Novels like Crossing the Threshold
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Crossing the Threshold, best match first.
- 1 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
- 2 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
- 3 Twenty-One 21岁 A Birthday Story for Xia Xiaohei Theme: 36.7kFavorites519.3kClicks/ch7.1kGifts
- 4 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
- 5 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
- 6 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
- 7 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
- 8 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
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 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
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 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
- 15 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
- 16 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
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 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
- 20 Mountains and Rivers Within and Without 山河表里 A grand adventure about two people secretly in love with each other. Please note that this is a fantasy story. Don't let the prologue mislead you. Couple: The bottom appears first. Updates are scheduled for 11 a.m. every day. Barring unforeseen circumstances, if I can't update, I'll post a leave notice ^_^ Content warnings: The setting isn't scientifically accurate, the characters aren't scientifically accurate, and neither are the plants and animals. Thanks to “...” for the cover. I genuinel 259.6kFavorites347.1kClicks/ch81.8kGifts
- 21 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
- 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 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
- 24 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
- 25 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
- 26 A Dog Out of Nowhere 飞来横犬 When they first met, one thought the other was a peerless con artist, while the other thought he was the world's worst scumbag. As they stared into each other's eyes, four huge words were written across both their foreheads: “Protect the people!” This is a moving, earth-shattering love story between a man betrayed by a scumbag and a man swindled by a con artist. Younger man, older man. Updates Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:40 p.m. If anything is posted at other times, i 189kFavorites256.6kClicks/ch91.3kGifts
- 27 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
- 28 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
- 29 Three Years Apart 差三岁 [Print edition now available. Audio drama now online. Author: @Luo Zai Shuo] CP: A dazzling, can-do younger wolf-dog top VS a cool senior bottom who can put any troublemaker in their place The wolf-dog Xing Chen and his older brother, his dog trainer, have always been one running away and the other chasing him, ever since they were children. And somehow, he caught up. A kiss on a basketball, a hairc 81kFavorites93.3kClicks/ch10kGifts
- 30 Bailey's Beads 贝利珠 You procrastinate, feel empty and depressed, can’t sleep at night and can’t wake up during the day. You’re good at collecting useless trivia, but useless at anything useful. You feel like a limp slug, with only three functions left: breathing, going to the bathroom, and scrolling on your phone with your thumb. Oh, if only you could evolve past the bathroom part, too. One day, you get a phone call. The caller claims to be you from the future, and says that years from now, you’ll become a murdero 172kFavorites122.3kClicks/ch962.5kGifts
- 31 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
- 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 Garfield's Revenge 加菲猫复仇记 Li Zhenruo never imagined that, in the Li family's wealthy and vicious struggle between brothers, he would be the first to be completely eliminated. Worse, he lost his life in an “accident” someone had carefully arranged for him. But for Li Zhenruo, that wasn't the end. When he awoke after the “accident,” he discovered that he had become a Garfield cat. It gave him a chance to return to the Li family and figure out which of his three older brothers had been behind the “accident.” At the same t 30.2kFavorites43kClicks/ch6.1kGifts
- 34 Flowers of the Year 年花 A truly twisted, patient, obsessive top x a timid, sweet, loyal puppy-like bottom They dote on each other. A stalker's love story. Warnings: This is a fairly realistic story, set in Suzhou, and both of them are almost forty. There's no way they could have had no sexual experience at all; that wouldn't be realistic. But my usual rule is that once the two get together, they only have eyes for each other. After all, Jiang Menglai was such a scumbag before, but didn't he become a loyal dog after mee 28.1kFavorites42.5kClicks/ch2.1kGifts
