Novels like The Club
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Club, best match first.
- 51 Those Who Fight Well Do Not Die 善战者不死 The grand estate of a powerful family is a place where man-eating beasts prowl the front courtyard, while the back courtyard is a cold well surrounded by high walls. For one woman… getting out is incredibly difficult. But with a group of women by my side, I’m not alone! One of us will surely make it out and see the world! Sis, do you like some other girl now? What other girl? I’ve got my hands full worrying about you, you little troublemaker! 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Spring Runs Deep in the Old Days 旧故春深 [Love grows over time + mutual devotion + premium novel + period setting + 1v1 + equally matched leads] [Cool and aloof Peking opera star Meng Fengchuan vs. forthright and passionate heiress Jiang Qing] Meng Fengchuan, a rising star of the opera world, and Jiang Qing, the fourth daughter of the Jiang family, met through the theater. As they spent time together, they fell for each other, but the difference in their social standing meant the Jiang family never approved of their relationship. Jiang 186Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 53 My Father's Legacy [1939] 父亲的遗产【1939】 A sickly, stubborn, tearful sniper and a narcissistic, towering, awkward major general. Coercion + Republican-era setting In an era torn apart by war, Zhou Fengmian is consumed by hatred for his country and family. To complete an assassination mission, he pays the price with his frail body. When he is isolated and helpless, Sheng Shilin reaches out to save him. But that helping hand is steeped in possessiveness and deprivation, and Sheng forces him to become a concubine. As storms rage around 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Pillow of Mountains and Rivers: The Young Marshal’s Rose 山河枕：少帅的玫瑰 In an age of chaos when “power comes from the barrel of a gun” and violence has become the only language, how can civilization and integrity endure? Shen Zhiwei, a young journalist from Beiping who believes “journalism can save the nation,” and Gu Linyuan, a young warlord with a powerful army who believes “might makes right,” are about to find out. My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Huangpulang 黄埔郎 A modern-day mercenary transmigrates to the battlefield of the Battle of Shanghai and experiences the brutal War of Resistance firsthand... The Japanese invaders trample the imperial court, enraging a hundred thousand Huangpu cadets. The green hills are stained with heroes' blood, and their loyal bones are sacrificed to the Chinese nation. A modern-day mercenary transmigrates to the battlefield of the Battle of Shanghai, beginning a firsthand journey through the eight-year War of Resistance. Sta 9Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 56 As If There Were a Glimmer of Light 仿佛，若有光 Gao Yu, a young curator and painter, accidentally transmigrates to a women's university in 1947. He becomes its youngest male teacher and a clandestine Party member with a special identity. Amid the shifting interplay of light and shadow, he meets Shen Weiying, a beautiful, aloof university student. One love across a lifetime, two meetings: it turns out that love is the light that never fades. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 I Crossed Over to the Republic Era to Love You 穿到民国去爱你 Coma after a car accident + consciousness transmigration + Republican-era romance + two male leads Why is loving you so hard? Just when the whole world had accepted us, you fell into a deep sleep. I went to such lengths to find you, but you forgot me. Come back to me, my love, A Xu. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Not a Single Japanese Soldier Gets Away 一个鬼子都不许留 I woke up to find myself a “Japanese devil” on the battlefield of the War of Resistance. The transmigration of Fu Shuiheng, a military-industrial PhD, is a cold joke: dressed in a Japanese uniform, lying on the scorched earth of Shanxi in 1937. From using broken Japanese to save himself to trembling as he pulls the trigger for the first time; from being dismissed as a “madman with an education” to personally forming the “Blade” squad, a unit that strikes fear into the enemy, he throws himself in 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 She Is the Light 她自是灯火 How did women a hundred years ago view marriage and life? This is the story of a woman with an extraordinary upbringing. A government official's daughter in the late Qing Dynasty, she was left alone as her family declined amid the upheaval of a changing era. But she had grown up in an orphanage with missionaries and learned medicine. By treating the sick and saving lives, she found her place in the world and came to understand life's impermanence. Faced with family ties, an arranged marriage mea 420Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 60 Tales of the Republic 民国往事 How did Zhang Zuolin rise from an obscure bandit to a powerful warlord in the Northeast, and what kind of vile conspiracy lay behind the explosion at Huanggutun? What was the life story of Wu Peifu, who rose from a village-school scholar to a leading Zhili general, won fame on the battlefield, and established himself in Luoyang, and why did he end up abandoned by his allies during the Zhili-Fengtian Wars? Just how dashing was Cai E, the great general who defended the republic? Was his story with 135Reads8.6Score111Shelves
