Looking for Books with No Romance, No Male Lead, and No Female Lead, Thanks 求无CP无男主和无女主的书,蟹蟹
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Infinite: My Novel Becomes Reality, and I Give the Nation Cheats 无限:小说成真,我给国家开外挂
[Infinite-Loop + Comedy + No Female Lead + Everyday Life + Light Novel + A Little Snark + No Romance (If there's even a hint of romance, you can reach through the screen and hit me)] Huo Li, the ordinary owner of a small bookstore, was suddenly hauled off by police cars in the middle of the night. Someone had reported him as the legendary progenitor of all vampires! Huo Li, single for 23 years, thoroughly ordinary, and not even fond of spicy blood curd: ??? At the same time, the informant slappe
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Quick Transmigration: The Host Is So Badass, the Whole Story’s Gone Off the Rails 快穿:宿主飒到画风不对
A feel-good power fantasy with a strong heroine. After Lü Li meets a bizarre and untimely death, she accidentally triggers the System. The System is thrilled: at last, it has a new Host to mess with! But this Host’s style is a little... unusual. She tears into fake sweethearts, tramples scheming green-tea girls, and makes scumbags kneel and sing “Conquer.” Even the System trembles and drops to its knees, crying out to the heavens: “Someone please take this Host off my hands! This System is about
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Quick Transmigration: The Host Is Tearing into Another Scumbag 快穿:宿主她又在手撕渣男
[No CP] Jiang Ran, the fearsome Dark God who struck terror into everyone’s hearts, has finally been kicked by the Main God into a romance world to learn the power of love! Everyone clapped. “Well done!” System: “Well done, my ass! The mission was to make the male lead regret it, but she wrecked his company, drove his gold-digging mistress insane, and made herself a CEO. What kind of thing is that? Is this what a Host in a romance world is supposed to do?!” Jiang Ran: “Well, did that bastard regr
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Quick Transmigration: The Female Side Character Only Wants to Serve Her Country 快穿之女配只想报效国家
When Zhang Xu died in battle, she was a little delighted. At last, she could retire! Her happiness lasted less than three seconds before an intelligent entity bound itself to her, forcing her to wander through one small world after another! In these small worlds, she was always the cannon-fodder supporting heroine in some melodramatic plot, there to give the male and female leads experience, equipment, and even a free kill. World Spirit: Our mission is to face-slap villains and help the supporti
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Quick Transmigration: She Only Wants to Build Her Career 快穿她只想搞事业
Jiang Chujian originally only wanted to focus on her career, but later she discovered that she was a big shot. And so working on her career became something she only talked about... A few things to know before reading 1: The whole story is about how beautiful the heroine is. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. 2: The heroine is a player. She keeps several people at her side, but refuses to admit she's dating two people at once. 3: The plot might be hard to follow, but you can still understand it.
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A Transmigrated Girl’s Life as a Farmer 穿越妞的种田人生
Ye Xiaoyan has transmigrated, but her situation is dire. What? Her own grandmother sold her to a seventy-year-old man to be his fourth wife? This has to be a joke! What?! The old man has passed away, leaving her to depend on each other with his beautiful eight-year-old son? Young women marry old men for money, but this house has nothing in it but a constant breeze. Just as she decides to work hard for a better financial future, the little boy’s older brothers and sisters-in-law keep showing up t
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After Quitting, I Trained Until I Became a True Master of Daoist Arts 辞职后,我肝成了道法真君
[Righteous to an absurd degree] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [Grind-hard cultivation] + [Urban demon-slaying] + [No female lead] The blood moon hangs overhead and demons invade. While people struggle to master martial arts and control demons to survive... Wu Chen, who possesses a mysterious bronze book, earns Dao Runes that can strengthen anything by slaying demons and monsters... Strengthen the Xuanyuan Sword to gain the Sword Qi of the Sacred Dao! Strengthen the Shennong Cauldron to improve the
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Quick Transmigration: This Big Shot Has a One-of-a-Kind Style 快穿:这个大佬画风清奇
[No Romance] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Strong Female Lead] Ever since binding to the top-ranked powerhouse on the System’s forbidden list, 099 has felt that it might have misunderstood what “powerhouse” means. Other people’s powerhouses have glorious records and are admired by the world. Its powerhouse’s profile is blank apart from her name. Even her bio is cleaner than her face. Other people’s powerhouses take on missions as a side gig. For its powerhouse, everything except the missions is jus
