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1. 1251 元 Origin Master 元尊 Author126b03作者126b03Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsCompleted 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 5.4kReads9.2Score496Shelves
2. 1252 早 I Cleared the Game Ages Ago, and You’re Only Now Pulling Me into the Horror Game 早通关了，你才拉我进怪谈 City God城神Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted [Invincible] [No Female Lead] After practicing for two and a half years, Jiang Zhe cleared a game called Rule-Based Horror. After clearing it, he transmigrated into the world of Rule-Based Horror. Every country in the world selects one chosen player. Winners bring their nation prosperity. Losers have a monster randomly descend upon one of their cities, where it wreaks havoc for 48 hours. Jiang Zhe is selected and awakens an SSS-rank talent: “Unscientific Summoning,” which lets him summon p 10.6kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves

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   I listened to the live-action version, and I highly recommend it. It's quite interesting, and the content really got me thinking! [Already hooked]

3. 1253 风 Little Fortune Teller of Fengqing Hall 风清堂小相师 Xiangzi Talks History祥子侃历史Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted Ever since witnessing an execution by firing squad, ten-year-old Zuo Buyan had been possessed by the ghost of the condemned criminal. To save Zuo Buyan, he was sent to study under his grandmaster, Ge Fengqing. As it turned out, Ge Fengqing was Zuo Buyan's maternal grandfather. Ge Fengqing's junior apprentice had an affair with his daughter, Ge Xiuer, then betrayed the sect. Their son, Zuo Wenbo, fell in love in an ancient tomb with Dongfang Yan, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Taoist Dongf 54Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Urban ghost hunting requires a broad range of knowledge, especially excelling in character divination.

4. 1254 你EN What Makes You Think I'll Keep Liking You Forever? 你凭什么认为我会一直喜欢你呢 Night Rain i夜雨iUrban1.2M WordsCompleted [Everyday romance] [One female lead] [Mutual healing] Because of a promise made in childhood, Chen Lu spent seven whole years pursuing the girl he’d grown up with. In the end, all he got was a cold rejection. Chen Lu smiled in acceptance, but his heart had turned to ash… until he met the sweet, clumsy girl who’d come to thank him. The girl was lovely and innocent, standing alone in the rain right where the two of them had agreed to meet. “Why haven’t you left…?” The girl slowly lifted her head. 121.5kReads9.7Score14.2kShelves

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   Absolutely top-quality!

5. 1255 我 My Mother Is the City God 我的母亲是城隍 Xiangzi Talks History祥子侃历史Mystery611k WordsOngoing Years after villager Feng Xiaoting's wife, Wang Shihui, died, someone unexpectedly spotted her in Yingtai City. Stunned, Feng Xiaoting asked the Celestial Masters' Bureau to uncover the truth about her death. Zuo Wuyou was assigned to investigate. But when he opened the coffin, he was shocked to find his childhood friend and partner, Han Mengliu, lying inside. As he stood frozen in disbelief, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes and dragged Zuo Wuyou into the coffin. Why did Wang Shihui come back 3Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 1256 做 The Antiquities Restorer 做旧师 Three-Foot Demon Sash三尺妖带Urban2.9M WordsCompleted [Entirely handmade, with no AI whatsoever + Behind-the-scenes industry secrets + Authentic antique identification with images and text + National vendettas and family feuds] If you want to truly understand the antiques trade, start by making fake antiques! Start by learning to age forgeries! My name is Mei Jiu. I was just a temporary odd-jobber on a film crew, but after I helped them repair a broken bowl, I was promoted to assistant prop master. I fix props, so why are they asking me to make fak 40.6kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
7. 1257 穿 How Do I Survive After Becoming the Villainess? 穿成恶毒女配该怎么破？ Clear-Browed and Bright-Eyed眉目疏朗Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Both pure + sweet romance + mutual devotion + no System + traditional transmigration into a book + cute, lovable heroine who won't be pushed around + fierce, puppy-like hero who dotes on his wife] Synopsis A When Tong Shishao transmigrates into the book, the male lead has already been drugged. Unless she takes him right then and there, there's no way to resolve the situation. Later, when her identity is exposed, she tries to run. “I'm not taking the blame for the host!” Pei Yiran is at a loss 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Try this different kind of romance!

