I Like Dark, Cold-Blooded, Highly Intelligent Protagonists 喜欢看黑暗冷血高智商的小说
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- 101 From the Desolate Realm, I Begin My Rise to Godhood 从天荒界开始成神做祖 A single general's success is built on the bones of countless fallen soldiers. The road to an immortal throne must be paved with the flesh and blood of the masses. Yang Yue transmigrates to the Tianhuang Realm and rises from a mere gang disciple, sweeping across the world to attain immortality. (An overpowered, easy-to-read power fantasy with decisive, ruthless action.) 358Reads—Score—14d adds
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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The Number One Godslayer of Ten Thousand Ages 万古第一杀神
Earth’s strongest assassin transmigrates into another world. Rising from humble beginnings, he pursues the throne of the ultimate God of Slaughter. He battles ten thousand sects, ventures into sword burial grounds, enters martial halls, treads through sinister tombs, seeks ancient immortals, and fights ten thousand gods... Along the way, Su Xuan claims the top spot on the All-Heavens Villains Ranking. “As long as I live, the righteous path of this world will bow beneath me, and every villain und
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- 104 EN The Greatest Evil God of All Time 万古第一邪神 A thousand years ago, the Chosen One of Heaven's Mandate took his sacred bones, stole his identity, and replaced him. A thousand years later, he had become a titan of the demonic path, only to die in a single day and return to his youth. “In this life, I seek neither fame nor glory. I only want to live freely, settle my grudges, and cut down everyone who has wronged me.” The Taiyin Emperor's Son, Young Master of the Saint-Demon Sect, founder of the Underworld, butcher of purgatory, inheritor of 399Reads8.5Score17814d adds
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Maxed-Out Talent: I Make My Mark in the Martial World! 天赋拉满，我在武道世界显圣！
[Invincible from the start + ceiling-level combat power + emperor of a dynasty + powerful lead] Lu Chen transmigrates and is reborn. In this life, he's the fifth prince of the Great Yu Dynasty, blessed with terrifying comprehension and an exceptional constitution. While others are still fretting over how hard it is to reach the ninth level of the Azure Heaven Formula, he's already deduced further improvements to the technique, reaching the unprecedented eleventh level. While others are still str
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- 106 Cast Out of the Party, I Was Recruited by the Demon Clan? 被逐出队伍的我，被魔族招揽了？ [Western Fantasy, Kicked-Out-of-the-Party Story] [Leader-Type Male Lead + Crazed Witch Crew] [Regret and Redemption] [Comedic Daily Life + Light-Novel-Style Main Plot] (The protagonist gradually transforms from an ordinary person into a king, while every witch under his command is a demon.) After accidentally transmigrating to another world, Eli, who had no combat-oriented class, became the guild's strategist. This world came from the game Eli loved most. That meant Eli, after transmigrating her 213Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 107 Villainess, Stop Asking for Advice: I’m a Mastermind 反派千金别求计了，我是毒士 My name is Li Wei. I’m a strategist, or at least I think I am. After transmigrating, I thought that, having studied military classics inside and out, I would return to some point in history and use my knowledge to carve out a realm of my own. Instead, I ended up in the world of an otome-style galgame I’d once played. This world has nations, dragons, holy swords, and magic. The problem is, I don’t need any of that. I just want to survive in this chaotic world. Unfortunately, I arrived with a dead 107Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 108 Online Game: Confessing to a Noble Lady from the Start 网游：开局表白贵族千金 [Fake Villain + Lighthearted + Invincible + Online Game = Maximum Thrills!] After playing a game all night, he suddenly died and transmigrated into the game as a notorious villain. He confesses to the noble duke’s daughter right from the start, only for the duke to decide he wants him dead? He had thought he’d only made one enemy, but when Victor came to his senses, he realized something. Everyone around him wanted him dead. The aloof Valkyrie boss was dead set on taking his head, while the all- 66.6kReads9.3Score6.1k14d adds
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You Said She’d Become an Empress, So Why Did You Turn Her into a Demoness? 说好女帝，你把她黑化成女魔头？
[One Female Lead + Raising a Wife + Two Souls in One Body + Corrupted Heroine + Bandit Hero + Power Fantasy + Sweet Romance] Su Ye transmigrates into the body of Luo Qinghuan, the heroine of a female-oriented novel he read, and binds himself to the Corruption Investment System. Under his influence, every time Luo Qinghuan turns evil, he receives a reward. He can choose whether or not to invest that reward, but investing in the corrupted heroine earns him even greater rewards! So Su Ye corrupts h
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- 110 EN The Villain Should Be Invincible 反派就应该无敌 The animated adaptation is now streaming: The Lord Who Suppresses the Nine Heavens: The Protagonist Should Be Invincible Reborn as the leader of a demonic cult, he obtains the Villain Invincibility System and from then on makes the cult invincible. I am Zhou Qiong, leader of the demonic cult. No one is allowed to contradict what I say. Even while protecting the cult with one hand, I remain invincible in the world. 33kReads9.3Score2.6k14d adds
