Novels like Wife: My Husband Is a Scumbag, a Hopeless Good-for-Nothing
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- 151 On the Seventh Day After My Death, He Dug Up My Grave 死后第七天，他刨开了我的坟 On the seventh day after my death, he dug up my grave. 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 I Have Guarded Yanhuang for Five Thousand Years 我，守护炎黄五千年 Ten years ago, his soul was shattered atop Kunlun Peak, and he vanished from the world. Ten years later, with the entire world oppressing the descendants of Yan and Huang, he returns at the head of a million Dragon Clan warriors. For her, he turns white-haired and willingly falls into darkness, plunging into the Yellow Springs. When gods and Buddhas can no longer protect the world, he will guard all living things himself. [Important notice: This story combines ancient and modern elements and is 1kReads8.9Score10514d adds
- 153 You Wanted Me to Be a Treacherous Official, but My Entire Family Is Loyal? 让你当奸臣，你满门忠烈？ Other people transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty and become powerful ministers for beautiful wives, concubines, and authority over the whole court. Mu Zhengju became a powerful minister for the blessings he could earn in the next life after death! To rack up enough blessing points, he lived to a hundred, becoming a living fossil, a veteran of six reigns, and tutor to three emperors. [Ding! You tricked Prince of Yan Zhu Di into successfully launching the Jingnan Campaign. The Ming Dynasty’s military 56.2kReads7.6Score3.8k14d adds
- 154 Game Development: The Scheming Designer Makes the Whole Internet Cry 游戏制作：腹黑设计师，虐哭全网 [The protagonist is in an unconventional state of mind. If you have a low tolerance, please don't open this.] [Livestream] + [Transmigration] + [torture-focused] + [emotional gut punches] + [no heroine or just one heroine] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Li discovers that the supposed creator of “Soulslike” games, Hidetaka Miyazaki, doesn't exist. “Torture-focused” games have virtually no share of the global market. Already a schemer by nature, Lu Li also awakens the deeply twisted 5.3kReads8.4Score39914d adds
- 155 A Song of Life's Sorrows 生命悲歌 [Human nature + family + first person + male and female audiences] (Adapted into an audio drama with real voice actors; a motion comic is in production and coming soon.) Fate is never set in advance, yet it always pushes people toward unknown wilderness when they least expect it. The Ballad of Life uses simple, heartfelt storytelling to unfold a journey through hardship, perseverance, and struggle, revealing the most moving strength found in an ordinary life. There are no earth-shattering legend 10.9kReads9.2Score90714d adds
- 156 Tomb Raiding: When Will It End? 盗墓之何时了 [Twins + original male protagonist + original pairing, appearing later + two male leads + angst galore early on, bittersweet and painful] Jia An, a false peace. Wu An, no peace. Wang An, a deluded peace. Every one of them is him, and none of them is. Twins. As a boy, he thought he was one of two possible fates in the womb. But in truth, he was a destiny forged one hundred percent by others. The Wu family chose him. The Nine Gates chose him. And countless people far away, beyond his reach, create 1.3kReads8.7Score22914d adds
- 157 Cast Aside in Desperation: Returning in Glory 绝境弃子：归来荣耀 For ten years he kept his head down, enduring every sneer. The world saw him as a discarded nobody from the bottom rung, lowly as mud and fair game for anyone to bully. But Jiang Mu is the last heir of Jiang City’s most powerful hidden clan, and a dragon-patterned jade pendant conceals an immense force. A hidden dragon in the deep will one day reclaim its place. When he gives the word, armies will gather. Those who oppress me will see their graves overturned; those who have shown me kindness wil 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Darkest Hour Before Dawn 至暗凌晨 Set in an alternate world. Everything in this story is fictional. One female lead. No one remembers who was the first person to question whether this world was real. To the humans still living on Earth, the world is made up of nothing more than a vast expanse of water called the ocean and stretches of solid ground called continents. When creatures of legend force their way into the familiar yet unfamiliar world of humankind, terrifying the foolish, when beings from another world stain the azure 2kReads9.0Score19014d adds
