The Ultimate Reading Drought Zone: Beginners Stay Out! 顶级书荒区,新手勿入!
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1851
An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末
A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline.
2.9kReads7.8Score212Shelves
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1852
Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海:开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩
(Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke
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1853
I'm a Little Snake, and I'm Going to Live Forever! 蛇蛇我呀,长生不死咯!
(Cautious cultivation + fake invincibility + no angst + no System + daily life) (Guys and gals, please don’t let this novel pile up in your reading list for too long, or the author might disappear from lack of support.) Liu Xiang was an office worker trapped in a 007 work schedule when, for no apparent reason, he transmigrated into the body of a white snake. He guarded a mountain full of rare treasures, keeping his head down for five hundred years. Later, through a series of trades with the moun
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1854
A Short-Lived Forbidden Spell Caster? I Have an Undying Body 禁咒师短命?我拥有不死之身
Ye Lin transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and monsters, where he gains an immortal body. Because changing jobs in this world costs a fortune, he exploits a bug and sells his own organs to scrape together enough money to take part in the job-change ceremony. On the day of the ceremony, he becomes an SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcaster, but everyone around him mocks him. That's because SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcasters have to sacrifice their lifespan or their flesh to cast spells, so they're usu
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1855
The Uncontrollable Player in the Detective Conan World 柯南世界里的失控玩家
[One heroine: Shiho Miyano] This is a game world, or at least that’s what the God of Games who brought Qi Ming here told him. Qi Ming knows exactly how to play in a game world that’s completely realistic. Rob, steal, kill, roleplay, and throw away your brain to go completely wild. That’s how you have a good time! He kept playing until he’d done every kind of evil deed. Then the God of Games told him this was a real world. Qi Ming: “No matter how powerful you are in a game, it’s all fake. But now
13kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
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1856
Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈:我的家人不正常
[Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr
49.8kReads9.4Score6.6kShelves
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1857
Crouching Tiger 卧虎
A hidden dragon rises from the depths and devours all things; a crouching tiger commands the mountains and guards a thousand frontiers! When I was little, the strange older girl next door always asked me to help wash her. When I got a little older, she taught me how to be a real man! Twenty years of flashing blades, eighteen years of changing seasons. The black throne may change hands, but true kingship belongs only to madmen who dare to dance with the devil!
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1858
1979: Meat for My Wife and Kids 年代1979:带着老婆孩子吃肉
[Rural life in the late 1970s] [One female lead] [Comedy] [Slow-paced] [Raising children] Reborn in 1979, Li Xiangdong becomes a train water-supply worker. While others are still fretting over how to make ends meet, he's already enjoying a comfortable life with his wife and children at home. (A realistic slice of life. Each character has both strengths and flaws, and not everyone is meant to be likable. If that's not what you're looking for, please move along.)
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1859
One Little Pout, and the Whole World Spoils This Adorable Baby 小嘴一瘪,萌宝被四海八荒团宠了
[Beloved adorable child + multiple secret identities + resource pocket dimension + invincible backers + farming and infrastructure building + fantasy comedy] “Waaah T﹏T, I’m only two! I don’t want to be the village chief!” “No way, Lord Xiaojiu! The hole you dug gushes with spring water, the rice seedlings you planted bear grain in half a month, iron sand flows from the mountain you opened, and everyone praises the bandits you wiped out... If you won’t be village chief, who would dare take the j
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1860
Humanity’s Invasion Begins, and the Racial Trials Are Underway 全民入侵,种族试炼开启
An invincible body makes anything possible! Today, as I continued down the road of getting beaten up, I once again managed to make it through another day... A hundred years ago, a cataclysmic change struck the star sector! A higher civilization appeared in this galaxy, and trial stages emerged from thin air. Everyone could participate. By using a Star Key, they could be matched with and enter trial planets, searching, exploring, and killing, using every possible means to constantly improve thems
202.9kReads8.4Score18kShelves
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1861
Crazy, All Crazy, A Little Madness Is Good 癫,都癫,癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
371.2kReads9.8Score54.4kShelves
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1862
The Cooling Era: My Factory Connects to Absolute Zero 冷却时代,我的工厂联接绝对零度
A hardware workshop owner fishes a cold, black box out of the river, and his life is changed forever. With his astonishing cooling technology, he can effortlessly slice through divine weapons with a kitchen knife he made by hand. Starting from a single hardware workshop, he tempers peerless materials and forges an industrial legend. This is a story about temperature and resilience. When metal cools, it is reborn. The same is true of people.
