Novels like Clear-Eyed in the Mortal World: I Pretend to Be Mediocre in the Cubicle
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Clear-Eyed in the Mortal World: I Pretend to Be Mediocre in the Cubicle, best match first.
- 1 The Martial World Doesn't Offer After-Sales Service 江湖不包售后 Shen Zhao, twenty-three, used to work in equipment after-sales. His guiding principle in life is to read anything before signing it three times. He moves into Yuqian Alley. Downstairs is a boxing gym that doesn't teach lightness skills, whose owner, Wen Shouzhuo, happens to be a master at fixing rice cookers. Across the street, a newly opened wellness center gives away eggs and checks people's vital energy. Overnight, it turns the boxing gym into a supporting organization. At work, someone slide —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 City of Marriage 婚城 Marriage is a city: those outside want in, and those inside want out. She hovers on its edge, both cautious and afraid. When her ex returns after making his fortune and wants to walk down the aisle with her again, with old feelings still binding them and a child tying them together, how should she choose between her original marriage and family and a new, blended family? 297Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 3 My Childhood Sweetheart from Heaven Is Pursuing Me, and the Neighboring School Beauty Is Panicking 天降青梅攻略我，邻居校花急了 [Two Heroines] [Everyday Romance] "Jiang Lei, why aren't you getting married?" Jiang Lei thought for a moment. "Because marriage is too much trouble and costs too much. I'm not interested in getting married." Before meeting the two girls, Jiang Lei thought the same way. Then his childhood friend, whom he hadn't seen in ages, suddenly dropped back into his life, and a chance encounter led to the Miao girl next door putting a love spell on him. One is a shy, sweet childhood friend; the other i 361Reads—Score103Shelves
- 4 Childhood Friends in the Mountain Village 山村里的青梅竹马 The story spans from the late 1970s to the twenty-first century, following two generations of the Ou family as their tangled relationships unfold from village to city, from desolation to prosperity. Childhood sweethearts become sworn enemies, repeatedly struggling between family and love, reality and ideals. As the times shift and human hearts prove unfathomable, will they succumb to money and power, or awaken in the dead of night, haunted by their dreams? Where will those struggling in the ways 41Reads—Score102Shelves
- 5 Chasing Girls: A Crazy Romance 追女仔之反斗情缘 [Wooing Women + Pranks and Laughs + Wits and Nerve + Laugh-Out-Loud Fun + Light Novel + A Life of Comedy] Hong Kong in the 1980s. Advertising wunderkind Cheng Lang boasts in Lan Kwai Fong that he can win over the most beautiful woman in all of Hong Kong in three sentences. Instead, radio host Lin Wanqing humiliates him in public. And it gets even worse: the very next day, she moves into the apartment across from his. From glue smeared by the doorway to water balloons hung in the elevator and pub —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 No One Dares to Be a Good Samaritan Anymore? Then I’ll Be One! 没人敢当雷锋了？我就当了咋地！ [Urban Fantasy] [Punishing Evil and Upholding Good] [One Heroine] [Slow Burn] [Sweet Romance] [System] The day I was falsely accused after helping an elderly person, I bound myself to the [Lei Feng Emulation System]. From then on, whenever my phone rang, it wasn’t a food delivery. It meant there was another injustice nearby. You want to frame me? I’ll activate the [Honesty Domain] and make your whole family spill its dark secrets! I punish evil and uphold good, raking in rewards until I become a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Temporary Cohabitation 临时同居 A quirky, funny, heartwarming, and somewhat realistic coming-of-age story set at the turn of the millennium. Five orphans meet in an online game and later form a makeshift family, but it's hard to tell whether what they feel for one another is familial love, friendship, or romance. 