- 159 War of Resistance: I Really Am One of Us! 抗日：我真的是自己人！ Lin Fang was an unlucky college student. After dragging himself through evening study, he stepped into a sewer and, when he opened his eyes again, had transmigrated to the Long March. He’d become a poor little kid rescued by the soldiers, and he’d even gotten bound to a System. Kill one Japanese soldier: 20 points! Great! Save one soldier: 40 points! Marvelous! As he geared up to build a beautiful homeland and looked forward to the future, he gradually unlocked his original body’s memories: 3.7kReads9.3Score33514d adds
- 160 The Hated Villainous Extra Becomes the Beloved Who Died Young 万人嫌反派炮灰成了早逝白月光 [No CP + Pretend Everyone Hates Him, Actually Everyone Loves Him + White Moonlight + Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic + Secret Identity + Battle-Scarred, Faked Death + Live-Stream Comments] Cen Yan, the Administration Bureau's number-one lapdog, died. Unfortunately, he came back to life. Something calling itself the world's consciousness found him and inexplicably asked him to save the world. Cen Yan didn't want to save the world. He didn't even want to live. So he refused without hesitation. World 59.6kReads9.1Score12.9k14d adds
- 161 The Lone Wanderer in Another World 异世界的独行者 Black Jiu, an introverted high school student who secretly works in the underworld, gets into a car accident during a school-organized spring outing. The entire group transmigrates to another world crawling with monsters. There, he meets his younger sister, whom their parents sold when she was little. Now a slave of the demon race, she is trying to kill herself... “If justice has its heroes, then darkness deserves its own savior, too. But saviors always like to keep clean. So people like us, the 2.2kReads9.0Score20514d adds
- 162 ICU from the Start: I Use My Life to Do Research 开局ICU，我用生命搞研究 Li Mubai transmigrates to an ancient kingdom in another plane, but he has only ten days left to live. Fortunately, he activates a System at this moment. From then on, he devotes himself to research to stay alive, constantly teetering on the brink of death. And his first step is to build a mushroom bomb! Because dignity comes only from the edge of a sword, and truth exists only within the range of artillery. Without adorable mushroom bombs, he can't earn adorable little bucks. Starting with mushr 2.4kReads8.7Score14514d adds
- 163 The Day the Real Heiress Came Home, My Little Brother Swallowed a Whole Bottle of Sleeping Pills 真千金回家那天，弟弟吞了一整瓶安眠药 The Day the Real Heiress Came Home, Her Younger Brother Swallowed a Whole Bottle of Sleeping Pills 100Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Han Standard-Bearer: One Man, One Blade, Guarding a City 大汉扛纛者：一人一刀镇守一城 The setting sun was red as blood. Blood ran in rivers across the ground, and severed limbs and bodies lay everywhere, like the underworld of a blood-soaked asura. Before, there had been thirty men. This time, there were a hundred. What about next time? Would it be three hundred? Three thousand? I have only myself and a single blade! I'm so tired. I want to lie down! But in the isolated city behind me are 572 elderly people, women, and children, all placing their hopes in me. The Martial King's b 7.2kReads8.3Score58114d adds
- 165 My Cancer Diagnosis Was Revealed at the Celebration Banquet, and the Whole Internet Broke Down in Tears 庆功宴上我癌症曝光，全网泪崩了 If you had only a few days left to live, what would you choose to do? At the celebration banquet for the successful completion of the lithography factory in Kyoto New District, Su Chen, the project lead, announced that he was resigning. Everyone was stunned. It turned out he had discovered that he was terminally ill and had little time left. Just then, Su Chen obtained the Scientific Research Master System. Completing research tasks would extend his life! Controlled nuclear fusion! Space elevato 11kReads8.2Score79514d adds
