I’ve Read Over a Thousand Books, but Only Six Made It Onto My Shelf. I’m Extremely Picky, So Recommend Me Something Good 看了一千多本书书架只有六本本人极为挑剔来点好书

1. 1601 逆 Against the Current, Toward a Perfect Life 逆流完美人生 Invincible Against Ten Thousand万人敌Urban3.6M WordsCompleted Reborn in the past, Jiang Hua must save his kidnapped daughter and turn his family’s tragic fate around. More importantly, he must seize the opportunity and be a pig waiting to take flight! 22Reads8.6Score—Shelves
2. 1602 这 This Top Scholar Plays by His Own Rules 这个状元路子有点野 The Foundation of One's Life立身之本Historical2.3M WordsCompleted [Farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + lighthearted] My Parents Flipped the Table and Quit, So I Want to Take the Imperial Exams Too Just as Wang Xuezhou was about to reach the peak of his life, he transmigrated. The good news: in this life, his parents were loving, and his siblings got along. The bad news: the whole family was pinching pennies to fund his eldest uncle's studies. They had next to nothing and were living on coarse grain and wild greens. But before he could flip t 52.4kReads8.9Score6.5kShelves

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   The last book was truly excellent; I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It's a shame it was revised five times before being released, and was almost unrecognizable [crying emoji].

3. 1603 风 Feng Shui Cultivates Fate, Martial Arts Cultivate Immortality, and I Rule Heaven and Earth 风水修命，武道修仙，天地我为尊 Mo Yi Returns to the Dust墨衣归尘Eastern Fantasy984k WordsCompleted (Transmigration + Traditional Fantasy + No System + Feng Shui Arts + Farming + Martial Arts + Pets) My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's. Though Ye Fan has an ordinary mortal's bones, he swears to defy the heavens. He uses feng shui formations to build a sacred land, cultivates spirit medicines with the farming wisdom of five thousand years from his previous life, and uses mortal martial arts to shatter the firmament. 4.2kReads9.0Score242Shelves
4. 1604 提 I Raise My Employees' Salaries, and You Say I'm Disrupting the Market! 提升员工工资，你说我扰乱市场！ Dong Fenghu东风胡Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [The short drama is now online: I raised my employees' wages, and you say I'm disrupting the market] [Business growth, globalization, cross-industry expansion, coming-of-age story] How do you rate the youngest person ever to become the world's richest man on the Forbes list? Economic Times: “The whole world is working for Song Jiang!” Peace Master: “Thank you, Song Jiang, for your contributions to peace. The world has never been more peaceful!” America: “Damn it! China is so despicable! He's usi 52.6kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
5. 1605 超 The Super-Grade Fisherman 超品渔夫 Young Lord Ji季小爵爷Urban17.4M WordsCompleted Reborn at the moment his wife leaves him and his family falls apart, he hides away in a small fishing village. Watch Yin Dong cultivate and raise a child at the same time, charm his way through the flowers, and stir up storms across the sea... 6.1kReads8.2Score876Shelves
6. 1606 从 Starting Out as a Pilot Under the Nation's Top Captain 从大国机长开始做飞行员 A Salty Fish That Can Flip Itself Over一条会自己翻身的咸鱼Urban605k WordsCompleted [Aerial combat + military + fighter jets. The blurb doesn't do it justice, so please read the story!] When Lin Fan woke up, he discovered that he had transmigrated to a parallel world, aboard a passenger plane! The terrifying part was that both pilots were unconscious! Luckily, his cheat feature came online and took control of the plane! Have you ever seen anyone perform a Cobra maneuver in a passenger plane? Have you ever seen anyone shoot down a missile with an autocannon? Have you ever seen a 20kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
7. 1607 我 I Died Fighting Evil, So Why Are You Crying? 我为惩奸除恶而死，你们哭什么？ Huang Boshu黄搏曙Mystery923k WordsCompleted [The entire story has been revised. Things have changed, and I don't recommend reading it. Wishing you all a happy life and a joyful family.] When equality is ignored, freedom trampled, and the spirit of fraternity lost. When faced with twisted, hideous beasts who commit heinous crimes, what choice will you make? Send them to prison to be reformed and given a new lease on life? Or send them to hell? The sun may shine brilliantly. But it cannot reach every corner of this world. Only darkness can 838Reads8.3Score—Shelves
8. 1608 魔 Curse: Shadow Walker 魔咒：影子行者 Fuguang Xi扶光曦Urban773k WordsOngoing A sudden, devastating piece of news. An adventure across a lost world. Beneath this ancient land lie the remains of a forgotten past. At the age of 17, he was chosen by a curse to join the elite fighting force resisting nightmare creatures. “Klein, you are the miraculous shadow left behind by a dead god...” 55Reads8.2Score124Shelves

