Novels like Paper Figures Call the Roll: A Record of a Netherworld Worker's Trials
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Paper Figures Call the Roll: A Record of a Netherworld Worker's Trials, best match first.
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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
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Everyone's Fighting Over Liu Bang, While I Take the Imperial Exam in the Qin Dynasty 全服抢刘邦，我在秦朝科考
Everyone on the server is scrambling for Liu Bang, while he is taking the civil service examination in the Qin dynasty. In the future, the government will send surplus population into sleep pods by the thousands. Inside each pod is a game that preserves history as a living experience. Once you die, you can never return. Forty million players are crammed into the Qin dynasty in the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor’s reign. They scramble for Liu Bang, block Xiang Yu, and head to Huaiyin to
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The Daoist of the Great Ming 大明道爷
Tao Liangbi, a graduate student in chemistry, wakes up to find himself the grandson of Tao Zhongwen, a Daoist practitioner who was Jiajing Emperor's most favored courtier and held all three Grand Tutor titles. With Prince Yu, the future emperor who despises Daoist practitioners, waiting to ascend the throne, Tao Liangbi decides to give up the civil service examinations and ignite the spark of a chemical revolution in the Great Ming under the guise of cultivating the Dao. But memories of histor
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Violet Palace Immortal Maiden, Stop Trying to Win Me Over 紫府仙子别攻略我了
Ji Mo worked through the night developing a cultivation management game called The Immortal Tortoise Clan, died suddenly from overwork, and transmigrated into the cultivation world he had designed, bringing along the [Developer Console]. To return to the developer realm, he altered the game's settings and created the [Ultimate Male Disciple Development Plan], setting his sights on Perfected One Yue Yin, who devoted herself to pursuing the Dao at Jade Pool Sect. Chi Yueyin discovers that the
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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
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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
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The Hong Kong Game of Go 香港棋局
A camphorwood chest, a fragment of brass, and a secondhand shop tucked deep in the old quarter. Apprentice Chen Jiaqiang only wanted to learn his trade in peace, but among the old objects he found a brass plaque engraved with strange markings. Missing pages in an old ledger, strangers who sometimes appeared beneath the arcades, his master's uncharacteristic silence: these seemingly unrelated fragments slowly wove themselves into a web. His master said, "Don't rush when looking at things." But th
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Warhammer Returns: Saving the World from a Streamer’s Home 战锤归来，从女主播家开始救世
Friend, are you still worrying because you can't find a job? Are you still being rejected for lacking the right degree, work experience, or connections? Come join the Earth Chapter of the Extreme Warriors! Here, heroes are welcome from anywhere, and no one cares how old a rogue is. As long as you're willing to take up arms and protect the innocent, you can become one of us. Join us and you'll receive: Power armor and professional weapons training. Opportunities to travel to the myriad worlds. Th
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Has He Ascended Yet? 今天他飞升了吗
“Have you ever wanted to take a trip with your family, only to be harassed by demon beasts?” “Have you always treated others kindly, yet found yourself plagued by nightmare creatures?” “Are you worried that terrifying demons might be lurking everywhere in your peaceful life?” “My name is Yue Wen, and I run the Yue Family Cultivation Services Agency. If you’re facing any of these problems, feel free to contact me anytime.” “Our agency is committed to offering great value and eliminating evil down
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War Smoke and Beauty 烽烟揽姝
The peerless beauty of Jiangnan, Shen Qingdai. Caught amid the flames of war and chaos, she is trapped in the power struggles of a military camp. With no way out, she fights to survive, using her wit to save herself. In a chaotic age, gentlemen are powerless to act, while a ruthless warlord can quell the turmoil. Wolves must be brought to heel by someone fiercer still. When they first meet, the iron-blooded general feels no love at first sight. He sees her only as a prize to seize in their conte
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Fahai Wants to Return to Secular Life 法海想还俗
Fahai, you don’t understand love. Leifeng Pagoda’s coming down! Xu Xian glanced timidly at the beautiful, rich young woman before him, and said he didn’t want to work hard anymore... They say two adorable yet feisty little snake demons have recently arrived in Hangzhou. Well, it’s time for this little monk to return to secular life!