- 166 I Turned a Police Department Promo into a Film About an Outlaw 我把警署宣传片拍成了法外狂徒 The chief: “Chen Fan, if you can't shoot a video that goes viral this time, you're fired.” So Chen Fan filmed the classic Siping Police Affairs video about a cloud in the northwest sky, with a crow among a flock of phoenixes. The chief: “Hmm, not bad. Keep it up!” Chen Fan then filmed Uncle Desert's video, The Light of Justice, earning himself the title of the police world's black-hearted villain. The Armed Forces Department borrowed Chen Fan to shoot a recruitment video, but he went and made Wo 3.5kReads8.8Score28314d adds
- 167 Genshin Impact: Starting Out as Kazuha's Closest Friend 原神：从万叶挚友开始 Chosen by the Planner System, Bai Fan is forced to play characters from Genshin Impact. Complete story missions to earn rewards. His first role is the close friend of Kaedehara Kazuha. His final mission is to send himself straight into the Raiden Shogun's Musou no Hitotachi and help Kazuha escape Inazuma. Dying is easy, but figuring out how to save the living when you're already dead is a difficult problem. “Kazuha, if you ever see fireworks shaped like maple leaves, you'll know they came from m 541Reads9.3Score10414d adds
- 168 After Making the Phoenix Empress Regret It for Life, She Came After Me 让凤凰女帝抱憾终身后，她追来了 [You became a crippled immortal sword that cannot move.] [For a hundred years, no one has found where you are. You absorb the essence of the sun and moon, and the world-creating breath within you grows ever purer. An immense cultivation base has built up inside you.] [A young girl, still a child, flees in desperation and arrives before you. She chooses to form a contract with you and become your sword wielder.] [The girl depends on you completely. At night, she can only fall asleep with you in h 6.4kReads8.7Score83114d adds
- 169 After Transmigrating, He Made His Mark on History in a Livestream 穿越后，他在直播间青史留名了 [Livestream] + [everyone's favorite] + [no-couple ending] (The low rating is because it was review-bombed.) [This is a female-oriented novel… female-oriented, okay… Why are so many guys reading it…] [Ding-dong, hello! This is the Great Wei Dynasty Livestream. We are now broadcasting…] The Great Wei Dynasty is doomed. The emperor has fled… Famine, refugees, a foolish ruler… And Lin Qianyu, summoned by an unknown System to save the world. Oh, wow. Lin Qianyu stared at the world before him, express 2.4kReads9.0Score32314d adds
- 170 Next Chapter 下一章 [Two female leads + short story + final rally before death + mutual salvation + not a rebirth story + based on real events + tragic ending] Ni Sisi: “I don’t care what other people think. I only care how you feel.” Zuo Qingshu: “I’ve always been happy, and it’s all because of you.” Those who don’t love each other torment one another, while those who do are separated by life and death. They overcame every obstacle and should have made it to the altar. But on the eve of their wedding, a mentally 1.1kReads8.8Score26914d adds
- 171 Slay the Gods: Transmigrated as Cannon Fodder, from the Start I Kidnapped Si Xiaonan 斩神：穿成炮灰，开局绑架司小南 [Slay the Gods + memes + sweet, pure romance + Chosen Cannon Fodder System + Si Xiaonan as the sole female lead + making up for regrets, including but not limited to saving Zhao Kongcheng] This book is also known as I Stabbed My Adoptive Father in Slay the Gods: Remember the Name, Zhang Wei, The 108 Correct Ways to Use Cannon Fodder, and Reborn as Cannon Fodder, Kidnapping Si Xiaonan from the Start... When you're out in the world, strength and connections matter. He could live with transmigratin 6.1kReads8.1Score53214d adds
- 172 Showbiz: After Being Diagnosed with Depression, I Used Music to Heal the World 娱乐：确诊抑郁后，用歌治愈世界 [Entertainment + healing + livestreaming + redemption + no System + no heroine + no harem] Su Chen, who suffers from severe depression, decides to jump into the sea and end his life. But by chance, his soul transmigrates into a parallel world with a barren entertainment industry. The original Su Chen in this parallel world also suffered from severe depression. Having never known love, he decides to heal the world with his songs. One song, “Murmurs,” resonates with the entire internet. One song, 6.6kReads8.4Score63714d adds
