Novels like From the Black Streets to the Wilderness
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- 101 Reborn in the Interstellar Era: Choosing to Become a Pharmacist 重生在星际选择成为药剂师 Chen Fangzi died young from overwork. She had nothing when she died: no house, no savings, no lover. She arrived in the underworld radiating the resentment of an overworked wage slave. A small accident happened when she went to be reincarnated, and she gulped down the Meng Po soup after just one taste. If Chen Fangzi had known she’d be reincarnated on a garbage planet, she would have asked Meng Po for another bowl of soup. If she was going to forget, she wanted to forget everything, rather than 128.6kReads8.8Score13.2k14d adds
- 102 The Apocalypse Arrives, and I Rely on Farming to Lead My Roommates on a Killing Spree 末世降临,我靠种田带室友杀疯了 [Apocalyptic Game + Multiple Worlds + Ensemble Cast + Farming + No Romance + Stockpiling] [The author doesn't read reviews, but occasionally reads comments on individual chapters] Synopsis: An apocalyptic game descends, and the dorms across the entire school are overrun. Thanks to a dream, Xu Kewang gets a head start on stockpiling supplies with her roommates, and they successfully unlock all their career skills. But can someone tell her what kind of good person gets Crazy Dave as their career? 87.6kReads9.4Score14k14d adds
- 103 A City Wage Earner's Rise to Legend 都市打工人,逆袭成传奇 [Millennium Era] [Factory Comeback] [Mature Women] [Multiple Female Leads] [Workplace] [Romance] [Urban Underworld] [Feel-Good Story] [Heiresses] [Campus Beauties] [Goddesses] [Rich Beauties] [Older Women] [Everyday Family Life] [Urban Comeback] [Adapted from Real Life] This is an inspirational story about Hao Qiangzhuang, an ordinary wage worker who suddenly gets the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the boss's son-in-law and heir! But he has no idea that a web of schemes lies behind it all. 33kReads7.7Score4.4k14d adds
- 104 EN The Wei Clan's Cursed Son Becomes Grand Secretary—Now They Beg Me to Return 魏家孽种成首辅,全族跪求我认祖 (Also known as The Wei Fox) [Political Schemes][One Female Lead][Ensemble Cast][The Wei Faction] Condemned from birth, I was given the name Niesheng. On the day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and my grandfather mourned before the ancestral hall. The whole household looked at me askance, all calling me a disaster star who had stolen another's fate. My biological father hated me like an enemy, my elder half-brother regarded me as an omen of bad luck, and my stepmother hid a knife behind 652.8kReads9.2Score91.7k14d adds
- 105 Seeing Through Half a Lifetime 看破浮生过半 Life is a journey of self-cultivation. As we keep moving forward, we correct our mistakes in time and gradually become better versions of ourselves. Life is full of suffering, and we can only save ourselves. If only we could live our lives over again. At the very least, we could avoid a lot of detours. 623Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 I Act Like a Big Shot After Watching Crime Movies, and the Tycoon Begs Me to Save His Life 我看警匪片装大佬,首富求我救命 [Clever mind games + No simping + Pure satisfaction] [Takes off after ten chapters] One day, the bookshelf of ordinary office worker Lu Ping suddenly refreshed with its first intelligence report. He carefully opened it and read every word. Excitement and nerves hit him as he discovered that it contained all the secrets of a cold, high-and-mighty female CEO... So Lu Ping watched police dramas and copied the words and mannerisms of the big shots. He practiced a detached, bloodthirsty gaze in the m 8.9kReads9.1Score72814d adds
- 107 Wildflowers Bloom at the World's End 末日野草开花 Order collapsed in an instant. The neon lights of civilization were swallowed by the wasteland of the apocalypse, and simply staying alive became the most extravagant stroke of luck. Chen Mingfei never imagined he would be swept into a catastrophe engulfing the entire world. From a frantic fight for life and death in a hospital to the despairing struggle to survive in a dead, empty city, he is forced to wage a long and brutal battle with death amid the ruins. Here, suffocating cold snaps and na 2.2kReads—Score21914d adds
- 108 Ning Yan: When Women Rule the Roost 宁兖,牝鸡司晨 [Ensemble political intrigue + entrusted heir + factional strife + expansion of the realm + redressing an old injustice] [Wronged powerful minister male lead x emperor female lead disguised as a man] Also known as "After I Blundered into the Imperial Family, I Discovered I Was the Imperial Family" On a winter night in the seventh year of Chengxu, Emperor Zhao Ning Fu suddenly went mad. Wearing the robes of his favorite consort, Yan, he climbed the bell tower and rang the funeral bell before fall 189Reads—Score10414d adds
