Novels like Crane Cries Over Chang’an
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- 101 I Am the Supporting Female Character in an Explicit Novel 我是限制文的女配 [The physical book has been retitled Listen to Ling and is now available for preorder. For details, follow Weibo @Jun Zi Sheng JZS] Lin Ting transmigrated into a book, specifically, an explicit novel. She became the female supporting character who secretly loved the male lead but was fated never to have him. In the original story, the supporting character hated the female lead for taking the male lead away from her. By association, she also hated the female lead's elder brother, Duan Ling. Over 409.5kFavorites422kClicks/ch563kGifts
- 102 Summer Solstice, Year Eleven 十一年夏至 [Carefully revised on July 7, 2023, with 25,000 new words. The additions aren’t in pirated copies. “I like his name. I love being alive, though I was born in this time.” · A former high school classmate got married, and that day everyone gathered for a reunion at a friend’s house. Somehow, they started talking about the foolish, romantic, secret things they’d done as students. When it was Xia Li’s turn, she said, “On his birthday, I abused my position at th 334.4kFavorites423.9kClicks/ch178.5kGifts
- 103 After Dying Together With the Male Protagonist 和男主同归于尽后 The first volume of the print edition, "Same Tide: Mortal World", goes up for preorder at 7 p.m. on December 21, 2024. For updates, follow @Jinjiang Hua Qi. This story is featured on the homepage and has drawn a lot of comments lately, including heated arguments that have turned into long threads. The author is unwell and has been going back and forth to the hospital, so they don’t have the energy to moderate the comments. The comment section is now closed. Thank you for understanding. Blurb: 453.6kFavorites688.9kClicks/ch443.7kGifts
- 104 Starting with the Refrigerator 从冰箱开始 [Main story complete] Fang Yexin has two secrets, known to very, very few people. First, when she was a child, she nearly died at Gem Beach, where a meteorite was said to have fallen. Second, after she came of age, she gained a special ability, a tiny, glitch-like power. Its only effect was to connect her refrigerator to her neighbor’s, so things from next door would often show up in her own fridge. A meaningless glitch. Not cool at all, with no potential whatsoever. Aside from making her fr 99kFavorites121.5kClicks/ch92.5kGifts
- 105 After the Sword Cultivator's Reputation Was Ruined 剑修风评被害后 [This novel has been licensed for print publication in simplified Chinese. Preorders open May 30, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.] Short blurb: After receiving a storybook that foretells the future, Yun Xian decides to leave the mountain and revive the Sword Pavilion. The sect leader strokes his beard, deeply gratified. My girl has finally grown up. One year later. “Yun Xian, could you tell us how you managed, in just one year, to turn everyone’s stereotype of sword cultivators from ‘aloof, good at fightin 201.6kFavorites280.1kClicks/ch240.4kGifts
- 106 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
- 107 Seeking a Daughter 求女 The founding era is prosperous, with everything going your way. There is only one thing you cannot have your way about. This novel was published under the title The Green Crow. Theme: To be added. 31.4kFavorites35.7kClicks/ch7.5kGifts
- 108 The Villainess Doesn't Want the Leads to Break Up [Book Transmigration] 女配不想让主角分手[穿书] Shen Wanqing transmigrates into a fantasy romance novel full of angst. Misunderstandings plague the leads’ relationship, they suffer both physically and emotionally, and in the end one dies while the other is left injured. Shen Wanqing looks at herself, now cast as the vicious supporting female character. “I see. My mission must be to break up the main couple and win over the male lead, right?” System: “No. Your mission is to turn this novel into a sweet romance.” Shen Wanqing: “...” And so She 529.8kFavorites758kClicks/ch151.6kGifts
- 109 The Moon Shines for a Thousand Miles 月明千里 … The original title was "Married to a Monk". If you’ve read the whole novel, please leave a rating, dear readers. "Bows" Thank you~ [Han Chinese princess X eminent monk from the Western Regions] The blurb is silly, but the novel itself is more serious. A swoony romance. Yao Ying transmigrates into a book. The world is in chaos, with warlords vying for power. Her father happens to lead the strongest faction, and her brothe 490.8kFavorites652.1kClicks/ch510.7kGifts
- 110 Kunning Palace 坤宁 [Chapter 254 was posted by mistake and contains no new material. I’ll come back to add a bonus chapter after I finish "The Sword Pavilion Hears the Bell" in 2024. Thanks for understanding, and I’m very sorry!] Jiang Xuening was not a good person. To become empress, she used every trick and scheme at her disposal, trampling countless sincere feelings along the way. But before she died, she was willing to risk her own life to plead for someone else. The Ministry of Justice’s Vice Minister, Zhang 664.9kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch518.4kGifts
