Books That Seem Ordinary but Turn Out to Be Masterpieces 看似普通却神作的书
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My Cousin Got into Harvard and Had Me Committed to a Mental Hospital 表姐考上哈佛大学,将我送进精神病院
My Cousin Got into Harvard and Sent Me to a Mental Hospital
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Records of Searching for the Gods 搜神记
In the primordial age of the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the death of Shennong, the leader acknowledged by all under heaven, stirred the ambitions of heroes from every tribe. Amid the turbulent times and surging undercurrents, a young man appeared out of nowhere. By a twist of fate, he embarked on a thrilling and extraordinary legendary journey.
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- 3 Even the Honest Get Tired of Being Bullied and Fight Back 老实人欺负久了,也是要反抗的 Even Honest People Will Fight Back If They're Bullied for Too Long —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 At 43, I Awakened After Being Fired! 43岁,被开除后觉醒了! At 43, I Awakened After Getting Fired! 5.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Treading the Stars 踏星 A vast universe, countless races! Grand battle techniques, the Ten Judges rise above all! Ancient clans with unique surnames, the Top Hundred Battle Rankings! In my name, I tread upon the stars! One day in the year 2200, when humanity first set foot on Neptune, they found a battle blade and a corpse standing upright!!! The author has already completed an older novel, The Ultimate Throne of Doomsday, at over three million words. It was never once put on hiatus, guaranteed reliable! 2.5kReads9.3Score166Shelves
- 6 After Prison, I Picked Up a CEO 出狱后,捡漏一个总裁 After Getting Out of Prison, I Stumbled Upon a CEO 5.1kReads—Score101Shelves
- 7 No Immortals 无仙 After his master’s death, the youth Lin Yi descends the mountain to cultivate. Thus begins his journey through the martial world, seeking the true meaning of cultivation. To cultivate immortality is to cultivate the heart… 220Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 8 The Young Traveler 少年行 In that moment, I truly understood why the poor stay poor. It isn't because we don't work hard enough. It's because of the environment we live in, the resources we have, our narrow-mindedness, and the few, fragile opportunities available to us. All of it traps my impoverished family in a struggle just to survive! I gave everything I had for a chance to “change my fate,” yet a single storm was enough to destroy it! 24.3kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 9 A Collection of Super-Short, Sweet Romances 超短篇小甜文合集 All are sweet little stories! Each one is a standalone, super-short tale. Straightforward romance, no misunderstandings, quick progress, and quick endings. Story One: A tree finds his companion vine [Zhu Yan x Yue Zhiteng] Story Two: The man fought over by a rich woman and a rich young man [Tao Zhuo x Chen Shu] Story Three: A mountain spirit obsessed with human phones and a human who fall for each other [Lin Fenfen x Lu Yuan] Story Four: A severely lopsided student reborn in her third year of mi 3.7kReads8.2Score241Shelves
- 10 The Poor Scholar's Rise 寒门贵子 After transmigrating into the body of a penniless scholar, Jiang Feng thought about how his computer science degree from his previous life was utterly useless here… Then it occurred to him: “Of all pursuits, studying is the noblest. I’ll just have to grit my teeth and take the imperial exams!” He kept going, and when he suddenly looked back, he had risen to the highest offices, expanded the empire’s borders, and built an unprecedented legacy! P.S. The new book, A Poor Scholar of the First Rank, 33.7kReads9.1Score3.3kShelves
- 11 After His Herniated Disc, He Swindled People Out of Money and Sex 他腰椎间盘突出后,骗财骗色 After His Herniated Disc, He Swindled People Out of Their Money and Their Virtue 305Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Complete National Physician 全职国医 Fang Han, a graduating senior at a traditional Chinese medicine college, originally wanted nothing more than to be a handsome doctor who kept to himself, marry a pretty wife, and become a chief physician before retirement. He never expected to accidentally become the youngest master physician in the country. This is the story of a young doctor who grows with the help of a System! It’s also the story of an ordinary person who grows into a great healer devoted to all living beings! 29.7kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
- 13 A Sweet Little Blind Date Romance 相亲小甜文 A Sweet Little Blind Date Romance 448Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Art of the Steal 捡漏 One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p 17.1kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
