Novels like Leaves Fall in Autumn
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Leaves Fall in Autumn, best match first.
- 151 Candy with a Tangy Bite 糖果偏酸 (The main story is complete.) The domineering, impossibly cool school bully vs. the beautiful, strong-willed, wounded little bookworm. School life, healing, and mutual secret crushes. Chutang was being bullied at school. The day she met Jihuai was the start of autumn. She was sixteen that year. Jihuai saved her, perhaps because he felt sorry for her. “You don't need to stick your nose into my business.” “Hey, I'm the one who helped you.” Desperate for a meal, Chutang shamelessly followed Jihu 89Reads—Score414d adds
- 152 Say Your Name Again 再念一遍你的名字 Midsummer, cicadas singing, and we met. “Xu Xiaomo, if you're cold, you should've brought a scarf.” Lu Jinan patted her head and wrapped his scarf around her. “Silly.” “Xu Xiaomo, come ask me if you don't understand something.” “Xu Xiaomo, if everyone else gets one, I'll buy you two.” “Xu Xiaomo, you're wonderful.” “Xu Xiaomo, Xu Xiaomo...” Later on, lots of people liked to call Xu Mo “Xu Xiaomo.” But she could never again hear the boy she loved most calling her that. Lu Jinan, the wind is r 105Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 153 She Isn't Coming Back 她不再回来了 [Secret crush # campus angst # reunion after years apart # both are virgins # modern romance # tragic ending] [Animated comic coming soon] At the start of the school year that autumn, Lu Zhixia’s bright, starry eyes landed on him, and she froze. Was she really going to share a desk with Jiang Chiye, her longtime nemesis? And that wasn’t all. They were living under the same roof, too. She expected them to fight until the whole world shook, but instead, Lu Zhixia found that her nemesis seemed to d 5.1kReads8.7Score59814d adds
- 154 Nirvana: Journey to the Isle in the River 涅槃：走向在河之洲 (An interschool secret-crush story. Come see whether it’s to your taste.) Is it a crime to love Shen Tingzhou? Why did this sincere secret crush become a joke? Is it a crime to want to become a better person? Why have all my efforts been in vain? Is it a crime to long for someone’s true affection? Why do those smiles conceal betrayal and scheming, again and again? Yes, she is guilty. From the moment she bubbled in the wrong answer on her test sheet, she was already beyond forgiveness. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Infested 入蛊 “Why does my heart race uncontrollably whenever I see you?” “So that’s what it means to be bewitched by you.” “Bewitched, and loving you to the bone.” 630Reads8.5Score10214d adds
- 156 Picking Stars for the Moon 折星星予月亮 [Unrequited love turned mutual | Campus romance | Reunion after years apart | Mending a broken relationship | Both devoted only to each other | Some angst along the way] Shen Nanxing, the precious daughter of the Shen family, was switched at birth. She endured sixteen years of hardship and was even bullied at school in high school. At sixteen, the Shen family found her, but her biological parents didn't welcome her. Fortunately, she met Chen Zeyue. The first time they met, Chen Zeyue asked if sh 345Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 157 Waiting for Winter to End, Longing for Spring 等冬尽，盼春来 Youthful Heartbreak | BE Aesthetics | Mutual Redemption | Fated by Life and Death Lose 10 pounds just from reading this [Quiet, Resilient Girl × Wild, World-Weary School Bully] In 2012, in a seaside town, Jiang Sheng and Nan Siye meet in the rundown Nanyang residential compound. She is a silent lamb to the slaughter, bullied by her classmates. Her mother has left home to work, her father disappeared ten years ago and never returned, and she lives under someone else’s roof. He is the school bull 1.6kReads8.2Score50314d adds
- 158 A Shao, Don't Cry 阿邵，不要哭 [Boys’ love + utterly tragic ending + 1v1 + emotion-focused + slow and steady] A gentle neurosurgeon and a sensitive underage litigation lawyer We always thought we had plenty of time and could wait a little longer. Until we finished our college entrance exams, until we grew up, until we found jobs... Never realizing that no one knows whether tomorrow or an accident will come first. … “I was too busy studying at seventeen. What about when I’m twenty-seven?” “Dr. Shao, I want to pursue you.” Fr 1.9kReads—Score36914d adds
