Novels like A Joy Reborn
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- 1 Red Silk Hands 红酥手 Completed in July 2023. Male lead: He has no feelings for the female lead, but pretends to be deeply in love for his own benefit. The longer he keeps it up, the more sincere he becomes. Female lead: She likes the male lead, but pretends to be reserved to fit her persona. The longer she keeps it up, the more she gets into it. Note: The names of the male and female leads have been changed. This is not a derivative work; it's a new setting. Please read in peace. Content warnings: 1. The male lead 15.5kFavorites16.9kClicks/ch2.9kGifts
- 2 The Bedchamber Maid 通房丫鬟 Everyone knows that old King Qin is a womanizer. In his later years, he had a second son, Li Yu, with such exquisite features that it’s hard to tell whether he’s male or female. Li Yu is exceptionally clever. He places first in the imperial examinations at eighteen and wins the favor of the emperor. The prince’s household spoils him until he’s arrogant and fussy, and difficult to please. When Li Yu was thirteen, he followed his father’s example and bought a girl to serve him as a bedchamber att 46.8kFavorites90.1kClicks/ch15.9kGifts
- 3 A Match Made in Heaven 天作不合 A sweet little story. An alternate world, so alternate that it's practically empty, with gender equality. Many details are my own invention, and there's no need to fact-check. Please feel free to ask questions politely. One-on-one romance. Happy ending. Blurb: He Yuan, Left Commander of the Golden Cloud Imperial Guard, was gravely wounded in a fierce battle and lost some of his memories. As he recovered, everyone around him tirelessly relayed one horrifying piece of news: He was a couple with th 49.1kFavorites127.9kClicks/ch34.5kGifts
- 4 A World Gone Awry 错世 Her master once told Cui Xiaoxiao that she was actually quite lucky to have the "Ten Wounds" fate. If she had been born two hundred years earlier, her extremely yin nature would have made her the nemesis of Wei Jie, the demonic sect's master. In that case, the weak little Xiaoxiao would have been hunted to the ends of the earth and reduced to ashes... Xiaoxiao thought with relief: Wei Jie is cold-hearted and cruel by nature. Luckily, his disciple Qin Lingxiao endured hardship and finally killed 54kFavorites76.8kClicks/ch59.5kGifts
- 5 Playing the Game to Win 入局而定 The young crown prince of the Dafeng Dynasty was widely regarded as mediocre, talentless, timid, and reckless. Everyone at court took it for granted that he would be deposed sooner or later. But when he was finally deposed, even the court historian could not find the words to describe this hopeless disgrace. In the end, he could only record the truth, solemnly writing eight characters: “Virtuous and capable, compassionate toward all under heaven.” The deposed crown prince’s fate was unknown, a 81kFavorites99.5kClicks/ch71.8kGifts
- 6 Senior Sister Has Nothing but Peerless Beauty 师姐空有无边美貌 [Complete! Thank you for your support] Yao Chixin is the biological daughter of the leader of the Yaoguang Sect, known as "Senior Sister Fuyao." Senior Sister has a lofty status, senior rank, noble standing, and breathtaking beauty... but her cultivation is terrible. She relies on pills to cultivate and magical treasures to survive tribulations. She has hardly suffered at all in her life. She has a father who dotes on her beyond measure and a promising fiance. Yao Chixin lived for two hundred y 43.8kFavorites50.5kClicks/ch30kGifts
- 7 The Wind Swept Through the Pass All Night 风吹一夜满关山 The print edition of this novel is coming soon, under the title Before the Day Ends. The title comes from the Tao Te Ching: “A gale does not last all morning; a downpour does not last all day.” Preorders begin Saturday, March 11, at 7:00 p.m. For details, follow Mu Ben Literature or the author's Weibo: Xianyu687. Thank you all for your support! The heroine is Shen Xun, and the hero is Xie Jin. A well-matched pair of female and male generals. Married-life story, one-on-one romance, both leads ar 53.4kFavorites97kClicks/ch6kGifts
- 8 Bound in Marriage 缔婚 [The simplified Chinese edition under the same title is now available from major platforms.] The Xiang family falls from grace. The head of the family goes from being a respected, upright official to a corrupt one whom everyone condemns. Xiang Yi is left helpless, struggling to get by with her young siblings. She digs up an old engagement agreement with Tan Ting, the eldest son of the influential Tan family, and personally goes to their door. As soon as word gets out, everyone mocks the Xiang f 170.3kFavorites271.4kClicks/ch45.7kGifts
