Novels like The Women I Loved Back Then
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Women I Loved Back Then, best match first.
- 51 My Spoiled, Bossy Female CEO 我的刁蛮女总裁 He doesn't know what love is. When one relationship after another comes his way unexpectedly, he decides to choose one and love wholeheartedly. Yet whenever he feels happiness is just around the corner, he discovers that it's nothing more than a cruel joke played by fate. Swept along by destiny, he wanders through a life of hardship before returning to where he began, only to find that nothing has changed. The confusion of being human, the anguish of loving someone you cannot have: perhaps life 57Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 52 Mi Cai, the Best Person in the World 世界上最好的人米彩 My name is Zhaoyang, an ordinary name. But behind that ordinary name lies a past no one knows about. The story begins on a rainy night in Suzhou... I met the three most important women in my life... The first was Jian Wei, who taught me how to love someone... The second was Le Yao, someone who loved me... The third was Mi Cai, a love we both chose and pursued... (Note: This is a wish-fulfillment story, similar to a rebooted extra.) 1kReads6.4Score101Shelves
- 53 Breaking Free 逃离束缚 Su Yu and Tang Yilan met on a blind date arranged by their university professor. After spending some time together, they both decided they liked each other, so they went to meet each other’s parents. At first, everything seemed to go smoothly, but after they got married, they argued over whether to rent a place of their own. Su Yu also has an older brother, Su Lun, who has been married to Zhao Yanan for years, but still has no children of his own. After finally getting married, Tang Yilan reali 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Suzhou, Who Did You Give Your Tenderness To? 苏州，你的温柔给了谁 If not for that company-mandated health checkup, perhaps I would have married her! But it was precisely because of that checkup arranged by the company that I chose to break up with her! 821Reads8.2Score109Shelves
- 55 My Miss Tulip 我的郁金香小姐 She and I were both residents near this stretch of Tulip Road. We breathed the same air, loved the season when the tulips bloomed, and hated the dust kicked up by the dry summer weather. Though we had never once said “hello” or “goodbye” to each other, we had truly shared joy and sorrow here. At last, one day, I called her Miss Tulip, and she called me Mr. Badou... 260Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 56 My Girlfriend Has a Mental Illness 我的精神病女朋友 [Based on a true story] [No System] [Realistic] [Tragedy] After being fired, Luo Yuan takes a job at an old psychiatric hospital, but a mute girl nearly costs him his life. The beautiful vice president of a top-tier hospital outside the city often comes looking for him and takes a special interest in him. A mysterious young woman appears out of nowhere, seemingly connected to his past. Three women from vastly different walks of life are all closely bound to him. In the end, everyone is trapped i 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 You Are the Fireworks of This World 你是人间烟火 One rainy night, while I was out delivering food, a beautiful woman in a luxury car knocked me down. Little did I know, that would be the start of our fateful connection. She was incredibly apologetic: she gave me money, apologized, and left me her contact information. But then, somehow, I ended up getting beaten up because of it. Furious, I swore that if I ever saw her again, I’d demand to know why! But fate had other plans. When we met again, who would have thought it had all been predestined? 19.4kReads8.6Score2.1kShelves
- 58 Searching for Love in the Mortal World 尘世寻爱 At the end of the twentieth century, Momo always looked at the reasonable and unreasonable aspects of the world from the perspective of a bystander, living carelessly like a rogue. It wasn't until she met Li Fan, a married woman, and Duoduo that she truly entered the real world. But the cruelty of reality, and the enormous gulf between it and her inner world, made it impossible for her to adapt... 4.6kReads—Score207Shelves
- 59 At 26, Shenzhen Owed Me a Home 26岁那年，深圳欠我一个家 #Realistic Heartbreak Romance #Love in an Urban Village #First Person #Growth and Redemption #Ensemble Cast #No Harem My name is Chen Yang. I'm 26, and the day I was laid off in Shenzhen, I had just 347 yuan and 80 cents in my pocket. I returned to the urban village of Minzhi. Before I could even figure out how I'd survive the next day, someone pounded on my door. My landlady, Su Lanxin, stood outside in a navy-blue suit, with a presence as direct and imposing as Shennan Avenue. She said the pro 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Let's Not Talk About Love 不谈爱情 Don't Talk About Love is a purely fictional serialized novel. The novel tells of the inner torment of Zhao Xiaosong, a middle-aged man who works at Shenfeng Tire Factory and suffers from cerebral atrophy. It portrays his resentment, anxiety, loneliness, helplessness, despair, selfishness, longing, and, finally, his struggle... The story begins in the 1990s. Zhao Xiaosong, a country bumpkin from that era, is lucky enough to become a tire-molding worker at Shenfeng Tire Factory in Jiaoshi. Back 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 My Small-Town Girlfriend 我的小城女友 No matter how long people live in a big city, they eventually return to a small town. Xiyang, a genius who made his fortune through stock trading, finds his life going nowhere after his girlfriend cheats on him and his career hits a wall. He leaves Chengdu, a city full of memories, and returns to his hometown, where he meets the girl who will become his small-town girlfriend. This is an ordinary book, but the small-town life it tells of is anything but ordinary. 