Looking for Underrated Masterpieces (One or No Female Leads) 求冷门神作（单／无女主）
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She Fell from the Altar, Then Became Rich Enough to Rival a Nation 跌落神坛的她，富可敌国了
[Strong Female Lead + Transmigration + Xuanhuan + Wild Imagination + Sweet and Angsty] Can you believe it? The legendary Zombie King Jiang Chen is my underling. I'm just a little immortal with a complicated background, but eventually I became the Creator God people talk about, the one who molded people out of clay! But the truth is, it was all a web of schemes and conspiracies! You were never from this planet. You come from a more advanced civilization. Everything this planet has is part of the
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Horror Descends: From the Start, I Hoard a Quadrillion Netherworld Coins 恐怖降临：开局狂囤百万亿冥币
[Decisive and ruthless + terrifying apocalypse + uncanny resurgence + supernatural horror + tycoon] The apocalypse arrived, and terror returned. Gods and ghosts roamed both the living and dead realms, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction. Money became nothing but piles of wastepaper, and bank balances were just meaningless strings of numbers. Underworld currency became the only money accepted between Heaven and Earth. Reborn two months before the apocalypse, Meng Ke went on a mad money-ma
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The Top Player Returns, but as a Bard 顶级玩家回归，但是是吟游诗人
[Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Urban Supernatural Powers] Extra! Extra! A new star has emerged in the Nameless Game! Mysterious methods of attack, an unspeakable and crazed obsession, a murky history with the president of the Strange Stone Guild, and a way of clearing instances that no one else can replicate. A player who quit the game three years ago has returned to the instances. What kind of upheaval will he cause, and what secrets lie behind him? The Inkblade Reporter 350 will keep follow
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Urban Astrologer 都市星相师
[Physiognomy + Fortune-Telling + Feng Shui + Celestial Master + No Livestreams + No System + Cultivation + Immortality] My name is Ling Xiao, and I'm an astrologer making my way in the city! You might not know much about astrologers, but I'll name a few of my fellow disciples and you'll get the idea! Zhuge Liang, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, Liu Bowen... They're all senior members of my school! Astrologers are skilled at observing the stars, allowing them to discern the past and future, as well a
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The System Exploded, and I Became the System 系统炸了，我成了系统
What's it like to be a System? After Ye Tian angered the System that coveted him, he became a System himself. He travels through the Myriad Worlds, stealing the essence of each world. He transforms into the “Great Villain System,” helping villains beat the living daylights out of protagonists. In a world where men are inferior to women, I become the “Great Man System,” giving my Host a little extra charm every day and attracting the empress's attention. He evolves into a Creator System, and the
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The Nine Forbidden Sin Masters 九禁罪师
Legend says that after a person dies, a blood-red, alluring flower grows on their chest. It came to be known as the “Otherworld Flower.” Its original name was “The Flower of the Otherworld, born of death, blooming in longing, withering in ruin...” The Otherworld Flower has six petals, each representing the name of an unknown power: greed, sloth, lust, death, hatred, and envy. Over time, people gradually learned to wield these six unknown powers and named them “Sin.”
