Novels like The Disaster Manual
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- 51 Book Transmigration: The Author Keeps Digging Pits and Never Fills Them 穿书：作者她挖坑不填 [Multiple CPs + Ensemble Cast + Arcs + Fantasy Cultivation] Each arc has a different protagonist, and the story is linked through the perspective of Jiang Zuiwan, the nominal main character. The type of each arc will be marked at the start: BG, GL, or female-no-romance, with a small amount of BL as well. -- Jiang Zuiwan suspected that some kind of unclean thing had set its sights on her. With the major exams approaching, she was dreaming every day, and all the people in her dreams were ancient f 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Ocean Adventure: The Treasure-Seeking Braves 海洋探险之夺宝勇士 What kind of beginning should a person's life have? When the wheel of fate turns and you draw the worst possible lot, how can you turn things around? Whether the odds are against you because of your circumstances or fate itself, you must never give up and must dare to take on challenges if you want to carve out even a chance for yourself. See how the young Zhou Tian rises from the bottom and leads his crew on a treasure hunt, where he unexpectedly meets a mermaid and falls deeply in love. See ho —Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 53 The Living Yama Ruan Xiaoqi: The Sequel 活阎罗阮小七后传 After the campaign against Fang La, Ruan Xiaoqi is appointed commander-in-chief of the Gaitian Army, but can’t find the government offices and is housed in a dilapidated temple outside the city. An imperial edict soon arrives, granting him two bottles of royal wine. But the decree condemns him as a “great bandit of Liangshan” who “wore the dragon robe to flaunt his power,” and orders him to take his own life. After reading it, Ruan Xiaoqi throws back his head and laughs. He strangles the eunuch —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Livestream: You Tell Stories, I Bring the Chaos 直播：你讲故事，我花式整活 [Livestreaming + Comedy Antics + Sign-In + Singing + Novels + System + Food] Jiang Xu was a little-known streamer whose channel was as quiet as a forgotten corner. He scraped by every day by coming up with quirky stunts. Life was uneventful, until an unexpected turn of events bound him to the Livestream Comedy Antics System. The rules were simple and blunt: call a fan, listen to them tell their story, then either sing it or complete a sign-in through some kind of stunt to unlock a reward. For th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 After the Cool, Handsome Class President Was Pursued by the Bully 清冷校草被恶劣校霸缠上后 [Persistent, Malicious, Jealous School Bully Pursuer × Cool, Aristocratic, Two-Faced Campus Heartthrob Love Interest + University Campus + Two Male Leads + Rivals + Both Powerful + Both Chaste + HE] Lu Jinye is a notorious school bully at Kyoto University: arrogant, overbearing, vicious, and guilty of every kind of misdeed. He has another identity too: the younger son of the chairman of the Lu Group. With powerful backing, Lu Jinye has even the school administrators and teachers giving him spec 1.1kReads8.2Score122Shelves
- 56 A Sleepless Summer Night 未眠的夏夜 The secret crush that began in middle school slowly took root and grew through the days of high school. The summer night held the rhythm of a fluttering heart. Across opposite ends of the city, distance could not stop their hearts from leaping. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Two-Eyed Epic of a Logic-Obsessed Madman 逻辑疯子的双瞳史诗 [Two Female Leads + Fantasy + Supernatural Combat + Ensemble Cast + Class Struggle] For seven days straight, Wu Qingyun has suffered the same nightmare: a blood-red banquet, a red-eyed girl, and corpses covering the ground. Then monsters invade the real world... This isn't a dream. It's a hunt. Her twin pupils awaken, and her powers of deduction reach godlike levels. In life-or-death moments, Wu Qingyun can “see” crucial images and use razor-sharp reasoning to find her opponents' weaknesses. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Marriage Partners 结婚合伙人 Yang Wentao wants to get married, so he goes to a matchmaking session and receives a document titled “Marriage Project Cooperation Plan.” It’s full of wild ideas: building a marriage without relying on love, using a game-like points system to divide housework, and treating family members as business partners or colleagues... As project partners, each party has their own responsibilities and gets what they need. They work together on what they have in common, while continuing to grow as individua 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Husband Became the Male Lead 穿书后，我老公变成了男主 [Transmigrate Into a Book] [Yandere and Unhinged] [Redemption] Wen Shuran was complaining to her best friend about a video she'd recently watched. The male supporting character was incredibly