8. 1258 小 Listening to Spring Rain All Night in a Small Tower 小楼一夜听春雨 Bright Moon Tilts明月倾Ancient Romance876k WordsCompleted A critically acclaimed historical romance ensemble that topped the annual charts! A calculating, lovesick beauty versus a dark, scheming top scholar! A historical take on Pride and Prejudice: life in the inner household isn't all scheming and rivalry, but also deep sisterly affection. The clever and capable Second Madam Lou takes the greatest pride in her life in having three beautiful daughters. To marry her three marriageable girls into “good” families, she travels a great distance to the capi 35.1kReads9.6Score5.7kShelves

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   My ideal female lead is both proud and intelligent.

9. 1259 穿 Transmigrating as Zhang Wei: My Mother-in-Law Rear-Ends Me from the Start 穿越张伟，开局被岳母追尾 Lu Jinyu路槿瑜Male-Channel Fanfiction1.4M WordsCompleted Zhang Wei woke up to find he'd transmigrated back to the time he'd been jilted at the altar. He was about to move to Love Apartment when his car was rear-ended on the way. When he got out to look, the person who had hit his car from behind was none other than his future mother-in-law, Zhuge Dasheng. Just then, another person stepped out of the front passenger seat... 7.9kReads9.4Score455Shelves
10. 1260 朝 A Mayfly Lives from Dawn to Dusk; Today I Finally Understand What an Immortal Is 朝生暮死蜉蝣命，今日方知仙是仙 Heaven in a Teapot茶壶洞天Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsOngoing [Mortal's Journey] + [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] + [Smart Protagonists, Antagonists, and Supporting Characters] + [Slow-Building Plot] I transmigrated, and from the start I got a… Oh, no, from the start, I was given an old man for a father and eighteen young stepmothers, … Old man! Calm down! Let's talk this out! Put down the sword and straighten that green hat on your head first! … What?! I'd already made enough money, bought myself a little maid, and was all set to coast through life, and 12.8kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves

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    The Myriad Soul Banner refines evil spirits, controls corpses and puppets, cultivates Yin and Yang, a mortal's journey, no system, not a wish-fulfillment novel, both protagonists and antagonists are intelligent, the characters are complex and three-dimensional, not stereotypical. Worth reading for veteran readers tired of mindless wish-fulfillment novels.

11. 1261 八 The 1980s: The Demon Queen Turns Out to Be the Real Heiress 八零：魔王她成了真千金 July Rice Wine七月酒酿Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [A slow-burn story. The early chapters focus mainly on the female lead’s growth. Feel free to pass if that’s not for you.] [The male lead got lost in the story again… No romance.] The true heiress who was switched at birth should have suffered through every hardship in the countryside. But after His Highness the Demon King, Lanting, stepped in, all of that disappeared. With a grand sweep of his hand, the Demon King revealed a bright white smile. This time, someone else would have to endure every 30.1kReads8.5Score3.3kShelves

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    Shi Lanting, the real heiress who was switched at birth, was supposed to endure hardship in the countryside, but the Demon King's intervention rewrote her fate. Eighteen years later, her biological parents came looking for her, but she refused to return. The past suffering is gone; how will she continue living in her familiar surroundings, and what kind of story will unfold between her and the fake heiress? A slow-burning plot awaits you to unlock.

