Novels like Half a Lifetime of Regret, Nothing in This World Can Be Perfect
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- 151 Spirit Servant: I Met the Earth God 精怪仆役-我见到了土地公 Spirit Servant: I Met the Earth God 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Spirit Servant: A One-Coin Taoist Master Keeps a Death Ledger 精怪仆役-一钱天师，赊命记账 Spirit Servant: The One-Coin Celestial Master’s Life-on-Credit Ledger —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Great Qin: An Airdrop from the Heavens Drives Zheng Ge Crazy! 大秦，天降空投，政哥疯了！ Infinite Flow + Time Rewind + Nested Layers + No-Brain Required + Ying Zheng’s Numbness + Torturing Ying Zheng + Wild Imagination + Feel-Good Story + Episodic + Every Episode Makes One Ying Zheng Furious... Question: If Ying Zheng received 500 doses of inexplicable self-confidence every day, could he unite the world? What about 500 Shaqs? 500 Zhuge Liangs? 500 doses of loneliness? Another question: If Ying Zheng had 500 copies of himself, could he unite the world? Or what if he had 500 l 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 I Transmigrated into a Regret Romance, So I Confessed to Her Aunt Early 穿进后悔文，我提前表白她小姨 Top hacker Xiao Ran transmigrated into a regret-themed novel and became the male lead who was destined to be driven to his death. Looking at the confession unfolding before him, Xiao Ran promptly handed the bouquet to the heroine's aunt, who was standing beside her! 382Reads5.8Score110Shelves
- 155 The Late Tang Emperor: Taizong Returns 晚唐帝主：太宗再临 My new work is out! Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novels. I hope you will enjoy it. Your support is my motivation for writing, and I will strive to tell every story well! 111Reads—Score161Shelves
- 156 Field Notes of a Southern School Taoist 南派道士笔录 My name is Chen Miao. I officially began slaying ghosts at seventeen. I received the full transmission of the teachings in the real world and spent fifteen years cultivating the Way of the Ten Directions. I traveled through Tibet, ventured beyond the passes, caught the Five Courtesans, and fought immortals. And all of it began the day I met that old Daoist. I swear this account is absolutely true, and I have done my best to ensure nothing is owed or withheld. I owe nothing to Heaven and Earth, n 12Reads—Score111Shelves
- 157 Divorced and Raising a Child, I Became a Designated Driver, and the CEO Won’t Leave Me Alone 离婚带娃做代驾，总裁赖上我了 Divorced and raising a child, struggling to make ends meet, single mother Lin Wan takes late-night shifts as a designated driver just to keep her family afloat. One rainy night, she takes a fare and unexpectedly picks up Shen Zhiyan, a mysterious, aloof heir to a wealthy family. They are strangers who happen to cross paths, but he clings to her relentlessly, impossible to shake off. She deliberately runs away, changes her name, and switches careers to start a baking business. From a little roads 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 A Century of Qi Refining to Prove the True Way 百年炼气证真道 A Century of Qi Refining to Prove the True Dao —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 Keep Showing Off, I'll Just Awaken the Face-Slapping System! 你们加油装，我觉醒了打脸系统！ [System + face-slapping + comedy + feel-good power fantasy] What? You're the sect's holy son? Sorry, in the next moment, the sect's patriarch will be on his knees begging me to be his adoptive father. What? You've awakened a god-tier bloodline? Sorry, in the next moment, the ancestor at the source of your bloodline will find me and say I'm his real father reincarnated. What? You say you can go seven rounds in one night? Sorry, in the next moment, I... The protagonist awakens a Super Face-Slap 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Sage Pill of Suffering: The Bad Girl’s Rogue Bead 苦厄圣丹：妞霸的流氓珠子 The heavens and earth are ranked like one enormous family corporation. Every realm has its big and small "landlords." Immortals are just wage earners for this family. Sages are merely high-level executives in this family. All living things are ants clinging to this family for a wretched existence. The System is the tool this family uses to control all living things and phenomena. True qi and the Dao are the provisions this family feeds its cultivators. Fortuitous encounters are incentive bonuses 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 I Use the System to Sweep Across the Myriad Worlds 我用系统横推诸天万界 On one side, Shen Kaiwen grows increasingly bold and entrenches himself in the human court. On the other, players from Blue Star nurture the seeds of industry, improve farming tools, smelt and forge metal, and build a new system for people's livelihoods, transforming an ancient agrarian civilization into a transcendent industrial