handsome, but the screenwriter had killed him off. She swore she'd kill the screenwriter. In her dream, Wen Shuran chased after the screenwriter, demanding justice for the male supporting character and insisting he be brought back to life! Instead, she unexpectedly transmigrated into the novel and became it 996Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 My Deskmate Is the One I Adore 同桌是白月光 Mutual Secret Crushes + Reunion After Years Apart + Both Leads Are Chaste A year after graduation, novelist Liang Jiawan decided to take the civil service exam so she wouldn’t lose touch with society and could have a stable job. To improve her chances, she signed up for a civil service prep course. On her first day, she was stunned: her deskmate was Gu Mingchang, who had sat beside her in high school. The two had been on the verge of something back then. If she hadn’t turned down his confession, 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Unspoken Tales of Mountains and Seas 子不语，山海 All things have a spirit. Why did ancient times have all kinds of myths and legends, while today we have all kinds of urban legends? This world never belonged to humans alone. The Classic of Mountains and Seas records all sorts of strange mountain beasts and sea monsters. Is it just an ordinary book, or is there more to it? Where did those beasts and monsters come from? And where did they go? Perhaps they still live among us. Follow an ordinary person as he enters the boundary between the human 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 62 The Last Frontline: Reset Edition 最后战线重置版 At 9:30 p.m. in the year 6001, the Anomaly suddenly appeared. Humanity reclaimed Earth from the Anomaly’s fog, and the years 5000 to 6000 became a golden age. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 I Was Content to Live a Poor Life with My Dao Companion, but I Was Forced to Come Clean 原本和道侣过清贫的苦日子，我被迫摊牌了 I was supposed to live a humble, hard life with my cultivation partner, but I was forced to reveal the truth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 After I Transmigrated, I Just Wanted to Slack Off, but After My Transformation, My Senior Sister Livestreamed Her Pursuit of Me 穿越后只想摆烂的我，变身后被师姐直播倒追了 After I Transmigrated, I Just Wanted to Slack Off, but After My Transformation, My Senior Sister Started Livestreaming Her Pursuit of Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Ink Jade 墨珵 Jing Yu’an was the revered Lord Yu’an of Cangwu Peak, admired by thousands. Yet on his first trip to the human world after emerging from seclusion, he unexpectedly met Luo Lingxiu, the master of the Wansheng Hall. They met under ordinary identities: one was called Yun Jing, the other Ling Mochen. More than a hundred years later... “Ah Jing, I heard the peach blossoms on Yushan are in bloom.” “Good. Let’s go to Yushan, and not return to Qianjing Cliff.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Ten Years of Qi Refining, and My Spear Is More Driven Than I Am 凝气十年，我的枪比我还卷 Other cultivators compete over talent. Chen Yuan competes against time. Ten years after joining the sect, he's still stuck in the Qi Condensation Realm. Everyone says he'll never reach Foundation Establishment in this lifetime. Until one day Chen Yuan unexpectedly discovers a black spear in his sea of consciousness. The spear is strange. It can devour spiritual energy. It can devour spells. It can devour the power of weapons. It can even devour other people's cultivation techniques and divine ab 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Starting with Negative Affection, I Win Over the Tsundere Fox Empress by Reloading Saves 开局负好感，我靠读档攻略傲娇女狐皇 Starting with a negative affection score, I use save-scumming to win over the tsundere Fox Empress —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Ashen Armor, No Return 烬甲无归 The Ashen Armor Has No Homecoming —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Far Away, Yet Flying Farther 远非远飞 [Ensemble Cast] [Strong Female Lead] [Romance Is Not the Main Plot] [No Transmigration or Rebirth] "Who are my parents? And who covets my mother's keepsakes?" "Once you become strong and gain enough influence, I will tell you everything." "What does it mean to be strong? What does it mean to have influence?" "It means I have no choice but to answer you. It means the world believes you, even when you tell a joke that even a child would laugh at." Mu Yuanfei has traveled across several provinces 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 I Said I’d Be the Villain, So Why Did All the Valkyries Surrender? 说好当反派，女武神怎么都投了？ I agreed to play the villain, so why are all the Valkyries switching sides? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 The Mechanism Sword Immortal Doesn’t Want to Be a Lampwick! 机关剑仙不想当灯芯！ The Mechanism Sword Immortal Doesn't Want to Be a Lampwick! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 I Exposed the Perfect Cultivation World 我戳穿了完美修仙世界 I Exposed the Perfect Cultivation World —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Reborn Seven Years Ago, I Personally Killed My Past Self 重生七年，我亲手斩了过去的自己 Reborn After Seven Years, I Personally Cut Down My Past Self —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 I Love You in the Depths of Xiqing Rong 我在溪清嵘深处爱你 Steady, devoted, highly skilled fourth prince (gong) x lively at first, later composed scholar seeking revenge (shou) Sweet romance, putting villains in their place, revenge, and court intrigue “Arong, I killed the people who destroyed my family with my own hands. Aren't you happy for me?” Situ Jingrong couldn't speak. He could only gather the ethereal beauty, trembling and holding a sharp blade, into his arms. Shou: Just after Xu Qingxi was born, his family was massacred. Of the entire clan, on 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Drone Instructor? The CEO Begs Me to Stop Pretending 无人机教练？女总裁求我别装了 [Secret identity + secret marriage + domineering female CEO + business warfare] Lu Chen is a drone instructor and the hidden mastermind behind "Cloudwing," a low-altitude industry venture. Gu Qingyue, the icy CEO of a trillion-yuan family empire, is forced to marry a playboy. After an accident, she takes him to register their marriage, gives him 200 million yuan in monthly spending money, but forbids him from working. He laughs at her clumsiness, playing along while secretly stirring up a storm. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Help! The Sect’s Pride Framed Me. Should I Come Clean or Follow Procedure? 求助！宗门之光诬陷我，我该直接摊牌还是走流程？ Help! The sect's pride framed me. Should I come clean right now or follow the proper procedure? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 I Lived in Seclusion for a Century, Then Found an Overworked Sword Immortal 关于我隐居百年，却捡到过劳剑仙这件事 About how I lived in seclusion for a hundred years, only to take in an overworked Sword Immortal —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 After Being Demoted to Menial Servant, I Handed the Sect Over to the State 被贬杂役后，我把宗门上交了 After being demoted to menial disciple, I handed the whole sect over —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 She Makes It, It Eats It, and She Can't Escape 她做，它吃，她插翅难飞 No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Growth + Power Struggles + Cute Creatures Unlucky Qing Shangchuan choked to death on a dessert and transmigrated into a beast-taming world. Qing Shangchuan: “Talk about one disaster after another. My life is truly miserable.” After finally awakening a skill, she discovered that the one she’d unlocked was dessert-making. Qing Shangchuan: “That’s adding insult to injury.” Still, she was lucky enough to meet the companions who mattered most to her. The real kicker? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Spirit Lord of Ten Thousand Realms 灵主万域 The path of cultivation leads to understanding the mysteries, commanding every spirit, transforming a thousand possibilities, subduing heaven and earth, defying the natural order, and venerating the Sacred Ancestor. Only then may one pray for the descent of the gods and rule over all domains! [Traditional fantasy + no filler + never dropped + no brainless decisions + plenty of satisfying moments + fast-paced] 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Apocalypse: I Dig Beneath the Earth to Find an Immortal Sect 末世：我在地下挖仙宗 [A Cultivation World After a Catastrophe, Not the End of the World on Earth] After the disaster, the immortal path fell apart. Spiritual energy withered, while foul energy ran rampant. The earth's ley lines were severed, and immortal sects sank beneath the soil. The ruins are riddled with danger. Digging through them in search of treasure has always been a near-certain death sentence. "Xiao Lai, where are you? Want to grab dinner together tonight?" "Thanks, but no. I'm underground, just finished —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Just Transmigrated and Already Facing Expulsion? Too Bad, Your Spirit Beast Is Mine 刚穿越就要被废？可惜，你的灵兽归我了 I Just Transmigrated and They're Already Trying to Strip Me of My Powers? Too Bad, Your Spirit Beasts Belong to Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 A Gentle Breeze Carries Me to You 清风徐徐知遇你 [Youthful Unrequited Love + Missed Chances] Complete. New story now underway. When they met as teenagers, Xu Jing shone like a light in Jiang Qing’s life. After he helped her several times, Jiang Qing fell for Xu Jing and secretly loved him. But when you love someone, you have to reckon with time and reality. On the day the college entrance exams ended, Jiang Qing summoned the courage to confess, but overheard Xu Jing talking to someone else and gave up. Years later, when they meet again, Xu Jin 24Reads—Score101Shelves
