Novels like The Secret of Huaxi, Part Two
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- 151 Behave! A Twisted Uncle and Nephew's Forced Love 乖一点！疯批叔侄强制爱 [For female readers + second person] [Rebellion-obsessed lunatic Regent / ethereal-looking, secretly ruthless Crown Prince VS. you, the undercover agent who loves to put on a show] [Dark First Love + possessive power struggle + immersive transmigration-into-a-book System + lighthearted political scheming] You're a broke student. You transmigrate into a male-oriented political-intrigue novel and become a disposable dancing girl who's killed off from the start. The great villain, Dugu Jiumo, gri 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Three-Inch Golden Lilies 三寸金莲儿 The 1960s. In a dilapidated mansion in Northeast China, the Fan family had eight children, and Fan Jinlian'er became their only source of money. The girl with tiny bound feet supported the entire Fan family. To feed the whole household, Fan Jinlian'er became the family’s bargaining chip. They married her off again and again in exchange for bride prices. They didn’t care whether the groom was blind, lame, or an old man. As long as the betrothal gifts were generous enough, Fan Jinlian'er had to ma 147Reads—Score11214d adds
- 153 The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦！ [Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future 501Reads9.2Score10014d adds
- 154 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score11014d adds
- 155 The Substitute Bride: The Marquis of Zhenbei’s White Moonlight 替身新娘：镇北侯的白月光 He stood outside the window and listened to her cry for a long time. From midnight until dawn. My hand slid down his back and touched the muscles at his waist. They were hard as iron, yet trembling slightly. I could feel his restraint, and I could feel his desire. His hand slid down my arm, took mine, and laced our fingers together. His kiss fell beside my ear, and he murmured a single sentence. “Yan’er, I’ve waited for you for so long.” The three of us squeezed into one bed. She slept in the mi 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 He Actually Transmigrated Along With Me 他竟然跟着我穿越了 The two of them weathered over thirty years of life together. One liked staying home and enjoying a quiet life, while the other loved lingering in restaurants and teahouses. Finally, one day, it all boiled over. One died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and the other was so frightened that he took medicine. They had both sworn before they died that they never wanted to see each other again, yet in another world they became husband and wife once more, and even had two sons. Since they were already there 5.2kReads9.2Score57514d adds
- 157 A Rugged, Fatherly Man Raises a Delicate Little Mute 爹系糙汉养了个娇气包小哑巴 Period setting + sweet romance + slow-burn affection + self-indulgent heroine + voluptuous beauty + both leads are each other's first Fussy little mute vs. gruff, protective older man Lin Zhizhi is a little mute who can't speak. But she loves listening to gossip. So one summer night, she climbed onto a stool and leaned over the wall to eavesdrop on the widow next door getting into a fight. Just as she was getting into it, a strong arm suddenly wrapped around her waist and dragged her straight in 31.2kReads8.6Score12.9k14d adds
- 158 Big Sister Hua, the Dog Stationmaster 狗站长花大姐 The Dog Stationmaster, Sister Hua 9Reads—Score214d adds
- 159 Wild Lilies of the Mountain Village 山村野百合 An eighteen-year-old village beauty married a thirty-three-year-old simpleton. A month after their wedding, her husband drowned, and she was branded a woman who brought death to her husband… This story offers a true-to-life account of the loves and hatreds, joys and sorrows of ordinary rural people. It faces the ugliness and greed of human nature head-on, while reflecting on the sincerity and warmth found in this world. 272Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Foolish Mother 傻娘 My father was dead, my mother had gone mad. The day I came home, I saw someone destroying it... 43.1kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 161 The Awakening of a Middle-Aged Woman 一个中年女人的觉醒 [Family of Origin vs. the Fortress of Marriage] Chen Qingchen, an only child, is madly in love. She steals her household register and marries Lin Jiaxin, a man from a poor family who has made it on his own, unaware of what awaits her: a sharp-tongued mother-in-law who makes her life difficult, her father’s sudden death, her mother being forced out of the home, and underhanded attacks at work. When she hits rock bottom, two women become her lifelines. Her tough mother stands firmly behind her, wh 7.8kReads8.5Score75014d adds
