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- 151 I Brought a Billion Home and Now I'm Lying Flat 我带着十个亿，回老家躺平了 At twenty-eight, Lin Chen hits rock bottom in a single day. His company lays him off, his girlfriend of three years dumps him for being broke, then turns around and gets into a rich second-generation heir’s BMW. Even his landlord throws his belongings out of the rental apartment in the middle of the night. Just as he’s at the end of his rope, a bank text suddenly pops up: [1,000,000,000.00 yuan has been deposited into your account] To hell with 996! To hell with buying a house or a car! Lin Chen 83.4kReads6.4Score2.4k14d adds
- 152 Wudu, You Embraced My Youth 雾都，你拥抱过我的青春 After ten years of drifting through life, a young man with nothing to his name reunites with his first love and resolves to work hard and turn his life around. But with empty pockets, he can barely scrape by, until the day he meets her… 3.8kReads8.4Score41314d adds
- 153 Ballads of the Loess Plateau 黄土情谣 A Ballad of Loess and Love 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 From the Start, the Campus Belle Turned the Tables on Me 开局被校花逆推 Ye Wuhuan was a newly graduated office drone who decided to splurge on his first-ever visit to a foot massage parlor. He asked for Technician No. 88, but the moment he opened his eyes, he found himself in a parallel world as an eighteen-year-old orphan with the same name, a senior in high school who was pushed down by the school beauty from the start... He thought he was in for a grueling student life, but the Ye family, the richest family in Jiangcheng, came looking for him. He was their real y 13Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 155 The Playboy and the Five Golden Flowers 风流之子与五朵金花 [Completed] If you happened to click on this, please read a few more pages, or even a few dozen, and help boost my stats. Thanks for your support! This is the story of a group of people who came from elsewhere to work and put down roots in Zhuhai. They fall in love, get married, buy homes, and have children. The first half covers their lives up to marriage. The second half explores marriage, human nature, changes in society, and growing up in middle age. This novel has a calm and gentle tone, pe 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 After Being Reborn, I Want to Be a Good Person 重生之后想做个好人 [Assassin] + [Reborn] + [Daily Life] + [High School] + [Not Overpowered] “I didn’t have a choice before. Now I want to be a good person…” Li Zhe works as a Grade B operative for Sinake, an international underground intelligence organization abbreviated as [S]. He has no past, and the limited life he has is spent fighting for the organization. Then, through sheer bad luck, he is selected to be a disposable pawn. Reborn as a high school student in 2001, he initially plans to stay out of trouble an 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The 11th Book of a Corporate Slave Shut-In 社畜宅宅第11本书 [Persuading Women to Turn Over a New Leaf + Multiple Heroines + Reborn + Redemption + Comedic Push and Pull] Trust my writing! This is a story about being reborn and saving the girls from his past life before they fall into ruin. As a man, he faces the problems head-on. In his previous life, he was timid and ran away from his problems, watching helplessly as the two girls he loved drifted farther away and went down a path of no return. He spent the rest of his life filled with regret. In this li 629Reads8.1Score11614d adds
- 158 A Common Man’s Reborn Years 平凡人的重生岁月 [Everyday Urban Life + Campus Youth + Making Up for Regrets + Believable Logic] A portrayal of youth as it really was: no posturing, no face-slapping. This is simply the everyday life of an ordinary person after being reborn. People remain consistent; being reborn doesn't suddenly make someone all-powerful. Their old flaws are still there. They simply get to live their lives over again with their memories and life experience intact. Everyone has a limit to how far they can go, so if you're looki 4.3kReads6.2Score16214d adds
