Novels like Hunting the Man at the Top of the Food Chain
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Hunting the Man at the Top of the Food Chain, best match first.
- 1 You Don’t Have to Forgive Me 你不必原谅我 (The rating may be low, but I think this story is great!) Premise in a sentence: Two morally messy people fall for each other. Neither is innocent. [Problematic elements / neither is chaste / somewhat realistic] [Flawed older man vs. flawed older woman] [Original title: You Don’t Have to Forgive Me] - While helping her best friend’s cousin catch his partner cheating, Huo Manyue throws all caution to the wind and falls for the handsome, well-built male homewrecker. She can’t help it. He’s exactly 3.3kReads8.6Score185Shelves
- 2 The Wind Teases the Cold Moon: General, Please Go Easy on the Punishment 风戏冷月：将军轻些罚 [Mad, Ruthless General × Proud Shadow Guard | Coercive Possession × The Long Road to Winning Her Back | Discipline] People say that Jiang Changyang, the Great General Who Guards the Nation, commands ten thousand cavalry under the Changfeng banner, with death and destruction at his fingertips and no interest in romance. In a deadly trap laid on a dark night, a lone orphaned shadow guard takes one wrong step and falls into the inescapable net he has cast. Under the moonlight, he humiliates her and 3.6kReads—Score202Shelves
- 3 My Foodie Wife Is the Big Shot's Beloved 吃货娇妻，大佬心头宠 [Scheming arms dealer x silly beauty; underworld kingpin; entertainment industry; the man has a past, the woman doesn’t; fluffy, silly, sweet, and funny] Content warnings: 1. Nine-year age gap. (The male lead is a fatherly boyfriend who talks nonstop.) 2. The heroine is sincere, not stupid in a clueless way. She’s genuinely beautiful and genuinely ditzy. 4. Outlaws, and an over-the-top plot. Cen Xingben used to sell drinks at a nightclub. One day, her own boss picked her out. For just a hundred 3.8kReads9.1Score283Shelves
- 4 The Princess Reigns: Handsome Men Beg Humblely for Her Favor 公主在上：美男卑微求恩宠 [One heroine + several men] [Not all characters are sexually inexperienced] This gets explicit! Don't read if that bothers you! [Growing heroine] [Not a strong, independent heroine. If that's what you want, turn left and go elsewhere.] The Kingdom of Wei was conquered by the Kingdom of Wu. The King and Queen of Wei were killed, and their only surviving daughter, a beautiful princess, was taken to Wu to satisfy the desires of its generals and soldiers. Shen Jianing accidentally transmigrated into 973Reads8.1Score101Shelves
- 5 When the Flowers Fall, the Leaves Follow the Heart 花落离心叶相随 This story is very angsty and frustrating. The male lead is trash, the female lead is weak, and the plot is realistic, gloomy, and bland. Be aware that the male lead is the male lead only because he has more scenes and is more entangled with the female lead. It doesn’t mean the author likes him or that the female lead loves him all that much. The setting is fictional, drawing mostly on the Ming dynasty, with traces of the Song and Qing dynasties mixed in. It’s a hodgepodge. This is an ancient-er 3kReads9.2Score244Shelves
- 6 Amnesiac Xibao Is Gently Coaxed by Devoted Master Jing 失忆汐宝，被深情景爷温柔轻哄 (Warning: The heroine is not pure! No moral boundaries! The hero is devoted!) Before losing her memory, the heroine was a heartless woman who loved to play around. Afterward, she only loved the hero. She will regain her memories later. Jing Yi knelt at her feet, crying and begging her not to leave. Then an accident happened... When Luo Xi woke up, she found she had lost her memory and could only remember things from before she turned sixteen. When she learned that she was married, and that her h 731Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 7 You Can All Choose the Male Lead. I'll Take His Dad 你们都选男主那男主他爸归我了 Li Peiyu transmigrates into a book as a vicious supporting character. Then, while drunk, she spends a wild night with the male lead’s adoptive father, Lu Yuzhi, CEO of the Lu Group. Their souls are perfectly in sync, and they’re both addicted to each other. When she hosts a gala, he gives her a couture gown. When she goes hiking, he picks her up in a helicopter. After a brief breakup, he spends a staggering 1.8 billion yuan in a desperate attempt to run into her, whisks her off to a hotel, and g 1.6kReads8.6Score172Shelves
- 8 I, Empress Hexi, Reborn and Done Saving the Ungrateful 朕，和熹女君，重生不扶白眼狼 At fifteen, Deng Sui entered the palace. At twenty-two, she was made empress, and at twenty-five, she ruled as regent. For sixteen years, Deng Sui safeguarded the Han empire, only to be sent to her death by the young emperor she had personally supported. Her entire family was purged, and her loyal confidants died tragic deaths, full of resentment. Reborn, she returned to the year of the selection. In this life, Deng Sui seeks only to defy fate and change her destiny: Protect the emperor, who is 1.1kReads—Score112Shelves
