Novels like Removing the Makeup
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Removing the Makeup, best match first.
- 101 The Hidden Front of the War Against Japan 抗日之隐蔽战线 Kudo Yuan is the head of Japan’s spy agency, yet no one ever imagined he was Chinese! His adoptive father is an Army lieutenant general, and his uncle is a Navy admiral. Can he complete his covert mission in the face of temptations from a seductive femme fatale and challenges from old devils and clowns? 173Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 102 A Big Shot Becomes a Spy in the Republic of China 大佬在民国当间谍 She was Zero Nine, a formidable mercenary from the interstellar age. But during her final mission, she was betrayed and killed. Unexpectedly, her soul crossed into another world, where she became Zhou Wenjun, a refined young lady from a prominent family. Now the enemy runs rampant, but brave souls rise to strengthen the nation. Everyone bears the duty to restore the country, charging fearlessly through fire and blade. The land may fall, but the heroic spirit endures. In this chaotic and tragic e 104Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 103 Espionage: I Can See the Labels on Other People 谍战：我能看到别人身上的标签 My name is Qi Sheng. Sheng, as in “to triumph over Heaven by half a move.” I can see the labels other people give me. Some call me a “handsome young man.” Others call me a “cold-blooded killer.” And some call me a “living King of Hell.” If anyone asked what label I’d give myself, I’d choose “Blood Crow,” the name that makes the Japanese invaders tremble at the mere mention of it. 204Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 104 Espionage: I Got the Hell-Mode Script, but I'm Really on the Good Guys' Side 谍战：拿了地狱剧本的我真是友军 [No System + No Female Lead, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel. Don't Read If You Don't Like That] Long Yan transmigrates ninety years into the past. But why does something feel off??? Fang Tianyi, Zhou Weiguo, Takeshita Shun, Chen Shen, Bi Zhongliang, Lin Nansheng, Li Moqun, Chen Moqun, Ye Chong, Ming Lou, Ming Tai, Ming Jing... What the heck? How did I end up in a spy drama?! And the worst part is, Long Yan has actually transmigrated into... A Japanese officer?!! 21Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 105 Transmigrated as the Villainess: My Whole Family Has a Secret Identity 穿越成恶毒女配：我全家都有马甲 Qin Yan transmigrates into a book set during the chaotic warlord era of the 1930s. The original owner is a vicious cannon-fodder female supporting character. Her whole family are lackeys of the Japanese, and she herself is a despicable, universally hated bully: a traitorous collaborator who used her power to abduct civilian women and men. Qin Yan? But soon, she realizes something is off. Her father: a secret intelligence agent Her stepmother: an undercover spy in Japan Her third uncle: a Communi 1.2kReads7.1Score10214d adds
- 106 Spy Games: A Fight to the Death 谍战，生死较量 I transmigrated to Jiangcheng in 1936, on the eve of the full-scale War of Resistance, and became an action team member of the Lixingshe. At this critical moment, when the nation’s very survival was at stake, I couldn’t change the course of history. But I would still do everything in my power, using my talents to shed my blood for our country’s victory in the war against Japan. 91Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 107 Espionage: I Have a Phantom Express Van 谍战，我有一辆幽灵快递车 [Espionage] + [Behind Enemy Lines] + [Multiple Identities] + [Spatial Powers] + [The Green Gang]... The moment Yu Yang opened his eyes, he found himself in Republican-era Shanghai, a low-level Green Gang thug tasked with watching over a venue. He was also the Military Statistics Bureau's most peripheral informant, so peripheral he wasn't even worthy of a code name... One intelligence handoff caught the attention of the bureau's headquarters. Dai Li said, "From now on, his code name will be Lon 42.7kReads7.9Score4.2k14d adds
