Novels like A Corrupted Heart
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Corrupted Heart, best match first.
- 101 Cultivation Without Practice, All Through Devouring 修真不修行，全靠吞噬 Transmigrate into the cultivation world as a good-for-nothing? Don't panic! I've awakened the Devouring System, and I can devour anything! Devour pills to break through instantly, devour techniques to master divine abilities in seconds, devour demon beasts to gain heaven-defying bloodlines, and devour gods and demons to seize their source power! Those who bullied me once can now be taken down with a single sword strike! Sect elders are fighting to take me as their disciple, the sect's saintess 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Strange Tales from Songlinggou 松岭沟异闻录 Tales of the Strange from Songlinggou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 I Kicked the Wrong Design Mogul, Now I’m Begging My Ex to Come Back and Save the Day 错踹设计大佬后，我跪求前男友回头救场 After I Accidentally Kicked the Design Mogul, I Begged My Ex-Boyfriend to Come Back and Save the Day —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 The Library, Strawberry Candy, and My Longtime Crush on You 图书馆，草莓糖，我暗恋你好久啦 The Library, Strawberry Candy, and I’ve Had a Crush on You for Ages —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Lonely Isle and the Stars 孤岛与星辰 The Island and the Stars —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Time-Repair Shop 时光补衣铺 The Time-Repair Shop —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Spring in the Wicker Chair 藤椅上的春天 Spring in the Wicker Chair —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 This County Town Can't Hold All My Money 这个县城装不下我的钱 After quitting his job and returning to his hometown, Lin Yue binds himself to an outrageous System: the amount deposited each day is proportional to the county’s permanent population. The more people, the more money. At first, it’s only 180,000 yuan. Not much, but enough to get by. The catch is that all the money has to be spent in Pingjiang County that very day. Whatever he doesn’t spend is deducted. Even more absurdly, the money he spends comes back doubled. The more he spends, the more mon 138Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 The Yin-Ghost Calamity 阴诡难 They all say I'm no good at cultivating the Dao, but my wife says I don't need to learn it anyway. She'll carry me... (If you don't want to read the setup, you can start from Chapter Three. It really works, trust me.) When I was ten, a ghost nearly killed me, but I was lucky enough to survive because of one. Yet the strange ordeal meant for me wasn't over... 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 A Pure Reincarnation 无垢轮回 [No System + not a power fantasy + closed-loop xuanhuan + epic ensemble cast. High-octane throughout, with relentless emotional gut punches. No harem or womanizing, no one-shotting opponents above your level. Follow an ancient-text restorer as he breaks the cycle-prison that has held the universe captive for 120,000 years.] Others cultivate by merging with the laws of reincarnation. They live longer and longer, forget more and more, and ultimately become fuel for the prison. Only I, Chen Yan, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 The Empress Won’t Obey: She Upends the Order and Becomes a Beacon 皇后她不听话，颠覆秩序成了光 The Empress Won't Obey, and Upending the Order Made Her a Beacon —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Cultivation Is Too Dangerous, So I Choose to Create a World Within Myself 修仙太危险，我选择体内创世 Lin Mu, a menial disciple of the Qingyun Sect with a false Five-Element spiritual root, has little hope of advancing on the path of cultivation. Steady as a rock and a master of keeping his head down, he is driven to the brink by a setup. At death's door, he unexpectedly sacrifices his blood to a broken stele, activating the Primordial Realm within him and becoming the guardian of the flame of Huaxia civilization. This is no ordinary pocket dimension, but a nascent world awaiting revival. A spr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Sichen 嗣尘 Lin Yan, an illegitimate son from a collateral branch dismissed as dust by his family, lives with his mother in the coldest corner of the main family's mansion. She dies of illness, bitter to the end, leaving him only a warning that “the main family is a den of wolves” and a secret ledger detailing the matriarch's embezzlement and his legitimate elder brother's seizure of the family estate. Living under the legitimate heirs' disdain and the servants' contempt, Lin Yan finally wakes up. He gives 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 The Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Human 伪人：全世界都是假的，只有我是真人 Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Person 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Midnight Terror! Is There Someone in the Mirror? 