Novels like No Other Choice 1
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as No Other Choice 1, best match first.
- 51 After Rejecting a Broke Loser, I Landed a Million-a-Month Salary and Married a Tycoon on the Spot 拒婚穷渣男后，我当场月薪百万改嫁霸总 After Rejecting a Broke Loser, I Landed a Million-a-Month Salary and Married a CEO on the Spot 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代 Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a 10Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 53 You Try to Guilt-Trip Me and Pull Strings? I'm the Kind Who Shows No Mercy, Not Even to Family 道德绑架还想走后门？我可是六亲不认的主 You try to guilt-trip me and pull strings? I'm the sort who disowns even my own family. 242Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 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
- 55 Ten Years of Marriage: Only Now Do I Understand My Wife 结婚十年：才明白妻子那点事 Zhang Xixi works late into the night and comes home drunk. Ye Feng discovers that she is wearing… Was she cheating, or was there another reason? As Ye Feng investigates, he discovers something astonishing about his wife during their ten years of marriage…! 1.9kReads—Score11514d adds
- 56 The Young Traveler 少年行 In that moment, I truly understood why the poor stay poor. It isn't because we don't work hard enough. It's because of the environment we live in, the resources we have, our narrow-mindedness, and the few, fragile opportunities available to us. All of it traps my impoverished family in a struggle just to survive! I gave everything I had for a chance to “change my fate,” yet a single storm was enough to destroy it! 24.6kReads9.1Score2.6k14d adds
- 57 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 18.8kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 58 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
- 59 After Taking Down My Beautiful Master, I Took the Martial Arts World by Storm 撂倒美女师父后，我火爆了国术界 [Urban romance + life among all walks of society + traditional martial arts underworld] Also known as Wind Over the Martial Gate. During the summer vacation of 1984, a troupe came to our village. Its middle-aged troupe leader, a master of countless skills with his hair tied in a little braid, stayed at my house. He treated me terribly. Not only did he trick my beautiful mother into leaving with him, he also stole our family heirloom and drove my father mad before making him disappear... I was le 11.4kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 60 Those Years Working in Lingnan 岭南打工那些年 This work is a realistic urban novel based on my own experience of heading south to Guangdong for work in the late 1980s. It might be more accurate to call it a memoir of migrant work than a novel. The characters are all based on my colleagues, fellow villagers, and friends I knew well! I chose to write in the first person so that everyone in these pages would feel vivid and real, with a soul of their own. I hope readers will find the voice warm and familiar as they read or listen in their spare 18.7kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 61 Tales of Nanyang’s Old Town 南阳老城往事 Memories of a bizarre and absurd era, somewhere in the 1980s and 1990s. A girl vanishes into thin air; two murders over a pair of corneas, with a condemned woman repaying her debt at the execution ground; a thousand-year-old pottery shard traps a rich heir for life; a murder in a narrow alley shrouded in mystery; a disfigured old man fishes for ghosts by the river; a family’s secret history spanning half a century... These stories offer more than an eerie atmosphere. They focus on the suffering, 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 A Man of Savage Strength 男人凶猛 The whole point of this book is to show you just how miserable a man's life can be if he doesn't work hard to earn money! The sequel to Thirty Years of Life… 30.2kReads9.1Score2.9k14d adds
- 63 The Strongest Man 最强人 The strongest person isn’t the one who defeats others, but the one who refuses to be defeated by anyone or anything. Zhuang Xiaoqiang grew up in a poor family. His father’s downward spiral left the family on the verge of falling apart when Xiaoqiang was just eight. From then on, he shouldered the burden of supporting his family. He learned early how important money was to a household, and knew there was no one he could rely on. Everything he wanted had to be earned with his own hands, whether a 42.3kReads9.2Score4.8k14d adds
