Novels like Lameyue
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Lameyue, best match first.
- 1 Confessions of a Scumbag 一个渣男的自述 A Scumbag’s Confession 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Old Chen’s Love Life 老陈情史 (Urban + Realistic + Workplace + Unspoken Rules + Adult + Romance + Feel-Good + Engineering + Sweet Romance + True to Life) Wherever there are people, there are politics. Politics aren’t about fighting and killing; they’re about relationships and human nature. Young Lao Chen worked for ten years at a municipal construction company, rotating through roles as a site supervisor, surveyor, and construction manager. When the property market was booming, Lao Chen quit and went into business as a sub 151Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Nobody Builds a Dakar Champion 泥腿子造出达喀尔冠军 At the Dakar finish line, the French rider didn’t celebrate after crossing it. He dropped to one knee in the sand and wrapped both arms around the hideously ugly racing bike, pressing his face against the weld scars on its frame: the seams where scrap steel met titanium, like fish scales, like scabs. Then he stood up, tossed the championship trophy into the hands of a Chinese man, turned away, and wept like a child. The entire crowd fell silent. KTM’s technical director clutched his laser gauge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Tales from the Xuefeng Mountains 雪峰山区的往事 This story follows three generations in the Snowpeak Mountains over half a century, tracing the love and hatred that bind them. Centered on the blended family formed by Shi Shanbao and his son, and Chen Wanying and her son, it tells of the joys, sorrows, separations, and struggles of ordinary people trying to make a living in that era. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Live, and Never Bow Your Head 活着，不低头 In the shifting urban landscape, the rat race surges like a tide. Degrees lose their value, people worry about their status, incomes are unstable, and relationships become emotionally draining. Reality is harsh, ideals are lofty, and every step is a struggle against life. Some grit their teeth and work overtime until they become machines; some lie awake at midnight, lamenting how hard life is; others set off elsewhere in pursuit of their dreams, trying to find themselves amid the endless hustle. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Hesitation on Returning Home 近乡彷徨 One evening in 1993, an oil lamp glowed inside a dimly lit, tiled-roof house. The laboring mother, Wan Ziyuan, cried out in anguish. After a full day of grueling farm work, she was already too exhausted to go on. But making a living came first, and she couldn’t afford to care about the pain right now! All she could think was that she needed to give birth to a son. 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Where Does the Road Lead? 出路为何 The story takes place in a small city in the north. It explores some of the social conflicts that arose at the time and still exist today. I hope to portray and sum them up through a story, so that everyone can consider these issues more calmly and rationally. But enough about that. Let’s step into the story. 5Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 8 The Ultimate Sense of Smell 极致嗅觉 [Police Precinct Chief × Pharmacy Clerk] [The abstinent “old virgin” × the chubby “little bunny”] Their first meeting at the pharmacy: Xiao Bai looked at the bottle of feminine wash. “Does this stuff actually work?” Zhan Yan: “A good wash keeps you healthy.” Fate brought you to me, And a twist of fate made me fall for you… A sweet little treat, crispy on the outside and tender within~ 225Reads—Score105Shelves
- 9 Mr. Fang’s Sweet Husband 方总的小娇夫 Hot-tempered female boss & young master looking to be kept Fang Yu was famous in the Fang family for her fiery temper. Her family life was a complete mess, so she had no choice but to work hard and make money on her own. A well-connected new student joined her high school class. “I know you got into our class because you have connections at home. You do your thing, I’ll study, and we’ll stay out of each other’s way.” “Why should I listen to you? When you make it big, will you support me?” Fang Y 180Reads—Score111Shelves
- 10 A Mayfly in Amber 琥珀中的蜉蝣 Amber preserves time, and seals away mayflies. Three talented young women meet at Yanyuan. A classmate steals the fruits of one woman's painstaking work. Her best friend sees everything, yet chooses to stay silent. Overnight, the course of their lives changes completely. One becomes a pregnant student who drops out and vanishes into the crowd. One becomes a celebrated author, rising to fame through plagiarism. One becomes a scholar, spending her days regretting her choices from behind a lectern. 112Reads—Score401Shelves
- 11 Why Are You Coming Back After We Broke Up? Didn’t You Say I Was Broke? 分手了还找我干嘛，不是嫌我穷吗 Loving her deeply is no match for having more money in your pocket! When his girlfriend of many years coldly breaks up with him and falls into the arms of a rich second-generation heir, Xiao Jincheng finally sees the truth. But he's just an ordinary wage earner. How could he possibly change what's happening? Worse still, as he rides his electric scooter back to his rented room after a delivery shift, heartbroken and miserable, he gets into an accident. The doctor says he may become a vegetable. 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Truck Driver 卡车司机 [No System, no formulaic tropes, no mindless plot, ensemble cast, realistic style] At eighteen, Li Jianguo took the wheel. Over thirty bumpy years on the road, he witnessed the rough-and-tumble world of freight transport, its warmth and kindness, the glory and decline of state-owned enterprises, and life's triumphs and sorrows. Everyone around him lived through each turn of the times, together forming an epic of ordinary people. People from every class and every walk of life became unlikely lege 6.9kReads8.6Score532Shelves
