A Hot-Blooded Academy Story With a Close-Knit Team 热血的学院文，有一群队友陪伴身边

1. 1 末EN Apocalyptic Calamity: Who Let These Lunatics Save the World? 末日灾祸：谁让这群癫子去救世的 If I Do Not Leave若不辞Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted [No romance, ensemble cast, apocalyptic disasters, urban fantasy. Split up, and trouble strikes from every direction. Together, and the world faces annihilation.] (The animated series adaptation is now available.) The team’s main mission: save the world. Hidden achievement: elbow-check the world. Code of conduct: As long as we elbow-check fast enough, disaster will always be one step behind us! People around the world: Thanks to the Daxia Squad for the elbow-check survival kit. We refuse deliver 204.2kReads9.4Score33.3kShelves

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   A ensemble piece, absolutely amazing! Don't let the cover put you off; once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. You know how great it is to find something like this when you're looking for something to read? The rating is sure to rise, and it's still being serialized. It's incredibly good, everyone definitely has to check it out!

2. 2 小 The Crybaby Went Wild in the Infinite Worlds 小哭包他在无限世界里野翻了 Dongfang Xiao Shisan东方萧十三Two Male Leads1.3M WordsCompleted [Two male leads + team battles + academy setting + infinite-flow + mystery-solving + livestreams + ensemble cast] The characters are smart, the golden finger is modest, and this is a power-up story with an ensemble cast. The main team is a little villainous, and Qingbao has brains and brawn and won’t hold anyone back~ The main story is complete~ Story introduction ↓ [God-tier demon Xisili vs. god-tier control-support Jiang Yaoqing] Welcome to the Nightmare Center. Here, you can make any wish com 7kReads9.5Score1kShelves

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   It's so good! The academy competition stages are so exciting!!! The process of each student finding their teammates is also incredibly enjoyable. [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration]

3. 3 穿 After Entering a Bad-End Comic, I Took the Lead in Tearing Up the Script 穿进be漫画后，我带头手撕剧本 Gu Qingying, Who Loves Tench喜欢十间鱼的顾清影Urban679k WordsOngoing [Forum-style posts + mistaken assumptions and exaggerated interpretations + beautiful, strong, and tragic characters + ensemble cast finding redemption + no romance] Yan Qi always felt he’d transmigrated into this world in entirely the wrong way. It was bad enough that he’d ended up in a depressing superpower comic where everyone died. To make matters worse, the ability he awakened, [Words of Absolute Truth], came with a deadly side effect: the more bluntly he spoke while changing cause and ef 150.8kReads9.4Score20.8kShelves

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   This is the book I've been following recently, it's super good. For the rest, check out my book list on my homepage, over forty books to choose from [laughs].

4. 4 魔 A Battle Royale at the Magic Academy, Where a Pack of Unhinged Students Gather for Make-Up Exams 魔法学院修罗场，疯批群聚补考场 Xun Gui旬鬼Fantastical Romance431k WordsCompleted [Magic + academy + competitions + progression and adventure + Western fantasy setting + slight ensemble cast]#Has a CP, both pure One second she was asleep, and the next she was being dumped. When Cynthia opens her eyes, she finds she has transmigrated into a fantastical, bizarre magical world and become a villainous female supporting character who shares her name. In this world, mages draw their power from different gods. Most awaken a divine sequence at the age of sixteen and receive a sacred 19.6kReads9.2Score3.1kShelves

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   This is seriously gorgeous! [Eating melon seeds][eating melon seeds]

5. 5 人 The System Makes Me Save the World in a Laid-Back Slice-of-Life Anime 人在日常休闲漫，系统让我救世 Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Lu Yu空空空空空空空麓欲Modern Romance721k WordsOngoing (Ongoing, updates are slow / Current progress: Volume One complete, 7/10 of the book finished) (No romance + ensemble cast + gentle, sickly male lead + supernatural school + System + fictional society + everyday life + healing + light, sweet comedy...) Every character is a native of this world. Platonic relationships are the best! (Everyone is romance-free except the parents' generation.) The cozy coming-of-age manga Guardian Academy, serialized in a shonen magazine, has been criticized by read 8.1kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves

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   Both of these are novels featuring superpowers, academy settings, ensemble casts, and online forums—they're incredibly good! They have systems, the teammates are all amazing, and the stories are very heartwarming.

