Novels like The Spirit Map Play
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Spirit Map Play, best match first.
- 101 Storming the Mountain Gate 破山门 [Down on Their Luck] [Surviving in the Cracks] [Just Stay Alive] [Enduring] [Putting Down Roots] [Political Intrigue] [Revival] [Three Generations] [Dual Protagonists] With every stroke, a fallen sect's three generations of rise and fall unfold across seventy storm-tossed years, composing an epic history of defying fate and restoring its glory. They guard half a ruined genealogy and uphold their ancestors' vows: never deceive ordinary people, never betray the sect, and never abandon their fellow 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 I Only Cured His Fever, So How Did I Become the Divine Physician of Great Qian? 退烧而已，怎么成了大乾神医？ Multiple female leads + alternate world + golden finger + no System + ensemble cast + transmigration + miracle doctor + political intrigue! Other people transmigrate: They get a System and start off as an invincible protagonist. Ye Bufan transmigrates: He gets a hiking backpack and becomes an undocumented outsider in Great Qian. He had planned to make a living with his sales skills, but the locals paid him no attention, and street thugs bullied him in public. In a fit of rage, he used his tele —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 My Ex Demanded a Million-Yuan Bride Price, So I Dumped Her and Met a Rich Beauty 前女友逼要100万彩礼，我果断分手，结果遇到白富美 My Ex-Girlfriend Demanded a Million Yuan in Bride Price, So I Broke Up with Her Without Hesitation, Only to Meet a Rich Beauty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Shadow of the Black Dragon 黑龙之影 My new story is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Male Lead Died Suddenly, What Does That Have to Do with Me? 男主意外猝死，关我啥事儿？ Romance will probably only show up in some of the more varied short arcs or certain domain-based instances. The romance tag is there because the author accidentally selected the wrong tag. I mistook it for danmei, so please keep that in mind if you want to avoid it. This is a double-yuri story. I'm so sorry ߹ ߹ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 I Aspire to Become the Strongest Transmigrator! 励志成为最强穿越者！ [Transmigration + Cultivation + Niche]…Xu Musheng discovers after reaching the Golden Core stage that he is not the only transmigrator in this world. The power of transmigrators such as celestial gods and martial sages puts him under immense pressure. To go from being a chess piece to the one moving the pieces, Xu Musheng has no choice but to grow stronger and stronger, until he becomes the strongest… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 The Tuberose’s One-Woman Show 晚香玉独角戏 For three years, she wrote a secret love story no one knew about. For three years, he played the silent, watchful admirer who gave her the space to shine. Gu Qinghuan thought she was an actress dancing alone onstage, the spotlight trained on her while the audience sat empty. She had no idea that Luo Hanchuan had been sitting in the front row all along, quietly memorizing every glance and every breath. Only on closing night did he finally walk onto the stage and whisper, “You acted beautifully. B 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Zeroing Oath 归零誓约 (The rating just came in, so it'll go up later. Please go easy on me, dear readers.) The protagonist, Xu Yi, wakes up in a place he has never seen before. Everything here is strange: classmates behaving abnormally, teachers acting suspiciously, school facilities mysteriously damaged, and… bizarre rules for survival. The protagonist has no romance storyline, and all the scenarios are completely original. Every new scenario brings something different. A game, a trial. At one end of the scales is l 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 109 Thriller Game: He Says I'm the Yin Son of Heaven 惊悚游戏：祂说我是阴天子 [High IQ + single male lead + not a goody-goody + not brainless + infinite flow + dark + obsession + revenge against the gods] Chen Ming was forcibly dragged into a horror game and became prey in the rookie round. Blood-red writing appeared on the wall? That was the Judge’s investment. The Yin Emperor? Who’s that? They say I’m the Yin Emperor. I only believe in myself. When his companions lost their memories inside a game instance, he exposed a loophole in the rules with a single remark. When t 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Transmigrated as Dongge’s Little Sidekick 穿越成东哥的小跟班 A new work is here! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 My Robot Girlfriend Wants to Blow Up the Universe, but I Just Want to Make Money 我的机械女友想炸宇宙我只想搞钱 Everyone thinks machines are cold playthings, unaware that beneath the steel, a blazing soul can burn. When our home planet crumbled into ruins amid the dust of the cosmos, and the laws of nature shattered in the chaos, I clung to life in a collapsing world with the only “family” I had. They say all I care about is making money, but all I want, in this hopeless universe, is to build a wall from crystal stones to protect her fleeting love. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 The Straight-A Student's Deskmate Can't Stand Him 学霸的同桌总看他不顺眼 On his birthday, the person he loved most pushed him away with their own hands. Xu Huai's birthday present to him was a promise never to meet again. One moment, Xu Huai was whispering “Happy birthday” in his ear. The next, he was red-eyed and saying, “I never loved you.” Jiang Yu reached out to take his hand, but Xu Huai wrenched free. Then Xu Huai turned and walked away without a trace, not even leaving a goodbye. The next day, he dropped out of school, left, and vanished without a trace. Ji 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Canon of Myriad Realms: I Write the Endings of Every World 万象典：万界结局由我书写 [Infinite-flow + wild imagination + transmigrate into a book + no saintly heroine] Li Ning'an is dragged against his will into a series of deadly stories by a bizarre book. One moment, he’s fleeing for his life from ghostly shadows in an old street; the next, he’s falling beneath the blade of a cyberpunk swordsman. The ancient book grants him the ability to travel between countless worlds, but also leaves him with an eerie whisper that follows him everywhere: “When you have read all things, y 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 The Villainess Was Halfway Through Ruining Herself When Her Gentle Stepson Ascended the Throne 恶女作死到一半，温润继子登基了 She's in trouble! The gentle stepson she could push around has turned into a deranged tyrant. Even more surprising, Su Ruqing doesn't forget to repay her, his nominal stepmother, even after he reclaims his place in the family. After years of doing whatever she pleased, Song Nanyin never imagined she'd one day face his revenge. But it's fine. Heaven has always favored Song Nanyin: she dreamed about all of this. Yet just as she confidently decides to turn over a new leaf, she discovers that her ge 1.4kReads—Score110Shelves
- 115 Fish for Bait: Eerie Martial Mecha Girls Are Ready to Turn the Tables 厄饵的鱼：诡武机娘要掀桌子啦 Mom: the ultimate embodiment of favoring sons over daughters. Younger brother: B+ spiritual energy affinity, which basically makes him a genius. The heroine: C-grade spiritual energy affinity, a martial cultivator and mecha pilot. Yu Hongjiao never expected that even after she'd handed over her entire 200,000 yuan severance pay, her mother would still try to “sell” her to a demonic cultivator, squeezing out the last of her worth to use the bride price to buy cultivation resources for her younger 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 It Began with Childhood Sweethearts, but the Future Is Still Unwritten 从青梅竹马开始，未来还未结束 This book is one grand love letter. Pixels may blur, but memories stay crystal clear. The cicada-filled summer days, the faded tin box, the Polaroid with its chipped corner... Against those backgrounds blurred by time, you are the one coordinate that remains perfectly clear. We were once reflections of each other, sharing a secret language. Even after we each set off for faraway places, that familiarity had already been carved into our bones. From fighting over a piece of candy in our little-kid 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 When the Moon Shines over Jinling 金陵月明时 Blending classical elegance with a modern setting, this story follows the intertwined destinies of two women and a generation’s journey toward redemption. During a time of chaos, powerful minister Shen Mo meets Lin Wanqiu, a woman living in the mountains, while on a mission. Political upheaval later forces him to “forget” her. Eighteen years later, his daughter Su Wanci sets out with a keepsake to find her father, but is rescued along the way by the chivalrous Yan Wushu. As Wushu tries to reuni —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Refugees at the End of the Tang: I Rebuild the Tang Dynasty Through Farming 唐末流民：我靠种田基建建大唐 A top graduate in modern agriculture and forestry transmigrates into the chaos of the late Tang dynasty, where famine is everywhere, corpses litter the roads, and war never ends. From the start, he’s a starving refugee on the brink of death, but luckily, he activates the [Everything Improvement System]! He turns wasteland into fertile fields, improves poor seeds into high-yield crops, and reforges scrap iron into divine weapons! While others flee famine and resort to cannibalism, he farms and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 My Prenatal Checkup Report Was Torn Up. I Revealed My Eight-Billion-Yuan Inheritance, and My Scumbag Ex Begged to Remarry Me 孕检单被撕，我亮出80亿遗产，渣男跪求复婚 He Tore Up the Pregnancy Test. I Revealed My Eight-Billion Fortune, and My Scumbag Ex Begged to Remarry —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 You Said Technology Would Save the World, So Why Are You Making a Star with Your Bare Hands? 说好科技救世，你徒手捏恒星？ The Liu family motto: Before dawn, endure the darkness; when you reach the summit, never forget your roots. Liu Suifeng’s interpretation: Before beating someone up, don’t wake the neighbors. After tearing down a house, remember to dig three feet deep. On the day he turns eighteen, the entire star realm will learn this truth all over again. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 I Am Not the One Holding the Pen 我不是执笔人 I Am Not the Author is a long-form work blending metafiction and post-apocalyptic fantasy. The story takes place in a wasteland after the “Ink Calamity”: the sky is an inverted sea of ink, the earth is made of yellowed paper, and “words” are power. Write “burn” and flames will engulf the heavens; write “sever” and you can cut through cause and effect. You can even control “character settings” and rewrite established facts. The protagonist, Lin Mo, was a web-novel editor in his previous life who —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Night Watchman 长夜打更人 In this long night, when demons run rampant, human life is as cheap as grass. My name is Qin Ye. I’m a lowly night watchman, and my only trick for staying alive is seeing the dead off on their final journey. Until one day, I dragged a woman out of a pile of corpses. She became my first “dead” investment. I gave her pills, and the Heavenly Dao repaid me with divine pills. I gave her cultivation techniques, and the Heavenly Dao repaid me with divine arts. They all laughed at me for being crazy, ri —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Blood Moon Shines on Chang’an 血月照长安 Li Cheng is a vampire who has lived for more than three hundred years. He was once an ordinary Taoist practitioner at the end of the Tang dynasty, but a chance encounter turned him into a vampire. Ever since, he has wandered between the world of the living and the netherworld, witnessing the rise and fall of countless dynasties and the joys and sorrows of humankind. An incident brings Li Cheng to Taiyuan, where he meets Prince Jin, Li Keyong, and his son, Shi Jingtang. The land is in chaos: Lian —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 This Damn Invincibility 这该死的无敌 Lin Meng was born with great talent, and his chivalrous heart drives him to rid the people of harm! Who is this food for, and who made it salty? Mu Fan, the cook, says otherwise! The story is full of twists and turns, so read with confidence! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 What’s Wrong With a Mental Patient Eating Your Food? 精神病吃你家饭了 Strong female lead! Alternate world! Light ensemble cast! Fantasy romance! Cultivation! Please check the tags for yourself: there are romantic tension, satire, and silly comedy, as well as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, and self-love relationships. A choose-your-love-interest story. Pick which path of cultivation the protagonist follows: the Path of Self, the Path of Freedom, the Path of Soul-Searching, or the Path of Detachment. Each path has its own romance. A little interview —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Even Thieves Come Up Empty 贼也走空 Following retired police officer Jin Youcheng on his thousand-mile pursuit of a killer, the story explores his tangled relationships with a down-and-out reclusive painter, a retired master thief, and a female thief as beautiful as peach blossoms. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 A Whirlwind Wedding to the CEO: His Wife’s Off Beating People Up Again 闪婚霸总：夫人她又去揍人了 [Comedy, 1v1, CEO + glamorous celebrity] Her scumbag father favors someone else, her stepmother is wicked, and her white-lotus stepsister has stolen her identity. Now they even want to force her into a substitute marriage to pay off their debts. She turned on them right there and then: Get married? Pay me ten million first! Steal my family heirlooms? She’ll get the feather duster! She sent them all to the police station. One call from Su Qing, and her fiancé had to come bail her out! After 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 The Wristband Battle: How Can the Unwilling Survive? 手环争夺战：无愿之人该如何生存 Lin Chen, an ordinary wage worker with no steady job and not even a wish, is unexpectedly caught up in a battle for bracelets. Whoever collects them all can have their wish granted. Sixty bracelets, users with wildly different personalities, and monsters from another world. How can Lin Chen, who has no wish, survive in a bracelet battle driven by people’s desires? Will he find a wish of his own? And what secrets lie behind the battle for the bracelets? If a bracelet battle like this existed, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Parallel Erosion 平行侵蚀 [Urban Suspense] + [A Battle Between Twins] Another version of me, from a parallel world, is slowly stealing my life. A photo of an unfamiliar woman appears on my boyfriend's phone. Her features look seventy percent like mine, but her carefree smile feels like a stranger's. He insists, “That's you.” At a company meeting, my colleagues announce that the proposal I spent several sleepless nights preparing was “submitted a week ahead of schedule.” They congratulate me, but look at me as if I'm some —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 DC: The Abstract Continent DC抽象大陆 No set theme, just a main storyline. I write whatever chapter I dream of, whatever line comes to mind. Don’t ask what the author is writing. It’s positive energy, it’s good values. Just assume the author is losing it. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The Top Marksman on the Japanese Server: Killing Demonic Spawn Makes Me Stronger 日服第一男枪：杀诡子就能变强 [Decisive and ruthless] [Asia Server's number-one male gunner] [Urban] [Cold-blooded] “To me, you’ve always been my favorite big brother.” Yamashita, the number-one male gunner on the Japanese server, is reborn in court on the day his brother killed himself. Faced with a shattered family, he swears to wipe out every demon in the human world! 