Novels like The Common Man's Comeback
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Common Man's Comeback, best match first.
- 51 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 The Dashing Grandmaster Niu Baoguo 风流宗师牛保国 [This story is entirely fictional] Niu Kui, a martial arts grandmaster who had defeated every opponent across the Nine Provinces, became a public enemy because he fought dirty. His treacherous foes conspired to kill him. When he awoke again, he discovered he had been reborn as Niu Baoguo, a disgraced urban tai chi master... “Alas! This body is old and ugly. Starting a family will be a long and arduous road~” 16.2kReads9.1Score2k14d adds
- 53 Born to Make Them Laugh 转笑生 Turn to Laughter —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I’m No Punk: Three of Us Together 我不是小混混之三人行 Determined not to become a thug, he knows that those who walk different paths cannot work together. Brotherhood, and the revival of the Eight Gates of the underworld. Is a sinister force behind it all, or is something far worse on the horizon...? 323Reads—Score1914d adds
- 55 A Popular History of the Later Han 后汉通俗演义 [Historical Romance Grounded in the Official Record, The Complete History of the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms, An Easy Introduction to Official History] A Popular History of the Later Han is a classic historical novel in episodic form and a continuation of A Popular History of the Former Han. Across one hundred chapters, it follows the full historical arc from Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han and Emperor Guangwu's restoration, through the decline of the Eastern Han, to the division of the rea 95Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 56 There's No End to Gambling, Turn Back Before It's Too Late 赌海无涯，回头是岸 People often say that nine out of ten gambling games are rigged. There's another old saying, too: gamble long enough, and even the gods will lose. Even in our harmonious society, where material and cultural life are highly developed, the age-old scourge of gambling is still all around us. Countless people have lost everything to it, some even losing their families and their lives. Told from the perspective of someone who works in a casino, this book exposes the little-known shady dealings behind 14.8kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 57 What Are You Jealous About? 你醋什么？ What Are You Jealous About? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Golden Age of the Gangland: A Blood-Red Underworld 黑帮盛世：血色江湖 (Not a mindless power fantasy. Underworld, urban setting, no invincible hero, first person, tight logic, humorous writing. Read with caution if that’s not your thing!) A cursed, tragic fate. A life in the underworld that cannot be escaped. A band of brothers who stand together through life and death, and a dark life longing for redemption. You’ve never endured years of hardship, so of course you can’t understand the underworld in my heart. My story begins after I get out of prison in Ice Cit 112.1kReads9.3Score8.3k14d adds
- 59 The Way of Heaven Is Strong 天行健 In his early thirties, he was betrayed by his wife and left his hometown in a rage. After enduring the hardships of survival and facing the harsh realities of society, he made a comeback and became a legendary business magnate. Through countless rises and falls, love and heartbreak, he ultimately became a king who could shape the course of the world. 13.4kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 60 Trail of Shadows: The Mastermind 谍影迷踪之幕后玩家 The Spy’s Trail: The Player Behind the Scenes 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Heaven Has Granted Me a Powerful Minister for a Husband 天官赐我权臣夫 To clear her family’s name and enter the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, Fang Qinyu, daughter of a disgraced official, carefully plots her way into marriage with Qu Xinan, a Vice Minister of Rites who fell in love with her at first sight. She intends to use marriage as a stepping stone, unaware that her cool calculations will soon be met with a battle of devotion. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Her Camera Tells a Story 她的镜头会说话 My new work is here! You're welcome to 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! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Life at Thirty 人生三十 My career went bankrupt, and my beloved wife betrayed me! There’s no such thing as an easy life for adults. No transmigrating, no being reborn. No wishful fantasies, just reality. Keeping my feet on the ground, taking one step at a time, I’ll turn things around against the odds and rise to the top! This one’s for readers born in the ’80s. If you’re thin-skinned or haven’t been battered by life, read at your own risk! Better not read it! 21.9kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 64 Tears of a Beauty in the Tumultuous Sea of Politics 官海沉浮之美人泪 With an opportunity, even an ordinary person can rise to the highest ranks. See how Wang Zi Feng, an ordinary nobody, seizes his chance to stir up the world and lead the people of the mountains out of poverty and toward prosperity. Anyone could be a thousand-mile horse. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 EN Reborn to Rise Above the Rest 重生之出人头地 This is a story set in Hong Kong in the 1950s. It was a passionate, turbulent era. In those fiery years, there were countless big bosses and their underlings, and no end to tales of lives tossed about by hardship. There were also countless beauties and talented people, and no end to tales of romance and passion. You could call it a dark age, a chaotic world where good and bad were all mixed together, but it was often an age in which heroes rose to prominence. 33.3kReads9.4Score3.4k14d adds
- 66 Thunderous Crackdown on Black Crime in the Political Arena 官场之雷霆扫黑 The chessboard of power, every move calculated, every step taken on thin ice. No matter how cautious you are, you can never guard against everything. Li Yan, a community officer at a local police station, starts from the very bottom. He refuses to buckle under pressure and fears no powerful figures. With thunderous force, he uproots every criminal gang and underworld faction. Step by step, he rises to the pinnacle of power! 86.9kReads8.2Score6.5k14d adds
- 67 The Secret Record of the Between-Realm 筑间秘录 Jiang Ziwen, a renowned designer, was playing a game when someone lured his soul into a dream. He suddenly died... When he was judged in the underworld, the King of Hell took note of his sense of justice and the injustice he had suffered. Since they shared the same name, the King of Hell bestowed upon him secret Feng Shui techniques. After returning to the living world, he fell in love at first sight with Ye Ling, a night patrol envoy of the underworld... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 When the Sorghum Blooms Red Again 高粱再次红了的时候 When the Sorghum Turned Red Again 327Reads—Score114d adds
- 69 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
- 70 The Fanfic I Wrote Actually Replaced the Original!? 我写的同人文竟然代替了原著！？ The fanfiction I wrote actually replaced the original work!? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Climbing the Ranks and Proving the Way 升官证道 Synopsis: Lu Haoming's son-in-law said, “At government offices in the city, reaching director-general level is already the ceiling for people from farming families like us.” Lu Haoming refuses to believe it. The road to office is beset by countless obstacles. He's too handsome, attracting one beauty after another, and his outspoken nature brings him repeated setbacks. Watch how he breaks through and rises straight to the top. 90.2kReads9.5Score10.2k14d adds
- 72 Number One Under Heaven 天下第一 No money to give you, but you can take my life. I’m the best in the world! Looking at his disheveled reflection in the mirror, Chen Dong slammed a fist into it, his eyes bloodshot. “From today on, no one will ever walk all over you again!” 15.1kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 73 The Seductive Wife 媚妇 [Divine doctor + countryside] College student Lu Feng is left a fool after the village chief harms him, but his enemy's fiancée wants to offer herself to him. Many people have persecuted them, but luckily Lu Feng gains the mysterious legacy known as the Nine-Eyed Divine Art. One glance makes beautiful women fall for him, one glance cures every illness, and one glance subdues all things. From then on, he becomes a renowned miracle doctor, treating the sick, taking on local bullies, pursuing beaut 6.6kReads9.2Score97014d adds
- 74 My Wife Exposes My Secret Stash on Livestream, Shocking the World 老婆直播曝光我私房钱，震惊世界 Also known as: Oh No, I Can’t Keep My Secret Stash of Money Hidden Anymore [Urban life + livestream + sweet romance + doting love + tycoon] Su Bai married the campus goddess Lin Qianyu. After the wedding, Su Bai became a rideshare driver, while his wife stayed home as a full-time streamer. They’d been married for years, but every day still felt like dating. They were happy enough. Until one day, Lin Qianyu opened a tub of instant noodles and found it full of bright red 100-yuan bills. The viewer 1.5kReads8.7Score12614d adds
- 75 Those Years Working in Lingnan 岭南打工那些年 This work is a realistic urban novel based on my own experience of heading south to Guangdong for work in the late 1980s. It might be more accurate to call it a memoir of migrant work than a novel. The characters are all based on my colleagues, fellow villagers, and friends I knew well! I chose to write in the first person so that everyone in these pages would feel vivid and real, with a soul of their own. I hope readers will find the voice warm and familiar as they read or listen in their spare 18.7kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 76 Officialdom Is Like a Chess Game 官场如棋 There is no straight road through life, especially when it comes to being an official. Hao Xiaodong spent many years navigating the political arena before gradually understanding its many hidden rules. Now, following his novel The Way to Promotion, a new story is here for readers. Join us as we witness another kind of life in the world of officialdom. 34.1kReads9.2Score4.4k14d adds
