Novels like A Dream of the Capital: Tales of Xiao Yun
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Dream of the Capital: Tales of Xiao Yun, best match first.
- 1 I’ll Wait for You in Guizhou 我在贵州等你 (Print edition signed) [Mutual healing + youth and school life + reunion after a long separation + small-town fiction] [Artistic, haughty girl and cold, gloomy boy] -Story Complete- During her second year of high school, Xia Yu transferred from bustling Shanghai to what seemed like backward Guizhou. By sheer coincidence, she met the neighbor who lived upstairs from her aunt’s home. The only problem was, he didn’t seem very “friendly”! The boy who tossed her luggage out of the van, the boy who 274Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Shattered Glass, Blooming Toward the Sun 琉璃碎，向阳生 Another version of Qingchuan Muli. I always felt the previous version was too sad. Xingli should be living freely in the sunshine... A fierce clash between “dark possession,” “broken and reborn,” and “salvation through light.” What sparks will it create...? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Wait Until Beijing Sees Sunshine Again 等北京再放晴 [Rekindled Romance] [Reunion After Years Apart] [Two Highly Educated, Equally Matched Leads] [Female Growth] [Elite Careers] [Mature Leads] [Mutual First Love, Happy Ending] At twenty-two, Xu Zhiyi made two important decisions: one was to go to Paris, and the other was to break up with Zhou Jiming. The former gave her the life she would go on to lead. The latter became the one unresolved regret of her youth. Zhou Jiming came from a privileged family and was a beloved prodigy. Xu Zhiyi came from 3.3kReads—Score416Shelves
- 4 The Scale’s Light Source 天秤的光源 “Look, you really have become your own source of light.” This time, there was no hesitation or doubt, only a steady, certain echo, like a spring breeze brushing over a lake and sending out ripple after gentle, lingering ripple. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Qingchuan Muli 青川幕黎 Mu Yang gave her a ray of light and pulled her out of the abyss. Luo Qingchuan gave her a chain and dragged her into the abyss. Later, Xu Xingli understood that she had to give herself the light, and cut her own chains. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 My Years with Young Master Zhou 我与周公子的那些年 [Powerful families in the capital + realistic fiction + first person + neither lead is chaste] [Clear-eyed heroine who only pretends to be aloof X gentle, reserved older male lead] His surname was Liang, and it was also Zhou. The first time I met him, he told me his name was Liang Jinsong. The last time he left, he was Zhou Jingheng, the most notorious playboy in the capital's pleasure quarters. A friend told me that men from families like theirs were called young masters. Every one of their fam 2.9kReads8.0Score320Shelves
- 7 Defying the World: The Turmoil of Xuan Kingdom 逆世：宣国风云 “Your Majesty, the queen has been waiting for you for a long time.” Liu Qingquan was soaking stark naked in the palace's icy lake, shivering as he thought, Waiting for what? Just yesterday I was eating takeout at Ziyu Mountain Villa. A palace maid calmly helped him into a plain robe, as if they had rehearsed it a hundred times. The brazier in the side hall burned brightly. Behind the desk sat a woman with stunning features and a haggard face, yet her voice was so soft it seemed almost unreal. “I 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Tales of Old Harbor City 港城旧事录 A rational, formidable investment queen who stays true to herself × a fallen nobleman with a hidden dark side, raised into a vengeful young wolf At first, this was just a little game of raising someone to pass the time for Su Ling. Louis wanted the ladder to success she could offer him. She wanted the pleasure of taming a clever, beautiful little wolf cub. But later, things seemed to slip out of her control. “Would this ring look good here?” He took the ring from the middle finger of her left h 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Woman Who Came Up from the Yellow Earth 黄土地里走出来的女人 Longxi, where the yellow earth fills the sky. On the day He Guifang divorced, the whole village watched, waiting for a laugh. No one believed she could survive. But not only did she survive, she came back with a factory. From a basement to an industrial park, from being looked down on to being admired, she spent twenty years proving that women don't just know how to endure. They can win, too. But as she stood before a vast medicinal herb plantation, with the livelihoods of thousands of farming h 258Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 10 The CEO Became His Wife's Moonlight's Stand-In 总裁成了夫人白月光的替身 [Coolheaded, headstrong female wind-element doctor * scheming, ascetic, dog-like male CEO] [Gentle childhood sweetheart vs. fated newcomer, mistaken stand-in identity] They say you should never meet someone too dazzling when you are young. At nineteen, Zuo Yi lost the person she loved most. She tormented herself for seven