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 My 26-Year-Old Landlady: A Brilliant Romance 我的26岁女房客之昭彩斑斓 So sweet it'll make your head explode!!! Fans of Jian Wei and Le Yao, proceed with caution!!!! Making up for some of the characters' regrets in the original story. In the end, I hope Mi Cai can live happily forever!… 27Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 63 Dongguan: A Dusty Romance 东莞尘缘 Dongguan is a city full of memories, holding the youth and stories of countless young men and women. You’re only young once, so do you still remember the women who appeared in your youth? 4.4kReads7.8Score382Shelves
- 64 My Days Living with a Flight Attendant 空姐与我同居的日子 After getting dumped, I went to a bar to drink my sorrows away, only to be “rescued” and taken home by a flight attendant… 2.2kReads8.4Score228Shelves
- 65 We Fell in Love in a Parallel Universe 我们在平行时空相爱 I had a very, very long dream. I dreamed that every grain of sand on that beach replayed my past. Then, suddenly, another wave carried me to a parallel world. There, I seemed to see someone much like me, someone who also had memories I could never forget, day or night... 541Reads9.4Score103Shelves
- 66 The Girl Who Sat Beside Me at Seventeen 我的17岁同桌姑娘 "The Tenant"- "Youthful Bad Ending"- "Realistic Romance"- [Pure Love, Bad Ending] A down-on-his-luck young man whose life isn’t going well unexpectedly receives a wedding invitation from his first love. The moment he sees her name, the youth he thought long dead comes alive again in his memories. That summer, she suddenly burst into his lush, innocent youth, leaving behind a vivid, colorful scar and making the boy’s entire adolescence unforgettable. 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Watcher in the Wheat Fields 麦苗田里的守望者 I'll never forget that rainy summer night. The rain had turned the village's dirt roads to mud. One step could sink you in up to your calves. Clutching half a candle, I hurried home, stumbling through the muck, my heart pounding like I had a rabid rabbit inside me. Mom had promised she'd be home before dark, but it was already nine o'clock. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Travelers of My Life 我的人生旅客 He meets a cool, aloof goddess at a hotel, and one misunderstanding leads to a string of hugs and mishaps. A young entrepreneur gets called a hopeless loser by a rich second-generation kid? Don't worry, his gorgeous childhood friend rushes in to back him up. You say he's a legendary kept man? He just picks up his chopsticks and eats. Three women make for quite a show, and this one is a real delight. One man owes three women a debt of love. Their tangled affections make for a romance where love t 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Dust in the Wind: The Days of Sharing a Job 生如尘埃：打工搭伙的日子 In a bustling city, how many people shine brightly, and how many struggle just to survive? The two protagonists in this book represent two very different kinds of lives. Only after going from innocence to worldly wisdom and enduring life's hardships can they slowly come to their senses amid the mundane world. 11.5kReads9.1Score961Shelves
- 70 Lost in Marriage: The Stranger in My Bed 婚姻迷途，枕边的陌生人 It had started out as an ordinary day. After finishing his work at the office, he came home early. His wedding anniversary with his wife was just a few days away, and he planned to buy her some gifts and surprise her. Hehe... 158Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 71 A Love Story in Bincheng 滨城的爱情故事 (Urban) + (romance) + (multiple male leads) + (a little sweet) + (one heroine)... “Let's break up!” Ling Lei was already numb. Cheng Wenxi's figure slumped as he disappeared into the sunset. Through tear-blurred eyes, she remembered the past, then turned to see her sleeping child and her ordinary husband, Wang Keyan, scrolling through short videos. She put on her headphones in the dark. In the window's reflection, she smiled. A forty-year-old woman listening to music really is beautiful. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Please Give Me One Last Cigarette Tonight 请给我今晚的最后一支烟 [Everyday life, down-to-earth, romance.] “I used to think my life would just stay this way. I figured I might as well give up and let everything fall apart. But after falling apart for long enough, I realized I really am a complete wreck.” “Actually, no one is a lost cause. And neither are you.” 1.4kReads8.8Score100Shelves
