Novels like The Aloof Top Student Lives Across the Hall, Acts Tough but Spoils Me Rotten!
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- 1 They Were Redeemed, But What About Me? 她们是被救赎了，那我呢 [Fake Rebirth] + [No System] + [Fairly Lighthearted] + [Absurd Fun] + [Not Pure Wish Fulfillment] + [Everyday Campus Life] + [I Guess You Could Call It Healing] + [Love Rivals] (The novel has only just been rated, so its score is a little low. Readers are welcome to give it a try!) I'm Xu Ming, a regular second-year high school student, and a pretty ordinary, goofy, absurd guy. What makes me stand out? I'm reborn, but it hasn't really helped. Does that count? I don't have many friends, my relati 3.6kReads8.7Score514Shelves
- 2 How Could a Girl This Perfect Possibly Like Me? 如此超模的女生怎么可能喜欢我 [School]× [Youth]× [Coming of age]× [Comedy]× [Healing]× [Everyday life] (An ensemble story about the main cast, following four protagonists, two boys and two girls. Though set against a Chinese backdrop, it has an anime-like feel and is pretty absurd.) “Loser” Jiang Huai thinks he can turn over a new leaf at Nangaok, but the girl who brutally rejected his confession in middle school is at the same high school. People still know about his embarrassing past, his group is infamous, and on the firs 14.3kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
- 3 Secret Crush: A Coward's First Brave Step 暗恋，胆小鬼勇敢的第一步 [The rating just came in, but it'll go up ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧] (Hello, fellow readers of The Cowardly Incantation! If you think this is a lot like that popular novel, that's understandable. I did take inspiration from it, but the story is definitely different. Give this struggling author a chance and read a little first, okay~) [No harem + not reborn + coming-of-age + Chinese high school + everyday campus life] A youthful, one-sided crush is a bittersweet candy for everyone. For cowards, even more so. Ch 4.6kReads8.5Score473Shelves
- 4 Reborn, You Don’t Like Her Anymore, Right? Then I’ll Take Her 重生后你不是不喜欢她吗？那我来 Two top students + working hard at school + the male lead's secret crush + contrasting personalities + pure love + healing [Cold, jealous, clueless Chen Jingyan vs. cheerful, open-minded, decisive Li Xue] Chen Jingyan watches the woman he has secretly loved, Li Xue, die after giving birth, murdered by her husband Zhao Jiawei and his mistress Liu Zhizhi. His world collapses. Overcome with grief and rage, he hires the best lawyer and forensic specialist, gathers every piece of evidence, and sends 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Cicadas Singing in Midsummer: Teacher Lu Is Pretending to Be Young Again 盛夏蝉鸣：陆老师又在装嫩了 [Sweet romance + ensemble cast + teacher-student bonds + heartwarming] There’s a saying at Yunchuan No. 3 High School: “If you get assigned to Lu Shihan’s class, you must have saved the galaxy in your previous life.” He’ll buy you milk tea when you bomb a test, and keep you company talking late into the night when you feel lost. At parent-teacher meetings, he reminds parents not to care only about grades. He even secretly reaches out to people who can help make his students’ dreams come true. H —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 There's No Saving This Goblin Boy 哥布林少年没救了 A goblin caught alone will be killed by a hero or abducted by a saintess. The really unlucky ones get abducted first, then killed. Mo Yuan is a veteran goblin teenager with no friends, so he has no choice but to eat instant hot pot alone on the school cafeteria rooftop. By chance, he stumbles upon the confession scene between Chi Yunxi, the saintess of the human race and top student in their grade, and a fair-skinned athlete who is a hero. If Mo Yuan is spotted now, the hero and saintess will bo 4.4kReads8.8Score214Shelves
- 7 Meeting My Soulmate Late in the Rain 雨迟逢知 #CampusCrush #LoveAtFirstSight #EnsembleCast #OneSidedCrush #SoVerySweet #MutualHealing #BittersweetYouth #SlowBurnPushAndPull Sunny, spirited, and always growing heroine vs. cool, quiet, gentle top student One thinks it’s a reunion, while the other thinks it’s their first meeting. In fact, they met long, long ago… When they meet again, their hearts still race wildly, beyond their control. In the clamor of youth, there is the struggle of solving practice problems, the sweetness of a young crush, 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Life Is Good, So Let’s Have Our Fill of Joy 人生得意许尽欢 [Campus + urban life + youth + teacher-student romance + age gap + both inexperienced in love + secret crush + bickering couple + mutual healing] [Bright, bold ray of sunshine × gentle, mature older man] Xu Jinhuan first met Shen Guo on campus, where he became her homeroom teacher. At first, Xu Jinhuan thought Shen Guo was no different from the other teachers, except that he was younger and better-looking. She didn’t think much of him. He favored good students and academic high achievers, and 1.9kReads—Score221Shelves
