Novels like Scenery Behind the Siege
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- 51 The 27-Year-Old Beauty Boss Won’t Leave Me Alone 27岁美女老板赖上我 Wherever there are people, there are rivalries. On my first day at work, I ran into my beautiful 27-year-old boss, Tang Ruoran. We had only just met when she accused me of being the father of her daughter. Heaven knows, it was my first time meeting her! I asked for a paternity test, but the results showed that I really was her daughter's biological father. Watch as I turn the tables, uncover layer upon layer of mystery, and finally discover just how greedy human nature can be... 2.1kReads8.5Score105Shelves
- 52 A Lifetime of Humiliation, All for the Day of Reckoning 半生忍辱只等清算时刻 As a child, he lost his mother, who called him a good-for-nothing, and his father, who was useless alive. He barely survived the beatings and abuse from his stepfather and the others. Later, he discovered that his father hadn't actually died by suicide. He endured countless humiliations, and over 37 years, through patience and cunning, rose from an insignificant nobody to a wealthy power broker. He pulled off a breathtaking comeback! He spent half his life enduring humiliation, not just to survi 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 A Young Rich Heir Falls for His Forty-Year-Old Tenant 年轻富少爱上四十岁租客 A Young Rich Man Falls for His Forty-Year-Old Tenant 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Those of Us Born in the ’80s 八零后的我们 We, the post-80s generation, have weathered life's joys and sorrows and suffered enough from the hardships of life and marriage. Amid the daily grind, our days have been steadily dwindling, and before we knew it, our generation had reached middle age... 2.7kReads8.2Score165Shelves
- 55 Everyday Life in the City: A Rich Heir in Beijing 都市日常：富二代在京城 "Love in the Mortal World: My Wild Wife in the Capital" My name is Tang Feng. I used to be a combat sports athlete and achieved some impressive results. After retiring, I started a new life. I came to the capital to experience life, embarking on a winding, realistic, and thrilling journey. From the start, I shared a rental apartment. The landlady would later become my wife. She was beautiful and wild. 2kReads8.7Score144Shelves
- 56 When Ji Comes, Make Yourself at Home 季来之，则安之 As the empire teeters on the brink of collapse, Ji Shuhe sees through her fiancé’s false affection and turns around to marry Ji Bai. She intends for them to spend their lives treating each other with polite respect, but finds herself falling deeper and deeper under his doting care... 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 A Chance Encounter 撞出来缘分 Zhang Wenjun is an ordinary accountant. One morning, while riding his electric scooter to work, he collides with an older woman at the market intersection. To his surprise, she is his teacher’s mother. They reach an arrangement: while her foot heals, Zhang Wenjun will come to her home every weekend and care for her free of charge. At the time, his teacher is dating someone, who turns out to be Zhang’s best friend. All three keep the truth from one another. Only in the end do they learn that each —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 A Twenty-Year-Old College Student Falls for a Middle-Aged Security Guard 二十岁女大学生爱上保安大叔 A 20-year-old college student falls in love with a middle-aged security guard. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 The City's Ultimate Player in Love 都市情场高高手 Lao Liu, an urban office worker, unexpectedly runs into the girl he had a crush on as a teenager. After much hesitation, he decides to pursue his youthful dream. Through a twist of fate, he ends up meeting his dream girl’s cousin by accident. Caught between the two women, he is confused and carried away by his feelings, yet too timid to act... 445Reads9.4Score105Shelves
- 60 A Gambling Addict's Return to the Right Path 一个网赌仔的浪子回头 A Gambling Addict's Turnaround —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 A Woman's Journey Through Marriage 女人与婚姻的经历 [Female-Oriented + Modern Romance + Workplace and Marriage + Flash Marriage + Realistic Family Life] [Women, Love, and Marriage | A True Account of Marriage | Women’s Growth | Emotional Resonance] Before the grief of losing her mother had even faded, Xinyang was pressured by her whole family to get married and rushed into a flash marriage. She found her hastily chosen partner through a radio station and gave up the career she loved to throw herself into the daily grind of married life. She thou 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Sister Ting's Love Story 婷姐的爱情故事 Sister Ting’s Love Story 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Neither Storm Nor Sunshine! 也无风雨也无晴！ Marriage Before Love, a realistic urban romance about everyday married life! Su Qin and Zhou Xinping marry after being introduced through a matchmaking arrangement, and they bicker constantly. Just as Su Qin feels disappointed and lost, a new dawn arrives. She discovers that her husband truly cares for her, and together they take on a new stage of life! 419Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Love Among the Mountains and Rivers 山水情 (Urban slice of life, inspirational growth, a nostalgic era, rich in detail) The beauty of mountains and rivers, the many faces of humanity, the fickleness of the world. The protagonist, Jiang Nan, knows right from wrong and values loyalty and affection. He grows from a poor boy who suffers humiliation into a fine young man admired by everyone. This story is grounded in real life, with family bonds, friendship, romance, and a deep love for his hometown. He leads the villagers to prosperity, ris 14.1kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
