Novels like The Illusion Painting
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- 51 Typhoon Signal No. 3 三号风球 Proud, glamorous, and secretly a puppy x dominant, possessive daddy #The daily push and pull of a fake marriage to a wealthy husband# Marriage first, love later | wealthy-family life | charged tension | equally matched Chen Weiqi and Zhuang Shaozhou first met five months before their wedding. She wasn’t one to beat around the bush, so she treated the marriage as a business deal. “Mr. Zhuang, you know I broke up with my ex just a month ago, right?” “It was quite a scene.” The man across from h 145.4kFavorites172.1kClicks/ch170.4kGifts
- 52 The President I Have a Contractual Relationship With Has An Amnesia 协议恋爱，但大佬失忆了 [Main story complete, extras ongoing] Ning Zhen is a scheming supporting female character in a wealthy-family romance. But her awakening came too late. The male lead’s older brother, Meng Xianwen, got hold of something he could use against her, forcing her to become his girlfriend in name only. After a year, she would take the money and leave. Three months into their contractual relationship, Meng Xianwen was in a car accident and lost his memory. At first, Ning Zhen was delighted. “What goes 86.7kFavorites106.9kClicks/ch113.2kGifts
- 53 A Summons at Her Temple 鬓边待诏 [The print edition is now available on all major platforms] A fallen nobleman with a clear, bright character x a sharp-tongued but soft-hearted princess Blurb: Pei Wangchu, once a refined young noble renowned throughout Luoyang, became the personal attendant of the infamous Princess Jianing overnight. Xie Jiyin treated him poorly. Like a servant, he fixed her hair and dressed her every day, knelt to put on her shoes, and brought water for her to wash. Yet he was still punished and beaten at 70.4kFavorites99.8kClicks/ch15.7kGifts
- 54 Everyone I Meet Is a Talentless Fool 我见诸君皆废材 After becoming one of the top fighters in the cultivation world, Cui Huai was approached by a thing that called itself a System. “I can teach you how to cultivate. In return, you have to win over the male lead, Sword Venerable Jin Yan.” This was utterly absurd. No one in the entire cultivation world would dare boast that they could teach her to cultivate. “Sword Venerable Jin Yan? If I remember correctly, I killed him with my sword three hundred years ago.” Hearing the terrible news that the m 35.2kFavorites30.8kClicks/ch23.2kGifts
- 55 21+ Bailey 贝丽 62.8kFavorites67.8kClicks/ch74.2kGifts
- 56 The King Bows Before Her 国王向她俯首 * An aloof, proud young gentleman who gets jealous easily x a gorgeous office worker with a razor-sharp tongue * Primarily set in the city, with flashbacks to their school days * Rekindled love | Constant bickering | Class differences [Synopsis] After seven years of dating and five years of marriage, Jiang Yi finally realized that Chen Shuhuai and she came from different worlds. So she asked for a divorce. They sat down to discuss the divorce agreement. Jiang Yi: “The assets are negotiable, b 60.2kFavorites87.4kClicks/ch18.3kGifts
- 57 Lime Green Daydream 青柠狂想 [Story complete! The full book costs less than 2 yuan to subscribe to. We worked in the same office building, waited for the same elevator, and took shelter from the same rain. I didn’t know his name. X stood for the unknown, so I decided to call him X. · In the eighth month of my secret crush on X, fate finally beat its wings for the first time. - Mu Ning: “Have you heard the saying that whoever first asks, ‘What are we now?’ is the one who loses?” “Never 127.5kFavorites140.9kClicks/ch126.2kGifts
- 58 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
- 59 The First White Moonlight of the Early Song Dynasty 宋初第一白月光 In five thousand years of history, there has been exactly one pair of brothers who were willing to share even the throne. So what else couldn’t they share? The first two emperors of the Song Dynasty were brothers. And you managed to get involved with both of them. But honestly, it’s not your fault. When you transmigrated, you descended from the sky without a speck of dust on you. Everyone who saw you called you a “goddess.” It was a time of chaos. Knowing in advance who would win, you decide 34.5kFavorites27.5kClicks/ch106.8kGifts
- 60 Years After the Substitute Marriage 替嫁多年后 Jiang Wanrou took her legitimate elder sister’s place and married Lu Feng, the Duke’s eldest son, who could not walk properly. Since the marriage had come about in a less than honorable way, she was cautious at all times. She cared for her elders, managed the household accounts, and kept the ducal residence running smoothly. Even her moody husband gave her the respect she deserved, for the sake of their child. After five years of marriage, thanks to her careful efforts, there were no concubines 187kFavorites240.7kClicks/ch88.9kGifts
