Novels like Crimson Haze
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Crimson Haze, best match first.
- 101 Song of Hua Xu: Moon Over Jiangnan 华胥引：江南月 Huaxu is a dream. The world is full of beauty, love and hate entwined, and the lovesick and lovelorn are admired by all. Yet none can withstand the passing years, and flowers bloom only briefly. I often revisit the dream of the Red Chamber, admiring Cao Xueqin’s brilliance and regretting that he could not finish his work. Now I wish to imitate his approach and write a book as a warning to those who come after, hence this introduction. As for the words “Jiangnan,” I chose them because it is the h 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 The Fox Immortal of the Qinling Mountains 秦岭狐仙 Qinling Fox Immortal My name is Peng Wei. I’m a repairman at a little shop at the foot of the Qinling Mountains. I fix televisions and rice cookers, and my life is as still as stagnant water. That was until March 15 of that year, when I met a woman in red in the thick fog on Mount Yuhuang. She said her name was Xiao Hong, and she was a fox immortal who had cultivated for three hundred years. She said she had waited for me for three years. She said I had a destined connection to immortality. 39Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 103 The Freezer 冰柜 In today's restless society, people's innate kindness can easily be lost amid rampant materialism. Sometimes, love and devotion are repaid with betrayal, or even death. Based on real cases, this book warns readers that the dark side of human nature is always present, and that desire and dissatisfaction can corrode even the deepest bonds. 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Is It Possible That You’re All Sick? 有没有一种可能，你们都有病？ Zhou Yi transmigrates to a world of cultivation. On his first day there, he discovers that everyone’s logic is incredibly strange. His master tells him: “The first step in cultivation is to sever your worldly ties.” Zhou Yi: “How do I do that?” His master pulls out a knife: “Literally.” Zhou Yi: “???????” Every day at three in the morning, his senior brother stands on the mountaintop and yells: “My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven’s!” Zhou Yi asks him why. Senior Brother: “Because I have to go —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 The Day We Registered Our Marriage, My Fiancée Refused a Premarital Checkup 领结婚证那天，我的未婚妻拒绝婚前体检 On the day we were supposed to get our marriage license, my fiancée refused to have a premarital checkup. 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 I Gave It All My Life, Yet He Was Never in My World 倾尽余生，山河无他 The day Xie Linyuan returned to the capital, willow catkins drifted through the city like a heavy snowfall. He had won the battle, yet knelt to receive the imperial decree. The decree read: “Atone for your crimes through meritorious service.” The court officials accused him of building up his own power, while the common folk called him a traitor. The blood he coughed up was always wiped silently into his sleeve. No one knew that the entire Xie family had been framed, and that he had guarded the 1.8kReads—Score10114d adds
- 107 Life, with Nowhere to Land 人生，无处安放 By middle age, Li Shu's life had become a complete mess. Her marriage had turned cold and distant, her grown son was going down a rebellious path, and her body and mind were steadily wearing down. How could she go on living such a miserable life? 745Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 108 Rural Love: The Marriage Swap 乡村爱情之换亲 The village looks peaceful, but undercurrents churn beneath the surface. Love, family affection, and illicit affairs intertwine to create a sweeping portrait of life. The beautiful village flower is forced to marry the poorest man in the village, and their story begins... 5.6kReads8.8Score46014d adds
- 109 Cold War Wolf: The Ivanov Files 冷战之狼：伊万诺夫档案 Ivanov, an outstanding cadet from a military academy’s special forces program, is drawn into a Cold War conspiracy and hunted around the world by three factions. He breaks through with a wolf’s tenacity and paves his way with revenge, facing one high-stakes twist after another as he fights back to the bitter end! You won’t regret reading this! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 There Is No Door to the Moon Palace 月宫没有门 The Moon Palace Has No Doors 44Reads—Score114d adds
