The Protagonist Climbs Their Way Out of a Mountain of Corpses, One Step at a Time 主角是一步步从死人堆里爬出来的

1. 101 不 The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍 Yu Jinhe余瑾和Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.” 3.2kReads—Score22914d adds

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   I watched the part where Xiaoqi reported the locations repeatedly: seven people, one behind him, three behind the shelves, two in the attic, one outside the back door, four with knives, two with daggers, and one with a crossbow. It was like a tactical map laid out, instantly maximizing the suspense and the sense of survival. The system wasn't a cheat code; it was a calm narration that made the tension rise with each listen.

2. 102 老 The Veteran Never Falls 老兵不陨 San Shi, Scattered Immortal三石散仙Urban561k WordsCompleted A military historical novel based on real history, with no transmigration and no wish fulfillment. This is the story of a Chinese soldier's personal growth! It also vividly portrays the rise and expansion of the People's Army and the great Chinese nation reclaiming its former glory. Centered on the brothers Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yu, the novel follows several young people from northern Jiangsu whose lives take very different paths. The story begins in the turbulent years of the War of Resistance 741Reads—Score—14d adds

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   A veteran's coming-of-age story, a rare authentic military history novel on Tomato.

3. 103 记 The Memory Trial: The Moment the Nation Wept for Him 记忆审判：那一刻，全国为他痛哭 Big Fish, Ah大鱼呀Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Narcotics Police] [Anti-Drug Campaign] [Narcotics Officer] [Sacrifice] A scarecrow stands in the wilderness, shielding the endless expanse behind it. In early autumn, ten years after he left home, he asked someone to place his final wish in your hands. The fire he lit never went out. Only the one who kept watch has gone. The national emblem on his cap is like his name: “Please bury it with me.” Birds sweep across the blank spaces of time, like a long story waking from beneath the dust. His eyes 5kReads9.2Score70114d adds
4. 104 火 The Ruins on Mars Are Revealed: The Thirteen Loyal Sons 火星遗迹曝光，忠烈十三子 Suanni Roars狻猊咆哮Sci-Fi & Apocalypse478k WordsCompleted In 2066, a scientific research base is completed on Mars, and researchers head to Mount Olympus to collect data. On the far side of the mountain, a dust-covered battlefield comes into view. The wreckage of shattered warships. Giant steel mechs. A massive head buried in the dust. And a familiar red flag, standing tall on a platform at the very center of the far side of the mountain. What kind of battle took place here? Blood had congealed into fortresses, shattered, then congealed once more! It w 14.9kReads9.5Score1.2k14d adds
5. 105 四 Four-Character Novel 四字小说 Yi Bu Wo一不涐Mystery401k WordsOngoing [No System + Urban Supernatural Powers + An Uncanny Ensemble + Multiple Souls in One Body + Skill Collection + Reading Memories + Human Nature] “The ‘Four-Character Novels’ that everyone avoided have returned, and I’m one of them.” The most underworld-adjacent protagonist group in history: reporting for duty! The group can possess the heroine, and most members are potential love interests. [The story begins on the eve of the uncanny's return, not with everyone already knowing about it.] The hero 10Reads—Score—14d adds

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   [The Bizarre Protagonist Group Amidst Supernatural Abilities] What kind of people can join such a protagonist group? And possess such an eerie quality? Well, they must have killed countless people, of course!

6. 106 我 I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者 Evergreen Greens长青菜菜Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. … 3.4kReads—Score17214d adds

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   This book is very good.

