Novels like An Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Life
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- 101 The Siheyuan Detective Who Started by Preparing Silly Zhu's Body for Burial 四合院从给傻柱收尸开始的刑警 Period drama + Farming Through Famine + Mystery and Investigation + Intriguing Mysteries + Courtyard House [No harem, no formula, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot, satisfying read] On New Year's Eve in 2012, a frozen male corpse is found beneath Yong'an Bridge in Beihai Park. Was it murder, or was the body dumped there? The victim is Sha Zhu, and the person who collects his body is Xu Damao. What kind of bond ties their lives together? At the scene is a Shanghai-brand watch that ca 1.6kReads7.1Score—Shelves
- 102 Special Forces: From the Start, I Shocked Tang Xinyi 特种兵之开局震惊唐心怡 Ye Feng transmigrates into the world of special forces. When his veteran grandfather is killed by the mercenary leader Scorpion, he vows to avenge him! He awakens a System that makes him stronger with every completed mission and grants him all kinds of skills. From the start, he awakens god-tier capture techniques. On his way to enlist, he subdues Scorpion’s men, astonishing Tang Xinyi! After joining the military, he trains day after day, continuously completes missions, and unlocks all kinds of 2.1kReads8.2Score157Shelves
- 103 Special Forces: The Glory of a Soldier's Soul 特种兵之荣耀军魂 He transmigrates into a merged special-forces universe and becomes Chen Xiwa's brother. Starting with Special Forces 1, he joins the Wolf Fang Brigade and rises step by step to become the strongest special-forces soldier! He forges a glorious military spirit! 8.1kReads9.2Score376Shelves
- 104 Special Forces: Starting with Turning Down Fan Tianlei's Recruitment 特种兵之从拒绝范天雷特招开始 Xiao Yun transmigrated to a parallel world and obtained the Strongest God of War System. “Congratulations, Host! You completed the mission of shooting at a target 5,000 times every day for three consecutive months. All attributes +9,999, and Marksmanship Proficiency has increased to level 999.” “Congratulations, Host! You completed the mission of rock climbing 1,000 meters every day for three consecutive months. All attributes +9,999, and Rock Climbing Proficiency has increased to level 999.” “C 3.5kReads8.3Score240Shelves
- 105 Unbelievable! Did That Genius Kid Just Report to New Recruit Training? 离谱！天才少年去新兵连报到了？ 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! 5.9kReads8.7Score474Shelves
- 106 Special Forces: So the Squad Leader Is the Real Big Shot? 特种兵：原来班长才是真大佬？ Ye Chu accidentally transmigrates into the world of special forces, becoming a soldier in the same graduating class as Captain He, as well as his squad leader. With Ye Chu's help, Captain He establishes the Wolf Fang Brigade. But then Ye Chu disappears for over a decade. When he finally reappears, it's at the Iron Fist Regiment, where he's merely the squad leader of a livestock-rearing unit. He Chenguang: “Squad Leader Ye, you were my squad leader at the Iron Fist Regiment. How come you're still 3.6kReads8.8Score187Shelves
- 107 Special Forces: Starting with Assault 从突击开始的特种兵 He was just watching a special forces drama. Who could have guessed he'd end up in Soldiers Sortie? The former shut-in had suddenly become the most sought-after recruit around. He Zhijun: “You brat, you were born to be my soldier!” Tie Lu: “Shameless! You're poaching recruits right under my nose!” Lei Keming: “How about... giving me a chance?” Long Kaifeng: “Knowledge is the key to victory in future warfare.” Wen Han: “Where did you come from?” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Special Forces: After Guarding a Deserted Island for Ten Years, I Was Exposed 特种兵：镇守孤岛十年，我被曝光了 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Ding Chen awakens a System and becomes a proud naval serviceman of the Yan Kingdom. Just as he is planning to make his mark, he finds himself assigned to a remote island, far from the mainland, guarding the most distant waters of the Yan Kingdom all alone. He keeps watch for ten whole years. Ten years later, fortune finally smiles on Ding Chen, and he captures every enemy soldier who invades the island. His feat of capturing dozens of men single-handedly 1.6kReads8.6Score101Shelves
