Novels like Ding Ergou’s Life as a Gentleman Thief
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- 151 From the Start, the Campus Belle Turned the Tables on Me 开局被校花逆推 Ye Wuhuan was a newly graduated office drone who decided to splurge on his first-ever visit to a foot massage parlor. He asked for Technician No. 88, but the moment he opened his eyes, he found himself in a parallel world as an eighteen-year-old orphan with the same name, a senior in high school who was pushed down by the school beauty from the start... He thought he was in for a grueling student life, but the Ye family, the richest family in Jiangcheng, came looking for him. He was their real y 13Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 152 Stockpiling Supplies in the Apocalypse: Frozen Throne 末世囤货：冰封王座 [Reborn in the apocalypse + spatial storage + building a faction + ultimate survival] [Reborn in the apocalypse + special abilities + zombies + recruiting beauties + spatial System + stockpiling supplies] From the start, Jiang Chen activates an infinitely expandable spatial System with a capacity of 100 cubic meters. Reborn seven days before the world ends, he can expand the space without limit by absorbing zombie cores, and time inside remains frozen forever. While everyone else remains obliv 12Reads—Score714d adds
- 153 Back to 1973: I Have a Sign-In System 重回1973，我有签到系统 A wage slave among wage slaves was summoned to work overtime in the middle of the night. On his way home at dawn, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse sent him back to the fervent era. Armed with an incomplete cultivation sign-in System, let's see how he makes his mark in those turbulent times. 16.3kReads6.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 154 Reborn in 2006: If Only I'd Been Young and Ambitious, Not Insecure 重生06：假如我年少有为不自卑 (No System) + (Not a tycoon) + (Multiple heroines) + (Making money) At thirty-six, golden bachelor Fu Zilong was reborn in 2006, eighteen years earlier, on the eve of the college entrance exams. The prime of youth at eighteen was now his greatest asset. The eighteen years of life experience he’d gained in the future were his greatest fortune. As he gazed at the young beauties on campus, all naturally beautiful and untouched by cosmetic surgery, he felt that everything was wonderful now that he h 48.4kReads8.4Score5.3k14d adds
- 155 Back to 1982: I Have an Unlimited Supply of Goods 重回1982，我有无限物资 I came back reborn with my house? The thing is, my house refreshes itself every day. Take something away, and it reappears the next day! And so, in 1982, my supplies began refreshing without end! 1.3kReads8.0Score10614d adds
- 156 Reborn: From the Start, I Can Hear the Young Intellectual’s Inner Thoughts 重生，开局就偷听女知青心声 [The rating just came out and will keep rising!] [Period rebirth, farming, pure romance, slow-paced and not violent] If you like this kind of story, come take a look! If you don't, head on over to Tomato Book City, where plenty of great books are waiting for you! Su Yun is reborn in 1974 as an educated youth sent to the countryside. From the start, the educated youths' dormitory collapses, so he has no choice but to board with a local family. By chance, he ends up under the same roof as Lin Qing 1.6kReads6.2Score—14d adds
- 157 New Year's Day: A New Year Dawns, Spring Comes to Every Home 大年初一：新岁启，万户春 The First Day of the New Year: A New Year Dawns, Spring Comes to Every Home 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 From the Start, I Hand Over the Cultivation World, and My Country Helps Me Become an Immortal First 开局上交修仙界，祖国助我先成仙 The unlucky Ye Bufan accidentally transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a slave. Fortunately, the jade pendant he carried with him could somehow contact his powerful motherland... 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 The 1960s: From Mountain Hunting to the Richest Man in Beijing 年代60从赶山打猎到四九城首富 New book: "Hunting in the Mountains in 1970: Raising Five Younger Siblings and Marrying the Most Beautiful Educated Youth". Come give it a try! [Reborn][Period][Making a Fortune][Hunting][Fishing][Treasure Hunting][Family Life] Zhang Weidong is Reborn in the 1960s, with a System that rewards him with points whenever he earns money. At first, he gets one point for every dime he earns. As the story progresses, that changes to one point for every dollar. He also has a portable space with a store in 6.1kReads8.2Score51114d adds
- 160 The Qingqiu Fox and the Scholar 青丘狐和书生 The Fox of Qingqiu and the Scholar 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Reborn and Living the Good Life: Starting with a Breakup with the Campus Belle 重生风流，从和校花分手开始 [Rebirth, No System, Stock Trading, Entrepreneurship, Business Empire] Lin Ze was reborn. When he opened his eyes, it was the day in 2014 when the college entrance exam results came out. He had missed the English exam, and his total score was 559, just one point short of the cutoff for a key university. In his previous life, he obediently followed his parents' and girlfriend's advice, retook the year at school, and got into Zhongshan University, hoping to land a stable, well-paying job. But whil 14.3kReads7.0Score62414d adds
