Novels like A Common Man’s Reborn Years
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- 151 I Jumped Off a Building, and You Tell Me the System Just Arrived? 跳楼了，你告诉我系统来了？ [System] + [Getting Rich] + [Single Heroine] + [Everyday Life] + [Travel] + [Gourmet] + [Ensemble Cast] The day he found himself ten million yuan in debt, Chen Jun leaped from a rooftop. “Ding! Loan Repayment System binding...” A translucent panel appeared out of nowhere before his eyes, clearly displaying a single line: Every time the Host borrows money, the full amount, principal and interest, will be returned to the Host’s account when the loan is repaid. From that day on, he started borrowin 457Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 The Fire Burns Bright 炉火正红 A person’s life is like a lump of coal. Only by resisting the lure of superficial pleasures, enduring crushing pressure, and quietly growing stronger can you kindle a bright, fiery tomorrow! This book faithfully records the rise of a coal-mining family worth tens of billions, giving readers a glimpse into how the first generation of wealthy entrepreneurs made their fortunes in the 1990s. The title itself is ironic: the wave of private appropriation back then made a great many well-connected peop 641Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 153 I Have a Daily Sign-In System That Makes Me Rich 我有一个每日签到的消费财富系统 System, shut-in heroine, lighthearted, everyday life, romance. Cai Yujie is a shut-in who works an ordinary clerical job, doing odd tasks, in the big city of Jincheng. Her life is uneventful. She tries to save money and occasionally visits the orphanage. Her two roommates go back to their hometowns for the Spring Festival, leaving Cai Yujie to stay behind. Then a global pandemic breaks out, and with nowhere else to go for the time being, she stocks up on supplies, spends New Year’s Eve alone in 794Reads—Score109Shelves
- 154 Reborn in 2002: I Won’t Become the Richest Man 重生2002，我不做首富 [Reborn in 2002]+ [A flood of memories]+ [Everyday life]+ [Building the nation through industry]+ [Web fiction superstar]+ [Patriotic] When Yan He woke up, he had returned to 2002, the year he started seventh grade. Reliving his youthful days, he battled against the current, and forged a very different life. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Running Toward the Far Side of the Mountain 向山那边奔跑 Why we recommend it: This is an uplifting novel for young readers... A story that helps children develop a better understanding of growing up. Life is full of all kinds of challenges, and this book teaches readers how to think clearly and face them with optimism and a positive attitude… Synopsis: The protagonist, Xiaoyong, grew up without a father, born at the foot of the mountains and subjected to endless humiliation. He has many battles of wits along the way. The brief time he spends livin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 The Mangroves and Lychee Fragrance Bay 红树林与荔香湾 [Troubled families + drifting careers + tangled romances + unpredictable personalities + tragedy] [A realist tragedy! Readers looking for feel-good wish fulfillment, stay away.] A group of young people who chose the wrong majors and ended up in the wrong fields! In reality, ideals beckon; in pursuit of ideals, reality pulls you back. How do you reconcile the two? Is a person’s misfortune caused by their circumstances, their personality, or fate? Two young women stood before Wu Yifan. Anxious and 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 A Love Triangle in Marriage 婚姻里的三角恋 [Contemporary realistic fiction + the married life of ordinary people in Beijing + love triangles in marriage + real struggles] Bai Xue and Wang Yang are a young married couple living in Beijing. Wang Yang is a typical “phoenix man,” a country boy who made it big in the city. After ten years of marriage, he cheats on her. After they divorce, Bai Xue meets another man, and her new life begins… What makes this book special: A woman faces betrayal in her marriage, but after the hardship comes 1.4kReads8.8Score139Shelves
- 158 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
- 159 Reborn in 1994: Building the Perfect Leading Man 重生94：打造完美男神 The rating just came out. It’ll go up later~ [No Excessive Hostility] [Fast Timeline] [One-on-One Romance] At thirty-three, Liu Sen gets a fresh start after a failed life and returns, carrying memories of his previous life, to a maternity ward in 1994. The Perfect Male God System activates, and this time he starts striving for excellence from infancy. Discipline, growth, strength. The pacing is fast. It takes about 20 chapters to go from infancy to college, so keep up! A new author with a new b 297Reads6.5Score106Shelves