7. 107 异 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 The Mountain Moon Knows Not of You山月不知君Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 6.1kReads—Score36014d adds
8. 108 慈EN Cihang City 慈航市 Mountain-Patrolling Lord God巡山主神Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing At Cihang's grand arena, don't show up without a cheat. Chen Feng transmigrated to another world and discovered that the bosses here were unbelievably sneaky. “Let's go level up in the newbie village first.” “Ha! Got you, transmigrator.” “I'll be reborn and buy a lottery ticket.” “Ha! Got you, regressor.” “Fine, if you're going to play dirty, I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman either.” Chen Feng discovered that every time he died, he could refresh and get a new System. A System's power ha 1.2MReads9.2Score132.8k14d adds
9. 109 序EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 No Brain, Just Cerebellum不要大脑要小脑Urban4.3M WordsOngoing [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 1MReads9.3Score123.9k14d adds
10. 110 末EN King of the Apocalypse! 末世之王！ Two Taels of Wine a Day一天二两酒Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.8M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Stockpiling Supplies + Evolving Zombies + Violent Aesthetics] Lin Dong is reborn on the eve of a terrifying apocalypse, and gains a storage space. A normal person would stockpile huge amounts of supplies, food, and water. But Lin Dong buys vast quantities of raw meat and fresh blood. Because... he is about to become a zombie! Flesh and blood are the source of a zombie's power. As long as it eats meat, it can keep evolving. A zombie fed on plenty of flesh grows at a terrif 77kReads9.3Score6.4k14d adds
11. 111 穿 I Transmigrated into a Cultivation Novel, but Is This Actually a Women's Romance?! 穿越修仙文，但是疑似女频？！ Chaivvvvv柴vvvvvEastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted [Cultivation, Ruthless Male Lead (Fourth Chapter Onward, He Starts Chopping, and Doesn’t Stop Until It’s Satisfying] He transmigrated into a cultivation world, but there was another soul inside his body. A woman! A lovesick, sweet little flower!!!!!!! And they had to take turns controlling the body every day. Shu Qiuqiao: I heard the protagonists in male-oriented novels kill people’s entire families at the drop of a hat and never bother with reason. Li Xia: That’s a complete slander! Who said th 42.4kReads9.2Score6.8k14d adds
12. 112 我 With My Blood, I’ll Save These Mountains and Rivers 我以我血挽山河 Black-Hearted Little Beaver黑心小海狸Historical1.6M WordsCompleted [Not a Power Fantasy + Slow Burn + Multiple Storylines + No Golden Finger + Passionate Conquest of the Song] At the end of the Northern Song dynasty, Bianjing was under siege, and the realm was falling into enemy hands. After his soul traveled nine hundred years through time, Gu Yuan found himself on the snowy plains outside Bianjing, where he and a band of fleeing soldiers happened to rescue the reborn Princess Zhao Yingluo. Through careful planning at every turn, he rose to become the era’s gr 34.1kReads9.2Score3.4k14d adds
13. 113 炼 After a Hundred Thousand Years of Qi Refining, I’m Already Invincible 炼气十万年，我已经无敌 Ding Chengjin丁程金Eastern Fantasy209k WordsCompleted [Ten Thousand Years at the Qi Refining Realm + Invincible]+ [Reviving His Sect in the Lower Realm]+ [Taking Disciples]+ [Defeating Every Villainous Sect]+ [Slaying Demons and Exorcising Evil]+ [Free Travel Between the Human, Immortal, and Demon Realms, as well as the Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Timespaces]+ [Protagonist's Halo]+ [An Incredibly Satisfying Power Fantasy] Zuo Xiaoyu had spent a hundred thousand years in the Immortal Realm, stuck at the Qi Refining Realm. One day, he discover 347Reads—Score—14d adds

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    A friend's book, everyone is welcome to listen ✔

14. 114 沧 The Demon Hunter: I Am the Protagonist's Younger Brother 沧元图我是主角弟弟 Can’t Think of a Name 1不想想名字1Two Male Leads227k WordsOngoing [A The Demon Hunter fanfic, two male leads, Mei Yuanzhi x Zhao Hui, no breaking up the canon couple, apologies for slight OOC.] As someone who had lived alongside death, Zhao Hui had never expected good fortune to come his way, until... He had no past, yet now someone was telling him about it. His childhood was so far away, so far that even when his family stood before him, he could not recognize them. He instinctively tried to leave, but was held fast. Perhaps even the evil spirit from that hel 17Reads8.2Score—14d adds
15. 115 重 Reborn as a Special Forces Soldier: Brother, Don’t Do Anything Reckless 重生之特种兵：兄弟你别乱来 Mo Yan Aaa墨衍AaaUrban875k WordsCompleted [Elite Agent + Military + Two Male Leads + Deep Brotherhood + Passionate Growth] Eighteen-year-old prodigy sniper Bai Ye has a pair of different-colored eyes that conceal a secret. He joins the Blood Wolf Special Forces Squad. His left eye sees in the dark like a wolf, while his right eye has extraordinary color vision. Armed with the Night Star sniper rifle, he never misses a shot. But what the squad fears most isn't his gun. It's his older brother, Bai Chen, whom they call the Living Hades. “I 486Reads9.4Score11114d adds

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    It's incredibly sweet. Super good-looking. There are three couples in total: one main couple and two side couples. (Finding sweetness amidst the bittersweetness)

16. 116 逆 Chronicles of the Reverse Spring 逆泉纪 Yuanshan Yu缘山鱼Mystery354k WordsOngoing A children's rhyme brought a man-eating Bian Po to their village. A Liang could only watch as his sister was dragged into the darkness, leaving behind a bloodstained cloth shoe. The village elder said, “Someone invited it in.” Who was the one who gave them honey and lured them into singing that rhyme? With the Gu passed down through his family, A Liang joined the hunting party and ventured into the dark forest. He had no idea that waiting for him up ahead was not just the Bian Po, but also a sec —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Starting with the annihilation of an entire family, this new horror novel set in Southwest China follows the protagonist's heart-wrenching path of revenge.

