Looking for a Good Read: A Principled, Determined Protagonist Who Fights to Grow 书荒求，主角性格坚定有原则，拼搏斗争成长
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The Lost City of Exotic 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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Eighty Years in the Sword Pavilion, Then I Emerged as an Earthly Immortal 剑阁八十年，出世陆地神仙
The original novel behind the hit short drama “Earthly Sword Immortal: Eighty Years Guarding the Sword Pavilion” Meng Fan, gifted with the talent “Swordsmanship as Divine,” is reborn in a cultivation world and becomes the sword keeper of the Sword Pavilion at the Shushan Sword Sect. Touching the “Seven Stars Sword,” he obtains the Seven Stars Sword Art. Touching the “Demon-Suppressing Sword,” he obtains the Sword Intent of Demon Slaying. Touching the “Fuxi Sword,” he obtains the Fuxi Divine Body
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Players, Behave Yourselves: My Senior Brother Isn’t a Game Bug 玩家请自重我师兄不是游戏BUG
[Reborn + lighthearted comedy + righteous to a wicked degree + cautious + no romance + anti-cliché] In his previous life, Lin Li discovered that his master had turned into a demonic fiend, his junior brother into a ghost cultivator, and his junior sister into an evil spirit in a cultivation game's instance. He raised his butcher's knife and slaughtered them all. By the end, Lin Li discovered that he, too, had been corrupted into a Heavenly Demon. He gave a cold laugh and immediately drew his swo
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Online Game: Bootleg Myth 网游：盗版神话
He says he's the Beast King, but the girls shake their heads in disbelief. He says he's ambushed countless experts, and they believe him: “You murderous old rogue!” A story about a down-and-out college student who became a pimp and leads a group of people in an online game. Life has its ups and downs, and surviving in the cracks is the way to go. That's exactly what the protagonist does. He once had his glory; how could he be content with an ordinary life? Can an online game really change anythi
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The Heaven-Devouring Art of the Great Wilderness 太荒吞天诀
Heaven and earth are alive with spirit; all things struggle to survive. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; the named is the mother of all things. This is the Divine Cauldron of Heaven Devouring, able to condense essence into creation and contain the heart of the Eight Wastelands. With this cauldron, devour the four seas and contain the Eight Wastelands… A generation’s Evil God sets foot on the path to trample the heavens!
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Slashing the Moon 斩月
On the first day the game Illusory Moon went live, I spawned in a beginner village and discovered a few more treasures in my inventory than everyone else: a secret tome of the Asura, a complete achievement guide, and an ancient bracelet of mysterious grade. I don't know who put these things there, or who triggered the System bug. I only know that from the moment I was born into this world! The vast earth will tremble for me, the rivers and mountains stretching for thousands of miles will awaken
3.5kReads8.9Score339Shelves
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Heavenly Journey 天行
Born to honor, destined to die in glory. My heart is like my sword: it would rather break than bend. The rise of the strongest knight on the national server.
29.5kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
906.4kReads9.6Score176.7kShelves
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Sword in Hand, Wine in Tow, a Dashing Wanderer 仗剑，载酒，惊鸿客
[Prodigy + no System + Swordsmanship + Lighthearted + Immortality] The fake prodigy: “Life and death don’t matter. If you’ve got a problem, fight me.” The real prodigy: “I want to draw my sword.” “No, you don’t,” said the leaders of the Daoist sects, the Buddhist Venerable, and the Demon Cult Master, trying to talk him down. Across this vast and boundless land, who will determine its fate? I have a sword, its white blade stained red by the mortal world. A vast and magnificent sky stretches a
15.9kReads8.2Score1.4kShelves
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The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者
(Everyman’s cultivation + no System) Unlike traditional xianxia, don’t read if that’s not your thing. That year, a seven-year-old boy took his little sister into the cultivation world. Then all the cultivators went crazy! When you set out to cultivate, it doesn’t matter if you have talent, treasures, or lucky opportunities. But there’s one thing you must remember: there’s one person you must never provoke. Even though this person isn’t a cultivator at all. His blade is faster than light, so fast
150.7kReads9.3Score15.7kShelves
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The Great Zhou Dynasty’s Number One Immortal Merchant 大周第一仙商
Chen Lu transmigrates to a xianxia world, born with blocked meridians and unable to cultivate. After lying low for more than twenty years, he schemes across the realm, holding power in one hand and wealth in the other. Without the talent to cultivate, he proves the Dao through business, step by step becoming the Great Zhou Dynasty's foremost immortal merchant! A humble birth is no disgrace. The ability to bend and rise again is what makes a true man! “Lay down your butcher's knife and become
1.7kReads8.9Score102Shelves
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Defying My Master: My Teacher Is Zhang Ermei 逆师：家师张二妹
A humorous, everyday cultivation story with no System. Chen An just wants to earn money and cultivate in peace at his sect, but he ends up with a shameless master who has absolutely no limits. Desperate to get money out of him, she’s constantly up to no good around him and goes around telling everyone that her disciple has designs on her...
