Novels like I Keep the Law, but All My Underlings Are Ghost-Flame War Gods
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Keep the Law, but All My Underlings Are Ghost-Flame War Gods, best match first.
- 1 Black or White? No, I'm a Business Mogul! 非黑即白？不，我是商业巨擘！ [Reborn + Business + Lots of Brothers + No Sycophancy + Punishing Evil and Promoting Good] Gangster Shen Fei is reborn in 2008. Should he stick to his old ways and remain a gangster, or abandon his brothers and go straight? No more gang life! He’ll lead his brothers down the straight path! Make a fortune! Drink the strongest liquor! Date the wildest women! Every one of Shen Fei’s brothers! Will stay away from gambling and drugs! “Isn’t he your chairman? Why does the whole company call him Big Br 142Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 2 I Have Thousands of Underlings, Yet They Insist I'm a Model Citizen 手下几千小弟，非说是三好青年 [Underworld] + [Reborn] + [System] + [Going Straight] + [Campus Life] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Business Savvy] In prison, Han Zu, the gang's second-in-command who held all the group's major criminal records, was ambushed. “Brother Zu, you're old. The only way I can get ahead is by taking you out!” “As long as you're alive, plenty of people won't be able to sleep!” At the moment he closed his eyes, his past flashed before him: brothers dying tragic deaths, leaving his home behind, and dying in pr 397Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 After Getting Out of Prison, the Underworld Princess Pursued Me 出狱后的我被黑道公主倒追 [Passionate youth] [Ruthless and decisive] [Tattoos covering his back] [A crowd of loyal brothers] On the eve of the college entrance exams, Li Shu lands in prison for using excessive force in self-defense. Three years later, having “successfully completed his studies,” he returns like a king. After surviving one bloody battle after another, he finally stands at the top of the city. Only then does he suddenly realize that his seemingly sweet and clueless girlfriend is the biggest boss in the ent 2.8kReads7.0Score21214d adds
- 4 Don't Call Me Boss, I'm a Law-Abiding Entrepreneur 别叫我大哥，我是守法人民企业家 [Reborn + Reformed Gangsters + Business Empire + A Cast of Drama Queens] Jiang Che is reborn on the eve of the Green Dragon Gang's bloody killing spree. He tears up their machete permits and declares, "From today on, anyone who talks about fighting and killing again gets their performance bonus docked!" While his rivals wait for him to make a fool of himself: • Three hundred underlings sweep the streets before dawn and land a contract to supply disposable tableware to restaurants across the city 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Taking on a Shady Online Lender from the Start, My Bro Has a Few Hundred Million 开局撸黑心网贷，我兄弟有亿点多 After being tormented to the brink of death by predatory payday loans, a group of vicious thugs barges into my home and insults my parents? At the critical moment, I awaken the Good Brothers System. You’re Sylvester Stallone? Then I’m Arnold Schwarzenegger! I’ll lead my good brothers in taking out loans and build our crew bigger and bigger, until we’ve established a loan-sharking stronghold like Tazhai Village! I’ll make those heartless payday loan bosses tremble in fear! 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Smoking with a Black Dragon Tattoo, and You Call This a Good Student? 叼烟纹黑龙，你说这是好学生？ A new teen observational show called Youth Shines Bright bursts onto the scene. Its contestants are either good students or delinquent youths. As an outstanding top student at Haiyun University, Qin Xiaomo is the obvious choice to represent good students on the show. But as filming goes on, things start to feel more and more off. How come Qin Xiaomo drinks and smokes if he’s a good student? How come Qin Xiaomo has a full-back tattoo of a nine-clawed black dragon if he’s a good student? How can Q 1.1kReads6.5Score10414d adds
