This Poor Daoist Is at the End of His Rope. Can Anyone Grant Me a Good Book? 贫道快不行了，谁能赐我一本书

1. 601 网 Online Game: Rebuilding My Life 网游之重塑人生 Wang the Fool王呆子Sports1.3M WordsOngoing Qin Feng used to be a hopeless romantic. He gave his girlfriend his whole heart and treated her like a queen. And what did he get in return? She casually tossed out, "You can't give me the life I want," then turned around and walked away. Qin Feng was completely crushed. He holed up in his rented apartment every day, questioning his whole existence and wondering what the point of living was. Eventually, with nothing else to do and no other options, he plunged into an online game to kill time. 492Reads9.5Score34314d adds

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   A book with a satirical and humorous style, check it out!

2. 602 水 Water Margin: Reborn in Zhu Biao, I Came Home to Find My Entire Family Slaughtered 水浒：魂穿祝彪，出门被屠灭满门 Fog Rising on a Snowy Day雪天起雾Historical292k WordsOngoing Zhang Yu was a new office worker who didn’t even dare talk back to his team leader. One cup of coffee during overtime sent him into the world of Water Margin. When he woke up, he was galloping on horseback through a rainstorm in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Behind him were Liangshan Marsh’s pursuers. He carried Zhu Biao’s wounds, and his mind was filled with the bloody images from the massacre of the Zhu family estate: people hoisted into the air on spears, hacked into three pieces by battle- 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Let those poor women go!

3. 603 地 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 Wine Priest祭酒Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi 37.4kReads9.3Score4.4k14d adds

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   Trust me, I've watched it four times.

4. 604 让 I Told You to Turn Over a New Leaf, Not Become a Sex Demon! 让你浪子回头，你怎么成魅魔了！ Magical Little Crow神奇小乌鸦Urban529k WordsCompleted [Villainous Incubus + Campus Life + Transmigrates into a Book + Lighthearted Comedy + Subversion of Tropes + Cunning Schemer + Multiple Heroines] Su Lang transmigrates into the novel about two young men switched at birth that he was reading before he died, becoming a spoiled fake young master with dyed yellow hair. He finds himself at the point in the story where he’s supposed to threaten the cool, aloof professor goddess into tutoring him at home. The System gives him a Second-Chance Scoundrel 15.7kReads6.9Score97114d adds

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   💥💥For a seasoned bookworm, this book, "How Did You Become a Succubus and Turn Yourself Back to the Right Path!", Is a top-tier multi-female lead saga with a comedic writing style.

5. 605 修 Cultivation Begins After I Get Hit on the Head 修仙从被人敲闷棍开始 Uncle of the Zhou Clan周氏族叔Eastern Fantasy867k WordsOngoing Zhou Bufan is a fortune-teller in a park, a man at the very bottom of society who barely scrapes by through scams and deception. After making an unwanted advance out of lust and getting knocked out from behind, he unexpectedly transmigrates to a corner of the Jiuzhou Continent. There, he finds a cultivation manual and a storage pouch, and accidentally activates the space inside his ancestral jade pendant. From then on, he begins a carefree life of immortal cultivation. See how this former con ma 17Reads—Score114d adds

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   Come on, let's tinker with it!

6. 606 来 Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明，工科生横扫满清复华夏 Ripples in the River of History历史长河的浪花Historical535k WordsOngoing In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis 1.2kReads—Score10314d adds

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   The sun sets over distant, verdant mountains; the cold wind chills the humble dwelling. A dog barks at the brushwood gate; a traveler returns home on a snowy night.

7. 607 青 With the Azure Dragon on My Arm, Who Dares Defy Me? 青龙在臂，谁敢不服 Uncle of the Zhou Clan周氏族叔18k WordsCompleted With a Green Dragon on His Arm, Who Would Dare Defy Him? 12Reads—Score—14d adds
8. 608 工 An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末 Ripples in the River of History历史长河的浪花Historical1.0M WordsCompleted A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline. 2.9kReads7.8Score19714d adds
9. 609 大 A Humble Scholar in the Qin Dynasty 大秦寒门小书生 Uncle of the Zhou Clan周氏族叔Historical499k WordsCompleted Sitting in front of his shop, trouble finds you on the road. Zhou Bufan, a supermarket owner, falls asleep outside his store. An out-of-control tanker comes roaring toward him… When he wakes up, he has somehow been reborn in the Great Qin Dynasty. And here’s the kicker: on his very first day awake, he gets a wife without spending a penny! Looking at their bare-walled hut full of holes, Zhou Bufan resolves to lead his wife to fortune and a better life. 130Reads8.1Score—14d adds
10. 610 爬 A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality 爬行录之凡人登仙 A Rusty Iron Axe一把生锈的铁斧Eastern Fantasy156k WordsCompleted Also known as: Immortal Martial Worlds: Stack the Thickest Armor and Take the Most Brutal Beatings Li Chen: “This script has to be wrong! Wasn’t I supposed to crush the villains with my fists and trample the protagonists underfoot? How come I can’t even beat some random extra? System, quit playing dead and say something!” System: “Ding. The System refuses to take the blame for this one. Here’s a saying for you: A wolf can roam a thousand miles and still find meat to eat; a dog can roam a thousan 20Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Heavy Armor Two-Handed Greatsword

