Female Leads Who Are Neither Good nor Evil 女主不是好人,亦正亦邪
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Don't Mess With Her! The Rogue Immortal Lady Cultivates the Path of Slaughter! 别惹!散仙娘娘她修的是杀戮道!
[Strong female lead + powerful from the start + romance + plot-driven feel-good story + happy ending] [Female lead stronger than the male lead] [Male lead has few scenes but a complete romantic storyline] [Morally gray villainess heroine] Si Jinchao, the Three Realms’ number one rebel. She was fated to be stillborn, yet came into the world as a coffin-born child. Even her very existence defied the will of Heaven. Heaven wanted her frail and sickly, her life full of misfortune, her days wretched
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The Villainous Couple Are Both Unhinged, So Stop Acting Crazy and Stay Away 反派夫妻皆疯批,少发癫,莫沾边
[Powerhouse from the Start] [Imaginative Fantasy] [Strong Male Lead, Even Stronger Female Lead] [Two Unhinged Villain Protagonists] [Feel-Good, No Angst] [Love and Hate] [Saving Each Other] [Invincible] [Plot-Focused] Female lead: A lunatic who wants to slack off but keeps getting pushed into doing anything but. Male lead: A smiling snake, a refined young noble who hides a blade behind his smile in public, and a completely deranged villain in private. (Content warning: Neither lead is a good per
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Every Psycho I Bullied and Toyed With Fell in Love With Me 我欺凌玩弄过的疯批,都爱上我了
*Quick transmigration | devoted couples | no romantic rivalry between women | male pursues female *Elegant, self-interested, rational heroine × sexually voracious, unhinged male leads❗ Yun Siyao was sickly and frail, yet cold and self-serving by nature. Bound to a System, she traveled to various small worlds to complete missions. Who could have guessed she’d get entangled with a sinister madman every time, each one refusing to let her go! [World One: Beautiful, vicious female powerbroker vs. unh
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Butterflies Can’t Cross the Border 蝴蝶飞不过边境线
[Golden Triangle + Master and Servant + Underworld + Young Lady + Bodyguard + Myanmar] One of the people you absolutely must not provoke in the Golden Triangle is the little princess of the Sang family. She has a six-foot-seven bodyguard by her side who looks like a mountain. The Sang family does everything except traffic drugs. That's the family's rule and bottom line. Sang Ye has great ambitions. She wants the entire Golden Triangle, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar, all under her control. “How
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Spoiling and the Hunt 偏宠与猎杀
[Revenge + status gap + height gap + age gap + powerful man bows his head + no saintly heroine + satisfying read + possessive pursuit + both untouched] Cool, aloof, ruthless heroine out for revenge VS powerful, devoted puppy-dog hero The most painful thing wasn’t learning that they had died. It was learning that they could have lived. How much pain must they have felt, watching the car hurtle toward them? The law couldn’t protect me. The law couldn’t punish the guilty. They shouldn’t have died.
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I Ran Into Chen Pi Setting Up a Stall from the Start 盗笔:开局撞见陈皮在摆摊
[The author is a bit of a country bumpkin who adores Mary Sue stories. Many people will fall at the female lead's feet one after another.] [Female lead: face like Guanyin, heart like a viper (the viper side isn't too obvious yet; early on, she gets by on her social skills, keeping everyone happy for now. If she's unhappy, she'll just keep score). Extremely vindictive!] Yue Mingzhu is a self-serving person. Unfortunately, she's stuck with a useless System. Fortunately, her personal motto is flexi
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Interstellar: Who Did Those Five Beat Up This Time? 星际:那五个又把谁狠狠揍了?
