Any Good Books With a Monk as the Male Lead? 有男主是和尚，好看的书么
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Entering the Mortal World for One Person 为一人入红尘
(Dual male leads + possessive pursuit + a cool, pure, gentle young monk VS a hot-tempered, unhinged, lovesick cross-dressing big shot + redemption + looks angsty but is actually very sweet + terrible at writing blurbs) When they first met, Qingkong had no idea he was a delicacy in a tiger's sights. He kept handing out good-person cards: “The young lady is a good person. If I can save only one person, I will save only her!” But he never imagined he was dealing with an unhinged, lovesick cross-dre
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Emptiness Is Pleasure 空即是瑟
[Bold, dazzling beauty VS ascetic monk] Qian Se transmigrated. A mercenary leader, she had been betrayed by her most trusted subordinate. Then she fell off a cliff. And somehow landed in the arms of an evil monk... Bai Wuxie was resting by the river, leaning back with his eyes closed. A peerlessly beautiful woman suddenly fell straight into his arms. From then on, Bai Wuxie's peaceful life was turned upside down... [Ancient fantasy romance, wuxia, doting husband, scheming hero, happy ending, tr
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You're Supposed to Be a Celibate Master, So Why Are You Sneaking Kisses on My Dragon Horns? 说好的禁欲大师，怎么偷亲我龙角
[Gorgeous, Badass Witch VS Ascetic Buddhist Monk] As soon as Ao Zhiyi, the little princess of the Eastern Sea, was born with a demonic body, one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers surrounded the Eastern Sea, determined to kill her. To keep her safe, the Old Dragon King had no choice but to send his guardian to place her with Master Wuwang, a highly skilled monk he trusted. Cool and detached, Wuwang took in the little princess of the Eastern Sea out of gratitude for the Old Dragon King's past kin
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The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子
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
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Her Serpent's Tail Teases Only Her Beloved, Luring the Dutiful Monk Into the Mortal World 蛇尾只撩心上人，乖诱佛子入红尘
This book has been selected for a comic adaptation, which is currently in production. Follow Red Fruit Short Video for updates. [A little angst at first, then all sweetness] “Master, let’s cultivate together.” “Brazen demoness, how dare you!” That was Qing Shu and the master’s first meeting. After supporting each other along the way, the master realized he had fallen deeply in love with Qing Shu. Once he recognized his feelings, he found himself wanting to spend his life with her, no matter the
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Contemplating Clarity 观澄
Every day, he tries his best to help her pass on, and every day, she helplessly puts up with the little monk!
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Monk, You've Broken Your Vows Again 和尚，你又破戒了
A female PhD reborn in the womb × a scheming young marquis Transmigration + physician heroine + both leads devoted only to each other + sweet romance He Jiaojiao, legitimate daughter of the Yong’an Marquis’s household, is set up by her former fiancé, And ends up sharing a room with Zhou Yunshen, the Zhenwei Marquis who has renounced the world to become a monk**! He says he searched for her for six years, and from now on, he’ll never let her go again! At the Peony Banquet, she is framed and falls
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Female Patron, Please Restrain Yourself. This Monk Must Not Break His Vows 女施主请自重，小僧不能破戒
She glances at the handsome monk beside her and finds him too hard to resist, so she pounces on him... “Ever since I met you, Holy Monk Brother, my luck has turned around!” “You must not indulge in the seven emotions and six desires. Come chant scriptures with me!” This is a breathtaking love story of romance and passion (not really)... He is a holy monk of his generation, while she is a temptress from a dual cultivation sect. The two are enemies, but after an accident, they somehow end up
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The Heroine Is a Total Menace, and the Supporting Lady Snatches Every Opportunity 女主嗷嗷能作，女配嘎嘎怒抢机缘
[Zany comedy + a cast full of attention-seekers + a baby Tibetan fox + all kinds of fluffy creatures + an unconventional power fantasy] Big square face, squinty eyes, and a permanently gloomy, world-weary expression. Hua Miaomiao is unlucky enough to transmigrate into a Tibetan fox with an utterly odd appearance. If fox spirits are supposed to be good at bewitching people, her specialty is provoking them. To top it off, the entire demon realm is the female lead's backyard, thanks to her beast-ta