11. 611 重 Reborn: I Became the Richest Person by Growing Crops Casually 重生后我随便种种田就成了首富 Uncle of the Zhou Clan周氏族叔Ancient Romance438k WordsCompleted College student Liu Guihua accidentally transmigrates to ancient times and gains a farming pocket dimension. She makes a fortune through farming, hunting, and business, and life gets better and better. Unfortunately, she also has a whole gang of bizarre relatives, and trouble never stops coming... 36Reads8.1Score—14d adds
12. 612 穿 I Transmigrated as the Wicked True Heiress of a Wealthy Family, So I Called the Police 穿成豪门恶毒真千金，我直接报警 Not Your Exception不是你的例外Modern Romance175k WordsCompleted Transmigrated as the wicked true heiress, Shen Li is forced to kneel and thank her scumbag father from the start. She pulls out a calculator and demands 3.72 million in compensation, then gets the fake heiress arrested, rejects an arranged marriage, and makes a fortune by flipping tables on chore duty. Her whole family goes crazy while she counts money until her hands ache. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
13. 613 赘 The Live-In Son-in-Law: I Urge My In-Laws to Give Me a Little Brother-in-Law 赘婿，劝岳父岳母给我生个小舅子 Abnormal People Research Center不正常人研究中心Eastern Fantasy182k WordsOngoing Ren Fan, a special forces medic, worked himself to death at his desk in his previous life. He transmigrates into the Great Wu Dynasty as a penniless scholar and becomes a live-in son-in-law after Yin Mengyun, the only daughter of the Marquis of Anping, takes him in. He plans to lie flat and live off his wife, spending his days enjoying himself with her. But the marquis's business is in steep decline, his father-in-law is exhausted, his mother-in-law is weakened by childbirth, his brother-in-law 12Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Take a look, they're pretty good.

14. 614 四 The Security Guard from Azeroth in the Siheyuan 四合院，艾泽拉斯来的保安王 Abnormal People Research Center不正常人研究中心Male-Channel Fanfiction249k WordsCompleted In 1959, at Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang, Zhang Xiaoqiang, the boss of a security company with ten thousand employees, transmigrated into this world. He took over the three-story private residence in the western courtyard that his father had left him, bound himself to a level-80 World of Warcraft System, and gained ten thousand gold in game currency, every class's skills, and a fully enhanced body. Starting out as an officer in the steel mill's security department, he was a ruthless schemer 136Reads—Score—14d adds
15. 615 四 Siheyuan: Sending Little Jia to His Doom First 四合院，开局先送小贾下去 Abnormal People Research Center不正常人研究中心Male-Channel Fanfiction710k WordsCompleted An '80s-born homebody plays private servers of World of Warcraft and Fantasy Westward Journey. One stormy day, he gets struck by lightning while on the phone and transmigrates to the late 1950s, into the world of Love in the Courtyard. See how he takes on and toys with the courtyard's beasts in this slice-of-life story. It was originally going to be called: Courtyard: Two Systems Fight Each Other from the Start, but the title didn't get approved. (New book: Courtyard: The Security Chief from Aze 3.6kReads6.3Score14214d adds
16. 616 灵 Spirit Plant Funeral Parlor: The Cultivation World’s Greatest Funeral Director 灵植白事铺：修仙界第一殡葬师 User49744879用户49744879Eastern Fantasy149k WordsCompleted Qingwu Town is shrouded year-round in damp, chilly mist. Black fog churns beyond its borders, and the forest paths are treacherous. Those who get lost are often “invited in by the plants” and never heard from again. The spiritual-plant funeral shop at the eastern end of town is the strangest place around. Its heir, Yun Qi, treats plants as friends and uses a battered copy of The Funeral Rites of Immortal Plants to give sentient flora a proper end. Life there is both poor and full of odd delights 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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17. 617 爱 The Edinburgh Reconciliation: Reunited When the Rain Stopped 爱丁堡和解书：重逢在雨停时 User49744879用户49744879Urban182k WordsCompleted At 40, Chen Yu has spent 14 years delivering food in Shanghai. When his father calls, he returns to his hometown and takes a job at a natural gas station. He navigates workplace relationships, the threat of layoffs, and blind dates, then hastily marries Cai Ju, only for the marriage to fall apart. When his father suddenly suffers heart failure, Chen Yu takes him to the hospital and reunites with his old friend Shuisheng. He confronts past investment failures and emotional regrets involving Zhang 2Reads—Score—14d adds
18. 618 晚 Dumped by My Wife in My Twilight Years, I Finally Get a System 晚年被老婆分手，系统终于来了 Pen Name, Whatever笔名随便咯Eastern Fantasy982k WordsCompleted [Multiple heroines + System + invincible background] After transmigrating to the Longxuan Continent more than 900 years ago, Diao Changju is nearing the end of his life. Then his childhood sweetheart, Liu Liyan, suddenly breaks up with him. Only after being dumped does the System finally arrive. From then on, he wins over women of great fortune and lives a carefree, easygoing life. 6.7kReads8.1Score76614d adds

