Novels like The Forbidden Town
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Forbidden Town, best match first.
- 1 The Moonlight Mender 月光修补师 This is a healing novel that comforts the heart through a series of stories, sharing every gift, blessing, and heartfelt wish received with everyone. The book is divided into four stages, each spanning the changing seasons of a year. Once the year has passed, the bookstore will quietly disappear beneath the moonlight, and no one will remember us... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Cosmic Civilization: Exploration 宇宙文明：探索 Reborn? For the first time? No! This isn't rebirth! It's a confusion of memories! It's the manipulation of “people”! It's enemies from beyond the domain! It's more advanced technology! Perhaps from the moment the clone Li Linshuai “wakes up,” the world will change! The fates of countless people will change! But for now, he has to save his own life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn in the Apocalypse: The Orchid Space 末世重生之兰花空间 In the fifth year of the apocalypse, Jian Ning was reborn, returning to three months before it began. Everything started over, and Jian Ning swore she would never again foolishly give her orchid jade hairpin to the petty Wu Qingqing. In this life, she would make the scumbag and the two-faced woman pay! The heroine is no self-sacrificing saint. 3.6kReads8.9Score347Shelves
- 4 Surviving on a Deserted Island in a Parallel World 我在平行世界荒岛求生 On an ordinary day in 2026, Xiao Ran, a new office worker, woke up to find himself no longer in his familiar rented apartment. The city’s clamor had vanished. In its place were the tides of an unfamiliar sea and the lonely cries of seabirds. Without warning or explanation, he had been cast into a completely unknown parallel world, the sole living person on a wilderness island. There was no System to help him, no mysterious old master, and no rescue arriving from the sky. All he had was the sur 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Monster Compendium: I Can Summon Monsters Without Limit! 魔物图鉴：我能无限召唤魔物！ [Half data, half reality + comedy + meme references + no heroine + lighthearted, positive, and uplifting] A hundred years ago, disaster struck. Countless demons appeared, plunging the world into crisis and claiming countless human lives! At the same time, the arrival of Infinite Game made reality seem illusory, turning everything into a game! Beneath the apocalypse, humanity is as insignificant as dust. Who can save us? When people call for a hero, Li Chen says, “It’s simple. I’ll be the savior! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Alien Invasion: I Lead Blue Star into a Type II Civilization 外星入侵：我带蓝星进入二级文明 At 11:28 p.m. on September 7, 2025, a strange “blood moon” appeared in the sky. No one knew it was a final gift from a dying alien civilization. Ye Jinchen, a materials engineer, was accidentally implanted with the [Spirit Nexus] System, created by the “Aida Civilization,” becoming the sole heir to the technological legacy of a higher civilization. Two months later, the prophecy came true. An extraterrestrial predator known as [Jidu] tore through the heavens like a cold cosmic calamity and began 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 A Thought of Good or Evil Makes an Immortal 善恶一念仙 Evil takes shape from the fear, desires, and greed born of hunger and displacement. Knowing the thoughts deep within people's hearts, it continually creates greater panic and enslaves the masses. They build an immortal tomb that answers every prayer: whether in life or after death, anyone with a sincere heart will receive a response. People try to move them, hoping to be reborn as immortals. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Blue Flame Revelation: Embers of the Apocalypse 蓝焰启示录：末日余烬 “Black flame represents bloodlust, madness, and plunder: the desire to devour everything.” “Red flame represents brutality, destruction, and combat: the purest urge to annihilate.” “Blue flame represents the soul, death, and destruction, reaching straight to the ultimate end of existence.” “Golden flame represents purification, divinity, and enhancement, containing order and vitality.” “White flame represents chaos, corrosion, and rebirth: the source of disorder and recreation.” That year, I was 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Just Leave Bad Reviews. Why Bother Playing Games? 给给差评就行了，还玩啥游戏啊！ [Game development + original games + lighthearted comedy + subverting expectations] [Short drama now available] Lu Ming transmigrated to a parallel world and took over a bankrupt game studio. By chance, he bound himself to the [Moral Debt System]. Every time he did something “immoral but legal,” he earned rewards based on its impact. So, to get players cursing and turn that into profit, Lu Ming launched a series of outrageous schemes. With his left hand, he rolled out “Pay to breathe after loggi 11.9kReads8.8Score893Shelves