years, only to discover that everything had been betrayal and deceit. In her heart, Zuo Yi knew she had no right to drag her own shattered life into Gu Lanzhi’s gentle, beautif 4Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 11 Plane Tree Leaves Falling on Chang'an Street 梧桐叶落长安街 [Scion of a powerful Beijing family]× [Jinling’s most beautiful woman] [Modern romance + wealthy-family intrigue + heartbreaking love + powerful-family drama + BE aesthetic] At seventeen, Song Yiru went to the Yihe Residence to pick up a blanket for a friend and met two men who would change her life. She thought their tender encounter was a gift from fate. Zhou Yuezhi was the first to fall in love at first sight, but Chen Xingshen got to her first. He used his devotion as a cage, taking advantag 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 If the Desert Knew I Loved You 如果沙漠知道我爱你 Second chances at love + overseas setting + studying abroad + campus life + workplace romance. HE, a one-on-one romance with both leads devoted only to each other. He was a top student at university, and she was the lead singer of a campus band. Four years after they parted, they meet again, only for you to discover she's going to fake a marriage with someone else to hide her identity? 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Xiaoting Love Sequel: Sinful Love 孝婷恋续文：罪爱 An anxiety-ridden boss versus a depressed white moonlight, a love story that defies the usual tropes Physical attraction + emotional love + a relationship doomed from the start + a supremely clearheaded romantic fool + family feuds = the love story of Xiao and Ting [A realistic, period Hong Kong-style tragic romance. The male lead rises from the bottom, while the female lead seeks revenge alone. No mindless angst, no wish fulfillment, with heartbreak at its core.] Anxiety is the fear of things 3.8kReads8.6Score241Shelves
- 14 The Deep Sea Knows You 深海知于你 One is a shining gem in the world of design; the other is an impressive scion of a high-ranking family. Though they seem to have nothing in common, the two end up together. He gives her an unprecedented sense of love and security, and she breaks through her emotional barriers to choose him wholeheartedly for once. He says he’s determined to win her heart and pursue her. He says that if she can wait for him where she is, no matter how long the road of life, he’ll keep walking toward her without w 885Reads8.9Score106Shelves
- 15 Love Beyond the Capital 京谈不及情 [Powerful families of Beijing · Two formidable childhood friends · Intense push and pull · Heartbreaking forbidden romance] Everyone in Beijing’s elite circles knows: Song Qingzhu and Xu Nianzhi were born to be co-conspirators. He is the Song family’s heir apparent, advancing his position one careful step at a time. She is a ruthless, decisive star lawyer at a top-tier firm. Childhood friends from the same government compound for twenty years, from a small courtyard by Houhai to the top floors o 1.1kReads—Score100Shelves
- 16 My Repeating Life in Beijing 我与北京的周而复始 (Print edition signed) “Back then, all of us were lost in our cups. The more we tried to keep pace with the times, the more recklessly we gave ourselves over to pleasure.” “When my beauty fades and my youth is gone, will you still love me as you did at the start?” - Reading guide After Chapter 16, skip to Chapter 17 after the afterword. That is where the story continues correctly. 1.4kReads8.2Score170Shelves
- 17 Stop Acting, Movie Emperor! I'm Marrying into a Wealthy Family, So Why Are You Crying? 影帝别演了，我嫁豪门你哭什么 At first, Tong Sining only wanted to be a conscientious civil aviation worker who did her job well. But after the wealthy young heir Guan Zimeng from Hong Kong took an interest in her because of her beauty, the whole world seemed to turn against her. “Gold digger,” “Mainlander,” “cheap slut”, one vicious label after another was pinned on her. Would you believe it? Her love rival even joined forces with the media to smear her, claiming she was being kept and had hidden drugs? Tong Sining sneered. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Taming the Wild 驯野 Fifteen-year-old Cheng Yuan. She did terribly on her high school entrance exams. Afraid of being punished, she didn't dare go home. Then a torrential downpour forced her to take shelter in a convenience store. When Cheng Yuye found her, she was curled up on a chair, drenched from head to toe. She thought the man would scold her. Instead, he suddenly crouched down and took off her shoes and socks. She looked down at the hand covering her feet, and a wave of despair swept over her. Because at that 37Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 19 Alley Number Seven 七号巷 Campus + BE + unrequited love Free-spirited, honest boy vs. well-behaved girl “May the free and honest sun never set. Someone will always take my place and keep loving you. Happy birthday, Jiang Si.” “She died on the day he turned eighteen. His coming-of-age day became her death anniversary.” “Jiang Si, don’t cry.” Beep The ECG line went flat. The room fell silent for a moment, then sobs swept through it. “I won’t cry anymore. Please, just look at me, okay?” The boy tried to hold back his sobs s 728Reads—Score189Shelves