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I Really Am a Law-Abiding Citizen 我真的是守法公民
Twelve years ago, star gates descended from the sky and appeared all over the world. People discovered all kinds of worlds beyond the gates. Thanks to the special game items and technology brought back from them, human technology underwent a massive leap forward. On Block 26, Street 78, Chen Bin, dressed in a fitted black trench coat and a vintage gray tweed English cap, held an AK-47 in one hand. He looked seriously at Old Chicken and said in a low voice, “We are law-abiding citizens. We must n
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The Memory Trial: The Moment the Nation Wept for Him 记忆审判：那一刻，全国为他痛哭
[Narcotics Police] [Anti-Drug Campaign] [Narcotics Officer] [Sacrifice] A scarecrow stands in the wilderness, shielding the endless expanse behind it. In early autumn, ten years after he left home, he asked someone to place his final wish in your hands. The fire he lit never went out. Only the one who kept watch has gone. The national emblem on his cap is like his name: “Please bury it with me.” Birds sweep across the blank spaces of time, like a long story waking from beneath the dust. His eyes
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Me, Robots, and the Apocalypse 我，机器人与末世
This is a planet so bleak it takes your breath away. Humanity’s shelters have been buried beneath yellow earth; a thousand years have passed since the final human let out their last scream; the once-great civilization has vanished; the oceans have dried up; all plants have withered; even the hardiest microorganisms can no longer survive. And yet war still rages across this ravaged planet. [No System] [No transmigration] [Not mindless] [Traditional style] [Multiple plotlines] [Multiple protagonis
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The Last Light of the Galaxy 星河余辉
A voice from an extraterrestrial civilization reaches across the vast starry sky. A disaster that will engulf the entire universe has already begun, and countless advanced civilizations are falling one after another. What path lies ahead for humanity, a low-level civilization? There is technology beyond imagination, fleets like rivers of steel, and beings from countless civilizations locked in fierce battles for survival across the cosmos. What does civilization mean in this universe? And where
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The Age of Parasites: Attack of the Giant Beasts 寄生时代：进击的巨兽
[Comedy] [Guardianship] [Fantasy] [Slow Burn] A city-dwelling young man struggling to make ends meet is forcibly sent to another world by a mysterious person. Here, humanity has become parasites living on colossal beasts. Civilization has returned to the primordial wilderness, and insects rule the land. On the backs of ferocious beasts, demon clans rise in great numbers. Beneath the wings of fierce birds, shamanic arts reach the divine. Beast kings and poachers sweep across the world like the wi
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A Mayfly in the Immortal Sea 仙海蜉蝣
[Ordinary-mortal cultivation + no System + no harem] A wandering cultivator, a speck of dust. The protagonist, Lu Luan, is a little independent cultivator at the second stage of Qi Refining, wandering among the mountain towns of the mortal world. He is fourteen, and ever since the old master who adopted him died, he has drifted from place to place through this world of cultivation... Note: The protagonist sometimes joins sects, but only as stepping stones, and never stays long. The story focuses
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A Dream Across Ten Thousand Years 一梦越万年
Primitive Era: He woke up to find himself lying in a muddy pond, surrounded by naked savages sprawled every which way... His soul transmigrates into the primitive society of the Yan and Huang emperors. With no System and no golden finger, he leads a small tribe of just over a dozen people, gradually developing it and uniting the tribes of Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor, and the Yan Emperor. He founds a nation, advances agriculture and technology, makes sure everyone has enough to eat, and vows to bu
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A Wandering Starship Civilization 星舰流浪文明
The universe is vast and boundless. Beneath its dazzling stars, countless forms of life are born and perish, while countless civilizations rise and fall. Deep in the boundless cosmos, a remnant fleet from a human civilization, the Kunlun Fleet, was lost among the stars after an accident. Now it is searching for a way back to the embrace of its mother civilization. Among the stars, across the universe, only an entire civilization can truly be the protagonist!
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Reborn as a Satellite 重生成为卫星
Five hundred years after the disaster, Liu Yi was reborn as an artificial satellite. By then, the surface had become a wasteland. Mutated monsters roamed everywhere, and humanity, its civilization in decline, could only huddle behind narrow city walls. Liu Yi had no cheat powers. On the contrary, he had to be someone else's cheat.
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Notes from the Taoist Medicine Clinic 道医馆笔记
[All plotlines in this book are fictional and included solely for the purposes of the story. They do not represent real-life views. Please keep that in mind and don't confuse fiction with reality.] After graduating with a master's degree from an ordinary university of traditional Chinese medicine, the protagonist didn't go to work at a hospital. Instead, they joined a Daoist medical clinic and began recording their encounters with strange and baffling illnesses.
