Novels like Saving the Ming: Tales of Liaodong
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Saving the Ming: Tales of Liaodong, best match first.
- 51 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
- 52 Fantasy Slaughter 幻想杀戮 [A heads-up: This is not a mindless power fantasy or a formulaic web novel. Its elements blend together deeply, and its characters don't fit into absolute categories, but the story is easy to follow and grounded in everyday life.] Additional note: The novel is told in first person, but feels like third person, with a flexible narrative perspective. [Funny and heartwarming + urban fantasy + metafiction + mild horror + imaginative mystery + female lead with no romantic pairing + ensemble character 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Ten Days to the End Classroom: My Wife Is Qi Xia 十日终焉教室：我的老婆是齐夏 After Qi Xia opened up a new world for everyone, the Yin Soul Management Bureau returned. This time, the bureau dragged everyone into a new space. The principal was Tianlong, and the dean of discipline was Qinglong. The gatekeeper was Baihu, the dorm supervisor was Zhuque, and the shopkeeper was Xuanwu. The Chinese, math, English, politics, geography, history, biology, chemistry, physics, physical education, and music teachers were the zodiac figures from Sky Rat to Sky Pig. Dilong was the class 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Loving You on the World's Behalf 替世界爱你 (Urban daily life + one female lead + ensemble cast + pure love + campus) When the whole class looks down on the transfer student for being messy and smelly, he is the only one who knows how clean her hands are when she returns his meal card. A Chinese meal, a bottle of milk, a clumsy act of standing up for her... It might seem insignificant to others, but she knows he is the only light in her bleak youth. From meeting to understanding to falling in love, through misunderstandings, touching mome 480Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 55 Huangqiao: A Base Amid the Flames of War 黄桥，战火中的根据地 Set against the timeline from the New Fourth Army's eastward advance into northern Jiangsu in 1940 to its victory at the Battle of Huangqiao, this story focuses on the key regions of Huangqiao, Taizhou, Gaoyou, and Qintong. Told in a classic chapter-based format, it intricately weaves together three main threads: military operations, support for civilian livelihoods, and underground intelligence warfare. Through a diverse cast of soldiers, civilians, underground Party members, returnee militias, 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 The Grass on the Open Plain: She's Beautiful and Fun 离离原上草，她又美又有趣 Xie Li and Gu Yunting (Happy Ending) A little unrequited love, then two hearts finding their way to each other. A sweet story. Xie Li: I've loved you for seven whole years, and written you a hundred love letters. Gu Yunting: Even though I knew they weren't meant for me, I still loved them. I thought the gods had never shone their light on me. It turned out she had been by my side all along. After three lifetimes, they finally found their destined match. First life: She was a pampered princess of 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 There Are Superpowers in My Dorm 我的宿舍有异能 [No System, No Harem, Urban Superpowers] [Do not use the title or work information as a reference] Chaotic memories, a bizarre life, and a shrinking space to survive. This is Liu Yue's current predicament. And this seemingly ordinary university appears to be full of hidden talents. A roommate who can ignite a flame in his palm, a classmate who can vanish into the shadows. And then there's Liu Yue himself, with his bizarre ability to store small objects in a pocket space... These are abilities th 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Villainess Everyone Loves 恶毒女配万人迷 The Villainess Is Everyone's Darling 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 I Came from Baimen: The Final Road of Lü Bu 我自白门来：吕布的亡途 (No System, no transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger. An authentic Lu Bu, with mythology woven into history, adventure, and battles.) “Am I dead?” “Yes, but everything is only just beginning.” An unexpected turn of events pulls Lu Bu, the fierce tiger of the late Han dynasty, also known as Lu Fengxian, away from his destined path. He had already met his end at White Gate Tower and was about to cleanse himself of his sins before being reincarnated. Thus begins a legend, a journey of trans 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 I'm Writing a Long Shushan-Style Novel on Tomato Novel 我在番茄写蜀山类长篇小说 I'm a junior company employee, crushed by debt and barely able to breathe. So I decided to write a Mount Shu novel on Tomato Novel, titled Mount Shu: Slaying Demons and Monsters. Drawing on my own experiences, I write about "myself" bearing a blood feud as I enter