Novels like The Deliveryman's Strange Life
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Deliveryman's Strange Life, best match first.
- 1 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Bring Overwhelming Firepower, and You Call This Ghostbusting? 聊斋：我用火力覆盖，你管这叫捉鬼？ 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Longevity: I Played It Safe in the Cultivation World Until It Became an Asylum 长生：我把修仙界苟成了疯人院 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Are You Insane? You Call This Thousand-Foot Demon-Suppressing Tower a Huaxia Mecha? 疯了吧！你管这千丈镇妖塔，叫华夏机甲？ 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Three Kingdoms: You Put Me in Charge of Logistics, and I Shorted the Entire World? 三国：让你管后勤，你做空了全天下？ 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I Asked You to Clear Out Old Domestic Brands, and Western Tycoons Made Them Legendary with Their Imaginations 让你清仓老国货，西方财阀全靠脑补封神 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Chinese Horror Tales: My Teammates All Turn into Evil Spirits, So I Take Over the Ten Courts of Hell 中式怪谈：队友全员化煞，我反手接管十殿阎罗 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Thirty Days Until Doomsday: You Build an Ark, While I Lift All of Huaxia into the Sky 末日三十天：你造方舟，我带华夏连地升空 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 8 Investiture of the Gods: They Want Me to Sign a Contract of Servitude? One Labor Law Is Enough to Make Yuanshi Tianzun Weep 封神：逼我签卖身契？一部劳动法罚哭元始天尊 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Scientific Tomb Raiding: I Melted Through the Bronze Gate with Aged Vinegar 科学镇墓：我用老陈醋熔穿了青铜门 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 I Asked You to Explain the Scenery, Not Reboot Earth's Motherboard! 让你科普风景，你把地球主板重启了？ 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Ming Dynasty 1572 大明1572 In the first year of the Wanli era, the ten-year-old emperor ascended the throne. Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng enforced the Kaocheng system and the Single Whip Reform with an iron hand, filling the dying Ming treasury and securing its borders over the next ten years. But the deeper the reforms went, the fiercer the opposition became; the greater his power, the deeper his loneliness. He had once been the "Teacher Zhang" most respected by the emperor, but ultimately became the person the young so 104Reads—Score714d adds
- 12 The Fake Heir of Langya: With Only 1% Battery Left, I Use Industry to Conquer the Northern and Southern Dynasties 琅琊假子：电量仅剩1%，我靠工业镇压南北朝 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 I Asked You to Be an NPC, Not Treat the Fourth Calamity Like Cyber Serfs! 让你当NPC，你把第四天灾当赛博牛马？ 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Invincible Across Two Worlds: The Carefree Immortal's Journey 双穿无敌，逍遥仙途传 This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. With a fresh take, it follows Mo Chou, an ordinary member of society who one day accidentally obtains a jade pendant left behind by the ancient, powerful immortal Master Xian before his ascension. Sealed inside it are all the skills Master Xian mastered in his lifetime. Whoever finds it and becomes its owner will inherit everything he knew. The ancient jade also contains storage space and a portal 819Reads—Score10914d adds
- 15 The Cultivation Legend of Beigege 贝格格修仙传 Zhao Xiaobei, a student at Xichuan Middle School, floated a lantern on Lotus Lake and wished she could transmigrate to ancient times. To her astonishment, she transmigrated to the Song Dynasty and became the daughter of Prince Teng. Thanks to her modern-day intelligence, she won the emperor’s favor and was bestowed the title of Princess Beigege. Zhao Xiaobei then overcame one challenge after another, survived many brushes with death, and gained a great opportunity that made her a cultivator. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of Three Clans' Massacre 旧金山血牢：我丈夫藏着三族灭门证据 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I Survived 800 Years by Conducting Funerals, and Emerged Invincible 我靠送葬苟了八百年，出山即无敌 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Heart-Stealing Thief 缚心贼 [1980s | Strong heroine | Both leads reborn | Military marriage | Revenge on scumbags | Business | Treasure-filled space | A battle to bind the heart] In 1983, Min Jiahui was reborn on her wedding night. In her past life, a scumbag trapped her with a fake marriage certificate and made her live as a wife in name only for the rest of her life. She served his parents, cared for his younger siblings, and raised the son he had with his mistress. In the end, his mistress showed up with a marriage cert 1kReads8.3Score16414d adds
