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.
- 151 A Man-Eating Monster Asked Me to Marry It. Should I Say Yes? 一个吃人的妖怪，它竟然向我求婚了，要不要答应它 A man-eating monster proposed to me. Should I say yes? 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Fly Summoners Are Weak? Have You Ever Seen the Art of a Chain Explosion? 唤蝇师弱？你可见过殉爆的艺术！ [Mass Summoning + Insect Swarm + Beast Taming + Pet Training] Jin Fugui transmigrates to a world overrun by ferocious beasts, where countless races vie for supremacy. From the start, he awakens three F-rank talents: Fly Caller. He becomes the first person ever to break through humanity’s lowest standards and become a complete deadbeat. But Jin Fugui refuses to give up. Through painstaking research, he discovers that fly larvae can devour the genes of other creatures and gain their special abilit 306Reads5.5Score112Shelves
- 153 Oh No, Sun Wukong Has Fallen in Love with the Bone Demon 完蛋了，孙悟空爱上了白骨精 Zhu Bajie: “Tell me, what is love? It makes this old pig pledge himself to another.” Sun Wukong: “The monsters are here. Bajie, you go first. I’ll cover the rear. Don’t worry: if you die, you’ll get a hundred million in underworld currency for compensation, deposited straight into your secret account at the Bank of the Underworld.” Tang Sanzang: “Bajie, your master is hungry. Hurry up and stew a pot of monk meat. Do you even want to keep your job? You’re so slow at everything, as dumb as a pig.” 230Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 My Father Pretended to Be Mute, and My Boyfriend Lied to Me 装哑的父亲和骗我的男友 A father who pretends to be mute and a boyfriend who deceives me 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.6kReads9.1Score517Shelves
- 156 Infinite Haunting Realms: I Can See Through Lies 无限诡域：我能堪破谎言 [Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Original Instances]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Ghosts Kill People]+ [Ghosts in Every Real-World Instance] “Ghosts cannot be killed.” “Humans cannot fight ghosts.” “Ghosts each have their own rules for killing.” A mysterious letter. A door that leads to the unknown. When Li Yu opened the door, one eerie instance after another awaited him. This is the [Ghostly Domain], a world of vengeful ghosts! Will you die in confusion, or be reborn from a nightmare? 154.8kReads8.3Score24.8kShelves
- 157 Welcome Back to the Nightmare's Beginning 欢迎回到噩梦起点 (Infinite survival, puzzle-solving, mild horror) Late at night, Shao Jie stumbled sleepily toward the bathroom. The instant he opened the door, the whole world spun upside down! When he came to, he found himself in a gloomy, terrifying otherworld. There, he was forced to take part in a horrifying survival game: eerie footsteps sounded outside the door during the midnight room inspections, villagers mysteriously vanished from a remote village every night, and worst of all... the woman who had onc 15.5kReads7.8Score1.7kShelves
- 158 The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避 The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin 8.8kReads8.8Score789Shelves
- 159 Daoist Cui Hunts Demons: A Night Raid on Consort Dong’s Tomb 崔老道捉妖：夜闯董妃坟 Old Cui’s real name is Cui Daocheng. He once sneaked a look at two and a half lines of a heavenly scripture in the Five Thunder Hall on Mount Longhu, and often compared himself to Jiang Ziya and Zhang Zifang. Unfortunately, he was short on luck and blessings, and no matter how capable he was, he didn’t dare put his skills to use. But he couldn’t bear to live in poverty and hardship either, so whenever he got the chance, he’d stir up trouble. In the end, he not only failed to make any money, but 3.3kReads9.5Score660Shelves
- 160 Heshen: Master of Power 和珅：权力的玩家 As a miniature reflection of the power structure during the Qianlong era, Heshen's life was forever entangled in the shadow of absolute imperial authority and the deep-rooted ills of the bureaucracy. From a penniless orphan living under another's roof in Lvrou Hutong to rising to the center of power through his gift for languages and financial acumen, his ascent was shaped by both the banner system and the emperor's political machinations. He was once a capable official who cleaned up the Minist 5.2kReads8.7Score414Shelves
- 161 Guess What? She Really Does Have Two Axes! 没想到吧？她还真有两把斧子！ [A cast full of lovable weirdos + the male lead falling for her on his own + an outrageously powerful heroine + male lead reborn + heroine transmigrates + lighthearted laughs + a true-love romantic + super-sweet everyday romance] Shen Xiaoxi had just won a million yuan when she got hit by a car? When she woke up, she found she had transmigrated and become a poor country girl with nothing to her name, constantly bullied by everyone? Never mind, her unhinged antics would carry on as usual!!! Whoev 366Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 The Day I Left My Master, I Banged My Head and Killed My Entire Family 出师当天，我一头磕死满院亲人 A yellow weasel weeps at a grave, a dead woman gives birth. A sinister, uncanny world of curse magic unfolds... 2.6kReads8.9Score331Shelves
