Novels like The Ruins Explorer
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Ruins Explorer, best match first.
- 1 The War of Resistance Begins in Songhu 抗战从淞沪开始 [A third-prize entry in the essay contest commemorating the 80th anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance: Remember history, honor the fallen, and forge ahead] I’m about to die! Brothers, I’m on the 1937 Battle of Shanghai battlefield, and there’s a Japanese tankette right in front of me. All I’ve got is a kitchen knife. Brothers, how do I deal with this? Waiting for answers, and it’s urgent… 0Votes82.7kRecs103.1kFans
- 2 Code Name: Shen Gongbao 谍战代号：申公豹 In August 1939, Japanese invaders and their collaborators ran rampant. Wang Xuesen secretly infiltrated the Wang Puppet Regime's secret service headquarters, “No. 76,” playing both sides, stirring up trouble, and pretending to obey while secretly defying orders... Ding Mocun: Xuesen introduced me to one of his students today. Her name is... Zheng Pingru. Li Shiqun: The beef pies made by my brother Xuesen are delicious. Haru Kiyotsugu: Our investigation indicates that Dai Yudong has planted a mol 229Votes32kRecs117.3kFans
- 3 A Mercenary in the Russia-Ukraine War: Killing Enemies Earns Me Attributes 人在俄乌当佣兵，杀敌就能爆属性 Shen Fei, a middleman doing business in Russia, offended the wrong person and was framed and imprisoned, receiving a sentence of life imprisonment. He thought he was done for, but unexpectedly encountered the Wagner mercenary group recruiting penal troops. As long as he survives six months in Bakhmut, he can regain his freedom! But that was the longest-lasting and bloodiest battlefield of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Penal troops sent to a place like that could only charge forward wave after wave, u 290Votes28kRecs189.1kFans
- 4 How Can You Be a Traitor Without Money? 没钱当什么乱臣贼子 (With 20,000 premium subscribers and a top-tier historical novel subscription record) Pei Yuan inherited the post of a hundred-household commander in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. He had barely taken office when, while helping capture a band of rebels, he was forced to lose his virginity to a chivalrous woman of the jianghu. He thought he would spend the rest of his life haunted by this humiliating memory, but an important case that soon followed opened up an entirely new world to Commander Pei 983Votes136.6kRecs333.7kFans
- 5 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Has No Days Off 华娱：顶流没有假期 After ten years toiling as a financial-sector wage slave, Jiang Bai suddenly returns to 2016. Looking at the noisy, tumultuous world, Jiang Bai grins. Finance? Not even a dog would do that! You shouldn't step into the same river twice! In this life, Jiang Bai plans to dive headfirst into the entertainment industry and see how it tastes! He'll start by becoming a top-tier star in campus dramas! What? You say the entertainment industry is a mess? Could it possibly be messier than finance? Jiang Ba 1.4kVotes41.2kRecs265.4kFans
- 6 Ultimate Firepower 终极火力 The world isn't just the familiar place ordinary people know. There is also an underworld that most people will never encounter. Government agents deal with trouble in secret, while assassins hired by financial conglomerates settle problems behind closed doors. There are assassins, mercenaries, arms dealers, and agents. There is a dark web that connects this world, and financial conglomerates trying to control everything with money. Gao Yi barges into the underworld and carves out his own domain 8Votes735.5kRecs732.8kFans
- 7 I Am the Gunslinger! 我，枪神！ Gao Fei has failed at many things. His family's factory went bankrupt, leaving him with debts instead of an inheritance. He delivered takeout and drove for a rideshare service. Eventually, with no other choice, he went to Russia to collect a debt, only to be forced into the Russia-Ukraine war. Everyone has a stage that's right for them. Gao Fei found his on the battlefield. Becoming a mercenary was the beginning of his success. He fights his way through the Russia-Ukraine war, takes on drug cart 3.4kVotes566.6kRecs923kFans
- 8 The Final War of Doomsday 末日之最终战争 Aliens arrive with hostile intent. Faced with their invasion, humanity is as weak as ants. This is the apocalypse, the real apocalypse. But wherever there's an invasion, there's resistance. For some people, this isn't the apocalypse. It's a war. And that's exactly what it is. A real war! 0Votes879.7kRecs346.4kFans
- 9 EN On the Path to the Great Dao 大道之上 My grandpa is a strange man. Every day, he burns incense for himself and stands before his own memorial tablet, eating candles. Everyone in the village is afraid of Grandpa. I’m afraid of him too. Later, I realized they weren’t afraid of Grandpa. They were afraid of me. Grandpa is afraid of me too. My name is Chen Shi. Chen as in “honest,” and Shi as in “earnest.” Come read more of my work on Yuewen’s websites! 82Votes3.2MRecs3MFans
- 10 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
- 11 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
- 12 EN This Dungeon Grew Mushrooms 这个地下城长蘑菇了 “A wondrous soul stolen away, a hero’s power, and a classic tragic start as the catalyst!” “And with that, a savior is born... Holy crap, why did a mushroom fall in there!?” Lin Jun somehow transmigrated into a mushroom and found herself trapped from the start in the depths of a dungeon, surrounded by all kinds of monsters. With no hands, feet, or eyes, she survives only thanks to a cheat that lets her break down corpses and steal their skills. She even carved out a mushroom garden in the dunge 397Votes668.8kRecs1.7MFans
- 13 EN Hold Your Blade, Heroine! 女侠且慢 “Hold on, heroine. Do you know who I am?” “I do. You’re the empress’s favorite courtier, the rebel leader’s lover, and the young master of a prestigious martial arts clan. You’re playing all three sides. You’re exactly the kind of person I cut down!” The author has completed two novels with over 10,000 paid subscribers, “The Heir Is Fierce” and “The Immortal Maiden Is Fierce.” You can count on their quality and the author’s integrity. Interested readers are welcome to check out their earli 119Votes1.3MRecs2.8MFans
