Novels like Distant Jade Steps
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- 51 The Evolutionary Theory of a Chuunibyou Dog 中二旺财进化论 Readers who are "naturally sunny and positive, with not a gloomy bone in their bodies" are strongly advised not to read this story. It has absolutely no depth, the protagonist is either useless or a show-off, the language is vulgar and full of dirty jokes, and the author isn't right in the head either. Reading it anyway may seriously upset you, and the author would feel very guilty. Thank you for your understanding. Originally titled "Even a Chuunibyou Needs a Marriage Certificate." Marriage fir 9.5kFavorites29.4kClicks/ch2.4kGifts
- 52 Beauty in Bones 艳骨 Complete. The main story is finished; bonus chapters to come. Core tropes: Marriage Before Love, a husband groveling to win back his wife Her mother was a Grand Princess, and her father the military governor of Jiangzhou. Cui Shiyiniang was born into one of the Five Great Clans. Graceful and slender, she was famed throughout the capital for her radiant beauty. At a spring farewell banquet at Jingming Pond, Cui Shiyiniang ducked into a pavilion for a nap, hidden among cascades of wisteria. S 88.2kFavorites136.6kClicks/ch40kGifts
- 53 Breaking Free 破笼 34.4kFavorites34.6kClicks/ch11kGifts
- 54 Broken Wings 折翅 Please add my upcoming novel, Ashen Bones, to your favorites. Its blurb is below. Blurb for this story: In their third year of marriage, Ye Jin made a deal with a badly wounded man. He gave her a gold leaf, and she hid him in her room. She only needed some money to help her escape her living hell. Ye Jin never imagined she’d let a wolf into her home. Murdering husbands, stealing wives, threats and temptations: Gu Jun stopped at nothing, committing every sort of wicked deed under heaven. And yet 16.9kFavorites29.6kClicks/ch7.9kGifts
- 55 Black High Heels 黑色高跟鞋 A novel I wrote in 2007 →_→ It’s childish, so read at your own risk. Published under the title "The Taurus Maiden’s Magical Love Affair". If you put on a pair of black high heels and dance three times with the man you love, the two of you will fall in love with each other. Theme: 7.1kFavorites145.2kClicks/ch130Gifts
- 56 A Wife Is Hard to Find 一妻难求 He said, "You wouldn't be my concubine, so you'll be a maid for the rest of your life, then." So three years later, when Xia Xuan said to her, "Zhuo Yulou, I want to marry you," she answered without hesitation, "Heh. Get lost!" New story link: Come check it out, give it a click Theme: 6.8kFavorites44.8kClicks/ch1.1kGifts
- 57 The Spring Court 斗春院 [Some chapters of this story are still being revised. Read with caution.] Theme: 24kFavorites57.3kClicks/ch7.5kGifts
- 58 Addiction 嗜瘾 [This novel leans into old-school domineering pursuit and forced possession. The male lead is the only one in love with the female lead. If this isn't your taste, find something you like instead! Enter with caution if you're uncomfortable!] Synopsis: Wei Ying didn't really remember when he first realized that he lacked the ability to perceive human emotions. Simply put, he had antisocial personality disorder. He had no empathy and couldn't relate to others, so the pain and joy of ordinary peo 56.5kFavorites140.1kClicks/ch9.5kGifts
- 59 Integrity [Republican Era] 风骨[民国] [Forced possession. Main story complete. The whole book costs about 2 yuan to subscribe to. The official edition has been revised and differs from pirated copies. My next book, Marrying Up, is coming soon. Please add it to your library.] Jiang Suying had just returned from studying abroad and still hadn’t figured out Tianjin’s ways when she accidentally got on the wrong side of Second Master Liao while trying to save someone. Second Master Liao was handsome, but there was a touch of madness ab 23.2kFavorites44.8kClicks/ch7.7kGifts