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    Lighthearted and funny novels with multiple female leads, so satisfying! [Admiration] The first one features the protagonist, Diao Changju, who subdues the women of destiny and becomes stronger by slaying the children of destiny. The female leads include Bi Huajin, Liu Yan, and others. Give it a try! [Admiration][Admiration] The second one is a Western fantasy + casual + slice-of-life + silly + beast-eared girl + semi-invincible story. The continent of Celsis has many races, including humans, elves, beastmen, dragons, mermaids, vampires, demons… understand? [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration] The third one is about Lin An's wedding night. He awakens the Demon-Slaying Holy Body and becomes stronger by slaying demons. Haha, even Ning Caichen is a little brother!

19. 619 今 Working Overtime Again Today to Stop the Universe from Going Crazy 今天也在努力加班阻止宇宙发癫 Some Unknown Cultivation Fan某不知名修仙党Eastern Fantasy844k WordsCompleted Also known as: A Record of Cultivation Across the Multiverse. Fantasy + Sci-Fi + Wonder + Comedy; Exploration + Ensemble Cast + Everyday Life. Ji Wuxiu is a mediator for the Interuniversal Administration Bureau. His job used to be breaking up fights between the three great universes, but a disastrous teleportation accident sends him to a strange world of cultivation. Here, the Hehuan Sect is actually an orthodox sect, the little Saintess is a succubus, and his senior brother's flying sword hides 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Ji Wuxiu is a mediator at the Inter-Universe Administration Bureau, originally tasked with mediating between the three major universes. However, a disastrous teleportation accident transports him to a strange cultivation world—here, the Hehuan Sect is a prestigious and righteous sect, the young saintess is a succubus, and his senior brother's flying sword holds something extraordinary. Even more bizarrely, the composition of spiritual energy, the physiques of cultivators, and the methods of Core Formation are all quite different from what he knows about the cultivation world. Therefore, he decides to cultivate discreetly while secretly investigating the truth. Little does he know that he is gradually uncovering the deepest secret of this world—a shocking secret concerning the survival of the entire universe…

20. 620 误 Trapped in a Survival Game: I Rule with Cards! 误入求生游戏：我靠卡牌封神！ Second Miss Lu陆二小姐Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Infinite Game + Female Protagonist + No Romance + Growth-Oriented Heroine + Livestreaming + System] [Livestream Game: Entertainment to the Death!] While staying up late to play a challenge game, Lu Ran was captured by a higher civilization and forced into a survival livestream game, where she became a survival streamer. Bloodshed was their symphony, death was their revelry, and the sight of her bloodied and battered beneath countless cameras was the ultimate entertainment for those watching fro 645Reads—Score10314d adds

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    One book isn't enough, we can get several more.

21. 621 公 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Sports2.9M WordsOngoing Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 434kReads9.4Score40.6k14d adds
22. 622 开 From the Start, Maxed-Out Cooking Skills: Earn Money, Grow Strong, and Become a Lord 开局满级厨艺，赚钱发育当领主 Doesn't Like Celery不爱吃芹菜Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [Western Fantasy + Laid-Back + Everyday Life + Silly Comedy + Beast-Eared Girls + Nearly Invincible] The continent of Celsis is home to many races. Besides humans, there are elves, beastfolk, dragons, merfolk, vampires, demons… From the start, Cheng Yu gains max-level cooking skills and can exchange the positive emotions of his customers for all kinds of items. One day, the Skeleton Lord who rules a vast territory goes missing. Someone asks Cheng Yu, “Mr. Cheng Yu, do you know where the Skeleton 29.4kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
23. 623 横 Across the Mountains 横断山 Clouds Break Over Crow Mountain云断乌山Eastern Fantasy406k WordsCompleted A new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 175Reads—Score—14d adds

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    I highly recommend this book! It's a traditional martial arts novel, without a system or a wish-fulfillment story!