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9. 1609 仙 The Immortal Fetus Mutant 仙胎异种 Jian Hanshan剑寒衫Eastern Fantasy457k WordsOngoing This is a grotesque world controlled by “immortals.” There are immortal pills grown in hearts, where flesh and blood serve as the soil; bone-ash baby formula made by burning corpses; and rich-blood immortal fruits growing from flesh. This is a savage immortal realm that is disgusting, diseased, ugly, and deformed. “I am an aberrant immortal fetus, an apocalyptic calamity that feeds on immortals. My name is Chen Yang, and I’ve had the good fortune to arrive in this filthy, sinister savage immorta 1.7kReads8.8Score133Shelves
10. 1610 练 Mastering Forbidden Techniques and Roaming a Mad Martial World 练就邪门功法，闯荡疯癫江湖 Super Cabbage Lover超级爱吃小白菜Eastern Fantasy808k WordsOngoing 158Reads9.0Score—Shelves
11. 1611 月 Limbus Company: The Broken Wing's Feather 月计：折翼之羽 Wai Mai Xiao Ge外埋小鸽Anime Fanfiction1.4M WordsCompleted [Contains a fair amount of original worldbuilding. If that bothers you, please steer clear.] My name is Lin Yan. I’m 22 years old, unmarried, and live in the civilian district in the southern part of Nest K. I work at a branch of Lobotomy Corporation, and every night I have to work overtime until eight before I can go home. I don’t take Enkephalin, and I only drink in moderation. I go to bed at eleven and get a full seven hours of sleep every day. Before bed, I always drink a cup of warm water, 8.4kReads9.5Score995Shelves
12. 1612 刀 The Blade, the Eerie, and the Corpse: The Wen Record 刀诡尸闻录 Brother Liang良哥儿Eastern Fantasy682k WordsCompleted What is supreme? To become an immortal or a Buddha, to see all things as straw dogs, all for the fruit of immortality. What is the Other Shore? Half-mad and half-demon, balancing the Heavenly Way with a mortal heart, raising a blade to sing a song of sorrow. … In the thirty-seventh year of the Daqi era, the Tang clan reigns supreme, while immortals and demons run rampant. A humble corpse-sewing craftsman hiding among the common folk has his body refined into a corpse furnace by the "Supreme." Sn 723Reads8.2Score106Shelves
13. 1613 我 I Am Uncontainable 我，无法收容 May Season五月时期Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted] [Everyday life] [Managing containment facilities] (Peaked at 600,000 active readers and has updated steadily for over a year.) The sun burned beneath the deep sea, while roots spread across the sky. Gears grew from people’s bodies, and upside-down cities fell like meteorites. Fang Jiu once thought that these things, which existed only in fantasy, had nothing to do with an ordinary man like him. That was until his head was chopped off one night... (The pace is slower from the start 188.5kReads9.3Score28.6kShelves
14. 1614 我 Who Touched My Novel? 我的小说谁动的 Grinding All Beings' Blood into Ink众生血研墨Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Xue Mo sat at his computer, typing away with great concentration. “Knock, knock, knock!” A series of urgent knocks sounded at the door. “Who is it?” Xue Mo asked, puzzled, as he went to the door. “The police.” Through the peephole, he saw two people in police uniforms standing outside. One of them held up his police identification. “Does Xue Mo live here?” “Yes, that’s me.” Xue Mo hurriedly opened the door. “We’ve found that several recent murder cases closely match your novel. We need you to as 1.8kReads8.8Score219Shelves
15. 1615 诡 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.1kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves
16. 1616 来 Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明，工科生横扫满清复华夏 Ripples in the River of History历史长河的浪花Historical531k WordsOngoing In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves

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    Birds have vanished from a thousand mountains, and human tracks have disappeared from ten thousand paths. An old man in a straw hat and raincoat sits alone in a small boat, fishing in the cold river snow.