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Quick Transmigration: The Villainess Is a Little Unhinged 快穿之女配大佬有点疯
Ever since she was bound to a System, Chi Chu has gone further and further down the path to becoming a big shot. Modern world. She's the CEO's bedridden white moonlight. Watching the male and female leads squabble by her sickbed, Chi Chu silently pulls out a weapon. System: Host, don't do anything rash. The next second, the male lead is carried out. System: ... School world. She's the former girlfriend of the campus heartthrob, who went abroad. Watching the white-lotus female lead run over to he
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Quick Transmigration: What Should I Do About My Terrible Host? 快穿:我家宿主太坏了怎么办
[Quick Transmigration] [No Romance] [Strong Heroine] [Satisfying] Synopsis: World One: After the Host brutally murdered the male lead and piled up grave sins, the transit station tried to erase her. When it found it couldn’t, it subjected her to an extremely harsh punishment. For example, striking her with blood-red lightning. For example, piercing her heart with billions of arrows. In the end, it had tried every method it could think of. She couldn’t even be bothered to furrow her brows. She sa
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Quick Transmigration: The Lives of Those Cannon Foddered by Golden Fingers 快穿:那些被金手指炮灰的人生
(Strong Female Lead) (No Romance) (System) She, he, and it were once the protagonists of their own lives, living ordinary, happy lives. For no reason at all, they became stepping stones for someone else's swaggering, glamorous life, and catalysts for that person's grand romance. After her death, Yun Luhua was honored with a position as a judge of the underworld. Seeing resentful spirits and evil ghosts running rampant through Youdu City, she reluctantly set out to restore order and take back the
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Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Rides the Waves 快穿之炮灰乘风破浪
Ever since she bound herself to a System, Chi Qiao has gone further and further down the road to becoming a big shot. At first, the System was a naive little airhead who sweetly coaxed her: “Hey, miss, want to go wild? I’ll take you to three thousand worlds to make waves, uh, I mean, ride the waves.” Later, the System lit a cigarette with a weary sigh. “Big shot, we’re here to change the fate of cannon fodder, not wreck the plot!” Chi Qiao: Huh!? The System clung to its own small, helpless, and
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When the Female Sword Cultivator Starts Quick Transmigration 当女剑修开始快穿
[Quick transmigration + face-slapping + satisfying read] The book transmigrator who wants to have several lovers at once, the scheming cousin who wants to take her older cousin's place, the evil woman in the entertainment industry, the rich family's live-in son-in-law who builds his success on his wife's sacrifice, the top scholar who abandons his first wife, and the great general who loves only his concubine are all trash in the eyes of the female sword cultivator Qi Sha. So what if you're rebo
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The Quick Transmigration Expert Is Wild 快穿大佬她太野了
[Satisfying, no romance] Bound to a System, she wreaks havoc across three thousand worlds! In a story about a real and fake heiress, the real heiress is humiliated in every way. After she dumps the scumbags, she turns into the heiress of a top-tier wealthy family. In an entertainment-industry story, she's a scheming woman despised by the male lead. The next second, three powerful men dote on her as a group and compete to be the male equivalent of a tea-sipping green tea girl. In a tragic xianxia
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The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵,一身反骨离大谱
They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment
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I Am the Villain Chosen by Fate: Invincible from the Moment I Crush the Male Lead 我,天命反派,无敌从碾压男主开始
Every male-oriented novel has a domineering protagonist who relies on forced posturing to pull off face-slapping, along with a crowd of cannon fodder whose intelligence is forcibly lowered by his protagonist aura. Gu Xiao's job is to become a brain-boosting hero in these web novels, raise the intelligence of everyone in each world, and relentlessly rub the male lead's face in the dirt. In a son-in-law story, he's the loyal sidekick who helps the male lead show off, only to have the male lead pat
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I Became the Universe's Arms Dealer 我成了宇宙军火商
The protagonist unexpectedly acquires black technology from the universe. Starting out by selling small arms and eventually moving on to selling space battleships, he leads humanity into the great age of space exploration, trades with various races, and builds the largest space station in the universe.