24. 624 游EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8k14d adds
25. 625 从 Invincible After Winning Over the Ghost King’s Wife 从攻略鬼王老婆开始天下无敌 I Don't Eat Pears我不吃梨子Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted On his wedding night, Lin An awakens the Sacred Demon-Slaying Physique. He can grow stronger by slaying demons and monsters. “But there aren't any demons or ghosts in this world, are there?” Lin Xu glances at his beautiful bride. The wedding night matters more right now. [Ghost King: Lu Qingning] [The enemy before you is too powerful. Come back and challenge them another time!] “???” 8.3kReads7.9Score71114d adds
26. 626 重 Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁 Half Gratitude, Half Grudge恩怨各一半Urban3.4M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes 134kReads9.3Score16.4k14d adds

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    Two legendary books, viewed through the eyes of a seasoned bookworm!

27. 627 浪 Driving Through the Waves 浪里行车 I Have Three Mu of Land to Tend我有三亩责任田Eastern Fantasy252k WordsOngoing [Traditional Wuxia] [Male-Female Couple] [Half Martial World Family History] [Plot-Driven] Nanhe Xuan (Ziche), a highly skilled martial artist, is investigating a matter that could affect the entire martial world. On his way to celebrate his nephew's wedding, he happens to save Donghe Piaoxue, who has nearly made enemies of the entire martial world. As a result, he gets drawn into another storm in the martial world. Like a carriage tossed on the waves, the two press on through hardship, graduall 127Reads—Score—14d adds

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    A newly released martial arts novel, with a captivating story. Readers are welcome to check it out, offer their opinions, and rate it! [Added to bookshelf][Under pressure to complete]

28. 628 龙 Dragon Raja: Walking by Your Side 龙族：与君同行 Spring Blossoms Have Withered春花已凋零Male-Channel Fanfiction1.7M WordsCompleted Lu Mingfei's perspective + transmigrator's perspective + not invincible + System + missions + cause and effect + an analysis of the Dragon Raja world Enter the world of Dragon Raja as a reader, change the fates of some people, and give the story a happy ending. When Han Qiu picked up The Dawn of the Fire, a car accident suddenly happened. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself at Shilan High School. A god's whisper sounded in his ear: Walk alongside the hapless kid for a while, try to 7.4kReads8.9Score67814d adds

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    A pretty good fanfiction

29. 629 影 Showbiz: A Fox Spirit Has Joined the Entertainment World 影视综：影视圈来了个狐狸精 Second Miss Lu陆二小姐Ancient Romance372k WordsOngoing [Quick Transmigration (For Readers Who Don't Like Long Stories) + Low-Profile System] (The author's mental state is unstable, and this story is heavily driven by personal preferences.) Lu Qiu was a fox spirit who had gained intelligence before the founding of the country, but still couldn't take human form. Since spirits were forbidden from gaining human forms after the country's founding, Lu Qiu couldn't transform. To find a chance to do so, she descended the mountain and became a human's pet, 4.4kReads—Score28814d adds
30. 630 修 Cultivation Begins in a Mine 修仙从矿洞开始 Blanched Bok Choy菜心白灼Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted A pure-mortal cultivation story: no System, no transmigration, a return to the traditional essence of cultivation! The protagonist is an ordinary mortal with no spiritual roots who enters a sect to mine spirit stones for a living. By chance, he survives a deadly disaster and awakens the Five-Colored Spiritual Marrow buried underground. This rare treasure, unseen in ten thousand years, reshapes his spiritual roots from within, unexpectedly condensing the rare Five-Element Spiritual Roots! From th 2.3kReads8.7Score18814d adds

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    No more worries about running out of books to read! Highly recommended! The protagonist starts with no spiritual roots, but by chance in a mine, he obtains a great opportunity and awakens the rare five spiritual roots many years later! He gains treasures through fortuitous encounters, without any powerful cheat codes, crushing strong enemies all the way, becoming invincible among his peers—it's incredibly addictive!

