A Highly Skilled Martial Artist Joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard and Rises Through the Ranks 主角武功很高，混锦衣卫之类，一步一步升官的

1. 51 京 The Capital's Greatest Detective: You Call This a Lackey? 京城第一神捕，你管这叫狗腿子？ Ink-Tinted Clear Light墨染清辉Historical2.6M WordsCompleted After passing the graduate school entrance exam, Xu Qing finally landed the stable government job he had always dreamed of. Only, this job was a little different from what he had imagined. He had transmigrated into the body of a constable who had just died. What's more, a tall, handsome female constable with elegant brows and bright, starry eyes took a liking to him and picked him to serve under her. Xu Qing had intended to refuse. That is, until he saw the female constable casually snap a stone 17.5kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
2. 52 降 Dragon-Subduing Divine Constable 降龙神捕 Sharp Edge Hidden in Night Eyes夜眸藏锋Eastern Fantasy6.4M WordsCompleted After several years as a police officer, I found myself in a strange and fantastical world. Mountain spirits roam the hills, while vengeful spirits, evil ghosts, and zombies appear in endless numbers at night. Though weak as ants, we should still aspire to greatness. Though oppressed, we must forge an unyielding heart. That was all nonsense. I’m just a low-level constable, working for the yamen. Greetings, honored sirs. 80.9kReads9.2Score10.9kShelves
3. 53 大 Great Ming: From Book Boy to the Strongest Imperial Guard 大明：从书童到最强锦衣卫 Jinghai's Most Devoted Lover京海第一深情Historical1.1M WordsCompleted Zhou Chu transmigrated to the Zhengde era of the Ming dynasty. To survive, he was sold to the Lu family as a page. Just as Zhou Chu was helping the family’s second young master study and make steady progress, disaster struck the Lu family. Its members were thrown into prison. Zhou Chu took the Lu family’s only daughter with him, earning money while bribing the guards to make life in prison more comfortable for the family. Then Zhu Houzhao died, and Zhu Houcong took the throne, changing the era n 45.1kReads8.9Score5kShelves
4. 54 锦 The Embroidered Uniform Guard Solves Cases with Spirit Sight: From the Start, I Get the Lingbo Microstep 锦衣卫通灵破案：开局获凌波微步 Cong, the Twenty-Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month腊月二十八琮Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted 47.4kReads8.7Score4.4kShelves
5. 55 枌 The Grass and Trees of Fengyu Grow Tall 枌榆草木长 Ni Ergou倪二狗Historical2.6M WordsCompleted [Signed for print publication: ensemble cast + rival nations vying for supremacy + political intrigue and strategy + patriotism and national pride + original poetry + memorable supporting characters] [This is a fictional setting, and some historical references should not be taken as fact. This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. The plot is carefully developed, the logic is rigorous, and the cast and scope are large. There is no System or golden finger. There are no brainless villains or c 24.2kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
6. 56 太 Immortal Official of Taixia 太夏仙吏 Dragons and Snakes Beneath the Brush笔下龙蛇Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted Wei Ping'an wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated from being a young man with nothing to his name in the modern era into a low-ranking constable in the Six Fan Gate of Great Xia. In this world, spirits run rampant and demons wreak havoc. Humans are as insignificant as ants, while immortals and ghosts walk among them. In the halls of government, sages cultivate a righteous spirit, traversing vast mountains and rivers and suppressing the fortunes of the realm's four corners! Across th 26.6kReads8.8Score2kShelves
7. 57 锦 A Carefree Official in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 锦衣卫里的闲散官 Fat Coca-Cola肥胖的可乐Historical2.1M WordsCompleted Flying-fish robes, embroidered spring knives. When the brocade-clad guards draw their blades, the court runs red with blood. Traitors who collude with the enemy: execute them! Officials who take bribes: execute them! Those who disrupt the court: execute them! Those who form cliques for personal gain: execute them! In an age of prosperity and splendor, where life drifts like willow fluff, the embroidered spring knife holds the realm in check. He Lu put away his Embroidered Spring Knife, still sta 32.7kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
8. 58 尘 The Dustblade Guards the Palace 尘锋镇阙 Awareness觉性Martial Arts663k WordsOngoing The protagonist is both righteous and wicked, neither wholly good nor evil, and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals! He takes revenge on the spot. If he can’t get even right away, he’ll find a way to do it later. No saintly do-gooder, no brainless characters! Rescuing a gravely wounded noble on a snowy night draws him into the martial world, the power struggles at court, and the conflict between good and evil, as he investigates the secrets of the Imperial Bones. Welcome, new and longtime 2.9kReads6.0Score184Shelves

