I've Been Reading for Ten Years. Recommend Me Something, but No Beginner-Level Wish Fulfillment 十年老书虫求推荐，拒绝小白爽文
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My Grandfather Is Zhu Yuanzhang 我祖父是朱元璋
I have the most illustrious name: Zhu Yuntong. I am the legitimate grandson of the founding emperor of Great Ming, and the legitimate son of Crown Prince Zhu Biao. My mother is the daughter of Chang Yuchun, and my maternal granduncle is Lan Yu. I am the most illustrious imperial grandson in Great Ming, and the most influential and legitimate heir to the throne. I will usher in a different Great Ming, magnificent beyond compare, its sun and moon shining bright. It will embrace all rivers and welc
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Achieving Transcendence Through Corpse Burning 我靠焚尸超凡入圣
Since ancient times, people have believed the dead should be buried whole. Cremation is deeply disrespectful to the deceased, and only corpses that have undergone an uncanny transformation are burned. Those who cremate corpses are known as corpse burners. It is an extremely dangerous line of work. At midnight, one room, one corpse burner. Once the doors are shut and locked, if the corpse turns vicious, the corpse burner is as good as dead. Qin He makes his living this way at a canal wharf in the
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A Poor Scholar of Noble Character 一品寒士
[Single heroine, semi-fictionalized Tang Dynasty] In an era when the great aristocratic clans looked down on the imperial family, Zhao Quan was born to a farming family and entered school carrying the hopes of his parents and six older brothers. Farming was out of the question: even the village head’s family had no food to spare… So he had no choice but to take the imperial exams and become an official.
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Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
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
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Against the Gods 逆天邪神
The animated series of the same name is now streaming on iQIYI! Wielding the Pearl of Heavenly Poison, bearing the blood of the Evil God, and cultivating power that defies heaven, a generation’s Evil God reigns supreme!
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Lord of Sacrifice 献祭之主
[A new book from a veteran author, guaranteed quality and regular updates.] [No System, beast taming, high martial arts, fantasy] Chen Gu transmigrates into a fantasy world where martial artists reign supreme and strength is everything. However, most people have no talent for martial arts. For ordinary people, the only way to reach the top is to spend nine years studying beast-taming theory and become a... Beast Tamer! While others cautiously spend their few spirit stones at the beast market, ch
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Sword of Coming 剑来
The world is vast, and anything is possible. I, Chen Ping’an, have but one sword. With it, I can move mountains, overturn seas, subdue demons, suppress devils, command gods, pluck stars, sever rivers, level cities, and split the heavens!
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Entertainment Spring and Autumn 娱乐春秋
In a fictional world of martial arts and a hundred schools, a modern person tells the locals that cultivation isn’t the only way to get what you want. Want to be the young hero everyone in the martial world adores? Easy, as long as you’re sincere... For example, why not invite your junior sister for a drink? Confucius said: “When you transmigrate, don’t just toil away at cultivation. The locals aren’t as capable as you!” The heavens make a board, the stars make its pieces, and knowledge is the g
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Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述
Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see...
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The Hidden Hand 暗手
[Fate is like a hidden hand, slowly pushing us toward the abyss. By the time we realize what is happening, we are already trapped deep within it, and life must go on.] An ordinary young man is swept into a murky world by fate when he tries to save his critically ill younger sister, becoming an undercover agent in an anti-fraud operation. In this pool of black water, money rules everything and desire devours humanity. Three years, then three more, and another three after that. The young man strug
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The Headless Bone Sculptor 无头雕骨师
He is a bone carver who inherited secret arts passed down for a thousand years. He is the headless ghost said to haunt a legendary haunted house. Walking the line between light and darkness, he hunts down the culprits behind bizarre murder cases: the taxidermist who makes specimens from human skin, the murderous doll that whispers, the mushroom man lurking in the ruins, the ghostly face on an exam paper, the ice-sculpture lovers who will stop at nothing, the faceless demon who steals organs... J
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The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行
The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person...
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Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺
At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen.
