Underrated Novels That Are Surprisingly Perfect 那些冷门却很完美的小说

1. 2051 入 I Got a Superpower When I Started the Job, but Nobody Mentioned the Dungeons 入职领取异能，但你没说还有副本 Heart Snatcher掠心Urban668k WordsOngoing (Main story complete) [Infinite Flow] + [Urban Superpowers] + [No Female Lead] For the sake of a high-paying job, Feng Sheng went and got himself hired by a dangerous newspaper. The good news is that new employees receive a superpower. The bad news is that, outside of work, he also has to enter deadly instances. Gradually, however, he realizes that some secrets seem even more thrilling than the instances. For example, why is the editor-in-chief called the editor-in-chief? Why does he never t 586Reads—Score108Shelves

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   I beg you to look... It's the first time I've ever seen such a cold book.

2. 2052 苟 A Survival Expert's Guide to Self-Cultivation 苟命专家的自我修养 Mr. Z of the Aurora Society极光会Z先生Urban1.0M WordsCompleted No CP, no female lead. Three updates a night, usually around six o'clock. A strange photograph dispels the veil over his memories and restores what he had lost. Strange incidents drive him onward, and as one event after another fans the flames, Lin Han is forced onto the path of pursuing knowledge. The divine follow the gods, the apostles follow the truth, the contracted are bound by their contracts, and the god-blessed draw the gods' gaze. And they push Lin Han toward the future. 8.3kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
3. 2053 被 After Being Abused by a Eunuch 被太监糟蹋之后 Thirteen Swords十三把剑Two Male Leads116k WordsCompleted [My beloved sent me to the chief eunuch in the palace] Everyone knows the Eastern Depot’s Director is sinister and violent, a man everyone avoids at all costs. I never thought that, as a secret guard, I’d ever have to deal with someone so powerful. Not until the prince I’d loved for more than a decade traded me for power and sent me to him. [Please steer clear if this isn’t your thing: the gong is a real eunuch!! He’s been castrated and can’t perform!!] 2.9kReads8.9Score293Shelves

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   It's a good read, short, and written in the first person.

4. 2054 遗 The Bucket List 遗愿清单 Qin Sanjian秦三见Two Male Leads62k WordsCompleted [Modern setting + polished novel + two male leads + urban life + healing + redemption + literary + romance + final wishes + reconciliation with family] Twenty-eight-year-old Ding Er is diagnosed with cancer. His doctor says treatment is not entirely hopeless, but Ding Er does not want surgery. He would rather cherish the time he has left and try many things he has never done before, so he decides to write himself a bucket list. While carrying out his wishes, he meets Li Cheng, and the two share 597Reads9.5Score136Shelves
5. 2055 夏 Summer Island 夏日岛屿 Qin Sanjian秦三见Two Male Leads89k WordsCompleted [Original novel for the audio drama starring Zhang Fuzheng and Gu Chen, originally titled Catching Butterflies] [Young writer Chen Xing x the scheming Ling Ye] [Top-quality novel + Two male leads + Healing + Happy ending + Mutual devotion + Comforting + Writers] Bestselling author Chen Xing hits a creative block and follows his fans’ suggestion to visit a small island in search of inspiration. At the island’s youth hostel, he meets a group of “strange” people and immediately clashes with one of 1.7kReads9.6Score479Shelves
6. 2056 穿 How to Survive After Transmigrating as a Villain 穿越成反派要如何活命 Yi Yi Yi Yi伊依以翼Two Male Leads378k WordsCompleted Xiao Yu’an transmigrates into a book. He becomes a young, gay king in a novel about a womanizer. How miserable. How tragic. So Xiao Yu’an works hard to stay alive. But! You background characters, if you want to mess with the male lead, fine, but could you stop sending him to me all the time? Xiao Yu’an admits he spoils the male lead, but that’s only because he wants to bask in the protagonist’s glory! Xiao Yu’an: “Stop tormenting the male lead!!! You may not be afraid of dying, but I want to liv 4.1kReads9.1Score794Shelves
7. 2057 顶 The Top-Tier Star’s Flop CP Isn’t Just Acting 顶流影帝的糊咖CP不像演的 Qian Xianxianxian钱闲闲闲Two Male Leads333k WordsCompleted [Charged, teasing tension || aloof, tsundere top-tier star top x devoted, puppy-like bottom who insists on being the top] [1v1, older top + devoted, sweet romance + mutual healing as they grow together + secret identities exposed] Qiu Huaiyi is a nobody in the entertainment industry, a professional extra who excels at playing corpses. This unlucky nobody suddenly hit the trending list thanks to a Bilibili editor with a million followers. The comments flooded in: This bizarre ship is killing me! 227Reads—Score105Shelves
8. 2058 穿 I Reincarnated as Old Bao’s No-Good Son, So Stay Away from Me 穿成老包便宜儿子滚远点 Half a Brick半块板砖Male-Channel Fanfiction530k WordsCompleted When Lin Zhou opened his eyes, he found himself staring not at the familiar ceiling of his college dorm, but at a moldy roof plastered with yellowed newspapers. He sniffed. There was no aroma of coffee, only cheap hair oil, sweat, and the anxious smell of creditors blocking the door. Then it hit him: he was screwed. He'd transmigrated into Lao Bao, a textbook tragic figure. The pathetic father who worked himself to the bone for his vain son, only to be drained dry and die alone. His bargain-bin 1.4kReads6.7Score—Shelves

