Novels like Two-Way Travel to Republican-Era China: Rich Enough to Rival a Nation
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- 101 Reborn in a Chaotic Age: Dawn Breaks, and Glory Shines Again 重生乱世之破晓曙光再辉煌 Rebirth + Patriotism + Revenge + Family + Pocket Dimension + Farming + Period Drama (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.) In his previous life, Liu Pingkou lived through a time of turmoil. The Japanese army killed the adults in his family, leaving him, his younger sister, and his twin younger brother to survive in a cellar. Once it was safe, he couldn't afford to raise his siblings, so he entrusted them to kind strangers. After the founding of the country, h 3.1kReads6.9Score16714d adds
- 102 The Ups and Downs of a Retail Investor 散户股道沉浮录 Told through the journey of a retail investor learning and growing in the stock market, this book explores the market through its principles and techniques, the wisdom of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, philosophy, and psychological resilience. It presents the deeply felt experience and perspective of a retail investor, giving voice to the pain and heartache of countless small investors and offering them warmth and strength. 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 Siheyuan: The Division Chief Returns from the Start! 四合院，开局处长归来！ Wu Qingyun joined the army as a boy. Now that he has returned from the battlefield, he is ordered to form a security office! The retirement-age crowd in Compound No. 95 actually took advantage of his absence to bully his mother. They should have thought of that before! Just see what fate awaits them! 6.2kReads7.2Score19214d adds
- 104 Two People Transmigrate to 1949, and from the Start We Meet Lou Zhenhua 双穿一九四九，开局遇到娄振华 Forget personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. No more emotional self-torment; when something happens, just lose it: better to inconvenience others than make yourself suffer. That was Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrated to Beiping just after its liberation. He also awakened a pocket dimension that could take him back to 2026. The economically booming year 2026 and the war-torn year 1949, two vastly different eras, now lay before him. 1.2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 105 From the Start, I Have Doraemon! I Rule the Courtyard Beasts! 开局哆啦A梦！玩转四合院众禽！ Ye Daxiong was an ordinary wage slave in the 21st century. After a friend recommended Love in the Courtyard, he was so furious that he smashed his TV in a fit of rage. An electrical leak sent him transmigrating to Qin Village in 1960. As it happened, the original owner was also named Ye Daxiong, and was Qin Huairu's cousin. He had also brought along a glove belonging to Doraemon. The glove had the magical ability to use all sorts of Doraemon's gadgets. He also met Yang Xiaomi, who had transmi 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Dual Transmigration: From the Start, Trading Bread for a Maid 双穿：开局面包换女仆 Two-world travel + non-System cultivation + multiple heroines + urban entrepreneurship + wish fulfillment. After the college entrance exams, Lin Chen practices a dual-cultivation technique and travels between the modern city and a fantasy world, moving goods between the two to make a fortune. He obtains the Kunpeng Myriad Worlds Pagoda and joins the Yin-Yang Peak of a demonic sect. He can travel between worlds and devour the corpses of cultivators, demons, and ferocious beasts, converting them i 23.7kReads8.0Score2.5k14d adds
- 107 Reborn in 1980: Treasure Hunting in Hong Kong 重生1980：从香港寻宝开始 [Wits and strategy + ambitious antihero + ruthless decisiveness + takes off after five chapters] (The original title is Reborn in 1980: Treasure Hunting in Hong Kong. The other titles are promotional names.) In 1980, Lin Xiaohu heard that Hong Kong was paved with gold, so he crossed the Pearl River to hunt for treasure! Starting out as a street thug, Lin Xiaohu climbs the ranks step by step and builds Hong Kong’s largest transnational crime syndicate. But then he discovers that the woman he trus 4.1kReads8.8Score20914d adds
- 108 Transmigrating Between Two Worlds: Trading Rice for Wives and Antiques 两界穿越大米换媳妇换古董 In this parallel world, antiques in the magical metropolis can be bought and sold freely. Gao Zeyue comes from a poor family. At 26, he delivers takeout and has only 2,000 yuan to his name. One day, while browsing an antique market, he spots a pretty blue pendant and buys it for 20 yuan. That very night, he transmigrates to the 1960s of a parallel world. 8.3kReads8.3Score51714d adds