- 61 The Turbulent Republic: Chasing the Light 民国风云之逐光 A modern young man’s soul travels back to the Republic of China. He witnesses the changing times and the hardships faced by ordinary people at the bottom of society. Determined to make something of himself, he maneuvers among the great figures of the era and carves out a new world, all to pursue a ray of light in a China shrouded in darkness! 435Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 62 Back in Republican-Era China to Fill in the Blanks 回到民国做填空 [Republican era + System + warlords + two transmigrators] Lu Senluo, a rich second-generation heir and domineering CEO, transmigrated in one fell swoop in the strangest way, becoming the unlucky young master of a warlord family in the Republican era. Fortunately, he had a System that could take him home. Unfortunately, he needed a password to use it. While searching for answers, he met Shi Youyou, who had transmigrated too. Across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, through national humi 14Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 63 Legends of Bay Area Resistance Heroes: The Hung Fist Dragon 湾区抗日英雄列传：洪拳枭龙 In the turbulent years of the Republic of China, Chen Ran is an ordinary young man working at a Hong Kong dock. After his master is tortured and killed by Japanese invaders and their collaborators, and his junior schoolmate is abducted, Chen teeters on the brink of death when he unexpectedly awakens the “Heroic Spirit Codex,” an ability that lets him absorb the spirits of fallen heroes and inherit their lifelong skills. His quest for revenge quickly entangles him in a shocking conspiracy spannin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Reborn in 1928 Shanghai 重生民国1928大上海 Zhuang Zichen was carrying out a mission without a care in the world when he woke up and found himself transmigrated to a bandit stronghold in 1928, during the Republican era. A bandit stronghold was one thing, but who could have guessed that the head bandit would die right away, leaving the second-in-command to take over and try to kill Zhuang Zichen? After the infighting, the gang was in no shape to carry on, so Zhuang Zichen took two bandits with him and made a name for himself in Shanghai: f 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Spring Flames: A Heartbreaking Republican-Era Romance 春焰（民国虐恋情深） [Republican-era romance + thrilling spy intrigue + tragic, all-consuming love + mutual salvation] A notorious socialite VS a two-faced warlord Bai Chunyan is a flower, blooming from the battlefield of a cruel world. Fu Qingxiang is a general, a cold-blooded young major who can seem human one moment and demonic the next. One stormy night in a small Jiangnan town, he saved her from danger, and from then on, a tangled vine took root in her heart. For him, she was willing to be a pawn, moving betwee 1.2kReads9.3Score121Shelves
- 66 My Grandfather’s Extraordinary Life 我姥爷不平凡的一生 Ordinary people can create extraordinary lives! "San'er, get up and get to work!" "Third Brother, let's go!" "The strongest combat squad is here!" the terrified enemy cried. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 A Romance in the Northwest 西北恋 In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1937), Japanese invaders trampled China beneath their boots, leaving the land shattered. Tianshui, a strategic city in the northwest, was also overshadowed by both the threat of war and a severe drought. Newlywed peasant girl Qiuping tearfully bids farewell to her husband Mang'er, whose full name is Chen Tiemang, as he is drafted into the army. On a hill above the dry Wei River and parched land stretching for miles, her “brown tears” become the 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 I Worked as a Translator in Republican-Era China 我在民国做翻译 Wen Yuqiu hasn’t had a full meal since she was twelve. She’s always been hungry and cold, beaten three times a day, and left outside in the bitter winter. Now she’s about to be sold to a good-for-nothing. Is she doomed to waste away in Hushu Village? If fate won’t treat her kindly, then she’ll grab it by the throat. 645Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 69 Reborn in the Republic of China as a Spendthrift 重生民国当败家子 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 70 Snow Falls in the Republican Era, but No One Returns 民国落雪，不见归人 Snow Falls in the Republic of China Era, but No One Returns 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Reborn in the Republican Era: From the Start, I Was Kidnapped by Bandits and Dragged Up a Mountain 重生民国：开局被土匪绑上山 [Republican Era] [Warlord Warfare] [Pocket Dimension] [Multiple Heroines] [Modern Supplies] [A Common Soldier's Rise] [Watch a scumbag from the 21st century charm his way across the Republican Era.] Xu Lang, a top personal trainer, unexpectedly dies in a wealthy woman's mansion! Was it a distortion of human nature, or the collapse of morality? When he opens his eyes again, Xu Lang finds himself in the Republican Era, a hostage kidnapped by bandits and taken up their mountain! The bandits are now 2.7kReads6.9Score122Shelves
