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- 101 Reborn: The Gilded Years 重生之鎏金岁月 Also known as: Reborn: Saving My One True Love with AI Li Heng was reborn. Back in 2011, he was still a handsome eighth-grader. He had no money or power, just an offline version of DeepSeek and a nightmare he couldn't forget. In his previous life, a girl took the brunt of everything for him and died that summer during their ninth-grade year. He remembered her open eyes for fifteen years. This time, he swore he would save her. But what he hadn't expected was this: The childhood friend who used to 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Chunfen 春芬 Ni Chunfen had known since she was little that her parents were different from other children’s parents. They both spoke with sign language. But they lived a happy life. After Ni Chunfen graduated from college, her parents told her a secret: she was adopted. Now that she was grown up and looking for a job and a boyfriend, they decided to tell her. They didn’t want their daughter to become romantically involved with one of their biological sons. If she ever got serious about a boyfriend, she had 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 After the Divorce, the Actresses Are All Too Forward! 离婚后，女明星们都太主动了！ [Multiple Female Leads] [No NTR] [Love Triangle Showdowns] [Chasing Her Husband] [Jealous Rivalry] Shen Jinzhou spent three years as a devoted lapdog to top-tier star Gu Qingluo, and finally managed to activate the System! The moment he got his divorce papers, his ex-wife's nemesis, Mi Tao, dragged him to an awards ceremony as her date. His ex-wife presented an award onstage while he was being kissed against his will below. 17.9kReads—Score1.6k14d adds
- 104 This Godfather Isn’t Proper 这个教父不正经 [Underworld epic] [Dark, forbidden mother-daughter angels] [Love for a widow] [A failed life: the rise of a dragon and an elephant] This is a lament for everything lost. His birth mother abandons him, and he is crowned the voice of the underworld. He takes the blame for the woman he loves and goes to prison, only for her to become a British princess he can admire on the news. He alone falls from a street vendor selling candied hawthorn skewers to a prisoner locked away from the light of day. Th 1.5kReads9.1Score15614d adds
- 105 Pan Jinlian, the Village Girl 村姑潘金莲 Reimagining Pan Jinlian against the backdrop of a modern woman left behind by her husband, this story strips away traditional labels and focuses on her struggles and choices amid a barren marriage, a lonely life, and the shackles of morality. It explores the clash between human desire and the harsh realities of life. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Sole Beast Tamer: It All Began When My Fairy Senior Sister Pushed Me Down 御兽独尊：从被仙女姐姐推倒开始 At the end of every chapter, the author's notes include a picture of the corresponding heroine. After failing the college entrance exams, I went into the mountains to clear my head, and accidentally found a fairy who had fallen from the sky, gravely injured. And so began a marvelous encounter. Afterward, my family's ancestral jade pendant vanished, and I awakened the divine power to command beasts! I can commune with spirits and perceive everything around me. All creatures in the world are at my 374Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 107 Wang Ergou's Fortuitous Encounter in Great Beauty Village 王二狗大美村机缘巧得 (The animated series is now available. Stay tuned.) In the 1980s, Wang Ergou was orphaned in Demei Village, living in a bare-walled house and enduring the villagers' contempt and disdain. Then, after a mishap, someone set him up, making his already miserable life even worse. But the trap turned out to be a blessing in disguise: Wang Ergou awakened an extraordinary eye, learned to identify medicinal herbs and uncover hidden secrets, and became a master of both medicine and martial arts. From then 65.8kReads8.4Score4.2k14d adds
- 108 My Love in Dongguan 我的东莞爱情 In 1998, I was still young when I packed my bags and headed off to Guangdong to find work, dreaming of earning enough to go home, get married, have children, and live a quiet, stable life. But the bustling little city in the south ultimately threw all my plans for a settled life into disarray. Here, I met all kinds of people and encountered all kinds of things. 90.9kReads7.9Score4.8k14d adds
