Novels like Old Tales of Hong Kong
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Old Tales of Hong Kong, best match first.
- 51 The White Snake Immortal of the Mortal World 世间白蛇仙 The green snake is the ancestor of all beneath heaven; the white snake, an immortal of the world. This time, it's the story of a white snake. To hear the Dao in the morning and die content in the evening. After ten years as a snake, wandering through mountains and forests, it reaches the end of its lifespan. As life and death meet at the threshold, it suddenly becomes a demon. From then on, the world has a White Snake Immortal! Deep in the mountains lies Snake King Valley; a willow spirit rise 0Votes550.7kRecs341.3kFans
- 52 A Guide to the Daily Life of an Idler 闲人日常指南 0Votes69.3kRecs200.2kFans
- 53 You Don't Know How Much Fun Being a Director Is 导演的快乐你不懂 ★ Book status: Complete! Conquest 108 ★ Born in 1985, admitted to the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy in 2003, went on exchange to the University of Southern California in 2005, and directed his first Hollywood movie in 2006. He became famous overnight! But at the height of his success, Wang Quan announced he was returning to China to pursue his career. The domestic entertainment industry was shaken, and the international scene was stunn 2Votes192.6kRecs495.5kFans
- 54 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
- 55 EN In a Hong Kong Movie World, You Call This Undercover? 人在港综，你管这叫卧底？ A fake undercover agent: Carefully hides his identity, swallows his conscience to play the lowlife, and occasionally sneaks off to do good out of pity. Meeting his handler feels like sneaking around with a lover. A real undercover agent: Bold yet meticulous, ruthless and merciless, openly slips the cops a note to report his rivals. 0Votes162.3kRecs443kFans
- 56 Reborn as an Industrial Tycoon 重生之实业大亨 1984 was the first year of China's private enterprises. That year, Mr. Zhang of Haier was called in at a critical moment to take charge of the mess at the Qingdao Refrigerator Factory; that year, Mr. Li of TCL was producing cassette tapes in a shabby farm-machinery warehouse; that year, Mr. Wang of Vanke planned to use the money he'd earned selling corn to start a company; in that same year, reborn Li Weidong crouched by the workshop entrance, plotting how to make his fortune... 0Votes250.6kRecs618.3kFans
- 57 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
- 58 Starting from That Korean City 从那座韩城开始 “Live in this apartment.” “Wear this watch.” “Take this card.” “I told you, I’ll support you.” Lin Yi looked at Yoona’s overbearing demeanor before him and smiled. Just then, laughter came from behind him. “Oppa, when are you going to do something bad? Take me with you.” He turned around and saw a lovely girl standing in the sunlight, smiling sweetly, radiant and captivating. 5Votes249.2kRecs188.8kFans
- 59 EN Restarting Life 重启人生 When life hits the restart button, it seems like everything will finally go smoothly... Yeah, right! If only I'd been reborn after the college entrance exams. Even going back to my first year of high school would have been fine. What's with being reborn in my senior year? And what the heck, I'm reborn right in the exam room. Guys, how do I solve this math problem? Urgent, waiting for answers online! (Also known as Reborn, So Who Needs Exams? and Reborn, and the Author Still Can't Come Up wi 30Votes981.4kRecs1.3MFans
- 60 EN Martial Saint! 武圣！ Mysteries and the supernatural have never left this world. Those who break the shackles of life with bodies tempered through a thousand trials and an indomitable will, pursuing the limits of humanity in modern cities, are known as martial artists! Beneath neon lights, blades clash. Atop towering skyscrapers, fists meet in friendship. Across the great mountains, heroes debate the Dao. Here, martial arts masters who have broken the “seven limits of the human body” carve out names like those of god 27Votes278.4kRecs927.5kFans