- 20 A Reply from the Clouds 云端的回信 A Reply from the Clouds 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Don't Regret Our Parting, Only That It Came Too Soon 不恨离别，只恨匆匆 The Imperial City is ancient and mysterious. Behind its red walls and yellow-tiled roofs lie countless secrets and sorrows unknown to the world. “Flowers bloom and fade behind the silent courtyard gate; two beauties stand side by side beneath the jade pavilion. They long to speak of affairs within the palace, but dare not say a word in front of the parrot.” This is a simple story told by three women of the inner palace, each with a very different fate, as they recount their own loves and heartbr 41Reads—Score101Shelves
- 22 Wedding Invitation Street 喜帖街 Hong Kong underworld + fallen heiress x powerful tycoon who rose from humble beginnings + revenge + reunion after years apart - In 1998, everyone in Hong Kong thought Miss Wen had died in Sai Kung. More than four years later, Tan, a rising power in Hong Kong, saw his old love Miss Wen again, and still loved her dearly. He spared no expense to help her get revenge, offering her his wealth and influence just to make her happy, and to ease the guilt he had carried in his heart for so long. - Later 439Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 23 The Fallen Palace 倾圮的皇宫 Fictional history Ji Zizhen is the third daughter of Ji Xingyuan, emperor of Wu in a war-torn age. Her mother is Empress Li, and she falls in love with Xu Lin, her father's adopted son. When Xu Lin asks to marry her, the emperor considers the matter from every angle, revokes Xu Lin's status as his adopted son, and has him take the powerful minister Xu Ru as his adoptive father. He approves the marriage and holds a grand engagement ceremony for them. Just as Ji Zizhen is immersed in the sweetness 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Addicted to Her Pride 傲娇瘾 Love and freedom in this world are never about wanting to win. The wind swept across the Australian wilderness. Zhao Ruowan met Nan Qiao, who was holding hands with a foreign woman, yet apologized to her in Chinese. Australia's weather was as fickle as its moods. Zhao Ruowan, a woman from Jiangnan, couldn't bear the vast, sparsely populated, bitterly cold landscape. 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Peace Across the Land 天下岁宁 My birth mother wanted to travel to Yingdu to reunite with her family, so she planned to sell me to a Turkic merchant as a slave. The Turkic merchant pinned me underfoot, my wrists bound behind my back with a rope, while my mother clutched a few ingots of patterned silver and climbed into the escort carriage without looking back. My father, overcome with grief and indignation, hurled himself at the mottled yellow-earth wall. It suddenly came crashing down... Many years later, she was ennobled as 57Reads—Score187Shelves
- 26 Never Return to the Capital 永不返京 [Capital Circle + Older Man/Younger Woman + BE + A Scoundrel’s Sincere Love] The year they met, Pei Runjin was nineteen and Li Chengchuan was twenty-seven. They met in the capital. On Pei Runjin’s birthday, Li Chengchuan asked her what she wished for. Looking at the treetops swaying in the night breeze outside the window, she said, “Right now, I just really miss you. I don’t wish for anything else.” Li Chengchuan suddenly felt the intense emotions surging from the twenty-year-old girl. The softn 3.7kReads—Score280Shelves
- 27 Tales of Northern Beijing 京北往事 [Entertainment-industry socialite x top power player x ensemble cast of the capital’s elite x a touch of angst] On the first day Fang Ci arrived in Jingbei, a friend warned her not to get lost in Shengjing’s glittering, hedonistic world. The rich young heirs played rough, and no one could come away unscathed. Fang Ci had been clever from childhood and possessed a face capable of bringing kingdoms to ruin. She prized freedom and spontaneity, considered herself above it all, and had thought she an 2kReads6.8Score213Shelves
- 28 Withdrawal 戒断反应 When Jiang Shan was sixteen, she made a wish to be with Jiang Ye and marry him someday. When Jiang Ye was twenty-six, he made a wish to be with Jiang Shan and marry her someday. Heaven answers the prayers of the faithful, so both Jiang Shan’s and Jiang Ye’s wishes came true. The only thing was, Heaven missed the part about how long it was supposed to last and forgot they wanted it to be forever. 8.2kReads8.9Score821Shelves
