Any Novels with a Truly Ruthless and Realistic Protagonist? 有没有主角非常残忍真实的小说
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Cultivating the Demonic Path, Building My Foundation Through Slaughter 修魔成道，杀生筑基
[Demonic Cultivation] [Cold-Blooded and Ruthless] [Decisive and Merciless] [The Dark Side of Human Nature] [The male lead is an ordinary man. There are women, but no female lead.] Consume treasured elixirs to gather qi and improve your cultivation and spells. Xu Sanyan was born among bandits and knows that human life is as worthless as grass: if you don't kill, you'll be killed. To stay alive, he severs the compassion in his heart and unleashes the evil within. To obtain a cultivation manual
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A Tragedy Caused by Hemorrhoids 因痔疮而引发的惨案
[Transmigration] [Magic] [Supernatural powers] [Bizarre] [Farming] [Mechanical energy] [Ensemble cast] [Western fantasy] [Elf knights, angels] [Warriors and battle aura] [Planetary continents] [Bloodline evolution] [Cautious, semi-behind-the-scenes protagonist] [Research institute] [Study and critical thinking] [Dark] [Healing and heartwarming] [Unrestrained imagination] [No golden finger] [Fate] [Uniqueness] [Sequence pathways] [Magical civilization] He gets treated like research material the m
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The Immortal of Strange Cores 怪核之仙
[Invasion by Transmigrators + Occupational Combos + A Touch of Cosmic-Horror Folklore + Dark Tone] Kill your family to cultivate immortality? Hurt others to become a Buddha? Overnight, the entire world suddenly began cultivating as one. An Qinghe thought it was a dream, until his own parents tied him up. Only then did he realize that it was all real... Cultivators have invaded the modern world, seizing people's bodies and souls! But right now, all An Qinghe wants to know is... why do they say he
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With a Ghostly Talent, I Shouldn't Be in the Main God Space 天赋是幽魂的我不应该在主神空间
Dark, with a young boy protagonist and no female lead. The blurb was changed by mistake: I replaced it with the new book’s blurb and forgot what the old one said. Shang Yuanyi can’t be bothered to change it back. is another title for this book. Dark + young boy protagonist + the protagonist kills without mercy First death Shang Yuanyi: “Village Chief, we’re as close as grandfather and grandson. You wouldn’t do anything to me, would you?” The village chief
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- 55 Hey, You! Do You Really Have to Be This Low-Key?! 你小子！用不用这么低调！！ The immortal, undying ancient dragon left behind only a rotting corpse. The phoenix, unafraid of death, was reduced to a single broken root feather. The auspicious qilin, surrounded by good fortune, could not foresee its own death. The Black Tortoise, master of countless laws, had its shell forcibly stripped away. The cemetery of the gods still stands, watching the ruins endure for millennia, while grass and trees flourish and fade through the seasons. Who dares claim to be immortal… The years t 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨
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
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- 58 The Immortal Path? The Path of Death! 仙道？死道！ [Horror Cultivation] + [Survival at All Costs] You are what you eat, so eating bitterness won't make you a better person. Only eating people will. An immortal once said, “If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.” Humans are the spirit of all things, born with immortal bodies and prized as heavenly medicine. In the cultivation world, the only way to cultivate is to absorb the power and fortune of others! That's why ordinary people are kept as living cauldrons. If you don't consume others, —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Am I the Savior? No, Call Me the Enemy of the World 我是救世主？不，请叫我世界之敌
[Unhinged Persona] + [Ruthless] + [Lone Wolf] + [Just Here for the Fun] + [No Romance] Feng Dian, who's not quite right in the head, transmigrates! This world is completely insane! Countless incomprehensible anomalies run rampant! Flying-head demons! Man-eating buildings! The Ten-Foot God! And many more... Ordinary people face almost certain death if they encounter them! But Feng Dian thinks they're just his type! And so the Unhinged System appears! Immortality! Ten-thousand-fold damage! Spatial
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Be the Fiercest One 做最凶的那个
Lin Yu had always been troubled by a question: Why must good people endure eighty-one trials to become Buddhas, while bad people only need to lay down their butcher's knives? Fairness has never been something the poor get to talk about. If you want fairness, there's only one way: make yourself strong enough to create it. This world has both light and darkness. It won't treat you well just because you're kind. His father was unable to repay his debts and eventually took his own life. The creditor