- 60 Everyday Kidnapping and Plunder at the Magic Academy [Western Fantasy] 魔法学院强取豪夺日常[西幻] Beverly is a struggling student at the Magic Academy, and her black hair makes her a target of discrimination. She dreads attending Archmage Elias's class because he is always demanding and sharp-tongued. Every day, she worries that he'll fail her. Until one day, in the dim lair of an evil dragon, Elias gets smeared with the dragon's aphrodisiac fluids. "I ended up like this because I saved you. Don't you think you should repay me?" With tears in her eyes, she bites her lip and agrees. The man 11.6kFavorites10.8kClicks/ch15.5kGifts
- 61 [Kuroko's Basketball] Endless END [黑篮]无尽的END 2.9kFavorites133.4kClicks/ch269Gifts
- 62 The Young Concubine 小通房 This is an old-school, melodramatic romance. If that's not your thing, please don't read it. Let's respect each other's tastes. [Complete] [If you've bought the whole book, please leave a positive review!] Ji Ying is a bedchamber maid, with cherry-red lips, fragrant cheeks, and a slender, supple figure. Her sole purpose is to serve Song Yuanzhou, the head of a family famed for its gardens. She was originally sold into servitude by the Bai family, the household of Song Yuanzhou's betrothed, Lady 54.2kFavorites106.8kClicks/ch11kGifts
- 63 The Late-Blooming Breeze 晚来风 [Synopsis] For his entire life, Huo Yin wanted only to keep her trapped beneath his Five Finger Mountain. Shen Wan, the wife of a minor official, once believed she had married a good man. It was only when he sent her down a road from which there was no return that she learned how easily hearts change in the face of power and influence. But with her fierce, unyielding nature, how could she ever willingly let others control her? Huo Yin saw her five times, and each time left a deep impres 68.4kFavorites177.9kClicks/ch23.6kGifts
- 64 Jade Concealed in Pearl 韫玉藏珠 1v1, both leads are virgins. Forceful pursuit and a ruthless romance. Bonus chapters are available when the main text subscription rate reaches 90%. Pirated readers, please don't comment. Show some respect, thank you. Blurb: Shi Yunyu woke up to find herself transmigrated into the body of a frail little girl who didn't even have a name. Her parents had sold her to the prefect's residence for two taels of silver, where she became a kitchen maid tending the stove. She comforted herself: It's all r 111.1kFavorites97.3kClicks/ch81.6kGifts
- 65 Breaking Spring's Shadow 折春茵 [A lofty beauty gone mad for love + dual personality + coercive pursuit + brotherly harmony] Complete, with chapter comments open. Please add my upcoming novel, "National Beauty and Famous Flowers", to your collection. Xie Mingting, heir to the Marquis of Chenliu, is accomplished in both letters and arms, as pure as jade. The Empress greatly esteems him, even though he is only twenty, and he has a boundless future ahead after promoting new laws and reforms. Yet in his life, he has made one ter 72.9kFavorites133.5kClicks/ch16.9kGifts
- 66 Sick 有病 Wen Miao is a cook's daughter, tasked with caring for the sickly eldest young master of the household. Everyone says Xiling Yan won't live long. Only Wen Miao says he'll live to be a hundred. After falling in love with a demoness, Xiling Yan succumbed to demonic cultivation and killed everyone in the household. Wen Miao, carefully carrying a sugar figurine to give him, was the first to fall in the rain of blood. Back when Xiling Yan was still mortal, his frail body confined him to a small co 23.4kFavorites21.2kClicks/ch8.4kGifts
- 67 Cinderella’s Road 灰姑娘之路 At first, Li Miao thinks all she wants is love. But once you've put on the glass slipper, who would want to take it off? Zhang Ziwen thinks all he wants is a little fun, but happiness passes in the blink of an eye, and he can't bear to let Li Miao go. Content warning: The main story has a bad ending; the extra chapters have a happy ending. Main story complete. Theme: 8.2kFavorites18.5kClicks/ch3.2kGifts
