Looking for a Quiet, Stoic Character Like the Little Brother Who Never Says He's Hurt, Even If It's Not Tomb-Raiding 和小哥一样话少受伤也不说（不是盗墓的也可以）

1. 101 娱 Showbiz Mystery: I Play the Qilin, and Mimi Falls Hard for Me 娱乐探秘：扮演麒麟，蜜蜜爱惨了 Five Yuan a Day for Meals每天五块钱饭钱Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing The summer's hottest show is here! Ten of Daxia's leading and most powerful companies, all among the world's top 500, have joined forces with the hottest satellite channel, Banana TV, to launch an entertainment-adventure show called The Ultimate Wilderness Champion. The show will be livestreamed, with ten celebrity guests taking part: Men: Wu Jing, Hua Chenyu, Cai Xukun, Zhang Dada, Huang Zitao Women: Yang Mi, Dilraba, Bai Lu, Meng Ziyi, Yang Chaoyue They'll also hold open auditions to select on 1.9kReads6.0Score17514d adds

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   This is alright, pretty good.

2. 102 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Kid Brother Found a Shut-In Kid 盗墓：小哥捡了个自闭崽 Don't Cloud the Sky别云上Mystery257k WordsCompleted Xiaoge favoritism + family and friendship + everyone’s darling + raising a kid What happens when Xiaoge picks up a kid even more withdrawn than he is? Xiaoge: cold expression, staring. Kid: expressionless, staring. The kid has zero close-range attack power, but moves with effortless grace, is unbeatable at ranged attacks, has superb medical skills, can send you to meet the King of Hell in minutes, and keeps lots of Gu. The kid is very withdrawn and doesn’t like to talk at first. The kid is a swe 6.7kReads8.9Score86814d adds

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   The story revolves around the protagonist, Ali (whose life is filled with separation). She is a saintess, burdened by the lives of her entire clan; she must fulfill her mission! As a child, she went to the Bronze Gate and nearly died, saved by Xiao Ge. She knew Xiao Ge and Hei Xiazi before, but they left after she lost her memory. The ending is somewhat tragic.

3. 103 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Little Third Master, I Don't Believe You Have Nothing in Your Eyes 盗笔：小三爷，我不信你两眼空空 The Scholar in White Shell白衣壳的秀士Two Male Leads195k WordsCompleted [An amateur, vulgar story with a cheesy love-at-first-sight plot. I’m not a good writer, so please don’t criticize it.] Love at first sight in the desert: shallow and vulgar. Gu Yi appeared by “chance,” but why did he seem so familiar to me? Wu Xie didn’t know. But he didn’t want to forget again, so he began to lose himself in it with his eyes wide open. If it were you, what would you choose? Beneath this clichéd love at first sight, their relationship seems terribly fragile. But what would your 220Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Brother Gu doesn't talk much~ (except to Wu Xiaogou). Gu Ge is very aloof~ (except towards Wu Xiaogou or a few friends) Brother Gu is amazing~ (except when he does something wrong and gets scolded by Little Wu) Gu Ge is very gentle~ (Everyone except Wu Xiaogou)

4. 104 快 Get Out of My Head! I'm Really Not a Tragic Beauty 快住脑，我真不是美强惨 Soulless Man无魄人Modern Romance760k WordsOngoing Lighthearted style! No male lead! But there will be one-sided affection, redemption arcs, and characters jumping to conclusions (the tags were added by the app and aren't accurate). On his way to work, Qinian was hit by a truck and sent flying. With his overwhelming resentment, he was bound to the Cannon Fodder Redemption System and began his quick transmigration journey. Planned worlds: The selfish burden in the apocalypse (complete) The bloodthirsty thousand-year-old cat spirit (complete) The 10.6kReads9.0Score97714d adds
5. 105 禁 Forbidden Zone Expedition: My Teammates Are Qilin Xiao Ge and Bao'er Jie 禁地探险：队友麒麟小哥，宝儿姐 Bunhead Xiaoying丸子头小嘤Two Male Leads589k WordsCompleted [Tomb raiding + exploration + livestreaming + survival + no female lead] Ye Ran transmigrated to a parallel world and was selected for the globally streamed show Forbidden Zone Expedition. He awakened the System from the start. By earning Emotion Points, he could draw all kinds of god-tier skills! One teammate was a quiet, aloof Qilin brother with countless secrets weighing on him. The other was Sister Bao, who carried a shovel and spent all day thinking about burying people! Zhang Qilin: “Step 5.2kReads9.4Score63014d adds

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   Super good! There's no better tomb raiding novel than this. It's a dual male protagonist story.

