Any Stories with a Puppet-Wielding Protagonist Who Carries a Coffin or a Huge Bell? 有没主角玩傀儡的？背棺材或者背口大钟的

1. 1 弹 The Comments Say I'm Deeply Devoted, So I Use My Secret Identity to Level Up 弹幕说我情深义重，我靠马甲加点 A Few Strokes of Ink几两笔墨Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [The rating has just opened and will rise] [No female lead, mass misunderstandings, forums, bullet comments, stat allocation, ensemble cast, unconventional plot, not invincible, immortal body, transmigration, System, power progression, academy setting, third-person narration] [Also known as: Transmigrated into a High Martial World and Read the Bullet Comments, Love You, Old Self. See You Tomorrow] Bad news: I transmigrated into a terrifying High Martial world, and my weakling body immediately fe 61.8kReads8.3Score6.3kShelves

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   The coffin the protagonist is carrying contains his true form. (Love you, old man)

2. 2 我 I Reached the Pinnacle of Superpowers Through a Comics Forum 我靠漫画论坛登顶异能之巅 Dare Not Act Recklessly不敢放肆Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Comic / Superpowers / Forum posts / Slightly glorified character / No CP / Ensemble cast] After An Luo awakens to his true nature, he discovers he’s in a comic book world and is a cannon-fodder character who dies from the start. The consciousness of the comic tells him that the author will eventually ruin the ending, and only he can change it. To stay alive, An Luo agrees. He walks up to the protagonist. “Excuse me, coming through.” He bends down, picks up a female corpse, and begins stitching 70.4kReads9.2Score13.7kShelves

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   In this book, the protagonist plays with strings and puppets.

3. 3 盗 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 Fish Like Water鱼依如水Two Male Leads447k WordsCompleted "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 44.5kReads9.6Score6.1kShelves

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   The first two books are by the same author and are super good! The fifth book, *The Puppet Master*, is also great.

