Novels like When Pride Still Mattered
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- 1 The Great Tang's Wonderful Imperial Grandson! 大唐好圣孙！ After transmigrating as Li Shimin's grandson, Li Xiang could only sigh at the trouble he was in. That year, following the course of history, his useless father Li Chengqian attempted a rebellion and failed. The whole family was exiled to Qianzhou. To avoid being dragged down by his useless father, Li Xiang decided to launch an impassioned attack on the Eastern Palace's tutors before he could! You like to claim the moral high ground? Then I'll stand even higher! First, a man has to fight! Second, 0Votes20.6kRecs214.7kFans
- 2 I Can See the Cost of Every Choice 我能看见选项的代价 At midnight, a questionnaire he couldn't close popped up on Chen Mo's phone. [Question 1 (choose one): How many people are in your room right now?] [A. One] [B. Two] [C. Three] He lived alone. He was sure of that. But just as he was about to tap an answer, a face emerged beneath option C: the old woman across the hall, who often slipped him a box of pickled radishes through the door and reminded him not to eat so much salty food. When the countdown reached thirty-one seconds, he answered truthfu 0Votes118Recs5Fans
- 3 Where the Noise Has Yet to Reach 喧嚣未及之处 Xu Ling unexpectedly travels back to 2006 and becomes a freshman at Texas Tech University. He has extraordinary talent, but almost nobody knows it. At the time, legendary coach Bob Knight’s aura looms over the entire team, yet it remains no more than an inconspicuous star in the vast NCAA firmament, until the day its course changes forever. Some people are born to spread their wings and soar like eagles. In his second life, Xu Ling decides to charge full speed toward the heights he never reached 467Votes157.6kRecs292.4kFans
- 4 EN Prince of Tennis: Black Glory 网王之黑色荣耀 For fans of Prince of Tennis, this is the best of times. Byodoin Phoenix, Taneshima Shuji, Irie Kanata, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Atobe Keigo, the kingly Rikkai Dai, Echizen Ryoma, Kintaro Toyama... This is a dazzling age in which tennis prodigies compete to shine. Yet among all these shining stars, the black-clad Fudomine team is nowhere to be seen. An unexpected soul arrives to change everything, leading the glory of the black team as it sweeps across the entire Prince of Tennis world. 0Votes16.2kRecs61kFans
- 5 The Champion's Creed 冠军信条 I’m not a perfect person. I’m not an easy teammate to get along with, and I’m not even a good person, to be honest. Still, no one in this world can deny that I’m the greatest basketball player of all time. Not even God! 3Votes97.9kRecs244.8kFans
- 6 Hong Kong Cinema from the Start: My Senior Brother Is Ching Ling Chi 开局港综：我师兄是凌凌漆 After awakening in Hong Kong Island, Zheng Jirong discovered that he had somehow become Ling Ling Fa, the fellow disciple of Ling Ling Qi, and that, as an agent, he was living undercover in the bustling streets of Hong Kong Island under the identity of a butcher shop owner. Before he had time to rethink his life's path, a familiar voice suddenly came from in front of the butcher shop. “Pulling out a mountain with one arm, my might covers the world!” “…” “A Fa! The country has a mission for 0Votes22.4kRecs167.8kFans
- 7 Paper Figures Call the Roll: A Record of a Netherworld Worker's Trials 纸人点名：地府打工人闯关实录 His name is Chen Jiujin, a washed-up streamer who makes a living telling folk tales about the supernatural. He has eighty thousand followers, earns three thousand a month, and still owes money on Huabei. During a late-night livestream exploring a haunted house, a paper effigy smacks him in the face, and he is "scared to death" on the spot. After death, there's no Granny Meng's soup, just a text message welcoming him to a job: Welcome to the Folk Horror Challenge Game. This isn't the Eighteenth L 0Votes31Recs0Fans
