Why Are There No Stories Where the Heroine Starts Out as a Genius?! 可恶啊！为什么没有女主出场就是天才的文啊！

1. 351 别 Stop Competing! The Immortal Sect Next Door Already Works Four Days On, Three Days Off 别卷啦！隔壁仙门都上四休三啦 Twelve Clouds十二云Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Get up at six in the morning to cultivate, practicing horse stance and martial arts. Keep at it until noon, take a fasting pill, and rest for half an hour. Cultivation doesn’t end until eleven at night. That’s just the basic routine. The truly driven cultivate nonstop for all twenty-four hours of the day. Even blinking one extra time counts as slacking off. What’s the college entrance exam compared with this? What’s a 996 or a 007 work schedule? Cultivation is the real living hell. No benefits, 1.5kReads9.1Score23014d adds
2. 352 驭 The Beast Tamer King Starts Training Them Young! 驭兽之王要从娃娃抓起！ Qi Lihuihui乞立灰灰Ancient Romance165k WordsOngoing [The rating just came in, and it’ll go up later! Beast Taming + Genius + Adorable Kid, an original fantasy setting. Yu Bao’s growth arc takes a while, but her talent is outstanding from the very start!] Five-year-old Lin Yu awakens with a sixth-grade Earth-level aptitude. To give her the best possible education, her whole family accompanies her to the central city of the Domain Realm to study. On the day little Lin Yu is admitted to the Imperial Academy, Old Master Lin sees smoke rising from the 24Reads6.8Score—14d adds

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   The female lead is an absolute genius.

3. 353 女 Women Can Only Study Liberal Arts or Science? I'll Conquer the High Martial World! 女子只能从文理？我来横推高武！ Xi Yue Xiao Xiao汐月小小Modern Romance1.5M WordsOngoing [Female-oriented high martial arts] [Strong heroine] [Power fantasy] [System] A thousand years ago, spiritual qi revived on Blue Star. Ferocious beasts invaded, and humanity strengthened itself through martial arts, beginning a thousand-year struggle against the beasts. After an accident, Jiang Ling was reborn in her school days. Her parents, teachers, and classmates were all familiar to her. But what were martial arts school and martial arts cultivation? Martial artists stood above everyone els 4.7kReads7.7Score47014d adds
4. 354 疯 Mad Emperor: From Human Sovereign to Lord of All Worlds 疯帝：从人皇到万界之主 Shen Lishu沈黎殊Fantastical Romance22k WordsOngoing Female-led, no romance, everyone’s favorite, a touch of ensemble cast; my take on political intrigue and fantasy, with a classic fantasy feel and fresh, trope-defying twists. No melodrama, nuanced characters, deep foreshadowing, and a vast world. “Mad Emperor!” the feudal lords called her. Liu Ying smiled instead of getting angry. “Mad? Ha! I sit upon the throne, receiving the worship of the Myriad Worlds and enjoying eternal life! But do you think this lofty imperial throne is easy to hold?” Th 7Reads—Score—14d adds

