Looking for a Novel About a Protagonist Who Rises to the Top Through Social Skills and Navigating Relationships 求主角靠为人处世，人情世故，一步步走到巅峰的书
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- 1 Turning the Tables in the Civil Service Exam: Climbing the Ladder from the Interview Onward 公考逆袭：从面试开始一路攀登 People's affections are as thin as paper, and the world changes like a new chess game with every turn. Li Xiuyuan starts at the grassroots level, driven by a desire to get ahead. He takes one steady step after another, climbing higher with every move! 746.8kReads9.2Score60.3kShelves
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I Became the Wife of a Commander Who Died Young! Now His Whole Family Dotes on Me 穿成早死首长的妻子！被全家团宠
(A Novel Set in the 1980s) (Military Marriage + Marriage First, Love Later + Transmigrating into a Book vs. Transmigrating) A car accident sent Ye Fangfei into a novel. Its world was a parallel timeline in the early 1980s. The novel’s protagonists were the younger brother of her husband, Shen Zhanxun, and his wife. Shen Zhanxun was nothing but a stepping-stone they used to build their wealth. In the novel, Shen Zhanxun left the military to join the municipal public security bureau. He died while
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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Reborn in the Backrooms: I'm a Top-Tier Explorer 后室重生：我是顶级探索者
[No System] [No characters losing their wits] [No goody-two-shoes heroine] [Carefully crafted and hard-core] [Exploration] [The completed work has a 9.5 rating and 1.95 million words. Read with confidence.] After an accident, Jiang Shu stumbled into a pocket of space beyond reality. In the endless yellow maze, the silent, boundless underground parking garage, and the abandoned, rotting hotel, the eerie levels overlapped one after another. Physical monsters lurked in the shadows, while greed and
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- 5 Backrooms Exploration Notes Backrooms后室探索笔记 [Exploration across levels] + [Rigorous and realistic] + [Plausible plot] + [Easy to get into] + [No brainless characters] A meticulously researched Backrooms survival and exploration story, based on the Wikidot version of the Backrooms, featuring images from the original documents as well as original artwork. “If you noclip out of reality in the wrong place by accident, you’ll end up in the Backrooms. There’s nothing but the stench of damp carpet, the maddening monotony of yellow, the endless 39.5kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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- 7 Your Highness, My Sword Saint Identity Has Been Exposed 世子殿下，我的剑圣身份被曝光 Ten years ago, he accidentally stumbled upon a princess bathing in the capital. His father sent him to the northern frontier to study under a master. Ten years later, he returned to the capital and met the princess again. But he never expected his princely father to arrange another marriage for him. Watch as Wang Quan turns the world upside down! 46.7kReads8.6Score3.9kShelves
- 8 Purple Mist Manor 紫雾山庄 In the Nine Provinces of the Great Qian, the imperial court and various martial arts factions are all deeply intertwined. Under the protagonist's leadership, a small martial arts group navigates the various factions, gradually growing stronger. This is the story of a small faction's rise. 10.3kReads8.4Score895Shelves
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A Smooth Road to Success 一路青云
He who holds the power of the realm while awake must tread as carefully as if on thin ice; he who lies drunk in a beauty's arms must feel as if standing on the edge of an abyss. Zhu Licheng entered the workplace only to find himself in a difficult position. After cleverly resolving the crisis, he started out in a small town and advanced one step at a time, eventually reaching the pinnacle of life. He firmly believed that to rise smoothly through the ranks, one must remember to delegate power whe
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- 10 The Commoner in Officialdom 官场布衣 Zhao Changqiang looks like an ordinary young man, but he is far more than meets the eye, a master of both medicine and martial arts. He only wants to enjoy a peaceful life, yet people from all sides keep disturbing him. To protect those around him, he enters politics, where he thrives amid power struggles… 3.6kReads8.9Score530Shelves
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The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者
(Everyman’s cultivation + no System) Unlike traditional xianxia, don’t read if that’s not your thing. That year, a seven-year-old boy took his little sister into the cultivation world. Then all the cultivators went crazy! When you set out to cultivate, it doesn’t matter if you have talent, treasures, or lucky opportunities. But there’s one thing you must remember: there’s one person you must never provoke. Even though this person isn’t a cultivator at all. His blade is faster than light, so fast
