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One Second Before Our Annihilation, I Brought the Demon Cult to the Modern World 团灭前一秒，我带魔教回现代了
(Comic adaptation and audiobook now available) [Female Lead] [No CP] [Business-Building] [Group Transmigration] [Super Satisfying] After serving as the Demonic Cult's leader for three years, Miao Yunyou was cornered by the righteous sects at the top of a mountain. Just as they were about to wipe them all out, she transmigrated back to the modern world. The good news: As compensation, the Heavenly Dao brought her mountain along, complete with the cult members who couldn't even read simplified cha
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The Space-Wielding Female Supporting Character: Feng Aotian Is Cool and Powerful 修仙女配有空间凤傲天她又飒又强
[The rating is very low right after launch, but it’ll go up, so please don’t mind. *teary face*] [Strong female lead + no romance + scum-punishing + face-slapping + comeback + fast cultivation progression] “Ye Xuanhuang, fortunes rise and fall. Don’t look down on a poor young man!” “I, Long Aotian, will repay today’s humiliation a hundredfold, a thousandfold, someday!” Ye Xuanhuang opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated into a wish-fulfillment novel aimed at male readers. The male lead i
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- 3 The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character's Cultivation Rise to Power 炮灰女配修仙逆袭记 [No Romance + Building a Career + Taking Down Scumbags + Face-Slapping] Lou Hansi was an ordinary modern college graduate who had only recently started an internship. Apart from work, her main pastime was reading novels. One night, she stayed up late reading a cultivation novel called The White Lotus's Path to Immortality. She discovered that one of the novel's supporting female characters shared her name, and out of curiosity she read the whole thing. The story made her grind her teeth with fur 6.5kReads8.8Score45014d adds
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I Transmigrated to the Zhou Dynasty, Helped Wu Zetian Summon Great Figures, and Built a Golden Age 穿越到武周朝代，我帮武则天召唤大佬们创盛世
I transmigrated to the Wu Zhou dynasty and helped Wu Zetian summon great talents to create a golden age.
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Blood Curse: The Eye That Gazes into the Void 血咒，虚空凝望之眼
Pure no-romance story, no women fighting over men, sound values, a grand vision, a powerful female lead! No male lead, no romantic tension, no suffering in silence, no one-sided crushes, no bizarre troublemakers, no love affairs. The story contains no romantic push and pull whatsoever. Fantasy + jianghu + nontraditional cultivation + multiple worlds + immortality, with a heroine who grows into a chivalrous figure. * This world is no small-minded place! From the mortal world, to the world of fles
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Breaking Through the Wasteland, Fighting My Way Out 废土破局，杀出重围
[Post-apocalyptic reconstruction + strong female lead + no romance + multiple female characters + plot-driven + special abilities + a touch of ensemble cast] From the start, Xia Wanzhi is an experimental subject strapped to a lab table. She escapes the research institute, battles mutated beasts in the wilderness, plays different roles for different people, earns resources at a base, and gets caught up in power struggles and conspiracies... Faced with countless questions, she gradually uncovers a
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You Dug Up My Spiritual Root? I'll Hand It Over to the State and Flatten the Cultivation World 挖我灵根？我上交国家推平修仙界
[No romance, nation-building, a nation ruling the cultivation world] After transmigrating, Li Yin risked her life for her sect for twenty years, always treating it as home. Yet her master personally cut open her dantian and took her supreme-grade spiritual root to give to her junior sister. Her master said, “Rebellious disciple, flaws mar your Dao heart. I’m doing this to erase your karmic burdens.” Her senior brother said, “Junior Sister, your extreme temperament makes you unworthy of a supreme
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- 8 Reborn, I Was Forced to Become the Underworld’s Young Mistress! 重生后，我被迫成了黑道大小姐！ [Reborn at school, strong female lead, no romance, all business, countless black-clad underlings, comedy, and pure wish fulfillment!] (Original title: After Being Reborn, I Was Forced to Become the Underworld's Young Mistress!) In her previous life, Liu Yutong was a lawyer. By a twist of fate, she is reborn on the eve of the 2007 college entrance exams, only to be mistaken by a gang of street thugs for the daughter of an underworld kingpin. The fearsome daughter of an underworld boss? Fighting, 23.4kReads9.1Score3.2k14d adds
- 9 My Mountain Villa Connects to Another World, and Ancient People Come to Work 山庄通异界古人来打工 After graduating from university, Jian Xingxia inherits her grandmother’s farm. But the farm lies deep in the mountains, overgrown with weeds and surrounded by leaky buildings. After pulling weeds until she’s questioning her life choices, Jian Xingxia wails, “Can’t someone come help me pull weeds and fix the roof?” The next second, a twelve-year-old girl from ancient times emerges from the mountains. “Pull weeds? Easy. Just give me the wild greens.” A skinny old man with a face that looks fifty- 107.1kReads9.0Score9.7k14d adds
