Looking for Books That Are a Bit More Normal: No Over-the-Top Drama, Heartbreak, or Idiotic Characters 求几本正常点的书，不狗血不虐心不降智
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Rule Horror: I Can Foresee Death 规则怪谈：我能预见死亡
[Original Scenarios + Foreknowledge of Death + Deduction + National Fortune + Live Broadcast + Suspense + Horror] Supernatural tales descend, and the bizarre invades. One person in each country will be chosen as the lucky contestant, entering countless Rule Horror worlds where all manner of horrors lurk. Clear the scenario, and your country will earn a brief respite! Fail, and the rules descend upon a city, bringing disaster and leaving countless people dead or grieving! This time, Su Li is chos
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Magic? No, What’s Coming at Us Is a Steel Tide 魔法？不，迎面而来的是钢铁洪流
[Also known as: Give the Other World a Taste of an Overwhelming Steel Tide!] [Another World + Empress + Industrial Revolution + Technology + Farming + Conquest + Steel Tide] Qin Mo transmigrates to another world and becomes the regent of Yan, on the Eastern Continent. The reigning empress lacks ability, treacherous officials cause trouble within, and powerful nations encroach from without. People throughout the country are suffering terribly. The Western Magic Empire, the Northern Orc Empire, an
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Fleeing with the Summer Breeze 携夏风出逃
[From secret crush to mutual love + both pursue each other + healing and redemption + slow-burn romance + light ensemble cast] When she was fifteen, a boy swept into Si Qing’s world without warning, carried on the orange-gold summer breeze. Qi Fang came from one of the most illustrious families in the capital. With the carefree air of a playboy, he seemed to never let his gaze linger on anyone. When she started university, a video of Si Qing speaking as the freshman representative was posted to
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My Archrival Is So Arrogant? One Kiss and They Blush! 死对头很狂？这不一亲就脸红吗？
[Rebirth / sweet romance / sworn rivals / mutual flirting / push and pull] In his previous life, Shen Yu always treated his arranged-marriage partner, Xie Yanzhou, as his sworn enemy. But when everyone turned against him, only Xie Yanzhou cared for him tirelessly and cherished him like the most precious thing in the world. After Shen Yu died, Xie Yanzhou avenged him and perished in a sea of flames. * He returned to the day he and his sworn enemy confirmed their engagement. Shen Yu kicked the sch
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The System Wants Me to Win Over the Male Lead, but I'd Rather Be with the Villain 系统让我攻略男主，我偏和反派好
[Two Male Leads] [Mutual Devotion] [Satisfying Romance] [Intense Push and Pull] [Marriage Before Love] [Showbiz] [Spoiled, Unhinged Bottom x Possessive Top Even More Unhinged Than Him] Ji Xiao transmigrates into a book. It's an old-school, melodramatic angst novel, crammed with tired tropes: real and fake young masters, a substitute for the beloved first love, and a torturous romance. When the original male lead bottom runs away, the System makes him take over the role and continue pursuing the
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Reborn, I Cling to the Stern and Cold Master Bo 重生后缠上肆冷薄爷
In his previous life, Qi Yu was the fake young master mistakenly switched at birth with the real heir to the Qi family. Desperate not to lose the family affection he thought he had, he met a tragic end. After his death, the man he had tried so hard to escape avenged him, then died alongside him for love. After being reborn, Qi Yu cleared his head of all that nonsense, threw away the so-called family ties, and clung to the cold, obsessive man, vowing never to leave him. The clueless people around
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The Aloof Beauty Who Knows How to Act Spoiled 清冷美人超会撒娇的
