Novels like Burned to Ashes
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Burned to Ashes, best match first.
- 101 Be a Good Girl, or I'll Break Your Legs If You Run Again 宝贝乖一点，再跑腿打断 [College Campus + Yandere + The Pursuit of His Wife After the Breakup + Captivity + HE] Lin Lusheng is a picky face-con, and she first saw Qi Yan at the freshmen’s opening ceremony: At first glance: a guy. At second glance: a male college student. At third glance: her lifelong partner, a student in Class 221 of Nanchuan University’s dance department. Lin Lusheng went to great lengths to pursue him. But after she finally won him over, she discovered that Qi Yan was far too possessive, and she cou 4.5kReads8.8Score405Shelves
- 102 The Obsessive Female CEO Has Lost It, and the Villain Gets Kissed Until He Cries 偏执女霸总疯了，反派被亲哭 [Devoted Romance + Lighthearted + Subverting the Usual Tropes + Two Strong Leads, Obsessive Female CEO X Adorable Rabbit-like Villain] A nobody transmigrates into a book as a female CEO, and the System actually wants her to play a pervert? Obsessive System 009: “Host, maintain your obsessive persona to complete your domineering-love missions. Fail, and funds will be deducted from your existing inheritance. Succeed, and you'll get money back.” Wait, money back? Well, money doesn't matter. She jus 838Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Sweetheart! Don't Divorce Me! Your Husband Is a Brooding, Obsessive Yandere 妹宝！别离婚！你老公是阴湿病娇 [Short drama adaptation released] [Six-year age gap + spoiler comments + marriage by contract + sweet and steamy + both leads are virgins + secret crush becomes mutual] [Brooding, yandere CEO × catlike, adorably clueless girl] Wen Duo has a strange condition called “skin hunger.” When it flares up, only cuddling can ease it. A year into their arranged marriage, her cold contract husband will only hold her when her condition acts up, and even a kiss has to be initiated by her! Wen Duo feels terri 11.8kReads8.3Score1.5kShelves
- 104 The Regent’s Cage 摄政王的囚笼 The Regent's Cage 6.6kReads—Score—Shelves
- 105 A Tender Romance Between Beijing and Hong Kong 京港旖旎 [Possessive pursuit + yandere + stealing her from another man + powerful man humbled + both leads are sexually pure] [Sweet and demure heroine vs. unhinged, obsessive hero] He Xingzhi, the most powerful man in Harbor City, set his sights on a beauty. Patiently playing the gentle gentleman around her, he pressured her to break up with her boyfriend and laid an inescapable net around her. One winter night, the villa was plunged into darkness. He pinned her against the door, ignoring her boyfriend 9.5kReads8.1Score1kShelves
- 106 Rice Tastes Better: Book Two 米饭吃起来的第2本书 71.5kReads9.2Score6.8kShelves
- 107 A Heart Full of Longing 春心难捱 [I'm Only 19, But My Son Is 18 + He Begs for Her Back + The Cocky Guy Takes the Lead + A Little Wolf-and-Bunny Romance] [Quiet, Sweet Student x Bad-Tempered Tycoon] The Zhu and Meng families have been close for generations. Zhu Lingyu and Meng Ke have known each other since childhood and are engaged. Everyone around them assumes they're a couple and will get married one day. Only Zhu Lingyu knows that the man who indulges her in every way has always held someone else in his heart. She thinks he' 114.5kReads9.3Score15kShelves
- 108 President Fu Gets His Marriage License with His White Moonlight, and Goes Crazy When I Marry Someone Else 傅总跟白月光领证，我嫁人他疯了 Everyone knows that Fu Tingshi, the young master of the Fu family, is Luo Jingxue’s boyfriend, the man she has pursued and loved with all her heart for years. Fu Tingshi treats her with cold indifference, but she is convinced he loves her. Until she sees him being gentle and attentive to another woman, caring for her tenderly. Worse, to give that woman respectability, he secretly registers their marriage, turning Luo Jingxue, his actual girlfriend, into the other woman. “She’s dying. This is her 7.8kReads6.6Score403Shelves