4. 4 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I'm So Overpowered, Yet I'm Trapped in a Massive Shura Field 盗笔：超强的我陷入了大型修罗场 Fish Like Water鱼依如水Two Male Leads1.2M WordsOngoing [Shen Huai: Modern-Era Arc, Extra-Long Republic-Era Watch-Along] [Everyone's Darling and Romantic Rivalry, Go Ahead and Ship Them + A Hint of Being Everyone's Favorite + Imagining a Powerful, Beautiful, Strong Yet Tragic Character] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At this very moment, my body was lying right beside me, looking like a beautiful, flower-like person in a coma. The good news: I can create a secret identity that can't be killed. The bad news: the System sa 64.1kReads9.6Score4.1kShelves
5. 5 傀 Quick Transmigration: The Puppeteer Just Wants to Stir Things Up 【快穿】傀儡师只想搞事 Pearl Tea, No Ice珍珠不加冰593k WordsCompleted [Narcissism + secret identities] In this world, I’m the only one who would never betray me. I’m the only one who would love me wholeheartedly, satisfy all my preferences, and keep moving forward and sinking into depravity according to my every whim, all for the sake of one me. A troublemaker? No, a great performance artist. As a puppeteer, Cheng Jing finds modern life very inconvenient. He has to arrange identities for his puppets, and when they send him money, he has to watch out for the 1.7kReads7.3Score264Shelves
6. 6 人 As a Puppeteer, I Conquered the Stars by Scavenging 人偶师的我，靠捡破烂横扫星际 Si Si汜巳Sci-Fi & Apocalypse465k WordsCompleted [Complete, so feel free to enjoy] [The protagonist is no good person] [No CP] [Members of the [Garden of Eden] System come first] [Also known as: Wu Wu’s Dog-Training Fiction, sort of] [How does a group of trouble-averse lunatics conquer the stars by scavenging junk?] After dying and transmigrating, Wu Wu becomes one of the personalities inhabiting the mind of the mentally ill "mad young master" of the interstellar elite Wu family. His family considers him a good-for-nothing. He can't even becom 3kReads8.8Score600Shelves
7. 7 病EN The Sickly Beauty Is the Infinite Game's Ultimate Boss! 病美人竟是无限游戏大BOSS！ It's L是L啊Two Male Leads230k WordsCompleted [Complete] [Infinite-Flow, Two Male Leads + Two Powerful Leads, 1v1 + Younger, Bigger-Built Partner + Shamelessly Indulgent Power Fantasy + Love-Hate Relationship + Soapy Push and Pull + Boss × Player] [The romance is the focus; the plot is weak and won't stand up to close scrutiny] [Second book in the Dungeon series] [The author's bio is useless. See the beginning of Chapter One and the reviews for content warnings.] [Cool on the outside, warm on the inside, sickly white-cut-black, seductive, 11.2kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
8. 8 高EN High Martial Arts: Infinite Clones, Starting by Stuffing an S-Rank Beast to Death 高武：无限分身，开局撑死S异兽 A Touch of Deep Blue一抹深蓝Urban2.5M WordsCompleted “We transmigrated to a world where martial strength reigns supreme and countless races stand side by side.” “There are also exotic beasts.” “Original body, you have to keep us alive. Our lives are in your hands.” “Ha! Just some exotic beasts. Watch me take them down with a sliding tackle!” “I’ll tackle them too!” “Huh? Looks like we stuffed it to death.” “Nice.” … “Could you all be quiet for a minute? My head’s about to explode.” Qin Ze looked at the countless versions of himself surrounding hi 51.4kReads9.1Score5.3kShelves
9. 9 做 I Was Photographed as a Puppet, and the World Accused Me of Being the Ghost King 做人偶被偷拍，世人污蔑我是鬼王 Two Taels of Sweet Potato with Chili二两地瓜拌辣椒Urban449k WordsCompleted Gu Yuan arrives in a parallel world overrun by ghosts and monsters. All he wants is a quiet life making things in his shop. Then he unexpectedly gains the God-Tier Marionette System, and a doll of a girl in red that he creates mysteriously comes to life. A streamer exploring the shop secretly captures the scene, sending viewers in the livestream into a panic. [Only a Ghost King can create ghosts. He must be a Ghost King hiding among humans!] [We have to destroy him! We can't let a menace like th 1.4kReads8.6Score215Shelves

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   1. I will do everything I can to wake you up. Love you, old man. See you tomorrow. (The coffin contains the real body.) 2. They are not dolls, they are my family.

10. 10 道 Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友，你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊？ He An Is Simple贺安很简单Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity! 81.3kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves

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    Yes, yes!

11. 11 诡 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.2kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves

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    This was originally a doll.

