dinner Table 女儿要卖房创业，我掀了饭桌 My Daughter Wants to Sell the House to Start a Business, So I Flipped the Dinner Table 738Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 My Daughter Calls His Best Friend Dad, and My CEO Ex-Husband Regrets It Bitterly 女儿认他好兄弟当爸爸，总裁前夫肠子都悔青了 His daughter calls his best friend Dad, and his CEO ex-husband is consumed with regret. 307Reads—Score314d adds
- 192 Gazing Across the Four Seas 观四海 This isn't a conventional web novel. It features multidimensional space, rotating and traversing time sequences, and a diverse world of mutated races (beastfolk, insect races, marine life, and more), with varied narrative styles, interlocking plotlines, major foreshadowing, and tightly closed logical loops. The male lead, Qin Wei, can communicate with marine life and is also the chosen one most trusted by the Insect Queen. He seems to keep awakening as time turns, yet fails again and again. He m 178Reads—Score1114d adds
- 193 My Son and Daughter-in-Law Schemed for My Retirement Savings. After I Cut Ties with Them, They Regretted It 儿子儿媳算计我的养老钱，我断绝关系后，他们悔疯了 My Son and Daughter-in-Law Schemed to Take My Retirement Savings. After I Cut Ties with Them, They Regretted It Too Late 480Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Clearing Away the Clutter of Life 人间除杂 [Adapted from the real-life experiences of a rural woman college graduate] + [Drifting in Beijing] + [Two years alone in a rented room after losing her job] + [Cheated while looking for a rental] + [Parents seriously ill]. If these topics bother you, don't open this book. The reality is heavy. This is seven years of youth in the life of an ordinary country girl with no connections. At 28, I could have been an excellent hydrometallurgical engineer, skilled at removing all kinds of impurities from 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Master of the Game 神操手 After nine lives, can he escape his shackles? Can cultivating through code create a miracle? A seasoned spirit hunter starts out with a wronged spirit in tow and faces Hell-level difficulty from the start: Should he lie flat, or break free of his shackles? The One-Line Chasm, Soul-Eater Forest, the Inspection Team... The clues to extending his life point to the Guardian of the Abyss, locked away inside a ward. But when he risks his life to reach the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, he discovers it is 91Reads—Score414d adds
- 196 The Village: Carefree Divine Healer 村野，逍遥神医 [Feel-Good Rural Fiction + Farming Your Way to Success] The meek old farmer Niu Dagen unexpectedly awakens the cultivation techniques from his past life! From then on, Niu Dagen coasts to success in the countryside, growing crops, building wealth, curing the sick, and face-slapping bullies. He lives a carefree life and turns a poor mountain village into a paradise on earth! See how Niu Dagen uses his heaven-defying cultivation techniques to enjoy a happy rural life that even the immortals envy! 488Reads7.7Score10614d adds
- 197 A Wife's Revenge 妻子的报复 [Adapted into two short dramas] A torn-open condom wrapper shattered her faith in love and all her romantic illusions. In an instant, the beliefs she had clung to collapsed completely. Li Man discovered that her husband had not only cheated on her, but had also hidden their assets and even planned to frame her so she would leave the marriage with nothing. Faced with her husband's betrayal, Li Man began her relentless revenge! 24.5kReads9.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 198 Dongguan, Dongguan: The Blossoming '90s 东莞，东莞，90繁花年代 This story is based on real life. One day, Er Gou said mysteriously to Li Minghui, “Ah Hui, did you know? I heard a new Taizi Bathhouse opened nearby. They say it offers a service imported from Thailand.” The story follows a protagonist who turns his fortunes around in the electronics business of the Pearl River Delta. In 1990s Dongguan, KTVs, nightclubs, and bathhouses offered a different kind of splendor. There were also pure-hearted romances between migrant workers over beef brisket rice nood 883Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 199 A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生 This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake 269Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 A Woman's Journey Through Marriage 女人与婚姻的经历 [Female-Oriented + Modern Romance + Workplace and Marriage + Flash Marriage + Realistic Family Life] [Women, Love, and Marriage | A True Account of Marriage | Women’s Growth | Emotional Resonance] Before the grief of losing her mother had even faded, Xinyang was pressured by her whole family to get married and rushed into a flash marriage. She found her hastily chosen partner through a radio station and gave up the career she loved to throw herself into the daily grind of married life. She thou 41Reads—Score—14d adds