- 159 Youth and Midsummer 青春与盛夏 Youth ended that midsummer. One summer afternoon, in a stuffy classroom, I was drowsily on the verge of falling asleep when a piece of chalk suddenly hit me on the head, jolting me awake. I woke from the dream, and it felt as if my youth had ended too. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Secret of Klein Blue 克莱因蓝的秘密 Everyone is an island, left to grow desolate and grieve alone. - Epigraph He came toward her, travel-worn, carrying an old glass lantern. After years apart, he said, “Long time no see.” She kicked him. “Long time no see, my foot! Pan Shiyi, where have you been all year?” He said, “I came to confess my feelings for you.” She promptly fainted. A storm at sea left everyone stranded on a remote island. She opened an inn, and he refused to leave. When he couldn't pay his bill, he said, “Then I'll of 49Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 161 Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 《十七楼的月光》 Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 59Reads—Score114d adds
- 162 Love in Sofia 爱在索菲亚 Later, when she looked back, she remembered that sunny afternoon in early winter when she first saw Zhou You. One fleeting glance took her breath away, though she had no idea that every story began right there. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 I Swallowed the Cruel, Deadly Poison the Emperor Had Hidden Away 苦苦咽下帝王藏好的凉薄剧毒 She bitterly swallowed the cold, poisonous cruelty the emperor had hidden away 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 I Was Diagnosed With Stomach Cancer, but My Husband Abandoned Me to Pick Up His First Love 我确诊胃癌，老公抛下我去接白月光 His first love kept texting him, telling him to hurry up and divorce me. At first, even though we were married by contract, we were deeply in love. But after his first love returned to the country, he abandoned me again and again. I was already in the final stages of cancer, and when I died, he still didn’t make it in time to see me. I never expected the System to give me another chance at life. Given another chance, I made a different choice. 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 I Want to See Her 【我想见见她】 BE / angst / modern romance / campus / pure love “Xu Guannan x Xia Ying” Before I leave, I want to see her... She likes blue. She likes Fulilian. I want to... take her to Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan. I hear it's covered in nemophila, a sea of blue flowers. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 A Secret Crush, a Solitary Performance With No Ending 暗恋这场没有结局的独角戏 [Secret love with a tragic ending] [Insecure male lead] In their second year of high school, when Xu Yuanzhou’s life was at its darkest, An Yining was like a ray of light, bringing a little brightness to his gloomy world. From then on, loving An Yining became Xu Yuanzhou’s biggest secret. As insecure as Xu Yuanzhou was, perhaps the craziest thing he did in his entire youth was fight with his deskmate for An Yining’s sake, only for his classmates to mistakenly think he liked another girl. The rum 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Gleaming Light, Radiant Xuan 浮光瑄盈 [Angsty Romance, Angst Before Sweetness, Rekindled Love, Defying Fate, A Decade of Love, Together in Life and Death, Healing, Happy Ending, Sweet Romance] An introverted, insecure first-year high school boy and a gentle, talented second-year girl; a traveler wandering at the gates of the underworld, a beacon lighting the darkest path, and an epic love story spanning ten years. Ten years in exile, all so I could grow old with you. If two people truly love each other, they should be together. 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Midsummer Is Eternal 盛夏是永恒 A girl with heart failure × a cold, short-tempered boy Mutual salvation [School-life tragedy] An eternal, unchanging love, yet it was in the brief span of my life that an eternal love was created... The little sun warmed everyone, but in the end, she couldn't escape the endless cycle of summer. Under the stars, she made a wish: "May my Luoluo have peace year after year." Little scenes: "Hey, would you be interested in dating?" "Why are you such a stick-in-the-mud?" "Why is my darling so cute?" " 309Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 169 Cicadas Singing in Midsummer: Teacher Lu Is Pretending to Be Young Again 盛夏蝉鸣：陆老师又在装嫩了 [Sweet romance + ensemble cast + teacher-student bonds + heartwarming] There’s a saying at Yunchuan No. 3 High School: “If you get assigned to Lu Shihan’s class, you must have saved the galaxy in your previous life.” He’ll buy you milk tea when you bomb a test, and keep you company talking late into the night when you feel lost. At parent-teacher meetings, he reminds parents not to care only about grades. He even secretly reaches out to people who can help make his students’ dreams come true. H —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Summer I Turned Nineteen 许你19岁的盛夏 The summer breeze streamed in through the window, and the swaying shadows of the trees danced across the wall. With midsummer approaching, Xu Xiasen walked down a gardenia-scented, tree-lined path in a pure white dress, her long hair falling over her