- 61 No More Pretending, I’m a Culinary God, and I’m Coming Clean! 不装了，我是厨神我摊牌了！ 2Votes154.8kRecs332kFans
- 62 Life Simulation: Adding Traits Through Health Cultivation 人生模拟：从养生功开始加词条 Han Zhao wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to a world where rival states vie for supremacy and demons run rampant. Families of divine weapon wielders reign above all, while clans of spirit-beast tamers look down on the masses. The martial arts tradition has been severed and is steadily declining. Han Zhao has mediocre talent, but he possesses a prompt simulator. After paying to run a simulation, he can choose one of three rewards: a [Trait], [Attribute Points], or [Life Experience]. [Yo 2Votes63.4kRecs465.4kFans
- 63 Perfect World: The Double Agent 完美之双重卧底 As an undercover agent sent to the Nine Heavens by an Immortal from the Other Domain, what is it like to wield the An Lan Spear? Collect Taurus? Collect the Chariot? Collect the Immortal Shield? Then complete the Bi Wang armor set. Ride into battle with the King's Disdain. Sing the Song of Bi Wang. Summon Bi Wang's true form. Fight all the way into the Nine Heavens and wipe out a bunch of traitors? Well... it might not be impossible! 0Votes89.5kRecs204.8kFans
- 64 Immortality Begins with Taking a Wife 长生从娶妻开始 After transmigrating to an immortal-hero world, Shen Ping practiced with extreme caution for more than twenty years. But without a golden finger and with only ordinary aptitude, his cultivation progressed slowly. It was only after he decided to completely lie flat and married a wife that he realized in astonishment that he had been approaching the immortal-hero world all wrong! P.S.: Completed ten-thousand-subscriber hits [Martial Artists of the Marvel Universe] and [Swallowed Star: Thirty Tho 0Votes202.9kRecs774kFans
- 65 EN I Devour Gods 我以神明为食 Thirty years ago, a meteor fell, and the Divine Ruins appeared! Gods emerged from within, feeding on humanity. From that day on, humans became food for the gods, except me! Because I feed on gods. 5Votes399.9kRecs868.8kFans
- 66 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
- 67 Who Are You Calling a Powerhouse? 骂谁实力派呢 Who are you calling a powerhouse performer? Who are you insulting? Do you have any idea what it means to be one of Asia’s Ten Most Handsome Men? 8Votes264.5kRecs843.1kFans
- 68 Korean Variety Shows: Starting as an Undercover Agent in New World 韩综：从卧底新世界开始 He is Ding Qing and Li Zicheng’s sworn brother. He is the most deeply embedded insider. He is the sixth great chaebol of the rising South Korea. But before all that, he was just a low-ranking undercover cop who seemed to have been kicked off the force for getting caught up in someone else’s mess. [The New World storyline has begun.] After seeing the words floating before him, Lin Wei made himself a vow. “One day, I’ll have the entire Korean Peninsula under my heel!” New World, The Yellow Sea 3Votes57kRecs242.4kFans
- 69 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
- 70 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
- 71 The Starrealm Ant Tribe 星界蚁族 The universe is born and dies; time has an end. The light of the stars will eventually fade. The flame of civilization will never go out. With you and me, life will never be lonely. (Insect farming story, farming, farming, farming) 16Votes198.7kRecs191.1kFans
- 72 From the Hong Kong Film Universe to the Heavens 诸天从港综世界开始 Xu Luo transmigrates and opens his eyes at the scene of a gang of robbers splitting their loot. Having inherited none of the original owner's memories, he mistakes himself for a real robber and decides to take everything for himself, pocketing diamonds worth fifty million! After achieving financial freedom, two police officers suddenly show up and tell him he's an undercover cop. They order him to investigate on the streets who pulled off the diamond heist and where the stolen goods went. Xu Luo 0Votes68.1kRecs357kFans
