Novels like The Zoo Connects to Journey to the West, and Every NPC Is a Little Demon
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Zoo Connects to Journey to the West, and Every NPC Is a Little Demon, best match first.
- 1 You Asked Me to Run an Amusement Park, So Why Is It a Military Incubator? 让你开游乐场，你成军事孵化营？ After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chen Che unexpectedly gets the [Super Amusement Park System] and sets out to build the ultimate theme park! The rides look perfectly ordinary, but the moment you get on, everything changes! Our tickets cost four times as much as everyone else’s. There’s a reason they’re so expensive! All you need is our “Little Spinning Plane,” a.k.a. the Jiaolong! After one ride, you’ll know how to fly a fighter jet! Anyone who gets off the “Crazy Spinning Disk” will ha 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Myriad Worlds Amusement Park 万界游乐园 [Everyday management + No romance in the main story (see the author's note in Chapter 1) + Heroine's growth + World fusion + National progress] Tao Shu gets the Myriad Worlds Amusement Park System and sets up an amusement park with the country's help. Enchanted plant wonderlands, interstellar continents, magical planets... Different worlds make their appearances in turn, bringing brand-new attractions and visual experiences beyond imagination. Amusement rides themed around all kinds of fantastic 366Reads8.5Score11914d adds
- 3 Exotic Beasts Invade? I Run a Zoo! 异兽入侵？我开动物园的！ After being reborn in a parallel world, Xia Luo was in despair. This world was full of danger. Humanity was locked in a constant war against terrifying exotic beasts emerging from spatial rifts, but the beasts were far stronger than anyone had expected, and humanity was steadily losing ground. Just as Xia Luo fell into despair, he awakened a cheat of his own. But why did this cheat seem so unreliable? System: “Host, please build your own zoo!” After that, a terrifying figure could always be seen 473Reads8.5Score11314d adds
- 4 Director, Something's Wrong with Your Amusement Park Rides! 报告园长！你家的游乐设施不对劲 Urban life + System + business management + growth + laid-back everyday life After graduating from university, Yang Fan inherits an amusement park that has shut down. With the help of the System, he acquires a host of new attractions, bringing the park back to life. But there’s something a little off about these rides. This story mostly follows common sense, feels grounded in everyday life, and has a coherent plot. It’s not a wish-fulfillment story. The pacing is slow, and it’s a laid-back slice 1.2kReads8.8Score10314d adds
- 5 Livestream: I Inherited a Zoo from the Start 直播：开局继承了一座动物园 Chen Dong unexpectedly inherits the family zoo and becomes a bona fide rich second-generation heir. But it turns out to be nothing more than an abandoned mountain forest. After unexpectedly obtaining the Zoo System, he sets about getting the place in order. Tigers, lions, guard dogs, elephants: they have all long since submitted to him… 1.5kReads8.4Score15614d adds
- 6 This Really Is a Proper Zoo 我这真是正经动物园 [Gacha + management + construction + zoo + lighthearted daily life + no romance + occasional livestreaming] As a law-abiding rich kid, Zhou Lin’s greatest hobbies were gaming and spending money in games. Recently, he’d gotten hooked on a management game called Zoo Tycoon, newly released by some obscure game company. - A shabby little zoo from the start? Buy land! As much as I can! Animals come from gacha? The Red List pool? Pull! The Walk of Fame pool? Pull! The Rift of Time pool? Pull… Wait, is 3.7kReads9.2Score42314d adds
- 7 A Tourist Attraction Pays 1,800 a Month, and Its Ancient Employees Couldn't Be Happier 景区工资一千八，古人员工乐哈哈 [No Romance + System + Business Management + Food + Summoning Historical Figures + Lighthearted, No Brainpower Needed] Zhu Yang wakes up in a parallel world and finds herself bound to a scenic-area management System. The place is remote, the facilities are run-down, and the vast grounds of more than ten thousand mu have only two employees. Her vision goes black. “I quit!” The System panics. “Host, hear me out. I can summon NPCs from other worlds. You don’t have to pay their wages, and completing 4.2kReads8.5Score43014d adds
- 8 Running an Inn with Gacha Draws 靠抽卡经营旅馆 [Business Management + Card Draws + Food + No Romance] Unable to find a job, Su He takes over her family's small hotel, which is on the verge of closing. Luckily, Su He binds herself to a card-drawing System! The Princess and the Pea's bed, delicacies from Dream of the Red Chamber, a magical vine elevator… all kinds of wondrous items appear. The maids from Dream of the Red Chamber want to kowtow to Su He three times. Su He says, “We're all equal in modern society. We don't do that anymore.” The 3.9kReads8.8Score42114d adds
