Novels like So-So
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- 1 Tianjin 津门 I. As the founding master's chief disciple, Zhou Yi has lived for a thousand years under a curse. He hides in plain sight in the bustling city, running a little shop where he gathers news from all walks of life, hoping to find a way to die. Then he meets Hang Jinting, whose main occupation is being the only living heir to Jinmen, while his side job is teaching. In the end, though he has spent all this time wanting to die, has he really found someone he can't let go of? II. On the surface, Hang 1.5kFavorites935Clicks/ch512Gifts
- 2 Secret Goldfish 秘密金鱼 "I have no other stars, you copied the ever-proliferating universe" -- Neruda Yu Huaike x Xing He A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside top student x an insecure sweetheart whose unrequited love comes true A sweet little unrequited-love story with a fast-moving romance (you'll see when you read it). It's a short story. Important content warnings! Please read: 1. The couple will have□□□□! They are adults in the story. 2. The bonus chapters include pregnancy and childbirth. If that's not yo 1.1kFavorites13.3kClicks/ch190Gifts
- 3 The Butterfly Dilemma 蝴蝶困境 You must have wondered about the end of the world. Have you ever wondered what life after the apocalypse might be like? If humanity survives the crisis, does that really mean the apocalypse is over? The Butterfly has never had a definite answer. "Mind your own business and lose less money. Make more money and earn more cash. Get into the System as soon as possible and enjoy the good life. On the wasteland, survival comes first, and the System is the only way out." On the eve of the apo 826Favorites486Clicks/ch311Gifts
- 4 Holding the Jade 执玉 I have a fine jade, nestled in the depths of my heart. I made a mistake, and am willing to accept my punishment for three thousand years. 1v1, happy ending Theme: Love calls for honesty 858Favorites762Clicks/ch427Gifts
- 5 Five Years of Practice Tests, Three Years as Number One 五年模拟三年第一 [Please follow my author page to see the upcoming story Motorcycle and Pointe Shoes!] Story blurb Yu Shaochun, in Feng Zhou’s eyes: An arrogant, loudmouthed peacock. Feng Zhou, in Yu Shaochun’s eyes: A cold, heartless contrarian. On a dark and stormy night, Feng Zhou yanked down Yu Shaochun’s pants, revealing a pair of Doraemon thermal underwear flapping in the breeze. After that shared-pants incident, they were assigned to the same class, with one sitting in front of the other. Yu Shaochun: 5.4kFavorites5.6kClicks/ch2.6kGifts
- 6 Autumn Dryness 秋燥 A tourist town on the verge of bankruptcy, and an already-closed guesthouse. A guesthouse owner who takes over a “haunted house,” and an assistant forced to work for money. Many thanks to @Magic Shiba 2 Song for the chibi character designs! Message: There is true kindness in this world 241.9kFavorites240.4kClicks/ch575.2kGifts
- 7 Hormonal Love 荷尔蒙式爱情 I didn't have the strength to get angry anymore or react in any dramatic way. My whole body felt weak, and golden spots swam before my eyes. My thoughts were a mess. Damn, spring is here and the flowers are blooming. Ling Xiao finally let go of me. I didn't move, keeping my pose, standing against the wall. Without it, I would have sat right down on the floor. Here's Ling Xiao, drawn by @Nishen Lizan from the group. If you like this story, don't hesitate to click! Add this story to your favorit 35.9kFavorites60.4kClicks/ch2.9kGifts
- 8 Dust 为尘 In the world today, martial prowess reigns supreme, and everyone admires the strong. Fu Shuangze is one of the strong, and he has his heart set on fighting the greatest martial artist of the age. Unfortunately, that person thinks nothing of his abilities and ignores him. Later, by a twist of fate, he takes in a destitute, wretched person. As time passes, Fu Shuangze inexplicably falls for them and tells them, "Wherever I am, there will always be a place for you." The person is deeply moved. They 1.6kFavorites1.4kClicks/ch348Gifts
- 9 The Wind When We Parted 别时风 [Friends, this is a sequel with the same protagonists as next door's River of No Forgetting, which is currently being serialized. When Duan Jingchen first met Yu Feng, he was dressed in a crisp Sun Yat-sen suit, yet his eyes and brows were listless. He said to Yu Feng, “I want to die.” Yu Feng did not know that a thousand years ago, inside the Vermilion Strings Hall, the young Duan Jingchen had worn a black-and-red ceremonial robe embroidered with golde 2.6kFavorites2.4kClicks/ch1.4kGifts
