Novels like The Story of Ruyi: I Became the Emperor, and I’ll Never Take Ruyi as My Consort
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Story of Ruyi: I Became the Emperor, and I’ll Never Take Ruyi as My Consort, best match first.
- 51 From Woman to Man: I’m a Heartbreaker in Showbiz 女穿男：我在娱乐圈当渣男 Burdened with the Scumbag System, 9527 transmigrates through countless worlds, and her scruples have long since been tossed to the dogs. Feeding on the resentment of all living beings, she makes the world her stage. Every transmigration is a carefully acted scumbag performance. This time, her stage is the glittering, star-studded entertainment industry... He's the entertainment industry's one-of-a-kind “ruined idol.” Become his fan? Watch him get canceled? Not a chance. He's already a perf 15kReads8.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 52 A Woman Transmigrated as a Man: I Can't Handle Leading a Rebellion 女穿男：造反大旗我拿不动啊 Female-to-Male + Transmigration + One-on-One Romance + Family Life + Lighthearted Comedy After Shen Mu transmigrates to Chang'an as a man, he plans to open a trendy tavern and live the comfortable life of a rich slacker. But Du Qingli tricks him into marriage... “Why don't we get engaged as a pretend couple?” With a little maneuvering, Du Qingli forces Shen Mu to “lie flat.” After they marry, he barely has time to warm the silver he's earned before their whole family is accused of plotting a reb 183Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Empresses in the Palace: Transmigrating as Fat Orange 甄嬛传之穿越胖橘 After rewatching her comfort show, Zhou Qin felt sorry for every character. The women in the harem either fought for fame and fortune or went mad with love, but in the end, it all stemmed from that pitiful emperor. “Perhaps I once got everything I ever wanted in this life. But just like sand slipping through my fingers, in the end, I lost it all...” Yet as she thought about the show more carefully, she realized that even the most despicable characters had something pitiable about them. A mother' 1.4kReads8.6Score11414d adds
- 54 A Woman Disguised as a Man in the 1970s: The Village Chief's Daughter Is Stunning 女穿男七零：村长的女儿她美爆了 [Woman transmigrates as a man; 1970s period setting; urban superpowers; transmigration into a book; devoted husband; genius; pocket dimension; powerful figure in hiding; two female leads] The whole village of Xiao Chenjiagou is in an uproar. Bai, the educated youth, is handsome, refined, hardworking, and from a well-off family, yet he’s chosen to marry into his wife’s family! An eight-level gossip gale sweeps through Xiao Chenjiagou overnight, and everyone wants to know why. You’re marrying into 2.8kReads8.5Score20714d adds
- 55 A Woman in a Man’s Body: I Live Off My Farming Wife 女穿男：我靠种田吃软饭 A true farming story + female-to-male transformation + strong female lead + System + devoted husband + two female leads The story has five arcs: farming + imperial examinations + rebellion + court politics + modern-day bonus chapters Main couple: love grows over time [A clingy, affectionate, devoted husband who dotes on his wife + a cool, mature, aloof heroine with a fragile aura] Secondary couple: married first, fall in love later (two female leads) [A powerful and stunningly elegant princess + 2.6kReads9.2Score22414d adds
- 56 Woman to Man: Reborn as the Scum Villain Who Dies Young 女穿男：穿成早死渣男反派 [Gender-Swap + Transmigrate into a Book] [Warning] This is a serious story about a woman transmigrating into a man and getting together with a woman. After pulling an all-nighter reading, Zhao Zhouzhou transmigrates into a book and lands the role of a villain. As the saying goes, if you transmigrate, you’ll end up in a book, and if you end up in a book, you’ll become the villain. But Zhao Zhouzhou not only becomes a villain, she becomes a man as well. In the original story, he is the scumbag hus 1.8kReads8.5Score11514d adds
- 57 A Woman Transmigrates into a Man: My Lame Childhood Bride 女穿男：我的跛脚童养媳 [Woman Transmigrates into a Man] + [Devoted Husband] + [Older Woman/Younger Man Romance] + [Everyday Rural Life] + [Helping Each Other Grow] + [Business and Imperial Exams] Modern-day overworked office drone Zhao Xiaoyu transmigrates into a poor farming family in ancient times. Orphaned at birth, he is raised by his five-years-older, lame, child-bride sister, who farms and sews to support his studies for the imperial exams. When he is five, Zhao Xiaoyu toddles after her, promising that when he g 2.3kReads8.9Score26114d adds
- 58 A Woman in a Man’s Body: Reborn as the Legitimate Second Son, I Rule the Court 女穿男：穿成嫡次子，我权倾朝野 [Female transmigrates into a male body + born into a new life + doted on by everyone] [Chronicles of the Legitimate Second Son] Zhou Yan died, then came back to life, only this time as a boy. Unfortunately, when he was born, his grandfather was still a down-and-out Marquis of Anding. His father had only just managed to marry a princess through sheer shamelessness, and his princess mother was a pitiful little thing with a burden from her previous marriage in tow 3.7kReads6.4Score24214d adds
