Novels like Mountains and Rivers Within and Without
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Mountains and Rivers Within and Without, best match first.
- 1 Ultimate Blue Seal 终极蓝印 The story of how a good-for-nothing little flat-chested girl, who only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun and has just been dumped, grows into a real man who's an expert at every kind of trickery and deception. Soft sci-fi, a coming-of-age story... All right, actually, it's fantasy sci-fi, and it's pure nonsense. Minors, don't try this at home = = 1v1, happy ending, no abandonment Author's column This story will go VIP on February 17. Reposting is prohibited. If you reposted it before, ple 32.1kFavorites57.9kClicks/ch8.2kGifts
- 2 A Traveler's Return 逆旅来归 (Thanks to a certain Cai for the cover, and to my editor for fixing it up after the title change ^^) All right, this is really a chaotic story packed with all the cliched tropes: modern-day rebirth, an old cucumber painted green, an older character raising a younger one, and so on. (Why do I feel like I can see thunderbolts everywhere... shudder.) Ahem. But as a non-typical person, our shou is still a non-typical shou, and our rebirth... is probably non-typical too. The reborn part doesn't begi 37kFavorites50.8kClicks/ch13.8kGifts
- 3 The Blade in the Beast Thicket 兽丛之刀 A story about eating meat, drinking, and fighting monsters in a wild world of beastfolk. A fake-goofball, fake-cute seme versus a naturally airheaded, savage uke~ Thanks to Xiao Li for the cover~ VIP status begins May 11, with three updates that day. After that, long review comments will earn points. Thanks for your support! Author's page Theme: 69kFavorites120.1kClicks/ch23.4kGifts
- 4 The Traveling Healer 游医 In 2041, a remarkable device was invented. People in the industry jokingly called it a "projector." It can connect to the human mind and project complex thoughts into a bizarre, tangible space. This space may or may not be stable. The laws of physics are irrelevant, and anything strange can happen. And so a new kind of psychologist emerged. By transforming the space, they enter the world projected by the mind and investigate the root of a patient's condition through adventure. And so... this is 33.9kFavorites40.4kClicks/ch12.2kGifts
- 5 A Thousand Years Later 一千年以后 ...I haven’t even written ten thousand words yet, and the synopsis is longer than the story. Why bother posting a synopsis? If you want to read something, go read the story. Fine, this is an epic crackfic. I’m in a bad mood today and don’t feel like writing, so I dug this out of a folder. Reading it gave me such a shock, so, well, let’s share the shock~ Oh ho ho ho, read at your own risk~ Theme: 9.9kFavorites63kClicks/ch231Gifts
- 6 Side Story 番外 At the request of the folks in the group, here's the requested mahjong-table reunion medley of extra stories. 22.9kFavorites361kClicks/ch1.8kGifts
- 7 Capitalist Swordsman 资本剑客 A story about a nouveau riche who finds a down-and-out older young woman. A light, fluffy story. Some place names and other names are fictionalized, and some events are pure speculation. This is a birthday story for my universe's most beautiful, super invincible queen mother~~mua~~ Author's Column Link to my new story: Theme: 34kFavorites47.5kClicks/ch9.3kGifts
- 8 The Ugly Duckling Under the Bright Moonlight 月光灿烂丑小鸭 When you were young, did you ever feel inferior because you liked someone? Did you? ^^ Anyway, it’s a lovely story from our carefree youth. Proceed with caution if you prefer more sophisticated stories. Theme: 10kFavorites61.3kClicks/ch303Gifts
- 9 The Last Guardian 最后的守卫 Ancient times to modern day. Set on a fictional continent, this is a story about lovers who reunite after breaking up. The top stays the same. Scheming top VS troublemaking bottom Author's page This good-for-nothing, trashy author loves switching tops, so this story goes very much against my own tastes, and writing it will be a struggle. - - I hope readers who also like switching tops won't egg me on. This story will go premium on Wednesday, December 28. Reposting is prohibited. If you've repos 61.4kFavorites74.6kClicks/ch22.8kGifts
- 10 The Zither 锦瑟 A melodramatic human-demon romance set in a xianxia world... All right, a demon top and a human bottom. A hypocritical bottom VS an obsessive top Darling, let's rebel! 1v1, happy ending, won't be abandoned P.S. This story is entirely made up. I occasionally do research on a whim, but most of it isn't reliable... Minors, please don't imitate = = Author's page This story will become VIP on June 27. Reposting is prohibited. If you reposted it before, please delete and remove it immediately. Th 109.7kFavorites148kClicks/ch21.4kGifts
