Novels like The CEO Boyfriend I Picked Up
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- 1 I’ll Save You, and You’ll Save Me 救赎你，拯救我 [Slow-burn everyday life + two male leads + mutual healing + two powerful leads] [Hot on the outside, cold on the inside, a reckless young master X a gentle, cool tattoo artist] This is a simple story. Love at first sight, a fluttering heart as we grow closer. I fall more and more in love with you. Cheng Ye is a rich young master who has endured years of psychological control by his father, yet has always resisted. Zhou Yu is a tattoo artist with an unhappy past, weighed down by the guilt of hav 572Reads9.2Score10114d adds
- 2 Hiring This Lookalike Was a Huge Mistake 雇上这种替身算是踢到钢筋了 [A substitute who’s straighter than a steel bar × a boss with an atypical form of OCD] [Switch couple, not the soft and clingy kind of story] [A warm, healing romance] The substitute doesn’t know what OCD is, so he looks it up: “fussy,” “germaphobic,” “everything has to be arranged neatly” Right. He thinks he gets it. Isn’t it just being a housekeeper for someone who makes a fuss about everything? He can do that job! Until One night, this man, who’s usually capable of handling anything at work, 1.3kReads9.1Score18214d adds
- 3 Passing on Longing 传思慕 [Reunion after years apart + two male leads + sweet romance + complete + a story within a story + entirely fictional + no real-life inspiration] World-weary, sickly beauty Jiang Qi (bottom) × carefree, moon-bright gentleman Chu Huaizhi (top). One day. Jiang Qi asked, “I thought you couldn't fight?” Chu Huaizhi carefully wiped the blood from his hands with a handkerchief, answering rather casually. “Who started that rumor?” “Me,” Jiang Qi said. “You look so delicate and frail.” Chu Huaizhi: “...” 36.6kReads9.3Score1.6k14d adds
- 4 Period: I Plucked This Aloof Beauty 年代：这支高岭之花我摘了 [A fierce top with a bad back × a tough, foul-mouthed bottom] [A powerful couple]+ [A roguish village bully bottom + an aloof, elegant educated youth top]+ [Bonus chapters written however the author pleases] Shu Xiu had hardly ever fallen for anyone in his life, but the newly arrived educated youth was the one who tripped him up. It wasn't that he lacked self-control. The truth was, this educated youth was just too handsome. Brother Xiu, ruthless in his ways and hard of heart, had only one weakn 1kReads9.4Score9614d adds
- 5 A Survival Guide for March in Quick Transmigration 快穿之三月的谋生之路 I write whatever comes to mind. The protagonist can be male or female, and is the bottom. They’re an ordinary person: pretty, a little clever, a little selfish, and not a self-sacrificing saint. Their own interests come first in everything. 3.8kReads9.1Score28314d adds
- 6 The Yangyan Opera House 阳宴戏园 In North City stands a famous opera house called the Yangyan Theater. It is home to a man just as famous, known as Third Master. Third Master Yang Zhi is a sickly beauty. Though he is a man, he has an exceptionally handsome face. Even the slightest cough can make people’s hearts skip a beat. He has few interests: listening to opera, sampling the peach blossom pastries from the most famous shop on Dazhang Street, and, above all, snatching things away from the military governor’s son, Master He, o 4.7kReads9.5Score89414d adds
- 7 You Deserve a Love Like That of Two Top Students 双学霸的爱情你值得拥有 (Male-Male Romance) Before Lin Mo appeared, Lu Xiao had no idea what love was. After Lin Mo came into his life, he finally understood what it meant to like someone. One loves with fiery passion, the other with deep devotion. Their love, freely given and returned, fills both their lives with color. 560Reads9.4Score16514d adds
- 8 Ding! A Taste of the Tycoon Life 滴！豪门体验卡 [Transmigrate into a book + healing + everyone dotes on him + mutual devotion] Two male leads! Two male leads! Gentle, mature CEO top × sunny on the outside, depressed on the inside bottom I got rich overnight, but I'm no country bumpkin! Zhou Mo was a poor little cabbage with no parents. His only asset was his good looks, and he had to haul bricks at construction sites every day just to scrape together his college tuition. Then one day, while happily hauling bricks, he got hit on the head with 14.5kReads9.5Score2.4k14d adds
- 9 A Northeastern Tough Guy Reincarnates as an Alpha 东北爷们儿穿成Alpha An Alpha who spoils his wife with the warmth of frozen pears from Northeast China & a cool, career-focused Omega 1 Xu Tianhe is a tough-as-nails Northeasterner. One morning, he wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated into an ABO world. The good news: he’s an Alpha, and he has a beautiful wife. The bad news: his predecessor was a scumbag who lived off his wife and made her life miserable. Xu Tianhe: (cursing furiously.jpg) 2 After falling in love with Cheng Nian at first sight, Xu T 13.3kReads9.5Score2.8k14d adds
