Novels like The Price Tag
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Price Tag, best match first.
- 101 She Risked Her Life to Help Me Escape That Village 她用命换我逃出那个村子 She gave her life so I could escape that village. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 The White Jade Mystery 白玉谜团 Jiang Bai, a boss who works from home, is suddenly visited by the police. What will happen next? Cautions: First-person narration, mystery, novella, modern setting, but the police are less capable than in real life. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The Third Hand in the Old Building 旧楼里的第三只手 Because the rent was cheap, Lin Wanqiu moved into an old apartment complex in the western part of the city. During her first week there, she noticed something was wrong: food kept disappearing from the fridge, the bathroom tiles were wet when no one had used it, and strangest of all, at three in the morning she kept hearing the sound of fingernails scraping the wall from the empty apartment next door. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Shadows Within the Circle 圆上之影 The Shadow on the Circle 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 All Are Villains: You're the Next Victim 全员恶人之：你，就是下一个被害者 All Are Villains: You’re the Next Victim 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 I’m a Yin-Yang Master at a Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院当阴阳先生 [Modern Urban + Cthulhu-Style Psychiatric Hospital] When Chen Sanmu was carried into Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital by paramedics, clutching his family's ancient book, Records of the Strange from the Yellow Springs, he swore he'd show those white-coated doctors what it meant that "at the end of science lies the occult." In the intensive care ward, he mixed sedatives with black dog blood to draw talismans, used the electroshock machine as a ritual implement to command the Five Thunders, and turned —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 He Suyue Transmigrates into a Book: A Calming Soup Brings a Ghost Bride to Life 何苏叶穿书：安神汤喝活了鬼新娘 He Su Ye transmigrates into a book: A Calming Decoction Brings a Ghost Bride Back to Life 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 I'm Writing Something That Scares Even Me 我在写一种我自己也害怕的东西 I'm writing something that scares even me. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Mystery: I’m the Ultimate Memory Manipulator, Until I Discover My Memories Are Fake Too 悬疑：我是顶级记忆篡改者，直到发现我的记忆也是假的 Suspense: I’m a master memory editor, until I discover my own memories are fake —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 The Edelweiss Tombstone 雪绒花的墓碑 [School Life | Youthful Campus Romance | Utter Revenge | Japanese-Style Mystery] On the day I transferred to the school, the class president, Saya Yumeko, smiled and took my hand, saying she wanted to be my best friend. No one cared about this broken-down village that was about to sink beneath an artificial lake. In a few months, everything here would be submerged, and no one would remember it. I put up with the doodles in my textbooks, the dirty shoes in the trash can, the ice forced into my mo 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Transmigrated to Ancient Times? I Have a Golden Bangle from the Start 穿越到古代？我有金手镯开局 Transmigrated to Ancient Times? I Have a Golden Bangle from the Start —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Rewind: The Cage on a Rainy Night, 1937 回溯：雨夜囚笼1937 Rewind: The Cage of a Rainy Night, 1937 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Killer Breathes in the Dark 凶手在暗处呼吸 "Ahem, ahem, ahem!" Lin Yu waved his hand and said, "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Lin Yu, the owner of a detective agency. My main line of work is taking on clients and helping them solve cases! The cases are all kinds of strange. I've heard of things you haven't, and seen things you haven't. You might think a case is far away, but sometimes the culprit is right beside you. And is it science or the supernatural? That's something I can't decide either! But I've always wanted to find the answ —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Forty-Seventh Dawn 第四十七个清晨 The Forty-Seventh Morning 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 From the Start, an S-Rank Horror Tale: I Only Have One Block? 开局S级怪谈：我只有一个方块？ (Comedy, plot twists, wild imagination and logic, mild horror, and smart protagonists and antagonists) My name is Shen Mo. It sounds cool, but things went horribly from the start: no memories, no teammates, and a block… But! What do you mean, you can jump from dozens of stories up and land in water? What do you mean, you can blow up eerie scenes with TNT? What do you mean, you can beat Cthulhu senseless with the Sword of Cosmic Dominion? Oh, right. One more thing you should know: this is —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 A Crime Guide Group from the Start 开局犯罪指导群 When logic is the only weapon, who can glimpse the truth at the edge of the abyss in a maze woven from lies? On a rainy night in the old city, there is a corpse and a picture frame deliberately set straight. To criminal investigation captain Chen Xi, the evidence clearly points to a burglary. But to forensic evidence expert Lin Jianshen, it is a chilling ritual, meticulously staged. He never believes in coincidence. He trusts only the ironclad logic behind people's actions. The angle of a tilted —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 After Transmigrating, the Forensic County Magistrate Becomes a God! 穿越后，法医县令成神了！ After transmigrating, the county magistrate and forensic examiner became a god! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Tales of the Uncanny 诡话传说 “Hey, everyone, I’m here.” I pointed my phone camera at the abandoned village gate in front of me. The characters on the archway had long since blurred beyond recognition. All that remained was a sinister, rust-red color, splashed irregularly across the stone pillars like blood that had dried long ago. “See that color? Is it a good enough opening for the ‘Blood Axe’?” The comments immediately began to fly. [Sister Xue is charging into a new map!] [Just looking at this place gives me the creeps.] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 A Dark Kiss Beneath the Deep Lake 深湖之下的暗吻 On the glittering annual gala night at Xingguang Group, senior finance executive Lin Wei “accidentally” falls into a lake and dies. While sorting through her belongings, her younger sister Lin Yue finds a bloodstained encrypted USB drive. On the night she died, her sister sent one last message: “They’re here.” Lin Yue’s investigation hits a hidden reef. Witnesses are silenced one after another, and every lead is cut off. Then Song Feng, just back from studying abroad, enters her life with perfe 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Root of Sin 心罪源 Greed, desire, hatred, loathing, envy, jealousy... These are all the roots of human crime. The human heart is unfathomable; people can commit crimes over the smallest things. Yi Kai studied criminal psychology, but ended up making a living as a detective. An accidental car crash gave him astonishing powers of observation and perception. A chance encounter led Police Captain Xiang Tiange to recognize his abilities and put him to work. From then on, he embarked on a battle of wits against criminal 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 My Brother's Good Girl Won't Behave Tonight 哥哥的乖女孩今晚不乖了 “Dressed like that, where have you been running around?” Late at night, Song Jingxing hauls me home from the party, his voice icy cold. He casually pulls off his tie and winds it around my wrists, his burning breath brushing my ear. “Xingxing, the game is over.” Only then do I realize that his ten years of tender indulgence have all been part of the gilded cage he built for me. When I try to escape, he finally tears off his mask of kindness and bares his fangs of obsession... “Be good. Tell your 9Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 122 Urban Legends Invade: I Slay Demons with Divine Blessings 怪谈入侵：我用神明祝福斩鬼 From Chapter 102 onward, the story enters dungeons, with people from other worlds joining the main cast in them. The world within a world includes science fiction. Also known as: Gods and Ghosts Run Rampant: I Wield the Power of the Gods to Slay Ghosts [Fairly satisfying] [A whole lot of killing] [Chinese-style supernatural tales] [Legendary monsters] [System-driven] [System] [Urban supernatural powers] [Mystery] [Some Infinite Flow dungeons] [Slay Ghosts] [Slay the Gods] Do you believe ghost —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Returnee from Hell 地狱归客 He once fell into the Inferno, enduring nine near-death trials amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. At last, he returned to the human world bearing the brands of Hell and the power to devour souls. That power can see through the hidden sins of sinners and turn their past misdeeds into pain they must suffer themselves. It is a “gift” Hell bestows upon its judges. The human world is no paradise. Evil lurks in the shadows of neon lights: a hypocritical principal who abused children is still 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Forbidden Forensic Files: The Poisoned Corpse in the Theater 法医禁忌档案：剧院毒尸 Forensic Files of Forbidden Cases: Poisoned Corpse at the Theater —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Lure of the Fiend 诱煞 "Heaven reveals its signs, foretelling good and ill." As time passed and dynasties rose and fell, tales of blood moons and evil spirits were gradually buried in dusty old books, and few people knew of them anymore. Only the prophecy, "When the moon turns blood-red, yin reaches its extreme and gives birth to baleful forces," remained to warn each generation of inheritors: evil spirits had never vanished. They were only waiting for the next chance to return. When the celestial omen of a blood moon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Mystic Ruins: Secret Records of a Great Jing Taoist Priestess 玄墟：大靖女道秘录 You've seen plenty of formidable male Taoist priests, but have you ever seen a formidable female Taoist priest? Seventeen-year-old Shen Qingyan is a prodigy in the arts of sorcery in her master's eyes. She should have been a free and carefree cultivator, but her master's recent disappearance and a series of strange cases she encounters after descending the mountain draw her into a web of mysteries... Everything points to the Xuanhu Cult... What does “A disturbance in Kunlun, the Great Jing on th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Screams from the Harem After Midnight 半夜后宫的惨叫声 On the first Ghost Festival after the new emperor ascended the throne, a woman’s bloodcurdling screams rang out one after another from the direction of the Cold Palace. The palace maid assigned to investigate discovered a lipstick-scorched butterfly mark on the neck of every corpse. It matched the curse of Consort Chen, who had been sentenced to death twenty years ago, exactly. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Drowning a Child to Steal a Womb 溺童抢胎 Stealing a Child's Reincarnation 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 The Shen Family Daughter Clause 沈氏女儿条款 In the depths of winter by the sea, due diligence tears open a breach in the Shen Group. An intern named Li Li joins the risk-control team, but her goal has nothing to do with her resume: she wants to find her adoptive father, Li Shouyi, who has been missing for three years. All she has is an iron box, a string of numbers, a key, and an old index deliberately "sealed away." The deeper she digs, the more she realizes she hasn't stumbled upon a family matter, but an old ledger written into proced 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 The Archives Unit 档案组 [Horror + Mystery + Deduction] (This story is entirely fictional.) In the world we live in, countless mysterious corners often lie hidden beneath the surface calm. Events that cannot be easily explained by common sense are like phantoms in the fog, drawing people in to seek the truth behind them. And this book, The Archives, will take you on a journey of exploration into a world filled with mystery and