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Blood of the Spring Champion 春魁血
[Republican-era setting + gloomy warlord male lead + earth-mother-style assassin heroine] [Happy ending + dark humor + ensemble cast + everyone is a little crazy] [Business before romance + no good men or women + high-stakes warning] Long Chun was delighted when she married Han Ziyi. At last, she thought, she was no longer the unlucky assassin who made a living taking lives. With Han Ziyi’s army protecting her, she could pursue lucrative ventures without holding back and become a respectable bus
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- 16 The Manga Prophecy Murder Case 漫画预言杀人事件 [Comic artist X avenger] A flop comic Chen He had abandoned three years ago suddenly went viral because it had predicted a murder. Netizens trembled in the comic's comments: [Have you seen the news? Why is this scene exactly like what they're showing on TV?!] [Am I seeing things? They only just found the body, but the comic was published three years ago!] [How did the artist come up with a burial site like that? What are the odds?] [I have a pretty wild theory...] [Could the author actually be t 56.6kReads9.5Score11.8kShelves
- 17 EN Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 171.3kReads9.6Score22.1kShelves
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Invincible the Moment I Leave the Village: How Will You Deal with Me? 出村就无敌,阁下如何应对
Liu Ye had always thought he was a good person, especially a devoted son. He was particularly filial to his mother. The Festive Funeral Ghost: What a load of crap! He was kind and gentle toward his father. The Water Ghost: Waaaah... Don’t come any closer! If you do, I’ll kill myself! He would go through fire and water for his friends. The other ghosts: You mean you’d stab us twice, right? All in all, Liu Ye felt that he was a very happy person. All the ghosts: Isn’t your happiness just our tragi
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Diary from a Conversion Therapy Center 戒同所日记
A diary recording the final two months of my life... Maybe I'm just not meant to be loved. Otherwise, why would everyone who loved me leave?
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Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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- 21 After I Took a Passing Stranger as My Dad, I Got the Villain's Whole Family 认路人甲当爹后我喜提反派全家桶 In her previous life, after Shen Yi was found by her wealthy family, her scumbag father and younger brother were already living a happy life with the adopted daughter, all loving father and devoted son. Bullied for picking fights with the adopted daughter, she eventually chose to take her own life. Reborn outside the gates of an orphanage, before her scumbag father had come looking for her, she decisively latched onto a man who looked like an ordinary passerby. She insisted on sticking with him. 321.9kReads9.5Score52.9kShelves
- 22 The Fourth Catastrophe, but in the Detective Conan World 第四天灾,但柯学世界 [Detective Conan fanfic + no female lead + black and red elements mixed at will + characters may be saved from death + original cases may be added at random + the male lead may seem crazy to some characters; original characters included, please leave if that's not your thing] Luo Mingmu, a veteran game streamer, received a game that claimed to have no restrictions whatsoever, including but not limited to management, card pulls, fighting, and shooting, with an incredibly high degree of freedom. N 199Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 118.9kReads9.6Score13.8kShelves
- 24 Harry Potter: I Only Wanted to Drop Out, Yet I Saved the World HP:只想退学的我却拯救全世界 Transmigrating into the world of Harry Potter, she ended up in Slytherin from the start. But Jian Yu realized that a devastating war would break out in seven years, leaving countless dead and wounded. To stay alive, she firmly resolved to drop out and return to the Muggle World. Getting into school is hard, but surely dropping out is easy? She soon discovered it really wasn’t. When she broke all kinds of school rules, the professors instead awarded her a ridiculous number of points. When she del 11.3kReads9.4Score1.1kShelves
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The Big Shot Reads Her Mind, Then Carries the Maid Straight to Bed 大佬读心后,直接扛起保姆扔在床
[Both Leads Have No Past Relationships + Pure Love + Mind Reading + Transmigrate into a Book + Kissing Addict] A lively, lustful little housekeeper vs. a pure-hearted, sickly villain (They get together incredibly fast!) She transmigrates into a dog-blood novel as a cannon-fodder housekeeper. The original owner disappeared after trying to climb into the villain's bed while he was dead. Looking at the handsome, sinister Shen Jin, she acts obedient on the surface, while internally going wild: [Ooh!