- 59 He Married the Chubby Daughter of the Brigade Chief Just to Get a Meal 为了吃口饭他娶了大队长家胖闺女 [Seventies Era + Woman Transmigrates into a Man + Devoted to Each Other + Living Off His Wife + Daily Life + Marriage Before Love + Raising Kids] Xie Yan, a fine young woman of the modern era, died in the prime of her life and was reborn with her memories in the harsh 1950s. The good news was that she had a golden finger, the very space she'd long dreamed of in her previous life. The bad news was that it was just a space. In an era of scarce supplies, was a space what she needed? No, she needed 2.2kReads7.5Score15614d adds
- 60 I’m Female, but My Gender Is Male: Getting a Wife to Help With the Farming 本人女，性别男，娶个媳妇好种田 Female-oriented, woman transmigrates into a man's body, farming This is not an imperial-exam novel. Later on, there will be conscription and a change of dynasties. Transmigrated into a hooligan? And married, too? His young wife is only fifteen or sixteen. Isn't she way too young? How could she bring herself to do anything with her? The family has no money and is deeply in debt. What can she do? Fortunately, she has a System, and can help the whole clan thrive! Just as life is carefree and everyt 3.5kReads9.0Score35414d adds
- 61 Gender-Swapped: Stay Calm! This Is Just a Job 女穿男：稳住！这只是一份工作 Quick transmigration (with a slightly slower pace) + woman transmigrates into a man's body + no competing for men + has a female lead As a newly hired mission-taker, Gu Jianzhi was assigned a mission whose success rate had been zero for hundreds of years. Others atone to clear their names. Looking at the time she had entered the story, she thought, Thank goodness, I haven't started causing trouble yet. In that case... Gu Jianzhi flipped the table and turned around to let her wife support her. Sy 7.1kReads8.6Score49214d adds
- 62 Reborn in the 1960s, I Only See You as a Friend 重生六零之我只把你当闺蜜啊 A woman transmigrates into a man's body. Wang Yiming transmigrated. Other people built fortunes after transmigrating, but her new life seemed utterly useless. Why was she being treated this way when she had transmigrated just like everyone else? If only she'd known, she never would have taken her current job: personal trainer. One little mishap, and she found herself in the 1960s. What could she possibly do with her job? Teach people to lose weight in an era when they couldn't get enough to eat 4.1kReads9.0Score27514d adds
- 63 Book Transmigration: A College Girl Is Forced to Become the Male Lead 穿书：女大学生被迫成为男主 [A woman in a man's body / fake CEO pursues his wife / fake love triangle] Gu Zhao looks like a cold, domineering CEO, but inside she's a goofy college girl. After pulling an all-nighter reading novels and dying suddenly, she's forced into the male lead's body and tasked with pursuing his one true love. She thinks she's only doing it to complete a mission, but the moment she sees the girl, she falls head over heels. Lin Qinghan is the legendary one true love. She seems aloof, but she's actually 5.4kReads9.2Score34714d adds
- 64 Woman in a Man's Body: Is the Heroine's Child Mine? 女穿男：女主的崽是我的？ [Female-to-male transmigration + transmigrate into a book + devoted couple] Yan Xi fell asleep and transmigrated into an old-school male-led novel. Staring at the soft, feminine face in the mirror and the extra parts between her legs, it took a long while for her brain and eyes to reconcile what they were seeing. Only then did she realize she had gone from a woman to a man, and not just any man, but one who dressed as a woman!!! 6.5kReads9.1Score42514d adds
- 65 She Transmigrated as a Man: Now She Must Fight for the Throne as a Prince 女穿男：穿成皇子要夺嫡 Chen Muqi, a daughter of the Chen family of Huaguo, died in a family power struggle. In a twist of fate, she was reborn as Helian Qin, the Fifth Prince of Xilin. With a mother who was a noble consort, powerful maternal relatives, and brothers eyeing him covetously, Helian Qin had no choice but to set out on the path to claim the throne. He recruited strategists and worthy officials, campaigned north and south, weathered one crisis after another, and escaped repeated assassination attempts, ultim 2.2kReads8.6Score19514d adds
- 66 Female to Male: Transmigrated as the Yandere Male Lead Who Forces Love 女穿男：穿成强制爱疯批男主 [Female transmigrates into a male body, possessive heroine, fast-paced and fun. The 400,000-character story is complete, so come give it a read!] After working twenty-four hours straight, Ming Yan, an emergency room nurse, suddenly dropped dead. She transmigrated into an old-school, melodramatic romance novel she had once read. Title: The Rich Young Lady Runs Away Pregnant The plot, roughly speaking: unhinged CEO, drugged and enters the wrong room, gets pregnant and runs away, returns five year 4.6kReads9.0Score32914d adds