17. 1617 工 An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末 Ripples in the River of History历史长河的浪花Historical1.0M WordsCompleted 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. 2.8kReads7.8Score196Shelves
18. 1618 港 Hong Kong Crossover: I’m the Big Winner 港综：我是大赢家 Scapegoat Prawn背锅大虾Male-Channel Fanfiction2.9M WordsCompleted Ding! You have a new mission. Become famous throughout the city? Too easy. You know Wu Song, right? Watch me spill blood at Mandarin Duck Tower. Ding! You have a new mission. Become a billionaire, a legend of the underworld, and a powerbroker who rules over all? Yikes... Should I study the life of Lai Hao or Al Capone? Never mind. New place, new game plan. I’d better get some startup capital first... 95kReads9.2Score7.2kShelves

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    A very good international gangster film

19. 1619 这 This Guy Is a Bit of a Rascal 这个家伙有点坏 E Fo Ge鄂佛歌Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea 67.5kReads9.3Score6.8kShelves

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    This book is quite good; it's easy for readers to get through.

20. 1620 灵 Immortal Path of Spirit Origins: The Spirit Beasts I Raise Are So Grateful 灵源仙途：我养的灵兽太懂感恩了 Brewing Tea in the Spring Mist春雾煮茶Eastern Fantasy5.0M WordsOngoing [Cultivation] + [golden finger] + [Farming] + [Steady Progress] + [Relaxed] + [Everyday Life] In the world of Cultivation, all things possess spirits. After transmigrating, Gu An gained the ability to grasp the spiritual essence of spirit beasts. [Spiritual Source Recompense] Any spirit beast or spirit bird he personally raises will repay him when it dies! [One of the rainbow-feathered chickens you raised has died peacefully of old age and returned a portion of spiritual energy to you!] [One of 159.3kReads8.9Score13.1kShelves

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    These two books, I found them online, they're pretty good. [Kissing emoji]

21. 1621 体 I Get Paid to Experience an Animal's Life? I'm Done Being Human 体验动物一生就有钱？我不当人了 Brilliant Flame Starry Sky璀璨炎星空Urban2.1M WordsOngoing (A slice-of-life story about all kinds of creatures! The creatures you experience live in different worlds. No matter how long you experience their lives, only one night passes in reality, the time it takes to have a dream.) Just as Fang Wen was about to become another overworked office drone, he unexpectedly gained a System that let him experience the lives of all kinds of creatures. He could even earn money for becoming them. Fang Wen was overjoyed, decided not to go to work, and began experie 26.2kReads8.7Score2.3kShelves
22. 1622 直 Live Science Explainer: I Got the Rumble-Rumble Fruit from the Start 直播科普：开局获得响雷果实 Ginkgo Leaves, Maple Leaves Falling银杏落枫叶Urban2.0M WordsOngoing “Guys, take a look. This is a Devil Fruit from the world of pirates.” “Don’t be put off by its bizarre appearance. Once you eat it, you’ll gain an incredible superpower you never would have expected.” A handsome young man enthusiastically explains to thin air. Lin Yuan, who transmigrated to another world, is bound to a Treasure-Hunting System. In this world where the myriad heavens have merged, he searches for treasures, masters extraordinary powers, and stops at nothing to become the strongest 52.4kReads8.4Score3.7kShelves

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    The protagonist transmigrates to a world that merges with countless other worlds and is bound to a system that explains the ability systems, artifacts, and items of various worlds. He finds a Devil Fruit at the start, learns the Six Powers of the Navy, and acquires magic books, Zanpakuto, Imperial Arms, and much more. Characters from various worlds also descend into reality, such as Master Roshi, Mihawk, and Orochimaru.

