Novels like Tales from a Tiny Office
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Tales from a Tiny Office, best match first.
- 51 Reborn for a New Life, I’ll Work Hard to Marry the Chancellor! 重来一世，我要发奋嫁丞相！ Given a second life, I'll work hard to marry the prime minister! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 My Boss Is Miss Death 我的上司是死神小姐 If someone who had died were given a chance to live again, would you try to seize it? Even if the other party were a Grim Reaper from another world? Don't be fooled by appearances. Don't let what's inside hold you back. Come on, the contract has been made. Then let's fight to the death! (There might be a couple, or there might not. I'll see where the story goes, haha 😊) 21Reads—Score214d adds
- 53 Nothing Major in Life 人生无大事 I was born in the abyss and raised in the netherworld. Lost, struggling, helpless, despairing. The hardships along the way shaped my body and mind. When everything had finally calmed down, when spring had come and flowers were blooming, when everything was just right, I finally reached the most important moment of my life. 4.2kReads8.1Score46214d adds
- 54 From Involution to Lying Flat: A Corporate Drone’s Path to Enlightenment 从内卷到躺平：大厂社畜修行记 This is a story with a healing touch. From overwork to lying flat: A tale of a corporate drone’s journey at a major internet company, chronicling the endless grind of modern laid-off tech workers! Will you choose a cat-like approach to finding a job, a dog-like approach to working, or a Buddhist approach and lie flat? Between striving to get ahead and simply showing up to work, what will you choose? Join the cool and aloof Chi Mai as she explores modern city life and the path to healing yourself 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Drama Queen Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law 戏精婆媳 A fresh-faced workplace newcomer and a seasoned career woman fight tooth and nail at work, then carry their feud home with them. Cheng Junyi watches the two of them coldly. They aren’t related by blood, but they’re both cut from the same cloth, so neither has any grounds to criticize the other. He decides to sit back and let them wear each other down. 125Reads8.2Score10314d adds
- 56 I Woke Up as Lin X Rui? 一觉醒来，我变成了林x锐？ The Linx Rui virus has broken out!!! Everyone who gets infected turns into the person on my cover. It’s terrifying. Hehe, I’m going to save the world!!!!!!!!! But is the truth about the world really like that? 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 57 The Loves of Women 女人们的爱情 Women’s Love: Family Memories Across Time is a long-form work of documentary fiction by Hen Jiangyin. Based on true stories from the author’s own family and enriched by extensive interviews with local people, it focuses on the Zhang, Xia, and Li families, vividly tracing the lives of the four Li sisters, the six Xia siblings, and the three Zhang brothers. Their stories are full of twists and turns and deeply moving moments, leaving a lasting impression. The women’s love stories are especially st 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Official's Cauldron 官鼎 A photograph set off quite a stir. Wu Kejun thought it was just a coincidence, but little did he know that behind it lay a massive conspiracy. He thought he could control his own life, but in the end, others still pulled the strings. How can he break free from adversity? How can he evade the hidden hands around him? It’s a question with a distinctly philosophical edge... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 On the Seventh Day, He Forgot Who I Was 第七天，他忘了我是谁 On the Seventh Day, He Forgot Who I Was —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 To Our Youth: Spring Has Come Again in the Blink of an Eye 致青春：转眼又是一春 To Our Youth: Before We Know It, Spring Has Come Again —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 An Ordinary Person's Unordinary Journey Through Life 平凡人不甘平凡的人生路 An ordinary person’s life has its occasional ups and downs, but where does a life without guidance lead? After three years working in a factory, a twist of fate sends him into real estate brokerage! He grows immensely proud after enjoying some of the real estate boom. But after the tide goes out, how will he face the decline and deal with family, love, and friendship? This is your story, and it’s mine too. So I’ve heard... 