- 9 The Young Man in My Family 我家少年郎 [Print edition now available] Wan Yao had a childhood sweetheart like this. At eighteen, he was already a general, spirited and full of youthful ambition, fiercely unruly, and obsessed with fighting and beating people up. Her daily routine was to follow behind him and clean up his countless messes. Until one day, he finally managed to bring his family to ruin and get himself exiled to the frontier. As the saying goes, a plucked phoenix is worth less than a chicken, and Wan Yao knew this all too 105.4kFavorites142.9kClicks/ch31.5kGifts
- 10 Childhood Sweetheart in the Clouds 云上青梅 Reader’s Guide: 1. A sweet romance. One-on-one. HE. Guaranteed sweet, but not guaranteed thrills. The plot is gentle and mild, with no dramatic twists or face-slapping revenge, so please consider carefully before starting. 2. Set in a fully fictional, gender-equal ancient world, which is nothing like real ancient history. Both men and women can study and take the civil service exams. The story is full of the author’s inventions, so please don’t nitpick historical accuracy. If it’s not for you, p 94.2kFavorites188.5kClicks/ch48.1kGifts
- 11 Carry Me Across the Nine Heavens 渡我九重天 Yao Zhi was a potted plant who cultivated for a thousand years and became an immortal. She was exceptionally appointed as an immortal official, entrusted with the Book of Fate and tasked with managing the destinies of mortals. She descended to the mortal realm to oversee their fates, only for the first three fires of her new appointment to burn her instead. The mortal under her supervision was not only clever enough to be troublesome, but also exceptionally handsome. There was a saying among 101.6kFavorites110.6kClicks/ch96.6kGifts
- 12 The Child Bridegroom 童养婿 Reader’s Guide: A sweet story, 1v1, happy ending, childhood sweethearts. Set in an extremely loosely imagined egalitarian world, with lots of liberties taken and no historical research. Feel free to ask questions in a friendly manner. Blurb: Mu Qingshuang took in a “heartless ingrate.” After eating the Mu family’s food for ten years, he not only refused to accept his identity as “Mu Qingshuang’s child bridegroom,” but also went behind her back to enlist and take the military examination. Heartb 37.7kFavorites86.2kClicks/ch24.4kGifts
- 13 The Mountain Lord's Daughter 山主之女 In the winter of Shengping Year Fourteen, Yue Zhiheng, a condemned official of the dynasty, was sentenced to the gruesome punishment of having his flesh carved away and his bones scraped clean. Beyond the black-iron prison cart, countless commoners came to watch the young minister, burdened with countless sins, go to his death. Zhan Yunwei was among them. She had traveled a great distance to see him off for the last time, but only to save someone else. She never imagined then that watching he 151kFavorites191.2kClicks/ch92.3kGifts
- 14 My Mentor’s Wife Is Kind and Caring 师母她善良又疼人 Published in print under the title "Awaiting You Above the Starry River" The first time Ji Xi met Ju An, she was ten years old. She was a homeless street urchin, while Ju An was the most renowned Heavenly Fate Star Lord of the Xingqing Palace. He crouched down and held out his hand. “Miss Ji Xi, come back to the Xingqing Palace with me.” She asked what a Heavenly Fate Star Lord was. He said it was someone who spent their life suppressing the inner demons of the world. When Ji Xi was twenty-f 113.4kFavorites143.1kClicks/ch30.8kGifts
- 15 The Night Watch Keeps No Curfew, and the Long Night Has Yet to Dawn 金吾不禁，长夜未明 Also known as The Female General's Dirty Love Story “On New Year's Eve in the eastern capital, the night curfew was lifted, and dawn seemed far away. Tens of thousands had been killed or wounded in distant Yizhou. I returned to the capital with a handful of surviving troops, just as the snow began to fall. Zhang Xingjian handed me a bowl of warm wine and told me I'd worked hard.” “I had never spoken to him, never even shown him a kind face. My younger sister was his fiancée. They were a perfec 92.2kFavorites125.4kClicks/ch63kGifts
- 16 The Azure Luan at Sunrise 日升青鸾 Jiang Luan spent her whole life as a puppet empress. Looking back on her short life, she thought it had been terribly dull. Reborn as a young princess, she wanted to do everything she hadn’t managed to do in her previous life. Pei Xian, the most powerful minister at court, came from the imperial clan and held the reins of power, ruling with an iron hand. Jiang Luan smiled warmly at him. “Uncle Pei, why do you have to keep everything in your hands? Let go a little, and life will be easier for bo 200.6kFavorites231.6kClicks/ch106.9kGifts
