Looking for Books with Unsympathetic, Cold-Blooded, High-IQ Protagonists 想找一些不圣母,冷血,高智商主角的书
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The Gray Lotus 灰莲花
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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Infinite Planes: Starting with Final Destination 无限位面:从死神来了开始
I battle wits with the invisible Reaper in the world of Final Destination. In the Three Kingdoms, where eunuchs hold sway, I bide my time and become sworn kin to the Ten Attendants, changing the course of history. In A Chinese Ghost Story, I dance with beautiful female ghosts... I don't know why I'm alive, or what keeps me going. Maybe I'm chasing the thrill of life and death in an instant. Maybe I'm searching for something exciting enough to make my frozen heart beat again...
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Burn Until Nothing Remains 燃烧直至灰烬
[Childhood friends / raising each other / two strong leads / school life / ensemble cast / period setting] He looked at his face and saw those ten years, both unfamiliar and familiar. An old phone filled with text messages, a damaged photo pulled from a raging fire, and a relationship steeped in resentment and push and pull. Two boys who made their unsteady way through the 1990s, a broken moon and a butterfly flying into the flames. In their short lives, they save themselves, set each other a
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My Saber Is Sheathed, Yet I'm Still Number One Under Heaven 战刀入鞘,我依旧天下第一
[Unmatched in slaughter + absolute power + surrounded by beauties + steamrolls all the way] He once ruled over hell. The name King of Hell made the world's powerful tremble in fear! The moment he emerged, three Black Hawks cut across the sky as forces from every direction knelt to welcome him! He could wipe out a powerful family with a snap of his fingers, slay formidable foes with a wave of his hand, and win the devotion of beauties who would follow him to their deaths! In this chaotic age of h
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The Blade's Shadow in Love and War: A Choice Between Power and Loyalty 风月刀影:权谋与情义的抉择
When a great fire devours the red gates of the Jun family estate, the young man who emerges through the smoke is no longer the dashing, carefree playboy who once spent his days cockfighting and chasing dogs. His eyes hold fire and blood, and in his hand he clutches half of a broken jade pendant, the last keepsake his father gave him before the family fell. Fate sweeps him like a tide into one abyss after another. From a life of luxury to utter poverty, from the son of the powerful to an outcast
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Great Qin: From the Start, Playing Lucifer and Instantly Killing Jing Ke 大秦:开局扮演路西法,秒杀荆轲
He transmigrated to the Great Qin dynasty and became Hu Hai, the eighteenth son of Qin Shi Huang. From the start, he played the role of the fallen angel Lucifer. Completely devoted to the act, Hu Hai committed every kind of evil. He became a rat everyone wanted to beat whenever they saw him. Then one court assembly changed how all the officials viewed him. Jing Ke assassinated the emperor! Hu Hai killed him in two moves! He attacked the State of Yan, took its capital in a few days, and captured
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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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Crimson Paradox 深红悖论
In 2099, cybernetic doctor Su Li receives a quantum message from her younger sister, who vanished three years ago. In the holographic image, Su Yue’s pupils seep with crimson code capable of devouring civilization. To uncover the truth, Su Li is forced to navigate a maze of time: a Martian gene factory bears her clone number; a Northern Song armillary sphere conceals a doomsday virus; and beneath Europa’s ice lies the body of the person who hatched her AI. When an AI girl descends as a judge, an
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This Cultivator Is Rather Cunning 这个修士有点心计
This story focuses on schemes, suspense, and plot twists. If you enjoy this style, dive right in with confidence. Her family is wiped out, a bounty is placed on her head, and she is hunted down. She moves among the great clans, repeatedly teetering between life and death. When talent falls short, cunning makes up the difference. So what if I’m only at the Qi Refining stage? I can still scheme a Golden Core cultivator to death. So what if I have a crippled spiritual root? I can still join a major
