Looking for an Urban Novel Where the Protagonist Has Been Retired for Years and Is Incredibly Powerful 求主角归隐已经有几年的都市文，实力强大。
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After Coming Down the Mountain, I Open a Restaurant to Raise My Daughter 下山后，开个饭馆养女儿
Chen Ning, young master of the Five Gates, discovers that he has a biological daughter who is three years old. For her sake, Chen Ning comes down from the mountain and opens a little restaurant, settling into a quiet, ordinary life. He spends his days cooking, making buns, and searching for his daughter's mother. Life is peaceful and carefree. As the restaurant grows more popular, more and more important figures come to eat there, and many even show up seeking medical treatment! One day, some th
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- 2 My Girlfriend’s Whole Family Are Big Shots! What’s Wrong with Playing It Safe? 女友全家大佬！我苟亿点怎么了？ The Ancestral Star is a world where games and reality have merged. “Lifespan” is the only currency! With an endless supply of “Lifespan,” one can live forever. Once one's “Lifespan” runs out, one dies on the spot. Every expense in the world is paid for with “Lifespan.” There is only one way to obtain “Lifespan”: the surreal online game Universe OL! Lin Du, a top game designer, wakes up one day to find he has transmigrated into the body of a live-in son-in-law from a wealthy family, force 28kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
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Villainous Son, Get Down on Your Knees. Mom Needs a Favor 反派儿子你跪下，妈求你点事
[Short drama now available] (Doting father-type son x rebellious mother x no-brainer power fantasy x sweet romance x fantasy) In the great age of transmigrating into books, Su Miao transmigrates too. Other people become someone's unattainable first love, a wealthy heiress, or, at worst, a discarded wife. Su Miao is different: She transmigrates as the villain's real mother. She wants to smoke and drink, but the villain won't allow it. She wants fried chicken and milk tea, but the villain frow
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- 4 A Seductive, A-List Star, Spoiled Until His Knees Go Weak by a Mad Tycoon 顶流欲又A，被疯批大佬宠到腿软 [Yandere + secret identity] After being reborn with maxed-out skill points, Duan Yuchen wakes up to find himself locked in a room. A possessive big shot watches him like a hawk. Duan Yuchen: “?? This is pretty thrilling.” From then on, everyone knows that A Chen, the entertainment industry’s little flirt, is being kept by a mysterious big shot. Scripts and resources are lavished on him, and billions in funding are handed over without a second thought. Anyone who bullies him ends up with grass tw 1kReads9.4Score148Shelves
- 5 Shocking! The Secret Identity Big Shot Takes the White Lotus Down From Every Angle 惊！马甲大佬她对白莲花横踢竖卷 [Publishing deal signed] [Satisfying revenge, lighthearted comedy, secret identities, putting scumbags in their place, a quirky and formidable mercenary boss VS a principled young heir from Beijing’s elite circles, devoted heroine] At their first meeting, Shu Lan shoots Lu Jinhan and leaves him badly wounded. She chases him all the way back to China, then becomes an ordinary university student. He runs, she chases; he has nowhere to hide. She’s the world’s number-one mercenary king! She’s a foun 56kReads9.5Score6.6kShelves
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The Female CEO’s Super Soldier King 女总裁的超级兵王
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- 7 The Beautiful CEO's Bodyguard 美女总裁的贴身兵王 He is a fearsome killing god, a man whose very name inspires terror. Sick of bloodshed, he returns to Huaxia and lies low in the city. Forced by circumstances, he unwittingly becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful, cold-as-ice CEO and gets caught up in one conspiracy after another. From then on, a king’s legendary story unfolds! 11kReads8.4Score783Shelves
- 8 Falling for the Stunning CEO 恋上倾城女总裁 Chen Yang, a legendary soldier king, returns to the city and, through a twist of fate, marries a stunning female CEO. He plans to keep a low profile, live off the fat of the land, and wait out his days. But trouble soon stirs around him, and he has no choice but to embark on a bold new life... 1.1kReads8.3Score100Shelves
- 9 The Female CEO’s Close-Protection King 女总裁的近身兵王 A retired soldier king returns to city life and, through a twist of fate, becomes a beautiful CEO’s bodyguard. He was once a revered master, but now he spends every day worrying about the CEO’s paycheck. Watch as this legendary soldier king rises from the ashes and returns to the top! 886Reads9.2Score624Shelves
- 10 My Iceberg Beauty Wife 我的冰山美女老婆 A part-time job contract turns Ye Fan into the fake boyfriend of an icy female CEO. He only wants to make a little money and live a comfortable life, but from then on, trouble keeps finding him. “Um... if I get promoted from boyfriend to husband, do I get extra pay?” 8.2kReads9.2Score743Shelves