6. 6 治 The Healing-Type Carry 治疗系大爹 Little Li Li小李李Urban657k WordsCompleted After Li Xuan awakens a healing-type power, every major faction fights to recruit him. But can someone explain why this healer is surrounded by so many big shots? I can’t afford to offend any of them. This is the story of the military academy’s only frail healer, as everyone else sees him, who meets a group of dependable companions and leads the Huaxia Alliance in carving out a path to survival. 7.5kReads8.2Score641Shelves

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   🎋After awakening his healing abilities, Li Xuan entered a military academy and met various powerful figures😎. Then, he grew and fought monsters with a group of teammates [heart]. Pure support☘️ Chen Shu transmigrated to a parallel world, bound to a god-level selection system, and then… gradually became stronger (abnormal) [heavy punch]. I highly recommend it, sisters! [Send heart] Jiangnan bandit! You deserve it👏

7. 7 全 I'll Fix This Comic World Where Everyone Gets a Bad Ending! 全员be的漫画世界由我来修正！ Wildly Swinging a Sword冰剑乱砍Modern Romance483k WordsCompleted Completed (comic forum + live comments + male lead, no romance + light ensemble cast + System) Gu Ge was supposed to have been struck by lightning and killed, but after signing a contract with a System, he came back to life in another world. In exchange, he had to complete the System's missions. He thought he would have to save the world, but it turned out his missions were all things like: “Invite a stranger to eat grilled fish.” “Help an old lady carry her fruit.” “Say ten nice things to a tea 4.5kReads9.3Score797Shelves
8. 8 终 KO One: Cause and Effect 终极系列之因果 Purple Bauhinia Feather紫荆焉羽Female-Channel Fanfiction3.7M WordsCompleted Preface: Gods think they rule over humanity, when in truth, they are the ones abandoned by the world! All things give rise to and overcome one another! Good and evil have always coexisted! There is no absolute right or wrong in this world, only choices! Schemes, cunning, open clashes, and secret struggles all lead into the cycle of fate and cause and effect. It is nothing more than a feast of unnatural deaths! Excerpt: Wind: After giving up on protecting them, I face the world’s blame Fire: Mal 2.4kReads9.4Score182Shelves

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   A group of passionate characters with modern superpowers!

9. 9 神 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择：这个御兽师有亿点生猛 Three Winds 11三风11Urban3.4M WordsCompleted [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 178.3kReads9.7Score21.4kShelves

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   I also enjoy reading these kinds of action-packed, ensemble-oriented, urban martial arts novels. The school competitions and such are incredibly humorous.