- 10 Mutual Conquest 双向攻掠 Surgeon Top * Anesthesiologist Top [Switch Couple] (There may be, like, a tiny bit of professional inaccuracy) Coming soon: A4, CEO Top * Dance Teacher Bottom. The blurb is at the very end. After surgery, Xu Xu left the operating room and found Xie Jinting sitting on the floor outside. His mask straps hung against his chest, and he looked exhausted. Leaning against the wall with his eyes closed, his Adam's apple bobbed. Xu Xu's heart gave a little jolt. "The floor's cold. Let me help you insi 8.5kFavorites15.6kClicks/ch1.5kGifts
- 11 The Appointment 赴会 "Keep walking. At the end, you'll find justice, and you'll find me." At a trial three years ago, for various reasons, Judge Qin remembered Lawyer Lin, who had argued shamelessly and twisted the facts at the defense table. Lawyer Lin, in turn, remembered Judge Qin, who was stubbornly old-fashioned and impossible to sway from the bench. Three years later, when old enemies meet, sparks fly, though in very different ways. If you had to describe the difference in their attitudes, it would go so 3.4kFavorites5.5kClicks/ch2.7kGifts
- 12 Director Jiang Wants to Get Back Together 江总监想吃回头草 Paragraph comments are now enabled. If you want to use this feature, you'll need to turn it on manually. [The characters are as described in the blurb. They're flawed, naturally a scumbag. Read with caution.] TCM doctor top x wealthy second-generation designer bottom Jiang Yumian had everything he wanted as a child. He didn't know how to treasure his belongings as a boy, and he didn't know how to treasure people as he grew up. He fell for Lin Heshu in high school, longing for him and dreaming of 11.1kFavorites15.4kClicks/ch5kGifts
- 13 Buffer Zone 缓冲区 The title is provisional and might change later. An unconventional Sentinel and Guide story. Happy ending. Theme: This is really hard to think of. 44.9kFavorites—Clicks/ch185.1kGifts
- 14 Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源 They were born for humanity, and once stood side by side as friends. When an unknown disaster struck, however, some chose to turn away. After the slaughter between humans and bio-engineered beings, the survivors took refuge in isolated settlements, establishing outposts and struggling to survive alone in a ravaged world. Then people began disappearing from the human settlements that should have been safe and untouched, and the wheels of fate began to turn. It seemed that everything they wished t 152.7kFavorites141.3kClicks/ch211.9kGifts
- 15 Ghost Recordings 鬼影实录 There can't possibly be ghosts in this world. As a forensic pathologist, Lu Yuan is a firm atheist. But everything changed after that horrifying murder case. The past he had forgotten, the strange dreams that had haunted him for over a decade, his ex-girlfriend's bizarre disappearance... It seemed everyone around him was hiding a secret. Faced with events that seemed to be tied to him in countless ways, should he keep insisting that something was wrong with his mind, or admit that this world hel 27.4kFavorites31.3kClicks/ch4.6kGifts
- 16 21+ What Else Can I Do? 还能咋地 5.6kFavorites5.8kClicks/ch11.1kGifts
- 17 The Ugly Clownfish 小丑丑丑鱼 Shen Dong always thought that spending his whole life alone, keeping watch over the lighthouse on this little island, would be a pretty good fate for him. But, damn it, he met a clownfish that sunbathed on a rock every day, and so the wheels of fate began to, ahem, turn. "Shen Dong, let me hear you laugh again. Like that, hahahahaha." "Why?" "If you laugh like that, will you stutter? Haha, ha, hahahaha..." It's really just a story about a stutterer with a rather bad temper meeting a handsome mer 58kFavorites60.7kClicks/ch5.9kGifts
- 18 21+ Return Home 归去来 3.9kFavorites3.4kClicks/ch12.5kGifts
- 19 Nemesis 宿敌 A Beta who specializes in breaking up Alpha-Omega pairs and longs to take revenge on society meets a male celebrity from the entertainment industry, warm as a spring breeze on the outside and aloof at heart. ↓↓↓ This is the important part. An ABO story. You can look up ABO settings online. Contains a moderate amount of secondary character interpretation. P.S. An entertainment industry story wearing ABO as a disguise. P.P.S. A mid-length story, written on a whim. Warning, warning, warning: This 4.1kFavorites14.8kClicks/ch1.2kGifts