- 11 The Bad Path 坏道 (Thanks to Gui Chacha for the cover ^_^) This is a crime-solving story packed with people who behave strangely and people with twisted minds, featuring all sorts of bizarre cases and plenty of lovely, handsome men and beautiful women. Dominant, secretly seductive top x naturally spacey bottom with an unclear dark side Also featuring a secondary couple: clingy top x playboy bottom A string of mysterious child disappearances, a corpse in the sewers, a killer returned from the dead, a bomber who 122.4kFavorites160.1kClicks/ch20.3kGifts
- 12 Dog 狗 Short story No moral compass. Read at your own risk. Thanks to Xiao Li for the cover~ But it really is a short story... Theme: 28kFavorites131.9kClicks/ch1.4kGifts
- 13 Seventh Master 七爷 I climb the shore at Baling, then turn to look back at Chang’an. The nation is in decline, its grand edifice on the verge of collapse. With decadent music mingling with the chaos of the apocalypse, no one caught in the game knows who will be cast aside and who will prevail. When a devious schemer meets someone stubborn enough to follow one path to the bitter end, let’s see who can outlast the other. Last time, we talked about criminal psychology. This time, let’s discuss political power and stra 205.6kFavorites267.6kClicks/ch48kGifts
- 14 Fifteen Years of Passing Time 流光十五年 Uncle Qu Yuan said, "The whole world is muddy, but I alone am clear; the whole world is drunk, but I alone am sober." Then, grief-stricken, he jumped into the river... This story teaches us that even though we often dream of being different, we still long to belong somewhere, to be part of a particular group of people with a shared label. Because humans are social animals. This is simply a story about growing up. If, at some point while you were growing up, you felt out of place among the people 22.8kFavorites45.1kClicks/ch4kGifts
- 15 A Life Like a Tree 一树人生 (Thanks to Guichacha for the cover ^_^) The first person to fall in love is the first to lose. Xie Yi said, “I’ve lived for twenty-eight years, and I finally understand what that means.” Unrequited love is a form of self-destruction. But what about hopeless unrequited love? Little Xie Yi waited until no one was around, then kicked an empty soda can into the air, acting entirely without shame. “Hopeless unrequited love takes more dedication than those human-bomb suicide terrorists. Pah!” “Wang 39.2kFavorites76.9kClicks/ch4.5kGifts
- 16 Dream Sacrifice 梦祭 There are always places in this world that ordinary people cannot reach. One of them is called the Shrine Market. No one knows where it is, and no one knows the true identity of its master. If one day you really find your way to the legendary Shrine Market, remember this: The world is but a dream. Theme: 13.5kFavorites239.1kClicks/ch859Gifts
- 17 The Robot's Worldview 机器人的世界观 The three new laws of robotics: First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. New story~~ A wickedly charming (neurotic), ruthless seme PK a fair-skinned, soft and needy uke (╯3╰) A guid 3.9kFavorites27.6kClicks/ch172Gifts
- 18 Twenty-One 21岁 A Birthday Story for Xia Xiaohei Theme: 36.7kFavorites519.3kClicks/ch7.1kGifts
- 19 Defective: Radio Drama Finale Extras 残次品广播剧完结番外 I had nowhere else to put this, so I’ll leave it here. This is a freebie, please don’t throw stones. A memento for the completion of the Defective drama audio series. Thanks to the production team. Theme: What can you even establish with just eight thousand words 89kFavorites429kClicks/ch19kGifts
- 20 Off the Rails 脱轨 Thanks to the lovely “Put on That Secret Identity!” for the cover art =w= Do you believe there are countless parallel universes identical to the one you live in? The very same person might be an arrogant heiress in one universe and a penniless working girl in another. All parallel universes are supposed to remain separate, never intersecting. But one day, after a long-planned accident, the haughty heiress Jiang Xiaoyuan becomes another version of herself in a different universe. Once family b 128.9kFavorites198.4kClicks/ch43.6kGifts
- 21 Dedicated to the Profoundly Mysterious Lord Bai En 献给深不可测的白恩大人 Zheng He is an upbeat, third-rate entertainer who somehow ends up attached to his wealthy patron, Mr. Bai. He thought they'd be locked in a battle of wits, but who knew... His IQ would fail him. This story features a mature, dominant gong and an obedient, submissive shou. It's a collection of jokes, you know! There's still some integrity left here. If anyone objects, would you believe me if I said this is a funny, sweet romance? =W= The second part, "Dedicated to the Silly Little Bai Entertain 8.7kFavorites45.7kClicks/ch615Gifts