- 160 Office Politics: A Pay Cut Comes Knocking 职场：降薪来敲门 The day Li Da received notice of a pay cut, he also found out that his wife was cheating on him. See how he turns his career around after this double blow, with beautiful women by his side...! This is a work of realistic fiction. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Since I Stopped Putting Up with My Marriage, I've Been Living My Best Life 自从婚姻不再忍着过老娘我爽爆了 Hua Roulan stayed in the big city of Hailing after graduating from university. Her husband, Cheng Chuanhe, had a doctorate and ran a company. “You don't earn as much as I do. What gives you the right to make me do the housework?” Whenever Cheng Chuanhe flew into a rage, he erupted like a landslide, completely hysterical. Arguments between married couples are inevitable, but he resorted to verbal attacks and emotional abuse... She really couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to keep enduri 43Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 162 Peeping: The Butterfly Effect 偷窥之蝴蝶效应 The male lead is a complete loser. By chance, he discovers a female colleague's secret, turning his work and personal life upside down. Two mature adults with sharp minds and social skills engage in an intense game of push and pull. Love begins for reasons unknown and grows deeper with every passing day: they love and are loved, hurt and are hurt, grow through their pain, then fade from one another's memories. This is also the story of an ordinary worker's growth. 472Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 163 The Corporate World: Mergers and Acquisitions 职场铭之并购江湖 (Workplace intrigue + business rivalry + workplace romance + turning one's life around) In Modu, you dream of owning a spacious home, driving a nice car, and having a beautiful, gracious partner. But you're just an ordinary office worker, an ordinary accountant. What can you do? The protagonist, Ren Jiaming, is in the same boat. Yet through luck and his own hard work, he weathers the deceit and rivalry of the business world and the ups and downs of romance, inching closer to that life day by day 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Billionaire Heiress Breaks Out of School 亿万富姐闯出校门 ★Modern romance★Devoted husband★Sweet romance★Two male leads★The one he never forgot Xia Xiaoyi, a super-handsome man who stood 185 centimeters tall, met Jin Sha, a wealthy girl he fell in love with at first sight, at a job fair. He pursued her relentlessly and finally won her heart. After they married, the two lived a blissfully sweet life… The appearance of the handsome Wu Tian brought a crisis to Xia Xiaoyi and Jin Sha’s marriage. Wu Tian tried every means to get Jin Sha, even resorting to bl 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 Fate’s Echo in a Sea of Blossoms 逆袭繁花里的宿命回响 When her entrepreneurial dream crashes against the iron wall of reality, Lin Wan is determined to fight against the odds. She starts out in a rented room barely ten square meters wide, races all over the city to win orders, and gives up every shred of pride to raise money. Just as success in landing a contract seems within reach, a rival’s malicious scheme strikes without warning. A client is stolen, the whole internet turns against her, and her reputation is ruined. Overnight, all her hard work 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 The Flowers Blur My Eyes 乱花渐迷眼 Wen Juan and Lan Cheng were once a loving couple. They both had steady jobs and earned a comfortable living. On weekends and holidays, they often spent time with Wen Juan's classmate Li Run and his wife, Wang Ze and his wife. The two families were so close that they shared everything and had no secrets from each other. As time went by, Wen Juan, who loved playing mahjong, and Wang Ze, who loved it just as much, spent more and more time together. Before they knew it, their purely friendly feeling 365Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 When Ji Comes, Make Yourself at Home 季来之，则安之 As the empire teeters on the brink of collapse, Ji Shuhe sees through her fiancé’s false affection and turns around to marry Ji Bai. She intends for them to spend their lives treating each other with polite respect, but finds herself falling deeper and deeper under his doting care... 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 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
- 169 The Easygoing Life After Financial Freedom 财富自由后的咸鱼日常 A lottery ticket as my start-up capital from the start, plus a transmigration investment System. What? The System can generate returns while idle, and even make money off the Americans when it manages investments for me?! Then it’s time to take off! I don’t want to be a domineering CEO or the richest man alive. Jiang Yuan just wants to enjoy a laid-back life after achieving financial freedom. Living like a couch potato, he sets off alone on a motorcycle trip across the Yunnan-Tibet Highway, thro 729Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 170 Transmigrated to the Modern World: Living at the Campus Belle's Home with a Princess 穿越现代：和公主一起住进校花家 [Princess] [Mature School Belle] [Sweet Romance] [No Love Rivalry] [No Cultivation] [Everyday Life] [Laid-Back] Chu Youyun, the third princess of Daxia, was forced to marry into a tribe beyond the frontier. Just as she thought her life would be dark and hopeless, her guard, Wang Changqing, stepped forward. He abducted her from the wedding and fled with her, only for them to unexpectedly transmigrate to the modern world. But as soon as they arrived in this strange place, they found themselves pen 659Reads8.6Score112Shelves
