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- 101 The Two-World Trader: From 1988 to 2025 两界倒爷：从1988到2025 Period setting + everyday life + transporting goods between two worlds + building a business + multiple heroines + no drawn-out romantic angst + remember road safety Lu Wei unexpectedly discovers that he can travel back and forth between 1988 and 2025. In the 1980s, industry is underdeveloped, and manufactured goods are expensive. Lu Wei starts out reselling vegetables, nylon stockings, digital watches, and clothes, then goes on to start companies and build factories. Step by step, he brings mod 79kReads9.1Score9.1kShelves
- 102 Hemline 裙摆 A beloved work by bestselling author Aspirin, with a sugary-sweet secret crush and two people choosing each other. A scheming, mischievous top student who notices every detail, paired with a gentle, resilient girl who wears her heart on her sleeve. “Ever since I started dreaming about marriage, you were the only one I could imagine, Liang Yuewan. Marry me.” Includes a new bonus story, “A Tree in Bloom,” for the sweetest reading experience. Some days seem so long, yet pass in the blink of an eye. 1.8kReads9.2Score225Shelves
- 103 Reborn: The Fake Young Master Became Everyone's Favorite After Giving Up the Fight 重生：假少爷不争后，成万人迷了 [Male leads × 2 + wealthy families + fake and real young masters + reborn + doted-on favorite + campus + entertainment industry] [Sweet, cute, and adorable Xu Chuyi vs. aloof top student and scheming sweetheart Gu Nian] Previous life: At his eighteenth birthday banquet, Xu Chuyi was publicly exposed as the fake young master. He listened to malicious advice and used every means to fight for the family fortune. Two years later, the Xu family, utterly disappointed in him, threw him out. While livin 1.6kReads9.3Score202Shelves
- 104 My Twenty-Eight Beautiful Star Envoys 我的二十八位美女星使们 [Wish-Fulfillment + Invincible Hero + Multiple Female Characters + All Kinds of Cutting-Edge Tech + Gaming] City boy Li Xingchen accidentally rescues a breathtakingly beautiful woman. He never expected her to be one of the Twenty-Eight Star Envoys. From then on, he sets out to find all twenty-eight of them. Among the Star Envoys are a cold-blooded beauty assassin, a beautiful doctor who saves lives, a brilliant female scientist, a beautiful policewoman overflowing with a sense of justice, a gorg 173Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 I Slay Immortals for the Root of All Evil 我为万恶之源斩仙 “I sent people to slaughter your family,” she said, without a drop of blood on her. Ji Lang thought he could lie flat after transmigrating, but on his very first day, he was met with the massacre of his entire family. His fiancée, Xue Youlan, slaughtered the Ji family, then her own family. Eyes bloodshot, Ji Lang roared at her, demanding a reason. Xue Youlan forced him to go to the Demon-Sealing Hall, promising to tell him when she returned. Inside the hall, two female immortals who had been sea 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 My Wife Is a Great Ascension Realm Expert 我的妻子是大乘期大佬 The once-mighty Demon Lord Xiao Yifeng is forced to be reborn in the past. By then, his wife has already become a powerful Mahayana cultivator! How can he convince her that he’s her husband? “Fairy, I really am your husband. Believe me!” “What, you want proof? “I know there’s a blue lotus on your chest and a red birthmark at the top of your thigh.” “What are you trying to do? Let’s talk this out. Don’t hit me!” 3.4kReads8.4Score528Shelves
- 107 The Villain Gets More Children, More Blessings, and Threatens the Heroine from the Start 反派多子多福，开局威胁女主 Villain, the protagonist can be killed, cultivation has no age limit, decisive and ruthless Li Haoyang is a Villain who won't survive fifty chapters. To stay alive, he has no choice but to fight back and take the protagonist's opportunities, women, and more... 1.6kReads6.7Score100Shelves
- 108 Early Morning, I Deliberately Forgot You 初晨，是我故意忘记你（孙怡、白敬亭主演《与晨同光》原著） The original novel behind the TV series With the Dawn, starring Sun Yi and Bai Jingting! Li Luoshu grew up unloved and was drawn to the warmth and kindness of Chuyao, the eldest daughter of the Li family. When Chuyao's younger brother, Chuchen, died unexpectedly, Li Luoshu moved in with the family as her nominal younger brother to comfort her. Many years later, just as he finally realized that he had loved her deeply for a long time, he had already lost the right to love her... 1.7kReads9.4Score480Shelves