Mount Shu, wielding a thunder sword and meeting the lively Qiao. Alongside Miss Su, a spirited healer, and other beauties, I battle the demons of Qingcheng and the fiends of Emei. I earn extra money with thrilling xianxia fiction, whil 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Deep in the Qinling Mountains 秦岭深处 Deep in the Qinling Mountains —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 My Best Friend's Boyfriend Is Getting Married, but I'm the Bride 闺蜜的男友结婚，新娘却是我 Zhuo Yan’s best friend Lin Yue runs away from her wedding to pursue true love with Song Yi. By a twist of fate, Zhuo Yan ends up with Lin Yue’s intended, Lu Chengxiao. They think that fate has brought two people with complicated feelings together so they can spark a romance and find their happy ending. But when their agreed one-year marriage comes to an end, they each walk away without a backward glance… Is this really where their story ends? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Doctor Consort Faked Her Death, Then Married Her White-Moonlight General 医妃死遁后，改嫁了白月光将军 ◤Transmigrate + Physician Consort + Winning Her Back + Two Powerful Leads + Remarriage◢ The renowned Chinese medicine expert Gu Luomian transmigrates into the body of a vicious supporting character from the start, only to find herself awaiting execution? After finally being rescued from prison by the handsome prince she just happened to pick up as a husband, he leaves her stranded in some out-of-the-way place and ignores her? When her husband finally ascends the throne, he wants to make her a fa 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Champagne 香槟 Su Jiu wants to be the champagne glass at the very top of the tower. [Glittering stardom + modern romance + 1v1 + secret crush + mutual devotion + entertainment industry] She used to be the face of a popular girl group, a sweetheart adored by millions of fans. But on the day her three-year contract expired, she tore up the renewal agreement. Su Jiu stormed out of the conference room with nothing to her name except an audition email she’d sent to Xingyu Media and an acting dream everyone laugh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The Haunted Tombs of Southern Yunnan 《滇南诡冢》 The Strange Tombs of Southern Yunnan 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 From Now On, I’ll Think of You Every Day 从此岁岁念朝朝 “Muchen, your father is getting on in years. He's now in prison, suffering every humiliation, and he's come down with a serious illness. If he's really sent to the frontier to serve in the army for three years, the long, bitterly cold journey will be as good as sending him to his death. Please, have a heart and save your father. Your mother is begging you on her knees.” Before she could finish speaking, Lin Muchen's mother threw herself to her knees before her. The people waiting to see the doct 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Demon God Grants Wishes 魔神还愿 I... might be called Bai Suli. I think the Su is the one in "long-cherished wish," and the Li means "to leave." I had a wish I'd lost sight of, but just as it was about to come true, I transmigrated to this absurd and eerie world. It has no past, no future; dreamlike and illusory, sinister and bottomless. It traps the body and sets the soul free. In the tear-filled marsh, a "female ghost" who seems to have a split personality comes to me. Offering "power" as a bargaining chip, she makes a stra 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Winning Over the Host Is a Bit of a Challenge 攻略宿主有点傻 [Slow-paced. The title of the only world can't be changed.] [System, campus, ensemble cast, redemption, mutual devotion, healing] An innocent little Host × a tsundere, sharp-tongued cat System. They bicker in their daily lives while helping their friends heal. This is a slow-burn story. Bai Li has lived in an orphanage since she was little. The only person who was kind to her was the headmistress. Bai Li is very beautiful, but her mind is only that of a seven- or eight-year-old child. When the 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Transmigrated to Become the Most Beautiful Empress 穿越之倾世皇后 [Female Lead: Jin Feiyao, plays the fool while hiding her strength + transmigration + clever and beautiful + fiercely protective] [Male Lead: Jun Yue, scheming + ruthless and decisive + devoted exclusively to the female lead] [Jin Feiyao was a university student in the 21st century. She transmigrated while painting...] She wakes up as the daughter of the prime minister. Well, this is nice: good food and drink. When in Rome, make yourself at home. What? I have to enter the palace? Become the empe 16Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 70 I'm Sick of Reincarnating Over and Over 无限重生的我烦透了 [Reborn in Another World + Big Shot Returns to the Village + Rivalry + Strong Female Lead + One-on-One Romance + He Pursues Her] I