[Military academy + mecha + no romance + coming of age + ensemble cast + light humor + five-person team + strong team spirit] For the first seventeen years of her life, Jiang Lin's goal was to get into Mingde's mechanical engineering department and become a highly paid mecha engineer. But an unexpected turn of events sent her to Dawn Military Academy and set her on the path to becoming an elite solo fighter. Inter-academy tournaments, live-fire drills, interstellar battles... Years later, five s
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Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵:抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶
[Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w
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Tomb Raiding: The Secret Path to the Wizarding World of HP 盗墓:通往HP巫师世界的秘密
Dear readers, please keep your ratings under control! Don’t give it five stars. [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles and Harry Potter dual-transmigration setting. The heroine is beautiful, powerful, and tragic, a self-interested individualist with no romantic pairing, and she doesn’t join the main cast.] The Founders’ Era, the Marauders’ Era, and the Next Generation. No System. The heroine is a Slytherin. Timeline: 1937. The two timelines run in sync, with the same passage of time and no difference in
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Quick Transmigration: The Beautiful Villainess's Happy Life 快穿:貌美女反派的幸福生活
[Quick transmigration + pure-white jasmine + no fixed CP + masterful acting + contrast + the female lead is no good person] Jiaojiao has no idea what bad karma she accumulated. After gaining sentience and cultivating diligently for three hundred years, she finally took human form. Unexpectedly, for no reason at all, heavenly lightning struck her that very day, and Jiaojiao nearly perished without a trace. At the last possible moment, she grabbed a passing little System with her bare hands and na
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Jujutsu Kaisen: The Miserable Life of a Diviner 咒回:卜算师的悲催生活
[Complete] Zhou Xingke transmigrated, and as luck would have it, landed in the Jujutsu Kaisen cast, where the death rate is sky-high and everyone's sanity is at risk. Zhou Xingke gave the heavens the middle finger: Grandma Heaven, are you messing with me?! Once she accepted reality, she had to keep living. But how had she somehow ended up a triple agent??? Working three jobs is a hard no... No, it's a must! With her extraordinary ability to spin a tale, Zhou Xingke rose to prominence in the Juju
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Oh No! After Going on a Killing Spree, She Becomes the Villain’s Dark Moonlight! 哦豁!杀疯后她成了反派黑月光!
[Two strong leads + love and hate + a groveling chase to win her back + woman disguised as a man] Ye Xingshu never imagined she'd transmigrate into a book one day, let alone become a deranged female villain. She arrived right in the middle of a killing spree. She looked at the male villain's beloved white moonlight in her hands, then at the sinister, terrifying villain, and immediately decided to keep killing! The plot had her and the male villain meeting gruesome ends: the hero would cut out hi
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Reborn as a Man: Feng Qiansui Rules the Court 重生女扮男装:凤千岁权倾朝野
Completed. Villainess + woman disguising herself as a man + reborn + strong heroine + no romance The heroine is a true villain: greedy, ruthless, highly skilled in martial arts, and sharp-tongued! Scene One: Asking the Emperor for money Emperor: “I appoint you imperial inspector for the south. Investigate the affairs in Xuzhou thoroughly. If you find anyone committing crimes and undermining the state, and verify the evidence, punish them according to the law! I grant you this golden badge. Whoev
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Transmigrated as the Second Male Lead's Concubine, I Was Seized by the Third Male Lead to Bear His Child 穿成男二妾室,又被男三强夺生崽
She uses her weakness to scheme for the throne. [Transmigrate into a book + performative personality + heroine is no saint + not a strong female lead] Blurb 1: Wu Xi is someone who has disguise ingrained in her very bones. She can make three parts affection look like twelve parts love. Born into a lowly position, she has to scheme at every turn, endure, compete, and seize every opportunity to turn everyone around her into a stepping stone. After transmigrating into the role of Xuan Zhi's concubi
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The Bad Woman from Prison 来自监狱的坏女人
Original title: The Chaste Police Commissioner: I've Locked Away Your Heart Workplace romance + suspenseful romance + soul swapping + unhinged villainess forces her love + forbidden cop-and-criminal romance + the queen returns I'm Su Yu. The “Goddess of Finance” admired by everyone in the business world. A meticulously planned car accident sent me tumbling from the clouds into the mud. I became the “suspect” everyone cursed and was personally delivered to a detention center. My best friend betra
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On the Run for Murder, I Go on a Killing Spree After Reuniting with My Wealthy Family! 杀人逃亡,被豪门认回后杀疯了!
[The heroine is a man-eating flower! + Three thousand family rules! + Unhinged! + Strong female lead! + Character growth!] The Jian family has three thousand rules. On the day Jian Jinge was brought home by her biological third brother, she was told to memorize all three thousand rules. At the time, Jian Jinge had just escaped a pirate pursuit and gone hungry for three whole days!!! Jian Jinge: ... The Jian family’s twentieth rule says that when the elders leave the table, the meal is over.
