Novels like The Fantastic Adventures of Daniu and Miss Zixia
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- 101 Forty-Eight Taoist Spells and Techniques 道家咒术四十八法 In Taoism, spellcasting is a form of ritual magic that invokes deities through incantations or curses ghosts and demons. It is believed to establish communication with the Celestial Emperor and command spirits, driving away evil, averting calamities, and turning misfortune into good fortune. 2.3kReads6.6Score61414d adds
- 102 The Frog Emperor Ascended in a Pool and Saw Countless Members of His Kind 蛙族大帝飞升水池，看见无数同族 The Frog Clan Emperor Ascended Through the Pool and Saw Countless Members of His Kind 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 This World Is Such a Mess! 这个世界好混乱啊！ Who am I? Where am I? Am I dreaming? Everyone in the world seems strange. What was that I heard… My heart hurts so much. At last, I picked up my knife… I died… I came back to life, but I no longer had a heart… This is a world with just one continent and a few islands, and it is on the brink of an eerie apocalypse. Can someone without a heart feel the warmth and coldness of human life? How can I hold on to my heart in a world gone mad? Why can I calmly watch the living die right before my eyes? 225Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Drawing Eyes 画眼睛 Most people are blind in both eyes and heart. They recognize clothes, not people; they see only profit and can’t see cause and effect. The blind are stubborn and foolish. Who will paint eyes for all living beings? 22.6kReads9.5Score3.9k14d adds
- 105 The School of Mind in the Ming Dynasty 大明心学 This is a sweeping historical novel starring Wang Yangming. The story begins with Wang Yangming’s birth in 1471, the seventh year of the Chenghua era, and ends with his death aboard a boat in Nanan, Jiangxi, in 1529, the seventh year of the Jiajing era. Spanning fifty-eight years, the novel paints a vivid, panoramic portrait of the extraordinary life of one of the Ming dynasty’s greatest figures: the omens surrounding his birth, his youthful ambitions, his enlightenment at Longchang, his campai 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 106 Strange Tales of the Mountain Village: The Drought Demon and the Drought 山村异闻录之旱魃与旱灾 Strange Tales from the Mountain Village: The Drought Demon and the Drought —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 A New Journey to the West: Wukong 西游新记悟空 Lin Kong is maliciously laid off by his company, dumped without a second thought by his girlfriend, and pressured by his landlord for rent, hitting the lowest point of his life. Then he unexpectedly awakens an immortal-cultivation jade pendant and obtains an unrivaled technique. From then on, he defies fate and turns his life around, using extraordinary abilities to rise again and swearing to repay every humiliation he suffered. 19Reads—Score114d adds
- 108 Travel the World in a Custom Camper Van 自改房车行天下 [This book isn’t really a novel. More accurately, it’s a travelogue based on the author’s real experiences, chronicling the entire journey along National Highway 219 by car. If you enjoy traveling, come take a look.] What’s the most important thing about going out for fun? Of course, you have to get out there! What does traveling mean? Some say that traveling ten thousand miles is better than reading ten thousand books. Hu Yonggang believes that the meaning of travel is something you have to dis 1.3kReads9.5Score15514d adds
- 109 Tales of the Martial World: The Invincible Heroine 江湖笑传之侠女无敌 A young cook who carries a cleaver through the martial world meets a noble young master who blushes and knows how to make wontons. Amid laugh-out-loud daily antics, they uncover the truth behind a massacre. Reading tips: Don't read while drinking, or you might spray your phone. Don't read late at night, or you'll get hungry. Keep some tissues handy: tears of laughter are still tears. The martial world is vast, but the dining hall is small. Revenge must be taken, and meals must be eaten. There's 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Everything Changed After My Father Drank Crane's Crown Red 自从爹爹喝了鹤顶红，一切都变了 [Everyone’s Darling, Multiple Husbands, Female Emperor, Punishing Scum, Dad Handles Everything] As the heroine of a transmigration novel She wasn’t the one who transmigrated, and she wasn’t reborn either. No matter, her father was! She had no System and no golden finger. No matter, her father had them! She was born timid and a good-for-nothing. No matter, her father was a ruthless man. She spent sixteen years wandering outside before finally returning home. Her father, once so powerful he had th 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Chronicles of Wu Chen 巫尘记 As the Wu youth Ling Qianya was about to die, surrounded by humans and demons, an ancient primordial soul saved him and passed down an unrivaled cultivation art. He ventured into the barbarian lands, battled countless races, and defied heaven to carve out a broad road to greatness. 82Reads8.6Score114d adds