12. 12 穿 After Entering a Bad-End Comic, I Took the Lead in Tearing Up the Script 穿进be漫画后，我带头手撕剧本 Gu Qingying, Who Loves Tench喜欢十间鱼的顾清影Urban679k WordsOngoing [Forum-style posts + mistaken assumptions and exaggerated interpretations + beautiful, strong, and tragic characters + ensemble cast finding redemption + no romance] Yan Qi always felt he’d transmigrated into this world in entirely the wrong way. It was bad enough that he’d ended up in a depressing superpower comic where everyone died. To make matters worse, the ability he awakened, [Words of Absolute Truth], came with a deadly side effect: the more bluntly he spoke while changing cause and ef 150.8kReads9.4Score20.8kShelves
13. 13 你 You’re Just a Supporting Character, So Why Do You Seem More Like the Lead? 你一配角，咋比主角还像主角 Grilling Cold Noodles烤上了冷面Mystery344k WordsCompleted [No CP] [Mostly Everyday Life, Slow Pace] [Original Anime Setting] [Popular Supporting Character] [On-Screen Comments] [Bilibili System (?)] Note: The author is a woman writing for a male audience. She is new and her writing could use work. Some parts of the logic haven’t been fully thought through. The male lead isn’t much of a big shot at first, the story builds slowly, and the System doesn’t play a major role. For the first decade or so of his life, Li Yuan believed that only he and a handf 2.9kReads8.7Score256Shelves
14. 14 穿 After Entering a Comic, I Became Everyone's Moonlight 穿进漫画后我成了所有人的白月光 Jing Yan惊燕Modern Romance1.6M WordsOngoing [Main story complete] [Bonus chapters updating regularly] [No romance, no romance, not even for the key characters! The only tags are no romance, happy ending, System! A wish-fulfillment story!] The talkative, chuuni, drama-loving male protagonist, Zheng Guanqi (known as Yazhou in the comic) The Dungeon Guidebook became a huge hit thanks to its breathtaking art and merciless plot. But as the story progressed, readers realized that one after another, the main characters seemed to be dying, and t 45kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
15. 15 我 I Don’t Want to Save the Protagonist’s Team! 我才不要拯救主角团！ Jiu Yao or Wu Chunxiao九瑶or雾椿筱Anime Fanfiction329k WordsOngoing The rating just appeared, so it’ll go up! No romance, and this isn’t an anime spin-off. No romance, ensemble cast, supernatural abilities. [Blurb] Qing Linyu: Good news: I got a golden finger. Bad news: it’s a System that forces me to do good deeds. [Virtue System]: Ahem. Hi~ Bloodshed of the Gods is a popular new manga. Three months after its first season ended, the highly anticipated second season finally launched, immediately climbing to the top of the charts! After facing countless hardship 5.8kReads8.6Score921Shelves
16. 16 恐 The Age of Terror: I Begin as a Gravekeeper 恐怖时代，从成为守墓人开始 Ghost God Yama鬼神阎罗Mystery3.3M WordsOngoing [Reborn] + [Eerie] + [Underworld Official Ranks] + [Ghost Control] + [A Little Farming] + [Tomb Construction] An era of terror descended, and a death game began. This was a world where ghost controllers and the eerie coexisted. In his previous life, Chu Qing had been on the verge of becoming the First-Rank Underworld Official, King Chujiang. He was reborn in the future, back to the very beginning of the eerie era. The old rules were on the verge of collapse. Who would rule the dark dawn? Chu Qin 89.2kReads8.9Score7.9kShelves

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    There should still be some, but I can't find them.

