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Oh No! I Refined the School Beauty into a Gu Insect 完蛋！我把校花炼成了蛊
The campus belle bullied me, so I turned her into a gu. That’s perfectly reasonable, right? But as this secret comes to light, more mysteries emerge, and the truth about the world gradually unfolds... Faced with a barefoot glass-skinned bodhisattva, a beautiful Daoist priestess consumed by infernal flames, a cute girl who uses electronic music to summon spirits, a seductive little green tea who charms souls with love spells, a cat-eared girl who communes with spirits through curses, a qipao-clad
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The Puppet Master’s Treasure 傀儡师的珍宝
Ling Tian Sect’s senior disciple (puppet) x Tian Kui Sect’s holy son (puppeteer), top Ling Yun Che, the senior disciple of Ling Tian Sect, was badly injured while protecting his junior brothers and sisters during a mission down the mountain. He had fought a demon king three major realms above his own. After managing to escape, he collapsed by the roadside and was picked up by passing disciples of Tian Kui Sect, who brought him to their holy son…
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Playing With the Mortal World, Paying Homage to Ghosts and Gods 戏红尘，拜鬼神
♦Deranged, erotic corpse fiction [Miaojiang-born eunuch opera performer] [Porcelain doll, Guanyin's face and a viper's heart] [Two protagonists, no CP and no female lead] [Everyone's here for a good time] [Folk horror] [Everyone is wicked] ♦The concise version [Opera Performer] is an actor who sings ghost operas and the head of an ancient clan. He's also a narcissist who believes in chastity above all and refuses to leave descendants. The ghost god worshipped by the performer is a porcelain doll
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- 4 Puppet Shadow Play 傀儡阴戏 In a mountain village in western Fujian, a yin opera is performed every year at the Autumn Jiao Festival. I was born at the end of the Hai hour, just as the Zi hour began. With my birth chart's yin and yang in conflict, I was destined to be the groom left to the ancient opera stage by generations of the Chen family. At the Autumn Jiao Festival when I was seventeen, I was forcibly bound by a red marriage thread and became the seventeenth Overlord. An opera stage a thousand years old, sixteen miss 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score182Shelves
- 6 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 7 Rugged Soldier! From Conscription to Conquering the Central Plains 悍卒！从壮丁开始逐鹿中原 Tomato Search: Ember of the Nine Provinces. The comic adaptation is now online! (A print edition has been signed, so read on with confidence.) [Passionate Warfare] [Masterful Political Intrigue] [Decisive and Ruthless] [A Cast of Contenders] Transmigration is no everyday occurrence. Every step is fraught with deadly danger. Profitable ventures like brewing wine, making ice, and refining salt are all tied to political interests. You either become someone else's weapon, or take up a sharp blade of 205.5kReads8.5Score9.2kShelves
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SSS-Rank Talent from the Start: Turning the School Belle into a Puppet 开局SSS天赋：把校花做成傀偶
[Spiritual qi revival + ruthless and decisive + urban + supernatural abilities + no female lead] After experiencing life and death, Qi Yan awoke again in a completely new world. This place was filled with all kinds of innate abilities and bizarre beasts. From the start, Qi Yan awakened a top-tier talent: an SSS-rank Puppet Master. Before he could even take it all in, his awakening brought a constant stream of assassinations, domestic scheming, and more... Qi Yan: ...What a pain. His hands were s
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- 9 Global Class Awakening: Puppet Masters Are Weak? From the Start, I Get Sasori of the Red Sand 全民：傀儡师弱？开局赤砂之蝎 Chu Tian transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where games have descended upon reality and dungeons, secret realms, and monster bosses run rampant. At eighteen, everyone awakens as a class-holder to fight the monsters. On the day he changed class, Chu Tian became a hidden-class puppeteer. Puppeteers have a low success rate when making puppets, consume enormous amounts of materials, struggle to get started, deal too little damage, and have poor defenses. They've always been consider 373Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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Loot, Shoot, and Escape: A Million Puppets in My Shelter 搜打撤：我的庇护所百万傀儡
(Self-serving protagonist + cold and efficient + play the pig to eat the tiger + quietly amass a fortune + one heroine) The apocalypse's loot-and-escape survival game has begun! Ye Chen transmigrates and awakens a hidden god-tier class: Puppet Master! While others struggle to survive, he summons puppets to sweep through monsters. While others painstakingly scavenge for resources, he lounges around as his puppets make him rich. While others fear death, he kills his enemies and turns them straight
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- 11 I Reached the Pinnacle of Superpowers Through a Comics Forum 我靠漫画论坛登顶异能之巅 [Comic / Superpowers / Forum posts / Slightly glorified character / No CP / Ensemble cast] After An Luo awakens to his true nature, he discovers he’s in a comic book world and is a cannon-fodder character who dies from the start. The consciousness of the comic tells him that the author will eventually ruin the ending, and only he can change it. To stay alive, An Luo agrees. He walks up to the protagonist. “Excuse me, coming through.” He bends down, picks up a female corpse, and begins stitching 70.4kReads9.2Score13.7kShelves
