Novels like I Who Walked the Underworld Will One Day Become a God
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Who Walked the Underworld Will One Day Become a God, best match first.
- 1 I Hauled Cement, but the Elite Treat Me Like Royalty 扛水泥的我，被豪门奉为上宾 Why has my whole personality changed so suddenly? I used to haul cement, but now I can steer billions in capital to strike it rich and make goddesses from all walks of life fall for me. And after achieving financial freedom, why am I so determined to retire to a small county town? It all started when I picked up that civet cat... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Domain of Time and Space 时空之辖 No dumbing down, high-IQ mind games, ensemble cast, infinite-flow. If being reborn is a conspiracy, would you dare to start over? Death is not the end. It is a cruel invitation from the Dominion of Time and Space. Here, time and space are meaningless. Only Time-Space Chips can be exchanged for anything. Tang Jian'an only wanted to make money and stay alive, but he unexpectedly gets drawn into one bizarre instance after another. A ghost woman with a wandering gaze, a corrupt bureau hiding deadly 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Brother, Can I Eat You? 哥哥，我可以吃掉你吗 [Abnormal Sister] + [SCP Foundation] + [Urban Legends] + [Survival Through Wits] + [No Golden Finger] + [Mystery and Horror] (Not a power fantasy! Not a power fantasy!! NOT A POWER FANTASY!!!) “Big brother, you'll stay with me forever, right?” Ever since my younger sister, Gu Pan, brought home a strange rabbit doll, her love has become obsessive and deadly. She cuts up my photos, keeps my friends away, and stands beside my bed in the middle of the night with a knife, saying the most terrifying t 12.9kReads8.5Score1.6kShelves
- 4 The Truth Unfolds: I Give My Life While He Watches the Show 真相上演，我填命他看戏 On the 1,096th day since my younger brother went missing, I, Lin An, a standard, human-shaped office worker and clock-in machine, decided to put an end to this meaningless wait with my own hands. Instead, I floored the gas pedal, drove myself off a cliff, and crashed into another world. The good news: When I opened my eyes again, a faceless creep was standing in front of me, saying: “The Hall of Fairness... is absolutely fair. Complete the scenario, find the truth, and anything you wish for can 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Love Between Immortal and Mortal: All Spirits as Slaves 仙凡恋：万灵为奴 [No System, No Harem, No Cliches, No Invincibility, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Mind-Bending] The celestial laws are amended, immortals and mortals fall in love, and their children are born. Divinity and humanity collide. Some gods keep to their place and abide by the rules, while others plunder the myriad heavens. Unluckily, I became a scapegoat for an immortal's descendant and was thrown into the Underworld. As my soul was about to dissipate, I stumbled into the realm between life and death, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 A Poor Man's Guide to Turning His Life Around 穷人翻身指南 A practical guide to ways of thinking I’ll teach you how the rich think And how the poor can turn their lives around Why am I teaching you these ways of thinking? Why write this book? Let me make one thing clear first: The main reason I’m writing this book is for myself. I’m always trying to improve, learning from experience and gaining new insights every day. And the fastest way to absorb, understand, and apply this knowledge is the Feynman Technique. If you don’t know what that is, look it up. 273Reads7.3Score860Shelves
- 7 After the Fake Heiress Dies, My Family Forces Me to Keep Vigil for Her 假千金死后，全家逼我替她守灵 After the fake heiress dies, my whole family forces me to keep vigil for her —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Time Loop: I Became the Killer of My Childhood Sweetheart 时间循环：我成了杀害青梅的凶手 [Mind-Bending Mystery] [Endless Twists] [Time Travel + Reincarnation + Suspense + Soft Sci-Fi] Chen Qingsen has never been able to forget… On a rainy summer night ten years ago, a car crash full of unanswered questions took the life of his childhood sweetheart, Chu Baitao. Ten years later, another torrential downpour. Chu Baitao, who had clearly died, mysteriously reappears, claiming she comes from ten years ago, before the accident ever happened. Reunited after a decade apart, but in this fract 36.1kReads9.5Score5.6kShelves
