Novels Where the Protagonist Beats Games Through Sheer Luck but Everyone Mistakes Him for an Expert 主角全凭运气通关游戏却被人误以为是大神的小说
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Rule Horror: Mistaken for a Big Shot from the Start! 规则怪谈:开局被误认为是大佬!
[Rule-based horror + delusions of grandeur + wild speculation + livestream + wish fulfillment + comedy + no romance] Chen Han dies right from the start. The moment he opens his eyes, he is thrown into a deadly rule-based horror game. While everyone else is still poring over the rules to find a way out, he panics and blunders around, somehow avoiding every deadly trap and stumbling his way to a perfect clear. The whole internet's livestream chat explodes. “Holy crap! That prediction was godlike!
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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
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Infinite Rewinds: Everyone Thinks I'm a Big Shot 无限回档:所有人都以为我是大佬
[Adapted into a comic drama] [Audiobook narrated by a real person available] [Infinite Flow + Livestream Survival + Death Rewind + Half-Dihua] [No CP] [The story contains a lot of on-screen comment barrages] After Xu Xi died from overwork, he transmigrated to another world invaded by a survival game. He even discovered that he could rewind time after dying. By using this ability to escape danger time and again and successfully clear each instance, he unexpectedly became a top expert in the eyes
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Cannon Fodder Becomes Wildly Popular on the Forum by Shipping Couples 炮灰靠炒cp爆火论坛
The novel is complete. [CP cultivation + forums + bullet comments + multiple secret identities + possible selfcest plotline + no CP in the main story, every pairing gets a full ending in the extras + ship whoever you like + supernatural resurgence] One day, Xie Yan transmigrated into a disposable character in the latest novel by a hugely popular author notorious for leaving plot threads unresolved. The catch? It was a supernatural resurgence novel! Without enough popularity points, he wouldn’t
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Infinite Flow: Cannon Fodder’s Extreme Makeover into a Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Character 无限逃亡,炮灰爆改美强惨
[Signed for publication][Audiobook narrated by a real person now available] Two male leads + Infinite Flow + Misguided assumptions A good-for-nothing cannon-fodder, Xie De, gets a System dropped on him. He thinks he can finally embark on the path of a legendary hero and triumph all the way, but it turns out his System is a useless, abandoned piece of junk that can’t provide a thing. Shop? No. Rewards? No. Missions? No. Fine, Xie De decides to keep slacking off. But the System won’t have it. Sure
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Posing as a Mysterious, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Man 盗笔:装出个高深莫测但美强惨
"The only Grave Robbers' Chronicles fic rated 9.6, come see!" [Starting with the Old Nine Gates, Beloved by All, Pick Your Favorite Pairing + Slightly Everyone's Favorite + Everyone Imagines the Powerful Heartbreaking Beauty] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At that very moment, my body was lying right beside me, playing the part of a breathtakingly beautiful vegetative patient. The good news: I could create an immortal secret identity. The bad news: the System told me
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Don't Be Fooled by My Golden Finger-Like Look, I'm Really Just an NPC 别看我像金手指,我真只是NPC
[Powerhouse + role-playing + secret identities + horror and the supernatural + people reading too much into things + chosen ones + no romance] A three-in-one blend of three horror genres: psychological horror games, Cthulhu livestreams, and real-world supernatural arts. Xiao Gui'an, a bit-part actor, died, but not entirely. He was chosen to play an NPC in a world of horror and the supernatural. After becoming a ghost, Xiao Gui'an thought he would no longer have anything to fear. Who could have
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Thriller Game: Why Is My Character So Strange? 惊悚游戏:我的人设怎么怪怪的?
I saw the 6.3 rating, but it's fine. It'll keep dropping. |•'-'•)و✧ Once it falls below 6, won't that make it a masterpiece in its own way? The first 30 chapters are a little chaotic because there's a lot of worldbuilding, but it gets better after that... probably. People keep projecting their own ideas onto him. A two-way case of mistaken assumptions. He pretends to be stupid early on, then goes genuinely insane later. Companions? No, subordinates. How Mo Ming sees himself: A low-level player i
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I'm Just a Mortal, So Why Does Everyone Call Me the Holy Land's Ancestor? 我一凡人,为啥都叫我圣地老祖?