12. 1262 民 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 Miao Qimiao苗棋淼Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 51.6kReads9.4Score6kShelves
13. 1263 玄 Xuanhuan: I Lead Hundreds of Millions of Yin Soldiers to Rebuild the Underworld 玄幻：我率领亿万阴兵，重建地府 Xiao Jiang Next Door隔壁小江Eastern Fantasy3.5M WordsCompleted Chen Qiye transmigrated into a fantasy world, only to find it crawling with countless vicious ghosts that preyed on people and stole their lives. Fortunately, the most powerful Underworld Emperor System awakened within him. Summon Heibai Wuchang to seize wandering souls and slay evil ghosts! Summon the Yin soldiers and generals, throw open the gates of the underworld, and set a hundred ghosts roaming by night! Summon judges and City Gods to punish evil, uphold good, and keep the mortal realm i 15.2kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves

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    💥Guys, this novel is super awesome! The protagonist, Chen Qiye, transmigrates to a fantasy world with the strongest Yin Emperor System. He can summon all sorts of ghosts and gods to punish evildoers. Whether it's the Xiao family's good-for-nothing or the chosen one of destiny, he can subdue them all! Before him, even the strongest people have to obey. Come and experience this invincible thrill! #NovelRecommendation

14. 1264 剑 Sword, Moon, Zither, and Star 剑月琴星 Wutong Youyou梧桐悠悠Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsOngoing [Xuanhuan] [Mortal Protagonist] [No System] [Slow Burn] [Swordsmanship] [Mystery] After a war that lasted ten thousand years, heaven and earth shattered, three races stood side by side, and divine artifacts sank into oblivion. A mountain boy with no spiritual roots sets out from the mortal world to avenge a great wrong, enduring hardship after hardship. With one sword, he forges ten thousand; with his Dao heart, he enters a demonic tribulation! Wielding the sword in his hand, he cannot kill ever 116.4kReads8.9Score7kShelves

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    High-scoring novels + online intelligence

15. 1265 畸 The Floating City in the Freakish Sea 畸海浮城 Distant Stars on a Cold Night寒夜远辰Mystery685k WordsOngoing [A World of Strange Realms] [Backrooms-Inspired Setting] [Dark Humor] [Monstrous Creatures] [Light Apocalypse Scavenging] [Uncovering the Truth] The original world has shattered into countless eerie pocket worlds: A silent city where the sun never rises, A man-eating forest where every tree walks, An endless wasteland forever watched by a giant eye... And also, A colossal Buddha traveling beneath the city, Moving walls of steel rebar mixed with rotting flesh, A black humanoid figure stan 142kReads9.1Score13.9kShelves
16. 1266 诡 The Strange Realm Archives 诡域档案 Dark Green Moss墨绿青苔Mystery6.0M WordsCompleted Six years ago, Comrade Peng Gang, an outstanding investigator in the Ministry of State Security of Huaxia and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, met a strange death while on a mission. Six years later, several investigators go missing one after another. The case they were investigating is deeply strange and has countless connections to the case from six years ago. In response, the mysterious investigation team, Fifth Bureau, Ninth Division, begins looking into a series of cases in the realm 329Reads9.1Score—Shelves
17. 1267 第 The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局 The One Surnamed Yi姓易的Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted “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 3.4kReads9.2Score467Shelves
18. 1268 末 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Mighty Cockroach伟岸蟑螂Sci-Fi & Apocalypse6.3M WordsCompleted Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 27.3kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
19. 1269 布 A Commoner Conquers the Nine Provinces 布衣镇九州 Cai Bibi菜比比Historical2.3M WordsCompleted Zhao Ce transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, becoming an impoverished scholar with a terrible reputation. He also discovers that he borrowed money to get married, then squandered it all, and ended up buying a pitiful little cripple on the way back to make up the numbers. The little cripple has mismatched eyes and is treated like a monster. Zhao Ce: What kind of miserable life is this? A disastrous start? But when he takes another look at the little cripple, so tiny and thin, blinking those big eye 26.5kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
20. 1270 梦 The Nightmare Investigation Team 梦魇调查团 Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery490k WordsCompleted This is the depths of hell, a world of nightmares. Without a resilient will, a nimble mind, and meticulous powers of observation, you can only become a demon's feed in this terrifying world. 1.4kReads8.8Score111Shelves

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    I've already finished the first book and am currently rereading it. The protagonist is intelligent, and there's no female lead, so feel free to follow it. The second book is by the same author. Don't be fooled by the lower rating; it's because fewer people have read it yet, but it's still good. The protagonist is also intelligent, and there's no romantic entanglement. (All of Stone Giant's books are quite good; you won't regret investing in them.)