- 22 The Great War Against Procrastination 大战拖延症 Ye Zilu, a chronic procrastinator, has been muddling through life, caught between the torment and comfort of her “loyal, good friend.” Then the old cloth teddy bear by her bed gets possessed by a hapless man who was left in a vegetative state after a car accident. After that, misfortune starts drifting over Ye Zilu like a contagious disease, and at last she can’t even muddle through life anymore. What’s a girl to do...? Fight procrastination! [Procrastination refers to “putting things off unti 46.3kFavorites93.8kClicks/ch9.8kGifts
- 23 Stealing the Dragon, Swapping the Phoenix 偷龙转凤 Because of the saying, "There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two rulers among the people," twins are seen by the royal family as an ill omen. Modern-day elite Xiahou Xuan happens to transmigrate as one of the twin princes of an alternate dynasty. To stay alive, he has no choice but to disguise himself as a woman, bearing the burden of the grave crime of deceiving the emperor. This is a real case of switching a dragon for a phoenix, and life as "Her Highness the Princess" is no easy thing wh 13.2kFavorites73kClicks/ch2.1kGifts
- 24 Big Brother 大哥 At thirteen or fourteen, Wei Qian was a boy without parents, struggling to make ends meet while looking after his little sister, who was a burden he couldn’t get rid of. Then he picked up a vagrant who clung to him shamelessly, and named him Xiao Yuan. Wei Qian dreamed of making something of himself. He was a money-grubber who valued money over his own life, and spent the first half of his life fighting his way upstream with an iron will, making success and fame his top priority. After finally g 440.5kFavorites458kClicks/ch238kGifts
- 25 The Age of Great Heroes 大英雄时代 (Originally titled Tomboy) In 2429, Earth's last era of peace came to an end amid a bustling twilight, ushering in a prolonged war. The heroes, still naive and not yet grown into their wings, were already being sent beyond the atmosphere into a brutal battlefield. The age of blood and fire began, and in an instant reduced the endless neon lights of the central business district and the glamorous model posters in the shop windows to ashes. “To my fellow people of Earth: Our enemies are not invi 93.9kFavorites150.7kClicks/ch48.6kGifts
- 26 EN The Faraway Wanderer 天涯客 Years pass swiftly once you enter the martial world; young men grow old in its midst. This is the story of a chief imperial secret agent who leaves the court and enters the martial world. Wherever there are people in this vast world, there is a martial world. Theme: 591.6kFavorites672.2kClicks/ch350.5kGifts
- 27 EN Guardian 镇魂 As the title says, an urban supernatural story. Gentle, reserved beauty top VS hot-tempered, split-personality... bottom who thinks he's the top. Beware of possible role reversal. Please read the blurb. Thanks to Xiao Li for the cover! VIP serialization starts December 21 (what an unlucky day to rush for). Three chapters on the first day. From then on, leaving a long review will earn points. Those who reposted this, please take it down as soon as possible. Thanks for supporting the official v 853.5kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch892.6kGifts
- 28 Crossing the Threshold 过门 “The gate is narrow and the road is small.”, Matthew See the main character section for the CP. This time, the gong is a two-character type. Happy ending. Beware of role reversal. =w= Chapter 26 onward is VIP. Three updates that day. Points for long reviews. If you’ve reposted this, please take it down as soon as possible. Thanks for supporting the official release! Cover art thanks to “Riding a Donkey to Watch Baji 481.2kFavorites533.3kClicks/ch640.8kGifts
- 29 Defective 残次品 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities “I carried a hatred buried deep in my bones and a scheme years in the making. I turned myself into a ghost risen from the dead and sank into the swamp, sank into the abyss. I wanted to plant rotting roots and grow thorns that would kill at a touch, to pierce this hypocritical civilization. I reached the depths of the mire... and found a star.” A top with a three-ton idol image VS a bottom who's a shre 895.3kFavorites837.3kClicks/ch1.7MGifts
- 30 Mr. Prejudice 偏见先生 The producer has a special skill: talking nonsense with a perfectly straight face. He does it so convincingly that nobody in the entertainment industry has ever realized he’s making things up. And so he became a scheming demon who had half the Chinese music scene in his harem. The singer: Damn, this is so frustrating. [Real] Asian Jealousy King singer seme x [Fake] scheming demon producer uke The main story is complete. Thank you all for your support and love. Mwah! Theme: 31.8kFavorites121.7kClicks/ch7.6kGifts
