Looking for Stories Where Someone Seems Nice on the Surface but Is Actually the Mastermind Behind Everything 求那种表面是好人，实际是幕后黑手
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The God of Deception Never Lies 欺诈之神他永不说谎
[Sharp-tongued, scheming goofball bottom × older, imposing commander top] [Ensemble cast, power couple, satisfying story, mutually faithful, everyone has their wits about them, plot-driven] The leads meet relatively late. Includes mild coercion by the top toward the bottom, as well as voyeurism. Cheng Ling, an elite lawyer at a Jiangcheng law firm and a demon on the debate stage, had the misfortune of dying violently in the street. The three gods in charge of his life and death told him, “We can
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I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案
Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst...
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The Shadow World: She Has No Shadow and No Weaknesses 影世界：她没有影子，也没有破绽
[Female-oriented, no romance, play the pig to eat the tiger, mildly suspenseful, plot-focused, not brainless, no System, not invincible, with several male side characters harboring one-sided feelings] On the first day after leaving the mental hospital, Shen Ming stumbled upon a peculiar murder. The victim’s shadow had been stabbed three times? And the corpse vanished along with the shadow right before her eyes! Worse still, she was spotted on the scene and became the killer’s next target. Then t
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Sculptor: I Create the Perfect Crime Scene 雕刻师：我制造完美死亡现场
Shen Chaoge is a sculptor. It’s a craft that takes skill. Unlike the work of traditional sculptors, his creations are infused with the uncanny… Some people are frightened to death in broad daylight. Some drown in dry rooms. Some freeze to death in the heat of summer. Some burn to death in the pouring rain… I am a sculptor, and a “demon” who walks among the living… I bring salt to death… It is as if someone is murmuring. I’m setting up the next death scene. You, whose sins are so grave, will you
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Is My Talent Boosting My Luck? No, It's Parasitism! 天赋是增加幸运值？不，是寄生！
[No Romance, Dungeons, Survival Game, Talents, Seriously Overpowered Golden Finger] (The heroine seems gentle and kind on the surface, but is selfish and wicked underneath. Her sense of morality comes and goes. She is genuinely evil and will parasitize both good and bad people. If you can’t accept that, don’t read on.) (The dungeons include supernatural horrors, rules-based challenges, natural disasters, and more.) On May 1, 3088, an unknown force dragged the entire Blue Star into a survival gam
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National Fate: Starting with Nawa, I Make Up for Past Regrets 国运：从拿瓦开始弥补遗憾
[Instances now open: Armor Hero: Lava (3-130) → The Legend of the Seven Swords (131-320) → Armor Hero: Shadow and Light (327-ongoing) → The Legend of Sword and Fairy 4 (outline in progress) →] Reborn in a world caught up in a national destiny war, Yun Gui is expressionless. He has no regrets and never planned to keep living. When Yun Gui looks up and sees the live broadcast projection covering the sun, he too is chosen, becoming one of the destined contestants in a new round of national destiny
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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My Stand Ability Is Staircase Manipulation 我的替身能力是操控楼梯
[Complete] [No Permission Requested from Marujie] [The first few chapters explain the setting for readers who have never read JoJo. Once the fighting starts, the story picks up the pace, with every event tightly connected.] [This work may contain disturbing content] [If you cannot handle dark and cruel stories, proceed with extreme caution!] While reading the comments, I came across someone saying, "I get it. Dio's Stand ability is controlling stairs!" It cracked me up, and gave me an idea. A Ch
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Asakura, Saint on the Outside, Demon on the Inside 外圣内魔的浅仓同学
After nine lives of wickedness, can you do one good deed every day in this life? “Of course!” “So confident?” The angel was astonished. “Ha! Look at my handsome face, gentle personality, selfless generosity, and sincere love. If I'm not a good person, who is?” Asakura Naru declared. “So flirting with innocent women everywhere counts as good deeds now?” “Fair enough.” In short, this is probably a Tokyo-style romance novel.
