Novels like The Tale of Picking Dew
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- 101 Taking Power While Pregnant, So Step Aside, You Crazy Little Uncle 带球掌权，疯批小表叔靠边站 [A Powerful Alliance + Unhinged Cousins + Hatred and Political Scheming + Workplace Power Struggles + Corruption + Power Struggles in a Wealthy Family + Marriage for Mutual Benefit] Pregnant with twins, Wen Canlan takes over the Jing Group in a crisis. Just as she finds her footing, she falls into a series of deadly traps laid by her unhinged younger cousin, Bo Jinlin. A trap involving hundreds of millions in funds, a stolen bid, sabotage at a construction site, and a deadly car crash come one 81Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 102 Keep All That Male Beauty Away! I Only Want the Throne! 男色通通闪开，本宫只想要登基！ [Reborn + strong female lead + true and false princesses + woman ascends the throne + political intrigue] Would being the founding emperor’s only daughter, surrounded by handsome men, be amazing? Lan Zhaoyu says it’s not amazing at all! All she wants is to be a sovereign with no spouse, in the literal sense: an unmarried empress! Her father handpicked legitimate sons from distinguished noble families, all accomplished in both civil and military arts, and adopted them as his sons. They all fawned 2.3kReads9.1Score365Shelves
- 103 I'll Create the Gods: My Power Has No Known Limit from the Start 神由我来造：开局异能上限不明 [Combat Thrills] + [Mind Games] + [Delusional Comedy] + [Strategic Maneuvering] + [A Touch of Mystery] + [Lone Wolf to Wolf Pack Ensemble] + [Two Powerful Leads: A Scheming Female Boss and a Cocky Mastermind] + [Ensemble Cast in a Vast, High-Martial-Arts World] + [Multiple Types of Dungeons] My name is Si Longtian. I'm sixteen. By day, I'm the sweet and beautiful school belle. By night, I'm the Boss known as the "Shining Reverse Scale." The one-legged female boxing champion of urban legend? Th 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Begging for Forgiveness? I Just Want to Watch You Fight Over the Spoils 跪求原谅？我只想看你们分赃内讧 [No CP, strong female lead, satisfying revenge, entertainment industry, high IQ] Shen Ruoqing, a devoted fan, never imagined that her own father, Shen Jianguo, and her idol, Lu Ran, would join forces to seize her billion-dollar fortune by force. She is betrayed by both family and faith. Revenge. It is all that remains of her life. Zhou Xuan flipped through her passport. Every page was spotless, without a single flaw. “Will Shen Jianguo believe it?” “He won't.” Huo Chen's lips curled. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Foolish Girl Returns 傻女归来 [Strong female lead]+ [No CP]+ [Revenge]+ [Political intrigue]+ [Decisive and ruthless]+ [Multiple secret identities]+ [Strong allies] Suffering can wear down a person’s resolve and break their backbone, but it can also awaken their potential and forge a new beginning. When Lian Hui was five, a sudden illness took both her parents. A high fever left her intellectually disabled, and her own relatives drove her out of the family home. Alone with a dog, she struggled to survive in the wilderness ne 12.7kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 106 Reborn: From Rookie to World Champion 重生：从萌新到世界冠军 [No Romance + All-Female Main Cast + Feel-Good Read + Growing Heroine + Major Golden Finger] (The heroine will change her name. The story is expected to split evenly between tournament and everyday-life plotlines.) In her previous life, Ren Zhaodi’s family sold her to a village fool for a huge bride price, condemning her to a life of drudgery and misery. Heaven sent her back to the day she turned eighteen, when the fool’s family came to ask for her hand in marriage. In this new life, she would 558Reads9.2Score115Shelves