- 9 Five Thunderbolts, True Heart Art 五雷正心诀 This work is entirely fictional. It features everyday urban cultivation, twin senior sisters who are both masters, daily couple life, distinctive tribulations of lightning, and a disciple-recruiting System. I'll do my best to tell every story well! 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Su Tu: The Su Family Arc 苏屠之苏家篇 The protagonist, Lin Feng, transmigrates to a world of magic and struggles to survive alone in the Su household. There are quite a few hidden plot threads, and the pace is a little slow, so it may take some brainpower to read. Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts and opinions. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Gentle Breeze Disperses the Thick Clouds 暄风散浓云 [Historical romance + devoted couple + sweet at first, then heartbreak + household intrigue + political machinations + infidelity + twists + reconciliation] [An adaptable, sweet-and-salty heroine + a pitiful, unfaithful man] Twist warning: read it a second time and you'll realize it's a different story. She is a pampered princess who cares for the people; he is a battle-hardened general, tough on the outside but earnest at heart. Time may pass them by, but fate will bring them together. She sear 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 White Horse, Silver Spear 白马银枪 Transmigrating as Zhao Yun’s cousin, he was kidnapped by bandits right from the start. Zhao Tian, an engineering graduate who died suddenly after working 996 hours, opened his eyes in the late Eastern Han dynasty. The good news: his cousin was named Zhao Yun. The bad news: Zhao Yun was only fourteen and hadn’t grown into his full height. The worse news: the two of them had been kidnapped by bandits, who demanded a ransom of two thousand shi of grain. Their family couldn’t possibly raise that muc 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 A General Introduction to the Apocalypse 末日概论 Please read the preface before starting this book! This is not an ordinary novel. It is deeply depressing and places extreme emphasis on detail. It is practical and hardcore. Please decide whether to continue based on your own interests and priorities, so you can save your precious time. This book is divided into two parts, “An Introduction to the Apocalypse” and “Advanced Studies of the Apocalypse.” The first focuses on material matters, objective facts, and details, while the second explores h 1.1kReads—Score267Shelves
- 14 Two Years as a Doormat, Then One Heavy Rain Woke Me Up 舔狗两年，一场大雨浇醒了我 After Two Years of Chasing Him, a Downpour Woke Me Up 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Big Brother! If You Dare to Date, I'll Break Your Legs 哥！你敢早恋，我打断你腿 [Unrelated by blood + a tsundere, stubborn younger sister] Su Xiao is reborn, returning to the day after their parents' deaths when he and his younger sister, Su Wanning, were sent to live with different relatives. In his previous life, the two siblings were separated just like that, and never contacted each other again. When they met again, Su Wanning had become a little box. Reborn into this life, Su Xiao swears that he will never let anyone take his sister away. In front of everyone, Su Xiao 144.9kReads8.8Score18.8kShelves
- 16 Imprisoned in One Hand 孤掌为囚 [Bad Ending] [Older Man/Younger Woman] [Forbidden Romance] [Suave Scoundrel] [A Rotten Man's Sincere Love] [Literary Slow Burn] [Career-Driven Heroine, Not Love-Brained] [Gentle, Delicate University Professor vs. Older British Big Shot] Five years ago, on the day they broke up, Ji Bojun whispered sadly in Wen He's ear, "From now on, stay away from me. Don't let me see you again. Otherwise, I'll do whatever it takes to keep you by my side, and I won't let go again." Five years later, Wen He ret 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Farmer’s Daughter Refuses to Marry, and Her Future Powerful Official Loses Control in Public 农女拒嫁，未来权臣当众失控 [Romance first, career second] Since the heavens have given her a chance to start over, Xie Qinglian wastes no time. She decides not to give Shen Xingzhou any chance to grow up: she'll drown him in the river, push him off a mountain, or poison him with a poisonous fruit! [Shen Xingzhou: a mad beauty] When he discovers that Zhenzhen, the woman he loves, is actually Xie Qinglian and that she wants to kill him, he decides that if they cannot be husband and wife in life, then they can be a pair of g 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A Heart Like Heng 锦心似蘅 Just started ranking, so the numbers will rise later! [Intrigue, historical setting, romance, court politics, strategy, intelligent cast (not a mindless wish-fulfillment story)] He thought she was just a pawn. She thought he was a caged bird trapped in an abyss. In this game that began with lies, whoever fell in love first was destined to lose everything. “I got close to you to use you.” “I know. I got close to you to turn