- 109 The Comments Say I’m the Villainess, So I Drove the Male Lead’s Little Brother Wild 弹幕说我是恶毒女配,我把男主弟弟撩疯了 The Comments Said I Was the Vicious Female Supporting Character, So I Drove the Male Lead's Younger Brother Wild 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Digital Homecoming: Reborn 《电子归途之重生》 The Electronic Road Home: Reborn 352Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Diary of a Soldier in Anxi 安西兵日记 Dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, this is a world without magic or battle aura, without cannons or muskets, without anyone invincible under heaven or any prophetic geniuses. People here grow old, fall ill, and die. They bleed and get hurt, act foolishly and make mistakes, and find themselves helpless and lost. Here, there are passionate brothers and tender romances, longing for one's homeland and the harsh reality of the battlefield… 15.6kReads9.4Score1.9k14d adds
- 112 Dissolver: Assassination 解离者:刺杀 With the election approaching, the political landscape is shrouded in uncertainty. Acting on a secret assignment, Rick navigates official cover-ups, power struggles, and layers of deception. Following the faintest clues, he carefully pieces together the truth and hunts down the mysterious mastermind lurking behind it all. He quietly snuffs out a deadly crisis capable of changing the balance of power before it can take root. 101Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Book of Mara 魔罗书 An Eastern fantasy novel of mystery and magic: In an era of chaos, the millennia-old undying demons once sealed away, the Dark Demon, Soul-Eater Demon, Plague Demon, Earth Mother, and others, reappear in the mortal world, coveting the Grandmasters’ sacred tome of wisdom, the Book of Mara, and plotting a dark conspiracy that could destroy heaven and earth... As the powerful Grandmasters travel far and wide to seal away demonic threats, they struggle to uncover the key hidden within the Book of Ma 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 I'm the Chosen One, So Beating Reborn People Is No Big Deal 我是欧皇,吊打重生者不过分吧 The world's biggest virtual online game, "Lord Era", has launched! Su Chen, hailed as the luckiest player alive, is just about to dive in when he suddenly realizes something is wrong! “Holy crap, my roommate is reborn?” “He's come back as a king from ten years in the future and re-entered this game?” “Ten years from now, I'm his enemy? He wants to steal my girl? He came back to crush me?” “Who would've thought that once the story got going, I'd be the villain getting crushed by the reborn guy?” 35.7kReads9.0Score2.9k14d adds
- 115 Digital Homecoming: Breaking Free from the Cocoon 《电子归途之破茧》 Electronic Journey Home: Breaking Free 337Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Journey to the West: Travelogue 西游旅记 An ordinary young man wakes up one day to find himself in another world, where everyone calls him the Tang Monk... “I'm doing the Journey to the West? Seriously?” “I'll see all eighty-one thousand miles and laugh my way through eighty-one tribulations?” “I'm just a gentle monk with little fighting ability, but my three disciples are another story.” “Amitabha. I kill to protect life; I destroy karma, not people.” “Wukong, once we've retrieved the scriptures, do you think your master could return 12.6kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 117 Enigma Insists on Plucking the Rose Enigma偏要折玫瑰 [Two male leads + ABO + refined scoundrel Enigma older top vs. silent, insecure Alpha street thug from the red-light district bottom] Chu Yi, an Alpha who clawed his way up from the red-light district, treasures the young Omega master of the Bai family as if he were a priceless gem, all because of a meal he once received from him. Against everyone's expectations, he finally marries the man he loves, believing that at last the clouds have parted and the moon has come out. Until one day, he discov 63.5kReads9.5Score10.8k14d adds
