Novels like Ugly Duckling's Comeback: The System Forces Me to Become a Gold Digger
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Ugly Duckling's Comeback: The System Forces Me to Become a Gold Digger, best match first.
- 1 A Golden Toad: Leave the Matters of Intellectuals to Us 蛤蟆镶金：文化人的事你别管 [Villains abound] [Throw your head back and howl] Scholar! Would you like a golden toad, a silver toad, or an ugly old frog? The little head of the family is fierce, but she provides room and board! The little clan chief is wicked. She doesn't pay wages, and she even cheats! The little head of the family chooses the scholar! He talks sweetly and doesn't even want money! Doesn't want money! The big servant ૮₍•́₃•̀₎ა 15.9kReads6.6Score2kShelves
- 2 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: My Physical Condition Refreshes Daily 凡人修仙：我的身体状态每日刷新 [Entirely handwritten, no AI, mortal-style progression, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and decisive killing] [The animated drama of the same name is now streaming on Hongguo.] [The main point is that not a single word is wasted.] Chu Ran transmigrated into the cultivation world, but possessed only a low-grade spiritual root and could barely cultivate. Just as he was on the verge of death, he awakened his golden finger. Whether it was poison, depletion of blood essence or lif 63.9kReads8.3Score7.9kShelves
- 3 After My Daughter Woke Up from a Car Accident, She Started Acting Strange 女儿出车祸醒来后，她不对劲了 After her daughter woke up from a car accident, something about her had changed. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Fake and Real Heirs Are Getting Married, and the Sickly Prince Has Lost All Will to Live 真假世子要成亲，病弱王爷生此无可再恋 The true and false heirs are about to wed, while the frail prince has lost all hope for love. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Marriage Hunt: After a Suitcase Swap, I Somehow Became a Kidnapper 姻猜寻：皮箱调包后我竟然成为绑匪 Marriage Guessing: After the Suitcase Swap, I Somehow Became a Kidnapper —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Heiress Locked in an Asylum Has Returned 被关疯人院的大小姐回来了 [Face-slapping and scum-bashing + sweet romance + both leads are virgins + marriage first, love later + revenge + no saintly heroine] Rumor had it that the young master of the Li family, a man who never went near women, had suddenly arrived in Shencheng and specifically asked to see the Lu family's mute heiress. The Lu family's eldest daughter had been gone from public view for eight years. Everyone thought she was dead. Only the Lu family knew that her stepmother had locked her in a mental as 554Reads8.1Score105Shelves
- 7 I Steal the Male Lead's Luck for My Brother, and He Won't Stop Kissing Me! 替哥哥吸男主气运，被疯狂缠吻！ [Mutually Devoted Couple] [Silly, Sweet Romance] [Noble Academy] [The Strongest, Wooden Girl X The World-Weary, Mad Ice Prince] Tang Mi suspects her brother is possessed. He's been plagued by bad luck, and insists he's bound to some bizarre System. To stay alive, he has to absorb the male lead's luck. Her brother, barely alive: "We need to get... physically close." Huh? What? Tang Mi: "Whose luck do I absorb?" He looks utterly despondent. "The Crown Prince, Shang Que." Tang Mi falls silent. Mayb 81.3kReads9.2Score18.7kShelves
- 8 Building Amusement Parks Across Ten Thousand Worlds 我在万界建游乐场 [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Another World] [爽文] [Golden Finger] [Ensemble Cast] [Wild Imagination] Ever since taking over the shabby little amusement park her mother left her, Guan Qin'er had gone more than half a year without a decent meal. She had no money, no connections, and no visitors. On the brink of bankruptcy, she spent every penny from her part-time job repairing the park's old equipment, yet she still couldn't make ends meet. Who could have guessed she'd get such a lucky break? 3.6kReads—Score559Shelves
- 9 Gods' Game: You Call the Great Sage a Monkey? 诸神游戏：你们管大圣叫吗喽？ (The rating has just opened, and will rise later) [Fresh Premise] [Chinese Mythology] [Genius Academy] [Leveling] [Protective Allies] The game Godfall descends upon reality, and mythologies around the world revive. The beginner dungeon from the start: Havoc in Heaven. All the players declare confidently, "A hundred thousand against one. We have the advantage. Picking the Heavenly Court is a sure win!" "The other side is just a monkey! Only an idiot would pick them!" Jiang Li, who transmigrated h 117.5kReads8.5Score24.4kShelves