- 109 Painter? No, I'm a God of Art! 画师？不我是画神！ System, multiple heroines, transmigration, no beef, Plants vs. Zombies, lord, the Myriad Worlds Two opposing professions, Evil Painter and Spirit Painter, have appeared in Liu Deyi, who also has a System. Liu Deyi: I have a System, and I also have the forbidden profession of Evil Painter and a Spirit Painter profession rated above nine stars. And you expect me to eat beef? Then I have no choice but to flip the table. Liu Deyi: A Ghost King? That's material for my paintings! A great demon? Also m 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Her Husband Went Abroad and Left His Forty-Year-Old Wife Behind 丈夫出国留下40岁妻子 Her husband went abroad to start a business, leaving his beautiful 40-year-old wife at home. In the midst of loneliness and isolation, can she resist the flirtatious advances of all kinds of men? This long-form romance about family and relationships portrays the loneliness and desires of middle-aged women left behind in the city, and the push and pull of flirtation amid everyday life. It doesn't judge right or wrong, focusing instead on the struggles of human nature and instinctive longing. 76Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 111 The Poisonous Outsider: Ouyang Ke's Counterattack to Conquer America 异世小毒物：欧阳克逆斩美利坚 [Kill Line] + [Multiple Heroines] + [First Person] + [Weak System] + [The Legend of the Condor Heroes Fanfiction] I believe in indulging human desire, and this place is full of beauties. I believe in being supreme above all, and here there are no moral constraints. I love the freedom and thrills of the jianghu, and this is a lawless land teeming with rival gangs. I have inherited a body of poisonous arts, and here there are resources in endless supply. This world is the paradise I’ve always drea 755Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Years I Built a Business From Scratch 白手起家创业的那些年 2016, Binhai. As a child, he happened to learn a little about the art of reading fate and karma. At twenty-eight, Luka struck out alone in the foreign trade business. Armed with data software, he seized the opportunities of the times and built his business step by step. Fitness equipment factories, textile mills, glassworks, grain and oil processing, bulk energy trading. Real estate, logistics, chain hotels, and driving schools gradually took shape. He weathered countless hardships and built eve 48Reads—Score10714d adds
- 113 Emotional Counterbalance: I Became Everyone’s Rock 情绪对冲：我成全员主心骨 I publicly confessed to the aloof top student by reading her a paper full of corrections, and became a laughingstock across campus. No one knew that the more flustered she got, the faster my bank balance grew. Other tycoons show off by throwing money around. I corner the heroines, then offer them a way out and cash in. I pointed out a data flaw to the tsundere campus belle, and she asked me through red-rimmed eyes, “How do you even remember that?” An offbeat influencer's livestream went off the 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 114 More Children, More Blessings: From the Start, the State Is Urging Me to Have Kids 多子多福，开局被国家催生 The male lead is betrayed and dumped by his girlfriend, who cares only about money and status. Just as he falls into despair, he unexpectedly awakens a System. As long as he dates a girlfriend, he can earn vast wealth, god-tier skills, and luxury homes. Armed with the combat ability and money granted by the System, he relentlessly face-slaps his ex-girlfriend and her snobbish family, makes a name for himself in the worlds of combat sports and business, and ultimately reaches the pinnacle of life 677Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 115 My Savage Yoga Instructor 我的野蛮瑜伽老师 [Multiple Heroines | Urban Romance | Everyday Love | Love Rivalries | First Love | Campus Belle | Healing] Fresh out of college, Chen Yu was set up on a blind date by his family. He thought it would be an ordinary meeting, but his date turned out to be a former university lecturer with an exceptional air about her. He later learned that she now owned a yoga studio. The two gradually grew closer and naturally fell in love. But their peaceful romance didn’t last long. A gentle female superv 1kReads—Score13614d adds
