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- 51 The Mother in the Mountains 大山里的母亲 [Period setting + history + based on real life + memoir] This is the story of a mother from the mountains who folded hardship into the daily routine of cooking and chores, holding her family together through rugged years. She lived an ordinary life, yet became the family's strongest support. If you, too, have been touched by a mother's love, perhaps you'll enjoy this story. Every follow and request for an update gives me the confidence to keep writing. I'll carefully polish every plot point. 107Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 52 The Marquess's Wife Goes Crazy, and the Whole Capital Eavesdrops 侯门主母发疯日常全京城都在偷听 Bai Zhiyi is reborn and bound to the [Internet Comeback System]. From then on, her inner thoughts are broadcast across the whole city. Her mother-in-law lays down the rules. Outwardly, Bai Zhiyi says, “Of course~” while thinking, “There goes the old witch again.” The whole city’s gossip-loving onlookers: ??? Her half-sister brings her a tonic. Bai Zhiyi accepts it with a smile, thinking, “There’s probably poison in this.” The entire capital: “Holy crap, that’s a lot to take in!” At a gathering o 1Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 53 Period: I Bound Myself to a System That Meddles in Everyone's Business 年代：我绑定了多管闲事系统 People transmigrate every year. This year, it happened to be my turn. Li Xiang never dreamed he’d hit the jackpot and transmigrate to the 1960s, becoming Li Xiangbei, the village’s notorious little troublemaker. A shabby house, ragged clothes, and food that scraped his throat: he begged every god in the heavens to let him go home. If he couldn’t go home, couldn’t they at least give him a golden finger? And so he really did get one. He ought to have been thrilled, but what was this “Mind Your 256Reads7.1Score108Shelves
- 54 Reborn in the 1980s: The Old Woman Gets Rich After Splitting Up the Family and Cutting Ties 老太重生八零，分家断亲一路暴富 [The Eighties Granny: Cutting Ties, Making a Fortune, and Becoming a Business Legend] [No-Nonsense Granny] [Breaking Up the Family] [Family Squabbles] [Building a Fortune] [Racing Through the Business World] [A Touch of Ensemble Cast] [A Touch of Pocket Dimension] In her previous life, Mu Yunzhi slaved away for eighty years, only to discover that every one of her dutiful children had died horribly, all because two ungrateful wolves had been scheming behind her back! Reborn in 1983, the old lad 25.7kReads8.5Score2.1kShelves
- 55 Back to 2000: I'm Done Being a Doormat of a Wife 重回2000，窝囊贤妻不当了 Lin Yueyue had been married for over twenty years. The money her husband, Wang Chaoyang, earned was either lent to friends and classmates or taken by his parents and siblings. He even used all 300,000 yuan in their savings from running a shop to buy a house for his nephew, while neglecting their three daughters. She was so furious that she fainted on the spot and died. Reborn in 2000, she was twenty-six, with her youngest daughter, just over two months old, in her arms. Her eldest was six, and h 13kReads8.3Score1.3kShelves
- 56 Jiang Xiaohua 姜晓花 In the bitter winter of 1976, Jiang Xiaohua was sixteen. Her family had almost nothing; her father was gravely ill, her mother weak-willed, and her younger brother still a child. Desperate for food, she was forced into a bride swap and nearly sold off, struggling on the brink of life and death before finally marrying into the Chen family, the most quarrelsome and favoritism-ridden family around. Her sisters-in-law ostracized her, her mother-in-law mistreated her, her husband stumbled, her childr 880Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 You Want Me to Take the Fall? Take This Slap Instead 要我顶罪，反手一个大逼斗 [No System + Streetwise Troublemaker + Ruthless Tough Guy + One Female Lead...] Wang Xun, an ordinary young man, returns to the year 2000. He is just seventeen and a half, has dropped out of school, and has been poisoned by gangster movies. Full of youthful passion, he sets out to make a name for himself in the underworld. He puts brotherhood first, would take a knife for his good friends, and isn’t afraid to fight! After being persuaded by his biased grandfather and others, he is about to take 416Reads7.3Score104Shelves
