Novels like I See Your Hard Work, but Why Is the Sweat on My Head?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I See Your Hard Work, but Why Is the Sweat on My Head?, best match first.
- 1 A Business Marriage, My Fiancée Ran Away and Wants Her Sister to Marry Me Instead? 商业联姻，未婚妻逃婚让妹妹替嫁？ A marriage alliance, and his fiancée runs away, leaving her younger sister to take her place? 2.7kReads—Score119Shelves
- 2 The World Inn: My System Is a Little Fake 天下客栈：我的系统有点假 [I'm new to writing, so please go easy on me] [System(?) + Possibly Pure Love + Chuunibyou Passion + Ensemble Cast + Farming + Conquest] The amnesiac young man Ling Xi woke up in an inn. His memories of the past were gone, replaced by a System in his sea of consciousness that didn't seem like a System at all. "Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-dong~ The Strongest Inn System, reporting for duty!" That was the first thing Ling Xi heard the System say, and the beginning of his transformation into "a hundr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Logged into a Japanese Horror Creepypasta Game 我登录了日恐怪谈游戏 After transmigrating to Japan, Kobayashi had a classmate named Kayako, Sadako as a neighbor, floating head-shaped balloons over the city, and phone calls that foretold death... Everyone else was running for their lives, but he opened an idle game. He caught evil spirits and urban legends, then sent them off to idle in the game. He used the materials they dropped to make himself stronger. Died? Watch an ad and revive on the spot! Kobayashi: “There's a rumor going around that I can become the King 2.1kReads7.4Score106Shelves
- 4 Transmigrated as a Female-Focused Novel's Imperial Tutor: Disciple, Your Blade Isn't Fast Enough! 穿成女频帝师，徒儿你刀不够快啊！ Transmigrated into a female-oriented novel as the imperial tutor, only to find my disciple's blade still isn't fast enough! 12.8kReads—Score117Shelves
- 5 Fake People Everywhere? But I’m a Normal Overbearing CEO 伪人扎堆？可我是正常霸总 Impostors everywhere? But I'm a perfectly normal overbearing CEO 4.9kReads—Score224Shelves
- 6 Please, Just Kill Me 求求你，杀了我吧 [Transmigration + comedy + dark humor + lighthearted + ensemble cast + subverting expectations + System] Shen Yi transmigrated to another world, a bizarre place overrun with ghosts and monsters, and became the doctor at a rundown clinic! Except Shen Yi had no desire to be this damn doctor. He just wanted to get himself killed as soon as possible so he could go home and live a lie-flat life with his girlfriend, who had just confessed that she was a rich woman! So he started doing everything he co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Apocalypse Game: Buying the Twelve Talismans at a Discount from the Start 末世游戏：开局打折购买十二符咒 (Invincible protagonist + battles across the myriad heavens + ensemble cast) (Break out of Blue Star, ascend toward omniscience, omnipotence, and eternal transcendence, and suppress the apocalyptic game.) Qian Kun, who was born into this world, had just awakened his golden finger and was about to buy the Twelve Talismans to transform into the Dragon of Complete Power when one world-changing event after another began to unfold. The return of players from the apocalyptic game, along with the sudde 3.9kReads8.0Score367Shelves
- 8 Who Wants to Be a Grunt NPC?! 谁要当苦力NPC啊！ [Infinite worlds + players + summoning + extreme absurdity + wild imagination + ensemble cast] [There are quite a few frustrating elements early on, especially with the ensemble cast. The author will fix this later and won’t make the protagonist disappear. If you want to focus on the protagonist, you can wait for the second book.] The Supreme God’s Space has taken off! After taking down a certain wish-fulfillment company, it switched careers and started making games, summoning players to force t 215Reads—Score103Shelves
