Novels like My Years as a Spy
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as My Years as a Spy, best match first.
- 51 Add One More, I’m Not Very Good at This 加一个，我不太会打 At the turn of the century, the OK combination swept all before them, the Pistons' blue-collar squad was invincible, the Spurs won every odd-numbered year, and the Suns played fast-paced basketball. The basketball world was a hundred schools of thought contending. Li Ang smiled faintly and looked at all the big brothers: "Mind if I join? I'm not very good at playing~" It's just that this kind of "playing" is a little improper... 3Votes231.1kRecs577.2kFans
- 52 Reborn: Rising in Hong Kong 重生：崛起香江 Rickshaws, floral water, the Four Great Detectives, and pleasure boats on the Kowloon River! Cheongsam-clad beauties swaying to and fro, and the dreamlike Hong Kong! Reborn in Hong Kong... With a hand full of unbeatable cards, Shi Zhijian makes opportunity bloom everywhere! 0Votes121.8kRecs293.2kFans
- 53 Reborn as a Great Architect 重生之大建筑师 Reborn in the 1980s, he becomes the world’s greatest architectural designer. Dubai’s ruler: Hey, could you design the world’s tallest building for us? The French president: I’d like to ask you to create a new landmark in Paris. Lin Lou: Sorry, I’m busy designing the main stadium for the 2008 Olympics. I don’t have time! 0Votes81.5kRecs80.8kFans
- 54 Binjiang Police Affairs 滨江警事 Youth is an asset, but a diploma is essential. For Han Yu, who started working at sixteen, being too young is not necessarily a good thing. Because he was so young, the organization he was assigned to nearly sent him right back. Read the story of how the youngest police officer in Linghai Public Security Bureau history turns his fortunes around. 8Votes589.7kRecs302.8kFans
- 55 The Backup Plan 后手 Lu Chengzhou, a student at the Haigu Police Training School, secretly joins the Chinese Communist Party while still at school. After graduating, he joins the British Concession Police Department as a patrol officer. The Haigu station of the Military Statistics Bureau takes notice of him and recruits him as a communications officer. Then the Japanese decide he would be an ideal recruit, too. Lu Chengzhou had only intended to use his job as a patrol officer as cover for his work. Now he suddenly f 1Votes573.8kRecs104.3kFans
- 56 EN Shelter in the Blade's Edge 托身锋刃里 In this mad and chaotic age of endless slaughter, Du Chengfeng thinks he might be the only normal person left. He just wants to live his own life in peace. That shouldn't be too hard, should it? 0Votes56.7kRecs187.5kFans
- 57 Back to the Eighties 重返八零 Life was going along just fine when his wife suddenly asked for a divorce, and she was adamant about it. Lu Huaian was confused, even furious. He had supported the whole family with a few acres of land and cared for his parents in their old age. Nobody could find a single fault with him. How could she be so ungrateful? If he could do it all over again, he wouldn’t have listened to the old folks and stayed in the village. Working the land day in and day out barely earned them a thing. He wouldn’t 0Votes64.2kRecs286.2kFans
- 58 EN Abyssal Heavenly Venerable 渊天尊 The world is vast, the path to immortality elusive. The supreme beings of the Nine Domains are known as Celestial Venerables. PS: A story about a genius! No System! PS: The author has already completed the long novels The Frostbound Emperor and The Great Flood Lord, both of which have over 20,000 premium subscribers. Read with confidence! 8Votes441.8kRecs2.2MFans
- 59 Starting Out as Manager of a Spanish Football Giant 从执教西超豪门开始 Gao Shen transmigrates to early 2006 and, through some strange twist of fate, becomes the head coach of Real Madrid. His squad is packed with the biggest superstars of the era: Ronaldo, Zidane, Raul, Beckham, Casillas, Carlos, Ramos... Every one of them is a force capable of shaking world football just by stamping a foot. How can a rookie with no clout whip this bunch of rebellious superstars into shape? 1Votes185.4kRecs317.9kFans
- 60 EN Reborn in Russia as an Oligarch 重生俄罗斯当寡头 Reborn at the turn of the century, he’s in Moscow, just off the plane and getting ready to study abroad... Wang Ye had only wanted to be comfortably well-off and live a simple, happy life. But pushed along by the hand of fate, he finds himself heading down the path of an oligarch! 5Votes175.3kRecs418.3kFans