- 58 I Know All the Answers 我知道所有答案 [One-on-One Romance + Super Sweet + Showbiz + Variety Shows + Ensemble Cast + Pure Romance + Lighthearted + Everyday Life + Happy Ending] Disgraced actress Zheng Tianbao is reborn. After being reborn, she gains a golden finger that helps her with exams, transforming her from a hopeless student into a top scholar. As for the awful ex-husband who sent her to prison in her previous life... Zheng Tianbao can't understand it. Her ex-husband seemed like a perfectly decent guy, so why did he change 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Tales of Xizhou in the 1980s 80年代西州往事 This is a story about youth, and a story about growing up. It is filled with passionate brotherhood, the innocent love of childhood sweethearts, clashes of steel in the streets and alleys, and the struggles and choices people face in the tides of a changing era. Most importantly, it captures the warmth unique to that time: the unreserved sincerity between people, a purity that seems almost like a luxury today. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 An Old Lady Reborn in the 1980s: Kneel, You Good-for-Nothing Children 老太太重生八零：极品儿女靠边跪 [No golden finger + reborn in a bygone era + ruthless old woman + making money and punishing scoundrels + an ensemble cast striving to succeed] Given another chance at life, the old woman shows no mercy. Anyone who tries to split up the family or drag her down gets thrown out! Her awful children can get on their knees and stay out of her way! Zhang Siqin spent half her life as a widow, pouring her heart into raising three sons and two daughters. She bought a house in the city for her eldest so 479Reads—Score107Shelves
- 61 Period: The Wicked Stepmother Is Reborn, and Her Stepson Sons Panic 年代：恶毒后妈重生，继子们慌了 [Period] [Reborn] [Has a Pocket Dimension] [Taking Down the Scum] [Satisfying Read] In her previous life, under unusual circumstances, Liu Caifeng married Song Xiang, a man with a prior marriage, and brought her son with her. She devoted herself to caring for her in-laws and raising her stepson. In the end, she met a miserable fate, dying after being hit by a car. Only as she lay dying did she learn that Song Xiang had caused her son’s death. Her daughter had been sold to human traffickers by he 3.6kReads8.2Score308Shelves
- 62 I Ate My Brother's Leftovers, Got Poisoned, and Was Sold for Parts 吃弟剩饭，却被毒死卖零件 He ate his younger brother’s leftovers, only to be poisoned to death and have his organs sold 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Back to the 1990s: The Family Planning Inspectors Show Up at My Door 重回90：超生检查到我家 [Reborn in Time] [No System] [One Female Lead] [Hidden Big Shot] [See the untold story of the internet unfold before your eyes!] I’m screwed. I went from being a venture capital tycoon to waking up in the 1990s overnight. A family that keeps having kids beyond the quota? Yep, that’s me. No household registration? Yep, still me. I’m going to rise from nothing! No, wait, I’d better fill my stomach first. This is the best of times, an era of sweeping change and surging tides! When the great roc ris 203Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 64 The Awakening of Guixu 归墟的苏醒 The story takes place in a remote town. A series of bizarre disappearances leads the young detective Lin Yu to an abandoned warehouse, where he discovers an entity known as the “Guixu.” It is neither a monster in the traditional sense nor another dimension, but a membrane beneath the world: a conscious being that has slept for billions of years. It is both the embodiment of the “void” in the collective human consciousness and a fundamental structure of the world itself. The central conflict revo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The 1980s: Transmigrated as Granny Shen, I Choose to Give Up 八零：穿成沈老太，我选择摆烂 [Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + No Romance] Shen Huihui, an unmarried woman past her prime, had a bright future ahead of her. Then one dream transmigrated her into the body of an old woman. When this old woman was young, she devoted herself entirely to her children and never gave herself a thought. But in her old age, her children kicked her around like a ball. None of them was willing to support her for even one more day. Shen Huihui was furious. Now that she has become Old Madam Shen, she 234Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 66 Sanxi: From Village Beauty to Village Bully 三喜：从村花到村霸 A beautiful country girl marries in a daze, only for upheaval to strike her family. She goes from depending on others to growing strong on her own, but in the end, desire consumes her and leads her to ruin. In her final moments, she realizes that human nature cannot be controlled… 136Reads—Score101Shelves
- 67 Reborn in the 1990s: Song Chunying’s Happy Life 重生九零：宋春英的美满人生 [Reborn + comeback + mutual pampering + adorable kids] In her previous life, Chunying's husband was framed and made a scapegoat. After losing both her husband and daughter, she died of grief. Reborn unexpectedly in 1990, she resolves to protect her husband and their two sweet, well-behaved daughters. To escape the path fate has laid out for her, she bravely takes her whole family away from their hometown to seek work, even though she'd never left home in her previous life. The road ahead is full 1kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 68 This Life, I Won't Fail You 今生不误君 [The comic adaptation of Our Past Life, No Regrets is now available | The second version, Reborn: I Won't Stand in the Way of His Ambitions, is airing at the same time] A heads-up: This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story! It focuses on a slow, tender emotional journey of healing after being reborn. If you only want an ultra-satisfying power fantasy, you might want to think twice before starting~ [Minor spoiler warning: Don't be misled by the princess's perspective on her previous life. Wh 8.3kReads8.8Score784Shelves