- 162 What's There to Fear About Divorce at 40? My First Love Has My Back 40岁离婚怕什么，还有初恋兜底 [A levelheaded housewife who knows when to retreat and when to advance + an icy doctor who advances by retreating] [Midlife struggles + parent-child relationships + redemption + mutual healing] Her husband is having an affair with his boss. Her son is a high school senior and has started dating. Zhu Yi, who quit her job three years ago, feels as if her world is collapsing. Then she unexpectedly runs into Yang Yiqing, her first love, whom she had lost touch with years ago. Suddenly, time speeds 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 A Lifetime for Her and Me 我和她的这一生 In 1992, at the age of twenty, I left my hometown. My family was crippled by illness and poverty. We were on the verge of starving to death. If I stayed, we would all be trapped on that patch of barren soil. If I left, there might be a way for them to survive. The southern wind, laden with cement dust, swept into that big city filled with construction sites. This place had no name, only countless steel bars, scaffolding, and faces waiting to sell their labor. We came here to fight for our lives. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Delicate 1970s Educated Youth Is Cherished by a Wild, Rugged Man 七零娇软知青被超野糙汉心尖宠 [A soft, sweet young intellectual sent to the countryside transmigrates and meets a tall, burly, rough-hewn man who is the best of men] The young intellectual is sweet, soft, easy to bully, and as silly as she is pretty. She also loves calling him “husband.” The rough-hewn man spoils her without knowing when to hold back. Xu Jiang transmigrated to the 1970s overnight. She had transmigrated into a short-lived supporting female character in a novel, and even married the poor, unremarkable rough-he 989Reads7.4Score10614d adds
- 165 Wake Up! The Delicate Darling Is Kissed and Spoiled by Her New Husband 睁眼！娇气精被换亲丈夫又亲又宠 Please check the top-left corner. The rating is low because not many people have reviewed it. [Rebirth + Spoiled Female Lead + Devoted Male Lead + Sweet, Affectionate Everyday Life + Utterly Pampered Wife + Both Are Each Other's One and Only] An Xin is fair-skinned and beautiful, a renowned village beauty. But because of her family's poor class background, no one dares to marry her. In the end, she is forced into a marriage swap with Song Zhiyuan, a man from a poor family. She resents the marria 15.8kReads7.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 166 Her Hidden Secret 她隐藏的秘密 His wife had to work overtime that night, and Liu Dong couldn’t be bothered to cook for himself, so he arranged to go out for skewers with a close buddy. Who knew he’d run into one of his wife’s coworkers, who said she wasn’t working overtime at all that night? Liu Dong was taken aback. Just then, he got a call from the hospital saying his wife had been in a car accident, and the driver was none other than her ex-boyfriend… 655Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 167 My Life: Saving Myself 我的人生，渡己 I moved from the countryside to the big city when I was twenty. On my first day at the factory, I was five minutes late. Those five minutes felt like a slap in the face, waking me up and changing my life. More than ten people crammed into one dorm room. For breakfast, I could only bring myself to buy a tea egg and soy milk. Watching others eat fried rice noodles, I secretly vowed to work hard and make a solid place for myself in the city. There was no sudden wealth and no romance, just a country 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事 Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era. 