Novels like Reborn: Hard Work Always Pays Off
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- 101 I Reborn You to Be a Tough Guy, but You Became a Top Student? 重生让你做猛男，你却成了学霸？ [Lighthearted + Daily Life + Childhood Sweetheart] Xu Houlang dies suddenly from working overtime during his vacation and is reborn before the college entrance exams. He sees all those familiar faces again, including the childhood sweetheart he's longed for day and night. Now he activates the Manly Man System, which gives him, despite his frail health and short stature, a chance to turn his life around and become tall, rich, and handsome! But to his surprise, this System, supposedly designed to 4.2kReads8.3Score391Shelves
- 102 The Bankruptcy Runaway’s Guide to Paying Off Debt 破产跑路还债记 His debts came crashing down, leaving him with just 20,000 yuan. He wanted to turn his life around, but his desperation only dragged him deeper into trouble. [Debt + Entrepreneurship] [Realistic style] A different story of debt, running away, and paying it all back for today's younger generation. 5.7kReads8.9Score550Shelves
- 103 I Won 90 Million, I Really Just Want to Lie Flat! 中奖九千万，我真的只想躺平啊！ [Satisfying Knowledge Gaps + Taking It Easy in a County Town + Everyday Warmth + Getting Rich Without Trying + No Showing Off or Face-Slapping] Lu Zhaoyang won 95 million, quit his job, and returned to his county town, where he bought a little house with a yard. He grew flowers and vegetables, went fishing, and stared into space, starting his retirement early. Who could have known that all the good things that had once eluded him, no matter how hard he chased them, would start coming one after a 160.2kReads8.1Score10.7kShelves
- 104 My System Is Way Too Good at Stirring Up Trouble 我的系统太会搞事了 After Lu Shiyi cursed out his boss, he got a lottery System. It offers all kinds of items, as well as limited-time trial passes for other systems. A lighthearted, humorous slice-of-life story with a slow-burn plot. No mindless antics or forced showing off. 279Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Reborn in 2003: Ruling the Tech World with Intelligence 重生2003：智霸科技界 (Slow-paced + urban slice of life + entrepreneurship + technology) After spending five years fawning over his goddess, Ye Yunzhou’s heart shatters when he sees her fawning over another man in his Maybach. Reborn on the eve of the college entrance exam, he finds that everything has changed. The goddess he used to fawn over? Get lost. He needs to make up for all the regrets he left behind in his previous life. Before he knows it, he’s made things a little too big. At a certain summit. Host: Up nex 86Reads6.9Score120Shelves
- 106 Heterochromia 异瞳 Heterochromia 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 As a Man, What's Wrong with Having a Little Money? 作为一个男人我有亿点点钱怎么了 Enough pretending! I'll come clean! I'm the billionaire everyone's talking about! What's wrong with a man having a little bit of money? This story takes place in a parallel universe. Any similarities are purely coincidental! 10.6kReads7.9Score429Shelves
- 108 I Seek Longevity in the World of Immortal Cultivation 我在修仙世界求长生 Cao Tianming transmigrates to a world of cultivation and discovers that he has a proficiency panel. Though his spiritual root is utterly poor, he still wants to witness how the world changes, to shine alongside the sun and moon, endure with the mountains and rivers, and live as long as heaven and earth. Otherwise, after going to all the trouble of reaching this world of cultivation, not giving it a try would be too much to bear. 691Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 109 It's Only 2008, and You're Telling Me to Go to the Moon? 这才2008，你跟我说要登月？ Sci-fi + transmigration + no System + realistic simulation. The story follows a male lead who uses future artificial intelligence to secretly advance Huaguo's space program, all to save the female lead, who accidentally transmigrated to a lunar base. In the end, he joins forces with the country to rescue her. In 2001, the female lead accidentally opens a portal and vanishes without a trace. In 2020, the male lead opens the portal again and arrives at a lunar base in 2038. There, he discovers tha 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 We Broke Up After Graduation, but a Mysterious Beam Helps the Male Lead 毕业就分手，神秘光线助力男主 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! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Are You Crazy? I'm Already This Perfect, Why Do I Need to Be Reborn? 疯了吧！我这么完美还要重生？ [Reborn + period setting + school beauty + romance + entrepreneurship + making money + lighthearted + daily life + comedy + leisurely pace + no System] Lu Mingfei returned to 2002 and faced countless choices. Naturally, only children are forced to choose: adults take it all. Thus began his perfect life, with success in both business and love. 136Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 112 You’re a Coal Tycoon, So What Do You Know About Tech-Driven National Strength? 你一个煤老板，谈什么科技兴国？ [Animated Series Now Streaming] + [Technology-Driven National Strength] + [Rise of a Great Power] + [Cutting-Edge Tech] + [Making Up for Past Regrets] [No regrets about being born in China; in my next life, I hope to be born in the Flower-Planting Nation.] Only on his deathbed does coal magnate Su Cheng discover that the will leaving 1 billion to build a chip research institute has become a wedding gift for his wife and brother. Even his son isn’t his. He dies with bitterness in his heart, then 53.8kReads7.0Score4.1kShelves
- 113 Reborn: Starting to Ace Exams in My School Days 重生之从学生时代开卷 [Campus Rebirth + Realistic Business Story + Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within + One Heroine] When fate gives you a second life, do you become a model student and get into Tsinghua or Peking University? No. I’m going to bring the entire millennium generation into my business empire. “Getting rich as a reborn person by exploiting information gaps? Think bigger.” Xu Chen tore up his draft of lottery numbers and filled the military training camp’s saltwater barrels with iced fruit tea. “I’m going t 6Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 114 My Company Refuses to Pay, So I Fight Back 公司赖账我反击 I simply fronted 9,999 yuan for a proposal on behalf of my company. My manager said to pay it first and claim reimbursement later. The company used the project, but then said I hadn't gotten approval. When my contract expired, they pressured me into signing a blank form, trying to make it look like I'd left “for personal reasons” and “resigned voluntarily.” Worse, they told prospective employers during background checks that I'd had a dispute over expenses, was difficult to communicate with, and 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 115 Starting with Fusing Cultivation Techniques, I Become Invincible Under Heaven 举世无敌从融合功法开始 Chen Fan transmigrates to the Great Qian Dynasty, where martial arts flourish, and awakens a martial arts fusion panel. Iron Shirt + Golden Bell Shield → Indestructible Golden Body Breeze Swordsmanship + Flowing Cloud Swordsmanship → Wind and Cloud Sword Scripture Breath Regulation Technique + Tortoise Breathing Art → Longevity Scripture From a young master of an aristocratic clan to a grandmaster of his generation, from an ordinary mortal body to a legend of the martial world. Only when Chen Fa 7.6kReads7.8Score530Shelves
- 116 The Black-and-White Workplace 黑白职场 The book has three main female leads: Meng Hong, a wealthy, beautiful daughter of a powerful family; Han Yiran, warm and down-to-earth; and Xi Wenni, a tragic figure. I was swept up in Han Yiran's happiness, grieved over the fate that left Meng Hong with no control over her own life, and blamed myself for giving kind and beautiful Xi Wenni such a tragic fate. I felt as though I had committed a sin by brutalizing and destroying a pure rose… This is a love story about one man and three women —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 That Year, Because of the Campus Belle, I Ran Off to Guangdong to Become a Handsome Lad 那年因为校花，我跑路广东当靓仔 [Jianghu]+ [Workplace]+ [Romance]+ [No System]+ [Not reborn] [Based on the author’s real experiences working in Guangdong, this is a story about migrant workers in cities like Dongguan and Shenzhen. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, so don’t read it if that’s not your thing!] In 1997, Zhang Zaiye, Li Yaocong, Jiang Xinyue, and others met while working summer jobs in Guangdong, and formed a deep friendship. At the time, Dongguan’s economy was growing at a breakneck pace. Workers poured in fr 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Sci-Fi Zombie Apocalypse: From the Start, I Save the Secretary 科幻丧尸开局拯救女秘书 [Science Fiction] + [Interstellar] + [Zombies] + [Universe] Also known as: Beyond the Stars Lu Ping crawls out of a nuclear reactor and discovers that all ten thousand people present have turned into zombies. In the desperate situation, he manages to save only a beautiful secretary. Highlight 1: A sweeping, panoramic portrayal that unveils the mysteries of a nuclear power plant! Highlight 2: An epic cosmological setting, from the Solar System to the Third Arm, the Milky Way/Triangulum Galaxy/And 139Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 119 I Want to Retire, but They Keep Making Me Rich 我想养老，偏让我发财 [Down-on-his-luck man reborn + 1998 + third-tier city + wealth-building and retirement + golden finger] Originally titled: [I Want to Retire, So Why Do They Keep Making Me Rich?] A few things to know: The male lead takes time to grow, so be patient with him. One female lead, with limited screen time. He only has a daughter and will not have any more children! All he wants is to retire! In his previous life, Kang Shaoqi was dirt poor, ridiculously unlucky, and a scumbag to boot! Reborn in 1998, a 342Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 120 Reborn in 2002: I’m Generous With Money and Shares 重生2002，我舍得给钱送股份 This may be the most realistic rebirth novel on Tomato, and the male lead's business model of 'being willing to give people shares' may also be the most criticized business model on the platform... 320Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 121 Adrift in a Sea of Debt 债海沉浮 The pressure of credit card payments, calls from bank debt collectors, relentless harassment over online loans, and reproaches and complaints from his wife and friends weigh on him like a boulder on his chest. Every breath brings pain. He works day and night, yet still cannot fill the bottomless pit of debt. For him, life has become an endless struggle of helplessness. Every time hope flickers to life, reality cruelly snuffs it out. Even his once-beautiful, virtuous wife gets into someone else's 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 System: My Master Is Acting Strange! 统子：我这主人不对劲！ A tycoon fantasy? A travel story? A food story? A romance? Or perhaps an everyday-life story without so much angst? [Double female leads + System + not reborn + not mindless + realistic] Just a middle-aged man wandering around and having fun, opening his eyes to the world and breaking free of its illusions. 418Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 A Drifter's Rise Begins with a Dream 盲流小子的崛起，从梦开始 A vivid memory, born from an accident during an experiment, streaked into the sky as a flash of blue light and landed in the mind of a young man with the same name in a parallel world, a cosmic reflection of our own. It slowly began to influence and change his life, as well as the lives of his family and friends. Literary luminaries: Such a gifted young talent. It’s a shame he has a mouth on him. Students: His poetry and essays are excellent, but he’s a real jerk! Famous songwriter: That kid doe 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Goofy Wang Erbao Suddenly Strikes It Rich 沙雕王二宝突然发财了 Everyone said Erbao was a bit of an idiot, but who knew he was one of a kind? He dug up ancestral graves and learned to appraise antiques. His methods were a little outrageous. He’d never fall for brainwashing or manipulation. If his worldview started itching, he’d scratch it himself! While everyone else burned incense and prayed to get rich, he dug up ancestral graves, refusing to believe in such things! When a fortune fell from the sky, let’s see how he handled it. A huge sum of money, a brill 219Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 125 Suddenly Rich, I Lie Flat at a State-Owned Enterprise 乍富，躺平国企 Life rushes by. Thirty years have passed, but has he managed to stand on his own two feet? For the first thirty years, a man honors his father; for the next thirty, his son honors him! Like the sound of his name, Lou Yi is just one of countless insignificant ants in this world! At thirty, with no career to speak of and no family of his own, he returned home for the New Year and looked at his aging parents, their backs bent and their hair half white. His heart was filled with bitterness and helpl 11.4kReads7.0Score467Shelves
