Novels like The Mushroom Kingpin
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Mushroom Kingpin, best match first.
- 1 Fantasy! Max-Level Dragon Might: Who Dares Touch My Dragon Scales? 玄幻！满级龙威：我的逆鳞谁敢碰 [No System + ordinary mortal + no transmigration + strong female lead + hard-hitting face-slapping] Atop the altar, she is the lowly "bringer of disaster." The dragon remains pronounces her sentence: "Wretched mongrel blood, you must die!" The villagers sneer: "That worthless wretch should have died long ago!" At the brink of death, dragon blood surges through her veins. At her cry of "Kneel!" the dragon's might explodes, forcing everyone to the ground as they wet themselves. The young thugs are —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Commanding Fungi: From Rookie to Survivor 号令真菌：从末世菜鸟开始 “When fungi become predators, humanity becomes nourishment on their carpet of mycelium...” Song Ming is a scavenger struggling to survive among the ruins of a fungal apocalypse. His only concern is his missing younger sister, Song Xi. During a desperate fight for survival, he becomes tainted by the forbidden “Source Blood.” Strange purple fungal patterns spread across his arm. It is both a curse and a source of power. He can sense the whispers of fungal beasts and control life and death among th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Blind Man's Third Eye 瞎子的第三只眼 (No System, no formulaic tropes, no harem, no transmigration. Read with caution if that bothers you.) After going blind, he awakens an astonishing supernatural ability. His father’s sudden death leaves him feeling as if the sky has fallen. Then ruthless debt collectors show up one after another, driving Shi Feng to the brink. While fleeing in a panic, he slips and falls into the Valley of Villains, where darkness completely consumes his sight. But that is when the wheels of fate begin to turn. A 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 4 The Thousand-Year-Old Ancestor of Xixu 西墟千年老祖 Atop Cloud City in the Western Regions, the twenty-year-old Earth Immortal Zhamuxi was on the verge of breaking through in seclusion when his closest friends from the Four Great Families betrayed him, leading powerful fighters from every continent to hunt him down. A thousand years passed in a dream. He opened his eyes to find his stunning appearance unchanged, while his enemies’ descendants had long since risen to power across the land. The Tang Family monopolized the spiritual ley lines of the 37Reads—Score214d adds
- 5 The Art of the Deal: You Dumped Me for Being Poor? Why Are You Crying Now? 商猎：嫌我穷？分手后你哭什么？ [Urban] [Slice of Life] [Miracle Doctor] [Tycoon] [No System] [Hacker] [Big Shot] Eight years of devotion earned him only the words, “Let’s break up.” Eight years of giving meant nothing next to a whisper from her new love. He was the “Wolf King,” yet on a late night in 2013, the woman he loved most stabbed him in the back. Seven billionaires are fighting to marry off their daughters? A mysterious old man cries out, “You look so much like him”? Mu Feng couldn’t care less. All he knew was that th 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Run with the Gangsters? 都重生了谁还混社会 Short drama: "Loyal to the Skies: Starting Over" is now streaming The novel was originally titled "Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Would Still Run With Gangs?" [Reborn + business + lots of underlings + no groveling + no cowardice + taking the righteous path + law-abiding] A big shot from the underworld returns to 2010. Should he repeat his old mistakes and keep running with gangs, or abandon his underlings and take the road to a brighter future? No! I won't choose! In this life, I, Qin Jiang, wil 142.8kReads9.3Score14.7k14d adds
- 7 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 948.8kReads9.6Score117.8k14d adds
- 8 Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下 [Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her 146.8kReads9.6Score18.9k14d adds
- 9 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
- 10 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6k14d adds
- 11 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.3k14d adds
- 12 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
- 13 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