- 10 I Am Not Worthy of Being Called the Savior 我担不起救世主之名 Millions of years from now, who will remember that a handful of dust gave birth to a civilization? Beyond the heavens, civilizations rise and fall in the blink of an eye, vanishing into the vast universe. Who will remember that I once fought back on that planet? I bore the name of savior, yet failed to save everything: all that I loved, and all those who loved me. My name is Lin Chen, the last guardian of Gades. 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Devoted Second Male Lead Doesn’t Want to Take the Lead 深情男二不想上位 The Devoted Second Male Lead Doesn’t Want to Move Up 7.1kReads—Score218Shelves
- 12 Why Hasn’t Assistant Chen Gotten a Divorce Yet? 陈助怎么还不离婚 Roguish CEO · Amnesiac with a child | One pursues, the other keeps her distance | Winning her back 80% from the hero’s perspective | One-on-one romance | Sweet with a touch of angst | Happy ending | Both leads are each other’s first and only After a car accident, Zong Zhengbai wakes up with amnesia and, somehow, a child. The little one is a sweet, innocent crybaby who keeps calling Assistant Chen “Mom.” Chen Cong is lovely, but unfortunately, she has a husband. By chance, Zong Zhengbai catches h 5.9kReads8.9Score734Shelves
- 13 My Secret Crush Owes Me 100,000 and Hasn't Paid Me Back in Nine Years 暗恋男神欠我10万，9年未还 My Secret Crush Owes Me 100,000 and Hasn't Paid Me Back in Nine Years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The System Forces Me to Win Them Over: Motherland, Come Get Me, Now! 系统强制攻略，祖国，速捞！ [Slow Travel] Su Yu accidentally binds herself to a System. It demands that she travel through various worlds and win over powerful bigwigs with wildly different personalities. Countless bigwigs are waiting for her to win them over and become devoted to her. She is supposed to take a blade for them, stand by them as they rise to power, and finally make the chosen child of fortune, who is devoted to his career, go mad with love. The System tells Su Yu that as long as she completes her missions, w 102.2kReads9.0Score17.1kShelves
- 15 To Save My Beloved, I Have to Win Over the Devoted Second Male Lead 为救爱人只好攻略深情男配 [Two-sided pursuit and groveling + 1v2 + melodrama + twists + each man is the other’s rival] [Sweet-faced but secretly ruthless girl from humble origins & scheming, embittered man gone dark & self-sacrificing idealized first love] On the third day Lu Xizhou was moved to intensive care, Chen Guanshi signed the critical condition notice. The System told her that if she successfully won over the male supporting character, Ji Yuyan, she could save Lu Xizhou. After completing the mission, Chen Guansh 21.2kReads9.0Score3.6kShelves
- 16 The Illusion Dye Rankings: Transmigrating to a Matriarchal Kingdom with a Library 染幻榜：携图书馆穿越女尊国 All beings are stained; dreams give birth to illusions. Love brings attachment; cause and effect become thoughts. This is a true female-dominant novel, free of all the fake female-dominant tropes. Shifting the pain of childbirth onto men and using physical strength to bully the weak is not true female dominance; Using a golden finger to raise male partners and relying on them to climb the social ladder is not true female dominance; Taking a high position and collecting male attendants to belittl 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Prejudice and Love 偏见与宠爱 Prejudice and Devotion —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Rose from Disgraced Imperial Consort to Noble Consort by Cooking Sichuan Cuisine 我靠做川味美食，从冷宫废妃晋升成贵妃 I rise from a discarded concubine in the Cold Palace to a Noble Consort by cooking Sichuan cuisine. 648Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Marriage Riddles: Every Ordeal Leads to a Perfect Match 姻猜寻：历劫皆为美满良缘 Matchmaking Mysteries: Every Trial Leads to a Happy Match —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Marriage Riddles: Who Killed Whom? 姻猜寻：谁杀谁 Matchmaking Mysteries: Who Kills Whom? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Became the Short-Lived Ex-Girlfriend of an Amnesiac Young Master 穿成失忆太子爷的短命前女友 Xu Shuyao wakes up in the body of Fu Yanci’s short-lived, universally hated ex-girlfriend. The male lead was kidnapped at ten and lost his memory. Later, while working away from home, he was in a car accident, and the original owner took credit for saving his life. Taking over the mess, Xu Shuyao just wants to stay alive and run, far away from the plot’s whirlpool. But why is the male lead’s gaze getting stranger and stranger? It’s almost like he’s trying to seduce her. At her convenience-store —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A Background Character's Tasks Are Up to Fate, but Merit Will Make Me a God 路人甲任务随缘，积累功德成神 Quick transmigration + System + space + no fixed CP + merit + infrastructure development + godhood Modern office worker Shen Miao had piles of copy to write every day and still had to work overtime at night. One evening, on her way home from work, she was hit by a car and died on the spot. She was bound to a glowing orb called the Passerby A System. The orb told her that if she accumulated merit in every novel world, she could become a god. Shen Miao traveled through three thousand planes and li 15.9kReads—Score4.1kShelves
