Novels like Some Secrets Can Never Be Told
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Some Secrets Can Never Be Told, best match first.
- 1 Shadows in Time 时光里的影子 The height of summer at Guangling University always held the most candid feelings of youth. Luo Tianlin, from the men’s dorm room 347, wrote his affection for Liao Jingwen, from the women’s dorm room 312, into the morning light of the lab, laid it between the sheets of paper at the calligraphy club, and tucked it into the little snacks he brought her, always remembering what she liked. His advances were open and sincere, like a breeze passing through campus, frank and passionate as they swept i —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Evening Breeze Through the Wutong Trees 晚风梧桐 Core Premise: Hidden within the coming-of-age story at Xinghua University are the sweetest joys and the most painful scars. Lin Xiaofeng, the Computer Science department's devoted lone wolf, meets Shen Wanwan, the Chinese department's moonlight goddess. From the stunning first moment they meet to loving each other with all their hearts, their story is one of heartbeats beneath plane trees in midsummer and struggles in the snow of midwinter. Their everyday life is sweet enough to make your heart —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Ha! Does This Emperor Need Your Approval? How Absurd! 呵！本皇需要你们承认嘛！可笑！ Ling Mu, a university student from Blue Star, meets an untimely end and his soul returns to a cultivation world. There, he awakens the Emperor’s Path System and inherits the imperial legacy of the Myriad Worlds. To uncover the secrets behind this legacy, protect the world beneath his feet, and, above all, return to the Blue Star he longs for, he embarks on the path of an emperor, waging war across countless realms and sweeping through the Myriad Worlds. Whenever battle breaks out, he is always —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 I Am the Only Gentle Soul in All the Heavens 吾乃诸天唯一温柔 Just the name Zhao Tianchen was enough to make forbidden beings across the Myriad Worlds tremble. He had once torn apart chaos and crushed the void, returning from beyond every unknown taboo. He had long since become the Ancestor of Taboos, standing above all forbidden beings. To him, the Myriad Worlds and trillions of universes were nothing but specks of dust. All living beings and countless prodigies were no different from ants in his eyes. He was cold because nothing in the world could move h 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I Am the Forbidden Taboo: Xu Tianyi, Sovereign of All Worlds 我即是禁忌：万界唯我徐天意 Before the universe was born, taboos already stretched across the void; Above those taboos lay a chaos beyond description. Xu Tianyi had long since walked through that chaos, trampling every unknown taboo beneath his feet. When he returned from a realm beyond all comprehension, the so-called strongest beings, true gods, and taboo entities of the Myriad Worlds were all no more than ants. He was the cold arbiter of the heavens, and a sweep of his gaze could extinguish billions of stars; He was the 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 From the Start, I'm the Immortal Venerable of All Worlds: My Campus Life Is a Little... 开局万界仙尊：我的校园生活有点 Lin Mo was the “Mysterious Vault Immortal Venerable” above the Nine Heavens, revered throughout the myriad worlds. His cultivation reached the heavens and earth, and he had attained the very end of the Dao. Weary of eternal solitude and the coldness of supremacy, he sealed away his memories and almost all his cultivation, retaining only a sliver of instinctive defense and his passive status. Taking the identity of an ordinary person named Lin Mo, he descended into Class 7, Grade 12, at Jiangchen 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Emperor Jiuchen: Spoiling Jingwan Alone 九宸帝尊：唯宠静婉 - Protagonist: Yi Jiu Born from the source of chaos at the beginning of the Primordial Era, his realm surpasses every known category, including “Dao Ancestor” and “Heavenly Emperor.” He is a forbidden existence throughout the Myriad Worlds. Overbearing and cold, he regards all living things as ants, yet is devoted to Lin Jingwan with a passion etched into his soul. When Lin Jingwan died in her previous life protecting him, he reversed time and space to send her to be reborn in the mortal world. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Return to the Cosmos: A Humble Beginning 宙归：始于平凡 Lin An was once the sole eternal, transcendent Cosmic-level being above all worlds and stars. After his grandfather's beloved wife was murdered and died, he tore through the void and returned to Blue Star, where he began a quiet life as an idle man in the company of cranes. Later, in the course of his ordinary college life, he met the love of his life, Lin Shuwan. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Original Male Lead Is a Hopeless Romantic 原著男主他是恋爱脑 Lou Xiao worked hard to get into college, but before she could even enjoy campus life, a car accident sent her straight into a novel called My Boyfriend Is Going to Turn Dark. She had become the vicious supporting character who bullied the male lead and met a tragic end. Five-year-old Lou Xiao: "..." There should still be time... right? Without a golden finger, Lou Xiao could only cling blindly to the male lead, hoping that once he grew up, he would spare her. But something about the plot seeme 9.7kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
- 10 A Secret Crush Is Like a Sugar-Sweet Star! 暗恋是颗星星糖！ [Sweet, gentle, and soft-spoken heroine x roguishly handsome flirt] [College romance | Mutual pining comes true | Both leads are each other's first | Sweet romance | Flirty and romantic] In high school, Tan Xuze was a born winner, with a top-tier family and looks to match. His grades were always at the top, and everyone adored him. Shu Mian wasn't one of the stars surrounding him, and she never dared hope her secret crush would ever see the light of day. At college, Tan Xuze was still the cente 22.8kReads9.4Score3.1k14d adds
