Novels like Making Do for Half a Lifetime
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Making Do for Half a Lifetime, best match first.
- 51 Her Walled-In World 她的围城 This book is based on a true story. It's not a wish-fulfillment novel, and it is slow-paced. In the 1990s, Jing An gets married. Unsure yet hopeful about marriage, she endures her in-laws' schemes and her sister-in-law's attempts to drive a wedge between her and her husband. At last, she and Jiuguang make it through their difficult adjustment period, and she thinks a brighter future is finally within reach. But that light is stolen by another woman. And so begins a battle of schemes and rivalr 29kReads9.2Score791Shelves
- 52 My Third Older Sister Is Reborn 我的三姐是重生的 This is a story about a family growing together, centered throughout on the ordinary daily life of the Tang family. It features a small ensemble cast and multiple perspectives, with a little more focus on the older sisters early on. Main character: Tang Xue, the fourth child in the family and one of a pair of twin sisters. Sweet, gentle, and thoughtful, she is sensible and grateful, and always cares for every member of her family. She isn't the family's only center of attention, but she's the gl 56.7kReads9.0Score4.9kShelves
- 53 After Transmigrating into a Book, Watch Me Take Down the Wicked Female Lead 穿书后，看我如何干翻恶毒女主 The rating just came out; it’ll go up later. [Everyday family life, a laid-back heroine who sometimes has a soft heart and learns from her mistakes. There’s a System, a pocket dimension, and a job. She doesn’t go to the countryside.] Su Jiahui fell asleep and transmigrated. She never expected that, as an only child, she would end up in a large family with many children, and be the least favored one of all. After awakening her System, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a book. And of 1.5kReads6.0Score101Shelves
- 54 Reborn in 1978: Don't Even Think About Stealing My Life Again 重生1978，别再想偷我的人生 [This is a long novel about fated cycles of reincarnation across several lifetimes. No transmigration with memories, no System. Each volume is a complete story of its own: Volume One: Years Like a Song, a 1978 college entrance exam rebirth story. Later volumes include the flames of war in the Republican era.] In her previous life, she studied day and night beneath a kerosene lamp, tirelessly preparing for the college entrance exam. In the end, the acceptance letter went to someone else. In 1978, 189Reads—Score102Shelves
- 55 The 1970s: The Little Fox Cub Is Looking for His Dad Online 七零：小狐狸崽在线找爹 In the age of declining magic, spiritual energy has dried up, and the ancient nine-tailed fox Tu Shan Yao is on the verge of death. Four-year-old divine beast cub Xiaobao clenches his little fists and drags his sickly, blood-spitting mother thousands of miles to find his father. Amnesiac special forces commander Huo Yunzheng looks at the mother and child and falls into deep self-doubt: “I've been single my whole life for 26 years. Where did this wife and child come from?!” He thinks they're just 493.4kReads9.3Score49.6kShelves
- 56 The Guanshan Saber 关山刀 On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascended to Heaven. Yan Feilong's father did not come home. Three days later, his mother was found dead in the village temple, a wound in her stomach. The twelve-year-old boy slipped a chipped knife into his clothes and walked into the salt flats, looking for a man: tall and thin, with a mole on his chin. He found him. Three strikes. One for his father, one for his mother, and the last so he could go on living. His revenge was d 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 I Transmigrated Into a Book Set in the 1970s and Married the Male Lead's Uncle 穿书七零嫁给男主他叔 Lin Susu woke up one day and transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous female character in a period novel. In the book, the villainess sabotages the romance between the male and female leads, causes trouble at every turn, and ultimately meets a miserable end. Transmigrated Lin Susu declares: The male and female leads must stay together. Wouldn't it be better to cling to the uncle who's taller, more handsome, higher-ranking, and richer than the male lead? Her uncle says: “Be good, you ca 2.3kReads8.7Score211Shelves