- 10 After Her Sect Was Slaughtered, She Summoned Players to Wreak Bloody Vengeance on the Cultivation World 宗门被屠，她召唤玩家血虐修真界 [Strong Female Lead + Comedy + Tech Meets Cultivation + Unconventional Fourth Disaster] In 20XX, a full-dive game called A Thousand People’s Journey to Immortality announced its closed beta. The game claimed to offer the greatest freedom, the most thrilling story, and the most beautiful sect leader. At first, no one believed a word of it. “It’s all a bunch of marketing lies!” Later, they fought tooth and nail just to get a spot. #I watched a streamer play yesterday. What the heck is cyber cultiv 1kReads9.2Score11214d adds
- 11 Transmigrating into a Chaotic Age, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation Through Robbery 穿乱世，疯癫公主她靠抢劫建国了 [Transmigrate + Struggle for Supremacy + Chaotic Era + Powerful Female Lead + Fleeing Famine + Infrastructure Building + No Romantic Pairing + Portable Space] Original title: Transmigrating Through Chaotic Times, the Mad Princess Builds a Nation by Robbing Others When Jiang Jin awoke, she discovered that she had become a princess of a fallen kingdom and was being sent to Liang City to become a plaything for the barbarian Jiao Liang. She thought about it and decided it would be better for others 147.3kReads9.5Score18.2k14d adds
- 12 Rising Amid Chaos: Restoring the Tang Dynasty 乱世崛起：我在大唐重整江山 [Late Tang turmoil + strong heroine + nation-building + political strategy and power struggles + ensemble cast + built-in stats] In August of the first year of Guangqi, all of Great Tang mourned its former glory. Emerging from a tunnel through the river of time, Xiao Buwei looked back and saw a hellscape of mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. As the poem goes: “How tragic the events of the past fifty years; the common folk have suffered grievously.” Xiao Buwei had just finished adjusting 772Reads6.6Score10814d adds
- 13 A Lone Woman in Troubled Times, Plotting an Age of Prosperity 乱世孤女，谋千古盛世 [Strong Female Lead + No CP + Empress + Ensemble Cast + Political Scheming + War + Power Struggles in a Chaotic Era + Nation-Building and Farming + No Spatial Storage or System + Slow-Burn Growth + Epic Length] Yun Huaijin suddenly became a "corpse" in a world torn apart by chaos. She crawled out of a pile of bodies, with only a child on the verge of starving to death beside her. In this world, nobles lived in drunken indulgence, powerful clans monopolized knowledge, bandits slaughtered withou 23.3kReads8.9Score2.8k14d adds
- 14 If You Want to Live, Keep Up: Princess Xing Ge Is on a Rampage 想活命的跟上，兴戈公主杀疯了 [Strong female lead, no romance + apocalypse transmigration to ancient times + fighting back from the brink + survival on the run + founding a nation and building it up + fiery ensemble cast] Just as the noose was about to snap her neck, Xing Ge woke up. In the apocalypse, she'd died in a self-detonation. Now she opened her eyes to a country on the brink of destruction and a family torn apart. Inside the imperial tomb, the Imperial Consort was still shouting, “Better to shatter than remain whole 47Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 15 Three Kingdoms: The Unhinged Princess Topples Dong Zhuo's Stronghold 三国：疯批公主她掀了董卓老巢 Liu Ying, a military academy student from the twenty-first century, opened her eyes in the body of a princess who had hanged herself and died. The marks on her neck had barely faded when the door burst open under the kick of a rebel soldier, sword in hand. She grabbed a gold hairpin, knocked over a folding screen, and stabbed the soldier in the thigh, leaving a bloody hole. Then she casually swiped some saltpeter and sulfur from an alchemist and gave Dong Zhuo a “welcome gift.” The three-hundred 1.7kReads6.8Score20814d adds
- 16 One Bowl of Budget Takeout, and the Greatest Empress of All Time Emerged 一碗拼好饭，吃出了万古第一女帝 [Alternate late Ming dynasty + ensemble cast + infrastructure + food + technology + unifying the world] When Zhu Ling opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to the end of the Ming dynasty and become a princess of the Shu royal house. As the most beloved daughter of the Prince of Shu, Zhu Ling should have lived in luxury at the palace. But the Ming dynasty had only three years left. Rebels were everywhere and disasters kept striking, while her father, Zhu Zhishu, Prince of Shu, was the stingiest 1.2kReads6.9Score11514d adds
- 17 Transmigrated into a Famine-Era Widow: Can’t Run the World? Let Me Take Over 穿越逃荒寡妇：不会治天下？换我 [System, fleeing famine, widow, empress, no romance, enormous golden finger] Su Yao opens her eyes and finds herself a widow in labor on the road to escape famine, with four hungry children by her side. A disastrous start? No problem. She binds to a Survival System. A spirit spring can keep her alive, and the shop can buy food. Dividing the family, fighting bandits, treating epidemics, crushing evil cults... Su Yao leads the refugees to carve out a path to survival against all odds. The lonely l 69Reads—Score10114d adds