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The Urban Horror Game Designer 怪谈游戏设计师
“Doctor, the game I made seems to have become reality.” “Isn't that a good thing? People are under so much pressure at work these days, yet you can escape all that, play at life, and live the life you've always dreamed of.” “But I'm a horror-game designer. I've devised 126 murder cases and created dozens of killers with different personalities. To find material, I've also watched 95 thriller films, read more than 400 horror comics, and collected over 2,000 urban legends. Now they all seem to hav
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When Pride Still Mattered 当骄傲仍然重要时
Some people exist proudly, and some struggle proudly. Some compete proudly, and some fail proudly. But few can walk away with pride. By the time you finish reading this, congratulations: you’ve already seen the lives of many players. This passage took shape in Stephen Curry’s words after his 2021 defeat: “Nobody wants to face us next season.” It was Tim Duncan, certain before the 2014 Finals began that they wouldn’t mess it up. It was Kobe Bryant promising at Old Man Buss’s memorial to get the L
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Rebooting Mythology 重启神话
Dawn. The first light of day was long overdue, while the last glow of the setting sun had already faded into darkness. In a city shrouded in mist, a church hid in the shadows, veins clung to cracks in the walls, something gnawed in the sewers, and dark figures murmured in hushed whispers... The lamplighter strolled onward.
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Twilight Divide 黄昏分界
Dusk divides the world in two, yin and yang. When the flesh of evil gods forced its way through cracks in the earth, flesh as vast as mountains appeared everywhere. Some were afraid. Some worshipped it. Some burned incense and made offerings. Others took a taste and thought, Huh, not bad. And so the flesh became crops, greedily harvested and fought over by people who consulted spirits and worshipped their ancestors. Hu Ma was reborn out of fear. He ate taixui, tended his furnace, and endured cou
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Reborn in Journey to the East 重生东游记
Lu Dongbin, you beast! Let go of that Peony Fairy and let me have a turn! That little demon, the pangolin, is flirting with He Xiangu again. This is a bit too much for the eyes... The Lord of Heaven’s Authority has come to face his tribulation. Will the immortals of the Heavenly Court and the Jie Sect turn against him? In this life, I’m going to be a young man who makes every villain tremble.
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Splendor Across the Tang Dynasty 满唐华彩
The Tang Dynasty flourishes in all its splendor, but a cataclysmic upheaval is imminent. In the fifth year of Tianbao, he opens his eyes to the majestic prosperity of “radiant Tang, favored by Heaven, with all nations beneath its sway.” Famous generals abound, its borders stretch far and wide; capable ministers are plentiful, its granaries overflowing; poetry shines brilliantly, its culture dazzles; beauties take your breath away, and song and dance fill the land. He also sees a court utterly in
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Celestial Being's Codex 天人图谱
If human life could grow ever stronger without limit, then one day we would reach the heavens!
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Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角
New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance,
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The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑
As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b
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The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人
People know that ghosts are terrifying, but ghosts know how cruel the human heart can be. This is a traditional supernatural novel.
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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.
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My Simulated Path to Immortality 我的模拟长生路
How difficult is the path to immortality! And all the more so in this cultivation world, utterly transformed by a plague! Mortals carry disease. If immortals come into contact with them, their cultivation may decline in mild cases, or they may return to the heavens in severe ones. Thus mortals and immortals are forever divided. Immortals cannot cultivate together, and the entire cultivation world has become one vast dark forest. Li Fan transmigrated into this world with soaring ambitions, ye
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The Mirror Legacy 玄鉴仙族
Lu Jiangxian stayed up all night and died suddenly, but his lingering soul attached itself to a blue-gray bronze mirror covered in cracks. The mirror drifted into a vast, boundless world of immortal cultivation. In the perilous and unpredictable Dali Mountains, beside the Mei Chi River, a small village sat in the shadow of a minor clan. When the clan came across the mirror, it began passing down the path of immortality and teaching its arts, ushering in a magnificent new era. (A family’s cultiva
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I Really Don’t Want to be Reborn 我真没想重生啊
Who could have imagined that Chen Hansheng, a successful professional and eligible bachelor, would be reborn and wake up as a high school senior? At a crossroads in his life, Chen Hansheng is torn between the treasure of a girl, Shen Youchu, and his first love, Xiao Rongyu. Who should he choose? The pinnacle of urban rebirth fiction, and an essential romance guide for young people!
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