21. 1271 魔 Magic's Industrial Revolution 魔法之工业革命 Zhou One大周一号Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsOngoing This novel starts off a little slowly. The first ten chapters mainly lay the groundwork. Transmigrate into a world of magic and combine magic with technology! Take inspiration from Minecraft redstone circuits to create [Logic] magic arrays! Apply the principles of magic to build refrigerators, guns, cannons, and mechs, and invent more efficient machines! Free people from manual labor, boost productivity, create wealth, and spark an Industrial Revolution in a world of magic. [Raises a gun] T 10.6kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
22. 1272 全 The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法 The Butterfly Doesn't Want To蝴蝶不愿意Ancient Romance3.1M WordsCompleted The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W 49.9kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves

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    Life and farming novels [laughs] Check out these two books and see what's in Stone's inner monologue [laughs] A thirteen-year-old kid teetering on the edge of collapse, then read this animal version of the inner monologue of animals in a postpartum care center—a barrage of sharp, piercing blows [laughs][laughs]

23. 1273 我 I, the Ultimate Schemer: The Empress Calls Me a Living Yama 我，最强毒士，女帝直呼活阎王 Xing Xing Zi星星子Historical4.3M WordsOngoing [Search Tomato to watch the short drama: The Third Greatest Stratagem of All Time] Gao Yang transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty just as the Empress ascended the throne and began recruiting talent from across the land. So he volunteered himself as a poison strategist! The Empress: “Suppose you personally wiped out your enemy's entire family. As you looked at the bodies scattered everywhere, you suddenly realized there was still a child in the house. What would you do?” Gao Yang: “I'd say, ‘Re 386.2kReads9.2Score32.8kShelves

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    Tomato has selected 20 highly-rated funny books; you won't regret buying them, and there's bound to be one that suits you.

24. 1274 道 Emotional Blackmail? Please, I Don't Even Have a Conscience 道德绑架？笑死，我根本没有好吗 Bao Yi Si A报一丝啊Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Short drama, comic drama, and audiobook adaptations are all available, with up to 800,000 readers] [Fighting moral blackmail + outlaw + no self-sacrificing saint + scheming + immensely satisfying] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Bei faces moral blackmail on a high-speed train from the start. Pregnant woman: “I’m pregnant! You have to give me your seat!” Lin Bei: “If you have a problem, take it up with whoever caused it. The baby you’re carrying isn’t mine, so why should I give up 63.4kReads8.7Score6kShelves
25. 1275 兄 Bro, Are You Some Kind of Human Incubus? Fluffy Creatures Are Chasing You Everywhere 兄弟你人类魅魔啊？毛茸茸追着跑 Yue Jian Ying月见莺Urban3.5M WordsOngoing [This book has been signed for print publication] [Light livestreaming + Animals + No romance] Lu Xiao, a professor of botany and zoology, quits his job and heads alone to the Kunlun Mountains to gather research material, becoming a solitary yet vibrant mountain guardian. During his first winter in the mountains, he says he wants a cat. The very next moment, his dog brings him a snow leopard cub abandoned by its mother. Dog, this isn’t what I meant by a cat. This is a little too hardcore. He thi 100.2kReads9.6Score8.8kShelves
26. 1276 都 Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Run with the Gangsters? 都重生了谁还混社会 Bored Little Bai无聊小白啊Urban3.1M WordsCompleted Short drama: "Loyal to the Skies: Starting Over" is now streaming The novel was originally titled "Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Would Still Run With Gangs?" [Reborn + business + lots of underlings + no groveling + no cowardice + taking the righteous path + law-abiding] A big shot from the underworld returns to 2010. Should he repeat his old mistakes and keep running with gangs, or abandon his underlings and take the road to a brighter future? No! I won't choose! In this life, I, Qin Jiang, wil 139.1kReads9.3Score13.8kShelves
27. 1277 重 Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事 Heading North向北Urban1.9M WordsCompleted These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap 86.8kReads9.6Score8.9kShelves

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    It's so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful!