- 64 You're Almost a National Go Master, So Why Are You Still Going to College? 你都快成国手了怎么还来上大学 This book is the sequel to The Way of Medicine. My new book, From Village Doctor to Master of Chinese Medicine, is also being updated, and I strongly recommend that readers look it up. Chinese medicine has five levels: first, herbal remedies; second, decoctions; third, diagnosis and treatment; fourth, microscopic precision; and fifth, grandmaster. After graduating from university, most people only reach the level of decoctions. He had already mastered diagnosis and treatment before he even start 7.6kReads9.1Score94014d adds
- 65 The Rise and Fall of Boss Fan 范老板的沉浮人生 This story follows 1980s entrepreneur Fan Chenhui through the ups and downs of the business world in Shenzhen. It explores real-world issues including financial crises, family conflicts, workplace rivalries, and tangled relationships, portraying human nature and the changes of the times in vivid detail. 116Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 66 A Life of Dark Desires 黑欲人生 Keep your hands ruthless, your mind sharp, and your nerve strong. The martial world is a place where people devour one another. Talk about honor and reason? You'll end up without a bone left! [Blood-Soaked Martial World] [Love and Hate] [Powerful Background] [All the Right Ingredients] 16.3kReads8.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 67 All My Tenants Are Crazy Girls 我的房客全是精神小妹 [Middle-Aged Comeback | Urban Power Fantasy | Spirited Girls | System] At thirty-five, I was laid off, swindled out of my down payment by a marriage scammer, and saddled with a two-million-yuan mortgage. Just when I was at the end of my rope, a chime rang in my head. [Rebellious Girl Shelter System bound: Only spirited girls may move in. Two hundred yuan per person per day, paid instantly. No empty promises.] To everyone else, spirited girls were foul-mouthed troublemakers who smoked, drank, ran 338Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Classmates, Stop Chasing Me! The New Campus Belle Is My Girlfriend 同学们别追了，新生校花是我女友 [One female lead, ending in Chapter 406; the later bonus chapters feature two female leads.] “Boys, make sure you take care of yourselves when you’re out and about!” Lin Senmu was traveling alone. He had imagined all kinds of mishaps he might encounter along the way, but never in a million years expected the strange girl from the upper berth to squeeze into his lower berth in the middle of the night. “Mmm, my teddy bear!” The sleep-talking girl pulled Lin Senmu’s arm over and used it as a pillow 10.8kReads8.8Score1.4k14d adds
- 69 I Let Go of My Aloof White Moonlight and Chose the Fiery Queen Bee 放下高冷白月光，我选火热霸王花 “Fang Zhou, you’re a good person, but I deserve someone better!” In his previous life, Fang Zhou pursued Su Youxue for eighteen years, cherishing her as the one who got away and caring for her devotedly, never once giving up. But eighteen years as childhood sweethearts couldn’t compete with someone who had arrived just eighteen days ago. “I can’t settle just because you’re good to me. You want me to be happy, don’t you?” It was only as he lay dying that Fang Zhou finally understood: he had just 14.7kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 70 Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风 [Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn. 3kReads8.0Score12714d adds
- 71 My Wife's Secret Past 妻子的秘密往事 Zhang Xixi, the wife of Chen Sijie, worked late into the night, then came home drunk with a hickey on her back. Was she cheating, or was there another explanation? As Chen Sijie investigated, he uncovered a shocking secret… 5.1kReads8.6Score31814d adds
- 72 My Daughter Wants to Sell the House to Start a Business, So I Flipped the Dinner Table 女儿要卖房创业，我掀了饭桌 My Daughter Wants to Sell the House to Start a Business, So I Flipped the Dinner Table 738Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 We Had Eight Days Off for National Day. I Turned Our Homebody Vacation into a Seven-Day Trip, and Now Mom Regrets It 国庆放八天，我把家里蹲改成七日游后，我妈悔疯了 I Had Eight Days Off for National Day, So I Turned My Stay-at-Home Life into a Seven-Day Trip. Now My Mom Regrets It 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married My Fiancée’s Aunt 退婚后，我娶了未婚妻她小姨 [Rebirth + Yandere Romance + Dating-Show Love Triangle + Winning Her Back After a Breakup + One Heroine] In my previous life, you looked down on me. Now that I'm reborn, I'll become your uncle-in-law. On the day of his engagement party, his fiancée vanished without a trace. Just reborn, Zhuang Yan knew that Xia Wan was at that very moment fussing over her one true love. Remembering how, in his previous life, he had ended up with terminal stomach cancer and everyone turning against him, Zhuang 46.1kReads8.8Score2.2k14d adds
