Looking for a Book That Leaves You Feeling Helpless and Despairing 想要一本看了会产生无力感和绝望感的书
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Black Vitality: The Avenger 黑色生命力之复仇者
Police launch a thunderous raid in the dead of night, bringing down the He family, a local power that has ruled the area for years. The family falls apart, leaving only a widowed mother and her orphaned children. When the layers of deception are peeled away, the mastermind turns out to be Fang Hua, the childhood romantic rival who spent years biding his time. How did he endure and lie low for so long? How did he exploit an old romance to plot an act of defiance? After the He family's only son ge
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Nirvana: Journey to the Isle in the River 涅槃:走向在河之洲
(An interschool secret-crush story. Come see whether it’s to your taste.) Is it a crime to love Shen Tingzhou? Why did this sincere secret crush become a joke? Is it a crime to want to become a better person? Why have all my efforts been in vain? Is it a crime to long for someone’s true affection? Why do those smiles conceal betrayal and scheming, again and again? Yes, she is guilty. From the moment she bubbled in the wrong answer on her test sheet, she was already beyond forgiveness.
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The Couple 俩口子
Husband and Wife
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The Haunted Tomb 诡坟
[This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t
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My Ex Wrote Thirty Thousand Words About Me, and the Whole Internet Is Waiting for My Downfall 前任写我三万字,全网等我塌房
At ten in the morning, Xing Jun published a 31,000-character post titled "The Qin Zhao I Knew." At the end was a line in small print: This article is purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. That same day, at three in the afternoon, a case was filed in court. Xing Jun was the plaintiff. Qin Zhao and her sixty-year-old mother were the defendants. He must have forgotten one thing: Qin Zhao remembered every single day described in those 31,000 characters
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Kamen Rider Lethe: The Lamenting Monument of World’s End 假面骑士Lethe灭世的哀碑
A completely original knight story with a dark tone. No transmigration, no System. Come experience the most authentic knightly sorrow and despair. Synopsis: A solar flare erupts, and a mysterious mountain range suddenly appears in the Ross Sea near Antarctica. An expedition team ventures deep inside to investigate, only to accidentally awaken Forsaken, an immortal divine being from the ruins of an ultra-ancient civilization. Fifty-one years later, the mysterious mountains appear again. Ming Shen
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My Brother Draws His Sword to Kill Me, So My Enemy and I Rewrite Fate Through Time 兄长拔剑杀我,仇人同我逆时改结局
My Brother Drew His Sword to Kill Me, While My Enemy and I Turn Back Time to Change Our Fate
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After My Plans Failed, I Gave Up 攻略失败后我开始摆烂
[Everyone's favorite / seme-focused perspective / quick transmigration / redemption / angst] Li Mu is an unlucky transmigrator with a flawed personality. Trapped in a novel's world, he is told by someone claiming to be a System that he must complete ten devoted-lover missions to return home. No matter how hard he tries, every mission fails. After starting over one last time, Li Mu no longer wants to win anyone over. That's when he discovers the System has been deceiving him all along: the transm
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Modern Chinese History 中国近代史
A pioneering work in the study of modern Chinese history, History of Modern China offers readers a way to understand nearly a century of Chinese history in a single volume. Written in 1938, it begins with the Opium War and ends with the War of Resistance Against Japan, condensing almost a century of history into fewer than 100,000 words. Its themes are clear, and it combines historical narrative with analysis. It offers fresh, detailed interpretations of major events in modern Chinese history, i
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I Survived from the Primordial Era to the Journey to the West 我,从洪荒苟到西游
Mu Chen transmigrates to the Primordial World, becoming an ethereal spirit with no fixed form. He starts out utterly weak, but unexpectedly awakens the Starsea Fishing Choice System. “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a hundred years, you've obtained a replica of the Four Swords of Zhu Xian!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a thousand years, you've become a Taiyi Mystic Immortal!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for ten thousand years, you've attained the rank of Great Luo
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After Humanity Became Immortal 人类不死以后
Being unable to die is perhaps the cruelest sentence in the world. So immortality is the greatest punishment the world can inflict on humanity. Ours is the generation that has received Heaven's punishment. Perhaps we are also the last group of creatures who can be called human.
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Freak! All Superpowered People Are Sick! 疯子!超能力者都有病!
Has the world gone mad? Have some people gone mad? Tang Cheng truly regretted it the moment he killed his own father. He regretted not having been clearheaded before. He should have killed him sooner. A dead friend is a good friend, and shattered hopes are what get you off! Death and violence weave together into a frenzied symphony. In this world at its end, madmen pursue the pleasures of paradise. [As trashy and clownish as possible, aiming to become a rising star who surpasses White Snake!
