Novels like The Poor: A Criminal's Return from the Wrong Path
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- 151 New Utopia 新,乌托邦 [No System] [Apocalypse Survival] [Human Nature Reversal] The Ghost Abyss tears open the sky screen, and world-corroding aberrant creatures sweep across the mortal realm. Survivors take up arms and join anti-corrosion combat squads, using their own flesh and blood to hold back the fiends from beyond the boundaries. Everyone believes the calamity comes from the abyss, and that fighting with all their might will win back their home and ensure its survival. Only when the smoke clears and the curt 2.2kReads—Score18214d adds
- 152 I Kissed the Demon Dog’s Toes and Became a Cultivation World Troublemaker 亲吻魔犬脚趾,我成了修仙乐子人 [System shenanigans + absurd comedy + light power fantasy + no farming] Other cultivators slay demons and vanquish monsters, reaching for the heavens, but my very first cultivation quest is to kiss a demonic hound’s toe?! After awakening the Taiji Fun-Seeker System, the more ridiculous the quest, the more outrageous the reward! Fairy dresses, lace gloves, bizarre abilities... As long as I keep the antics coming, my cultivation skyrockets! No protagonist torture, no frustration, no melodrama, jus 1.2kReads9.4Score11014d adds
- 153 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi 37.4kReads9.3Score4.4k14d adds
- 154 After Returning from Immortality, I Became a CEO’s Bodyguard 成仙归来后,我成了总裁保镖 A vocational-school student is tricked by his childhood friend into joining a scam compound, where he meets Shu Wanqing. After making a clever escape, he is hunted by gangsters and falls into a rift in space, becoming a cultivator. In the immortal realm, he wipes out the demon clan and battles the realm's patriarchs. After reaching the pinnacle of cultivation, he returns to the human world. While seeking revenge, he meets Shu Wanqing again. She has inherited her family's fortune, and Ling Jue be 1.5kReads—Score10314d adds
- 155 The Potato Oracle’s All-Purpose Comeback Theory 土豆万能接话神棍论 The Potato: An All-Purpose Conversationalist and Mastermind 416Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 The Sumeru Ring: My Road to a Comeback 须弥戒,我的逆袭之路 I was reborn on a rainy night in late autumn. Not far away, my second uncle and his son were digging a pit for me, preparing to bury me in a graveyard. In my previous life, I woke up and escaped, never to return. I drifted through life, and just before I died, I came across a news report. On this very day, my second uncle sold my newlywed wife to human traffickers, leading to her being abused and killed. This time, I won't run away. Whoever digs the pit will be buried in it. 8.8kReads7.4Score79214d adds
- 157 Anti-Scam Livestream: The Station’s Cells Are Full 反诈直播:所里快蹲不下了 Scammer: Our records show an overseas purchase of 200,000 US dollars on your account. Did you make this purchase yourself? Lu Ze: Yes, I made it myself. What about it? The scammer thought, You sure know how to brag! Lu Ze: I never thought... the fact that I bought weapons overseas would finally come to light! Using his god-tier voice imitation skill, Lu Ze mimics the voices of several underlings, as well as the sound of an AK firing in full auto. The scammer's face turns pale. “I'm calling the p 20.4kReads9.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 158 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa 34.1kReads8.8Score2.9k14d adds
- 159 A Cultivator in the Mortal World 红尘修士 One day, Yun Xi's soul left Blue Star, and she fell into the vast world of cultivation. She never expected to start out as a lowly nobody, with a life as fragile as a blade of grass. In the face of despair, she seeks out opportunities, rises from the dust, and gradually stirs up the entire cultivation world! 6.1kReads8.5Score61014d adds
- 160 I’m Dead, But Not Entirely 朕死了,但没完全死 I Am Dead, But Not Entirely 2.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Day My Husband Turned Gentle, My Best Friend’s Marriage Died 老公变温柔那天,闺蜜的婚姻死了 The Day My Husband Turned Gentle, My Best Friend's Marriage Died 6.2kReads—Score6014d adds
- 162 I Spent Ten Yuan on a Secondhand Marketplace and Bought a Fiancé 我在二手平台花十块钱,买了个未婚夫 I Spent Ten Yuan on a Secondhand Marketplace and Bought Myself a Fiancé 11.6kReads—Score9314d adds
- 163 Lie Flat Immortal Venerable 躺平仙尊 [Rapid-fire laughs + lighthearted + no romance] Lin Xian transmigrates to a cultivation world gripped by cutthroat competition. His previous incarnation was the ultimate grind king, who worked himself to death from cultivating nonstop. Lin Xian binds himself to a System that rewards him with cultivation whenever he rests, lies flat, or slacks off, but punishes him if he cultivates seriously... 1.2kReads—Score10314d adds
- 164 The Benevolent Ancestor of the Tang Dynasty 【大唐仁祖】 [Golden Finger] [Transmigration] [Li Ke] [Political Intrigue] [History] This is the only alternate-history novel anywhere to feature a protagonist who fulfills the ideals of "establishing a moral compass for Heaven and Earth, securing the lives of the people, carrying on the lost teachings of the sages of the past, and bringing peace to all generations." From the start, he is caught in a dead-end situation: Zhangsun Wuji has already begun laying the groundwork to frame him, and fewer than six y 5.6kReads—Score50614d adds
- 165 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 334.8kReads9.7Score42.8k14d adds
- 166 EN Unhinged? We're All Unhinged—and That's a Good Thing! 癫,都癫,癫点好啊 [Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay. 335.2kReads9.8Score46.4k14d adds
- 167 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score177.1k14d adds
- 168 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 984.6kReads9.9Score161.8k14d adds
- 169 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds

