- 108 I Gun Down Half the Shanghai Station of the Military Statistics Bureau from the Start 开局枪杀半个军统上海站 [Power fantasy] [Action expert] [Shanghai] [Espionage] He is the king of Shanghai by night, the king of the King of Hell. When the King of Hell says you will die at the third watch, no one can keep you alive until the fifth. During the War of Resistance against Japan, a Communist Party agent embedded in the military intelligence service hunts down the enemy and eliminates traitors in Shanghai. 101Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 109 Espionage: Slapping a Chinese Traitor from the Start and Wiping Out the Whole Field 谍战：开局怒扇大汉奸，爆杀全场 [Espionage + transmigration + System + power fantasy + multiple heroines] Food delivery driver Chen Jiu transmigrates into the body of the head of General Affairs at No. 76 and awakens the Emotional Critical Hit System. Slap a traitor in the face, and get a critical-hit reward: [Expertise in Disassembling Firearms]! Rescue an arrested student, and get a hundredfold reward: [Codebreaking Skills]! When a Japanese female agent says Chen Jiu reminds her of her first love, he immediately unlocks [Tri 187Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Espionage: A Fake Mother and Son, Truly Undercover 谍战：假母子真潜伏 [Espionage] [War of Resistance] [Transmigration] [Secret Identity] "I don't want to suffer, but I never wanted to eat dirt either..." Forty-two-year-old Zhao Cuihua transmigrates. She wakes up in the body of a young widow in Dazao Village, in the thirty-first year of the Republic of China. From the start, she has only one life, and she nearly starves to death. The land is scorched for a thousand miles. There's no grain in the fields, no bark on the trees, and people have barely a breath left. He 41kReads8.2Score4.7k14d adds
- 111 Transmigrating to the Republic of China: I Have a System, So What Could I Fear? 穿越民国：我有系统，我怕谁 [System + cheeky heroine + jerk hero + heroine's dog-training journey + informal writing style] Summary: Li Nanhe is a newbie who has just graduated from high school. By a twist of fate, she transmigrates into a world resembling the Republican era, with a System that comes along for the ride. While completing missions, she encounters an arrogant, self-important man. Men are usually so full of themselves because they've been spoiled. One beating should set him straight, and if it doesn't, give h 1.1kReads8.1Score10014d adds
- 112 Hearts of Iron IV: Total War 暗斗4：全面战争 Total war has long been raging right beside us! Our enemies use methods more brutal than ever, and China faces a calamity without precedent. Whether we can escape this disaster will determine the course of human civilization, and may even decide whether humanity lives or dies! The Jews, the most vile people of all, have finally bared their sharp fangs… 136Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 113 Endless Long Night 长夜无间 [Republican-Era Espionage + Deep Cover + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + Multiple Female Supporting Characters + Powerful Protagonist Reborn] He was the scourge of the Japanese puppet regime in Manchuria, hated by all and impossible to deal with. He was also a smuggling tycoon with riches beyond the reach of any nation. And he was an unprecedented young general of the Empire. Sadly, all of it came to nothing. During the final covert struggle in Harbin, he overlooked the presence of one insignif 34Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 114 Espionage: Every Female Agent Is My Informant 谍战：女特务都是我的内线 [Espionage + Multiple Heroines + System + Hearing Their Inner Thoughts] Whenever he comes into contact with a beautiful woman, he learns her memories, experiences, inner thoughts, schemes, and secrets, giving him leverage over her. Handsome and devilishly charming, he lies low in enemy territory and finds himself surrounded by one romantic encounter after another, as if he were strolling through a land of women. He cons and deceives, spinning one outrageous tale after another until the enemy's f 2.3kReads7.2Score17514d adds
