Novels like The Number One Courtesan
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Number One Courtesan, best match first.
- 101 My Professor Stepmom and Her Darling Zhaozhao 教授后妈和她的昭昭小宝贝 [Second marriage for the male lead + the child is his biological daughter + they never fully fall in love + neither is chaste] [Highly educated families + prominent political families, both strong-willed, neither a typical good person] After earning her doctorate, Xie Qingwei smoothly stayed on as a university lecturer. Through a twist of fate, she, a committed non-marriage type, married Lin Jinghe, a retired high-ranking official who had already been married once and had a daughter. [Before the 5.1kReads7.5Score363Shelves
- 102 Sturgeon Returns to Ning'an 鲟洄宁安 A Republican-era tragic romance, a woman's coming-of-age story, and two male leads. A sharp-witted, falsely disguised shaman PKs a rebellious dragon who slays gods. A sudden heavenly fire destroys a city, and the revered Hu Xuan shaman is wrongly blamed and made a scapegoat. With a colossal lie, Ge Wangshu rides alone for a thousand miles to escort the orphan Eyun home. It seems like a sturgeon swimming upstream to return to its birthplace, but in truth, it's the start of a journey with no retu 176Reads—Score166Shelves
- 103 I Died on the Day He Got Married. 我死在了他结婚的那一天。 I died on the day he got married. 806Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 The Capital's Princess Stole My Boyfriend, So I Married and Drove Her Crazy 京圈公主抢我男友，我结婚她疯了 [The most beautiful heroine in the whole book + 13-year age gap + both virgins + sweet romance + size difference] No angst in the romance. The male lead is incredibly powerful and devoted, supporting the heroine in every way. - Jiang Chu transmigrates into a wish-fulfillment novel with a strong female lead, becoming the male lead's gold-digging ex-girlfriend. According to the original story, the heroine, born into the powerful Xie family, the foremost financial dynasty in the capital, uses her i 145kReads9.1Score17kShelves
- 105 An Endless Space, and the Little Farmer Girl's Secret Identity Keeps Slipping 亿万空间，小农女马甲掉不停 [Farming + spatial storage + secret identity + powerhouse + pure exhilaration + two equally strong leads + putting scoundrels in their place + building a fortune] A top pharmaceutical expert from Z Country and heir to a family of medicine, equally skilled in healing and poison, unexpectedly transmigrates after obtaining a mysterious meteorite from beyond the heavens. The moment she opens her eyes, the scene before her leaves her stunned. The phrase “bare walls and an empty house” doesn’t begin t 4.4kReads8.7Score548Shelves
- 106 Captain Jiang, Don't Be So Wild 江队，别太野 [Marriage first, love later + mature romance + sweet and slow-burn + mutual devotion and push-pull + one touch and they’re hooked] [Flower shop owner + criminal investigation captain] On the day her family arranged a blind date, Song Nanqiu needed only three sentences to decide to marry Jiang Yanzhi. “I’m busy with work and often won’t come home.” “Perfect. I like peace and quiet.” “Then shall we get our marriage license tomorrow?” For six months after the wedding, he worked on his cases while s 30.9kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves
- 107 His Instinctive Attraction 他的生理性喜欢 (Completed) A high-ranking official with a commanding presence x a sweet, gentle qipao designer, ten-year age gap, devoted romance between two pure-hearted leads Self-disciplined, proper, unruffled, and free of worldly desires: these were the words that defined Qin Yuzheng. They were also the weapons that helped him prevail at every turn and reach the top of the pyramid. People said Qin Yuzheng had once been briefly married, and the reason for the divorce was that his wife had complained he coul 85.1kReads8.4Score10kShelves