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The Underworld King Returns to the City 都市冥王归来
Ye Luo, the king of assassins known as the "Underworld King," grew tired of killing and returned to the city. Every day, he sets up a barbecue stall with Little April, whom he found by chance, hoping to live a quiet, ordinary life. But things rarely go as people wish. When someone forces him back into the underworld, Ye Luo is happy to oblige. Dressed in white, Ye Luo holds a book in his left hand and a pen in his right. Smiling, he says: "Hello, I'm Ye Luo, a scholar. You can also call me... th
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Livestream: My Little Sister Reveals My Immortal Emperor Identity from the Start 直播：开局被妹妹曝光了仙帝身份
Ye Tiandi entered the Immortal Realm. After becoming an emperor in just three years, he returned to Earth to visit his younger sister. He appeared behind her in an instant, and her livestream exploded! "What the heck? Streamer, look behind you!" "Whoa, was that teleportation?!" "Ahhh, he’s so handsome! I’m in love!" "Streamer, is he your boyfriend or your husband? Didn’t you say you were single?!" Also known as My Little Sister, I’ll Help You Become the World’s Number One Streamer
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- 13 Hidden in Plain Sight: I've Lived in the City for 1,000 Years 大隐于市：我在都市1000年 Also known as From the Start: A 100-Million-Yuan Betrothal Gift, Face-Slapping His Former Fiancée [Multiple heroines] Lin Beixuan, a cultivator at the Great Ascension stage, has lived on Earth for 1,000 years! During those 1,000 years, whenever he got bored, he would enter society under a new identity and secret identity, experiencing the ways of the world and its joys and sorrows. On one such venture under a new secret identity, a billionaire took him in as a godson and even arranged a marriage 172Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Daoist Descends the Mountain to Work in a Noodle Shop 道士下山，面馆打杂
[A Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain + Passionate + Has Brothers + Urban Training + Witty + Wish Fulfillment + Ghost Hunting + Zombie Slaying + Organized Group + Cracking Down on Cultivator Crime + Horror] A hostess at a leisure center is sucking people's blood essence. Get rid of her! People keep jumping into the river? A water ghost is harming people. You still want to help it pass on? It harmed people, so get rid of it! A shoddily built tower is haunted... Huh! The ghost lady has earned mer
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The Amazing Little Flower Farmer 神奇小花农
An ordinary high school student happens to buy a secondhand book on the Way, and from then on, his life takes a different path. A top-student protagonist, but this isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, an invincible-protagonist novel, or a rebirth novel. It portrays an authentic high school life, with intelligent characters and believable events. There are no advanced martial arts, powerful officials, or influential clans. These are things that could happen to you or me. Blending cultivation element
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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- 17 EN City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6kShelves
- 18 My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客 After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem. 120kReads9.7Score13.9kShelves
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Urban: I’ve Lived for Ten Thousand Years, and I Can’t Hide It Anymore 都市：长生万年的我瞒不住了
Ye Tian has lived for ten thousand years. He once helped the First Emperor ascend the throne and unite the six kingdoms. He once sat and discussed the Dao with Laozi. He once enlightened the Buddha beneath a bodhi tree. He even traveled across Europe and helped spark the Renaissance. … In modern times, after far too many years and witnessing countless partings and deaths, he decided to return to an ordinary life. He adopted a child and went to live in the countryside. Eighty years passed in the
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Me, Who Used to Be Really Strong 我，曾经其实很强的
My name is Shen Ze. I was once the strongest fighter in Bureau 938 and a notorious “menace” recognized by the entire world of metaphysics. Now I’m a “cripple” whose apprentice stabbed through my dantian and left me with no memories. Ten years ago, I nearly got myself killed saving those idiots. But the bureau’s files were changed to say that I “let the whole team die because I was afraid of death.” Worst of all, I actually believed it! Now my old colleagues have suddenly shown up, insisting I le