- 75 The System Keeps Taking Turns, and Today It's My Turn 系统轮流转，今天到我家 Multiple heroines, a harem story. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. I’ll say it three times because it matters. The male lead is 36. If that’s not for you, don’t read. No cuckoldry from the start, both parents alive, mostly everyday life, no business plots. Synopsis: Sun Jiawei is an ordinary man whose rough edges have been worn away by life. He has parents, no mortgage, uncertainty about the future, and a little hobby that all men 51Reads6.3Score1014d adds
- 76 My Son and Daughter-in-Law Schemed for My Retirement Savings. After I Cut Ties with Them, They Regretted It 儿子儿媳算计我的养老钱，我断绝关系后，他们悔疯了 My Son and Daughter-in-Law Schemed to Take My Retirement Savings. After I Cut Ties with Them, They Regretted It Too Late 480Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 My 23-Year-Old Northeastern Chinese CEO 我的23岁东北女总裁 Multiple heroines, wish fulfillment. A true top-tier hunter always appears to be the prey. Who’s the real prey? After his girlfriend cheats on him, he plans to get revenge on the rival who stole both his patent and his girlfriend. His target is Su Qing, a university professor. But the professor turns the tables and “gets revenge” on him instead. His phone rings. It’s the woman who treated him like a pawn and sacrificed him at the negotiating table just that afternoon, Lin Zhixia. “Come work with 10.8kReads8.5Score86414d adds
- 78 Reborn 20 Years Ago: From Street Tough to Upstanding Young Man 重生20年从顽主到四有青年 [Reborn] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [Everyday life] [Business rivalry] [Romance] [Martial world] Does being reborn count as rebirth if you have no memories of your past life? In 2024, business tycoon Chen Yuanping is framed and sent back to the autumn of his nineteenth year. A completely different life begins... At the foot of the imperial city, in Liulichang. A group of young people born in the sixties and seventies leave the crowded courtyard houses in the hutongs, carrying their dreams 4.2kReads7.5Score21314d adds
- 79 My Dad's on the Straight and Narrow, I'm in the Underworld 白道爹，黑道我 [Not invincible! Not invincible! Not invincible!] The martial world is a road of no return, and its people are pawns that have crossed the river! Where will the drifting ship in this forbidden zone finally end up? Watch as this wandering youth stirs up a storm! Black side: I've got countless brothers! White side: My backing is powerful beyond belief! Money is just something you can't bring with you when you die! [Entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental!] 100.1kReads9.0Score7.3k14d adds
- 80 The Age of Turmoil 折腾时代 Life is all about taking chances! In that restless age, Li Anran works in a big city, and her dream is about to come true. But when she returns to Qinzhou for a funeral, she's practically put under house arrest and told to stay and work in the small city. Zhang Huifei has the talent to get into one of China's top universities, but he unexpectedly fails the college entrance exam. To make sure his sister Li Anran can stay in Qinzhou without worries, he starts stirring things up... As a result, Li 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 A Post-00s Kid Helps Mom Take Down Her Scumbag Husband 00后帮妈妈整渣斗三 [Modern urban life + inspirational + slice of life + feel-good] Wu Jie is a poor student who loves gaming. After his parents' marriage falls apart, he defies fate and changes his life. First, he helps his mother take down her cheating husband and his mistress. Later, he helps his motherland root out scoundrels and traitors. Step by step, he rises to the brightest peak of his life... 4.3kReads9.1Score59214d adds
- 82 A Few Things About Property Management 关于物业的二三事 Here, property management companies are miniature bureaucracies, homeowners' committees are battlegrounds for human nature, and residential communities are arenas where everyone's interests collide. Welcome to A Few Things About Property Management, an “industry-banned” novel that once sparked heated debate for being all too realistic. See how the protagonist, Chen Guang, a deputy general manager stripped of his authority, survives an impossible situation without relying on connections or playin 125Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 83 After Losing My Job, I Took Odd Jobs in Xiaoqi 失业后，在小气打零工 His wife betrays him, and his career hits a dead end. Ye Feng becomes a part-time massage therapist. After his first client arrives, Ye Feng's life takes a strange and unpredictable turn. There is no System in this book...! 8.2kReads6.8Score49814d adds
