Novels like After Nine Lives, I Awoke as the King of the City
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- 1 Hongtian Divine Lord 洪天神尊 Awaken in humble mortal dust, rise to the summit through the trials of countless worlds. Hong Tian, a Kunlun menial disciple carrying the “Immortal-Deity Chaos Body” yet sealed away, suffers humiliation at the hands of his fellow disciples. Framed in a scheme, he is forced to leave the sect as a traitor. In his darkest hour, he meets the most important person in his life: Yan Yu, the treasured pearl of Penglai Immortal Island. From then on, he gradually awakens his bloodline and, through trials —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Mastermind Can Bring a City to Its Knees 谋心者，亦可倾城 Shen Zhiyi, a top modern business strategy consultant, is driven to her death by the people closest to her, both family and lover. When she opens her eyes again, she has become a merchant's illegitimate daughter in ancient times, bearing the same name and facing a deadly frame-up. On the eve of her wedding, with conspiracies closing in, she smiles and turns the inner quarters into a psychological battlefield. A few words are enough to turn a wicked servant against her masters, revealing her tale —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 From the Start, a Death Row Convict: I Averted the Witchcraft Disaster! 开局死囚，我改巫蛊之祸！ A flash of steel at the execution ground, and condemned prisoner Zhu Anshi is dragged into the death-row prison. He suddenly opens his eyes: a modern detective has transmigrated while on a mission! Transmigration comes with no System and no golden finger, only a hellish start: an outstanding detective has transmigrated into the wretched Zhu Anshi, whose actions sparked the Witchcraft Rebellion. It was Zhu Anshi’s accusation, submitted from prison, that lit the fuse. Save himself, make salt, recl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Yunlan Partners 云澜合伙人 [Two female leads + transmigration + getting rich + everyone’s darling] Xia Muxue transmigrates to ancient times and saves a marquis with her medical skills, just as she’s starting to find her footing. Then she unexpectedly reunites with her modern-day best friend, Lu Yilan! One knows medicine, the other knows business, and together they build their enterprise. Using modern marketing ideas, they launch hit products, turning her secret recipes into citywide sensations that everyone clamors to buy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 All But You 唯君不在 [One Heroine + Two Male Leads] Alone in a foreign land, far from home! When a modern soul inhabits an ancient body and ideals collide with reality, who can truly turn the tide? After transmigrating to an ancient dynasty, she is convinced that her modern knowledge and way of thinking will let her make her mark and go wherever she pleases. She thinks she has won everything after one contest of wits after another, only to be dealt a crushing blow by reality. A sudden palace coup turns her life upsi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Turning the Tables on the Yellow Turbans 逆袭黄巾 Three Kingdoms + Yellow Turban Rebellion + I Reform the Three Kingdoms Engineer Lu Yuan wakes to find himself a nameless foot soldier in the Yellow Turban Army. It is 184 AD, and flames of war are spreading across the land. Yet he knows this raging tide is doomed to collapse. Armed with knowledge from more than a thousand years in the future and an understanding of history yet to come, Lu Yuan refuses to become another corpse in this chaotic age. From narrowly surviving the bloody battle at Gua 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The General's Money-Loving Little Wife: His Beloved Transmigrated Concubine 独宠穿越庶女：将军的财迷小娇妻 The General's Money-Loving Little Wife: Doting Exclusively on His Transmigrated Concubine-born Bride 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Transmigrated as the World's Richest Man, I Was Forced Into Love by a CEO 穿成世界顶级富豪，被霸总强制爱 [One-on-one, super sweet with a little angst + Time Travel + Amnesia + Two Strong Leads + Face-Slapping + Revenge for the Original Host + Devoted Love + Lighthearted Humor + Semi-Forced Romance] [An arrogant, unconventional female scientist + A cunning, wolf-dog-type CEO] Song Zhi transmigrated. Song Zhi traveled from an era of advanced technology back to 2025. She flirted with a handsome stranger on the street, only to be taken home and forced into a whirlwind romance. He turned out to be Jin Z —Reads—Score114d adds