- 13 The Happy Life of Dachuan, the Village Miracle Doctor 乡村神医大川的快乐生活 [Miracle doctor + countryside + farming + making a fortune] Qin Dachuan was an orphan, raised from childhood by Ning, a barefoot doctor. After unexpectedly inheriting the legacy of a medical immortal, he began healing the sick and saving lives, helping others and himself along the way. From then on, he rose to the pinnacle of life… 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Love and Affection 情与爱 Love and Affection —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Escaping a Life Under Someone Else’s Control 逃离被控制的人生 My parents divorced. My sister went with my father, while I followed my mother into her new marriage. Then Mom had a son. My biological father keeps hounding me, always wanting me to change my name and take his surname. I took my stepfather’s surname, but when I need money, there’s no one there for me. I can only keep going on my own. All I want is to escape a life where I’m controlled. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 A Scoundrel’s Repentance 人渣的忏悔 I was born into poverty and grew up through one hardship after another. My heart had died, but I had no regrets. An unexpected stroke of luck turned my life around and let me experience a different kind of life. If there is another life, I would never be reincarnated as a human again, because this world is too terrifying! 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Karma in the Mortal World 人间因果 The 1980s were a distinctive time in China. It was an era when China's reform and opening-up began to take off, yet it still carried the lingering air of feudalism. Like my other works, this is a period novel with no golden finger. It follows an '80s-born girl's coming of age and the experiences of girls in that era. The story centers on a large family that had been established before Liberation. After reform and opening-up began, the family underwent a profound transformation, rose to glory, an 9.9kReads8.5Score944Shelves
- 18 Auntie Yang 杨姨 [Short-to-Medium Contemporary Romance] Auntie Yang is my mom's best friend. She's beautiful and elegant, and this time she came all the way to the city where I go to school just to see me. I never expected her to have so many feelings for me. 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Woman at Forty Is in Full Bloom 四十女人一朵花 The story begins with the childhood of its protagonist, Lin Yuling. It follows her struggles with school as a child and how the college entrance exam changed her life, from workplace grudges to the ups and downs of the business world, from the comforts of ordinary life to working as a nanny during the pandemic... Beginning in the 1980s, the story spans rural urbanization, the rise and fall of the real estate industry, and the conflicts triggered by reform of state-owned enterprises. It covers ma 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Shier San's 17th Book 十二三第17本书 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 You Are the Morning Light 你是晨光 She is a top student with a story to tell, and he is the school's famous heartthrob. Their paths once ran parallel, but then the two teenagers crossed paths, got to know each other, and fell for each other. After middle school, he joined the military while she continued her studies. Years passed, and letters were their only connection. His love was reserved, deep, and tangled; hers was pure, wholehearted, and devoted. After countless heartbreaks, she decided to give up. Her parting words were: “ 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 You Are a Good Person 你是好人 No matter what life throws at us, meeting a good person who can give us hope in our darkest moments and support us when we’re at our lowest can change the course of our lives... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Zhar Woman’s Struggle 渣女的奋斗 A beautiful young woman refuses to become anyone's kept woman. When she faces a string of sinister schemes, she unexpectedly finds a benefactor. By a twist of fate, she escapes the danger of being framed. Hoping to change her circumstances, she runs into troublesome relatives, then heads abroad to work and build a better life. There are outrageous twists, nerve-racking schemes, fights for survival, and deceitful deals. She not only finds love and happiness, but also makes a great success of hers 34Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 24 The Female Heart: A Study of Women’s Psychology 女人心一女性心理研究 Hello, everyone! Li Yuanrong, a healer with over 20 years of clinical counseling experience, an advanced practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation therapy, and an energy healer, has released a new psychological novel, A Woman’s Heart: A Study of Women’s Psychology. You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. This new work explores the psychological traits and mental health of modern urban women, women’s personal development, infertility, family education, and family culture. It 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Wang Xiaomang's Journey to Becoming a Teacher 王小忙的教师成长之路 The growth of a teacher from the bottom rung, the inner journey of an ordinary person, an adult school life that’s hard to put into words, a gripping story of human relationships, and the gradual transformation of one person’s values... A humble teacher with a