Novels like Menace to the City: The Wicked Rogue
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- 1 Poverty Ends in Three Generations: The Chosen One's Lucky Life 穷不过三代，天选好运人 [No System] [No tycoon fantasy] [A slow-burn power trip] Luo Wentao is an utterly ordinary college student. Like countless nameless nobodies, he works hard and sometimes longs to enjoy the simple pleasures of everyday life. Luo Wentao doesn't have a terrible start, nor does he rise smoothly to the top from the start. But every now and then, Heaven remembers this minor protagonist and tosses him a little luck. And the kid's pretty good at catching it every time! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 My Wisteria Girl 我的凌霄花女孩 [Urban Romance] [Multiple Heroines] [Redemption] [Career] Two rains of farewell changed Chu Huai's life forever. Faced with a choice, he decided to stay and look after his brother's younger sister, giving up both love and his studies. “Chu Huai... You dare say you don't love me anymore? If you dare say you don't love me anymore, then I won't love you for the rest of my life either!” “Xiao Yao, I don't love you anymore...” Five years passed in a flash. Then he was suddenly dumped by his beau —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn: Life on Rewind 重生之回档人生 Life is unpredictable, and time slips away invisibly like flowing water. After an accident, Lin Shiyi found himself back in the summer of 2002, just after taking the college entrance exam. In this new life, what would Lin Ning choose? 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 My Beautiful Neighbor 我和绝色女邻居 Urban life + romance + real life + ordinary people + beautiful women + comeback (After Chapter 118, the characters take a dark turn, and a colorful new chapter begins) My Beautiful Neighbor: The tangled love and hatred between Ye Chen, his beautiful neighbor, and his stunning wife. Life at middle age is worse than being a dog. That’s Ye Chen’s story. He is an ordinary man in the city, but after meeting his gorgeous neighbor, his life changes completely. From the start, he gets fired by his boss. 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Oh No, Every Cigarette I Ever Smoked Turned Into a Beautiful Girl 完蛋，我抽过的烟都变成了美少女 Lu Yu’s ordinary life was suddenly turned upside down when he discovered that every cigarette he’d ever smoked had turned into a beautiful young woman! Most shocking of all, these girlfriends who’d dropped from the sky were mostly yandere and secretly devious! They say it’s worth dying beneath peonies, even if you become a ghost. But I, Lu Yu, really can’t do that! In a smoke-filled room, Liqun leaned beside Lu Yu’s bed and asked curiously, “Bro, with so many great cigarettes around, why do 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Dawn Across the Huangpu River 浦江彼岸的晨曦 Zhu Hao, a 43-year-old man from Shanghai, fails at starting a business and rents out his spare bedroom to Angela, an American student. As they share a home, their different cultures and personalities lead to all kinds of funny misunderstandings, making for a heartwarming and hilarious everyday life. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Shamulia 沙木蓼 One day, Xiao Qingchun received a mysterious phone call. On the other end, a baby babbled incomprehensibly. The call brought two people who had been apart for a long time back together. Because of the baby, they started spending time together again, discovered sides of each other they hadn't known before, and fell in love all over again. 1.8kReads8.1Score143Shelves
- 8 Meeting Girls Online: I'm Going to Become a Player 网上约妹，我要变渣男 I’m Meeting Girls Online, So I’ll Become a Player 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Spring at Fifteen Watts 十五瓦的春天 The story takes place from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, a time when China was undergoing rapid economic growth and profound social change. Their parents arranged a child-swap marriage, and the resulting children were a top student sister born in the 1990s and Mou Hao. From childhood, the two endured ridicule for wearing hand-me-downs and living in an abandoned factory, but it forged them into people with iron wills. They struggled to stay in school by selling fruit and tutoring, and eventu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn as Qi Tongwei: This Time, I Won't Kneel 重生祁同伟：这一世，我绝不下跪 [Reborn in the political arena + In the Name of the People + ruthless and decisive + iron will reforged] "Damn you, Heaven!" These were the final words of anti-drug hero Qi Tongwei as he roared before shooting himself, crushed beneath the weight of power. But Heaven really did give him another chance to say, "Damn you!" Beat Heaven by half a move? No. This time, I'm flipping the whole chessboard! 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Dashing Nobody 风流小人物 Ye Chen is an ordinary man at the very bottom of society. He’s been on 99 blind dates, and every woman has rejected him for the same reason. “A man without money? What’s the point of dating?” Ye Chen finally gets it. If that’s how it is, why bother dating at all? The road ahead is full of twists and turns, but it’s painful and exhilarating all the same... 382Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 12 A Midnight Romance 深夜情缘 Fang Nan's girlfriend of two years was pregnant with another man's child. Furious, he got into a car accident on a rainy night and crossed paths with a beautiful senior executive at a company. From then on, he was caught up in an utterly unbelievable tangle of love and revenge… 152Reads7.2Score103Shelves