- 61 There’s No Way My Kid Could Get a Two 我的孩子不可能考2分 [Signed for print publication] [Blurb] Ming Can, a top student at a prestigious university and a sophomore this year, found her biological son from more than a decade in the future on the street one day. Her son was five, adorable, and well-behaved. Ming Can already liked children, so she quickly accepted the reality that her future son had traveled back to the present. As for the child's father, Ming Can didn't want to get involved with a stranger, so she decided to pretend he didn't exist. 111.6kFavorites190.4kClicks/ch75.8kGifts
- 62 Are You Trying to Skip Out on the Bill? 你是不是想赖账 Sheng Ning always thought idol dramas were unrealistic and had nothing to do with her life. Until one day, a domineering CEO with all the standard traits of an idol-drama hero came knocking. The CEO’s younger brother had recently turned over a new leaf and fallen in love. He was passionately pursuing Sheng Ning’s younger sister, and no matter how much his family tried to talk him out of it, he was determined to make the “rich young heir × Cinderella” story happen. With no other choice, the olde 157.1kFavorites247.3kClicks/ch157.8kGifts
- 63 The Second Year After Marriage 婚后第二年 [The bittersweet unrequited-love novel Green Leaves has started updating. Check it out in my column.] In the second year of her marriage, Wen Yang discovered that Cheng Yanyu was cheating on her with a woman two years his senior. The woman was elegant and sophisticated. She offered him guidance in business and helped him succeed. They could talk about anything and everything. She knew just how far to go, never complained, and never fought for even a little more of his affection. Yet Cheng Yanyu 172.2kFavorites215.5kClicks/ch131.7kGifts
- 64 Winter Again 再冬 The print edition of Again in Winter goes on presale August 19 at 7 p.m.! Blurb: The past and the future pull at opposite ends of a line, and we are forever caught at the point between them. Years later, when I looked back, I realized I had stayed there forever, in that place where you were, where the ice and snow never melted agai 74.5kFavorites125.3kClicks/ch30.2kGifts
- 65 After Using My Crush's Photo to Ward Off Suitors 当我用crush照片挡桃花后 The print edition of When the Peach Blossoms Arrive is now on sale! It includes a new 7,000-word bonus story! For details, see @Anweileer ^ ^ In her twenty-sixth year of being single, Li Xia’s parents weren’t asking for much. They just wanted her to hurry up and start dating someone. Fed up with their nagging, Li Xia went straight to Instagram, found a photo of a handsome amateur account she’d recently followed, and set it as her phone wallpaper. Whenever anyone asked, she simply held up her p 116.8kFavorites113kClicks/ch94.4kGifts
- 66 My Arrogant Ex Wants Me to Beg Him to Get Back Together 傲慢的前男友想要我主动求复合 [Print edition now available from major platforms] A disillusioned office worker doesn't have many ways to unwind. Jiang Caifu especially likes buying heaps of groceries and snacks after work on Fridays to vent her workday frustrations. The supermarket is having a big sale today, so she shops to her heart's content. Her only little mishap is that her overfilled cart careens out of control and hits a passerby. He looks up. His already unfriendly expression freezes for a moment when he sees her 40.7kFavorites54.1kClicks/ch18.8kGifts
- 67 Little Peace 小平安 Xue Ping'an, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Yongguo's household who went missing ten years ago, has been found. The members of the household wait at the gate to welcome her, each with their own thoughts. Her parents feel guilty, yet find Ping'an a stranger. Her sisters worry she'll steal their parents' affection. Her grandmother frets that Ping'an has picked up all sorts of bad country habits. Her eldest brother fears she'll grow up plain and be unable to marry Prince Yu... Then the ca 90.9kFavorites136.8kClicks/ch41.4kGifts
- 68 21+ Flowers in the Palm 掌上飞花 122.3kFavorites190.4kClicks/ch73.4kGifts