- 68 What Do I Do After Transmigrating into Two Books at Once? 同时穿进了两本书肿么破？ Jiang Heng transmigrated, and not only that, she became the innocent, delicate heroine. But she's not interested in the school boss. …After finally transferring to another high school, she discovers she's still inside another book. It was written by the same author, but this time it's a danmei novel. One male lead dies, and the other turns evil. Just then, a task suddenly appears in her mind: stop one of the male leads, the gong, from turning evil, or she'll be destroyed along with the wor 13.5kFavorites39.9kClicks/ch6.3kGifts
- 69 After I Was Doomed to Die, I Became a Black Lotus 将死后我成了黑莲花 [Contains a second male lead who ends up on top, and the male lead dies so thoroughly there's nothing left of him.] [The blurb for the yandere-sweet romance next door, Sugar Glider x Yandere: The Clingy One Conquers the Great Demon King, is below ↓↓↓] A sudden upheaval left Xie Heng with amnesia. With no idea where she came from or where she was going, the young girl had no family and wandered aimlessly every day, until the peerless Lord Lingshan took her in. From then on, he was all she could 41.9kFavorites57.5kClicks/ch6.2kGifts
- 70 Spring Locked in the Mad Mountain 疯山锁春 [Gentle reminder: the blurb gets intense] Ji Huan was born into the prestigious Qinghe clan. For years, he strictly upheld propriety and conducted himself with impeccable decorum. Until, at a spring banquet, he was tricked into marrying a woman of humble birth. Xin Yi was that woman. Though their marriage came about through a twist of fate, only Xin Yi knew that she had long yearned for it. For two years after their wedding, she and Ji Huan treated each other with icy courtesy. Whenever she saw 28.5kFavorites15.6kClicks/ch1.6kGifts
- 71 The Female Bodyguard 女护卫 [The Scumbag Version] They were both demons struggling in the abyss. Why should he be the one to climb out and bask in the blessings of sunshine and rain? [Note: One couple, one pairing] [Check the author’s profile for the reading guide] Theme: Even when mired in the mud, keep your heart turned toward the sun 66.3kFavorites104kClicks/ch32.4kGifts
- 72 She in Captivity 囚她 Synopsis 1: A year after marrying, the second young lady of the Shi family was divorced by her husband’s family on the grounds of the seven grounds for divorce, and sent away by her mother-in-law. She had borne no sons; she had failed to serve her parents-in-law; she was talkative; she was jealous. Her family sent a soft sedan chair to bring her home. She returned to the bedroom she had once lived in as a girl. That night, her nightmare returned. The man sat brazenly in her room, eyeing her 135.8kFavorites217.5kClicks/ch68.6kGifts
- 73 Captivating Beauty 美貌动人 What do you do when you arrive in ancient times with nothing but a beautiful face? Getting yourself a powerful patron is important. [Bedchamber Maid & Pan Lu Deng Xiao Xian] . . My older works are all in my profile -> Theme: 29.4kFavorites178.8kClicks/ch10.2kGifts
- 74 My Fallen Immortal Husband Regrets It 我那堕仙夫君后悔了 [Main story complete] [Cool and aloof yet unhinged male lead x gentle, innocent beauty of a female lead] [The untouchable flower's groveling redemption arc] One accident, and a love potion led me to consummate my engagement with the man I had admired for so long. I was a frail orphan with terrible aptitude, while Shen Changli was a once-in-ten-thousand-years sword cultivator with a Cold Soul Sword Bone, a snow-clad sword immortal who had renounced love. When I came to, a cold sword was presse 57.4kFavorites59.1kClicks/ch18.9kGifts