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The Great Desolation's Demonic Calamity, the Myriad Forms of Xuanhuan, the Blood Demon Destroys the Heavens 洪荒魔劫杀，玄幻万象，血魔灭天
[Fantasy] [No System] [No Female Lead] [No Golden Finger] New novel: I Have a System with Style. It’s now available, so come give it a read! I’m a straightforward traditional writer. This story focuses solely on the mysteries of fantasy, and may be a little different from “all” the other novels out there. Here’s the synopsis: At the dawn of humanity in the Primordial World, a demon cultivator upholds his master’s dying wish: “Destroy the Heavenly Emperor and exterminate the demon race.” Rising f
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Honghuang: Infinite Clones, Discipled to the Sages 洪荒：我，无限分身，拜师诸圣
After transmigrating to the Primordial World, he becomes a member of the human race! Humanity is weak and faces one deadly crisis after another. Fortunately, he comes with a Clone System! He can create an unlimited number of clones! They are absolutely loyal, unafraid of death, quick learners, and equipped with all kinds of talents. Best of all, every clone has the same strength as the original! From then on, Laozi's School of Humanity gains a disciple, Tongtian's Jie Sect gains a direct discipl
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Journey to the West? No! Hear My Decree, Monks: March West to Spirit Mountain 西游？不！传贫僧法旨，西征灵山
At Little Leiyin Temple, Tang Sanzang recites a rebellious poem. At Eagle Sorrow Stream, the White Dragon sends a false letter? At Lion Camel Ridge, the demons arrange themselves by rank, while Tang Sanzang speaks fervently of his lifelong ambition? What would happen at the end of Journey to the West if Tang Sanzang grew stronger every time he took on a new disciple? Sun Wukong: “I'll storm Leiyin Temple and destroy Mount Ling. If I leave and never return, then so be it!” Zhu Bajie: “Tathagata's
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Apocalypse Game: I Slaughtered the Entire Academy from the Start 末日游戏：开局屠了整座学院
[Supernatural + Data-Driven Apocalypse + No Female Lead + Ruthless + Self-Interested + Invincible + Power Fantasy] Goody-two-shoes, stay away! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Yuan is reborn at the very beginning of the apocalypse game. The first thing he does is massacre Fish Chapter Academy, the place where he was enslaved for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activates the Slaughter God System. By harvesting souls, he can evolve any item or ability. From that moment on... The world’
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Thriller Game: Streaming Myself Sleeping from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局直播睡觉
Dark + System-powered wish fulfillment + Infinite Flow + decisive and ruthless Supernatural phenomena affect the entire world, and players are randomly chosen to take part in terrifying games! Unstoppable livestream videos appear online, vividly showing the players' perilous experiences. Tang Ping is a modern young man who likes to lie flat. His lack of ambition awakens the Insulator Talent. From then on, while everyone else struggles to survive in the games, he sleeps on livestream! Because the
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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From the Start, I Had a Trillion in Ghost Coins, and Every Vengeful Spirit Worked for Me 开局万亿冥币，厉鬼都是我员工
[Also known as: I Use Ghost Money to Dominate the Horror World] The supernatural returned, and terror descended. A horror world invaded the globe in the form of a game. Yi Yuan unexpectedly transmigrated and was reborn before the horror game began. The first thing he did was buy every piece of ghost money in a funeral supply shop. Using his memories and ghost money, he quietly became the mastermind behind the entire horror world. While other players struggled desperately to survive, Yi Yuan alre
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Thriller Game: What Evil Could an NPC Possibly Have in Mind? 惊悚游戏：NPC能有什么坏心眼
[No CP] [Comedy] [System] Thank you for asking. When Xie Yao opens his eyes, he has no memories. All he has is a note that says: Your name is Xie Yao. If you don’t know anything, go get a job and earn money. So he comes to the service hall of a town called Ghost Domain NPC Roleplay, registers, collects his script, and begins his performance! Xie Yao discovers he has a sub-System no one else has. It tells him to collect fear points, which can also be exchanged for energy. And so, he begins dilige
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Horror: My Psychiatric Hospital Has Become a Forbidden Zone of the Supernatural 惊悚，我的精神病院成了诡异禁区
After horror games descend upon the world. Wang Ran has only just transmigrated when he discovers that a psychiatric hospital has suddenly appeared under his name. What’s more, when his patients see ghosts, they’re not afraid at all. In fact, they get unusually excited. During the Courtyard House instance, a group of patients charged in and beat up the boss, an old woman. Before leaving, they even stripped off her burial clothes. While riding Subway Line 7, they kidnapped the ghost attendant
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The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局
“If we want the people of this world to live in the sunlight and keep their sanity, then we must keep secret the things they were never meant to know.” “Because the moment they see those terrifying beings that defy all known science and truly discover how horrifying this world is... believe me, Earth will become the biggest asylum in the universe.” Chen Xian, Ninth Secret Bureau
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Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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The Soul-Suppressing Stele 镇魂碑
Telling the eeriest stories and exposing the most unfathomable human hearts! The final installment in the Evil-Quelling Trilogy! (The first two, Evil-Quelling Notes and Thousand Corpse Town, are both complete.) After the first thirty thousand words, there will be three updates every day! No delays, guaranteed! Thank you all for continuing to support Lao Zhang!