- 108 Xuxu Ling Sheng 栩栩苓生 [An incredibly capable heroine!] Everyone in the General’s residence assumes that the legitimate young lady, who spent more than a decade lost away from home, must be a poor little thing who never had enough to eat or warm clothes to wear. That is, until war breaks out at the border and supplies run short, plunging the General’s residence into crisis. They watch in astonishment as she has dozens of chests of gold carried in from outside. Then an urgent dispatch arrives, reporting that thanks to 13.2kReads8.3Score1.3kShelves
- 109 The Little Crybaby of the 1960s Is Always Hung from the Demonically Handsome Commander's Waist 六零小丧包天天被妖孽首长挂腰上 [Military marriage in the 1960s · quietly unhinged · decisive and ruthless · golden finger with a hint of mystery · off-the-charts sweetness] Don’t mess with Lu Jiu. She’s fierce, bold, and rebellious. In her previous life, she spent thirteen years undercover, going from a drug lord’s fake heiress to the drug lord herself. The day the operation closed in, she blew everyone sky-high, herself included. When she opened her eyes again, she was Lu Jiu, an academic ace in the 1960s. She came with a me 88.5kReads9.2Score14.4kShelves
- 110 The First Day After I Was Reborn, My Whole Family Wanted Me Dead 重生后第一天，全家想让我死 On the First Day After I Was Reborn, My Family Wanted Me Dead 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Bad Brother and Sister 坏兄妹 [Print edition signed] [Jerk of a brother vs. sweet little sister] In the first few years after meeting Yu Chizhou, Chen Er didn't want a brother. In the years that followed, Chen Er didn't want Yu Chizhou to be her brother. On a typhoon day, Chen Er followed her mother to the Yu home. She hid behind the adults, drenched from head to toe and as pitiful as a little flower. After the adults urged her again and again, she softly called the boy sitting on the sofa “Brother.” The boy scoffed. At 76.4kReads9.4Score13kShelves
- 112 The Six Daughters of the General’s House 将门六姝 Great Zhou has its own Dugu Xin: Shen Jinghai [Ensemble Cast + Court Intrigue + Multiple Couples] Six daughters in one family, all married on the same day, each to the man of her dreams. Deep winter descends, and an imperial decree shatters the last of the peace in the General’s manor. Shen Jinghai, the General Who Guards the Nation, dies by suicide under a false accusation. His wife dies of exhaustion and grief, leaving behind only six helpless daughters. The emperor, remorseful on his deathbe 132kReads8.9Score18.2kShelves
- 113 She Came From Hell to Prove Their Guilt 她从地狱来，证罪 [Unhinged Assassin Heroine x Coolheaded Criminal Investigation Captain] [Powerful Rivals] [Clashing Ideas of Justice] [Mutual Redemption] [Reborn] [Happy Ending] Procedural justice versus killing to stop killing. Should evil be punished through vigilante justice, or should one submit to the law? One pursues, the other lures. Will anyone win this game? In her previous life, Jiang Li was a top assassin, wild and brazen, fearing nothing and believing in killing to stop killing. Ling Zhi was a crimi 33.5kReads9.3Score5.2kShelves
- 114 The Maniac Opens an Inn: The Entire Martial World and Court Bow Before Her 疯批她开客栈：江湖全朝堂全跪了 [Complete] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Strong heroine + invincible lead + a touch of ensemble cast + business management + no romance] Ling Zhizhi has just killed an entire family of scumbags. Before she can even escape the mental hospital, she's bound to an inn-management System?! The System thumps its chest: “Act like a powerful big shot! The more convincing you are, the better the rewards!” And so, deep in the woods of a martial arts world, an inn called “The Inn” suddenly appears. Ling Zh 10.6kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
- 115 Forgive Everything Before Bed, Wake Up and Take on the World 睡前原谅一切，醒来干翻世界 [Entertainment Industry + Livestream Variety Show + Show Within a Show + Letting Loose] After completing transmigration-into-a-book missions in a hundred worlds, An You received a gift from the System: a chance to return to her original world and live her life over again! An You: Let the gears of fate start turning! A fake heiress arrives at her country grandfather’s cottage to film a variety show, but fails to recognize him when he returns from his walk. An You: Oh my~ In this forgotten garden, 4.5kReads8.5Score495Shelves