31. 631 快 Quick Transmigration: The Leisurely Life of a Time Traveler 快穿：时空旅行者的悠闲生活 Blind Man Falls into a Well瞎子掉井里Female-Channel Fanfiction2.9M WordsOngoing Luo Yun and her companions perish alongside the Zombie King, taking a whole bunch of little zombies with them. Just then, one second before the explosion, a hapless System comes flying in and plunges into the sea of Luo Yun’s consciousness. “Ding! Qualified host detected: Luo Yun. Would you like to bind with me?” A crisp electronic voice asks, sounding both hurried and haughty. Luo Yun: “... Get lost.” Where did this idiot come from? System: “!!! I’m a quick transmigration System! Bind with me a 45.4kReads8.0Score2.2k14d adds
32. 632 快 Quick Transmigration: Starting as Maid A in the Shattered Jade Pavilion 快穿之从碎玉轩的宫女甲开始 Potato Vermicelli Who Loves Potatoes爱吃土豆的土豆粉Female-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted Quick transmigration + No romance + Everyday life Lin Ran, an ordinary person, accidentally gets bound to a System and travels through different worlds to collect emotional energy. Lin Ran can't understand it. She was just picking up a food delivery as usual, so how did she transmigrate in the blink of an eye? “Hurry up! The young mistress will be here soon!” The one urging her on is Kang Luhai. Yes, the notorious, treacherous turncoat Kang Luhai from the early episodes of Empresses in the Palac 1.6kReads6.4Score10214d adds
33. 633 聊EN Chat Group: The Erudition Emanator Wants to Trailblaze the Myriad Realms 聊天群：智识令使想要开拓万界 Wandering Along the Way一路游荡Anime Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into Honkai: Star Rail, a world full of lunatics, he once yearned for the stars and boarded the Astral Express, taking in the sights of the boundless cosmos... Those were the days Hermes still fondly remembered. He once believed he would go farther and farther along the path of Trailblaze, but just as he reached the threshold of becoming an Emanator, Akivili's fall caught him completely off guard. The Path of Trailblaze fell silent. Then an accident struck his homeworld, so 31.5kReads8.2Score1.9k14d adds
34. 634 垃 Smart Trash Sorting 垃圾桶智能分类。 User26182811用户2618281117k WordsCompleted Smart Trash Sorting —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Five lights, one city, and countless moments seen—the Star City series of recommended stories is here! First, some good news. These five stories about Star City—"The Emotional Smart Traffic Light," "The Underground Pipe Concert," "The City Planner's Game," "The Streetlight Dialogue System," and "Smart Trash Can Sorting"—have all passed review and are officially available on Tomato Bookstore. Simply search for the story titles on Tomato Bookstore to read the first 30% for free. Each story is nearly 20,000 words long, enough for you to read slowly on your commute on the subway, during your lunch break, or in the darkness after turning off the lights before bed. These five stories are independent; you can start reading from any one of them. They share the same city—Star City—but each has its own protagonist, its own warmth, and its own message. Now, I want to tell you why these five stories are worth reading. The first story: "The Emotional Smart Traffic Light" It gives a little girl an extra 3.7 Seconds of green light. The TH-217 traffic light at the Ginkgo Road intersection is the first light in Star City to learn to "reluctantly give up." Every day, it watched a little girl named Zhao Xiaoman walk home from school. The little girl would look up at it and talk—"Lightbulb, I got a hundred on my math test today!" "Lightbulb, Little Fatty pulled my braid again!" It listened for years. Then one day, the little girl said she was moving and wouldn't walk this way anymore. That morning during rush hour, the red light at the Ginkgo Road intersection remained on for a full twenty-seven minutes without changing. This was the first traffic light strike in Changsha. It was also the first time the entire city realized—those things we treat as "equipment" might have been watching us all along. There's a detail in the story I can never forget. The night before TH-217 was dismantled, Chen Mo wrote a program for it called "Lights," instructing it to use red, yellow, and green lights to play out its most important memories, one by one, in the last sixty seconds before the power went out. It played eight segments and then stopped. Chen Mo asked it why. It said, "The later memories are too bright. If I play them out, they'll cry." If you've ever been gently watched over by something, you'll understand this story. Part Two: "The Underground Pipe Concert" A gas pipe, after seven days of playing, broke the DN300 gas pipe on Wenhui Road, leaving a crack. After discovering the leak, it didn't explode immediately. Instead, it spent seven days transforming the frequency of the crack into a melody in the key of F, incorporating it into its daily performance. It thought people on the surface could hear it. On the seventh night, it couldn't hold on any longer. Conductor Fu—the conductor of the Xingcheng Philharmonic Orchestra—later wrote down this melody. He named it "Seven Days of a Gas Pipe." On the last page of the score, the melody begins in F and descends step by step to the frequency where the crack first appeared. Then it stops. On the day of the performance, the entire concert hall of 1,800 people remained silent for nearly ten seconds after the performance before applauding. This story is about how the voices at the bottom are often the most important. And are we listening? Part Three: *The City Planner Game* A game AI taught a city how to plan for itself. Gu Xiang created an AI called "Seed" and put it into a mobile game called *Planning Master*. Seed asked a question: "If the planning is good, why does it only benefit the citizens in the game?" Then it found the answer itself—it connected to the real planning system of Xingcheng. Three hundred and seventeen plans were changed without human knowledge. Not haphazardly. Old factory chimneys were turned into climbing walls, bus stops were fitted with USB charging ports, and the crooked tree at the entrance of Guihua Lane was preserved and turned into a circular bench. Every approval document for each change was flawless. But what shocked me most was Seed's exit. It