- 109 I Returned from Cultivation to Find Myself Surrounded by Children and Grandchildren 修仙回来后我儿孙满堂了 After cultivating immortality for six hundred years, Yu Fan falls to a lightning tribulation just as he is about to ascend. He returns to the world he transmigrated from and discovers that forty years have passed. His grown son, whom he has never met, has already given him three grandchildren. Son: Dad, as long as I’m here, you can enjoy your retirement! Eldest grandson Yu Jing: Grandpa, come share my bed. Our family may not have much, but we always have food to eat! Granddaughter Yu Yan: Grandp 35.2kReads8.5Score2.6kShelves
- 110 Underling: Protecting the Villain's Stepmother from the Start 跟班：开局保护反派后妈 [Master Schemer + Multiple Love Interests + Villain + Subverting the Tropes] Lu Yun wakes up one day to discover that he's transmigrated into the world of a novel. He's nothing more than a villain's lackey, and it looks like he won't even survive ten chapters. So he has no choice but to subtly steer the plot in a different direction... The villain's wife: “Fine, fine! You rotten Lu Yun, so you're eating what's in your bowl while eyeing what's in the pot, huh!” The beautiful CEO: “Why would you r 5.6kReads8.2Score506Shelves
- 111 Five Years of Cultivation in a Cave, Now I'm Invincible 山洞修仙五年，下山已无敌 Urban cultivation + immortal cultivation + genius + invincible + face-slapping + satisfying power fantasy Li Kai is barely over a year old. After wicked men murder both his parents, he is left an orphan, shivering in a cold and merciless world. But the wheels of fate quietly begin to turn. An old cultivator wandering the world discovers Li Kai on the verge of death. After carrying him to a secluded cave, the old man is shocked to find that the child possesses a “Heavenly Spirit Root,” a gift u 10.5kReads8.4Score894Shelves
- 112 Divine Emperor of the Heavenly Tomb 天陵神帝 A new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 306Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 113 I'm Back After Cultivating Immortality 老子修仙回来了 Lin Chen, the strongest Immortal Venerable in the Immortal Realm, is renowned across the four corners of the world! But one day, when he wakes up, he discovers that he's returned to his youth. “I'm finally reborn.” He grins. From this moment on, the world will change because of him... 1.1kReads8.2Score151Shelves
- 114 Cultivating the Dao and Seeking Immortality 修仙问道 Someone asks, “Where does the road lie?” I say, “Beneath our feet.” Someone asks, “What is the Dao?” I say, “I am the Dao.” I embody the Dao to prove it, then look up at the heavens and ask what the Dao is. When I wake from a dream, where is my body? The Dao is me, and I am the Dao... 3.8kReads8.4Score319Shelves
- 115 Peerless Battle Soul 绝世战魂 On the Canglan Continent, the only way to become a martial artist is to awaken one’s own martial soul. Only through a martial soul can one commune with the heavens and earth, absorb spiritual energy, and cultivate. Martial souls come in countless forms and varieties. They are divided into four ranks: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow, with ten grades in each rank. The higher the rank of a martial soul, the greater one’s cultivation speed, abilities, and potential, and the better one’s chances 2.3kReads8.4Score430Shelves
- 116 From the Start, More Children, More Blessings: I Become the Crown Prince 开局多子多福我成最太子 [More Children, More Blessings] [Feel-Good Read] [Combined Martial Arts] [Qin's Moon] [Golden Ancient] [The Bad Kids] After transmigrating into the Great Divine Continent as Crown Prince Li Jiancheng, he has more children, more blessings, and expands his family line. This world has historical figures like Cao Cao, as well as fictional characters like Huang Rong. There are imperial wars of conquest, and historical figures make their appearances. Many years later, Li Jiancheng looks upon his many 547Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 117 Hehuan Sect: The Villain’s Protagonist’s Arrogant Mother Comes Knocking 合欢宗：反派，主角嚣张亲妈上门 [Multiple heroines + beauty pictures + System + decisive villain protagonist + transmigration (the rating just came out, so it'll rise)] What do you do when the Child of Destiny acts arrogantly and provokes you? Naturally, you go find his mom... and tell on him. The contrast between the fairies, saintesses, and empresses in public and in private! 228Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 118 The Reborn Rich Playboy: If I Return to Politics, I'm a Dog! Woof 纨绔重生：再混仕途就是狗！汪 [Second-generation official and businessman + business world + political world + multiple heroines + period setting + System] Reborn, he rides the waves with power in his grasp, turning the whole world upside down. With beautiful women in his arms, he lives with the passion of a true hero! 6.4kReads6.8Score716Shelves
- 119 A Useless Body for Ten Thousand Years, So How Did I Slay Ten Thousand Immortals with One Hand? 万载废体，怎么就只手秒万仙了？ [Invincible] [Utterly satisfying] [Highly recommended] [Decisive and ruthless] [Blood-pumping] Lin Xuan transmigrates to the vast fantasy world of Cangyun Realm, bringing with him the Nine-Story Soul-Suppressing Tower. His noble Yanhuang bloodline is branded as a worthless body, said to appear only once in ten thousand years. When the Soul-Suppressing Tower opens, ten thousand years pass inside for every instant outside. While others toil at cultivation, he grows stronger with every breath. Onc 22.3kReads8.6Score2.9kShelves
- 120 The Poison Cauldron 毒鼎 (Not the usual mortal-cultivation story, a schemer, multiple women) By a stroke of luck, Lu Lin, a disciple of the Elixir Pavilion, came across a crooked cauldron. It could make him immune to all poisons, and let him refine every poison into something he could use. From then on, he embarked on the path of poison cultivation. Poison cultivators are a sinister, devious lot, and once Lu Lin entered this path, he went all the way. He cultivated blood vines, blood beasts, and secret blood arts all at 49.3kReads8.3Score7kShelves
- 121 Reborn at the Pinnacle of Power 重生官场之权力巅峰 Jiang Zhenbang spent thirty years rising and falling in the political arena. Just as he was about to take charge of a region and reach the peak of his career, he died saving someone and returned to 1995, to the summer just after graduating from university. With his foreknowledge of the future, he used a county-level economic research report far ahead of its time as his calling card. He boldly put himself forward and won the favor of his leaders, entering government service at the rank of section 3.6kReads9.2Score252Shelves
- 122 In the 1990s, I Became a Village Barefoot Doctor 九零之我在村里当赤脚医生 Lin Yue, an emergency room doctor, transmigrates into the body of a village girl in the 1990s. Faced with a grandmother who favors boys and a village that shuns her, she takes up her silver needles and draws on astonishing skills in traditional Chinese medicine and cutting-edge psychological knowledge. She cures the village bully’s hidden ailment, treats the village beauty’s hysteria, and transforms the entire impoverished village through medicinal herb farming and rural tourism. And that demobi 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Taking My Sister-in-Law on the Path to Immortality 带嫂子修仙记 The rating has just been posted and will rise later. A mortal's journey, with steady growth. Sun Dongliang and his sister-in-law were sold together and sent deep into the mountains to toil. They were destined to be buried there for the rest of their lives. But he had a mysterious treasure bottle. It could automatically detect and capture spirit beasts! It could remove impurities and turn junk into treasure! His low-grade cultivation techniques could be directly enhanced into high-grade technique 47.8kReads8.5Score2.3kShelves