- 73 In Tokyo, I'm a Law-Abiding Outlaw 人在东京，法内狂徒 In Japan in 1992, the economic bubble had just burst and public safety was beginning to deteriorate. Xu Tianze transmigrates into the body of a criminal police officer named Aoyama Hidenobu, only to discover upon opening his eyes that he is being bound hand and foot... At the beginning of the new century, an authoritative magazine claimed that although Japan had lost ten years starting in the 1990s, it had also gained a legendary figure like Aoyama Hidenobu. Some Japanese citizens responded: Bak 0Votes200.5kRecs584.6kFans
- 74 EN Player of the Uncanny 怪谈玩家 They reshape logic with rules and use reason to describe things beyond reason. This is a bizarre and uncanny game, as well as a continuation of the real world. Until the normal becomes abnormal, and the abnormal becomes the norm. 4Votes87.1kRecs342.3kFans
- 75 EN Feasting on Mortal Incense: Turns Out I'm in the Underworld 飨食人间香火，我这竟是阴间 A Taoist furnace, three sticks of incense. I accept the offerings of all living beings and endure the tribulations of the mortal world, from hell to the immortal realm, weathering calamity among mortals. … Could it be that we’re poor because no one up there is burning paper offerings for us? They say hell is empty, and the devils are all here in the mortal world. Could it be that this place of ours is… the underworld, an endless realm of darkness? That day, I heard murmurs of incense and paper o 0Votes42.2kRecs221.5kFans
- 76 I Haven't Been a Big Shot for Many Years 我已不做大佬好多年 This is a story about a dream long gone, and a return to the eighties in a dream. It’s not about fighting and killing. It’s about human relationships and the ways of the world. My name, Zhang Guobin! I haven’t been a big shot for many years. 2Votes536.5kRecs1MFans
- 77 American Comics: I Drew Superman During the Great Depression 美漫：我在大萧条画超人 Kelin discovers that whenever he closes his eyes, he can wake up in a normal world set during the Great Depression in America, leaving behind a world that is almost, but not quite, like a superhero universe! Then the world's first superhero, Superman, is born! Simply put, this is a story about selling newspapers in America during the Great Depression. 0Votes46.2kRecs173kFans
- 78 Reborn: The Literary Superstar 重生之文豪巨星 After one night of heavy drinking, Li Kuo returned to six years earlier. He still had time to make up for every regret. But this was a parallel world, where literature and art had taken a different path after the end of the Song dynasty. There were no Four Great Classical Novels, nor any outstanding works from modern times... Starting over, Li Kuo began with novels and gradually made his way toward becoming a literary master. Of course, whenever he had the time and opportunity, he didn't mind br 0Votes56.1kRecs97.3kFans
- 79 Hong Kong Films: You’re a Hung Hing Boy, Why Are You Acting Like a Charity King? 港片：你洪兴仔，慈善大王什么鬼 Guan Zu transmigrates as a low-level member under Hung Hing boss Big B, only to obtain the Charity King System. With my background, you want me to do charity? [Ding! You helped an old lady cross the road. Reward: 5,000 Hong Kong dollars!] [Ding! You donated one million dollars. Reward: VCD technology!] [Ding! You founded a charity to help families in need. Reward: Feng Yuxiu’s fighting skills, and +10% support from the public!] [Ding! You helped your gang brothers make a fortune and put food on 46Votes659kRecs1.4MFans
- 80 Reborn in the Soaring Years 重生飞扬年代 Du Fei has been reborn. In this difficult era of extreme scarcity, he begins an extraordinary life with cheat-like powers... 13Votes542.5kRecs747.2kFans
