Novels like Raising Gu
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- 51 Luring the Tiger Into the Trap 请君入瓮 He eventually discovered that she had stolen his sleeping robe. The cool, refined man held the damp robe and stared at her coldly for a long moment. Yuan Qianshui hid under the covers with her bare legs exposed. In a small voice, she offered to wash it and give it back, but he only looked at her with disgust and icily told her to throw it away. Yuan Qianshui was devastated. She understood that now he knew she was a lustful fiend, she would never be able to get close to him again. Desperate t 63.2kFavorites49.8kClicks/ch51.6kGifts
- 52 21+ Flowers in the Gentle Weather 惜花天气 95.1kFavorites139.4kClicks/ch68.4kGifts
- 53 Bewitching Formation 迷魂阵 Shen Xiyin’s husband was gravely injured while killing an evil spirit, leaving him unable to father an heir. As the head of a sect, he did not want to leave his position without a successor, nor did he want anyone to learn of this secret that would damage his reputation. He wanted Shen Xiyin to put the greater good first and secretly conceive a child with another man, giving birth to his “heir.” To that end, he schemed to push Shen Xiyin into the Bewitching Array. There was another man inside 206kFavorites170.9kClicks/ch167.4kGifts
- 54 The International Student's Guide to Being Irresistible 留学生万人迷指南 A disillusioned fake academic young woman battling her dissertation vs. The kid, The easily rattled one, The social butterfly, The bankrupt one Note: 1. All the male characters are chaste. “The social butterfly” refers to an extremely outgoing person. 2. Since the story is set in a fairly realistic world, and to respect public standards of decency, the female lead is not a player who juggles multiple men. 3. Don’t ask why the male characters like the female lead. She lives by clear boundarie 21.6kFavorites24.6kClicks/ch12.9kGifts
- 55 21+ A Little Thing About Turning into My Ex-Boyfriend's Cat After I Died 关于死后变成前男友的猫这件小事 24.6kFavorites24.1kClicks/ch24.3kGifts
- 56 I Became a Languid Fish After Marrying a Yandere 嫁病娇后我咸鱼了 [Also known as Married to a Northeastern Yandere] [The print edition, titled Little Cold Spring, is now available on Taobao, JD, and Pinduoduo.] [The blurb may sound awkward. I really can’t write it any better, so please bear with it. At heart, this is a goofy, sweet little story.] On the three hundred and sixty-fifth day after Zhao Xiheng was abducted and imprisoned by the usurper Wei Li, Wei Li held her tightly in his arms that night, kissing the sweat on her flushed cheeks. His voice was low 238.3kFavorites384.5kClicks/ch85.9kGifts
- 57 The Fairy Maiden Has Her Eye on Me 仙娥顾我 Ever since she was reborn, Yu Qiu kept dreaming about the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince had been taught to rule with benevolence. He valued etiquette and was gentle and refined, a man of elegant character. But in Yu Qiu’s dreams, he was entirely different. In the first dream, he murdered the Emperor and seized power. In the second, he planned to massacre an entire city. When she dreamed of Yun Heng for the third time, Yu Qiu finally understood: these weren’t her dreams. They were Yun Heng’ 175.8kFavorites237.6kClicks/ch113.3kGifts
- 58 Pearl of the Li River 骊珠 [Signed for simplified-Chinese publication; see wb @Songting saya for updates] [The timid little princess who gets things done × the swaggering bandit who calls everyone a bird and an egg] Born into an age of turmoil, Lizhu was a princess, yet her life was still full of hardship and setbacks. Looking back on her life, the only time she had ever truly felt at ease was the brief three years she spent married to Pei Yinzhi. It took Pei Yinzhi ten years to rise from a poor scholar to the highest r 189.8kFavorites190.9kClicks/ch195.1kGifts
- 59 After Being Raised by the Male Lead of a Horror World 被怪谈男主养大后 The big-eared monster made a strange noise at Little Beagle. “Mummy, tell me the story about how you found me again!” The swamp monster mother: “…” How was he supposed to tell the child that, until she grew up, he’d wanted to slap her to death? * Jiang Xiaoya transmigrated into a world of strange tales. She had to fight tooth and nail to survive! The good news: A kind stranger found her and took her in. The bad news: She’d become a baby! The even worse news: Her kind rescuer was the bigg 57.6kFavorites54.6kClicks/ch55.3kGifts
- 60 Yearning for the Morning 慕朝游 [Main story complete. The happy ending will be updated from time to time.] The first time Mu Chaoyou met Wang Daorong, she had just transmigrated into this strange ancient world. Ghosts and monsters ran rampant, and life was as fragile as a candle in the wind. She could never have imagined that the gentle, aloof young noble before her, so refined and bright, was actually a frighteningly obsessive madman. He was the cage she would spend her whole life doing everything she could to escape. * 114.1kFavorites122.3kClicks/ch72.2kGifts
- 61 The Favored Consort's Acting Showcase 宠妃的演技大赏 Announcement: The print edition, retitled With You, With Me, went on sale on December 2, 2023. Thank you all for your support. *The full text has been revised twice. Tens of thousands of words have been changed. The only official edition is on Jinjiang. In her past life, everyone said Su Ling was blessed. She was peerlessly beautiful and born into a powerful family: her father was the Great General Who Guards the Nation, and her elder brother was a junior official at the Dali Temple. At sevente 258.8kFavorites468kClicks/ch144.4kGifts
