Novels like A Collection of Short Stories
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Collection of Short Stories, best match first.
- 101 I Pretend to Be a Bad Student, but the Campus Belle Won't Leave Me Alone 我都装成学渣了，校花还要缠着我 I Pretended to Be a Poor Student, but the Campus Belle Still Won’t Leave Me Alone 2.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 102 My Childhood Friend Turned Out to Be a Professor 竹马居然是教授 Devoted only to each other + scheming, taciturn childhood sweetheart + childhood sweetheart who plays innocent while hiding her sharp claws How did adult Shang Yiqi win over his childhood sweetheart and bring her home as his wife? How did childhood sweetheart Wen Huanhuan get her taciturn childhood friend to marry her, just as he wanted? How do the two of them use their wits to take on outside enemies in their ordinary daily lives? 332Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 103 The Debt of Love from Seven Years Ago, Repaid in This Life 七年前的爱情债，今生还～ The Love Debt from Seven Years Ago, Repaid in This Life~ —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 So, Who's the Prey? 到底谁是猎物？ So, Who's the Prey? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 My Dream Guy's Ex-Girlfriend Got Divorced 男神的前女友离婚了 [Sweet romance] Shen Shumei stood at the door, her makeup impeccable. She looked at me, then at the man beside me. “Geng Yao, about what we talked about yesterday, I’d still like to discuss it with you in person...” “Oh.” Geng Yao cut her off immediately, then turned to me and said, “Yueyue, why don’t you head home first?” ??? Didn’t Geng Yao say he had plans to play ball with someone last night? Where’s my twenty-six-foot machete?! 50Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 106 Bright Candles Reflecting on Snow 明烛映雪 Before I married Song Mingzhu, the Ghost General, I imagined what he looked like countless times. But when I finally saw him, all I felt was heartache. 66Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 107 You Deserve to Be Happy 活该你幸福 You Deserve to Be Happy 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 I Brought Back a Hidden Guard from Ancient Times 从古代拐回一个暗卫 [Transmigrate into a book, redemption, slow-paced, sweet romance, 40,000-word novella] An Yu is devoted to Shiqi, the book's hidden guard. Every night, she transmigrates to find ways to grow closer to him. Watching him suffer punishment breaks her heart. Shiqi meets a little fairy who treats him wonderfully. She speaks gently, brings him food from the immortal realm, and teaches him to talk and write. But then, one day, the fairy suddenly disappears... A hidden guard loyal to his master choos 792Reads8.6Score10514d adds
- 109 Who Says the Villainess Can't Date the Male Lead? 谁说女配不能和男主谈恋爱 After more than two years as a stunt double and an extra, I finally landed a small role with 38 lines. Wait, the guy playing the male lead, isn't that my high school deskmate? The chubby kid who sobbed after I turned down his confession! “Young Master.” I steeled myself and went in, hoping he wouldn't recognize me. “Oh! Hello there, Guard Zhan.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Purehearted Ao Guang Is the Most Devoted 纯情敖光最痴情 Ying Longlan happened to pass by the Eastern Sea and rescued a young man! The young man had been poisoned by a jiao. Looking at his devastatingly beautiful face, Ying Longlan admitted that, in that moment, she felt a little tempted. Almost without thinking, she took the innocent young man to bed and left him thoroughly spent... Seeing how wretched he looked after she’d ravished him, Ying Longlan felt a pang of guilt. She tended his wounds and stayed by his side until he woke up... To her surpris 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Cursed Village: The End of the Evil Shadow 幽村秘咒：邪影的终结 The Cursed Secrets of a Haunted Village: The End of the Evil Shadow 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Lamp That Keeps Watch Over the Dead 守灵灯 The Spirit-Guarding Lamp 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 After Meeting My Online Love, My Gaming Buddy Became a Clingy Boyfriend 网恋奔现后，我的游戏搭子成了粘人男友 After Meeting My Online Love in Person, My Gaming Buddy Became a Clingy Boyfriend —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Mischievous Princess Loves Her Wedding Night 调皮公主之就爱洞房花烛夜 The Mischievous Princess Just Loves the Wedding Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Contractual Lapdog: When the Agreement Expires, It Becomes a Love Triangle from Hell 合约舔狗，协议到期变成修罗场 A Contractual Simp, Turning into a Battlefield of Love Once the Agreement Expires 492Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 About Me, My Ex-Boyfriend, and Our Cat 关于我跟前男友有一只猫这件事 A short story, about 60,000 words. A sweet romance. The two of them get into another endless argument over who gets to keep the cat. In a fit of frustration, Xu Fan blurts out, “If you want the cat, you have to take its mom too.” Jiang Sheng struggles to keep the corners of his mouth from turning up, then leisurely replies, “I