- 9 Low Battery, Please Save Your Game 电量不足请及时存档 Low Battery. Save Your Game in Time —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Entire Clan of NPCs Is Reloading 全族NPC正在重新加载 All Clan NPCs Are Reloading —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Two Women Transmigrate to Ancient Times: Turning Barren Land Into a Granary! 双姝穿古！贫瘠之地变粮仓！ Two heroines transmigrate to ancient times! They turn a barren land into a granary! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Sorry, I'm a Civil Servant 抱歉，本宫体制内的 Zhu Yu transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking palace maid in the Cold Palace. Faced with a hopeless start, she pulls out her copy of 8,000 Real Civil Service Exam Questions. Palace intrigue? She submits a request titled Proposal to Optimize the Harem’s Personnel Structure and Implement KPI Performance Management. Competing for the emperor’s favor? She writes a report titled An Analysis of the Relationship Between His Majesty’s Visits and the Productivity of Imperial Heirs. When her sworn e —Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 13 Becoming the Dao’s Spokesperson After a Gender-Swap from the Start 开局性转天道代言人 [Transformation + ensemble cast + pseudo-invincible protagonist + closed time loop] In her previous life, she was a man; in this life, she has a woman's face. After transmigrating into the most powerful goddess, Jiang Manyue had planned to roam freely through this world of immortal cultivation. Full of youthful vigor, she wiped out the demonic calamity with a wave of her hand and protected the mortal realm. But when she woke from a dream, the world had changed beyond recognition. The so-called p 2Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 14 Peach Blossoms Flourish Across the Nine Continents 桃花夭夭尽九洲 [Powerful leads + transmigration + ensemble cast] "Don't go, please?" "I'm sorry." Flowers bloomed and fell. When did love begin? The peach blossoms scattered. A flower shop owner transmigrates into Su Xiaowan, the least-loved eldest daughter of the Su family. After a chance encounter with Ji An, the crown prince and the most favored person in the palace, she somehow becomes the crown princess by imperial decree! After they marry, she discovers that the seemingly scheming, arrogant prince is act 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Transmigrated to Ancient Times, Forced into Love by an Ice-Cold Prince 穿越到古代，被冰山王爷强制爱 She transmigrates to ancient times and is forced into a romance by an icy prince. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 After Leaving Xiang Yu, I Turned Around and Married Ji Bu 别了项羽后，我转身嫁了季布 No Golden Finger + Authentic Life in Ancient Times + Rational Transmigration + Lovecraftian Romance My name is Lin Xiaoyin, and I'm an apprentice veterinarian who transmigrated here. Xiang Yu is my boss. I respect him, but I fear him even more: the strategists around him are schemers, and his beloved concubine is liable to take her own life. The ship belonging to this powerful big shot looks ready to sink. Fortunately, I secretly invested early in a 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Good Grief! I Transmigrated Into the Villainess of My Own Novel 夭寿嘞！穿成自己小说的恶毒女配 Seriously? Modern office worker Xia Zhixue has actually transmigrated into the unfinished novel she was writing, as the vicious supporting female character... According to the plot, she’s so universally despised that even the dogs hate her. Making it past three episodes would be a challenge. Xia Zhixue’s response? “Relax. Watch me work.” From then on, she takes on villains, sorts out the male lead, and wins over the emperor and empress. Before long, she’s living the good life, surrounded by 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Transmigrate to the Stars: A Young Master’s Style 穿越星际：少爷的排面 Transmigrating Across the Stars: The Young Master's Style —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 I’m a Young Master from Beijing’s Elite Circle, Now a Nepotism Hire in Space 我，京圈大少，在星际当关系户 I’m the Big Shot of Beijing’s Elite Circle, Playing the Well-Connected One Among the Stars —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 I Found a Jade Pendant, and Now the Heirless Wealthy Family Wants Me Back 扫出个玉坠，豪门绝嗣我归位 I Scanned Up a Jade Pendant, and Now the Heirless Wealthy Family Has Welcomed Me Back —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Three Kingdoms: From Deserter to Warlord 三国：从逃卒到枭雄 After transmigrating to the Three Kingdoms era, Chen Qian becomes neither a strategist nor a young noble from an aristocratic family. When he wakes, he is just a dying foot soldier on the Changshe battlefield. The Yellow Turban soldiers are searching the corpses. The Han army is executing deserters. His superiors are stealing credit. The people around him are either starving mad or so terrified they want to run. He can't ride a horse or wield a long halberd, and this body is so frail it ca 566Reads5.5Score12414d adds