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The Broken Imperial Seal 残玺
“Anger is commonplace, but a smiling man is inscrutable...” Inspired by a hidden chapter of real history, this tells the story of a wild strategic-level scientist’s rise and growth. The premise is fresh, fantastical yet grounded in reality, and encompasses history, the workplace, the military, scientific research, national security, criminal investigation, elaborate schemes, murder, and modern high-stealth espionage, high-tech hacking, and high-intensity aerospace electronic warfare. The ending
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There's a Killer Outside the Door 门外有个杀人犯
There’s a Murderer Outside the Door
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Cursed Livestream: My Brother's Revenge 诅咒直播间之哥哥的复仇
The Cursed Livestream: My Brother's Revenge
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Selling Myself to a Rich Woman to Pay Off My Girlfriend's Debts 卖身富婆给女友还债
Selling Myself to a Rich Woman to Pay Off My Girlfriend’s Debt
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The Cursed Livestream: The Seventh Taboo 诅咒直播间之七的禁忌
Cursed Livestream: The Seventh Taboo
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The Haunted House Mystery: I Am the Killer 鬼屋谜案之凶手是我
The Haunted House Mystery: I’m the Killer
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I Conquer Another World with Nothing but My Own Talent 横推异界,我全靠自身天赋
[Decisive and ruthless, multiple women, invincible protagonist, self-interest above all] In a high-martial world, prodigies rise everywhere. Yang Feng transmigrates here, relying solely on his own talent. One day, he throws a punch, and the sky is stained with blood. Only then do people realize in terror that he has long since become the highest peak in the world. Yang Feng’s life story: sweeping aside all challengers and, before he knows it, becoming the supreme ruler.
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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.)
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The Strange World: Barbarians Roam Across the Heavens 神诡世界:野蛮人纵横诸天
Zheng Da, a native butcher in a world of demons and the uncanny, is cursed by a pig. Every day, he falls into another world and experiences slaughter firsthand. Faced with endless zombies and Fallen, Zheng Da can only transform into a Barbarian and roar, fight, and kill... As he establishes a foothold in the other world, spiritual qi revival begins in his original world, where demons and uncanny phenomena run rampant. Watch as young Zheng the Butcher battles the uncanny and demons, honing himsel
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Infinite Reincarnation: My Tragic Life Without a Golden Finger 无限轮回:没有金手指的我悲剧了
From the start, he was locked inside an escape-room haunted house, surrounded by only six people who were novelists just like him. Was it a prank by the gods or a trick by the devils? There was no System, no mysterious old mentor, not even a beginner's gift pack. Hu Tian felt that his life was over...
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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 Reborn Immortal Emperor and the Dimensional Conspiracy 仙帝重生之维度阴谋
Positive energy + urban fantasy + cultivation + comedy + historical events + wish fulfillment + fiery battles In his previous life, he was the Immortal Emperor Huitian, a force to be reckoned with across the Immortal Realm. But at the final moment of his attempt to break through to the Divine Realm, his path to immortality was cut short and his body and soul were destroyed. Betting on a chance with odds of less than one in a hundred, he sent his immortal soul into the river of time. After endur
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Burying the Heavens in a Chaotic Age 乱世葬天
A nameless young man, with little time left to live, watched the old man from the funeral home who had been his only companion die a cruel death before his eyes. He chose to live on, and he chose revenge. The sorrow of small fry belongs only to those who willingly give up. If the world treats people like pigs and dogs, then destroy this wretched world and bury the heavens and earth!