- 107 The Heyin Coup: Empress Dowager Ling's Sixteen-Year Thirst for Power 河阴之变一灵太后的十六年权欲 Hu of the Northern Wei, the Empress Dowager Ling, was born into the Hu clan of Anding. Because her aunt was a Buddhist nun, she was able to enter the palace as a child. At the time, the Northern Wei's harsh old rule dictated that a mother must die when her son became crown prince. She insisted on giving birth to Yuan Xu anyway, and won that gamble with death. On the night Emperor Xuanwu died suddenly, she evaded an assassination attempt by the Gao clan with the protection of Yu Zhong and Cui Gua 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Saltless Empress 无盐为后 She was the only empress personally appointed by the Wanli Emperor. History describes her as gentle, virtuous, and dignified, with the bearing of an empress. She passed away in attendance in the forty-eighth year of Wanli. Five days later, the emperor fell ill and died in July of the same year. At last, the couple were reunited. According to rumor, the household of Wang, a thousand-household commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, had a daughter as beautiful as a celestial maiden, with deli 486Reads8.8Score130Shelves
- 109 Hunting in the Ural Mountains 乌拉尔山赶山记 She opens her eyes and has transmigrated into the body of a mute slave girl who is being sold. She is bought and married off to a mountain man with no household registration, living deep in the border mountains. The frontier is bitterly cold, and the forests stretch far and wide. Liang Chong's situation is disastrous from the start, but she manages to buy her freedom by foraging in the mountains and farming, eventually living in the Ural Mountains where “a stick brings down a deer, a dipper scoo 1.3kReads9.0Score172Shelves
- 110 I Close My Eyes and Start Sucking. I'm the Progenitor, What Do I Have to Fear? 两眼一闭就是吸，我是始祖我怕谁 [Strong female vampire + cultivation setting + no romance, everyone has one-sided feelings + transmigration in one's original body + System] Ning Qing is a shameless vampire who spent her first day after transmigrating crawling around in the dark with hunger. She clasped her hands and prayed devoutly: “I swear I'll eat nothing but vegetables for the rest of my life, if Heaven will just send me a high-quality blood bag.” “Bang!” As soon as the words left her mouth, a handsome, battle-worn man fel 545Reads9.2Score103Shelves
- 111 Horror Game Jester! The Big-Game Player Turns the Tables on Everyone 恐游乐子人！比格玩家掀翻全场 [No CP, Infinite-Flow, Over-the-Top Brain-Off Power Fantasy, Table-Flipping Big-Dog Villain, Emperor-Type Fun-Lover (Not the Typical Kind)] · 'Ding! You have been loaded into the cozy live-stream game of the Inner World. This round is an asymmetric match. Your role is: undercover (if caught, you'll be beaten to death).' Jiang, the short-lived brain-tumor patient, Xiu: "..." Great, great. The absurd System is holding an online funeral, and here comes a match where two survivors face off against e 19kReads8.8Score2.5kShelves
- 112 After Dumping the Jerk, the Whole Capital Lines Up to Marry Me 踹翻渣男后，全京城排队求娶 [Audio edition available. Search for it to listen] In her previous life, for Jiang Yin's sake, Gu Ying cast aside the dignity of being the legitimate daughter of the Earl of Dongping's household, pursuing him relentlessly until she finally became his wife. Later, Jiang Yin rose to the highest ranks of the court. First he plotted against the country, then he killed her father and wiped out her family. Her scoundrel of a husband and her treacherous sister plotted together to break both her legs an 2.5kReads8.9Score710Shelves
- 113 Help! The Prime Minister's Legitimate Daughter Smiles as She Wipes Out an Entire Household 救命，相府嫡女眉眼含笑灭人满门 (Complete. Clear-headed, unhinged black-moonlight heroine + lovesick, possessive villainous male lead + household and political intrigue + mutual salvation + happy ending) You deliberately seduced me, and I willingly walked into your trap. On the first day after being reborn, Ji Yang opened her eyes and came face-to-face with the man who had opposed her at every turn in her previous life. So she lured him into prison and forced him to do whatever she asked. In this life, she wouldn't just make h 2.1kReads9.2Score282Shelves
- 114 I, the Prince, Fear My Wife 本王，惧内 [No Transmigration + No Rebirth + No Golden Finger + Victory Through Strength Alone + Fictional History That Cannot Be Verified] He is the Prince of Yan of the Great Liang, returning from campaigns in the northwest, weather-beaten and battle-hardened. She is the Chief Minister's daughter, delicate as a willow, arriving from the misty rains of Jiangnan. The Prince of Yan and the Chief Minister are bitter enemies, constantly at each other's throats. At first, he sneers, “What good could come from 4.8kReads8.8Score434Shelves
