Novels like Republic-Era Mysteries, Volume One
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Republic-Era Mysteries, Volume One, best match first.
- 51 The Underachiever's Self-Cultivation 巜学渣的自我修养》 The Self-Cultivation of a Poor Student —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Sand Belly 巜沙腹》 Sand Belly —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Reborn in 1988: Cutting Off the Pyramid Scheme Storm 重生1988：截断传销风暴 Reborn in 1988: Cutting Off the Pyramid Scheme Storm 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 A Tomb Raider's Rules for Fighting the Japanese 巜盗墓者的抗日法则》 The Tomb Raider’s Rules for Fighting the Japanese —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Past's Gas Station 巜往事加油站》 The Past Pit Stop —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 The Bronze Talisman 巜铜符》 Copper Talisman —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 My System Is Here to Test Human Nature 我的系统是来测试人性的 My System Is Here to Test Human Nature —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Wasteland Continent: Infinite Evolution 废土大陆：无限进化 [Superpowers] + [Wasteland Survival] When disaster struck, I, Lin Bei, was lucky enough to awaken the power of evolution. By hunting exotic beasts, I could grow stronger without limit as I struggled to survive alone in the wasteland. By chance, I met Anna. She possessed the rare power of summoning and was also the daughter of Sunset City’s lord. Lost in the wilderness, she was in grave danger. We made a pact, and I escorted her all the way back to Sunset City. All I wanted was a chance to surviv 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 107Reads—Score155Shelves
- 60 I Can Stop Time. What Will You Do About It? 我时间暂停，阁下当如何应对？ [Time Stop] [No System] [Otherworldly Continent] [High-Fantasy Martial Arts] [Power Fantasy] [Leveling Up] The mountains and seas return, and Yuan Power descends. Ren Pingsheng transmigrates into the body of a spoiled young heir who swallowed his classmate's S-rank potion and was about to explode. By chance, he awakens a mysterious wheel in his sea of consciousness, inherits the Candle Dragon bloodline, and gains the power to stop time. The Nine Realms of Martial Arts: Body Tempering, Origin Ope 79Reads8.4Score105Shelves
- 61 Dual Transmigration: From Mortal to Immortal 双穿：从凡人到仙人 [Comedic and Lighthearted] [the Myriad Worlds] [Multiple Heroines] [Spatial Powers] Which matters more, bone structure or bloodline? Some say bone structure, since possessing an unusual bone can grant supernatural abilities. After Wang Wen got a ring, he learned that all supernatural abilities came from bloodlines, and only those with bloodlines could become mighty cultivators of supernatural powers. Thanks to his bloodline, he inherited the legacy of Dong Wang Gong from the Primordial World, an 393Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Summoning the Immortals 招仙 A successor to the Corpse-Measuring tradition, the Ma Immortals return! The Ma family’s disciples can divine fortune and misfortune and ward off evil. Wave the spirit-summoning banner, and the immortals will gather; lower the Immortal-Suppressing Seal, and every demon will be destroyed! I died for three days, then came back to life. From that moment on, I experienced a series of untold stories... 787Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 63 A Laid-Back Golden Core, Refusing to Ascend 摆烂金丹，拒绝飞升 A Laid-Back Golden Core Cultivator Refuses to Ascend 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The House of the Dead 空亡屋 There is a kind of house in this world whose door is always half open and half closed. The open half is for the living to enter. The closed half is for the dead. This kind of house is called a House of the Lost. As it happens, I'm the owner of one. In three years, I've encountered both clingy ghosts and evil people who cling to ghosts. 817Reads8.7Score128Shelves
- 65 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7kReads7.7Score331Shelves
- 66 Underworld Leaderboard Mission Guide 冥界榜一任务攻略指南 [One-on-one romance | A flexible, survival-minded, drama-loving heroine × a distant, devoted, and steadfast male lead | Several secondary couples with tragic romances | The second male lead's pursuit of love ends in heartbreak] After a disastrous turn of events, Meng Jiang transmigrates to the Underworld a thousand years in the past. What? Save all living beings? (You've got to be kidding. I always keep a low profile; empty fame means nothing to me.) What??? I only have a year of yin lifespan, a 90Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Great Qin: The Heroic Ruler Arrives 大秦：雄主临世 Great Qin: The Heroic Ruler Takes the Stage 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Mad Consort by Proxy: Prince, I Hope You're Well 《替嫁疯妃，王爷别来无恙》 My Replacement Bride Is a Madwoman, Stay Away, Prince! 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 No Hints in the Instance 副本无提示 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Mild horror + varied horror styles + original scenarios + fresh, unconventional scenarios + intelligent characters + no female lead or romantic subplots] Have any of you watching heard of the elevator ghost game? They say that if you follow the instructions, you can reach another world. Chen Feng is a video creator whose content is playing all kinds of horror games found online. He occasionally livestreams, too. During a livestream of the elevat 66.5kReads7.8Score10.4kShelves