shoulders. “Xu Xiasen!” Chen Mingzhi skidded to a stop on his bicycle, stirring the hair by Xu Xiasen’s ear. She saw the mole at the corner of his eye, making him look as dazzling and spirited as ever. A faint scent of soap mingled with the summer b 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Even a Broken-Winged Butterfly Wants to Kiss the Sea 残翅蝴蝶也想亲吻大海 “Sunny Boy with a Heart Condition, the Transfer Student × Kind Girl with Depression” [Mutual Devotion + Bad Ending + Willing to Die for Love + Tragedy + Vicious Supporting Female Character] The girl Ruodie suffers from depression. In her black-and-white world, there isn’t a glimmer of light. Her one and only wish is to see the real sea just once. Then transfer student Qi Hai enters her world, bringing her endless warmth and making her feel for the first time that the world has color. He is a boy 1kReads8.2Score33714d adds
- 172 The Wutong Trees, Beneath the Fine Rain 梧桐更见细雨 [Reunion after a secret crush + youth and campus life + age gap] At seventeen, beneath the parasol trees, Ji Weiyu first met Fu Tingsheng at her best friend's house. He opened the door, his expression and eyes cool and distant. She didn't know that for many years to come, she would never be able to forget that first glance. In the year of the college entrance exams, she covered her desk with sticky notes bearing the name of his university, believing that if she worked hard enough, she could get 73Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 The Night My White Moonlight Returned, I Became My Fiancé's Younger Brother's Fiancée 白月光归来那夜，我成了未婚夫弟弟的“未婚妻” The night my first love returned, I became my fiancé's younger brother's “fiancée” 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 At Thirty-Six, I Finally Dumped That Good-for-Nothing Scumbag 三十六岁，我终于甩掉了烂人渣男 At thirty-six, I finally dumped my worthless scumbag boyfriend 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 The Phoenix’s Summer 不死鸟的夏 The gardenias bloomed, but the person watching them with me wasn't the boy who had dazzled my youth that summer long ago. He had gone to protect another girl for the rest of his life. I love white magnolias in summer. They usually bloom during the season, and their fragrance, like that of orchids, evokes an image of pure, jade-like beauty. After meeting Xu Yue, I fell in love with gardenias. They bloom every year around the summer solstice, their petals a pure white that symbolizes a promise to 27Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 176 The Japanese Came, My Whole Family Was Killed, and I Was the Only One Left. I Escaped from Forced Labor! 日本人来了，全家死光光，剩一个人当劳工逃出来了！ The Japanese came, and my whole family was wiped out. I was the only one left, and I escaped after being forced to work as a laborer! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 One Last Rainfall Before We Part 最后一阵诉别雨 [Mutual pining | A little campus romance | Short BE | Male lead dies, female lead finds peace] The sky waits for the rain, and I wait for you. Song Ting'an never got to see his rain. From that song by Jay Chou, with lyrics by Vincent Fang. “The sky waits for the rain, and I wait for you.” He listened to it again and again. Song Tianqing, the character in Song Ting'an's book, got to meet his Yue Yuyu. But Song Ting'an never got to meet his Li Yanyu. His chance of survival was only twenty perc 377Reads8.0Score11914d adds
- 178 A Confession Ten Years Too Late 迟到十年的告白 The “love equation” of top students: no confessions, no hand-holding, just a wordless understanding that tells you at the perfect moment, even if it comes ten years later. Four girls with completely different personalities, Jin Wanyan, Cheng Duoduo, Du Wei, and Xing Tingting, form the “Happy Beans.” Alongside Qu Dawei, sunny yet a little shy, and Rong Guang, gentle and handy, they bring together all the unspoken excitement of youth and weave the memories of youth that belong to you and me. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 He Hid in the Midsummer 他藏在盛夏里 A lonely girl, Xu Zhinan, and a sunny boy, Gu Bei A secret love can never see the light of day. When you can no longer hide your feelings, remember to walk away while you still can. The story begins when sixteen-year-old Xu Zhinan falls in love with Gu Bei at first sight. By the end, the boy she loves has married and started a family, and his bride is not her. To forget him, she starts dating, and eventually gets married. Two days before the wedding, Xu Zhinan receives an anonymous package sent 160Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 180 Hidden Jasmine 藏茉莉 The rating just went up. It’ll rise more later~ [Lin Mosheng × Zhou Yu] On a stormy day, the air was damp and oppressive. An old tune drifted from the music box on the table, and through her hazy consciousness, she returned to her first year of high school. “Shengsheng, what are you standing there for?” The woman smiled and urged her. “Hurry up and call him big brother.” Lin Mosheng looked at the boy in front of her, her eyes instantly turning red. Choking back tears, she said, “Zhou Yu?” The bo 519Reads8.3Score10214d adds
