Novels like When the Gardenias Fall, I Meet the Evening Breeze
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as When the Gardenias Fall, I Meet the Evening Breeze, best match first.
- 51 The Sound of Fine Rain on the Bridge 桥绵细雨声 [Depressed girl Qiao Mian x gentle doctor Wen Rouyu] Qiao Mian wanted to throw herself into the river, but Wen Rouyu pulled her out. Suddenly, she wasn't sure she wanted to die. Was it fate? Tugging timidly at Wen Rouyu's clothes, she asked, “Can you love me?” “I do. I love you so, so much. I like you more than anything.” Qiao Mian's depression was caused by her family. To help Qiao Mian break free from her birth family, Wen Rouyu secretly made a plan. Qiao Mian's parents beat her until both 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Spring Breeze and the Sea 春日微风与海 [Mutual devotion + years of secret love] [Reserved comic artist vs. straightforward male celebrity] [Main story complete] Jiang Nianke's comic was being adapted into a TV series, but she never expected the male lead to be Zhou Yuxi, her high school deskmate and the boy she'd had a crush on!!! All right, she still had a crush on him now... Her best friend An Chuxia told her that after Jiang Nianke left without a word back then, he went from a sunny, cheerful boy into a cool, aloof heartthrob. Jia 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 On Our Wedding Day, I Gave My Wife a Grand Surprise 婚礼当天，我送老婆一份大礼 On our wedding day, I gave my wife a very special gift. 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 When Will I Finally See Daylight? 我什么时候能等到天光大亮 When will I finally see the light of day? 142Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 I Gave the Emperor an Ice-Cold Coke and Became the Tang Dynasty's Greatest Drinker 我给皇上灌了冰可乐，被封大唐第一酒仙 I gave the emperor an ice-cold Coke and was crowned the Tang Dynasty's greatest wine immortal. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Half a Letter in Winter 冬天的半封信 They met in winter, grew close, parted ways, and found each other again. “See you in winter.” I’ll see you in winter. It turned out to mean goodbye until winter comes again. 79Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 My Wife Brought Home a Male Dog and Won’t Let Me Get Rid of It. Then I Discovered Her Secret 老婆捡回家一只公狗不让我送走，我发现了她的秘密 My wife brought home a male dog and wouldn’t let me get rid of it. Then I discovered her secret. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 After Seven Days on a Business Trip to Guangzhou, My Cousin Showed Up at My Door with a Baby Bump 广州出差七天，表妹揣着孕肚登了我家门 While I Was Away on a Seven-Day Business Trip to Guangzhou, My Cousin Showed Up at My Door with a Baby Bump 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 I Divorced My Husband to Set Him Free for His First Love, but He Refused 离婚成全丈夫和白月光，他却不干了 I divorced my husband to reunite him with his first love, but he refused to go along with it. 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Daybreak Came, and I Couldn’t Find You 天亮了，我找不到你了 Day has broken, and I can't find you anymore. 169Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 We Were Never Meant to Meet Again 相逢相聚本无期 There was never any promise that we would meet again. 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Exiled to the Frontier, I Led a Convict's Family to Build a Jiangnan Paradise Beyond the Great Wall 流放边疆，我带罪臣全家种出塞上江南 Exiled to the Frontier, I Led a Convict’s Entire Family to Turn the Borderlands into a Land of Plenty 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Day the Wind Blew 风吹过的那天 He Lin, congratulations on your wedding. On the day you got married, the wind blew. I thought I was finally ready to let go. 205Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 64 I Once Loved the Stars Above 也曾属意漫天星辰 He led his troops into battle and returned victorious, but came back with a woman in his arms. She never fought back or fought for attention, yet people kept framing her at every turn. “We promised to be each other's only one for life, but you broke your word.” “I don't love you anymore. Let me go.” 66Reads5.0Score—Shelves
- 65 My Husband Kept Eight Mistresses, but I'm His Trump Card 老公养了8个情人，我才是他的底牌 My Husband Kept Eight Mistresses. I Was the Ace Up His Sleeve 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 After the Divorce, I'll Live My Life Well 离婚后，我好好过日子 After the divorce, I'm living my life well 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 One-Man Show 独角戏 [Signed for simplified Chinese publication] I wish I were brave, but when it comes to loving you, I always feel so unworthy. 415Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 68 She Won't Comfort Me Anymore 她不哄我了 [Signed, awaiting publication] Inspired by the author's own experience of secretly loving someone for six years, even though he already loves someone else. Xu Ci is outwardly a cool, gifted young man, but inwardly sensitive. Wanyue is outwardly sunny and cheerful, but inwardly sensitive and insecure, a sweet, well-behaved girl. One summer, amid the buzzing cicadas, Xu Ci and Wanyue fell in love at first sight. Xu Ci had to leave early for something, and Wanyue thought she'd never see him again. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 After I Died, They All Went Mad with Regret 我死后，他们全悔疯了 After I Died, They All Regretted It 233Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 I Forgot You, and Learned to Let Myself Go 我忘了你，也放过我自己 I forgot you, and let myself move on. 655Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Three Years as a Live-In Son-in-Law, Today I Lay Down My Armor and Return to the Sect 三年赘婿，今日卸甲归宗 Three Years as a Live-In Son-in-Law, Today I Lay Down My Armor and Return to the Sect 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Counterfeit 赝品 Synopsis: Song Cheng had been with Qin Minghua for five years. He always thought that even if he couldn’t win Qin Minghua’s love, at least he was someone special to him. But when that person appeared, he finally understood that both his feelings and his life were nothing more than tools Qin Minghua used to protect them. Out of love, Song Cheng resigned himself to giving up everything he had, but everything slowly began to move in a different direction. A fierce love and hatred, like an endless b 51Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 73 After We Broke Up, He Was a Million in Debt and I Made a Million a Year 分手后，他欠债百万，我年薪百万 After the Breakup, He Owes a Million, and I Earn a Million a Year 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Hearing My Wife’s Secrets 听见妻子的秘密 I Heard My Wife's Secret 274Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Mute’s Diary (Bad Ending) 哑巴日记（be） A Mute's Diary (Bad Ending) 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 76 The Sect’s Beloved Little Junior Sister: The Max-Level Expert Comes Down the Mountain 宗门团宠小师妹：满级大佬下山了 The Sect's Beloved Little Junior Sister: A Max-Level Expert Comes Down from the Mountain 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Even Love and Longing Betrayed Me 风月也曾负相思 Her hands were stained with blood, yet she won this vast kingdom for him. He was the ruler, and she was his slave; decades of companionship could not outweigh a single tear from the woman he loved. To save his beloved, he offered her up to the enemy army. She endured every kind of torture, willingly. Still for the sake of his beloved, he severed her left arm, took her unborn child, and drained her blood to keep the other woman alive. Then, with a great army before her, her hair white as snow, sh 162Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 78 My Zhizhi 我的栀栀 My Zhizhi 6.1kReads—Score172Shelves
- 79 Not Tonight, My Back Hurts 今天不行，我腰疼 Not tonight, my back hurts 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 An Immortal Venerable Arrives in the Apocalypse: Everyone Cultivates to Fight the Demon Corpses 末世来了个仙尊，全民修仙对抗末世魔尸 An Immortal Venerable Arrives in the Apocalypse, and Everyone Cultivates to Fight the Demon Corpses 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 He Kissed Her Tears and Ankles, but Never Got to Kiss Her for the Rest of Their Lives 他亲过她的眼泪和脚踝，却没能亲到她的余生 He kissed her tears and her ankles, but never got to kiss the rest of her life away. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 See You Tomorrow, Monday 周一，明天见 [A short bad-ending story. Readers who can't handle angst, beware.] Xu Qingze was Zhou Yi’s boyfriend. He was in a car accident abroad. Everyone told Zhou Yi he was dead, but she stubbornly refused to believe it. She cried herself blind, ruined her health, and clung to life by a thread. Just as Zhou Yi was about to die, Xu Qingze came back. With a warm smile, he held out his hand to Zhou Yi. “Hello, my name is Xu Qingze.” Zhou Yi: Xu Qingze, how dare you forget me. But I’m glad you forgot me. ( 2kReads8.1Score406Shelves
- 83 My Setting Is That I Love Her 朕的设定是爱她 [System transmigration into a book + mutual healing + winning over a lovesick obsessive] A new historical romance from Zhier, author of one of Zhihu’s three great tragic novels, Late Departure. The main story is lighthearted and funny, but the extras will break your heart. She is his nightmare, and also his cure! He is written to love her, so no matter what she does, he will never blame her. “Yan Yu, I truly and sincerely love you. Don’t forget me, I beg you.” “Don’t be afraid. Your elder sister 398Reads8.6Score113Shelves
- 84 Dangerous Contract: The Tycoon's Resentful White Moonlight 危险契约：霸总与他的怨气白月光 A Dangerous Contract: The Tyrant CEO and His Resentful White Moonlight 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Fireworks and Handcuffs: A CEO's Journey to Staying on the Right Side of the Law 烟花与手铐：一个霸总的守法之路 Fireworks and Handcuffs: A CEO's Journey to Lawfulness 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Art of Deception 过分伪装 [Short tragic romance + fast-paced + bad ending] On a night of torrential rain, Huo Chenyiao pinched her chin and sneered. “For six years, every single day I've thought about how to destroy you.” - He forced her to sign a mistress contract and took what he wanted from her night after night. When he discovered she was pregnant, he personally sent her to the operating table. He didn't know that the strange woman he'd spent the night with at the bar was her. Even less did he know that the ink on he 4.3kReads8.5Score287Shelves