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Villain: The Heroine Thinks I’m a Saint 反派：女主以为我是圣人
[Villain + System + Hypocrite + Ruthless + Cathartic Exploitation + Multiple Heroines] After transmigrating to the Xuantian Sacred Land, Luo Wuchen becomes its chief senior disciple. He originally planned to take the righteous and honorable path, but why is this world full of chosen ones blessed by fortune? If that's how it is, then... being righteous on the surface will do just fine. “Never look down on a poor young man!” This young lord looks down on you in particular! [Good-for-Nothing Eng
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Unbelievable! From the Start, I Was at a Crime Scene 离谱！开局就是案发现场
[The rating has just been posted; it will rise later] When Xia Zhu woke up, she had become the prime suspect in a dismemberment case, and the victim's head was in her refrigerator. She was the unluckiest person alive! While others panicked and rushed to prove their innocence, she stayed at the crime scene to examine the details. Drawing on her forensic expertise, she pieced together the clues, investigated the inconsistencies, cleared her name, and helped the police identify the real culprit. Sh
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Against the Meridians: Liar, Stop! 逆经：骗子住手
[Original novel for the animated series This Taoist Is Not Quite Right] Life is unpredictable. The fit thrive under Heaven's law, Those skilled in force become generals, those skilled in strategy become kings. Born into the lowest of professions, he refuses to live like a nobody, He waves the yin-yang banner and sees through the Six Lines of Divination. Watch him play at being a spirit medium, watch him swindle and deceive, Watch him make ruthless decisions, watch him rise like a hidden dragon f
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Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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The Villainess Awakens and Slaughters Her Way Through the World, Defying Heaven 恶人女主觉醒杀疯天下毁天道
Content warning: The heroine is a madwoman who holds grudges and is ruthless. (The story is entirely fictional. Don’t take it seriously, and it doesn’t represent the author’s values.) Only after being reborn for the third time did Ye Sangning learn that she was merely an NPC in a game, doomed to die the same miserable death in every life. Her loving parents, devoted older brother, and infatuated fiancé were all targeted by the woman chosen by the System. After that woman appeared, everyone who h
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The Manga Prophecy Murder Case 漫画预言杀人事件
[Comic artist X avenger] A flop comic Chen He had abandoned three years ago suddenly went viral because it had predicted a murder. Netizens trembled in the comic's comments: [Have you seen the news? Why is this scene exactly like what they're showing on TV?!] [Am I seeing things? They only just found the body, but the comic was published three years ago!] [How did the artist come up with a burial site like that? What are the odds?] [I have a pretty wild theory...] [Could the author actually be t
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Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生
[Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t
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Harry Potter: I Pull the Strings of the Malfoy Family HP：我幕后执掌马尔福家族
The rating is new and will rise later. [Next Generation + Original Generation] [Beloved by All + Growing Heroine + Genius Powerhouse + Top Student + Original Female Lead Transmigrates + Defying Fate] [Former titles: "HP: In the Name of the Family," "HP: Transmigrated as Draco's Younger Sister: I Secretly Take Control of the Malfoy Family," and "HP: The Mobius Loop"] After transmigrating as Alice Malfoy, Draco's fraternal twin sister, a brilliant top student with a strong will and remarkable cour
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Quick Transmigration: The White Lotus Root and the System 快穿之白莲藕和系统
[Quick Transmigration] [golden finger] [Alternate Universe] [Romance] [Ancient] [Modern] [Period] Legend has it that Bai Lianou was an ordinary fairy in the Heavenly Court. One day, she was reincarnated in the mortal world. From then on, Bai Lianou embarked on a grand and fantastical journey through countless lives… Over the long years, Bai Lianou was reborn as all sorts of people: a commoner’s daughter, a fashionable modern woman, an elegant beauty of classical charm, and even a fearless warrio
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- 69 Transmigrating to an Ancient World 穿越到古代世界 Transmigrated to an Ancient World 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Starting with Qian Meili, I Lose My Way to Becoming the Richest Man 亏成首富从钱美丽开始 How to Lose Money Your Way to Becoming the Richest Man, Starting with Qian Meili 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 I Transmigrated and Got a System 穿越从得到系统开始 Transmigrating Begins with Getting a System 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Villain: The Protagonist Sells His Kidney Just to Fund the Villain's Extravagance 反派：主角卖肾，只为供反派挥霍 My new work is out! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 63Reads5.5Score—Shelves
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Lost Love 失去爱
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Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生，我靠死了吗系统杀疯了
[Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h
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The Lanterns Shone Like Day on Last Year's Lantern Festival 去年元夜灯如昼
[Amnesiac Grand Princess × Cold-Faced Court Official | Escape from the Imperial Mausoleum | Palace Intrigue and Political Scheming | Mutual Redemption] A great fire turns her from the most honored princess of the Li Song dynasty into a palace maid assigned to guard the Yanyang Imperial Mausoleum, someone everyone avoids. She has forgotten who she is and everything she once had. Her greatest wish each day is to make it out of the mausoleum alive. But its rules are strict, and the first one is nev
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- 76 Scheming in the Capital 京华嫡谋 At fifteen, Shen Mingyuan, a legitimate daughter from Jiangnan, returned to the capital at her father’s command. It looked as though she had come home to settle down, but in truth she was drawn into the power struggles of the Prime Minister’s household and the schemes of the court. Her father, Shen Yanzhi, treated her as a pawn to curry favor with Prince Jing, while her stepmother and half-sister repeatedly framed her. Meanwhile, clues to the truth behind her mother’s brutal death began to emerg 67.4kReads8.5Score5.5kShelves
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I Transmigrated Into a Brothel, So Why Are You Telling Me This Is the Modern World? 穿越青楼，现在告诉我这是现代？
I Transmigrated into a Brothel, and Now You’re Telling Me This Is the Modern Day?
