Novels like A Sea of Desire
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Sea of Desire, best match first.
- 101 The Corruption of Power 堕落的权利 Zhao Qiming, Qian Xiaotong, Qian Xiaoxia, Xu Shou, Xu Wei, He Yali, Han Baihe, Jiang Yan, Wang Dongcheng, Xiao Hua, Bao Yanhong, Bao Yanqing, Duan Yuxin, Shen Peijuan, and many, many others. All the names are fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental, so please do not assume they refer to real people. 1.1kReads7.2Score10314d adds
- 102 Doomsday Capitalist: The Yin Soldiers and the Female Emperor Are All Mine 末世资本家：阴兵女帝全都要 [Apocalypse + Tycoon + System + Rules-Based Horror + Multiple Heroines + Invincible + Feel-Good + Illustrated] The Age of Netherfog descended. An ancient psionic civilization collapsed, strange domains spread everywhere, and rules of death shrouded the world. While everyone else fought desperately to survive in the strange domains, Lu Yuan took control of the Netherbank Capital Board System and became the CEO who took over a bankrupt civilization. Swipe a Netherbank black card to negotiate and r 61Reads—Score12514d adds
- 103 This System Is So Improper 这系统不正经 [A short drama is in production. Stay tuned!] [System] [Multiple Female Leads] A few minutes later, there was a knock at the door. “Come in!” The door opened, and a beautiful woman in a matching work uniform walked in slowly, carrying a small case. She wore high heels and black stockings, looking irresistibly sexy and alluring. Her stunning face was lightly made up, like a peach blossom in full bloom. With her long black hair falling over her shoulders, she was the very picture of a beauty whose 525Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 104 Midnight Smoke Rings' Sixth Book 午夜的烟圈的第6本书 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! 73Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 105 I Awakened a Pure Yang Sacred Body and Proved My Dao to Become an Emperor 觉醒纯阳圣体，我证道成帝 Master the supreme arts and hold beautiful women in your arms! A young man who has just joined a sect somehow ends up entangled with its holy maiden. A life with cheat-like advantages is never going to be lonely! 1.2kReads8.4Score13514d adds
- 106 Don't Mess with That Rogue TCM Doctor 别惹那个痞中医 [Traditional Chinese Medicine + Taoist Arts + Feel-Good Story + Dual Cultivation and Leveling Up + Lighthearted Humor] Haoyang, a mysterious Taoist priest kicked down the mountain by his master, heads straight to his fiancée’s university with their marriage contract in hand. He thought he’d get an easy job as a security guard, but instead he kicks a tycoon’s son flying, saves a dying student with one needle, and throws the hearts of every beautiful teacher on campus into chaos. “You’re sick. I c 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Small-Town Romance 小镇风月 This thousand-year-old town prospered and declined with its shipping trade. In the 1990s, dance halls sprang up, bringing with them a case of stolen tax silver, a midnight murder, a police officer killing someone, and the murder of a dance hostess. As people fight over money, power, and love, the story also uncovers the heroic deeds of resistance fighters from the town fifty years earlier. The warmth and coldness of human life are distilled in the town's tales of love and desire... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 You Silly Boy, You're Home! 傻小子，回家了！ Qingshui Village, by the Qingshui River Sizhu became mentally disabled after an accident. One day, while sleeping by the river, he stumbled upon the village bully picking on his neighbor, Shao Tingting. That was the beginning of a wonderful and extraordinary life. 280Reads8.9Score17714d adds
- 109 Chen Wei, Village Doctor 乡村神医陈伟 [Countryside + Miracle Doctor + Urban Cultivation + Farming] Chen Wei was beaten into an idiot while in college and returned to his village in despair. He relied entirely on the care of his neighbor’s sister-in-law, until he unexpectedly obtained an immortal inheritance. From then on, he healed the sick and saved lives, farmed and raised livestock, and founded a company, steadily climbing to the pinnacle of life. 1.7kReads7.5Score18214d adds