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5. 355 游 Game Descends: Awakening the God of Wealth from the Start 游戏降临：开局觉醒财富之神 Elevenfold Draw-and-Kill Rule十一抽杀律Fantastical Romance900k WordsOngoing [Game Invades Reality + Strong Female Lead + Leveling Up + Satisfying Power Fantasy + All Male Characters Are Chaste] [One and Only Female Lead] [Female-Lead-Centric] [Guaranteed Satisfaction] [(Author-Defined) Lone Wolf] [Ruthless by Any Means] [Cold-Blooded] [BG Romance] [No BL] [Some Yuri Vibes (Pure Friendship)] One day, Sang Yueyin, an Earthling, suddenly transmigrates! The good news: it’s the interstellar era. The bad news: she transmigrated in person, with no education and no assets. Just 5.8kReads9.1Score56514d adds
6. 356 他 None of Them Know I’m a Ghost God 他们都不知道我是鬼神 Fish with the Hiccups打酒嗝的鱼Modern Romance889k WordsCompleted [Strong female lead + infinite instances + face-slapping + wish fulfillment] Luo Luo is unexpectedly transmigrated while fighting her longtime rival atop the Forbidden City, landing in a future world where people must enter endless instances to obtain supplies and survive. At first, everyone thinks Luo Luo is just a pretty boy who's been added to make up the numbers, a weakling doomed to die as cannon fodder. But when they see ghosts and monsters fall effortlessly before her, and even become her 185Reads9.0Score—14d adds
7. 357 人 I'm in an Infinite Flow World, Yet I'm Bound to a Romance System 人在无限流，我却绑定了恋爱系统 Qingyu Case, Maybe Not青玉案否Modern Romance360k WordsCompleted [No CP] + [Infinite Flow] + [Goofy Drama Queen] + [Strong Female Lead] + [Everyone's Favorite] + [System] + [Livestream] Qin Fufeng accidentally binds herself to a romance System. It claims it will take her to the interstellar age to experience all kinds of love, but instead, it drags her into an escape game. Romance System: This [Bite Toast and Turn a Corner into Love] card will help you get close to your target. Qin Fufeng simply uses the item card on two ghosts. Ghost One: Xiao Shu, I think I 3.2kReads9.5Score55814d adds
8. 358 手 I Got the Villainess Script, and Now I'm Terrifyingly Unhinged 手拿恶女剧本，我现在癫的可怕 Ou Cong偶葱Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration] + [No Romance] In her previous life, Pei Ling passed the civil service exams and worked diligently her way up from the grassroots to a senior provincial position, sweeping out organized crime and cracking down on every kind of illegal activity. She was upright to the core. Then she entered a Quick Transmigration world and was handed the script of a villainess: a born bad seed who did every evil under the sun, so terrifyingly powerful that the protagonists could only scrape 33.2kReads9.0Score3.9k14d adds
9. 359 系 The System Told Me to Win Them Over, So I Became the Imperial Preceptor and Went on a Killing Spree 系统让我攻略，我转头当国师乱杀 Wu Zhi乌稚Ancient Romance456k WordsOngoing [Everyone’s Favorite / System / Cherished by All / Strong Female Lead / Quick Transmigration] [No Fixed Couple] [Spatial Storage] [Lighthearted, Enjoyable Wish Fulfillment] [Simple, Satisfying Prose, No Angst] After Shen Shuang dies, she becomes the heroine of a cultivation novel. She manages to scrape by for a thousand years before getting struck by lightning and dying. Then she binds herself to a System and transmigrates through small worlds. She plays the supporting villainess, but never gets 168Reads8.4Score—14d adds
10. 360 快 Quick Transmigration: The Universally Disliked Fight to Become the No. 1 Fan Favorite 快穿：万人嫌争做人气角色No1 Han yuu寒yuuAncient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted After Shi Wuqing died, someone claiming to be a System found her. If she collected enough “popularity points,” she could come back to life. Shi Wuqing agreed. Then she was sent into various novels, where she became the cannon-fodder character readers hated most. Her mission was to become the character readers loved most, with the highest popularity, by the end of each novel! World One: Shi Wuqing became the scheming younger sister who took the heroine's place and married the prince. At the begi 42.4kReads9.5Score5.1k14d adds
11. 361 丑 Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家 Green Falcon青鹫Modern Romance654k WordsCompleted [Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to 134.8kReads9.6Score21k14d adds
12. 362 老 The Ancestor Came from the Cultivation World 老祖宗她来自修仙界 Qing Mo轻陌Ancient Romance898k WordsCompleted [Purely ancient setting + no romance + no spiritual qi revival + heroine’s cultivation is suppressed, but she’s still the strongest + the heroine is the only cultivator] The declining Weisheng clan had a secret. More than six hundred years ago, their ancestor, Weisheng Yue, was chosen by an immortal and embarked on the path of cultivation. Fifty years later, a luan bird brought a bronze bell and a piece of deadwood. Once the bell rang and the deadwood bloomed again, their ancestor would return. 19.8kReads8.6Score2.1k14d adds
13. 363 好 Why’d You Have to Go and Pick a Fight with Me? 好好的，惹我干嘛 Clouds Over Cangshan苍山的云Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Among the gifts her father brought home, Yumen immediately took a fancy to a stone that looked like a human foot. She took out some colored pens and drew five toes, each a different color, on the stone. Then she placed her own little foot on it. She seemed to see a pitch-black, bottomless hole. Only later did she learn that there were special people in the world who couldn’t fit into ordinary life. In their eyes, she was a weirdo, or even a monster. Then, at the age of ten, she found her ow 11.6kReads8.3Score1.4k14d adds
14. 364 定 My Thoughts Are Leaked on Cue, So I Pretend to Be a God Undergoing Tribulation 定向泄露心声，我伪装历劫神明 Jade Uncarved翡玉不琢Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted A short drama with the same title is now streaming on Hongguo. [Mind reading + eavesdropping on gossip + no romance + pretending becomes reality + no cultivation] Yue Fuguang died carelessly while trying to save someone. Then, while saving another person, she was bound to a Merit System, defective version, and restarted under a new identity. What? She's the real heiress who dies young in a story about a fake heiress and a real heiress? Now that Yue Fuguang is here, dying young is out of the ques 7.8kReads7.8Score1.2k14d adds
15. 365 皇 The Empress Dies a Horrible Death: The Mad Princess Plots to Claim the Empire 皇后惨死：疯批公主谋江山夺天下 Mint-Flavored Lemon Candy薄荷味的柠檬糖Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Political intrigue + strong female lead + no romance Born into privilege, Mo Xiuqi was the emperor’s legitimate daughter by the empress, and the sunniest, most carefree girl in the capital. She began her studies at three, wrote poetry at five, and excelled at both scholarship and martial arts, never losing to the men around her. The heir she was betrothed to had been her childhood sweetheart. She thought she would be happy forever. On her wedding day, she drank the nuptial wine and lost consciou 25.3kReads8.0Score1.1k14d adds

