Novels like Back to 1937: The Lone Wolf, Big Head
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- 1 War of Resistance: A Sign-In Gift Pack Every Day 抗战：每天签到大礼包 Sun Jiayuan is reborn in the War of Resistance era and encounters Japanese soldiers massacring a village from the start. Luckily, he activates the sign-in System. He can claim a reward each day he signs in, and the rewards grow better as the days pass. “Day 1 sign-in: Receive an infantry company.” (Note: Equipped with PPSh submachine guns.) “Day 2 sign-in: Receive an infantry battalion.” “...” 8.7kReads6.9Score546Shelves
- 2 Urban Hide-and-Seek 都市迷藏 I woke up to find the city shrouded in an eerie red moon. A forced game invitation popped up on my phone: “Urban Hide-and-Seek” was starting, and anyone who failed would be erased completely. As a former game designer, my sharp instinct for finding loopholes in game mechanics let me make the System hit a fatal BUG in the very first elimination round. Only after I was forced to become the game administrator did I discover that this so-called “city” was nothing more than a sandbox built by a highe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 From the Start, I Buried Sixty-Six Japanese Soldiers 开局土葬六十六个鬼子 [Feel-good power fantasy] [One-man resistance against Japan] [No romance] [Brutally slaughter Japanese invaders and traitors] Bai Xiao transmigrates to the period of the War of Resistance against Japan and gains the ability to control earth. His first move is to bury sixty-six Japanese soldiers alive to blow off steam. When he encounters a traitor, he tortures him to death without showing mercy. Send supplies to the front lines? Dream on! He'll tear up the railway. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 God-Tier Slacker: The Lazier I Get, the More Money I Make? 神级摆烂王：我越懒，钱越多？ In his previous life, he was a 996 office drone who worked himself to the bone for money yet had none, looked down on by everyone. After transmigrating, he fully awakens his “couldn’t-care-less spirit,” only to unexpectedly activate the God-Tier Tycoon System. On the surface, he is a lazy, unambitious rich young master. In reality, with the System’s help, he gradually uncovers the truth about the world. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I, Lord of the Three Sins, Control Greed, Terror, and Desire! 我，三罪之主，掌控贪！恐！欲！ Zhang Fendou is an ambitious young man making his way in the workplace. When he gets angry, people around him become afraid and keep their distance. Then, while protecting the workplace goddess, he awakens a talent. It turns out he can control other people's desires, fears, and greed. I am the Lord of the Three Sins! I am the Demon among demons, the God among gods! With a mere thought, the goddess will hang on my every word! The mystic sects? Cultivators? As long as they have emotions, I can con 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Bury the Heavens with Shadow Puppets 我以皮影葬诸天 He was nailed to a shadow-puppet frame and made a puppet for a thousand years, until the night he snapped the first thread of his life. A hundred thousand bloodstained human skins whirled behind him, becoming joss paper for the burial of the gods. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Transmigrated with Four Daughters to Flee the Famine! 穿越，带着四个闺女去逃荒！ The ratings are low at first, but they'll gradually rise. Please be patient and keep reading, dear readers. Yang Tian was once a city lord in a high-martial world. When demonic beasts laid siege to his city, he fought four Beast Emperors alone, then detonated his core and perished alongside them. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a place resembling an ancient world, with four little girls standing before him. Disasters followed one after another, and chaos descended. The entire villag 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 War of Resistance: Fighting Behind Enemy Lines, and You Go Deep into Their Homeland? 抗战：敌后作战，你深入本土？ How can one person profoundly influence the course of the War of Resistance? Lin Yi chooses to fight behind enemy lines, striking deep into enemy territory to stir up trouble. Blow up arms factories, munitions trains, and aircraft plants; assassinate key figures... and unite every force that can be united, causing chaos at every turn. One man against an entire nation. In short, he makes trouble on their home turf, big trouble, nonstop trouble. The protagonist is unbelievably ruthless!!!!!! From 11Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 9 War of Resistance: You Were Told to Fight the Japanese, but You Became a World Power! 抗战：让你打鬼子，你成列强了！ Zhou Weiguo, a master's graduate from the National Defense University’s Command Department, transmigrates to a parallel world. At sixteen, he enters the law department of Shanghai University. At twenty, he joins the Whampoa Military Academy. At twenty-two, he graduates with honors from the Berlin Military Academy. With the nation falling apart and its people losing their homeland, he leads his troops into battle on the front lines of the War of Resistance. He fights bloody battles in Shanghai an 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 After the Heavenly Dao Collapsed, I Became a System Hunter 天道崩溃后我成了系统猎杀者 My world is gone. After countless protagonists with Systems and transmigrators ran rampant and wreaked havoc, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, the world shattered, and the laws fell into chaos. Even with all the immortal saints holding it down, the world could no longer withstand the invasion of outsiders who created and deployed Systems, along with the transmigrators. In the final moment before the world perished, the gods and saints joined forces with what remained of the Heavenly Dao to send me, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Cultivate Immortality in Another World Through Science and Reason 我在异界用科学理性修仙 When algorithms meet the arcane, I become the cultivation sect’s number-one “heretic.” I woke up after a car accident to find myself the lowest-ranking servant in the cultivation world. Others relied on intuition to cultivate. I relied on data analysis. While they drew qi into their bodies, I studied the “qi distribution model” inside me and wrote my first optimization function: fine-tune my breathing rhythm by 13%, and qi absorption efficiency skyrockets. At the sect tournament, a sword culti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Love in My Heart 情在意中 My new work is out! You're welcome to 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! New chapters every day. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 My Roommate Wants to Keep a "Humanoid Pet" in the Dorm, and I'm Terrified 舍友要在宿舍养“人形宠物”，我直接吓傻 My Roommate Wants to Keep a "Humanoid Pet" in Our Dorm, and I Nearly Freaked Out 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Xuanhuan: I Cultivate to Godhood by Ranting 玄幻：我靠吐槽修炼成神 Xuanhuan: I Cultivate to Godhood by Ranting —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Man With a 100% Misogyny Score Played the Devoted Husband for Seven Years 头顶厌女值100的他，演了七年宠妻 He Had a Misogyny Score of 100 Over His Head, Yet Played the Devoted Husband for Seven Years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 After Hearing My Unborn Daughter's Thoughts, I Tore Up the Divorce Papers 听到腹中女儿心声后，我撕了离婚协议 After Hearing My Unborn Daughter's Thoughts, I Tore Up the Divorce Agreement —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 War of Resistance: A Heavy Combined-Arms Brigade from the Start, Defending Shanghai to the Death 抗战：开局重装合成旅，死守淞沪 Li Qiubai has an incredible stroke of luck and transmigrates to 1924, becoming a twelve-year-old kid. A kind-hearted noblewoman adopts him, and he also binds to a cutting-edge military weapons System. As long as he has enough money, he can buy anything, even a two-dimensional foil. Li Qiubai decides to stop playing by the rules. He raids the imperial tombs, takes bribes, extorts and blackmails, doing whatever it takes to get rich. Using Jincheng as his rear base, he builds a military base and an 36Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 18 Light on Snow: Twenty-One Years of Fireworks and Fortune’s Rise and Fall 昭光映雪：二十一年烟火与浮沉 At a barbecue stall in the West Market night market, the boss of a building-materials company, an academic star and electrical engineer, a cool and beautiful ophthalmologist, and an introverted Chinese teacher cross paths by chance. A few skewers of barbecue quietly set the wheels of fate in motion, and they experience all the ups and downs life has to offer. Some become rich overnight, while others are left penniless! Life is a dream. When they wake, they keep one another company, soothe each o 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 My Husband Wiped Out My Entire Clan Just to Save His Disciple 夫君灭我全族，只为救他徒儿 She had been pregnant for thirty years, yet her husband, all for the sake of his beloved little disciple, locked her in a dark dungeon without bothering to learn the truth, then threw her into the Ten Thousand Venom Cave. For his little disciple, he personally cut out their child, killed her divine beast with his own hands, and wiped out her family. Then, before all the cultivators beneath heaven, he offered her up as a sacrifice to heaven. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Orange and White 橙与白 Orange and White —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Splendor Fills Chang’an 锦色满长安 A distinctive career-focused storyline: Centered on “intangible cultural heritage Shu brocade,” it combines traditional craftsmanship with women’s entrepreneurship, offering the appeal of traditional culture while resonating with women who want to “make money on their own.” Appealing across age groups: The romance is sweet with no angst, and the male lead steadfastly protects his wife. The household and business rivalries aren’t complicated, as the heroine easily outmaneuvers her opponents with —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I Wield a Gun for the Ming Dynasty in Another World 我在异世为大明扛枪 [Not a wish-fulfillment story, patriotism, passionate Ming Dynasty, no golden finger, slow burn] This is the Ming Dynasty, but even more tumultuous and grand! Chen Ting transmigrates into a parallel world and becomes a soldier in the Ming Empire, fighting with all his might for the empire and its people. The crown prince, Zhu Yougui, is the most exalted man under Heaven, yet he must face troubles at home and abroad, along with open attacks and hidden schemes! As they journey onward, the two meet 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn Doctor: Defying Fate and Bound by Love Across Two Lifetimes 重生医女，逆天改命，情牵两世缘 A reborn healer defies fate, with love connecting two lifetimes. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Battle of Shanghai: How Did Defending Baoshan Turn Me into a General? 淞沪会战：守宝山，咋就成了将军 (A story filled with passion and one that has long gone untold. It honors history and those who came before us.) (From Songhu to Nanjing, the bloody battle at Kunmou Pass, and the four campaigns in Changsha: one legendary battle after another comes vividly to life.) Five hundred warriors died for their country. China has far more heroes than Tian Heng. This is a little-known story of tragic heroism, buried in the long river of history. Heroes fear nothing, and go to their graves wrapped in their 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 War of Resistance: I Am Ding Fushun 抗战之我是丁福顺 Ding Fushun never imagined he'd wind up plunging into the flames of war in a parallel world in such a completely bewildering way. What infuriated him even more was that the System he'd bound himself to was secondhand. It had just tossed him into this war-torn era, left behind a few items of unclear purpose, and promptly declared itself out of order, without even a single extra hint. With no System to guide him, Ding Fushun can only clutch that pile of “inheritance” and feel his way toward surv 849Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 26 The Death Banner: The Iron-Blooded Sichuan Army 死字旗：铁血川军 [Homegrown Military Industry + Overseas Expansion + Currency Wars + Great-Power Rivalries] Chen Feng starts in 1938, when the entire army at Teng County is wiped out. After saving the army commander, he joins the 47th Army of the Sichuan Army from the start. No System, no foreknowledge, no dumbing down, and no cheat abilities! All he has is modern knowledge of military industry, and a band of Sichuan Army brothers armed with old rifles, wearing straw sandals, and carrying flags bearing the chara 5.5kReads7.5Score360Shelves
- 27 War of Resistance: My Shells Are Unlimited, and the Japanese Are All in Tears 抗战：我的炮弹无限，鬼子全都哭 “Zhang Zhenhua! You rascal, you’re still alive after all!” “The King of Hell said the Japanese blood on me smelled too foul, so he wouldn’t take me.” The 90-year-old veteran of the War of Resistance, Zhang Zhenhua, is reborn in 1939 at the Xinqiang River defensive line, inhabiting the body of a second lieutenant who returned from West Point. Surrounded by enemy troops as his allies flee, he awakens the Iron-Blooded Arsenal System and unleashes a crushing technological advantage! [You killed a Ja 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 My Takeout Deliveries Connect to the Underworld 我的外卖连着阴间 [Underworld Delivery Rider: A Female Ghost Gives Him a Bad Review from the Start] On a rainy night, delivery rider Chen Mo takes a navigation-broken alley to save five minutes. From then on, an unremovable “Underworld Orders” System appears in his app. Delivering blood porridge to a cemetery, feeding lollipops to children at an abandoned school, sharing a ride in a paper car... Bad reviews cost him his life; good reviews extend it. All he wants is to lie flat, but he is forced to race around mak —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Marry the Scumbag Who Killed My Sister and Have Triplets 嫁害死姐姐的渣男后，我一胎三宝 Her older sister is dead. On a snowy, rainy day, she lies on her back in the snow, heavily pregnant, slowly losing all warmth. Her parents weep until their voices are hoarse and their eyes are red. She resolves to enter the household as a concubine and avenge her sister. There are eighteen concubines in the household, and the place is a turbulent mess. She will uncover the culprit who killed her sister, and she won't let a single accomplice get away. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 War of Resistance: The Cross-Dimensional Arms Dealer 抗战之跨界军火商 Awakening, Xu Yun finds himself transmigrated to a battlefield in the world of "Drawing Sword". Luckily, he awakens the [Elite Soldier Development System]. But as a top student majoring in financial management, he knows nothing about the military, let alone how to be an elite soldier. Fortunately, the System also comes with the ability to travel across time and space. See how Xu Yun uses this golden finger to become an arms tycoon who operates across worlds. A modest golden finger, with no weapo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Shackles of Divine Revelation 神谕镣铐 In a fate dictated by divine prophecy, we are each other’s sharpest weapons, and the only keys capable of piercing these shackles. Dongfang Yao can foresee destiny, yet fell in love with his destined nemesis, Nangong Ci, before the prophecy ever came to pass. Nangong Ci can twist reality, but cannot change the rule that makes his heart flutter for that person again and again. When the prophecy locks four noble heirs inside the same academy, they are forced to become the enemies and lovers fate h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Running Into Your Arms 奔向怀抱 Youth is a memory; the height of summer witnessed their meeting, their growing closer, and their falling in love. “Hello, my name is Huaiyu. It comes from the saying, ‘Cherish jade of virtue, and be a gentleman of grace.’” For her, that year was both a misfortune and a blessing: she met him. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Last Celestial Master of the Age of Declining Dharma 末法时代最后一个天师 All that remains among the people today are con artists and fake mystics. The underworld’s order has collapsed, the barrier between yin and yang is growing thin, yin and yang are out of balance, and evil forces are stirring back to life. As humans and ghosts vie for power, bloodline curses, demons, ancient corpses, and evil spirits from beyond begin seeping into the human world, while ordinary people remain completely unaware. The last orthodox Celestial Master of the Age of Dharma Decline appea 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 An Epic Song Through the Ages 青史长歌 (No Romance + Historical Court Intrigue + Exploration of Human Nature + Strong Female Lead + Historical Court Intrigue) A historical political-intrigue novel with a strong female lead. From a pawn forced to depend on others to a female chancellor wielding power over the entire court, only Ming Tang knows how many storms and trials she has endured along the way. No villains in the narrative: Conflicts arise from differing positions, interests, gaps in information, and the limitations of the era, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Eastern Front: Winter of 1941 东线：1941年的冬天 "Eastern Front: Winter of 1941" picks up where the previous volume, "Eastern Front: Autumn and Winter in Moscow", left off. It mainly tells the following story: On December 5, 1941, the Soviet Army suddenly launched a major counteroffensive along the Moscow front. Caught off guard, German forces retreated on a large scale. A few days later, war broke out between the United States and Japan. Hitler ordered the German forces on the Eastern Front to hold their lines at all costs while also deciding 93Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 36 He Devoured Hell 他吃空了地狱 “When there are no monsters to eat, anyone can lord it over me. But once I start eating demons, even the Demon God will tremble at the sight of me. Eat ten demons, and I’ll dare to take on a demon commander. Eat ten thousand, and I’ll dare to fight Lucifer to the death.”, Zhong Kui To fulfill the dying wish of the master who adopted him, Zhong Kui boards a luxury cruise ship to earn money to restore his ancestral temple and its golden statue. But he is unexpectedly caught up in a battle between —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Every Note Sounds Like My Heart 声声恰似我怀 Every Note Sounds Like My Heart —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Don't Like Your Persona. I Only Like You 我不喜欢你的人设，我只喜欢你这个人 I Don’t Like Your Persona. I Only Like You. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Sweetness of Cotton Candy 棉花糖的甜 The Sweetness of Cotton Candy —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 After My Almost-Fiancé Ran Off, My Secret Crush Took His Place 准未婚夫跑路后，暗恋竹马上位了 After my prospective fiancé ran off, my childhood friend who had a crush on me stepped in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 I Died, but the King of Hell Says My Resurrection Failed 我死了，但阎王说我还阳失败 Shen Songyi met an unjust end. A bowl of "calming soup" personally served by her husband made her bleed from all seven orifices and die on the night of her eighteenth birthday. While waiting in line in the underworld, she saw the girl who had borrowed her lifespan to return to life smile