- 20 I Became the Villainous Senior Brother and Got a Happy Ending with the Protagonist 穿成反派师兄和主角HE了 Cen Yuan transmigrated into a book. He became the cannon-fodder villainous senior brother who opposed the protagonist in a cultivation novel about a male lead who grows ever stronger. The first time he saw the protagonist, Zhu Feng, in the secret realm, he looked into those eyes filled with hatred and murderous intent and understood at once: one of them was going to die at the other's hands. Cen Yuan refused to sit around waiting for death. To protect himself, he had no choice but to strike fir 2.7kFavorites2.6kClicks/ch1.5kGifts
- 21 The Dog Days 三伏 Campus novel. Happy ending. I’ve been trying to come up with a blurb, but I just can’t… and yet I really have been trying… (Maybe I’ll never manage it. 10/17) Cover art courtesy of @Su Tu Theme: Love and warmth 438.8kFavorites430.1kClicks/ch806.9kGifts
- 22 Go Ahead, Hit Me Again 有种你再撞一下 Fate isn't the person who crashes into your car being the new director. Fate is saying the new director is a psycho, only to find them standing right behind you. An easygoing, fluffy story. HE. For now, updates are every other day at 7:40 p.m. I may fix typos at other times, so please ignore those updates. Thanks to Lele for making the cover. The cover below was also made by Lele. I don't know why she insists on competing with herself and won't let me use just one cover, so I've put both up. @Xi 111.6kFavorites184.8kClicks/ch12.4kGifts
- 23 Heartbeat Command 心跳指令 Jiang Luo is a fan of anime and manga. He likes cosplaying and occasionally takes commissions to earn some extra money. One time, the client couldn’t make it to a cosplay commission, so their older brother came instead. He turned out to be Jiang Luo’s upperclassman at school. Gu Shiyue never understood why his cousin was so obsessed with fictional characters from anime and manga, or with cosplayers dressed in outlandish outfits. Until one day, he went to meet a certain “cosplay artist” on his 16.2kFavorites15.5kClicks/ch17.5kGifts
- 24 Misty Smoke and Flowing Water 淡烟流水 The assassin Leng Yan received a new assignment. It was a difficult one: he had to seduce the target with his looks. When Leng Yan saw his target, he said, “…” … “Being young and spirited can be a real nuisance, but I hope you get to experience it.” 1v1 One more thing: If anything in the story isn’t to your taste, please stop reading right away so you don’t waste your time. Core theme: May you be as free as the wind. 2.6kFavorites2.1kClicks/ch1.1kGifts
- 25 Our Desires Don't Align 风月不相通 [A story set among the mortals of the Eastern Continent, part of the Four Continents: A Chronicle of Past and Present] [In short: The two leads may have mouths that deserve to be slapped, but they’re undeniably beautiful.] · Yin Qingyan, barely breathing: You’d make... a very dashing widower... Liu Zhaojun, furious and heartbroken: Drop dead! You’re the widower! Your whole family’s widowed! · Liu Zhaojun, a martial arts school owner in the twenty-first century, got struck by lightning as d 2.2kFavorites2.3kClicks/ch958Gifts
- 26 Love Is the Only Way 非爱不可 This is a story about a fine horse wanting to return to its old patch of grass. The problem is, when he turns back, he discovers he's not the only one who wants a bite... This is part of the Hormone-Style Love series. You can read it on its own without affecting your understanding. The first episode of the audio drama Can't Help But Love. If you like this story, don't hesitate to click! Add this story to your favorites. Click to visit the author's page. Premise: 35.4kFavorites45.2kClicks/ch2.4kGifts
- 27 Hey Handsome, Your Wig Fell Off 帅哥你假发掉了 “I’m so, ” An He only got halfway through his apology before he was struck speechless. After a long pause, he added, “Hey, handsome... your wig fell off.” Younger love interest. Happy ending. Updates every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:40 p.m. If you see an update notice at any other time, it’s just a typo fix. Please don’t repost this work. Thank you. *bows* #favorite_1{color:red;font-weight:bold;} Theme: 96.5kFavorites140.2kClicks/ch21.1kGifts
- 28 Wandering Wolves Form a Pair 狼行成双 A story about two ridiculous people who can’t stand each other but fall in love while constantly bickering. Happy ending. Updates are scheduled for 7:40 p.m. If I occasionally post at other times to fix typos, please ignore it. Theme: 248.3kFavorites312.7kClicks/ch87kGifts
