Novels like From Poverty to Diplomat of a Great Power
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- 151 Back in Her Second Year of High School, She Goes Viral for Her Academic Skills! 重回高二，她靠学习在网络走红！ [Reborn + System + Romance + Two Top Students] Jiang Yueqian, who died in a car accident, was reborn! Thinking back on her unremarkable previous life and her grandmother's unfulfilled final wish, Jiang Yueqian decided to study hard and reach the pinnacle of life. But why did I get a System while I was studying? And why is its ultimate mission to help everyone around me turn their lives around too? That's easy! With a golden finger to help her plan and strategize, she successfully raised the coll 803Reads9.0Score11114d adds
- 152 Blade and Heart 刃与心 An affection-starved, possessive young master × a long-suffering bodyguard and undercover spy Shen Yan is the eldest legitimate son of the Shen family. On the day he takes power, his father personally sends him an informant. Xie Xun, a handsome, stern personal bodyguard, is nothing but the old master’s most obedient dog in everyone else’s eyes. “I don’t keep dogs in my home.” He makes Xie Xun stand in the rain all night and sleep by the door, humiliating and tormenting him in every way, all to 752Reads8.4Score10314d adds
- 153 Activate the Portal: From the Start, I Team Up with the Nation! 激活传送门，开局与国家合作！ [Working with the Nation] [Developing Another World] Chen Mo is an ordinary man who one day suddenly awakens a mysterious ability: he can open portals to another world. But there’s a catch: the portals force him to transmigrate! On his first trip, he nearly gets eaten alive by zombies. In that moment, Chen Mo learns one thing: Exploring another world alone is way too dangerous. He needs someone powerful on his side! “Someone powerful? Can they be more powerful than the nation itself?” So h 85.4kReads8.0Score10.6k14d adds
- 154 Red Three Kingdoms: The Red Flag Rules the World 红色三国：赤旗天下 The road through the mighty pass is as hard as iron, but now we stride forward and start anew. Here you'll find an upright-to-a-fault protagonist and a stirring, heroic tale. When it's time to turn against someone, he does. When it's time to fight, he fights. When it's time to compromise, he compromises. He takes whatever stance the situation calls for. [Brain storage][Official history knowledge storage] 17.9kReads9.1Score1.4k14d adds
- 155 I Run a Planar Supermarket Along the Long March 我在长征路上开位面超市 [Patriotic story] [Easygoing everyday pace] Gao Miaomiao comes from a revolutionary family. During an undercover trip abroad to Myanmar, where she was injured by organ traffickers, she unexpectedly awakens a System. It lets her exchange items imbued with each customer's heartfelt wishes in random planes, then put them up for auction at the Myriad Worlds Auction House to upgrade the System. When she learns that the next plane is bound to the Long March route, Gao Miaomiao doesn't hesitate to hand 776Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 156 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 46.7kReads8.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 157 She Alone Has the Gods' Favor 她独得神明眷顾 This book is mainly a collection of short stories. What are gods like when they fall in love? First story: The God of Love's "Golden Cage" Psyche was so beautiful that everyone who saw her praised her as "more beautiful than the gods." When those words reached Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, she flew into a rage, feeling that her authority had been challenged. So she sent Eros, the young god of love, to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest monster. But Eros fell in love with Psyche at first s 9.6kReads6.8Score88614d adds
- 158 The Big Boss's Little Wife 大领导的小妻子 This book tells the story of An Xue, whose husband Zheng Yu abandons her for a new lover. A chance encounter with her neighbor Lei Congguang changes the course of her life. Born into a high-ranking official's family, Lei Congguang initially looks down on An Xue, but after a series of absurd and comical encounters, he finally recognizes his true feelings and falls in love with her. One is a rising government official, while the other is a divorced woman who barely stands out in a crowd. After nav 16.9kReads9.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 159 War of Resistance: I Really Am One of Us! 抗日：我真的是自己人！ Lin Fang was an unlucky college student. After dragging himself through evening study, he stepped into a sewer and, when he opened his eyes again, had transmigrated to the Long March. He’d become a poor little kid rescued by the soldiers, and he’d even gotten bound to a System. Kill one Japanese soldier: 20 points! Great! Save one soldier: 40 points! Marvelous! As he geared up to build a beautiful homeland and looked forward to the future, he gradually unlocked his original body’s memories: 3.7kReads9.3Score33514d adds