10. 10 我 I Cut My Way from Blue Star Through the Ten Thousand Races, and You Want Me to Be a Strategist 我从蓝星砍到万族，你劝我当军师 I Am Eighteen吾十八Urban1.4M WordsCompleted In a world where everyone awakens supernatural abilities, alien beasts run rampant and civilization teeters on the brink of collapse. Su Yu transmigrates into this world and, from the start, awakens the Myriad Things Encyclopedia System, becoming a tactician. All he has to do is take a photo to grow stronger! [Photographing the campus belle: SSS-rank talent, Ice Age copied successfully!] [Photographing a master: max-level skill, Phantom Steps copied successfully!] [Photographing an alien beast: 45.5kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
11. 11 我 You Might Not Be Able to Handle This Old Lady! 我这口老奶你只怕承受不住！ Grief Scattered on the Wind离恨纷飞Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [Class changes for everyone + everyday life + team-ups + beating up teammates] After transmigrating to a world where everyone changes class, Mu Feng becomes a rich second-generation kid. His clan is huge, and everyone his age is a genius. Am I a genius too? But the entire Mu family is a complete mess?! Great! Grab a bucket and run! He changes into a jack-of-all-trades Paladin, but what’s with these class skills: “Free your hands!”, “Let yourself go!”, and “Believe me, you can become light too!”? 22.2kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
12. 12 战 Half a Life on the Battlefield, Yet I Return as the Same Old War God 战死沙场戎半生，归来仍是旧武神 A Quick Silence反手一个沉默Urban2.7M WordsCompleted Wang Xian, a half-step Martial God at the eighth realm of Old Martial Arts, died on an alien battlefield protecting ordinary people, only to return in a dream to his youth in his senior year of high school. In my previous life, I achieved greatness late, reaching the peak of the half-step Martial God realm, only to stop at the eighth realm and die with regrets. In this life, I will use my self-created Starry Sky Body-Tempering Art to forge a starry sky martial body capable of devouring stars and 93.2kReads9.1Score7.1kShelves
13. 13 全 Global Martial Arts: You Call This a Support Healer? 全球高武，你管这叫奶妈？ Wangwang Woof Woof旺旺汪汪Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted comedy, one female lead, a dark-minded, cheeky, sinister, evil demon king of a protagonist. He's a bit of a coward, but this is guaranteed to be satisfying! If it's not, come fight me. Heh heh heh.] Lin Hao transmigrates to a high-martial-arts world. Then comes the nationwide college entrance exam! He thinks he can defy fate and get a god-tier talent, but instead he draws the one and only healer talent! His exam results are a disaster, and everyone thinks he's useless and can only 260Reads5.9Score101Shelves
14. 14 开EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Urban8.9M WordsCompleted [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.5kReads9.7Score44.8kShelves
15. 15 除 Everyone on the Team Is a Villain Except Me 除我以外，全队反派 Ruan Qingruan阮清阮Modern Romance2.0M WordsOngoing An original fictional society with lots of personal worldbuilding and foreshadowing. Don’t come in with your own preconceptions and impose them on the author or the story. No suggestions, please. There is a couple, but the romance doesn’t take up much of the story. An alternate “what if” storyline will be written after the ending. Readers with strict moral sensibilities, please stay away. The protagonists aren’t perfect, so don’t judge them by universal standards of morality. If this isn’t to yo 24.9kReads9.6Score2.6kShelves

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    [Ongoing] 1-4 are similar in theme, no romance, all contain forum-style elements, 1-3 feature the awakening of native characters, 4 features an unlucky office worker who accidentally transmigrates (2 is mostly slice-of-life, 2, 3, and 4 have a system, 1, 3, and 4 have stable updates [Completed] 5, no romance, the female protagonist and her classmates transmigrate into an ancient novel (?), Early on an academy + later on a power struggle, well-developed characters, no one is just a follower, everyone has their own path [Ongoing] 6, I highly recommend this one, but it is frequently interrupted, so consider carefully, 7, there are so-called good guys and bad guys, but everyone is wholeheartedly committed to good, protecting their country, a very passionate patriotic novel.

16. 16 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score181.2kShelves

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    Ahhh, I think they're all pretty much ensemble pieces, and they're all really good!!! I highly recommend 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 11!!!

17. 17 魔 A School of Magic? We Have One in the East, Too! 魔法学院？我东方也有！ Two Mao二毛钱Modern Romance4.8M WordsOngoing [Ensemble cast + academy + magic + no romance + (important: slow burn!)] [Note: There are no absolute villains, and being “stupid” doesn't necessarily mean someone is actually stupid.] Beep--- “Your admission letter to Hualing Magic Academy has arrived. Please check your inbox.” Who could have imagined that the magic novels she once loved would become reality? And even more surprising, there was a magic academy in the East. An Miao hugged her admission letter, beaming as she set off for the acad 11.7kReads9.1Score2kShelves

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    Highly recommend!!! This is the best academic novel I've ever read 🥰

