Novels like Calamity
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Calamity, best match first.
- 101 Ninefold Azure River 九嶷青河 At ninety-eight, he failed to establish his Foundation. His spiritual roots were mottled, his talent mediocre. He had given everything he had, yet even with his life nearly at its end, he still fell short of the threshold to Foundation Establishment. Disheartened, he sold off his belongings and set out alone on one last journey. That night, rain leaked through the roof of a ruined temple as thunder boomed and lightning flashed. He encountered a dying Ink Qilin, a descendant of a divine beast, c 154Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Sect Leader's Path to Immortality 掌门修仙路 No golden finger. Just writing about what I enjoy, and doing my best. All criticism is welcome. The story of a low-ranking disciple leading his sect’s growth and growing alongside it. Just two people and their sect: how far can they go? 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 One Soul, Two Bodies: The Household Items I Bought Became My Clones 一魂双体我买的日用品成了分身 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 732Reads5.2Score108Shelves
- 104 The Cross Game 十字架游戏 Two male leads + ensemble cast + infinite-flow + comedy from beginning to end) (A quirky, fun-loving bottom × an arrogant, infuriating top) (Yan Xi × Gu Yun) Welcome to the Cross Game. One instance after another descends upon players, striking fear into their hearts. A sorrowful yet joyful paradise, Wangjia Village filled with despair, a zoo dazzling on the outside but cruel within... Everyone fears the gods, but there are always people who speak out against them: <The gods are kind. She always 36Reads—Score323Shelves
- 105 Everyone Gets Stronger by Getting Fat, While I Work Out for Muscle 全民肥胖就变强，只有我苦练肌肉 [Powerful Growth], [Human Tyrannosaurus] [Repays Kindness and Grudges Fairly], [Never Forgives a Slight] [Also known as “The Way of Muscle”] The apocalypse freezes over, and fat is the ultimate truth! In this world, the fatter you are, the stronger you become. Your rolls of fat can awaken “fat spirits” and elevate you beyond the ordinary! To survive, all of humanity gorges itself, worshipping obesity and glorifying fatness. Ye Xing alone suffers from a strange illness: no matter how much he eats 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Shocking! My Substitute Groom Is the Mad Ghost King! 震惊！替嫁对象竟是疯批鬼王！ [Marriage first, love later + mutual imprisonment + past lives and present + secret identities revealed + fated opposition] [Naive Demon Lord Ying Jie VS alluring King of the Underworld Feng Du] [Straight-laced undercover agent Ying Bai VS adorable water demon Ming Huai] A spectacular push and pull between two secret identities! A blood-red wedding is the setup: the Demon Lord reincarnated as an undercover agent × the King of the Underworld disguised as a water demon. Two powerful rivals play 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 The Backrooms Memoirs 【后室回忆录】 Readers who aren’t familiar with the Backrooms, enter at your own risk! The author is in middle school, so the writing may be a little immature, though I’ve done my best to revise it. The series has three books in total, and this is the first. It mainly follows an ordinary girl named Moesian as she escapes her birth family, comes to the Backrooms, establishes the I.W.D. organization, and becomes half-human and half-Entity. Through a series of coincidences, she rises to godhood, then resurrects t 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Eternal Starry Sky: Starting with Wild Puppy Milk 永恒星空，从野生狗奶开始 Ye Cheng has five admission letters to top-tier universities, yet he turns around and enrolls in a vocational college? After passing out in the rain, he suddenly awakens. Is the shocking secret hidden behind his cultivation technique connected to his grandfather’s death? What dark secrets lie in his senior’s past? What crisis lurks behind the Solar System’s false prosperity? All kinds of unanswered mysteries await Ye Cheng. The story of Luo Feng’s ancestors from ten thousand years ago has been p —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Rule Horror: The Final Sequence 规则怪谈：终末序列 [No CP] [Dual Protagonists] [Dark Fantasy] An ordinary high school student stumbles into a world of supernatural rules, uncovers the secrets behind them, gains supernatural abilities, and becomes a Sequence-Bearer! From primeval forests to eerie schools, from abandoned hospitals to worlds governed by rules... Only rules can kill rules. In the End Times, seeing isn’t always believing. You must wield the power of rules to kill their masters. That is the only way to survive! The blood and vengeance 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Back to My Youth to Take You Down 重回年轻时干翻你 Back in 2006, who would want to relive a pathetic life? The supervisor who treated you like a beast in your last life will get only one chance to hand you a cigarette this time around. The brother who stabbed you in the back last time smiled more warmly than anyone else, but drove his knife in deeper than anyone else, too. Fine. I'll remember that. The love you regretted losing in your last life? This time, pull them right into your arms. