Novels like Idle Yearning
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Idle Yearning, best match first.
- 1 Reunited with You 逢君欢 Jiang Chuning never imagined she could shoot down a living creature, let alone find a love letter inside the homing pigeon. So all these coincidences were just to bring me to you. 0Votes1.4kRecs42Fans
- 2 The Farmer's Concubine Is a Beauty 农妃倾城 Lin Shu considers herself the boldest and freest woman in the Great Qi. To escape a fate as the landlord's eldest son's fourth concubine, she takes her younger brother, climbs into a carriage, and follows some distant uncle she barely knows, a third-rank official appointed by the imperial court, to the capital. The Lin residence in the capital is a sprawling maze of courtyards. There, Lin Shu encounters all kinds of oddballs and gets caught up in one headache after another. Among them is a young 0Votes1.2kRecs39Fans
- 3 Faraway South City 南城遥 The martial arts tournament is fast approaching, and turmoil is once again sweeping through the jianghu. Old grievances and new grudges, amid bloodshed and violence. See how the runaway princess makes her way through the martial world. And discover how the young sect leader will clear an innocent person's name. 0Votes4.3kRecs932Fans
- 4 A Glance at Beauty 一顾芳华 The Junzhu Gu Fanghua, after passing through fire, has actually been reborn? In this second life, Gu Fanghua will never again be blinded by a transmigrated man. She wants to help Brother Yan Rong Ling reclaim the throne he lost in his previous life. But this golden finger bestowed by Heaven is truly useless. Can I exchange it for another one? 0Votes249.9kRecs12.4kFans
- 5 The Record of Suiling 燧灵记 An Xin transmigrates into a declining cultivation world, where nightmares keep her on edge. By a stroke of luck, she saves her senior sister and sets off on a life of unstoppable good fortune. The chaos of the martial world cannot defeat her; she turns the tide when her sect is transformed, and single-handedly puts an end to the conflicts among the Three Realms... She battles her way through one challenge after another, fighting monsters, leveling up, and struggling onward. At last, she opens th 0Votes106kRecs7.2kFans
- 6 The Phoenix Returns on the Clouds 云凤归 Yun Chujing, a top student who died of heart disease in the modern era, transmigrates into the body of a hunter’s youngest daughter. She is considering how to get rich through farming and achieve a comfortable life when she unexpectedly learns she is the Yun family’s abandoned seventh daughter. Just as she rolls up her sleeves, ready to take on the household intrigue, she’s told there’s more to her birth story... Yun Chujing has no plans to overthrow the dynasty, no family to protect, and no dee 0Votes32kRecs5kFans
- 7 Du Chanyin 杜婵音 Heartbroken and disillusioned, she resolutely drinks the poison before her. She has repaid her debt of gratitude, and besides, he has already been involved with another woman... In her past life, she was his wife; In this life, she is engaged to another man. He clenches his fists, a raging fire burning in his heart. No! It isn't over yet! Even if that monk really did deceive him, he's already gone too far to turn back... 0Votes27.1kRecs11.5kFans
- 8 The Gentleman’s Stratagem 君子之谋 One is a soul from another world, in control of the vast Li Sect; the other, a fallen king, quiet and patient, with ambitions to rule the realm. One searches all across the Nine Provinces, hoping only to return to the past; the other carefully plots to claim the countless mountains and rivers. But then he meets “him,” and love and hate become entangled, conspiracies unfold, and brothers clash, all for what they desire. After ten years of trials and turmoil, when they look back at last, who has g 0Votes11.6kRecs3.6kFans
- 9 Back to the Ming Dynasty, I Fell in Love with You 回到明朝爱上我 A whirlwind of passionate romance and sweetness! One day, she accidentally stepped into a meteor's streak of light that linked the nine stars in a line, and transmigrated 600 years into the past alongside a beautiful girl. From then on, she began a proud and tender journey in pursuit of love. See how a man with fangs and slit pupils falls for a lovely young woman! Frost blossoms swirl down, and endless blue waters stretch far and wide. With you, everything is perfect! 0Votes40.2kRecs17.2kFans
- 10 The Young Master with the Fan 怀扇公子 Gentle and generous have nothing to do with her, and she has no connection whatsoever to brilliance and talent. She is big-breasted and brainless, saying and doing whatever she pleases. Spoiled by his favor and relying on his protection, she does not even take the current emperor seriously. She has no lofty ambitions. Her only dream is to win him over. What troubles her greatly is that the man she yearns for is nothing but a blockhead. To win him over, she brought every trick she had learned in 0Votes82.3kRecs11.7kFans
- 11 The Rise and Fall of the Kingdoms 列国浮沉 Affection and love flourish freely in the narrow gaps between thirty years of deadly schemes. King Wei: “Who says a peerless expert can’t use someone else’s blade to kill? What a joke.” King Zhao: “Who says a kingdom can’t be won without playing fair? How naive.” King Qi: “I’ve watched the world from the sidelines, but in the end, my long sword must become a kitchen knife.” King Chu: “The martial world is treacherous. Don’t drink too much.” King Song: “Enough chatter! Success or failure, rig 0Votes37.3kRecs127.2kFans
- 12 Nirvana in Fire 琅琊榜 The Langya List, a tale of changing fortunes, gathers the realm’s extraordinary talents. It tells the story of Mei Changsu, the “Qilin Genius,” whose unmatched brilliance allows him, despite his frail health, to unravel layer upon layer of mystery and outwit treacherous villains. He seeks revenge to clear the name of those wrongfully condemned years ago and help a new ruler ascend the throne. From a resolutely masculine perspective, it reflects the profound loyalty and enduring bonds between men 1Votes1.5MRecs745.3kFans
- 13 Too Rich to Be Silenced 富贵不能吟 Prince of Zhenbei Yan Tang was a paragon of propriety, chaste and virtuous. Then he slipped up, and his life didn’t just have a blemish on it. It turned into a whole ink-wash painting... 1Votes574.6kRecs238.5kFans
- 14 Ninefold Purple 九重紫 Dou Zhao thinks she may not have much longer to live. Lately, she keeps dreaming that she’s back in her childhood, sitting beneath a wisteria-covered trellis and swinging her chubby little legs while her plump, white nursemaid, round as a steamed bun, feeds her... But if she really returned to her childhood, how different would her life be? Ninefold Purple is a story of being reborn! ※ Unless something unexpected comes up, updat 5Votes1.5MRecs658.8kFans