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   I recommend it.

9. 59 万 I Can Raise Anything, and Beautiful Women Help Me 万物可养，红颜助我 Ant in the Shadow影子里的蚂蚁Urban1.2M WordsCompleted My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Please leave comments asking for updates, give it a five-star rating, and send a gift if you like, even a free one. Your support keeps me going!!! 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [Fear] 🤮🥺

10. 60 靠 Damn, Dark Zone Breakout Helped Me Become a God 靠，暗区突围助我成神了 Ant in the Shadow影子里的蚂蚁Urban1.1M WordsCompleted My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Please ask for updates, leave chapter comments, give it a five-star rating, or send a little free gift. Thank you! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 61 成 Growing Strong with the Help of Beautiful Women 成长之红颜助我 Ant in the Shadow影子里的蚂蚁Historical2.9M WordsOngoing Beauty helped me succeed, and I repaid her with ten thousand taels of gold… 962Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 62 开 Exiled from the Start, I Changed My Fate by Grinding for Experience 开局被流放，我靠肝经验逆天改命 Ant in the Shadow影子里的蚂蚁Eastern Fantasy3.7M WordsOngoing From the Start, Exiled to the Frontier: I Defy Fate by Grinding Experience Lu Chen was a top student in the modern world, but after waking from a nap, he found himself reincarnated as a disgraced heir in a world of immortal cultivation. Exiled to the frontier from the start, with his spiritual roots destroyed, he was also saddled with a frail fiancée and a fallen family. He smiled calmly. “Perfect. Let me show you what scientific cultivation looks like.” While others were still struggling throug 2.7kReads—Score240Shelves
13. 63 重 Back on the Eve of the College Entrance Exam, I Fight My Way from the Exam Hall to the Forbes List 重回高考前夜我从考场杀进福布斯 Dustbound Horsem尘中马mUrban274k WordsCompleted Shen Zhiyan, a 31-year-old office drone at the bottom of the ladder, stays up late watching a game, suffers a fatal heart attack, and is unexpectedly reborn on the eve of the 2014 college entrance exam. With a complete memory of the next 15 years, he refuses to keep wasting his life and earns a place in the economics department at Jiang Hai University, a top-tier 985 university, with a score of 642. After the exams, he uses an unexpected upset at the World Cup to turn his 3,000-yuan startup fund —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend all pretty girls.