- 67 Woman to Man: Giving the Heroines a Home 女穿男：给女主们一个家 [Redemption + no fixed pairing + occasional scares + not much logic + no angst] After Chu Qi died, she was bound to the Good Man System. To stay alive, she had no choice but to keep transmigrating through quick-transmigration worlds and completing redemption missions... [Period Piece] Has a CP [Apocalypse] No CP [Cultivation] Has a CP [Going Crazy] Has a CP [Sailor x Mermaid] Has a CP [Good Dad] No CP [Revenge of the Infant Spirit] Has a CP [Stockpiling for Survival in the Apocalypse] No CP [The 3.4kReads8.9Score20514d adds
- 68 Reborn in 1965: I'm the Only Son in the Family 重生六五，我为家中唯一男丁 Alternate history, alternate history, alternate history. Some things are important enough to say three times!!! (A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, and there’s a spatial ability! Completed.) After working hard for ten years, she finally managed to buy a home and a car in a third-tier city. Life was getting better and better... Then one day, she transmigrated into a parallel era where food and clothing were scarce, and she was the only boy in her family. Fortunately, her family didn’t favor 7.5kReads9.0Score42214d adds
- 69 Being a Prince Is No Easy Thing 话说王爷不好当啊 A woman transmigrates as a man, slice-of-life series Orphan Li Fei accidentally transmigrates. No big deal, transmigration is all the rage these days~ But she’s become a baby boy. No big deal… well, maybe that is a bit of a problem. She’ll have to get used to it… She has several older brothers. Great! So many strong shoulders to lean on. Which one should she cling to?~ Her goal is to become an easygoing prince, tending flowers, walking the dog, strolling through the market, and enjoying a drink 9.5kReads9.1Score62214d adds
- 70 A Woman in a Man's Body: A Concubine-Born Son's Guide to Getting Rich 女穿男：庶子暴富手册 [Woman transmigrates into a man's body + transmigration + one-on-one romance + marriage before love + slow-burn + farming and business] [Sweet-talking, ruthless rent collector vs. theatrical holdout who refuses to break off the engagement] When Zhao Wenduo opens his eyes, he's become the disowned illegitimate son of a duke's household. A vast fortune? None of it is his. A houseful of servants? They've all gone to the legitimate son. All he has left are two crumbling alleys, a marriage contract, 1.1kReads7.0Score12614d adds
- 71 After a Woman Transmigrated Into a Man, the Empress Forced Her to Love Her 女穿男后被女帝强制爱了 The male lead is a woman who has transmigrated into a man, not a matriarchal society. The story takes inspiration from the era of Wu Zetian. (This is the author’s second work. Looking back, the author isn’t very satisfied with it, so read at your own discretion.) An ugly synopsis: Cen Zhiyu was a woman who became a man. Bound to an Immortal-like Persona System, he was determined to become the greatest charlatan in the land and a celebrated minister, all so he could return home. But things went 7.3kReads9.3Score77614d adds
- 72 A Woman in a Man's Body: Living Off Women in a Period Novel 女穿男：我在年代文里吃软饭 [A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, with some fantasy elements] When Zhou Shan transmigrates to the 1960s, she opens her eyes to dizziness and weakness in all four limbs, experiencing firsthand what it means to be starving to death. She doesn’t feel the slightest thing about having become a man. Just as she’s so hungry she can barely keep her eyes open, she hears a father and daughter nearby, picking over their choices: “Is there anyone you like?” “Too ugly. Black and skinny, like a charre 6.5kReads9.4Score56214d adds
- 73 A Woman in a Man's Body: The Concubine-Born Heir's Rise to Power 女穿男，庶房嫡子的逆袭 Now available as an audiobook with a full cast. [Alternate history] + [Woman transmigrates as a man] + [Born into this world] + [Imperial exams and business in the early story] + [Court politics later on] + [One female lead, with a relatively small role] + [A touch of ensemble cast] + [No golden finger] Xie Chengxi was born into another world as the sixth son of the Xie family, a minor family in Bianjing's Grain Transport Guild. His father was the clan's rejected son, kept under pressure for yea 33.5kReads8.3Score3.6k14d adds
- 74 I'm the Female Lead's Foil, Playing Three Male Foils at Once 我，女配，同时扮演三个男配 [System + Transmigrate Into a Book + Face-Slapping and Punishing Scum + Irresistible Female Lead + Gossip + Disguised as a Man] I'm a woman, but I'm playing male supporting characters in three different books at once? Zhao Ruoming died, and the System told her to play three roles across three books. If she completed the missions, she could come back to life. Zhao Ruoming: “Oh, quick transmigration? Aren't three worlds a bit too few?” System: “Not three worlds. There's only one world. You have to 8.4kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