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- 61 The Endless Underworld 黑道无尽 (Period setting, underworld, gritty realism, high-octane) A savage era. An unconventional underworld boss. A story of the jianghu written in blood and tears. So much happened in those years. You can only see it clearly through blood-tinted glasses... 2.8kReads7.7Score283Shelves
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Dong Mo, the Brutal Tyrant: Wiping Out a Clan Makes Me Stronger from the Start 暴极董魔：开局灭门就变强
A complete newcomer: writing on a whim, just for fun. Volume One: Rising in Xiliang, Forging a Fearsome Name in Demon Blood (I write whatever comes to mind, just trying to keep the creative spark alive.) Volume Two: The Heavens Collapse at Hulao Pass, Heroes Bleed (Endless revisions, deleted drafts, rewritten settings. The process is torture.) Volume Three: Marching East Without Mercy, Blood Staining the Land (I’ve found my direction. This is starting to feel pretty good.) Volume Four: The Great
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A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation: I Will Become an Immortal 百世轮回：我终将成仙
[Warning: the protagonist has no moral limits] [Dark story] [Not a saintly protagonist] [No heroine] [Decisive and ruthless] [Intelligent protagonist] This is the story of a despicable man who reincarnates a hundred times and seeks the path to immortality in the cracks between worlds.
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The Youth of Two Generations 两代人的青春
My name is Li Sunan, and I'm a complete... bastard. Please take a moment, settle in, and let me tell you the whole story. From my godfather, Li Zhen, to my second uncle, Cui Lijun, and then to my own dark life. From 1990 to 2020. Thirty tumultuous years in a small city in Northeast China. One act ends, and another begins. Two generations rise and fall, knowing both glory and disgrace. There are no all-powerful crime bosses here. Just a bunch of little people struggling at the bottom... The road
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My Physical Body Is Invincible: My Dragon-Slaying Feats Shock the World 肉身无敌，我屠龙勇士天下惊
[Pure Power Fantasy + Invincible Lead + Martial Arts + Ruthless + War Between Seven Kingdoms + Villain Protagonist + Court and Martial World] Chu Yan transmigrates to the Great Yong Kingdom as its sole prince with a different surname. After five years of conscientious service, the Empress breaks her promise to rule alongside him as one of the two sovereigns. Fine, fine. You’re stripping me of my office? “Smoke drifts by, dust eventually settles. When we meet again someday, the tea will be cold,
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My Uncle Dies from the Start, and I Get This Great Deal? 开局死大爷，还有这好事
On the surface, he is the young owner of a traditional Chinese medicine therapy clinic. In truth, he is a cultivator who has chosen to live in obscurity among ordinary people. If a hospital can treat it, I can treat it. If a hospital can’t, I can still treat it. As long as you aren’t meant to die, I can keep you alive. If you’ve found your way to me, it means you can still be saved. So tell me, what did you do this time? Feng shui can help someone rise to great heights, or leave them plagued by
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- 67 The Funeral Parlor Owner's Son Becomes a Forensic Doctor Just to Lie Flat 冥店之子当法医，只为躺平 You can talk to ghosts about human relationships and social niceties, but you can't reason with people, because people are often scarier than ghosts. When dealing with conflicts between ghosts and people, you don't always have to side with the living. Those who have done wrong don't deserve help. The so-called Five Disadvantages and Three Deficiencies aren't a fate that comes with being a cultivator. They only befall cultivators who help people do evil. Some jobs aren't hard because of the work 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Harry Potter: Miss Ollivander's Wand Business HP：奥利凡德小姐的魔杖生意 “If you want a wand custom-made just for you, you’ll have to pay the price!” Reborn as Ollivander’s granddaughter, Zosha inherits the Ollivander family’s gift for wandmaking. Zosha can make wands that suit any owner, but she can also craft a wand that belongs to one person alone. By “belongs to one person,” she means that the wand can only ever be used by that person. Even if someone else gets their hands on your wand by using the Disarming Charm, only you can use it. ,, Ollivander: Zosha, have 1.3kReads5.4Score182Shelves
