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- 1 The Great Yong's First Empress and Medicine Merchant 大庸第一女皇药商 [Fictional ancient setting] [Strong female lead] [Soul transmigration] Tang Yiru, daughter of the Great Yong's famed physician and top scholar Tang Wenxu, transmigrates into a farming family. The original owner had a brown birthmark and was forced by her stepmother to marry a lame hunter. After enduring terrible abuse, she died beneath a fire poker. Now inhabiting her body, Tang Yiru awakens the Cloudmist Mountain realm her father left behind, accompanied by a thousand-year-old lotus spirit. She 182Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 2 The Mother in the Mountains 大山里的母亲 [Period setting + history + based on real life + memoir] This is the story of a mother from the mountains who folded hardship into the daily routine of cooking and chores, holding her family together through rugged years. She lived an ordinary life, yet became the family's strongest support. If you, too, have been touched by a mother's love, perhaps you'll enjoy this story. Every follow and request for an update gives me the confidence to keep writing. I'll carefully polish every plot point. 112Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 3 From the Start, I Had Chaos Mud: I Subdue Evil Spirits and Guard Fruit City 开局混沌泥,我镇万煞守果城 Guocheng (Nanchong) is picturesque by night. The lamps along the Jialing River’s waterfront glow warmly, and the White Pagoda stands guard over the river’s spirit But tonight, a river fiend strikes without warning. Black waves crash against the shore, and malice spreads like ink. The entire city panics, while its wardens prove powerless to stop it! Chen Hesheng is widely dismissed as a “good-for-nothing warden.” His spiritual power has tested at zero for years, yet when the malice runs rampant, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Your Majesty the Empress, This Eunuch Wants to Marry You 女皇陛下,奴才要娶你 Zhao Zilong transmigrates to the Great Yan Empire and, by a twist of fate, becomes a fake eunuch. Murong Wushuang of Great Yan follows the late emperor's decree and disguises herself as a man to become emperor. What will happen when a fake emperor meets a fake eunuch? See how Zhao Zilong rises above all others in ancient society and lives as a carefree hero. In the end, he not only unifies the realm, but also wins the beauty's heart, reaching the pinnacle of life! 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Gate of Freedom 无拘之门 A paranormal livestreamer dies mysteriously, and her body transforms into a corpse puppet at the funeral home. Qian Yi, a broke college student working at an electronics factory, possesses secret arts of the mystic realm and is forced to team up with a criminal investigator to hunt down the killer. The clues point to the radical group Unbound Sect, whose members believe that “ability is freedom.” A massive conspiracy is brewing, one that aims to shatter every rule in the world and unleash an anc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I Started a Company Where No One Has to Work 创业开了家不用上班的公司 After Du Tao was framed and forced to leave his job, he started his own business and opened a company where nobody had to go to work. A traffic accident brought him, by chance, into contact with Li Mimi, the daughter of Dongsha Province's richest man. He also unexpectedly gained the ability to see the future. Li Zunhai, Dongsha's richest man, cares deeply about social status and refuses to accept a poor nobody like Du Tao. Unwilling to live off his girlfriend, Du Tao uses his powers to conquer t 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Marquis, Stop Pretending! Your Wife Wins the Capital's Affection by Doing Nothing 侯爷别装了!夫人靠摆烂宠冠京华 Marquis, stop pretending! Your wife has charmed all of the capital by slacking off. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Period: I Bound Myself to a System That Meddles in Everyone's Business 年代:我绑定了多管闲事系统 People transmigrate every year. This year, it happened to be my turn. Li Xiang never dreamed he’d hit the jackpot and transmigrate to the 1960s, becoming Li Xiangbei, the village’s notorious little troublemaker. A shabby house, ragged clothes, and food that scraped his throat: he begged every god in the heavens to let him go home. If he couldn’t go home, couldn’t they at least give him a golden finger? And so he really did get one. He ought to have been thrilled, but what was this “Mind Your 242Reads7.1Score10814d adds