- 29 Youth Is a Grand Illusion 青春是一场盛大的幻梦 Youth is a magnificent dream. Those first meetings, growing closer, and keeping one another company shimmered like stars, drawing us into the dream called youth. Looking back, the once-burning promises have scattered on the wind, and those deep, tender feelings have become regrets too painful to touch. On quiet nights, when memories drift through our minds like smoke, we may smile or we may cry, because that was our youth, true and unvarnished. [A Dream of Youth: My Twelve Years with Him] Cheng 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Please, Wife, I Don’t Want to Be the Other Woman 老婆行行好，我不想做小三 A Super-Narcissistic Hong Kong Tycoon x An Elegant, Stunning Fortune-Telling Lady Thick-skinned man x Foxlike enchantress [Hong Kong Vibes] [Metaphysics] [Power Fantasy] [Playboy Hero and Playgirl Heroine] [Everyone's Favorite] [Hero Falls for Her on His Own] . Liang Wanzhi needs a man to bring her good luck so she can get through the deadly calamity awaiting her at thirty. This guy surnamed Chen looks pretty suitable. . Chen Cideng realizes that Liang Wanzhi is pursuing him. And pursuing him ha 1.6kReads—Score158Shelves
- 31 At Thirty-Six, I Finally Dumped That Good-for-Nothing Scumbag 三十六岁，我终于甩掉了烂人渣男 At thirty-six, I finally dumped my worthless scumbag boyfriend 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 A Bite on the Shoulder 咬肩 Capital romance + older man + doting devotion + devoted to each other Lin Shuwan only wants to marry the man chosen for her in an arranged marriage to save the Lin family business from bankruptcy. But after a chance encounter outside a movie theater, she falls in love with Jiang Bingyu at first sight. When she learns that Jiang Bingyu is the uncle of the man she is supposed to marry, she feels as if thunder has struck. From then on, she can’t bring herself to face Jiang Bingyu and regards him as 6.8kReads—Score553Shelves
- 33 Yi Shuo, the Han Dynasty’s Female Physician, and Huo Qubing, the Champion Marquis 大汉女国医义妁与冠军侯霍去病 A story of mutual devotion, the Han Dynasty, Records of the Grand Historian, Book of Han, historical research, imagination, political intrigue, period drama, 1v1 romance, Huo Qubing, Emperor Wu of Han, the Xiongnu, medicine, childhood friends, and a female physician. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. Yi Shuo was the first female imperial physician in Chinese history to be recorded in the annals. There is no record of Huo Qubing having a wife, but records do mention that he had a son. The Han 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Prince Is a Woman, but the Villain Mistakenly Helped Her Take the Throne 断袖王爷是女的，反派误捧上帝位 [A female special forces soldier transmigrates into a prince known for being gay. She starts by raiding an execution ground and forcibly binds the reborn chief strategist.] Two formidable leads reborn + transmigration + political intrigue + woman disguised as a man | An electric, logic-driven power fantasy full of mind games Fu Changyan, the chief strategist reborn, stakes everything on the most absurd choice, the notorious “gay prince” Ning Wang, hoping to change his family's doomed fate of exe 28.4kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
- 35 An Asymmetrical Relationship 不对称关系 [Powerful families / well-matched backgrounds / political and business power couple / exes trying to rekindle things] (The rating just opened, so it’s low) [Seemingly cold but secretly soft-hearted ruthless capitalist × seemingly proper but actually tsundere paternalistic high-ranking official] Fei Shengchi’s eccentric personality was common knowledge among Xu Huaijun’s friends. She was cold and distant, with no warmth for anyone. So when the two broke up, they received several times more congra 3.6kReads8.7Score434Shelves
- 36 He Watched Her in Secret for Two Years 他偷看了她两年 [Secret Campus Crush + Tragic Ending + Dual Perspectives] [The Coward × The One He Admires] If he'd been a little braver back then, would things have turned out differently? She would never know that someone had loved her for his entire youth. They accidentally collided at the turn in the stairwell, and she blushed, apologized, then turned and walked away. But in that moment, he etched her image into his heart. He waited at the finish line during PE, watching for her to run up. At fla 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Caged and Cherished 禁锢偏宠 [Warlord-era tragic romance, a crazed and obsessive hero and a gentle, graceful heroine] In the Republican era, on the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, she married into the Ning family wearing red. She sought neither wealth nor status, only a peaceful, happy life. Unexpectedly, he returned with his army while still young, killing her husband, violating her, and humiliating her soul, keeping her imprisoned in the palm of his hand. The more she resisted, the more possessively and forcef 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 You Are the North of Beijing 你是北京的北 Even now, Wen Wen still remembered the day she left Beijing. It was the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. She left alone and without hesitation, yet carried a weight of a thousand pounds. Before boarding her flight, she gazed down at the city's nightscape from inside a skyscraper. The roads were still filled with traffic, and countless people rushed about, only to end up with nothing. This city had buried her winter, her summer, and her spring. By the time she left, all she felt for 1.2kReads8.1Score107Shelves