- 84 After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Saved the Female Lead of My Tragic Novel 穿书后我救了我的虐文女主 I transmigrated into Yan Zhenzhen, the most tragic princess in the novel I wrote, and from the start, I was stuck eating rancid meals in the Cold Palace. In the original story, my childhood sweetheart betrays me, the Second Princess torments me, and I eventually die a miserable death in a political marriage. But when I knock a cruel servant unconscious with my keyboard on a stormy night, a man's amused voice comes from the shadows: “Even on the frontier, I've never seen a princess pull a move li 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 The Dark Night Medical Codex 暗夜医典 Ye Xiao was once the castoff of the Blood Moon family. After being reborn following an assassination attempt, he finds his cousin usurping power, his beloved transformed into a puppet double, and himself threatened from all sides. Then an accident brings him the mysterious tome, The Dark Night Medical Codex. Its pages are made of human skin, and it contains forbidden knowledge on merging bloodline descendants with cybernetic implants! Using the tome, Ye Xiao awakens the ability to “reconstruct f 4Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 86 The Eldest Daughter Is Trouble: Nine Beatings in Three Days 长女不好惹，三天打九顿 Transmigration? Rebirth? Or simply being born again wherever you please? Does reincarnation mean being reborn along the flow of time? Does humanity still have a future? Or do the present, past, and future all exist at once? A car accident sent Ye Qingyan to an unknown dynasty. Her father was a drunk, her mother was lazy, neither parent cared for her, and her two younger brothers were crying out to be fed. Her uncle's family was deceitful, and her paternal grandmother favored them. From the start 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Nightmare Reset 噩梦重置 After stumbling into a dream game, the protagonist joins forces with the System to eliminate viruses and purify the game. How can they escape this eternal prison? Whose prayers should they heed? What is true Venusian beauty? Can paper cranes and nursery rhymes hold back the spirit of the tower? Should they forget or remember? Could there still be miracles beneath the deep blue sea? Why do the roses never wither? Faced with bitterness or joy, what will you choose? One game instance after another 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Lady Uchiha Madara Wants Me to Confess 宇智波斑大小姐想让我告白 (Canon-compliant, one female lead, gender-swapped Madara Uchiha, no transmigration or System, bad ending) Many years later, when the blade of his once-dearest friend pierced his heart without missing, Madara Uchiha would likely remember the day they stood together, gazing down over a vast forest and talking freely as they sketched out their dreams. “Madara, when we grow up, let’s join hands and build a village here where war can never reach.” “No... That’s not enough.” “Huh? What do you mea 82Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Bury Me in the Spring Named After You 把我埋葬在，以你为名的春天 I met you for the first time in the summer of my second year of middle school. Back then, my mother was still alive, and my family was still happy. In the hospital room, I remember your fair skin and deep eyes, your lowered lashes curved like crescent moons. The breeze in the hospital stirred my heart with the slightest touch. My father paid for your surgery, and that summer, you got a new heart. I never imagined that when we met again, you wouldn't remember me. I'm grateful I stayed in Yunzhong 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 After My Princess Identity Was Exposed, the CEO Insisted on Coming Home With Me 本公主掉马后，霸总非要跟我回家 [One woman, three men + all three competing fiercely for her] A princess from a matriarchal realm lands in the modern world and faces an overbearing CEO who dominates her at every turn, a rakish, unhinged crime boss, and a cold-faced police officer who has loved her through countless lifetimes I transmigrated into the body of a male CEO's special assistant, and my golden finger for controlling time got disabled with a single click. Furious, this princess ran away in the middle of the night. Yea 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Rise of the Celestial Empire: The Warlords Vie for Supremacy, Starting in Jinling 天朝争霸：从金陵开始群雄逐鹿 (An ensemble cast, slow burn, no heroine. A story of contending warlords.) An age of chaos begins with an eternal calamity. Who will scheme to seize the throne? Peace and paradise are extravagant dreams. Evil and bloodshed nurture the heart of a demon. Among the wicked and the outlaws, heroes are born. Thieves and monsters yearn to return home. A hundred schools strive to save the world, yet the world remains in turmoil. No ordinary man can choose whether to rise or fall with it. The ambition to 