- 11 Weaving Whales 织鲸 Print edition signed [Reborn on campus * the second male lead gets the girl * wants to win his wife back but can't find the crematorium] [Clear-eyed, aloof heroine * sweet-on-the-inside hero pretending to be cool] The most rebellious and courageous thing Jiang Mingzhi ever did was marry Pei Jinyang, the son of Uncle Pei. In her pursuit of true love, she was shunned by everyone and despised. After marrying Pei Jinyang, she thought she was the heroine of a sweet romance. She never expected that af 26.9kReads9.1Score3.9k14d adds
- 12 Are You Really That Kind of Senior? 你是这样的学姐？ [Campus]+ [Youth]+ [One Heroine]+ [Lighthearted and Healing]+ [Everyday Romance]+ [No System] Based on real campus life at Hefei University of Technology. “Xiao Yun, come help me translate my paper at the library tonight.” “Senior Sister, didn't I help you translate it last night? Why do I have to go again?” “Tonight's the last time, hurry up!” “You said that the day before yesterday, and you said it again yesterday. I'm not going again today. Do it yourself, I'm busy.” “Xiao Yun, I just remembe 44.4kReads9.6Score5.1k14d adds
- 13 Shocking! The Metaphysics Master Can Hear People's Thoughts 震惊！玄学大佬被读心了 [Mysticism + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + mind-reading + lighthearted] After graduating with a law degree, Xia Wange, heir to a Daoist sect, sees a wheelchair shimmering with purple energy at a car crash site. Born unable to gather energy, she can’t bring herself to leave the wheelchair alone. [I’ll carry this wheelchair off and borrow the energy on it to draw talismans. Then I’ll be the undisputed goddess of the supernatural world!] Lu Qiu, the CEO still trapped in the wreckage, inexpli 349.9kReads9.5Score70.5k14d adds
- 14 No One Came to Save Her from the Deep 无人救她于深海 [Signed for publication] [Youthful unrequited love + prodigal son turns over a new leaf + bittersweet romance + plenty of unresolved heartbreak + tragic ending (The male lead is hard to like at first. It's not exactly a tearjerker, but sensitive readers should proceed with caution.)] Youth is a foolish thing: foolishly falling for someone. At the beginning of the story, Xu Nuo falls in love with Zhou Yiming at first sight, as if sinking into the deep sea. At the end, Xu Nuo holds the box contai 19.3kReads8.9Score3.8k14d adds
- 15 The Campus Belle Has Always Been Devoted to Me, Because I Raised Her 校花始终如一，因为是我养的 [Romantic Everyday Life] [Nurturing] [Multiple Love Interests] [Daily Life] [Light Novel] [No Love Rivals] [Super Sweet, No Angst] [Happy Ending] For the sake of his first love, his ex-girlfriend runs away from their wedding on the spot and indirectly causes his parents’ deaths. He thinks his life has turned completely bleak, until a twist of fate leads a girl with absolutely no common sense to take him home. Only then does he realize just how many wonderful girls are already in his life. His ch 86kReads9.4Score9.5k14d adds
- 16 When the Clouds Are Deep and the Waters Clear 云深清浅时 Xiao Yunxing is the dashing, top-of-the-class heartthrob admired by every girl at school: someone to admire from afar, but never touch. Yet he smiles only for Chen Qinghuan, the “childhood sweetheart” who transfers to his school, and spoils her in every way. Chen Qinghuan is a proud, domineering, yet adorably naive math genius. Math is her talent, and loving him is her dream. She stays by his side, always. One waits, the other pursues, and together they earn places at their dream university. Aft 18.6kReads9.6Score2.1k14d adds
- 17 The Last Diary Entry 最后一篇日记 [Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] I only used looking at the flowers as an excuse. All I really wanted was to see you once. 26.4kReads9.1Score4.7k14d adds
- 18 Great Tang: Li Shimin Begs Me to Start a Rebellion 大唐：李世民求我造反 Li Ke transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty. He plans to use his skills as a motivational speaker to brainwash a loyal crew and keep his head down as an unremarkable prince. But eight years after transmigrating, he discovers that he brought along an entire national strategic reserve warehouse. So Li Ke throws caution to the wind. If he’s going to be a prince, he might as well be one who fears nothing and lives as freely as he pleases! First, he starts a newspaper to build his rep 155.4kReads9.5Score16.6k14d adds
- 19 After Fleeing the Chaotic Era, I Became the Founding Empress 乱世逃亡后，我成了开国女帝 [Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. The 93.2kReads9.4Score12.8k14d adds
- 20 I'm a Cash-Grabbing Streamer! But the Big Spender Really Does Send Gifts! 我，圈钱主播！但大哥是真刷啊！ Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens a livestream money-grabbing System! As long as he earns gifts and tips and meets his cash-grabbing targets, he can receive random rewards from the System! And so, the internet's most shamelessly money-hungry streamer is born! "Boss! Singing, dancing, doing stunts, rapping, standing on my head, whatever other streamers can do, I can do too. And whatever they can't do, I can do even better!" "Boss, just tell me what you want me to do! As lon 162.3kReads9.4Score14.7k14d adds
- 21 EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 581.6kReads9.4Score60.6k14d adds
- 22 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
- 23 EN Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你 [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 312.7kReads9.8Score31.4k14d adds
- 24 EN Unhinged? We're All Unhinged—and That's a Good Thing! 癫，都癫，癫点好啊 [Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay. 335.5kReads9.8Score46.5k14d adds
- 25 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
- 26 Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏 A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t 84.2kReads9.6Score14.8k14d adds
- 27 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 28 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 29 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 30 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