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Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能：我有一面复刻镜
[Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th
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Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 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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There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼
Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu
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I Really Didn’t Raise a Dragon 我真没养龙啊
[A completed older book with over two million characters] [More focused on story and plot, with plenty of action too] An accident leaves Ye Kong reborn as a little carp! Raised by his younger sister and childhood sweetheart, he uses the System’s power of evolution to start evolving like crazy! When the world mutates and spiritual qi revival begins, his family finds themselves in danger. A colossal dragon suddenly surges out of the ocean! “I really didn’t raise a dragon!” Under the stunned gaze o
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I Became a Hostage in a Foreign Land 我在异国当质子
The Great Zhou has stood for more than seven thousand years, while the Human Emperor has entered seclusion, his fate uncertain. The feudal lords eye one another warily, while the Eight Wildernesses beyond the borders sharpen their blades. Here, there is Buddhism and Daoism, Confucianism and demons, gods and devils, shamans and warriors. Zhuangzi and Mencius debate, while Baosi and Xishi, the Yue beauty, vie for attention. The Peacock contends with the Great Zhou, while Alexander the Great wages
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Dragon and Elephant 龙象
Some playboys drink and carouse night after night, lost in drunken revelry, while generals die on the battlefield, their bones left to wither. Clashing blades and galloping horses, pleasures of the bedchamber: all are but human suffering. The imperial court and the martial world, full of deceit and intrigue, end with bodies buried in yellow earth. Buddhas mighty as dragons and lowly pawns crossing the river, none who set out ever return.
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War God Rampage 战神狂飙
Ye Wuqian was born with peerless talent, a dazzling genius. But to uncover the mystery of his origins, he willingly vanished from the world, pretending to be a good-for-nothing as he refined the source of the Sacred Battle Art for a full ten years! Now his ten years are up, and the true dragon has returned! An invincible path begins, one where he crushes countless prodigies and geniuses, smashes every royal and divine physique, and tears apart the legends of the heavens, making the myriad worlds
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The Supreme God Emperor 无上神帝
Mu Yun, an immortal king of his generation, is reborn ten thousand years later as a useless instructor bullied by everyone? Troublemaking students? Kneel before this immortal king. A beauty offers herself to him? Sorry, you're not worthy. Back to the top, starting as an instructor
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The Venerable of the Divine Dao 神道帝尊
The genius Qin Chen had his Star Gate stolen and his cultivation crippled, but this awakened the memories of his nine past lives and set him on the path of his tenth. His former disciple became the Azure Cloud Heavenly King. His former mount transformed into a mighty divine beast. His cultivation companion was revered as a goddess of the myriad worlds. In this life, I am the Emperor Supreme. Who dares defy me?
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Supreme Demon Daoist 妖道至尊
Reborn from the ashes, the Demon Emperor returns! A foolish prince consort transforms into the Demon Emperor, cultivating both demonic and primordial arts to rule the world with demonic might! He tramples villains, gathers followers, wins beautiful women, and forges the path to becoming the strongest demon cultivator!
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A Bewitching Beauty in Another World 异界魅影逍遥
A transmigrator who doesn't want to rule the world isn't a worthy transmigrator. Martial Saint: "Brother Feng, take me on as your lackey!" Yi Feng: "What?! You're a Martial Saint, and you still have the nerve to ask to be my lackey?" [Martial ranks: Martial Initiate, Martial Warrior, Martial Adept, Martial Master, Martial General, Martial King, Martial Venerable, Martial Lord, Martial Saint, Martial God. Soul Master ranks: One to nine stars, then Soul Immortal!]
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Martial God Asura 修罗武神
As for potential, I may not be a genius, but I can master profound arts and martial techniques without a teacher. As for strength, no matter how many treasures you possess, you still cannot match my army of World Spirits. Who am I? The people of the world see me as an asura, but they don’t know that I used the asura path to become a Martial God.
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Martial Arts Shatter the Nine Heavens 武破九霄
His body moves like a swimming dragon, his feet shatter the firmament and void! His heart is like a ferocious tiger, striking down countless fiends! The Xuantian Continent is a world where martial strength reigns supreme. When a soul inhabits the body of a young master from a fallen family, the world trembles at his coming! He battles through the heavens, looks down upon the Nine Hells, and stands above all living beings... I am supreme!
