Novels like The Couple
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Couple, best match first.
- 101 The Story of the Sun and the Stars 太阳和星星的故事 [Cool on the outside, distant within × affectionate, proactive puppy] [Sweetness and angst / love grows over time / male pursues female / mutual salvation] Because she was too hot, Xia Lingxi didn't stop to help a classmate who had fallen on her way to the library. She simply walked past coldly. Maybe it was heartless, but it saved her trouble. But before the thought had even left her mind, a basketball hit her in the back and sent her crashing to the ground. When she looked up, she saw Lin Jiey 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Ashes of the Angel 天使之烬 [Single Female Lead] + [Western Fantasy] + [Expansive Worldbuilding] + [No Mindless Protagonist] On the continent of Velos, in the Age of the Sacred Furnace, the Church unearthed an engine left behind by an ancient civilization. It burns souls for fuel, lighting up entire cities. The closer you live to the Sacred Furnace, the brighter your life; farther away, only ashes remain. When Lu Yuxun woke up, he was lying in a Church dungeon. A mechanical engineer from Earth, he had become a wanted memb 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 The Sound of Humanity 人籁 [Not a wish-fulfillment story + ensemble cast + global scale + supernatural calamities + human warfare + long-form story + revolution] It was humanity itself, not the gods and ghosts, that brought human civilization to ruin. A drop of divine blood set Qin An on the road to a world in turmoil. A drop of divine blood sent a roadside beggar into the raging tide of chaos. From a beggar on the roadside to a spark rising in a world at war, and then to the sovereign who united the Three Realms, Qin An 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 The Second Young Miss Is Everyone's Favorite Wherever She Goes 二小姐在哪都是团宠 [Note: As survivors of countless instances, none of them are quite right in the head, and many of their ways of acting stray far from what normal people would consider reasonable.] One-sentence summary: While others enter instances to survive, she enters to stock up. While others fight tooth and nail, she gets pampered. Ling Beibei, the second daughter of a wealthy family and everyone's darling, lives by one rule: if she can lie down, she absolutely will not sit. Just after finishing her college 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 A Love Song for Another World 献给异世界的情歌 [Romantic Comedy] [Inspirational] [Magic] [Beastfolk Girls] [Anime] [Coming of Age] [Original Worldbuilding] The male protagonist was an ordinary shut-in from Luna Star, about to start university. He survived for eight years through the cataclysm that struck his homeland. Just as the disaster was about to recede, a meteorite dealt the planet a devastating blow. He accidentally transmigrated to another world. Together with the bonds he formed along the way, he sets out to save the world and falls 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Ailing Young Master Returns to the Capital for Revenge, with Powerful Allies at His Side 病秧子回京复仇，手下都是大佬 [Strong Female Lead + Transmigration + Medicine + Light Romance + Household Intrigue and Power Plays] Lin Baizhi is a genius doctor from the 23rd century who accidentally transmigrates to an ancient fantasy world. As soon as she arrives, she encounters the cold-faced Prince Xuan... After activating her dimensional space, she learns that she was sent to avenge the original owner. Only after successfully getting revenge will she have the chance to choose her own life. She transmigrates into the or 15.7kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
- 107 My Wife Is from Four Hundred Years in the Future 家妻来自四百年后 High-Energy Genius Doctor and a Censor Who Has Only One Bar of Blood [Not a feel-good power fantasy, not set in an alternate world, no face-slapping, no rivalry between women, no clichés, no System] A Few Things About My Wife and Me: 1 My wife says she could never fall in love with someone from the Ming dynasty. She comes from the modern world, four hundred years in the future. She’s a surgeon, and she says she’s a genius, too. This woman is full of lies. She’s forgotten that in every one 9.6kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 108 Quick Transmigration: The Host Is a Femme Fatale 快穿宿主是个祸水 Yue Xian is stunningly beautiful and exceptionally good at spotting the weaknesses in people’s hearts. She has no idea how she ended up here, but she decides to go with the flow! Wherever she is, she can have fun acting, and she’s best at making villains believe she’s innocent right up until they die. What?? Does she ever catch real feelings?? No. (No fixed pairing) 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Live-Streaming Incense Offerings: Even Gods Have KPIs 香火直播：神明也要KPI The gods never die. They simply find new ways to live. Traffic is