Novels like I Opened My Eyes in 1988: A Crumbling Mud House and Two Motherless Kids
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- 101 The Demon Catcher of Great Qi 大亓捉妖人 Demons run rampant across Great Qi, bringing misery to the people. Ding Fan, a demon hunter in the Imperial Demon-Suppression Bureau, is driven by a deep-seated hatred of demons and travels far and wide to hunt them. At first, his cultivation is weak, and powerful demons often abduct him. Though danger lurks everywhere, he also encounters countless opportunities. He joins a sect, obtains a famed sword, and masters the Nine Swords of Tai Bai. From then on, he cuts down demons and cultivates along 3.9kReads9.3Score39214d adds
- 102 Win Them Over? Not a Chance! 攻略他们？不存在的！ [Plot-driven, slow burn, ensemble cast, fictional ancient world, borrows some A*B*O elements, plot-focused, includes a side couple. If this bothers you, move along.] Right after winning the lottery, Qin Qi transmigrated. His luck was simply “ridiculous”: he had landed inside an otome game that his former company had shut down, and become a minor NPC named Su Yuzhen. The System he was bound to offered him a way out: “Help the heroine find love, and you can return to your original world.” Qin Qi g 110Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 103 The Way of Chaos, Immortals, and Demons 混沌仙魔道 Born with blocked meridians, I refuse to believe fate has the final say... One thought can make you an immortal, another a demon. Whether you become an immortal or a demon depends on a single thought in your heart. Among the myriad paths of the world, the Dao of Chaos reigns supreme. Where the sword points is where the heart longs to go. 712Reads—Score10214d adds
- 104 Survival by Sequence: The Money-Spending System 序列求生之消费金钱系统 [Written by the author personally + not mindless + not invincible + Sequences + the eerie + road survival + apocalypse survival + sci-fi + clear logic] The world suddenly plunges into an eerie apocalypse. The only way to survive is to awaken a Sequence, join a convoy, and obtain a ghostly artifact. All kinds of powerful horrors attack the convoys, which also encounter other groups on the road. Survivors scheme against and slaughter one another. The protagonist, Yue Nan, obtains a System that let 2.1kReads5.9Score10414d adds
- 105 Keep Sleeping, Don’t Wake Up 继续睡，不要醒 [Infinite Dreams + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Horror + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Bizarre + Romance + Sophisticated] Lin Du has been dreaming ever since he was born. He often wakes with a start in some strange room and desperately flees to a subway station, only to discover that his every move is being livestreamed and everyone is watching. When he rushes out of the subway, he finds himself sitting in a car with no end, where every passenger is horrifyingly strange. The car stops at one st 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Quick Transmigration: The Soft, Adorable Beauty Is Always Spoiled 快穿，软萌小美人总被宠坏 Male/male, one-on-one, both pure, sweet and doting romance, memory loss in each small world, with a System! Soft, adorable beauty uke × possessive, protective, wife-devoted seme Xue Ci fell into a deep coma after a car accident in the real world. His consciousness shattered, and he was drawn into a restoration system called "Homeward Journey." The System told him that if he entered different small worlds to complete restoration missions and collect scattered fragments of his consciousness, he co 13.4kReads8.9Score2.3k14d adds
- 107 Chinese Paladin: The Five-Spirit Fist Emerges, and Ling'er Hears My Thoughts 仙剑：五灵拳现世，灵儿听我心声 [Sword and Fairy 1 TV Series Fanfiction + Male Lead Grows Without a System + Mind Reading + Yao Yue CP + Happy Ending] Su Yunyi transmigrates into the world of the Sword and Fairy 1 TV series after an accident, and ends up stranded on Fairy Spirit Island. Zhao Linger kindly takes him in and treats his injuries. But to his surprise, after Su Yunyi wakes up, Zhao Linger can hear his thoughts. What’s more, while on the island, Su Yunyi unexpectedly awakens the Five Spirits Fist, a power that does 433Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 108 Divine Punishment Descends 神罚莅临 The virtuous suffer poverty and die young, while the wicked enjoy wealth and long lives. When you are oppressed by evil, have you ever wished, even for a moment, that the underworld existed? If it did, would you dare to peer into it for even one-millionth of a second? The year quantum computing underwent a revolution, Company R offered an answer: the Cyber Underworld. Professor Qi Yuan used computer simulations to resurrect sinners in a virtual world after death, where they would endure eternal 222Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 After He Took Me by Force, the Dark Overlord Became Addicted 强制侵占后！