New Books Are Getting Worse and Worse. I'm Out of Reading Material 新书质量越来越差书荒
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- 151 Genshin Impact: Buying Mondstadt from the Start 原神：开局买下蒙德 As soon as Victor arrived in Mondstadt, he seized the city’s lifeline with debt. In the eyes of others, Stormterror is a calamity, the Abyss is the end of the world, and the gods are objects of faith. In his eyes, they can all be measured in costs, profits, and assets at his disposal. And so, Mondstadt’s whole way of life begins to collapse. The hot-blooded protagonist risks his life out in the field, while the capitalist villain closes the net back home. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
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When the Wind Rises, the Clouds Soar 风禾尽起云飞扬
I was born to a military family in Yunzhou, on the frontier. My youth was marred by hardship, and I was sent far beyond the border. After surviving countless brushes with death, I finally returned. Then my father and brothers were framed, and I had no choice but to come to the capital to save them. Heaven be praised, they were unharmed. The emperor showed me kindness, and I bore him a son. In times of crisis, I rooted out treacherous officials, defended against foreign enemies, and safeguarded t
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A Thousand Years of Devious Arts 诡术千秋
[Xuanhuan + suspense + mild horror + ensemble cast + one female lead] The underworld has undergone a tremendous upheaval. Ever since the day I left, the order of the netherworld has changed completely. Evil ghosts cannot find release, and good ghosts cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Now that the underworld has become a true hell, where can everyone go? Are we really doomed to become pawns? I wander between the worlds of yin and yang, competing with the ghost guards for business. I'll
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The Reverse 反向，
[Behind-the-scenes story, no System, ensemble cast] The Blue Star world has three major powers: White, Silver, and Snow. They are the Three Continents. They are represented by three banks: the White Continent Central Bank, the Imperial Bank, and Merrill Bank. At the same time, all three banks were robbed, setting the entire world’s situation in motion. The protagonist, An Ye, manipulates and controls everything from behind the scenes, never once stepping into the spotlight. Yet the situation alw
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Forgive the Moon 赦免月亮
[Classic Whodunit + Case-of-the-Week + Locked-Room Murders + Multiple Twists + Power Couple + Mutual Pining] To get revenge, Du Qingci kills two people, but runs into her old classmate Chu Dongping and has no choice but to become his partner. Together, they solve five cases in seven days. As they grow closer, their feelings heat up, and the killing intent draws nearer. Du Qingci: “Why does he keep looking at me? Did he spot my weakness? Is he going to silence me?” Chu Dongping: “Why does she kee
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Records of Meng Zhao 梦钊录
Infinite Revivals: In This Deadly Game, I’ll Cheat My Way to Immortality! [Absurd]+ [No System]+ [Clever Protagonist]+ [Good-for-Nothing] Years of hard study earned him nothing but humiliation and the label of useless. Truth is just a tool wielded by those in power. Those high and mighty people dress up lies in elegant words and weave cages out of rules, taming people into obedient ants. When he tears apart the so-called orthodox classics, the powers who once wore the mask of righteousness final
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The Poetry of Lan 澜之诗
They created the world, yet the world forgot them. He painted the mountains and rivers. He granted life its span. She brought color to all creation. He guarded order. Mortals never knew that in the hundred years of human life, some died for love, some became demons out of hatred, and some turned fleeting moments into songs that lasted a thousand years. The day the gods fell, strange phenomena continued for three days and three nights. Then six of the brightest shooting stars streaked across
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Seeking the Way Through Reincarnation 问道轮回