- 62 The Darling of the Flowers 花中娇客 [This story is best enjoyed with the readers’ comments turned on. You’ll be treated to a stream of clever remarks from our lovely readers.] A Chun, a country girl, travels a thousand miles to seek out relatives. Newly arrived at a grand household, she is careful and cautious, afraid to make even the slightest mistake. All she wants is to use the household’s influence to find a suitable husband with power and status. Things go smoothly. Shen Weizhen, the distant cousin who now runs the Shen hou 327.7kFavorites332kClicks/ch167.2kGifts
- 63 Little Swallow 小燕尔 The simplified Chinese edition is now available for preorder. For details, visit Weibo @Jinjiang Fadianji~~ Yun Qin had steamed five buns. Her husband, Lu Zhi, was still at school and hadn't come home, so she secretly ate three, leaving two. When Lu Zhi returned, the weather was cold, but sweat dotted his handsome, fair face, and his cheeks were faintly flushed from running. Yun Qin suddenly felt guilty. If only she'd eaten two instead of three. She brought the buns over. Lu Zhi was hungry too 140.3kFavorites137.2kClicks/ch177.2kGifts
- 64 A Stirring of Spring 春心动 · Every chapter has been carefully revised and includes added details. Pirated copies are crude and incomplete; please read the official version on Jinjiang. · One day, a young traitor bent on overthrowing the dynasty falls in love. · The heroine's story In a turbulent time, Princess Yongying is attacked by bandits and suffers a blow to the head, scrambling her memories. She mistakes herself for the heroine of a romance novel. That would be fine, except she also mistakes her sworn enemy, with 272.7kFavorites317.8kClicks/ch124.1kGifts
- 65 Reforming the Villain Couple's Everyday Life 反派夫妇改造日常 [For publication updates, follow @Jinjiang Ri Fu Ri] The Gu King Yanluo lost his battle against the Sword Venerable Xiaoyang. Mu Zhaoran, the Gu King’s Dao companion, was thrown into a pit of poisonous snakes and Gu worms alongside the despised Poisonous Yanluo, where she was subjected to the punishment of the pit of vipers. At the moment of her death, a vicious female antagonist reform System suddenly descended from the heavens. The System declared that times had changed and mindless female 167.8kFavorites169.4kClicks/ch213.6kGifts
- 66 21+ Starstruck 撞星 112.7kFavorites129.3kClicks/ch108.8kGifts
- 67 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
- 68 When I Went to Walk a Dog and Found Out Its Owner Was a Total Hottie 当我上门遛狗发现狗主人是大帅比后 [Complete] Chi Zhiyu doesn’t like going out, but after he adopted a puppy and his housekeeper went on vacation, he had to order a dog-walking service to come to his home. The girl who took the job always arrived on time, and seemed to have a special interest in him. She invited him to meals, sent him photos, brought him breakfast, paid close attention to things he’d casually mentioned, and often stared at him without looking away. Chi Zhiyu thought, Living alone as a man really is dangerous, 170.7kFavorites183.7kClicks/ch180.6kGifts
- 69 My Husband Transmigrated to Steal Me From the Male Lead 新聘 Gu Lingyi, daughter of the Minister of Revenue, had two great regrets in her life. First, her childhood sweetheart and fiancé, Jiang Xuanqing, who had placed third in the palace exams, broke off their engagement in public: “I have no romantic feelings for you. From now on, you can think of me as your older brother.” Second, she believed Cui Yi’s empty promises that he would one day rise to the highest offices and always outshine Jiang Xuanqing. In a moment of foolishness, she agreed to marry h 307.1kFavorites265.2kClicks/ch349.7kGifts
- 70 My Husband Is a World-Destroying Demon 我夫君是灭世魔头 [The print edition is out, with a new bonus chapter. Available on all platforms!] Qin Yingran is the daughter of a tutor, and she marries a scholar. After they marry, the scholar gives her everything she asks for. They aren’t rich, and they argue now and then, but their life is peaceful enough. Yingran thinks they’ll go on living a quiet, ordinary life forever. Until one day, a group of people storms into their home, shouting, “We’ve found that demon Xu Liling’s hideout!” Yingran hides at a di 489.6kFavorites569.3kClicks/ch540.9kGifts
- 71 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
- 72 After Dating Tomie 与富江交往之后 (Comment threads are now open. Arguments or off-topic comments will be deleted qwq. Thank you, everyone.) Aoki Tomie’s countless twisted admirers turned my life into a mess, leaving me anxious and on edge every day. It went on until the whole class descended into madness. I couldn’t take the fear anymore. After things were settled, I ran to Tomie in tears and apologized. I shouldn’t have written him a love letter. I begged him to leave me alone. I’d been bewitched by his looks and lost my mind. 178.4kFavorites237.1kClicks/ch187.8kGifts
- 73 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
- 74 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