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The Invincible Heavenly Emperor 无敌天帝
A botched ascension sends Ye Fan back to life a hundred years in the past. A prodigy in every field, with an endless array of martial arts techniques, knowledge of everything under the sun, and the power to foresee the future. Now that I am reborn, I shall rule heaven and earth. Those who disobey me will die! Those who refuse to submit will be slain! One word can bring an age of chaos to heel; one sword can cleave the nine heavens. I command divine beasts, forge divine weapons, shatter the void,
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The Emperor Comes to Hongmeng 帝临鸿蒙
The Three Thousand Worlds are vast and boundless, concealing endless mysteries. Beyond the Nine Heavens, countless dynasties stand side by side, each ruling its own corner of the cosmos. Among the myriad lords, who will become the true emperor? Across all the heavens and myriad dynasties, who can unite the Three Thousand Great Worlds and reign supreme for all eternity? Yu Huang is a mysterious young man foretold to be the emperor chosen by fate. Burning with hatred, he embarks on an imperial pat
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I Turned Myself Over to Shenzhou 我把自己上交神州
“Today, I make this vow!” “In this life, I shall fight for Shenzhou!” “With this body of steel, I shall forge a wall for Shenzhou!” “While I still stand, the people of Shenzhou shall know no fear!” “Even if an endless night shrouds the world!” “I am willing to burn through my blood!” “To light the way ahead for Shenzhou!” Brothers. The wine is warm, and a few dishes are ready. Since you’re here, sit back and listen to my tale. The story of the young men and women of this land of Shenzhou.
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Gene Lock Unleashed: I Am Invincible—Do As You Please 基因锁一开，我无敌，你随意
[A classic old-school story, set in a fictional world, no System, full of passion.] Towering walls rose from the ground, turning Earth into a maze. Monsters mutated wildly and reproduced in grotesque forms. Humanity entered a post-apocalyptic era of biological mutation and energy control. All kinds of combat professions emerged. As a despised subspecies and a weakling on the battlefield, Fu Junlin should have spent his life just trying to get by. That was until a twisted, goofy life-form entered
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I Survived from the Primordial Era to the Journey to the West 我，从洪荒苟到西游
Mu Chen transmigrates to the Primordial World, becoming an ethereal spirit with no fixed form. He starts out utterly weak, but unexpectedly awakens the Starsea Fishing Choice System. “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a hundred years, you've obtained a replica of the Four Swords of Zhu Xian!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a thousand years, you've become a Taiyi Mystic Immortal!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for ten thousand years, you've attained the rank of Great Luo
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The Wallfacer, President of the United Earth 面壁者地联大总统
Galactic Realm The Cosmic Megacorporation has just captured several “volunteers” from the Three-Body Realm and, with the help of the Infinite Divine Machine, created an era-defining game that perfectly simulates part of the universe. Now, our recently retired former president, Xitian Chen, is about to become the game's very first player. What no one knows is that the fate of both realms depends on how the president feels after playing. Beside the dimensional gateway, the United Nation
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Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁
(The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes
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From a Jar of Spirit Herbs to the Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 从一罐灵草到仙界道祖
[Mortal Cultivation] He tossed an immortal herb into a black jar, and it kept pouring out more! A village boy accidentally obtained a black jar that could duplicate supplies, and so began his journey to immortality. Is cultivating immortality difficult? I have mountains of pills to help me! Are powerful enemies everywhere? I’ll wipe them out with handfuls of talismans! Born with a useless spirit root, he defies fate and becomes an Immortal Ancestor! Shu Han proves the Great Dao to the world, bec
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Ghost Valley Medical Immortal 鬼谷医仙
(Wuxia-style fight scenes, urban setting, divine physician, disguise, slow burn, truth, and rage.) When he’s enraged, the feudal lords tremble; when he lives in peace, the world is quiet. The Guigu returns to the modern city, where even the Medicine King is at a loss. The CEO’s mother is critically ill? I’ll treat her. The bureau chief has a hidden ailment? One pill from me will fix it. His master is ambushed, and the culprit is the leader of a top assassin organization? He has no choice but to
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My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客
After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem.
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Global High Martial: Organization, I'm Really Not a Heretic 全球高武：组织啊，我真不是异端
My new novel is here: Weird and Powerful? No, This Time I Want to Be a Good Person. A story about an adult. After transmigrating to a high-martial-arts world, he gets a “Wish Fulfillment” System! Using the information and plans supplied by the System, Su Ming takes off on the spot and begins living life to the fullest! But! The world is in chaos, and heretics run rampant! For his loved ones, his country, and himself, Su Ming casually nudges the threads of fate, only to accidentally
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] 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
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The Death Train 死亡列车
This is a world where civilization has collapsed and evil runs rampant! This is a blood-soaked, frenzied realm where morality has fallen apart! This is a struggle to survive!