- 111 Ultraman: Dark Tiga Goes on a Rampage 奥特曼：黑暗迪迦杀疯了 I never expected this book’s reputation to take such a nosedive three years after it ended, but I still have to say: those brats on that site are making a ridiculous fuss. They don’t read the book, but they always have to follow the latest trend. The saddest ones are those who once spent dozens, even over a hundred hours reading it, only to come back and give it one star. What, you thought it was good back then, but now you think it’s no good? You haven’t grown up. You’ve lost the ability to thi 31kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 112 Above the Immortals 列仙之上 The Undying Disease is a curse that makes a person's lifespan burn away twenty times faster after infection. One year alive means twenty years of aging. But until their lifespan runs out, their body cannot die and their soul cannot perish! No matter how grave the injury, they recover completely! After Li Jiu contracted the Undying Disease, he had no choice but to cultivate the quick-path demonic arts that everyone else considered tantamount to suicide if he wanted to survive! Gold-Eating Magneti 6.2kReads8.6Score42814d adds
- 113 Xuanhuan: I Obtain the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art from the Start 玄幻:开局获得吞天魔功 In a fantasy world, the strong rule! The mighty can seize the sun, moon, and stars with their bare hands, and destroy the heavens and earth. Just after transmigrating to a chaotic fantasy world teeming with demons, Chu Ling was buried alive. Fortunately, he awakened the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art. Everything belonging to his enemies would become nourishment for Chu Ling’s growth! 558Reads—Score4414d adds
- 114 After I Switched to the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art, My Senior Sisters Begged Me for Forgiveness 转修吞天魔功后，师姐们哭着求原谅 [No System, slow burn, a little angst early on and immensely satisfying later, decisive and ruthless, intelligent characters, scheming, comedy, an underdog’s rise, a steady growth arc, takes off in the middle and later stages. If you don’t like it, don’t read!] Xu Kui was reborn, back at the Tai Xuan Dao Sect. Back in the place he both loved and hated. In his previous life, he valued family ties. He treated his master, senior brothers, and senior sisters with respect, never refused their request 88Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Long River, Nameless 长河，无名
In 1928, in Jinan, he lost his entire family. In 1931, at the 23rd Special Mental Research Institute in Kazan, his emotions were stripped away. In 1934, in Nanjing, he buried his past. From then on, he walked the razor's edge, turning the gears of history from the shadows. Except for the highest-ranking figures in a handful of intelligence agencies, no one knew his real name or what he had done. On May 17, 1961, he died on the execution grounds in Seoul, South Korea. His gravestone bore neither
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Your Highness, Lord Yama, Please Spare This Lowly One! 阎王大人，求您饶了小的吧
[Both Pure] [Male Lead Stronger at First, Both Strong Later] [Dark Underworld Boss vs. Down-on-Her-Luck Assassin from an Ancient Clan] Nian Wan risked her life to escape a family that sacrificed women. She thought five years of torment would be followed by the freedom of being reborn, but instead she blundered into the world of a living demon. She pleaded cautiously, “Master Huo, please spare me. I had no choice...” The man seemed to find it a joke. “Darling, you were the one who forced yoursel
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The Immortal Path? The Path of Death! 仙道？死道！
[Horror Cultivation] + [Survival at All Costs] You are what you eat, so eating bitterness won't make you a better person. Only eating people will. An immortal once said, “If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.” Humans are the spirit of all things, born with immortal bodies and prized as heavenly medicine. In the cultivation world, the only way to cultivate is to absorb the power and fortune of others! That's why ordinary people are kept as living cauldrons. If you don't consume others,
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Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生，我靠死了吗系统杀疯了
[Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h
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- 119 Silent Trojan Horse 木马无声 Laughter froze, and the carousel spun on On a sunny day at Dream Island amusement park, Chen Gang held up his phone to record his son Yangyang's innocent smile on the merry-go-round. Just one turn later, with the music still playing and the carousel still spinning, the parents watched helplessly from beyond the railing as their son's seat stood empty! He had vanished into thin air without a trace. This was no accident. It was meticulously planned The police investigation disappeared into a fog o 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 I Became Awesome Through Technology 我靠科技开始牛掰 [No System] [Villain in the Later Chapters] [Immortal-Sucking Technique] [Soul Devouring] [Fast Leveling] A scientist transmigrates to the cultivation world and gradually transforms from a good person into a demonic cultivator. 293Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 I Cultivate Through Bloodsucking 我靠吸血修仙 The new novel, I Get Awesome Through Technology, is currently being serialized and has already reached one million words. The ghost story collection, Tales of Demons and Ghosts at Night, is complete. If you like ghost stories, go check it out. 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Tales of Demons and Ghosts at Night 妖鬼夜话 My new book, I Get Awesome with Technology, is now being serialized. My short ghost stories The Water Ghost, The Seventh Night, The Departure That Year, and The Soul-Calling Lantern are available on Tomato Short Stories. 423Reads6.6Score—14d adds
