Novels like Zhining’s Winter
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Zhining’s Winter, best match first.
- 151 Kicked Out After My Second Marriage, I Thrive Back in the Countryside 二婚被赶，我回农村混得风生水起 Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Modern Fiction, Period Setting, Building a Career, Comeback, Livestream Commerce, Getting Rich Zhou Xiaoya is forced by her in-laws to have an abortion during her second marriage. Her ex-husband marries someone new, and she leaves with nothing but her daughter, returning to her village. Everyone thinks she'll starve on the streets. Instead, she makes a fortune selling goods through her livestream, and even helps the whole village get rich. How did the woman who was 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 The Peaches Are Ripe 蜜桃成熟了 The Peaches Are Ripe 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 The 365th Bowl of Mung Bean Soup at the Herbal Tea Shop 凉茶铺的第365碗绿豆沙 Youthful sweet romance + both leads’ first time + 1v1, mutual devotion Push and pull to the limit + childhood friends ~ My name is Chen Cheng. Miao Yuqin and I grew up together. In kindergarten, he snatched my teddy bear, and I swore I’d knock his front teeth out one day! In elementary school, he secretly took a bite of my popsicle under the kapok tree at the nursery, so I vowed that from then on, every popsicle in his hand would be mine! In middle school, he dropped rock sugar into my bowl at t 16Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 154 The Rivers and Mountains Trilogy 山河故人三部曲 A small town in Jiangnan, Mudanjiang in the northeast, and the ancient city of Xi'an. Different places, the same vision. Beautiful China! Jiangnan's bridges and flowing streams, the northeast's ice and snow, Xi'an's lamb paomo. Beautiful mountains, beautiful rivers, and even more beautiful people. The scenery is written through its people, and the people are reflected in the scenery! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Second Marriage: Marrying a Doting CEO 二婚：嫁给甜宠总裁 Anxin got divorced, and Chen Shaonian believed those words: if you can't forget someone, fate will bring you together again! He was determined to seize the favor fate had shown him. But Anxin announced, "You're my best friend!" What was that supposed to mean?! "I treat you like oxygen, but you treat me like air?!" "No, no, no! I've got more tricks up my sleeve than a dragon fruit has seeds, and I'm patient and resourceful. I have to win you over! I'll cherish you, love you, and be yours forever! 138Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Old Classmate, Where Did You Go? 老同学，你去了哪里 Old Classmate, Where Did You Go? 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 What We Promised Each Other: 我们说好的： “We’ve grown up. We’re not the same as we were as kids. Do you really think childhood sweethearts would go to all that trouble to find each other just to be friends again?” Lin Yi blinked her clear eyes and laughed carelessly. “I don’t!” Shen Yu blurted out without a moment’s hesitation. “So let’s be together!” Shu Ning looked at Xue Yang and asked, “I’m said to bring bad luck. Aren’t you afraid?” “What’s there to be afraid of? It’s not like I’m a good person!” Xue Yang’s matter-of-fact tone mad 172Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Young Master Qilin and the Amorous Woman 麒麟公子，多情女 On the day he got married, I went to return his bracelet. Ten years ago, in a ruined temple, he took my hand and said, "Wait for me." I waited ten years. All I got was a wedding invitation. I returned the bracelet and turned to leave. The guests all laughed at me. Everyone in the capital knew: the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anyang had waited ten years for a man, until she became a laughingstock throughout the city. He didn't know. The person I had been waiting for was never him. It wa 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Strange Tales from the Folk: Reforming Reincarnation 民间奇闻之轮回改革 Folklore Oddities: A Cycle of Reincarnation Reformed 22Reads—Score214d adds
- 160 Secrets of the Old Teahouse: The Terrifying Basement 老茶馆秘闻之恐怖的地下室 Secrets of the Old Teahouse: The Terrifying Basement 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 161 Devouring Love: The Young Lady's Deadly Plaything 噬爱，大小姐的致命玩物 A spoiled, flirtatious little minx × a cold, taciturn top bodyguard [1v1 + Both Pure + Flirting + Spoiling + Height Difference + Size Difference] [Every day, the young lady comes up with new ways to flirt, while the bodyguard dodges with a straight face. In the end, he steadily loses ground, and his defenses retreat again and again.] The bodyguard the Ning family heiress forcibly claimed as her own is the “Living Yama,” feared throughout the underworld. She keeps him by her side, closing in on h 2.4kReads6.6Score11314d adds
