Dark, Cold-Blooded, Behind-the-Scenes, No Female Lead, Suspense, and Profit Above All 黑暗，冷血，幕后，无女主，悬疑，利益至上

1. 51 丧 Zombie Lord System 丧尸领主系统 Kang Bing康冰Sci-Fi & Apocalypse874k WordsCompleted Xiao Li accidentally obtains a Zombie Lord System and becomes a zombie lord who can command hordes of the undead in the city. What?! You want to compare numbers with me? My zombies carry a virus more terrifying than rabies. One bite and you'll learn just how painful this world can be! What?! You want to compare equipment? My zombies can use machine guns and rocket launchers. Never seen a Licker before? Don't mess with me, or I'll shut the doors and sic the zombies on you! 213Reads8.0Score103Shelves
2. 52 我 I’m the Villain System: Turning Boiling Sheep Evil from the Start 我，反派系统，开局黑化沸羊羊 Minotaur Warrior牛头人战士Anime Fanfiction444k WordsCompleted Bai An is troubled. Why is it that other protagonists can rely on a System to reach the pinnacle of life after transmigrating, while he’s ended up with a villain System that only has basic functions? But what can he do? Since he can’t be human, Bai An will strive to become the strongest System there is! Bai An looks at a certain sheep being mocked for its crude manners and extends a friendly invitation. “Little sheep, are you content to be a simp... I mean, a licking sheep?” This book is 1.6kReads9.2Score127Shelves
3. 53 大 Great Qin: The Entire Empire Invades Another World 大秦：举国入侵异世界 The Great Wall万里长城Historical535k WordsOngoing He transmigrated into the Great Qin dynasty as Ying Zheng. Just as he was about to die, he activated a System, and from then on, Qin’s soldiers appeared in all kinds of worlds! The first campaign: Jackie Chan Adventures. Seize the talismans, battle the Shadowkhan, and obtain the Book of Ages! The second campaign: the Marvel Universe. Obtain the Infinity Stones! The third campaign: the Naruto world... One world after another was conquered by Great Qin, and the Qin world grew stronger with every c 20Reads8.2Score—Shelves
4. 54 洪 Honghuang Q&A: The Punishments Are So Harsh, Even the Mighty Are in Tears 洪荒问答：惩罚过严大能吓哭了 The Supreme One Above All无上大至尊Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsOngoing The Primordial World, during the era of the Witch and Demon tribes. A Question-and-Answer Space suddenly appears out of nowhere. When the countless living beings of the Primordial World learn how their stories end, what will happen next? Hongyun: “I actually die in the end?” Zhen Yuanzi: “Why does Fellow Daoist Hongyun die in the end?” Kunpeng: “I actually never become a saint?” Dijun: “So our fates were decided long ago?” Dijiang: “If the Heavenly Dao wants us dead, then before I die, I’ll find 114Reads5.9Score—Shelves
5. 55 铠 Armor Hero: Emperor of the Shadow Realm 铠甲之影界帝王 Black-Clad Emperor黑衣帝尊Anime Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted Reborn as the biggest BOSS in Armor Hero, the supreme ruler of the Shadow Realm, the emperor: Black Emperor! The Choice System activates instantly! The Violent Zuyin Insect God, the Ultimate Emperor, the Asura Armor, Thunder Yatales... They all belong to this emperor! The Black Monster, the Nether Demons, the Violent Zuyin Insect Emperor, the Mutant Beasts Legion, the Oukes Legion, the Armor Legion... They’re all this emperor’s pawns! And so... Wang Ye: “Shadow Protectors, your ambitions ar 1.7kReads8.6Score139Shelves
6. 56 全 Everyone Invests: All My Investments Are in Protagonists 全民投资：我投资的都是主角 Yu Song雨松Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted [Myriad Heavens] [No Romance] He transmigrates into an era when everyone invests. Monsters run rampant, and undercurrents surge. The only weapon humanity has against monsters is the Myriad Heavens Investment Exchange! Once awakened, people can invest in figures from the Myriad Worlds. But Jiang Bei discovers that these worlds come from the novels and anime of his previous life! And he knows every protagonist in them! (Brothers who came here for the empress, take note: the title doesn't say "from 3kReads8.2Score229Shelves
7. 57 黑 The Dark Web: Livestreaming the Great Escape 黑暗网络之直播大逃杀 Master of the Listening Immortal Pavilion听仙亭主Urban361k WordsCompleted Synopsis: Vic Lee, an Asian-American military mechanic, was suspected of being a foreign spy and sent to Guantanamo Bay. After two years of secret interrogations, they still had no evidence! The prison then sold Vic Lee to a financial conglomerate, forcing him to take part in a livestreamed game on the dark web: “Prey, Fight!” Who will be the only survivor? The entire game will be streamed live. Place your bets! Twenty million secretive members from around the world are watching on the dark web, 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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   If it's cold-blooded and thrilling, this is it. You'll like it.

