Fun Reads and Conversation Starters: Reset Edition No. 1 乐子谈资书单重置版一号

1. 1 赛 Uma Musume: Making Money Is Victory! 赛马娘，赚钱就是胜利！ Xiao Fei晓非Competitive Gaming1.1M WordsOngoing Lost? Won? Xiao Bai Zhui Xue says she made a profit! After transmigrating into an unknown, no-name Uma Musume and finding her family saddled with debt, Xiao Bai Zhui Xue still dreams of making a fortune, even if she's a nobody! She decides to take her talents to Japan! But her opponents are El Condor Pasa, Japan's generalissimo Special Week, and the end-of-the-century tyrant, T.M. Opera O: all impossibly powerful and impossible to beat. Then the System activates, opening a dream training ground 1.4kTickets12.7MClicks36.5kFavorites

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   Since the original author was taken down, this book had to be added instead. In late October 2026, the then-bestselling novel, *Uma Musume Girl, What Kind of Champion Are You?*, Was found to have used AI-generated content, which was discovered by readers. Not only that, the author also provocatively declared at the end of a chapter: "What kind of female protagonist novel has become a bestseller and reached second place? I will organize her ceremony." AI-generated content, coupled with the author's actions of stepping on the second-ranked author and sowing discord between the male and female leads, have angered netizens, drawing numerous readers to the comments section to hurl insults. The author of "Champion," a single tear, showed no shame and directly engaged in the online battle. There was supposed to be a big drama, but it seems that Hedgehog Cat finally learned something from the Phantom AI. It hid two books at lightning speed to stop the dispute and released this one after investigation. As for the one using AI, there is currently no further news.

2. 2 人 In Type-Moon, I Possess Astonishing Wisdom 人在型月，惊世智慧 Grudge Mage怨念法师Fantasy840k WordsCompleted Xia Ya transmigrated to Misaki City in the Nasuverse during the bubble era, only to discover that his situation from the start was rather peculiar. Aside from an astonishingly brilliant brain with superhuman learning and invention abilities as his initial golden finger, he had no powers on the supernatural side whatsoever. So, reluctantly giving up on following the original story's main plot, the man could only look up to the stars. For now, he would start by saving the world and building up eno 0Tickets5MClicks16.4kFavorites

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   On March 20, 2025, the author published a fanfiction titled "The Phantom Sorcerer of the Type-Moon World." This book used a large amount of AI-generated content, but the author manually refined it before publication. Relying on the recently popular "Scholar Cat" version of Gilgamesh and its sufficiently interesting ideas, the book achieved considerable success. However, after the book was published, the author stopped revising it manually and instead used AI to directly output the content. He also updated a large number of words for several consecutive days, which was beyond what a human could achieve, while still claiming that it was handwritten. This led to arguments in the comments section between readers who could identify the AI ​​and those who couldn't, and also triggered an internal meeting of the Hedgehog Cat team, which resulted in a new rule that daily updates could not exceed 30,000 (later changed to 20,000). However, many Hedgehog Cat users were dissatisfied with the official handling of the situation and protested in various ways. Some wealthy users chose to open treasure chests for time-tested old books, using the treasure chest ads to make their voices heard; some authors also used AI to generate a large amount of content, openly challenging the new regulations; some simply went offline to discuss the matter with the website founder. Finally, "Phantom Spirit" was hidden and ended after completing the full attendance bonus in April. The author also set a limit of 1 million fan points for all his previous books to limit his comments. As for the official announcement and handling of AI by Hedgehog Cat, there is still no news as I am writing this.

3. 3 成 The Uma Musume Who Became My Best Friend 成为了挚友的赛马娘 Drunken Cat醉猫Urban Youth1.3M WordsCompleted Ruri wondered why she had woken up that morning transformed from an overworked corporate drone into a white-haired, red-eyed Uma Musume. Then she remembered the last time she and her best friend had gone to a shrine to make a wish. Best friend: “I wished I could meet an Uma Musume with top-tier looks and talent, the childhood-friend type. Not melodramatic, not pretentious!” Ruri gritted her teeth. “I wished for your wish to come true...” Best friend: “So does that mean we've got a mutual crus 0Tickets32.4MClicks42.8kFavorites

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   Issue 307, 10,000-sellers list, best book of 2023—sounds like a good book, right? However, this is not the case. After the free part of the book seemed okay at first glance, the subsequent content became increasingly absurd and superficial, and the emotional aspects were nothing more than artificial sweeteners. This book contains too many absurdities to list here; for more details, please refer to the "Autopsy Report" on NGA. The two main characters in this book aim for the classic triple crown, but they simply give up on the first crown, the Satsuki Prize. When a reader raised this question in a discussion thread, the author actually replied that the book's tournament schedule has been chaotic for a long time, and dwelling on it is pointless; he never said the protagonists were going to give up on the triple crown. ... Does "not giving up" mean you want to run the Satsuki Prize again next year? Putting aside the question of whether the Triple Crown can be sold individually, why do you think the Classic Triple Crown is called the Classic Triple Crown? It's only for those in their "Classic Year"! It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Once you miss it, it's gone! And you say you won't give up, but does that mean the protagonist from the Year of the Horse is going to compete with the little horse girl from the classic year? Isn't your protagonist shamelessly bullying the weak? This book is unqualified as a reverse marriage novel, and as a fanfiction of Ma Niang, it is also unqualified in terms of both sports and emotions. Its current success can only be attributed to two factors: firstly, it was fortunate to become the first reverse marriage novel for contemporary young people, awakening the XP of readers who had never read reverse marriage novels before; secondly, it fulfilled everyone's expectation of having a girlfriend who understands you, is willing to play with you, and unconditionally loves and takes care of you. The author then used the classic fan circle tactics of the Hedgehog Cat author to manipulate the story, naturally turning it into a story of filial piety.