- 13 I’m Reborn with Amnesia, So Why Do They All Want to Be My Girlfriend? 重生失忆后她们都想做我女朋友？ After waking up from an accident with amnesia, Li Yichu discovers that he’s a top-tier star influencer with tens of millions of followers! What shocks him even more is that… The villain boss’s daughter is the male lead’s true love, and the male lead and his girlfriend personally send her father, his father-in-law, to prison! The gentle, sensible campus belle grabs his sleeve, eyes red: “You said you’d only love me in this life…” The popular goddess whispers in his ear: “Our ship fans keep asking —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Stranded on a Deserted Island, I'm Not Afraid. At Least I Can Stop Being a Wage Slave 流落荒岛我不怕，正好不再做牛马 [Urban Farming + Romance + Deserted Island Survival + Conquest] After his girlfriend cheats on him, Lin Shen quits his job as head of security and sets off on a trip to clear his mind. But a shipwreck leaves him stranded on a deserted island. He plans to rely on the wilderness survival skills he learned in the military and spend the rest of his life alone. But then he discovers that his ex-girlfriend, the beautiful director from his former company, several beautiful foreign women, and even more 1.6kReads8.1Score135Shelves
- 15 Diary of a Player: The Road to Lying Flat and Getting Rich 海王日记：躺平暴富之路 [No System] [Urban Farming] [Comeback] This story is adapted from real events and may contain some exaggerated descriptions. The characters do not possess any supernatural abilities, so please read with that in mind. In just a few short years, 24-year-old Ming Xi suffered the deaths of both parents and was betrayed by his girlfriend... But life did not break him. Instead, he chose to live differently. There was no way he was going to keep working. He resolutely quit his rotating three-shift job, 169Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 16 The Fool A-Dai 傻子阿呆 [Transmigration + Live-in Son-in-Law + Fierce Battles and Ruthless Slaughter + Witty Humor + Multiple Heroines + No Mindless Protagonist] The moment he opened his eyes, his birth mother placed him in a small boat and sent him away in tears. An orphanage grandmother found and raised him. At ten, he roamed the streets to protect the other children at the orphanage, and was beaten until he was barely alive. His grandmother carried him back from beneath a bridge. He enlisted at twelve, and by fiftee 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The South-Facing Window 朝南的窗 He saved half a year’s worth of food money to buy a hard-seat train ticket for a three-day, three-night journey, setting off to keep a date that might never have a happy ending. One was a socially anxious young man who practiced his greeting over and over beneath the starry sky of the Gobi Desert. The other was a girl who used her composure to shut out the world in the humid south. Four thousand one hundred kilometers: the longest diagonal on a map, and the full distance between two people who d —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I’m Reborn, So Why Do They All Want to Be My Girlfriend? 重生了她们都想做我女朋友？ Who would have thought that Li Yichen, a late bloomer who loved anime and novels, would turn his life around, become a handsome influencer and business owner, and then, just as he was about to enjoy his bright future, be reborn in an accident? I really didn’t want to be reborn, but after I was reborn… “Don’t leave me, okay~” “I’ll never believe another word you say!” “Brother Yichen, you’re so mean! Waaaah~” “Do you really think you can get away from me?”… The gentle, sensible campus belle; the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Temporary Cohabitation 临时同居 A quirky, funny, heartwarming, and somewhat realistic coming-of-age story set at the turn of the millennium. Five orphans meet in an online game and later form a makeshift family, but it's hard to tell whether what they feel for one another is familial love, friendship, or romance. 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 My Girlfriend Dumped Me? I Turned Around and Won Over Her Gorgeous Best Friend 女友抛弃我？反手泡走她校花闺蜜 [Relatively realistic / urban romance / not a power fantasy / multiple female leads / not a harem] After Yang Zixuan is dumped unilaterally by his icy, unattainable dream girl, Lin Shuyue, he unexpectedly unlocks the bizarre trait of being a “romance-repellent”: On the day his ex, Lin Shuyue, gets married, he brings someone along and pretends she's his new girlfriend, only to discover that the wedding is fake, but the way she looks at him is real. His sharp-tongued friend Xia Yan scolds him whil —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 My Feisty Female Boss 我的刁蛮女上司 [An audiobook adaptation with the same title is now available on all major audiobook platforms. Search for the book title on any of them to listen!] A tree without bark is doomed, but a person without shame is invincible. The cutthroat world of business, shielding my shrewish female boss from all kinds of unspoken rules, dazzling nightlife, a meteoric career, bees and butterflies, come on over and take a look. Heh heh, here I come... 601Reads6.0Score101Shelves