18. 18 公 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Sports2.9M WordsOngoing Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 428.2kReads9.4Score40.7kShelves
19. 19 高 High Martial: Don’t Mess with Her. She Never Stays Dead 高武：别惹她，她向来打不死的 Big Zhong Who Loves Hot Pot吃火锅的大钟Modern Romance917k WordsOngoing [Urban high-martial arts for female readers + female-led story + strong heroine + no romance] Beyond the dome, bloodthirsty eyes gleamed as monstrous beasts looked down on humanity, their claws tearing through the air as city after city of steel and concrete teetered on the brink of collapse. The Nine Provinces faced the threat of annihilation. Then a “warrior” whose evolution was complete emerged, and the war between humanity and the myriad races began, a battle to the death. Gu Changying was j 23.7kReads9.1Score3.3kShelves
20. 20 凡EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 Master of One Update壹更大师Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 561.4kReads9.3Score72kShelves

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    The first book features a mortal body that vanquishes demons, eliminates monsters, moves mountains, and fills seas... The second book features escape room survival, death games, and battle royale... These... Are just the beginning... The third book, "I cannot retreat, because there are millions of people behind me..." What choices will the rest of his life, who doesn't trust anyone and has walked out of the City of Sin, make?

21. 21 现 Modern Cultivation: Our Captain Is Utterly Righteous 现代修仙：队长她正的发邪 Zhou Wendao舟闻道Modern Romance553k WordsCompleted [No romance, strong female lead, lightly ensemble, High Martial, feel-good] (The rating just came out, so it’s low for now.) “When a great tower is about to fall, the only ones who die are those still standing inside it!” “I’m willing to be one of them.” “The Great Xia Demon-Slaying Bureau will fight to the death and never retreat!” “The horns have sounded. I ask you to die for your country!” “My name is Lin Zhi’an. I came to this world as an immortal banished from the heavens, and in my name, I 8kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
22. 22 星 Interstellar Campus: The Five-Person Team Charges Ahead 星际校园：五人小队向前冲 I Refuse to Flop, Starting with Myself拒绝扑街从我做起Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Military academy + mecha + no romance + coming of age + ensemble cast + light humor + five-person team + strong team spirit] For the first seventeen years of her life, Jiang Lin's goal was to get into Mingde's mechanical engineering department and become a highly paid mecha engineer. But an unexpected turn of events sent her to Dawn Military Academy and set her on the path to becoming an elite solo fighter. Inter-academy tournaments, live-fire drills, interstellar battles... Years later, five s 63.1kReads9.5Score7.2kShelves
23. 23 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
24. 24 星 The Interstellar Heiress's Collection of Junk 星际首富大小姐的破烂收藏 That Melon over in the West西边那个瓜Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Interstellar powers, military academy tournament, no romance for the protagonist, spatial abilities, lighthearted and satisfying, friendship-focused, with a large ensemble cast.] [Sole protagonist: Shen Chenfu (Xiao Fu)] [Volume One has been published] After years of wandering, Shen Chenfu is found and brought home by the richest man in the interstellar world. Her adopted sister is openly hostile toward her, and her twin younger brothers mock her for never having eaten meat. When her classmates 45.5kReads9.5Score6.8kShelves
25. 25 我 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 The Princess Isn't Going Home公主不回家Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.4kShelves

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    A passionate and inspiring story set in an academic academy, featuring a diverse cast of characters. My favorite is the second book, "The First Academy." "We are born proud, we shoulder glory!" "Heaven will prevail over man! The victor is king, the loser is villain!" The voices rose higher and higher, shaking the very core of my being! "We are for Heaven!" "We will be king!"

26. 26 说 I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修，怎么是犯贱的贱 Qi Yi Zi七一子Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b 106.6kReads9.5Score15.4kShelves

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    These are all my favorites [Admiration] No romance, strong female protagonists, ensemble cast ① Early stages in academia, later on the protagonists protecting their country, I love it so much [Kiss] ② Silly and satisfying novel, the protagonist group is loyal and the scope is very broad [Heart] ③ A unique post-apocalyptic setting with meticulous thinking, every character is fleshed out and amazing [Kiss] ④ The protagonist group is decisive and ruthless, super satisfying [Heart] (Please read [Shy])

27. 27 全 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves

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    Fate can influence each other. A true ensemble piece is one where everyone is fleshed out, each character has their own storyline and their own shining moments, and everyone grows together, regardless of good or bad. (The first book is an academy + system; the second is an academy + a little magic; the fourth and sixth are both Eastern fantasy, but the sixth has a system; the fifth is a post-apocalyptic + magic; the third has an academy background in the early stages and monster battles later on.) All six books are ensemble pieces.