- 115 Wrongfully Married, I Stabbed My Husband to Death and Became Famous 被错嫁后，我捅死夫君名扬天下了 [No Romance] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Taking Down Scumbags] + [Villainess] After transmigrating, Li Shu became a pitiful woman who had been married off to the wrong man. Her deranged husband had just beaten her to death. Her mother-in-law said, “My son has no flaws except that he hits people. Can’t you just put up with it?!” The man said, “I wanted to marry A Ning, but I’m not good enough for her, so let’s just settle down and live our lives together!” Even her own father kept his head down and i 16.2kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 116 The Splendor of Great Zhou 大周风华录 After three years of drought, the land was strewn with the dead. Her parents sold Qin Fengyao as a “two-legged sheep.” Faced with certain death, she sold herself into servitude and escaped with the human traffickers. Sold to the Chang family, she accompanied their eldest daughter through confiscation of their property and desperate flight, then their restoration to favor. She helped the young lady establish herself in her husband’s household, became embroiled in the struggle for the throne, and, 21.3kReads9.2Score2.8kShelves
- 117 Three Lives of Spring 春暖三生 No space, no System, just an unfaithful ex-husband, a cold-hearted mother-in-law, and a rebellious son. She had planned to quit for good and lie flat, but then she transmigrated into a miserable life as an orphan, shunned for having a child out of wedlock. An Chunfeng knew when to bend and when to stand firm. She decisively left the wolf's den and set out to make money. With a son and silver in hand, she could live comfortably as a wealthy woman. But that cold-faced man just wouldn't leave her a 26.2kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves
- 118 A Stepmother’s Struggle in the Countryside: Make a Fortune and Save My Benefactor 农门继女奋斗路，挣钱暴富救恩公 It took Xia Xiang four years to go from Cheng Cheng to Yin Xiaxiang! For those four years, she searched endlessly for a way back. Unfortunately, fate was against her. She exhausted herself and ended up covered in wounds, yet got nowhere. She accepted her fate and thought she would simply settle down and live as a farmer’s daughter. But life is unpredictable. Her stepfather was suddenly involved in an accident, and a severe drought struck, leaving the rice paddies with no hope of a harvest. To ma 19.2kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
- 119 Ding! Quick Transmigration Mission Accepted. Revenge Begins! 叮！快穿任务已接收，复仇开始！ (Not a wish-fulfillment story) [No CP + can be male or female + species varies] They are insignificant cannon fodder in novels, stepping stones to the protagonists’ success and sacrifices for the love between the male and female leads. When small worlds branch off from novels, will they meekly accept the fate written for them? Jiang Yule is accidentally selected by the Cannon Fodder Wish System and becomes she, he, or it, rewriting the destinies of insignificant cannon fodder and making their wi 1.9kReads8.9Score170Shelves
- 120 The Messiah Game 弥撒亚游戏 [No Female Lead · No System · No Golden Finger · A Genuine Triple-No Story] [Anti-Trope · Infinite Flow · Everyone’s Gone Crazy · A Doomsday Gods’ Gamble] Losing your job is bad enough, but when you’re down on your luck, who’d have thought a game would show up before a six-yuan meal deal? Hu Li stared at the madman in black holding a two-meter-long watermelon knife and forcing him to choose between joining the game or getting hacked to death on the spot. He fell silent. “So you’re saying that 13.3kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
- 121 The Young Judge of Cases 少年青天断案录 [Mystery and Crime Solving] [Court and Jianghu] [Political Scheming and Wits]… A bizarre, earth-shaking case shattered twenty-seven years of peace in the Great Yan Dynasty. In a single day, three prefects of Jingnan Circuit died under mysterious circumstances. Xu Xinghe, the nineteen-year-old Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, was entrusted with the task in a moment of crisis and sent to investigate the southern frontier with the emperor’s sword. After enduring countless dangers and pain 2.4kReads—Score194Shelves
