Novels like The Supreme Mad Emperor
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Supreme Mad Emperor, best match first.
- 1 Five Years in Prison, Still a Big Shot Upon My Return 入狱五年，归来仍是大佬 Five years ago, Ye Feng was framed by his family and sent to prison. His mother was killed as a result, and everyone branded him a criminal. Now he returns in triumph, carrying the glory of a God of War. He repays kindness with kindness and vengeance with vengeance. His return will make the entire world tremble. The enemies who framed him and the murderers who killed his mother will pay in blood. Back in the familiar city, his neighbors look down on him as a good-for-nothing, and his family’s 345.4kReads9.1Score39.3kShelves
- 2 Rising Among the Stars, Starting from Blue Star 星空崛起，从蓝星开始 [No System, one heroine, multiple viewpoints, slow burn, high martial arts, outer space later, no mindless pretending. Skip if you’re not into that.] Two hundred years after spiritual qi revival, the entire world had changed beyond recognition. Fang He, an ordinary student at Jiangling High School, endured a year of nightmares before the clouds finally parted. He merged with the soul of another version of himself from a parallel timeline. Soon, people everywhere began talking about him. First, h 37.8kReads8.5Score2.7kShelves
- 3 From the Start, I Have a Chaotic Sword Body, Building an Immortal Clan That Will Never Fall 开局混沌剑体，打造不朽仙族 [System+Invincible+Feel-Good Story+Building Up the Family+If Anyone Dares Defy Me, I’ll Fight!] Gu Changqing transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the more children, more blessings System. From the start, he marries the future Empress and embarks on the path to invincibility! His aptitude is lacking? [Ding! Congratulations, Host, your child has been born with the Violet Heaven Thunder-Eroding Physique. You receive the Chaos Sword Physique in return!] His cultivation technique is lacking? 91.2kReads8.6Score9.5kShelves
- 4 Reborn: Building a Business Empire 重生：缔造商业帝国 Ye Chen, who once possessed a personal fortune of 400 billion, is reborn sixty years into the past. That year, he was a penniless, worthless gambling addict. His wife, begging him to sign the divorce papers; his father- and mother-in-law, wishing he would vanish from the face of the earth; loan sharks threatening him with debt collection notices... Watch him use his knowledge of the next sixty years to turn the tide, lead the next great wave, and build an unrivaled global business empire! 53.9kReads9.1Score5.6kShelves
- 5 The Heavenly God Returns to Bathe the City in Blood for His Daughter 天神归来为女儿血洗都市 [This story is entirely fictional] While fighting bloodily on the battlefield, he receives a desperate call for help from his daughter. Overnight, the world's top experts from across the three thousand realms rush to Huaxia! Xiao Tiance has lived a life of hardship, and his daughter and wife are the light of his life. He will never allow them to suffer even the slightest harm! 42.5kReads9.5Score10.3kShelves
- 6 I've Cultivated to Level 9999, but the Patriarch Is Only Level 100 修炼9999级了，老祖才100级 The dog he raised turned out to be a Demon Venerable, sweeping across the demon world. The koi in his pond all leaped over the Dragon Gate and transformed into mighty dragons of the Nine Heavens? The little beggar he took in became an emperor with a casual touch of his finger? Ye Qingyun was at a loss for words. After being trapped deep in the mountains for a full ten years, he finally ventured beyond them, only to discover that he was an unparalleled expert? 7.3kReads9.1Score976Shelves
- 7 The Super Son-in-Law 超级上门女婿 Ye Fan, a useless live-in son-in-law, accidentally inherits the Taiji Scripture and the Stone of Life and Death, setting him on a very different path in life. He saves beautiful women with his medical skills and slays enemies with his martial arts. Not only does he overcome the scorn and ridicule of others and win his wife's heart, he also rises to the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all creation. 180.1kReads9.1Score8.6kShelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things Under Heaven 四合院：垂钓诸天万物 Lin Shaowen got drunk at a class reunion. After sleeping and waking up, he inexplicably arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming Lin Shaowen, an outstanding graduate of Beijing College of Chinese Medicine. He had just graduated from university and now faced a choice: should he become a promising full-time doctor at Union Hospital, or an obscure factory doctor at a steel mill? Without a second thought, Lin Shaowen chose to become a factory doctor. There was no helping it. Sending a 78.9kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
- 9 EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 94.7kReads8.9Score7.9kShelves
- 10 Urban: Ten Years of Cultivation, and I’m Unrivaled the Moment I Descend the Mountain 都市：修仙十年，下山即无敌 The new book has built up a backlog of chapters and can be found on the author's homepage. It tells the story of the hundred thousand years after this book. [Expert Descends the Mountain + Invincible Cultivation + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Decisive Killing + Multiple Realms] The Great Dao is flawed, and spiritual energy has withered. A mighty cultivator who had survived the tribulation traveled the world. By chance, he discovered a peerless prodigy born with a spiritual physique, forcibly took 256kReads9.0Score23.2kShelves
- 11 The Palace’s Number One Tough Guy 皇宫第一猛男 Ying Zheng, a modern overworked young man, dies suddenly from working overtime and has his soul transported into the body of Xiao Caizi, a young eunuch who was just killed after offending the powerful. He also obtains the Fake Eunuch System and begins cultivating the Divine Art of the Fake Eunuch. In a palace rife with schemes and human malice, he steadily climbs to the pinnacle of life! 12.1kReads6.5Score547Shelves