- 8 The Biggest Hater in Basketball 篮坛头号黑粉 In 2010, LeBron made The Decision 1, announcing that he would take his talents to the South Beach and join the Heat. The entire internet turned on him. “I fully support LeBron’s choice. He made the smartest decision possible.” Han Sen posted his support for James on social media and was likewise flamed by the entire internet. As the hate piled up, Han Sen quietly pulled out his Hater System. Watching his Hater Points soar, he smiled with satisfaction. 0Votes59.8kRecs209.4kFans
- 9 The Golden Age of Basketball 篮球之黄金时代 The sweeping life story of a basketball player. 96Votes239.1kRecs265.5kFans
- 10 Elden Ring: Selling Dung Beetles in the Lands Between 法环：在交界地卖粪金龟 The laws have shattered, and the Lands Between have descended into madness. Even demigods are beginning to fall. Countless unspeakable things happen in this land, but the worst of all is... Merchants only sell crafting materials and won't buy finished goods! Guided by Grace, the descendants of countless warriors have crossed the Sea of Fog and entered this ruined world. With so many Tarnished before you, do you know what you should do? Of course: do business. Just look at the tens of millions of 0Votes16.2kRecs66.7kFans
- 11 1960: My Uncle Is the FBI Director 1960：我叔叔是FBI局长 My uncle is the director of the FBI! What? You’re asking who I am? Ahem. My surname is Hoover. In early summer of 1960, a profiler is reborn in the body of a rebellious young man. He decides to give the criminals of this era a taste of a little technological shock. 59Votes36.1kRecs102kFans
- 12 A Sea of Fragrance in the Mortal World 人间香海 Thirteen years ago, a fire left Xiang without a wish. Lin Ruan, an incense master at Chaoyin Workshop, can hear the wind in incense. She uses salt to mark the threshold, wind to verify wishes, and incense to seal the heart. Every “path-reading” brings her closer to uncovering the truth left behind by that fire. Only when half a score reappears, the wind paths shift, and the old archive reopens, does she understand: when the power of wishes falls into disorder, fate too can turn with the wind. A 0Votes1.8kRecs0Fans
- 13 The Widower's Literary Life 鳏夫的文娱 Lin Youcheng, a fine young man who is single and unmarried, never imagined that he would suddenly transmigrate to 1983, lose his wife in a single day, and become the father of six little kids... Lin Youcheng's response? He'd rather die. But before he dies, Lin Youcheng still has to find a way to raise this hungry little brood. So, in this unfamiliar era, he has no choice but to pick up his pen and earn money to feed the kids... This novel is also known as “The Springtime of Literature: Entertai 0Votes74.9kRecs288kFans
- 14 Journey to the West: I Became Mount Fangcun's Chief Disciple 西游：成了方寸山首席 In 202 BCE, the blood of the Chu-Han contention had barely dried. Bimawen would not be born for another two hundred years, and Journey to the West was eight hundred years away. Ji Cheng arrived with the wisdom of a past life, becoming an ordinary city guard in Chang'an City... [Keywords: Pure Journey to the West, Shushan-like style, not primordial chaos, two-worlds setting] 474Votes39.7kRecs258.8kFans
- 15 Those Years I Was Forced to Make the Forbes List 被迫登顶福布斯的那些年 Chen, a tycoon who once slogged through cement dust and steel rebar, and weathered the stock market’s rises and falls, opens his eyes to find himself back at the dawn of the internet bubble, when infrastructure development was surging ahead. To fund his technology ventures, he scrambles for money and is forced to become the richest man in the country… … As the nation’s technology rises and economic cycles are reshaped, nobody believes that: At first, all he wanted was to make a smartphone. … T 422Votes76.3kRecs296.3kFans
- 16 Peninsula: Starting with Collecting Debts from the Nation’s Little Sister 半岛：从催收国民妹妹开始 [One-Line Synopsis]: I only went to experience life and collect a debt. How did I become the girl group's cherished first love? [Full Synopsis]: In 2014, the entertainment industry on the peninsula was rocked by one scandal after another: a top-tier star left their group, a stunning beauty fell into depression, and someone was brutally attacked by the entire internet. The soul of a man in his thirties awoke in the body of a washed-up idol in his twenties. Bai Shiwen decided to live differently. 121Votes31.4kRecs131.8kFans