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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From the Start, She Was Max Level: The Ceiling of the Cultivation World 开局直接满级，她是修真界天花板
(Absurd comedy + strong female lead + satisfying power fantasy + nonsensical humor + useless System + no male lead!) Word on the street: The Jade Purity Immortal Venerable of Lingyun Sect, the greatest sect in the cultivation world, possesses a unique method of cultivation. His disciples neither meditate nor practice spells. Instead, they bury themselves in books and write furiously, yet their cultivation rockets upward at breakneck speed. A curious onlooker stole their cultivation manual. The c
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After Fleeing the Famine, My Unhinged Husband Comes Obediently to Farm 逃荒后：疯批夫君乖乖来种田
[System-upgradable pocket dimension, no awful relatives in daily life, mind reading, obsessive love, devoted husband] An Jing transmigrates into a parallel world based on a farming-and-immortality game. Blizzards, flight from disaster, and epidemics come one after another, and she’s forced to marry a dangerously unhinged villain. Luckily, she has a powerful Couples System. As long as she keeps completing missions, rewards will keep coming her way. Most importantly, if she has a qualified little
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Shocking! The Sword Sect Has a Young Girl Who Takes the Blame 震惊！剑宗出了一位背锅的小姑娘
Also known as: Gourmet Girl, She Conquers the Cultivation World with a Wok Shocking! The Sword Sect Has a Little Girl Who Carries a Wok [Transmigration] + [Cute Pets] + [Gourmet] + [Foodie] + [Everyone’s Favorite] + [No Romance] + [No System, Farming in the Cultivation World] Foodie Zhu Xiaomeng had just finished her college entrance exams and was ready to enjoy a good, long sleep. But when she woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated into the body of a little girl fleeing famine. The gi
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The Evil Buddha, the Demon Monk 邪佛妖僧
[Buddhist Cultivation] [No System] [Humorous Political Intrigue] [Cunning and Passionate] [Transmigration and Rebirth] [Eastern Fantasy] [Rise of the Underdog] Fan Yun was a useless child raised from a young age by a nunnery. Through a life full of extraordinary twists, he rises to stand among the greatest under heaven! Fan Yun’s extraordinary life is filled with countless tales of love, hate, and heartbreak, but his original aspiration never changes: he seeks the Buddha with all his heart! The
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The Monk's Strange Deeds Recorded: Humans and Ghosts Traveling Together 僧行异事录之人鬼同途
In the human world, ghosts, ghosts and ghosts are rampant. The helpless young monk Ming Xin traveled down the mountain and got acquainted with the chivalrous but careless Li Lie and the little girl Zhi Nuer who looked childish but had a vicious mouth and a soft heart. The three of them cooperated and conquered one monster after another. Gradually, they discovered that behind these events was the shadow of the same blind fortune teller who was good at manipulating people's hearts. Desire, love an
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You Were Born a Rakshasa 卿本修罗
[The aloof Buddhist devotee driven mad by love × the bewitching enchantress who willingly imprisons her heart] He is the holiest Buddhist disciple; she is the most wicked temptress of a heretical sect. Yunzhi is ordered to destroy evil, yet catches Jinrao as she falls amid the mist and rain of Jiangnan. A pleasure boat conceals a deadly trap; in a snowy mountain cavern, their passion is ignited by a love poison... Rouge stains the monk’s robe he tears open, and as his prayer beads fall to the gr
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Demon's Body, Buddha's Heart 魔身佛心
(Buddhist cultivator, with demonic energy in his body but Buddha in his heart, no System, intelligent protagonist, no heroine) “Wuchen, have you really made up your mind?” “Yes, Abbot.” Hearing the old monk beside him voice his doubts, Wuchen nodded and gazed toward the distance at the foot of the mountain. That was where the mortal world lay, with cooking smoke curling into the sky, worldly affairs and the warm glow of countless homes. But there, too, wars raged, and people suffered through eve
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A Long Winter in the Snowlands 雪域长冬
Eight years ago, after a night of passion, Sheng Yiqing fled in a panic. Eight years later, they meet again. He is a Buddhist monk seated on his sacred pedestal; she is a cool-headed, capable architect. Then, on a night under a dazzling sky, he stops her. “Sheng Yiqing, let me buy you a cup of tea.” The butter tea cools, then boils again. Prayer flags ripple in the wind like an omen: the monk has fallen in love…
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Reborn as the Crown Prince of a Fallen Kingdom, I Throw Myself into the Enemy’s Arms 穿成亡国太子我直接投入敌军怀抱