28. 1278 幺 The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Miss Zhu Si’s rough fighting skills have always made her the laughingstock of the capital’s noble families. In everyone else’s eyes, that’s the sort of work meant for household guards. Zhu Changle, who considers herself invincible, isn’t ashamed of it. She’s proud. Not everyone can protect their own home, but she can! And then some! She’d even turn the whole capital upside down to protect it! Don’t believe her? Try her! 18.6kReads9.5Score3kShelves
29. 1279 师EN Junior Brother, Don’t Cultivate Immortality Like That 师弟，别这么修仙 Softly Falling Words轻落语Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsCompleted By a stroke of fate, Lu Changsheng is brought into a sect and becomes the junior disciple of Qingyun Peak. Having seen how brutal the path of cultivation can be, he decides to keep a low profile and hide his true abilities. While his senior brothers cultivate, he sleeps. While his fellow disciples take part in trials, he slacks off. Under countless watchful eyes, he does the same thing day after day for ten years, never wavering in his commitment to being a quiet schemer. Until one day, everyone 59.1kReads9.0Score5.2kShelves
30. 1280 王 If Wang Ruofu Turns Violent, Empress Guo Is Doomed: Renzong, I Suffer 王若弗成暴力郭皇后：仁宗，朕苦 Yan Zhuo Shaomi燕啄绍米Female-Channel Fanfiction313k WordsCompleted [Historical comedy] [Lighthearted] [Blunt, hot-tempered matriarch Wang Ruofu × kindhearted, somewhat spineless Zhao Zhen] [Inspired by Serenade of Peaceful Joy, The Story of Minglan, and the historical Song dynasty] A domineering empress takes charge of the emperor, sending history down a turbulent new path. Wang Ruofu is reborn as Emperor Renzong’s empress, Guo. This not-so-bright matriarch spends her life rampaging through the palace, ruling by sheer volume and overwhelming force. To hell with 1.8kReads8.7Score102Shelves

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    Simple and funny, with endearing characters, but not mindless entertainment; it's about a mature woman and her charming young husband.

31. 1281 开 Exiled from the Start, I Became the Biggest Menace 开局流放，我成了祸害头子 Bone-Leak Gua Wen骨漏呱闻Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsOngoing [No heroine] Everyone in the Tamor Desert Exile Zone knew that Shi Sun was a miserable, foul-mouthed bastard. His daily routine went like this: When danger struck, Shi Sun: Might as well die. When faced with a problem, Shi Sun: How come I haven't died yet? When someone spoke to him, Shi Sun: Just pretend I'm dead. When someone doubted him, Shi Sun: Believe it or don't. If you don't, go die. When someone asked him for help, Shi Sun: What can I do? Want me to go die? The criminals in the Exile Zon 2.4kReads9.1Score209Shelves
32. 1282 四 Siheyuan: I’m He Yuyang, and I Rule the Entire Courtyard 四合院：我是何雨洋，镇压全院 Ugly-Cute丑萌萌Male-Channel Fanfiction1.3M WordsCompleted Reborn in the world of Love in the Courtyard. He becomes He Yuyang, Silly Zhu’s older brother. He binds to the Defense-Breaking System. Whenever the courtyard’s troublemakers lose their cool, he gets a reward. What? Silly Zhu has been reborn? Even reborn, he’s still the younger brother! He joins the steel mill and dates the prettiest girls. Step by step, he builds up his starting capital. He waits for the day the winds rise, and his businesses spread across the world! Many years later, He Yuyang 21kReads8.1Score956Shelves

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    The male lead, Shazhu's brother