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Hey, You! Do You Really Have to Be This Low-Key?! 你小子！用不用这么低调！！
The immortal, undying ancient dragon left behind only a rotting corpse. The phoenix, unafraid of death, was reduced to a single broken root feather. The auspicious qilin, surrounded by good fortune, could not foresee its own death. The Black Tortoise, master of countless laws, had its shell forcibly stripped away. The cemetery of the gods still stands, watching the ruins endure for millennia, while grass and trees flourish and fade through the seasons. Who dares claim to be immortal… The years t
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The Horse-Riding Hidden Scheme 走马藏局
Geomancy and the Yin-Yang arts rule the world, while the Jianghu is full of schemes! At twelve, Shen Qianfan became an orphan and was cast adrift in the Jianghu. He grew up teaching himself from books scavenged from trash heaps, cleared his father's name, and pressed on through one Jianghu con after another, setting schemes and breaking them, navigating schemes within schemes. He cut a path through every obstacle, built a business empire, and leveraged his influence to establish a regional milit
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I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者
The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. …
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The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌
(This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles
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All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生
Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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The Feathered People: Strange Tales of Ailao Mountain 羽人：哀牢诡事
Otherworldly powers × two male leads × ensemble cast × mystery and adventure. Strange incidents plague the Ailao Mountains. Wings appear on my back, an ancient secret erupts from Fuxian Lake, and a female streamer dies a bizarre death. The Wu Clan's vengeful spirits refuse to rest, the Feather Clan hunts them down to the last, and a divine tree connecting to the underworld emerges. From the very beginning, I had stepped into a dead end.
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- 130 The Fight for God's Body 争夺神的躯体 (Tags: An entire cast of villains, no idiotic plotlines, tightly woven logic, distinctive characters, and a male lead who uses strategy to dominate his corner of the world.) After Lu Si gains a divine arm, factions possessing divine bodies begin to emerge one after another. They scheme and clash in a struggle to claim the body of a god, all for the power of immortality it holds. 4Reads5.5Score—14d adds
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I Don't Think I'll Regret It 应该不会后悔
A vast cultivation world, ruthless and decisive, with no saintly do-gooders: a longtime reader's dream. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and a plot that explodes with twists. No harem, no endless rambling, no spending several chapters on a single fight or dragging out the Qi Refining stage for chapter after chapter before reaching Foundation Establishment. No taunting. You'll love it.
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Mad Dog Sheng 疯狗晟
[Urban] [Underworld] [Dark] [Ensemble Cast] [No System] He is “Mad Dog Sheng,” the man who terrifies the underworld, but all he wants is to be an ordinary dad. From a stray dog freezing to death on the street to the ruler who built an underground order with his own hands, Gou Sheng’s life is steeped in blood and legend. With a ruthless streak that made him fearless of death and the instincts of a beast, he swallowed up his rivals and laid down the rules, making all of Jiangcheng tremble in his
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- 133 The Bloodwing Cult Master of the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界之血翼教主 The protagonist, Zhou Yuan, binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Cult Leader System. He had planned to transmigrate into a famous wish-fulfillment novel and rise to the top, but instead he accidentally lands in Zhongzhou and inherits the legacy of the Immortal Venerable's first life: the Bloodwing Demon Cult. Joining forces with Wuji, he breaks through the barriers between worlds and explores the Myriad Worlds! (Three new arcs have since been added: the Cangwu Cultivation Realm, the One Piece worl 3.7kReads—Score14114d adds
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Dark Academia Life 黑暗系的校园生活
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The Thirteen Heavens 十三重天
(An ensemble cast) We crawled out of hell just to stay alive. Anyone who won’t let us live will die! If we’re going to take you out, it means you deserve it. If you don’t, we’ll make up a reason. And if we still can’t take you out after that, we’ll just do it in secret! We don’t care about morality or humanity. We’ll do whatever it takes! Only after conspiracy and madness tore through every boundary did we realize that our people were enslaved not only by our greedy, despicable kin, but also
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Demigod 1: Tales of New Shanghai 次神1：新沪怪谈
Praise the Fool, Azathoth | The author promises original ideas and an innovative plot: What you owe isn't money, but “psychic loans” and “existence taxes.” Overdue and unpaid? You automatically become a sacrifice or have your “existence” erased. Debt collector → half-human, half-god “demigod candidate.” New Shanghai → a cyberpunk city infiltrated by the Old Ones.