- 22 Great Ming: The Emperor Has Gone on a Killing Spree 大明：皇帝杀疯了 Transmigrate to the Chongzhen era + Ming dynasty + soldier king + from the start + make money When he wakes, the top soldier king has become the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian. He faces a hellish start, beset by troubles at home and abroad: Later Jin cavalry are at the gates, the court officials bicker and undermine one another, the treasury is empty, and rebel bands are everywhere. The worst start in history? The soldier king just smiles. This is only a high-difficulty survival-mode dungeon. “I 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 An Unbroken Realm: Transmigrating to the Jin Kingdom as Empress 金瓯无缺：穿越金国当皇后 Tales of the Jin Kingdom: The domineering Taizu dotes on the timid little girl who transmigrated here [One-on-one romance + sweet pampering + two strong leads + satisfying story + older hero + nurturing romance + ensemble cast] “Before I got here, the Host defied fate, suffered heaven's curse and backlash, and offended people left and right. Why do I have to take the fall? I'm just an introvert!” This book recounts what I saw and heard after I transmigrated back more than nine hundred years to a 10Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 24 After Transmigrating to the Cultivation World, I Only Want to Become a Nascent Soul Old Monster 穿越修仙界的我只想成为元婴老怪 No saintly heroics. The pace picks up later on, and the protagonist is ruthless and decisive, with one divine ability and one spiritual physique. What seemed like the very beginning turns out, in the end, to have been nothing more than a dream. Everything was destined in secret from the start, and no one could change it. 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Twins: After My Boss and I Transmigrated, We Swapped Fortunes 双生之跟老板穿越后身家调换了 Two female leads, not a romance between them Not long after graduating from graduate school, Wang He started a new job and transmigrated with her boss, Jiang Daiyu, to an unknown era. The former office drone became the daughter of an official, while the beautiful CEO Jiang Daiyu became a farmer’s daughter, mistreated by her parents. Their once-polite boss-and-subordinate relationship grew intimate the moment they reunited. But before they could enjoy their reunion for long, they were swept up —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 I Became the Heavenly Dao’s Dad by Farming ‘Shock Value’ 我靠刷“震惊值”成为天道爸爸 I Became the Heavenly Dao's Dad by Farming 'Shock Points' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Stranded in the Primitive World with a Gem, Watch Me Build a Civilization 带着宝石漂落原始，看我发展文明 [Ensemble cast] Transmigrating isn’t about having an overwhelming advantage over ancient times. It’s about rethinking the road that brought us here. A desolate prehistoric world, ruled by giant beasts and survival of the fittest, where human life is worth less than grass. No System, no storage space. Everything starts from zero! Knowledge: geology and gemology. Identity: a primitive human. Supplies: a tourmaline and a bottle of mineral water. When real prehistoric survival becomes a reality, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Transmigrate to Become the Chariot God of the Gaoliang River 穿越之高粱河车神 A modern race-car driver accidentally transmigrates into the body of Zhao Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of Song, and unexpectedly begins a life of cheating his way to success. He establishes the first university, pioneers a new era of monetary policy, and sets out to unify the Nine Provinces. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 General, Grand Tutor, Don’t Fight Over Her: She’s from the Modern Era 将军太傅别抢了，她来自现代 [Senior-year high school teacher + transmigrate into another body + both untouched + sweet romance + light political intrigue] “I think of Gongjin in his prime, when he took the young Qiao bride, so spirited and dashing.” Meng Zhiyu, a modern high school teacher, opens her eyes and finds her soul has transmigrated into another Meng Zhiyu, whose birth mother is dead and whose father doesn't care for her. Forced marriage? Scheming in a mansion? I'm not playing along! By chance, she discovers that 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Ten-Thousand-Year Second Male Lead Transmigrates into a Book for Me 万年男二为我穿书 Ruan Yuntang is a sweet, slightly ditzy web novelist. She's used to creating all kinds of characters in her fictional worlds, but her second male leads are always cut from the same cloth: they have every advantage imaginable, yet can never win the love they want. Then one day, her perennial second male lead, Gu Huaian, suddenly transmigrates into her world, covered in wounds, and demands to know why she wrote such a miserable life for him. After getting his answer, Gu Huaian discovers that not o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Stranded in Ancient Times, I Thrive with AI Doubao 人在古代逃荒，AI豆包带我飞 PS: The female leads are all clear-headed and focused on building their careers. The male leads each have their own charms and are never made stupid just to advance the plot. No contrived misunderstandings: everyone is out to make money and build a career. Expect a mix of sweetness and angst! (Three best friends transmigrate into abandoned girls fleeing famine vs. an AI Doubao golden finger vs. survival through farming vs. intense romantic tension vs. strong female leads making a comeback) Thre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Lost Between Two Worlds 双界迷途 A devastatingly handsome but deranged college student searches for the truth while hunted in two worlds: is he cultivating immortality, or has he gone mad? Everyone thinks Lin Yi is crazy. Since he was fifteen, he has been able to see another world: ancient buildings overlapping skyscrapers, people flying through the sky, and spiritual energy flowing through the city like water. He isn’t sure whether it’s a gift or an illness, because his mother “went crazy” the same way and died. He took medica —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 You Said You'd Let Me Ride Your Coattails, So Why Do You Want to Marry Me?! 