Novels like An Era of Striving
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as An Era of Striving, best match first.
- 151 What to Do When You Get the Wrong Cheat 开错外挂怎么办 In this small port on the southern frontier, Inspector Li just wants to be an honest, upright police officer who can still make some money. But somehow, he activated the wrong cheat. “A Hong Kong crime-fiction novel.” Recommended: the author’s new book, Reborn: An Outsider in the Entertainment Industry 0Votes368.5kRecs401.1kFans
- 152 Turbulent 1979! 激荡1979！ This literary giant is no ordinary man! He wears luxury watches, drives expensive cars, lives in a mansion, and is close to several actresses. He shaped not only one generation's childhood, but the childhoods of several generations, and their childhood idols, too. Want to know why he's so bold? Wei Ming: “I was already earning foreign currency back in 1980. The culture I exported on my own was worth about as much as the entire contemporary literary scene. I've spent my whole life writing novels. 358Votes382.2kRecs576.1kFans
- 153 Back to the Prosperous Years to Live an Ordinary Life 回到红火岁月做俗人 A glutton transmigrates to an era of scarce food and clothing, and strives to live as an ordinary person with plenty to eat and drink. A sensible story, with little brutality and characters who have their wits about them. No multiverse, no double transmigration, no System, no farming space, just a portable warehouse that could starve a mouse to death. No copying, pasting, or plagiarism. Entirely handwritten, not produced by a studio. A slow-paced slice-of-life story that reflects the era. Aside 331Votes210.3kRecs418.7kFans
- 154 Yanggang Community 洋港社区 A banking star, retiring to the countryside, keeping a low profile in the community. He wants to stay under the radar, but his abilities won't let him! 0Votes159.1kRecs49.8kFans
- 155 EN The Steadfast Sword Cultivator 这个剑修有点稳 Lu Qingshan, a well-known player ranked among the top ten sword cultivators in Nine Heavens, transmigrates and is reborn in the game world he has always strived for. Sword cultivators deal the highest damage in Nine Heavens, but have the lowest health, earning their players the nickname “reckless bruisers.” In this life, Lu Qingshan still chooses to play a sword cultivator. Only, this sword cultivator seems to be a little too cautious...??? 2Votes181.8kRecs446.7kFans
- 156 The Warden Who Guards the Witches 看守魔女们的典狱长 What’s it like to be a prison warden in another world? Thieves, pirates, assassins, master con artists, terrorists… Werewolves, vampires, witches, necromancers, succubi… This is the Rose Iron Prison, home to the most dangerous witches in the world. “I’m going to turn this place into the best model prison in the world!” So declared a prison guard who had transmigrated to another world. “Warden, someone’s escaped again!” “Bring them back and lock them in solitary.” Another peaceful day at the Rose 4Votes60.9kRecs327.3kFans
- 157 The Main God Is Dead from the Start 开局主神挂了 The story of reincarnators roaming the myriad heavens after the Main God explodes on the spot. The first world is a Republican-era crossover collection: The Swordsman in Double Flag Town, A Chinese Odyssey, Let the Bullets Fly, The Grandmaster, and Fist of Fury. P.S. I don't like following the original plot. 0Votes55.3kRecs98.2kFans
- 158 The Strongest Demon Hunter Across the Heavens 诸天最强猎魔人 A street on a rainy night. A black trench coat, its water-beaded brim hiding half the wearer’s face. A bloodstained longsword gripped in one hand. The revolver in its holster is itching to be drawn. A burning cigarette has yet to hit the ground. A flash of lightning splits the sky, and evil lurking in the shadows lets out a frightened, uneasy hiss. This is the story of Cole Walker, a transmigrator who arrives in a world rife with danger and, with the help of the Myriad Worlds Arrival System, 2Votes81kRecs126.1kFans
- 159 The Sun and Moon of the Flourishing Tang Dynasty 盛唐日月 No System, no wise old mentor, and he starts off being chased by wolves. He finally realizes he's transmigrated to the Tang dynasty, only to discover that even the Tang dynasty requires ID cards... See how history's unluckiest transmigrator carves out a place for himself in the Tang dynasty. 0Votes219.5kRecs112.8kFans
