Novels like I Want to Be Sincere, But They Won't Let Me
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- 1 The Spendthrift Young Master: From the Start, I Marry a Princess 败家少爷：开局迎娶公主 Zhao Chen, a promising young man of the new century, transmigrated into a parallel world and became a spendthrift young master in a marquis’s household. Determined to carry on his predecessor’s wasteful ways and uphold the spirit of extravagance, Zhao Chen decided to take his wastrel lifestyle to the very end. But who could have guessed that an imperial decree arranging his marriage would change his fate forever...? 1.2kReads6.1Score10414d adds
- 2 Conan Crossover: From the Start, the Toxic Woman System Unbinds Me 柯南综漫：开局被渣女系统解绑 [Detective Conan Main World] [Anime Crossover] [Multiple Heroines] The good news: He transmigrated, and it’s a crossover world full of beautiful women. The bad news: The Flirty Girl System mistook him for someone else and brought him to the wrong world. It wants to unlink itself from him from the start. Fortunately, he still gets to live quite comfortably in this world thanks to the System’s parting gift, and the place seems to be free of danger. What an amazing parting gift! It feels so good he 808Reads5.8Score10014d adds
- 3 There’s No Way I’d Plagiarize When All I Want Is an Ordinary Life 只想平凡日常的我不可能白学 I somehow ended up in Tokyo with a System. I only wanted to pass the time in an ordinary way, until… (Brain storage area. Please don’t sweat the details.) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 How Did a Literary Soul Like Me End Up Meeting a Chuunibyou? 身为文青的我居然遇见了中二病？ (Pure Japanese light-novel style: school life, everyday mysteries, and youthful romance. First-person narration in the vein of Hyouka. Not for the impatient, thank you for reading, meow.) As students, we've always wanted to solve problems that have answers. How to solve the final question on an exam, what's on tomorrow's test, who the person we like has a crush on... We search for model answers in mountains of practice problems and the best solutions to our relationships. But there's no right an 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Every Woman Is Evil: I’m Delicate and Soft, but I Can’t Escape 全员恶女：身娇体软的我逃不掉了 [Multiple heroines + easy to win over + petite and girly + female CEO + campus beauty + nurse + flight attendant + mature woman + female teacher] Su Xiaoci heard a ding in his head and thought he'd be able to take on the nursing home at South Mountain with his fists and kick his way through the kindergarten at North Sea. But then everything took a sudden turn! [Ding! The Absolute Weakling System has been bound!] [Host detected attempting to lift a brick. This is an act of bravado! Punishment: pa 310Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 6 My Tokyo Exorcism Tales Are Definitely Problematic 我的东京除灵物语果然有问题 Lin Ye transmigrates to Tokyo and, from the start, runs into a vengeful spirit out to kill him. All he has to defend himself is a broken stick he picked up. Only when lightning bursts forth does he realize the truth: this is a fragment of a Chinese Thunder God's weapon, and Tokyo is a living hell crawling with supernatural tales. Urban legends manifest as spirits, and fear nourishes vicious vengeful ghosts. Yet he wields the lightning rod, slaying monsters and becoming a god, as thunder sweeps a 1.6kReads5.9Score14314d adds
- 7 The Fake Emperor: Starting with a Palace Coup 假皇帝：从祸乱后宫开始 I transmigrated into the shadow of the Great Yan emperor, and right away I was asked to provide an heir, then die in the emperor’s place? Survive! I have to survive! If the Great Yan dynasty can have only one emperor, then that emperor can only be me! 1.3kReads7.0Score10014d adds
