Novels like The City Mender
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The City Mender, best match first.
- 151 Life with a Rich Young Lady 和富家小姐同居的日子 Liu Feifan, a newly graduated master's student, has quit his job and is studying full-time for the doctoral entrance exam. Han Feifan, a wealthy heiress with a doctorate from the United States, manages one of her father's high-tech companies. After a chance encounter, these two people with nothing in common begin a romantic battle for love. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 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—14d adds
- 153 Clear-Eyed in the Mortal World: I Pretend to Be Mediocre in the Cubicle 人间清醒：我在格子间装平庸 Ouyang Bei was a graduate of a prestigious university, yet he was content to work as a sales representative at a company. He seemed to lack ambition, but few people understood his world. The trials of society can slowly strip the innocence from a green young man. Beneath an appearance of maturity, loneliness begins... Perhaps you will find a reflection of yourself here. 44Reads—Score114d adds
- 154 The Goddess Lost Her Memory, So I Spirited Her Home That Night to Marry Her 女神失忆，我连夜拐她回家结婚 [No System + daily life + nine reincarnations] A cold, aloof female CEO loses her memory in a car accident. She forgets everyone in the world, but because she hates Lin Lang so much, his name is the only one she remembers. She even mistakes Lin Lang for her boyfriend. Already being pressured by the four elders in his family to get married, Lin Lang decides to play along when he suddenly finds himself with a CEO girlfriend and bring her home to placate his family. But the very next day, his fami 243Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 155 The Eighth Book by Xiao Ye Ai Sajiao 小爷爱撒娇的第8本书 "School Beauty + CEO + One Female Lead + System + Urban Fantasy + Feel-Good Power Trip + Transformation + Superpowers" Office newbie Ye Chen gets caught playing games at work and is called into the office by Liu Xigua. Not wanting to get fired, he has no choice but to confess his love to the female CEO, Liu Xigua. Liu Xigua forces Ye Chen to get a marriage certificate with her, threatening to fire him if he refuses. At his mother's birthday banquet, Ye Chen discovers that his wife is one of his 49Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 156 I Just Reborn, and the Aloof Campus Belle Wants to Kiss Me 刚重生，高冷校花要和我亲亲 [Comedy + sweet romance + reborn + slice of life] Lin Chuan is reborn in 2008, back in his senior year of high school. The moment he opens his eyes, he sees youthful faces and that mature, alluring face. The classroom buzzes with excitement. “Kiss her! Kiss her!” “School beauty, you lost, so pick someone to be your partner.” With no other choice, Su Ying turns her flushed face toward Lin Chuan, who is slumped over the desk in the last row, napping and drooling. With her usual cool, haughty air, 17Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 157 Mrs. Song's Dilemma 左右为难的宋太太 [Elite Families + Adorable Kids + Workplace + A Long Road Out of a Wealthy Family + Daily Life Seamlessly Switching Between Rich Wife and Corporate Drone] [An engineering PhD who married into a wealthy family by luck but can't live the wealthy life * The youngest son of a wealthy family, who became the heir through his own merits but can't keep his marriage together] [Being Mrs. Song is a fine title. The only person it lets down is herself.] In their eighth year of marriage, Cheng Zhi mailed the 101Reads—Score11014d adds
- 158 My Online Crush Is Actually a Cold, Aloof Female Leader 我的网恋对象竟是高冷女领导 By day, she's my icy female boss, ordering me around as she pleases. By night, she's my sweet and considerate online wife. But she has no idea that the person on the other end of the phone is me... Watching her act like two completely different people, I decide to use my phone to manipulate her and get a little revenge... 34Reads6.2Score1014d adds
- 159 At 19, I Worked in Haicheng 19岁，我在海城打工 After failing the national college entrance exam at nineteen, Ye Feng follows his second uncle to Haicheng to find work. There, he experiences love, family bonds, friendship, life and death, failure, and success... 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 I'll Wait for You in Shanghai 我在上海等你邂逅 [Literary fiction. A period romance.] On New Year's Eve, beneath a moonless, windy sky, I was sleeping under a bridge while fleeing an arranged marriage when two petty thieves stabbed a hole in my backside, leaving me covered in blood. I ran for my life, only to be chased into a dead end. Just as I was on the brink of death, despairing, a light suddenly appeared, and a door opened behind me. Stumbling, I plunged through that door and encountered the plum blossom of my life, landing in her ninete 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Childhood Friends in the Mountain Village 山村里的青梅竹马 The story spans from the late 1970s to the twenty-first century, following two generations of the Ou family as their tangled relationships unfold from village to city, from desolation to prosperity. Childhood sweethearts become sworn enemies, repeatedly struggling between family and love, reality and ideals. As the times shift and human hearts prove unfathomable, will they succumb to money and power, or awaken in the dead of night, haunted by their dreams? Where will those struggling in the ways 33Reads—Score10214d adds