- 122 She Works as a Maid for a Shenzhen Tycoon 她在深圳豪门做保姆 After her husband divorces her, a nurse from a small county town heads south to Shenzhen to support her child and put her younger brother through school. After losing her job, she is hired as a nanny by Miss Chen, a wealthy heiress. She goes through being framed, misunderstood, dismissed, earning her first savings, suffering a miscarriage after being beaten, and heartbreak. In the end, she marries a local bachelor and becomes the leading lady of a wealthy family. As Miss Chen’s nanny, she witnes 6.3kReads9.2Score754Shelves
- 123 You Retired Too? What a Coincidence, So Did I! 你也退休了？好巧，我也是！ [Romance included; historical romance; there may or may not be awful relatives (I haven’t written any before, so I’m still working them out)] Xie Yu was an ordinary palace maid who became an ordinary female official. She longed to leave the palace, and at last her dream came true. With the savings she’d earned during ten years of palace work and her battered old bundle on her back, she returned to the hometown she’d been away from for so long. Her dream was to build a little home, open a small s 1.2kReads8.8Score106Shelves
- 124 A Maid in Feudal Society 封建社会的丫鬟 Qiu Qi, a million-follower content creator, dies in an earthquake and is reborn in ancient times. After her soul is shaken by the experience, she spends eight years as a fool. When her parents return to their hometown, they abandon her, and she falls into the hands of a procurer, who sells her as a maid to a wealthy household. From then on, Qiu Qi becomes Qiu Qi... 2.5kReads9.1Score219Shelves
- 125 Jiaoniang Married Three Times 娇娘三嫁 After nine grueling years of war, farm girl Qian Jiaoniang learned that her husband, Xing Muzheng, had won one victory after another, laid down his armor, and returned home in glory as a marquis. She was already rubbing her hands together at the thought of becoming a marquis’s wife when, to her surprise, her husband brought home a talented young lady and announced he would marry her as his secondary wife. Qian Jiaoniang thought, Fine by me! What could she expect when she couldn’t even read and h 3.3kReads8.8Score267Shelves
- 126 The Gentle Hunter 温柔猎手 The short drama is now available to watch on Hongguo and Tomato Short Drama. This is a story about a hunter and her prey. Xinyi is a girl from a small county town who works part-time as a tour guide to pay her tuition. She meets the wealthy Yang Haichao, who is attracted to her at first sight. Their encounter changes both their lives, and in the end, the hunter becomes the prey. Xinyi’s growth and transformation come at a bloody cost. You think it’s just a fleeting night of pleasure, but I want 8.1kReads9.3Score736Shelves
- 127 After the Estate Was Confiscated 抄家以后 [A clever, levelheaded noblewoman vs. an honest, straightforward, fiercely loyal guard] [Historical Romance + Revenge + Healing + Political Intrigue + Love That Grows Over Time + Devoted Guard] Cheng Ming'an was the daughter of a general. On the eve of her wedding, the Cheng family was arrested and their assets confiscated for treason. Her father and brothers were executed, her eldest sister took her own life, and her married sisters were put through one hardship after another. Her fiancé change 11.8kReads9.5Score1.3kShelves
- 128 My Uncle Dies from the Start, and I Get This Great Deal? 开局死大爷，还有这好事 On the surface, he is the young owner of a traditional Chinese medicine therapy clinic. In truth, he is a cultivator who has chosen to live in obscurity among ordinary people. If a hospital can treat it, I can treat it. If a hospital can’t, I can still treat it. As long as you aren’t meant to die, I can keep you alive. If you’ve found your way to me, it means you can still be saved. So tell me, what did you do this time? Feng shui can help someone rise to great heights, or leave them plagued by 241Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 I Became the Savior Before the College Entrance Exam, Yet Get Fed Dog Food Every Day 高考前成救世主，却天天被喂狗粮 [Slow-Burn Foreshadowing + Fated