- 9 Born to Be a Slave 欲为奴 [Rekindled Romance + Love and Hate + Revenge + Sweet and Angsty] Five years ago, Wei Lan and Bu Yuan'ao agreed to elope, but Bu Yuan'ao never showed up. Five years later, Wei Lan is stricken with a cold poison. To survive, she must find a man whose blood carries the Nine Suns Profound Blood. And that man turns out to be none other than Bu Yuan'ao. Bu Yuan'ao says he will give her his blood, but only if Wei Lan marries him. Reunited after years apart, the man feels nothing but hatred for Wei Lan. 1.1kReads8.7Score116Shelves
- 10 Shocking! My Unhinged Love Rival Is Plotting Against Me 震惊！疯批情敌对我图谋不轨 1.6kReads8.9Score175Shelves
- 11 Her Predicament 她之困局 [1vN, unconventional transmigrator, bewitching beauty, historical romance, brothel] After transmigrating into another body, she is trapped in a brothel and forced to take the place of a treacherous official's daughter. Gradually, she realizes her memories are wrong and that everything is a trap. They want to break her proud spirit, but she refuses to be bound by society's rules. They want knowledge from the future, but her ambitions are even greater. She may look delicate, but she's clear-eyed a 869Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 12 Love by Infiltration 渗透式爱情 A troublemaker who seems tough but is soft inside × a younger, scheming man who always cleans up after her Mature adults pushing each other to the limit | Love at first sight, bold flirting, and ambiguous sparks | Dark humor and two crazies falling in love [Playing the fool to catch the tiger, a younger man taming a playboy, and a woman completely under her husband’s thumb] From love at first sight to a love that runs deep: an oddball paired with a lunatic, falling harder with every passing day. 5.6kReads8.5Score461Shelves
- 13 My First Love Wants to Rekindle Things, but I’m Married 白月光想破镜重圆，但我结婚了 Everyone said Jiang Zi Yan was hopelessly in love with Huo Yi Huai, and was his most loyal toady. Jiang Zi Yan was scared out of her wits. What kind of thing was that to say? Calling her a loyal toady was fine, but there was no love involved. What would Young Master Huo think of her if he found out? As for the person she loved, Jiang Zi Yan did have someone she liked: the son of President Huo’s chauffeur. That boy was quiet and handsome, with a dimple when he smiled. When he filled in for his fa 28.2kReads9.1Score4.1kShelves
- 14 A Flawed Upbringing 养成偏差 Cheng Huaizhou, the youngest partner at Maxwell Consulting, an industry benchmark and a business decision-maker who puts reason above all else. Ruan Chaoyang, a rookie who stumbled into consulting after being laid off, with unconventional instincts and energy to spare. His perfect algorithms and her knack for breaking the rules clash again and again. In this contest between reason and emotion, falling in love is the most beautiful deviation in the data. A proud mentor and a sunny girl who always 16.5kReads9.4Score2.2kShelves
- 15 The Scheming Beauty's Conquest Notes 心机美人的攻略手札 Jiang Fu swore from a young age that she would climb the social ladder and marry into a powerful family. She was willing to use any means necessary. On the eve of the Jiang family’s legitimate daughter’s wedding, the groom’s side was rocked by a scandal of epic proportions. Jiang Ruyue, who had been pampered all her life, immediately refused to marry him. So the Jiang family secretly brought back Jiang Fu, the concubine-born daughter who had been raised far away. The Jiang family looked down on 4.9kReads9.3Score637Shelves
- 16 You Seduced My Husband, I’ll Seduce Your Son. Fair’s Fair 你吊我夫君，我诱你儿子，不能亏 Song Xuwan had the husband everyone envied: he was chaste and had never even taken a concubine. But his handsome facade was ripped away in bloody fashion after one drunken night... Zhou Minghai was hardly chaste. He simply had a first love in his heart and wanted to remain faithful to her. Now he had even hidden his first love at a hot-spring villa, sneaking off to meet her every few days. Enough was enough! Whoever wanted that old geezer in his thirties could have him. She had no interest i 13.9kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
- 17 Surrogate Motherhood? The Second-Time Bride and Beloved Consort Insists on Rising to the Top 借腹生子？二嫁宠妃偏要步步高升 [A gentle, kind widow and an arrogant, biased emperor. Sweet, doting everyday romance, with little palace intrigue (the emphasis is on little).] The Yu family had three daughters, all beautiful. The eldest became a countess, the youngest became a consort in the palace, and only the second daughter returned home a widow less than five years after her marriage, with a little girl in tow. One day, the palace consort suffered a miscarriage and was told she would have difficulty bearing children in t 22.8kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves
- 18 Adored by Powerful Figures After Becoming a Little Cub 成为幼崽后被大佬们娇养 Anaiya met an unfortunate end in Earth’s apocalypse. She was reborn in another distant star system as a young Sacred Spirit. Sacred Spirits are the highest ideal of life in the Tianyun Star System, embodiments of faith. They are synonymous with being cute, well-behaved, kind, and gentle. But Anaiya is none of those things. Cute and well-behaved? She’s pretending. Kind and gentle? Sorry, she accidentally absorbed the irritable genes of a Calamity Beast. Sacred Spirits can link their genes with co 3.2kReads9.1Score363Shelves
- 19 The Pampered Madam 娇宠夫人 Su Yuan was born into the Great Sheng Dynasty, where people prized slender figures. But when she grew up, she was a voluptuous beauty, which made it difficult for her to find a husband. Then, after being selected as a concubine, she was assigned to Prince Qin, Pei Jingheng. Since she was here, she decided to make the best of it. Su Yuan planned to shut the door and live a quiet life of her own. She hadn't expected Pei Jingheng to be handsome and perceptive, with no prejudice against her, even th 28.4kReads9.1Score2.4kShelves
- 20 The Romance Heroine Turns Dark After Becoming a Tool for Boys’ Love 言情女主成卖腐工具人后黑化了 [Live comments + includes some gay-to-straight storylines + multiple male leads] Mo Fengchun discovers that Lin Jingyao, her childhood sweetheart and husband, has been cheating on her and plans to come clean tonight. His lover, Jiang Chenhe, is waiting right outside the door. Live comments flood past, wildly cheering on the pair's love while cursing her with the most vicious words and telling her to hurry up and die. She does die, but she takes both scumbags down with her. Just before her consci 18.9kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
- 21 The Crown Prince Steals His Friend's Wife! The Sweetheart Is Trapped in a Jealousy Showdown 太子夺友妻！娇娇深陷争宠修罗场 [Rebirth + Rivals Fighting for Her + Sweet-Talk Face-Slapping + Forced Marriage and Possession + Faking Her Death + Devoted to Each Other + Female Lead in Control] After a tragic death, Meng Jinyue is given a chance and sent back three years. If she successfully wins over the Crown Prince within those three years, she will be allowed to keep living afterward. Meng Jinyue accepts without hesitation. After all, a man's no substitute for her life. But her status is too low, and she can barely get a 9.7kReads8.9Score921Shelves
- 22 Film and TV Crossover: The Black Lotus's Path of Cultivation 综影视：黑莲花修炼路 The female lead is a scheming girl who loves to act innocent and helpless. (See the author's notes for the worlds.) 789Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Spoiled Plaything 娇玩 An Nuo and Elvis met for the first time on a trip to an island, where she was so dazzled by his good looks that they spent the night together. The second time they met, she was flirting with one of his subordinates while he had a beautiful woman at his side. They just happened to run into each other. Elvis left the woman beside him and leaned toward An Nuo with an elegant smile. “Miss An, you hooked up with me, and now you’re after my subordinate?” An Nuo narrowed her eyes and smiled innocently. 9.4kReads9.4Score990Shelves
- 24 Fierce Heat 炙烈 [Short drama now streaming · Print edition signed and awaiting release · Former title: Burning Passion] [Female lawyer × male inn owner · Sweet romance · Long-distance love] [Mature adults · Mutual attraction · Flirty push and pull · One-on-one romance] - Wen Xu left her law firm over a matter of principle and went to stay on Hong Kong Island. There, she set her sights on the owner of a guesthouse. She openly and subtly flirted with him until one night during a typhoon, he finally turned the tab 15.7kReads9.5Score1.7kShelves
- 25 The Most Honest Man in the Cultivation World 修仙界第一老实人 Ye Xiaoman was the most honest person around in the cultivation world. She was loyal and dependable, dedicated to her work, and always fussed over every handsome young man. After her identity as an undercover agent was exposed and she was driven out of her sect, one big shot after another stepped forward to speak up for her. Beacon of the righteous path: “Who said she swindled me out of everything I own? I begged her to take the money.” Demon-world powerhouse: “Who said she tricked me into falli 14.2kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 26 Secretary Qiu's Marriage 邱秘书的婚事 The short drama of the same name is available on Hongguo and Fanqie. The animated drama Help, My Boss Says One Thing and Means Another is available on Hongguo. Qiu Yu is the secretary to Ji Xiangdong, the owner of a real estate company. She’s a chubby little foodie who’s both hardworking and has a hearty appetite. Her parents have always hoped their daughter would marry a son-in-law who enjoys good food and won’t judge her. Though the road to love has been full of twists and turns, she eventuall 52kReads9.5Score5.7kShelves
