Novels like I Returned from the Lands Between, and the Game Invaded Reality
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Returned from the Lands Between, and the Game Invaded Reality, best match first.
- 101 Hope, I Will Bring the Slaves the True Light of Fire 希望，我将带给奴隶们真正的火光 In a land reminiscent of medieval Europe, there are nobles, heroes who slay dragons, beastfolk, and elves. This fairy-tale world has no place for slaves. But one mine slave dreamed a different dream. He dreamed of a place called the New Homeland. He swore he would make his own homeland just like the New Homeland. In another world, he would establish a government dedicated to the awakened. How would this world change under his resistance? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Forensic Pathologist’s Slip 法医的破绽 Three years ago, her older sister “accidentally” fell from a building. The evidence was erased, the body cremated, and the killer walked free. Lin Wanxing spent three years going from a junior reporter covering local news to an investigative journalist who specializes in digging up scandals. At a crime scene, inside the police cordon, she runs into the legendary chief forensic pathologist. Su Qinghan. The youngest forensic expert in the country, renowned for solving cases and as cold as a blade. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Nighttime Tales from the Old Mountain Village House 山村老宅夜事 After my grandfather passed away, I returned alone to a remote mountain village to take over the century-old ancestral home. Before I left, the village elders warned me again and again: under no circumstances should I break the old house's four taboos. Don't stare into the mirror in the old house late at night. Don't answer calls from outside the courtyard at midnight. Don't open the small back-garden door at three in the morning. And never go upstairs on a stormy night. I dismissed it all as ol 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 After He Took My Core, He Sealed Me Beneath the Tower for Three Hundred Years 剖丹后，他把我镇在塔下三百年 A Heartless Daoist’s Bones × A Water-Dwelling Demon’s Heart I carved out my core to seal the tower, and now I’ve returned to kill Qing Lin carved out half her demon core to save the life of a frail, aloof young Daoist. She thought it was a secret act of protection, a bond between waters and mountain mist. Until the Demon-Sealing Tower of the Xuan Zhen Dao Sect came crashing down, pinning her beneath its depths. As the tower doors closed, she saw him standing at the head of the Daoists, his robe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Before I Drowned, I Awakened 在溺死之前，我觉醒了 Wan Mengyue transmigrates. The moment she’s forced into a water tank as a sacrifice, she isn’t thinking about the eighteen years of her life. Those ordinary parents loved her unconditionally for eighteen years and raised her to the highest level. Everyone laughs at her and calls her useless. Until every liquid in the entire city hardens into blades at once. But later, she discovers that the ritual that made her a sacrifice wasn’t some kind of “awakening.” It was a summoning. People from another —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Great Desire Hunt 欲望的大逃杀 Desire must be held in balance by other desires. When any one desire grows too powerful, it gives rise to something warped and uncanny. The student Su Qing and his close friend Wu Ji are dragged against their will into a battle royale born of desire. Beings from another era descend and charge them with saving the world, promising that if they complete the hunt, their deepest desires will be fulfilled and their fates rewritten. This isn’t a game show watched by an audience. It’s a crisis spawned 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Genshin Impact: The Underworld Rewrites Fontaine, and the Traveler Turns Up the Heat 原神：冥界现枫丹改，旅行上强度 I can't keep writing for now. I didn't handle the early part well, and it's gotten a bit overwhelming. Maybe I'll come back to it when I get the chance. The story has only just reached Liyue at this point. “Cold” but with a bit of a troublemaker streak, Bai Yu is a protagonist who's mainly there to move the plot along. This is really everyone's story. After making a deal with a certain entity, what changes will he bring to the world when he arrives in Teyvat? First, the underworld. There isn't —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 My Younger CEO Is So Thoughtful, This Actress No Longer Has to Hold Back 年下霸总太贴心，影后姐姐轻点宠 [Imperfect Characters | One-on-One Older Woman/Younger Man Romance | Both Each Other's First | Sex Before Love] It all began with attraction at first sight. Physical chemistry kept two people with no connection to each other together for a long time. They were both tacitly agreed never to talk about love. Until one day, Wen Xiyue grew tired. She'd had enough of this anxious, uncertain life that went against her principles, and decided to end this one-sided relationship. But can someone tell her 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 It Wasn’t a Dream: Motherland, Let’s Cultivate Immortality Together 原来不是梦：祖国，咱们一起修仙 When the cultivation world mocked her as