- 109 Locked Away in Beauty: The Mad King’s Possessive Love! 锁朱颜：疯王的强制爱！ Locked Beauty: The Mad King's Forced Love! 209Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 His Majesty Thinks About Assassinating Himself Every Day 陛下每天想着暗杀自己 (If you don't like this, don't read. The male and female leads are both sexually inexperienced, it's love at first sight, he pursues her, sweet romance, one-on-one.) Jiang Wan died in a car accident at the age of twenty in her previous life. Reborn in another world, she became entangled with an emperor with dissociative identities. (The first personality, Mo Sichen, is deep, restrained, and unfathomably shrewd. He is cold and ruthless, with the art of imperial rule etched into his bones. His lif 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Day and Night Trapped in a Rental by a Yandere! 被病娇囚在出租屋的日与夜！ Days and nights imprisoned in a rental apartment by a yandere! 796Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 The Good Girl Leaves the Scene, So Why Is the Capital's Playboy Jealous? 乖乖女退场，京圈浪子怎么眼红了 [Playboy with a carefree attitude × sensible, obedient woman + powerful man lowering his head + winning her back after losing her + both sexually inexperienced] Ling Jue is a wind you can never catch. Qin Shuyi is a willow, quiet and at ease. One is free-spirited and unrestrained; the other follows the rules. These two, so utterly different, began with an offhand “let’s have some fun” and ended with an ordinary “I’m bored.” In this game of a playboy turning over a new leaf, everyone involved onl 102.2kReads9.2Score12.2kShelves
- 113 My Devotion Was Worthless to Her, So I Reborn and Dumped Her Without Hesitation 倒追的深情比草贱，重生果断分手 [Xu Zhiyu and Qin Yang, showbiz, a sweet and satisfying campus romance after rebirth, the campus heartthrob and top student, the young master, and a regretful chase to win her back.] Before her rebirth, everyone knew that Xu Zhiyu from Peking University’s finance department was the campus heartthrob Qin Yang’s devoted doormat. From her first year onward, she was at his beck and call, ready to be summoned and dismissed whenever he pleased. People mocked and ridiculed her, but she remained unmoved 3.1kReads6.8Score105Shelves
- 114 Madam, Sir Is at It Again: Crying, Throwing a Tantrum, and Threatening to Hang Himself! 太太，先生又在一哭二闹三上吊！ A cool, aloof beauty with a sharp mind x a shameless, clingy flirt who wears his heart on his sleeve [Angst and regret, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending / Star-crossed love / Bittersweet] Xie Suidong was a rakish thug, while Xu Jingqiao was cool and indifferent. They were worlds apart in every way. After they married, someone asked why he had married Xu Jingqiao. With a cigarette dangling from his lips, Xie Suidong replied with a mix of swagger and solemnity, "My family told m 50.6kReads8.8Score4.9kShelves
- 115 Deliberate Seduction 蓄意诱夺 [Second Chances After a Breakup + Possessive Pursuit + Coercive Love + Powerful Man Chases His Wife + Older, Daddy-Type Hero] The biggest regret of Bai Qingying’s life was getting involved with Bo Si, the all-powerful god of Jing City. He was just like his name: lacking in virtue and restraint, doing whatever he pleased. - When she first met him, she was still dating Xu Wangchuan, one of Bo Si’s subordinates. Back then, she had politely raised her glass to him, and he had smiled and nodded. She 25.3kReads8.7Score2kShelves
- 116 Miss Li Always Fights for What She Wants 黎小姐她又争又抢 [Both leads are inexperienced + nine-year age gap + face-slapping + sweet romance + groveling to win her back] [Shrewd, reserved Beijing tycoon] vs. [ seemingly sweet but secretly rebellious girl next door] Li Duo fell for her brother's best friend at the age when love first blossoms: a man nine years older than her. “Did you ever have feelings for me, even just a little, all these years?” “No. I only see you as a little sister.” After that, Li Duo avoided every gathering that Ji Jinchuan might 5.4kReads7.4Score337Shelves
