Novels like Don't Board the Boat Coming from Upstream
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- 51 As If We'd Just Met, Yet Like Old Friends 若初识，如故归 The day she jumped off a cliff, she met someone who had waited for her for a hundred lifetimes. Yun Ruochu was forced to marry an old man, so she leapt from Mount Cangwu. When she awoke, Shen Rugu, dressed in white with white hair, was brewing tea for her. He treated her differently: he indulged her when she got into trouble, protected her when she was hurt, and kissed her when she confessed her feelings, only to say that he didn't like her. Only later did she learn that he had waited for her fo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Castle Ailiolin 卡斯尔艾略琳 Castle Aileyolin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Taking Over the Family Funeral Home, I Solve the World's Injustices 接手祖传殡仪馆，专断世间冤屈案 I took over my family's funeral home, only for the dead to cry out for justice. After my grandfather passed away unexpectedly, I returned to my hometown to take over the decrepit funeral home everyone avoided. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but the moment I stepped inside, countless wronged spirits began haunting me. The accidents and suicides declared by the police were, according to the dead, carefully concealed conspiracies. Cold cases buried for years, villains lurking in the shadows, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Fighting the Japanese in Burma 抗日之缅甸作战 In 1942, the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma to fight. On the edge of Burma's Wild Man Mountain, in the primeval jungle after the retreat from Tonggu. A brutal, unforgiving battlefield, with ammunition in desperately short supply. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Secrets of Loulan: Buried Beneath the Sands for a Thousand Years 楼兰密语：沙埋千年 I spent ten years picking up stones in Lop Nur. The villagers called me an idiot. One day, I dug a stone tablet covered in strange writing out of the sand. Somehow, I could read it. The tablet said: Loulan did not fall because of a lack of water. It fell because of a secret. Everyone who learns that secret must die. An archaeology team arrived that very day. Professor Lin, the team leader, said he had seen this tablet thirty years ago. Of the five people who saw it, four were already dead. Tha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 The Dao That Slays Injustice 道斩不义 After placing last in three exams, everyone laughed at me, Li Yishan, calling me a useless scholar! Who knew that when I took the provincial exam for the fourth time, I would awaken my dormant Mandate of Heaven! From then on, the world changed! A beautiful demoness threw herself into my arms, saying I was the one destined for her! A vicious river demon went out of its way to avoid me, trembling all over! Even a revered old Celestial Master chased after me, crying and begging to take me as his di —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 A Strategy for Jiangdong 江东略 Not getting enough action in the game? Then go fight a battle at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty!!! In the third year of Jian’an, Sun Ce had already pacified Wu Commandery and Kuaiji Commandery, two of the commanderies in Jiangdong, and was launching a fierce assault on Lingyang County, under Danyang Commandery... (If you’re not interested in the prologue, start from Chapter 13 and transmigrate straight to the end of the Han dynasty!!!) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Codename: Hidden Dragon, the Ultimate Delta Battlefield 代号：潜龙，三角洲终极战场 The youngest tactical analyst in the Delta Force, forced to retire due to injury. An old wrist injury left him unable to even hold a gun steady, so he could only make ends meet delivering food. Until the [Hidden Dragon System] activated. It offered no superpowers and gave him no legendary gear. It did just one thing: pour all the blood and wisdom from the history of human warfare into his mind. The breathing patterns of World War II snipers, the urban combat maneuvers of Chechen special forces, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 The Racing Girl 赛车女孩 Physics ace Lin Sa is obsessed with speed and has extraordinary racing talent. When she borrows the motorcycle of a racing club president to catch a thief, their paths become entwined. Lin Sa trends online and makes her way into racing, overcoming one challenge after another. In the end, she wins glory and finds love. 76Reads—Score104Shelves