was reborn as a village girl whose parents didn't care for her. After seeing her memories, I got it: rising from humble beginnings. I'm good at that. So I beat up her wicked mother, kicked her useless father, left the mountains, and reached the pinnacle of life. Then I died. I was reborn again, this time as a sect's senior sister whose dantian had been crippled. Afte 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 I Pranked My Online-Brother, but He Got Carried Off by a Bunny Girl 网恋整蛊哥哥，他却让兔娘拐跑了 (Original World) (Sugar-Coated Bullets) (Single Female Lead) (Mild Angst) (Ensemble Cast) Just after being accepted into the Imperial Defense Force, the young Xing Rui is tricked by his younger sister into going to a cafe to meet his online girlfriend, who supposedly looks like a rolling log. The girlfriend doesn't exist, but a girl with rabbit ears perched on her head is sitting in the reserved seat: Lan Lan. "Qianyu? Hey, kid, you've got the wrong person, don't you?" "Your sister played a tric 219Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 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
- 73 The Demon Lord Sacrifices Himself to the Three Realms to Win Back His Wife 魔尊为了追妻拿自己献祭三界 He shattered a realm for her, and guarded a realm for her. In the first life, he was a young general who had distinguished himself protecting the emperor. She was an upstart who'd kicked her way to fame in the capital, taking up armor and sword for wealth and status. He died tragically amid court intrigues, while she waited for him all her life. In the second life, she was a fox who stayed by his side, accompanying him through both his rise and his lowest moments. Only when he died was she not t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Reborn in the 1970s as a Mountain Keeper 重生70年代做守山人 Reborn in the 1970s as a Mountain Guardian 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Shi Lei’s Tang-Era Kaleidoscope 石磊的盛唐浮世绘 Shi Lei's Portrait of Life in the Flourishing Tang Dynasty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 The Mortician: I Can See the Dead's Final Moments 入殓师：我能看见死者最后的画面 Lin Mo has worked at a funeral home for six years, handling more than a thousand bodies. The moment his fingertips touch a dead person's forehead, he sees fragments of the final few seconds of their life. The ability has made him quiet, and it has left him uneasy. Then one day, while restoring the body of a rebar worker named Zhou Haisheng, he sees three things: a hand wearing a silver-banded watch, clutching a folded piece of paper with eleven names written on it. Zhou Haisheng's death certi 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 The Eerie Instance: I Got Yang Jian’s Template 诡异副本：我获得杨间模板 [No Harem]+ [Fanfiction Power Fantasy] Yang Yue transmigrates by accident into a world ruled by eerie dungeons, where he is chosen to take part in a brutal dungeon game. At the crucial moment, he awakens the [Yang Jian Template System]: by killing evil spirits, he can earn powerful rewards! What surprises him even more is that he has a biological daughter in this world. And she is no ordinary girl: she transmigrated here too and has her own [Dad-Trapping System]. Every time she successfully gets 6.6kReads—Score565Shelves
- 78 Divorced at 35, I Return to the Throne as Beijing’s Elite Beg Me to Come Back 35岁离婚，京圈跪迎我归位 Tags: Female-oriented | Mature urban action hero | Business and espionage | Sweet and satisfying | Both leads are devoted only to each other At thirty-five, I caught my husband cheating in the apartment I bought. He was on his knees on the sofa, his mistress wrapped in my silk dressing gown, while my stepdaughter filmed them on her phone. I smashed the glass of the liquor cabinet and flung blood in his face. “I’ll see you at the Military Procuratorate.” Within twenty-four hours, I delivered him 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Slay the Heavens 宰天 The Heavenly Dao divides bones into nine ranks. Those with immortal bones command the forces that follow Heaven; those with spirit bones harbor resentment; those with mortal bones are abandoned by Heaven. At fourteen, Chen Yuan pried a pitch-black bone casket from his father’s clenched fist. Inside was a remnant soul from three thousand years ago, who taught him an ancient art erased by the Heavenly Dao: Pattern Devouring. Kill cultivators, seize their Dao Patterns, and make them your own. Unabl 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Campus Underworld: Sun Hao's Road to Submission 校园江湖：孙浩的臣服之路 Campus Underworld: Sun Hao's Path to Submission —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 My Crazy Girlfriend 我的神经病女友 [Super Sweet Romance] + [Novelist] + [Psycho] + [Multiple Heroines] (Early Story) [Pervert] + [Hunting Criminals and Solving Cases] (Later Story) The story of a down-and-out novelist and a mentally ill woman: a daughter's tears are worth 8,000 yuan, while a son's tears aren't worth a cent. I just picked up your phone to check your name, and you called it an invasion of your privacy and demanded 8,000 yuan in compensation. Talk about the farmer and the snake! I should've crushed you back then! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 A Guide to Saving a World with a Bad Ending 烂尾世界拯救指南 [Not a Power Fantasy] [Transmigrated Into Her Own Novel] [Growth-Oriented Female Lead] [Slow Burn] [Light Ensemble Cast] Jiang Ning transmigrated into her own unfinished novel. The System said, "Host, you dug the hole yourself, so of course you have to fill it in yourself ^_^" She didn't take it seriously. Wasn't it just becoming someone's disciple, cultivating, fighting monsters, taking a beating, dying once, then dying again? She did it. Halfway through, she realized something was off. Why did 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Gold and Silver Beneath the Earth 地底下的金银 Gold and Silver Beneath the Earth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Reborn in the 1980s: Fangfang's Splendid Era 重生八零：芳芳的锦绣时代 Reborn in the 1980s: Fangfang's Golden Age —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 A Love Born of Tokyo's Heartbreak 东京伤痛之恋 [Worthless Male Lead | Tokyo | Pure Love | Redemption | Some Angst Early On | Japanese Light Novel | First Person | Multiple POVs] My high school life was bleak, an endless stretch of pain. As a first-year student at a Tokyo high school, I couldn't see what was so great about this place. My days were woven from fantasies and pain. After school, I would hide at home and watch anime, letting my fantasies heal my heart. I thought I'd be stuck in the dark forever, but a girl sitting next to me was t 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 A Guide to Redemption in the Virtual World 虚拟世界救赎指南 [If there is another life, would you be willing to be with me?] At the critical moment, the Son of Fortune in his eyes seemed to have given up struggling. [What are you talking about? I came here for you in the first place!] Chi Yuqing entered a virtual world built for people in vegetative states, accompanied by a System. He had to awaken two people: his younger brother, Ye Linshuo, who had fallen ill because of him, and Xie Yefeng, a classmate he had secretly loved for years. He became Xie Yefe 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Magical Girl, What's Wrong with Me Riding Your Coattails for Some Traffic? 魔法少女，我蹭点流量怎么了 [Unconventional Magical Girls] [Gender Swapping] [Friendship] [Combat] [Light Yuri] [Light Novel] This is a world with magical girls, a world with powerful monsters, and a world where the more fans a magical girl has, the stronger she becomes. Lu Zhuiliu, a science blogger who transmigrated after eating a poisonous plant, gained a magical-girl growth System and the ability to transform into a magical girl. “The more followers I get, the stronger I become? Is that for real?” Chasing trends, lives 53Reads—Score102Shelves
- 88 A Bewildering New Life 恍遑新生 After a stifled life and an unexpected reincarnation, the protagonist arrives in another world of swords and magic, blessed with the talent to cast spells without incantations. How will he grow, overcome every hardship, face his past, and find a happy ending with the heroines? Follow Reborn in a Hazy New Life for ongoing updates. There are lots of clues, so keep your wits about you as you read! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 A Tomb Deep in the Qinling Mountains 秦岭深处的墓穴 A Tomb Deep in the Qinling Mountains —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Ancient Physician's Daughter in the Modern World: A Treasure Trove of Gold and Silver from the Start 《古医娘子在现代：开局一座金银洞》 The Ancient Healer’s Daughter in the Modern Era: From the Start, a Cave Full of Gold and Silver —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 From the Start, I Set Up a Stall Selling Super Strength: Call Me the Great Sage Equal to Heaven! 开局摆摊卖大力：叫我齐天大圣！ [The Daily Life of the Immortal King fan fiction + Making Up for Regrets + Faithful Respect for the Original + Unconventional Wish Fulfillment, Maybe You Can Read It With Your Brain On!] [This should count as a multi-protagonist story, with Jiang Nan still one of the main characters. There is absolutely no tearing one character down to praise another!] [Social Darwinists, please stay away. Thank you!] When a butterfly flaps its wings, a storm can rise eight hundred miles away. When a butterfly f 42.2kReads8.6Score5.1kShelves
