Novels like Zhang Xiaojiu's Adventure Journal
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Zhang Xiaojiu's Adventure Journal, best match first.
- 1 With Divine Eyes, I'll Claim Both Invincibility and Women 我有神眼，无敌和女人都要 Li Yifeng is 23 and has just five yuan to his name when he casually buys a fake antique stone bead. Then the thing slips into the space between his eyebrows! From that day on, he can see through things. He checks out beautiful women, makes 30 million a day finding hidden treasures in jade, and exposes a show-off ex-boyfriend at a class reunion. Li Yifeng’s women are even harder to deal with than his enemies. Su Qingyue announces in public, “He’s my boyfriend,” nearly making him choke on a chicke 513Reads—Score13014d adds
- 2 The Ugly Girl's Stunning Transformation: One Song, 'Love You,' Shocks the Entertainment World 丑女大变身，一首爱你震惊娱乐圈 The day Jiang Wan was publicly dumped by her fiance, she weighed two hundred jin and had a head full of songs from another world. At an open audition for ordinary contestants, she stunned the whole crowd with a single performance of "Love You." Black trending topics could be suppressed, but not the hearts of the people. They mocked her for being fat; she laughed at them for being deaf. The diva is back, and the song thieves and homewreckers won't get away! 973Reads—Score12214d adds
- 3 A Heartbeat That Ends With Youth 心动止于少年 A Crush That Ends in Youth 8Reads—Score414d adds
- 4 God-Tier Mechanic: From Auto Repairman to Automotive Legend 神级技师：从汽修工到车圈神话 Feel-good story + skill upgrades + no female lead + fast pace + getting rich + friends everywhere + low-key flexing!!!!! Zhang Xiaonian awakens a god-tier vehicle modification System. The harder the vehicle is to work on, the stronger the skills he receives. The rich line up to throw money at him, while his competitors kneel and call him Master. 13.7kReads6.9Score81514d adds
- 5 Our Family, Buried Alive by Life 我们这一家，被生活活埋 Our Family Was Buried Alive by Life 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The European Phoenix's Cultivation Saga: A Long Road to Immortality, Time for a Shock 欧凰修仙传：仙途漫漫，来点震撼 Ou Huang transmigrates to a cultivation universe and unexpectedly merges with an Immortal Emperor’s mortal Dao Fruit. After a thousand years, he has become a mighty Nascent Soul cultivator. Along the way, he casually whipped up a few technological gadgets. To deal with the risk of his spirit becoming unstable, he hides his cultivation and slips into the Tianxuan Sect as an ordinary outer disciple. My name is Ou Huang. I’m the Emperor of Luck, and you’re all ants. No System, invincible protagonis 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Abyssal Giant Attacks, and I Grow Ten Centimeters Taller Every Day 深渊巨人来袭，我每天长高十厘米 After transmigrating to a world under attack by giants, Chen Yuan awakens two traits: [Any Body Part Grows Ten Centimeters Every Day] and [Slay Colossal Beings, Gain Divine Powers]. And so begins his long career of hunting giants in the abyss. [Titan-Class Giant] [Strength of a million tons, divine body, one punch can destroy a city] [Title: War Behemoth] [Mountain-and-Sea-Class Giant] [Tall as mountains and seas, reaching up to ten thousand meters, looking down upon the human world] [Title: 15kReads6.5Score1.6k14d adds
- 8 My Brother Is Calling for Help, but Grandpa Says Never to Look Back 弟弟在求救，祖父却说千万别回头 My younger brother was calling for help, but Grandfather said, "Whatever you do, don't look back." 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Invincible Across Two Worlds: The Carefree Immortal's Journey 双穿无敌，逍遥仙途传 This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. With a fresh take, it follows Mo Chou, an ordinary member of society who one day accidentally obtains a jade pendant left behind by the ancient, powerful immortal Master Xian before his ascension. Sealed inside it are all the skills Master Xian mastered in his lifetime. Whoever finds it and becomes its owner will inherit everything he knew. The ancient jade also contains storage space and a portal 600Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Who Can Afford to Practice Martial Arts? I'm Off to Chop Wood 没钱修什么武，我砍树去了 [Urban] [High Martial] [Plot-driven] [No female lead] Twenty years after the spiritual qi revival, martial arts have become the latest luxury for the elite. Tuition at a martial arts university is 880,000 yuan, and ordinary universities have followed suit, raising theirs to 188,000 yuan. Are poor people unfit to study or practice martial arts? Chen Liang tossed aside his admission letter to an ordinary university, picked up the axe his father left behind, and headed for the Black Mist Forest, a 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 46.7kReads8.