- 126 I Am the Only Player in a Xuanhuan World 我，玄幻世界唯一玩家 [Killing enemies restores health + ruthless and decisive + status panel + multiple heroines, no official pairing] Demons and monsters run rampant. Great demons command the wind and rain, martial experts can split mountains and sever rivers, and the weak are no better than ants. Luckily, Liu Xuan has a cheat: he's the only one who can see health bars, and killing enemies also drops treasure chests! Killing makes him stronger! If that's the case... Demon (martial artist): “Liu Xuan, we have no gru 908Reads7.1Score103Shelves
- 127 Reborn in 2000: From Couch Potato to Business Tycoon 重生2000：咸鱼翻身变首富 [Also known as: Fortune That Reaches the Heavens] Awakening one day, Feng Qingyun returns to twenty years ago. After a previous life of poverty, despair, and being bullied by everyone, he swears that this time he will shake up the business world and rise to its very peak! 132Reads8.2Score105Shelves
- 128 At Our Wedding, My Wife Ran Into Her Ex’s Arms 婚礼现场妻子投入前男友怀抱 At the peak of his life, he was poisoned to death, and his wife turned out to be the murderer. After being poisoned, Shen Xingchen was reborn and embarked on a series of acts of revenge. His wife's family was disgraced, and their finances collapsed into bankruptcy. One romantic opportunity after another came his way: his wealthy senior sister returned from abroad to rekindle their relationship, and a crime boss's daughter went on a blind date with him. Using the information advantage he gained f 7Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 129 Us in Xiangyang Lane 向阳里的我们 [#Real life, #warm neighborhood stories, #healing family bonds, #raising a child and turning life around] Delivery worker Wang Xiaojun had a pain he couldn't put into words: his six-year-old son Xiaobao lived in his own world, like a star. One moment of carelessness nearly resulted in Xiaobao getting lost, sending the entire Xingfuli residential community into chaos. The incident tore open the cracks in Wang Xiaojun and his wife Li Xiujuan's strained marriage, while also revealing the troubles 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Reborn, Yet You’re Holding the Campus Belle’s White Stockings? 重生了，你却拿着校花的白丝袜？ With the white socks from your first love at eighteen in your hands, how are you, a middle-aged man, supposed to explain yourself... Reborn, reborn, reborn, and this is what you do with your second chance? [Urban Rebirth]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [College Campus]+ [Realistic Entrepreneurship]+ [Steady Growth]+ [Overseas Storyline] Jiang Feng, a research director at a fund company and a graduate of a prestigious university, wakes up one night back in 2009, before the college entrance exams. So wha 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 I Can Improve My Esper Skill Proficiency 我能提升异能熟练度 [Superpowers + Proficiency Panel + Multiple Classes + No Romance + Not Mindless] The fusion of the Astral Realm and the universe ushered in a dazzling age of superpowers. Superpowers formed the foundation of a variety of classes. Each class had its own abilities, and training in skills helped people make better use of their powers. After dying from overwork, Lin Ye transmigrated and gained a proficiency panel that let him allocate points earned through daily exercise. What was there to wait for? 2.3kReads8.3Score158Shelves
- 132 The Golden Age Against the Tide 逆流黄金年代 Reborn in 2000, Lin Xiaolei finds that real estate has yet to take off, the internet has just weathered a downturn, and the retail industry is only getting started. As the tide of the times rolls in, what will he choose? Lin Xiaolei says, “I want to make money.” “And after you’ve made money?” “Make even more money.” “What do you need all that money for?” “Make money with money...” 2.7kReads8.2Score167Shelves
- 133 Reborn in 2009: I Won a Hundred Million Before the College Entrance Exam 重生2009：高考前中奖一个亿 (Reborn + Lottery Win + Post-90s + School Life + No Romance + Taking Down Scum) Lin Xia, who had stayed up all night studying for the civil service exam and died suddenly, opens her eyes a week before the college entrance exams. She needs only half an hour to accept what has happened. Then she takes the only 20 yuan she has and buys a tenfold lottery ticket. From then on, she changes the tragic fate she suffered in her previous life... 3.2kReads7.9Score280Shelves