a rootless weed, the voice of her motherland reached across time and space: “Fellow countrywoman, we’re bringing you home.” A young woman carrying the wisdom of Chinese technology starts her cultivation journey anew in another world. The ancient legacy she gives back will become the spark that keeps a civilization alive. As both worlds face peril, aid spanning the stars and the bond she shares with her peerless cultivation partner together write a legend 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Legend of Ling Shuang: Prequel to Asking Love on the Immortal Path 凌霜传【仙道问情前传】 Nangong Yu's greatest ambition in life is to be a spoiled wastrel who can eat his fill and wait to die. There isn't a restaurant or teahouse in Jinling City he doesn't know, nor a pleasure boat or song on the Qinhuai River he hasn't experienced. Cricket fighting, gambling, listening to music, sleeping in: he's good at it all. As for cultivating immortality? What a hassle. You have to meditate and seek enlightenment. Nothing beats lying flat. But his father, Nangong Zhengyang, doesn't see it that —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 The Origin of the Wind Spirit 风灵缘起 Before she met her masters, she was just an ordinary little girl. She loved running wild through the fields, sneaking in a little rest while doing chores, and dreaming about a future just beyond her reach. After meeting her masters, she gained six companions close to her own age. Together, they cultivated spiritual power, explored the world, and welcomed each new day. She kept wondering how she could survive in this world. She saw how easily people could fall ill in spirit, and how such afflicti 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 The Crows Will Eventually Fly Higher Than the Sun 群鸦终将高过太阳 Crows foretell disaster and death. Yet we live beneath the crows’ shadow. The crows protect us. They hold back disaster. They hold back death. What did you say? No, the crows you mean aren’t like ours. Please look up. The crow is right there. 876Reads—Score141Shelves
- 113 The Hawk-Eyed Swordsman 隼目刀客 He’s a fast-draw swordsman from the Northwest, stinking to high heaven, with a sword technique like a man chopping wood. But the falcon on his shoulder is sharper than his blade. For the sake of a single flatbread, he steps into the Great Buddha Grotto and sets the Northern Frontier in turmoil. A prince of the Liao kingdom hates him to the core. Martial world bigwigs, battle-hardened frontier troops, and the mysterious Bai family are all after the busted blade in his hands. People are vanishing 260Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 They All Call Me Useless, So I Pull Out a God-Tier Fusion 都说我废物，我反手掏出神级融合 [Campus + Superpowers + Apocalypse + High-IQ Protagonist + Card Fusion + Dark Style + Saving the World] Everyone says I'm an E-rank weakling? The scanner stays silent, my classmates laugh at me, and even the assassins on the dark web treat me like a livestream gag. Until I pull out “God-Tier Fusion.” Villain A: “I want to report him! He bet five bullets right from the start, then fired twice and took out my streamer, and he even insulted me!” Villain B: “He calls that fusion? I clearly saw him c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 The Silent One 孤语者 A light novel, just for casual reading, with no pressure. The main thing is that it’s light. Yu Mu, who grew up in a remote mountain village, has never been one to back down. After awakening his domain, he has a goddess spirit by his side all the way. As it turns out, the two of them are either running for their lives or getting ready to run for their lives. The goddess spirit says that to win in a domain, you have to rely on its rules. Yu Mu refuses. He uses nothing but the opening and closing 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Chronicles of the Bridge Spirit 桥灵记 At midnight, people kept falling to their deaths from Huazhou Bridge. Chen Qiao, an ordinary high school student, awakened an ancient Boundary Guardian Token. From then on, he could see what ordinary people could not: spirits being devoured, vengeful shadows clinging to their victims, and the power of the Dark Abyss seeping into the human world. The bridge spirit Xiaochuan, who had haunted Huazhou Bridge for a thousand years, appeared. The cool, distant young man stood with his sword in hand: “ 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 I Get Stronger Just by Saving Money 只要我攒钱就能变强 Lin Xin loves saving money. In the apocalypse, he awakens a Pixiu System that makes him stronger the more money he saves. He gets a Divine Emperor Art from the start, and his true form leaves every villain stunned! Watch him protect humanity, sweep through the universe, and restore glory! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 A Millennium-Old Medical Soul Takes Over, and a College Student Goes Viral 千年医魂附体，女大学生爆红全网 When Lin Banxia, a modern college student, finds herself sharing her body with an elderly physician from the Tang Dynasty, modern and ancient medicine collide and exchange ideas... A fantastical medical journey of inheritance begins. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Paper Murder 纸杀 A folk-horror app called Night Walk draws Lin Zhou into Chinese taboo scenarios such as “Red and White Spirits Collide” and “Paper Effigies Return to Life.” Death resets the cycle, but after three resets, you vanish without a trace, and he has only one resurrection left. Chinese folk horror + loop resets + death game + folklore research and puzzles 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 From Now On, I’ll Think of You Every Day 从此岁岁念朝朝 “Muchen, your father is getting on in years. He's now in prison, suffering every humiliation, and he's come down with a serious illness. If he's really sent to the frontier to serve in the army for three years, the long, bitterly cold journey will be as good as sending him to his death. Please, have a heart and save your father. Your mother is begging you on her knees.” Before she could finish speaking, Lin Muchen's mother threw herself to her knees before her. The people waiting to see the doct 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Have You Seen My Mr. Bear? 你有看到我的大熊先生吗 [Two Male Leads + Ensemble Cast + Revenge + Supernatural + Dark + Everyone Is Evil + American-Style Horror] Twenty years ago, a fire at summer camp took a boy’s life, leaving behind only the disabled Ethan and everyone’s lies. Now the hunt begins. With Halloween approaching, a butcher wearing a bizarre teddy-bear mask appears in town. In the most horrifying ways, he torments the town’s powerful, respectable figures one by one: the sheriff, the mayor, the principal... When Ethan shakily asks in s 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 I Am Divine Retribution 我即是天罚 After the spiritual qi revival, many cultivators emerged, growing stronger by absorbing spiritual energy. Naturally, many cultivation families rose to prominence. The realms, measured by spiritual energy, are Dust, Mud Embryo, Grass and Wood, River, Mountains and Rivers, Sea and Sky, Star System, Nebula, and Singularity. The protagonist, Gu Chen, is an illegitimate son of the head of the Shen family, a third-rate power in the cultivation world. His birth caused strange phenomena in heaven and ea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Fir Kisses the Orchid 冷杉吻幽兰 Childhood friends + unexpected cohabitation + rekindled romance + aloof childhood sweetheart + two-faced girl + intensely possessive male lead + workplace reunion + sweet romance and happy ending It turns out every long-awaited reunion is a wish secretly plotted, finally coming true. “Since we're living together, we might as well get married.” In their senior year of high school, she broke up with him abruptly because of her own insecurity, then vanished without a trace. Years later, he used an 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 A Dream of the Mortal World, a Carefree Wanderer 一梦红尘逍遥客 How can you speak of carefree freedom without entering the mortal world? In Huaiyin Village, a mischievous boy named Shitou heard a heartbeat beneath the earth by the well. He had no idea that he bore the karmic debt of eighteen thousand ancestors of the Luban Sect, who had all sacrificed themselves for the Dao. Nor did he know that the thunderstruck jujube-wood Pixiu in his arms was both a blessing and a curse. When the old well began to seep with rusty blood, and the cries of the "Dancing Dead —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Big Shot Dad: Taking My Adorable Kid to Conquer the World 大佬奶爸：带着萌娃打天下 (Not a mindless wish-fulfillment story: urban fantasy, farming, romance, and a System. Not suitable for minors.) A billionaire CEO unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a total scumbag. He has no wealthy family backing him, no golden finger, and is forced to take in three burdensome kids! He plans to walk away, but when he sees the little ones' big, watery eyes, this whole mess... damn it, why am I actually starting to like it? From a scumbag hated by the entire internet to the nation's fa 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Beyond Redemption 万劫不复 Three thousand years after the great war between the Galactic Domain and the alliance of demon races, turmoil once again descends upon the universe. The protagonist, Jiang Shang, is an Earthling from the Milky Way, but he is abandoned by the major human factions. By chance, he enters the demon race and becomes half-human, half-demon. Later, he returns to the Milky Way and unifies t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 The Bronze Box That Subdues the World 镇世铜盒 A low-level office drone buried in debt unexpectedly awakens a family heirloom with the power to appraise treasures. Starting out by finding overlooked bargains at flea markets, he sweeps through the antique black market, jade gambling exchanges, and the real estate business. As he uncovers the truth behind his parents' disappearance, he reunites with old friends and foils the schemes of the underground cultural relics conglomerate, the Fengling Bureau. He retrieves the national treasures scatte 3Reads—Score161Shelves
