Novels like Remarriage
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Remarriage, best match first.
- 1 The Blossoming Red Plum 怒放的红梅 After two years of marriage, Ye Hongmei endured endless humiliation from her in-laws because her birth family was poor and she was adopted. Even her premature baby girl was unwelcome. Her husband and mother-in-law refused to pay for treatment, claiming they had no money, and the child died. Her daughter’s death finally opened Ye Hongmei’s eyes, and she resolutely chose to divorce. After the divorce, Ye Hongmei shed her old timid nature and vowed to avenge her daughter, make her ex-husband’s fami 781Reads7.7Score119Shelves
- 2 Their Years Against the Wind 她们逆风的岁月 In 1980, in Sanqiao Village, everyone hoped for a house full of sons. Li Bingyi’s family had three girls in a row, making them the village’s laughingstock as a family destined to die out. Their grandmother was mean, their uncle schemed against them, and their father was paralyzed. Hardship came crashing down on them all at once. But the three Li girls proved themselves against all odds. Who says girls shouldn’t study? They studied anyway, determined to make something of themselves. Who says girl 1.1kReads—Score100Shelves
- 3 After the Divorce, I Lived Like a Stray Dog 离婚后我活成了一条野狗 A divorce agreement tore apart the peaceful life I'd built over half a lifetime. The moment I was pushed out of my marriage, I became a stray dog in the eyes of others: nowhere to belong, no dignity left, drifting through the folds of the city. I scraped together meals and had no fixed place to live. I endured enough gossip and survived enough late-night breakdowns for life to wear away every bit of tenderness in me, leaving only a bristling temper and a stubborn refusal to bow my head. The leak 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Shuanzhu Goes on a Blind Date 拴柱相亲 Shuan Zhu Goes on a Blind Date 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Tales of Fox Ridge 狐岭轶事 Tales from Fox Ridge 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 A Worker’s Chronicle 打工纪事 Adapted from real experiences of rural teenagers who worked summer jobs in the 1980s and 1990s, this story shows their honest, hardworking spirit and courage in building a new life. They did not fear the hardships or exhaustion of life, knowing that a better life is something you earn through your own efforts. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 A Stepfather Is Like a Dog 继父如狗 A love story about a man who gives everything for love. Newly married, he takes a second-hand wife with a son, and from then on, muddles his way into becoming a man treated like a dog. Based on a true story, this book perfectly captures the awkward position of a stepfather, as well as human selfishness and the sorrow of marriage. 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Secret of Huaxi, Part Two 花溪的秘密【二】 [1970s] [No golden finger] [Everyday life] [Sweet romance] [Nurturing] In his previous life, the ascetic Gao Minghai broke his vows at the age of 38 and fell in love with someone he should not and could not love. He became hopelessly devoted, obsessive and wild, doing everything he could to win her, then doing everything he could to keep her. Reborn, he goes searching for her across mountains and rivers when he is just twenty, gently coaxing her to his side. Only when he hears her sweetly call h 11.3kReads8.8Score793Shelves
- 9 Life Afloat on the Riverbank 江岸浮生 [Contemporary realism + period chronicle + rural ensemble cast + women’s struggles] Spanning half a century of rural China, this book tells the story of three generations of women on the Jianghan Plain. Caught in the tides of history and the shackles of their families of origin, each struggles against fate in her own way and faces her inner demons, ultimately learning to live for herself. (I’m only here to tell the story as it is. I won’t give the characters perfect personalities. I’ll portray h 593Reads8.5Score106Shelves
- 10 After I Transmigrated, I Fell in Love with a Female Eighth Route Army Soldier 穿越后，我爱上了女八路 This is a war filled with smoke and flashing blades. Secret codes, disguises, surveillance, counter-surveillance: every second means walking the line between life and death. But Lin Yue and Su He possess trump cards no enemy can replicate: a psychic bond spanning four hundred years, a wordless understanding, and peerless martial arts forged by The Boundless Universe and Soaring Through the Nine Heavens. When every escape route is sealed and the enemy thinks victory is within reach, the Azure Sp 1.6kReads—Score162Shelves