- 171 Stories from the Construction Site 工地上的那些事儿 [No System, entirely hand-written. Men and women on a construction site, struggling to survive in the workplace.] They say construction sites are chaotic, women are scarce, and beautiful women are even rarer. After graduating from college, I started working at a construction site. On my very first day, I met Sister Xiaoya, who was already married, and accidentally offended the site boss. It turned out that the construction site held more than just men and women. There were also stories few peopl 10.9kReads7.5Score835Shelves
- 172 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
- 173 Lost in Marriage: The Stranger in My Bed 婚姻迷途，枕边的陌生人 It had started out as an ordinary day. After finishing his work at the office, he came home early. His wedding anniversary with his wife was just a few days away, and he planned to buy her some gifts and surprise her. Hehe... 158Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 174 Back in 2010: I Predicted James Would Join the Heat 重回2010，预言詹姆斯去热火 No System + a little wish fulfillment + getting revenge on his unrequited love + business management + basketball + League of Legends. Song Qing was so enraged by the Lakers’ management in the summer of 2024 that he passed out, only to find himself in the 2010 college entrance exam hall. The NBA Finals and World Cup are just around the corner, and Bitcoin, League of Legends, livestream sales, short videos, and countless other opportunities await him. With the ability to predict the future, Song 228Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 Reborn, I Advised the Doctor to Stop Drinking 重生后，我劝医生别酗酒 (The book got zero reads in the store at both 80,000 and 200,000 words. Why not give it a look?) [Slow-burn romance + small-town life + one heroine + no mass-produced sugary romance] A few months ago. “Boss Gu, you have no right to stop me from drinking.” “Boss Gu, my business is none of yours.” “If you keep bothering me, I’ll call the police.” A few months later. “If you could go back to the past with your memories intact, what would you do?” The woman in a white coat beside him suddenly asked 1Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 176 The Shoe Factory Worker Holds Forth, and She Knows So Much! 鞋厂女工论道，她知道那么多！ [Urban slice of life + romance] The heroine is beautiful and works at a factory. She takes care of looking lovely while the hero works hard to get ahead. He climbs the factory's management ranks and even puts in time on the production line, all so the two of them can tie the knot and enjoy a long, happy life together. But things aren't that simple... 134Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 800 Reasons to Want a Divorce 想离婚的800个理由 Everyone has countless moments after getting married when they feel like getting a divorce. If they don’t, it must be because they’re in love. And if they do end up divorcing, that doesn’t necessarily mean they stopped loving each other. 6Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 178 A Lifetime of Love, Across Lifetimes 生生漫，世世缘 If you ask when falling leaves announce autumn’s arrival, they drift and scatter, keeping company with the wind. The heart follows its desires, longing for someone far away. What do these maple leaves mean, fluttering one by one? They are at the ends of the earth, but where are you? For whom does this foolish devotion burn? Fallen blossoms sever love, while the wind sheds tears. Leaves fly, flowers fade, yet love endures. Life after life, it lingers; every sigh catches in the throat. A bond acro 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 From the Start, I Sold Beer, and a Goddess Undercover Agent Took Out the Hitmen 开局卖啤酒，女神卧底坑杀手 Volume One: How Many Undercover Agents Are There? (Realistic Arc) [Undercover agents + goddess + no saintly heroine or simping + realism + values + intelligence] [No simps, white lotuses, self-righteous do-gooders, or scheming green-tea girls] [No sugary romance or obsessive romance fantasies, and no white-porridge sisters or cake sisters] (Read the realistic arc first, then the wild-imagination arc. It's funny and fun!) A major city in the south is a city that never sleeps. At ten at night, the 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Fortune-Telling Livestream: I’m Good at Winning Over Ghosts with Virtue 直播算命，我擅长以德服鬼 [One male lead, no romance, comedy, exorcising ghosts with physical force] Other people hunt ghosts with peachwood swords and yellow talismans. He smacks them in the face with flip-flops, carves “virtue” into bricks, sucks out their souls with a plunger, and even fries evil spirits until sparks fly with an electric fly swatter. When he gets serious, he pulls red underwear over his head and stinks ghosts into instant salvation! He livestreams fortune-telling, offering exactly three readings a day 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Two Years at Teachers’ College, She Stole My Heart 师专两年，她偷走了我的心 This book is the college-years installment of "Old Days in a Wineglass and a Telephone Receiver". In the fall of 