Novels like Reborn: Becoming My Own Substitute
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- 1 Dear Husband, Could You Please Die? 老攻啊，你能去死吗？ [Low ratings for a new book mean its score will rise + two male leads + corrupted white lotus + revenge] His lover betrayed him. He will make him understand what hell is. I’m no good at writing blurbs, so just dive right in! No need to think, just go for it! 8.7kReads8.7Score71914d adds
- 2 Get Down on Your Knees! He's My Husband, and He's Begging Me for a Kiss 跪远点！他是我老婆，在求我亲亲 [Two Male Leads + ABO + Bullet-Comment Punishment + Forceful, Possessive Love Interest Takes the Top] [Roguish, twisted top vs. guileless, absent-minded bottom with a bleeding disorder] After both his parents died, Yu Sui’an was taken in by the Shen family and betrothed to their eldest son when they were children. One day, bullet comments suddenly appeared before his eyes: [Slap him! Shen the Scumbag cheated again, and you’re still following him around? Trying to give the readers breast canc 6.3kReads7.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 3 Only After I Died Did I Discover My Ex Was a Werewolf 死后才发现前任是狼人 Only After I Died Did I Discover My Ex Was a Werewolf 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Was It Just for Fun? Why Are You Crying Now That I Have a Terminal Illness? 不是玩玩而已？我得绝症你哭什么 Original title: Can You Leave a Sweet Orange by My Grave? Cool boxer bottom × seemingly nice-guy but actually wicked, flirtatious top (First person + chasing the spouse into the crematorium + melodrama + tragic ending) Li Feng is a coward. After learning he has a terminal illness, he decides to earn enough money and then die. Before then, a man named Qin Xiao suddenly barges into his life. Suddenly, he doesn’t want to die anymore. He wants to live. Just as he’s about to tell Qin Xiao ever 17kReads9.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 5 She Is a Man 她是男人 She Is a Man 33Reads—Score214d adds
- 6 Brother, If I Kiss You, Your Boyfriend Won't Get Jealous, Right? 哥哥，我亲你，你男友不会生气吧 [Failed pursuit of the wife + switching to a new gong + younger man + intense push and pull] [Green-tea, sweet-on-the-outside-and-dark-within puppy gong Baili Can X gentle, elegant recipient Ji Su'er] [Both pure] Ji Su'er pursued Qin Mo for seven years, only to get a single sentence from the scumbag: “You disgust me.” He’d loved him for so long, but it took only one night to walk away. His friend set up a night out drinking, but Ji Su'er went straight home with a college guy. After drinking, the 6.3kReads9.5Score99214d adds
- 7 Do I Really Have to Be Your Master? 这师尊非做不可吗 [Signed for print publication] My disciple is looking at me strangely. I really want to run away Sweet romance + equally matched leads + one-on-one + secret identities + irreverent cultivation Liu Yu'an transmigrates into a book and becomes the cannon-fodder master of the arrogant male lead. The male lead is gifted, but he takes the demonic path. To keep the plot moving, Liu Yu'an fusses over the male lead every day, showing him every kindness in an effort to bring him back to the righteous pat 65.4kReads9.1Score10.9k14d adds
- 8 The Reborn CEO's Plan for Unconditional Devotion 重生总裁，极致偏爱计划 (The top is reborn and dotes on the bottom; devoted top x aloof bottom) (The bottom has had a pretty miserable life, so bottom fans, beware) “Three hundred and sixty-five nights, and not even six thousand a night? Are you damn well worth that much?” In his previous life, Shang Yan kicked Xia Rongxu out of the villa over a misunderstanding. He didn’t regret it until he watched that frail figure breathe their last. For more than seven hundred days and nights, alone with the rest of his life before 29.3kReads9.3Score3.2k14d adds
- 9 A Guide to Getting Your Husband Killed 求丈夫去世教程 [Two male leads + tragic love and bitter hatred + adversaries turned lovers + happy ending + imprisonment and coercion + both reborn + both villains + both devoted to each other] Original title: The Barren Sea of Happiness In the year when their hatred was at its fiercest, Li Quegui floored the accelerator and sent his husband and sworn enemy to his death, then took his own life. When he opened his eyes again, Lin Xianqiu was sitting by the bed, looking at him with concern. He was seven years y 10kReads9.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 10 Abandoning the Blackened Dragon-Prince, Only to Be Brutally... 弃养黑化龙傲天，死遁是要被狠狠 [Dual male leads + transmigrate into a book + Cultivation + younger love interest + a touch of ensemble cast + devoted to each other + two powerful leads] Evil black-and-white cat villain bottom Ning Henshui, with questionable mental health, x prickly, leveling-up-school overpowered male lead top Xie Zhizui In his hundredth year of struggling his way through the cultivation world and rising to the top of the demon realm, Ning Henshui transmigrated into a book, and the long-offline Villain Comeba 41.3kReads9.3Score6.9k14d adds