- 8 Demoness, Let Me Go 妖女放开我 [The original body transmigrates + multiple heroines + witty and hilarious] I transmigrated? A magical talisman? Damn it, you witch, why did you kidnap me! Witch, let me go... Help~~ I'm being assaulted! 59Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 9 Are You Kidding Me? My Imperial Harem Is Full of Demon Consorts? 疯了吧！朕的后宫全是妖妃？ He transmigrates to another world. When Jiang Yuan wakes up, he discovers that he has become the emperor of the Great Jiang Dynasty. Before he can even celebrate, he realizes that his enormous harem is full of wicked consorts who throw the court into chaos. Even worse, he’s poisoned by one of them as soon as he arrives, and Wu Zetian is trying to seize his throne. A living hell from the start? No! Jiang Yuan refuses to accept this. He’ll become the most exalted ruler in the world! “Ding! Tyrant 269Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 My 23-Year-Old Girlfriend 我的23岁小女友 My 23-Year-Old Girlfriend 528Reads—Score614d adds
- 11 Disciple, Go Down the Mountain and Wreak Havoc on Your Gorgeous Junior Sister 徒儿，下山祸害你绝色师妹去吧 [Invincible protagonist + decisive and ruthless + domineering senior disciple + tricking junior sisters + exhilarating action] Master: “Disciple, you're about to die. Hurry down the mountain and find your junior sisters. They're the only ones who can save you!” Ye Gaoyuan: “Master, is there no other way? I'm the dignified senior disciple. How could I...” Master: “Well, there's this Sunflower Manual...” Ye Gaoyuan: “Master, I've already packed my things. I'm heading down the mountain right now!” 75Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 12 Apocalypse: What Should I Do When the Campus Goddesses Are So Fertile? 末世：校花女神们太好孕了怎么办 [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Decisive and Ruthless + Campus Belle Goddess] The apocalypse arrived as demonic energy from another world invaded. The laws of the dark night flourished, the sun was obscured, and temperatures around the world fell. In his previous life, Qin Ming was too softhearted. He was framed, his supplies were stolen, and he was killed in secret! Reborn in this life, he returned to one month before the apocalypse began. Watch how he gives a f 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 I'm Just a Photo Assistant. What Do You Want from Me, Heiress? 我只是个陪拍，财团千金你图啥 [One heroine, no System, not reborn, a handsome photography fanatic, a groveling chase for love, sweet or salty, a high-end yandere] Jing Xuan grew up in an orphanage and studied photography at Jiang University of Technology, a 211 university. After twenty years of being single, he makes a little money from street photography. His only problem is that people keep asking for his WeChat whenever he goes out without a mask. When an international investment group shows up claiming to be his family, 856Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 14 Classroom of the Elite? My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected 实教？我的青春恋爱物语很有问题 [Japanese light novel style + Original work, not fanfiction + Mind games + Multiple heroines + Super-sweet romance + Original setting + Light ensemble cast + Classroom of the Elite setting] My youth romance doesn’t need color. Kanagi Tooru is a man who lives by the principle of “energy conservation.” When he accidentally uncovers the secret of PVS’s top-ranked student, the emotionless, AI-like student council president known as the “Absolute Zero Queen,” Rio Hikawa, a crack is forcibly torn into —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Kitajo's Favorability Is Off the Charts 北条同学好感度超上限了 [Light novel + everyday youth + romance + comedy + school life] Forty means acquaintances. Seventy means close friends. Ninety means family. As for one hundred and twenty... that has to be a glitch, right? The transfer student Hojo Suzaku is a beautiful, talented heiress to a conglomerate, and the undisputed school belle. Her affection for me: 120%. The value is beyond the limit, the meter bar is purplish red, and the symbols for her emotions go completely haywire whenever she’s around me. In th 2.4kReads—Score30714d adds