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- 12 EN Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 141.6kReads9.6Score14.7kShelves
- 13 Sword in Hand, Wine in Tow, a Dashing Wanderer 仗剑，载酒，惊鸿客 [Prodigy + no System + Swordsmanship + Lighthearted + Immortality] The fake prodigy: “Life and death don’t matter. If you’ve got a problem, fight me.” The real prodigy: “I want to draw my sword.” “No, you don’t,” said the leaders of the Daoist sects, the Buddhist Venerable, and the Demon Cult Master, trying to talk him down. Across this vast and boundless land, who will determine its fate? I have a sword, its white blade stained red by the mortal world. A vast and magnificent sky stretches a 16.8kReads8.2Score1.4kShelves
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Zhang Sangou’s Get-Rich Journal 张三狗发财笔记
A comedy novel with absolutely no pretensions. A poor boy from the mountains refuses to settle for an ordinary life and ventures out into the world, carving out a place for himself through his own efforts. The cast of bizarre characters will have you laughing out loud. It gets more and more exciting as it goes. San Gou grows more mature and more cunning, with more and more schemes brewing in his head. In the end, he makes it! He becomes a billionaire. His journey is a whirlwind of chaos and laug
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- 15 Reborn as a Simpleton, I Became a Billionaire by Collecting Scrap 重生二傻子，靠收破烂成亿万富豪 A ninety-three-year-old man from another timeline transmigrates to 1982. His soul takes up residence in the body of a high school student nicknamed Ersha, or “Second Fool.” The student is known as the king of repeaters. At twenty-three, he is still in high school. The original owner of the body, Wu Dazhi, was nicknamed Gouzi as a child. Despite his towering build and weight of over two hundred pounds, he was timid by nature and afraid of trouble. People bullied him constantly, but he never dared 10.9kReads6.3Score863Shelves
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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Xuanhuan: The Villainous Senior Brother? No, the Heavenly Venerable 玄幻：反派大师兄？不，是天尊
The protagonist, Mu Ge, transmigrates into a book and becomes its major early-game villain. He expects to become nothing more than experience points for the Chosen One, but then he awakens a System. “Heh heh heh, now that I have a System, it’s anyone’s guess who the protagonist is!” And so Mu Ge sets out on his own path to immortality. “The villainous senior disciple? No, I’m a Celestial Venerable!” Many years later, standing at the pinnacle of the immortal path and looking back on all that had
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Beauty Industry Cat 美业猫
Beauty Business Cat is not a book of empty industry theories, but a "guide to avoiding pitfalls" built from 26 years of hands-on experience by beauty industry veteran An Ci, working on the shop floor. From a small training room in Jinan to a consulting firm in Shenzhen, she has seen too many businesses that "could have survived, but drove themselves to ruin": attracting customers with low prices but failing to keep them, using tricks to make quick money and ruining their reputations, or blindly
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The Dying Lamp Rekindled: The Prison Rose Returns 枯灯复燃，狱中玫瑰归来
Five years ago, she was the eldest daughter of the Qian family, admired by everyone. But she was framed over her family's reputation and charged with murder, falling from the clouds into the mire and ending up behind bars. Behind those high walls, she met Zhao Yi, a woman imprisoned for financial crimes who nevertheless wielded absolute power inside. In their sunless days, they became each other's light, enduring more than two thousand nights together. Five years later, Qian Xin walks out of p
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- 20 My Years as the CEO's Daughter 我当总裁千金的这些年 CEO romance + face-slapping + satisfying revenge + youth + love + the worlds of politics, business, and the military + fierce battles A poor girl rises to become a wealthy beauty, taking on the worlds of politics and business in turn! The plot is thrilling: her secret crush confesses his feelings! A domineering CEO pursues her relentlessly! The political world treats her like a treasure! The business world holds her in awe! The heroine is clever, intelligent, emotionally savvy, and financiall 50Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 21 Survival of the Fittest: Women Choose 物竞女择 Han Jiarui, a girl precisely calculated through numbers, biology, technology, and human-body engineering. Her body-driving chip fell into ruin years ago, and no one knows her true identity... The truth comes to light: a girl who is half human, half machine, and half biological being must survive public scrutiny and the extreme challenges of the apocalypse. “For you, I’m willing to make the whole world my enemy!” A love that spans worlds. This is a story about the human rights of mechanical li 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Childhood Friend Borrowed 500,000 and Never Paid Me Back, Then Bragged About His New Car. I’ll Make Sure He Never Gets Out of Prison 发小借五十万不还，还提新车炫耀？我让他牢底坐穿