incense, comments are offerings of faith, and livestreaming platforms are the modern Investiture of the Gods. Overworked office drone Lin Che is putting in overtime past midnight when a shady pop-up hits him with an “Incense Eye.” From then on, he sees the truth: a top-tier star is a nine-tailed fox, a food-delivery rider is an Earth God on the verge of starving to death, the Marriage God sits behind dating apps with a perpetually 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Wind on the Mountaintop 山顶有风 A classic celebrity-and-manager setup: a star who's hit rock bottom meets a top agent fired by her former company. How will they turn a terrible hand into a royal flush? The story gradually gets sweeter, the couple is so fun to ship, and it's guaranteed to be sweet! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Under the Nebula 星云暗涌 This is a very entertaining horror novel about the protagonist, Xing Yue, gradually regaining her memories and finding a way to break out of her predicament. This is my first time writing, and I hope you’ll enjoy it. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 A Wound That Cannot Be Spoken Of 无诉之伤 [The obedient child nobody loves] x [The father, a prisoner of trauma] Those unheard cries and that unforgivable past have become a silent wound in Fu Wenbai’s eyes. Love is forbidden, pain is part of everyday life, and even existing feels like a mistake. Dad won’t love Luoluo anymore. Luoluo is the one who caused Mom’s death… But, Dad, I really am in pain. I really am sick. I really don’t know how to pretend I’m fine anymore. If you could love me just a little more, just a little, that would be 3.6kReads8.1Score354Shelves
- 113 Transmigrating to the Legend of the Bamboo Forest Immortal Bear 穿越之竹林仙熊传 Shu Ning transmigrates and awakens the Mystic Moon Celestial Eye, seeing through demons and their illusions at a glance. She braves haunted villages, faces a beauty in a painting who demands her life, follows clues left by broken talismans, travels with an immortal bear, and shares laughs with a disheveled Daoist priest. She joins the Dragon Shadow Bureau and solves eerie cases in the imperial court. A child specter in Blackwind Cave, a painting demon in the palace, dried corpses deep in the mou 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 An Agent of Yin and Yang: It All Began the Day I Saw a Ghost 阴阳代言人，从我见鬼这天开始 The night he worked overtime, Feng Lang saw a ghost. Born with a pure Yin constitution, he awakens Yin-Yang Eyes and becomes the prey of a hundred ghosts. At death’s door, a spiritual talisman appears. He enters Sanqing Temple to cultivate and becomes the representative of Yin and Yang. Guide departed souls | Subdue evil spirits | Break curses | Slay demons The protagonist is no saint. He shows no mercy when dealing with evil forces. Once, he was hunted by countless ghosts and fled in a pitiful 71Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 115 I Escorted Him All the Way, and My Brother Finally Became the City Lord 一路护送，哥哥终于当上城主了 Xianxia mystery-solving + overprotective brother fanatic + power struggles in the city lord's manor + no System + ensemble cast [Not a female-power fantasy + adorably contrasting older brother + ruthless younger sister + powerful allies] At thirteen, Sang Yu met her older brother for the first time. Their parents were each city lords in their own right, and they had their reasons. She had expected a joyful reunion, but instead, disaster struck. As the heir to two cities, Sang Ji should have been 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Starting at Mount Huangshan, I Set Out Across a Thousand Miles to Solve the Mysteries of Ancient Texts 从黄山开始赴万里山河解古籍谜团 Twenty years ago, Gu Jingzhi, a researcher of ancient books at the National Library and an inheritor of heritage geography, mysteriously disappeared while investigating the source of the Yellow River. All he left behind was an incomplete manuscript, Notes on Mountains and Rivers, and the words, “As long as the mountains and rivers endure, our cultural legacy will live on.” Twenty years later, his grandson Gu Yanzhou has become the curator of Notes on Mountains and Rivers, a Douyin account with 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 The Long Road Home 长路归航 This book is dedicated to the friends who have walked alongside me all this way. This is a story written for you, a gift to you. When you read it, I hope you will remember the carefree days of our youth together. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Unbelievable! I Fulfill the Dead's Last Wishes and Inherit Their Skills 离谱！