Novels like Nightmare Across Three Lifetimes
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Nightmare Across Three Lifetimes, best match first.
- 1 Reborn, My Childhood Sweetheart Is Absolutely Adorable 重生后，我的小青梅可爱极了 One female lead + not invincible + light System + everyday life + mutual devotion. “Gu Huaian is reborn in his student days. Looking at his childhood sweetheart, Li Yun, sitting at the desk in front of him with her hair tied in a high ponytail and secretly slipping milk candies into his pencil case, he finally gets the chance to make up for all the tenderness he missed in his previous life. His bound romance System's golden finger only reminds him, ‘Don't make her cry again.’ So he puts aside th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Anran, It's Time to Return to the Bank for the Quarterly Sales Meeting 安然，该回银行开季度冲刺会了 When financial hotshot Lin Anran is "exiled" to Shuguang Branch, the worst-performing branch in the entire industry, everyone expects her to make a fool of herself. No one expects her to launch a "rural revitalization" campaign in the financial world right there: ▪️ She recruits tech geek Sun and overseas-returned PhD Lu Ze, building a dream team that bridges disciplines ▪️ She combines "old-fashioned methods and cutting-edge tech" to provide targeted support for small and micro businesses ▪️ F —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Holding Hands Doesn't Last Forever, but Letting Go Leaves Regrets 牵手没有永远，放手又有遗憾 Design assistant Luo Lan and senior designer Zi Han meet by chance at a cafe during a torrential downpour, brought together by a collection of Petofi's poems. Their feelings quietly blossom through a shared appreciation for poetry and design. When Luo Lan receives an invitation from a design studio in Paris, she is torn between love and her dreams. Haunted by regrets over his mother's death, Zi Han becomes intensely possessive of their relationship, and the distance between them grows. Caught be 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Love in the Ice 冰晶之恋 The combination of "Gem" and "Ice" is naturally called "Ice Crystal." Wangqin has returned to the real world, and his partner from another world is willing to come with him. What kind of story will they have here? The girl takes the boy's hand and gazes at him ardently. "Qin, wherever you go, I'll gladly go with you~" 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 After Being Reborn, I Left My Bloodsucking In-Laws with Nothing 重生之后我让吸血婆家一无所有 After being reborn, I left my bloodsucking in-laws with nothing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Ten Years After Graduation, My Homeroom Teacher Forces Me into a Speed Match 毕业十年，被班主任强制速配 [No System] [Not Reborn] [One Heroine] [Sweet Everyday Life] [1v1] With his mother hounding him until he has nowhere left to hide, Lin Zhou has no choice but to grit his teeth and go on a blind date. He has imagined countless possible blind dates, but never once thought it would be Qin Shu, the "Wicked Witch of the West" who haunted his two years of high school! Taking away his phone and making him read a self-criticism in front of the class: he will remember his homeroom teacher's "great deeds" 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Those Days in the Military 那些在部队的日子 My new work is here! Welcome to Tomato Novel to read my stories. I hope you enjoy them. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Marriage Totem 姻缘图腾 Xu Fenglan, a young woman from a family of brewers, awakened her supernatural ability on her twentieth birthday: she could open her heavenly eye and see visions of the spirit world. Most notably, she could see matching fate-and-marriage totems on the foreheads of men and women destined to be together. She moved to the city and opened a wine shop, where she developed complicated feelings for her landlord. But they were not destined for each other, so she could only introduce him to the woman he w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 A Glimmer of Light Toward the Sun 微光向阳 Other people's childhoods were sweetened with candy. Hers was nothing but hardship. Her parents' estrangement was the first lesson she ever learned. As she grew up, the ebb and flow of love let her touch the warmth of the human world, again and again, in the space between loving and being loved. She weathered desolation and lived through lively days, seeing the chill in people's hearts as well as the kindness in the world. It was only in middle age that she finally understood: Life favors no one —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Cool, Top-Student Campus Beauty Calls Me a Dummy in Private? 