- 9 Parallel Worlds, the Moonlight That Never Was 平行时空，不存在的白月光 Did you have someone in your youth you could never forget, your moonlight from the past? Lin LecI had one. He was part of her entire youth, then transferred schools without warning during her second year of high school. For sixteen years, she thought she had forgotten him. Then she suddenly dreamed of him again. In the dream, the boy still had the fresh, youthful look of his younger self. Smiling, he asked her, “What took you so long?” When she finally gathered the courage to look for him, every 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Is It True Love or Not? It's So Hard to Choose! 到底是不是真爱？好难抉择呀！ A lighthearted romantic comedy! She saves him! [True Love + Sharp-Tongued Best Friend + Beloved Little Sister + Sunny Heroine + Overthinking Hero + A Little Angst + Funny Tone + School Setting] Li Shi Yan, troubled by the uncertainty of her future at school, meets Li Shi Yu, whose name differs from hers by only one character. Can Li Shi Yu, mired in a swamp of pain, be saved by Li Shi Yan? Is Li Shi Yu truly Li Shi Yan's destined love? Though she keeps agonizing over it, her best friend's matchm 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Hidden Warmth 藏温 "Second Chance at Love | Both Leads Are Each Other’s Only One | Both Academic Standouts | HE" Ten years ago, Wen Xiangyi called her family in tears, only for him to overhear her. There would have been nothing wrong with him overhearing her. Except she was complaining that a classmate farted way too much... She started taking detours whenever she saw Jian Yun. One day, at a friend’s birthday party, he suddenly asked, “Is it really so scary that I like you?” - Ten days after graduation, she fi 204Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Chasing Summer 逐夏 [From Campus to Wedding Dress + Both Pure + Sweet Romance + Healing] [Cheerful, sunny top student who seems like a good girl vs. cold, obsessive campus king] One day, the campus king of Jiang University was on his way to teach a few street thugs a lesson. When he arrived, he found that several of them had already been beaten black and blue. They were on their knees, kowtowing and begging for mercy. "Don't ask us. Our boss makes the decisions." "If you want to ask someone, ask our boss." "Boss, w 3.4kReads6.9Score483Shelves
- 13 Her Heart's Door Is Hard to Open 她心门难开 [Happy Ending + Both Pure + Light Ensemble Cast + School Days to City Life + He Pursues Her + 1v1 + Bittersweet Push and Pull + No Evil Female Supporting Characters + No Catfighting Between Women] School Days: [Smiling, Hardhearted Girl Who Loves to Eat x Cold-Faced, Pure and Gentle Boy] City Life: [Hardworking English Translator x Brooding, Obsessive Aircraft Engineer] Unlike most passionate youth romances, their story began in the dead of winter. * Fang Yu's affection was a gentle, carefully l 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Stubborn Childhood Friend: Brother Lu Was the One Who Fell First 嘴硬青梅：是陆哥他先动的心 [A new author and a new novel. Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no one reborn.] [Both leads are inexperienced in love; one-on-one romance, a little angst and lots of sweetness, with a focus on everyday life.] [Everyday life, Chinese-style school setting.] When Lin Jing starts at Experimental Middle School, she has two wishes. First, she hopes no one finds out that the aloof heartthrob Lin Yi is her older brother! Second, she wants to stay far away from Lu Yun. She manages to keep her fir 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Goddess Yang Chengcheng's Journey to the Mortal World 女神杨橙橙凡间降落之路 Female lead: Yang Chengcheng. Male lead: Yun Feng. This story is divided into three volumes. Volume One has ten chapters. Three years after Yang Chengcheng and Yun Feng break up, Yang Chengcheng meets Yang Long on a blind date. After a series of upheavals in his family, Yang Long’s sincerity finally