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- 1 Starting Over in Midlife 人到中年：东山再起 Unemployed, betrayed by his wife, and facing his mother’s serious illness, Fang Hongyi hit the lowest point of his life in middle age. After accidentally saving a mysterious woman, he caught the attention of a powerful figure and began his rise from the ashes. From then on, Fang Hongyi climbed ever higher, making a triumphant comeback. Powerful people from every walk of life rushed to curry favor with him, and wealth and beautiful women soon followed. Everyone who had once looked down on him wou 137Reads8.4Score104Shelves
- 2 Forty-Year-Old Man: Getting Rich in Middle Age 男人四十:中年暴富 Wang Jun is a timid, inept nobody, afraid of trouble and scraping by in society. After accidentally saving a wealthy woman, he sets out on a path to turn his life around. 675Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Awakening in Midlife 中年觉醒 Caught between reality and ideals, we watch the years slip through our fingers. When he or she enters middle age, with their career hitting a wall, family conflicts piling up, and an unease stirring within, this book, Midlife Awakening, is written for a soul just like that. Jesse was an industrious, conventional middle-aged person, but change and crisis pushed him to the brink. He or she endured betrayal, loss, doubt, and panic, stumbling through life until, little by little, they began to awak 104Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 4 Unemployed but Pretending to Work, My CEO Wife Really Pays Me 失业假装上班，总裁老婆真发钱啊 “After Getting Laid Off, I Showed Up at Headquarters in a Pink Shirt and Acted Like I Owned the Place” “Fired? I Joined Headquarters Instead, and Now the Female CEO Is Begging Me to Stay” “On My First Day Pretending to Work, I Mistook the Female CEO for My Driver” “Unemployed, I Went to Headquarters to Steal Their Wi-Fi. Who Else Should Be CTO?” “On My First Day After Quitting, the Ice-Cold Female CEO Made Me Live Off Her” They fired me because my hair was too thick? I went straight to headquart 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 At Sixty, I'm Living Life on My Own Terms 60岁，我的快意人生 Teacher Zhao Dong devoted decades to education, nurturing countless students and dedicating his life to the classroom. Upon retiring, he unexpectedly unlocked a reward System. From then on, he enjoyed abundant wealth, beautiful women by his side, and a renewed career, embarking on a happy and carefree new life in retirement. My new work is out now! Feel free to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 137Reads6.9Score267Shelves
- 6 Humiliated on My Wedding Night, the Young Marshal Dumped Me on His Foolish Uncle 新婚受辱，少帅将我丢给痴傻小叔 Humiliated on My Wedding Night, the Young Marshal Tossed Me to His Foolish Younger Uncle —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 No Looking Back on the Past, Meeting My Ex-Husband Again Thirty Years Later 往事不回首，三十年后再遇前夫 I won’t look back on the past. Thirty years later, I meet my ex-husband again. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 At 68, I Found Out My Pension Was Being Drained. I Burned My Bankbook and Finally Woke Up 68岁查出养老金流水，我烧存折彻底醒悟 At 68, I checked my pension deposits and finally woke up after burning my passbook. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 At 60, I Faced Delayed Retirement and Secretly Rejoiced: Work Turned Out to Be My Safe Haven 60岁遇延迟退休，我偷偷偷笑，上班竟是我的避风港 At 60, I faced delayed retirement. I secretly smiled: it turned out work was my safe haven. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I Spent Five Years Raising My Grandson for Free, Only for My Son to Call Me a Freeloader at 67 67岁带孙5年分文不取，竟被儿子骂吃白饭 I looked after my grandson for five years at 67 without taking a penny, only to be accused by my son of freeloading. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 At 71, I Gave My Only Daughter a House. After the Transfer, She Cruelly Kicked Me Out 71岁送房给独生女儿，过户后我被狠心赶出家门 At 71, I gave my only daughter a house. After the title was transferred, she heartlessly threw me out. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Don't Look Down on a Middle-Aged Man! I Awaken a Family-Support System in Ancient Times 莫欺中年穷！穿古代觉醒养家系统 [Ancient Setting, Farming, System, Transmigration, Middle-Aged Comeback, Country Cooking, Building Wealth, Alternate History, Historical What-Ifs, Lighthearted Comedy, Rural Life] A realistic look at traditional village farming, with illustrations throughout. Discover traditional farm tools and follow crops through their different stages of growth and harvest. A heartwarming story of everyday life and a family working hard together. Chen Yimin transmigrates to an ancient farming village and bec 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 AI Restored an Old Photo and Uncovered the Heroic Secret Grandpa Had Kept for 66 Years AI修复老照片，揭开爷爷隐瞒66年英雄秘辛 AI restores an old photograph, uncovering the heroic secret Grandpa kept hidden for 66 years. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Suite Affair: How Could My Son Not Look Like My Husband? 包厢劫:儿子怎会长的不像老公 Room 8: How Could My Son Look Nothing Like My Husband? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Desperate Wife 绝望的妻子 Housewife Li Wenqing had been living a comfortable, affluent life. She had an adorable son and got along well with her stepdaughter. But on the eve of their seventh wedding anniversary, Li Wenqing discovered that her husband was having an affair. Longing for a whole and happy family, she endured a painful inner struggle and hoped her husband would see the error of his ways and return to the family. Instead, he went down a path of no return. Betrayed by her husband and stabbed in the back by her 179Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 16 Love in the Kitchen 爱在厨房 Love in the Kitchen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Everything Changed After We Got Drunk 醉酒过后一切变了 Everything Changed After That Drunken Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Middle-Aged Man: A Second Spring 人到中年：男人第二春 He went to prison for three years out of loyalty to a friend! But when he got out, he discovered that his company had gone bankrupt, his wife had betrayed him, and his mother was gravely ill and on the verge of death! But Lin Fei wasn't crushed by life's hardships. Instead, he emerged reborn, rose higher and higher, and soared to success once more! The worst you can do is beg for food. As long as you don't die, you'll have your day! A man should never say he can't do it! 1.8kReads8.8Score241Shelves
- 19 The Pure Wife Awakens 纯妻觉醒 [Romance]+ [Family and everyday life]+ [Self-awakening and ambition]+ [Urban life] Pure-hearted Liu Zi married Yu Feipeng, a classmate she'd had a crush on for years. She thought their marriage was solid, but her masseuse, Xiao Ling, had her eye on her husband. Yu Feipeng fell deep into Xiao Ling's gentle trap and went out of his way to trample on and humiliate Liu Zi… When Liu Zi finally fought back, she discovered that the pure, innocent flower her husband saw in Xiao Ling was actually filthy 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Story of Fei Xin’s Daughter 飞新的女传 [Marriage + Domestic Abuse + Divorce + Blind Date + Online Romance + Finding True Love + Sweet Romance + Silent Treatment] At twenty, Fei Xin was set up by her parents, went on a blind date, got married, suffered domestic abuse, and divorced. At twenty-three, she met an online boyfriend five years younger than her. They got married and had a child! Married Life + Sweet Romance + Silent Treatment —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 At Fifty, She's No Weed, She's a Treasure 50的她不是草其实她是块宝 [Silver-haired wish fulfillment + No rebirth + No System + No pocket dimension + A story focused on positive values] #A 50-year-old farmwife seeks a new beginning# After Lin Meiru discovers her husband has been cheating, she insists on getting a divorce. “You can’t even earn money. How will you survive without me?” Lin Meiru defies the odds and learns to sell things from a street stall after her divorce. The wheels of fate begin to turn... 60Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 22 A Teacher’s Heart Endures, a Dream of Justice Takes Flight 师心未改，法梦初燃 My new work is out! You’re welcome to 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! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Singer Saves the Show: One All-Out Performance Sets the Music World Ablaze 歌手救场：一首火力全开引爆乐坛 With hit songs like “The Only One,” “Change Yourself,” and “A Bridge of Fate,” Su Fan transmigrated to a parallel world and rose to the top as a superstar. But just when he was at the height of his fame, his ex-wife stabbed him in the back with a long social media post. He fell to rock bottom, was branded a disgraced celebrity, and nearly got banned from the industry. A few years later, the singing competition Singer became a huge hit, but the domestic singers were getting utterly crushed. “An o 1.5kReads6.3Score101Shelves
