Novels like After Seven Years as a Substitute, I Turn to Ash
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as After Seven Years as a Substitute, I Turn to Ash, best match first.
- 1 After the Strategist Died, the Princess Regretted It 军师死后，公主后悔不已 After the Strategist's Death, the Princess Was Filled with Regret 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 A Special Letter 特别的来信 [Song Xu] I think this tale of unrequited love should be signed by the mountains and rivers, briefly reunited in midsummer -Song Xu 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Drinking Away My Feelings, My Beloved Returns to Silence 忘情饮尽，良人归寂 I drank the Forget Love wine to the last drop, and my beloved returned to silence. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Love Is a Pain That Cuts to the Bone 爱是伤筋动骨的痛 One-line summary: I loved him with all my heart, and he hated me with all his. At last, I gave up on him and lost my life, but he was left acting as if he had lost his soul... Standard summary: Jiang Yunxi asked Shen Muhan through tears, “Can you marry me?” Shen Muhan said, “Yes, unless your father isn’t the murderer, unless you aren’t his daughter.” Faced with those two exceptions, Jiang Yunxi finally understood that some things could not be overcome, even by life or death... She leaped to her 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Meng Ping'an, Dream of Peace 孟平安，梦平安 A girl who was abandoned four times chose to die alone just as someone finally came along to love her. Her name was Meng Ping’an. She spent her whole life longing for peace, but never found it. 255Reads—Score114Shelves
- 6 They Think I'm Easy to Manipulate, but They Don't Know I'm Just Putting on an Act 他们以为我任人拿捏，殊不知我只是在演戏 They think I’m easy to manipulate, but they don’t know I’m just putting on an act. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Little Lucky Star 小幸运，幸运星 [Two Male Leads] [Slight Angst] [Bad Ending] Qiu Xingyun is a star longing for good luck. Jiang Hua Huai is a star whose life is nearing its end. "Jiang Hua Huai, don't die..." "Mm. I won't die." I don't want to die anymore. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 After Nine Years of Secret Love Came to Nothing, He'll Remain a Widower for Me the Rest of His Life 九年暗恋落空，他余生为我守寡 My Nine-Year Crush Came to Nothing, So He'll Spend the Rest of His Life a Widower for Me 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 After Our Divorce, My Ex-Wife Said She Was Pregnant with My Child 离婚后，前妻说她怀了我的孩子 After the Divorce, My Ex-Wife Said She Was Carrying My Child 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The General's Legitimate Daughter and the Beishu Hostage Prince: He Won Everything, but Never Saw Me One Last Time 将军嫡女x北朔质子：他赢了一切却没见我最后一面 The general’s legitimate daughter x the hostage prince of Beishuo: He won everything, yet never saw me one last time —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Only After His Terminal Stomach Cancer Diagnosis Did He Learn I'd Made Soup for Three Years 胃癌晚期他才知道我炖了三年汤 Only when his stomach cancer was terminal did he learn that I'd been making soup for him for three years. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Twenty-Six Sunsets in the ICU, and They Can’t See Me ICU里的二十六次日落，他们看不见我 Twenty-Six Sunsets in the ICU, and They Can't See Me 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Day His Critical Condition Notice Arrived, He Got Engaged 病危通知下来那天，他订婚了 The Day He Received His Terminal Diagnosis, He Got Engaged —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The South Wind Crosses the Border; I Miss You Until It Hurts 南风过境，念你成疾 Eight months pregnant, she finally learned that it had all been a scheme. Accused of a crime that never happened, she lost her child and her heart, and sank into utter despair… 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Big Brother, Will I Be Able to See You When I’m Dead? 哥，我死了就能看见你了吗？ Bro, if I die, will I be able to see you? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 That Year, the Wind Never Reached Wen Yu 那年风未渡温予 That Year, the Wind Never Reached Wen Yu 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I Live, the Dead's Love Beating in My Chest 我活着，胸腔跳动着亡者的爱 I am alive, and the love of the dead beats in my chest. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Young and Reckless, I First Saw the Snow 那时年少，初见雪 Back then, we were young, and I first saw the snow. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Summer Has Passed, and You Have Not Returned 夏去人不还 Summer is gone, but the one who left has not returned. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Forever My Childhood Sweetheart 恋恋青梅 Sweethearts from Childhood 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Back from the Bloodbath 浴血归来 Returning in a Storm of Blood —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 How Did Things Come to This Between Us? 你我何至于此啊 How Did It Come to This Between Us? 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 After Becoming a Living Medicine for My Husband's White Moonlight, the Game Began 给夫君的白月光当药人后，游戏开始了 After Becoming My Husband's White Moonlight's Living Medicine, the Game Began 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 My Beloved Wife Rongrong 吾妻融融 My Beloved Wife, Rongrong 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Pretended to Be Drunk and Kissed My One True Love 装醉后，我强吻了白月光 After Pretending to Be Drunk, I Kissed My Moonlight Crush —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Demon’s Handbook of Exploitation 恶魔压榨手册 The Demon’s Handbook of Exploitation 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Moonlight on the Southern Branch, Burdened by Deep Love 南枝月影负情深 She was framed by the woman he loved and explained herself countless times. But he never believed her. Years of companionship earned her not a shred of trust or pity. He severed the tendons in her hands and destroyed her martial arts abilities. Then he tried to kill her for the woman he loved. Later, with silver hair, she stood in the palace hall and drove a sword through her own chest. Blood stained her robes… 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Lovers in the Heart of the Sea 爱人海中央 [Secret crush] [Tragic romance with a tragic ending] Meeting doesn't always lead to a future, but it always means something. In the fanfare of youth, Lu Zisu and I had something beautiful. Though it was full of regrets, neither of us ever regretted starting. In the sea of love, let's swim against the current! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 In the End, I Long for Freedom 我终究向往自由 [Youthful campus romance + secret crush + mutual devotion + tragic ending] The first time Shen Huai saw Xu Xiawei, it was as if something struck him in the heart. In an instant, he was certain that Xu Xiawei was the person destined for him. He loved Xu Xiawei, but love made him timid. He was always careful, constantly afraid of disturbing her. Shen Huai said, “I don’t want my feelings to become a burden to her.” Yet he was always sneaking glances at Xu Xiawei. When he wanted to give her a card, 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Strong Female Lead I Created Forces Me to Endure Her Suffering 我创造的大女主，逼我替她渡苦海 The Powerful Female Lead I Created Is Forcing Me to Suffer in Her Place —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 All the Stars in the Sky Can't Compare to You 漫天繁星不及你 She was kidnapped and left freezing in the snow for three hours, only to hear her husband ask, “What does it matter to me whether you live or die?” So she died. After her death, her husband was consumed by regret. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 After Faking Her Death to Escape, She Regretted It for the Rest of Her Life 假死脱身后，她悔恨终生 After faking her death to escape, she regretted it for the rest of her life 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 May the Lights Never Go Out 只愿灯火长明 May the Lights Never Go Out 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 After I Died, the CEO Who Favored His New Mistress Went Mad 我死后，偏心上位女的霸总疯了 After I died, the domineering CEO who favored his mistress went mad 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Cage That Eats Away at the Soul 蚀骨囚笼 [Obsessive CEO + maximum angst + vengeful, powerful heroine + no getting back together] A word of warning: this book is extremely angsty. If you can’t handle that, don’t read it. The rest of the story follows the heroine as she is reborn, fights her way to the top, and mercilessly takes revenge on the hero. If you love angst, dive in! Who doesn’t know how terrifying the Mu family prison is? Anyone who goes in comes out barely alive. Yet Bai Shu survived there for five years, enduring an abdomina 2.1kReads8.0Score101Shelves
- 36 Chaos and Ruin 乱与沉沦 I clutched the boy by the throat. "You deserve to die!" The boy stared at me and smiled. "I'd gladly die by your hand, big sister." For a time, I thought I would kill him myself. I never imagined he would pull me out of one abyss, only to drag me into another and plunge me into utter ruin. It's tragic. I never saw my mother once from the day I was born. More absurd still, she came back when I was twenty. She returned to the home I shared with my father, bringing a boy with her. 431Reads—Score105Shelves