- 17 All That’s Left Is Noise 余下的，只有噪音 The Big Bird and the Magician represented an era: the age when professional basketball became popular in the land of basketball. They laid the foundations for the likes of His Airness, the dominant OK duo, LeBron, Durant, and Curry to make basketball so beautiful. They helped all those players become billionaires with their own business empires and lofty social standing. But rewind the clock forty years, and such a thing would have been unthinkable. The league was unpopular, and the best player 6Votes270.5kRecs212.5kFans
- 18 Sounds Beneath the Sand 沙下有音 In Kashgar's Old City, Shen Nanyin can hear the voices beneath the sand. On a night of sandstorms, a voice dead for thirty years calls her name. Gu Xizhou, a relic restorer, arrives with a jade cicada passed down through his family, leading to a Kunlun eagle-bone flute left behind by her mother. Legend says that the priests of the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions used sound to suppress evil spirits, sealing disasters inside a sound prison beneath a sunken city. Now the city is about to 0Votes71Recs0Fans
- 19 Reborn, I Just Want to Return to My Comfort Zone 重生后我只想回舒适区 A soul, a warm soul. Cast out of 2026, exiled to wander through 2013. To fill the emptiness of his wandering, he used the perspective of someone reborn to make plans for his present life, map out the road ahead, and furnish the home that was about to be built. All so he could find his way back to the comfort of a life with "her" in this lifetime. Every plan led toward the summer after his wife graduated from high school in his previous life. But fate played cruel games, morality put him on trial 75Votes247Recs4Fans
- 20 EN Electromagnetic Tyrant 电磁暴君 Light and color, sound and scent; Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, phones and computers; Burning, freezing, friction, explosions, thunder, rain, growth, decay; All material changes and chemical phenomena; Our bodies, our thoughts, our world... They are all built upon electromagnetic interactions! Whoever can control electromagnetism will rule the world as a tyrant! But electromagnetism is far too profound. Let's start by learning how to generate a spark... 7Votes134.6kRecs485.3kFans
- 21 Fist of the Invincible 拳无敌 A new king of the knockout punch bursts onto the scene. From a pioneer of Chinese boxing to the man who dominates the world's heavyweight division, he measures the ring with his boxing-instinct simulation matrix and writes an undefeated legend with his iron fists. He is utterly invincible. 160Votes31.1kRecs170.5kFans
- 22 EN Immortality Begins with Stacking Infinite Talents 长生从无限叠加天赋开始 [Mortal's journey] [Slow burn] [Building an enterprise] [He has formed his Nascent Soul. The story only gets better from here, so feel free to dive in!] [Over 8,000 words updated daily, without fail!] The vast lands of Qianyuan stretch far and wide, while the immortal path lies distant. All races vie for supremacy, and ordinary mortals live as briefly as mayflies. Xu Chuan's soul crosses into this world. With a bloodline genealogy in hand, he transforms from mortal to immo 499Votes107kRecs353.4kFans
- 23 EN Hong Kong Movieverse: The Man Who Runs the Force 港综警队话事人 [Ding! Earth Online has been updated. The Life Achievement System is now active!] [Ding! A mysterious change in the player's consciousness has been detected. Congratulations, you have earned the achievement reward: Martial Arts Champion!] [Ding! The player has entered the police academy. Congratulations, you have earned the achievement reward: Firearms Mastery!] From Quan Zai of Wong Chuk Hang, to Inspector Quan of West Kowloon, and then to Grandpa Quan of the force! If you want to know who 0Votes97.1kRecs454.9kFans