- 9 A-Zhen, Are You Serious?! I Made a Real Immortal Emperor at the Anime Convention 阿珍你来真的啊！漫展搞个真仙帝 [A Satisfying Story with Brains] [Loads of Illustrations] [Leave your brain here. Leave a message and rate the book to earn interest while we provide benefits for your family] [If this book isn’t funny, the author will send you 50 yuan and admit you’re Qin Shi Huang] [About being ruthless and decisive: friends who kill people often know it’s easy to kill, but hard to dispose of the body. The protagonist’s solution is to grind them to ashes] [Pan Zhou Dan is a verb] The strongest Immortal Emperor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I Transmigrated into a Women’s Romance Novel and Robbed an Urgent Messenger from the Start? 穿进女频，开局劫了八百里加急？ Transmigrated into a novel for female readers, and from the start, I hijacked an urgent courier? 1.7kReads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I’m the Crown Prince, and I Rule Alone. You Want Me to Abdicate? 本太子乾纲独断，你叫我禅让？ As Crown Prince, I make all the decisions. And you want me to abdicate? 8.7kReads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Company Is 10 Billion in Debt, and My Fiancée Fired Me? 公司负债百亿，未婚妻把我裁员了？ The company is a hundred billion in debt, and my fiancée laid me off? 1.7kReads—Score106Shelves
- 13 Global Crisis: My Life Has Narration 全球危机：我的生活有旁白 [Don't be fooled by his driving skills. He isn't even a beginner] [She looks like a pure-hearted angel, but she's actually a woman who gets around] [She seems as aloof as an empress, but she really wants to cuddle up with you] [This planet is falling into the dark universe. Eat whatever you can while it's still hot] … After accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom, Zhao Xuan began seeing all kinds of narration in his daily life. These narrations subtly revealed the truth about his surroundings 35Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 14 Are There No Normal People in Another World? 异世界没有正常人了吗？ [Comedy + System + Ensemble Cast + No Female Lead + Nontraditional Daily Life] The rating only came in after 420,000 words. It should go up, right? (Warning: The author wasn't thinking straight while writing the early chapters. If chapters 14 to 20 feel boring, you can skip them without affecting the rest of the story.) What do you mean, you got sucked into another world while sitting on a golden toilet? What do you mean, you transmigrated before you even pulled up your pants? What do you mean, 4kReads8.2Score537Shelves
- 15 A Living Hell from the Start: If There's No Game Over, Does That Mean I've Won? 地狱开局，没关就是开？ In the Age of Declining Dharma, the Six Realms have fallen and the Heavenly Dao has crumbled. As the online flame warrior Situ An browses the internet in a fit of enthusiasm, he is transported into the cultivation world. From the start, his entire sect is wiped out. Just as the last black-clad survivor, on the verge of being killed, sends him away, Situ An unexpectedly unlocks the Substitute System. His first draw gives him the Elbow Strike King. But getting past the black-clad figure in the fi 275Reads7.1Score120Shelves
- 16 Superpowered Showdown 超能激斗 In a future world where superpowers are commonplace, Xin Huan, who possesses the "invincible" superpower, takes on an unusually personal assignment: posing as a student to protect freshman Bai Keran up close... 297Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 17 I Slept with the Empress? Now I'm the Commander! 睡了女皇？我直接当首长！ [Laid-Back Male Lead] + [Badass Female Lead] + [Civilization Advancement] + [Comedic Ensemble] [Reader’s Guide] 1. The male lead is a true sit-back-and-win war god. Luck is his combat power, and he’s dragged into the action the whole way. 2. The female lead is at the pinnacle of power in the universe, the epitome of elegant, violent beauty. 3. Every side character is a comedian: a hot-tempered commander, a money-loving buddy, a skeleton who sells burial plots, and a cultivation big shot who’s a 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Transmigrated into a Tragic Romance and Gave Every Heroine a Home 穿进虐文，我给所有女主一个家 I Reincarnated into an Angsty Novel and Gave Every Heroine a Home 391Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 From the Start, I Have Super Beast Armor: Asking the Campus Belle Why 开局超兽武装，大问校花为什么 [Feel-good story + childhood nostalgia + invincible in the later stages] After transmigrating into another world, Chen Hao awakens a talent for drawing. While everyone laughs at him, the corner of his mouth curls into a slight smile. You country bumpkins from another world who’ve never watched cartoons, get ready to experience the power of childhood. The city lord’s daughter has been kidnapped, and of all things, this mess had to land in my lap. “Don’t you want to save her?” “You kidnapped her. 790Reads7.1Score135Shelves
