Please Save My Brain: No Wish-Fulfillment, Just Some Male-Oriented Fiction With Clever Characters 求求救救我的脑子，不要爽文，来点带脑子的男频

1. 151 官 The Official Road, Starting at Level Three 官道，从三段开始 Mr. Fishjoy鱼乐先生Urban512k WordsOngoing My name is Bu Qingyun. (I hold a senior government post and have a fortune worth over a hundred million.) Let me tell you a secret. Ever since I was in elementary school, entering politics has been the light of my ideals and the flame of my ambition. It was buried in my heart like a seed, ready to take root and sprout as soon as the soil was right... 18.6kReads7.6Score2.9kShelves

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   Instead of deliberately creating dramatic conflicts, the film focuses on portraying workplace survival and growth, interpreting the weight of perseverance amidst ups and downs.

2. 152 寄 Parasitic on Lobotomy Corporation: The World Is All My Delusion 寄生脑叶，世界皆为我的妄想 Shan Qingxue山青雪Sci-Fi & Apocalypse110k WordsOngoing [Cyberpunk, Lovecraftian, Nonhuman] In the future, an AI beyond human comprehension was born and tried to seize control of Earth from humanity. However, after countless precise calculations, the AI’s fundamental logic determined that it could neither destroy nor replace humanity. It therefore turned its calculations toward the occult. The AI opened a door to another world called the “Gate of Fantasy,” unleashing monsters known as “Delusion Entities.” The world consequently spiraled into extreme 2Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 153 向 Lend Me Another Five Hundred Years 向天再借伍佰年 Azure Memories湛蓝的回忆Eastern Fantasy696k WordsCompleted A cross-life destiny set in motion by the ancient “Heaven’s Punishment Fate Disc” slowly unfolds in Borrow Five Hundred Years from Heaven Again. Gu Yan, the third son of the Duke of Ningguo’s household in the Great Yin dynasty, has a yang disc sealed within him. But after his father and brothers are wrongfully accused, he becomes a condemned prisoner. At the execution ground, the “Canglan” jade token around his neck suddenly stirs, awakening the mysteries of the Fate Disc. At the same time, Shen 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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4. 154 三 Three Realms in Turmoil: Secrets of the Ancient Shu Lord’s Grotto-Heaven 三界风云：古蜀老君洞天机录 Azure Memories湛蓝的回忆Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsOngoing At the foot of Mount Qionglai, a cold stove glows beneath the stars. The young Yan Qing studies a damaged scroll by night, only to find that the sigils on its final page echo those in the stone chamber of his dreams. They are a summons from Laojun’s Grotto-Heaven, where the Three Realms converge. In the ancient lands of Shu, spiritual energy flows like a river, concealing traces of the gods and a chance to change one’s fate. After the great calamity of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Heaven’s 2Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 155 科 Sci-Fi Novel: Carving Out a Frontier at the Edge of the Universe 科幻小说：我在宇宙边缘开疆拓土 Azure Memories湛蓝的回忆Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted My new book is out! Head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Here’s the blurb for my new book, “Pushing the Frontier at the Edge of the Universe.” When Earth’s supply of controlled fusion fuel runs out and the Arctic quantum-collapse zone begins to spread, a technology oligarch alliance monopolizing global helium-3 mining, comprising seven interstellar energy corporations and controlling t 10Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 156 我 My Love Shines Like the Stars 我的愛璨若星辰 Azure Memories湛蓝的回忆Ancient Romance789k WordsCompleted My love shines as bright as the stars Yun Zhaoyue, a modern restorer of ancient jade, transmigrates to another world through an ancient Tang dynasty pendant inlaid with a star pattern. She awakens the Starry Sky Mirror, which can transport her through the myriad heavens, and becomes a disciple of the fallen immortal sect Starfall