- 69 Coral in the Mountains 山间珊瑚 The physical book will go on preorder at 7:30 p.m. on February 18. Zhang Rufan is a deeply unlikeable young woman. Her family and friends describe her as “stiff and old-fashioned, dull and mean,” and she agrees with them, until one day she finds a love letter tucked inside a book. It was written by Shen Mingjin when he was eighteen. You have to believe that there is someone who would give everything to find you a sprig of mountain coral. So someone does love me. September 20, 2021 The title w 80.9kFavorites115.2kClicks/ch30.4kGifts
- 70 The Pure-Hatred Warrior’s Survival Guide 纯恨战士生存指南 A person ought to, at least once, live as cuttingly as Li Shuangjie. Theme: Let the world be filled with love. 32.4kFavorites41kClicks/ch29.1kGifts
- 71 At First, I Just Wanted to Find a Sucker 起初，我只是想找个冤大头 1, Peng Ling died in the car that was forcing her to undergo gland-donation surgery. She heard that the search afterward was unusually extensive, and the rescue operation far larger than for an ordinary accident. It was almost as if the research institute that had imprisoned her from the age of three to eighteen truly regretted losing her. Of course, there was no chance she had survived. After all, she was just a frail, disabled, helpless omega. 2, With no legal identity and no money, even th 43.3kFavorites40.1kClicks/ch99.3kGifts
- 72 My Ex and I Became the Nation's Favorite Couple 和前男友成了国民CP Liang Yixuan had harbored a crush on Bian Xu for years. After secretly dating him, she realized the man had no heart. Once her rose-colored glasses shattered, she dumped Bian Xu and let loose, joining a reality dating show for ordinary singles. After the mess she'd been through, all the accomplished male contestants on the show looked wonderful to her. She was just planning to take her time and choose carefully when, overnight, all the men who had eagerly approached her when they first met began 157.8kFavorites355.1kClicks/ch46.6kGifts
- 73 Hopeless Romantics Aren't Allowed to Be Villains! 恋爱脑不许当反派！ Li Chongjing is exceptionally handsome, excels both academically and morally, and has a cool, aloof personality. He also has a stingy, money-loving side that nobody knows about. He is the school's aloof academic god. Then one day, he suddenly receives a mysterious letter claiming that in the future, he will become a vicious female antagonist's number-one simp, going crazy for her, losing his mind for her, emptying his pockets for her, and even dying for her. Li Chongjing: Heh. Not long afterwar 55.8kFavorites66.5kClicks/ch41.4kGifts
- 74 Countdown to the Wedding 新婚倒计时 Back in high school, everyone knew that You Jue's best friend, Fang Jialin, liked Ni Xia. Later, Fang Jialin confessed and was rejected. Watching his best friend spend every day heartbroken, You Jue could only think: What a loser. Was it really worth it over a woman who was so two-faced and toyed with people's feelings? Years later, their class held a reunion. Fang Jialin traveled a thousand miles to attend, his gaze fixed on Ni Xia the whole time, his feelings for her plain to see. Their class 217.1kFavorites222.9kClicks/ch116.7kGifts
- 75 After the Handsome Guy Downstairs Knocked on My Door with a Cold Face 被楼下帅哥冷脸敲门后 This novel has been signed for publication in simplified Chinese. For updates, contact vb@Shi Chunbai. ★ The companion novel, A Romantic Farce, is complete! Come give it a read! ■ Both leads are sexually inexperienced | Light comedy | Wealthy, world-weary bartender × idealistic, spirited shop owner ■ Tough-looking, pure-hearted tattooed bad boy × adorable, timid girl with a restless heart Chen Kuang stormed upstairs, fuming, and pounded on his neighbor’s door. His work kept him up all night an 126.8kFavorites135.3kClicks/ch56.2kGifts
- 76 Winter of Year Sixty-Two 六十二年冬 [The simplified Chinese print edition went on sale July 4, 2026] [NetEase Cloud has a perfectly matched playlist called “Winter of Sixty-Two Years”] [A revised edition was released on September 23, 2025. Some sensitive scenes have been slightly edited, and new storylines have been added about Song Mo’s relationship with her mother and her efforts to save herself. The diary conversations between Song Qingping and Song Mo, th 128.1kFavorites218.1kClicks/ch31kGifts
- 77 Forced to Marry My Nemesis 和宿敌被迫成亲后 Warning: Please read the content warning below first! After coming down with a chill, Xue Ying unexpectedly dreamed of her past life. Her birth mother was a servant in the marquis's household. Years ago, in a moment of madness, she conspired with the midwife to switch the First Madam's baby. That was how Xue Ying became the marquis's eldest daughter. She was doted on and spoiled rotten, growing up willful and headstrong. But later, the real young master who had been switched away came to the c 72.8kFavorites68.4kClicks/ch35kGifts