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1863
A Max-Level Laid-Back Slacker Transmigrates Into a Fake Heiress and Becomes a Star 满级咸鱼穿成假千金小作精后爆红
[Original Story] [Top-Tier Powerhouse] [Secret Identity] [All-Rounder] [Strongest Female Lead] [Top Student] [Ceiling-Level Combat Power] [Satisfying Power Fantasy] [Goofy] [Hilarious] [Devoted Couple, Both Strong] Su, the number-one marshal in the interstellar world, transmigrates into the body of a fake heiress who's hated by the entire internet and acts like a spoiled brat. She spends her days gossiping and putting jerks in their place, occasionally showing up to work with all the enthusiasm
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1864
Cards for Everyone: I'm a Red Card Player from the Closed Beta 全民卡牌:我是内测红卡玩家
[Everyone Thinks Strategically] + [Cards] + [Heroes Vie for Supremacy] + [Yu-Gi-Oh!-Inspired] + [Twelve Talismans] + [Game Invasion] + [Fishing] + [One Heroine] A rain of cards ushered humanity into the Age of Cards. On top of a building, a young man fiddling with a red card spreads his arms to welcome it. Welcome to the age of Card Masters! The next moment, countless white cards and a handful of green ones rain from the sky. A voice rings out above them. “[Card Domain] has officially logged in
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1865
Empress: The Heir Is the Truly Invincible One 女帝:世子才是真无敌
(Empress, fortune, enlightenment, genius, conquest) Saintess of Yaochi: “He holds the sun and moon in his hands and plucks the stars from the sky. There is no one like him in all the world.” Qinglian Sword Saint: “Does anyone really think the eldest young master is an ordinary man?” Ruthless Empress: “I seek neither immortality nor the throne of an emperor. I only wish to stay by your side, my lord, forever in this mortal world!” Jun Xiaoyao was at his wit’s end. One sentence from him let his em
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1866
Genius Lawyer: I Persuaded Someone to Surrender, and They Sent Me a Banner? 鬼才律师:劝人自首还被送锦旗?
The renowned lawyer Zhou Yun became the young lawyer Zhou Yun. Thanks to his godlike case-solving logic, netizens called him a legal genius. A married scumbag seduces a woman, then refuses to take responsibility when she gets pregnant. The police won't even do anything. What should she do? Have them turn themselves in for the joint crime of bigamy. The police will definitely take the case, and with a confession and a pregnancy, there's a good chance the charges will be dropped. A cook who has wo
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1867
Republican Era: I'm a Professor at Peking University 民国:我在北大当教授
After transmigrating to the seventh year of the Republic of China, Shen Zhixing goes from being a librarian at Peking University to the young master of a remittance house, newly returned from studying in Germany. In a turbulent age of warring warlords and encroaching foreign powers, he refuses to inherit a fortune worth billions and vows to save the country with his pen. He buys the second-largest newspaper in Beijing and Tianjin and serializes the martial arts classic The Legend of the Condor H
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1868
Rise of Humanity: My Players Are Super Fierce! 人族崛起,我的玩家超凶猛!
