Novels like Jie Tianyi
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Jie Tianyi, best match first.
- 1 1953: From Studying Abroad for a PhD to Chief Engineer 1953：从留学读博到总工程师 When Jiang Cheng opens his eyes, he finds himself on a train to Moscow, Soviet Union, to pursue a candidate degree. He gets a sign-in function from the start. Thinking it will only give him some supplies, he plans to take it easy for a few years and then return home to lie flat. Signing in at the study-abroad office in the Soviet Union grants him conversational Russian. Studying in the classroom gives him detailed explanations of his specialist courses. The country has spent a great deal of fore 242Votes9.3kRecs48.4kFans
- 2 The Rebirth of a Ministry of Rites Official: Old Mo's Reflections 礼部郎中重生之墨叟照心 In the Jingtai era of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Yan, a junior official in the Ministry of Rites, is caught in a web of imperial examination fraud. Before he can escape the schemes and infighting of the official world, something far more terrifying lurks in the shadows. Demons feed on people's resentment and grief to harvest soul energy, turning the living into puppets. Unseen spies are everywhere, inside and outside the imperial court. A colleague is brutally murdered. Blood spills at the gates of 0Votes87Recs0Fans
- 3 Demon Dragon Hatchling: Addicted to Torturing Others 魔丸巨龙幼崽：拷打重度依赖 You transmigrate to another world and discover you’ve become a sacrifice about to be killed? You survive by fighting back, only to realize you must face the tragic fate of your friends and family? As for what Balen chooses to do... “Those despicable foreign races are just too vile. Anyway, tighten your belts. I’m about to torture you.” “What! You want to know why I burned down the dwarves’ homes and the elves’ temples?” “Heh heh heh...” “Because I’ve got cheats, and I don’t have to play fair!” . 0Votes496Recs3Fans
- 4 High Martial: I Prove Eternal Life Through My Lesions 高武：我以病灶证长生 - Others risk their lives to survive tribulations. I heal the sick. - Others fear calamities. I treat them. - Heaven and earth are the patients, and I am their doctor. The first year of the Revival: spiritual energy surges, and afflictions erupt. The whole world enters an age of spiritual blight. As the tide rises, all things flourish, and so do the afflictions. This is a story about healing. 0Votes47Recs0Fans
- 5 A Long Life Played Against Fate 弈命长生 Yun Yi was born with a flawed immortal seed, a faint glimmer of wind affinity, dimming like a candle about to go out. He believes his path to immortality has ended. Born frail and weak, he has kept medicine close and suffered from illness for nearly sixteen years. The rest of his life seems no better than an endgame with no winning moves. He lives alone in the deep mountains, watching over a dilapidated academy and keeping company with the game of Go day and night. But he has no idea that a spar 0Votes375Recs0Fans
- 6 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 75Votes247Recs4Fans
- 7 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 74Votes1.1kRecs8Fans
- 8 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! 0Votes13.7kRecs35.8kFans
- 9 EN National Arts: Gain a Year of Power Every Day! 国术：一天涨一年功力！ “I, Huo Yuanhong, will become the greatest man in Tianjin!” In the year 369 of the Celestial Dynasty, the great families were corrupt, the class system was rigid, and the common folk had no hope of ever rising above their station. Meanwhile, the foreigners’ ironclad ships and cannons were poised to strike. That year, Huo Yuanhong looked up at the lofty aristocratic clans, feeling as insignificant as an ant. To live like a real man, he kindled the fire in his heart and transformed martial arts in 9Votes128.5kRecs496.8kFans
- 10 The Nightless Marquis of Lin'an 临安不夜侯 “Yang Yuan requests that Chancellor Qin die!” “What evidence do you have to accuse me of a crime?” “None whatsoever!” Yang Yuan of Youqiu Media accidentally wanders into Lin’an during the Southern Song dynasty. He intends to return to his old line of work and become the first crisis PR expert in ancient times. Instead, he ends up expanding the empire, uniting Xia and Jin, and making waves across the realm. I shall be the Son of Heaven! 33Votes1.1MRecs836.6kFans