- 9 The World Is Stunned: You Call This a Zoo? 全球震惊：你管这叫动物园 From the start, he transmigrates to a world where all animals have gone extinct and everyone's understanding of them is completely wrong! He inherits a run-down zoo full of “fake” animals and awakens the God-Tier Zoo System. A giant panda that keeps acting cute with dark circles under its eyes. A honey badger that glares with beady eyes and picks fights with everyone. A macaw that never stops spouting nonsense. An elephant house, an aquarium, a crocodile pond, an amphibian house, a dinosaur park 1.9kReads8.7Score19614d adds
- 10 The Little Pet Café 萌宠小馆 In prison. Robber: You might not believe this, but I almost split apart! Yes, literally split apart! Thief: What a coincidence. Same here! And what kind of police dog is that fat? I almost got sat to death! Human trafficker: You think you’ve got it bad? A bunch of cats took over my hideout! Drug dealer A: Boohoo, I can’t show my face anymore. I got played by a cat and a dog~ Drug dealer B: See the halo over my head? Who could possibly have it worse than me?! I got jumped by a pack of rats, belie 3.1kReads9.5Score32514d adds
- 11 After My Family Abandoned Me, I Became a Pet Shop Owner 被家族放弃后，我成了宠物店主 [High Martial Arts, Pets, Armaments, Summoning, System, Showing Off, Invincible] High school student Zhang Yun transmigrates to Blue Star, a world teeming with magical beasts, and takes over the body of another boy named Zhang Yun, who has been disowned by his family. With the help of his bound Super Pet Shop System, Zhang Yun raises numerous super divine beasts and becomes the strongest beast tamer in history. He gives his snobbish family a thorough face-slapping and gets justice for the origin 1.9kReads8.4Score25214d adds
- 12 Beast Taming: I Really Just Want to Run a Peaceful Restaurant 御兽：我真的只想安稳的开饭店 [Food + opening a shop + everyday life + lighthearted fun + beast taming + System] Also known as: “The Stories I Couldn't Tell About Me and the System,” “A Leisurely Life with Three Little Ones,” “I'm Unbeatable in My Restaurant, So Do Whatever You Like,” and “Shocking! My Three Pet Beasts Are All Big Shots” Foodie Jiang Ming drinks a century-old, top-quality Daughter Red and unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where he gains a Spirit Chef System. At first, Jiang Min 15.6kReads8.8Score2.4k14d adds
- 13 The World Is Stunned: You Call This an Amusement Park? 全球震惊，你管这叫游乐园 Jiang Xingchen unexpectedly obtains a Super Amusement Park System, which lets him buy amusement park attractions from the future! Ace fighter pilot of Xia Country: “Headquarters, I know this is hard to believe, but the roller coaster at this amusement park can break the sound barrier. After riding it, I felt like I was plunging three thousand feet straight down!” Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain: “I never imagined that a mere amusement park haunted house would be hiding monsters even I can't 6.9kReads9.1Score78614d adds
- 14 Animals Go Extinct: I Build the World's Only Animal City 动物灭绝：我打造全球唯一动物城 This is a world where animals have suffered a mass extinction. There are no tigers, giraffes, elephants, lions, giant pandas, or any of the others left... Xia Jiang transmigrated into the owner of a mechanical zoo, awakened the Zoo System, and began bringing extinct animals back to life! “Director Xia, we'd like to buy a batch of turkeys for Christmas...” said the Americans. “Director Xia, we've just cloned a Yorkshire sow. Could we borrow a mating from your purebred boar?” asked the British. “D 10.9kReads9.3Score88114d adds
- 15 One-Person Documentary: From the Start, Rescuing a Giant Panda Cub 一人纪录片：开局救助大熊猫幼崽 [Illustrated throughout] Chu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world where the ecological environment has deteriorated, and awakens the Mysterious Places Exploration System. From the start, he heads to the mysterious Shennongjia, the backbone of Central China, to film a documentary, only to have an adorable panda cub latch onto him! After successfully rescuing an injured little panda, he embarks on an extraordinary journey of natural exploration known to few. Unknown Realms, Legends of the Far Nort 15.4kReads9.6Score2.5k14d adds
- 16 You Were Put in Charge of a Zoo, So Why Did You Drive All the Animals Crazy? 让你接管动物园，你把动物都逼疯 After transmigrating to Blue Star, Yang Lin inherits an old, run-down zoo from his parents. The bad news is that the zoo barely has any animals. The good news is that he gets a talent-training System. Other people's Systems let them boost their own stats. His lets him boost animals' stats. Boost a chimpanzee, and it awakens incredible throwing skills, hitting any target within a hundred meters. Boost a gibbon, and it awakens an amazing talent for imitation, mastering singing, dancing, and rap. B 8.2kReads9.3Score95014d adds
- 17 Apocalypse: I Ride a Tricycle and Run a Mobile Supermarket from the Start 末世：开局蹬三轮，经营移动超市 [System + business management + no romance pairing + ridiculous comedy + invincible] After six months of being a sucker in a new world, Jiang He finally gets her super-powered business System. Once bound to it, she hops on a little three-wheeled cart and runs a mobile supermarket. She also has to complete all sorts of bizarre sign-in missions to earn time for stocking up. [Host, go sign in at the center of the storm to earn one minute of stocking time!] [Host, see that volcano? Take it down and 13.4kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 18 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 95.4kReads9.4Score13.9k14d adds