Reincarnation + Mystery and Imagination + Ultimate Twists + A Female Lead's Growth] Before the college entrance exams, Wen Xin suddenly encounters the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, who entrusts her with the mission of saving the world by resurrecting the Phoenix God and fighting against "It." From then on, she bears the ever-present murderous intent of "It" and sinks into one stirring life after another in the Phoenix God's reincarnations. She gathers the 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Transmigrated as an Unlucky Villain, I’m Giving Up and Taking It Easy 穿成倒霉反派后，我直接摆烂了 Also known as: After the Villainess Gives Up, She Still Holds Power Over the Court [Content warnings: Ensemble cast! Ensemble cast! Ensemble cast! Goofy humor! Goofy humor! Goofy humor! Lots of unserious everyday moments, slow pacing] Cross-dressing as a man + a little political scheming + lighthearted comedy + ensemble cast + a touch of the supernatural The protagonist has a romance, but it doesn't take up much of the story. She is a true villain, the kind who is destined to fight the original 1.5kReads9.2Score161Shelves
- 131 Highway Survival, but with a Fishing System 公路求生，但钓鱼系统 [Road Survival + Dungeons + Lighthearted + No CP + Multiple Female Supporting Characters + Proudly Being a Woman] Office worker Si Miao entered a road-survival game and gained a fishing System as her golden finger. Skill unlocked: I Didn't Do Anything As long as a player hasn't provoked or threatened you, anyone who bears you ill will will randomly lose some supplies, which will be transferred to your backpack. After surviving the three-day solo tutorial, Si Miao unlocked the chat channel and 7.1kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
- 132 Splendor at Every Turn, Spring at Every Step 步步惊华步步春 The rating has just come out, so don't pay it any mind... [Pure historical romance] [Plot-driven] [Political intrigue] [Two equally matched leads] [One-on-one romance] [Everyone is clever] [Powerful prince who dominates the court vs. exceptionally intelligent illegitimate daughter] Ruan Zhenzhen is the illegitimate daughter of the Pingyang Marquis's residence. Born of a courtesan's bloodline and raised in a humble country home, she is suddenly forced into the treacherous world of the capital's n 8.4kReads8.7Score838Shelves
- 133 There’s Something Wrong with the World I Live In 我所在的世界不正常 Xu Wushuang is blind. She lost her sight in an accident as a child, but one day it suddenly returns, and she sees her boyfriend kissing her sister. Then a mysterious phone draws her into a terrifying world of games. After Xu Wushuang fights her way back alive, she discovers that everyone around her has become extremely strange. The world I live in is not normal. I’m trying to escape. By the time you see my plea for help, I may already be dead... 935Reads8.4Score112Shelves
- 134 Xi Shi Meets a Thousand-Year-Old White Fox 西施遇上千年白狐 The Fox Spirit of a Thousand Years Meets Xi Shi tells the story of Xi Shi, the beauty of ancient Yue. Fan, a subordinate of the King of Yue, brings her to the palace, where she undergoes rigorous training before being sent to Wu to seduce and subdue its king. With Fan's help, she is to bring down the state of Wu in one fell swoop. But on the way to Wu, Xi Shi's boat capsizes. After she falls into the water, a cargo ship rescues her. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a world she doesn 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 A Cottage Amid the Green Hills 青山可结庐 The rating is low because this novel just came out, dears. The tags are wrong: it's historical romance and farming. In the first year of Tianyuan, something extraordinary happened in Lijiazhuang, a small village under Fengshui Township. The family of Li Zhijin was actually asking for the hand of Xu Lansi, the second daughter of the neighboring Xujiacun. The Xu family had two daughters, but the elder, Xu Jinxiu, was the real beauty, both talented and lovely, with suitors coming one after another. 3.1kReads8.9Score335Shelves