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   This is the only fanfiction about Bao Zheng online. Tomato (the author) only has this one; no other website has it, not even a single one. Furthermore, the author updates three chapters a day. It's worth checking out; it's quite interesting.

9. 2059 无 No One Is Innocent 无人清白 Cong Zhang丛张Mystery167k WordsCompleted During a dinner gathering, Pei Yuming’s closest family and friends are all poisoned to death. He is the sole survivor, but becomes the police’s prime suspect. During questioning, Pei Yuming repeatedly flashes back to the moments before dinner began. After accidentally uncovering a secret between his wife and a friend, he gradually realizes that everyone at the table was hiding something they never wanted outsiders to know, and the killer is hidden among those secrets... 146.5kReads9.1Score22.6kShelves

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   I just finished reading it. Just like the title suggests, no one is innocent. Watching the protagonist go from being the honest and good man I initially thought he was to being gradually shattered, leaving only his cowardly and despicable nature, shocked me. It also made me start to examine myself. Do I also deceive myself like him, finding all sorts of reasons and excuses to make myself look like a good person and live a decent life? My answer is—yes.

10. 2060 可 Poor Thing! President He’s Obsessively Doting on Her Day and Night 可怜的她！被病娇贺总日夜宠爱！ Mo Jiu Xuan He墨酒玄鹤Modern Romance374k WordsCompleted [Ruthless hero + no escape + 22-year age gap + dark and intense + deranged, possessive love + no scruples + powerful man, vulnerable woman + both are each other’s first and only + marriage before love + innocent heroine + winning her back] Deranged, possessive financial magnate uncle × naive, timid little bunny Wen Tongtong lived in the wealthy He family’s home, where food and clothes were always brought to her. Outsiders envied her life beyond measure. But Wen Tongtong knew that although she en 17.3kReads8.1Score1kShelves
11. 2061 顶 Top-Tier Villain's Twisted Love 顶级恶种病态爱 A Breeze Rises in the Grain l尽起风禾lModern Romance283k WordsCompleted [Living by the blade + Russian-Chinese superhuman hybrid / ruthless Southeast Asian business kingpin / top hacker across all seven continents + a beast in human skin / wolfish and depraved + sexual tension] - On the day hail fell in Chonburi Province, Xia Koukhou was sent by her parents to live with a man as depraved as a wolf. Xia Koukhou remembered him. Her mother had said he was a bad man she must never provoke. Of course, the bad man remembered Xia Koukhou too. He had seen her twice. The fir 2.9kReads8.3Score261Shelves
12. 2062 世 No One in the World Is Like Her Anymore 世上无人再像她 Fo Jiu佛九Modern Romance40k WordsCompleted Shen Ange knew that love could leave you battered to the bone, but without love she would become a walking corpse. Stubbornly, she believed that life was long enough for her to wait until he came back to her. In the end, though, she could no longer hold on... 1.6kReads8.1Score168Shelves
13. 2063 糟 Oh No! The Horror Boss Is Both Ferocious and Clingy 糟糕！惊悚boss又凶又黏人 Wandering Burdock流浪苍耳Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The print edition has been published under the title Beneath the Mask, Lost Without End [Infinite Flow + Multiple Instances + Mystery + Devoted Couple + Rivals-to-Lovers] [The male lead is a horror boss disguised as a player. At first, both leads want to kill each other. The story mainly follows the infinite-flow instances.] Jiang Lian is dragged into a horror game. While everyone else avoids it at all costs, she has spent three years painstakingly searching for it. On her first instance, she l 70kReads9.3Score8.9kShelves
