Novels like She Is Above the Clouds
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as She Is Above the Clouds, best match first.
- 51 She Tore Up More Than Just the Non-Compete Agreement 她撕掉的不仅是竞业协议 What she tore up was more than just a non-compete agreement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Lost in You Day and Night 日夜沉溺 Breaking up with Fu Qingzhou nearly cost Sheng Nan half her life. Years later, he became her direct boss. One night of passion, and everything was a mess. Fu Qingzhou pinned her against the wall. "Sheng Nan, do you really think you still have a say? I make the rules in this game." [Second chance at love + groveling ex + a male lead who's stubborn to the bone] 5Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 53 From Involution to Lying Flat: A Corporate Drone’s Path to Enlightenment 从内卷到躺平：大厂社畜修行记 This is a story with a healing touch. From overwork to lying flat: A tale of a corporate drone’s journey at a major internet company, chronicling the endless grind of modern laid-off tech workers! Will you choose a cat-like approach to finding a job, a dog-like approach to working, or a Buddhist approach and lie flat? Between striving to get ahead and simply showing up to work, what will you choose? Join the cool and aloof Chi Mai as she explores modern city life and the path to healing yourself 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 After Reading His Mind, I Got the CEO Wrapped Around My Finger 读心后，霸总被我拿捏了 Qi Wan is a chatty slacker at Die Shan Design, lounging around and munching sunflower seeds on the surface, while secretly possessing incredible talent. Xie Chi is a reclusive, mysterious boss who fears socializing but controls everything. She can hear his innermost thoughts, like the sound of his heartbeat: “If she comes any closer, I'm done for.” When colleagues dump work on her, directors try to suppress her, and her ex threatens her, she hits back with face-slapping comebacks. From plagiaris 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 A Heartbeat Beyond Calculation 算不尽心动 [A battle of equals + reunion after a long separation + love that goes unrequited] Lin Zhixu is a cool, beautiful, and brilliant quantitative trader who has made her own place in the highest echelons of finance. She spends her days navigating high-pressure rivalries and contests for fame and fortune, living with sharp clarity and never showing a weakness. Focused entirely on reaching the top of her career, she keeps her ambition hidden and shoulders every burden and lonely moment alone. Her pr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 A Ten-Degree Temperature Difference 十度温差 Moving from a first-tier city to a second-tier one meant a temperature difference of just ten degrees. But moving from a private company to a state-owned enterprise meant a journey of more than a thousand miles. Xu Man had felt lost and wavered... Yet she dared to brave the countercurrent and forge a new path, ultimately finding success and, quite by chance, meeting Mr. Right. 552Reads8.9Score107Shelves
- 57 The Aloof Dr. Song Begs Her to Marry Him 高冷宋医生卑微求娶 [Female Lead] Zhou Chiyou is a wedding planner who deeply loves this creative industry, full of ideals and affection. [Male Lead] Though Song Shixing is heir to a fortune worth tens of billions, he still holds fast to his own ideals. Young and accomplished, he became a cardiothoracic surgeon. … Two people who should have had nothing to do with each other crossed paths because of a scalped ticket. … Zhou Chiyou has many sides to her. She’s obedient when following a doctor’s orders, meticulous an 53Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 58 Chasing Dreams Across the Galaxy, I Win the Beauty Qiushui's Heart 逐梦星河，我抱得美人秋水 Zhu Xinghe and Li Qiushui graduate from a prestigious university and join Henganxin Insurance's Ninghai City branch together. Starting as inexperienced field agents, they fight their way up to management. To win the group's highest honor, the "Dream Team" award, given every five years, they battle over resources, snitch on and sabotage each other, play double agents, deploy honey traps and handsome-man traps, face betrayal by brothers and support from best friends, and get caught up in power gam 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 The End of Bad Luck 倒霉尽头 “Hi, I’m the man you slept with last night.” When Ji Yunyun saw the WeChat message, she nearly dropped her phone. Yesterday had been the worst day of her life: someone stole her project proposal, her boyfriend cheated on her, and her nemesis suddenly became her boss. That night, she went to a bar to drink her troubles away, then stumbled home in a haze. When she woke up the next morning, she found herself in the bed of a strange man. She thought she could keep the whole thing buried, until he me 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 My Years at a Foreign Company 我的外企岁月 On a battlefield without gunfire, enemies are everywhere. In a workplace without compassion, everyone is a schemer. And in a game of love where feelings have no place, who can find even a little warmth… Gao Ge is like a little lion, fighting her way through a foreign company, charging ahead and getting battered along the way. Only in the end does she realize she’s really a little deer, the one who can run wild in his heart. 729Reads9.3Score129Shelves