- 20 The Bickering Couple Collection 笑话夫妻集 A collection of jokes just for married couples! Perfect for couples going through a dry spell or for anyone bored at bedtime. Every joke hits the funny bone, bringing plenty of fun to married life. A whole year of laughter for you and your partner, and your relationship will be warmer than ever after reading! 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 A Workaholic Has Appeared in the Cultivation World 修仙界出了个卷王 As an inner sect disciple of Baiyujing, Yue Chuan has the status countless mortal cultivators yearn for. But all he wants is to join the outer sect. Not for any other reason, but because he has a Diligence System that demands he take every duty attached to his position seriously. The System is about to drive him insane. In the inner sect, he has to get up at the mao hour, practice swordsmanship at the chen hour, attend class at the si hour, spar at the wei hour, attend another class at the shen 20kReads7.5Score1.6kShelves
- 22 A Golden Core Fully Formed from the Start, and Now I Have to Survive the Supernatural? 开局金丹大成让我诡异求生？ [Comedy and Absurdity] + [Infinite Flow] + [Single Female Lead] A Golden Core cultivator has appeared in the eerie world? Eerie Fifty-Fifty: Have fun playing games, and keep smiling! Eerie Banana Guy: This is way too freewheeling! Han Xin, Top Player on the Chinese Server: Even a little drink won't help Han Xin recover from this. This guy is unbelievably awesome. Grandpa Niu from Turning-Over Garden: Are you cosplaying Louis XVI? Interesting. Three Spoons: No time to mourn Wang Qi. This guy is t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 I Have a Million-Man Army, and You Think I’ll Take This Insult?! 朕百万大军，能受这委屈？ I command a million troops. You think I’d put up with this? 608Reads—Score121Shelves
- 24 So What If I Like Fox Spirits? 我就喜欢狐妖怎么了？ Since I’ve transmigrated, I might as well set myself a small goal. Is it too much to ask to marry a fox demon? Fang Chang transmigrated to a world much like Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. After ten years of seeking immortality and the Dao without a single result, he gave up on the immortal path. He planned to use his ability to reload saves to make a little money and live an ordinary life, but just when all hope seemed lost, he unexpectedly became a rogue cultivator while escorting a carav 471Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 25 A Regret-Filled Misery Story? I Thought This Was a Battle Series 憋屈后悔文？我寻思战斗番呢 A frustrating regret-fest? I thought this was a battle series! 14.3kReads—Score150Shelves
- 26 A Wrench for You 给你一扳手 [Satisfying power fantasy + lighthearted comedy + transmigration + city building + a wrench with a mind of its own, not a traditional System] Niu Renqiang is a twenty-seven-year-old air-conditioning installer who dies in a fall from the twenty-seventh floor. He transmigrates to Blackstone City, a lonely city caught between Spirit Mountain and the Conquerors. Spirit Mountain cultivates immortality, the Conquerors wield technology, and Blackstone City survives by selling coal. His golden finger is 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Unbeatable Dragon-Slaying Blade: A Freshman Who Kills Gods with Two Strikes 无敌屠龙刀，刚上大一，两刀斩神 [Decisive and ruthless + insanely satisfying + utterly unstoppable] Li Zimu awakens the Dominator System and obtains the legendary Dragon-Slaying Demon Blade. A single slash deals 990 million damage! While others train in martial arts and awaken special abilities, the System directly grants him a Super Saiyan physique. He can master any martial art at a glance. In just two months, Li Zimu rises to ninth place on the Dark Web’s assassin rankings. The depths of his power are unfathomable. Then, wh 46Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 28 What Do You Mean This Fly Is the Black Dragon King? 