Novels like The Reborn Salted Fish
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- 1 Reborn: Back in My Small County, I Become a Tycoon 重生了，回到小县城当豪门 After graduating from college, Luo Yang stayed in the magic city to work. But after returning to his hometown for a high school reunion, he found himself feeling bitter and unsettled. Most of his classmates who had stayed home had found easy jobs. They earned less than 10,000 yuan a month, but enjoyed a nine-to-five schedule and weekends off. One after another, they drove cars worth hundreds of thousands of yuan. In their spare time, they went fishing, met up with friends, and occasionally took 32Votes67.6kRecs298.2kFans
- 2 Just Broke Up, and My Ex-Girlfriend's Best Friends Are Making Their Move 刚分手，前女友闺蜜们蠢蠢欲动 (Entertainment industry + romantic rivalry + everyday romance. The protagonist is no pushover, with multiple heroines competing. High-octane from start to finish.) The night we broke up, I spent the whole night in an intense back-and-forth with my aloof girlfriend. The next day, just after I left her villa, her sworn enemy took me in, and I moved into the house across the street from her. Xu Yueqing thought she’d dumped a spineless simp. She never expected me to turn around and keep her awake al 87Votes13.8kRecs80.2kFans
- 3 My Patch Updates Every Week 我的补丁每周更新 [Campus Romance] [Multiple Female Leads] The world of Earth Online is different from other online games. The people running it are amateurs, and the developers are an even bigger bunch of hacks. The code is a mess, and someone has to keep patching it up. Lu Nian is the unlucky Earth Online beta tester stuck with that job. There’s a System update patch every week. The only problem is, none of the patches are rigorously tested. [Fixed old bugs, introduced new ones] Lu Nian: Does being bad at study 76Votes207Recs6Fans
- 4 I Found a Notebook for the Reborn 我捡到一部重生笔记本 Chen Ning, a college freshman, found an accounting notebook on the road: 2010: GDP ranks second in the world. 2015: Tu Youyou wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine. 2025: China becomes the world's largest auto exporter. It also says that in a few years, something called a smartphone will appear, and it'll be even better than a computer. And if you're wondering where the invincible Nokia went... it says it went bankrupt back in 2011! Chen Ning scratched his head, completely baffled. “But it's 8Votes29.1kRecs214.3kFans
- 5 Revolution Against Heaven 革天 The Ling dynasty had just been founded, and the Zhao Wu dynasty had only just fallen. The wars had ended, but the people's pots were still empty of rice. Six-year-old Shen Zhehao was sold by his own father to the bandits of Phoenix Mountain for three sheng of coarse rice. On the mountain, he was a stable boy who poured tea and served the gang leader, Hong Tian. No one knew that the dark, silent boy carried a blood-patterned ring that could never be washed clean, or that a mysterious space wreath 0Votes54Recs0Fans
- 6 The First Immortal of the Tang Dynasty 大唐第一仙 [Former title: I Am the Tang Dynasty’s First Immortal] At first, Li Zhenyi thought it was just a somewhat absurd game. Later, it became a real Tang Dynasty, a lively community of cultivators, and endless demons and immortals filling the skies. Later still, he realized it was a game after all. So he decided to get himself some decent gear and a few badass teammates, then hack apart every god, ghost, and monster that dared show its health bar in front of him! [PS: Mythic xianxia, primarily based o 6Votes77.1kRecs488.1kFans
- 7 Passionate Years: Fishing and Hunting in Beidahuang 激情岁月：在北大荒渔猎的日子 [The Fiery Red Era] + [Passionate Progress] + [Serving the Motherland] (With 40,000 favorites and nearly 7,000 reviews averaging a high rating, this is a premium read you can enjoy with confidence!) In the early days after Liberation, the country was in desperate need of rebuilding. If you could go back to 1955, what would you do? Jiang Zhaoyang chose to plunge headfirst into the vast wilderness of the Great Northern Wilderness! He would face the boundless black soil and its bounty, as well as t 69Votes69.9kRecs219.1kFans
- 8 Livestreaming Blind Dates: My Intelligence Refreshes Without End 直播相亲：我的情报无限刷新 [The only live-streamed matchmaking novel online] Whether you're single, married, or sworn off marriage, this is worth a look. ᕕ( •̀‿•́ )ᕗ Viewer: “Brother Zhang, my match says she's like Steph Curry: loyal to one team for life. But I looked into it and found out she's actually Kevin Durant, having transferred between several teams and always joining the strongest ones. Still, I'm pretty happy with her shooting. Should I keep seeing her?” Zhang Zhe: “Have a medical team assess whether she's 4Votes31.9kRecs173.9kFans
- 9 From Fully Invested in A-Shares to a Capitalist 从满仓A股开始成为资本 (A high-stakes financial stock-market novel told from the perspective of a speculative trader. There is nothing else like it anywhere online, so do not miss it!) A plane crash meticulously orchestrated by Jewish capital causes Zhang Yang, a manager at Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s top asset-management firms, to unexpectedly return to 2009. That year, the aftershocks of the subprime mortgage crisis had only just subsided, while the global economy and stock markets were poised to su 450Votes160.7kRecs505kFans
