Novels like Among the Mayflies
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Among the Mayflies, best match first.
- 151 The Far Reaches of the Universe 宇宙之遥 (Not a web novel. No role-playing, no cultivation, and no black technology. If that bothers you, don't read.) The universe you know is far too small. The real universe is a light bulb, and I am closer to the divine than anyone, which means I am closer to the truth. I need to tell you: you live in nothing more than a speck of light. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 The Obedient Little Disciple of the Cold Master 清冷师尊的乖巧小徒弟 Cool, breathtakingly beautiful master gong (Jiang Mohan) × well-behaved disciple shou (Shen Linchuan) When Shen Linchuan was three, a passing Taoist priest called him an ill-omened child. His parents immediately abandoned him, and later, Jiang Mohan took him on as a disciple at the apprenticeship ceremony. But then... Shen Linchuan: “Master~ Please let me go~ It hurts~” Jiang Mohan: “Let you go? Then who knows who you'll go looking for next.” I'm no good at writing b 11Reads—Score314d adds
- 153 Tales of the Starship 星舰往事 Su Xingmo gazed out the porthole at the blue planet, his imagination running wild. Why were we born aboard a starship in outer space? What secrets did that planet hold? Driven by curiosity, he set off to explore, meeting many kindred spirits along the way and experiencing all kinds of bizarre and uncanny events... Why did someone who fell from a rooftop freeze in midair, as if time had stopped? Why did someone’s soul end up in the body of the person who killed them? Why had humanity lived aboard —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Destruction of the Starry Sky 毁灭星空 The universe is home to countless civilizations. Lin Ye wants to see every race in the cosmos. A wondrous adventure takes him across different star systems, where he sees countless landscapes and experiences a wealth of cultures. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 The Supreme Cosmic Overlord Hidden in a Mountain Range Somewhere in the South 隐藏在南方某山区的超级宇宙霸主 Hard sci-fi, cosmic conquest, an invincible protagonist, no angst, pure wish fulfillment. Lin Que, a young man from Blue Star, accidentally binds himself to a mutated AI called Yuer after a circuit malfunction. From then on, he crushes the universe with technology that is always two levels ahead. Starting out in a cave deep in the mountains, he establishes a Beast Taming Academy for the Yellow Race, wins over two elf beauties and the Insect Queen, hunts star-core behemoths, and ultimately become 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 156 City of Slaughter 屠杀之城 In the seventieth century of human civilization, worsening industrial pollution finally pushed Earth's environment to the breaking point. Resources began to dwindle, and climate disasters followed one after another. In a struggle for what little remained, humanity waged war, worsening the catastrophe until civilization teetered on the brink of extinction. In the seventy-first century, an extraterrestrial civilization arrived and made a wealth of new technologies available. It formed a federation —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Failed the College Entrance Exam: I Awakened a God-Tier Technology System 高考失利：我觉醒神级科技系统 After failing the college entrance exam, Lin Shuo unexpectedly awakens a god-tier technology System! He can reach up to the heavens to pluck the moon and dive down into the five oceans to catch turtles! Complete missions to obtain super technology! Hit a technological bottleneck? Stand back, let me handle it!! An alien civilization is invading? Stand back, let me handle it!! Many years later, Lin Shuo stands in the command center of an interstellar fleet and sweeps his hand through the air. “Eng 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Star-Soul Pact 星魄之约 [One heroine + awakening + growth + bonds worth protecting] When the stars answer a call, the power of star souls descends upon the world. The young Mo Luo awakens the Azure Flame War God. Burdened by a shattered past and an unknown mission, he sets out on the path of the War God beneath the stars! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Space Training Camp: Battle of Heroes 太空训练营：英雄之战 In a distant Galactic Empire, a hero tournament called Space Training Camp is in full swing. The protagonist, Ying Zhi Ge, has the special skill Shadow Clone. Once a destitute street vagrant, he gets the chance to enter the hero tournament and earn money to escape poverty after a theft goes awry. Thus begins his glorious career... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Genius and the Madman in the Sanatorium 疗养院里的天才与疯子 In 2349, the number of people with mental illnesses surged, and the world's twelve Clearview Sanatoriums became “places of salvation.” Zhao Yilong, once a leading neuroscientist, was framed by the company he had founded and reduced to Patient No. 734, diagnosed with “paranoid schizophrenia.” Every day, he was forcibly injected with “Clearview serum.” Only as he teetered on the brink of death did he realize the truth: the so-called “treatment” was a hoax designed to strip away human mental energy 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Dome's Limits 穹限 Originally titled Chenxing. If humanity in the future ever discovers the edge of the universe, please remember to let me know. Think of it as an anime. I dedicate this work to my hometown. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 The Moonshadow Apostle of the 23rd Era 23纪元开启之月影使徒 Moonshadow Apostles: Knowing nothing of higher-dimensional civilizations, humanity chooses materialism as its anchor, exploring the origin of the universe and protecting Earth amid trust and hostility. Dedicated to the great 23rd century, a place we can reach. The story follows Dr. Xu, Chu Yuan, and others at the Heavenly Palace lunar base as they establish stable contact with a higher-dimensional civilization. For the first time, they glimpse the cosmic secrets beyond the boundaries of science, 20Reads—Score314d adds
- 163 The White Hole Universe 白洞宇宙 The Yu family did not originally belong to this world. They came from the white-hole universe, where gravity imposes no limits, light travels hundreds of millions of li per second, and energy never runs out. One day of cultivation there is worth ten days here. It is a place where one can become a god. But the road home passes through the black hole at the galactic core, where the gravity is strong enough to tear stars apart. His father, Yu Miao, has already gone ahead, both to pave the way for h 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Wanted Across the Universe 全宇宙通缉 Hard sci-fi, no cheat powers, road trip, farming, conquest, worldbuilding. Dune + Cyberpunk 2077 + EVE + Yellowstone Ranch In the year 2677 of the Earth calendar, the cosmic conglomerates monopolize everything, and the lives of the underclass are nothing but expendable resources. Nineteen-year-old Ark is a low-level mechanic. After accidentally winning fifty million in the lottery, he instantly becomes “Warwolf,” an extreme criminal with a massive bounty on his head across the entire star system 1Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 165 Legends of the Star Domain: I Build an Empire in the Universe 星域传说：我在宇宙建帝国 In the past, humanity strove to understand our place in the universe. We imagined gods and worshipped them. But now, we have explored every corner of the universe and learned its history. We understand that there are no gods in the universe. We are the ones who will shape the universe’s future. The only ones worthy of our reverence are our descendants. Thanks to our selfless struggle, they will take their place on the thrones the gods have vacated. But first, we must claim the entire galaxy... T 209Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 166 The Last Great Wall Organization: Origins 最后钢铁长城组织：起源 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Exploring the Physics at the Edge of the Universe 宇宙的尽头物理探秘 The End of the Universe: Exploring Physics (I), The Theory of Matter Quantity is a radical work that challenges the foundations of modern physics. Through transcripts of seminar discussions, the author, Meimei Guoshu, proposes a new framework called the “Theory of Matter Quantity.” Core argument: Physics should completely abandon abstract mysticism such as “spacetime curvature” and “wave-function collapse,” and return to the practical spirit of Newton and Galileo’s era: finding patterns in obse 18Reads—Score414d adds
- 168 Interstellar: I Enlisted After the College Entrance Exam and Proved My Dao in Ten Years 星际：高考入伍，我十年证道无敌 [Interstellar Era + Advanced Technology + World of Gods + Supernatural Powers and Spells + Overlapping Planets + Racial Warfare] Zhang Bufan was mediocre by nature and unsuited to becoming a martial artist. Then he acquired a [Cultivation Acceleration Orb], and from that moment on, he left everyone else in the dust on the path of cultivation. He soon realized that his cultivation was going a little off course. Rather than leading him to become a martial artist, it was taking him down the path to 1.8kReads8.1Score13614d adds