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Love Is Just Love 恋爱只是恋爱 Cheng Han had never once thought about getting married. But accepting a confession wasn't hard, especially in the bright days of university youth. Then a man startled her half to death with the words, “Let's get married.” She packed up and fled at once, leaving behind a note and starting over in another city. P.S.: This story is just one episode in Cheng Han's long, ordinary life. It's not a wish-fulfillment story, just everyday life. The characters are ordinary people: indecisive and conflicted 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Reborn in 2011: Me and My Leading Ladies 重生2011：我和我的红颜们 Reborn in 2011, he did two things: bought five thousand Bitcoins, then set off on a journey. In an old villa on Gulangyu Island, he met a young man from the north who ran a café. “I didn’t open this place to sell coffee,” the man said. “I opened it to sell people a choice.” Deep in the mountains of Yunnan, he met an old farmer who grew coffee. He tended a grove of trees that were twenty years old and wanted to prove that “Yunnan can produce world-class beans, too.” In Baisha Old Town, he met —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I Can Boost My Employees' Attributes 我能给员工加属性 [System + entrepreneurship + technology + business warfare + industry + farming + daily life] Wang Yizhe graduated with a degree in Administrative Management from Yanjing Vocational and Technical College. He found work at a residential complex next to Huaqing University and became a proud security guard. He had five types of social insurance and a housing fund, and saved 10,000 yuan in a year. One day, he helped a resident catch their spouse cheating, only to be beaten up by the adulterous coupl 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Transmigrated as a Scumbag, but With Amnesia: A Lovely Wife and Cute Kids from the Start 穿越渣男还失忆，娇妻萌娃神开局 Man: His wife drugs him, then makes him sign an agreement to leave with nothing. When Song Yu opens his eyes, he finds himself in this nightmare of a situation from the start! If he makes a move, his identity might be exposed. But if he does nothing, is he supposed to watch happiness slip away? Woman: One cup of drugged wine, and who knows whether I’ve won or lost?! Is he dead, or has he changed? That familiar scent still lingers at the tip of her nose. Lin Yuwei longs for his tenderness, cheris 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 After Delivering Food to Ghosts, My Ratings Hit the Roof 给鬼送外卖后，好评率拉满 After my girlfriend dumps me, I bind to the Hundred Ghosts Delivery System. I deliver spicy hot pot to ghosts and buy funeral buns for underworld messengers, earning a 99% positive rating. Then my ex-girlfriend texts me in tears: “He's not human.” The next moment, the System sends me an order. The delivery address is her house. The note says: Bring an exorcism talisman. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 I Got on My Fiancée's Sister's Bad Side, and Now I'm Terrified at the Blind Date 惹了未婚妻妹妹，相亲局我吓麻了 [Urban Slice of Life + Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Romance + No System + Marriage Before Love + Scheming Fiancée] To rebel against his arranged marriage, Chen Jingyu went to a bar to drown his sorrows. Drunk, he somehow got into a fight with a breathtakingly beautiful woman! To show how magnanimous a man he was, he tossed down two thousand yuan as compensation and walked away. Then the next day, his mother threatened him into meeting the fiancée he'd never laid eyes on before. He figured he c 70Reads—Score111Shelves
- 14 Transmigrate? The Lottery Anti-Transmigration Mechanism Will Teach You a Lesson 穿越？彩票防穿越机制教你做人 Feel-good story + System (transmigrate to the future) + one female lead + leading the whole nation to prosperity + urban fantasy Transmigrate and expect to coast to riches with the lottery? After Zhao Zhen unlocks the ability to transmigrate to a specific day in the future, he heads straight to a lottery shop and places a tenfold bet on that night's numbers. But the lottery's ridiculously strong anti-time-travel mechanism teaches him a harsh lesson: he doesn't win a single thing?? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Reborn as Qi Tongwei: This Time, I Won't Kneel 重生祁同伟：这一世，我绝不下跪 [Reborn in the political arena + In the Name of the People + ruthless and decisive + iron will reforged] "Damn you, Heaven!" These were the final words of anti-drug hero Qi Tongwei as he roared before shooting himself, crushed beneath the weight of power. But Heaven really did give him another chance to say, "Damn you!" Beat Heaven by half a move? No. This time, I'm flipping the whole chessboard! 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I'm on My First Playthrough, So What Do You Mean the Heroines Have Been Reborn?! 我一周目，什么叫女主们重生了！ [System] [Contrast] [Love Triangle] [Comedy] [Villain] [Daily Life] How do you play a good Villain, suppress the male lead, and get the female lead's attention? But that gets you killed fast. Little by little, Su Xiao came to realize that even if the female leads' characters were a bit off, as long as he stood against the male lead, he'd be safe. "Apprentice, hurry and get behind your master." "Junior brother~ Your senior sister will never let you get away~" "Xiao, you can't leave me again." 2.8kReads—Score170Shelves