- 29 A Dog Out of Nowhere 飞来横犬 When they first met, one thought the other was a peerless con artist, while the other thought he was the world's worst scumbag. As they stared into each other's eyes, four huge words were written across both their foreheads: “Protect the people!” This is a moving, earth-shattering love story between a man betrayed by a scumbag and a man swindled by a con artist. Younger man, older man. Updates Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:40 p.m. If anything is posted at other times, i 189kFavorites256.6kClicks/ch91.3kGifts
- 30 Clarity 澄澈 A wealthy top student: refined and composed, but living with bipolar disorder caused by a trauma response × A gorgeous, tall, goofy crybaby whose parents don't care for him, but who wants to study hard *A slender boy stands in the wind, tall and gaunt, his body wrapped in a striped hospital gown and a blue wristband. A transparent syringe, madness all over him. Facing the rows of buildings, he calls his own name again and again: “Shen Fan, Shen Fan, Shen Fan.” Don't be afraid. Amid the flicker 4.1kFavorites5kClicks/ch2.2kGifts
- 31 I'm Just Here to Borrow a Light 我就是来借个火 A middle-aged man who writes ghost stories meets a goofy young man who claims to be a ghost. Emphasized in bold: This is not supernatural and not scary. End emphasis. Everyone must be used to blurbs this blunt by now. The insecure author sat cross-legged on a chair and spoke in a low voice. I always come up with something before starting a story, the author thought, then said even more quietly. [But then I started writing without coming up with anything, and didn't even have time to fiddle wit 104.1kFavorites142.1kClicks/ch27.8kGifts
- 32 Yuanfeng 元丰 [The original title, A Sow, is completely unambiguous] Yuan Feng has been single since birth for 22 years and has always wanted a girlfriend. After six years of making it in the big city, he turned down Xiao Zhen, Xiao Li, Huahua, A Ling... It wasn't that he didn't want to say yes. He had a secret he couldn't bring himself to talk about. 1. A kept relationship turns into true love 2. The bottom (intersex) can give birth 3. For the side couple's story, please read the neighboring novel Formattin 9.1kFavorites10.2kClicks/ch2.5kGifts
- 33 Dying Over and Over 死来死去 Anyway, this is the story of an unlucky kid who inexplicably died and is rushing to be reincarnated, but keeps failing, dying over and over, and a... barbecue-stall owner with a dual identity, as they search for the ultimate secret behind how to become impossible to kill and impossible to die. HE. Updates are fixed at 7:40 p.m. I may occasionally fix typos at other times, so please ignore that. #favorite_1{color:red;font-weight:bold;} Theme: 40.1kFavorites71.6kClicks/ch7.7kGifts
- 34 Natural Enemies 天敌 When Gu Yi was a bartender, Tang Ji was a customer who wanted to hire him for an escort date. When Gu Yi was an office clerk, Tang Ji was his boss. Sometimes Gu Yi would think: even if he were an ordinary person, Tang Ji might still be his natural enemy. And that's not even mentioning the fact that one of them is a vampire and the other is a demon hunter... Theme: 7.7kFavorites17.9kClicks/ch10.3kGifts
- 35 Warm Breeze on a Late Spring Day 暖风迟日 For three generations, the family had produced Hanlin Academicians. Then, in the fourth, they unfortunately spawned a menace. Chi Jie climbed onto the roof at two, tore up the tiles at three, talked his cousin into sneaking into the imperial palace to steal melons at eight, lured a schoolmate into the water at thirteen, ruined books and drove his father to despair, and terrorized the neighborhood. At fourteen... at fourteen, Heaven finally struck him down. His family was falsely accused and brou 2.4kFavorites1.1kClicks/ch5.6kGifts
- 36 Head Over Heels 神魂颠倒 Neither of them probably ever imagined that they would end up swapping souls. And fate was only half-competent: if they had to swap, fine, but it was so unbelievably unstable. They never knew when they would switch, or when they would switch back... Ye Xun felt helpless. Helping someone else go to school was one thing, but the key was that this person had a supernatural constitution that let them occasionally see ghosts! P.S. This is neither supernatural nor horror. Same as always, updates at e 31.1kFavorites41kClicks/ch2.9kGifts
- 37 The Wolf's Love 狼的爱恋 In short, this is a story about Yang Bailao, who never pays his debts, picking up a little wolf cub. If you like this story, don't hesitate to click! Add this story to your favorites Click here to visit the author's page Theme: 38.9kFavorites56.9kClicks/ch3.2kGifts
- 38 21+ A Match for My Rival, but Surrendering Makes Me a Dog 棋逢对手，认输是狗 11.4kFavorites8.8kClicks/ch46.7kGifts