- 117 For the Rest of My Life, I'll Love You as Always 余生，爱你如常 [Devoted Couple in Beijing’s Elite Circle + A Long Road to Winning Her Back + Female Growth + Powerful Man Bows to Love] Four years ago Yu Sheng was madly in love with Ji Bochang, but the Ji family forcibly sent her away. Before leaving, Yu Sheng threw caution to the wind and asked Ji Bochang, “Do you love me?” Ji Bochang answered without hesitation: “No.” Four years later Yu Sheng returned to Beijing and reunited with Ji Bochang. She had a boyfriend now, and a new life. When she saw Ji Bochan 20.7kReads7.6Score1.3kShelves
- 118 Nothing but False Affection 区区假意 [The Chase Begins After the Breakup] [Mutual Firsts] In the third year of their marriage, Li Man asked for a divorce. She admitted that she had been the one who benefited from this marriage. She had gone from a nobody to a phoenix. That was why Lu Jiushu despised her and couldn’t wait to leave her. She was human, not made of iron. This loveless marriage had worn her down until she was numb. But during the divorce cooling-off period, the man who had never come home started returning every day. He 10.8kReads8.3Score748Shelves
- 119 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Is Actually My Mom 恶婆婆竟是我亲妈 My Evil Mother-in-Law Is Actually My Biological Mom 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Today Is a Good Day to Break Up 今日宜分手 [Rekindled romance + groveling pursuit] Because of a promise made while drunk, she spent several years foraging wild vegetables. The year Wang Sinian graduated from university, he promised her that if they were still together five years later, they would get married. That promise kept Jiang Wanlu hooked, sticking to Wang Sinian like a burr he couldn't shake off. Wang Sinian's friends often joked that she was his free nanny, and secretly bet on when the two of them would break up. Even Wang Sinia 13.5kReads7.8Score735Shelves
- 121 1985: I Married a “Good-for-Nothing” 1985，我嫁了个“窝囊废” 1985: I Married a “Good-for-Nothing” 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 A Materialist Makeover for the Vicious Female Supporting Character 恶毒女配的唯物主义改造 The Materialist Makeover of a Vicious Supporting Female Character 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Ensnared 迷陷 (One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, showbiz) The heroine loses herself in love at first, but later walks away decisively. A bittersweet-to-sweet story that rewards patience. What does it feel like to love someone with all your heart? Tang Ning thought that as long as she could be with him, she wouldn't mind being hidden away in a dark corner forever. “Where are you?” A man's low, lazy voice came through the phone. “Hengdian. I just got off work.” After a brief silence 5.7kReads8.9Score495Shelves
- 124 The Yandere Tycoon Forcefully Claims His Husband 病娇大佬强势锁夫 His name was Ye Chen, a boy who had never had much ambition. His parents were quite pleased, because they believed a peaceful life was a good life. Her name was Lin You. She grew up in F Continent, where her father trained her to become a killing machine. After returning to her home country, she founded the Xinyi Group all by herself. She was a woman with little affection for anyone. Then, by chance, they met. Lin You kept Ye Chen at her side, and no matter what he did to escape, he always faile 2.6kReads9.0Score177Shelves
- 125 She's a Brat, He's Happy to Be Played, and He Spoils Her Relentlessly 她不乖，他甘愿被玩，死命哄着 [He secretly loves her + she’s only having fun + after years apart, a poor boy returns as a Southeast Asian power broker] [Carefree, spoiled heiress X cold on the outside, wild and passionate poor boy] A bet gives Cen Wan one month to make Shen Qingci, the aloof campus heartthrob, fall for her. He is the untouchable flower no girl has ever managed to win over. She gets him in just three days. Cen Wan has never cared much for anything that comes too easily. Once she gets bored, she plans to dump 10.2kReads8.5Score853Shelves