- 16 Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Salvaging All the Worlds 穿越诸天：回收万界 [Serious people, stay away!!! You don't need to use your brain to read this book, thanks!] [This book has a lot of mileage, so don't listen to it as an audiobook or you'll miss the details.] Yu Ze gets a System and transmigrates across the heavens. He travels through countless worlds, experiencing different lives and doing whatever he pleases. Every dimensional world with pretty girls is fair game!! In Initial D, he drives a Mercedes to meet Natsuki. In Highschool of the Dead, he leads the girls 23Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 17 The Carefree Celestial Venerable of Another World 异界逍遥天尊 A hapless, tragic young man is electrocuted while playing an online game and mysteriously transmigrates to another world. Armed with a heavenly-grade secret manual from the game, he eventually becomes the supreme powerhouse, towering above all creation. 3kReads8.8Score29614d adds
- 18 Tokyo: My Sister-in-Law Comes Knocking, Asking Me to Adopt Her 东京：小姨子上门求收养 After being reborn in Japan, Takashi Kudo has no interest in romance. All he wants is to become the greatest writer in the country. But he discovers that all the young women around him are trying to win him over. His sister-in-law, who ran away from home, suddenly shows up at his door asking to stay. She seems to have something planned. Keiko Kojima, his ex-girlfriend of a year and a half, gets back in touch with him. She seems to be hiding a secret, and breaking up with him back then may not ha 578Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 19 Livestream: One Female Guest a Day 直播：我一天一个女嘉宾 Netizens all revere him as a master, because he's so good at charming women that there's no girl he can't win over. But after all these years, how many girls have truly cared for him? 139Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Horror Survival Game: My Skills Are So Shameless, What's Wrong with Being a Little More Annoying? 惊悚国运：技能太骚，贱亿点咋了 [Apocalyptic horror game + no goody-two-shoes protagonist + twisted and wicked + instances + underworld skills + godhood + leveling up] Also known as A Single Hand Changed the Horror World’s Style: Was It Because I Pulled Too Many Crazy Stunts? (Rough synopsis) In the horror game, he rescues a fox demon wife from a ghost wedding, treats a white-stockinged female zombie during a challenge, and performs surgery on a mature female ghost in a haunted city. In the real world, he helps his enemy’s fia 101Reads8.2Score2114d adds
- 21 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World and Married a Beautiful Senior Sister from the Start 穿越修真界：开局娶了美女大师姐 [Xuanhuan] + [Transmigration] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [golden finger] + [Not a pure power fantasy... enter at your own risk] A careless misstep sent Mo Fan tumbling off a cliff, and his soul transmigrated to another world called the Xuanwu Continent. The Xuanwu Continent was a cultivation world with an incomplete system. Armed with a mysterious ring, Mo Fan, who had never found success on Earth, made the Xuanwu Continent his starting point, fighting his way to the very peak of the starry sky. 16.7kReads8.4Score2.1k14d adds
- 22 The Invincible Foolish Emperor: From the Start, He Picks Concubines Like Crazy 无敌昏君，开局疯狂选妃 A young man from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of a foolish emperor and awakens the Favorable Consort System from the start! To build the mightiest empire, Jiang Chen goes on a frenzy of selecting consorts, becoming an emotionless machine for grinding through missions! 87Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 23 We're Doomed! Even the Fairies Are on Maternity Leave 完犊子！仙女都放产假了 Xu Feng transmigrates to a fantasy world. And with him comes his golden finger. Just when he thinks he’s about to take off, he discovers that his golden finger is damaged and needs a lot of energy to recharge. Fortunately, his golden finger also gives him an auxiliary ability. To repair it, Xu Feng sets his sights on a sect. To the sect, he is a great opportunity. But to Xu Feng... Who is the prey and who is the opportunity remains to be seen. Xu Feng: “Ladies, tremble...” But years later... Xu 102Reads8.6Score10414d adds
- 24 Happy Nail's 24th Book 快乐的钉子第24本书 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what drives me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 90Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 25 The Scumbag Patriarch of the Cultivation World 修仙界，渣男祖师爷 (Multiple heroines, laid-back, feel-good cultivation fantasy. If you don't like it, don't read.) Buy an adult woman? Ha! They eat too much! If you think giving another man a woman for free will make him smile, think again. No one’s going to smile at you! That’s right. In a year of great calamity, human life is worth the least. This story begins in a year of great calamity, when Lin Fan buys a long-term laborer and his petite, charming wife… 270Reads—Score3014d adds