- 22 This Girl Might Like Me 这女的可能喜欢我 “A playboy young master meets an elite female hooligan. Wang Gao has a new partner named Ding Maomao. She’s a real female hooligan, with a huge tattoo sleeve and a mouth that never stops swearing. Of course, even a female hooligan can’t resist a dashing, elegant, handsome, talented, fashionable, and free-spirited young artist like him. She keeps staring at the tattoo on his neck and constantly contrives coincidences, picking fights again and again just to get his attention. Finally, one day, she 34Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 23 The Woman Who Sold Crystal Fox Talismans 卖水晶狐牌的女人 The Woman Who Sells Crystal Fox Talismans 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 After the Divorce, the Fairy-like Sister Chases Me Like Crazy 离婚后，神仙姐姐疯狂追我 Reborn, entertainment, landlord, multiple heroines, everyday life. Sit tight and hold on. My short story, Loan-Funded Cultivation: One Percent Interest Per Day, is now out. Come give it a try!!! 37.8kReads8.4Score3.6kShelves
- 25 The Alluring Scent of Flowers 花香诱人 Qin Yue, a young man with no family or support, lives in the mountains. By chance, he acquires extraordinary medical and martial arts skills, and is no longer weak and frail. I won't spare a single person who ever bullied me! And I won't let down anyone who has ever shown me kindness, either. Fenglin Village may be poor, but it's a mountain village full of beautiful women. Qin Yue had hoped to live peacefully in the mountains, using his medical skills and staying out of the world's affairs! But 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 After Delivering Food to Ghosts, My Ratings Hit the Roof 给鬼送外卖后，好评率拉满 After my girlfriend dumps me, I bind to the Hundred Ghosts Delivery System. I deliver spicy hot pot to ghosts and buy funeral buns for underworld messengers, earning a 99% positive rating. Then my ex-girlfriend texts me in tears: “He's not human.” The next moment, the System sends me an order. The delivery address is her house. The note says: Bring an exorcism talisman. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The K-Line Deceived Her K线骗了她 The K-Line Deceived Her 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Chen Mo's Extraordinary Life 陈默的妖孽人生 Once, Chen Mo was Rongcheng’s most dazzling heir to a fortune, spending money like water and looking down on everyone. Now, he is a down-and-out young man in the Cone Building, keeping a low profile among ordinary people and struggling to survive. His family destroyed and his loved ones gone, Chen Mo has fallen from the clouds into the mire and tasted the cruelty of the world. He lives in a cramped, dilapidated apartment in the western suburbs, surrounded by people scraping by at the bottom of s 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Reborn in 2008: Beating Up the School Beauty and Raking In 100 Million from the Start 重生2008：暴打校花，开局狂赚1个亿 The campus belle used him as an ATM until he was ruined, a rich second-generation bully beat him to death, and even his parents had to sell their home and sweep the streets for a living! Jiang Hao closed his eyes in hatred, only to be reborn in 2008 with boundless fury! Seeing the campus belle putting on her innocent act again, and his rich second-generation enemy looking as arrogant as ever, Jiang Hao smiled. Today, he would make them pay double for what they had done in his previous life! Smac 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 My Tenant Is Actually the Campus Beauty 租客竟然是校花 [Urban Slice of Life, Campus Romance, Campus Beauty, No Harem, Realistic Romance, Mutual Devotion, Sweet Romance] Lin Yifan got dumped... But you can't hang yourself from just one tree. He rented his apartment to the campus beauty, Qin Muxue. The two gradually developed feelings for each other... Then he learned the truth behind his first love's breakup with him... As the girl of his dreams faded away... As time stood still... As a boy grew into a man, how would he choose between loving and bein 21Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 31 2015: Starting with an MCN 2015，从MCN开始 One day in late May 2015, Xu Chu had a dream. In it, he saw the next ten years of his life... The scenes from the dream remained crystal clear even after he woke up. Suddenly, he felt that perhaps he could change the way he lived and make a different life for himself. MCN + livestreaming, curated products + smart manufacturing, AI + humanoid robots This is not an influencer novel. The influencer elements in the early chapters are just the start of his career and a way to earn seed money. Afte 994Reads5.5Score104Shelves
