A Genius Protagonist Who Doesn’t Hide Their Talent, Act Saintly, or Show Off 主角是天才，不隐藏，不圣母不装逼

1. 51 杀 The Path of Slaughter: From the Start, I Wield Forbidden Magic 杀道：开局禁忌魔法 Leaf Person树叶人Eastern Fantasy116k WordsCompleted [Invincible + No Hiding His Strength + Decisive and Ruthless + Fearless of Death + Overwhelming Force + Surrounded by Beauties + Reverse Cultivation] Everyone hates Tang San, yet everyone wants to become Tang San. You laugh at Tang San for having no morals; Tang San laughs at you, Nine-Seal Emperor Venerable. In this world, there is no such thing as doing what's right. If you lack shamelessness and a powerful family background, all you can do is rob, steal, and hang upside down to score a goal. 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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   No saintly sentimentality, no hiding anything, explosive opening, wild writing style

2. 52 炬 Torchlight [Criminal Investigation] 炬火【刑侦】 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery601k WordsCompleted Dozens of high-stakes, mind-bending cases. A detective and a psychologist join forces to solve crimes, uncover the truth, and probe human nature. (Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + strange tales + revenge plots + perfect partners + light horror + suitable for the easily frightened.) This novel is the second installment in Confession, also known as The Truth About Murder. Once again, it follows detective captain Ti An and psychologist Zhao Yao 6.7kReads9.4Score1.1kShelves

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   Having read the author's "Confession," which focuses solely on legal proceedings without romantic subplots, and boasts a tight pace and minimal extraneous storylines, it perfectly suits my taste. I believe the author will achieve even greater success with "Torchlight." Let's all follow the author's lead and give it our all!

3. 53 自 Surrender 自首 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery691k WordsCompleted (Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed 20.6kReads9.4Score2.9kShelves
4. 54 下 Clock Out, Then Become an Armor Hero 下班，然后变成铠甲勇士 Number One in She County涉县第一Urban1.0M WordsOngoing [Nothing to do with the Armor Hero tokusatsu series + a brand-new world + a fresh premise] Lu Yuan's phone broke, and a mobile game called Light of Ares appeared on it. Players in the game could activate armor cores and summon armor. The moment Lu Yuan put on the armor, he knew the world had changed beyond recognition. A mysterious game that engulfed the entire world descended without warning. Along with it came terrifying armor demons, pouring through the rifts in the continent of Catalina. The 561Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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   Lu Yuan's phone was damaged, but he unexpectedly came across a mysterious game called "The Light of Ares." In the game, players could activate armor cores, summon armor, and he gained a mysterious talent. The moment Lu Yuan donned the armor, he knew the world had changed drastically. A mysterious game sweeping the world had quietly descended, accompanied by terrifying armored demons pouring in from the cracks of the Katarina continent. The Holy Armor Alliance, the Endless Demon Realm, roaring armored beasts, and the oppressive armored demons—all were silently attacking. Facing this world filled with calamity, Lu Yuan stood in the Temple of Glory on the Katarina continent, looking down at the endless demonic realm surging with demonic energy. "I, Lu Yuan, will surely face the abyss with my sword." Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