14. 64 开 Unemployed from the Start, I Become the World's Richest Man with a System 开局失业，我靠系统成了世界首富 Dustbound Horsem尘中马mUrban192k WordsCompleted Lin Chen is an ordinary 25-year-old wage earner. After being maliciously laid off, dumped by his fiancée, and buried in debt, his life hits rock bottom. In his darkest hour, he awakens the [God-Tier Sign-In System]. Sign in every day to receive cash, luxury cars, mansions, top-tier skills, company shares, and more! From the start, he signs in and gets 100 million in cash and a Rolls-Royce, then humiliates his ex-fiancée and former boss on the spot. He buys mansions, starts companies, and builds 27Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 65 重 Reborn as the Dragon Commander Who Guards the Nation 重生之都市镇国龙帅 Dustbound Horsem尘中马mUrban224k WordsCompleted Long Yuan, a grandmaster of ancient martial arts, is ambushed by a close friend while undergoing tribulation. His soul returns to the modern city, where he is reborn as Long Xiaotian, the disgraced, discarded young master of the Long family. His supposedly crippled meridians turn out to conceal a Chaos Sacred Body, while a dragon-patterned jade pendant in his sea of consciousness holds an ancient secret realm and the legacy of the Dragon Clan. With a grandmaster’s composure, he crushes campus bu 12Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 66 人 At the Jing’an Bureau, How Did I Become the White Lotus Sect’s Holy Son? 人在靖安司，怎么成了白莲教圣子 Chopped Chili 66剁椒六六Eastern Fantasy298k WordsOngoing [Great Ming] [No System] [High Martial] [Case Solving] [Mystery] [Slaying Monsters and Exorcising Evil] [Decisive and Ruthless] “In the waning years of the Great Ming, immortals and Buddhas vanished, and monsters and demons ravaged the land.” In this chaotic age, human lives are worth less than grass! A Fengdu Seal drags Wei Dao into an abandoned underworld that has lain in ruins for who knows how long. By slaying monsters, demons, and ghosts, he earns yin virtue. He can use it not only to stren 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The new book is set in a fictional Ming Dynasty, in the Jing'an Division, a special agency dedicated to exterminating demons and monsters. The protagonist acts without restraint, slaying demons, destroying cults, and punishing corrupt officials.

17. 67 我 My Martial Arts Rank Second to Last in the World 我的武功天下倒数第二 The World's Mightiest Little Fox宇宙无敌小狐狸Eastern Fantasy132k WordsCompleted He is a swordsman known throughout the martial world as Gu Longfei, half man and half ghost, the greatest of sword masters. His swordsmanship is so fast that it’s impossible to see. Wherever he appears, corrupt officials and crooked villains all lose their heads. Never provoke him. Push him too far, and he can split into hundreds of clones to attack his enemies all at once. He is a terrifying swordsman, and his sword style is called the Yuqi Heavenly Sword, also known as the Living Dead Sword. I 65Reads—Score—Shelves

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    His martial arts skills are extremely high.

18. 68 纪 After the Era Shattered 纪元破碎之后 An Empty Bottle in the Thirteenth Month十三月的空瓶Eastern Fantasy311k WordsOngoing The era has shattered, cultivation has vanished, and everyone relies on burning themselves up for power, only to become puppets of the old age. The young Shen Qing has no sacred cultivation texts, no powerful soul, and only a "Prison of the Self" that locks away his true heart. If the old civilization was all wrong, then he will carve his way through this wasteland alone and guide every last ember to salvation! [Ruthless] [Wasteland] [Genius] [Subverts Expectations] [No Female Lead] 23Reads—Score774Shelves

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    After the global catastrophe, orthodox cultivation disappeared, and everyone relied on overdrawing their own strength to gain power, which came at a huge cost. The protagonist explores the truth behind the destruction of the era.

19. 69 你 You Partied in Sanya; I Was Buried Before Dawn 你三亚享乐，我葬于凌晨 A Jialula阿加鲁拉16k WordsCompleted You lived it up in Sanya. I was buried at dawn. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New book recommendation, the genre is quite good.