- 81 Shengong Bao, the Great Sage, Urges the Immortal to Seek Death 申公豹大圣劝死仙 First life: Unlucky Earthling Second life: Disaster Venerable Shen Gongbao Third life, fourth life... and beyond, across countless worlds. Forged by billions of calamities, my Dao body stands; the Great Luo Immortal endures for eternity. [Primordial Chaos secret identities] [Mythic Great Luo] [High-Risk Worlds] 1Votes51.9kRecs187.9kFans
- 82 North American Detective: I'm an Expert in Every Kind of Quick-Draw 北美神探：我精通各种美式居合 [Gunfights + Crime-Solving and Deduction + Ruthless Action] I’ve been doing black-on-black deals, and only now you’re telling me I was planted by the police as an undercover agent??? Dean looked at the boss, who had died with his eyes wide open, and scratched his head. He could only seize the opportunity to become Los Angeles’s five-star citizen: Detective Dean! P.S.: No supernatural powers, but there is a dark world beyond the reach of ordinary people, with hitmen, master thieves, and all kinds 0Votes97kRecs357.1kFans
- 83 Part-Time Artist 兼职艺术家 That summer, he defeated the capital with his talent... Huh? I am the capital? Well, then, never mind. 0Votes364.9kRecs781.7kFans
- 84 The Rise of the Shen Clan 沈氏家族崛起 In Lingnan, where fortunes rise and fall, an ordinary junior member of a small family leads his clan to endure and rise in this ruthless world of cultivation. Mortal, farming. 0Votes111.9kRecs113.4kFans
- 85 The White-Robed Chancellor 白衣卿相 Clad in white, he entered Bianliang; half a lifetime as a minister, and he shaped the realm. 3.9kVotes302kRecs573.4kFans
- 86 EN The Fate Hunter 猎命人 The court of gods and demons, its fortunes in ruins. The martial world seized the Ministry of War, the Demon Sect controlled the Ministry of Justice, heretics occupied the Ministry of Revenue, the Underworld took over the Ministry of Works, and the demon race usurped the provincial governments. The throne hall was packed with nobles in crimson and purple robes, demons, puppets, and monsters. The assembled officials were a den of fiends and specters. The fate diviner Li Qingxian forged a Fate Pal 2Votes531.6kRecs613.8kFans
- 87 Tracing the Current of the Literary Era 溯流文艺时代 Yu Dong is reborn from 2019 into 1991, returning to the time just after graduation, when he was assigned to work as a counselor at Jinling Arts College. Starting out by writing novels, he takes things one step at a time, gradually building an empire in the entertainment industry. 0Votes108.1kRecs171.1kFans
- 88 From University Lecturer to Chief Academician 从大学讲师到首席院士 A young doctoral graduate transmigrates, only to be blamed for a research scandal from the start and attacked across the internet. He fires back by churning out ten papers in a single month. A big name in academia steps forward to say, “Forget ten papers in a month. Even writing ten in a year is just padding your résumé. You’re a paper mill, and that’s not real research.” Later, people dig into the papers and discover that every one is backed by genuine expertise and has had a major impact. The 0Votes234.9kRecs575.4kFans
- 89 Wandering the World of Myriad Heavens 人在诸天，浪迹天涯 A Myriad Heavens crossover featuring a mix of film and TV worlds. The first world is a little long, and the story doesn't follow the original plot. Same old rules. 0Votes109.6kRecs189.9kFans
- 90 Reaching for Supremacy in the Ten Kingdoms 问鼎十国 At the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Chai Rong has just ascended the throne, and Zhao Kuangyin is beginning to make his mark. Luo Youdu, a petty official driven to take his own life, becomes a stock transmigrator. From the start, he kicks the legendary charioteer of Gaoliang River, dominates the Ten Kingdoms, expands his influence in every direction, and restores the splendor of the Han and Tang dynasties. 3Votes122.1kRecs305.4kFans
- 91 From Today On, I'm a Big Shot 从今开始当大佬 After watching the 2019 Spring Festival Gala, Zheng Ge arrived in a world steeped in commerce. The story begins with a loan crisis. (Five updates a day. 0Votes123kRecs173.6kFans