1992, I arrived to register at Ancheng Normal College. The journey was forty kilometers. Tuition was 760 yuan. Eight boys squeezed into one dorm room. On the first day of class, we drew lots for our seats. I drew number 9, and she drew number 10. Numbers 9 and 10 sat together. Her name was Zheng Anlan. Over those two years, I got to know them: Wu Xiaoman, Zheng Anlan, Wang Ying, and G 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 I Think I Walked into the Wrong Blind Date Venue 我好像走错了相亲会场 (Ratings have only just opened, but they’re sure to keep climbing. The author has completed a million-word novel, so read with confidence.) When the family arranged a blind date for Shanghai, he somehow ended up at Auntie Wang’s matchmaking event next door, and everything changed. She thought he was broke. She thought he was a little brother. She thought he was a shut-in. She thought he was a warm-hearted guy. Four women, four entirely different lives. In the end, which one will he choose? In th 14.1kReads8.3Score975Shelves
- 183 My Five Sisters Raised Me, So I Bought Each of Them a House 五个姐姐养大我，我送每人一套房 When I was seven, Mom and Dad were gone. My five older sisters took turns raising me. The eldest dropped out of school to work a sewing machine. The second scavenged rotten vegetables at the market. The third earned money competing in tournaments. The fourth never had an entry labeled “for herself” in her ledger. The fifth cut off her long braids and sold them for eight yuan to pay my tuition. Chen Zi'en lived next door. He was the school bully, feared by everyone. He'd never lost a fight, but 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 Hello, System 您好，系统 The Human Devolution Report: Don't be fooled by this civilized getup. We're all lining up to take part in a grand pantomime of devolution. We meekly surrender our right to get lost, hand over our memory cards, and even turn our joys and sorrows into ready-made meals you can eat straight from the packet. Five poor souls twisted into knots by the times: an old sailor bets his life in a storm as the satellites fail; a gourmet can no longer taste the warmth of his father's last bowl of hand-pulled n —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 A Wounded Woman Doesn't Talk About Love 受伤女人不谈爱 She raises her husband’s mistress’s child! This is a story about a woman’s growth, inspired by many real-life stories. Wang Shengnan was born into a rural family that favored sons over daughters, and her mother named her Shengnan, meaning “to surpass men.” She started working as soon as she graduated from middle school. At a beauty salon, her boss sexually assaulted her, but timid and meek, she did not dare speak out. Later, she married an ordinary man, only for him to die in an accident. After 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 A Motherless Child, Cared for by His Sister-in-Law 没妈的孩子，嫂子疼 [Period drama + No System or storage space] After my adoptive parents died in a car accident, my older brother Zhang Dakui and I depended on each other. Ever since Dakui brought my sister-in-law Liu Chunmei home, our lives changed. And so did my life... 98Reads6.2Score112Shelves
- 187 What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛 Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 I Returned to School After Graduation to Work as a Security Guard, and My Teacher Became My Wife 毕业回校做保安，老师变老婆 [Urban slice of life, school life, sweet romance, light comedy, one female lead] As the saying goes, college graduates these days go straight into unemployment. Vocational colleges are everywhere, bachelor's degrees are a dime a dozen, and a good bachelor's degree is said to be no worse than a vocational degree. Gu Chang Geng didn't realize how true that was until he graduated. His parents had always told him that if he didn't study hard, he wouldn't be able to find a job. Only now did he realiz 2.8kReads6.1Score214Shelves
- 189 Wine and Beauty Are Irresistible 酒色撩人 Urban Life + Romance + Flirtation + Ex-Girlfriend Regrets It + One Female Lead (Not a wish-fulfillment story. No formulaic tropes, plot-focused, and slow-paced. Read with caution if that’s not your thing!) Money gives a man courage, and only a man with courage dares to chase women. A poor young man has a one-night stand and unexpectedly becomes a father. He then falls in love with a rich heiress. And so begins a hilarious, heartwarming tale! 380Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 190 The Red and Blue Battlefield 红蓝战场 Of everyone I’ve lost, the person I miss most is myself. In gambling, the scariest thing isn’t winning or losing, but the temptation of desire. A decade of bets, a lifetime in chains. The neon lights of Macau baccarat once illuminated my ambition. The chips at tables back home in Texas built up a false sense of prestige. The “guaranteed win” pitches in online gambling pop-ups ultimately dragged me into a bottomless pit. I thought I had desire under control, but I had long since become a puppet o 2kReads8.0Score106Shelves