4. 4 想 I Wanted to Lose Money, but Now I'm Surrounded by Band Girls! 想亏钱的我，被乐队少女包围了！ Drunken Cat醉猫Urban Youth155k WordsOngoing [Multiple Female Leads] Gu Jiangzou has a secret: he is bound to a Money-Losing System, and the more money he loses, the more benefits he gets. To lose money, he opens a Chinese herbal mala tang shop in Tokyo. To lose money, he hires a girl with a rare disease who is waiting to die, and pays for her treatment. To lose money, he buys a live house, invests in the imperiled Toyokawa Group, and signs a down-and-out girl band. He thinks he's just squandering his money. What? I saved a genius young pi 488Tickets1.3MClicks8.3kFavorites

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   The initial synopsis of this book listed a bunch of tags, one of which was "traditionally handwritten." However, in the very first chapter, netizens spotted what appeared to be traces of AI use. Faced with readers' questions, the author managed the posts and comments section for a while before replying: "Sometimes it's easy to miss details when typing by hand." After that, the author moved all tags except for "Multiple Female Leads" to the end of the introduction and removed "traditional method" from "traditional manual typing," leaving only "manual typing." My assessment is that, since authors have unlimited power over their own books, they can be even more assertive—how can readers assume that what you typed by hand using traditional methods is chapter content, and not AI-generated prompts?

5. 5 我 I, Kenneth, Am Eighteen This Year 我，肯尼斯，今年十八岁 No Self Beyond彼方无我Fantasy512k WordsOngoing Reborn in London, England, in 1984, he becomes the young heir to a wealthy family. There are no messy internal power struggles, nor is the family facing a crisis that could bring it to ruin. He seems to have already seen the future. With superior intelligence and knowledge of what lies ahead, he will lead his family down the path to world domination. “Perfect.” Gazing at his handsome, blond-haired, blue-eyed reflection in the mirror, he can't help grinning. Just then, the butler opens the door a 0Tickets32.8MClicks25.8kFavorites

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   The hedgehog cat has been called a pigeon's nest for a long time. It's hard to say who started it, but this person can definitely be called a typical example. This author, nicknamed the Bounty Hunter, has repeatedly participated in Hedgehog Cat's writing contests, achieving top rankings on multiple occasions, even with the possibility of ghostwriting. After receiving the prize money, he would simply abandon the contest and leave. You can't say that the eunuch trend in Hedgehog Cat started with him, but his influence is definitely not small to have reached its current scale. It seems that the prize money for Hedgehog Cat's writing contest is now only distributed in installments after you've consistently updated for a period of time, which is a pretty good change.

6. 6 崩 Honkai Impact 3rd: The Sky's Meteor from the Start 崩坏三，开局播放天穹流星 Gray Star Melody灰星奏Urban Youth2.0M WordsOngoing While Kiana, Raiden Mei, Bronya, and the others are still enjoying a happy, peaceful life at St. Freya Academy, a sudden super quiz System changes everything. What will happen when the protagonists of the Honkai world learn about their futures in advance? Bronya: Why have I been taking nothing but Ls ever since I got the Herrscher of Reason Core? Raiden Mei: No way, no way! Are you telling me that even after I joined the World Serpent, all I did was cook? Fu Hua: I became a scam artist? Theresa: 0Tickets115MClicks37.9kFavorites

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   Besides pigeons, another issue that has been criticized about Hedgehog Cat is its tendency to follow trends. This person was used as a typical example because of their outstanding academic performance. This book is in the "movie-style" format. Simply put, it lets the characters watch videos of what will happen in the future of the original work, or official comedic parallel worlds, and that's it. Yes, the reason why Hedgehog Cat's typical movie-style format is criticized is because these kinds of books contain a lot of content that is simply converted from videos into text, with only a pitifully small amount of content created by the author himself. But this book, relying on being the first to adopt the "viewing-style" approach on Hedgehog Cat, having a large number of early updates, a sense of recognition, manipulating public opinion in the discussion forum with 230 pinned positive comments, and being favored by a large number of novice readers who had not read many books, was rated as the best of 2021. There have been copycat works before, but never have they achieved such great success. Undoubtedly, he has started a bad trend, putting down all authors who write seriously: "Look, all the foreshadowing and plot points you painstakingly crafted don't even have as high a number of data as the book I wrote by riding on the coattails of a trending topic!" Every highly-rated comment is a slap in the face to other authors and readers. On July 7, 2022, the book was discontinued; on August 19, 2022, in order to advertise and garner votes, the book was suddenly updated with one chapter, and then disappeared again. I'm currently using a different account to serialize my new book, "Starting with Honkai Impact 3, My Boss is Duck," on Hedgehog Cat. Because of the 26-year timeline, all of this guy's pinned positive reviews have disappeared. It feels really strange...

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