- 11 Flowers Born of the Earth 土生花 The land is silent, yet it can hold all the hardships endured by three generations. On the barren yellow earth, three generations of women are pressed into the mud by fate, bound hand and foot by patriarchy, and slowly tortured by life. They have no choices and nowhere to turn. They don’t even dare to cry aloud. All they can do is endure the darkness, bear the despair, and keep going through days that have been ground to dust, sustained by sheer will. Yang Jinlian is deaf and stutters. All her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Spring Sunshine Over the Countryside 暖春照乡野 [Village Life]+ [Period]+ [Rugged Man]+ [Family Life]+ [Angst Before Romance]... Yang Wei’s elder brother, Yang Ming, died unexpectedly, leaving his widowed sister-in-law to raise him all alone! Now that her younger brother-in-law is grown, will Chuntao remarry, choose to spend her life with Yang Wei, or grow old alone? What will Yang Wei decide? What does his father think? What do Chuntao’s parents say? A whole host of questions now stand before them! But those are only minor problems. The real 84Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 13 I Know Nothing, Yet I Became the Demonic Cult Leader 什么都不会，我成了魔教教主 Chen Feng transmigrates and becomes the new leader of the Demonic Cult on Cangwu Mountain. The good news is that he has an entire Demonic Cult at his command. The bad news is that in three years, Li Haoran, the top genius of the righteous path, will lead the Six Great Sects up the mountain and kill him, earning the title of “Greatest Under Heaven.” The even worse news is that his current cultivation is only at the Qi Refining stage. He can't even beat a wild boar on the mountain. Just as he's ab 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Jiang Xiaohua 姜晓花 In the bitter winter of 1976, Jiang Xiaohua was sixteen. Her family had almost nothing; her father was gravely ill, her mother weak-willed, and her younger brother still a child. Desperate for food, she was forced into a bride swap and nearly sold off, struggling on the brink of life and death before finally marrying into the Chen family, the most quarrelsome and favoritism-ridden family around. Her sisters-in-law ostracized her, her mother-in-law mistreated her, her husband stumbled, her childr 880Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Lifetime for Her and Me 我和她的这一生 In 1992, at the age of twenty, I left my hometown. My family was crippled by illness and poverty. We were on the verge of starving to death. If I stayed, we would all be trapped on that patch of barren soil. If I left, there might be a way for them to survive. The southern wind, laden with cement dust, swept into that big city filled with construction sites. This place had no name, only countless steel bars, scaffolding, and faces waiting to sell their labor. We came here to fight for our lives. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 A Bitter Girl’s Rebirth 苦妹之涅槃重生 Inside Ku Mei’s five-year-old body lived the soul of someone who had died with a heart full of hatred. Reborn, she faced a spiteful grandmother who beat and berated her, a cold grandfather who enabled the abuse, and a mother who could only weep helplessly. Ku Mei concealed her boundless hatred and memories of her past life, pretending to be timid as she carefully plotted her every move. She outsmarted her relatives and broke free of her shackles, starting with a bottle of chili sauce from the mi 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 My Life: Saving Myself 我的人生，渡己 I moved from the countryside to the big city when I was twenty. On my first day at the factory, I was five minutes late. Those five minutes felt like a slap in the face, waking me up and changing my life. More than ten people crammed into one dorm room. For breakfast, I could only bring myself to buy a tea egg and soy milk. Watching others eat fried rice noodles, I secretly vowed to work hard and make a solid place for myself in the city. There was no sudden wealth and no romance, just a country 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Abandoned Child 弃儿 She was destined to be a mistake from the moment she was born. Being born the wrong sex brought her a life of misfortune. Hu Sanmei was the most pitiful woman I had ever met. Raised under the oppression of feudal