Novels like Tomb Raiders: The Crane in the Mirror
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- 1 Tomb Raiding: I Owe Someone a Favor Again Today 盗墓：今天又欠人情了 [The protagonist is no saint + Smart characters + Yandere, scheming, and all] [Southern Archives + Nine Gates + Daomu Biji + Zanghai + Sand Sea] The protagonist will go through a period of growth, but that doesn't mean he'll be weak. The Zhang family is thrown into turmoil overnight. The Wang family takes advantage of the chaos, and everyone within the clan lives in fear, even turning on one another. Zhang Haitong should have died in the upheaval, just like his parents, or fled the Zhang family 418Reads—Score114Shelves
- 2 Tomb Raiding: Little Jasmine of Nanyang! Southern Archives 盗墓：南洋小茉莉！南部档案 (Lou Xia + irresistible-to-everyone Xia + all Xia as the bottom + Lou Xia in the first volume + all pairings in the second volume) When I opened the Southern Ocean through Zhang Haixia's eyes... A mad, ghostly Shu Yan × the Nanyang's most fearsome weapon, Xia Lou and Xia have mutual feelings. Second volume: some ambiguous feelings from an irresistible-to-everyone Xia who doesn't realize it Two books combined into one. The first volume is Lou and Xia only, with everyone else having one-sided fee 3.6kReads8.4Score359Shelves
- 3 I Just Opened My Eyes in a Tomb and Nearly Got Killed by the Guy with the Knife 盗墓刚睁眼，差点被小哥一刀送走 ⌠All + Tomb Raiding + transmigrate + System + Love Rival Showdown + Everyone's Favorite + Cross-World Escape + Everyone Turns Dark⌡ Li Fan opens his eyes to find himself lying in an ancient tomb coffin, still clutching half a skewer of grilled gluten he hadn't finished eating. He locks eyes with Fatty, who is peering inside. They both scream in fright, and in the next second a Black Gold Ancient Blade comes slashing straight at him. In desperation, Li Fan throws the skewer at him. Chili oil spla 4.4kReads8.3Score687Shelves
- 4 Tomb Raiding: The Beginning of the Southern Archives 盗墓之从南部档案开始 Xu Xin is a skilled inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, with expertise in a whole range of crafts. She grew up listening to the stories of the Hundred Families. Fortunately, it's the twenty-first century, and some bureau has decreed that no one born after a certain year is allowed to become a spirit. As an inheritor, all she has to do is play the suona and perform rituals. Then one day, she sleeps straight through to Xiamen a hundred years in the past. A beautiful woman heads out on an er 1.4kReads—Score105Shelves
- 5 Southern Archives: Why Are My Brothers All Acting Strange? 南部档案：兄弟们怎么都不对劲 [Southern Archives + OOC + no CP + one-sided crushes + Why are my brothers looking at me so strangely? + Godmother, save me] Zhang Haiqi adopted quite a few orphans, trained them, and made them employees of the Nanyang Archives. Those with good swimming skills all had the character “Hai” in their names, so they could be told apart. Zhang Haimu belonged to the Water element. Zhang Hailou had always thought that Zhang Haimu must have been a fish in his previous life. In the deep pool Zhang Haiqi u 11.1kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 6 Tomb Raiding: The Fearless Little Merchant 盗墓：小商人无所畏惧 If you don't like reading about Baozi, don't force yourself to. You might just end up making Baozi angry. This is OOC fiction, and the story went off the rails ages ago. If you don't like it, just scroll past. Please stop cursing me, I'm fixing it, really. (Fanfiction for The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. The female lead is a Mary Sue adored by everyone, with an all-ships setup and no male-male pairings. Her golden finger is wildly overpowered, so OOC is inevitable. There are lots of original ideas 73Reads6.0Score102Shelves
- 7 After Joining the Zhang Family to Build a Career, They All Started Clinging to Me 穿进张家搞事业后被轮流缠上 Straight-laced career maniac + no original plot + plenty of melodrama Zhang Congxuan transmigrated into a game as the new clan leader of the reclusive Zhang family, which had seized power. If he could restore the clan to greatness, he'd get to be reborn in luxury with a ten-billion bonus. But he'd been poisoned with a rare toxin from the start, so first he had to find an “antidote” to stay alive. . To that end, Zhang Congxuan ruthlessly crushed an internal rebellion and went on a major talent hu 6kReads8.9Score877Shelves