- 109 Transmigrating to the 1970s, My Daughter Is Wailing with Hunger 穿越到七零年代女儿饿的哇哇叫 Gao Shangtian was a soldier. During a mission, he discovered an antique, then was killed by bandits' explosives. He transmigrated to a parallel world in the famine-stricken 1970s, an era when there was barely anything to eat or drink. With a little girl wailing from hunger and a wife bruised all over from his own beating, things were disastrous from the start. Thankfully, the System came with a supermarket spanning several hundred square meters. 2.9kReads7.6Score21514d adds
- 110 Siheyuan: Does Marriage Make Me Stronger? Snatching Qin Huairu! 四合院：娶妻变强？截胡秦淮茹！ My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 13.6kReads7.0Score71114d adds
- 111 Traveling Between Two Worlds: A Sack of Rice for a Bride 两界穿越：一袋大米换个媳妇 Gao Tianqi transmigrates to a parallel world's 1960s, where a sack of grain can be traded for a wife or an antique. He travels back and forth between worlds, bringing antiques to the modern day to sell, buying luxury cars and mansions, and marrying a beautiful wife. As the saying goes, when life is good, make the most of it, and don't leave your golden cup empty beneath the moon. 5.3kReads8.3Score42814d adds
- 112 War of Resistance: Starting by Rescuing Captured Female Soldiers 抗战：从拯救被俘女兵开始 [Portable Arsenal + Beat the Japanese Invaders to a Pulp + Build a Power Base + Infrastructure Maniac] He transmigrates into the War of Resistance and faces hellish difficulty from the start! He witnesses a troop of brave female soldiers being captured, on the verge of being violated! Fortunately, Lin Zhen binds himself to the Portable Arsenal System, unlocking infinite ammunition right away! While everyone else is still using Hanyang rifles, each of his brothers already has an AK-47! While 15.5kReads7.7Score1.6k14d adds
- 113 Traveling Between Two Worlds in Republican-Era China: Hunting Down the Japanese 双穿民国之专杀小鬼子 Drop all pretenses of decency and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to overthink things; when trouble comes, just go crazy. Better to inconvenience others than make yourself suffer. That was Su Tianci in 2026. He'd only joined a cycling club because he wanted to talk about cycling technique. Who could have guessed he'd somehow fall off a cliff? When he came to, he'd transmigrated to Shanghai in 1937... 1.1kReads—Score15914d adds
- 114 Turbid Waves Besiege the City 浊浪围城 Turbid Waves Besiege the City —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 I Transmigrated to the 1960s, and Now I'm a Refugee? 穿越六零，我成难民了？ Drop your personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. Reject pointless self-torment and go completely off the rails when something happens. Better to make trouble for others than suffer in silence. That was Su Tianci in 2026. He’d only joined a cycling club and wanted to talk about cycling technique. Who could have guessed he’d somehow fall off a cliff? When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the materially deprived 1960s. 1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 116 I Became the God of Investing Starting in Winter Break 从寒假开始，我成投资之神 This book is also known as A Winter Break Made Me the Ruler of the World. As soon as winter break began, Zhang Heng awakened an investment simulator. During the holidays, he made his mark on the stock market, mastered futures trading, and became a billionaire. He then acquired the world’s only SSS-grade limit-breaking serum, shattered the limits of his genes, and became a top expert overnight, striking fear into countless enemies. He invested in medicine and developed a universal vaccine. He inv 3kReads7.8Score16714d adds
- 117 Reborn in Hong Kong, Building a World-Class Financial Empire 重生香江，打造世界顶级财阀 [Business Wars + Tycoon Fantasy + Building a Financial Dynasty] Reborn in 1970s Hong Kong, with millions in family assets inherited from the start. Short stocks, trade gold, enter real estate, and establish an international security company. Watch as Zhang Qing transforms a minor family into a world-class conglomerate spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with businesses in finance, real estate, media, energy, communications, luxury goods, the internet, the military industry, and much more! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 The 1960s: My Family Is on Its Way to Prosperity 60年代：我家奔小康了 [Reborn in a parallel timeline + period setting + pocket dimension + building wealth + helping the whole village prosper + serving the nation] Li Jinqiu opens his eyes and finds himself reborn at eighteen, in the famine-stricken 1960s. His System comes with a pocket dimension, and from then on, he begins an extraordinary life... Younger brother: “Third Brother, what are we having today?” Li Jinqiu: “Fish with pickled cabbage. It’ll make your teeth sing.” Younger sister: “Third Brother, I wan 16.7kReads8.2Score1k14d adds
