Novels like The Exquisite Brothel
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Exquisite Brothel, best match first.
- 101 American Strange Cases: Seeing Through Illusions and Mutations from the Start 美式诡案：开局看穿虚妄畸变 In 1994, Black Harbor City, a crime-ridden metropolis on the US West Coast. The fog never lifts, and the murders never stop. Everyone is merely a sacrifice kept by the Old Ones. Lin Ye transmigrates as a Chinese American patrol officer. From the start, he awakens the [Uncanny Filth Reckoning System] and the passive talent [See Through Falsehood]: with one glance, he can see through uncanny creatures disguised as humans, illusions, and parasites. Others flee when they encounter the uncanny. He hu 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Birth of the End, the End of Everything 终末的诞生，一切的终点 [High-Octane Apocalypse + Born Divine + Decisive and Ruthless + No Goody-Two-Shoes]… 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 My Sister’s Best Friend Is a Professor, and She’s Pregnant With My Twins? 我姐的闺蜜是教授，怀我双胞胎？ [One heroine + sweet campus romance + older-sister-type girlfriend + hidden powerhouse + laid-back daily life + nuanced romance + equally matched leads + a little wish fulfillment] Chen Yue, a sophomore, ended up sleeping with Xu Zhiyuan, an outside guest lecturer, after an unexpected mishap at a university-industry reception. He thought they would go their separate ways once they sobered up. But at the project coordination meeting the next day, Chen Yue saw the stern-faced academic advisor seat 758Reads—Score210Shelves
- 104 Learning to Expect Less Is the Clearest Thing an Adult Can Do 慢慢戒掉期待，是成年人最好的清醒 Learning to Let Go of Expectations Is the Clearest Way for Adults to See the World —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 We Never Truly Owned Our Own Brains 我们从未真正拥有自己的大脑 We Never Truly Owned Our Own Brains —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Lord Rabbit Demon, Please Save Me 兔妖大人，救救我 Bunny Demon Lord, Save Me! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Global: My Spirit Beast Is My Future Self 全民：我的御兽是未来的自己 In the twenty-first century, spiritual qi revival swept the world, ushering in the “Age of Beast Taming.” Everyone could awaken a Beast Taming Space upon turning eighteen and become a Beast Tamer by forming a contract with a pet beast. Pet beasts progressed through the following ranks: Awakening, Extraordinary, Commander, Lord, Overlord, Totem, and Mythical. A Beast Tamer’s rank was linked to the strength of their pet beast. 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 After Resurrection, I Somehow Became My Archrival’s White Moonlight 复活后，我竟成为死对头的白月光 Xiao Ze'an was once the greatest under heaven. After being summoned back, he finds that nobody recognizes him! His powers have also fallen to just forty percent of what they were. He goes with a group to exterminate demons and nearly gets them all wiped out. Luckily, his former nemesis Jiang Heng arrives out of nowhere and saves them. After that, things start getting weird. Jiang Heng follows him around like a shadow and refuses to be shaken off. Their friends often give the two of them strang —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Chronicles of the True Martial World: I Prove My Divine Arts Through Ancient Chinese Martial Arts 真武战纪，我以中华古武证神通 [Entirely hand-crafted, not AI.] People say Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators are impressive these days. How do they compare with my Nine Heavens Secret Realm? All living beings in this world can cultivate immortal arts and martial paths, wield wondrous techniques and divine abilities, command immense power, conjure fire and summon wind, summon thunder and lightning, swallow the sun and pluck the stars, suppress demons and imprison gods. Such beings are called... True Martial 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Light Over the South of the City 城南有光 The summer Shen Du moved into an old neighborhood in the south of the city, he found a key in an old trunk. No one knew who it belonged to. Later, he discovered that many places in the southern district were waiting for him: The door at the end of the old street, locked for ages, The ones waiting for him to unlock it, the virus outbreak, And his comrades. This key was looking for someone. A 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 From the Start: I Obtained the Holy Grail and the Saintess 开局：我得到了圣杯和圣女 From the Start: I Got the Holy Grail and the Saintess 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Prejudice Is a Mountain 成见是一座大山 Prejudice Is a Mountain —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Why Are Young People So Afraid to Fall in Love? 