The animated series "The Stars Descend: I Summon Players to Conquer the Wilderness" is now streaming on Hongguo. If you enjoy animated series, please go check it out and show your support. The Wilds Continent is home to countless races, where the strong prey on the weak. After transmigrating to the Wilds Continent, Lin Feng discovers that the human race is one of the weakest species there. Though they have many people, other races keep them penned up and enslaved. At this critical moment, Lin Fe
38.7kReads9.1Score3.8kShelves
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1869
I Save Another World in My Own Novel 我在我的小说里拯救异界
The author simply wants to write a book, to bring the world and the light in their heart to life! Synopsis: The conflicts and eventual unification of seven worlds governed by independent yet interconnected laws: the worlds of humans, demons, spirits, the underworld, devils, heaven, and the void. A story about growth, bonds, and remaking the rules. (Dear readers, bring your sharp minds! A slow-burn, satisfying read: no brainless antics, no harem, no womanizing protagonist, and plenty of life’s ph
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1870
Honghuang: From the Start, I Spoil the Plot for Nuwa 洪荒:开局给女娲剧透
[Primordial world + behind-the-scenes scheming + wild imagination] Chen Xuan transmigrates into the Primordial World as a little white dragon. His arrival sends the whole world wildly off course... Nuwa: “Becoming a saint through merit isn’t what I want. I’m going to sever the Three Corpses!” The Two from the West: “The West is far too barren. Starting today, we’re joining the East!” Tongtian: “The calamity of the Investiture of the Gods is upon us. All Jie Sect Disciples, follow me onto the Inv
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1871
I’m the System, and My Host Is a Husky 我是系统,我的宿主是条二哈
When other people transmigrate, they either become the protagonist and rule the world, or become a powerful big shot and stir up trouble. Even at worst, they can be a good-for-nothing who shouts, “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river!” before showing off and getting revenge. And me? I became a System. A virtual one, with no body, that can only blabber away. I could put up with that. But! The System’s rules forcibly bound me to a Host: A dog. A purebred husky that wrecks
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1872
Reborn and Taking It Easy at School, I Really Don't Want to Compete Anymore! 重生留校躺平,我真不想再卷啊!
[Slice of life + entrepreneurship + university] Reborn at the moment of his university graduation in 2011, Jiang Hao faces another chance to stay on at the university. He gives up the grueling 996 work schedule he endured in his previous life and chooses to stay on as a librarian. Drawing on the memories from before he was reborn, he originally only wants financial freedom. But as his fortune grows, he ultimately becomes someone others admire as a success!
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Reborn in 2002: I'm Really Not Schizophrenic 重生2002我真的不是精神分裂
[Rebirth in a bygone era] + [Everyday urban life] + [No System] + [No cultivation] [Multiple heroines] + [No yanderes] + [Making money through business] + [Campus romance] Zhao Chuyun grew up with his grandfather after his parents divorced. He repeated a year to get into college, only to discover that his first love already had a boyfriend. With a love life and a family like that, he has no regrets he wants to make up for after being reborn. He just wants to live recklessly for once. If you're r
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世,我囤积了百亿物资
Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war
353.1kReads8.7Score23.9kShelves
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The Scenic Spots He Takes People To Are Archaeological Sites 那货带去的景区能考古
[Already published and available from Taobao, Dangdang, and JD.com under the title A Plane-Hopping Travel Agency] [Changing history’s regrets + patriotic spirit] Jiang Ye inherits a travel agency on the verge of bankruptcy. After becoming a tour guide, he takes his customers to some very unusual destinations. Other guides take people to beautiful four-star and five-star scenic spots. The destinations Jiang Ye visits are either the Qin dynasty two thousand years ago or the Great Ming dynasty five
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1876
I Act Like a Big Shot After Watching Crime Movies, and the Tycoon Begs Me to Save His Life 我看警匪片装大佬,首富求我救命