20. 70 结 On Our Fifth Wedding Anniversary, I Sent Her Straight to Prison 结婚五周年夜，我反手送她坐牢 A Jialula阿加鲁拉9k WordsCompleted On our fifth wedding anniversary, I turned around and sent her to prison. —Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 71 情 Emotional No-Go Zone: Night Walker 情绪禁区：暗夜行者 A Jialula阿加鲁拉Sci-Fi & Apocalypse118k WordsCompleted I, Chen Feng, am emotionally numb, yet I’ve been dragged into a death game show broadcast live around the world. Everyone else’s mission is to survive. My KPIs are to inspire fear, lust, and madness. Just as the audience crowns me a god, the System flashes a red warning: “Your ‘Despair’ energy reserves are full.” “Apocalypse scenario loading. Three billion viewers worldwide. You will be named among the first sacrifices, ” —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 72 诡 The Strange Resurgence: While Others Fight to Survive, I Chase KPIs 诡异复苏，别人求生我冲KPI A Jialula阿加鲁拉Mystery165k WordsCompleted Reborn in a parallel world where the paranormal has descended, Chen Wei awakens the Paranormal Rules Repair System. A vengeful ghost coming to claim your life? That's an overloaded circuit. A curse contaminating the area? That's a missing ground wire. While everyone else fights for survival, he treats haunted domains like a workplace, fixing one job at a time. When the Investigation Bureau comes knocking, he holds up his electrician's pliers and says just one thing: Remember to pay me for overti —Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 73 加 Overtime Rules: The Midnight Deadlock 加班守则：午夜死局 A Jialula阿加鲁拉6k WordsCompleted Overtime Rules: Midnight Deadlock —Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 74 夜 Night-Shift Security Guard: I Use Reason to Cut Down Glitches 夜班保安：我靠理智斩乱码 A Jialula阿加鲁拉10k WordsCompleted Night Shift Security Guard: I Cut Through Glitches with Reason —Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 75 夜 Night Shift Security Guard Survival Guide 夜班保安生存守则 A Jialula阿加鲁拉12k WordsCompleted Night Shift Security Guard Survival Rules —Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 76 不 The Nonexistent Publishing House 不存在的出版社 A Jialula阿加鲁拉6k WordsCompleted The Nonexistent Publishing House —Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 77 1 A Ten-Yuan Banknote from 1998 1998年的十元纸币 A Jialula阿加鲁拉7k WordsCompleted A Ten-Yuan Banknote from 1998 —Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 78 四 At Forty-Five, My Daughter and I Swapped Bodies, and I Made a Hundred Million 四十五岁，我和女儿互换身体后狂赚一个亿 A Jialula阿加鲁拉15k WordsCompleted At Forty-Five, My Daughter and I Swapped Bodies, and I Made a Hundred Million —Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 79 偷 Overhearing His Thoughts: The Icy CEO's Mind Is Full of Pink Comments 偷听心声:高冷总裁内心全是粉红弹幕 A Jialula阿加鲁拉16k WordsCompleted Eavesdropping on inner thoughts: The aloof CEO’s mind is full of pink on-screen comments —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 80 休 After Divorcing My Wife, I Take Charge of the Six Gates 休妻后我掌六扇门 A Jialula阿加鲁拉Ancient Romance33k WordsCompleted After Divorcing My Wife, I Took Charge of the Six Fan Gate —Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 81 摊 I'll Come Clean: The Cast-Off Wife Is a Global Billionaire 摊牌了，弃妇她是全球首富 A Jialula阿加鲁拉28k WordsCompleted I’ll come clean: this castoff wife is a global tycoon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 82 弃 You Cast Me Aside, Now I’m Beyond Your Reach 弃我如敝，他日高不可攀 A Jialula阿加鲁拉Modern Romance8k WordsCompleted You Cast Me Aside Like Trash. One Day, You'll Be Unable to Reach Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 83 重 Reborn, I Personally Send the Scumbag and His Whole Family to Jail 重生后，我亲手送渣男全家进局子 A Jialula阿加鲁拉Female-Channel Fanfiction7k WordsCompleted Reborn, I personally send my scumbag ex and his whole family to prison —Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 84 离 Happy Divorce, My Ex-Husband Can’t Hope to Match Me 离婚快乐，前夫高攀不起 A Jialula阿加鲁拉17k WordsCompleted Happy Divorce. Your Ex-Husband Could Never Measure Up —Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 85 开 From the Start, I Sold Mattresses, and the Sleeping Heiress Became My Strongest Ace 开局卖床垫，沉睡富婆竟是我最强外挂 A Jialula阿加鲁拉12k WordsCompleted Selling Mattresses from the Start: The Sleeping Rich Heiress Turns Out to Be My Strongest Cheat —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 86 一 A Man-Eating Monster Asked Me to Marry It. Should I Say Yes? 一个吃人的妖怪，它竟然向我求婚了，要不要答应它 The World's Mightiest Little Fox宇宙无敌小狐狸9k WordsCompleted A man-eating monster proposed to me. Should I say yes? 79Reads—Score—Shelves