- 61 Firepower Is King 火力为王 In most lines of work, some people don’t get a meal from Heaven, some are blessed with a meal, and some have Heaven chasing after them to feed them. In the field of private military contracting, Heaven is shoving food down Gao Guang’s throat. Kidnapped from the start, Gao Guang is forced to become a member of a private military contractor just to stay alive. Until one day, in the world of private military contracting, he turns “Gao Guang moment” into a professional term. He specializes in war-re 23Votes1.2MRecs2.1MFans
- 62 Back to 1978 重回1978 At first, his name was Hu San. Later, people called him Third Brother. Then more and more people called him Boss Xie. In the end, everyone called him Mr. Xie. Among the countless titles people gave him were millionaire, farmer-entrepreneur, philanthropist, producer, and village chief. After thirty years of breaking through the waves, when Time magazine put him on its cover, it used a single word to encompass all his titles: Comrade. 0Votes130.2kRecs212.3kFans
- 63 The Kingdom of the Long Night 长夜国 Beneath the vast night sky, a boy in straw clothes; a heart like the bright moon, a dream like a realm. A snake from the start for the apothecary; the boy with the snake staff is the man. One wife is plenty, but three secret identities are even better. “My lord, it’s time for your medicine.” Coming, coming! As Grand Historian Tai Shi once said: The Way, Confucianism, Buddhism, and the Legalist school go into the great medicine, all refined together in the furnace of the mortal world. The ills of 0Votes263.8kRecs263.7kFans
- 64 Starting from Lake Changjin 从长津湖开始 The Battle of Lake Changjin, Water Gate Bridge, Snipers, The Sacrifice, Black Coal, Thin Ice, Unknown Pleasures, Let the Bullets Fly, The Grandmaster, Farewell My Concubine, The Swordsman in Double Flag Town, First Blood, Léon: The Professional, Crazy Stone, Dying to Survive, The Immortal, Predator, Moon Man, Interstellar, Game of Thrones, Jurassic World, Love, Death & Robots… If miracles had a color, it would surely be China red! 0Votes184.8kRecs362.8kFans
- 65 EN My Path to Immortality Simulated in a Chat Group 我在聊天群模拟长生路 One day, Wang Ping joined a transmigrator chat group. The chat group could send each member at random to a different world and let them draw their own exclusive golden finger. Wang Ping thought he was about to reach the pinnacle of life... “Wait, there are 67 members, so why are 60 avatars grayed out?” “Ding! One fewer active member. Chen Kang, who joined the group at the same time as you, has died. He didn't even last ten seconds. Group members, take heed!” Wang Ping was stunned. He instantly r 0Votes39.6kRecs607.2kFans
- 66 I’m Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor 不过是黑魔法防御课教授罢了 Having just transmigrated into the Harry Potter world, Sherlock Forest has neither a golden finger nor any memories of the original owner. Looking at the letter of appointment from Hogwarts in his hand, he purses his lips. “It's just a Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor position.” Years later, the Daily Prophet interviews Harry Potter, one of the Wizarding World's ten most outstanding figures of the twenty-first century. “What was the happiest day of your life?” An involuntary smile spr 0Votes19kRecs204.4kFans
- 67 My Cyberpsychosis Is a Quest Prompt 我的赛博精神病是任务提示 This is Eden City. Multinational high-tech corporations have risen to power, controlling every aspect of people's lives. The gap between rich and poor has begun to widen at an unprecedented rate. Cybernetic modifications and dangerous deals fill every corner. High tech, low living standards. On rainy nights beneath the neon lights, gunfire devours the troubled dreams of the sleepless. People have grown accustomed to upgrading themselves with cybernetic limbs. But excessive modification graduall 63Votes68.4kRecs145.2kFans
- 68 In the Hokage World, Starting with a Soul Society 人在火影，开局一座静灵庭 [New book: Mastermind Behind the Scenes: My Traits Are Wickedly Twisted] Have you really forgotten the truth about the Shinobi World? When ancient names like [The False Soul Society], [The Grotesque Hollow World], [The Cruel Demon Realm], and [The Terrifying Curse]... resurfaced one by one in the historical records, the Shinobi World finally remembered the terror it had once felt under Kaguya Nami’s rule, and the humiliation of being imprisoned in a birdcage. That day, Kaguya Nami looked at the 0Votes44.4kRecs121.3kFans
- 69 Tokyo's Literary Age 东京文艺时代 A young director transmigrated to Japan in the 1980s. And so, an extraordinary journey through Japanese cinema began. 0Votes125.6kRecs109.4kFans
- 70 A Feast of Fear 惊惧盛宴 It all began with a trip. Consciousness, existence... A gaze from beyond the dimensions, and the heart's redemption through truth. Step into another world, where... a terrifying feast is underway! 0Votes74.5kRecs409.7kFans