- 73 Fallen into the Mortal World 坠落红尘间 His father is critically ill, and she can’t scrape together the money to save him. A poor college girl grits her teeth and steps into the late-night world of KTV! She masks her youth with cigarettes and alcohol, trading her dignity for medical bills. Can she make it to the end of this road? Will she succumb to the temptations of the neon lights? 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 A Lawyer and His Three Women 一个律师和他的三个女人 Romance + law + workplace Lin Fan entered Xingzhou's top law firm with dreams of upholding the law, unaware that beneath his mentor Zhou Mingli's refined facade lay nothing but dirty dealings. He became mired in a world of lust: Bai Lu, the infatuated receptionist, sacrificed herself to him and turned him into a slave to desire; Zhao Ya, the heiress to a wealthy family, lured him into a life of extravagant pleasures and dragged him into a criminal maelstrom. As he walked the line between money, 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 I'll Wait for You in Gusu City 我在姑苏城里等你 After failing the college entrance exams, I left home alone and came to Suzhou, where I met two girls who would shape my whole life... One was as passionate as fire, the other as gentle as jade... At eighteen, I didn't understand what love was... A cigarette, a glass of wine, and so much sorrow in the city of Gusu... Note: This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, and it takes its time getting going. If you enjoy plot-driven stories, you can start at Chapter 39. Thank you! 2.1kReads—Score225Shelves
- 76 My Tenant's Dream 我的房客梦 My Roommate Dream, also known as Reborn as a Roommate: I Am Zhaoyang A different Zhaoyang, and I hope he can help heal your depression. I’ve been reborn. In this life, I’m Zhaoyang, but my soul isn’t. There has been too much heartbreak and pain in the past. This time, I only hope life will be a little sweeter. A flash of white light, and I unexpectedly found myself as the protagonist Zhaoyang in a book. It was nighttime in Xitang. In a daze, I was driving Micai’s Audi with Micai beside me, headi 2.7kReads7.0Score130Shelves
- 77 My Life After Escaping to Lijiang 我逃离到丽江的生活 A disillusioned young man at the lowest point in his life drifts from city to city, enduring one hardship after another. At last, he and a friend embark on a journey of redemption. When they reach the dreamlike city of Lijiang, he encounters a curious connection spanning three thousand kilometers and meets all kinds of fascinating people. His ordinary life takes a turn, and a story of love and hate quietly begins to unfold. 302Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 78 A Poor Kid's Rise to Billionaire at Thirty-Five 穷小子逆袭三十五岁成亿万富豪 (Slow-burn setup in the early chapters; urban life, emotions, sweet and heartwarming everyday moments + one female lead + 1v1 + mutual devotion + office life + romance + childhood friends and first love) This book mainly follows the many ups and downs in Zhu Zilong's life, and the warmth and harshness of the world around him. After succeeding as an entrepreneur and changing his fate, he grows more mature and dependable. Yet even after achieving success in his career, he remains single. He can't 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Love Is Simple 爱很简单 Before I became a billionaire, I was always searching for love. What is love? I hope you can find the answer in this book. This book is about love, desire, life, philosophy, gender equality, and society's discrimination against women... 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 My Love, from Chongqing to Shenzhen 我的爱从重庆到深圳 One heroine, multiple supporting female characters A sugary-sweet romance + sunny outlook + everyday love + plenty of affection On the train home for the New Year, the male lead, Ma Xuan, meets a stunning beauty. He never expects that a devastating snowstorm will bring them together, leaving their train stranded on the tracks for three or four days. The story begins in the train car where he and the beauty are traveling. Though the two outstanding young people love each other, they must both f 56Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 81 My Girl from Lhasa 我的拉萨姑娘 [Roommate Vibes] [Pure Love, Bad Ending] [Urban Coming of Age] [Multiple Heroines] [Folk Guitar] [Lhasa, Tibet] [Idealism] [Realistic] After his childhood friend dies in a fire, Xia Tian takes his friend's ashes to Lhasa. By chance, he meets a group of idealistic young people... They open bars and inns in Lhasa, planting the ideals in their hearts deep into every inch of Tibetan soil. Facing the sky and earth, they cry out, "Long live ideals! Long live youth!" This is an urban romance novel abo 282Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Every Time I Wake from a Dream 在每一个梦醒时分 [Beautiful women] + [Marriage] + [Life] + [Female streamers] + [Female CEOs] + [Tenants] + [Romance] + [Realism] I wanted to change the title to My Hangzhou Girl: A Heart Understood Without a Word. What a shame… A single man past his prime, recently divorced, feels the pressure of life and family weighing on him and wants to get away for a bit. So he drives to Hangzhou alone. In this city, his fate takes a miraculous turn, and the pure flower of love blooms once more. P.S. This is a warm, healin 36Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 83 My Le Yao, the Twenty-Six-Year-Old Tenant 26岁女房客，我的乐瑶 [A Roommate fanfic] For Le Yao, whose story never sat right with me... I don't want her to be buried on that lonely island and become Xiao Yao. I want to sail with her on a lone boat to the island of her dreams. And give her a different ending... [No angst in the whole story, only sweetness. Enjoy!] 