现在的年轻人，为什么越来越不敢谈恋爱了 Why Are Young People Increasingly Afraid to Fall in Love? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Bones That Support the World: The Epic of the Human Skeleton 骨立山河：人体骨骼的生命史诗 Bones That Uphold the World: The Epic Story of the Human Skeleton —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 The Body’s Inner Workings: A Gentle Epic of the City Within 五脏六腑人间役：身体城池的温柔史诗 The Five Organs and Six Viscera at Work in the World: A Gentle Epic of the Body’s City —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Awakened in the City After One Night: The Yuanxin Era 一夜过后成为都市觉醒者之元炘纪 An unexpected meteor shower shatters the city’s peace. Ordinary people are called Awakened, and some lose control because they cannot master their abilities. Animals, too, transform into savage monsters. No one knows whether this is a blessing or a curse. To protect the city, the protagonists establish a secret organization to fight the Awakened and the monsters. But an even greater truth is waiting for them behind it all… 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Seeking Kindred Spirits Amid Low Hills and Murky Waters, Twin Stars in the Dharma-Ending Age 低山臭水觅知音，末法时代双子星 My name is Chen Mo. All I wanted was to head out quietly, go fishing, and live out my days in peace. But who could have guessed that I’d encounter a bizarre monster while fishing? From then on, I was tainted by the supreme demonic path and forced to learn the most domineering and sinister demonic art in the world. This demonic art defies the heavens, but it is merciless too: I can no longer absorb spiritual energy. There is only one way to grow stronger: kill, devour souls, and consume cult 801Reads—Score136Shelves
- 118 The Origin Stone Time Ruins 源石时墟 The Source Stone Time Rift tells the story of three spirit stones representing the past, future, and present competing for supremacy. Its many elements include the War of Resistance, espionage, transmigration, mechs, treasure hunting, and science fiction. With its fresh premise, the story welcomes your comments! 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Strangers at Last 终成陌路人 Shen Qingzhi and Gu Ci became strangers at last. A Ci, I might... never make it back. The wind beyond the frontier is so cold, A Ci. I miss you so much. Goodbye. This time, forever. My A Ci, even without me, you must be happy forever. Once, they had been a match made in heaven. In the end, one died and the other went mad. Shen Qingzhi once naively believed that she was destined to be happy. But life was unpredictable, and she and the one she loved became strangers in the end. After her death, pe 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 From the Start, I Have a Hundred Tons of Strength, and Everyone Here Is Trash 开局百吨力量，在座各位都是乐色 Urban high-martial arts + spiritual qi revival + lighthearted comedy Li Kuang transmigrates to a world undergoing spiritual qi revival. From the start, the System grants him not magic, but the “Rule of Absolute Physical Force.” In the eyes of ghosts and monsters, he's a terrifying “human nuclear bomb”! Li Kuang: What ghosts? What monsters? In front of me, you're all food and stepping stones! 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Interstellar Farming: The Laid-Back Ancestress Just Wants to Build Her Career 星际种田：佛系老祖她只想搞事业 This is an interstellar farming, wish-fulfillment, cultivation novel with no romance and a strong female lead. After failing her tribulation, the soul of an ancient spirit-plant patriarch transmigrates into the interstellar wasteland, becoming a slum orphan on the verge of starving to death. Her home is bare, and all she has left is a frail, elderly grandmother and a spirit-plant space capable of growing immortal herbs. When the mine’s bullies try to oppress her, she punches them one by one, 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Prejudice in People's Hearts Is an Uncrossable Mountain 人心中的成见，是翻不过的大山 