- 118 Those Years I Spent Eating Trash in Another World 我在异界捡垃圾吃的那些年 From the start, get by on farts and grow stronger by eating trash. The humble Xiao Yang accidentally stumbles into a world of garbage, where he can pick up trash from all the heavens and myriad worlds at will. From then on, he never has to be a wage slave again... “Allow me to introduce myself again. The man standing before you is a bitter-love tree grower, a cosmic monster tamer, a Three-Body pancake master, a beneficiary of the Ink Dragon, a Sharingan wholesaler, a parasitic beast breeding e 17.2kReads8.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 119 After My Siblings Came Out, I Became My Family’s Only Hope 哥哥姐姐出柜后,我成了家里唯一的希望 After My Older Brother and Sister Came Out, I Became the Family's Only Hope 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Dissolver: Incoming Missile 解离者:导弹袭来 Rick, the hard-bitten killer from the series, returns once more. His close friend is brutally murdered, and the trail leads to a major missile trafficking case deliberately kept under wraps. To avenge his brother, Rick ventures alone into the heart of the conspiracy. As he presses forward through a perilous investigation, he finally slays his enemy with decisive force and successfully averts a missile crisis threatening the United States. 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Crippled Prince My Elder Sister Refused to Marry, I Helped Him to the Throne 嫡姐不愿嫁的残废王爷,被我扶上了龙椅 My Elder Sister Refused to Marry the Disabled Prince, So I Helped Him Take the Throne 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 I’m Just Slacking Off, Who Accused Me of Usurping the Throne? 我一摸鱼的,谁污蔑我摄政? [Lighthearted comedy] + [alternate history] + [one heroine] + [nearly invincible] My name is Ling Chen, and I'm in ancient times. To obtain citizenship in the Great Zhou dynasty, I was forced to volunteer for the Vanguard Battalion and go chop people up on the battlefield. By a twist of fate, I rescued an old geezer from the enemy. It was the best investment I ever made. I thought I had latched onto a powerful patron. But... Why am I the MVP when the results screen comes up? That's when I final 30.7kReads8.5Score2.3k14d adds
- 123 On the Day of the Apocalypse, a Six-Foot-Tall Man-Mom Fell from the Sky 末日那天,天上掉下来一个一米九的男妈妈 On the Day of the Apocalypse, a Six-Foot-Two Mama-Boy Fell from the Sky 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 My Whole Family Is Reborn, and They Battle It Out at Home Every Day 我家全员重生者,他们天天宅斗 Everyone in My Family Is Reborn, and They Spend Every Day Fighting for Favor at Home 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Stay Away from Me, or You’ll Become a Simp 别靠近我,会变成舔狗 Don't Get Too Close to Me, or You'll Turn into a Hopeless Simp 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 I Saved an Immortal's Life, and He Turned Around and Had My Whole Family Executed 我救了神仙一命,他反手把我全家抄了 I Saved an Immortal's Life, and He Turned Around and Had My Entire Family Arrested 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Everyone in the Sect Is a Reborn Big Shot Except Me, the Real Rookie 全宗门都是重生大佬,只有我是真菜鸟 Everyone in the Sect Is a Reborn Big Shot Except Me, the One Real Rookie 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 National Survival: I Keep the Nation Afloat with an Intelligence System 国运求生,我靠情报系统养活国家 [National destiny + livestream + wilderness survival + primeval wilderness] A higher civilization has sealed off Blue Star’s resources! A livestreamed wilderness survival challenge begins, binding each pioneer to their nation’s destiny! If a contestant dies or finishes last, their nation will suffer a natural disaster! The Dragon Kingdom’s pioneer is dropped into a harsh environment. Earthquakes and extreme cold plague the country, making it the laughingstock of the world. Pioneer Lin An is sent 368kReads9.1Score42.2k14d adds
- 129 Survival in Another World: I Get the Devouring Golden Toad from the Start 异界求生:开局获得吞噬金蟾 The luxury cruise ship Sea God is struck by a supernatural typhoon, sending all its passengers transmigrating to the otherworldly realm of Ten Thousand Scars, where ferocious beasts roam. Killing monsters yields talent tattoos and weapons and equipment. From the start, Lin Mo devours a golden toad and awakens the divine skill of Infinite Devouring. Devour flesh and blood to gain attributes; devour runes to acquire talents, then wipe out every race! From surviving on a deserted island to sweep 15.1kReads6.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 130 Factory Work: The Beautiful Factory Darling Won't Marry Anyone but Me 工厂打螺丝:美女厂花非我不嫁 [Urban High Martial Arts] [Urban Supernatural Powers] [Invincible] [Satisfying Read] [Wild Imagination] Lin Tao was discussing with a few coworkers which of the new female employees was the prettiest. One coworker asked which of the women he would choose as his wife. Lin Tao was just about to answer when he awakened the Invincible Sign-in System, which contained all kinds of magical little gadgets. At once, Lin Tao decided that if he was going to pursue anyone, it would be the prettiest girl in 1.3kReads—Score10914d adds