- 115 Secrets of the Spy War: The Japanese Translator 谍海秘事之鬼子翻译官 From the start, Liu Dongyang worked as an interpreter for the Japanese army, matching wits with the enemy and treading carefully at every turn. He also faced constant threats from collaborators and traitors, with danger lurking everywhere. Yet he always managed to escape trouble and obtain vital intelligence for his side. 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 116 Undercover in 1936: Call Me King of Hell Ning 谍战1936：请叫我宁阎王 Straight-laced version: Ning Yan is reborn, back in 1936 Nanjing, as a student at the Army Officer Academy. It is assignment season, and through a twist of fate, Ning Yan saves a Japanese member of the Communist Party and obtains an identity badge. From then on, he joins the Military Statistics Bureau, assumes the identity of Ito Hirobumi, and launches the Cuckoo Plan! Bearing the hopes of the Ito family’s revival, he undertakes a decades-long infiltration deep in enemy territory. The Military S 86Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 117 Su Xi, the Female Physician 女医苏溪 Su Xi, a surgeon, transmigrates to the early Republican era with her medical equipment and her own body. Who says women are inferior to men? Who says women cannot be doctors? Watch as her astonishing skills make her famous across Jiangnan, win the admiration of Jiangzhou City's three young masters, and have them vying to marry her. Through the twists and turns of life, she repeatedly escapes danger, turns ill-fated relationships into happy ones, and joins forces with those around her to keep the 121Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 118 Espionage: As Long as I'm Weird Enough, No One Will Suspect Me 谍战：只要我够变态就没人怀疑我 Scene: Interrogation Room Japanese Female Agent: You’ll never get me to talk, even if you kill me. Li Si: I won’t kill you, and I won’t ask you for intelligence, either. Japanese Female Agent: Why aren’t you asking me for intelligence? Li Si: Someone, gag her. Japanese Female Agent: ??? I know classified intelligence. If I die, you’re all doomed! Li Si: I just want to torment you to death. Who cares about intelligence? Japanese Female Agent: I want to see your commander. Li Si: Someone, go gag o 31Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 119 Blood and Intrigue 谍血风云 [Decisive and Ruthless] [Absolutely No Saintly Do-Gooder] [Fired with Passion] Returning to the war-torn Republic of China, the protagonist uses his slight head start to navigate between the various factions. On the secret front, every move is fraught with danger; between black and white, he repeatedly risks his life, earning achievements that no one will ever know about… 14Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 120 Resistance War System: The Hidden Butterfly's Flower 抗战系统：隐蝶之花 After Zhong Yuyan was bound to an Anti-Japanese War System, she was reborn in a parallel universe. She never expected, though, to be reborn as a female traitor who had been targeted for assassination by the Military Statistics Bureau. Only after barely escaping with her life did she learn from the original host’s memories that... The original host wasn’t a female traitor at all. She was a triple agent who had returned from studying abroad, and also the Party’s most secretive butterfly hidden dee 21.2kReads8.4Score2.4k14d adds
- 121 Hunter of Shanghai 上海滩猎人 Chen Ke transmigrates into a world where espionage stories converge and gains a Spy-Hunting System. Report to the Chairman: Members of the Shanghai Black Dragon Society are disappearing one after another. Report to General Toihara: Our agents hidden in Shanghai have gone missing. 68Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 122 Four Hundred Men Held the Rear, and for 14 Years, No Order to Retreat Came 四百人断后，14年没有撤退命令 Dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's victory in the Long March, and to the brave souls who risked everything in the people's war. You laid down your lives to pave the road to a brighter future. With a devotion that will never fade, we honor every undying spirit of loyalty. I believe the opening chapters will draw huge traffic, because the story is even more explosive. [War of Resistance Espionage · History · Spy Thriller · Special Forces · No Female Lead · Power Struggle · No Ha 1.3kReads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Espionage: Finding Life in Desperate Straits 谍战之绝处逢生 Against the enemy, he is a sharp sword. To destroy them, he must endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens. He longs to live beneath the "sunlight," but his duty confines him to the "shadows." This story is dedicated to the unsung heroes who gave everything for their country! 92Reads7.4Score2514d adds
