Novels like Pretending to Be a Boss
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Pretending to Be a Boss, best match first.
- 1 Tales of the Fading Night 凋零夜话 A person must travel many roads in life, and one day everyone reaches their final destination. But… Duan Xu has embarked on a road without end. There is no destination, save death. Every stop brings a thrilling new journey. 0Votes65.6kRecs49.4kFans
- 2 Starting Today, I Won’t Be a Demonic Overlord 从今天开始不当魔头 “Congratulations, Host. You have become the leader of the Demonic Cult and successfully activated the Great Villain System.” “New quest: Kill Lin Chong, the great benefactor of Tai’an County for nine lifetimes. Reward: 1,000 Villain Points!” “You piece of trash System, dream on! I’ll never kill innocent people!” “Quest failed. Host will be struck by lightning for one minute!” Wang Dong bathed in the lightning, smiling as his Thunder Emperor’s Immortal Scripture reached a new level. Wang Dong 0Votes55.6kRecs205.1kFans
- 3 Werewolf: Let the Show Begin 狼人杀：请开始你的表演 [A challenge of logic and deduction, a feast of lies and disguises] [High-quality games, textbook-worthy speeches] After waking up, Gu Feng transmigrates to a world entirely devoted to Werewolf. Here, only masters of logic can survive. A clash between light and darkness, a battle between good and evil. The war between humans and wolves is about to begin. Intricate situations, bizarre strategies, and all kinds of game setups 6Votes84.8kRecs191kFans
- 4 The Warden Who Guards the Witches 看守魔女们的典狱长 What’s it like to be a prison warden in another world? Thieves, pirates, assassins, master con artists, terrorists… Werewolves, vampires, witches, necromancers, succubi… This is the Rose Iron Prison, home to the most dangerous witches in the world. “I’m going to turn this place into the best model prison in the world!” So declared a prison guard who had transmigrated to another world. “Warden, someone’s escaped again!” “Bring them back and lock them in solitary.” Another peaceful day at the Rose 4Votes60.9kRecs327.3kFans
- 5 I Am a Priest in Another World 我在异界当牧师 Jialuo transmigrated to another world and, by a twist of fate, became a devout priest. “In the light of day, treat others kindly, and be humble and cautious...” “So that means I should be timid and submissive during the day...” “When night falls, repent, confess your sins, and put aside your grievances...” “So that means I should hit hard at night and persuade people to be good...” 0Votes87.4kRecs180kFans
- 6 My Demon Lord’s Castle Has Skins 我的魔王城有皮肤 After ten years of hard study, Luoyi finally became an apprentice Demon King. Just as he was working hard to build up his lands and help the Great Demon King wreak havoc on the world of heroes... “Huh? A Skin System?” Something strange had infiltrated his Demon King's castle. 0Votes63.2kRecs103.9kFans
- 7 EN I Am Not a Celestial Second Generation 我真不是仙二代 An Bulang was a top-tier second-generation immortal, but he was not happy. One day, a stunningly beautiful young woman came before him and produced a marriage contract. “An Bulang, I am breaking off our engagement!” An Bulang flew into a rage. “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully a young, ” “Boo-hoo-hoo... Everyone says I am not good enough for you...” The young woman suddenly burst into tears. “Yes, I am merely the humble daughter of the sect master of o 0Votes3.3MRecs626.5kFans
- 8 Nightmare Erosion 梦魇侵蚀 Luen transmigrated with an unfinished game. Armed with a golden finger that can turn all supernatural power into food, he walks through a world full of evil spirits and strange creatures. As the ancient nightmare is about to descend and endless darkness once again blankets the land, what will he do? "This world has to have some hope. Perhaps it's the gods, or perhaps... it's me!" Travel acros 0Votes70.5kRecs130kFans
- 9 The Warring States' Greatest Enemy 战国万人敌 Story Overview: The mighty men of Great Wu are here! Who dares to face me in a fight to the death? The warring states are a mess. Let’s unite them. 0Votes287.8kRecs84.4kFans