Pavilion. On her first journey, to a battlefield in the Southern Song, she meets the young general Xiao Linyuan. Together they foil the Jin army’s plot to use soul-devo —Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 157 九 Nine-Bend River: I Install Internet Cables on the Winding Roads 九曲流：我在九曲弯道修网线 Careful Chen Qiaoqian小心翼翼的陈巧倩Urban575k WordsCompleted To repair the tangled timeline, this pair of adversaries are forced to team up: one is the reincarnation of a famous Southern Song general who wants nothing to do with cultivating immortality and just wants to lie flat; the other is a champion navigation system fired for speeding through a bend. They must find old bricks from the Southern Song city walls, living water from a late-Ming ancient well, ash from an old commune stove... Their opponent is a washed-up Dragon Prince who wants to use the —Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 158 天 The Legacy of the Mysterious Heavenly Gate: Yin and Yang Taiji 天地玄门传承之乾坤太极 Azure Memories湛蓝的回忆Eastern Fantasy265k WordsCompleted The seventh prince of Great Yan, Zheng Yichen, is dismissed as useless, but his Qian body seals the Armor of Ten Thousand Spirits within it. To break the seal, he must absorb resentment from the imperial court. His younger sister, Zheng Lingxuan, pretends to be a “dim-witted princess” while using the power of her Kun body to gather intelligence on the Bone-Erosion Cult. The Imperial Preceptor Wei Yuan, a descendant of the Star-Gazers, conspires with the cult to use the royal bloodline to resurre —Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 159 天 The Legacy of the Mysterious Heavenly Gate: The Yin-Yang Mystic Body 天地玄门传承之乾坤玄体 Azure Memories湛蓝的回忆Eastern Fantasy136k WordsCompleted The fates of Zheng Rong and Su Yao begin with a tribulation in the mortal world. Zheng Rong awakens the Qian-Kun Mystic Body, while Su Yao inherits a legacy of healing. Together, they escape the turmoil within the Su family and travel through the mountains, practicing medicine and saving lives. Their compassion helps them overcome one crisis after another, and when they fight the Xuanyin Cult’s protector, they catch their first glimpse of the power unleashed when their Mystic Bodies unite. After —Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 160 宝 The Treasure-Bearing Ritual Master 宝器端公 Careful Chen Qiaoqian小心翼翼的陈巧倩Urban1.6M WordsCompleted The Treasure-Bearing Duangong: Sichuan-Style Fantasy, Startling Twists In northeastern Sichuan, the idle young Chen Laoyao had planned to coast through life and wait to die. But after a chance encounter beneath the Song White Pagoda, he accidentally inherits his family’s traditional duangong role and is swept into an adventure spanning history and fantasy. His magical tool is a shoulder pole, and his divine beast Wangcai looks impressive but is utterly useless in a fight, always letting him down 14Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 161 蓝 Blue Flame Revelation: Embers of the Apocalypse 蓝焰启示录：末日余烬 Gui Fa归法Sci-Fi & Apocalypse360k WordsCompleted “Black flame represents bloodlust, madness, and plunder: the desire to devour everything.” “Red flame represents brutality, destruction, and combat: the purest urge to annihilate.” “Blue flame represents the soul, death, and destruction, reaching straight to the ultimate end of existence.” “Golden flame represents purification, divinity, and enhancement, containing order and vitality.” “White flame represents chaos, corrosion, and rebirth: the source of disorder and recreation.” That year, I was 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Without any cheat codes or system, this book was created after I was in a coma following a car accident, based on all the feelings I experienced in my dreams. Everything in it felt so reasonable that I could no longer distinguish between reality and illusion. That painful memory wasn't just about physical pain, but more about the mental experience; the superpowers in the book were probably all experiences of receiving treatment.