moves her, and the two get married. Volume Two is told through flashbacks. At seventeen, Yang Chengcheng meets Yun Fengye, an art studio teacher. They are drawn to each other and fall in love. They s 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Top Student Pretends to Be Weak to Snag a Marriage, but His Tough Girl Bride Takes the Internet by Storm 学霸装弱骗婚，太妹娇妻飒疯全网 A wealthy young master and academic ace × a Southeast Asian Chinese tycoon’s daughter, a sassy queen! Playing dumb to outsmart the other + turning the tables + bickering couple + mutual crush + from campus to wedding bells The longest road Qin Sihuang has ever walked is the one set out for her by Pan Zhanchen! Who could have guessed that the gentle, high-achieving student whom tycoon heiress Qin Sihuang kissed and tackled first was actually a top-tier schemer with a wicked mind? She was haughty 10Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 17 After Six Years Together, We're Talking Marriage, and You Think I'm Too Short? 谈恋爱六年，要谈婚论嫁了，你嫌我矮？ We’ve been dating for six years, and now we’re talking marriage. You think I’m too short? 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Look! That Tough Girl's Boyfriend Got Stolen by Her Best Friend! 快来看啊！茬子姐的男朋友被闺蜜撬走啦！ Come and see! Chazi Jie’s boyfriend got stolen by her best friend! 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Ordinary People Like Us Need to Fall in Love Too 我们普通人也要谈恋爱 (New author, new novel) [No rebirth or transmigration] + [One female lead] + [High school campus] + [Sweet romance] + [Secret crush] A secret crush is a lonely expedition. Li Mubai, a withdrawn young man, struggles between silent longing and crushing insecurity. To him, love is both a luxury and a light just beyond his reach. Until the night before the college entrance exams, with the bright moon hanging overhead. The girl suddenly took his hand and lifted her clear eyes to his. “I know.” Her vo 29.4kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves
- 20 Unrequited Love Is a Pantomime of Insecurity 暗恋，是一场自卑的默剧 (A new author and a new book! It has just received its first rating, and the score will go up!) [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no stock trading, just authentic everyday Chinese school life] People say youth is rose-colored, but that's only true for the protagonists. As an NPC in Earth Online, Ye Zhouhong's youth has no dramatic plot twists, only a secret crush he doesn't dare to speak aloud. He doesn't dare get close. He doesn't dare confess. He thinks this silent drama will end with 170.6kReads9.3Score20.2kShelves
- 21 I Just Started High School, but My Stats Are Off the Charts 刚上高中，我的数值太超模了 [Campus Life + Everyday Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Multiple Female Leads (No Love Rivalry)] He has just started high school when he awakens a Stat-Boosting System. Charm, stamina, intelligence, wealth: complete System missions and become an overpowered stat monster! Chen Xing: “As a max-level high schooler, I don’t even think being the protagonist of a wish-fulfillment novel is that great!” 40.1kReads8.0Score3kShelves
- 22 He Fang Luyuan 何方路圆圆 [Sweet and spicy + mutual devotion + sweet romance + wealthy CEO] “From beginning to end, all I’ve ever wanted is to marry the girl I’ve loved from afar!” That was He Yanzheng’s one and only wish. He Yanzheng had grown up surrounded by every luxury, but after meeting her, he willingly made sacrifices and changed himself, all because he wanted to be part of her future. The clearheaded top student Lu Yuanyuan was focused on her exams and refused to date, yet she found herself pursued by a persiste 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Riverside Scene of Muling 穆棱上河图 The Muling River is an important river in eastern Heilongjiang and the largest tributary on the left bank of the Ussuri River. It runs for 834 kilometers and drains an area of 18,427 square kilometers, passing through Muling City, Jixi City, Jidong County, Mishan City, and Hulin City. Locals call it the “Mother River.” I was fortunate enough to live there until I came of age. I left as an adult and have never been back. Some memories of people and things from those days are still vivid, and ther 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 A Bittersweet Campus Romance 校园苦涩爱情 This is a campus romance about a boy and a girl whose misunderstandings lead them from dislike to love, and eventually to a bitter breakup. It reminds us that sometimes, once you miss your chance, you miss it for a lifetime. Treasure everything you have now. 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Just Started High School, and I Can See the Colors of People's Emotions 刚上高中，我能看见情绪颜色 156.4kReads9.1Score17.4kShelves