- 10 EN This Ninja Isn't Strong, But He Sure Knows How to Court Death! 这个忍者明明不强却过分作死 Ding! System activation mission initiated! Look at that decrepit old man on the verge of death in front of you. Let’s pull out his oxygen tube and help him on his way. Give him a sincerely compassionate smile~ Shigong Aoba is dumbfounded. That decrepit old man this dog of a System is talking about seems pretty powerful... He glances at the tube from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path sticking out behind the “age spots,” and says nothing. In fact, he almost wants to laugh... You call that thing 0Votes176.7kRecs310.7kFans
- 11 EN I Have a Body Full of Passive Skills 我有一身被动技 “Is the strongest skill in the world one that has to be actively used?” “Wrong! It’s a passive skill!” “What is a passive skill?” “A passive skill is an instant active skill, a lethal move no one would ever guard against, the ultimate trump card known only to the dead!” “Could you put it in simpler terms?” “Breathing Technique, Fortitude, Perception…” “Heh, that’s it?” Xu Xiaoshou tore the galaxy apart with a single sword strike, leaving the world stunned. “…” “You call that a passive skill?” “M 22Votes506.7kRecs1MFans
- 12 The Tang Monk Who Fought His Way Through Journey to the West 打穿西游的唐僧 After transmigrating into Journey to the West and becoming Tang Sanzang, he gets a game System that lets him fight monsters, level up, and score loot. From then on, the demons on the road to the West are in trouble. Sha Wujing: “Eldest Brother, this is bad! Master’s captured another demon!” Tang Sanzang: “Listen up, all of you. You’re not protecting me on my journey to the West. I’m the one dragging you deadweights along, got it? If I didn’t have you, I’d have reached, uh, walked to the West on 0Votes231.3kRecs436.5kFans
- 13 My Wife Isn't Human 吾妻非人哉 For the sake of her sales figures, Wang Quan had no choice but to spend 698 yuan registering for a VIP membership on her matchmaking site. He then spent another 9.9 yuan to apply for a match. He’d thought it would be an ordinary blind date, but... He looked up at the figure in front of him and fell into thought: Three hundred meters tall, with wings made of countless tentacles... Nine heads, each a monstrous skull with no features, just f 0Votes187.1kRecs523.3kFans
- 14 City Girls of the Three Kingdoms 城姬三国 After transmigrating, Bai Tu realized he seemed to have ended up in a strange world. A Fangtian Huaji halberd with a laser blade, a Red Hare engine with incredible acceleration, a Dragon-Tongue sniper bow with a range of five hundred meters... Looking at Lu Bu piloting an exosuit mech over two meters tall, Bai Tu had one thing he wanted to say: “Can I get carried?” “Y-you’re the new governor of Pei Commandery, right? I’m... Little Pei Ji. Little Pei City currently has... 5,887 defense, 35,132 pr 0Votes198.3kRecs122kFans
- 15 Eternal Gourmet Paradise 永恒美食乐园 What should I do if my cooking skills are all wrong? Everyone else farms good reviews, but I'm forced to rack up bad reviews and scathing ones. "Believe it or not, if I don't make cursed food, I won't survive." 0Votes229.4kRecs113.1kFans
- 16 I Can Track Anything 我能追踪万物 After transmigrating into a world of immortal heroes, Chen Chen got the strongest tracking System, giving him the ability to track anything. Chen Chen: “System, I’m short on cash.” “Two meters away, your father’s secret stash is under the bed. Five meters away, half a meter underground, there’s a rusty copper coin.” “There’s some dropped silver in the grass up ahead.” Chen Chen: “System, I could use a lucky break.” “That pile of manure in front of the pigsty isn’t ordinary.” “Before midnight ton 0Votes125.4kRecs274.2kFans
- 17 I’m Refined and Easygoing, Not a Demon 儒雅随和的我不是魔头 Literary version: A thousand spells, ten thousand divine arts. I ask just one question: can any of them withstand one punch from me? … Easygoing version: Sorry, I’m not singling anyone out. I mean every single one of you here is trash. … This is the moving tale of Ni Kun, an easygoing and refined protagonist who is repeatedly mistaken for a demon, yet remains unfailingly polite and persuades people with reason [and physical force]. 1Votes222.6kRecs247.8kFans