- 23 The Starlight in Her Eyes 她眼里的星光 The Starlight in Her Eyes 886Reads—Score101Shelves
- 24 My Dad's a Blondie, and My Mom's a Greenie 我爸是黄毛，我妈是绿毛 My Dad's a Blondie, and My Mom's a Greenie 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Passed the Palace Exam, and You're Telling Me I'm a Princess? 我都中状元了，你说我是公主？ [No romance, female emperor] Yun Zhao is reborn into the family of a wealthy merchant in ancient times. At first, she thinks a life of comfort, with everything she needs and someone to look after her, sounds pretty good. Then she learns that being single is actually a crime in the Da Ning Dynasty! Any unmarried woman aged sixteen or older, or man aged nineteen or older, must pay a fine of two taels of silver each year. Unmarried women aged twenty or older, and men aged twenty-two or older, will 40.4kReads8.8Score5.3kShelves
- 26 You Do Your Thing, I'll Do Mine 你逃你的，我搞我的 One cry of "Take off your pants!" leaves the bride brought in to bring good fortune stunned. She has barely transmigrated when bandits block the road, her groom runs off, and she is forced to wed a rooster. She kicks the ceremonial rooster to death and is made to kneel in the ancestral hall. Men can't be relied on, so she'll guard the family fortune herself! He can run away, while she gets on with her own plans! With a set of peerless silver needles, she cures her paralyzed father-in-law and sec 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Great Ming: I, Zheng Jing, Launch a Counterattack from the Sea 大明，我郑经从海上开始反攻 [Ming Dynasty + Counterattack + Sea Power + Free Trade + Manor Economy] Starting in 1662, I transmigrate as Zheng Jing, the son of Zheng Chenggong. I inherit my father’s last wishes, vow to resist the Qing and restore the Ming. From the start, I relocate to Taiwan to farm, reclaim wasteland, establish manors, and develop a manor economy. I cut off maritime trade between the north and south, acting as both middleman and tax collector. Within a few years, our money and grain stores grow, our fleet 73.8kReads8.7Score7.4kShelves
- 28 Essence World 1: The Artificial Human Arc 精世索1人造人篇 This complete series explores the love, hatred, grudges, and passions among humans, ghosts, gods, demons, immortals, monsters, Buddhas, and spirits. The only person who could reveal the relationships among these eight beings and the mysteries of the universe mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Their surviving manuscripts are scattered around the world, but no clues have ever emerged. Years later, someone claiming to be a god appeared and began destroying the Earth. Fortunately, a person w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 After My Boyfriend Was Kicked Out of His Rich Family, I Took Care of Him 男友被踢出豪门后，我养他 After My Boyfriend Was Kicked Out of the Wealthy Family, I Supported Him 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The System Was Delayed by a Century, and I Became a Global Shareholder 系统延迟一坤年，我成了全球股东 [Urban tycoon + System + college life + lighthearted comedy + connections and business rivalries + low-key power fantasy + no female lead] [Over a million words already serialized, with a guaranteed minimum of regular updates for months. This author's ongoing work is dependable.] Lu Yibei wakes up with a start and finds that he has transmigrated from Earth to Blue Star. He thought he could reach the pinnacle of life by plagiarizing works from his old world, but he can't remember enough to produc 60.6kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
- 31 Help! The Brooding Heartthrob Has a Weird Habit of Flirting with and Sniffing Me 救命！闷骚男神有怪癖总爱撩闻我 [Millennium-era campus romance × sweet and doting, no angst] [A laid-back heroine who works hard at her studies × a seemingly proper hero who secretly knows how to flirt] In the summer of 2005, Lu Zhanlan had a dream. The world she lived in was a novel, and she was a supporting character in her younger sister's story. Before Lu Zhanlan could make sense of it all, a collision on the school building's stairs sent her life veering off course. Their collision was straight out of a romance drama, but 2.5kReads8.1Score338Shelves