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I Had Just Mastered the Purple Sky Divine Thunder When a Hundred Ghosts Appeared at Night 刚修成紫霄神雷，就遇到百鬼夜行
“Young man, you’re a cultivation genius the likes of which appears once in a thousand years. Come with me, and I’ll give you an incredible opportunity.” When Gu Changsheng met a charlatan in the park, he planned to play along and expose him. But as soon as the Daoist reached the mountain, he started flying on a sword. Uh-oh. Looks like this one’s the real deal. Gu Changsheng was filled with anticipation, imagining himself living the life of an immortal in white robes. Instead, on his very f
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- 22 Invincible, Invincible, This Daoist Is Seriously Powerful 无敌，无敌，这个道士强了亿点 [Slay demons and exorcise evil] [Heart sealed in cement] [Slow-paced] [Everyday life] “Daoist, no matter what I decide, my parents disapprove. They’ve put me down since I was little, and I’ve never accomplished anything.” Li You: “There are two things in your home holding you back.” “Daoist, it’s best to let things go. How about you waive my incense offering?” Li You: “If I don’t teach you a lesson today, my Daoist heart will be ruined.” [Universal EXP +10] With the spiritual qi revival, pow 2kReads7.7Score253Shelves
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With a Pocket Dimension in Hand, Farming and Walking Dogs 空间在手，种田遛狗
[Male-oriented opening: Get a spiritual spring space, go home to farm and raise dogs. Male-oriented ending: Sweep every race across the Myriad Worlds into the trash] A rural farming story set in a mountain village. The protagonist stumbles upon a fortuitous opportunity and figures out cultivation on his own. A laid-back cultivation novel with no System, but with a space. Later on, it has two male leads, a father and son, and changes maps after about a thousand chapters. Ye Huan, who works in a b
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- 24 Exposed by a Hit Variety Show After Five Thousand Years of Seclusion in Ghost Valley 隐居鬼谷五千年，被向往曝光了 The crew of the sixth season of Yearning for a Better Life came to Yunmeng Mountain to film, and accidentally wandered into a valley. There, they found an old man with a youthful face and white hair fishing with a hookless line. To their amazement, he actually caught a huge fish! They discovered that the old house where he lived was built from top-grade golden-thread nanmu, worth an estimated 1.5 billion yuan! They also found that the flowerpot he used for gardening was a blue-and-white Yuan dyn 1.4kReads7.8Score101Shelves
- 25 War God, The Whole World Is Begging You to Return 战神，全世界都在求你回归 Eight years ago, Xu Junlin, hailed as the Dragon Nation’s legendary taboo guardian, a peerless powerhouse who kept the world at peace, lost the woman he loved. Heartbroken, he chose to retreat from the world. For eight years, top overlords from every corner have searched frantically for him! Then one day, the world learned that the man who could strengthen a nation’s destiny with a single word and bring the four quarters to heel with a single sentence was still alive! The news sent shockwaves ac 2.6kReads8.7Score294Shelves
- 26 The God of War Comes Down the Mountain 战神下山 “Beautiful, marry me and I’ll buy you a car and a house!” “Stop bragging. You can’t even afford to ride the bus!” “Just you wait! I’m going to make some money!” Ling Feng said, waving his fist as he headed toward a bank. “Come back! I didn’t tell you to rob a bank!” Ye Lingman cried in despair. 664Reads8.9Score124Shelves
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Dragon King Hall 龙王殿
The son-in-law of Yinzhou's wealthiest family wore a white cotton tank top and beach shorts, and did the servants' work, sweeping floors and wiping tables. A month into his marriage, he was still left alone in his “bridal chamber” every night. Everyone thought he was a slick-talking, lazy good-for-nothing. No one knew that he was the supreme leader of the world's largest underground organization: Lord Satan! It didn't matter if his wife looked down on him. He loved her more than 1.3 billion time
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- 28 Reverend, Stop Pretending. I Know You Can Use Immortal Arts 道长别装了，我知道你会仙术 At Zhongnan Mountain, people knew only that it was home to the Quanzhen Sect. Few knew that at its foot stood a dilapidated Taoist temple. That day, the people of Gujing Temple burst onto the scene. From then on, their name would resound throughout the land! 185.7kReads9.2Score13.6kShelves
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The Close-Combat King 近身兵王
An accident changed my life. Now that I'm back in the city, I can't do a thing. All I know how to do is protect a female CEO, beat up rich second-generation kids, and get this or that big shot to call me "bro."