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Yellow Springs Inn 黄泉客栈
One day, a construction crew was blasting a path through a mountain when the explosives engineer suddenly felt an ominous premonition. The mountain collapsed, splitting open to reveal a seal buried for thousands of years deep within its heart. A towering crystal pillar, strange runes, and the seal’s sudden explosion blurred everyone’s vision. When they came to, they no longer knew where they were... Thus began a tale buried for thousands of years!
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Where My Fate Lies 吾命归处
After Master Qin passed away, Qin Jiu, cursed with a naturally cold and indifferent disposition, was brought to live in the bustling city. So unlike the peaceful mountain retreat she had known, the city introduced her to many people, some of whom became her friends and others her enemies. After experiencing one calamity after another, she was grateful to have people by her side. Their presence gave her a sense of belonging in this world, and she no longer felt like an outsider looking on with co
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Strange Tales of the Human World 人间诡话
I'm a funeral makeup artist. I accidentally used a dead woman's cosmetics to put makeup on my girlfriend. Then a series of strange things began to happen.
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An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟
My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house...
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The Evil King's Obsession: The Ghost Doctor's Wild Consort 邪王嗜宠：鬼医狂妃
She’s a ruthless, scheming ghost doctor of the dark night. After transmigrating, she becomes a useless girl everyone despises and spurns. She contracts an ancient divine beast, cultivates a heaven-defying divine art, and dazzles everyone. With poison pills and potions at her disposal, anyone who dares bully her is asking for death! What’s a ninth-grade pill to her? Her adorable pets eat those like candy. She can make medicine, and she does whatever she wants! He’s the enchanting, peerlessly hand
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Don’t Be Afraid, Tutu! Grandpa Niu Is the Dragon King God of War 胡图图别怕，牛爷爷我是龙王战神
He was a peerless genius the likes of whom appeared only once every 13.5 billion years. He once single-handedly held off a million alien invaders. He was once the strongest fighter in the entire universe. During a ten-year campaign, the woman he loved most left him, and his best friend betrayed him in secret. Heartbroken, he went into seclusion at Fandou Garden Estate. He had planned to stay out of worldly affairs, live quietly on tea and simple meals, and let his life run its course. But then h
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The Unrivaled Live-In Son-in-Law 无双赘婿
Four years ago, flames consumed the capital. He married into another family, with no one in the world to depend on. Clad in plain robes, he fell far from home, with no way of knowing whether he would ever return alive. Four years later, a white horse rode across Jiangnan. In the prime of his life, he returned home in glory. Red wedding finery lined the road for miles, and she smiled at him, a peerless gentleman.
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Midnight Tales of the Strange 深夜异闻
Deep in the night, dreams turn strange and surreal. Deep in the night, hope is within reach. Every story here is a tale of the uncanny... Stay close, And listen, if you will, to what I have heard.
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Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺
At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen.
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The Mountain Keeper 守山人
My family has been guarding the mountain for generations. Every generation, someone meets an untimely end at the age of forty. The curse was broken in my grandfather's generation, but it came at a great cost. A soul dwells in each mountain, and one person holds each mountain at bay.