33. 1283 告 A Group Text Confessing My Love, and My Aunt Cries That I Sent It Too Late? 告白短信群发，小姨哭诉发晚了？ Surely Not a Couch Potato怕不是咸鱼Urban413k WordsCompleted Su Yang transmigrates to a parallel world, becomes a small-time streamer, and activates a mission System. Only this System isn't exactly respectable. [Today's livestream mission: Send a mass confession text. The mission is complete as soon as you hit send.] [Note: From ninety-nine-year-olds to toddlers who can just walk, any age or gender!] Su Yang: … “Everyone dies someday, but not from public humiliation!” [Refuse a mission and the System will be forcibly reclaimed!] Su Yang: “Damn it, th 11.8kReads9.0Score1kShelves
34. 1284 开 Serving Poisonous Chicken Soup on Livestream from the Start, I Almost Made the Audience Die Laughing 开局直播毒鸡汤，差点笑死观众 Blending Into the Dust浑光同尘Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted + Comedy + Everyday Life + “Healing” + Wild Card + Reclusive Oddball] Wang Shifeng transmigrated to a world where depression was rampant under relentless pressure. Naturally kind-hearted, he decided to heal this miserable world with his own optimism and humor. To a fan who was frustrated with life, he offered this heartfelt advice: “Hang in there. Once you're done suffering in this life, you can start suffering in the next!” To fans afraid of being crushed by the rat race, he eager 12.9kReads8.9Score827Shelves
35. 1285 末 Doomsday Descends: I Have a Complete Set of MOBA Skills 末日降临：我有全套MOBA技能 Weishun'er维什巽尔Sci-Fi & Apocalypse100k WordsOngoing [MOBA Skills + Apocalypse + System + Pure Power Fantasy + Growth-Focused Main Plot + Camp Building + Ensemble Cast + Harem] Gu Yi had just received a tryout notice from a professional academy team and thought his life was finally about to take off. But when he opened his eyes again, he was seven years late. The professional leagues were gone, the cities lay in ruins, and human civilization had regressed to an age when people survived by hunting for food. While survivors struggled to awaken super —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Come on, everyone, let's all use all our Summoner Spells to survive in this apocalyptic world! [Laughs]