什么叫这只苍蝇是黑龙王 [Cultivation for All | Pet Mechanics | Upgradable System | Worlds Merging | Decisive Combat | Deduction and Rules | Defying Fate] When Chang Ye woke up, the gods had descended, and the entire world had entered the age of cultivation. The System handed out free mystery boxes containing divine pets to everyone. Chang Ye opened his with high hopes, only to find a single fly inside? Wait, what do you mean this fly can talk? And claims to be the sealed Black Dragon King? And says a whole bunch of ene 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Even as a Eunuch, I’ll Save Great Ming 变成太监也要拯救大明 [No female lead] [Focused on building a career] [AI in his head] After failing the graduate school entrance exam for the third time, Wang Yingyu transmigrates back to the Ming Dynasty on the night of the Seven Stars Aligning, bringing the AI from his computer with him. He saves the Tianqi Emperor. But after saving the Tianqi Emperor, he doesn't realize that he was also the one who caused the emperor to fall into the water in the first place... 101Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 30 I Just Ascended the Throne, and You’re Pulling a Substitute Bride on Me? 朕刚登基，你跟老子玩替嫁？ I Just Took the Throne, and You Think You Can Pull a Substitute Bride on Me? 3.7kReads—Score206Shelves
- 31 Me, a Blind Box Livestreamer! The Big Spenders Are Going Crazy Buying! 我，盲盒直播！大哥们买疯了！ [Live Streaming + Mystery Boxes + Wacky Antics + Invincible + Hilarious + Anything and Everything Is Possible!] (New book, rating will rise) After transmigrating to Blue Star, Lin Ye gets the Mystery Box Livestream System. Open a mystery box, and you can get anything! “Congratulations, big spender! You've won a nuclear bomb!” Viewers: [????]+99 “Congratulations, big spender! You've won a spaceship that travels at the speed of light!” Viewers: [Wait, are scams really this brazen nowadays?] [Huh? 719Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 32 She’s Just a Childhood Friend, It’s Not Like I Plan to Marry Her 青梅而已，哥又没打算娶 She's Just My Childhood Friend. It's Not Like I Plan to Marry Her 1.1kReads—Score113Shelves
- 33 My Blind Date Wants My Company? Fine, I'll Let Her Have It 相亲对象抢公司？那只能成全她咯。 My blind date wants to take over my company? Then I guess I'll let her have it. 18.2kReads—Score143Shelves
- 34 Demon Wardens: I Was Told to Solve Cases, but I’ve Been Slacking for a Thousand Years 戒妖：让我查案，我摸鱼千年 [Comedy Fantasy | Supernatural Mysteries | A Thousand-Year Bond Between Humans and Demons] After surviving for a thousand years, Geng Chen wants nothing more than to retire with his great-demon wife, keep his head down, clock in each day, and lie flat for the rest of his life. But life is unpredictable. A thousand-year-old cold case turns his laid-back existence into an extraordinary adventure. Bizarre, bloody crimes keep happening. Demons are at work, and the human heart is hard to fathom. On 150Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Transmigrated into a Regret Novel? The Li Family's Legitimate Son Invites Great Chu to Its Doom! 穿进后悔流？李家嫡子请大楚赴死！ Transmigrated into a regret-and-redemption story? The Li family’s legitimate son invites Great Chu to its doom! 5.1kReads—Score157Shelves
- 36 Marvel: The Goofy Deadpool Roams the Multiverse 漫威：沙雕死侍纵横诸天 (The rating just came out, so it should rise later.) Marvel + infinite worlds + chatty (feel free to skip) + goofy comedy He’s immortal and indestructible, can slice bullets with a blade, teleport to steal a hammer, and take on a hundred men at once, yet all the supervillains ask is that he act like a normal person! He’s overflowing with a sense of justice, can fight Thanos one-on-one, save the world, and help little old ladies cross the street, yet all the superheroes ask is that he act like a 2.1kReads8.3Score209Shelves