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Hunted Across the Globe 全球追杀
[Two male leads, one-on-one, infinite-flow, evenly matched, devoted to each other, supernatural, sweet romance, feel-good power fantasy, big shots, a light ensemble cast, the protagonist's personality changes with each level, strongest fighter × stubborn master bluffer] [Chasing the Past once ranked in the top three for infinite-flow novels, top three for sweet romance, top three for System novels, fifteenth on the high-scoring list, and top ten overall. If you're interested, please read Chasing
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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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Mysteries Resurge: Tarot Cards, Starting as a Diviner 诡秘复苏:塔罗牌,从占卜家开始
Cthulhu + Steampunk + Global ferocious beasts... A vast world where terror has returned. (Bring your brain when you read this!) Can divination be used in combat? Can slimes become gods? Do you have to rely on a brutal charge to fight? Only a fool would leave their brain unused. Build an organization behind the scenes and train underlings to do the dirty work. Norton Kurt manipulates his pawns, tugging at the threads of fate again and again. Only after it's all over do people realize, to their sh
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Endless Killing Intent 无尽杀机
The groundbreaking online game Endless Killing appeared out of nowhere, dragging the entire world into an abyss of terror. Bai Qiong opened his eyes and discovered that he had been reborn at the time the game first launched. Looking at the familiar game and its new players, Bai Qiong recalled the killing techniques and gaming experience stored in his mind, then laughed aloud. (A game-world novel in the style of Dead by Daylight and Identity V, bringing you an experience unlike anything you've
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Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚:因为担心不优雅而过度变态
[Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The
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Apocalypse Game: Killing My Girlfriend on Day One 末日游戏:开局手刃校花女友
[Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab
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I Am the Lord of Heaven’s Secrets, Master of Every Hidden Truth 我,天机之主,掌控众生隐秘
He transmigrates into a fantasy world and becomes a sinner cursed by Heaven. Xiao Xuan unlocks the Heaven's Secrets Divination System. He can read yin and yang, discern the five elements, calculate the past and present, understand heaven and earth, and see the myriad faces of all living things! And so, a master emerges from nowhere in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. As one Heaven's Secrets ranking after another is revealed, reclusive prodigies and ancient monsters are left reeling. A holy land's
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Horror: From Puppet to Demon God of Fear! 恐怖:从木偶到恐惧魔神!
When Lin Qi opened his eyes, he had become a puppet of the “paranormal” type. All he had to do was earn fear points to grow stronger and stronger. “When you see me, it means fear has arrived!” “Struggle! Scream!” “I am the Demon God of Fear!” An era of resurgent terror, an era when ghosts roam the night. Lin Qi commands fear!
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Thriller Game: I’m Really Not a Ghost 惊悚游戏:我真的不是鬼
[Horror + Livestreaming + Doomsday] The world has ended, and Earth is shrouded in mist, no longer fit for human habitation. At the same time, a horror game descended upon Earth. Every nightfall marked the start of the game! Only those chosen by the horror game had a chance to escape Earth! But... Only those who survived the horror game could escape Earth! After Wu Suowei was lucky enough to bind a survival System... Wu Suowei: “So I don't just look scary to people, I scare ghosts too?” Hanging G
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After Quick Transmigration, I Used My Fists to Set the Protagonist Straight 快穿后我用拳头扳正了主角三观
After Ping Ke, the Time and Space Administration’s top employee, was transferred to a new team, she felt as if these messed-up worlds and their protagonists were poisoning her mind every day... To keep herself from going crazy too, she decided to strike with an iron fist and teach them how to be normal people!
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Quick Transmigration: Keep Smiling and Carry On 快穿之笑着活下去
System: Congratulations, Host. You have been bound to System No. 110120. Lin Liyang: A golden finger? A portable pocket dimension? A shop exchange system? A kingly aura that makes the whole world come to pay tribute and submit, with everyone bowing at my feet? System: None of those. Lin Liyang: Then what do you have? System: A cheerleading System! Host, Host, you’re the best! Host, Host, keep it up! Host, Host, mwah! Lin Liyang: ...What about the mission? System: Keep smiling and live on.
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Quick Transmigration: The Right Way to Face-Slap 快穿之正确打脸姿势
As a guardian of time and space, Mo Ran's duty is to bring the male and female leads together at all times, in all places, and by any means necessary. She must serve as their ultimate wingwoman and stepping stone, before making a glorious sacrifice in the end. Mo Ran has no idea how many worlds she's been through or how many times she's died. She has endured the torment day after day, until one day she finally discovers a way to escape the System...
