Novels like The Number One Courtesan
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Number One Courtesan, best match first.
- 1 Ten Years After Our Breakup, He Shows Up with His Fiancée to Collect a Debt 分手十年，他搂着未婚妻来讨债 Ten Years After Their Breakup, He Shows Up with His Fiancée to Collect a Debt 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Battling the Vermilion Gates 斗朱门 Yin Xuesu never imagined that one day she would become a surrogate, carrying a child for someone else. * “Just give my husband and me an heir. Don't entertain any improper thoughts. Remember, my husband isn't yours, and neither is the child...” But, Madam, you never told me you'd take my life from me, too. Heaven has given me another chance to live. The child was mine all along. Now your husband, your place as mistress of the household, and everything you have will soon be mine. * Primar 55.5kReads9.0Score8.4kShelves
- 3 Can I Autopsy You? 我能解剖你吗？ “If you’re going to leave me...” “Leave your body behind...” “Don’t sneak off like last time, when I cut you into eight pieces...” “If you really have to go, give me your heart and liver. They’re no use to you anymore...” A sinister song rang out through the dark theater. At center stage, a silver wheel spun, and a shadow whirled and leaped along with it... Like a giant human music box. When the performance was over, the shadow bowed lightly and gracefully to the empty audience. “Thank you...” “ 5.3kReads9.3Score929Shelves
- 4 The Ultimate Heiress to Wealth and Fortune 最佳富贵千金 [Just got a rating! It'll go up later! Thanks to everyone who left comments and helped this little-known book get its first rating! I'm grateful to you all!] Lu Chenzhou is a wealthy young heir, charming and carefree. He thinks he's a master of seduction. He enjoys her innocence and dependence, never realizing that he's already a moth caught in her web. Zhou Mushen is a cool-headed, shrewd rising star in the business world. She captivates him at first sight, and when they work together, he mista 653Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 5 Good Grief! The Fox Cub I Picked Up Is the Enemy Nation's Empress 要命！捡的狐狸崽子竟是敌国皇后 (The rights to an animated comic have been sold. Stay tuned!) Strong male and female leads Palace intrigue Lovers turned enemies The male lead’s arduous pursuit of his wife The second male lead takes the spotlight He Ruo Xingyao, the Northern Wei saintess and youngest daughter of Imperial Preceptor He Ruo Fu, can read the stars, command beasts, and practice Gu sorcery. Beautiful as a flower, she is Northern Wei’s most esteemed woman, and was chosen from childhood to become its future empress. 13.5kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
- 6 The Dead Concubine Becomes the Duke’s Mansion’s Cousin Miss 死去的外室她成了国公府的表小姐 Original title: Passing as a Noblewoman [Historical ensemble cast] [Power struggles] [Not reborn] [Plot-driven] [Romance] [Male lead is sexually inexperienced] [Ensemble cast, multiple protagonists, multiple perspectives] [Pei Yuehuan and Chen Man are both heroines. The protagonist field cannot be changed after the contract is signed, so it lists the main pairing of this story.] The imperial capital holds many secrets, and much resentment. There are merchants falsely accused and thrown into pris 42.4kReads9.4Score4.6kShelves
- 7 The Grand Justice of the Court of Justice, Courted by Every Brothel, Is a Woman 全青楼都在攻略的大理寺卿是女的 [Female-led + no romance + strong heroine + political intrigue + mystery solving] After the emperor decreed that their children were to be betrothed from birth, the Duchess of Zhenguo disguised her daughter as a boy. She kept up the act for over twenty years. As the Duke's “second son,” she could not inherit the title, so she took the imperial examinations and entered the court. Everyone said Lord Gu, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, was a heaven-sent genius. No one knew that beneat 581Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 8 I Give You Half a Lifetime, You Give Me the Rest of Yours 半生换你余生，余生予你真心 I'll give you half my life in exchange for the rest of yours, and devote the rest of mine to loving you truly. 