- 162 We Just Broke Up, and Now a Rich Beauty Won’t Leave Me Alone 刚分手，白富美就赖上我 [Urban cultivation, feel-good, passionate romance, every beauty wins him over, decisive and ruthless, multiple heroines] My girlfriend thinks I'm poor and wants to break up with me, but I've become a cultivator and am about to become invincible. What should I do? Seeking advice online! 2.5kReads—Score17414d adds
- 163 No Cure for Lovesickness 相思无解之 "A practice piece. It's a bit of a mess." The ultimate push and pull between the prime minister's only daughter and the scheming crown prince. Everyone believes the crown prince, who used political maneuvering to hold on to his position, is only using her. They don't know that she is a ray of light in his heart. She grew up surrounded by love, while he, despite being heir to the throne, had to dodge arrows that could fly from the shadows at any moment... He is scheming and sinister; she is kind 214Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 164 Transmigrating to the 1960s: From the Start, I’m Asked to Take in a Dying Man’s Child 穿越六零：开局遭遇临终托孤 [Historical era + Rebirth + System + Pocket Dimension + Light fantasy] After dying, Xu Jianguo was reborn in a parallel world in the 1960s. He happened to save a Taoist master and his apprentice, and as the old Taoist lay dying, he entrusted his three-year-old apprentice to Xu Jianguo's care. With a little sister suddenly in his life, Xu Jianguo began raising a child. Watch as he makes the most of the vibrant 1960s. 10.2kReads8.8Score65314d adds
- 165 I Transmigrated to a Matriarchal Society, Where Life with Multiple Husbands Is Peaceful and Stable 穿越母系社会，一妇多夫的生活也安稳和睦 Transmigrating into a matriarchal society, she finds a stable and harmonious life with multiple husbands. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Back to 1980 with My Pocket Dimension 带着空间回到1980 Original title: Returning to 1980 with an Inventory Space [Period piece + no System + making money + taking advantage of every opportunity] Lu Shu, a man who has never accomplished anything, unexpectedly arrives in 1980 and wakes up to find that he has an inventory space full of supplies. Feeling lost in this unfamiliar era? Then let's start with a modest goal: make three hundred million first! With the inventory space at his disposal, watch Lu Shu take advantage of the whole world. How could he 3.9kReads8.8Score25814d adds
- 167 Emotional Counterbalance: I Became Everyone’s Rock 情绪对冲：我成全员主心骨 I publicly confessed to the aloof top student by reading her a paper full of corrections, and became a laughingstock across campus. No one knew that the more flustered she got, the faster my bank balance grew. Other tycoons show off by throwing money around. I corner the heroines, then offer them a way out and cash in. I pointed out a data flaw to the tsundere campus belle, and she asked me through red-rimmed eyes, “How do you even remember that?” An offbeat influencer's livestream went off the 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 168 I Never Chose This Alluring Nature; Who Can Understand a Life Adrift? 一身媚骨非我愿，半世浮沉谁可知 Born with a Bewitching Charm I Never Asked For, Who Could Understand My Half-Life of Rising and Falling? 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 I Have a System: Reshaping My Life 我有系统之重塑人生 [Tycoon] [Grounded in Reality] [Multiple Heroines] [Making Lots of Money] [A parallel world, unrelated to reality. Any resemblance is purely coincidental] After waking from a dream, Li Dong returned to 2011. Before being reborn, he had been the small-time owner of a nobody company. His partner deceived him, his wife betrayed him, and his family fell apart. In the end, his company went bankrupt, leaving him with millions in unpaid debts. The System activated, and his Eye of Truth opened, allowin 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Goddess Conquest System: Slap Them and Trigger a Critical Rebate 女神攻略系统，打脸触发暴击返还 [Urban Tycoon, System-Based, Multiple Heroines, Hilarious Face-Slapping, Satisfying Comeback] [Rags-to-Riches, Female Confidantes, Money Games, Sweet Revenge] "Money can solve 99% of problems, and luckily, I have money... no, wait, I have a System. But true wealth is the people willing to climb from the bottom to the top with you." "Handsome, come on over~" Su Qingyue leaned drunkenly against the villa's doorway, her bathrobe half open and her gaze hazy. Chen Fan held a takeout bag and stared at 3.8kReads—Score40614d adds
- 171 The Invincible Spendthrift System: My Beautiful Master 无敌败家系统，我和美女师尊 After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Lin Xuan binds himself to the [Invincible Prodigal System]: give gifts to beautiful women, and trigger returns worth tens of thousands of times more! He spends a hundred thousand spirit stones to cut in line in front of everyone, then offers his icy master a Warm Sun Jade Pendant. An 8,888-fold critical return nets him a sacred artifact, and he is accepted as a disciple ahead of schedule. He roasts meat with a saint-tier cultivation manual, uses div 28Reads—Score914d adds