one. Wang Xuan sits behind the scenes in the heavens, quietly fishing, waiting for this world's civilization to spread its wings and its fortune to fill the cosmos. Whe 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Reborn: This World Is Slowly Forgetting Me 重生后，这个世界正在遗忘我 [First-person from the protagonist's perspective + Gender swap (no gender-bender romance) + Summoning-like elements + Supernatural creatures + Inner and outer worlds + Alternate history + No angst throughout (probably) + Slow burn] At first, everyone thought Li Youyan (Yan) had just caught an ordinary cold. Who could have guessed she'd pass away the very next day? It was an ordinary morning, just like any other. It seemed someone had been left behind in yesterday. It was still an ordinary mornin 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 Surviving the Apocalypse by Unlocking the Superpowers of Screen Characters 末世生存解锁影视人物超能力 Shen Mufan, a survivor reborn into the apocalypse, unexpectedly awakens a System, and his good days begin. He can choose from countless superpowers, and there are hidden quests too. Completing them earns extra rewards, but these quests are connected to movies and TV shows... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Saint Returns: The One I Love Is Her Doppelganger 圣女归来：我爱的竟是她的分身 The Saintess Returns: The One I Loved Was Actually Her Clone 55Reads—Score113Shelves
- 165 The Boy Who Feared the Light Found His Sun Again 那个恐惧光的少年，找回了他的太阳 The boy who feared the light found his sun again. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 My Defective Teammates Are All Max-Level Powerhouses 我的残次品队友全是满级大佬 After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Lin Mo activates the System. A down-and-out sword cultivator. An alchemist plagued by pill toxicity. A useless fatty with all five spiritual roots. And a dull, bookish scholar who sweeps the scripture pavilion. Looking at this ragtag crew, Lin Mo figures he’s probably the most miserable Host in history. And from the moment he activates the System, a pair of eyes watches him from the shadows. Want to know how he eventually makes it through? Read the 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Fang Jian's Journey of Cultivation in Another World 方茧的异世修仙之旅 [Soul Transmigration] [Companion System] [Cultivation] [Single Earth Spiritual Root, the only one left after acquired purification] [Heavy Rock Physique] [Romance] [Spirit Pets] Fang Jian inexplicably transmigrates into the body of Wang Xiaoya on the Illusion Spirit Continent. While struggling to survive alongside her older sister, she unexpectedly discovers that she has a spiritual root. Thus begins her path to cultivation in another world. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 Monster Servant: The City Is Filled with Yellow Butterflies 精怪仆役-满城尽是黄蝴蝶 Supernatural Servants: The City Is Filled with Yellow Butterflies —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 Digital Dawn 数字破晓 This is the story of Zhao Peng, an ordinary orphan from a poor rural family. Even in desperate circumstances, he keeps working hard and stays true to himself, ultimately turning his life around and reaching the peak of his career, while finding love along the way. The story explores the transformation of the building materials and home furnishings industry, as well as the bright prospects of future digital development. Technology can change not only a person, but also lives and the world. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Where the Wind Resides 风容之处 Light and darkness: are they two sides of the world to her, or a struggle between what has passed and what might be saved... When a rose reaches for a jasmine, will the rose's thorns pierce the jasmine's hidden affliction? A sense of fracture keeps surging through her. Reality and illusion lie only a thought apart... She and she are willing to lose themselves in a dream, yet unwilling to remain only a dream to one another. “Xi Keyu, my one-sided love is the most perfect ending...” Between t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 The Cycle of Time, the Metamorphosis of the Soul 时间的循环，心灵的蜕变 A new story is out! Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel: Lin Ye, an ordinary office worker, unexpectedly gets trapped in a 24-hour time loop centered on “saving the delivery driver A Zhe from a car accident.” At first, he acts on impulse, stopping cars and giving warnings, but fails again and again. He even makes things worse by overlooking details, such as A Zhe rushing to deliver medicine and roadwork blocking the intersection’s visibility. Then he starts reviewing and correcting his mista 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Douluo Dalu: The Soul Beast Qiongqi 斗罗：魂兽穷奇 Jiahao never imagined that jogging while munching on a Choc Ice and drinking Sprite would send him straight to his death. When he opens his eyes again, he has become the only Qiongqi in the Star Dou Great Forest of Douluo Dalu, one with human consciousness and a unique, awakened mutant talent. A familiar world, a familiar story, and a familiar... Tang San. Having read the original countless times, Jiahao knows all too well what the so-called "leader of the Shrek Seven Devils" is really like. He 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 Transformed into a Battle Warrior, I Restart My Life with the Unbearable System 变身战人，用难绷系统重启人生 [Urban supernatural legend] [System awakening] [Classic of Mountains and Seas] [Treatment for severe depression] [Coming-of-age] [Try not to crack] [Plot twists] By the time you finish reading, your expression will match the cover. My name is Zhou Yao. One day, I finally unlocked the System I had always dreamed of. But this lousy System was nothing like the ones in online novels. It was completely useless. For example, to upgrade strength, I had to keep exercising and disciplining myself. To 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Transmigrating into an Evil Cultivator Sect: I Must Do Every Evil Deed to Return 穿越邪修宗门，坏事做尽才能回去 [No System] [A disastrous start] [Everyone is a villain] Han Yu wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to a sect of demonic cultivators. His master tells him that the only way to transmigrate back is to capture mortals and bring them back as sacrifices. Faced with the temptation of returning home and the condemnation of his conscience, what should Han Yu choose? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 Parallel Elements 平行元素 “Ye Fan, parallel worlds really do exist in this universe.” A parallel world brimming with elemental power, with countless tangled and divergent timelines, and an Elemental Academy that has stood for a thousand years. Here, students learn to wield elemental power, and the protagonist experiences one upheaval after another, gaining sincere friendships along the way. In this world, they have no parents or family. Their companions are the only people they can’t bear to lose. Every time they stand t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Boating Tonight 今夜泛舟 [Gentle, jade-like male doctor vs. cool, clear-headed actress] At Zhengren Hospital, Dr. Wen of the Orthopedics Department has always been admired as an untouchable beauty. His features are sharp and cool, his face cleanly defined, and there is even a beauty mark on his high nose bridge. When he lowers his eyes, his thick, long eyelashes are visible. He also has a pair of especially striking hands, with every joint clearly defined. Countless people have pursued him, but no one has ever succeeded 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Childhood Fun from the 1950s to the 1990s 50到90年代童年嬉乐 This book traces the games of childhood from the 1950s to the 1990s, weaving together half a century of shared memories. “Write a life in words, and find spiritual happiness for the soul.” The joys of childhood reveal how childhood itself remains unchanged amid changing times, while the games preserve the family bonds, friendships, laughter, and growth behind them. Turn these pages and it feels as though you are opening a door through time, revisiting those pure, passionate, happy, and romantic 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 The Great Cang Returns to the One 太苍归一 See how Mo Lingfeng reaches the pinnacle of his own path! In the distant world of Taicang, countless races coexist, and every race possesses innate abilities. Through constant growth and cultivation, they can reach a state of astonishing mastery. Here, humans, demons, immortals, and devils, indeed all things under heaven, may find their own opportunities! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 The Transparent Little Man in the Surveillance Footage 监控里的透明小人 The Transparent Little Person in the Surveillance Footage 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Handsome Brother, Don't Kill Me! A-Xue Won't Do It Again! 美人哥哥别杀我，阿雪再也不敢了 [Alluring, Possessive Top] [Pretty-Face-Obsessed, Goofy, Sweet Bottom] [No Rebirth or Transmigration] [Traditional Cultivation] [Divine Beast, Black Tortoise] [Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One] [Sweet Romance] [1v1] The first time Gui Zhaoxue saw Jiang Ying, he was captivated. From then on, he couldn't stop thinking about him and always wanted to see him again. During a secret-realm adventure, Ah Xue came across Jiang Ying, who had been poisoned. He tried to feed him a pill to save him, only 131Reads—Score503Shelves