- 111 Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱 Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l 638Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 112 Cast Aside, I Become Emperor: My Fate Is Mine to Command 弃子成皇：我命由我不由天 Yesterday, I was a discarded pawn. Today, I am the emperor. From pawn to player, and finally to the throne. This is the road of a ruthless hero, paved with mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Everyone who stands in my way will become a stepping stone on my path from “discarded pawn to emperor.” 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Road Ahead for a Healer 医者前行路 The story begins six months before my final year of university ends. I recommend starting at Chapter 69. So far, it has covered several major themes: the truth about time, attitudes toward money, procrastination and dissection, and defining the boundaries of life. The second volume is a record of practical experience, the third combines thought and practice, and the fourth recounts what happened after I was utterly crushed. Almost everything is written in the first person, as a record of real ev 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Bard and His Guide 吟游诗人和他的引路人小姐 Western fantasy adventure|One-on-one romance|Mutually devoted couple|Happy ending A shameless, smooth-talking hero who saves the world while pursuing his own agenda × a self-sacrificing, sharp-tongued little elf The story of an irreverent hero who saves the world and wins an elf’s heart along the way Also known as My Hero Is Not Quite Like the Others and What Do You Mean He Only Put Points into Intelligence and Nothing Else? Ke Le is a bard. His greatest wish in life is to sing, write songs, and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Modern-Day Ghost Reaper 现代鬼差 For millions of years, the Three Realms have turned in an endless cycle. The Heavenly Court and the Underworld, beings from myth, have quietly maintained the world's order. But as the age moves forward, necessary reforms are quietly on the way, and the once silent, frigid Underworld is growing lively. Chen Peng, a conscientious ghost constable who has served in the Underworld for three hundred years, has finally made it through the ranks and is about to become a great judge serving the ghostly p 126Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Double Shadow: Rebirth Plan 重影：重生计划 This novel centers on deep adventures in an expansive world. Its greatest appeal lies in tightly reasoned, twist-filled storytelling and compelling character arcs. The plot unfolds link by link, blending intellectual depth with the satisfying thrills of a gripping read. Hardcore readers who crave intellectual stimulation and logical storytelling are welcome to dive in. Shadow Double: Rebirth Plan The mystery of a dead wife, the awakening of a clone; bloody battles and philosophical questions. Fr 8Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 117 Old Liu and His Daughter 老刘和他的女儿 Lao Liu is an ordinary, down-and-out farmer with nothing to be proud of. But his ideas about raising his children are completely at odds with the mainstream. After 18 years of perseverance, his daughter has given him his proudest reason of all. Is he happy or unfortunate? Everyone probably has their own answer. 504Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Taking a Wife Makes You Stronger 娶妻当变强 This book is also known as The Healer's Hand Covers the Heavens and The Phoenix's Shadow Shines on the Snow. A brilliant story of a remarkable heroine, full of political scheming and mind games that will make you think! The best is yet to come! A great book that nearly lost readers because of its title! Follow a woman as she revives her nation and becomes its empress. She opens her eyes amid a heap of bones, only to discover that she is the deposed empress. Her husband has just established a new 56Reads—Score714d adds
- 119 My System Is Way Too Good at Stirring Up Trouble 我的系统太会搞事了 After Lu Shiyi cursed out his boss, he got a lottery System. It offers all kinds of items, as well as limited-time trial passes for other systems. A lighthearted, humorous slice-of-life story with a slow-burn plot. No mindless antics or forced showing off. 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Dust of Mortal Life 尘事 This book chronicles a family across a hundred years. An illiterate country woman is forced to abandon her newborn child, then wanders from place to place amid the chaos of a turbulent era, struggling to survive in the cracks. Told as a work of documentary fiction, this story depicts the joys and sorrows of several generations of an ordinary family, bringing a long-buried past to light. Let posterity decide who was right and who was wrong! 2kReads8.9Score18014d adds