[A wholesome, romance-free family cultivation novel.] This book respects the traditional cultures of Buddhism and Taoism. In Taoist cultivation, only talent and insight matter; the concept of “spiritual roots” does not exist. It tells the story of a young boy from a small cultivation family, who shoulders the family’s ardent hopes of restoring its fortunes from an early age. Among the family’s ancient books, he forms an extraordinary bond with A Ming of the Light-Sound Heaven, a mysterious being
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A Dream in the White Sun 一梦白阳
[Spiritual energy and abilities + Multiple heroines + Everyday life + Exploring ruins + No System + No golden finger] (If slice-of-life stories aren’t your thing, you can start at chapter 150.) Eight lifetimes of reincarnation, all for the sake of becoming a Great Emperor! This is the ninth life, and the one with the best chance yet! But the requirements for breaking through to the Emperor Realm are far too harsh. If it were you... would you choose to protect the people you love, or sacrifice th
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A Thousand Joys, Ten Thousand Delights: Book 11 千喜万喜第11本书
Main characters: Lin Mumu and Fu Linzhou [Domineering male lead forces his love + excruciatingly charged push and pull + mutual salvation + satisfying read] Lin Mumu's biggest regret was selling her first time to Fu Linzhou, then ending up working as his housekeeper. From then on, the wheels of fate began to turn, and the man couldn't get enough... She kindly gives him a massage in the study, but he grabs her and pulls her into his arms, domineeringly... After she resists, he humiliates her. “Wh
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The Eye of Deduction and Ten Curious Cases 破解之眼与十个奇妙案件
Truth-Piercing Eye, activate! Lies trigger a red alert, while secrets lie hidden beneath transparency... My name is Zhou Shijiu. With these Truth-Piercing Eyes that see through to the truth, I’ve solved countless strange cases in a marvelous world! And these eyes are just one of countless marvelous protagonists. This isn’t a one-person show! This is an anthology celebration, with a wild new premise in every installment! There’s no fixed protagonist, only a cast of characters shining together: It
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A Cultivation Path Among the Warblers 莺莺燕燕修仙路
An urban, everyday-life story told in plain language. High-martial-arts cultivation without spiritual energy; no System, no old master in a magical artifact, and no rebirth. There's life and conflict, and when it's time to fight or kill, the protagonist does just that. Beautiful women are his cultivation resource, not a harem obligation. This is a modern high-martial-arts world with almost no spiritual energy, so cultivation should be impossible. But lucky Li Jun unexpectedly obtained an incredi
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A Record of Growth in a World of Superpowers 异能世界成长实录
Teng Fei is an ordinary adventurer who unexpectedly gains an extraordinary ability that others can only envy. In this city of superpowers, he meets the sisters Wu Ling’er and Wu Shi’er. Proud and charming, they join Teng Fei in fighting evil forces, finding the culprit behind their parents’ sudden deaths, and unraveling the mystery of their origins. Along the way, Teng Fei finally grows into a warrior who protects the city.
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The Path to the Venerable of the Spiritglow Heaven 灵耀逆世天尊之路
On the Tianyuan Continent, where strength rules all, Ye Chen of the Ye family was once a prodigy who dazzled everyone. But when his spiritual sea collapsed at the age of ten, he became a good-for-nothing, scorned by all. His family turned their backs on him, and his clansmen constantly humiliated him. Ye Feng went even further, bullying him at every turn. Ye Chen’s fate finally changed when Lingyao Heavenly Venerable emerged from a mysterious ring and taught him the Sacred Tome of Lingyao, helpi
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The Sound of Memory 记忆的声音
People grow up, but stories remain. How much is left of the stories we used to hear? The twelve zodiac animals, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, nature and history: what have we left behind...
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The Everlasting Sealing Era 永封纪
[Cultivation] [Transforming the Dao into Immortality] [No System] [Character Growth] A beautiful disciple from Kunlun Ruins descends the mountain to investigate? She encounters a country boy, a heaven-sent prodigy. She raises him herself, never expecting to raise a...