- 181 Abusive Ex-Husband? I Turn Around and Marry a Rich, Unhinged Tycoon 前夫家暴？转身嫁给豪门疯批大佬 Novel title: You and I Are Perfect for Each Other [CEO Romance | Obsessive Devotion | Beautiful but Broken | Love Triangle | Healing Each Other | Secret Crush | Chaste Male Lead] [Struggling independent reporter Su Mian vs. obsessive tycoon Jiang Chiye vs. androgynous, seductive Shen Qingmu] Su Mian grew up surrounded by love. Just after she got into a top high school, an accident took her parents from her. During high school, she became withdrawn and despondent. She stopped socializing and payi 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Spirit Vein Sign-In: I Slay Demons in the City 灵脉签到，我在都市斩妖魔 Chen Fan, a 22-year-old unemployed college graduate, was humiliated by a rich second-generation heir and abandoned by his ex-girlfriend. Just as he was sinking into despair, he bonded with the [Urban Spiritual Vein Sign-In System]! Signing in at an ancient tree in an old park earned him Qi Refining cultivation. Signing in at a subway station granted him a spiritual qi shield. Skyscrapers, suburban temples, the heart of secret realms: every spiritual vein node in the city was an extraordinary opp 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 The Sect Leader's Path to Immortality 掌门修仙路 No golden finger. Just writing about what I enjoy, and doing my best. All criticism is welcome. The story of a low-ranking disciple leading his sect’s growth and growing alongside it. Just two people and their sect: how far can they go? 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 Cherish Her Even as the Sky Falls 天塌了也要娇养 Even if the sky falls, I’ll still spoil you 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 My Obsessive Hostage Prince Is Forcing Me to Serve Two Husbands 偏执质子逼我一女侍二夫 My Obsessive Hostage Prince Forces Me to Serve Two Husbands 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Blue Star Falls into the Cultivation World, and I Use Spirit Energy to Question Heaven 蓝星坠入修仙界，我以灵能问苍天 After a cataclysm destroys the civilization of Blue Star, its sole surviving AI and a half-mortal boy crash into the Cultivation Realm aboard a falling planet. From then on, the Cultivation Realm faces its most terrifying “heretic.” He uses technology to aid cultivation, mathematics to derive divine abilities, and assembly lines to mass-produce magical treasures... And what he carries with him is the ultimate legacy of an entire civilization. With a palm, he brings sparks to life amid primordial —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 I Quit My Job and Made My White Moonlight Famous. No Catching Feelings, Remember? 辞编后带火白月光，说好不许心动 [Top Entertainment Industry Producer | Ambitious Female Lead | Forbidden Teacher-Student Crush | Reunited with Her Long-Lost First Love] Others: Why leave a secure government job to charge into a film industry in the middle of a slump? You'd have to be crazy! Wen Ci: She tears up her resignation and leaves her iron rice bowl behind, joins her best friend in the industry, and becomes the student of the legendary Huo Xingzhou. On the day she becomes his student, Huo Xingzhou lays down a stern ru 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 What? You Want Me to Kill a God? 你说啥，你让我去弑神？ [Urban high martial arts]/ [Single heroine] Jiang Jingsheng, an ordinary eighteen-year-old college freshman, stumbles upon a mysterious event beyond all reason during an otherwise unremarkable weekend. That night, a mysterious man appears in his dream and reveals a shocking secret, one powerful enough to overturn everything he thought he knew. What hidden truths lie beneath the dazzling lights of Tokyo’s streets, within the undercurrents of political life around the world, and behind the solemn 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 The White Moonlight Wants to Be the Heroine, and the Emperor Spoils Her to the Heavens 白月光要当女主，皇帝宠上天 [Childhood sweetheart and moonlight princess & reborn tyrant turned devoted husband] [Reborn tyrant + transmigrated supporting female character with a golden finger + dark original heroine + pure love + sweet romance + two strong leads] The legitimate daughter and county princess, carefully raised by a powerful clan; a transmigrator from another world with a golden finger; a kind and courageous female general from a military family... and a reborn wife-loving tyrant who unified the land??? Diffe 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 Jade Bearing Ten Thousand Ways: Returning to the True Profound 玉承万道：玄意归真 A young Earth Immortal who has just ascended to the Heavenly Realm encounters a calamity. By a twist of fate, his name happens to correspond with the Five Elements, and he carries the Primordial Five-Soul Jade, formed from a fragment of Hongjun's soul, into a new life in the Cangwu Abyss of Xiniu Hezhou. Reborn as Wusheng, a