Completed. Search “Fanqie Listen” for the full-cast audiobook. [Manic, unhinged, vicious beauty vs. proper, restrained, aloof Buddha-like lord] [Two male leads + equally matched + mutual secret crush + both virgins] From the start, he was on an ancient battlefield, surrounded by soldiers and generals splattered with blood. He was the crown prince of a fallen kingdom. With a sworn enemy ahead, pursuers behind, and the burden of restoring his country on his shoulders, who could stay sane? While he
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Master, Your Romance Luck Has Blossomed 大师，你桃花开了
[Silly Comedy + Sweet Romance + Fallen Princess + Fake Monk + Devoted Couple + Sharp Tongues] Before meeting Wuchen, Qin Yueliang only wanted to stand on her own two feet and take down anyone who coveted her beauty. After meeting Wuchen, all Qin Yueliang wants is to cling to him and let him take down anyone who covets her beauty. They first meet outside Jing'an Temple. “Master, I’m just a helpless young woman. If you don’t help me, I’ll die!” “Benefactor, take another look at the corpses at your
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Holy Monk, Do You Think I’m Beautiful? 圣僧你瞧我美么
He is a prince born to the most favored consort in the State of Jin. From childhood, he was sent to a royal temple to become a lay Buddhist monk. She is a young lady from a marquis's household that fell on hard times, forced by poverty to become a petty thief in the pleasure quarters. When they first met as children, Wen Liang rescued Yang Peng from danger and helped her escape. Years later, they met again, and Yang Peng followed Wen Liang down the mountain to gain experience. Before long, spark
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After Being Reborn, the Holy Monk Keeps Trying to Save Me 重生后圣僧他总想渡我
[Reborn + Infrastructure and Farming + Strong Female Lead + Ascetic Buddhist Monk + Political Intrigue] Lin Lanyue was reborn. She decided to claim the all-powerful Buddhist monk for herself. But all he said was, “Miss, you have taken too many lives. I shall deliver you from your sins.”
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After Raising Hell in Every Way, I Dragged the Holy Monk from His Pedestal 花式作妖后，圣僧被我拉下神坛
[One-on-one romance] [Both leads are sexually inexperienced] [The heroine is a master bluffer] [The hero is utterly innocent] [Fantasy elements] [Updated daily until completion] Me! The dignified Empress! I was deposed. That’s right, I was deposed less than five minutes from the start. Then they sent me to a temple, where I was forced to eat vegetarian food every day. I got so hungry that I went up the mountain to catch fish, but I couldn’t catch a single one. I did catch a monk, though. Some ti
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A Little Demon Monk Came Down from Foshan 从佛山上下来个小妖僧
“She gave her life for this little monk, and this little monk gave her up for the world.” I, Wang Ziyong, an abandoned prince, became the darling of the whole of Foshan, but I was cursed with a damned destiny: to become the Buddhist Son Hong Shan. I only wanted to muddle through, tease my grandfathers, and escape my fate. Then the day of the selection of the Buddhist Son arrived, and everything changed... Everything in this world is predetermined. Every cause bears its fruit. Every feeling holds
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Unintentionally Becoming a Buddha 无心成佛
A secret history of the primordial world after the Investiture of the Gods. The protagonist's soul transmigrates into the body of a dying bandit, forcing him to become a monk. He discovers that what later generations believe was a pilgrimage to the West was actually Buddhism spreading its scriptures eastward, as the Buddhist and Daoist faiths vie for supremacy. Focusing on cultivating his mind, the protagonist becomes a true immortal amid the war between humans and demons in Xiniu Hezhou. He the
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The Monk, the Prince, and the Forensic Princess 和尚王爷法医妃
“Holy Monk? Master? Monk? You bald-headed bastard, just say you love me and I swear I won't violate you. Otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless.” “Amitabha. We who have renounced the world are free of the five skandhas and keep our six senses pure. I ask that you behave with decorum, female devotee.” And so, on a dark and windy night, when murder and arson were afoot, Chu Qingyue committed an unspeakable deed to a monk. Five years later, Chu Qingyue returns with a little bun in tow, her r
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The Little Divine Healer Monk 神医小和尚
