Novels like Cast Aside, I Become Emperor: My Fate Is Mine to Command
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Cast Aside, I Become Emperor: My Fate Is Mine to Command, best match first.
- 1 I Just Want to Retire on Time, but the Dean Is Making Me a Big Shot 只想按时退休，院长逼我当大佬 With a slacker's attitude, the protagonist takes down every task that stands in the way of his retirement! He turns a laid-back life into a path to greatness. Reborn at forty-five as a finance department head, his only goal is to coast until retirement, but the workaholic dean forces him to become a power behind the scenes. Watch him grumble to himself while wielding Excel to devastating effect. The thrills and laughs are off the charts! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 A Collection of Chinese Strange Tales 中国惊奇故事汇 This book is a sweeping epic of folk tales, featuring 2,300 true stories of extraordinary lives. Some are familiar tales, but every true story is a legendary classic, and every story is a movie in its own right. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 How to Make a Rich Woman Fall for You? 如何让富婆爱上你? How do you get a rich woman to fall in love with you? 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 How to Win a Rich Woman's Favor? 如何获得富婆欢心? How to Win the Heart of a Rich Woman 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Art of Seduction 泡妞攻略 Pick-Up Guide 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Road Outside the Window and the Sea in My Heart 窗外的路与心中的海 If you have ever: · Struggled to balance your dreams and reality · Tried to understand your parents' silence while also making sense of the next generation's boldness · Worked to protect a little undying light amid an ordinary, or even difficult, life Then open this book. Here, you'll find a sea of your own. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Dreams Can Be This Beautiful After All 梦，原来可以这样美好 A thousand years pass in a dream, as I witness the rise and fall of different civilizations in another world and the meteoric rise of Shenzhou. “My name is Zhu Feng. I’m not Mount Everest, blocking your way forward. I’m Zhu Feng, here to help you climb higher, one step at a time.” At an international exchange conference, Liu Mingyu said, “Please speak to me in Chinese. It’s a matter of respect for my mother tongue.” “Report! Plaster Island has sunk!” “The fortunes of Shenzhou have taken phys 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 How to Become a Modern-Day Royal Consort 如何成为当代驸马 How to Become a Modern-Day Prince Consort 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 A Cultural Guide to the Dao De Jing 《道德经》中华文化编写 A cultural adaptation of the Dao De Jing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 A Plain-Language Commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art 《九章算术》白话文注解 A plain-language annotation of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art 4Reads—Score214d adds
- 11 Man Is Born Free, Yet Everywhere He Is in Chains “人生而自由，却无往不在枷锁之中” “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Words of Wisdom 智慧名言 Words of wisdom are the distilled essence of human thought, the crystallized experience of ages. In concise, carefully chosen language, they contain profound insights into human nature, life, and the world. From principles for dealing with others to the wisdom of self-cultivation, from strategies for overcoming hardship to insights for seizing opportunities, every saying is a beacon that guides us through life’s fog and helps us find our way. They sum up the laws of history while also anticipati 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Historical Novel of Quantum Mechanics 量子力学历史小说 A Historical Novel About Quantum Mechanics —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Learn Physics Through Novels: From Kepler's Laws to Universal Gravitation 看小说学物理：从开普勒定律到万有引力 Learn Physics Through Novels: From Kepler's Laws to Universal Gravitation —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Learn Philosophy Through Novels: The Echoing Gong 看小说学哲理：铜锣声声 Learn Life's Lessons Through Novels: The Clanging of Copper Gongs —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Learn Math Through Novels: The Discovery of Imaginary Numbers 看小说学数学：虚数的发现 Learn Math Through Novels: The Discovery of Imaginary Numbers —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Boost Your IQ Through Novels: When the City Gates Burn, the Fish in the Moat Suffer 看小说提高智商：城门失火，殃及池鱼 Boost Your IQ Through Novels: When the City Gate Catches Fire, the Fish in the Moat Suffer —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Human Cognition and the Endless Quest to Explore the Universe 人类认知与宇宙探索的无尽征程 The Endless Journey of Human Understanding and Cosmic Exploration —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 In Those Ordinary Days 那些平凡的生活里 Those trivial things, small as sesame seeds, really happened. Those hatreds were etched into my heart. Each of those nights filled with joy and sorrow seemed longer than the last. So what? I still have to grit my teeth and keep going. I have to let go of the past that needs forgetting, piece together whatever life I can, and find a way to live with some dignity! 12Reads—Score314d adds