your scheme against you.” It turned out that all their deep affection 301Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 19 Peerless Among Ten Thousand Spirits 万灵无双 A teahouse from the start, yet the Heavenly Dao claims I'm harboring divine beasts. Mysterious supernatural cases keep finding me, and now I've been diagnosed with a terminal illness! But I've discovered there are things in this world that can extend my life The last breath a spirit refuses to surrender A star shifted by someone's hand on a compass A lost art that the sages pursued with their lives A scheme passed down by emperors for a thousand years... Among the three teachings and nine schoo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Seven-Day Captivity: A Letter from the Abyss 七日囚——深渊的来信 Seven Days Imprisoned: A Letter from the Abyss 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 One Meal Kit a Day in a Chaotic World 人在乱世，一天一份拼好饭 [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Everyone stays smart throughout] [The new story doesn't recycle the same plot] [Tomato's fastest updater] [No emperor worship] [Contains personal takes, enter at your own discretion] [Alternate history mash-up] Lin Yuan wakes up after a nap and finds himself transmigrated back to a chaotic age. Just as he's about to starve to death, he suddenly discovers that he can order one combo meal every day. From that moment on, what path will a soul that can never return ho 313.2kReads8.1Score31.7kShelves
- 22 He Got Dumped in Guangdong, While I Found Love Back Home 他在广东失恋，我在村里热恋 My new story is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 7.9kReads6.8Score464Shelves
- 23 The Secret of a Widow Farmer 丧偶式农妇的秘密 3kReads—Score146Shelves
- 24 There Is No Door to the Moon Palace 月宫没有门 The Moon Palace Has No Doors 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 After Entering Sherlock Holmes, I Became a Literary Master 穿进福尔摩斯后，我成了文学巨匠 [No shipping or romance] [No System] [The protagonist's identity is never exposed in the main story] [Career] [Book Transmigration] [Literary plagiarism] [Classics] [Original Sherlock Holmes] [Victorian era] [Slow burn] [Slice of life] [Sickly protagonist] [Not a power fantasy] London, 1880. A public carriage stops in front of 221B Baker Street, and a pale, frail young man steps down. No one knows that one day he will become an uncrowned Poet Laureate, a science fiction giant, a master of fai 13.3kReads8.7Score996Shelves
- 26 She Works as a Maid for a Shenzhen Tycoon 她在深圳豪门做保姆 After her husband divorces her, a nurse from a small county town heads south to Shenzhen to support her child and put her younger brother through school. After losing her job, she is hired as a nanny by Miss Chen, a wealthy heiress. She goes through being framed, misunderstood, dismissed, earning her first savings, suffering a miscarriage after being beaten, and heartbreak. In the end, she marries a local bachelor and becomes the leading lady of a wealthy family. As Miss Chen’s nanny, she witnes 6.3kReads9.2Score754Shelves
- 27 Lord Shaoqing 少卿大人 Although Shen Liuting was the eldest daughter of the prime minister’s household, she had an unusual dream: to travel through every kingdom and write a book about her journeys. On her fifteenth birthday, Shen Liuting packed her bags in the middle of the night, took her banknotes, and really did leave the country. That journey lasted a full three years... When Shen Liuting returned home on her eighteenth birthday, her parents told her they had already found her a fiancé and even had their birth da 871Reads9.3Score111Shelves
- 28 Day N of Pretending to Be a Genius in a World of Morons 在弱智世界装天才的第n天 [Feel-good power fantasy + plot-driven + absurdist + requires just a little bit of brainpower] (Trust me, it’s definitely interesting. If you’re unsure, you can check out the reviews first.) After being expelled from school, Jiang Chen had resigned himself to hauling bricks at a construction site. But then, the world suddenly changed. An ordinary high school student became the most intelligent person in the world. And so… Cambridge Professor Norman: “In fact, Dr. Jiang Chen is the only person al 86.5kReads9.0Score10kShelves
- 29 Old Wang! Keep Your Voice Down. Do You Think This Is Something to Brag About? 老王！低声些，难道光彩吗？ I've got a new story out! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 25.7kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