17. 17 开 A Haunted House from the Start: Call Me the Master of the House 开局一座凶宅，请叫我宅主大人 Fate's Lucky Journey奕命行运Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted Shadows mean rebirth, and death means redemption. Yang Mao got a terrifying mansion from the start and became its master. As long as the mansion stands, Yang Mao cannot die. The mansion can absorb other vicious, uncanny beings and turn them into power he can command, strengthening this haunted manor. Every three days, the mansion randomly draws an uncanny being to it. More interestingly, Yang Mao can control the beings he has absorbed and fuse them together to create even more powerful ones. As 5.4kReads7.8Score514Shelves
18. 18 系EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 One Durian No. 3一只榴莲3号Eastern Fantasy5.6M WordsOngoing Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 579.3kReads9.4Score60.9kShelves
19. 19 百 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 Yi People's Firelight彝人烟火Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 115kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves
20. 20 混 Chaos Immortal Coffin 混沌仙棺 Ba Yi八异Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted [Satisfying power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Swordsmanship] Young Mu Feng transmigrates, expecting to lead an unremarkable life. But by a twist of fate, an immortal coffin from the sun transforms into his dantian! “Ever since the immortal coffin became my dantian, killing people has made me stronger!” From then on, the youth, armed with a sword and an immortal coffin, embarks on a path of slaughter strewn with blood and bones. 24kReads8.9Score2.9kShelves
21. 21 武 Shattering the Starry River with Martial Might 武碎星河 Demon Night妖夜Eastern Fantasy7.9M WordsCompleted Gods look down from the stars, while demons roar in hell. This is a fantastical world where countless races vie for supremacy and gods and demons run wild. A poor young man takes up his blade and fights against the current. He will become the king of this world! [The animated adaptation of this book, Shattering the Star River with Martial Might, is now airing] 182.1kReads9.1Score21.1kShelves
22. 22 暴 The Violent Scholar: From Fleeing Famine to Becoming an Earthly Immortal 暴力书生：从逃荒路到陆地神仙 Evergreen Tea Tree茶树长青Historical2.4M WordsCompleted After giving birth to ten beautiful granddaughters, the Zhang family finally had a precious grandson, Zhang Anping! The Zhangs had counted on the clever Zhang Anping to become the top scholar and then the prime minister! But who could have expected that he would be born into a time of chaos, when everyone was fleeing famine? A scholar was useless in a crisis! Still, why were chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep running around everywhere along the escape route? Other families were selling their sons 9.2kReads8.6Score976Shelves
23. 23 妖 Demon Corpses Aren't Edible? Quick, Send It to My Family's Crematorium While It's Still Warm 妖尸不可食？快，趁热送我家火葬 Sallow Little Face小脸蜡黄Urban2.9M WordsCompleted [High Martial] [Passionate] [Demonic beasts invade] [Not reborn] [Funny] If you want a lone-wolf protagonist, you can swipe away. The protagonist, Jiang Ping, is a passionate young man. He can be calculating, and he can be moved. He’s a real person, with classmates, friends, parents, and teachers. Spatial rifts opened, and demonic beasts invaded the land. Everyone knew that demonic beast corpses were inedible, and eating them would turn you into a contaminated being. By chance, Jiang Ping obtain 111.1kReads8.8Score15.8kShelves
24. 24 魔 Burying the Demon Sect: The Empress Turns the Tables on Me from the Start 魔门送葬：开局被女帝逆推 Never Crosses the River不过江Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted [One Female Lead + Sweet Romance + Satisfying] Ning Chen transmigrates to another world and is immediately captured by the demonic sect, where he becomes a disciple tasked with handling funerals. From the start, he’s assigned to bury a stunningly beautiful woman. But the woman isn’t dead, and she’s none other than the demonic sect’s former leader! What’s more, she’s suffering from the tribulation of human desire. Looking at Ning Chen, the beautiful woman sighs softly. “Lucky you.” After a passio 42.2kReads9.0Score5.3kShelves

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    Some brothers, yes, the first one is a Narcissus novel [drooling], the coffin he carries contains his true form; the second one's protagonist's cheat is a coffin, which is more comedic; the third one's protagonist plays with puppets, but that only starts after he's developed in the early stages.

25. 25 序 Sequence: Sacrifice 序列：祭品 He An Is Simple贺安很简单Urban1.4M WordsOngoing The rating is being suppressed during the new-book period, so feel free to dive in! [Sequence-based growth + He An's new novel + the usual promise: no frustrating setbacks] Sold by his parents to be a human sacrifice, he returns with the Five Ghosts in place of his organs and the Six Demons transformed into his viscera! Mom, Dad, why aren't you smiling anymore? Those people and gods who took my organs, are you ready? I've come to collect what you owe me! 292.7kReads9.1Score32.5kShelves
26. 26 系 The System Is Getting Creepier, What Does That Have to Do with Me, a Priest? 系统越来越诡异关我牧师什么事 Hu Dao胡叨Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsCompleted [A System That Makes You Stronger by Talking People into Things] [Cthulhu] [Western Fantasy] [Comedy] [No Harem] Teammate A: Rupert, you have the priest’s [Blessing], right? Rupert: I’ll play the [Demon’s Murmurs] on repeat for you. It’s basically the same thing. You’ll be fearless. Teammate B: Rupert, you must have the priest’s [Holy Shield], right? Rupert: I’ll stick a [Void Tentacle] into you. Don’t mind its looks, it’ll protect you. Teammate C: Rupert, you have the priest’s [Holy Healing Aur 21.8kReads8.6Score3.1kShelves
27. 27 绝 Zenless Zone Zero: Surviving on Sixth Street 绝区零：我在六分街求生 Dot Loves Radishes丶爱吃萝卜Anime Fanfiction1.2M WordsOngoing [Male protagonist, no romance + not a traditional System novel + secret identities + gacha characters + slow-burn, semi-everyday life] Other people transmigrate into games and rely on their foreknowledge of the plot to avert tragedies or pose as powerful figures and earn acclaim. Bai Yu transmigrated into a game and somehow turned it into a struggle to survive in another world. The game had just launched, and he hadn’t even finished the main story. Forget knowing the plot, he barely understood 3.7kReads9.3Score225Shelves
28. 28 惊 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 73.9kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves

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    Don't let the name deter you.

29. 29 我EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted 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 995.7kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves

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    All I can think of is fish (just posting this for fun).

30. 30 傀 Puppeteer: My Puppets Are All Gods! 傀儡师，我的傀儡全是神明！ Mu Yisi Nan木易思楠Urban21k WordsOngoing When Lin Zhe woke up, he had transmigrated to a world where magic reigned supreme. Monsters ran rampant across the land! Secret realms and dungeons were everywhere! Beneath the land lay the realm of the dead, where countless spirits crowded around a throne at the far end, upon which sat a legendary god. And in the vast ocean, a deep abyss lay beneath every stretch of the sea's surface. Otherworldly forces, gods underground, the unknown depths of the sea... In this world, humanity's only hope was 9Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 31 傀 Puppeteer: I Really Have to Control You Now 傀儡师：我真得操控你了 I Really Want to Lie Flat 9527好想躺平9527Eastern Fantasy22k WordsOngoing People can't unite? Demons are invading? Gods are descending? No, I really do have to control all of you. Your lover is about to enter the cycle of reincarnation? Your teammate is about to die? The world is about to be destroyed? Hey, Heaven, am I controlling them but not you or what? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 32 序 Sequence: Puppeteer, My Puppets Can Summon the Gods! 序列：傀儡师，我的傀儡会请神！ Purple Goose紫鹅Urban87k WordsOngoing [Not a power fantasy] [Everyone will die] In this apocalyptic upheaval, where [Gods] have fallen, [Otherworldly Races] have declined, and [Calamities] run rampant, everyone can awaken extraordinary powers to resist the great waves of calamity. The sun goddess Xihe's divine gift, [First Light], and the first appearance of Sequence 01, [Harbinger of Dawn], successfully wiped out the first Calamity. It became the hope in everyone's hearts, and people came to call those with such powers [Divine Gift —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 33 我 My Puppetry Martial Arts 我的傀儡武道 Out of Books Today今日书荒Urban38k WordsOngoing [Traditional Martial Arts + Superpowered Martial Arts + Cyberpunk + Eldritch Horror + No System] Crimson shadows shriek as they sing my name. Withered knights kneel like the most humble of servants. Pale threads weave a net of fate, toying with all living things. Within this boundless web Silver mechanical stars light up one by one, filling the night sky, while gears cast a cold glow in the gaps between their turns; An inverted giant tower cracks apart inch by inch, spewing writhing flesh until —Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 34 我 How Could I Be a Good Person When I Play with Human Puppets? 我都玩人傀儡了怎么可能是好人 Daoist Qinghui贫道清回Male-Channel Fanfiction478k WordsCompleted Zou Yu transmigrates into the Naruto world as a prodigy from Sunagakure. Known as the Puppet-Playing Young Master, he encounters the Yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze, during the Third Shinobi World War. After they agree on a plan to split up, everything goes black, and he transmigrates again, this time into The Outcast. What will come of combining puppets with the Eight Extraordinary Skills? This book is also titled “The Drifter Who Starts Playing with Puppets in The Outcast.” 6.1kReads7.5Score389Shelves

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    Both of them work with puppets; the second book is very good.

35. 35 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score181.2kShelves

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    Does a protagonist who's like a puppet count? I don't know why people are pushing the "God of Drama" (a popular Chinese drama series).

