Novels like Night Shanghai: Making My Name on the Bund
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- 1 Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cloudtop City 月海花亭：云顶城市 Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cities Above the Clouds 52Reads—Score114d adds
- 2 Shadow of the North African Tiger 北非虎影 Shadows of the North African Tiger 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Empire's Setting Sun 帝国夕阳 The Empire's Twilight 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Rhine Operation 莱茵行动 Operation Rhine 123Reads—Score214d adds
- 5 A Pure Heart: A Life-or-Death Game 纯净的心：生死牌局 A Pure Heart: The Life-and-Death Card Game 428Reads—Score114d adds
- 6 Iron-Blooded Late Ming I: The Decisive Battle of Ruzhou 铁血晚明（一）汝州决战 Iron-Blooded Late Ming (Part One): The Decisive Battle at Ruzhou 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Drug Enforcement Elite 禁毒精英 Two major drug cartels operate in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the story of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and US Northern Command, assisting Mexican police in the fight against drug crime. 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Dreams of Tokyo: Love Through the Four Seasons 东京梦华：爱有四季 Tokyo Dreams: Love Through the Seasons 74Reads—Score214d adds
- 9 The Flying Swallow: Me 262 飞行的雨燕——Me262 The Flying Swallow: Me 262 165Reads—Score614d adds
- 10 Sunset on Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 云顶落霞：幽灵骑士 Sunset on the Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 204Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 A Kiss from the Clouds 白云之吻 A Kiss from the White Clouds 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Walking Beneath the Moon: The Age of Machines 踏月而行：机械纪元 Walking Beneath the Moon: The Mechanical Era 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 你是别样的风景 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Compass of Time 时光罗盘 The Time Compass 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路 An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans. 74Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Earth Is Not Our Homeworld: Part One 地球不是我们的母星第一部 [Apocalypse + ensemble squad + passionate action + no System + decisive killing] A century into the apocalypse, humanity is trapped behind towering walls, savage beasts roam, and the insectoid race watches from the shadows. For the lower classes, the only way out is to risk their lives! Sun Hantian has peerless talent, but because he comes from a humble background, even the cultivation resources he needs are stolen by the wealthy families. His dignity crushed, his spirit grain seized, and with n 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 Across the Ocean 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of Three Clans' Massacre 旧金山血牢：我丈夫藏着三族灭门证据 San Francisco Blood Prison: My Husband Is Hiding Evidence of the Massacre of Three Clans —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Blood and Blades: Star Wars Storm 血与刀：星战风暴 [Mecha] [Farming] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Female Lead] [Everyday Life]“The warfront doesn’t need heroes. It only needs beasts that survive until tomorrow.” But you’re determined to smash that bullshit rule! When your mecha burns, your flesh and blood become your blade. When the world turns its back on you, your lone courage becomes your banner! Amid this raging tide of steel and corpses, only the fire in your bones can rekindle the embers of civilization! Face the apocalypse with nothing but bl 21.8kReads8.1Score2.5k14d adds
- 23 I Return from the Forbidden Zone 我自禁区归来 [No System / No Transmigration / No Rebirth / No Cliches / No Harem. If you want a brainless power fantasy, this isn't for you.] After the Fall Power descended, countless protective barriers appeared across Huaxia, guarding its cities, towns, and villages. Inside the barriers, people were safe. The lands beyond them were known as the Forbidden Zones, because anyone who spent a day in one would lose their mind and turn into a terrifying Fallen Beast. When Bian Ning woke up, he found himself inexp 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 A Good-for-Nothing with No Soul, I Am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years 废柴无魂，我是狼族万年圣女 A good-for-nothing with no soul: I am the Wolf Clan's Saintess of Ten Thousand Years —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Transmigrate! My Crush and I Land on Mars 穿越！