- 18 Sacrificed from the Start, I Flee Famine with a Single-Player Game 开局被祭祀，带着单机游戏去逃荒 (Alternate world + No romance + Not a saintly heroine + Powerful golden finger + Starts with fleeing famine, later becomes empress + Story of Seasons) Chen Jiao is playing a game at home one moment, and the next she’s in the body of a fourteen-year-old orphan about to be sacrificed. And that isn’t even the worst news. What’s even more despairing is that this world is suffering a drought, and the barbarians are about to invade. War is about to break out again! She has to flee the famine and so 19Reads5.3Score814d adds
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Reborn as a Wicked Foster Mother: I Raised the Villainous Tyrant All Wrong 穿成恶毒养母：把反派暴君养歪了
[No romance + teaching + adorable kids + farming + building wealth + infrastructure] A warm, slice-of-life story Zhang Ziruo transmigrates into the role of the evil adoptive mother of a tyrannical villain, destined for a tragic end. She plans to win the villain’s favor while he is still young, only to discover that he has been reborn... Taking stock of her new circumstances, she decides to open a school and become a teacher! She’ll raise the villain to be a virtuous, capable, open-minded, and po
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Try Messing with Me! I'll Strike You with Heavenly Thunder 惹我试试！天雷伺候
Transmigration + pocket dimension + strong heroine + satisfying revenge + sharp tongue + multi-element abilities + no CP Mu Rong Qing transmigrates into the Great Yan General Mu Rong's residence. She becomes the legitimate daughter Mu Rong Qing, who was abused by her stepmother and bullied to death by her younger sister, Mu Rong Xue. A few days later, her sister picks on her again. With old and new grievances piling up, Mu Rong Qing stops holding back. She ruthlessly scars her stepsister Mu Rong
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Beneath the Flood, All Are Equal 洪水之下，众生平等
[No catfights over men + a monster protagonist team + thrilling battles + fast-paced] [Some scenes are a little graphic...] [Just got a rating, and I’m working hard to improve it!] [Six thousand words a day, read with confidence!] [The story features gods, demons, and other beings from all kinds of myths. Some details may differ from the legends. I’ve done my best to research them, so mythology buffs, please go easy on me.] Here’s the unserious blurb: Yun Zhaoxi: You’re asking whether I’m the Az
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- 22 Journey to the West: Me! Sun Wukong! A Woman! 西游：我！孙悟空！女的！ [Strong female lead + woman transmigrates into Journey to the West + no romance] [The rating is low because it has only just launched] [There is a prequel, a short story included in the first four extra chapters] Unable to find a job after graduating from college, Hou Qian wanted to work as a wild woman at a tourist attraction. But they had already hired enough, so she went to Flower-Fruit Mountain and became a monkey instead. Me? Hou Qian? A monkey born from a rock? And a female monkey, at that 169Reads8.4Score—14d adds
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Others Bring Investors to Set; I Bring Rebar 别人带资进组，我带钢筋进组
No CP. The ratings just came out, so don't scroll past. Come in and take a look! Sun Wuxiang, a stone monkey spirit who had lived for ten thousand years, slept deep in the mountains until the 21st century. She came down from the mountains with the delicate, willowy looks that were all the rage during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but with enough primordial strength to yank a weeping willow out of the ground After all, who would guess that this slender beauty, as delicate as Lin Dai
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My Junior Sister Hears the Thoughts of Her Gossip Targets and Just Wants to Lie Flat 吃瓜对象听心声，小师妹只想躺平
[Ensemble cast, overhearing inner thoughts + female-led cultivation story with no central romance, including two male-male couples, two female-female couples, and all sorts of melodramatic romance plots] Ye Mu transmigrated into the world as a sweeping disciple of the Qingfeng Sect. She lazed around the sect for 179 years, until one day she suddenly got bound to a gossip System and unexpectedly became the sect leader’s personal disciple. 1. [Oh my gosh… So the Demon Venerable has a secret crush
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Back to the Beginner’s Village? No! I’m Here to Retire! 重回新手村？不！我是来养老的！
After completing 9,999 repair missions in minor worlds, Hua Yi decisively retires and chooses a world to spend her remaining years in. She seems like a fresh-faced newcomer who has just entered the world of cultivation, but behind the scenes, she’s a powerhouse who dares to go head-to-head with the Heavenly Dao! Along the way, she plays the pig to eat the tiger, picks up strays, and enjoys the gossip and drama. There’s the Child of Misfortune, sealed away by a powerful cultivator. There’s also t
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Cast Aside by My Family? No! A Divine Maiden Has Descended 家族弃女？不！是神女临世
