For the Most Discerning Readers in a Serious Reading Slump (No Stupid, Beginner-Level Stories, Please). Beginners, Stay Away 高高高高级书荒区（智障小白文别推）新手勿入
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Robinson's Castaway Adventure: An Unruly Rebirth 鲁滨漂流之不逊重生
[Hardcore] When a DIY enthusiast transmigrates into Robinson Crusoe, how will he defeat the natives and survive on a deserted island? And how will he protect his island amid the wave of colonization? See how Lu Bin navigates alliances and rivalries in the turbulent Age of Sail.
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We're All Freaks, So Why Do You Stand Out So Much? 大家都是变态，为何你如此突出
[Ninjutsu] + [Thriller] + [Scheming] + [Extremely twisted] + [No female lead] [Some scenes may offend certain readers. Proceed with caution. Self-righteous do-gooders, please don't bring real-world morality into a fictional world!] Bai Ge has survived in the Thriller World for two and a half years when he suddenly gets a Ninjutsu System. Complete missions, and he can gain the power of ninjutsu. Spirit Doll: “This human is so cruel! I just couldn't afford the delivery fee, and he ripped my eyebal
3kReads9.0Score344Shelves
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Global Hide-and-Seek: From the Start, I Got Cheat Mode! 全球捉迷藏：开局获得作弊模式！
[The only one on the entire site!] Su Mu transmigrates to a parallel world where everyone is forced to enter a hide-and-seek dimension at the age of eighteen and become a challenger! Inside the dimension, they play all kinds of hide-and-seek games! Turn into an object and evade your pursuers! Explore a manor of coded puzzles and escape! Hide-and-seek in the style of Werewolf! Winners can earn money, superpowers, and magical items! Anyone who fails twice in the dimension will die! After entering
8.4kReads8.5Score1kShelves
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Reborn as an Ant: From the Start, I Have an Ant Queen 重生成蚁：开局一只蚁后
Spiritual qi revival, strange beasts rising, disasters striking: humanity has fallen from the top of the food chain and off its pedestal. All living things are back at the same starting line, and an unprecedented biological arms race is about to begin! Yang Qing was reborn before the spiritual qi revival, but became an exceedingly frail male ant who would die after mating. Watching the ants swarm through the sky on their nuptial flight, Yang Qing faces his first question: how can he survive unti
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Doomsday Evolution: The Zombie Overlord 末日进化：丧尸大魔王
A blood-red sun hangs high in the sky, and the world is transformed! An utterly ordinary little zombie faces countless perils in the apocalypse, evolving again and again until it becomes the Zombie Demon King!
7.5kReads8.9Score633Shelves
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Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世：开局先囤十亿物资
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left
110.1kReads9.3Score12.2kShelves
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I Have a Bit Too Much Survival Gear 我的生存物资有点多
One day, everyone transmigrates into an apocalyptic survival world. Facing cold, hunger, and infection, they must search everywhere for supplies while guarding against attacks from zombies and all kinds of monsters. To stay alive, people gather supplies, make guns and ammunition, and build shelters. But when the blood moon rises every seven days, turning the sky red as massive zombie hordes descend, will the countless survivors be able to hold out? From his beginner's pack, Chen Mo gets a skill
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Abaddon 亚巴顿
[Post-apocalypse + zombies + ordinary people] The Abaddon zombie virus outbreak came out of nowhere. There are no superpowers or advanced technologies. I'm just an ordinary high school student, and all I want is to survive. Note: Told from the perspective of an ordinary high school student, this story follows his struggle to survive and grow during the zombie outbreak. It stays grounded in reality and aims to give readers a more realistic experience. This is a true post-apocalyptic novel.