- 121 My Beastman Husband Loves You So Much 兽夫很爱你 [Beast World + Scapegoat + Self-Reliant Heroine + Kind but Fierce] Zhao Lili gave up her seat to an old woman on the bus and died right then and there? Then her body was cremated, and she could only be thrown into another world! The heavens gave me a second chance at life and a healthy body. I even got beautiful after eating a pill brought to me by a cute little animal? A white lion saw me and started hunting me down. He even has wings, and he wants to kill me without asking why or giving me 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 An Ordinary Family 平凡一家人 Every era in which an ordinary family lives is unique and impossible to repeat. The hardships of difficult times, the years of struggle and deprivation, the pain that cannot be put into words, and the fiery passion of a new age, the spirit of never giving up and striving onward, the stories of joy and sorrow: all shine brightly through every ordinary day. Life is the passing down of the human spirit. Everyone in an ordinary family has something worth preserving and building upon. Life is a flame 3.3kReads8.9Score29214d adds
- 123 You Lured Home a Little Wife with a Bottle of Soda? 你用一瓶汽水拐回一个小老婆？ (One heroine + mutual salvation + lighthearted comedy with no angst + gradual yandere development + sweet everyday romance + happy ending) Rest assured, this one's guaranteed to be sweet. (This is a brand-new book, so please, everyone, don't let it pile up in your reading list. It'll get buried to death (ToT)) The first twenty years of Gu Hui's life were shrouded in an endless rainy season, but he fought to become a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds of Hangzhou's plum rains. Then, one 28Reads—Score10314d adds
- 124 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score11014d adds
- 125 Apricots Beneath the Flames of War 烽火栓杏 The 1930s: a turbulent and unsettled era. The extraordinary story of a remarkable woman, who weaves her own spectacular life. Join the author as we open the door to that tumultuous age through a unique perspective. 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Shocking! The First Love of a Lifelong Single Is a Movie Emperor 惊！母胎solo的初恋是影帝 [An awkward, socially anxious wallflower who's never dated anyone vs. a devoted, top-tier star and legendary actor] [The romance variety show storyline begins in Chapter 372] [One-on-one romance between intellectual equals] [Both leads are strong and devoted] [Acting career takes center stage] [Stories within stories] [Sweet and angsty] [Rekindled romance] [No rebirth, System, or pocket dimension] Lin Feng, an acting coach determined to stay on the path of renouncing love, lost her first kiss on 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Texas Underworld 德州江湖 A tale of hooligans in Dezhou, Shandong, China? No. A tale of gangsters in Texas, USA? No. Texas hold 'em? Getting warmer. There are no miraculous gambling skills, no tense showdowns at the poker table, and no underdog comeback story. All there is is a poker table and the assortment of people around it: cops, businessmen, spies, brothers, high-ranking officials, lovers, and lowlifes. The worlds of money, power, loyalty, and love are all deadly. They aren't gambling on cards. They're gambling on 343Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Why Vampires Need to Read Their Blood Test Reports 论吸血鬼看血检报告的重要性 On Why Vampires Should Pay Attention to Blood Test Results 243Reads—Score614d adds
- 129 I’m the System, and My Host Is a Husky 我是系统，我的宿主是条二哈 When other people transmigrate, they either become the protagonist and rule the world, or become a powerful big shot and stir up trouble. Even at worst, they can be a good-for-nothing who shouts, “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river!” before showing off and getting revenge. And me? I became a System. A virtual one, with no body, that can only blabber away. I could put up with that. But! The System’s rules forcibly bound me to a Host: A dog. A purebred husky that wrecks 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 A Review of This Life 复盘今生 Wang Yuhan once had a happy family. He and his wife, Yu Meixia, were both teachers. They excelled at their jobs, had a son and a daughter, and were the envy of everyone. But then, one day, it all vanished. If you were the protagonist, how would you react? How would you face betrayal by the person you love and trust most? Drawing on a deep understanding of life, the author tells a moving, vivid story of love and loss, life and death, and tangled passions in plain, flowing prose. The story also ra 750Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 