- 24 The Grandmaster of the Siheyuan 四合院里的大国宗师 Gao Zhendong transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard". There, he is a true son of the people: strong and healthy, handsome, a veteran with a distinguished military record, university-educated, technically skilled, financially secure, and backed by a System. He has the knowledge from his previous life before transmigrating, supplies guaranteed by the System, and occasional flashes of future wisdom from lucky draws. He doesn’t want to spend his days scheming over trivial matters and pocket 19Votes180.9kRecs480.7kFans
- 25 The Ming Dynasty’s Sacred Grandson 大明圣孙 Senior high school student Zhu Xiongying has a secret: when he was little, he lived in ancient times! He’d planned to take that secret to the grave and live an ordinary life. Then, before he left for university, he was weeping at the grave of his guardian and grandfather when an excited voice came from the mound. “, Eldest grandson, you’re alive!” Zhu Xiongying: “You say you’re my grandfather? Then I’m Qin Shi Huang. Send me some money!” Zhu Yuanzhang: “You want money? I’ll burn paper money for 0Votes42.8kRecs532.6kFans
- 26 I Never Wanted to Be an Actor 我没想做演员 An actor? An actor's final destination is selling products on livestream! I'm a huge internet celebrity. Become an actor? Have you lost your mind? 8Votes137.5kRecs362.7kFans
- 27 Grand Marshal of Ji Han 季汉大司马 Also known as Three Kingdoms: From the Start, He Thwarts Sun Wu and Brings the Northern and Southern Dynasties Forward. After transmigrating into the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, he makes a name for himself with his knowledge of the Three Kingdoms. When Liu Bei moves south to Xinye, Huo Jun bravely heads north to Xiangyang and throws himself into the great tides of history. He establishes his legacy through both scholarship and warfare, wins fame across the land, enters the Temple of Mil 1Votes77.6kRecs232.8kFans
- 28 Sports: The Reborn Su Shen 体坛之重开的苏神 Is 9.827 the limit for people of Asian descent? No. This time, I, Su Shen, am going to write the ultimate sprinter’s... paper. At the request of my esteemed readers, I’m adding one more line: Possibly the most hardcore sprinting novel on the entire internet. A scientific body-snatching System. Come and see for yourself. (Well, esteemed readers, is this good enough? Have I finally caught your eye? I really did my best T_T) 0Votes206.2kRecs99.8kFans
- 29 League of Legends: The Champion Coach 联盟之冠军主教 0Votes57.9kRecs129.7kFans
- 30 Tiger Guard 虎贲郎 After Dong Zhuo, the Three Commanderies fell into chaos. The Son of Heaven was driven from his capital, and loyalists gathered in Luodu to save the throne. Amid crumbling walls, the powerful were contemptible. With sword in hand, he looked around: the traitors were ten times more vicious than the barbarians. In an age of loyalty, filial piety, propriety, righteousness, and trust, the most reliable things were still the sword and shield in one's hands. 104Votes109.7kRecs262.8kFans
- 31 EN I Am a Martial God 吾乃高武神人 In a world of martial arts, everyone can awaken a trait! A farmer awakens [Hardworking], gaining +20% adaptability to pain. A rich man awakens [Slave Master], increasing his influence over the poor by 10%. Even a nine-lived cat demon can obtain [Haki Creature] and come back to life after death! [Reborn] [Transmigrator] [Reincarnated Soul] [Outsider Demon] [Unparalleled Beauty]... Countless traits bring endless possibilities! In this golden age, Ye Li awakens the trait [World-Shaking Wisdom]. [Wo 174Votes69.2kRecs319.6kFans
- 32 I Love Posting on Weibo, and Became a Pro League Carry 爱发微博的我，成了职业通天代 After seeing too many people slack off and take things for granted, all he wanted at first was to do justice to the effort he put in. But after sticking with it ten thousand times, he became a breath of fresh air in the industry. 5Votes110.4kRecs369.9kFans
- 33 The Road to Conquest 征服之路 In May 2001, “The Conqueror” Wang Shuo officially began his journey to conquer the NBA. 0Votes133.7kRecs223.9kFans
