Stories With an NPC Protagonist and No Romance 主角是NPC无cp
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There Are So Many Classes, and You Just Picked Them All? 职业那么多，你直接全选了？
[No female lead + lone wolf + ruthless and decisive + video game NPC + multiple worlds + players + light comedy + a bit absurd] [The protagonist never lets lust override reason] [The protagonist only wants to grow stronger] Gu Yeming transmigrates into a game and becomes an NPC, specifically Subject 1145 of the Moreid Corporation. A disastrous start! Wait, why are his combat talents maxed out from the start? What? He can choose an unlimited number of classes, too? Years later, when Gu Yeming ap
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Don't Be Fooled by My Golden Finger-Like Look, I'm Really Just an NPC 别看我像金手指，我真只是NPC
[Powerhouse + role-playing + secret identities + horror and the supernatural + people reading too much into things + chosen ones + no romance] A three-in-one blend of three horror genres: psychological horror games, Cthulhu livestreams, and real-world supernatural arts. Xiao Gui'an, a bit-part actor, died, but not entirely. He was chosen to play an NPC in a world of horror and the supernatural. After becoming a ghost, Xiao Gui'an thought he would no longer have anything to fear. Who could have
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Trapped in a Horror World, I Was Forced to Become the Boss 人在惊悚，我被逼成了BOSS
[No female lead + infinite-flow + decisive and ruthless + nuclear-grade absurdity + chaotic neutral] As everyone knows, surviving even a single day in a horror game is extremely difficult. Yet Lin Yi was trapped in the Undying Village for a full 29 days! Not only did he manage not to die, he was forced to become the ultimate BOSS of that instance! After resolving his survival crisis, he finally realized there was a problem. Now that I'm a BOSS, why haven't I cleared the game? That is, until a ne
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From the Start, I'm a National Destiny NPC, and the Protagonist Wins Big Thanks to Me 开局国运NPC，主角靠我赢麻了
My great-grandson burns money for me, and I help him ascend to heaven! Not a wish-fulfillment novel, or not entirely. [This is not a rules-based horror story! The rules offer no way out; they're all part of the game and are basically meaningless.] [Hell money can't be burned without limit. Later on, the protagonist will short the Underworld People's Bank.] [The protagonist is a scheming old fox with no golden finger.] [People will bicker among themselves early on; they won't unite until later.]
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Horror Movie NPC Goes on a Killing Spree in a Terror Game 恐怖片NPC在惊悚游戏杀疯了
[Horror + comedy + power fantasy + no female lead (male protagonist has no romantic pairing)] A horror game swept across the world. Fu Yan, an NPC from a horror movie in a higher plane of existence, was accidentally dragged into the game. Fu Yan: Since you've all gone to the trouble of inviting me, I won't hold back. From then on, the “horror game” was plunged into the shadow of someone named “Fu Yan”... Horror NPCs: Please, don't come any closer! Livestream viewers: Can someone do something abo
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I'm an NPC in the National Fate Horror Game 我在国运怪谈游戏当NPC
After dying suddenly from working overtime all night, Shi Qian was dumped by the System into a terrifying world of urban legends to work as an NPC. She slacks off, enjoys the show, and just wants to be a simple, happy little couch potato. But the contestants in the national destiny horror game mistake her for a powerful boss in the instance... She giggles and watches the fun through a crack in the door! The contestants scream and wail the moment they see her. Some even cry in terror through t
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Thriller: This NPC Has Gone on Strike 惊悚：这个NPC罢工了
