Novels like One-Way Street
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as One-Way Street, best match first.
- 51 Look at Him, Rising in His Vermilion Tower 你看他朱楼起 Later, that gunshot was the last trace she left behind in this world. One late night, Jiang Yansheng searched through every document in the house, all to find a pregnancy diagnosis that might never have existed. Whenever he closed his eyes, the image of Pei Ge with a swollen belly seemed all too real. He couldn't shake the feeling that she was still alive. That somewhere in the world, she had even given birth to the child he had always longed for. [It's time to change the blurb again, 3/4.] 123Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 52 President Xiao, Your Wife Says You Have to Sleep in the Study Tonight 萧总，夫人让你今晚睡书房 “The Pursuit of a Wife After Losing Her” + “A Heartbreaking Romance” When Mu Zhixia was five, she was as spoiled as a little princess, the only light on the long road traveled by Mu Jingheng and Xiao Xulin. But later, in the name of protecting her, Mu Jingheng married her off to his subordinate. On their wedding night, the groom fled, making her a laughingstock throughout the Dongli Kingdom. Meanwhile, Mu Jingheng turned around and decided to marry the person she hated most. She struggled and fo 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Weren't You the One Who Wanted a Divorce? How Did You End Up Hooked? 不是要离婚吗？怎么被钓成翘嘴了 [A heroine with extreme contrast who’s secretly quite sneaky vs. a tough-talking, ruthless hero who doesn’t realize how funny he is] [Secret crush + marriage first, love later + groveling redemption + face-slapping] The year Xu Wang started her sophomore year, she married Fu Sinian, whom she had secretly loved for thirteen years. On their wedding night, Fu Sinian left Xu Wang alone and hid outside, refusing to come back. Xu Wang went looking for him, only to hear him making plans to divorce her. 854Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 54 This Heiress's Doormat Wife Has Had Enough 这豪门受气包太太她不当了 (Completed) [Regretful pursuit + marriage first, love later + angst first, sweetness later + 1v1, both leads are each other’s only ones + happy ending] Content warning: The female lead is a bit of a pushover at first, but later fights back without hesitation and gets divorced successfully. The male lead’s nominal beloved is a minor character. The male lead never cheats.] Blurb: After three years of marriage to Jiang Qi, the wealthy young master of Haicheng, Song Xinyuan had endured endless griev 160Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 55 After His Wife Returns Home with Their Child, Mr. Lu Kneels on the Keyboard Every Night 夫人带娃回国后，陆总夜夜跪键盘 [Adorable Baby + The Ex-Wife Chase] A ridiculous agreement tied them together. Seventeen years of secret yearning and three years of a marriage in name only finally came crashing down the moment he asked for a divorce. She desperately grabbed the hem of his shirt and blocked the door to stop him from leaving. “Lu Jinbei, can’t you take pity on me? You don’t have to love me. Liking me would be enough.” She never imagined that all her pleading would earn her nothing but his icy, heartless reply: “ 71Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 56 The Eighteenth Time I Wanted a Divorce 第十八次想离婚 The Eighteenth Time I Wanted a Divorce 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 After the Class Reunion, She Knelt and Begged Me Not to Divorce Her 同学聚会后，她跪着求我别离婚 After the Class Reunion, She Begged Me on Her Knees Not to Divorce Her 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 If You Leave, I’ll Miss You Most 你若离去最相思 Years later, the people of Yucheng still treated that scandalous tale of the wealthy as a favorite topic of idle conversation. A shrewd woman from the streets had clawed her way to the top and become the pampered wife of a ridiculously rich man. She was addicted to gambling and had once racked up ten million in gambling debts. She was vulgar and flashy, a notorious social butterfly. And yet Gu Hansheng still doted on her. Until this wicked woman of the century dug her own grave and caused th 1.6kReads8.9Score14614d adds