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Fainted After Storming Out, Then Took My Family to Ancient Times 吵架出门晕倒，我带全家穿越古代 One moment, my wife and I had a huge fight at home, and I stormed out. The next, I collapsed by the roadside and woke up to my wife twisting my ear! I opened my eyes: a crumbling mud-brick shack, coarse clothes, and a desolate village from ancient times! I was stunned! And even more unbelievably: My wife was there, our child was there, and my parents were there too! All five of us had transmigrated together to the Great Wei Dynasty! We were all modern people, starting out dirt-poor and drowning 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn After My Best Friend Pushed Me in Front of a Knife, I Went on a Rampage 被闺蜜推出去挡刀，重生后我杀疯 My Best Friend Used Me as a Human Shield. After Being Reborn, I Went on a Rampage 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Flash Marriage: The True Heiress Marries a Warlord Tycoon 闪婚，真千金嫁给了军阀大佬 Young Marshal Cheng Tianxun was swamped with military affairs and hated clingy, persistent women most of all. He had no time to deal with them. Qin Yan promised to turn a deaf ear to his affairs, never make a scene or demand his affection. Winning his trust, she successfully married into the military governor’s household in a flash marriage. After the wedding, each of them got what they wanted and kept the other at arm’s length. The marriage went smoothly. Until he said, “It’s not very appropria 64.1kReads9.2Score9.6kShelves
- 12 After the CEO Broke Off Our Engagement, the Government Recruited Me 霸总退婚后，我被国家征招了 Shen Yue reaches Foundation Establishment, then descends into the mortal world, burdened with enormous debts and betrayed by her fiancé. Fiancé: “My true love is back, and she has a three-year-old child. I have to take responsibility. Sorry.” Warning: Brain-storage area. This novel has no logic, no logic, no logic. Don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously. 111.3kReads9.3Score18kShelves
- 13 In Ancient Times, the Powerful Keep Taking What They Want 人在古代，权贵步步强夺 In her third year in the ancient world, the person who had sheltered Zhu Qingyu became embroiled in a legal case. Gu Zhao, heir to the Duke of Dingguo, offered his help. “Just this once,” he said. A fleeting night of passion was an ending for her, but only the beginning for him. Gu Zhao lived by the principles of self-restraint and keeping his heart in check. He was upright and proper in all things, except that he couldn’t suppress his endless greed, anger, and desire for a married woman. He 62.4kReads9.0Score9.6kShelves
- 14 Reborn and Taking Back My Ex? Have You Lost Your Mind? 重生还吃回头草，疯了吧？ [Reborn + face-slapping + regret + chasing his wife to the crematorium + household intrigue + second male lead wins] Lin Baozhu spent her whole life serving her parents-in-law and caring for her husband. Even when her sister-in-law, sent back to her family after being divorced, glared at her with hostility, she still greeted her with a beaming smile! Yet even after she’d warmed the stone lions at the Yan family gates, she and her husband remained nothing more than courteous companions. She thoug 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Sole Possession of Spring: Stones from Other Mountains 独占春：他山之石 [Also known as: When My Late Husband Returned, My Stepson Went Mad!] "Both leads are virgins + Younger male lead + He’s been plotting this for a long time" Lin Yitao became a widow at seventeen. To continue the family line, her husband’s family adopted a young boy and made him her legitimate son. The boy was exceptionally gifted, and under her guidance he quickly went from an unknown nobody to the celebrated Jade Carver of the capital. No one knew that the Jade Carver was steadily plotting to ma 19.1kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
- 16 Tricked into Marriage by an Uncle-Circle Top-Tier Star 被叔圈顶流骗婚了 [Marriage first, love later + age gap + pure-hearted, love-struck male celebrity × career-driven female assistant who has sworn off love + wily old fox × little hedgehog (animal archetypes)] After a car accident, Lin Zhixia goes home with Zheng Sinong, a top-tier star in the “older uncle” scene. She agrees to marry him that very day, and they get their marriage certificate the next. As soon as they get the certificate, they're trending! One hot search after another! Are they trying to make her s 953Reads8.7Score108Shelves
- 17 Reborn on the Eve of Going to the Countryside: This Time, I'll Be an Unfilial Lone Wolf 重生下乡前夕：这一世我只做不孝孤狼 Reborn on the Eve of Being Sent to the Countryside: This Time, I’ll Be an Unfilial Lone Wolf 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 After Getting Together with a Eunuch, the Real Princess Was Reborn 和阉贼在一起后，真公主重生了 When Rong Yao was six, she was poisoned and her mind was damaged, leaving her an idiot. Everyone said she had the wits of a six-year-old. To survive, Rong Yao sneaked into the palace and became Princess Shengping's personal maid. She washed the princess's feet and rubbed her back every day, doing light chores. Grateful to Princess Shengping for not despising her as an idiot, Rong Yao secretly climbed into the bed of the powerful eunuch Qi Shen when the princess asked her to become his companio 214kReads9.2Score38.3kShelves