夜半惊魂！镜里有人？ A Midnight Fright! Someone in the Mirror? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 The Tale of the Vengeful Spirit Seal 2 怨灵封印传_2 The Tale of the Vengeful Spirit Seal_2 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 The Tale of the Vengeful Spirit Seal 3 怨灵封印传_3 The Tale of the Vengeful Spirit Seal_3 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 The Tale of the Vengeful Spirit Seal 4 怨灵封印传【4】 The Tale of the Vengeful Spirit Seal [4] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Forbidden Curse: Spirit Touch Opens the Door to Terror 禁忌咒子：灵触开启惊悚之门 [Horror] [Fortune-Telling] [Ghost Hunting] [Feng Shui] [Read with Caution at Midnight] I, Bai Qingyun, was once just a Maoshan Taoist priest at the Hundred Spirits Hall. It wasn't until I went alone to investigate an incident and saw a boy hanging himself in a red dress that I realized the evil in human nature went far beyond what I had imagined. Behind every strange incident lies both the wickedness of human nature and a tragedy. As I traveled from one region to another, resolving one incident 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局：黄泉走阴人 There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩 The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Northern School Yin-Yang Master 北派阴阳师 I'm a corpse carrier and a second-rate Taoist. My father refined my mother into a Yin child to bring him wealth, and now he wants to make me disappear for good. The only person I've ever truly been at odds with is my father, the old fraud known as Chen Banxian... 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Keeper of the Hearth: I Receive the Immortals in Northeast China 守灶人，我在东北领仙 A Northeast Chinese folk-custom tale about inviting celestial spirits. The Hearth Guardians protect homes and drive out evil, delivering hard-hitting tales of spirit warriors. The last Hearth Guardian holds the line in Northeast China! He commands celestial spirit troops, subdues vicious ghosts across the land, handles the strange affairs of spirit mediums, and protects the peace and warmth of the human world. Let no evil draw near! You know about the spirit mediums of Northeast China, but if yo 3Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 125 Grave Keeper 墓吏 There are Buddhas and Daoists, immortals and ghosts, humans and demons, good and evil, black and white. I vow not to become a Buddha until Hell is empty; I vow not to become an immortal until the Ghost Path is no more! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Strange Tales: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Peach Blossom Spring 怪谈：从前有座桃花源 [Supernatural + One True Female Lead + Sequences + Sci-Fi Style + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Mindless + Games + Some Urban Legends] Urban legends are appearing all over the world. As spiritual qi revival begins, humanity is feeling its way toward an entirely different path to immortality. Have you ever memorized “The Peach Blossom Spring”? If so, do you really understand it? Why is the town surrounded by endless peach blossoms? Peach wood wards off evil. Look at those falling petals: don’t they r 3Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 127 Heirloom Bones: Blood Sacrifice at Yinshan 嗣骨：荫山血祭 (Not recommended for the fainthearted or anyone alone late at night) Li Ming returns to his hometown for a funeral, but the moment he steps into Yinshan Village, everything feels uncanny. Strange noises echo from inside the coffin day and night, while dark red patterns appear beneath his skin and writhe like living things. The ancient well that sustains the village churns with ominous black sludge. Deep within the ancestral hall, inhuman drumbeats and indescribable ancient whispers resound day a 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Strange Tales of Folk Feng Shui 民间风水奇谭 In 2013, hundreds of thousands of fish died in Liaozhong Reservoir; ghosts roamed the streets of Tawan; a sinister market appeared in Wenguantun; and a Qing princess rode in a sedan chair outside Shenyang Imperial Palace. But could these all be the work of nature? I am a feng shui master. Over the past ten years, I've saved many people, and harmed some as well. I wrote this book to warn the world: “Feng shui can nurture people, but it can also kill.” But the law itself is neither good nor evil. 524Reads5.3Score102Shelves
