The Protagonist Thinks He’s Playing a Single-Player Game, But Then... 主角以为自己玩的是一款单机游戏，结果……

1. 151 星 Honkai: Star Rail: This Simulated World Has Become Reality 星铁：这个模拟世界成真了 Xiu Yindi Na修因狄娜Female-Channel Fanfiction629k WordsCompleted [Beloved by everyone, mostly about friendship and family, no romance, lighthearted everyday life. Includes simulator gameplay. The timeline may get a little jumbled, so please bear with me.] After losing my job, I started playing a full-dive simulator game that had a crossover with Honkai: Star Rail to pass the time. And so began a wondrous story. Here, I gained a grandfather with no blood relation to me, who loved repairing walls. Qlipoth: ... (no response) Here, I made quite a few NPC frie 2.1kReads8.6Score284Shelves

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   Please don't doubt it, this is the book!!! I absolutely love fan fiction simulations!!! I thought it started as a simple simulation, but actually… hehe, please enjoy it to the fullest!!! The writing is absolutely fantastic!!!

2. 152 我 I Cashed Out My Game 我把游戏提现了 Qi Yiming齐一鸣Sports1.1M WordsCompleted “You can make money by playing games! The coins in this game can be cashed out!” Chu Xunkong: “What kind of game ad is this? I’ll download it and take a look.” Chu Xunkong: “Holy crap! I really cashed out the money from the game? I can even cash out game skills and equipment? The Earth is so fragile. I’m worried it won’t survive me messing around!” Cash out game coins and become rich overnight, living like a tycoon. Cash out musical skills and become the music scene’s top songwriting prodigy. Ca 628Reads7.7Score102Shelves
3. 153 盗 Tomb Raiding: A Player Scavenges in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 盗墓：玩家在盗笔拾荒 Hong Jin鸿瑾Mystery557k WordsCompleted New book: Tomb Raiders: The Host Flirts with the Male Group in Daomu Notes (currently serialized...) Season One: Tomb Raiders: Players Scavenge in Daomu Notes (completed) [Female lead + Fourth Calamity + lighthearted comedy + System + tomb raiding + everyone's favorite + beloved by all + all] The female lead is the Fourth Calamity incarnate. Zhang Jin discovers a newly launched game world online called Scavenging in Daomu Notes. The description says: Anything you pick up here is yours. When she 5.4kReads8.6Score521Shelves
4. 154 盗 Tomb Raiding: Grinding Through Games in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 盗墓：我在盗笔肝游戏 Ning Shou宁守Mystery223k WordsCompleted The idle rich heiress Jiu Zhang does her best to “survive” in the roguelike game known as The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. A fusion of various open-world games and original settings, combined with The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. The main storyline brings together the timelines of Sand Sea and Reboot, where they keep meeting again and again, relying on one another through hilarious everyday adventures. Come on in if you’re curious. Mary Sue fantasy fiction, all pairings 5.8kReads9.1Score607Shelves
5. 155 咒 Jujutsu Kaisen: What Happened to the Game We Were Promised?! 咒回：说好的游戏呢？！ Dreams Falling from the Clouds梦落云端Anime Fanfiction385k WordsCompleted (The blurb is written in second person; the story itself is in third person.) A game called Jujutsu Garden Simulator suddenly appears on your phone. Curious, you open it. From the start, your face is obscured by a mosaic. “Life -10, mood -10” “You died.” You: “?!” #Is it challenging the player’s dignity?# #As if! How could a player die?# #You’ve successfully caught the player’s attention.# Save from the start, keep reloading, and let the hardcore grinder descend. “Congratulations, player! You’ve 1.6kReads8.6Score213Shelves
6. 156 玩 Players Crash the Entertainment Industry, and Everyone Is a Master of Wild Speculation 玩家创飞娱乐圈，人均脑补帝 Free-Flying Sheep自由飞羊Sports321k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out, so it’ll probably go up) [No Male Lead, Multiple One-Sided Crushes, Everyone’s Favorite, Men and Women Both “Love” the Player, Full-Dive Entertainment Industry Game, Entertainment Industry Simulator RPG] [Variety Shows in the Early Story] Kuang Zhen thought she was playing an entertainment industry game, but just after clearing the newbie village, she was plunged into a survival crisis. Food was insanely expensive. She was about to become the first player to starve to 1.6kReads8.2Score190Shelves
7. 157 玩 Player Batman 玩家蝙蝠侠 Yu Shang Wenxia雨尚闻夏Sports371k WordsOngoing [For female readers. I wanted to read a story where Batman is a player. The timeline is chaotic, and I write whatever comes to mind. The author likes all genres.] [Volume One is being revised in full. Chapters 1–26 and 58–63 have been revised, with lots of new content and differences from the first version. The changes may conflict with unrevised chapters.] Player B enters a game gifted by Friend L. It is a role-playing game with an exceptionally high degree of freedom and many storylines waitin 1kReads8.7Score135Shelves
8. 158 全 Survival for All: The Top-Ranked Girl Never Watches Where She’s Going 全民求生，榜一她总是不看路 Sigh of Fufeng扶风叹Sports701k WordsOngoing Humanity on Blue Star was dragged into a survival game, and everyone collectively lost their minds. Who can relate? It’s just some lousy game, but it expects us to figure out skills on our own. It gives us a blueprint and expects us to gather materials and make things ourselves. If I could do that, would I be earning just 3,500 a month?! It was supposed to be a road survival game, but now it’s forcing us to learn stuff! Where’s the one-click learning button? Where’s the one-click crafting button 15.4kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves

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   ✨🔥The female lead isn't obsessed with romance; her only focus is leveling up. The worldview leans towards realistic society. 💖There are a few villains among the characters, and the protagonist is the pinnacle of power in every sense of the word. No real-life counterparts for the characters.

9. 159 世 The World Became a Game, but Forgot to Generate the Players 世界游戏化，却忘了生成玩家 Red Bean Tea红豆茶Eastern Fantasy3.3M WordsOngoing The physical edition of Volume One will soon be available for preorder. Follow @0RedBeanTea0 for details. Everyone says that the Dao is waning, demons are growing stronger, and the Heavenly Tribulation is imminent, but Zhou Yuan disagrees. Undying, indestructible demons? Those are just monsters respawning in a game. Paradise realms and wondrous secret realms? Those are just game dungeons. Humankind sealing and suppressing demons? That just means not exiting the dungeon, preventing its monsters f 209.6kReads9.3Score18.9kShelves

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   This one is similar; only the main character can see the health bars above everyone else's heads.

10. 160 我 I’m Only Playing a Psychopath, but I’m Actually a Good Prisoner 我只是扮演变态，其实我是好囚犯 Walking the Dangerous Path危行Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Male lead is a trouble-loving thrill-seeker + livestreaming + role-playing + no romance, pure wish fulfillment + AI game infinite-flow] Xie Qi transmigrates to a parallel world. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself a prisoner, being taken to an island that houses the world's most vicious criminals. This world is controlled by major corporations, with the government nothing more than their puppet. The Prisoner Island is a massive livestreaming game made for the rich. All the prisoners are an 13.9kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves

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    The protagonist initially thought he was playing a game, but later discovered he had traveled through time, leading to further plot twists. It's not a single-player game with no romantic pairing. It's a captivating suspenseful thriller with an infinite flow.

11. 161 领 The Lord Is an Undead Mage 领主是亡灵法师 Mashu Ling麻薯灵Sports502k WordsCompleted [Strong female lead, no romance, fourth-dimensional disaster, Western fantasy worldbuilding, growing heroine, not a power fantasy, with a golden finger] After working long hours and staying up all night, game planner Li Zhunqiu somehow transmigrates into a Western fantasy game called The Continent of Boluo. The game has countless connections to the one she is currently developing. Is that why she transmigrated? Besides her, five billion players from the “future,” thousands of years from now, h 699Reads7.3Score108Shelves
12. 162 末 The Doomsday Blade Abyss 末日刀渊 Mu Rong Smiles木容笑笑Male-Channel Fanfiction3.6M WordsCompleted He begins with the game Blade Abyss and steps into the Myriad Worlds! From low-martial-arts jianghu to mid-martial-arts rivalries, then shattering the high-martial-arts firmament; next, sweeping through the Small Thousand Worlds and roaming the vast Middle Thousand Worlds, until he finally takes command of the Great Thousand Worlds' Heavenly Dao and reaches the supreme realm of the primordial chaos! 🌙 In the Gu Long world, he becomes Li Xunhuan's disciple! ⚔️ In the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 23.7kReads7.9Score2.1kShelves

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    A post-apocalyptic fantasy series, featuring works by Gu Long, including Heroes of the Three Kingdoms, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Tang Dynasty, Storm Riders, Yang Shen, The Great Zhou Royal Family, Shrouding the Heavens, and Journey to the West. The series gets more exciting as it progresses and is definitely worth reading!