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Quick Transmigration: The Host's Life on Stream 快穿:反派宿主的直播生涯
[Quick transmigration, absurd comedy, no male lead, power fantasy] Luo Tianqing is a dyed-in-the-wool villain. After an unexpected death, she binds to a livestream System called Big Tycoon and gets System Xiao Ba as her assistant. Every day, besides tormenting scumbags, she has to rack her brains to livestream. To make her fans hand over gifts willingly, she starts pulling out all the stops... System Xiao Ba complains bitterly: “Dear Host, could you please follow the rules? Keep this up and the
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Quick Transmigration: The Split-Personality Big Shot Is Trouble 快穿:精分大佬不好惹
[Quick Transmigration + Multiple Personalities + No Romance + Silly Comedy] The Host has dissociative identity disorder. The next second, the System goes haywire. … The domineering CEO offers an astronomical bride price to marry her. “I’ll have you, possess you. You’re the only one for me!” The queen personality looks down at him with phoenix eyes. “I hate you. I’ll kill you, then send you back to the factory for a rebuild.” … The lovesick villain imprisons her tenderly. “Now I’m the only one
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Quick Transmigration: The Money-Making Streamer 快穿敛财女主播
Strong female lead + live-streaming System + interstellar viewers + everyone’s favorite + putting every scheming green tea in her place Wilderness livestream: Streamer, spit out that bug! What do you mean, you can eat it if you pull off its head and tail? We’re not listening! The 1970s: Streamer, don’t just focus on making money! The male and female leads are about to tear each other’s hair out! Dream of the Red Chamber world: Streamer! The old lady may be a terrible person, but please don’t mak
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Quick Transmigration: I Teach the Protagonists How to Behave 快穿之我教主角学做人
What should you do when you transmigrate into a Mary Sue script you once rejected? Shen Tang: Obviously, teach the main characters how to behave. Director Shen Tang was bound to a strange System after a car accident. To uncover the truth, she has to travel through different worlds and help the characters in their stories turn their lives around. She takes on scheming green-tea women and scummy men, fixes plots with no regard for common sense, and rises to the top, all while sparing a little pity
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Quick Transmigration: My Host Is at It Again 快穿:我家宿主又高能了
Ever since Tuluo got bound to a System, she's been galloping down the road to becoming a big shot. But as she gallops along, her secret identities keep slipping out. The System picks up a secret identity: “Damn! What kind of goofball is my Host?” Main quests: face-slap the sweet white lotus, tear apart the scheming bitch, kick the ridiculous melodrama to the curb... Big-shot style: Being invincible is so, so lonely. The System: Whatever makes you happy. Hidden quests: Protect the weakling, the u
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The Cannon Fodder Big Shot Arrives in Quick Transmigration 快穿炮灰大佬来袭
There's always a group of people who are either helping the male and female leads fall in love or delivering equipment to them! A cannon-fodder character: I refuse to accept this! Why should I have to put up with it? I'll fight back! Jiang Yun was inexplicably bound to a System, and from then on traveled between various small worlds as a cannon-fodder character. System: Host, get in there! Fight! Cause trouble! Break up the couples! Jiang Yun: No! I'm a good person (smiles). No CP. No CP. A max-
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Quick Transmigration: The Empire's Chief, Killing Taskers from the Start 快穿:帝国首席,开局灭杀任务者
(No CP, strong female lead, feel-good, career-focused, takes down scumbags) Also known as Quick Transmigration: This Host Is Seriously Fierce The top-ranked all-around ace mission taker, Gong Lige, leader of the Special Missions Team, has been assigned a mission to take down scumbags! A ruthless queen who would rather throw a punch than waste words, she transmigrates through three thousand worlds, making a career of face-slapping scumbags and getting things done, always becoming the most dazzlin
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A Fantastic Journey of Quick Transmigration 快穿奇幻之旅
As Liu Rong lies dying of old age, she encounters a strange, supernatural being that calls itself the System. From then on, the Yongning Princess of the Liang Dynasty embarks on a fantastical journey. World One: The pitiful girl, reborn in her own world World Two: A socialist new era after shattered values are rebuilt World Three: I became a mint plant World Four: A disposable character in a world of spirits and gods
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Infinite Starting Point: Zero Awakens 无限初始:零号觉醒
[No romance] X [Cool, white-haired lead] X [Decisive male lead] In 2030, “Player Game” burst onto the scene. Clear a dungeon, and you can get anything you want. Yan Chao (Zero), once an NPC in the “Mechanical City” dungeon, suddenly awakened to his own existence and became a player. “Player Zero, please complete the main quest as soon as possible...” A dungeon? It's just my path to godhood.