- 84 The World's Number One Assassin 全球第一杀手 He survives beneath the light and walks through the darkness. Together, light and darkness weave a glittering world. Volume One: The Traditional Urban Assassin. Volume Two: A Dark Feast at the End of the World. (It leans more toward science fiction in the middle.) 18.9kReads9.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 85 I'm Dying, Can You Leave Me Alone? 我要死了，能别来打扰我吗？ (This story includes traditional mythology, mainly to set things up for the male and female leads. Let me say it again: the protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The mythology doesn’t take up much of the story. For reference, see Fox Spirit Matchmaker. If you don’t like it, please don’t read.) As for why it’s listed under urban slice-of-life, the System assigned the category automatically.) [Regret + No Forgiveness + Angst] In the face of 2.1kReads9.1Score17014d adds
- 86 My 1-Million-Year-End Bonus Became a 'Certificate of Encouragement,' So I Made Dozens of Times That Amount Back from the Company 100万年终奖变“鼓励奖状”，我反手从公司赚回几十倍 My 1-Million Year-End Bonus Became a "Certificate of Encouragement," So I Turned Around and Made Dozens of Times That Amount from the Company 199Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 You Asked Me to Take Your Sister to School, and You Got Together with the Teacher? 让你送妹妹上学，你和老师好上了 [Easygoing daily life]+ [One heroine]+ [No System]+ [Not reborn] Jiang Ning is an obscure online novelist who loves writing romance. When his parents had to go back to their hometown to visit relatives, he was tasked with taking his younger sister to school to register. He thought it would be an ordinary first-day registration, never suspecting that the wheels of fate had begun to turn. Jiang Wan: “Bro, do you like Teacher Zhang? I think she’s great. I want her to be my sister-in-law!” He t 13.3kReads9.5Score1.4k14d adds
- 88 After I Was Pushed Out in All but Name, the Whole Company Begged Me to Step In 被变相裁员后，全公司跪求我出手 After I Was Forced Out in All but Name, the Entire Company Begged Me to Step In 2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Reborn: Back in 1991 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1991当首富 Li Minyang, a high-ranking government official, unexpectedly returns to 1991, an era just beginning its transition from a planned economy to a market economy. A wave of entrepreneurship is sweeping the country, and countless future tycoons are just beginning to make their mark. Facing a treacherous wife and family members struggling to make ends meet, watch as he turns the tides, conquers the business world, and reshapes the future! 29.8kReads8.8Score3k14d adds
- 90 The Art of Healing 医路精诚 The companion novel to this book, I Am a Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor, is complete. The new novel, From Village Doctor to Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is currently being updated. Interested readers are welcome to check it out. At a time when traditional Chinese medicine is in decline, hospitals bearing its name are treating patients with Western medicine. Wang Chen, an heir to the Shanghan school, simply cannot stand it: even for a common cold, a traditional Chinese medicine ho 21.7kReads9.2Score2.3k14d adds
- 91 Third Sister 三姐 “If you don't talk about the world's troubles to everyone you meet, then you're someone who lives free of the world's troubles.” Never think too highly of people's hearts, and never underestimate human nature. Nothing is colder than human nature, nothing more chilling than people's hearts. Be a little kinder to yourself. A life in this world is hard-won, and every tribulation is fate. This is the strange coming-of-age journey of an innocent young man. Ordinary people dream of becoming immortals, 118.9kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 92 Reborn in 2001: I Start Boxing and Live Life to the Fullest 重生2001从练拳开始快意人生 [Rebirth + Pocket Dimension + Top Student + Traditional Martial Arts + Pressure-Point Techniques for Five Hundred Coins] Everyday urban life, reborn in high school, keeping a low profile at school, an ancestral martial arts manual, cultivating inner energy, mastering pressure-point techniques, dual-cultivation methods, a harem of multiple women, wealth, companions, techniques, and territory, exploring mysteries and searching for treasures, doing business and managing enterprises, fighting foreig 16.8kReads7.