- 159 He’s the Local Guns-and-Blades Big Shot. Why Mess with Him? 他是本地刀枪炮啊，你惹他干嘛 [Slice of life + no System] Who could have guessed that Zhao Jinnian, a rich young man with a fortune worth hundreds of millions, would be reborn? In his previous life, he returned from studying abroad eager to make a name for himself and put his ambitions into practice. Instead, every venture lost money until he began to question his entire existence. Now that he’s got a second life, Zhao Jinnian has accepted that he’s ordinary and finally figured it out: how much money is ever enough? Time to 94.1kReads7.1Score6.7k14d adds
- 160 Desire by the Bedside 枕边之欲 On one side, Lang Xi was gently making his feelings known. On the other, Lang Xin was behaving outrageously. The two scenes kept intertwining in my mind, driving me to the brink of madness. What should I do? Call them out directly, or pretend nothing happened? What does the person beside me in bed really want? 2.1kReads8.2Score15914d adds
- 161 Everyday Life in the City: A Rich Heir in Beijing 都市日常：富二代在京城 "Love in the Mortal World: My Wild Wife in the Capital" My name is Tang Feng. I used to be a combat sports athlete and achieved some impressive results. After retiring, I started a new life. I came to the capital to experience life, embarking on a winding, realistic, and thrilling journey. From the start, I shared a rental apartment. The landlady would later become my wife. She was beautiful and wild. 2kReads8.7Score14314d adds
- 162 Reborn, I Choose the Girl at My Desk, and the Campus Beauty Panics 重生我选女同桌，校花急疯了 That year, a ray of light shone down and saved Ye Zhengrong, giving him the strength to build a fortune worth billions. But on his deathbed, he discovered that he'd been deceived for most of his life. Li Anran, the woman he'd worshipped and doted on for over a decade, wasn't the one who had encouraged and saved him back then. And it was Li Anran who had brought about his death. She skipped their wedding to be with her male best friend. Ye Zhengrong got into a car accident while searching for her 197Reads7.3Score11714d adds
- 163 I'm His Best Bro, and the Yandere Became a Tool! 我是他好基友，病娇成为工具人！ [System] [Yandere] [Everyday Life] [Urban Fantasy] [Subverting Expectations] [Comedy] [Overpowered] [Fun] Li Ye once read a yandere novel with an absurd premise. After dying from an object falling from a great height, he transmigrated into that novel and became the protagonist’s one and only male best friend. The good news: I’m not the one being mobbed by yanderes. The bad news: the person being mobbed is a girl, disguised as a boy at school. The yanderes who initially thought the protagonist wa 1.1kReads8.9Score10314d adds
- 164 Who Do I Really Love? 我到底爱的是谁啊 [Urban] + [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Building Wealth] + [Romantic Rivalry] Love only leads young men astray, while profit is a ladder to eternity. After his ex dumps him, Wu Ai has a moment of enlightenment. He turns his old flame, the brilliant Peking University beauty, his childhood sweetheart, the heiress from a top family, and all the rest into living pieces on his business chessboard. But why is it that when he reaches the pinnacle of wealth and looks back... those w 15Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 165 Reborn in 2016: The Rise of Douyin 重生2016抖音风云 At 46, Lu Chen was drowning in debt. His mortgage and car loan left him barely able to breathe, and he couldn’t even afford his two sons’ tuition. His wife endured the hardship alongside him without a single complaint. He worked himself to the bone delivering takeout, until he finally collapsed and died on the road. When he opened his eyes, he was back in 2016, the year Douyin first launched. That year, a funny video he and his wife had filmed on a whim went viral. They gained 50,000 followers, 569Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Reborn at Eighteen, I Really Just Want to Make Money 重生十八，我真的只想搞钱啊 (Reborn as a food-delivery app developer, no System, multiple female leads, everyday life, entrepreneurship, an entertainment-industry storyline, with illustrations) After an accident, Lin Shuchen wakes up as an eighteen-year-old boy. After spending more than a decade as a programmer in his previous life, he doesn't want to work for someone else this time around. Starting with an inconspicuous food-ordering mini-program, he visits restaurants, builds the system, takes on group catering, and trie 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 A Chance Encounter 撞出来缘分 