- 72 I Transmigrated Back to Republican-Era China: I Eloped with My Landlord’s Fifth Concubine 穿越回民国：我带地主五姨太私奔 My name is Fei Xiaoying, and I'm an ordinary butcher at a modern slaughterhouse. Then, in an accident, a pig shoved me into an electrified water trough. When I opened my eyes again, I had transmigrated to the Republican era, where I was now a guard in the household of Huang Tiangui, a landlord. In this world, the rich feast behind vermilion gates while the poor freeze to death in the streets. I have the strength and skills of a butcher, but no say over my own fate. Then I met Su Xiuer, the Fifth 1.6kReads—Score105Shelves
- 73 Reborn as a Traitor 重生当汉奸 Modern special forces soldier Lin Feng accidentally transmigrates to Tianjin in 1940 and takes over the body of Chen Mo, deputy captain of the Wang Jingwei regime’s secret police. To survive in enemy territory and carry out his mission as an undercover agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, he has no choice but to play the part of a greedy, brutal traitor, maneuvering between Japanese agents, Wang regime superiors, and Military Statistics Bureau orders. During his missions, he repeatedly face 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 From History Prodigy to Secret Agent Assassin 从历史系高材生到军统暗刃 Modern history graduate student Chen Yu transmigrates to 1938 Shanghai through a mysterious pocket watch, taking over the body of Lin Mo, a peripheral member of the Military Statistics Bureau. Armed with his knowledge of history and a modern way of thinking, he struggles to survive amid Japanese and puppet forces and the power plays of rival factions, gradually growing from an inexperienced student into a cool-headed, perceptive agent. As he navigates between his superior, the Military Statistic 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 I Want to Love! 想爱！ Society can be complicated, but it can also be simple. In the end, it all comes down to stories between men and women. The three things men think about when they get up in the morning are: Where can I get some money to spend today? Who can I have a drink with? And wow, whose woman is that? The three things women think about are: looking beautiful, looking beautiful, and looking beautiful. A gentleman will die for someone who understands him, and a woman will beautify herself for someone who appr 15Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 76 Deep Love and Heavy Rain: I’ve Taken the Spy Chief 情深深雨蒙蒙之特务头子我收了 The new book has just received its first rating, so the score will rise over time. This is a fanfiction crossover between the TV dramas The Right Way of the World and Romance in the Rain. It focuses on romance rather than politics, telling the sweet-and-sour love story of a secret service chief and a charming young lady. Yang Liren is the intelligence chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation's Shanghai office. Lu Mengping is the Lu family's youngest daughter, a spoiled, sharp-tongued girl wh 1.4kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 77 White Tea, Floating Life 白茶浮生 Adapted from real accounts of the War of Resistance in Fujian, this novel commemorates the eightieth anniversary of China's victory in the war and honors the indomitable spirit of the people of Fujian. The Min River wept, 1938. The Riverside Teahouse was the last lone boat in the storm. Lin Suxin, the proprietress, nailed three silver hairpins to a wooden plaque to summon the spirits. Each name was a soul that had yet to return. The bookkeeper, Chen Mosheng, used his twisted, curled hand to writ 11Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 78 Li Ergou and the Landlord’s Women 李二狗和地主家的女人们 (Good news! The comic drama adapted from this novel, The Courtyard of War, is now online. Check it out!) Li Ergou is a penniless nobody who happens to enter a landlord’s manor. Through a twist of fate, he becomes its steward and gets caught up in a number of stories with the landlord’s women. After the landlord dies, Li Ergou becomes the manor’s de facto master. He actively supports land reform, leads everyone in fighting the Japanese invaders and rooting out traitors, and throws his support beh 40kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 79 I Embrace the Moon Reflected in the Clear Huai 挽月映清淮 In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, foreign invaders’ iron hooves shattered the land. Beiping fell, Nanjing was under threat, and flames of war spread across the nation. He told her, “I want to be someone who lives to see tomorrow with you.” 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Righteous Path of the World Is One of Vicissitudes: Adrift Across the Four Seas 人间正道是沧桑之四海飘零 Meng Jia wakes up one day in the body of a young student from a century ago, who opposed an arranged marriage and starved herself to death. To keep escaping marriage, she follows her cousin to Guangzhou to study. By chance, she meets Chu Cai, a secretary in the principal's office at the Whampoa Military Academy. He is a shadow operative behind the KMT's Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, a powerful division chief who pulls the strings. Cold, calculating, obsessive, and willing to do 22.3kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
