Novels like Nightfall on the Celestial Steps
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Nightfall on the Celestial Steps, best match first.
- 101 Winter of Year Sixty-Two 六十二年冬 [The simplified Chinese print edition went on sale July 4, 2026] [NetEase Cloud has a perfectly matched playlist called “Winter of Sixty-Two Years”] [A revised edition was released on September 23, 2025. Some sensitive scenes have been slightly edited, and new storylines have been added about Song Mo’s relationship with her mother and her efforts to save herself. The diary conversations between Song Qingping and Song Mo, th 128.1kFavorites218.1kClicks/ch31kGifts
- 102 The King Has Donkey Ears 国王长着驴耳朵 Every time Chun Zao did a spin, she found herself sneaking a glance at Yuan Ye. That was when she began to realize things were getting serious. Even more alarming, one day the boy stood right there, gazing at her with an unblinking smile. Liking you is like the donkey ears the king tries to hide. The wind will know, the trees will know, and one day, you will too. The title and blurb were inspired by the fairy tale The King with Donkey Ears. A story about two “good” students sharing a rental; 142.3kFavorites240.4kClicks/ch64.8kGifts
- 103 You Are the Joy That Came Too Late 你是迟来的欢喜 [Announcement] This novel was published in 2018. The revised reprint of the physical edition in 2024 has now been updated online. The changes mainly fix bugs and polish some wording, so longtime readers don't need to reread it. New readers, please refer to the official version on Jinjiang. - Every old flame who crosses paths again after years apart has had a crush planned out for ages. Ruan Yu's online novel, I Really Want to Whisper in Your Ear, has been accused of plagiarism. She posted a he 464.3kFavorites753.2kClicks/ch130.1kGifts
- 104 Summer in Your Name 以你为名的夏天 [Print edition now available] Blurb [My First Love, Yours] On the last night of their graduation trip, a group of people lay drunk on the beach. Woken by the summer sea breeze, Sheng Xia did the bravest thing she had done in her eighteen years: she stole a kiss from Zhang Shu. A fleeting touch, careful and tentative. But someone saw that night, the boy was the first to steal a kiss from the girl. Restrained and cautious, careful and tentative. [Everyone only gets one summer in their life. T 627.7kFavorites590.1kClicks/ch301.8kGifts
- 105 Night Voyage on the Dream River 梦河夜航 The print edition is now available. For details, follow @Yan Xuejie. - Once we’ve reached the finish line, the two kings never meet. Theme: People have to learn to look ahead 181.1kFavorites201.8kClicks/ch107.4kGifts
- 106 When the Stars Tremble Softly 星星轻颤时 [The giveaway was set up wrong by the author. I’ll run it again once it expires~! =3=] Jiang Chuyi first met Zong Ye just as someone was confessing to him. A dim stairwell. Having dodged the many security cameras, he leaned against the wall, shielding a lighter with his hand as he lowered his head to light a cigarette. The girl confessing to him was shy and nervous; he looked completely uninterested. Only later did she learn he was Zong Ye, the rookie who had become an overnight sensation as so 334kFavorites463.8kClicks/ch181.3kGifts
- 107 North, South, East, West 南北西东 The print edition is now available on all major platforms. Thank you for your support. In 2023, Wang Luxi got into her dream university in Beijing. She went a month early, planning to see every tourist attraction in the city. What could she do? As an ancient capital and the nation’s capital, Beijing had far too many things that interested her. The spring at Taoranting, summer at Shichahai, autumn at the Temple of Heaven, and winter snow swirling around the Forbidden City’s corner towers. Oh 100.9kFavorites113kClicks/ch72.7kGifts
