Novels like A Cultivator in the Mortal World
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- 1 The Sumeru Ring: My Road to a Comeback 须弥戒，我的逆袭之路 I was reborn on a rainy night in late autumn. Not far away, my second uncle and his son were digging a pit for me, preparing to bury me in a graveyard. In my previous life, I woke up and escaped, never to return. I drifted through life, and just before I died, I came across a news report. On this very day, my second uncle sold my newlywed wife to human traffickers, leading to her being abused and killed. This time, I won't run away. Whoever digs the pit will be buried in it. 8.9kReads7.4Score79314d adds
- 2 Honghuang: All Things Are Fated to Meet Me 洪荒：万物和我有缘 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 After My Adopted Son Abandoned Me, I Stopped Being Everyone's Father 被养子遗弃后，我不再给别人当爹 After the male lead, Lin Yang, is abandoned by his five adopted sons, he loses all hope. Fortunately, his daughters-in-law are good to him, so he decides to stop dwelling on the past, help his five daughters-in-law build their fortunes, and embark on an extraordinary path. 1.7kReads—Score7514d adds
- 4 The Potato Oracle’s All-Purpose Comeback Theory 土豆万能接话神棍论 The Potato: An All-Purpose Conversationalist and Mastermind 416Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Sealing the Heavenly Dao 封天道 The young master of a powerful family has his spiritual roots stripped away, leaving him crippled. Forced to honor a marriage contract and become a live-in son-in-law, he finds that the bride’s family has switched the bride, making her deaf-mute twin sister take her place. On his wedding day, instead of sharing the wedding night, he is thrown into the Spirit Beast Valley, where he must eat and live among spirit beasts. The moment the deaf-mute sister finds him, she is like a ray of sunlight pier 411Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Scam Prevention Handbook 防骗手册 After Zhang Zheng unexpectedly gains supernatural abilities in the hellscape of a telecom scam compound in northern Myanmar, he narrowly escapes. It feels like he has been given a second life, and he vows to spend the rest of it fighting fraud. Using his abilities to see through every scam, he joins forces with reporter Chen Lin, chronicler Xiao Fang, and law PhD Li Fanfan. Together, they delve into real cases and expose romance scams, fake online tasks, blackmail through nude chats, pension fra 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Plunge! 坠！ I was born in a small city blanketed in coal dust. By chance, I reunited with the girl who had once lived next door, whom I hadn't seen in many years. There were many versions of the rumors about her past, and it was hard to tell truth from fiction. This time, she slowly told her own story. I had just finished reading Fallen. Her life had some similarities to Mo Huai's in the book, but the differences between them were fundamental. I wrote down this memory not to compare whose fate was more trag 93Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Plane Crash: Life on a Deserted Island with Beautiful Girls 空难：和美少女们的荒岛生活 After a breakup, Lin Bei survives a plane crash and ends up stranded on a deserted island with twelve haughty girl group members. He goes from going hungry and begging for food, to trading his talents for grilled fish, to having them crawl into his cabin night after night. After discovering treasure hidden on the island, he becomes a tycoon worth hundreds of billions two years later and buys their company. 576Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Snatches Yu Li from the Start 四合院：傻柱开局截胡于莉 The economy is in a downturn, every industry is struggling, and tensions are high. Nobody has it easy. This book isn’t full of that kind of tension. It’s just here to cheer everyone up and let them live without feeling wronged. Winter, 1961. Three days before Jia Dongxu dies in a workplace accident. Reasoning with people? Not happening! Moral blackmail? One slap! Throwing your age around? One slap! Making a scene and rolling on the floor? Still one slap! In this life, He Yuzhu follows one princ 137.1kReads7.9Score12.6k14d adds