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The Moment the Sword Rings 此刻,剑鸣之时
[The Church’s divine light shines upon the world, while mechanical armor soars across the sky. You wonder: Can a sickle tear through a mech? Can a war hammer reforge faith?] [Swords, spears, and clubs are no match for guns and mechs. A lifetime of hard training is no match for cybernetic augmentation. You declare: How can weapons be such cumbersome things!] [After swinging your blade a thousand times, you resonate with your weapon and create the “Breath Resonance Method.”] [Even ordinary iron ca
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Don't Call Me a Demon 别叫我恶魔
[Qing Feng's new novel, This Player Has Something Wrong with His Head, is now serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] The sacred heavenly gates stand across the sky, while the demonic abyss of time and space lays waste to the human world. When twelve spirit springs burst from the earth, when the moon no longer belongs to humanity... Where will we go from here? A world of gods? A world of demons? No. This is a world that belongs to humanity! I will take up the crown no one else wou
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I Pretend to Be a Yandere Little Girl So the Yanderes Won't Bully Me 伪装病娇萝莉,才不会被病娇欺负
[Gender-bender] + [Yandere] + [Loli] + [Some angst] Pure love shouldn’t feel suffocating. “Xiao Jiu, don’t worry. As long as you come out and surrender, big sister won’t do anything to you~” Misaki held a dagger in her left hand and gently wiped the tiny traces of blood from its tip with her right. Lu Jiu hid under the bed, too afraid to make a sound. But the pain from the wound on his shoulder made him tremble, and he accidentally bumped his head against the bed frame. “Ha ha! Found you!” Had s
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He Has Seen God 他见过神
I want this book taken down. If you’re passing by, please do me a favor and report it. I’m begging you. I’ll kneel and thank you a thousand times over…
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I’ll Love You to the End of the World 爱你到世界尽头
Su Muxing loved Gu Mingshan so much she was willing to take a bullet for him. But when a man doesn’t love you, even if you take your heart out and place it in his hands, he’ll still think the blood on it is too dirty. So Gu Mingshan locked Su Muxing in a basement full of poisonous snakes and even killed her two children with his own hands. Gu Mingshan called her a vain woman who would stop at nothing. But one day, when the truth finally came to light, Gu Mingshan clutched his blood-soaked chest
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An Absurdly Over-the-Top Mary Sue 超超超超级离谱的玛丽苏
Su Mali: A heroine with a Mary Sue constitution. Geluli: An ordinary person who works hard. Su Mali meets the perfectly ordinary Geluli, gradually becomes more normal, and uses her Mary Sue aura to dominate every world she visits. Volume One: Su Mali in the entertainment industry Volume Two: Su Mali conquers the imperial harem Volume Three: She travels wildly through old-fashioned stories with the System.
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Pure Edition: The Heartbroken Clan 纯享版:葬爱家族
[Pure unhinged fiction] A comedy dressed up in angsty-romance tropes, with the domineering CEO plot in its condensed form! Nitpickers, stay away! ❤ Bonus chapters are in the community! ❤ 20,000 words in total: [replacement lover + tortured romance + car accident + amnesia + terminal illness + kidney removal + faked death + everyone falls for them + love-triangle showdown + outlaw + forced possession + marriage first, love later + groveling to win back the wife + romantic dysfunction + green-tea
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Enlisted at Seven: Carrying Nuclear Weapons with Me 七岁入伍:随身携带核武器
I was born standing at the very top of the pyramid. I’m also a rich young master who grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth. And I’m the world’s first person to be so handsome at birth that I killed the doctor. I wanted to keep a low profile, but my abilities wouldn’t let me.
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The Strange Happenings of Caixu Village 蔡徐村诡事
In the old days, rural people were also a vulnerable group, suffering abuse at the hands of landlords and rich men. So some villagers kept “chicken ghosts” to protect themselves and their families from further mistreatment... Today's story takes place deep in the mountains, in a quiet village called Caixu.