- 108 The Third Miss Decides to Go… 三小姐决定去…… Her eldest brother eloped with the crown princess-to-be. Her second brother accidentally killed the empress’s nephew and became an outlaw. Her parents went mad, and now they wanted to help a prince rebel. Zhong Yao had nowhere to turn for help. She imagined all the possible endings for her family and decided that dying before their tragic fate arrived would be better. Since she was going to die anyway, that day she unhesitatingly took a sword meant for a stranger. And then She didn’t die? 255.9kFavorites271.4kClicks/ch143.4kGifts
- 109 The Mermaid's Love Song 人鱼的情歌 On her first day after becoming an experimental mermaid in another world, Li Leyou was caught by an official team cracking down on illegal experiments. She was facing destruction. Fortunately, she looked exactly like the team leader's late lover. With a wave of his hand, the captain sent her to his dying brother, Raoum, to keep him company in his final days. Raoum, who had little time left to live, resided in a castle at sea. He was a mermaid who had lived for several centuries. After spendin 73.6kFavorites69.7kClicks/ch279.6kGifts
- 110 No One Is Like You 没有人像你 [🔔 The full novel has been revised, with 12,000 new words added. Chapters marked “Revised” in the table of contents are new or revised chapters.] In late summer 2010, before leaving to study abroad, Chen Yi received a text from an unfamiliar number “Having a crush is hard, like the summer wind. It sounds lovely, but when it blows, it’s nothing but stifling heat. And now that summer is over, I don’t like you anymore.” “Chen Yi, I wish you a safe journey and a bright future.” At seventeen, Chen 559.1kFavorites596.2kClicks/ch128.1kGifts
- 111 The Right Way to Get Close to a Goddess 接近女神的正确方法 [The short story collection True Love Never Crosses has been published. It includes this story, an added ending, and an exclusive bonus chapter. See @Yueduji for details.] A sweet little campus romance, like a caramel pudding. Question: I'm helping my buddy pursue his crush, but the way she looks at me seems a little off. It's finished, it's finished, it's finished. It wasn't contracted, so I won't make money from it. I simply wrote the story I wanted to read but couldn't find. I write for fun 80.2kFavorites234.8kClicks/ch14.1kGifts
- 112 The Little Noodle Shop in Bianjing 汴京小面馆 [Signed for publication. Follow @Haochide Songxuesu for publication updates.] Shen Miao transmigrated into the role of a discarded wife, cast out by her cruel mother-in-law. Her birth parents had died early, leaving behind only a burned-down, bankrupt noodle shop. And two younger siblings who had nearly starved to death. Everyone said she had a miserable life. Her ex-husband's family was eager to watch her make a fool of herself. But Shen Miao, whose grandparents, parents, and children had all b 186.4kFavorites236.1kClicks/ch335.7kGifts
- 113 To Hell with Your Island 去你的岛 [When we were in love, you promised me an island. When we broke up, you made me so mad I passed out. When I was down on my luck, you sent me an origami crane: Come to my island. Your island... Wait, you actually have an island?] One night, my bed burst through the window and flew off with me to a strange island. There, I reunited with my ex-boyfriend, who had been missing for years. He had turned into a rabbit. A soft, fluffy little rabbit, but when it spoke, it had the deep, magnetic voice of 344.6kFavorites293.6kClicks/ch112.7kGifts
- 114 The Secret in the Hidden Compartment 暗格里的秘密 1. Love when you’re young is like the wind: you can’t see it, but you can feel it. Like names carved into a desk: you’re afraid they’ll see them, yet afraid they won’t., Excerpt from "The Little Monster’s Diary" We met halfway through our lives, yet we’re still young as the wind. Updates begin June 25 at 8 p.m. Going VIP on July 13. Detail-oriented readers, proceed with caution! A very gentle, sweet little story, yes. “Only then is glory to be found beyond.” This line is from the Japanese manga 685.5kFavorites764.2kClicks/ch161kGifts