- 69 The Unhinged Woman of the 90s: I Started Getting Rich Working in Dongguan 九零女疯批：致富从东莞打工开始 A realistic story set in the 1990s, with no rebirth, transmigration, or golden finger. Everyone in Anziping knows An Xiaowu is a total psycho. She's not only crazy but vicious, picking fights that turn into life-or-death struggles at the drop of a hat. But no one expected her to be so ruthless that she wouldn't spare even her own family. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she fights her father for her life. "What's so special about New Year? If you mess with me, I'll dig you out of your cof 11.4kReads8.6Score1kShelves
- 70 Neighbors in the Ancient City 古城邻里 A new work is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Set in Yuhè Courtyard, the central compound of Qinghuai Lane in an ancient riverside city in southern China, this novel traces a century of ups and downs among several longtime residents and their neighbors. Through their stories, it captures the changes in the city from the early years after liberation to the present day, the younger generation’s outlook on life amid a market economy, the bustle of its streets and lanes 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Reborn: The Golden Age 重生之黄金年代 The 1990s were the golden decade that today’s business tycoons look back on with nostalgia. Opportunities were everywhere, and gold was there for the taking. That’s why it was also known as the Great Era! Zhou Liang’an returns to 1993, back to the bottom rung of a company. The old workers take him for a pushover and bully him. The woman he was dating is about to dump him. His friends and relatives all want to take advantage of him, and not one of them means well. But… no one expected Zhou Liang’ 4.7kReads8.2Score389Shelves
- 72 The Jade-Faced Asura's Cherished One 玉面修罗的掌心宠 A tale of warlord clashes, love and hatred for family and country, and the struggle between love and power. My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Save the Baby, Not the Mother? The Reborn Wife Is Fierce 保小不保大？重生夫人飒爆了 Save the Baby, Not the Mother? The Reborn Madam Is Fierce 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 High-Heel Mystery (Sequel) 高跟疑云（续） The High-Heel Mystery (Part Two) 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Reborn in 1980: After the Family Split, I Make a Fortune with My Wife and Daughter 重生80，分家后带妻女吃香喝辣 [Period setting + reborn + everyday family life + raising children and doting on his wife + daily life + building wealth + business + food] In 1980, forty-six-year-old Lin Guoqiang was reborn. In his previous life, everyone praised him as a good-hearted man. He lent his hard-earned money to his eldest brother for a business, gave his third younger brother his demobilization allowance to marry a wife, paid for his fifth younger sister’s tuition, and tended to his sick parents at their bedside. Bu 187.9kReads7.3Score7.3kShelves
- 76 The Hidden Wife 隐妻 [The comic adaptation is now available! Tap “Adaptation Theater” in the lower-right corner of any page of this book to watch instantly. The original novel and short drama each have their own appeal. Share it with your friends!] No rebirth, no transmigration, and no System golden finger, just the true golden years of an entire generation! Having fled an arranged marriage, he joins the tide of migrant workers heading south. In a southern metropolis brimming with both opportunity and challenges, he 805Reads6.2Score104Shelves
- 77 A Bitter Girl’s Rebirth 苦妹之涅槃重生 Inside Ku Mei’s five-year-old body lived the soul of someone who had died with a heart full of hatred. Reborn, she faced a spiteful grandmother who beat and berated her, a cold grandfather who enabled the abuse, and a mother who could only weep helplessly. Ku Mei concealed her boundless hatred and memories of her past life, pretending to be timid as she carefully plotted her every move. She outsmarted her relatives and broke free of her shackles, starting with a bottle of chili sauce from the mi 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事 Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era. 