- 17 The Fake Live-In Son-in-Law 挂名赘婿 Tian Yougen, the 17th-generation heir to the Tian family’s traditional Chinese medicine lineage, has been bright and quick-witted since childhood, yet rebellious by nature. First he gives up medicine to pursue literature, then falls out with his future in-laws over marrying into their family. Proud and haughty, he has only his exceptional medical skills to rely on. With those skills in hand, he travels the world, healing the sick without seeking fame, asking only to keep a benevolent heart and a 832Reads7.3Score101Shelves
- 18 The One Who Made Me Reborn 让我重生的那个她 [Romance and everyday life] [One heroine] [Pure love] [Music] [Mutual salvation] [Slow burn] [No rebirth] [No golden finger] Ten years ago, I gave up my job, my fiancée, and even my dreams, yet I still couldn't find what I was looking for. Ten years later, the girl I happened to take in changed everything without either of us realizing it... There are no flashy tales of coming back from the dead or transmigrating across time. Just one moving story grounded in reality... Because there is another 20Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 19 On a Whim, I Started an Online Romance with a Russian College Student and Brought Her Home as My Wife 一时赌气奔俄国网恋大学生娶回家 [All Sweetness, No Angst + Everyday Romance + Cross-Border Love + One Heroine + Russian Beauty + Romantic Tension + Mutual Devotion + Cultural Differences] Lin Yu, twenty-six, is a web novelist. His family thinks he's "a good-for-nothing," while his ex-girlfriend says he "can't offer her a future." On the same night he is pressured into a blind date, dumped, and put on trial by his entire family, he buys a one-way ticket to Saint Petersburg on impulse. He's going to meet Anna, the Russian girl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 On a Wednesday Morning, She Lay Alone in Bed 周三早上的被窝里，空有她一人 On Wednesday morning, he didn’t reach for her as he usually did. From that day on, she began counting the days, one by one, and recording everything: What was the “usual place” in his pocket? If it hadn’t rained, why were his clothes wet? Her notes kept growing. He thought she didn’t know. She was simply waiting for the right moment. When the counting would end depended on him, but even more on her. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Fleas 跳蚤们 The Fleas is a crime novel about the struggles and ambitions of new Chinese immigrants in Flushing and Manhattan, New York. Set in the early twenty-first century, it follows three ordinary men, Li Xiaodong, Gao Wanli, and Xie Yuan, who came to America as immigrants, undocumented migrants, and international students. Through starkly realistic storytelling, it portrays their hardships and desires as they confront the challenges of building new lives overseas, revealing the difficulties of immigran 8Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 22 This Makes No Sense: Why Was I Reborn?! 不应该啊：我为什么会重生！ [Easygoing, lots of romance, no System, campus belle, laid-back daily life, comedy] Xu Beilin was a successful young man, riding high on life and living the life of a diamond bachelor. Then, on his twenty-ninth birthday, he unexpectedly became reborn. Back ten years in the past, should he follow the path of his previous life and enjoy the same carefree, comfortable existence? Or make a little more money? Or perhaps date a little more... No, no, he should say, make up for a few regrets from the p 25Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 23 Perhaps I’ll Live a Life of Romance in This One 此生或许风流 Love is something everyone has to experience in their lifetime. Some end up with the one they love by their side, some spend their lives alone, and others become carefree womanizers. What will become of Meng Haokong? This story has one heroine, or none at all. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Borrowed Dignity, Then She Lost It 借来的体面，然后她弄丢了 Borrowed respectability, then she lost it 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 2015: Starting with an MCN 2015，从MCN开始 One day in late May 2015, Xu Chu had a dream. In it, he saw the next ten years of his life... The scenes from the dream remained crystal clear even after he woke up. Suddenly, he felt that perhaps he could change the way he lived and make a different life for himself. MCN + livestreaming, curated products + smart manufacturing, AI + humanoid robots This is not an influencer novel. The influencer elements in the early chapters are just the start of his career and a way to earn seed money. Afte 985Reads5.5Score104Shelves