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 [Male-Oriented Short Story] After Awakening Refraction, I Discover I've Transmigrated to a High-Martial World 【男频短篇】觉醒折光后发现自己穿越到高武世界 [Male-oriented Short Story] After Awakening Refraction, I Discovered I Had Transmigrated to a High-Martial World 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Night Is Hungry, and There’s No Escaping His Possessiveness 夜色贪婪，逃不开他的占有 After her fiancé and best friend joined forces to take everything from her, Su Xiaoran fell from the clouds into the mud. In her moment of despair, she stumbled into Gu Haifeng's arms. The man gripped her chin and said in a low voice, “From today on, you're mine.” The scumbag and the bitch? She'll make sure they lose everything and end up disgraced! As for this powerful tycoon? Su Xiaoran only wants to run, but he pins her in a corner, possessiveness overflowing. “Running? Where do you think you 614Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 The Sun and Moon Beneath One Sky: Princess Taiping 日月当空：太平公主 Princess Taiping was one of the most controversial and legendary female political figures in Chinese history, a thorny yet dazzling rose in the splendor of the High Tang. The most beloved daughter of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, she married Xue Shao at sixteen in a wedding procession stretching ten miles, hoping for a peaceful life. But she was implicated in Xue Yi's treason case and watched her husband starve to death in prison, shattering her dreams. She put away her innocence 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 When the Fog Was Thick 当时雾浓 It was an era when the fog never lifted. The fog concealed humiliation, despair, and justice that could never be spoken of, and the madness of ordinary people driven to the edge of a cliff. Five little people who had lived honest lives: a father searching for his daughter, a mother protecting hers, an older brother saving his sister, an old man who had lost his son, and a lovestruck young man. They were the most ordinary specks of dust in the world. But when they sought to protect the people the 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 173 My Husband Cheated, So I Swapped Husbands with His Mistress to Change Our Fates 老公出轨，我和小三换夫改命 A new novel currently being serialized, with its rating just posted! [Not a wish-fulfillment story] [Period setting + remarriage + devoted husband + marriage first, love later] [Some ensemble cast elements] [No System] [No pocket dimension] [Realistic everyday life] In the height of summer in 1977, Xu Nan, a temporary worker at a machinery factory, caught her husband, Cheng Peng, having an affair with Liang Yan Min, an employee at the same factory. To protect his reputation and prospects, Cheng 16.9kReads8.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 174 Miracle Doctor: I Saved Two Women, and Now They Insist on Marrying Me 神医：救了俩姑娘，她们非要嫁我 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to keep writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.3kReads6.7Score14114d adds
- 175 The Man with Six Marriages 六婚男人 A marriage spanning half a century, full of ups and downs, and one man's six sorrowful, blood-stained journeys into wedlock. In the late 1970s, at a state-owned coal mine in Northeast China, Kim Dazhuang, an ethnic Korean Chinese who had returned from Korea, was tall and burly, with a fiery temper. He sweated through his work amid the roar of steam locomotives. Over the course of his life, he went through six marriages. Each time, he entered with hope, only for almost every one to end in heartbr 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 The Pomegranate Tree Is Waiting for Her 石榴树在等她 The Pomegranate Tree Is Waiting for Her 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 I Somehow Got My Hands Around My Career and My Treacherous Wife 一不小心，拿捏职场和背叛夫人 His wife betrayed him, then joined forces with others to take Chen Sijie’s life. Heaven gives Chen Sijie a chance to be reborn. This time, he will build a successful career and have beautiful women by his side, while taking down workplace bullies and He Qianqian, the woman who betrayed him. 739Reads—Score10214d adds
- 178 Changing the World, One Supernatural Chive at a Time 从培育出超凡韭菜开始改变世界 [Period novel + farming + slice-of-life System + food + slow burn + no heroine + unconventional power fantasy] Question: What are the most frustrating things about novels where someone transmigrates back to the past and starts farming? Answer: The protagonist has such an overpowered cheat, but the story still saddles them with a bunch of relatives like Pokemon, endlessly bickering about family affairs. Why can't they just get on with farming?! And they've already had a modern education, so why d 626Reads6.8Score10614d adds