- 37 A Musical Romance in the Ancestral Home “骨灰房”里的音乐奇缘 A Musical Romance in a ‘Grave-Ash House’ 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 My Fiancé Died Before Me and Never Changed His Heart, While I Changed Mine After I Died 未婚夫原来死得比我早还没变心，而我死了就变心 My fiancé turned out to have died before me and never stopped loving me, while I changed my heart after he died 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Late Snow Fell Before I Met You 晚雪未逢君 The Snow Came Late, and I Never Met You —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Evening Breeze Missed Our Embrace by an Inch 晚风差一步相拥 The Evening Breeze Fell One Step Short of an Embrace —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 My Heart Knows the Depth of My Love 心声知我万般痴 My Heart Knows the Depth of My Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Mistaken Marriage on the Long Street, May You Find Peace Year After Year 长街错嫁，岁岁予卿安 A Mistaken Marriage on the Long Street, May You Find Peace Year After Year —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Next Year’s Spring 来年的春 [Signed for publication] [Mutual salvation + sweet and angsty] An insecure, sensitive, well-behaved girl × a rebellious, roguishly handsome boy with a softer side Note: If you’re confused, check out the author’s other short story, Snow in the Eighth Year. When they first met, neither of them ever imagined that one day they would fall deeply in love. One day, she looked up and called to him, “Chen Yi.” He answered. There was a smile in Lin Shu’s eyes, though her expression was calm. She smiled 21Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 44 The Rose Is Lost 玫瑰已失 At the hospital, she inexplicably learned that she did not have long to live. After that, she divorced the man who was her husband in name only. She couldn't bear to let him go, but the diagnosis left her no choice but to set him free. After the divorce, her health deteriorated by the day. Her best friend urged her to be hospitalized, but she shook her head and refused. In the end, she passed away alone at home. Later, under pressure from his grandmother in the Shen family, Shen Shen sent people 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Fish Don’t Venture into Deep Forests, but Rongqing May Find a Place to Stay 鱼不赴深林，但容情会有寄 Fish don't seek out the deep forest, but Rong Qing has a place to call home. 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Phoenix’s Summer 不死鸟的夏 The gardenias bloomed, but the person watching them with me wasn't the boy who had dazzled my youth that summer long ago. He had gone to protect another girl for the rest of his life. I love white magnolias in summer. They usually bloom during the season, and their fragrance, like that of orchids, evokes an image of pure, jade-like beauty. After meeting Xu Yue, I fell in love with gardenias. They bloom every year around the summer solstice, their petals a pure white that symbolizes a promise to 31Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 47 Fate Deals Me a Love Trap 风月赐我相思局 Before their wedding, he told her that he would take her as his consort and give her the rank of princess consort, but nothing more. But he had no idea that she would offer him her life with her own hands, so he could save the woman he loved, risking everything just to spend what little time she had left by his side. At the end of her life, she looked at his seemingly panicked face with sorrowful eyes and smiled. “Mo Yuan, in the next life, I only wish we’d never met!” 62Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 48 We Once Promised to Grow Old Together in Happiness 曾许清欢共白头 We Once Promised to Grow Old Together in Joy 1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 49 After I Died, My Brother Went Mad 我死后，哥哥疯了 My brother hates me. He wants me dead. I asked him through my tears, “Aren't I your biological sister?” He sneered. “I don't have a sister.” That night, I was killed by a car that came out of nowhere. But he went mad. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Brilliant Yet Brief 灿烂而又短暂的 Letter after letter was filled with Xu Yuan'an's longing and love. No one expected disaster to strike so soon, and Fang Zhiyou died in that accident. “She was like a rainbow, and only when you meet her do you know her.” Fang Zhiyou really was like a rainbow: brilliant, but fleeting. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