- 134 Cutting My Pay? My Real Dad's Here! 扣我工资？亲爹上线了！ The day I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the station manager docked 6,000 yuan from my wages. “You're almost dead. What do you need money for? To burn as offerings?” I put up with it for three years, until he decided I was an easy target. Then, just as I put the gasoline hose to my mouth, a System suddenly burst to life in my mind. The rules were simple: Recover every cent stolen from me by legal means, and I could extend my life. Help others recover every cent stolen from them, and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Her Moon, Her Light 她的月亮，她的光 Main story: “Little Sister, What Are You Trying to Do?” No N+1; one-on-one romance; pure love; everyday life; mellow pace; little-sister romance; healing When Lin Wan was six, she was brought into the Lin family, looking like a drenched kitten. She wouldn’t let anyone touch her, but clung tightly to the hem of seven-year-old Lin Xu’s shirt. That one clutch lasted a lifetime. Later, the neighborhood’s little ringleader grew into a quiet, taciturn young man. His teachers said he was hard to approa 356Reads—Score100Shelves
- 136 Getting the Whole Village into Online Loans to Build the Nation's Top Financial Village 带领全村撸网贷，打造第一金融村 Qin Feng is reborn in a parallel world and finds himself being hounded by a shady online loan platform... “Pay you back? Pay what back? You're loan sharks, and you still expect me to repay you?” He decides to go all in and takes out loans from dozens of online platforms. Not only that, he gets everyone in his village to do the same. Some time later, debt collectors arrive at Qin Village to collect. Dozens of tattooed thugs, armed with steel pipes and wearing menacing expressions, storm into the 6kReads8.4Score280Shelves
- 137 I Just Want to Retire Early 我就想早点退个休 Urban life + reborn + campus belle + multiple heroines + lighthearted Office worker Jiang Zheng is reborn after a car accident on his way home from working overtime. With a second chance at life, he sets himself a goal: by the time he graduates from college, he needs to have his diploma, property deed, retirement pension, and birth permit. Why is there no marriage certificate? Naturally, because he's not good enough… 1.8kReads7.0Score101Shelves
- 138 Reborn in 2001: Ruling the Global Business World 重生2001之制霸全球商业 In his previous life, he lived like a dog. In this life, he will become a dragon who looks down on all living beings! The crushing failure and betrayal of 2024 vanished after one night of heavy drinking. Wang Tianyu woke to find himself back in December 2001, at the crossroads of fate. Nothing had begun yet, and everything could still change! Armed with memories of the next twenty years, he faced the familiar yet boundlessly promising tide of the times and smiled. The internet, chips, smartpho 9Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 139 Reborn in 2010: I’d Rather Be the School Bully Than a Top Student 重生2010不当学霸当校霸 The rating has only just opened and will rise later. Reborn in 2010, I’ll teach you step by step how to start a business and earn your first fortune: trading futures, Bitcoin, becoming a real estate tycoon and a big shot in the tech world. First, let’s set a small goal: make a trillion before the college entrance exam. 777Reads8.0Score117Shelves
- 140 Reborn in 2016: The Rise of Douyin 重生2016抖音风云 At 46, Lu Chen was drowning in debt. His mortgage and car loan left him barely able to breathe, and he couldn’t even afford his two sons’ tuition. His wife endured the hardship alongside him without a single complaint. He worked himself to the bone delivering takeout, until he finally collapsed and died on the road. When he opened his eyes, he was back in 2016, the year Douyin first launched. That year, a funny video he and his wife had filmed on a whim went viral. They gained 50,000 followers, 591Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 I Won One Million from the Start, So I Lay Flat 开局就中了1个小目标，我躺平了 At long last, this heaven-sent fortune has finally come my way! Ahhh! As a model young man of the new century and a veteran professional experience tester (which really just means I’ve quit after barely a year seven times), Liu Ziyu plans to lie flat after striking it rich, but then he encounters a series of extraordinary... 395Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Four Days On, Three Days Off! My Employees Fear the Company Going Bankrupt More Than I Do 上四休三！员工比我还怕公司破产 Unable to stand the cutthroat workplace rat race, fresh graduate Qin Tian decides to register his own company and issue himself an internship certificate. [The Anti-Rat-Race System is at your service!] Qin Tian discovers that the Anti-Rat-Race System awards points based on employees’ sense of belonging, and those points can be exchanged for a hundredfold cash payout. From then on, my goal is to make employee benefits my top priority. I run my company, and I never make employees work unpaid overt 83Reads6.5Score121Shelves