- 31 Six Lines 六爻 A cultivation story about how a declining sect is restored by a vain monkey, a troublemaker, a sharp-tongued jerk, a fool, and a little rascal. The pairing is with the eldest senior brother, older man-younger man~ Fussy top × caustic, sharp-tongued bottom Many thanks to O-Tsu! Cover by Xiao Li! Column link VIP status begins Sunday, July 6. Three chapters that day. After that, I will award points for long reviews. This work is exclusive to this site; repost 761.8kFavorites662.8kClicks/ch748.9kGifts
- 32 Pollution-Free, Harmless 无污染、无公害 “When I was a kid, the last line of my essays was always, ‘I aspire to become someone useful to society.’ I probably made that resolution twenty or thirty times a semester. I never meant a word of it.” “Only when I grew up did I realize that being harmless to society is already the greatest achievement of my life.” The martial arts alliance leader is in a foul mood after working late and nearly working himself to death. He refuses to organize the next annual martial arts tournament. The descend 283.3kFavorites427.1kClicks/ch568.9kGifts
- 33 Love is More Than a Word 识汝不识丁 Tanyang County, birthplace of famed litigators. The county magistrates who come here to take office are always quick to leave. One day, yet another unlucky magistrate took office. And he was one who had paid five thousand taels for the post. Merry Adventures in Other Lands series: Dream Continent series: Theme: 37.1kFavorites243.5kClicks/ch5.5kGifts
- 34 Bandits 有匪 “One day, you will cross the silent, tranquil Ximo River, leave the old Peach Blossom Spring encircled by mountains, and enter a night sky shrouded in endless gloom. You will witness countless unclimbable mountains collapse one after another, and impassable seas dry up into fields. Remember: your fate hangs on the tip of a blade, and that blade must always point forward.” “May you glimpse the light of day before the cold iron blade is blunted.” A birthday tribute for our beloved Empress Dowager 507.9kFavorites586.7kClicks/ch382.5kGifts
- 35 Blazing Fire, Burning Sorrow 烈火浇愁 “On the crest of the magma waves, embers burn without end.” Ancient times to modern day, younger love interest. Thanks to the lovely little friend “Chengzi Lvya Lv” on Lofter for the cover art. The lettering is so beautiful =w= Theme: 1MFavorites1.4MClicks/ch2.6MGifts
- 36 A Tiger in the Heart, a Rose in the Nose 心有猛虎嗅蔷薇 [Day One] After the superstar Jin Ran threatens to use his influence to sleep with newcomer Jiang Chuan, he steps out of the company and gets a billboard dropped right onto his head. The end. [Day Two] Jin Ran discovers he's been reborn as a hamster, and not just any hamster, but the mildest-tempered kind: a champagne hamster. He runs into Jiang Chuan again, except this time he's in a cage. Jin Ran: "Squeak (Pick me), squeak (Pick me), squeak (Pick me)!" Jiang Chuan: "That hamster hopping around 33.7kFavorites116kClicks/ch10.6kGifts
- 37 Sunset Glow 夕阳红 It was the loneliest night of his life, but he lived to see the sun rise, and from then on, that sun never set again. An outline-style story. Older seme x older uke. This story will be reverse-locked after completion, so please consider carefully before purchasing! 44kFavorites117.6kClicks/ch23.3kGifts
- 38 The Embroidered Guard 锦衣卫 The Embroidered Uniform Guard, originally called the Yiluan Bureau, first served as the imperial court's honor guard, before gradually becoming the emperor's trusted agents. Joining the Embroidered Uniform Guard requires a certain family background, a loyal-dog personality, a great physique, and excellent martial arts skills. Regular guards wear flying-fish robes and carry embroidered spring sabers. This is a story about a group of young men in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. It's also a story 45.3kFavorites89.8kClicks/ch8.3kGifts
- 39 EN Sha Po Lang 杀破狼 HE, trust me =w= Gentle, devoted, sickly-yandere younger top VS good-for-nothing, deaf-and-blind bottom, trust me =w= Unconventional steampunk =w= Important things must be said three times: The top appears first! The top appears first! The top appears first! …But overall, this isn’t a top-focused story =w= Many thanks to “Riding a Donkey to See Ba Ji” for the cover! Author page link VIP s 1.3MFavorites1.1MClicks/ch1.3MGifts
- 40 A Superstar's Notes 巨星手记 This novel was completed in 2014. [Synopsis] A story about the entertainment industry, following a rookie who, under the protection of a powerful industry boss, works his way toward stardom. One-on-one romance, lighthearted, happy ending. Two couples: Yan Kai x Fang Lejing, Yang Xi x Shen Han Theme: 41.6kFavorites184kClicks/ch7.3kGifts