- 37 So What If I'm a Socially Anxious Immortal? 本仙就是社恐怎么了？ Lin Xiu isn't socially anxious. He's just not good at communicating with people… Of course, he knows it's a bad habit. He's working on changing it, isn't he? Huh? He's transmigrated to a world of immortal cultivation? Great. He can devote himself to the Great Dao without having to talk to anyone. No need to change after all. Not bad! [System successfully activated. Host, please complete the following task:] [Spend one hour xx with any member of the opposite sex.] Lin Xiu: “Wait, are you serious 986Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 38 King Jiahao Comes Down the Mountain: Oh No, My First Time! 嘉豪王下山，不好！我的初绷！ [Absurdist, System, Jiahao, comedy and meme references] The Bengbeng aliens invade Earth. Their only weakness is being impossible to keep a straight face around, but humanity throws everything it has at them and still can't make them crack! But Wang Hao only has to lift a finger to leave the Bengbeng aliens unable to keep it together. He's the last king of the Jiahao clan. What do you mean, “Did you ask whether you won or lost?” You say Hao's made it to the other side? When Beng Da and Beng E 7.8kReads7.1Score946Shelves
- 39 Our Whole Class Transmigrated, and The Fourth Calamity Descended on a Cosmic Horror World 全班穿越，第四天灾降临克系世界 [Whole Class Transmigrates] [Chat Group] [Cosmic Horror World] [Wild Imagination] The Fourth Calamity versus indescribable creatures. The world has a Western fantasy feel at first, but later on it is basically a cosmic horror world. [The Current Title Contest Is Underway] (This book is a slow burn, so make sure you stick with it! (>人<;)) One morning, we all woke up to find that our entire class had transmigrated to a polluted Western continent. The System gave us two choices: 1. Fight our way th 244Reads—Score100Shelves
- 40 Soul Code: Elemental Constructs 灵魂代码：元素构装 "My soul is the ultimate code for reconstructing the world!" With his soul as his pen, he will forge unprecedented mysteries of the Primordial Spirit; uncover the ultimate secret hidden in his own code; and face the supreme law that has judged him "guilty"! Humans, elves, and orcs: a world of many interwoven races! Cultivation, magic, and the uncanny, all clashing head-on! Yun Zhou, an ordinary 3D modeler from Blue Star, never imagined that a single encounter with an ancient taboo would complet 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Reborn: I Became a God in the Web Novel World 重生之我在网文界封神了 In my previous life, I spent six years as a flop and died suddenly at my keyboard. When I opened my eyes again, I was back at sixteen. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, on earning the [Certified Flop] achievement. System bound.” Damn, I’d wasted my previous life in a daze, and now that I was reborn, I actually had a golden finger, even if it was a little sharp-tongued. But just as I was about to make a comeback, I discovered... That terrible novel of mine from my previous life, which no one had care 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 How Dare You! You're a Vampire, So Why Are You Sunbathing? 大胆！你个吸血鬼还晒上太阳了？ The animated adaptation is coming soon! Tune in! The full-cast audio version is also available, so give it a listen! [Madman energy + absurdity + comedy + unorthodox antics + absurdly overpowered stats + charging into the male-oriented novel world] “Hey, hey, hey! Your moves can be outrageous, but they can't be downright twisted!” “I have polio, so who hauled me to a karaoke club? You people have made my life miserable!” “So, you want to dance?” “Step one of starting a business: stage an insuran 1.2kReads7.5Score110Shelves
- 43 Blind Date with My Homeroom Teacher During Winter Break, Awakening the Supreme Thunder Arts! 寒假相亲班主任，觉醒无上雷法！ [Pure wish fulfillment] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [One heroine] “I’m already eighteen. If I don’t start going on blind dates now, I’ll be too old!” “Other people your age are already grandmothers. Can you please put in some effort as her mother?” After transmigrating into a world overrun with evil spirits, Su Xing is targeted by something unclean, and he’s terrified. To make matters worse, the damn System requires him to go on a blind date before it can activate. Any woman will do, but... his 4.1kReads6.1Score362Shelves