- 173 The Headless Corpse in the Wilderness: A Deadly Game Among the Elite 荒野无头尸：豪门索命局 Headless Corpse in the Wilderness: A Deadly Game in a Wealthy Family 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 174 A Nation Ruined by the Author's Pen 笔下亡国 A Fallen Kingdom, Written Into Being 140Reads—Score614d adds
- 175 After Abandoning Her Husband and Child for Forty Years, She Died in a Garbage Heap on a Snowy Night 抛夫弃子四十年，雪夜死在垃圾堆 After abandoning her husband and child for forty years, she died in a snowstorm among the trash. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Terminally Ill, I Danced My Way Back to Fame in Showbiz 身患绝症，我靠跳舞翻红娱乐圈 [Showbiz] [No Female Lead] [Nontraditional Entertainment Novel] Su Huai, a top classical dancer in Huaguo, transmigrates to a parallel world much like Blue Star after a plane crash. The Su Huai of this parallel world is a minor celebrity with a terminal illness. He is mocked for his awful singing, dancing, and acting, and everyone says he’s an empty-headed know-nothing. Classical dance doesn’t exist here, and traditional folk music and Chinese studies are dismissed as tacky and outdated. After a 1.6kReads9.2Score16014d adds
- 177 Financial Ruin 破財 Dead... They're dead. The day the secret sealed away for nine years was revealed, everyone in Yunshui Town died! In the past, Cen Ziyu always thought the mountain demon that ate children was just a bizarre tale the adults had made up to scare them. Until one day, he uneasily remembered something. When he was little... he had eaten a person! Cen Ziyu and his grandmother depend on each other. Their life is hard, but the uncles and aunties in Yunshui Town have always been kind to them, ofte 276Reads—Score4714d adds
- 178 The Entire Cultivation World Is Hunting Me 全修真界都在追杀我 [Story complete] (A Shura-style crematorium story, 80% angst. One-on-one, both leads are sexually inexperienced, no split personalities.) - Lin Ji was a Host on a male-protagonist storyline. His mission was to become the male lead's whetstone and help him grow. But there was a problem: the System sheepishly told him that it had only just been transferred to the male-protagonist division and didn't know the business well enough to tell who the male lead was. Lin Ji fell silent. But it didn't matt 6.9kReads8.7Score1k14d adds
- 179 I Transmigrated into a Book as the Villain and Raised the Brooding Female Lead into a Yandere 穿书反派，把阴湿女主养成病娇了 [Redemption] + [Slow-Burn Yandere (Mild, Does Not Hurt the Male Lead)] + [Simple-Minded Sweetheart Male Lead vs. Sharp-Tongued but Soft-Hearted Female Lead] + [Single Female Lead] + [Book Transmigration] Qi Nan transmigrates into a romance novel for women titled Rooted in Jingzhi. The original character is a minor villain who often bullies the female lead, Xia Ningqi. He never expects that she is actually the eldest daughter of a powerful family in the capital, and ultimately ends up having his 388kReads8.8Score39k14d adds
- 180 Villain Hongjun: Nine Reincarnations, and All of Prehistoric Chaos Weeps 反派鸿钧：九世轮回，全洪荒泪崩 [Villain + Redemption + Primordial World] Hongjun has transmigrated into the apocalyptic calamity at the end of the Primordial World, only to be trapped and refined by the Heavenly Dao, Nuwa, Houtu, and the living beings of the Primordial World. At the brink of despair, Hongjun awakens a Life Editor and begins rewriting the history of the Primordial World: After Pangu created the world, Hongjun struggled to survive alongside the Heavenly Dao, slaughtered every ferocious beast, and gave the Heave 2.2kReads9.0Score18014d adds
- 181 Riddled with Illness, I Refuse Treatment. Why Are You Crying? 诸病缠身，我不治，你们哭什么 [Also known as: "Your Son Has Been Gone for a Long Time" and "My Depression Was Getting Better, but I Still Had Stomach Cancer"] Guo Lu was just passing through, a person suffering from depression, schizophrenia, and stomach cancer. After learning that he had only a few years left if he did not seek treatment, Guo Lu wanted nothing more than to end it all on his own terms. After the conflicts with his family accumulated and finally exploded time and again, the people close to him at last learned 4.3kReads8.8Score39814d adds