- 10 A Strange Immortal Fate: The Good-for-Nothing Without a Spiritual Root Turns His Life Around 奇仙缘：无灵根废柴的逆转之路 [New release] + [Fantasy with a System] + [Laugh-out-loud fun] + [One heroine] Su Qingxuan, a humble errand boy of the Qingfeng Sect, was born without a spiritual root. Amid the crowd’s scorn, he unexpectedly found an immortal gourd and became bound to a System! Later, a mysterious voice in a secret realm told him that he wasn’t actually without a spiritual root. He had the legendary… spiritual root. The little System is adorable and mischievous, and always good for a laugh. A fox demon at t 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 I Devour All Things and Rise to the Top of the Heavens Through Feedback 吞噬万物我靠反馈登顶诸天 An overworked factory hand transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing disciple and awakens the Devour All Things System! Plants and herbs, pills, monsters and enemies, treasures and techniques: whatever he devours makes him stronger, letting him fuse them straight into Heaven-ranked martial skills and high-grade spiritual treasures! He hides his strength in the outer sect and trounces the sect’s geniuses. Eight grand elders compete to take him as their disciple and give him divine weapons 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Outsiders Join Forces with My Wife to Set a Trap, but I'm the One Who Breaks It 外人联手妻子做局，我才是破局人 A 35-year-old algorithm genius at a major tech company is framed by his boss and laid off. His cheating wife conspires with outsiders to seize his assets and custody of their child. His father dies in grief after being scammed with an AI face-swap. Just as he hits rock bottom, an accidental electric shock links him to the bioenergy of the future, the year 2080, awakening cutting-edge electromagnetic wave tracing technology! He tears his treacherous wife and her lover apart, takes down his unscru 70Reads—Score714d adds
- 13 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu, Soft and Sweet, Is Brought Home 四合院:软软乎乎秦淮茹抱回家 Pure Love, Everyday Life, No Hostility, No Spatial System Marry a lovely wife, live a comfortable life, look good when you go out, have fun when you come home. Make money with ease, enjoy a lifetime of happiness, treat our Qin Huairu well, and build a happy family. Live happily ever after! Starting from nothing? No problem, I know how to make money! I draw posters and comics, earn extra cash, save grain, and stock up on supplies. I have no grand ambitions. An ordinary, peaceful life is what mat 73kReads8.8Score4.7k14d adds
- 14 Siheyuan: A Beijing Beauty in Red 四合院：京韵红颜 This is a slow-burn courtyard-house story! I just want to write a courtyard-house novel true to its era! No murders, no superpowers! Ordinary people facing ordinary problems! When all the coincidences come together, things stop being ordinary! Multiple heroines are perfectly normal in a male-oriented novel. If you have a problem with that, keep it to yourself. If you’re looking for someone who can casually summon the strength of a pillar, beat Yi Zhonghai to a pulp, and kick Jia Zhangshi, please 3.6kReads—Score11514d adds
- 15 Siheyuan: Keeping the Whole Courtyard's Troublemakers in Line 四合院：拿捏全院极品 Lin Ye transmigrates into the world of a courtyard house while asleep. After he moves into the courtyard, things gradually take a turn. The once-peaceful courtyard descends into chaos. The once-kind old folks grow hideous and sinister. The once-good-natured residents become fiercely hostile to evil. The once-adorable children turn into little troublemakers. Silly Zhu, I’ve brought you a wife. Don’t cry, okay? Jia Zhangshi, you keep summoning Old Jia. Are you missing your husband? I’ll find you s 25.8kReads5.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 16 Cultivating Immortality Through Science: From Good-for-Nothing to Creator God 科学修仙：从废柴到创世神 Wang Linyuan is the good-for-nothing castoff of the Qingyun Sect, someone anyone can bully. Born with damaged meridians, he has no path to cultivation. After enduring endless humiliation, he leaps into the deadly Burial Immortals Abyss in despair, vowing to become a vengeful spirit and take his revenge. Yet what awaits him at the bottom of the abyss is not death, but the skeleton of a transmigrator from another world and an astonishing legacy known as “science.” From then on, he enchants a Gatli 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Laughing My Way Through a Perilous Path to Immortality 笑闯凶险仙路 Ye Bufan, a useless mortal unable to cultivate, obtains a Nascent Soul spiritual treasure. Traditional cultivation, slow-burn and cautious, no brainless decisions, no harem, no female lead, the Myriad Worlds, decisive and ruthless, and an invincible protagonist. The cultivation realms are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and beyond… 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Great Azure Tribulation 太苍劫 Prologue: Dao Fire Ten thousand years ago. Fire, Dao fire filling the skies. Crimson flames erupted from beneath the earth, turning the entire Divine Capital the color of a hellscape. The bronze palaces that had once towered into the clouds collapsed one after another in the blaze. The dragon carvings on their upturned eaves warped in the heat, as if they had come alive to let out silent cries of agony. The man on the imperial throne had not left. He sat alone amid the collapsing palaces and bur 2.5kReads—Score25614d adds