- 119 Blood-Colored Romance: I, the Big Rascal, Zhong Yuemin! 血色浪漫：我，大顽主，钟跃民！ [Transmigration] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Sent-Down Youth] + [Beijing Neighborhood Toughs] He wakes up in a time of burning passion, having transmigrated into the body of Zhong Yuemin, a tough from one of Beijing’s military compounds. Characters from A Romantic Life come one after another: Zhou Xiaobai, born into a military family, young, beautiful, romantic, and a little haughty. Qin Ling, a sent-down youth who excels at singing and dancing but has fallen on hard times and been sent to the count 26.8kReads8.2Score2k14d adds
- 120 Period: I Built a Fake Immortal's Retreat at the Foot of the Mountains 年代：我在大山脚下修了个假仙 [1980s; glitchy System; reborn into a history gone wrong; married to the wrong woman; multiple heroines; rural romance; getting rich; hunting in the mountains] Reborn in 1981, during the era when educated youths were sent to the countryside, Xu Cheng'an discovers that heaven has played two cruel jokes on him. First, history has inexplicably changed. In this life, he is engaged to his former sister-in-law, Shi Qiuning! No way! The woman I love is her older sister, Shi Qingqing! Second, a System h 12kReads8.4Score1k14d adds
- 121 1979: A Great Nation's Leap Forward 1979大国飞跃 [A note: This novel requires some knowledge to read and leans toward realism rather than wish fulfillment. Beginners, stay away! Beginners, stay away!] [Modern urban setting + period drama + technology + global perspective on competition between great powers + slow burn] [Contains science fiction elements + leans toward realism + has a golden finger] Zhou Xia Yan, the head of a high-tech company, was struck by a meteor and transmigrated to the end of 1979, becoming a young educated urbanite who 3.5kReads8.2Score23414d adds
- 122 The Revenge of Mo Ya, the Wolf King 狼王墨牙复仇记 The Revenge of Mo Ya, the Wolf King —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Buried in Snow: Survive at All Costs 雪葬，绝地求生 Buried in Snow, Fighting for Survival —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Windblown Traces on the Sand Dunes 沙脊上的风痕 Traces of Wind on the Sand Ridge 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Siheyuan: Acting on Heaven's Behalf 四合院之替天行道 Bullies the scum + ruthless and decisive + mastermind behind the scenes + domineering + forceful suppression + two heroines. An original story. Song Dajiang gets a second chance at life. Should he keep working himself to the bone as a wage slave, or live his new life with carefree abandon? Facing Li Yunlong: Are you going to give me a straight answer about whether you want this Japanese woman or not? Facing Tian Zao: Do you have the guts to pull off something big? Facing Chen Xueru: You're actin 17.8kReads7.0Score66414d adds
- 126 Reborn in Hong Kong: The Rise of a Tycoon 重生香江之财阀的诞生 [Reborn in Harbor City + Business + Entertainment + Beautiful Stars] In 2024, a middle-aged lifelong bachelor is reborn in 1980s Harbor City, China, as the son of a business legend! From then on, he lives a life of reckless indulgence. He is an entertainment mogul, a tech tycoon, and a financial titan. This is the story of how he parties his way to becoming the richest man in the world! 11.2kReads7.7Score53214d adds
- 127 Reborn in 1982, the World's Richest Man 重生82年，全球首富 Marriage Before Love + Reborn to Make Amends + Revenge at Last + Trillions in Assets + Retiring in Comfort Original title: Reborn in 1982, the World's Richest Man The male lead, Ye Nan, spent years burying himself in work. After being diagnosed with cancer, he donated all his possessions and eventually passed away with regrets. But when he wakes up, he remembers how, after getting drunk and acting recklessly, he caused Ji Yuqi to become pregnant before marriage, which ultimately led her to jump 2kReads8.2Score19014d adds
- 128 Swimming Across Hong Kong to Find My Fortune 游水香江去找钱 In the late 1970s, in a small village north of Yuecheng, Wang Ziqian was forced to join two friends in fleeing to Hong Kong as they pursued their fortune. He struggled to survive amid the turbulent tides of Hong Kong, moving from one industry to another, and ultimately became a business magnate. 5.9kReads7.6Score24314d adds
- 129 Back to the 1970s, the Spoiled Young Educated Woman Clings to Me 重回七零，作精小知青赖上我 [Reborn in a bygone era+spatial dimension+farming+sweet romance+spoiling his mischievous, pampered young wife] Have you heard? The richest man in Nancheng has died. His vast fortune was divided up by his brothers and his mistress. As Lu Zhiye closed his eyes, he was surrounded by people wailing. There were also a few voices sighing and speculating. Floating in the air, Lu Zhiye looked back on his life. In his youth, Lu Zhiye was the youngest son of a landlord. Everyone despised, shunned, and cur 12.4kReads8.1Score92714d adds