- 39 Becoming a Tailor in Ancient Times 穿到古代当裁缝 Ye Tao is a lazy college student who can barely take care of himself. His only hobby is making clothes for dolls, with a little pocket money on the side. But luck was not on his side: he transmigrated. With no possessions, no practical skills, and no strength for hard labor, he was met with a sigh and a shake of the head from the broker, who found him someone to support him. This meal ticket was a little younger than Ye Tao and looked decent enough, but he was a miser the likes of which you onl 14.3kFavorites13.7kClicks/ch44.8kGifts
- 40 Out of Place 格格不入 The first time I saw Xiang Xi, he seemed to be faking an accident. The second time I saw Xiang Xi, he was faking an accident. Before two days had passed, he actually staged one right in front of my car! Fate really makes no sense. Wherever I go, I keep running into him. A serious story about putting someone in his place, and getting put in yours, sparked by a scam. A serious one. Really. Older man. One-on-one. Happy ending. Cover art thanks to @Er Xi Za Guo Ji! I absolutely adore the little l 326.3kFavorites342.1kClicks/ch137.7kGifts
- 41 Melting City 熔城 To the edge of the world. The words on the billboard were clear through the scope. Much of the paint had peeled away, and the sign was upside down. Let the sunlight of the Main City wake you every morning. It was an advertisement for a housing development. When Lian Chuan first passed by, the billboard had already been hanging like that for who knew how long, as if to prove that being woken by the sunlight each morning was nothing but a collapsing dream. The Main City had long since run out of 277kFavorites216.6kClicks/ch305.3kGifts
- 42 A Lucky Coin 一个钢镚儿 I've got this little stutterer. Happy ending. Thanks to @Lingyu Qimeng for the cover lettering! Thanks to @Erxi Zha Guoji for the little informant! Theme: 552.1kFavorites490.4kClicks/ch504.1kGifts
- 43 I Have Quite a Few Tricks Up My Sleeve 本座手段了得 In the book The Demon Emperor, the protagonist Ling Wuchao is born with both divine and demonic bones. At nineteen, he has an absurd and passionate affair with Shen Yueming, the most arrogant and domineering senior disciple of the greatest immortal sect of the age. Shen Yueming gouges out his divine bone, severs his left arm, toys with him, and tramples his sincere feelings into the mud. Only then does he learn that Shen Yueming brought him home for the sake of his divine bone. Overnight, demo 6.7kFavorites5kClicks/ch8.3kGifts
- 44 21+ Love in the Mundane World 俗世情人 9.5kFavorites11.2kClicks/ch11.2kGifts
- 45 Antidote 解药 You're my cure. I'm sick, so give me a lick. Happy ending. Theme: 771.2kFavorites735.2kClicks/ch811.5kGifts
- 46 Kiss Me Again 你再亲我一下 Please check out my upcoming novel, Echoes. The blurb is at the very bottom~ Everyone knows Fu Ci is as straight as they come. In front of his childhood friend Qi Yan, he doesn't even hide his disgust for gay people. "How can a man date another man? It goes against scientific ethics." "Doesn't it feel awkward when they kiss?" "They're sick." But Qi Yan still fell in love with Fu Ci. One day, after they had been drinking, he looked at Fu Ci, passed out drunk on the sofa, and couldn't resist l 78.3kFavorites89kClicks/ch14.7kGifts
- 47 A Villain Deserves a Jade-Hilted Blade 恶徒当配金玉刀 The son of the Alliance leader was found dead in a latrine in a village outside the city, his throat pierced straight through with a knife. Qin Wei, the most likely suspect and known as the Knife Demon, defected from the righteous faction. The Alliance issued three successive orders to hunt him down, throwing the martial world into turmoil. Overnight, Qin Wei went from a righteous swordsman to a wanted criminal. Everyone denounced him, and he became a fugitive on the run. A fallen tiger is wors 14.7kFavorites8.9kClicks/ch85.4kGifts
- 48 21+ Feverish Heat 浮热 28.1kFavorites29.3kClicks/ch59.2kGifts
- 49 Getting By 凑合活 The Demon Emperor Yan Lü has lived from the era when the High Gods perished and the clans were locked in war to the modern age, from wide-sleeved robes to tank tops and shorts, and from an abundance of spiritual energy to its complete depletion. One generation after another, the people around him die, but Yan Lü’s own life remains utterly miserable and dull. Every day, he does nothing but design his own tomb and lie in bed thinking: There’s no living this damn life without a fight! From picking 21.3kFavorites21.3kClicks/ch40.8kGifts
- 50 Reckless 轻狂 A campus novel. Happy ending. Theme: 874.8kFavorites777.4kClicks/ch859.9kGifts