- 163 The Supernatural Constable Gu Tiandao 灵异捕快古天刀 The winding smoke of everyday life rises through the city's urban villages, concealing countless human joys and sorrows, while wronged spirits of the dead roam the streets. Gu Tiandao, a food delivery rider, unexpectedly gains the ability to communicate with spirits and ends up moonlighting as a paranormal detective. He has to keep up with the rent, deliver food, and put up with his station manager exploiting him, all while handling one bizarre case after another: unjustly dead spirits, lingeri 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 A Serial Killer Rented a Room and Accidentally Moved Into the Criminal Police Captain's Home 连环杀人犯租房子，不小心租进刑警队长家里了 A serial killer rents a place by accident, and ends up living with the captain of the criminal investigation team. 220Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 Hilarious, Satisfying Tale of a Beloved Concubine's Daughter 爆笑爽文庶女宠妃 A fresh new story is here, friends! Come read it while it’s hot. Chu He transmigrates into the body of a concubine-born daughter who was set up by her legitimate elder sister. She won’t put up with anyone’s nonsense. Her stepmother bullies her? She sends her a fake adulterous lover. Her elder sister bullies her? Chu He sends her straight to a desolate mountain. Her scumbag father wants to redeem himself? Forget it. A dog can’t change its spots. Chu He’s first meeting with the prince is a brawl u 4.6kReads9.2Score273Shelves
- 166 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 20kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 167 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.8kReads8.9Score435Shelves
- 168 Is It Really This Easy to Get By in Another World? 异界也太好混了吧？ Ma Liu, the only heir to the wealthy Xinghua Group, is dismissed as a useless young master because he’s obsessed with gaming. At an auction, he acquires a divine ancient cauldron and accidentally triggers its seal, sending him to another world. There, he begins a carefree life of effortless wins like a capybara.. 954Reads8.3Score105Shelves
- 169 I Died on the Day He Got Married. 我死在了他结婚的那一天。 I died on the day he got married. 806Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 I Transmigrated into the World of the Taoist Priest of Zombie 穿越僵尸道长世界 I, Li Zhizhou, transmigrated and became a junior disciple under Uncle Jiu. After awakening the Daoist Cultivation System, I carried all of Maoshan to greatness. Grand Martial Uncle Shi Jian, Martial Uncle Qianhe, and Martial Uncle Simu look at me as if they're about to steal me away as their disciple! Complete all kinds of missions, and you can learn supreme Daoist arts. There are also divine-grade pills, top-tier magic artifacts, and the finest talismans. And so, I became the most gifted discip 1.1kReads—Score102Shelves
- 171 The Little Lamb Is So Cute 小羊真可爱 Little Lamb Is So Adorable 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 314Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 173 The Yin-Yang Wicked Son-in-Law 阴阳恶婿 At the end of the Ming dynasty, four families discover a terrifying dragon's lair, a feng shui site said to lead to heaven. They divide it into four parts, named Power, Wisdom, Wealth, and Beauty. Those buried within it can ensure their descendants enjoy power, wisdom, wealth, and beauty forever. But the lair defies the natural order. Even its good fortune carries danger, and it invites Heaven's punishment. To preserve their destiny, the families must find a scapegoat to take the blow in their p 17.1kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
- 174 The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间 I work as a specialist crime-scene cleaner, tasked with cleaning up after murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. I’ve seen more than my share of partings and grief, as well as the other side of death. Then, on the Ghost Festival, I encountered something terrifying... 18.3kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 175 A Cherished Silver Bracelet 珍藏一条银手链 As children, Zhang Min and Guo Tingting accidentally fell into the river while playing by the bank. Li Zewen rescued them. Years later, after graduating from college, Li Zewen became their teacher. Due to family circumstances, Zhang Min dropped out of high school in her second year and went to work. Years later, she became a sales representative at a valve factory, while Guo Tingting became a nurse at the county hospital. To their surprise, Li Zewen became the man her best friend was set up with —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 The General Came Back to Divorce Me, and Everyone Went Crazy 将军回来要休我，全员发疯 The General Comes Home to Divorce Me, and Everyone Goes Mad 167Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Scum of the Apocalypse 末世渣滓 [Rebirth in the apocalypse + alternate world + ruthless, not a saint + evolving zombies + special powers + self-interest] Whether stars fell or a virus broke out, no one knew. Zombies and a world-ending nuclear weapons system brought about the world’s destruction all the same. Sunlight streamed in through the window, seeming to shine into the dumplings in his memory. “Little sister, is it snowing?” The man looked up at the window. The cold seeped into his bones. This winter seemed a little c 5.6kReads8.5Score417Shelves