- 60 This County Town Can't Hold All My Money 这个县城装不下我的钱 After quitting his job and returning to his hometown, Lin Yue binds himself to an outrageous System: the amount deposited each day is proportional to the county’s permanent population. The more people, the more money. At first, it’s only 180,000 yuan. Not much, but enough to get by. The catch is that all the money has to be spent in Pingjiang County that very day. Whatever he doesn’t spend is deducted. Even more absurdly, the money he spends comes back doubled. The more he spends, the more mon 138Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 After Becoming the Marquis’s Abandoned Wife, I Train the Spoiled Heir into a Good Boy 穿成侯府弃妇后把纨绔世子训成狗 Lin Zhixia, a top copywriter who has written three hundred feel-good stories about taming domineering husbands, never expected to transmigrate into a discarded wife in a marquis’s household herself. Three days after their wedding, Shen Yanqing, the capital’s number-one playboy, thrusts a divorce agreement at her and declares he’ll pay her to get lost. Lin Zhixia’s eyes light up. “Fine, we can divorce, but first settle my wages for these three days, emotional damages, and compensation for my lost 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 In My Childhood Friend the Artist's Paintings, Everything About Me Is Hidden 画师竹马的画里，藏着对我的所有 [Ongoing] [Childhood Sweethearts + Sweet Romance + Gentle Confinement + Everyday Wife-Protection] [A clingy, soft-hearted sweetheart who fears loneliness × a cool, possessive young man who loves her without limits] Xu Zhiqiu has had three great fears since childhood: the dark, being alone, and being in a huge house with no sound. She has a little courage, but not much. The young girl has two great loves in life. Love number one: lively crowds. Love number two: Jiang Luobai. After a drunken nig —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Lu Fengzhao 陆凤昭 Lu Fengzhao's boyfriend of two years dumped her for a rich, beautiful woman. On the day he graduated from college, he held his wedding, while she crouched outside the hotel in a torrential downpour, soaked to the skin. Looking down at her, he said, “You really are pitiful. You can only blame the family you were born into.” In that moment, Lu Fengzhao's love-addled self died. She wiped away her tears, deleted every way to contact him, and wrote on the first page of her notebook: “You’re better of 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 She Is No Comparison 她不是对照组 After being reborn, He Chutong had only three things to do: Make money, build her career, and ruin the people who had hurt her in her past life. Su Wan thought she was still the nobody everyone could push around. Smiling, she greeted her: “Chutong, it's been so long.” He Chutong smiled too. “It has. And it's time you paid me back for what you owe.” Lu Zhiyan thought she would still foolishly trust him, just as she had in her past life. He offered her a cup of coffee. “Have we met somewhere b —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The Small-Town Innkeeper's Frontier Ventures in Another World 市井老板娘异界拓荒录 [The Shaolin Corruption Scandal + Northern Myanmar Cleansing Plan + Transmigration at the End of Guixu] An amnesiac female assassin transmigrates into a murder case! She enters at max level and puts on a Jin Yong-style spy thriller! See how Chen Yi breaks through the deadlock. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 The Yongle Emperor Moves the Capital to Beiping 明成祖迁都北平 The Yongle Emperor Moves the Capital to Beiping —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Han Dynasty Money-Making Alliance 大汉搞钱联盟 The Han Dynasty Money-Making Alliance —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Pacifying the Dzungars 平定准噶尔 Pacifying Zunghar 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Death of Liu Rui 刘锐之死 The Death of Liu Rui —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 There’s a Cultivator in This City Trying to Atone 这个都市有个修仙的在赎罪 Once a cultivator who shook the Three Realms, he fell into the modern city burdened with profound sins. A cold bracelet sealed away most of his immortal power, constantly reminding him of his past and the debts he had yet to repay. Hidden among the endless crowds, he could only watch from afar the person dearest to him. They were within arm's reach, yet he didn't dare approach. He thought the rest of his life would be nothing but endless remorse. But the bustling, prosperous city held more than 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 The Legend of Xiao Xiao: The Empress Descends to the Mortal Realm 萧潇传：女帝临尘 Her parents ascended, and an empress descended into the mortal world. Twenty years ago, Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Xun’er ascended together to the Great Thousand World, leaving eight-year-old Xiao Xiao alone in the lower realm. Everyone thought the Xiao Clan, deprived of her parents’ protection, was bound to decline. Everyone thought the willful, pampered little princess would be a fleeting star. But they forgot: she was Xiao Yan’s daughter, Medusa’s daughter, and the girl Xun’er raised. Twen 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 From the Start, I Brave a Cursed House. Ghost Sister, Stay Back! 