Looking for Smart Protagonists. Urban, Post-Apocalyptic, Supernatural, or Fantasy Stories Are All Fine 求智商在线的书，都市，末世，灵异，玄幻都可以的
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Sacrifice in the Land of Reversed Phases 反相之地祭
Ten strangers who have never met awaken in a sealed secret room, forced to take part in a deadly "god-making game" run by a beast-masked man. Amid brutal psychological battles and mechanism-based trials, the highly intelligent protagonist uncovers a shocking truth: everyone present had already died in bizarre disasters in the real world. To escape the fate of becoming sacrifices, the survivors must push their reasoning to the limit and exploit loopholes in the absolute rules, staking their lives
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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
1.8MReads9.9Score232.7kShelves
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Quick Transmigration: As a Buddhist, I Tear the Scumbag Apart 快穿之当佛子手撕渣男
Female-oriented + Male Lead’s Perspective + Quick Transmigration + No Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Punishing Scumbags + Face-Slapping Something went wrong in the Three Thousand Realms, and the Buddhist cultivator Kongjue, who had come there to train, became trapped. He had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and set the worlds right. As soon as he started, he realized there were scumbags everywhere. Why were they all running wild? Never mind. He might as well tear them apart. Scumbags on
902Reads9.1Score103Shelves
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I Only Refuse to Betray the World 不负天下而已
[Cultivation setting + no rebirth + no transmigration + not a wish-fulfillment novel] A kind person may be swept along by the ways of the world and fall into darkness; A great villain with blood on his hands may also turn over a new leaf through a single act of kindness; Li Chenxi is one of the rare people who, even after experiencing a major upheaval, can still hold fast to his true nature; The fates of people like him are often more troubled than those of ordinary people; They are usually eit
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Doomsday Apocrypha 末世封神箓
[Investiture of the Gods + Faction Building + High-Energy Comedy] A meteor shower strikes, spiritual qi revival begins, and humanity rebuilds civilization in the wasteland, ushering in the age of martial artists. Xiao Han, a good-for-nothing who has yet to awaken at age twenty, turns his life around on the brink of death. The Luohe Star Chart awakens, the Divine Void Sword Casket recognizes him as its master, and the Immortal-Demon Guide takes him in. From then on, he uses the power of the stars
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A Moment of Serenity 灵静时刻
High school is the best time of life, but it's also the hardest and most grueling. So if one day you were hunted by a ghost, would you find it exciting? How long could morality and the law hold you back? (This story is set in a completely fictional world, and the protagonist is an adult. If you don't like it, don't read it. Don't bash the book; start with me.) [Supernatural + Infinite Realms + One Heroine]
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The Nameless Memorial Tablet 无字牌位
Snow falls over the power struggle, covering the cold inkstone. My beloved, pure as jade, is trapped in the abyss of dust. On one side is a powerful court official, weathering a lifetime of storms and snow. On the other is an old friend, bound by an obsession and burying their deepest thoughts. Two people, one cold and one concealed, entangled with each other in a tale of ancient-style political intrigue and lingering heartbreak.
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Frozen for a Century: The Age of Spiritual Qi Revival 冰封百年：灵气复苏时代
Frozen for a hundred years, he tempers his body with profound ice and his spirit with a spiritual soul, awakening supernatural abilities of his own. This is a magnificent world, and a bloody one. In 2038, Blue Star underwent a cataclysmic change. Spiritual qi revival swept the world, Superpowers awakened, and savage beasts ran rampant. As life continued to evolve and conventional weapons fell into decline, humanity and the savage beasts waged fierce battles over the land they needed to surviv
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One Piece: My Nephew Is Luffy 海贼：我的侄儿是路飞
[Greatest Swordsman + Top-Tier Devil Fruit + Righting Regrets + Building a Faction + Ability User Army + Nearly Invincible] As Zephyr's son, he works hard to change both his and Zephyr's fate. Now that he's come to this world, he intends to right its regrets. Trying to stop him from changing the world? Zetian: Sorry, you're in my way. After surviving a brush with death, he works hard to grow stronger and knows the value of keeping a low profile. Yet his other identity is the leader of the stron
8kReads8.5Score583Shelves
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New Tales of the Foggy City at Night 新雾都夜话
New Tales of Wudu is not one person's story, but a portrait of everyone on an entire street. Here, there is the struggle of a ten-year marriage that's nothing but a shell, the panic of an unexpected pregnancy, the quiet support of neighbors, and the resolve to bravely get divorced. Every ordinary person finds, amid their own hardships, the strength to live as their truest self. A slow burn that grows more rewarding with time, and is worth savoring.
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Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿
Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end!
