The Story of Haitang, the Beautiful Widow

High-quality Novels with Real Depth

The kind of book that makes you want to read it a second time as soon as you finish it.

Let’s Recommend Books to Each Other, with Comments and Paragraph Reviews

I’m looking for books similar to Western Fantasy: Is This Really a Farming System? I’ll make time to review yours too. I’m new here.

Looking for Extreme Romantic Tension Between the Leads, Adult Love Only 😍😍

Looking for Realistic Republican-Era or Period Dramas

I like calm, everyday stories without awful relatives: just a happy family working hard to earn money and improve their lives. Keep the golden finger subtle, not overpowered.

Looking for Good Period-Era Novels 😭 (Something Close to Real Life)

Looking for books similar to Eyes Opened in the Eighties: Having a Child with the Notorious Village Bully.

Looking for Republic-Era Novels About Saving the Country, Preferably Female-Oriented and Satisfying

The protagonist secretly sends food, money, medicine, and other supplies to the country all by himself.

Literary Classics and Great Literary Fiction

Novels Set in a Bygone Era! Novels Set in a Bygone Era! Novels Set in a Bygone Era!

I want a story set in a bygone era, but not in some made-up world. Something realistic would be great, and even better if the female lead has a cute little kid. Thanks!

Novels That Portray Human Nature as Truly Dark

Any Stories With Clear Logic, No Absolute Villains, and a Feel of Real Life?

Looking for Really Good Period-Era Novels

Nothing with a confusing plot, and no period pieces that feel too fake, the kind where you can tell right away the author is making things up. I want a period piece that feels fairly realistic but is still lighthearted.

I'm Out of Books to Read. Recommend Some Historical Era Novels.

Looking for a female lead who isn't a selfless saint, and writing that isn't too simplistic. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Any Tomato Novels That Don't Insult the Reader's Intelligence?

I hope the heroine focuses wholeheartedly on her career and keeps all those messy men away. No brainless wish-fulfillment stories. Please give readers some credit...

Looking for Rural Novels

Rural life.

Looking for Novels With Literary Merit, Chinese or International. Nothing Mindless

Please, Just Give Me a Normal Novel

As long as the characters have normal values and behave normally, that's all I ask. Please, please.

Looking for Tragic Republican-Era Romance

A super-angsty Republican-era novel.

Urban Stories With Lots of Interaction and Romance Between the Leads

More focus on the romance between the male and female leads, with fewer pointless side plots.

Undercover Female Side Character + Republican-Era Setting + CP

A Novel with Such a Captivating Feel, Leaving You Wanting More After You Finish

Any Good Novel Recommendations? (Female-Oriented)

A Different Kind of Period Novel

I've recently gotten into period novels. There are all kinds: some are hilariously absurd, some leave you not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and others tug at your heartstrings.

Beautiful Writing, Mature Prose, Nothing Childish. I Don't Mind Familiar Tropes.

Novels with Exciting, Gripping Plots