My Childhood Friend Borrowed 500,000 Yuan and Won’t Pay It Back, Then Showed Off His New Car? I’ll Make Sure He Never Gets Out of Prison
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- 23 After They Shook Me Down for 50,000 Yuan for Helping Someone, I Sent Their Whole Family to Prison 扶人被讹五万后，我送他们全家入狱 After They Shook Me Down for 50,000 Yuan for Helping Someone, I Sent Their Whole Family to Prison —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Son I Raised for Five Years Isn’t Mine, and His Birth Mother Secretly Switched Our Babies 养5年的儿子不是亲生，亲妈竟偷偷换走我的娃 The son I raised for five years isn’t mine, and his biological mother secretly switched him with my baby 165Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Someone Groped My Thigh at the Company Retreat, and the Whole Office Accused Me of Seducing the Director 团建被摸大腿，全公司反说我勾引总监 Someone Groped My Thigh at the Company Retreat, and the Whole Company Claimed I Was Seducing the Director 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 I Only Changed the Frequency, and the Whole Family Upstairs Went Crazy 我只调了个频率，楼上全家疯了 I only changed the frequency, and the entire family upstairs went crazy 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 During the Divorce Cooling-Off Period, I Inherited My Husband’s Estate 离婚冷静期，我继承了丈夫的遗产 During the divorce cooling-off period, I inherited my husband’s estate 191Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 After Taking In My Divorced Best Friend, I Was Kicked Out of My Own Home 收留离婚闺蜜后，我被赶出了自己家 After Taking In My Divorced Best Friend, I Was Kicked Out of My Own Home 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Three Words Revealed My Husband’s Affair 三个字，让我发现老公出轨 Three words were all it took to make me discover my husband’s affair 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 After My Husband Died, His Younger Brother Took Over My Home. The Demolition Notice Drove Him Mad 丈夫死后小叔霸占我家，拆迁公告让他疯了 After My Husband Died, His Younger Brother Took Over My Home. The Demolition Notice Drove Him Mad 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Fired at the Annual Gala, I Name My Price to Fix My Boss's Broken Machine 年会被辞，我开天价修废老板的机器 Fired at the annual meeting, I name my price to fix my deadbeat boss's machine 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Came Home for New Year’s Eve and Got Hit with a False Sex Scandal, But I’m Here to Invest! 大年夜回乡被造黄谣，可我是来投资的啊 I Went Back to My Hometown on New Year’s Eve and Got Hit with a Sex Rumor, but I Was There to Invest! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Three Years as the Top Salesperson, Yet You Took My Entire Year-End Bonus 三年销冠，你却把我年终奖扣光 Three Years as the Top Salesperson, and You Withheld My Entire Year-End Bonus 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I Scammed Free Care from a Psychiatric Hospital and Brought Down Its Insurance Fraud Ring 白嫖精神病院，我把骗保黑窝掀了 I Took Advantage of a Psychiatric Hospital and Exposed Its Insurance Scam 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 My Neighbor Says My Red Wine-Colored Slip Dress Is Distracting Her Son from His Graduate Exams 邻居说我晒酒红色吊带裙影响她儿子考研 My Neighbor Says Hanging Out My Wine-Red Slip Dress Is Distracting Her Son from His Grad School Entrance Exams 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Why Should Adults Have to Choose? You Wouldn’t Understand How I Have Fun 成年人做什么选择，姐的快乐你不懂 Why should grown women have to choose? You wouldn't understand what makes me happy. 1.5kReads—Score—Shelves