- 58 Alone in an Empty Room, While the Factory Director Next Door Holds Me Close at Night 守空房，隔壁厂长夜揽小蛮腰 [Period Setting + Rugged Hero + Both Pure in Love + Sweet Romance + Traditional Story, No Rebirth or Transmigration] [Pretty Widow + Untamed Steel Mill Director, With a Striking Difference in Build and Skin Tone, and Chemistry Through the Roof] After her husband dies in an underground accident, He Xiaohe becomes the “jinx widow” everyone at the steel mill thinks they can bully. Her vicious mother-in-law wants to seize her house, then sell her off to the countryside for a bride price. Her shamele 2.2kReads—Score102Shelves
- 59 The Rugged Man Next Door Is Too Wild, and the Village Beauty Blushes in His Embrace 隔壁糙汉太野，村花害羞怀里娇 [Rugged Hero + Pure Romance + Marriage Before Love + Sizzling Chemistry + Sweet Married Life + Building a Fortune] [Delicate Village Beauty VS Cold, Rugged Neighbor] The night Song Qingshan returned to the village, he heard cries coming from next door before he had even entered his own home. He climbed onto a haystack and stole a peek. Poor Wen Sui was bent over a millstone, being beaten. She trembled with pain and sobbed pitifully, looking utterly heartbreaking. The sight set Song Qingshan’s bl 18.2kReads6.6Score657Shelves
- 60 Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年 In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve 88Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Three Treasures Pagoda and Purple Gold Mountain 三宝塔与紫金山 The story unfolds slowly between Sanbao Town in southeastern Yunnan and Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties. Yun Kun, a young man from southern Yunnan, dreams of escaping the mountains. Through sheer perseverance, he rises from a poor boy to a faculty researcher at a military academy. Ning Xiang, who lives east of Nanjing, once enjoyed a peaceful, ordinary life, but the tides of the times bring a drastic turn: her household registration is falsified, and she is forced to move to the co 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦！ [Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future 486Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 63 After My Biological Brother Was Reborn, the Real Heiress Returned 亲哥重生后，真千金回归了 Lin Yanhui is miserable. Her paternal grandparents favor boys over girls, her father is taciturn, and her mother has a sharp tongue and a sharper heart. And now her name is Huang Zhaodi. In the middle of her chaotic life, she never imagined that one day a group of people would show up at her home and tell her she was their biological daughter! Lin Yanhui: !!! - It wasn’t until three days before Lin Rui died in the line of duty that he learned his family had raised someone else’s child. When they 36.4kReads9.0Score4.2kShelves
- 64 A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复 [Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or 2.5kReads9.5Score362Shelves
- 65 The Plains' True Colors 平原底色 Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma 17Reads—Score114Shelves
- 66 Back to 2005: A Little Wealth Is Enough 重回零五，小富即安 A story about a heroine who has nothing but her beauty returning to the age of ten and helping herself and her family build a better life. A heartwarming story. At first, she keeps her parents focused on starting a business so she can become a rich second-generation kid. The male lead appears later. Just after graduating from university, Li Wanwan woke up to find herself back in 2005, in the summer when she was ten years old. That summer, her parents returned from working in the south. They were 11kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves
- 67 The Sun and Moon in the Steamer 蒸屉里的日月 Set against the changes sweeping the northern countryside in the 1990s, this story follows an ordinary rural woman as she spends half her life juggling household chores, conflicts with her sisters-in-law, small business ventures, and her children’s education. With only an elementary-school education, she supports her family with her skill at making steamed buns, putting her son through college and helping him build a life of his own. She lives through the transition from earthen houses to brick 298Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Leaving on the Journey South 南下归途离开 Every so often, a generation leaves home to make a living, leaving its youth behind on construction sites and streets far from home. Our fathers left the mountains with worn-out woven-plastic bags on their backs, heading south to find work. They knew nothing of polished talk. They only knew to keep their heads down and work hard, relying on brute strength to feed their families. They lived in cramped shacks, endured grueling day and night shifts, and swallowed their homesickness and grievances. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The 1950s: Starting Out as an Apprentice 五零：从学徒工开始 [Period setting + native protagonist + daily life + career + no golden finger] [An ordinary story about ordinary people] Her parents wanted Baolan to take her eldest brother's place in an arranged marriage. Baolan refused. Baolan passed the worker recruitment exam. Starting as an apprentice, Baolan attended night school, got promoted, bought a watch, bought a bicycle... Little by little, she built herself a good life. 35kReads9.0Score3.8kShelves
