Novels like The Sea of Sand: I’m Not Just a Background Extra, Am I?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Sea of Sand: I’m Not Just a Background Extra, Am I?, best match first.
- 1 Tomb Raiding: Starting in the Sea of Sand Arc 盗墓：开到沙海篇 [No romance] The energetic young Zhong Ruoheng wakes up one morning to discover that she has transmigrated into the Sand Sea arc, and is so distraught she could cry. What sparks will fly between the two student council members and Wu Xie on their desert journey? 1.8kReads6.5Score16114d adds
- 2 Sand Sea: The Heartthrob Just Wants to Go Crazy 沙海：万人迷只想发疯 [Everyone is drawn to the heroine, blends the original story with the TV adaptation, OOC warning] “Everyone is drawn to her. She's like a seductive ghost, and like a passing stranger.” Falling for bad men is Li Xiayu's fate. So, the first person she sees when she opens her eyes, a photographer named Guan Gen, immediately becomes her husband in her mind. As they spend time together, she discovers that Guan Gen isn't his real name. Little by little, she also breaks free of her infatuation and rega 634Reads6.4Score10214d adds
- 3 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: If Only Life Were Like Our First Meeting 综盗笔，人生若如初见 Apologies for any out-of-character moments. These are short standalone stories, each with one main couple. Some include a runaway pregnancy trope. The overall tone is sweet and lighthearted; I'm not good at writing anything too serious, and my brain may not be sophisticated enough for that anyway. First story: What if Li Cu were Wu Xie's biological son? A reincarnated assassin heroine vs. the Sand Sea's Evil Emperor Second story: Xie Dang loves going to concerts A bold and passionate song queen 943Reads—Score10114d adds
- 4 Surviving in the Sea of Sand: I'm Just an Ordinary High School Student 沙海求生：我只是个普通高中生 She was just an ordinary high school girl, but an accident swept her into the maelstrom of the desert sea. Wu Xie's plans, the eerie ancient city of Gutongjing, deadly black snakes, and layer upon layer of ruins all became deadly trials she had to face. This is no side character's story, nor is it about romance. This is Zhang Weiwei's adventure alone. In a desert where no one would hear her, she confronts her fears and finds a way through every peril. Amidst the sweeping yellow sands, she carve 3.2kReads8.8Score32714d adds
- 5 Tomb Raiding: I Opened My Eyes and Found Myself in Sand Sea 盗墓：两眼一睁穿沙海了 [All pairings + a heroine who grows stronger + mild coercion + a later-stage love rivalry] Lin Man never expected that simply sitting in a classroom would somehow cause her to transmigrate. Lin Man: ... Is transmigration really this casual these days? You just open your eyes... and you're in another world? You've got to be kidding, right? Well, no. It wasn't a joke. The good news: she had a System. The bad news: the System was completely useless. It couldn't even give her Intelligence points (Li 1.8kReads8.8Score13414d adds
- 6 Sea of Sand: After Mistaking My Enemy, I Was Taken by Force 沙海：认错仇敌后被强取豪夺了 [Low rating due to too few ratings] Also known as The Grave Robbers: What’s a Pretty Boy to Do When Everyone Around Him Is a Psycho? and Sand Sea: I Mistook My Enemy, Then Got Taken by Force [Dog-training fiction] × [Everyone loves the protagonist] × [Sweet on the outside, dark within] × [All pairings] The story of the Zhang family’s Qilin woman taking on the Wang family Sweet-on-the-outside, dark-within undercover agent Song Jinglan × the main cast of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles Song Jingla 1.6kReads8.7Score16914d adds
- 7 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: It Begins with Being Abducted into the Sea of Sand 盗笔：从被绑入沙海开始 [Tomb Raiding + No Romance + Original Female Lead + The New Five + Family and Friendship + Original Setting + Others Can Hear Her Thoughts + A Little Pampered by the Group + Pocket Dimension] (Sand Sea + The Lost Tomb + Reunion) An ordinary woman who graduates straight into unemployment finds herself in a tomb-raiding world. From the start, she runs into the Evil Emperor and gets dragged off to the Sand Sea. After transmigrating to the early days of The Lost Tomb, she gains Little Brother's peak 932Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 8 Sand Sea: Who Is the Weak Link? 沙海：谁是软肋 Set during the Desert Sea era, with an original female protagonist. Hu Yu, whose secret identity is Hu Yan, is a screenwriter and photographer. Just as she was making a name for herself, she vanished without a trace. When she started working again under the name Hu Yan, it was 2013. This time, her employers were heading to the Badain Jaran Desert, China’s third-largest desert, in search of a place called Gutongjing. There, she ran into her ex-boyfriend, Wu Xie. He had a child with him and looked 1.1kReads8.2Score10214d adds