[Fantasy + Misunderstandings + Light System + Subverting Tropes + Funny and Easygoing] My name is Lin Fan, and I’m in a real fix. I have no cultivation, no schemes, and no connections, yet I’ve suddenly been mistaken for the ancestor of a sacred land and saddled with the fate of all humanity. This plot doesn’t seem right! “Just as expected of the Ancestor. None of us can see through your cultivation!” That’s because I don’t have any cultivation at all! “The Ancestor’s brilliant plans have dealt
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My Secret Identity Is So Impressive, I Don't Fit In 马甲太强显得我格格不入
[Ten selves, all played by the same person + transmigration + System + secret identities + no CP + mortal enemies + love at first sight + adored by everyone + light ensemble cast + satisfying face-slapping + slight overinterpretation early on] Su Wang transmigrates into this world, expecting to live an ordinary life. But after an accident draws him into a bizarre game, he has no choice but to activate the secret identity System. He never expected everyone to let their imaginations run wild. Secr
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Forced to Be Gorgeous, Powerful, and Miserable in the Infinite Flow 我在无限流里被迫美强惨
Dihua Effect + Two Male Leads + Misunderstandings + Slight Everyone-Loves-Him Vibe Shen Wang takes on a mission to maintain the world’s plot. All he has to do is make sure the protagonist stays on track, doesn’t turn evil, quietly clears the dungeons, defeats the bosses, and returns to the real world. So he takes the blade for the protagonist and steps into every trap. But who could’ve guessed that the protagonist looks serious while secretly being full of tricks? In front of the protagonist, Sh
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Escape Game: I'm Really Not a Murderer! 逃亡游戏:我真不是杀人犯!
[No romance + No heroine + National destiny + Livestreaming + Misunderstandings + Games] [Author’s warning: This is a brainless wish-fulfillment novel with no logic. My writing is average. If you want something thoughtful, go read another novel.] [If you’re going to trash my novel, at least reply when I respond to you. I replied to you, so you could at least say something back, right?] Ye Yi’s [fake] persona: a simple, upright, law-abiding good citizen. After dying in an accident, he transmigrat
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Stop Overthinking It, I’m Just a Sickly Guy with Good Luck 别脑补了,只是个运气好的病秧子
Rating just released. It will rise. [Infinite Realms + Two Male Leads + Chuunibyou Misinterpretations + System + Bullet Comments] Qing Hui has abysmal physical stats but maxed-out luck. He's a natural-born prodigy. He was waiting to die in a hospital bed when a guy calling himself a System took him away and sent him into an infinite-realm novel to complete a mission collecting the uncanny. He was told that completing the mission would cure him. Qing Hui planned to coast along beside the protagon
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Game Descends: The European Emperor’s Self-Cultivation 游戏降临:欧皇的自我修养
(The rating just came out and it's pretty low. It'll go up, don't worry.) [A Game Descends into Reality] [Beta Tester] [Two Male Leads] [Leveling Up] [Wish Fulfillment] [Infinite Flow Instances] As a lucky player of the Earth Online game, Tai Xihua thinks life is a breeze. Even after the game descends into reality, his luck keeps working for him. Beta access and high-grade items fall right into his hands. Even a gorgeous, long-haired, big-breasted man wants to marry into his family. Is this what
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Rule Horror: How Did I Not Know I Was a Big Shot? 规则怪谈:我怎么不知道我是大佬
[Rules-based horror + infinite flow + split personality + no romance + devoted fans + a touch of deification + livestreaming + hilarious absurdity + unexpected twists + instances + System-based progression + power fantasy + negative emotions...] From elementary school to middle school and then high school, Lin Xin was constantly bullied. Someone was always picking on him, attacking him with the false rumor that his father was a “deserter.” The anger, grievances, urge to run away, and hatred Lin
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Survival Game: I Can Actually See the Audience's Comments 求生游戏,我竟然能看到观众弹幕
[Infinite Flow + System + No Saintly Heroics + Survival + Wild Imagination] When Mo Chen woke up, he found himself inside a survival game. From the start, he was on a train! Monstrous passengers, murderous attendants, blood mist that devoured people... Players had to overcome hardships on their own to grow stronger, but most importantly, they had to fight to survive the game. Unlike the other players, Mo Chen could actually see the audience's bullet comments, allowing him to glean all kinds of u
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Live-Streaming a Horror Escape: Everyone Says I'm a Master of Dirty Tricks 直播惊悚逃生:都说我是老阴比