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Reborn Empress Opens Her Eyes, Torments Her Scum Husband and Seizes the Empire 重生皇后一睁眼,虐死渣夫夺江山
A power-hungry, unhinged empress takes on the world vs. her fiercely loyal shadow guard / strong heroine + unhinged female lead + satisfying read + villains get humiliated throughout + devoted guard In her previous life, she died pregnant, full of hatred. In this life, she has sworn off love and wants only power. The puppet emperor is nothing but a stepping stone. Her maternal grandfather is the chancellor, her uncle is a general, and her brother commands the Imperial Guard. With such powerful c
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Getting Close to a Sickly Villain After Transmigrating into an Otome Game 穿越乙女游戏后与病娇反派贴贴
On the surface: A dissolute, aloof man who has long held a position of power VS a refined, gentle, well-behaved young woman In reality: A cold, sinister yandere & a ruthless femme fatale, master of manipulation (Two crazed people both want to conquer each other) - She accidentally becomes the vicious female supporting character in an otome game, only to be told by the Otome System that someone has maliciously taken the heroine’s place. Her mission is to seize the heroine’s original fortune. Th
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After My White Moonlight Faked Her Death, the Yandere Big Shot Wouldn't Leave Her Alone 白月光死遁后,病娇大佬穷追不舍
Su Meng transmigrated into a book as a sickly, ill-fated supporting woman who coughed up blood every few steps and tormented the villain early in the story. The System told her that if she helped the villain grow up, she could be reborn, so she began diligently raising him. At first, he looked distant and gloomy, like a fierce wolf cub, claws bared. “Don’t come near me.” Later, he began hoping for more and more affection. He reined in his dark, terrifying possessiveness and obsession, acted obed
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A Stunning Beauty Hounded by an Obsessive Mad Dog in a Period Novel 漂亮美人在年代文被偏执疯狗缠上
[A calculating, self-serving heroine + an obsessive, possessive hero] Selfish, vain, materialistic, and always looking out for herself. And yet, countless people love her. In the original novel, Lin Luoxue is the heroine's sister, a cannon-fodder character who despises the poor and loves the rich, and juggles three men at once. Even after getting married, she's still unfaithful, and in the end, she dies while eloping with her lover. She's nasty, selfish, and plays with people's feelings while mo
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You Want to Dig Out My Golden Core for the Heroine? I’ll Send the Whole Sect into My Imperial Banner 挖我金丹给女主?全宗进我人皇幡
[Strong Female Lead] [Morally Gray] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Self-Righteous] [No Romance] Jia Ying transmigrates into a cultivation novel, becoming the vicious villainess who serves as a foil to the heroine, Ruan Jiaojiao. After her golden core is ripped out, she looks at her mixed spiritual roots and damaged foundation, then resolutely embarks on the path of demonic cultivation! You dare rip out my golden core? Then the whole sect can go into my Human Emperor Banner! By day, she exudes the r
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I've Become the Villains' Master, How Could I Be a Good Person? 我都成反派们师父了,能是好人?
The animated series is now available. Search for “I Became the Villains' Master, So How Could I Be a Good Person?” [No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Ensemble Cast of Villains with a Few Screws Loose] “This master will shelter you from wind and rain, but don't ask where the wind and rain came from.” The villain, badly wounded after being defeated by the protagonists, cries out, “Stop standing around and save me!” “Maybe you shouldn't have slacked off in your training. You can't even beat a bunch
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The Pinnacle of Imperial Power 巅峰皇权
[Historical GB + both devoted to each other + Villain heroine + heroine disguises herself as a man early on + court and martial world + vying for the throne] Early: A double-personality, unhinged eunuch × a reborn, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside wicked man Later: An all-powerful ruler of the world × a spoiled, lovesick male consort Sima Ying, the crown prince of the previous dynasty. Her mother was killed at her birth, and her father treated her like a puppet. By ten, she had mastered
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The Disguised Dragon's Scheme: My Rogue Disciple Courts Me in His Dreams 女扮男装潜龙计,逆徒梦里泡为师
[Historical Intrigue + Female Spy in Disguise + Ensemble Mind Games + Martial Arts Mystery] [Female Martial Arts Master Disguised as a Man × Rebellious Disciple Who Defies His Teacher] The world is the board, and all living things are its pieces. Thirty years ago, a copy of A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains turned the tide during a palace coup. From then on, victory made kings and defeat made corpses, and the throne changed hands. Thirty years later, talents emerge across the nine regions, a
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Even the Best in the World Has to Feed the Chickens 天下第一,也要喂鸡
Tu Jing, who is both severely mentally ill and an incurable chuunibyou, transmigrates as an orphan taken in by the Fengdu Sect. She takes part in the martial world’s selection for the top disciple and wins a place by coming first in every test. With a yandere senior brother and an absentee master, she has a hundred percent survival rate: at night, her senior brother beats her up, and by day, she trains hard in martial arts. Before the age of twelve, Lou Cheng beat her senseless. After twelve,