我和暗恋女生登陆火星 Transmigrated! My Crush and I Land on Mars 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Who Blew Up Earth? None of You Are Getting Away 是谁炸了地球？你们一个也跑不了 [Starships] [Sci-Fi] [Lighthearted] The protagonist, Luo Yan, is the king of special forces. After becoming paralyzed from the waist down, he stays at home and lies flat, unaware even of the momentous fact that Earth is about to be destroyed. Just before Earth explodes, he is sitting on the toilet when he receives an impossible mission: take command of the Thirty-Third Fleet and lead it to escape alive. Less than ten minutes remain before Earth's destruction. Can a cripple make it to the under 1.6kReads—Score10814d adds
- 27 Artemis Takes Off, but a Chinese Astronaut Lands on the Moon 阿尔忒弥斯号升空，登月却是中国人 The Artemis Takes Off, but a Chinese Person Is the One Who Lands on the Moon 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Silent 1937 无声1937 In his previous life, he met with an accident while carrying out a mission. When he opened his eyes, he had become Chen Shusheng, captain of a Juntong action squad, locked in an interrogation room and framed as a scapegoat. The Japanese spy wants him dead. His own men have set him up. His superior is happy to go along with it. On this path, one wrong word means death, and trusting the wrong person means ruin beyond redemption. He comes from the future and knows how much more suffering this natio 105.4kReads8.8Score9.7k14d adds
- 29 The Keeper of Ink: The Unburned Book 守墨人：未烬书 Heir to the Mo family, guardian of ancient scrolls and their teachings. A fragmentary Western Xia scroll reveals the secret origins shared by Xia and Han civilization; A perilous journey of deadly pursuit leads across seven regions in search of proof that civilizations can coexist. Su Qiao carries on her ancestors' legacy, disarming ancient tomb traps and fighting off evil spirits and pursuers. What she guards is not merely a forgotten history, but the ultimate belief that all under heaven can u 14Reads—Score614d adds
- 30 The Rise of a Great Nation: Invincible Since the Republic of China Era 大国崛起：从民国开始无敌 Lu Chen is reborn in the late Qing and early Republican era, a time of chaos, and obtains the Ultimate Family Sign-In System. He discovers that the more he raises his family’s overall strength, the better the rewards he receives from signing in. From the scholar, farmer, artisan, and merchant trades to medicine, culture, industry, military manufacturing, physical training, and cultivation, he can obtain it all. As his family grows stronger, his own lifespan increases without limit as well. “Ding 4.3kReads7.1Score26114d adds
- 31 The Abyssal Giant Attacks, and I Grow Ten Centimeters Taller Every Day 深渊巨人来袭，我每天长高十厘米 After transmigrating to a world under attack by giants, Chen Yuan awakens two traits: [Any Body Part Grows Ten Centimeters Every Day] and [Slay Colossal Beings, Gain Divine Powers]. And so begins his long career of hunting giants in the abyss. [Titan-Class Giant] [Strength of a million tons, divine body, one punch can destroy a city] [Title: War Behemoth] [Mountain-and-Sea-Class Giant] [Tall as mountains and seas, reaching up to ten thousand meters, looking down upon the human world] [Title: 16.1kReads6.5Score1.8k14d adds
- 32 Gazing Across the Four Seas 观四海 This isn't a conventional web novel. It features multidimensional space, rotating and traversing time sequences, and a diverse world of mutated races (beastfolk, insect races, marine life, and more), with varied narrative styles, interlocking plotlines, major foreshadowing, and tightly closed logical loops. The male lead, Qin Wei, can communicate with marine life and is also the chosen one most trusted by the Insect Queen. He seems to keep awakening as time turns, yet fails again and again. He m 178Reads—Score1114d adds