- 179 A False Marriage 假嫁 Lang Xi, a businesswoman bent on revenge, is willing to put herself in harm’s way and marry her enemy’s son, Liu Ze. But Liu Ze cheats on her repeatedly during their marriage. Hounded by her mother-in-law and locked in a bitter struggle with his mistress, Lang Xi joins forces with her biological father, Liu Huazi, to avenge her mother and reclaim her grandfather’s estate. Lang Xi’s monologue: After I married into this family, my mother-in-law hit me, my husband hit me, and even his mistress hit 142Reads—Score1014d adds
- 180 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score26214d adds
- 181 Bloodshed Brothers and the Woman with a Gun 喋血兄弟和带枪的女人 To love one person is fidelity. To love two is cheating. To love three is a tangled affair... To be loved by one person is happiness. To be loved by two is anxiety. To be loved by three is a disaster... 1.6kReads7.1Score16614d adds
- 182 The Insurance Saleswoman 保险公司的女业务员 Her name is Chen Xi. She dropped out of high school early and entered the workforce at a young age. She wanted to find a factory job and live a steady life, but she couldn't escape the factory supervisor's unwelcome advances. Unwilling to put up with it, she quit without hesitation and ventured into the insurance industry. With no connections and no tricks, she relies only on hard work and determination. An ordinary girl's life: she has to carve out her own path. The names in this story are use 2.1kReads7.2Score10014d adds
- 183 That Stillborn Baby Survived 那个死婴活下来了 That Stillborn Baby Survived 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Home on a Unicycle 独轮车上的家 The novel follows Liu Shouren and his family from the late 1970s to the present day. As society changes and the countryside is transformed, they weather a tumultuous journey. Through stories from in and around the village, it portrays the lives, resilience, struggles, and growth of countless ordinary rural families across China... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Moon Deep in the Cornfield 玉米地深处的月亮 That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night. Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night. When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, 8.3kReads6.4Score55614d adds
- 186 Zhao Ergou, a Left-Behind Youth in the Countryside 乡村留守青年赵二狗 [Countryside + Farming + Miracle Doctor + Modern Romance] This is absolutely worth reading. If you read the first chapter and don’t like it, follow the internet cable and come hit me. Zhao Ergou and Qingshan Village share an unbreakable bond. After graduating from university, he returned to the village to become its village doctor. By a stroke of luck, he gained mysterious powers and led the entire village to start businesses and get rich... 3.3kReads7.0Score26514d adds
- 187 Flirt with a Rugged Man! Raise the Kids! Get Rich in the 1970s After Being Reborn 撩糙汉！养崽崽！重生七零赚疯了 Originally titled Flirting with a Rough-Hewn Man! Raising Kids! Reborn in the 1970s and Making a Fortune Lin Wanwan is reborn in the 1970s. The moment she opens her eyes, her awful relatives are about to sell her to an old widower. So she takes matters into her own hands and schemes to marry Lu Zhanbei, the taciturn, stone-cold former soldier in her village. Everyone says she married a heartless devil, but in the middle of the night, she sneaks into his arms. "Honey, I'm cold." His body goes 3.9kReads7.1Score26414d adds
- 188 Fifty Years of Bride Price: In 1974, It All Began with a Broken Engagement 彩礼50年，1974从悔婚开始 In the bitter winter of 1974, Zhao Shuangzhu publicly called off his engagement and was given three days to come up with a hundred yuan for the bride price. He swallowed his pride and borrowed from every neighbor he could, took the old folks’ burial savings, and went into the mountains at night to hunt rabbits and trade them for cash on the black market. Dodging the market inspectors, he stumbled through the hardest hurdle of his life. He spent the rest of his life marrying, raising children, an 113Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Five Years of Cold Treatment in Our Marriage, He Admits He Doesn't Love Me, Then Regrets It After the Divorce 五年婚姻冷暴力，他承认不爱我，离婚后他悔断肝肠 After five years of emotional abuse in our marriage, he admitted he didn’t love me. After the divorce, he regretted it bitterly —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Middle Age, and My Marriage Is an Empty Shell 人到中年，婚姻只剩空壳 From innocent young love to an unexpected pregnancy before marriage, she blundered into a marriage she’d never truly wanted. Before the wedding, her mother-in-law schemed constantly and was stingy, refusing to give even a penny in bride price. From the moment she entered the family home, she felt wronged and began to harbor resentment. After the wedding, her husband proved to be a complete mama’s boy: mediocre, unambitious, and incapable of taking responsibility. He did whatever his mother told 3.4kReads—Score16814d adds