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 First Love? Who Cares! The Chinese Teacher Has Big Plans 初恋算个屁，语文老师要干大事 (No System, no golden finger, no being reborn, just slow growth) After getting back together with her first love, being smacked by a parent, and getting stabbed by her own boyfriend, she lost the ability to have children. Then, after finishing her graduate school entrance exams, her mother died unexpectedly. Xia Shinan decided, “First love can go to hell. Building a career and making big money are what matter most!” Xia Shinan (a pun on “born female”), a 26-year-old woman, comes from a family t 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Insider 内部人士 In the early 21st century, China’s real estate economy was booming. Many ordinary people caught a favorable wave amid the great tides of history and amassed considerable wealth. The protagonist is an average person with no particular gifts, but as he grows, he continually learns from the wisdom of those around him, including some truly remarkable people. Through constant learning and reflection, he eventually develops a unique kind of wisdom and achieves success of his own. It seems as though fa 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Single Piggy 单身猪猪 A deeply nuanced style, and an unconventional portrait of marriage and love. If corrupt officials are not punished, it is an injustice to ordinary people. A work of realism, peeling back the layers to examine the truth and reflect with cool, unflinching insight. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 The Brightest Star 那颗最亮的星 The story takes place at a middle school. Lin Jingxuan, a left-behind child who has grown up reserved and withdrawn, seems out of place among her classmates after transferring to Linxi Middle School. Her homeroom teacher, Li Yina, notices her situation and takes the initiative to comfort and reassure her, offering quiet support. She helps Lin Jingxuan open up and grow by writing her letters. 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Running Toward the Exit 寻着出口奔跑 In life, everyone has to grow sharp horns and iron hooves, and put on armor. Even if you’re weak, you have to try to become stronger. There are too many things in this world that can hurt you. Even if you never learn to hurt others, you must learn to protect yourself, so you can protect the people you care about. No matter how many difficulties you face, don’t back down. Summon every last bit of fighting spirit and make sure those who have always wanted to see you fail never get the satisfaction 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 A Media Veteran's Career Change in a New Era 传媒老兵降维求职记 If you're looking for a job, about to start looking, or planning to switch jobs, this one's for you! This novel is based on real people's experiences of falling into job-hunting traps. It's practically an online job seeker's guide to spotting scams and avoiding pitfalls. Read Tomato Novel and learn how to protect yourself from fraud. It's fun and useful, a win-win. Dong Shizhang and Zong Jinli's media company is on the verge of collapse, and the online loans they took out are coming due. With no 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Childhood Sweethearts Among the Bamboo Groves 青梅竹马绕竹林 Childhood Sweethearts Through the Bamboo Grove 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Yunluo Weiguang: A Winding Career Path 云落薇光：职场逆旅 [Career comeback + women's growth + face-slapping wish fulfillment + power struggles + romance] Yun Luowei is focused on making money when her company ruthlessly fires her for her outstanding performance and withholds the bonus she is owed! Injustice at work drives her to the brink, but it also ignites her fury, and she resolutely takes up the law as her weapon. This is not only her fight against injustice, but the beginning of her transformation. How does the pushover who was once at the mercy 19Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 70 This Life Is Over, I'll Be a Leader in the Next 这辈子就这样了，下辈子当领导 Two minutes after Fang Leilei died, she came back to life on the spot and was sent straight back to the day of her new-hire military training. One familiar, youthful face after another. Back then, he hadn't become a department manager yet. Back then, she hadn't stabbed me in the back yet. Ah! Isn't that my dream man?! He married a scheming woman in my past life, so it's my turn to have him in this one! Just look at me, Fang Leilei: my career was a mess and my love life was a disaster in my last 18Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 71 Who Let Him Play Mid-Lane Soraka? 谁让他玩中单索拉卡的？ Can a full-Chinese roster win the championship just once? Even if it's only once! When Chen Jian woke up, he found himself transmigrated into the S13 regional qualifier, in the body of EDG's substitute rookie, Xiao Tao! At that moment, EDG was down 1:2 to WBG. One more loss, and EDG would miss Worlds! With EDG's fate on the line, Chen Jian was called in at the eleventh hour. Even more absurdly, Chen Jian had been a bot laner, but was forced to take Fofo's place in mid lane! The champions Chen Ji 105Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 72 Long Time No See, Miss Lihua 好久不见，梨花小姐 [One heroine] + [No cheat abilities] + [Ordinary person's perspective] I'm Wu Feng, a college graduate who's been unable to find work for two years and has never been in a relationship. I live with my best friend Chen Sheng in a rundown little house, searching for a place in the world that belongs to me. I thought life was hopeless, and that I would have to go through it all alone. Then I met her, and everything changed... (The story is very low-key, with no dramatic twists or earth-shattering 22Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 73 A Midnight Romance 深夜情缘 Fang Nan's girlfriend of two years was pregnant with another man's child. Furious, he got into a car accident on a rainy night and crossed paths with a beautiful senior executive at a company. From then on, he was caught up in an utterly unbelievable tangle of love and revenge… 156Reads7.2Score10314d adds
- 74 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 20Reads—Score10114d adds
- 75 Thirty Strange Tales of the School 校三十怪谈 What does it feel like to survive for thirty days in a special school where death is always close? Life and death are separated by a single instant. The “college entrance exam” for more than a hundred people is about to reveal the truth... Is it really called the “college entrance exam”? Can they really graduate successfully? "Three protagonists, no wish fulfillment, no System, dual male leads, special-school setting, protagonists who grow over time" —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Dragon Disciple 龍徒 When Zhang Chuqi transmigrated to the Dragon Realm, all he had was a black stone pendant he had worn since childhood. A remnant soul dwelled within the pendant. It claimed to have once ruled this world and been the master of the Dragon Realm. But it had forgotten how it had fallen... And who had killed it. The only thing it remembered was who it had once been! To recover the Dragon Ancestor's memories, Zhang Chuqi embarked on a long journey to find the Dragon Ancestor's scattered remains. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Taken Hostage from the Start, the System Says I'm a Supreme Species 开局被撕票，系统说我是至高种 Also known as The Era of Returning to Stillness: A Chronicle of the Void. [Not a conventional supernatural horror story + one heroine + mind-bending + nearly invincible] The blurb can't do it justice, so head straight to the story: The System descends upon the world, plunging everyone into a bizarre, deadly game. While others struggle to survive in its trials, Ye Chen leisurely racks up SSS-rank scores. Then he meets a mysterious, aloof girl in a white dress, and the System suddenly erupts wi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 The Bittersweet Trials of Marrying Far from Home 远嫁的那些酸甜苦辣 Marrying far from home is a gamble. You may never feel at home with your in-laws, yet be unable to return to your own family. Amid the chaos of childbirth, raising a child, and life with a second baby, marriage becomes a mirror that reflects the most honest truths about human nature. Marital happiness has nothing to do with whether you marry far from home. It depends on whether the person you marry truly loves you and understands you. The joys and sorrows of marrying far away are part of the exp 2.1kReads8.2Score11514d adds
- 79 The Pure Wife Awakens 纯妻觉醒 [Romance]+ [Family and everyday life]+ [Self-awakening and ambition]+ [Urban life] Pure-hearted Liu Zi married Yu Feipeng, a classmate she'd had a crush on for years. She thought their marriage was solid, but her masseuse, Xiao Ling, had her eye on her husband. Yu Feipeng fell deep into Xiao Ling's gentle trap and went out of his way to trample on and humiliate Liu Zi… When Liu Zi finally fought back, she discovered that the pure, innocent flower her husband saw in Xiao Ling was actually filthy 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 My Angel Investor Is My Adorable Husband 天使投资人是我的小娇夫 Told from the heroine's perspective, this story follows her journey from an innocent, inexperienced newcomer to the working world to a successful professional woman. Fang Yuwei and the hero, Lin Peifeng, meet on campus. He falls for her at first sight and takes care of her and stays by her side, but Lin Peifeng's identity is not so simple. As the heroine makes her way through the workplace, she encounters all kinds of unwritten rules, both obvious and hidden. She changes jobs several times and m 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 She Said: Let's Not Fall in Love Again in the Next Life 她说：来世别再相恋 No System! No transmigration! No rebirth! An ordinary young man with extraordinary strength! He takes down a bunch of superpowered immortals through sheer muscle! So satisfying! A hitman-turned-novelist leads a lovable male idol and an incredibly cool female police officer in a fight against a mysterious organization that uses supernatural powers to threaten society, all to