- 160 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 18.6kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 161 ICU from the Start: I Use My Life to Do Research 开局ICU，我用生命搞研究 Li Mubai transmigrates to an ancient kingdom in another plane, but he has only ten days left to live. Fortunately, he activates a System at this moment. From then on, he devotes himself to research to stay alive, constantly teetering on the brink of death. And his first step is to build a mushroom bomb! Because dignity comes only from the edge of a sword, and truth exists only within the range of artillery. Without adorable mushroom bombs, he can't earn adorable little bucks. Starting with mushr 2.4kReads8.7Score14514d adds
- 162 After I Turned Myself In, I Became a National Treasure 上交自己后，我成了国宝 [Two male leads + no female lead + one-on-one + happy ending + both devoted only to each other] Other people transmigrated once and stayed for a lifetime, but Ruan Xingzhi transmigrated to random places at random times, and his golden finger became a death sentence. So… He turned himself in to the government. The citizens of Xia Kingdom thought the country had gotten downright surreal lately. The government was acting as if it had cheat codes. Hovercars appeared, people went to the moon to grow 5.7kReads8.5Score51914d adds
- 163 After Falling Off a Cliff, I Devoured All Things and Became a God 坠崖后，我靠吞噬万物成神 The Qingyun Sect calls me the biggest good-for-nothing. I've been stuck at the first level of the Skin Tempering Realm for three years, trampled by everyone. Zhang Biao broke my knees and threw me off the Demonfall Cliff. “Good-for-nothing, you might as well die down there!” Who knew the bottom of the cliff would be where I took off! [Ding! Myriad Things Evolution System activated!] Devour poisonous herbs, and my skin becomes hard as iron. Devour demon beasts, and I gain boundless strength. Devo 236Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Lotus in an Emerald Cage 翡翠笼中莲 The Lotus in the Jade Cage 722Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Sky Screen Projection: I Am Qin the Third 天幕投影：我是秦三世 During the Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai, a huge clap of thunder suddenly rang through the sky after the rain. The heavens had collapsed!! Ying Yan, the nineteenth son of Qin Shi Huang, was immediately identified by the sky screen as someone who would rebel against the Qin Dynasty. Ying Yan: “???” Is Heaven trying to destroy me?? Thankfully, he later learned that he was rebelling against the man who would establish the Qin Dynasty’s Second Empire. The First Emperor withdrew his anger. “If you c 19.7kReads8.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 166 I Joined the Long March and Trade Step Counts for Supplies 穿进长征路，我靠刷步数换物资 Transmigration + No Romance + System + Long March + Patriotism + Supplies “I'm so hungry!” He stumbled along, looking as if he might collapse into a snowdrift and never wake again... Bu Yanxing, male, marathon champion and climbing enthusiast, accidentally transmigrates onto the Long March route. He crosses snowy mountains and grasslands and encounters countless soldiers. Fortunately, he binds himself to a Step Counter System. By racking up steps to exchange for supplies, he successfully reunite 3.3kReads6.1Score17714d adds
- 167 Luxury Goods Counterfeiter: From the Start, I Have Fake Socialites Wrapped Around My Finger 奢侈品贩子复制，开局拿捏假名媛 Liu Jin and his uncle run a luxury goods resale shop in Hangcheng, with Liu Jin as the new shop owner. His everyday customers include music teachers, beautiful internet celebrities, fake socialites, wealthy men, and wealthy women. He awakens a Replication System. Whenever a deal goes through, he can duplicate luxury goods and antiques! "Jin, could you raise the offer a little? I really need the money. Just add two thousand!" Faced with the music teacher's coaxing, Liu Jin is unmoved. "It's not e 16.4kReads8.1Score13.9k14d adds