- 26 Reborn in 2005: Back to My College Days 重生2005：回到大学时代 [Reborn + multiple heroines + no self-sacrificing saint] There are two great wishes in life: first, to make lots and lots of money; second, to date every beautiful woman under the sun. Given a second chance at life, Li Xiaotian is going to live freely and do whatever he pleases. So, what’s the most profitable thing to do if you go back to 2005? What makes money the fastest? Li Xiaotian smiles. “Obviously, real estate, stocks, the internet, electronics, appliances, chips, telecommunications, maki 5.7kReads8.3Score49914d adds
- 27 Desert Island Survival: I Take the Goddess Through Dungeons 荒岛求生：我带女神刷副本 Programmer Chen Jinnan had spent three years saving up on a 996 schedule, and finally set off for his dream island. Then the plane crashed. When he woke, he was surrounded by strangers who had survived: a CEO, an idol, an athlete, a doctor… all women. On a deserted island, there was no water, fire, or signal, and people were more dangerous than wild beasts. “Brother Nan, how do you open a coconut?” “Brother Nan, they’re fighting again!” Chen Jinnan was at his breaking point. “I write code. I’m 459Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Life-Swap System: How Do I Have Three Thousand Senior Sisters? 换命系统，我居然有师姐三千？ [Villain] [System] [Multiple Heroines] [Living Off Women] [Rebellious Disciple Who Defies His Master] [Defying Heaven to Slay Immortals] [the Myriad Worlds] Ning Chen transmigrates into a fantasy world. As soon as he arrives, the System tells him he has only three days to live. To buy his life back, he must exchange a huge amount of cultivation resources with the System! He thinks he’s as good as dead, but after merging with the original host’s memories, he discovers he has three thousand senior 74Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 29 Anime Crossover: Traveling with Beautiful Girls! 综漫：带着美少女去旅行！ This one's not very good, and the plot is clichéd. [My Dress-Up Darling] + [Himouto! Umaru-chan] + [Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions] + [Kaguya-sama: Love Is War] + [Oregairu] + [Bocchi the Rock!]! Frailty-stricken Lin Qianxia awakens a travel System in a crossover world. Her mission is to form an eccentric travel club? To get healthy again, she: Uses music to recruit Bocchi, a guitar player with social anxiety. Lures in Rikka with a chunibyo setup and her Evil Eye. Even her neighbor, little sis 1.2kReads5.0Score16614d adds
- 30 A Fanfic of Too Many Losing Heroines! Volume 9 败犬女主太多了第九卷同人 This is a continuation of the story after Volume 8, meaning it is Volume 9. There are no original characters. I simply wanted to write a continuation in Amamori’s style, following his format, writing style, and word count as closely as possible, and to capture the feel of the original. (This does not continue from Volume 8.5, so there are some differences from the newly released Volume 8.5.) P.S. I began outlining this in June 2025, before I had considered that there would be a Volume 8.5. Just 119Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Hecarim’s Ninth Book 赫卡里姆拯的第9本书 My name is Su Cheng, and I have the most incredible connections in the world. The male lead's mother works as my maid. The beautiful campus belle falls for me, while a sweet, gentle little maid throws herself into my arms. A slim bodyguard is willing to protect me. I take a tutoring job, and a gorgeous mother-daughter pair gets jealous over me. A cool, beautiful CEO even gets lured back to my home to work as a maid. A hot-tempered policewoman has a secret crush on me but doesn't dare confess. I 167Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 32 If the Immortal Maiden Has No Mercy, Then Fall into Slavery 仙子不仁，那就堕落为奴吧 [Empress Master] [Fallen Immortal Maidens] [Revenge Power Fantasy] [Multiple