Novels like The Retired Worker of the Martial World
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Retired Worker of the Martial World, best match first.
- 1 The Embroidered Uniform Guard's Self-Cultivation 锦衣卫的自我修养 Jiang Banxia was an oddity among the Embroidered Uniform Guard, a ruthless official in the eyes of her contemporaries. She was a woman, and also the adopted daughter of Cao Chun, the chief eunuch of the Eastern Depot. A eunuch and a woman, two figures the world was accustomed to looking down on, quietly bathed an entire dynasty in blood. Power, status, money: she wanted them all. Content warning: This story has no male lead, but does include bonus chapters with no obligations. 0Votes25kRecs12.1kFans
- 2 The Immortal Way Is Wrong 仙道不正 New book: The Pursuit of Immortality, welcome to take the plunge. There is a link in the comments section. The Shangzhen Sect took in a strange little disciple: her spiritual roots could not be detected, and she had difficulty cultivating spells. While everyone else's levels rose rapidly, she remained stuck in the same place forever. Yet whenever it was time for the sect's major examination, she always managed to pass smoothly and make her opponents cry! The sect's powerful experts were deeply s 0Votes7.6kRecs8.7kFans
- 3 The Lamarck Game 拉马克游戏 Qu Yun opened her eyes to find ten strangers in a sealed room, all looking bewildered. Then the bizarre rules of the Lamarck Game turned things into a battle for their lives. Just as everything seemed to be going smoothly, she realized she had fallen into one perilous conspiracy after another... Watch as a genius girl calmly sets traps and breaks through layer upon layer of the Lamarck Game’s schemes, dissecting the many faces of human nature through detailed psychological profiles. Get 0Votes144.6kRecs75.8kFans
- 4 Unofficial Expedition Notes 非正式探险笔记 I’ve been dead for a long time, but I’m still alive. Well… at least part of me is. Honestly, I’m not too fond of the nickname the tomb raiders gave me, but I’m someone who’s willing to embrace new things. So yes, I’m the zombie that makes tomb raiders tremble at the mere mention of it, a “patient” who thinks they’ve just caught a strange illness and hopes to recover soon. I’ve come down with a strange illness called “immortality,” accompanied by symptoms such as memory loss. P.S. I’m trapped in 1Votes94.8kRecs1MFans
- 5 Xiao Jiu’s Cultivation Chronicles 小九修仙记 She carries pearls of wisdom within her and holds a world of brilliance in her heart. A person's aspirations are influenced immeasurably by the teachers who enlighten them. Gifted from a young age, her ambitions will naturally rise higher as well. She wants to follow in Grandma's footsteps and see that supposedly boundlessly wondrous world. Grandma said: "Cultivators follow Heaven's course while defying fate. Open your heart and broaden your horizons, and you can glimpse the heavens and earth 0Votes28.8kRecs29.5kFans
- 6 She Became a Sword Cultivator 她是剑修 “You gaze beyond the heavens of three thousand worlds. Where is there a place I can go, and where is there not?” Unconcerned with love and delusion, seeking neither transcendence nor immortality, Zhao Chun has wanted one thing ever since the moment she first wielded her sword: to walk the path no one has ever walked before, her own path. A slow-burn cultivation novel told from the perspective of a female lead, with no romance. The protagonist is not an outright paragon of virtue, and her moral s 116Votes851.8kRecs562.4kFans
- 7 Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Cheat Life 快穿之炮灰的开挂人生 Now that I’ve been reborn, I have to live a life that’s truly my own. Otherwise, wouldn’t this second chance have gone to waste? New book Quick Transmigration: The Cannon-Fodder Heroine Gets Spoilers Revenge stories are all the rage, and old-school angsty novels are making a comeback. The heroine is the one who gets the worst of it. In angsty novels, the heroine is tormented emotionally and physically by the male lead, dies several times over, and still has to forgive him. In revenge stories, th 1Votes154kRecs128.1kFans
- 8 The Cannon-Fodder Girl's Unorthodox Cultivation 炮灰女的另类修仙 Can someone tell her what the Yao Xuan Community is? You can build your own space however you like? Travel through time and space? Live forever? What’s that? You can even return to your own body and start over? A huge, pitch-black preserved egg rolled up to her and shouted, “You won’t get another chance like this!” A feel-good quick-transmigration story, with a heroine who 0Votes355.6kRecs190.1kFans
- 9 Danger Ahead 前方高能 Here you'll find the most dangerous missions and the richest rewards. The next moment could bring the end of your life, a bottomless abyss with no way back, or the chance to become a god and stand above all creation! 4Votes2.9MRecs1.6MFans
- 10 After the Big Shot Retired 大佬退休之后 [New novel, "Step Aside, Let This Empress Handle It", now updating. Fantasy setting, literary hearts and martial courage, power struggles and nation-building] When other people retire, they raise their grandkids and dance in the square. When Pei Ye retires, she spends money raising paper-doll characters. Before spending money: What a trash game. They can't even be bothered to fleece players properly. After spending money: This game is amazing! I can spend money, and I can grind, too! Raising pap 1Votes2.9MRecs1.3MFans
- 11 The Great Empress 大帝姬 After transmigrating, Xue Qing discovers she’s been pretending to be a man to trick someone into marriage. And that’s not all. She’s hiding an even bigger deception. This is the story of someone with many secrets. 4Votes5.4MRecs1.6MFans