- 70 The Road to Promotion in the 1980s: She Made Her Mark Through Her Own Ability 年代升迁路：她凭实力出圈 [Period] [Career] Dai Xinghua wakes up in 1972 in the body of an orphan who shares her name. Her parents died in the line of duty, and their home is about to be repossessed. Looking at the hand she’s been dealt, former “career star” Dai Xinghua takes a deep breath. Stay calm. I can win! She sticks firmly to her principles: What does it matter how much you work? We’re all just cogs in the machine. Don’t compete, don’t fight. But when it comes to my job, I’ll do it to the best of my ability 13.4kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 71 Marrying a Playboy in the 1980s 八十年代嫁纨绔 [Period setting]+ [no golden finger]+ [both leads are chaste] This is the story of my parents. These days, it would be called a classic hero-rescues-beauty, straight-out-of-a-romance-drama kind of romance. Back then, it was the kind of pairing that left everyone speechless, and made them sigh that a beautiful flower had been stuck in a pile of cow dung! My mom: beautiful, kindhearted, and long-legged. My dad: tall, and otherwise just fierce. My mom: one of the first college students after the na 4.3kReads9.0Score376Shelves
- 72 Reborn in 1980: After the Family Split, I Make a Fortune with My Wife and Daughter 重生80，分家后带妻女吃香喝辣 [Period setting + reborn + everyday family life + raising children and doting on his wife + daily life + building wealth + business + food] In 1980, forty-six-year-old Lin Guoqiang was reborn. In his previous life, everyone praised him as a good-hearted man. He lent his hard-earned money to his eldest brother for a business, gave his third younger brother his demobilization allowance to marry a wife, paid for his fifth younger sister’s tuition, and tended to his sick parents at their bedside. Bu 183.4kReads7.4Score7.2kShelves
- 73 The 1990s: My Parents, Uncle, and Grandma Are in Their Prime, So It’s Time to Marry 九零：我家爹娘叔奶正当年，宜嫁 [Period Setting + Wild Imagination + System + No Romance + Scumbag Face-Slapping + Chaotic Antics + Getting Rich] When Xia Qingyu is pressured to go on a blind date, she speaks her mind and gets a cup thrown at her by the man. She then transmigrates into a pitiable cannon-fodder character with the same name in a period novel. Her entire family is a bunch of spineless, selfish, and toxic people who treat her like a blood bank, leaving her to die a miserable death. A Matchmaker System comes along 21.8kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
- 74 Legends of Yuan and Ming 元明英雄传 (An original traditional wuxia author. No AI-written fiction!!! The story continues from The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Wuxia classics never go out of style!) After the Lion Slaying Ceremony, the martial world gradually settled down. Zhang Wuji created the greatest art of inner cultivation in the world, the Qipai Divine Art. Fearing that the world would descend into chaos over competing for martial arts manuals, he secretly ordered Ming Cult disciples Zhang Hu and Wu Xin to deliver the Nine 129Reads—Score222Shelves
- 75 Living Life to the Fullest in the 1960s 六零年代恣意活着 [Transmigration + Two Strong Leads + Period Setting + Daily Life] A career woman from the new century transmigrates as Ruan Mianmian and escapes her family of origin. When she reaches the right age, she marries Chen Yuan'an, a handsome, well-built regiment commander. They bicker in the early days, but later settle into a sweet life together: her husband dotes on her, and their son is clever and adorable. Both leads know how to enjoy life. In an era of scarcity, they use money to make sure they n 2kReads6.9Score100Shelves
- 76 Rural Love: The Marriage Swap 乡村爱情之换亲 The village looks peaceful, but undercurrents churn beneath the surface. Love, family affection, and illicit affairs intertwine to create a sweeping portrait of life. The beautiful village flower is forced to marry the poorest man in the village, and their story begins... 5.6kReads8.8Score460Shelves