- 30 Killergarten 2: Frozen Throne 杀戮幼儿园2冰封王座——Killergarten2FrozenThrone Killergarten 2: Frozen Throne —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 At Dusk, the Child Returns 暮时子归 [Print edition now available] “Did you know Lin Daiyu is supposed to be paired with Sun Wukong? Nuwa arranged this ‘wood-and-stone bond’ as the destined match of the Goddess of the Xiao River and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.” Xiao Xiang has had enough of drifting around and wants to go back to her hometown and live off her family. But the place is a complete mess, and there's nowhere for her to stay. Then there's that crafty Great Sage with eight hundred tricks up his sleeve, constantly makin 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Person in the Mirror: Who's Living My Life? 镜中人：谁在替我活着 The Person in the Mirror: Who Is Living My Life 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 18.7kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 34 My Professor Stepmom and Her Darling Zhaozhao 教授后妈和她的昭昭小宝贝 [Second marriage for the male lead + the child is his biological daughter + they never fully fall in love + neither is chaste] [Highly educated families + prominent political families, both strong-willed, neither a typical good person] After earning her doctorate, Xie Qingwei smoothly stayed on as a university lecturer. Through a twist of fate, she, a committed non-marriage type, married Lin Jinghe, a retired high-ranking official who had already been married once and had a daughter. [Before the 5.2kReads7.5Score366Shelves
- 35 Sturgeon Returns to Ning'an 鲟洄宁安 A Republican-era tragic romance, a woman's coming-of-age story, and two male leads. A sharp-witted, falsely disguised shaman PKs a rebellious dragon who slays gods. A sudden heavenly fire destroys a city, and the revered Hu Xuan shaman is wrongly blamed and made a scapegoat. With a colossal lie, Ge Wangshu rides alone for a thousand miles to escort the orphan Eyun home. It seems like a sturgeon swimming upstream to return to its birthplace, but in truth, it's the start of a journey with no retu 170Reads—Score166Shelves
- 36 The Rise of Lingbiao: Su Sanniang with the Big Feet 风起岭表之大脚苏三娘 Su Sanniang, a woman whose name is steeped in blood and fire! Jianghu rumors say her blade is fiercer than any man's, and her beauty more womanly than any woman's... Her first love, Feng Shao, was killed by a bandit chief. Sanniang sent out her flying knives and slew twelve bandits, then poured a jar of wine in tribute to her first love: "My darling, have a good time down there. Eat well, keep warm, and remember to find yourself a beautiful wife. I'm off to seek my fortune..." Su San was lured t 159Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Critical Deal 临界交易 [Career growth + supportive lover + older man + carefully laid plans] (Not a story about saints, so please skip it if that bothers you.) At Anding Capital, two things were always said about Cheng Lizhou: First, none of the projects he signed ever fell through before the roadshow. Second, the Chinese partner who had returned from London led an almost absurdly clean private life. His calendar showed nothing but flight numbers and meeting times. Only later did Ye Shuwan learn that neither of thos 30.3kReads9.2Score4kShelves
- 38 The Black Lotus of Great Ming 大明黑莲花 [Female con artist × hypocrite] The year the Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of the Ming Dynasty, Magellan's fleet completed its circumnavigation of the globe. It was only decades later, along the eastern coast of Zhejiang, where the sea ban was in force, that a country woman happened to hear the Western theory that “the world is round.” Suddenly, she realized: If all four seas are round, then wherever you stand, you can be the center of the world. But when she looked around, women had no pa 6kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
- 39 Stop Picking on the Honest Guy 不要欺负老实人了 (Second-person POV / reader-insert / purely BG / short-story collection, featuring nonhumans, gloomy yandere types, and all kinds of male leads. They have a weak sense of morality and lean toward coercion.) Most stories feature: a meek, honest you x a rotten guy (if that's not your thing, beware). 1. You're an introverted, socially anxious, hugely popular author of male-oriented infinite-flow novels. Your male lead is a cold, calculating madman who shuns women and is ruthless. One day, you op 131.5kReads9.4Score13.2kShelves
- 40 The Savage Era: The Legend of Tang Yan 蛮荒纪元：棠焱传奇 The Wilds Era: The Legend of Tang Yan 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Those Years Working in Lingnan 岭南打工那些年 This work is a realistic urban novel based on my own experience of heading south to Guangdong for work in the late 1980s. It might be more accurate to call it a memoir of migrant work than a novel. The characters are all based on my colleagues, fellow villagers, and friends I knew well! I chose to write in the first person so that everyone in these pages would feel vivid and real, with a soul of their own. I hope readers will find the voice warm and familiar as they read or listen in their spare 18.1kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