- 18 Pretending to Be a Good Person in the World of Detective Conan 在柯学世界装好人 “Do you really want me to save someone?” He looked at the victim trembling before him, then at the items in his inventory: [Decapitation Wire], [The Killer's Gift], [Universal Anesthetic], [Invisibility Potion]... Shiraishi touched the hideous mask on his face and fell into thought. “The freeloader at the distillery” “What does anything my secret identi 0Votes174.8kRecs225.5kFans
- 19 The Grandmaster of Heroes of Might and Magic 英雄无敌大宗师 You touched the magic parchment and found yourself suddenly able to take a harder hit. You touched the magic parchment again and found that you could run faster when fleeing for your life. In a flash, you gained basic combat skills. You touched a book on advanced combat techniques and discovered that you were stronger, and had even gained some understanding of the mysteries of martial arts. You swung your halberd, mastered hand-to-hand combat, and could even cast all kinds of magic with your bar 0Votes264.1kRecs130.6kFans
- 20 The Creator of the Two-Dimensional World 二次元缔造者 “Can you perform that again?” “I, Xu Rui, would rather die than jump from here and make animation!, Making animation is so much fun!” This book contains plenty of backstabbing, the fake side of the industry presented as truth, baseless backstage gossip, human nature, and warnings about how delicious things can be. Just pretend it’s all true. 0Votes112.8kRecs166.7kFans
- 21 The Male Lead’s Self-Cultivation 男主的自我修养 Anyone would be overjoyed to transmigrate into a book they'd written themselves, but Wen Yiqian is a little panicked. “If only I'd known, I wouldn't have written a dark story. Every time I step outside, I run into several psychopathic serial killers. How is anyone supposed to deal with that?” 0Votes152kRecs224.5kFans
- 22 The Days I Didn't Want to Be the Demon Emperor 我不想当妖皇的日子 [An Invincible Protagonist] Ding! You have gained the talent [Divine Insight], which lets you comprehend the world and draw power from it. You discover that you don't have to do anything at all to gain one random “skill orb” from the area you are in each day. Ding! You settle in the royal capital. You do nothing but lounge around, yet grow stronger by the day. After living there for 16 years, you have mastered every cultivation technique in the capital. You begin traveling far and wide, yet 0Votes303kRecs497.2kFans
- 23 The Strange-Tales Author's Diary of Delays 怪谈作者拖更日记 [One Female Lead or No Female Lead. Don't Read If That Bothers You] [Infinite-Flow Mind Games] + [Wildly Imaginative Urban Legends] + [Wordplay] + [Troublemaker Literature] Core of the power system: combining words ↓ Combine a "stone" and a "hide" to form the character for "break," capable of breaking all kinds of things. [Example Scene]: When confronted by zombies, just carry rice with you and scatter it. Combine "corpse" and "rice" to create a huge mass of mosaic, making the enemy vanish in an 4Votes69.5kRecs368.5kFans
- 24 If I Can't Become a Live-In Son-in-Law, I'll Just Have to Become a Saint Through My Fate 当不成赘婿就只好命格成圣 Lu Jing transmigrates into Dafu and becomes a young scion of a prominent family, soon to be married into another clan. This world is strange and fantastical. From the start, Lu Jing is saddled with the lowly status of a live-in son-in-law, yet he cannot even go to his wife's family. His future looks bleak. But after reading the Book of Changes from cover to cover, he awakens the Fate of Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Misfortune! Everyone has a fate! So Lu Jing begins accumulating fates, findi 0Votes283.4kRecs2MFans