- 116 Beneath the Form 形体之下 A story about a woman, for whom beauty is both an asset and a sin. Yu Jie is thirty-one, an aerobics instructor who believes hard work pays off. When a real estate tycoon offers her a 180,000-yuan bonus and a 300,000-yuan endorsement deal, she scoffs, resists, then convinces herself to “get just a little closer.” She doesn’t know the rules of that world: once you step inside, there are no boundaries. From prized mistress to businesswoman, from a broken marriage to having nothing at all, it tak 63Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 117 Newborn, Listening to the Girl Next Door Talk About Her Family 刚出生，听邻家姐姐诉说原生家庭 [Youthful Campus Life + Everyday Romance + Reborn as a Baby + Multiple Love Interests + A Cheng Ge Ending?] One day, the System told me I was the girl next door's one true love? As soon as he was born, Jiang Ye realized something was off about this world. [She sees you as her one true love.] [She's secretly in love with you.] [She really likes you a lot.] Wait, I'm just some passerby. When did I become a heart-stealing incubus? [Ding! Incubus System bound!] [You and the girl next door lost t 208.7kReads8.5Score35.7k14d adds
- 118 Us in Xiangyang Lane 向阳里的我们 [#Real life, #warm neighborhood stories, #healing family bonds, #raising a child and turning life around] Delivery worker Wang Xiaojun had a pain he couldn't put into words: his six-year-old son Xiaobao lived in his own world, like a star. One moment of carelessness nearly resulted in Xiaobao getting lost, sending the entire Xingfuli residential community into chaos. The incident tore open the cracks in Wang Xiaojun and his wife Li Xiujuan's strained marriage, while also revealing the troubles 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 An Ordinary Person's Unordinary Journey Through Life 平凡人不甘平凡的人生路 An ordinary person’s life has its occasional ups and downs, but where does a life without guidance lead? After three years working in a factory, a twist of fate sends him into real estate brokerage! He grows immensely proud after enjoying some of the real estate boom. But after the tide goes out, how will he face the decline and deal with family, love, and friendship? This is your story, and it’s mine too. So I’ve heard... 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Siheyuan: A Leisurely Life That Begins with Marriage 四合院：从娶妻开始的悠闲生活 Modern young man Cao Ren wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into the world of The Birds Fill the Courtyard, where he has become Silly Zhu. He gets married from the start, plays pranks on Jia Zhangshi, and makes fools of all the courtyard's troublemakers. In this life, he will make something of himself and completely rewrite his fate. Starting out as a chef, he rises all the way to a senior leader and reshapes the courtyard's social order. The neighbors are sent spinning by his pranks, wh 227Reads5.8Score15614d adds
- 121 Confession Game: Eight Seats 坦白局:八个位置 Confession Game: Eight Seats —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 85: At 25, I Somehow Have Four Sons 85：25岁的我居然有四个儿子 [Small-town Brahmin caste]+ [Multiple heroines]+ [Unfaithful male lead]+ [Heroines who are hopeless romantics] Reborn in 1985, twenty-five-year-old Zhang Huaijin already has four sons. Yes, they weren't all born to the same wife. Looking at his four boys, he feels more pressure than the sky itself. He wants to run, but he can't. His first ex-wife looks at Zhang Huaijin with hopeful eyes every time she sees him, wishing he would change his mind and come back to her. His second ex-wife glares at Z 12.3kReads7.6Score75214d adds
- 123 After Faking a Pregnancy to Force a Divorce, My In-Laws Beg Me to Forgive Them 假孕逼离后，婆家跪求我原谅 After faking a pregnancy to force a divorce, my in-laws beg me to forgive them 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 I Transmigrated into a Book and Bound to the Blond-Haired System, and the Heroine's Character Has Completely Crumbled 穿书绑定黄毛系统女主人设全崩了 After transmigrating into a book, Qin Yizhu feels like something must have gone wrong with both their families' graves. There doesn't seem to be a single normal person in his family. He thought his parents, who are always away from home, were already unbelievable, but it turns out there are even more extraordinary people around. Sure, having no car or house and parents who are always busy is standard for a male lead, but... His System doesn't seem normal either. There's no way this is a proper S 67kReads8.3Score5.7k14d adds