36. 36 你 Are You Really a Puppet Master? 你是正经傀儡师吗？ Young Master Su Nan苏南小少爷Urban120k WordsOngoing A game accidentally grants Bai Miao a Puppet Master's class card. He sets out on the path to becoming a legendary Puppet Master. Thirty days later, foreign races invade Blue Star. Other Puppet Masters control puppets to fight on the battlefield. When their puppets die, their combat power plummets, and they have no choice but to go back and craft new puppets as quickly as possible to regain their strength. Bai Miao: Huh? You're already out of steam? With a wave of his arm, the puppets fallen on t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 37 他 He's Just a Puppeteer, So Why Are You All Ganging Up on Him? 他一个傀儡师，你跟他玩群殴 Watching the Rain in July七月观雨Urban2.0M WordsCompleted Yuan Ge transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by monstrous beasts. A strange thread had appeared inside his body, and he couldn’t control it. In this world, every child had to attend a class-change ceremony upon turning eighteen. Boys who failed to change classes were sent to the Black Mining District to dig for ore. Girls were sent to the Paradise Garden, where they were married off to disabled, retired class-changers. Yuan Ge successfully changed into a D-rank class, Puppet Master. But no 6.8kReads6.5Score697Shelves
38. 38 星 Honkai: Star Rail: Funeral of the Dead Butterfly, Yet I Am the Herrscher of Death and Life 星铁：亡蝶葬仪，但是死生之律者 Star Shadows and Moon Shapes星影月形Anime Fanfiction105k WordsOngoing This novel has one heroine, Firefly. This is my first time writing a novel, so it might not be very good, but I will never abandon it. “The heart of the mourner allows no frivolity. The solemn guns deliver their lament: the black gun points toward the dead, the white gun toward the living. A funeral need only be solemn, not ostentatious.” Welt: “The thing on Sihun always gives me a familiar feeling...” Herta: “Damn it, the Curio I had in my hands got away! Hey, give me back my Simulated Universe 429Reads6.3Score133Shelves

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    This is @ButterflyBrotherComeOnMonthlyPeople

39. 39 俗 A Rogue of the Mortal World 俗世妖人 Namo Kasaya Science Buddha南无袈裟理科佛Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted Xiu Xu from Bazhong is in the mountain city, where he owns an offline murder mystery game shop. He was once a top-tier Werewolf player, comes from a family of feng shui masters, and is suffering from end-stage pancreatic cancer. When his grandfather died, he left behind a peerless beauty with no sign of life. To stay alive, Xiu Xu had no choice but to bring his whole family along, leading a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled relatives as they punched their way through the South Heaven Ga 6.8kReads8.7Score666Shelves

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    This novel blends suspense, fantasy, and family drama. The story revolves around Xu Xiu, the owner of a murder mystery game shop and a descendant of a family renowned for feng shui. After his grandfather's death, he is left with a seemingly lifeless but stunningly beautiful woman. To survive, Xu Xiu must lead his family through various challenges, from nursing homes to kindergartens, striving to carve out a place for them. However, as the story unfolds, the most powerful demon king appears, issuing a warning to Xu Xiu: "You're not allowed to be a demon!" This adds tension and suspense to the story. Through Xu Xiu's perspective, the novel presents a world full of mystery and challenges, while also exploring themes of family and survival.

40. 40 伴 With a Weapon-Nurturing Immortal Coffin by My Side, I Raised a Million Divine Generals 伴生养兵仙棺，我养出了百万神将 Green, Red, and White Chili Peppers青红白辣椒Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted Among all living beings, those blessed by heaven and earth and born with exceptional gifts may have a spiritual treasure accompany them from birth. Some prodigies are born alongside immortal swords, each stroke capable of cleaving the starry river. Some are born alongside pill furnaces, their alchemy skills unmatched beneath the heavens. Others are born alongside supreme formation diagrams, with killing formations filling the cosmic starry sky and making stars crumble like dust. There is even an 25.7kReads8.8Score2kShelves

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    Does this count?