- 162 Seven Kilograms of Love 七公斤的爱情 Jian Nuo is always thinking about changing her name. She thinks it sounds so delicious that she'll never be able to lose weight. 5.4kReads9.2Score57714d adds
- 163 The Rain Canon 雨典 When rain falls upon the world, it is no longer just water. It becomes a bridge between two people meeting, tears of parting, the sorrow of waiting, and a promise to stay together. How many bonds of affection between heaven and earth last only as long as a passing shower? And I am merely the passerby holding an umbrella. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Candied Hawthorn Inn 糖葫芦客栈 Pure dialogue, a novel told entirely through lines of speech. The martial world can be a little bitter, so why not try a candied hawthorn? The first bite is tart, but the sweetness lingers. Another one, dear guest! Welcome to the Candied Hawthorn Inn! 10Reads—Score314d adds
- 165 Back Before You Became the Light 回到你成为光之前 [Qi Shengnan × Shen Yanzhou → one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first + fictional setting + mutual salvation + a touch of ensemble cast] When Qi Shengnan was six, she once met a very handsome person in the park near her home. Strangely, a red scarf was draped over his thigh. She gave him a strawberry-flavored candy and her umbrella too... When high school began, Qi Shengnan ended up in the same class as Shen Yanzhou, the top student in the city. She ran, he chased, and she wished s 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 During the Cooling-Off Period After Our Divorce, My Straight-Laced Husband Suddenly Gets It 离婚冷静期，直男老公突然开窍了 [Deputy director in government × dermatologist] [Marriage first, love later, winning her back, age gap, sweetness toggles between all sugar, half sugar, three-tenths sugar, and sugar-free] After marrying Director Zhou, who believes rules are more important than anything, Chen Jiayi found herself living a very unusual married life: She had to file a report for everything, including sleeping, eating, and watching short dramas. She was done with this life. She dragged Zhou Jingcheng to get a divorc 7.5kReads8.7Score57314d adds
- 167 My Older Sister Gave All Her Favoritism to Me 姐姐的偏爱，全都给了我 My Sister's Favoritism Was All for Me 1.6kReads—Score11914d adds
- 168 The Fake Heiress Goes Wild with Her Illness, and the Young Master She Saved Clings to Her 假千金持病发癫，救的真少爷求贴 [Short-Tempered, Sexually Cold-Hot Pepper X Lovesick, Pretty Peacock, Poor Little Thing] In her previous life, Zhen Daiyu was nicknamed the powder keg. She died after her scheming boss smashed her over the head with an ashtray for ruining his plans. When she opened her eyes again, she was in an unfamiliar world, a fake heiress who had been thrown out of a psychiatric hospital and swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills in a rented apartment. Reborn and already crazy from the start, Zhen Daiyu 636Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 After Leaving with Nothing, I Married a Rich CEO with a Child 净身出户后，带娃嫁豪门总裁 Ye Nuanmei was tricked into eloping and marrying He Zheng, a mama's boy. At her mother-in-law's urging, He Zheng gave the 200,000 yuan they had saved to buy a new home to his younger brother, He Zhi. When Ye Nuanmei found out, she argued with He Zheng, who slapped her at his mother's instigation. Ye Nuanmei insisted on a divorce. After his mother coaxed him, He Zheng said that if she wanted custody of their daughter, she would have to leave with nothing. Without hesitation, Ye Nuanmei chose to w 319Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 170 Transmigrated to the 1960s, the Young Educated Woman Is Spoiled by Her Older Lover 穿越六零，小知青被大叔狠狠宠爱 Su Qingge unexpectedly arrives in the 1960s, alone in the world. By a twist of fate, she meets Shen Chaozong, who protects and loves her. Every day, every chapter is full of affection and sweetness. There are also plenty of stories about life and its many different faces, along with tales of rural life. Come and read! This isn’t a power fantasy about an all-conquering heroine. It’s about a laid-back girl who wins by doing nothing. 60.8kReads8.8Score6.6k14d adds