- 12 EN The Sickly Beauty Is the Infinite Game's Ultimate Boss! 病美人竟是无限游戏大BOSS！ [Complete] [Infinite-Flow, Two Male Leads + Two Powerful Leads, 1v1 + Younger, Bigger-Built Partner + Shamelessly Indulgent Power Fantasy + Love-Hate Relationship + Soapy Push and Pull + Boss × Player] [The romance is the focus; the plot is weak and won't stand up to close scrutiny] [Second book in the Dungeon series] [The author's bio is useless. See the beginning of Chapter One and the reviews for content warnings.] [Cool on the outside, warm on the inside, sickly white-cut-black, seductive, 11.2kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
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Formless Tribulation: Cutting the Strings in a Puppet Show 无相劫：在傀儡戏里斩掉提线
Original work on Tomato Novel, an imaginative premise. [No System, no rebirth, no brainless plot, not a power fantasy. Enter with caution if any of that bothers you.] Worldbuilding - The Heaven-Rending Era: A mysterious force tears open the Nine Heavens sky screen. The ink-colored substance flowing through the rifts is called Heavenly Marrow. After devouring twelve immortal sects, it forms the Twelve Strange Domains. - Strange Cultivation: Cultivators awaken strange meridians by devouring crys
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- 14 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
- 15 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 16 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
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Theater Troupe Taboos: The Puppet Came to Life 戏班禁忌：傀儡活了
My master said that door must never be opened. I opened it. The puppets are alive, and warm! But the price is that no Threadweaver has ever lived longer than two years. I say two years is plenty!!!
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A Rogue of the Mortal World 俗世妖人
Xiu Xu from Bazhong is in the mountain city, where he owns an offline murder mystery game shop. He was once a top-tier Werewolf player, comes from a family of feng shui masters, and is suffering from end-stage pancreatic cancer. When his grandfather died, he left behind a peerless beauty with no sign of life. To stay alive, Xiu Xu had no choice but to bring his whole family along, leading a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled relatives as they punched their way through the South Heaven Ga
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Quick Transmigration: The Lovesick Tycoon Is So Clingy 快穿：病娇大佬他好黏人
[Comic adaptation complete] At the moment of her death, Nan Qing’s greatest wish is to have a healthy body. After she dies, she gets bound to something that calls itself the System. It can give her a healthy body, and in return, she has to complete the tasks it assigns. Save the male supporting characters? Er’er: “Save the male supporting characters in stories about saving the world, and change their tragic endings of loving someone they can’t have, growing old alone, and spending their whole li
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- 20 The Puppet Master's Girl and Her Evil God Game 傀偶师少女的邪神游戏 (Gender-bender, no male lead, not a traditional infinite-flow story, System interface, leveling up) Xu Qian had finally managed to get into his dream university when he received terrible news: the girl he adored was about to be confessed to by someone else, and he didn’t even have the courage to face her. Heartbroken, Xu Qian accidentally stumbles into a scene of an evil god’s sacrificial ritual. After a frantic escape attempt (not that frantic), he fails and dies. But fortune suddenly turns in 2.2kReads9.1Score214Shelves
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Puppet Cultivation: Who the Hell Is Going to Fight You One-on-One? 傀儡修仙，谁特么和你单挑？
[System Kept in the Background] + [No Mindless Decisions] + [Focus on Artifact Refining and Puppets] + [Prodigy Rivalries] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Slow-Burn Power Fantasy] The Jiuzhou Mountain and Sea Continent is divided into nine regions: Huang, Jin, Xu, Shang, Zhong, Man, Lan, Yue, and Qing. In Huangzhou, people seek immortality. Jinzhou reveres martial arts. Xu Zhou is overrun with demons and monsters, while gods and Buddhas fill the skies... Xiang Mo was born into a great family in Hu
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- 22 Global Awakening: You Call This a Puppeteer? 全民觉醒：你管这叫傀儡师？ [Universal Awakening + Spiritual Qi Revival + feel-good power fantasy + invincible] In a parallel world, heaven and earth changed, and spiritual qi revived. The sea folk occupied the boundless oceans, while the demon race ruled the hundred thousand mountains. Humanity was reduced to food and breeding stock for the other two races. After a thousand years, humanity finally broke free from their grasp, stubbornly establishing a foothold in the world. A three-way balance of power took shape, and hum 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Wasteland Puppeteer 废土傀儡师 Decades after the nuclear winter, people begin rebuilding their homes. City-states are newly founded and settlements spring up everywhere. The technological legacy of the old world collides with evolution and supernatural abilities, and the ruins begin to stir back to life. The boy Lu Shi walks out of the Black Prison, holding the key to a puppet civilization. His ideals are simple: “Eat well, stay warm, take good care of the little loli by my side, and fix the broken toy belonging to a certain 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Minecraft: I Begin as an Awakened Block Puppeteer 我的世界：从觉醒方块傀儡师开始 [Him + Mustard + blocks + professions + awakening + gathering of the immortal army + MC (Minecraft story) + complete] [You can read this even if you've never played MC or watched Annoying Villagers. It doesn't follow Annoying Villagers; the story is entirely original.] Also known as: Minecraft: Awakening as a Block Puppet Master; Mustard? Him? Blessed by Two Gods, I'm Invincible; Annoying Villagers: HIM Is Dead, Mustard Shall Reign A player transmigrates to a surreal Minecraft world. From the st 5.1kReads9.5Score841Shelves
- 25 A Puppeteer Who Keeps a Surprisingly Low Profile 身为傀儡师却特别低调 A true puppeteer never lets anyone discover where the real person is. Zhang Chi has plenty of secret identity doubles. But Zhang Chi himself is just an ordinary wage slave. All he has to do is stay behind the scenes and slowly grow stronger… Until one day, Zhang Chi discovers that the planet they live on is actually… 230Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 26 I Have Billions of Puppets, and I Sweep the Myriad Worlds 我有亿万傀儡，横扫诸天万界 [Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation] A novel about crafting puppets and sweeping through the Myriad Worlds. The protagonist never joins any sect or faction. Dao-level puppets: Possess the power of a Dao Ancestor. God-level puppets: Powerful enough to rival the gods. Immortal-level puppets: Comparable in power to immortals. Spirit-level puppets: At their strongest, they can rival half-step True Immortals. Mortal-level puppets 280Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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After Entering a Cultivation Novel, I Rewrote the Plot 穿进修仙文后我魔改剧情
Dual male leads, both devoted only to each other. The romance develops slowly, with the focus mainly on their careers. Most other character relationships are platonic. The protagonist is the bottom. Jun Qingling (top) × Mo Yunqing (bottom) Mo Yunqing accidentally transmigrates into a novel, and not just any novel, but one about cultivating immortality. Fortunately, the System gives him cultivation from the start and tells him that the novel’s plot has completely collapsed because its protagonist
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Suspended Threads: The Puppet Curse 悬丝：傀儡咒
A puppet theater art passed down for six hundred years, known as “Silk-Thread Puppetry,” conceals a sinister secret technique: controlling fate with thread. When inheritors of this intangible cultural heritage begin dying under mysterious circumstances, the protagonist has no choice but to return to his hometown and uncover the ancient curse hanging over his family and village.
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Puppeteer: Wherever Lambs Gather, Wolves Follow 傀儡师：羔羊所在，必有恶狼相随
[Puppeteer] [Twins of the Eternal Night: Wolf and Lamb Together] [Elegant Madness] [Dancing Together in a Blood Mist] [Not Your Typical Survival-of-the-Fittest Story; A World Where Order Has Collapsed] [Deep Bonds] [Not a Lone Wolf] [A Rational Protagonist Who Stays Polite, Not a Homelander] [Everyone's an Angel] [Slowly Healing] [I Promise It'll Be Very Heartwarming in the Later Chapters] [One Female Lead] [New Book, Just Got Its Rating. Give It a Try: It's Starting with 50 Five-Star Reviews!]
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Necromancer in a World of Warcraft 异世魔兽之死灵法师
[Warhammer universe + necromancer + apocalyptic disaster + World of Warcraft + mecha space battles] A young man transmigrates to an alien planet. This is a World of Warcraft where spirit and flesh, virtual and real, blend together: a living hell where artillery, machines, armored vehicles, and Warcraft tribes wage a bloody struggle against one another. The planet is ruled by a group of Warcraft lords, and humans are nothing more than “ants” at the bottom of the food chain! Want to avoid becoming
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The Netherworld Puppets: A Martial World Calamity 幽冥傀儡之武林劫
Underworld currents swirl through the martial world. Abbess Xuanji happens upon an ancient forbidden art that lets her command the dead as soldiers, unaware that she has become someone else’s prey. Prince Yongyan, nephew of the emperor, has spent years lying low to avenge his father. Under the alias Sun Wuya, he founds the evil cult known as the Bagua Sect, hunting martial arts masters under the pretext of wiping out anti-Qing forces, all while plotting to assassinate the emperor and seize the t
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The Mythic Puppet Master 神话傀儡师
(Multiverse / no female lead / lighthearted comedy / the Myriad Worlds) In the multiverse, puppeteers reign supreme. Ten billion years ago, in antiquity, mythic puppeteers were hailed as gods, manipulating the universe like puppets on strings. But in the modern era of the multiverse, mythic puppeteers have long since vanished. Their supreme power has found no heir. Now, Level Five civilizations hold sway. Causality technology can rewrite the rules, yet still cannot shake the standing of modern e
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