- 172 On New Year's Eve, Fireworks Rise. I Raise My Glass to This Year 除夕日，烟火起，举杯敬此年 On New Year's Eve, Fireworks Rise, and We Raise Our Glasses to the Year 7Reads—Score514d adds
- 173 Pill Refining Is Too Cutthroat, So I Refine Concepts Instead 炼丹太卷我炼概念 [Ding! A suitable Host has been detected. The ten-thousandfold return System is binding...] [10%...50%...100%!] [Binding successful! Host: Lin Yuan.] Lin Yuan’s pupils abruptly contracted. [This System is designed to help the Host grow. Giving items to disciples can trigger random-multiplier return rewards. The lower the value of the item given, the greater the disciple’s satisfaction, and the higher the odds of triggering a high-multiplier return.] [Host: Lin Yuan] [Cultivation: Second Level of 258Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 I'm an Honest, Plainspoken Man 我是正直淳朴的老实人 Hello, everyone. I'm Zhu Zhengchun, an honest, upright, and down-to-earth man. My surname isn't Duan, it's Zhu. I'm not the least bit envious of Duan Zhengchun, and I have no desire to become him. Ladies, I really am an honest, upright, and down-to-earth man. Thank you for loving me. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 A Laid-Back Dad Raises Kids and Walks His Pets 青山奶爸遛宠带娃 Handcrafted by the author, with no AI: [Reborn] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Caring for a Baby] + [Adorable Pets] + [Working Hard to Make Money] + [Brotherhood] = [Urban Farming + Everyday Life] + [Advanced Martial Arts + Special Abilities + A Touch of the Supernatural] + [Disaster] Ye Tian was a top mercenary and agent before being reborn. In his new life, he raises Niuniu (Ye Tiantian), the adorable daughter of the captain who sacrificed herself to save him. With a few cute pets, a group of friends 56.2kReads8.8Score4.7k14d adds
- 176 1960: Making It Big in Hong Kong 1960，发迹在香港 Period Setting + Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + One Female Lead + Unusual Development + Stirring Up Trouble Yang Jing transmigrates to 1960 in a parallel world, right in the midst of a nationwide famine. He has a beautiful wife, two underage sisters, and just a few pounds of grain to last them half a year. Fortunately, he gains a pocket dimension that can grow over time. Besides farming, it can also transport him to different places once he collects all its formation flags. So a British nuc 5.7kReads7.9Score34314d adds
- 177 Rootbound: A Game of Illusory Love 根囚：幻爱游戏 The protagonist, Zeng Guosheng, is deeply enthralled by a metaverse space known as the Root Universe. By a twist of fate, he enters an extremely bizarre mental simulation game. In this virtual world, an irresistible force drives him to pursue the female characters in the game with a near-pathological, reckless obsession. The entire game world is steeped in distorted values. Materialism runs rampant, and money and sensory gratification become the only standards. It lays bare the profound spiritua 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Reborn: Turning the Rules of the City Upside Down 重生后，都市之逆转规则 Reborn: Reversing the Rules of the City 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Moonlight Through the Woods and Spring in the Mortal World 林间月与人间春 Spring in the Human World Beneath the Forest Moon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Back to the Late 1970s, I Have a Choice System 重回70年代末，我有选择系统 A modern food-delivery rider was hit by a heavy truck while saving someone and sent back to the 1970s, reborn as an educated youth about to take the college entrance exam. Ding! The choice System has been activated. A choice has been triggered. Choice One: Take the college entrance exam? No way. You can return to the city freely in a year, so stay in the village for another year. Reward: Become the village secretary's live-in son-in-law. Choice Two: The college entrance exam is the only way to c 17.7kReads7.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 181 The City’s Divine Doctor: My Older Sisters All Have a System 都市神医之合租的姐姐们都有系统 (Divine Healer) (Multiple Heroines) (Original System) This novel features an original System. The protagonist is a college student who has just graduated from medical school, and is determined to become a divine healer devoted to the health of countless ordinary people. 3.8kReads—Score17214d adds
- 182 A Legendary Life in the Era 年代传奇人生 A ruthless soldier king is reborn in the Greater Khingan Mountains of the 1960s. With the pocket dimension and gear from his previous life, he takes his friends hunting and exploring. The early story centers on hunting, with cross-province searches for family, treasure hunts, and battles against spies woven in. They explore fortresses, raid tombs, and get caught up in other thrilling adventures. Novel pets include a wolverine, a big black horse, a yellow-throated marten, reindeer, and a mantis. 63.2kReads7.8Score8.9k14d adds