- 160 The Mecha World 机战世界 In another space-time, there was a pentagram-shaped star system with five solar systems aligned in the universe. When a transmigrator encountered a super AI from another world, all hell broke loose. Countless mechs stood in formation, with battleships roaring behind them. At the very front stood a lone mech. That's right, this is my mech army. This is a forgotten world, but it has mechs. 0Votes174.4kRecs67kFans
- 161 I Have a Catalog of Ghosts and Gods 我有一卷鬼神图录 Jiang Zhou is brought to the Great Ji by a scroll of ghostly records. Using half an episode of Journey to the West on his phone, he fools a vicious demoness into complete submission. Claiming to be a disciple of Mount Lingtai Fangcun and the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars, he sets out on a path to the heavens... Demons run rampant, yet immortals dwell in the mortal world. With one ancient register, he gains the blessings of creation. He commands the execution of ghosts, confers titles 1Votes132.4kRecs494.2kFans
- 162 The Age of Cinema 电影的时代 In the summer of 2000, Tang Yan graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and plunged headfirst into the desolate film industry, an era that belonged to cinema. 0Votes119.5kRecs175.1kFans
- 163 1981 一九八一年 I recommend my books The Ming Empire: The Sun Never Sets, The Soul of the Han at the End of the Ming, and I'm One Year Older Than Chongzhen. 0Votes308.2kRecs244.5kFans
- 164 Old Soldiers, New Cops 老兵新警 I never wanted to take off my military uniform upon retirement. I had never dared hope that I could become a police officer, yet I ended up wearing a police uniform. I resolved to put down roots at the border and guard the nation's gates, only to be transferred back to my hometown. Fate is truly wondrous. Come and witness Han Xin's extraordinary life, from olive green to navy blue! 2Votes405.7kRecs294.3kFans
- 165 Reborn to Rule the Internet 重生之网络争霸 Reborn in 2001. The timing is a little awkward. Tencent has been founded, Alibaba has appeared, and Baidu is already making money... So what's the point of being reborn? No worries. Since being reborn is useless, I'll come back and live off a woman instead. But Chen Yu, who only wanted to be a kept man, accidentally ended up unifying the internet. From the author of the completed works Reborn: I Am a Book Maniac, with over 40,000 subscriptions, and I Am an All-Round Superstar, with over 20,000 s 3Votes291.8kRecs218.7kFans
- 166 Reborn as the Capitalist Empire's Mogul 重生之资本帝国 When a soul from twenty years in the future is reborn in the body of a young man of Chinese descent with Mexican citizenship, the world is changed forever. Faced with an era of upheaval, Guo Shouyun's ambition surges to unprecedented heights. The internet, wars, the subprime mortgage crisis, the European debt crisis: he seizes every opportunity to make a fortune. After twenty years of painstaking effort, he builds the mightiest financial empire of the twenty-first century! Conspiracy theorists: 0Votes108.5kRecs153.3kFans
- 167 80s Wife Is Sweet and Sassy 八零媳妇又甜又飒 [Devoted to each other, one couple, married first and fall in love later, sweet and satisfying] In her previous life, Chu Qiao obeyed her father at home and her husband after marriage, working tirelessly without complaint. When she lay on the operating table in labor, her mother-in-law, husband, and stepson all abandoned her, and both she and her baby died. She returns to age twenty-one, before marrying her selfish, vicious ex-husband. But her stepmother is doing everything she can to force her 0Votes50.8kRecs31.2kFans
- 168 The Traffic King of Chinese Entertainment 华娱之流量天王 In 2014, Yuan Hua left the K-pop group EXO and returned to China, ushering in the grand “traffic idol era” of Chinese entertainment... The author's new Chinese entertainment novel, My Ex-Brother-in-Law, is ready for you to binge. Come and check it out, everyone! 0Votes87.7kRecs175.7kFans
- 169 The Blade Cage 刀笼 Heaven and earth are a prison, creation itself a cage. Who can see through it? Life is a blade, conviction its guiding hand. Perhaps even this can be broken through. On the ramparts of Black Mountain City, a bandit chieftain, tempered by countless trials and endless patience, with a fiery temper but a troublesome lower back, strikes the first blow against his own fate. 0Votes128.3kRecs87.9kFans
- 170 Taiyi 太乙 They set jade seats for the assembled immortals and burn incense in the Taiyi Palace. … At the decisive moment in the collision and devouring of two universes, Ye Jiangchuan arrived here. After transmigrating to this place, he often finds himself in a small tavern that changes in countless ways. The tavern seems to take on endless forms: sometimes an ancient tavern in the East, sometimes a bar in a modern city, sometimes a mechanical inn from the future... Heroes, dwarves, evil spirits, mechani 0Votes981.4kRecs795.2kFans