- 128 After Drinking My Blood, the Cold Dragon Princess Started Acting Cute 吸我血后，高冷龙姬撒娇了 (The rating just came out, so it’ll rise. I hope 🥲) [Original illustrations + no System + traditional fantasy + magitech + Western Fantasy + romance + adventure] Aether has run dry and magic has fallen. This is a fractured age where traditional magic and magitech intertwine. Luxion: Saint City Academy’s only “F-rank special companion student,” with zero magical sensitivity, dismissed as “dust that happens to be alive.” Nono (Yalisticinia): The brightest dragon-born star of the Western Empire, a 155Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 129 Winning Over the Host Is a Bit of a Challenge 攻略宿主有点傻 [Slow-paced. The title of the only world can't be changed.] [System, campus, ensemble cast, redemption, mutual devotion, healing] An innocent little Host × a tsundere, sharp-tongued cat System. They bicker in their daily lives while helping their friends heal. This is a slow-burn story. Bai Li has lived in an orphanage since she was little. The only person who was kind to her was the headmistress. Bai Li is very beautiful, but her mind is only that of a seven- or eight-year-old child. When the 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Seven Days of Danger, Seven Days Without Gods 七日危神，七日无神 No brainless antics, no cliches, no System, no harem, but plenty of satisfaction. The more miserable the protagonists are early on, the more rewarding things get later. If it doesn't satisfy you, come at me. A mysterious white-haired man who calls himself "Heaven" is desperately searching for Zhang Ci, while a middle-aged man who calls himself the "Savior" reveals a century-old truth to the entire world. Do gods really exist? Am I actually a sacrifice to the gods? I've tried to protect you in ev 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 A Not-So-Proper History of High School 不正经的高中记史 A boy's flustered shyness and a girl's soft laughter are always youth's most beautiful scene. As children, we long for the freedom of growing up; as adults, we miss the carefree days of childhood. Only the young, with their youthful passion and budding love, make us wish we could stay. We were reckless, and we had regrets, but if time could turn back, we would do it all again. What is a secret crush, and what is love? Faced with these hard-to-understand questions, two boys give different answers 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Super Life Simulator: I Won the Lottery 超级人生模拟器，我中了彩票 Super Life Simulator: I Won the Lottery —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 A Little Spitball of an Article 口水小文章 Who doesn't have a few little daydreams in their life? The story of Yuan Chao and Liu Jiali is full of them. They're sudden flights of fancy amid life's daily necessities, strange encounters on city streets and country lanes, and the warm dreams of two people walking side by side. A little story wraps up every three chapters, with a hundred unique tales and a thousand chapters without a break. There's everyday warmth, a touch of romance, wild ideas, and heartfelt tenderness. From dawn to dusk, f 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 After Reading Minds, the Noble Consort Just Wants to Snack and Watch the Show 贵妃读心后只想吃瓜看戏 [1vN, mind-reading, gossip, lie flat, face-slapping, twists, heroine awakens, heroine shines on her own] I, Su Daji, uh, I mean Su Tang, stayed up all night gaming and died suddenly. When I opened my eyes, I had become a consort who had just been sentenced to death and sent to the Cold Palace. The emperor despised her, the empress was vicious, and every concubine in the palace was waiting to see her reduced to bones. But no one knew she had gained the ability to read minds. [The empress's inner 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 King of Men in a World of Men! 在只有男人的世界做男人的王！ Become the king of men in a world with only men! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 My Five Best Friends: Heaven, Please Save Me! 我的五个好朋友:老天爷快救救我 My Five Best Friends: Heaven, Please Save Me 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 My Husband Abused Me. After I Was Reborn, I Made Him Beg on the Streets 老公家暴：重生后我让他沿街乞讨 My Husband Abused Me: After Being Reborn, I Made Him Beg on the Streets 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 A Woman's Tears: The Pain of Finding a New Man 女人泪：寻找新的男人是痛苦的 A Woman’s Tears: Finding a New Man Is Painful 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 An Affair or a Special Contract? 出轨还是特殊契约？ When your wife, who wears black stockings every day, starts “working overtime” all the time, and the boss gives her black stockings from the start while she carries suspicious items, what would you think? Would you go with the most straightforward answer: she’s cheating? Or could the reason be more complicated? All the evidence points to a stranger possibility: some kind of secret pact that can’t be spoken of? A husband, the boss’s son, and a retired reconnaissance soldier form an absurd inve 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Table Tennis Reigns Supreme 乒霸天下 A young man who used to haul bricks at construction sites gets the chance to work as a coach at a basketball court. Life puts him through his paces, and he fulfills the mission of today’s youth. You may be very capable, but you have to love your country... 