14. 2064 全 My Whole Family Is Crazy, and I Became the Foil in a Child-Rearing Story 全家疯批，我穿成了养崽文对照组 Frost Pavilion寒霜榭Modern Romance932k WordsCompleted [Hilarious + raising kids + adored by the whole family + crazy antics + wealthy-family ensemble + feel-good 1v1] Qi Yuan transmigrates into a wealthy-family child-rearing novel as the foil to the adored heroine. Both are rich-family children who went missing and were later found. When the heroine returns, her family lives in loving harmony. When Qi Yuan goes home, everyone in her family is crazy in their own special way. In the end, the original owner is constantly humiliated, until she's thrown 30.7kReads8.6Score3.9kShelves
15. 2065 楼 The One by the Tower Is Like Jade 楼边人似玉 White Egret, Never Paired白鹭未双Ancient Romance488k WordsCompleted The proprietress of the Zhangdeng Inn is truly insufferable: sharp-tongued, money-grubbing, flirtatious, and shameless. He cultivates the Way of Shangqing and slays the myriad demons of the mortal world. He absolutely must not let her bewitch him! (Demon-hunting, scheming magistrate Song Liyan x money-loving, self-obsessed innkeeper Lou Siyu. The story involves only the human and demon realms. They fall in love in a different setting, with no cultivation. Happy ending, with both sweet and angsty 1.2kReads9.3Score177Shelves
16. 2066 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score209.2kShelves
17. 2067 穿 The Villainess Who Became the Fake Girlfriend of an Amnesiac Big Shot 穿成假冒失忆大佬女友的恶毒女配 Wen Qi闻栖Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted [Print edition signed] [Everyday life / A slow-burn romance / Cohabitation before love / Both leads have no other romantic partners / Sweet romance] After transmigrating, Song Yunfei becomes the villainess who pretends to be the girlfriend of an amnesiac CEO. In the original novel, the villainess accidentally hit the CEO of Yanjin Group with her car. Afraid of going to jail, she pretended to be his girlfriend while he had amnesia. She even lied that he was a poor nobody, then took him to a remot 66.1kReads9.2Score8.9kShelves
18. 2068 清 The Aloof Male Lead Says One Thing and Means Another, While She Alone Is Ruthless and Dazzling 清冷男主口是心非，独她狠辣绝艳 Ling Xiu铃岫Ancient Romance415k WordsCompleted (A ruthless, wild, and crazy enchantress × a cold, taciturn, obsessive ice-cold swordsman) [Strong female lead, stubborn pursuer gets a taste of her own medicine, 1v1, both pure, happy ending] Qin Ru came to the lower realm and became an enchantress. She imprisoned the greatest swordsman in the immortal realm to drain his cultivation. The swordsman had a handsome face and an unyielding spirit. They said his master had found him years ago in the Demon Abyss and raised him from a brooding boy into 1.4kReads8.9Score156Shelves
19. 2069 衔 The Mirror Bearer 衔镜 Zonger纵尔Ancient Romance591k WordsCompleted [Complete; bonus chapters updated irregularly] Jiang Wan was expelled from her sect. On her way to take part in the sect selection, she accidentally crossed paths with a dangerous young man. Jiang Wan: “Are you going to kill me?” “I won’t kill you. At least, not right now.” Fine. So he might kill her later. From then on, she devoted herself to staying alive, diligently helping him conceal his identity. Everyone knew that ever since the battle between the immortals and demons a thousand years 5.9kReads9.1Score857Shelves