暗黑大佬他上瘾了 Just got the rating, it’ll go up [1VN + unhinged power players + self-serving heroine + no saintly heroine + no melodrama + holds back at first, then slaps back hard + equally formidable leads] The leads are enemies. Her mother is dead; his younger brother is dead. They’re at each other’s throats in public, but sickeningly sweet in private. Their secret relationship is exposed. People say that if someone had a daughter like her, even her mother wouldn’t rest easy in the afterlife. At one person 1kReads9.4Score13614d adds
- 110 Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情 Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself. 526Reads8.9Score11114d adds
- 111 Night on the Mountain 山上的夜晚 A Night on the Mountain 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 My Three Wishes 吾有三愿 [Mad Queen x Reclusive Power Behind the Throne] [Past and Present Lives] [Sweetness and Angst] [Fated Redemption] [Alternate World] (This story focuses on [Two Powerful Leads Growing Together] and [Profound Devotion]. Sweetness and angst intertwine. This is not a mindless power fantasy, so read with care if that's not your thing!) In their previous life, in the modern world, the two parted forever on a snowy night! He sat in a wheelchair dusted with snow, and his three wishes ended in regret as 59Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 113 The Celestial Immortal Sect 天外仙宗 The Immortal Sect Beyond the Heavens 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Village Rumors 乡里流言 Rumors in the Village 157Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Back to the 1990s: A Political Science Graduate's Son-in-Law 重回90，从政法女婿开始 No womanizing, no System, one female lead, a serious officialdom novel, a crime thriller set in a past era, and a fiercely protective wife. A slow-burn story, written simply to make you smile. During the urban transformation of the 1990s, crimes were rampant and restoring order was an urgent priority. Li Feng, once an experienced grassroots criminal investigator in the twenty-first century, was reborn by accident in 1996 as a young captain with a master's degree in criminal investigation. He w 2.9kReads8.2Score21214d adds
- 116 The King of Immortals in the City 都市仙王之王 When Feng Xiaolou was twenty, his parents mysteriously disappeared, leaving him only an oral account of his family's past. The once illustrious Feng clan, a family of cultivators, now had no one but him left to fend for himself. Forced to drop out of school to make ends meet, he scraped by doing odd jobs in Jiangcheng. Starting with the Yin-Yang Mirror, he began his journey from ordinary mortal to peak powerhouse. Guided by the mirror, he took control of Jiangcheng's economic lifelines and estab 45Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 117 Life as an Extra in a Cultivation World 在修仙世界做路人日子 Li Xiaoniu is an ordinary passerby, as ordinary as they come. So why do I have a spiritual root? Why was I assigned to live with the male lead? Why do I have to take the blame for him? And why do I have to deliver a letter from the female lead to him? Please stop treating me like a useful tool. Even passersby have their dignity… Years later, looking at the male and female leads living in blissful wedded harmony, and the pile of gorgeous supporting heroines tossed my way, I suddenly think this is 6.3kReads8.1Score47414d adds
- 118 System? Didn't I Just Bind to One? 系统？我不是刚刚绑定过了吗？ [Transmigration] [Dual Systems] [Multiple Heroines] [Hilarious and Absurd] Everyone else gets cheat powers from a single System. My two Systems spend every day fighting each other! Ye Ao transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation. His name happens to match the legendary online-game ID "Ye Ao, What Can You Do About It?", accidentally activating an online-game System. He thinks he is about to sweep across the immortal world with cheat powers all the way, but who could have guessed a whol 8.6kReads8.3Score82114d adds