- 71 EN Apocalypse Reborn: Starting with a 30-Million Lottery Win 重生末世：开局中奖3000万 [Ruthless] + [No saintly do-gooder] + [Kills a beauty from the start] The apocalypse arrives, throwing the world into chaos as human nature and morality crumble. Reborn, the cold-blooded Li Yu wins 30 million yuan from the start. He builds a fortified base and stocks up on supplies. While everyone else struggles on the brink of starvation and death, Li Yu relaxes on the rooftop, enjoying the breeze as he eats barbecue and drinks beer... 164Votes303.3kRecs413.3kFans
- 72 Building America: My Campaign Manager Is Roosevelt 缔造美利坚：我竞选经理是罗斯福 My name is Leo Wallace. I'm a history PhD student, and I'm $137,542.89 in debt. At the darkest point in my life, I lost my job. The reason? I trashed a tech giant called Omni online, and they “optimized” me right out of a job. I thought my life was going to be like Rickshaw Boy, until an uninvited intruder showed up in my head. He said his name was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yes, that one, the guy on the dime. “Kid, stop ranting online. It doesn't work.” “Want to take them down? I'll teach you how.” 0Votes89.4kRecs234.6kFans
- 73 The Spy Network 谍网 The country is shattered, Japanese invaders run rampant, and this is a chaotic era! A seemingly insignificant translator slowly rises within the enemy's intelligence agency. Maneuvering, scheming, recruiting, and striking, he weaves a vast web of his own and repeatedly achieves extraordinary feats. But who could have imagined that he was actually a triple agent? 0Votes175.3kRecs148.2kFans
- 74 Shu Minister 蜀臣 O heavens above, why have you treated me so cruelly…. This is a story about a chancellor finally fulfilling his lifelong wish. 0Votes101.5kRecs158.8kFans
- 75 Hunting Immortals and Demons 狩猎仙魔 Synopsis One: In this world, there are immortals and demons. The immortals plunder the world, while demons wreak havoc among humanity. When immortals and demons appear, the world falls into chaos and people suffer. The world calls it calamity from immortals and disaster from demons. In the final years of the Great Chu Dynasty, the land descends into chaos. The feudal lords wage war, powerful clans carve up the realm, and the scourges of war, demons, and immortals arrive one after another. The mo 6Votes97.5kRecs360.4kFans
- 76 Police Officer Lu Ling 警察陆令 What is it like to become a police officer with a master's degree in personality psychology? You can judge people by their faces. A true expert can see right through ordinary people after only a few glances. Of course, it's much harder to see through someone who's deeply guarded. This is the story of someone who wanted to study psychology but somehow became an expert at solving cases~~ Compared with The Chief of Police, this book is... a bit more satisfying... 2Votes576.6kRecs556.6kFans
- 77 My Investment Era 我的投资时代 As Xia Jingxing lay dying, he remembered the young man who had set off for a foreign land. Back then, he had thought: If I could live those years over, I would never squander the turbulent, opportunity-filled twenty years that followed. What you never forget will eventually echo back. Returned to the age of eighteen, he began to sing: I'm still the same boy I used to be... PS: The author has already completed a two-million-character novel, Winning the New Fin 0Votes216.3kRecs410kFans
- 78 EN After Signing with AC Milan, I Started Slacking Off 签约AC米兰后，我开摆了 Lao Ye has a new book out. Title: If You’re Brothers, Come Play Soccer Kaka: Huang was the biggest hero of the Istanbul night, even if he didn’t play much. Ancelotti: Huang is a super talent. It’s a shame he’s not in great shape. Maldini: Huang is the team’s most important player. I recommend the club renew his contract for another five years. Barcelona: To show our sincerity in signing Huang Kaiwen, we’ve decided to offer his cousin a salary of one million euros a year. Milan’s team doctors are 9Votes232.9kRecs361.3kFans
- 79 EN I Have a Cultivation World 我有一个修仙世界 Chen Mobai, a third-year high school student at the Immortal Sect, was studying hard for the entrance exam to the Great Dao Academy. His biggest dream in life had always been to successfully establish his Foundation, until he gained the ability to transmigrate to another world of cultivation. Then his dream changed... 31Votes1.4MRecs2.1MFans
- 80 Period: Starting at the Shanghai Dubbing Studio 年代：从魔都译制片厂开始 Jiang Shan, a media mogul, inexplicably transmigrates forty years into the past and decides to turn a lifetime of experience into his golden finger. He glances at the nine jiao in his pocket, then strides into the Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio... 0Votes139.7kRecs233.3kFans