- 110 Urban: I Returned Invincible from Cultivation, and the Campus Beauty Wants to Break Up 都市：修仙无敌归来，校花要分手 When Jiang Bei returned, he discovered that he had inherited the legacy of an Immortal Emperor. But the first thing Jiang Bei encountered was his stunning campus-belle girlfriend deciding he was a good-for-nothing and breaking up with him. To win back her heart, Jiang Bei made money appraising antiques, killed ghosts to pay off debts, and founded the Fengxuan Sect. Customer: “Can you complete any job I entrust to you?” Jiang Bei: “As long as you pay, I can kill ghosts or gods for you.” Customer: 83Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 111 Tales of a Con Artist 老千故事 Su Qing challenges the legendary gambler Mei Luo, hoping to avoid falling into someone else's trap. But her actions lead to her father's tragic death, and Su Qing herself is left in grave danger. After repeatedly risking her life, she sees the good and evil, and the injustices, in the world. To survive and avenge her father, Su Qing pushes herself to the limit again and again, ultimately escaping death by a hair. 151Reads—Score1214d adds
- 112 The Beauty's Golden Finger: The Bullied Office Worker Makes a Triumphant Comeback 美女金手指：受气打工人逆袭封神 An ordinary working stiff is chosen by a beautiful woman's golden finger. As the saying goes, repay a grievance with a grievance and a grudge with a grudge. A nobody from the bottom of the city makes his way to the top! Liu Buyi is just an ordinary wage earner at the bottom of the ladder, constantly bullied at work. The deal he'd worked himself ragged to secure is stolen, his achievements are claimed by someone else, his boss is unreasonable, his coworkers kick him when he's down, and even the g 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Flowers Beneath the Eaves 檐下花 This is a story of a woman’s journey toward self-growth beneath the eaves of a village home. She relies on no one and waits for no one. She will make her own spring bloom: she moves into a side room at her brother and sister-in-law’s home to live alone. The hushed late-night conversations between her brother and sister-in-law next door unwittingly become her belated introduction to love. 1.5kReads—Score15414d adds
- 114 Demonically Gifted Doctor: Chen Mo 妖孽神医：陈默 The female boss feels unwell and knocks on his door in the middle of the night, asking for medical help. Chen Mo: “Don't panic. Let your little brother take your pulse first, big sis.” After three years of being mentally impaired, Chen Mo unexpectedly inherits the legacy of a Medical Sage and awakens an x-ray divine eye. From then on, he cultivates both medicine and martial arts, living freely, practicing medicine to help the world, and traveling with beautiful women! 1.2kReads9.0Score26714d adds
- 115 The Wife at Thirty 三十之妻 “Dad... Dad, a bad man is hitting Mom... Waaaah...” His three-year-old daughter called him, sobbing. “Don’t cry, sweetheart. Where are you?” Chen Fei was frantic with worry. “We’re at home. Dad, hurry and save Mom!” His daughter was crying her heart out. Just as Chen Fei was about to ask more, he heard screams coming through the phone... 317Reads8.0Score13314d adds
- 116 Dusty Tales from the 318 Sichuan-Tibet Highway 318川藏线上的风尘往事 Broke female travelers + Highway 318 + Sichuan-Tibet route + hitchhiking + road trip + finding a wife My company was laying people off, and I was one of them. As if things weren't bad enough, my wife ran off with someone else. Down in the dumps, I headed west toward Tibet. This is the story of a beat-up camper van, the Sichuan-Tibet stretch of Highway 318, and more than thirty women with nowhere else to turn. Every one of their stories is more exciting than my miserable life. 33.6kReads8.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 117 The Flirtatious CEO Leads the Pure and Sensual Beauty Astray 巨撩霸总把纯欲美人带跑偏 (A devoted couple, sweet and steamy romance, seductive teasing, irresistible temptation, intense push and pull, rivals fighting for her, a romantic battlefield, happy ending, domineering devotion and scorching seduction) Mo Jinhan, a possessive, roguishly handsome man in a suit with a dark, obsessive charm, is both an overbearing CEO and an internationally renowned genius plastic surgeon. He’s swept Si Yue, a beautiful traditional Chinese medicine doctor who is gentle on the outside but strong w 682Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Rouge in the Tulou 土楼里的胭脂 In the Jianghuai region during the Republic of China era, earthen fortresses rise tall. The beautiful widow Qin Yuening is seized by the bandit Shen Keji, and a “wife-for-hire contract” seals her fate in his rough bandit stronghold. She once hated him to the core. She fled, tried to kill him, and even hung from the rafters rather than submit. He spends half his life conquering territory, all for the day she says, “I will.” When war reaches their doorstep, their bloodstained hands finally clasp t 1.9kReads—Score26114d adds
- 119 A Few Jokes 笑话数则 A collection of jokes 132Reads—Score1414d adds
- 120 The Peerless King of Medicine 盖世医王 When he opened his eyes, Su Ran, the Immortal Emperor, had been reborn on the day before his engagement was called off! In his previous life, he endured endless humiliation, and the woman he loved died unjustly, her heart broken. In this life, he vowed to protect everyone around him as the Immortal Emperor! 7.3kReads8.9Score79014d adds