- 143 Becoming a Super Rich Man Starting in College 从大学开始，成为超级富豪 Back in 2005, the internet was entering a golden age, and the protagonist hoped to claim the most delicious slice of the pie. Starting with Renren, he ventures into movies, phones, games, investments, entertainment, e-commerce, new energy, drones... From the internet to manufacturing, from the internet to showbiz, he builds his fortune while enjoying life. Watch as the protagonist gradually becomes a business magnate. 469Reads—Score100Shelves
- 144 A Low-Grade Talent? Watch Me Grind Until I Become an Unrivaled Prodigy 下品天赋？看我肝成绝世天骄 [Grind for proficiency and experience + cautious yet bold + no female lead] After transmigrating to a cultivation world, Zhou Yu can only become a menial disciple of the Qingxuan Sect because of his inferior talent. Luckily, he has a proficiency panel. Not only can he grind beginner skills all the way to Lv. 10, but once they reach the max level, they can also develop all kinds of special effects. From then on, Zhou Yu devotes himself to grinding away in obscurity... until many years later, he 643Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 145 Fate: Reversing the Mandate of Heaven fate之天命逆转 China’s very own Holy Grail War begins, summoning large numbers of powerful Heroic Spirits who are further strengthened by various local blessings. Though unconventional, this Holy Grail War is more like a real war than ever before. 139Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Reborn in 1995: I Have a Fortune of Billions to Inherit 重生95，我有亿万家产要继承 (Both leads are reborn + real-world industry + multiple heroines + no System + not a wish-fulfillment story + slow burn) Jin Yang, born into a wealthy family, was raised by his parents to live frugally. He has little ambition and is better at preserving what he has than making progress. When his childhood sweetheart is humiliated and takes her own life, and foreign capital moves to encircle his company, he is powerless to fight back and can only retreat again and again. Reborn, Jin Yang naturall 13Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 147 After Winning 18.4 Billion, I Return to the Northeast to Lie Flat 中奖184亿后，回东北躺平 The rating just came out; it'll go up later. (Patriotic, an unconventional take on lying flat, satisfying misunderstandings, passive income, healing) When Shen Yan, who worked in the Magic City, hit rock bottom in terms of luck, he unexpectedly won the lottery and chose to return to his hometown in the Northeast to lie flat. His outlook changed, his health improved, and his wealth continued to grow. His grandfather's mountain village, his father's Yangcheng, and Shen Yan's Magic City: the pat 15.9kReads6.6Score795Shelves
- 148 Reborn? Let's Win the College Entrance Exam First 重生？先赢了高考再说 It’s still a modern-day story. A tale of childhood sweethearts who love and torment each other. Please come check it out. Thank you so very much!!!! 320Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 I Really Haven't Transmigrated 我真的不是穿越者啊 [No System] [Lady Luck Is Smiling] [Career] [A Strong Nation] [Beyond the Solar System] [Half Misunderstandings] [Half Ensemble Cast] An accident turns Fang Jun's life upside down. Fang Jun: “I've said it so many times: I'm not a transmigrator, and I don't have a System. Stop making things up.” Others: “Right, right. Colonizing Mars has nothing to do with a System.” Li, the greatest contributor, Iron Guts: “Let me tell you in secret: I just opened the door and saw Brother Jun building a controll 4kReads8.3Score220Shelves
- 150 I Won Thirty Million, So I Chose to Lie Flat at the Office 中奖三千万，我选择在公司躺平 [Urban workplace + Multiple heroines + No System + No transmigration + No rebirth] After Cao Weidong learned that his daughter wasn't his biological child, he discovered he'd won a 30-million-yuan lottery jackpot. So he chose to get divorced. He went back to his old company and continued working. Yes, you read that right! He got rich, but still went back to work. Well, he was only working for fun! 9.8kReads8.7Score362Shelves
