Novels like I Sold a Toy, So How Did It Spark an Industrial Revolution?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Sold a Toy, So How Did It Spark an Industrial Revolution?, best match first.
- 1 From Agricultural Machinery to Mushroom Farming 从搞农机的到种蘑菇的 In 1959, programmer Chen Qinghe transmigrates into the body of a genius technician at an agricultural machinery institute, only to find himself unlucky enough not to inherit the original's crucial memories. Armed with a not-so-reliable “mentor” golden finger, he barely finishes sorting through the precious technical legacy his predecessor left behind before a big shot sets his sights on him! Next stop: the neighboring beach, where he'll build a “giant mushroom” by hand! His missions: build the “ 16kReads8.1Score897Shelves
- 2 Heaven-Defying Comprehension: I Hand Over Controlled Nuclear Fusion from the Start 我悟性逆天，开局上交可控核聚变 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 502Reads6.7Score104Shelves
- 3 The Beautiful Boss Regretted It So Much She Cried 美女老板悔哭了 [This book has been adapted into the short drama The Beautiful Boss Cried Herself Regretful. Interested readers are welcome to check it out.] “Help me succeed in business, and I’ll date you!” Faced with this promise from the woman of his dreams, scientific genius Lu Hong gave up the chance to study abroad after graduating from college. But after working himself to the bone for over a decade to take the company public, he discovered that her promises of love and stock options had both been a sham 153Reads8.7Score112Shelves
- 4 A Major Industrial Audit: Why Is It You Every Single Time? 工业大摸底，怎么次次都是你 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Tian awakens a black-tech sign-in System. But poor management leads to losses, and all the cutting-edge technology at his disposal has nowhere to go. Then the Dragon Kingdom launches a nationwide industrial survey! "What? You're saying you have thousands of tons of steel cable like this sitting unused?" "That cargo ship is powered by nuclear energy?" "Those drones flying overhead could be turned into bombers with a few modifications!" "And this paint 6kReads8.7Score499Shelves
- 5 Once We Have a Space Station, Obviously We Have to Land on the Moon and Build a Base 有了空间站肯定要登月造基地啊 A military soul travels to the future, saves the family heavy-industry business, and puts a black-tech AI to work for him. First, he builds tanks. Then he builds a star city and an artificial-gravity space station. See how modern technology gives rise to an Earth-Moon metropolitan region and a gold rush in space. Generation after generation of astronauts compose spacefaring poems and tell the legendary tale of the solar system. As the blue world beneath my feet is embraced by the dawn, I'm picki 228Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 You Were Asked to Study the Weather, So Why Are You Hitting the Eagle Fleet with an EMP? 让你研究气象，你磁暴鹰酱舰队？ Internal intelligence report: June 27, 2026. Location: Central Pacific Ocean. Incident: The 46 countries of the Ugly States Alliance sent a combined force of 78 major warships to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise. Midway through, an extremely fast-moving object suddenly appeared in the sky. After descending to sea level, it generated a free-floating electromagnetic field. Several allied warships sent to investigate lost contact... Also: The Uranus, a reconnaissance vessel from the D 12.4kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves
- 7 The Ninth Base City From the Start 开局第九基地市 On Awakening Day, Li Xiang was tested and found to have an F-rank, defective talent: [Repair]. Everyone mocked him as a good-for-nothing who could only fix scrap metal. They had no idea that Li Xiang's talent was conceptual-level "Repair." A cultivation technique has a flaw? Repair it. A bloodline has impurities? Repair it. Memories have gaps? Repair them. While others fought tooth and nail over a single S-rank piece of equipment, Li Xiang quietly repaired one artifact after another from the jun 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Pride of Chinese-Made Goods: Buyer Photos Bring the Entire Internet to Tears 国货之光：买家秀看哭全网 Zhou Yang is reborn. What should have been a dream start turns into a nightmare: he becomes the owner of a company buried in debt. Fortunately, he awakens a Super Factory System and receives blueprints for making tablets from the start. But with no money to spare and high-end tablets costing too much to produce, Zhou Yang can only buy the cheapest materials on the market and modify them into budget tablets. They have 720p resolution and a processor that's four years out of date. Even a 4K video 13kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves
- 9 Reborn: I Push Huaguo's Technology to Its Peak with My Bare Hands! 重生：徒手推演华国科技巅峰！ In his previous life, one mistake brought the nation to ruin. Everything he cherished was reduced to raging flames by an antimatter bomb. Chen Zhongce’s ears were filled with anguished cries that tore at his heart, each one a scream of unbearable pain. Fortunately, Heaven gave him another chance to start over. Controlled nuclear fusion? No problem, I built it by hand. Room-temperature superconductors? No problem, I made them myself. Industrialized starch synthesis? No problem, I just whipped it 3.2kReads8.8Score218Shelves
- 10 I Take Trillions of Netizens Back to the Eighties to Rebuild the Nation’s Heavy Industry 带万亿网友回八零，重铸大国重工 [Industrial powerhouse + period setting + livestreaming + no heroine] After transmigrating to the Great Northwest in 1980, Lin Xi didn’t want to spend his life as a mere draftsman. When Mr. Qian tried to recruit him, he replied with astonishing boldness: “I’m not going to the design office. I want to make money at the labor services company!” He knew that without money, wind tunnels would shut down, projects would be cut, and the nation’s master craftsmen wouldn’t even be able to afford a new pa 66.3kReads9.2Score8.9kShelves
- 11 The Red-Hot Era: From Hand-Building Fighter Jets to Becoming an Academician 火红年代：手搓战机到院士 [Period setting + transmigration + pocket dimension + military industry + one heroine] After transmigrating to 1956, Gao Xiaoguang acquires a black-and-white pocket dimension, with an ancient stone stele towering at its center. “Transmigration? I've transmigrated to 1956...” As Gao Xiaoguang is lost in thought, a milky-white light shines from the stone stele. Suddenly, complete blueprints for the F-4 Phantom fighter jet and the Sidewinder missile appear in his mind... “Holy crap!” “Not only are 14.4kReads7.7Score802Shelves
- 12 Back to the Sixties to Do Scientific Research 回到六十年代搞科研 Transmigrated into that innocent era, why am I still getting caught up in the endless Siheyuan dramas across the myriad worlds? A great man once said, “There’s plenty to do in this vast world.” No more pointless infighting; there’s no time to waste... 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn: From the Start, I Use Black Technology to Analyze the F-22 Fighter Jet 重生：黑科技开局解析F22战机 Jiang Chen is reborn in Longguo twenty years in the past and awakens the System for Analyzing All Things. Jiang Chen: “What? Longguo doesn’t have its own fifth-generation fighter yet? Analyze the F-22.” Jiang Chen: “What? Aerospace engines are too difficult? Analyze an aerospace engine powered by controlled nuclear fusion.” Jiang Chen: “What? You want to go see the moon? Why take a rocket? Analyze a space elevator.” Jiang Chen: “What? The Beautiful Nation wants to reason with us?” “Let me take m 8kReads8.9Score537Shelves
- 14 You're a Top-Tier Star, Yet You Choose an Ordinary Teacher as Your Partner? 娱乐圈真顶流，你择偶普通教师？ Chu Ze was reborn in his family’s old, rundown factory. From the start, he awakened a Factory System that could upgrade the plant and grant bonuses in different fields of research. He could level it up and earn rewards by accepting orders, fulfilling them, and selling the products. Chu Ze returned to Northwestern Polytechnical University and became a teacher. “How can our great nation depend on others for its survival?!” “Dignity lies at the tip of the sword, and truth lies within the range of o 21.4kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves
- 15 Reborn: Patenting Every Technology to Sever the West’s Tech Advantage 重生：全系专利，斩断欧美科技树 [Cutting-edge technology + business + military industry + defending the country + upright values] Carrying the memories of two thousand scientists from every field, Chen Hao is reborn on the day of the college entrance exams in the year 2000. He missed the exam and scored just 180 points? He solves the ten greatest conjectures in mathematics, and the top ten universities fight to recruit him! His father is bankrupt and about to jump off a building from the start? He builds the XP System and 35.1kReads9.0Score3.5kShelves