- 9 An Eight-Year-Old Immortal Treasure Comes Down the Mountain, and I Drive the Entire Cultivation World Crazy 八岁仙宝下山,全修仙界被我整破防了 An eight-year-old immortal treasure descends from the mountain, and I throw the entire cultivation world into chaos. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Whole Sect Calls Me Useless, but My Senior Sister Has My Back 全宗笑我废材,惟有师姐护我全场 The whole sect laughs at me for being useless, and only my senior sister stands up for me. 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 My Days at the Real Estate Office: Stories I Overheard, The Scent of Powder 我在售楼部的日子之听来的故事系列——脂粉香 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office: Stories I Overheard, Part One: The Scent of Rouge 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Young People of Chemen Courtyard 车门院里的年轻人 This is a symphony of destinies spanning generations. In a small courtyard in northern China in the 1970s, several families struggle and drift with the tides of the times. Lei Shaxiao, an orphan whose parents died young, falls in love with Aiai, another orphan from the neighboring courtyard. They were an ordinary couple, but amid the raging currents of the era, Shaxiao rises to become a renowned lawyer who commands the room. Money, power, and desire come one after another. He loses himself in th 35Reads—Score314d adds
- 13 Lucia by the Equator 赤道边的露西亚 Her name is Lucia. Half Fang from Africa and half Chinese, she has lived between two worlds as a bridge with no place to call home. His name is Yue Xingzhou, the rotating deputy general manager of a Chinese company stationed in Q Country, an idealist who believes that “understanding can resolve any conflict.” They meet on the equator, where life swirls in a rush of passion, grow close amid the roar of an engineering project, and come to understand, challenge, and shape each other through transla 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 A Small-Time Official, at the Peak of Power! 官场小人物,权势巅峰! [Reborn, political infighting, schemes, debates, rural disputes, human trafficking, undercover agents, female agents, drug enforcement, law] After being reborn, Liu Haotian becomes the leader of a criminal investigation squad in Henghai City. To avenge the wrongs he suffered in his previous life, he takes on the massive "924" case. Armed with memories from his past life, Shaolin martial arts, disguise skills, and other extraordinary abilities, he joins forces with the provincial task force in a 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Rise to Godhood of Chen Jiexue, the Corporate Drone 谌洁雪这个社畜的成神史 A black stone from a street stall turns her from an overworked wage slave into a "savior". The path to godhood for Chen Jiexue is forced from the start. Her Guardian Stone bloodline awakens, and she has to gather the five divine artifacts. But first, she rents a shop called Worry-Free Bar on Lotus Blossom Lane along the Yellow Springs Road. The shop next door sells Meng Po's Soup. On the surface, she's the proprietress, but in reality, she's a lowly employee under Meng Po. The tea at Worry-Free 63Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 16 Days at the Real Estate Office: Stories I Overheard, Her Life in Baking 我在售楼部的日子之听来的故事系列——她的烘焙人生 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office: Stories I’ve Heard, Part Two: Her Baking Life 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Days at the Real Estate Office: Stories I Overheard, A Home on the City Wall 我在售楼部的日子之听来的故事系列——城墙上的家 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office: Stories I’ve Heard, Part Three: The Home on the City Wall 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Awakening of Guixu 归墟的苏醒 The story takes place in a remote town. A series of bizarre disappearances leads the young detective Lin Yu to an abandoned warehouse, where he discovers an entity known as the “Guixu.” It is neither a monster in the traditional sense nor another dimension, but a membrane beneath the world: a conscious being that has slept for billions of years. It is both the embodiment of the “void” in the collective human consciousness and a fundamental structure of the world itself. The central conflict revo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 A Billionaire Finance Mogul’s Rise from the Ashes 千亿财经大佬逆袭沉浮 A book written entirely by hand. A famous philosopher once said: Lust is a primal drive. It isn't base. Su Huoda wasn't highly educated, but he was especially good at using women, including his boss's wife. He climbed to the top by stepping on women. After successfully turning his life around and becoming a tycoon, he met Feng Chengcheng and Liu Zihan. Would the two sisters become trusted partners in his next business venture? A modern-day household battle unfolded among his former flames, old l 110Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 