[Two male leads, 36 and 19, love at first sight, both devoted to each other, Book 1 of a trilogy] A steady, strict, doting, fatherly top meets a beautiful bottom who seems cool and aloof to others but is soft and sweet with him. ⚠️Seventeen-year age gap! Ji Jinbai is a sophomore in the fine arts department at Qingcheng University. Cool, elegant, and beautiful, with a flawless, delicate face, he is like a bright moon in the night sky. He didn’t think about falling in love until the day he met tha
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After Dumping a Psychotic Alpha, He Turned Dark and Begged Me to Take Responsibility 渣了疯批A后，他黑化求负责
[Two male leads + both virgins + sweet romance + healing + unhinged villain + confinement + lovers reunited] Chi Yuan transmigrated into a dogblood novel as a cannon-fodder omega pretending to be an alpha. The moment he opened his eyes, he found his villainous roommate throttling him. He had two choices: get strangled to death or clear the villain’s corruption score and redeem him. Chi Yuan: Was there even a choice? To stay alive and get home, Chi Yuan worked diligently all year round, successfu
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Crazy Couple Showering Each Other with Sugar! This Dating Show Is a Blast! 癫公撒糖！就这个恋综爽！
[Two Male Leads + SC + Dating Show + Secret Marriage, Hilarious, Sweet and Satisfying] [Goofy, Money-Grubbing Celebrity Omega × Abstinent, Domineering Enigma Big Shot] Su Chi, a broke office drone, had barely transmigrated when his secret husband showered him with ten million yuan. Su Chi immediately clung to his sugar daddy's leg and called him Daddy. “I’m going to haunt you like a ghost for the rest of your life!” Not only had he landed in an Omega's body by sheer bad luck, but he was also bei
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Ridiculous! The Top Alpha Is Pretending to Be Good Again 离谱！顶级Alpha又在装乖
[ABO, two male leads + both are each other’s first and only + marriage first, love later + contractual marriage] [Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted tough guy bottom × unhinged, clingy, scheming green-tea top who can transform] Shen Yan was admitted to the Interstellar Federation Academy with the highest score on Blue Star. He’s a handsome, capable Beta. Even more enviable, he has a beautiful, sweet Omega wife, Lu Li. Yet Shen Yan keeps insisting on a divorce. After all, he’s the only one who knows
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There’s No End to Learning, but First This Fox Is Going Pro in Esports 学习永无止境，狐狸先打电竞
[Completed. Some mistakes can’t be fixed, so follow the later chapters. Some details are author’s inventions.] Flirty, sly, black-sesame-filled tangyuan top x absentminded, aloof bottom who turns shy when he zones out Zhou Xinglan x Qi Suishi A former powerhouse esports team returned for the new season with a star-studded roster. Two players stood out the most: Zhou Xinglan, a veteran making a comeback who had once been the top jungler on the Chinese server, and a rookie. The first time the rook
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After My Thoughts Were Exposed, the Possessive CEO Forced Me to Love Him 泄露心声后被偏执总裁强制爱了
[Two Male Leads | Eavesdropping on Inner Thoughts | Silly, Sweet Romance] Xiang Xi, who spent his whole life plagued by bad luck before dying of cancer, transmigrated into a popular novel as the CEO's vain male spouse. The original Xiang Xi was vain, shallow, and vicious. He considered his comatose husband a burden and secretly mistreated him! But when Xiang Xi bound himself to a lucky System that let him rack up points by cuddling important people, he realized... The man in bed wasn't a burden
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I’m Serious About Being a Kept Canary 做金丝雀我是认真的
Xia Tang graduated from the art department at A University, but a sudden family crisis drove her into the entertainment industry. Fair-skinned, gorgeous, and long-legged, she still can't get famous and remains a little-known actress at the very bottom of the industry. Agent: “What a waste of a pretty face. How come you can't get famous?” Xia Tang: “Doesn't matter, as long as I earn money.” (Oh no, unknown actresses don't seem to earn much. Sob!) Agent: “There's a way to make money. Are you in?”