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Western Jin: From the Start, a Special Forces Soldier, I Pacify the Realm 西晋：开局特种兵，破虏定天下 [Historical + Military + No System + Epic Power Struggle] Chu Polu, a Chinese special forces company commander, dies on a battlefield overseas. When he opens his eyes, he has become a lowly military household soldier in a garrison camp of the Western Jin Dynasty. The Rebellion of the Eight Princes is about to begin, and the Five Barbarians are soon to ravage China. History tells him that in forty-three years, Luoyang will fall and the Central Plains will be lost. In this life, he will not witnes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Others Spend Money, You Spend Your Life. I Spend the Female CEO’s Money 别人氪金你氪命，我花女总裁的钱 From the start, he faces hellish difficulty. The top-notch “gold digger” he had loved for years not only swindles him out of all his money, but secretly drains 99% of his lifespan, leaving him with just 72 hours on the clock! Just as he is on the brink of death, thrown out of his home and finding even each breath a luxury, the [Live Off Her, Thrive Forever System] awakens with a bang! Spend money belonging to top-tier rich beauties, and he can exchange it for lifespan and exclusive attributes at 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Time-Space Sword Emperor: Lin Xuan 时空剑帝之林轩 A quantum physicist transmigrates to a fantasy world, using scientific thinking to unravel the laws of cultivation and frequency resonance theory to forge a legend in the martial arts. In the end, he uncovers the ultimate truth behind the myriad worlds System and time travel. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Fragrant Steel: The First Family's Scarlet Web of Intrigue 霜刃藏香：第一世家的绯色迷局 The Weng clan, one of the Great Qian Empire's most powerful families, controls the lifeblood of its energy industry and holds sway over the imperial court. Weng Kangli, Duke of Zhou, maneuvers through the game of power with an iron fist. Yet amid the cold pursuit of power, the gentle warmth of Li Shutong, an artistic young woman, slowly melts his heart. A broken engagement sparks a battle among the elite, while a chance encounter at an art exhibition kindles a moment of attraction. The open and 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 After Awakening, the NPC Vowed to Help Me Fight Our Way Out NPC觉醒后誓要带我杀出重围 [Awakened NPC | Mutual Redemption | Plot Mysteries | Powerful Team-Up | Multiple Couples] [Content warnings (incorrect tags): The story starts slowly and is not an infinite-flow novel. The protagonist has no golden finger. The entire book is not horror or thriller. Both the love interest and the protagonist have incomplete memories. This book has a lot of original worldbuilding, so readers who insist on rigorous accuracy may want to steer clear. The plot may be a little convoluted, but you can r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Leaping Across the River of Forgetfulness 跳忘川 The first installment is complete. Look forward to the second! During the Song Dynasty, Daosheng and his childhood sweetheart Jichun are robbed by bandits. Before the government troops arrive to save them, Daosheng is killed by the bandit chief while protecting Jichun. A talisman in Daosheng's hand leaves him with one soul and one spirit. Before the River of Forgetfulness, what will he choose? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Record of Guiding Souls to the Afterlife 渡魂往生录 [Mystery and deduction + episodic side stories + folk customs and the supernatural] A bus plunges into the river, but no bodies or wreckage can be found. People who died twenty years ago are still alive in another way… 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Autopsy Report: Suspect Zero 尸检报告：零号嫌疑人 Qin Mo, chief forensic examiner at the Jingang Public Security Bureau, teams up with rookie forensic assistant Lin Wan. Through meticulous autopsies, they dismantle one seemingly airtight murder case after another, identify the overlooked prime suspect through the silent testimony of the dead, and uncover the truth behind concealed deaths. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Nine Disciplines Descend: Breaking the Deadlock in Great Qi 九科临世：大齐破局 At the founding of Great Qi, its ancestors established the foundations of the state with the principle “the literary tradition is its root, the heart-lantern its soul.” They hid away a Literary Heart-Lantern, which could gather the power of the literary tradition and bring peace to the realm, but it vanished from the world over the centuries. The Shadow Pavilion’s main purpose is to find and seize the Literary Heart-Lantern, utterly destroy Great Qi’s literary tradition, and carry out its treaso —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 The Day I Divorced, I Became My Ex-Husband's Boss 离婚当天，我成了前夫的顶头上司 Taking down trash feels great for a while, and taking them down forever feels even better!!! If I don’t show my claws, you think I’m Hello Kitty or something?! Stay away from trash men and make his life hell. That’s how you start living your best life!!! I’m Shen Nian, and I’m forging ahead on the glorious road to tormenting my trash ex-husband and the homewrecker!!! So satisfying!!! 267Reads—Score105Shelves