- 10 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting with a Chaos Talisman 凡人修仙：开局一张混沌符 [No System, ordinary mortal cultivation] A man with a mixed spiritual root containing all ten elements accidentally obtains the supreme treasure, the Chaos Talisman, and embarks on the path of immortal cultivation. He tramples prodigies, slays countless enemies, and leaves mountains of corpses and seas of blood behind. When he looks back, nothing remains but mounds of bones! 34.1kReads8.7Score4kShelves
- 11 You Want a Secondary Wife? I’ll Marry Your Third Uncle in a Ten-Mile Bridal Procession! 求娶平妻？十里红妆嫁你三叔！ Everyone in the capital knew that Shen Zhao, the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel, was deeply in love with the eldest son of the Cui family. But no one knew that the emperor had personally arranged the marriage between the Shen and Cui families. Cui Shaoqing had been engaged to Shen Zhao for ten years, yet had never cared about her. Only later did Shen Zhao understand that Cui Shaoqing favored women with pride and backbone. She had wasted all her affection and put up with every i 23.2kReads9.2Score3.1kShelves
- 12 Hello! My Diplomat 你好！我的外交官先生 [Bright, cheerful international student + Cool, abstinent diplomat] [Unrequited love becomes mutual + Power Couple + He doesn’t love her at first + Later turns into a fiercely protective husband + Happy Ending] At 22, Lin Shuxue, heir to the Lin Group, went to Paris to study. On the third day, at the welcome party for new students, she experienced her first crush. The cool, dignified diplomat standing at the podium was ten whole years older than her, 188 centimeters tall, and so handsome he look 8.4kReads9.5Score964Shelves
- 13 I Just Became His Disciple, and My Master Ascended! 刚拜师，师傅就飞升而去！ Huang Hua, a 17-year-old from E City in the Yanhuang Kingdom on Planet Earth, is beaten black and blue by a group of thugs. By chance, he runs into the Venerable Wufa, a powerful cultivator at the ascension stage who is passing by Earth. The Venerable says he and Huang Hua are fated to meet and wants to take him as a disciple. Thinking he’s run into a con artist, Huang Hua refuses a thousand times over. The Venerable Wufa takes him to Kunlun’s Forbidden Realm and puts him through such torment th 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Dragon Lifts Its Head 龙抬头 The goddess who used to look down on me is now applying for a job at my company… When the tiger returns to the mountain, the land will run red with blood; When the dragon rises, even the Yellow River will flow backward! 65.8kReads9.0Score8.2kShelves
- 15 Laugh at Her Divorce? After She Marries the Emperor, You'll All Kneel Before Her 笑她和离？改嫁帝王后都给她跪下 The heir of the Duke of Qingguo doted on his concubine and neglected his wife. The emperor felt sorry for the man’s wife and brought her into the palace to look after her. The result was the birth of several little princes and princesses. Full synopsis: Yun Qing’s father commanded a powerful army. Several princes wanted to marry her to gain control of his troops, which aroused the emperor’s suspicions. To protect both her and the Yun family army, her father had no choice but to petition the empe 14.8kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
- 16 After My Scumbag Dad Abandoned Me, My Billionaire Dad Spoils Me to the Heavens 被渣爹抛弃后，首富爸爸宠翻天 The day Sui Sui's mother died, she called her father and uncle. Her father didn't want her, and her uncle told her to go die. Just then, the richest man in town happened to pass by, took her home, and made her his daughter. She thought she'd be a pitiful little stray, but on the day she arrived at the He family home, Grandma waved her hand, and luxury goods from all over the city filled the place. She could pick whatever she wanted. Her billionaire dad: Now that you're my daughter, whoever bulli 39.7kReads8.9Score3.4kShelves
- 17 The Middle-Aged Slacker's Comeback 中年颓废男人的逆袭 The story is about an unemployed man in his forties whose life is going poorly. After accidentally ingesting something, a tiny stream of energy forms inside him. Through long experimentation, he gradually grows stronger and uses his inner power to change his life. The story depicts the man's transformation and everything that happens along the way, touching on physical health, friends, relatives, Taoism, officialdom, the entertainment industry, sports, and more. This is my first novel. You're we 12Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 18 Apocalyptic Disasters: I'm Frantically Making Money and Stockpiling Supplies 末世天灾，我疯狂搞钱囤货 [Apocalypse + reborn + spatial realm + stockpiling supplies + farming + infrastructure + strong heroine, with a couple, with a couple, with a couple, saying it three times: there is a couple] After struggling to survive for ten years in the apocalypse, she was reborn before the disasters began. Of course she was going to stockpile supplies like crazy… But where would she get the money? She was just an ordinary wage earner. She didn’t have tens of billions casually sitting in the bank, nor a huge 19.7kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
- 19 With Unrivaled Talent, All I Want Is to Stay Alive 天赋无敌的我，一心只想苟活 [Feel-good power fantasy + Invincible + King of Keeping a Low Profile] Because of his youthful arrogance, Lin Feng paid for it with his life. He arrived in a place called the Nine Provinces Continent and became the useless eldest senior brother of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. I died after living loudly in my previous life. This time, I want to live quietly. Unfortunately, his master was ambushed by villains, leaving Lin Feng no choice but to reveal a tiny sliver of his talent and shock the w 229.1kReads8.3Score12.9kShelves
- 20 Seeking a Better Match: I Won’t Be the Madam of This Marquis’s Manor! 另谋高嫁：这侯府夫人我不做了！ Original title: Finding a Better Match: I’m Done Being the Marquess’s Wife! Regarding plagiarism, don’t make baseless accusations. The publication dates are there for all to see. [Traditional historical romance and household intrigue + strong heroine and hero + mutual devotion + a prince who cherishes his wife] A merchant’s daughter marries into a marquess’s household, becoming the laughingstock of the capital. For six years, Jiang Shu lives alone and supports the entire household without compla 24.1kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
- 21 The Peerless National Healer 无双国医 Why do expert department heads from the country's top hospitals keep showing up at a neighborhood clinic? Why do renowned experts and professors from across the country so often visit a township health center? Yun Heng, a master's graduate in traditional Chinese medicine, had just started his new job when he offended the hospital's department head and was driven out. With no choice but to make a living at a neighborhood clinic, he somehow turned a township community health center into a national 61.3kReads9.5Score7.4kShelves
- 22 War God Rampage 战神狂飙 Ye Wuqian was born with peerless talent, a dazzling genius. But to uncover the mystery of his origins, he willingly vanished from the world, pretending to be a good-for-nothing as he refined the source of the Sacred Battle Art for a full ten years! Now his ten years are up, and the true dragon has returned! An invincible path begins, one where he crushes countless prodigies and geniuses, smashes every royal and divine physique, and tears apart the legends of the heavens, making the myriad worlds 39.8kReads9.1Score1kShelves
- 23 Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应 Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist 84.5kReads9.1Score6.1kShelves
- 24 I Dig the Pits, You Fill Them In. Everyone in Our Sect Is a Rebel 我挖坑，你填土，师门全是反骨 [Original title: I Became the Beloved Little Junior Sister and Turned the Cultivation World Upside Down] Xie Sisi transmigrated and became the cannon-fodder supporting character in a novel she’d once mocked, a character with the exact same name. The supporting character’s role was to bring the heroine to an immortal sect, dutifully serve as her medicine human, and ultimately die after being used to test the heroine’s medicines. Xie Sisi, who knew the plot: “Bah! Whoever wants to be a medicine hu 64.8kReads9.4Score8.5kShelves
- 25 After the Immortal Venerable Was Publicly Jilted, She Became the Emperor’s Wife 仙尊被当众退婚后，成了帝尊夫人 Powerful Master of the Six Realms VS Beautiful, Cold Immortal Venerable 1: Su Wenqing was unlucky. He had just sealed the Demon Venerable and lost all his cultivation when his fiance publicly broke off their engagement. Su Wenqing was glad to be rid of the fuss. No one knew that beneath his cold heart, he had a cherished corner where, for thirty years, he had used his heart's blood and all his spiritual power to nourish a fragment of a soul. Then, on the very day his engagement was broken off, t 8.5kReads9.6Score1.1kShelves
- 26 Spring Tide over Beijing and Macau 京澳春潮 [Print edition preorders open August 7, 2026, at 7 p.m.] [Heiress vs. Men from All Walks of Life] Also known as Spring Tide in Jing'ao The first time Wen Ning saw Xie Zhiyu on Aodao, she knew he was a dangerous man. Even though he was merely sitting quietly in a dessert shop, eating a bowl of mung bean soup. The little shop was packed and noisy, yet no one dared share a table with him. A few meters around him, an island of solitude had been deliberately carved out. “Who is he?” “Xie Zhiyu. No on 178.3kReads9.6Score27.8kShelves