- 162 The Game Within the Business World 商海局中局 I thought I was riding high, only to discover I was a pawn in someone else’s hands. In the great game of life, only the truly skilled can maneuver in every direction, adapt to circumstances, and emerge as the final victor. Follow Gao Yuan as he rises from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of success. 1.4kReads9.2Score19314d adds
- 163 Nothing Much Today: Zhou Yuan and Su Wan 今日无事，周远和苏晚 Multiverse theory. Zhou Yuan's character is modeled on Shen Congwen, while Su Wan's is modeled on Lin Huiyin. Most of Volumes One through Four are short stories, while Volume Five is a full-length novel about events in a parallel universe. 1Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 164 On the Day of My Interview, the Female CEO Took Me Straight Home 面试当天，女总裁直接带我回家 When Chen Yi woke up, the woman from the night before had already left. He was getting dressed and preparing to leave the hotel when he suddenly noticed a stack of hundred-yuan bills on the bedside table! What was going on? What did that woman take him for? She'd actually paid him afterward! Remembering that he had a job interview today, Chen Yi had no time to think it over. He hurriedly stuffed the money into his pocket and headed straight to the company. Little did he know that the female CEO 3.5kReads8.6Score25814d adds
- 165 Xiaoming's Guide to Business 小明的生意经 [Urban] [Workplace] [Romance] Life is a business, and love is, too. It all depends on how you manage it... Mutual benefit is the secret to a lasting business. Don't expect to strike gold in one go. You might get away with cheating someone once, but next time, you could be the one who gets cheated... Wang Dongming takes that same approach: building things up little by little and putting himself in other people's shoes. He wins over influential people, clients, family, lovers, and friends with his 323Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 166 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, 2kReads9.2Score25014d adds
- 167 Stories from the Ground Up: Wellness, Livelihoods, and Human Nature at a Foot Spa 脚底下的故事——足疗店里养生、饭碗与人心 Stories Beneath Your Feet: Wellness, Livelihoods, and Human Nature at a Foot Massage Shop 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 After Dumping the CEO, I Became the World’s Richest Through Investing 甩掉霸总后，我靠投资成世界首富 Ruan Shuran dumped Gu Jinshen, a man worth hundreds of billions, with the excuse, “Dating gets in the way of my career.” Gu Jinshen was furious. “You’ll regret this, woman!” But six months later, his former secretary had transformed into a hotshot investor, taking aim at several of his projects with pinpoint accuracy. Gu Jinshen cornered her outside her office building, his eyes bloodshot. “Ruan Shuran, did you do this on purpose?” She gave him a slight smile and handed him a partnership agreeme 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Xiaohuan in Beijing 小寰在北京 [Urban Life + Entrepreneurship + No Saintly Heroine + No Simping + No Idiocy + Realistic + Humor + Intelligence] Xiaohuan in Beijing is a full-length novel. The novel tells the story of Zhao Xiaohuan, a man born in 1991, as he works and lives in Beijing. After graduating from university, he worked for two years in his hometown of Shenyang, but he never forgot the boast he had made in college: that he would become the richest man in the world. However, reality left him increasingly dispirited, an 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 How a Legal Eagle Tamed a Wild Dog of a Movie Star 当律政精英，训野犬影帝 This is a story about a woman’s rise to power, told in the first person, taking you along as I climb step by step to the top of life. I’m an ordinary office worker, but I’ve ended up with a cocky, handsome actor everyone calls a playboy. So what if he’s a flirt? I’ll teach you to follow my rules. Over-the-top blurb: I helped the nation’s top actor reach the pinnacle of his career, but he handed me divorce papers. Red-eyed, he begged me to remarry him. I swirled my wine and smiled. “Come back a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 I Earn 2,500 a Day, So I Rented a Trillionaire CEO? 日薪两千五，我租了千亿女总裁？ [Lighthearted Wish-Fulfillment] + [Reborn Heroine Pursues Her Husband] + [Romance and Encouragement] + [One Heroine, Increasingly Sweet] + [Face-Slapping Relatives] + [Dotes on His Little Sister and Repays His Parents] “The bride price is 880,000, and you have to take my daughter’s surname.” Under pressure to get married, Chen Mo was forced to go on a blind date before the New Year. But he ran into an utterly unreasonable woman. He paid only for his own coffee and walked away, refusing to be mad 31.4kReads8.8Score4k14d adds