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A Hook of Hatred 勾恨
[A nitpicking novel + no logic + urban tragic romance + crazy face-slapping + play the pig to eat the tiger + scheming twists + quick transmigration and reborn + metaverse] He is a poor boy from a fractured family! She is a rich heiress who controls the lifeblood of the global economy! He enters her city, and wins his way into her heart! A devoted yet ruthless first love, a lover driven mad by passion, a rival in love whose feelings run deep, sharp-tongued relatives, family members at each other
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The Legend of the Son-in-Law: Peppa Pig Battles Nezha, the Third Prince 赘婿传说小猪佩奇大战哪吒三太子
The Legend of the Live-In Son-in-Law: Peppa Pig Battles Nezha, the Third Prince! After reading this novel, the Milky Way's famous five-star reviewer, MacArthur, praised it as “the first philosophy lesson every adult should read!” Warning: This is a serious work of social satire, not a children's story. Please read with caution and a critical eye. This work is not for young readers! Younger readers must be supervised by someone with at least an undergraduate degree in philosophy!!! For a mysterio
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Oh No! I’ve Become the Big Villain 不好!我成了大反派
Lu Ge used to be a street thug, but he unexpectedly transmigrated into a world of cultivation and became the young master of a clan about to be slaughtered by a Son of Fortune. The original young master was gentle and refined, but everyone saw him as a coward. He lost his fiancée, who betrayed him, and his entire clan was wiped out. He became nothing more than a stepping stone for the Son of Fortune. Reborn as Lu Ge, he awakens the Fortune Plundering System. Can he break free of the chains of fa
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She Waited in the Coffin 她等在棺材里
[Yandere Ghost Wife + Cursed Ghost Marriage + Chinese-Style Horror] [Two Female Leads | Her love for you is real, and so is her desire to kill you] Ruan Mian was looking for a bargain when she rented the haunted house deep in the mountains. On the very first night, a woman in red lay beside her, brushing her icy fingertips over Ruan Mian’s face. “Don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you.” The woman cooked for her, combed her hair, and hugged her from behind every night as they fell asleep. She was so
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After I Stopped Checking Up on Him, My Puppy-Like Boyfriend Cried and Begged Me 不再查岗后,奶狗弟弟哭着求我
After I stopped checking up on him, my puppy-like little brother cried and begged me to come back
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My Friend 朋友呀
The rating just came out, and it'll go up later! Don't let it scare you off [Youth and campus life + friendship + dark humor + antihero + philosophical reflection] The night before last, I had dinner with a buddy I'd known for over twenty years. We hadn't seen each other in more than three years, but he seemed alarmingly well. We talked about work and life, and he even offered to teach my son guitar. Everything seemed almost too normal. As he left, he turned back beneath the streetlight and s
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Jiang Wei: Father-in-Law and Son-in-Law Serve the Same Court 姜维:翁婿同朝
Complete. An unofficial history of the Three Kingdoms!! The story of young general Jiang Wei's life, from his return to Shu to his death for his country: the Northern Expeditions and a love story. Jiang Wei and his wife Fei Zhao, daughter of Fei Yi and a county princess of Shu Han, embrace as they die for their country. Ten thousand bolts from the repeating crossbow pierce them, and she carries their unborn twins. The Sima clan means to separate them; when they cannot, they cut them apart. The h
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The Masked Creator's Chronicles 假面的幕后创世录
This is a story written purely for laughs. The protagonist causes trouble just for the sake of causing trouble, so steer clear if that’s not your thing! Qiu Wen transmigrated to a parallel world with no Ultraman, no Kamen Rider, and no tokusatsu shows. He thought he’d have to settle down and run a bookstore, but unexpectedly activated the “404 Kamen Rider System,” a mysterious System that lets him exchange human emotions like fear and despair for Kamen Rider belts and monsters.
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GB: After I Turned Dark, I Imprisoned the Male Lead GB:黑化后,我囚禁了男主
(Female-led romance + heroine grows darker and stronger later on + male lead's fragmented selves merge their memories later + love-triangle drama. The heroine lives by the rule that if you're good to her, she'll be good to you. If you can't stand her, then sorry, when she goes crazy, even she gets scared.) Shang Wanwan transmigrates into a male-oriented novel, but knows nothing about this world. Luckily, she meets a kind young man named Tao Xuzhou. He's gentle and considerate, takes her in and
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They're All Mad! His Canary Can't Fight Back 疯批全是疯批!金丝雀他无力反抗
Mu Yanzhou: Listen to that desperate, helpless cry. How lovely... Mu Huai: Father has a canary. Delicate, beautiful, and frail. Xu Nian: I’ve always looked forward to spring, to watching the flowers bloom.