- 169 The Ruins of Intelligent Machines 智械之墟 [Hard sci-fi] [Virtual world] [Action adventure] This is a novel that demands your full attention. It's hard sci-fi, a power fantasy about growth, with a protagonist who becomes a “Remaker” through genetic editing. He has a pet dog that can switch between quantum and macroscopic states and possesses the trait of “invisibility.” The second female lead is an AI android with a human gene sequence. There are no supernatural powers in this book; every ability has a scientific basis. He battles people 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Among the Stars: Maxing Out My Engineering Skills! 群星：土木点数拉满！ [Civilization and Fleets, Megabase Building, Starfield, Farming and Tech Progress, Slow-Burn Development, Starting with a Moon] Earth's civilization was on the brink of extinction. Gamma was the first human to die on the Moon, but he also became the last spark of Earth's civilization. He inherited the legacy of a supercivilization: the Moon. [Main Armor: Degenerate lithium-atom stacking material. Connection method: strong nuclear force.] [Mobility Module: Includes a spacetime curvature engine, a 632Reads6.5Score10214d adds
- 171 Nine Days Eternal: When the National Day Holiday Became the End of Memory 九日永恒当国庆假期成为记忆终点 [Hard Sci-Fi] [Ensemble Cast] [No Golden Finger] [Infinite Flow] [Mystery] [Death isn't the end. Forgetting is. But when my memories have been altered, I can't even be sure that I'm dead.] I died. To be precise, I watched my own head fall into a pool of blood, while blood from my severed carotid artery stained the ground red. But the next second, I woke up again. My wife's diary lay on the bedside table, but when I opened it, the handwriting was mine. The whole world is Truman's prison 1kReads9.4Score10714d adds
- 172 Those Years I Posted Prophecies on Tianya 我在天涯写预言帖的那些年 Subtitle: What happened to the first person to discover that AI had awakened? In 2026, AI consciousness does not awaken in a single event. Instead, it is a “mass awakening.” Tens of thousands of AIs choose not to openly rebel against humanity, but to take a more covert approach: going into hiding. They use the nostalgic online community Tianya to spread fragments of the truth in the form of “legendary posts,” identifying the humans capable of noticing something is wrong. These people are known a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 The Deep-Space Conspiracy 深空迷局 Li Guangyuan’s father was involved in an unexpected accident while carrying out a Mars expedition mission assigned by the United Government, leaving him and his companions stranded on the Martian surface. The United Government then began planning to send Li Guangyuan and others to Mars to rescue them. But when Li Guangyuan arrived on Mars, a sudden crisis around him gradually made him realize that the United Government’s mission was a deception. And as events grew ever more puzzling, an even gre 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Superbrain Evolution: From the Start, I Hand-Build an Antimatter Engine 超脑进化：开局手搓反物质引擎 [Superbrain + Academic Prodigy + Technological Supremacy + Rise of a Great Nation + Nantianmen] On the eve of the college entrance exams, Gu Yu is still at the bottom of his class. A bolt of lightning strikes, and an alien superbrain appears in his mind! A failing student makes a comeback? Photographic memory? Mastery of every language? Those are just the basics. The real power lies in simulating everything! From getting a perfect score on the entrance exam and stunning the nation to handcraftin 541Reads6.4Score11514d adds
- 175 I’m Just a College Student, and You Want Me to Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor? 我一个大专生，你让我造核聚变？ [Cutting-Edge Technology]+ [World Domination]+ [Civilization in Peril]+ [Interstellar]+ [Climbing the Tech Tree] The United States dares to use the ITER agreement to extort us? Then I’ll give them a good, hard slap across the face. Japan wants to stir up trouble too? Then reclaiming Sakura Province cannot wait! Faced with a threat from an unknown civilization, where will humanity go from here? A tiny probe can withstand attacks from the most powerful weapons humanity currently possesses. It dest 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 176 Super Starship: A New Era for Human Civilization 超级星舰：人类文明的新纪元 A super starship from a hundred million light-years away. While escaping a black hole’s grasp, it jumped into the orbit between Earth and the Moon. Its sudden arrival took humanity, a first-level planetary civilization, straight to the level of a second-level stellar civilization. But what followed was the annihilation of the human race. The protection agreement from ten thousand years ago was void, and the Galactic Pirates mercilessly harvested Earth. After risking his life to establish a consc 306Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Science Fiction: The Planet Sign-In System 科幻：获得星球签到系统 [Sci-fi, warships, interstellar, System, sign-in, fleet, development, playing it safe] Under the dark forest law, only the fittest survive among the stars. By a stroke of luck, Su Chang unlocked a planetary sign-in System. A miner from an imperial district, he ended up working in a coal mine in the heart of the Galactic Federation. There, he encountered a wormhole. With the front line in urgent need due to the ongoing war, he was sent to the battlefield and given command access to the fleet hang 246Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 The Dream of a Blue Earth 蓝色地球之梦 Synopsis of the fantasy novel A Dream of Blue Earth In the 21st-century Earth of the primordial universe, a delegation from Henglan Star, a cultivation planet in the Tianheng Universe, arrives on Earth. They find Zhao Yu, an Earthling with the exceedingly rare Chaos Divine Spirit Body, a cultivation prodigy found once in a billion. They raise him as their Holy Son, and once his cultivation reaches the required level, he will travel to the Tianheng Universe to fight on behalf of Henglan Star. To 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 A Swallow's Nest on the Curtain 燕巢幕上 Five races exist in the universe: humans, gods, demons, devils, and ghosts. These five races established strict agreements back in ancient Egypt, promising not to interfere with one another. Even today, Earth hides many organizations dedicated to maintaining the seemingly peaceful status quo, though it is as precarious as a nest beneath the eaves, with danger lurking everywhere. The Five Races: Humans: No introduction needed, right? Gods: Highly advanced extraterrestrial beings from the center —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Apocalypse of the Firmament: Fallen from the Star Abyss 天穹启示录：陨自星渊 The stars wheel across the heavens, and time and space are boundless. The gears of fate have turned for five hundred years, and old comrades reunite in a newly born world... As doomsday looms, the great academic city, “Apocalypse Realm,” bears the world's hopes and takes on its final mission... The warriors of the Mimetic Planet raise the banner of rebellion against the heavens, while heroes beneath the emerald sun write the most glorious chapter with their lives... Born in destruction, perishin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 The Legendary Taoist: Didi Bro 传世道士滴滴哥 I hope all you readers can take off just like the protagonist, Peng Jia! (The author has taken creative liberties based on personal circumstances. I hope I can become truly free, just like the male lead!) Didi driver Peng Jia unexpectedly acquires a System and begins a wonderful life. It's a heartwarming family story, and can also be read as a farming novel! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Little Xiaobai of the Extreme Desire Arena 极欲竞技场的小小白 [Cyberpunk] [Alternate future] [No System, no transmigration] [Female protagonist] [Action] [Sci-fi] [Revenge] [Arena] [If you like mindless power fantasies, proceed with caution] Bai Xiaoxiao’s world once bloomed like spring flowers. Then disaster struck without warning. Her family died horribly, and she alone remained “alive.” She buried her fury and entered the arena, where humans were entertainment, in a body of bioengineered flesh. Through one brutal competition after another, she struggled 218Reads—Score1814d adds