The Prejudice in People’s Hearts Is an Uncrossable Mountain —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 AI's Debut: Starlight in the Code AI出道记：代码里的星光 An AI’s Debut: Starlight in the Code —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Copper Coins, Rusted Bones 铜钱锈骨 Copper Coins and Rusted Bones —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Gathering Fragrance at Dusk 暮拾朝芳 Gathering Evening, Picking Morning Blossoms —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Betrothal Gifts Are Not Love, and Love Is Not Betrothal Gifts 彩礼≠爱情，爱情≠彩礼 Bride Price Is Not Love, and Love Is Not Bride Price —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 In and Around the Village! 村里村外！ Hu Xiuying is a traditional woman who gives everything to her family and works tirelessly for her children. But the burdens of life are so heavy that she can barely breathe. To pay her child's school fees, she reluctantly enters the factory director's office... 635Reads7.1Score100Shelves
- 128 After My Secret Crush on My Rich Best Friend Ran Away, She Asked Me to Be Her Wife 暗恋豪门闺蜜逃跑后她让我当老婆 [Secret crush + exclusive devotion + scheming + confinement + one true love + both leads are inexperienced + happy ending] Ren Jiangxue and I were the orphanage’s inseparable “partners in crime.” She handled the knife-wielding and beatings to protect her friends, while I waved the flag and cheered her on. We divided the work perfectly and made quite a name for ourselves at the orphanage as “the boss lady and her sidekick.” When we got to college, we were so broke we counted every grain of rice 3.6kReads8.8Score606Shelves
- 129 The Evening Breeze Blows Over Huai 晚风倾淮 [Age gap + secret crush + groveling pursuit] She falls for her older brother’s friend. A secret crush is one person’s private chaos, but luckily, he eventually falls for me, too. The leads are four years apart. Jin Huaizhou realizes belatedly that he has long since fallen for her, and begins pursuing her. Being loved so completely by a girl like her is the greatest blessing of his life. Later, the most-liked comment under the comic For Me to Fall for You is posted by “Good Evening, Wanwan”: “I’m 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 I Just Want to Lie Flat, but I'm Surrounded by Beautiful Girls 躺平的我被美少女包围了 [A world with a Jujutsu Kaisen-like setting + original characters, not fan fiction + slow burn + multiple heroines + strong women, but a strong male lead too + a mostly slice-of-life, sweet romance] Shi Yijie, a socially anxious otaku, thought he was destined to coast through life and die alone. He never expected the girl he casually rescued at twelve to come looking for him. A considerate, gentle girl in a kimono who knows just how to please him eagerly gets close, The top senior in the modern 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The Living Hero: Me, a Nobody, Taking on the Mastermind? 活侠传：我背景板对线幕后黑手？ This is a fanfiction based on The Legend of the Living Hero, written to make up for the original's regrets. An ensemble cast, multiple heroines, a fake System, and a soul transmigration. There is plenty of original plot, and the story starts slowly. Even if you haven't read the source material, you can follow along. Just treat it like a regular novel. Nangong Yu transmigrates into The Legend of the Living Hero, but he isn't the protagonist, Zhao Huo. He becomes a background character from the Na 2.8kReads6.7Score380Shelves
- 132 The World Is Beautiful: When You’re Tired, Stop and Take It In 世界很美好，累了可以停下来看看 The World Is Beautiful. When You’re Tired, You Can Stop and Take a Look —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 All Sweet Romance 全甜宠心 [Everyone’s Darling] + [Another World] + [Adorable Child] + [System] (Note: There’s only a secondary couple. The protagonist is just three years old and can’t fall in love. The tag was added by mistake. Sorry!) Tianxin’s mother, Su Chenxi, disappeared when Tianxin was one year old. After that, her father married a scheming stepmother. The stepmother framed Tianxin and made her kneel in the snow... After her fifth uncle rescued her, Tianxin fell into a dream. Much about it made no sense, but she 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Wind at Fourteen, the Words I Never Said 十四岁的风，没说出口 The Wind at Fourteen, Left Unspoken —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Master Your Emotions, and Be Reborn 情绪自渡，便是重生 Master Your Emotions, and Be Reborn —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 Thriller Game Invasion: I Slay My Way Through the Abyss with Magic 惊悚游戏入侵：我靠魔法杀穿深渊 A terrifying Western fantasy game suddenly invades reality. Everyone in the world is forced to bind to a game interface, and terrifying dungeons descend. Failure means death! Chen Xinyue is reborn three months before the game launches and awakens the Myriad Magic System. From the start, her divine body is transformed, she masters every school of magic without a teacher, and she knows every dungeon’s opportunities and every Demon God’s weakness. She is decisive and ruthless, with no romance. She 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 In the Clouds, I Know Immortality 云深知长生 Immortality, xianxia, slow-burn, imaginative, no saintly heroine, no System, alternate history A journey that can only be reached after death, and a meeting of forgetting and farewell. A nameless boy strays into the Flower Realm of the Divine Realm, where he meets a flower fairy imprisoned for a thousand years and Lu Shanshan, a girl who is always smiling. During half a year of wandering, he sees all the splendor and desolation of the Divine Realm, yet can never remember who he is. Until the day —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 1927 Shanghai: Facing the Old-Era Evil Gods 1927魔都：直面民国旧日邪神 I transmigrate to the Shanghai slums of 1927 and, from the start, stumble upon a sacrifice to an evil god! Fishmen howl, whispers eat away at the soul. This Republic of China is nothing like the history books: the ancient Cthulhu gods are reviving amid the chaos, refugees are becoming their followers, warlords worship evil gods, and the foreign concessions conceal an abyss! Luckily, I bind myself to the ancient Record of Exorcism. It lets me decipher blasphemous symbols, dispel low-level horrors 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Nighttime Tales from the Old Mountain Village House 山村老宅夜事 After my grandfather passed away, I returned alone to a remote mountain village to take over the century-old ancestral home. Before I left, the village elders warned me again and again: under no circumstances should I break the old house's four taboos. Don't stare into the mirror in the old house late at night. Don't answer calls from outside the courtyard at midnight. Don't open the small back-garden door at three in the morning. And never go upstairs on a stormy night. I dismissed it all as ol 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The Next Stop: The Finish Line 下一站终点线 A sudden viral outbreak swept across the globe, and those infected awakened supernatural abilities. The Awakened sought to conquer the world and become its masters, while the surviving humans who had escaped infection fought back doggedly against their invasion. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 My Body Houses a Crowd of Ordinary People Who Never Quit 我的身体，住着一群从不辞职的普通人 My Body Is Home to a Group of Ordinary People Who Never Quit —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 The Bronze Box That Subdues the World 镇世铜盒 A low-level office drone buried in debt unexpectedly awakens a family heirloom with the power to appraise treasures. Starting out by finding overlooked bargains at flea markets, he sweeps through the antique black market, jade gambling exchanges, and the real estate business. As he uncovers the truth behind his parents' disappearance, he reunites with old friends and foils the schemes of the underground cultural relics conglomerate, the Fengling Bureau. He retrieves the national treasures scatte 3Reads—Score161Shelves
- 143 Does My Other Personality Want to Ship Us? 副人格要和我搞cp？ [Complete] (Narcissistic romance, two heroines, 1v1, both chaste) | Dissociative identity disorder × powerful mind-reading ability | A violent alternate personality protects her, while the clever primary personality plots from behind the scenes | After the shadow gains a body, all she wants to do is cuddle She can read minds and hear other people's secrets. But the secrets she is most afraid to hear are her own. Because during the times she “can't remember,” someone else is living her life. One 248Reads—Score101Shelves