- 81 My American TV Universe 我的美综世界 I wanted to be a good person, but the CIA framed me. The only way to survive was to bring America down. 0Votes182.7kRecs219.4kFans
- 82 Old Tales of Hong Kong 港岛旧事 Fifty Years Early He Dingxian plunged headfirst into a blazing era teeming with roughnecks, before countless heroes had made their names. He fought alongside the real power players and danced shoulder to shoulder with dazzling beauties. What I’ve earned, I’ll never give away! 0Votes151.7kRecs394.2kFans
- 83 I'm Not a Literary Giant 我不是文豪 (This is not a copycat novel. No transmigration, no rebirth, no System, and no golden finger.) Many years later, when Wang Zixu stood at the Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony, he would remember that distant afternoon when his wife cut her hand. Back then, he was a clerk at a public institution in a small city. He had little money, and the literary world was a door he could find no way into. Now, he was the literary world's undisputed leading figure across the lands of three rivers, four lakes, 271Votes149.6kRecs183.3kFans
- 84 I Rewrote My Family’s History 我重写了家族历史 We've all seen stories about modern people transmigrating. But what kind of story would it be if a 120-year-old man living in the 21st century were reborn in his own youth? It was the final years of the Qing dynasty, a time of upheaval. Xu Cong was reborn as a wild fox. As a fox immortal, he began guiding his former self and making up for past regrets... “Great-grandpa, did you ever follow a celebrity? I like Jay Chou. The little yellow flower in the story has been drifting since the year I was 0Votes54.1kRecs105.7kFans
- 85 The Red Dragon Just Wants to Do Whatever It Pleases 红龙只想为所欲为 “If a red dragon’s head could pour out half a skullful of lava, the world would welcome its wisest ruler.”, The Book of the Red Dragon David closed the book. One breath of dragon fire reduced it to ashes, and he mixed himself a bottle of demon-flame elixir. To hell with that bullshit about reason. I just want to do whatever I want! This is the story of a reckless red dragon who can earn unlimited rewards simply by indulging in the Seven Deadly Sins, as he rampages through another world. 0Votes21.5kRecs154.5kFans
- 86 Legend 1997 传奇1997 The same rebirth, a different 1997. This is the year Sui Bo’s legend begins... 0Votes113.7kRecs125.9kFans
- 87 Reborn in 2014: I Am the King of Criminal Investigations 重生2014：我，刑侦之王 At the commendation ceremony, a fat man whose police uniform was stretched tight stood onstage, speaking with impassioned fervor. Below the stage. “Master, I heard you used to work with him. What kind of person is he, in your eyes?” “When he’s wearing his uniform, he’s the most lovable person there is. When he takes it off, he’s not human.” “How can you say that? He’s a hero. I think you’re just jealous.” “Jealous?” The veteran detective’s mouth twitched. “Have you ever seen someone ride an old 11Votes188kRecs504.6kFans
- 88 I’m a Lord in India 我在印度当老爷 From the fertile, talent-rich state of Uttar Pradesh to the city of Mumbai, where demons run amok, this wondrous subcontinent is all the promised land of Ron Suer! 0Votes93.8kRecs305.9kFans
- 89 The Carefree Marquis 逍遥侯 Li Zhongyi was once the greatest traditional Chinese doctor alive. After a car accident, he found himself in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, inhabiting the body of a good-for-nothing who was too inept to pass the civil service exams or wield a blade! At the time, the child emperor Shi Jingtang had only recently sold the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Meng Chang, ruler of Later Shu, was enjoying himself with Lady Huarui. Li Yu, the last ruler of Southern Tang, was still singing “Song 0Votes246kRecs146.1kFans
- 90 My Wife Is the Chief Executive 我的老婆是执政官 A legal genius of the twenty-first century embarks on a journey to restore a fallen kingdom in a mysterious world. From Canjun, quality is guaranteed! 1Votes554.6kRecs379.6kFans
- 91 I Studied Abroad in the Modern Era 我在现代留过学 The Son of Heaven is born of Heaven and Earth, and is Heaven’s own son! Some say the Son of Heaven is the father and mother of the people, and rules the world as its king! And I was once the Son of Heaven! I inherited the legacy of six generations and carried forward the late emperor’s ambitions. I punished the western rebels and put the old faction in its place. Whatever I set out to do, I accomplished; whoever I attacked, I defeated. I swept away a century of accumulated ills in the Great Song 152Votes553.1kRecs961.2kFans