- 11 A Secret Crush Hidden in Spring 春日藏欢喜 [Reunion after a long separation + slow-burn romance + sweet little moments + entirely fictional + a story within a story within a story + pure fiction, with no real-life inspiration] Aloof, taciturn, and sexually frigid (gong) ☆ Lu Xingheng × emotionally steady and always cold (shou) ☆ Jiang Wan This story is set in a fictional world, and every chapter is entirely made up and unrelated to real life. It is a work of pure fiction based on hearsay, written in an irrational state and containing 238.3kReads8.0Score5.4k14d adds
- 12 A Dog with No Home 丧家之犬 Also known as Chu Tian’s Vast Horizons. Chu Tian loved Xu Chenyang for five years, giving him his whole heart, but that still couldn’t compete with Xu Chenyang’s first love saying, “Let’s start over.” He tried to make Xu Chenyang stay, but was betrayed all the same. After grieving, he let go without hesitation. At the lowest point in his life, Chu Tian met the man who would change everything: Zhou Mo. Mature and gentle, Zhou Mo carefully drew Chu Tian into his world, step by step. He understood 9.8kReads9.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 13 The Little Emperor Imprisoned by the Left and Right Chancellors 被左相右相囚禁的小皇帝 After the Beijing Rebellion, the imperial family of the Yu Dynasty was handed over to the Northern Barbarians, who subjected them to every kind of humiliation. The only survivor was a ten-year-old prince. The capital was moved to Nanjing, and the boy ascended the throne at ten, with the two chief ministers doing their utmost to support him. But the young emperor was unable to have children. Little by little, he fell into another abyss. He said he loved him deeply, yet their struggle was a fight 9.5kReads6.4Score60114d adds
- 14 Wild Taming 野性驯养 The physical edition of Yanziqi is now available on all platforms. The wicked get their comeuppance. A cunning, cold-hearted crown prince x a volatile, insecure, sickly bottom Mutual torment + rekindled romance + melodrama + suspenseful twists + 1v1 + coercive love When Liang Yan was a child, his father brought home another boy. The boy looked like a beggar, hardly spoke, and was painfully thin. His father told him the boy would be his companion in study: he was quiet and would become his best f 16.2kReads9.5Score2.7k14d adds
- 15 The Corrupted Moon Was Redeemed After Her Rebirth 黑化月亮复生后，被救赎了 Fan Favorite / Pairing Undecided (Anything Is Possible) / Mutual Salvation / White Moonlight Returns from the Dead Qing Yan died in the Zhang Family Ancient Tower, in Black Glasses' arms. Years later, he returned and appeared before the Nine Gates once more, but everything had changed beyond recognition. Suspicion and heart palpitations, probing and cautiousness. After countless rescues and glimmers of hope, who, in the end, saved whom? Are you really him... Did you really come back...? Now tha 6.9kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 16 My Scumbag Emperor Was Reborn 我的渣皇帝重生了 Prince Ning Yin Luanting, whose power dominates the court, falls under the emperor's suspicion. Sick in body and weary in heart, he resigns and leaves the capital, his illness weighing him down. Three years later, the sole guard he took with him gallops into the imperial city bearing Yin Luanting's ashes and keepsake, announcing his death and delivering his final words: Yin Luanting is dead. He has no intention of rebellion. Your Majesty can rest easy. The emperor is overcome with grief. His old 16kReads9.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 17 Whale Fall into the Abyss 鲸落深渊 Little fish, little fish, may you swim out of the abyss soon. His younger brother, whom he had raised by hand despite no blood relation, sent him to a detention center for two years to “set him straight” and told him to come out once he was normal. Those two years were a nightmare that devoured him, one he could never wake from. His body and mind were tormented, his feelings worn away, and he was trained into numb, hopeless submission. “Knowing you raised me makes me sick. Why don’t you just die 23kReads8.1Score4k14d adds