Zhang Wenjun is an ordinary accountant. One morning, while riding his electric scooter to work, he collides with an older woman at the market intersection. To his surprise, she is his teacher’s mother. They reach an arrangement: while her foot heals, Zhang Wenjun will come to her home every weekend and care for her free of charge. At the time, his teacher is dating someone, who turns out to be Zhang’s best friend. All three keep the truth from one another. Only in the end do they learn that each —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 The Sinkhole Buyer 天坑买手 Miao Tian, a purchasing specialist at a real estate group, is sent to Mountain City on an urgent assignment. Thus begins a tumultuous, high-stakes battle in the real estate business. How will he face the deception, the ambushes, and the relentless pursuit? How will he emerge from the fog and be reborn through the flames? This book gradually unfolds a sweeping portrait of the real estate underworld. Remember: If you can't live the way you want, in the end you'll have to convince yourself to want 105Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 169 Breaking the Bottom Line 打破底线 In the eyes of others, he has it all: an executive title at a branch company and a happy family. But he also has plenty of secrets he can’t let see the light of day… A routine audit at the head office becomes the turning point in his fate… 14.1kReads8.2Score68914d adds
- 170 You Want Me to Turn Over a New Leaf? Just You Wait! 让我浪子回头？你给我等着！ Original title: Auntie, Don't Be Afraid Before taking his own life, Su Yang swore that if he got another chance at life... He would find someone who truly understood him! A woman who truly loved him! When he suddenly woke up, he found an older woman kneeling beside him. She was wearing a tattered pair of pajamas and trembling as she looked at him. “Please don't hit me, okay? I have to attend my child's parent-teacher meeting tomorrow...” 334Reads8.7Score10214d adds
- 171 I Just Got a Pocket World, and Then I Got Another System 刚得到小世界，就又送了一个系统 One late night, after working overtime, Ling Liang was on his way home when he unexpectedly bonded with a portable pocket world. To his surprise, the pocket world came with a sign-in System. Ling Liang promptly sent his heartless boss off to prison. Then he returned to his village to farm and raise livestock. He collected all kinds of living creatures, using the pocket world and the System to cultivate unusual plants and animals. Lychees that can whiten your skin? Watermelons that make you happy 15.6kReads8.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 172 My Years as a Class Adviser at a University for Older Women 当老年女子大学班主任那些年 The story of a 26-year-old unemployed man who, by a twist of fate, finds himself surrounded by women. There is no love without a reason. A Sea of Business and Beauty At twenty-six, he is in his prime, bold and ambitious, destined to rule the business world. He gathers the wealth of three rivers and wields power with ease; across the land, he handles authority with a smile. Amid riches and beauty, a host of breathtaking women accompany him. Beautiful women surround him, from young blossoms to wo 328Reads6.7Score12314d adds
- 173 After Three Years of Cultivation, I Became the Unrivaled Leader of the Medical World 修行三年，我成了神医界无敌头头 Zuo Xiu was practicing a powerful martial art in the middle of the night when he unexpectedly rescued a beautiful woman and took her home. He never imagined she’d be the heiress to a wealthy family. After treating her injuries, she made him an outrageous offer. From then on, Zuo Xiu had life by the tail, taking his revenge and living exactly as he pleased. 10.3kReads9.2Score1.7k14d adds
- 174 The Succubus Takes the Entertainment World by Storm, and Big Honey Begs Me to Keep a Low Profile 魅魔爆红娱乐圈，大蜜蜜求我低调 In the age of online traffic, a very different newcomer enters the entertainment industry, an industry steeped in negativity. Ye Yu is an all-around powerhouse: incredibly talented, skilled in countless fields, and super handsome. His charm is on the level of an incubus... With memories of his previous life and a System giving him an unfair advantage, every show he stars in becomes a hit, and his songs are worth their weight in gold. He goes from a penniless young man to the richest person in th 3.7kReads5.3Score15814d adds