- 119 Taking Control of the World, Starting with the Patrol Office 从巡检司开始掌控天下 The protagonist, Wang Shisan, is a low-ranking ninth-grade patrol officer in the Yuwo Patrol Office of Luzhou. From the government offices to the martial world, he uses his blade and his wits to break through deadlocks, unite forces, and climb step by step. In the end, he overthrows the decaying imperial regime and ascends the throne. Ruling the world is not his final goal. Leading his loyal and valiant followers, he conquers the globe and puts an end to war through war, until the Dragon Banner 250Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 120 Ten Lifetimes of Entanglement, All Ending in Tragedy 十世纠缠皆成殇 Dual male leads, one-on-one romance, a love full of hatred, cultivation, transmigration, reincarnation, and heartbreak. He transmigrates in a dream, taking over someone else's identity. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds the original owner's enemy standing before him. And that enemy is none other than the supreme ruler of the Demon Realm! At first, Jiang Li thinks it's all a dream. Carefree and sharp-tongued, he eventually enrages Shang Ying and gets a thorough beating. Only then does he rea 147Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 121 After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend's Scam 领证后，我戳破了女友骗局 After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend’s Scam 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Heavenly Realm 天域 Shen Dong lives in seclusion deep in the mountains with his alcoholic father. He has made his living chopping wood since he was ten, though his father has secretly taught him a wealth of knowledge. When Shen Dong turns eighteen, his father passes away. Following his father’s dying words, Shen Dong goes down the mountain. At an inn, he meets Cai Qingquan, a transmigrator, who cheats him out of all his money. Later, the head chef arranges for him to enter Shenglin Academy. His outstanding literary 47Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 123 The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall 对门的离异邻居 Lately, I've noticed my husband keeps going over to the neighbor's place. Don't let that woman's plain looks fool you. She's got a real knack for handling men... I thought, So that's how my husband, Zhang Baishun, got involved with her, right? Later, I remembered the day I stabbed her... "Honey, you're home!" As soon as I walked in, I was so tired I sank onto the shoe-changing bench and couldn't be bothered to move. My husband, Zhang Baishun, stopped putting on his jacket and came over to me. "I 1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Trapped in My Boss’s Office... 被困上司办公室后…… After Getting Trapped in My Boss's Office... 509Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Exchanged Taste 被交换的味道 Her boyfriend suddenly found someone else. Shen Dingding felt terribly wronged. Ten years... She had waited for a marriage certificate that never came, only to be met with a betrayal planned long in advance. Wuchang Ping looked like he had lost his soul. He watched his girlfriend of ten years, Shen Dingding, as she went about her usual routine, chopping vegetables in the kitchen. Her old apron, the smell of cooking oil, her messy hair, and her pilled sweater... Then he thought of the lovely per 7.9kReads—Score16314d adds
- 126 How to Deal with Annoying Neighbors... 遇到扰人的邻居，就这样办…… This is how to deal with a troublesome neighbor... 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 127 After I Transmigrated, I Gave Up, but My Target Started Pursuing Me Instead 穿越后摆烂我被攻略对象反攻略了 Dual male leads, everyone's favorite, cultivation, System, angst first and sweetness later, reincarnation, amnesia, twists. I transmigrated into a hidden extra, and not just any extra, but a crucial one! The original story never even mentioned me! The calamity that will destroy the world is fast approaching, yet the System's missions are utterly baffling. Am I supposed to form a friendship bond with the child of destiny? Or win over the world-ending villain? And there's more than one child of de 460Reads9.4Score11014d adds