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Song of the Dark Angel 黑天使之歌 The ancient gods awaken? I just want to fall in love with my mixed-race, beautiful supervisor. [New Take on Myth and History] [Ensemble Cast] [Heiress] [Love and Hate] [Slow Paced] A new job, new colleagues? Wait, where did this Japanese colleague come from? A medieval knight? Where did you come from? Beautiful, you're freezing me. When someone wholeheartedly sets out to do something, the whole world will pray for him and sing him a dirge. Humanity has never needed the gods' mercy. The only ones 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 The Reincarnation Records of Ghost Bus Route 117 117路鬼车轮回录 Reincarnation Records of the Ghost Bus on Route 117 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Monster Servant: Granny Denghua 精怪仆役-灯花婆婆 Supernatural Servants: Granny Lampflower —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Devour and Evolve: Reborn as an Arctic Wolf from the Start 吞噬进化：开局重生成北极狼 [No Female Lead] [Multiple Systems] [Leveling Up] [Beast Fiction] [Transmigration] [Plot-Driven] Su Lin, a top student, is hit by his brother, a veteran transmigrator who arrived via a truck, after finishing an exam. He transmigrates to another world, one remarkably similar to the world he left behind. His other brother is hit and sent there too, and their Systems turn out to be "enemies." Later, when both reach the peak at the same time, the two Systems appear and drag them into a dueling space 439Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 He Came from the Starlight 他从星光来 Calculating superpowered upperclassman VS strong, well-behaved rich girl [wife-chasing crematorium + second male lead wins + beautiful but tragic + imaginative premise + mutual healing + youth and school life] A fading secret crush ends without a future. Chu Xingyan’s youthful feelings are torn apart again and again by the light she once admired, the brilliant and untouchable Lu Cibai. He is cold: “Chu Xingyan, I’m not the one who changed. You’ve always been spoiled and never learned how to grow —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Echoes in the Deep: The Oath of Nidro 深牢回响：尼德罗之誓 A fanfic about Pixel Dungeon, born from the fury of someone who cranked the challenge level all the way up and got absolutely wrecked by the Dwarf King. But I digress. The dungeon’s native inhabitants have lives cheaper than rye rations, nothing more than toys for adventurers to train on. Karen grips a chipped short sword, and the battered medal on his chest is his only comfort. Sewer rats gnaw in the dark. The black blood of mutant rats sticks to a copper key, and poisonous water seeps into his 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Ark Breaker: Partners Become Beloved Wives 方舟破壁者【搭档终成娇妻】 [Duo Survival × Rise of the Rulebreakers] The whole world plunged into Survival Ark, and I was forced into a two-person survival game. My teammate turned out to be Su Jueqian from the school next door. The System wanted us to perform a “patient and nurse” role-play in a psychiatric hospital, until we were conditioned into obedient data. I laughed. Then let’s put on a show for you first. I used the madness of “erotomania” to coax out every secret, while she hid behind a mask of “detached nursing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Born to Be an Emperor 本是帝君 Discontinued I Cleared the Dungeons, and We Were Once Emperor Lords At five years old, Qi Ling met Jiang Zhixu at an orphanage. They both thought the place was a monster that devoured people, so they didn't take long to decide to run away. Qi Ling later developed a habit: whenever she went out, she'd always bring someone home. At six, she picked up five-year-old Xing Chen. At thirteen, she picked up Lin Beifo, who was a year older than her but really was an orphan, so she took him in. At seve 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Person I Loved as a Teen Ignored My Confession. When I Saw Him Again After Returning Home, I Cried 我少时喜欢的人不理我的表白，回国后再见他，我却哭了 The person I loved as a teenager ignored my confession. When I saw him again after returning to China, I cried. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 My Master’s Wife Is the Goddess I’ve Secretly Loved 师娘是我暗恋的女神 [Secret identities + love-triangle showdown + healing] In the game, I'm Moyan, the genius apprentice she raised herself. In real life, I'm Chen Mo, the timid junior student she wouldn't even dare look at. I thought my unrequited love would never see the light of day, until a "newbie" joined our team. Her act was full of holes, and I could barely keep my mind on teaching her. Then, at the competition, she dropped her disguise and swept the field with my master's signature sniper technique. The wh 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 They Stole My Spot and No One Cares? I’ll Make Them Kneel in a Row 名额被抢没人管？我让他们跪一排 [High Martial]+ [Face-slapping]+ [No Female Lead]+ [High-octane power fantasy] After transferring schools because of a beast tide, Lin Yi just wants to quietly settle in as a new student. But there's always someone who thinks he looks easy to bully: “Ugh, I hate these drop-ins. You can't just waltz into the honors class.” “Just wait. He'll find out in movement class that not just anyone can get into the honors class.” “There are challenge matches every month. We'll see if he's any good when he g 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Don’t Stand in My Way, I’m Holding Tight to Happiness 別挡我，紧握幸福的手 When Jiang Jiu went to make a formal marriage proposal for the first time, he never guessed the bride’s family was only pretending to marry off their daughter. Their real plan was to ambush him on the way and steal the betrothal gifts. Jiang Jiu’s mother was so furious that she paid 5,000 yuan outright for an eighteen-year-old Vietnamese girl, Wei Ying, to be his wife... Who could have guessed that marrying a Vietnamese woman would bring even more trouble? The longtime locals of a certain bustli 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Apocalypse Battle Royale: I Have a Black Market System 末世大逃杀：我有黑市系统 The apocalypse hits, and zombies surround his door. Su Qingyu binds himself to the Black Market System, thinking he’s about to take off. Then the System opens its mouth and asks for money. He checks his pockets: 242 yuan. “Type 54 pistol, 200. Eight bullets, 40. Balance: 2 yuan. Please keep trying, Host.” Su Qingyu looks at the zombies scratching at his door, then at his empty wallet. “System, are you messing with me?” 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Savior? Just a Brat 救世主？小屁孩而已 (Ensemble cast, male lead has no romance, two power systems: beast taming and supernatural abilities, gradual growth, not overpowered, academy setting) (The male lead is like a battlefield reporter early on and can’t beat anyone. Later, he becomes the main carry on the battlefield and still can’t beat anyone.) People in later generations believed it had been a brilliant age when powerful figures stood as equals, and countless people dreamed of going back in time. But to those who lived through i 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Heavenly Way Returns to the Origin 天道，归元 The Return to Origin of the Heavenly Dao isn’t a novel. It’s a cultivation world recompiled using the theory of primordial energy frequencies. Here, a spiritual root is merely an entry ticket. “Return to Origin” is the ultimate algorithm. The book is built on seventeen realms and framed by nine layers of space and time, constructing a complete evolutionary tree from Qi Refining to Return to Origin. · Cultivation isn’t enlightenment, it’s frequency tuning. The Return-to-Origin Force, the Chaos 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Can You Believe It? The Villain Is Such a Green Tea! 谁懂？反派他是个绿茶！ Villain: “She must have gotten held up by another girl again. No wonder he's ignoring me.” Female lead: “He's such a shameless flirt. Come back here!” Male lead: “I don't know if he's a flirt, do I?” Everyone: “Get together! Get together!” Male lead: “Don't get the wrong idea. There's nothing between us!” Female lead: “!!!” Villain: “If I'd known another girl would be keeping you company at dinner, I wouldn't have come.” Male lead: “Aaaah! How am I supposed to live without you?” Female lead: “Dr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Cultivation: A Lifespan Longer Than Heaven 修仙：寿比天高 [Sect-building + not a good-for-nothing + long life without hiding away + formations + not a goody-two-shoes + adapt on the fly] Qin Shan entered a cultivation sect and discovered that he had an endless lifespan. From then on, he devoted his life to studying formations, using them to obtain resources and improve his cultivation as he journeyed toward the end of the path to immortality. On the road to immortality, Qin Shan's life was as long as the heavens, yet as fragile as paper. He roared inwa 1.1kReads—Score117Shelves