- 69 Under the Hail, Cultivation Becomes the Mainstream 冰雹之下，修行成主流 On the first day the hail began, many people caught outside were injured or killed by the falling hail, and crops in the fields were destroyed... A week after the hail began, the countryside had lost contact with the cities. Many rural homes had been crushed by hail, leaving countless dead and injured, while food and other supplies in the cities began to skyrocket in price... Half a month after the hail began, the tap water had stopped running. Power was available only intermittently, just lon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Harry Potter: I've Lived Through This Magical World Countless Times HP：这魔法世界，我经历无数回 After countless lifetimes in the world of Harry Potter, this time I was born as Harry Potter’s older cousin, Dudley Dursley... To avoid repeating the same life all over again, I have to work hard to claim the protagonist’s glory by fair and reasonable means and become the main character. It’s a difficult path. I’ve failed countless times, but I still have to keep trying, or I’ll be trapped in an endless loop. 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Film and TV Crossover: Staying Out of It 综影视：置身事外 You Cai, a little-known web novelist with a readership ranking around two hundred and fiftieth, is working late to make ends meet on a stormy night. Then lightning strikes her computer, and her soul is sent into a sea of chaos. There, she hears a voice. She feels she has a chance to come back to life, but not much of one... (Note: For certain special reasons, multiple worlds may be updated at the same time. There should be no problem if you read in the order shown in the table of contents.) 2.3kReads5.3Score—Shelves
- 72 I Have a Spring 我有一口泉 After discovering a miraculous spring, a graduate student gives up a million-yuan salary and goes home to plant trees. They say I can’t grow fruit trees? Then I’ll make flowers bloom across the mountain village overnight. They say my fruit isn’t worth much? Then I’ll turn it into medicine, selling for over a hundred yuan apiece and flying off the shelves. They say I don’t have a wife? The marshal’s daughter, fair-skinned, beautiful, and powerful, comes from a thousand miles away to ask me to mar 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 I Became Sun Wukong 我成了孙悟空 When the Bull Demon King tried to take his cave, Sun Wukong let him have it. He avoided the East Sea Dragon King's request. And when Guanyin tried to recruit him, he politely refused. But Guanyin, when you force a tight fillet spell on me, you leave me no choice but to fight back. Sun Wukong beat Guanyin until she spat blood and broke with Buddhism once and for all, but in return, the Heavenly Court began showering him with offers of goodwill. Taibai Jinxing personally invited Sun Wukong to take 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Film and TV Crossover: Guided by a Compass 综影视：指南针的引导 Wu Meng, a delivery rider, has an accident while trying to beat the deadline and becomes the adopted daughter of a pirate. But after receiving a compass from her adoptive father, she enters an unknown timeline that very night. Her father is arrested, and she becomes an orphan bullied at an orphanage. After enduring two years of hardship, she protects the compass her father gave her. When her blood falls on it, she embarks on a very different journey through life. “Since you used to love movies a 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 My Life as a Fortune-Teller 我的算命生涯 Earn money from the living, and bargain for your life with the dead. With a book of magical artifacts in hand, I command the laws of reincarnation. Good and evil hinge on a single thought; the truth is revealed in the next life. Do good deeds in this life, and you may live to a ripe old age in the next. Those steeped in evil may not live to adulthood in their next life. You can extend your next life, but you’ll have to give away all your wealth. By day, I do business with the living and 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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From the Last Emperor of the Ming to Ruler of the Multiverse 从明末皇帝到多元宇宙主宰
Modern man Lin Mo transmigrates into the body of a refugee at the end of the Ming dynasty. In a chaotic age, human life is worth less than grass. His outlook changes, and he kills and eats people, all just to stay alive. He grows along the way into an overlord of the stars. No female lead, and no contrived dumbing down of characters.
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Eternal Demon 永魔
Traditional cultivation. The protagonist is ruthless and merciless, no holier-than-thou hero, no heroine, dark fiction! No System!! If you want to become an immortal in the heavens, you must climb the road to immortality over the bones of others. This isn't AI-generated. I wrote it by hand!!!
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Destroyer of the Apocalypse, Also Known as the Li Tang Dynasty 末世毁灭者【又名李唐王朝】
You tread on the bones and blood of the weak, believing in the law of the jungle. You think you are the victor in control of the game, free to live a life of luxury until the end of time. Until the chessboard of fate is overturned. It turns out this world is a tragedy tailor-made for us. You and I are both pawns, without exception. [Slow burn. The further it goes, the more brutal, misanthropic, and truly twisted it becomes.]