清冷学霸校花私下被我叫憨宝？ The aloof school belle by day is actually a goofy, pure-hearted girl in private? Why does she act so cold? That’s right, she’s so goofy that she pretends to be aloof! “Su Wan, do you like me?” “I don’t like you!” Su Wan said with a chilly expression. “Then who do you like?” “I like Niannian!” Su Wan blurted out. The moment she realized she’d given herself away, Su Wan completely lost it. “Shen Cinian, I’m going to bite you to death! You tricked me into telling you!” Shen Cinian covered his mouth 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 From Tycoon to Café Owner 从神豪到咖啡馆老板 When Lin Che wakes up, he has transmigrated to a parallel world and become an orphan bound to a God-Tier Wealth System. After spending lavishly and experiencing every kind of elite luxury, he is overwhelmed by a profound emptiness. When money becomes nothing more than a number within easy reach, what is the true meaning of life? He resolutely leaves his old life behind and buys an old house beside a university, where he personally builds a cozy café called “Homeward.” There, he meets Su Wanqing, 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 What If My Wife Is a Lesbian? Just Turn Her Straight 老婆是弯的怎么办？掰直就行了 Lin Wanyue had thought she would spend her whole life by Su Qing's side as a friend. But after getting drunk one night, she impulsively married Gu Yanshen, Su Qing's older brother, and became the sister-in-law of the woman she loved. She had figured that as long as they respected each other and got what they wanted from their marriage contract, that would be enough. But Gu Yanshen didn't seem to see it that way. He was considerate and attentive at every turn. When she was upset about Su Qing's e 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Infinite Amusement Park: A Twisted Player's Aesthetics of Suffering 无间乐园：疯批玩家的受虐美学 When the eerie game Infinite Paradise, with its 99% death rate, descended upon the world, the chosen players had only one way to earn the right to survive: clear layer after layer of hell-level dungeons. The protagonist, Su Jin, is an eccentric with a built-in “psycho” streak. He not only fears none of the dungeons' extreme pain or threats of death, but regards “masochism” as the ultimate pleasure, drawing strength from suffering and breaking through impossible situations in a frenzy. The Parad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Ultimate Folding of Time and Space 极致折叠的时空 In an age where algorithms and ratings define everything, this story portrays ordinary people pushed by the System and chosen by traffic, yet still doing their best to live. They keep the city running, while protecting their own faint glimmers of light in the cracks. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Clever Schemes I Used to Pursue Her 25 Years Ago 25年前追她的那些得意计谋 The clever schemes I used to woo her 25 years ago —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 If You Have a Problem, Pay Up First 谁不服，先还钱 I open my eyes to find I've become the real daughter in a tragic novel, a disposable pawn drained by her whole family and doomed to die horribly. I'm bound to the "Fairness Warrior" System, with just one rule: Whoever touches what's mine is in for bad luck. The fake heiress puts on a sweet act: "Sister, can I have your necklace? It would look better on me at the banquet." I list her on a secondhand site instead: "Auctioning off 'My Sister's Shamelessness,' starting bid: 100 million." My scumbag 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 After Inheriting a Trillion-Yuan Fortune, I Win by Predicting the Future 继承千亿遗产后，我靠预知躺赢全 Lin Wan has been invisible since childhood: her father never cared for her, her mother ran off long ago, and she lives in a cramped, run-down rental apartment while working a dead-end office job. Her boyfriend of seven years, Zhao Yu, turned around and latched onto a rich beauty, dumping Lin Wan as his backup option. On New Year's Eve, she worked overtime through the wind and snow, then went home and had to cook herself a little hot pot. All she could think was, "It's so hard just to stay alive. 3kReads5.8Score524Shelves