- 19 Spring Tide Night Crossing, the Cousin Miss Is Clearly a Scoundrel 春潮夜渡，表姑娘渣得明明白白 Forbidden love #Intense Push and Pull #Beautiful and Broken #Mutual Redemption It wasn't love at first sight, nor was it planned from the start. It was love that grew over time, and love that grew over time! - Wen Yizhen, the jewel of a Jiangnan tea merchant family, is sold as a coveted courtesan in Yangzhou after her family is destroyed. After escaping, she takes her unmentionable skills and intoxicating, bone-deep fragrance to seek refuge with her aunt at the marquis's estate, only to become 80.3kReads9.2Score10.5kShelves
- 20 Uncle, Your Little Darling Has Grown Up. Please Take Care of Me for the Rest of My Life 大叔你的小可怜长大了余生请多指教 Uncle, Your Little One Has Grown Up. Please Guide Me for the Rest of My Life 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 On a Whim, I Kissed My Brother’s Close Friend 脑子一热，强吻了我哥的同窗好友 [Love at First Sight + Instinctive Attraction + System's Help] The System picks the wrong person, and on the first day it binds itself to Xie Yige, it triggers a forced-kiss mission. In a moment of impulsiveness, she steals the first kiss of her older brother's classmate right in front of everyone. And she leaves him stunned with two kisses in a row. He is the eldest son of the Cui clan of Qinghe, a man who abides by all four thousand family rules and keeps saying, “This is utterly improper.” Ye 146.6kReads9.1Score18kShelves
- 22 Flirting with the Grand Tutor: Strangers in Public, Like Spouses in Private 勾太傅，人前不熟人后如做了夫妻 Main story complete (award-winning entry in the Fifth Online Literature Contest) While the top-ranking scholar husband slept soundly, Song Lian clung to the immaculate and upright Grand Tutor of the court, sobbing, "Please, save me..." What had she done wrong? She just didn't want to die. The family rules were merciless, the Grand Princess would suffer no rivals, and her husband wanted to become the princess's consort. Song Lian had only one way out: hang herself. So she summoned her courage and 140.3kReads9.2Score20.3kShelves
- 23 After Mistaking the Forced-Love Countdown for an Affection Meter 错把强制爱倒计时当好感值后 (Realistic, with a touch of cult) Having endured hardship as a child, Lin Xinsheng worked tirelessly and valued her career more than life itself. At last, she became a star agent at a major talent agency. Still, she often felt that the people at her company had something wrong with their brains. Executives who liked playing out obsessive love stories with their subordinates, trainees carrying Systems, and artists who never thought about their careers and only wanted to play emotional tug-of-war 21.7kReads9.0Score4.2kShelves
- 24 The Capital’s Crown Prince’s Sweet Seduction Trap 京圈太子爷的甜诱陷阱 The Sweet Seduction Trap of the Capital's Young Master 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Transmigrated Legitimate Daughter: Only After the Whole Family Regretted It Did They Learn She Was a Kind Soul from Another World 穿越嫡女：全家悔疯后才知她是人间来的善 The Transmigrated Legitimate Daughter: Only After Her Whole Family Regretted Everything Did They Learn She Was a Kind Soul from the Human World 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Your Highness, Stop Holding Back. You've Crushed Your Prayer Beads 殿下别忍了，您的佛珠都捏碎了 [A true master of men and scheming beauty × an obsessive, unhinged, celibate Crown Prince; one-on-one romance, he falls hard and first, intensely sweet and flirtatious] “I cultivate Buddhism. I have no interest in women.” “Then what was pressed against me last night, Your Highness...?” After transmigrating into the body of a Marquis’s legitimate daughter who was emotionally abused to death, Su Yaoyao looked at her voluptuous, bewitching figure in the mirror and smiled. The original owner had tru 42.9kReads8.9Score5.6kShelves
- 27 Transmigrated into Bright Sword: I, Li Yunlong, Slaughter the Japanese, Surrounded by Beauties 穿越亮剑：我李云龙爽杀日寇，红颜环绕 Transmigrated into "Drawing Sword": I, Li Yunlong, slaughter Japanese invaders to my heart’s content, with beautiful women all around me 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Ascending to the Dragon's Heights 攀龍 A flirtatious widow with a child ✖️ a reserved warlord who becomes the founding emperor [Complete] Lou Mizhi was born a woman who never learned to accept her lot in life. If she wanted something, she took it by her own merit, even if she had to snatch it away. Her first husband was short-lived and ill-fated, and his family wanted to burn her and her child to ashes? Bah! As if I’d let you! She hid her savings and took her child away from her late husband’s family. With no one to protect them in t 40.1kReads9.4Score5.7kShelves
- 29 Entering the Imperial Harem 入春宫 [Palace intrigue + villainess with a career-driven mind + fluffy mind-reading + men competing for her] Su Fuqu was the legitimate youngest daughter of the Grand Preceptor. She and the Crown Prince, Qin Zhaolin, grew up together and were deeply in love. But after she came of age, Qin Zhaolin abandoned her, chose her cousin as his wife, and asked Su Fuqu to become his concubine. She turned around and schemed her way into the emperor's bed, sowing discord between father and son and throwing the pal 64.6kReads8.9Score8kShelves