6. 106 盗 Tomb Raiding: Is Zhang Qi'an Trying to Get Himself Killed Today? 盗墓：张祈安今天作死了吗？ Mu Yuyu Loves to Dream木羽羽爱做梦Mystery807k WordsOngoing [Male protagonist + alluring beauty + everyone has a one-sided crush + ship whoever you like + Zhang family + gorgeous and strong, but not tragic + multiple secret identities + romantic tension + comedy] Fragile college student Mu Qi'an heads out and gets hit by a truck. What kind of truck? One with full insurance and every possible upgrade! Good news: a System called “Black-Hearted” rescues him and gives him the prestigious secret identity of a Zhang family Blood Qilin. Bad news: Before him, 15.4kReads9.1Score2k14d adds

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   They're all great! Books one and two are two-volume sets, and I just bought the other three. I've read a few pages and they're all good. Highly recommend them! [Laughing][Added to bookshelf]

7. 107 盗 Tomb Raiding: Immortal, Yet Utterly Broken 盗墓：不死，但破碎感拉满了 Ruoshui Ting'an若水亭安Two Male Leads316k WordsCompleted [New book, low rating] [Two male leads, a magnetic, beautiful, strong yet tragic protagonist, an incredibly captivating beauty on the receiving end, readers can ship whoever they like] [Fanfiction, with original headcanon that the girl is Second Master’s sworn younger sister, apologies for out-of-character portrayals] [A mix of sweetness and angst, happy ending] Yun Chu wakes up inside a coffin. Someone claiming to be a System tells him he has an immortal body. The good news: an immortal body. T 4.8kReads9.1Score62314d adds
8. 108 我 I Just Got Dumped, and Now I've Transmigrated into The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 我，刚失恋，穿进盗笔了 Pu Pu Yu Yu普普玉芋Two Male Leads959k WordsCompleted P.S. This book has no female lead, two male protagonists, and the CP is Xiaohua. Read at your own risk if that bothers you. The protagonist was a villain in his original world. He can be a little cold-blooded and a little crazy, and he's good at acting (putting on a front). It's angsty at first, then sweet. If that's not your thing, read at your own risk. There are hidden plotlines. If you can't stick with the angsty parts at the beginning, you can skip straight to Chapter 22. The angst lasts un 1.3kReads7.7Score12914d adds
9. 109 盗 Tomb Raiding: After a Century in Seclusion, the Little Brother Asks Me to Come Out 盗墓：隐居百年，小哥请我出山 Flying Pig飞天猪Mystery911k WordsCompleted Zhang Yang accidentally transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world, where the Divine Tomb-Raiding System is activated. “Faqiu has its seal, Mojin its talisman, Banshan its techniques, and Xiling its armor.” These are the pillars of the tomb-raiding world. For Zhang Yang, mastering all these arts is as easy as breathing. Over the past few years, people have occasionally come looking for the whereabouts of Zhang Yang, the Hidden Immortal. He has always managed to avoid them. Until Little Brother show 2.9kReads7.5Score31114d adds
10. 110 盗 Tomb Raiding: That Madman Is Back for Blood 盗墓：那疯子又杀回来了 Twenty Years of Persistence执着二十年Two Male Leads231k WordsOngoing (Dual male leads. If there’s a CP, it’ll definitely be Hei Xiazi.) The Zhang family had a madman. In a bad mood, he’d grab a blade and chop people up; in a good mood, he’d grab a blade and chop people up. Over the course of ten years, he tore through the Zhang family from top to bottom, again and again. The Wang family’s spies lived in constant fear, worried the madman would kill them just for stepping through the door with their left foot first. The Wang family couldn’t take it anymore after on 395Reads8.4Score10014d adds

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    I personally think it fits.