- 7 We’ve Been Around the Block Too 哥几个也混过 We navigate society with feeling, And live our lives by loyalty. When feeling and loyalty conflict, We choose loyalty first. We walked side by side, reveling in the wild abandon of youth through those passionate years. You’re my brother, so we’ll face life and death together. 160Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 What Gang Boss? Call Me a Philanthropist 什么黑老大？叫慈善家 The ratings have just come in, so feel free to give it a try! Rebirth + business + lots of loyal followers + staying on the straight and narrow + law-abiding + women, but no female lead! A top underworld boss is reborn. He rises from humble beginnings, making use of every resource around him. He brings along the brothers who followed him in his previous life and were forced to take the fall and go to prison! He founds the Hanhai Group! Drinks the strongest liquor! Dates the wildest women! Yet no 125Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 9 Reborn: Forcing My Underworld Boss Dad to Go Straight! 重生：逼着黑道老爸金盆洗手！ [Reborn] [Underworld] [Turning over a new leaf] [Leaving the life behind] In his previous life, Qin Ye and Qin Su were the top leaders of the Fierce Dragon Gang. They had done so much evil that they were executed by firing squad. When Qin Ye opens his eyes again, he has returned to twenty years earlier. In this life, the Fierce Dragon Gang, led by Qin Su, has only just started down the path of organized crime. Everything can still be put right! Qin Su: “Son, we’re already this rich. It’d be a wa 441Reads7.5Score10914d adds
- 10 I've Finally Figured Out the Renovation Business 装修这条赛道算是让我干明白了 Shen Lang, a construction worker, accidentally gets a low-profile System called Good Luck. Shen Lang thinks that with a power this heaven-defying, he shouldn't keep working in construction. A career in government would have much better prospects. The problem is that he dropped out of high school and has no chance to start over, so he can only keep following the path he's on, working in construction until he achieves financial freedom and gets everything he wants. 2.9kReads6.9Score10014d adds
- 11 My Bad Teacher 我的不良教师 [Nonsensical Humor] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [No System] [No Superpowers] [Urban] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted Humor] [Teacher] Class 2, Year 2 has gone through five teachers in a single month, earning a citywide reputation as the “Class of Death.” No homeroom teacher assigned to the class has ever lasted more than a week... They drug teachers, plant maggots, and even use violence to force them into submission. Their pranks have no limits, and they keep coming up with new tricks... The 969Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 12 I’m a Mob Boss, but the System Wants Me to Fight Violence with Violence 我一黑帮大佬，系统让我以暴制暴 “The wicked bask in glory, while the black-hearted hoard their wealth.” “Kill and rob, and you’ll wear a golden belt; build bridges and roads, and you’ll end up with no bones left.” Reborn in a parallel world, Pei Ji becomes the Azure Dragon Gang’s top enforcer. But the System tells him to fight violence with violence, using his enemies’ own methods against them... [Golden Qilin Kidney] [Black Dragon Eighteen Hands] [Taizu Long Fist] [Body Immune to All Poisons] You’re good at fighting? Sorry, I 367Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 13 Hong Kong Crossover: In Hung Hing, I Have the Golden Bell Shield 港综：人在洪兴，我有金钟罩 A System from who-knows-where takes the chubby Qiu Chen to the world of Hong Kong crime dramas and gives him a main quest called “The Struggles of a Low-Level Thug.” Qiu Chen refuses to go along with it, swearing he’d rather get a quest like “The Domineering CEO and His Rich Mistresses” or “The Untold Story of a Male Star and His Many Female Co-Stars.” The System rejects his request, saying that if he won’t be a thug, it will make him accept “The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me” by default 3.1kReads7.1Score11314d adds
- 14 Underworld: The Kirin Crown Prince 黑道之麒麟太子 When the Qilin appears, all evil flees. The young lord wields his blade and reigns supreme in the martial world. On this path of revenge sweeping across the globe, he will crush the ambitions of every foreign power and ascend to the highest throne in the martial world. 626Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Underworld Jianghu: From Death Row Inmate to King of the Underworld 黑道江湖：从死囚到黑道之王 [Urban + underworld + wish fulfillment + big shots + realism + no System + multiple heroines] Is the underworld all about human relationships and social etiquette? No. It’s about the relationships and social etiquette that come after the fighting. The only people qualified to sit down and talk about such things are those who have earned their place through violence. Plant your flag, make your name, set up shop, stake out your turf. In the underworld, there’s a mountain ahead of you and another b 257Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 16 The Gangs Set Up a Fight, and You, a Sneaky Coward, Called the Cops 帮派约架，你一老六喊警察蜀黍 Su Bai is a top legal professional, but after transmigrating to a parallel world, he becomes a blond punk. To make matters worse, a rival gang has him surrounded. What a disastrous start! Luckily, he awakens the [Infinite Skills System] from the start, and thinks he's about to take off. But the System's very first mission is to stab someone from the rival gang twenty times, making sure they only suffer minor injuries! Su Bai is speechless. What? System, are you trying to screw me over? Poli 601Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 17 The Fire of Our Youthful Years 那些年我们青春的锋芒 To everyone else, he was an honest man and a spineless loser. His middle school years were a living hell, until one day, a friend his age from the neighboring family transferred back from a school out of town and came to his defense with a commanding presence. The boy, Wu Feng, took the baton handed to him and strode ahead, rising from a meek, honest kid into a powerful figure who radiated authority and revealed his sharp edge. 28Reads—Score214d adds
- 18 The Years We Shared, Brothers 兄弟们的那些年 [Underworld + Ensemble Cast + Decisive Action + Dramatic Rescues + Passionate + Expansive Worldbuilding] A boy watches his parents die horrifically in a gang war, then is forced to leave school behind and descend into the bottomless abyss of the underworld. He forms a bond of life and death with four brothers, growing amid bloodshed and making his stand amid tangled grudges and passions. Through this gauntlet of flashing blades, he swears that every blood debt will be repaid in blood. 23Reads—Score10414d adds
- 19 The Underworld: My Dongguan Girlfriend 黑道：我的东莞女友 At the turn of the millennium, I headed south to Dongguan with just 800 yuan in my pocket. Someone stole my wallet on the train, and I staggered into town after going hungry for three meals. I planned to keep my head down and work on an assembly line, but on my very first day, the team leader told me to take off my pants. I beat him up. Then I beat up the fourteen guys who came after me with machetes. Then I took on the whole street. The female owner of a nightclub handed me a gun and a stack of 590Reads6.3Score10914d adds
- 20 After Getting Fired, I Became the Strongest Bodyguard to a Mafia Heiress 我被开除后成黑道千金的最强打手 The rating just came in, so it’ll go up later. [For adults only. No one under 18 may read this.] [Urban + underworld + multiple heroines + all-powerful protagonist + brotherhood] Lu Fei was expelled from middle school for fighting and spent four years guarding his village... At last, he came of age! Newly 18, Lu Fei hadn’t even had time to establish his own gang in the village before the aunt he lived with kicked him out and sent him to the big city to stay with her daughter. After arriving in 55Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 21 Day One of College: I Start Running with the Underworld! 大学第一天，从混黑道开始！ A powerful underworld boss is reborn as a college student. With the System’s help, he rises once more to the pinnacle of the underworld. [Feel-Good Revenge + Urban + Underworld + Boss + School] Starting out as a college student, the male lead Lin Ao works his way to the top of the underworld, dominating both the criminal and legitimate worlds. He has powerful backing and influence that reaches everywhere. Dear readers, please be patient as you read. The story starts off ordinary, but the excitin 902Reads6.9Score10214d adds
- 22 The Thirteen Hawks of the Underworld 黑道十三鹰 He was once a shining star in the military, rising to prominence through his fearlessness. But fate took a sudden turn during a brutal battle with drug traffickers. In the midst of a fight to the death, he had no choice but to kill a captured drug lord, a decision that forced him to leave the military. From then on, he entered the underworld, burying his former glory and sense of duty deep within. Like a lone wolf, he roamed the world of darkness and began a life in the criminal underworld that 878Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Reborn in the Great Dye House: Bandits Run Wild 重生大染坊之土匪横行 Raised at Shaolin Temple from childhood, twenty years of ascetic discipline couldn’t withstand one night of passion with a female pilgrim. In the end, I was tricked into going to northern