- 126 Share a Bed in Life! Share a Grave in Death! She Can't Escape After Being Forced to Become His Wife 生同衾！死同穴！强夺为妻逃不掉 [Possessive love + classic melodrama + love that never comes with time] [A frail, beautiful woman who gives in after marriage VS a deeply devoted man with an overwhelming need for control] Everyone envies Lou Wantang. She’s only the daughter of a county magistrate, yet she gets to marry Prince Chen, a man of great power, and receive his undivided favor. But only she knows she was forced into it. In other people’s eyes, Pei Sijin is a man of noble status, handsome and strong, and a devoted, fa 26.8kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
- 127 After She Lost Her Memory, She Thought I Was Her Husband 她失忆后，以为我是她老公 After She Lost Her Memory, She Thought I Was Her Husband 2.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 128 A Wild Kiss for the Butterfly 肆吻蝴蝶 [Sweet-faced, scheming, unhinged, sickly young master VS outwardly harmless but actually ruthless, sharp-tongued female bodyguard] [Starts with a hellish chase to win her back, mutual redemption, happy ending, bittersweet, more sweet than sour] Luo Chu was the little girl Rong Yu brought home. He doted on her and indulged her, making the whole world believe he loved her, Luo Chu included. “Don't be afraid, Rong Yu. I'll take you home.” “From today on, I'll be your blade. I'll kill anyone who bul 3.8kReads8.2Score195Shelves
- 129 I'm a Spy, and I Switched Bodies with an Enemy Officer 我，奸细，和敌方军官互换身体了 [Soul swap + faked death + mild coercion + push and pull + groveling pursuit + romance-focused] Xu Lian, a conscientious spy, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and callously abandoned by her organization. To take revenge, she uncovers a secret family technique and swaps bodies with an enemy officer that very night. Song Jinze, a top commander who stands above everyone else, wakes up one morning in the body of a lowly slum dweller. After the swap, they begin a battle of wits. Xu Lian has forg 28.6kReads9.4Score4.2kShelves
- 130 Our Wedding Night! The Mad, Obsessive Sicko Dragged Me to the Delivery Room 新婚夜！我被疯批病娇拖往产房 [Unhinged, domineering, yandere father-figure hero + soft and sweet heroine + age and status gap + Coercive Love + Sweet Romance] Everyone in Jing City knew that Huo Jinghan wielded immense power. He was the biggest tycoon in the city, feared even by its most powerful families! The girl was raised on his financial support. From childhood, she respectfully called him Sir and was both in awe of him and afraid of him. Once she came of age, all it took was for her to accept a gift from an older male 4.1kReads7.4Score305Shelves
- 131 After the Princess Gives Up, Her Tutor Wants a Happy Ending Again 公主放弃后太傅他又想he了 The day Fu Hanzhi gave up on Chi Wenyu, snow began to fall over Shengjing. The young Grand Tutor sat behind his desk, his expression as detached as the snowflakes drifting outside. His gaze was as cold as ice that would never melt, yet a rare smile tugged at his lips. It was a mocking smile. He said, “Princess Zhaorong is nothing special after all.” So, right in front of him, Fu Hanzhi pulled from her hair the jade hairpin she had once spent ages begging him to give her. Her black hair tumbled l 7.4kReads8.5Score615Shelves
- 132 After Being Publicly Punished for My Sound Sensitivity, My Heart Died Completely 听觉过敏被当众体罚后，我彻底心死 After Being Publicly Punished for My Auditory Hypersensitivity, My Heart Finally Died 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Mrs. Xie's Exit 谢太太的退场 Animated comic now available] Older woman-younger man romance + wealthy family feuds + rekindled love + regretful pursuit of his wife + mutual fidelity + male lead gets put through the wringer. She was 25 when she married him, who was 23, and became Mrs. Xie. In Lin Yao's eyes, Xie Jingchuan was always gentle and refined, as if everything were under his control, every inch the man in charge. She knew this marriage was nothing more than a loveless alliance between their families, so she guarde 114.8kReads7.3Score4kShelves
- 134 Breaking Free 脱笼 (A romance about a paper-doll character who awakens, breaks free of the plot, and falls for a younger man.) [Dark, scheming, crazy, possessive male lead VS clear-headed, money-making heiress; younger man, both leads are each other's first and only.] When Song Zhenxing discovers she's merely a minor character in a wealthy-family romance novel, destined to die by suicide after being attacked online, she decides to shed her weak, delicate persona. She turns on the scumbag, builds her fortune and ca 7.1kReads9.2Score863Shelves