- 18 EN Trapped in a Novel: The Stunning Villain and the Darkened Hero's Obsessive Love 穿书：绝美反派被黑化男主强制爱 (Complete) BL + both leads are chaste + transmigrate into a book + cultivation + confinement Straight man Ning Ke wakes up one day inside the cultivation novel written by his younger sister. From the start, he’s destined to be the villain, tortured and killed by the male lead! Fortunately, a System appears at the crucial moment and binds itself to him. It turns back time and sends him to the male lead’s past to fix plot holes and keep himself alive! So Ning Ke dons secret identities and, one aft 11.2kReads9.6Score1.8k14d adds
- 19 Diary from a Conversion Therapy Center 戒同所日记 A diary recording the final two months of my life... Maybe I'm just not meant to be loved. Otherwise, why would everyone who loved me leave? 12.8kReads8.2Score2.4k14d adds
- 20 Older Men!! A Ferrari Is Still a Ferrari, Even When It’s Old 年上！！法拉利老了依然是法拉利 Older woman!! A Ferrari is still a Ferrari, even when it's old. 32.5kReads—Score44714d adds
- 21 This King's Sleeve Is Thoroughly Severed 本王这袖，断的彻底 [Preorders for The World Cannot Keep What It Loves Most open at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 15. For the first 15 minutes, signed copies are available with no quantity limit; from 16 to 30 minutes, copies personally signed by the author are available with no quantity limit!] [Two male leads + The prince has a bit of a sense of humor] Everyone knew Prince Pu was gay. Even the man on the imperial throne turned a blind eye. Prince Pu had loved many people in his life. A horseman from the frontier 34.6kReads9.6Score5k14d adds
- 22 After the Immortal Venerable Was Publicly Jilted, She Became the Emperor’s Wife 仙尊被当众退婚后，成了帝尊夫人 Powerful Master of the Six Realms VS Beautiful, Cold Immortal Venerable 1: Su Wenqing was unlucky. He had just sealed the Demon Venerable and lost all his cultivation when his fiance publicly broke off their engagement. Su Wenqing was glad to be rid of the fuss. No one knew that beneath his cold heart, he had a cherished corner where, for thirty years, he had used his heart's blood and all his spiritual power to nourish a fragment of a soul. Then, on the very day his engagement was broken off, t 8.3kReads9.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 23 Bound by a Madman's Grudge 怨骨疯缠 Publication rights have been signed. Originally titled Grudgebound Bones [Double madness + a truly ghostly male lead + twisted love + forced confinement romance + lovers bound by pure hatred + happy ending] “We're better off hating each other. Never tell me you love me, or I'll kill you.” The two had been inseparable friends at the orphanage, once linking pinkies and promising never to part for the rest of their lives. Then one year, a wealthy couple came to adopt a child. They took a liking to 178.1kReads9.6Score39.5k14d adds
- 24 EN Whose Simp of a Male Supporting Character Gets Held and Kissed by the Male Lead? 谁家舔狗男配被男主抱在怀里亲啊 [Irresistible bottom, bittersweet romance, angst first and sweetness later, livestream variety show, a chaotic love polygon, two male leads, both virgins, happy ending] Wen Yanyu, a universally hated supporting character who hounded the male lead relentlessly and dragged himself into a storm of public outrage, suddenly awakens to his own consciousness. The System binds him and sends him off on missions. After countless cycles of torment leave him exhausted in body and mind, Wen Yanyu returns wit 56kReads9.5Score7.2k14d adds
- 25 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun 二哈和他的白猫师尊 [The audiobook adaptation of the same name, starring Gu Jiangshan and Sanshi, is complete. Tune in and give it a listen!] Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning's disciple had been a mistake. His master was far too much like a cat, while he was like a silly dog wagging its tail and fawning over him. Dogs and cats can't reproduce together, and the silly dog hadn't wanted to reach out his fluffy paws toward that cat in the first place. He'd always thought dogs should be with dogs, like his senior bro 100.9kReads9.7Score19.5k14d adds
