Novels like Slay the Dragon
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Slay the Dragon, best match first.
- 1 The Strange Way of the Divine Firmament 神霄诡道 (Folkloric horror) (No female lead) (Taoist priest) (Artisan) (Yin and yang) A bride who hangs herself on her wedding night, an eighteen-story hell built beneath a hospital morgue, rats holding a wedding in a mass grave. My once-peaceful life was shattered by the arrival of a girl. I lit three sticks of incense before my master's statue. But when I placed them in the incense burner, a gust of cold wind snapped two of them. 3.3kReads—Score335Shelves
- 2 The Dragon Squad Leader's Retired Life 龙组组长的退休日常 That year, he was the head of the Dragon Group, the most mysterious organization in the East. That year, he led the Dragon Group in crushing the Western Dark Council. The vampires submitted to him, and the Japanese ninjas vanished completely. This year, all he wants is to be an ordinary person. But leaving the underworld is easy. Washing your hands of it for good is hard! 336Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Child Who Wet the Bed Is Forgiven, but an Elder Is Scorned, All Because Mom Is Gone 小孩尿床不被嫌，老人尿床遭嫌弃，只因妈妈不在了 When a child wets the bed, no one blames them. When an elderly person does, they get looked down on, all because their mother is gone. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Water Stain That Never Dries 永远拧不干的水渍 The Water Stain That Never Dries 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Thirty Years in the East, and Now I Stand at the Top 三十年河东，我终登顶 Thirty Years East of the River, I Finally Reach the Summit —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 The Sticky Echoes of the Basement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear-Eyed Darkness 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The People of Huai Tree Lane 槐树里的人 The People in the Locust Tree Lane 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Compendium of Ten Thousand Ghosts 万诡集录 This book brings together thrilling, suspenseful, and terrifying stories. Discover tales that are both gripping and fun to listen to. After reading this book, you’ll never be alone again, because there’ll be someone under your bed and at its foot!!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Microcosm of Higher Dimensions 高维观微 Betrayed by the woman he loved and plotted against by his brothers, he should have been reduced to a wisp of spirit and scattered to the winds. But the heavens took pity on him. At the moment of death, he crossed dimensions and was granted microscopic vision, a self-healing body, and a second chance at life. Who says the heavens cannot be defied, or immortals disobeyed? He’ll shatter this world of immortals! From then on, he’ll defy immortals, battle immortals, and slay immortals. He’ll protect 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Reborn on the Eve of Divorce: I Swore to Protect My Short-Lived Stepmother 离婚前夜重生，我发誓要护住短命继母 Reborn on the Eve of My Divorce, I Vowed to Protect My Short-Lived Stepmother 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Summoning Spirits 招魂 “Old Liu at the village entrance is dead.” “I heard. He died horribly.” “Yeah. He ate himself.” Everyone in the village was talking about it. When I heard, I was stunned. What did they mean, he ate himself? I only understood after I went with my grandfather, a yin-yang master, to see Old Liu’s body. It looked as if something had ripped open his stomach. At a glance, aside from a stomach about the size of a human head, all his internal organs were gone! In his hand was half a severed intestine, a 428Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 15 In the Apocalypse, My Family Fed Me to Zombies. Now I Lead the Horde and Rampage 末世被全家推去喂丧尸，我统领尸潮杀疯了 In the Apocalypse, My Family Sent Me to Feed the Zombies. Now I Lead the Zombie Horde on a Rampage 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Blind-Eyed King of Song, A Shared Fate from Long Ago 盲眼歌王，双向夙劫 The blind king of song, bound by a fate they share —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I Gave Up Singing for Medicine, but My Voice Stunned the Internet 弃歌从医，我的歌声惊艳全网 In his previous life, Lu Chen was a legendary singer who rose to the top of the Chinese music scene. He won countless awards, healed millions of listeners with his voice, and gained fame and fortune, only to find himself completely bound by the demands of the industry. His parents died after long illnesses while he was away on tour, and he never made it home to see them one last time. His wife suffered alone at home, sick and isolated, until her heart gave out and she left him. His young son g 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Cultivating Immortality, Starting by Burying the Remains of My Predecessors 修仙，从埋葬前辈遗骨开始 Li Yu transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation, but he has no spiritual root and no way to pursue immortality. Disheartened, Li Yu decides to return to the secular world, but on the roadside he spots the bones of an immortal cultivator. Out of kindness, he buries the senior's remains. As soon as he finishes, a chime rings in his ear, leaving Li Yu momentarily dazed. Ding! “Strong regrets detected in the deceased. The Wish Fulfillment System has been activated.” “Fulfill the deceased's 78.1kReads7.0Score8.7kShelves