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- 30 The Unrivaled Soldier King 一世兵王 He is the nation’s sharpest blade, the Dragon King of Huaxia, whose very name strikes terror into underground forces across the world! He has a fiancée renowned throughout the capital, yet one beautiful woman after another keeps appearing at his side. Does he take whoever comes his way, or does he choose just one from among countless beauties? He leaves the army to retreat into the bustling city, but the world refuses to leave him in peace. Powerful factions come bearing down on him, while local 26.9kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 31 Number One Dragon Soldier 一号龙兵 The man who should have died five years ago stood on the battlefield years later, representing Huaxia. Dragging himself forward with just one arm left and gripping Dragon Fang, he cried, “I am Sun Tan! I have done right by the people! I have done right by Huaxia!” (This story is fictional. The world inside the book and the world outside it are separate. Please do not confuse the two.) 1.6kReads8.8Score157Shelves
- 32 The Ultimate Soldier King in the City 极品兵王混都市 He founded the world’s most powerful organization and controls half the world’s assets. Now, head of state Chu Nanfeng has returned to Huaxia! A chance encounter with an icy goddess of a CEO binds the two together through the ties of fate! For the woman he loves, he had disguised himself as an auto mechanic. Now he will no longer hide his identity as head of state! With his own strength, he will turn Huaxia upside down! “If Heaven dares to bully me, I’ll destroy it! So what if the whole world st 4.4kReads8.4Score475Shelves
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I Have Returned from the Celestial Realm 我从天界归来
Trapped by love and wounded by it, I fell from the peak! Now that I've returned from the celestial realm, all I want is to live an ordinary life!
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- 34 The First Immortal Returns to the City 都市归来第一仙 After six years of blood and turmoil, he returned as the pinnacle of another world. He had spent sixty thousand years cultivating in that other world, slaying immortals and gods, destroying Buddhas, with a Demon Palace to guard the world and divine weapons to awe the heavens. Even though he was invincible, he could never forget the blood feud of the past. At last, he crossed the cosmos and descended upon the city! The Demon Lord has arrived, his cultivation power shaking the heavens! Those who b 10.2kReads8.3Score916Shelves
- 35 I Returned from Cultivation to Find a Wife and Child 修真归来有了老婆和孩子 Chen Fan returned from cultivating immortality to find that he had a child, and a beautiful wife as well... A new story begins! 388Reads8.6Score130Shelves
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Turning the Dimension Around: Starting with Bald Qiang's Path to Emperorhood 逆转次元:从光头强证帝开始
[Boonie Bears + The Strongest Man + explosive action] The Immortal King Bald Qiang failed his tribulation ninety-nine times, then was forced to shatter the Heavenly Dao and prove himself an Immortal Emperor. But he unexpectedly entered a world between dimensions... “Too slow, too slow! Even that squirrel that only knows how to climb trees is a hundred times faster than you!” “Are people from outside the forest still this weak?” “No matter how strong you are, you can’t harm a single hair on my he
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Me, the Hidden Big Shot, Exposed by the Campus Belle 我，隐藏大佬，被校花曝光了
I’ve been working for three years, and everyone laughs at me for being broke. My girlfriend betrays me, my coworkers mock me, and my boss bullies me. Then one day, I activate the Ultimate Tycoon System. My bank balance instantly gains nine zeros. Luxury cars, mansions, and supreme power come pouring in. Everyone who once looked down on me is now groveling at my feet. I smile faintly. “Sorry. I was just trying out ordinary life.” From then on, the city gains an ultimate big shot who knows how to
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- 38 Challenging Tianxi 挑战天玺 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Strongest Cultivator in the City 最强修士混都市
[Invincible after descending the mountain + Decisive and ruthless + Multidimensional spaces] PS: The setup in the early chapters is lengthy. Please be patient, fellow readers. The story gets even more exciting later on. When calamity struck, he fled to Kunlun and unexpectedly gained the inheritance of Kunlun Void. After vanishing for ten years, he returns to the city with heaven-defying strength, searching for an opportunity to break through to the ultimate realm. On the path to immortality, a m
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- 40 Reborn in the City as an Immortal Emperor 都市之仙帝重生 The Nine Dust Immortal Emperor, Qin Feng, was ambushed by the Misty Immortal Maiden, the woman he loved. By chance, he was reborn into his youth on Earth, a thousand years in the past. The guiding principle of my life, Qin Jiuchen, is this: my benefactors will receive a hundredfold repayment, and my enemies will suffer for three lifetimes. Having lived again, all I want is to repay kindness and settle grudges as I please, while making up for all the regrets of my previous life... 48.6kReads9.0Score4.8kShelves