- 172 Intern from the Start: Making the Heiress of a Top Family Chase After Me 开局实习生：让顶豪千金倒追我 The day her family sent her to the bottom rung of the company as an intern supervisor, Gu Zhaotang spotted her prey in the employee cafeteria. The future tech mogul who would drive a rival company into bankruptcy was now hunched over a cold steamed bun, fixing bugs. With a crape myrtle flower in her hair, she sat down in front of him. “Work for me, and I’ll get you onto the industry’s Hall of Fame within three years.” The crowd scoffed. “What’s an intern doing, pretending to be some big-shot CEO 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Peeping: The Butterfly Effect 偷窥之蝴蝶效应 The male lead is a complete loser. By chance, he discovers a female colleague's secret, turning his work and personal life upside down. Two mature adults with sharp minds and social skills engage in an intense game of push and pull. Love begins for reasons unknown and grows deeper with every passing day: they love and are loved, hurt and are hurt, grow through their pain, then fade from one another's memories. This is also the story of an ordinary worker's growth. 578Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 174 You Turned Down My Confession, So I Married the CEO. Why Are You Crying? 表白不接受，我娶总裁你哭什么 [Gorgeous CEO + Marriage Before Love + Devoted Husband-Doting + Ultra-Sweet Romance + System (But Not Much) + Extra-Sweet Later]+ [Both Reborn] [Just Reborn, and the Gorgeous CEO Is Already Persuading Me to Marry Her] [Rejected by the Campus Belle, I Get Proposed to by a Gorgeous CEO] A gorgeous CEO with a slender waist and soft curves vs. a sunny, handsome puppy-like guy. On the day Lu Chen confessed his feelings, a gorgeous CEO swooped in and snatched him up! Luo Qinshuang: “Interested in a li 782Reads7.6Score10114d adds
- 175 The Real Estate Agent's Comeback 逆袭的房产经纪人 The working life of a low-level talent agent: a difficult road, but one she walks with unwavering resolve. Most of the stories are adapted from things the author has encountered in the industry. No offense is intended; if anything here offends you, please be understanding, or contact the author to request changes. 159Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 176 The Billionaire Who Rose from a Sea of Women 女人堆里走出的亿万富翁 A contemporary setting, lighthearted humor, laugh-out-loud everyday life, playful banter, heartwarming inspiration, and no harem. He's penniless, yet popular with women. He's sincere, yet works in the most hypocritical industry. He's handsome, talented, and witty, and could have led a life of endless romantic conquests, but… Set in Shenzhen, Guangdong, in 2008, the story follows the remarkable career and business journey of Li Zhe, a young man from a farming family who rises steadily to success 2kReads5.9Score10814d adds
- 177 Love and Hate Rise With the Wind 进蜕之爱恨随风起 As school draws to a close, you find an unexpected love that comes to nothing. Your hopes for life after graduation are replaced by one setback after another. You need to work hard. If you earn ten million a year, you’ll have no trouble finding someone! But in the end, reality tramples your hopes. Love slips away, lost to your own lumbering cluelessness! Heaven and earth are merciless, but people have hearts. People may have hearts, but you have no interest. The wind is silent; the trees do not 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Reborn in 2008: Starting with Phone Screen Protectors 重生2008：从手机贴膜开始 Other people transmigrate and become tech geniuses or the richest people in the world. After Zhang Xiaoshan transmigrated, he had no idea how to make money. He couldn't get into college, and working for someone else was out of the question, so he could only make ends meet by running a street stall. 2.2kReads8.5Score10814d adds
- 179 The Talent Show Power Broker: From Backroom Battles to Stardom 选秀操盘手：从暗战到封神 Lin Rui, Starshine TV’s award-winning director, takes over the S+-rank talent show New Voices of Huaxia. He thinks he’s holding all the winning cards, but soon finds himself beset by underhanded schemes from within the network. The head of the Arts Department wants to claim the credit, the head of Advertising wants to cash in, and the head of Technology is determined to put obstacles in his way. Facing schemes from every side, Lin Rui uses technical innovation with one hand and navigates the com 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Yunluo Weiguang: A Winding Career Path 云落薇光：职场逆旅 [Career comeback + women's growth + face-slapping wish fulfillment + power struggles + romance] Yun Luowei is focused on making money when her company ruthlessly fires her for her outstanding performance and withholds the bonus she is owed! Injustice at work drives her to the brink, but it also ignites her fury, and she resolutely takes up the law as her weapon. This is not only her fight against injustice, but the beginning of her transformation. How does the pushover who was once at the mercy 20Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 181 How Is That Sweet CEO Cold and Aloof? 