- 19 Journey to the West: I Only Speak Reason, So Why Are All the Gods Losing It? 西游：贫僧只讲理，满天神佛为何当场裂开？ 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Your Majesty! The Goddess of Wealth Has Married Off Another of Your Consorts! 陛下！财神娘娘又嫁你妃嫔了 For female readers: Yao Fuer, the rightful Goddess of Wealth of the Three Realms, came down to the mortal world to undergo a tribulation, only to become an empress discarded in the Cold Palace. The Empress Dowager gave her poison, the emperor’s sister made things difficult for her, and all the concubines hoped she would die miserably. How ridiculous. I govern the world’s wealth and fortune. Do these people in the imperial harem really think they can bully me? With a touch of her finger, she t 42Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 21 Are You Crazy? I Asked You to Take the Science Exam, Not Build a Nuclear Blast to Slay a God! 疯了！让你参加高考理综，你手搓核爆弑神？ 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Heaven-Defying Immortal-Eating Art 逆仙吞天诀 Ye Tian, the good-for-nothing young master who cannot cultivate, unexpectedly obtains the inheritance of the Heavenly Emperor. He enters the Dao through the sword, rises from a good-for-nothing, slays his way across the world, and reaches the pinnacle of the continent! My swordsmanship is unmatched beneath the heavens. Where my sword points, gods and demons alike are destroyed! 37.1kReads8.8Score3.5k14d adds
- 23 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 47.7kReads8.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 24 A Good-for-Nothing with No Soul, I Am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years 废柴无魂，我是狼族万年圣女 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Global Freeze: From the Start, I Have a Planetary Fortress and Build a Sun with My Bare Hands 全球冰封：开局行星要塞，我手搓人造太阳 19Reads—Score214d adds
- 26 The Heavenly Dao Wanted to Smite Me, So I Sent It a Group-Buying Deal to Chop the Price 天道要劈我，我给它发了个拼夕夕砍一刀 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 I Handed Over a Portal Through Time, and the Nation Took Me to Crush 1937 with Superior Technology 上交时空门：国家带我降维横推1937 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Wicked Woman Puts an End to Evil 恶女止恶 14.1kReads9.0Score1.5k14d adds
- 29 From the Start, I Was Tasked with Preparing the Fallen Crown Prince's Body. After His Death, the Mad Prince Went on a Rampage in My Mind 开局给废太子敛尸，死后的疯批太子在我脑中杀疯了 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Secret Record of the Between-Realm 筑间秘录 Jiang Ziwen, a renowned designer, was playing a game when someone lured his soul into a dream. He suddenly died... When he was judged in the underworld, the King of Hell took note of his sense of justice and the injustice he had suffered. Since they shared the same name, the King of Hell bestowed upon him secret Feng Shui techniques. After returning to the living world, he fell in love at first sight with Ye Ling, a night patrol envoy of the underworld... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Fate of an Orphan Girl 孤女的命运 This is a sad story. Lin Jiang had an affair, and Shi Qiaosi endured it for three years before suddenly coming to her senses and decisively divorcing him. After the divorce, she secretly gave birth to a daughter of her own, Shixu. The disasters brought upon three generations of a family by an unfaithful man and a scheming woman eager to take his wife’s place. See how an elderly grandmother schemes for her granddaughter, building a bridge through time with her own life so that Shixu can return to 19.1kReads9.3Score1.8k14d adds