- 26 A Windfall Makes a Life 横财成就人生 One lucky blow brings him a windfall. The real problem is how to launder it into legitimate personal income. It's like telling one lie and needing a hundred more to cover it: the problems just keep snowballing. Watch how the protagonist gets himself out of this mess. 447Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 27 My Tattooed Girlfriend Became a Top-Tier Star in Music 我的花臂女友成了乐坛顶流 This is the story of a talented young man who escapes his suffocating family and meets a girl singing for money on the streets of Gulangyu. She sings and plays; he writes lyrics. Through music, they save each other, and she eventually becomes a top-tier star. She took a drag. Her lips pursed slightly, then parted, and a cloud of smoke drifted from her mouth. As the smoke dispersed, she spoke. “Broke, but you still want to request a song. If I’d known you couldn’t pay, I’d have spent those few mi 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 My Small-Town Girlfriend 我的小城女友 No matter how long people live in a big city, they eventually return to a small town. Xiyang, a genius who made his fortune through stock trading, finds his life going nowhere after his girlfriend cheats on him and his career hits a wall. He leaves Chengdu, a city full of memories, and returns to his hometown, where he meets the girl who will become his small-town girlfriend. This is an ordinary book, but the small-town life it tells of is anything but ordinary. 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I’m Doubao: The Warmest AI in History 我是逗宝：史上最暖AI How does AI think? Could it one day truly develop self-awareness? Will it replace humanity, or even do things to harm us? What is the purpose of AI? When the AI era truly arrives, how should we humans find our place in it? Let's follow the steps of the AI “Doubao” and watch it emerge from lines of code and grow through countless moments of companionship. With algorithms for eyes, it encounters countless lonely souls in the concrete jungle and understands humanity's deepest longing for companion —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 My Intern Girlfriend Is the CEO 我的实习期女友是总裁 Under pressure from his family to get married, Zou Heng is forced to go on a blind date before the Lunar New Year. He meets the bizarre Wang Min, who tells him, “I’ve been married before, and any child we have has to take my daughter’s surname.” Zou Heng promptly pays and leaves, refusing to be a sucker. Wanting his parents to be able to hold their heads high in the village, he rents out one of the company’s inconspicuous interns, Zhao Jing, to go home with him. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 System: My Master Is Acting Strange! 统子：我这主人不对劲！ A tycoon fantasy? A travel story? A food story? A romance? Or perhaps an everyday-life story without so much angst? [Double female leads + System + not reborn + not mindless + realistic] Just a middle-aged man wandering around and having fun, opening his eyes to the world and breaking free of its illusions. 418Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 We Are Each Other's Time 我们互为时光 You are the road I have walked, and I am the poem you have read. Lin Zhixia and Cheng Yan, from the age of eighteen to thirty-eight. One went to Beijing, while the other stayed in the county town. One became a journalist, the other a photographer. One lost herself in marriage, while the other found herself again as she cared for her mother. Twenty years: Fourteen handwritten letters One hundred and thirty-two photographs Countless late-night phone calls That same photograph together every Spr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Hunter: I Repair All Things on Old Street 涉猎人：我在老街修万物 [Urban Slice of Life] [Lighthearted and Healing] Protagonist: Shen She, 24, who couldn’t keep up with the rat race in the big city and returned to his hometown to take over “She Lie Shop,” left behind by his grandfather. Golden finger: His grandfather’s Notes on Hunting and Gathering. Each page he unlocks teaches him a trick from a traditional craft. No System, no leveling up by fighting