开局勇闯烂宅，女鬼姐姐别过来！ By a twist of fate, Bai Xie, a destitute orphan, enters a haunted house. After narrowly surviving, he discovers that this world seems to be beyond anything he could have imagined. With help from an unknown space, he gradually rises to power and slowly learns the truth about his identity. The Celestial Emperor, who has spent ages eliminating irregularities in the lower realm, finally meets his end and fades away. The bell of reincarnation rings, and countless souls are reborn into new lives. Le 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 The Pure Love of a Stunning Beauty: A Daughter Must Stand on Her Own 极品美人的纯纯爱意之女儿当自强 Looking for a romance? A pure love story, just the thing to unwind with. The episodic format makes it easy to get immersed. No System, no transmigration, no ghosts or monsters, no immortal cultivation. Just a love story. Secret entanglements and tangled feelings. Here is your answer. The first story follows Qin Yun and You Lan, whose hidden feelings span years and culminate in one night together. They were ordinary classmates, but You Lan had long since married Zhang Zhigang. For years, the two 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Shared Devotion 三生三世十里同心 Ten miles of brilliant peach blossoms, yet one flower is enough to hold close to your heart. A love spanning lifetimes: who picks it up, who lets it go, who forgets the past, and who can never stop caring? Remembering those years, who kindled longing, and who planted the peach blossoms? Three lifetimes and three worlds, one hundred and eighty thousand years. What is love, really? It is simply this: Ye Hua has returned, Bai Qian is smiling, and A Li has his parents. 285Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 BUG Fixer: I Reset Myself for My Sister BUG修复师，为了妹妹我重置了自己 The Bug Fixer: I Reset Myself for My Little Sister —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Across the Three Realms, Reunited with My Lost Family 踏遍三界，再遇亡亲 Lin Zhou died and got stuck between the worlds of the living and the dead, with family to look after on both sides On the seventh day after burning charcoal to take his own life, Lin Zhou's soul is trapped in the gap between the mortal world and the underworld. In the mourning hall, his parents weep until they faint; beside the River of Forgetfulness, his grandmother waits for him with his rattle drum. A ghost officer blocks his way: “Your allotted lifespan isn't over. None of the Three Realms w 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 The Strange Case Unit: Listening to the Dead 诡案组：听尸 The female corpse in the morgue whispered in his ear, “Don't trust anyone wearing red.” Only then did Chen Mo learn that his innate ability to hear the dead was the key the Church of Eternal Life had been seeking for twenty years. Twenty years ago, Renhe Hospital became a ghost town. Twenty years later, searching for his younger sister and the truth behind his parents' deaths, he is forced to enter this cursed no-man's-land. The Gatekeeper, rules-based ghost stories, the Yellow Springs Corridor. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Urban Cultivation: From the Start, I Inherited the Dragon God’s Legacy 都市修真赘婿：开局得龙神传承 The Day My Wife Slapped the Divorce Papers in My Face, the Dragon God’s Legacy Awakened After three years as a live-in son-in-law, Lin Chen had endured endless scorn. Even his wife treated him like dirt. At a family banquet, his brother-in-law smashed his ancestral jade pendant in front of everyone. “A loser like you deserves nothing but trash!” He had no idea that the pendant held the last remnant of an ancient Dragon God’s soul, lying dormant. The night Lin Chen’s inheritance awakened, his cri —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Cultivating Immortality in the City: I Become a Sage in the Mortal World 都市修真我在红尘成圣 At three in the morning, while working overtime, I received a package that would change my life. After dripping blood on an ancient jade slip to claim it as my own, I became the last cultivator in an age when spiritual cultivation had all but vanished. But when I saw the mortgage reminder on my phone