- 44 What? You Won't Read It Because It's Too Absurd? Then Open It Up Yourself 什么！因为太抽象不看！自己掰开 [Urban Slice of Life] [Absurd Humor and Memes] [Campus] [System Glitch] [The System Transmigrated, Not Me] [Light Novel] (The rating just came out, so it's a bit low. Don't run off!) “Doctor, I think my friend is sick.” “What is your friend's name?” “Dog System.” “What symptoms does it have?” “It keeps treating our world like a cyberpunk world. It thinks the internet is the Origin World, the girls who dance while wiping glass are desire-cultivating evil cultivators, and our phones are peerless m 565Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 45 Let's Share a Place! Strange Transmigrators! 合租吧！异常穿越者！ [Wild imagination, ensemble cast, light comedy, and clashes between a ton of original worlds]+ [No formula, no main plot, and no reason they have to get stronger] Lin Xiao, a cultivator who failed his tribulation; Lucifer, a demon driven out by his own kind; and a beautiful young scientist from the future with a few quirks. These three “losers” share a daily life in a low-rent apartment. To cover rent and utilities, they set up an “Illegal Investigation Agency.” The three were supposed to find t 132Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 46 Punishing Villains to Earn Merit? I'm Oddly Good at Doing Good Deeds 制裁恶人赚功德？怪道积德这一块 [Livestream] [System] [Shenanigans] [Surreal Humor] [Comedy] (This book was originally titled The Subway Passenger Accused Me of Taking Candid Photos? Let's Have a Samurai Duel! All other titles are promotional names.) (Don't hold back your rating. A five-star review can boost my attack power.) A bizarre woman accuses Chu Zai of taking candid photos of her on the subway. Chu Zai binds himself to the Justice System, then turns the tables and makes her get up close and personal with an ordinary su 311Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 47 The Deduction Contest: National Strategists Vs. the Mysterious Mole 推理大赛：诸国智囊VS神秘内鬼 [Mystery] [Humor] [Comedy and Deduction] In 2046, a globally televised “Deduction Tournament” kicks off. Twelve players from ten countries across six continents are “invited” to compete. All twelve are young masterminds with exceptional deductive skills. They’ll put their talents to the test, engage in battles of wits, and vie for the one and only title of champion. The events include Turtle Soup, Werewolf, murder-mystery roleplaying games, and more. However, two of the twelve competitors are un 130Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 48 I Just Wanted to Work Out. How Did I Become the Terminator? 我就想健个身，怎么成终结者了？ [Scheming] [Face-Slapping] [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Urban Fantasy] [Funny and Lighthearted] [Urban Superpowers] Others awaken superpowers: controlling fire, controlling electricity, making clones, flying. Jiang Sen awakens the power to turn you back into an ordinary person. Then he uses the muscles he has trained for years to have a “friendly” talk with you about life. Jiang Sen: “Powers? They’re nothing in front of me. Prepare to face my Lion’s Fist!!!” Awakened superpowers? All flash 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Western Fantasy: My First Draw Was a Saintess, and the System Wants Me to Recruit People 西幻：首抽圣女，系统让我去捞人 [Japanese-Style Western Fantasy] [Comedy] [Swords and Magic] [Another World Adventure] [Multi-Race War] [One Female Lead] A protagonist who is occasionally "wise" and sentimental. A life-preserving, goofy System that likes to set people up. The two join forces to embark on a hilarious adventure to rescue a pink-haired saint who loves eating oranges. [Volume One, The Rebel Saint of the Sun-Worshipping Church, is complete.] [Volume Two, Miss Penguin of Tide Village, is ongoing...] 1.3kReads—Score153Shelves
- 50 Reincarnated Immortal Official: I Bring Heavenly Immortal Children to the City 转世仙官：我带着天庭仙童在都市 The Underworld's Black and White Impermanence are my brothers! I'm an immortal reborn? What do you mean my moral standards are lower than those of the immortals in Heaven?” Jinlian, you and Brother Yu are never going to happen. Jia Xu, what kind of wicked schemes are you thinking up?! And you, hurry up and take apart that mortar! Someone up there has already called me in for a talking-to!! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