- 109 Special Forces: Starting as a Special Operations Instructor 特种兵：从特战教父开始 Qin Fan transmigrates to the parallel world of Blue Star and becomes a retired special forces soldier. Just as Qin Fan is about to leave, he is called back and appointed chief instructor for the selection of the special forces unit codenamed “Dragon Fang”! Qin Fan awakens the “Strongest Instructor System” and establishes one elite special forces unit after another, striking fear into countries around the world! You say I don't know how to train soldiers? Qin Fan: Despair-inducing Hell Week, the 4.5kReads8.7Score347Shelves
- 110 King of War in the Special Forces 我是特种兵中的战争之王 After transmigrating into the world of "I Am a Special Forces Soldier", he gains the support of a System. Whether in the navy, army, air force, special forces, or as a pilot, he excels at everything. He is the undisputed King of War in this world. 8.5kReads8.7Score351Shelves
- 111 300 Days of Survival Against the Odds 绝境求生300天 During the fifth campaign of the Korean War, the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army’s 180th Division is trapped with no way out. Liang Baoqing, an operations officer on a regiment’s staff, leads a small breakout squad and cleverly escapes behind enemy lines. There, they attack enemy supply convoys and arm themselves with captured weapons. They blow up trains and bridges, fight desperately against an elite American special operations unit, and battle the enemy in the freezing snow, struggling to sur 70.1kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
- 112 The Pinnacle of Power: Mingyu’s Name 权力巅峰之明宇的名义 I was born to be a mountain, not a stream, and I long to look down on life from the peaks! I was born to shine like the blazing sun, and I insist on soaring against the wind, radiant beyond measure! Mingyu's Principles: 1. Join me, and you'll have a bright future! 2. If I make you angry, I'm sorry. Please change! 3. I never speak with barbs. If I embarrass you, I did it on purpose! 4. Don't make me angry. The consequences are serious. I might accidentally take everyone out, and if things get wor 18.6kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
- 113 Special Forces: I Made a Grenade from the Start 特种兵：开局捏了一颗手雷 From the start, Lin Yang transmigrates into a combined special forces world and gets trapped by terrorists in a jewelry store while taking part in the special forces selection process. At a critical moment, he awakens the golden finger every transmigrator needs. From then on, he gradually grows into a sharp sword protecting his country. He forms a legendary squad to guard his country through the darkness and watch over the dawn! (The story moves a little fast at first, updates ten thousand words 5.2kReads8.9Score322Shelves
- 114 I'm Reborn, So Who's Going Back to School? 都重生了，谁还复读！ The college entrance exam results came out, and Li Shishan failed to make the list. While everyone else hurried to retake the exam, he slapped his thigh and declared, "I'm done with school. I'm going to take the civil service exam!" Since he'd already missed his chance, there was no point regretting it. Li Shishan decided to take a different path, entering the political arena with only a high school education and embarking on an unconventional career in government. 21.3kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 115 He Gave Up a Trillion-Dollar Fortune to Enlist, and Now the Goddess Is in Tears 放弃万亿家产，入伍后女神急哭了 [Explosive, Satisfying Read + The Army's Ultimate Trickster + Passionate Military Life + Lighthearted Comedy + High-Energy Twists] Qin Luo transmigrated into the body of a super-rich heir who rinsed his mouth with bird's nest every day and ate lobster as an appetizer. His billionaire father had only one requirement of him: spend a hundred million every month. But the life of throwing money around every day had gradually grown boring. By chance, Qin Luo ran into the woman of his dreams. He decide 19.2kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 116 Special Forces: A Warrior’s Soul Reborn in Fire 特种兵之浴火战魂 In Yi Yanyan's novels, the battlefields are the fiercest and the love is the most heartbreaking. Never abandon one another; share life and death. With my body, I will defend my homeland. Tempered in fire, our fighting spirit will never die. (No System) + (No golden finger) + (No transmigrate, no reborn) + (Female soldier king and warrior goddess) + (Male soldier king and war god) + (Elite special operations team) + (Mercenaries) + (Drug lords) + (Terrorists) + (Armed militants). The special forc 2.8kReads7.3Score263Shelves