8. 58 从 Infinite Evolution, Starting as a Mosquito 从蚊子开始无限进化 Sliced Bitter Melon苦瓜切片Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted [No human transformation, do-gooders beware, no heroine] Chen Feng transmigrates to another world with an Infinite Evolution System and becomes the most ordinary mosquito imaginable. As long as he drinks blood, he can evolve. From then on, Chen Feng embarks on a journey of endless evolution. Powerful sect leaders, ancient divine beasts, mighty dragons: they’re all just experience points. Leading an army of mosquitoes, Chen Feng conquers the world and makes it tremble beneath his wings. 2.2kReads8.5Score200Shelves

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   These books are pretty good ①The joy and touch you brought to me are unforgettable ②The best suspense novel I have ever read ③Writing skills and brutal ultimate creative ability ④From the beginning to the end, from the beginning to the end, from the beginning to the end

9. 59 黑 The Dark Movie Emperor 黑暗影帝 Forget the Sorrow of Parting忘记离愁Mystery3.9M WordsCompleted After his parents mysteriously disappeared, Yao Tianjun went looking for them and stumbled into the Yellow Springs Show. It's a bizarre reality show. You have to play one of its characters and improvise. As the plot unfolds, chilling curses and ever-present terrors will descend upon you. Wandering among the dead, I am the movie star of the darkness. 763Reads7.8Score—Shelves
10. 60 颠 Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球：开局扮演反派大佬 Blazing Heavenly Inquiry炽生天问Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th 26.6kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
11. 61 我 I, the Villain, Rule the Heavens 我，反派，独步诸天 Half a Lifetime半生Eastern Fantasy249k WordsOngoing Invincible protagonist + satisfying power fantasy + System. Yan Junlin, Crown Prince of Yan, was stripped of his title. On that very day, countless powerful figures approached the Yan Kingdom and knelt at his feet, shouting in unison: “We swear to defend our lord’s honor with our lives!” “Have the flowers bloomed?” Yan Junlin asked softly. “My lord, the flowers have bloomed!” An endless army shouted as one. “Since the flowers have bloomed, I suppose I have no choice but to become invincible bene 25Reads8.1Score—Shelves
12. 62 至 They Dug Out My Supreme Bone, and I Turned to Darkness 至尊骨被挖的我黑化了 The Will to Climb登临意Eastern Fantasy579k WordsCompleted [No saintly heroine + absolute supremacy] Transmigrate into a body with its Supreme Bone ripped out, and they expect me to forgive them? I refuse to forgive them. I choose to embrace the darkness! A broken body turns dark: Netherworld Divine Body! A cultivation technique turns dark: Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art! A weapon turns dark: Godslaying Spear! A spirit beast turns dark: Taotie! What? Even my eyes can turn dark! Watch Qin Mu corrupt everything, sweep across the Three Realms, ruthlessly cru 335Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    All of these are ok

