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1. 1 她 She, Too, Is a Memento 她也是遗物 Changchuan Jinen长川仅恩Modern Romance269k WordsCompleted Cool, aloof girl × carefree boy “He didn’t leave behind much. I was one of the few things he did.”, Source: the internet I gave everything I had to live this life, only for it to end in regret. Cicadas sing without pause, and we meet again in the height of summer. … Fang Xieyang thought her life was over, that she would spend the rest of it “following the rules” just as she always had. But then Xia Qianli came along and upended everything she thought she knew. He was so gentle, so good to her, 6.2kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
2. 2 系 The System Only Exists for One Day, So I Start Living Like a Tycoon 系统只存在一天，我开启神豪人生 Title-Holding Teasing Radish封号逗萝Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Tycoon] [No saintly do-gooder] [Nobility] [Indulgence] [Family] [No flirtation] [Humor] System: Out of strength already? I’m in a hurry. If you can’t do it, I’ll do it myself. After the System used me and ran off, my forces kept watch over the entire world. The world was stunned, while I came out way ahead. When I arrived in Florida, generals from various countries cried, “What the hell! Why is the whole Sakura Island billowing black smoke?!” You have to be careful at home. What’s there to be c 43.9kReads8.3Score3.9kShelves
3. 3 我 I Master Thousands of Martial Arts, Then Slaughter My Way Through the Ten Thousand Races 我以万千武学入道杀穿万族 Demon's Path魔行Urban2.8M WordsCompleted [The farther you read, the better it gets, with no filler at all] [Steady updates, guaranteed quality] Origin energy resurges, and eighteen-year-old Xiao Fan leaves a third-tier city. By a twist of fate, he enters the Supergod Class, where all of humanity’s strongest geniuses gather. Having always kept his head down and quietly built up his strength, he decides, under the inspiration of generations of fallen heroes, to burst onto the scene and astonish the world. In the border war zone, he makes 77.9kReads9.0Score9.5kShelves
4. 4 上 Double Happiness 上上禧 Liu Qi鎏旗Modern Romance458k WordsCompleted [Marriage First, Love Later + Older Man + Secret Crush + Both Leads Are Inexperienced] Song Xi had a good friend. Her friend said her second brother was rich and handsome, tall with long legs, and urged Song Xi to go on a blind date and win him over. Then she could become her beloved second sister-in-law. Song Xi got carried away and agreed. The good news: They slept together. The bad news: She slept with the wrong person. The crazy news: She got a marriage certificate with the wrong person. Whe 73.1kReads9.0Score11.4kShelves
5. 5 仙 The Fairy Asked If You’d Done It, and You Made Her Fly 仙子问你开没开，你让仙子飞起来 Changshou Can't Fly长寿不会飞Urban3.5M WordsOngoing [Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r 133.5kReads9.1Score9.5kShelves
6. 6 暗 Dark Night Sovereign: From the Start, I Summoned Guiguzi and Weizhuang 暗夜尊主，开局召唤鬼谷卫庄 Beautiful Female Ghost漂亮女鬼Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [System + summoning + emperor + invincible + domineering + ruthless + political scheming and power struggles] A disastrous start from the get-go: her adoptive father is refining medicine! The adoptive father has sinister intentions and can't wait to use his adopted son's blood to refine a medicine. Nangong Ye faces having his blood drained and his cultivation crippled. The situation has become a showdown at Xuanwu Gate: the victor becomes king, and the loser is branded a rebel. Nangong Ye turns 10kReads7.5Score596Shelves
7. 7 开 From the Start, I Have Ten Thousandfold Talent: One Realm Per Second 开局万倍天赋，一秒一个境界 Passing By, Never Forgetting陌往莫忘Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [No heroine, steamrolling all opposition, rising from humble beginnings, rapid power-ups] Xiao Yun transmigrates into the Xuan Yue Kingdom and becomes the young clan leader of the Xiao family, one of Lingyun City's three great clans. Once a peerless prodigy hailed as Lingyun City's number one genius at the age of ten, he inexplicably fell from grace. His cultivation has not advanced in six whole years, and he has gradually become a laughingstock. Fortunately, when Xiao Yun transmigrated, he boun 13.3kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
8. 8 儿 Son, Go Wild All You Want. Your Dad Is Truly Invincible! 儿子你随便浪，你爸真无敌！ Ladada啦啦哒Urban597k WordsCompleted After waking up, Lin Yuan transmigrates to a high-martial world. At the college entrance exam aptitude test, he turns out to be a good-for-nothing with an F-rank Grass-type talent. He spends decades working hard, getting married, and raising a family. Lin Yuan thinks his life will go on like this forever, but then he discovers that his son is a cultivation prodigy. Earning just 5,000 yuan a month, he can’t afford to pay for his son’s cultivation. Just as he falls into despair, the Infinite Upgra 4kReads6.9Score346Shelves