1.7kReads8.9Score110Shelves
- 84 My Rich and Beautiful Girlfriend 我的白富美女友 [Modern city, pure romance] My girlfriend is full of surprises. She’s a beautiful rich heiress, and she seems aloof on the surface, but in private she’s completely different. She loves me dearly, but I don’t think I’m good enough for her, so I’ve tried to leave her again and again. The first time I left, I told her I was going out of town on vacation. She gave me a whole box of origami cranes, a thousand of them in all, each marked with her delicate handwriting: “I love you. I’ll wait for you to 4.6kReads6.2Score532Shelves
- 85 My 26-Year-Old Roommate: Returning to the Beginning to Continue the Story 我的26岁女房客之重回开始续写 The pristine, transparent Sky City has long since crumbled into ruins and gradually faded from my sight. I haven't seen it in many years. There were too many regrets in the past. Countless times, I let valuable opportunities pass me by without a second thought. By the time I matured, I realized I could no longer face the pain in my heart. When I woke up, I was surprised to find I had been reborn on the day Le Yao had an abortion, the day the story began. This time, I hope to make up for every re 3.6kReads9.4Score302Shelves
- 86 A Marriage of Spies 婚战谍中谍 This book contains toxic material. Readers who are not emotionally mature should read it with a guardian. Married readers should read it alone while their spouses are away. This story is entirely fictional, and all events are dramatized for the plot. Please don’t compare them to your own experiences, and remember to cultivate sound values, a healthy outlook on life, and a proper worldview. 14.7kReads8.6Score1.8kShelves
- 87 Peeping: The Butterfly Effect 偷窥之蝴蝶效应 The male lead is a complete loser. By chance, he discovers a female colleague's secret, turning his work and personal life upside down. Two mature adults with sharp minds and social skills engage in an intense game of push and pull. Love begins for reasons unknown and grows deeper with every passing day: they love and are loved, hurt and are hurt, grow through their pain, then fade from one another's memories. This is also the story of an ordinary worker's growth. 472Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 88 My Miss Reindeer 我的麋鹿小姐 An engineering student who is utterly rational, deeply depressed, and endlessly gentle watches love and academics both slip through his fingers after failing his postgraduate entrance exams. If his life is written in struggle, why not let go and do whatever he wants? Seeing through it all, he drifts between his rich second-generation girlfriend, a beautiful top student, and a top-tier starlet influencer. “I’m done being a clown who can’t even make a sound when he hits the ground!” 18Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 89 My Ex-Wife Vs. My Ex-Girlfriend: I Sit Back and Drink 前妻PK前女友，我在一旁喝大酒 [Urban] [Multiple Heroines] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Entirely Handmade] My name is Hao Qilai. My ex-girlfriend burned funeral offerings for me, and my ex-wife made me spend two years as a carrot inspector. Recently, I became a lifeguard at a seaside bathing beach, selling balloons on the side while collecting rent. I thought this was all life had in store for me, until the day I rescued my landlady and my ex-girlfriend. My ex-wife was there too. And things got even crazier: in the game I play, the 44Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 90 Better Never to Have Met in This Life 此生不如不见 This is a novel about love and hate intertwined. There is no transmigration, cultivation, or System, just ordinary human nature in the real world. Through a twist of fate, the protagonist, Wang Zhicheng, meets his fiancée's identical twin sister, and a love that no one will accept begins to unfold. The many hardships of the real world push the two people who love each other toward the abyss, costing them their lives. When you look back on your youth, this novel may make you feel like you've been 1.1kReads6.7Score107Shelves
- 91 Let’s Get Married Right After Graduation 毕业就结婚吧 I was still a sophomore in college when, out of nowhere, I ended up with a twenty-year-old fiancée. When she came to my house for the first time, my father asked me to show her around. But as soon as we were alone, she insisted on seeing my bedroom... (This novel is complete at over a million characters, so you can read with confidence.) 1.8kReads7.2Score198Shelves