- 77 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Sweet Romance in the 1970s: The Mountain Man Treats Me Like Royalty 七零甜婚：山里汉把我当祖宗宠 After the Xu family girl tries to hang herself, she's carried to the Cheng family's home. The Xu family says, “In life, you belong to the Cheng family; in death, you'll be their ghost!” The Cheng family's young carpenter is kindhearted: “Once you enter my family, I'll treat you like royalty!” The Xu girl, who transmigrated here, is happy to take him up on it. A few flirtatious glances, a few tender sighs, and the young carpenter is lovestruck. You farm, I'll work as a carpenter. You manage the h 3.1kReads9.0Score340Shelves
- 79 Born with Bewitching Charm, She Rejects an Officer's Proposal but Falls for Him on Their Wedding Night 天生媚骨，拒婚军官新婚夜沦陷了 Wen You was beautiful and a top student from childhood. All she wanted was to get into college and change her place in society. But Su Ning, relying on her status as the widowed sister-in-law of the military officer Huo Yanjin, forced Wen You's father out of his job and took his position as newspaper editor. As a result, financial hardship forced Wen You to drop out of school. She realized Su Ning had feelings for Huo Yanjin, and that he was willing to cover for his family. So, out of revenge, s 74.2kReads8.5Score7.3kShelves
- 80 Stubborn as a Mule 硬颈种 [Not a Power Fantasy, No Cliches, No Stupid Characters, Mutual Devotion, Striving for a Better Life, Realistic Growth] In Hakka, someone stubborn to the core is called a "hard-necked sort." When Wang Lili was ten, she snatched a big chicken leg at the dinner table. Her father ordered her to give it to her younger brother. She said, "I won't." When Zhao Ruxun was ten, he was forced to let his mother beat him fifteen times in public for protecting his younger brother. He gritted his teeth and didn 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 At Dusk 人到黄昏 Family love, romance, friendship, and neighborly affection. The ordinary, uneventful lives of everyday people; the changing times reflected in rural life; the differences between two generations in their views on elder care; and how the elderly and children of the new era should face the twilight years of life. 45.8kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves
- 82 With Divine Eyes, I'll Claim Both Invincibility and Women 我有神眼，无敌和女人都要 Li Yifeng is 23 and has just five yuan to his name when he casually buys a fake antique stone bead. Then the thing slips into the space between his eyebrows! From that day on, he can see through things. He checks out beautiful women, makes 30 million a day finding hidden treasures in jade, and exposes a show-off ex-boyfriend at a class reunion. Li Yifeng’s women are even harder to deal with than his enemies. Su Qingyue announces in public, “He’s my boyfriend,” nearly making him choke on a chicke 513Reads—Score130Shelves
- 83 My Second Brother: Two Young Men Venture into the Northeast 我的二哥之二小闯东北 My second older brother ran away from home when he was twelve, heading northeast with a child from the neighbors’ family. The two of them endured countless hardships to make it there, only to find themselves in the wolf’s den and the tiger’s lair. And so began a story no one could ever forget. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Through Life's Storms, She Blossoms 风雨人生，她自芳华 Period drama, a woman’s journey of growth, overseas entrepreneurship, a strong female lead, and realistic romance. “One woman’s four marriages, three entrepreneurial ventures, two generations finding peace, and one extraordinary life.” In 1984, she was the pampered jewel of a prestigious family, but one ill-fated marriage sent her crashing to rock bottom. Her husband was cold, and her in-laws took her daughter. Overnight, she fell from the clouds into the dust. But she refused to be beaten. 864Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 85 I Have a Self-Healing Ability 我有一个自愈能力 [Transmigration] + [Another World] + [Special Ability] When Lu Xun wakes up, he thinks someone has pranked him and put him on a film set. But it seems he has transmigrated into another person’s body! Since he’s a transmigrator, having a System would be perfectly normal, right? He calls out for one, but it turns out he doesn’t have a golden finger. Damn it! What a disaster. But as time goes by, it seems he really does have a special ability... Decades later, his childhood friend sees him and excl 54Reads—Score115Shelves