- 30 Accomplices on a Wet Night 湿夜共犯 Gold digger × entitled rich boy | Mature man and woman | Female lead isn't a virgin, male lead is | Coercive love | The powerful one becomes a dog | Old flames reignited | Everyday life | Happy ending Cen Liu was a gold digger through and through. After working hard at it, she successfully latched on to Shen Tan, a locally renowned rich man. Hoping to rise in status through a child and marry into wealth, Cen Liu flew to the city where Shen Tan was on a business trip to provide “door-to-door ser 113.5kReads9.3Score16.9kShelves
- 31 Reborn as an Invisible Man: The Whole World Can't See Me 重生透明人：全世界看不见我 Reborn as an Invisible Man: The Whole World Can’t See Me 801Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Refuse to Be a Concubine 拒为妾 (Originally titled “Pursuing Her”) Sixteen years after transmigrating, Xu Luan has spent every day being careful and cautious as a hereditary servant of the Liang family. Hereditary servants have little chance of buying their freedom unless their masters grant them permission, so even after saving enough money to redeem herself, she keeps waiting for an opportunity. One day, she accompanies the Old Madam to a temple to pray for blessings. When bandits attack, she knows her chance has come. Xu Lu 22kReads8.6Score2.7kShelves
- 33 After I Went Mad, the Whole Capital Begged Me to Fix Their Houses 发疯后，全京城求我修房 She is the most skilled female builder in the capital, and also the craziest troublemaker. She lets her madness run wild and overwhelms everyone with her expertise, tearing the original story to shreds as she goes. Regent Xiao Heng says, “This woman is harder to handle than the imperial court.” Imperial Preceptor Pei Qingxuan says, “She is the one variable I never saw coming.” 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Young Madam’s Art of Taming Her Husband 少夫人的驭夫之术 The Young Madam's Art of Taming Her Husband 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After Donating a Kidney for Him, I Erased My Identity and Vanished 替他捐肾后，我注销身份人间蒸发 After Donating a Kidney for Him, I Erased My Identity and Vanished Without a Trace 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 36 My Childhood Friend Is a Royal Consort. What Can the Princess Do About Me? 我的竹马是驸马，公主奈我何？ [Pure historical romance | Reunited after years apart | Devoted, sweet romance with mutual fidelity | Ensemble coming-of-age] After their entire village was massacred, six young friends were scattered to the ends of the earth. Years later, Yun Sheng, now going by Qin Sheng, had made a life for herself in the capital. Xiao Hechen, the childhood friend she had never stopped thinking about, returned to the capital too, but fate had other plans. For the sake of his scheme, he had no choice but to m 181Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Lord Shaoqing 少卿大人 Although Shen Liuting was the eldest daughter of the prime minister’s household, she had an unusual dream: to travel through every kingdom and write a book about her journeys. On her fifteenth birthday, Shen Liuting packed her bags in the middle of the night, took her banknotes, and really did leave the country. That journey lasted a full three years... When Shen Liuting returned home on her eighteenth birthday, her parents told her they had already found her a fiancé and even had their birth da 871Reads9.3Score111Shelves
- 38 Her Bones Are Yet Cold, Her Vengeance Unfulfilled: The Wicked Woman Returns from Hell 骨未寒，仇未报，恶女她从地狱来 [Revenge after being reborn + the whole family gets what they deserve, no forgiveness + satisfying inner-courtyard drama] In her previous life, Gu Han Yin was framed by her fiancé and adopted daughter. On the eve of her wedding, everyone caught her in bed with another man. That same day, the adopted daughter stole her identity, became the most favored young lady in the marquis's residence, rose to prominence, and married into the heir's household. They ruined her reputation, trampled over her 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Reborn in 1978: I Broke Off My Engagement, Took the College Entrance Exam, and Became a Top-Tier Star Among the Educated Youth 重生1978：退婚高考，我成知青顶流 Reborn in 1978: I Called Off My Engagement and Skipped the College Entrance Exam, Becoming a Top-Tier Star Among the Educated Youth 1.7kReads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Our Marriage Certificate Expires After Ten Years, but My Wife Refuses to Renew Our Vows 结婚证十年到期，妻子拒绝和我续约 Our Marriage Certificate Expires After Ten Years, but My Wife Refuses to Renew Our Vows 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Disguised as a Man: I Started My Career as an Advisor 女扮男装：当官从幕僚做起 [Soul transmigration, alternate world, woman disguised as a man, rise to power and riches, no romance, political intrigue, no System] Wang Qian transmigrated to the Great Zhao Dynasty. To survive, she assumed the identity of a successful candidate in the imperial examinations named Wang Qingyun and entered a prince's residence as an adviser. Once there, she discovered that the prince was plotting to become heir to the throne. The risk was too great. She had to make a run for it. Wang Qingyun: As 1.5kReads9.0Score269Shelves