[Clever mind games + No simping + Pure satisfaction] [Takes off after ten chapters] One day, the bookshelf of ordinary office worker Lu Ping suddenly refreshed with its first intelligence report. He carefully opened it and read every word. Excitement and nerves hit him as he discovered that it contained all the secrets of a cold, high-and-mighty female CEO... So Lu Ping watched police dramas and copied the words and mannerisms of the big shots. He practiced a detached, bloodthirsty gaze in the m
12.4kReads9.1Score941Shelves
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1877
Villain: My Junior Sisters Are All Dark Empresses 反派:我师妹全是黑化女帝
[Villain + System + Empress + corruption + invincible + yandere] [The chase-back-to-win-her-over arc] He transmigrates into a fantasy novel world as the abandoned son of an imperial clan, exiled from an immortal domain to the lower realm. After six lifetimes of reincarnation, he only wants to be a righteous senior brother, despite being a villain by nature. However, The junior sisters he cared about most misunderstood him for five whole lifetimes. In his sixth life, he gives up trying. From then
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1878
Heaven-Dominating Sword 一剑霸天
[A great author's alt account, one heroine, ruthless and decisive. Highly recommended!] Legend has it that there is a realm where one can pursue cause and effect, erasing every trace of an opponent across time and space with a mere sliver of divine power. One can command life and death, make countless worlds rise and fall with a single thought, and annihilate all living beings. One can stand level with the Heavenly Dao, harness the order of the universe, and rule supreme throughout eternity. Thi
324.8kReads9.2Score32.6kShelves
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1879
My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
80kReads9.2Score10kShelves
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1880
I Grow Stronger Only When My Confessions Fail 告白失败才能变强
[System + wacky comedy + slice-of-life youth + overactive imagination + light novel + anime] Su Cheng transmigrates into another world. Just when he finally manages to get into a prestigious academy, he discovers that he has a System, and that the way to earn rewards is utterly ridiculous. So, for the sake of the rewards, he has no choice but to get ridiculous himself. Su Cheng: “It’s just a System mission, that’s all.” But what puzzles Su Cheng later is that he already thought he was ridicul
36.2kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
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1881
A Villain Should Act Like a Villain! 反派,就应该有个反派的样子!
(Wei Wu style + villain + messing with the protagonists + satisfying to the very end) What are we? We're villains! Villains should act like villains!! Lin Feng: “The so-called protagonists are nothing more than ordinary people wrapped in an aura of destiny…”
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1882
The Digital Heavenly Court 数字天庭
A fusion of Taoism and cyberpunk: when talismans meet code and golden cores clash with algorithms, a Taoist priest ventures into a cyberpunk megacity for a quest for the Dao that spans both reality and the digital world. The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. True ascension is not about escaping this world, but facing it and changing it. Shennian Technology Group monopolizes 70% of the global brain-computer interface market. Babies routinely receive Shennian chips at three months old
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1883
Echo Archive 《回声档案》
Echoes Archive
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1884
She Shone All Night 《她亮了一整夜》
She Shone All Night
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1885
Your Memory Balance Is Running Low 《你的记忆余额不足》
Your Memory Balance Is Running Low
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1886
Starseed Courier 《星种快递员》
The Starseed Courier
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Reborn to Inherit a Thousand Homes, Still Single and Unmarried 重生继承千套房,单身未婚
Reborn in 2012, Lin Feng has extraordinary senses and a photographic memory. After inheriting more than a thousand properties from his family, he starts collecting rent from five in the morning until nine at night. Not only does he have to deal with all kinds of eccentric tenants, he also has to match wits with highly educated, brilliant female tenants and endure trials that ordinary men could never withstand.