- 9 I Accidentally Angered the Evil Emperor. How Do I Get Taken to the Sea of Sand for Tomb Raiding? 误惹邪帝，被带去沙海盗墓怎么办 [The new book has passed the contract review and can be found on the author's profile.] No System + Fanfiction + The female lead is an ordinary person who doesn't know the plot + Female lead pairing + The female lead cries, feels sad, and gets her heart broken + Life is short, so you have to dare to love and dare to hate. Zhenzhu once loved someone she shouldn't have. When she chose to let go, she later followed Wu Erbai's orders + These are my own headcanons, everyone + Apologies for any out-of 1kReads8.1Score10514d adds
- 10 Tomb Raiding: The Young Lady Has Arrived, Everybody Move! 盗墓：大小姐驾到，统统闪开！ [This story is meant to make up for past regrets + no breaking up established couples] You think her name is An Ping and she’s just some rich young lady? No, no, no! She has another identity: Zhang family’s young lady Zhang Haimian, daughter of an elder from the Zhang clan’s forbidden grounds and of the Wu clan’s Saintess, and the beloved cousin of the current clan leader, Zhang Qiling! To the clan leader: By the time you read this letter, I will already have passed away. My daughter Mianmian lo 610Reads8.4Score10514d adds
- 11 Tomb Raiding: Disguised as a Man, I Win Over Everyone, Men and Women Alike 盗墓：女扮男装后我男女通吃 White-haired little fox Jiang Fuxue × the Four Beauties of Wushan × the Zhang Family boy band × the Bronze Triangle [Shared senses]× [Fox tattoo]× [Rapid identity reveals] Half-demon fox Jiang Fuxue woke up in a sea of sand. To escape the desert, she concealed her identity and joined an unfamiliar group on their journey across the dunes… As the members began dying one after another, she tried to flee the strange and perilous place, only to realize she had been caught up in this from the very beg 54Reads6.8Score11114d adds
- 12 Tomb Raiding: Wang Mingyue's Miserable Life 盗墓：汪明月的悲催生活 The bright moon hangs high in the sky, hidden deep beneath the sea. Everything is a cycle. Pray to the gods three thousand times, all for a single journey through the human world. Many years ago, the moon prayed to the gods, hoping the human world would be free of regrets. Many years later, to free the human world of regret, the moon was willing to stand against everything on the blade's edge, yet still carried countless regrets. At first: Damn those Wang family members! In the end: So that's ho 1.7kReads8.4Score21914d adds
- 13 Daomu Biji: Sand Sea: I Destroyed the Wang Family, Now It's My Turn to Chase My Wife 盗笔沙海：灭了汪家追妻火葬场 [Transmigrate into a book + Beloved by all + Healing regrets + Original elements + The protagonist and the Zhang family boys transmigrate back to the era of The Lost Tomb] (The protagonist’s name has been changed to Cheng Chaomu.) Cheng Chaomu is a fan of The Lost Tomb. To make up for its regrets, he enters the world of The Lost Tomb. A minor mistake sends him into the time period of Sand Sea, where the main cast grows suspicious of him. To bring Xiaoge home, Cheng Chaomu has no choice but to ea 2.4kReads7.3Score23014d adds
- 14 Tomb Raiding: Three Parts Drunk, All in Character Until He Weeps 盗墓：戏精三分醉，演到他流泪 [Desert Sea from the start + a born drama queen heroine + System + all + male ghosts + using each other + mindless power fantasy] Qin Qin binds herself to a dating-sim cultivation System. She's supposed to transmigrate into a sweet romance novel, become the innocent white-flower heroine, and have several male leads fall for her. Instead, she lands in the ridiculous Desert Sea next door, where there's nothing but torment and no romance. From the start, she runs into Wu Xie, nicknamed the Evil Emp 5.9kReads9.0Score87214d adds
- 15 Sand Sea: This Girl Has a Lot of Nerve 沙海：这个丫头心大 Tomb raiding + Sand Sea + pairing undecided + pure, clueless foolishness + college students. The heroine doesn’t know the plot, but she does have a golden finger: any item that transmigrates with her will work normally and never run out of battery. Xia Susu never expected to transmigrate just because she was following her navigation app to find somewhere to stay. Poor thing, she didn’t even realize what had happened at first, and ended up causing all sorts of humblebrag incidents. Xia Susu is yo 4.3kReads8.8Score35614d adds
- 16 Across the Sea of Sand, I’ll Be by Your Side 奔走沙海，你有我来陪 A stubborn introduction from Xingxing: I'm Xingxing. I'm perfectly normal. I'm not intellectually disabled like people say. I'm not stupid. Let me stress again: I'm really not stupid. I just don't understand things and I'm a little slow to react. I have two friends, Li Cuxi and Su Wan. Later, I got to know another friend through them, Yang Hao. But their lives have been full of misfortune. There's nothing I can do, so I can only stay by their side. Li Cu: My world isn't the same anymore. Xingxin 300Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 17 Sea of Sand, May Good Fortune Come Your Way 沙海，好好运来 My name is Yang Hao. I transmigrated into the world of The Lost Tomb: Yang Hao, only I'm a girl. I'm a girl. I'm a girl. My wish is simple: I want my grandma to live in a big house, have everything she needs, stay healthy, and enjoy her twilight years. 429Reads8.7Score10414d adds