[Thriller + unhinged beauty + not scary + no romance + killing all the way + invincible] The dungeon opens in Chapter Two. You can skip it. Shen Xiaoxiao is the famous S-rank dungeon NPC, the River God’s Bride, hated by countless players. One day, she suddenly realizes that players have tricked her into dying countless times. So she decides: “I quit! I’m done!” While other players painstakingly search for clues to clear the dungeon, Shen Xiaoxiao spends the whole time causing trouble in her own
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I Own a Dollhouse in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里有一家玩偶屋
[Infinite-Flow + System + Wild Imagination + No Romance] The doll maker Huanxi opened a doll shop in a small town, but few customers ever came by. It wasn’t just the doll shop. The flower shop run by Sister Qiong across the street, Granny Wu’s qipao shop next door, and Uncle Qian’s pawnshop were all empty too. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that strangers rarely ever appeared in town. Business was slow, but Huanxi got along well with everyone in town, and they often gathered for meals
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Eerie Game NPC: I Carry the Fate of All Humanity 诡异游戏NPC，我背负了全人类
[Contains many scenes of illness and frailty. Proceed with caution.] Gu Heqing transmigrates one day and discovers he has become an NPC in a horror game. Humans keep entering the game world, while the real world is gradually being dragged into it. The livestreams show people dying horribly, and he is somehow connected to a “god” whose nature he cannot begin to understand… He has no idea where to go from here. But when he finally comes to his senses, he seems to have... become humanity’s onl
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I'm Really Not a God-Tier Guide NPC 我真的不是神级指引npc
[Infinite flow + no romance + ensemble cast + no female lead + suspense and twists + NPC role-playing] [Just got a rating, it’ll rise over time.] Su Ming wakes up to discover that he has become a guide NPC in a horror game, monitored by the System and sent from one instance to another. Along with the players, he is trapped in “Restful Haven,” a village that appears peaceful but sustains its “perfect immortality” through the sacrifice of the living. Amid one battle of wits and probing after anoth
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I Entered a Farming Game and Became an NPC in the Starter Village 穿进种田文游戏中，我成了新手村的NPC
[Transmigration + farming + NPC + full-dive online game] After Lu Yunxi suddenly died from working 996, she was reborn into a farming family without even drinking Meng Po's Soup. She swore she would be a carefree slacker! No more 996, starting with her! What?! The little wooden house was falling apart? No problem. It could still keep out the wind and rain, and its quaint style made it a lovely sight! What?! The fields were full of field mice, and they'd eaten all the grain?! No problem. There we
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Duplicate Name? I'm an NPC in an Online Game 取名重复？我在网游里当NPC
The cross-era full-dive online game Hunt the Heavens has opened its public beta, and Liu Kongkong, who makes a living grinding for gold in games, certainly isn't going to miss it! Someone already took the name Liu Dameng? So what, I'll just pick another name. Could you hurry up and stop wasting my time? I need to make money! After a flurry of clicking, huh? I haven't even changed my name, so why am I already in the game? Liu Kongkong discovered that the character he'd created had somehow become
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You Need Me to Survive? I'm an NPC, Not a Player! 靠我存活？我是NPC不是玩家哦
Wu Le is a murderous NPC in a horror game, rotating through different scenarios to "work"! Wu Le is free-spirited and willful. Deceiving players, playing tricks on them, and terrifying them are all part of her daily routine. Sometimes she likes to disguise herself as a player, getting a close look at the evil in people's hearts. She gives players hope, then crushes it completely, enjoying the look of despair on their faces. Other times, she plays the part of a proper horror NPC, hunting down pla
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I Just Became an NPC, and a Chat Group Showed Up Uninvited 刚变成NPC，聊天群不请自来