- 59 The Contract Girlfriend Only Cares About Money, Leaving Mr. Shen Sleepless Day and Night 合约女友她只谈钱，沈总日夜难眠 Xu Ximiao is beautiful, strong, and tragic, with a rebellious streak. She has the background of a powerful family, yet has struggled from the bottom up, fighting with everything she has to survive and pursue her dreams. Shen Yanzhou is a ruthless business tycoon, extremely rational and controlling, and decisive in the cutthroat world of commerce. Xu Ximiao sets off a market frenzy with her “48-Hour Defection Plan,” turning Shen Yanzhou from the client in charge into her project partner. Only 3.4kReads8.7Score32314d adds
- 60 Surrender 臣服 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it! Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 681Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 61 The Crowded Tide 人潮汹涌 Zhou Zhijing finally found the perfect rich husband and successfully made her way into Haijing City's upper circles. But the day after her engagement, she had a nightmare. In the dream, Chen Zongci sat on a black leather sofa, gazing down at her in silent disdain. The moment she jolted awake, the nightmare came true. Chen Zongci appeared in her cheap rental apartment and looked down at her. “Want to marry into my family? Come beg me.” He let her use him, scheme against him, and take advantag 6.1kReads8.8Score71214d adds
- 62 Ninth Master, Your Little Ancestress Doesn't Want to Take Responsibility 九爷你家小祖宗不想负责 1v1, happy ending, both leads have no past relationships, devoted pampering The man An Nansheng had begged and pleaded to marry left her alone on their wedding day, while the bastard spent all day and night comforting the woman he loved. Though the situation was one she had brought upon herself, An Nansheng had no intention of spending her life on her knees. If it was time to divorce, then she would. She was born into a wealthy family herself. A good man who was devoted to her might be hard to f 824Reads9.3Score16214d adds
- 63 After Tormenting Me, the CEO Begs Me to Take Him Back! 虐完我后，总裁追妻火葬场了！ Also known as: Love That Lingers and After Tormenting Me, the CEO Chases Me Through Hell! [Strong male lead × gentle female lead × childhood sweethearts × domineering pursuit × chasing his wife through hell × both are pure] [Wily, cunning, domineering CEO × gentle, delicate genius designer] Gu Yelin, the cunning and devilishly charming eldest son of the Gu family, is the youngest CEO in the history of the Gu Group. Countless socialites in Nancheng are eager to win his favor. She is nothing but b 785Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 64 The Scent of Gardenias by Her Temple 鬓边栀子香 Thirteen years between Qiao Xingguang and Jiang Xun: one was an orphan whose parents died in a car accident, the other a stray dog with parents who wanted nothing to do with him. They kept each other warm, leaning on one another. In the fifth year of their marriage, Jiang Xun cheated. He was honest enough to keep nothing about his mistress from her, yet continued to cherish Qiao Xingguang like a jewel and wouldn’t let anyone disturb her in the slightest. He said, “Xingguang, what we have is diff 2.3kReads8.7Score14714d adds
- 65 CEO, Your Wife Says She'll Pay with Her Life 总裁，夫人说她以命相抵了 [Physical and emotional torment + a repentant husband chasing his wife + younger, possessive obsessive love + tragic ending, no reconciliation] After a car accident, he lost the child he had with his lover. Grieving the loss of his child, Gong Yin blamed it all on Weisheng Luobai. He destroyed her family, crippled her right hand, and ended her path to becoming a champion. Weisheng Luobai, once a gifted young woman who had made a name for herself in the capital, became a servant to his lover. 247Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Dangerous Entanglement 危情缠绕 [One-on-One, Both Pure + Light Mystery + Revenge + The Wife-Chasing Crematorium] [I fell into the abyss for you, but you completely forgot me!] Gui Xin thought that leaving the past behind and spending the rest of her life under a new identity in a small town in southern Italy would be the best ending she could hope for. But fate wouldn't let her go. It made her run into Xie Jin'an, who had "died on the operating table" three years ago. He was still alive? Then hadn't her whole life become a jok 1.5kReads9.2Score17214d adds