Myanmar. Just as I was about to lose a kidney, I fought for my life. I managed to keep my kidney, but lost my life. Perhaps those twenty years of cultivation finally paid off, because I was reborn in the body of a minor bandit in Shandong. Watch as this little bandit turns the tide in an age beset by foreign en 511Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 My First Half of Life: A Bloody Underworld 我的前半生：血色江湖 [The rating just came in and it’ll keep rising, so don’t let it scare you off! This book is entirely handcrafted, and writing it isn’t easy. Hope you enjoy it!] Eight years in the army, decorated for valor, only to have his future stolen by a substitute! He moves to the city for work and tries to keep his head down, but is forced into a dead end! His brother goes to prison, and his sworn brother dies a tragic death. Good people have no way out, while the wicked run rampant! He abandons the strai 1.4kReads8.4Score13714d adds
- 25 Hong Kong Films: Taking Over in Causeway Bay by Stepping on Chan Ho-nam 港片：在铜锣湾，踩着陈浩南上位 Also known as: Chen Haonan, the Murderous Madman of Causeway Bay I'm Chen Haonan, and my boss is Big B. He's a complete idiot! Not long ago, he had Big Head help him do time in prison. Big Head went, because just like him, he's a complete idiot. A few days later, he came to me and told me to rob a bank for him, to get him a million. He had a young mistress on the side, and she thought he was too old and too poor... Rob a bank? I'm no idiot. I refused, so Big B was going to give me a beating 177Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Wang Hao, the Inverse Scale King 逆鳞王皓 A comeback, a defiance of fate. Bullied for years because of his weight, he finally reaches his breaking point and vows never to be weak again. He fights back, step by step descending into hell, and soon dominates the campus... 116Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Hong Kong Crossover: Reborn as Snake Boy Ming, From the Start I Got a Snake Tattoo in Hong Kong 港综：重生蛇仔明，开局纹蛇港生 [The Grand World of Hong Kong Cinema] Li Zhiyuan is reborn as Snake Ming, a cannon-fodder villain in the Hong Kong movie universe who won't survive more than half an hour. At this moment, Kong Sheng is being held down on the tattoo table. ⚠ This is a fictional Hong Kong movie universe, and all events are made up. A new book sets sail: please add it to your collection and keep reading! Every bit of support motivates the author to write more updates! 14.4kReads6.2Score89614d adds
- 28 My Years as a Gangster 我当混子的那些年 The underworld is an endless wilderness, and every gang member is a man prepared to die! The underworld is a narrow path, and every gang member risks his life just to make it through! The underworld is a pure arena of beasts: the winners become kings, and the losers are crushed! Forced onto this path, the young Jiang Liang must now show how he can rule the world with one hand! 112Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 I Started High School as a Good Girl and Became a Crime Boss 上了高中，我从乖乖女变成黑老大 When I started high school, I went from a good girl to a crime boss. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 [The Underworld: The Storm Rises Again] 【黑道，风云再起】 “Once you’ve drawn the bow, there’s no turning back.” “When I chose the path of the underworld,” “I’d already passed the point of no return.” “Then I’ll stand at the very top of the underworld,” “so the world can only look up to me, and everyone will know my name: Lin Mo...” 162Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Hong Kong Films: I Told You to Go Undercover, Not Sell Arms 港片：叫你干卧底，没让你卖军火 Chu Tian transmigrates to Hong Kong in 1989. The good news is, he has a cheat. The bad news is, he turns out to be an undercover agent for Huang Zhicheng! I've got a cheat, so why the hell would I work undercover? Fight for territory, run protection rackets, start a parking business? Why do something so lame? At a time like this? I'm going for something bigger. The arms trade has real potential! What? You say I don't have any money? I'm a low-level gangster. There's nothing wrong with extorting 2.9kReads7.2Score10314d adds