- 136 My Days as a Sugar Baby in Bangkok 我在曼谷傍富婆的日子 While traveling in Thailand, deliveryman Zhou Zihao meets Shilin Suolawei, the daughter of a Thai conglomerate, through a series of strange coincidences. Amid cultural clashes and class differences, he turns his life around with sincerity and smarts, all while staying true to himself... A down-to-earth story filled with warmth and emotions that slowly build. 9Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 137 If Father Doesn't Die, How Can His Daughter Ascend the Throne? 父皇不死女儿怎么登基 [Court Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Villainous Heroine + Dark Younger Brother, a Powerful Team] A scorpion and a venomous snake carve out a path through the treacherous imperial harem. When Li Ruyue was seven, she watched helplessly as the people from the Court of Judicial Review fabricated evidence to frame her mother. Her mother was sent to the Cold Palace, the Qin clan was charged with treason, and all 142 people in Zhaoyang Hall were slaughtered before her eyes. She sat in the blood, watching 3.4kReads9.1Score2kShelves
- 138 Sole Possession of Spring: Stones from Other Mountains 独占春：他山之石 [Also known as: When My Late Husband Returned, My Stepson Went Mad!] "Both leads are virgins + Younger male lead + He’s been plotting this for a long time" Lin Yitao became a widow at seventeen. To continue the family line, her husband’s family adopted a young boy and made him her legitimate son. The boy was exceptionally gifted, and under her guidance he quickly went from an unknown nobody to the celebrated Jade Carver of the capital. No one knew that the Jade Carver was steadily plotting to ma 19.1kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
- 139 The Peerless Expert the System Told Me About Is Actually Me 坏了系统说的绝世大佬竟是我本人 No romance, focused on the protagonist [The heroine was a demon lord in her previous life, with unmatched combat prowess; now she's reborn] Xue Lan took her own life in her previous incarnation. This time around, she's busier than ever, and she's a chatterbox who likes to hide in dark corners. One day, Heaven suddenly gives her a System. She learns she's in a world where the plotlines of various protagonists are tangled together. System: [Your junior brothers and sisters are all going to die!] X 3kReads9.2Score458Shelves
- 140 A Joyful Gathering 欢喜聚 The joys and sorrows of a blended family in ancient times. [A fictional setting: family life and affection that grows over time] An older half-brother who shares the same father. A younger half-sister who shares the same mother. An older sister they took in. A stepsister and stepbrother with no blood ties, after their mother remarries. Yang Xiyue is somehow thrust into a family with a full set of siblings. Life is hard, and people are complicated. Let’s see how this big family eventually finds a 15.5kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 141 Little Tao the Maid's Escape from Famine in a Chaotic Era 丫鬟小桃乱世逃荒记 When Xiaotao was six, her parents sold her to a broker for one mu of land. In the filthy broker’s den, she seized every chance to learn skills that would help her survive, while never losing her kind heart. When disaster struck, she fled thousands of miles from home and turned her life around through sheer perseverance. From a refugee girl to a successful scholar’s wife, she changed the fate of women at the bottom of society with her own hands! (Not a transmigration story, not a rebirth story, 16.9kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 142 Daily Life with the Army in the Early Tang Dynasty 初唐随军日常 [Completed, No Rebirth, No Special Powers, Slow Pace, Includes a Wife] As a woman who had transmigrated, Ming Luo arrived with lofty ambitions. Unfortunately, reality was stronger than she was. The feudal jewel she had once looked up to, the so-called Zhenguan Era, turned out in the end to be nothing more than a glorious age that devoured its people. 10.4kReads8.6Score834Shelves