说好的抱大腿，他竟然想娶我！ [Transmigration + Rebirth + Spatial Dimension + Farming + Fictional Dynasty + Real and Fake Heiresses] Transmigrated heroine x reborn hero, exclusive to each other in both their past and present lives. From the start, Xia Shuangxu is a poor soul sentenced to exile. She leaps straight off a cliff. Better to delete this life and start over! Who knew a spatial dimension would suddenly appear? She changes her household registration and name, and along the way takes as her sworn brother a cultured 1.1kReads8.4Score14114d adds
- 34 Return My Divine Bones 还我神骨 [Beautiful heroine’s stunning comeback + angsty romances with immortal men and mortals + transmigration and fantasy + alternate-world imagination + one couple across three lifetimes] Her boyfriend is left in a vegetative state after an accident, but his soul enters the body of someone in another world. A guardian spirit appears and guides the heroine on a journey to transmigrate and find his soul. As time passes, she discovers that her boyfriend’s coma and her own transmigration are part of a co —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Two Top Students Transmigrate, Each Guarding an Empire 学霸双双穿越，各守一朝江山 Two top scholars in love transmigrate together, only to end up in enemy countries far apart. They love and fight each other amid court intrigue in an ancient dynasty and ancient bioweapons, caught in a battle of wits and a maddening push and pull between love and hate! A surging tide of corpses against a million troops, national enmity and family vendettas against eternal love. It all unfolds in A Dynasty’s Realm!!! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Young Master of the Capital Has Cheats in His Dreams 京圈大少在梦里开挂了 The Young Master of the Capital's Elite Circle Gets Cheats in His Dreams —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The 1970s: The Book-Transmigrated Villainess and the Chaste Officer She Can't Win Over 七零之穿书女配禁欲军官撩不动 Lin Zhixia woke up one day in the 1970s, having transmigrated into a novel as the doomed supporting female character who stole the white-lotus heroine's fiance. The whole village mocked her, her awful relatives leeched off her, and in three months her engagement would be broken off and she would die miserably. Facing her shrewish aunt, who was cursing her out, she calmly pulled out the property deed and called the police. When the village gossip spread slanderous rumors about her, she exposed th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Lan Ke: One Move Decides the Fate of All Under Heaven 烂柯，落子定乾坤 He was an overworked office drone, pulling an all-nighter to revise a PowerPoint presentation. When he opened his eyes, he had become a down-and-out Taoist priest in a ruined temple. No System, no golden finger, just an old book of chess problems that played by itself, and a strange blind man who told him, “You carry the burdens of several lifetimes.” In Qingyang Town, an old tofu seller had been waiting for him for three years. A fox spirit wept beneath the moon, asking whether three hundred ye 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Blue Jade and Smoke 蓝玉生烟 Jiang Yu'er and Jiang Lan'er are daughters of the Jiang family in the capital. The elder sister, Jiang Lan'er, took over the family company just a year ago, while her younger sister, Yu'er, had just returned from overseas. Their father, Jiang Shan, is a refined and courteous chairman of the Jiang Group. To celebrate Yu'er's return from studying abroad, the family held a traditional-style banquet. At the banquet, the sisters couldn’t help wondering how pleased their mother would be if she could 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 What They Wrote 她们写下的 She used to be a criminal defense lawyer in the modern world. She knew how evidence could be edited, and understood how a single sentence could determine whether someone lived or died. After transmigrating, she became an anonymous clerk tasked with copying treaties. She did not plan wars or command massacres. Her only job was to make “decisions” sound legal, clear, and beyond dispute. Every treaty she wrote erased a city from the history books. She knew she was doing evil, but she understood 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Parallel Collapse 平行坍塌 Two-way transmigration + mass transmigration + no System + no special abilities + urban fantasy + sci-fi Two neighboring parallel timelines, Worlds A and B. World A is on the verge of collapse, and its people are gradually disappearing. Meanwhile, the people vanishing from World A are arriving in World B. As World A's population dwindles and it begins to collapse, nearing complete annihilation, what will become of it? World B's population surges, and the humans who transmigrate there begin consu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Purehearted Crown Prince Is On Fire 纯情太子火辣辣 [Romance + both inexperienced in love + scheming cross-dressing male lead vs. carefree heroine] Ji Qingyan transmigrated to ancient times. Right after she got married, her husband, the heir to the marquisate, brought a courtesan home. Everyone thought she'd make a scene and cry her eyes out. Nope. She headed straight to the brothel to enjoy herself, spending a fortune to bring home a famous courtesan. If men could enjoy themselves, so could she! The beautiful courtesan had a slender waist, long 297Reads6.9Score11514d adds