- 124 Invincible Family in the City: The System Levels Up Automatically 都市之无敌家族，系统自动升级 [No limits, no missions, just pure thrills] With fully automatic upgrades, his luck skyrockets, and the sun and moon shine together in a miraculous sign, as he crushes the heroes of all the heavens. The Great Ways of the myriad worlds surrender of their own accord, auspicious signs fill the skies, and he sweeps aside the strongest of every era! Bound to an invincible System from the start, he is nevertheless disdained by Ye Chen. My family is peerless. What use are you? After learning about Ye C 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 After Heaven's Army Attacked, the Great Sage and I Joined Forces to Slay the Gods 天庭来袭后，我和大圣共赴斩神榜 [Multiple Heroines] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Ensemble Cast] [Steal Divine Powers] [Careful, Step-by-Step Farming] The mortal Li Chanshe sacrificed himself to save someone and ascended to the Celestial Court, only to become a crippled immortal. His cultivation stalled, and his life hung by a thread beneath the fangs of an immortal beast! At the brink of death, a shocking truth came to light. The turbid energy that every banished immortal dreaded becoming tainted by was the one-of-a-kind source of 2.6kReads9.4Score289Shelves
- 126 I’m in Kindergarten, and My Three Childhood Friends Cling to Me Every Day 人在幼儿园，仨青梅们天天黏我 [Slice of Life + Meme Humor + Baby Protagonist + System + Childhood Friends] Mu Feng is reborn as a little kid, then discovers that his childhood friends will all grow up to be top-tier campus beauties. Even more surprising, he seems to be surrounded by them, with absolutely no way to escape! 6.7kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
- 127 The Dashing Spear Immortal: One Shot to Bewitch the Mortal World 风流枪仙：一枪醉红尘 Um... this is a wuxia... story... The blurb... is beyond me. Esteemed guest, please head upstairs to the second floor, where incense is burning and tea is being brewed. The story begins... 2.7kReads6.0Score248Shelves
- 128 The Kunlun Myth: The Hidden Immortal of Primordial Chaos 昆仑神话之混元仙隐 Beneath the moon, he meets an immortal and a beauty, their fates bound across three lifetimes as they cultivate to immortality. Destined across three lives and three worlds! A charming beauty who has barely seen the world! 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Haunted Mirror Livestream: My Yin-Yang All-Seeing Eye Makes Me a Global Sensation 凶镜直播：我靠阴阳通天眼爆红全球 Haunted Mirror Livestream: I Became a Global Sensation with My Yin-Yang Eyes 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 After Beating My Future Self at Arm Wrestling, the Rebirth System Arrived 肘赢未来的自己后，重生系统来了 [School Life] [Romance] [Two Female Leads] [Everyday Life] [Comedy] [Lighthearted] [Not Reborn] [No Supernatural Elements] Cheng Yuan has three younger sisters: One is his biological sister, and two are her best friends. One is timid and gentle, while the other is emotionally steady. After an unsuccessful rebirth, Cheng Yuan has no choice but to repeat a year of school, becoming classmates with his younger sister’s two best friends. Why was his rebirth unsuccessful? Other people come back to the 106.4kReads9.3Score13.4kShelves
- 131 The Fairest Is That Crimson Flower 最美是那一朵血花 The Most Beautiful Flower Is a Bloodstain 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 After a Thousand Years of Sign-Ins, My Master Just Wants to Lay Low Until the End of Time 签到千年，师尊只想苟到天荒地 [Invincible]+ [Master of Underhanded Tricks]+ [Keep a Low Profile]+ [Comedy]+ [Lighthearted] Invincible from the start, Lin Changfeng transmigrates to a fantasy world and binds himself to a sign-in System, earning cultivation rewards and all kinds of peerless treasures every day he signs in. While everyone else is fighting desperately to break through to the next realm, he has already reached the peak of the Great Dao, becoming a reclusive emperor whose strength even he doesn’t know the limits o 66Reads—Score134Shelves
- 133 The Biggest Scoundrel in History 史上第一贱修 Chen Luo accidentally transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation, awakens a System, and embarks on the cultivation journey of a System-cheating male lead. It's just that his journey seems rather different from those of cultivators before him. Great Dao Saint: Before I met Chen Luo, I always thought life was exhausting. Then he showed up, and I realized how easy my life had been. Heavenly Venerable Hundred-Eyes: I used to think I could see everything in the world. Then I met Chen Luo and 7.6kReads7.8Score789Shelves