- 75 The Madam Wants a Divorce 夫人要和离 Male Substitute Romance / Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium / The Untouchable Turns into a Ghost *An austere, self-denying patriarch VS a young madam whose heart belongs to someone else Amid the ridicule of the world, Cui Yin married into the prestigious Yuan family, becoming the wife of Second Master Yuan, a man as noble as an orchid and as unattainable as a tree high in the clouds. After their wedding, she swallowed her grievances and did everything she could to please him, learning to be g 53.2kFavorites39.6kClicks/ch14.8kGifts
- 76 The Glazed Lock [Republican Era] 琉璃锁[民国] (Free short story. My upcoming long novels are "Pride" [Republican Era] and "Beasts in a Cage." Please add them to your reading list.) Ding Shaoyun returns from studying abroad with a set of Western ways. She plays around with men and earns herself a bad reputation. Her family panics and rushes to arrange a marriage for her: she is to marry Second Master Song, a former official of the previous dynasty. Everyone of note in Tianjin knows that Second Master Song is a little crazy. He insists on 9.1kFavorites44.2kClicks/ch877Gifts
- 77 The Groom's Deceit 郎欺 Later, the history books recorded that the matriarch was a noblewoman of the Wang clan of Langya. At the time, half the court officials had been cultivated by the Wang clan, whose power was at its height. The matriarch was born to privilege and was also the most beautiful woman in her family. When a new ruler was enthroned, the Wang clan chose to work with Lang Lingji, supporting him until he became the most powerful minister. In the prime of her youth, the matriarch had also married the head o 57.9kFavorites84.5kClicks/ch11.3kGifts
- 78 The Third Time the Young Master Cast Me Aside 三弃公子 Yanzhi is a yin creature born from the resentment of the dead. By a twist of fate, she gets the chance to be reborn as a human. It’s just her luck to run into a villain. But fate is fickle: sometimes things take a turn for the better after hitting rock bottom, while sometimes one bad turn follows another. She is clearly the latter, and the ending of every one of her lives is... not pretty. The villain already had a difficult temperament, and it only grows more mercurial, cruel, and sinister... 110.3kFavorites207.6kClicks/ch32.5kGifts
- 79 The Caged Phoenix (Over-the-Top Drama) 囚凰（狗血） [The Emperor Steals His Queen | Empress of Two Dynasties | Coercive Romance and a Triangle of Obsession] When the Emperor of Jin was young and still a nobody, he was once betrayed by the daughter of an official. That woman was heartless. Once she grew tired of him, she plotted to have him killed, then climbed the social ladder and became empress. Years later, he conquers the realm and strips her of all her splendor. He waits for the heartless woman to kick aside her useless former emperor hus 18.9kFavorites42.7kClicks/ch7.3kGifts
- 80 Lotus Makeup 芙蓉妆 The Shen family, merchants in Jinzhou, had a daughter as beautiful as a heavenly maiden, fresh as a lotus just lifted from the water. But fate was unkind to her. She was sold into Huaxiang House, a brothel district in the capital. Madam Shi spent a month trying to train Shen Shiting, but she refused to comply. In the end, they drugged her wine and sent her into a room. The man inside was a notorious illegitimate son of the Duke’s mansion. She stumbled out through the door and pleaded with the 107.4kFavorites225.2kClicks/ch49.8kGifts
- 81 Princess Yongjia 公主永嘉 When Emperor Jiahe arranged her marriage, Lingyi thought she would marry Xie Yu. Qin Lie wanted nothing less than to marry Princess Yongjia. Later, She lost the one she loved. He gained his cinnabar mole. A warlord in troubled times x a fallen princess. A story about a dependent flower. A groveling-after-the-breakup romance. Marriage first, love later, a sea of hatred and sorrow, over-the-top melodrama. If these tropes bother you, don’t read. No transmigration or transmigration into a book, n 32kFavorites30kClicks/ch20.6kGifts