- 39 No Old Friends in the West City 西城无故人 Cool-headed power broker x Dashing female CEO x Aloof heir apparent x Headstrong heiress x Upright and steadfast unrequited love Sometimes the hand that turns fate upside down is hidden in a single word: timing. In the winter of 2019, in the cramped carriage of a train, Chen Mingbo said to Wan Lin, "I'm not strong enough to protect you. Don't wait for me." So Wan Lin went far away to Southeast Asia. Three years later, they met again in a conference room in the capital. He looked at her bare ne 2.6kReads—Score243Shelves
- 40 A Small-Town Girl's Ten-Year Secret Crush 一个小镇女孩暗恋的十年 [Ten years of secret love × running away while pregnant × groveling to win her back × reunion after years apart × powerful man finally bows his head × both are each other’s first and only] This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story!! The heroine is not love-brained!!! This is not a pampered-wife story!! People will die, so if you only want happy endings, this isn’t for you! No rebirth, no golden finger, no evil female rival, no women competing against each other, and no putting the heroine th 4.4kReads8.2Score347Shelves
- 41 Listen to Her Play Paganini Once More 听她再奏一曲帕格尼尼 Listen to her play Paganini once more 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 I Swallowed the Cruel, Deadly Poison the Emperor Had Hidden Away 苦苦咽下帝王藏好的凉薄剧毒 She bitterly swallowed the cold, poisonous cruelty the emperor had hidden away 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After Mom Hanged Herself With a Blood Vine, Dad Married His Mistress 妈用血藤上吊后，我爸娶了小三 After Mom Hanged Herself with a Bloodvine, Dad Married His Mistress 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 A Shao, Don't Cry 阿邵，不要哭 [Boys’ love + utterly tragic ending + 1v1 + emotion-focused + slow and steady] A gentle neurosurgeon and a sensitive underage litigation lawyer We always thought we had plenty of time and could wait a little longer. Until we finished our college entrance exams, until we grew up, until we found jobs... Never realizing that no one knows whether tomorrow or an accident will come first. … “I was too busy studying at seventeen. What about when I’m twenty-seven?” “Dr. Shao, I want to pursue you.” Fr 2kReads—Score360Shelves
- 45 President Xiao, Your Wife Says You Have to Sleep in the Study Tonight 萧总，夫人让你今晚睡书房 “The Pursuit of a Wife After Losing Her” + “A Heartbreaking Romance” When Mu Zhixia was five, she was as spoiled as a little princess, the only light on the long road traveled by Mu Jingheng and Xiao Xulin. But later, in the name of protecting her, Mu Jingheng married her off to his subordinate. On their wedding night, the groom fled, making her a laughingstock throughout the Dongli Kingdom. Meanwhile, Mu Jingheng turned around and decided to marry the person she hated most. She struggled and fo 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Halfway Through the Rain 半程雨 Halfway Through the Rain 492Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Wanwan Bends the Green Pine 婉婉折青松 The Cold-Blooded Warlord and His Lovely Wife, a companion novel to Snowy Parasol Tree [Republican-Era Romance + A Love Lost in Bitterness + Love at First Sight] Word has it that Zhou Songyu met with disaster in Beiping. Zhou Songyu was dead. On the day of her wedding, Duan Yiwan was supposed to marry Shen Zhuqing, but her stepmother and older sister, Duan Yibao, switched the marriage and sent her to the Zhou family instead. Unexpectedly, Zhou Songyu returned three years later. It turned out She 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 My Husband Cheated on Me With My Coworker, His Classmate's Mom 我老公出轨了我同事——他同学的妈 My Husband Cheated on Me with My Coworker, His Classmate's Mom 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 My Childhood Friend Ascended the Throne 我的竹马登基了 [Comedy + Zhihu-style storytelling + Ridiculous antics + Strong Male and Female Leads + Childhood Sweethearts + A Little Angst] My name is Gu Xiang, and I’m a celebrated female general. Qi Yan and I have been at odds since we were children. He’s a petty man who loves to kick people when they’re down. As for why Qi Yan loves picking on me so much, it’s because he’s jealous of me. Jealous because everyone loves me and even the flowers bloom when they see me. Chapter excerpt: “Qi Yan, what do you 808Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 50 A Prayer for Spring 春的祷告 Sui Xiran’s life was marked by uncertainty from the very beginning. Her parents divorced, and her world was confined for years to the pale walls of hospital rooms. On sheets of paper, she drew the sea she had never seen, again and again. Then one day, a boy as warm as sunlight opened the door and entered the silent remainder of her life, bringing light and warmth with him. They met in a hospital room where the smell of disinfectant mingled with the light of spring, and fell for each other amid 48Reads—Score—Shelves
