Novels like When the Plum Blossoms Bloom
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- 51 Early Spring Frost 小春霜早 Xiaochun Shuangzao tells the story of the lives, changes, joys, and sorrows of the three Gu siblings at the end of the twentieth century. Through their story, the novel explores the profound impact of Reform and Opening Up on people's thoughts and lives, and the sweeping changes brought by the new era. [Print edition published] 1.1kReads8.5Score10914d adds
- 52 Prisoner of Fireworks 烟火囚徒 [Slow-burn, no System, no clichés, transmigrate and reborn] In Republican-era China, two brothers cannot bear to accept their parents' brutal deaths. They swear to take revenge, but the ending is beyond what anyone could expect. Truly, it is a tale of: Every feud has its cause, and grand ambitions are so often left unfulfilled. What a worldly, commonplace path this is, nothing but prisoners of the mundane! 40Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 53 Real Life: A Middle Schooler's Journey as a Writer 真实人生：一个初中生的写作路 A real life, a painful past: I grew up poor and frail, plagued by illness. At fifteen, I dropped out of school and began pursuing my literary dream at home. After having my work rejected time and again, I finally saw my first-ever piece published. It also became the last thing I ever published in print. Then I turned to the internet and began my journey as a web novelist. 26Reads8.0Score214d adds
- 54 Back to 1937: From the War of Resistance to the Korean Battlefield 重回1937，从抗日到朝鲜战场 Transmigration + System + War + Killing Ghosts + Wish Fulfillment + Passion... The land of Yan and Huang is rich in heroes, who face a hundred foes without fear. Fearless, they must have their vengeance. Behold the blood of China's sons! With sword in hand, the men march a thousand miles, slaying northern invaders all along the way. They storm the enemy capital with steel blades, every strike stained with the blood of their foes. 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Siheyuan: Before I Transmigrated, I Was a Corporate Workhorse 四合院：我穿越前是牛马 [Historical Era Novel + One Female Lead + Courtyard House + System] Chen Mo transmigrated to 1959, brought there by a System that had gone rogue. Faced with the assorted beasts of Love in the Courtyard, he set out to make his own plans: absolutely no working, absolutely no putting up with bullies, and always getting even in the real world. No getting dragged into endless back-and-forth... He couldn't even get his own life in order, but he was determined to put everyone in the courtyard in their 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Borrowed Dignity, Then She Lost It 借来的体面，然后她弄丢了 Borrowed respectability, then she lost it 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 A Comeback: The Most Thrilling Lives Belong to Those Who Never Give Up! 逆袭，不服输的人生最精彩！ Hua Feng was on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of his life. But overnight, not only did his beautiful wife run off with a pretty boy, the woman also made off with the millions he had scraped together through countless hardships, leaving nothing but a complete mess... Life’s dramatic ups and downs came far too quickly. He could only start over from scratch! Want to laugh at me? Get lost! What, you want me to back down? Who do you think you are? Keep dreaming! Watch as a man who has hit rock b 118Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 On the Seventh Day of the New Year, I Poured My Life into a Nongfu Spring Bottle 正月初七，我把人生倒进了农夫山泉瓶 On the seventh day of the first lunar month, I poured my life into a Nongfu Spring bottle. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 My Girlfriend Didn't Reply for Three Minutes, So I Broke Up with Her 女友三分钟不回我消息，我直接分手 My girlfriend didn’t reply to my message for three minutes, so I broke up with her on the spot. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 My Wife Didn't Reply for Three Minutes, So I Divorced Her 女人三分钟不回我消息，我直接离婚 My wife didn’t reply to my message for three minutes, so I divorced her on the spot. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 The Sheep Are Here, the Sheep Are Here 羊来,羊来 The sheep are coming, the sheep are coming —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 I Do Makeup at a Funeral Home, and the Dead Started Talking 我在殡仪馆化妆，死人开口说话了 Others use makeup to prepare the dead with greasepaint; I listen to their final wishes. Blending, concealing, stitching. Every time a sponge touches skin, the last words the deceased uttered before dying appear in my mind. [The Eleventh Sentence: "Tell my mom... I haven't gone far."] The woman on autopsy table number three had been abducted into the mountains for twenty-nine years. She escaped three times, only to collapse at the entrance to the police station where she had gone to reunite with 74Reads—Score10314d adds