20. 2070 夫 The Third Year After His Wife Left 夫人走的第三年 White Dog白白的狗Ancient Romance195k WordsCompleted Widower romance / bitter-sweet second chances / a touch of angst / bickering couple The heir to the Duke of Liang's household has been a widower for three years. Everyone in the capital says he has mourned his wife for three years, proof of how deeply he loved her. Only he knows the truth: he got promoted, got rich, and his wife died. What a wonderful life! From then on, he could indulge in cockfighting and dog racing, with no one to hold him back. But... the nights were cold, and strange things 13.5kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
21. 2071 与 Joy with You 与君欢 Moonset月落Ancient Romance657k WordsCompleted [Palace Intrigue and Political Scheming + Marriage Before Love + Mutual Devotion] A young king and queen join hands to bring peace to the realm, brimming with ambition! A sinister, calculating ruler versus a clever, decisive queen: evenly matched, they win the world together! Jiang He, daughter of an envoy from Qi, was forced to enter the palace as a servant after her mother died and her father disappeared. Then, just before the marriage alliance, the princess of Qi died a tragic death, leaving 27kReads9.5Score3.5kShelves
22. 2072 我 Opening a Little Restaurant in Shengjing 我在盛京开小馆 Four Bayberries四颗杨梅Ancient Romance381k WordsCompleted [Alternate world, slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment novel, food + court intrigue + transmigration. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] Miss Li’s Changhuan Eatery, tucked away on Qingxing Alley, serves delicious food at affordable prices. The officials who get up early for roll call tug at their increasingly tight uniforms, but still can’t help ordering another bowl of fresh pork wontons. Pei Hongzhi happened to eat there once and discovered that Miss Li didn’t just make excellent breakf 28.2kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
23. 2073 何 Why Not Sail Together 何不同舟渡 Xian Yuke羡鱼珂Ancient Romance483k WordsCompleted "The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten 143kReads9.7Score106.8kShelves
24. 2074 攀 Marrying Up 攀高枝 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance424k WordsCompleted [Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping 165.6kReads9.6Score23.2kShelves
25. 2075 极 Extreme Life: It Begins with Acceleration 极限人生：从加速中开始 Wang Shizi love王石子loveUrban1.4M WordsCompleted [The Brothers] [Variety Shows] [Brainy Variety Shows] [Mind Games] [Travel] [Everyday Life] [No Female Lead] This is a variety-show novel, not an extreme sports novel. Extreme sports only appear at the beginning, so apologies for that. Brainy variety shows, travel shows, and other variety programs. … Don't ask. Mo Wen, a master's graduate of Kyoto Sport University, joined Go Faster at a friend's invitation, becoming a hunter. Later, at the director's recommendation, he appeared on Forest Evoluti 2.6kReads8.7Score141Shelves

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    The story revolves around a puzzle-solving, brain-teasing variety show, but the protagonist is an extreme athlete, a legend, who failed in his Ozaki Eight Challenge and retired, subsequently falling into a state of confusion. Through a friend's invitation, he participates in variety shows, ranging from "Run for Time" to "Back to Field," interspersed with various brain-teasing, sports, and entertainment variety shows. In the end, the protagonist returns to his peak and challenges the Ozaki Eight Challenge once again.

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