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The More Off-Roading, the More Addictive It Gets 越野越上瘾
◆ Powerful leads tame each other ◆ Obsessive Emperor × Proud, Defiant Princess ◆ Explosive revenge plot ◆ A tragic romance that lasts until death ◆ “You once shackled me. Now I’ll repay you by turning your empire into a cage.” “Ye Huang, the wilder you get, the more addictive it becomes. This time, I’ll play along with you all the way to the depths of hell.” She was Liang’s most bewitching and unruly Ninth Princess, Helian Ye Huang. Three hundred li beyond the capital stood the royal hunting gro
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Getting By in the Late Ming 明末混日子
A little nobody arrived in a brand-new world. What path would he take here...? Perhaps he would change this place. Perhaps he would remain nothing more than a speck of dust, arriving quietly and leaving just as quietly. Perhaps he would try his hardest and still fail. Whatever happened, life would go on, and tomorrow would still come. He just wouldn't be that young man anymore.
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- 82 The Gangster Tycoon Who Rose from the Hutongs 胡同里杀出来的流氓大亨 Previously published under the titles Dragon City Years and Thirty Years in a Bloodstained Underworld. This is a lawless age where every corner is ruled by a big shot. This is the story of a naive young man who turns into a bloodthirsty beast just to survive. This is an underworld tale full of thrills and passion! Welcome to the 1980s… 40.4kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves
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A Dragon Kingdom Police Cadet Charges Into Maitira 龙国警校生，勇闯迈提拉
[Decisive, not a bleeding heart, self-serving, scheming, highly intelligent, always planning several steps ahead]+ [Everyone is ruthless]+ [No System, no golden finger]+ [No characters acting stupidly, logical]+ [No heroine, female supporting character] Ye Zilu plays by his own rules! This is a logically consistent power fantasy: With his options exhausted in Longguo, Ye Zilu, a graduate of the Longguo Police Academy, ventures into Maitila to survive. After joining the police force, he uses ever
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- 84 The Bloodwing Cult Master of the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界之血翼教主 The protagonist, Zhou Yuan, binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Cult Leader System. He had planned to transmigrate into a famous wish-fulfillment novel and rise to the top, but instead he accidentally lands in Zhongzhou and inherits the legacy of the Immortal Venerable's first life: the Bloodwing Demon Cult. Joining forces with Wuji, he breaks through the barriers between worlds and explores the Myriad Worlds! (Three new arcs have since been added: the Cangwu Cultivation Realm, the One Piece worl 3.7kReads—Score141Shelves
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The Splendor of Great Ye 大邺梦华录
He crashed while delivering takeout and transmigrated. Everyone else got a System and a golden finger from the start, but he got nothing. This world has true qi, spiritual qi, and qi cultivators. But spiritual qi is so scarce that finding it is harder than snatching a takeout order! Countless people get stuck at the very first step, drawing qi into their bodies. He’s just an ordinary mortal, so what makes him think he can defy fate? No System, no wise old mentor. All he has is relentless self-
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- 86 Special Operations Soldier: An Eagle Spreads Its Wings 特战兵之雏鹰展翅 Xiao Ronghan is an ordinary boy from a mountain village, born in a Miao settlement in southern Xinjiang. He has no interest in going to college, working odd jobs, or joining the army. He is a farmer’s son, yet doesn’t know how to farm. From childhood, he trained hard in martial arts and practiced his family’s inherited techniques under the guidance of his retired-soldier father, his master, who is known as the foremost expert in Miao territory, and the clan chief. After years of grueling trainin 14.4kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
- 87 The Prodigy Smith: The Golden Cicada Hides the Iron Bow and Heavenly Tome 铸器骄子之金蝉铁弓藏天书 Young blacksmith Chu Xiaoyang carries venomous insects, wields a slingshot, and relies on a pair of iron hammers. Neither wholly righteous nor wholly wicked, he is hunted by the righteous, pursued by the wicked, and even spurned by his own family. Wherever he finds injustice, he brings his hammers crashing down... 138Reads—Score—Shelves
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National Fate: Survival Against All Odds 国运，绝境求生
“What meaning does any of this have?” Ma Chao asked, his face smeared with dirt in the trench. “I don't know. But there's nothing wrong with wiping out every last enemy combatant. Staying alive comes first,” Wang Yanbing replied, then went back to loading bullets into his magazine. An Ke sat to one side, took off his gloves, tore open a chocolate wrapper, and stuffed the chocolate into his mouth.