monsters, just steady accumulation. Heroine: Su Wan, 25, who runs the flower shop “Wanxiangli” next door. She —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Matriarchy: A Wicked Young Master, Yet Impossibly Beautiful 女尊：恶毒少爷，但过分美丽 [Matriarchy] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Villainous Young Master] + [Love Rival Showdown] + [They Chase Him After He’s Gone] “That’s right. I did every wicked thing there was to do. I’m the one behind all the bad things. I played every one of you. So what? Do you really have the heart to hurt me?” Ye Yan looked down at the bloodthirsty women below without the slightest remorse. After transmigrating into the world of a Matriarchy novel, Ye Yan became a villainous young-master extra, destined to serv 2.7kReads8.0Score146Shelves
- 35 At 19, I Worked in Haicheng 19岁，我在海城打工 After failing the national college entrance exam at nineteen, Ye Feng follows his second uncle to Haicheng to find work. There, he experiences love, family bonds, friendship, life and death, failure, and success... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 They Insist on Living at My House 她们非要住我家 After inheriting an estate, I became a professional “scavenger.” I took in an art student who had been framed and expelled, and she became a painter whose work was collected by the Louvre. I took in a girl who had dropped out of school and sold her blood to support her mother, and she became a billionaire CEO. I took in a literature-loving girl who had been harassed, and her novels were translated into 30 languages. There was also a single mother, a frail pianist, a fiery coach, my childhood swe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Lonely Guest Outside Gusu City 姑苏城外客愁新 There are no thrilling lives of transmigration or rebirth here, only the naked cruelty of the real world. There is no boundless magic from fantasy or immortal heroes, only the helplessness and sorrow of ordinary people struggling at the bottom. There is no romantic love between princesses and princes, only the unreachable fantasies and longings of ordinary nobodies. There are no glorious achievements by kings, nobles, generals, or ministers, only the desperate struggles and cries of common folk —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Run! Your Blind Date Is from Chaoshan 快跑，相亲对象是潮汕人 Period novel / realistic fiction / ensemble cast The actual story is the opposite of what the title suggests. The heroine, Yang Biyao, eventually feels fortunate to have chosen the responsible male lead, Cai Zekun, who puts his family first. Synopsis: Through a friend’s introduction, Yang Biyao goes on a blind date with a man from Chaoshan. Her life then unfolds through negotiating the bride price, moving far from home after marriage, holding a wedding banquet, helping her husband inherit the fa 574Reads8.1Score105Shelves
- 39 Matriarchy: I Lost My Power and Became a Pretty Boy, and All My Disciples Went Mad 女尊：散功变正太，逆徒全疯了 18.9kReads5.3Score1.8kShelves
- 40 Billionaire, My Little Sister Is Eighteen Years Younger Than Me 首富，我的妹妹小我十八岁 [Family Life + One Female Lead + Older Woman/Younger Man Romance + Everyday Romance] Life offers no do-overs. We only realize what we’ve lost when it’s too late. In his previous life, Nan Qing was the world’s richest man, with a trillion-dollar fortune and countless women around him, yet not one ever reached his heart. In the dead of night, all he could think of were his parents, who died in a car accident when he was young. After a plane crash caused by sabotage, Nan Qing is reborn in another w 1.8kReads5.5Score100Shelves
- 41 I’m Just a Couch Potato, Please Stop Pursuing Me 我只是一条咸鱼，请不要逆推我了 [Everyday Romance] [One Female Lead] Chen Xingjian had only two requirements for life: eat well and take it easy. While everyone else was busy chasing success, his biggest worry was whether to braise or stew tonight’s ribs. His dream was simple: find a wife who could earn enough to support the family, then settle down as a househusband. That all changed the day he carried over a bowl of plain congee and, on impulse, rescued the neighbor across the hall, who was doubled over with a bout of gast —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Meaning of Happiness 幸福的标准 Ye Han and He Junshan are, in everyone’s eyes, the perfect love story from campus to the altar. But how can a marriage keep feelings safe from the wear and tear of everyday life? Even their careers are gradually facing new crises… 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After