- 8 Tomb Raiding: I Can't Eat Another Bite, I'm Seriously Stuffed! 盗墓：吃不下了，真的好撑！ [All characters + Grave Robbers' Chronicles + three generations of the Nine Gates + Zhang family boy band + Wang family boy band + Southern Archives + Sand Sea + female-centered + everyone's favorite + strongest heroine + all male leads are loyal + third-person narration] First couplet: Zhang. Qing, who takes little Zhang Qiling along, teases cats and dogs, steals manhole covers, smashes the elders' windows, and sets fire to the ancestral hall. Second couplet: Rong. Can, who takes a teenage youn 7.7kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 9 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: The Mad Joker Has No Heart 盗笔：疯癫乐子人他没有心 [Mainly pursuing men: Zhang family male ensemble, after the Queen Mother’s Ghost Banquet, Rain Village, all characters, daily-life focus] [Acts like a crazy jokester on the surface, but is actually a flirtatious, womanizing playboy] Motaer accompanied his mother on a trip back to China to visit relatives he’d never met and wish them a happy New Year. He arrived in Rain Village ahead of her, only to meet a bunch of baffling men. The playboy’s verdict: This is way too much fun! He acted crazy and 2.5kReads8.7Score285Shelves
- 10 Tomb Raiding: I Can’t Die, and I Can’t Go Back 盗墓：死不了，回不去 [All pairings + everyone's favorite? + Zhang family boy band + Black Glasses, Ping Xie + apologies for OOC] “Have to die to get home? Fine, just wait for me.” “No! No! No, that's not it!” She isn't afraid of dying. In fact, she's even looking forward to it a little. But… Whatever. If she can't die, she'll just make do with living. Wait, what? Why should she have to make do?! I'll work hard to make my own good life! The story focuses on daily life. Our girl refuses to enter tombs. The timeline 4.9kReads8.2Score482Shelves
- 11 Tomb Raiding: Help, This World Is Full of Men in Women’s Clothes Who Are Ghosts 盗墓：救命，这世界全是女装男鬼 [Beloved by Everyone + The Mystic Nine + The Lost Tomb + Everyone's Favorite] Jiang Chen transmigrated. His new identity: the infamous young tyrant of Changsha. His hobby: abducting young women by force. And now, it was already his wedding night. Since he had kidnapped his bride, they had skipped all the proper wedding customs and formalities. He lifted her veil. Her gaze was calm, and her beauty was breathtaking. Jiang Chen felt a little tempted and tested the waters. “Miss, it’s late. Shall we 3.8kReads7.9Score525Shelves
- 12 Tomb Raiding: Is the Hater Still Trying to Get Themselves Killed Today? 盗墓：毒唯今天也在找死吗？ [Everyone x protagonist + fan favorite + unhinged character + gender dysphoria + cross-dressing heartthrob] Everyone knows Zhang Hailuo has something wrong with his head. What nobody knows is that the thing in his head called the System has been with him for decades. It knows everything, and it’s incredibly annoying. So Zhang Hailuo goes to great lengths to get rid of it. He hears that southern Xinjiang is dangerous and even the clan leader fell there. Zhang Hailuo says, “I’m going!” Then he hea 2.5kReads8.7Score282Shelves
- 13 Tomb Raiding: The Zhang Family's Young Master Is Coveted by the Nine Gates 盗墓：张家小爷在九门被觊觎了 The Jade-Faced Yama, the Jade Qilin, a man who defies heaven and changes fate The Zhang family had two pure-blood Qilins, Xiao Guan and Xiao Bao, though both were descended from marriages to outsiders. Xiao Guan became the Zhang family's Qiling, taking up the Black-Gold Ancient Saber and shouldering the clan's mission. Xiao Bao remained Zhang Lingjiu, roaming the Ninth Gates of Changsha with a black-gold dagger in hand. Would the Zhang family's internal strife really sacrifice Xiao Guan? What us 6.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
- 14 Tomb Raiding: You Stole My Little Qilin? 盗墓：你们偷我家小麒麟？ [Female-oriented + Harem Appeal Throughout + One-on-One Ending + Extra Stories for Others + Male-Male Romance + Bottom] Wu Wei is mistakenly bound by an unlucky System and transmigrates to a tomb-raiding world to collect abnormal energy from it. He was supposed to have the pure-blooded Zhang family's Qilin blood, but through a twist of fate, the Wu family takes him in and raises him for over a decade. He plans to keep his bloodline a secret, follow Wu Xie through the story, then make his escape. 41.6kReads8.8Score5.2kShelves