- 129 Yin Feast 阴食 I’m a food delivery guy, but not just anyone can eat the food I deliver. Only three kinds of people can. The first kind are those with an exceptionally strong aura of yin. The second kind are those who are about to die. And the last kind... All I can say is, don’t open the door! 48Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 130 The Haunted Hearse 灵车诡事 I'm an ambulance driver for the dead. When I first started the job, Third Master told me a few rules every hearse driver must follow. Then one day, to pay off my loan, I transported a bizarre corpse... 316Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 131 Midnight Horror Stories 午夜恐怖小故事 A collection of mildly scary horror stories!! Hope you enjoy them!! Thank you, everyone!! There are more than two protagonists. There are lots of them!! Welcome, and enjoy!! 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Your Great-Aunt Has Arrived! Kneel and Pay Your Respects, Youngsters 姑奶奶驾到，小辈磕头行礼 At twenty-seven, Zhang Tao's life took a complete turn. The military took over his carbon fiber company in its entirety, depositing 220 million yuan into his account and making him a deputy department-level official. But the biggest shock came from love: his girlfriend, Kong Lingjun, was the eldest legitimate daughter of the Qufu Kong family, of the Ling generation. It was only when Zhang Tao went to Qufu to meet her family for the first time that he truly understood what it meant to have senio 745Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Tales of Strange Corpses 诡尸怪谈 Do you know where the bodies used for dissection in medical schools come from? Strange things keep happening at medical schools, and people die for no apparent reason. Before long, rumors give rise to all kinds of taboos. Out of ignorance, my roommates died one after another. And I’m the only one who knows what lies at the root of it all... 159Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 I Brought a Superstar Home for Lunar New Year. Shouldn't I Be Proud? 过年带大明星回家，我骄傲了吗？ With just twenty days left until Chinese New Year, Li Wei, down on his luck in Shanghai, suddenly got bound to the “Sugar Mommy System.” On a whim, he bound himself to top-tier actress Yang Mi. Once the bond was established, Yang Mi called him herself and offered to take him back to his hometown in Henan for the holiday in a luxury car! Before they left, Yang Mi spent a fortune in Shanghai buying New Year goods for Li Wei, face-slapping everyone who looked down on him. At a service station, onl 575Reads5.9Score100Shelves
- 135 Chasing Her Beyond the Light-Years 追她到光年之外 In 2059, breakthroughs in hibernation technology allowed the wealthy to buy their way out of death. Gu Ming, a brilliant scientist from a poor background, chose to go into hibernation to escape reality, leaving his terminally ill lover, Si Yi, behind in the past. A thousand years later, he awoke in the “Pastoral Age,” when humanity had discarded emotions and AI ruled the surface. More absurdly, Si Yi had been “revived” as a robot, but the law forbade her from showing human emotions. Gu Ming reu 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 Overdue, Not Yet Arrived 逾期未达 [Slow-witted immortal × sharp-tongued, soft-hearted general] [Female lead: a living fossil of the archaeological world × Male lead: a thousand years of devotion hidden behind a sharp tongue] At an archaeological dig, the dust was just brushed from the two characters “Wei Xian” on a bluestone slab when the fingertips of the composed and self-possessed Jiang Nianchu turned ice-cold. It was him. Why were her old clothes in his coffin? Why were tears falling from her eyes for no reason? Not until sh 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Master Surgeon: The Marquis’s Stand-In Wife Is Done Playing Along 外科圣手：侯爷的替身夫人不干了 A scalpel can save lives, and it can also cut open this cruel world that devours people. Su Qingyuan, a top surgeon, died in the instant an operating table short-circuited. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the substitute bride of the Anping Marquis's household, slashing her wrists on her wedding night. The red candles flickered. The man named Chu Lingfeng gripped her chin, his voice icy. “Remember, you're only Wan'er's shadow.” The original owner had been forced into marriage, humi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Wind and Cloud Order: Chronicles of the Martial World 风云令：武林杂记 Three hundred years of grudges from a past life, the forbidden secret of a divine-demonic bloodline, and the three realms' thousand-year struggle for the Wind and Cloud Token: these all converge in Qing Li's century-long rise in this life. A hybrid of gods and demons and the reincarnation of an ancient Demon Emperor, she lies low as an inconspicuous “scruffy little fox demon” before making a stunning comeback in a multilayered world of immortal cultivation, shaking the Nine Heavens, the Three Re —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 The Train I Drive Leads to the Abyss 我开的火车通往深渊 My name is Lin Muhai. I'm twenty-one and a trainee train driver at the Ancheng Locomotive Depot. Before my first run, I heard a woman's voice in the crew waiting room. "One sleeper, two sleepers, three sleepers..." She counted to six, then paused. "Lin Muhai, it's your turn to count." 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The Heroic Moment 英雄时刻 The League isn’t a one-man show. It’s a moment of heroism shared by five people. The story begins in 2025 and follows the League along a different timeline. Everyone in the story is both a participant and protagonist, as well as an observer. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 I Earn 30,000 a Month to Support the Family, but My Mother-in-Law Throws a Fit and Demands I Quit? I Lay It All on the Table and Strike Back 月薪三万养全家，被婆婆摔碗逼辞职？我直接摊牌反杀 I Earn 30,000 a Month to Support the Whole Family, and My Mother-in-Law Smashes a Bowl to Force Me to Quit? I Lay My Cards on the Table and Strike Back —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Strange Tales from Western Shandong 鲁西异闻 Strange Tales from Western Shandong —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 I Transmigrated into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School 我穿进初中写的恐怖小说 I Was Transported Into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 No Cheats After I Transmigrated: A Criminal Investigation Consultant in Ancient Times 穿越无挂：我在古代当刑侦顾问 A transmigration without a golden finger is the worst kind of ordeal. After forensic consultant He Zhaozhao dies, she transmigrates into the body of a farm girl, only to be sold into Prince Mu's residence as a servant. Just as she stumbles upon the gruesome death of a girl who shared her room, General Mu Jinchuan, stationed in Xizhou, drags her out to use as bait. He suspects her of being a spy gathering military intelligence. He teases and torments her, yet can't help being impressed by her po —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Searching and Searching for My Beloved 寻寻我那人啊 The young man thought he'd landed a high-paying job, but it turned out to be work for terrorists! After an explosion, he transmigrated to a bizarre ancient world. A voice claiming to be the world's caretaker spoke into his mind, telling him to find someone in this world who truly loved him. Once he did, he would be sent back to his own world. Finding someone who truly loves him shouldn't be hard, but what do you mean you've transmigrated me into a girl's body? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Don’t Turn Off the Lights, They’re in the Mirror 别关灯，它们在镜子里 Don’t Turn Off the Lights. They’re in the Mirror —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Urban: My Medical Skills Come from the Cultivation World 都市：我的医术来自修仙界 When the Alchemy Venerable of the Cultivation World Says No to You, Even the King of Hell Dares Not Claim Your Soul! Chu Luo, an Alchemy Venerable from the immortal realm who died after being betrayed, wakes to find himself in a modern city, a good-for-nothing medical student mocked by everyone and humiliated by his ex-girlfriend. Modern medicine is helpless against terminal illness? One Body Tempering Pill makes cancer cells vanish without a trace. Ordinary medical skills can't save you from 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Reborn, I Became My Old Partner's Lucky Charm 重生后，我成了老伴的锦鲤 After I Was Reborn, I Became My Partner's Lucky Star 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Terror at Three in the Morning: There's a Ghost Behind the Door 三更惊魂，门内有鬼 Terror at Three in the Morning: There's a Ghost Behind the Door —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Night of Terror: Escape from the Snake's Jaws 惊魂夜：蛇口逃生 Night of Terror: Escape from the Serpent’s Jaws 39Reads—Score—Shelves