- 19 A Ghost Knocks at the Door 鬼敲门 A child born of a ghost, a fox worshipping the moon, a hundred ghosts roaming at night, ghost soldiers taking the road. I was born under the sign of ten calamities, and the Ghost Knocking Calamity came right to my door! To stay alive, I made a pact with a ghost when I was ten, setting out on a road of no return... 6.2kReads6.4Score239Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: Xiangzi, Picking Up Passengers in Beijing 四合院：在四九城拉客的祥子 9.2kReads6.2Score351Shelves
- 21 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Origin’s Dominant Path: The Eternal Holy Throne 起源霸途：永恒的神圣王座 Lin Yu was once nothing more than a fallen noble, abandoned by his family. Then an accident granted him a blessing from an evil god. He could control blood, devour flesh, strengthen himself, and even corrupt other living beings, driving them into madness and turning them into monsters. In this world, which had been locked in a war against the Fallen Gods for tens of thousands of years, the revelation of such power should have earned him a trial by the Holy Church. But when Lin Yu was actually dr 77Reads—Score181Shelves
- 23 Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 All My Magical Treasures Are Maniacs 我的法宝全是疯批 The reporter grabs the white-bearded old man. "I heard you have a young disciple here who squats on the ground every day, talking to chunks of iron?" The old man strokes his beard. "Don't spread nonsense. He's doing ideological work. Our sect has three hundred swords. Last night, two hundred and ninety of them went missing. They all ran off to find him on their own." "What about that rusty sword? The one that's been sulking and rusting for eight hundred years?" The rusty sword slides an inch fro 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Years I Spent Locked Up at Xishan Base 我被关在西山基地的那些年 [Xishan Base, Book Two] [Containment fiction, no female lead] From the moment Chen Jiangwen set foot in Xishan Base, he was no longer an ordinary person. He left his mundane life behind, and from then on, he would face the deepest mysteries of the world. Terrifying, uncanny monsters; concepts that kill without a trace; supreme beings from beyond; or rebellion and strife within humanity itself. None of it had anything to do with Chen Jiangwen, because no anomaly could affect him. And yet it all h 2.7kReads7.7Score427Shelves
- 26 City of the Apocalypse: Don't Look Up 末日之城：不要抬头 #Apocalypse #Sci-Fi #Mystery #Superpowers A global broadcast sounded. Everyone who heard it went mad. My roommate pointed a knife at me and asked, "Want to play a game together?" I didn't go mad, but I killed him. Later, I noticed something: a cloud of gray mist hovered above the heads of those who'd lost their minds. The madder they were, the thicker the mist. Then I looked up and saw the same thing above the armed police escorting me. But they said, "Your eyes can save humanity." But I haven't 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Yellow River: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 黄河盗墓笔记 [Realistic tomb raiding + underworld feuds + practical treasure appraisal + no System] Chen He, a descendant of old Yellow River boatmen, breaks the ban and enters the trade to save his father! With one hand, he reads dragon veins and identifies thousand-year-old tombs; with the other, he appraises treasures and recognizes priceless national artifacts. He braves deadly tombs on Mount Mang and unravels the Yellow River King's mausoleum. Artifact dealers from both sides of the law pursue him relen 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Reborn in 1999 at Beijing Film Academy: I Redeem Templates of Singers from Every World 重生99北电，我兑换诸天歌星模板 Reborn in 1999 at Beijing Film Academy, I Redeemed Templates of the Heavens’ Singing Stars 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Qing Yu and Shuang Shuang Head Into the Infinite Flow as the Team's Darlings 清雨双双赴之无限流里当团宠 I transmigrated into the body of an infinite-flow big shot, and everyone thinks I'm their savior. One of them shouted, "Chen Xiaotong, save us!" Because they know that I, Chen Xiaotong, am the top-ranked big shot in this infinite-flow world. The dungeon director looked at me and challenged me to a one-on-one fight. Everyone watched me expectantly, waiting for me to crush the weakling. All I wanted to say was: [I'm not the original owner of this body... Hey...] [Lighthearted / Funny / Everyone's 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Nine Thousand Years in the Late Han, Extending the Han Dynasty by Five Hundred More 汉末九千岁，再续大汉五百年 In the palace, you can call me Little San, and I won’t take offense; But once we’re outside the palace, what should you call me? His Majesty may be a little mixed up, But so what! The rules are the rules. They can’t be changed! What do you think, Eunuch Zhang, Eunuch Zhao? The Nine-Thousand-Year-Old is right! 2.7kReads—Score186Shelves