- 10 The Heavenly Principles Protocol 天理协议 April 6: I confirmed that I'm severely nearsighted. This isn't ordinary myopia. I simply can't tell mythical creatures apart from ordinary humans. To my eyes, the two species look exactly alike! June 14: The news reported a bunch of terrifying creatures lurking outside my shop. Oh my god, I always thought they were just ordinary people. We were chatting and laughing in the shop, arms around each other's shoulders! July 22: I can't tell them apart. I really can't! All the special effects have bee 562Votes124.8kRecs649.8kFans
- 11 Illegitimate Son of a Noble House 高门庶子 [Alternate history + over 10,000 first-month subscriptions] I transmigrated to a dynasty called Dayu and became a well-known young nobleman from a powerful family in the capital, Sheng'an. My father is the magistrate of Sheng'an, a third-rank official. My stepmother is from the Cui clan, one of the Five Great Families of the capital, an illustrious noble house. Their son is a dashing young genius, handsome and talented. Before he was even fifteen, he passed the provincial examinations as a juren 11Votes113.2kRecs1.1MFans
- 12 EN Borrowed Sword 借剑 "Just now, my sword was summoned away by a shout of 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to Their Origin.' What should I do?" "Waiting for an answer, and I'm in a real hurry. I wonder if I'll get it back..." 18Votes454.3kRecs1.9MFans
- 13 EN The People's Lawyer 国民律师 October 1, 2002. Xu De transmigrates to Green Forest City in the Eastern Kingdom, becoming a lawyer and gaining a golden finger that lets him draw rewards as long as he can satisfy his clients. But immediately after transmigrating, he runs into a difficult client! The client has been cuckolded. His wife has cheated on him several times and wants a divorce and a share of the property, intending to elope with her lover! Faced with the situation above, ordinary people would choose: [Option A: Divid 3.7kVotes93.8kRecs679.9kFans
- 14 My IQ Increases Every Year 我的智商逐年递增 [No System + No Romance + Everyday Life + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Scientific Research + A Rising Nation] Chen Zhuo was reborn as an infant. But he had no System, no pocket dimension, and no chime of mission prompts. All he had was a developing brain whose processing power continued to evolve as he grew older. “Who is Chen Zhuo?” “He’s a ghost in the world of mathematics, a tyrant in the world of physics, and the one and only god of science.” No harem, no hackneyed tropes. 274Votes71.8kRecs648.3kFans
- 15 Reborn in 2008: Diagnosed as a Medical Authority 重生08，我被确诊为医学泰斗 [A career-focused novel with one heroine, averaging 30,000 paid subscriptions] Reborn in 2008, Jiang He holds medical technology twenty years ahead of its time. That year, the medical community was still helpless against the King of Cancer. Minimally invasive surgery was still considered off-limits in oncology, while genetic screening remained a barren wasteland... From revolutionizing the Whipple procedure and stunning the medical world to developing broad-spectrum anticancer drugs ahead of sch 490Votes143.7kRecs771.2kFans
- 16 EN My Study Group Is Full of Real Big Shots 我的学习群里全是真大佬 [Sanwan Erding Academic Prodigy Novel] Underachiever Li Dong accidentally joins a bizarre “Azure Dragon Study Group.” The group members all have extremely old-fashioned names, such as “Isaac Newton,” “Faraday,” “Gauss,” and “Einstein.” They often discuss obscure and difficult academic questions, and occasionally send out exclusive red packets. The contents of the red packets are even more outrageous: “Focus That Pierces the Truth,” “Fragments of Logical Thinking,” “Absolute Memory,” “The Origin 2.5kVotes173kRecs994.1kFans
- 17 The Treasure Mirror of Pure Light 清光宝鉴 “Come, let us invite the moon from the Milky Way's highest heaven, and together admire the eternal spring of the human world. Let us ignore the world's turmoil and spend half a lifetime cultivating a body beyond tribulation...” The moon in the water is like a dream, like flowers reflected in a mirror. Even a child knows that the moon in the water can only be seen, never touched. But Qin Xuan can scoop it up... … 4.3kVotes306.3kRecs580.6kFans
- 18 Notes on a Corpse Monster's Cultivation 尸怪修行笔记 That year, I awoke beneath the earth, with the ground for a blanket and the quiet for my bed. Years later, The mountain’s demons gather, while I sit alone in the tower and pass the long, clear night. 24Votes146.5kRecs371.7kFans
- 19 EN The End of the Immortal Path 仙道尽头 A talking ox, me stealing clothes, and a fairy forced into marriage. Looking at all this, Jiang Man, who had just transmigrated, felt that it seemed strangely familiar. 3.4kVotes369kRecs956.2kFans
- 20 EN The AI Wave Tycoon's Rise 首富从AI浪潮开始 [Entrepreneurship] [Business Battles] [Internet] [Artificial Intelligence] [Smart Protagonist] On the day you get laid off, your eyes suddenly gain the ability to see information that no one else can. What would you do? Catch the trap in your severance agreement on the spot, then give your former supervisor, who set you up, a taste of face-slapping. What next? Han Lu Yi, a top university graduate who spent several years grinding away at a major tech company, takes his severance pay and decides t 1.8kVotes111.1kRecs405.7kFans