12. 162 寒 Journey of the Cold Blade: From Refugee to Ruler of the Realm 寒锋行：从流民到摄山河 A Wildly Imaginative Brain胡思乱想的大脑Historical288k WordsOngoing A hidden heir lurks in the refugee camps, while the Nine Cauldrons fracture the land and set the beacon fires alight. Xiao Yu, a lowborn refugee struggling to survive in a border camp in the state of Yan, has no idea that his blood carries the loyalty and grievance of a renowned general from the former dynasty. A forced conscription sweeps him into the meat grinder known as the Battle of Canglang Plains. Amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, his innate “Eye of Insight” lets him spot a g —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Han Fengxing is so cool! Even as a refugee rebel, he still has the power to govern the land!

13. 163 开 From the Start, My Family Was Slaughtered: A Killer Turns to Immortal Cultivation 开局灭门，杀手转行修仙 Wang Fusheng王富生Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Play the pig to eat the tiger + serious cultivation + urban System + smart protagonist + always gets revenge) Zhang Ping’an is reborn at the very moment before he is poisoned to death, and binds himself to an unreliable [Reward Good and Punish Evil System]. Keeping a low profile is how you live longer! Raised from childhood in an assassin sect, he knows the art of lying low inside out. At the ripe old age of thirteen, he joins an immortal sect and gets mocked as a “good-for-nothing”? “Sorry, 33Reads9.0Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist is intelligent, everyone in the group is smart, and they are unassuming and low-key. This is an urban cultivation novel. The protagonist was raised by an assassin organization as a child, bound to a system, and embarked on the path of cultivation. The protagonist has excellent cultivation aptitude, acts discreetly, and is decisive in killing. He cultivates at a prestigious sect and works for a government agency. (Self-recommendation/recommendation)

14. 164 毁 I Really Wasn't the One Who Destroyed Your Civilization 毁灭你们文明的真不是我 Ethanol Kicks In乙醇上头Sci-Fi & Apocalypse68k WordsCompleted (One heroine, System, slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, no brainless decisions) At the Council of All Races, Blue Star civilization failed to secure peace. From then on, the universe plunged into an age of chaos. The Shang Clan took the initiative and attacked the people of Blue Star. In this age of conflict, no civilization could resist the temptation of Blue Star's rapid rise. One after another, they followed suit and joined the forces attacking Blue Star. The Shang Clan, ruled —Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 165 网 The Girlfriend I Found Outside the Internet Café 网吧门口捡到的女友 Lang Yichen浪逸尘Urban200k WordsCompleted After graduating from a top university, the male lead can’t find a job and sinks so low that he ends up working as a cybercafe attendant... Then, one day, he unexpectedly finds a drunk girl downstairs from the cybercafe, and his life is turned upside down… A girlfriend, a daughter, a puppy, an old house, and a career. In the end, the male lead attains the happy, fulfilling life he always dreamed of. There’s no golden finger and no special skills. Only the male lead knows just how much har —Reads8.0Score—Shelves

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    If you enjoy wish-fulfillment novels and mindless, overpowered stories, definitely don't read this. This book is suitable for readers who prefer stories that are close to real life.

16. 166 红 Red Moon: Seven-Day Reincarnation 红月：七日轮回 A Billion Cicadas亿只小蝉Urban190k WordsOngoing [Cthulhu + Gods + Superpowers + Post-apocalyptic Wasteland + No Heroine] Multiple interwoven storylines. Two hundred years ago, the Red Moon appeared. Species across the world mutated, and indescribable horrors descended upon the earth. The survivors later named that day the Day of Scarlet Blight. They hid in underground structures, barely clinging to life, until the Domains were discovered. Since the Day of Scarlet Blight, 36 anomalous regions have appeared across the world. A few of these Doma —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    💕A crimson moon appears, bringing devastation and suffering. The protagonist is trapped in a seven-day, one-day cycle of reincarnation. After uncovering the truth of the world, he escapes the cycle and enters a wider world, only to be unknowingly drawn into the chessboard of the gods. My new book has just been released, so there aren't many comments yet. It's an original Cthulhu-style story. Please read it!💕

17. 167 我 My Outer Shell Can Barely Contain What's Within 我的外壳，快要兜不住内里了 Warm Sunshine on Green Bamboo暖阳照青竹Modern Romance104k WordsOngoing The heroine thinks she is just an ordinary person, but strange things keep happening around her. She gradually realizes that there is more to her than meets the eye, and the secrets surrounding her will eventually be revealed. My ex-boyfriend, who I broke up with, suddenly came back and said he wanted to get engaged to me. My coworker, who was so poor he could barely scrape by, turned out to be a young master from a fabulously wealthy family. Layer by layer, the truth is being uncovered. I can b —Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 168 踏EN Treading the Stars 踏星 Drifting with the Wind随散飘风Eastern Fantasy14.4M WordsOngoing A vast universe, countless races! Grand battle techniques, the Ten Judges rise above all! Ancient clans with unique surnames, the Top Hundred Battle Rankings! In my name, I tread upon the stars! One day in the year 2200, when humanity first set foot on Neptune, they found a battle blade and a corpse standing upright!!! The author has already completed an older novel, The Ultimate Throne of Doomsday, at over three million words. It was never once put on hiatus, guaranteed reliable! 2.5kReads9.3Score166Shelves

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    This book features well-developed and three-dimensional characters. There are no mindless villains; each character has their own story, their own bottom line, and their own principles. The updates are consistent, making it a very readable read with a grand world-building. It might require a little patience at the beginning. If you don't like it, please don't just leave with one or two stars; you can simply scroll past. Thank you.

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