- 24 She Endured Hard Times Until They Turned to Heartache 她把苦日子熬成了伤 Where the stream runs dry, clouds rise into view. At the end of her rope, a woman can be reborn. Only after the agony of being consumed by the fires of nirvana can one behold the dazzling beauty of rebirth. The agony of being consumed by the fires of nirvana, the light of rebirth in real life. Abuse, misery, foolish filial piety, silent endurance... A tearjerker, a battle between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the everyday reality of life... Schemes, breaking out of a deadlock, turning the t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Bargaining Chips on the Road to Promotion 升职路上的筹码 Song Minghui is like a spider at the center of a web, maintaining relationships with three women in different ways. A 26-year-old workplace newcomer, a 35-year-old sales director, and a 41-year-old corporate executive: the web is beginning to unravel as its three “bargaining chips” awaken. - The rules of survival in the workplace's dark forest - How the “prey” turns the tables from a male perspective - The growth of three women, from being used to awakening - Emotional manipulation and counterma 2.5kReads6.3Score154Shelves
- 26 Hang in There, Uncle: I'm Unemployed, but the Mortgage Is Still Due 大叔挺住：失业了，房贷还在 [Not AI-Written! Multiple Heroines! Unemployed Middle-Aged Man + Single Mother + Beloved Daughter of Heaven + Punk Girl...] Zhou Nan was an unremarkable man born in the 1980s. In middle age, he suddenly lost his job. But at that very moment, a mysterious force had already quietly set its sights on him. On one side was a life full of endless troubles; on the other, one beautiful woman after another came his way. There was a single mother, a beloved daughter of heaven, and even a punk girl... Afte 139Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Since I Stopped Putting Up with My Marriage, I've Been Living My Best Life 自从婚姻不再忍着过老娘我爽爆了 Hua Roulan stayed in the big city of Hailing after graduating from university. Her husband, Cheng Chuanhe, had a doctorate and ran a company. “You don't earn as much as I do. What gives you the right to make me do the housework?” Whenever Cheng Chuanhe flew into a rage, he erupted like a landslide, completely hysterical. Arguments between married couples are inevitable, but he resorted to verbal attacks and emotional abuse... She really couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to keep enduri 36Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 28 The Unconventional Zoo 不正经动物园 Lin Qi has just graduated from college when he inherits his family's island zoo. He expects a peaceful, leisurely life, but every animal in the zoo has gone completely off the rails. The tiger, king of beasts, doesn't hunt its prey. Instead, it clings to a Tibetan Mastiff and begs for affection every day. The seemingly lazy cat stays up all night, hopelessly addicted to mobile games. A gorilla has become a cat's caretaker and is such a skilled streamer that its broadcasts attract countless fans. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Our Long River of Years 我们的岁月长河 Our Long River of Years is divided into three parts. Following the ordinary lives of three generations of Zhao Jiafu’s family, railway workers, it spans from the 1950s to the 2020s. It recounts the joys and sorrows, happiness and heartbreak, and everyday troubles experienced by the three generations of the Zhao family and the ordinary people around them over the long river of time. It depicts the turbulent lives of ordinary people as the times change and society develops. Time flows like a river 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Bold Pursuit, Secret Indulgence 强撩与暗宠 On one side, his female boss pulls him into an emotional tug-of-war. On the other, the female dean offers him a healing companionship. Caught between them, he doesn't want to give up his stable job, but he can't bear to let go of the peace and comfort she brings, either. Choosing between them becomes his greatest dilemma. 4.5kReads7.1Score393Shelves
- 31 Chang'an County 长安县 “Golden Zhouzhi, silver Huxian, Chang’an County is where they kill and burn...” goes a saying in Shaanxi. The author takes you into Chang’an County, where they kill and burn. This panoramic portrait of the customs and local life of Chang’an County, Xi’an, Shaanxi, depicts rural life in all its unvarnished authenticity: an ancient village, a great burial mound rising from the earth, and four clans descended from the tomb guardians... A secret buried for a thousand years, the scheming and rivalrie 4.2kReads9.2Score400Shelves
- 32 Women on the Career Ladder 职场路上的女人们 Amid the shifting tides of the crowded world, people are always boarding ships and leaving them behind. When they came riding the waves, they carried unspoken obsessions. When they turned away, the hems of their robes swept up the stars, while the warmth frozen in their palms seeped forever into the course of the voyage. 836Reads7.1Score104Shelves