- 42 The Ninth Prince of Great Wei: Too Poor to Pay Monthly Stipends, Yet I Outclass the Entire Court 大魏九皇子：穷到发不起月钱，我却碾压全朝 The Ninth Prince of Great Wei: I Was Too Poor to Pay Out Monthly Stipends, Yet I Crushed the Entire Court 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Ugly Girl's Stunning Transformation: One Song, 'Love You,' Shocks the Entertainment World 丑女大变身，一首爱你震惊娱乐圈 The day Jiang Wan was publicly dumped by her fiance, she weighed two hundred jin and had a head full of songs from another world. At an open audition for ordinary contestants, she stunned the whole crowd with a single performance of "Love You." Black trending topics could be suppressed, but not the hearts of the people. They mocked her for being fat; she laughed at them for being deaf. The diva is back, and the song thieves and homewreckers won't get away! 1.1kReads—Score122Shelves
- 44 I Don't Care If My Soul Is Torn Apart, As Long As You All Die 魂飞魄散无所谓，只要你们死 Yun Li was a child with no known father, and her life lasted only eight years. Her mother had her identity stolen by an impostor, was thrown into a den of wolves, endured endless humiliation, and finally died a tragic death. Why? Why did she and her mother have to suffer such a fate? Yun Li couldn’t accept it. Even after death, a whole pot of Granny Meng’s soup couldn’t erase her memories. In the end, she carried those memories through ninety-nine reincarnations, striving to accumulate merit unt 25.8kReads8.6Score2.5kShelves
- 45 My Fiancé Booked Out a Venue for His First Love, So I Married the Capital's Crown Prince on a Whim. Now He's Regretting It 未婚夫为白月光包场，我闪婚京圈太子他悔疯了 My fiancé booked out the whole venue for his first love. I married into the capital’s most powerful family in a flash, and now he’s eaten his heart out 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Our 50-50 Marriage Was a Lie from Beginning to End AA制婚姻从头到尾都是骗局 From beginning to end, their 50/50 marriage was a scam. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Sinking into Temptation After Dark 入夜沉沦 Marriage first, love later + whirlwind marriage + super sweet + mature adults A traditional Chinese-style domineering CEO VS a resilient, sickly beauty At thirty, Xin Tong nearly died from overwork. She decided to quit and take her 750,000 yuan in savings, earned over five years on the job, to lie low in a small county town. At thirty-five, Ji Jinnian read her resignation letter and asked, “Will you marry me?” He needed an honest woman to sit in the position of his wife: someone who wouldn't cau 27.4kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 48 Reborn in the 1980s: I Became a World-Famous Doctor Through Chinese Medicine 重生八零我靠中医绝世医名震天下 Reborn in the 1980s, a story of traditional Chinese medicine saving lives, face-slapping satisfaction, rural revitalization, fame in the city, and the passing down of traditional Chinese medicine. Grounded in professional expertise, not quackery; packed with satisfying moments without resorting to melodrama. It balances real-life resonance with cultural heritage. Its core tone is heartwarming healing, satisfying triumph, and professional expertise. It does not smear Western medicine or indulge i 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 After Marrying the Cold-Faced Duke, I Cut My Way Through the Inner Court 和冷面国公联姻后，我杀穿内宅 Xiao Qianqian falls to her death. Reborn, she marries Xie Yue, a ruthless general who shows no mercy. In public, they are a courteous husband and wife, respectful to one another. In private, beneath swaying red candles, he holds her captive in his arms, his eyes burning with an obsession he can no longer hide. It was supposed to be a marriage of convenience that turned into love, but who could have guessed the cold-faced general would fall for her? He cherishes her, helps her take revenge, and j 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Night of Debauchery 糜夜 [Female lead is not a virgin; male lead is a virgin] [No moral compass] Only people who have their self-respect, love themselves, and can afford to eat their fill get to worry about things like that. In the eyes of those people, someone like Shen Yuanchu was the easiest target of all. They could drive her into a corner and push her to the brink of collapse and suicide, without having to pay a price. Too bad she didn’t die. Since she survived, coming back means it’s time to collect her debts. Co 55.6kReads8.9Score7.8kShelves