- 33 The Raging Eastern Front 狂飙的东线 The Führer is assassinated, and Goering takes over the Third Reich. He appoints Kahn Regismond as commissioner on the Eastern Front, granting him command over the German forces there. The Battle of Stalingrad begins. Can he change the course of the war? 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Heaven Sent Him Back to That Chair Again 老天爷又让他坐回那把椅子 Wang Mang served as a school principal for five years. During those five years, teachers were beaten, students died suddenly, and a female teacher was forced to kneel. He was left with many regrets. At fifty, he died in a hospital corridor. When he opened his eyes again, he was standing outside Qingping County No. 1 Middle School. It was his first day on the job. This time, he would set things right one by one. He would make the bullies understand: someone was in charge at this school. He change 50Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 35 The Spy Game: Gaze into the Abyss 谍海无涯之深渊凝视 When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. When you gaze into the abyss again, the abyss gets impatient: “What are you looking at?” Feng Gang, a modern historian, transmigrates to the Republic of China era. Born into a time of chaos, in the darkest hours before dawn, he discovers that he has no System or superpowers of any kind. All he has is a deep gaze that spans a century and sees through every illusion... 18.1kReads8.7Score2k14d adds
- 36 Espionage: You Were Told to Go Undercover, but You're Thriving 谍战：让你潜伏，你混得风生水起 [Spy thriller + no female lead] Lin Jiang transmigrates into the body of a peripheral operative at the Shanghai station of the Military Statistics Bureau, code-named Catfish. His handler is killed, the Shanghai station is wiped out, and the new station chief is another notorious traitor to the Bureau, at least according to Lin Jiang's memories! [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on awakening the Big Data Deduction System!] Special Higher Police School: “Who exactly is Catfish?” Military Statistics Bu 17.8kReads7.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 37 The Farmer’s Daughter Refuses to Marry, and Her Future Powerful Official Loses Control in Public 农女拒嫁，未来权臣当众失控 [Romance first, career second] Since the heavens have given her a chance to start over, Xie Qinglian wastes no time. She decides not to give Shen Xingzhou any chance to grow up: she'll drown him in the river, push him off a mountain, or poison him with a poisonous fruit! [Shen Xingzhou: a mad beauty] When he discovers that Zhenzhen, the woman he loves, is actually Xie Qinglian and that she wants to kill him, he decides that if they cannot be husband and wife in life, then they can be a pair of g 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 I Am Wu Dalang: With Future AI, I Conquer the Northern Song 我武大郎：携未来Al踏平北宋 A portrait of a group of super-AI beings from the future! Wu Dalang, poisoned by Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing working together, is snatched away at death's door by a time-space rope from the future's Ancient Rescue Service for People in Peril. In the year 13520, he masters top-tier cooking skills and business secrets, and brings back twelve AI assistants, each with different abilities. Armed with two hundred taels, seeds for space wheat, and futuristic technology, Wu Dalang makes a triumphant retu 11Reads—Score314d adds
- 39 Republican-Era Playboy in the Military Intelligence Bureau 民国之纨绔大少在军统 Synopsis: [Fanfic transmigration + tycoon + alternate setting + comedy + big shots + Shanghai Bund + island lord] The story of a young master from the Republic of China era who becomes an island lord, and an ordinary man who grows into a ruthless power player. Chen Qing transmigrates into the body of the eldest young master of the Chen family during the Republic of China era and awakens a Treasure Chest System. He becomes the head of the Special Affairs Office, forms the Netherworld Special Forc 5.5kReads7.8Score26814d adds
- 40 The Legend of the Black Hole Kid: Battle in the Desert 黑洞小子传奇之沙漠大战记 This novel is the first installment in my epic science-fiction fantasy series, The Legend of the Black Hole Kids. It aims to create a new generation of cosmic heroes, led by the Black Hole Kids Jingjing and Liangliang, who are even mightier and more extraordinary than Nezha and Sun Wukong! The story follows the spectacular arrival of six young cosmic heroes: the Black Hole Kids Jingjing and Liangliang, Ruirui, Yingying, Fire Boy, and Ice Girl. Together, they defeat the forces of desertification 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Legend of Black Hole Boy: Wanwan, the Boy with Two Brains 黑洞小子传奇之双脑奇人小万万 The Legend of the Black Hole Kid: Xiao Wanwan, the Two-Brained Prodigy is the second installment in my long science fiction and fantasy series, The Legend of the Black Hole Kid. It mainly tells the story of a foolish child from ancient times. His private school teacher taught him that one was a horizontal stroke, two was two horizontal strokes, and three was three horizontal