- 124 The Delicate Shadow of Republican-Era China 民国娇影 You shouldn’t read spy novels. One careless moment, and you could end up inside one. Qiu Shan, a cutesy, melodramatic young woman, wakes up in the Shanghai of the Republican era. But what the heck? Why is she on all fours? And why has she turned into a cat? On top of that, she’s embarked on an entirely different kind of spy career as Miss Meow? 35Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 125 A Tangled Web of Espionage: I’ll Be the Ninth of the Eight Guardians! 谍综重重：八大金刚我行九！ [From Juntong bigwig Brother Jiu to Marquis Ju, and then to Springtime in Hong Kong!] [Female lead Li Ningyu + turning Japanese loyalists into capable servants] Everyone knows that Dai Li’s most capable men in the Lixing Society are known as the Eight Vajras. But who says the Eight Vajras can’t have a ninth member? Here he comes, walking straight toward you! The Nationalist government’s intelligence community’s god of fortune! A trusted confidant of the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army, 21.7kReads7.5Score2.3k14d adds
- 126 Republican Era: I Became a Big Shot Behind My Brother’s Back and Left Him Stunned 民国：背着哥哥当大佬惊掉了下巴 [System + Cheat Ability + Possibly No Romance + Parallel World] On her first day after transmigrating into a parallel world, Zhou Jinxiu’s older brother was inexplicably kidnapped by people from Japan. Before she could even figure out what was going on, she was forced to step up and rescue her family. She was so furious her teeth ached. Then, out of nowhere, she gained a cheat ability, just the thing to help her pull off a few “petty thefts.” Luring them with a codebook, moving enemy supplies, s 88Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 127 Shadow War 2: Phantom Storm, the Spy Demon Returns 暗斗2：魅影风云之谍魔再世 Sequel to Dark Struggle: espionage, mind games, suspense, spies, and intellectual battles. Enemy agents are everywhere. Almost everyone around us has the enemy's shadow lurking nearby. The terrifying part isn't the secret agents lying low. Even more shocking is how the Japanese have infiltrated and corrupted us for a thousand years. Our elite agents stop at nothing to root them out completely, only to discover that the real enemy is the band of traitors who've been bought off! Little do they kno 2.5kReads9.3Score25314d adds
- 128 Agent: Fighting Yu Manli from the Start 特工：开局搏斗于曼丽 After transmigrating, Lin Guangnian enrolls at the Military Statistics Bureau’s secret agent academy, where he becomes classmates with Yu Zecheng, Yu Manli, and Ming Tai. He shocks Wang Tianfeng during a training exercise. Wang Tianfeng: “The best student I’ve ever taught!” Zheng Yaoxian: “Move the plan up. Support Lin Guangnian in all his operations!” Yu Manli: “I don’t love a hooligan like you!” Yu Zecheng: “Big Brother, what’s our next move?” 216Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 129 Espionage: The Black Dog Gets a System 谍战：黑狗子获得系统后 He was a retired military doctor, but his soul crossed over into the body of a secret police agent. With the System at his side, he can carry out covert assassinations and gather intelligence without a trace. He has no organization, yet his heart belongs to his country. He infiltrates enemy ranks, but remains loyal at heart. For his country, he kills his wife and accepts an enemy as his father. He bears humiliation and hardship, drifting through a life of wine and excess! With the System at his 159Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Broken Thorn 断刺 When the Japanese invaders strike, a rebellious young man runs away from home and is swept by the tides of history from one perilous situation to another. He maneuvers between military intelligence agents, underworld gangs, and Japanese spies; makes choices between conflicting beliefs; sacrifices love and friendship; and transforms as he grows through loneliness... 131Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 131 Espionage: The Ultimate Undercover Agent, Night Hawk of the Military Intelligence Bureau 谍战：最牛潜伏，军统夜鹰 [Original Characters + Intelligence + Assassinations + Sweeping Through Shanghai’s Foreign Concessions] Zhao Haifan transmigrates to Shanghai during the isolated-island era and becomes a Juntong agent, codename Night Hawk... The story strives for realism, and most characters are based on historical figures. The ten great female agents of Juntong, the ten female fiends of the 76th, and the Imperial Flowers of Japan’s Tokko. A heroine who supplies the Nationalist Army with vital resources. Chinese 9Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 132 Espionage: Starting Out as a Nobody 谍战：从小人开始 A modern young man is reborn in 1937 with a System. From a timid young secret agent to a renowned anti-Japanese hero, it only takes a few short months. Along the way, Ye Chen has killed no shortage of Japanese soldiers. If the System weren't holding him back, Ye Chen really would have kept killing until... 1.2kReads6.6Score10014d adds
- 133 Espionage: Codename Screw 谍战之代号螺丝钉 Good news: A sharpshooter from the shooting range transmigrates to the Republican era and becomes a little agent for the Military Statistics Bureau. He has extraordinary hearing, peerless marksmanship, and a few other tricks up his sleeve... Bad news: The Lone Wolf team has been wiped out, and I’ve become a prisoner of the Japanese. Their guns are already aimed at the back of my head. I’m about to get boxed, and it looks like I’ll be meeting my great-grandma any minute... My name is Lin Tianxian 3kReads6.5Score18314d adds
- 134 I Transmigrated to a War-Torn Era, and I'm No Easy Target 穿越到战乱年代，我也不是好惹的 Transmigration + Republican era + spies + System + parallel worlds + no CP Who would’ve thought that someone who wouldn’t even step on a tiny bug would suddenly transmigrate? Fine, she could deal with being poor and having a hard life, but of all the places to end up, she landed right in the middle of a mission. Before she could figure out what was going on, she was facing the prospect of being killed all over again. Still, she didn’t want to live in the original owner’s body either. But when th 1.3kReads8.7Score10514d adds
- 135 The Little Spy's Successful Comeback 谍战小特务的成功逆袭 The extraordinary life of a little spy: I can identify and control spies. The great demon Li Shiqun of No. 76, the Eastern Witch Yoshiko Kawashima, and the Empire's Flower, Yun Zi Nanzō, all turn pale when they see this little spy. 82Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 136 Twin Eagles, I'm Your Phoenix Youngling 双鹰，我就是你的凤雏 I actually transmigrated into Flying Tigers and became sworn friends with Yan Shuangying. I bet your gun has no bullets, too. Yan Shuangying: Watch out for the brick behind him. Damn! You sneaky bastard, that's not how this works! 2.1kReads6.8Score12214d adds
- 137 My Years in Intelligence Work 我干谍报工作的那几年 Born at the wrong time and adrift for half her life, should she accept her fate or fight back? If transmigration were a lottery, Zhang Huaiyue must have drawn the very worst ticket. After living an ordinary life for over twenty years, she couldn’t understand why, among all the transmigrators, she had been thrown into this war-torn era. To survive, she planned and schemed painstakingly. Just as she finally glimpsed a chance to break free from her shackles, fate seemed to play a cruel joke and pus 2.9kReads8.6Score27014d adds
- 138 Espionage: If You Got This Script, Would You Take It? 谍战：这剧本给你你要不要？ [No System + No female lead] [Hellscript, Volume 2] Transmigrating into a spy thriller, Long Yan finds himself holding a hellish script and posing as a Japanese officer?! After attending the same military academy as Zhou Weiguo, entering into a partnership with the Ming Corporation before parting ways, and facing life and death on the battlefield alongside Takeshita Shun, Long Yan finally finds his organization. Three years later, he returns to Shanghai. This time, he's an agent embedded in the 831Reads8.2Score10114d adds