- 116 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score559Shelves
- 117 My Heaven-Defying Kidney-Tonifying System 我的逆天补肾系统 Han Gao's life hit rock bottom. His marriage was over, and so was his dignity. Just then, a mysterious delivery arrived at his door: an unremarkable thermos. From that moment on, he began quietly growing stronger... 1.7kReads6.3Score103Shelves
- 118 Locked Glaze 锁琉璃 Locked Glaze 396Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Book of Stolen Lives 窃命书 The short drama adaptation of this book, A Book of Ashes and Joy, premieres at 12:15 a.m. on February 13. If you're interested, keep an eye out! [Regains control after being possessed | Not a wish-fulfillment story | Plot-driven | Light ensemble cast] Lin Ruochu, the legitimate daughter of a general's family, was possessed during her coming-of-age ceremony at fifteen. The transmigrated woman, sold off by a System, used every means to “win over” the young heir of a marquis's estate. She turned e 37.6kReads9.4Score5.7kShelves
- 120 After I Was Reborn, I Gave Up My Guaranteed Admission, and He Panicked 重生后我放弃保送，他慌了 After I Was Reborn, I Gave Up My Guaranteed Admission, and He Panicked 406Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Apricot Blossoms Fill the Air, I'll Snap That Scumbag's Neck 杏花吹满头，扭断渣男头 [There is a male lead!!!] [Currently being published. Mild horror and suspense. I didn’t add those tags because I don’t think the story is scary or suspenseful enough, but readers say it’s pretty frightening. Consider this a heads-up.] Ren Xin has been married into the General’s residence for two years. She manages the household, respects her in-laws, and treats the servants with consideration. No one can find fault with her. Guan Shanyue returns from the battlefield one day with a pregnant wom 23.2kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 122 After Entering Sherlock Holmes, I Became a Literary Master 穿进福尔摩斯后，我成了文学巨匠 [No shipping or romance] [No System] [The protagonist's identity is never exposed in the main story] [Career] [Book Transmigration] [Literary plagiarism] [Classics] [Original Sherlock Holmes] [Victorian era] [Slow burn] [Slice of life] [Sickly protagonist] [Not a power fantasy] London, 1880. A public carriage stops in front of 221B Baker Street, and a pale, frail young man steps down. No one knows that one day he will become an uncrowned Poet Laureate, a science fiction giant, a master of fai 12.9kReads8.7Score968Shelves
- 123 Reborn as a Sickly Vampire, I Keep the Beastly Wolf King in Check Every Day 穿成病娇血族，野兽狼王他每天都在克制 Reborn as a sickly vampire, the savage Wolf King restrains himself every day 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Bride’s Personal Maid 伴嫁丫鬟 In the silent depths of a grand household, fate drifts like a wisp of silk. From a maid who came with the bride to a maidservant in the study, she treads carefully at every turn, caught between schemes and growing affection. Beneath his cold exterior lies tenderness; beneath her caution, a heart beginning to stir. In the deep halls of a marquis’s household, an unspoken love quietly takes root. Love runs deep in the marquis’s manor, where schemes stretch as far as the sea. Where will she ultimate 2.5kReads7.3Score172Shelves
- 125 She Slept in My Bed, So I Broke Both Their Wings 她睡了我的床，我折了他俩的翼 She slept in my bed, so I clipped their wings. 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Spring Breeze, Broken to Pieces 折尽春风 She is the eldest daughter of the provincial governor’s household. She sees through worldly affection, and only money can make her feel secure! He is the great general of the chancellor’s household. He has witnessed every kind of hardship, yet the one thing he can never forget is the smile on her face when she sees money. At their first meeting, he seemed to step out of a painting in shades of lush green, the mountain wind billowing his robe and dazzling everyone who saw him. At their second mee 9.8kReads9.5Score1.1kShelves