- 32 Sons and Daughters of the Jianghu: That Midnight Sun 江湖儿女：那一轮午夜的太阳 The rules of midnight are a way of life much like the law of the jungle. At midnight, what you see may be the moon, but in their eyes, it is their sun. Set against the real-life underworld of the 1990s, this story follows Zhou Shenghua's life in the jianghu. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Swindler: Through Fire and Water for You, Uncle! 老千：赴汤蹈火啊，二叔！ If you learn the art of cheating, you’ll see me as a mayfly sees the heavens. My name is Feng Shiqi, a veteran swindler who came out of the mountains. PS: The best quit-gambling novel on the whole internet, and the most wholesome swindler story online. ⚠️ Don’t open it at night, or you won’t be able to sleep. 18.5kReads8.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 34 Bloodshed in the Black Abyss 黑渊血戮 (Realistic + Period Setting + Underworld + Political Battles) What is the underworld? It is an endless abyss. Once you take a single step into it, you’ll be trapped forever, with no way out. To make a name for yourself in the underworld, you have to be ready to end up dead in the street or locked away for life at any moment. Now, let me take you back to the late 1980s and show you how the son of a worker gets dragged into this dark abyss and rises step by step to become a crime boss of his era. 898Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Hong Kong Crossover: The Suit-Wearing Enforcer, From the Start Raising an Army to Crush Hung Hing 港综：西装暴徒，开局爆兵推洪兴 She transmigrates into a world that combines Hong Kong crime movies. In an era where passion and darkness coexist, one underworld kingpin after another rises and falls, each writing their own legend. In late-1970s Hong Kong, the four major triads are evenly matched, and tough guys are everywhere. Then the protagonist arrives, and everything changes completely… 137Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 36 Northeast China: The Tragic End of the Underworld 东北往事黑道悲情大结局 This is a fanfiction inspired by the tragic underworld saga Black Morality. It tells of the people who appeared and the events that took place in the four years after Wang Luoguo's death and before Zhao Hongbing's crew burst onto the scene. Readers of Northeast Tales Prequel: Black Morality 1, Northeast Tales Prequel: Black Morality 2, and Northeast Tales: Twenty Years of Underworld Turmoil may have wondered what happened during those four years between Black Morality and Twenty Years of Underwo 4.8kReads6.9Score27014d adds
- 37 The Blood Dragon of Carnage 狂煞血龙 To find her, he enters this battle for power with a band of beastlike brothers at his side... After she is murdered, he raises his blade and unleashes a massacre that shocks the world... His bloodthirsty nature earns him the fearsome title of the greatest killer emperor in history... With his arrival, the underworld is shrouded in a bloody haze for decades... 1.6kReads8.9Score11814d adds
- 38 Apocalypse: The Dark Prince and Nine Dragons, One Phoenix, Cross the Wasteland 末世，暗黑太子，九龙一凤踏废土 The apocalypse descends. Order collapses, ferocious beasts run rampant, and humanity struggles to survive. Lin Mo, once the crown prince of the underworld, awakens the ultimate dark power. His father fell in battle, and his enemies hold sway. He swears to repay blood with blood! At his side are nine dragons and one phoenix, along with brothers united in heart, each possessing overwhelming strength. He slays ferocious beasts, crushes his enemies, claims territory, and sweeps across the wasteland! 2Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 39 The Man Who Reached the Top of the Underworld 黑道触顶之徒 The underworld is shallow waters teeming with big shots. Thousands shout my name: Brother Tian. Xia Tian, a young man from the bottom of society in Northeast China, gets caught up by chance in the feud between two underworld bosses. From then on, he sets out to climb to the top of the criminal world. Benefactors, moles, bandits, desperados… all sorts of characters take the stage, and the action is heart-pounding. Watch as he leads his brothers from small-time nobodies to become the biggest kin 3.7kReads8.8Score25114d adds
- 40 A Gang Shootout Breaks Out at the School Gate, and I Scare Everyone Off 校门口黑帮火拼，我出现吓退全场 At noon, outside the gates of Harbor University. Two local gangs, nearly a hundred men in all and armed with knives, guns, and clubs, are about to fight it out here. At the sight, all the students are terrified and hurry to a safe distance. Only one young man in a white shirt strolls forward with his hands in his pockets, as calm as can be, as if he can’t even see the crowd. The moment he appears, every gang member tenses up. The two leaders nervously walk up to him and bow their heads. “Today’s 3kReads6.2Score22814d adds