- 183 The Ultimate Immortal Garden 极品仙园 After graduating from college, he returns to the countryside to build a life there and unexpectedly obtains a mysterious space. Cultivating immortality, farming, and romance... His originally peaceful life attracts the attention of powerful factions. Assassins come after him, bigwigs gather, and a tiny mountain village becomes the focus of the world... 10.8kReads8.5Score1.2k14d adds
- 184 Impeaching the President 弹劾总统 Impeach the President 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 I Cultivate the Blade-on-Credit Dao, Slay Injustice in the World, and Subdue Evil Spirits Under Heaven 我修赊刀道，斩世间不平，镇天下诡煞 I Practice the Dao of Credit Blades, Slay Injustice in the World, and Subdue Evil Spirits Under Heaven 9Reads—Score414d adds
- 186 Crossing to the Other Shore: Book 44 渡至彼岸第44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! 9Reads—Score114d adds
- 187 The Otherworld Invades, and the World Watches Live: From the Start, I Won the Ghost Bride 异界入侵全球直播开局拿下鬼新娘 [Multiple Heroines + Invincible Power Fantasy + Global Livestream] From the start, I was thrust into a bizarre game, where I immediately married a ghost bride and claimed the innate treasure Golden Scissors! The whole world watched the livestream in shock. “Is this how you're supposed to get through a horror dimension?!” While everyone else awakened useless abilities and struggled to survive, I awakened the “Player” ability and unlocked every skill from Genshin Impact, Devil May Cry, Dragon Ball 350Reads—Score5114d adds
- 188 The Mountain Doctor 山野妙手小医圣 [Urban + rural + miracle doctor + multiple heroines + hot-blooded + wish fulfillment] Wang Tiezhu, a simple-minded young man from Taoyuan Village, often went into the mountains to work alongside the widow Lin Wan'er. One day at noon, the two rested in the shade of a tree beside a field ridge. A village rogue who had been tailing them for a long time suddenly sprang from the bushes, intent on taking advantage of Lin Wan'er. The foolish lad everyone looked down on had always been treated kindly by 3.3kReads—Score19114d adds
- 189 No Song at Summer's End, No Meeting in the Life to Come 夏末无歌，余生不遇 No Songs at Summer's End, No Reunion in the Years to Come 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Look Out for Yourself, for a Woman's Heart Is the Most Poisonous 独善其身，最毒妇人心 Look Out for Yourself, for a Woman's Heart Is the Most Poisonous 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 I Caught a Tiger and Raised It Like a Cat 抓个老虎当猫养 I Caught a Tiger and Raised It Like a Cat 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Empress’s Personal Little Strategist 女帝的贴身小军师 The Empress's Personal Little Strategist 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Putting the President on Trial 审判总统 Put the President on Trial —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Rescuing Zhao by Besieging Wei: A Surprise Attack on Black Wolf Mountain 围魏救赵，奇袭黑狼山 Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao, launch a surprise attack on Black Wolf Mountain —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Reborn in 1960: From Bachi Alley to Hongjiagou 重生1960：八尺巷爆到洪家沟 After leaving Eight-Foot Alley, Hong Tiejun found an empty corner and tossed the cornmeal into his pocket dimension. Before he had even made it to the mouth of the alley, he had already wolfed down the cornmeal cake. Feeling the money and ration coupons in his pocket, Hong Tiejun couldn’t help reflecting... Hongjiagou lay at the foot of Dahei Mountain, and it was still a desolate place. Nestled against the mountains and water, Hongjiagou had fields stretching out in every direction... Hong Tie 1.2kReads6.7Score—14d adds
- 196 Wealth Comes Knocking 富贵逼人 After losing both his parents, Lin Zhennan inherits the secondhand bookstore and art shop his father left behind. By chance, a spider that has cultivated for ten thousand years is struck by Lin Zhennan's palm just as its spiritual essence is at its weakest, during a thunderstorm. Its original spirit enters his body, and through a twist of fate, Lin Zhennan inherits its supernatural abilities. Later, he obtains an ancient, powerful spatial ring, which contains a small world of its own. Before lon 23.4kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 197 I Captured Sokoria’s President 我抓了索科里亚的总统 I Captured Sokoria's President 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Senior Sister, I Don’t Want to Be a Human Cauldron Anymore 师姐，我不想继续当炉鼎了 Senior Sister, I Don't Want to Keep Being a Human Cauldron 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Desert Dung Tycoon: The Water God Wants Me as His Priest 荒漠粪豪：水神求我当祭司 Ao Ying's path to godhood began with a lump of dung despised by all. Giving up on the path to immortality, he took ten years' worth of hard work with him: a box of foul-smelling camel dung pellets. Then he entered a dilapidated temple in the vast desert. Furious, the fallen Water God confronted him: "How dare you defile the gods with such filth?!" Ao Ying sneered. "My lady, this 'filth' can stabilize shifting sands, grow plants, and gather water! It can overturn the greatest injustice of this ag 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Alone on the Fragrant Garden Path 小园香径，独徘徊 Along the Fragrant Garden Path, I Wander Alone 9Reads—Score—14d adds
