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1. 1201 灰EN Above the Gray Fog 灰雾之上 Anti-Static防静电Eastern Fantasy4.5M WordsCompleted [Lord of the Mysteries]+ [Potions]+ [Races]+ [Civilization] A hundred years from now, I am a hero. My deeds become stories, praised by all. A thousand years from now, I am a legend. Stories become epics, passed down through generations. Ten thousand years from now, I am a faith. Epics become myths, and the incense offered to me never ceases. P.S. This book is also known as Above the Gray Mist. P.S. The development of the human race provides the backdrop. The focus is on an individual's epic, no 89.3kReads9.3Score7.8kShelves

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   First book: You need a good CPU to read this. Second book: Immortality story, very sweet (the synopsis is weak, please read the main text).

2. 1202 无 Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费 Mo Sibei陌肆白Mystery800k WordsCompleted [Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra 20.5kReads9.3Score2.3kShelves

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   These are all my favorites. I won't go into the first two; the quick transmigration book is one of the five major systems series by Jiu Qian Sui Er. The others are all perfect, and the suspense ones are really great. I love Miao Miao and Qiu Dong (9.7, 9.8, 9.6, 9.5). The authors' writing is excellent, highly recommended! I'm determined to conquer all of Tomato Books!

3. 1203 我 I Once Promised You a Golden Age of Joy 我曾许你盛世欢颜 Flirtatious Little Bottle风流小瓶子Modern Romance44k WordsCompleted Ye Chen waits for his Mrs. Ye, from the days when youth was like a dream until her hair turns white as snow. But he will never know that his Mrs. Ye was buried long ago in that rotten, muddy grave... 1.7kReads6.6Score267Shelves

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   These are some super good books, and they're also on my bookshelf~ Rating: 4.5 Stars

4. 1204 你 Stop Flirting with Me 你别再撩了 Suoyi Chen琑译臣Modern Romance264k WordsCompleted I hope Xiao Yijian will shine brightly and enjoy peace year after year. They say Xiao Yijian is wild, arrogant, and untouchable, a famous figure at No. 1 High School. After one exam, while people around him gloated and shared their study tips, the top student sat at his desk, staring pensively at the single-digit score on his paper. As someone crumpled the exam paper into a mess, a slender, beautiful girl finally rescued it from their clutches. Her voice drifted into his ears like misty rain ove 41Reads8.9Score—Shelves
5. 1205 逗 Just Kidding 逗你玩儿 Fish Doesn't Speak鱼不语Modern Romance213k WordsCompleted The sky that year. He was the dark cloud that lingered in Yu Ning’s heart, gloomy and oppressive, impossible to escape. Yu Ning was the gentle breeze he longed to chase, impossible to touch and impossible to hold on to. “Yu Ning, did you ever really like me, even just a little?” “Never.” He fell silent, smiling faintly, his heart pierced with pain. If only that summer, he hadn’t been so cruel and hateful, personally pushing her into the abyss and coldly watching her struggle with all her might. 8.6kReads9.0Score837Shelves
6. 1206 她 She Tastes Like Bitter Chocolate and Sweet Orange 她是苦巧甜橙味 Cheese Bread奶酪欧包Modern Romance221k WordsCompleted [Mid-Length Novel Contest] No matter how unruly and carefree a boy may be, he’s still an innocent young man. Let the audacious arsonist raise his hands and surrender! Blurb One: What do you do when a brat is so good-looking that you can’t bring yourself to hit him? Just give him a living doll. Preferably a fake-sweet girl who looks harmless but can kill with a single move, and let him learn that even the wicked can meet their match! Years later, when the little gluttonous brat has grown into a 7Reads7.3Score—Shelves
7. 1207 蚀 A Love That Cuts to the Bone 蚀骨危情 Qi Lao You淇老游Modern Romance753k WordsCompleted Xia Weiming died, and Shen Xiujin personally sent Jian Tong to a women’s prison. During her three years behind bars, Shen Xiujin’s order to “take good care of her” changed Jian Tong beyond recognition. She was even “persuaded to donate a kidney” while in prison. Before she went in, Jian Tong said, “I didn’t kill her.” Shen Xiujin remained unmoved. After her release, Jian Tong said, “I killed Xia Weiming. I’m guilty.” Shen Xiujin’s face turned livid. “Shut up! Don’t let me hear you say that again 68.3kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
8. 1208 诱 Luring Her to Fall 诱她沦陷 Meowko33娘口三三Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted Wen Ran was once a wealthy heiress, admired by everyone, so proud and accomplished that people hardly dared approach her. Then her family fell on hard times, and she became a pitiful girl with nowhere to go. To her surprise, someone took her in. The young delinquent had a bad temper, and there was always a hint of impatience in his gaze. Wen Ran was a little afraid of him. But when she was at her lowest, he was the one who sheltered her from the storm. When others picked on her, he was the one w 3.1kReads9.3Score294Shelves
9. 1209 余 I'll Spend the Rest of My Life Waiting for You 余生只待你 Young Master Liangye公子凉夜Urban128k WordsCompleted In high school, Bai Zhi and Lin Yu became classmates. Back then, Bai Zhi was rebellious and willful, a troublesome student who gave her teachers headaches. After an encounter in a downpour, Lin Yu saw through her pain, and the two became close friends. They were accepted into the same university and promised to start there together. Before they could enroll, Lin Yu learned that Bai Zhi was the daughter of the mastermind behind a kidnapping case that had once shocked the entire city. He had been 2.1kReads9.6Score327Shelves
10. 1210 杀 Killing His Wife 杀死妻子 20/100 Vision视力零点二一Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted To deal with scumbag men, use their own tactics against them and leave them with nowhere to turn. Lin Xia is busy uncovering the truth, inheriting a fortune worth over a billion, and helping women hurt by their partners. Her enemies are formidable: a scheming man who marries into a wealthy family to exploit it, a crafty tycoon, a faithless husband who murders his wife for insurance money, a manipulative man who scams women out of money and sex, and an elite lawyer who commits sexual violence… 935Reads9.3Score173Shelves