- 16 Reborn in 1989: Building China's Technology Empire 重生1989：缔造华夏科技帝国 Reborn from 2035 into the golden age of 1989, Xu Huasheng, a top Chinese chip expert, stands at the forefront of the times with a mind full of technological knowledge. He swears that this time around, he won't let himself be pushed around. Starting with the VCD industry, then moving into home appliances, pagers, mobile phones, chips, lithography machines, the internet, cars, drones, new energy, medical equipment, rockets, and satellites, Xu Huasheng begins with his own electronics factory and se 60.9kReads9.1Score4.6kShelves
- 17 A Technical School Student Builds a Nuclear Fusion Reactor and Turns It Over to the Nation! 人在技校，造了核聚变上交国家！ Chen Yang, a vocational school student who had obtained a technology System, had no choice but to go on a blind date with a female PhD student to complete a System mission. Instead, she mocked and ridiculed him. But when the woman returned to her research institute, the nuclear fusion data she had brought back from Chen Yang was classified as the nation’s highest secret. The entire institute was placed under tight control. Skeptical but curious, a nuclear fusion expert went to Chen Yang’s vocati 22.7kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
- 18 Who Let Him Become a Police Officer? 谁让他当警察的？ Xu Lai transmigrates to a parallel world, becomes a police officer, and unexpectedly awakens a god-tier detective System. Whenever he catches a criminal or solves a case, he receives a random reward from the System. The only problem is that the System’s rewards aren’t quite what he expected... “I’m a cop. Why the heck did you give me the skill to counterfeit money?” Xu Lai is initially close to breaking down. But on the very day he reports for duty, he runs into the leader of a counterfeit-money 25.9kReads9.0Score2.2kShelves
- 19 Reborn in 1980: From Courtyard Menace to Peerless National Scholar 重生80，从大院祸害到国士无双 The winds of change are sweeping through 1980! Ye Xiaotian, chief engineer at a high-tech company, is unexpectedly reborn. His memories of future technology become a blade with which to turn the tide of the era. With a deluge of patents in his left hand, he drives his rivals straight into bankruptcy. With black-tech blueprints in his right, he forces foreign companies to grovel. Just as foreign firms are preparing to sweep across China with their wired remote controls, he sneers: “Infrared wirel 4.7kReads6.3Score291Shelves
- 20 Stuck at One HP Forever, Yet I'm Still Invincible! 永久一滴血，我照样无敌于世！ (The comic and print edition are in production, so rest assured and enjoy reading.) [A game that transports everyone to another world, lone wolf, no baggage, ruthless, BUG-level talent, disaster legion, rigorous stats] The Myriad Worlds Game descends, and everyone begins transmigrating. Su Mubai is betrayed by the campus belle he married and left on the verge of death. The Myriad Worlds Game saves his life, but after scanning his body, the stats panel is a disaster. His maximum health is permane 126.8kReads8.8Score9.1kShelves
- 21 Great Tang's Number One Menace 大唐第一祸害 His Majesty Li Er was furious. “My machine-gun company has been lured away by that little menace again?!” A minister replied carefully, “Your Majesty, the Japanese envoy was a month behind on his liquor tab at Wangfujing, so the Crown Prince… the Crown Prince just…” Li Er looked disdainful. “Nonsense! Japan is a friendly neighbor of our Great Tang. They’re only a little behind on payment. Would he really go that far?” The minister answered cautiously, “Your Majesty… the debt is 108,000 strings o 50kReads8.4Score3.7kShelves
- 22 EN I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧 [Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity 89.9kReads9.6Score7.9kShelves
- 23 Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令 Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his 163.2kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
- 24 A Gentle Seduction 软诱 The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us 71.5kReads9.6Score8.6kShelves
- 25 I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷 [Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn 130.4kReads9.5Score53kShelves
- 26 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7kShelves
- 27 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 28 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 29 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves
- 30 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. 335.5kReads9.8Score46.5kShelves
- 31 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 32 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 33 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