[Online Game]+ [Xuanhuan]+ [Chat Group]+[Leveling Up]+[Read at Your Own Risk] Jiang Lu transmigrates and becomes an NPC in an online-game Xuanhuan world! He’s the boss of Piyun Mountain, nicknamed the Jade-Faced Flying Dragon, Jiang Xiaolu! “Ding! Congratulations, you have been selected by my master, the Celestial Venerable of Creation, and successfully joined Group One of the Great Thousand Worlds!” [Yuhua Division Ling Ru]: “Little brother~ Where are you taking big sis today?” [Demon Dragon Ao
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What Should I Do After Becoming a Wild Monster NPC? 变成了野怪NPC该怎么办
[No CP] [Comedy] [Transmigration] [Online Game] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] A different world, monsters, classes, races, evolution. How will a name-forgotten spirit from the void grow? The world is unsealed and players arrive. What awaits them? “Shocking! A woman has done this in broad daylight!” “Shocking! The terrifying Demon King is chasing her!” “Shocking!…” Vivitia: “What the hell are you so shocked about?!” A mimic chest that loves eating gold coins An elf guard whose dream is to b
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Playing a Weak NPC, I Beg the Entire World to Stop Acting 扮演弱小NPC，全球求我别演了
[Mistaken assumptions + horror game + playing eerie NPCs + secret identities + powerful protagonist + infinite worlds + no romance] When the whole world thinks you're a powerful figure, your only rule for survival is to keep up the act! “I'm just an ordinary college student. How did I become the ultimate big boss in the eyes of every supernatural ability user on the planet?!” Shen Yan wakes up to discover that he has been forcibly bound to the Horror Game System, which requires him to play eerie
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Rule Horror Has Arrived? Sorry, I’m the Ancestor of Metaphysics 规则怪谈降临？抱歉我是玄学祖宗
[Powerful Female Lead + No Romance] [Occult Livestreaming] [Eerie Folk Customs] [Rule Horror] [Feng Shui Secrets] Once, she was a much-mocked, infamously unpopular star, derided online as a fake fortune-teller and told to get out of show business. Now, an heir to a thousand-year-old Taoist temple has come down from the mountain with a fragment of the Book of Life and Death! Beneath her cool, otherworldly Taoist-priestess exterior lies a shameless obsession with money. Unfazed by the heckling of
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Judge of the Underworld Enters the Mortal Realm: A Republic-Era Taoist’s Descent from the Mountain 判官入世：民国道士下山录
The Judge Enters the Mortal World: A Republican-Era Taoist’s Descent from the Mountains
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Online Game: This NPC Is Far Too Violent 网游：这个NPC过于暴躁
(A Mostly Invincible Story) Protagonist at night: Born to be bone, I apologize. Protagonist by day: Look at me, you little punk! (The protagonist is invincible by day. Think Escanor from The Seven Deadly Sins.) (The main course isn't taking a back seat to the players.) (The author has completed a million-word novel without ever missing an update, so you can read this one with confidence.)
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Online Game: A General Store from the Start 网游：开局一间杂货铺
Wuyou transmigrates into the game Divine Realm and becomes an NPC shopkeeper. He sells equipment, helps players fight monsters, and occasionally one-shots a boss! But he never expected to stir up a storm across the entire server. Chinese server players: “A level 100 boss just got one-shotted. Wait, is he the real boss?” Overseas players: “What’s going on with the Chinese players? Everyone’s got a full set of legendary gear. Did they tamper with the drop rates?” Players using cheats: “What the he
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I Became an NPC in Tomorrow’s Apocalypse 成了明日末世的NPC
When he woke up, he discovered that he had become an NPC in a game. Not in a game from his own world, but in the same virtual online game from another world. And to top it off, he was an NPC with a player interface. Let's see how our protagonist stirs up trouble in the game and uncovers the truth behind it all~ (May our tomorrow never come to an end.)