- 61 Ten Miles of Red Finery: Not a Single Sedan Chair Can Be Left Behind 十里红妆：一抬都不能少 "Three million. Sign it." She replied with four words: "The shop is not for sale." Her grandmother had passed away, leaving behind a bridal finery shop, twelve volumes of manuscripts, and a grand sedan chair for a wedding procession, its gold leaf only half applied. Everyone urged her to take the money and leave. Only the lawyer told her, "The will says the shop goes to you. If you don't claim it within sixty days, it goes to someone else." So she went to claim it. When buying the shop didn't wo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Workplace Revenge: My Boss and Colleagues Joined Forces Against Me, So I Took the Whole Company Down 职场复仇：上司下属联手算计，我让整个公司陪葬 Workplace Revenge: When My Boss and Subordinates Joined Forces to Set Me Up, I Took the Whole Company Down with Me 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 An Illustrated Guide to Love 爱情图鉴 Changing jobs is risky, and changing careers calls for caution. The workplace is a battlefield, and though victories and defeats are part of the game, should you really quit just because things don't go your way? Meng Chunqiu is a 29-year-old office worker in the city. She has no connections and lives in someone else's city, far from her parents' love, with no husband or boyfriend to protect her. Her boss can't stand her, her colleagues have ulterior motives, and the partner organization she wor 3kReads9.2Score276Shelves
- 64 A History of the Death of Idealism 理想主义消亡史 [No transmigration], [No cheats or System], [Realistic], [No feel-good wish fulfillment], [Deep-dive into the inside story], [Scheming] Medical investment is an obscure industry with a lot of hidden complexities. Yan Hui is a professional in the field, as well as an idealist. But as time goes by and circumstances change, his life and work gradually slip beyond his control. (A song will be included in the author’s notes for each chapter. It will relate to the chapter, directly or indirectly, obje 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Wake Up, Down-and-Out Heiress! 醒醒吧，落魄白富美！ On her flight home, Meng Ziyan survives a terrifying ordeal and is rescued twice by the refined older man Zhao Liye. She falls for him at first sight. But then her family falls on hard times: their villa is sold, she's left with 800,000 yuan in debt, and her dream of getting Australian permanent residency crumbles when her immigration agent disappears. Once a wealthy heiress, she is reduced to a job paying just 5,000 yuan a month. Yet she turns things around at work, landing one contract after a 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 A Heartfelt Deal 心动交易 [Sweet romance with angst + healing] [Exclusive devotion, a polished but depraved top lawyer × a money-loving junior lawyer] Jiang Ran met Gu Shencheng because he casually pointed her out from a line of beauties. She wanted his money; he wanted her body. Once she was through her rough patch, Jiang Ran pulled up her pants and acted like nothing had happened. “Attorney Gu, let’s not keep in touch from now on.” Gu Shencheng gripped her chin. “Jiang Ran, you used me and now you’re tossing me aside?” 97Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 67 The Mo Family’s Female Artisan Rules the Cybersecurity World with Her Siegecraft 墨家女匠靠守城术称霸网安圈 Mo Wei wakes up in an ancient city of ingenious mechanisms from two thousand years ago and becomes the most mysterious intern at a modern cybersecurity company. Others look at code; she looks at the city gates. Others search for vulnerabilities; she first asks, “Who's guarding this gate?” The cold-faced CEO Shen Yan initially only wants to drive her away. Later, he becomes the one who takes her home in the rain, waits downstairs for her in the morning, and is the first to stand up for her when s 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Corporate World: Mergers and Acquisitions 职场铭之并购江湖 (Workplace intrigue + business rivalry + workplace romance + turning one's life around) In Modu, you dream of owning a spacious home, driving a nice car, and having a beautiful, gracious partner. But you're just an ordinary office worker, an ordinary accountant. What can you do? The protagonist, Ren Jiaming, is in the same boat. Yet through luck and his own hard work, he weathers the deceit and rivalry of the business world and the ups and downs of romance, inching closer to that life day by day 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 You in a Parallel World: How Did You End Up So Miserable? 平行世界的你，咋混这么惨 After a wedding that left her utterly exhausted, Jia Qianjin accidentally transmigrated into a parallel world. When she woke up, she found herself sitting in a classroom in a foreign country. Everyone around her spoke English she couldn’t understand, and her phone’s photo album was full of strangers. All she could leave in her notes app was one sentence: “Oh my god, did I transmigrate?” Seven days later, the note updated itself. “Oh my god, did I transmigrate too?” From then on, two parallel lin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Rookie 新秀 A look at post-90s female workplace professionals: uncovering the consulting industry, exploring the world of corporate executives, and watching a workplace newcomer become a truly outstanding professional! A new novel from fiction writer Luo Jia, adapted from her own experience in the industry! By the Huangpu River stands Luoshen, a world-leading consulting firm. Its magnificent, gold-bright eightieth-floor banquet hall has welcomed another group of newcomers from China’s most prestigious unive 442Reads9.4Score110Shelves
- 71 The Perfect Lover 最合适的爱人 At first, Qiao’s father seems like he’s not very bright, but he’s actually the real hidden powerhouse, the mastermind behind every event. People call him the modern-day Yue Buqun. Many readers wonder why a tycoon worth hundreds of billions seems so clueless. It’s all foreshadowing for later in the story. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Grind System Forces Me to Give It Everything 卷王系统逼我干到天花板 After binding to a System, workplace rookie Lin Xiao can quantify emotions, and her aesthetic sense becomes combat power. Once an invisible office nobody whose proposals were stolen by coworkers, she makes a stunning comeback and joins the group’s flagship project, competing alongside a design genius, a channel queen, and a marketing rival. But the real challenge isn’t proposals or design. It’s the games of human nature and the undercurrents of power lurking behind every decision. Rising from ex —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 After the Year-End Bonus Was Canceled, My Boss Knelt Outside My Door 年终奖取消后，老板在我家门口跪下了 After the Year-End Bonus Was Canceled, My Boss Knelt Outside My House 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 My Perfect Attendance Bonus Became a Project Bonus, and I Was Slammed on the Headlines 全勤奖改项目奖金，我被骂上头条 They Replaced Perfect Attendance Bonuses with Project Bonuses, and I Got Blasted All Over the Headlines —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 After My Credit Was Stolen, I Slacked Off, and My Toxic Coworkers All Lost It 功劳被抢后我摆烂了，极品同事集体破防 After My Achievements Were Stolen, I Started Slacking Off and My Toxic Coworkers Totally Lost It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Inelastic Collision 非弹性碰撞 [Redemption x Rekindled Love x Reunion After Years Apart x Mutual Obsession] Content warnings: The heroine is a yandere with a weak moral compass. Neither lead remains faithful later in the story, and the hero acts like a jerk for much of the middle. Please don't read if this bothers you. At a New York party when she was fourteen, Song Jinyue met Ling Yuchen for the first time. Her mother called her "useless," and she was huddled in a corner. Yet he insisted on approaching her, offered her hot c 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 My Slob of a Boss 我的抠脚领导 The workplace is full of surprises. My name is Wei Guoguo, and my boss, Feng Cheng, is one of the strangest people around, a true standout among abstract thinkers. "Learning" is his catchphrase. Rolling up his trouser legs is how he gauges the temperature. Tattling is his favorite hobby. Every day at work feels like a comedy. How can someone like that be a boss? Maybe that's just the absurdity of life. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Be Reborn, Wang Lili 重生吧，王丽丽 How does a middle-aged woman break free and start over when marriage, children, unemployment, and poor health all weigh her down? This book follows Wang Lili, a middle-aged loser who uses her chance to be reborn to climb, step by step, to the peak of life. 44Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 79 Urban: This Concept-Level Office Supply Is a Must-Have 都市：这概念级办公用品，谁用谁 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Yang awakens the “Conceptual Creation System.” To clock out on time, he goes into full-on, crazy modification mode. [100% Apology Stapler]: Whoever gets stapled must kneel down and apologize sincerely. Side effect: The user must sway their hips and shout, “Big brother, I know I was wrong~” [Absolutely Punctual Employee Badge]: Once you put it on, no one can stop you from clocking out, not even God! Side effect: You must glide out of the building on sk —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 This Life Is Over, I'll Be a Leader in the Next 这辈子就这样了，下辈子当领导 Two minutes after Fang Leilei died, she came back to life on the spot and was sent straight back to the day of her new-hire military training. One familiar, youthful face after another. Back then, he hadn't become a department manager yet. Back then, she hadn't stabbed me in the back yet. Ah! Isn't that my dream man?! He married a scheming woman in my past life, so it's my turn to have him in this one! Just look at me, Fang Leilei: my career was a mess and my love life was a disaster in my last 20Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 81 Office Schemes: Mr. CEO, Don’t Kiss Me 职心计：总裁别吻我 [Workplace inspiration + domineering CEO + sweet romance in a wealthy family + power-couple love story + friendship and growth] Song Yucheng should have been celebrating a promotion and raise on her thirtieth