- 19 Siheyuan Detective: Sha Zhu’s Ledger Sparks a Killing Spree 四合院神探【傻柱的账本杀疯了】 Zhu Jianguo transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard as Silly Zhu and binds himself to a Settlement System. The debts owed by the whole courtyard of ungrateful neighbors are all laid bare. He doesn’t rush to collect, instead starting with the scar on the back of his head. His investigation uncovers a murder at a scrap heap, knocking sounds from a train car, Jia Weiyong, who vanished while chasing a criminal at Tianjin Port, and the Raven, codenamed “Old Ghost.” 124Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Unbelievable: My Love Rival Takes Me Around Beating Up Scumbags 离谱：情敌带我到处虐渣 [爽 and satisfying] [No saintly protagonist] [Multiple female leads] [Decisive and ruthless] The protagonist's group enjoys gossip and has no desire to hurt anyone, yet they get caught up in a series of plots and schemes. To protect themselves, they have no choice but to fight back, step by step embarking on the path to becoming powerful. At first, the group is weak and often bullied. Later, they grow strong and become rulers of their own domain. 980Reads8.3Score10414d adds
- 21 Siheyuan: I Arrived, but the System Ran Away 四合院：我来了，系统却跑路了 (The Courtyard, Man Is Iron, Rice Is Steel, The Little Woman Below Zhengyang Gate, and more.) The male lead, Huang Jianshe, is a young man who wears a yellow robe. After stepping in to help someone in need, he transmigrates into the courtyard. He becomes an invisible nobody who never appeared in the original story. Though he is the child of a martyr, he gets clubbed over the head from the start. Watch as he joins forces with He Yuzhu and Xu Damao to turn the courtyard's unruly residents upside d 19.5kReads6.5Score69814d adds
- 22 Reborn from the Start: I'm Just a Scrap Collector 开局重生：我就一个收废品的 From the start, he collects scrap! Lin Zan, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, wields the Great Dao of Dust, sweeps across the outer realms to crush countless strange beings, personally restrains the Ancestor of World-Destroying Evil, and ascends to the highest peak of the heavens. Though his Great Dao makes him invincible throughout the ages, he cannot protect the loved ones by his side. His wife, children, and kin all perish in the outer-realm calamity. Having seen through the joys and sorrows of m 1.8kReads8.6Score16314d adds
- 23 Siheyuan: I'm Just a Doctor 四合院之我只是个医生 A mild-mannered story with multiple heroines, a sign-in System, and a doctor. Lin Qingyan transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard. After getting a sign-in System, he thinks he can work as a factory doctor and live a peaceful life. But the animals in the courtyard can’t stand seeing him do well… While putting those troublemakers in their place, he helps the country develop nuclear weapons and establish itself on the world stage. 36.4kReads6.9Score1.9k14d adds
- 24 The Guardian Angel of Heaven 天堂的使者之守护 Jiang Xiaolan and Hu Bin adopted sixteen orphans: twelve girls and four boys. This novel follows the everyday lives of this big family as its members grow up, covering marriage, love, work, careers, and all the ordinary things in life. Love and being loved, hardship, growth, protection, support, and redemption. This book has no grand central theme, and it is not a feel-good transmigration story full of extraordinary people and events. It is a realistic story rooted in everyday life. Love is its 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Adventures of Li Ergou in Another World 李二狗异界闯荡录 The Eastern and Western Continents, the four realms of humans, demons, dragons, and gods, nine great domains of the void, countless worlds, and a vast universe from time immemorial. A whole new world system, a completely different experience. Humans and demons clash, dragons and gods wage war. From earth to heaven, the battle against gods and demons begins! 237Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情 Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself. 509Reads8.9Score3714d adds
- 27 Yu Jing, County Magistrate on the Frontier 于璟之边疆县令 A common man takes office and bravely heads to a remote frontier. His wife plans and advises, while the women around him are strong warriors. He wins the people’s hearts and earns the support of righteous men. Using his wits, he outmaneuvers the local chieftains, bringing peace to the people and prosperity to trade. As goods abound and the people grow wealthy, Han and non-Han communities live in harmony. Together, the various peoples govern the borderlands and build a shared future. 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Immortal Dao Is Unfathomable 仙道莫测 A modern archaeologist ventures deep into the Kunlun Mountains, where he unexpectedly encounters a psychic three-tailed white fox. Following it to a hidden cave, he chances upon a mysterious gray orb and is transported body and soul to a vast world of cultivation. From then on, he leaves behind his life as an ordinary mortal and joins a small sect in the martial world. Step by step, he advances on the path to immortality and breaks through one barrier after another. Watch as he defies the heaven 47Reads—Score214d adds