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Survival Game: I'm the Big Shot's Golden Finger 生存游戏，我是大佬的金手指
In the New World Galaxy Butterfly game space, to promote the development of a republic of star citizens, the Heart of the Universe, Nazhi, has custom-designed the [Star World Order Plan] for Blue Star citizens, with the aim of selecting outstanding star citizens. The New World Galaxy Butterfly game officially launched on Blue Star on July 3, 2025. In the first phase, one million Blue Star residents entered the closed beta. Ruan Pingxia, frail and sickly since childhood, somehow received a beta i
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Otherworld Online 异世界online
This Otherworld Online game is way too much fun! Still being worn down by the same old work every day? Still fretting because your paycheck never seems to be enough? Come on over! Go chat about life with the dark elf ladies in the dungeon; Set sail with your companions and vie for the Pirate King's treasure in the Endless Sea; Head into an uncharted ancient jungle and play hide-and-seek with the Green Dragon Queen; All right, enough talk. Steve, the mysterious treasure chest merchant and legenda
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Great Ming of the High Martial World: From Eunuch to the Ninth Lord 高武大明：从小太监到九千岁
[Mythic Great Ming] [Alternate History] [High Martial] [Great Ming] [No System] Yang Fan transmigrates to the Great Ming Dynasty and becomes a lowly eunuch, witnessing with his own eyes the grand, turbulent age of humanity! A dynasty that has endured for millennia, immortal aristocratic families, heroes of the martial world, mighty commoners, and dragons and serpents rising together! If that's how it is, then I, Yang Fan, will become the greatest man under heaven! I'll shatter the clouds and bec
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The Gambling Den 赌城
My new book, I’m a Proper Chinese Medicine Doctor, So Why Am I Being Treated Like a Gynecologist?, is out. Please support it. As the saying goes, nine out of ten gamblers lose. But as someone who lost everything and worked as a junket agent, I can tell you for sure: every single gambler loses! Even if you can avoid a cheat’s tricks, you can’t escape the odds of the casino. Gambling is a game ordinary people should never touch. It’s a blade that kills without drawing blood!
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The Official's Ladder: A Grassroots Civil Servant 官梯之【基层公务员】
There are ten rungs on the official career ladder. Wang Hongtao has the gift of foresight, starting from the very bottom and seizing every opportunity. Beginning at the section-chief level, he climbs one rung at a time, destined to forge his own glory! As he rises, he does all he can to benefit the people and improve the lives of those around him, while also settling an old score! See how an ordinary man makes waves in the world of officialdom! This is my first time writing, so please be underst
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A Dao Heart Reaching for the Heavens 道心参天
The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi
176.8kReads9.1Score24.8kShelves
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Lord of Ashes 灰烬领主
He comes from an exiled underground world, where survival follows the law of the jungle. He is a seeker of truth, a wizard walking the line between reason and madness. When myths come to an end and order collapses, power becomes the world’s only rule. Not every dark place needs light.
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The Great Interstellar Age 大星际时代
Earth’s military forces wipe out the Zerg beyond the Milky Way and establish a new calendar. As technology advances and the population booms, major corporate conglomerates aggressively expand their off-world businesses, extracting resources from planets across the galaxy. Humanity officially enters a great new era of interstellar civilization. But in the end, they open Pandora’s box... The Zerg return! Star beasts descend! Tian Xiao dies on the battlefield, then is reborn three years in the past
36.4kReads9.3Score3.5kShelves
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Jingtian Lingyun Record: The Protector Lord Spoils Me 净天凌云录之护法大人宠宠我
Ye Hongxiu was an orphan who dreamed of becoming a great hero and righting wrongs. But what awaited her was a world-shaking conspiracy. The mystery of her own origins turned out to be entangled in a secret political struggle within the imperial family. How would she choose between the greater good and personal feelings?