- 65 No Lamps, No Moon, So What? 无灯无月又何妨 If two hearts understand each other, what need have they for lamps or moonlight? If one day we’re caught in the same snow, then we’ll have shared a lifetime of gray hair. Even if we lived together in perfect harmony, there would still be regrets! May you weather every storm and still keep the light in your eyes, never straying from your original purpose. 35Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 66 I Refuse to Marry into a Wealthy Family. I'll Take My Child and Marry a Country Man 拒入豪门，我带娃嫁给乡下人 An IT engineer from a small town studies hard, works diligently, turns down a wealthy family’s marriage proposal, and goes abroad to study. Even after unexpectedly becoming a single mother, she never stops growing. She makes a dazzling transformation into an investment banking star… The only thing that drives her crazy is the child’s father, a young man from a small town who’s two years younger than her. He pursues her relentlessly, but what can she do? Love isn’t something you can achieve just 896Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 67 Mistakenly Climbing into a Life of Luxury 误攀浮华 I just got a notification from the platform that this is being adapted into a comic drama! This is not the same old story!!! You'll be captivated by the protagonists' charm, especially the male lead! [Guiding male lead | Not a domineering CEO | Realistic | Down-to-earth | Not over-the-top | Slow burn | No angst | Funny] [Sharp-dressed, devilishly handsome boss with a thousand schemes & pure, obedient girl who refuses to cling to the powerful] Original title: Mistakenly Climbing into the World of 30.8kReads9.1Score3.8kShelves
- 68 Don’t Be Foolish, He Only Likes 18-Year-Old Girls 别傻了，他只喜欢18岁小妹妹 “Ran, how long does it take to train like you?” Chen Nan asked curiously. His eyes shone with admiration and envy for Xiao Ran’s strength. Xiao Ran smiled faintly and replied with conviction, “I’m at Level Five of the Beginner Martial Arts rank now. I’ve been training for three whole years.” At that number, Chen Nan’s eyes widened in surprise. He murmured to himself, “It takes that long...” He seemed to feel a little pressure about the training that lay ahead. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风 [Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn. 3kReads8.0Score127Shelves
- 70 Urban Temptations: Love, Intoxicating as Poison 都市诱惑，人间中毒 Urban temptation, intoxicated by life. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Love, Hate, and Old Feuds Between Two Generations 两代人的爱恨情仇恩怨 She is determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death, but her stepmother and stepsister frame her, plunging her into danger time and again! She escapes certain doom, and is fortunate to meet business tycoon Qin Haonan, who falls for her at first sight and pursues her… People reveal different sides of themselves when it comes to love and family, and a single thought can lead to heaven or hell! Good and evil both get what they deserve, and fate always comes full circle! Those who commi 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Junior Brother, Don’t Be Like This 师弟，你别这样 The day Ye Xiucheng reports for duty at Qiaonan Community Clinic, everyone asks him, “Why would a graduate of a top medical university come to a poor, remote place like this?” He just smiles without answering. He can’t tell them why he came here: It’s because of his beliefs, and because of his senior, Su Xixi. He thought she would always be by his side. That is, until the new vice president, Liang Shuo, tells her, “If something’s weighing on you, you can talk to me.” Ye Xiucheng finally panics. 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Going Home for a Blind Date at Thirty 三十岁回家相亲 Going Home for a Blind Date at Thirty 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Women I Loved Back Then 那些年，我爱过的女人 After five years together, my girlfriend gets pregnant by her married male boss. Heartbroken, I unexpectedly meet a beautiful CEO. Amid tangled relationships and clashes in the business world, can I learn to believe in love again and turn my life around? 2.7kReads9.1Score333Shelves