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This Daoist Only Knows a Little Magic 贫道只会一点小道法
[Urban Fantasy + Cultivation + Lighthearted + One Female Lead + Not Pure Wish Fulfillment + Clash Between Chinese and Foreign Gods + Schemes of Higher-Dimensional Gods] Earth is a bug. Humanity is something that needs to be wiped out. The gods from beyond the stars descend in force, intent on carving up Huaxia and even destroying the Blue Star. Just as their arrogance reaches its peak, A blade of cold light tears through the clouds. No figure appears, only the chilling edge of a three-pointed, d
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- 27 Everyone in the Sect Is Crazy, So I Max Out My Luck Instead 满门皆疯批,小师妹反手气运拉满 [Everyone's Darling + Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + No Love Rivals + System] After Yun Yici transmigrates into a book, she's bound to a damnable fortune System. By earning the favor of those destined for great things, she can exchange their affection for fortune points and unlock draws. But after finally joining the sect at the heart of the story, she discovers that she's arrived two hundred years before the plot begins. Fortunately, her ethereal yet unreliable master has impossibly high standa 15.6kReads9.1Score2.2kShelves
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Possessive Obsession: The Dangerous Tycoon Falls for Me Step by Step 强势侵占,疯批大佬步步沦陷
Unhinged powerhouse + aloof bottom + domineering love Fu Yunxiao is an unhinged ruler standing at the top of the pyramid: obsessive, ruthless, and fiercely possessive. When Jiang Yueming turned down the company's offer to recruit him early as the new chairman's assistant and chose the R&D department instead, the incoming chairman, Fu Yunxiao, took notice. To punish him for refusing to be his assistant, Fu bullied him without restraint. At first, Fu only wanted to crush Jiang Yueming's pride. Wit
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Rookie Season 菜鸟季
The tree-lined avenue was the school’s annual rings. Beneath the shade of century-old parasol trees, their mottled, hardened trunks were covered in knots like the display walls of a museum. They seemed to tell the people sheltered beneath their branches stories of a distant past. Standing there, you could clearly see the footprints their predecessors had left beneath the fallen leaves, and clearly hear their sonorous recitations, their quiet love songs, and their ringing vows. A group of sunny y
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After Offering Herself to Settle His Debt, the Celibate Heir Can't Stop Kissing Her 以身抵债后,禁欲太子爷吻她上瘾
[Love after marriage + powerful man bows to love + age gap + both pure + steady, slow-burn romance] Fang Ran got drunk and spent a night in passionate embraces with a stranger in a hotel bed. The next morning, she slipped away while he was still asleep. Later, Fang Ran crashed into a globally limited-edition luxury car. She went to discuss compensation with the owner, only to discover he was the stranger from that night. His true identity was Han Yanzhou, the prince of Haicheng. He demanded 13.1
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Double Happiness 上上禧
[Marriage First, Love Later + Older Man + Secret Crush + Both Leads Are Inexperienced] Song Xi had a good friend. Her friend said her second brother was rich and handsome, tall with long legs, and urged Song Xi to go on a blind date and win him over. Then she could become her beloved second sister-in-law. Song Xi got carried away and agreed. The good news: They slept together. The bad news: She slept with the wrong person. The crazy news: She got a marriage certificate with the wrong person. Whe
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- 32 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Posing as a Mysterious, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Man 盗笔:装出个高深莫测但美强惨 "The only Grave Robbers' Chronicles fic rated 9.6, come see!" [Starting with the Old Nine Gates, Beloved by All, Pick Your Favorite Pairing + Slightly Everyone's Favorite + Everyone Imagines the Powerful Heartbreaking Beauty] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At that very moment, my body was lying right beside me, playing the part of a breathtakingly beautiful vegetative patient. The good news: I could create an immortal secret identity. The bad news: the System told me 44kReads9.6Score6kShelves
- 33 The North Wind Encounters a Dragon 朔风邂龙 Amid the flames of the apocalypse, Dao Yun was a space scientist in command of countless supplies. At the moment Earth shattered, her soul transmigrated with her endless stockpiles into the body of a dying infant abandoned in a mass grave in another world. An old Daoist priest found her and brought her back to his temple, giving her the religious name Dao Yun. She sealed away her past and watched the human world with cold eyes. In the bitter winter when she was twelve, a command from her master 120Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 34 Strangers in Public, Addicted in Private! Spoiled with Kisses Every Night 人前不熟!人后上瘾!夜夜被宠亲 [Married first, fall in love later + powerful man lowers his head + slow-burn, sweet romance + both leads are each other's first] At 24, Song Xinya was 170 centimeters tall and weighed 90 kilograms. At 25, Song Xinya was 170 centimeters tall and weighed 50 kilograms. In a year, she lost 40 kilograms, transforming from a big girl everyone mocked into a goddess everyone envied. A slim waist, shapely hips, alluring long legs, fair skin, and beautiful features. After going to the wrong table at a bl 88.6kReads9.1Score8.4kShelves