13. 63 末 Doomsday Evolution: The Zombie Overlord 末日进化：丧尸大魔王 Three Winds 11三风11Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted A blood-red sun hangs high in the sky, and the world is transformed! An utterly ordinary little zombie faces countless perils in the apocalypse, evolving again and again until it becomes the Zombie Demon King! 7.7kReads8.9Score609Shelves
14. 64 反 Villain: From the Start, I Slay a System-Bound Transmigrator 反派：开局宰了系统穿越者 Celestial Star Lodge天星宿Eastern Fantasy282k WordsOngoing [Scheming] Qi Tian accidentally transmigrates into a novel where the protagonist has a System. All he has is a golden finger resembling the laws of the Great Dao. It’s useless for anything except stealing things from transmigrators. Yet all these outsiders with Systems want to kill him, and a vast conspiracy is closing in. Qi Tian spends every day worrying that a transmigrator will kill him. “You killed a System transmigrator and obtained a fragment of the world’s origin.” “You killed a System t 149Reads8.3Score—Shelves
15. 65 开 I Unleashed a Dark Turmoil from the Start 开局我发动黑暗动乱 When the Brush Falls Beneath the Lamp笔落灯下Eastern Fantasy192k WordsCompleted What legendary Divine Lord? He was just a corpse who had been hunted by an ill omen for a thousand years, and only barely survived in a coffin after giving it everything he had. What boundless universe? It was merely a world born inside an abandoned secret realm. The Immortal Gate countless people tried to open was no different from a latrine door. There was no eternal life or everlasting existence. It was all just a wisp of an Immortal Emperor's aura. This book is action-packed from start to fi 688Reads8.0Score—Shelves
16. 66 一 The Self-Cultivation of a Perfect Hexagonal Warrior 一个完美六边形战士的自我修养 Returning Traveler in Wind and Snow风雪衣归人Urban1.4M WordsCompleted (Requires a heart of steel. It’s very “healing.”) This is a story about an unknown world and a group of madmen who defy taboos to steal the power of demons. The blurb can’t do it justice. Read the story to find out. 1kReads8.6Score107Shelves
17. 67 我 I’m a Dual-Personality Surgeon, Professionally a Ripper 我，双面手术师，职业开膛手 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Some call him Miracle Doctor Lu, while others call him Lu the Skinner. Some owe their battlefield dominance to the mechanical limbs he fitted them with; others have breathed their last beneath his surgical knife. He can save someone on the brink of death, or make a corpse disappear without a trace. By day, he is the warmest kindness in the world; by night, he is a terror that makes the whole world tremble. A scalpel rests between his fingers: one side is a demon, the other an angel. His name is 22kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
18. 68 末 Apocalypse: A Gatling Gun with Infinite Ammo from the Start 末世：开局一把无限子弹加特林 Wang Xin王信Sports482k WordsOngoing [Earth has been completely digitized. Since the conditions for starting the game have been met, Earth Online is now launching. This major update is Earth Version 3.0.] [To enhance the gaming experience, the “Cleaner” virus code has been added to the database of every living thing on Earth. This virus has one effect: it has a 70% chance of greatly enhancing the Host’s physical abilities, granting the ability to devour and evolve, and making them fearless of death. The price: a complete loss of re 135Reads8.4Score—Shelves
19. 69 神 Tycoon: I'm the Villainous Rich Heir's Dad! 神豪：我！反派富二代他爹！ Snow at Dusk in the Clouds云中暮雪Urban1.0M WordsCompleted After an unexpected transmigration, Li Daoran became the father of the second male lead in a brainless wish-fulfillment novel. What he never expected was that Li Yuan, a top-tier rich second-generation heir, would be such a lovesick simp! His predecessor had died of illness. To win the heroine's favor, Li Yuan publicly declared at his own funeral that he would give all his family's wealth to the male and female leads. Li Daoran was furious on the spot! “I don't have a useless son like you, and I 1.9kReads8.1Score124Shelves

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    It seems like this

20. 70 无 Invincible: I Am the Demon Lord, Ruling Over the Heavens 无敌：吾为魔主，威临诸天 My Head Hurts脑壳瓜子疼Eastern Fantasy369k WordsCompleted (No heroine + decisive and ruthless + not mindless + invincible) In a fantasy world, Fang Zhiyi commands countless gods and demons, creates the supreme Demon Tower, suppresses peerless prodigies, and sweeps everything away with a wave of his hand as billions of demon soldiers march forth. With dozens of golden fingers, Fang Zhiyi rises to become the most invincible being in the world. 1.1kReads8.7Score—Shelves

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    These two books are definitely in line with the first one, which is particularly beautiful and highly recommended.

21. 71 纸 Paper Plane 1: The Abyss 纸飞机1深渊 Xi Sanwen喜三问Sci-Fi & Apocalypse135k WordsOngoing Better to die in the spotlight than live in obscurity. This is the wail and roar of strivers and the unfortunate. Don’t speak to me of the ways of the world. I know its warmth and cold for myself. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Take a look at my book. . . , Welcome to comment

22. 72 黑 Dark Academia Life 黑暗系的校园生活 White Night BatX白夜蝙蝠XMystery252k WordsCompleted [Dark Campus] Dark themes + bizarre horror + everyday terror + mystery and deduction In a chaotic neighborhood stands a school unlike any other. Its students don't fight, commit crimes, or rape people like students at other schools... The students here are polite and law-abiding, making it a model school for the community. And yet this school is known as Crime High School. Beneath the white surface may lurk an unfathomably deep darkness... Bai Yeyu and Yuetsumori Megumi are students here, two co 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommend this book, Dark Campus! All the characters are evil, and the characters in it are very morbid. The male protagonist is a manipulative type, and the female protagonist is a simple type (not kind). There is no cp, and the content is a bit curious. You can check it out ~

23. 73 长 The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行 Ge Zhao格照Mystery299k WordsCompleted The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person... 273Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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    There is no profit, everything is just to pay for the original promise and to pay for the cowardly self.