- 63 A Love That Crosses Mountains and Seas 跨越万水千山的爱情 A love that crosses mountains and seas 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Purple Seas and Clouded Skies 紫海云天 Drawing his sword against the storm, for the dignity and rights of billions of living beings, Prince Ziyun of Hualan marches forward with sword in hand, shaking the seas and skies of the Hai Tian Continent! “When the Storm Breaks”: He draws his sword in the face of danger, standing firm to shake the mountains and rivers. “Clouds Deep, Mists Thick”: Amid the struggle to tell friend from foe, he presses on against all odds. “Winds and Clouds Churning”: He moves freely through the chaos, turning th 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Wangcai the Golden Retriever Says: Don't Be Afraid, I'll Stay by Your Side 金毛狗旺财说：别怕，我守着你 The Golden Retriever Wangcai Says: Don't Be Afraid, I'll Stay by Your Side —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 After Becoming a Background Character, I Live to Stir Up Trouble 穿成路人后我唯爱搅局 [Transmigrate Into a Book] [System] [No Romance] [Women-Loving] [Ensemble Cast] [Strong Female Lead] [Empress] [No Women Being Mistreated] [Slow Burn] Xiang Ziyou transmigrated into an old-school novel about a strong woman and got bound to a System. At first, she was thrilled. But the more she thought about it, the more something felt off. Hadn't she just been kidnapped? Fortunately, the System didn't make her pursue any black-hearted or pure-hearted love interests. It only asked her to distingu 21Reads—Score314d adds
- 67 The Boy from a Remote Mountain Village I Helped Twenty Years Ago Wants to Marry Me 二十年前救助的偏远山区小男孩，要和我结婚 The little boy I helped in a remote mountain village twenty years ago wants to marry me 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 A Lucky Break at Work 幸运职场 She faced all kinds of challenges and hardships in the workplace. She moved herself and others, suffered repeated humiliation yet earned deep respect, and endured the darkest of times as well as bright, happy days. Fortune was always at her side. Come see how she deftly navigates the cutthroat workplace and takes her career to the top. A guide to succeeding in life and work. Though told as a novel, this story is packed with lessons worth learning. 2Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 69 Asking Heaven: A Land as Beautiful as a Painting 问天之江山如画 Just after passing the imperial examinations and growing closer to the goddess he had admired for years, he inexplicably transmigrates to an unknown era. From then on, he joins forces with a sword-wielding heroine, roams the martial world, strides across a chaotic age, and shapes the realm’s future, embarking on a very different life... What became of his parents and her in the other world? Will he ever see them again?... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The King’s Phone Connects to Myriad Worlds 王上的手机通万界 [Female lead, no romance + wish fulfillment + golden finger] Qin Gui is an utterly ordinary little writer whose greatest wish in life is to lie flat. Writing is work. Reading is life. Who could have guessed that after an anger-fueled thousand-word rant about a “wife-chasing crematorium” novel, she would transmigrate straight into the story? Good heavens, she'd transmigrated into a cannon-fodder supporting woman in a trashy romance about scumbags! Luckily, she has a golden finger, and the people 794Reads—Score17614d adds
- 71 Thorns and Moonlight 荆棘和月光 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Lameyue 腊月儿 A man at the very bottom of society. An ordinary story about an ordinary person. He is right there beside you. He might even be you. Life is like a glass of liquor. The longer it sits, the richer it becomes. Light a cigarette, lift your glass, and let's savor it slowly. 4.7kReads8.9Score37614d adds