- 18 Tomb Raiding: Where the Hell Did You Bring Me? 盗墓，这是给我干哪儿来了 She transmigrated into the body of a girl named Zhang Weiwei, right in the middle of an exam. She had a crush on a boy named Li Cu, but he was always running into trouble. After returning from a disappearance, he seemed different. He wouldn't have... turned evil, would he?! Could he be the male lead of this world? She had thought that if she lived well and treated this body properly, she could return it in perfect condition when it was time to go home. But who knew the protagonist's power-up wou 3.3kReads8.3Score27014d adds
- 19 Desert Sea Exercises 沙海习题 [No CP] Lan Ting is dead! Lan Shu, who is studying for her doctorate far from home, travels thousands of miles back to investigate her sister’s death, only to stumble into a scheme laid by a tomb raider named Wu Xie. As she returns to Gutongjing time and again, trying to recover the real world, she finally understands the meaning of the Ultimate. She has tackled plenty of difficult problems, but this one is just too hard to solve... 1.5kReads9.4Score17214d adds
- 20 Through the Sea of Sand, I'm Here for Revenge 奔走沙海，我是来报仇的 There were seventeen people, and there would be an eighteenth. Ji Mingcheng was the younger sister of one of those seventeen people. Stockholm syndrome. What a bitterly ironic term. Unfortunately, her brother had fallen into its grip. All this absurdity, all for someone called Wuxie? If he was so good at manipulating people's hearts, then she would make him pay the price. (The best hunters often appear as prey. Weakness is her byword, disguise her usual state, but ruthlessness is her true nature 608Reads8.6Score10414d adds
- 21 Tomb Raiding: I Fell Through the Bronze Gate, and the Boss Lost It 盗墓：穿进青铜门，小哥破防了 [The Lost Tomb + Naraka: Bladepoint + Sand Sea + Yucun + Reboot + Beloved by All + Healing Regrets + Xiao Ge Romance] Wu Yu only wanted to get a rare red item, but Heaven threw her into the world of Naraka: Bladepoint to grind away at a 996 schedule! Then one day, at Dragonhide Grotto, she met a handsome guy in a hood. It’s you! You! Zhang Qiling! To get back to the modern world, Wu Yu decides to cling to Zhang Qiling. Xiao Ge, want to duo queue with me? I can sing Ten Years in the Human World! 13.9kReads8.0Score2.7k14d adds
- 22 Sand Sea: Quietly Making a Name for Myself 沙海，安静出圈 Wang Ning only wanted to quietly make it to the end of the story, but she never expected to be pushed right into it. Even more unexpectedly, once the story ended, everything became even more uncontrollable. Wu Xie, Li Cu, Hei Xiazi, Xie Yuchen, Zhang Qiling, Zhang Rishan, and Wang Can all started acting strangely. Wang Ning says, “Wake up, all of you! I’m just a minor character!” 2.8kReads8.6Score27314d adds
- 23 Tomb Raiding: The Road Home Begins in Sand Sea 盗墓：归家之路，从沙海开始 [Happy ending guaranteed, sweet romance + heroine from a world of ancient martial arts + includes stories from Sand Sea, Ten Years, Little Notebook, Yucun, Restart, Hua Ye, and Second Mausoleum + pairing undecided: Black Glasses, Mute, Xie, and Hua (romance for women, one woman with multiple men, no BL)] Ling Yue joined the film crew at first just to make some quick money. Who knew the director would stubbornly insist on traveling with a group of desperate outlaws? Unable to talk him out of it, 9.5kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 24 Tomb Raiding: Peach Blossoms Bloom on Every Branch 盗墓：朵朵桃花开满枝 This novel consists of standalone short stories, and each one can be read on its own! Feel free to pick whichever stories interest you. Volume 3 has story ideas. Let me know which ones you like in the comments! 1. The first story isn’t very good, so I don’t recommend reading it. 2. The Old Fox’s Adorable Wife (Completed) Wu Erbai falls for a young girl at first sight and wants nothing more than to make her his. 3. Story ideas (Just leave a comment about what you want to read, and I’ll choose one 4.3kReads8.6Score29714d adds
- 25 Sand Sea: Whose Stepsister Is This Heartbreakingly Annoying? 沙海：谁家的继妹这么让人心梗啊 [Comedy + timid and sharp-tongued + OOC warning + ridiculous antics + all pairings + heroine who grows over time + no goody-two-shoes + adored cutie + slap champion who takes on everyone] After writing a long post to bully Li Cu the day before, she starts having one piece of bad luck after another the next day. Before falling into a sewer, she swears she'll never bully Li Cu again. Then she opens her eyes and finds herself Li Cu's stepsister. Karma came so quickly she can barely process it. To b 15kReads9.0Score1.7k14d adds
