I've Been Reading for Ten Years, and Every Novel These Days Follows the Same Formula 十年老书虫了，现在的小说都一个套路
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Puppy-Like Boy Cries in My Arms 重生八零：小狼狗在我怀里哭唧唧
Chen Nianqing falls asleep while on duty at the hospital and wakes up in the 1980s. Her sexist parents plan to marry her off to the village chief's son, an abusive man, for a bride price of ten thousand yuan. After she runs away, she gets hit by a car. The driver turns out to be a handsome young man, but he's hot-tempered and cries in front of her. Their youthful crush ultimately comes to nothing. Chen Nianqing devotes herself to medicine and her career, only to reunite with him five years later
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The Supporting Female Cultivator: Starting as the Sect Patriarch! 女配修仙：从当宗门师祖做起！
The night before Xu Yi was to become the senior disciple of Xuanji Sect, she had a dream. In it, she was consumed by jealousy of the new junior sister, committed every sort of evil, and ultimately met a grisly end, her bones ground to dust. With the junior sister's initiation just around the corner, Xu Yi shut her eyes, gritted her teeth, and left with all her belongings to lie low. But she never expected to fall into a secret realm the moment she left the sect, where she was trapped for two hun
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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Recognizing Lin Daiyu as Family from the Start, I Became the Big Winner in Dream of the Red Chamber 开局认亲林妹妹，我成了红楼赢家
[Original heroine in Dream of the Red Chamber + firmly standing by Lin Daiyu] A devoted fan of Dream of the Red Chamber wakes up one day as the legitimate daughter of a collateral branch of the Jia family. From the start, she meets Lin Daiyu, and after that, she just has to keep her head down and stay safe! Watching the turbulent intrigue in the Ning and Rong mansions, Jia Xuer says, “I don’t want to get involved. I just want to live peacefully as a lazy housecat!” … Jia Xuer knows this is Drea
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Transmigrating into Dream of the Red Chamber: Madam Wang Chooses the Easy Life 穿越红楼，王夫人选择咸鱼
Wang Qing, a modern-day wage slave, has no idea what caused her to transmigrate and become Wang Furen, the mother of Jia Baoyu in Dream of the Red Chamber. She figures Wang Furen’s fate seems decent enough, and she has no way to save the Jia family or the Twelve Beauties anyway, so she can only count herself incredibly lucky to have taken a one-way trip to another world.
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A Comeback: Back to Sixteen 逆袭之重回十六岁
[An inspiring school-life story about a top student. The heroine isn’t a genius; she turns her life around through hard work.] The underachiever Jiang Ning returned to age sixteen. In this life, she set herself the goal of studying hard and turning things around to become a top student. But why does the boy who seemed so distant and impossible to win over in her previous life seem to be getting closer and closer? …“We’ll meet at the nation’s top university.” Jiang Ning read the message again and
8.2kReads9.2Score999Shelves
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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
38.1kReads9.3Score4.9kShelves
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Is It Really So Strange for a Delivery Driver to Show Up at a Crime Scene? 外卖员出现在案发现场很合理吧？
[System + crime-solving mystery + one heroine] Food delivery driver Su He accidentally gets caught up in a murder case and binds to a God-Tier Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him a reward! With the System's help, his life starts taking some unexpected turns. “Hello, I need to report a murder. Mingjia Community, Building 1, Unit 2, Apartment 603. Someone's been killed... Yes, I'm safe right now... Two people are dead... The killer? Well, I locked him outside... I had nothing to do with
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In the 1990s, the Miracle Doctor Boss Calls Off Her Engagement and Sets Her Sights on Becoming the Richest 九零：神医大佬退婚后要当首富
[Devoted couple + sweet pampering + loyal, cunning male lead + drama-loving female lead] In her previous life, she was tormented by a two-faced schemer and died with bitter regrets. Reborn eighteen years earlier, Xia Mo is determined to lead her whole family in building a wonderful life! That schemer is in her way? Today, Xia Mo will show her what it means to crush a flower with a ruthless hand! Her scumbag ex wants to turn over a new leaf and date her? Xia Mo: Sorry, I’m all about looks, and yo