- 130 Double Crossing to the Sixties, Hauling in 2026 双穿六零，搬运2026 Set aside your personal standards and enjoy a life without scruples. Refuse to wear yourself down with overthinking; when something happens, just lose it. Better to inconvenience others than make yourself miserable. Su Tianci from 2026 unexpectedly transmigrates to the materially deprived 1960s. Two vast eras now lie before him. 555Reads—Score3314d adds
- 131 Reborn: A Life of Wealth and Honor 重生：富贵人生 After a half-hearted life, Wang Jianshe dies and is reborn in a parallel world set in the 1960s. Because his identity is sensitive, he takes a group of underlings to Hong Kong. Ning Wei, the cold-blooded killer, becomes his personal bodyguard. Liu Haizhu, a close-combat mage, becomes his enforcer. Silly Zhu, the Four-Sided Courtyard's resident champion, appears to be a cook. The father of Lou Ban Cheng, known as "Half the City of Lou," is recruited as a general manager. Xu Damao... Gao Qiqiang.. 21.9kReads7.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 132 Espionage: I'm a Shanghai Scion, Codenamed Porter 谍战：我，沪上大少，代号搬运工 In Shanghai, occupied by the invaders, there is a prominent and illustrious family: the Lin family of Shanghai. The eldest brother, Lin Zhenbang, is the military command's finance chief in Shanghai, codename: God of Wealth. His true identity is a secret underground intelligence agent, codename: Cedar. The second brother, Lin Duhan, is chief of the military command's operations division in Shanghai, codename: Killer. The eldest sister, Lin Hanyue, is chief of intelligence at the Shanghai station 5.6kReads6.1Score49114d adds
- 133 Traveling Between Two Worlds: It's My Turn to Be Rich 两界穿梭：有钱人轮到我来当了 [Trading Goods Between Two Worlds + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Getting Rich + Alternate History] After a string of bad luck, including a boss making his life difficult, his father falling gravely ill, his landlord demanding rent, and his girlfriend breaking up with him, Song Chen finally caught a lucky break!!! One day, after a fraudulent Taoist priest swindled him out of his money, he somehow gained the superpower to travel between two worlds. Things worth next to nothing today become treasures 8.4kReads8.0Score81414d adds
- 134 In the ’80s, Pretending to Be a Returnee Tycoon 在八零，伪装归国神豪 Su Tianci, an overworked office drone in 2026, accidentally transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1980s. Fortunately, he can still return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 22Reads—Score12714d adds
- 135 Reborn During the Stock Market Crash: Don't Panic, It's No Big Deal 重生股灾爆仓时？不要慌问题不大 (Urban slice of life + rebirth + finance + making money + no System or golden finger) Lin Yiming worked hard for half his life, yet achieved nothing. He couldn't afford a home or the bride price... An accident gave him the chance to start over. But when he got another life, he found himself back at the moment the stock market crashed and his account was wiped out. He was starting out in debt? Now that he was reborn, there was no need to panic. It was no big deal. This time, he would start by goi 1.9kReads6.9Score10614d adds
- 136 Reborn in 2008: Buying Bitcoin Like Crazy from the Start 重生2008，开局狂买比特币 At 38, Lin Jiang worked himself to death. When he opened his eyes, he was back at eighteen, with the campus belle holding the love letter he’d written while the whole class laughed. He snatched it back and tore it up in front of everyone. “A simp deserves to die!” In this life, he swore he would never again live like a wage slave. It was 2008. Bitcoin had just been born, housing prices had hit rock bottom, the internet was just taking off, and a financial crisis was on the horizon... “I’m going 653Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 137 Reborn in 1968, I Had No Choice but to Go to the Countryside 重生68，迫不得已下个乡 The orphan Luo Cheng is reborn in Jin City. Since his benefactor’s family background is considered undesirable, fifteen-year-old Luo Cheng decides to head to the countryside. With a pocket dimension, he makes a thriving life for himself in the village, while keeping as low a profile as possible. 10kReads8.7Score56714d adds
- 138 Between Two Worlds: I Have a Miracle Portal 两界穿梭：我有一扇奇迹穿梭门 Wu Qi gets a portal from the start, allowing him to travel back and forth between the other world and the main world. Main world -- Global pharmaceutical mogul: “How on earth did he develop all those miracle drugs?” World oil tycoon: “Impossible! Does he have an endless supply of oil? Absolutely impossible!” Armed warlord: “Where did all those freakishly powerful underlings of his come from? Boss, please stop fighting!” Other world -- Wu Qi looks at the steel torrent behind him and raises his ar 1.6kReads8.1Score10614d adds