- 92 That Year, Because of the Campus Belle, I Ran Off to Guangdong to Become a Handsome Lad 那年因为校花，我跑路广东当靓仔 [Jianghu]+ [Workplace]+ [Romance]+ [No System]+ [Not reborn] [Based on the author’s real experiences working in Guangdong, this is a story about migrant workers in cities like Dongguan and Shenzhen. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, so don’t read it if that’s not your thing!] In 1997, Zhang Zaiye, Li Yaocong, Jiang Xinyue, and others met while working summer jobs in Guangdong, and formed a deep friendship. At the time, Dongguan’s economy was growing at a breakneck pace. Workers poured in fr 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Real Men Don’t Cry 真男人不哭泣 Dedicated to all men facing a midlife crisis. May there be a Ye Qianyu in your life, silently loving you for twenty years. May you meet a Lu Manman and find a turning point in life. May everything you wish for begin to appear and come true the moment you open this book. Real men don't cry. Keep going! At thirty-five, Xie Nanshan hits rock bottom. He loses his job, his marriage falls apart, and he is saddled with massive debts. Every step takes him closer to despair. He is maliciously bann 13Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 94 I'll Wait for You Amid Wine, Women, and Moonlit Nights 我在风花雪月中等你 After a night of partying, he accidentally answered the campus belle's call, and she latched onto him as her boyfriend... Just then, his ex-girlfriend, who had been abroad for years, came looking for him again in a Maybach... And that's not all. The professional female gamer who dominates onstage turns out to be a socially anxious introvert in private, and she's even willing to give up her career for me... The editor who knows me best actually suggested that we elope together... What should I do 728Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 95 Your Shanghai, My Westside 我的城西，你的上海 #Tearjerker Fiction #Realistic Fiction #Urban Romance #Heartbreak and Healing #Stories from the Margins He's a delivery driver living in a subdivided room in the western part of the city. She's a designer in an office tower in the Guomao district. One glance on a rooftop, and she bends down to step into his world, but his insecurity makes him push her away again and again. She quietly submits his work to publishers and draws up plans for a bookstore. In Suzhou, she writes to tell him, “I've wai 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Piercing Through Time: The Old Era, Stealing Fire, No Return 刺穿异时光：旧纪元，盗火，无归 Earth is dead. From the Solar System to Laniakea, this corner of the universe has finally found peace. Lin Qi’s legendary life begins in its final ten chapters. Only then will his little universe erupt. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Hello, Mr. Doraemon 你好，哆啦A梦先生 I had only wanted to live an easy, carefree life as an ordinary person. But when my childhood sweetheart and first CEO girlfriend married someone else for the sake of profit, and my beautiful second girlfriend, a painter, sacrificed herself for power, I realized I couldn't keep being a pushover. I had to fight back! When I finally stood at the top of the pyramid, I gave life a resounding shout... 1.9kReads8.7Score199Shelves
- 98 My Fatal Charmer 我的红颜祸水 On the night the 2015 college entrance exam results became available, the whole family gathered around the computer to wait for the scores. We’d agreed that whoever scored higher, my younger sister or me, would go to college. The other would go with our father to find odd jobs at construction sites and earn money. My mother, stepfather, half-sister, and I all watched the screen. My sister scored 612, and I scored 540. But no one knew that I’d gotten zero on the Chinese exam. I’d turned in a blan 18.6kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 99 Life Sharing an Apartment on the Seventh Floor in Chengdu 在成都七楼合租的日子 A slow-paced, realistic story with no System, no power fantasy, no harem, and one female lead. It blends urban everyday life, ordinary men and women, work and daily living, and friendship, romance, and family bonds. In Chengdu, a city where bustling old neighborhoods meet the modern metropolis, Wu Fan and Ye Yali’s paths cross when they become roommates. The story begins in the summer of 2005... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Since I Stopped Putting Up with My Marriage, I've Been Living My Best Life 自从婚姻不再忍着过老娘我爽爆了 Hua Roulan stayed in the big city of Hailing after graduating from university. Her husband, Cheng Chuanhe, had a doctorate and ran a company. “You don't earn as much as I do. What gives you the right to make me do the housework?” Whenever Cheng Chuanhe flew into a rage, he erupted like a landslide, completely hysterical. Arguments between married couples are inevitable, but he resorted to verbal attacks and emotional abuse... She really couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to keep enduri 43Reads7.1Score—Shelves