- 178 I Transmigrated as the Heir's Wife, and My Husband Is One of a Pair of Twins 穿越成世子妃，夫君竟是双生子 Reborn + transmigrate + golden finger + playing dumb while hiding one's true strength At twenty-nine, He Fengxi, a committed singleton, finally set off on an RV trip. The moment she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to an imaginary ancient dynasty and become a prince's consort. She had money, beauty, and a noble status, as well as an impossibly handsome husband. But then again... there's no such thing as a free lunch. 1.6kReads—Score155Shelves
- 179 After Three Years as a Widow, I Took Grandma to Join My Officer Husband 守寡三年我带奶奶投奔军官老公啦 The short drama is now streaming: The Lucky Wife of the 1970s: Her Tomb Raider Secret Identity Is Out! [Cold, tough military officer × female tomb raider, who later joins a research institute to serve her country] [Alternate-history military marriage + tomb-raiding System + married first, love later + raising kids + mind-reading + one-on-one, both leads inexperienced in love + nine-year age gap] [Reader's guide: The early chapters have a few plot holes, and the story is a silly comedy with no lo 10.9kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
- 180 Reborn, I Deliberately Emptied My Storage Space 重生回来，我故意清空了空间 When I Was Reborn, I Deliberately Emptied My Storage Space 2.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.4kReads9.1Score977Shelves
- 182 No One Dares Offend This Top Expert: All the Paranormal Beings Are His Patients 顶级大佬惹不起，诡异全是他病友 [Infinite-flow + wish fulfillment + no romance + livestreaming + a true powerhouse] Qi Yan spent ten years in a mental hospital and has finally been discharged. But the moment he steps outside, he is dragged into a newly generated instance. It turns out the outside world has been overrun by the supernatural for a long time. - Every time Qi Yan enters an instance, he runs into familiar “people”: his dear fellow patients again. While players flee in disarray, he leisurely visits old friends and to 72.5kReads9.0Score16.1kShelves
- 183 Live-Streaming a Borrowed Spell: Please Believe in Science 直播借法，请相信科学 Welcome, viewers, to the livestream! There are no such things as ghosts in this world. It's all just people scaring each other. Today's broadcast is all scripted, with special effects. Please be sensible and trust in science! [Streamer, how about you put down that ruler in your hand before telling us to trust in science?] [Hey, streamer, are you selling that hamster or not?] By the Celestial Master's command, gods and ghosts must keep their distance! Those who refuse will be dealt with on the sp 8.2kReads8.3Score353Shelves
- 184 From the Start, Chestnuts Cure Athlete's Foot, Villains Weep, and Gods Kneel 开局板栗治脚气，反派哭，神明跪 Rong Yimo has a unique constitution. He can turn the poisonous fumes produced when members of the Xiao family fall ill into divine-grade spiritual power, allowing him to cultivate supreme abilities. The more he absorbs, the stronger he gets. He can just lie back and let success come to him! Unbelievable! He used this divine spiritual power to roast chestnuts, and the whole thing blew up! Absurdly, a rain of chestnuts fell from the sky. The whole village scrambled to eat them, then got diarrhea. 72Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 185 A Beagle Nanny Crashes a Rich Family’s Messy Drama and Turns the Whole Family Upside Down 比格保姆乱入豪门狗血，创翻全家 [An Energetic, Half-Baked Mind-Reading Heroine x A Gentle, Insecure, Self-Controlled Hero; Modern-Day Fantasy + Wealthy-Family Melodrama + Utterly Unhinged + Unconventional Face-Slapping and Scumbag-Bashing + Salvation Through Persecution + Joy That Turns Everyone's World Upside Down] “Kiddo, you should know that after the founding of the country, no one is allowed to become a spirit.” That one sentence finally convinced Lu Ye that she and her mother weren't alike: she was a plain old human. Her 596Reads—Score102Shelves