- 67 Your First Love Is Back in the Country. Why Wait to Get Divorced? 白月光回国，不离婚还等什么 After two years of marriage, Lin Qiaoqiao thought that even if Lu Sicheng’s heart were made of stone, she could still warm it. But when his beloved returned to the country, he still asked her for a divorce without hesitation. Seeing him care for his beloved so tenderly while treating her like she was worthless, Lin Qiaoqiao’s heart twisted with pain. When he left her and their child bleeding in a pool of blood to go save his beloved, Lin Qiaoqiao lost all hope, wrote out the divorce papers, and 1.2kReads7.3Score13114d adds
- 68 Marriage Addiction 婚，瘾 A marriage-free, carefree rich girl who treats love as a game x a respectable young man from a strict, upright family [She pursues him, then runs as soon as she has him! Both are inexperienced in love] Fang Youxi is firmly against marriage and having children. Her father has been married and divorced three times, and her mother has just gotten married for the third time. As the accidental product of her parents' whirlwind marriage and equally swift divorce, she has not the slightest hope for m 14.8kReads8.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 69 On Divorce Night, Shen Went Mad After Torturing His Wife and Child to Death 离婚夜，虐死老婆孩子后沈少疯了 [Deeply Angsty Romance + Adorable Child + Groveling Chase] A ridiculous marriage bound them together. After ten years of secret love, Shi Sheng finally gathered the courage to tell Shen Xiujin, “Shen Xiujin, I love you. Can we have a child?” But instead, she got nothing but endless mockery and icy words from him. “You want to bear my child? You’re not worthy!” Later, when he learned she and their child had perished in a fire, he spent the first year keeping watch by her grave, drunk as he said, 346Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 70 After Prison, the Empire’s Richest Man Won’t Stop Tormenting Me 出狱后，被帝国首富追着虐 She had been a model student since childhood. Then she hit someone in a car accident. After spending three years in prison, she thought the past was finally behind her. Just when she believed a bright future lay ahead, a new nightmare began! The impeccably dressed man gripped her chin, his touch gentle but his voice cold to the bone. “Give me an heir, and I’ll let you go.” “You’ll spend the rest of your life atoning for your sins.” 134Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 71 Peach Blossoms Fall to the Mortal World 桃李落凡尘 Peach Blossom, the leading actress of the Li family opera troupe, and Li Guo'er, its martial-role actress, are chosen by a wealthy merchant. Their fates twist and turn as they struggle to survive in turbulent times, amid love and passion, family and country, and the ups and downs of life... Three parts of life are fate, and seven parts depend on how you make yourself. Even ordinary people can achieve great things. 282Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 72 After Losing My Job, I Left with Nothing. Now My Ex-Wife Begs Me to Remarry Her 失业后，我净身出户，前妻跪求复婚 After Losing My Job, I Left With Nothing, and My Ex-Wife Begged Me to Remarry Her 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 I Work as a Matron in the Imperial Palace 我在深宫当嬷嬷 I Work as a Matron in the Imperial Palace 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 He’s Had His Eye on Her for a Long Time 他惦记她很久了 The day her fiancé accused her of being frigid, Zhou He slept with a man. Two people, one outside the door and one inside; one in hysterics, the other swept away by ecstasy. Male lead: lawyer; female lead: general surgeon Qin Jin and Zhou He 16.6kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 75 Mountains and Seas 山海 Qiao Jiu always knew her husband was ruthless and decisive in business. She never imagined he’d be just as merciless in their marriage. 5.7kReads8.9Score40914d adds
- 76 The Tycoon Pursues His Wife: His Madam Is Both Seductive and Shameless 大佬追妻：夫人，又欲又渣 In the hearts of everyone in the capital, Pei Yucheng is the GOAT. The four great families stand like four pillars, dividing up Z Country’s wealth and power. Yet Pei Yucheng single-handedly upends their rule and becomes a god whom everyone worships. To win Pei Yucheng’s heart, Ji Yu’an tries everything she can, constantly flirting with him. But in the third month of their relationship, she turns around and marries someone else without a second thought. “You really don’t want the Pei family’s you 792Reads6.8Score10314d adds