- 142 Alien Insect Queen 异星虫母 My name is Li Tianling, and I’m an utterly ordinary college student. When I woke up one day, I found myself in an unknown world. My body seemed to have changed for some reason: it could “melt” and absorb all kinds of substances. The parts that melted off my body even turned into bugs, which could split into different species and obey my commands. After escaping the place where I’d awakened, I made my way into a forest, where there seemed to be even greater dangers. How was I supposed to survive. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Highway Horror Stories: SSS-Rank Clear Every Time 公路怪谈：次次SSS通关 As the supernatural descends upon the world, all land disappears, leaving only an infinitely stretching black highway. Everyone is dragged into rule-based horror instances. Clear one, and you get three days’ worth of supplies. Fail, and you die. When night falls, monsters run rampant, targeting vehicles first. When the car is wrecked, its passengers die. While everyone else struggles to survive within the rules, every step a brush with death, Lin Chen awakens [Peril Alert], a passive ability tha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 With Me Around, You Won't Ascend by Draining Others! 有我在，你们别想靠采补飞升！ Xu Qingyi, a beautiful office worker who loves reading trashy novels, gets transported into The Xia Couple, the book she just finished! After binding herself to a Plot Purification System, she learns she must complete various missions to purify the novel’s plot before she can return to the real world. Xu Qingyi becomes a “plot purifier,” taking on the original protagonists and dismantling one outrageous trap after another, all while finding sweet love... Workplace life meets immortal cultivation —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 The Corridor's Puzzle Map: Rules of the Heavens 回廊谜图：诸天规则 [Mystery] [Rules] [No Golden Finger] [No Mindless Decisions] [Fast-Paced] He wakes from a dream that was far too vivid, only to discover that he hasn't returned to his familiar bedroom. Before him lies a corridor stretching endlessly in both directions. This is the starting point, as the pioneers call it, of the Corridor of Myriad Heavens, or rather, the place where countless worlds of rules intersect and cast their projections... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 I Was Struck by Lightning While Casting My Rod, So I Had to Fish for Four Thousand Years 扬竿遭雷击，只好钓鱼四千年 I'm just a fishing enthusiast. Who could have expected such a bolt from the blue?! I know carbon-fiber fishing rods conduct electricity, but that doesn't mean I should transmigrate, right?! Am I really going to fish alongside all these people from history for over 4,000 years? I originally planned to make this longer, but I've been busy lately, so I'll end this volume here for now. Until we meet again! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 I Rise to Godhood in Thirty-Six Nights 我在三十六夜逆袭成神 (A laid-back heroine transforms into a powerful leading lady; the boss falls for me) Tear open the void of night and unlock everyone's heart. What would you do if you received a mysterious invitation? My name is Song Tan. I'm an ordinary office worker, and one day I accidentally wandered into a game... Instance One: Extreme Race (Complete) Instance Two: Night Banquet at the Demon Castle (Complete) Instance Three: Hopscotch (Complete) Instance Four: Deadly Reality Show (Complete) Instance Five: D 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 What Golden Finger? Me? 什么金手指？我吗？ Your gazes coming together are what set this story in motion. Thank you for reading. If you want it to be, then this is a true story. This is an ensemble story, and everyone's a protagonist. I don't even know if it's aimed at male or female readers. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Precision Dungeon Cleaver 副本精准切割 At four in the morning, the screen of Lu Chen’s phone, a resident doctor in standardized training, suddenly went black. A line of white text appeared: You have been summoned. A seventy-two-hour countdown began. He did not belong here, but he had to enter the dungeon. Others saw terror, rules, and death. He saw the threads of information. With the precision of a scalpel, he cut through the gaps in the rules and found the flaws everyone else had missed. The ability he awakened was called “Precisio 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Sword Dance: My Beloved Is the Blade at My Side 剑器引：卿是枕边刃 On her wedding night, the entire Shen family was massacred, and blood flowed like a river. She was the sole surviving child of a family of generals. She watched with her own eyes as her enemy trampled her home and country and burned her entire life to ashes. To avenge them, she altered her appearance and bone structure, concealed that she was a woman, and took on the guise of a young adviser who resembled him in every way. Step by step, she insinuated herself into his life. She learned his expr —Reads—Score—Shelves