- 143 Chen Shi Lives Next Door to Akita 秋田隔壁住陈实 Qiutian’s mother was known throughout the surrounding villages as a capable woman. She was still harvesting rice in the fields just before giving birth to Qiutian, so she named her daughter Qiutian, meaning autumn fields. When Qiutian was one, her mother went mad. Carrying her on her back, she ran around everywhere and even made her drink filthy water from a cesspit. When Qiutian was three, her mad mother fell off a cliff and died. Her father, a traveling peddler, was hardly ever home. Her five- 7.2kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 144 Natural Disasters in Ancient Times: Surviving Alone in a Chaotic Era 古代天灾：乱世独自逃荒日常 [If you want to read about a heroine who does good deeds, plays the good person, and saves the world, this one's not for you!!!] [No romance + Not a saint + Stockpiling supplies + No handouts + Doesn't meddle in other people's business] [Heroine: Survived the apocalypse + Raised by an assassin = I leave others alone if they leave me alone. If trouble comes my way, I make sure there are no loose ends. She's really, really ruthless.] Song Qingling has barely transmigrated when she's faced with 9.2kReads8.4Score716Shelves
- 145 My Mr. Xie 我的谢先生 Late at night, someone knocked on her dorm room door. She opened it and saw Xie Ying standing there in a sharp suit. She pulled him inside, surprised. “It’s so late. How did you get into the women’s dorm?” “I signed in downstairs,” Xie Ying replied. Flustered, she said, “It wouldn’t look good if someone saw you coming into my room.” Xie Ying’s voice was calm. “Is it bothering you?” She shook her head. “I don’t mind, but they’ll gossip about you.” “I don’t mind either,” Xie Ying said. … After a 7.6kReads9.2Score889Shelves
- 146 New Year Begins 新正引 [Strong female lead + black lotus + political intrigue + tragic love] One night, Shen Ciqiu and Du Jinheng went together to the military camp where the Marquis of Zhenbei had been stationed for years and stole the Tiger Wing Token, the military tally that could command 100,000 Northwestern troops. As a result, the entire Xie clan was sentenced to death. Out of consideration for past ties, the emperor spared the heir's life. At the same time, Shen Ciqiu discovered that the Tiger Wing Token wa 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Shocking! After I Transmigrated, the System Said It Bound the Wrong Person? 震惊！穿越后系统说它绑错了人？ [No CP + not a power fantasy + unorthodox cultivator (neither wholly good nor evil) + not invincible + slow burn + unconventional cultivation] Lang Yue transmigrated into the cultivation world and got a golden finger riddled with bugs. She almost died from the pain the moment she arrived. After barely being rescued, she thought she would finally get to see all the rare and wondrous creatures of the cultivation world. Instead, she was shocked to discover she had landed in a den of unorthodox cult 1.4kReads9.1Score185Shelves
- 148 At Dusk, the Child Returns 暮时子归 [Print edition now available] “Did you know Lin Daiyu is supposed to be paired with Sun Wukong? Nuwa arranged this ‘wood-and-stone bond’ as the destined match of the Goddess of the Xiao River and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.” Xiao Xiang has had enough of drifting around and wants to go back to her hometown and live off her family. But the place is a complete mess, and there's nowhere for her to stay. Then there's that crafty Great Sage with eight hundred tricks up his sleeve, constantly makin 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 There Was a Girl Named Xiaohua 有个女孩叫小花 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! This book captures some of the culture and food of rural northern Fujian in the 1980s and 1990s. Follow Xiaohua and her family as they work hard and lead warm, ordinary lives. No exaggeration, melodrama, or foolish antics. It’s not a feel-good power fantasy, and there’s no rebirth or transmigration. There’s no golden finger, just 30Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 150 A Lone Woman in Troubled Times, Plotting an Age of Prosperity 乱世孤女，谋千古盛世 [Strong Female Lead + No CP + Empress + Ensemble Cast + Political Scheming + War + Power Struggles in a Chaotic Era + Nation-Building and Farming + No Spatial Storage or System + Slow-Burn Growth + Epic Length] Yun Huaijin suddenly became a "corpse" in a world torn apart by chaos. She crawled out of a pile of bodies, with only a child on the verge of starving to death beside her. In this world, nobles lived in drunken indulgence, powerful clans monopolized knowledge, bandits slaughtered withou 24.2kReads8.9Score3kShelves
