Novels like Don’t Look Back on the Night of the Wake
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- 151 It Only Takes Two or Three Minutes 就三两分钟的事儿 The stories in this book all come from real life, and they’re very short, just a few minutes each. People live at a fast pace these days, so I don’t want to take up too much of your time. You can read a complete story in just a couple of minutes in your spare time. I don’t expect you to remember every detail afterward. I’ll be happy if you read one and think, “Yeah, I’ve done that too,” or “I’ve been through that.” Then all those late nights spent writing will have been worth it. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Chronicles of the Nine Tripods 九鼎编年史 The primordial world you know is the one they want you to know. I am the spirit of the Nine Cauldrons, and I have witnessed the truth of the primordial world buried by the histories. The Human Emperor wept blood as demons usurped the human court. The Dark Bird of destiny descended and gave birth to Shang. The phoenix sang from Mount Qi, and the Investiture of the Gods drew to a close. Heaven and earth are not benevolent: they treat all things like straw dogs. The Heavenly Dao has calculated ever 13Reads—Score314d adds
- 153 They Spread a Sexual Rumor About Me During the Year-End Sales Push. I’ll Make Your Company Go Bankrupt 年终冲单被造黄谣，我让你公司倒闭 They Started a Sex Rumor About Me to Steal the Year-End Sales. I’ll Make Your Company Go Bankrupt 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Case Within the Mirror 镜中影案中案 Moonlight bright, shining through the hall; Lord Magistrate, hanging from a beam. Chilly wind, clothes drawn tight; Lord Minister, soaked in a vat... Twenty years ago, the “Crown Prince’s Rebellion Case” was riddled with unanswered questions. Those involved either died under mysterious circumstances or vanished without a trace, and wrongful convictions were common. A web of mysteries surrounding the truth of the old case is quietly unfolding in the capital. 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 The Fox Who Flew Beyond the World 遗世飞狐 [Cultivation + Fantasy + Eastern Wuxia + Adventure + Male Protagonist + Uncovering Mysteries and Exploring Hidden Places + …] The Lost World Continent. The beastfolk live alongside the human, winged, aquatic, and many other peoples. The Flying Fox clan is a branch of the foxfolk and part of the beastfolk. For generations, they have lived in the Great Snow Mountains. The Great Snow Mountains are rugged and towering, blanketed in snow all year round and thick with forests and bamboo groves. T 6Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 156 Doomsday Descends: I Calculate a New World with a Pencil 末日降临：我靠铅笔算出新世界 In 2080, comet fragments tore through Earth. A forty-meter tsunami swallowed Donggang City in an instant, and billions perished. While others relied on AI and brain-computer interfaces to save them, Qin Hanming needed only a pencil: to calculate tsunami speeds, mine-shaft load limits, and spaceship fuel valves. As the whole world waited to die, he alone used a pencil to usher in a new era: stockpiling supplies, expanding his team, building underground city-states, exploring the new Earth, and es 173Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Reborn: I Dumped the Scumbag and Won Over the Cold, Cunning Prince 重生后踹渣男，撩翻冷面腹黑王爷 This novel has been adapted into a manhua-drama and is now streaming on Hongguo, where it's a hit! Reborn to pursue her true love + revenge on the scum + ascetic minister + two cunning, powerful leads + devoted, doting husband In her previous life, she trusted Shen Mubai and died with her unborn child, taking her regrets to the grave. Reborn, Su Jin tears up her betrothal contract to become the heir apparent's wife and vows never to go near that faithless man again. Everyone says she's gone mad, 5.4kReads8.9Score57914d adds
- 158 Passing as a Langya Native: I Read 165 Chapters, Then Transmigrated 冒姓琅琊：读了165章我穿越了 He was reading Chapter 165 of The Usurper of Langya when he transmigrated. The trouble was, he had only read as far as Chapter 165. The peach blossoms of the Southern Dynasties had come and gone, and he knew nothing of them. The blizzards of the Northern Dynasties were sweeping down, and he had stepped right into them. In Jiangnan, there was Wang Yang, dressed in white, holding a folding fan, passing himself off as a member of the Langya Wang clan and disrupting a game of strategy in Jiangling. 