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 12 I Rule the Archives of Life and Death on the Other Shore 我在彼岸执掌生死档案 "Chen Mo, would you be willing to work for the Underworld?" "That lousy place? Not even a dog would go!" "A monthly salary of fifty thousand." "If even dogs won't go, then I'll go!" "Triple overtime pay, and if anything goes wrong on a mission, we'll make sure you get a good next life." "Big Brothers Hei and Bai Wuchang, you can count me as clocked in today." "Lord Yama, you're paying me so much, it's got me worried." 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Master of the Game 神操手 After nine lives, can he escape his shackles? Can cultivating through code create a miracle? A seasoned spirit hunter starts out with a wronged spirit in tow and faces Hell-level difficulty from the start: Should he lie flat, or break free of his shackles? The One-Line Chasm, Soul-Eater Forest, the Inspection Team... The clues to extending his life point to the Guardian of the Abyss, locked away inside a ward. But when he risks his life to reach the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, he discovers it is 86Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Record of Raising an Otherworldly Supreme 异界至尊养成记录 In another world, with cards that blot out the sky, speak my true name and my magic knows no bounds. This is the story of a young man from Blue Star who transmigrates to another world, using summoning cards to earn money, raise a child, and stir up all kinds of trouble. 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 A Hell Bureaucrat in Charge of Order Between the Worlds of the Living and the Dead 地府打工仔掌管阴阳两界秩序 A Netherworld Employee Takes Charge of Order Between the Worlds of the Living and the Dead 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 God of Chaos! 混沌之神！ [This book is also known as: Nine Revolutions Profound Art | In the later stages, Xin Mo will overpower the Great Sage and Erlang, because he cultivates the complete Nine Revolutions Profound Art.] [An exceptionally long character-growth arc in the early stages] [Every five chapters form a little story arc. I put my heart into every word, and hope you enjoy it!] Civilization has fallen, a new age of chaos has begun, and humanity's darkest impulses spread without end... He emerged from the chaos 10.2kReads—Score86514d adds
- 18 A Fleeting Moment 寸阴 [Infinite-loop adventure in the early stages + an intelligent villain + detailed supporting characters + haven't figured out the later stages yet ^_^] Urging someone to study medicine is a recipe for disaster! Even with a golden finger, you still can't overcome human nature! So let it go. Take off that white coat, as if shedding the shackles weighing you down, only to fall into a cycle, an apparently endless loop. Within the cycle of 2015, you uncover a shocking secret from hundreds of years ago 7.3kReads—Score58814d adds
- 19 My Father Pretended to Be Mute, and My Boyfriend Lied to Me 装哑的父亲和骗我的男友 A father who pretends to be mute and a boyfriend who deceives me 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 After I Was Reborn, I Gave Up My Guaranteed Admission, and He Panicked 重生后我放弃保送，他慌了 After I Was Reborn, I Gave Up My Guaranteed Admission, and He Panicked 479Reads—Score414d adds
- 21 The True Heiress Returns with Her Metaphysical Powers, and Her Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Stall 玄学真千金归来，豪门全家跪求别摆摊 The Metaphysical True Heiress Returns, and Her Entire Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Fortune-Telling Stall 749Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Gazing Across the Four Seas 观四海 This isn't a conventional web novel. It features multidimensional space, rotating and traversing time sequences, and a diverse world of mutated races (beastfolk, insect races, marine life, and more), with varied narrative styles, interlocking plotlines, major foreshadowing, and tightly closed logical loops. The male lead, Qin Wei, can communicate with marine life and is also the chosen one most trusted by the Insect Queen. He seems to keep awakening as time turns, yet fails again and again. He m 178Reads—Score1114d adds