- 34 Starting with Pure-Blooded Dragons, I Refuse to Be Human 从纯血龙族开始不当人 A pureblood Fifth-Generation Dragon with mastery of the Word Spirit chain. A genuine distillery operative who roots out undercover agents. The young emperor's foremost sycophant. A curse born of hatred. The top enforcer in Root, protecting Lord Danzo. A Celestial Dragon with nothing to do. The returning dragon of the true world. A black knight starting from scratch. Fairy Tail: Prehistoric Calamity. The Outcast: Zhenwu Descends the Mountain. On the throne, whenever Jiang Yuan sinks into mem 0Votes58.5kRecs253.3kFans
- 35 This Director Has No Vision 这个导演没有格局 (A veteran author of Chinese entertainment novels, with several acclaimed works. This book has already achieved great success and is now aiming for ten thousand paid subscribers!) Reborn in 2009, Jiang Yifeng stirs up a storm in the entertainment industry. Yet people are always saying he lacks perspective. “Director Jiang, people say you made Old Boys to capitalize on the attention surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Do you admit it?” “That’s true.” “Others say you criticized Wolf Totem and too 0Votes143kRecs275.3kFans
- 36 EN Adventurer with the MC System in Middle-earth 带着MC系统到中土 In the year 1340 of the Shire Reckoning, one year before the company sets out on the Quest of Erebor, the wizard has yet to visit the Shire, Thorin is still wandering, and the dragon sleeps in the mountain... That year, a human carrying an MC System arrives in Middle-earth. And so, towering fortresses spring up overnight, alongside golden fields of wheat stretching as far as the eye can see. Legends of the Block Wizard begin to spread across the wilderness. Years later, when an army of orcs lays 0Votes74kRecs350.5kFans
- 37 Reborn in 1993 重生从1993开始 Having returned to 1993, Li Dongling is ready to start a new life. This time around, he’s determined to live well and do what he wants. I’m Li Dongling, and this is my 1993! 461Votes260.7kRecs492.4kFans
- 38 EN Lord of the Mysteries: The Last Shepherd 诡秘：最后一个牧羊人 After an unexpected transmigration and swallowing a potion, he becomes a Secrets Suppliant. What awaits the protagonist, Lu Ze: the Lord's blessing, or despair and madness? Lu Ze doesn't know. He just keeps killing, killing, killing. “I'll wipe out the Aurora Order and butcher the True Creator. I'll become the last Shepherd.” A Lord of the Mysteries fanfic, following the Shepherd pathway. 342Votes119.9kRecs263.9kFans
- 39 The Ming Dynasty’s Black Sails 大明黑帆 That year, European civilization, laden with silver, silk, and gunpowder, collided in a blaze of passion amid the black tides and monsoon winds. That year, after the disastrous defeat at Sarhu, the Ming Dynasty saw two emperors die in quick succession, leaving the empire battered by storms. For the world, this was the golden age of exploration. For the Ming, it was a golden age of factional strife. In this age of great upheaval, Lin Qian quietly arrived in the Ming Dynasty and became a pirate. W 1.3kVotes104.7kRecs384.8kFans
- 40 EN Spring Blossoms and a Cup of Wine 桃李春风一杯酒 Yang Ge was never the greatest under heaven. But later, everyone in the martial world called him the greatest under heaven... PS1: This is a story about friendship, ideals, and reconciliation. PS2: The author has two acclaimed older works, both with over 20,000 premium subscribers: From Big Shot to Martial Alliance Leader and The Eternal Prosperity of Humanity. If you want more, feel free to check them out! 2Votes88.5kRecs524.6kFans
- 41 A Dream of the Beiyang Fleet 北洋之梦 After transmigrating into a hopeless student in the Beiyang presidential preparatory class in the fifteenth year of the Guangxu reign, Chang Desheng looked at his classmates, including Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, Cao Kun, and Wang Shizhen, and made up his mind: I’m going to be president! A new work from Da Luoluo. Read it now, and don’t save it for later! 1.8kVotes157.7kRecs356.9kFans