sunny disposition and a plan to change the education system: how is he suppressed and oppressed? How does he fall into despair and begin to crave power? How does he fight to survive, step by step, using every means at his disposal? And how —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Working World: A Close-Up Look at 10 True Workplace Stories 职人江湖：直击10段真实职场故事 A look at the hidden side of all kinds of modern professions: a restaurant chef’s secrets, a bar hostess’s romance, a down-and-out painter’s means of survival, online scammers’ traps and lies, a tour guide’s life in chains, counterfeit money production, beauty and ugliness beneath the surgeon’s scalpel... Beneath those glossy surfaces may lie a stubborn struggle, covered in mud! Told in the first person, this takes you face-to-face with lives that are both harshly real and fiercely alive. 97Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 27 My Girlfriend Didn't Reply for Three Minutes, So I Broke Up with Her 女友三分钟不回我消息，我直接分手 My girlfriend didn’t reply to my message for three minutes, so I broke up with her on the spot. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 My Wife Didn't Reply for Three Minutes, So I Divorced Her 女人三分钟不回我消息，我直接离婚 My wife didn’t reply to my message for three minutes, so I divorced her on the spot. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Sheep Are Here, the Sheep Are Here 羊来,羊来 The sheep are coming, the sheep are coming —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 An Unlawful Marriage 不法婚姻 This is a slice-of-life story that doesn’t follow conventional web-novel genre formulas. One unmarried woman is devoted to a married man, while another woman, his wife, swears to defend her rights and dignity. In the end, the devoted woman cannot let go of her obsession, while the woman who fought for her dignity lets go of hers and frees herself. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Who Hasn’t Dated a Jerk or Two? Growing Up 谁不经历几个渣男：长大成人 Who doesn’t have to go through a few jerks on the way to growing up? This book explores women’s emotional growth. Drawing mostly on the author’s own experiences and reflections on love, and shaped with literary embellishment, it presents five stages of women’s emotional growth in the hope of offering a little guidance to women who feel lost. 122Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The White Road: Lessons from an AI Business War 白色之路，人工智能商战启示录 He was set up, lost his job in middle age, saw his marriage fail, had his assets wiped out, and faced age discrimination at work. The protagonist gets hit by every kind of bad luck. See how he rises from having nothing to turn the tables, achieve even greater success in his career, and build a happy life. 3Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 33 When the Music Ends, We Part: Part One 曲终人散第一部 The protagonist, Chongzi, is a terrible person! Because of relevant laws and regulations, I can't fully write about just how terrible he is. So the ending he gets is only to be expected. This is an ordinary, unremarkable story, not a power fantasy and unrelated to transmigration. It's so ordinary you could see something like it happening in everyday life. It might not be very appealing, but the author did their best. This is the best I can do. If you think it's decent, look for the second book, 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Repayment Countdown 还款倒计时 Countdown to Repayment tells the story of Chen Yizhou, an ordinary man struggling between desire and reality. Chen Yizhou is an average office worker in Jiangcheng, working hard to make ends meet. He and his wife and son squeeze into an old rental apartment, living a simple but warm life. At a class reunion, Zhao Yu, the class heartthrob, paints a startup dream so alluring that Chen Yizhou is drawn in. Trying to raise the investment money, he plunges into the world of online loans. Then Zhao Yu 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Blind Village Doctor, Kang Ge 瞎子村医，康哥 [Countryside + Farming + Miracle Doctor + Urban Life] A blind young man from a small village unexpectedly receives an extraordinary legacy. From then on, he secretly takes on the forces in the village that have committed countless evils, while beginning his own rise from the bottom. Step by step, he reaches the pinnacle of success, earning the admiration of those around him as he watches the world’s changing fortunes with a smile… [This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Scoundrel's Struggle 人渣奋斗史 I came with nothing and leave loaded with everything. Conscience? What a useless piece of shit. I ditched it ages ago. Kindness is for God; evil is what belongs in this world. Sure, I didn't get much schooling, but I'm not asking for much. I just want a good life. I had nothing to begin with, so what have I got to fear? Just do it! 285Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 37 Jian Xin’s Choice 简馨的选择 Jian Xin, an employee at an accounting firm, is delayed by a flight and lands on a rainy night in Ancheng. Mistaking Cheng Geng for a driver of an unlicensed car, she meets him again through work, and they become a couple. Later, work brings her unexpectedly back into contact with Xiang Haichao, whom she met once five years earlier. With his dogged, competitive nature, Xiang Haichao keeps fighting for her, leaving Jian Xin emotionally conflicted time and again. The contrasting personalities of t 343Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Boy from a Remote Mountain Village I Helped Twenty Years Ago Wants to Marry Me 二十年前救助的偏远山区小男孩，要和我结婚 The little boy I helped in a remote mountain village twenty years ago