- 92 The Young Eagle’s Glory 雏鹰的荣耀 On the day disaster struck at Waterloo, a transmigrator arrived in this world and became its unfortunate heir. He will change the course of fate and history, break free of his cage and overcome every obstacle, ultimately ascending the throne as Napoleon II. What drives him is not his father's name, but a glory that belongs to him alone! 0Votes289.2kRecs243.3kFans
- 93 The Los Angeles Detective 洛杉矶神探 A detective transmigrates to America and becomes an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. After getting over his initial confusion, he solves one baffling case after another and earns international renown, becoming known as the most legendary detective in history... 2Votes289.6kRecs397kFans
- 94 Wuxia: A Full Sixty Years of Internal Energy from the Start! 武侠：开局获得一甲子内力！ In a world torn by war, the jianghu is in turmoil. Outlaws flout the law, warlords leave fields strewn with the dead, and the demonic sects wreak havoc on the people. Jiang Ran transmigrates into this world and awakens the Bounty Hunter System. From that day on, he enters the jianghu with a blade in hand. At the peak of the storm, heroes gather. An unrivaled master of the blade bursts onto the scene, conquering every corner of the land! Wherever his blade points, his gaze is cold and sharp: “Let 13Votes100.4kRecs620.5kFans
- 95 My Hardcore Music Career 我的硬核音乐生涯 When future generations look back on the career of Li Wenyin, a musical giant of his age, they find that the word “torment” runs through his entire life. Open the Études d'exécution transcendante: it begins with “La campanella” and ends with “Chasse-neige.” Piano students weep complicated tears. He is the god of the piano. Open the Violin Virtuoso Collection: “The Erlking,” “The Goblin.” Violin students get chills. He is the devil of the violin. His conducting is a nightmare for every orchestra 0Votes65.8kRecs193.2kFans
- 96 Twenty-Seven Years 二十七载 The world stands at the turbulent turning point between old and new societies, as clashes in politics, economics, ideas, and culture grow ever more intense. Moste Vilak, a photographer from the slums of Zivode City, is reborn two months into the past. Starting by once again posing as the son of a conglomerate, he stirs up everything and turns the world upside down amid rapid industrial growth and wildly expanding ambitions. [This is a fictional world. Please don't compare it to reality.] [The al 4Votes84.8kRecs146.5kFans
- 97 Who Told You to Use Your Ability Like That? 谁让你能力这么用的？ In a world where everyone awakens, the myriad realms converge into secret realms. The Awakened believe they are the center of the Myriad Worlds, until major events like secret realm invasions, dynastic collapse, and the shattering of worlds deliver them a resounding slap in the face. “I have to find out who turned my ten million into ten thousand!” Wang Linchi said after being forced to work hard. 0Votes93.1kRecs531.2kFans
- 98 A Battlefield Photographer’s Journal 战地摄影师手札 Using a camera to document war, and a lens to remember history. Wei Ran returns again and again to the battlefields of World War II and even to the Cold War era, taking on a variety of identities. His camera captures countless unknown heroes as well as treasures lost amid the ravages of war. From the blood-soaked battlefields of World War II to the Cold War era under the shadow of nuclear war, countless secrets were buried by time, only to be captured forever on film with the click of his shutte 28Votes782.1kRecs332.4kFans
- 99 This Monk Doesn't Want to Be a Movie Star 贫僧不想当影帝 [One-line synopsis] A young warrior monk gets dragged into show business by his twin brother, and accidentally becomes an award-winning actor. [Full synopsis] Xu Zhen is an orphan who grew up in a temple. The old abbot raised him single-handedly. Though they are not father and son, they are closer than most. Xu Zhen planned to formally take the vows after turning twenty and spend the rest of his life caring for his master. But when he was eighteen, a man claiming to be his older brother got in t 0Votes279.3kRecs328.6kFans
- 100 Thunderclap 惊雷 “The world of espionage is fraught with danger. We must hear the thunderclap in the silence.” Yu Jingque, code-named Thunderclap, is like a spring thunderclap exploding in the ears of countless people on Ice City’s smokeless battlefield. He is a thorn in the enemy’s heart, stabbing them painfully from time to time while remaining nearly impossible to remove. When thunder shatters the pillars, heaven and earth change color. In the darkness that watches over the dawn, the thunder sounds first. 0Votes103.8kRecs92.5kFans