- 81 A Collection of Short Alternate-History Stories About the War of Resistance 短篇抗战历史架空脑洞合集 Looking at the one devastating battle after another throughout history, I seem to see the unwillingness in the hearts of countless soldiers. I, too, feel that same indignation. Their spirit deserves to live on, and so, through one fictional short story after another, I will pass it down. These stories won’t always be feel-good tales. Some may be tragic, heartbreaking, or filled with regret... If you have a good story, feel free to share it with me. I’ll draw out its spirit and turn it into a new 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Knowing You in the North 北地知意 [Alternate-history Republic of China setting + marriage first, love later] [Local warlord × heiress returned from overseas + renowned anti-Japanese general × agent for the cause] Lin Zhiyi, newly returned from studying abroad, marries Gu Shijun, a warlord of the northern lands, at her father’s behest, all to find conclusive proof that he is a traitor to his country. After several brushes with death, she sees not a man selling out his country for wealth and glory, but one secretly working behind 303Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Pear Blossoms in Bloom 一树棠梨花开 For seven years of war, she kept watch over a flowering tree, waiting for someone who would never return. Across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, he passed through smoke and death to honor a promise left unfulfilled. That spring, “the flowering pear tree bloomed, its beauty captivating the city; willow fluff danced in the spring breeze.” Beneath blossoms white as snow, their eyes met, and each was struck by the other’s beauty. The beauty of mountains and rivers could not rival the gen 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Bloodbath at Songhu: Every Inch of Land Is Paid for in Blood 血染淞沪：一寸山河一寸血 Mercenary king Lin Hao accidentally transmigrates to the battlefield in Shanghai in 1937, becoming a major battalion commander under the Nationalist Army’s 88th Division. This vast land of China, with its eight thousand li of magnificent mountains and rivers, was won with the blood of our forebears. Now that Japanese invaders are attacking and the nation is on the verge of ruin, how could the men of our generation let a few Japanese devils from those three islands humiliate us? For the homeland 11.8kReads7.5Score802Shelves
- 85 The Bandit Hunt 擒匪记 Let me tell you a tale of love and hatred set in the Republican era, where the characters’ fates twist and turn and the story keeps you on the edge of your seat. Is he an official or a bandit? Is he good or evil? You might guess wrong unless you read to the very end. Everyone is welcome to read and leave a comment. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Brother, I've Got Your Back 兄弟，我是你的后背 After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Kuomintang and Communist Party join forces once again to resist the Japanese invaders. Li Zhenhua receives orders to travel to Hunan and organize a guerrilla force to fight the Japanese. He also hopes to find the wife and child he has been separated from for five years. When he arrives in Changsha, the Kuomintang army has just fought its first major battle against the Japanese. With the army’s help, Li Zhenhua and his two assistants head into the mountai 70Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Northeastern Tales: The Bandit Suppression in Hegang 东北往事：鹤岗剿匪记 October 1945, Hegang, Northeast China. The Japanese collaborators left behind are scrambling for their own gain. The Kuomintang is ruthless and treacherous. Bandit gangs lurk in the shadows, watching for an opportunity. And the first Communist Party director of the Mining Bureau, appointed just two days ago, has disappeared without a trace... Called to take charge in a crisis! Call them demons and monsters, or ghosts and ghouls, this is the people's city, this is the people's land! I, Zhang Xiao 163Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 88 Phantom Moth 幻蛾 Phantom Moth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 War of Resistance: Shadow Sharpshooter 抗战风云：暗影神枪 Where does the thunderclap strike, shattering the ghosts’ courage? A divine marksman emerges from the shadows of the dark woods! Seven years after the fall of the three northeastern provinces, a young sharpshooter appears from deep in the Greater Khingan Range. Bearing the blood debt of a village massacred by the Japanese, he begins a desperate counterattack like a phantom... No clichés / Not a wish-fulfillment novel / Smart characters / Suspense and horror / Witty and humorous 4kReads8.2Score353Shelves
- 90 The Children of the Guan Family 关家儿女 This book is the sequel to my historical novel, The Guan Family Compound. It follows several generations of the Guan family's children through their joys and sorrows against the backdrop of the times, from 1939 to more than a century later, in the twenty-first century. If you're a longtime fan of The Guan Family Compound, please start reading from Chapter One. If you've never read it, I recommend reading that book first, then coming back to The Guan Family's Children. The story will flow better 1.6kReads8.0Score235Shelves