don’t see why not.” Xu Fan: ... Did I just get played? A single-parent home isn’t good for a cat’s physical or emotional development. For the cat’s sake, maybe I’ll 405Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 117 A Startling Beauty in Turmoil: The Young General Is Fighting for Her Again 惊鸿乱：少将军又争又抢 [A shameless young general versus a softhearted female assassin, a lighthearted, funny, sweet romance.] Shen Jinghong was born in Cloud Temple, the most famous pleasure house in Lan Capital. Her mother, Shen Qingcheng, was Cloud Temple’s top courtesan, renowned throughout Lan Capital for her stunning Honghong Dance. Shen Jinghong never knew who her father was. She asked many times, but her mother refused to tell her. When Shen Jinghong was five, Shen Qingcheng died, and she became a kitchen hand 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 From the Moment I Married Him, I Was Already Part of the Game 从嫁他开始，我就入了局 From the moment I married him, I was caught in his trap 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 One Pack of Spicy Snacks, and My Childhood Sweetheart's Sweetness Goes Through the Roof 一包辣条，我的小青梅她甜度爆表 One Pack of Spicy Strips, and My Childhood Friend's Sweetness Goes Through the Roof 543Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 My Best Friend Tried to Steal My Husband and Nearly Destroyed My Family 闺蜜为抢我老公，差点害掉我一家 My Best Friend Tried to Steal My Husband and Nearly Destroyed My Family 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 On Our Wedding Night, the Sickly Prince Said He Hadn't Long to Live 新婚夜：病娇王爷说他命不久矣 In her previous life, she was a special forces soldier in the twenty-first century. While carrying out Plan S, she happened to rescue a hostage. Then the criminals played dirty, set off explosives, and she bought the farm~ Reborn in Nanli, a fictional kingdom, she has become the unloved eldest daughter of the Jiang family. As if that weren't bad enough, her scummy father and stepmother marry her off in someone else's place to a disabled prince from the start~ Luckily, she has a spiritual spring 1.8kReads9.0Score20514d adds
- 122 Spoiled Rotten: I Am Ill, and My Name Is Longing 盛宠：寡人有疾，名唤相思 Gu Xianyu was the beloved jewel of the regent, the most honored Princess Changle in Dayu, and the darling of everyone around her. When she grew up, she fell in love with the aloof guard at her side, but he left without a word. A year later, an imperial decree arranged her marriage to another state. On her wedding night, she drained the nuptial cup The young woman’s eyes grew sultry, her beautiful cheeks flushed. In a daze, she reached out to caress the handsome face so close to hers, thinking sh 47Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 123 Addicted to Obsession: His One and Only Salvation 偏执成瘾：他的独家救赎 Obsessive Love: His One and Only Salvation 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Walking the Night Road, Looking Back on Half a Life 夜路行，半生望 Walking the Night Road, Looking Ahead Through Half a Life 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 A Love That Never Forgot Its First Promise 不忘初心的爱恋 A Love That Never Forgets Its Original Promise 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Mischievous Young Lord's Bride: Bold and Fearless 顽皮世子妃，猖狂又强悍 [Feel-good revenge + sweet romance + strong heroine and hero + scheming heir] Ye Luoqing was a lieutenant colonel in a special forces army unit. She died when an explosion caught her in its blast, only to transmigrate into the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Revenue’s household. Her father doesn’t dote on her, her mother is dead, and her younger siblings bully her every chance they get. Just watch me take down the villains! “My lord, the heir’s wife has run off to the military camp!” Brin 332Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 127 The Preschool Teacher and Her Army Officer Husband 女幼师和士官老公 Xin Yue was born in 1995 and was still in college, but her family’s doorstep was practically being kicked in by people eager to set her up with a boyfriend. She always ignored them, never imagining that she would later meet Mu Hao, a man born in 1989 who served as a noncommissioned officer in the military. From then on, the two began a long-distance relationship. 481Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 With His Sweet Wife in His Arms, the Cold-Faced Prince Secretly Falls in Love 娇妻在怀，冷面王爷悄悄动凡心 A modern policewoman died in an accident while responding to a call to catch criminals, then transmigrated to ancient times. She had been the legitimate daughter abandoned in the countryside. The Bai family brought her back because of a letter ending her engagement. But after the engagement was broken off, an imperial decree ordered her to marry the Seventh Royal Uncle, who was rumored to be volatile and unpredictable. “Talking back to your father violates Great Chu’s law on honoring one’s elder 239Reads9.1Score10114d adds