- 14 EN I Swear I’m Not a Demon Masquerading as a Human 不许没收我的人籍 “She was a demon to begin with. How could meeting a human like me have turned her bad? Those critics are always saying the most ridiculous things.” In 1798, Cardinal Lanci was asked by a reporter about his past with the exiled princess, the last scion of the demon race, and the recent signs of the demons’ resurgence. He replied: “I’ve done far too much to defend world peace. I’m quite certain that, under her leadership, the demon race has no chance of restoring its kingdom.” … In the winter of 301Votes505kRecs2.5MFans
- 15 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
- 16 EN Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality! 谁让他修仙的！ (The new book, Please Don’t Transcend Tribulation During the College Entrance Exam, is now out.) “I’ve said it again and again: the cultivation world was crooked to begin with. I didn’t corrupt it. They say history is written by the victors, so why are people still framing me when I won?” Sword Immortal Lu Yang said during an interview with reporters, clearly furious. The next day. “I’ve said it again and again: I’m the one who corrupted the cultivation world. History is written by the victors, 359Votes2.3MRecs7.4MFans
- 17 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
- 18 A Spy's War 间谍的战争 If an ordinary person wants to declare war on spies, the best way is to become a spy too. If a spy wants to take on a powerful espionage organization, they should join one just as powerful. If they can't join any powerful espionage organization, then they should build one themselves and fight until they are destroyed or win. This is a spy's war, a story about how a group of ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things. 1Votes2.2MRecs467.2kFans
- 19 EN The Tribulation Stage is When the System Arrives 大乘期才有逆袭系统 After Jiang Li transmigrated here, he discovered that he had no golden finger and could only cultivate the old-fashioned way. Five hundred years later, he became the strongest person in Jiuzhou. Then a System suddenly appeared, claiming it could help its Host rise from the Qi Refining stage to become the number one person in Jiuzhou. Jiang Li looked at the first task and fell into deep thought. “Please defeat your co 107Votes325.7kRecs3.1MFans
- 20 EN I Never Intended to Become an Immortal 我本无意成仙 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. I am a stranger in this land, with no intention of becoming an immortal. After twenty years of cultivating the Dao in the mountains, Song You's master sends him down the mountain to witness demons and monsters, the many faces of life, and the famous mountains and rivers, and to seek out the immortals of legend. He says that is what true cultivation is. Who would have thought that after traveling the length and breadth 192Votes1.2MRecs4.1MFans
- 21 EN Mysterious Daoist of Madness 道诡异仙 An uncanny Heavenly Dao, strange immortals and Buddhas: are they real or false? Lost in confusion, Li Huowang cannot tell. But these aren’t the only things he can’t distinguish. He can’t even make sense of himself. He’s sick, and very seriously so. 650Votes1.8MRecs13.2MFans
- 22 EN The Naming of the Night 夜的命名术 Amid neon lights of blue and purple, beneath a dense canopy of steel, lies the frontier of a flood of data: a world transformed by the technological revolution, and the boundary between reality and illusion. Steel and flesh, the past and the future. Here, the surface world and the hidden world coexist. Everything before your eyes seems as close as the wall of time itself. Darkness slowly closes in. But you have to understand, my friend: we cannot face the darkness with gentleness. We must use fi 180Votes8MRecs14.3MFans
- 23 EN Ashes of the Deep Sea 深海余烬 On that day, dense fog sealed everything away. On that day, he became the captain of a ghost ship. On that day, he crossed the dense fog and confronted a world that had been utterly overturned and shattered. The order of old had vanished without a trace, bizarre phenomena ruled the endless seas beyond civilized society, and isolated island city-states and fleets challenging the ocean had become the last lights remaining in the civilized world, while the shadows of ancient days still stirred rest 307Votes5.9MRecs16.4MFans
- 24 The Mercenary’s War 佣兵的战争 Gao Yang is a military enthusiast, a very ordinary one. He loves knives, guns, and adventure. After an accident sends him to Africa, he is unlucky enough to be caught in a plane crash. He survives by sheer luck, but from then on he can only earn a living at gunpoint, because he has become a mercenary. How far can a military enthusiast rise in the international mercenary world? Wait and see. 25Votes2.3MRecs3.1MFans
- 25 EN My Senior Brother is Too Steady 我师兄实在太稳健了 *The annual Youku season of the animated adaptation, My Senior Brother Is Too Steady, is about to conclude.* Reborn in ancient times, before the Investiture of the Gods War, Li Changshou became a minor Qi Refiner. He had no great fortune bestowed upon him, nor was he a chosen one destined to face a catastrophic tribulation. All he had was a cultivation dream: to live forever. To make a living in 120Votes11.5MRecs9.8MFans
- 26 EN The Sword of Dawn 黎明之剑 Gao Wen transmigrated, but something went a little wrong along the way. After floating above some otherworldly continent for more than a hundred thousand years, he decided he probably needed a body to count as a complete transmigrator. But after finally succeeding, he never expected he'd have to climb out of a coffin in that body, only to face two utterly terrified great-great-great-great...great-granddaughters. And a world on the verge of the end of an era. 587Votes13MRecs3.8MFans