- 27 Fallen 堕 That year, I was twenty-nine, and Mo Huai was thirteen. When I, someone who no longer wanted to live, met him, someone else who no longer wanted to live, we somehow found the strength to keep going, at least for a little while. So we decided to rely on each other and make it through together. 45.5kReads9.6Score5.3kShelves
- 28 This King's Sleeve Is Thoroughly Severed 本王这袖，断的彻底 [Preorders for The World Cannot Keep What It Loves Most open at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 15. For the first 15 minutes, signed copies are available with no quantity limit; from 16 to 30 minutes, copies personally signed by the author are available with no quantity limit!] [Two male leads + The prince has a bit of a sense of humor] Everyone knew Prince Pu was gay. Even the man on the imperial throne turned a blind eye. Prince Pu had loved many people in his life. A horseman from the frontier 34.6kReads9.6Score4.9kShelves
- 29 The Divine Doctor's Daughter 神医嫡女 Feng Yuheng, a renowned physician skilled in both Chinese and Western medicine in the 21st century and a senior military doctor in the ground forces, transmigrates with a bang into the body of the Feng family's legitimate daughter in the Great Shun Dynasty. Unfortunately, her father doesn't care for her, her grandmother doesn't love her, her mother is timid, her younger brother is still a child, and her sisters are each more vicious than the last. Reborn in a new life, she absolutely refuses to 27.2kReads9.3Score4.3kShelves
- 30 Quick Transmigration: The Older Woman Everyone Adores Is So Sweet and Delicate 快穿大龄万人迷：姐姐她娇软堪怜 [From universally disliked to universally adored + age gap + winning over all male leads and supporting characters + unapologetic Mary Sue + intense melodrama + all kinds of rivalry scenes + no fixed couple + all male characters are virgins] In life, Jiang Tian was a notorious heartbreaker. After death, she was recruited by the Supreme God and became an unstoppable Host for the heroine group. Who could have known that one careless mistake would land her in the highest-difficulty branch of the 36.6kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
- 31 Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规 [Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th 42.1kReads9.6Score6kShelves
- 32 Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我 Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va 70.3kReads9.7Score9.3kShelves
- 33 Reborn in the Dragon Bed, the Beloved Consort Cries in the Emperor's Arms 重生在龙塌，宠妃抱着陛下哭 [A spoiled, sweetly obedient favorite consort VS a gentle, jade-like emperor who's sweet on the outside and ruthless within (they are not each other's first, but he dotes on her exclusively from the beginning to the end)] Jiang Shuyi's life as a favorite consort went smoothly for fifteen years. The emperor was gentle and benevolent, doting on her without restraint, and not a single woman in the harem dared challenge her. But she was blind to her own sister's treachery. In the end, her closest 100.8kReads9.2Score11.2kShelves
- 34 Quick Transmigration: Vicious Female Side Character Role-play Plan 快穿：恶毒女配扮演计划 Main story complete, bonus chapters ongoing Beautiful, ruthless heroine who’s a brilliant actress The heroine has a different character in every world One-on-one romance, male lead split into different fragments [Warning: The heroine is genuinely evil!] Jiang Xinlian was bound to a System and tasked with playing a vicious supporting female character. She was brimming with confidence. “Leave it to me!” After several worlds, another System asked the thoroughly troubled 086, “Why don’t you help you 52.2kReads9.4Score4.2kShelves
- 35 The Best Lyricist 最佳词作 [Film and TV rights sold] One is a heroine, the other a pampered youngest son who’s always smiling. They work together seamlessly to resolve an unexpected crisis the first time they meet. The second time, she warns her younger cousin not to fall for someone like him. Then comes the Nth meeting, and with it, a lifetime together. 24.6kReads9.6Score3.3kShelves
- 36 Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演 [Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the 86.5kReads9.6Score11.3kShelves
- 37 Bound by Spring 缚春情 [The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef 93kReads9.6Score12.4kShelves
- 38 The Gray Lotus 灰莲花 [A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa 36.3kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves