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The Long River, Nameless 长河，无名
In 1928, in Jinan, he lost his entire family. In 1931, at the 23rd Special Mental Research Institute in Kazan, his emotions were stripped away. In 1934, in Nanjing, he buried his past. From then on, he walked the razor's edge, turning the gears of history from the shadows. Except for the highest-ranking figures in a handful of intelligence agencies, no one knew his real name or what he had done. On May 17, 1961, he died on the execution grounds in Seoul, South Korea. His gravestone bore neither
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Dark Academia Life 黑暗系的校园生活
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Cultivating Immortality as an Outer-Door Servant 从外门杂役开始修仙
[Mortal's Journey + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead + Not Invincible + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless] A young man from the modern world accidentally transmigrated and stumbled into the path of immortality, struggling onward in his quest to become an immortal. The road to immortality was harder than ascending to heaven. Faced with countless dangers, his resolve to seek the Dao remained as solid as stone. Fang Qing transmigrated here and started ou
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- 92 My Past, Like Water Through the Years 我的过往，似水流年 The five-year-old heroine’s mother was often ill and hospitalized, leaving no one to look after her. So she and her three-year-old brother repeatedly crossed mountains to beg relatives for food. After their mother recovered, her relationship with her mother-in-law turned sour. Unable to cope, she drank pesticide in an attempted suicide. She was saved, but her personality became domineering and her temper erratic. She beat the heroine and her brother for no reason on multiple occasions. Trying to 63Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn as a Villain 重生之恶徒
Great heroes emerge in turbulent times. In the 1990s, the Caucasus descended into chaos. The outbreak of the Chechen War further shattered Moscow's authority. Amid the turmoil, a soul from another time and place found itself inhabiting the body of a Russian soldier. And so the story begins.
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Apocalypse Descends: The Dark Night Princess Is Up to Something Every Day 末世降临：暗夜公主每天都在搞事
Apocalypse / War / Western Fantasy / Overpowered / Clingy Romance / Dimensional Overkill / Chaotic Neutral / No Saintly Do-Gooders / Decisive and Ruthless / Magic / Undead / Game System This is an apocalypse story that isn't stressful at all. There's no suffering for the characters, and it's a great way to unwind! In the apocalypse, Xing Mingxue and her pet cat, Danya, live in utter comfort. They have enormous wealth and little sympathy for anyone. They kill people blessed with great fortune on
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Sleeping Through the Night Before Immortality 长眠于不老前一夜
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The Gray-Eyed White Cat 白猫传灰瞳
The young heir of a crime family is forced to become a beggar. With nothing but a bowl from the start, he becomes the Zhu Yuanzhang of the underworld. Fresh twists and airtight logic. Italian mixed-race, ruthless, cruel, and realistic. He kills decisively, with every punch landing hard, every blade striking true, and every bullet finding its mark. A slow burn. Trust me, it only gets better as it goes. (No saintly heroine, no System, no harem, pure underworld fiction.)
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The Judgment Debtor 失信被执行人
A judgment debtor who has defaulted on their obligations.
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Immortal Zombie: Starting from Zero, I Conquer Blue Star in the Age of Transcendence 仙僵：从零征服超凡复苏的蓝星
(Slow burn, alternate universe) At first, the overbearing male lead is Le Wuhuan. In the middle, he transforms into an adorable beast-eared little girl. Later, he becomes emperor and rules the South. First clone: Lord of the Northern Frontier. Second clone: ... The most miserable female lead, Lin Anran, becomes a scheming, dark-hearted woman in the middle, bent on killing Le Wuhuan. Later... The aloof campus beauty Su Yao becomes the most well-connected person in the middle, then an arrogant, ts
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I Became Awesome Through Technology 我靠科技开始牛掰
[No System] [Villain in the Later Chapters] [Immortal-Sucking Technique] [Soul Devouring] [Fast Leveling] A scientist transmigrates to the cultivation world and gradually transforms from a good person into a demonic cultivator.
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- 100 Tales of Demons and Ghosts at Night 妖鬼夜话 My new book, I Get Awesome with Technology, is now being serialized. My short ghost stories The Water Ghost, The Seventh Night, The Departure That Year, and The Soul-Calling Lantern are available on Tomato Short Stories. 421Reads6.6Score—Shelves
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