Novels like Star on a Hairpin
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Star on a Hairpin, best match first.
- 1 The Ancestors of the Capital Beg Me to Be Their Stand-In 全京城老祖宗求我当替身 The real daughter of the Marquis of Xuanping, Shen Lingxi, who was switched at birth, has finally been found. She is breathtakingly beautiful, with skin like ice and bones like jade. The only problem is that she was raised in a coffin shop. Anyone who hears that can’t help but call it an ill omen. The marquis and his wife thought so too, until their ancestor practically rose from the grave to leave most of the family fortune to her. - With a new soul in her body, Shen Lingxi is determined to mon 0Votes5.4kRecs19.4kFans
- 2 The Family Business (Original Novel of the TV Adaptation) 家业（同名影视原著） The original novel for the television drama Family Legacy, starring Yang Zi and Han Dongjun. To make the family business thrive and keep the family in harmony, hard work is essential! Li Zhen, a modern inheritor of Li Ink, transmigrates into the body of Li Zhenniang, the youngest daughter of the eighth branch of the Li family in Huizhou during the Ming dynasty. The family is struggling to make ends meet, and the Li Ink trade is on the verge of collapse... This is the legendary tale of Li Zhe 0Votes152.4kRecs159.8kFans
- 3 Mastering the Craft 登堂入室 The first time Yuan Zhi met Song Jiyun, she was scheming with her foster brother to seize the family fortune; The second time Yuan Zhi met Song Jiyun, she was framing someone with her foster brother; The third time Yuan Zhi met Song Jiyun, her foster brother was finally no longer by her side, but she was batting her eyelashes at his good friend... A man may put up with many things, but Yuan Zhi couldn't stand this. He decided... to offer himself to the tiger and tame Song Jiyun, that enchantress 4Votes916.6kRecs197.3kFans
- 4 The Empress of Chu (Original Novel of the TV Drama The Rising Star) 楚后（影视剧《翘楚》原著） The story begins when several postal station guards in Beicao Town meet a girl asking for help. [Not a wish-fulfillment story. A romance with a male lead and other male characters.] 2Votes1.8MRecs242.3kFans
- 5 Wei-Jin Foodie 魏晋干饭人 The Wei and Jin dynasties were an age of elegance and excess, but the Five Barbarians were about to plunge the Central Plains into chaos. This was the era Zhao Hanzhang had transmigrated into. Commoners and impoverished families lived in misery, while the aristocratic clans did nothing but talk. To keep the elite from fleeing south and to save the world from starving masses, Zhao Hanzhang had no choice but to roll up her sleeves and get to work so everyone could eat their fill. No idle talk in 5Votes1.7MRecs554.3kFans
- 6 Seeking Dan Zhu 问丹朱 Everyone wants to ask Chen Danzhu: Does your conscience ever hurt? [Not a female-centric power fantasy, romance] 3Votes2.8MRecs656kFans
- 7 Like Brocade 似锦 (Published in simplified and traditional Chinese) Everyone says Fourth Miss Jiang is a peerless beauty. What a shame that the Duke of Anguo’s household plucked this flower for itself. But on the eve of Jiang Si’s wedding, her fiancé jumped into a lake with another woman, intent on dying with her… 0Votes1.5MRecs412.5kFans
- 8 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
