Looking for a Female Lead Who Isn't a Naive, Sweet Saint or a Helpless Crybaby 女主不傻白甜不圣母白莲花也不要无脑小哭包娇软
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Oh No! I Transmigrated into the Sister of the Heroine in an Angsty Romance 坏了！我穿成虐文女主的姐姐
Ye Zhi had only wanted to find a brainless sweet romance to relax with, but she never expected to be duped by an angst-ridden story disguised as a sweet romance! In this novel, the male lead drives the female lead's family into bankruptcy, gets her whole family killed, and then locks her up, subjecting her to every kind of physical and emotional abuse. Yet after a series of melodramatic events, the male lead apologizes and gives in, and the female lead has already forgotten the deep blood feud b
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When the Green Tea Villainess Starts Giving Up on Herself 当绿茶女配开始自暴自弃
Liu Qixun, the main villain in a novel, unexpectedly awakens to her own consciousness and sees how the story will unfold. Fated to die as a villainous cannon-fodder character, she decides to quit. She’s going to dress herself up to look sexy and gorgeous, and spend every night partying. But that jerk Ji An doesn’t seem to be reacting the way he should... Ji An never expected Liu Qixun to become so radiant and dazzling after leaving him, with suitors lining up to win her over. Even his friends an
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I Made a Pact with the Gods, and Now You’re All Turtles 我与神明画押，你们都变王八
[Ridiculous comedy] When Yan Luo was put on the spot from the start and expected to confess in front of everyone, she thought fast and called out to the young master: “Classmate Cang Zhu, wise people don’t fall in love. Let’s build a beautiful homeland and work together to create a harmonious society!” The young master: ... The young master at first: “Go away! Keep your distance! You’re scaring me!” The young master, winning himself over: “Holy crap, she insulted me. Does she like me? Holy crap,
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After I Transmigrated Back, I Bewitched the Whole World 穿越回来后我苏遍整个世界
After Lin Xiyue opened her eyes again, she realized this was not any of the worlds she had transmigrated to before. It was the original world she had lived in before she ever started transmigrating: unlike the cultivation, martial arts, apocalypse, and future alliance worlds she had visited, this was the world where the real Lin Xiyue had grown up. Luckily, her portable cave abode was still with her. Since that was the case, she might as well bring over everything she had learned in all those wo
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I Strive for My Country’s Prosperity! [System] 我，为祖国富强而奋斗！【系统】
[Reborn + System + top student + patriotism + positive energy + feel-good story + no awful relatives] Su Xing was always on her own, the aloof goddess in everyone else's eyes. It seemed everyone took it for granted that beautiful women should keep their distance and remain unapproachable. Only Su Xing knew she was pretending to be aloof. In truth, she had severe social anxiety! She hated dealing with people and being noticed. All she wanted was to hide in the shell she thought was safe and coast
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After Our Baby Trends Online, the Empire's CEO Comes Every Night to Soothe the Child 生崽热搜后，帝国总裁夜夜来哄娃
At the height of her career, top-tier star Shi Muran vanished without a trace. A year later, she reappeared in the headlines after giving birth in a very public fashion! The whole country went wild! The celebrity widely considered the purest in the entertainment industry was a mother? Netizens speculated about who the father was, when the empire’s most distinguished man suddenly appeared on a livestream. Shi Muran did her best to deny it. “It’s a misunderstanding. It’s not what you all think…” T
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Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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The Lovesick Lord Li Spoils Me Rotten in His Arms 病娇厉爷在我怀里恃宠而骄
[Showbiz + yandere + devoted husband] Rumor has it that the Li family has an untouchable ancestor: devastatingly handsome, frail, and disabled. You can’t scold him or criticize him. You can only spoil him, or keep your distance. Gu Zhiyu, who transmigrates into a yandere novel as a minor cannon-fodder character, thinks the same way. But no matter where she hides each night, he always finds her... “Zhizhi, would you do me the favor of falling into my hands?” Later, she notices that whenever he se
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The Cast-Off Princess's Comeback 下堂王妃逆袭记
“Rong Li, marrying you is already the limit of what I can tolerate. If you dare climb into my bed again, next time you’ll get a divorce decree.” “No need to wait until next time. Write it now.” She was the Chancellor’s daughter, and she’d done every foolish thing imaginable for the man she loved, becoming a laughingstock across the land. She was also a modern special forces instructor, and now she’d arrived in this world in all her glory. How could she let anyone bully her? The prince despised h
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I Won't Let You Down in This Life 此生不负你情深
On her wedding day, the groom ran away, then got caught up in a scandal with a B-list actress that rocked the whole city. Everyone was waiting to laugh at her. So at the wedding banquet, Hua Sheng pointed at a man at random and grabbed him as a last-minute replacement groom. She thought she could just pay him afterward and be done with it. Who knew the replacement would turn out to be the most powerful young master in Jiangcheng? From then on, trouble stuck to her like glue, impossible to shake
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I Was an Ace Assassin, Now I’m the Pathetic Girl at an Elite School 我，王牌杀手成了贵族学校小可怜
She was the world's number-one ace assassin, elusive and able to kill without a trace. After an accident, she was reborn as an ordinary schoolgirl. Looked down on by teachers and classmates because of her terrible grades? Humiliated in front of the entire school when the campus heartthrob she'd secretly admired made her love letter public? Her father ruined and bankrupt, while a classmate borrowed money and refused to pay it back? Luo Ying sneered: “You're all dead. Not one of you is getting awa
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I Picked Up a Killer to Be My Wife 捡个杀手做老婆
One moonless, windy night, he finds a beautiful, seductive, sexy, and enchanting woman. And so begins his tumultuous, thrilling, and extraordinary life...