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 When the Fog Was Thick 当时雾浓 It was an era when the fog never lifted. The fog concealed humiliation, despair, and justice that could never be spoken of, and the madness of ordinary people driven to the edge of a cliff. Five little people who had lived honest lives: a father searching for his daughter, a mother protecting hers, an older brother saving his sister, an old man who had lost his son, and a lovestruck young man. They were the most ordinary specks of dust in the world. But when they sought to protect the people the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Retainers of the Last Tusi of Tu'e 兔峨末代土司的眷属们 About the Book: The Tusi chieftaincy of the Luo family of Tu’e, Lanping, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan, lasted nearly six hundred years, from the Yuan dynasty through the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China. It passed through twenty-three generations before the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 brought the Tusi system to an end. This book was written by the granddaughter of Luo Xing, the last Tusi chieftain. It recounts the remarkable life of Yang Huizhen, wife of 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Through Life's Storms, She Blossoms 风雨人生，她自芳华 Period drama, a woman’s journey of growth, overseas entrepreneurship, a strong female lead, and realistic romance. “One woman’s four marriages, three entrepreneurial ventures, two generations finding peace, and one extraordinary life.” In 1984, she was the pampered jewel of a prestigious family, but one ill-fated marriage sent her crashing to rock bottom. Her husband was cold, and her in-laws took her daughter. Overnight, she fell from the clouds into the dust. But she refused to be beaten. 864Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 82 The Scepter of the Workplace 职场权杖 This story follows Wang Hao, a witty, humorous little bureaucrat with big ambitions, as he climbs the workplace ladder. With the wholehearted help of Liu Yun and Shangguan Wei, along with his own fearless determination, he advances smoothly through officialdom, earning promotion after promotion and skipping ranks along the way. He puts serving the majority first and opposes officials who shirk their duties, but in the end, he cannot overcome bureaucracy and the system. He gives up his career in 6.9kReads9.2Score718Shelves
- 83 Reborn in the 1970s: After Divorcing, I Cleared Out My In-Laws’ Home and Went to the Countryside 重生七零：离婚搬空婆家去下乡 [1970s Setting, Rebirth Power Fantasy, Spirit Spring Space, Making a Fortune, Miracle Doctor, Revenge] Synopsis: On the sixteenth day of her marriage, Xiao Mandong grabbed a thermos full of boiling water and smashed it over her cheating husband and widowed sister-in-law on the bed! In her previous life, she had given everything to support the Lu family, only to have her child switched, her loved ones die tragically, and herself left to die alone with terminal lung cancer. Reborn, she refused to 5.4kReads6.5Score602Shelves
- 84 The Old Woman Is Reborn, Beating Her Ungrateful Children with an Iron Rod 老太太重生，铁棒爆打不孝子女 [Period Setting + Rebirth + Family Life + Ensemble Cast + No Golden Finger + Taking Down Scumbags + The Wife-Chasing Road to Ruin] Also known as The Old Lady Is Reborn: She Leaves Her Husband and Sons and Torments Her Daughter-in-Law Old Mrs. Liu worked herself to the bone her whole life, squeezing every last drop of strength from herself to raise three sons. But once she grew old and could no longer help them, they kicked her around like a ball, treating her with nothing but disdain. One bitter 4.6kReads8.1Score389Shelves
- 85 Breaking Free from the Cage: A Journey Toward Freedom in the Sun 破笼弃巢:走向阳生自由途 Breaking Free from the Cage and Nest: A Journey Toward a Free, Sunlit Life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 708Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱 Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l 640Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 88 Granny Zhang Reborn: Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, She's Gone Berserk! 张老太重生：杀杀杀杀，杀疯了！ Granny Zhang thought she was a good mother and mother-in-law. When she was young, she had no one to help her. Determined to keep her children from going through the same hardships, she did everything she could for them, giving money when it was needed and pitching in whenever they needed help. She never held back. She helped all six of her children build families and careers, then raised several grandchildren. When she was in a car accident near the end of her life and received three million in 263.9kReads8.9Score19.8kShelves
- 89 Back to 1985: Starting by Cutting Off the Ungrateful 重回85，从斩白眼狼开始 Written entirely by hand, with no AI-generated filler. Writing by hand isn't easy: every chapter is typed one character at a time, one finger at a time! [Lighthearted Comedy + No System + No Golden Finger + Making Money + Solving Cases + Family Life + Brotherhood + Urban Underworld + Light Ensemble Cast + Northeastern Dialect] The comedic scenes all come from everyday life. No hunting, no stock trading! Chang Shan was reborn, back in 1985! Since he had been reborn, he would start by settling ac 964Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Aunt Mei 媚姨 Male Lead: Ding Yuan Female Lead: Liu Meiyi No one is reborn, and there is no System. This is an era of struggle belonging to the older generation! That year, Ding Yuan earned top marks in the imperial examinations, only to have his life stolen from him when his stepmother conspired with her family to switch his results. His father, unaware of the truth, set out on a rainy night to sell goods in the mountains and raise money for Ding Yuan to retake the exams. But the tractor overturned in a ravi 5.8kReads8.8Score477Shelves