- 117 Reborn on the Political Circuit: My Brother Comes from a Powerful Third-Generation Family 官道重生：我的兄弟是三代 Peng Mingchuan was framed, forced out of office, and left utterly disgraced. Then he was reborn in the year he graduated from college. With a second chance at everything, his first move was to save his well-connected best friend. The road to success in government is treacherous, but this time he has powerful backing and the experience and memories of his previous life. He must climb with all his might. If there's a problem, let's talk it out. You won't listen to reason? Well, that's just wonderf 164Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 118 Reborn, I Turned a Poor Township into the Greatest Town in the World 重生，把贫困乡打造成天下第一镇 Political intrigue + One heroine + Flood control and disaster relief + The pinnacle of power Li Qingshan returns to 1998 and becomes the city’s top secretary. From the start, his superior dies, leaving his path to advancement hanging by a thread. To escape his predicament, Li Qingshan has no choice but to go all in. He leads the people in disaster relief, building factories and setting up e-commerce... Smiles gradually appear on people’s faces, their lives grow better and better, and the grand v 3.1kReads8.5Score189Shelves
- 119 Enlisting as a Military Policeman: Do I Need to Retire Early? 入伍当纠察，需要提前退伍？ [Modern Military + No System] Jiang Xiaolong had just transmigrated when he found himself in a recruit camp. He had planned to lie flat for two years, then inherit the family business, but unexpectedly, he was assigned to the military police... “Brother Long, where’s a good place for new recruits to be assigned after training?” “Logistics, the motor company, or the maintenance unit would all be fine. Just don’t get assigned to the military police.” “Why not?” “Never heard that the military polic 6.4kReads9.2Score495Shelves
- 120 Kiss of the Tempered Rose 淬火玫瑰吻 (Separated at the start + self-redemption + special forces + secret love + conquest + a deeply devoted CEO who relentlessly pursues and spoils his wife) Jade shatters in a poor home, tempering a sword’s gleam; blood congeals beneath the stars, guiding the way back. After treading a thousand dusty roads, a golden branch rises; at last, she returns to her old nest, where spring fills the hall. That year, Lu Qingge went out sketching with her older brother. Then disaster struck, and she lost her me 7Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 121 The Winds of Change on the Official Path 官路之风起云涌 This book is the sequel to Reborn: The Candid Confession. Father and son Zhang Anping and Zhang Hao have both left Jiang Province to enter a much broader political arena. After losing most of his support, Zhang Hao once again finds himself in a difficult situation. How will he plan his moves and secure victory from afar? Watch the tides of change, and listen for the dragon’s roar. (All characters, locations, and events in this book are fictional. Please do not connect them to real life. Any rese 1.9kReads8.9Score167Shelves
- 122 A Grand Vision for Officialdom 官场宏图 A lesser physician treats people; a great physician treats the nation. Xia Feng, a talented traditional Chinese medicine student, resolutely enters politics to avenge his father's death. But when it rains, it pours. On the very day of his wedding, his father-in-law dies unexpectedly. From then on, Xia Feng is met with cold indifference at home. His mother-in-law resents him, and his wife lives apart from him for long stretches. With his father-in-law gone, Xia Feng loses his shelter. Then, after 12.5kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves
- 123 Crossing the Class Divide: My Position Packs a Lot of Clout 跨越阶层，我的职务含权量有点高 Starting out as a civil servant in a small town, Xu Zhen defied the odds, rose rapidly, and climbed steadily up the ranks. There are political struggles, the freedom that comes with personal wealth, and a beautiful, capable wife with powerful connections backing him. 20.5kReads8.4Score1.6kShelves
- 124 Rise and Fall in the Officialdom 官场沉浮 A class reunion, a chance encounter: watch as Huang Haichuan spins a down-to-earth legend, stages a spectacular reversal of fortune, and rises step by step while finding success at every turn in the political arena. When he meets his former lover again, who will have the last laugh? Huang Haichuan is determined to take his grassroots rise to the very end! 620Reads8.6Score129Shelves