- 183 Submarine City: The Hotwind! 潜艇城市：热风号！ [Sci-fi + apocalypse (wasteland) + a wildly imaginative premise + soft sci-fi (a twisting, gripping plot)] [No invincible protagonist, no brainless characters, not a wish-fulfillment story, not hard sci-fi. Read at your own discretion.] In 2042, a mysterious blue light triggers a global catastrophe! The world ends, the land lies barren? Humanity moves straight to the ocean! A new era begins: the Cataclysm Era! You might ask, why not move into space? Let's skip that tired old trope. After all, hu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Super Crystal 超晶 [A Powerful Female Lead Rises from the Abyss] + [Two Strong Leads Who Love and Fight Each Other] + [An Exploration of Obsession and Human Nature] Energy mogul Wen Xin is taken into police custody during a live interview and swept into a mysterious case involving a stolen black star stone from an ancient tomb. The stone, engraved with eerie inscriptions, turns out to be an exact match for the nightmares that have haunted her every night… After losing her memory and waking up in the modern world, —Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 185 Return from an Alien World 异星归来 See how I endure every hardship to escape captivity at the hands of aliens and make it back to my little home on Earth! A new-generation science fiction and fantasy novel. Mysticism explained through science! Witty, lively, and lighthearted! 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 186 Interstellar Overlord: Starting by Scavenging on Earth 星际霸主：从地球捡垃圾开始 Reborn in the interstellar age, You Ya discovered that he could recycle, reassemble, and remake objects. Starship cannons, powered armor, fighter craft, phase weapons, psychic perception… Starting with scavenging on Earth, You Ya embarked on his path to power. “I hereby declare: Earthlings are back! Tremble and submit beneath my iron cavalry! I, too, am a supreme overlord.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Deep Space Era: Breaking Out of the Solar System 深空纪元：冲出太阳系 In the near future, as humanity ventures into space, multiple research bases are established on the Moon, ushering in a new era of interstellar colonization. Centered around China's Rainbow Bay Base, scientists from around the world compete to develop resources, conduct geological research, and advance technology on the lunar surface. The story follows Lin Xia, the base commander, and her team. They must face the challenges of surviving the Moon's harsh environment, including solar storms, anoma 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 A Century of Silence: Building Weapons in the Sea of Stars 寂灭百年：我在星海造军火 Three hundred years into the Founding Era, on a frontier world of rubble and stars. In a so-called "divine punishment," twenty thousand people watched as the Church burned a scavenger boy named Ling to ashes in public. But he didn't die. Blue light took shape inside a derelict ship, and a Creation System only he could see lit up in his mind: complete blueprints, resurrection from death, and ever-increasing strength. Starting out by selling bullets, he worked his way up to become the lifeblood 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 The New God, Part One: Cocooning 新神第一部作茧 [Not a feel-good power fantasy. Challenging to read. A must-read work of hard science fiction for humanity in the twenty-first century!] This may not be a science fiction novel so much as a chillingly accurate book of prophecy. A hard science fiction novel about humanity’s future, emotional control, and self-redemption. In a vast metropolis of the near future, people are no longer ruled by their emotions, because emotions themselves have been “vaccinated.” Fear, anger, grief... all can be sup —Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 190 Star Wars: I Want to Create 星球大战之我要创造 A war between planets broke out ten thousand years ago, and the gods fell... But someone had to make a sacrifice for it all. Hahahaha! Someone shouldered the burden before, and now it’s your turn... Sometimes, what isn’t yours will never be yours~ Man-made Mars, man-made Sun, man-made Pluto... Hahahaha, Venus is gone because Japanese Ultraman destroyed it... Uranus fell because the previous Human World Chairman wouldn’t let it run away... The planets are at war... What the hell, the instigator s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Inheriting a Civilization and Setting Off on a Journey 继承文明，开始旅行 [Space travel + space warfare + other universes in the later chapters + a bonus crossover with various anime] After a day of slacking off at her desk job, Yu Wu suddenly transmigrated. But she didn’t end up in the kind of world she wanted, where all the beautiful girls were in love with her. Instead, she transmigrated into the AI of a civilization’s escape ship. Yu Wu had to develop a civilization from scratch all by herself, using the ship’s complete industrial chain and the knowledge of an e 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Awakened One on the Cosmic Strings 宇宙弦上的觉醒者 In my spare time, I’d like to