- 87 Hidden Jasmine 藏茉莉 The rating just went up. It’ll rise more later~ [Lin Mosheng × Zhou Yu] On a stormy day, the air was damp and oppressive. An old tune drifted from the music box on the table, and through her hazy consciousness, she returned to her first year of high school. “Shengsheng, what are you standing there for?” The woman smiled and urged her. “Hurry up and call him big brother.” Lin Mosheng looked at the boy in front of her, her eyes instantly turning red. Choking back tears, she said, “Zhou Yu?” The bo 543Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 88 The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白 Every moment spent near him was full of telltale slips. A performance called unrequited love is the hardest one to pull off. - (The male lead doesn't cheat. He appears as a ghost, hoping the heroine will finally give up on him and stop grieving. He also sacrifices his reputation so netizens will stop attacking her. If someone has to be swallowed up by public opinion, he wants it to be him. It's a self-destructive attempt to save her: he gives up his life and his good name, as long as she's all r 133Reads8.1Score105Shelves
- 89 My Childhood Sweetheart Died in Battle, and the Enemy Prince Forced Me to Bear His Child 竹马战死，敌国王爷逼我生子 [Female general + God of War prince + Powerful rivals + Imprisonment and torment + Angsty romance + Subjugation and counterattack + Revenge and corruption + Silver dragon awakening + Childbirth] “Chu Yuan, if you don’t kill me, one day I’ll kill you!” Jiang Li is a battle-hardened female general of Liang, but after her fiancé dies in battle, she becomes a prisoner of Chu Yuan, the enemy nation’s God of War. He breaks her proud spirit, shackles her hands and feet in iron chains, and even erases h 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Bro, You Have to Drink to the Newlyweds 兄弟，这杯喜酒你得喝 Bro, You Have to Drink to the Happy Couple 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Receptionist 前台 Front Desk 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 One Hundred Do-Overs: Side Story 《任务重来一百次》番外 Extra Story for "The Mission: One Hundred More Tries" 666Reads—Score101Shelves
- 93 Wife, Are You Still Going to Lie to Me? 老婆，你还要对我说谎吗？ Wife, are you still going to lie to me? 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Behave Yourself! 学乖！ School Life | Healing | Family of Origin | Bittersweet Romance | BE “That person stumbled into your lightless corner and stood before you, backlit, holding out a hand. It was salvation, and it was a god.” Gentle and sensitive × Cold on the outside, warm within He had always been the center of attention, born into a prominent family and exceptional in every way. She was as insignificant as a speck of dust. To everyone else, they were like parallel lines that could never meet, destined never to cr 1.7kReads8.9Score307Shelves
- 95 Only After Dad Brought His Illegitimate Daughter Home Did I Understand Why a Mother's Love Can Disappear 爸爸把私生女接回家后，我才明白母爱为何会消失 Only after Dad brought his illegitimate daughter home did I understand why a mother's love can disappear 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Night We Lost Our Child, He Was Setting Off Fireworks With His White Moonlight 失去孩子那晚，他在陪白月光放烟花 The night they lost their child, he was setting off fireworks with his unrequited love. 239Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 A Merchant's Charm in Troubled Times 乱世商娇 A Charismatic Merchant in Troubled Times 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The One Thing I Wanted to Record Before I Died 死前，我唯一想记录的 I fell in love with my non-blood-related older brother, but he found me disgusting and sent me to a conversion therapy center. After I got out, my mental state deteriorated day by day, and in the end, before I died, I wrote this 3.1kReads8.1Score647Shelves
- 99 The Diary of the Man Who Belongs to Him 属于他的先生日记 (This is a story about the secondary couple. The main couple’s story, Pretending to Be a Couple, Becoming True Love, has a bonus ending where everyone gets a happy ending.) Mo Lie x Bai Ren [Two male leads + unrequited love + tragic ending + angst] Mo Jia x Mu Qingzhou To Mo Jia, falling for someone was a wonderful thing. But... The person he loved was a man. A man he was not allowed to love. If unrequited love was bitter, then for Mo Jia, it was something very, very sweet. What was the meaning 243Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 100 Beautiful Years 景年 [Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst!] My name is Jiang Nian. I was born in the height of summer and died in the depths of winter. Fate was always fleeting, and even meeting you was a blessing. We were destined to meet in this life, but not to be together. May we continue our bond in the next. The debts of this life must be repaid in this life. On the road to the afterlife, don’t look back. May we have a better fate and grow old together in the next life! I still remember the words Lin Anjing said to 507Reads8.1Score—Shelves