- 129 Ribose Heart at Weiming Lake 未名湖核糖心 When the splendor of Yanyuan meets life’s crossroads, can love in an ivory tower withstand the impact of reality? At the orientation desk, one fleeting glance sets their romance in motion when he “deliberately picks up the wrong key.” A nighttime stroll by Weiming Lake and his line, “At last, rain after a long drought,” stirs her heart. And at a candied hawthorn stall, a moment dismissed as “childish” hides a deeper meaning. Every scene comes from real memories of youth. He is a brilliant law s 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Falling Into Your Magnetic Field 跌落你的磁场 Lan Siyu is a newly graduated lawyer’s assistant just starting out in the workplace. After several misunderstandings, she becomes prejudiced against her “mentor,” Attorney Guo. But as they spend more time together, she comes to admire and rely on him, and gradually falls for him. Top lawyer Gu Jiachen makes anyone who wants to be his assistant endure his “torment.” He keeps sending Lan Siyu on errands, yet without realizing it, the hard shell around his tender heart begins to crack. There’s a 17Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 131 Mr. Xiao, I’ll Wait for You to Come Back 萧先生，我等你，回来 Mr. Xiao, I'll wait for you to come back 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Pork Rice and Starlight: Redemption for Two Nobodies 猪脚饭与星光：两个底层人的救赎 Pork Rice and Stardom: Redemption for Two People at the Bottom 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Escaping the Slaughter Line, I Sell Goods in the Modern City and Bring Capital to Its Knees 逃出宰杀线，我在现代都市带货掀翻资本 Escaping the Slaughter Line, I Sell Products in the Modern Metropolis and Bring Capital Crashing Down —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 After the Breakup, I’m Surrounded by Admirers 分手后，我桃花漫天 After the Breakup, I Have Admirers Everywhere 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 My Blind Date Is Actually a Devilish Female Boss? 相亲对象竟是魔鬼女上司？ My Blind Date Is Actually My Devilish Female Boss? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Turns Out My Scheming Childhood Friend Has Been in Love with Me for Eight Years 原来腹黑竹马心悦我8年了 Turns Out My Scheming Childhood Friend Has Been in Love with Me for Eight Years —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 The Concubine's Scheme: A Talented Woman's Face-Slapping Revenge 庶女谋：才女打脸记 I am Li Shuying, the peerless beauty and talented young woman whom everyone in the capital admires. Yet because of a concubine-born daughter with a different soul, I became a laughingstock throughout the city. She recites the poem Bring in the Wine and whips up mandarin-duck hot pot. Even my childhood sweetheart and fiancé has fallen under her spell. Everyone mocks me: “So much for the capital's greatest talent. You can't even outshine a good-for-nothing concubine's daughter!” Little do they kno 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 After Rejecting the Crown Prince, I Was Courted by Someone Else 拒婚太子后，我被人求娶了 Before the imperial marriage decree, the Crown Prince said he was marrying me only for my family's status. If that's the case, I don't need to be Crown Princess. Fate has its own designs. As it turns out, the person I was looking for from the very beginning was never the Crown Prince. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Born as the Legitimate Daughter, I’m Doted on Without End 穿成嫡女宠不休 I’m Su Ruojun. I was transported into a historical romance novel I’d read, becoming the cannon-fodder villainess whose life was stolen by her reborn legitimate older sister, and who was disfigured and tortured to death. In my previous life, she climbed over my corpse to ascend the throne as empress. In this life, she returned reborn and sneered as she tried to shove me into a pit of fire. “Crown Princess? You’re only fit to marry a wastrel!” But what she didn’t know was this: I had a modern supe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Sandalwood Bones 檀骨 I was a wild weed, but thanks to a benevolent master, I took human form. When we met again, he had become the revered Imperial Preceptor. I said I wanted to repay him, but he told me humans and demons belonged to different worlds. Later, his eyes reddened as he pinned me beneath him, calling me little demon over and over... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 The Heroine's Dream Script: A Chambermaid's Rise to Female Imperial Preceptor 爽文女主剧本：通房丫鬟逆袭女国师 I was a bedchamber maid offered up by my own mother to the beds of the powerful. Then, on a rainy night in a mass grave, I tore open my scabbed wounds and was reborn. Everyone laughed at my deluded hopes of currying favor with the capital’s most eligible young master. They didn’t know I gripped a bloodstained pen, using every stroke to rip away the aristocratic clans’ pretense of respectability and climbing over their backs to become the empire’s first female Imperial Preceptor. I would make eve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Addicted to Being Your Substitute: The Princess's Replacement Lover 替爱成瘾：长公主的替身男宠 A man often appears in my dreams. Dressed all in black, he kneels before me and calls me A Li. I searched the entire capital, but all I found was an unfaithful counterfeit. If he’s not the right one, then I’ll find another. If one won’t do, I’ll try two. If two won’t do, then three. One of them is bound to be the right one. Later, just when I thought I’d finally found him, the Third Prince of Jing appeared. Why does he look so much like him, too? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Bandit's Wife Isn't Getting Away 压寨夫人休想逃 A year ago, I saw a woman in trouble and drew my sword to save her. It was love at first sight. A year later, I reunited with my beauty, but this wasn’t a chance encounter. It was a trap. Why were there two brides on my wedding night? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Reborn as the Villainess, I Changed My Fate with My Dancing Skills 穿成恶毒女配后，我靠舞技逆天改命 On my first day reincarnated as the villainess, I kicked aside the original script. The second male lead was brooding and possessive? The heroine was a fake innocent? The hero was blind and heartless? Fine. I’d be the villain! “I tore up my fragile-little-flower act and pinned the second male lead against the throne on the eve of his coronation. ‘Jiang Li, either marry me or kill me. Pick one.’ “Later, the history books recorded: Empress Wen Cheng, née Su, conquered the realm with a single dance —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 My Childhood Friend Entered the Palace Disguised as a Eunuch, but I Only Love the Old Emperor 竹马扮假太监入宫，我却只爱老皇帝 I was born with a face capable of bringing kingdoms to ruin, and I was determined to climb into the emperor’s bed on the back of a favor every woman envied. The old emperor doted on me beyond reason. My childhood sweetheart castrated himself and became a fake eunuch for my sake. Everyone called me a seductress, but there was no room for a shred of true affection in the palace. He held me every night as I fell asleep, yet over a single rumor, he personally sent me to the Cold Palace. He knelt at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Cold, Aloof Grand Tutor Is Tamed into a Puppy by the Bossy Princess 清冷太傅被霸道公主驯成小狗 I fell for Pei Heng, the aloof, dignified, strict, and old-fashioned Grand Tutor. Every day, apart from eating and sleeping, the two things he cared about most were teaching and avoiding me. I was willful and spoiled, the sort who wouldn’t turn back until I hit a wall. He was silver-tongued, winning everyone over with his eloquence. All I wanted was to part my lips and win him over. Later, I accidentally discovered the “secrets” he’d hidden in a compartment: “Today I met a little ‘tigress.’ She’ 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 147 I Disguised Myself as My Brother to Get Close to My Fiancé, and Now He Seems to Have Fallen for Me 假扮成哥哥接近未婚夫，他好像被我掰弯了 The Second Prince was my intended fiancé, and I’d been in love with him at first sight since childhood. To get close to him, I disguised myself as my twin brother and went to school with him. Then rumors started circulating around the palace that the Second Prince was gay! On our wedding night, he actually abandoned me and spent month after month at my brother’s secret estate. So who cheated on whom: did I cuckold myself, or did my brother cuckold me?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Ten Years Turned Plum Wine Sweet: The Young Lord's Thirty-Six Strategies to Win His Love Back 梅子十年酸成糖：少主的追妻三十六计 The female thief Xie Mingyin was ordered by her master to sneak into Biyun Manor and steal a treasure. Who would have thought the young manor lord, Qi Yu, would hold a sword to her while shielding his clothes, forcing her into a fake marriage? A sham wedding shouldn’t have stopped her from continuing the theft. But the young lord kept trying to seduce her every few days, and it was seriously messing with her head. Only when he said, “She’s my one weakness,” did Xie Mingyin realize that the theft 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 I Got into the Wrong Bed, but Married the Right Man 爬错床，嫁对郎 A young girl's panicked face stared back from the bronze mirror, her skin pale as jade, a pair of entwined lotuses embroidered on her green silk trousers. I clutched a pink bellyband embroidered with mandarin ducks at play, listening to footsteps approach from beyond the door. Cold sweat beaded on my forehead. “Young Master, Madam wants to see you!” The young page's shout sounded like music from heaven. I had transmigrated! I had transmigrated into the body of a maid named Li Luo. According to t 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Bite Me, Ginseng Spirit: A Kiss for the Young General 咬我一口，人参精诱吻小将军 When the ginseng spirit A Heng plucked a thousand-year-old root to sell for money for her benefactor, the reincarnation of the young general, his silver armor stained with blood, held a medicine pestle in his hand... Three hundred years later, the spirit ginseng he had protected was going to sell herself to show her love for him. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