- 73 Time That Cannot Be Kept, People Who Cannot Be Held 留不住的时间留不住的人 “Since you want a divorce, I have to get the share that belongs to me. The law says that whoever cheats first has to compensate the other for emotional distress. Besides, I’m now suffering from severe depression. Don’t even think you can get away with this.” Jiang Xiaomei had no idea where she’d found the nerve, but she was actually shouting at Qu Mingyan like this. “You must be out of your mind, thinking about money all the time.” Qu Mingyan was so furious that his face turned green. A vein bul 7Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 74 Let's Not Talk About Love 不谈爱情 Don't Talk About Love is a purely fictional serialized novel. The novel tells of the inner torment of Zhao Xiaosong, a middle-aged man who works at Shenfeng Tire Factory and suffers from cerebral atrophy. It portrays his resentment, anxiety, loneliness, helplessness, despair, selfishness, longing, and, finally, his struggle... The story begins in the 1990s. Zhao Xiaosong, a country bumpkin from that era, is lucky enough to become a tire-molding worker at Shenfeng Tire Factory in Jiaoshi. Back 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 A Marriage of Money 钱婚 To become the dutiful daughter, good wife, and loving mother everyone expected, Liu Xiaoqing buried her youthful dreams and deepest desires before the age of thirty-three, living a life of constant compromise. After graduating, she painfully gave up her dream of becoming a writer and took the civil service exam, becoming a government employee. At home, she endured her in-laws' repeated provocations, again and again, just to preserve her marriage. At work, she likewise chose to put up with her 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 The Time Left Behind 被遗拾的时光 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! This is a period novel set close to real life, following three generations through different eras, from the War of Resistance Against Japan and the turmoil of the Chinese Civil War to the educated youth years and modern city life. It tells how they struggled against the tide of social change and forged different paths 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Siheyuan: Raising Six Kids, I Take on the Scoundrels 四合院：养六娃的我手撕禽兽 Chen Wenxuan transmigrates to Courtyard No. 95 with the house he lived in during his previous life. His parents are both dead, and six younger siblings are still crying to be fed. But that's okay. The house is well stocked, and its supplies reset every day! He also has a storage space and a spatial ability! In these hard times, eating well is no problem! As for the animals: Yi Zhonghai, the “god of morality”; the stingy, scheming Yan Bugui; the consummate white lotus Qin Huairu; the kitchen-warr 3.9kReads6.2Score14114d adds
- 78 Who Is the Murderer? 谁是谋杀者 A body is discovered in an abandoned chemical plant in Jiangcheng. At the same time, Lin Beiqiao is searching day and night for her missing brother, Lin Beican. Is the body her brother's? Follow Officer Song Zhen's investigation as it uncovers the truth about a troubled family, layer by layer. 238Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 The Peach Blossom General Wanted to Break Off the Engagement. Forced to Become Emperor, She Burst into Tears 桃花女将要退婚，被迫称帝她哭了 [Historical power fantasy + exhilarating action + vying for supremacy + ascending the throne] A man who fails to pursue his ambitions has wasted the strong body he was born with! Look at the land today: whose realm shall it be? He was once forced to abandon martial arts for literature. He took in his fiancée's family, only to be betrayed. “My husband, Sima Luoyue's, must be a general like Brother Lingyun, renowned throughout the land, not a weak scholar like you, Liang Xiao, who's good for nothi 163Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 80 Village Chief, Don't Mess with Me 村长，别来惹我 Liang Yuzhen is a widow in the village, beautiful and kindhearted. The village chief is a local bully, but seeing that Liang Yuzhen has no man to rely on, he often stops by to help her with whatever he can, putting on a show of being a good Samaritan. 94Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 81 Director Wang's Four Fires 王局长的四把火 Director Wang’s Four Fires 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Workhorses Don't Die on Mondays 牛马不会死在周一 The Working Stiffs Don't Die on Mondays 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 In Search of Her Trail 寻觅芳踪 A nostalgic romance about migrant workers in the 1990s! Packed with details from the decade: pagers, IC-card payphones, green passenger trains, letters from factory girls, radios, cassette tapes, VCDs, stickers of Hong Kong and Taiwanese stars, polyester shirts, woven-plastic sacks, assembly lines, overtime pay, temporary residence permits, and running faster than a rabbit when the police came to check them... 