- 10 I Spoiled My Archrival Until He Cried. How Dare He! 把死对头宠哭了，他怎么敢的！ [Print edition available under the title The Dark Star Shines Bright] [ABO, two male leads, rivals, love and hate, each other’s first love, refined scoundrel Alpha x cool, aloof Omega] Lin Yao and Xie Xingchen are famous at school for being mortal enemies. After three years of battling each other, they end up at the same military academy and become roommates. On their first day in the dorm, they nearly come to blows. Then Lin Yao, fresh out of the shower, unexpectedly presents as an Omega righ 28.9kReads9.6Score4.4k14d adds
- 11 The Pitiful Little Streamer Goes Viral After Falling in Love Online with a Big Shot 可怜小主播和大佬网恋后爆红了 [Full-cast audio drama, complete] [Sweet romance, mutual healing] The Poor Little Streamer Ran Away and Became a Big Shot's Sweetheart Who Lulls Him to Sleep [Two male leads + both pure + livestreaming + PK battles + online romance + face-slapping + size difference] [Gentle, pitiful, disabled beauty x ultra-possessive, doting, fatherly big shot] - Wen Yixing had a gambling-addicted adoptive father who beat him whenever he got drunk. On the day Wen came of age, his father's creditors showed up, a 22kReads9.4Score3.5k14d adds
- 12 Embers (Also Known as The World Lost Its Guard) 余烬（又名《人间失守》） [Seasoned, calculating, hot-blooded detective VS. an enigmatic, morally ambiguous young nobleman from the slums] [Two powerful male leads + Criminal investigation + Mystery + Case-solving + Happy ending] A seasoned, calculating, hot-blooded detective VS. an enigmatic, morally ambiguous young nobleman from the slums. The world is a city, and even when its walls crumble, you can still see the light from atop the ruins. Wei Heng: “This world is strange. People only care about when you’ll die; no on 25.7kReads9.6Score4.9k14d adds
- 13 Vodka and Mantenin 伏特加与曼特宁 [Zheng Xi and Ma Yang star in the leading roles. The radio drama adaptation of the novel of the same name, Vodka and Coffee, is now airing] [A new exclusive bonus chapter~~~] [Reserved, icy café owner Bai Qinglin VS flirtatious bar owner Zhu Jingru] [Premium fiction + two male leads + modern city life + happy ending + healing + redemption + older love interest + simmering tension + sweet romance + love at first sight] Zhu Jingru didn't know what love at first sight felt like until he was thirty- 27.2kReads9.7Score5.9k14d adds
- 14 No Bad Endings 禁止be [Sweet, easygoing bottom × attentive, doting top] [Two male leads + sweet romance + devoted to each other + unconventional dating livestream show] After a car accident, Yuan Mu gained a new set of memories and learned that this world was actually one giant romance novel. Shen Heng, who had doted on him for five years of marriage, was really the devoted second male lead who loved the novel’s protagonist, the bottom, without hope, could never let go, and ultimately chose to live out his days alone 45.5kReads9.5Score6.1k14d adds
- 15 The Frail Beauty Pants After Three Steps, and Her Childhood Friend Carries Her Home 病美人三步一喘！竹马摇尾抱回家 [Two male leads + childhood friends growing up together + brotherly affection turns into something more + wooing a big puppy] [Cool, aloof, long-haired beauty with a sickly constitution who knows how to reel them in × silver-haired, handsome, wolfish athlete who turns into a loyal puppy; genius painter × archer; sweet romance, one-on-one!] Yun Wulian had been sickly since childhood. He was out of breath after three steps and coughing after five, and would suddenly faint or come down with a fever 33.7kReads9.5Score5.1k14d adds
- 16 Being the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Dad: The System and I Went on a Rampage 给虐文男主当爹，我和系统鲨疯了 [Two male leads + top + quick transmigration + System + raising children + face-slapping and punishing scumbags] Some small worlds operate by the rules of abusive romance novels. Their laws are unfair and biased, derailing the protagonists' once-bright paths to a good life. They suffer physical and emotional abuse, have their wings clipped, yet are still expected to end up happily ever after by making things right for others. Those so-called happy endings are built on the protagonists' blood and 28.6kReads9.6Score2.9k14d adds
- 17 After the Immortal Venerable Was Publicly Jilted, She Became the Emperor’s Wife 仙尊被当众退婚后，成了帝尊夫人 Powerful Master of the Six Realms VS Beautiful, Cold Immortal Venerable 1: Su Wenqing was unlucky. He had just sealed the Demon Venerable and lost all his cultivation when his fiance publicly broke off their engagement. Su Wenqing was glad to be rid of the fuss. No one knew that beneath his cold heart, he had a cherished corner where, for thirty years, he had used his heart's blood and all his spiritual power to nourish a fragment of a soul. Then, on the very day his engagement was broken off, t 8.3kReads9.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 18 Become the Villain, and Strike Down the Scumbag! 成为反派，并向渣男挥剑！ [The audiobook adaptation of the same title is currently being serialized] [Two Male Leads + Top + Quick Transmigration + Both Powerful, Both Devoted + Intense Push and Pull] A vicious, unhinged beauty versus men with all kinds of personalities Lu Chengt ing is a blade in the service of the Celestial Lord, master of slaughter, free of desire and attachment, yet wicked by nature and impossible to control. In pursuit of the young lord of the heavens, who had descended to the mortal realm to under 31.2kReads9.6Score3.2k14d adds