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Fired at the Annual Gala, I Name My Price to Fix My Boss's Broken Machine 年会被辞，我开天价修废老板的机器 Fired at the annual meeting, I name my price to fix my deadbeat boss's machine 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 In This Life, I'll Be Your Little Sidekick 这一世，我来做你的小跟班 "Urban Everyday Life"+ "High School"+ "One Heroine" If a car accident hadn't taken his life, perhaps he would never have realized just how lonely his life had been. Chu Fan was dead. He had spent half his life striving. He'd once called the shots in conference rooms and sung his heart out at karaoke. But only after his death did he discover how deserted his funeral could be, a stark contrast to the lively life he'd led. Chu Fan quietly watched his funeral from beginning to end, as if he were wat 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Survival of the Fittest: Women Choose 物竞女择 Han Jiarui, a girl precisely calculated through numbers, biology, technology, and human-body engineering. Her body-driving chip fell into ruin years ago, and no one knows her true identity... The truth comes to light: a girl who is half human, half machine, and half biological being must survive public scrutiny and the extreme challenges of the apocalypse. “For you, I’m willing to make the whole world my enemy!” A love that spans worlds. This is a story about the human rights of mechanical li 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 She Won't Comfort Me Anymore 她不哄我了 [Signed, awaiting publication] Inspired by the author's own experience of secretly loving someone for six years, even though he already loves someone else. Xu Ci is outwardly a cool, gifted young man, but inwardly sensitive. Wanyue is outwardly sunny and cheerful, but inwardly sensitive and insecure, a sweet, well-behaved girl. One summer, amid the buzzing cicadas, Xu Ci and Wanyue fell in love at first sight. Xu Ci had to leave early for something, and Wanyue thought she'd never see him again. 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 The Nation’s Heart, the Merchant’s Soul 国心商魂 This novel follows Tang Xiaoyu, a special forces soldier who returns reborn. In his previous life, he fought for his country, failed the girl he grew up with, and watched the woman he loved die on the battlefield saving him, a regret that haunted him for the rest of his life. He also had a wife with whom he shared a life of mutual devotion. This time, he returns with the X-Star Orb and memories of the future. He’ll build a fortune and strengthen his country, protecting it with fiery devotion, bu 49Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 164 I Devour All Things and Rise to the Top of the Heavens Through Feedback 吞噬万物我靠反馈登顶诸天 An overworked factory hand transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing disciple and awakens the Devour All Things System! Plants and herbs, pills, monsters and enemies, treasures and techniques: whatever he devours makes him stronger, letting him fuse them straight into Heaven-ranked martial skills and high-grade spiritual treasures! He hides his strength in the outer sect and trounces the sect’s geniuses. Eight grand elders compete to take him as their disciple and give him divine weapons 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 A Broken Scroll Crosses the Nine Netherworlds 残卷渡九幽 [Heroine transmigrates + play the pig to eat the tiger + mutual salvation + fantasy adventure] Lin Shiqian, a young woman from the twenty-first century, discovered a damaged scroll at an art exhibition and transmigrated to the Jiuyou Dynasty, where she fell into a dungeon full of bones. A man in the dungeon was tightly bound in shackles. He was Ye Lan Jin, prince of the fox clan. Ye Lan Jin could never forget the great fire of ninety thousand years ago, when the fox clan was wiped out. But he 10.5kReads8.8Score34114d adds
- 166 From a 38-Yuan AI Writing Gig to Web-Novel Greatness AI码字成神从38元到网文大神 Chen Mo, a 34-year-old interior designer, spent three years writing web novels, but both were flops. He earned less than 3,000 yuan in royalties, while his seriously ill mother urgently needed 500,000 yuan for surgery. With nowhere else to turn, he accidentally unlocked the ultimate secrets of AI writing and turned writing into an industrial assembly line. From earning 38 yuan on his debut to becoming a web-novel master, from a low-level wage earner to a legend in the online fiction world, he se 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 I'm the Only Sane Person on This Film Set 这剧组就我一个正常人 I'm the only sane person on this film set. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Chronicles of the Red Sash 绾红记 Chronicles of Crimson Silk 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Reborn in the 1980s: I Became a World-Famous Doctor Through Chinese Medicine 重生八零我靠中医绝世医名震天下 Reborn in the 1980s, a story of traditional Chinese medicine saving lives, face-slapping satisfaction, rural revitalization, fame in the city, and the passing down of traditional Chinese medicine. Grounded in professional expertise, not quackery; packed with satisfying moments without resorting to melodrama. It balances real-life resonance with cultural heritage. Its core tone is heartwarming healing, satisfying triumph, and professional expertise. It does not smear Western medicine or indulge i 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 No Way Forward Amid the Apocalypse's Chaos 末世乱战之前行无路 A glimpse of the real world 100 years in the future: a catastrophe that kills 3 billion people! Technological progress strips humanity of its civilizational dominance! The moon shatters, and Earth is about to plunge into the abyss of space! Lin Zicheng and his family leave the prosperous cities of the future and move to the countryside to survive, only to find that the entire social order has collapsed and everyone has been swept into a chaotic and complicated age of turmoil. First they clash wi 96Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Plunge! 