美女总裁那么甜，哪里高冷了？ [System + Multiple Heroines + Technology vs. Cultivation + A Male Lead Who Acts with Decisive Precision] Chen Mo has saved seven women... The first, domineering CEO Leng Ruxue... The second, national goddess Zhou Dongxue... The third, stunning policewoman Qin Yue... The fourth, ruthless special agent and assassin Lin Xian... The fifth, the most beautiful university professor, Chen Ning... The sixth, Lan Yu, a peerless doctor... The seventh, the mysterious Dongfang Mingyue... 391Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 182 You Cheated with the Third One, So I Married a Tycoon. What Are You Crying About? 你出轨老三，我改嫁财阀你哭什么 [Internet’s most hated, roguish playboy prince vs. crisis-management expert and delicate heiress] [Stealing someone’s love + sharp-tongued, guiding lover + a woman’s growth] Zhaoyue had carefully built up a devoted-husband image for her husband, Lu Yichen, helping him reap the benefits of the internet while she was content to stay behind the scenes. On her birthday, Lu Yichen was late coming home. The car’s dashcam showed him and the third young master smearing cream on each other and kissing li 13.4kReads8.8Score74814d adds
- 183 Tycoon: The Sweet Everyday Life of My Wife and Me 神豪：我和老婆的甜蜜日常 I, Xiao Chen, was an ordinary college graduate, but just as I was graduating, my girlfriend betrayed me. Then I unexpectedly unlocked the “Stroke of Genius: A Wife Is Everything” life achievement. But where was I supposed to get a wife??? I remembered meeting a beautiful upperclasswoman four years ago... and now she showed up at my door with two little bundles of joy. From that moment on, my job was to cherish my beautiful wife and our two little ones. Before graduation, I’d planned to work hard 146Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 184 The Bureau: The Truth Syndrome 管理局：真理症候群 “Fast-paced,” “distorted,” “psychological warfare,” “amnesia.” A divine punishment concept entity capable of destroying dimensions descended from a higher dimension into the world. It was named “Final Truth.” To resolve the crisis once and for all, the Bureau’s highest-ranking leader personally entered the fray to eliminate the problem. Final Truth, in turn, set the terms for their contest: it would leave this dimension only if it was satisfied with their showdown. And so, a breathtaking battle —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Beautiful CEO’s Bodyguard 美女总裁的贴身保镖 A once-in-a-generation soldier king has just entered the world of mortals. Though he possesses unparalleled combat skills, he ends up working as a chauffeur for a CEO... Wearing a tank top and flip-flops, is he playing dumb, or simply fearless in his ignorance? 4kReads8.1Score34614d adds
- 186 A Mercenary’s Revenge, Starting with His Ex-Wife 佣兵复仇，从前妻开始 (Urban slice of life, no wild plot twists, multiple heroines, tight logic, and plenty of drama.) A sly, sharp-tongued male lead and his fiery, tsundere ex-wife face off, trading barbs and trying to tear each other apart... Su Jingxuan: “Who exactly is the mastermind you mentioned?” Ling Feng: “Have you ever seen an ex-husband confide in his ex-wife? No comment.” “You’re so annoying, always keeping me in suspense. Tell me, who do you suspect?” “Curiosity can be a virtue or a flaw. It all depends 1.3kReads8.9Score13414d adds
- 187 Starting My Life Over After Winning 27.91 Million in the Lottery 彩票中奖2791万后的人生重启 Ordinary people are always confused and struggling, weighed down by all kinds of worries. If a windfall suddenly came your way, how might life change for ordinary people like you and me? 1.3kReads—Score10214d adds
- 188 My Father-in-Law Is An Lushan 我岳父是安麓山 In the sixth year of the Tianbao era, a transmigrated soul arrived here, starting with a broken engagement… Time Administration Bureau reporter: Could you sum up your father-in-law’s family in one short sentence? Luo Dayou: Sure. Time Administration Bureau reporter: Go ahead. Luo Dayou: A philandering father, a melodramatic mother, a daughter obsessed with romance, and a broken family. Time Administration Bureau reporter: Uh… Time Administration Bureau reporter: And what’s your opinion 10Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 189 This Is a Serious Novel 这是一本正经的小说 [Completed] (Originally titled: So This Is What HR Is Like) Chen Ying thinks she might be bad luck for bosses. She joined a perfectly good financial firm, and the very next day, the boss got “taken away.” She joined a perfectly good engineering company that was on the verge of being acquired by a state-owned enterprise, and then the boss went bankrupt. She joined a perfectly good internet company, practically a local industry leader. Then a rival company showed up, and the business went into a s 622Reads9.2Score11514d adds