11. 111 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Little Tyrant from the Zhang Family 盗墓：张家来的小霸王 Chu Zhe怵谪Two Male Leads430k WordsCompleted Also known as Grave Robbing: The Zhang Family’s Ancestral Dark Moonlight “Zhang family member + all + unhinged + villain” The Zhang family had a child born with an unprecedented bright red tattoo. He was known as the “Fire Qilin.” The Fire Qilin feared no flames. Even when engulfed in a raging inferno, he remained unharmed, so the Zhang family revered him as an auspicious omen. Yet the Fire Qilin betrayed the Zhang family and fled the Northeast, eventually making his way to Changsha. He changed 9kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
12. 112 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Moonlight Only Goes Crazy, Never Explains 盗墓：白月光只发疯，不解释 Qi Chestnut戚板栗Mystery471k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out, so it’s a little low. It’ll go up later, lol.) [No CP + a slight everyone-loves-the-protagonist vibe + male protagonist + goofy humor + hidden tomb-raiding family + big spender] Why no CP? Because the author loves shipping bromances and finding the sweetest moments in them. Pair them up however you like~ Note: This is a female-oriented novel. Chi Luoqing downloaded a tomb-raiding game in his spare time, but who would’ve thought the System would hack his computer? Unles 3.5kReads8.8Score39214d adds
13. 113 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Other Him Inside Me 盗墓：身体里的另一个他 One Tree, Gathering Memories一木拾忆Two Male Leads427k WordsCompleted [Fake split personality + not invincible + OOC + tomb raiding] Complete Dual POV, unnamed gong x Wu Xie shou By day, Wu Xie is a clever but gullible college guy. By night, is he an icy French nobleman turned mercenary named Nameless? The people around him think he has schizophrenia. But Wu Xie knows. It’s another him, living inside his body. * The original plot takes up most of the story. No secondary pairings except Pangzi and Yuncai. OOC warning. There may be other one-sided crushes. There wil 3kReads8.7Score45514d adds
14. 114 盗 Tomb Raiding: This Is Clearly an Old Man Toying with a Child 盗墓：这分明是老叟戏顽童 Lin Jun Weixu林君未许Mystery210k WordsOngoing [OOC + Old Nine Gates + Four Slaughters of Yellow Sunflower + The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles series + protagonist-focused + System + secret identities + mutual “rescue” + slight coming-of-age elements + no CP or self-pairing or anything goes] Guan Weilan, from the 21st century, transmigrates to the same parallel world multiple times, and can bring items with him when he goes... The good news: He’s bound to a System, and can return after just one day in the world. The bad news: He lands in a rando 1.1kReads6.3Score12414d adds
15. 115 绝 The Secret Squad 绝密战队 Could It Be the Milky Way疑是银河Urban1.9M WordsCompleted No heroine, no System, no cheat powers. The male lead has none of the usual advantages. He’s young at first and the darling of the unit, then grows up to become the unit’s boss… or its dad? Ah, whatever! The point is, he’s an absolute force to be reckoned with. At the age of six, Yu Zhiming enters the new-recruit training camp of the 15th Unit. There, he learns the meaning of faith and makes many comrades, but his identity prevents him from joining the military. So he can only join the country 45.8kReads9.3Score5.5k14d adds

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    This means doing fewer tasks.

16. 116 永 The Eternal Imprisonment of Sinful Souls 永锢罪魂 A World Apart, There Is今非昔比地边有Modern Romance194k WordsCompleted [BE] [Tough on the outside, gentle within; a humble, unloved heroine] [No CP] [Heartbreaking] She was the orphan of a hero. After transmigrating, she fell into the abyss, betrayed time and again. To save her companions, she willingly allowed herself to be imprisoned in hell forever, sentenced to two hundred million years. When the underworld trembled and sinful souls were deified, the tiny shackle around her wrist still seared her soul for eternity: the mark of her eternal sin. They owed her far 51Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Let me recommend my own book. The female protagonist is tough on the outside but soft on the inside, and doesn't talk much. She's a master of logic and combat, but emotionally childlike, and humbly lacking love (which she hides very deeply). Note: This is not fanfiction.