- 77 Reborn, Yet Still Unable to Escape That Freak 重生了还是摆脱不了那个变态 Even After Being Reborn, I Still Can’t Get Away from That Freak 33Reads—Score114d adds
- 78 We’ll Break Up Eventually. Who Are You Talking About? 迟早要分——你说谁？ We’re Bound to Break Up Sooner or Later, Who Are You Talking About? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Third Sister 三姐 “If you don't talk about the world's troubles to everyone you meet, then you're someone who lives free of the world's troubles.” Never think too highly of people's hearts, and never underestimate human nature. Nothing is colder than human nature, nothing more chilling than people's hearts. Be a little kinder to yourself. A life in this world is hard-won, and every tribulation is fate. This is the strange coming-of-age journey of an innocent young man. Ordinary people dream of becoming immortals, 118.9kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 80 Back to the 1980s: From the Start, I Cut Ties with My Family 重回八零：开局断亲斩亲缘 Tang Guangyuan has suffered from asthma since childhood, enduring years of hardship and abuse at the hands of his family. After his biological mother beat his own son, who was not yet three years old, Tang resolutely cut ties with her entire family. Overcome with rage and resentment, he unexpectedly became reborn, his soul coming from his modern-day self in the future. After being reborn, Tang Guangyuan awakened the “Farming Spirit Spring System.” The spirit spring water not only cured his ast 682Reads—Score3814d adds
- 81 The Strongest Man 最强人 The strongest person isn’t the one who defeats others, but the one who refuses to be defeated by anyone or anything. Zhuang Xiaoqiang grew up in a poor family. His father’s downward spiral left the family on the verge of falling apart when Xiaoqiang was just eight. From then on, he shouldered the burden of supporting his family. He learned early how important money was to a household, and knew there was no one he could rely on. Everything he wanted had to be earned with his own hands, whether a 42.3kReads9.2Score4.8k14d adds
- 82 Prism Space 棱镜空间 Life is like a prism, and so is human nature. If you could start over, what would you choose? Would you bring your loved ones back to life? Have a loving mother and devoted children? Or return as a top student? Achieve financial freedom and thrive in your career? Everyone thinks differently at every moment... So let's begin from the start, as a way to look back on the past and perhaps inspire others... 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 After My Younger Sister Died, I Became His Wife 妹妹死后，我成了他的妻 After my younger sister died, I became his wife. 324Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 The Number One Brother 一哥 The short drama A Brother is now streaming on Hongguo, with a surprise in store! I used to be a gang boss. Now I’m just a food delivery rider. Ever since I could remember, my father, a former soldier, had been a drunk with a nasty temper. Whenever he got drunk, he liked to beat my mother, often leaving her black and blue. Later, my parents divorced, and while trying to earn money for tuition, I went astray! I had no choice back then. Now, I just want to be a good person! 32.1kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 85 I Love You So Deeply, So Sincerely 爱你那么深那么认真 I Loved You So Deeply, So Sincerely 86Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 EN Dragon City: Winds of Change 风起龙城 Sixty years after global disaster, the Little Freeze has ended. Governments across the living zones begin reclaiming large stretches of unadministered land awaiting development, reorganizing resources and ushering in a full-scale recovery. These twenty years are also known as the “Golden Twenty Years.” It's a dazzling new age: new zones rise one after another, politics sets the stage while capital puts on a show, and ambitious schemers are everywhere. Heroes and strongmen, treacherous warlords a 33.3kReads9.5Score3.9k14d adds
- 87 The Wilds’ Ninth Squad 荒野九队 In the Qinghai Yadan badlands, local police discover a burned corpse. Hanging around its neck is the ID tag of Cang Yunfeng, a member of Wilderness Team Nine. But at that very moment, Cang Yunfeng is lounging on his sofa at home, watching TV. Only when a policewoman calls does he suddenly realize... he seems to have been missing for a very long time... 91.5kReads9.5Score10.5k14d adds