- 168 After My Stepmother Moved into My House with Her Three Children, I Cut Off All Their Living Expenses 继母带三子女住进我家后，我停掉了所有的生活费 After My Stepmother Moved into My House with Her Three Children, I Cut Off All Their Living Expenses 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Great Wall Watch: Dungeon Sequence 001 长城守望：副本序列001 In a world where anyone can create dungeons, Blue Star has become a hunting ground for invading alien races. The dungeon [Golden Crow and Fusang Tree], created by the entire nation of Japan, was speed-cleared by the invaders in three days. The next country's dungeon targeted for invasion is… the Dragon Kingdom! At that very moment, Xu Ping'an awakens the [Humanity's Supreme Sage System] and gets the [Watchful Guardians of the Great Wall] dungeon blueprint from the start. [Dungeon]: Watchful Guar 6.1kReads8.2Score97714d adds
- 170 My Years in National Security 我当国安那些年 [No System] + [Not Wish-Fulfillment] + [Realistic Style] + [Modern Field Agents] There are people who hear thunder in the silence and achieve extraordinary things without fanfare. They disappear into the shadows of covert battles, content to remain unknown as they stand watch for the light in silence. Their identities are unknown, but their deeds will never be forgotten! I want to tell their story. I dedicate this book to the unsung heroes of the covert front! 14.4kReads9.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 171 Espionage: I Got the Living Yama System from the Start 谍战：开局获得活阎王系统 [Upright values➕decisive and ruthless➕no female lead] In a parallel world, Su Mingzhe transmigrates to 1936 and becomes a second lieutenant in the Military Statistics Bureau, where he awakens the Living Yama System. As long as he inflicts both physical and psychological torment on the Japanese and their Chinese collaborators, he can obtain intelligence. Su Mingzhe skips the interrogation and starts with a one-two punch: the tiger bench and pepper water! “Ding! Reward: or 13.2kReads8.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 172 A-Lian in the Mountains 大山里的阿莲 A Lian had been married for three years, but her husband was impotent and she still hadn't gotten pregnant. She had a foul mouth but a soft heart. Later, she married Old Wang next door. Old Wang died in an accident, leaving A Lian a widow. Later, she was jailed for tomb robbing, but got out two years before him. Her life with Xiao Chen started out as one disaster after another. A Lian cursed and grumbled, but little by little, she came to think of this man who had served time as one of her own. 342Reads7.5Score11514d adds
- 173 Glory Disqualified 荣耀失格 She was once the most proud girl in the compound, born bold and reckless in her youth. One accident sent her tumbling from the clouds into the mire. In the shadows of a prison cell, she buried her former glory with her own hands. Years later, she returned to the world. Everyone she once knew had risen to high positions, while she was left battered and broken. Rumors swirled, and the past could not be reclaimed. She walked step by step along the edge of a blade, seeking only to have a clear consc 52.5kReads9.1Score5.4k14d adds
- 174 Where the Wind Leaves Its Trace, Beyond the White Line 风过留痕，白线之外 [Not a power fantasy, no System, realistic, action psychology, everyday mysteries] Bailing first met Chen Feng at a dinner her younger sister had arranged at the last minute. He was neat-looking and impeccably mannered, even keeping a carefully measured distance whenever he came close. But she soon realized this "temporary boyfriend" was no ordinary man. When she was hurt, he would pull his hand back. When she was wary, he would take half a step away. He always left every choice up to her, yet w 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Film and TV Crossover: Little Flights of Fancy 综影视之小脑洞 (Under contract) Each little plot idea is short. The protagonist can be male or female, and each story can be read on its own! I use the characters’ names from the show because coming up with names is too hard! P.S. Anything different is my own headcanon. It’s not that I remembered it wrong! (I watched it so long ago, I can’t remember clearly.) 4.7kReads8.7Score16414d adds
- 176 Time-Space Gate: Damn! I Was Handed Over to the State as Soon as It Bound to Me 时空门：淦！才绑定就被上交国家 [No romance, serving the motherland, strong female lead, imaginative premise, the country and I choose each other, science and technology] One-sentence summary: I will stand atop the universe and bathe my motherland in boundless glory. From now on, no one in the stars will be able to shake our supremacy! The universe will shine because of us! Full summary: Xiao Shaohua is woken in the middle of the night by the spirit of a Space-Time Gate, who tells her she has been bound to the gate. An otherwo 5kReads9.0Score39214d adds