- 26 Midsummer Green Apple 盛夏青苹果 [Campus] [Living Together] [Two Academic Stars] [Secret Crush] [Pure Romance] At school, Chi Sui and Ji Xiwen seem worlds apart. He is the school celebrity, a regular in the top three of the grade rankings, a promising science competition contestant, and incredibly popular. His handsome face, worthy of a top-tier star, has countless girls swooning over him. Ji Xiwen, meanwhile, is an inconspicuous transfer student. Quiet and withdrawn, she wears cheap clothes, with heavy bangs hiding her face. S 349.1kReads9.4Score72.8kShelves
- 27 Reborn in 2010 with X-Ray Vision, but I’m Trying Not to Look 重生2010开启透视，忍住不看 Luo Ji is reborn in his student days and gains the ability to see through things. He wins over his first love from the start, then rides one lucky break after another, winning the hearts of countless goddesses, becoming fabulously wealthy, dominating overseas, and reaching the pinnacle of life! In a word, it’s just pure fun! 11kReads8.8Score924Shelves
- 28 A Coward's 1,001st Confession 胆小鬼的一千零一次表白 [Not reborn, no System, high school setting, youthful literature, a story of being saved, personal growth, no harem] Cowards don't dare to confess their feelings, and they're afraid of being confessed to as well. If your confession is rejected, you'll be mocked and condemned by everyone. If you reject someone's confession, you'll lose a friend and go your separate ways. Can't it work out? The answer is no, because success doesn't like cowards! But what if one coward likes another? This isn't a l 36.4kReads9.5Score4.8kShelves
- 29 EN Letters Tracing the Rain 溯雨信笺 [The physical book is now available. Its published title is Letters in the Rain] [Small-Town Literature | Bittersweet Slow Burn | Mutual Healing | 1v1 | Happy Ending] [Gentle and Resilient x Jaded and World-Weary] When Pu Yu was seventeen, she transferred to a remote town in southern China. There, she met Yuan Su. He had once been the town's brightest star, a prodigy destined for greatness. Now he had fallen from grace, and everyone avoided him. Everyone except Pu Yu. - An old street. A repair s 258.2kReads9.6Score49.3kShelves
- 30 Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心 Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he 190Reads—Score107Shelves
- 31 The Waves Trust the Clouds’ Whiteness 浪花信任云的白 Two souls fall into a campus dream; reunited on a Middle Eastern battlefield | Doctors Without Borders × frontier defense hero | unhinged yet restrained, healing regret | sweet, bittersweet tension | rekindled romance | devoted to each other, happy ending A three-day romance in their youth, followed by twelve years apart across mountains and seas · Mature adults wearing the guise of high schoolers, falling into the most heart-wrenching romance in a dream · Each other's cure and salvation; a god 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 After the Cicadas Sing Comes the Plum Rain 蝉鸣过后是梅雨 [Ensemble Cast at School | Slow-Burn Bittersweet Romance | Fated Bond | Gentle Girl, Troubled Boy | Realistic | Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Xia Shanshan's red-lacquered bicycle was stolen. She crouched beneath a camphor tree and cried. On the third floor, someone folded her orange candy wrapper in half, then in half again. Later, she met Fu Siyun. The boy leaned against the wall, looking carefree as he teased her softly: “Are you afraid of me, senior?” She ran from him for three y 3.2kReads9.3Score337Shelves
- 33 The Sweethouse’s Top Star 甜字号头牌 (The print edition of Sweetness Unspoken goes on sale June 20) [Campus + goofy comedy + childhood sweethearts + overprotective brother + sweet romance] [Sweet, feisty girl × suave, sly bad boy] A pretty, sweet-looking girl transfers into the class. She's wild-tempered and fearless, and on her very first day she gets into an argument with Shen Sili, the top guy in the grade who sits in the back row. While their classmates marvel that the newcomer has no fear, the next day they see the two walking 17.7kReads9.4Score2.5kShelves
- 34 Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏 A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t 84.5kReads9.6Score14.8kShelves