28. 28 满 A Whole Family of Villainous Cannon Fodder, Riding High with Our Junior Sister 满门反派炮灰，跟着师妹浪到起飞 The Bear Who Bumps into Everything乱撞的小熊Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Ensemble cast + no male lead] Li Yang transmigrates into a book, going from a young, eccentric woman to a little turtle in a wish-granting pool inside an illusion. Who would’ve thought she’d land in a love triangle from the start, with the male lead and the main villain fighting over her. According to the original story, she’s eventually contracted by the original male lead and becomes his greatest trump card on his path to immortality. She spends her entire turtle life taking hits for him: blo 20.7kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
29. 29 谁 Who Gets Forced to Inherit the Young Master Position After Transmigrating? 谁家穿越被迫继承少主之位啊 If I Do Not Leave若不辞Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Urban Imagination + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + Interstellar] It all began when five burly men showed up at her house. “Miss Zhixin, we have been waiting for you!” Zhixin (not a text message!): What?! Overnight, she became the heir to East Xia’s foremost family, and discovered that this world didn’t seem quite right. Zhixin slapped her thigh. “We can talk about being the young mistress later. Looks like things are about to get interesting.” The principal set her up when she enrolled, so Zhixin 66.8kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves

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    Top-rated academic novel!!! You all absolutely have to read it!!! The passionate and energetic characters in the academic competition are vividly portrayed!

30. 30 魔 A Magic Competition? She Leads Her Team Straight to First Place 魔法比赛？她直接带队友拿下第一 I'm Little Lazy我是小懒Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Strong female lead + powerful golden finger + card drawing + summoning + magic + no male lead] After Yu Youyi dies of illness, she transmigrates to another world and lives there for seventeen years. It is a fantastical world where everyone awakens to summoning in their senior year of high school. During the summoning, three cards appear before each person. Summoners draw different ranks of mythical beasts depending on their talent and potential. Yu Youyi always thought she had no golden finger, 3.9kReads8.6Score596Shelves
31. 31 冠 The Age of Champions 冠军时代 So I Married Lamb Soup所以和水盆羊肉结婚了Sports202k WordsOngoing When they were fourteen, Chen Fei and Wu Yu kicked their seventh ball to pieces beneath an old wall in City Y. They had nothing. No decent pitch, no professional coach, and no one who believed two boys from a small city could make anything of themselves through soccer. Chen Fei was the one who sent the ball to places no one could imagine. Wu Yu was the one who turned those passes into goals. They thought that was all there was to it: as long as they kept running together, the road would never 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A high-quality, long-form football epic! No clichés, no silly moments, and no overpowered characters! The main characters' gradual and compelling growth is captivating! Highly recommended!!