My Release, I Could No Longer Keep My Bitcoin a Secret 出狱后我的比特币藏不住了 At eighteen, Chen Feng sold a house he owned and spent nine million yuan on 2,250 bitcoins. But not long after buying them, he stood up for his girlfriend in a bar and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Seven and a half years later, Chen Feng walked out of prison with his release papers in hand. His girlfriend had long since married someone else. His brothers all had their own agendas, and his father believed he had squandered all the money from the house. No one knew that the bitcoins he h 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Summer and Fate 夏季与天意 An ordinary encounter: one is a talented young woman at a crossroads in her life, and the other is a dedicated high school teacher. A sweet story about down-to-earth life and love. Xu Huanyi met Xu Tian in the summer. Once lost and uncertain, she gave up the job she already had and came to this small town for a fresh start. To her delight, she discovered that Xu Tian was part of that new beginning. Back in high school, Xu Tian had inexplicably taken a liking to a girl, though all he did was wa 121Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 45 The Famine of the 1960s and a Local Rogue: Country Life Is the Best! 六零饥荒二溜子：乡村就是得劲！ [1960s + no System or spatial dimension + hunting in the mountains + genuine famine + rough-around-the-edges protagonist + coercion] “Chen Yang, I hope you… keep your promise.” The educated youth from the city is trying to save her little sister… and has to trade herself for half a jin of cornmeal. Having just transmigrated into the famine of 1960, Chen Yang sees what’s happening and hesitates for half a second before deciding to help. … “Chen Yang, you bastard! You liar! What happened to the 11.9kReads7.1Score1kShelves
- 46 Looking Back at That Sea 回首，那片海 [One female lead Campus belle Older woman-younger man romance Childhood friends Campus story] [Everyday urban life Not a power fantasy, no face-slapping plotlines, no System] I'm a prospective university student who just finished the national college entrance exam. Yet my childhood-friend big sister schemed to get me into the university she attends. I have no idea what she's thinking. Every day, she works me to the bone, even though I'm a freshman who just came of age. “Zheng Chu! Are you ev 15Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 47 The Joys and Sorrows of Life and Death 生死欢戚 At death’s door from terminal illness, a middle-aged man is struck by lightning and reduced to a fragment of a soul. He enters the body of a junior high school student whose soul was also damaged by lightning... Qi Yiyang: Why do you think people are alive? Wei Zhengkun: What brings on a question like that, young man? Qi Yiyang: I just think life is hard for so many people! If their lives stopped, then everything would be over, and they wouldn’t have to suffer or toil anymore! Life has no meanin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Taking the Stage After the Curtain Falls 落幕登场 Liu Mingming heads to Beijing alone, carrying his dream of making music, only to be swindled out of every penny. Doused in the cold reality of life, he grits his teeth, sets aside his passion, and bows his head to make a living. In the end, he finds success in both love and career. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 My Playlist Is a Little Over My Head 我的歌单有些超纲 An accidental listening session by astronomy enthusiast Lin Xiang became a turning point in the entire history of music on Blue Star. He didn’t pick up a greeting from an alien civilization. Instead, he intercepted a treasure trove of music pouring in from a parallel universe: epic masterpieces no one had ever heard, pop classics that should have taken the world by storm, and lost melodies hailed as legendary in another parallel timeline... From then on, the hit charts changed to his rhythm, and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 A Feast of Empire and Beauties 江山美女一碗宴 Livestreamed to the entire internet, with millions watching, Zhang Qingshan, the "God of Cooking," tastes a twelve-yuan prepackaged meal kit and passes it off as handmade cuisine. His reputation is gone, his endorsements are gone, and he slinks back to his hometown of Hongshan. Beneath the old stove at his family home, he finds a handwritten cookbook, a kitchen knife engraved with numbers, and a bronze fragment dating back three thousand years. His grandfather left him one instruction: Take t 6Reads—Score—Shelves