- 42 After Being Banished to the Cold Palace, I Cling to the Imperial Preceptor 被打入冷宫后我赖上了国师 [Transmigrate into a book + Subverting tropes + Light political intrigue + Devoted to each other + Not a wish-fulfillment story] Jiang Dai was just a busy modern office worker. She clicked on a political intrigue novel to investigate a case, but before she could finish reading it, she opened her eyes one day and found herself as an abandoned consort in the Cold Palace who wouldn't survive three chapters... No, not even one. Where was the essential System for someone who'd transmigrated into a bo 130.9kReads9.5Score20.3kShelves
- 43 The Code Immortal Realm: I Am the Heavenly Dao 代码仙域，我即是天道 My name is Tian Yingxue, and this is the tenth time I've been reborn. The Heavenly Dao played a cruel joke on me. On one hand, it granted me a golden finger of an opportunity, giving me a natural fire spirit root, letting me establish my Foundation at ten, form my Golden Core and keep my youthful appearance at nineteen, and reach the threshold of ascension at a hundred. On the other hand, it made me perish in the tribulation lightning as I ascended, then sent me back to the day before I was to j 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Red Sky: The Dynasty Cycle 赤霄：王朝周期律 Note: This is an epic war story. Don’t see that the protagonists are two men and assume it’s the sort of “two male leads” story some female readers enjoy. It isn’t! There are two male protagonists named here only because there isn’t room to list more than a dozen. Each subsequent volume will have its own protagonist, and the complete story will feature more than a dozen protagonists. Each protagonist belongs to a different historical period. Faced with the crises of their time, whether struggles 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 I’m Already Doing Quick Transmigration, and I Still Have to Please Men? 都快穿了，我还讨好男人？ Quick transmigration + plot-driven + subverting expectations + worker's gripes + manic one moment, triumphant the next, then absurd Meng Wan is an ordinary wage slave. After staying up late to make seventeen PowerPoint presentations in a row, she successfully puts herself in a coma in the ICU. The System, Ma Li, tells her she can return to the real world if she completes missions and collects life points across three thousand small worlds. Has capitalism really gone so insane that it won't even 19.9kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
- 47 The Theater of Endless Torment: I Run Ancient-Era Instances in a Ghost City 无间戏台：我在鬼城开古代副本 [No romance + ancient-era infinite-level challenges + Chinese horror] Shi Jing lowered her head and saw the bright red bridal gown she was wearing. Beneath her veil, she held up a bronze mirror and aimed it outside. The mirror offered a blurry reflection of the scene beyond the bed. A stooped old woman stood ramrod straight outside the canopy bed She wore a crimson floral dress and a crooked velvet flower in her hair. Her face was as pale as paper, two garish patches of rouge on her cheeks, her 22.8kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
- 48 Upscale Residential Area Ahead, Impostors Keep Out 前方高档小区，伪人止步 This is a world overrun by impostors. Yu Tang is a night-shift security guard of the highest caliber. His job is to stay at the security post, identify impostors, and alert the relevant organizations so they can deal with them, making sure none slip into the residential complex at night. But this job isn’t easy. It seems the impostors aren’t the only things he has to deal with here… … Wealthy homeowner: “Xiao Yu, take this ten thousand yuan for now. I’ve got an important client coming at 3 a.m. 68kReads8.5Score6.9kShelves
- 49 Slaughter Kindergarten: Killergarten 杀戮幼儿园——Killergarten Killergarten 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 From Cannon Fodder to Protagonist: Filling In Across Three Thousand Worlds 从炮灰到主角，我在三千世界补位 Female-oriented quick transmigration + male lead's perspective + no redemption + self-serving wish fulfillment. The protagonist is cold and career-focused, neither a saint nor lovesick. What readers love The protagonist isn't a saint or lovesick. She's clear-eyed despite her double standards, puts missions and her own interests first, and takes decisive action. It's incredibly satisfying to read. Each world is short, tightly paced, and never padded. A quick-transmigration fan's dream. Reasons to 43.4kReads8.3Score2.6kShelves