9. 9 开 From the Start, I Have an Intelligence System: I Snag Ten Demolition-Apartment Units 开局情报系统，捡漏10套拆迁房 Haha, Poker-Faced面无表情哈Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Just as Lin Yang's life reaches rock bottom, he gets a daily intel System. Every day, the System sends him several pieces of intelligence related to different aspects of his life. This information lets Lin Yang get ahead, avoid danger, snatch opportunities, and foil conspiracies... What's more, the System can be upgraded to provide weekly intel, monthly intel, yearly intel... [Daily Intel: The lottery shop at the neighborhood entrance has a first-prize winner on a Lucky Tenfold scratch card. The 33.4kReads7.3Score4.2kShelves
10. 10 开 I Created the Devouring Art from the Start, Feeding on All Living Beings 开局自创吸功大法，我以众生为粮 Shangguan Su上官素Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [No System] [No Female Lead] [Invincible] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Steadfast Dao Heart] Qin Wuya transmigrates to a martial world as the eldest legitimate son of the Qin family. But because of his innate spiritless constitution, he cannot absorb spiritual energy and embark on the path of martial arts. After fourteen years of obscurity, he becomes the object of his relatives' ridicule. But no one knows that Qin Wuya, who appears to have no talent for martial arts, possesses heaven-defying compreh 10.1kReads8.0Score970Shelves
11. 11 集 Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世 Starry Dream and Fated Romance星梦辰缘Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.4M WordsCompleted [Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a 144.7kReads9.0Score12.2kShelves
12. 12 我 I Created the Committee for the Management of Forbidden Objects! 我创造了禁忌物管理委员会！ Big Shot Yu大佬俞Urban675k WordsCompleted [Ensemble Cast] [Behind the Scenes] [Somewhat Dark] In a bustling city, mysterious items with incredible powers and negative side effects begin to appear. They are called Pandora, also known as Forbidden Objects. 3-001, Marquardt’s Mask. 3-002, Lilith’s Blood Needle. 2-00X, Eris’s Magic Mirror. 0-001, Forbidden Ring. … A mask that lets its wearer become someone else; a silver hairpin that, once driven into a person’s heart, drains every drop of blood from their body and prolongs its owner 8.4kReads8.5Score678Shelves
13. 13 星 Across the Starry Sky: Increase My Genes a Hundredfold from the Start 星空之开局提升百倍基因 Carving a Wooden Horse and Ox自折木马牛Urban2.2M WordsCompleted Bai Ye, a young man from Earth, has an extraordinary encounter by the sea. He improves his genes, creates clones, and gains unlimited resurrection. Rising from Earth, he heads for the stars and joins a colossal human faction, then roams the universe unchecked. Among the eight peak cosmic races, including humans, insects, and demons, as well as countless powerful races across the universe, which one is truly the universe's overlord? 15.2kReads7.8Score931Shelves
14. 14 曦 Eternal Dawn 曦日永恒 Green Pine in Heavy Snow大雪青松Eastern Fantasy4.8M WordsCompleted The author's new novel, My Immortal Self, Wiping Out a Cult from the Start!, is now available! [Invincible protagonist + ensemble cast (sort of) + an entire clan creating a world + giant gods + wholly original] Over 7,000 words updated daily! Jump in with confidence! You've seen people transmigrate with their bodies or souls, men transmigrating as women and women as men, but have you ever seen an entire clan transmigrate? On the day Yang Sheng took over as clan leader, the ancestral stone underw 13.2kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
15. 15 重 Reborn in the Great Heist, the Black Gold Tycoon Strikes Back 重生大劫案，黑金大佬逆袭记 God and Autumn神与秋Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Urban rebirth + System + underworld boss + ruthless + scheming] A down-and-out middle-aged man unexpectedly reborn 28 years into the past. Caught in a shocking bank heist, he activates the “Black Gold System.” “Go ahead and make more money. It'll all become my fortune sooner or later anyway. Hahaha!” … Notorious bandit Ye Zhihuan: “Who's tougher than me in the underworld? Lin Dong? Never mind, then.” King of Thieves Zhang Ziqiang: “I once stole 1.2 billion from Li, the richest man in the coun 9.7kReads7.9Score512Shelves
16. 16 诡 The Eerie Apocalypse: Reborn, I Start with Ten Trillion Netherworld Coins 诡异末世：重生开局拥有万亿冥币 Sis, Don't Be Like That姐姐别这样Mystery4.4M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 137.3kReads9.4Score14.2kShelves