- 171 Fantasy Simulator 玄幻模拟器 Behold the tree amid the raging waves, and save the great edifice from collapse... Spiritual qi revival, a battle for supremacy across myriad worlds... Martial arts, immortal cultivation, supernatural powers: who can dominate them all? It all begins with a little simulator. The Wizarding World, the Immortal Cultivation World, the Demon Hunter World, the World of the Gods... 1Votes145.4kRecs399.6kFans
- 172 This Northern Song Dynasty Is a Little Strange 这个北宋有点怪 The protagonist arrives in Northern Song China, only to discover that this era differs from the history he learned. Here stands the Yang Residence of Tianbo, with few able-bodied men and its reputation upheld by widows and orphans. There is also the Residence of Prince Chai, whose owners use an iron certificate of imperial pardon to run rampant among the people. The Eighth Prince and Grand Preceptor Pang trade barbs in court every day. They have split the entire civil officialdom into two factio 0Votes235.2kRecs274.9kFans
- 173 Cultivation: Starting as a Heart-Pounding Lawyer 修仙：从心动大律师开始 A lawyer: One who understands the Way of Heaven, harmonizes yin and yang, and upholds the laws governing all things is a lawyer. After transmigrating to another world, Sun Yi has just activated his golden finger. Then he sees the System's instructions: Become a cultivator of the Heartbeat Realm within one year, or be struck by lightning. Earn the title of Grand Lawyer within two years, or be struck by lightning. Sun Yi is baffled. What the heck kind of setup is this? And then... nothing happens. 0Votes87.6kRecs75.9kFans
- 174 Reborn: The Rise of a Literary Giant 重生之文豪崛起 Reborn! If I'm going to do it, I'll become a great literary master!!! PS: The new book, Entertainment: A Director's Journey Beginning with Literary Films, has grown substantial. 0Votes353.5kRecs224.7kFans
- 175 I Never Meant to Become a Movie Star 我没想当影帝 Shen Ming had planned to save up thirty thousand yuan and return to his hometown, but then he inherited the legacy of Kominski, an award-winning actor from the future... A story set in the Chinese entertainment industry. The timeline is all over the place, so don’t read if that bothers you... 0Votes238kRecs137.8kFans
- 176 Starting Out as an Online Tycoon 从网络神豪开始 As a tycoon, your time is money! [Current System Level: 1] [You earn 0.01 yuan in cash every second] [Ding! Congratulations, you’ve received a “Internet Tycoon Trial Card”] The road to becoming a tycoon begins now… 4Votes232.5kRecs481.9kFans
- 177 Period: Starting at the Shanghai Dubbing Studio 年代：从魔都译制片厂开始 Jiang Shan, a media mogul, inexplicably transmigrates forty years into the past and decides to turn a lifetime of experience into his golden finger. He glances at the nine jiao in his pocket, then strides into the Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio... 0Votes139.7kRecs233.3kFans
- 178 My Director Era 我的导演时代 I'm a director, a director who makes great movies: Li Qian PS: A Chinese entertainment-industry novel with a single female lead. 0Votes206.8kRecs183.1kFans
- 179 The Golden Age of Entertainment 最佳娱乐时代 My new book, The Striving Years, is now online. These are the worst of times: six major companies monopolize Hollywood. These are the best of times: the internet keeps disrupting traditional business models. Ronan will climb to the pinnacle of this entertainment era and look down upon the countless forests below. 0Votes772.3kRecs264.9kFans
- 180 Reshaping the Millennium Era 重塑千禧年代 At the turn of the millennium, officials were chanting slogans about GDP, bosses took pride in bringing their secretaries along, and rough-and-ready entrepreneurs fought with blades flashing amid the waves of the times. Fang Zhuo returns to the year 2000. Ten years later, a group of venture capitalists and private equity firms storm the company headquarters, demanding an answer from a stunned Fang Zhuo: “Mr. Fang, all your other projects have gone public. When on earth will this first one li 47Votes867.3kRecs825.4kFans