坠！ I was born in a small city blanketed in coal dust. By chance, I reunited with the girl who had once lived next door, whom I hadn't seen in many years. There were many versions of the rumors about her past, and it was hard to tell truth from fiction. This time, she slowly told her own story. I had just finished reading Fallen. Her life had some similarities to Mo Huai's in the book, but the differences between them were fundamental. I wrote down this memory not to compare whose fate was more trag 101Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 A Strange Immortal Fate: The Good-for-Nothing Without a Spiritual Root Turns His Life Around 奇仙缘：无灵根废柴的逆转之路 [New release] + [Fantasy with a System] + [Laugh-out-loud fun] + [One heroine] Su Qingxuan, a humble errand boy of the Qingfeng Sect, was born without a spiritual root. Amid the crowd’s scorn, he unexpectedly found an immortal gourd and became bound to a System! Later, a mysterious voice in a secret realm told him that he wasn’t actually without a spiritual root. He had the legendary… spiritual root. The little System is adorable and mischievous, and always good for a laugh. A fox demon at t 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Gathering Glimmers of Light Amid Suffering 在苦难里拾捡微光 Gathering Glimmers in the Midst of Hardship 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Ten Years of Compounding, a Billion in the Bank, and You're Still Playing It Safe? 十年复利，都十亿了，你还苟着吗 Orphan Wang Xu was adopted by his grandmother and grew up supporting himself by collecting scrap. With no one to rely on, no family backing, and no connections, he loved to read. By chance, he came across a stock-market novel called The Ordinary Man's Dream of Becoming a Millionaire Stock God. He studied hard and persevered for ten years, recording market trends every day, researching industries and sectors, and analyzing stock charts. Over those ten years, through the power of compounding, lone 254Reads—Score4914d adds
- 175 Unbelievable: My Love Rival Takes Me Around Beating Up Scumbags 离谱：情敌带我到处虐渣 [爽 and satisfying] [No saintly protagonist] [Multiple female leads] [Decisive and ruthless] The protagonist's group enjoys gossip and has no desire to hurt anyone, yet they get caught up in a series of plots and schemes. To protect themselves, they have no choice but to fight back, step by step embarking on the path to becoming powerful. At first, the group is weak and often bullied. Later, they grow strong and become rulers of their own domain. 1.1kReads8.3Score10414d adds
- 176 Global Ascension: I Defy Fate as a Gambler 全球升华：我以赌徒逆天命 [Fast-paced, consistently high quality, one heroine + mind games + plot-driven + grand setting + no mindless power fantasy. Takes off after 40 chapters. Frequent updates, no filler.] “My profession is gambler, Chen Si. Oh, you mean my real-life job? Still a gambler.” Ever since Chen Si transmigrated and somehow got dragged into the world of [Divine Oracle], he’d been completely baffled. “You’re telling me this is a game?” “Everyone else is a knight or a mage. Why am I a gambler?” “And why did th 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 The Arrogant Farm Girl Will Turn the Tables 狂妄农女要翻天 Farming with a pocket dimension, cultivating immortality amid chaos. The heroine rises from a farmer’s daughter to become the empress of the world. She’s wild, truly wild. Known as the Little Tyrant of Qianlan, she never lets a corpse grow cold. Because her pocket dimension likes its corpses fresh. After arriving in ancient times, she accidentally activates a pocket dimension, but it needs corpses to level up. Anyone who betrays her becomes fertilizer for the pocket dimension. The same goes for 443Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 178 Go to Sleep, I'm Here 睡吧，我在呢 Go to sleep. I'm right here. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 You Lured Home a Little Wife with a Bottle of Soda? 你用一瓶汽水拐回一个小老婆？ (One heroine + mutual salvation + lighthearted comedy with no angst + gradual yandere development + sweet everyday romance + happy ending) Rest assured, this one's guaranteed to be sweet. (This is a brand-new book, so please, everyone, don't let it pile up in your reading list. It'll get buried to death (ToT)) The first twenty years of Gu Hui's life were shrouded in an endless rainy season, but he fought to become a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds of Hangzhou's plum rains. Then, one 28Reads—Score10314d adds