- 111 The First Paranormal Demolition Office 第一诡异拆迁办 [Published under the title The First Book of Strange Rules. Volume One is out now. For updates on subsequent volumes, follow Weibo @Jinjiang_Sizhenyomian] [New novel, My Strange Tales Containment Facility, updating now. Come check it out in the author's column] Blurb: [Hello, and welcome to the Demolition Office family. Below is the ninth edition of our internal employee handbook. For your personal safety, please read it carefully and commit it to memory.] [1. As a member of the Demolition Of 198.4kFavorites290.1kClicks/ch334kGifts
- 112 The Flower Snatcher 探花 (Signed for simplified Chinese publication. Follow progress on Weibo at @Jinjiang Qingyin) [Blurb] Once, she dreaded going to court. Later, she dreaded leaving it. Scene: After court, Chen Jinzhao grips her jade tablet and walks off with her head down, only to be swiftly stopped by the chief eunuch waiting outside the Golden Hall. “Top Graduate, the Prince Regent is waiting for you to discuss state affairs. This way, please.” Where the chief eunuch points, a four-horse carriage is waitin 429.3kFavorites394kClicks/ch701.2kGifts
- 113 [Great Tang] The First Female Official of Empress Wu [大唐]武皇第一女官 Jiang Wo sat in one of the palace gardens within the Taiji Palace. When she woke one day, she discovered that she had become a low-ranking female official in the Tang dynasty during the Zhenguan era: a seventh-rank record keeper in the Palace Discipline Bureau, responsible for recording palace rules and punishments. Her first assignment was to explain palace etiquette to the newly arrived consorts. After she had finished reading through the regulations, one young woman stepped forward. “Could 128.3kFavorites184.4kClicks/ch724kGifts
- 114 For the Throne 为皇 Blurb: When she wakes, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world… She can’t read the writing or understand the language. A group of people dressed in bizarre clothes, “barbarians” by her standards, are talking among themselves, some in fear and others in excitement. When the divine voice sounds in her mind once more, and the limitless gate opens before her, she faces countless possibilities, from life to death. For the first time, Li Yundan discovers a way of life more thrilling than power str 133.1kFavorites167.6kClicks/ch584.7kGifts
- 115 Notes on Watching Cranes 观鹤笔记 [Main story complete. Taking a few days off before posting the bonus chapters.] [Coming soon: The Lady Buddha and Letters to a Rose. Please add them to your reading list.] [Blurb] Deng Ying in history was convicted and died by lingchi, the slow slicing execution. Even after his death, Grand Secretary Yang Lun personally inscribed the words “Pure and Clean” for him. Yang Wan, who lives in the twenty-first century, has spent ten years studying Deng Ying, poring over every detail of his life. Ten 520.5kFavorites495.9kClicks/ch359.4kGifts
- 116 The Max-Level Green Tea Becomes a Pitiful Little One 满级绿茶穿成小可怜 Lin Feilu was nicknamed the Green Tea Princess. The scheming queen of green tea, an Oscar-winning actress in the eyes of the public. She could act cute, throw punches, feign innocence, and play the pure, white lotus. In short, she was not a good person. Eventually, she paid for her actions: she died on her twenty-seventh birthday. As she lay dying, Lin Feilu reflected on her two decades of playing the green tea, and felt deep remorse and regret. She swore that if she got another life, she would 802kFavorites1.4MClicks/ch861.6kGifts
- 117 Don't Be Afraid, NPCs, I'm a Good Person NPC别怕，我是好人 Shen Shixu is a veteran gamer who skips story scenes, dialogue, and anything else that gets in the way of fighting bosses. If she sees a health bar, she attacks; if she sees a chest, she loots it. One day, she wins a spot in the beta test for the new single-player game Second Life. She transmigrates shortly after entering the game. And has no idea it happened. Because the game’s System came along too. The player enters the game. The player skips all the background information. The player is ama 94.4kFavorites132.1kClicks/ch275.1kGifts
- 118 One Day, I'll Have a Blade in Hand 有朝一日刀在手 The first physical volume will be available for preorder on January 28 at 7 p.m. - Three Calamities Simulation Battlefield Official Forum [Gossip] Today at the team tournament login area, I saw a ridiculously pretty girl looking for a team. OP: Listen, I was practically crying myself into a dried-up corpse. 1L: Another daily thread! Here's a saying for you, OP: Show off, and you'll get struck by lightning. 3L: Everyone says 99.9% of pretty players traded away their actio 252.6kFavorites662.7kClicks/ch385.9kGifts
- 119 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
- 120 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