- 181 The Entertainment World's Intel King 华娱情报王 Yan Li, a graduate of the vocational program for the Class of 2000 at Beijing Film Academy, gets the golden finger [Daily Intelligence System] and becomes the entertainment industry’s king of insider information. What? The cast of The Heroes of Sui and Tang is holding auditions for Yuwen Chengdu. That role seems perfect for me. What? The brand’s minimum endorsement rate is three million a year. Damn, my agent quoted too low. Hurry and raise the price. What? A female star plans to use a pinhole c 695Votes444kRecs548.1kFans
- 182 A Chinese Athlete 中国体育人 A university sports professor returns to the eighteenth year of the Republic of China. He has no power, money, or status. He can't invent, knows nothing about business, and isn't some elite soldier. All he has is sports knowledge that puts him ahead of his time. He takes to the competition field, wins Olympic gold, breaks world records, and brings honor to his country. In whatever way he can, he contributes to his nation and people! From the author of The Gauntlet, a completed million-subscriber 1Votes217kRecs121.9kFans
- 183 Dug Up by Terumi Mei 被照美冥挖了出来 New book: Raising a Little Darla to Become the Strongest Trainer My name is You Dou, and I was born in Kirigakure. As the First Mizukage, I had no desire to pick a fight with those two blockheads, Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama. After all, both of them are ridiculously overpowered, but the System insists I unite the entire shinobi world. So, at the first Five Kage Summit, I flipped the table. And I still can't believe those two blockheads teamed up to ambush me! But they can't kill me, s 0Votes134.4kRecs357.5kFans
- 184 Celestial Venerable Yuxu 玉虚天尊 The pinnacle of the Dao is called the Heavenly Venerable. One who bears Kunlun’s supreme treasure, inherits the legacy of the Jade Pure lineage, and rules the Yuxu Celestial Palace is the Great Heavenly Venerable. 1Votes247.3kRecs79.7kFans
- 185 The Birth of a Top-Tier Star 一个顶流的诞生 Zhou Mu transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an obscure actor from a minor agency. With all the information available on Earth at his fingertips, he originally plans to quit the entertainment industry, start a business, and make a fortune. But without money, he can’t get anywhere. With no other choice, he has to stick around and earn some money, only to become famous for no apparent reason. And then, he realizes it’s actually pretty great!!! The entertainment industry is a giant dye vat 0Votes180.7kRecs215.1kFans
- 186 The Giant Bandit’s Counterattack at the End of the Ming Dynasty 明末之巨宼逆袭 In the eighth year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing dynasty, the Eastern Tartars had occupied more than half of the Central Plains. Sun Kewang sought to recover Huguang from Yunnan and Guizhou, while Zheng Chenggong had also raised the Ming banner in Fujian and Zhejiang. Yet deep in the 0Votes15.7kRecs21.8kFans
- 187 A Common Man 市井之辈 Gu Cheng said: The night gave me black eyes, but I use them to search for light. Hong Tao said: My eyes are black too, but I use them to see through the night. 0Votes268.4kRecs135.3kFans
- 188 My Little Farmstead in 1978 我的1978小农庄 A small farm opens in a mountain village far from the noise of the city. Here, there is Moutai that costs more than ten yuan a bottle after aging for seven or eight years, and Wuliangye that costs seven or eight yuan. Organic vegetables, organic fish and shrimp, organic boiled mutton, all green, eco-friendly, and delicious. A failed, middle-aged divorced man turns around and becomes the leisurely owner of a farm. The small mountain-village farm becomes famous far and wide. Slippers, undershirt, 8Votes866.3kRecs407.4kFans
- 189 The Three Kingdoms: Starting by Bluffing Liu Bei 三国从忽悠刘备开始 The new book, The Younger Brother Zhuge Liang, is now underway. It is also a Three Kingdoms story of strategy, and could be considered a spiritual successor. New and returning readers alike are welcome to check it out. Emperor Ling of Han is leasing out official positions at Xiyuan. Should you rent one? Rent it! Of course rent it! Because as long as you happen to rent the final term before Emperor Ling's death, it is equivalent to renting a house until you become the landlord! Rent an official 3Votes391.9kRecs409.2kFans
- 190 Bounty Hunter 赏金猎手 Bounty hunting is a legal profession in that den of iniquity, the United States. Based in Chinatown and centered on Chinese Americans, this novel begins with a makeshift band of bounty hunters and opens up a mysterious, colorful, and magnificent world of professional hunters. For the law, for justice, or simply for the bounty. As long as the price is right, hunters fear nothing, even when facing master thieves and cold-blooded killers. You get what you pay for. A work by Xia Zhi. More than ten V 0Votes779.6kRecs148.4kFans