- 135 My Former Patient Is a Psycho Who Forces Me to Be Their Exclusive Caregiver 疯批前病患，强制锁我做专属护工 My deranged former patient is forcing me to be their exclusive caregiver, keeping me under lock and key. 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
- 136 A Marriage Sweetened with Roses 宠婚诱玫 [Beautiful, resilient girl-next-door heroine vs. refined older power player] [Whirlwind marriage + sweet pampering + love after marriage + love at first sight + powerful man bows his head] - Li Jingmei was born poor but was stunningly beautiful and innocent-looking. To escape an arranged marriage, she fled from a remote backwater to the bustling city of Jing. That night, a driver in an unlicensed cab harassed her. As she fled, she deliberately crashed into a man and stumbled into his arms. “Plea 114.8kReads9.1Score12.5kShelves
- 137 A Fog Too Dense to Cross in the Capital 京雾难渡 [Cool, stubborn heroine x vicious troublemaker] [Beijing elite circle x forced love x broken up and reunited x angsty melodrama with a happy ending] When Song Qingwu broke up with Zong Yu, she did it decisively. He didn't try to stop her at all. He just stood with his back to her, smoking on the balcony. “Think it through. I don't get back together with ex-girlfriends.” Song Qingwu nodded. “I know.” Maybe he was embarrassed because she was the one who dumped him, or maybe her answer had come to 40.8kReads8.6Score4.5kShelves
- 138 Reborn to Win Back His Wife: Mr. He's Runaway Pregnant Treasure, Kiss Me 重生追妻，贺总的在逃孕宝乖乖吻 [Both reborn + win-her-back redemption + coercive love + the powerful one bows his head + rekindled romance] Do you believe that someone who once loved you deeply could suddenly become utterly cold toward you? In her previous life, she jumped from a high-rise right in front of He Yanting. Before jumping, Jiang Xu stroked her pregnant belly. “Actually, this child is yours.” “He Yanting, if there’s another life, I never want to marry you again.” Reborn, she did everything she could to stay away fr 14.8kReads6.9Score739Shelves
- 139 The Mad Male Lead Is Sick, and I’m Here to Treat Him! 疯批男主他有病，我来治！ [1v1, devoted only to each other and mutually doting: cool, gentle, stunningly beautiful heroine with a perfect figure vs. obsessive, chaste, possessive, fiercely loyal male lead] Ran Weiyi is a traditional Chinese medicine student who felt sorry for the obsessive male lead in a novel, and cried all her tears for him. The original heroine enjoyed the male lead's wealth while despising him as a madman, desperately trying to escape and even plotting to kill him. The male lead, Ye Mochen, was torm 24.1kReads8.7Score2.3kShelves
- 140 After My Conquest Failed and I Switched Targets, He Turned Dark and Fell in Love with Me 攻略失败切换目标后，他黑化了，爱我了 After My Conquest Failed, I Switched Targets. He Went Dark and Fell in Love with Me 5.3kReads—Score100Shelves
- 141 The Ultimate Gold Digger: She Climbs to the Top Through Marriage Fraud 顶级拜金美人：她靠骗婚上位 (The rating just opened and will rise later, so enjoy without worry.) [Clear-eyed gold digger beauty × amnesiac tycoon | Deception before love | Push and pull | The husband chases her after the divorce] Jiang Lai is beautiful, calculating, and vain, with her heart set on marrying into a wealthy family. Her roommate has a top tycoon’s heir for a fiancé, yet secretly cheats on him with another man in their dorm. Jiang Lai stares at the bewitching face in the mirror, with only one thought in min 20.2kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 142 The Moon Fell for Her 月亮为她沉陷 [The aloof heartthrob x the spoiled, wicked heiress | Sweet secret crush | Mutual seduction, one-on-one | Each other’s first love] Chen Qingzhuo was the famous aloof heartthrob of A University’s affiliated high school: calm and modest, handsome, and academically gifted. Everyone saw him as a favored child of heaven, carefree as a summer breeze. The first time Ye Zhen saw him, he was kneeling on one knee to feed a stray cat at school. His gaze was lazy yet tender, soft enough to melt your heart. 13.1kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