No Harem + Live Streaming The supernatural is resurging. After Wang Hao dies unexpectedly, he enters a live-streamed horror survival game. He starts out as a fine young man who politely apologizes, but gradually turns into a sly old schemer. Aboard the Death Train. Woman in Red: "Pervert! Loser!" Wang Hao: "Just pull the emergency brake and it'll stop." The Woman in Red gets blown to pieces! At the Death Hotel. Vengeful Ghost: "I'm going to check the kitchen. Keep watch here!" Wang Hao: "Why sho
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Infinite Flow: I Save the Protagonist by Pretending to Be a Big Shot 无限流:我靠假装大佬拯救主角
Two male leads / infinite-flow / mistaken assumptions A crazy, carefree puppy-like top versus a fox-like bottom who acts like a powerful big shot Bai Che is a stick-figure NPC generated by the System, bound to a mission to protect the protagonist. Bai Che: “Come on, I’m just an NPC who couldn’t hurt a fly. What am I supposed to do?” But then... Bai Che stares into space, and everyone thinks: The big shot is thinking through the key issue! Bai Che gets lost, and everyone thinks: The big shot is s
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Playing a Weak NPC, I Beg the Entire World to Stop Acting 扮演弱小NPC,全球求我别演了
[Mistaken assumptions + horror game + playing eerie NPCs + secret identities + powerful protagonist + infinite worlds + no romance] When the whole world thinks you're a powerful figure, your only rule for survival is to keep up the act! “I'm just an ordinary college student. How did I become the ultimate big boss in the eyes of every supernatural ability user on the planet?!” Shen Yan wakes up to discover that he has been forcibly bound to the Horror Game System, which requires him to play eerie
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Escape Game: I’m Really Not a Pro 逃亡游戏:我真不是大神
After dying, you’re summoned into the Escape Game? You have to clear one stage after another to earn more lifespan and return to the human world!? Fortunately, you’ve activated the System! It lets you see the key to clearing each stage at a glance. “Escape Game is a game created by a god. It brings together adventure, survival, escape, wits, and strategy!” “Here, as long as you keep winning, you’ll get everything you’ve ever dreamed of! Money, beautiful women, power… even godhood!” “Schemes, ope
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Thriller Game: My Hints Are More Terrifying Than the Game 惊悚游戏:我的提示比游戏恐怖
[Ridiculous comedy + power fantasy. Not scary. If that's not your thing, move along!] A mysterious dimension descends upon Earth, randomly selecting humans to take part in a horror game. Uncensorable horror livestreams spread across the internet, allowing all of humanity to witness one terrifying spectacle after another. Gu Yi is unlucky enough to be chosen as an adventurer. Fortunately, he can see mysterious hints. Following the hints, Gu Yi gradually seeks out the truth, only to discover that
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Escape Game: They Think I’m a Master from the Start 逃亡游戏:开局被认为我是大神
[No Romance] [Early Half: Misguided Adoration] [Livestream] Ming Chen dies unexpectedly and ends up in an escape game. He can only return to the real world by clearing one level after another. But as Ming Chen looks at the levels teeming with danger, he is terrified. Yet the correct moves he makes by sheer dumb luck while scared out of his wits convince the viewers and his teammates that he’s an expert, and they spam “6” like crazy. Ming Chen is exhausted: he really isn’t an expert. Until an une
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Getting Roasted in the Living World, My Fans in the Underworld Help Me Get Even 阳间被喷,阴间粉丝帮我找场子
[Funny and lighthearted + playing a ghost + scaring people and ghosts alike + horror livestream + no female lead + top-tier star of the underworld + reverse brainwashing + misunderstandings + ghostly illusions] Shen Si is an obscure actor who loves performing but has mediocre acting skills. In other people’s eyes, he’s a strange, awkward speaker with stiff limbs who crawls faster than he runs. One day, he receives a script and enters a supernatural film set. Here, his awkwardness is because he’s
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Escape Game: I’m Really a Rookie, Not a Big Shot 逃亡游戏:我真是菜鸟,不是大佬
[Deification + Livestream + Infinite Flow + No Romance + Horror Game Instances + Supernatural] Chi Nian woke up to find herself dragged into a survival game called "Escape the Sinkhole." A genuine rookie, Chi Nian racked her brains trying to follow the experts and coast along. Instead, through a string of mishaps, she became the bane of all the experts. Every one of these big shots had overwhelming combat ability, yet whenever they were around Chi Nian, the "walking jinx," they kept finding all
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My Luck Is Off the Charts, and the Horror Game Is Panicking! 幸运值爆棚,惊悚游戏慌了!
