Novels like Proud Plume
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Proud Plume, best match first.
- 1 Asking the Mountains and Rivers 问山河 In the final years of the Jing Dynasty, natural disasters strike again and again, wars rage on, corvee labor is harsh, and the people are destitute. Pei Qinghe leads hundreds of her clanspeople in their struggle to survive amid the chaos. All she wants is to stay alive, but before she knows it, she has set foot on the irreversible path to conquering the world. With no one to support my lofty ambitions, I will climb thr 2Votes89.6kRecs44.2kFans
- 2 A Little Prosperity Is Enough 小富则安 (Revenge + household intrigue) Lu Jia spent five years plotting her escape from her husband’s family. At last, she made it out of the manor. But who would have thought that the ruined temple where she was hiding would already be occupied by a man carrying a long sword and dressed like a peacock? What? The peacock had come to wipe out her husband’s entire family? Why couldn’t he have come sooner or later? Why show up just as she was making her escape? With swords flying all around, she had no cho 6Votes183.6kRecs57.8kFans
- 3 A Fine Season 好时节 Zhao Shiqing was born with an extraordinary gift: she could understand the language of beasts. When her family was murdered in her childhood, she was lucky enough to survive and was adopted by Prince Liang. From then on, she had a wealthy and powerful father, a delicate mother who couldn’t manage on her own, a scheming eldest brother, a second brother who was a mama’s boy, a virtuous and gracious older sister, and a beautiful master as cold as ice. Then one day, her father died, her family fell 0Votes59.2kRecs25.6kFans
- 4 Records of the Qin Dynasty 秦时记事 [Transmigrating with a suitcase and meeting the feverish King of Qin on his western inspection tour] [Irregular updates. Writing this for love. Political world-building is so hard to write!!!] Qin Shi transmigrated to an alternate version of the Qin dynasty, dragging her suitcase behind her. Here, the King of Qin had just united the six states, but he was now burning with a high fever on the road and on the brink of death. Qin Shi: What a coincidence! My suitcase is full of medicine! Want some i 3Votes192.6kRecs50.2kFans
- 5 The Villainous Concubine’s Daughter Is Not to Be Trifled With 反派庶女不好惹 Transmigrated as the illegitimate daughter of a minor official, Han Shengyu always thought she had landed in an inspirational story about striving against the odds. It wasn't until a letter summoned her family to the capital that she realized she had transmigrated into a book. Her role was to be the villain sacrificed to the heavens. That meant, among other things, giving up her peerless beauty, brilliant mind, dignity, and precious life for the earth-shattering love between the hero and heroine 8Votes26.8kRecs60.7kFans
- 6 When Clear Days Come 逢晴日 In the twelfth year of Tianhe, on a snowy night in the dead of winter, eleven-year-old Shaowei cut off her ties to her family with a single slash and went down the mountain alone. That night, Prince Liu Qi, who had inexplicably been beaten by her like some unlucky stray dog on the roadside, got to his feet and wiped the blood from his nose. Standing in the snow, he watched her blood-soaked figure disappear. … [Note: The heroine grows over the course of the story; she is not an empress or a domin 17Votes257.9kRecs124.8kFans
- 7 EN I Rewrite the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the Starry Skies 我在星际重著山海经 Xia Chujian: Men will only affect the speed at which I draw my gun! Xia Chujian: The abyss gazes into me, and I will slaughter my way through the abyss! *, *, *, *, *, * Xia Chujian, a native of the Beichen Star System, has always thought she was utterly ordinary and unremarkable. But Huo Yushen, the youngest marshal in the Beichen Empire, does not agree. Because he has never seen anyone stare directly at those indescribable beings in the depths of the starry sky without collapsing into madness. 3Votes1MRecs195.6kFans
- 8 The Lucky Little Girl of the Farming Family 农家小福女 The fourth brother of the Zhou family lost money gambling, their mother became seriously ill, and the people from the gambling house even wanted Manbao to repay the debt. The villagers all said that the Zhou family’s precious darling had reached the end of her good days, and even her old mother clutched Manbao’s little hand and sobbed. But Manbao had the System on her side. She led her brothers and sisters-in-law to clear wasteland, farm, grow medicinal herbs, open shops, and more... Their lives 50Votes2.9MRecs541.5kFans
