Novels like I'm a Dog, Damn It
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I'm a Dog, Damn It, best match first.
- 1 The 19-Year-Old Ice Queen CEO 高冷总裁十九岁 I rescued a little girl who had gotten lost, only to discover she was my direct superior. Instead of being grateful, she repaid my kindness with cruelty. Then one day, I... 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Love in the City of Mist 雾都爱情 We all strive and dream of a better life in the future. People say life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what flavor the next one will be. That is, until I met her... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 My Sister's Stationery Shop 姐姐的文具店 My sister and I depended on each other. Then a car accident took away the only family I had. I rushed back overnight from my job down south, only to find my sister dead in a horrific state. After an investigation, it was ruled a traffic accident. I continued running my sister's stationery shop. One night, just as I was about to close up, a haunting voice called out, “I'm here to pick up a package. The phone number ends in 4777.” A woman in red slowly walked in, her face deathly pale... Strange t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 From the Start, After the Breakup: I Brought a Strange Woman Home 开局分手：带陌生女人回家 [In the style of My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant] [No System] [Realistic Fiction] [Tragic Ending] [First Person] After reading My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant, I decided to finish the novel I'd been planning for a long time. I'm a new author, and I hope you enjoy it… Title: Where Time Flows Softly, A Dream of Mortal Life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 An Encounter with a Woman of the Night, and My Life Took Off 与风尘女孩的邂逅，从此人生开挂 Modern-day slice of life + one female lead + the underworld + an underdog's rise. When shall we sit by the western window, trim the candle, and talk of the rainy nights in Bazhou? Liangjiang, a city with a naturally chivalrous spirit. Liangjiang's underworld is defined by loyalty and daring, by the swaggering freedom of living by one's own will. It is the ancient charm of Bazhou, celebrated by refined scholars, and a cradle that has produced countless heroes. In its streets and alleys, you'll al —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 From the Start, I Taught the Villain to Turn Over a New Leaf 开局教反派重新做人 Lin Mo, an amnesiac ultimate villain, becomes the owner of a failing bookstore. After picking up a daughter from a fairy tale, he discovers that raising a child costs even more than being a villain. To make money, he transmigrates across various planes. Will he reform and turn over a new leaf along the way, striving to become a five-star citizen, or will he regain his memories and return to the path of destruction? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 My Siege, Your Hunting Ground 我的围城，你的围场 I've been in love three times. My first love was a beautiful TV host, and we were together for ten years. My second girlfriend was the heiress of a client conglomerate. My third girlfriend was a cool, domineering female CEO with sixteen different sides to her. She fulfilled every fantasy I had about women. I really like this passage: “Your many interpretations and annotations of me don't amount to even one ten-thousandth of who I am, but they reveal you completely. I couldn't agree more with th 46Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 8 Spring at Fifteen Watts 十五瓦的春天 The story takes place from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, a time when China was undergoing rapid economic growth and profound social change. Their parents arranged a child-swap marriage, and the resulting children were a top student sister born in the 1990s and Mou Hao. From childhood, the two endured ridicule for wearing hand-me-downs and living in an abandoned factory, but it forged them into people with iron wills. They struggled to stay in school by selling fruit and tutoring, and eventu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 We’re Already at a Nightclub, Who’s Here to Date? 都来夜店了，谁还谈恋爱！ [Original titles: Nightclub Girl, Please Don't Call; My Nightclub Girlfriend] After his girlfriend died, Chi Luo spent half a year drowning himself in drink, drifting through life and often going out with his best friend. He had no ambition, but at least he could play a few instruments. So he became the piano teacher of a beautiful woman in her late twenties. He also met an eighteen-year-old heiress, who grew deeply attached to him after they spent time together. Meanwhile, Chi Luo had another e 260Reads7.9Score102Shelves