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    After reading these three books, you'll find it even harder to read anything else.

11. 1211 我 My Son Gave Me Floral Shorts: Now I’m Unrivaled 我儿送我花裤衩：从此盖世无双 Really Loves Cream Cakes非常喜欢吃奶油蛋糕Eastern Fantasy194k WordsCompleted Ning Hai transmigrated to another world. Years later, his adopted son returned from cultivating immortality abroad and gave him a pair of floral shorts. To Ning Hai’s surprise, those shorts were no ordinary garment. Once he put them on, he could pluck the sun and moon with one hand, trample gods and demons beneath his feet, decide life and death with a glance, and make all paths of the Great Dao mourn with a single word… 7Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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    When he was fifty, he found a baby boy and named him Ning Qingxue. Years passed, and one day Ning Qingxue returned from her studies and sewed a pair of large shorts for her elderly father. What shocked the father and son was that after Ning Hai put on the shorts, he gained unimaginable strength… 👍🤩✨🎉🎉

12. 1212 寒 The Emperor Star of a Poor Family 寒门帝星 Wielding a Spear at the Abyss执戈临渊Historical1.1M WordsCompleted A divine artifact shatters, and turmoil rises on every side; Like windblown willow fluff, like duckweed adrift in the rain. Lin Feng wants only to protect little Qingyan Village and live in peace. But the iron hooves of a chaotic age crush the last of his innocence. When he first grips a bloodstained saber, when he is forced to make a cruel choice, a thought takes root and grows wild in his heart: This world that devours people should not be this way! Watch as a humble mountain-village hunter ra 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The characters are meticulously portrayed, all of them are intelligent, the strategies are logically sound, and the growth trajectory of the protagonist and the faction is consistent with objective facts.

13. 1213 造 The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌 Xiu Ji休济Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted (This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles 238Reads9.0Score161Shelves

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    A sci-fi fantasy with a gradually unfolding plot; don't try to guess the story!