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Dream Journal: The Deep Sea of the Subconscious 梦境日记，潜意识的深海 [Not a mindless story. Fast-paced, heartwarming, and original. Comments welcome.] I write whatever I dream of, so I promise it’ll be different from everyone else’s stories. My best friend is actually the villainous boss? The psychiatrist has defected? Am I really supposed to just take a beating? No way. Haven’t I awakened the power of purification? I, Lin Wan, am about to save the world! This is more than self-healing: it’s a head-on confrontation with the shadows within. My diary is a treatment 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 How Could I Possibly Not Have a Wife? 我怎么可能没有老婆 [A cool, beautiful bottom who’s secretly a lovesick romantic VS a lovesick ghost top who adores his wife and wants to cling to her] [Two male leads, both virgins, one-on-one, romance in an infinite loop, light horror, age gap...] [Ximing Tower] After a car accident, Xin Yi, who had been single for twenty years, became someone else’s wife. And her husband had forced her into the marriage? Xin Yi didn’t care. “He’s just an NPC. I’ll think of it as getting bitten by a dog.” Her NPC husband chuckled 4Reads—Score129Shelves
- 143 Nation: Don’t Panic, We’ll Help You Grind Through the System 国家：别慌，我们帮你一起熬系统 Ding! The Myriad Heavens Plunder System No. 9527 has bound itself to Host Lin Mo. “Newbie mission: jump from the tenth floor and receive a god-tier physique!” Lin Mo: “No way. I’m afraid of heights.” “Warning! Refusing the mission will result in your death!” Lin Mo: “Oh, go ahead and do it. If I die, you die too.” The System: “…” The System had been alive for a hundred thousand years and had never met a Host this shameless. Everyone else called their System “Dad,” but Lin Mo treated it like a gr 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 A Chapter of the Heart 心之章 #HardScienceFiction #ParallelUniverses #MultipleDimensions #Plot #Mystery #CivilizationalAscension #UnsolvedMysteries #Exploration #Containment #Cthulhu #Apocalypse #Metaphysics #Occultism #Telepathy #QuantumPhysics #QuantumEntanglement #Mind #Consciousness Reading Heart Chapter is a continuous journey of expanding your understanding. You’ll find yourself asking: · How should the value of a civilization be measured? By its technological level, the length of its survival, or the depth of its emo 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 The Sorrowful Chaobai River 幽怨的潮白河 The Melancholy Chao Bai River —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Transmigrated into Xiang Yu, I Saved Yu Ji and Built the Great Chu Empire 魂穿项羽，救了虞姬，铸大楚帝国 [Tragic Overlord + Lady Yu who dies for love + engineering graduate's soul transmigration + Wu River death trap from the start + Great Chu Empire + immortal martial life] The Overlord cultivates immortality? No, once I've saved Lady Yu, beaten Liu Bang into submission, and unified the Central Plains, I'll go explore. The starting point of the Overlord's Palace in an immortal martial world. Return to Earth and let Lady Yu experience a different kind of adventure. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 After Becoming an Ancient Idol, I Opened a Top-Tier Star Inn 穿成古代爱豆后我开了家顶流客栈 After Reincarnating as an Ancient Idol, I Opened an Inn for Top-Tier Stars 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Memory Loss from the Start: A World in Chaos 开局失忆世界大混乱 Amnesia from the start + a System that makes life miserable + a world turned upside down. He wakes up with all his memories erased, and the world has gone completely off the rails: modern residential complexes have become ancient martial-arts settings, gym equipment has turned into legendary martial arts weapons, and all the modern people in the city have vanished, leaving only experts who crossed over from a wuxia world. He’s forced to bind himself to a sharp-tongued, freeloading System with bi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Alleged Incident at Cabbage Apartment 圆白菜公寓的莫须有事件 In the strangely designed and poorly managed Cabbage Apartment, Marcus, an honest second-floor tenant, is accused of “noise pollution” over a complaint that has no basis. The downstairs residents, the building manager, and a string of so-called “experts” join forces to subject him to a drawn-out, absurd investigation. Trying to prove his innocence, Marcus gives ground step by step, cooperating with all manner of ridiculous tests and repair plans, only to discover that he has fallen into a trap l —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 The Whole World Is Against Me? So What? 举世皆敌？那咋了？ [Ensemble-Style Story + Rival Nations + Political Schemes + Jianghu Heroics + One Female Lead] [An alternate-world novel. It is not based on history and should not be treated as a historical reference. This is not a mindless power fantasy. The plot is carefully developed, the logic is rigorous, and there is no System or golden finger. There are no idiotic villains or plotlines that make characters stupid. Readers are asked to be patient.] In the depths of winter, the young Su Que lost his closes 22Reads—Score—Shelves