- 35 Go Ahead, Hit Me Again 有种你再撞一下 Fate isn't the person who crashes into your car being the new director. Fate is saying the new director is a psycho, only to find them standing right behind you. An easygoing, fluffy story. HE. For now, updates are every other day at 7:40 p.m. I may fix typos at other times, so please ignore those updates. Thanks to Lele for making the cover. The cover below was also made by Lele. I don't know why she insists on competing with herself and won't let me use just one cover, so I've put both up. @Xi 111.6kFavorites184.8kClicks/ch12.4kGifts
- 36 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
- 37 North City Avenue 北城天街 Blurb: Beicheng Tianjie, the world of gay men Theme: 56.2kFavorites89.3kClicks/ch37.5kGifts
- 38 Upstairs by the Bridge 桥头楼上 You stand on the bridge watching the scenery, while someone watching the scenery looks down at you from the tower; The bright moon turns the tall building into a painting, and hung at the bridgehead, the painting becomes part of the scenery. Adapted from Bian Zhilin's short poem “Fragment” Notes: 1. A short mystery, around 100,000 characters (that's the estimate, anyway; it might not be accurate). 2. I'll probably update 4–6 times a week, at 11 a.m. Jinjiang only allows VIP stories to post abs 258kFavorites248.7kClicks/ch433.5kGifts
- 39 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
- 40 Out of Place 格格不入 The first time I saw Xiang Xi, he seemed to be faking an accident. The second time I saw Xiang Xi, he was faking an accident. Before two days had passed, he actually staged one right in front of my car! Fate really makes no sense. Wherever I go, I keep running into him. A serious story about putting someone in his place, and getting put in yours, sparked by a scam. A serious one. Really. Older man. One-on-one. Happy ending. Cover art thanks to @Er Xi Za Guo Ji! I absolutely adore the little l 326.3kFavorites342.1kClicks/ch137.7kGifts
- 41 I'm Just Here to Borrow a Light 我就是来借个火 A middle-aged man who writes ghost stories meets a goofy young man who claims to be a ghost. Emphasized in bold: This is not supernatural and not scary. End emphasis. Everyone must be used to blurbs this blunt by now. The insecure author sat cross-legged on a chair and spoke in a low voice. I always come up with something before starting a story, the author thought, then said even more quietly. [But then I started writing without coming up with anything, and didn't even have time to fiddle wit 104.1kFavorites142.1kClicks/ch27.8kGifts
- 42 The Spring of Prince Syndrome 王子病的春天 If one day, what once moved you can no longer touch your heart, what once angered you can no longer make you angry, what once saddened you can no longer bring you to tears, then you will know what time and life have given you, and what you have paid in order to grow. Jimmy Liao Warnings: School story, working-class top and chuunibyou bottom, a light, slice-of-life ramble. Gazing up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle... coo, coo, coo. Theme: 120.6kFavorites106.3kClicks/ch35.1kGifts
- 43 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
- 44 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
- 45 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
- 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 Heh 呵呵 . Theme: 35.3kFavorites65.6kClicks/ch5.3kGifts
- 48 Hey Handsome, Your Wig Fell Off 帅哥你假发掉了 “I’m so, ” An He only got halfway through his apology before he was struck speechless. After a long pause, he added, “Hey, handsome... your wig fell off.” Younger love interest. Happy ending. Updates every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:40 p.m. If you see an update notice at any other time, it’s just a typo fix. Please don’t repost this work. Thank you. *bows* #favorite_1{color:red;font-weight:bold;} Theme: 96.5kFavorites140.2kClicks/ch21.1kGifts
- 49 Dangerous Path Deity 险道神 Blurb: Lu Rongxing has a source of laughter, and that source is Guan Jie. When he was a kid, he thought Guan Jie was a total goofball, someone who never thought things through and made everything he did look like a joke. As an adult, he realizes Guan Jie is a treasure, because grown-ups have so few things to be happy about. They say life has three stages, and Lu Rongxing’s attitude toward Guan Jie follows the same path: laughing at him, getting annoyed with him, then falling in love with him 39.8kFavorites36.3kClicks/ch56.5kGifts
- 50 Secondhand Water 二锅水 [The radio drama of the same name is currently airing on Manbo] [The simplified Chinese edition of the book goes on presale at 7:00 p.m. on September 10, 2022. Follow Weibo @Yan Mao Yu Jiu for details.] The August midday sun was so scorching it made Jiang Chu’s eyes swim. Leaning against the railing by the station exit, he impatiently turned his phone in his hand and decided to wait five more minutes. Five minutes later, he turned around. A pair of dusty flip-flops stopped in front of him. Fol 132.2kFavorites133.1kClicks/ch83.9kGifts