[Horror Game + Comedy] What does it feel like to be ridiculously lucky? Wen Liang was pulled into a horror game, becoming one of countless players. While everyone else was still figuring out how to survive, his sights were already set on stirring up trouble. A poker game where the highest hand wins? Sorry, I’m going all in! The Dark Forest is in chaos? I’ll just spread the light of the hammer and sickle across the land! Liu Xiu once defeated an entire army with a meteor shower. But have you ever
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Abyss Game: My Whole Body Is Covered in Cheats 深渊游戏:我全身都是外挂
[Infinite-flow + easygoing and laid-back + overpowered protagonist] [Your arm feels angry, so it strengthens its own muscle tissue and grants you extraordinary strength.] [Your brain gathers information from your five senses, processes it, and passes the remaining information on to you.] [You feel afraid, but your body disagrees. You awaken the ability “Intentional Haymaker,” and all it takes is one punch to knock down the enemy in front of you.] Xu Tong has always known that something is wrong
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Escape Game: Don't Mess with Me, I'm Really a Rookie 逃亡游戏:别扒拉我,我真是菜鸟
[Misunderstandings + original dungeons + infinite flow + no female lead + plot-focused, no romance] [No female lead, no female lead, no female lead. Important things must be said three times. Some female characters are needed for the plot!] After dying unexpectedly, Su Chen is summoned to a survival game. A bona fide rookie, he plans to coast through by sticking with his expert teammates. To his surprise, several teammates die one after another, and their deaths are closely connected to him. Onl
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My Strength Is All Thanks to My Enemies' Imagination 我的强大全靠敌人想象
[Lighthearted + special abilities + seemingly invincible at first, truly invincible later + everyone misunderstands him as a hidden powerhouse + no heroine] As spiritual qi revives, monsters run rampant and humans awaken special abilities. One day, Qi Yuan goes out to buy groceries and comes face-to-face with a monster. Just as he thinks he's about to die on the spot, he suddenly hears the monster's thoughts... “This aura! He's definitely no ordinary powerhouse!” “Terrifying, simply terrifying!”
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Urban Legend: The Emperor Engine Starts, and All Beings Hail Me as God 怪谈:帝王引擎启动众生奉我为神
Jiang Li enters a world of rules-based horror from the start. He thought he was doomed from the very beginning, but through a series of unlikely twists, he somehow survives to the end. As things unfold, however, Jiang Li realizes something is off. Everyone looks at him strangely. They also keep saying all sorts of baffling things. “God Li, I'm your fan! Please carry me through this!” “Just say the word, Brother Li. If you tell me to go east, I won't dare go west. If you tell me to catch a dog, I
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I’m Pathetically Weak, Yet They Insist I Act Like a Big Shot 我明明弱的离谱,非要我装大佬
[Spiritual qi revival + comedy + System] He woke up to find the world had changed. The peaceful, everyday Blue Star had been replaced with a fantasy Blue Star. Elementary school students practiced Qi, middle schoolers built their foundations, high schoolers formed golden cores, and college students became nascent souls. Chen Xuan looked at his ordinary body, completely devoid of cultivation. Damn it!! I woke up and became illiterate!! Fortunately, as the protagonist, he successfully awakened a s
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I Just Want to Destroy the Sect, So How Did I Become a God Against All Odds? 我只想毁灭宗门,咋逆天成神了
Reborn into the number one sect under heaven: it should have been a perfect start. But Chu Xinghe discovered that his cultivation path was a little unusual. Could he become invincible under heaven just by destroying his own sect? Building the number one sect under heaven wasn’t easy, but surely destroying it wouldn’t be hard? Chu Xinghe soon discovered that it really wasn’t easy. He racked his brains trying to bring down his own sect, but why did every attempt only make it stronger? Countless ye
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Honghuang: I Was Invincible the Moment I Transmigrated? 洪荒:我刚穿越就无敌了?