- 139 Apocalyptic Beast Tamer: Taming the Calamity Wolf King from the Start 末世御兽：开局驯服灾厄狼王 Beast Taming in the Apocalypse: Taming the Calamity Wolf King from the Start 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Chronicles of Cang Xuan, the Wolf King 狼王苍玄记 The Legend of Cang Xuan, the Wolf King 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Siheyuan: I Took Xu Damao’s Side at the Chicken-Theft Scene 四合院：偷鸡现场站队许大茂 In 1965, Yan Jiecheng suddenly gains a new set of memories and sees the courtyard where his family lives in a whole new light. Could Silly Zhu, whom he’s always found annoying, really be the main character? That’s ridiculous! He’s not going to cozy up to the protagonist. When he catches someone stealing a chicken, he’ll help Brother Damau, then kick Silly Zhu into the ditch. Even the First Master won’t be able to stop him! And his own father: apparently people in the future think he’s a real pie 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Qin Fu: The Lone God Mends the Heavens, Wind! Wind! Great Wind! 秦赋：孤神补天，风！风！大风！ [Wild imagination, martial arts, ruthless combat, blazing passion, power progression, an unconventional take on Qin history. Historians and archaeologists, stay away.] The Qin Empire had just been founded, but undercurrents were already churning. Chaos reigned, and monsters ran rampant. The useless prince Ying Wuji was stripped of his title without mercy by the emperor after a bizarre assassination attempt, then tossed like trash into the deepest pit of the Black Ice Platform's Spirit-Severing P 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 A World of War Like Hell, Where Shelter Makes You King 战乱如狱，庇护为王 In the war-torn Middle East, Li Nezha, a lowly worker at a Dongda lamb restaurant owned by a Black and Blue man, awakened a Protection System just before he died, beginning a life of cheat-like advantages... This is an alternate history. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental! 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Siheyuan: More Children, More Blessings, From the Start I Steal Lou Xiao'e Away 四合院：多子多福开局截胡娄晓娥 Liu Jianbin transmigrates to the capital, Beijing, in the early 1960s. He activates and binds the More Children, More Blessings System. From the start, he gets ahead of Lou Xiao'e, gains a portable space, a spiritual spring he can summon with a glance, seeds, animal-raising cards, and more... He earns generous System rewards simply by marrying and doting on his children. Qin Huairu: “Jia Xudong, we have no food at home. I only went to Jianbin to borrow some grain. Why are you hitting me?” Jia Xu 2.8kReads5.9Score14614d adds
- 145 Hong Kong's Top Tycoon 香港首富一哥 Economist Zhang Jiahao was on a business trip in Luohu District, Shenzhen, when he rescued a beautiful woman who had fallen into a river one night. By chance, he was reborn in Hong Kong in 1970 and began another legendary life, rising from a gangster to a wealthy police officer... 4.1kReads8.7Score24214d adds
- 146 Daily Life of a Poor Soul Cursed by Misfortune 衰神附体的倒霉蛋日常 A Jinx’s Everyday Misfortunes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 The Sea of Stars in My Dantian 丹田星海 A Sea of Stars in the Dantian 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 King of Hong Kong: It All Started When I Dug Up My Ancestors' Graves 香江之王从挖了祖坟开始 The story of Zhou Dada, reborn in 1967, digging up gold coins buried beneath a tree in his ancestral graveyard and heading to Hong Kong. This book isn't full of schemes, tricks, showing off, or face-slapping. It simply tells the story of how the protagonist makes money in Hong Kong, starts companies, dates actresses, acquires foreign companies, builds up his influence, and becomes the king of Hong Kong Island. The protagonist is young and handsome, but also a cowardly, secretly romantic womanize 6.3kReads7.0Score22414d adds
- 149 Reborn in the 1970s, the Chef Devotes Himself to Making the Villagers Rich 重生七零，厨子专心带村民致富 [Reborn | Era | Pocket Dimension | No Heroine | Building a Career | Prosperity and a Stronger Country] A gentle, slow-paced beginning, followed by a thrilling payoff. After years of studying to become a chef, Jiang Xiaoliu unexpectedly transmigrates to the 1970s, determined to build a career! With a supermarket pocket dimension, and mysteriously improved cooking skills, he knows that buying and reselling goods is only a small-time hustle, while combining industry with agriculture is the real pat 1.4kReads8.4Score10014d adds
- 150 Dual Crossing in the 1960s: The Fiery Years 双穿60之火红年代 Su Tianci was an outstanding graduate of a military academy with a bright future ahead of him. But after accidentally discovering the principal’s affair, he was expelled on a trumped-up charge. His family was already poor, and the incident dealt a devastating blow to the energetic young man. He had not even entered the working world, yet the sordid ways of society had already taught him a harsh lesson. He planned to drown his sorrows in alcohol, but when he closed his eyes and opened them again, 278Reads—Score—14d adds