- 32 You Took My Place at University? You're Not Worthy of the National University of Defense Technology! 顶替我上大学？国防科大你也配！ [Rousing Military Story] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Revenge for My Father] + [The Nation's Sharpest Blade] After someone stole my place at the National University of Defense Technology, I dragged my broken bones to the gates of the municipal government and knelt there, only to get seven days in detention for my trouble. A powerful man's son jeered in front of everyone: "So the hero's son is nothing but a dog on his knees!" He had no idea that thirty-six generals had personally carried my fat 9Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 33 A Fragrant Journey Through Medicine 医路芬芳 The women of Apricot Blossom Village, tucked away in the mountains, are beautiful, but strange things happen there too. After his father dies in a car accident, Qin Chunshan returns from the army, only to learn that his childhood sweetheart, the girl from Apricot Blossom Village, is about to be married. Her father insists on following an ancient custom, and Qin Chunshan is determined to put an end to this backward tradition. Can he do it? He is no ordinary man. His medicine can bring the dead ba 77Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 34 Mysteries of the Deserted Island: Final Judgment 诡秘荒岛：终焉审判 [No System + Deserted Island + Age Gap + Survival + Power Struggles + Romance + Suspense + Science Fiction] For special reasons, Lin Yunshen, a special forces soldier discharged from the military, catches the eye of Bai Yushuang, a beautiful, older businesswoman from Shencheng. She hires him as her personal assistant, though his real job is to be her bodyguard. During the May Day holiday, the beautiful boss asks him to accompany her on an international cruise abroad. But that night, deep in the 1kReads6.7Score101Shelves
- 35 Village Belle, Why Won’t You Get Married? 村花姐姐，为何不嫁 This book is also known as Shenzhen, Remember My Youth and My Love “Village belle, why won’t you marry me?” “Of course I want to marry you. I just can’t!” “Why?” “I don’t want to ruin your life! I just want you to be all right!” “Then why do you have a daughter? Is she mine?” 36Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 36 A Guide to the Girls at My High School 我的高中女孩图鉴 [Multiple Heroines, Love Triangle Drama, Campus Romance] Not reborn + not a tycoon + no System + slow-paced Also known as My Roommate’s Crush Became My Girlfriend Ten days into the school year, Zhuang Sen’s roommate confesses to the class beauty. Zhuang Sen had planned to quietly watch the drama unfold, but then discovers he’s become Xiaomeng, the class beauty’s one and only “exception.” After that, his childhood friend and next-door neighbor from his village, Xiaomeng’s artsy best friend, and o 282Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 They Insist on Living at My House 她们非要住我家 After inheriting an estate, I became a professional “scavenger.” I took in an art student who had been framed and expelled, and she became a painter whose work was collected by the Louvre. I took in a girl who had dropped out of school and sold her blood to support her mother, and she became a billionaire CEO. I took in a literature-loving girl who had been harassed, and her novels were translated into 30 languages. There was also a single mother, a frail pianist, a fiery coach, my childhood swe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 After I Took Her In, the Fox Girl Wouldn’t Leave My House! 被捡后，狐狸少女在我家不走了！ [Urban fantasy] [Urban] [Everyday-life-focused fantasy] [No NTR] [Fake System] [Multiple heroines] [Feel-good power fantasy] [No angst or heartbreak] [Lighthearted] [Heroines who grow over time] [Happy ending] Chen Chuan had a very strange dream. It was about something that would happen in the future, and it felt incredibly real. The good news: he finally got together with the goddess he was currently pining after, and she even became his bride. The bad news: she only wanted to marry him so she 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Secrets of the Yoga Studio: These Women Are More Than They Seem 瑜伽会所秘密：姐姐们身份不简单 Lin Feng, an ordinary first-year college student, took a part-time job as a yoga instructor to cover his tuition. The studio he initially worked at paid poorly, but after one of his beautiful students recommended him, he landed a job at an upscale private yoga club, opening up a new opportunity with twice the pay... 37.7kReads8.9Score3.1kShelves
- 40 What? The Heiress of Magic City Is the One I'm Marrying? 什么？和我领证的是魔都千金？ [Flash marriage + love after marriage + one heroine + no System or golden finger + healing everyday life + putting scumbags in their place] It was just an ordinary designated-driver job, but Gu Chen was pinned in the car by a drunk heiress, and the two of them got carried away. The next day, before Gu Chen could even react, she dragged him off to register their marriage against his will! The marriage would last two years! From that moment on, good fortune came raining down on Gu Chen, the kind o 1.4kReads6.9Score219Shelves