- 128 The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代，从村子里逃亡开始 1976. Liu Haibo, a sent-down youth, falls in love with Yang Xiuqing, a village girl. Her family vehemently opposes his proposal, forcing him to flee Shibantian Village and return to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he is preparing to start a new life with Wu Jie in Haicheng, Yang Xiuqing suddenly shows up at his door, stirring up an emotional entanglement that spans the years. 2023. Seventy-year-old Liu Haibo is driving an Audi with Yang Xiuqing to Shibantian Village when they are involv 33.8kReads8.4Score2.1k14d adds
- 129 Online Game: Rebuilding My Life 网游之重塑人生 Qin Feng used to be a hopeless romantic. He gave his girlfriend his whole heart and treated her like a queen. And what did he get in return? She casually tossed out, "You can't give me the life I want," then turned around and walked away. Qin Feng was completely crushed. He holed up in his rented apartment every day, questioning his whole existence and wondering what the point of living was. Eventually, with nothing else to do and no other options, he plunged into an online game to kill time. 492Reads9.5Score34314d adds
- 130 Heavenly Profound Venerable Beyond the Heavens: Every Disciple I Take Is Supreme in the Three Realms 天外玄尊：我收的徒弟都是三界至尊 Mystic Exalt from Beyond the Heavens: My Disciples Are All Supreme Beings of the Three Realms 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事 [Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn. 5.3kReads6.0Score48214d adds
- 132 The Potato Oracle’s All-Purpose Comeback Theory 土豆万能接话神棍论 The Potato: An All-Purpose Conversationalist and Mastermind 416Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 The Sumeru Ring: My Road to a Comeback 须弥戒，我的逆袭之路 I was reborn on a rainy night in late autumn. Not far away, my second uncle and his son were digging a pit for me, preparing to bury me in a graveyard. In my previous life, I woke up and escaped, never to return. I drifted through life, and just before I died, I came across a news report. On this very day, my second uncle sold my newlywed wife to human traffickers, leading to her being abused and killed. This time, I won't run away. Whoever digs the pit will be buried in it. 8.8kReads7.4Score79214d adds
- 134 A Cultivator in the Mortal World 红尘修士 One day, Yun Xi's soul left Blue Star, and she fell into the vast world of cultivation. She never expected to start out as a lowly nobody, with a life as fragile as a blade of grass. In the face of despair, she seeks out opportunities, rises from the dust, and gradually stirs up the entire cultivation world! 6.1kReads8.5Score61014d adds
- 135 Back to the Beginner’s Village? No! I’m Here to Retire! 重回新手村？不！我是来养老的！ After completing 9,999 repair missions in minor worlds, Hua Yi decisively retires and chooses a world to spend her remaining years in. She seems like a fresh-faced newcomer who has just entered the world of cultivation, but behind the scenes, she’s a powerhouse who dares to go head-to-head with the Heavenly Dao! Along the way, she plays the pig to eat the tiger, picks up strays, and enjoys the gossip and drama. There’s the Child of Misfortune, sealed away by a powerful cultivator. There’s also t 10.3kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 136 Lie Flat Immortal Venerable 躺平仙尊 [Rapid-fire laughs + lighthearted + no romance] Lin Xian transmigrates to a cultivation world gripped by cutthroat competition. His previous incarnation was the ultimate grind king, who worked himself to death from cultivating nonstop. Lin Xian binds himself to a System that rewards him with cultivation whenever he rests, lies flat, or slacks off, but punishes him if he cultivates seriously... 1.2kReads—Score10314d adds
