Novels like Mind Games
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Mind Games, best match first.
- 1 Ancestors, I Want to Get Into Tsinghua 列祖列宗在上，我想考清华 I was the class joke, a hopeless waste of space, until an entire China took up residence in my mind. In his senior year of high school, Lin Zhou was the undisputed disgrace of Yude High School: 28 in math, 34 in geography, and 18 on his essay. His teacher humiliated him in front of everyone: “If you don’t work hard, this is what you’ll end up like.” Then, one day in math class, the sound of an abacus rang through his mind. Liu Hui, mathematician of the Wei and Jin dynasties, awakened. Li Daoyuan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Summer Cicadas End Where Hearts Begin to Stir 夏蝉止于心动 Lin Wei × Lu Jin: Unrelated stepsiblings, the ultimate secret first love. A blended family brings two strangers together as siblings, forcing them to live under the same roof. He is a dazzling, aloof young man, hiding tenderness and devotion that he shows only to her. She is a gentle, reserved girl who keeps her feelings to herself, falling deeper and deeper under the spell of his warmth. The affection they share as siblings on the surface conceals a love surging beneath it. Every moment they dr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Living Radio Station 活人电台 Su Nian is a woman from the ancient Great Xia Dynasty who was swept up in a strange radio station. Our Su Nian is no saint: she is decisive, intelligent, and a formidable heroine. Watch her resolve one crisis after another and become the most powerful woman in the dynasty. There are radio stations broadcasting live people, and there are sound-transmission talismans. Don't be surprised when strange things appear. This is a world of the uncanny. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Abnormal Female Celestial Master 非正常女天师 Everyone says foreigners are superstitious. If they bully you, all you have to do is mutter strange things and wave your hands at them, and you can scare them off. After Wan Sui was set up by her own family and stranded abroad, she faced a gang of thugs. She copied Uncle Jiu from the movies and made a few hand seals. To her surprise, they really did run away in terror. Someone looking for a bit of excitement recorded the scene and posted it back home. Wan Sui became an overnight sensation online 9.7kReads8.9Score886Shelves
- 5 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 1.5kReads9.3Score376Shelves
- 6 The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘 That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared. 39.9kReads9.5Score5.8kShelves
- 7 Invincible the Moment I Leave the Village: How Will You Deal with Me? 出村就无敌，阁下如何应对 Liu Ye had always thought he was a good person, especially a devoted son. He was particularly filial to his mother. The Festive Funeral Ghost: What a load of crap! He was kind and gentle toward his father. The Water Ghost: Waaaah... Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll kill myself! He would go through fire and water for his friends. The other ghosts: You mean you’d stab us twice, right? All in all, Liu Ye felt that he was a very happy person. All the ghosts: Isn’t your happiness just our tragi 164.1kReads9.5Score20.9kShelves
- 8 Back in the Capital, the Brilliant Miss Is Famous Across the Land 回京后，神算大小姐名满天下 [No romance + metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying read + secret identity + ghost-catching + lighthearted, no angst~] Yun Zhuo of the Xiao family was abandoned as a child. When her relatives come looking for her, she decisively returns to the capital to become a thorn in their side. Her birth mother says she’s uncouth and illiterate? But in the blink of an eye, she’s welcomed into the capital’s circle of master scholars, discussing poetry and prose and interpreting the fate of the world. T 156.7kReads9.6Score20.6kShelves
- 9 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.1kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves
- 10 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score209.2kShelves