20 Reborn in the Tang Dynasty: The Corrupted Legitimate Daughter Is the Villain 重生唐朝:黑化嫡女,我是反派 Xue Wan tried to hang herself, but survived. The first thing she did after waking was hide a pair of scissors in her sleeve. Her stepmother, Madam Zhao, thought she was still the same soft touch anyone could bully, while her younger sister, Xue Ning, looked forward to watching her kneel in the ancestral hall until dawn. But they didn’t know that the body had already changed hands. Zhang Li had spent more than a decade fighting office politics in her previous life; dealing with the petty schemes 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Period: He's Set His Sights on the Village Chief's Daughter 年代:他盯上村长闺女 In 1982, in a mountain village in Northeast China, 26-year-old Cuier was widowed and raising a child. She suffered constant abuse at the hands of villains and could only endure it to protect her daughter. Her late husband’s younger brother, Erjun, returned home after leaving the army. Upright and resolute, he repeatedly stepped in to protect his sister-in-law. They warmed one another through hardship, and feelings quietly blossomed between them. At last, they had something to look forward to. Bu 9.1kReads7.9Score54914d adds
- 22 The First Light of Africa 非洲的熹微 A true translator does not search for equivalent words in two languages. She finds the path between two destinies that can carry a current. She came to Africa with someone else’s children, but it was here that she put down roots of her own. Africa taught her that waiting can be translated into cables, and sorrow can be translated into light. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 After Taking Over a Money-Losing Pawnshop, I Turned Things Around by Keeping My Ex-Wife in Line 接手亏本当铺后,靠拿捏前妻翻盘 [Keep reading, it's absolutely thrilling, and the older beauty is heartbroken] Sun Haitian spent twenty years working his way up to take over the pawnshop. Then his boss used an emigration scheme to set a trap, stuffing the shop with cheap jadeite and inflating its assets, nearly leaving him bankrupt and buried in debt. As if that weren't enough, his wife cheated on him during their marriage. With a few clever moves, he got the two of them under his thumb and forced them to cover the shortfall. 137Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Jade-Faced Asura's Cherished One 玉面修罗的掌心宠 A tale of warlord clashes, love and hatred for family and country, and the struggle between love and power. My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Days at the Real Estate Office: Stories I Overheard, The Voice from Upstairs 我在售楼部的日子之听来的故事系列——楼上来的声音 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office: Stories I’ve Heard, Part One: The Voice from Upstairs 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 High-Heel Mystery (Sequel) 高跟疑云(续) The High-Heel Mystery (Part Two) 44Reads—Score114d adds
- 27 The Substitute Bride: The Marquis of Zhenbei’s White Moonlight 替身新娘:镇北侯的白月光 He stood outside the window and listened to her cry for a long time. From midnight until dawn. My hand slid down his back and touched the muscles at his waist. They were hard as iron, yet trembling slightly. I could feel his restraint, and I could feel his desire. His hand slid down my arm, took mine, and laced our fingers together. His kiss fell beside my ear, and he murmured a single sentence. “Yan’er, I’ve waited for you for so long.” The three of us squeezed into one bed. She slept in the mi 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Soul of Lyrics, the Spirit of Poetry 词之魂诗之灵 This is a song of the soul, written for myself. If you like it, feel free to listen too. I posted it here first as a keepsake, and second so I can listen to it every day, as often as I like. It rolls off the tongue when read and sounds very pleasant when heard. Of course, it sounds even better when sung. I am grateful to the Tomato platform for giving me this corner of the soul. 2Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 29 This Time, I’ll Be the One to Scheme Against You 这一世,换我来算计你们 Yun Wanfu is a special agent skilled in both medicine and poison. While on a mission, she transmigrates into the body of Yun Wanfu, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister’s family in ancient times. From then on, she sets out to avenge both the original Yun Wanfu and her mother. The empress, Yun Wanfu’s fiancé, the Second Prince Yu Chenxuan, her stepmother Madam Wu, and her half-sister Yun Wanmei are all murderers or accomplices in Yun Wanfu’s death. The empress and her stepmother were als 91Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The 1998 Mystery 九八迷局 Ma Yueyue's nightmare began when she acted as a lookout during a kidnapping. From then on, every step she took led her straight into a carefully laid trap. How can she save herself? What will become of her? 