- 77 The Island No One Knows About 无人知晓的岛 The day Wen Tingting left Chen Zhiyan, she took off her hearing aids of her own accord for the first time. So she never heard Chen Zhiyan's trembling confession: “I love you.” Deaf people are so easy to fool. It's not like she can hear anyway. Deaf people can be so heartless. It's not like she can hear anyway. 362Reads6.5Score6314d adds
- 78 The Divine Mage of Another World 异世法神 The protagonist's soul transmigrates into a world of magic and battle qi, only to find himself possessing a corpse that has been dead for three days… Many people know that the body is dead, so someone immediately informs on him… News that the dead body of the Farah family's genius young master has come back to life quickly spreads across the world… The protagonist, possessing this corpse, must keep the truth hidden. Otherwise, his family, his country, and the Church will all burn him alive as a 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 The Morning Fog Won't Lift 晨雾难晴 Setting inspired by The Human Beings and The Devotion of Suspect X No perfect characters. Underworld romance A calculating business tycoon × a clear-minded, resilient teacher When young love is marred by regret and pure white feathers are stained with blood, this path is destined to be anything but ordinary... They were childhood sweethearts, but now they meet as strangers. A sudden upheaval in his youth forced him down the wrong path. She was brutally violated as a girl, leaving her body and sp 89Reads—Score414d adds
- 80 Mr. Nan, I Hope You Exist Only in My Memories 南先生，希望你只存在回忆里 [Forced Love | Selective Amnesia | The Wife-Chasing Crematorium | Both Pure] After her family is destroyed and she suffers endless humiliation, Yu Suyang is dragged into hell by Nan Sili himself. Whether she lives or dies is unknown. Three years later, when she returns to the capital, she chooses to forget everything about Nan Sili. But fate brings them together again. As they get to know each other all over again, Nan Sili falls in love with her without realizing it, then goes to great lengt 754Reads—Score11114d adds
- 81 Her First Love Is Back, and the Substitute Is Done 白月光回国，替身她不干了 Xu Nanyan spent three years as a humble stand-in lover, but still couldn't make Lu Huaijing fall for her. More than a thousand days and nights of devoted companionship couldn't compete with the return of his one true love. Forget it. She was done being his stand-in! She walked away without hesitation and returned to her family, taking her place as the heiress of a financial empire. * Ever since Xu Nanyan left, Lu Huaijing had been like a fish out of water, lost and confused. When countless admir 502Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 82 Awakening from a Great Dream 大夢初醒 Blurb One You can fall in love with someone in no time at all. Getting over them might take a long time, or it might happen in an instant. The moment Ye Lan Yi left with another woman, leaving her alone to give birth in the icy river, fifteen years of knowing each other and eight years of love became nothing but a grand dream. Ye Lan Yi, I don’t love you anymore. The night fades, and the dream ends. As the curtains rise and fall, an unfinished galaxy is reflected in her eyes, and a new dawn rise 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The Sweet, Gentle Secretary Is Actually the CEO's Uncontrollable Obsession 乖软秘书，竟是总裁的失控偏爱 (Both leads are inexperienced, ex-lover regret, contractual lover, rekindled romance) By day, Anna is Gu Chen's capable secretary. By night, she's his irresistible bedmate. A humiliating contract is all that stands between her and the debt she must repay to save her comatose mother. After two years of passion, he thinks it's nothing but a transaction, yet he falls deeper and deeper for her sweet but stubborn ways. When he coldly ends their “nighttime services” and his first love, Xia Ran, makes 2.5kReads7.7Score21814d adds
- 84 He Knows He Was Wrong 他知道错了 [Bullying + tragic ending + coercive love + mutual devotion] That year, at the park, she found a place in Jiang Ye's heart. But in Su Yin's heart, he was a demon, a nightmare. When they first met in the classroom, Jiang Ye said to Su Yin, “I don't want anything in particular. I just think my dull, boring life might finally get a little more interesting. We have plenty of time!” He had no idea those words would mark the beginning of Su Yin's nightmare, pushing her into an endless abyss! . 1.5kReads8.1Score10314d adds