- 33 A Love Triangle in Marriage 婚姻里的三角恋 [Contemporary realistic fiction + the married life of ordinary people in Beijing + love triangles in marriage + real struggles] Bai Xue and Wang Yang are a young married couple living in Beijing. Wang Yang is a typical “phoenix man,” a country boy who made it big in the city. After ten years of marriage, he cheats on her. After they divorce, Bai Xue meets another man, and her new life begins… What makes this book special: A woman faces betrayal in her marriage, but after the hardship comes 1.4kReads8.8Score139Shelves
- 34 Just a Marriage 婚姻而已 Entering marriage takes courage; making it work takes wisdom. This story follows the different experiences and futures of the three Yang sisters in their marriages, and how they come to their senses and grow with the help of Lin Zimo, their sister-in-law from their maiden home. 855Reads6.6Score116Shelves
- 35 Zhao Jiji’s Love Story After Divorce 赵吉吉离婚后的爱情故事 To be loved is an extension of self-love! I thought I'd shut myself off from love for good, but I never expected to meet him in my forties... After her son takes the college entrance exam, Zhao Jiji divorces her ex-husband. She delivers food, works as a real estate agent and caregiver, and writes novels, doing her best to make a life for herself. While working as a caregiver, she meets a man she once went on a blind date with, and the two begin a beautiful relationship. 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Gluttonous Quick Transmigration: A Record of Years Spent Surviving Tribulations 饕餮快穿：渡劫经年录 I was once Taotie, a malevolent beast from the Primordial Era. From childhood, Bai Ze and I could never stand each other. He was an auspicious creature, while I was a ferocious beast. I secretly ate the medicinal herbs Shennong had left behind, committing a grave sin. But because I carried the bloodline of an ancient divine beast, the Heavenly Emperor granted me special clemency: I was to save those unfortunate women and earn merit to offset my sins by inhabiting them and living out their lives. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Beauty Like a Flower, Years Flowing Like Water 如花美眷似水流年 This is the story of Fang Fei’s growth as love and fate intertwine. From the innocence of her first love to complicated emotional entanglements, Fang Fei experiences betrayal, loss, and being reborn. Her relationships with three men reveal the tolerance and devotion love can inspire. In the end, Fang Fei finds herself through love and responsibility, showing that love means far more than romance. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Beneath the Shackles, Born Toward the Light 枷锁之下，向光而生 Orphaned Jiang Yufei bears the truth behind her mother’s brutal death. Struggling to survive her stepmother’s abuse and her father’s betrayal, she grows up and enters a love-hate relationship with Lin Yimo, the boy her mother once saved. Together, they uncover the conspiracy and find redemption in a revenge romance full of pain. Exceptionally tender, thrilling, and sweetly indulgent: the heroine is cherished like a queen. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 In Search of Her Trail 寻觅芳踪 A nostalgic romance about migrant workers in the 1990s! Packed with details from the decade: pagers, IC-card payphones, green passenger trains, letters from factory girls, radios, cassette tapes, VCDs, stickers of Hong Kong and Taiwanese stars, polyester shirts, woven-plastic sacks, assembly lines, overtime pay, temporary residence permits, and running faster than a rabbit when the police came to check them... 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 I Blew Up the Cultivation World with a Single Wok 我用一口锅，炸了修真界 Shen Yin, a woodcutter from Nanshan, knew no more than two hundred characters. His greatest wish in life was to marry a woman who owned three cows. One day, a white-robed fairy fell from the sky, smashed his cooking pot, and compensated him with a book. He couldn't recognize most of the words in it. For the ones he knew, he followed the instructions. For the ones he didn't, he guessed. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 They Call Me the Office Cutie, and I’m Loving It 我在单位被称小美女，我“赢麻了 At work, they call me a cutie. I’m totally winning. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Love Is Always Part of Life 人生总有爱 Li Ming came from a rural family. At university, his teacher, Zhao Qiang, introduced him to his daughter, Zhao Na, and the two married. During their fifteen years of marriage, they had a son named Li Xuan, who is now a first-year high school student. Zhao Na had a knack for business, and her company thrived. She bought the family home and car. Li Ming worked diligently as a university lecturer. Every month, he gave two thousand yuan to his parents, kept fifteen hundred for himself, and used the 229Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 43 The Story of Three Working Girls 三个打工女孩的故事 Three young women of the same age, each from a different family background and with a different personality, head to Guancheng to find work. Set in the 1990s, their experiences capture the memories of an entire era. When their birth families are thrown into turmoil, should they stand by and do nothing, lend a hand, or sacrifice their dignity to help them through it? Some come to repay their parents' kindness, while others only cause their parents trouble. The three girls each have a different an 7.2kReads9.0Score580Shelves
- 44 Her Secret Thoughts: A Young Man’s Hidden Diary in a Small Village 致她的心事：小村青年的隐秘日记 No formulaic plot | Not a wish-fulfillment novel | Realistic fiction | Zhou Zhiqiang grows up amid poverty and chaos in her birth family, with her father instilling in her the survival rule that “you have to please people to survive.” She gets into college and lands a job at a bank. A well-off man, Ke Qingyan, pursues her, but as the truth about her family comes out, she gradually loses her self-respect and her relationship. Later, burdened with debt, she returns to her hometown and, under he 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Rising to the Top in Midlife 人到中年之青云直上 Xiao Yi was middle-aged when he was sentenced to prison for an illegal loan. Three years later, when he walked out of the prison gates, everything he had once owned was gone. His career, family, and wife had all left him. Then one phone call completely changed his fate. He returned to his old workplace and carefully worked his way up, earning promotion after promotion. From then on, his fortunes turned around. He rode against the current and lived life on his own terms! 4.9kReads9.1Score617Shelves
- 46 Sunshine Everywhere 随处可见的阳光 Wang Baisheng was unlucky, yet somehow seemed lucky, too. His first love left him in unbearable pain… On the road after running away from home, he rescued Wang Yajing. Then, at her father’s company, he met Li Mengqi. From then on, his fate was entwined with women… Though perhaps that’s an exaggeration… 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Chunfen 春芬 Ni Chunfen had known since she was little that her parents were different from other children’s parents. They both spoke with sign language. But they lived a happy life. After Ni Chunfen graduated from college, her parents told her a secret: she was adopted. Now that she was grown up and looking for a job and a boyfriend, they decided to tell her. They didn’t want their daughter to become romantically involved with one of their biological sons. If she ever got serious about a boyfriend, she had 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Divorce: A Battle That Reveals Human Nature 离婚撕开人性的博弈 What is marriage really like? No one can say for sure. It is no longer a matter of whether you love each other, but a battle between love and money. Nor is divorce something you can simply declare with a wave of your hand. Marriage is not just a lovestruck person's complaints or a discarded wife's grievances. Once a marriage turns into a fight, it becomes a brutal clash of human nature. Reality is no fairy tale. The romance of the past eventually gives way to the petty details of everyday life. 7.1kReads9.1Score768Shelves
- 49 Tales of the Pearl River Delta 珠三角往事 [Realistic fiction, adapted from real life.] No rebirth, no transmigration, no golden finger. Here, people get what they deserve in this life. Zhang Yang, a young stonemason with superhuman strength, a chivalrous heart, a manly good looks, and a body built like a rock. He catches his girlfriend cheating, beats up a corrupt official's son, and flees to the Pearl River Delta. But fate just won't let him escape the meddling of every rich young master surnamed Zhao. Southeast Asia, northern Myanmar, 494Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Transmigration: I’m Crushing My Scumbag Ex in a Parallel World 穿越：我在平行世界爆虐渣男前夫 (Soul transmigration and a creative premise + healing from childhood family trauma) One morning, Tang Wanwan wakes up and discovers she has transmigrated... The wounds inflicted by your birth family must be healed within that family. Love is a kind of redemption, a light that gathers lost time. Somehow, it was all destined to be. She is financially independent, beautiful, and sophisticated. He is handsome and wickedly charming, but hopelessly addicted to gambling. It was love at first sight. She 3Reads—Score—Shelves