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Everyone Is an Evil Immortal!!! 全员恶仙！！！
Also known as The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals and The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals: I Have a Temple for Cultivating Immortals [No Angst] [Unhinged] [High Stakes from Start to Finish] There is a rumor of a temple somewhere in the world, with a patch of magical soil inside. Just treat a person as a "seed" and plant them in the soil, and they can become an immortal. Li Shiwu has spent ten years seeking immortality. At last, he finds the temple and plants himself in the soil, but he never expecte
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Keep Sleeping, Don’t Wake Up 继续睡，不要醒
[Infinite Dreams + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Horror + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Bizarre + Romance + Sophisticated] Lin Du has been dreaming ever since he was born. He often wakes with a start in some strange room and desperately flees to a subway station, only to discover that his every move is being livestreamed and everyone is watching. When he rushes out of the subway, he finds himself sitting in a car with no end, where every passenger is horrifyingly strange. The car stops at one st
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Whoever Dares Force Him to His Death Will Fall First 谁敢逼他赴死，谁就得先倒下
This is not a story about a noble, righteous hero. Han Yan is an utterly ordinary man who transmigrated to another world. Other people transmigrate with a System, a wise old mentor, or a golden finger. He got nothing at all and had to claw his way forward on his own. He is cautious by nature and lives by the principle that self-interest comes first. Morality? What is that, can you eat it? When it comes to enemies, if he can fight, he won't waste time talking. If he needs to kill, he won't he
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A Man's Wild Side: Living Life to the Fullest 男人野性，纵情人生
After Chen Yiyang is betrayed by his girlfriend, he unexpectedly gains an astonishing talent for appraising antiques. His life becomes a cheat code, and beautiful young girls, adorable little cuties, and alluring older women all come flocking to him...
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The Five Strokes of the Spirit 灵之五划
No one gets to define what web fiction should be! Within books lies a path to heaven; between the lines are the deeds of ten thousand ages. Three thousand great characters, each taking root; roots plunge deep into the earth, branches flourish and pierce the sky. Where does the mystery lie? Where does the fantasy begin? Hold a staff in either hand, swing blades with every stroke, hook your fingers around a cup, and join me for a drink.
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Reborn in the Tang Dynasty: The Corrupted Legitimate Daughter Is the Villain 重生唐朝：黑化嫡女，我是反派
Xue Wan tried to hang herself, but survived. The first thing she did after waking was hide a pair of scissors in her sleeve. Her stepmother, Madam Zhao, thought she was still the same soft touch anyone could bully, while her younger sister, Xue Ning, looked forward to watching her kneel in the ancestral hall until dawn. But they didn’t know that the body had already changed hands. Zhang Li had spent more than a decade fighting office politics in her previous life; dealing with the petty schemes
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To Hell with You! This Princess Is Taking the Throne 去你的吧，这龙椅该本公主坐了
[Reincarnated Before Birth + Empress + Childhood Sweethearts + Mutual Firsts + Height Difference + Nation-Building and Farming + Epic War] Reborn in the womb as a princess, all I wanted was to keep my head down. The noble clans bully my childhood sweetheart? Then I'll send their whole families to the grave. My dog of an emperor father wants to marry me off to secure his throne? I'll defy the decree and head north, then raze the Turkic royal court that meant to marry me as a wedding gift! With my
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A Career in Public Service 为民官路
[A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic
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My Mr. Sixpence 我的六便士先生
Tao Zhiyue ✘ Meng Shibai [Love at first sight, reunion after years apart, unrequited love comes true] One-line summary: My moonlight is a beautiful ragdoll cat “Love means not possessing, intruding, or forcing anything. But fate has its own plans. From the moment she appeared, I felt an irresistible attraction to her.”, Meng Shibai “My guardian star, my white knight, my wish-granting god, my Mr. Meng Shibai.”, Tao Zhiyue A heads-up before you read: two possible misconceptions 1. You might thi
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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Becoming the Strongest Beast Tamer by Allocating Stat Points 从加点开始成为最强御兽师