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 My Childhood Movies and Cartoons Have Been Turned into Silly Novels 童年影视动漫，被写成沙雕小说了 Do you remember racing home after school just to catch that familiar theme song on TV? From the Calabash Brothers’ “Monsters, give me back my grandpa!” to the madcap chases in Tom and Jerry, Doraemon’s all-purpose pocket, and battling monsters and clearing levels in Super Mario Bros. to rescue the princess, these cartoons, anime, classic films and TV shows, and classic games are some of the most vivid memories of our childhood. With a lighthearted, humorous touch, this book reimagines beloved a 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Summer of 2005 零五逢夏 A transmigration-themed story about entrepreneurship. At 50, after a life of mediocrity and years of being put down and emotionally manipulated, a woman transmigrates and finally discovers the ambition to reach for the sky. The coldness of the world is crushed and swept away. The human world isn’t a dead end, but a vast sea of mortal life. Golden finger: reborn, meets fellow reborn people, and later the male lead’s soul transmigrates into another body. The leads are not each other’s first. Both 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Star Art Chronicles: The Destiny of the Divine Descendant 星诀录：神裔的宿命 On the day the divine beasts fell, the Four Tribes ran rampant. Twenty-eight Star Art Seals were scattered across the land, awaiting the chosen one destined to save the world. The legendary Star Art patterns spread across the body, but who could wield their power to destroy heaven and earth? An ordinary man, Baili Weiyue, bears the burden of saving the world and sets off alone on a legendary journey. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Gu Xiangxingchen 顾想星辰 [Urban high martial arts] [No System] [Urban supernatural powers + transmigrate] This book is called Love at First Sight, I’ll Use My Superpower to Protect the Heiress. After the book’s trial run succeeded, the original title hadn’t been changed, and I just couldn’t keep a straight face. People in this world possess a special power within their bodies. This power is called spiritual energy. Those who possess it become supernatural experts, revered by all. One day, a young man named Ye Qin was pi 17Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 96 Reborn in Another World, She Wants to Become a God 转生异世界，她想成神 Western fantasy + progression + multiple races + adventure After dying and being reborn, Daisy is given a second life. She possesses rare magic attuned to every element, but lacks emotions. In this world, however, mastery of every element does not make someone a prodigy. The more elements one has, the more muddled one’s magic becomes, and the harder it is to specialize. In everyone’s eyes, it is merely a flashy but useless “waste of magic.” Her lack of emotions is seen as a “sword of Damocles” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 High Martial: No Great Generals Among the Gods? This Daoist Will Do It Himself! 高武：神中无大将？道爷自己上！ [Gender-Bender + Second Transmigration + National Fortune? Style + No Last-Minute Rescue + No Cultural Break + Cards] (A powerful tune starts playing: “Oh, life, can’t you let me off just this once? ♪...”) Ling Xing: ! So, can I transmigrate after the crash, at least? “You are destined to be bonded with this ‘vessel.’” In her dream, a nine-tailed fox spirit, bewitching and regal, pierced her heart with a single finger. This was a pact spanning three thousand years. The ancient secrets of the I 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 I Really Don't Want to Be the King of Filth 我真不想当污秽王啊 [Urban Superpowers, No System, No Transmigration, No Cliches, No Brain-Dead Plot, Lighthearted and Funny. Fans of Dragon Raja and Slay the Gods, come on in!] Have you ever wondered whether the negative emotions drifting in the sea of the human mind could accumulate and transform into man-eating “Blight”? Have you ever wondered whether, under the crushing weight of negative emotions, people could break free from the constraints of humanity and descend into murderous “Shadows”? Do you believe that —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Secret Antique Shop 旧物秘舍 [No Golden Finger | Wits and Strategy | Mystery and Twists | A Cast of Complex Characters | Clues Hidden Everywhere | A Blend of Laughs and Tears] When other people find antiques, they get rich overnight. When Lin Yu finds old objects, he only stumbles upon truths that someone deliberately erased from them. With no System and no ability to see the future, he relies solely on his exceptional powers of observation and logic to run an inconspicuous old-object repository. The things brought here a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Give the Shooting Star Back to the Night Sky 把流星还给夜空 Give the Shooting Star Back to the Night Sky —Reads—Score—Shelves