- 182 The Rest of His Life as a Kept Man 软饭男的后半生 The Rest of a Kept Man's Life 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Hidden Terminal Illness Medical Record 藏起的绝症病历 The Hidden Medical Record of a Terminal Illness 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Tragedy!!! The Kidney Debt 虐！！！肾债 Heartbreaking!!! A kidney debt 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Youth Talks: From the Start, a Japanese Girl Kneels and Listens to History 青年会谈：开局小樱花跪听历史 Youth Roundtable: From the Start, Cherry Blossom Nation Kneels to Hear History [Patriotic] + [A Guilty-Pleasure Story with No Logic] + [No Female Lead] + [Cultural Heritage] + [Heavily Revised Later for Certain Reasons, You Know What I Mean] Chu He transmigrates to a parallel-world Huaguo and discovers he's appeared on the global program Youth Roundtable. Lighthouse Nation: “What good is five thousand years of history?” Chu He: “Lighthouse Nation has less than three hundred years of history. How 2kReads9.1Score25314d adds
- 186 Brutal!!! On My Wedding Day, My Ex Sent Me His Ashes 虐！！！结婚当天，前任寄来他的骨灰 Angst!!! On their wedding day, her ex sent over his ashes. 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Baby, I'll Love You Again in My Next Life 宝宝，妈妈来生再来爱你 Baby, Mommy will love you again in our next life. 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Someone Worries I’ll Kill Myself Every Day 每天都有人担心我会自杀 Lin Qingran died in the cold seawater, her life ending forever at the age of twenty-four. Afterward, the family members closest to her were consumed with regret and got the chance to start over. Can they change her fate this time? And what about the person she couldn’t stop thinking of, even as she died? Will they find their happy ending? Lin Qingran noticed that her family had started acting a little differently. Their annual family meeting had become a quarterly one. Her usually stern grandfa 5kReads9.0Score36814d adds
- 189 Making the Defense of Jinling, Players Charge Forward in Tears 制作金陵保卫战，玩家边哭边冲锋 My name is Lin Yan. In my previous life, I was a game-design workhorse. In this life, after transmigrating to a parallel world, I still work in game development. The difference is that I've awakened a System called “World War.” By combining this world's technology with the System, I can create breathtaking, fully immersive virtual reality games. And so, art that would shake the world was born... “The Battle of Shanghai and the Defense of Nanjing”; “One Against Seventeen: The Surprise Attack on t 6.8kReads8.7Score59214d adds
- 190 Heavenly Dao, Prove Yourself 天道，请自证 You saved them, but he was the one enshrined in gold. After he has basked in the incense of countless worshippers, even your name will be erased without a trace. Su Yan is determined to tear down that golden statue. He tempers his bones with the dust of monuments, opens a realm with an old inkstone, and reveals the truth through white stone. Carrying fragments of masterworks, he uses evidence to break divine powers and strips away, layer by layer, the merit stolen by the powerful. From reclaimin 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Only After Our Divorce Did He Remember That He Loved Me 离婚后，他才想起他爱我 Only After the Divorce Did He Remember That He Loved Me 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 At Eight, I Was Taken in by a Killer Sister After Living on the Streets 八岁流浪的我，被杀手姐姐捡回家 [Reborn + Older Woman/Younger Man Romance + System + Romantic Tension + Heartwarming + Behind-the-Scenes + Passionate + Satisfying Power Fantasy + Single Female Lead] On a snowy night, Yu Chenfeng, a homeless drifter, curled up in a street corner. His body temperature had plummeted, and he was on the brink of death. A young woman happened to pass by. She was covered in blood and looked badly injured, yet she took him home without hesitation. When he woke, Yu Chenfeng found himself in a small but 2.8kReads8.9Score54214d adds
- 193 A Thousand Years for All the People 万民成岁 Can nine sacks of seeds topple a dynasty? With 117 living people written into the death registers, Xin Ye flees into the White Salt Wasteland and takes up the path of cultivation through farming once more. By farming with his own hands, he glimpses the earth's ley lines. When many people farm together, the furrows become an array. He wants the iron cavalry coming to collect grain to see that the ridges beneath their feet can trap an army, the hundred wells in the village can suspend rivers, and 23Reads—Score114d adds