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The Madam Plays the Pig to Eat the Tiger 夫人她扮猪吃虎
Everyone says the second young lady of the Jiang family is foolish, dim-witted, weak, and helpless. Little do they know that beneath that exterior lies a genuine black lotus. With a delicate, innocent little face, she gets her good-for-nothing father ousted, drives her stepmother insane, and torments her stepsister within an inch of her life. In other words, she plays the pig to eat the tiger. Jiang Qingyu: You're too kind! In other people's eyes, Jiang Qingyu is a deeply calculating woman. But
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Quick Transmigration: The Big Shot Has Gone Mad Again 快穿之大佬又疯了
Cultivation maniac Nan Yuan travels through three thousand worlds, doing good deeds and helping good people to accumulate merit and faith. Unfortunately, being a paragon of goodness is no easy task, and clingy pests are hard to shake off. An ugly little freak becomes a lovesick big shot in the demonic realm, and Nan Yuan soothes him; an emotionally stunted top-tier star turns into a drama-queen puppy boy, and Nan Yuan keeps him; a scumbag prince turns into a loyal husky, and Nan Yuan pats his he
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The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女
[Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han
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Come Here and Give Me a Kiss 过来亲一下
[Print edition now available] [Published as Summer's Lucky Charm] ☆Cool, gentle boy × world-weary, listless girl☆ [One-on-one sweet romance | School life, comedy, doting romance, redemption, healing] Wen Jibai always sincerely believed her new deskmate was a handsome, aloof heartthrob who took advantage of his looks and treated everyone coldly. Until one day, she saw this search in his Baidu history: [This is so annoying. What should I do if I've fallen for my deskmate?]
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The Demon Young Master Is a Girl 恶魔少爷是女生
Everyone in the capital’s young elite knew that Chi Heng hated spoiled rich kids. Luo Chuan ran wild, throwing her weight around and acting like a brat, yet somehow lived an incredibly comfortable life right under Chi Heng’s nose. Eventually, everyone learned why: “Young Master, the little Miss Luo beat someone up. The compensation is 30,000.” Chi Heng: “Put three million in her account so she can beat up as many people as she likes.” “Young Master, the little Miss Luo went street racing and wre
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The Beloved Lucky Treasure: The Adorable Little Farm Girl 团宠福宝：农家小萌娃
In her previous life, Su Jinnian was frail and sickly, and kicked the bucket before she turned twenty. Perhaps because she had spent her life learning medicine from her master and saving lives, after dying she transmigrated into the girl the Su family had prayed for across three generations. She became the family’s beloved little darling. Good fortune followed her from the moment she was born. A spiritual spring in her space was nothing special compared to a Compendium of All Things, which conta
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After Escaping Prison, the Mercenary Heiress Turns the Wealthy World Upside Down 越狱后，佣兵大小姐炸翻豪门
[Two powerful leads + secret identities + campus life + not reborn] She is the mercenary queen feared around the world, a ruthless killer with a bloodthirsty nature. After escaping from prison, she becomes the heiress of a wealthy family. Her siblings can't stand her and accuse her of being kept by a rich man? Her classmates humiliate her in front of everyone? She's too weak to fight, so the campus beauty and heartthrob look down on her? Ye Xun sneers: “If anyone messes with me, I'll kill them!”