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Global Freeze: While Others Have Powers, I Cultivate Immortality 全球冰封：别人异能我修仙
What? The frigid Apocalypse was actually part of a conspiracy? What? I’m not even from Blue Star? What? Qilin really exist? What on earth is going on? Gu Chen lived through the frigid Apocalypse in his previous life. After being reborn, he discovered that everything seemed to be following a different course. Things had become unpredictable, and he was finding it harder and harder to make sense of what was happening. If that was the case, then he would uncover the truth one step at a time. [No Sy
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Apocalypse of the Strange City 异都默示录
An unknown disaster descends upon the land, changing its terrain. People's cries and screams, and the sounds of monsters biting and chewing, make the scene resemble the end of the world. After several years, humanity gradually gains the upper hand. Countries establish cities called Esper Cities on land created by the disaster. At the same time as the disaster, people with supernatural abilities also appear. A boy who survived the disaster searches for his sister, whose life or death remains unkn
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The Eerie Tycoon 诡豪
In 2025, the world faced an unprecedented disaster: the apocalypse arrived. The atmosphere underwent drastic changes, and a sudden "Black Tide" swept across the globe. Ancient and eerie forces awoke, and supernatural phenomena gradually filled the world. Countless terrifying ghosts, bizarre underworld talismans, and mysterious creatures that had lain dormant for millennia suddenly emerged. Social order collapsed in most countries. Wealth, supplies, and even land no longer held their former mean
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The Otherdimensional Wanderer 异维行者
On December 21, 2012, people thought they had escaped the twilight of the universe, but Wen Yang was nearing the end of his own road. To live or to die: was the choice already beyond his control? If you could start over, would you make the same choice?
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Strange Tales of the Returning Dao 归道异录
The affairs of the world are far too complicated, and human hearts are more complicated still. Deadly poisons are rare, but every heart holds the potential for evil. In a single thought, good and evil can take hold, whether in the self or in the world! Beneath the glittering surface lies one obsequious bow after another. Behind a life of luxury lie countless filthy deals. Those who control the money revel night after night; those who hold power feast until dawn. Human wrongdoing is no demon’s cu
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The Rulebreaker 违则者
Are rules a cage or a form of protection? Obeying the rules brings safety, but obey them to the extreme, and a person is no longer human. Breaking taboos takes courage, but the truth revealed afterward may be even more despairing than the taboos themselves. The story does not ask, "Do you dare break the taboo?" It asks, "When you discover that the one who made the rules is bound by them too, what will you choose?"
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The Ruins of Time 时之遗迹
Volumes One and Two are on the easier side. If you're a seasoned mystery reader, we recommend getting to know the characters first, then jumping straight to Volume Three! Hidden deep within a forbidden region surrounded by mountains lies an ancient ruin forgotten by time. Gu Yinchuan, Shen Xinghui, Zhou Yanshen, and Lu Linyuan, four young people with their own reasons for coming, venture into this unknown place. But they have no idea that what awaits them is more than ruins and puzzles: there ar
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Martial Peak: Lord of the Forbidden City 武极苍穹：都市禁忌之主
Death Reset: His mother takes a blade for him from the start Lin Yan is framed by his uncle for murdering his father. With all four limbs broken, he is thrown into the Well of the Crippled. As he lies in a pool of blood, he hears a mechanical voice echo in his soul: [Death Reset activated. Time rewound by 24 hours.] After resetting again and again, he discovers that he is the only awakened bearer of the ancient “Yama Physique,” the sole “gu among gu” in a breeding ground for gu. The Zhenwu
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Ten Realms: I Was Ordinary 十界：我本平庸
(We are all ordinary people. Some say they don’t understand what I’m writing! The truth is, I simply want to tell the story of an ordinary person who keeps growing, improving, and learning. He feels lost and helpless, never knowing what to do. His life is full of stumbles, but through repeated setbacks and lessons, he slowly grows! Some people are born in Rome, while he is stuck in the mud. In Rome, it’s easy to cross the finish line. But there’s something all the more inspiring about perseverin
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A Journey to Conquer Him 征他个途
A fat guy, an opportunity, and a natural rise to the top. As he fights off an alien invasion, he finds himself going further and further down that path, while gaining even more happiness along the way. One chance changes the course of his life!
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A Dao Heart Reaching for the Heavens 道心参天
The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi
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The Extraordinary Life of a Young Man from a Small Village 小村青年的非凡人生
In that moment, I truly understood why the poor stay poor. It isn't because we don't work hard enough. It's because of the environment we live in, the resources we have, our narrow-mindedness, and the few, fragile opportunities available to us. All of it traps my impoverished family in a struggle just to survive! I gave everything I had for a chance to “change my fate,” yet a single storm was enough to destroy it!
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The Usurper 犯上者
[The new book, The Night of Absolution, is out now! If you enjoy Old Li's style, come show your support~] [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two.
250.5kReads9.4Score55.9kShelves
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Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨
Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are
98.4kReads8.9Score8.5kShelves
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
909.8kReads9.6Score236.2kShelves
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Humanity and Morality: Zero Points? I Am the Lord of the Apocalypse 人性道德0分？我末世之主
[Urban high martial arts + interstellar divine warfare + ensemble power struggles + harem cultivation + slow-paced, expansive worldbuilding. They say it only gets better the more you read.] Every gift of fate has its price secretly marked! Demon gods destroy the world, deities herd humanity, and the powerful devour the weak. Chen Yan transmigrates into the apocalypse, where simply staying alive becomes a luxury! Driven by an overwhelming will to survive, he strikes a death bargain with the Creat
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