- 121 The Seductive Wife 媚妇 [Divine doctor + countryside] College student Lu Feng is left a fool after the village chief harms him, but his enemy's fiancée wants to offer herself to him. Many people have persecuted them, but luckily Lu Feng gains the mysterious legacy known as the Nine-Eyed Divine Art. One glance makes beautiful women fall for him, one glance cures every illness, and one glance subdues all things. From then on, he becomes a renowned miracle doctor, treating the sick, taking on local bullies, pursuing beaut 6.6kReads9.2Score97014d adds
- 122 After Divorce, I Unlocked a God-Tier Goddess Conquest System 离婚后开启神级女神攻略系统 Tomato Originals + Urban Fantasy + System + Urban Romance After Lin Feng gets divorced and kicked out of his home, he steps out of the villa and unexpectedly unlocks the Goddess System. What? Fail a System mission and I’ll be punished? No way I’m letting that happen. What? Complete a mission and I’ll get a god-tier skill? Then I’ll give it everything I’ve got. From then on, he masters god-tier skills, builds a successful business, wins the hearts of goddesses, and starts a spectacular new life. 126Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Live-In Son-in-Law Runs Wild: You’ve Punched a Hole in the Sky! 上门狂婿：天都被你捅破了！ (I'm not good at writing blurbs, and I don't know how to hook readers in three chapters. All I can say is that each chapter is more exciting than the last. Friends, stay a while and give it a read!) [No Frustrating Setbacks + Invincible Lead + No Saintly Hypocrisy + Not a Monk + Multiple Heroines + Miracle Doctor + Tycoon + Countryside + Urban Cultivation + Master Descends from the Mountain + War God Live-in Son-in-Law] The plot avoids the usual clichés! The tone is funny and lighthearted! The s 160Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 City Son-in-Law: The War God Awakens and Sweeps All Before Him 都市赘婿：战神觉醒，横扫一切 Wang Chen is actually a God of War. Three years ago, he was ambushed and forced to marry into the Liu family, becoming a live-in son-in-law. After lying low for three years, his System finally awakens. He cuts down his enemies and sweeps all opposition aside! 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Summer After the College Entrance Exam, I Learned My First Lesson in Growing Up 高考完的这个暑假，我上了人生成长的第一课 That summer after the college entrance exams, I learned my first lesson in growing up. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Da Sha's Village Life 大傻的山村生活 Idiot + mountain village + farming + living together Wang Dafu has no parents and was born with an intellectual disability. Though he has plenty of strength, he's kindhearted and loves helping others, which also makes him an easy target for bullies. Luckily, a widow takes him in and turns him into the production team's workhorse. He thinks he'll live an ordinary life from then on, until one day he stumbles upon a divine artifact and his life takes a completely different turn. This blurb can't do 10.5kReads8.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 127 Anyone Who Breaks the Rules Gets Fired 违规乱纪者，统统都开除 Anyone who breaks the rules and flouts discipline will be fired, no exceptions. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 A Deadly Romance 致命情缘 In the 1990s, a stream of villagers headed south to find work on construction sites. The pain of leaving home, the hardship of being alone in a strange place, and the tangled ways of the human heart were all crammed into tiny workers’ sheds. Li Guixiang escaped after her husband used her to pay off a debt, while Chen Jianjun left his family and everything he owned behind to earn a living. Two people, each burdened by their own troubles, met and kept each other company, thinking they were only of 2.6kReads—Score18414d adds
- 129 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score55614d adds
- 130 Are You Using X-Ray Vision? Why Are You Looking Everywhere? 你透视呢，到处看是什么意思？ Luffy, an exploited office drone, is oppressed every day by his unscrupulous female manager. Then one day, he unexpectedly awakens the ability to see through things. With just a glance, he can spot other people's weaknesses. At last, it's his turn to take control! 1.5kReads6.5Score14414d adds
- 131 A Down-and-Out Life: Chen Chu Rises 落魄人生之陈楚崛起 [Moral Ambiguity + Goddess Collector + Forest Lumberjack + Peerless Divine Arts + Making Money Through Deception + Hundred-Billion Business Empire + Alternate Dimensions + Parallel Universes + Time Travel + Mysterious Alien Planet + The Extravagant Second District of the Human World + Mysterious Underground Third District + Comedy + Laying Low to Grow Strong] Inside the ring's spatial realm, he accidentally discovers alternate dimensions, parallel universes, time travel, and a mysterious alien p 1.1kReads8.0Score—14d adds