wonder. Liu Yumin was originally just an unassuming employee in the police station’s records 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Great Case of Xijin 西金大案 In 1997, a dismemberment case at Xijin University caused a nationwide sensation. The case remained unsolved for 27 years. Against the backdrop of criminal investigation innovation at the Provincial Public Security Department, it has now resurfaced as a landmark case. The case forms the thread running through the whole novel, whose story weaves together suspense and deduction, archaeology, cutting-edge technology, love and family, and documentary realism... It paints a picture of the times from t 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 I Search for Collapse in the Eerie World 我在诡异世界找崩坏 I transmigrated into a world where urban legends can kill and conceptual rules are power. People here fear the paranormal, wield supernatural entities, and struggle to survive under a fixed set of rules. And me? I'm just a passerby looking for a bit of fun. When the “Infinite Corridor” traps and kills everyone who enters, I softly ask the wall, “Do you know what a Klein bottle is?” When the rule of the “Echo of Death” is “understanding means death,” I raise a mirror toward the void. They say I d —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 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—14d adds
- 134 In the Dark Age, Seeking Truth Through the Gateways 黑暗时代，于门径寻求真理 The world is shrouded in the mutterings of gods, and mortals compose hymns to survive. The Old Ones slumber in the abyss, and every breath stirs up a tide of corruption; In a realm of twisted rules, you must survive against impossible odds to earn your trump card: Elements. A virologist who should have died awakens in another world, able to make a contribution to human civilization... This world doesn’t need heroes. It just need —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The Red Conspiracy: Echoes from the Abyss 红色迷局:深渊回响 The Red Conspiracy: Echoes of the Abyss 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 A Gaze Bought with Death 死亡换来的凝视 The Gaze Bought with Death —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Lin Xiu Investigates 林修探案 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 The Embalmer's Ten Rules 入殓师的十不准 The Mortician’s Ten Prohibitions 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Fetal Movement Livestream 胎动直播间 The Fetal Movement Livestream Room —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 The Heir to the Family Business 守业人 The Keeper of the Family Legacy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 I Once Read the Fortune of a Dead Man 我给死人算过一卦 I Once Read a Fortune for the Dead —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 At Two in the Morning, No One Can Stay in the Autopsy Room 凌晨两点，解剖室不能留人 At Two in the Morning, No One Is Allowed to Stay in the Autopsy Room —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Reborn to Tear Off Your Fake Heiress Mask 重生归来，撕破你的假千金面具 Reborn and back, I tear off your fake heiress mask —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 I Pinched Myself Awake, Only to Enter an Even Deeper Dream 我掐醒了自己，却进了更深的梦 I pinched myself awake, only to fall into an even deeper dream —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Who Is the One at the Door? 谁是开门的人 The night Jin Meng returned from North Bay, she came down with a high fever. When she woke up in the hospital, Jin Meng thought she had only been unconscious for a few nights. The inexplicable WeChat messages, her mother’s cold replies, and the news scrolling across the TV screen all reminded her that she, Jin Meng, had become a murder suspect. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Reborn as a Young Wife: A Village Official in the 1980s 重生小媳妇，我在八零年代当村官 [No clichés, no invincibility, no System, no wish fulfillment. If that bothers you, read at your own risk]☜ Lin Xiao, a college student about to graduate, accidentally falls from a building and transmigrates into the body of a newlywed in Peach Blossom Village. She had planned to keep a low profile, raise dogs, and farm, but her modern way of thinking catches the village chief's attention. Between the trouble caused by her awful sisters-in-law and her bond with a mysterious puppy, she is dragged —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Bone Reading and Evil Divination: A Republic-Era Ghost Detective Casebook 摸骨断凶：民国鬼探奇案录 In the tumultuous years of the Republic, bizarre cases abound. A woman’s corpse lies in the City God Temple, with an untold secret hidden between her bones. The Zhang residence’s red coffin holds shattered bones, while a curse and its mysteries haunt the wealthy family. A famous performer from the Fengming troupe dies onstage, and the theft of the remains leads to a blood feud... Shen Ci’an, Nanjing’s heir to the art of bone reading, examines bones with skilled hands to expose killers and see t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Reborn in the Dayong Dynasty: I’m a Coroner Who Judges Wronged Spirits 魂穿大雍：我，仵作专审冤魂 A modern forensic examiner transmigrates to the Great Yong dynasty and becomes a lowly coroner despised by all. The dead conceal the truth, and bones bear witness. Using modern forensic techniques, they solve one strange case after another, stand up to the powerful, and clear the names of countless souls. 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 149 The Accounting Standards Murder Case 会计准则杀人案件 The Accounting Standards Murder Case —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 The Silent Edge 无声的锋刃 Once the “brain” of the strongest special operations unit, he retired in bitter disappointment after a mission involving a high-level power struggle ended in failure. He became an ordinary police bomb-disposal expert in a major city. He thought he had left the storm behind, but it returned with even greater fury: undercurrents stirred in the city as international spies, financial predators, new forms of crime, and the shadows of his past converged. Forced to take up his “weapons” again, he now f 1Reads—Score—14d adds