Completed. The rating is right here. Read it or don't, it's up to you. The book was originally titled The Family's Castoff Daughter? No! A Goddess Has Descended. The important part is the last four words. [System + keeping secret identities hidden + pretending to be a god + no CP + two female leads, not a GL romance, ensemble cast] “Go die!” Those were the first words she heard after transmigrating here. The haughty young girl said, “Your very birth is a sin.” The original owner died, and she ca
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The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录
[Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th
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- 28 The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳 Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held 48.6kReads9.7Score7.1k14d adds
- 29 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 30 Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝 (Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo 254.1kReads9.7Score29.8k14d adds
- 31 Rule Horror: Who Taught You to Study Like That? 规则怪谈：谁教你这样读书的 [Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Rule-Based Horror, Infinite Realms, Chinese-Style Horror] Traditional culture has been distorted on a massive scale in modern society. Altered pronunciations, words smeared with stigma, and ancient sayings twisted out of shape are gnawing away at the human soul. Su Muyu, the thirtieth-generation descendant of Su Shi and the sole inheritor of the Soulcrafter lineage, joins Li Guazi, a girl whose past is a mystery, and Mr. Dongli, a word spirit from the handwritt 50Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 32 Record of a Thousand Lanterns 千灯录 [Mystery solving + palace intrigue and household scheming + face-slapping and revenge + powerful families + court and kingdom] Fifteen prospective husbands are locked in a fight to the death in my family’s back courtyard, while all I want is to become a nun. Schemes and deceit, suspicion at every turn, bloodshed and tragedy piling up, a deadly battle in the back courtyard with no survivors allowed. [The high-born judge of the Court of Judicial Review, who loves wiping out entire households] x [T 22.7kReads9.4Score4.3k14d adds
- 33 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
- 34 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
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Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人，当然赚钱啊
[Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once!
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The Ghost-Hunting Squad 猎诡战队
Hello, I'm Zhong Wuyan. I have no respect for Newton: one swing of my hammer can work miracles. I've got my sweet, adorable illusionist teammate by my side. My teammates and I have all faced life-or-death trials together, and that bond is more trustworthy than romance fueled by dopamine. Of course I turned the ghost's ambush around and killed it. I'm strong in body, but I'm no fool. Everything has been under my control from the very beginning. This world is full of despair and might scare you, b
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Quick Transmigration: Working Hard to Make Dreams Come True Again Today 快穿：今天也在努力圆梦
[Strong female lead + no CP + no romantic tension + no female rivalry + System] The formidable Ling Yun is bound to a wish-fulfillment System. Her mission is to enter various small worlds and fulfill the original hosts' dreams, making up for their regrets. Does just because things have always been this way mean they are right? 1. A fake heiress gives up family affection and her career to take a shortcut and marry into a wealthy family? (Complete) 2. With a vocational-school education and only 1,
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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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Dawn Within the Cage 樊笼内的破晓
Some people are born trapped in a cage. Invisible barriers, woven from the soil of one’s upbringing, the path laid out in advance, the constraints of one’s surroundings, the cocoon of one’s perceptions, and the shackles of morality, build a cold, solid cage that holds her captive. She is raised within it, as if this were all life could ever be. If she does not awaken, if she does not save herself, the ending is clear: the cage will silently devour her, and she will vanish in a slow death. Yet de
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The Metaphysics Big Shot Makes Waves in the Entertainment Industry 玄学大佬娱乐圈炸鱼
[Fortune-Telling Livestreams + Supernatural Ghost-Hunting + Episodic Power Fantasy + No Romance + The Real Heiress Strikes Back] The opening has some entertainment-industry scenes, but the heroine never joins the industry. Ji Chengli, a powerful cultivator, is framed by a transmigrator and falls into demonic corruption. She dies in a tribulation storm, then is reborn as the neglected real heiress of the wealthy Ji family. The fake heiress drugs and frames her, while putting on a show of innoce
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