- 88 The Crooked Path 走偏门 [Adapted into the short dramas Fishing in the Shadows, Taking the Crooked Path, and The Mastermind; and the animated dramas Fishing in the Shadows: Drifting North, A Crooked Road to Comeback, A Thousand Faces in the Underworld, and Tales of a Shady Deal. Check them out if you’re interested.] What is the crooked path? Those who walk it seek a way to survive for themselves and plot certain doom for others. Once you step onto this path, it stretches as deep as the sea. You’ll roam far and wide, mix 23.7kReads9.1Score3.7k14d adds
- 89 Crouching Tiger 卧虎 A hidden dragon rises from the depths and devours all things; a crouching tiger commands the mountains and guards a thousand frontiers! When I was little, the strange older girl next door always asked me to help wash her. When I got a little older, she taught me how to be a real man! Twenty years of flashing blades, eighteen years of changing seasons. The black throne may change hands, but true kingship belongs only to madmen who dare to dance with the devil! 14.5kReads7.7Score2.7k14d adds
- 90 My Name Is Sun Zei, Not Thief 我叫孙贼，不是贼 Set in an alternate universe during the 1980s, this story follows a boy who grows up in harsh conditions. It all begins with his desire to eat his fill, but once his eyes are opened to the world, he wants to understand it better. This is not a story about being reborn or transmigrating, nor is it a wish-fulfillment novel. It focuses on martial arts, cultivation, and everyday life. A slow-burn, System-free story of daily life and personal growth, if every person’s life is a book, then Sunzei’s st 43.7kReads9.3Score3.8k14d adds
- 91 Transmigrated into a 1970s Book: With My Over-the-Top Crazy Vibe, I'll Drag Out This Marriage Until You Die 穿书七零：超强癫感婚不离拖死你 Tong Fan was eager to keep up with the times, so she transmigrated into a novel set in the past. In the resource-scarce 1970s, she became the first wife of the male lead, Wei Tianming, in an arranged marriage. According to the plot, she received divorce papers and, unwilling to accept it, went to the city with a big belly to find her husband, who worked far from home and rarely came back. But he was determined to divorce her. Unable to bear it, she hanged herself, taking both her life and her 10.7kReads8.3Score62214d adds
- 92 Liu Ruyan's Bewitching Captive Love 柳如烟的蛊心囚爱 Liu Ruyan’s Enchanted Captive Love 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 This Guy Is a Bit of a Rascal 这个家伙有点坏 [No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea 69kReads9.3Score7k14d adds
- 94 The Tiger Emerges from the Mountain 虎出山 (Original Title: The Tiger Emerges from the Mountain) After accidentally killing an old hoodlum, Li Hu spends three years in prison. When he gets out, underworld boss Hong Weijun seeks him out and immediately gives him a bar... At the same time, the police approach him, hoping he will help them send Hong Weijun to prison... 63.8kReads9.5Score8.4k14d adds
- 95 The Legend of Lu Laoqi 陆老七传奇 In the province of Rehe during the Republican era, a catchy rhyme circulated through the martial world: “Lu Laoqi, Li Changjiu, undefeated throughout Rehe; the Beggar, Detective, and Master Shang; Dalong, Qingshan, and Zheng the Crooked; the Driver, Drunkard, and Wang Chaojie; Pockmark, Du Wu, and Liu Minghu; the Twin Fiends, Kou Haiyang, and Yu Xingba.” It vividly described the eighteen peerless fighters of Rehe at the time. Ranked first was Lu Yishan, a boy from a poor family in the province. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 There's No Water Left on Red Sun Star 赤阳星没水了 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Chip-Controlled, the Goddess Becomes My Maid 芯片控制，女神成为我的女仆 When an encrypted alien code is accidentally implanted in him, ordinary programmer Zhao Yunfeng becomes a target for elimination by the Kronos, a race of “time raiders.” In his darkest hour, ten extraordinary women implanted with “guardian chips” gather around him under a command they must obey absolutely, from an icy executive director to the daughter of a martial arts family, from a top-tier star to a genius hacker. The chips grant them unrivaled combat power, while also linking them through h 412Reads—Score16014d adds
- 98 The Zither Plays Without Cause, and the Emperor and His Consort Bleed Along the Road 锦瑟无端，帝妃喋血路 The Zither’s Strings Ring for No Reason, and Emperor and Consort Spill Blood Along the Road 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Keep Moving Forward, Young Man 少年且前行 Bearing the hopes of his disabled parents and supported by every uncle and elder in Kaoshan Village, Wang Yan arrived in Binhai carrying a fertilizer sack full of the future. He stepped onto campus and began his journey toward changing his life… 60.7kReads9.5Score6k14d adds
- 100 Shenzhen, Beguiling After Dark 深圳，夜色迷人 A tale of business rivalries and political intrigue set against the backdrop of Shenzhen, following Chen Binnan’s remarkable journey south in pursuit of success. This story is dedicated to all the brothers who have headed south, north, or east to make their way in the world! 52.9kReads9.6Score6.3k14d adds