[Invincible] [Funny] [Absurd] [Everyone Misinterprets Him as a Peerless Expert] [No Female Lead] After an astonishing stroke of luck, Xuan Mu's soul transmigrates to a mountaintop in the Primordial World, right in the middle of the Ferocious Beast Tribulation. He thinks that, with no spiritual root or physical body, his life is as good as over. But fate has other plans: Xuan Mu activates the Invincible System. At first, he thinks it's just a System with a misleading name. But then he discovers i
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I'm a Weakling, Yet the Righteous Call Me the Supreme Saint-Demon 弱鸡的我,却被正道人士奉为无上圣魔
[A fresh take on misdirected assumptions + new twists + all kinds of reversals + pretending to be a tiger to eat a pig + wild fantasy ideas + lighthearted comedy] My name is Zhang Mo, and my family has been dirt-poor for generations. Yesterday, while I was farming, the local sect dragged me off to fill a vacancy. After I got up the mountain, I found out that our sect was actually an evil demonic cult. Even worse, after just one day on the job, they wanted me to become the sect leader. Damn this
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I, the Useless Junior Uncle, Became a Sword Saint from the Start 我,废材小师叔,开局就成剑圣
My new book is out. Click the author’s profile to read it. [Comedy + mistaken assumptions + invincible protagonist] Also known as: So I Was Invincible All Along Li Xianyuan transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation. With no spiritual roots, all he can do is drift through life. The peach tree he planted turns out to be a Heavenly Immortal Peach Tree. One bite gives you immortal spiritual roots. When his master hears him play “A Laugh in the Vast Sea,” he becomes a Saint on the spot.
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Thriller: The Little Ancestor’s Grudge Runs Deep, and a Hundred Ghosts Dote on Her 惊悚:小祖宗怨念大,百鬼手心捧
[Funny + Dark + Redemption + Strong Heroine] The arrival of the Horror World turns humanity from the top predator into meat for monsters. Everyone fears entering the Horror World and meeting a gruesome death. Then one day, a little girl jumps from a building and enters the Horror World. The terrifying, bloody atmosphere takes a turn... The murderous Death Clown personally makes the little girl the braised chicken drumsticks she loves. The chainsaw-wielding soul butcher, a madman who dismembers p
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The Confucian Sword Immortal: Ten Years of Study, Righteousness Sweeps Across the Heavens 儒剑仙:读书十年,浩气荡青天
After transmigrating into the body of a down-and-out scholar, Chen Ning studies diligently, determined to travel to the capital and sit the imperial examinations. It is only when he accidentally touches his maid's fox tail that he discovers this world is nowhere near as simple as it seems! Luckily, Chen Ning awakens the Confucian Sage System in time, allowing him to slay demons and study every day. [You studied the Analects and grasped a divine ability: Purple Qi at Your Side] [You recited The G
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Infinite: After Rewinding, I Became a Legend in the Game 无限:回档后,我在游戏中封神
[Game instances + death rewind + mistaken assumptions about the protagonist’s greatness + second personality + possible narcissism] After dying, Liu Qingshu is dragged into an infinite escape game. From the start, he awakens the [Death Rewind] talent skill. Skill effect: Die enough times, and you can clear the game in a single life! While countless players struggle to survive in the game instances, Liu Qingshu already knows where the way out is. The viewers can’t help but exclaim: He’s definitel
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I'm the Chosen One, So Beating Reborn People Is No Big Deal 我是欧皇,吊打重生者不过分吧
The world's biggest virtual online game, "Lord Era", has launched! Su Chen, hailed as the luckiest player alive, is just about to dive in when he suddenly realizes something is wrong! “Holy crap, my roommate is reborn?” “He's come back as a king from ten years in the future and re-entered this game?” “Ten years from now, I'm his enemy? He wants to steal my girl? He came back to crush me?” “Who would've thought that once the story got going, I'd be the villain getting crushed by the reborn guy?”
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Survival Game: They All Think I'm the World's Unluckiest Player 生存游戏:他们都把我当游戏非酋
[Strong Female and Male Leads + Adventure and Game-Clearing + Ultra-Modern World + Neither Has Been in Love Before + Focused on Fighting] Qiao Bai woke up one day as a game NPC, with no memories of her past, and only one mission after another from the central AI, each seemingly friendly but actually full of traps. She maintained a relationship with the big shot Gu Mingchuan that was equal parts rivalrous and friendly, while dealing with perilous instance missions and the dual identities of pl
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Record of Returning to Mortality and Attaining the Dao 归凡证道录
[Earth - Cultivation Realm - Immortal Realm - Divine Realm - Saint Realm - Multiverse] He seeks the Dao with an ordinary heart and breaks free of fate’s cycle. He burns with a lifetime of conviction, trading it for a path home for all living beings! From the Golden Core tribulation to the “Three Realms Beyond the Dao” (Void Shattering, Return to the Ruins, and Boundlessness), traditional cultivation collides with philosophical reflection, revealing a defiant path to enlightenment that proves one
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