- 85 Love in Longcheng: Young Master Fu's Bride of Atonement 龙城囚爱：傅少的赎罪新娘 “Both reborn” + “gut-wrenching angst” + “chasing his wife to the crematorium” + “substitute” + “imprisonment and miscarriage” + “happy ending.” When Su Nuan was ten, she saved Fu Hanchuan. But Fu Hanchuan mistook her for someone else, and for ten years, he gave all his tenderness to another woman. By a twist of fate, Su Nuan and Fu Hanchuan married ten years later, only for him to send her to prison, where she suffered three miscarriages. When Fu Hanchuan learned the truth, he knelt at Su Nuan’s 209Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 A Beloved in the Capital 京北有伊人 [Age gap + both pure + forced love + physical and emotional torment + heroine starts out weak and grows strong] [Noble, dignified heir + aloof student at a foreign languages university] On a rainy April day in Jingbei, Shu Yiren enters Yan Zhenghe’s world beneath a red umbrella. They meet at a Chinese-Russian exchange forum. From then on, Yan Zhenghe keeps that red umbrella by his side and never lets go. After an accident, Yan Zhenghe sends Yiren to Zurich, Switzerland, for graduate school. Afte 3.7kReads8.6Score30414d adds
- 87 A Winding Road to Marriage 蔓蔓婚路 Have you ever woken up in an unfamiliar hotel room and found a stranger lying beside you? In the fifth year of her marriage, after her relationship fell apart, she was forced to attend a blind date dinner. For the first time in her life, she got drunk in front of a strange man. But they had only talked for ten minutes. How could there be any feelings between them? Wait a minute, wasn’t he the man she was supposed to meet on the blind date? With a face so devastatingly handsome, he made her wonde 846Reads9.0Score10014d adds
- 88 After the System Unbound, the Vicious Supporting Actress in the CEO Novel Quit 系统解绑后总裁文恶毒女配不干了 Fei Nanyin transmigrated into a book. She was also bound to a devoted-supporting-female-character System, and spent seven years as the devoted wife of a domineering CEO, loving him so much she would bang her head against a wall for him. The good news: completing the System's missions would earn her ten billion. The bad news: the domineering CEO was the male lead, while she was merely a supporting character, and a cannon-fodder ex-wife at that. So she kept up the act for seven years. Everyone tho 282Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 89 Proud Frost 敖霜 [Eastern fantasy] [Cool, snow-pale Emperor + lively, spirited Ashuang] A Shuang is a mortal who neither ages nor dies. For three hundred years, she has wandered alone, not knowing where she came from or where she is going. The mortal world rolls on, and when she looks back, everyone she once knew is gone. Life feels pointless. Then she finds a seriously injured, amnesiac big shot from the Underworld. After recovering, the big shot thumps his chest and says, “I'll help you investigate.” He search 570Reads8.5Score11014d adds
- 90 A Small-Town Girl's Ten-Year Secret Crush 一个小镇女孩暗恋的十年 [Ten years of secret love × running away while pregnant × groveling to win her back × reunion after years apart × powerful man finally bows his head × both are each other’s first and only] This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story!! The heroine is not love-brained!!! This is not a pampered-wife story!! People will die, so if you only want happy endings, this isn’t for you! No rebirth, no golden finger, no evil female rival, no women competing against each other, and no putting the heroine th 4.4kReads8.2Score34214d adds
- 91 A Clean Break 一拍两散 The day Chen Nian left. Xu Yanqing wore her favorite white shirt and stood in front of her. “Was it fun?” He looked wretched and forlorn, the corners of his eyes red, as if she were the heartless one between them. 1.4kReads8.9Score70714d adds
- 92 Five Years of Throwing Herself at Him: After Their Divorce, Her Ex-Husband Becomes Obsessed with Love 倒贴五年，离婚后前夫成恋爱脑 [Both leads are devoted to each other + He must win her back + Rekindled romance] [A dazzling beauty vs. an emotionally distant, icy traffic cop] The thing Jiang Zhi regrets most in her life is getting involved with Cheng Yuzhao, the icy traffic cop. She pursued him for three years and was married to him for two. She thought she had warmed a heart of stone, but it turned out she'd made no headway at all. Her mother-in-law looked down on her, her husband was cold, and his fragile “first love” kep 2.8kReads6.2Score86914d adds