- 131 Apocalypse Game: Buying the Whole World from a Subway Station 末日游戏:从地铁站购买全世界 [Apocalyptic survival + cities + upgrading hideouts + no female lead + decisive and ruthless + disaster survival] The apocalyptic game has arrived. Disasters are striking all over the world. Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, extreme heat, viruses, bitter cold… In just six months, Blue Star's population has fallen by 80 percent, and civilization has nearly collapsed. With no other choice, humanity must enter the apocalyptic game and take on survival challenges in the hope of staying alive. Fortunat 22.3kReads8.7Score1.9k14d adds
- 132 To Snag a Village Entry Slot, Rich Women Worldwide Hurl Billions at It 为抢进村名额,全球富婆怒砸百亿 [Fishing by the Sea] [Tycoon] [Countryside] [Fishing] [Livestream] Zhou Yang, whose net worth was over a hundred million, lost everything overnight, and his wife ran off. Just as he was about to step onto the rooftop, he suddenly acquired the strongest Countryside Upgrade System. After upgrading his family’s fish pond, it actually turned into the sea. From then on, things quickly got out of hand. All kinds of rare sea fish appeared, drawing in all sorts of fishing enthusiasts. From that day on, 3.3kReads7.3Score22314d adds
- 133 Dissociator: Financial Bullets 解离者:金融子弹 Rick takes on a covert chain of missions spanning three continents: assassinate the key figures in charge of five ports. At the same time, he uses the hedge fund behind his client to make a killing, sending his personal wealth skyrocketing. Danger follows close behind. Britain’s MI5 and Interpol trace the clues back to Rick, reopening last year’s unsolved assassination cases and quietly closing their international dragnet around him. The unlikely alliance between assassination and capital stirs 259Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 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
- 135 Dreams of Tokyo: Love Through the Four Seasons 东京梦华:爱有四季 Tokyo Dreams: Love Through the Seasons 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 The Imperial Consort of the Great Sheng Dynasty 大盛皇妃 Ensemble cast + revenge + black lotus + multiple couples + intense push and pull + fated connections + not a pure romance + high-IQ palace intrigue that grows into political machinations + tragic romance + alternate history + a battleground of tangled relationships The main stage is the imperial court: behind its dazzling, ornate facade are witty, charming daily moments, and a brutal, bloody core. The palace secrets are described in detail, and the content may be upsetting. This is a bad ending. 835Reads—Score10214d adds
- 137 The Rouge Spinster 胭脂剩女 Through the emotional journey of Yang Jingjing, a single woman past the age traditionally considered ideal for marriage, the story offers glimpses of every facet of society and the warmth and coldness of human life, exposing the ugliness and greed of human nature. Full of twists and turns, it paints a penetrating portrait of the realities faced by women like her. 2kReads—Score15014d adds
- 138 My Ex Dumped Me, So I Became His Stepmom 前男友甩了我,我反手成了他后妈 My Ex Dumped Me, So I Became His Stepmom —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 EN Demon Hunter 狩魔手记 After the nuclear war, slaughter began to spread across the entire world. The order of human society completely collapsed, and the law of the jungle became the foremost rule. Once desire was freed from its restraints, there was no road forward, only a choice to turn left or right. Hell lay to the left, and hell lay to the right. 3.3kReads9.2Score62514d adds
- 140 It's Sesame. He Added Sesame 是芝麻,他在加了芝麻 [Cultivation World + Food + Ensemble Cast + No Toxicity + Lighthearted Comedy + No Female Lead + No Harem + No Angst] After transmigrating into a cultivation world as a menial disciple of the Wudao Sect, he awakens the Culinary Dao System. The entire sect goes crazy competing for a taste of his cooking. From menial disciples and outer- and inner-sect disciples to personal disciples, elders, and ancestors, everyone gets involved. Their tricks are endless. No one is more shameless than the next. T 512Reads—Score10214d adds
- 141 The Strange Tales of Mortal Life: Li Longbiao 浮生乱象之李龙彪 I'm the scum at the bottom of society, the trash you all talk about. I don't have much education, money, status, a house, a car, or a wife. I'm a single man, just some hoodlum. It's not my fault I ended up this way. When I was a kid, I had big dreams and ambitions, too. I wanted to study hard, get into a good university, then find work in the city and become a respectable office worker. But the cruel realities of life shattered every one of those beautiful dreams. Through its portrayal of Li Lon 1.8kReads—Score14414d adds