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16. 366 我 I'm a Brain-Dead Solo Fighter. All I Know Is How to Fight 我无脑单兵，只会打架 A Kite That Wants to Go Crazy想疯的筝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsCompleted [Interstellar + Female Lead + Military Academy Coming-of-Age + No Romance] You Yi, a psychic-type zombie queen who used to survive by keeping her head down, transmigrates to the interstellar age one day and is picked up from a garbage heap by a black cat. With no memories or identity, she has only 100 credits to her name. She can't even afford a bottle of nutrient solution, much less a bowl of wontons! Luckily, You Yi is taken in by the black cat's “kindhearted” owner just after nearly dining an 10.8kReads8.9Score1.8k14d adds
17. 367 攀 Ascending to the Dragon's Heights 攀龍 Kaji Yellow Peach咔叽黄桃Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted A flirtatious widow with a child ✖️ a reserved warlord who becomes the founding emperor [Complete] Lou Mizhi was born a woman who never learned to accept her lot in life. If she wanted something, she took it by her own merit, even if she had to snatch it away. Her first husband was short-lived and ill-fated, and his family wanted to burn her and her child to ashes? Bah! As if I’d let you! She hid her savings and took her child away from her late husband’s family. With no one to protect them in t 40.6kReads9.4Score5.8k14d adds
18. 368 七 The 1970s: Who Says a Female Soldier Can't Be a Slacker? 七零，谁说女兵不能当该溜子 A Salty Fish Turns Over and Lie Flat咸鱼翻身躺平Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted [Female soldier + strong heroine + comedy + face-slapping + putting scumbags in their place] After Zheng Hao awakened her memories, she found herself with a biased grandfather, a grandmother who favored boys over girls, and a mother who’d been tormented half to death. Could this setup get any worse? Just as her grandmother was about to stamp the name “Bringer of Brothers” onto her little sister, Zheng Hao struck back, turning their grandparents’ main room upside down and smashing everything to 40.9kReads9.0Score6.4k14d adds
19. 369 帝 The Emperor and Empress Fight Every Day to See Who Dies First 帝后每天互殴，看谁先死 Qian Ran Jun Xiao千苒君笑Ancient Romance2.3M WordsOngoing Feng Xing is the daughter of Chu Xi’s Grand Marshal, who commands an army of four hundred thousand. Shen Feng has been emperor for just two years. Shen Feng is utterly depraved, ruthless, and cruel. To secure his throne, he decides to marry Feng Xing and make her empress. First, he will fake her death to lure her father to the capital for the funeral. Then he will wipe out her entire family and take control of the Chu Xi army. Feng Xing is a fierce, accomplished warrior who takes whatever she wa 34.9kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
20. 370 一 One Gu, Two Sages: Twin Villainesses Conquer the Cultivation World 一蛊双圣：双生恶女玩转修真界 White Pearl 0白珍珠0Fantastical Romance361k WordsOngoing [Unrepentantly evil female leads, no redemption arc + twins + strong women + touch of ensemble cast] Everyone in the cultivation world knows that the twin saintesses of the Southern Border Gu Domain are a pair of sisters so fearsome that even the Heavenly Dao gives them a wide berth. Elder sister Wen Li holds bone-eroding spiritual power at her fingertips, and her bonded Gu can devour heaven and earth. Younger sister Wen Yuan conceals a poisoned edge behind her smile, and the puppet Gu she casu 94Reads—Score10714d adds

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