- 115 Waiting for the Wind to Kiss You 等风热吻你 My next story will be [Nine Parts Tenderness]. -After seeing your eyes, I've never looked at starlight again. -After tasting you, I had no intention of making it back alive. The first time she tasted the sweetness of licking honey from a knife's edge was the year in middle school when Xu Xingchun fell for her. Cool on the outside, shameless within x carefree and oblivious Rekindled romance Theme: 844.2kFavorites993.6kClicks/ch81.5kGifts
- 116 The Little Garden 小游园 ◎ The print edition goes on pre-order at 7:00 p.m. on November 29. For details, see Weibo: @MeizidaoYuHaoyun He Youyuan is handsome, a little cool, a little full of himself, and convinced his good looks can make anyone do what he wants. Then he meets a top student with a sour expression. From that point on, he’s on an irreversible path to being completely wrapped around their finger. * A proud, tough little cat x an obnoxious, lovesick puppy #HePursuesHer | #ElementarySchoolBickering | #Eve 239.4kFavorites241.1kClicks/ch194.4kGifts
- 117 The God of Wealth and Chunhua 财神春花 The story of two emotionless old immortals falling in love in the mortal world. Immortals have endless days ahead of them. If they don't stir up trouble, they get restless. Beichen Yuanjun and Chunhua, the God of Wealth, sneak off for a tryst by the Cold Pool, only to be caught red-handed by a group of little fairies. The Changsheng Heavenly Emperor issues an edict, banishing them both to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations and reflect on their mistakes. The Great Yun Dynasty rules the land 188.6kFavorites200.6kClicks/ch122.8kGifts
- 118 He’ll Return Before Dawn 黎明前他会归来 [Originally titled The Devil's Temperature; published under the title He'll Return Before Dawn. Available from Taobao, Dangdang, and JD.com.] [This novel is complete. The new novel, The Gods Want You Tonight, is now underway.] Reborn in 1996, the little dumpling Bei Yao was four years old when she knocked on the door across the hall. Behind that door lived a devil who would bring disaster to the world twenty years later. The devil, Pei Chuan, was five years old now, with both legs disabled, shy 733.6kFavorites1MClicks/ch682.7kGifts
- 119 May the Crown Prince Live for a Thousand Autumns and Ten Thousand Years 太子千秋万载 [Complete] As a child, Ying Fusheng was hated by his mother and had no one to love or care for him. Only after he was framed and imprisoned did he realize that the absurd life in which he had been ignored and used was all part of a “prince swap” scheme. The fake Crown Prince was cherished by the Emperor and adored by the Empress. Backed by the illustrious Xu family, he became famous across the land at a young age, basked in everyone’s attention, and ultimately ascended to the throne. But Ying F 237.1kFavorites197.3kClicks/ch989.1kGifts
- 120 Alien Species Taming Manual (Non-Human) 外星异种驯化手册[人外] Inhuman monster with no conscience X timid coward 1. Cheng Molly is what her parents call a “leftover woman.” She’s introverted, unremarkable, and works as a clerk at a small company. At twenty-nine, pressured by her family, she married her current husband in a whirlwind wedding. To be honest, her husband is handsome and generous with money. For an ordinary woman like her, it’s a pretty good deal. But Molly feels something about her husband has changed since they got married. His movements are 242.9kFavorites238.4kClicks/ch198.9kGifts
- 121 21+ Seeing Spring 见春天 951.1kFavorites889.4kClicks/ch213.9kGifts
- 122 21+ Starstruck 撞星 112.7kFavorites129.3kClicks/ch108.8kGifts
- 123 How Did You Marry My Uncle? 你怎么跟我舅舅结婚了？ The print edition, retitled Holding Tang, goes on sale October 23. For details, see Weibo @Jinjiang Duns h u sheng. *The title is from the second male lead's perspective. (Preorder: Alien Species Taming Manual. See my author page.) A powerful, morally upright man who becomes a brooding, anxious, possessive ghost of a man × an honest, hapless heroine who only wants to complete her mission but gets relentlessly haunted by the male lead 1. Li Tangli is forever a minor character, a disposable extr 145.8kFavorites151.3kClicks/ch94.8kGifts