rescue the angelic little girl they brought back from Siberia. This is the essence of all the storytelling power I've built 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 The End of Ordinary 平凡的尽头 The story began in 2019. It was a turbulent time, and I stopped writing after a hasty 50,000 words. Then, in May 2020, I finished it. At 250,000 words, it is too short to cover all the joys and sorrows of this bustling world through the changing years. It tells only of several years spent wandering through life. The story is based entirely on real events. Freedom, marriage, career, money, family, friendship. As someone born in the 1990s, I have always questioned the world. I hoped to find answer 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Chang'an Road Is Long 长安路远 [Urban daily life + romance + campus + friendship + work + emotional journey] Lin Da cherishes friendship, loves life, and longs for a beautiful future. He had a wonderful childhood and a colorful youth, and chose the love he wanted. Then, for the sake of making a living, he went far from home to work, and before he knew it, half his life had passed... Every encounter in life is part of its journey, and every encounter brings another story... 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 A Conspiracy Within the Marriage 婚内合谋 After the passion fades, the leads settle into a dull married life, paying off their debts and living without intimacy. Then the male lead's best friend cheats, and through a twist of fate, the female lead receives hush money of 300,000 yuan. Her desire to make money suddenly awakens, and she joins forces with her husband to start a business. As they make money hand over fist, they rediscover the passion of their romance. Greed and the desires of love and hate collide in a tangle of human nature 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Rising Step by Step in Middle Age 人到中年：步步高升 Cheng Dawei has offended his beautiful boss and is constantly being targeted by her. He never expected that one good deed would turn his luck around and send him climbing the career ladder. From a nobody in the company whom everyone bullied, he rises to become the darling everyone fawns over and curries favor with... 811Reads8.7Score10714d adds
- 86 Everyday Life as a Woman Living Alone 独居女性日常 A first-person daily-life story about a group of women who live alone. My name is Li Yu. I was different from other children from the start. I was terribly unlucky: I was abandoned as a baby, and I only have one eye! But I was incredibly lucky to have adoptive parents who love me more than anything. They love me, and they still urge me to get married. They love me, and once they're done urging me, they accept that I live alone. Living alone doesn't mean being lonely. It's a romantic date wit 460Reads8.1Score10914d adds
- 87 The Capital Game: She Makes the Rules 资本游戏：她即规则 (No System · Not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy · High-IQ mind games · Multiple twists · Read at your own discretion) When the first blood moonlight pierced my bedroom curtains, I thought it was just a hallucination from a hangover. Until the corroded bronze doors clanged shut behind me and a mechanical voice announced: “Welcome to the Capital Colosseum. The winner lives; the loser is erased.” As one person after another turned to data dust in the capital games, I thought surviving required —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 A Spring Flower Blooms 一朵春花开 A spring blossom blooms, and sorrow and pain fade away. How did the romance between Chen Jiayi, a photographer who has never been in a relationship, and Xie Ning, a restrained lawyer, begin? Perhaps when she looked at him. Perhaps when he warmed her heart. Perhaps when they became each other's light. They heal each other and learn how to love. “I don't know how to make someone happy.” “As long as you're by my side, that's happiness.” 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Flowers Falling in a Fleeting World 浮世花落 Zhao Yulan was a gentle, virtuous, loyal, kind, and lovely woman, yet she had an affair. Li Fugui was a hardworking, honest, and upright man, yet he went to prison twice. Cao Rui was a village Party secretary and a successful entrepreneur, yet he coveted a married woman. What's wrong with people… This book explores marriage, family, society, life, human nature, and ethics… There's love and desire, life and death, madness, the folly and greed of human nature, and the warmth and compassion of huma 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 The Land of Dream Migration 梦迁之地 The Land of Dream Migration After falling asleep, everyone enters the same place. It is not a dream. It is the ruins of dreams, a gray wasteland piled high with fragments of consciousness. There is no way out, no rules, and no sun. The dead wander here for eternity, while the living slowly go mad. Lin Jingchu killed people in a dream. When he woke, those people were really dead. He thought this was the beginning of his revenge. But he did not know that his dreams were not his own, his nam —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Annihilating the Five Elements: Ashes of the Old Days, A Journal 湮灭五行：旧日之烬手记 A new author, so the pacing is a little slow at first! 1932, the New England coast. The decaying town of Innsmouth is like swollen, rotten wood, its inhuman emptiness showing through the fog and deathly silence. Private detective Sarah Watley, a battlefield ghost haunted by nightmares of the deep, travels to this cursed land to investigate a blasphemous wax seal that has resurfaced in the world. The residents have fleshy fins behind their ears and vertical pupils hidden in their eyes. The air r —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Peach Blossom Love 桃花爱 Nie Xiaoqian had a miserable childhood and suffered abuse from a young age. To survive, she went to the city to work. After enduring one hardship after another, she found love of her own. But fate had other plans... 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 He Hid in the Years, Loving Me for So Long 他藏在时光里，爱了我很多年 My name is Guo Yaoze. When I was six, a little girl moved in next door. She wore two tiny pigtails and had dimples when she smiled. She gave me her only lollipop. “Brother Xiaoze, I don’t like sweets.” It was twenty years before I learned she’d been lying to me. When I was nine, my family moved away. She cried downstairs, and I cried in the car. At fifteen, I transferred back and she became my desk mate, but she didn’t remember me. At seventeen, after the college entrance exams, my mother sent 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 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 16Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 95 The Good Girl Who Became a Clear-Eyed Force to Be Reckoned With 乖乖女熬成了清醒的悍妇 [Women's Growth + Married Life + Everyday Life + Comeback] A slow, warming story, not a wish-fulfillment novel. Drawn from the realities of everyday life. At thirty, Lian Fangfang still got to marry for love. She could hardly believe her luck. But this well-behaved girl, who had grown up surrounded by praise and applause, never expected that when faced with her domineering mother-in-law, her husband Wang Wenbo would choose to stay silent. What does marriage really bring women? Is it a descent in 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Who Hasn’t Dated a Jerk or Two? Growing Up 谁不经历几个渣男：长大成人 Who doesn’t have to go through a few jerks on the way to growing up? This book explores women’s emotional growth. Drawing mostly on the author’s own experiences and reflections on love, and shaped with literary embellishment, it presents five stages of women’s emotional growth in the hope of offering a little guidance to women who feel lost. 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 A Favoritism on Campus, Beyond the Campus Beauty 校园偏爱，落在校花之外 A Special Kind of Love on Campus, Beyond the Campus Belle —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Spirit Commanders of the Three Kingdoms: My General Spirit Is the Moon Goddess 三国驭灵：我的将灵是月神 [Spirit Generals | Three Kingdoms | Fantasy | Supernatural | Passionate | One Heroine] When I was eighteen, all manner of spirits surrounded our village, and every villager was killed. But Grandma left me two things that not only saved my life, but also led me into the secret world of Spirit Generals. The heroic spirits of the Three Kingdoms become Spirit Generals, their armies and warhorses hidden in a sea of spirits. But I've gradually realized that the disaster that destroyed my village had a 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Jinsheng Lai 矜生莱氏 After an accident, the blind Jin Sheng glimpses the realms of yin and yang and is swept into an endless maelstrom of supernatural events. The inexplicably appearing female ghost Lai Bao becomes his only companion. Evil spirits lurk beneath the city, while ghost hunters, curses, and vengeful spirits emerge one after another. This time, he won't just flee in panic. Together, human and ghost roam the dark of night, uncovering secrets buried for years between the worlds of yin and yang. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Those Years in Dongguan 在东莞那些年 This book tells the story of an ordinary loser who finds love while working at a factory. After his future mother-in-law demands an outrageous bride price, he works hard, sets out to build a business, and pursues his dream. Giving up a high-paying job, he leads his friends back to their hometown to start a business, transforming a place so poor that no one could find a wife into a place young women are eager to marry into. 85Reads7.6Score—14d adds