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Reborn as the Villainess, I Keep the Male Lead for Myself from the Start 穿成恶毒女配,开局我先圈养男主
Does a girl transmigrated into the role of a villainess have to cling to the male lead to survive? Faced with the male lead, covered in wounds and brutally humiliated, Yu Tai smiled faintly and showed everyone how to sleep with the male lead from the start. Worried about getting caught in a romantic rivalry with the original heroine? She glanced at the demon beast she'd raised like a daughter. Yu Tai sighed. How about meeting the heroine who insists on taking a male form? After her identity as a
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She Rules the Cultivation World, While Her Disciple Turns into a Puppy 修仙界她横着走,徒弟养成哈巴狗
As his master lay dying, he stroked Gu Gugu's head. “My life's ambition was to mend relations between humanity and the demon race.” “Legend has it that in ancient times, humanity lowered its flags to half-mast in mourning for a member of the demon race, the highest honor they could bestow.” “Gugu, I want you to become someone humanity will lower its flags to half-mast for.” After her master died, Gu Gugu charged alone into the human race's prodigy trial grounds and slaughtered 468 human prodigie
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Quick Transmigration: Demon Eyes Emerge, the Hell Girl Returns 快穿:妖瞳现世,地狱少女归来
A max-level expert quick transmigrates, tearing through every kind of scumbag! [Quick Transmigration + No Romance + Fast-Paced + Ruthless, Unhinged Female Lead + Satisfying Scumbag-Tormenting + System + Netherworld Emperor + Hell Girl] Hua Jingtang once fought her way through hell. With her own power, she became the Netherworld Emperor, a fearsome figure whose name struck terror across all realms. She once stood at the height of her power, with no one daring to provoke her. But one careless move
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Jing Yu Xun Jin 惊予浔槿
[Marriage first, love later | Older man | Sweet romance | 1v1, both leads are each other's only partner | Slow burn] [The rating just came out, but it'll go up later] In Beijing's elite circles, everyone said the eldest daughter of the Luo family was cold and indifferent. Luo Jin thought so too, and figured she was perfectly suited to being a pawn in a marriage alliance. So when the “smiling King of Hell” proposed to her in front of everyone at a banquet, she asked only six words: “When are we r
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Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生,我靠死了吗系统杀疯了
[Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h
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On the Edge of Crime 罪案边缘
The first time Chen Xi saw Qin Yu, she knew he would belong to her. She was a romantic, so she wanted to preserve him in formaldehyde. That way, Qin Yu could belong to her alone. Someone once described Chen Xi this way: all that stood between her and becoming a criminal was Qin Yu. “I walk toward the sun, unafraid of the long, dark night.” [Obsessive forensic doctor Chen vs. upright police officer Qin]
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My Stand Ability Is Staircase Manipulation 我的替身能力是操控楼梯
[Complete] [No Permission Requested from Marujie] [The first few chapters explain the setting for readers who have never read JoJo. Once the fighting starts, the story picks up the pace, with every event tightly connected.] [This work may contain disturbing content] [If you cannot handle dark and cruel stories, proceed with extreme caution!] While reading the comments, I came across someone saying, "I get it. Dio's Stand ability is controlling stairs!" It cracked me up, and gave me an idea. A Ch
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Reborn to Sever All Ties and Forsake Love 重生之断情绝爱
[Strong female lead + reborn + supernatural abilities + beast taming + queen in control + morally gray + multiple male leads + twists + emotional tension + smart characters] Leng Fengmei is reborn, waking up the day after the meteorite falls, at the pivotal moment when humans, animals, and plants begin to mutate. She doesn’t know how she died, and her memories of her previous life are fading over time. So she writes down everything she knows in a notebook, never imagining that one day... The pe
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My Three Wishes 吾有三愿
[Mad Empress × Reclusive Powerful Official] [Past and Present Lives] [Sweetness and Heartbreak] [Fated Redemption] [Alternate World] [Male-to-Female] (This story focuses on [Two Powerful Leads Growing Together] [Devotion Taken to the Extreme]. It blends sweetness with heartbreak and is not mindless wish fulfillment. Read with care if that's not your thing!) In their modern-day past life, the two parted forever on a snowy night. Snow covered his wheelchair; his three wishes went unfulfilled, and
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Quick Transmigration: I Am the Cheat Myself, Come Argue If You Disagree 快穿:我本人就是外挂,不服来辩
[Quick Transmigration] [爽 Fiction] [Strong Female Lead] [System] Shen Tan is a top-tier mission agent in the Quick Transmigration Bureau. She has completed three thousand worlds without a single defeat. While others transmigrate to defy fate and change their lives, she transmigrates to rewrite the rules. Transmigrated into a cultivation world as a good-for-nothing? Her spiritual root is destroyed, and she has no cultivation at all. The System classifies her as "unrecoverable trash" and skips the
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