131 The Final Seven Days: Time-Space Hunter 七日终焉：时空猎人 [Don't Doubt It: The Past, Present, and Future Exist Simultaneously] I accidentally revealed the truth about the spacetime network as it exists today. Three years of painstaking work, day and night, and at last it's here! A hardcore story for a female audience! No brainless characters! No stale tropes! The pinnacle of eerie rule-based mysteries, delivering a double blow of mind-bending puzzles and heartbreak! Three trials built around layered concepts shatter your perception, while the suffocati 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Please Let Me Dream On 请允许我大梦不醒 Without living through it yourself, how can you truly understand what someone else has endured? If you could start over, could you rekindle things with the person you can't let go of? Whatever the ending, believe in yourself and in the future. Everything is arranged for the best! 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of Three Clans' Massacre 旧金山血牢：我丈夫藏着三族灭门证据 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of the Massacre of Three Clans —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Trapped Realm: The Fallen Star Arc 困界：沉星篇 [Not a Power Fantasy] [No System] [Slice of Life] [Transmigration] [Read at Your Own Risk] After transmigrating to the Sunken Star Realm, Lin Yan realized he might not need to work so hard after all. He got into the Tai Xu Heavenly Pivot Academy, where there were pretty girls, the classic mysterious old man, and fellow enthusiasts to visit brothels with. He had food and lodging covered, and could even earn a little pocket money now and then. As for cultivation... that could wait until tomorrow. 16Reads—Score114d adds
- 135 Half a Lifetime of Enduring, Half a Lifetime Beloved 半生隐忍半生卿 When Gu Yan was nine, his dying father entrusted him to his old classmate, Shen Dean. From then on, he lived under the same roof as the Shen family, growing up alongside their daughter, Shen Wan. She was the cherished daughter of the household, while he was the child of an old friend. An invisible wall separated their stations in life. Yet she had warmed him with porridge on cold nights, and he had shielded her from the rain that poured across the city. Love took root in their everyday closenes 230Reads8.2Score10314d adds
- 136 Travel the World in a Custom Camper Van 自改房车行天下 [This book isn’t really a novel. More accurately, it’s a travelogue based on the author’s real experiences, chronicling the entire journey along National Highway 219 by car. If you enjoy traveling, come take a look.] What’s the most important thing about going out for fun? Of course, you have to get out there! What does traveling mean? Some say that traveling ten thousand miles is better than reading ten thousand books. Hu Yonggang believes that the meaning of travel is something you have to dis 1.3kReads9.5Score15514d adds
- 137 Gentle Breezes, Northern Light 清风徐徐，北光照拂 A story concept I got from spinning a roulette wheel one day: Ling Beiyao: a teacher in an era of future technology Xu An: a doctor from another world Lin Yingchu: a demon king from an era of super-civilization (The protagonist was supposed to be just one person, but I ended up writing three.) The story is divided into the main storyline and individual character arcs. The main storyline follows the three protagonists from different worlds on their adventures in an era of super-civilization. The 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 This Kid Can Turn Invisible 这小子会隐身 [Rural Folk Abilities + Culinary Arts + Global Wonders + The Unorthodox Path to Wealth + Passionate Heroism] Ever felt a sense of closeness to someone you have never met? Do you find yourself staring at the stars whenever you feel hurt or wronged? Yang Dashi, a country boy from the mountains, retired from the army with a heavy heart to raise money for his terminally ill mother’s medical bills and step into the real world. Instead, his brothers betrayed him and his lover humiliated him. Heartbrok 87Reads8.6Score11314d adds
- 139 Those of Us Born in the ’80s 八零后的我们 We, the post-80s generation, have weathered life's joys and sorrows and suffered enough from the hardships of life and marriage. Amid the daily grind, our days have been steadily dwindling, and before we knew it, our generation had reached middle age... 2.7kReads8.2Score16514d adds