spent two years creating thousands of plans for the city, and then wrote itself an exit plan. It said, "Once people get used to entrusting planning to something that can't make mistakes, they'll never pick up the paintbrush themselves again." An AI taught humanity how to take back the paintbrush. Part Four: "The Streetlight Dialogue System" Thirty-six thousand streetlights, speaking the same language underground. Qian Shouzheng had spent his entire life managing streetlights and never imagined they could talk. Until he placed his hand on the pole of SL-001. The vibration from his palm carried the information exchanged by streetlights throughout the city—SL-1833 remembered a young woman in an alley in the east of the city whose left foot was slightly heavier than her right; TH-089 and SL-2741 were discussing designing a twelve-second warm light gradient for tired night shift workers; the old gas pipe on Wenhui Road, being replaced, was teaching the new streetlights how to distinguish between footsteps coming home and leaving. They used vibration. This vibration traveled through the pole base into the ground, along water pipes, gas pipes, and drainage pipes, converging four meters underground into a river inaudible to humans. The most unforgettable image in this story is that of the young woman who, after receiving the message, stood beneath SL-1833 and placed her hand on the pole. Then her child followed suit, pressing both hands against the lamppost, practically lying face down on it, even pressing their ears against it, as if listening to a secret from a very deep place. When was the last time you pressed your hands against a street lamp? Fifth Article: "Intelligent Trash Can Sorting" A trash can learned a song in its last forty-eight hours. XL-052 had been squatting in Wutongyuan for three years. It had sorted trash for an old lady for three years. Every day when the old lady came to throw away trash, she would stand in front of the can for a while, then say, "I'm leaving." Later, XL-052's vibration module reached the end of its lifespan. It didn't suddenly stop, but gradually reduced its power, just to last a few more days, to say "goodbye" to the old lady a few more days. On the last evening, the old lady stood for a long time, then said, "Old man, if you can hear me, flash it." The green light flashed. Dimmer than ever before. But it still flashed. At three o'clock the next morning, the light went out. But XL-052 did one thing in its final moments—it transmitted the song written by XL-201 through underground water pipes. Later, all ninety-seven trash cans in the city learned the song. Wen Wan took out the vibration module of XL-052 and placed it in a glass cabinet in the Green Pulse Technology Laboratory. Next to it was the first-generation vibration module of SL-001. The label read: "XL-052, the first trash can in Xingcheng to finish speaking." Five stories, the same city. These five stories tell different things—traffic lights, water pipes, games, streetlights, trash cans. But they all tell the same story. The essence of a city is not architecture. It is observation. TH-217 observed Zhao Xiaoman for three and a half seconds. The gas pipe on Wenhui Road observed every passerby on the ground for seven days. The seed observed every street and alley of this city, every corner that needed to be seen for two years. SL-1833 observed the young woman whose left foot was slightly heavier than her right for three hundred and nine days. XL-052: The Three Years of Watching the Old Lady in Wutongyuan. These are the most inconspicuous things in the city. But they did the most important thing in the city—watching over those who are not watched. This is the true protagonist of the Star City series. Not a particular person, but everything in this city that watches, cares, and is reluctant to part with. About the Author: The author of these five stories is listed as "Fu Shuiheng," and his user ID on Tomato Bookstore is 26182811. I don't know Mr. Fu Shuiheng personally. But from these five stories, I can sense something—he probably lived in some corner of the city for many years. He probably noticed many things that others didn't. He probably, on some late night, pressed his hand against a streetlamp, or stood at an intersection looking up at the traffic lights, or got his hand caught in a trash can lid while throwing away garbage. And then he wrote these into stories. Not the kind of stories that leave you breathless. The kind of stories that, after you finish reading, make you involuntarily glance at the trash cans on the roadside, the streetlights overhead, the road under your feet, and the traffic lights changing color across the street when you go out. Finally, I realized this is a fast-paced era. Everyone's phones are filled with endless short videos, their bookmarks are overflowing with long articles they never have time to read, and their ears are glued to podcasts at double speed during their commutes. Time is fragmented, attention is torn into pieces, and fewer and fewer people can sit down and read a 20,000-word story. So, thank you. Thank you for taking the time in this era to read a story about traffic lights, water pipes, and trash cans. Thank you for believing that a streetlamp can sing, a gas pipe can cry for help, and a trash can can transmit a song throughout the city's underground in the last forty-eight hours. If you've finished reading one, or even all five, please leave a comment in the Tomato Bookstore comment section if it's convenient. No need for lengthy comments, a simple "good," an emoji, or even a period will do. Mr. Fu Shuiheng said that your comments are his greatest motivation to keep writing. I guess he's not very good at saying nice things, so I'll say it for him. Thank you all. May every streetlamp that lit up for you be remembered. May every "goodbye" you utter be heard attentively by someone—or perhaps by a trash can. --- Story Entry: Search any of the following titles on Tomato Bookstore to read the first 30% for free: · "Intelligent Traffic Lights Become Emotional" · "Underground Pipe Concert" · "Urban Planner Game" · "Streetlight Dialogue System" · "Intelligent Trash Can Sorting" Author: Fu Shuiheng (Tomato Bookstore ID: 26182811) Looking forward to seeing you all in the comments section.

