Any Novels Where the Characters Actually Use Their Brains? 有没有带脑子的小说
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Silver Flash Frequency 银闪频率
Late at night, an old radio carries a warning from the dead: “Don't trust the backup.” In 2136, human consciousness is being harvested on an industrial scale. A Silent Tide devours millions of lives, yet the authorities insist it's just a virus. A stuttering repairman just wants to find the people who've disappeared... A traitorous elite is driven by a promise made many years ago... At the last moment, a hard-drinking drifter from the lowest rungs of society crashes into a signal tower and says:
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Spy Wars: I Am the God of Wealth 谍战之我是财神
An ordinary office worker gets a System, but before she can enjoy any of its benefits, it dumps her into a parallel-world version of Republican-era China. That's where her life as a spy begins. From an ordinary field operative to an undercover agent, from a regular spy to a triple agent, she goes from reluctant to willing, writing her own legend in the great metropolis of Shanghai... Check out the new book next door: The Village Girl, the Grand Diviner, also known as After Getting a Puppet Space
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The Housekeeper Is Having Another Breakdown in Quick Transmigration 快穿管家又双叒发病了
No female lead + no CP + absurd comedy There aren't two male leads. I tagged it wrong, and now I can't delete the tag! (*꒦ິ⌓꒦ີ) Shen Mingxuan is one of the rising stars in the primary System space of the World Sea. After reaching his mission goal, he successfully qualifies to apply for a companion System. So he binds himself to the “All-Purpose Butler System.” It's a new System, and it comes with character templates as plug-ins. Shen Mingxuan has to complete his missions while following each cha
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I Thought We Were Brothers, but You Tricked Me into Robbing a Bank? 我把你当兄弟，你骗我抢银行？
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Ming’s friend Zhou Hang took part in a military exercise, playing the role of a bank robber. Zhou Hang decided to recruit Lu Ming to play a robber too. For security reasons, he couldn’t tell him the truth about the exercise, so he used an invitation to dinner as an excuse to get Lu Ming out of the house. “Isn’t this just dinner? Do you really have to withdraw cash at the bank?” Watching his good friend Zhou Hang, who’d invited him to dinner, Lu Ming s
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Forced to Give Up the Throne, She Surrenders the Imperial Seal and Leaves the Court in Tears 被逼让位，她献出玉玺后群臣大哭
“Pay attention: this is a story with a strong female lead, no male lead, and no romance.” After transmigrating, she became the most exalted woman in Yun Zhao. She thought she could live a carefree life of wealth and luxury, but danger closed in from every side, with pitfalls everywhere. It was not just her reputation at stake, but her life. The emperor dreams of ruling in his own right? Here, take the imperial seal. Go play by yourself, kid! The consorts are fighting for power in the palace? Tos
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From the Old Nine Gates to Grave Robbers’ Chronicles 从老九门装到盗笔
Someone whose certainty that something will happen to another person makes it come true for him, forcing him to embark on the path of showing off. He thought it was a sure thing, but after coughing up a mouthful of blood, Xiang Liu couldn't help reflecting: Just what kind of person do you all think I am, anyway?!
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The Library of All Things, 万象图书馆，
[Dream-world infinite-flow] [A wild hotpot of genres] [No romance focus] [There is a romantic subplot, but not much] Picking up where the last story left off. While Yu Jiu was wreaking havoc in the borrower's dream, The borrower asked, “You said this was an ordinary patient? You call your brick-wielding guy an ordinary patient?” That's right, I'm Yu Jiu, an ordinary patient. After I made a pact with my book, I had no idea how to use it. I figured, if I wasn't going to use it anyway, I might as w
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Fairy Tales from the Old Ones’ Bookshelf 旧日支配者书架上的童话
#Cthulhu #DarkFairyTales #Immortal #Mystery #Deduction #SmartProtagonist #Transmigrate Fairy tales? They’re for children. How could they ever be considered high art? To hell with fairy tales. Creation is nothing but lonely, self-important make-believe. Without anyone to judge it, you can’t shine onstage. Creating is a lonely, self-important game. More than beautiful fantasies, it’s the blood-soaked truth that is unquestionably a masterpiece. Fairy tales are just lies; reality has long been sulli
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Between Three Seconds 三秒之间
The invasion from the Other Side has made the world a far more fantastical place. All kinds of strange things have brought supernatural abilities. Some people are wreathed in flames, while lightning dances at others’ fingertips. And our protagonist... Step by step, he grows stronger. This is a passionate coming-of-age journey. He is destined to wield the highest authority!