32. 32 惹 Pick a Fight with Him? His Guild Is Full of God-Tier Players. How Do You Expect to Win? 惹他？他公会全是神级，拿头打？ Snow Flies, the Sky Is Young飞雪连夭Sports2.7M WordsCompleted [Online gaming + an entire cast of god-tier players + guild-focused + ensemble cast + plot-driven] Reborn for the fourth time, he returns once again to the day the game Illusion Realm launches! He chooses the legendary guild talent Eternal Overlord, which can grow to SSS rank. And so, every player in his guild becomes a god-tier player! A super artillery mage with 1,000 times the damage and 1,000 times the range! A warrior who can unleash, without charging up, a skill that normally takes three y 55.1kReads9.2Score7.4kShelves
33. 33 我 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ Xi Yao喜杳Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 63.9kReads9.6Score7.5kShelves
34. 34 辅 The Number One Support Keeps Refusing to Act Human 辅助一姐又又又又不当人了 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Female-led power fantasy, no romance, academy, passionate, team-focused A modern young Taoist, cursed with the Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies, starves to death one day and transmigrates to a parallel world, where she is bound to a Wealth System. As long as she earns money, she can gain energy points to buy all kinds of amazing goods. This world is crawling with strange beasts, and humans are awakening and evolving too. Si Junni has never been one to sit still, so she’s thrilled and resolves t 26.5kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
35. 35 重EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 Bian Lu边鹿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse758k WordsCompleted (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5kShelves
36. 36 囤EN Stockpiling a Hundred Billion in Supplies: An Assassin Squad Clears the Apocalypse 囤百亿物资，杀手小队通关末世 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.2M WordsCompleted (Female-led story, zombies, team-based, decisive and ruthless, not a bleeding heart) Bai Yaoyao, ranked number one on the assassin leaderboard, awakened a spatial ability after the apocalypse began. She led her brothers from the organization to carve out a path through the carnage and reach the top of the apocalypse's Ten Strongest list. Yet, in the end, she still died in the apocalypse's tenth year, cut to pieces by an Emperor-rank spatial zombie. She thought her life was over. But when she ope 114.7kReads9.5Score11.2kShelves
37. 37 纪 After the Era Shattered 纪元破碎之后 An Empty Bottle in the Thirteenth Month十三月的空瓶Eastern Fantasy311k WordsOngoing The era has shattered, cultivation has vanished, and everyone relies on burning themselves up for power, only to become puppets of the old age. The young Shen Qing has no sacred cultivation texts, no powerful soul, and only a "Prison of the Self" that locks away his true heart. If the old civilization was all wrong, then he will carve his way through this wasteland alone and guide every last ember to salvation! [Ruthless] [Wasteland] [Genius] [Subverts Expectations] [No Female Lead] 23Reads—Score774Shelves

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    In this wasteland cultivation world after the collapse of an era, cultivation requires burning oneself, and the slightest carelessness can lead to losing oneself. The protagonist stays true to himself and seeks the root cause of the era's collapse.

38. 38 命 Pathstrider, I Am Elation Itself! 命途行者，我就是欢愉！ Mao Qianye猫千叶Urban5.7M WordsOngoing [Honkai: Star Rail] [Lighthearted, Sweet Romance] [A Charismatic, Handsome Male Lead Who Loves Flashy Tricks and Showboating] [Live Streaming] [Many Worlds] [Cosmic Adventure] [A Female Lead Who's Irresistible to Everyone] [Enjoyable Even If You Don't Know the Lore] [Cozy Everyday Life] [Doting Father] [6,000+ characters daily, no days off all year, and a steady update schedule] Evil demons invade. Many Pathstriders, awakened to their Path souls, fight desperately to hold them back in the plaza. 16.4kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves

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    Yay! Books 1 and 3 are both ensemble pieces, and the author's writing is excellent! Each story is well-written, and each character is vividly portrayed. 🥹 Book 1, from the beginning... Well, the path the characters take is a bit amusing! But it's very good. Book 2 also leans towards the absurd, the clown god is quite interesting; both characters fall into a magic trap!

39. 39 我 I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌 Azure Company蔚蓝公司Urban2.2M WordsCompleted They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52 157.4kReads8.9Score24.5kShelves
40. 40 原 So You Three Really Are a Bunch of Fools 原来你们仨真是臭皮匠 Empty Umbrella空执伞Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [No System + Ensemble Cast + Not an Overpowered Protagonist or a Power Fantasy. The early chapters are lighthearted and funny, but later on there will be large-scale military battles, and the combat sections will be serious. The academy is like a boot camp for new recruits. After graduation, students have to go to the front lines. They reach the front lines in Chapter 90. The military’s combined abilities appear in Chapter 128, so you can jump there to give it a try. A meteor strikes in Chapter 562Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Group portrait] + [No system] + [Not an invincible novel, not a wish-fulfillment novel] The academy is a place similar to basic training for recruits. The early part is overly funny, there are no scenes of showing off and slapping faces, no entanglements with school beauties. After graduation, you go straight to the front line, and there are many battles.