14. 1214 盟 The Mengjin Crossing 盟津渡 Facing South from the Mountain朝山南Historical267k WordsCompleted Also known as The Awakening of the Ferry Boy. Wu Heyuan, a young man from a Yellow River ferry crossing, suffers the massacre of his entire family, and his younger sister goes missing. After delivering a letter to the Weishui Alliance for a mysterious stranger, he becomes Jiang Shang’s disciple and embarks on a path of political intrigue. When his sister is trained to become an enemy nation’s assassin, when his beloved tastes poison to save him from the brink of death, and when his master gives —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is of very high quality, with delicate writing and rigorous logic.

15. 1215 偏 Drawn to Danger: My Finance Whiz Husband from Our Whirlwind Wedding Is a Robber 偏惹危情：闪婚金融精英是抢劫犯 The Sea Is Full of Water大海里全是水Modern Romance329k WordsCompleted [Mystery Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + A Strong Heroine's Awakening + International Manhunt + Love Triangle] I'm a jewelry expert and the daughter of a wealthy Zhejiang family whose property was demolished. Forced into marriage, I travel from Xingzhou to Haishi on a business trip and impulsively marry a handsome, aloof stranger. He claims to be a finance whiz, but the day after our wedding, he lands in prison for “robbery,” forcing me to fly to Southeast Asia to visit him. To get back 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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    From a whirlwind marriage to her death, she single-handedly landed herself in a multi-million dollar jewelry scandal…

16. 1216 海 The Begonias Bloom for You Again 海棠今又为君开 Yi Shuang宜霜Ancient Romance556k WordsCompleted [Historical Romance + Sweet Romance + National and Family Feuds] In her previous life, Xiuyi trusted a scumbag and agreed to marry him, only to be pushed into a pond by a scheming white lotus and drown! Reborn, she opened a clinic, saved her father and brothers, kicked the scumbag to the curb, and schemed to have the white lotus die a gruesome death in prison. The cold-faced marquis, whose power held sway over the realm, drew her into his arms: “Don't worry! With me here, everything will be your 41.3kReads9.3Score4.3kShelves

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    Two books about palace intrigue and domestic drama! They're incredibly good!

17. 1217 霓 A Rainbow of Silks Before the Palace Gate 霓裳惊阙 The Owner of Wood Machine Dog木机狗的主人Ancient Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Political intrigue + romance + strong female lead This is a slow-burn story, an extremely slow burn!!! If you like fresh, lighthearted jianghu adventures, start with Volume One. If you like the twists and turns of court politics, start with Volume Two. If you like domineering emperor + haughty consort + substitute romance, start with Volume Three. If you like an unconventional succession struggle, start with Volume Four. Everything else is in Volume Five. The story takes place in a fictional Eas 69Reads8.2Score—Shelves
18. 1218 清 Gentle Breezes, Northern Light 清风徐徐，北光照拂 Qing Die晴蝶Ancient Romance445k WordsOngoing A story concept I got from spinning a roulette wheel one day: Ling Beiyao: a teacher in an era of future technology Xu An: a doctor from another world Lin Yingchu: a demon king from an era of super-civilization (The protagonist was supposed to be just one person, but I ended up writing three.) The story is divided into the main storyline and individual character arcs. The main storyline follows the three protagonists from different worlds on their adventures in an era of super-civilization. The 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Divided into main story and individual character stories. The individual character stories, reflecting the characters' emotional ups and downs, can be interpreted in multiple ways when combined with the main storyline. For a better understanding of the writing style, you can check out the author's reviews on the homepage, or even use it as a venting space, whether you're a reader or not. This is a niche, semi-serious ensemble piece with a rotating setting, original content, everyday adventures, and a blend of reality and fantasy.