- 75 Love at Forty 不惑爱情 Xu Anqin, a middle-aged woman, has a life that's a complete mess: a mother with dementia, a selfish older sister, in-laws who are always scheming, and a husband who never gets a clue. Everything gives her anxiety. At the lowest point in her life, her rich, handsome first love reappears. Maybe she has another path to choose, but Xu is clear-headed: "I'm almost forty. How could I still be some domineering CEO's unattainable first love?" Before the divorce, life backed her into a corner with no way 181Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Life, with Nowhere to Land 人生，无处安放 By middle age, Li Shu's life had become a complete mess. Her marriage had turned cold and distant, her grown son was going down a rebellious path, and her body and mind were steadily wearing down. How could she go on living such a miserable life? 745Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 77 Never Mess with a Pisces Woman 千万不要招惹双鱼座女生 [Workplace] [Urban Life] [Marriage Before Love] Mumu is a Pisces woman who entered the workplace with two labels already attached to her: timid and easy to bully. But no one knows that beneath the soft exterior of a Pisces lies the heart of a great demon king. When everyone thinks she’ll be swallowed up by the workplace, Mumu proves to the world through her actions: Don’t make a Pisces cry, because once she’s done crying, it’ll be your turn. This novel could also be called Mumu’s Rise to the Top 134Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 78 Second Marriage: Marrying a Doting CEO 二婚：嫁给甜宠总裁 Anxin got divorced, and Chen Shaonian believed those words: if you can't forget someone, fate will bring you together again! He was determined to seize the favor fate had shown him. But Anxin announced, "You're my best friend!" What was that supposed to mean?! "I treat you like oxygen, but you treat me like air?!" "No, no, no! I've got more tricks up my sleeve than a dragon fruit has seeds, and I'm patient and resourceful. I have to win you over! I'll cherish you, love you, and be yours forever! 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Tang Tiantian Meets the Third Young Master of the Mo Family 糖甜甜遇莫家三郎 When she was five, her mother died by suicide after battling cancer and depression. When he was ten, his parents divorced because of their troubled relationship. At twenty-two, after graduating from college, he was dumped by his girlfriend when he proposed. He then shut himself away in S City and spent six years writing online novels. At twenty-two, after graduating from college, she became a high school teacher in S City, only to be driven out of her home by her stepmother. Two people from trou 79Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 80 Survival Journal: Back to the World of Ordinary Life 求生日记：重返烟火人间 Not a wish-fulfillment story, no cheat powers, no rebirth: a realistic struggle to survive against the odds. An innocent only daughter meets the ultimate scumbag. He tricks her into love, saddles her with debt, then runs off, delivering a triple blow. She tries to take her daughter into the lake with her, but survives. Having died once, she finally comes to her senses. There’s no one to catch her when she falls and no one to save her. Every meal and every bit of warmth must be earned with her ow 5.6kReads8.8Score392Shelves
- 81 The Dust of Mortal Life 尘事 This book chronicles a family across a hundred years. An illiterate country woman is forced to abandon her newborn child, then wanders from place to place amid the chaos of a turbulent era, struggling to survive in the cracks. Told as a work of documentary fiction, this story depicts the joys and sorrows of several generations of an ordinary family, bringing a long-buried past to light. Let posterity decide who was right and who was wrong! 2kReads8.9Score180Shelves
- 82 About the Handsome Guy Next Door 关于隔壁的帅哥 About the Handsome Guy Next Door 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 A Spring Rainy Night Like the Sound of Mountains 一夜春雨似山鸣 [A devoted, restrained media mogul vs. a cool, distant career queen] [Fated connection | Emotional growth | Love that grows over time | A slow and steady romance | Sweet yet heartbreaking | A realistic slow burn] A year ago, two people who had each lost the one they loved met by chance in the drizzle after a funeral. He saw the desolate fragments in her eyes. She saw the icy lake in his. A borrowed flame warmed them for a brief moment. She thought it was nothing more than a fleeting encounter 97Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 84 The Rise and Fall of Boss Fan 范老板的沉浮人生 This story follows 1980s entrepreneur Fan Chenhui through the ups and downs of the business world in Shenzhen. It explores real-world issues including financial crises, family conflicts, workplace rivalries, and tangled relationships, portraying human nature and the changes of the times in vivid detail. 116Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 85 A Working Stiff's Little Journal 打工小记 Urban daily life + earning a living through hard work + multiple heroines + healing The story of an ordinary wage earner: from drifting to Guangzhou to drifting to Beijing, from Shaoxing to Foshan and then to Majiaqiao in Beijing. Fifteen years in all. See how a worker at the bottom makes his way through life... I went south at fifteen and drifted north at thirty. The fiercest gamble of my life took fifteen years to pay for. Over those fifteen years, I worked in an electronics factory, served 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 A Cherished Silver Bracelet 珍藏一条银手链 As children, Zhang Min and Guo Tingting accidentally fell into the river while playing by the bank. Li Zewen rescued them. Years later, after graduating from college, Li Zewen became their teacher. Due to family circumstances, Zhang Min dropped out of high school in her second year and went to work. Years later, she became a sales representative at a valve factory, while Guo Tingting became a nurse at the county hospital. To their surprise, Li Zewen became the man her best friend was set up with —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 A