Novels like Shadow Operatives
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Shadow Operatives, best match first.
- 1 Film and TV Crossover: Tender as Raindrops 综影视：情柔雨滴 A yellow warbler’s journey Complete the journey and attain the Great Dao. A Dream Like a Rêverie (Shen Zhiyi) My Journey to You (Jiang Lili) Content warning: The female lead is hypocritical, selfish, and insincere. This is not a power fantasy where she cuts down everyone in her path. She mainly completes her missions by taking shortcuts through men and using others to do her dirty work. (Most worlds may feature a harem, with no more than two children.) Break up canon couples!! 871Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 2 Film and TV Crossover: A Bad Woman's Endless Fun 综影视坏女人其乐无边 [Film and TV + Black Lotus + No Moral Compass + Conquest Story + Toxic Heroine + Feel-Good Fiction + Mary Sue + System Golden Finger] Putting on an act comes naturally to people; playing with feelings is a game for the strong. As an illegal transmigrator, Yang Yuwei excels at feigning innocent bewilderment and manipulating people. Schemes, tricks, and calculated plans are nothing but romantic games when it comes to love. Fairness and justice? Moral boundaries? All nonsense. What matters most is 2.8kReads8.8Score10214d adds
- 3 Film and TV Crossover: Some People Never Learn 综影视：屡教不改 Abandoned and used by her own father as a pawn, Zhu Yang is forced to bind herself to a knockoff System and embark on a path to earn points and merit, all in pursuit of freedom. But a hero is never short on resolve or courage. Zhu Yang quietly lays her plans, tears her scumbag father to shreds, tramples her trash System underfoot, and walks steadfastly through the cracks in time and space. Everyone is just passing through. A tough woman never looks back. P.S. This is the everyday life of an ordi 5kReads8.9Score19514d adds
- 4 A Guide to Turning Villainous Supporting Characters Around in a Multiverse of Films and TV 综影视炮灰黑莲花逆袭攻略 Everyone has their own taste, so please don’t hate on it if it’s not for you! A universally adored Mary Sue heroine! The heroine is clear-headed and puts getting stronger first. A world-destroying Black Lotus escapes from the primordial world into the void. As she nears death, System 001 takes notice of her, and she begins cultivating to restore her true form. Working with the System, she enters small worlds to help the villainess turn her fate around. 1. Empresses in the Palace / Ruyi’s Royal L 14.1kReads8.9Score68714d adds
- 5 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 520.5kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 6 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score177.1k14d adds
- 7 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 984.6kReads9.9Score161.8k14d adds
- 8 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