[Is this even reasonable?] [I’m reporting him for cheating!] [You call that an ordinary beast tamer?] I transmigrated into a world of beast taming, and my beasts turned into monsters that could gain stats by adding points. While every other beast tamer was still painstakingly training skills and spending resources to raise their beasts, my stat panel went wild After I added proficiency to the [Shadow Mantis], its skill reached instinctive mastery, surpassing all others at the peak! After I added
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Transmigrate into a Book as the Villainess, Only to Be Relentlessly Pursued by a Yandere 穿书之恶毒女配被病娇男狠狠缠上
[Transmigrate into a book + yandere + villainess + female-centered] Shi Yu transmigrates into a melodramatic modern romance novel, becoming the villainous second female lead who shares her name. Her mission is to frame the heroine, seduce the hero, and rack up villainy points. Once her villainy reaches 100%, the mission will be complete. During her third mission, Shi Yu fails and gets trapped in a loop. In the loop, she discovers Fu Yumian, a mysterious hidden NPC. From then on, Fu Yumian become
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How Can Dusk Be So Tender? 日暮何以温柔
Welcome to the double life of a female detective. A brilliant young woman with a dazzling future, she teaches at the psychology department of S University. Then, overnight, she falls into obscurity as a junior employee in an entertainment company’s public relations department. By a twist of fate, she becomes a top-tier star with a closely guarded secret identity. The mystery surrounding her lover’s death drives her to the brink. As she uncovers the truth behind a deadly game, she unexpectedly gl
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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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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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The Horse-Riding Hidden Scheme 走马藏局
Geomancy and the Yin-Yang arts rule the world, while the Jianghu is full of schemes! At twelve, Shen Qianfan became an orphan and was cast adrift in the Jianghu. He grew up teaching himself from books scavenged from trash heaps, cleared his father's name, and pressed on through one Jianghu con after another, setting schemes and breaking them, navigating schemes within schemes. He cut a path through every obstacle, built a business empire, and leveraged his influence to establish a regional milit
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A Delicate Educated Youth? General Zhenyuan: I Love Beautiful Women 知青娇弱？镇远将军：我爱美
At the General’s residence, the imperial edict had been delivered. Xue Mulan sat at the side table in the main hall. After a long while, she said only, “Enough!” After the general left, the maid in green collected half a cup of leftover tea, but did not wipe the table or straighten the chairs.
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A Lifetime: The Lone-Wolf Agent's Gray Eden 一生：孤胆特工之灰色伊甸园
The story of Lin Tianming’s growth from boyhood. Please also read this book’s companion novels, Second Life: The Bracelet Across the Universe and Third Life: Love Bewitches the Mortal World. Each of the three novels stands alone, yet together they form a series, with interwoven plots that let you experience the life journey of “two worlds, three lives” and the rise of the century’s dragon, Long Teng!
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Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生，，之情惑人间
A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be
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Frostfall Snow 霜飞雪
Flowers in the snow, bestowed with the power to cut down flowers amid the snow; frost will sever the feathers and seal the borders with flowers. "Frost in Flight" Circling birds all cast their shadows down, Halfway up the mountain, wind and rain; halfway up, bones. Wild words cleave through clouds and mist for ten thousand miles, Shatter stone to make a ladder to the sky, leap ravines like swimming fish. Crash through nine thousand layers of mountains, Laugh and point as layered clouds cover the
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Transmigrated as a Cannon-Fodder Demon Consort, I Become an Invincible Female Emperor 穿越之炮灰妖妃成无敌女帝
No harem + no formulaic tropes + no mindless plot + suspense + fantasy + Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio vibes + tales of the uncanny + battles of wits + character growth + political intrigue + upright values. The heroine moves between reality and the world inside paintings, eventually discovering the truth behind her resurrection. Everyone stakes everything on a single attempt to break the deadlock. In the nine paintings, the heroine follows the script from her previous life. Can she escape
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