- 112 After Our Divorce, My Wife Wants to See the Kids. I Won't Let Her 离婚后老婆想看孩子，我不允许 After the Divorce, My Wife Wants to See the Kids, and I Won’t Allow It 213Reads—Score114d adds
- 113 Work the Immortals and Buddhas to Death! The Liangshan Heroes' Cross-Time Adventures 卷死仙佛！梁山好汉的跨时空生涯 (A convention-defying ensemble novel blending classical chivalry, modern absurdity, and cultivation that leaps across the bounds of imagination!) When the Liangshan heroes are sucked into a modern city by a bizarre heart lamp and forced to don yellow uniforms as food delivery riders, their cultivation path takes a sharp turn… Nantianmen milk tea, Five Elements Mountain vegetarian meals, and Moon Palace desserts? Those are just basic orders! Life-saving medicine in a cyberpunk world, clean water 56Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 114 My Ex-Wife Humiliated Me in Front of My Wife, in Public 我被前妻当着老婆的面在大庭广众 My Ex-Wife Humiliated Me in Public in Front of My Wife 454Reads—Score314d adds
- 115 A Kiss of Temptation 陷吻 [The second male lead takes the lead] + [Years of careful scheming] + [Love and redemption through a secret crush] Shu Mi gets dumped because she wouldn’t let her ex touch her. Only that night does she learn what it means to be completely consumed by Chu Xingzhou. She thinks it was just a drunken mistake. But it happens again, and again… Only after falling for him does she realize he’s been planning this for decades. She falls deep, then he disappears without a trace. She tries to force him to s 4.8kReads9.1Score39014d adds
- 116 After Our Divorce, My Ex-Wife Wants to See the Kids. I Absolutely Won't Let Her 离婚后前妻想看孩子，我绝对允许 After the Divorce, My Ex-Wife Wants to See the Kids, and I Absolutely Won’t Allow It 339Reads—Score514d adds
- 117 No One Has Ascended from This Little World in Ten Thousand Years, So I Came to Investigate 小世界万年无人飞升，我前来查看 No one in this small world has ascended in ten thousand years, so I’ve come to investigate 85Reads—Score214d adds
- 118 The Heavens of All Living Beings 众生之天 The Immortal Dao is ethereal, the Ghost Dao strange and uncanny; The Buddhist Dao rests in the heart, the Demon Dao is ruthless. But only with an unwavering Dao heart can one attain immortality and freedom. The heart changes easily, the Dao fades easily; People grow old, flowers wither; When will the Dao finally be attained!!! The heavens encompass all living beings, yet are themselves just one among them! 28Reads—Score214d adds
- 119 I Helped My Relatives Escape the Zombie Horde, But They Still Keep Pressuring Me to Marry and Have Kids 我帮亲戚们躲过了丧尸潮，但他们还是催婚催生 I Helped My Relatives Escape the Zombie Horde, but They Still Keep Pressuring Me to Get Married and Have Kids 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 When the Wind Rises, the Clouds Soar 风禾尽起云飞扬 I was born to a military family in Yunzhou, on the frontier. My youth was marred by hardship, and I was sent far beyond the border. After surviving countless brushes with death, I finally returned. Then my father and brothers were framed, and I had no choice but to come to the capital to save them. Heaven be praised, they were unharmed. The emperor showed me kindness, and I bore him a son. In times of crisis, I rooted out treacherous officials, defended against foreign enemies, and safeguarded t —Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 121 Maoshan Taoist Arts 茅山术 “Master, why does everyone say that after the founding of the country, animals aren’t allowed to become spirits?” “Because it’s the law. Whatever is spoken becomes law. After the country was founded, no animals, plants, or anything else was allowed to become a spirit!!!” “Then why have we still run into so many demons and monsters?” “Because those were all from before the country was founded. Afterward, there are only ghosts. So you have to live your whole life carefully and keep a low profile. 3.4kReads7.4Score45414d adds