- 32 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Tore My Ex's White Moonlight to Shreds! 穿越古代手撕白月光前夫！ [Ruthless villainess heroine who acts first and never wastes words × madly devoted male lead who chases his wife to the crematorium + cold-faced, scheming prince] [Ancient political intrigue + a family of three transmigrates + the whole family faces the consequences + a power-fantasy heroine goes on a rampage] After a car accident, modern actress Jiang Yuan unexpectedly transmigrates to ancient times. She becomes Jiang Si, a disposable widow in Muchuan Prefecture, and from the start, she’s hande 202Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A Mortal Looking Down on Honghuang 人在凡尘，俯视洪荒 One day, Tang Hao received a strangely shaped box. Inside was a mysterious world, shrunk countless times over. There were towering mountains and mighty rivers, sun, moon, and stars drifting through the heavens, strange and wondrous flowers, birds, fish, and insects, and flocks of beasts and birds roosting together! A bizarre creature with a human face and a serpent's body charged toward a towering mountain that reached the heavens. It was as if the world had reached its end. The earth collapsed, 435Reads7.1Score103Shelves
- 34 I Signed Up to Be a Fan Site Photographer, So What’s with This Hater System? 说好当站姐，这黑子系统什么鬼？ (The rating has only just been posted, so it will gradually rise.) Jiang Wenyu had been hating on Qin Fan for six years, cursing him so relentlessly that she became a legend among his antis. Until the truth finally came out: she had been hating the wrong person. Overcome with regret, she collapsed. When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day auditions were filmed six years ago. She vowed that in this life, she would become Qin Fan’s most dedicated fan-site photographer. But then, [Di 22.6kReads8.7Score2.1kShelves
- 35 My Boyfriend Has to Kiss a Cockroach Queen Every Day 男友每天都要亲一口母蟑螂 My Boyfriend Has to Kiss the Mother Cockroach Every Day —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The White Rose and the Vampire 白玫瑰与吸血鬼 The White Rose and the Vampire 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I’m Fighting for Favor in the Palace, and You’re Watching the Show??? 我在宫斗，你在看戏？？？ A no-holds-barred harem showdown. Got the guts to join? ^_^ [Pure palace intrigue + characters who aren't dumbed down + clear-headed heroine + no pointless self-torment + cheerful and lighthearted] After Qiu Ju dies, she transmigrates to the Qianyuan Dynasty and becomes a low-ranking palace maid. Because she doesn't want to get up at three in the morning to work, she decides to seduce the emperor... Her modest goal: become a consort who has to get up no earlier than five in the morning... 5.4kReads9.0Score492Shelves
- 38 My CEO Boyfriend Is Crazy About Me 霸总男友超爱我 My CEO Boyfriend Is Crazy About Me 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Super Son-in-Law 超级姑爷 Lin Mo, the live-in son-in-law everyone looks down on, is actually the king of the world and the heir to a top-tier family. 2.7kReads8.1Score242Shelves
- 40 You're All I See Out of the Corner of My Eye 余光中都是你 You are always in the corner of my eye; wherever we go, we will meet again. At every moment in life, you need to be a little braver. At every moment in life, you should love wholeheartedly. Life's greatest surprises are the encounters you could never have foreseen. Its sorrows, too, are the fears you never knew were waiting for you. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 I Am No Saint 我非圣仁 The Creator God perished, leaving behind a terrible mess. With the Withered Origin invading, is the person beside you still the same person? Shen Yuan watched the people around her come and go, then smiled. They all chose you, but I want to live, too. I'm not as clever as the person you all miss, nor can I predict everything like a prophet, but I've never lost a game of chess. With nothing better to do, I enter the game myself. Hidden rules, grotesque and uncanny, are nothing special after all. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Two Years as a Doormat, Then One Heavy Rain Woke Me Up 舔狗两年，一场大雨浇醒了我 After Two Years of Chasing Him, a Downpour Woke Me Up 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After Marriage, the Tide Rises 婚后潮起 [Married first, fell in love later; no angst, sweet romance; a strong heroine with a solid sense of self; an upright, open-minded hero] Zhou Ying thought she had few emotional needs, but Qi Tianye’s thoughtfulness and tenderness gradually wore down her defenses. In the end, she still fell for him. Qi Tianye had always thought he would only fall in love once in his life. He had never imagined that another woman could find her way into his heart. “Do you believe in love at first sight?” “No.” “Wh 2.1kReads—Score169Shelves