- 86 An Elder Sister Is Both a Mother and a Father! 长姐如母，亦如父！ [A story set in a bygone era, with no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger. Family life, rural romance, and a hard road to growing up.] Zhou Zimei thought she would soon marry her childhood sweetheart and fiancé. Then an accident happened, and she became what people called an old maid. Her younger siblings' tuition taught her everything she hadn't known how to do. The hardships of rural life, the warmth and coldness of human nature, and the struggle to keep growing... 42.8kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves
- 87 In the Era of Forced Childbearing, I Received a Little Fox Cub 强制生育时代，我领到一只小狐崽 [One-on-one, both are each other's first and only, little fox cub, cross-species romance, Fox Lord, mutual protection, political intrigue among the demon clans, cool heroine, flirtatious tension] Liang Yi told Jiang He, "Let's break up. My parents can't accept that you're adopted." Jiang He didn't cling to him. She calmly let him go. But a policy announced by the civil affairs department left people no way to avoid it: Anyone who turned thirty without a child registered in their name would have 368Reads—Score125Shelves
- 88 Eternal Immortal Emperor: Reborn to Prove the Dao and Become the Sovereign 永恒仙帝：重生证道主宰 Leng Xuan, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, wielded the Primordial Chaos Source! Betrayed by his beloved and his brother-in-arms, he died at the pinnacle of the Immortal Emperor realm. Carrying three thousand years of imperial memories and the twin souls of Blue Star, he was reborn as a lowly servant of the Qingxuan Sect. A crippled spiritual root? Endless bullying? No matter! His twin souls merged, awakening the Eternal Dao Body. Wielding the supreme cultivation art, the Chaos Emperor Scripture, h 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Reborn in 1985: I'm Focused on Making Money, but Young Master Lu Is Chasing Me 重生八五：一心搞钱，陆少追疯了 [Rebirth + Period Setting + No Golden Finger + Comeback + Business Battles + Mystery of Her Origins + Power Couple] In her previous life, Su Hanxue gave everything for her family, only to be forced into a marriage that served their interests. She suffered abuse after the wedding, until her husband pushed her into the freezing river and drowned her. He then used the payout from her accident insurance to live it up with his mistress. In this life, she fights with all her strength to refuse the mar 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 A History of Prostitution in China (A Republic-Era Masters’ History Collection) 中国娼妓史(民国名家史学典藏文库) This book is divided into six chapters: Introduction; The Era of Shaman Courtesans; The Emergence of Slave Prostitutes and Official Courtesans; The Parallel Rise of Household Courtesans and Slave Prostitutes; The Golden Age of Official Courtesans; and The Era of Privately Run Prostitution. Topics include names and definitions, distinctions between periods, when the history of Chinese prostitution began, and shaman courtesans in the Shang dynasty, among others. 121Reads8.5Score121Shelves
- 91 90: Reborn, I Let My Husband Go and Pursued My Career, Then Married an Army Doctor 90：重生让出老公搞事业嫁军医 [Rebirth] [Period Setting] [Child of a High-Ranking Cadre] [Both Leads Have No Past Relationships] [Military Marriage] [Everyday Family Life] [No Space-Based Golden Finger] After ten years of living apart, Bai Yulan was still divorced, and her child was taken away by her ex-husband, who had gone into business and made a fortune. At last, her son graduated with a PhD and found a good job, only to call her over to look after his child. She worked herself to death. When she opened her eyes, Bai Yul 967Reads6.5Score109Shelves
- 92 Transported to 1980: I Have an Iron Rice Bowl from the Start 穿到1980，开局就有铁饭碗 [A career-focused heroine with a government job + 90% career storyline + a male lead who is weaker than the female lead] Lin Ruxin, from 2026, transmigrates into the body of Lin Ruxin in 1981. The original owner was not only ungrateful, but also hopelessly lovesick. As one of the first college graduates, she should have focused on her career, but instead devoted all her attention to men. Lin Ruxin can't stand it. Watch her kick her scumbag boyfriend to the curb and leave her coworkers stunned. W 35.7kReads8.7Score3.6kShelves