- 143 Only After I Died Did I Learn My Whole Family Had Transmigrated 我死后才知，全家都是穿越者 Only After I Died Did I Learn That My Whole Family Had Transmigrated 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 A Tempting, Piercing Passion 诱引刺情 Rekindled love / reunion after a long separation / HE “A cunning beauty from the voice-acting world × a rough-hewn tattoo artist” Duan Jingci was trapped in prison for six years, while Qi Zhi spent those same six years keeping herself imprisoned outside its walls. When they meet again, she is his client, sitting alone in the tattoo studio in nothing but a CK camisole, bold and aloof. Duan Jingci’s gaze darkens, and he says hoarsely, “Qi Zhi, you’re even wilder than you were back then.” Qi Zhi’s 7kReads9.2Score703Shelves
- 145 After I Stopped Being a Doormat, the Cold Boy Turned Dark 不当舔狗后，清冷少年黑化了 [Yandere forced love + groveling redemption + a System with little presence + funny moments and references] Defiant but timid heroine X wicked, cruel yandere Shen Suihuan dreamed that Lou Yan tortured her to death. When she jolted awake, she was told it wasn't a dream, but her fate. She was just a cannon-fodder supporting character in the novel The Aloof Campus Heartthrob's Domineering Love, born to be a stepping stone on the leads' path to love. To stay alive, Shen Suihuan drew up a plan overni 16.8kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
- 146 Oral Fixation Disorder 口欲期病症 A lively, down-to-earth heroine versus a highly intelligent male lead with antisocial personality disorder. (Devoted one-on-one couple, possessive love, cross-cultural romance, the male lead is mixed-race and a complete psychopath. A complete psychopath. A complete psychopath.) Blurb One: A coworker told Li Li that a handsome, black-haired, green-eyed mixed-race man lived in the villa across the river. Li Li delivered meals there every day for three months, but never once saw any handsome mixed- 59.9kReads9.2Score8.4kShelves
- 147 Trembling Kisses in His Arms 于他怀中颤吻 [Unhinged, possessive young master × sweet girl who gets a thorough comeuppance after trying to seduce him] Fu Shaoting is at the very top of the powerful elite in the capital, with an arrogant, handsome face to match. Fang Tang had secretly loved him for eight years, and every time, she tried to come up with an excuse to cover it up. “I had no choice...” - When her lie was exposed, Fu Shaoting proposed a marriage of convenience, and Fang Tang agreed. He sneered: “So you can sleep with me and th 555Reads—Score106Shelves
- 148 Uncle, Don’t Run Away 小叔别逃 Uncle, Don’t Run 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 What If Uncle Is Platonic Toward the Fake Heiress? 万一小叔对假千金是柏拉图呢？ (The untouchable beauty falls from her pedestal + deliberate seduction + seven-year age gap + uncle) [Scheming, well-behaved fake heiress × powerful political heavyweight] Song Ci had a dream. In it, she was a fake heiress who had been switched at birth, while her fiancé's beloved, a poor but brilliant country girl, was the real heiress. Later, her fiancé teamed up with the real heiress, exposed Song Ci's identity, and sent her to a psychiatric hospital. Unable to bear the humiliation, she slit 198kReads9.4Score40.1kShelves
- 150 Caught While Trying to Escape, She Keeps Getting Kissed by Her Deranged, Obsessive Lover 逃跑被抓，她总被疯批病娇亲哭 [Two yanderes, campus life, taming a man] Shen Zhiyan wants to see a yandere go completely mad for her, so she sets her sights on Xie Yan. Xie Yan is cold in both temperament and appearance, a seemingly flawless beauty on a pedestal in everyone else’s eyes. Shen Zhiyan relentlessly pursues him. Xie Yan clearly has feelings for her, but stubbornly refuses to admit it. Shen Zhiyan: Okay, keep denying it. I’m leaving. Shen Zhiyan finds herself a boyfriend, and Xie Yan immediately loses it. But too 6.6kReads9.0Score843Shelves