- 18 Dance of Extremes 极与极之舞 By day, he runs a trillion-yuan conglomerate. By night, once his “seal” is broken, he becomes the wild, freewheeling center of every party. Chu Yichen is an extreme contradiction, forever bouncing between business-school textbooks and urban legends. When alcohol sets his nerves alight, the young legendary CEO is instantly unleashed, transforming into a reckless, money-flinging devil-may-care troublemaker. Meanwhile, Cheng Hao, his ever-composed assistant, adjusts his gold-rimmed glasses and mak 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Reborn, Then Cornered in an Alley by the School's Toughest Girl? 重生后，被女校霸堵在胡同里？ [Lighthearted Daily Life] ➕ [Entrepreneurship] ➕ [No System] ➕ [Romance] Jiang Xu, a senior business consultant, never dreamed he would be reborn. He was back in the summer after the college entrance exams. Back then, for the sake of his dream girl, he had turned down a girl who had pursued him for three years and had a whole gang of followers at her side. Who could have known that after studying abroad with his dream girl, she would turn around and marry an old white executive? Now that he was 105Reads5.9Score100Shelves
- 20 The Easy Life After Achieving Financial Freedom 财富自由后的惬意生活 [Urban slice of life] [One heroine] [Tycoon] [Slow burn] He isn’t reborn. Xu Jiu gains a happiness-of-the-heart System that gives him money every day. The happier he feels, the more money he gets. He takes his younger sister on trips, stays in lakeside villas, and enjoys all kinds of delicious food. He meets a girl who makes his heart race, and the two fall for each other. He travels across the land, taking in its splendid scenery, chatting and laughing along the way. Youth is wonderful. 363Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Keeping Her Virtue: Qin Keqing 守身如玉：秦可卿 I, Wang Yong, came to Guangzhou on a business trip and rented a place at Qin Keqing’s home. As I spent time with the gentle and considerate Qin Keqing, we gradually developed feelings for each other. But my heart was set on Xiaoyu, my childhood sweetheart back home. What happens next may be beyond your imagination. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Crazy System Gives Me Money, So I Open a Supermarket in the Heavenly Palace 癫系统赋我钱，我在天宫开超市 [Campus Journey to the West + cultivation System + transmigration + laugh-out-loud madness + playing weak to fool the strong] [A penniless high schooler vs. a System that seems insane but is actually plotting several moves ahead] Poor student Zhang Sheng can’t afford his tuition and is bullied by thugs. He doesn’t even dare respond to the school beauty’s kindness. At the darkest moment of his life, he binds himself to the [Mad Supermarket System] and discovers he can physically transmigrate to a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Strange Scenes Witnessed Over Thirty Years 三十年目睹之怪现状 Born in the 1960s, Uncle Zheng is clever and kind, yet always gets bullied. Unable to stand the people and things around him, he fights back, only to end up battered and bruised time and again. After his father, who works at the local police station, alters his age to make him two years younger, Uncle Zheng finally fits in with the generation born in the 1970s, and his life gets back on track. He is an only child and spent most of his childhood with his father. His mother is an ordinary farmer, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 I'm from Qingdao 俺是青岛人 Tell China's stories well, and give middle and high school students a good book: From the old neighborhoods to new Laoshan, this is a sweeping portrait of everyday life that will make Qingdao residents laugh through their tears. Told in a stream-of-consciousness style, from the perspective of ordinary people, with an epic scope, the story spans the Reform and Opening Up era and portrays the lives of Qingdao's ordinary residents, decade by decade, starting in the 1980s. Entirely fictional, so ple 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Blue Sky Stories 1 蓝天故事1 In one hundred thousand words, this work casts an affectionate gaze on the Blue Sky Rescue Team, whose members are brought to life through the character of the female team member Nan Yue. The story moves between earthquake rubble, getting lost in remote mountains, and raging floods, recording with calm, heartfelt prose each harrowing race against death. This is not merely a chronicle of rescue techniques and extreme challenges, but a stirring ode to ordinary volunteers who forge a lifeline with 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Sichuan Kids' Livestream 川娃子们的直播 We livestream life: the real, spicy life of Sichuan. I'm no boss. I run a livestream for the working stiffs, telling stories with a Sichuan kick. A true workhorse isn't someone who never falls. It's someone who gets back up and keeps turning the mill. Sichuan's flavors no longer speak alone; every taste joins in a grand, sweeping song. The road of the martial world is long, and the heat of its spice endures. With the resilience forged in fire, we're blazing a new trail through the jianghu: a roa 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Space-Time Navigation: Zhang Cuishan Became Guo Xiang’s Senior Brother? 