- 19 The World Is Stunned: My Haunted House Connects to the Underworld 震撼全球，我的鬼屋通地府 Complete [cathartic power fantasy + play the pig to eat the tiger + powerful protagonist + punishing scum + ghosts and monsters + business management] Terminally ill with cancer, Li Miao meets a Taoist priest who tells her that she’s been plagued by bad luck and is near death because someone stole her fate. The only way to survive and reclaim her fate is to return to her hometown and inherit a haunted house. She assumes it’s just an ordinary haunted house, but when she arrives, she discovers 27.9kReads9.2Score4.3k14d adds
- 20 Amusement Park: People Fly Ahead, Their Souls Chase Behind 游乐园：人在前面飞，魂在后面追 Urban + System + Comedy + Scheming Countless couples are enjoying each other’s company on the Ferris wheel. Zhang Bei hums a tune and presses the red button. The Ferris wheel, suspended a hundred meters in the air, suddenly stops. Then it tilts sideways. Countless couples sitting in the cars are flung into the air, held only by a single rope. A few seconds later, the entire Ferris wheel spins like a rapidly whirling disc. The couples dangling in midair start playing a warm and wholesome game. On 4.6kReads9.4Score48614d adds
- 21 Building a Scenic Attraction, My NPCs Are from Ancient Times! 打造景区，我的NPC来自古代！ [The short drama adaptation is now available] Qin Yao had just arrived in a parallel world when he inherited a tourist attraction! But to his surprise, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. There weren’t any attractions to speak of, and he couldn’t even afford to hire NPCs. He was about to sell the place, since the land alone was worth a fortune. But Qin Yao never expected to bind himself to an NPC System! The System had only one function: it could bring people from the pages of history to work as 66.3kReads9.2Score6.1k14d adds
- 22 You Call This a 10A Tourist Attraction? 就你这景区是10A啊 [Infrastructure] [Building Tourist Attractions] [No Heroine] Xu Jing inherited a scenic area in a barren mountain range. You say it's so rundown that nobody visits? Then he'll turn it into a Level 10A attraction! A sacred mountain teeming with life, ruins beneath the lake, a place of pilgrimage... Countless people poured into this obscure little city and stared in bewilderment at the floating island overhead... You call this just a tourist attraction? 92.4kReads9.4Score8.7k14d adds
- 23 I Launched the Immortal Realm Version of Douyin, and the Holy Land Ancestors Lost It 发布抖音仙界版，圣地老祖破防了 [Cultural invasion of the cultivation world] + [Lighthearted comedy] Lin Ye transmigrates into a cultivation world where righteous and demonic factions are locked in mortal opposition, becoming a demonic overlord who has gone undercover in the righteous path. If war breaks out between the two sides, he’s as good as dead. Fortunately, he awakens the God-Tier Entertainment System. It gives the entire cultivation world access to the internet and brings over a host of entertainment devices and apps 30.4kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 24 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏：开局帮鬼怪做选择 [Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap 69.1kReads9.4Score8k14d adds
- 25 Me, a Cultivation Big Shot: How Much Stronger Can I Get? 我，修仙大佬强亿点怎么了 "Soul Ferryman + No Romance + Story Arc Adventures + Spiritual Qi Revival + Cultivation + Invincible" Yun Miao, a cultivation powerhouse who has lived for thousands of years, sets out to uncover her origins. She volunteers to become a ferryman, guiding vengeful ghosts to the afterlife. The ghosts are full of resentment, hatred, and longing. She works diligently, her heart as firm as stone, yet can never uncover the mystery of her origins. Until one day... The Taoist priests of the Xuanmen 27.1kReads9.2Score5.5k14d adds
- 26 EN The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！ [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O 64.6kReads9.2Score5.9k14d adds
- 27 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8k14d adds
- 28 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 114.4kReads9.5Score9.9k14d adds
- 29 The Whole Sect Are Simps, but the Junior Sister Is a Real Menace 全宗都是舔狗，小师妹是真狗 [The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng 181.6kReads9.5Score23.4k14d adds
- 30 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 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 31 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5k14d adds
- 32 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
- 33 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 34 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
- 35 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 36 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