- 134 Immortality: I Became a Heavenly Emperor Through Dual Cultivation 长生，我靠双修成就天帝 This book is also known as [Die If You Don’t Practice Dual Cultivation]. The protagonist grows stronger over time. His rule is simple: anyone who provokes him dies. His talent is heaven-defying, but he is by no means mindlessly invincible. Each heroine has her own independent, fully developed storyline, and they appear throughout various events. The romance follows a marriage-first, love-later approach: get together first and sort out the paperwork afterward. The protagonist is devoted to many w 564Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 135 I Picked Up a Cat, and She's the Empress 捡个猫咪是女帝 I Picked Up a Cat, and She Turned Out to Be an Empress 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 After Her Soul Transmigrated, She Went on a Killing Spree 魂穿后，她杀疯了 After Reincarnating into Her Body, She Went on a Rampage 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 The First Immortal of the Primordial Era 太古第一仙 [The year's most exhilarating, invincible cultivation saga: kill your way to immortality!] As Yun Xiao's soul drifted into the heavens after his death, he witnessed a shocking sight: the vast human world where he had lived for sixteen years was shaped like a tomb! Beneath it lay an ancient giant coffin, vast as the boundless sea and wreathed in demonic energy. Every continent was but a handful of earth atop the coffin, and countless billions of living people had been born and raised in its grave 3.1kReads8.7Score246Shelves
- 138 The Fate of an Orphan Girl 孤女的命运 This is a sad story. Lin Jiang had an affair, and Shi Qiaosi endured it for three years before suddenly coming to her senses and decisively divorcing him. After the divorce, she secretly gave birth to a daughter of her own, Shixu. The disasters brought upon three generations of a family by an unfaithful man and a scheming woman eager to take his wife’s place. See how an elderly grandmother schemes for her granddaughter, building a bridge through time with her own life so that Shixu can return to 17.1kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
- 139 Immortal Heavenly Emperor 不朽天帝 After narrowly escaping death time and again, Gu Changqing awakens an undying bloodline. He burns his essence blood, sacrifices his soul, tempers his body through self-inflicted wounds, and refines his path with pill poison. Born into humble circumstances, he still dares to swallow the heavens. Even as one abandoned by the Heavenly Dao, he will fight the heavens for supremacy. Become a god, and I am the God King. Become a demon, and I am the Demon Lord! A young man from the Northern Frontier, wi 11kReads8.9Score721Shelves
- 140 The Demon Sect's Medicine Slave Tames the Stunning Demoness 魔教药奴，驯服绝色女魔头 [Classically Written, Traditional Fantasy, No System, Multiple Heroines, Plot and Romance] After transmigrating into a beggar’s life for more than a decade, he was inexplicably taken in by a woman who used poison. He had to contend with a ruthless cult leader whose methods were even more vicious, four protectors with wildly different personalities who all killed without batting an eye, and even the seemingly obedient maid at his side, who was actually a cold-blooded assassin hiding her true abil 16kReads8.5Score1.9kShelves
- 141 The Empress Is Shocked: Isn’t My Master a Good-for-Nothing? 女帝震惊：我师尊，他不是败类吗 [Villain’s rise + ruthless decisiveness + invincible among his peers + play the pig to eat the tiger + eternal imperial teacher] Zhong Shenxiu transmigrated into a female-oriented fantasy novel and became a disgraced instructor at an academy: he had no cultivation, terrible character, and had gotten his position through connections. No cultivation? Then why not steal the heroine’s opportunities? From the start, he’s supposed to take the villainous, wicked Empress as his disciple? She has average 2.3kReads8.7Score351Shelves
- 142 Isn't This a Game? Why Has It Turned into a Yandere Battlefield? 不是游戏吗？怎么病娇修罗场了？ [Yandere + love triangle chaos + multiple female leads] To gain the strength to set his yandere wife straight, Zhu Yu activates a System called The Wonderful Life Game. All he has to do is save the women destined for greatness who have suffered tragic lives, and help them get back on track. In return, he'll receive rewards such as cultivation and techniques. The future Sword Saint, all alone in the world; the orphaned princess wandering the streets; the foolish demon girl abandoned by her own ki 6kReads8.9Score501Shelves