- 17 He Must Have Something Special About Him 他定有过人之处 (The print edition is now available.) When Shen Rong married Shan Zong, he was still the legendary darling of the heavens. But before they had spent even one true day as husband and wife, she was sent home with the divorce papers he had given her. When her family asked about Shan Zong, she answered with complete confidence, “He's dead!” One day, amid the vast frontier and its formidable passes, that man “came back from the dead” right before her eyes... Much later, on a frontier post road, the 204.9kFavorites303.4kClicks/ch109.4kGifts
- 18 To Ship a Couple, I Decide to Win Over the Immortal Venerable 为了搞CP我决定攻略仙尊 [Complete. Let it build up before you binge!] In the male-lead-centered novel Seeking the Dao, Xia Lianqiao hates three characters more than anyone else. The first is the cannon-fodder third female lead who shares her name: Xia Lianqiao. The second is the villainous supporting female character, Sima Yuanheng. The third is the heroine's adoptive father, the man who broke up the couple she ships: Ling Chongxiao! Ling Chongxiao is arrogant, emotionless, and without love or hate. He presides ov 138.9kFavorites205.4kClicks/ch94.4kGifts
- 19 Bright Years (Double Rebirth) 岁时有昭（双重生） [The complete novel is finished. The main story of "I Haven’t Been a God for Ages" is also complete. Come check it out!!!] Novel blurb: [Blurb One] When Rong Shu married Gu Changjin, she didn’t know his heart belonged to someone else. She also had no idea that her mother had forced the woman he loved to marry far away in Suzhou, so that Rong Shu could get what she wanted. Three years after their wedding, the empress found Gu Changjin and brought him back. He b 355.2kFavorites519.6kClicks/ch144.7kGifts
- 20 Azure Cloud Terrace 青云台 “I’m trapped beneath Xijin Terrace, and I’ve nearly bled dry. Yet all I can think is that little girl absolutely must not come here. If… she really does come, I’ll just tell everyone I saw her and that she’s already dead.” Theme: When the tower collapses, build another in its place. 338kFavorites351.4kClicks/ch170.4kGifts
- 21 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
- 22 Everything Is Auspicious, Nothing Is Forbidden 诸事皆宜百无禁忌 When Qiu Xinran was young and foolish, she once lived in the capital for three years. During a war in the northwest, with no one at court to take charge, she cast a divination in front of everyone. Her reading sent the bedridden heir of the Xia family to the war-torn frontier. Seven years later, Qiu Xinran returns to Chang'an, just as the sickly heir from back then, now the Marquis of Dingbei, comes home victorious. The capital's gambling houses open betting pools on when the marquis will settle 268.3kFavorites353.4kClicks/ch110.5kGifts
- 23 EN I Became the White Moonlight After Constantly Courting Death 不断作死后我成了白月光 [The print edition is titled I Accidentally Became the White Moonlight. Find it at @Jinjiang Jiying.] [Synopsis] After transmigrating into a male-oriented cultivation novel, Ningning plans to follow the plot diligently, only to discover that something is very wrong with this world. Within her sect, her senior brother propels himself into the sky by pushing off with his left foot against his right; her sen 687.3kFavorites1.3MClicks/ch477.2kGifts
- 24 Qianyu 千屿 A revised edition has been prepared for publication, saved 26.06 *Keywords: Everyday cultivation, slow pacing, ensemble cast, melodrama, age gap, devoted caretaker, bittersweet romance, intense push and pull, sexual tension *The male lead is the senior disciple *The heroine follows a level-up storyline, the male lead follows an old-school angst storyline, and everyone else gets their face-slapping redemption arc. Xu Qianyu, the junior sister of Penglai Immortal Sect, learned after dying that s 347kFavorites416kClicks/ch398.6kGifts
- 25 Capture the Jade 攻玉 [Announcement: This novel was first published in 2020. It underwent its first full revision in April 2022 and its second in August 2026, mainly to correct typos and awkward phrasing. Returning readers don't need to reread it; you can ignore the update notices. New readers should read the official version. Pirated versions outside Jinjiang have nothing to do with this novel or its author.] A fantasy demon-hunting story set in an alternate Tang Dynasty. “Use the stones of other mountains to poli 644.4kFavorites864.2kClicks/ch988.3kGifts