- 78 A Night of Possibilities 有可能的夜晚 If life can be divided into many, many chapters, then the night Di Yue walked through the Liang family's door was probably the beginning of a new chapter. The chapter title wasn't very long: A Night of Possibility. - Not paywalled. Free to read. It's a short story, around a hundred thousand words, and it's sweet. - My next story will be “Glass City.” Theme: Work hard at life and keep moving forward. 87.3kFavorites107.1kClicks/ch14.7kGifts
- 79 Oriole Rain 黄雀雨 1 Lu Xiling was an absentee sponsor who helped a little girl who had dropped out of school. Four years later, the girl got into university and asked him to help cover her travel expenses so she could move to the city to study. Lu Xiling casually passed the matter to his assistant, then promptly forgot all about it and left her to fend for herself. A month later, it suddenly came back to him. Feeling a twinge of conscience, he went to check on her. The girl in the garden turned at the sound of 170.9kFavorites219.6kClicks/ch65.2kGifts
- 80 21+ Green in the Mist 雾里青 300.8kFavorites408.8kClicks/ch133.5kGifts
- 81 21+ How Well-Done Are You Today? 今日几分熟 54.2kFavorites59.4kClicks/ch28.4kGifts
- 82 Has Xiao Yu Been Demoted Today? 今天萧瑀被贬了吗？ Before their wedding, Luo Fu thought she was marrying a refined young nobleman from a marquis's household, a handsome scholar. After they married, she realized he was no scholar at all. He was a hardheaded top scorer who dared to curse even the emperor, a sharp-tongued censor whose head could be on the chopping block at any moment! To save her own skin, Luo Fu stayed alert. Xiao Yu would curse people up ahead, and she would soothe them behind him. When Xiao Yu was demoted and sent to suffer, s 225.2kFavorites288.7kClicks/ch381.3kGifts
- 83 I’m Crazy About You, You’re Crazy About Money 贪财好你 [Print rights signed with Meili Culture. The book is published under the title Roses of the Summer Solstice, and is now available.] Video game company CEO & university English teacher Li Zhicheng before falling in love: a rich, stingy modern-day Scrooge. Li Zhicheng after falling in love: Jia Baoyu reincarnated, willing to spend a fortune to make his beauty smile. Zhou Yi before falling in love: Taekwondo black belt, strong enough to carry an eighteen-liter water jug up six flights of stairs 174.2kFavorites263.4kClicks/ch47kGifts
- 84 21+ Starstruck 撞星 112.7kFavorites129.3kClicks/ch108.8kGifts
- 85 Snow Over the Northern City 北城有雪 The third young master of the Tan family had a falling-out with his family, nearly severing ties with his father. The story spread like wildfire, and apparently the reason was utterly absurd: it was all over a “bird”? People speculated, “What kind of priceless bird could it be?” Tan Yanxi laughed. “You could say that. It won’t stay in its cage, and nothing I do can soothe it.” Zhou Mi silently rolled her eyes at him. · Snow fell beneath a gray sky. Tan Yanxi stood by the window, motionless for a 268.8kFavorites440.9kClicks/ch80.2kGifts
- 86 I Haven't Pinned Her Down Yet 我还没摁住她 The story is complete. My next book, Dreaming Has Everything, is coming soon. Please add it to your reading list! [Blurb] 1. After an argument. Qin Du hung up and said coldly to his friend, “Just watch. That girl will be calling me in a bit, all eager to apologize.” An hour later. Qin Du suddenly said, “I shouldn't have wasted my time arguing with her.” Another hour passed. Qin Du was still fuming. “Was I wrong? No, I wasn't!” His friend said, “...” “Damn i 260.3kFavorites406.3kClicks/ch135.1kGifts
- 87 After the Paranoid Crown Prince Heard My Thoughts 被阴戾太子听到心声后 Violent and cruel 💛 Greedy and lustful Good news: She was chosen to be a palace maid assigned to serve in the imperial bedchamber. Bad news: The person she had to serve was the moody, woman-averse Crown Prince. Last night, Yun Kui had watched a young maid being carried out of the Crown Prince's bedchamber. Thinking that she was about to meet the same fate, Yun Kui trembled and huddled under her little blanket. Inside Chengguang Hall. The Crown Prince sat on the edge of the bed, a sinister glea 160.6kFavorites178.6kClicks/ch82.6kGifts
- 88 To My Little Angel 致小天使 [A print edition has been signed; updates at @BaiRiMengYangMie] * A shy, earnest girl with an inferiority complex x a clingy young Russian-Chinese heir * University campus setting / height difference * Pirated copies are incomplete. Yan Tang has always known she is ordinary, and that she has terrible luck. The people she likes never like her back. No matter how hard she studies, she never gets the grades she wants. She worked hard at her internship, o 234.4kFavorites241.3kClicks/ch203.5kGifts