- 124 Falling 坠落 [The complete edition of Falling will be available for preorder on March 30 at 7:00 p.m.] Zhou Wan × Lu Xixiao Everyone at Yangming High knew that Zhou Wan was quiet and reserved, while Lu Xixiao was flamboyant and hard to tame. They were worlds apart, with nothing in common. No one imagined they would ever end up together. Then the rumors changed Someone like Lu Xixiao went through girlfriends one after another. Zhou Wan had nothing but a face that looked like everyone's first love. She was 1.3MFavorites1.5MClicks/ch152kGifts
- 125 Falling Into Our Love 陷入我们的热恋 [Complete.] After the college entrance exams, Xu Zhi becomes the biggest dark horse at Ruijun High School, but she never expects it to cost her a relationship. That summer, she also meets Chen Luzhou, a jerk who weaponizes his good looks. Xu Zhi finds Chen Luzhou oddly familiar. Her friend is stunned: he's clearly a total show-off. Chen Luzhou thinks Xu Zhi is trying to pursue him. His friend is stunned too: she clearly has a boyfriend. Xu Zhi: “I think he might be my long-lost brother.” Chen 1.1MFavorites1.3MClicks/ch723.2kGifts
- 126 To My Little Angel 致小天使 [A print edition has been signed; updates at @BaiRiMengYangMie] * A shy, earnest girl with an inferiority complex x a clingy young Russian-Chinese heir * University campus setting / height difference * Pirated copies are incomplete. Yan Tang has always known she is ordinary, and that she has terrible luck. The people she likes never like her back. No matter how hard she studies, she never gets the grades she wants. She worked hard at her internship, o 234.4kFavorites241.3kClicks/ch203.5kGifts
- 127 Transmigrating into the Male Protagonist’s Stepmother in a Campus Novel 穿成校园文男主的后妈 313.4kFavorites818kClicks/ch461.4kGifts
- 128 Her Little Dimples 她的小梨涡 The print edition is coming out in May. Search for [Her Little Pear Pit] on Taobao, Tmall, or JD.com. Preorders come with gifts, and the print edition includes an extra story not found in the online version. When I first saw you, I had no idea you were so lovely and delicate, so utterly tempting. By the Great Demon King One day, a bad-tempered delinquent meets a timid transfer student from the south... Lately, the whole class has been gossiping that Xie Ci, the class's gorgeous heartthrob, seems 1.2MFavorites1.4MClicks/ch100.5kGifts
- 129 Confession 告白 The two-volume print edition of Confession is now available from major online retailers. Thank you for your support^ 1 At university, Zhou Jingze and Xu Sui were worlds apart, two people who would never cross paths. One was carefree and debonair, doted on by everyone; the other was quiet and well-behaved, easy to overlook. As she filled one page after another with practice questions in the library, she accidentally glimpsed his flirtations with other people and watched him date one girlfriend 1.5MFavorites1.8MClicks/ch656.5kGifts
- 130 After I Accidentally Connected to a Stranger's Bluetooth on the Subway 当我在地铁上误连别人的手机蓝牙后 This work has been signed for a print edition, which goes on presale on March 18. For details, see my Weibo account @QibaoSuFeihuatebieduo. -Hi, want to listen to music? A man and a woman meet by chance; No VIP status. All that matters is making it sweet. (Friendly reminder: There’s a playlist with the same name on NetEase Cloud Music.) [Additional note: All lyrics in this work are quoted from NetEase Cloud Music.] Theme: “You had me at hello” 238.5kFavorites519.3kClicks/ch50kGifts
- 131 Stockpiling Supplies and Surviving in a Seaside Safehouse 海上安全屋囤货生存 [Welcome to The God Game: Raft Survival] [New player quest: The extreme heat disaster, Scorching Season, is approaching. Upgrade your safe house as soon as possible.] He Ni, who can't swim, wakes up to find herself floating on a raft. Surrounded by an endless sea, she casts a line beneath the blazing sun and, from the start, reels in ten garbage bags in a row. Just as she's on the verge of despair, a notification appears: [You excel at and love collecting garbage. The Sea God approves of your 239.3kFavorites243.5kClicks/ch2.7MGifts