- 23 My Name Is Chu Sheng, Sheng as in Bloom 我叫初盛，盛开的盛 After the spiritual qi revival, nine peerless prodigies with very different personalities meet by the arrangement of fate. What kind of sparks will fly when they collide? "Hello, I'm Chu Sheng. Sheng, as in blooming!" "Hey, hey, hey! Watch your language!" "Excuse me, have you seen Chu Sheng? He seems to have gotten lost..." "I am Zhang Jiao! Today... I shall strike down the heavens!" "Hah! In the end, I lost by half a move... So be it! This Daoist is off..." Little brother~ Want to p 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The First Day After I Was Reborn, My Whole Family Wanted Me Dead 重生后第一天，全家想让我死 On the First Day After I Was Reborn, My Family Wanted Me Dead 140Reads—Score114d adds
- 25 The Tycoon Game: The Beautiful CEO Chose Me 富豪游戏：美女总裁选中我 Yang Li was chosen by a beautiful CEO, given ten million, and invited to take part in a life-or-death game. Six players, each with ten million. After one year, whoever has the most assets gets to live. 109Reads—Score414d adds
- 26 My Heaven-Defying Kidney-Tonifying System 我的逆天补肾系统 Han Gao's life hit rock bottom. His marriage was over, and so was his dignity. Just then, a mysterious delivery arrived at his door: an unremarkable thermos. From that moment on, he began quietly growing stronger... 1.5kReads6.3Score10014d adds
- 27 Thunderous Crackdown on Black Crime in the Political Arena 官场之雷霆扫黑 The chessboard of power, every move calculated, every step taken on thin ice. No matter how cautious you are, you can never guard against everything. Li Yan, a community officer at a local police station, starts from the very bottom. He refuses to buckle under pressure and fears no powerful figures. With thunderous force, he uproots every criminal gang and underworld faction. Step by step, he rises to the pinnacle of power! 86.9kReads8.2Score6.5k14d adds
- 28 The Capital’s Young Master Is at Her Feet 京圈太子爷是她的裙下之臣 The Capital’s Crown Prince Is Her Devoted Suitor 101Reads—Score10714d adds
- 29 The Whole Sect Is Chewing Tree Bark, and You Say Spirit Rice Yields Thirty Thousand Pounds Per Acre? 全宗啃树皮，你说灵稻亩产三万斤 After transmigrating into the body of a destitute sect leader buried under a debt of thirty million spirit stones, he finds that the entire sect has only one little disciple left, so hungry he's chewing tree bark. Chen Mo looks at the mutated spirit rice in his storage space, yielding thirty thousand jin per mu, and smiles. “Let's start with a small goal: making sure everyone in the sect has enough to eat.” Three months later, Qingyun Sect is making a million spirit stones a month selling spirit 33Reads—Score214d adds
- 30 Reborn, I Deliberately Emptied My Storage Space 重生回来，我故意清空了空间 When I Was Reborn, I Deliberately Emptied My Storage Space 2.8kReads—Score3314d adds
- 31 I Return from the Forbidden Zone 我自禁区归来 [No System / No Transmigration / No Rebirth / No Cliches / No Harem. If you want a brainless power fantasy, this isn't for you.] After the Fall Power descended, countless protective barriers appeared across Huaxia, guarding its cities, towns, and villages. Inside the barriers, people were safe. The lands beyond them were known as the Forbidden Zones, because anyone who spent a day in one would lose their mind and turn into a terrifying Fallen Beast. When Bian Ning woke up, he found himself inexp 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 C-Rank Appraiser? I Command the Supreme Treasures of All Ages c级鉴宝？我执掌万代至尊 In the year 2012, a dark star hung in the sky, and dimensional rifts of every size tore open around the world, unleashing countless monsters. Human firearms barely harmed them. But Source Crystals began to grow all over the world, and people who came into contact with them started awakening special talents, giving humanity a way to fight back. Even so, humanity endured sixty years of darkness. It was only when the Twelve Kings of Mankind had fully come into their own that humans could stand toe 121Reads—Score414d adds
