Novels like Punishment and Sin
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Punishment and Sin, best match first.
- 1 I'm a Top-Tier Star's Fan Site Master, and I'm Helping Little Nobodies Rise to Fame 我，顶流站姐，带着小糊豆升咖了 [Transmigrate + face-slapping + entertainment industry + no dating entertainers] [Top-tier star fan-site photographer + rich childhood friend] Chen Duo transmigrated to a parallel world. The once dazzling top-tier star is now an obscure nobody who can't even afford clothes. The four-time Golden Bear Best Actress now delivers takeout in Hengdian. The former acting coach on a variety show is now working the fish counter at RT-Mart. As a top-tier star's fan-site photographer, she sent them trending 16.2kReads9.2Score2.3k14d adds
- 2 Wizard: Starting Out as a Potion-Making Apprentice 巫师：从魔药师学徒开始 [Wizards + satisfying power-up fantasy] Reborn in another world, she was told that hardship was written into her fate. What should she do when the day comes to awaken the talent that will decide her future? Good news: She has an aptitude for wizardry. Bad news: This is a dark fantasy world of wizards, where the strong prey on the weak and survival of the fittest rules. Fall behind even a little, and you die. How many steps does it take to go from a lowly apprentice struggling to survive each day 16.5kReads8.5Score2.5k14d adds
- 3 The Biggest Playboy in the Starry Sky 星空第一纨绔 [Three-star mission issued: Go to Glimmer Star and mine ten thousand tons of starlight ore] Lu Xiaobai: “Dad, Mr. Councilor, give me some funding. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!” [Five-star mission issued: Capture the leader of the Bloodsky Star Pirates, who are operating throughout the Radiant Starfield. His crew is said to number over a hundred, so proceed with caution] Lu Xiaobai: “Dad, Mr. Councilor, lend me the hundred thousand soldiers of the Lu family army! 135.1kReads8.0Score12.3k14d adds
- 4 After Seeing the Manga Comments, I Tear Up the Cannon Fodder Script 看到漫画弹幕后我手撕炮灰剧本 [Not a wish-fulfillment story. Superpowers + defying fate + no romance/just friendship + ensemble cast + character growth. Not fanfiction.] [Ah, is that purple-haired guy a minor background character? Getting killed by a billboard is just too tragic.] On an otherwise ordinary day, a sentence like this appeared out of nowhere in front of an ordinary person named Lu Jiuxiao. That was how he learned he was inside a comic. As an insignificant little extra, his greatest contribution was to die and 60.7kReads9.1Score6.8k14d adds
- 5 Quick Transmigration: After Becoming a Ungrateful Wolf, He Turns Over a New Leaf 快穿：穿成白眼狼后他浪子回头 [Quick transmigration + family life + face-slapping + big shots + wayward men turning over a new leaf + no fixed couple + a spatial realm appears later. The System doesn't play much of a role.] Ji Huaizhi woke up bound to a quick transmigration System. To recover his memories, he had to keep completing missions in small worlds. But why did he transmigrate into a scumbag every single time? Wait, didn't I have no memories? Then how come I know how to do so much? World One: The educated youth who a 43.9kReads8.9Score3.4k14d adds
- 6 North American Tough Cop: Starting Out as a Patrol Officer in Los Angeles 北美悍警：从洛城巡警开始 A cleaner from the gray world becomes a sun-loving Los Angeles detective. What a wonderful thing, to live in the sunlight! Rock stood beneath a Hollywood landmark, gazing at the bikini-clad beauties on Santa Monica Beach. He pushed his sunglasses up the bridge of his nose. From now on, he would protect Los Santos... 86.9kReads9.2Score7.7k14d adds
- 7 Terrible News from the High Martial World 高武圈传来噩耗 [Utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged, utterly unhinged! + broke protagonist] “I cultivate naturally.” “Is there any medicine with fewer side effects?” “Can’t be helped. Just take two shots! If you get side effects, we’ll stop after that!” “I’ll take two more shots today. They’re for different areas, so the side effects probably won’t sta 342.6kReads9.4Score33.3k14d adds
- 8 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 63.5kReads9.6Score7.5k14d adds
- 9 Over-the-Top Devotion: I'm Just His Plaything 顶级狂爱：我只是他的掌中玩物 A godlike Western male lead × a resilient, delicate Chinese heroine The main story is complete. [Dominant daddy type + transnational forced romance + wild and unhinged + mature man who takes the lead + devoted husband + jealous of everything + height and build difference + eight-year age gap + heroine is vulnerable early on] A carefully planned scheme gets Qiao Yimo kidnapped and sold on the black market. She can't speak the language, has no one to rely on, and is put through hell. Only one for 132.5kReads9.0Score12.8k14d adds
- 10 The Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder Won't Play by the Rules 快穿炮灰她不走寻常路 No fixed pairing, Qing-dynasty setting + historical eras + other worlds, with a pocket dimension Note: The heroine is a hedonist and a self-serving perfectionist. Her motto is that she can eat anything but hardship and endure anything but suffering. She tries to live comfortably in every world. After more than twenty years of bad luck, college student Shen Anning finally catches a break, only to die the day before her fortune is due to arrive. Perhaps her resentment is too great: just before sh 63.9kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 11 No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话 An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the 78.3kReads9.4Score13k14d adds
- 12 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
- 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