- 32 Dream of the Red Chamber: With the Jia Family's Fall Imminent, I Shorted Their Fortune and Fled with Daiyu 红楼：抄家倒计时，我靠做空贾府携黛玉跑路 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 In the Era of Forced Childbearing, I Received a Little Fox Cub 强制生育时代，我领到一只小狐崽 [One-on-one, both are each other's first and only, little fox cub, cross-species romance, Fox Lord, mutual protection, political intrigue among the demon clans, cool heroine, flirtatious tension] Liang Yi told Jiang He, "Let's break up. My parents can't accept that you're adopted." Jiang He didn't cling to him. She calmly let him go. But a policy announced by the civil affairs department left people no way to avoid it: Anyone who turned thirty without a child registered in their name would have 377Reads—Score12514d adds
- 34 The Secret Histories of the Four Great Beauties 四大美人秘史 [The Four Beauties, classical historical romances, complete uncensored public-domain editions, stories of celebrated women in history, ancient tales] This complete collection contains the original, unabridged texts of The Romance of Xishi, The Romance of Wang Zhaojun, The Romance of Yang Guifei, and The Romance of Diaochan. It recounts the turbulent lives of the Four Beauties, whose beauty was said to make fish forget to swim, geese forget to fly, the moon hide, and flowers blush. Together, thes 526Reads9.2Score10014d adds
- 35 On My Brother's Wedding Day, Mom Told Me to Vacate the Master Bedroom 哥哥结婚那天，我妈让我把主卧腾出来 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Keeper of Ink: The Unburned Book 守墨人：未烬书 Heir to the Mo family, guardian of ancient scrolls and their teachings. A fragmentary Western Xia scroll reveals the secret origins shared by Xia and Han civilization; A perilous journey of deadly pursuit leads across seven regions in search of proof that civilizations can coexist. Su Qiao carries on her ancestors' legacy, disarming ancient tomb traps and fighting off evil spirits and pursuers. What she guards is not merely a forgotten history, but the ultimate belief that all under heaven can u 14Reads—Score614d adds
- 37 Tales of the Shanhai Tomb 4 山海惊墓录4 A low, eerie chuckle drifted from deep within the desolate woods. The red cloth that had been offered in worship swayed from a branch. Ancient paper ash and dying incense lay scattered on the ground, and faded red cords hung deep in the forest. It looked up at me, its mouth splitting into a grin. 427Reads—Score24214d adds
- 38 Defying Fate: I Used a Billion-Dollar Lever to Hostile-Takeover the Heavenly Dao 逆转天命：我用百亿杠杆恶意收购了天道 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Records of the Shocking Tombs of Shan Hai 3 山海惊墓录3 Some hear breathing but cannot find its source; some see a shadow but cannot tell whether it is their own or some being from the sea. It feels neither anger nor joy. The moment you step inside, it remembers you, and you will never be able to leave. 507Reads—Score26214d adds
- 40 Tomb of Mountains and Seas 2 山海惊墓录2 Where will we end up if we keep going down? At the Earth's core? The darkness seems to cling to our skin and seep into our bones. Aren't we underground? Then why is there an endless river of stars above us? 826Reads—Score28314d adds
- 41 Siheyuan: The Path to Cultivation, Starting as an Engineer 四合院：从工程师开始的修真路 A new story is here. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Zhao Song was born into a wealthy merchant family before the liberation. His parents were murdered by secret agents before the founding of the People’s Republic. At the age of twelve, his father sent him to study in Britain, where he specialized in industrial mechanical design and manufacturing. After awakening a golden finger that simulates mechanical design, he sets ou 246Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Tales of the Shocking Shan Hai Tomb 山海惊墓录 I was born in Northeast China, at the western foot of Changbai Mountain. From there, my journey began, crossing rivers and enduring hardship. Everything started there. The strange and uncanny things I encountered in those years, I wanted to bury deep in my heart and let time wear them away. But nightmares came again and again, disturbing my sleep. Whenever I woke with a start, I often felt I could barely breathe, and the pain cut to the bone. Thinking it over, I finally decided to put pen to pap 8.5kReads7.0Score99714d adds
- 43 Great Qin: I Am the Lord of Black Ice 大秦：我就是黑冰之主 Zhao Bo’s soul transmigrates to 238 BCE. He is the son of a commoner, and Qin is on the verge of unifying the Six States. You think that’s all there is to it? No, no, no. It turns out this is a parallel timeline! It turns out my soul transmigrated into someone else! No System, but I do have cultivation techniques! When Ying Zheng comes calling, I’m no commoner! This is a story about quietly cultivating in the Great Qin. 548Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Song Dynasty’s Bugs: A Programmer’s Fixes and Refactoring 大宋的BUG：码农的修复与重构 A modern architect transmigrates to the Northern Song, bringing along an AI connected to the civilization of the future. He sparks a Renaissance and sets off the Industrial Revolution ahead of schedule, turning a dynasty into the engine of human civilization. In this world, there is no sea of blood from colonialism, no devastation from the two world wars, and no shadow of nuclear weapons. Shaped by the benevolence of the East and the finest technology, human civilization sets out early toward th 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 China's Twelve Most Dangerous Dinner Parties 中国最危险的十二个饭局 [Historical Intrigue Anthology] [Short Story Collection] [Game Theory and Psychology] [Unveiling History] Wine cups clink, and murderous intent lurks beneath the surface. One banquet can be enough to change the fate of a dynasty. This book brings together twelve deadly banquets recorded in the history books, including the Feast at Hongmen, Cao Cao's Wine-and-Plum Gathering, the Meeting at Mianchi, and the Gathering of Heroes. Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lin Xiangru, Zhou Yu, Yue Fei, y 457Reads9.3Score15314d adds
- 46 The Tang Dynasty's Record of Demon Suppression 大唐镇妖录 [Great Tang] [Mystery] [Dual Transmigration] [Humor] [Thriller] One spell scribbled in ghost script, and master and disciple are both transported to another world. The master becomes a state preceptor with power over the imperial court, putting on an act of “otherworldly grace” every day while secretly panicking like crazy. The disciple becomes an unregistered nobody who starts off locked behind bars. He relies on street cons and a “fake manual” that suddenly starts working to fight for his life 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Mortal Realm Martial Venerable: One Punch Shatters Chaos 凡界武尊：一拳碎混沌 Lin Chen, a body-tempering apprentice, is humiliated by a powerful clan and watches as the demon race slaughters his town. At death’s door, he awakens a bronze fragment left behind by his father. From then on, he shatters his constraints with his fists and rises against all odds! He slays demons and seizes treasures in the Black Wind Mountains, then establishes an alliance against the demons in Qingfeng Town. With only his Body Tempering cultivation, he stands against a Grandmaster and unites th 29Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 48 God of Chaos! 混沌之神！ [This book is also known as: Nine Revolutions Profound Art | In the later stages, Xin Mo will overpower the Great Sage and Erlang, because he cultivates the complete Nine Revolutions Profound Art.] [An exceptionally long character-growth arc in the early stages] [Every five chapters form a little story arc. I put my heart into every word, and hope you enjoy it!] Civilization has fallen, a new age of chaos has begun, and humanity's darkest impulses spread without end... He emerged from the chaos 10.2kReads—Score86514d adds
- 49 Yu Guinian Returns to 1968 as a Ten-Year-Old to Protect the Whole Family 玉归年重回68年十岁顽童护全家 [Period Setting, Reborn, Super-Civilization Space, Coming of Age, Strong Female Lead, Sweet Romance] Nian Baoyu and her husband shot each other dead. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in 1968, before her tenth birthday, on the night her father fled home to escape the armed factional fighting. Her father was hiding in the attic when someone informed on him. The commune's armed militia took him away, and more than ten days later, they sent back his corpse. Her mother was devastated and 25.1kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 50 My Family Stole My Fate? I Poisoned Them in Return and Sent Them to Hell 全家偷我命格？我反向投毒送他们下地狱 6Reads—Score—14d adds