19. 1219 生 Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Mystery293k WordsCompleted In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s 797Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 1220 惊 A Case That Shook the Nation 惊天巨案 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Urban299k WordsCompleted This is an anti-corruption novel about an interest group that abuses its power to fabricate wrongful convictions and seize the assets of a local private company. The story follows the people’s police, represented by Gao Fei, as they investigate this miscarriage of justice, uphold social fairness and justice, defend the authority of the law, and protect the lives and property of the public. Undaunted by sacrifice or hardship, they pit their wits against the interest group in a grueling struggle, 31.3kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
21. 1221 我 My Strange Neighbor 我的诡异邻居 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Mystery18k WordsCompleted My Eerie Neighbor 260Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 1222 亲 My Older Sister Is the Empress, So What's Wrong with Me Acting Arrogant? 亲姐是皇后，我嚣张一点怎么了？ Country Kitchen乡间小厨Historical507k WordsCompleted After transmigrating as Cao Guojiu, one of the Eight Immortals, he stops a scoundrel named Li Zhi from swindling his elder sister into a marriage and has his limbs broken. His infamy spreads far and wide, but misfortune turns to fortune when his brother-in-law, Emperor Renzong of Song, praises him and gives him important responsibilities. The Celestial Worthy of Donghua appoints him as one of the Eight Immortals, and Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin take him on as a pupil. In matters of state, he sol 425Reads9.2Score100Shelves

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    Mythology and history combined, this book is suitable for readers who enjoy reading about assisting kings and expanding territories. If you are interested, you should definitely give it a try. It also incorporates various mythological stories.

23. 1223 零 Zero-Degree Showdown: Operation Blue Arrow 零度交锋：蓝捷行动 Windless Rainy Night雨夜无风Mystery2.3M WordsOngoing [Mystery and Suspense] [Espionage] [Crime Investigation] [Modern Urban] [Genius] [Strong Female Lead] [National Security] Twenty-three years ago, a separation tore the lives of twin sisters apart. The younger sister was trained by an overseas spy organization to become an elite agent. Sent back to China, she is ordered to assassinate her own sister, take her place, infiltrate Lanjie Communications, and steal the core secret, “Lanjie 9.” Caught between her mission and her organization's orders on 11.3kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves

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    Lanjie Security Director Zhao Deyong falls in love with a spy who has taken his identity. When the truth is revealed, how will he choose between love and his country? — To embrace you is to embrace a time bomb.

24. 1224 重 Reborn with an AI Brain, I Master the Power Game 重生AI大脑玩转权力 Maple on a Sunny Day晴天的枫Urban1.8M WordsCompleted An overworked programmer dies from working overtime and is reborn with an AI brain. In this life, he becomes a child prodigy, builds a business empire before turning 20, then enters politics and uses his resources to climb to the pinnacle of power! 8.1kReads7.1Score443Shelves

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    You should check it out; it's a really good, satisfying novel about officialdom.

25. 1225 放 I Gave Up the Pinnacle of Business to Reach the Pinnacle of Power 放弃商巅的我登上权巅 Writing Novels Without a Care忘我写小说Urban579k WordsOngoing In the study of the Zhu family's villa, Zhu Wanli slams the table and roars, “If you don't pass the exam, you'd better come back and inherit the family business!” Hugging a stack of review materials a meter high, Zhu Feng coolly shoots back, “Grandpa, have you heard the saying, ‘The first thing you do after passing the exam is strike down the one you love’?” “If I pass, the first thing I'll offer up to the heavens is our family's nouveau riche image.” On exam day, he's stunned to find that the e 496Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 1226 星 The Starry Sky's Cycle of Fate 星空命轮 Best in Volume Ten卷十最佳Eastern Fantasy409k WordsOngoing The socially anxious young lord of the city just wants to lie flat, but this world is absurdly vast. One step beyond his door, and he finds himself in an endless game of chess. In a golden age, prodigies vie for supremacy. Armed with nothing but a fragment of an ordinary memory, he leads a ragtag crew deeper and deeper into the game, only to discover that the hidden forces behind it have barely revealed themselves... 19Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The writing is good, but I'm the only one reading it. Maybe the beginning wasn't well-written.

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