- 71 Making a Wish to a Ghost 向鬼许愿 A school where everyone has vanished. A company that serves ghosts. A city crawling with vengeful spirits. A mountain of weeping where yin and yang are turned upside down. … In an age when paranormal phenomena run rampant, Gu Shan possesses a terrifying wish-granting machine that can crush any supernatural incident. But each wish also carves an even deeper despair. “After you make your tenth wish, we’ll meet again in a world without pain.” (The original title of this book was The Tenth Wish.) 5.1kReads7.9Score483Shelves
- 72 Reincarnated Immortal Official: I Bring Heavenly Immortal Children to the City 转世仙官：我带着天庭仙童在都市 The Underworld's Black and White Impermanence are my brothers! I'm an immortal reborn? What do you mean my moral standards are lower than those of the immortals in Heaven?” Jinlian, you and Brother Yu are never going to happen. Jia Xu, what kind of wicked schemes are you thinking up?! And you, hurry up and take apart that mortar! Someone up there has already called me in for a talking-to!! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Fortune-Telling Is Forbidden! 禁止算命！ Fortune-telling is prohibited! 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 291Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Three Scoundrels of the Market 坊市三贱客 The Three Scoundrels of the Market 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Myriad Lifetimes: A Simulator for the Heavens 万世轮回诸天模拟器 The Myriad Worlds Simulator of Eternal Reincarnation 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Orphanage at the End of the World: Migration of the Last Flame 末日孤儿院：火种迁徙 Doomsday Orphanage: The Migration of the Flame 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 The Strange and Supernatural Things I’ve Heard and Seen 那些我所闻所见的灵异事 I’ll tell stories about the strange things that have happened to me over the years, along with the folk secrets and I Ching mysticism I’ve learned. At the start of each story, I’ll say whether I experienced it myself or heard it from someone else. I may not tell them in chronological order. I need to remember and organize everything, so I’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind. Things I experienced myself may be exaggerated, but they’re absolutely true. As for some of the stories I’ve heard, 2.8kReads—Score182Shelves
- 79 The Horror Industrial Park 恐怖工业园 You're a seasoned wage slave. One day, you're dragged into a [Weird and Absurd + Comedic and Witty + Not Brain-Dead + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Exploring Human Nature + Enter at Your Own Risk] strange other world. You think that if you complete the System's tasks, you'll return to the real world. What you don't know is that this other world exists because of you... 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 I'm Liu Shan, Not a Good-for-Nothing 我刘禅不是草包 "W-why... why not... eat meat gruel?" After Liu Shan died, he discovered that his soul had actually possessed the fool Emperor Sima Zhong of the Great Jin. "What? I, Ah Dou, have become... a fool!" "Damn it, this fool can't even piss by himself!" "What the hell, how can this fool's wife be as ugly as a sow!" "So... someone altered the imperial edict left by the fool's father!" "Th-those two are trying to kill me too?" Luckily, I'm a fool, so no one is on guard against me! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 My Name Is Chu Sheng, Sheng as in Bloom 我叫初盛，盛开的盛 After the spiritual qi revival, nine peerless prodigies with very different personalities meet by the arrangement of fate. What kind of sparks will fly when they collide? "Hello, I'm Chu Sheng. Sheng, as in blooming!" "Hey, hey, hey! Watch your language!" "Excuse me, have you seen Chu Sheng? He seems to have gotten lost..." "I am Zhang Jiao! Today... I shall strike down the heavens!" "Hah! In the end, I lost by half a move... So be it! This Daoist is off..." Little brother~ Want to p 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 The Young White-Haired Mystic Granny Goes on a Rampage in Showbiz! 玄学年轻白发癫姥在娱乐圈疯杀！ [Sichuan-Chongqing edition] [Absurd comedy + bizarre relationship dynamics + feng shui and the supernatural + fake and real heiresses + going crazy + face-slapping + parody] A soft, adorable, easygoing yet unhinged feng shui master × a cold-on-the-outside, goofy-on-the-inside, doom-struck unhinged heir to a wealthy family. Two unhinged souls, perfectly matched by fate! A ridiculous, irreverent face-slapping story about growing stronger. Get ready for a wild ride~ No one knows she’s a hidden m 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Tang Dynasty’s Lady of the House 大唐女当家 In the sixth year of the Kaiyuan era, the Jiangnan silk dynasty collapsed overnight. Her father was dead, her uncle wanted to divide the estate, and business rivals were secretly forcing prices down. At just twenty-three, eldest daughter Lin Lanxi was thrust into control, with the vast family fortune built over three generations resting on her shoulders. Her younger brother drew his blade to stand guard over their father's coffin, while her younger sister kept watch through the embroidery worksh 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Living King of Hell of the Yin-Yang Realm 阴阳界活阎王 Evil spirits: “Hell is empty, and devils walk among us!” Unorthodox cultivators: “Compared to him, I’m just a rookie!” Righteous cultivators: “Who let him cultivate?!” Li Dao: “Ahem, let me clear things up. I did all those things... just kidding.” 196Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Record of Raising an Otherworldly Supreme 异界至尊养成记录 In another world, with cards that blot out the sky, speak my true name and my magic knows no bounds. This is the story of a young man from Blue Star who transmigrates to another world, using summoning cards to earn money, raise a child, and stir up all kinds of trouble. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Reborn in the Stock Market: I Buy the Bottom Three Years Early and Make a Fortune 重生股海，我提前三年抄底暴富 Reborn in the Stock Market: I Bought the Bottom Three Years Early and Made a Fortune 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 The Taoist Came Down the Mountain to Give His Heart Away, Then Got Scammed Out of 98,000 Yuan in an Online Romance 道士下山把心搭，网恋被骗九万八 (Fast-paced, light comedy, no horror, packed with laughs from start to finish, no memes) On his first day down the mountain, he got swindled out of 98,000 yuan by his online girlfriend. On the second, his landlord kicked him out. On the third, he was drugged on a blind date. His name is Nan Feng, a trainee in the Daoist sect. To earn enough merit to return to the mountain and receive his ordination certificate, he gritted his teeth and started taking jobs in the city to exorcise spirits and perf 905Reads7.2Score128Shelves
- 88 Urban Demon Martial Arts: Where Martial Arts and Monsters Coexist 都市妖武：武道和妖怪共存 Urban Demons and Martial Arts: Martial Arts and Monsters Coexist 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Nightmare Staircase 噩梦阶梯 It all began with a staircase leading down into darkness. Lu Yu climbed the steps and entered the world of his nightmares. And so the bizarre tale began. Twisted human figures crawled beneath the moon, while rows of dark shadows drifted through the black fog... There are no ghosts in this world... but there are in dreams! [Supernatural Horror Infinite Flow × Suspense and Mystery] 1.9kReads8.3Score171Shelves
- 91 Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂 Three bizarre murder cases, each victim wearing a strange smile. Through deep psychological profiling, forensic pathologist Song Ci discovers that each victim’s final actions imitated a tiny habitual gesture their long-deceased relative used to make. Bai Ye’s technical analysis confirms that traces of brain waves that could not belong to the living, already “formatted,” remain at the crime scenes... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Gold Grows from Fertile Soil: He Returns to the Countryside 沃土生金：禾归乡野 Golden Harvests from Fertile Soil: Grain Returns to the Countryside 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Wrongfully Imprisoned for Five Years, the Business World's Disowned Son Returns in Triumph 蒙冤五载，商界弃子强势归来 Falsely Accused for Five Years, the Business World's Castoff Returns in Force 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Marquis Is Unworthy; After Our Divorce, I Became Richer Than a Nation 侯主不贤，和离后我富可敌国 The Marquis Is Incompetent. After Our Divorce, I Became Rich Enough to Rival a Nation 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Captain of the Faqiu Order: The Lost Coffin of Mount Mang 发丘中郎将·邙山遗棺 The Tomb Raider General: The Ancient Coffin of Mount Mang 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 My Mom’s Favoritism Turned into a Blessing in Disguise 老妈的偏心，成了无心插柳柳成荫 Mom's favoritism turned out to be a blessing in disguise 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Simulated Universe: I Became the Creator God in the Cultivation World 模拟宇宙：我在修真界当创世神 Have you ever suddenly forgotten what you were about to do? Do you sometimes feel that someone is watching you from beyond the world? Have you ever felt, for just a moment, that your own name or the names of your loved ones were unfamiliar? Have you ever given something your all, only to always fall short at the very last step? Don't be afraid. It may not be your imagination. Your world might just be an AI simulator. And your life is a bug written badly by some lazy agent, which hasn't gotten ar 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 A Marriage Contract, and the Cold CEO Secretly Falls for Me 合约成婚，冷面总裁悄悄动心了 A Contract Marriage, and the Cold-Faced CEO Secretly Falls for Her 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.6kReads6.1Score390Shelves
- 100 The Hidden Dragon Returns Home: The Once-Poor Man Takes the Helm 隐龙归乡：昔日寒门执掌风云 The Hidden Dragon Returns Home: Once a Poor Scholar, Now the Master of His Fate 3Reads—Score—Shelves