- 33 The Keeper of Ink: The Unburned Book 守墨人：未烬书 Heir to the Mo family, guardian of ancient scrolls and their teachings. A fragmentary Western Xia scroll reveals the secret origins shared by Xia and Han civilization; A perilous journey of deadly pursuit leads across seven regions in search of proof that civilizations can coexist. Su Qiao carries on her ancestors' legacy, disarming ancient tomb traps and fighting off evil spirits and pursuers. What she guards is not merely a forgotten history, but the ultimate belief that all under heaven can u 13Reads—Score614d adds
- 34 I’m Just a Delivery Guy, So How Did I Become the Savior of the World? 我只是送外卖的，怎么就成了救世主 I’m Just a Delivery Driver, So How Did I Become Humanity’s Savior? 26Reads—Score114d adds
- 35 I Never Expected to Win, but a Billion-Yuan Jackpot Hit Me 我真没想中奖却被10亿大奖砸中了 I Never Expected to Win, but a Billion-Yuan Jackpot Fell into My Lap 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Day the White Tower Fell 白塔倾倒之日 The author has fallen into a black hole. Signal lost, updates suspended, and the text has been replaced with filler. I've run off with the original manuscript. I'll come back and fill in the gaps once I've stolen some inspiration from a parallel universe. Farewell for now, fellow readers! 103Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 I Grow Stronger by Devouring the Dead, but the Goddess Wants to Devour Me 我靠吞噬死者变强，女神却想吞我 [Urban high martial arts + varied supernatural abilities + new power system + no System / but a loot-box-style golden finger + intelligent protagonist who grows stronger + satisfying story with brains + mind games and martial combat] Lin Mo is a cleanup worker for the Special Affairs Administration in Shenzhen, tasked with handling the affairs of unclaimed "lonely deaths." During a routine funeral, he unexpectedly awakens the supernatural ability "Echoes of Last Wishes": by touching a dead pers 326Reads—Score1814d adds
- 38 The Cat-Paw Martial Heroine: Fleeing Her Way to the Top 三脚猫女侠，逃命成为天下第一 The Three-Legged Cat Swordswoman: Fleeing for Her Life to Become the Greatest Under Heaven 256Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Zeng Guofan: A Distinguished Statesman Who Revived the Late Qing 曾国藩：晚清中兴名臣 Written in an accessible style, this book recounts the remarkable life of Zeng Guofan, the foremost statesman of the late Qing revival. It begins with a baby's cries in a farming household in Xiangxiang in 1811, then follows his grueling path through the imperial examinations. He fails four times but keeps studying until, at twenty-seven, he finally enters the Hanlin Academy. As a capital official, he adheres to the principles of self-cultivation and holds fast to his convictions amid court intr 9.6kReads7.9Score39214d adds
- 40 Bearing the Five Turbidities, I Walk Through a Wicked Age 身负五浊，行于恶世 [Xuanhuan] [Superpowers] [Single Heroine] [Two Powerful Leads] [Pseudo-Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Slow Burn] “When you look back on your life, how would you define yourself?” In 2050, alien species invaded Blue Star. Led by the “Dream Masters” who had awakened their “Strange Eyes,” humanity raised the banner of resistance against the all-consuming tide. The Five Turbidities: the turbidity of kalpas, views, sentient beings, afflictions, and life. As you journey through this evil world of the Fiv 2.3kReads—Score23114d adds
- 41 Unparalleled Throughout the Ages 冠古绝今 Spiritual qi revival, mythology descends! Olympus, the gods of India, and deities from every heaven appear in the mortal world to reap their harvest. Whispers from the Old Ones crawl out of the abyss, and unspeakable horrors erode reality. Zhang Guangu, whose fate twists and turns and who endures countless tribulations, eventually discovers that he is the product of an ancient god's leader and the source of Earth's cultivation civilization fused together. He deduces the laws, dismantles divine a 14Reads—Score10214d adds
- 42 This World Is Such a Mess! 这个世界好混乱啊！ Who am I? Where am I? Am I dreaming? Everyone in the world seems strange. What was that I heard… My heart hurts so much. At last, I picked up my knife… I died… I came back to life, but I no longer had a heart… This is a world with just one continent and a few islands, and it is on the brink of an eerie apocalypse. Can someone without a heart feel the warmth and coldness of human life? How can I hold on to my heart in a world gone mad? Why can I calmly watch the living die right before my eyes? 225Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 A Popular History of the Former Han 前汉通俗演义 [Cai Dongfan's Historical Romance, The Complete Founding History of the Han Dynasty, The Qin-Han Rivalry, A Plain-Language History, Political Intrigue and War] This book is Cai Dongfan's A Popular History of the Former Han, a classic historical novel that recounts the dynasty's rise and fall from the chaos at the end of the Qin through the middle and late Western Han. Spanning one hundred chapters, it begins with Lü Buwei's extraordinary investment and Qin Shi Huang's unification of the realm, a 129Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 44 Night's Pardoner 赦夜人 [The author has a completed title on the Top Peak list, “The Usurper (Below the Upper City).” Read with confidence!] [Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Not Invincible] [Plot-Focused] [Dark Tone] [Not Mindless] [Character Growth] Every shift from day to night is a silent contest of survival. After nightfall, the world becomes a playground for the Blighted. A special light source can offer humanity brief protection. Some live high above, beneath the lights. Others cling to life in the mud. No matter how 271.5kReads9.0Score28.9k14d adds
- 45 Born to Make Them Laugh 转笑生 Turn to Laughter —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Surviving the Ordeal 熬过劫难 First, be certain that you can reach the summit. Then believe this book can rewrite your fate, and believe in the power of belief. By the time you read this book, the identity you have now will already have begun to loosen its grip. The moment you choose to begin, you have already left mediocrity behind. Can my story help you find your own path to salvation? May words reveal the power they truly hold. 63.7kReads9.2Score13.3k14d adds
- 47 Realm Capital 界都 I contain all things. It all began on the first day I entered Jiangcheng Elite Academy... This is a world where Blue Star is divided in two, five hundred years after the spiritual qi revival. You'll find that everyone around me, whether ordinary or exceptional, is remarkable in their own way. The universe has ten domains, the ten domains have the Milky Way, the Milky Way has Blue Star, Blue Star has the Spirit Realm, the Spirit Realm has Huaxia, and Huaxia has Jiedu... Are you ready to embark on 403Reads—Score4014d adds
- 48 Ming Dynasty 1572 大明1572 In the first year of the Wanli era, the ten-year-old emperor ascended the throne. Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng enforced the Kaocheng system and the Single Whip Reform with an iron hand, filling the dying Ming treasury and securing its borders over the next ten years. But the deeper the reforms went, the fiercer the opposition became; the greater his power, the deeper his loneliness. He had once been the "Teacher Zhang" most respected by the emperor, but ultimately became the person the young so 139Reads—Score12414d adds
- 49 The Secret Histories of the Four Great Beauties 四大美人秘史 [The Four Beauties, classical historical romances, complete uncensored public-domain editions, stories of celebrated women in history, ancient tales] This complete collection contains the original, unabridged texts of The Romance of Xishi, The Romance of Wang Zhaojun, The Romance of Yang Guifei, and The Romance of Diaochan. It recounts the turbulent lives of the Four Beauties, whose beauty was said to make fish forget to swim, geese forget to fly, the moon hide, and flowers blush. Together, thes 526Reads9.2Score10014d adds
- 50 The Fate of an Orphan Girl 孤女的命运 This is a sad story. Lin Jiang had an affair, and Shi Qiaosi endured it for three years before suddenly coming to her senses and decisively divorcing him. After the divorce, she secretly gave birth to a daughter of her own, Shixu. The disasters brought upon three generations of a family by an unfaithful man and a scheming woman eager to take his wife’s place. See how an elderly grandmother schemes for her granddaughter, building a bridge through time with her own life so that Shixu can return to 18.6kReads9.3Score1.7k14d adds