时空导航，张翠山成郭襄师兄了？ [Jin Yong] [No Female Lead] [Wuxia Crossover] + [The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber] + [The Return of the Condor Heroes] + [The Legend of the Condor Heroes] + [Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils] (The rating has only just been released. It’ll go up later.) For some inexplicable reason, Chen Chen gets a job at a company that rents out transport between myriad worlds. His task is to send people destined for greatness where they are supposed to go. But something goes wrong on his very first assignment. Zhang 1.7kReads8.1Score107Shelves
- 28 Living Together Innocently, Having a Baby Without Shame 清清白白同居，坦坦荡荡生娃 (One female lead) (Both leads are inexperienced) (Extra sweet, no melodrama) (Roommates by chance, living together by choice) A twist of fate brought Jiang Ci and Jiang Yunhe together as roommates. He was an online novelist, weaving stories with words while staying behind the screen. She was an artist who bent over her desk to sketch, capturing light and shadow on her canvas. One vlog after another recorded their awkward yet sincere moments together. For him, she tried the things he liked. For h 605Reads6.5Score103Shelves
- 29 Pressured to Marry at 36, I Turned My Life Around After 48 Blind Dates 36岁被催婚，相亲48次逆袭人 [A wildly satisfying romance-and-marriage comeback] On his 36th birthday, Chen Mo, a mid-level internet company manager, is forced by his own mother to marry under threat of being disowned. In a fit of anger, he vows to go on 48 blind dates. What he thinks will be a nightmare from the start unexpectedly unlocks his life’s comeback story! His blind dates are full of eccentrics: a marriage scammer after a bride price, an opportunistic woman who brings 12 people along to mooch a meal, a kept man lo 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Grand Future in the Mortal World 凡尘鸿途 A group of ordinary people from ordinary families in a remote rural village achieve very different lives through their tireless efforts, and show an extraordinary love for humanity along the way! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 When Love Cuts to the Bone 爱在刻骨铭心时 Love at the Most Unforgettable Moment 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Dustbound Fate, Firework-Splashed Sorrow 尘缘劫，烟火殇 Focusing on the lives of migrant workers from the mountainous areas of northern Guizhou after 2000, the story follows two intertwined plotlines, depicting ordinary people’s struggles, bonds, and regrets as they are swept along by the tide of reality. In the first, Chen Bing, a young migrant worker, returns to his hometown and meets Xu Jing, a kindhearted young woman. Under pressure from Xu Jing’s family to set a wedding date, her cousin Xu Man becomes the couple’s go-between, but their Lantern F —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Number Seven Bakery at the End of the World 末世七号面包店 In his previous life, the apocalypse came, and Yuyou died while fleeing to Happiness City for shelter. In this life, he found a strange fellow in a cemetery. When the apocalypse came, the strange fellow ran away. After enduring the upheaval, Yuyou awakened his divine nature and opened a bakery in a small town. He sold not only bread, but two kinds of tickets as well. One day, a vengeful ghost came into the shop, bringing that strange fellow back with it. So the strange fellow stopped hunting gho 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Young Master's Career Path Is a Little Different 太子爷的职场路有点不一样 He showed up for an entry-level job paying a five-figure monthly salary in a luxury car worth eight figures. Xia Mufeng, the young heir of Chenyu Group, made a sensational first impression at work. The chairman's furious roar dragged him back to the group and dropped him into the new energy project team. From then on, the workplace took a bizarre turn: antique tea sets came standard at business meetings, a Michelin-starred chef accompanied him on factory inspections, and a helicopter picked up —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The God of Song’s Four-and-a-Half-Year-Old Little Sister 歌神的掌心小妹四岁半 A top-tier star who is a god of song is afraid of his four-and-a-half-year-old little sister. The clingy little crybaby brings plenty of laughs and warmth to their daily interactions. Her gift for empathy helps heal her brother’s anxiety, while he gives her a home filled with love. Together, they also mend his relationship with his birth family. 105Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 36 The Apocalypse World Goes Digital: The Card System Arrives 末日世界数据化之卡牌系统降临 [Card Battles] [Everyone Is Clever] [Naruto Ninjutsu] [Mecha] [Multiple Worlds Fold Together] A tide of mecha clashes with the undead calamity, while interstellar fleets battle mythic Titans. When cards from myriad worlds descend upon Earth, the old laws crumble. This is destruction, but also a new era. And I will be the king of the new order. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I Loved the Wrong Person This Time, Let's Start Over 这局爱错了，重来 Marry the woman I love most, put the most pretentious young masters in their place, build the tallest skyscraper, win the heart of the most badass president, and fight the longest war... The Zhou family will never fall, and Great Zhou will never perish. When I crawled out of a pile of corpses, I was covered in war wounds. Then the lover who was determined to teach me a lesson handed me over to her, with malicious intent. But I laughed. Isn’t this the love of my life? Back then, I moved my reside 174Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 38 I Write Copy in the Greater Bay Area 我在大湾区做文案 The more you experience, the more clearly you can face the world. A Xian has not a silver coin to his name and is so poor his trousers are threadbare, yet his ambitions stretch far and wide. He has spent more than a decade working as a copywriter in the Pearl River Delta. He was once a public schoolteacher in western Guangdong, with a stable job on a well-worn track. But his ambitions were too big, and he refused to settle for an ordinary life or repeat his teacher parents’ predictable routine, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 What Should I Do When All the Guys Like Me? I'm a Guy! 男生都喜欢我怎么办？我男的 I live in a men’s dorm, but I’m not entirely a man, because my body has a lot of estrogen. For three years, my roommates had no idea that the “goddess” they called their wife every day was sleeping right there in the dorm. Then a video exposed everything. My roommates were stunned, and the whole internet exploded. They surrounded me, demanding an explanation. “So the wife we’ve been calling ours for three years was you?!” I thought the day my secret came out would be the end of the world. But af 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Heiress Campus Belle: So You Admit You're the Crown Prince of the Heavenly Family? 千金校花：你承认是天家太子了？ [The short drama The Young Master of the Heavenly Family Hides in the City is now streaming + Feel-Good Story + Heir's Identity Revealed + The Campus Belle Is Stunned for Ten Thousand Years + Cohabitation and Identity Exposed] Lin Ruoyi sat across from him, swirling her wineglass. “Uh, the Crown Prince of the Heavenly Family is here.” Du Zhe: “Uh, no, I'm just your boyfriend, Ruoyi...” “Boyfriend? I remember he's a college student who likes reading rags-to-riches stories about rich playboys and 20.3kReads8.6Score1.9kShelves
- 41 Reborn as a Master of Divination: I Used Metaphysics to Become a Tycoon 重生神算：我靠玄学逆袭成首富 In her previous life, Lin Wanxing’s family was destroyed, she became an outcast from the world of metaphysics, and she died horribly on the streets. Reborn at seventeen, before disaster struck her family, she awakened an extraordinary Heavenly Eye and mastered the art of Qimen Dunjia. Her father is framed and left with a broken leg? With one glance, she sees through the plot and makes the con artist lose everything. Her sister’s family is about to face a calamity? She defies fate and helps them —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Stability Is Broken: The CEO’s First Love Is Herself 稳定性崩了：总裁白月光是她自己 Self-Salvation [Two Powerful Leads + White Moonlight + Two Male Leads + Future + Secret Love + Both Reborn] The love we all hope to have! It is always just beyond our reach! Then! When two women discover that the man they both love is actually in love with the reflection of each other in them! This is no ordinary rebirth, but an examination of time and space. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Half a Lifetime Gone, All Spent Waiting for You 半生已过，只为等你 A chance encounter lit up the first half of her life. A tender, innocent affection consumed the first half of his. But that boy who once shone so brightly is still waiting, devoted to her. In a blink, thirty years passed. Everything changed, but the feelings remained. Who among us has never been a guiding light to someone else? Half a lifetime has passed, all spent waiting for you. The one I've waited for with all my heart, were you waiting for me all this time, too? Fallen blossoms sti 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn: All I Had in My Account Was a Cold 40 Billion 重生之账户里只有冰冷的400亿 [Reborn] [Urban] [Get Rich] [Urban Fantasy] “After transmigrating back to 2012, while everyone else was frantically buying up houses and trading Bitcoin, Jiang Su staked his entire fortune on three ‘jokes’: a game company that made animation, a street stall selling plastic figurines, and a shopping app from farmers beyond the Fifth Ring Road. Ten years later, miHoYo has swept the globe, Pop Mart has set trends ablaze, and Pinduoduo has reshaped e-commerce... When a reporter asks him the secret b 66Reads8.1Score102Shelves
- 45 I Only Realized the World Wasn't Normal After Finding a Cat 捡到猫后才发现，不正常的是世界 (Urban fantasy, the supernatural, immortal cultivation, mostly slice of life) I must be ill. I often see things other people can’t. Everyone says I have a mental illness, and I think so too, until I find a cat outside a hospital... It eats my food and lives in my home, then solemnly promises to help me become an immortal, on the condition that I become its servant. “Little Li, work hard. Once this king gets my powers back, you’ll be the top dog under me!” Watching the little cat sprawl across th 6.4kReads8.2Score580Shelves
- 46 When the Wind Dies, Evening Falls 风停夕落 Also known as: “My Hangzhou Girlfriend” and “When the Wind Dies Down at Dusk” [Double Success in Love and Career] + [Playboy Turns Over a New Leaf] + [Mutual Pursuit] + [Multiple Female Leads] + [Secret Crush] + [Healing] After Qi Feng is laid off and fired, he can no longer put up with his family pressuring him to marry. He leaves Nanchang for Hangzhou to make a living. On the highway in the middle of the night, a luxury car suddenly swerves in beside him, instantly jolting him awake. After a l 2.4kReads8.1Score232Shelves
- 47 More Children, More Blessings: I Became the New Human Race's Richest Man by Having Kids 多子多福，我靠生娃成新人类首富 Ridiculous humor, pop-culture references, cozy everyday life, and a slower pace. The story focuses on the amusing experiences of the protagonist and the heroines, from their first meeting to facing the major life event of “having a baby” together. The epic backdrop of resisting robot surrogacy is simply a catalyst for the plot and a source of laughs. 428Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Financial Freedom After Being Reborn 重生之后的财富自由 People want to be reborn so they can make up for their regrets. Gu Bai was reborn, resolved his regrets, and achieved fame and success. But when he looked around, he suddenly realized he had no goals left. Gu Bai: “Maybe... I should look for love.” A slice-of-life story. 2.3kReads7.2Score101Shelves
- 49 Sichuan Gangsters 四川黑帮 What is the jianghu? Everyone has their own answer. But in my more than twenty years of experience, the jianghu is a game of chess, one in which everyone is both a piece and a player. Once you enter the game as a piece, there’s no way out. Once you enter the jianghu, there’s no turning back! My name is Liang Yu. I’ve been a piece, and I’ve also been a player! Note: I’m not Er Ge. I’m a huge fan of Er Ge. If you don’t know who Er Ge is, just search for Healing-Style Dou on Tomato Novel! 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Special Forces Glory (Complete in Four Volumes) 特战荣耀（全四册） The complete series tells the passionate military story of Yan Poyue, a “soldier king” with outstanding skills who struggles to fit in with the group. Forged by harsh conditions and grueling missions, he gradually learns to work as part of a team. Alongside military engineer Ai Qianxue, female soldier king Guo Xiaoxiao, comrade Xiao Yunjie, and others, he fights and grows, eventually becoming an outstanding armed police special operations officer. 1.6kReads9.2Score414Shelves