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My Husband Held a Knife to My Throat on Our Wedding Anniversary 结婚纪念日丈夫用刀抵住我脖子
“On our third wedding anniversary, he held a knife to my throat in the Kizil Caves. ‘Hand over the phone Chen Zhongyun gave you.’ I smashed the phone and turned around to report all the evidence of his embezzlement, affairs, and murders. To get the evidence, he rammed me with his car, while his men dragged my mother into a secret detention ward...” An independent woman, a career professional, neither saintly nor submissive. She gets her scumbag husband sent to prison, then finds a younger collea
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I'm Just a Mermaid's Nanny in a Fantasy World 我在奇幻世界给人鱼当保姆
Just after his own family kicked him out of a helicopter, Ci Mu crashed into another world, breaking his right arm. When he opened his eyes, he saw a stunning mermaid staring at him, with a whimpering half-human baby in his arms! The tip of the mermaid’s tail trembled. “I brought you home. Can you help me take care of the baby?!” Ci Mu thought he was facing a desperate fight for survival, but instead he unlocked the “Otherworldly Dad” quest. With one arm broken, he fed and soothed the baby and p
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- 169 Withered Mountain 枯山 Written in the style of a classical xianxia novel with chapter headings, and a tribute to classic novels such as The Legend of the Swordsmen of Shu Mountain and Investiture of the Gods. Warning ⚠️ This author doesn't like proofreading, so there are often inexplicable typos ⚠️ Read at your own risk ⚠️ A story about a prodigy manipulated by Heaven who fights back, only for both sides to suffer heavy losses. He wins by half a move against Heaven, in a tale that seems like a victory and yet also d 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Way of Caution Flourishes, and I'm Forced to Reveal My True Power 苟道大昌，我被逼人前显圣
"The Tianshui Sect has always acted with honor and integrity. Our senior brother has always been upright and open, and our esteemed Master is a model teacher with exceptional teaching skills. Everyone in the sect is united and trusts one another. It was in this kind of nurturing environment that I cultivated without pause and achieved what I have today!" Qi Bai spoke earnestly about his upbringing, choking up as he reached the most moving parts. Dozens of powerful Tribulation Integration culti
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find 良人难觅
[One-on-one romance + devoted couple + reborn and rise to power + mysteries of identity and personal growth + tragic romance and tangled feelings + political intrigue + fantasy setting + revenge and redemption + short novel] Poisoned wine burns her throat, and Cui Wanzhao is reborn as a four-year-old. During a viper attack in the imperial garden, she points straight at the Second Prince: “Your Majesty, the Second Prince and a guard were sneaking around!” Her childish words set off a storm at cou
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After Losing My Job, I Negotiate Benefits in a General’s Tent and Slay Ghosts 失业后我在帅帐谈五险一金斩鬼
After failing a job interview, Zhang Fu, a former executive, is dragged by a mysterious young woman down to the fourth basement level and becomes an officially employed ghost slayer for the Demon Suppression Bureau! A guaranteed monthly salary of 50,000, a 5,000 bonus for slaying a Tier One Specter, and 100,000 straight into his account for killing an Ashen Abyss fiend! He thinks it'll be an easy job where he can slack off, until he discovers his wife battling a zhan creature on the rooftop in t
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I Transmigrated Into Black Myth and Somehow Became a Lowly Soldier 穿越黑神话我居然是个小兵
[One Heroine: Fifth Sister] One night, after finishing Black Myth: Wukong, Siqi went to bed feeling content. Suddenly, thunder and lightning flashed. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the game world of Black Myth: Wukong. He couldn't believe that something like having his soul transported into a game had happened to him. Overjoyed, he was just about to make his mark in this world when he looked down and realized: Holy crap, he was a foot soldier!!! [After giving it several tries, if y
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Journey to the West: From the Start, I Made Empress Houtu My Big Sister 西游：开局认后土娘娘当姐姐
After becoming sworn siblings with Houtu in the Underworld, Lin Xuan doodles in the Book of Life and Death with his left hand and force-feeds his monkey bro immortal pills with his right! The Buddhist sect roars in fury: “How dare you, insolent brat?” Lin Xuan clings to the biggest backer in the Three Realms and wails, “Sis! Those baldies are beating me up!” From then on, he rules the Underworld, and the fated course of Journey to the West is smashed to pieces.
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Survival Game at the World's End 世界尽头之游戏求生
[Survival in Another World + Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Cunning Protagonist + Not Overpowered + Hilarious Trickster] Alternate title: [Survival in Another World: The Otherworldly Magician] When Qin Xiao opens his eyes, he finds he has transmigrated into a game world steeped in slaughter and deceit. After enduring betrayal after betrayal, he adopts one rule for survival: never turn your back on anyone... (Chapter 100) Facing a siege by more than a dozen players around his own level,
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