- 29 The Legend of Lu Hua and Hua Fei 吕华与华飞传说 The Legend of Lü Hua and Hua Fei 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Neighbor's Young Wife Schemed Against Me and Ruined Half My Life 隔壁小媳妇算计我，毁我半生 [Period drama] [Northeastern factory district] [Forbidden affair] [Deception and schemes] [Pregnancy troubles] [Long-buried secrets] [Redemption through guilt] [A painfully realistic tragedy] In a northeastern chemical factory neighborhood in the 1980s, the life of honest factory worker Jia Jun is ruined by the young wife next door! One act of misplaced trust draws him into the enormous lie Su Min has spun. One wrong step, and he's trapped in a forbidden affair, lost beyond redemption! An unexpe 5.9kReads8.1Score29214d adds
- 31 Hua Yan, Heaven and Earth 华炎天与地 Huayan Heaven and Earth 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Sunny Skies Above the Humble Life 鸡毛之上有晴天 [Marriage and love] [Heartbreak] [Betrayal] [Comeback] [Redemption] [The truth about marriage] [Urban romance] [Realistic relationships] [Healing] A broken marriage has worn away every last trace of warmth, leaving two lives utterly out of step! He fought his way up from being a low-level technician at a chemical plant, only to have his own brother steal his hard work and stab him in the back! His former lover suffers through pregnancy; old love and hatred entangle them, betrayal cuts deep, devo 1.2kReads8.1Score10414d adds
- 33 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 唐小鸣与叶华传说 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Heavens of All Living Beings 众生之天 The Immortal Dao is ethereal, the Ghost Dao strange and uncanny; The Buddhist Dao rests in the heart, the Demon Dao is ruthless. But only with an unwavering Dao heart can one attain immortality and freedom. The heart changes easily, the Dao fades easily; People grow old, flowers wither; When will the Dao finally be attained!!! The heavens encompass all living beings, yet are themselves just one among them! 28Reads—Score214d adds
- 35 A Tough Guy in a Republican-Era Siheyuan 我在民国四合院当黑皮 [Multiple heroines + simple System + gradual development + goes on the run later] After criticizing a novel's spineless protagonist, I was banished by the You Think You Can Do Better System to a Republic-era courtyard house. Huh? There's also the TV dramas New World and The Glorious Era here? And a pocket dimension? Then let's spiral straight to the top. Since I've transmigrated, I want it all: beautiful women and money! I'll keep my head down at first, then enjoy the sweet life. 2.2kReads6.9Score10514d adds
- 36 The Jade Wave Immortal Lake 碧波仙湖 The Emerald Lake of Immortals 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Siheyuan: What's Wrong with My Sleight of Hand? 四合院：我妙手空空怎么了？ Ever since the Silly Zhu, whom everyone in the courtyard used to push around, got the Sleight-of-Hand System, everything changed. Framed for stealing meat, shunned by the whole courtyard, and humiliated by Xu Damao rubbing his face in the dirt? He can spot corruption, exploitation, and scheming at a glance! Deputy Director Li's dirty money and betrothal gifts? I'll take them! Jia Zhangshi's secret stash? Mine! Xu Damao's betrothal gifts? I'll take those too! Silly Zhu is Silly no more! He deals 1.4kReads8.2Score—14d adds
- 38 The Legend of Hua Fei and Hua Xiaoyao 华飞与华逍遥传说 The Legend of Hua Fei and Hua Xiaoyao 103Reads—Score314d adds
- 39 The Old Pact of Immortality 长生旧约 In the Great Wilderness of the Nine Provinces, everyone seeks immortality. The immortal sects dwell high above the clouds, while mortals are as insignificant as grass. The boy Lu Xingchen grew up in a small frontier town, in an old shop that sold spirit artifacts. He repaired low-grade artifacts for the immortal sects, such as spirit-testing disks, talisman lamps, and formation plates. He had seen countless people change their fate when a spirit-testing disk lit up, and just as many lower their 39Reads—Score214d adds
- 40 The Legend of Hua Xiang and Ling Zifei 华翔与灵子飞传说 The Legend of Huaxiang and Lingzi Fei —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Siheyuan: Raking in the Old Man’s Cash, Living Off Your Parents Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of 四合院：爆老登金币，啃老不丢人 He Yuzhu accidentally transmigrates into the world of Siheyuan and becomes He Yuzhu. What? His father, He Daqing, ran off with the White Widow? Good riddance! Now the good life can begin! What? This world isn't just about Siheyuan? Even better! This book has no toxic drama, no drawn-out misunderstandings, and no gross-out humor. Qin Huairu is all mine. The protagonist is shrewd and calculating, and there's no shame in living off your parents. This book is also known as Siheyuan: Sucking Others D 31.5kReads6.9Score2.4k14d adds