wants to marry me 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Loves of Women 女人们的爱情 Women’s Love: Family Memories Across Time is a long-form work of documentary fiction by Hen Jiangyin. Based on true stories from the author’s own family and enriched by extensive interviews with local people, it focuses on the Zhang, Xia, and Li families, vividly tracing the lives of the four Li sisters, the six Xia siblings, and the three Zhang brothers. Their stories are full of twists and turns and deeply moving moments, leaving a lasting impression. The women’s love stories are especially st 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Fleas 跳蚤们 The Fleas is a crime novel about the struggles and ambitions of new Chinese immigrants in Flushing and Manhattan, New York. Set in the early twenty-first century, it follows three ordinary men, Li Xiaodong, Gao Wanli, and Xie Yuan, who came to America as immigrants, undocumented migrants, and international students. Through starkly realistic storytelling, it portrays their hardships and desires as they confront the challenges of building new lives overseas, revealing the difficulties of immigran 8Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 41 Still Pretending? You Fell for Me Ages Ago 还装？你早心动了 Secret Crush Comes True + Cool, Aloof Doctor + Gentle Schoolteacher Who says first love is always doomed to go nowhere? In high school, she experienced her first stirrings of love and found the courage to confess, only to be rejected. But she never expected that the two of them would meet again one day. Even more surprising, she didn’t recognize him... When they met again, though, she kept retreating. Her heart raced, but she didn’t dare get close. He pinned her between himself and the sof 10Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 42 One, Two, Three, Take Your Seats 一二三儿，请对号入座 In this world where values had gone mad, Xu Yiyi was like so many women in marriages today, trapped in a miserable, abnormal relationship that was like being widowed while still married: she left home but didn't divorce. Her turning point came after she greedily enjoyed the pleasures of being with Luan Han, a college student in his early twenties. Then she unexpectedly ran into her first love, Song Ning, who had “come back from the dead,” and paid a price for it. The appearance of her first love 114Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 43 I Watch the Bustle of Human Life with Cold Indifference 我在人间烟火中冷眼旁观 Through more densely paced, finely detailed chapters, Watching the World’s Hustle and Bustle with Cold Detachment offers an in-depth portrait of life at grassroots civil affairs offices and carefully traces Zhang Xiaoying’s long transformation from passionate dedication to cold observation. 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Maid in the Presidential Suite 总统套房的女佣 Born into poverty, a young woman heads south to the city to support her family. She takes a job as a room attendant at a five-star hotel, making beds, cleaning toilets, and vacuuming every day. Along the way, she gets entangled with several male guests and attracts their attention. Naive and inexperienced, she tries to change her fate, but gradually loses her way in the city of desire... 253Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 45 I’m a Heartbreaker, So What? 我是渣女，我怕谁 If no amount of hard work can change your fate, what’s the point of striving? What good is hard work? You might as well throw away your conscience. That’s the only way to live well, though you may end up bringing disaster upon yourself. By the time you regret it, it’ll be too late. There’s no cure for regret in life! 224Reads5.9Score100Shelves
- 46 Half a Life as a Boy 男孩子的半生 It's strange, they say that those with no close relatives are destined for a hard life. Zihan never knew who his father was, and when he was six, his mother secretly hopped on a train and ran off to Shandong. From then on, Zihan was raised by his grandmother. She was running a steamed-bun shop with his eldest aunt, so neither of them really had time to look after him. When he reached school age, his uncle by marriage rode an old bicycle, taking Zihan and his older sister to preschool. From then —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Fired for Refusing to Frame Patients, I Became a Lawyer and Took Down My Former Hospital 不会坑病人被开除，转行当律师闪击前医院 He refused to mistreat patients and got fired, so he switched careers to become a lawyer and launched an attack on his former hospital. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 My Years as a Drifter in Zhengzhou 我的郑漂那些年 What is it like for a country boy fresh out of college to fall in love with a local young woman from a family that got rich from demolition in an unfamiliar provincial capital? This book tells a story drawn from real experience... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Slightly Downcast: Deleting My Love-Brain 轻颓：删除恋爱脑 [Period Novel] [Realistic Fiction] [Women’s Growth] [Family Life] [Literary] Northeast China at the end of the last century. Su Qing (Qing), a 26-year-old cashier at a state-owned enterprise, is burned badly by her obsession with romance: blind dates bring one oddball after another, and her husband cheats on her. Her in-laws find fault with everything she does, the state-owned enterprise undergoes restructuring and offers buyouts of years of service, and she faces constant trouble at work. In th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 My Wife Didn't Reply for Three Minutes, So I Cut Ties with Her 媳妇三分钟不回我消息，我直接断绝关系 My Wife Didn’t Reply for Three Minutes, So I Cut Ties with Her on the Spot 1Reads—Score—Shelves