17. 117 影 Our Memories in the World of Film and TV 2 影视世界我们的纪念2 Maple Field 111枫野111Female-Channel Fanfiction709k WordsOngoing A quick transmigration story. The heroine is highly skilled in combat, saintly and a little lovesick, with a strong female lead and weak male leads. Feel free to skip around and read whichever stories you like. I'm a new author, and the early chapters aren't very good. Thank you all for your support. Worlds featured so far: Low-IQ Crime: Fang Chao: "About what happened back then, did you use me?" Southern Archives: Zhang Ruipu: "I want to stay by your side, not as family, friends, or an elder. I 2.4kReads—Score12414d adds

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    There are popular shows this year like Low IQ Crime, Nine Gates, and Southern Files, as well as older shows like Soul Ferry, The Beginning, and Border Water Stories, where the female lead is strong and the male lead is weak, and the female lead is obsessed with love.

18. 118 从 Starting Out as a Full-Time Undercover Agent in Northern Myanmar 从缅北开始做全职卧底 Moonlight Before My Bed床前明月光Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing “Perhaps the beings created in darkness can also defeat the darkness.” After being kidnapped, Mu Guang, born with a personality disorder, is trafficked to northern Myanmar. Faced with death and threats, he stays calm, decisive, and ruthless, earning the admiration of a drug lord. But no one knows that this antisocial man has long been an undercover police officer... Five years later, a new police officer named Mu Guang reports for duty at the Shun'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, only to be 10.3kReads9.5Score1.2k14d adds
19. 119 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: A Guide to Raising an Introverted Heartthrob 盗笔：自闭万人迷养成指南 Evergreen青青不缀Mystery709k WordsOngoing OOC warning. Every character is secretly wicked, with coercive, dark, and twisted tendencies. A Mary Sue surrounded by one-sided admirers and forced love, beginning with the Zhang family overseas. The heroine is adored by everyone but doesn't realize it. She seems harmless, but is actually brilliant, and her combat skills are a mystery. A reclusive girl with a mysterious past VS the Nine Gates, the Zhangs, and the Wangs. She was born from love, yet was born without the ability to love. “Only hea 608Reads9.0Score10514d adds
20. 120 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Heavenly Official of the Qilin 盗墓：麒麟的天官 Valley Gorge山谷峪Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted In the Zhang family of Northeast China, a far older bloodline known as the "Underworld King’s Blood" quietly emerges alongside the "Qilin Blood." Zhang Yuntang bears the Underworld King’s Blood and holds the position of Celestial Official. She is the Zhang family’s betrothed, on equal footing with Zhang Qiling. Ironically, both suffer from soul-loss syndrome and have forgotten everything, including each other. At the Seven-Star Lu Palace, she makes a cool entrance as a consultant, while he regar 125Reads7.1Score—14d adds

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    Keywords: #DoubleAmnesia #DestinedReunion #BloodlineResonance #PowerfulAlliance #"This is the kind of vision the female lead of the Zhang family should have! Not a vassal waiting to be saved, but a king fighting alongside him!" "The scene where the blood of the King of Hell and the blood of the Qilin resonated gave me goosebumps... It turns out that 'forgetting' is the most affectionate foreshadowing."

21. 121 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Multirun Player's Work Log 盗墓：多周目玩家打工实录 Hey, Miss Seven嗨七小姐Mystery396k WordsOngoing [System + Transmigration + No heroine + No romance + Multiple loops] “To give the story a happy ending, please go save them!” My name is Lu Zhao, and this is my work diary from the umpteenth time I've started over. 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This book seems pretty fitting; if you like stories with strong, tragic protagonists, you should check it out. The only problem is the author hasn't updated! I'm devastated! Do any of you authors have similar recommendations? Let me see the talent of seasoned readers! Please, please!

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