- 31 Chuunibyou: I Became the Lord of the Abyss Through Delusions of Grandeur 中二病：我靠中二成为深渊之主 [Chuunibyou] [Invincible Protagonist] [Feel-Good Read] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [System] [Ensemble Cast] [Funny and Lighthearted] "An Ling, are you fighting the air again?" "Hahahaha, there he goes again! This time he even gave himself a new nickname: Lord of the Abyss!" "Ignore him. He's just another chuunibyou." An Ling stood in the middle of the sports field and slowly covered his left eye as the entire school burst into laughter. "I'll gladly accept your ridicule." No one actually bel 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Divine Doctor Comes Down the Mountain: All Seven of My Senior Sisters Want to Marry Me 神医下山：七个师姐都想嫁给我 In his previous life, he suffered alone on the path to immortality. Reborn, he finds himself doted on by seven stunning senior apprentice sisters! The eldest is a business tycoon who can spend hundreds of billions like pocket change. The second is a legal queen who has never lost a case. The third rules the underworld, has godlike skills, and would do anything to protect her little brother. The fourth is a top-tier star, with the whole internet backing him. The fifth is a peerless doctor who can —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Chang Sui's Journey to Another World 长随的异世之旅 [No Romance + Transmigration to Another World + Missions] Beneath the starry sky lies a mountain forest concealing bloodshed and sin. A hundred thousand mountains, a forbidden land where entry is allowed but exit is not! Those who wander in by mistake, can you escape... Spiritual qi revival: demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits are all on the scene. You transmigrate, I am reborn. In this world ruled by Systems, everyone has a bright future! May fortune favor you all in battle! The apocalypse 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Reborn: Outwitting a Scumbag to Find True Love 重生八零之算计渣男获得真爱 Reborn in the 1980s: Outsmarting a Scumbag to Find True Love 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Commanding Ghosts to Save the World: I Face Ten Thousand Calamities in the Mortal Realm 驭诡救世：我于人间抗万劫 This world is completely absurd At some point, evil spirits began appearing without warning, and one supernatural incident after another followed. Ordinary people could only hide in terror, while spirit wielders were the only ones capable of standing up to ghosts. Lin Jie only wanted to find a job and pay his rent, but through a twist of fate, he was drawn into a series of events that seemed destined to happen. There are no born heroes, and no fated burdens to bear. Since a ghost has already po 519Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 My Years as a Tomb Raider 我当摸金校尉的那些年 Forty years ago, a great flood exposed an ancient tomb from the Warring States period. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather led me back into the tomb. A ghost village deep in the mountains, black-haired zongzi, yin-yang child servants... My companions and I escaped death again and again, yet still couldn't get out of this cursed land! What caused both groups of tomb raiders to die horrific deaths? And what was it that scared my grandfather out of his mind? Never dig when dang 12.9kReads8.4Score934Shelves
- 37 Nationwide Tower Defense: I Can Refresh Rewards Without Limit! 全民塔防：我能无限刷新奖励！ [Roguelike + Invincible + Tower Defense + Upgrade Progression + Farming] All of humanity has been pulled into a tower defense world, where endless monsters await extermination. Kill the monsters, or die! While everyone else is struggling to choose upgrade rewards and celebrating over a single purple reward, Lin Mu has already started refreshing his rewards endlessly! What? Purple rewards are great? Sorry, I don't even look at rewards below red! Next, behold the territory of all-red Mythic Towers 848Reads5.1Score100Shelves
- 38 Records of Strange Occurrences in the Mystic Realm: The Nine-Dragon Coffin 玄门异事录【九龙棺】 My name is Zhang Wenling. By day, I'm a businessman who runs a company. Behind the scenes, I'm the last heir to the mystic arts. I spend my days handling all kinds of dirty jobs, as long as the pay is good, with a senior apprentice who can invite gods to possess him and a second junior apprentice with an indestructible Arhat body. Then we took a job in Chaoming Village: an old man in a coffin had been dead for seven days, but his eyes were still open. The compass spun wildly, blood streamed from 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 School Bully, Your Secret Identity Is Showing 校霸你马甲掉了 School Bully, Your Secret Identity Is Showing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Nothing Else: I Can See Everyone’s Stats 无它：我能看见所有人的属性 [Mystery and Mind-Bending Ideas] [Campus Superpowers] [Super Sweet Romance] [A Love That Has Suffered for Ten Thousand Years] [Ensemble Cast with Twists] I can see the attribute numbers above everyone's head. Strength 55, agility 56, physique 51, comprehension 52, spirit 47. Everyone's secrets are written in those numbers. But all five of my stats are 100. I am Wu Ta, the reincarnation of