- 122 Longevity System: I Added Stats and Lived to the End of Time 长生系统加点，我活到了时间尽头 [No tragic twists + not a power fantasy + no formulaic tropes + no brainless plot + lighthearted and witty] > The protagonist has longevity, yet somehow can't keep his head down. He charges ahead full of enthusiasm, only to run into a Nascent Soul ancestor. He thinks it's a lucky chance, but nearly gets himself killed. Even going outside means running into a powerful Golden Core cultivator. This is downright terrifying! > “I, Su Chen, am clearly just a lowly Qi Refining cultivator. How could I p 179Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Avenger of Memory 记忆的复仇者 Li Wei uncovers memories belonging to his family and vows to avenge them. Following the clues in their memories, he overcomes all kinds of hardships and dangers in search of their enemy, and finally gets his revenge. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Neighbor's Young Wife Schemed Against Me and Ruined Half My Life 隔壁小媳妇算计我，毁我半生 [Period drama] [Northeastern factory district] [Forbidden affair] [Deception and schemes] [Pregnancy troubles] [Long-buried secrets] [Redemption through guilt] [A painfully realistic tragedy] In a northeastern chemical factory neighborhood in the 1980s, the life of honest factory worker Jia Jun is ruined by the young wife next door! One act of misplaced trust draws him into the enormous lie Su Min has spun. One wrong step, and he's trapped in a forbidden affair, lost beyond redemption! An unexpe 5.7kReads8.1Score27114d adds
- 125 Nana's Big Transformation 娜娜变大记 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 53.7kReads5.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 126 The History of an Embroidered Bed 绣榻野史 “The Embroidered Couch” alludes to the secrets hidden deep within women's quarters and behind brocade curtains, while “Unofficial History” signals that this book recounts court intrigues and street-side tales absent from the official record, passed around by the common folk. Through the case of an honest family in Jiangnan forced into prostitution, the novel lays bare the dark picture of the Jiajing era of the Great Ming, where officials and merchants collude, corruption runs rampant, and the pe 1.6kReads—Score13614d adds
- 127 Laughing My Way Through a Perilous Path to Immortality 笑闯凶险仙路 Ye Bufan, a useless mortal unable to cultivate, obtains a Nascent Soul spiritual treasure. Traditional cultivation, slow-burn and cautious, no brainless decisions, no harem, no female lead, the Myriad Worlds, decisive and ruthless, and an invincible protagonist. The cultivation realms are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and beyond… 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 System: I Flagged Down a Car to Catch a Cheater, but Two Women Opened the Door 系统：拦车打算捉渣男，开门俩女 Lin Fan: Driver, are you going or not? Driver: I'm not going. This is a private car, not a taxi. Lin Fan: I'm going to catch my partner cheating. Driver: Catch them cheating? Let's go, get in. 253Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Midnight Phoenix: Chronicles of Ten Beauties 魅夜凤凰：十艳录 The protagonist, Shen Xuanyue, was originally a plum-blossom deer spirit. His cultivation has always been hindered by the Lone Lamp Art, keeping him from reaching the highest realm. Only by coupling with ten women who possess a special kind of heart-tingling spiritual energy can he break free of the Lone Lamp Art’s constraints and gain immense power. Who are these ten beauties? What secrets lie behind each love story? What will become of Shen Xuanyue? Find all the answers in the book, waiting fo 1.2kReads8.7Score—14d adds
- 130 Gray Sky 灰空 He was a passionate young man, a promising journalist with a bright future, and his life was going splendidly. His supervisor was just about to promote him when, in a moment of impulsiveness, he made a mistake, and his life took a different course. Misfortune and fortune go hand in hand, and this marked the beginning of an entirely different life. 4.8kReads8.9Score58414d adds