- 15 Tomb Raiding: Di Ting Leads the Way to the Underworld 盗墓：谛听开道冥府路 [Male protagonist + no female lead + no CP in the main story [one-sided feelings from everyone, with no fixed roles (the author isn't high enough level to write extras)] (female-oriented! This is a female-oriented novel, don't ask why I didn't use male-oriented tags) + original worldbuilding + OOC warning + factions are somewhat hostile, but not too much + strong and beautiful, but not miserable + Zhang Family boys' group + mostly everyday life, with a frustrating old dad raising a kid (everyone 8.7kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 16 The Clan Leader Won't Come Home, So I Eloped with the Young Master of the Wu Family 族长不回家，我拐了吴家小少爷 (Grave Robbers’ Chronicles + Zhang Haike pairing + Wu family twins alternate timeline + two male leads!!) Wu Gu, who was recuperating abroad, realized that someone had set their sights on his older brother. That wouldn’t do, so he rushed back as fast as he could, only to find things were even more complicated than he’d imagined. For his brother’s sake, Wu Gu jumped right in, hoping he could spare him some suffering. At first, everything went smoothly. But can someone tell him who this obnoxious 1.8kReads8.8Score265Shelves
- 17 Making a Fortune with Penicillin: A Zhang Daughter Becomes a Tycoon in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 青霉素发家，张家女在盗笔当富豪 [Southern Archives + Old Nine Gates, Nine Gates + main story updates ongoing. Strong female lead, a new path for the Zhang family, primarily career-focused] Reborn into the world of Grave Robbers' Chronicles, Zhang Haizhuo made the best decision of her life at fifteen: faking her death and escaping the Zhang family. Her second-best decision was picking up Black Glasses in a Berlin alley and putting him to work. She opened a pharmacy in the French Concession, made sound films in Shanghai, invited 40.9kReads9.2Score4.9kShelves
- 18 Tomb Raiding: I Landed in the Zhang Family, and the Peach Blossoms Won't Stop Coming 盗墓：落地张家桃花太旺 [A cool, distant yet gentle and powerful female lead vs. the Zhang family guys, Bottle and Xie, Black Glasses and Little Flower, and the Chan-Sang twins] Timeline: Tibetan Sea Flower + Southern Archives + The Ultimate + Sand Sea + The Second Mausoleum Under Heaven, with occasional time jumps. Reader advisory: I love Zhang Haike, Zhang Hailou, and Zhang Haixia so much that I had to write a story for them myself. The female lead is somewhat of a fan favorite and a Mary Sue. The timeline includes p 10kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 19 Tomb Raiding: Is Zhang Qi'an Trying to Get Himself Killed Today? 盗墓：张祈安今天作死了吗？ [Male protagonist + alluring beauty + everyone has a one-sided crush + ship whoever you like + Zhang family + gorgeous and strong, but not tragic + multiple secret identities + romantic tension + comedy] Fragile college student Mu Qi'an heads out and gets hit by a truck. What kind of truck? One with full insurance and every possible upgrade! Good news: a System called “Black-Hearted” rescues him and gives him the prestigious secret identity of a Zhang family Blood Qilin. Bad news: Before him, 15.4kReads9.1Score2kShelves
- 20 Tomb Raiding: With a Terrible Temper, I Blow Up the Wang Family 盗墓：脾气很大直接引爆汪家 The score has just been posted, and it will probably rise. [A member of the Zhang family proper + direct descendant + saves the Zhang family + top-tier combat skills + not a nanny, helps others only when she feels like it + Southern Archives + The Lost Tomb + Reunion: The Sound of the Providence + The Grave Robbers' Chronicles + Sand Sea + Notes from the Rain Village + the complete storyline of Ultimate Note + readers can ship the protagonist with whoever they like (not limited to them, but Zhan 6.1kReads8.5Score805Shelves
- 21 Tomb Raiding: The Character Card-Drawing System Is So Great! 盗墓：人设抽卡系统就是好啊！ [Tomb Raiding + Imaginative Misunderstandings + Tragic, Powerful Characters + Everyone Loves Him + Not Human + Salt-Baked Shrimp + System + Shifting Timelines] Note: Typos are due to copyright issues An original fantasy setting He was the morning sun in Bei Ai’s fragments of memory, the man in white, with a white silk blindfold, who used his life to make a move in a game that defied fate for him. “Let me become a Blood Qilin, and spare those children.” He was the first ray of sunlight in Nan Xi 14.9kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