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 93 Who Said She Was Cold and Aloof? She Made My Life Miserable 谁说她高冷的？真是害苦了我 [Romance and everyday life + lighthearted comedy + one heroine + no System + not reborn] Every student at Jiang University knew that the campus beauty, Jiang Muhe, was breathtakingly gorgeous, yet no one dared approach this flower of the icy peaks. An unexpected incident after the college entrance exams led Chen Yan and Jiang Muhe to become friends by chance. As they spent more time together, Chen Yan realized that Jiang Muhe's cold demeanor came from her social anxiety. In truth, she was a soft 17.8kReads9.1Score2k14d adds
- 94 Fortunes Rise in Macau, but the Road to Wealth Is a Little Rocky 风起澳门，暴富的道路有点坑 I was doing all right in the human world. Then, out of nowhere, I was dragged up to heaven, only to be kicked straight down into hell. Now I'm in hell, but my heart is in heaven. Going back to the human world is nothing but a distant dream... Gamblers want to win, but casinos don't want to lose either. In this vast world, people of every kind are busy, all scheming and calculating. A mountain is a mountain, and water is water. Then a mountain is no longer a mountain, and water is no longer water 6.7kReads8.9Score38514d adds
- 95 My Irresistible Girlfriend 我的极品女友 After suffering through several heartbreaks, he lived a miserable, dejected life. By chance, he found a briefcase and discovered that its owner was a beautiful woman. The two met at a coffee shop, then grew close when the rain brought them together. After several chance encounters, perhaps fate really had brought them together, and love was about to bloom. A poor loser fights his way back in love, as a tangled romance is about to unfold. 37.7kReads9.5Score4.2k14d adds
- 96 After Our Flash Marriage, I Could No Longer Hide My Billionaire Identity 闪婚后，我的首富身份藏不住了 After a Flash Marriage, I Could No Longer Hide My Billionaire Identity 760Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 A Cruel Mother, a Broken Home, and Me, Unbroken 狠心的妈，破碎的家，不屈的我 [Male-Oriented, Rural, Family, Comeback, Power Fantasy, Inspirational] Abandoned by his own mother, abused by his stepmother, and struck by his father's sudden misfortune. Su Yang, a poor boy from the mountains, has been left battered by his family's cruelty. With no one to lean on and no support to count on, he can only fight his own way to survival. He studies hard, weathers turmoil on campus, and makes his way in the business world. His heartless relatives come crawling back to latch onto his 28.4kReads8.2Score2.3k14d adds
- 98 The More I Indulge, the Richer I Get: Living Life as I Please 越放纵越有钱，我享受肆意人生 [Urban Life] [Everyday Life] [Tycoon] When life is good, enjoy it to the fullest. Don’t let the golden cup sit empty beneath the moon! Chen Yang is a corporate wage slave who, hoping to make a life for himself in Shenzhen, scrimps and saves with his flight attendant girlfriend to buy a home. After years of living miserably, they finally do the math and realize it will take them another two hundred years to afford a house. His girlfriend is considerate and can’t bear to see him struggle, so she r 21.1kReads7.7Score1.8k14d adds
- 99 Billionaire: I Really Wasn't Trying to Make Money 首富：我真没想赚钱啊 [A trope-subverting story with a light, everyday feel.] Also known as [I Only Wanted to Lose Money, but I Ended Up with a Bunch of Sneaky Employees] and [I Only Wanted to Lose Money: Somehow, I Became the Industry’s Best Boss] After graduating, Chen Mo obtained a money-losing System. The more money he lost, the more personal wealth he would receive. Lose money? That was ridiculously easy. Chen Mo thought confidently, then promptly bought a clothing factory that was already losing money. What he 20.3kReads8.8Score1.9k14d adds
- 100 Reborn in 1985: A Different Life 重生85：不一样的人生 Search for the new book, Grabbing Success and Beautiful Women with Both Hands in ’98, for an even better read! [Period Setting] [Multiple Love Interests] [Cozy Daily Life] [Coal Mine Elements] [Making Money] This is a story that starts in a coal mine. In his previous life, he suffered from a terminal illness and died alone. But then he was reborn in 1985. He returned to Yanxi Coal Mine, the place he had never stopped longing for. Facing the woman he once loved, he decided to make up for his regr 22.9kReads8.4Score1.8k14d adds