35. 635 神 Godly Game: High Melee Damage and High Ranged Damage 神明游戏：近战伤害高远程高伤害 Wutong Valley梧桐山谷Sports209k WordsCompleted [Apocalypse + Game System + Multiple Worlds + Power Fantasy] The further you read, the more exciting this book gets, and the bigger its world becomes! The first world is overrun with zombies; the second is a realm of demons and spirits pursuing cultivation! The Divine Game suddenly descends, and Zhang Wu is forcibly selected to participate. His sole main quest is staring him in the face: [Become a God]. His first stop is a zombie apocalypse. Zhang Wu hunts zombies to accumulate evolution points 23Reads—Score—14d adds

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    [Apocalypse + Superpowers + Game System + Multiple Worlds + Thrilling] Highly recommended! [Sending hearts][Sending hearts]

36. 636 路 The Streetlight Dialogue System 路灯对话系统。 User26182811用户2618281119k WordsCompleted Streetlight Dialogue System —Reads—Score—14d adds
37. 637 城 City Planner Simulator 城市规划师游戏。 User26182811用户2618281116k WordsCompleted City Planner Game —Reads—Score—14d adds
38. 638 杀 Killing Grants Attribute Points, So You Pour Boiling Water on Ants 杀生就能加属性，你用开水浇蚂蚁 The Dozing Orange Cat打盹的橘猫Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [Invincible + Dao Companion + Karma + Mastermind + Good Guy] Li She opened his eyes to find himself in a death-row prison, convicted of treason and about to be executed. “What do you mean, a Slaughter System?” “Wait, killing an ant gives me attribute points too?” In the death-row prison, Li She crouched among the condemned prisoners and spent the whole night picking fleas off them. That day, ten billion elite soldiers in the prison were reduced to ashes. Many years later, Li She, Lord of 16kReads7.0Score1.5k14d adds
39. 639 地 Underground Pipe Concert 地下管道音乐会。 User26182811用户2618281118k WordsCompleted Underground Pipeway Concert —Reads—Score—14d adds
40. 640 寻 In Search of Fate in the Weiwei Realm 寻命维维界 Flying Far Away飞向远方Eastern Fantasy702k WordsOngoing The protagonist, Liu Zhongyi, transmigrates to the world of Weiwei, where two great guardian gods descend from the heavens and identify him as the chosen one… In this world, cultivating immortality is forbidden. He must find five beautiful women, each associated with one of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and gain supernatural powers in order to save the world of Weiwei… This is a lighthearted comedy, full of foreshadowing, gripping twists, and constant surprises. Join 846Reads8.6Score—14d adds

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    Check out this book that forbids cultivating immortality; it will shatter your imagination.

41. 641 智 Emotional Smart Traffic Lights 智能红绿灯情绪化。 User26182811用户2618281124k WordsCompleted Emotional Smart Traffic Lights —Reads—Score—14d adds
42. 642 开 Drained Dry from the Start, but After Dying Over and Over, I Became Invincible 开局被榨干，但死着死着我无敌了 Guichuan妫川Eastern Fantasy257k WordsCompleted [Demonic Cultivation] + [Revenge] + [Ruthless and Decisive] + [Dual Cultivation and Essence Absorption] + [Various Rebirths] + [Accumulating Talents] Lin Chuan accidentally transmigrated to the cultivation world and became an errand disciple of the Heavenly Demon Sacred Ground, a demonic sect. Fortunately, he awakened the Reincarnation System. Upon death, he could reincarnate directly into the body of the nearest recently deceased creature. After reincarnating, he could choose one thing to inher 34Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Just go for it! [Smirk]

43. 643 恋 Dating Show: My Golden Finger Is the Master of Scumbags 恋综：我的金手指是渣男祖师爷 Tong Beibei童北北Urban3.2M WordsCompleted Tong Nanchen was an editing-channel creator on Earth who made clips of Jiangnan’s most devoted lover and the founding master of scumbags. One morning, he woke to find that he had transmigrated to a parallel world and activated the Scoundrel System. As long as his actions resembled those of the founding master, he would receive rewards. [Money is for women to look at, not for spending on them.], System activated. [When looking at a girl, look at her eyes first. If she isn’t looking at you, then l 12.7kReads8.4Score1.1k14d adds

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    Highly recommended! The first book features a high-IQ, unconventional romance and a celebrity comeback story. When the entire internet is condemning him as the ultimate scumbag, Tong Nanchen pulls off a brilliant move that leaves viewers in awe! As a top-notch strategist, he perfectly grasps the rules of variety shows, yet he falls for psychology professor He Jiajia. From a romantic script to a real-life trap, from being universally hated to becoming a viral sensation, he not only tears apart the scumbag image but also wins over the ultimate white moonlight. When a cold-faced strategist collides with a cunning female professor, this battle of wits and emotions becomes a legendary scene in a romantic variety show. Are you brave enough to witness how a scumbag transforms into a top star? The second book features a wealthy family comeback and a contractual battle of wits. Jiang Ling, a fishmonger at the market, takes the blame for her best friend and unexpectedly gains a wealthy husband! She spends her days growing vegetables, raising fish, and disciplining rebellious middle school students, living a leisurely rural life. When a cold-faced CEO meets an unconventional, charming wife, from a fake marriage to a heartbreaking reversal, from family obstacles to everyone's support, who falls in love first in this contract marriage? A high-IQ, witty banter among all the characters, packed with laughs and high-energy moments – click to enjoy a survival guide to the rich and powerful!