23. 1623 刚 Just Reborn, and My Senior’s Girlfriend Invites Me to a Movie 刚重生，学长女友约我看电影 A Big Leek一棵大韭菜Urban1.0M WordsCompleted When Yang Chen opened his eyes, he discovered he had unexpectedly been reborn in his college days. In his previous life, Yang Chen had trusted his senior Ye Jiawen, which caused the funding for his startup to dry up and left him with no way out. After being reborn, Ye Jiawen’s campus beauty girlfriend, Su Yan, unexpectedly messaged Yang Chen first, inviting him to a nine o’clock movie that evening. Just then, the God-Tier Choice System activated! [Ding! A god-tier choice has been triggered!] [Ch 11.9kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
24. 1624 港 Hong Kong Crossover: Stick with Crow and Eat Nine Meals in Three Days 港综：跟着我乌鸦混，三天吃九顿 I'm Great at Making Instant Noodles我煮泡面有一手Male-Channel Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted Hong Kong crime drama + System + ruthless action + villain protagonist + making money + Hong Kong horror “Run with me, Crow, and you'll eat nine meals in three days!” “He says his name's Brother Crow. Don't sit at his table if you want to eat!” “Crow's vicious and never shuts up. He flips the table while everyone else is eating!” “Hao Nan, are you scared? Crow can take on the whole world by himself!” After waking up, Chen Tianxiong finds that a dump truck has sent him to a Hong Kong crime drama 20.4kReads8.3Score1.2kShelves
25. 1625 亿 Cultivating to Immortality Through a Billion Practices 亿练成仙 Qiu Guagua秋呱呱Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted [Farming and Cultivation] [Slow-Paced] The demon race rules the world, and countless demons roam the land. Cultivation sects establish market towns, spread the teachings, and revive the Dao. They inspire more people to embark on the path of Qi Refining, carrying on the work of those who came before. Li Yinian, a young man who transmigrated here, relies on his talent for making up for his shortcomings through hard work to stand out among the spirit-seed tenant farmers… 18.9kReads8.1Score1.6kShelves
26. 1626 剑 The Sword Immortal Rises 剑仙崛起了 Xuan Chen悬沉Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted The story follows Mo Wuchen, a once-gifted genius whose talents are crippled. Rising from the bottom, he defeats everyone who stands in his way and eventually becomes the ruler of an entire continent. 419Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [OK][Heart][KISS]

27. 1627 人 Living in the Sixties: From the Start, I Head to Beidahuang to Help 人在六十年代，开局支援北大荒 Xi Hu Tutu系狐荼荼呀Male-Channel Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted On the first day after moving into his new home, Chen Yan discovers that he has transmigrated to a courtyard compound crawling with human scum. He thinks it can't get any worse, but from the start he's sent to the Great Northern Wilderness for rural reeducation! Fortunately, he binds to a System, and every sign-in rewards him with something good. Compared to the scheming and backstabbing in the compound, hunting wolves in the mountains and fighting tigers down below is much more fun! With Chen Y 7.7kReads7.9Score306Shelves

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    It's pretty good; you can check it out if you're looking for something to read.

28. 1628 王 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Qiong Zhiyu琼之语Ancient Romance647k WordsOngoing Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 47.5kReads8.4Score4.6kShelves

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    This novel from the 1970s is written in a humorous style and contains many hilarious scenes, hahaha... Don't read it while eating, you might spit out your food.

29. 1629 废 The Discarded Prince Is Granted a Marriage and Uses Technology to Strengthen the Nation 废物皇子被赐婚，用科技强国 Qiong Zhiyu琼之语Historical1.0M WordsCompleted For male readers: Top scientist Li Xiaoyun is brutally assassinated. In an instant, he transmigrates into the body of a useless prince, despised by the court and bullied by everyone. His start is a death sentence: Lin Wan'er, his beloved and future crown princess, runs away from their wedding in front of everyone. His birth mother, a former dynasty's princess, gives her life to protect him. The furious emperor exiles him to the freezing, desolate province of Huangzhou. He is called a vassal prin 6.3kReads9.3Score693Shelves
30. 1630 丹EN The Supreme Sage of Alchemy 丹道第一圣 Third Brother of Shituo Ridge狮驼岭老三Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted As a max-level alchemist, is it really that unreasonable to eat pills for every meal? And learning martial arts to become invincible for self-defense makes perfect sense, right? The year's breakout hit [No System, genius protagonist, invincible lead, ensemble cast] 187.5kReads9.3Score22.3kShelves

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    These are all books I've been following recently, and I think they're definitely worth reading!