Heroines] Perhaps that peerless, aloof and dignified sect leader, so noble and graceful, would never have imagined that the young man whose immortal bones she had personally taken was the very child she had longed for and searched desperately for over the years: her own flesh and blood! Also known as: You say I desecrated your master? Then I'll do as you wish and spend the whole night reveling with the immortal maiden, 240Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 33 I Won Over My Junior in White Stockings From the Start, and I Have No Humanity When It Comes to Money 开局拿下白丝学妹，我壕无人性 [Underdog comeback + Tycoon lifestyle + Multiple heroines + Living life on his own terms] After graduating from college, Gu Yang worked diligently for a year, going from an ordinary corporate drone to an outstanding corporate drone! He never got the chance to change his destiny through knowledge, but he did get a system for living life on his own terms. Spend money on beautiful women and get cashback. He was making a fortune. Folks, who understands the joy of never having to worry about money ag 12kReads6.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 34 Control and Conquest: A Love Story with the Sui Imperial Family 控制与攻略，我与大隋皇室爱情史 Just as the Sui dynasty's Emperor Wen, Yang Jian, was running out of luck, Cao Shuangzhi transmigrated into his world. But with only three hours left to live, he was about to die in the palace coup when Crown Prince Yang Guang murdered his father. Cao Shuangzhi was one of Emperor Wen's personal guards. At the brink of despair, Cao Shuangzhi awakened the System. If he could save the old emperor and prevent Lady Xuanhua from being violated, he could take his first steps toward defying fate. Prot 496Reads8.2Score11214d adds
- 35 I Hate Trouble, Yet My Life Is Full of Surprises 怕麻烦的我生活里却充满了意外 [Pure Japanese light novel style + young love + first person. If you've read similar print novels, jump right in. If you lack patience, proceed with caution.] Chiba Sosuke is a high school student with a bad attitude who hates anything troublesome. The most mature high schooler in all of Chiba, Chiba Sosuke saw through the nature of life long ago: people who waste their youth enjoying themselves and act recklessly just because they have nothing to lose are all “a handful.” To avoid getting tangl 1.4kReads8.8Score14914d adds
- 36 Wuxia Crossover: From the Start, My Wild Ball Fist Made Me Terrifyingly Strong! 综武：开局野球拳，我强得可怕！ Yang Xiong is unexpectedly reborn in a world of mixed martial arts, becoming an ordinary martial artist outside Xiangyang City! Luckily, his System arrives late but not absent, and he successfully unlocks the strategy guide to the Hundred Flowers Register. Raise a target’s favorability to a certain level, and you can claim a reward. And so, Yang Xiong begins his own conquest journey. 1.4kReads7.1Score14514d adds
- 37 Power at the Summit: My Gorgeous Female Boss! 权力巅峰：我的绝色女上司！ 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! 2.1kReads8.9Score17714d adds
- 38 Wait, I Don't Think This Is the Script I Was Given 等等，我拿的剧本好像不对吧 Jiang Li unexpectedly obtained a script System that lets him load any script he wants. All he has to do is steal the script’s protagonist’s opportunities, women, wealth, and other possessions to gain destiny points and earn System rewards. So whether a script’s protagonist is a Dragon King returning home, a divine doctor descending from the mountains, or an assassin king retiring to the city, the moment they meet Jiang Li, their stories get turned upside down. He puts his arms around the prota 689Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 39 Villain System: The Heroines All Call Me Master 反派系统：女主们都叫我主人 A new work is out! You can read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.3kReads6.5Score10114d adds