- 19 Unbridled 脱缰 [Dual Male Leads] [Fake Death Story] [Manga Adaptation and Publishing Rights Signed; Print Edition Now Available] In Qi Zhen's eyes, Lin Shouyan is a silly little colt who has broken free of his reins, utterly sincere and devoted to him with all his heart. Qi Zhen falls for him quickly. But in Lin Shouyan's eyes, Qi Zhen is a fool playing the part Lin Shouyan made up for him, dragged down from his lofty pedestal and forced to teach himself, while Lin Shouyan has to personally teach his wife all 43.9kReads9.6Score6.2k14d adds
- 20 Red and White Wedding 红白囍 [Republican-era nostalgia + supernatural + two male leads + equally matched powerhouses + pure-hearted madmen] [Brilliant and passionate young diviner Tian Suanzi, Mu Geshen X cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside heir to a family of physicians, the saintly doctor Chai Shuxin] A funeral is mournful, a wedding joyful, I travel from the world of the living to the Yellow Springs, Prepare incense, candles, paper horses, and a bridal sedan, Lady Meng offers us the nuptial wine. White paper, red rob 50.2kReads9.7Score12k14d adds
- 21 EN OMG! What Nobody Actor Kisses the Unhinged Villain Right Away? 天！谁家糊咖上来就亲疯批反派 Highlight: The secondary couple's story is concentrated in the extras. If they appear in the main story, it is only to serve the plot, and they occupy very little space. Readers who dislike this should proceed with caution. [Double male leads + entertainment industry + face-slapping + a vicious, ruthless, indulgent top with a hidden perverted side versus an all-around, dazzlingly talented bottom who openly flirts] Shen Lian was a top-tier star, but when he opened his eyes, he had become a nobody 134kReads9.7Score15.5k14d adds
- 22 Sweet and Sensual! The Aloof God of the Main System Knows How to Flirt, Comfort, and Act Cute 甜欲！冷舔主神他会撩会哄会撒娇 [Print edition published under contract] [Comic adaptation now available] [Quick transmigration, two male leads, satisfying and sweet] [Both powerful and devoted, exclusive 1v1 romance] Si Jin, Heaven's No. 001 prisoner, is sentenced to live through all kinds of tragic lives across three thousand worlds because his sin score is far too high. The supervising System trembles with fear: “Please behave, boss. Follow the plot properly, or the main System will punish you...” Si Jin wiggles a finger an 44.4kReads9.6Score4.5k14d adds
- 23 After the Breakup, the Boss Turns Dark and Obsessed: Wild Seduction and Spoiling 分手后大佬黑化变疯批，野撩诱宠 [Two Male Leads + Reuniting After a Breakup + Powerful CEO + Both Untouched + Possessive Takeover + Tension and Flirting + Reunion After Years Apart + Seductive Pursuit] [After He Wronged His Ex, the Big Shot Went Dark] Everyone knew the big shot was cool and dispassionate, but no one knew about the obsession hidden deep in his heart. After a carefully engineered reunion, he took the other man by force and made him move in. The darkened big shot's image crumbled: he turned wild and seductive, in 389Reads9.5Score83914d adds
- 24 This Host Is Something Else: Told to Die for the Villain, He Actually Did 这宿主绝了，让他替反派死他真死 (Complete) Villain + Corruption + Master and Disciple + Mutual Devotion + One-on-One (the villains are all souls of the Main God) To come back to life, movie star Yu Tang binds himself to a quick transmigration System. His mission is to show the villains care and warmth, then die for them, driving them completely over the edge. But when he has finally earned enough points and wants to be revived, the System tells him: The worlds he visited have all collapsed. Yu Tang: ??? System: So you need to 27.4kReads9.6Score3.1k14d adds
- 25 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun 二哈和他的白猫师尊 [The audiobook adaptation of the same name, starring Gu Jiangshan and Sanshi, is complete. Tune in and give it a listen!] Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning's disciple had been a mistake. His master was far too much like a cat, while he was like a silly dog wagging its tail and fawning over him. Dogs and cats can't reproduce together, and the silly dog hadn't wanted to reach out his fluffy paws toward that cat in the first place. He'd always thought dogs should be with dogs, like his senior bro 100.9kReads9.7Score19.5k14d adds
- 26 After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神 The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei 103.2kReads9.7Score14.5k14d adds