- 180 A Spatial Ability and a Lightning Spirit Root? How Could I Be Cannon Fodder? 空间异能加雷灵根，怎会是炮灰？ A space- and ability-wielding powerhouse from the apocalypse transmigrates into a cultivation novel she once read. Her father is a womanizer with a harem of wives and concubines and dozens of children. Her mother is an elite disciple of the clan, but also a hopeless romantic to the extreme. And in the original novel, this body of hers isn't mentioned even once! She absolutely refuses to become cannon fodder! With her knowledge of the future, Bai Yiqi latches onto powerful allies and snatches up 8.3kReads8.5Score75314d adds
- 181 The Two Heroes of the Yang Family Defend the Yellow River 守黄河杨家双雄 The Yellow River roars as Khitan cavalry smash through Yanmen Pass, leaving half of the Northern Song’s realm on the brink of disaster! The Yang family of Linzhou has spent three generations building an unyielding Great Wall along the Yellow River with their own flesh and blood. Yang Wudi, Yang Ye, leads his troops in holding the Yellow River crossing, covering hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians as they cross. He fights until he is captured, then refuses food for three days to sho 529Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 182 Half a Lifetime of Enduring, Half a Lifetime Beloved 半生隐忍半生卿 When Gu Yan was nine, his dying father entrusted him to his old classmate, Shen Dean. From then on, he lived under the same roof as the Shen family, growing up alongside their daughter, Shen Wan. She was the cherished daughter of the household, while he was the child of an old friend. An invisible wall separated their stations in life. Yet she had warmed him with porridge on cold nights, and he had shielded her from the rain that poured across the city. Love took root in their everyday closenes 230Reads8.2Score10314d adds
- 183 Five Elements Grotto-Heaven: I Cultivate in Secret and Become an Immortal Through the Eight Trigrams 五行洞天，我靠八卦苟成仙 Portable grotto-heaven + mortal cultivation + divination + alchemy + artifact crafting + spirit insects + spirit beasts. After inheriting the legacy of his ancestor, King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, he comprehends the Art of the Zhou Yi Eight Trigrams, allowing him to discern opportunities, locate dragon veins and auspicious sites, and see fortune and misfortune at a glance. He gradually unlocks a portable Five-Element Grotto-Heaven secret realm! Its area keeps expanding, and the flow of time within 127Reads—Score27114d adds
- 184 The Demon Catcher of Great Qi 大亓捉妖人 Demons run rampant across Great Qi, bringing misery to the people. Ding Fan, a demon hunter in the Imperial Demon-Suppression Bureau, is driven by a deep-seated hatred of demons and travels far and wide to hunt them. At first, his cultivation is weak, and powerful demons often abduct him. Though danger lurks everywhere, he also encounters countless opportunities. He joins a sect, obtains a famed sword, and masters the Nine Swords of Tai Bai. From then on, he cuts down demons and cultivates along 3.9kReads9.3Score39214d adds
- 185 Yu Jing, County Magistrate on the Frontier 于璟之边疆县令 A common man takes office and bravely heads to a remote frontier. His wife plans and advises, while the women around him are strong warriors. He wins the people’s hearts and earns the support of righteous men. Using his wits, he outmaneuvers the local chieftains, bringing peace to the people and prosperity to trade. As goods abound and the people grow wealthy, Han and non-Han communities live in harmony. Together, the various peoples govern the borderlands and build a shared future. 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 The Guardian Angel of Heaven 天堂的使者之守护 Jiang Xiaolan and Hu Bin adopted sixteen orphans: twelve girls and four boys. This novel follows the everyday lives of this big family as its members grow up, covering marriage, love, work, careers, and all the ordinary things in life. Love and being loved, hardship, growth, protection, support, and redemption. This book has no grand central theme, and it is not a feel-good transmigration story full of extraordinary people and events. It is a realistic story rooted in everyday life. Love is its 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Kunlun Myth: The Hidden Immortal of Primordial Chaos 昆仑神话之混元仙隐 Beneath the moon, he meets an immortal and a beauty, their fates bound across three lifetimes as they cultivate to immortality. Destined across three lives and three worlds! A charming beauty who has barely seen the world! 