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After Awakening the Righteous Path System, the Evil Cultivator School Beauty Was Terrified 觉醒正道系统后，邪修校花吓哭了
The rating has just appeared and will go up later. [Advanced Martial Arts + Scumbag Male Lead + Hypocritical Moralizer + Scams and Swindles + PUA] The moment Pang Guang opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to Blue Star, where spiritual qi had revived. Traditional cultivation methods still existed here. But ordinary people lacked resources, making cultivation difficult. So most took the path of one kind of unorthodox cultivation or another. Fortunately, Pang Guang awakened the Righteous Cultivat
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At Her Heart: She Plays Innocent but Has a Dark Side, and Insists on Stealing Someone's Man 心尖：她白切黑非要撬墙角
The main story is complete. [Sweet, Spoiled Little Fox + Rich Daddy] [Not a Feel-Good Story + Forbidden Love + Revenge + Age Gap + Breaking Up a Couple + One-on-One Romance + Seduction to the Top] (This is my first book, and it's not very polished. Don't read it if you want a feel-good story. If you do read it, please stick with it to the end, because the male lead has his reasons for what he does.) In her previous life, Anni was an obedient heiress. When her father's company fell into debt, she
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Cast-Off Rich Wife? Sorry, She's a Beautiful Madwoman 豪门弃妇？抱歉，她是疯批美人
[Pursuit of his wife + unhinged heroine + satisfying face-slapping + male rivals competing for her + revenge] This book is also known as Mr. Fu, Your Wife Is Acting Up Again. Three years into their marriage, Mo Lansheng suddenly discovered that her husband was keeping another woman on the side. An ex-girlfriend he still had a thing with, a first love he couldn't let go of, and a whole crowd of admirers. And she was nothing but a discarded rich man's wife in everyone else's eyes. But she wasn't d
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I Flirted Too Hard! The Broken Puppy Is Actually a Psycho Villain 撩过头！破碎小狗竟是疯批反派
Top-tier flirtatious beauty x mad, sinister power player [Two strong leads flirting with each other | Yandere obsession | Rivals-to-lovers disguises | Forced relationship | Secret identities exposed | Devoted 1v1] ● My target is a madman, yet he's playing the fragile one with me. Shen Xi is an investigator for a covert organization. Her mission: “eliminate.” Wearing a gentle facade, she approaches her target, Lu Sichen, ready to strike a fatal blow at any moment. Lu Sichen goes along with her
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Zero-Degree Showdown: Operation Blue Arrow 零度交锋：蓝捷行动
[Mystery and Suspense] [Espionage] [Crime Investigation] [Modern Urban] [Genius] [Strong Female Lead] [National Security] Twenty-three years ago, a separation tore the lives of twin sisters apart. The younger sister was trained by an overseas spy organization to become an elite agent. Sent back to China, she is ordered to assassinate her own sister, take her place, infiltrate Lanjie Communications, and steal the core secret, “Lanjie 9.” Caught between her mission and her organization's orders on
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Ascension, Yet No Immortality 羽化非仙
[No System, no golden finger, no harem, not a transmigration story] [There is no sect competition, and yet it is the truest sect competition of all: the losers will see their lives, sects, traditions, and even their entire races erased.] The righteous path is not as bright and noble as it appears; The demonic path is not as cruel and bloodthirsty as it is portrayed; But evil cultivators are even more wicked than anyone could imagine. Here, there is love that spans ten thousand years, hatred that
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I Inherited an Immortal Martial World 我继承了一个仙武世界
He lucks into an inheritance from an immortal martial world, and all his exes are done for. Chu Ming: The only right move is to keep a low profile! Lie flat and cultivate immortality, put robots to work on infrastructure, and master both immortal arts and technology. With a grand formation overhead and spiritual energy in abundance, he avoids trouble and stays out of sight, quietly stockpiling strength. While everyone else is still struggling, he has already become invincible in his own littl
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Dark Academia Life 黑暗系的校园生活
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