strokes. After that, he thought he had learned everything and no longer needed the teacher. He was the foolish son of a la 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Legend of the Black Hole Kid: The Two Tigers and Frogs Versus the Sky-Swallowing Wolf 黑洞小子传奇之二虎蛙大战吞天狼 This is the ultimate showdown between a high-tech immortal from the future, Black Hole Boy, and the immortals of heaven. One day in the future, a ferocious super beast from our primordial universe, the Devourer Wolf, set its sights on our beautiful home, Earth. It began swelling until it was dozens of times larger than Earth. Then, planting one foot on a star at a time, it strode through space like a moving mountain range, heedless of everything in its path, arrogant and overbearing as it charge 1Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 43 Transmigrating into a War-Torn World, I Awakened an Anti-Japanese Martial Arts System 穿越烽火逃兵我觉醒抗日武侠系统 Li A Shui transmigrates to the Songhu Front in the rain at night. The moment he opens his eyes, he runs into the fleeing soldier Hu Yi. He remembers Hu Yi, remembers Ninth Platoon, and remembers everyone along this road who was supposed to fall. He once read this story. Now he is standing inside it. 43Reads—Score514d adds
- 44 You Were Supposed to Go Undercover, So How Did You Become a Cabinet Minister of Dongdao? 让你潜伏你怎么成了东岛内阁大臣 Wang Tieshan, an underground courier codenamed Mantis, is sent to infiltrate the Military Statistics Bureau. After being framed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, he’s assigned to a covert mission at the Magic City station under the codename Paperclip. “I haven’t seen you in years. How did you end up as a minister in Dongdao’s cabinet?” Wang Tieshan: “I don’t know either. Somehow, you arranged for me to impersonate someone, and now I’m a minister in Dongdao’s cabinet. I’m under a lot of pre 504Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Colonizing Venus 金星殖民 [Patriotic wish fulfillment + Interstellar Frontier Development + Technological Supremacy + A World of Great Harmony] In 2125, Earth has just 120 years before its resources run out. The European and American powers have carved up Mars, monopolizing it and shutting others out. Human civilization stands on the brink of extinction! In this desperate moment, 25-year-old genius engineer Xu Xiaowu bursts onto the scene, stunning the world with his Venus terraforming plan! Crash comets into the planet 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Tycoon Game: The Beautiful CEO Chose Me 富豪游戏：美女总裁选中我 Yang Li was chosen by a beautiful CEO, given ten million, and invited to take part in a life-or-death game. Six players, each with ten million. After one year, whoever has the most assets gets to live. 104Reads—Score414d adds
- 47 The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车 Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Day the White Tower Fell 白塔倾倒之日 The author has fallen into a black hole. Signal lost, updates suspended, and the text has been replaced with filler. I've run off with the original manuscript. I'll come back and fill in the gaps once I've stolen some inspiration from a parallel universe. Farewell for now, fellow readers! 103Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Master of the Game 神操手 After nine lives, can he escape his shackles? Can cultivating through code create a miracle? A seasoned spirit hunter starts out with a wronged spirit in tow and faces Hell-level difficulty from the start: Should he lie flat, or break free of his shackles? The One-Line Chasm, Soul-Eater Forest, the Inspection Team... The clues to extending his life point to the Guardian of the Abyss, locked away inside a ward. But when he risks his life to reach the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, he discovers it is 91Reads—Score414d adds
- 50 I Died Twice from the Start, Then Came Back to Life with a Mechanical Heart 开局死两次，我靠着机械之心重活 Three days before the big exam, Lu Chen blew himself up. The assassins circled the wreckage and confirmed his death. No one noticed that another “Lu Chen” was crouched in the shadows at the mouth of the alley, watching the show. In this world, everyone is a mechanical body. But Lu Chen was born with two bodies. In plain sight, he’s a beat-up mechanical body, so broke he has to use tractor parts for his engine. Hidden away, his flesh-and-blood body is the real killing machine. He steals mechanica 305Reads—Score2014d adds