Lifelong Project 终生项目 [Cozy everyday life + devoted affection + strong heroine and hero + happy ending] [A down-on-her-luck live-in tutor and her overbearing, devoted single-dad employer; older man, six-year age gap] Under the same roof, the live-in tutor and her domineering CEO employer share the cozy routine of a trial marriage. Xiang Wang is eager to shower her with tender care, but the goddess remains unwilling to entrust herself to him... So, alongside his many other projects, Lu Zerui takes on two more: first, 199Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Five-Foot Woman and the Six-Foot Man 一米五女士与一米八先生 The Five-Foot-Tall Lady and the Six-Foot-Tall Gentleman 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 After Hearing My Patients’ Thoughts, I Turned My Career Around at the Hospital 听到患者心声后我在医院逆袭了 I Turned My Career Around at the Hospital After Hearing Patients' Thoughts 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Cold-Faced Officer's White Moonlight 冷面军官的白月光 That night, they sat on the steps outside the photography studio, eating wontons. The July heat in Shanghai was stifling as a steamer, and cicadas poured their cries from the plane trees’ canopies, spreading them across the ground. Shen Zhi prodded a wonton with her chopsticks, then suddenly asked, “How did you get by during those two years in Yemen?” 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 After the Divorce 离婚之后 [An animated series based on this book is coming soon. If you enjoy Qiuqiu's work, please keep an eye out for it!] This story tackles a subject close to real life, one I've always wanted to write about but never dared to. After writing a few feel-good power fantasies, I found myself returning to this subject, with an even stronger urge to express what I wanted to say. And so this book was born… Yang Zhixuan was a full-time homemaker who was divorced after fifteen years of marriage. On a snowy ni 10.6kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
- 92 I Want to Be Rich 我要做个有钱人 In 2023, Lin Hua was buried in debt because of the mask shortage during the pandemic. While hiking on Baiyun Mountain, he heard a debt collector harassing him over the phone. He accidentally fell from a high stairway near the summit and crashed into Chen Nan, a simpleton. Their souls switched bodies. There was no transmigrate, no System, no reborn, and no golden finger. It was simply an ordinary soul swap between two people, in a story of urban life, entrepreneurship, romance, and messy love and 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 A Guide to Restarting Life in a Small Town 小镇重启指南 A Guide to Restarting Life in a Small Town 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Through the Trials 走过劫难 Disaster strikes a once-happy family of five. After suffering a heartbreak so piercing it feels like ten thousand arrows, how will a mother who has only just reached middle age, and is already frail and sickly, lead her three underage children through hardship and toward the future...? 150Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 A Complete Guide to Bazi 八字通晓 Eight Characters Made Clear is really just two names put together. Whose names are they? Tan Bazi, a man, and Jiang Tongxiao, a woman. At Tangfeng Cave, Guan Jixu and Fang Zhinan received the true teachings of Immortal Masters Xu and Guan, among others. They founded the Taihua East Peak School of Destiny Studies, enthroning as its patriarch and as deputy patriarch. From then on, Tangfeng Cave and Taihua East Peak became two important forums for destiny studies. The st 999Reads8.1Score220Shelves
- 96 My Doctor Lin 我的林医生 [A blend of sweetness and heartbreak + slow burn + delicate prose + a working woman’s growth + episodic format] Radiologist Lin Xiaoya can see every bone in the human body, yet she can’t read the heart of the person in front of her. Other people’s love is a two-way journey, but theirs is a tale of mutual misunderstanding... 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 You Tore Up My Critical Condition Notice, So I'll Cut Off Your Group's Lifeline 你撕我病危通知，我断你集团命脉 You tore up my critical condition notice. I’ll cut off the lifeline of your entire conglomerate. 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 They Laid Off the Group Chairman's Heir 裁员裁到集团太子爷 They Laid Off the Group's Heir 885Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Year of the Wolf and Tiger 狼虎之年 A panoramic survey of the raw emotional lives of people from different age groups and social classes in China today, vividly depicting the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature amid the country’s rapid social transformation. It lays bare the conflicts and friction between people’s emotions and reality. 10.9kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
- 100 The God of Odd Jobs in Tianfu 天府打工神 [Sweet romance + urban crime-solving + reincarnated deity + genius girl + cool, swaggering God of Death + two couples] Who could have guessed that the so-called insane genius girl was actually a deity who had fallen into the mortal world? With a clear goal in mind, she sets her sights on the stern captain of the criminal police and launches her pursuit. The haughty God of Death descends to the mortal realm and lands in a spectacularly embarrassing situation. When an earnest human policewoman te 74Reads9.3Score—Shelves