- 171 The Obsessive Female CEO Has Lost It, and the Villain Gets Kissed Until He Cries 偏执女霸总疯了，反派被亲哭 [Devoted Romance + Lighthearted + Subverting the Usual Tropes + Two Strong Leads, Obsessive Female CEO X Adorable Rabbit-like Villain] A nobody transmigrates into a book as a female CEO, and the System actually wants her to play a pervert? Obsessive System 009: “Host, maintain your obsessive persona to complete your domineering-love missions. Fail, and funds will be deducted from your existing inheritance. Succeed, and you'll get money back.” Wait, money back? Well, money doesn't matter. She jus 838Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Back-Kitchen Affairs 后厨韵事 Her ambition was not to become the queen of the kitchen, but to turn from Cinderella into a swan... Ye Rujiao was just an ordinary pastry chef at Fumanlou, working nonstop every day, until she stumbled upon the destination that could shatter every dream she had ever held: aboard the yacht of Han Zhenyu, the group’s second young master. A carefully staged “chance encounter” She put on a red bikini and her most striking lipstick, then “ran into” Han Zhenyu on the yacht’s deck. Champagne, sea breez 2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Dr. He Keeps His Desires in Check in Public, but Loses Control Only for Her in Private 贺医生人前禁欲，人后只对她失控 [Workplace Romance + Female Growth + Comeback + Sweet and Satisfying Romance + The Contrast of a Chaste Exterior] He was the doctor who helped her heal: gentle, aloof, and restrained. He taught her not to put up with things anymore. From then on, Xu Ke, once an easy pushover for anyone to manipulate, became a “certified madwoman” who went wild with a license. Whether it was people picking fights, using psychological manipulation, or harassing her at work and shifting the blame, she took them d 383Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 A Spring Rainy Night Like the Sound of Mountains 一夜春雨似山鸣 [A devoted, restrained media mogul vs. a cool, distant career queen] [Fated connection | Emotional growth | Love that grows over time | A slow and steady romance | Sweet yet heartbreaking | A realistic slow burn] A year ago, two people who had each lost the one they loved met by chance in the drizzle after a funeral. He saw the desolate fragments in her eyes. She saw the icy lake in his. A borrowed flame warmed them for a brief moment. She thought it was nothing more than a fleeting encounter 105Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 175 The Snow Canon, the Mist Canon: Chronicle of the Twins 雪典，雾典，双生纪 “The first snow between heaven and earth fell atop Kunlun Mountain. Back then, snow did not yet know what melting was, and mist did not know what it meant to disperse. They thought everything in the world would last forever.” “Later, the snow melted and became water. The mist dispersed and became nothing. Only then did they understand: what was eternal was not themselves, but the person who paused in the snow, and the eyes that glanced back through the mist.” 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Never Mess with a Pisces Woman 千万不要招惹双鱼座女生 [Workplace] [Urban Life] [Marriage Before Love] Mumu is a Pisces woman who entered the workplace with two labels already attached to her: timid and easy to bully. But no one knows that beneath the soft exterior of a Pisces lies the heart of a great demon king. When everyone thinks she’ll be swallowed up by the workplace, Mumu proves to the world through her actions: Don’t make a Pisces cry, because once she’s done crying, it’ll be your turn. This novel could also be called Mumu’s Rise to the Top 140Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 177 Baby, So What If I’m Shameless? You Love It Too 宝宝，我贱怎么啦？你不也爱的欢 A shameless, slick-talking second-generation heir and domineering CEO × a sweet, sunny heiress who’s a genius at taking down electronics [Love Before Marriage + Hilarious Everyday Life + Father-in-Law and Son-in-Law Torment Each Other + All Sugar, No Ice + Childhood Friends + Both Each Other’s First] When she was three, Luo Xintang had her first kiss “stolen” by Chen Zhe, who was six months older. Everyone said, “They’re just playing house. It doesn’t count.” At eighteen, they were caught kissin 3.9kReads—Score32814d adds
- 178 Alive! As Long as She’s in This Town, She’s Alive 活性！只要她还在这座小镇就活着 You are alive. Your body is alive. But are you still human at heart? Did you see someone today? Did you make a choice today, not because it was easy, but because it was right? Did you do something today where no one could see, something only you would ever know about? It was small, so small you’d feel embarrassed even to mention it. But you did it. That is your humanity. That is your vitality. To be alive, you need humanity. Even if you mutate, you can still be human. Without humanity, you’re no 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 One Kiss Seals the Deal: The Capital's Crown Prince Can't Stop Kissing Me 一吻定情，京圈太子爷强吻上瘾 [Flirtatious, seductive young lord of the capital’s elite VS a stunningly beautiful, pure-hearted dentist] Sweet from beginning to end, as President Song fiercely pursues the lovely young dentist. Song Junyue, the young lord of the capital’s elite, actually got dumped by a woman. She even turned down the heir to the richest man in the country and ran off to America to marry an American man. Lin Jiashan was always bringing up a certain woman in front of Song Junyue. He’d heard about her so often 454Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 This World Is Such a Mess! 