- 125 The Road to Power: From a Grassroots Civil Servant to the Top 权力之路：从基层公务员到巅峰 Someone once said that the political world is a jianghu, and being an official isn't about holding office, but about navigating human relationships! Someone else said that politics is a game, a game of power and wealth! But Chen Li's conviction as an official is this: The greater the power, the greater the responsibility! 6.4kReads8.8Score437Shelves
- 126 You Were Supposed to Serve as a Conscriptee, but You Built a Hacker Empire 让你当义务兵，你却打造黑客帝国 Chen Jun bound himself to a hacker System. With its help, he steadily accumulated military merit and turned his nation into a hacker empire. Three years later, his father told him to come back, register his marriage with An Ran, and hold the wedding. He called the armed forces unit where he was stationed, only to be left stunned. 5.9kReads8.6Score529Shelves
- 127 Reborn with a System: I've Decided to Don a Military Uniform 重生遭遇系统：我决定披上军装 [System + top student + patriotism + military life + positive energy + strong female lead] At eighteen, just as Qin Ya began college, she received a legendary golden finger: a System. She initially wanted to hand it over to the country, but discovered that the System was actually stopping her from doing so. “Host, if you hand me over to the country, you’ll be erased.” The moment Qin Ya heard this, she made up her mind. If that was the case, then she would hand herself over to the country! Qin Ya 1.2kReads8.7Score110Shelves
- 128 Code Name: Legend 代号传奇 He’s slept on a graveyard hill, stood on the execution ground, acted like a bastard, and played the hooligan. He’s traveled to the ends of the earth and walked the line between life and death... It is an early autumn morning. The rain has passed, and the sky is high and clear. A train racing from the far south of the country toward the interior roars past villages and towns, forests and fields, speeding across this vast land... A mysterious unit of legend. The legend of a soldier king begins wit 28.3kReads9.3Score3.8kShelves
- 129 Reborn in the Military Camp 重生之军营红妆 In her previous life, Su Mu made one wrong move after another and missed out on her dream. She drifted through life in a daze, until she died beneath the wheels of a car while saving a child. She never expected to be reborn. This time, she swore she would achieve her dream and make up for all her regrets! Let's see how she makes her life shine! 148Reads9.0Score194Shelves
- 130 Reborn in Politics: From Townships to the Pinnacle of Power 重生官场：从乡镇基层到权力巅峰 [Reborn in the Political Arena + Grassroots Township Civil Servant + A Chance Encounter Saves a Beauty + Secretary + Standing Up for the People + Rapid Rise to Success + Pinnacle of Power + Claiming the Throne] The road to office is hard, harder than climbing to heaven... On a path tangled with money, power, and sex, Wu Tianze, reborn into a second life, cuts through every obstacle. He takes on the powerful and battles capital, never abandoning his principles or putting anything before the peopl 84Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 131 Absolute Power: I Am the Backer 绝对权力：我就是靠山 Ye Minghao, a secretary to a senior official, is sent back to the countryside. His girlfriend breaks up with him, and his parents' job transfers are put on hold. Starting at the grassroots level, he climbs step by step to the top. 70.1kReads9.2Score4.5kShelves
- 132 God-Tier Mechanic: From Auto Repairman to Automotive Legend 神级技师：从汽修工到车圈神话 Feel-good story + skill upgrades + no female lead + fast pace + getting rich + friends everywhere + low-key flexing!!!!! Zhang Xiaonian awakens a god-tier vehicle modification System. The harder the vehicle is to work on, the stronger the skills he receives. The rich line up to throw money at him, while his competitors kneel and call him Master. 15.9kReads6.9Score949Shelves
- 133 The Courtyard's Rebellious Son 大院逆子 This is not a hero's story. It's the story of someone who is alive, living on behalf of those who died. Military life, the Sino-Vietnamese War of Self-Defense and Counterattack, reconnaissance soldiers, brotherhood, father-son bonds, a bygone era, growing up, passion, heartbreak, and tears. 94.3kReads7.6Score6.5kShelves