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Origin Master 元尊
Heaven and earth are the furnace, all things are copper, yin and yang are the coals, and creation is the smith. In the struggle for fortune, serpents and sparrows devour dragons. Will the serpent and sparrow reign supreme, or will the holy dragon rise and tower above all living beings? This is a world where qi rules the universe, vast and magnificent. With a breath of qi, one can move mountains, overturn seas, turn the heavens upside down, and command yin and yang and the cosmos. The world’s sou
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Reborn as the Supreme Demon Ancestor 重生之无上魔祖
The gods slaughtered every demon in the three realms. For one person, I entered the demon sect. One thought made me a demon for three thousand years. Though my body died and my spirit faded, my wish remained unfulfilled. The demon sect’s founding patriarch is reborn three thousand years in the past, carrying a treasure of staggering power. In this second life, he is destined to shake the world of Tianxuan.
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Starting as an Abyssal Consciousness, I Rule the Myriad Worlds 从深渊意识开始主宰万界
After getting drunk one night, Qi Tian accidentally fell into a river and drowned. When he came to, he discovered that he had become the consciousness of a plane with a mere 1,000 square kilometers of territory. This plane even had a name of its own: the Abyss. Along with him came a System golden finger called the World Anchoring System. As the name suggests, this is a story about invading other worlds to grow stronger. The synopsis can't do it justice, so read the story.
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Eerie Revival: I Devoured a God 诡异复苏：我吃掉了一尊神
[Whenever I lose consciousness, the seal breaks and I go straight into invincible mode. Even the gods fear me] (Cthulhu + SCP + supernatural horror resurgence + mutation and evolution + 10,000 words daily) Rain that kills, wind that slits throats, dead bodies coming back to life, severed hands crawling out of the ground, plants opening their eyes. In pitch darkness, Lang Ren keeps his eyes tightly shut, still in his pajamas, as his body starts sleepwalking against his will. He wanders into the g
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] 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
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Eighty Years in the Sword Pavilion, Then I Emerged as an Earthly Immortal 剑阁八十年，出世陆地神仙
The original novel behind the hit short drama “Earthly Sword Immortal: Eighty Years Guarding the Sword Pavilion” Meng Fan, gifted with the talent “Swordsmanship as Divine,” is reborn in a cultivation world and becomes the sword keeper of the Sword Pavilion at the Shushan Sword Sect. Touching the “Seven Stars Sword,” he obtains the Seven Stars Sword Art. Touching the “Demon-Suppressing Sword,” he obtains the Sword Intent of Demon Slaying. Touching the “Fuxi Sword,” he obtains the Fuxi Divine Body
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I Was Raised by Monsters 我被怪物养大
The story is set in a modern city in a parallel world. Legend has it that City A is home to an urban myth called the White Cat Agency. The agency is run by a group of monsters and demons. As long as you pay the appropriate price, they'll fulfill any request you make. Money, organs, emotions, memories, years of life... Anything could become a bargaining chip. Seventeen years ago, an infant boy of unknown origins was found by the agency's owner and raised by a group of monsters. Seventeen years l
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The Beautiful Snake Wife 蛇妻美人
I slept in a coffin from the time I was little. When I was six, a snake slithered in and kept me company in the coffin for six years… He had never slept in a bed as a child, only in a very ancient coffin. When he was six, a snake slithered in and kept him company in the coffin for six years. Later, a graceful fairy came and said she would marry him when he turned eighteen.
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Eerie Tattoos 诡纹
My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister…
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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I Went to Prison and Became a Fortune Teller 入狱后，我成了神算子
In the murder case involving eight people in Linhai City, Lin Feng was made the scapegoat and wrongfully imprisoned, receiving a two-year suspended death sentence. The hellish Prison Island would be his final home. But fortune and misfortune go hand in hand: on the very day he entered prison, Lin Feng awakened the Mastermind System. With everything under his control, the prison warden became his strongest connection, and the top dog at Prison Island personally brought him tea and water. Even at
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