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I've Been Trapped in a Game for a Thousand Years 我被困游戏中一千年
Qin Hong was trapped in a game world for a thousand years. When he returned to reality, he was astonished to find that the game had only just launched there. He was a thousand years ahead of every other player! While everyone else was struggling to farm materials, Qin Hong already had dozens of warehouses packed with rare materials and equipment. NPCs were cold toward other players, but treated Qin Hong with boundless admiration. Other players were chased by bosses, while Qin Hong chased the bos
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The Apocalypse Is Here, and I’ve Become a Max-Level NPC 末世了，我成为满级NPC
The apocalypse arrives, and people around the world become players, while I become a max-level NPC. Quest 1: Help me boost my rank to Gold VI. (Reward: 1 class change.) Quest 2: Looking for a strategy guide. Target: Undead Overlord! Please reply ASAP, it's urgent. (Reward: 1 top-tier set for any class.) Quest 3: Long-term quest. Buying lots of delicious food. No cursed cooking. Price negotiable. (Guaranteed reward: 1 City-Building Order.) Player A: This NPC is loaded! Slurp~ Player B: Boss, can
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Global Lord: I’m the Only One Who Became an NPC 全民领主：只有我成了npc
The Lord Era is a game of lords battling for supremacy. In three years, it will become reality, and everyone will be forced to enter the game world. Qin Feng is reborn, originally planning to seize opportunities ahead of everyone else, but after his rebirth, he becomes a low-level NPC! “No problem. Even as an NPC, I can still turn things around!” “Step one: take over this village!” Qin Feng had planned to simply seize a player's village. But when he saw the beautiful female lord... “Qin Feng, yo
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Online Game: Clocking In at Nine and Out at Five as an NPC 网游:从NPC开始朝九晚五
At the game shop: “What? You're off work? Why would an NPC like you get off work?” “I'll give you ten million. Sell me a diamond storage ring!” “Come on, do me a favor. I brought my secretary!” “Fine, fine, I'll leave when you're off work. Don't hit me!” Song Bufan is unexpectedly reborn as an NPC in the game Tianyuan. He develops and resells goods, takes on player quests, and more. He starts work promptly at nine every morning and closes up right at five in the afternoon! Pay overtime? Get lo
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Online Game Three Kingdoms: I'm an NPC, and Every Sign-In Makes Me Stronger 网游三国：我NPC，签到就变强
After transmigrating, Chen Sheng became an NPC in the “trash” online game Total Kingdoms! To make matters worse, he was a low-ranking Yellow Turban foot soldier, in a truly perilous situation. Just then, a sign-in System fell from the sky and changed his fate. It could not only grant him all kinds of rewards, but also let him increase his attributes without limit! PS1: The protagonist establishes a faction of his own, refuses to surrender, and breaks away from the Yellow Turbans! PS2: Two upgrad
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A Million Years of Sign-Ins: I Become an NPC Emperor from the Start 签到百万年：开局成为NPC皇帝
After a million years of sign-ins, he was reborn as the young emperor of the Xuanwu Kingdom, and had to defend the imperial city from the start! The sign-in System he’d been promised summoned a horde of online game players, who even mistook him for an NPC! Well, that works too. Hey, you there, issue a quest for me. Pick ten pretty players to come to the palace and dance. Any gender is fine. If they dance well, I’ll reward them with a world-destroying divine sword! Your Majesty… That’s a divine w
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Turned into a Villainous NPC: Sign-In and Blow Up the Whole World 变成反派NPC:签到打爆全世界
Chen San just wanted to play a game. He never expected to become a menacing NPC who idles around and collects sign-in rewards... The disasters he unleashes are events in the players’ eyes. The monsters he lets loose are bosses in the players’ eyes. The rewards he gets for idling and signing in are treasures in the players’ eyes. Professional players? The players he casually raises can take on a thousand enemies alone. Taking your head is as easy as reaching into a pocket! Tycoon guilds? The fan
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Online Game: The Strongest NPC in the Beginner's Village 网游：新手村最强NPC