- 89 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
- 90 South Street Bakery [The 1990s] 南街面包店[九零] [Signed for publication. Follow Weibo @Haoshide Songxuesu for publication updates and announcements.] Tao Tao only dozed off for a moment, and woke up back in 1997. That year, Hong Kong returned to China. She was eight, and everything was just as it had been. The family bakery hadn't gone under. Her stepmother, Aunt Yu, hadn't been driven away by her difficult, sharp-tongued self. And Yu Luan hadn't died. As the old sunlight streamed through the vintage glass display case in their home, she watc 116.3kFavorites128kClicks/ch289.4kGifts
- 91 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
- 92 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
- 93 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
- 94 You Are the Joy That Came Too Late 你是迟来的欢喜 [Announcement] This novel was published in 2018. The revised reprint of the physical edition in 2024 has now been updated online. The changes mainly fix bugs and polish some wording, so longtime readers don't need to reread it. New readers, please refer to the official version on Jinjiang. - Every old flame who crosses paths again after years apart has had a crush planned out for ages. Ruan Yu's online novel, I Really Want to Whisper in Your Ear, has been accused of plagiarism. She posted a he 464.3kFavorites753.2kClicks/ch130.1kGifts
- 95 I Barely Know Him 我跟他不熟 The day before senior year started, at the neighborhood supermarket. Lu Jin turned around an aisle and saw a girl standing on tiptoe as she stocked the top shelf. She had snow-white skin and cherry-red lips, and her expression was focused. In the cramped, dim space, he watched her for a long while before looking away. Later, her deskmate quietly asked He Ye, “Are you and Lu Jin together? I saw him holding an umbrella for you this morning.” He Ye: “No, we’re not even that close.” Later still, a 239.4kFavorites612.2kClicks/ch126.3kGifts
- 96 North, South, East, West 南北西东 The print edition is now available on all major platforms. Thank you for your support. In 2023, Wang Luxi got into her dream university in Beijing. She went a month early, planning to see every tourist attraction in the city. What could she do? As an ancient capital and the nation’s capital, Beijing had far too many things that interested her. The spring at Taoranting, summer at Shichahai, autumn at the Temple of Heaven, and winter snow swirling around the Forbidden City’s corner towers. Oh 100.9kFavorites113kClicks/ch72.7kGifts
- 97 My Wife and I Were Reborn Before Our Engagement Was Broken 和妻子重生回退婚前 A younger guy who's all smiles on the surface, but a sensitive, gloomy, damp little ghost × A gentle big sister who trains people without even realizing it Lu Xingze transmigrates into an unfamiliar era and discovers he's been handed the classic overpowered hero's broken-engagement plot. At his first glimpse of his fiancée, he notices how impossibly tall the Yun family's buildings are, casting her in unending shadow. Silent, old-fashioned, and lifeless, his fiancée is just like this ancient, 97.5kFavorites95.8kClicks/ch97.2kGifts
- 98 No One Is Like You 没有人像你 [🔔 The full novel has been revised, with 12,000 new words added. Chapters marked “Revised” in the table of contents are new or revised chapters.] In late summer 2010, before leaving to study abroad, Chen Yi received a text from an unfamiliar number “Having a crush is hard, like the summer wind. It sounds lovely, but when it blows, it’s nothing but stifling heat. And now that summer is over, I don’t like you anymore.” “Chen Yi, I wish you a safe journey and a bright future.” At seventeen, Chen 559.1kFavorites596.2kClicks/ch128.1kGifts
- 99 Three Meals a Day 一日三餐 [The print edition goes on sale September 23 at 7 p.m.] A slice-of-life story about married life Xia Jiao and Wen Chongyue went from meeting to getting their marriage license in less than twenty-four hours. - On the first day of their blind date, they sat across from each other. Xia Jiao placed her hands properly in front of her, like a student answering a question in class, and said timidly to Wen Chongyue, “...It’s been a long time.” ...What’s it like to go on a blind date with someone w 122.1kFavorites216.1kClicks/ch68.2kGifts
- 100 21+ Flushed Red 涨红 128.9kFavorites150.9kClicks/ch148.7kGifts
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