- 42 EN Sword of Coming 剑来 The vast world is full of wonders. I, Chen Ping'an, have but one sword. I can move mountains, overturn seas, subdue demons, suppress devils, command gods, pluck stars, sever rivers, destroy cities, and cleave open the heavens! 271Votes266.9kRecs2.5MFans
- 43 EN The Mountain Storm Dragon 山雨蛟 The path of cultivation may look glorious, but in truth it is like walking on thin ice. Only those who tread it know the hardships. A black snake of humble origins, with no one to rely on, wanders alone through wind and rain, living on the fringes of the human world. It cannot escape the fires of heavenly tribulation. It struggles desperately, with no idea what lies ahead... A record of the past, seven parts truth and three parts lies. 193Votes96.3kRecs218.6kFans
- 44 Twenty Years in the Underworld of Republican-Era China 民国江湖二十年 [Everyday life in the martial world, bandits of the greenwood, and strange folk customs] If someone greets you with “You must be tired,” you know you’re in the martial world. In the late Qing and early Republican era, the nation was crumbling and chaos reigned. Beyond Shanhai Pass, greenwood heroes rose in droves. In the streets of Beijing and Tianjin, extraordinary figures of the martial world emerged one after another. In times like these, every hero ought to have a bit of a bandit in him!!! … 315Votes249.3kRecs237.8kFans
- 45 The Peninsula Asteroid 半岛小行星 I came to become a star. I saw it, and I know I can make it. I conquer... Forget it, this place is too complicated to conquer. I'll just focus on romance instead. 362Votes393.5kRecs255.3kFans
- 46 EN Wizard: My Profession Panel Has No Upper Limit 巫师：我的职业面板没有上限 Severing souls, raising curses; analyzing madness, stitching together rules. This is a world where wizards control everything. Ron hurriedly descended into this world and awakened his own class panel: [Wizard (Necromancer)] + Soul-Box Creation → [Undead] [Sun-Crown Knight] + Stellar Body Tempering → [Radiant Sovereign] [Time Guard] + Temporal Paradox → [History Devourer] Countless years later, amid this chaotic tide where sorcery and divinity, truth and madness intertwined, he had be 0Votes129.5kRecs874kFans
- 47 CSGO: This Player Takes Advice Too Seriously! CSGO：这个选手太听劝了！ Synopsis: “A 21-year-old prodigy with 1,200 hours in CS and a C+ rank. Can I go pro at this level?” “You can work the assembly line.” “If you’re out of ideas, chew on a lighter.” “Just go get buried.” “At least start practicing your aim. Do 10,000 bots a day and spend an hour running around the map...” “Too old for anyone to want you? Just go get first place in FPL...” As Xu Beifang tries to take his first steps, following one piece of advice after another, some furious, some gentle, his life gr 4Votes66.8kRecs357.1kFans
- 48 This Isn't a Bug, It's a Game Feature 这不是BUG，这是游戏特性 After awakening a game developer System, Chen Ba vows to become the godfather of gaming and usher in a new era of video games! But he soon realizes that something is off… Why do the games he makes keep coming with the strangest bugs? How can a perfectly good dating sim let you romance other players, turning it into a social matchmaking app? How can a perfectly good fighting game let you attack your opponent’s graphics card with skills, blacking out their screen to win? When players demand answer 0Votes40.6kRecs230.3kFans
- 49 Simultaneous Transmigration: Is My Golden Finger Really Myself? 同时穿越：金手指竟是我自己？ After transmigrating, he had no System and no old master to guide him. Just as Locke was feeling helpless about his own talent, he encountered versions of himself from other worlds in his dreams. The Locke in each world could share his talents! Hogwarts Locke: "Bro, this is the one favor I'll ask in my whole life. You have to evolve into Angewomon!" Agumon Locke: "Are you in your right mind?" Soul Reaper Locke: "You're right, but Angewomon is a..." Pokemon Locke: "My verdict is that she's not as 0Votes33.4kRecs206.2kFans
- 50 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