41. 41 谁 Who Taught You to Be a Brother Like That? 谁教你这么当兄弟的 Peachy Oolong, Regular Sugar桃气乌龙正常糖Two Male Leads544k WordsCompleted [The print edition is now available, published under the title Planetary Effect] Chen Zhijuan is the top surgeon in the orthopedics department at Beicheng People's Hospital. He's usually cold and taciturn. Dr. Chen is strikingly handsome, and his crisp, slender figure in a white coat gives off an air of restraint. The girls chasing after him could circle the hospital three times. Too bad his heart belongs to someone else. He's been secretly in love with his best friend for nearly ten years. The 84.2kReads9.3Score12.5kShelves

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    With two male protagonists, superpowers, and a powerful alliance, every chapter of "Help! Brothers in Life and Death" hits my sweet spot!

42. 42 别 Don’t Be Fooled: That Ditzy One Is the Strongest of Them All 别信，那个呆萌是战力天花板 Mo Yan Aaaa墨衍AaaaModern Romance1.5M WordsOngoing [Two male leads + multiple secondary couples + passionate supernatural battles + brotherly bonds + powerful partners] “I once fell into the abyss, but because of you, I glimpsed the light of day.” Airheaded powerhouse with maxed-out combat ability (Bai Ye) x jealous, fiercely protective older man (Xuan Zhao) Bai Ye, 18, was a mercenary who died tragically in his previous life before transmigrating into the body of a gifted supernatural. His all-element abilities are stronger than his older br 3.1kReads9.4Score469Shelves
43. 43 穿 After Transmigrating into a Western Fantasy Game, She Became a God 穿越西幻游戏后，她成神了 The Forest Burns to Ash层林烬燃Fantastical Romance1.4M WordsOngoing Leveling up + no romance + Western fantasy + magic academy + girls’ dormitory + adventure + competitions Lian An transmigrated into the magic world of a terrible dating sim, becoming Ling He’an, a useless magic apprentice who was little more than a background character. In this danger-filled world, she started with a ramshackle wooden cabin and a magic teacher who treated apprentices like dirt. While others played romance games, she played the ultimate survival challenge. How many steps does it 21.8kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves

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    I think these are the true masters of academy ensemble dramas; they have both excellent writing and compelling character arcs, making them top-ranked on Tomato.

44. 44 学 The Top Student Logs In: Grinding for Thrills at Another World's High School 学神上号，我在异世高中刷爽度 I Refuse to Flop, Starting with Myself拒绝扑街从我做起Modern Romance585k WordsCompleted [Less romance + strong heroine + male lead Xie Yu (if that bothers you, feel free to skip it; don't force yourself) + top student + four-person team + light humor + school life + friendship-focused + not a violence-for-violence power fantasy] One day, Cui Tingchao transmigrates. The next thing she knows, the top university student has become a 180-jin high school freshman being bullied. A fake-sweet best friend, a school bully, and a scumbag senior all come after her. The System's mission is to 1.9kReads9.4Score299Shelves
45. 45 天 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 The Leaf Riding the Wind御风而行的葉子Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 269.6kReads9.5Score22.3kShelves

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    How could we talk about academy without mentioning Jin Feichen, the top-tier F4 of Beijing! [Cool] Looking for connections? Sorry, we're simply the best! [Cool]

46. 46 逆 Fate Reversed: The Hero and the Villain Are Both Me 逆命回溯，正派反派都是我自己 A Few Strokes of Ink几两笔墨Urban639k WordsOngoing [The rating just came out, so it’s not worth considering yet] [Keywords: ensemble cast, secret identities, villains, transmigration into a book, close-combat mage, no angst, safe to read, lighthearted and uplifting] S-rank talent [Rewind], S-rank talent [Fatekeeper]. The S-rank talents others can only dream of having, Bai Xiuqi has two of. But he isn’t happy, because he doesn’t belong in this world. It’s nothing more than a novel titled Saving the World Alone, and he’s the one who wrote it. He w 673Reads8.6Score103Shelves