- 191 Eternal Life in the Great Qian 大乾长生 In his previous life, he dominated the business world, but died of a terminal illness with regrets. A statue of the Medicine Buddha brought him to the prosperous martial world of Vajra Temple, where he was reborn in the body of a monk who grew medicinal herbs. In this life, all he wants is eternal life. He cultivates Buddhism without seeking liberation. Unexpectedly, with the Medicine Buddha's blessing, Buddhist mantras can turn legends into reality and grow vastly more powerful. The Great Light 0Votes263kRecs354.5kFans
- 192 EN This Lord Rules by Science 这个领主大人非常科学 Lin Ke wanted to retreat. But behind him lay his territory, where the people who loved and respected him made their homes. “Stand strong, my countrymen! They can destroy our bodies, but they cannot break our will!” “Drive the invaders from our land!” “Better to die than live on in disgrace! Our sacrifice will not be in vain! The spirits of humanity's heroes live forever!” “Eyes forward! Follow in my footsteps!” Facing a sea of powerful enemies, Lin Ke raised his sword, his gaze unwavering. “I wi 6Votes50.2kRecs331.1kFans
- 193 EN The Ancestor Rises from His Coffin 老祖出棺 Xia Yi transmigrated to the Holy Soul Continent, where he discovered cultivators who could soar through the skies and burrow into the earth, miraculous Holy Souls with abilities like video game skills and martial arts techniques, and cultivators who lived for centuries and were revered as earthly immortals! After falling into a deep sleep and spending eight hundred years in a dream, Xia Yi woke to find that a new 0Votes117.3kRecs100.8kFans
- 194 I Really Can't Act 我真不会演戏啊 “I’m going to take my talent into the entertainment industry…” “But you can’t actually act.” “Having a good face is enough.” 0Votes79.3kRecs127.3kFans
- 195 Dreaming Back to the Ming Dynasty Spring 梦回大明春 After transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, he had no household registration, so he couldn't sit the imperial exams. He wanted to study, but had no teacher. Luckily, Longchang Post Station, where Wang Yangming was exiled, was right next door. But that was still a few years away, so for now he would just grab a teacher and bring him home to make do. 1Votes1.6MRecs667.4kFans
- 196 Tokyo Life Starting with Painting 从绘画开始的东京生活 After transmigrating to Tokyo in 2003, former professional painter Tsukasa Higashino faces just two choices: plagiarize classic Japanese dramas like The Solitary Gourmet and The White Tower, or win the Tokyo Young Artists Award and launch his career as a professional painter. 0Votes268.7kRecs270.6kFans
- 197 Reborn in Tokyo's Bubble Era 重生东京泡沫时代 Reborn in Tokyo in 1986, Tao Zhiming rises with effortless flair during the bubble era. Starting in Tokyo, he becomes one of the most influential young men behind the dazzling spectacle of the age. Wealth and women; power and fame. Like a hunter from another dimension, Tao Zhiming sets his sights on prey that includes the hearts of people around the world, soon to be swept up in the information age. An urban business novel with no System. If it suits your taste, please click to add it to your co 5Votes161.5kRecs342.6kFans
- 198 EN Proving the Dao from Shrouding the Heavens 证道从遮天开始 Transmigrating into the world of "Shrouding the Heavens", he seeks to prove the path to immortality. An infinite-world adventure. The first world is a little longer. 0Votes237.5kRecs409.1kFans
- 199 I Really Only Have One Wife 我真的只有一个老婆 One wife, endless experiences! One hundred days after getting married, Shen Fu discovers his wife's secret: she isn't fighting alone! She can be a domineering CEO or an adorable little foodie. She's skilled with both pen and ink and guns and fists, a study buddy who can help you ace your exams, and utterly shameless. Also known as A New Wife Every Day (The author also has two acclaimed completed novels, I'm Really Not Interested in Money and Literary Scandal. Give them a try~) 1Votes154.2kRecs441kFans
- 200 The Martial Arts Boss's Path 武侠BOSS之路 In this world of martial arts, there is no carefree wandering through the jianghu, only cold calculations and the rule that might makes right. Qing Yu transmigrates to this world and proceeds cautiously, relying on exceptional cunning and martial prowess to climb toward the pinnacle. 0Votes99.4kRecs102.6kFans