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Meme Cleaner 模因清理者
[Otherworldly Invasion + Strange Creatures + Cunning Villains + Ensemble Cast + Major Late-Story Twist] Doppelgangers, cognitive contamination, causality, drought demons, weeping statues... Ten years ago, all kinds of monsters suddenly descended upon Earth, wreaked havoc, and quickly vanished. Now, ten years later, the doppelgangers have returned. Zhang Feng, whose parents were killed by one, comes out of retirement. But this time, the doppelgangers aren’t the only threat he has to face!
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The Vast Galaxy Has Nothing to Do with Me 渺渺星河，关我屁事
The day humanity ventured beyond the Solar System, the gods returned. They bestowed blessings, granting some people the power to defy the laws of physics. You could control plants, conjure ice from thin air, violate the law of conservation of energy, read minds, move at incredible speeds, or manipulate objects with your thoughts. But then the gods left, and humanity was left to clean up the mess. After the world united, rebels rose up against the new order. They tried to flee to the subterranean
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The Hanged Man in the Library 图书馆里的倒吊人
Wang Lin was an ordinary employee at the Qingyang County Cultural Center. While sorting through old archives, he unexpectedly discovered a register of the 1943 ferry disaster and a photograph of a strange paper effigy, setting foot on a path into a terrifying abyss. Ignoring all warnings, he went to investigate the abandoned “Ghost Ferry Bridge.” That very night, he encountered a ghostly ferry in the thick fog and its lantern-bearing boatman, Wang Chengye. He narrowly escaped, only to find inexp
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I Just Want a Simple Life, but Fate Keeps Pushing Me 只想简单生活，可命运却逼我
Unlike others who are reborn, Xiang Bei has no great ambitions. He just wants a simple, happy life. But fate insists on forcing him down a different path... “I just want a simple life. Why do you have to force me...?”
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The Nonexistent 非存在者
[Big Ideas]+ [Not a Power Fantasy]+ [Plot-Focused] One event known as the Celestial Eye caused many people in this world to be forgotten. How will these people, stripped of their identities, survive in the coming age of chaos? Luo Tian has the ability to transfer his consciousness. He should have been able to live well when the chaos arrived, so why get caught up in it? Is all this a scheme by the Old Gods, a power grab by the New Gods, or the arrival of the Outer Gods?
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Island Life with an Immortal Body 拥有不死之身的荒岛人生
He thought he was just an ordinary person, like the many other participants. Who could have guessed he would meet himself from a parallel timeline? And then discover that they had completely different abilities. Why was he so unique? Why was there always a bug in his screen projection? What was the higher-dimensional being who created this game really after? More importantly, why couldn’t he even remember his own parents? He kept breaking through dimensions, severing causality, and erasing d
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Dreamland Day Laborer 梦里打工人
[Twists + slow burn + near-future sci-fi] Mason transmigrates to ancient times, expecting the System to help him reach the pinnacle of life. But after overcoming countless hardships and clearing the game, he discovers a miserable truth: he’s the AI.
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Before the Loop 循环之前
One year after Halley’s Comet streaked across the sky, I was born into a happy family. Then, without warning, my father killed himself, and my mother went mad soon after. I encountered the first mystery of my life: a huge blue bubble. From then on, I lived in another world, one far more vivid and colorful than this one. I became fascinated with lightning. It was a silver-white dragon, and its rumbling was the dragon’s roar. As a child, I saw a ghostly figure on the roof of the school building. B
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Tales of a Ruined City 废都往事
"Cyberpunk, Nearly Invincible Male Lead, One Female Lead, Power Fantasy" (A quick aside: the main story begins in Chapter 67. Most of the earlier chapters introduce the world.) Newly unemployed Kazmir was walking down the bustling Deirli Street, but as a destitute jobless man, he had no part in all that excitement. He had only one place to go: the sewers. Perhaps the slums beneath them were where someone like him, one of Dalia’s lowest-born, belonged. But he had no idea that a huge conspiracy wa
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The Thread Begins 线启
In ancient times, humanity mastered the "Power of Lines," allowing people to directly manipulate the world's laws and build a dazzling civilization. But after an event known as the "Great Silence," everyone's ability to perceive lines was sealed away completely, and civilization fell back millions of years overnight. Now, the world is shrouded in the illusion of being "without magic," and ordinary people believe history spans only a few thousand years. But a small group knows the truth. They se
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