- 41 Reborn as a Mad Immortal in the City 重生之都市狂仙 I cleave wind and thunder with my sword, blotting out sun and moon; with a single palm, I command the universe and scour the netherworld. There are six billion people in this world, yet I alone dare call myself proud and unrestrained. The Azure Emperor of the Immortal Realm was reborn ten thousand years in the past and descended upon a bustling city, a world of glittering lights and indulgence. Who gets drunk in the embrace of beauties, lost in luxury, and who stays clearheaded, sword in hand, r 8.3kReads8.8Score672Shelves
- 42 Urban Super Playboy 都市超级纨绔 [Highly recommended by a bestselling author, a hit across the web] [Exhilarating and hilarious, the ultimate stress relief] An Immortal Emperor returns to find himself a spoiled young heir who cares only about eating, drinking, and having fun. His father hopes he’ll make something of himself, his fiancée has completely lost faith in him, and scheming villains keep stirring up trouble... All right, all right. Starting today, I, Su Yang, am turning my life around. I swear I’ll shatter everyone’s i 62.2kReads8.3Score5.9kShelves
- 43 A Cultivation Expert in the City 修真强者在都市 After his gold-digging girlfriend cheated on him, an ordinary young man from the city unexpectedly inherited the legacy of a mighty cultivator. From then on, he could summon wind and rain, becoming an immortal among mortals. A renowned traditional medicine doctor? My disciple. A gang boss? My underling. A top power player? My subordinate… With one hand, I turn the clouds and bring in endless wealth; with the other, I summon rain and slap faces. Life is this exhilarating, this satisfying! I leave 22.3kReads8.3Score2.1kShelves
- 44 Reborn as the Urban Immortal Venerable 重生之都市仙尊 Luo Chen, once a supreme immortal, is ambushed and reborn on Earth. Though he holds an ordinary position in society, he faces contempt from his girlfriend, ridicule from his rival in love, his parents' miserable lives, and threats and provocations from the scions of wealthy families. He swears to change his unfair fate, stand at the pinnacle of the world, and show everyone that he, Luo Chen, was once here. 26.5kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
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The Elite Soldier Returns 狂兵归来
The young master of the Lin family, orphaned by the death of his parents, left home and spent ten years as a soldier. Upon returning to the city, he sees his cousin’s wife sending his still-living grandfather to the morgue on his very first day back. Enraged, he...
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- 46 My Sect Master Is Way Too Low-Key 我的宗主太低调了 Ye Han transmigrates to another world and awakens the Sect's Sacred Spirit. He had hoped to take it easy, but his disciples mistake him for someone who keeps a low profile. So they crush the geniuses everywhere and restore the reputation of the Carefree Sect! “What? Another disciple from the Carefree Sect?” “What? Even a good-for-nothing has become a genius?” “I want to join too!” While Ye Han stares in bewilderment, geniuses from every province flock to the Purple Thorn Province, the place with 202Reads8.0Score121Shelves
- 47 The Goddess’s Super Son-in-Law 女神的超级赘婿 I followed my mother’s wishes and became a live-in son-in-law for someone else, for a term of three years. Now, the three years are up... 2.5kReads8.2Score827Shelves
- 48 The Godlike Live-In Son-in-Law 神级狂婿 They all call me a useless live-in son-in-law. Little do they know I’m a billionaire... 3.1kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 49 The Peerless God of War 盖世战神 He is a peerless God of War, famed for his unmatched achievements. To repay a meal from years ago, he willingly became a live-in son-in-law... A tiger fallen on the plains is bullied by dogs. But when the tiger returns to the mountains, the sky will be stained red! For the past three years, you have endured humiliation for my sake. For the rest of our lives, I will make sure you shine brighter than anyone! 10.4kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves
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Maxed-Out Cultivation in the City: I’m Absolutely Invincible 满级修为在都市，我绝对无敌
(Modern urban cultivation power fantasy + invincible power fantasy + max level + decisive and ruthless + no saintly do-gooder) Ye Chen returns from the Primordial Era to Blue Star with all his powers intact. He dominates the city, ruthless and decisive. Who else could possibly compare? Grandmasters must not be insulted? So what if I insult you? A Golden Core big shot? I can destroy you with a single thought! A Nascent Soul old monster? You're no better than an ant in my eyes! A Tribulation Trans
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