31. 1631 只EN As Long as I Outlive You All, I Can Be Invincible 只要把你们都熬死，我就能无敌 Sour Candy酸宝Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted Cultivation is a path toward immortality, but one’s lifespan eventually runs out. That is why cultivators must keep advancing, becoming saints and emperors to extend their lives. Chen Xia, however, was the complete opposite. Ever since he transmigrated, he had been immortal, and he had also gained a stat-allocation System. For every year he lived, he earned one attribute point. And so, a legend arose throughout the Myriad Worlds about an ultimate schemer. “A gentleman’s revenge is never too late 70.3kReads9.3Score6.7kShelves
32. 1632 凡EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 Master of One Update壹更大师Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 566.7kReads9.3Score73.5kShelves
33. 1633 诸 Zhuge Village Fool, You're Scheming Against Me Again 诸葛村夫，你又算计我 Smoked Wukong熏悟空Historical1.8M WordsCompleted [No System + Not Invincible + Aiding Liu Bei + Neither Glorifying nor Denigrating + Early-Round Conquest + Mid-Round Farming + Late-Round Sainthood] The first three chapters show the protagonist testing Liu Bei with his words. Pay attention to the title: his advice is supposedly offered, but it’s all fake. Fake advice. Volume One: Head north to save Xu Shu’s mother... Volume Two: Infiltrate Xiangyang to recruit talent for Liu Bei... Volume Three: Make early plans for Yi Province... Volume F 20.5kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
34. 1634 弃 Cast-Off Daughter, Substitute Bride: The Women of My In-Laws Join Forces to Win Big 弃女替嫁：婆家女眷抱团赢麻了 Green Duckweed绿浮萍Modern Romance213k WordsOngoing In her past life, four of the five members of the Tang family died, leaving only her. Reborn in 1990, the first thing she did was report someone on the train. Her mother-in-law died horribly in a car accident, her sister-in-law was imprisoned, her younger sister-in-law died in despair, and her husband gave his life for his country. Left alone, she lived until her hair turned white, never discovering whether her family's deaths had been a natural disaster or a human crime. [Ding! Check-in Syste 1kReads—Score147Shelves

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    Her verbal skills are so sharp, it's refreshing, but sometimes she doesn't quite seem like a twenty-year-old village girl, even though the premise is that she's lived a whole life, so it's a good balance. Watch it while you're slacking off, remember to hold back your laughter.

35. 1635 西 Journey to the West: From Stable Hand in the Heavenly Court to Powerhouse Through Relentless Grinding 西游：人在天庭御马监，爆肝变强 Listening to the Rain with Sword in Hand仗剑听雨声Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsCompleted Reborn and transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West. Qin Heng becomes a guard in the Imperial Stables of Heaven and awakens a proficiency panel. All he has to do is grind hard to grow stronger. One day in Heaven equals one year on Earth. At this point... there are seven days left until Sun Wukong ascends to Heaven and becomes Bimawen! 46.4kReads8.1Score5.2kShelves

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    Mortals must endure birth, aging, sickness, and death. But immortals are free from these sufferings, even if they are only low-ranking immortals, it's still a gain. In the Dharma-ending Age of his previous life, even if there were still people who could cultivate, they were definitely beyond his reach. Now, he has obtained a position in the Heavenly Court for free, what more could he ask for?

36. 1636 重 Reborn in 1998: I Take My Dad into Politics 重生98：我带老爸闯仕途 Salted Fish Who Doesn't Want to Work不想上班咸鱼鱼Urban1.6M WordsOngoing A new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 65.4kReads9.2Score4.5kShelves

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    If you enjoy reading about officialdom, you can check this out; it's a realistic novel.