这个世界好混乱啊！ Who am I? Where am I? Am I dreaming? Everyone in the world seems strange. What was that I heard… My heart hurts so much. At last, I picked up my knife… I died… I came back to life, but I no longer had a heart… This is a world with just one continent and a few islands, and it is on the brink of an eerie apocalypse. Can someone without a heart feel the warmth and coldness of human life? How can I hold on to my heart in a world gone mad? Why can I calmly watch the living die right before my eyes? 225Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Spring and Autumn in the Textbooks 课本春秋 Seasons in the Textbook A Republican-era classroom, with one teacher and several students [Volume One] First School Year (Autumn 1932–Summer 1933): The Beginning of Learning Opening Note: In the autumn of 1932, the ancestral hall in Qingxi Town opened its doors as a school. Five children walked inside. Over the next six years, they would see the whole world from here. A Poem for the Opening The ancestral hall’s threshold stands three inches high. The children lift their feet to cross, unawar 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 After the Zombie Horde Ended, My Best Friend Turned into a Half-Human, Half-Zombie Monster 丧尸潮结束后，我的闺蜜变成了半人半丧尸的怪物 After the Zombie Horde Ended, My Best Friend Turned into a Half-Human, Half-Zombie Monster 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 I Was Supposed to Be Cannon Fodder, So Why Is the Male Lead Clinging to Me? 说好我是炮灰，男主怎么缠上我了 [Myth and folklore + fated romance + mutual devotion + adventure + reincarnation + transmigration] If bringing your lover back to life meant you could never love them again, would you still save them? Yue Jian had read the entire book and knew all too well how the young Yun Sheng’s story would end. For now, he was gentle and clingy, calling her “Big Sis” every other breath. But one day, he would kill her without hesitation for the heroine destined for him by fate. To rewrite her fate as a do 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Better Late Than Never, Let Passion Ignite 相见恨晚纵情惹火 Main couple: A young, powerful Beijing heir x an elite businesswoman from Hong Kong Side couple: A Beijing-born heir x a bar owner Older woman-younger man romance + love at first sight + both leads’ first relationship + feel-good wish fulfillment + face-slapping comeback + powerful female lead The moment Chu Zheng opened the door to her room at the Jingxianju Hotel, before she could react, Jiang Yinhuai pinned her against the back of the door. The man narrowed his eyes slightly and studied her f 151Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记 [No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u 322Reads8.3Score14514d adds
- 186 Collection of Two Forgettings: Records of an Unknown Daoist Couple Among Clouds and Waters 两忘集——无名道侣云水录 The Collection of Two Forgotten: The Unnamed Daoist Couple's Record of Clouds and Waters 10Reads—Score114d adds
- 187 I Married Him for a 500 Million Dowry, but His Whole Family Is Mute 五亿彩礼嫁给他，霸总全家是哑巴 [Chatty, sunny civil servant × outwardly cold but inwardly passionate CEO, marriage first and love later + sweet romance and comedy + easygoing daily life] Jiang Tang was completely dumbfounded! One day, after coming home from work at the neighborhood office, she found the three sons of the city’s most powerful Luo family squeezed onto her tiny sofa. Her “cultivating immortality” dad and her teary-eyed mom were on the phone, haggling with the three CEOs’ father over an astronomical bride price. 1.5kReads8.4Score19214d adds
- 188 Xi Shi Meets a Thousand-Year-Old White Fox 西施遇上千年白狐 The Fox Spirit of a Thousand Years Meets Xi Shi tells the story of Xi Shi, the beauty of ancient Yue. Fan, a subordinate of the King of Yue, brings her to the palace, where she undergoes rigorous training before being sent to Wu to seduce and subdue its king. With Fan's help, she is to bring down the state of Wu in one fell swoop. But on the way to Wu, Xi Shi's boat capsizes. After she falls into the water, a cargo ship rescues her. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a world she doesn 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 A Double-Faced Jianghu, Dedicated to the Eighteen of Every Story 双面江湖献给所有故事里的十八号 The world sings the praises of heroes, But who remembers the nameless extras? The jianghu is more than flashing blades, It lives in serving tea and sweeping floors, too. Two voices separated by countless mountains and rivers, yet keeping exactly the same rhythm. Unhurried, neither too loud nor too soft. Like a heartbeat, like breathing. Like the jianghu itself, quietly and ceaselessly carrying on. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运，赎罪的女人 Fate: A Woman's Atonement 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 A Glorious Dream, Mountains and Rivers Far Away 浮华梦山河远 Is marrying up into a noble family a ladder to the clouds, or a blade at your throat? Everyone envies a merchant’s daughter who marries into a marquis’s household. But after a torrential rain in Huazhou, everything changes. Her husband gets caught up in the succession struggle, and she’s abducted by human traffickers... Even her family thinks she’ll never come back. But she not only returns, she also becomes the owner of Baoxing Trading House. Every time you think she’s finally found her foo 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Forgotten River Teahouse: Ghost Stories Galore at the Ghost Festival Teahouse 忘川茶寮——中元茶寮鬼话连篇 Wangchuan Teahouse: Ghost Stories Galore at the Zhongyuan Teahouse 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Duchuan Agency 渡川事务所 The day Lu Jianxing receives his uncle’s final letter, there’s no vast inheritance waiting for him, just a yellowed IOU with his own name written in the debtor’s column. He hasn’t even figured out how to dodge the debt when his icy creditor shows up at his door. “Your uncle sold you to me.” So he goes. The agency called Crossing River is tucked beneath the shade of an old locust tree. It helps the restless dead fulfill the wishes they left unfinished. His new boss loves money more than life itse 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Female CEO Has a Rather Special Way of Clinging to Me 女总裁的黏人方式有点特别 The CEO's Way of Clinging to Me Is a Little Unusual 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 My Friend Still Has Years to Live. What Gives You the Right to Detain Him in the Underworld? 我朋友阳寿未尽，你们凭什么把他扣在阴间？ My friend still has years left to live. What gives you the right to keep him in the underworld? 17Reads—Score114d adds
- 196 Brain-Computer Interface Doctor 脑机医生 Her ex-boyfriend sold the secret she had guarded most closely to secure an investment. When they broke up, he even threw this at her: “No man could put up with a woman like you.” Her father climbed the social ladder and asked for a divorce. As he left, he said only, “People who look ahead don’t turn back.” Everyone was certain Su Jianwei had lost her backing and was bound to fall sooner or later. But they forgot that she was a doctor in functional neurosurgery at Huaren Hospital, determined to t 4.2kReads6.4Score17.5k14d adds
- 197 The Beautiful Older Sister's Irreverent Little Sidekick 美女姐姐的贴身小无赖 I was late for a blind date and got splashed with milk tea. Then someone stole my parking spot and knocked my breakfast to the ground. On my first day at work, I discovered that the CEO I report to is the sexy older woman I met at a bar last night. I thought I would never see them again, but one by one, they all showed up: the hot-tempered security guard, the nurse sweet to the core, and the sharp-tongued lawyer. Every one of them calls me a "little rascal." Four women, each wonderful in her own 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 The Blood-Red Wedding Dress: My Five-Hundred-Year-Old Ghost Girlfriend 血色嫁衣我的五百岁女鬼女友 A female ghost in a blood-red wedding dress! A sinister plot that extinguished all humanity! A meeting five hundred years in the making: she came back in this life for you! Young Gu Linchuan secluded himself in Jiangnan to prepare for his exams, only to encounter Rong Qianlu, a five-hundred-year-old female ghost dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. Her family was slaughtered when she was alive, turning her into a vengeful spirit, but Gu Linchuan’s gentleness brought out her vulnerable side. The 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Romance Short Story: Because I Love, I Love 言情短篇《因为爱所以爱》 Because I Love You: A Romance Novella 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Me, Cowardly and Vicious 我，怂且恶毒 [Reborn heroine + male lead with a System] [A cowardly, spiteful heroine who meekly does bad things x a male lead who says one thing but means another, a nurturing mom-type] Yun Luo never thought someone like her could be reborn. By all rights, she should have gone to hell. Why had she been reborn and returned to high school? …High school really was a lot like hell. _ Nan Yan never thought he would be bound to a System. The System said this world was actually a novel, and his mission was to refo 29.6kReads9.4Score5.4k14d adds