- 44 Nobody Told Me I'd Need to Swing a Sledgehammer in the Beast World! 没人告诉我兽世要会抡大锤啊！ Beast world, one female to multiple males, female supremacy, supernatural abilities, strong females and males. Many descriptions of female supremacy. Content warnings are provided, so don't read if you dislike it. Or click the top-left corner to leave. Keep the comments civil, and may we all be happy. Lan Yuan was born into the beast world, and thought she'd get to live the sort of easy, carefree life she'd seen in all those beast-world stories she read in her previous life, surrounded by hands 45.7kReads8.9Score8.9kShelves
- 45 Living Off Others Is Part of My Persona! 吃软饭！是人设 Other people on quick transmigration journeys become saviors, big shots, or legends who defy fate in their mission worlds. Fang Zhiyuan is different: he's bound to a "live-off-a-woman System," and specializes in becoming a kept man, a live-in son-in-law, and a professional freeloader. One moment, he's an unlucky guy crushed to death by someone jumping off a building. The next, he's reborn as a bookish prodigy from a poor mountain village. System 188 tells him: he mustn't strive to better himself 202.1kReads8.9Score18.2kShelves
- 46 The Villainess Only Wants to Stay Alive 恶役女配她只想活命 [Love at first sight + slice of life + fragile heroine + not a power fantasy + not a strong female lead + multiple POVs + relies on the male lead + heroine fans beware + both virgins + half-human, half-dragon] Money-loving, stingy dragon-born hero vs. fragile, lustful ordinary girl When Yu Chenxue woke up, she discovered she was living in a dragon-born hero novel, and she was the vicious supporting character who wouldn’t survive ten chapters. The male lead in the book, Chen Yanfan, came from a c 462.7kReads9.2Score90.4kShelves
- 47 After a Curvy Beauty Transmigrates as a Villainess, She Goes Off the Rails 丰腴美人穿成恶毒女配后，发疯了 [Vicious Beauty vs. Feudal Patriarch] [System-induced electric shocks + combative married couple + male lead’s instinctive attraction] Ji Qingran transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked supporting female character. The System tells her she’ll get one hundred million after completing her mission. All she has to do is follow the plot. Easy enough. She schemes to trap the male lead into marrying her, calls him a rooster who can’t lay eggs, slaps him, and hurts his nephew… She can’t stray f 72.6kReads8.3Score7kShelves
- 48 Bestie, Your Boyfriend Likes Me 闺蜜你的男友喜欢我呢 [Story complete] [Villainous women + both leads are sexually experienced + both leads' best friends are awful too + B-de] Content warning: The heroine and her best friend have a genuine romance early on, with plenty of interaction. At a business dinner, Guan Xiyue received a breakup message from her boyfriend: “Xiyue, I'm sorry. I've hopelessly fallen in love with your best friend.” She had no time to grieve before her boss called. She rushed back to the dinner, where she was cornered with no wa 177.9kReads9.2Score19.9kShelves
- 49 Absolute Obedience System: Reborn in Hong Kong, Taking Control of the Entertainment Industry 绝对服从系统，重生香江控制港娱 Back in 1975, Lin Yichen owns a clothing factory on the verge of bankruptcy and a fat-cat System that does nothing but make snide remarks. He wants to keep a low profile, but the System insists he reach the pinnacle of success by “binding a sexy songstress and controlling an innocent jade beauty.” So he can only “reluctantly” bring one future goddess after another under his wing. He has a financial prodigy peel shrimp for him, makes a kung fu empress do a handstand in a helicopter, and has a fut 37Reads—Score120Shelves
- 50 Reviving the Northeast, Giving Millions of Workers Maxed-Out Buffs 东北振兴，千万员工BUFF拉满 [Reviving Northeast China's Industry] + [Real Industry Reigns Supreme] + [A Multitude of Cross-Sector Businesses] + [Infrastructure Development] + [Ten Million Employees] + [Global Expansion] He awoke in a new era. Back in Northeast China in 1995. State-owned enterprises were struggling, factories were run-down, and laid-off workers were everywhere. The once-glorious industrial heartland of the Northeast was steadily fading. “System?” “Start factories and companies, hire employees...” “Eac 212.6kReads9.0Score17.5kShelves