The mountain is so poor that it can’t afford to raise a half-grown boy, so the young monk’s master tells him to leave the monastery and go have fun on his own. He has never had to eat vegetarian food or chant sutras, never wanted for food or clothes, and has lived carefree under his master’s care. Yet the young monk heads down the mountain with a troubled look, determined to support himself and keep the glittering city from dazzling him. Staying true to his principles, he uses what he has learne
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Joy on the Return to the Capital 归朝欢
Even as Princess Qiuyang lay dying, the person she couldn’t forget was still the one with rosy lips and bright teeth, whose smile made her willing to give up her life. But that person was hounded to death by the whole world. So she decided to seize the entire realm and make it his grave offering. Unfortunately, she fell just short of success. Before she died, she thought that when they first met, she should have ignored everything and snatched that great monk away, locked him up, and never let a
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The Good-for-Nothing Defies Heaven: Master, Your Disciple Wants to Be Your Favorite 废柴逆天：师尊，徒儿想抱大腿
(This novel is silly and hilarious, with a devoted couple, a puppy-like male lead, and a sly female lead. If it doesn't make you laugh, come fight me.) The young heir of a top aristocratic family sees the sly heroine at first sight and tricks her into becoming his apprentice with a hundred purple gold coins. Seeing that her young master is a rich, handsome hunk, the heroine decides to strike first and claim him for herself. The master treats his apprentice like a cherished child bride, protectin
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Refine Divine Pills! Command Divine Beasts! The Good-for-Nothing Young Lady Is Actually an Unparalleled Empress 炼神丹！御神兽！废柴大小姐竟是绝世帝女
[Everyone’s darling + two powerful leads + beast taming + pocket dimension + inheritance of the Imperial Daughter] Ye Ranyin, the most feared mercenary of the 21st century, known as the Night God! In a single moment, she transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing scorned in a border town! Her fiancé’s family comes to break off the engagement? Her own clan treats her as a pawn to be discarded? The next moment, she is welcomed back to the imperial capital and becomes the only beloved young
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Peerless Beast Tamer: I Have More Divine Beast Contracts Than I Can Handle 绝世御兽师：神兽契约到手软
What? Born with a useless body, doomed to never rise again? Bullshit! Now that my soul and body are reunited, I’m here to crush you brainless fools! Spatial magic, every elemental affinity, beast taming, alchemy: I can do it all with ease! “Miao Qi! How dare you! Do you know who you’ve struck?” The Miao family patriarch’s eyes nearly popped out of his head. He stared at the Second Prince, panting like a dead dog beneath Miao Qi’s feet, and broke into a cold sweat. The woman in red laughed arroga
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The Aloof Buddhist: Your Highness, Please Show Me Some Affection 清冷佛子：公主殿下求您疼我
The aloof Buddhist prince: Princess, please show me some affection
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The Treacherous Minister Is Expecting 奸臣有喜
She is the short-tempered, shameless Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, skilled at embezzlement, bribery, and abusing her power for personal gain. Her hobbies include attacking people from the shadows and sowing discord. She is the dynasty's infamous number-one villain. Then one day, the officials were relieved to discover that she had finally set her sights on someone else: the renowned Imperial Preceptor. To arrange a chance encounter, she starts lurking outside his residence every
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The Master Must Return to Secular Life: My Lady, Don't Run! 大师要还俗：娘子你别跑！
After accidentally transmigrating, Bai Guanguan gets involved with a handsome master and gradually disrupts his quiet cultivation. The master is stern and old-fashioned, and keeps himself apart from women, yet this breathtakingly beautiful nun always leaves him blushing and flustered. From then on, words of joyful Zen are always on his lips: First tempt them with desire, then lead them to the wisdom of Buddha... Guanguan, I take refuge in you. Wait, is this really the same master who was untouch
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The Delicate Fox Circles the Buddha's Son 娇柔狐狸绕佛子
The Sweet Fox Enchants the Buddhist Disciple
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Sailing Across the Sea of Bitterness 苦海行舟
Transmigrating through the Three Thousand Worlds, wandering far and wide, witnessing the daily lives of Buddhist cultivators unlike any others. Going with the flow, following one's heart, amidst mountains, seas, and myths, every encounter has its own fate. (A new journey begins, with a different path of Buddhist cultivation.)
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