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    The current story takes place in the academy. [Keywords: No romance, ensemble cast, redemption story, multiple identities, transmigration, melee mage, decisive and ruthless, no angst, lighthearted and positive energy] S-rank talent [Rewind], S-rank talent [Destiny Master]—S-rank talents that others can only dream of, Bai Xiuqi possesses two. But he's not happy, because he's not from this world. This world is merely a novel called "I Saved Alone," and he is its author. He wants to go back, back to the world with family and friends. Familiar characters appear before Bai Xiuqi—An Chilin, Mo Qianchou, Su Xiwan, Qiu Yuanli… A superior voice tells him: "Complete the plot you've written, create a world where no one gets hurt, and you can leave." Bai Xiuqi smiles bitterly; his original plot was a complete tragedy for everyone… [Charm 1 and Luck 99 are real.]

47. 47 污 Pollution Has Arrived? I Studied to Purify the World! 污染降临？我学的就是净化世界！ Yu Siyuan余四元Urban702k WordsCompleted [No romance, no System, delusions of grandeur, comedy, invincible, ensemble cast] “I’m here because I’m sick, not because I’m stupid.” Strange dreams descend, and the door to a new world slowly opens for Zhang Fan. A wealthy academy that comes knocking on its own is brimming with an air of unreliability. Your first lesson as a new student: this is offense, this is defense. Got it? Great, you're ready to take on strange pollution all by yourself. Go defeat them! Stone figures awaken at a manor de 11.8kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
48. 48 看 After Seeing the Manga Comments, I Tear Up the Cannon Fodder Script 看到漫画弹幕后我手撕炮灰剧本 Mo Xiao Mo莫晓moUrban1.8M WordsOngoing [Not a wish-fulfillment story. Superpowers + defying fate + no romance/just friendship + ensemble cast + character growth. Not fanfiction.] [Ah, is that purple-haired guy a minor background character? Getting killed by a billboard is just too tragic.] On an otherwise ordinary day, a sentence like this appeared out of nowhere in front of an ordinary person named Lu Jiuxiao. That was how he learned he was inside a comic. As an insignificant little extra, his greatest contribution was to die and 61.7kReads9.1Score6.9kShelves

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    An incredibly hot-blooded and chuunibyou (delusional) squad! Our Zero Era Group went from being on the verge of conflict to becoming like-minded friends with just one Ninth Brother!

49. 49 什 What? You’re Saying This Bunch of Lunatics Are the Saviors!? 什么，你说这群癫子是救世主！？ Di Lü狄绿Urban187k WordsOngoing [Mysterious Forces Resurge] + [Dream Creator] + [No Female Lead] + [Comedy] + [Fiery Passion] + [A Cast of Lunatics] + [Backstabbing Each Other] A hundred years ago, mysterious forces resurged. A shroud of mist descended, and the uncanny invaded human territory. Humanity built towering walls to hold them back, while cities trained passionate, righteous orderkeepers to defend them. In this chaotic age, one team of lunatics stands out like a sore thumb. “Want to kill them? No way. They're my comra 217Reads7.0Score106Shelves

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    Want to take a look at this one? [Makes a face]

50. 50 我 I Reached the Pinnacle of Superpowers Through a Comics Forum 我靠漫画论坛登顶异能之巅 Dare Not Act Recklessly不敢放肆Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Comic / Superpowers / Forum posts / Slightly glorified character / No CP / Ensemble cast] After An Luo awakens to his true nature, he discovers he’s in a comic book world and is a cannon-fodder character who dies from the start. The consciousness of the comic tells him that the author will eventually ruin the ending, and only he can change it. To stay alive, An Luo agrees. He walks up to the protagonist. “Excuse me, coming through.” He bends down, picks up a female corpse, and begins stitching 70.4kReads9.2Score13.7kShelves

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