- 191 The Swallow's Pecks, the Emperor's Grandson, and a Kingdom Beneath Her Skirts 燕啄皇孙裙下江山 A tale of the Han palace + satisfying palace intrigue + breathtaking beauties + a powerful heroine and political scheming + a fight back from the brink. Zhao Feiyan has been branded by history with the shameful accusation of “swallowing the emperor’s grandsons,” and reviled for all time. Yet no one knows that it was not cruelty in her nature, but a necessary step on her path to the pinnacle of power. An emperor’s favor is merely the sharpest blade in her hand; even the bonds between sisters can 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Rouge in the Tulou 土楼里的胭脂 In the Jianghuai region during the Republic of China era, earthen fortresses rise tall. The beautiful widow Qin Yuening is seized by the bandit Shen Keji, and a “wife-for-hire contract” seals her fate in his rough bandit stronghold. She once hated him to the core. She fled, tried to kill him, and even hung from the rafters rather than submit. He spends half his life conquering territory, all for the day she says, “I will.” When war reaches their doorstep, their bloodstained hands finally clasp t 1.9kReads—Score26114d adds
- 193 An Ill-Matched Marriage 不般配的婚姻 After Cheng Ruojia, a small-town girl, married her boss, Tang Yixuan, she spent the next ten years as a housewife, looking after Tang Yixuan and their daughter, Tang Qi. But as Tang Yixuan's business grew and his handsome looks drew attention, a marital crisis crept closer and closer... 646Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 194 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 751Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Reborn in the 1980s: The Beloved Supporting Actress’s Everyday Life 年代重生：女配娇宠日常 Rong Wan was reborn, returning to 1976. Back then, she hadn’t divorced Qin Xiangdong or made the decision she would regret for the rest of her life. This domineering, forceful man was the one who truly loved and cared for her. More importantly, he would become a big shot in the future, so she had better hold on tight to his coattails. 823Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 196 I Just Came Along for the Fun, and I Got Reborn Too 凑个热闹我也重生了 Hao Xin was reborn. But she had no golden finger, no pocket dimension, and the System gave her no perks at all. Her rebirth seemed about as useful as a drop in the ocean. But was she really doomed to spend this life on the sidelines? She had thirty years of experience as a lawyer in her previous life, along with the sharp thinking, social skills, and problem-solving abilities that came with the job. Those were her golden finger. Her family had nothing to their name! No problem, she could earn mo 1.7kReads9.2Score16814d adds
- 197 She Is the Grass on My Grave 她就是，我的坟头草 She Is the Grass Growing on My Grave 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 After the Divorce, Her Springtime Begins 离婚后，她的春天来了 After Tang Ning got pregnant, she quit her job and became a full-time housewife. She thought she would live an ordinary life, but a single condom shattered her peaceful existence. Faced with her husband's affair and his mistress pressuring him to marry her, should Tang Ning stay in a loveless marriage for the sake of her child, or divorce her husband for her own sake? 2.5kReads8.9Score25714d adds
- 199 A Love Story in Chaoshan 潮汕情事 In the old homes of Chaoshan lie the wildest lives and the warmest hearts. In the 1970s and 80s, a group of Chaoshan people who refused to give up fought their way through poverty, loved through storms, and lived by the bonds between people. Some dared to fight and forge ahead, dragging their lives up out of the mud. Others were loyal and true, unwilling to betray anyone even when it cost them. Love brought tangled relationships, family brought its share of strain, and neighbors argued, but when 367Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 200 Escape from the Devil's Den: A Lawless Hell on Earth 逃离魔窟：三不管的人间地狱 Escape from the den of evil: A hell on earth beyond anyone's control 29Reads—Score—14d adds
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