帮逝者圆梦，继承一身技艺 On my first day working at a funeral home, the moment I touched the body of top-tier star Song Ran, a man's voice exploded in my head: "You were so off-key you might as well have been singing on the other side of the world. With skills like yours, you think you're qualified to prepare my body?" Song Ran was dead. But his consciousness remained in my mind. A socially anxious mortician and a sharp-tongued top-tier star were forced to become partners. Whenever I touched a deceased person, I cou 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 After I Transmigrated, I Pretended to Be a God-Tier Big Shot in the Terrifying Underworld 穿越之我在可怕的冥域装神级大佬 [From the Start + Accidents + Forced to Show Off] (Raising little ones and underlings, and guiding powerful figures; the underdog comeback of playing the pig to eat the tiger and pretending to be a god; identity reversal: Chaos turns out to be herself) One-line hook: Armed with nothing but a battered manual from the start, archaeology student Wang Chengcheng is forced to impersonate a deity in the Nether Realm?! An ordinary graduate student in archaeology, Wang Chengcheng was digging at an inter 5Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 120 Shanghai's Wealthy Elite Get Stewed in One Pot by a Spicy Sichuan Girl 沪上豪门局，被四川辣妹一锅炖了 When the chili oil splashed across his face, my cheating ex-boyfriend Wang Hao’s hair looked even messier than his excuses. “X-Xiaohui, let me explain…” “Explain my foot!” I’m Qian Xiaohui, twenty-three, a Sichuan girl. I live by one rule: take a loss? Not a chance. I raised my hand and dumped the freshly tossed bowl of spicy chicken skewers, broth and all, right onto his head. Sesame seeds, chili oil, and shredded chicken bloomed across the white shirt he wore to show off. “You bastard, here’s 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Xuan Yan: Reincarnation Through Life and Death, Ascending Beyond the Sacrificial Dao 玄衍：生死轮回，成祭道之上而上 A new work is here! You can read my novel on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Silent One 孤语者 A light novel, just for casual reading, with no pressure. The main thing is that it’s light. Yu Mu, who grew up in a remote mountain village, has never been one to back down. After awakening his domain, he has a goddess spirit by his side all the way. As it turns out, the two of them are either running for their lives or getting ready to run for their lives. The goddess spirit says that to win in a domain, you have to rely on its rules. Yu Mu refuses. He uses nothing but the opening and closing 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 I Just Came Down to Earth for a Stroll? 我来人间遛个弯？ I thought I was an observer who looked down on the world, but in the end, I too was merely a pawn on fate’s chessboard. Bai Ye, who can travel through time and space, arrived in this little world to seek the reincarnated souls of the legendary Cowherd and Weaver Girl. When spiritual energy meets cutting-edge science, it turns out to be nothing more than the grand unified field of physics. Cultivation is no longer limited to flying on swords, either. The contest between civilizations has never be 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 From the Countryside 起于乡野 Guan Yiliang excelled academically and was assigned to a subsidiary unit under the Rural Affairs Department as a top graduate. But the political winds soon began to shift, and obstacles kept appearing on his path forward. Watch how he responds to every move, matching wits and courage with his opponents as he composes a moving song of life. He is a man of great wisdom and heroic bearing. 8.1kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 125 A Fresh Start After Being Reborn 重生后重来 Reborn and starting over —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 After Seeing the Red Moon 在看到红月之后 [Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing + Spirit Vision + Infinite Worlds + Smart Protagonist + Nontraditional Cthulhu] Everyone thought the red moon was just a rare astronomical phenomenon. Only Chai Xin knew that the red moon was a gateway to the Inner World. The world has never been just one layer. The surface is the orderly Main World, where everyday life unfolds and days and nights pass as usual. Beneath it lies a tangled Inner World: one side is an abstract reflection of the Main World 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 After My Family Went Bankrupt, My Campus Belle Girlfriend Dropped the Act 我家破产后，校花女友摊牌不装了 After My Family Went Bankrupt, My School Beauty Girlfriend Dropped the Act 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 A Collection of Ideals 理想集 This is a collection of short stories about idealism. In this day and age, it may seem out of place. But that is precisely why it exists. Eight stories, one voice: “Idealism is not dead, and it never will be!” If you have ever carried a torch through the darkness, this book was written for you. 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 After Failing to Win Her Over, I Fainted from Her Scent in the Yandere’s Arms 攻略失败后，在病娇怀里香晕了 [Campus life first, then city life + redemption + System + devoted couple + captivity + happy ending + sweet romance] [Sunny, seemingly villainous girl x insecure, pitiful puppy|Flirtatious, mischievous heiress x dark, obsessive yandere] After awakening, Tan Ning was sent six years into the past by an unexpected car accident. She was also bound to a useless System and ordered to save the male lead, who was on the verge of turning evil. To keep the tragedy from repeating, Tan Ning launched her re 410Reads—Score102Shelves