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Be Good, Love Me for Real: Ye Bao Has Made Lord Pei Cry with Affection Again 乖，认真爱我：野宝又把裴爷宠哭
[Strong heroine + devoted, mutually doting couple + intense flirting + sweet and satisfying romance + mutual healing] Before she died, he loved and cherished her, even disfiguring himself and becoming paralyzed for her, but she knew nothing of it and gave her heart to the wrong man. Reborn, she saw the truth clearly and turned back without hesitation to save him in body and soul, and cure his disability. She announced to the whole world, “This is my man, in this life and every life to come.” She
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Heaven-Defying Doctor Consort: The Crown Prince Is Blind, Don't Marry Him! 逆天医妃：太子他瞎，别嫁！
Overnight, after transmigrating into a book, female doctor Yun Linglong became a princess who shared her name, a cannon-fodder villainess. In the original story, she abused the male lead, who later hung her from the city wall and left her to dry into jerky. So she decided to defy fate and change her destiny, starting by saving him. Not only did she spare the peerlessly beautiful male lead from being defiled by the obese, debauched emperor, she also cured his blindness. But somewhere along the wa
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After Running from My Wedding, I Got a Whirlwind Marriage with My Fiancé 逃婚后，我和未婚夫闪婚了
[Whirlwind marriage + love at first sight + sweet romance] Before meeting Su Yan, Ye Xiang was spoiled and bold. After meeting him, she softened her edges and turned into a little temptress, constantly flirting with him. She was charming and alluring, teasing him, rubbing up against him, and trying to seduce him. Before meeting Ye Xiang, Su Yan was calm and restrained, gentle and refined, a perfect gentleman who always minded his manners. After meeting Ye Xiang, the gentleman was finally teased
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Reborn as the Beloved of Everyone: The Movie Emperor's Wife Is Poor and Fierce Again 重生团宠：影帝夫人又穷又凶
[Print edition signed for publication] [Insanely outrageous wish-fulfillment + a few secret identities + savage online roasts + devoted romance with both leads’ first love + dazzling the world] In her previous life, she died with regrets. Now she has been reborn in the middle of a massive online hate campaign! If they’re going to hate on her anyway, she might as well stop pretending! Her scumbag fiancé gets shoved into a cold pool, then coughs and blames her? Sheng Wenyin: “What, caught a cold?
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Reborn for a Comeback: The Young Lady’s Style Is All Wrong 重生逆袭：大小姐画风不对 [Sweet romance + putting scumbags in their place + an exceptionally bold heroine + feel-good power fantasy] In her previous life, she died with deep resentment. In this one, she rises from the ashes and tears the scumbags to shreds. Who could have guessed that Feng Xing, the formidable financial tycoon; Feng Bai, the world-renowned genius doctor; and Feng Jing, the top-tier star who captivates countless women, would turn out to be her own biological brothers? In her previous life, no one cared f 24kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves
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I Transmigrated into My Master's Body and Doted on My Yandere Disciple 穿成师尊后，我娇养了病娇徒弟
Lanyue transmigrates into a book and becomes a cruel master who treats her disciple as a cultivation furnace, exploiting him without restraint. Fortunately, none of it has happened yet. Lanyue looks at the well-behaved disciple before her, the future Ghost King who will rule the Nine Provinces, and trembles in fear. To avoid the miserable fate of having her soul torn out and her skin flayed, Lanyue does everything she can to please her disciple. As long as she doesn’t spoil him to death, she’ll
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The Supporting Actress Cultivates Immortality, While the Protagonist Is Sacrificed to Heaven 女配修仙，主角祭天
On the night before becoming the disciple of Immortal Venerable Yanchen, Sang Ying discovered that she was the villainess in a cultivation novel about a master and his disciple! She was the foil to the pure and kind heroine, a delicate white lotus. Not only did she force the male lead to take her as his disciple, she also tried to steal what belonged to the heroine. In the end, she died at the hands of one of the heroine's admirers, and her pure ice spirit root became the catalyst for repairing
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The Reborn Senior Sister Doesn’t Want to Work Hard 重生大师姐不想努力了
As the sect’s senior disciple, Song Wu had always worked diligently, trained hard, and taught her fellow disciples, all to protect the sect’s reputation. But her fiancé thought she wasn’t gentle or considerate enough. Her fellow disciples called her rigid, strict, and lacking in compassion. Even her master, the sect leader, advised her to be more generous and kind. Heartbroken, Song Wu forced a breakthrough and lost her life. She never expected to be reborn at a time before she had even become t
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I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the 1980s and Became the Female Lead Who Sold Her Child for Food 穿书八零：我成了卖儿换粮的女配