37. 1637 御 Flying Immortal on a Warship: I'm a Ship Cultivator in a Xuanhuan World 御舰飞仙：我在玄幻当舰修 South Wind Awaits an Old Friend南风等故人Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Overwhelming firepower] [Unmatched technology] [One heroine] [No brainless characters] A young captain arrives in this world of fantasy, bringing with him the Xihe, a warship that once ruled the seas of stars. No matter how you fly through the heavens or shatter mountains and rivers, even the arrogant cultivators must bow before the miracle known as “science.” Rift cannons, two-dimensional foils, light-particle strikes, black hole bombardments... Mechanical golden cores, electronic nascent soul 22.5kReads9.4Score2.4kShelves
38. 1638 提EN Logged In Early! How Can I Lose After Rebirth? 提前登录！重生的我怎么输？ Little Belly Fish肚肚鱼Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [Character build] [Health bar] [Horrors] [Martial artists] [Sequence] In 2035, a fully immersive game called Dark Realm hit the market and instantly took the world by storm. But a year later, the game descended into reality. Flesh-eating horrors, murderous foreign races, and paranormal Ascendants brought about the apocalypse and drove humanity to extinction. Zhang Qing is reborn two years earlier and is shocked to discover that his headset has returned with him. So he logs in ahead of time! Rebo 97.8kReads9.2Score9.4kShelves
39. 1639 从 Leveling Up From Wild Monsters 从野怪开始进化升级 Can I Give You My Life?命给你行不行Sports3.5M WordsCompleted The first layer of the nine-layer virtual reality game, Nine Heavens, opened to a spectacular reception, taking the world by storm within a single day. Lu Chen unexpectedly lost his character and began evolving and leveling up from a level-one gnoll? Kill more species to gain new talents! Obtain talent fragments to raise your talent level! As the quality of his prefixes improved, from ordinary to strong to very strong and beyond, his base stats skyrocketed! Player A: That monster's prefix is ove 5.6kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
40. 1640 蝉 The Cicada Project 蝉计划 Moonlight Old Rascal明月老贼Urban4.7M WordsCompleted [Spiritual qi revival + crafty schemer + comedy + meme references + one heroine] As spiritual qi revived, Jiang Bai unexpectedly arrived in the age of the fifth mysterious tide. Everything he knew had faded with the passage of time. The world had been utterly transformed, familiar places and people were gone, and the career he had once fought for had turned to dust. The past was beyond recall. In this chaotic, dark age, order had long since collapsed, civilization was no more, and the shadow of 70kReads9.3Score7.2kShelves
41. 1641 我 From the Start, I Chose the Fist Cultivator Class and Shattered Fate with My Bare Hands 我开局转职拳修，以双拳击碎命运 Demon's Path魔行Urban1.9M WordsCompleted In this age of countless marvelous talents, no one expects anything from a pair of frail fists! The human realm has swords that outshine all creation, spears that sweep through armies, fire that burns everything, and lightning that shatters the sky! Young people have so many options, and everyone gravitates toward the coolest, most stylish, and most powerful abilities! Only one stubborn boy chooses to train the frail fists in front of him. Everyone thinks he’s gone mad! Until the day disaster st 65.2kReads9.2Score7.6kShelves
42. 1642 凌 Lingyun's Journey: Rising from Humble Beginnings 凌云行之起于微末 Gan Que甘鹊Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Beyond the Three Realms lie hidden worlds; within the Six Paths dwell countless peoples. There is no absolute opposition, only a world of myriad wonders. An ordinary mortal sets out on the journey! She breaks through desperate situations, changes her fate, seizes opportunities, and sees through people's hearts. With sheer grit and resilience, she shatters the heavens and defies immortality! After transmigrating, she finds herself in the body of a poor little girl about to be sold. After finally 3.4kReads9.1Score455Shelves

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    A commoner defies fate! While others rely on their special abilities to be arrogant and domineering, he relies on reason to proceed step by step, concealing his strength invisibly, breaking through the deadlock with clarity, avoiding risks with caution, plundering silently, and secretly accumulating strength in desperate situations. He seizes resources, avoids confrontation, accumulates strength, breaks through numerous obstacles, and rises step by step!