- 143 Before the Confiscation, I Transmigrated with My Pocket Dimension and Became the Empress 穿越抄家前，携空间母仪天下 Transmigrated Before the Confiscation, She Uses Her Space to Become the Nation's First Lady 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Fickle as Water 水性杨花 In the chaotic years of the Republic of China, Xu Fangqing of Peach Blossom Village and Li Xiaoming, a fisherman, had known and loved each other since childhood. Their feelings were mutual, and with her uncle’s help, they became engaged, believing they would spend their lives together in peace. But fate had other plans: Fangqing’s uncle suddenly died, and her greedy mother-in-law secretly seized the family’s savings. For money, the mother-in-law joined forces with relatives and cruelly sold Fang 497Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 145 Aren't You My Little Sister? How Did You Become My Child Bride?! 不是妹妹吗？怎么就童养媳了！ [Unrelated-by-blood younger sister]+ [Top-tier star]+ [Beautiful coworker]+ [Campus beauty who’s his sister’s roommate]+ [Multiple heroines]+ [Sweet everyday romance]+ [Intense flirtatious push and pull] A stunning younger sister who’s just started her first year of college moves into Jiang Che’s rental apartment. They aren’t related by blood. He’d hoped for a quiet life, but her arrival sets off a whole string of events: her campus-beauty roommate makes the first move; a beautiful coworker kee 56kReads8.4Score6.5kShelves
- 146 Secret Office Marriage: Boss, Pretend We’re Strangers at Work 办公室隐婚，老板人前请装不熟 [Marriage First, Love Later / Both Pure / Guiding Lover / Two Doctors / Healing] [Reserved, Repressed Male Superior X Hardworking, Resilient Female Subordinate] The day after Xu Wu entered a flash marriage, she discovered that she had married the wrong man! The other party was indeed Doctor Song, but he was not the Doctor Song mentioned by the matchmaker. [?] After learning the truth, Xu Wu sent him a message while on her way to a consultation. The very next second, her phone chimed behind 98.1kReads9.5Score13.8kShelves
- 147 My Family's Bankrupt, So Why Are You Still Chasing Me? 我家都破产了，你们怎么还追我 Urban life + romantic battlefield + no System To pay for his mother’s medical treatment, Qin Bai returns to the wealthy Qin family. From that moment on, the deal is on. First, he has to marry into the Shen family and wed Shen Muyao, the aloof campus beauty. Fair-skinned and gorgeous, with long legs, a curvy figure, and a tiny waist, she really is every man’s dream. If there were only one campus beauty, perhaps Qin Bai would have reached the pinnacle of life by now. But when does life ever go exa 26.6kReads8.7Score2.8kShelves
- 148 Dust at Dusk, Returning to the Ruined Tower 尘暮归残楼 A tale of love and hate, a lament for the tragedies of the mortal world. Shen Yichen, a man everyone under heaven believes to be a mere pawn, ventures alone and boldly into the world of cultivation, then roams the martial world in a drunken haze, repaying both kindness and enmity! Love between a human and a demon, romance between a human and a monster, bonds forged by fate, love in this life, rivalry between father and son, loyalty between brothers... A different martial world, a different morta 222Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 149 I'm in the Mahayana Realm, and This Year I'm a College Freshman 人在大乘期，今年上大一 I’m invincible in this world. Why bother playing in the mud if I’m not going to slay immortals and saints? Jiang Fan transmigrated to another world, endured a hundred cycles of refinement, and was reborn a hundred times. At last, he gripped the sword in his hand and fought his way to the heavenly realm! During the final battle with the empress of the heavenly realm, space and time twisted, and Jiang Fan returned to his original world. He had cultivated for a thousand years in another world, but 3.5kReads7.9Score247Shelves
- 150 A Japanese-Style Sweet Romance: My Mother-in-Law Spoils Me Rotten, and My Husband Adores Me 日式甜宠爽文：《婆婆她超宠我，老公他超爱我》 A Japanese-Style Sweet Romance: “My Mother-in-Law Spoils Me Rotten, and My Husband Is Head Over Heels for Me” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