- 93 After Tormenting Her, President Feng Regrets It 虐完她后封总后悔不已 To avenge himself, he married his enemy's daughter. For two years, he tormented the poor girl, who was both deaf and mute, as cruelly as he could. He knew that hurting her meant hurting himself, too, but he couldn't forget the blood feud. Only when she died in childbirth did he realize he had already fallen in love with her. Without her, he had lost his soul. His great revenge was complete, and his beloved was gone. He wanted to follow her, but she had left him a daughter. Five years later, when 673Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 94 After My One True Love Returned, I Fled in the Dead of Night 白月光回国后，我连夜逃跑 Also known as: The CEO’s Substitute, Whose Life Is Worth More Than His On the eve of her engagement, Song Nianle’s childhood sweetheart slept with her half-sister. Song Nianle turned around and found herself an even richer CEO from Beijing’s elite circles. But the CEO had a beloved white moonlight in his heart. He could give her money and his body, but never his heart. Song Nianle didn’t want his heart, either. When she heard his beloved was coming back to the country, Song Nianle decided n 1.1kReads—Score10314d adds
- 95 Inferior Genes 劣等基因 Xu Zhen was so close, so close to escaping across the border. But the earth that came crashing down buried all her hopes. As she lay dying, someone dug her out of the earth. Recognizing him, Xu Zhen gritted her teeth. “He Chong, I’ll kill you even if I have to become a ghost!” He Chong replied, “You’d better think about what happens if you don’t even get to become a ghost.” 1kReads8.9Score17514d adds
- 96 I Tormented the Demon Lord a Thousand Times, and He Gave Me a Golden Chain 我虐魔尊千百遍，魔尊送我金锁链 (Both leads are devoted to each other + both are reborn + loyal puppy-like male lead + happy ending + male lead suffers + she chases him after their breakup + he chases her after their breakup) Jun Muyan was chained to the bed by the Demon Lord with golden chains for two whole years. After drinking a contraceptive decoction brought by one of his subordinates, she died of rage. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn five years in the past. The Demon Lord was still a frail young man, 125Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 97 Run Away Again and I'll Break Your Legs! The Ruthless God of War Turns Captivity Into Passion 再逃跑腿打断！冷戾战神囚爱成欢 The moment she opened her eyes, she had been given to a cold, ruthless prince and made his bedchamber maid. He locked her in a dark room, tormenting and humiliating her day and night until she was exhausted in body and mind and wanted nothing but to escape him. The first time she tried to flee, he caught her and made her kneel on sharp porcelain shards. He watched her knees bleed with icy indifference. “Try to escape again, and you won’t live to regret it.” But even in captivity, she refused to 970Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 98 Mr. Pei, The Moonlight You Dumped Is Back With Your Daughter 裴总，你甩的白月光带女儿回来了 Both virgins + rekindled love + the male lead pursues his ex at all costs + an aloof beauty goes mad with love After they finish, Pei Lu gets off her and walks naked into the bathroom. Gu Yining lies on the bed for a while before slowly getting her strength back. Doing this first thing in the morning is exactly the sort of thing only he would do... He was the one who insisted on breaking up back then, and now he’s the one clinging to her like a madman. Two years ago, she complained to her best f 4.6kReads6.3Score32014d adds
- 99 The Nest of Passion 热巢 Xiang Zhen could give Zhong Yi everything except fidelity and marriage, so she took the riches she had earned in exchange for ten years of her youth and disappeared from his life. Later, she started dating someone new, named Xiang Zhen: a younger man who had secretly loved her for years. He was wonderful in every way, except he didn’t like her calling out his name when the lights were off... 10.2kReads8.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 100 Mr. Qi, Loving You Is a Living Hell 祁先生，爱你是人间炼狱 The story begins with the words, “This woman is yours.” Then Jiang Zhiyu is framed by Qi Han’s fiancée, who hires an assassin to kill him. Because of this, Qi Han destroys the Jiang family and sends her brother to prison. In the end, does he love her, or does he just feel guilty? Let’s find out. 178Reads6.1Score—14d adds