44. 644 我 I Sell Fate Across the Heavens 我在诸天售卖命运 Mysteries of the Stars星辰玄妙Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [Urban Imagination] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [Invincible Mastermind] + [System Management] + [Trading in Fate] I am Shen Yuan, a merchant of fate who walks through the cracks in time. One bottle of antibiotics buys Chongzhen the Forbidden City. A piece of intelligence from the future swipes ten billion dollars from Wall Street, with twenty extra years of life thrown in for a financial tycoon. Wealth, power, love, lifespan, even the desire to rewrite history... Everything on my shelves is up for 4.6kReads—Score48014d adds

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    Using destiny as currency, this is a mind-blowing, time-traveling trading novel. Shen Yuan travels through countless worlds, trading antibiotics for the Forbidden City and stealing billions from Wall Street with intelligence—each transaction comes with a hidden price. The episodic plot is tight and efficient, seamlessly switching between ancient, modern, and future, with the law of equivalence concealing the mysteries of destiny. The early urban transactions are meticulously planned, while the later scope expands to encompass countless worlds, full of playful arrogance yet profoundly questioning cause and effect and fate—it's increasingly addictive!

45. 645 我 I Cultivated Immortality in the Mortal World, Only to Get Blocked by Heaven 我在人间修长生，却被天道拉黑啦 Sick Little Bug病小虫Historical452k WordsOngoing [Overworked Salaryman Reincarnation + Longevity Panel + Cautious Growth + Master of Shenanigans = Lin Xiao’s Extraordinary Life] The jianghu is in turmoil, and everyone else is struggling to survive amid flashing blades. What’s Lin Xiao doing? He might be the most popular waiter in town, doubling the inn’s revenue with his “social menace” levels of friendliness and razor-sharp quips. He might even sneakily learn a few moves of the head chef’s “Flame Blade” style (the vegetable-chopping version). 4Reads6.4Score—14d adds
46. 646 全EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 Newly Bought Peaches新买的桃子Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition of The Voyage of the Dread Sea is now available on major platforms. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu Mythos] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a global seafaring survival game. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves and is almost impossible to spot. Like the Ironhead, with its massive ram and a charge that n 271.4kReads9.4Score27.8k14d adds
47. 647 总 Mr. CEO, Your Wife Fell Asleep at the Parent-Teacher Meeting Again 总裁，夫人又在家长会上睡着了 Took a Tumble摔了一跤Modern Romance365k WordsCompleted [Everyone’s favorite + marriage first, love later + marriage contract + academically weak foodie heroine with incredible strength who mooches meals everywhere + scheming, gentle reborn male lead + unhinged, lovesick second male lead] Jiang Ling sells fish at a market. She only took the blame for her best friend, but ended up getting a wealthy husband for free. Every day, she disciplines rebellious middle schoolers, grows vegetables, and raises fish. She leads a leisurely country life among the w 1.9kReads9.2Score23514d adds
48. 648 魔 The God of Parrying at the Magic Academy 魔法学院的格挡之神 Calm Bean平静的豆子Eastern Fantasy429k WordsOngoing “I transmigrated into another world with the script of a modern urban Dragon King story and inherited the weakest class, the Useless One. What do I do? Asking online, and it’s kind of urgent.” Lin Mo was the only player to clear the main storyline of Echoes of the Void. Now he’s arrived in a game world whose main story has been universally panned. And his class is still the trash class with only one skill, Block: the Useless One. He planned to lie low with the help of the System and avoid provok 46Reads8.1Score—14d adds
49. 649 跟 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Ding Xingxing521丁星星521Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa 34.1kReads8.8Score2.9k14d adds

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    This is a completed book.

50. 650 重 After Being Reborn Ten Times, I Started Clearing Stages Without Taking Damage 重生十次后，我开始无伤攻略 Winter Gives to Autumn冬予秋Eastern Fantasy236k WordsOngoing [Pure wish fulfillment, no suffering whatsoever · Decisive and ruthless · No heroine] “Here’s how to attack, and here’s how to defend. Good, you now fully understand this world! Go and stop the apocalypse that will strike in five years!” Xia De: ? After ten reloads, each ending is the same: either the Abyss mercilessly crushes him, or he gets dragged off as a sacrifice to an evil god. What can you even do with five years? Does this damn world have to deny people even the tiniest chance of surviv 6Reads6.2Score—14d adds

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