- 186 A Thousand Faces in One Performance 一戏千面 Stabbed through the heart by the master he revered most from the start, I somehow survived! Instead, I transmigrated to another world and awakened the [Thousand-Faced Divine Core]! [Divine Core awakened. Illusory Disguise activated!] [Warning: This Divine Core is widely recognized as the most useless. It can only change your appearance and has no offensive power!] Good-for-nothing? With a B-rank ferocious beast chasing me, I panicked on the spot. [Activating: Illusory Disguise!] [60% of spiritua 470Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Go to Sleep, I'm Here 睡吧，我在呢 Go to sleep. I'm right here. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Troubles of a Favored Concubine: The Marquis Is Not So Cold 宠妾难为：侯爷不太冷 Also known as: “The Concubine Keeps Trying to Run Away, but the War God Marquis Has Fallen for Her” By a twist of fate, Wei Yao becomes the concubine of the Great Zhou's war god, Marquis Nanning. Though he is handsome and graceful, a master of both letters and arms, she swears she will never be a concubine! First, she'll play along while secretly plotting, then seize the chance to run. But how does she escape? Where does she go? It takes skill! Never mind anything else, she needs to save at leas 7.5kReads9.2Score877Shelves
- 189 Something's Off About My Dog. He Steals My Underwear Every Day! 我家狗子不对劲，天天偷我的内衣！ Something's Wrong with My Dog: He Steals My Underwear Every Day! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 Ghost Messenger, Don't Run 鬼差你别跑 The sequel to "The Underworld Calls Me Little Mister", picking up perfectly from the final chapter of the first book. Hilarious ghost-hunting power fantasy! Every member of the main cast is an overpowered carry, and they won’t put up with even the slightest injustice! An invincible protagonist, with payback served the very same day! Packed with all kinds of superstitious trivia from Taoist classics, along with knowledge from the other Hundred Schools of Thought. 18.8kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
- 191 Godly Game: High Melee Damage and High Ranged Damage 神明游戏：近战伤害高远程高伤害 [Apocalypse + Game System + Multiple Worlds + Power Fantasy] The further you read, the more exciting this book gets, and the bigger its world becomes! The first world is overrun with zombies; the second is a realm of demons and spirits pursuing cultivation! The Divine Game suddenly descends, and Zhang Wu is forcibly selected to participate. His sole main quest is staring him in the face: [Become a God]. His first stop is a zombie apocalypse. Zhang Wu hunts zombies to accumulate evolution points 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Paper Effigies and the Yin Shop (Part One) 纸扎阴铺(一) Paper Effigies and the Yin Shop (1) 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 Reborn as a Puddle of Toxic Slime, I Tricked the Empress into Falling for Me 穿成一滩毒液后，我把女帝骗到手了 After Reincarnating as a Puddle of Poison, I Tricked the Empress into Falling for Me 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 The Mad Heiress Is Back: She Takes Everyone Down Equally 疯癫千金归来：平等创飞所有人 [Strong heroine + lighthearted comedy + no romance + wish fulfillment + wild imagination + formidable fighting skills] The first thing Qin Zhaoyue did after transmigrating to ancient times was try to kill herself. What’s the point if I don’t get a cheat? They promised me a relaxing vacation. Why did I still draw such a miserable identity? Was the original owner born under a cursed star? What kind of tragic life is this? Abandoned by her grandmother, despised by her parents, robbed of her life an 2.4kReads6.6Score136Shelves
- 196 Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军：我带饿鬼上战场 [Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 Thriller Game: A Journey of Escape Begins in an Ancient Castle 惊悚游戏：从古堡开始的逃生之旅 [Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + No Female Lead + Escape + Not Wish Fulfillment + No System + Smart Characters + Original Worldbuilding] [This story has plenty of twists and focuses on an ensemble cast. Please read patiently: the characters may not be as simple as they seem, and although this is an infinite-worlds story, each instance is connected in some way.] Yan Changqing has been bedridden and paralyzed for twelve years. Throughout those twelve years, he has repeatedly had the same dream. In 12.1kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 199 The Clue System: No Criminal Can Escape 提示线索系统之犯罪分子无处可逃 (Urban crime investigation + System + mystery and deduction + team investigations.) The protagonist, Song Mozhou, unexpectedly awakens a System that provides clues to criminal cases. Follow along as he solves one baffling case after another with the System’s help. This is a pure crime-solving novel, with no romance, featuring a series of standalone cases. All cases and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Here’s hoping you’ll enj 242Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 Hilarious Jokes 笑死人笑话 The ultimate happy place for busy workers and students! A massive library of jokes, from workplace rants and campus antics to hilarious comebacks and jaw-dropping plot twists. There’s something for every occasion! Sneak a few pages at work, unwind before bed, or read on your commute, and you’ll be laughing your abs off in no time. There’s even a section for kids’ unfiltered remarks, where their adorable logic will have you slapping the table with laughter. Need a cure for life’s stress? Come hav 14.5kReads—Score555Shelves