birthday. Instead, a misunderstanding while catching a homewrecker cost her the opportunity, and she now faces harsh punishment from the company. Her coworkers mock, discriminate against, and make things difficult for her at every turn. An unexpected helping hand from the company's domineer 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Glamour 光鲜 [Women’s Growth + The Real Fashion Industry + Matched Opponents] The glamour you see is not the whole story of fashion. Xing Yanyan’s acclaimed work, Glamour, is now shining online! A story about women in the workplace and the challenges they face, reality and ideals, love and freedom, courage and fearlessness. True feminism is a path to freedom, and freedom should never be limited to just one way of life. When luxury brands collide with street culture, refined commerce with rebellious nonconfor 343Reads9.4Score104Shelves
- 83 After I Was Made Redundant, My Former Company Begged Me to Return and Put Out the Fire 被优化后，前司跪求我回去救火 After I Was Laid Off, My Former Company Begged Me to Return and Put Out the Fires 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 I Can't Keep Being a Doctor, So I'll Flirt with a Rich Businessman for Fun 医生当不下去，勾引个富商来玩玩 (The rating has only just opened, so it’ll go up!) Who says becoming a doctor can help you break through the class barrier and join the upper echelons of society? The only way Cheng Yizhi can change her current situation is to win the lottery, with a prize worth millions… As if winning the lottery were that easy. Until Cheng Yizhi meets Qi Zheng. Isn’t he basically a walking lottery ticket? Win him over, and wealth, fame, and a bright future are all within easy reach… A carefully planned seducti 1.8kReads8.5Score164Shelves
- 85 Twenty Years in Dongguan 东莞二十年 A tribute to the workers of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The protagonist starts out as a naive young newcomer, then grows amid the undercurrents of workplace power struggles and rises above the competition to become an executive at a Taiwanese-owned company. Later, he leaves to start his own business, facing hardship after hardship in the cutthroat world of commerce, as well as twists and secrets in his personal love life. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Designing Love: My Dream Guy Insists We Get Married 设计爱情！男神非要跟我结婚 [A designer's workplace romance and daily life + women's workplace story + escaping a small town] [Sweet romance + one-on-one pairing + no angst + no misunderstandings + no golden finger + no face-slapping] [Scheming architectural designer + naive newcomer to the workplace] Architectural designer Lu Yuan is known in the industry as an irresistible dreamboat of a designer. Every project he designs becomes a hit, and people never stop talking about his work. But nobody could have guessed that behi 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Reborn as a Sales Rep at ByteDance 重生之我在字节当销售 I woke up to find I’d been reborn in 2017, the golden age when Douyin was just taking off! Keywords: #Rebirth #Douyin #AdSales #Comeback #BusinessWarfare #Workplace #RidingTheWave #InformationAsymmetry 7Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 88 Her Second Game: A Future Full of Promise 她的二次博弈：遥遥可期 An older, guiding lover, by your side every step of the way. A ten-year age gap. Love is a journey of healing, and a lighthouse that guides us as we grow. The best kind of love isn't rescue when you're down and out. It's walking side by side and helping each other become better versions of ourselves. She had been through a failed marriage. When love quietly began to appear, she was confused, retreated, hesitated, afraid, and too scared to take the leap... Shen Qiyu said, “Being good to you was n 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Reporter Su, I Like You 苏记者，我喜欢你 [Hong Kong Elite Families + Realistic Workplace + Female Growth + Office Romance + Age Gap] [Devoted Love + Mutual Pining + Powerful Man Bows for Love + Hopeless Romantic Male Lead + Both Leads Are Each Other’s First] [Clear-Eyed, Sharp-Witted Journalist × Cool-Headed, Aloof, Elegant Young Gentleman] Su Jinyou idolized Qin Size and was determined to work hard and stand beside him. When she first entered the workforce, she ran into obstacles at every turn. Qin Size was endlessly patient with her 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 A Record of the Iceberg's Collapse 冰山沉陷实录 There's a legend at the top-tier hospital: Fu Qingyan was born without the ability to feel emotions. At twenty-eight, he'd never dated, and the confessions he'd turned down could fill an entire hallway. Ning Xia wasn't convinced. She drew up a detailed “Operation Win Over Doctor Fu” plan. From arranging chance encounters and borrowing water to bringing him meals and keeping him company overnight, she advanced step by step. In the face of his coldness and rejection, she smiled brightly. “It's fin 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 After Going Bankrupt, I Became the Female CEO's Special Assistant 破产后，我成了女总裁的特别助理 A bankrupt young master vs. an icy female CEO. He came to Yun Jing to investigate the cause of his father's death. She uses him to stabilize the boardroom. A partnership built on mutual exploitation, from the archives to the boardroom, from buried cases to life-or-death struggles, from testing each other to fighting side by side. Twenty-five years of old scores, two generations of grudges. He takes a knife for her, and she helps him turn the tables. Love between equals is the most moving of all. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 A Physiological Obsession 生理性贪恋 [Both leads are devoted to each other + simmering tension + evenly matched + love grows over time] By day, Ye Jingqiu and Fu Jingshu are coworkers who can barely manage a word to each other. At night, he kisses her again and again, calling her name over and over as he loses control and goes mad for her. (Luring her step by step vs. falling deeper step by step) (Urban professionals / not a tragedy / happy ending / female-oriented / female lead’s perspective / romance-focused) (Bedtime readin 36.6kReads8.9Score3.2kShelves
- 93 Love When the Skies Clear After the Rain 爱在雨过天青时 [Male lead from a wealthy family, domineering CEO, underdog heroine's rise, love at first sight, secret crush, second male lead gets the girl, heroine doesn't look back, ultra-sweet and doting! Workplace comeback] [She is a gifted oil painter who rises to become a goddess of the jewelry design world!] [He is Deng Tianqing, the handsome young heir to the Deng Group, who has spent three years pining for the woman he met only once!] He said, “Liking someone means letting yourself go, but loving th 2Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 94 The CEO’s Secretly Married Employee 总裁的隐婚小职员 Lu Jingchen, the ruthless business tycoon feared across the internet, is cold, aloof, and in control of the city’s capital. Until one night at a lavish gala, when a young woman working there temporarily mistakes him for a miserable guy who’s just been dumped. Qin Qinghuan hands him a glass of orange juice and says earnestly: “Bro, if they say bye, just say bye. The next one will be even sweeter.” Because of that corny consolation, Lu Jingchen searches the entire internet for all 347 people named 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 A Heartfelt Confession 实名心动 At a matchmaking banquet, Tong Lu sees the man she has been avoiding for more than half a month: The C-World CEO, an imposing figure and a tech-industry rising star widely admired in their circles. He attends as a relative of one of the people being matched, sitting quietly off to the side the whole time without saying a word. Later, when Tong Lu comes out of the restroom, he suddenly blocks her outside the private room. - “You’re writing your thesis at a matchmaking banquet now?” Hearing him, 2.1kReads9.2Score248Shelves
- 96 The Day When the Days Were Long and the Nights Short 昼长夜短的那天 Completed · [Scheming Approach to a Spoiled Rich Second-Generation Heir VS A Rational, Restrained Female Investment Manager] [CEO + Business Warfare + Push and Pull + Devoted to His Wife + HE] A new hire showed up in Antai’s investment and financing department. To everyone’s surprise, it was Shan Jialin, the notorious spoiled young master of the Shan family. To his face, everyone called him Mr. Shan; behind his back, they complained that he had a pile of scandals and knew nothing about real est 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Love in the Time of Audits 爱在审计时 Shu Yan, a star auditor at Huacheng Accounting Firm, discovers through her many clashes with Lin Zechen that this formidable business tycoon has a hidden tenderness and possessive streak. He shields her from danger, cooks for her, and even stays by her side when she’s injured. She goes from wary and confused to gradually melting under the force of his devotion and domineering affection. Her family, too, has a past hidden from view: abandoned by her biological father, protected by her stepbrothe 113Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 98 Suspended in Desire 悬浮迷情 Celebrity architect Lu Haotian walks away from the security of a stable job and starts an architectural firm with partners who share his dreams. As they pursue success, they struggle against all kinds of unspoken industry rules. In the end, both Lu and his main partners are diagnosed with serious illnesses. His lover marries far away, and his family leaves him. Utterly despairing, he leaps toward the blue sky from the dreamlike pavilion he built himself. Ai Wen, a young architect fresh out of co 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Consultation After Dark 咨询夜不眠 After graduating from Harvard with an MBA, Song Qiaoyi returns to Main, one of the world's top strategic consulting firms. There, he endures workplace bullying, being framed with nude photos, and being deliberately sidelined. He turns the tide in a crisis, only to take someone else's piece of the pie, and leads his team into a head-on clash with a competitor. Through it all, he and his colleagues and mentors hold fast to their professional principles. He rises from strategic consultant to partne 365Reads9.4Score103Shelves
- 100 Do You Know How a Romance Scam Starts at a Blind Date? “你知道相亲局里的杀猪盘，是怎么开场的？” “Do you know how a romance scam at a matchmaking date gets started?” 4Reads—Score—Shelves