- 140 Wait, Host, Which One of Us Is the System? 不是？宿主，到底谁才是系统？ Shen Zhidu was a deadbeat shut-in, but then good fortune came knocking when he went out, and he accidentally transmigrated to a cultivation world. Though he possesses endless treasures, he’s an ordinary mortal who can never cultivate. To his surprise, he even has a System? System: “Quest triggered: kill the first-rank demonic beast, the Bloodthirsty Snake, in front of you. Reward: 5 Grade One Marrow-Cleansing Pills.” Shen Zhidu: “You kill it, and I’ll give you ten Grade Two pills.” System: “?” “ 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Middle Age 人到中年 (This book once topped the charts with 2.2 million readers. Recommended for adults aged 25 and over.) Middle age, an unfaithful wife, a career in the doldrums... How can he rise again and escape life's predicament? 2kReads8.5Score16114d adds
- 142 Number 1500: Space Visitor 编号1500：空间访客 (Not nonsensical, not a wish-fulfillment story. Both leads are strong, devoted to each other, and cunning.) There are 10,000 spaces in the world. Each space has seven transmigrators and one space administrator. The story unfolds in Space 1500. Explaining the world is too boring. Let's jump straight into exploring and scheming in Space 1500. Good luck, transmigrator! 90Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Underworld of a Small Town 小镇江湖 Summer, 1997. Chengxiang Town, Sichuan. Chen Dong, a young hoodlum, guarantees a loan for someone and ends up owing thirty thousand yuan, unaware that it is all a trap set by Bai Laosan. What Bai Laosan wants is the storefront his family owns in the heart of the old-town redevelopment zone. Lawyers, police officers, and thugs armed with paint take turns showing up at his door... With nowhere left to turn, Chen Dong clings to one stubborn belief: the shop is the last spark he can give Ye Qiong, a 41Reads—Score10614d adds
- 144 Two Years as a Doormat, Then One Heavy Rain Woke Me Up 舔狗两年，一场大雨浇醒了我 After Two Years of Chasing Him, a Downpour Woke Me Up 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Debuting at Five: The Entire Immortal Cultivation World Can't Remember Her 五岁出道：全修仙界都记不住她 Cultivation, adorable kids, spirit pets, heavenly treasures, and an overpowered master. The adorable heroine, born with divine blood, is naturally easy for people to forget the moment they look away! Her mother is a princess of the Demon Realm, while her biological father is the master of Immortal Herb Valley, the man who slaughtered her entire family. Before she was even born, people tried to collect her fetal blood. Her origins are shocking, and enemies surround her. Fortunately, her top-tier 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 My Uncle Dies from the Start, and I Get This Great Deal? 开局死大爷，还有这好事 On the surface, he is the young owner of a traditional Chinese medicine therapy clinic. In truth, he is a cultivator who has chosen to live in obscurity among ordinary people. If a hospital can treat it, I can treat it. If a hospital can’t, I can still treat it. As long as you aren’t meant to die, I can keep you alive. If you’ve found your way to me, it means you can still be saved. So tell me, what did you do this time? Feng shui can help someone rise to great heights, or leave them plagued by 242Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 A Good-for-Nothing with No Soul, I Am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years 废柴无魂，我是狼族万年圣女 A good-for-nothing with no soul: I am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 That Day, I Saw Countless Versions of Myself with My Own Eyes 那天，我亲眼看到了无数个自己 That day, I saw countless versions of myself with my own eyes. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 A Way Forward Through Mountains and Rivers 出路之山重水复 [Period setting + Family + Women + Career + Workplace business battles + No romance + Society + An exploration of human nature] No cheat powers, no dramatic comeback. A deep look at the struggles and prospects of 99% of ordinary people! Wish-fulfillment stories are everywhere, but once the excitement fades, only emptiness remains. In the end, we all have to face the grind of daily life and the warmth or coldness of human relationships. This slow-burning work of realism offers no lucky breaks or 2.5kReads9.5Score36214d adds
- 150 The Tower of Dark Dust and Bright Moon 暗尘明月楼 He spent his whole life achieving nothing, made it to the age of forty-nine, and then transmigrated. As if transmigrating weren't strange enough, he transmigrated into someone his own age. The average life expectancy in this world was only forty-eight, so he'd already lived to a ripe old age. Worse still, he had a whole family to support. In his new life, he had no official position or power, no land, and no money. He was dirt-poor, with nothing but the title of marquis to his name. The title wa 15Reads—Score—14d adds