- 130 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
- 131 She Said: Let's Not Fall in Love Again in the Next Life 她说：来世别再相恋 No System! No transmigration! No rebirth! An ordinary young man with extraordinary strength! He takes down a bunch of superpowered immortals through sheer muscle! So satisfying! A hitman-turned-novelist leads a lovable male idol and an incredibly cool female police officer in a fight against a mysterious organization that uses supernatural powers to threaten society, all to rescue the angelic little girl they brought back from Siberia. This is the essence of all the storytelling power I've built 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 You're Playing Cultivation in a World of Magic? 还在魔法世界玩修仙？ [Rich Comfort] [Western Fantasy & Cultivation & Technology] [Continental War] [Long Live the People] In a world where the cultivation world has been defeated by Western magic, watch how the protagonist turns things around without relying on any cheat. The protagonist transmigrates as a slave of the lowest caste, with no System and no cheat. Outside, mages and cultivators are already locked in a battle that has left mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, while he can only lie low and quietly g 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Curious Adventures of Iced Red Tea 冰红茶的奇妙冒险 [Absurd humor + memes + lighthearted comedy + battles + mind games] After his best friend dies unexpectedly, Ice Red Tea Lao Da sets out to bring him back to life. Along the way, he meets all kinds of weirdos. Some become friends, others enemies. Can Lao Da resurrect his best friend? After successfully bringing Teacher Qiaolezi back to life, everyone is caught off guard by an even greater threat that is still taking shape. Teacher Qiaolezi’s former colleague, the one who killed him, is plotting 184Reads—Score115Shelves
- 134 Crossing Souls in a Lonely City 魂渡孤城 [Xuanhuan + Alternate setting + Beautiful but tragic female lead + Light BG + Irregular soul transmigration] Lively, cheerful modern girl Xu Kexin x Yan Xue, a leader surrounded by enemies on all sides During a trip, her friend dies in another world. Xu Kexin begins to enter Yan Xue's body at unpredictable intervals, forced to plunge into conflicts in a perilous otherworld. A face exactly like her own. "Who are you, really?!" "I... am another you." 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Lingering Dream of Chen Lou 陈楼遗梦 [Light horror + folk customs + suspense + puzzle-solving + adventure + mystery + fantasy + supernatural abilities] A treasured pear-blossom jade pendant and a long-sealed book called Records of the Blue Collar lead Jiang Yichen to Chenlou Village, a place shrouded in mist all year round. In the village stands an ancient well known as the Dragon-Locking Well, forbidden for generations. Something unknown seems to be sealed beneath it. Is the ancient Pear Blossom Festival a dance meant to soothe th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 The Dark World II: The Curtain 暗世界II：帷幕 [No harem + not a wish-fulfillment power trip + no clichés + no invincible protagonist + no brainless plot + tragedy ahead, read at your own risk!] If you see a white flower, stay away immediately. It isn’t a plant. It’s an invitation from the apocalypse. If you feel pain, despair, grief, or jealousy, congratulations. Those aren’t negative emotions. They’re proof that you were born human. Liu Xuan thought he could save the world. He had teammates, a younger sister, and a lover. But he was wrong. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 After the Ox-Head and Horse-Face Spirits Took Me Away, I Joined the Underworld 被牛头马面带走后，我入职地府了 [No Romance] [Ensemble Cast] [Supernatural Case Files] [Mystery and Deduction] [Little Focus on Family Bonds] Ding Yi grew up without parents, raised by his grandfather. When he was eighteen, his grandfather died, and he lost the last of his family. With no money, he had no idea how he was going to survive. Then one day, two people suddenly appeared before him. One was holding a tablet, the other a pair of handcuffs. "Underworld Office. Mr. Ding, please come with us." Ding Yi thought he must be 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 We Agreed I’d Be Your Little Sister, So Why Did the Abstinent Officer Lose Control? 说好当妹妹，禁欲军官怎就失控了 [Much of the story is based on tales from the author's rural hometown + transmigrate into a book + military romance set in a bygone era + mistaking someone for her brother + pretend siblings + age gap + a chaste military officer falls hard] Soon after moving into the military compound, Shen Wanxing mistakes the cold-faced regimental commander, Lu Lixiao, for someone else and calls him “Brother” without a second thought. She sees him only as a brother. But who could have guessed that this chas 2.2kReads—Score103Shelves