- 181 The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白 Every moment spent near him was full of telltale slips. A performance called unrequited love is the hardest one to pull off. - (The male lead doesn't cheat. He appears as a ghost, hoping the heroine will finally give up on him and stop grieving. He also sacrifices his reputation so netizens will stop attacking her. If someone has to be swallowed up by public opinion, he wants it to be him. It's a self-destructive attempt to save her: he gives up his life and his good name, as long as she's all r 122Reads8.1Score10514d adds
- 182 Everyone Knows This Secret Except You 除你之外都知道这个秘密 [Scatterbrained little ray of sunshine × sharp-tongued top student] You ask what happened after that. Well, after that… Xiang Nan was once Sheng Gu’s light. When they meet again, Sheng Gu decides to become the one who chases the light. You just stand in the light. I’ll stay behind you and protect you, whether you can see me or not. Xiang Nan watches the sharp-tongued college genius who keeps showing up in front of her every day: “Oh no, why am I starting to fall for him?” “Does he actually lik 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 My Sister-in-Law’s Family Were Leeches, So I Went on a Rampage with the Truth 小姨子一家吸血鬼，我用真理杀疯了 My sister-in-law’s family are bloodsuckers. I went on a rampage with the truth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 My Dream of Third-Grade Boys and Girls Holding Hands on the Way to Class Has Been Shattered! 三年级小学男女生手拉手上课得美梦破碎了！ My dream of third-grade boys and girls holding hands in class has been shattered! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 My Neighbor Set Up a Funeral Shrine Outside My Mom’s Window. It Scared the Hell Out of Us 邻居在我妈窗前搭灵棚实在吓死人 My neighbor set up a funeral tent outside my mom’s window. It scared the life out of me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 She Cut Off Her Own Finger to Force Mom to Borrow Money for a 300,000-Yuan Wedding, but There Was No Money to Reattach It 为办三十万婚礼，自切手指逼老妈借钱，最后手指没钱接 To pay for a 300,000-yuan wedding, I cut off my own finger to force my mom to lend me money. In the end, I couldn’t afford to have the finger reattached —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Chicken Dung Flew Everywhere and Roosters Crowed All Day: Memories of Raising Chickens in the 1990s 鸡屎满天飞，鸡鸣叫翻天，怀念九十年代养鸡生活 Chicken droppings flying everywhere, roosters crowing at the top of their lungs: remembering life raising chickens in the 1990s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Eighth Winter 第八年冬 The first time the sensitive Li Xiting fell in love, it was with Chen Nian, the boy who seemed to glow as he stood in the crowd. She carefully held on to every interest they shared, and eventually turned those interests into a goal: getting into Nan University and being with him. But life is always cruel. She got into Nan University, but she didn't get him. She was like Cinderella in a fairy tale, except she didn't have the right glass slipper. Without that slipper, she could never enter his wor 211Reads8.3Score10114d adds
- 189 My Younger Days 我的年少时 I dedicate this book to the youth I had only once, and which I regret so deeply losing! [Redemption + Unrequited Love + Mutual Devotion + Bad Ending] When you aren't brave enough as a teenager, you grow up with regrets. All these years, fate has always been like this: it has given me so much, but it has also made me lose so much. Sometimes I think, let it be. Life is long, with more sorrow than joy. It's not one particular thing that leaves you gasping for breath. It's the slow realization 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Camellia Tree 山茶花树 “A Huai, the camellias on the mountain back home are blooming. I really wish you could go see them with me again.” “The camellias on the mountain bloom and wither, then bloom again, but the camellia in my heart will never fade.” 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 The Flowers Faded Before Spring Arrived 未见春来花已逝 [The main story has a tragic ending; the bonus chapters have a happy ending. Both are complete.] [Pure love + romance + angst + school life + a touch of ensemble cast + slice-of-life + depressed heroine Gu Xihuan and sunny hero Liang Suian] Gu Xihuan thought she would remain in pain like this forever, until the day she died. After entering Ling'an No. 1 High School, she meets many kind and lovable classmates. Most of all, there is Liang Suian, her friendly deskmate and class president, whose 437Reads6.4Score10214d adds