2.5kReads9.4Score419Shelves
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
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Reborn in the 1980s: The Road to Prosperity 重生八零致富记
Su Susu, a refined young lady from a prominent family, dies after catching a bad cold and is reborn as a rural girl in the 1980s. She has only just become a bride and hasn't even had time to feel shy when a spiritual spring suddenly appears out of nowhere! This is looking good! She gives up her former self's bad habits, works hard to manage the household, and makes a little money on the side. Little does she know that the embroidery skills she honed in her past life are now at a master level. Th
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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Transmigrated as the Wicked Fake Heiress, I Make the Royal Families of Every Nation Bow 穿成恶毒假千金，各国皇室俯首称臣
[Anti-pampered-by-all + secret identity + strong female lead] Shen Xingwan transmigrated into the body of a fake heiress and cannon-fodder whose life had been arranged from birth right through to her funeral. Under the System’s supervision, she was forced onto the path of no return: taking down the pampered female lead. She just wanted to lie flat and live like a salted fish, but accidentally got entangled with a frail heir who couldn’t take care of himself. “Wanwan, the doctor says I’m deficien
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The 1970s: Reclaiming My Luck, the Tycoon's Darling Wife Wins Without Lifting a Finger 七零：夺回气运，首富娇妻躺赢了
[Satisfying, sweet, and feel-good + spatial powers] In her previous life, Lin Qianxue had her fortune stolen, and after her soul transmigrated, her family was destroyed within three years. When she opened her eyes again, she was back before everything had been taken from her. Refusing to be a sacrificial pawn, Lin Qianxue struck back and reclaimed it all. The rough-and-tough veteran Liu Zongzhen had a heavy fate, a fiery temper, and abundant vitality. He swiftly carried his petite wife home. Whe
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Your Highness, the Princess Consort Took Her Three Treasures to Farm 王爷，王妃带着三宝种田去了
[System + Adorable Kids + No Awful Characters + Super Satisfying + Devoted Wife + Not a Matriarchy] After transmigrating for the second time, Su Jin steals the female lead's System from the start, then arrives and thoroughly ravishes a certain reborn prince. [Three years later, news that Prince Li, who was believed unable to have children and had no hope of ascending the throne, has three children causes an uproar throughout the court.] When Su Jin hears that her children's father has been wound
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1970s! Transmigrated as the Pampered Daughter-in-Law Favored by Her Mother-in-Law 七零！穿成婆婆偏心的娇儿媳
When Murong Xi transmigrates into a tearjerker period novel as the saintly, beloved white moonlight, what does it feel like? Thanks for asking. I’m currently researching seventy-six different ways to live or die~ According to the plot, she’s supposed to toil selflessly like a saint, giving everything she has. She’ll endure misunderstanding and torment, then burn through the last of her light and warmth. In the end, she’ll become the white moonlight propping up the male lead’s table, and the mosq
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After Becoming a Professor in the Interstellar World, I’m Trending Every Day 在星际当教授后，我天天爆热搜
Yu Yu, a wealthy woman from the cultivation world, transmigrates into the interstellar era. Losing her billions in family wealth is bad enough, but the System also saddles her with a trillion in debt. For the sake of her life, she puts up with it. Then the System tells her to become a teacher. For an eight-figure salary, with room and board included, she takes the job. She trains several top-tier big shots, and even the king of the beastfolk becomes her student. Yet she is still dirt-poor. Netiz
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No Romance: The Beloved Villain Is a Cheater 无CP：团宠反派是挂逼
Male-oriented fantasy ‖ No female lead ‖ The protagonist has an outrageously powerful background ‖ A System lends a hand ‖ Complex factions and relationships (a little brain-twisting, proceed with caution) Yun Changyuan woke from a nap to discover he had transmigrated into the body of a pampered young heir. Unfortunately, being everyone’s darling wasn’t easy, because he realized he was destined to be cannon fodder. The adopted son of his father, and his nominal older brother, was actually the ch
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