- 194 I Led the Entire Nation in an Invasion of the World of Gods and Demons 举国随我攻入神魔世界 “Elders, please calm down! I'm reborn, I swear. Believe me: in one year, gods and demons will return, and the world will fall!” At a national-level meeting in Jiuzhou, every elder votes to appoint Lu Yu as the director of the Backup Godhood Plan! Then Jiuzhou goes on a massive recruiting spree, enlisting twenty million people and shocking the world! “Twenty million recruits? Has that eastern country gone mad?” “A million-strong mecha fleet? How did Jiuzhou build an army so far ahead of its time? 1.5kReads8.5Score15514d adds
- 195 Genshin Impact: A Winterland Sergeant's Survival Manual 原神：至冬中士的生存手册 [Not Invincible (Character Growth)] [Picks Up in the Middle] [Not a Harbinger (Keeps a Low Profile)] [Lighthearted (The Protagonist’s Personality)] [Main Story Outcomes Mostly Unchanged (But He’ll Get Involved and Stir Things Up)] [Wish-Banner Characters Don’t Die] [You’re Right About Everything] How do you survive after transmigrating into a low-ranking Fatui soldier? First, stay away from the Harbingers. As everyone knows, the Fatui Harbingers may be gorgeous, but not one of them is normal. Yo 1.5kReads9.3Score14114d adds
- 196 The Live-In Son-in-Law: The Whole World Thinks I Love You 赘婿：全世界以为我爱你 [Urban romance + one heroine + live-in son-in-law. This is not a wish-fulfillment story: the male lead suffers early on, and the female lead suffers later. Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story!] Everyone in Yuncheng knew the Jiang family had a live-in son-in-law who was a lovesick doormat. He’d spent years fawning over their daughter, Jiang Yiwei, always at her beck and call... But everyone in Yuncheng also knew that the Jiang family’s eldest daughter had loved Song Qingche 4.7kReads8.5Score22814d adds
- 197 Are the Villain Bosses Fierce? I Raised Them 反派boss们猛吗？我养的 (Not a conventional arrogant villain story. Plot-focused, so read the synopsis first.) (New book out now: Reborn three times? Who's that amazing? Me?! Come check it out, or click my profile to find it.) Instance One: They say when an emperor gets angry, bodies lie for thousands of miles, and when an ordinary man gets angry, blood spills five paces away. Tired of emperors? Come see how an ordinary man spills blood five paces away. (Deng Quan arc, through Chapter 19) Instance Two: What do you do 6.8kReads9.4Score51114d adds
- 198 Neither Family nor Stranger 非亲非故非陌生 For thirteen years, Song Li endured He Qian’s torment and humiliation, walking on eggshells every single day. The truth finally came to light in the year He Qian loved her most, but by then, nothing could change Song Li’s resolve to die... Only when He Qian held the blood-soaked woman in his arms did he truly understand what despair meant. 6.4kReads8.8Score26914d adds
- 199 I'm Trying My Best to Die in This Torture Novel 我在虐文里努力求死 A Lan is a newcomer to the White Moonlight Group for quick-transmigration angst novels. Her task each time is to die by the end of the story so the male and female leads can live happily together. She has always thought she did a great job, and every rating from her System, Qi Wu, has been above SSS rank. But maybe she did too good a job: after she dies, the male and female leads end up either strangers or acquaintances. That's not right. A Lan can't figure it out, but she still has to carry out 1.7kReads8.7Score10214d adds
- 200 Espionage: 2,000 Deaths from the Start 谍战：开局死亡两千次 Xie Shu, male, formerly an Olympic shooting champion in the twenty-first century. One day, he kills himself and wakes up in 1940. Reason: Unknown. Identity: Unknown. Status: Being buried alive. Xie Shu: ...What a disastrous start! The good news: He gains the ability to rewind time whenever he dies. The bad news: He wakes up at a live burial site and has to die two thousand times before he escapes. While helping a passing guerrilla unit complete its mission, he somehow ends up as the illegitimat 38.4kReads9.3Score5.7k14d adds