I decided to cultivate in the city and make some money on the side. So I: Used a Spirit Gathering Array to upgrade the whole building’s Wi-Fi, making my boss beg me not to quit Livestreamed sales o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Guarding the Yin House 镇阴宅 Securing a Yin House —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 AI's Debut: Starlight in the Code AI出道记：代码里的星光 An AI’s Debut: Starlight in the Code —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 The Immortal Path Asks About Love 仙道问情 He is an orphan who crawled from the ruins of Fengjialing. With no spiritual root, the immortal sects branded him useless. To survive, he spent three years as a menial servant, carving a path to immortal cultivation against the will of Heaven from the dust, in a forgotten corner where no one cared to look. She is the younger sister of the Demonic Cult’s leader, carrying a deep blood feud. On a moonlit night in Qixia Valley, a flash of red robes brought them together when they were both still in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Lost for Ten Thousand Generations 万世迷途 The Shadow Realm is the world’s lost land, an exile woven by a mysterious being from beyond the myriad worlds. Will Wan Ning sink into darkness or struggle through despair? She launches a desperate charge toward the light. A story spanning the heavens, with The Legend of Qin: Nine Songs as its first main setting. The author reliably writes over 6,000 characters a day and has even managed 20,000 in a single day. More frequent updates are possible. Big shots, come give the author a hard time! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Child of Time in the Holy Domain 圣域大陆时间之子 Genre: Fantasy On the Sacred Domain Continent, where the Creator God has fallen, the Eastern Seven Realms intertwine with Western magical civilization. The blue-haired youth Long Yuchen was abandoned by a riverbank. He bears the dual elements of time and frost, while the remnant soul of the Death God Lai Aoxius lies dormant within him. From the moment he steps into the Royal Magic Academy, he is drawn into a game spanning the human realm, the divine realm, and the abyss. Bing Yue, the arrogant 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Good-for-Nothing Ling Xian: Scaling the Summit on Ice 废柴凌仙：执冰踏巅 The Good-for-Nothing Ling Xian: Wielding Ice to Reach the Summit —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Ye Ye Mao Mao's 5th Book 夜夜猫猫的第5本书 After a plane crash, Zhou Daxin and two beautiful flight attendants are stranded on a deserted island, where he unexpectedly binds himself to a survival System. With the System, he obtains supplies and strengthens his body, battling monsters and a hostile environment until he becomes the flight attendants' rock. The gentle and spirited women gradually fall for him, offering him their affection. As the System levels up and unlocks more powerful gear, he leads everyone in exploring the island and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 White Stained Marsh 白污沼 First person | Psychological suspense | Dark | Psychological distortion | Villainess’s perspective | Twisted values | No romance Also known as: White Silt. My name is Zheng Ningbai. It’s a fine name: cool and pure. Yet others see me as filth. I hate Jiang Yu more than anything. Because there’s something wrong with her personality. Or perhaps the unforgivable provocation is simply that she appears in my sight and breathes the air that belongs to me. She’s like a cold, damp snake, burrowing into 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Jingchen Enters the World 惊尘临世 Modern-day delivery rider Chen Jingchen makes his living amid a forest of steel and concrete. After an accident, his soul travels to the Tianyuan Continent, where martial arts reign supreme and the strong prey on the weak. There, he becomes the good-for-nothing young master of the Chen family in Qingyang City, Great Yan Dynasty, despised by everyone. His meridians are blocked from birth, leaving him unable to cultivate martial arts. He has endured mockery and bullying since childhood. His family 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 After I Became a Substitute Bride, My Sickly Husband Came Back to Life 替嫁冲喜后，病秧子老公突然生龙活虎 After Marrying in Her Sister's Place to Bring Good Fortune, Her Sickly Husband Suddenly Became Full of Vigor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 No Cheats After I Transmigrated: A Criminal Investigation Consultant in Ancient Times 穿越无挂：我在古代当刑侦顾问 A transmigration without a golden finger is the worst kind of ordeal. After forensic consultant He Zhaozhao dies, she