- 127 Three Lives of Spring 春暖三生 No space, no System, just an unfaithful ex-husband, a cold-hearted mother-in-law, and a rebellious son. She had planned to quit for good and lie flat, but then she transmigrated into a miserable life as an orphan, shunned for having a child out of wedlock. An Chunfeng knew when to bend and when to stand firm. She decisively left the wolf's den and set out to make money. With a son and silver in hand, she could live comfortably as a wealthy woman. But that cold-faced man just wouldn't leave her a 26.2kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves
- 128 Supporting Qin with Poverty Relief: The Sky Screen Names Me the Greatest Female Chancellor of All Time 扶贫大秦：天幕盘点我是千古女相 [Qin Shi Huang] [Strong Female Lead, No Romance] [Political Intrigue] [Infrastructure] [Ensemble Cast] [Sky Screen Reveal] Song Ye was a dedicated grassroots official who devoted herself to serving the people. She worked tirelessly all her life, eventually dying of stomach cancer. After death, she unexpectedly became bound to the "Save the World and Protect the People" System. The System told her: As long as she completed designated missions and accumulated countless merits, she could transcend 68.4kReads8.7Score13kShelves
- 129 Reincarnated as a Cannon-Fodder Empress, I Help My Best Friend Make the Hidden Guard Emperor 穿成炮灰皇后，和闺蜜扶暗卫登基 (Main story complete) [Dual transmigration into a book | Two couples | Both couples devoted to each other | Best friends team up | No competition between women] [Dark, loyal guard × alluring empress | Sharp-tongued, weepy guard × short-tempered noble consort] When they opened their eyes, Wen Xinlian and her best friend Ye Wanying had both transmigrated into a palace-intrigue novel as expendable supporting characters: one was a domineering noble consort, the other a vicious empress. Worse still, 54.5kReads9.3Score13.9kShelves
- 130 I Snagged My Roommate’s Sugar Daddy 合租室友的金主，被我拿下 [Complete novel, gold-digging heroine, realistic and flawed, down-to-earth, intense push and pull, the powerful man gives in, grounded in reality] Her roommate was kept by Mr. Chen, carrying designer handbags and using luxury face cream. After she turned down her roommate's charity, the door was locked behind her. The next day, her roommate said she'd gone to bed early and hadn't heard anyone knocking. But she knew the truth: her roommate had been home. Zhou Sui-sui looked at herself in the mirr 12.1kReads8.6Score990Shelves
- 131 A Lovely Spring Day 春日好时光 [Completed, no rebirth or transmigration.][A peaceful rural life, a rugged man meets a beauty, and ordinary people make a life together.] Song Shu trembled and cried, “Please spare me, grim reaper!” But the terrifying man took off his demon mask and gently said, “Don't be afraid, miss. I'm a good person.” She just wanted to get rid of this dangerous man as soon as possible and never see him again. But he said in a gruff voice, “I can never repay you for saving my life. The only thing I can do i 10.1kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
- 132 I Can Understand Animals, and I Got Rich by Snapping Up a Wolf King Husband! 听懂兽语，我靠捡漏狼王老公暴富！ I can understand animal speech, and I struck it rich by snagging a bargain on a Wolf King husband! 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 A Hell Bureaucrat in Charge of Order Between the Worlds of the Living and the Dead 地府打工仔掌管阴阳两界秩序 A Netherworld Employee Takes Charge of Order Between the Worlds of the Living and the Dead 186Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Before He Died, My Son Stripped Me of My Empress Dowager's Honor. Reborn, I Made Sure He Had Nothing 儿子驾崩前夺我太后尊荣，重生后我让他一无所有 My Son Usurped My Empress Dowager’s Honors Before He Died. Reborn, I Leave Him with Nothing 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Switched-at-Birth Daughter Drops the Act: I Become an Admiral and Astound the World 调包弃女不装了，我平海患做提督惊天下 The Switched-Out Daughter Drops the Act: As the Governor of Pinghai, I Shock the World 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 I Woke Up to Find Humanity's IQ Had Dropped a Thousandfold! 