- 92 I'm Not Going to Be a Trainer This Time 这次不当训练家了 Zhishu transmigrates to the Pokemon world, inherits a ranch, and gains the ability to grant Pokemon mysterious powers through his cooking. As a result, the Pokemon on the ranch undergo some rather unusual changes. A Miltank that can use [Super Roll] with no blind spots or recovery time, a Cyclizar so fast it leaves afterimages wherever it goes, and a twin-tailed Tinkaton with Huge Power that can send a Snorlax flying with a single swing... Wild trainers who hear about it make a special trip to 0Votes317.6kRecs574.4kFans
- 93 EN Lord's Survival: Conquering from a Ruined Courtyard 领主求生：从残破小院开始攻略 Everyone transmigrates to another world in their sleep. It’s a terrifying world, almost beyond measure. Here, there are dragons, griffins, goblins, gnomes, dwarves, and orcs. There are also zombies, undead lairs, and all kinds of monstrous creatures from myth. Everyone becomes a lord. From the start, they choose their background and receive a small courtyard and three farmers. Want to get rich? Start by chopping trees, then gradually build up your territory. Lords must explore the map, claim ter 15Votes248.9kRecs852.3kFans
- 94 Working as a Cop in Mexico 混在墨西哥当警察 The four surest ways to get yourself killed: Become a police officer in Mexico! Here, absolute justice gets you shot. BIU BIU BIU. The protagonist transmigrates into the body of a prison guard and discovers he can see a person’s criminality score! The only way to uphold justice is to outgun the criminals! This prison is called the “Highland Prison”! It has the highest security rating in Mexico. And one man is currently locked inside. His name is Gallardo, nicknamed the Godfather, one of the foun 6Votes215.3kRecs494.8kFans
- 95 EN The Bottom-Tier Trainer of the Elf World 精灵世界的底层训练家 Thank the Alliance for restoring peace and quiet to the world of elves, because I, a “lowly” Trainer, switched sides. From the “Memoir” of Xia Yan, a “lowly” Trainer and Breeder 7Votes236.4kRecs664.4kFans
- 96 I'm Really Not Interested in Money 我对钱真没兴趣 (An interactive novel, formerly titled The Retirement Life of a Billionaire. You decide how the tycoon lives!) Yin He, the “young billionaire,” sells his company in America and achieves financial freedom. He returns to China and begins his retirement life, and then~ then it's up to the readers. 0Votes286.1kRecs276.5kFans
- 97 Defend Nanshan Park 保卫南山公园 EVA! Gundam! Pacific Rim! Tell me loud and clear: what's a man's idea of romance! 25Votes130.4kRecs193.9kFans
- 98 Reborn: The Multinational Tycoon 重生之跨国巨头 My new book, Reborn in Hong Kong: Starting with a Top-Tier Conglomerate, is set in Hong Kong in the late 1980s. Check it out! Fang Zhe, a producer at a small game company in Beijing, returned to 2008 after a car accident. It was a year no Chinese person could forget: devastating snowstorms in the south, the Wenchuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, and the financial crisis. That year, words like iPhone, Android, Wi-Fi, smartphones, and cloud computing gradually entered the public consciousness. 0Votes70.2kRecs103.3kFans
- 99 EN Peak of the Azure Lotus 青莲之巅 The Immortal Realm, the Qinglian Immortal Domain. On Qinglian Immortal Island stood a golden palace adorned with intricate carvings and painted beams. Its plaque bore the three characters “Qinglian Hall.” Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan stood before rows of spirit tablets. They lit sandalwood incense, placed it in the burner, then went outside. One hundred thousand members of the Wang family stood in neat formation, their expressions solemn. Wang Changsheng began, “Today, I’ll tell you about 12Votes823.2kRecs702.1kFans
- 100 A Guide to Time-Traveling in the Northern Song 北宋穿越指南 If you transmigrate back to the Song Dynasty, should you compose poetry and enjoy romance? Or raise an army and vie for supremacy? Either way, first things first: fill your stomach. 55Votes1.4MRecs2.6MFans