24. 74 龙 A Dragon Kingdom Police Cadet Charges Into Maitira 龙国警校生，勇闯迈提拉 Thousand-Year-Old Stone Monkey千年老石猴Urban137k WordsOngoing [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 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Villain, shady, dual business online, planning, step by step, egoistic, decisive in killing, not holy, logical

25. 75 末 The Doomsday Bone Rebuilder 末日之骸骨改造者 Rain Falls on the Western Mountain雨落西山Sci-Fi & Apocalypse166k WordsOngoing [Dark] [Cold-Blooded] [Ruthless] This is not a wish-fulfillment story. After ten years of freezing hardship, the blood runs hot once more. Reborn for a second life, he finally understands that it was all a dream. He sighs for a world where all living things suffer, and speaks of a dream in which everything comes to naught! Li Xiang is reborn. He has reclaimed the fearsome power that made everyone dread him in his previous life: bone modification! What is the greatest danger in the apocalypse? Zo 3Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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    Recommend these two books 1. The military is also a strong human force 2. There is no woman in my heart, so I draw my sword to the God of Nature.

26. 76 震 Shocking! The System Turned into My Puppet from the Start 震惊开局!系统被我变成傀儡 Low-Key Tadpole低调的蝌蚪Urban132k WordsOngoing [Puppeteer + Behind the Scenes + (Pseudo) Spiritual Qi Revival + (Pseudo) System + No Romance] Zhang Chi is a puppeteer. After dying alongside an unknown enemy, he discovers that his spirit has appeared in an unfamiliar world, and that he no longer has a body. Just then, a System comes knocking. [Ding! Binding successful...] Zhang Chi: “Sorry, I don’t care what kind of System you are. You’d better turn into my puppet.” Afterward, Zhang Chi discovers that this world has no supernatural powers at 3Reads7.4Score—Shelves

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    Awesome,,

27. 77 黑 The Black Ring Abyss: Demons Descend on All Worlds 黑环深渊：恶魔降临万界 Crispy Fried Dragonhead Fish酥炸龙头鱼Urban192k WordsCompleted (A dark, selfish, ruthless protagonist with no heroine, no moral limits, no pointless chatter, and no brainless decisions) Li Xiang arrives on Blue Star with the help of a black ring. He devours and evolves, creating a realm of ghosts, and just as he thinks he has reached the pinnacle of the world, he discovers that it was all part of a master strategist's scheme. An “accidental” piece on the board, he relies on his ability to travel between planes in an attempt to break the game. Protagonists, —Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    New book, very nice

28. 78 修 Cultivation: From the Start, I Possessed a Beautiful Elder 修仙：开局夺舍美女长老 Starry Sky Fish Head Soup星空鱼头汤Eastern Fantasy310k WordsOngoing [Absolute egoism + decisive and ruthless + no saintly behavior + neither wholly good nor evil + cultivation + slow-paced + dark + the Myriad Worlds + transmigrate + ruthless and merciless + never lets a slight go unanswered + mercurial + eccentric + no female lead] [The protagonist will create a System later to assist himself] [The pace will not be too fast] Everyone faces all kinds of hardships in life, but once you overcome them, you can soar to success. The strong make the rules; the weak fol 28Reads5.1Score—Shelves
29. 79 诸 The Bloodwing Cult Master of the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界之血翼教主 Lü Bu Battles Li Yuanba吕布大战李元霸Male-Channel Fanfiction542k WordsOngoing The protagonist, Zhou Yuan, binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Cult Leader System. He had planned to transmigrate into a famous wish-fulfillment novel and rise to the top, but instead he accidentally lands in Zhongzhou and inherits the legacy of the Immortal Venerable's first life: the Bloodwing Demon Cult. Joining forces with Wuji, he breaks through the barriers between worlds and explores the Myriad Worlds! (Three new arcs have since been added: the Cangwu Cultivation Realm, the One Piece worl 3.7kReads—Score141Shelves
30. 80 蓝 Blue-Blooded Nobles 蓝血贵族 The Seventh Day of the Fourth Month四月初七Eastern Fantasy763k WordsOngoing Xia Er unexpectedly transmigrates into a mysterious world of extraordinary powers and becomes the youngest son of the West family, one of the six blue-blooded noble houses. With his parents neglecting him and his siblings bullying him, and everyone wanting him dead from the start, Xia Er has no choice but to raise the banner of rebellion. Beginning with a bargain with an ancient god, he takes one step at a time toward the pinnacle of the world. “When blue blood shines on the battlefield, that’s 387Reads8.6Score128Shelves

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    It's really beautiful. Although saying I know doesn't convince you at all. But I can only say, watch it or not.

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