- 177 Come to My Xifeng Stronghold 请君入我溪风寨 Please Come to My Xifeng Stronghold 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Black Lucky Carp System: I Plunder Fortune in the Republic of China 黑锦鲤系统：我在民国掠夺气运 [Transmigration to the Republic of China + black koi golden finger + resistance-era espionage + multiple identities + spy games within spy games + marriage of convenience] Shen Shuman transmigrates as a Zhongtong agent embedded in the 76th, but she’s already been caught and abandoned by her own side. Her handler has fled with the intelligence, leaving behind a trail of ambiguous clues that quietly point to her. She has barely transmigrated when she finds herself in the interrogation room, facing 15.5kReads8.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 179 Why Vampires Need to Read Their Blood Test Reports 论吸血鬼看血检报告的重要性 On Why Vampires Should Pay Attention to Blood Test Results 243Reads—Score614d adds
- 180 Specially Spoiled: So What If He's Twenty Years Older? Uncle Is the Best 偏宠，大二十岁怎么了，叔他最好 [Older man + fatherly devotion + devoted favoritism + mutual devotion + age gap] The male lead is mature and steady, gentle and refined, fresh-faced and handsome. The female lead is a poor little thing, struggling like a tenacious blade of grass to survive in the cracks. He is the sun in her life, shining on her and warming her. She pouted. “Uncle, I like you.” “Kid, you’re still young. We’re not right for each other.” He looked at her and let out a deep sigh, then turned away. “You’re still a s 7.6kReads9.0Score64714d adds
- 181 Quick Transmigration: Who Knew I’d Get Such a Sweet Deal? 快穿之还有这好事 [Quick transmigration + bickering System + absurd comedy] She works for a company that connects the real world with the worlds of novels. How will she grow step by step, and where will things go between her and the System? On my first quick transmigration, I woke up to find the domineering CEO was only 1.7 meters tall?! On my second quick transmigration, I was reborn. If you can't even be a good emperor, then I'll take the throne myself! On my third quick transmigration, there was a baby involve 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 After I Was Struck by Lightning, the Thunder God Fell for Me 遭雷劈后，雷神大人他对我心动了 After Being Struck by Lightning, the Thunder God Fell for Me 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Falling for Him at a Thousand Years Old 心动一千岁的他 The One Who Makes My Heart Flutter at a Thousand Years Old 9Reads—Score214d adds
- 184 The Bride’s Personal Maid 伴嫁丫鬟 In the silent depths of a grand household, fate drifts like a wisp of silk. From a maid who came with the bride to a maidservant in the study, she treads carefully at every turn, caught between schemes and growing affection. Beneath his cold exterior lies tenderness; beneath her caution, a heart beginning to stir. In the deep halls of a marquis’s household, an unspoken love quietly takes root. Love runs deep in the marquis’s manor, where schemes stretch as far as the sea. Where will she ultimate 2.6kReads7.3Score17914d adds
- 185 I Casually Matched Two People, and Became the God of Marriage for the Three Realms 随手牵个红线，我成了三界姻缘仙 I Casually Tied a Red String and Became the Matchmaking Immortal of the Three Realms 6Reads—Score214d adds
- 186 Better to Strive for Yourself Than to Find a Godfather 认义父不如自强不息 (This is a wildly imaginative fantasy novel, dedicated to fellow wage slaves as busy as I am. May life get a little easier for us all!) Lü Bu is reborn in the modern era. No Three Kingdoms this time, but China! It was bad enough being strangled to death at White Gate Tower, but the history books also branded him with the shameful label of “the man who stabbed his foster fathers.” He had only been forced by those powerful old men to do their bidding. He put those scoundrels to death with his own 705Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 187 Spring Brewed in Snow 雪酿春 Snow-Brewed Spring 288Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 My Phone Connects to Tomorrow 我的手机连明天 After his divorce, Xu Yan unexpectedly gets a phone that can connect to the internet of tomorrow, and begins a new life. From then on, wealth and women come pouring in. Love, family bonds... He discovers that having money can be a real headache too... 908Reads5.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 189 After Descending to the Mortal Realm as a Cat, I Made the Divine Lord Fall for Me 下凡当猫后，我把神尊撩心动了 After descending to the mortal world as a cat, I made the Divine Lord fall for me. 60Reads—Score214d adds