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Days at the Real Estate Office: Stories I Overheard, The Circular Flow of Time 我在售楼部的日子之听来的故事系列——环形时空 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office: Stories I’ve Heard, Part Four: The Circular Time Stream 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Deadly Language 致命语言 The Language of Death 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Nearly Murdered, I Found Love Across Time 差点被谋杀遇到穿越时空的爱 I Nearly Got Murdered, Then Found Love Through Time Transmigration 226Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Seventh Choice Beyond the Six Paths of Reincarnation 六道轮回外的第七种选择 Disclaimer: I wrote this book on a whim during the Qingming Festival. If you scare easily, don’t read it. The story follows Lao Li through his final days in the hospital. His condition is critical, and his children fight to save him as doctors insert tubes all over his body. Meanwhile, his comrade Lao Zhou chooses to forgo treatment, leaving Lao Li deeply envious. After his death, Lao Li faces judgment in the underworld and ultimately chooses to be reborn as an albatross carrying the cancer viru 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 I Picked Up a Spirit Cat and Proved My Dao to Become a God 捡只灵猫证道成神 Shen Ciyin, a concubine-born son of the prince's household, was never favored. One day, his stepmother sent him off to an immortal sect. On the surface, she was granting him an immortal opportunity; in truth, she wanted him to die during the trials. On the way to the sect, he found an injured gray cat. The cat was vicious. It bit his hand and forcibly formed a pact with him. From then on, he made his way through cultivation sects and immortal alliances, until he finally charged into the Realm of 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 After Dumping the Boyfriend Who Put Her Through Four Years of College 抛弃供她上四年大学的男朋友之后 After She Dumped the Boyfriend Who Put Her Through Four Years of College 171Reads—Score214d adds
- 37 A Promise Across Mountains and Rivers 一诺隔山河 He once made a tender promise to her: When the smoke of war cleared, they would journey to the distant mountains and watch the sun gild the peaks. But fate took a sudden turn. She was trapped in a desperate situation and plunged into the abyss. To save her, and to keep the borderlands at peace, he took off the military uniform he loved, hid his name, and entered the endless darkness alone. From then on, he was an undercover agent walking on a knife’s edge, a lone shadow deep in the abyss, an unn 233Reads—Score2214d adds
- 38 My Past Life Was the Empress, and My Senior Is the Emperor 我的前世竟然是皇后学长是皇上 My Past Life Was Actually the Empress; My Senior Is the Emperor 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Tycoon of the Stock Market 股海枭雄 The market’s historic bottom quietly arrives, and the A-share market seethes with undercurrents. Superpowerful players deploy hundreds of billions in capital, top speculative traders whip up a storm, and institutions, major investors, and retail traders fight tooth and nail amid limit-up and limit-down swings. An epic merger between AVIC Jonhon Optronic Technology and Chengfei Group sets the stock market ablaze! Patriotic investor Liu Jian bursts onto the scene. He is both a strategist who plans 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of Three Clans' Massacre 旧金山血牢:我丈夫藏着三族灭门证据 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of the Massacre of Three Clans —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Nine-Bend River: I Install Internet Cables on the Winding Roads 九曲流:我在九曲弯道修网线 To repair the tangled timeline, this pair of adversaries are forced to team up: one is the reincarnation of a famous Southern Song general who wants nothing to do with cultivating immortality and just wants to lie flat; the other is a champion navigation system fired for speeding through a bend. They must find old bricks from the Southern Song city walls, living water from a late-Ming ancient well, ash from an old commune stove... Their opponent is a washed-up Dragon Prince who wants to use the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 I Brought the Untouchable Beauty Down from Her Pedestal 高岭之花被我拉下来 I Pulled the Untouchable Beauty Down from His Pedestal 445Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Boss Couple Infringes on Their Own Employee's Rights 霸总夫妇侵权自家员工 After the second issue of the monthly magazine came out, Yu Xue