Tags:Poor To Rich
This tag is used if the storyline features a monetarily poor main character working his/her way to obtain wealth. The 'Poor Protagonist' tag is usually also applied.
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- In the year 3215 of the Ze Calendar, Lorin, a fifteen-year-old boy with golden hair and worn clothes, lived in the slums of Monsa Port in the Histon Empire, working as a temporary dockworker to support himself and his mother. He endured harsh labor and was often beaten by his foreman, Hopkin. After breaking a cargo box, he was severely whipped until a sailor named Valen intervened, pay...
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- Su Ning, a terminally ill man in his late twenties, separates from his long-time girlfriend Su Yi after an eleven-year relationship. He learns his future mother-in-law and paternal uncle still support him, yet he cannot burden them with his diagnosis of ALS, a terminal cancer. He quits his job and returns to his late father’s remote rural cottage in the middle of an overgrown field, in...
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- Wu Ming, a formally trained chef working as a second-stove cook, fails to be promoted to head chef and resigns in anger. He returns to his grandfather Wu Zhenhua’s long-closed “Chuan Flavor Restaurant,” a small shop that has been shuttered for a year after his grandfather fell ill. Against his parents’ wishes, he makes a six-month agreement to revive the business on his own. While clea...
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- Su Chen was born with a dragon-shaped birthmark on his face, a defect that brought him ridicule and ostracism. His deceased grandfather arranged an engagement with Han Qianxue, who approached Su Chen three years ago with a marriage contract. Over the years, Su Chen devoted himself to elevating the Han family from a small clan to a great family in Dragon City. His only frustration was H...
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- Shen Xiangwan woke in the bridal chamber, a stranger’s memories flooding her mind. She had transmigrated into a novel as Shen Xiangwan, the true eldest daughter of the Chancellor’s Mansion, who was drugged by the reborn fake daughter Shen Xiangyue and forced to marry the ailing Prince of Weiyang, Wei Chengyi. In the original plot, the cannon fodder original owner died on the exile road...
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- Lin Xiaojiu was a national first-class chef who died in a plane crash and transmigrated into a ge'er in an unknown dynasty. The original owner of the body was spoiled by his parents, who had rescued a man named Shen Lian from a river and married him to their son. The original Lin Xiaojiu never liked Shen Lian and even found a lover, but his parents died in an accident shortly after the...
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- In a remote ancient village, Song Lian'er, a frail girl on the verge of death from illness and starvation, suddenly awakens on a broken bed. Her mother, Qiao Yunni, a crippled widow abandoned by her husband who never returned from army service ten years ago, kneels in the courtyard begging Old Mrs. Song not to drive her out. The accusation: Qiao Yunni stole a single steamed bun from th...
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- Sun Jian, a takeout deliveryman from modern Earth, dies in a car accident and wakes up in the body of a penniless scholar in the war-torn Great Qian Empire. The original host was weak, orphaned, abandoned by his fiancée, and nearly starved to death. Immediately after taking over, Sun Jian is forced by imperial decree to participate in a wife distribution for war widows. Every eligible...
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- Qin Bai, a third-year university student, discovered months ago that he was the illegitimate son of the wealthy Qin family, brought back to serve as a marriage pawn. During an arranged meeting with Shen Muyu, the second young mistress of the Shen Corporation, she presented an extravagant dowry list—8.88 million in cash, a villa, a Rolls-Royce, and gold. After reading the overwhelming l...
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- In the scorching July heat, a five-year-old girl named Su Luo squats forlornly by the roadside in front of a skyscraper. She has no memory of her past or her mother; only a strange voice in her mind tells her that she must find her father, who is the male lead of a book, Huo Tingyan, a powerful and wealthy third master of the top Huo family. Determined to secure a life of ease, Su Luo...