- 20 Daily Psychology for Awakening 每日觉醒心理学 When psychology becomes a many-faceted mirror that reflects the soul, every day is a moment to awaken and reshape yourself. Do you find yourself repeating the same cycle? Do you long to change, yet remain stuck because of the voice insisting, “This is how you’re supposed to live”? When emotions overwhelm you, do you know you “shouldn’t lose control” but still can’t make sense of the currents beneath the surface? Do you care about the people around you, yet keep repeating the same scripts of hurt 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Learn to Speak Well, Keep Your Emotional Intelligence on Point 学会说话，情商在线 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! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Reading and Conduct: The Twofold Discipline of Life 读书与做人，人生的双重修炼 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 After Divorce and Debt, I Make a Living Against the Odds Through Beauty 离婚负债后，我靠美业逆风谋生 At forty, Lin Wan receives her divorce decree and is left saddled with a mountain of shared debt. Her ex-husband took all their savings and refuses to pay child support. The tuition bill for her daughter's private high school weighs on her like a stone. Her once-secure job offered no future. After seeing through the beauty salon industry's endless scams, unregulated products, and high-pressure membership sales, she resolutely quits. With only a few thousand yuan in savings, no powerful backer, a 8Reads—Score314d adds
- 24 Don't Be Too Honest 做人不要太老实 In real life, don't be too honest and accommodating. Honesty is a virtue, but taken too far, it can leave you in a difficult position. People who are too accommodating often don't know how to say no. When faced with unreasonable demands, they force themselves to agree, leaving themselves exhausted and risking that others will take them for granted. At work, they quietly take on a heavy workload but don't know how to showcase their achievements, so promotion opportunities often go to people who k 127Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 I Traded the Sincere Heart I Once Gave to the Powerful for a Knife to Make Money 我把喂过权贵的真心换成搞钱的刀 From a naive sweetheart to a self-made tycoon! The powerful man who kept promising to support me and take care of everything made empty promises for two years, then casually brushed me off with, “I’m too busy.” The boy fourteen years younger than me, who claimed he’d lost sixty pounds for my sake, said he couldn’t live without me one moment, then turned around and buried me in sordid lies. I gave my heart to two wolves before I finally woke up: a man's promises aren't worth a penny. The only thi 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Daily Guide to Defying Fate and Changing Your Destiny 每日必知逆天改命宝典 While most people passively accept the fate laid out for them, this book has already prepared a “fate editor” for you. It’s not empty motivational fluff, but practical tools for changing your life; not obscure theories, but proven formulas for turning your fortunes around, tested by successful people throughout history. Learn one life-changing principle a day, reshape your thinking in three months, rise into a higher social class in six months, and completely rewrite your destiny in a year. Fate 38Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 27 A Well-Planned Business Career 谋定商途 Xiao Gu, whose real name is Gu Chen, was once the boy who swept the floors in the valley where Guiguzi lived in seclusion. Though he never formally became Guiguzi’s disciple, he absorbed the teachings of Guiguzi and The Art of War through constant exposure, and was especially skilled at using strategy to solve problems involving the economy and people’s livelihoods. Using the strategies he had taught himself, he helped the fictional kingdom of Zhongshan avert destruction and rapidly revive its e 15Reads—Score1014d adds
- 28 Quantum Ripples: Building a Life Amid Uncertainty 量子涟漪：在不确定中构建生活 When the alarm rings, in that instant before you open your eyes, every possible script for the day lies superimposed like a cloud of probabilities: one that is efficient and smooth, one that is chaotic and awful, and one full of surprises. Your first thought serves as the first act of "observation." Starting with the "deterministic cage" of Newtonian mechanics, this book explains why, in today's complex and rapidly changing society, we need a new philosophy that embraces uncertainty, interconnec 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Classics Academy 名著学院 What happens when Cao Cao, Song Jiang, Tang Sanzang, and Jiang Ziya all attend the same school? What happens when they start running for class monitor? Classics become hilarious school-life power fantasies, full of cutting humor and blows that hit home. We're not just talking nonsense with a straight face. If life were an academy of classics, you and I would both be transfer students. Bring the original texts with you, then hand in an answer sheet full of holes and utterly one of a kind. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Performing Crosstalk with Tomato Novels: A Humorous Commentary on Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases 西红柿小说和我一起展示相声表演：笑谈注解伤寒杂病论 Tomato Novel joins me in presenting a crosstalk performance: Laughing Through the Annotations to the Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 A Middle-Aged Man's Redemption: The Phoenix Turns Toward the Sun 中年男人的自我救赎：凤自向阳 A man born in the 1980s, now middle-aged, who spent more than twenty years working as a clothing pattern maker. For the first half of his life, he lived trapped in self-doubt and inner turmoil, held back by all kinds of hang-ups about his name, appearance, education, marriage, and children. At middle age, he finally learned to make peace with his past self, slowly tear down the high walls around his heart, and let himself off the hook. This book records the pitfalls I've fallen into, the grie 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Positive Psychology 积极心理学 Positive Psychology 11Reads—Score114d adds
- 33 A Complete Guide to Cutting-Edge Science for Top Students 学霸必备科技前沿科普大全 Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, astronomy, geography, medicine and health, and more... This book aims to provide readers with a comprehensive framework for learning popular science, helping them broaden their knowledge and improve their overall abilities. The book covers six major fields: natural sciences, social sciences, arts and literature, health and lifestyle, career planning and entrepreneurship, and travel and leisure. It includes all kinds of knowledge people need in their d 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Many Sides of Human Nature 人性的那些事儿 There is no black-and-white good or evil here, only ordinary people wavering between desire and conscience. Peeling back the light and shadows within human nature, this book reveals the extraordinary glimmers of humanity within every ordinary person. 11.8kReads7.2Score31714d adds
- 35 Exploring the Mysteries of Matter 探索物质之谜 This book explores new ways to unravel the mysteries of the universe's matter, approaching questions of dark matter, dark energy, the nature of time and space, the principles of motion, quantum phenomena, and more from an entirely fresh perspective. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Complete Guide to Making Money 挣钱一本通 A Complete Guide to Making Money focuses on building wealth and becoming stronger. It continually shares practical money-making mindsets and actionable methods, along with hard-won insights on personal growth, helping you avoid detours on your path to wealth and steadily improve your abilities. 72Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 37 The Art of High-EQ Socializing 高情商社交术 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 937Reads—Score10014d adds
- 38 How to Make Videos for Douyin: The No-Nonsense Guide 新手如何做抖音：纯干货 Have you ever been through this? You stay up all night filming dozens of videos, but the view count stays stuck at 500. You put together useful, well-researched content, but hardly anyone likes it. You watch others churn out hit after hit while your own account feels like a stagnant pond. You start to wonder: Is the algorithm unfair? Or do you simply lack the talent? Stop wearing yourself out. The root of the problem may not be that you're not trying hard enough, but that you've never systemati 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Anti-Burnout Godfather: A Cure for Every Kind of Education Anxiety 反内卷教父，专治各种教育焦虑 “Teacher, I can’t keep studying.” Those were the last words my best student left me before taking his own life. I, Fang Cheng, had been a celebrated master teacher, admired by everyone and responsible for sending countless children to top schools. Overnight, I became the “executioner” who had crushed a student! Fired and hounded online, I was disgraced, my reputation in ruins and my future destroyed. Consumed by endless remorse and self-exile, I clutched that thin suicide note and vowed to spend 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Psychology of Happiness 幸福心理学 The Psychology of Happiness 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 41 A Media Veteran's Career Change in a New Era 传媒老兵降维求职记 If you're looking for a job, about to start looking, or planning to switch jobs, this one's for you! This novel is based on real people's experiences of falling into job-hunting traps. It's practically an online job seeker's guide to spotting scams and avoiding pitfalls. Read Tomato Novel and learn how to protect yourself from fraud. It's fun and useful, a win-win. Dong Shizhang and Zong Jinli's media company is on the verge of collapse, and the online loans they took out