- 11 EN The Heretical Path to Immortality 方仙外道 The young Daoist was sixteen, in the springtime of his life, when desire stirred his troubles. Each day he saw the suffering of aging, sickness, and death, and the pangs of love, hate, anger, obsession, and resentment. I do not want my beauty to wither and fade. I do not want age spots to mark my skin. I do not want my limbs to shrivel, my organs to rot, and my bones to stink. The young Daoist was sixteen, and all he wished for was eternal life. A tale of an ordinary mortal refini 471Votes142.9kRecs473kFans
- 12 EN My Immortal Dad 仙父 “I transmigrated, and so did my dad.” Li Ping'an had already arranged everything. He'd secured a solid livelihood for his old man back in the mortal world and pulled strings to get himself into an immortal sect. Then he planned to dedicate himself to the path of immortality and stake everything on his chance to become an immortal. But on the day he went for an aptitude test in the mortal world, everything changed... [A lighthearted xianxia comedy with an everyday-life feel. The author has comple 5Votes438.2kRecs1.6MFans
- 13 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. 0Votes21.8kRecs45.1kFans
- 14 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 0Votes877Recs0Fans
- 15 This Daoist Is Ascending 道爷要飞升 "Disciple Li Yuan humbly begs the Heavens to bestow upon me a register of divine investiture!" … … Completed works include The First Cause of All Realms, Projections Across the Heavens, and The Chronicle of the Great Dao. 160Votes962.6kRecs3.1MFans
- 16 EN No Retreat South 衣冠不南渡 The ancient empire has fallen, and jackals watch hungrily from the sidelines. Cao Mao never wanted to become an emperor. It is just that the Wei and Jin dynasties know no elegance, and white bones lie everywhere. Thinking of the great catastrophe that will befall Huaxia fifty years from now, Cao Mao can only mount the war chariot once more and launch a final charge. The Han and its traitors cannot coexist! The cultured people must not flee south! Sima clan, aristocratic families, Five Barbarian 6Votes403.4kRecs3.4MFans
- 17 EN 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. 6.3kVotes7MRecs21.2MFans
- 18 EN Shepherd's Secret Covenant 牧者密续 During a ritual to summon a demon, Aiwass finally recovered his memories of his previous life. This was supposed to be an online game published and operated by his own company for six years. His adoptive father was now the leader of the villainous organization in the latest version. Six years from now, Aiwass would be exposed and, after hesitating on the side of the protagonists, switch sides. In the end, he would decide to take a fatal blow for a player character and be killed by his thoroughly 139Votes489.5kRecs1.2MFans
- 19 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, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 20 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
- 21 First Player 第一玩家 [If all of humanity places its hopes in one person, will civilization have an easier road ahead?] “When you read these words, a game of planetary survival, with everything at stake, will already have begun. Only by winning to the very end can you win back your home civilization.” “I am Su Ming’an. I possess the ability to rewind after death, and I alone know it.” “I guard a secret even the planetary invaders don’t know: whenever civilization falls into despair, I’m the only one who can retur 180Votes1.2MRecs2.3MFans
- 22 EN Becoming a God, Starting as a Water Monkey 从水猴子开始成神 [A completed, high-quality novel with an average of over 7,000 paid subscribers. Quality guaranteed, so read with confidence.] Choosing the right path matters more than hard work! Martial masters fight tooth and nail over terrestrial treasure trees, while deepwater divine herbs are ignored. After transmigrating as a fisherman, Liang Qu gains the Cauldron of the Waters. He refines the [Water Monkey] talent, commands aquatic beasts, reaps rewards at every turn, and rises to the top! [Water Monkey] 2kVotes2MRecs3.1MFans
- 23 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 24 EN Circle of Inevitability 宿命之环 The second installment of the Mysterious World series. In the year 1368, at the end of July, crimson will descend from the sky. 3.2kVotes13.7MRecs10.3MFans