- 134 Why Go to All That Trouble? Wouldn’t It Be Better to Transmigrate as a Leader? 费那劲干啥，直接穿成领导不香吗 A note: The protagonist is a spineless, inexperienced shut-in, not a hero who sleeps among beauties and wakes with the world in his hands. A groveling nobody scraping by on dirt must gradually transform into a soaring roc, rising through the heavens and stirring up the winds and clouds. That kind of change takes time. After being heartlessly abandoned, the groveling nobody transmigrates into a leader in the central district of a provincial capital and enters the heart of power. He is nervous, ye 5.6kReads8.5Score278Shelves
- 135 The Veteran Never Falls 老兵不陨 A military historical novel based on real history, with no transmigration and no wish fulfillment. This is the story of a Chinese soldier's personal growth! It also vividly portrays the rise and expansion of the People's Army and the great Chinese nation reclaiming its former glory. Centered on the brothers Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yu, the novel follows several young people from northern Jiangsu whose lives take very different paths. The story begins in the turbulent years of the War of Resistance 756Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 You Were Only Supposed to Run the New Recruit Company, So Why Are They All Special Forces? 让你代管新兵连，全成特种兵了？ Qin Mo is reborn into the world of special forces. It's recruitment season from the start, and a new recruit company made up entirely of troublemakers has left every officer at a loss. As it happens, the special forces instructor activates, and Qin Mo volunteers to become the new recruit company's commander, building the unit from scratch. Recruit A: “Commander, I understand the reasoning, but why is there a Hell Week in recruit training?” Recruit B: “Commander, is our military culture really th 4.2kReads8.5Score472Shelves
- 137 Special Forces: Starting with Fire Phoenix 特种兵之从火凤凰开始 Qin Tian transmigrated to a composite special forces world and became a veteran in an ordinary company. He’d planned to spend this life in peace and quiet, but then the higher-ups suddenly ordered him to take part in selecting and training female soldiers. Qin Tian had no interest in serving as deputy instructor to a bunch of pampered princesses and heiresses. It wasn’t until a long-overdue phone call came that Qin Tian finally understood: he still couldn’t escape the constraints of society. Sin 14.2kReads8.1Score836Shelves
- 138 This Is Insane: The Nation's Top Anti-Corruption Fighter 简直疯了：反贪第一人 No matter how many tricks you have up your sleeve, Lin Dongfan hits back hard and quickly rises to become the top anti-corruption investigator! 17.7kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 139 I Asked a Retired Old Man to Buy Cigarettes, and the Whole Army Hunted Me Down 让退休老头买烟，全军疯狂追杀我 [Original + Humorous + Explosive Action + Subverts Expectations + No Heroine] Meng Yan transmigrates into a military world and gets bound to a completely bizarre System. What should he do? No problem. Luckily, he’s even more bizarre than the System. [God’s Eye] [Pose as a college student, earn two hundred yuan every time you go out] [My Bullets Always Veer Left] [Small and Medium Home Appliance Modifications: Way Ahead of the Competition] [Wilderness Survival Guide] Meng Yan rubs his fore 12.5kReads9.1Score973Shelves
- 140 Special Forces: From the Start, I Wipe Out an Entire Company 特种兵：开局打爆一个连 Ye Yun transmigrated to a parallel world and was assigned by his superior to take charge of the worst company in the regiment. From the start, the soldiers all looked down on him. He beat every last one into submission with a single punch! While nobody believed in him, he turned this bottom-ranked company into a terrifying force that could crush the special forces, all in just three months! Regiment commander: “I told you to train these bottom-ranked soldiers, and you turned every one of them in 4.7kReads9.1Score456Shelves
- 141 Top Gaokao Scorer: I Turn Down Tsinghua and Peking University to Join the National University of Defense Technology 高考状元：放弃清北，加入国科大 [Top Soldier] [Academic Genius] [One Heroine] [Researcher] [Powerful Background] Why join the National University of Defense Technology? To put everything I've learned in my life to work for my country, and defend the might of our Dragon Nation. Why become a soldier? To use what little strength I have to protect the countless homes behind me, their lights shining bright. Why become a researcher? To strengthen our nation's borders with my own efforts, and safeguard our Dragon Nation for generatio 2.6kReads7.7Score182Shelves