realized someone had set her up. The piece she submitted was rejected by the company magazine's editor, while an article full of veiled attacks targeting her and her fellow townsman, Wan Yanxin, took up the entire issue. On top of the magazine, there were also personnel transfers meant to suppress them. They were being surrounded and pressured from every angle, with both threats and inducements. The situation left her deeply unsettl 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The City's Pair of Wild Ducks 城市里的那对野鸳鸯 Shan Gen is an honest migrant worker who barely makes any money all year. His wife, meanwhile, has been living with another man. The two of them put their son through college, and just as his wife is about to spend one last year living with someone else, Shan Gen’s coworker spots them, and their son runs into them while away from home and tells Shan Gen. His marriage is finally on the verge of falling apart. Will they end up divorced? 1.2kReads—Score10214d adds
- 45 Reborn as the Deposed Empress: The Dowager Empress’s Blade Draws Blood to Avenge Her Family 废后重生:太后掌心刃血偿满门仇 [Reborn as the Empress Dowager + Ruthless and Decisive + Empress’s Political Schemes] In her previous life, she was the empress, but the treacherous emperor and her half-sister betrayed her! Her entire family was executed, and she died consumed by hatred. When she opens her eyes again, she has become the Empress Dowager, ruling from behind the curtain! In this life, she casts aside love and wields the imperial seal. Her half-sister foolishly dreams of taking her place in the inner palace, so she 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Lingnan Swordsman 岭南剑客 The miasma of Lingnan hung over Mount Cangwu like ink that would never dissolve, sealing it off completely. Liu Nanren gripped his rusted iron sword. Its tip sliced through the dense fog, revealing an old crescent-shaped scar on his wrist: the mark left fifteen years ago, when he crawled out of a mountain of corpses after Tianyu City fell. “Your Highness, it's time to leave.” A hoarse voice came from behind him. The old minister Yuchi Chun leaned on his bamboo staff, the hair at his temples whit 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Twin Treasures of Dragon City: The Sword God Keeps Her Safe for Life 龙城双璧:剑神护她一世无虞 [Resistance War] [Espionage] [Tortured Romance] [Thriller] [Superpowers] In the era of the Dragon Nation, Xiao Hanchuan, the last surviving heir of the Xiao family, takes up the Black Iron Spirit Sword to exact revenge. He crosses paths with Su Ling, a military intelligence agent and the last surviving heir of the Su family. When their paired pendants join together, they uncover the conspiracy behind their families’ destruction. Fighting side by side with sword and gun, they forge a deep bond am 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 My Love Shines Like the Stars 我的愛璨若星辰 My love shines as bright as the stars Yun Zhaoyue, a modern restorer of ancient jade, transmigrates to another world through an ancient Tang dynasty pendant inlaid with a star pattern. She awakens the Starry Sky Mirror, which can transport her through the myriad heavens, and becomes a disciple of the fallen immortal sect Starfall Pavilion. On her first journey, to a battlefield in the Southern Song, she meets the young general Xiao Linyuan. Together they foil the Jin army’s plot to use soul-devo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Legacy of the Mysterious Heavenly Gate: The Yin-Yang Mystic Body 天地玄门传承之乾坤玄体 The fates of Zheng Rong and Su Yao begin with a tribulation in the mortal world. Zheng Rong awakens the Qian-Kun Mystic Body, while Su Yao inherits a legacy of healing. Together, they escape the turmoil within the Su family and travel through the mountains, practicing medicine and saving lives. Their compassion helps them overcome one crisis after another, and when they fight the Xuanyin Cult’s protector, they catch their first glimpse of the power unleashed when their Mystic Bodies unite. After —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Treasure-Bearing Ritual Master 宝器端公 The Treasure-Bearing Duangong: Sichuan-Style Fantasy, Startling Twists In northeastern Sichuan, the idle young Chen Laoyao had planned to coast through life and wait to die. But after a chance encounter beneath the Song White Pagoda, he accidentally inherits his family’s traditional duangong role and is swept into an adventure spanning history and fantasy. His magical tool is a shoulder pole, and his divine beast Wangcai looks impressive but is utterly useless in a fight, always letting him down 14Reads—Score—14d adds

















