- 25 The Doomsday Jigsaw Game 末日拼图游戏 You wake up and find yourself in a tower-apocalypse, where humanity lives inside towers and monsters roam outside. Your eyes can see strange annotations: [Two Fallen Ones are hiding 1,600 meters away. When you're furious, one sliding tackle will feed them until they're full.] [Before you think about steaming, boiling, or frying it, you'd better check its left pocket. Don't ever get into the bad habit of killing monsters without looting them.] [Someone actually staring at their own face? I'll adm 21Votes439.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 26 The Strange Tales Research Society 怪谈研究会 What would you do if one day you discovered the dark truth about the world? What if the bizarre stories and horror legends you thought were fictional, along with the terrifying creatures from those tales, turned out to be real? “Awesome!” Zhang Luo flashed a V sign for “victory.” To this fanatical lover of the uncanny, the whole world had become one magnificent, gigantic amusement park. When horror legends become real, this monster-power-stealing oddity enthusiast sets off on wild adventures wi 0Votes36.2kRecs59.9kFans
- 27 Hogwarts' Pacifist Necromancer 霍格沃茨的和平主义亡灵巫师 Henry Anthony was an utterly ordinary supermarket cashier. Until one day, a strangely dressed person showed up at his door and demanded to know why he hadn’t replied to a letter from the Misuse of Magic Office. Anthony: What have I misused? Magic? No way. I’m just an honest supermarket clerk. Anthony: Wait, you’re not talking about my pet, are you? Or the fact that I crawled out of a coffin? Dumbledore: Perhaps, Mr. Anthony, you’d be willing to take a position at Hogwarts? And so Hogwarts welcom 102Votes260.6kRecs353.3kFans
- 28 I'm Really Not a Demon God 我真不是魔神 As an utterly ordinary bookstore owner, Ling Ping’an’s greatest wish in life is to eat his fill, wait to die, and lie flat until he wins. But he never imagined that the books he casually sells would, in the eyes of his customers, be sacred scriptures filled with terrifying knowledge and unfathomable truths! Nor could he have guessed that casually playing a few rounds of video games would save one world after another. And he’d never have suspected that the peach tree he planted and the cat he rai 0Votes464.5kRecs713.2kFans
- 29 EN Mysteries Make Me Stronger 神秘让我强大 Mysteries make me powerful. I will keep exploring the unknown, searching for the truth of the Void World. 0Votes216.5kRecs342.4kFans
- 30 Dragon City 龙城 In the age of mind control, powered armor has become humanity’s new body. People say steel forges the throne, but can impenetrable alloy armor protect a tender heart? With the rise of AI, new human citizens who pass the Standard Emotion Test begin to experience human joys and sorrows. How will they break free from the constraints of zeroes and ones? Across the boundless depths of interstellar space, warships advance beneath the light of blazing stars, while their pilots forge their own legends. 3Votes1.1MRecs321.9kFans
- 31 The Mage's League of Legends 法爷的英雄联盟 Wielding arcane power, dual-wielding fire and frost: the story of a WoW mage who comes to Valoran. “Call me Rod. Call me Lothar. The flames of Sulfuron will engulf anyone who doesn't know their place...” 0Votes97.9kRecs110.1kFans
- 32 EN Real Apocalypse Game 真实末日游戏 What turns a world into hell is precisely people's desire to turn it into paradise. Travel through endless apocalyptic worlds and become the supreme ruler of an infinite multiverse! 0Votes208.5kRecs274.4kFans
- 33 EN I Am a Legendary BOSS 我是传奇BOSS New book: The Joy of Demonic Cultivation Is Something You Wouldn’t Understand What should you do if you transmigrate into an NPC? The thought took root and sprouted deep in William’s mind! So he made up his mind. He would become the strongest NPC in history. Stack the thickest armor and take the hardest hits! Who says NPCs have to be killed by players? Who says NPCs have to level up slower than players? Who says NPCs have to drop their gear? I can drop even more... Ahem, ahem. Anyway, dying is o 2Votes292.7kRecs301.8kFans
- 34 EN Global Collapse 全球崩坏 “I was abandoned at the entrance to the Starting Point Orphanage. Later, the orphanage went bankrupt.” “I once attended a kindergarten. Later, it went out of business.” “In the past twenty years, I've lived through a train derailment, a 28-car pileup, a natural gas leak, a gas explosion… But I'm still alive.” “Life has done everything it can to wipe me out, but I've stubbornly survived.” “But I never imagined life would pull something like this again, ” [Welcome to the Global Evolution Game 44Votes548kRecs783.8kFans