- 40 Transmigrated as a Fake Eunuch, From the Start I Had a Stunning Consort Kneel and Beg for Mercy 穿成假太监，开局让绝色妃子跪地求饶 Xia Fengchun accidentally transmigrated into the body of a eunuch... Though he wasn't really one... Still, it earned him a place in the imperial harem... From then on, the world gained a ruthless man known as the Nine-Thousand-Year-Old! The entire court bowed to him! 203Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Cashback Rewards: My Campus Belle Girlfriend Wants to Get Back Together! 消费返利：校花女友求复合！ [Over 200 Beauties + Feel-Good Fiction + Plot + Tycoon] The goddesses come from all over China, Europe, Russia, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. The protagonist accidentally awakens the [Spending Cashback + Multiple Women Bonding System]. He can only keep getting richer and stronger by spending money and winning women over! No time like the present! 18Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 42 The Emperor's Double: This Harem Is Irresistible! 皇帝替身，这后宫真香！ After transmigrating to the Great Qian Dynasty and becoming the emperor's double, how could I not be a foolish ruler who holds the power of the world by day and rests among beauties by night, with three thousand beauties in the imperial harem? 5kReads7.6Score36414d adds
- 43 The Empress Has Fallen from Favor, and the Fake Eunuch Is in Luck! 皇后失宠，假太监有福了！ Lin Yi transmigrated into a parallel-world Han dynasty and became the emperor's most favored fake eunuch. Emperor: “You can handle state affairs for me, Xiao Yizi. Now hurry up and come entertain me!” Empress: “Xiao Yizi, visit Kunning Palace often. I have something important to discuss with you...” Consort Wan: “Xiao Yizi, if you can help me depose the empress, I’ll make it worth your while...” 1.8kReads8.6Score11914d adds
- 44 A Love Story of Illness at Summer's End 夏末病恋物语 [Romance + yandere + multiple female leads + corruption + love triangle] Asai Makoto always thought kindness was only natural. He helped classmates carry things, cared for stray cats, and cleaned up other people's messes. Whether people depended on him or burdened him, he never turned them away. He just wanted everyone around him to be able to smile. Until one day, he realized things were starting to go wrong. His childhood friend became increasingly unwilling to let him get close to anyone else 2kReads6.3Score10214d adds
- 45 Pleasant Colors 爽色 A working-class man's extraordinary life, among the many kinds of women in the big city, where differences in status intertwine with social realities as he rises step by step. He swings between desire and reality. 1.1kReads6.8Score10414d adds
- 46 I Transmigrate and Become an Emperor, with Countless Women at My Side 穿越即大帝，我御女无数 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.5kReads6.1Score15814d adds
- 47 Villain Sign-In: I Stole the Protagonist's Master 反派签到：我抢走了主角师傅 Xiao Quan, the villain, obtains a Villain Sign-In System. Each time he signs in, he gets an opportunity meant for the protagonist. The first time, he obtains the protagonist’s Innate Sword Body. The second time, he maxes out the affection of the protagonist’s beautiful master. 479Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 48 I Am a Sword Cultivator of the Mortal World 我是人间一剑修 [Swordsmanship + Multiple Heroines + Reborn Immortal Venerable] Once, a tearful young girl asked him which was more beautiful: her, or the view from the peak of the Sword Dao. His answer was the sword. From that day on, the peak of the Sword Sect’s highest mountain was missing a certain slender figure in blue. Once, the most beautiful immortal in the Immortal Realm asked him, her eyes brimming with affection, whether there truly was nothing in this world worth holding on to. He answered with sil 11.6kReads7.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 49 Apocalypse: Starting by Threatening the Cool and Sweet School Beauties 末世：从威胁清冷和清甜校花开始 [Apocalypse + Illustrations + Rich in Detail + Vividly Drawn Female Leads] He returned to ten minutes before the apocalypse began. In his previous life, Xu Feng was a stepping stone thrown off a building by his classmates to feed the zombies. This time, his System awakened, and Xu Feng was thrilled. Except… something seemed off about this System? First mission: [Passionately kiss a goddess-level beauty in front of everyone]. So… Xu Feng faced Su Yuewei, the aloof campus belle who had just reject 2.7kReads7.7Score36314d adds
- 50 Reborn: I Opened My Eyes to a Gorgeous Woman. What a Rush! 重生：睁眼见到美艳的女人：爽飞 73Reads5.3Score—14d adds