5. 55 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
6. 56 让 I Asked You to Work Undercover, So Why Did You Turn Your Pancake Stand into a Chain? 让你当便衣，你把煎饼摊开成连锁了？ Leo Mario里奥马里奥Urban483k WordsCompleted [Anti-Trope + Feel-Good Fiction + Police + Eerie Skills] Right after graduating from police academy, Chu Fan is assigned undercover duty, frying pancakes at a roadside stall. Luckily, he awakens the Strongest Police System! As long as he catches criminals and solves cases, he can earn points for lottery draws! Chu Fan thinks he’s got this in the bag! But the skills he wins leave him utterly dumbfounded. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve obtained god-tier pancake-making skills!] [Ding! Congrat 669Reads8.3Score103Shelves
7. 57 玄EN Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 Howling Gale哀嚎的狂风Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 141.6kReads9.6Score14.7kShelves
8. 58 斩EN Cleaving Through a Fantasy World, My Sword and I Level Up Together! 斩裂玄幻，我与我剑一同升级！ Happy Little Dong欢乐小东Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsOngoing This book is also known as He’s Far Too Cruel, Make Me a Cauldron and I’ll Cut You Down with One Sword!, and A True Villain Slaughters Every Prodigy! Mercenary Lin Tian transmigrates to a fantasy world. From the start, he catches the eye of the Holy Maiden of the Huanxian Sect and is set to become her cultivation cauldron. His life was supposed to be bleak and tragic. Then Lin Tian obtains a sword that levels up alongside him. From that moment on, Lin Tian becomes a god of slaughter. He joins th 3.3kReads8.5Score269Shelves
9. 59 天 Heavenly Fragrance, National Beauty 天香国色 Liu Aotian柳傲天Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted Liu Bai is a tomb raider with ideals and ambition, but he accidentally triggers a trap and transmigrates to ancient times, where he meets a woman of breathtaking beauty. At that very moment, all he wants to do is shout: My wife is the most beautiful woman in the world! 4.8kReads8.2Score544Shelves
10. 60 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 112.4kReads9.5Score12.2kShelves
11. 61 宝 Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘 Xiao Bu Yu箫不语Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd 126kReads9.2Score14.5kShelves
12. 62 只 As Long as They Have Health Bars, I'll Kill Even the Gods 只要有血条，神明也杀给你看 Don't Eat Fish Porridge不吃鱼粥Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [Hunter: You can see the health bars of all things, and every attack is guaranteed to deal damage, even to gods!] [Stalker: Stealth through the darkness, hunt beneath the light!] [Executioner: The time for your sentence has come!] “Come on, come on, take a blade!” “Immortal? Once your health bar hits zero, you die!” “As long as it has a health bar, I can kill it, even if it’s a god!” The dark side of the world, a shattered map, strange creatures from the abyss... There is no light behind them, 130.1kReads9.3Score14.6kShelves
13. 63 从EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.1kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves
14. 64 去 I Went on a Blind Date, and My Identity as a Yellow River Corpse Retriever Was Exposed 去相亲，黄河捞尸人身份曝光了 Urban Glory都市荣耀Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing Lin Yan was a corpse retriever. In his previous life, he violated the three taboos of the trade and was consumed by baleful energy, only to be reborn by accident. After binding to the Corpse Retriever System, he returns to his old profession and becomes the last corpse retriever in a parallel world! This time, he swears he won't repeat the mistakes of his past life! But unexpectedly, he ends up trending online. UC: “Shocking! Celebrity W 2.1kReads7.8Score264Shelves
15. 65 规 Rule Horror: I Can See Hidden Clues 规则怪谈：我能看到隐藏提示 Xing Wuchen星无辰Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted The world of supernatural tales has arrived, and everyone must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the world of supernatural tales has appeared once more. Sun Kai accidentally transmigrates into it, becoming one of the first contestants representing his nation’s fate. They carry the fate of Xia Nation on their shoulders! If they win, they survive, Xia Nation’s fortunes rise, and its people all benefit. If they lose, they die, the nation’s fortunes fall, and supernatural tales invade the 4kReads9.0Score518Shelves
16. 66 惊 Thriller: From the Start, I Got a Ghost Marriage and a Stunning Ghost Bride 惊悚：开局冥婚，我喜得绝美诡妻 Skinny Dog Chasing Rabbits细狗撵兔子Rural Life200k WordsOngoing Horror + mystery + genius + cultivation + comedy + no disappointing ending + coming-of-age Eight years ago, I peeked through a crack in the door at my big brother Asan's new bride bathing, and from then on, her beautiful, captivating figure haunted my dreams. I could never forget her. When we met again, we fell into each other's arms. After I woke up, several black spots of unknown origin had appeared on my body. A chilling wind howled, and something uncanny clung to me. One terrifying secret af 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A genius protagonist with a satisfying ending, a bright and intelligent rural protagonist who isn't overly sentimental, and a captivating and immersive plot—it's a refreshing read. I haven't encountered such a clever protagonist in a long time; it's truly a delightful surprise.

17. 67 从 The Strong One Who Emerged from a Deserted Island 从荒岛走出的强者 Oasis, Don't Run绿洲不要跑Urban272k WordsOngoing The apocalypse has arrived! The protagonist is stranded on a deserted island by accident, cut off from all news. At long last, he makes it back to his hometown, only to discover that his friends have awakened supernatural abilities. Then, by chance, he uncovers a shocking secret. The Awakened aren't human? Who are they, really!? The people who should have been the most familiar to him have become strangers. What path should he take from here? Save people? Save the world? Zhang Fan is an ordinary —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Everyone who's seen it says it's great; you'll know once you see it.

18. 68 雪 Intrepid Blade’s Path in the Snow 雪中悍刀行 The Warlord Who Played with Princes烽火戏诸侯Eastern Fantasy4.5M WordsCompleted The jianghu is a beaded curtain. Great and small figures are its beads; great and small stories, the strings that bind them. And loyalty and affection are the spirit that gives those beads their luster. The story is drawing to a close. The final chapter will end with those words: “Waiter, bring us some wine.” 11.5kReads9.7Score585Shelves
19. 69 系 System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊 Song Xiangbai宋象白Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ... 30.2kReads9.6Score3.8kShelves
20. 70 都 Reborn in the City: I Get Venom from the Start 都市重生之开局获得毒液 Fallen Leaf Blade落叶之刃Male-Channel Fanfiction781k WordsCompleted Chu Ming, an electronics factory worker who spent his previous life suffering from one hardship after another, dies of a terminal illness, only to be reborn at the age of 19 and gain a System that lets him play the pig to eat the tiger. From then on, he takes the city by storm. “Congratulations, Host! You have received the Eight-Nine Mystical Art. It will automatically train you to the Foundation Establishment Realm in three days.” “Congratulations, Host! You have received the Venom Symbiote fro 2.7kReads8.8Score257Shelves
21. 71 深EN Starlight in the Abyss 深渊星芒 Starry-Sky Sci-Fi星宇科幻Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.5M WordsCompleted In 2185, low-level bugs transported through a higher-dimensional passage took over the entire solar system. Humanity was forced to abandon its home and leave the solar system in search of a new one. Along the way, Earth's wandering fleet discovered that things were far more complicated than a mere insectoid invasion: civilizations across the entire Milky Way had been caught up in a vast conspiracy. This is a sweeping science-fiction story set across the Milky Way. There are no mecha evolutions, 5.9kReads9.1Score570Shelves
22. 72 大 The Great Dao Is the Pinnacle 大道为巅 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is serializing now and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Ning Yuan bears the blood of an emperor and has had his six senses sealed. He ends up stranded in a peerlessly perilous place, but turns misfortune into fortune when the greatest Sword God of all time takes him in. He becomes the Fist Ancestor's disciple, coming and going through the deadly land as if it were deserted, digging for treasures and farming. From then on, he vow 11.4kReads9.2Score894Shelves

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