- 142 Seeking Immortality in the Strange Realm: I Have a Divine Ability Tree 诡界求仙:我有一棵神通树 [Masterful survivalist cultivation + eerie cultivation + Tiangang divine powers + ruthless and decisive + no harem + not a bleeding heart] Born as the master of divine powers, I am the Dao Lord of the cosmos! The eerie invaded, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and the cosmos was left in ruins… The gods and Buddhas of the heavens, the great powers of the Immortal Dao, all vanished overnight. The path to immortality was severed, the divine path fell silent, and demons and monsters ran rampant. Where ar 72kReads8.3Score6.6k14d adds
- 143 I'm Reborn, So Why Would I Still Play Esports? 都重生了谁还搞电子竞技啊 To escape the suffocating pressure of facing his mother, Zhang Rui resolutely left home to pursue a career in esports. But fate dealt him a rough hand, and, consumed by obsession and thrown off balance, he eventually lost himself. Luckily, fortune smiled on him, and he unexpectedly came back reborn! Having finally come to his senses, he begins to enjoy life. With a carefree school life, a smooth-sailing entrepreneurial journey, and a beautiful woman by his side, life couldn’t be sweeter. Until t 867Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Blondie Transmigrates Into a Book, and Even a Top Student Can Throw Their Weight Around 黄毛穿书,学霸也是霸 [Lighthearted daily life + healing + multiple heroines + transmigration into a book] Zhang Chen was an ordinary student who had topped the college entrance exam rankings for years. After growing tired of taking countless exams, he decided that a life where everything went smoothly was far too dull, so he resolved to take it easy and enjoy his school days! Gaming all night, sleeping in class, staying up late to watch videos! He’d enjoy all the things he’d never gotten to enjoy before! But on 46.1kReads8.9Score5.3k14d adds
- 145 A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 2, A Lonely Road to Immortality 修真文明指南——序章2,仙途陌路 A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 2, The Immortal Path Diverges 768Reads—Score10514d adds
- 146 The Silent Sword’s Path to Immortality 默剑长生 Modern painter Shen Mo transmigrates into the body of a constable’s son in the Great Liang dynasty. Using the Daoist art of ink painting as a key to cultivation, he turns ordinary skills into a path to immortality, practicing amid the everyday bustle of life as he sets foot on the road to becoming an immortal... 4.3kReads9.3Score39014d adds
- 147 Drug Enforcement Elite 禁毒精英 Two major drug cartels operate in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the story of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and US Northern Command, assisting Mexican police in the fight against drug crime. 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Secret Squad 绝密战队 No heroine, no System, no cheat powers. The male lead has none of the usual advantages. He’s young at first and the darling of the unit, then grows up to become the unit’s boss… or its dad? Ah, whatever! The point is, he’s an absolute force to be reckoned with. At the age of six, Yu Zhiming enters the new-recruit training camp of the 15th Unit. There, he learns the meaning of faith and makes many comrades, but his identity prevents him from joining the military. So he can only join the country 45.8kReads9.3Score5.5k14d adds
- 149 From Pangu to Puyi 从盘古到溥仪 [A Tomato-style Records of the Grand Historian + a blessing for audiobook listeners + grounded in historical sources + told with the flair of a novel] [Also known as From Pangu's Creation of the World to the Last Emperor's Abdication] A million-character epic spanning from Pangu's creation of the world to the last emperor's abdication. This isn't a mindless power fantasy: it combines historical authenticity with an engaging, nuanced touch. The book tells the whole story of Chinese history, from 615Reads8.3Score13014d adds
- 150 Black Gauze and Rouge 乌纱与胭脂 Human nature is like the sun: impossible to look at directly. Many people appear charming and refined on the surface, but strip away the facade and you’ll see human nature laid bare. By portraying the real chaos of society, this work exposes the evil and filth within human nature and calls on people to choose kindness and uphold social decency. 7.8kReads—Score50814d adds

















