41. 41 诡 Dollmaster: From the Start, I Sculpt an SSS-Rank Calamity! 诡偶师：开局捏出SSS级灾厄！ Neither Black Nor White非白即白Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [Puppet Master] [Ensemble cast] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Invincible] [System] Fierce beasts rise across Blue Star, the Demon Race invades, and more and more people awaken professions to fight the monsters and demons. Powerful professionals can destroy the heavens and earth and do anything! After transmigrating to Blue Star, Lu Yuan discovers that although he awakened an SSS-rank talent, he's a Puppet Master with no inherited spirit skills. Fortunately, he binds himself to the God-Tier Evol 24.4kReads7.9Score3.7kShelves
42. 42 冥 The Era of Ghost Money: Even Hauntings Must Follow the Rules 冥币时代：诡异杀人也要讲规则 Demon Soldier魔兵Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Weird Invasion + Rules-Based Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Survival + Ghost Money] The weird beings have arrived. They feed on humans, but can’t kill them at will. They have to trick humans into triggering a death rule before they can devour them. Xia Tianqiong returns, reborn, and makes billions in ghost money himself. Using memories from his past life, he turns the rules against the weird beings and forces them into contracts. The weird beings in this world either work for him or are destroyed by 28.1kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves

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    In the story, bizarre creatures descend upon humanity, feeding on humans but requiring them to trigger death rules before they can devour them. The protagonist, Xia Tian, ​​is reborn and uses his past life memories to create ghost money, trading with the bizarre creatures and forcing them to work for him or be destroyed. The novel's plot is tense and exciting, filled with the challenges of post-apocalyptic survival and intellectual battles.

43. 43 全 Global Class Awakening: Puppet Masters Are Weak? From the Start, I Get Sasori of the Red Sand 全民：傀儡师弱？开局赤砂之蝎 Flash Wanderer闪客游神Sports481k WordsCompleted Chu Tian transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where games have descended upon reality and dungeons, secret realms, and monster bosses run rampant. At eighteen, everyone awakens as a class-holder to fight the monsters. On the day he changed class, Chu Tian became a hidden-class puppeteer. Puppeteers have a low success rate when making puppets, consume enormous amounts of materials, struggle to get started, deal too little damage, and have poor defenses. They've always been consider 373Reads6.8Score—Shelves

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    Puppet Masters are weak? Chu Tian casually pulled out the Crimson Sand Scorpion and blasted through the newbie village! After awakening the All-Heavens Creation System—he hand-crafted the Four Sacred Beasts to flatten secret realms, the Four Ferocious Beasts devoured god-level BOSSes, and wherever his puppet army passed, everything became a puppet on a string! While all the other classes were still lamenting the low material drop rates, he tore through the void and chuckled: "Hundred Machine Manipulation is nothing! I'm creating gods and demons across the heavens!" As the torrent of puppets crushed the world BOSS, everyone realized: A useless class? This is a god-level arms dealer!

44. 44 综 Omninet: I Have a Demon-Refining Gourd 综网：我有一只炼妖壶 Silver Saddle, Star Candle银鞍星烛Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [Taming Beasts and Catching Demons]+ [Laid-Back Daily Life]+ [Game-Style Dungeons]+ [Paper Doll Arts]+ [Banner of Ten Thousand Souls]+ [Righteous Cultivators and Evil Practitioners]+ [Approved by Veteran Readers] Not a livestream novel! Not a livestream novel! Not a livestream novel! The new version of the Comprehensive Network lets you obtain a projection of a divine artifact at birth. Refine demons into guardian kettle spirits, gain the essence of their cultivation and turn it into pills, or d 9.6kReads8.7Score869Shelves
45. 45 斩 Slay the Gods: Giving the Gods a Little Shock from Honkai: Star Rail 斩神：给诸神一点小小的星铁震撼 Xiao Ze Is Happy小泽开心Male-Channel Fanfiction370k WordsOngoing [Male-oriented + Slay the Gods + Honkai: Star Rail + no heroine + behind-the-scenes mastermind + ensemble cast] [Important: Can Whispers see people's souls? Then Scott is the only choice.] [A style you've never seen before! You'll be hard-pressed to find even a handful of Slay the Gods fanfics like this!] [Ensemble cast, with lots of interactions between characters from two worlds. This isn't a traditional role-playing story. By the end, you might even forget the “protagonist” exists.] [It's not 2kReads9.2Score158Shelves