- 190 Fate’s Echo in a Sea of Blossoms 逆袭繁花里的宿命回响 When her entrepreneurial dream crashes against the iron wall of reality, Lin Wan is determined to fight against the odds. She starts out in a rented room barely ten square meters wide, races all over the city to win orders, and gives up every shred of pride to raise money. Just as success in landing a contract seems within reach, a rival’s malicious scheme strikes without warning. A client is stolen, the whole internet turns against her, and her reputation is ruined. Overnight, all her hard work 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 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—14d adds
- 192 Looking Back at That Sea 回首，那片海 [One female lead Campus belle Older woman-younger man romance Childhood friends Campus story] [Everyday urban life Not a power fantasy, no face-slapping plotlines, no System] I'm a prospective university student who just finished the national college entrance exam. Yet my childhood-friend big sister schemed to get me into the university she attends. I have no idea what she's thinking. Every day, she works me to the bone, even though I'm a freshman who just came of age. “Zheng Chu! Are you ev 18Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 193 An Anti-PUA Guide to Dangerous Relationships 危险关系的反PUA指南 A Guide to Fighting Back Against PUA in a Dangerous Relationship 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Reborn: A Rickshaw Driver Wins a Rich Woman's Heart 重生之搭客佬牵手富婆 Reborn: The Hitchhiker Wins the Heart of a Rich Woman —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 A Feast of Empire and Beauties 江山美女一碗宴 Livestreamed to the entire internet, with millions watching, Zhang Qingshan, the "God of Cooking," tastes a twelve-yuan prepackaged meal kit and passes it off as handmade cuisine. His reputation is gone, his endorsements are gone, and he slinks back to his hometown of Hongshan. Beneath the old stove at his family home, he finds a handwritten cookbook, a kitchen knife engraved with numbers, and a bronze fragment dating back three thousand years. His grandfather left him one instruction: Take t 4Reads—Score214d adds
- 196 Women on the Career Ladder 职场路上的女人们 Amid the shifting tides of the crowded world, people are always boarding ships and leaving them behind. When they came riding the waves, they carried unspoken obsessions. When they turned away, the hems of their robes swept up the stars, while the warmth frozen in their palms seeped forever into the course of the voyage. 859Reads7.1Score10414d adds
- 197 The Female CEO Added Me to the Family Group and Forced Me to Get a Marriage Certificate 被女总裁拉进家庭群，强迫我领证 [A super-sweet romance and everyday life, with a little tech and a System] CEO Chu Xueying suddenly added Jiang Yu to her family group chat. He discovered that the entire Chu family thought he was Chu Xueying’s boyfriend. [Welcome to the group, son-in-law!] [Xueying finally found herself a partner!] [What a handsome young man! “Sent Jiang Yu a personal red packet”] [Wow! When are you and your brother-in-law getting married?] Jiang Yu: …What is going on, CEO Chu? Chu Xueying: Call me wife! [Chu X 29Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 198 Go Down the Mountain and Find Your Family, Disciple. You’re Invincible 徒儿下山寻亲吧，你无敌了 Jiang Xiaochen, who had spent years studying under a master deep in the mountains, followed his master's instructions and came down to repay a debt of gratitude and search for clues about his identity. But as soon as he came down the mountain, he unexpectedly met a stunning, icy CEO. The next day, Jiang Xiaochen woke up to discover that he had actually slept with his benefactor's granddaughter. “Wait, what did you say?” “She’s my fiancée?!” 2.1kReads8.9Score28614d adds
- 199 Yun Shiqi's Path to Godhood 云十七的神王之路 “Welcome to the truth of the universe: this is a prison, and you are all crops that have been planted.” The apocalypse had arrived, and the entire world Yun Shiqi lived in was nothing more than a two-dimensional shadow cast by a higher-dimensional “code world.” Yet even that seemingly supreme code world was not real. It, too, belonged to the ultimate prison that confined time and space: the Dao Prison. The wardens ruling this place were known as the “Reapers.” They planted souls in bodies, let 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 From the Start, I Sold Beer, and a Goddess Undercover Agent Took Out the Hitmen 开局卖啤酒，女神卧底坑杀手 Volume One: How Many Undercover Agents Are There? (Realistic Arc) [Undercover agents + goddess + no saintly heroine or simping + realism + values + intelligence] [No simps, white lotuses, self-righteous do-gooders, or scheming green-tea girls] [No sugary romance or obsessive romance fantasies, and no white-porridge sisters or cake sisters] (Read the realistic arc first, then the wild-imagination arc. It's funny and fun!) A major city in the south is a city that never sleeps. At ten at night, the 22Reads—Score—14d adds