- 42 Siheyuan: I Saved Qin Huairu from the Start 四合院，开局救下秦淮茹 Cao Mengde, a modern mechanical and electrical engineer, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a nineteen-year-old namesake in 1951. At the train station, he saves Qin Huairu from being robbed by thugs, activates a space, and ends up marrying her by a strange twist of fate. Thus begins his comedic life in the Number 95 Courtyard. He helps Qin Huairu escape the mire of the Jia family, preserving her innocence and goodness and giving her a happy life. He builds a luxurious east courtyard and 25.5kReads8.0Score1.8k14d adds
- 43 Siheyuan: Cao Mengde of Nanluoguxiang 四合院：南锣鼓巷之【曹孟德】 [System] [Leads from period dramas set in the same era] [Multiple heroines, don’t read if you dislike that] Qi Yuan brings his memories from his previous life and transmigrates into this war-torn era as a newborn. From the time he can remember, he follows his old revolutionary grandmother as she travels from place to place. Only when he grows up and meets someone familiar does he realize that he has transmigrated into a parallel world set in that era. The war is over, and his grandmother is assi 22Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 44 Siheyuan: Returning from the Moat to Set Things Right in the World 四合院：护城河归来讨还世间公道 A modern special forces soldier returns to Beiping in 1931. From the start, a corpse floats in the moat, and his parents have been falsely accused. His enemies hold sway over Beiping, with officials and businessmen colluding and influence reaching everywhere. Bound to an arsenal of heavy combined-arms brigade weapons: five thousand guns, tanks and armored vehicles, attack helicopters, and unlimited supplies. He begins by rooting out Beiping's criminal underworld, then turns his sights on fore 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Ming Dynasty 1572 大明1572 In the first year of the Wanli era, the ten-year-old emperor ascended the throne. Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng enforced the Kaocheng system and the Single Whip Reform with an iron hand, filling the dying Ming treasury and securing its borders over the next ten years. But the deeper the reforms went, the fiercer the opposition became; the greater his power, the deeper his loneliness. He had once been the "Teacher Zhang" most respected by the emperor, but ultimately became the person the young so 104Reads—Score714d adds
- 46 Who Says a Factory Worker Can’t Achieve Their Dreams? 谁说工厂普工，不能实现梦想 Who Says a Factory Worker Can’t Achieve Their Dreams? 96Reads—Score214d adds
- 47 Siheyuan: From the Start at 48, Selling My Art on the Overpass 四合院：开局48，天桥卖艺开始 Wang Minghao is a top-tier star in the cosplay world. He has just finished attending a convention in Shanghai when he gets into a car accident on his way out. The thing is, he wasn’t the one hit by the truck, so why is he the one who transmigrated? Is it because he shares a name with the person who got hit? Did the rookie System, fresh out of college and newly on the job, grab the wrong person? And once he transmigrates, there’s no going back? Damn it, pay up! With tears in his eyes, he accepts 64.8kReads6.9Score3.6k14d adds
- 48 Siheyuan: A 1950s Procurement Officer Living the High Life 四合院：五十年代采购员吃香喝辣 A crossover of TV dramas. Don't get hung up on the timeline or locations. This courtyard compound is bigger, with a main courtyard of three sections as well as east and west side courtyards. There are more people, more events, and more excitement. There are good people and bad people here. There are good things and bad things here. How many rights and wrongs are there in this courtyard? How many wrongs and rights are there? Main courtyard Front section: Yan Bugui (Third Master), He Wenhui, Liu 1kReads—Score10814d adds
- 49 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 魔龙与点苍 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 After Heaven's Army Attacked, the Great Sage and I Joined Forces to Slay the Gods 天庭来袭后，我和大圣共赴斩神榜 [Multiple Heroines] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Ensemble Cast] [Steal Divine Powers] [Careful, Step-by-Step Farming] The mortal Li Chanshe sacrificed himself to save someone and ascended to the Celestial Court, only to become a crippled immortal. His cultivation stalled, and his life hung by a thread beneath the fangs of an immortal beast! At the brink of death, a shocking truth came to light. The turbid energy that every banished immortal dreaded becoming tainted by was the one-of-a-kind source of 2.4kReads9.4Score23414d adds