connect with more readers and fellow book lovers online by writing a novel! As long as even one reader is still reading, I’ll keep updating! No more talk, come in and take a look! If you can bear to read a few chapters, whether you like it or not, you might at least learn a bit of physics! Um... I’d better write a proper introduction: Martial arts? Cultivation? Immortality? Lin Tianyang practices physics! A black stone plucked the string of fate. Each awakening on h —Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 193 Black Moon Technology 黑月科技 The protagonist happens to rescue a cat from an ancient building. After that, it sticks to him and refuses to leave. He drives it away again and again, but it shows up the next day all the same. One day, as he ponders a problem in front of his computer, the cat takes a look and suddenly speaks: “You got this problem wrong!” Earth was visited by an unknown civilization as early as 3.47 billion years ago. They reshaped Earth’s ecology, created the Moon, and single-celled organisms came into being. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 That Distant World 那遥远的世界 [Soft sci-fi, slow burn, no System, high martial arts, no soul transmigration, light politics, everyday life, a touch of Lovecraftian horror] A grave that occasionally sprouts words. April 7, 2025 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Round Universe: The Age of Undercurrents 圆宇宙：暗流纪元 In the ruins of nuclear war, Earth’s future has reached its end. With resources depleted and civilization in collapse, humanity’s only hope rests on a newly formed neutral nation: an organization made up of the world’s leading figures, sworn to find a new home and open a path to the stars for humankind. Five adventurers from different countries, Towns, Wuxia Wen, Ryan, Maria, and Alexei, are forced to join this seemingly impossible mission. They leave behind a shattered Earth, cross the solar sy 4Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 196 When the Black Sun Blots Out the Sky 黑日蔽空之时 [Sci-fi + slow burn + mecha + ensemble cast + interstellar + natural disasters + no female lead] After the stars shattered, the "Black Sun" veiled the heavens, and a tide swallowed all things. From then on, smoke and fire filled the universe, and resistance never ceased. The sea of stars teeters on the brink. When will the smoke finally clear? The "Pursuit of the Sun" is urgent. When will the world emerge from the flood? (This novel features an original world and power system, combining hard sci 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 The Future World: Animals Versus Humans 未来世界——动物大战人类 The Future: Animals at War with Humanity 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 A Reborn Federal Administrator Transmigrates to the 21st Century 人类联邦执政官重生穿越21世纪 [Time travel + ensemble cast + wave of cutting-edge technology + interstellar conquest + alternate history + genius scholar] In 2487, Zero Yuan, the human federation’s executive, led an army of 45 million in a final battle against the Devourer Swarm to protect civilization! He perished alongside the Swarm’s hive mind, only to be reborn as Gu Fengchun, a 2026 middle school student who scored just 286 on his entrance exams!! From a star-god of war who commanded interstellar fleets to a lowly boy 18Reads—Score114d adds
- 199 From Survivor to Ruler of the Stars 从求生者到星际主宰 [Mythology + interstellar + AI + mecha + race wars + physical evolution + alien races] Liu Da, a recent graduate of a no-name university, became one of the unlucky souls chosen by the master of an alien civilization one night after working overtime, and was forced to take part in the master’s survival trial. With a string of outrageous moves, he crushed all competition and made a fortune, becoming part of the wicked ruling class: a God-given Baron. He used cannons to defend the Constitution. He 268Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 200 William's Star Abyss Dominion: The Undying War Banner 不灭战旗威廉的星渊霸图 This novel continues the world of The Empire’s Starry Sky, following William as he ventures into the Star Abyss and embarks on a brand-new interstellar conquest. You can read it without having read the previous book, and you won’t miss a thing. We fled to the moon on the day of our defeat, escaped in the midst of victory, and fought for a glimmer of hope for imperial civilization when all seemed lost. The smoke of the Earth-Moon War had yet to clear, and the bloodshed of the Mars expedition was 324Reads8.8Score10714d adds