- 191 The Men I Met After My Divorce 离婚后，我遇到的男人们 We had known each other for 26 years and been married for 20. We went from having nothing to building an estate worth tens of millions, and from being alone to having a son and a daughter. To outsiders, our marriage looked enviably perfect. At last, after all my years of waiting, it came to a happy ending. At last, I’m divorced and completely free. Now I can observe the men around me as an outsider. Men come in all kinds. There’s a type for everyone. This is my new book. If you happen to come ac 626Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 192 Reborn and Ready to Lie Flat, Then My Parents Had Another Child 重生刚想躺平，爸妈生二胎了 Feng Yixiao had been reborn and spent five years quietly making it through the college entrance exam. He was getting ready to buy ten houses in a popular city and live a simple, carefree life as a landlord, lying flat for good. Then his parents told him they were about to have a second child!!! Because Feng Yixiao had been quiet and withdrawn for the past few years and rarely talked with the family, his parents had decided, now that they were financially comfortable, to try raising a new “charac 2kReads5.8Score—Shelves
- 193 Aobiao Bula's Third Book 奥德彪不拉的第3本书 The rating has only just been posted, so it will go up over time. Feel free to listen and read! [First Person] [Based on Real Experience] [Everyday Urban Life] This book recounts the true story of an ordinary person who stumbled into online gambling. At first, he joined in thinking he could get lucky. But the lure of winning and losing drew him in deeper and deeper, until his savings were gone, he was buried in debt, and his life sank step by step into a dark abyss. He endured the pain of being 2.4kReads6.7Score109Shelves
- 194 Love Affairs in the Big City 大城情事 After my girlfriend and my best friend gave me a spectacular set of horns, I gritted my teeth and left my small town to make it in the big city. But as soon as I arrived at my new company, my coworkers started ostracizing me and setting me up... The big city is no paradise! It's a world of its own, full of all kinds of people and endless deception! As a nobody, I had to start out as a lowly network administrator, stumbling along until I finally built a small business of my own! But she was an ex 1.5kReads8.3Score134Shelves
- 195 My Blind Date Is Actually a University Counselor? 相亲对象居然是大学导员？ [Feel-Good Story + Sweet Romance + Older Woman/Younger Man + Workplace + Easygoing Daily Life + No System] Right after graduating, Shen Yan's dad forced him into a blind date. Shen Yan planned to go through the motions and get it over with, but the woman he was supposed to marry turned out to be Zhao Jinshu, the university counselor who had supervised him for two years! The two began pretending to be a couple for their own benefit. While fake-dating his counselor, Shen Yan set the workplace stra 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 The Workplace: Auntie Sent Me Undercover 职场：阿姨派我做卧底 Hou Xiaoqiang is caught cheating by his wife in bed, making Chen Sijie and Qian Guozhong, who work at the same company, feel that a storm is coming. Everything grows more mysterious. Watch Chen Sijie find his footing in this bizarre workplace…! 229Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 Great-Aunt Xile's Happy Life 姑奶奶喜乐的幸福生活 Home is a sheltered harbor, and family is always there to support you. This is a story about three generations of the Song family living happily in an old building on Tianjin's Five Avenues. It features Tianjin's delicious food, as well as the family's joys and sorrows over the past thirty years. 757Reads9.1Score104Shelves
- 198 Financial Freedom: You Get Why I Keep My Head Down at Work, Right? 财务自由，苟在单位能理解吧？ It's best to check the almanac every morning. Most days have things that are auspicious and things that aren't, and Li Wen has paid special attention to this ever since he was reborn. For a young man with plenty of life experience, what does he want most? Riding the waves of business, chasing trends, indulging in a life of luxury... or making all the flowers wither when his own blooms? Forget it! Staying at the small company he's worked hard at for over a decade, watching it grow from small to b 70.9kReads8.6Score4.7kShelves
- 199 Those of Us Who Don’t Want to Go to Work 不想上班的我们 There are three protagonists in this story: a young man who only wants to open a bar, a young woman who drops out of school to become a livestreamer, and me, someone who always played by the rules but eventually became thoroughly disillusioned with office life. This is a story about a group of young people, just like you and me in our youth. We don't want to go to work, but society beats us down and grinds us into the floor. After enduring hardship, a band of little good-for-nothings rises up to 587Reads—Score108Shelves
- 200 Dust in the Wind: The Days of Sharing a Job 生如尘埃：打工搭伙的日子 In a bustling city, how many people shine brightly, and how many struggle just to survive? The two protagonists in this book represent two very different kinds of lives. Only after going from innocence to worldly wisdom and enduring life's hardships can they slowly come to their senses amid the mundane world. 11.5kReads9.1Score961Shelves