- 139 Xi's Journey: A Family of Three on the Path to Immortality 浠游记：一家三口去修仙 The Xiyou Family Chronicles: A Family of Three Cultivates Immortality 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Honeymoon Crisis 蜜月危局 Honeymoon in Peril 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Eight Thousand Eight Hundred for Four Days in the Gobi 八千八买四天戈壁 Four Days in the Gobi for 88,000 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 My World Is the Most Fun, Hahahahaha! 我的世界最好玩了，哈哈哈哈哈！ The Great Intelligence has launched an all-out assault on homework and gone completely berserk, causing chaos with Minecraft commands and relentlessly spouting memes, taking things to explosive extremes. (This novel is for entertainment only. Do not imitate its values or behavior.) 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 The Weird? The Game! 诡？弈！ [Subverting tropes + suspense + comedy + dual forms + death switching + the supernatural arrives + cowardly protagonist + OC fiction + the author is an artist, and the characters have pictures] (The author’s writing could use some work early on. Could you read a few more chapters?) What on earth is that red figure in the mirror…? … Xiao Huajia’s life was a complete mess, until one night he discovered that he wasn’t even “human” anymore. His skin split open, revealing slippery red tissue undernea 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 I Accidentally Slept with a Playboy 一不小心睡了个多情男 After her divorce, Lin Chenxi never planned to marry again. Finding a man to sleep with, though, was another matter. “Mr. Lu, let’s get one thing straight: I’m not taking responsibility.” “What, you’re planning to have your fun with me and then dump me?” Lu Zhenghao couldn’t understand how this woman could be so pleased with him one moment, then push him away the next. “Lin Chenxi, am I not good enough for you? Am I not worth it?” 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Mommy, You Left Three Little Treasures with Daddy 妈咪，您落在爹地那里三个宝贝 [Devoted husband + adorable kids + both leads are chaste + domineering CEO] Complete! The Gu family has three little darlings, all five years old, and none of them knows who their mommy is. Gu Sichen, who normally never lets a woman within three feet of him, is suddenly exposed as having an illegitimate child. He can't stand the public gossip about his child. With no other choice, he grabs a woman to fill the vacant role of the children's mommy. But life is unpredictable. One by one, the childre 101Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 146 A Tomb Deep in the Qinling Mountains 秦岭深处的墓穴 A Tomb Deep in the Qinling Mountains —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Twin Stars, Overlapping Worlds: I Survive by the Thread 双星叠界：我靠线生存 On the day two stars collided across dimensions, Yang Xun was still waiting for a bowl of spicy pepper soup at a breakfast shop. Dimensional radiation turned most people into mutants, while others were given a new lease on life. But for everyone, staying alive remained their only hope. Want to get stronger? Then risk your life by coming into contact with those bizarre mutants! Every living thing had countless invisible [threads] hanging from it, but Yang Xun could see those [threads]! He used t 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 I Can Lie Flat and Watch the Money Roll In, Yet My Family and Friends Mock Me for Being Lazy? 躺平就能数钱，竟被亲友嘲讽不务正业？ I Can Count Money Just by Lying Flat, Yet My Family and Friends Mock Me for Being Unproductive? 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Infinite Flow: I Started Dating My Unhinged Big Brother, and Now I’m Hooked 无限流：和疯批哥谈上了，真香 In the little black room, Tang Xian turned to Du Sheng and asked: "Want to team up?" "Why?" "You're pretty." "...Let's talk if we run into each other in a dungeon." Tang Xian immediately sang Du Sheng a love song. ...Du Sheng thought the heavens must be blind. In the first dungeon, the very first player Du Sheng met was Tang Xian. "The heavens really do have eyes," Tang Xian exclaimed. Escape from the academy? Let's start by setting a fire and livening things up. Gain power? Then let's rebel! Th 16Reads—Score233Shelves
- 150 Let Me Find You 让我找到你 Unlike face-slapping, hitting someone on the back is perfectly safe... as long as the person being hit knows better than to open her mouth. For fourteen years, Zhao Nanhui had kept hitting her around the kidneys. The increasingly frequent traces of blood in her urine no longer surprised or worried her. It was just another unpleasant part of marriage, nothing more. Maybe millions of women were going through worse. On any given night in this city, there might be hundreds or even thousands of women 1Reads—Score—Shelves