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    He is skilled in martial arts.

37. 87 天 The World’s Number One Blundering Assassin 天下第一乌龙刺客 The World's Mightiest Little Fox宇宙无敌小狐狸Historical7k WordsCompleted The World’s Greatest Accidental Assassin 162Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's super beautiful.

38. 88 影 Shadows over the Hall of Loyalty 影落忠义楼 Yang Ximo阳夕陌Martial Arts557k WordsCompleted [Shadow Guard’s Rise + Court Intrigue and the Martial World + Stunning Beauties] He is the sharpest shadow guard in Prince Night Falcon’s hands. With his Feihong Sword, he has spilled countless drops of blood and never once failed. During a mission, he meets Mu Yao, a tender moonlight in a turbulent age, and then catches the fiery starlight in Shen Siyue’s eyes, a beacon of hope in utter despair. Little does he know that from the moment they met, Tong Xinling, an attendant of the Ruyi Tower, has 84Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Chapter 211 [Signs of Rebellion] I'm not exaggerating when I say this book. If you calmly read just twenty chapters, you'll be completely engrossed, unable to tear yourself away, as if you've personally stepped into that world of swords and shadows, becoming a part of the martial arts world. The book features a young shadow guard as the protagonist, wielding a flying sword that has drunk countless lives without ever missing its mark. It intertwines the swordplay of the martial world with the undercurrents of the imperial court, featuring a tight plot, crisp action, tense confrontations on the brink of life and death, and delicate, moving moments of romance.

39. 89 云 The Cloud Tower Rankings 云楼榜 Cai Yuanwai蔡员外Historical724k WordsCompleted A child abandoned during a time of war was reunited with his parents at the age of fourteen. Only then did he discover that his parents were the Great Yue Empire's Grand Generals Who Guard the Nation. But his true identity was even more astonishing: he was the leader of the world's most mysterious sect, as well as one of the few martial artists to have reached the Grandmaster realm... 805Reads5.2Score—Shelves
40. 90 锋 The Winds of Change in Fengge 锋戈之风起云涌 Cai Yuanwai蔡员外Historical801k WordsCompleted After a century of prosperity, the Great Yu Dynasty is in decline, beset by troubles at home and abroad. The court is in turmoil, and Xu Yunshan, the Great Yu's foremost commander, who had already retired to the mountains, is forced back into a web of intrigue and power struggles... 102Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 91 混 Chaos Divine Tribulation 混沌神劫 Cai Yuanwai蔡员外Eastern Fantasy618k WordsCompleted He was once the Demon Lord of the Upper Realm. After his beloved betrayed him, the Six Realms joined forces to attack. On the brink of death, he escaped with a secret technique. To evade his pursuers, he erased his memories and reincarnated his soul. But who could have guessed that his beloved would betray him again in his new life? This repeating fate awakened the Demon Lord once more, setting him on an endless path of revenge... 51Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 92 决 The Decisive Battle at Xuanwu Gate 决战玄武门 Cai Yuanwai蔡员外Eastern Fantasy611k WordsCompleted Cai Yuanchu, a boy from a small county town, inexplicably claims the reward for catching the killer in a local murder case, only to be drawn into an unpredictable conspiracy. He also uncovers a staggering plot dating back to the end of the Sui dynasty and the beginning of the Tang, which gradually leads him into the Xuanwu Gate Incident... 52Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 93 因 I Was Hunted to the Ends of the Earth for Being Too Handsome 因为长得太帅，被追杀到天涯海角 The World's Mightiest Little Fox宇宙无敌小狐狸Eastern Fantasy204k WordsOngoing Liu Paopao, the Northern Hero, was as famous as Zhan Zhao, the Southern Hero, because he had mastered an extremely mysterious and terrifying martial art: the Sky-Splitting Sword. This supernaturally fast sword technique was so swift that it was completely invisible. It also allowed him to launch attacks from the sky, blotting out the heavens and the sun. Using his mind’s eye and sword energy, he could fill his enemies with such intense fear that they were unable to move, leaving them helpless at 53Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist is highly skilled in martial arts.