- 142 Special Forces: Sign-In to the Marvel System from the Start 特种兵：开局签到漫威系统 After transmigrating into the world of special forces, Tang Ming starts out as a soldier assigned to raise pigs. He can only sigh at his bad luck. Fortunately, the Marvel Hero System activates, and completing missions earns him the special abilities of a superhero from American comics. With the System’s help, Tang Ming rises from pig-raising soldier to become the strongest soldier in the entire army! 2.6kReads8.6Score209Shelves
- 143 A Heartbeat That Ends With Youth 心动止于少年 A Crush That Ends in Youth 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 711th Special Operations Company 711特别作战连队 Ensemble cast | Anti-drug police | Special forces | Beautiful but tragic characters | Mercenaries | Military | War | Chen Huahan is a man paralyzed in both legs, and the son of Lin Zhaoxi, a heroine of the anti-drug police. Ten years ago, his dream was to become an outstanding anti-drug special police officer like his mother. But he was confined to a wheelchair and unable to walk, which caused him more pain and grief than anything else. Ten years later, a military unit reached out to him and ma 848Reads—Score106Shelves
- 145 There Is Nanmu in the North 北方有楠木 Xu Nan was returning to work at the hospital after a trip home when she ran into Hong Fangbei, who was on his way back to his unit. Fresh from a romantic disappointment, Xu Nan was in a bad mood, and the two got off on the wrong foot. Later, they crossed paths again at the hospital, and their misunderstanding deepened, but Hong Fangbei couldn’t get Xu Nan out of his mind. After he made a point of spending time with her, the two gradually came to understand and appreciate each other. She had thou 666Reads7.0Score103Shelves
- 146 At the Public Forum, I Speak the Truth. Who Can Handle It? 问政现场，我实话实说，谁能扛住 Tang Xiu, the youngest deputy county magistrate in Jinquan City, is thrust into the center of a storm after a live-streamed public Q&A. Faced with shirking officials and predatory corporations, he flips the table and takes aim at entrenched corruption! From “the magistrate who hits people” to “an economic hero,” how will he break the deadlock with an iron fist and create an industrial empire worth tens of billions? Meanwhile, his enemies in the shadows have already written his name on their “dea 8.6kReads7.9Score658Shelves
- 147 Wait for Me in the Wasteland, and Love Me 在荒芜里等你，爱我 The first time they met, Luo Yan was walking along a desolate highway when an unexpected downpour soaked her to the skin. A passing military vehicle gave her a ride to the base, where she was going to visit her younger brother, whom she hadn’t seen in two years. There were three people in the vehicle: the driver, an officer with two bars and one star, and another with two bars and two stars. They met again three years later, when she was transferred to a field army as a medic. It wasn’t raining, 609Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 148 An Elite Fighting Force 精兵劲旅 12.5kReads8.7Score828Shelves
- 149 Bad Soldier, Good Soldier, Mercenary 孬兵，好兵，雇佣兵 “I’m Razor, a private military contractor operator. You could also call me a company-employed mercenary. I like using a Fairbairn-Sykes dagger to strike at the enemy’s vital points...” Told from the rare perspective of a first-person narrator, this novel follows the inner journey of Razor, a mercenary. After graduating with an uncertain future ahead of him, Wang Rui chooses to enlist and gain some life experience. He joins an army unit as a shiftless coward, but eventually transforms into a good 709Reads8.3Score102Shelves
- 150 Officialdom: From Town Mayor to a Bright Future 官场：从镇长开始平步青云 Tang Xiangyu graduated just in time to catch the last wave of job assignments. Unwilling to settle for the status quo, he wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and build a legacy for his own era! But the road through officialdom is hard. Every step forward is another rung on the ladder, and only he knows the hardships and heartache along the way. See how Tang Xiangyu turns the tide and writes a glorious life of his own! 17.4kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