36. 1286 主 The Streamer Does a Good Deed Every Day, Sending Criminals to Prison for Life 主播日行一善，罪犯牢底坐穿 Chilled Orange冰镇橙子Urban603k WordsCompleted [Livestream] [Comedy] [Living King of Hell] [No heroine] Originally titled: This Kindhearted Streamer Makes Even Satan Offer Him a Cigarette Su Chen, who transmigrates from a parallel world, gets bound to a Good Samaritan System. His whole thing is being kindhearted! One day, while Livestreaming, he’s suddenly stopped by a deaf-mute person on the roadside. The person pulls out a phone, opens a payment code, and asks for a donation. The people nearby gesture to Su Chen, warning him that the deaf- 5.5kReads9.0Score598Shelves
37. 1287 直 Livestream: From the Start, One Sentence Makes the School Beauty Cry 直播：开局一句话气哭校花 Lone Salty Fish独孤咸鱼Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Livestreaming + Comedy + No Romance + Infuriating + Shameless] After binding himself to a Hatred Farming System, Xu Muge stops acting like a decent person. At university military training, he steals the campus beauty's drink from the start, then makes her cry with a single remark. On livestream, he constantly unleashes savage, sarcastic takedowns on his viewers. He writes a novel, then leaves it on a cliffhanger at the climax for half a month, making readers so furious they want to mail him raz 9.9kReads9.2Score703Shelves
38. 1288 直 The Genius Livestreamer: This Streamer Is the Real Deal, He'll Show Up When There's Trouble 直播鬼才：这主播能处，有事真上 Let Me Go Wild and Feast让我疯狂炫饭Urban688k WordsCompleted [Livestream + No heroine + Comedy + Lighthearted + Rebel] A flop streamer + the ultimate troublemaking System, leaving netizens stunned! Bai Ye transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the [Never Back Down] System. Onlookers: “Streamer, don’t! You can’t win against those matchmaking aunties. They’re way too powerful!” A passerby: “Holy crap, he actually went straight at them! Holy crap, he made the aunties cry!” A fan of a certain brand: “If you’re saying our stuff is bad, go make 19.2kReads9.4Score2kShelves
39. 1289 职 The Twelve Volumes of the Professional Rankings, and My Name Is in Every One 职业天榜十二卷，卷卷有爷名 Six Great Sixes六大六子Sports1.8M WordsCompleted [Full-cast audiobook now available|Class change + clones + no female lead + nonstop laughs + mastermind behind the scenes + explosive plot] Song Gua transmigrated with a whole bunch of fun-loving clones. This was a world where everyone changed classes. Song Gua became a Bondbearer who could borrow power, while his clones took on all kinds of different classes, with every variety imaginable. Their numbers kept growing, and every last one was talented and charming. Under Song Gua’s brilliant l 49.5kReads9.3Score6.7kShelves
40. 1290 只 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情，职业舔狗我最行！ A Long Sigh长叹一声Urban3.9M WordsOngoing (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 261.1kReads9.5Score18.8kShelves
41. 1291 人 Writing Self-Help in America, I Become the Nation's Choice for President 人在鹰酱写鸡汤，全民求我当总统 Steamed Plum Pastry Sauce蒸梅油酥汁Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Tang Darcy transmigrates to America and becomes a sheriff. He activates the Influencer System: all he has to do is write toxic inspirational quotes and cultivate influencers to earn rewards. How hard can that be? He fires off all kinds of self-contradictory quotes to fool foreigners: “America, Please Wait for Your People!” “Don't Make America Great Again! Give the Little People Their Dignity!” “Why Does China Wash Its Dishes Seven Times?!” The more foreigners he fools, the more buffs the System 16.7kReads9.6Score2.2kShelves
42. 1292 深 Judgment in the Deep Dark 深暗审判 Dao Qing刀清Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted [Completed] [Slow-Burn Supernatural Mystery] [For Detail Lovers] [No Female Lead] [No Romance] [No System] [Not Mindless] [The Protagonist Is a Vengeful Ghost] When other people see a ghost: Kill it! When Gu Mo sees a ghost: Food! I'm a crazy, eccentric person, and there's something wrong with my mind. (I love putting on an act. I want to make sure no one, including everyone watching, can figure out what I'm really like.) Can someone from another world survive here? Will the personalitie 59Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's not a mindless story. Aside from the somewhat cheesy title, the content is pretty good. [Smirk][Smirk][Smirk][Laugh] [Chapter 22 onwards is optional; the supernatural main plot tag after chapter 22 is incorrect.]

43. 1293 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Is the Big Boss of the Big Bosses 快穿：宿主她是大佬界的扛把子 Mu Shiqi暮十七Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [No romance] [Strong female lead] [Quick Transmigration] System: Dear Host, could you please try to focus just a little while doing your missions? Ming Li glanced at the System. “I’ll consider it.” System: ... The System cried itself unconscious in the space. Weren’t Hosts supposed to get along lovingly with their Systems? Weren’t they all supposed to complete their missions with enthusiasm? Watching its Host dominate every plane, the System felt like the world had no love left in it. Then, one 9.9kReads9.0Score810Shelves

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    1-8 Are fast-paced, no romance; 9 is a cultivation novel; 10 is a novel with multiple female protagonists; 11 is a novel where the female protagonist is an empress dowager; 12 is a fast-paced, satisfying novel; 13-19 are palace intrigue novels; 20 is a high-scoring sweet romance. All of these require some thought. If you don't like them, you can check them out on my bookshelf; they're all grouped together.