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Mysterious Lotus Casebook: The Women's House Storm Rises Again 莲花楼之女宅风云再起
In a martial world rife with hidden currents and deadly dangers, the women’s residence faces imminent destruction. Its women, some innocent and some helpless, have been swept into this dangerous whirlpool, left waiting for an unknown fate. To save her sisters, Zhang Haiyan resolutely sets out alone on a perilous journey to find the mysterious master Li Xiangyi. Li Xiangyi was once a renowned figure in the martial world. Now, however, he has concealed his identity and lives among ordinary people
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He Became a Woman: The Black-Hearted Younger Man Makes Me Play a Sweet Girl 男穿女：黑莲花年下逼我演甜妹
[Transmigrate into a book + male-to-female transformation + younger love interest + unhinged fiction + lighthearted comedy + absurd logic + if you won’t back down, fight] Cheng Ye is eating instant noodles and roasting a melodramatic novel when the heroine sacrifices her, sending her to transmigrate into a book as the long-suffering heroine who gets abused into the ground! She kneels on broken glass and miscarries, has a kidney removed to save someone’s first love, and gets abandoned while dyin
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Doomsday: Anomaly Compendium 末日：异常图鉴
I transmigrated into a wasteland. My only golden finger is the instinctive ability to record how everything dies as it mutates. A technological apocalypse, a paradise of consumption, a cultivation wasteland... Every civilization I've seen is terminally ill. They call me a "variable" and label me a "specimen," yet they don't know that every time I die, I travel backward through time, drawing closer to the source of the calamity. Then the overseer of the most powerful anomaly, the Silent March,
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Republican-Era Miracle Doctor: Ruling Shanghai 民国神医：雄霸上海滩
Republican Era + Divine Doctor + System + Reborn + Shanghai Ye Changqing, a Chinese medicine student suffering from a terminal illness, is reborn in early Republican-era Shanghai in the body of an apprentice at a clinic, a young man who shares his name. Western medicine has only just arrived, and is still no match for Chinese medicine. Armed with his golden finger, Ye Changqing vigorously promotes and develops Chinese medicine, establishes businesses, and fights the dumping of foreign goods. Wat
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Reborn: Making a Killing in Showbiz 重生：我在娱乐圈里薅羊毛
He was reborn hoping to make up for his regrets and spend the rest of his life as an ordinary person~~~ But the System’s promises were just too tempting, and Zuo Mingzhou plunged into the entertainment industry. He started out as a background extra in Hengdian, then took supporting roles, but before long, he took a fall and learned the power of capital. Not handsome enough? Not popular enough? Then let’s start in Korea: City Hunter, My Love from the Star, Goblin... Is that enough popularity for
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I, Hollywood's King 我，好莱坞的君王
Welcome to Hollywood after the turn of the millennium! It was an era full of opportunity: independent films were still fighting their way to the top, Marvel was still on the rise, and Disney wasn't yet the dominant force. Hollywood's beautiful actresses were all young, and streaming hadn't taken off yet. It was also an era full of challenges. The dark side lurking behind Hollywood's glittering facade was just as impossible to ignore. Charles Capet: I'm going to become the king of Hollywood. I'll
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Building a Dynasty with a System and Kobe in His Final Years 带上系统和末期科比一起缔造王朝
There’s no Kardashian in the first few dozen chapters, so friends who came for Kardashian, please be a little patient. Thanks. The protagonist is a player, and his true love won’t be made clear until the end. If you can’t accept that, read with caution. (System doesn’t make him invincible + a growth story + starts out on defense + most of the novel is about games + not for readers who mind a slow pace) Sun Shi, the protagonist, was once captain of his school basketball team. But as an adult, rea
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I Just Want to Play Basketball in Peace 我只想安静的打篮球
[NBA + System + character growth + multiple female leads] From the moment he entered the league in 2004, he was the center of attention in the NBA. Jordan: “I like his draft prospects.” Kobe: “He’s the best rookie of 2004, bar none.” Shaquille O’Neal: “Trade Kobe for the first pick and draft him. I’m confident we can build another dynasty.” Years later, after he accomplished the five-peat even Jordan couldn’t manage, people started calling him something else. Curry: “Honestly, I’ve always admire
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Country Love: I Stole Xie Dajiao from the Start 乡村爱情：开局截胡谢大脚
Transmigrate into the world of Country Love. Chen Feng is a man who was strutting around Xiangya Mountain before he had even been walking for very long. From the start, he returns after completing his studies. Faced with the different opinions of everyone in the village, Chen Feng decides to put his knowledge to use and get rich through farming and breeding livestock. Xie Dajiao: Auntie supports you! Wang Xiaomeng: I... like you! Zhao Yutian: Brother Feng, let's get started! Xie Yongqiang: Can y
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Half a Life in Pale Blue 半生浅蓝
This is the story of a village girl’s tenacious rise from humble beginnings, tracing her life through childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and middle age. Education and career form the narrative’s main thread, while school life, romance, workplace culture, and family relationships provide four angles through which it explores the challenges of learning and the breakthroughs of personal growth; the bright promise of love and the drizzling rain of marriage; workplace competition and interperso
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The Village Doctor Cultivates Immortality 村医修仙
Ascension! The world came to a halt. The sun, moon, rivers, and mountains stood still, and even the howling wind froze as if someone had pressed pause. Crack! A terrifying force tore open the sky, widening the rift. Buzz!!! Countless beams of golden light burst from the rift overhead, bathing the entire world in gold and driving away all gloom and darkness. Through the glowing rift, Wang Yong saw an enormous planet slowly turning in the boundless universe. The stars twinkling around it only made
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1980: He Came from the Future 1980之他来自未来
A piece of history buried in the past, a file that will never be declassified. What changes and upheaval might a mysterious person, quite possibly from the future, bring to this world? Find him, control him, protect him, and uncover every useful piece of information from him. That's the work of our 412 Task Force, and our mission. Those who make history are not always recorded in it, but we have no regrets.
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Secretly Becoming an Immortal in the Cultivation World 苟在修真界偷偷成仙
After transmigrating into the world of cultivation, my path to immortality begins. But without a lucky break or a cheat, how could anyone hope to reach the Great Dao? What is cultivation, anyway? It all comes down to the heart! Come and see how Li Qingxuan cultivates his way to immortality!
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