- 132 Qianyu 千屿 A revised edition has been prepared for publication, saved 26.06 *Keywords: Everyday cultivation, slow pacing, ensemble cast, melodrama, age gap, devoted caretaker, bittersweet romance, intense push and pull, sexual tension *The male lead is the senior disciple *The heroine follows a level-up storyline, the male lead follows an old-school angst storyline, and everyone else gets their face-slapping redemption arc. Xu Qianyu, the junior sister of Penglai Immortal Sect, learned after dying that s 347kFavorites416kClicks/ch398.6kGifts
- 133 Get to Know about Wife Fan 老婆粉了解一下[娱乐圈] As a devoted fan of popular idol Huo Xi, Qiao Qiao hated Sheng Qiao most of all: the actress who kept using Huo Xi to stir up dating rumors. Aside from chasing events with her camera, she spent her days calling out that fake innocent woman by her real name. Then she hit her head one day, and when she woke up, she had become Sheng Qiao. During filming for a romance drama, Sheng Qiao's first scene with Huo Xi had to be reshot twenty-seven times. Huo Xi: Sheng Qiao, can you even do this? If not, w 773.2kFavorites1.3MClicks/ch934.4kGifts
- 134 21+ Borrowing Yang Energy 渡阳气 261.9kFavorites279kClicks/ch131.9kGifts
- 135 Junior Brother 师弟 Junior Brother Ming Li was powerful in her previous life, stronger than anyone else. Born into a top sect, she had extraordinary talent from childhood and joined the ranks of the continent's seven greatest at sixteen. She was the textbook beauty: strong and stunning, with no tragic past. Because the tragedy belonged to the people around her. From her family and friends to her fellow disciples, they were all tormented by love, hate, anger, and obsession until they wished they were dead. Rumor 387.8kFavorites386.1kClicks/ch280.2kGifts
- 136 Maintaining the Dignity of the Female Supporting Character 维持女配的尊严 After being reborn, Wen Shuangmu learns that she lives in a sweet campus romance novel. Every male character in the book could have been plucked straight from the hottest Jinjiang romance, so the heroine is caught in an endless love rivalry every day. For instance, there’s the aloof top student and male lead, Su Qiyan. He never studies before exams, but one day he suddenly organizes his notes just so he can hand them to the heroine. Then there’s the arrogant, headstrong second male lead, Zhou 327kFavorites509.9kClicks/ch230.5kGifts
- 137 Hard to Appease 难哄 [Complete. My next novel will be A Moon to Fold.] By chance, Wen Yifan ends up sharing an apartment with Sang Yan, a high school classmate she once rejected. They keep out of each other’s way, like two strangers living under the same roof. Their peaceful routine comes to an end one night. Wen Yifan learns from Sang Yan that she has been sleepwalking lately. Embarrassed, she doesn’t know how to react. “Last night was the first time you saw me sleepwalking, right?” Sang Yan replies lazily, “Ther 2MFavorites2.3MClicks/ch1.2MGifts
- 138 After Destroying the Heavenly Dao, I Became My Archrival's Junior Sister 灭了天道后我成了死对头的师妹 Before Ling Luo fell to the demonic path, her talent for swordsmanship had swept the entire cultivation world. Then someone came out of nowhere and stunned the world with a single sword strike, taking away her title as the strongest swordsman. After Ling Luo fell to the demonic path, the person she wanted to kill was always protected by Yue Liangze, the greatest sword cultivator of the age. After she destroyed the Heavenly Dao, laid her regrets to rest, and left herself to die, she opened her e 480.3kFavorites513.2kClicks/ch265.8kGifts
