Any Novels With Smart Characters? No Immature Stories 有带脑子的小说吗 不要幼稚文
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
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The Nation-Protecting Prince Consort 镇国驸马爷
[System + political intrigue + mind games! The story only gets better as it goes] Ji Ping’an, a die-hard Three Kingdoms Kill player, passes out while gaming. When he wakes up, he’s transmigrated to the Dayu Dynasty and, by some fluke, become its biggest doormat of a son-in-law: the princess’s husband. He also activates a Three Kingdoms Heroic Spirit System. With enough gold, he can summon any general, strategist, warlord, or beauty from the Three Kingdoms. From then on, Ji Ping’an sets out to ge
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I Always Complete Difficult Missions Without Breaking a Sweat 我常常不慌不忙地完成艰巨任务
"Clever protagonist + Satisfying power fantasy + Fiery + Logical + Convincing + Playing the fool to catch the tiger + Face-slapping + Farming" A nobody attends a banquet, where everyone looks down on him. The host even bullies him, and all the guests compete to curry favor with their host by berating and humiliating the protagonist. Little do they know, the protagonist is the big shot who determines everyone’s fate. Now they’re completely panicking... Everyone scrambles to turn things around and
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I Brought This on Myself, but Now the Escape Boss Won’t Leave Me Alone 作死的我被逃生boss缠上了
[One-on-one romance + Two powerful leads + Infinite-flow + Comedy + Yandere] Some people enter the escape game with a bug built right in. Lu Wu is one of them. While everyone else is seriously trying to escape, Lu Wu treats the escape game as nothing more than a game. Most outrageous of all, the escape game’s boss confessed his feelings to Lu Wu. The players, who risk their lives and wade through blood just to survive, are depressed. They’re going to report Lu Wu for cheating! Lu Wu: I didn’t, I
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How Did Xiao Ming Die? 小明是怎么死的
I investigated a case. The victim was me. The summer after the college entrance exams. My deskmate invited me back to our old school building to reminisce. By chance, we found a death message left by the victim of a campus fall case that had been hastily closed years ago. From then on, strange things kept happening around me, and I narrowly escaped danger several times. To protect myself, I played along, and hitmen, top agents, mercenaries, and all kinds of giant monsters kept appearing. Then on
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
1.7MReads9.9Score235.2kShelves
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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I Told You I Love You in Heaven 我在天堂说爱你
At fifteen, Junxi accidentally got blood from an AIDS patient into one of his wounds and contracted the disease. From then on, his normal life was completely upended, and he lived in constant fear that he could die at any moment. But Li Poxiao never left his side, giving him the courage to carry on. Through his pain, he smiled through his tears. “Brother Junxi, my greatest wish is to become your bride. You have to fight to stay alive, because… this is a dream only you can help me fulfill.” A lov
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Born with a Bewitching Charm 媚骨生香
Lan Xiaodie: “What? I'm the female supporting character?” Someone: “And in a steamy novel, no less.” Lan Xiaodie: “What? I'm about to die?” Someone: “And the heroine will step on your ashes to rise to the top.” Lan Xiaodie: “That's brutal! Then make sure my son and daughter avenge me.” Someone: “Sorry, you won't even have a man when you die.” Lan Xiaodie was sure she'd die with regrets. So she decided to rise up and become the heroine... And if she couldn't, she'd at least be the female supporti
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I Have 99 Kinds of Twisted Personalities 我有99种变态人格
What would you do if one day 99 different psychopaths appeared in your mind, and you could return to normal only by perfectly acting out each and every one of their personalities? Su Mo smiled wickedly. “This sounds fun.” The cases in this book are based on real events, taking you into the strange world of psychopathic personalities.
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Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆
[A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra
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Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈：我的家人不正常
[Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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Just a Minor Character 只是小人物
What can one lottery ticket achieve? Could it make someone a major business tycoon? How much of a stir can one cup of yogurt cause? How can an ordinary person create a business miracle? What twists and turns might life bring? Liu Ze will tell you. (Not a wish-fulfillment novel)
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Dongyan Secret Art: Moon Ruins Sword Formation 东研秘技：月墟剑阵
An ancient legend says that on every full-moon night, three young men practice a sword formation on Mount Kunlun. Sometimes, they move the Moon Lord to descend from the heavens and dance with them. That is how the Moon Ruins Sword Formation got its name. Since ancient times, there have been tales of three heroes who mastered the formation, roamed the martial world, and championed justice. Today, all of this seems no more than an elusive fantasy. Only a school built among the ruins remains, where
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The Secret of the Su Mansion 苏府的秘密
Only after marrying him did she learn that he was a fool, albeit a remarkably handsome one. He treated her well and was even willing to risk his life to protect her. She resolved to accept her fate and stay to help cure him. But then the secrets of her husband's family began to surface one by one. The mastermind behind a series of eerie events turned out to be... Even their marriage had been part of a carefully orchestrated conspiracy...
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A Journey of Expansion in Another World 异世开扩之旅
[Light Furry] [Another World] [The Protagonist Is a Good-for-Nothing] The apocalypse is coming, but what is the truth behind it? Who is the enemy? Who is a friend? Who is saving the world, and who knows nothing at all? How will the three of them tell the difference and uncover the truth?
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The Divine Cage Game 神笼游戏
In a dazzling technological future, a powerful being descends, calling itself a god and ruling over all. Everything becomes a game for the gods. The gods become humanity’s sole objects of faith. Above all faith, humans are the pieces and the gods move them. The world is a cage, and this is a game ruled by the gods. The gods rule everything! The gods create the games! The gods make the rules! Rule One: Every human must take part in the game. You need a ticket to compete, but the winner takes all,
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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Virus Arsenal 病毒武器库
The flesh is frail, so let machines ascend! To escape disaster, people awaken ten thousand years in the future; Their physical bodies have vanished, and they have all become robots; But plans never survive contact with reality; The future is still harsh; Xu Baiqi can only keep upgrading... At any cost, humanity's civilization must endure! Human civilization will never perish!
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The Realm's Journey Home 界域归途
An accident sweeps Wang Wenkai into a journey through the myriad heavens. Faced with cruel trials, he grits his teeth, gives everything he has, and seizes a slender chance to survive. But just as he thinks everything is looking up, an unsolvable riddle suddenly appears before him! The truth about the interrealm space! Why did he come here? The final whispers, the last requests: he will find the truth in the end! For the one who returns home, he will give up everything!
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From the Start, Trapped in a Time Loop, I Become a Monster 开局陷入回档，我化身成了怪物
[Urban Superpowers + Smart Characters + Tight Logic + Gripping Story] Strange phenomena filled the sky, and a blood moon hung there for over a month. A man who took dangerous under-the-table jobs for money collapsed in a pool of blood. In a daze, he realized he had returned to an earlier point in time, only to die again and again. At last, he found the reason! He discovered the terrifying creatures lurking in the other side of the day: giant insects! Bizarre Buddha statues! On the brink of death
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