Novels like Aren't We Just Platonic Friends?
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Aren't We Just Platonic Friends?, best match first.
- 1 Out of Control 失控 Gu Wanqiu was thirty-four, divorced, and raising a daughter. She had climbed up from the grassroots level, working diligently all the way, with her thoughts devoted entirely to her career. She restrained her emotions, restrained her desires, restrained everything she “shouldn’t” have, convinced that she would spend the rest of her life this way, with the end always in sight. Until Shen Yunluo appeared. The twenty-one-year-old second daughter of the Shen family had so much pocket money that she 15.5kFavorites6kClicks/ch18.9kGifts
- 2 Green Mountains, Flowers Ready to Blaze 山青花欲燃 During the summer vacation of her second year of high school, Xue Anning is dragged into a room by Yaozu after evening study so she can help him cover his tracks. Yaozu is obsessed with girls' love. He pretends to be a girl online to flirt with women, using Xue Anning's name and photos to fool people. Now the girl he's been chatting with suspects that he's a man pretending to be a woman. Furious, Xue Anning curses him out. “Are you out of your mind?!” But she still picks up the video call. The 8.3kFavorites6.4kClicks/ch22.5kGifts
- 3 The Consequences of Provoking a Mad Young Lady 招惹疯批大小姐的下场 [❗The blurb now includes the dark-room captivity arc] [❗Shen is a total psychopath, completely unhinged and amoral (important!), readers with a strong sense of morality should proceed with caution (very important!), and neither protagonist is perfect] 1. Lin Xi took a part-time job and was brought into the Shen household, where she met Shen Song'an. Shen Song'an was the pampered eldest daughter of the Shen family, the very picture of perfection: an aloof beauty, an outstanding student, and ever 10.1kFavorites7.7kClicks/ch26.8kGifts
- 4 Echo 回响 [The story is complete. If you enjoyed it, please leave a five-star rating.] [The next story will be Orange Rain. See my author page.] * Reunited after a breakup / Reunite at the beginning * Two-year age gap / Bittersweet romance / Switch couple, 55 / Happy ending * Gentle, cherished senior schoolmate and painter x bright, proud heiress and CEO * A companion story to Breaking Up with a Wealthy Heiress * Can be read on its own "I haven't been able to forget you all these years. Are you satisfie 36.1kFavorites33kClicks/ch106.6kGifts
- 5 The Room You Can't Leave Unless You Fall for a Woman 不百合就出不去的房间 Cool, aloof goddess x health-conscious overworked office worker A barrage of cheesy tropes, one after another Order whatever you like As a seasoned fanfic fangirl, Ye He could rattle off all the classic fanfic tropes she never got tired of: A room you can’t leave unless you kiss a girl Growing pains Flower-coughing disease Every workday felt like surviving a trial by fire, and fanfic was the only thing keeping her alive. Who could have guessed that one day, she’d end up in a trope herself? 6.1kFavorites4.4kClicks/ch26.3kGifts
- 6 Spring’s Beauty Cannot Be Kept Behind Closed Doors 春色关不住 The person her friend had been dreaming of pursuing for years, his unattainable first love, was Su Miao. Zhuang Chunyu was mortified. - How am I supposed to tell him I pursued her too? - And I didn't win her over, either. * The first rain of early summer in the little courtyard disturbed her sleep. When she woke and opened her door, Zhuang Chunyu saw the new tenant from last night sitting on the shared terrace. She looked exactly like Su Miao. Zhuang Chunyu slammed the door shut. The bang did 13.3kFavorites11.9kClicks/ch26.7kGifts
- 7 She's Addicted to Love 她心酗爱 1. At twenty-seven, a blizzard-related car crash nearly cost Xun Long everything. Her healthy body, her promising career, the friends she could trust. She returned to her hometown, planning to spend her recovery at her grandparents’ lantern shop. 2. The little town where she grew up had become a tourist street. The shops had changed a lot. Xun Long rarely left the house, making lanterns now and then. After being pinned down by a ghost in her sleep for several nights, she finally realized Someon 7.8kFavorites6.5kClicks/ch31kGifts
- 8 A Typhoon Blows Tonight 今夜刮起台风 The first time Lu Jinzhao saw that woman, she was wearing a white qipao and crossing the courtyard under an umbrella. Her delicate, slender waist looked easy to break, and she was as fresh and elegant as a pure white camellia. Lu Jinzhao’s friend, who was with her, stared in a daze. Lu Jinzhao tugged at her friend’s sleeve and whispered, “Stop looking. She’s from a different world than us.” They passed the woman from afar, like tw 46.5kFavorites41.5kClicks/ch214.6kGifts
- 9 Can't Your Best Friend Be Your Wife? 闺蜜就不能是妻子吗 Bai Yutang has a beautiful face that can fool anyone, but she's actually sensitive and difficult, with few friends. Jiang Wanzhi is the only one who spoils her unconditionally. They've known each other for years and are close, with no secrets between them. Bai Yutang thinks they'll always be best friends. Then, out of nowhere, Jiang Wanzhi starts giving her the silent treatment for no apparent reason. She doesn't reply to messages or answer calls, and she moves out of the little home they shar 31.9kFavorites24.8kClicks/ch48.2kGifts
- 10 Please, Mistress, Show Me Some Love 求主母疼我 [The story is complete! If you enjoyed it, please leave a five-star review (mwah).] Li Yue’er came from a poor family. For five taels of silver, her family sold her as a concubine to a wealthy household. The household was quite strange. Only the mistress ran things, while the master behind her never showed his face. They said Li Yue’er had been brought in to bring good fortune to the master, but she never even got to see him. In a sprawling mansion, how could she win favor without ever seeing 35.7kFavorites39.1kClicks/ch48.1kGifts
- 11 My Senpai Isn’t Human 学姐她不是人 [Complete! Check out my upcoming story, First Married, Then in Love with My Ex's Aunt] [Thanks to Crazy Rabbit for sponsoring the cover!] Xie Shiwei accidentally handed her love letter to the most popular beauty in school. Thinking of the beauty's terrible reputation, which was as famous as her unmatched looks, arrogant, vain, and sharp-tongued, then looking at the pathetic piece of stationery she'd used for her confession, Xie Shiwei thought: I'm doomed. But that very afternoon, the beauty d 53.3kFavorites52.4kClicks/ch153.5kGifts
- 12 The Mother Goddess Is Merciful [Infinite] 母神慈悲［无限］ [Dungeon 4 complete. Come on in! Enemies-to-lovers, updated daily. If I take a break, I'll post a notice.] - Huang Tong is made of mud. She has no eyes, ears, mouth, or nose, and not a single internal organ. A long-tongued ghost stands atop a towering coffin and shakily hands her a promotional flyer. It means to say: You can come buy what you need at our market. Buy enough, get the full set, and the mud can become a person. Only then does Huang Tong realize that she has no face or organs, and, 44.8kFavorites27.9kClicks/ch256.8kGifts
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