- 35 The Asylum of Ten Thousand Worlds 万界疯人院 New book: "Medicine Cannot Save the Qin Dynasty". Go read it! No one knows when it began, but a certain mental hospital appeared in the world. It has been seen on the busiest streets of Gotham City and hidden in the darkest corners of Raccoon City. It may have been briefly described in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", or appeared for a single second in *Hannibal*… Some say the girl in the nurse’s uniform looks a bit like Harley Quinn. Others say the old man in a second-floor ward claims to 0Votes207.1kRecs302.2kFans
- 36 EN The Radiant Sage Path of the Primordial Era 洪荒之圣道煌煌 Fuxi: Heaven bestowed the Hetu and Luoshu upon me. I created the Eight Trigrams and became the guiding light for humanity's wisdom, showing the way forward for future generations. Shennong: My merits are boundless, and my blessings reach all living beings. I oversee agriculture and medicine. How could my opinions not be heard? Huangdi: I command the armies and conquer in every direction. I unified the land and am humanity's supreme military commander! Zhuanxu: I severed the connection between He 1Votes204.2kRecs102.8kFans
- 37 I Train the Big Shots Behind the Scenes 我在幕后调教大佬 New synopsis This is a story about turning the false into the real. In a world of cultivation where danger lurks at every turn, one must tread carefully. Familiar myths become reality. In an unfamiliar golden age of cultivation, the Heavenly Court becomes the central power of the Three Realms, and the Underworld rules the netherworld. The Human Emperor wields Xuanyuan’s sword to protect all living things, while scholars at Jixia spread the teachings across the Nine Provinces. When I look back, t 2Votes378.2kRecs521.8kFans
- 38 EN One Piece: Bane 海贼之祸害 In the Great Pirate Era, heroes rose up everywhere. The strong did as they pleased. The weak had no choice. Mo De agreed wholeheartedly, so he took up a gun in one hand and a blade in the other, killing his way to the top. Completed novels: Gourmet Hunter, Naruto: The Calamity, Sword Art Online: Keep Living. This book takes its time to heat up, and the author is in it for the long haul. Dive in without worry. 0Votes428.9kRecs335.8kFans
- 39 This Curse Is Too Wonderful 这个诅咒太棒了 Chen Yu transmigrated to a high-martial-arts world, only to be branded an invader by the “Will of the World” and cursed. [Curse effect: Status Reversal] [While cultivating: Vital energy -1, -2, -1, -1...] [While exercising: Obesity +1; Weakness +1; Constitution -1; Strength -1; Stamina -1...] Chen Yu: “This is too much! I’m done training!” [While being lazy: Vital energy +1, +2, +2, +1...] [While staying up late: Health +1; Immunity +1; Cardiopulmonary function +1; Fatigue -1...] [While indulgin 2Votes269.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 40 EN This Account is Toxic 这号有毒 Not long after creating an alternate account in "Heavenly Dust", Lu Xun transmigrated into the xianxia game and became a proud NPC. He discovered that he had arrived three years too early. His original plan was to build up his strength and quietly wait for the wave of goofy players to arrive. Then, like any normal NPC, he would give them quests and put them to work for him. What he hadn't expected was that a problem would arise right from the start of his journey. The first thing he had to deal 0Votes1.8MRecs1MFans
- 41 The Strange Detective Agency 光怪陆离侦探社 A gloomy haze blankets the earth Among the ruins of the cities, the traces of humanity's past have yet to disappear from this land Glory has faded, and humanity hides like rats beneath the firelight. The black sun hanging high overhead symbolizes that this place has changed hands: it is their paradise What is rising from beneath the surging deep sea? Thick muttering echoes through the void, while a strange, veiled silhouette silently observes The venomous compound eyes beneath the bed flash and 1Votes358.1kRecs492.4kFans
- 42 Demon Hunter Lord 狩魔领主 This is a story about a tech geek saving the world. Luo Di, a shut-in who has grown distant from real life through his obsession with games, is one of the most famous rangers in Shattered Lands. But after transmigrating, he unexpectedly finds himself inside the game world, sent back to the delicate historical moment two years before the servers opened. The kingdom that was destined to fall still stands, and the woman he loves has yet to die in the orcs' war. The shadow of the undead still linger 0Votes123.1kRecs146kFans