17. 17 5 The 1950s: Starting Out as a Wanderer, I Make My Home in the Deep Mountains 50年代：隐居深山从流浪开始 Born of the Dao's Rhyme道韵生Urban7.7M WordsOngoing Tags: (farming + reclusive life + family saga + harem + science fiction + interstellar + universe) (Entirely hand-written, no AI) (Author’s note at chapter 3480: I’ve been writing this book for over three years. Its rating went from 9.4 to 8.9, and its readership has fallen from several hundred thousand to forty or fifty thousand. It was once a huge hit, and then it faded into obscurity. Many readers have probably come across it more than once, but very few have made it to the later chapters. (S 37.8kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
18. 18 我 The Years I Spent Raising Corpses and Nurturing Ghosts in the Graveyard 我在坟场种尸养诡的那些年 I, Too, Am a Dragon Slayer我亦是屠龙客Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted Lin Feng wakes up as a tomb keeper in a world plagued by natural disasters and sinister calamities. The slightest mistake could cost him his life. Fortunately, he can plant corpses to raise ghosts, sowing dead bodies to reap all kinds of skills and ghosts. The Opera Ghost plays the Monkey King, bringing the seventy-two transformations to life and sweeping through the turmoil of the mortal world. The Embroidery Ghost mends everything under the sun, weaving a tragic song of a troubled age and craf 13kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
19. 19 玄 In This Fantasy World, Everyone in My Family Has a Golden Finger 玄幻我的家族全员金手指 Chen-Zhu Confucianism陈朱理学Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [System + family clan + mastermind behind the scenes + child of destiny] After twenty years of sign-ins, Su Xun’s golden finger transforms. From then on, he sets his sights on nurturing the clan’s prodigies. A Summoning System, a Rebate System, a Devouring System, an Alchemy System… one System after another appears. What? The Eternal Sacred Land is just a vassal of the Su family? What? The Nine Provinces Merchant Association, with branches all over the world, belongs to the Su family? What? Su M 10.8kReads8.1Score666Shelves
20. 20 撕 Tear Off the Mask! The Crown Princess Uses Her Beauty to Get Her Way 撕碎伪装！太子妃她持美行凶 Qin Xi芩锡Ancient Romance413k WordsCompleted [Mad Beauty + Romantic Tension + A Wicked Couple + Both Pure] PS: A scheming, sinister femme fatale versus a pretentious, noble, and composed Crown Prince Rong Jinsi is the Prime Minister’s legitimate daughter. Beautiful as peach blossoms and with skin like polished jade, she is known to outsiders as a refined and elegant young lady, intelligent and virtuous, the perfect bride in the eyes of countless noblewomen in the capital. But what no one knows is that beneath her moonlit, immaculate facade 5.6kReads8.3Score835Shelves

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21. 21 大 The Benevolent Ancestor of the Tang Dynasty 【大唐仁祖】 Tang Renzu of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors三皇五帝唐仁祖Historical973k WordsCompleted [Golden Finger] [Transmigration] [Li Ke] [Political Intrigue] [History] From the start, he transmigrates into Li Ke. Facing certain death, he uses Li Shimin as a chess piece and goes head-to-head with the Changsun clan and the Guanlong aristocratic families, deftly resolving the struggle over the crown prince's succession. From the start, he is trapped in a dead end: Changsun Wuji has already begun plotting to frame him, and the deadly purge of Zhenguan Year 17 is less than six years away. He 7.2kReads—Score609Shelves

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22. 22 世 The Heir Apparent’s Consort Has the Script of His One True Love 世子妃她手拿白月光剧本 Shattered Starlight夜空碎光Ancient Romance355k WordsCompleted Zhao Rujin was born into an ancient world, so she knew from the start that this cruel dynasty would never tolerate a woman who wasn't virtuous. So she became magnanimous, virtuous, kind, lively, and gentle all at once. She could earn money, keep the household in order, and pretend to love her husband faithfully until death. What she never expected was that her husband would be a hopeless romantic. When they married, she received a gift of special significance from an admirer. Her husband said, “ 7.2kReads8.9Score519Shelves
23. 23 被 After Being Kidnapped, I Kidnap the Western Regions' Young Lord and Bring Him Back to the Central Plains 被拐后，我反拐西域少主回中原 Thousand Threads of Intrigue千丝戏Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Young lord of the Western Regions × Princess of Sheng'an] Ye Zhaoyu was born into the imperial family. She figured she'd surely been dealt the pampered darling's script in life, so she wisely decided to coast. But she never expected to take a wrong turn and be kidnapped to the Western Regions. By a stroke of bad luck, she was sent to the bed of a deranged young lord known as a demon's lair and a living Shura. She immediately switched into survival-and-escape mode, determined to flee back to the 9.4kReads9.5Score1.5kShelves

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