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Quick Transmigration: The Flawless Queen Is Fierce and Fabulous 快穿:无瑕女王凶且飒
[No Romance | Strong Female Lead] Wuxia, a queen with disaster-level destructive power, forcibly captures System 007 and begins a journey of quick transmigration. If she can solve it with her fists, she won’t waste time talking. She loves beating the protagonists to a pulp, and unexpectedly wins the heroine’s affection? In a rich heiress story, the male and female leads are successively beaten half to death by Wuxia and thrown into prison; In a supernatural entertainment-industry story, the hero
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Quick Transmigration: My Master Keeps Breaking Character 快穿:我家主人日常崩人设
[Strong Female Lead + Feel-Good Fiction + No Romance] The System is the heroine’s personal AI brain. She is the master, and the little System is her servant. Transmigrate? I’ll send you home. Reborn and ready to turn your life around? Did you ask me first? Bound to a System? Little System, get in there! Swallow it! A golden finger drops from the sky? Ready to do whatever you want? It suddenly stops working? Sorry, I specialize in dealing with all kinds of golden fingers. A big shot on quick tran
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Quick Transmigration: The Big Shot Just Wants to Stir Things Up 快穿:大佬只想搞事情
[A bold and badass heroine] [No romance] [Face-slapping and punishing scumbags] Yan Xi is a mission operative. Because she possesses so many good qualities, the System tricks her into returning and binds her to it again, sending her off on another quick transmigration journey. After that, in world after world, a vicious wolf king willingly turns into a cuddly little wolf, while a mutated giant crow obediently serves as a mount... From then on, the timid little System watches its powerful Host,
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Quick Transmigration: I Became the Female Lead's Stumbling Block 快穿:我成了女主的绊脚石
She's just a cannon-fodder extra in every world, a nobody and a stepping stone in the dazzling lives of the male and female leads, there to speed up their romance! Ha! Zhao Miaomiao, the quintessential tool woman. What? The heroine wants to steal this cannon fodder's title as princess? Zhao Miaomiao: “I'll have you stripped of your status and made a commoner.” The heroine wants to steal my opportunity? Zhao Miaomiao: “I'll cripple your cultivation.” The heroine wants to steal my fiancé? Zhao Mia
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Got Five Powerful Younger Brothers 穿书后有了五个大佬弟弟
After being reborn as a villainess, Fei Tiantian thought she was about to get killed off. Who could have guessed that five powerful younger brothers would suddenly appear and spoil her rotten! Second Brother: “Sis, go do whatever you want. Leave the haters to me.” Third Brother: “Sis, as long as I'm here, let's see who dares act all high and mighty in front of you!” Fourth Brother: “Sis, if you don't like this entertainment company, we'll start our own.” Fifth Brother: “Sis, you're the model for
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The World Game of Conquest 攻略之世界游戏
[Quick Transmigration] [Strong female lead] [No CP] After being imprisoned for three hundred years, a notorious, universally despised supercriminal from the interstellar era is given a chance to regain her freedom: she must travel to three thousand worlds and fulfill people’s wishes. Whether you’re stubborn and strong, cocky and flashy, sweet and naive, or calm and calculating, you’re still a rookie in front of Fang Qing. You want revenge? Fine. But don’t expect me to be your cannon fodder. You
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Dawn Within the Cage 樊笼内的破晓
Some people are born trapped in a cage. Invisible barriers, woven from the soil of one’s upbringing, the path laid out in advance, the constraints of one’s surroundings, the cocoon of one’s perceptions, and the shackles of morality, build a cold, solid cage that holds her captive. She is raised within it, as if this were all life could ever be. If she does not awaken, if she does not save herself, the ending is clear: the cage will silently devour her, and she will vanish in a slow death. Yet de
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