- 10 My Girl from Porcelain City 我的瓷都姑娘 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Let's Stop Here. Any More Love Would Be Impolite 到此为止吧，再爱就不礼貌了 (Multiple heroines, no System, no golden finger, workplace, romantic tension) A down-on-his-luck young man works at a beauty salon. One night, he accidentally discovers an indecent video of his beautiful boss, and from then on, the course of his life changes. When fortune finally turns in his favor, he doesn't forget the beautiful colleagues he's left behind. He leads them all to happy lives. 61Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 12 Before My Sixth Breakup 在第六次失恋前 When Wang Yalei and Old Shu stroll hand in hand, they have no idea that their relationship will end with a text message just half a month later. From her first year of college to the year she turns thirty, this is her fifth heartbreak. A woman who could have been a big brother's woman gradually accepts that her fate is to be the big brother among women. Big brothers have their own fate, too. She must face her work, take responsibility, cherish her friendships, and only then comes the love that c 160Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 13 I Learned to Love You in a Southern City 我在南方的城学会爱你 The seven-year itch came to an end beneath the blazing afternoon sun. I thought my life was about to enter a long winter, but little did I know it was the beginning of a new one. When it comes to learning how to love you, I have used every bit of my ingenuity. 3.4kReads8.8Score278Shelves
- 14 Our Years as Roommates 我们的合租往事 On the way back, with the alcohol giving me courage, I asked her, “Did you really mean what you said just now?” She looked confused. “What do you mean, did I really mean it?” I was getting anxious. “You told them you were dating me!” She burst out laughing. She’d understood what I meant all along and had just been teasing me. She said, “I’m four or five years older than you. You don’t mind?” “I don’t mind. Isn’t it said that a wife who’s three years older brings a fortune? I’ll get one and a hal 2.7kReads8.8Score—Shelves
- 15 The Years I Spent as a Casanova 我当情圣那些年 A Pickup Artist's Rules: 1. Don't rush into a relationship. Be friends first, and see whether her friends are prettier than she is. 2. Keep women out of your heart, not out of your life. 3. Look a woman in the eyes first. If she isn't looking at you, look at her legs. 4. If a woman can affect your thoughts, don't hesitate: leave her. Xu Ling is a broke 26-year-old standing at a crossroads in life. Career? Women? Love? His ex? How should he choose? (Urban + realistic + funny + heartwarming + roma 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Beijing Girl 我的北京女孩 A young man with nothing going for him can't move on after a breakup. When he accompanies a friend to Beijing, he encounters new things and new people... His life quietly changes course. What kind of love story will he find as he sets out to reclaim his dream? 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 My Five Loves 我的五种爱情 A story about a tenant, one female lead, a tragic romance, and regrets. Ever since Mu Cheng took in a down-on-her-luck heiress, his life, once as still as dead water, began to burn with passion. A mature beauty, a domineering female CEO, a sweet little bunny, and a crazy girl all make their entrances one after another. In short, how could life get any more exhilarating? 950Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 18 Lover with a Pure Heart 素心恋人 You’re the person I love most. For you, I could deceive anyone in the world, even myself. That’s how desperately I love you. Even if you have to lie to me, please keep it up a little longer, and make the lie a little more convincing... 289Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 19 My Pure and Beautiful Heiress 我的清纯大小姐 The hardest things to forget are the ones you never thought about, yet can never forget! A car accident during the summer before my senior year of high school left me with amnesia. To escape my confusion, I boarded a train to Lhasa alone. I thought it would be an ordinary trip, but then I met a girl on the train who would heal me for the rest of my life... This is the story of a lost boy with amnesia searching for redemption, and finding love during his four years at university. 3Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 Classmate, Who Are You? 同学，你谁啊 Lu Guoqiu is an 84-year-old man who is disrespectful of his elders, selfish, and self-serving. He and his wife, Yang Qiurong, have a son and a daughter. Their son, Lu Ang, works a nine-to-five corporate job and has a daughter, Lu Leqi, with his wife, Qiqi. Ever since she was little, Lu Leqi has been disliked by her grandfather. Her mother has always tried to prove herself by raising her like a boy, determined to outdo Lu Xiao's family in everything. Their daughter, Lu Xiao, is a lawyer. She and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 A Bewitching Beauty: My Wild, Chaotic Romance 红颜祸水:我的迷乱野情 Chen Man leaves the mountains to seek refuge with his widowed sister-in-law, but the glittering, decadent city soon leaves him lost. Starting as a bar bouncer, he climbs step by step to the top. Along the way, a glamorous female boss and others gather around him... 6kReads7.6Score375Shelves
- 22 The Campus Belle Pursues Me from the Start, and the Tycoon Families Get on Their Knees 开局被校花倒追，豪门给我跪下 [Face-slapping before the day is out + urban fantasy + time travel + adventure + if we can fight, we don’t waste our breath] Shu Ge only wants to lie flat in peace in the urban village. But after a transmigration mishap, Xue’er, a history major and campus beauty who’s also an heiress, discovers his secret about time and space, forcing him to take her along on his journeys through time. From bloody vengeance on the battlefields of the War of Resistance Against Japan, to drinking beneath the moon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Derailment: An Inverted Palette 变轨：倒置的调色盘 [Not a feel-good story] [Not pure romance] People say that if the water from your heater keeps turning hot and cold, there’s probably another tap sharing the same supply. But if the water is always cold, the only explanation is that you may no longer be the one holding the controls. And if it suddenly gets scalding hot, the same may be true. 1.1kReads8.1Score100Shelves