17. 117 我 I Was Raised by Monsters 我被怪物养大 Uncle Nan Yao南妖叔Urban769k WordsCompleted The story is set in a modern city in a parallel world. Legend has it that City A is home to an urban myth called the White Cat Agency. The agency is run by a group of monsters and demons. As long as you pay the appropriate price, they'll fulfill any request you make. Money, organs, emotions, memories, years of life... Anything could become a bargaining chip. Seventeen years ago, an infant boy of unknown origins was found by the agency's owner and raised by a group of monsters. Seventeen years l 1.9kReads9.6Score36414d adds

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    This book is quite good. There's no female lead, and the protagonist has a kind of human-machine feel that's really cool 😍 At first, everyone thought the protagonist was human, but later they found out he wasn't. There's even a Plants vs. Zombies side story 🙃 Overall, I think it's pretty good \(//∇//)\

18. 118 造 The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌 Xiu Ji休济Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted (This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles 238Reads9.0Score16114d adds

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    It's almost 7 a. M. And I'm still reading. Today is New Year's Eve; I wonder if I'll be able to stay up all night.

19. 119 龙 The Legend of the Dragon's Lament 龙殇传 Wandering Dust-Clearing Traveler浪客荡尘Urban161k WordsOngoing [Not a power fantasy + apocalypse + no harem + one heroine] | An epic elegy for a civilization in ruins When claws tear open the sky and dragon breath scorches through the earth, mechanical civilization crumbles beneath dragonfire into rusted scrap. Dust veils the sun and moon, the roars of dragonkin replace the morning bells, and humanity huddles in the crumbling shells of concrete and steel, turning the word “survival” into a bloodied blade. A broken horn is picked up amid the ruins. Its call 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The dragons have descended, technology has regressed, natural disasters and man-made calamities have struck, and everything has changed. The horn to slay the dragon sounds, and the base city is destroyed. On the wilderness, is there hope or despair? Survival or extinction? A corner of history sealed for thousands of years is being unveiled. Will the alliance separated by tens of thousands of years bring tomorrow or the end?

20. 120 我 On the Day I Returned, a Hundred Coffins Wept Blood and Ten Thousand Corpses Rose to the Sky! 我重临日，百棺泣血，万尸升天！ Never Forget the Past前尘莫忘Eastern Fantasy134k WordsOngoing [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Never a Saint] + [Prove the Dao Through Killing] + [If They Can Be Killed, Kill Them, Never Suffer in Silence] + [Plot-Driven] + [Excellent Ensemble Cast] + [One Female Lead] Could one person destroy an entire nation? A young man awakens in the Qin Tombs of the Great Ruins and takes up the heaviest sword in the world, intent on slaying the supreme emperor. My name is Qin Wuming. What I bear is the entire Qin Kingdom. Today I leave the Great Ruins. There is no turning b —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The author's writing is excellent, and the protagonist is ruthless but not a saint [laughs].

21. 121 死 Is My Dead Yandere Childhood Friend the Source of a Meme? 死去的病娇青梅是模因母体？ Chaotic Joy混乱的欢乐Mystery874k WordsOngoing Red mist spread, and a surreal realm took shape as an invisible prison. A cold case sealed away for ten years remained unresolved, while a hidden phantom quietly emerged, following the trail. A devoted childhood friend who came back from the dead, and a gentle young man on the verge of falling apart. “I love you.” “I love you?” “I love you!” An obsession that transcended life and death brought to light a truth bordering on madness. “Xiaoxi, in the world that belongs only to us, may you find et 78Reads—Score12114d adds

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    The female lead's achievements: cannibalism, writing letters in blood, creating apocalypse, a horde of hive-like zombies, bizarre rituals, resurrection, fighting her way through hell, and battling against the gods. All for the sake of being with the male lead.

22. 122 白 The Gray-Eyed White Cat 白猫传灰瞳 Mr. TT白先生Urban107k WordsOngoing The young heir of a crime family is forced to become a beggar. With nothing but a bowl from the start, he becomes the Zhu Yuanzhang of the underworld. Fresh twists and airtight logic. Italian mixed-race, ruthless, cruel, and realistic. He kills decisively, with every punch landing hard, every blade striking true, and every bullet finding its mark. A slow burn. Trust me, it only gets better as it goes. (No saintly heroine, no System, no harem, pure underworld fiction.) —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This book features a third-generation member of a criminal family, a mafia prince, who is not a saint, has no system, is ruthless and decisive, brutal and cruel, with every punch and slash a critical hit, every shot a headshot, innovative plot, and meticulous logic.

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