- 21 EN The Mad Demon of Myriad Lives 万生痴魔 Get a bowl, fill it with soil, count one, two, three, four, five. Plant a toad and grow a train, plant a soybean and grow a tiger. Cultivate a fine craft, and you'll enjoy a life of ease, free from hardship. There are three hundred and sixty trades among all living things. Which path is the one to rule them all? That carpenter has real skill, snapping a chalk line to divide yin from yang, joining mortise and tenon to subdue the eight wilds. This blacksmith has a knack, making iron and fire ring 5.3kVotes400.6kRecs723kFans
- 22 Literary Giant, 1978 文豪1978 After transmigrating to 1978, Lin Chaoyang had planned to lie flat and live as a carefree slacker, making up for all the hard work of his previous life. But before he could put his plan into action, the educated youth who had married him, gotten into university, then disappeared for half a year without a word, suddenly showed up at the production team. “Chaoyang, come to Yanjing with me!” the young woman said. His business venture hadn’t even gotten off the ground, and he was already living off 23Votes562.4kRecs1.7MFans
- 23 EN My Post-Divorce Comeback System Arrived Before My College Entrance Exams 刚准备高考，离婚逆袭系统来了 [A 35,000-word campus romance about everyday life] He’s a high school senior, but his Divorce and Comeback System arrived twenty years too early. [At thirty-eight, your marriage has failed. Standing at the crossroads of middle age, you think back to your childhood sweetheart. After you got married, the two of you lost touch, and you never heard from her again. Reconnect with Xu Qianqian. Reward: RMB 300.] Eighteen-year-old Jiang Nian looked at the System mission on his screen, then at Xu Qianqia 987Votes799.8kRecs2MFans
- 24 You’re Forcing Me to Be Reborn 逼我重生是吧 Young and successful, Cheng Zhu came across a question online: “If you had the chance to go back in time and be reborn, would you take it?” Known around his circle for being the biggest show-off, Cheng Zhu saw thousands of people in the comments saying they wanted to be reborn. He couldn’t resist showing off, replied “No,” and attached a screenshot of his impressive bank balance. But the very next moment… He was reborn! … Also known as "Don’t Let Down Good Girls, Don’t Waste Bad Girls", "W 58Votes953.8kRecs5MFans
- 25 War Smoke and Beauty 烽烟揽姝 The peerless beauty of Jiangnan, Shen Qingdai. Caught amid the flames of war and chaos, she is trapped in the power struggles of a military camp. With no way out, she fights to survive, using her wit to save herself. In a chaotic age, gentlemen are powerless to act, while a ruthless warlord can quell the turmoil. Wolves must be brought to heel by someone fiercer still. When they first meet, the iron-blooded general feels no love at first sight. He sees her only as a prize to seize in their conte 0Votes877Recs0Fans
- 26 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 27 This Daoist Is Ascending 道爷要飞升 "Disciple Li Yuan humbly begs the Heavens to bestow upon me a register of divine investiture!" … … Completed works include The First Cause of All Realms, Projections Across the Heavens, and The Chronicle of the Great Dao. 160Votes962.6kRecs3.1MFans
- 28 EN The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 People know that ghosts are terrifying, but ghosts know how cruel the human heart can be. This is a traditional supernatural novel. 6.3kVotes7MRecs21.2MFans
- 29 EN Reborn 99 Days Before the College Entrance Exam 重生高考前99天 Chen Zhe, a provincial civil servant, unexpectedly returns to the year he was in his final year of high school. Once a wooden, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to a girl and knew nothing but studying, he suddenly becomes adept at handling people and situations, always saying and doing just the right thing. Not only does he change the course of his life, he also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Chen Zhe, what are your strong points? Chen Zhe: I’m honest, and I don’t talk m 4.3kVotes2.7MRecs4.6MFans
- 30 Reborn in Journey to the East 重生东游记 Lu Dongbin, you beast! Let go of that Peony Fairy and let me have a turn! That little demon, the pangolin, is flirting with He Xiangu again. This is a bit too much for the eyes... The Lord of Heaven’s Authority has come to face his tribulation. Will the immortals of the Heavenly Court and the Jie Sect turn against him? In this life, I’m going to be a young man who makes every villain tremble. 0Votes21.8kRecs45.1kFans
- 31 EN Twilight Divide 黄昏分界 Dusk divides the world in two, yin and yang. When the flesh of evil gods forced its way through cracks in the earth, flesh as vast as mountains appeared everywhere. Some were afraid. Some worshipped it. Some burned incense and made offerings. Others took a taste and thought, Huh, not bad. And so the flesh became crops, greedily harvested and fought over by people who consulted spirits and worshipped their ancestors. Hu Ma was reborn out of fear. He ate taixui, tended his furnace, and endured cou 67Votes705.1kRecs3.8MFans
- 32 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