- 24 The 17 Years I Was Entangled with My First Love 我和白月光纠缠的17年 This story takes some patience to read. There is no harem, just pure love, and it has a tragic ending. The plot takes a while to unfold because I wanted to tell it in detail. This book is better suited to readers who enjoy a slower pace… 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 After Our Divorce, He Saw My Posthumous Painting at the Palace Banquet 和离后，他在宫宴上看我的遗画 After Our Divorce, He Gazed at My Posthumous Painting at the Palace Banquet 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 After I Was Drowned in a Pond, My Husband Went Mad 被沉塘后，夫君他疯了 After I Was Drowned in a Pond, My Husband Went Mad 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Sang Luo's Farewell 桑落辞 Sang Luo Ci 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Day He Burned Me Alive, He Had Only Three Months Left 烧死我那天，他只剩三个月命 The Day He Burned Me to Death, He Had Only Three Months Left to Live 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 After I Left, My Ex-Husband's Empire Crumbled 我走后，前夫的江山塌了 After I Left, My Ex-Husband's Empire Crumbled 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Sorrow Beneath the Eaves 檐下殇 Sorrow Beneath the Eaves 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 A Midnight Romance 深夜情缘 Fang Nan's girlfriend of two years was pregnant with another man's child. Furious, he got into a car accident on a rainy night and crossed paths with a beautiful senior executive at a company. From then on, he was caught up in an utterly unbelievable tangle of love and revenge… 147Reads7.2Score103Shelves
- 32 Brilliant Darkness 璀璨的灰暗 Life stretches on, one wrong turn after another. But with the future still unwritten, how can you know the road beneath your feet is the wrong one? A nobody from the bottom of society carves out a brilliant and extraordinary life with his own flesh and blood! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Light in the Dark Abyss: A Boy and a Heiress’s Road to Redemption 暗渊逢光：少年与千金的救赎之路 [Urban]+ [No Harem]+ [No System]+ [Heiresses]+ [Love and Hate]+ [Slice of Life]+ [Personal Growth] The deepest love in the world is when someone accompanies you through the darkest stretch of your life, then does everything in their power to pull you out, even at the cost of being left covered in scars. And yet, in the end, they were only ever passing through. The story begins with a hopeful question: “Do you still remember me?” It ends the same way, only this time, we both hope we’ve forgotten —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The World Within the Mirror 镜里人间 What is the meaning of being alive? I have yet to figure it out, but I know this: only by living well can I earn the right to seek the answer. Ye Xunchuan, who grew up in an orphanage, and Bai Ruochu, who came from a poor family, found their souls in harmony and became a couple at university. Their happy life after marriage came crashing down when their five-year-old daughter, Ye Qing, was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease. The enormous medical bills broke Ye Xunchuan, who spiraled into de 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 41 Days of Love 41天恋爱 Multiple heroines + everyday life + slice of life + healing + romance This is a love letter to my youth, and a diary I finally found the courage to open. The story begins in Chang City… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Day I Signed the Medicine Slave Contract, the Marquis's Estate Hung Mourning Banners for Three Years 签完药人契那天，侯府白幡挂了三年 The Day She Signed the Medicine Vassal Contract, the Marquis's Residence Had Hung White Mourning Banners for Three Years 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 My Five Years as a Drifter in Guangzhou 广漂的那五年 A detailed look at the five years after college graduation, spent struggling to make a living in the bustling city of Guangzhou. How did a complete novice gradually grow stronger, step by step? As we make our way along the paths of love and career, each of us has a story to tell... After five years of weathering life's hardships, we'll grow stronger at last! It's time to turn the tables!!! A new author with a new book: My Five Years Drifting in Guangzhou. I've got a story. 211Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 38 Rising Step by Step in Middle Age 人到中年：步步高升 Cheng Dawei has offended his beautiful boss and is constantly being targeted by her. He never expected that one good deed would turn his luck around and send him climbing the career ladder. From a nobody in the company whom everyone bullied, he rises to become the darling everyone fawns over and curries favor with... 822Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 39 I Just Heard Their Thoughts, and Now You're Calling Me the Crown Prince of the Capital? 