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Survival Game: I Become the Dream Girl of a Million Women Through Skill Alone 游戏求生：我靠实力成为万女迷 The low rating is because too few people have read it. Just released on October 14. [Multi-genre games, not just survival + no romance + an all-female world later on] One year into the apocalypse on Hailv Star, games descend upon the world. Zhao Xuyi enters a game on her eighteenth birthday, with a random golden finger in every round. Apocalyptic Survival: Stockpiling System (The supplies aren't for me) Tomb Raiding, Looting, and Escaping: Critical Hit Roulette Life Simulator: Golden Legend And 466Reads8.1Score10214d adds
- 85 I Accidentally Returned to a World of Women and Men 意外回到女男世界 Zhao Song from the world where women ruled died. Her mother, father, and younger brother didn't shed a single tear. When they sorted through her belongings, they even complained about the bad luck. Jiang Song from the world where men ruled was no longer foolish. Raised with normal modern values, she thrived. After regaining her memories, she felt it wasn't right to keep hiding the truth from her original family's members, so she told them openly, “I'm not Jiang Song. I'm from another world.” Her 191Reads8.1Score12014d adds
- 86 Stories from the Ground Up: Wellness, Livelihoods, and Human Nature at a Foot Spa 脚底下的故事——足疗店里养生、饭碗与人心 Stories Beneath Your Feet: Wellness, Livelihoods, and Human Nature at a Foot Massage Shop 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Secrets in the Rose Villa 蔷薇别墅里的秘密 Chen Xiaorong was born in the countryside. Her parents didn’t love her, and her prospective in-laws were all awful people. She was clever and decisive, beautiful and poised, and brimming with ambition. She earned top marks to get into university, but nobody supported her. She was willing to run away from her wedding and travel far from home to study on her own. The road ahead was difficult. When she faced endless darkness, the warmth he gave her became a ray of light that illuminated her heart. 13kReads8.8Score78714d adds
- 88 Love After Marriage, Day After Day 先婚后爱朝朝暮暮 Marriage Before Love, Sweet Romance After breaking up with her boyfriend of four years, Zhang Tong turned around and got involved with Qin Chuan. At first, she was only looking to have some fun and get back at her ex. Who knew she'd take things too far and get pregnant! After getting pregnant, Zhang Tong somehow ended up marrying Qin Chuan. Then she followed him to live in the countryside, only to discover that it was nothing like the pastoral life she'd dreamed of. There was endless farmwork! T 109Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 A Courtyard Full of Vermin? This Chef’s Ready to Start Butchering 禽满四合院？那本厨子可要开宰了 [Multiple Female Leads + The Space Exists but Is Not Prominent + The Male Lead Is Not Very Possessive of Women! Leave your brains and morals at the door when you read, and feel free to guess what happens] [He has a cooking cheat that boosts the taste of his food, making him a walking bottle of MSG! In a difficult era, cling to Old Li's coattails!] Sha Zhu was a simp, so he deserved to die a miserable death! But He Yuzhu, who transmigrated from the modern era to 1965 and into <The Birds in the Co 29.7kReads6.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 90 Siheyuan: I Want to Be a Good Person! 四合院：我要做一个好人！ Someone who never wanted to transmigrate ends up in the world of Love in the Courtyard. His System is useless, he isn't very brave, and his “cheap father” is the big villain. There don't seem to be many good people around him either. They all need to be taught a lesson. So he can only scheme against people behind their backs, while trying to be a good person in public. 12.3kReads6.9Score34714d adds
- 91 Sorry, I'm a Melee Mage 不好意思，我是近战法师 [No System + not a game + closed loop + wild imagination + unconventional fantasy + time travel] This novel isn’t for everyone. If you’re looking for mindless wish fulfillment, don’t bother opening it. This is a serious web novel, and everyone who finishes it gives it a like. As the dust settled, it turned out that you and I were both links in the same chain. After all the schemes and calculations, everything came down to a single cycle. And as for defying fate, who could have guessed that the H 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 The Cure for Every Kind of Defiance 专治各种不服 After being reborn, he enrolls at Yannan University of Chinese Medicine. He has just one goal: to become the best student. After graduating, he has just one goal: to keep knocking down the famous doctors around him. He does it all for one thing: a human-world "residence permit." 1.3kReads9.3Score23514d adds