- 125 I Refuse to Be a Stand-In, I’ll Become a God Through Poetry 拒绝当替身，我靠诗词封神 [The rating has only just come in and will rise later, so feel free to read] After transmigrating into a novel as a lowly stand-in, Shen Yi has barely opened his eyes when the heroine, Song Qingci, hands him a termination notice. “Mo Bai is back in the country. Our contract ends here. Get lost.” The original owner loved her pathetically, giving her his whole heart, only to be treated as a shadow of her true love and discarded like trash. But Shen Yi now finds the whole thing tiresome. So what if 4.9kReads6.6Score34014d adds
- 126 Reborn in 2013: I Have a Bitcoin 重生2013：我有一枚比特币 In 2013, Bitcoin was still dismissed as a “geek scam,” a hidden dragon waiting to rise. That year, Tian Xiaoyu returned with memories from ten years in the future and a mysterious legacy of divination! He had only one Bitcoin, yet it was enough to make the world's top financial dynasties tremble. To the masters of divination, he was a “variable,” able to reshape the world with a single reading worth a fortune. Countless power players sought an audience with him, but never got one. To the world o 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Night I Rented a Room, I Discovered My Landlady's Secret 租房那晚，我撞破女房东的秘密 A colossal debt traps a stunning landlady. One high-stakes showdown unleashes the city's hidden undercurrents. A powerless maintenance worker relies on his brute strength to take on a paranoid tycoon and bring down a black-gold empire! 667Reads—Score10414d adds
- 128 Chronicle of a Buried Cat 葬猫记 [Realistic fiction + adultery + a cast of villains] Su Yu’s pet cat of six years dies under mysterious circumstances. At the farewell ceremony, her husband, Li Jiawen, joins forces with a “pet funeral director” to cover up the cause of the cat’s death. Su Yu secretly investigates, only to discover the shameful secrets her husband has been hiding. A first love whose identity is too shameful to reveal, a carefully arranged stand-in, malicious people close at hand, and a revenge-seeker lurking in t 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 I Hastily Married a Poor Guy, but He Turned Out to Be a Tycoon Who Dotes on Me 闪婚穷小子，他竟是豪门大佬宠我入骨 I married a poor guy on a whim, but he's actually a wealthy tycoon who dotes on me 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 It's Only Fifty 不过是五十而已 An inspirational, unyielding story of midlife crisis, workplace struggles, bank managers and tellers, married life, and everyday urban life. This book tells the story of Huang Wenxue, a bank manager facing a midlife crisis. She is at that awkward age when she is considered too old to find a new job, yet still too young to retire. How will she answer the unavoidable questions surrounding her career, marriage, family, children, and caring for her aging parents? Even in middle age, even when confro 432Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 131 The Workplace: Auntie Sent Me Undercover 职场：阿姨派我做卧底 Hou Xiaoqiang is caught cheating by his wife in bed, making Chen Sijie and Qian Guozhong, who work at the same company, feel that a storm is coming. Everything grows more mysterious. Watch Chen Sijie find his footing in this bizarre workplace…! 250Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Help! My Aloof Sword Spirit Is Actually a Yandere 救命！我的高冷剑灵竟然是病娇 [Multiple Heroines] [Multiple Yanderes] [Yandere Development] [Strong Heroines, Weak Hero] [Cool and Tsundere Heroine at First] [Gradually Goes Crazy] Question: What's it like to have a yandere sword spirit living in your sea of consciousness? Xu Yunshu: Thanks for asking. I'm at the thatched cottage, just finished sword practice, and my wrist's a little sore. At first, I thought she was a cool and aloof senior, professional and dependable, here to help me turn my life around and soar to greatne 3.3kReads—Score32414d adds
- 133 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