- 12 The Useless Disciple of the Hehuan Sect 合欢宗废材 [Absurd comedy + traditional fantasy + multiple heroines + espionage + battles of wits] Ye Huan is a disciple so disappointing that even the Hehuan Sect wants nothing to do with him. By chance, he obtains an inheritance, and from then on becomes a man who can hold up the heavens. One way for men to survive in the Hehuan Sect is to become spies. As it happens, Ye Huan is an espionage enthusiast, and with his exceptional powers of logical deduction, he matches wits with all sides on the covert fro 1.7kReads7.2Score167Shelves
- 13 Talk Trash and Win Prizes 对骂就有奖 Hao Tie was treated like a pack mule and was about to hit rock bottom because he refused to keep living like one. Then he suddenly got a System that rewarded him for trading insults! From then on, he used verbal sparring to reach the pinnacle of success! 24.5kReads7.1Score1.1kShelves
- 14 Traveling Between Two Worlds: 1970 两界穿梭之1970 After getting drunk in an accident, Wu Xiaoyao somehow transmigrated to the fiery era of the past. With a System that lets him travel between two worlds, he now has two great eras before him... 308Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 15 The City's Number One Tough Guy 都市第一猛男 Wu Nitian didn't want to be a corporate drone, but he couldn't see any light in his future. Just as anxiety and misery overwhelmed him, he suddenly obtained the High-Mindedness System. It told him that no matter what he faced, as long as he tried to maintain a high-minded state, he would receive System rewards from time to time! 2.4kReads5.7Score211Shelves
- 16 EN A Blind Swordsman's Sword Coffin 灵墟，剑棺，瞎剑客 [No System] [Genius Swordsmanship] [Passionate] [Decisive and Ruthless] He is blind, carries a coffin on his back, and has a tragic past. The sect says: "We'll protect you." His brothers say: "We'll stay by your side." The sword spirit says: "I... will wait for you." Later, he becomes the ruler of the Immortal Realm, and his eyes regain their sight. Looking back on the road behind him, all that remains is one sentence: "When the wind blows, I'll walk slowly. When it rains, I'll keep to the side. 444.6kReads9.2Score46.8kShelves
- 17 Transmigrate to the Song Dynasty: The Empire's Mighty Rise 穿越之大宋雄风 A wondrous transmigration, invincible from the start. See how our protagonist, Wu Yue, recruits the heroes of Liangshan, gets up close and personal with Li Shishi, defeats mighty bandits and sweeps away powerful invaders. See how we Han people conquer the world. 872Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 18 Transmigrate to the Water Margin: Dominate the World 穿越水浒之雄霸天下 Wu Zhantian was one of China’s top special forces soldiers. While carrying out a top-secret mission, he was betrayed by a traitor. To ensure his teammates could withdraw safely, Wu Zhantian stayed behind alone. Seriously wounded in a sneak attack by the Japanese invaders, he chose to detonate the button bomb he carried rather than be taken prisoner. He and dozens of members of the Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces perished together. Wu Zhantian thought he was as good as dead, but the flourishing 1kReads5.9Score—Shelves
- 19 Ride Out to Battle, Peach Blossoms in My Wake 桃花马上请长缨 The short drama adaptation of June's novel, Power and Favor 3: Power and Favor in the Capital, is now available on Hongguo App. She cared for her in-laws and used her dowry to support the General's household, only for him to use his hard-won military achievements to ask for the female general's hand as his equal wife. Zhan Beiwang mocked her. “Song Xixie, do you know that your fine clothes, rich food, and glittering jewels all come from General Yi Fang and me fighting bloody battles to hold back 15kReads9.5Score5.5kShelves
- 20 Rising to Power Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之崛起 After getting drunk and tumbling down a flight of stairs, the protagonist Wu Xiaoyao accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, he has the essential transmigration golden finger: releasing animals. See how Wu Xiaoyao carves out a place of his own in this fiery era. 577Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 21 The Controller of Ten Thousand Worlds, Roaming the City 万界掌控者都市逍遥 Wu Zhantian, a young man from Huaxia, accidentally fell from the summit of Mount Hua. He was rescued by the Venerable Myriad Swords, who happened to be passing by Earth. Wu Zhantian was then taken to the top-tier world of the Hongmeng Realm, where he became the Venerable Myriad Swords' disciple and began cultivating. By chance, his master found the Origin of the World in the Myriad Venerables' Secret Realm. But Dragon Rock Emperor, an ancient skeleton, and the Venerable Myriad Swords' eldest dis 1.4kReads6.4Score117Shelves
- 22 The Iron-Blooded Tigers Battle the Ming 铁血虎贲战大明 Chinese special forces king Wu Zhantian was betrayed by a traitor during a mission. To avoid being captured by the enemy, Wu Zhantian set off the miniature bomb strapped to his body, dying alongside dozens of enemy special forces soldiers. By chance, he touched the laws of the game. He rebuilt his body, copied abilities, and saved the Ming Dynasty from ruin. To stop the Yangzhou Massacre and the Jiading Massacres, Wu Zhantian, China's special forces king, refused to stand by. He tore Aobai apart 1.2kReads7.2Score103Shelves
- 23 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.7kReads9.6Score22.6kShelves
- 24 EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.2kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves
- 25 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 974.8kReads9.4Score97.1kShelves
- 26 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 27 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