- 35 I Photographed Every Has-Been Online Celebrity, and Now I’m Finally Famous 拍遍全网糊咖,醉姐终于火了 [No romance for the heroine, career-focused + entertainment System + fan site manager / agent / boss] Chen Zui has been in a parallel world for a year. The music variety show she was supposed to join gets canceled at the last minute. Fine, fine, guess I’m just unlucky. She’s replaced on a dance show because she stepped out with her right foot first. She gets angry, then gets angry for a moment. She gets edited out of an entertainment variety show for offending a popular star. You dare mess with 18.8kReads9.4Score2.6kShelves
- 36 Cultivating Immortality Starts With Finding a Little Cauldron 修仙从拣到小鼎开始 On a bitterly cold winter day, Zhang Yiqun is forced by his uncle to chop firewood. Just as hunger and cold are getting the better of him, a bronze cauldron falls from the sky, smashing through a tree and leaving a huge crater. The cauldron can automatically absorb spiritual energy and duplicate items, helping him solve the problem of going hungry. But when he enters the world of immortal cultivation, he discovers the cauldron's powers go far beyond that. It can heal wounds, refine pills, and ev 949Reads9.0Score154Shelves
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My Dad's Hilariously Ridiculous Love Story 我爸那笑死人的沙雕爱情
My Dad’s Hilariously Ridiculous Love Story
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- 38 Three Years Left to Live? Four Saintesses Beg Me Not to Slack Off 命剩三年?四圣女求我别摆烂 (Fantasy, Eastern cultivation, past and present lives, multiple female leads, passionate cultivation, formation genius, decisive and ruthless, golden finger) “That shabby book bought for five yuan changed Lin Mo’s left eye into a yin-yang eye. On a stormy night, the mountain god temple collapsed, and a bronze compass revealed Yuan Tiangang’s star chart. From then on, Lin Mo used a Five-Grain Cycle Talisman to boost harvests while planting rice and rushing to market, and awakened an ancient, thou 42Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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After I Married the Jerk into a Rich Family, His Whole Family Regretted It 将渣男送进豪门后,他全家后悔了
After I married the scumbag off to a wealthy family, his whole family regretted it.
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The Hollow Will 空头遗嘱
A Sham Will
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- 41 The Girl of My Dreams Is Just Old, Not Dead 白月光只是老了,不是死了 The woman you can never forget has simply grown old. She hasn’t died. 6.2kReads—Score102Shelves
- 42 Murder by Necklace 项链追凶 The Necklace Murder 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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If You Won't Write the Memorial, Why Are You Going on the Northern Campaign? 不写出师表,你北什么伐呀!
“This place is so delightful, I could forget all about Shu!” Liu Shan, who left behind this timeless saying, thought he had died. But when he opened his eyes again, he had become Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Great Song. With none of Zhao Gou's memories, he gazed at the officials filling the court and fell into deep thought. They have a chancellor here too? The name Qin Hui might not sound like much, but surely he's as capable in both letters and arms as my foster father! Hmm? Wait, why is there
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- 44 My Mom Regretted It After She Forced Me Into Prison 把我逼进监狱后我妈后悔了 After Driving Me Into Prison, My Mother Regretted It 2.5kReads—Score—Shelves
- 45 My Husband Hated My Family's Funeral Business, So After Our Divorce I Took Over His Entire Family's 老公嫌我家殡葬晦气,离婚后我把他家包圆了 My husband thought my family's funeral business was bad luck. After our divorce, I bought out his entire family's business. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Five Corpses in the Cellar 地窖里的五具尸体 Five Bodies in the Cellar 932Reads—Score—Shelves
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Quick Transmigration: The Host's Plot Falls Apart Every Day 快穿:宿主每天都在崩剧情
[Quick transmigration + no romance + indulgent fantasy + absurd comedy] Cheng Ran became an intern in the Transmigration Department. A social phobic with a mild fear of men, she was forced to play the male lead’s beloved first love, his unforgettable crush... System: You’re supposed to be a wicked first love. Why the hell have both the male and female leads fallen for you?! Cheng Ran: Damn! I don’t know either! I’ve been following the script! The female lead is naturally goofy. A comedy, unapolo
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- 48 The Human Traffickers Want Me to Bear a Child, but I'm a Snake Spirit Who Hibernates 人贩子逼我生孩子,可我是条会冬眠的蛇精啊 Human traffickers are forcing me to have a baby, but I'm a snake spirit who hibernates! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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A Fatty Liver and a Love-Struck Brain 肝是脂肪肝,脑是恋爱脑
(No romance, no melodrama, pure medical drama) Xie Hanxin is a young doctor struggling to make her way in obstetrics and gynecology. She goes from a junior doctor at the bottom of the ladder to an attending physician, from full of ambition at the start to utterly disillusioned later on, and from vowing to devote herself to the operating room to packing up and seeking another path. Xie Hanxin dares to take responsibility and to say no to everything unreasonable in medicine, even though it makes n
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