- 132 I Never Transmigrated, Yet I Became the Sect Leader of Beauties From Ancient Times 我没有穿越却给古代美女们当掌门 "Righteous and wicked in equal measure + Goddess collector + Forest lumberjack + Peerless divine arts + A hundred-billion business empire + Otherworldly space + Female disciples of the Qiankun Sect + Elven goddess + Dwarven saintess + Winged princess + Lizardfolk + Building an elven city + Battle to defend their homeland + Comedy and humor + Laying low and growing stronger" Chen Chu accidentally discovered an otherworldly space inside the storage ring his master had given him. There, he found th 197Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Dongguan, Dongguan: The Blossoming '90s 东莞，东莞，90繁花年代 This story is based on real life. One day, Er Gou said mysteriously to Li Minghui, “Ah Hui, did you know? I heard a new Taizi Bathhouse opened nearby. They say it offers a service imported from Thailand.” The story follows a protagonist who turns his fortunes around in the electronics business of the Pearl River Delta. In 1990s Dongguan, KTVs, nightclubs, and bathhouses offered a different kind of splendor. There were also pure-hearted romances between migrant workers over beef brisket rice nood 937Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 134 Quick Transmigration: I Am Your Comeuppance 快穿你的报应就是我 A long-form quick transmigration story, not a mindless slaughterfest. The heroine lives out a whole lifetime in each world. In every life, she first builds herself a good life, then takes revenge bit by bit. No fixed CP. Romance doesn't take up the main plot; it's only there to support it. A refined egoist. Hu Moli was a nine-tailed mystic fox. While weakened during her transformation, she was stabbed to death. She binds herself to a System and transmigrates across worlds, fulfilling the wishes 10.1kReads8.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 135 Every Day Is a Good Day for Love 无日不欢 Dear readers, please take a moment to leave a five-star review. Your support keeps me going. [One-on-one sweet romance + both leads speak their minds + possessiveness + both are each other's first + flirting + adorable baby] After drinking, Su Tingyun slept with a man, but woke up unable to remember what he looked like. When they met again, she mistook him for a truck driver. Shen Yuechuan thought he would never stop for anyone, but he was proven wrong in no time. Love may begin for no apparent 2kReads8.7Score12714d adds
- 136 My Goddess and I Switched Bodies 我和女神互换身体 [Superpowers + tycoon + satisfying read + no simping + multiple heroines] Chu Aishen, the foremost master of the Celestial Court's immortal arts, was framed and cursed with the Love Curse System before being banished to the mortal realm. Forced to complete romance quests, he could only regain his divine power by doing so. And so, a fiery beauty of a principal, a gorgeous campus belle, a jewelry heiress, a rose fairy, a milk tea shop owner... His blissful questing journey began. 644Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 137 Spoiled by Her 娇灌 The first time Jiang Wei met Zhou Zihao, all she could feel was fear and the urge to run away. But once she got to know him better, she learned what it meant for a tough guy to have a tender side. “There’s a puddle up ahead. Don’t move, honey. I’ll carry you over so you don’t get your shoes wet.” “The carousel is full? No problem! I’ll build you one at home.” “Can’t decide which gold bracelet to get? We’ll buy them all, and you can take turns wearing them!” A few warnings: 1. Not a mutuall 590Reads8.6Score10114d adds
- 138 The City's Ultimate Player in Love 都市情场高高手 Lao Liu, an urban office worker, unexpectedly runs into the girl he had a crush on as a teenager. After much hesitation, he decides to pursue his youthful dream. Through a twist of fate, he ends up meeting his dream girl’s cousin by accident. Caught between the two women, he is confused and carried away by his feelings, yet too timid to act... 445Reads9.4Score10514d adds
- 139 You Want Me to Turn Over a New Leaf? Just You Wait! 让我浪子回头？你给我等着！ Original title: Auntie, Don't Be Afraid Before taking his own life, Su Yang swore that if he got another chance at life... He would find someone who truly understood him! A woman who truly loved him! When he suddenly woke up, he found an older woman kneeling beside him. She was wearing a tattered pair of pajamas and trembling as she looked at him. “Please don't hit me, okay? I have to attend my child's parent-teacher meeting tomorrow...” 334Reads8.7Score10214d adds