thinking, she struggled against her fate, yet Heaven never once looked kindly upon her, abandoned by her parents at birth. Her mother's experiences and her older sisters' advice made her believe that getting married and having a son would bring her a happy life. But one failed marriage 8.9kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 19 I Started Dual Cultivating with a Fox Woman in College 与狐女双修从大学开始 Gu Qiao was only going deep into Meng Mountain to deliver a box of blood pressure medication, but a torrential downpour trapped him at the recipient’s home. The thatched cottage was occupied by a mysterious couple and their daughter, Shen Xiaoyue, who had just finished her college entrance exams. That night, his dantian inexplicably grew hot, and a hushed conversation drifted from next door: “A pure yang constitution like this comes along once in a thousand years. A Yu, you have to seize your ch 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Uncovering the Past of the ‘Third-Line’ Defense Industry Workers 揭秘:“小三线”军工人的往事 A Look Back at the Past of the “Third-Line” Defense Industry Workers 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 751Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Man Followed by Widows 被寡妇们追随的男人 If being handsome alone weren’t enough to make people envy and hate him, what about being pursued by the daughters of top families, domineering CEOs, stunning policewomen, international superstars, and foreign princesses... Is this man even human? As the widows would say, “Su San, you’re the god of us women...” 357Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 That Year, I Was Sixteen 那年拾六岁 When Li Shanyue was sixteen, her family traded her to Zhang Debiao from the neighboring village for three thousand yuan and two pigs. Zhang Debiao was a widower with two children. Everyone in the village said marrying him was Li Shanyue's fate. Li Shanyue didn't believe in fate. She smiled as she brought Zhang Debiao water and cooked his meals, cared for his two children as if they were her own, and kept the house spotless. Everyone thought she had accepted her lot. Zhang Debiao ended up wit 994Reads—Score112Shelves
- 24 Love Debts 情债【李幼斌主演的电视剧】 Also known as The Peach Blossom Luck of Sister-in-Law Jiang Qi. A lost paradise in Northeast China, a little mountain village in the Changbai Mountains: the Abandoned Village. Journey beyond a life of hardship and let this story sweep you away. The tangled affairs between men and women in the countryside, and the everyday love and hatred that bind them. So many debts of passion, so many heartbreaks. 7kReads8.4Score522Shelves
- 25 The Allure of Painted Lips 艳唇之惑 A romantic encounter. Most handsome men have had one, but for someone obsessed with beautiful lips, it's like discovering an ancient treasure... Xi Mengyao, the heiress and CEO of one of Yanjing's top families, is the finest pair of lips of them all. The surprising thing is, when Shu Muyan, a retired special forces king, rescues her, he steals the first kiss from the most coveted lips of all. And so the story begins... 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Green Satchel Medical Text: A Divine Doctor in the City 青囊医书之都市医仙 In a materialistic society, people resort to any means to fight over their own interests. The book's rich knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine is its greatest draw. What you see may not be the truth. People live behind masks, and only when those masks come off do you see how appalling things are beneath the glamorous surface. The person you trust most can hurt you the deepest. And those you look down on, or feel are beneath your company, may be the very people who help you the most. Human n 24.2kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 27 Old Liu and His Daughter 老刘和他的女儿 Lao Liu is an ordinary, down-and-out farmer with nothing to be proud of. But his ideas about raising his children are completely at odds with the mainstream. After 18 years of perseverance, his daughter has given him his proudest reason of all. Is he happy or unfortunate? Everyone probably has their own answer. 504Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Bad Boy, You're Shameless 坏小子，好无耻 People can be so strange sometimes, Love and hate go hand in hand. The naive boy, Su Mubai, Accidentally catches a glimpse of the school beauty, Wu Xiaoyan, Batheing by the stream at the village entrance... Love takes root at the sight of her beauty, like a lotus rising from the water. But what happens next, Hate takes shape at the police station, after a brutal beating... Love... Hate... Who was right and who was wrong? Who can say for sure… 667Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Second Marriage to a Soldier: I Torment My Ex and Marry the Toughest Soldier in a Flash 二嫁军婚：虐翻前夫闪嫁最猛兵哥 Era, rebirth, and a military marriage. In her previous life, Yan Zhen was looked down on by Wang Wenzhi. After their wedding banquet, he left for the provincial capital without even consummating their marriage. From then on, Yan Zhen looked after his bedridden mother and his young siblings. Wang Wenzhi then used the excuse that adopting an orphan of a fallen soldier would help him get promoted, and dumped a baby on her. She raised the child with endless toil. After her mother-in-law passed away, 702Reads8.8Score149Shelves
- 30 A Ghost Farted and Died 有只鬼放个屁死了 This book is made up of ten short stories: “The Big Yellow Dog,” “The Nine-Headed Demon,” “Block,” “Xisha Pit,” “Cuckoo” “Ghostly Wailing,” “Madman,” “Swing,” “Blue Carp,” “The Hundred-Year-Old Tree” Title: A Ghost Died After Farting = Horror + Comedy + Tragedy The stories vary in length, and their plots range from salty to bland. The whole book is easy to understand, with plain and straightforward language. This story is entirely fictional. Please read responsibly. Do not be superstitious, and 2kReads9.5Score222Shelves
- 31 Reborn in the 1960s: I Became Grandma’s Little Sister 重生六零：我成了外婆的妹妹 [When an ordinary person is reborn in a rural village in the 1960s, forget about getting ahead or making grand plans. First, stay alive.] [1960s rural life + family and neighborhood affairs + education and growth + ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. Please don't read if that's not your thing. Thank you.] When Zhu Yan wakes up in the body of her grandmother's second-youngest sister, who died young, she vows to change her grand —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I’m Done Serving Everyone 人到五十，操劳半生后我不伺候了 [Silver hair, a middle-aged woman awakens] Originally titled “At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I'm Done Serving Everyone” After marrying Fu Guoping, Lin Yuelian spends more than ten years caring for her paralyzed mother-in-law. She won't even buy herself a nice outfit, yet one day she sees her husband going around with his mistress, decked out in Chanel and carrying a Hermès crocodile-skin bag worth hundreds of thousands. And the mistress isn't alone: she has a son out of wedlock, about ten y 17.1kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 33 The Matchmaker’s Comic and Tragic Fate 红娘啼笑因缘 A matchmaker who transmigrated, still so young and already arranging marriages. What a farcical situation! The matchmaker Hongniang in the Peking opera The Story of the Western Wing is famous for helping lovers find happiness. Could a real-life matchmaker actually be the reincarnation of the Hongniang from The Story of the Western Wing? Can the Book of Changes really predict love and marriage? 8Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 34 The Widow Boss's Heart 寡妇老板娘的心思 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 582Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score262Shelves
- 36 Reborn into a Life of Warmth 重生之水暖人生 Niu Erqun and Juhua are digging for gold when a massive boulder crushes him. He is rushed to the hospital, his fate unknown. Ergouzi seizes the gold mine, takes Juhua by force, beats his mother-in-law to death, and flees. By chance, Niu Erqun is reborn. He sets out to work hard, build a new countryside, and take revenge. The ending will leave you completely stunned… 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Swallow Who Crawled Out of the Dark Abyss 从黑暗深渊中爬出的燕子 Tell me, just how unlucky can one person be? Her own father married four women, and her stepmother treated her like a thorn in her side. In the prime of her youth, she was tricked by a villain and taken away. At long last, she found a little warmth and thought she’d found love, only for it to turn out to be another ill-fated relationship. She got married, thinking she’d found a home, but her life became a complete mess. And that wasn’t the end of it! One by one, all her loved ones disappeared... 