Novels like Stirring the Heartstrings
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Stirring the Heartstrings, 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 Stirring Up Trouble 将作妖 Beautiful, strong, and tragic is old news. Now it’s all about being beautiful, strong, and ruthless! *, *, *, *, *, * To find the real culprit behind her family’s murder, Jiang Xianbao transmigrated into the demon-ridden Great Jing dynasty. Who would have thought that here, people relied on diviners to solve cases and on mysticism to get through daily life... What a coincidence! There’s no grudge from a past life I can’t clear, and no tangle of karma I can’t unravel! As for those men, do you wan 452Votes98.5kRecs24.9kFans
- 3 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
- 4 The Moon Over Startling Mountains 惊山月 The latest gossip in the capital: The Sixth Young Lady of the Earl of Yongqing’s household, who went missing as a child, has been found. Many people wanted to see how this country girl would make a fool of herself in high society. To their surprise, Sixth Young Lady Qiu turned out to be a master of incense and became a favored guest among those who prized refinement. When a nation is doomed, monsters are sure to appear. Qiu Heng thought to herself: I’m better at slaying demons than making incens 17Votes372.6kRecs88.1kFans
- 5 A Hard-Core Worker in the Five Dynasties 五代硬核打工人 Chai Zhao felt that her brother had become different after taking a sword for her. It seemed... he was no longer himself. He would always say things that even Teacher Zheng had never heard before, yet they sounded especially like truths that embodied the principles of the world. Fortunately, no matter how difficult life became, he was willing to take her along and find a way to make a living. Chai Rong felt that at least half the hardships in his life came from his little sister, Chai Xiaomei. A 1.6kVotes171.2kRecs75.1kFans
- 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 EN My Beast Taming Starts from Zero 御兽从零分开始 When Qiao Sang opens her eyes, she discovers she's turned into a middle school student. Then she has to take a mock exam. A graduate of a 985 university, is she scared? She is... What on earth are these questions? What is the final evolution of the Stinky Loach called? Which planets have humans already colonized? Welcome to the world of beast taming. 1.8kVotes3.4MRecs969.7kFans