- 139 Republican-Era Spy Shadow 民国谍影 [No System + No transmigration, not reborn. Ace agent Xu Lai, with five identities] Not a power fantasy. Readers who like power fantasies, proceed with caution! A thrilling spy saga in Shanghai’s foreign concessions: A spy among bandits, a double agent among spies, betrayal upon betrayal, one sellout after another! This story is dedicated to the unsung heroes who fought the Japanese invaders to the death for the rise of China! Also known as The Days I Spent as a Collaborator for the Japanese Pup 33Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 140 Spy War 谍战 “It depends on the angle you look at it from. If you read this as a spy thriller, then it’s a spy thriller. Think it’s a hard-hitting tale? Then it’s a story of staunch patriotism and loyalty to the nation. These days, everyone talks about positive energy. The nation really does need an infusion of it. Even the best-written books can be reviled, just like Water Margin and Dream of the Red Chamber. Conversely, trash can win widespread acclaim. Whatever you make of it, this is an anti-Japanese war 694Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 I Brought a Spatial Ring: Transmigrating to 1939 我带着空间戒指：穿越到1939 Web novelist Gu Wenxuan dies suddenly while staying up late to write. He takes a Space Ring he happened to acquire and transmigrates to Beiping in 1939, during the Republic of China era. The unfortunate part is that he has transmigrated into the body of a captain of a traitor’s secret-police squad. Now that he’s transmigrated, is he really supposed to become a traitor? Of course he won’t. But plenty of people from the Military Statistics Bureau want him to become a double agent. Now that Gu 22Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 142 From the Start, I Merged with Yan Shuangying and Tore Through the Espionage World 开局融合燕双鹰，我把谍战杀穿了 [Spy thriller + System + feel-good power fantasy + high ratings + a veteran author with ten million words who never leaves a story unfinished] Shen Qingshan accidentally transmigrates to the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China and becomes cannon fodder in the Lixing Society's action squad. Just as he hesitates over whether to run for it, he gains all of Yan Shuangying's abilities. From then on, his fate is in his own hands, not Heaven's! 387Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 143 The Undercover Agent's Mark 潜伏者的印记 A mysterious classified file has come to light, revealing the silent battlefield of the infiltrators. The silent war is all the more terrifying. He has lived undercover for years, each mission like walking a tightrope. He can never tell friend from foe among those around him, and every step hides a deadly trap. As the clouds of suspicion gradually clear, the marks of those years spent undercover will ultimately become medals of history. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 The Kite That Flew Away 远去的风筝 Han Yong, the last disciple of Chinese martial arts master Gong Baotian, is wanted by the Kuomintang for avenging his family. With no other choice, he joins the Communist Party. During an ambush, a traitor’s tip-off leads to the annihilation of the Party’s intelligence company, and Han Yong is branded a traitor. But he does not lose heart or give up. After drifting to Meixian and Shaoguan in Guangdong, he receives support from like-minded martial artists and the working masses, and establishes t 904Reads—Score10014d adds
- 145 After Three Years and Three Blind Dates, He Became the Kind of Man I Hate Most 三年相亲三次，他变成了我最讨厌的样子 After three blind dates in three years, he became the kind of person I hate most. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Springtime Amid Steel and Concrete 钢筋水泥里的春天 Springtime Among Steel and Concrete —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 She Broke Her Leg in a Prime Location 她在黄金地段摔断了腿 She Broke Her Leg in a Prime Location —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Drunken God 醉神 The Drunken God —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 On Day 28, I Ruined My Brother’s Family 第28天，我让弟弟一家社死了 On the 28th day, I made my younger brother's whole family social pariahs. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Life in a Spy War 在谍战世界生活 A spy thriller set in the Republic of China era. Volume One: Infiltration Volume Two: The Disguiser, pairing with A Cheng Volume Three: The Kite, pairing with Sixth Brother Volume Four: The Rebel, pairing with Chen Moqun Volume Five: Before Dawn Volume Six: The Fifth Special Operations Group Volume Seven: Sparrow, pairing with Tang Shanhai Volume Eight: Dancing with Wolves, pairing with Shang Mingshuo A new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. 3.2kReads8.4Score13414d adds