- 137 The Tiger Carries His Beloved Home! 虎驮良人归！ A Tiger Carries the Good Man Home! 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 The Secret Records of Qingwu: A Feng Shui Master 青乌秘录之风水师 The Secret Records of Qingwu: A Feng Shui Master 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 A Spring Breeze Brings Beauty 春风渡佳人 Spring Breeze Carries a Beauty Across 1.5kReads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Classic of Mountains and Seas: Return to the Great Desolation 山海经·大荒归墟 The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Return to the Great Desolation 118Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Those Years I Spent in Dongguan 我在东莞那些年 1.4kReads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Bone Maiden of the Great Wilderness: I, a Mortal, Subdue Gods and Demons 大荒骨女：我以凡躯镇神魔 In the wilderness of the Great Desolation, the years belonged to a distant antiquity. Though heaven and earth had been settled for millions of years, the world left behind after Mount Buzhou was broken remained in turmoil. The sky sloped to the northwest, and fragments of starlight constantly fell from the Milky Way. The earth sank in the southeast, and filthy waves forever churned across the desolate marshes. Strange beasts lurked in the mountains, gods and demons hid in the wilderness, and the 251Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Classic of Mountains and Seas: With a Mortal Heart, I Subdue Ten Thousand Demons 山海经：我以凡心镇万妖 The Classic of Mountains and Seas: I Hold Back Ten Thousand Demons with a Mortal Heart 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 My Overbearing Wife 我的老婆霸道大人 My Wife, the Overbearing Lady 182Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Since Ancient Times, Forbidden Affairs Have Ended in Death: A Fateful Bond 自古奸情出人命之孽缘锁 Chapter 1: Shadows in the Mansion The autumn heat of the twenty-third year of the Guangxu reign baked Suzhou like a sealed oven. The banana leaves in the back courtyard of the Shen residence drooped, their edges scorched, while the cicadas rasped as if someone had strangled them. Second Mistress Liu Yue'e sat by the window embroidering a pair of intertwined lotuses. Silver thread slipped back and forth across the plain satin, but a thin sheen of sweat had gathered on her fingertips. A faint soun 8.6kReads—Score14114d adds
- 146 Ancient Legends 上古传说 In the distant, primordial age, when heaven and earth had just been created, all things were in chaos. The land was ten times wider than it is now, the mountains a hundred times taller, and even the tiniest streams surged more fiercely than today's rivers. Countless rare and wondrous beasts lived on this magical land. Some were kind, others evil; some beautiful, others ugly. Together, they gave rise to the most magnificent legends of antiquity. In the east stood the towering Mount Penglai, risin 369Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 After Being Vilified Across the Internet, I Expose a Shocking Scam by a Top Tycoon Family 被全网唾骂后，我曝光了顶级豪门的惊天骗局 After Being Vilified Across the Internet, I Exposed a Shocking Scam by a Top-Ranking Family 246Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Classic of Mountains and Seas: A Bestiary of Strange Beasts 山海经.异兽录 In the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Record of Strange Beasts, beyond the Eastern Sea stands a mountain called Qingqiu. It rises ten thousand ren into the clouds, shrouded in mist. In its depths lives a white nine-tailed fox, its fur as white as snow and its eyes like stars. Whenever it swishes a tail, heaven and earth change color. After a thousand years of cultivation, it can take human form. On nights of the full moon, it often breathes in the moonlight, absorbing the essence of heaven and e 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Great Sage Returns: I Just Sealed the Demon Ancestor, and the Jade Emperor Made Me Emperor 大圣归：我刚镇魔祖，玉帝就封禅 Sun Wukong shattered his own divine bones to forge a lock, sealing the Demon Ancestor Rahu as he tried to break through the Chaos. The Jade Emperor descended with the gods and Buddhas of the heavens. Facing Pangu’s remnant soul, returned from the void, and Nuwa’s sacred statue, he claimed to have slain the Demon Ancestor with the Haotian Mirror. In his previous life, Wukong exposed the truth in anger, only for Heaven to accuse him of “slandering the Supreme One.” They locked him in the Golden He 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Dual Transmigration to the 1960s: A Prosperous Nation and Strong People 双穿六零之国富民强 In 2025, Su Tianci was just another overworked wage slave. He ate a roujiamo at Red Romance, then opened his eyes to find himself back in that fiery era. What’s more, he had somehow become a wanted criminal. See how Su Tianci fares with the System’s help: will he be doomed from the start, or turn danger into safety? 295Reads—Score—14d adds