- 175 Thunderbolt Commando 雷霆尖兵 I'm discharged, and I've got kills under my belt. With this many walking medals of merit, getting promoted to officer should be a piece of cake... System? I don't need one! Li Ke only wanted to finish his studies and return to civilian life, but fate had other plans, sending him on one thrilling adventure after another. Drug busts, crime crackdowns, business ventures, and revenge: time and again, he foils his enemies' schemes. Veteran leftists, guerrillas, and mercenaries continue to write stori 1.8kReads8.4Score10614d adds
- 176 Period: Reborn in Singapore for a Life of Pleasure 年代：重生新加坡开始快活人生 Reborn in 2000, Lin Yue went to Singapore to work. He relied on wealthy Nanyang ladies to earn his first fortune, then used his shrewdness to stir up the winds of change across Southeast Asia... He pooled resources and built his foundation on industry. After ten years of honing his craft, he led a team of beautiful women from across the world to conquer key fields, including automobile manufacturing, high-precision lithography machines, power batteries, and global financial risk management. From 13kReads7.1Score85814d adds
- 177 Restless Youth: My 18 Online Girlfriends 躁动青春，我的18个女网友 Youth is a time of passion and endless possibilities. Every heroine has a colorful story to tell! A female boss who is hesitant yet brave, a bold but helpless female colleague, a mysterious and caring older woman… 3kReads6.9Score22414d adds
- 178 Women? What I Really Want Are Rewards 女人？我更想要的是奖励 [Players who want a realistic experience, beware! Seriously, beware!!] [Affection above all] [Not brainless] [Everyday life] [A bit of a jerk] [Multiple women, but no female lead] To celebrate his 29th birthday, Jiang Hui prepares a “lavish” homemade hotpot and ice-cold beer in his rental apartment. But after only a few bottles, he starts feeling dizzy. Thinking he's just a lightweight when drinking alone, he catches a strange smell. “There's a gas leak!” Unable to struggle, Jiang Hui decides to 50kReads7.9Score3.8k14d adds
- 179 Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱 Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l 638Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 180 The System Arrived from the Start, but I Can't Lie Flat 开局系统降临，我却无法躺平 Lin Haotian unexpectedly transmigrates to another world. As soon as he wakes up, a golden finger comes to him. But the protagonist's one and only wish has always been to lie flat. How could a legendary golden finger possibly tolerate its host having such a lazy attitude? Special note: This story has no female lead. If that's not for you, please check out the book next door!!! Thank you! 220Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Overseas Turmoil: The Path of a Crime Lord 海外风云之枭雄路途 My name is Lin Feng. I’ve encountered, witnessed, and experienced many industries and incidents that people would rather keep hidden. So many people have been lured overseas by high-paying jobs, only to die. So many have died because their desires could never be satisfied. This synopsis can’t do the story justice. Read the novel to find out more. 8kReads9.1Score65714d adds
- 182 Reborn: I Shower the Campus Belle With Money. Why Marry When You’re a Man? 重生用钱砸校花，是男人谁还结婚 [Reborn] + [Not a wish-fulfillment story] + [Multiple heroines, no official pairing] + [Business] + [No System] The story of a man who goes from a family burden to a businessman rich enough to fly the national flag! If you were a lovesick fool and got reborn, what would you want to do most? Face-slap the goddess you've pined after but never won over, and make her regret it? Lin Mo spent ten years as a lovesick backup before being reborn in college. In his previous life, he gave everything to his 20.4kReads7.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 183 A Temporary Romance at the Factory! 工厂里的临时爱情！ Wang Dali had just left his rural hometown to find work in the city. After his night shift, he returned to his rented room. As he snapped the key in the lock, he heard a woman's cries from inside. From that day on, life opened up an entirely new world for him. Every day that followed was an adventure. 297Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 184 My Girl from Lhasa 我的拉萨姑娘 [Roommate Vibes] [Pure Love, Bad Ending] [Urban Coming of Age] [Multiple Heroines] [Folk Guitar] [Lhasa, Tibet] [Idealism] [Realistic] After his childhood friend dies in a fire, Xia Tian takes his friend's ashes to Lhasa. By chance, he meets a group of idealistic young people... They open bars and inns in Lhasa, planting the ideals in their hearts deep into every inch of Tibetan soil. Facing the sky and earth, they cry out, "Long live ideals! Long live youth!" This is an urban romance novel abo 273Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 In This Life, Why Have You All Become Good Girls? 这一世，怎么你们都变好女孩了？ [Multiple heroines] [Feel-good story] [Fast-paced] [Full of jokes] [Not business-focused] In his previous life, Li Hao ran into a bad woman in every relationship. Every time, the girl he thought was so sweet left him with an unforgettable memory in the end. The pure class beauty, the sweet and gentle upperclasswoman, the captivating CEO, and the goofy childhood friend. In this new life, Li Hao has figured things out. What bad women? They're clearly his... Bad is exactly what he wants... No pres 7kReads—Score63714d adds
- 186 My 26-Year-Old Female Boss 我的26岁女上司 [Also known as: Me and My Female Roommates] [Lots of romance] [Everyday life] [No heartbreak] [Love triangle drama] [Not brainless] [Enough heroines to fill two mahjong tables] [Gets satisfying later!] Cheng Mo, a college senior about to graduate, unexpectedly obtained the Destined Wage Earner System. A tenfold bonus on every paycheck? And random rewards whenever the System levels up? After getting the System, he met three female roommates while looking for a place to rent. As if that wer 7.8kReads8.3Score61214d adds
- 187 Rejecting the Campus Belle Ten Times, I Unlock the Scumbag Finance System 十拒校花表白，开启渣男金融系统 Campus Beauty | Childhood Friend | Married Woman | System | Nurturing | Police Beauty | Female Doctor | Lu Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. After rejecting the ten confessions of the campus beauty who betrayed him in his past life, he activates the Bad Boy System. [Perfect Ten System: Win the Hearts of Ten Women Whose Fates Were Tragic in Their Past Lives] [Mission rewards: including, but not limited to, stocks, lottery predictions, and physical enhancements] Lu Yan has just made a show of 539Reads—Score3514d adds
- 188 I Found a Diary Full of Regrets 捡到一本遗憾日记 Jiang Yuan finds a diary of regrets written by someone unknown. It mentions only a few vague events from the future, but as Jiang Yuan waits for them to unfold, he finds himself rising to the pinnacle of success without even realizing it. 12.1kReads8.5Score69614d adds
- 189 Oh No, My Online Girlfriend Is My CEO Sister 完蛋，网恋对象是我的总裁姐姐 Three years ago, Ji Fan faked his death in a game because he was about to take the college entrance exams. Three years later, after being cheated on by a gold-digger, Ji Fan logged into the game again on a whim. To his surprise, his online big sister was still waiting for him. “Baby, I knew you weren’t dead. I’m so glad.” “Baby, I missed you so much. Please don’t leave me, okay?” “Baby, let’s meet in person.” Under the fierce advances of the clingy older woman, Ji Fan fell for her all over again 4.6kReads7.4Score45614d adds
- 190 The Most Hated Person Struggles to Survive in a Pure-Love Story Every Day 万人嫌每天都在纯爱文里艰难求生 Note: Everyone has a one-sided crush. Ling Xiao is a cannon-fodder character in a novel with two male leads. She's the evil male side character's wicked maid, whose sole purpose is to drive the plot forward. Other evil male side characters get plenty of dramatic page time after doing bad things, and win the sympathy of countless readers. But when she dies, she's just dead. She doesn't even appear in three lines of the novel. Ling Xiao refuses to accept it. Why? They're all equally evil, so 1.5kReads9.0Score18414d adds
- 191 A Man's Courage 男人胆色 Han Jiang never imagined that a seemingly casual remark from his eldest daughter, “I'm not your biological child,” would come true. It also revealed layer upon layer of dark secrets buried beneath his marriage and family. His wife is a stunning beauty and the richest woman in town. She and Han Jiang have been married for sixteen years and have two sons and three daughters. As if that weren't enough, further paternity tests show that his other two daughters aren't his biological children either 12.8kReads6.4Score95614d adds