- 91 From the Start of the War: Reborn in Jinling to Crush the Japanese Devils! 抗战开局：魂穿金陵暴虐小鬼子！ Chen Yang was the top marksman of the Fourth Company, Iron Fist Regiment, in the Southeast Military Region of Great Xia. While on leave, he went to see the latest movie, Jinling Photo Studio. On his way back to the unit, he came across an out-of-control heavy truck. He rushed to save a little boy on the crosswalk, but the truck sent him flying more than ten meters. He fell into a pool of blood! When Chen Yang woke up again, he found himself back in Jinling in 1937, now the commander of the First 562Reads7.7Score120Shelves
- 92 Transmigrated into a Slave: Watch Me Rise to Become the Female Lead 穿越为奴看我如何翻身成女主 A white-collar worker on a trip gets into a car accident. She thinks she’s had all the bad luck she can take, then wakes up after a nap to find she’s transmigrated through time and turned into a child. And that’s not all: she’s sold straight to a pleasure boat. She figures she should focus on staying alive, but then she’s sold again to bandits. This is way too intense! Fortunately, she’s rescued and taken into the wealthy Song family. They say entering a rich household is like plunging into a se 711Reads8.1Score113Shelves
- 93 Warlord: The Road to a Strong Army 军阀：强军之路 Zhou He, born in 2000, transmigrates to a parallel world in the early twentieth century. What should he do? Faced with a world and history so similar to his own, will he help bring about the founding of the nation, or… 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Invincible Artilleryman in the War of Resistance 抗战之无敌炮兵 An artillery battalion taking part in military exercises in the northwest suddenly transmigrates to 1933. Forced to face reality, they follow Battalion Commander Chu Tianming, developing technology and forging a powerful army as they act out one thrilling tale of resistance against the Japanese after another. 11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 95 War of Resistance: One Man and His Dog Take on the Japanese 抗战：一人一狗打鬼子 Song Yicheng, a young hunter who only wanted a quiet, steady life, lost his wife and child to the Japanese soldiers at a stronghold. He picked up his hunting rifle and, with his puppy Bailang by his side, began a dangerous revenge mission as a lone man and his dog... His gambling-addict cousin Zhou Tianxi had turned over a new leaf and wanted to raise a force to fight the Japanese. But at Heifeng Pass, he ran into the handsome second-in-command of Baodu Stronghold, who robbed him and forced him 15.2kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
- 96 Broken Thorn 断刺 When the Japanese invaders strike, a rebellious young man runs away from home and is swept by the tides of history from one perilous situation to another. He maneuvers between military intelligence agents, underworld gangs, and Japanese spies; makes choices between conflicting beliefs; sacrifices love and friendship; and transforms as he grows through loneliness... 140Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 97 Butterfly Shadows in the Republican Era: No Return for the Green Bamboo 民国蝶影：青竹无归期 Shadows of Butterflies in the Republican Era: Green Bamboo, No Return Date 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Espionage: I’m Desperate to Improve 谍战：我太想进步了 Having a golden finger is no big deal. He's one of the countless people to transmigrate, and by chance, he became a military intelligence agent. Through a twist of fate, he infiltrated a Japanese puppet agency. To better conceal his identity, he put the art of trading sex and influence to work, colluding with Japanese puppet officials and using money and women to corrupt the Japanese military's upper ranks. Of course, he didn't leave the military intelligence agency out of it either. Superior: “ 1kReads7.3Score103Shelves
- 99 The National Defense Army's God of War in 1937 国防军神在1937 Xie Peng, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Defense University, woke up as a junior adjutant in Jinshanwei in 1937. With just 25 days until the Japanese army landed and massacred the locals, he had only four hundred poorly equipped soldiers. While everyone else fled, he led the people in digging traps, planting mines, and making explosives. The System simulated every bloody battle in his mind: eight thousand enemies killed in the first battle, nine thousand in the second, and in the thir 645Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Blood and Mountains of Guizhou 黔血山河 They were the Guizhou Army, nicknamed the “straw-sandal soldiers.” They were considered an “irregular force” in the Nationalist government’s ranks, with shoddy equipment and scarce supplies. Yet at the most perilous moment in the history of the Chinese nation, they shouldered their rifles and marched out of the mountains of Guizhou. Told through the eyes of Chen Erwa, an ordinary soldier, this novel spans a series of major campaigns, including Shanghai, Xuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, and the Yunnan-Bu 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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