- 192 That Bittersweet Love 那场be爱情 [Inspired by real events] [Campus tragedy] [Cheating] [Second male lead gets the girl] The year she loved him most, he chose someone else. Then, the year she loved someone else most, he came back. Anything can be done over, except missing your chance. When she looked back, she was already another man’s wife, and he was nothing but a passerby in her youth. “Jian Qinghan, you’ll marry me, right?” “You said we’d go to university in Jiangsu together, didn’t you?” “What do you think we should name ou 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 A Perfect Star-Crossed Romance 满分星恋 Who gets it? I signed a dating experiment agreement with the most rational top student in school, and I’m the one who fell for him first? Lin Xiaoman admits that agreeing to work with Lu Xinghan for material for a script was just a spur-of-the-moment decision. After all, this top student could explain hugs with physics equations, analyze smiles using data models, and even wrap his concern for others in the language of “optimal solutions.” But who could have guessed that as they kept pretending t 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 She Went Mad With Regret After I Was Diagnosed With Late-Stage Stomach Cancer 我胃癌晚期后，她悔疯了 My girlfriend said she wanted to know what it felt like to be a female boss. Without a second thought, I transferred the company into her name. A reporter asked who she was most grateful to on her journey, but she nestled in the arms of a sweet-talking man and smiled coyly. “Big sister, of course I had to help you. It hurts my heart to see you struggle~” I curled up in my hospital bed, the diagnosis of stomach cancer glaring in my hands. Only later did I learn that the sweet-talking man had appr 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Reunited in the Heart of the Lake 重逢，在湖光深处 One shake brought two people thousands of miles apart together, but their growing connection was burdened by too many things beyond their control. What is meant to be will come to pass; what isn’t, cannot be forced. It’s just a shame… 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 My Brother Likes It Too 哥哥也喜欢 (Ensemble Cast + Youthful Campus Life + Reunion After Years Apart + Mutual Healing + Sweet Romance) After vanishing for six years, Jiang Youzi suddenly transferred back to Lin City, where she unexpectedly reunited with her childhood friends. She had thought everyone would blame her for leaving without a word all those years ago. Instead, every day in Lin City brought a little more healing from her friends. It turned out there had been more to her sudden departure than anyone knew. The once pampe 188Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Yu Dongbie 于冬别 [Signed for publication in simplified Chinese] Yu Zhe said he'd wait for her, and he would keep waiting. But Shi Taoning had no way out. She couldn't go back. 875Reads9.2Score25114d adds
- 198 The Echo of a Secret Crush, and Then It Ends Badly 暗恋回声又be [A reckless, carefree young man vs. a sensitive, insecure girl] (Bad ending) One woman remains unmarried, trapped in the past. The other has a happy marriage and shines brightly. Zhao Huaili is a notorious playboy in Beicheng. He has an impossibly upright-looking face, yet lives a wild life. He may not be the darling of heaven, but he is surrounded by admirers. Lu Zhinan is the Lu family’s shameful illegitimate daughter. Bright-eyed and kind, she always gives people the impression of a girl with 661Reads8.7Score12414d adds
- 199 A Dream Buried for Ten Years 十年沉梦 A twenty-six-year-old soul lives inside a sixteen-year-old body. Su Wan returns reborn to her high school years, carrying the exhaustion, trauma, and regret of the decade to come. Before her are her living, breathing father and her radiant, smiling older sister: the warmth she once longed so desperately to reclaim. The ancient ring from that snowy night is her only link to the past, and it holds all the riddles behind her rebirth. She thinks this will be a lonely journey, until she meets a boy n 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Parallel Worlds, the Moonlight That Never Was 平行时空，不存在的白月光 Did you have someone in your youth you could never forget, your moonlight from the past? Lin LecI had one. He was part of her entire youth, then transferred schools without warning during her second year of high school. For sixteen years, she thought she had forgotten him. Then she suddenly dreamed of him again. In the dream, the boy still had the fresh, youthful look of his younger self. Smiling, he asked her, “What took you so long?” When she finally gathered the courage to look for him, every 15Reads—Score—14d adds