are coming due. With no 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Splendor of the Great Song: So This Is What the Song Dynasty Was Like 大宋风华：原来你是这样的宋朝 If the only things that come to mind when you think of the Song dynasty are “poverty and military weakness” and the “Treaty of Chanyuan,” you may be overlooking a genuine “golden age.” It had none of the grand ambitions of Qin Shi Huang or Emperor Wu of Han, but its cities offered the most vibrant nightlife in the world. Its military commanders were always overshadowed by the literati, yet the dynasty gave rise to a scholar-official spirit that shaped a thousand years of history. This book doesn 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Learn to Unlock Your Brain with Ease 教你轻松掌握大脑开窍术 Do you keep getting stuck on problems with social relationships, making money, or changing your fate? This book, Teach Yourself to Unlock Your Brain, lays bare the unwritten rules of society. From “you need to understand the Way of Heaven to protect your wealth” to “get benefactors on your side by aligning your interests,” from “steer clear of a weak mindset to hold on to good fortune” to “even swatting a mosquito can teach you how to handle people,” it breaks down practical advice on social tie 1.2kReads—Score22314d adds
- 44 Recognizing Your Own Perspective 格局的自我认清 Prologue to The Bigger Picture Life is a boundless voyage, and we are all searching for the way forward. The Bigger Picture is like a lighthouse, illuminating the path to a broader perspective. This book focuses on five key dimensions for broadening your perspective: position, direction, method, pace, and rhythm. No matter where you start, you can accurately understand your position, like locating your coordinates on a vast star map; find the right direction, like setting the correct sails on a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Rich Kid Who Turned His Life Around by Writing Web Novels After Going into Debt 富二代的我负债后竟用写网文翻身 An A9-level rich kid and civil servant, buried in debt, somehow turns his life around by writing web novels and rises to the top… Writing and paying off his debts are the main threads of the story, interwoven with family secrets, analysis of current affairs, reflections on life, clever part-time job tips, writing advice, and more... The novel is packed with knowledge from economics, philosophy, history, sociology, management, and other fields. It’s not a power fantasy, but it will absolutely sho 96Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 46 A Poor Man's Guide to Turning His Life Around 穷人翻身指南 A practical guide to ways of thinking I’ll teach you how the rich think And how the poor can turn their lives around Why am I teaching you these ways of thinking? Why write this book? Let me make one thing clear first: The main reason I’m writing this book is for myself. I’m always trying to improve, learning from experience and gaining new insights every day. And the fastest way to absorb, understand, and apply this knowledge is the Feynman Technique. If you don’t know what that is, look it up. 259Reads7.3Score86014d adds
- 47 Shouldering the Mountain 扛山 Suffering is suffering. First, it destroys people. Only then might it forge them. The tragedy is, so many people never get past the “destruction” part. I refine my broken life into a spark, carve my scars into monuments of war. Not to become a god, but to prove the Way: There is light at the end of hell, and lotuses can bloom from flesh and blood! What I write has never been a story. It is a declaration of war, written in the face of death, a blood pact to live, fight, and burn in this world. 2.5kReads6.4Score65014d adds
- 48 The Regrets of the Red Chamber 红楼遗恨 Dream of the Red Chamber is by no means a boudoir romance. It is, in truth, a secret history of the Han people’s lost kingdom, written under the crushing pressure of literary inquisitions! Cao Xueqin used “Zhen Shiyin” (hiding the truth) to conceal the pain of a fallen kingdom, and “Jia Yucun” (preserving falsehoods) to hide a will to resist the Qing. Beneath a mythological facade, he wrapped a truth soaked in blood and tears. The stone that lacked the means to mend the heavens embodies the Han 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 High-EQ Conversation Skills for a Better Life 高情商聊天术，创造美好生活 My new story is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Shanghai: Half the History of Republican China, A Look at the City's Gangland Bosses 一座上海滩，半部民国史：细数上海滩黑帮大佬 In the warlord-ridden Republic of China-era Shanghai, the one with the hardest fists calls the shots. A world of luxury and excess, with heroes rising amid the chaos and all kinds of “talent” emerging. Let's take a look at the underworld bosses of the time: Sister A Gui, a female crime lord who amassed a fortune, had no patience for men's bad tempers. If you keep mistresses outside the home, I'll have affairs inside it. Huang Jinrong, the Green Gang's crime boss, was lecherous and unscrupulous. 532Reads9.3Score6114d adds