一觉醒来，人类智商下降千倍！ [Feel-good power fantasy + plot-driven + absurdist + requires just a little bit of brainpower] (Trust me, it’s definitely interesting. If you’re unsure, you can check out the reviews first.) After being expelled from school, Jiang Chen had resigned himself to hauling bricks at a construction site. But then, the world suddenly changed. An ordinary high school student became the most intelligent person in the world. And so… Cambridge Professor Norman: “In fact, Dr. Jiang Chen is the only person al 66.3kReads9.0Score7.3kShelves
- 137 His Majesty Says He Dislikes Seductive Women 陛下说他不喜媚色 [Both leads are each other's one and only + deliberate seduction] [Beautiful, clear-headed heroine + proud, abstinent emperor] The new emperor liked refined, elegant ladies and despised anything bewitching and shallow. Unfortunately, the Jiang family's Fifth Young Lady was alluringly beautiful. The Empress Dowager actually wanted a woman like her to seduce the emperor and secure advantages for the Jiang family. The new emperor despised the Jiang family most of all and had no wish to let a Jiang 33.5kReads8.6Score96.2kShelves
- 138 EN Class Change to the God of Wealth: Paying My Way to Invincibility from the Start! 转职财神：开局充钱到无敌！ In this world, everyone gets one chance to awaken a profession during their final year of high school. When Lu Fang awakened, he unexpectedly discovered that he could increase his profession's potential by spending money. With one phone call, Lu Fang asked his father for 150 billion, directly spending his way into becoming the only hidden profession, the God of Wealth. From then on, he began his life of scattering money everywhere, no, of rocketing to the top. Lavishly throwing money around, mon 336.6kReads8.7Score40.8kShelves
- 139 Lotus in an Emerald Cage 翡翠笼中莲 The Lotus in the Jade Cage 722Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The True Heiress Returns with Her Metaphysical Powers, and Her Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Stall 玄学真千金归来，豪门全家跪求别摆摊 The Metaphysical True Heiress Returns, and Her Entire Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Fortune-Telling Stall 749Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Command All Beasts, Refine Divine Pills, The Phoenix Conquers the Heavens 御万兽！炼神丹！凤临异世傲苍穹 [Playing the fool to catch the tiger + strong female lead + two equally powerful leads + crushing villains + no saintly heroine] Ling Changge, who bore the grudge of her clan’s annihilation, opened her eyes to find she had transmigrated into the body of a woman who shared her name. She had only just transmigrated, and already she was a good-for-nothing with no spiritual roots and a destroyed dantian! No spiritual roots? She’d grow new ones! A destroyed dantian? She’d rebuild it! Divine pills wer 15.8kReads8.3Score2.3kShelves
- 142 Marriage at First Sight 婚既钟情 Original title: A Marriage Sealed by Love (Autumn Brings Joy) [Marriage First, Love Later + Devoted Couple + Slow-Build Romance + Older Man | Good Girl × Irreverent Man] The Zhou and Lin families arrange a marriage, but the older sister would rather die than go through with it. Her younger sister, who grew up in Hangzhou, is brought to Jingbei City for a blind date with a man she's never met. Before Lin Xuqiu arrives, she makes inquiries and learns that Zhou Wangjin is unruly, hard to tame, and 24.1kReads9.1Score3.3kShelves
- 143 A Heart Full of Longing 春心难捱 [I'm Only 19, But My Son Is 18 + He Begs for Her Back + The Cocky Guy Takes the Lead + A Little Wolf-and-Bunny Romance] [Quiet, Sweet Student x Bad-Tempered Tycoon] The Zhu and Meng families have been close for generations. Zhu Lingyu and Meng Ke have known each other since childhood and are engaged. Everyone around them assumes they're a couple and will get married one day. Only Zhu Lingyu knows that the man who indulges her in every way has always held someone else in his heart. She thinks he' 114.5kReads9.3Score15kShelves