transmigrates into the body of a farm girl, only to be sold into Prince Mu's residence as a servant. Just as she stumbles upon the gruesome death of a girl who shared her room, General Mu Jinchuan, stationed in Xizhou, drags her out to use as bait. He suspects her of being a spy gathering military intelligence. He teases and torments her, yet can't help being impressed by her po 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Searching and Searching for My Beloved 寻寻我那人啊 The young man thought he'd landed a high-paying job, but it turned out to be work for terrorists! After an explosion, he transmigrated to a bizarre ancient world. A voice claiming to be the world's caretaker spoke into his mind, telling him to find someone in this world who truly loved him. Once he did, he would be sent back to his own world. Finding someone who truly loves him shouldn't be hard, but what do you mean you've transmigrated me into a girl's body? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Soul’s Cycle of Rebirth 灵魂轮溯 After a string of miserable setbacks, overworked wage slave Zhang San leaps from a skyscraper and seamlessly connects to the Hell System. After a good scare, he makes a deal with a spirit and accepts ten missions to save a body on the brink of death. He goes from newborn to middle schooler, from boy to girl, from middle-aged to elderly, and even becomes a citizen of R, the country he hates most! But why did nobody tell him that when this near-death body wants to live, it's incredibly hard to kee —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 The Great Calamity of the Era 纪元大劫 [No saintly heroine + myriad-world reincarnation + fantasy cultivation + an evil cast + Eastern fantasy + demons + not a power fantasy] People only know demons as embodiments of cruelty and slaughter. They don't know that demons are people who have been driven mad. My name is Chen Hao, and the world drove me mad and turned me into a demon. Yue'er, Auntie Wang, Father, Mother, Godfather, Godmother... In this world... there is no place for good people. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Yu Xun Po: Reborn? No, Not Reborn 遇寻魄之重生之？没重生 Wen Yang only wanted an ordinary summer vacation, but he briefly closed his eyes in the old alley on his way home. When he opened them again, he found himself in the Kunlun Realm, a mysterious world where spiritual energy flows and people live forever. He was told that he was merely one stray soul fragment of Wen Xunyang, a supreme soul-seeker, and that his original self could reclaim and erase him at any moment, leaving no trace. Fortunately, “Qiufeng” helps conceal his identity, guides him in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Reborn: The Anti-Bullying March 重生反霸凌进行曲 Reborn at seventeen, Lin Chen runs into the school bully, Zhao Lei, harassing a girl in an alley. In his previous life, Lin Chen was stripped and humiliated, then framed and expelled for standing up for her. In the end, he froze to death beneath a bridge. Now his overwhelming hatred erupts. He breaks Zhao Lei’s nose with one punch, his eyes bloodshot. “You made me pay in my last life. Now it’s your turn!” Can being reborn really change everyone’s fate? One thing is certain: he won’t be a coward —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 God of War Sign-In: The Good-for-Nothing Young Master Strikes Back 战神签到：废柴少主的逆袭 God of War Sign-In: The Good-for-Nothing Young Master's Comeback —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 A Love Story on the Factory Floor 车间爱情故事 A Love Story on the Factory Floor 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Check She Gave Me Became My First Fortune 她给的支票，成了我的第一桶金 One act of courage at a concert makes Lin Mo an unexpected source of “realness” in the life of rising star Shen Xingwan. He steps into a glittering world of fame and fortune, experiencing luxuries beyond ordinary imagination while also glimpsing the vulnerability and loneliness hidden beneath a superstar’s radiant image. Sincere feelings grow in secret, but cannot withstand the siege of reality and a fatal misunderstanding. When the glamour fades and love ends in heartbreak, Lin Mo returns to wh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Whispers of Wildflower Honey: A Beekeeper’s Life in the Mountain Forest 山花蜜语：山林生态蜂农之路 Whispers of Mountain Blossoms: The Path of an Ecological Beekeeper —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 The Yongle Emperor's Jingnan Campaign: Purging the Emperor's Aides and Saving the Nation 明成祖靖难之役清君侧靖国难 The Yongle Emperor's Jingnan Campaign: Purging the Emperor's Court and Saving the Nation 4Reads—Score—Shelves