NPCs used to be so weak! An uncelebrated top-tier gaming pro crashes into the game as a Level 1 male villager in the starting village. He teaches NPCs how to play the game properly, takes on top players in battles of wits, wreaks havoc on innocent newcomers, flirts with clueless female players, teases sexy villain bosses, and takes on the game's protagonist head-on. He is the number one NPC! Players: This NPC is totally shameless! Protagonist: Stop! That's the heroine! NPCs: This kid's future is
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The Primordial World for All: I'm the Only One with an NPC Template 全民洪荒：只有我拥有NPC模板
Also known as: [Supreme Talent from the Start: Infinite Plundering in the Primordial World] [NPC template + mastermind boss + lighthearted comedy + ten billion players] Feng Xiu is reborn before the public beta of the virtual game Primordial World. To his surprise, this time he has an NPC template, and he gets a supreme talent from the start. A wild idea flashes through his mind. Feng Xiu turns into a “capitalist,” treating ten billion players like crops to be harvested as he rises at breakneck
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I’m an NPC: Thirty Years of Sign-Ins, and I Can Crush Every Player 我，npc，签到三十年吊打玩家
Shen Yuanbai transmigrates into a cultivation game and becomes a menial disciple of the Immortal Sword Sect. The game won’t launch for another thirty years. He obtains a sign-in System. Signing in at different locations earns him rewards. Sign in at the Scripture Pavilion to obtain [Immortal Refining Sword Technique]. Sign in at the Mission Hall to obtain [Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art]. Sign in in front of the Sword Mound to obtain [Twelfth-Rank Karma Fire Red Lotus]. One day, the Immorta
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The Ultimate NPC: Guiding the Fourth Calamity 最强NPC：从引领第四天灾开始
Lin Nian was once the hardcore grinder of Star Domain. Now he's an NPC on Blue Star. Players see him as the greatest mentor. The Blood Clan believes he's Dracula reincarnated, and the Demon Clan gladly accepts him as their master. Only the Island of Nidhogg sees him as a thorn in its side! Ivelis: “Nian, you're just barely good enough to catch my eye.” Airiya: “Hehe~ If Zero doesn't want Lin Nian, I'll whisk him away!” Fimir: “You're the only one who can receive my ‘exclusive healing’~” Fuleiduo
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Horror Revival: My Underworld Enforcers Are All Goofball Players 恐怖复苏：我的阴差都是沙雕玩家
[Fantasy + Underworld + Mastermind + Fourth Calamity] Ghosts roam by night, and horror returns. Some say only the gods can save the world; others say only the uncanny can fight the uncanny. Fang Yun says, “You don’t get it. Any horror becomes a sightseeing attraction once players team up to clear it.” So when the Ghost Ancestor descended, a group of max-level players calling themselves spirit wardens showed up with top-tier gear and looked down at the weak and helpless Ghost Ancestor. “This is
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Girl, I Fused with a Ghost Immortal, and No One Is More Eerie Than Me 少女，融合成鬼仙没人比我更诡异
[System + Transmigration + Xuanhuan + Transmigration to a Post-Apocalyptic World + Decisive and Ruthless + Card Draws + Strange World + Invincible + Constant Leveling Up] After finally becoming a big shot in the post-apocalyptic world, Ruo Xiaomeng thought she had saved the world. But she soon discovered that this was merely the world's surface, and it shattered before her eyes. At the brink of death, the System activated transmigration automatically. An accident during the journey sent her to t
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The Little Zombie's NPC Journey 小僵尸的Npc之路
Against the backdrop of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, “Little Zombie” Li Xingchen rises from humble beginnings. Through a stroke of luck and hard work, he achieves financial freedom...
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Online Game: Evolving into a God-Tier Boss 网游：进化成超神级BOSS
Ye Chen is reborn into the world of Red Moon and becomes an NPC, before players have even entered the game. Ding! You have obtained the Bloodline Reincarnation Body. Ding! You have obtained the hidden, God-Tier class: Reincarnation Walker. Ding! You have obtained the divine artifact, the Reincarnation Spear. From a basic monster, evolve into an elite BOSS, a leader-level BOSS, a god-level BOSS, and then a transcendent god-level BOSS. After the game launches: Player 1: Holy crap, this BOSS is so
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