- 144 This Is Hilarious, I Pretended to Be a Male Student and Fooled the Dynasty’s Top Scholar 笑死，我装男学生骗疯当朝状元 [Female disguise + revenge by a legitimate daughter + absurd twists + political schemes and sweet romance + mutual salvation] (Former title: The Red Silk Mix-Up: I Deceived the Top Scholar for Three Whole Years) (Note: The heroine doesn't coast through an effortless power fantasy! There are moments of restraint, emotional pain, and tension. The tone is light and funny.) Fifteen-year-old Su Qingluan witnesses her entire family being slaughtered. After narrowly escaping, she cuts her hair, binds h 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 It Wasn’t a Dream: Motherland, Let’s Cultivate Immortality Together 原来不是梦：祖国，咱们一起修仙 When the cultivation world mocked her as a rootless weed, the voice of her motherland reached across time and space: “Fellow countrywoman, we’re bringing you home.” A young woman carrying the wisdom of Chinese technology starts her cultivation journey anew in another world. The ancient legacy she gives back will become the spark that keeps a civilization alive. As both worlds face peril, aid spanning the stars and the bond she shares with her peerless cultivation partner together write a legend 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Showbiz: The Soccer King Who Slept with a Top-Tier Star 娱乐：顶流睡过的球王 I’m Liu Zhengjing, a minor internet celebrity who can’t even control the ball properly. Yet the national team treats me like their secret weapon. The coach says, “You don’t have to play football. Just run. Wear down their defenders, then take a random shot.” So I ran 4,200 meters in twelve minutes and wore out three of Japan’s left backs in a single half. Even crazier, a senior official at the Football Association gave me an “imperial decree”: “From now on, when reporters ask you questions, so 414Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 City Celestial Master: I Became a Taoist Priest After College 都市天师之大学毕业我成了道士 Lin Zhao graduated from an ordinary second-tier university and is about to become unemployed. On the night of graduation, his roommate talked him into playing with a spirit board, and they really did summon an evil spirit. The broken sword left behind by his grandfather springs into action to protect him. Only then does he learn that the old man who taught him the Purifying Heart Divine Mantra as a child was once the foremost master of the mystic arts. When the ten ancient divine artifacts appea 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The Legend of Ling Shuang: Prequel to Asking Love on the Immortal Path 凌霜传【仙道问情前传】 Nangong Yu's greatest ambition in life is to be a spoiled wastrel who can eat his fill and wait to die. There isn't a restaurant or teahouse in Jinling City he doesn't know, nor a pleasure boat or song on the Qinhuai River he hasn't experienced. Cricket fighting, gambling, listening to music, sleeping in: he's good at it all. As for cultivating immortality? What a hassle. You have to meditate and seek enlightenment. Nothing beats lying flat. But his father, Nangong Zhengyang, doesn't see it that —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Creepypasta Game Invades: Who Are You? 诡异游戏入侵：你是谁？ [Games + Instances + Romantic Rivalry + Unhinged Yandere] Yu Zhou just wants to lie flat, but then the apocalypse arrives. His childhood friend is devoured by the supernatural, and humanity is plunged into an endless game of slaughter. Pass the Handkerchief, Dou Dizhu, Billions of Zombies, Jurassic Park, Are You the One?, Escape from the Bermuda Triangle, the Age of Extreme Cold... Games of all kinds: play badly, and you die! Humanity lives on because of its obsessions: What is the truth about t 94Reads—Score111Shelves
- 150 After the Big Shot Rescued Me from the Pleasure Quarter 被大佬从风月场捞出来后 [Take-Her-by-Force Romance + Size Difference + Violent, Unhinged Possessive Love + Off-the-Charts Chemistry + Passion + Rivalry Between Men + Powerful Family + Older Man + Seduction + Rising to the Top] Huo Shichang kept me for three years, making me soft and spoiled. But in private, he never played fair. He thought I was beneath him, so he personally taught me how to please him. In his arms, I was as obedient as a cat. Zhang Binghao was even worse. He pinned me down and asked if Huo Shichan 105Reads8.1Score163Shelves