刚听到心声，你说我是帝都太子爷 Ye Lingyun transmigrated into the body of an orphan in a parallel world. He had no money or connections. He might as well have been there to accept charity! Fortunately, he could hear the thoughts of all things! Bailiqun: Smoke me! I've got a kick, and I can help you bury what's on your mind! Scratch-off ticket: Come scratch me! I'm worth two million! Card sharp: He'll never guess that this is how I... cheat at cards! Enemy: My plan is this, and then this... He'll definitely fall into the trap! 5Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 40 My Lord, I Won't Treat You Anymore 夫君，我不医了 My Lord Husband, I Won't Treat You Anymore 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 My Beijing Girl 我的北京姑娘 If you love someone, take them to Beijing. It is the heart of the country, where they can see all the splendor the world has to offer... If you hate someone, leave them in Beijing. That city is cold enough for them to hide every burden in their heart… I reveled in the city's splendor at night, never understanding why anyone would stay in Beijing. After seven years, my relationship fell apart, and only then did I begin to see that I had nothing. Her arrival saved me. She was the kindest girl 534Reads7.7Score101Shelves
- 42 Lost in Marriage 婚姻迷途 Marriage is perhaps the most delicate relationship in the world. It can make you closer than anyone else, or leave you feeling more distant than strangers... 20Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 43 Waiting for the Wind in Guangzhou 羊城等风来 (This is not a cuckold story.) (This is not a wish-fulfillment story.) My childhood sweetheart, whom I’d been married to for a year, divorced me and made me take the blame for the breakup! I let you fly free, and I’ll bear the pain! Then a mysterious young girl barged into my life. From that moment on, the wheels of fate began to turn, and I gradually fell into one trap and conspiracy after another. Can ordinary people really never defeat the authorities? 83Reads5.0Score—Shelves
- 44 A Small-Town Story at Full Speed 小城故事一路狂奔 Having grown up without a father's love, he once had a happy family and a steady career. Then, out of nowhere, he got divorced, lost his job, and was plagued by nightmares. His life hit rock bottom. At his lowest point, he chose to start a business and met her while she was working a part-time job. Fate had other plans: after a change in her mother's identity came to light, she became a wealthy heiress. He raced toward love, never wavering in his devotion despite repeated romantic setbacks. On —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Tibet: I Fell in Love with the Wind of Namcha Barwa 西藏：我爱上了南迦巴瓦的风 [Roommate-style story] + [Childhood Friends] + [Heiress] + [Beautiful Ex-Girlfriend] + [Love Rival Showdown] Male-oriented, male-oriented, male-oriented "Wang Dong, clear out your desk and go take care of your resignation paperwork." After working for five years, Wang Dong was fired by his unscrupulous boss. He had been praised by everyone to the highest heights, only to be hurled down hard. That night, he came across a video of Tibet. "Screw this company, I'm going to Tibet!" In Tibet, his chil 2.1kReads—Score234Shelves
- 46 King of the Reverse Scales 逆鳞之王 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 I Want So Badly to Love This World 好想爱这个世界 (The style of The Tenants + urban tragic romance + realism + multiple female love interests + ensemble cast + bad ending + open ending) Life and death to the left, parting to the right. Gu Bei met several girls in his life. One clutched a marble for eight years, then crouched by a barbecue stall and grinned at him. “I was afraid you’d be lonely.” One left him a book before the train pulled away and said, “If one day you don’t want to wait anymore, you can come find me.” One stayed by his sid 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Promise Between Me and the Goddess 我和女神有个约定 Also known as: "My Number 14 Pet Shop" A stubborn woman barged into my life. She could have stayed a goddess, but instead she insisted on living under the same roof as me... I love listening to G.E.M.’s song “Bubble.” Whenever it comes on, I listen closely to every word she sings. Bubbles in the sunlight are colorful, just like how I was happy even as I was being deceived. Why dwell on right and wrong in your lies, when you still love me? Beautiful bubbles, though they flare up for only an insta 1.2kReads8.3Score108Shelves
- 49 May the Sun Always Shine Bright 希望阳光永远都炽热 A castoff banished by his corporation to the Western District has a one-night stand, only to be relentlessly pursued by a beauty. Then, through a bizarre twist of fate, he even ends up at the police station. Ever since he got involved with this woman, not a single day has gone smoothly! "I'll pay you. Can you just leave?" "No!" Is it really so hard for me to be a true believer in pure love? 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Saving Our Marriage Starts with Divorce 保卫婚姻从离婚开始 [No System, No Transmigration, Two Heroines, Marital and Workplace Rivalries, Male Lead’s Rise] This novel was originally titled "Protecting a Marriage Starts with Divorce". The second installment, "You’re My Wife, So Who Else Would I Spoil?", is currently being written. Stay tuned! Su Yuchen and Cheng Yao are an ordinary married couple. After entering married life, conflicts over family and careers eventually trigger a marital crisis. Their stubborn refusal to back down pushes them toward divor 7Reads—Score—Shelves