- 92 Deskmate, Why Are You Like This? 同桌你怎么这样 Dual male leads + 1v1 happy ending + slice of life + written for fun [Cool, aloof, secretly passionate, grumpy top & sunny, cheerful, energetic bottom] Lu Kezhui was a force of nature who feared no one. Tell him to go east and he’d spin around and go in all four directions instead. Lu Zhenghong had finally had enough of his son’s awful attitude and cut off the little rascal’s allowance. Lu Kezhui: Heaven above, tell right from wrong!!! Fortunately, there was still a way out. Lu Kezhui had one l 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Villainous Prodigy: Gu Changge 反派妖孽：顾长歌 [Big Bad Villain] [Reborn] [Harem] [Mastermind] [Exiled Immortal] The immortal Gu Clan commanded the cycles of reincarnation across the heavens and looked down upon the rise and fall of countless races. Yet it collapsed spectacularly in a deception known as "Heaven's Mandate." Gu Changge, the Gu Clan's most celebrated young lord, had treated the world with sincerity in his previous life. In return, his entire immortal clan was slaughtered, and his soul was sent to the Nine Hells. The ones who de 1.8kReads—Score133Shelves
- 94 Eighteen Degrees of Qi Refining in the Mortal World; Looking Back, the Mountains and Seas Bow Their Heads 人间炼气十八度，回首山海尽低眉 [Fantasy + One heroine + Playing the pig to eat the tiger + Scheming + System + Sword cultivator + 1v1 + Passionate growth] I, Yun Xiaoyao, transmigrated to the cultivation world and bound myself to a System. Then, just as these stories always go, the System fell asleep for ten whole years. After ten years, I was still at the first Qi Refining stage, and the entire sect regarded me as the ultimate disgrace of Jidao Sect. Since this was all so predictable, I decided to play along. I endured. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 After I Transmigrated, My Lord Was Always Forced to Follow the Plot 穿越后大人总是被迫走剧情 [Strong Female Lead] [Martial Prowess] [Soul Transmigration] [System] [Redemption] [Fated Love] [宿敌] Xiaoxiao: The System is in way over its head, the missions are out to get me killed, and I can't tell who my love interest is even if my life depends on it. As an external System, Xiao Yi has guided countless Hosts through trials and tribulations, only for them to... Fail every time. After twelve rounds of being bound and unbound, it finally met a "new Host." Sigh, here we go again! Oh well, she 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Observation Box 观察箱 A slow-burn soft sci-fi story with a fully realized world and rigorous logic. Not a power fantasy. The entire city is permanently frozen in 1996. The streets are intact, the buildings have not crumbled, and everything is as familiar as ever. Only human life has fallen utterly silent. There are no hordes of zombies, no supernatural hauntings, and no special powers or Systems to fall back on. Only a real world trapped in time, filled with countless subtle anomalies. Stranded alone in an empty cit 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Li Xin: The Eternal City of Chang’an 李信：永远的长安城 I once watched you reach the summit. With you, Ning Zhi seized the dominance; your luminous wings tore through the KPL night. With you, Nuo Yan slipped past the crystal; your shadow wrote a legend of backdooring. With you, Du Jie held the high ground alone, fighting four enemies on a sliver of health and setting the whole battlefield ablaze. Then I watched you get hacked down, one strike at a time. “Spell orb effect halved.” “Shadow Assault range reduced.” “Damage to towers removed.” Every patch 521Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 My Wulin Legend 我的武林传 Xin Zhongchi, do you know what it means to be destined for greatness, and what it means to be beyond redemption? These are the fates you were born with, the fate of throwing the world into chaos. You said you would take Yun Huashang and run far away, but this martial world has never had room for anyone seeking a peaceful life. When the prophecy of “world’s end” rang in your ears, when the blades of “Pingtu” stained the martial world red, you finally understood: You were never fighting for yourse 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Slaying Demons and Monsters of Shu Mountain 蜀山诛魔妖 In the late Ming dynasty, demons and monsters run rampant across Mount Shu, abducting women to cultivate their wicked arts! At the start, young hero Lin Tao receives his father's solemn charge and unlocks two ancestral treasures: the Demon-Slaying Sword and Demon-Subduing Talismans. His sword strikes down demons, and his talismans banish evil! Joining forces with immortal heroes, he storms the monsters' lair, rescues the abducted women, and fights evil to uphold justice, becoming Mount Shu's gre 49Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 100 The Afterglow of Ashes: In Her Name 烬色余温：以她之名 Mafia Heir / Cool, Vengeful Beauty Do you know how deep a person’s obsession with revenge can run? Deep enough to give up their life, their identity, and… I knew that the moment I took her name, I would have no regrets, even if it meant burning through the rest of my life. Even if I were doomed to endless torment with no way back. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