- 27 A Common Man Takes the Stage 匹夫驾到 (Signed for print publication) (One heroine, no System, not a power fantasy, Chinese-style supernatural abilities) Among the infinite parallel worlds, there is a special world called Nanke, and a special group of people known as Calamity Exorcists. They soar through the skies and burrow underground, know the past and present, and travel between parallel worlds in different eras to carry out missions. A young man who calls himself a commoner is chosen by fate to enter Nanke’s mysterious academy, 76.1kReads9.4Score7.7kShelves
- 28 I Really Run an Orphanage, Not an Assassin's Den 我开的真是孤儿院，不是杀手堂 [Print edition now available] [The only imaginative ensemble martial arts novel on the entire site!] [At its peak, 1.5 million readers were following it, ranking seventh across all of Tomato Novel. Come on in and see for yourselves, dear readers!] [Ensemble cast + System + Traits + Martial Arts] Chen Ye transmigrated to the Great Wu Dynasty and became bound to the Orphan-Raising System. By raising orphans, he could earn points, which he could use to draw traits and bestow them upon the children. 116.9kReads8.9Score12.4kShelves
- 29 Back to High School Before the Divorce: This Time, I Won't Fall for You 离婚前重回高中，这次我不心动了 (Print edition signed) [Campus rebirth + regretful pursuit + bad-boy wins her heart + living-under-one-roof romance] [Slightly rebellious good girl x laid-back, aloof bad boy] After her grandmother passes away, both the Tan and Lu families feel sorry for Xu Entang, who has no family left, and want to take her in. When she arrives in Beicheng, she sees again the boy she never forgot after meeting him once. Lu Jin is brazen and unruly. Over the years they grow up together, she watches one woman af 99.3kReads9.4Score10.7kShelves
- 30 The Romance I Found in Horror Games Is Full of Surprises 在恐怖游戏里谈的恋爱千奇百怪 Bai Yao became a vicious supporting character in numerous horror worlds, possessing nothing but beauty and a love of money. After the System tossed her the words "win them over," it lost contact because of a bad signal. She had read so many novels and knew the tropes well. Wasn't she supposed to win over men who had suffered tragic fates? The first time she saw someone, she could sense a dark red glow around him. She guessed that he must be her target, so... At a haunted boarding school, she fou 73.7kReads9.6Score7.8kShelves
- 31 EN Boundless Utterance 欲言难止 Just as life was starting to get better, Xu Ze and Lu Heyang faced a new challenge. After graduating, Xu Ze became a doctor who saved lives, while Lu Heyang became a well-known figure in the Interstellar Federation. But misfortune struck Lu Heyang, and he lost his memory. During a crucial period in his treatment, circumstances forced the two apart, and Lu Heyang completely forgot Xu Ze and the friendship they had shared. Their friendship faced an enormous test. When fate brought them together ag 71.3kReads9.7Score16.1kShelves
- 32 EN Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手，邪神也得给我跪下！ [Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov 688.5kReads9.4Score49.1kShelves
- 33 EN Seriously, What Alpha Eats Little Cakes? 离谱，谁家Alpha吃小蛋糕啊 [This book has been acquired for publication. Tap the author’s profile for more details] [Two powerful leads + chasing his lover + scheming + intense romantic tension + ABO] Ji Chi was a top-tier Alpha, the son of Jiangcheng’s richest man and a born favorite of fortune. Everyone assumed he would marry an Omega from an equally powerful family. He thought so too. That was before this top-tier Alpha started avoiding an Omega with no pheromones day after day. Things took a strange turn. Friend 1: “Y 40.4kReads9.6Score5.2kShelves
- 34 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 434kReads9.4Score40.6kShelves
- 35 Marrying Up 攀高枝 [Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping 162.8kReads9.6Score22.7kShelves
- 36 EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8kShelves
- 37 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 581.6kReads9.4Score60.6kShelves
- 38 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择：这个御兽师有亿点生猛 [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 177.9kReads9.7Score21.5kShelves
- 39 EN City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6kShelves
- 40 The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批，唯有师妹逗比 After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th 251.1kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 41 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 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 42 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 43 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. 335.5kReads9.8Score46.5kShelves
- 44 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 45 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