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Dimensional Trainer 次元训练师
[Anime Infinite Flow + Not Brain-Dead + Invincible Protagonist + Slow Burn] He learns peerless swordsmanship in Demon Slayer and gains the adoration of countless people; in Pokemon, he plays the pig to eat the tiger and earns the title of human beast; in Highschool of the Dead, he comes to understand the truth of the world, then livestreams in the real world and becomes the strongest food-streaming content creator…
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Lord of the Great Calamity: The Glory of the Techno-Cult 大灾变领主:科技教派的荣光
In the 129,599th year of the 12,000th epoch of the Great Cataclysm, Xiao Tu, born and raised on Diyuan Star, inherited the legacy of the ancient-era superorganization known as the Tech Cult. Founded by powerful figures in ancient times, the Tech Cult began as an organization with limitless potential. But through rapid development and a series of fortunate coincidences, it absorbed the Zerg's genetic technology (the Zerg Cataclysm), the undead race's soul technology (the Undead Cataclysm), and th
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世:全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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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
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Tricked into Cultivating Immortality 被骗去修仙
[Decisive and ruthless + smart protagonist + mortal’s Cultivation] Cultivation? I was tricked into it... Wang Hao was an unremarkable young man in the 21st century. After an accident in which he saved someone, a strange old man tricked him into cultivating. Faced with schemes, plots, and deadly dangers at every turn, how will he use his wits to survive in this Cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak...?
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A Dragon Kingdom Police Cadet Charges Into Maitira 龙国警校生,勇闯迈提拉
[Decisive, not a bleeding heart, self-serving, scheming, highly intelligent, always planning several steps ahead]+ [Everyone is ruthless]+ [No System, no golden finger]+ [No characters acting stupidly, logical]+ [No heroine, female supporting character] Ye Zilu plays by his own rules! This is a logically consistent power fantasy: With his options exhausted in Longguo, Ye Zilu, a graduate of the Longguo Police Academy, ventures into Maitila to survive. After joining the police force, he uses ever
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High Martial Arts: A Blade That Slashes the Heavens 高武之刀斩苍穹
He clawed his way out of a blood pool in hell, and returned as a walking calamity among mortals. His former name had long since burned away. Now, he is Zhang Mo, a vicious weapon born for nothing but annihilation! His blade is his tongue, and an unmarked stele bears witness. Every ringing stroke of his blade is the final word of countless lives. Tenderness? Loyalty? Dust in the wind! In his world, there is only the solitary peak of slaughter, watered with scalding blood.
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Dark Blade 暗刃
[A top-rated completed novel + ruthless hero + no filler + no saintly do-gooder + no System + no cultivation + all kinds of modern high-tech weapons + nonstop thrills] Dragon Guard Security! The company handles security for major overseas projects originating in Huaxia. Its captain, Xiao Feng, is a former commander of an elite special forces unit and a world-class soldier, code-named Dark Blade. With a band of battle-hardened brothers, Xiao Feng provides high-quality security services for Huaxia
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The Demon Emperor’s Steward 魔皇大管家
Demon Emperor Zhuo Yifan incurred a deadly calamity after obtaining the legacy of an ancient Demon Emperor. After being reborn, he was plagued by his inner demons and had no choice but to become the steward of a fallen clan. Watch as this ruthless Demon Emperor leads a small family to the pinnacle of power.
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Death Note: The Demon Star Throws the World into Chaos 死亡笔记:魔星乱世
Will he become the god of a new world, or a demon who slaughters thousands? A mysterious notebook falls from the sky, a god of death who toys with the world, and the power to kill without a trace simply by writing down a name. A boy who has never known the light, a tormented and shadowed heart, and an ambition to turn the world upside down. When the two meet, the demonic star will plunge the world into chaos.
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The Mad Dao 癫道
I may have just graduated from college, but I don't buy a house, get married, or have kids. I can't spend all my internship salary, no matter how hard I try! My name is Wang Shi. I just graduated from college, and I'm about to become a graphic designer. I planned to live out my long life in unremarkable fashion. Who could have guessed that I, a product of materialist education, would be forced to take a senile old scavenger as my master and learn Taoist arts from him? I was forced into it, so I
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The Death Train 死亡列车
This is a world where civilization has collapsed and evil runs rampant! This is a blood-soaked, frenzied realm where morality has fallen apart! This is a struggle to survive!
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