- 22 I'm a Zhang, Yet I Became Wu Xie's Younger Brother 我是张家人，却成了吴邪的弟弟 [No romance, friendship-focused, everyone's favorite, System, making up for regrets, everyone survives in the end, so it definitely has a touch of fantasy. Note*: The protagonist is a chuunibyou teenager who sometimes likes showing off, so some moments may be awkward. See the first chapter for the rest of the content warnings.] The tags were added by the System. There's no mystery and no romance. From the moment Zhang Muchen wakes up on the train, he knows Wu Xie has abandoned him and Li Cu. He' 13.1kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
- 23 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: From the Start, I Became the Hated Villainess Everyone Despises 盗笔：开局我成了万人嫌恶毒女配 [Zhang Family + Everyone's Favorite + Taming the Dog] When Zhang Mingyue woke up again, a woman who had transmigrated had already taken over her body. The woman had even put on a whole act for Zhang Mingyue's clan leader, threatening to kill herself if he didn't love her. Well... after she killed herself, The System brought Zhang Mingyue back. Ha... She'd witnessed the whole thing with her own eyes. It wasn't as if she was eager to go back, anyway. 556Reads8.8Score180Shelves
- 24 Film and TV Crossover: The Moon Goddess Is Playing Dumb to Outsmart Everyone 综影视：月神她在扮猪吃老虎 Signed First world: Ultimate Note + Detective Conan (unhinged true-believer villain vs. the ruthless man in pink, Xie Dangjia). Surprise characters will appear! Second world: Angel Qian Renxue vs. the living god Zhang Qiling (Ultimate Note, with less of the original plot) Third world: Empresses in the Palace, angelic-god edition Fourth world: Scarlet Heart + Empresses in the Palace: Yutan Fifth world: The Blood of Youth: Yue Mi Sixth world: Dou Lu: Ling Guangling, who was abandoned after giving 6.1kReads6.7Score277Shelves
- 25 Tomb Raiding: The Gang Leader's Surname Is Zhang 盗墓：流氓头子她姓张 [OOC warning + a battlefield of rival suitors + a shameless, flirtatious, heartless, totally unhinged female lead + she makes the first move + no strings attached + no morals or principles + one tough woman. The timeline may differ from canon, so don't nitpick.] Zhang Haiyi, the Zhang family's number-one lunatic, was famous for being crazy and for having an overpowering S vibe. She didn't just go after handsome men. If even a passing dog looked good, she'd reach out and pet it. With the Zhang fa 4kReads9.1Score424Shelves
- 26 Tomb Raiding: He Is a Wang Family Member 盗墓：他是汪家人 [Villains Don't Redeem Themselves + Ruthless + No Angst + Antagonist's Perspective + Pure Thrills + Smart Characters] What happens when a mercenary transmigrates and starts out as a little kid? Wang Qi: No worries! I used to handle guns, and if all else fails, my big brother will protect me! Is the entire Wang family base obsessed with immortality? Wang Qi: I don't believe it. Show me, then! Going undercover alone? Wang Qi: The moment I open my eyes, it's all an act. Chen Pi is my underling from 3.2kReads9.0Score402Shelves
- 27 Tomb Raiding: One Last Job Before Retirement 盗墓：干完这票就退休 [The young master appears in Chapter Seven, after the secondary account is set up. No love triangles, and no five-way romance.] . Zhang Congxuan created two accounts in a full-dive game. On his main account, he runs an adventure business, and each of his employees has a unique talent. On his alt, he takes in and raises disciples, all of whom are sweet and well-behaved. The two accounts have nothing to do with each other, and both playthroughs are going wonderfully. Until the characters on the tw 5.7kReads9.3Score719Shelves
- 28 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: My Days as an Underpaid Laborer in the Zhang Family 盗笔：在张家打黑工的日子 The main reason I’m not continuing updates is that an author on this site, which is part of the same platform, used AI to plagiarize my work. They fed my entire story into AI and posted the result. It’s happened many times, so I don’t plan to update daily anymore. Health and other issues are actually the least important reasons. 28.3kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
- 29 Tomb Raider: Chen Pi Is Everyone's Favorite 盗墓之陈皮是个万人迷 OOC, seriously OOC, extremely, extremely OOC. I wrote this book purely for fun because I absolutely adore Fourth Master, so… ummm, you get it. It’s seriously OOC and doesn’t match the original characters. What happens when someone transmigrates as the ruthless Chen Pi and becomes a heartthrob? The heartthrob effect won’t make everyone fall in love at first sight. It only makes people feel a spark when they first meet. Chen Pi’s canon pairing is Er Yue, so there aren’t that many people involved. 3.1kReads9.4Score313Shelves
- 30 Tomb Raiding: The Beautiful, Powerful, Tragic Villain Suddenly Becomes Everyone's Favorite 盗墓：美强惨坏种突然被团宠 Handsome but tragic + sharp-tongued protagonist + healing story + beloved by everyone = all of the above (The protagonist is male.) A masked man in black: that’s the underworld’s entire summary of one man. Mysterious enough, ruthless enough, heartless enough. If the eyes behind Nan Xia’s sunglasses are one great mystery, then what Ghost Face looks like, and just how ugly he is, is a close second. Both questions have another name: look at them and you die. And Ghost Face Jiang Sanqi’s life is eve 4.3kReads8.9Score617Shelves
- 31 Tomb Raiding: The Wang Family Leader's True Account of Surviving Among the Nine Families 盗墓：汪家老大在九门的存活实录 [No Harem + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyone's Favorite + Drama Queen + Starts in The Lost Tomb] Chi Jing transmigrated into the world of tomb raiding. The task assigned by the System was to survive until the finale. His mission as an elder of the Wang family: During the era of the Old Nine Gates, assassinate the clan head, Zhang Qiling. After arriving in Changsha, assassinate Zhang Qishan, leader of the Old Nine Gates, and Er Yuehong. Decades later, assassinate Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie, and Xie Yuche 4.4kReads9.1Score473Shelves
- 32 Tomb Raiding: Don’t Make Things Hard for a Fortune-Teller Like Me 盗墓：别难为我一个算命的啊 [Female lead, no romance!!!!] An ordinary high school student ends up in a tomb-raiding world. Miserable enough? Not even close! From the start, she runs into Hei Xiazi and Xie Di, and both of them suspect her. Miserable enough? Still not! Shen Jinqing says there is no such thing as the worst, only worse! Heaven dragged her here, and she can't go back unless she changes the plot. But just look at how completely the plot has gone off the rails! She originally planned to cling to Little Tianzhen, 12.8kReads9.4Score966Shelves
- 33 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I'm So Overpowered, Yet I'm Trapped in a Massive Shura Field 盗笔：超强的我陷入了大型修罗场 [Shen Huai: Modern-Era Arc, Extra-Long Republic-Era Watch-Along] [Everyone's Darling and Romantic Rivalry, Go Ahead and Ship Them + A Hint of Being Everyone's Favorite + Imagining a Powerful, Beautiful, Strong Yet Tragic Character] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At this very moment, my body was lying right beside me, looking like a beautiful, flower-like person in a coma. The good news: I can create a secret identity that can't be killed. The bad news: the System sa 64.1kReads9.6Score4.1kShelves
- 34 I Transmigrated into The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, and They All Fell Apart After I Faked My Death 穿越盗笔，假死后他们都崩溃了 Qing Yan transmigrated into the world of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles twenty years ago, and Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi raised him like a pig for all those years. Then, forced by a Corpse Beetle Pill to become a player in the game, Qing Yan accidentally uncovered a shocking secret about himself. From then on, the Nine Houses had another lunatic... No, that's not right. Qing Yan: Sorry, Brother Xiao Hei! I didn't mean to! Hei Xiazi: Kid, you sure put on a good act. Qing Yan: Sorry, Brother X 11kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
- 35 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Posing as a Mysterious, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Man 盗笔：装出个高深莫测但美强惨 "The only Grave Robbers' Chronicles fic rated 9.6, come see!" [Starting with the Old Nine Gates, Beloved by All, Pick Your Favorite Pairing + Slightly Everyone's Favorite + Everyone Imagines the Powerful Heartbreaking Beauty] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At that very moment, my body was lying right beside me, playing the part of a breathtakingly beautiful vegetative patient. The good news: I could create an immortal secret identity. The bad news: the System told me 44.5kReads9.6Score6.1kShelves