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- 137 The Banquet: From That Day On, We Became Subjects of Observation 晚宴：自此，我们沦为观测对象 The Banquet: From This Day On, We Became Subjects of Observation 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 The Garden of Sinners: Beyond the Root, Breathing Comes First 空之境界：根源之外，呼吸先行 Beyond the Origin of the Boundary of Emptiness: Breathe First 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Dragon Raja: Snowbreak Iris, Eternal Prisoner 龙族：断雪鸢尾·永生囚徒 Dragon Raja: Broken Snow Iris · Prisoner of Eternity 18Reads—Score114d adds
- 140 The Garden of Sinners: The Magician, Have You Ever Seen Nothingness? 空之境界：魔术师·你见过‘无’吗？ The Garden of Sinners: Magician · Have you ever seen “nothingness”? 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Lord of the Mysteries: Sequence 0, Awakening of the Cocoon, the Fool's First Cry 诡秘：序列0--蚕茧觉醒·愚者初鸣 Lord of the Mysteries: Sequence 0: Awakening from the Cocoon · The Fool’s First Cry 564Reads—Score514d adds
- 142 Workplace Release: I Became a KPI Survival Expert 职场放生：我成了KPI生存大师 Workplace Release: I Became a KPI Survival Expert 6Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Judgment Debtor 失信被执行人
A judgment debtor who has defaulted on their obligations.
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Dissolver: Assassination 解离者：刺杀
With the election approaching, the political landscape is shrouded in uncertainty. Acting on a secret assignment, Rick navigates official cover-ups, power struggles, and layers of deception. Following the faintest clues, he carefully pieces together the truth and hunts down the mysterious mastermind lurking behind it all. He quietly snuffs out a deadly crisis capable of changing the balance of power before it can take root.
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- 145 The Revenge Concerto 复仇协奏曲 No formulaic power fantasies! A worldbuilding-driven, realistic mystery where evidence is just the final nail in the procedural coffin. The first book in the Dissociator series. This is a story about a killer! A killer and a detective, willing to do the dirty work. Dissociation is a symptom of detachment following trauma. It is commonly associated with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) or dissociative disorders. The mind dissociates from pain; the body breaks free from the dust. The Ame 440Reads—Score10114d adds
- 146 Dissolver: Incoming Missile 解离者：导弹袭来 Rick, the hard-bitten killer from the series, returns once more. His close friend is brutally murdered, and the trail leads to a major missile trafficking case deliberately kept under wraps. To avenge his brother, Rick ventures alone into the heart of the conspiracy. As he presses forward through a perilous investigation, he finally slays his enemy with decisive force and successfully averts a missile crisis threatening the United States. 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Dissociator: Financial Bullets 解离者：金融子弹 Rick takes on a covert chain of missions spanning three continents: assassinate the key figures in charge of five ports. At the same time, he uses the hedge fund behind his client to make a killing, sending his personal wealth skyrocketing. Danger follows close behind. Britain’s MI5 and Interpol trace the clues back to Rick, reopening last year’s unsolved assassination cases and quietly closing their international dragnet around him. The unlikely alliance between assassination and capital stirs 250Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Dissociator: A Black Comedy of Errors 解离者：黑色幽默大事件 No formulaic power fantasies! Worldbuilding-driven, realist mystery, where evidence is just the final nail needed to make things official. The second installment in the Dissociator series. This is a story about a killer! A killer and a detective, willing to get their hands dirty. Dissociation is a symptom of detachment following trauma. It is commonly associated with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) or dissociative disorders. The mind breaks free from pain, the body escapes the dust of 103Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Invisible Starry Sky 看不见的星空
A new work is out! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 150 The More Off-Roading, the More Addictive It Gets 越野越上瘾 ◆ Powerful leads tame each other ◆ Obsessive Emperor × Proud, Defiant Princess ◆ Explosive revenge plot ◆ A tragic romance that lasts until death ◆ “You once shackled me. Now I’ll repay you by turning your empire into a cage.” “Ye Huang, the wilder you get, the more addictive it becomes. This time, I’ll play along with you all the way to the depths of hell.” She was Liang’s most bewitching and unruly Ninth Princess, Helian Ye Huang. Three hundred li beyond the capital stood the royal hunting gro 1Reads6.4Score—14d adds
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