44. 94 十 Ten Years of Frost: In the End, Even Fate Was Hard to Defy 十载寒霜：终是难敌天命 The Flowers Bloomed in My Friend's Hometown朋友故乡的花开了Xianxia1.3M WordsOngoing (Male-oriented, xuanhuan, immortal cultivation, xianxia, wuxia, sword cultivator, slow burn, heart-wrenching, multiple female leads, war) He was once the Crown Prince of the Xiaoyao Kingdom, and also the fiancé Shangguan Baili had waited ten years for. On the day his kingdom fell, his face was disfigured and he was left on the brink of death. Shangguan Baili saved him with her own hands. But she failed to recognize the man before her. Taking him for a lowly good-for-nothing with nowhere to go, s 7.4kReads9.3Score716Shelves

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    She waited for him for ten years, but then she handed him over to her best friend after he was disfigured, and finally stabbed him in the heart with her own sword.

45. 95 没EN There's Always Someone More Cautious 没有最苟的只有更苟的 The Flowers Bloomed in My Friend's Hometown朋友故乡的花开了Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted What is an immortal? What is a demon? What is righteous? What is evil? It all comes down to what the victors say! With absolute power, no matter how cunning your schemes, how brilliant your plans, how overwhelming your fortune, whether you are Heaven’s favored child or blessed with one opportunity after another, you can still only be crushed… Qin Fusu of the Great Qin Dynasty had been its crown prince since childhood. As the saying goes, a man of great wealth should not sit beneath a dangerous r 6.5kReads9.0Score477Shelves
46. 96 檐 Rain Beneath the Eaves: Some Loves Can Only Reunite in the Rain 檐下雨，有些爱，只能在雨里重逢 The Flowers Bloomed in My Friend's Hometown朋友故乡的花开了8k WordsCompleted Rain Beneath the Eaves: Some Loves Can Only Reunite in the Rain 591Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 97 噬 Life-Eating Firefly 噬命萤 The Flowers Bloomed in My Friend's Hometown朋友故乡的花开了14k WordsCompleted Life-Devouring Firefly 355Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 98 进 Attack on Titan! 进击的巨人！ Ten-Day Pact十日誓约Male-Channel Fanfiction6k WordsCompleted Attack on Titan! 331Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 99 火 Naruto: I Defy the Heavens for Tsunade, and My Six Paths Golden Body Rejects Every Beauty 火影：为纲手逆天下，我六道金身拒尽红颜 Sleepyhead Baby瞌睡虫宝宝Male-Channel Fanfiction12k WordsCompleted Naruto: I Defy Heaven for Tsunade, and My Six Paths Golden Body Rejects Every Beauty 183Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 100 火 Naruto: Six Paths Naruto Wins Sakura Back, While Hinata Shakes Konoha as His First Wife 火影：六道鸣人抢回小樱，雏田为正妻震木叶 Sleepyhead Baby瞌睡虫宝宝Male-Channel Fanfiction12k WordsCompleted Naruto: Six Paths Naruto Wins Sakura Back, While Hinata Shakes Up Konoha as His One True Wife 107Reads—Score—Shelves

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