the God King of Myriad Realms. The black birthmark on my left index finger is my divine artifact, the Sumeru 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Investiture of the Gods: Tongtian and King Zhou Bring the Three Realms to Their Knees 封神：通天纣王，三界跪了 Transmigrated as King Zhou of Shang, he gets the Sect Master Tongtian template from the start! When faced with Nuwa's decree of punishment, King Zhou tears it up on the spot. “You think you have the right to order me around?” When the immortals of the Chan Sect provoke him, he opens the Immortal Slaying Formation and beats them until their souls are scattered! Jiang Ziya? No more than a dog of the Chan Sect. With one stomp, he shatters the Investiture of the Gods, reducing you to ashes! Yuanshi 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Tomorrow’s Crisis: Dawn of the Apocalypse 明日危机之末世黎明 Two hundred years from now, AI androids rule the world. As an energy crisis looms, all sides are eyeing the energy qi crystals. Fan Tongyang and Tang Jia lead a group of people in exploring ancient tombs in search of qi crystals. Along the way, they discover that the crystals are connected to an alien civilization. After overcoming countless hardships, they obtain the qi crystals and rely on their own abilities to navigate the three realms. They foil the schemes of those with ulterior motives... 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Double Pupils Reappear 重瞳再现 For eight hundred years, the throne of the Xuantong Kingdom has passed not through bloodlines, but through a pair of eyes. Anyone born with double pupils is named heir to the throne: the left eye creates, the right eye destroys the world. The current ruler, Xuan Jun, is the most powerful in eight hundred years. He saved the people and subdued an evil flood dragon, but on a night when he lay unconscious from exhaustion, his most trusted Daoist priest, Xu Ziji, gouged out both his eyes. The left 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Game Is Only Half Finished, and the Entire Internet Is Begging for an Update! 游戏只做一半，全网跪求更新！ [Game Development]+ [Original Games]+ [Lighthearted Comedy]+ [Subverting Expectations] Jiang Bo transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the owner of a game company on the verge of bankruptcy. He awakens the [Anticipation System]. As long as he keeps players on tenterhooks and gets them excited, he'll earn even more rewards! From then on, Jiang Bo takes a one-way road: he makes games, but only makes half of each one! But do you think he makes shoddy, unfinished games? No! Everything he rele 82.2kReads8.4Score8.6kShelves
- 45 Beast Taming: From E-Rank to Billionaire, I Get There by Reselling 御兽：从E级到首富我就靠倒卖 [Beast Taming for Everyone] [Raising Beast Companions] [Invincible] [System] [No Female Lead] [Beast Tamers Don't Turn Human] Zhou Ye transmigrates to a world of beast taming, and things go terribly wrong from the start. He awakens an E-rank talent, the lowest there is, and his companion beast, hatched from an egg, is a Dark Crow, a trash breed everyone despises. Everyone around him sighs, convinced his life is over before it begins. Just as he reaches rock bottom, he discovers an extra gray pag 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 I Picked Up a Daughter, and My CEO Wife Keeps Seducing Me Every Night 捡个女儿，总裁老婆还夜夜勾引我 [The rating is unreliable right after launch and will rise later] [One female lead + female CEO + child first, love later + extreme contrast + everyday romance] One morning, Zhong Yu, a pure-hearted twenty-one-year-old college student, wakes up to find he has a five-year-old daughter. He hasn't even dated anyone yet. How did he become a dad? Even more shocking, the child's mother is Qiao Qingwu, the beautiful, aloof CEO of the company where he's interning! How could that possibly make sense? Aft 115kReads9.1Score10.8kShelves
- 47 The Transmigrated Legitimate Daughter: Only After the Whole Family Regretted It Did They Learn She Was a Kind Soul from Another World 穿越嫡女：全家悔疯后才知她是人间来的善 The Transmigrated Legitimate Daughter: Only After Her Whole Family Regretted Everything Did They Learn She Was a Kind Soul from the Human World 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 49 Transmigrated into Bright Sword: I, Li Yunlong, Slaughter the Japanese, Surrounded by Beauties 穿越亮剑：我李云龙爽杀日寇，红颜环绕 Transmigrated into "Drawing Sword": I, Li Yunlong, slaughter Japanese invaders to my heart’s content, with beautiful women all around me 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Class Change: Is the Succubus Queen Beautiful? I Traded the Campus Belle for Her 转职：魅魔女王美吗？拿校花换的 [Class advancement + summoner build + everyone is an "evil woman" + multiple heroines] After transmigrating into a world invaded by a game, where everyone changes classes, Gu Yuan awakened the one and only hidden class: Abyss Walker. He can make contracts with powerful abyssal monsters, but the price is sacrificing his own soul and flesh, a path that can only end in destruction. A fallen genius. His classmates think he's finished, and his teacher tells him to go work in a factory. But Gu Yuan ha 372.8kReads9.0Score65kShelves