- 82 I Became the Concubine of a Cold and Powerful Minister 成了清冷权臣的侍妾 [Thank you, babies, for all the five-star reviews! Love you all. See you in the next book!] Powerful man lowers his head | Both are inexperienced Plain, beautiful country girl x Cold, unhinged aristocrat Lin Rong was sold into the Pei household as a child and became a servant responsible for cleaning the outer courtyard. Every servant in the residence dreamed of climbing the social ladder... They could earn a future by 120.9kFavorites130.2kClicks/ch48.7kGifts
- 83 Cruel East Wind 东风恶 I can't think of a blurb. Sigh, let's just read the story. Who needs a bicycle anyway... VIP Notice: East Wind Turns Fierce will become a paid novel on April 21, 2022. Theme: No matter how badly life treats you, don't give up. Make the most of every day. 43.2kFavorites233.9kClicks/ch2.1kGifts
- 84 An Eastern Beauty on Satan's Island 撒旦岛上的东方美人 Amoris spent the entire evening thinking about the black-haired, pale-skinned woman at the execution ground. The priest said she was a prisoner from the East. Her only accomplice was executed in the square. The gunshots startled a flock of gulls searching for food, sending them flying as her black hair whipped in the wind. The blazing sun over the island could not melt the quiet ice in her eyes. Angels in the chapel played a song that made the heart skip a beat. At first, Zhuang Chunyue only 18.1kFavorites21kClicks/ch10.2kGifts
- 85 21+ Spring's Colors Burn into the Bones 春色烧骨 17.3kFavorites19.5kClicks/ch4.5kGifts
- 86 21+ You Broke My Heart 春心负我 53.5kFavorites69.8kClicks/ch26.4kGifts
- 87 21+ Auntie's Allure 姑母撩人 25.1kFavorites38.6kClicks/ch7.5kGifts
- 88 Marrying the Frail Beauty 折娶弱腰 Complete. (1) Meng Tiao married Meng Yu, the prefect, and they lived together with mutual respect and courtesy. No one knew that they had an agreement in private: she would help him gain power, and he would help her make money. They would keep feelings out of it. Meng Tiao kept her feelings to herself. Fine, no feelings, then. Making money came first. But the very thing she feared soon came to pass. She heard that a powerful official was going to punish corrupt officials. Just then, Meng Yu br 15.7kFavorites15.8kClicks/ch7.9kGifts
- 89 The Shopkeeper [Republican Era] 东家[民国] All Those Years I Was Bullied by the Boss! A sweet-talking, stubborn little bookkeeper who loves saving money vs. a cold-faced, ruthless, proud big boss Shu Fusang thinks the unluckiest thing that ever happened to her was getting matched and engaged to her awful former boss in the Great World outside Xuanwu Gate. She looks outside through the embroidered curtain, printed by a dragon-head machine, and feels so nervous that her cold sweat could pierce the peacock eyes on her brand-new qipao. She t 7.4kFavorites13.4kClicks/ch13.9kGifts
- 90 You Said It Was a Lie 是你说谎 To get close to him, Yu Wanling told a great many lies. Only later did she realize that she had been caught in a lie all along, while he had stood outside it, clear-eyed. A twisted, brilliant top student × a kind, honest girl Angst | Not realistic | School life | Coercive love | The hero's long road to winning her back REDnote: Jiu Shi Shengsheng Furen A Theme: - 43.6kFavorites41.4kClicks/ch20.9kGifts
- 91 The Beauty of Glazed Glass 琉璃美人煞 This novel has been published. Theme: 28.3kFavorites107kClicks/ch466Gifts
- 92 Begonia Blossoms Drunk in the Sun 海棠醉日 My next book is a forced-love story, The Debt of Romance. Please add it to your reading lists, everyone! The forced-love plot begins in Chapter 21 | Ruthless, domineering emperor vs. patient, clever beauty After Crown Prince Zhao Mingfei was deposed, he naturally had no affection for the wife forced on him as a substitute. But Jiang Niantang loved him wholeheartedly. She secretly watched him practice swordsmanship, took care of everything in the cold palace for him, and spent night after night s 115.2kFavorites107.9kClicks/ch41.8kGifts