[Reading Guide: Period Setting + Transmigrate into a Book + Adorable Kids + System + Business] Jiang Zhi is fabulously wealthy and an excellent cook, the very picture of a winner in life. Jiang Zhizi has fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs, but a terrible reputation and barely a penny to her name. Her one redeeming quality: she can have children. Jiang Zhi transmigrates into a book and becomes Jiang Zhizi. Jiang Zhi: Eyes wide in shock! What? Jiang Zhizi forced herself on a man? What? Jiang
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Quick Transmigration: The Sharp-Tongued Bigshot Starts by Taking Out the Scum 快穿：嘴炮大佬开局直接灭渣
[Strong heroine, satisfying revenge, romance] Lin Ran, a master of sharp-tongued comebacks, becomes a cannon-fodder female supporting character. Original male lead: You wicked woman, I’ll never fall for you. Lin Ran: What kind of brainless, freakish hybrid fish are you? Get away from me. When did I ever say I liked you? With logic like that, does your gut connect straight to your brain? The original male lead is dead! Lin Ran: Want to challenge me? Better protect your horse first [smile]
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The Beloved Little Princess Shocks the Court with Her Secret Identity 团宠小公主马甲震惊朝野
Warning: This is an imaginative novel, so don’t compare it with history or try to connect it to real events! If that bothers you, please move along!!!!! [Cute baby + No romance for the heroine + Coming-of-age story. Not an adult soul transmigrating into a child! She’ll grow stronger later and return to the celestial realm.] A little qilin baby who hasn’t yet developed her intelligence falls from heaven to the mortal world while playing. As it turns out, this is a tribulation written in her fate:
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Quick Transmigration: The Commander Only Wants to Go Home 快穿之指挥官她只想回家
[No CP + patriotism + strong female lead + slice of life] Important!!! This is not a typical quick transmigration story. It’s very long! Especially after she returns to her own world! If that bothers you, don’t read it! ❀❀❀❀❀ Chen Aoxue was an interstellar commander who met an unexpected death at the jaws of the Zerg. Just as her soul was about to dissipate, the deeply unfortunate System 017 came scampering over to bind itself to her. For a long time afterward, she carried out missions in variou
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Reborn: The Icy Big Shot Wants to Give Me His Life 重生后，冷冰冰的大佬要把命给我
[A heroine who sets off heavenly lightning like fireworks and kicks the Ghost King’s head around like a ball vs. an obsessive, possessive, lovesick hero] Everyone says Third Master Lu is cursed, bringing death to his wives. He’s the living King of Hell, someone the entire capital’s elite circle avoids. Women who get close to him are either struck by bad luck or lose their lives. That is, until a soft, sweet little girl appears at his side, constantly asking for cuddles and following him around l
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I Went Viral After Reporting My Adoptive Parents 举报养父母后我爆红网络
(Reborn + System + Cherished by Everyone + Serving the Nation + Sweet Romance + Strong Female Lead + Romance) An Ran is reborn one year in the past and bound to a mission System. In this life, her adoptive parents haven’t sold her yet! When her birth parents show up, the System actually tells her to report her adoptive parents. Fine! With her memories restored, An Ran reports the people who abducted and raised her on the spot. She never expected someone to expose the incident online, making her
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The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵，一身反骨离大谱
They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment
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The Actress Queen Can Read Fortunes! And She's Fair-Skinned, Beautiful, and Long-Legged 影后她会算命！还肤白貌美大长腿
[Ridiculous + mysticism + wish fulfillment + adored by all + 1v1] The Dragon Clan's princess, Chu Yanxi, transmigrates after undergoing a trial and becomes a notorious, much-maligned celebrity in the entertainment industry? She joins a survival variety show, and her suona rendition of “Zhu Bajie Carries His Bride” goes viral across the internet. During a live performance, a hater shouts, “Chu Yanxi, you talentless pretty face! You're useless!” Chu Yanxi: “Who says I can't do anything? Let me rea
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The Max-Level Expert Transmigrates into a Book and Crushes the Secret Identity Novel's Heroine 满级大佬穿书后完爆马甲文女主
[Dual transmigration into a book + Exposing Each Other's Secret Identities + Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment + Supporting Character Takes Down the Female Lead] Lin Yingzhuo transmigrated into a book about secret identities and became the original heroine's fake-sweetheart older sister. The original heroine had countless secret identities and was the beloved goddess of the whole story, both cool and dazzling. Lin Yingzhuo's mission was to expose all of the heroine's secret identities and become friend
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