- 93 Transmigrated into a Period Novel: The Villainess Is a Little Unhinged 穿进年代文：反派女配有点颠 Just because she made one snarky remark about people who were lovesick, Su Yitong transmigrates to the 1970s, becoming a young woman sent to work in the countryside in a remote, impoverished village. Still dazed, she takes a hostage and gets mistaken for an enemy spy, then locked in a woodshed. Only then does she realize she's transmigrated into a book as a melodramatic, ruthless villainess who meets a gruesome end! Follow the System's plot? Not a chance! This villainess loves doing the opposite 9kReads8.4Score582Shelves
- 94 A Sweet Flash Marriage in the 1970s 七零闪婚甜蜜蜜 [A cozy married life in a bygone era, sweet and slice-of-life, few nasty characters, with a golden finger] Storyline One: When Jiang Wan was at her wits’ end, she proposed marriage (asked for help) to the man she had just met, the man who had saved her. Cheng Yao was drawn to her eyes and casually rescued her. He never expected her to turn around and propose to him (set him up). Jiang Wan: “Are you married?” Cheng Yao looked completely baffled. “??” Jiang Wan tried to work up her courage. “Or do 2.5kReads9.0Score203Shelves
- 95 Liu Cheapskate’s Daily Life 刘抠门的日常生活 [Period drama, not reborn, no transmigration, no golden finger] Liu Xiaoyun has been stingy since she was little. Her family is poor, but not so poor that they can't afford food. She's the stingiest one in the family, and her mother dreams of marrying her off. Better to have her make life difficult for someone else's family than their own. Read on to see how Liu Xiaoyun makes married life a roaring success. 12.3kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 96 Back to the 1990s: I'm Done Being a Good Girl 重回九零，不做乖乖女 [Lighthearted Comedy + Inspirational Youth + Reborn and Doted on by Everyone + Healing] Completed. He Laifa still hasn’t woken up. No one knows if she ever will, but her passion, her hard work, her determination, and her kindness and intelligence have all affected the people around her. The people of Yangjiatun will never forget her. The people of Hejiabao will never forget her. He, and all the others, keep striving in their own posts, shining brightly. She is strength. She is hope. She is their 214Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 97 Absolute Obedience System: Reborn in Hong Kong, Taking Control of the Entertainment Industry 绝对服从系统，重生香江控制港娱 Back in 1975, Lin Yichen owns a clothing factory on the verge of bankruptcy and a fat-cat System that does nothing but make snide remarks. He wants to keep a low profile, but the System insists he reach the pinnacle of success by “binding a sexy songstress and controlling an innocent jade beauty.” So he can only “reluctantly” bring one future goddess after another under his wing. He has a financial prodigy peel shrimp for him, makes a kung fu empress do a handstand in a helicopter, and has a fut 37Reads—Score120Shelves
- 98 Raising Kids, Joining the Army, and Living Life Beyond the Plot 养崽，随军，避开剧情过日子 While pregnant with her third child, Jian Yuhua awakens memories of her past life and learns that she has entered a novel set in a bygone era. Her eldest son is the novel's villain: obsessive and vengeful, he gets executed by firing squad during a political crackdown. Her second daughter is a disposable supporting female character. After failing to win the male lead's heart despite pursuing him relentlessly, she accidentally marries a village hooligan, living without enough food or warm clothes 6.8kReads8.8Score562Shelves
- 99 Reborn in the Nineties: The Alluring Beauty Snares the Cold, Abstinent Tycoon 重生九零，钓系美人拿捏禁欲大佬 [Two powerful leads, an intense game of push and pull, building a strong technological nation, business warfare in a bygone era, alternate setting] The untouchable beauty VS the fully leveled black lotus This is a battle between equals, as well as the legend of a great power's rise in industrial technology. In 1992, Jiang Wan was reborn into a desperate situation. At first, she set her sights on Shen Yichuan, a tech expert with vast capital at his disposal, in order to take revenge. What began a 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Things That Happened When I Was a Kid 我小时候的事 I really don't have much talent for writing novels. I simply pieced together people and events from my childhood, along with scattered fragments of memory and everyday trivialities, as best I could. It's like sewing a patchwork garment out of scraps of floral fabric: from a distance it looks colorful and busy, but up close the seams are obvious, and it never quite comes together. Even so, I weighed every word and poured my passion and love into it, because I wrote it for my daughter. 52Reads—Score—Shelves