boy of the Heavenly Path, he awakens the Five Elements Spirit Nexus from birth. To awaken his companion, a Qilin, who lies dormant after being corrupted by a demon soul, he —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Traveling Through the Cultivation World: Procuring Supplies for Qinglan Realm from the Start 穿梭修真：开局采购青岚界 After crossing into a world of cultivation on the brink of destruction, procurement manager Ye Zhiqiu sets out to save it. Combining modern thinking with cultivation techniques in a unique way, he becomes a traveler repairing a crumbling world. In the Qinglan Realm, he meets Su Jiu'er, a successor to a reclusive alchemy sect. From wariness to trusting each other with their lives, their clash of ancient alchemy-array knowledge and otherworldly wisdom sparks a way out of seemingly hopeless situati 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Lies Beneath Red Lips 红唇下的谎言 During a summer in Xiangjiang Province, surgeon Zhang Liang believes in the power of the scalpel, yet fails to see the hidden illness in his “perfect marriage” to Lin Xiao, a news anchor at a television station. The collapse of his colleague Li Yao’s marriage crashes over them like a storm, revealing the uncertainty and struggle beneath Lin Xiao’s composure. When the perfect facade falls away, the scent of antiseptic can’t mask the lies, and bright lipstick can’t hide the exhaustion. In the tug- 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 My Days as a Eunuch in the Last Qing Palace 我在末代清宫当太监的日子 Cui Jun's soul transmigrates into Cui Yugui. Through the eyes of a eunuch, he recreates the criminal underworld of the late Qing inner palace, tears away the veil concealing the harem's darkness, and exposes the tragic fate of low-ranking eunuchs who served as laborers in the final years of the dynasty! 449Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 Back to My Youth to Take You Down 重回年轻时干翻你 Back in 2006, who would want to relive a pathetic life? The supervisor who treated you like a beast in your last life will get only one chance to hand you a cigarette this time around. The brother who stabbed you in the back last time smiled more warmly than anyone else, but drove his knife in deeper than anyone else, too. Fine. I'll remember that. The love you regretted losing in your last life? This time, pull them right into your arms. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 The Reincarnation Records of Ghost Bus Route 117 117路鬼车轮回录 Reincarnation Records of the Ghost Bus on Route 117 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Monster Servant: Granny Denghua 精怪仆役-灯花婆婆 Supernatural Servants: Granny Lampflower —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 After Three Years of Teaching My Daughter Pinyin, My Ex-Wife Still Doesn't Know I'm Worth Hundreds of Billions 教女儿拼音三年，前妻不知道我身家百亿 After Three Years of Teaching My Daughter Pinyin, My Ex-Wife Still Doesn't Know I'm Worth Tens of Billions 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 When the Stars Fall, the Pain Is Redeemed 星落赎痛时 [A quirky girl × a cool, well-rounded boy] [They choose each other | A painful past lies hidden] Their first meeting in high school: He was the perfect student in everyone’s eyes, cool as ice beneath the blazing sun, dazzling yet distant. She was a vivid firefly, quirky and full of life, tumbling into his world. One accident suddenly brought their youthful paths together. He said offhandedly, “It doesn’t matter. What’s the harm in letting you have your way for once?” Beneath the stars, a soft “T 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 He Came from the Starlight 他从星光来 Calculating superpowered upperclassman VS strong, well-behaved rich girl [wife-chasing crematorium + second male lead wins + beautiful but tragic + imaginative premise + mutual healing + youth and school life] A fading secret crush ends without a future. Chu Xingyan’s youthful feelings are torn apart again and again by the light she once admired, the brilliant and untouchable Lu Cibai. He is cold: “Chu Xingyan, I’m not the one who changed. You’ve always been spoiled and never learned how to grow —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 The CEO's Wife Goes Dark and Goes on a Rampage 总裁夫人黑化杀疯了 They are like kites. They seem to live beneath the blue sky, free and unrestrained, but in truth they are tossed about by the raging winds of fate, until they end up with no control over their own lives. They are also like white foxes living in the forest. Because their fur is so bright and beautiful, people are always eyeing them covetously. One wrong move, and they might be skinned alive and have their bones torn from their bodies... To break free of their constraints, they can only find diffe 1Reads—Score—Shelves