34.2kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
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Infinite Flow: I Become a God After Giving Up 无限流:摆烂后我封神了
No CP + System + mass misinterpretation Luo Yuejian has always thought of herself as plain and ordinary, with a touch of social anxiety and a poker face. Someone like her would be utterly unremarkable in a crowd and completely ignored by everyone. After dying under bizarre circumstances, she is forced into a survival game. She knows her own limits and realizes she has no chance of coming back to life in a terrifying survival game. As she agonizes over whether to fight with all she has or give
34.3kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
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1889
Love at First Sight and Careful Steps 《一见钟情与小心翼翼》
Love at First Sight and Walking on Eggshells
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1890
I'm Already a Great Emperor, Yet the System Wants Me to Take Disciples 我都大帝了,系统竟然让我收徒
[Invincible] + [Master of Schemes] + [Hidden-Cultivation Style] + [Comedy] + [Lighthearted] Invincible from the start, Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world and binds himself to a sign-in System, earning cultivation rewards and all kinds of peerless treasures every day. While others are risking their lives to break through to the next realm, he has already reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao and become a reclusive emperor whose strength even he can’t fathom. He had planned to lie fla
89.3kReads8.4Score27.4kShelves
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1891
The Game of Fate: This Player Is a Little Different 命运游戏:这个玩家不太一样
Why does a legless man keep visiting a foot massage parlor? What is he after? Why did a famous company frame a blind girl for spying on its trade secrets? A criminal charged into a morgue and shouted, “None of you are getting out alive!” The heartwarming truth behind it will move you. Several people in leather jackets and tight pants leaped from a rooftop carrying gas canisters, claiming they were taking part in Survey Corps rookie training. Experts still can’t offer a reasonable explanation.
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1892
0.7 Seconds 《0.7秒》
0.7 Seconds
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1893
The Golden Son-in-Law 金牌帝婿
[Farming] [Lighthearted] [Alternate world] [No System] Qin Yu transmigrates, and from the start he’s the second son of the Prince of Qin’s household. His father is a non-imperial prince of Great Wei and the Minister of Revenue. His mother is a wealthy daughter of a prominent Jiangnan family. His older brother is a peerless general who guards the frontier. With such powerful connections and an exalted position, Qin Yu gives up on ambition, indulging in wine, women, and song, and reclining in the
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1894
Honor of Kings: The Ultimate Carry Recruits a Lane Monster from the Start 王者:通天代,开局招募边路之怪
[Ensemble Cast + Everyday Life + Brotherhood + Livestreaming + Shameless Power Fantasy + Consistently in the Top Ten + All Kinds of Clashes] Also known as King of Glory: The Top-Tier Boosting Studio, Beating Up the Whole Internet Yang Xiao is reborn in a parallel world and awakens the King of Glory Top-Tier Boosting Studio System. He puts together a studio staffed entirely by top players! Ting An: “Meeting Brother Xiao is the luckiest thing that's ever happened to me!” Han Han: “Brother Xiao, te
18.6kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
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1895
Echoes of 4.5 Billion Years of Earth 《地球45亿年的回音》
Echoes of Earth's 4.5 Billion Years
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1896
Love on the Day Gravity Reverses 《爱在引力反转日》
Love on the Day Gravity Reverses
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1897
We Asked You to Hike Around the World, Not Catch People and Shake Them Down 让你徒步环球,没让你抓人薅羊毛
The comic adaptation under the same title is now online: They Said We’d Hike Around the World, So Why Am I Going Hungry Nine Times in Three Days? [Wilderness survival + crime-catching + comedy + sly tricks + action-packed + no female lead?] From the start, after transmigrating, Su Mo discovers he is taking part in a show called Hike Around the World. The rules: All expenses along the way must be earned legally by the contestant himself. He thought it would be a miserable competition of sleeping
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1898
My Roommate Is an Extinction Event 《我的室友是灭绝事件》
My Roommate Is an Extinction Event
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1899
Don't Panic, Wife. I Have a Tiny Bit of Cultivation! 娘子莫慌,其实我有亿点点修为!
[System + Sign-In + Lying Low + Play the pig to eat the tiger + Leveling up and development] The protagonist, Xiao Fan, was an ordinary Chinese literature graduate who had just left university. His soul transmigrated into the body of a baby who had just died in another world. He became a scholar at thirteen, passed the provincial examination at sixteen, and earned the rank of tribute scholar at seventeen. Then the crown prince selected him to be his study companion. The crown prince, Qin Xuan, w
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Lightspeed Travel Agency 《光速旅行社》
The Lightspeed Travel Agency
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