Compared with other similar business novels on the Internet, Secret of Business Success, a long business novel written by Tuo Zheng in 2018, has made a great breakthrough and promotion in characters, plots, values, etc., but there is still a big gap compared with the literary classics. As a realistic works, Secret of Business Success reflects the change of the times and portrays characters with distinct personalities like the protagonist Ye Shanhe in a near-realistic way, which helps to show the unique charm of the realistic works. However, as a genre novel, it also has inherent weakness like others, so it is difficult to be regarded as a good realist works. The creation of Secret of Business Success provides a model for the study of the creation and future development of novels with the realistic theme in the network era.