- 91 The Reborn Tycoon's Rise 重生之首富行 Back to the turbulent 1980s! Opportunities abound, and so do wolves. In his previous life, he was honest and diligent, crushed by big business and cheated by unscrupulous merchants. He spent his life struggling to get by, only to end up with nothing and meet a miserable end. Now reborn, he brings forty years of business foresight and knows every trend before it takes off. He tears up his mediocre old life and starts over! He starts out selling goods at a vegetable market, taking advantage of his 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Reborn in 1990: The System Forces Me to Become the Village Tyrant 重生90：系统逼我当村霸 [Period setting + System + village bully + reborn + farming and business + face-slapping wish fulfillment] In 2026, overworked office drone Zhou Ye dies suddenly after staying up all night. When he opens his eyes, he's back in 1990. He's become the bully whom all 3,000 villagers are chasing around to curse. His family is so poor they're starving. His older sister has to drop out of school, a supposedly good man in the village is running a scam, and an orphan girl is about to be sold. System: [St 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 1982: I'm Really Not a Good-for-Nothing 年代1982，我真不是二流子 [Rebirth + period setting + entrepreneurship + social savvy + everyday life + largely an ensemble cast] The rating has just appeared and is climbing. The audiobook and animated series are now available. Give them a try! Back in 1982, Lu Zhigang decided to make up for his regrets and give his family a better life. But why did none of them believe him...? He took over a brickworks, opened a food factory, and led Lujia Village racing down the road to prosperity. 10.9kReads8.3Score472Shelves
- 94 Back to 1993: The Perfect Life 重返93之完美人生 The 1990s were a time when fortunes were made. Countless people rose and fell, while countless others followed in their footsteps. Yet the people of southwestern Shandong remained trapped in poverty. Lu Zijian suddenly returned to 1993. His second life began with a blind date. 334Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 95 Kicking My Trash Ex to the Curb: No Free Meals, but Plenty of Prison Food 踹飞渣男：软饭没有，牢饭管够 Kicking the Scumbag to the Curb: No Free Meals, but Plenty of Jail Time 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Foolish Mother 傻娘 My father was dead, my mother had gone mad. The day I came home, I saw someone destroying it... 43.2kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
- 97 Reborn in 1996: Helping My Adoptive Parents' Whole Family Live Well 重生九六，带养父母全家过好日子 [Reborn in 1996 + Business + Academic Prodigy + No Forgiveness] (The story begins with her early struggles, then moves into the later stages of the demolition boom.) Xia Mengsi was given away as soon as she was born. Her biological parents rejected her because she was a girl, but her adoptive family cherished her like a treasure. She got into the best high school, and her adoptive father sold blood while her adoptive mother worked herself to the bone to pay for her education. But Xia Mengsi fail 482Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 98 Reborn in 1985: Giving My Wife and Children a Happy Life 重生1985，给妻儿幸福生活 No System + Not Mindless + Lighthearted Comedy + Respectful of the Era + Playboy Seeks Redemption + Devoted Husband + Hard Work Brings Wealth... In his previous life, Qian Yiwen turned what could have been a good life into a laughingstock in everyone else’s eyes. When his son went missing, he took out his anger on his wife. His utterly disillusioned wife took poison and killed herself. Reborn, he finds that his son is still here, and so is his wife. He decides to rebuild his business empire, giv 2.2kReads8.9Score171Shelves
- 99 After Waking Up, I Became a Son, a Husband, and a Father Again 惊醒后，再为人子，人夫，人父 The tycoon never imagined his daughter would turn down his billions in assets, or that as he lay waiting to be cremated, she wouldn’t even want to see him one last time. In the depths of his grief, life starts anew. He becomes a doting husband and a super dad, using his exceptional business acumen to create one miracle after another and forge a new path to greatness. 143Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 100 Reborn in the 1980s: An Elderly Couple Teams Up to Teach Their Ungrateful Son a Lesson 重生八零老头老太携手整治不孝子 The rating just came out, so it's low. Feel free to ignore it. I'll do my best~ [Period] [The 1980s] [Light ensemble cast] [Reborn] [Feel-good power fantasy] [No golden finger] Wu Yulan is reborn, returning to the moment just after her old man got into trouble. Zhao Dashan is reborn too. Remembering how his wife struggled like a spinning top after he died, he decides he won't die this time around. Wu Yulan has five children. The eldest, Zhao Deyu, is just as selfish and cold-hearted in this life 349Reads7.9Score102Shelves