- 192 The Secret of the Dongguan Sisters 东莞姐姐的秘密 "Roaming the Martial World" "Multiple Heroines" Chen Yang and Wang Tao grew up together. By chance, they became disciples of a great master and headed north to Guancheng to seek out Chen Yang’s older sister, Xu Chunhua. When they arrived, they discovered things were nothing like they had imagined. From then on, they chose different paths, and each of their lives changed beyond recognition… 505Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 After Holding My Big Sister-in-Law, Are You Going to Start Building a Crime Empire? 抱着大嫂后，你要开始黑道发家？ 3.8kReads8.3Score31714d adds
- 194 The Unspeakable: Forced to Woo My Familiar in Another World 不可名状：我被迫在异界攻略眷属 (The rating was just posted and will rise later) [Another world] [No System] [Large ensemble cast] [Lovecraftian] [Body transmigration] [Western Fantasy] [Romantic adventure] I transmigrated. I'm Chovy. Could you at least transmigrate me into something decent? From the start, I'm a tentacle monster! But there's bad news: from the start, one of my own followers has been chasing me down to chop me up. She's five years old and has been doing it for over a decade. The rest of my followers are even m 28Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 195 My Dad Owns a Coal Mine 我爹是个煤老板 My dad owns a coal mine, so I, Li Heijin, have never had to worry about money! Apart from money, my greatest ambition is to have a little culture, or at least look like a cultured person! 2.4kReads8.7Score10614d adds
- 196 This Real Young Master Is No Gentleman, and He Throws Himself at a Bad Girl 这真少爷不正经，主动投怀坏女 [Eating, eating, eating] [Multiple Heroines] [Campus Romance] [Surreal Comedy] [Succubus + Scheming Male Lead + White Moonlight Who Didn’t Die + Chasing the Male Lead + Sweet and Angsty] Su Yibai read a surreal wish-fulfillment novel, only to find that its ending had the long-lost real young master return to his family, get framed by the Su siblings, and then forgive them outright! The accusation was just a misunderstanding, and soon the domineering older brother became his doting big bro, while 305Reads—Score16914d adds
- 197 The Carefree Evil Doctor of the City 都市逍遥邪医 Chen Nan was framed and sent to prison for three years. But misfortune turned into a blessing when he received a master’s legacy behind bars. From then on, he turned his life around, exacted his revenge, and ultimately became a man of great distinction!!! 22.8kReads9.2Score2.9k14d adds
- 198 Reborn, the Goddess Became My Pet 重生后，女神变女宠 A purely urban story, with a laid-back everyday feel. No fantasy, no saintly protagonist, no System, no superpowers. Just a passionate, flirtatious modern rags-to-riches tale! After being brutally avenged by his employees and having his head smashed in with a hammer, Cheng Feng is reborn in his college days. First on his list are the enemy he has resented for more than a decade and the goddess from his previous life who now comes rushing back into his world... 12kReads7.3Score86814d adds
- 199 The Texas Underworld 德州江湖 A tale of hooligans in Dezhou, Shandong, China? No. A tale of gangsters in Texas, USA? No. Texas hold 'em? Getting warmer. There are no miraculous gambling skills, no tense showdowns at the poker table, and no underdog comeback story. All there is is a poker table and the assortment of people around it: cops, businessmen, spies, brothers, high-ranking officials, lovers, and lowlifes. The worlds of money, power, loyalty, and love are all deadly. They aren't gambling on cards. They're gambling on 343Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Hai Nange's Second Book 海楠哥的第2本书 [Work + romance + plot + personal growth + lighthearted everyday life] Xu Liangfeng had just graduated from high school when he went to the big city to look for work. He ran into setback after setback, but he didn't lose heart and kept working hard. As he changed jobs frequently, he learned plenty of practical skills. Still, at every workplace, his managers both loved and hated him. They loved his competence and his humble, sincere nature, but hated how argumentative he could be. “Liangfeng, can 298Reads—Score—14d adds