- 93 Reality Has Nothing to Do with Ideals 现实与理想无关 Ideals are ideals, and reality is reality. Never confuse the two. The road from reality to ideals is long, so long that most people spend their whole lives without ever reaching the end. There are countless cases of ideals crumbling into reality, so many that every day someone gives up on their dreams and accepts the way things are. If someone is still living in reality while drawing ever closer to their ideals, congratulations. But are you sure that someone will be you? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Nothing Major in Life 人生无大事 I was born in the abyss and raised in the netherworld. Lost, struggling, helpless, despairing. The hardships along the way shaped my body and mind. When everything had finally calmed down, when spring had come and flowers were blooming, when everything was just right, I finally reached the most important moment of my life. 4.2kReads8.1Score46214d adds
- 95 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 10.9kReads7.6Score82514d adds
- 96 Gray Industries: On the Fringes of the City 灰色产业：游走于都市边缘 In 2005, the college entrance exam took me from the countryside to the city. I thought that if I worked hard enough, I could make a life for myself there. But reality taught me that in the face of power and money, hard work counted for nothing. For people like me, born with nothing, making something of ourselves means taking a road less traveled. First-person narration, no cheat powers, no over-the-top melodrama. My values are more respectable than my looks. Come give it a try. 94.5kReads9.1Score10k14d adds
- 97 It's Only Fifty 不过是五十而已 An inspirational, unyielding story of midlife crisis, workplace struggles, bank managers and tellers, married life, and everyday urban life. This book tells the story of Huang Wenxue, a bank manager facing a midlife crisis. She is at that awkward age when she is considered too old to find a new job, yet still too young to retire. How will she answer the unavoidable questions surrounding her career, marriage, family, children, and caring for her aging parents? Even in middle age, even when confro 429Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 98 A Beginner's Guide to Low-Fat Veganism 低脂纯素入门与实践指南 A low-fat, whole-food plant-based diet is the healthiest, most scientific, convenient, affordable, and effective way to eat in today's society. Thanks to its scientific basis and broad applicability, this diet is becoming a key solution to modern health problems. Based on whole plant foods, it avoids animal products and highly processed foods, cutting off the root causes of many chronic diseases and offering people from all walks of life a healthy choice that is effective, economical, and sustai 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Five Poisons Squad: Move Out! Going Crazy Through Dungeons! 五毒小队：出发！癫穿副本！ [Infinite Flow + Five-Person Ensemble + No Romance + Superpowers + Lighthearted Comedy + Utterly Unhinged] Forced into the game, Le Zhuo got amnesia and became ten times more absurd in the very first beginner dungeon. It felt like coming home to a place of pure fun! Going crazy? That's my specialty! Wake up as a pitiful victim of school bullying, and can't even remember your own name? Punch the classmate behind you into the air, then blast through the whole scene with one skill! Make the boss wi 51Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 100 Interstellar: My Only Ability Is Flowers 星际：我的异能只有花 (No romance) “Didn't you say your ability was just flowers?” “I never said it was my only one.” … After overcoming countless hardships to get from an abandoned planet to Star G4582, Wen Xia was taken in by a kind team. Her eyesight was restored, and she remembered her ability. She thought she could finally prepare for the military academy entrance exam in peace, but an unforeseen turn of events ruined her plans. Wen Xia: Studying can wait. Let me deal with these shameless people first. 3.1kReads8.7Score42714d adds