- 144 Secret Office Marriage: Boss, Pretend We’re Strangers at Work 办公室隐婚，老板人前请装不熟 [Marriage First, Love Later / Both Pure / Guiding Lover / Two Doctors / Healing] [Reserved, Repressed Male Superior X Hardworking, Resilient Female Subordinate] The day after Xu Wu entered a flash marriage, she discovered that she had married the wrong man! The other party was indeed Doctor Song, but he was not the Doctor Song mentioned by the matchmaker. [?] After learning the truth, Xu Wu sent him a message while on her way to a consultation. The very next second, her phone chimed behind 98.9kReads9.5Score14.1kShelves
- 145 The Crown Prince’s One and Only: The Bewitching Consort Captures His Heart and Claims Her Place 太子独宠，尤物娘娘缚心上位 [Unhinged, Ruthless Heroine + Cold, Scheming, Obsessive Crown Prince + Palace Intrigue] [Before the heroine entered the palace, the hero already had wives and concubines, but the emperor had forced them on him for political reasons. He only went through the motions with them, and their relationships were in name only.] [Readers who mind this should proceed with caution] She was the legitimate daughter of the Luo family, breathtakingly beautiful. But when her father demoted her mother to a concub 2.4kReads—Score171Shelves
- 146 Flowers Beneath the Eaves 檐下花 This is a story of a woman’s journey toward self-growth beneath the eaves of a village home. She relies on no one and waits for no one. She will make her own spring bloom: she moves into a side room at her brother and sister-in-law’s home to live alone. The hushed late-night conversations between her brother and sister-in-law next door unwittingly become her belated introduction to love. 1.5kReads—Score152Shelves
- 147 Secret Feng Shui Tales from the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈风水秘闻 From the big-eyed actress who sacrifices her children for wealth and status, to the martial-arts superstar who uses metaphysics to prolong his life; from the steel-cannon director who turns to metaphysics to conceive a child, to the wealthy actress whom tycoons treat like a human Pixiu, bringing her into the entertainment industry to attract wealth. Few people know how many sordid, dark truths lie beneath the entertainment world’s glittering facade! As a feng shui agent who has spent twenty year 303.9kReads9.3Score39.3kShelves
- 148 Back Before My Wife Took Her Own Life 回到妻子自杀前 [Male lead reborn + winning back his wife + gloomy, multifaceted heroine + unconventional redemption story] [The early synopsis is the male lead’s own self-delusion] [Starting in Volume Two, flashbacks to the past life run alongside the main narrative of his rebirth] Xu Dongmu is the long-lost daughter of the Shen family, missing for twenty-three years. Not long after they find her, she marries Qin Jiu, the heir to the Qin family. Naturally, there is no love between them. They are a couple in na 22.5kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 149 The Lantern-Bearing Chronicles 逢灯纪 (Signed for publication, with screen adaptation rights sold) You're the daughter of a marquis. You want to take your mother's dowry and remains with you? Done. I'll take the dowry and remains, and bring you your mother's divorce papers as well as your own severance papers cutting ties with your family. You were declared dead and became an invisible person behind your brothers. You want to live like a normal person again? Done. I'll restore your name and identity, and make sure you receive the en 87kReads9.3Score12.7kShelves
- 150 My Husband Took His Childhood Sweetheart as His Equal Wife, So I Took My Childhood Friend as My Equal Husband 夫君纳青梅为平妻，我纳竹马为平夫 My Husband Takes His Childhood Sweetheart as an Equal Wife, So I Take My Childhood Friend as an Equal Husband 16Reads—Score—Shelves
