Novels like Wanted Across the City? I'll Hack the Skynet Instead
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Wanted Across the City? I'll Hack the Skynet Instead, best match first.
- 1 I Told You to Meet the Deadline, Not Become Famous Overseas! 让你赶工期，没让你名扬海外！ Torrential rain is on the way, and the city is about to be hit by a flood. The urgent task of digging a thirty-kilometer waterway within ten days is one that no one in the engineering industry dares to take on. When Qin Feng accepts the job, the whole industry assumes he’s just trying to swindle money. When his fleet of hundred-ton trucks makes a comeback, everyone thinks he’s a monster. How does Qin Feng have so many hundred-ton trucks? But Qin Feng’s feats will amaze the world far beyond that. 5.4kReads7.5Score60114d adds
- 2 Treasure Hunting the World 寻宝天下 A treasure-hunting adventure novel. Yao Feiyu is sold by his girlfriend to a compound to have his kidneys harvested. As a cold blade slices into his flesh, his blood splashes onto an antique ring worn by a tycoon. A treasure-hunting spirit cat and a pocket dimension appear in his mind! He only wanted to keep a low profile and hunt for treasures, but every Tom, Dick, and Harry gets in his way! What a joke! I'll wipe out his entire family with one blow and take all the gold for myself! But before 2kReads6.5Score19014d adds
- 3 I Asked You to Write Songs, Not Turn the Literary World Upside Down! 让你写歌，你把文坛掀了？ [Entertainment Industry + System + Showbiz + Behind-the-Scenes in the Early Stages] Lin Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the Showbiz System. There is no hunger or gunfire here. Everyone is obsessed with entertainment, making this a world at the very pinnacle of the arts! This is the best of times for people working in the arts, with opportunities everywhere. It is also the worst of times: only the best survive, and the higher they rise, the harder they fall. Looking at the mount 5.3kReads8.5Score33114d adds
- 4 Who Dates Their Childhood Friend? I Do! 谁会和青梅竹马谈恋爱啊，我谈！ [Slice of life, meme-filled comedy, baby protagonist, choosing genes, System, childhood sweethearts, two heroines, slow burn] They say you can't afford to lose at the starting line. So why not start competing from the womb and amaze everyone? Reborn, he starts by selecting the best genes from both parents, combining their strengths and adding just a little help from the System. And so Xu Qing gains a superhuman physique and talent. His comeback begins in infancy. Since he has another chance 25.2kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds
- 5 Travel Livestream: The Animal World I Filmed Went Viral 直播旅行：我拍摄的动物世界爆火 [Outdoor Livestreaming + System + Animals + Food + Relaxed and Leisurely + No Female Lead] Kuang Yeyuan is an educational content creator who accidentally activates a livestreaming System. Driven by his love of wild plants and animals, he makes his first stop at the East African Great Grasslands. Unexpectedly, his first wave of followers comes thanks to the grasslands’ second-in-command. Who would’ve guessed that Kuang Ye would claim his first livestream reward just for setting a giraffe’s bones 12.3kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 6 Transmigrate Into a Book as Rich Sisters-in-Law, My Bestie and I Take the Stage Together! 穿书富家妯娌，我和闺蜜齐上阵！ [Short drama now available] [Two couples + best friends transmigrate into a book and both marry into wealthy families + lighthearted daily life + sweet romance + old-school domineering CEOs + supporting female character System] Lin Nanqiao and Xia Linshi transmigrate into a book together and are married off to twin brothers through a family alliance. They go from best friends to best friends and sisters-in-law, stacking their buffs to the max. In the original story, they are both cannon-fodder s 18.1kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 7 I Play Rock-Paper-Scissors with the Mirror at Midnight, and I Won't Sleep Until I Win 半夜和镜子猜拳，我赢一把就睡 The entire Xie family had a rather spooky air about them. His great-great-grandfather was a mountain wanderer, and his great-great-grandmother sewed up corpses. His great-grandfather was a Maoshan Taoist, and his great-grandmother was a spirit medium from Fengtian. His grandfather made paper offerings, his grandmother prepared bodies for burial, his father drove corpses, and his mother raised poison insects. Some of his ancestors even liked to dig themselves out of their graves… As a result, X 5.8kReads9.0Score57814d adds
- 8 He Gave the Wedding Ring to a Dog! She Joined a Hate-Fest Show and Punched the Internet in the Face 婚戒送狗！她转头上恨综肘击全网 [Super-sweet 1v1 + silly humor and memes + variety show] A variety show called The Haters Rule the World appears out of nowhere. It invites three celebrities hated across the internet, along with their haters, to take part. Any celebrity who fails on the show will be blacklisted for three years. The director calls this test of pure hatred between celebrities and their haters the Hate Show. - Chi Qiuli is the adopted daughter of the wealthy Huo family. Everyone thinks she's a resource-backed 77.3kReads9.3Score9k14d adds