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The Room You Can't Leave Unless You Love Each Other 不两情相悦就出不去的房间
[Two Male Leads + Forced Love + Locked-Room Captivity + System + Deranged, Sadistic Top + Beautiful, Delicate, Sickly Beauty + Nonhuman + Mild Horror + Gloomy Male Ghost] Qi En dies of an illness, binds himself to a System, and takes on missions with special instructions. After pursuing the villain relentlessly for half a year, he and the villain, his lover, are locked in a room they can leave only if they love each other. But when he grabs the doorknob, it won’t open. Confused, he turns around
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She's Right in Front of Me, Yet You Say I'm Delusional 她就在我面前,你却说我是臆想症
Not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. Read at your own risk! [One heroine] [Pure love] [Mental illness] [A fresh new premise] “I know you’re not real…” “No one but me can see you.” “But… you really are right here in front of me.” “I can touch you, feel your body heat, and hear your heartbeat and your voice.” “But I don’t understand why everyone says this is an illness!” “They all call me crazy, mentally ill…” “A pathetic…” “delusional patient…”
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A Man at Thirty: My Wife’s Troubles 男人三十:妻子的苦恼
This is the story of Peng Yigao and Qu Jinyu. Qu Jinyu had wanted to escape, but then she realized her husband, Peng Yigao, was no longer the man he used to be. That's right, he'd transmigrated into his body. Who would keep being a pushover after that? The blurb doesn't do it justice, but the story delivers.
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Oh No! The Beautiful, Strong, Tragic, and Obsessive Boy Is a Hopeless Romantic 糟糕!美强惨偏执少年是恋爱脑
[Handsome, tragic mute boy X sweet, delicate art student] [Obsessive insecurity + mutual salvation + love at first sight + devoted to each other] (A healing romance! The male lead is miserable and mute at first, but recovers and makes a comeback later. He remains very humble in front of the heroine, so proceed with caution if that bothers you!) One summer, eighteen-year-old Ling Zhi met twenty-year-old Su Ye. Back then, he was taciturn, got into fights, had no parents, and owned nothing. Someon
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An Encyclopedia of Nonhumans 人外百科
A collection of 80 boy-girl romance stories featuring nonhuman male leads: 1. Furry Beastfolk: black panthers, lop-eared rabbits, red foxes, civets, white tigers, goats, Devon Rex cats, Russian Wolfhounds, brown bears, sika deer, minks, golden lions, wolves, raccoons, Persian cats, German Shepherds, hamsters, Maine Coons, squirrels, and lynxes 2. Personified Objects: pipa lutes, bluestone bridges, diamonds, greatswords, imperial jade seals, rag dolls, and dreamcatchers 3. Winged Beastfolk: peaco
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A Very Serious Cultivation Novel 一本非常正经的修仙小说
[Unhinged faction + ensemble cast + absurdist faction + comedy faction] No couples Not your typical cultivation story. ⚠⚠⚠ Extremely absurd [important point ⚠⚠⚠] Jian Bingwu invites her to see the scenery: Jian Bingwu is good. Jian Bingwu pushes her off the Immortal-Slaying Terrace: Jian Bingwu is bad. Jian Xieyun happily goes to meet her: Jian Xieyun is silly. Jian Xieyun gets pushed off: Jian Xieyun is miserable. But she’s a member of the divine race. Why push her off the Immortal-Slaying Terr
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My Dead Husband’s Clones Are All Over Campus 死鬼老公的分身遍布全校
Two male leads + a Kayako-like stalker top × sunny, straight bottom The top is sweet on the outside but scheming underneath, seemingly pitiful and weak but always playing the long game, pursuing his love with layer upon layer of tricks. The bottom has a chivalrous streak and feels for the weak. Lu Ran attended a funeral. The deceased was Xu An. Xu An had been the class nobody, the illegitimate son of the richest man in the country, and a “stalker” whose diary was filled with Lu Ran’s name. But L
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Let Me Find You 让我找到你
Unlike face-slapping, hitting someone on the back is perfectly safe... as long as the person being hit knows better than to open her mouth. For fourteen years, Zhao Nanhui had kept hitting her around the kidneys. The increasingly frequent traces of blood in her urine no longer surprised or worried her. It was just another unpleasant part of marriage, nothing more. Maybe millions of women were going through worse. On any given night in this city, there might be hundreds or even thousands of women
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All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生
Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft
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Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Tale of Li Chongan, Jade Keeper 丝路玉鉴:守玉丞李崇安传
Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Story of Li Chong'an, Keeper of the Jade
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Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Lin Clan's Joinery Art and the Soul-Hanging Staircase 丝路玉鉴:林氏榫卯诀之悬魂梯
Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Lin Clan's Mortise-and-Tenon Technique and the Soul-Hanging Ladder
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Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 丝路玉鉴:河氏水文之疏勒河谷
Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley
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Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 丝路玉鉴:苏氏星象之陇右佛窟
Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou
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Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Zhao Clan's Spells and the Secret Treasure of Anxi 丝路玉鉴:赵氏符咒之安西秘宝
Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Zhao Clan's Talismans and the Secret Treasure of Anxi
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Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Li Family Jade Pendant, Key to Hexi 丝路玉鉴:李氏玉坠之河西密钥
Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Li Clan's Jade Pendant and the Secret Key to Hexi
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The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌
(This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles
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