- 37 A Scumbag Wants to Marry for My Money? I’ll Leave Him Penniless! 渣男想吃绝户？我让他倾家荡产！ That scumbag wants to marry into my family and take everything? I’ll leave him penniless! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Transmigrated into a Book as a Terminally Ill Side Character. I Faked My Death and Ran, and Now My Ex-Husband Has Gone Mad 穿书绝症女配？我假死跑路，前夫疯了 Transmigrated into a Book as a Terminally Ill Villainess? I Faked My Death and Ran Away, and My Ex-Husband Went Mad 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 I Kicked the Scumbag to the Curb! On New Year’s Day, I Reclaimed an Entire Mountain 踹飞渣男！我在大年初一收回了整座山 I Kicked the Scumbag to the Curb! On New Year’s Day, I Reclaimed the Entire Mountain 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 I Spent 30 Days Winning Over a CEO, Only to Get Swindled Out of 9 Million 攻略霸总30天，我反被套900万 I Spent 30 Days Winning Over a CEO, Then He Fleeced Me for 9 Million 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Warfire Illuminates the Demoness: I’ll Make the Tyrant Pay in Blood 烽火照妖姬：我让暴君血债血偿 War Flames Illuminate the Enchantress: I’ll Make the Tyrant Pay in Blood 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Duke's Bastard Daughter 国公府的庶女
A concubine-born daughter of a powerful family, she lived cautiously under the thumb of her ruthless stepmother, concealing both her talents and her stunning beauty. After her birth mother was murdered and her younger sister turned against her, she resolved to take revenge and make her stepmother experience the pain of losing a loved one. The aging general's low-born son, born to a concubine, was framed by his stepmother and plunged into an abyss of misery. He forged himself into a man of steel,
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- 43 The Concubine’s Wild Reign 庶女狂后 A modern multinational corporation CEO is murdered and reborn as an overlooked concubine-born daughter in the Prime Minister's residence. Her father is cold and indifferent, her legitimate mother hides a poisonous heart behind pious words, her legitimate older sister is hypocritical and vicious, and her father's concubines are devious and cunning. None of them know that Bingyan is no longer the same Bingyan! She lives by one rule: Treat me with a little respect, and I'll return it tenfold. Harm 24Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn: The Serene Life of a Concubine's Daughter 重生之庶女悠然 In the fifteenth year of the Yan Feng era, Qiu Yiming, prefect of Lingnan, died in office. After the funeral, Lady Qiu, née Su, set out for the capital with her three daughters, one born to his principal wife and two to concubines, to seek refuge with her maternal family, the Earl of Zhongyi. As their carriage passed the Peony Tower, Qiu Fu leaned against the window, resting her chin in her hand, and smiled sweetly. Zheng Xiu, Duke of Rong, caught a fleeting glimpse of her in the crowd and nearl 2.6kReads9.0Score290Shelves
- 45 The Concubine's Plan for the Legitimate Daughter 庶女嫡谋 The Grand Empress Dowager, who had ruled the court for more than a decade, passed away. Reborn as the unloved, impoverished daughter of a marquis’s concubine, she had no desire to strive in this life. All she wanted was to marry a husband with a short life expectancy and enjoy widowhood after he died. Yang Yue died in battle. After death, his soul lingered on, witnessing the shifts of power in the Great Qing dynasty and watching the Grand Empress Dowager be poisoned by her own grandson. When he 9.5kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 46 The Qin Family's Lowborn Daughter 秦府小庶女 So what if her birth mother died young? So what if her legitimate elder sister and younger half-sisters made life difficult for her? In the vast Qin household, she would fight her way through and carve out a future for herself! She outwitted scheming women in the household and took on a devilish husband after marriage. He let her strike down any god or Buddha who stood in her way! The eldest Qin daughter: “My husband is rolling in money!” Qin Lingfei: “My husband... doesn’t take concubines.” The 130Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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Bound to an Ancestor, I Make a Fortune in the Modern World 绑定老祖宗，我在现代疯狂暴富
[Rewriting history from the moral high ground + cause and effect + unwavering devotion] She loved Gu Sinan for five thousand years. But her ancestor, Gu Mingze, erased all her memories! Fate took an unexpected turn. In a new world, she fell in love all over again with the cool, calculating Gu Sinan... Though Gu Shengwan was born unlucky and ill-fated in this new world, with little affection from her family and misfortune at every turn, she spent half her life struggling under a cloud of despa
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The Lord Guan Clan 关公子弟
Xiaolong's motto: Enter society with courage, and walk the jianghu with honor. Treat others with sincerity, and live life boldly. The story of a young man's growth: the harsh realities of society, brotherhood, a woman's tenderness, the darkness of imprisonment, and the maturity and composure he gains after enduring years without sunlight. A disciple of Lord Guan. Times change, but I remain the same. Stay true to your original aspirations, and you will see them through to the end.
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