- 139 EN My Junior Sister Can’t Possibly Be a Silly Sweetheart 我的师妹不可能是傻白甜 [Monster-slaying, leveling-up, and romance] //My Junior Sister Can't Possibly Be a Sweet, Naive Fool// - Not a strong female lead!!! Not a wish-fulfillment story!!! Slow-burn melodrama!!! Written for my own enjoyment!!!- Mei Liangyu: My junior sister spends all day with a bunch of top-tier villains. She smiles brightly and adorably, and speaks so softly, but she must have something up her sleeve. There's no way she's a sweet, naive fool in a circle of villains. - Six hundred years ago, the star 592.8kFavorites679.1kClicks/ch2.8MGifts
- 140 The Fundamental Principles of Genius 天才基本法 Everyone thought Lin Zhaoxi was a genius. Only she knew that she was using years of experience in math competitions to go back and “cheat.” Until one day, the boy she admired looked at her in silence. Times overlap, and the past is revisited three times. The past can change you. 1. A story about returning to three periods in the past to find yourself. Take it easy: it’s a journey where you go wherever the road takes you. 2. The schools and competition system are fictionalized. 3. Anti-pirac 522.2kFavorites731kClicks/ch778.2kGifts
- 141 After I Turned into a Zombie, My Ex-Boyfriend Caught Me 变成丧尸后被前男友抓住了 In her third year as a zombie, Xue Ling was mingling with a wandering horde when she came face-to-face with a convoy sent to exterminate zombies. What a coincidence. Wasn't the man standing on the roof of the vehicle, pointing a gun at her, her ex-boyfriend Wen Jiuze? Theme: Never give up hope. 296.7kFavorites502.1kClicks/ch328.9kGifts
- 142 The Black Lotus Manual [Book Transmigration] 黑莲花攻略手册[穿书] The Black Lotus has been published in print. The author's latest work, Reborn and Married to My Nemesis, is currently serializing in the author's profile. This world is overrun by monsters, and it's the perfect place for heroes and heroines to make their legends. Too bad you're not the pure, noble heroine or the pampered, highborn villainess. You're the universally hated third female extra. In the original story, she has a crush on the male lead, plots against the heroine, and spends her whole 1.3MFavorites1.4MClicks/ch650.9kGifts
- 143 How to Stop the Male Lead from Going Mad 如何阻止男主发疯 The print edition has been retitled How to Stop Him from Falling. Presales begin on February 24, 2026 (the eighth day of the Lunar New Year) at 7:00 p.m. [This story is based on the original work’s characterizations, but does not use its plot. You can read it as an original story.] [This is a derivative work, but the characterizations, plot, and backstories contain a great deal of personal interpretation and transformative writing, with a very distinctive personal style. Please do not treat the 593.3kFavorites573.3kClicks/ch503kGifts
- 144 Welcome to the Nightmare Live 欢迎进入梦魇直播间 [The full novel is being polished.] Wen Jianyan is best at saying whatever people want to hear, whether he’s talking to a person or a ghost. One day, he was suddenly forced to become a rookie streamer in the Nightmare Livestream. The kind where you really can die. Wen Jianyan: “….” For f’s sake. A rookie streamer became the center of attention because he was so good at scamming people, and he’d scam anyone and anything, ghosts included. This guy is going to crash and burn sooner or later! M 1.5MFavorites1.8MClicks/ch12.7MGifts
- 145 Breaking Through the Clouds 破云 Dark clouds churn over the city. Three years ago, during an anti-drug operation in Gongzhou, a chain of explosions occurred because Commander Jiang Ting made a mistake in his judgment. The anti-narcotics unit suffered heavy casualties. Three years later, Jiang Ting, who should have died in the line of duty and left no remains, miraculously awakens from a vegetative state. His fallen comrades cannot rest in peace. He must return from hell and give everything he has to uncover the bloody, bizarre 2.3MFavorites2.3MClicks/ch3.8MGifts
![The Black Lotus Manual [Book Transmigration]](/img/cover/c627cd7b321bd311982c/120/aHR0cHM6Ly9zOC1zdGF0aWMuamp3eGMubmV0L3RtcC9ndWFubGkvZnJvbnRjb3Zlci8wMDMvNjMxLzM2MzE5MzguanBn.jpg)