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 My Bossy Older Woman 我的霸道御姐 Su Muyang was raised by an aunt who was no blood relation to him. She watched him step by step on his way to the pinnacle of life. They shared life-and-death moments and endured all the hardships of the world, as well as years of sun, moon, wind, and frost. Through joy and sorrow, across three lifetimes and three worlds, among ten miles of peach blossoms… 175Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 39 My Urban Soulmate 都市之我的红颜知己 What nobody knew was that the younger aunt was actually the eldest daughter of the Lin family of Yanjing, one of the most powerful families. Back then, Lin Xiaoxiao's mother, Shangguan Xi, the eldest daughter of the Shangguan family, and Su Buwei's mother, Murong Xue, had been the closest of friends at university… 193Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 40 The Beautiful Widow and the Twins 绝色寡妇之双胞胎 “Ah!” Su Laosi only had time to let out a short cry before his whole body pitched backward. He tumbled through the air as blue sky and cliff face flashed past in rapid succession. In his final moment, he saw a circling mountain eagle, its gaze sharp as a blade. 966Reads6.6Score110Shelves
- 41 She Knelt Before the Buddha and Counted for Twenty Years 她跪在佛前数了二十年 She Knelt Before the Buddha and Counted for Twenty Years 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Mark of Kindness 善良的印记 The Mark of Kindness 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Huo Lan Dao Feng’s 67th Book 火岚刀锋第67本书 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Flowers Beneath the Eaves 檐下花 This is a story of a woman’s journey toward self-growth beneath the eaves of a village home. She relies on no one and waits for no one. She will make her own spring bloom: she moves into a side room at her brother and sister-in-law’s home to live alone. The hushed late-night conversations between her brother and sister-in-law next door unwittingly become her belated introduction to love. 1.5kReads—Score152Shelves
- 45 A Life Stolen 被拐人生 Their daughter was stolen, leaving her parents devastated. They searched for her for eighteen years, traveling thousands of miles, but found no trace of her. This story reveals the strange ordeal of a girl who was abducted as a child, along with the tragic fate of her adoptive parents. Full of twists and turns, it makes for compelling reading. Will the girl ever return home, and what fate awaits her? 4.6kReads9.0Score468Shelves
- 46 After Three Years in Retirement Back in the Village, I Lost but Was Not Defeated 退休回村三年，我输了但没有败 After retiring, I was sent back to my hometown to serve as the village's First Secretary. I had barely reached the village entrance when someone smashed a jar at me: “Huai Shu Village doesn't welcome you!” An old flame brought me a bowl of fish soup, with a letter at the bottom that had never been sent, forty years ago. Someone sent an anonymous report to the disciplinary inspection committee, accusing me of misconduct. Three months on the clock. Nobody believes me. Three years later, the person 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Rouge in the Tulou 土楼里的胭脂 In the Jianghuai region during the Republic of China era, earthen fortresses rise tall. The beautiful widow Qin Yuening is seized by the bandit Shen Keji, and a “wife-for-hire contract” seals her fate in his rough bandit stronghold. She once hated him to the core. She fled, tried to kill him, and even hung from the rafters rather than submit. He spends half his life conquering territory, all for the day she says, “I will.” When war reaches their doorstep, their bloodstained hands finally clasp t 1.9kReads—Score261Shelves
- 48 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score556Shelves
- 49 She Was Already Married When She Wed Me, Yet It Took Her Ten Years to Make Me Willingly Fall for Her Lies 她嫁给我时已是人妻，却用十年让我甘愿被骗 She was already another man’s wife when she married me, yet it took her ten years to make me willingly accept the lie 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Officialdom: My Female Boss and the Ultimate Deputy 官场：女上司和最强副手 [Grassroots government + rural life + ethnic customs + special forces + spirited young woman of the era + martial arts secrets + minor political parties] To put an end to his long-distance relationship, Nan Ximen Xiao quit his job in the magic city and returned to his girlfriend’s hometown to take the civil service exam. But because of her unusual circumstances, he was assigned to Manglu Township, the toughest place in the entire county. He had assumed it would be hard to make a difference there 135Reads7.3Score113Shelves