- 43 EN My Many Masters 我的师父很多 Conflict filled the jianghu in an age of great contention. The leader of the Great Qin people wielded a Mo Dao and thrashed the whole realm until everyone had black eyes and swollen faces. The old immortals of the jianghu squatted atop their mountains, then turned around and cast the entire world beneath them. Some strongmen measured the earth on foot, while some jianghu heroes split the sky with a single sword, only to get drunk in a beauty’s arms moments later. Daoists carried swords on their 0Votes372.8kRecs366kFans
- 44 How Did I Become Famous? 我怎么就火了呢 Fang Bie, who has arrived in a parallel world, only wants to live an ordinary life. That is, until the day his fiftieth blind date ends in failure, when he picks up a female high school student. As a runaway second-generation heiress, she dreams of becoming a huge star. So Fang Bie accompanies her to Hengdian. Originally, he only wanted to casually make a couple of terrible movies to shatter her dream of stardom, so 2Votes450.9kRecs419kFans
- 45 EN Starting from the Dao Fruit 从道果开始 Chen Jichuan, a young man from Earth, dies in a car accident and transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, where he obtains the supreme magical art known as the Dao Fruit. It all begins with the Dao Fruit… … P.S. The author has already completed the novel The Yellow Court Taoist Master, which averaged over ten thousand paid subscribers. Give it a read if you're interested. P.S. Two reader groups have been set up. Feel free to join: Full Subscription Group: 486411676 (open to full su 0Votes319.6kRecs389.6kFans
- 46 I Have a City of Myriad Heavens 我有一座诸天城 After transmigrating, he obtained the City of Myriad Heavens. With a wave of Yun Chen’s hand, the Myriad Worlds took a sharp turn in a whole new direction. Why has the peerless tyrant Xiong Ba become obsessed with farming? Why has a planet in the apocalypse been turned into a livestock farm? Shocking! The mysterious owner behind the pureblood beast-breeding base in Xiling Beast Mountain is a child! Sixteen-year-old Emperor Xiao wept bitterly: “Why do I still have to take the college entrance exa 0Votes426.8kRecs341.1kFans
- 47 The Demon Hunter’s Cookbook 猎魔烹饪手册 When night fell, whispers sounded in his ears and the monsters in the shadows began to stir. Jason's hungry stomach started rumbling, and he couldn't help swallowing... Hunger was the best motivation. 0Votes546.4kRecs494.1kFans
- 48 The Common Lord 俗主 [Folklore mystery, Soulslike world, tabletop role-playing experience, cosmic secrets] A text-based tabletop role-playing game called The Mortal World quietly appears. People discover that rewards earned in the game can actually be brought into reality. Thus begins a new age of exploration for all humanity. Some people look up into the depths of space and summon the courage to embark on a journey home, while others set out to mine their way toward the origins of civilization, seeking mysterious t 1Votes218.4kRecs717.9kFans
- 49 EN I Just Don't Play by the Rules! 我就是不按套路出牌 After a great battle, your beautiful senior sister shyly lifts her face toward you and slowly closes her eyes. At this moment, you... [Option One: Gently kiss her on the lips. Completion reward: Thousand-Leaf Wonder Manual (Earth Grade, Top Tier)] [Option Two: Kiss her on the forehead. Completion reward: Yin-Yang Twin Blades (Earth Grade, Low Tier)] [Option Three: Give her a hug. Completion reward: Netherworld Treasure Scale (Mystic Grade, Top Tier)] [Option Four: Say as quickly as possible: Sen 5Votes648kRecs2.9MFans
- 50 EN I Hijacked the Timeline 我绑架了时间线 Every time reality is rewritten, the future changes. After witnessing human civilization perish 1,500 years in the future, Feng Qi accidentally gained the ability to transmigrate into the future. He chose to keep restarting the timeline, using the information he gathered to give human civilization a chance to survive. 6Votes254kRecs1.4MFans