8.3kReads8.8Score868Shelves
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Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力
[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
341.6kReads9.7Score49.7kShelves
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Great Ming: My Father Is Yongle, and I Shall Guard the Realm Forever 大明：家父永乐，永镇山河
In the final years of the Jianwen era, the Prince of Yan entered the capital, took the throne, and adopted the reign title Yongle. A great empire was turning a brand-new page, on the verge of ushering in an age of peace for the ages. A young man from the future transmigrates into the famous “Grilled Meat Prince,” Zhu Gaoxu. Before him stand the brilliant Yongle Emperor, Zhu Laosi; his frail, sickly eldest brother, Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi; his beloved nephew, the Good Holy Grandson Zhu Zhanji…
2.9kReads9.2Score440Shelves
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This Navy's the Real Deal: They Actually Dare to Kill Whitebeard! 这海军能处，白胡子他真敢杀！
([Slow burn] + [Justice] + [High energy]. The early pacing is a little slow, so feel free to skip ahead if you can't get into it. It takes off from Chapter 56!!) The Great Pirate Era is rife with conflict, and pirates run rampant. I am Ron. In the name of a hero, I protect the weak and stand firm in defense of the justice that is mine. Akainu: No matter what it takes, I want him as my adjutant! Sengoku: Damn it! How did I, the Fleet Admiral of the Marines, end up as a figurehead? Zephyr: He is t
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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
1.7MReads9.9Score233.7kShelves
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The Big Shot Has a Little Conscience, but Not Much 大佬他有点良心，但不多
[Decisive and Ruthless] x [No Romance] x [Ridiculous Power Fantasy] x [Unhinged but Handsome Male Lead] x [Refined Pervert] “Executioner No. 001, mission completed perfectly.” After dying, Yan Wugui, who had spent ten years in a psychiatric hospital, became an executioner for the Myriad Worlds System. He travels across the heavens and countless realms to hunt down rule-breakers and keep the worlds running as they should. An executioner? Call me the Reaper. [System] Executioner No. 001. Assassina
17.5kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
800.7kReads9.4Score53.9kShelves
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
26.5kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
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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
[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..
182.8kReads9.7Score22.4kShelves
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Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼
Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu
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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
121.6kReads9.5Score12.2kShelves
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The Netherworld Scholar Immortal 通幽小儒仙
“Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem
74.5kReads9.4Score8.2kShelves
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My Star Cards Are Different 我的星卡不一样
Spiritual qi revival sweeps the world. Living creatures evolve once more, and as humanity awakens star power, everyone gains a companion Star Card. Cheng Xilin binds himself to a card-drawing System, and thanks to his unusual way of thinking, the Star Cards’ uses gradually take on a life of their own. Element Card “Electromagnetism”: Isn’t that just Misaka Mikoto, the Railgun? Guardian Card “Fire Dragon”: Natsu, is that you? Weapon Card “Lush Glove”: I’m going straight for the True Thousand Hand
10.2kReads8.9Score683Shelves
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Blessed with Endless Luck, the Beloved Little Imperial Aunt 福运绵绵，团宠小皇姑
The little toddler, Mianmian, was rejected by her own parents and sent back to Great Qin. Though she was tiny, her rank in the family was extraordinarily high: the princes had to call her Great-Aunt, and even the emperor respectfully addressed her as Little Imperial Aunt. She was the Taishang Emperor’s sister. Who in the whole capital would dare offend this formidable aunt? They must be tired of living. The three-and-a-half-year-old was small but gifted, skilled at catching ghosts, fortune-tell
12.5kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
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This Uncle Is No Good 这个大叔不正经
(Originally titled Agent Yi Leng) Huang Pi Hu, the cook at Yumei Restaurant, is a greasy, lecherous middle-aged man who likes to drink, smoke, and fiddle with his beads. He also often follows female students around. No one knows his true identity: retired agent Yi Leng, a godlike heartthrob to countless beautiful women. He has hidden himself among ordinary people only to quietly protect his daughter, who no longer recognizes him.
34.1kReads9.4Score4.1kShelves
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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
470kReads9.7Score74.3kShelves
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The Peerless National Healer 无双国医
Why do expert department heads from the country's top hospitals keep showing up at a neighborhood clinic? Why do renowned experts and professors from across the country so often visit a township health center? Yun Heng, a master's graduate in traditional Chinese medicine, had just started his new job when he offended the hospital's department head and was driven out. With no choice but to make a living at a neighborhood clinic, he somehow turned a township community health center into a national
65.4kReads9.5Score8.7kShelves
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After My Wife and Daughter Died, I Was Reborn in the 1980s 老婆女儿去世后，我重生八零
[Urban life in a bygone era + one heroine + teacher]“In our next life, let’s not be husband and wife again!” His wife called him, her voice hollow and lifeless, utterly devoid of emotion. It felt as if his soul were being torn apart. He shouted into the phone, “Don’t do anything foolish! I’m on my way to the hospital!” The next moment! His daughter lay in a hospital bed, a white sheet covering her face. His wife sat beside her, calm and despairing. “We did everything we could. Your daughter pass
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Cultivating Immortality by Raising a Horde of Monsters: What Are You All Panicking About? 修仙，我就养群妖怪，你们慌什么
[Transmigration! Reborn! Lighthearted + lively + satisfying + funny + leveling up and fighting monsters!] Lin Chuyi failed her tribulation and was reborn in a tiny mountain village where they ate just two meals a day. With her soul damaged, she spent years in a daze. Then she suddenly rose to prominence, leaving everyone dumbfounded! She raises spirit beasts, takes in monsters, and leads her family in leveling up as they fight monsters! When her adoptive father returned from the army, he stared
47.9kReads9.5Score7.6kShelves
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
110.6kReads9.6Score12.1kShelves
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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
792.5kReads9.7Score93.8kShelves
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My Junior Disciples Are All Overpowered, So I Have to Cheat! 师弟们都是大佬，那我只能开挂了
The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!”