- 93 Verdant 青青 "My name is Beauty That Topples Kingdoms, and I turn all heads without lifting a finger." - Yi Shu Just writing this for fun, don't take it seriously. Theme: 20.2kFavorites84.9kClicks/ch7kGifts
- 94 Amnesiac Tyrant’s White Moonlight 失忆暴君的白月光（穿书） [My new novel, Ten Tyrants Broke My Heart, is now updating!] Yun Pianpian transmigrates into a novel as an insignificant palace maid. The System tells her to win the tyrant's heart and become his cherished beloved. Tyrant Xiao Changyuan is sinister, violent, cold, and cruel. After uniting the realm, he stirs up such resentment among the people that everyone wants him dead. The two fall off a cliff by accident. Xiao Changyuan is badly injured and loses his memory. "...Woman, who are you?" In th 27.1kFavorites53.8kClicks/ch5.6kGifts
- 95 Poor and Ugly, Yet You Think You Can Be a Black-Hearted Lotus? 又穷又丑也配当黑心莲？ A pure-hearted, taciturn little yandere x a hot-tempered little firecracker who's all bark and no bite [Important] The male lead is a yandere, a yandere, a yandere in the traditional sense. His mind isn't right. Don't apply this to real life. If someone like this won't leave you alone in real life, remember to call the police. [Note] The male lead did not kidnap the heroine. Yun Luo is the eldest daughter of the county magistrate's deputy in Qing'an County. She's got a fiery temper, and no gos 11.4kFavorites16.5kClicks/ch4.5kGifts
- 96 A Thousand Years, Lord Eunuch 督公千岁 Yun Jingwan went from being the daughter of a high-ranking official to a government courtesan, spending ten years lost in darkness. To find a sliver of hope, she finally steeled herself to offer her body. But as she went to serve him with graceful steps, she had no idea that the cold, unfeeling man before her was Jiang Huaiyue, the powerful eunuch of the Western Depot. * * * I once thought I would wander alone through the dark, endless night, with no way home. I never expected that from now on, 36.4kFavorites97.2kClicks/ch22.9kGifts
- 97 Take Her Behind the Curtain 折她入幕 Core trope: Taking by force The Central Plains had fallen into decline, and warlords rose up everywhere. Song Heng, Military Governor of Hedong, captured Jinzhou and returned in triumph. Through the curtain of rain, Song Heng caught sight of a young woman in green, with dark green hair and rosy cheeks, her bearing as graceful as an orchid. Later, at a banquet, Song Heng learned that she was the younger sister of the man who had saved his younger brother's life. A measuring, probing look appear 83.9kFavorites112kClicks/ch22.9kGifts
- 98 A Transmigrator's Work Journal 穿书打工手札 After finishing a novel where she ran, he chased, and she couldn't escape even if she grew wings, Zhou Miao went to bed satisfied. But when she opened her eyes, she discovered she'd become a cannon-fodder character in the novel who shared her name: Zhou Miao. According to the plot, Zhou Miao would travel from Rongzhou to the capital for the imperial selection, be chosen as Noble Lady Zhou, and receive imperial favor that the book never mentioned. But after the old emperor died, she would meet t 29.8kFavorites41.7kClicks/ch14.9kGifts
- 99 21+ After My Husband Killed Me to Prove His Dao, I Was Reborn 被夫君杀身证道后，我重生了 30.9kFavorites38.4kClicks/ch27.4kGifts
- 100 The Beloved Bedchamber Maid 通房宠 [The Male Lead’s Story] Li Xuan, the heir to the marquis’s residence, was a proper, self-disciplined gentleman who had always held himself to strict standards, with rules etched into his very bones. The only thing he had ever done out of character was take in a beautiful bedchamber maid before he was married, then cherish her like a precious jewel and be unable to go a single day without her. Fortunately, Li Xuan hadn’t let her turn his head completely. Though he doted on his bedchamber maid, he 126.8kFavorites319kClicks/ch36.9kGifts
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