- 43 Chronicles of the Great Yan Martial World 大衍江湖志 [System + transmigration + martial world + tomb raiding + overwhelming advantage] Others transmigrate into the martial world to practice martial arts. Lin Yan transmigrates to “exploit bugs.” In the Great Yan world, grandmasters are everywhere and the martial path is arduous? Lin Yan looks at the thing in his mind called the “System,” which is actually a “program for decoding the world's underlying code,” written by his grandfather after thirty years of painstaking work, and silently picks up hi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Young Master of the Capital's Elite Circles Has an Endless Combo, and the Ghost King Begs Me to Stop Sending Shocks 京圈大少无限连，鬼王求我别发电 The Capital’s Playboy Has an Infinite Streak, and the Ghost King Begs Me to Stop Generating Electricity —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Reborn Cultivator: I Do Whatever I Want 重生修士，我想干嘛就干嘛 The protagonist travels from Blue Star to the cultivation world and back again. In the cultivation world, he obtains the divine artifact Fatewheel Pocket Watch, which lets him travel between different worlds. He does absurd things and only ever takes his own side. Pure wish fulfillment. There will be a harem, but he won’t pick the most expensive options, only the right ones. Every heroine will be unique and have a complete story arc. There won’t be too many heroines, and they’ll remain in the st 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Realm as My Dowry: An Empress's Nation-Building 江山为聘：基建皇后 A civil engineer’s soul transmigrates into the body of a disgraced Empress confined to the Cold Palace. Using her engineering skills, she builds up from a desolate fiefdom and creates a prosperous, powerful kingdom. At last, she reunites on the grand chessboard of the realm with the scheming Emperor who once discarded her without a second thought. They go from playing against each other to ruling the world side by side. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Emerald Green Planet 那颗翠绿的星球 I transmigrated straight into a hellish situation from the start: my wife was frail, I was a bankrupt noble drowning in debt, and I couldn’t even afford next month’s bread! Just as I was losing hope, a divine investor descended from the heavens and activated my golden finger, the [Dream Space]! I thought it was just a completely secure “private room,” but one slip of the hand and I forcibly pulled in the “agents” of other gods! Looking at the future bigwigs staring warily at me, I could only —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Wielding the Scepter 执策行 [Transmigrate into a book, military medical space, survival in exile, the God of War pursues his wife, memories of three lives in reverse order] Overworked battlefield medic He Yanning died suddenly and transmigrated into a tragic historical romance novel, becoming Prince Jing's consort, who was destined to die horribly on the night of her exile, just three days after her wedding. In the original story, Prince Jing's household was falsely accused of colluding with the enemy by treacherous minist 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Birds Fly South to Nest 鸟越南栖 [Farming + transmigration to another world + fleeing famine] An unexpected disaster during a trip inadvertently sends her transmigrating to another world. She arrives in the Tang Dynasty, a real period of Chinese history. But can someone tell her how an ordinary person with no special powers and no official household registration is supposed to survive in these hard times? She doesn’t speak the language, the surroundings are unfamiliar, and she’s all alone. Historical setting: the An Lushan Rebe 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 I, Zhang Jue, Bid the Han Dynasty to Die: Defying Fate to Change My Destiny 贫道张角请大汉赴死，逆天改命 The histories record only the Five Elite Generals of Cao Wei, the Five Tiger Generals of Shu Han, and the Twelve Tiger Ministers of Jiangdong. Behold as I assemble the Five Generals of Heavenly Might, pacify the world, wipe out treacherous villains, and bring the warlords of this chaotic age to heel. I will give the people a peaceful world, where farmers have land to till, everyone has a roof over their heads, the old are cared for, and the young have someone to rely on, and lay the foundation 1Reads—Score—14d adds