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    There's no coffin in this one, but the main character is a puppeteer, so it's watchable.

46. 46 背 The Coffin-Bearing Boy 背棺少年 Rascal Dragon混子龙Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Superpowers] + [Apocalypse] + [Twin Protagonists] + [Not Invincible] + [Single Female Lead] + [No System] A natural disaster transformed the human world. Different species began to evolve at a rapid pace, leaving humanity to eke out a desperate existence inside steel fortresses. “Where did I come from?” In a dark city ruled by bloodshed and violence, a twelve-year-old boy walked slowly with a crystal coffin on his back. Inside the coffin lay someone who looked exactly like him! The young boy’s 2.2kReads8.7Score169Shelves

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    A post-apocalyptic teenager carries a crystal coffin containing a "living puppet" identical to himself! He crushes the violent underworld with his bloody hands, using the coffin's substitute as a weapon, and carves his way through the post-apocalyptic battlefield!

47. 47 傀 The Puppet Master's Girl and Her Evil God Game 傀偶师少女的邪神游戏 The Pen of the Night黑夜的笔Urban1.4M WordsOngoing (Gender-bender, no male lead, not a traditional infinite-flow story, System interface, leveling up) Xu Qian had finally managed to get into his dream university when he received terrible news: the girl he adored was about to be confessed to by someone else, and he didn’t even have the courage to face her. Heartbroken, Xu Qian accidentally stumbles into a scene of an evil god’s sacrificial ritual. After a frantic escape attempt (not that frantic), he fails and dies. But fortune suddenly turns in 2.2kReads9.1Score214Shelves
48. 48 位 Plane Lord: Starting Out as a Wild Mage 位面之主，从野巫师开始 Zhe Wei哲维Eastern Fantasy273k WordsCompleted [Wizards, System, Planes, Puppets, Farming] Stranger, have you ever heard of the Lord of the Planes, the Wizard King, or the God of Puppets? That was a long time ago, when the planes were locked in endless conflict and the wizards' enemies stirred restlessly. A struggling wild wizard with inadequate talent asked, “What can your puppet do?” The puppet replied in a hollow voice, “Help you become the Lord of the Planes!” 657Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 49 凡EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Swimming Champion游泳冠军Eastern Fantasy4.8M WordsOngoing Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 96kReads8.9Score8.2kShelves

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    The demonic cultivators used thousands of corpses as nourishment for their puppets! Every piece of immortal bone was soaked in the stench of rotting flesh. They used underhanded methods to strangle the righteous path, crushing mountains of corpses into stepping stones for advancement. The dark and mad pleasure of playing with corpses was insane!

50. 50 赛 Seer: Just an Ordinary Little Pirate 赛尔号：平平无奇小海盗 When Skipping Updates Becomes a Habit当拖更已成习惯Anime Fanfiction1.0M WordsOngoing Wu Erqi was chosen by the Truck-kun Ambassador and transmigrated into the world of Seer, where he became a proud little pirate grunt. But he never gave up. He climbed the ranks one step at a time, doing whatever it took to get stronger: cheating, swindling, and grabbing more than his share, with absolutely no bottom line. At last, he became a master of spirit training. As the saying goes: “Pirates, fly boldly. Seer will take the blame.” Erqi says: “Grab resources without hesitation. Seer will wi 4.2kReads9.3Score309Shelves

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    I know it's off-topic, but I just wanted to recommend it because it's super, super good.

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