- 131 A Review of This Life 复盘今生 Wang Yuhan once had a happy family. He and his wife, Yu Meixia, were both teachers. They excelled at their jobs, had a son and a daughter, and were the envy of everyone. But then, one day, it all vanished. If you were the protagonist, how would you react? How would you face betrayal by the person you love and trust most? Drawing on a deep understanding of life, the author tells a moving, vivid story of love and loss, life and death, and tangled passions in plain, flowing prose. The story also ra 750Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 132 The Irresistible Rich Young Master Leads His Rose Astray 巨撩富少把玫瑰佳人带跑偏 Wealthy-family wish fulfillment + dangerously seductive madman + a rose-like beauty + intense push and pull + domineering devotion and extreme flirtation + mutual salvation + happy ending A mad young master gives in to a moment of pleasure and falls in love. The rose-like beauty has ulterior motives and gets burned. Two wounded souls become entangled in a complicated relationship they can't seem to untangle. At first, the mad young master says, “I'm going to peel this unlucky woman apart, layer 327Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 133 The System Granted Me Immortality, but Cursed Me to Be Single 系统赋予我长生，却诅咒我单身 [Not a comedy! No heroine + female supporting characters + survival-focused cultivation + ruthless action + daily life in the cultivation world] Li Zhibai transmigrates to the cultivation world and gets a [Longevity System]. The System has just one useless function: longevity. It can't do anything else. In the end, it even curses him to be single before falling silent for good. (The System barely appears again after that.) He has an endless lifespan and won't die of old age, but he can still gro 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 My Senior Brother Is Terrifyingly Strong, Yet Far Too Cautious 大师兄强的可怕却过分稳健 The Eldest Senior Brother Is Terrifyingly Strong, Yet Far Too Cautious 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Hua Yan, Heaven and Earth 华炎天与地 Huayan Heaven and Earth 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Sunny Skies Above the Humble Life 鸡毛之上有晴天 [Marriage and love] [Heartbreak] [Betrayal] [Comeback] [Redemption] [The truth about marriage] [Urban romance] [Realistic relationships] [Healing] A broken marriage has worn away every last trace of warmth, leaving two lives utterly out of step! He fought his way up from being a low-level technician at a chemical plant, only to have his own brother steal his hard work and stab him in the back! His former lover suffers through pregnancy; old love and hatred entangle them, betrayal cuts deep, devo 1.2kReads8.1Score10414d adds
- 137 The Art of Deception 过分伪装 [Short tragic romance + fast-paced + bad ending] On a night of torrential rain, Huo Chenyiao pinched her chin and sneered. “For six years, every single day I've thought about how to destroy you.” - He forced her to sign a mistress contract and took what he wanted from her night after night. When he discovered she was pregnant, he personally sent her to the operating table. He didn't know that the strange woman he'd spent the night with at the bar was her. Even less did he know that the ink on he 4.1kReads8.5Score27714d adds
- 138 Lie Flat Development System: My Beautiful Tenant Unlocked a Treasure Trove 躺平发育系统，美女租客爆资源 The world is overrun by the paranormal, and the university district has become a living hell! Everyone is trapped in a single dorm room and awakens a System for killing ghosts and surviving. They fight for their lives to slay ghosts, earn points, trade them for gear, and defend their rooms. Every ten days, a ghost-tide dungeon appears. Fail to hold out, and your soul will be scattered! While everyone else kills ghosts for points, Ling Xiao goes to bed and automatically earns coins. While everyon 79Reads—Score614d adds
- 139 Qi Cultivation Art 练气决 The Qi Cultivation Method is a cultivation manual that guides beginners into the mysterious world of qi refinement. Starting with the most basic search for a sense of qi, it gradually delves deeper, explaining in detail the many secrets and techniques involved in qi cultivation. In this book, readers follow carefully designed steps to shut out the noise of the outside world and calm both body and mind. Through specific postures, breathing techniques, and concentration exercises, they learn to s 620Reads7.0Score12914d adds
- 140 The Spirit Tamer's Teaching Journal: Ghosts at Qingshan High 镇灵教书录：青山中学有鬼 I am a teacher, and I protect the students in my care. I practice the Dao, and I keep the monsters of this world at bay. This is a rural middle school filled with Chinese ghosts and monsters, and the story of a fallen Daoist heir who teaches students by day and subdues ghosts and spirits by night, in a paranormal tale set in a small town. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 When the Evening Breeze Rises, Love Runs Deep 晚风起o衍情深 A newly appointed boss and I started off at each other's throats. After a long period of adjustment, we went from colleagues to lovers. After we got married, our life together was so sweet, joyful, and happy. 62Reads—Score314d adds