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 A Scar Etched Into My Heart 烙在心底的伤疤 The Scar Etched Into My Heart 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 You Were in My Dreams 我的梦里有个你 You’re in My Dreams 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Heavens of All Living Beings 众生之天 The Immortal Dao is ethereal, the Ghost Dao strange and uncanny; The Buddhist Dao rests in the heart, the Demon Dao is ruthless. But only with an unwavering Dao heart can one attain immortality and freedom. The heart changes easily, the Dao fades easily; People grow old, flowers wither; When will the Dao finally be attained!!! The heavens encompass all living beings, yet are themselves just one among them! 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Song of Hua Xu: Moon Over Jiangnan 华胥引：江南月 Huaxu is a dream. The world is full of beauty, love and hate entwined, and the lovesick and lovelorn are admired by all. Yet none can withstand the passing years, and flowers bloom only briefly. I often revisit the dream of the Red Chamber, admiring Cao Xueqin’s brilliance and regretting that he could not finish his work. Now I wish to imitate his approach and write a book as a warning to those who come after, hence this introduction. As for the words “Jiangnan,” I chose them because it is the h 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Old Pact of Immortality 长生旧约 In the Great Wilderness of the Nine Provinces, everyone seeks immortality. The immortal sects dwell high above the clouds, while mortals are as insignificant as grass. The boy Lu Xingchen grew up in a small frontier town, in an old shop that sold spirit artifacts. He repaired low-grade artifacts for the immortal sects, such as spirit-testing disks, talisman lamps, and formation plates. He had seen countless people change their fate when a spirit-testing disk lit up, and just as many lower their 37Reads—Score12114d adds
- 193 Farming: I Carry a Living Spirit Vein to Grow Spirit Plants in the Back Hills 种田我抱着活灵脉在后山种灵植 Don't panic about the rating, it just came out and can still rise! [Male-Oriented Farming Power Fantasy] [Smart Protagonist] [One Female Lead] [Devoted Husband] [No System] [Everyday Life] [Face-Slapping] Starting with everyday life, family affection, and business rivalries, the story expands into elements such as turning the tables, family disputes, and devotion to the country. After the protagonist unexpectedly signs a contract with an ancient Ink Spirit Vine, he gains the power of life and sp 985Reads8.2Score11014d adds
- 194 Winter Fishing 冬渔 [The currents of youth × one devoted love|He loves the moon’s sacred brilliance, but he loves her imperfections even more] Jiang Yu and Pei Yanhui have known each other since childhood, though they spent years apart in different countries. In those years, she struggled through the darkness, sinking deep into a swamp of malice; he grew up beneath clear skies, openhearted and bright. She locked her past away in ice, believing distance could hide her wounds forever. Until he returned home and disc 475Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 195 I’m Going Wild in the Update-Halt Management Bureau 我在断更管理局癫翻全世界 [Funny infinite-worlds adventure + unhinged wish fulfillment + silly comedy + one-on-one slow-burn sweet romance] [An out-of-control plot-filler vs. a hapless CEO from another dimension] Jiang Mian transmigrates into an abandoned web novel. The moment she opens her eyes, her own mother has her strapped to an operating table, ready to harvest her kidneys. A System pops up with an announcement: "Welcome to the Abandoned Novel Management Bureau!" Job description: Become the heroine of an abandoned 261Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Three Little Darlings, Dare You Take Them On? 三个小可爱，你敢要吗 (Transmigration + ensemble cast + academy + redemption + humor + healing + hope + happiness + fantasy + sci-fi) (An art piece that neither attacks nor defends (don't mind the author's self-deprecating joke)) She was fortunate enough to come from a world without soul power. After transmigrating into another world scripted by the "Devourers," she was stuffed into an "unfamiliar" body, assigned fake data claiming she had "Level 40 soul power," and sent to an academy. She cannot use soul power. She 35Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 197 The CEO Went Mad After Reading My Mind, So I Was Reborn to Destroy My Stepmother and Bring Down the Black Market 霸总读心后疯了，带重生的我，反杀继母，掀了黑市 The CEO Went Mad After Reading My Mind. I Was Reborn, Took Down My Stepmother, and Turned the Black Market Upside Down 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Half a Spring Embroidery, Half a Lifetime Longing for You 半剪绣春，半生念君 Half-Finished Spring Embroidery, a Lifetime Missing You 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 The Top Outdoor Adventure Streamer Nearly Died Live on Camera 户外探险第一网红，差点死在直播间 The biggest outdoor adventure streamer nearly died live on camera 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Warmth Amid the Ashes 尘途烬暖 Warm Ashes Along the Dusty Road 17Reads—Score—14d adds