sweetly at the Book of Life and Death in the Hall of the King of Hell. "Thank you for your life. I'll make good use of it." When she opened her eyes again... Shen Songyi had become the most notorious eldest daug 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Hilarious Little Zombie Falls for a Cool Goddess 爆笑小僵尸爱上清冷女神 A Hilarious Little Zombie Falls for a Cool, Distant Goddess —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Blood Wolf Corps in the War of Resistance 抗战之血狼兵团 The protagonist, Song Xiang, transmigrates from the modern era to the War of Resistance and becomes an engineer at a Japanese military repair factory. Just as he thinks he is about to die again, the Resistance Support System appears, allowing him to haul away all the factory's equipment, weapons, and raw materials. He leads his companions to safety and forms his own force to fight the Japanese. It's the dream and hope of countless passionate young people. But things aren't so simple. Soon after 6.3kReads—Score541Shelves
- 44 I Didn't Build My Foundation Until I Was Eighty, and Then the System Arrived 八十岁才筑基，没想到系统就来了 (The novel may not receive high ratings early on, but please stick with it, dear readers. It gets absolutely amazing later.) Yang Hongbo transmigrated, but he was reincarnated from birth. He was born into a cultivation family and was unremarkable before the age of twelve, and just as unremarkable afterward. He thought transmigrators were all heaven’s chosen ones, but decades passed and he got nothing, not even a System! Luckily, he was the eldest legitimate son of the family. Although his cultiv 89Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 45 War of Resistance System: History’s Most Disobedient Host 抗战系统：史上最不听话的宿主 Synopsis War of Resistance + transmigration + System + pocket dimension + passionate action The System turns out to be a product of an extraterrestrial civilization, with a huge conspiracy hidden behind it. His transmigration was nothing more than an experiment conducted by an extraterrestrial civilization! He has to carry out all kinds of ridiculous missions issued by the System. On top of that, the rewards the System promised have never materialized. He fights back, defies it, and deliberat 36Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 46 Prison Awakening: I Lead the Red Seventh Corps North to Fight the Japanese 监狱觉醒：我率红七军团北上抗日 PS: The rating has just come out and is pretty low. It’ll go up later. [War of Resistance] + [System] + [Mass Troop Recruitment] + [Building a Base] My name is Xu Zhiyuan. I transmigrated seven years ago and became the commander of the 59th Regiment of the Red 20th Division. Not long ago, I was thrown in jail. But that’s all right. As a tactical instructor back in the Jinggangshan days, I have students throughout the military and government. Surely someone will get me out. I’m guessing they wo 41.2kReads7.5Score4.3kShelves
- 47 I Slaughtered a Million Japanese Invaders with a Force Field 我用空间护罩，屠戮百万鬼子 Wang Yan, a young man from the modern era, unexpectedly has his soul transmigrate and is reborn in a parallel world’s northwestern Shanxi. He awakens in the body of a young man with the same name, who had just been tortured to death by Japanese soldiers and Chinese collaborators. When he realizes how feeble his body is and sees more than a hundred Japanese soldiers surrounding him, he is overcome with despair. Just then, the Space-Time Pearl awakens. The Space-Time Pearl not only contains a vast 2.5kReads7.1Score172Shelves
- 48 The Battle of Changsha: Xue Yue's Elite Battalion Sweeps Away 100,000 Japanese Troops 长沙会战薛岳虎贲营横扫十万日军 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Little Devil San Mao: From Street Urchin to Acrobatics Master in Republican China 魔童三毛从流浪儿到民国杂技大师 [Storage Space] [Kill the Invaders] The Forty-Ninth City, 1940. The orphaned wanderer Wen Sanmao binds to the “Master Acrobat” career System. Every enemy he kills earns him a related skill. Throwing, climbing, disguise, animal taming, contortion, qigong, martial arts, rope tricks, aerial stunts, sleight of hand, mechanical traps, ventriloquism, hand tricks, foot juggling... To avenge his country, Sanmao becomes a demon child, determined to send every wicked beast straight to hell. 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 She Charms the Regent 她撩翻摄政王 She deliberately gets close to this ruthless, cold-blooded regent. She tests him step by step, teasing him again and again. But who could have known that the aloof, ascetic prince would grow obsessed with her, until she was all he could think about and his possessiveness spiraled out of control? She used to be the one deliberately tempting him. Now he’s the one who stays by her side without pause, willing to trade an empire for her wholehearted love. A drama queen heroine × a ruthless regent. He 1Reads—Score—Shelves