- 121 She Has Always Been Good at Getting Herself Killed [Book Transmigration] 她作死向来很可以的[穿书] [A touch of horror and cosmic horror, with elements of rule-based strange tales] [New novel, My Monster Containment Facility, updating now. If you're interested, check it out in the author's column] Blurb: After dying suddenly, Xu Turan was selected by the System and pulled into a horror romance novel, where she became a doomed female supporting character. But on her very first day after transmigrating, her bound System was urgently recalled for repairs due to old age. As they prepared to part 450.6kFavorites766.9kClicks/ch800.6kGifts
- 122 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
- 123 The Spiral Lighthouse [Infinite] 螺旋灯塔[无限] In 3155, an anomaly known as the “Century of Silence” swept across the world. Strange dungeons appeared alongside it, as did players with a variety of abilities. A hundred years later, the anomaly gradually faded, but the dungeons and abilities remained. * 3796, the Wasteland District. Cheng Tingyu opened her right eye in front of the mirror. Lines of information, like written descriptions, flashed rapidly beside her reflection. [Name: Cheng Tingyu] [Ability: ["Unstable"]["Parsing Error"]["U 150.5kFavorites200.6kClicks/ch367.8kGifts
- 124 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
- 125 Did Miss Zhu Fall into a Trap Today? 祝姑娘今天掉坑了没 Zhu Ying is someone who does whatever she wants, with no regard for law or heaven. If you look closely, in her youth she was just a little charlatan who wanted to live a quiet, comfortable life. Born into a dirt-poor family of charlatans, Zhu Ying was dealt hard mode from the start. To keep her biological daughter from being drowned, her mother, Zhang Xiangu, had to claim she’d given birth to a boy. As outsiders in the village, the Zhu family struggled to get by. Then her charlatan father got c 295.4kFavorites297.1kClicks/ch1.6MGifts
- 126 [Tang Dynasty] Chang'an of the Great Tang [唐]大唐长安 When Li Chang’an opened her eyes again, she was in the Tang Dynasty. The good news: It was the Kaiyuan era, the golden age of the Tang, and she was a daughter of Emperor Xuanzong. The bad news: The An Lushan Rebellion was just around the corner, and her father disliked her so much he wouldn’t even give her a princess’s title and made her become a Taoist nun. Princess Shou’an was born to Cao Yena Ji. She was born in the ninth month of pregnancy. The emperor hated her and ordered her to be dress 175.8kFavorites238.2kClicks/ch656.8kGifts
- 127 I Clean Up Garbage in a Wasteland World 我在废土世界扫垃圾 Zhu Ning, who was leading the charge against zombies in the apocalypse, transmigrates, this time into a wasteland world. Eighty percent of this world’s land has been contaminated. Humanity is divided into five classes. She ends up in the lowest, a fifth-class citizen, which is just another way of saying she’s a defective good-for-nothing. Penniless and with nothing to her name, Zhu Ning has no choice but to become a cleaner and sweep up garbage. She’s heard that cleaning up trash in the wastelan 828.3kFavorites957.5kClicks/ch3.3MGifts
- 128 Smash All Pots and Pans To Go to School 砸锅卖铁去上学 [The second volume’s physical edition goes on sale on June 24, 2023, at 6 p.m. The first two minutes come with a limited-time autograph! For details, follow the author on Weibo: Tiantian Chijiao.] [The audiobook of the same name is now available on Ximalaya. If you’re interested, go give it a listen!] Wei San, once a top engineer, transmigrates into an out-of-school child in the interstellar age. She makes a living by scavenging trash and turning junk into treasure. Just in time for the start o 965.2kFavorites1.6MClicks/ch4.6MGifts
- 129 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
- 130 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
- 131 Offering a Salted Fish to the Patriarch 向师祖献上咸鱼 Liao Tingyan, a newly initiated disciple with the lowest seniority, has actually subdued the terrifying, peerlessly powerful demon patriarch of the Gengchen Immortal Mansion, stirring up a heated discussion. Junior Sister Liao, how did you manage that? Liao Tingyan: …By relying on my natural talent for doing nothing? This novel has been published in print under the title Offering the Fish. It is available at Dangdang and the Tmall Yueduji flagship store. Theme: 923.5kFavorites1.8MClicks/ch760.3kGifts
- 132 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
- 133 After Entering a Cyberpunk Game, I Killed the Boss and Claimed the Throne 穿进赛博游戏后干掉BOSS成功上位 [I’ve been informed about the incident involving trolls in the comments, and I sincerely apologize to everyone. The inappropriate text in the blurb has been removed. A detailed announcement is in the author’s note for Chapter 1. 2026.04.05] [Updates on the simplified Chinese print edition: See Weibo @An Bai ANBAI. The second volume of the simplified Chinese edition was released on August 22, 2025.] The cyberpunk game with cosmic horror elements, Crimson Earth, is about to be released. Kui Xin 835.4kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch3.4MGifts
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