- 140 The Country Doctor King 乡野小医王 After suffering a setback in love, Chen Yang returns home in low spirits and becomes a barefoot village doctor in Qinghe Village on Yunwu Mountain, hoping only to live a quiet life. Unexpectedly, he awakens the legacy of an immortal-world ancestor, unlocking extraordinary abilities. His miraculous arts defy the laws of life and death, bringing the dead back to life and healing even the most hopeless injuries. He can cure every stubborn illness in the surrounding villages with ease. Supreme culti 13kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 141 Tokyo: After the Madam Apologized, My Boarding Life Began 东京：太太道歉后，寄宿生活开始 My new work is out! You can find 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! 881Reads6.1Score10214d adds
- 142 Back-Kitchen Affairs 后厨韵事 Her ambition was not to become the queen of the kitchen, but to turn from Cinderella into a swan... Ye Rujiao was just an ordinary pastry chef at Fumanlou, working nonstop every day, until she stumbled upon the destination that could shatter every dream she had ever held: aboard the yacht of Han Zhenyu, the group’s second young master. A carefully staged “chance encounter” She put on a red bikini and her most striking lipstick, then “ran into” Han Zhenyu on the yacht’s deck. Champagne, sea breez 2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 143 My Sister-in-Law's Youth 嫂子的青春 Su Pingping had a happy, loving family, but after her husband died, everything changed dramatically. Having endured the hardships of life and the confusion of love, her attitude toward romance gradually... 4.4kReads6.4Score34914d adds
- 144 Nine-Tenths Foolish 九分傻 “Marital relations” used to be a taboo subject, but these days, people no longer find it hard to talk about. Studies show that the quality of a couple’s intimate life in a typical family has a major impact on its overall happiness. Behind a divorce rate as high as 70% there is often a direct connection to whether a couple’s intimate life is harmonious. This reality is sobering, and it has prompted us to think deeply about the reasons behind disharmony in married life. One major cause is mental i 606Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 145 The Irresistible Rich Young Master Leads His Rose Astray 巨撩富少把玫瑰佳人带跑偏 Wealthy-family wish fulfillment + dangerously seductive madman + a rose-like beauty + intense push and pull + domineering devotion and extreme flirtation + mutual salvation + happy ending A mad young master gives in to a moment of pleasure and falls in love. The rose-like beauty has ulterior motives and gets burned. Two wounded souls become entangled in a complicated relationship they can't seem to untangle. At first, the mad young master says, “I'm going to peel this unlucky woman apart, layer 327Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 146 I Thought I Was Here to Pick Up Girls, So How Did I End Up Cultivating Immortality? 说好泡妞，怎么修了仙 [Wish fulfillment + multiple female leads + dual cultivation + System + urban cultivation + no mindless decisions] (The rating just came out and will rise.) The last female Emperor of the Immortal Realm perishes. Her remnant soul drifts for thirteen thousand years before transforming into the “Love-and-Wealth Tycoon System” and binding itself to the destitute Lin Xu. The System alternately pressures and persuades him to approach one beautiful woman after another, tempering his cultivation throu 16.3kReads7.0Score1.8k14d adds
- 147 You Broke Up With Me for Being Poor, So Why Are You Crying and Begging Me Now? 嫌我穷提分手，转头你哭着求我？ You dumped me for being poor, and now you come crying and begging me? 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Peerless Foolish Doctor 绝世傻医 [Miracle doctor + countryside] Qin Xuehua: “You fool, I'm sick. Hurry up and treat me!” Chen Longxiang was born with a defect in his heart orifices, but an unexpected encounter grants him the legacy of a Celestial Master from Longhu Mountain. From then on, his life takes off, and he becomes a carefree miracle doctor in the countryside! 3.2kReads9.1Score59214d adds
- 149 I Used Memories from My Dreams to Find the Wife I Saw in Them 我凭梦境记忆追到了梦里的老婆 I Used Memories from My Dreams to Find the Wife I Saw in Them 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 The Carefree Little Immortal Doctor 逍遥快活小医仙 Ye Chen transmigrated to another world and acquired the all-encompassing Divine Dragon Art. With his superb medical skills, he can easily cure all kinds of rare and difficult ailments. Beloved by his patients, watch as this ordinary man steadily climbs to the pinnacle of life. 540Reads8.9Score12614d adds