- 41 The Peerless Young Master 公子无双 Lin Qi seems like an ordinary delivery driver, but in this city, whether they are business tycoons, renowned doctors, or underworld bosses, everyone treats him with the utmost respect and calls him, "Young Master!" 334Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 42 Hong Kong Crossover: Helping Chan Ho-nam Do Hard Time? Not Even a Dog Would 港综：帮陈浩南蹲苦窑，狗都不干 The protagonist, Lei Yao, obtains a System from the start and successfully brings the crows under his control with its help. Then Lei Yao begins his journey of conquest. Jingkun, Big D, Han Chen, Dongguan Zai, Jia Qian Ge, Smiling Tiger, Situ Haonan, Sha Mang, He Yong, and other villains all end up on the list of people under his command. He aims to build the strongest villain army. This introduction can't do the story justice. Please read the main text… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Bad Guys: The Storm Rises Again 2 坏蛋之风云再起2 [People have names, and trees have shadows. Who is Xie Wendong? Everyone knows.] As the scorching sun slowly sinks away and the half moon hangs high, as neon lights begin to flicker and night descends, what can we use to prove that we exist? 12kReads9.0Score78814d adds
- 44 Destined for a Life in the Underworld from Birth 从出生开始就注定混黑道 No System! No brainless antics! Packed with thrilling, iconic moments from beginning to end! My big brother told me to go to school and protect the campus belle, but I ended up reading her a love letter in front of the whole school? The son of the boss of a rival gang wants to be my underling? A gorgeous, wealthy woman wants me to marry her? It's gotten to the point where I don't even want to run with the gang anymore. I'm surrounded by gorgeous, wealthy women. I really don't want to work hard a 1.2kReads7.2Score—14d adds
- 45 The Endless Underworld 黑道无尽 (Period setting, underworld, gritty realism, high-octane) A savage era. An unconventional underworld boss. A story of the jianghu written in blood and tears. So much happened in those years. You can only see it clearly through blood-tinted glasses... 2.8kReads7.7Score28314d adds
- 46 Tiger Husband 虎夫 [Born to be somebody, just going through a rough patch for now!!!] 3.9kReads8.8Score27914d adds
- 47 Hong Kong Films: The Big Boss 港片：大佬 A hotheaded street punk transmigrates as the biological older brother of a fat cat. In the turbulent world of Hong Kong, he doesn't need a System or a golden finger: his body and strength are beyond the ordinary. The tiger is out of its cage, sweeping through the world of Hong Kong movies! (The blurb doesn't do it justice. Read the story for yourself.) (A friendly tip: leave your brain here before you start reading.) (˵¯͒〰¯͒˵) 10.5kReads8.7Score35314d adds
- 48 A New World in Hong Kong Cinema 港综新的世界 A little weed nobody wants? A good-for-nothing nobody cares about? No. I have brothers, more than just one. And I have uncles and aunts who love me. It's just that my life has reached its end... Hong Kong crossovers have no fixed timeline. The characters' appearances and positions vary greatly, so please don't get hung up on the timeline. Thank you! 458Reads—Score514d adds
- 49 I'll Write My Own Youth 青春我来写 Synopsis: When I was very, very young, I had a beautiful older sister. My parents were always incredibly busy and often had to leave home to work in other places. So one day, they brought home an older sister they had adopted for me. She treated me wonderfully and took care of me in every way. But Dad was exceptionally cruel to her. Then one day in middle school, my sister left. I studied as hard as I could, and by the time I reached high school, I finally got into a school in the city and foun 234Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Bloody Underworld: Thirty Years of Organized Crime in North China 血色江湖：华北黑道三十年 [Underworld + First Person + Period Setting] What is the underworld? It’s a place where even if you win in the end, you still feel like you’ve lost. No matter how much you gain, it can never make up for what you’ve lost. My name is Jiang Qiyao. I witnessed thirty years of the underworld’s rise and fall across North China, watching one boss after another rise to power, then fall. After thirty years in that world, I can’t call myself a good person, but at least I haven’t become completely rotten. 3kReads6.7Score13314d adds
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