- 41 After the Divorce, They Help Me Reach for the Sky 离婚后，她们扶我青云志 [Urban Slice of Life + Working-Class Life + Love and Family + Hands-On Dad + Underdog’s Rise] Love is like a game of chess: once you make a move, there’s no turning back. Life is unpredictable, and partings and reunions are left to fate. Cherish true love, for once you part, you may never meet again! When the glamour fades, who will still hold your hand? Amid the endless stream of passersby, who will remain unforgettable? I was just one of countless migrant workers in Shenzhen. After years of wo 9.1kReads8.7Score715Shelves
- 42 Life as a Neighbor to a Flight Attendant 和空姐做邻居的日子 (A realistic story with sweetness and heartbreak, vivid descriptions, explicit writing, and multiple heroines.) Five years after Chen Linfeng broke up with his first love, they meet again. She is now a cold, aloof female CEO. After five years as a low-ranking clerk, he is finally on the verge of promotion, but someone sets him up using a fake flight attendant, nearly ruining his career. After getting out, he soon meets a real flight attendant, a beautiful, aloof, wealthy woman who has just moved 443Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 43 Office Politics: A Pay Cut Comes Knocking 职场：降薪来敲门 The day Li Da received notice of a pay cut, he also found out that his wife was cheating on him. See how he turns his career around after this double blow, with beautiful women by his side...! This is a work of realistic fiction. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Don't Shout, I'm Panicking Too! 你别喊，我也慌啊 [Two heroines, readers who aren’t into that, please turn back] After transmigrating, Xu Zhe, a former gangland thug, decided to turn over a new leaf and become a good person. He helped old ladies cross the street, helped a tea-selling girl whose grandfather was sick, supported girls who had dropped out of school, taught in a poor mountain village, and did good deed after good deed. Ten years later, when he walked out of the airport, burly men in suits lined both sides of the road and bowed in un —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Sleepless Tonight 今晚无眠 I woke up to find myself married, with a beautiful wife and two daughters. But then my wife made me this request... 92Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 46 I Really Want to Be a Scumbag! 我真的想当渣男！ [Reborn] [Business] [Multiple Female Leads] [Not a Harem Novel] [Investing] Wei Ji, who had achieved financial freedom, was reborn in the year he turned eighteen. His first love, his childhood friend, the heiress, his upperclassman… They’ve all been reborn too. Would you believe me if I said I’m a purist when it comes to true love? This time, Wei Ji doesn’t want to lose. Maybe being a playboy isn’t so bad after all! Girlfriend!? No, no, no! Little sister!? Yes, yes, yes! This is a tale of 808Reads7.1Score102Shelves
- 47 Reborn in 2012: A Life Transformed by Xunqi 重生2012，讯启人生 After spending half his life struggling at the bottom of society, Xie Liang, an ordinary man as insignificant as dust, is unexpectedly reborn in 2012. The gears of fate begin to turn as he awakens the Future News System. Every message from the future is a key to rewriting his life. See how Xie Liang wields the keys to the future and strikes up a rousing song of comeback in 2012! 24Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 48 From the Start, I Sold Beer, and a Goddess Undercover Agent Took Out the Hitmen 开局卖啤酒，女神卧底坑杀手 Volume One: How Many Undercover Agents Are There? (Realistic Arc) [Undercover agents + goddess + no saintly heroine or simping + realism + values + intelligence] [No simps, white lotuses, self-righteous do-gooders, or scheming green-tea girls] [No sugary romance or obsessive romance fantasies, and no white-porridge sisters or cake sisters] (Read the realistic arc first, then the wild-imagination arc. It's funny and fun!) A major city in the south is a city that never sleeps. At ten at night, the 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Heron in the Mist 一鹭尘烟 [Urban + City Life + Workplace + One Female Lead + Romantic Tension + Domineering Female CEO + Poor Nobody's Rise to Success + No System + Xiamen Attractions and Food + Both Leads Are Each Other's First] Zhao Tianyi was born destined to be a poor nobody. He drifts aimlessly through the workplace and mingles with countless women, all in the hope of finding a beauty to fulfill his lifelong dream... Why has Lin Linglin, a stunning and icy-cold female CEO, fallen hopelessly in love? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 My Five Loves 我的五种爱情 A story about a tenant, one female lead, a tragic romance, and regrets. Ever since Mu Cheng took in a down-on-her-luck heiress, his life, once as still as dead water, began to burn with passion. A mature beauty, a domineering female CEO, a sweet little bunny, and a crazy girl all make their entrances one after another. In short, how could life get any more exhilarating? 925Reads7.2Score—Shelves