- 134 My 23-Year-Old Landlady 我的23岁女房客 [Multiple heroines + not reborn + no System + urban slice of life + not a power fantasy + slow burn + a little angst + lots of sweetness] After breaking up with my first love, I stayed in one city for six years. Then I ran into the heiress Ye Xin at a bar. On New Year’s Eve, she told me she was pregnant. With my child? What kind of nonsense is that? I, Chen Mo, have always held my liquor well. I’ve never… I looked at everyone with an innocent expression and hurried to explain, “This has nothing 1.9kReads8.1Score13114d adds
- 135 A Love Triangle in Marriage 婚姻里的三角恋 [Contemporary realistic fiction + the married life of ordinary people in Beijing + love triangles in marriage + real struggles] Bai Xue and Wang Yang are a young married couple living in Beijing. Wang Yang is a typical “phoenix man,” a country boy who made it big in the city. After ten years of marriage, he cheats on her. After they divorce, Bai Xue meets another man, and her new life begins… What makes this book special: A woman faces betrayal in her marriage, but after the hardship comes 1.6kReads8.8Score15414d adds
- 136 The Driver Who Stole His Boss's Woman 挖了老板后院的司机 The Driver Who Stole His Boss's Wife 5.6kReads—Score5314d adds
- 137 The Dormitory Supervisor's Voyeurism 宿舍管理员的窥视 They enter a deadly school dungeon. Monsters tear into people, classmates scream, and everyone runs. Zhou Qinghe, though, just smiles. His passive skill, [Forgiveness], turns every hit he takes into attribute points and reflects damage back at his attacker. While everyone else gets weaker with every fight, he only gets fiercer. The local alien beauties in the dungeon each have their own special skills, and all he has to do is win them over to add their abilities to his collection. He isn't a ble 15Reads—Score214d adds
- 138 My Sisters Raise Me Like Their Husband 姐姐们把我当老公养 [Just released, multiple female leads, feel-good wish fulfillment all the way through] Wei Yi was reborn, returning from 2026 to 2014. In his previous life, he was an utterly ordinary deputy director at a neighborhood office, and died young at thirty. The cause of death? It’s a little embarrassing to say. Let’s just say it had something to do with his wife, the older sister who was perfect in every way. On the very first day after his rebirth, his future wife called: “Come to Yanjing. If you don 354.4kReads8.8Score45.8k14d adds
- 139 The Insurance Saleswoman 保险公司的女业务员 Her name is Chen Xi. She dropped out of high school early and entered the workforce at a young age. She wanted to find a factory job and live a steady life, but she couldn't escape the factory supervisor's unwelcome advances. Unwilling to put up with it, she quit without hesitation and ventured into the insurance industry. With no connections and no tricks, she relies only on hard work and determination. An ordinary girl's life: she has to carve out her own path. The names in this story are use 2.1kReads7.2Score10014d adds
- 140 The Bad Girl Won't Redeem Herself 渣女不洗白 Whose youth is free of scars? Who hasn’t smiled while crying inside? But flowers bloom beyond the mountain, and beautiful scenery stretches beyond every hurdle! Life is precious, so don’t waste it! To those of us who never got to be young properly back then! “Why are you here?” “Because I know my girl wants to try flying. And I want her to know that I’ve never been a cage keeping her from spreading her wings. I’m the tree she can always come home to, the safe harbor where she can rest, and the p 159Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 141 Reborn as a Northeastern Fool: Fools Really Are Lovable 东北傻子重生：傻子真是招人爱 [Multiple Heroines + Revenge + Farming + Scheming] Chen San is from the 1940s and lives in the mountains of Northeast China. In his previous life, he was a fool. Before he died, he watched as both his sisters-in-law were taken away, then starved to death in a dilapidated earthen house. Reborn after death, this time he will make sure his sisters-in-law have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, and protect them forever as they live together with him in the mountains. 453Reads6.5Score10414d adds