- 128 I Dumped My Secret Crush and Got into a Top University 我把暗恋的男神甩了考上985 I Dumped My Secret Crush and Got Into a Top University —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 The Night Before Our Engagement, He Asked Me to Donate Blood to His One True Love 订婚前夜，他要我输血给白月光 The Night Before Our Engagement, He Asked Me to Donate Blood to His One True Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 My Husband Stole the Million Yuan I Earned in Royalties to Give to His One True Love 我年入百万的稿费，被软饭老公偷给了白月光 My Husband, Who Lives Off Me, Stole the Million I Earned in Royalties Each Year and Gave It to His One True Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Jiaojiao, Big Brother's Heart Hurts 皎皎，哥哥心口疼 [The main couple's everyday sweetness / The supporting couples have their own ways of being sweet, too] A wealthy young heir whose fate is too precious, sickly since childhood VS a noble young heiress who loses her family overnight and develops aphasia When Fu Xujing was born, the old master of the Fu family, who had been paralyzed and unconscious in bed for years, miraculously woke up and stood again... After hearing his devoted cousin speak from the heart, the male lead had a sudden epiphany 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 My Boss Is Miss Death 我的上司是死神小姐 If someone who had died were given a chance to live again, would you try to seize it? Even if the other party were a Grim Reaper from another world? Don't be fooled by appearances. Don't let what's inside hold you back. Come on, the contract has been made. Then let's fight to the death! (There might be a couple, or there might not. I'll see where the story goes, haha 😊) 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Stormy Tales of Bianliang: Murong Yunyi's Revenge 汴梁风云之慕容云逸复仇录 Early in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, during the Later Liang's Kaiping era (907–911 AD), Zhu Wen usurped the Tang and established the Later Liang, making Kaifeng its capital. The land descended into chaos, with warlords carving up the realm and the Liang-Jin conflict raging without end. Amid this troubled age, a tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption quietly unfolds in the city of Kaifeng. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Way of Exorcism 除魔之道 Unlike the worlds that came before, this world is home to beings far stronger than humans. Can humanity still defeat them? Can humans remain masters of the world? This story features a whole new approach to demon hunting, unlike anything seen before. Here, you'll encounter all kinds of demon-slaying techniques, as well as demons born in countless different forms. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Ninth Heaven: The End of the Story 九重天尊：故事的终点 Yin Jiu, an ordinary modern-day office drone, transmigrates into Yin Yue, a woman from an unknown era. At first, she thinks she's in an ordinary romance novel, then she thinks it's a cultivation romance. But eventually, she discovers that this isn't a novel world at all, and that she was never Yin Jiu to begin with... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 The Last Rays of the Rhine 莱茵河的残阳 [No Female Lead] + [Not Overpowered] + [Historical] + [Western Rome] When the Huns’ hooves shatter the ice on the Rhine, sixteen-year-old Roman farmer Marcus knows only two things: how to run, and how to get revenge. The day his village burns to the ground, his parents’ blood soaks through his straw sandals, and his sister’s cries are swallowed by the barbarians’ laughter. From camp slave to battle-hardened centurion, he grips the old centurion’s sword and carves out a path to survival in a rot 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 After the Marking, He Couldn't Get Enough 分化标记后他真香了 [ABO Setting + Alternate Universe + The Ex’s Groveling Redemption + Forced Love] Cold, unhinged Beta (actually an Alpha) gong x resilient, kind Omega shou Jiang Ting x Li Yu Taking in an injured Beta he found on the beach was the worst decision of Li Yu’s otherwise peaceful twenty years. Jiang Ting hated everything here: the ramshackle house, the salty sea breeze, the rough food, and, most of all, the lingering scent of grass that clung to this country Omega named Li Yu. Then came the night he p 811Reads—Score100Shelves