- 190 An Academician Reborn: This Dream of a Great Nation, Just as You Wished 院士重生：这大国梦，如你所愿 [A thoroughly patriotic novel, with absolutely nothing wrong with its values] I would give my humble heart to China, and devote my years to its mountains and rivers; I would use the youth of our generation to defend a prosperous China. I’m crying. 112Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 191 The Gods Dare to Attack Huaxia? Summon the Ancestors! 神明犯我华夏，请老祖复苏 [Fast-paced, no female lead, satisfying, similar to Record of Ragnarok] In a parallel world, the gods awaken, seize control of nations, and unleash a global war. But China is a land without gods, and countless deities seize the chance to invade. June 024: The Yata no Orochi clan of Sakura Country invades. Modern weapons fail, and one hundred thousand soldiers from the Eastern Theater Command take up blades to fight. The East China Sea runs red with blood, and not one survives. September 024: The 1.1kReads8.2Score13214d adds
- 192 After My Fishing Disaster, the Apprentice Dragon God Won't Leave Me Alone 钓鱼翻车后，实习龙神他缠上了我 After My Fishing Trip Went Awry, the Dragon God Intern Got Clingy 43Reads—Score214d adds
- 193 Hua Yan, Heaven and Earth 华炎天与地 Huayan Heaven and Earth 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Death Rewind: Save the World in 48 Hours 死亡回档，48小时拯救世界 A car accident gave Wang Cong the ability to rewind time upon death! Just as he was getting ready to buy a lottery ticket and reach the pinnacle of life… The sky split open. Alien spaceships descended, and a flash of white light wiped out the world! Only two days remained. The countdown to extinction had begun. … “If I can rewind time by dying, can I save the world?” “You can, but you can't fill every hole the apocalypse leaves behind.” “Then if I bring along a group of comrades who've ri 115.4kReads8.6Score11.6k14d adds
- 195 A Cheap Import Who Studied Abroad? Call Me the Father of Chips! 归国留洋水货？叫我芯片之父！ [The 1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] A young man from the new century transmigrates to 1955 as an overseas student returning to China, becoming one of the same group of ocean-liner returnees as Qian Xuesen. The original list of twenty-four people has inexplicably gained one additional name: his. However, this Stanford graduate in his former life actually graduated through his family's donations. He has no real knowledge in his head and is already someone about to be eliminat 389.1kReads8.7Score28.9k14d adds
- 196 The Road to Power: From Betrayal to Commanding the Storm 官路：从遭人背刺到执掌风云 For love, Lu Xiuyuan hid his identity as the heir to a powerful family, rejected his family’s arrangements, and went to a small county town. He came first in the written exam and eagerly expected to land the position, only to be betrayed by his girlfriend, lose his place, and be mocked in public as a nobody with no connections. Fine. If that’s how it is, then I’ll stop pretending. From then on, the winds of change began to blow. The people who once humiliated him finally learned what it meant to 7.9kReads7.8Score70114d adds
- 197 My Destined One Is Actually a Prince 我的真命天子居然是个王爷 My True Love Is Actually a Prince 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 The Legend of Lu Hua and Hua Fei 吕华与华飞传说 The Legend of Lü Hua and Hua Fei 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 The Road to Development in the Fiery Red Era of 1949 1949火红年代的建设之路 A new book. The System barely features and is hardly mentioned after Chapter 45. Same title: “1945: Wounded, Transferred to Civilian Life, Then Back to Fight America” In 1949, after Beiping is liberated, he is transferred to become the county magistrate of Changping. A modern soul with a degree in urban and rural planning from a top university collides with an old land laid waste: With the people's livelihoods in tatters, he builds water conservancy projects and takes on the thousand-year-old s 13.6kReads8.7Score58314d adds
- 200 The Little Girl from Secretary Zhang's Family 张书记家的小姑娘 After graduating from college at 24, Sang Ning chose to return to her hometown and take a job in the public sector. A year later, her employer sent her to a township government office for two years of support work. She became Secretary Zhang’s subordinate, and eventually, Secretary Zhang became part of her family. At 32, Zhang Yizheng was a veteran and the head of the township government. One day, a young woman joined the office. She was young, capable, and full of personality. For the first ti 17.7kReads9.1Score1.6k14d adds