44. 1294 快 Quick Transmigration: The Demon King Wrecks the Plot 快穿之大魔王崩坏剧情 Mist Rising Through the Long Forest雾起长林Modern Romance428k WordsCompleted (No romance, brainless wish-fulfillment.) The heroine is an overbearing, chuuni, unhinged supervillain. She isn't human! She has no human morality and is rotten to the core. Anyone seeking justice or a saintly heroine should stay away. She takes the scumbag's path and leaves scumbags nowhere to go. If she can solve something with violence, she won't waste a word. She's a master of every kind of scheming green tea and black lotus trick: if you can imagine it, she can do it. A mama's boy ends up w 29.3kReads9.5Score2.9kShelves
45. 1295 快 Quick Transmigration: The Female Side Character Uses Force Instead of Seduction 快穿：女配她用武力取代攻略 Light Ink Wash水墨浅浅Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The story of how a supporting female character and a cannon-fodder character changed their fates. “I heard the heroine in tragic romances gets physically and emotionally abused, and the male lead even steals her organs, but in the end she always makes up with him.” Si Li: “Why? Because he’s domineering and brainless? Hello, 110? Someone here is trading organs illegally.” “I heard the white moonlight in body-double stories is usually someone from the past, and the male lead ends up falling for th 1.1kReads9.0Score107Shelves
46. 1296 天 After Heaven's Army Attacked, the Great Sage and I Joined Forces to Slay the Gods 天庭来袭后，我和大圣共赴斩神榜 Hermit of the Immortals' Abode神仙居居士Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsOngoing [Multiple Heroines] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Ensemble Cast] [Steal Divine Powers] [Careful, Step-by-Step Farming] The mortal Li Chanshe sacrificed himself to save someone and ascended to the Celestial Court, only to become a crippled immortal. His cultivation stalled, and his life hung by a thread beneath the fangs of an immortal beast! At the brink of death, a shocking truth came to light. The turbid energy that every banished immortal dreaded becoming tainted by was the one-of-a-kind source of 2.6kReads9.4Score289Shelves

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    Finally, I found a good book!

47. 1297 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Wakes Up and Plays Through Every Little World 快穿：睡醒后宿主玩遍小世界 Willow Branch杨柳枝Modern Romance468k WordsCompleted No romance There are countless strange things in the world, and half of them involve scumbag men and their scummy behavior. There are a whole bunch of Scumbag-Busting Systems in the universe, created just for men like them. Dan Shu was sleeping in her palace. When she woke naturally, she casually caught a ray of starlight, and ended up bound to Xiao Jiu. Xiao Jiu had just been upgraded and was happily on her way to share the news with the Main System when she was somehow captured and bound to so 92Reads8.8Score—Shelves
48. 1298 那 The Gentleman of Those Days 那时的先生 Yue Nan岳南Historical396k WordsCompleted On July 7, 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out. Scholars and students from numerous academic and educational institutions were forced to relocate to places such as Changsha, Chongqing, and Kunming. In 1940, as the war intensified, faculty and students from Tongji University moved to the ancient town of Lizhuang in southern Sichuan. They were followed by the Academia Sinica, the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum, Peking University's Institute of Liberal Arts, the Society for the 48Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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49. 1299 系 The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵，一身反骨离大谱 Ou Cong偶葱Modern Romance9.1M WordsCompleted They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment 37.4kReads9.1Score3kShelves
50. 1300 末 The Apocalypse Movie Library 末世电影库 He En贺恩Sci-Fi & Apocalypse223k WordsOngoing [Slow Burn + Zombies + Movie Transmigration + Buddha's Palm + Vibranium Flesh] (Heh heh heh, after watching ads for two whole years, the author has finally come back to life!!) The zombie apocalypse has arrived. Fang Ning transmigrates into Train to Busan from the start. Ma Dong-seok: "Damn, you're a natural with a gun!" In the world of Kung Fu, he outsmarts the Beast and obtains Buddha's Palm. In The Avengers, he gains metal control from the start, commands a body of vibranium flesh, and beats 64Reads6.8Score—Shelves

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    I highly recommend the first book; the second book is decent, and the third book is a gem among short stories.

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