- 142 The Home We Never Spoke Of 未说出口的家 The Home Left Unspoken 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Three Years Left to Live? Four Saintesses Beg Me Not to Slack Off 命剩三年？四圣女求我别摆烂 (Fantasy, Eastern cultivation, past and present lives, multiple female leads, passionate cultivation, formation genius, decisive and ruthless, golden finger) “That shabby book bought for five yuan changed Lin Mo’s left eye into a yin-yang eye. On a stormy night, the mountain god temple collapsed, and a bronze compass revealed Yuan Tiangang’s star chart. From then on, Lin Mo used a Five-Grain Cycle Talisman to boost harvests while planting rice and rushing to market, and awakened an ancient, thou 37Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 144 Li Dazhuang, the Miracle Doctor of the Village 妙手村医李大壮 [Countryside + Miracle Doctor] Mogutun is nestled between mountains and water, with beautiful scenery and clear streams. All the village’s young men have gone away to work, leaving only the fool Li Dazhuang behind in this remote mountain village... 3.6kReads8.7Score38114d adds
- 145 After Becoming a Terminally Ill Heiress, I Can’t Enjoy Life at All! 穿成绝症千金后，活不了一点！ Su Muran spent twenty years treading carefully, then died in an unusually frigid sea. Her birth had killed her mother, and both her father and brother resented her. “Dad, let me tidy that up for you.” Su's father irritably drove her out. “Big brother, I made this cake for you.” She eagerly hoped he would accept it. He threw the cake on the ground with a look of disgust. “Get lost!” The Su family disliked Su Muran, and the servants bullied her. She was tired. Because her mother had given her life 10.1kReads8.9Score74214d adds
- 146 History of the Song: Annals of Emperor Taizu 宋史·太祖本纪 He may have been the best “actor” among the founding emperors in Chinese history. In 960 CE, a carefully orchestrated “forced enthronement” at Chenqiao Station propelled Zhao Kuangyin from a general of the Later Zhou into the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Over drinks, he stripped the founding generals of their military power; amid the shadows of an axe and candlelight, the mystery surrounding his bizarre death remains unsolved to this day. Some call him a wise ruler who ended the chaos o 147Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 147 Liyue Son-in-Law: I, Drax, Join the Group Chat 璃月赘婿：我朵拉克斯加入群聊 Absurd comedy: the real Genshin Impact. The Genshin Impact you play is fake (ง •̀_•́)ง In Liyue Harbor, Ningguang is celebrating her thirtieth birthday. Ningguang: It's my birthday, and all you give me is one Mora? Zhongli: This is what Dvalin gave me back in the day... “Shut up!” “How dare you even mention the name of Lord Rex Lapis?” Ningguang slapped Zhongli across the face. “You're nothing but a live-in son-in-law of the Ning family!” Xiao: “What? You dared to hit Lord Rex Lapis!” Ningguang: 108Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 148 Outsiders Join Forces with My Wife to Set a Trap, but I'm the One Who Breaks It 外人联手妻子做局，我才是破局人 A 35-year-old algorithm genius at a major tech company is framed by his boss and laid off. His cheating wife conspires with outsiders to seize his assets and custody of their child. His father dies in grief after being scammed with an AI face-swap. Just as he hits rock bottom, an accidental electric shock links him to the bioenergy of the future, the year 2080, awakening cutting-edge electromagnetic wave tracing technology! He tears his treacherous wife and her lover apart, takes down his unscru 70Reads—Score714d adds
- 149 A Beauty Buried in Snow! 雪葬红颜！ Snow Buries the Beauty! 182Reads—Score714d adds
- 150 Making Money on the Side! 捞偏门！ [After graduating from college, I went from a shady fortune-teller to a political fixer] This book pulls back the curtain on political fixers, giving you an in-depth look at the scams hidden from view in both the underworld and the corridors of power. “Do you think officials are all fools? They know I’m a con artist. They just happen to need a con artist like me to do things for them.” 9.9kReads8.9Score1.5k14d adds