- 138 Above the Celestial Firmament: The Villainess Reborn as a Villainess 凌霄之上：反派女配穿成反派女配 Rumor has it that Ling Xiao, sect master of the Ghostly Charm Sect, is cruel and bloodthirsty, jealous, fond of handsome men, and loves collecting all kinds of rare treasures. Yet his power is no match for the five orthodox cultivation sects, so he usually preys only on obscure rogue cultivators. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 A Promise in the Grass 草叶之约 The Grassblade Pact —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 After That Night, My Husband in This Arranged Marriage Fell for Me 那晚之后，联姻老公动心了 After That Night, My Arranged Marriage Husband Fell for Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Once a White Ape of Qingcang, I Was Made the Heavenly Dao's Messenger to the Ruins for Watching Good People Die 本是青苍白猿，被天道封归墟信使，只因看不惯好人惨死 Once a white ape of Qingcang, he was appointed by the Heavenly Dao as a messenger to Guixu. He simply couldn't stand seeing good people die tragic deaths. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Gazing at the Stars 凌望星辰 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 My Grandpa the Judge Taught Me Feng Shui and the Balance of Yin and Yang 我的判官爷爷，教我风水断阴阳 The moment I burned offerings, I learned that after my grandfather died, he entered the underworld and became a judge. He passed down his knowledge of feng shui and yin-yang arts to me. I wanted to make an honest living in peace, but one sinister case after another soon came knocking. At first, I relied on my grandfather's legacy. Later, I learned to stand on my own. I roam the city with a chubby friend, open a yin-yang shop, unravel eerie mysteries, and cut off baleful influences. 8.7kReads—Score217Shelves
- 144 My Mother-in-Law's Ordeal to Bear a Son 婆婆的生子劫 My Mother-in-Law's Ordeal of Childbirth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 The Otherworldly Human Pet 异世界人宠 This story is entirely fictional. A cultivation fantasy world + soul transmigration + pets. The male lead's soul accidentally crosses into another world, where he becomes a little wolf demon and someone else's pet. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Devouring the Demon Emperor: Starting as a Good-for-Nothing Turtle 吞噬妖帝：从龟族废柴开始 Xuan Xiaowu was a lowly little tortoise, scorned by everyone in the demon realm and forced into marriage with an arrogant young Vermilion Bird heiress. On their wedding night, the bride used him as a stepping stool and kicked him off the bed. “A useless thing like you thinks you’re worthy of my bed?” On the brink of death, he unexpectedly awakened the devouring bloodline of the Primordial Ancestor of the Black Tortoise. Not only did he devour all the Vermilion Bird’s true fire, he also pinned th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Capital Game: She Makes the Rules 资本游戏：她即规则 (No System · Not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy · High-IQ mind games · Multiple twists · Read at your own discretion) When the first blood moonlight pierced my bedroom curtains, I thought it was just a hallucination from a hangover. Until the corroded bronze doors clanged shut behind me and a mechanical voice announced: “Welcome to the Capital Colosseum. The winner lives; the loser is erased.” As one person after another turned to data dust in the capital games, I thought surviving required —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Brother Xiong’s Paranormal Investigation Agency 熊哥诡异调查所 One person, one incident, one cold case. I’m Brother Xiong, and these are things I’ve seen in my life. Ready? Here we go. Not for people with heart disease or high blood pressure. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Return of the Frost-Covered Sword: The Amnesiac Mastermind Was Snatched Away by a Wandering Jianghu Cultivator 覆霜归剑录：失忆大佬被江湖散修客拐跑了 Frost-Covered Sword Record: An Amnesiac Powerhouse Is Spirited Away by a Wandering Martial Artist 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Let's Walk Together Into the Next Ten Years 一起走到十年之后 Online acquaintances become neighbors, neighbors become deskmates, and deskmates become... boyfriends /ᐠ .⸝⸝⸝. ྀི It took them ten years to go from meeting to understanding each other to falling in love. After those ten years, will the next ten be different, or will they be just the same? A little bit of sci-fi, with angst later on. Most of what happens in the book comes from the author's own experiences. I'm usually busy with school and don't have time to update, but I promise to post on statut 2Reads—Score—Shelves