138.8kReads9.4Score12.8kShelves
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Reborn in S7: One Battle at the Bird's Nest Made Me a Legend 重生S7：鸟巢一战封神
How would you sum up LPL player Liang Chen's achievements in one sentence? “If Brother Chen had never been born, the LPL would have known only endless darkness!” After pulling an all-nighter, the down-and-out young man Liang Chen dies suddenly and is reborn in his youth, with the League System at his side. Starting out as an unknown boosting service player, he embarks on a legendary journey.
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My Scumbag Fiancé Ran Away from Our Wedding, So I Married Someone Else on the Spot 渣男逃婚，我当场改嫁了
On her wedding day, Meng Jinyao’s intended groom, Gu Xiuming, eloped with another woman, turning her into a laughingstock. She hardened her heart and changed grooms on the spot, marrying Gu Xiuming’s adoptive father, Gu Jingxi. After the wedding, Gu Xiuming sneered at her. “Meng Jinyao, have you no shame? You couldn’t become my bride, so now you want to become my mother?” Meng Jinyao looked at the man standing in the doorway and complained, “Husband, your son is being disrespectful and insulting
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Southern Song, Northern Center 南宋北中
From the start, two strangers who accidentally ended up together transmigrate with their bare bottoms exposed, covering themselves with leaves before getting stung in their most sensitive spots by hairy caterpillars. No System, no golden finger. They mainly rely on what they've learned online to make their way in the world, and the story wins on plot alone. Humorous and funny, with an emphasis on realism.
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Records of Jinglan 靖澜录
Su Yanci, courtesy name Jingyuan, is the son of Su Zhenting, former commander of the Northern Frontier. After his family is disgraced as traitors, he lies low in the martial world as “Master Mo,” then enters the imperial court, rising from Assistant Director of the Supreme Court to Censor-in-Chief. His plans are meticulous, yet he always leaves room to maneuver. While investigating the Jiangnan salt-tax case, he spares a minor official from the maternal relatives’ faction who was forced into wro
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Global Fog Shift: Guiding Lost Souls Through a Cyberpunk Doomsday 全球雾变：我在赛博末日摆渡亡魂
Humanity begins to evolve, animals begin to mutate, and a group of people who are already dead appear on the city network. Chen Fang used to work as a digital legacy cleaner, helping the families of the deceased close accounts, organize cloud storage, and delete chat records that should not be left behind. On the night the red fog descended, he received a commission no one had paid for. The client had died three days earlier. Shen Zhixia, an emergency room doctor, said those “ghosts” might not b
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Apocalypse: After Awakening Infinite Extraction, I Stocked Up to the Brim 末世：觉醒无限提取后，我囤满了
Reborn before the apocalypse began, Xiao Chen was betrayed by his girlfriend and her brother. They stole the billions' worth of supplies he had painstakingly stockpiled, then shoved him into a horde of zombies and left him to die with a broken leg. When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the day of that tragedy. Xiao Chen sneered and activated the Apocalypse Overlord System. As the betrayers celebrated having all the resources, they suddenly noticed the same line of tiny print on every sup
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I Inherit the Engine of Civilization in the Ruins of the Future 我在未来废墟继承文明引擎
The story plunges straight into disaster. Technology comes with combat capabilities. The enemies have clear objectives and countermeasures. The dialogue is bold and philosophical, but never bogged down in catchphrases. The world keeps expanding: Star-Ring City, the Lunar Core Lighthouse, the Martian Star-Womb Sea, Jupiter’s Storm-Nerve City, Saturn’s Ring Shipyard, the Kuiper Zero-Point Gate, the Black Hole Echo Well, and the Civilization Engine.
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Spirit Touch in the Frigid Sky 灵触寒空
Long Xiaochen was born at dawn, smiling as he welcomed the morning dew. He thought his father was just a drunk, but it turned out that his father was the leader of the “Twelve Reapers,” the top assassin organization in the Eternal Star System! He also possessed a mysterious psychic power that no one in the system could match! His father left him over a case from twelve years ago. Before leaving, he said, “Son, you have to grow stronger if you want to protect the people around you!” Grow stronger
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