- 9 An Extra's Guide to Surviving in a Comic 路人乙漫画生存指南 Dropped by the author. You can go straight to the final three chapters. Male lead, no romance. Ensemble cast. Academy for people with special abilities. A year after the school arc of the comic Superpower Academy ended, the college arc finally began. It opened on September 1, with the main cast entering Supernova Academy for the Gifted. [The main cast ending up in Class F really is a classic] [That person in Class F must be a big shot] [The people in Classes S and A are so strong too] [What abou 25.1kReads9.5Score2.8k14d adds
- 10 EN Apocalyptic Calamity: Who Let These Lunatics Save the World? 末日灾祸：谁让这群癫子去救世的 [No romance, ensemble cast, apocalyptic disasters, urban fantasy. Split up, and trouble strikes from every direction. Together, and the world faces annihilation.] (The animated series adaptation is now available.) The team’s main mission: save the world. Hidden achievement: elbow-check the world. Code of conduct: As long as we elbow-check fast enough, disaster will always be one step behind us! People around the world: Thanks to the Daxia Squad for the elbow-check survival kit. We refuse deliver 198.3kReads9.4Score32.4k14d adds
- 11 The Supporting Actress Wrecks the Dating Show and Goes Off the Rails in Life 女配创翻恋综，走上人生癫疯 [In a nutshell: After transmigrating as a villainess, my entire sect came along too] [One-on-one comedy + celebrity dating show + inner thoughts and gossip + face-slapping + fake and real heiresses] After failing her tribulation, Yun Xia was struck by lightning and sent into the world of a novel. As the villainess, she was supposed to sacrifice herself and make way for the heroine's beautiful romance with all her admirers. “?” You want me to sacrifice myself for someone else? Say that one more t 27.2kReads9.3Score4.5k14d adds
- 12 Brother Dao Goes Viral in Showbiz, and Fans Beg Me to Stop Killing 刀哥爆红娱乐圈，粉丝求我别杀了 [Lighthearted + no romance + absurd comedy + entertainment industry] [Print edition published | Comic adaptation released] Xiao He acquired a criminal golden finger that let him learn all kinds of criminal skills. But he could only stay alive by continually stabbing people. Xiao He: “I’m a perfectly decent college student. Who’d want to become a criminal?!” Wait, there really is a way! After an accident, Xiao He successfully exploited a bug in his golden finger. By acting instead of committing r 166.7kReads9.3Score13.7k14d adds
- 13 I Raise My Employees' Salaries, and You Say I'm Disrupting the Market! 提升员工工资，你说我扰乱市场！ [The short drama is now online: I raised my employees' wages, and you say I'm disrupting the market] [Business growth, globalization, cross-industry expansion, coming-of-age story] How do you rate the youngest person ever to become the world's richest man on the Forbes list? Economic Times: “The whole world is working for Song Jiang!” Peace Master: “Thank you, Song Jiang, for your contributions to peace. The world has never been more peaceful!” America: “Damn it! China is so despicable! He's usi 51.8kReads9.1Score3.7k14d adds
- 14 After a Breakup, I Found Out My Best Friend Was the Cool School Beauty 失恋后，发现好兄弟是清冷校花 [Not reborn] + [No System] + [Youthful campus life] + [Romantic comedy] + [One heroine] + [Everyday life] After chasing his unrequited love for two and a half years, Lu Yibei was still secretly mocked by her for being a simp. Once he finally let go, Lu Yibei received a call from his gaming carry, who had never once used voice chat. The cool, clear, lovely female voice on the phone left Lu Yibei silent for a long time. Lu Yibei: “Bro, don’t we have a younger sister at home?” The reply: “I don’t h 87.5kReads9.6Score9.5k14d adds
- 15 Commander Si, Why Are You Standing with the Monsters? 司统大人，您怎么站怪物那边了？ [No female lead + no romantic tension + no romance + ruthless and decisive] Amid the crowds beneath the neon-lit cityscape, there are monsters wearing human skin, walking among them just like ordinary people. The news says these people are called the Awakened. They feed on human flesh and are savage monsters. One quiet afternoon, an ordinary high school sophomore undergoes a transformation and becomes one of the Awakened, standing against all of humanity! To survive, he makes a pact with a god a 101kReads8.7Score10.2k14d adds
- 16 The Usurper 犯上者 [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two. 221.5kReads9.4Score36.1k14d adds
- 17 EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 1MReads9.3Score123.9k14d adds
- 18 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 672.6kReads9.6Score138.4k14d adds
- 19 EN After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法 [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 214.3kReads9.6Score36k14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 232kReads9.5Score28.6k14d adds
- 22 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
- 23 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 998kReads9.5Score85.8k14d adds
- 24 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5k14d adds
- 25 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
- 26 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
- 27 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
- 28 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
- 29 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