- 142 Can You Believe It? My Husband Died in an Accident, and My Pregnant Best Friend Came to Fight for the Estate 你敢信？丈夫意外身亡，闺蜜带着身孕来争家产 Can You Believe It? My Husband Died in an Accident, and My Best Friend Showed Up Pregnant to Fight Me for the Family Fortune 381Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Died by the River 逝于江河 Two years into their marriage, Meng Ran became pregnant with Yang Peng's child, but something about it all felt wrong. Those choices that seemed so firm were really just hesitant attempts to weigh the pros and cons. “How wonderful it is to be young” was nothing but an illusion. We all once held lofty dreams, but now we live ignobly. Can Meng Ran and Yang Peng clear away the fog, cross the wilderness, and make a steady passage into the real world? Or are they headed for ruin? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Reborn, I Became My Family's Pride 重生后我成了全家的骄傲 In my previous life, I was set up. My embroidery workshop was stolen, my grandmother's secret pattern book went missing, and my life became a string of hardships. In this life, reborn with max-level embroidery skills, I turn the tables with my craft and reclaim everything that belongs to me. I rise from a small county workshop to become a nationwide top-tier star, the pride of my family. But only when I reach the summit do I learn that the man who has always protected me is the son of the master 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 A Tokyo Delinquent Possessed by a Ghost: I Exorcise It with the System 东京太妹鬼上身，我靠系统驱魔 [Multiple Heroines]+ [Tokyo] The moment I arrived in Japan, this place was destined to lose its peace. Starting out at the Toho Building, I crossed paths with a Yokohama delinquent girl. On a journey of love and danger, through a world teeming with beauties, I would climb to the top of Tokyo. As long as it's thrilling, that's all that matters. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 On the Day My Crush Got Married, I Was Reborn Before the College Entrance Exams 暗恋的他结婚那天，我重生回到了高考前 On the Day My Secret Crush Got Married, I Was Reborn Back Before the College Entrance Exam 880Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Blasting the Secondhand Bride Who's Still a Virgin 炮轰二婚黄花大闺女 The story unfolds amid a bride-price dispute between the Gao and Sun families and absurd details involving a pig and a ceremonial cannon car. It portrays the harsh realities of bride prices in rural courtship and the complexity of human nature. The tragedy of Gao Jun and Sun Xiaocui also serves as a warning to all rural young people: marriage is not a business deal; love is what matters most. 32Reads—Score514d adds
- 148 A Xiong in the Workplace 职场阿雄 The notorious “car scandal” made headlines everywhere, and the woman at its center turned out to be Xiong Jun's girlfriend, Shi Tiantian. Furious, Xiong Jun broke up with her. Then Xiong Jun hit the darkest point of his life. See how an ordinary man turns his fortunes around...! No golden finger, just a story grounded in reality! 134Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Eating My Way Through Life at 38? I'll Choose My Childhood Sweetheart 38岁吃软饭？我选择幼驯染 [Multiple heroines + laid-back daily life + a touch of System + divine-level tastes] [Ding!] [The Life Comeback System has been bound] Su Mo was reborn, back in a baby crib in 2002. The good news: Armed with thirty-eight years of life experience and a System, he was a winner from the start. The bad news: The chubby little girl next door grabbed his hand and called him “little hubby” right in front of both their families. Su Mo had planned to lie flat and take life easy, while using his advantage 10.6kReads8.4Score92914d adds
- 150 A Ten-Million-Yuan Monthly Salary: The CEO Treats Me Like Her Personal Slave 千万月薪：女总裁拿我当专属奴隶 [Urban] [Urban Cultivation] [Multiple Female Leads] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Decisive and Ruthless] The male lead was once China's Purple Thunder War God, a peerless martial artist with astonishing ancient combat skills who traveled the land to punish evil and uphold justice. After receiving a job offer with an annual salary of ten million, he eagerly headed to Jiang City to serve as the personal bodyguard of Chu Mengyan, the beautiful CEO of the Chu Group. Who could have guessed that he'd fal 1.2kReads—Score10314d adds