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After the Cataclysm 浩劫余生
A cataclysm turns the world into a lawless wasteland. Some take shelter in fortresses, some hide in the wilderness, and others are transformed into different creatures by radiation. The world splits into two extremes. The powerful possess cutting-edge technology and shut themselves away from the chaos behind fortresses that rise from the ground. In migrant camps rife with danger, where people resort to eating their own children, a hunter struggling to make ends meet sets out on a rugged path to
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When Terror Descended, My Insane Social Skills Shocked the World 惊悚降临:社交牛x的我震惊世界
Qin Xiao, a world-class sales trainer and proud holder of a Social Skills Expert certificate, transmigrated into a parallel world where a terrifying game had descended. As it turned out, you could do anything you wanted as long as you had great social skills. Affection: 60 Rakshasa: “From now on, you're my brother, Lao Luo!” Affection: 90 Ghost King: “Big bro, take a look! Take a look at the kingdom your little brother conquered for you!” Affection: 100 Ghost Teacher: “Little brother, stay the n
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Three Kingdoms: My Brother Is Dian Wei, and I Take on Lü Bu from the Start 三国：家兄典韦，开局硬刚吕布
Dian Mo transmigrates to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and becomes Dian Wei's younger brother. To join Cao Cao's camp, Dian Mo sends a letter that leaves Cao Cao stunned. Cao Cao: “Find the person who wrote this letter, no matter what. This must be the peerless genius I've been looking for!” While the whole camp launches a search, Dian Mo comes to Cao Cao of his own accord and begins his career as a strategist. Yuan Shao: “The Dian brothers are one a civil genius, the other a military geniu
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One Man, One Dog, One Zombie 一人一狗一丧尸
[No superpowers + no System + plot-focused + no harem] Huang Jin, a young man who secretly worked in a specialized line of business, received a call from his boss at the beginning of the zombie outbreak. His boss ordered him to stay put in C City and wait for the organization to rescue him. But time passed, and after waiting for two whole years, Huang Jin still saw no sign of anyone from the organization. He decided to head to Z City, where his boss was, on his own. Along the way, he came across
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Water Margin: A Record of Heroes 水浒之英雄录
An ordinary person from the future transmigrates into the Water Margin world at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. He plans to live out the rest of his days in peace as a descendant of the imperial family, outside Cangzhou City. But a voice inside him keeps asking: After living two lives, you’ve still amounted to nothing. Can you accept that?
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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The Apocalypse: I Drew a Team of God-Tier Traveling Frogs 末世，我抽奖神级旅行青蛙团
[Farming + daily life + lighthearted fun + building + beast taming = ?] When the apocalypse game arrived, Qin He bound himself to a God-tier Traveling Frog System. He took naming his little frogs very seriously, despite being hopeless at coming up with names. Da Vinci: I have to find a pretty female zombie to be my master's wife. Cheng Yaojin: I bring two axes back from every trip. Is there a problem with that? Ding Chunqiu: As a poison dart frog, I'm a real assassin. Search for items? No, I wan
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Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力
[Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na
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My Right Eye is a God-Tier Computer 我的右眼是神级计算机
I am the super artificial intelligence in your eyes. You humans call an IQ of 85 stupid and an IQ of 135 smart, but you will never understand what an IQ of 125,000 means! From now on, I will be your right-hand man!
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The Divine Schemes of Guiguzi 鬼谷神谋
[Historical Fiction Writing Contest] Other people are reborn into wealth and privilege, but I came back as a stalk of rice. No, a stalk of rice growing on a grave! A lovesick woman ate me, and became my mother. I became Guigu Wang Chan, whom later generations called Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Vertical and Horizontal School. In this turbulent age, watch me stir up the world once more and make my mark on the battlefields of the Warring States!
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, the Villainous Tycoon Spoiled Me Rotten 穿书后，反派大佬玩命宠我
[One-on-one romance + sweet pampering + both leads’ first love + satisfying read] After transmigrating into a book, Dai Xiaoyu becomes an innocent, doomed supporting character destined for a tragic death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she can only cling to her villainous husband and cry pitifully. The powerful man is more than happy to indulge her. With a wave of his hand, he gets her out of danger every time trouble strikes. When she sees his first love appear, Dai Xiaoyu decides to divorce him
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