- 41 Pure White Devil 纯白恶魔 He blinked, and woke up apparently diagnosed with dementia. He couldn’t remember his name or even his family name. All he vaguely recalled was the strange left eye that kept him fed. When that eye saw a corpse, it could tell how the person had died and who the killer was, if there was one. Well, he could be a “Sherlock Holmes 2.0,” “Poirot’s godson,” or “Conan’s big brother”… Or he could just take the civil service exam and become a police officer. Who knew the world would change so fast? He ope 310.2kFavorites271.6kClicks/ch1.2MGifts
- 42 Reverse Journey 逆向旅行 The author's other completed novels in the same series, Abnormal Waters and The Rules of Guidance, are available by clicking the author's profile. The Lost Artifacts Recovery and Management Committee, a branch of the National Museum's Artifact Restoration Center, has recently run into several headaches: 1. The artifact collection device they manage has stopped working properly. 2. The new device administrator spends every day spying on a certain temporary worker and has almost no enthusiasm 46.3kFavorites66.9kClicks/ch31.4kGifts
- 43 Nine Heavens 九霄 From grandmaster of demonic cultivation to disciple of a third-rate sect? In his previous life, he went from demonic cultivation to the righteous path. Was he supposed to do the opposite in this life? Low status, a weak spiritual root: everyone said he had no chance of attaining immortality, and would spend his whole life oppressed and enslaved, looking up at others as they became immortals. Since he had taken over this body, the road ahead was his to walk. Zhou Yin would make his own way. No ma 47kFavorites151.8kClicks/ch7.7kGifts
- 44 Wandering Wolves Form a Pair 狼行成双 A story about two ridiculous people who can’t stand each other but fall in love while constantly bickering. Happy ending. Updates are scheduled for 7:40 p.m. If I occasionally post at other times to fix typos, please ignore it. Theme: 248.3kFavorites312.7kClicks/ch87kGifts
- 45 Another Spring 又一春 My name is Ma Xiaodong, a young man who transmigrated. Theme: 44.4kFavorites344.6kClicks/ch4.1kGifts
- 46 Supreme Year 太岁 “If I had a choice, I’d rather be a tiny ant among the mortal world, living in ignorance and dying in obscurity, never seeing the light of day beneath the fog of Jinping City. That would be better than taking this treacherous path to the heavens.” A steampunk cultivation world. Updates around eleven. If I can’t update, I’ll post a notice. Warning: Long and tedious. Theme: Overthrowing subjective idealism 485.2kFavorites516.3kClicks/ch1.7MGifts
- 47 EN Silent Reading: Mo Du 默读 Childhood, upbringing, family background, social connections, trauma... We keep tracing and searching for the motives behind criminals' actions, exploring the faintest shades of their joy and sorrow. Not so we can put ourselves in their shoes and sympathize with them, let alone forgive them. Not to find excuses for their crimes. Not to bow down before the so-called complexity of human nature. Not to reflect on social conflicts, and certainly not to let ourselves become monsters too. We're only 1.7MFavorites1.6MClicks/ch2.6MGifts
- 48 The Captain's Migraine 船长偏头痛 The Pirate Code 1: Every crew member has the right to take part in decisions on important matters, even if all they did was get their hands on a little fresh food or alcohol. 2: Every crew member must come up onto the deck in the order arranged beforehand, so that in addition to getting a share of the loot, they can also get a new set of clothes. 3: No one aboard is allowed to gamble with dice or cards. 4: Lights must be out by eight at night. Anyone who wants to keep drinking must do so on deck 25.2kFavorites59.7kClicks/ch5.7kGifts
- 49 The God-Tier Player's Training Plan 大神养成计划 A lighthearted comedy, easygoing, with no angst and a happy ending. A story about a sharp-tongued, sardonic, secretly flirtatious director who turns the loyal puppy he'd seduced into a superstar. This story sprang from a long-standing grievance of the author's: Why are the ones being seduced always the bottoms? Couldn't we have a sharp-tongued, haughty beauty of a bottom seducing a hardworking, loyal puppy of a top? Then, even after the top becomes a superstar, he's just like he was before he 52.1kFavorites134.7kClicks/ch7.7kGifts
- 50 You Have to Be Mad to Make It 不疯魔不成活 Teacher-student romance! Sweet romance! Super sweet! The author is great about updating! Really great! [Maybe you can read the print edition if fate brings you to it. It's been edited, and it has bonus chapters.] Theme: 49.9kFavorites262kClicks/ch36.9kGifts