43. 1643 中 China's Best Boss 中国好老板 Making a Living as a Kept Man硬吃软饭9k WordsCompleted China's Best Boss 666Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These books are perfect for discerning readers. [Sending hearts]

44. 1644 卿 My Beloved, Through Every Dawn and Dusk 卿是朝朝暮暮 Sugar-Roasted Little Deer糖炒小鹿Ancient Romance332k WordsCompleted Shen Yunshu studied archaeology and had been working for just two years. She loved history, and her favorite dynasty was the Rong Dynasty. A few days ago, she had read an unofficial history of the Rong Dynasty's royal family. Little did she expect that after falling asleep, she would wake up in the Rong Dynasty, sent there by the heavens, as Shen Yunshu, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Prince Zhenbei's residence. She had transmigrated to her favorite dynasty and become a descendant 24.4kReads9.4Score2.9kShelves

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    I read a lot of books, but only a few with truly good writing remain on my bookshelf. I absolutely love these three. The first is "Past Life and Present Life"—the past life was tragic, but the present life is fulfilling. The second book's author's writing is so good I've already read it three times. The third is a campus romance novel, and it's even been published; the quality is really excellent.

45. 1645 浮 The Strange Tales of Mortal Life: Li Longbiao 浮生乱象之李龙彪 Writer Lu Tao作家鲁涛Urban253k WordsCompleted I'm the scum at the bottom of society, the trash you all talk about. I don't have much education, money, status, a house, a car, or a wife. I'm a single man, just some hoodlum. It's not my fault I ended up this way. When I was a kid, I had big dreams and ambitions, too. I wanted to study hard, get into a good university, then find work in the city and become a respectable office worker. But the cruel realities of life shattered every one of those beautiful dreams. Through its portrayal of Li Lon 1.8kReads—Score144Shelves

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    How could I recommend a book that isn't good? It has a unique perspective, a thrilling and exciting plot, and delicate and high-quality writing. Once you start reading the first chapter, you won't be able to put it down.

46. 1646 胭 The Rouge Spinster 胭脂剩女 Writer Lu Tao作家鲁涛Modern Romance117k WordsCompleted Through the emotional journey of Yang Jingjing, a single woman past the age traditionally considered ideal for marriage, the story offers glimpses of every facet of society and the warmth and coldness of human life, exposing the ugliness and greed of human nature. Full of twists and turns, it paints a penetrating portrait of the realities faced by women like her. 1.8kReads—Score142Shelves
47. 1647 归 After Returning to the Garden, I Healed the Madman 归园后，我治愈了疯魔 The Phoenix and the Sunbird Are Both in Flight凤凰和太阳鸟都在飞翔Urban213k WordsCompleted I used to be the CEO of a formidable investment firm, climbing out of the mud of a rural village to stand at the peak of the financial world. Then a scandal hit, and I destroyed someone else’s life with my own hands. Guilt and pressure haunted me, keeping me awake night after night as my mind teetered on the brink of collapse. I’m not crazy. I’m guilty. I resigned from my high-ranking position and cut ties with my past. I returned to the little mountain village where I was born and raised. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The financial tycoon has gone mad, so what will he do?

48. 1648 寒 Fleeing Through the Winter Night: No Witnesses in the Snowstorm 寒夜逃亡：风雪里没有证人 The Phoenix and the Sunbird Are Both in Flight凤凰和太阳鸟都在飞翔9k WordsCompleted Fleeing Through the Frozen Night: No Witnesses in the Snowstorm 1Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 1649 山 Guardian of the Realm 山河守 Sigh, I Don't Want to Talk唉不想说Ancient Romance227k WordsOngoing This is a thousand-year catastrophe born of greed, and an epic tale of two lovers who risk their lives to rewrite the “Covenant of Coexistence” between immortals and mortals. When the calamity passes, the land itself will bear witness as spring returns to the world. 83Reads—Score—Shelves

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    That's it, those two.

50. 1650 天 The Heavenly Bead Calamity 天珠劫 Sigh, I Don't Want to Talk唉不想说Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted Every thousand years, the world undergoes a “Heavenly Pearl Tribulation,” selecting those with the potential to defy fate. They either ascend to immortality or become sacrifices. But the true rules have been concealed through an alliance between the top sects and ancient clans... 260Reads—Score—Shelves

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