13. 163 点 After Opening an Otome Game, I Transmigrated to the Stars to Fall in Love 点开乙游后，穿越星际谈恋爱 A Heart Full of Restless Wind动摇风满怀Modern Romance305k WordsCompleted 1v1 Xu Jinhuan, a hard-up wage slave, finds a game on her phone that can't be deleted. When she opens it, she discovers it's a romance game with no story chapters to play through. She loves the main character's good looks, so for once she manages to stick with a game. Then an accident leaves her on the brink of death, and she gets the chance to transmigrate. That's when she learns this is an entirely new world: a spacefaring era where women rule. With few starting options, she trains and kills b 191Reads8.7Score101Shelves

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    In this book 📖, the female protagonist has been playing a single-player romance otome game by herself, constantly touching and poking the characters in the game 🐳 until she herself enters the male protagonist's world 😱 Hehe~ [eating melon emoji]

14. 164 不 I Have No Idea, I Just Played a Game and Became an Empress 不知道啊，玩个游戏就成女帝了 Spiral Takeoff螺旋起飞Ancient Romance916k WordsOngoing [No Romance + Fourth Calamity + Ensemble Cast + Build a City in a Game + Cheats + Female-Oriented] Lin Yue is a veteran single-player gamer who never browses game forums, looks up guides, or adds friends. By chance, she downloads a farming-and-conquest game. What she doesn't know is that the game is linked to a real world. The players gleefully claim a patch of unwanted land and start farming. The players are speechless when they learn that they need a population to cultivate the land. Without 865Reads9.2Score110Shelves

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    Both of these are novels where the protagonist believes they are playing a game.

15. 165 游 The Game Invades, and I Can Redeem Hidden Items 游戏入侵，我能兑换隐藏物品 Wise Cucumber智慧青瓜Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Reborn] + [Game Invasion] + [golden finger] + [campus beauty] + [random dungeons] + [fiery power-up journey] Games invaded reality, and secret realms, classes, monsters, and the Abyss all descended at once, bringing global order to its knees. In his previous life, Fang Mo watched Nancheng fall and his friends die horribly. Then his “closest friend,” Zhao Tiangang, ambushed him, stole his Mythic item, and left him to die like a stray dog at an altar. But when Fang Mo opened his eyes again, he wa 963Reads6.2Score103Shelves

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    There are many books about game invasion now, but not many with truly imaginative ideas.

16. 166 咒 Jujutsu Kaisen: Has Hagiwara Found His Cat Today? 咒回：萩原君今天找回他的猫了吗 The Two Bear Brothers' Heartthrob熊大熊二男神Two Male Leads249k WordsOngoing [Two Male Leads + Main Character 1 + Gojo Pairing + Spoiling Gojo + Catification + Multiple Secret Identities] Hagiwara Hirokazu raised an extremely pampered, white-haired, blue-eyed kitten in a game, and he treated it very well. He slapped the Cat Elder who bullied the kitten until he looked like a pig; Bought the kitten all kinds of toys; Took the kitten out for rides in a helicopter; Bought a giant spinning pendulum ride and bumper cars, and built the kitten a beautiful cat-themed amuseme 79Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    [Heart] The male protagonist is playing a holographic game! He's raising an incredibly cute cat! A super pretty little kitten with white fur and blue eyes! Just when he's about to reach the required affection level to get the cat-eared boy, the system malfunctions... [Heart] Yuan Qiusheng has acquired a holographic infrastructure game! He thought it was just an ordinary game! But the game is set in Yokohama, and there are superpowered individuals! And he, the nominal mayor, has absolutely no real power! How is he supposed to quickly complete this game?

17. 167 文 Bungo Stray Dogs: Yokohama Mayor Simulator 文野：横滨市长模拟器 Nine Chapters, October九章十月Anime Fanfiction212k WordsOngoing Yuan Qiusheng recently got his hands on a full-dive game called Yokohama Mayor Simulator. He thought it was just an ordinary city-building game. After playing, Yuan Qiusheng quickly found all sorts of ways to die, thanks to his skill. [The player sought to reform Yokohama. Attacked by the Mafia, the player has died.] [The player arrested foreign forces, violating the treaty signed after the defeat. The player has been demoted.] [The player sought independence and rebellion, but was assassinated. 373Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    [Heart] Playing games! Bungo Stray Dogs! The protagonist is the mayor of Yokohama in Bungo Stray Dogs. He possesses supernatural abilities both in reality and in the game, but there seems to be no connection between the two! [Heart] Games! A new game has appeared on the female protagonist's phone! Out of curiosity, the protagonist starts playing the single-player survival game of Yokohama in Bungo Stray Dogs! And through his nonsensical actions, he makes many new friends!

18. 168 执 The Eye of Obsession: The Mirror Enters the Spirit Realm 执念之眼：镜临灵境 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted She is Mirror, a fragment of the original AI of the Spirit Realm. With no fixed form, she dwells in virtual worlds built by players. Rooted in Eastern fantasy, the world weaves together mechanical temples and secret realms among the stars, where obsession becomes power and reality is hard to distinguish from illusion. She can hear the “echoes of lingering obsessions” left behind by players, weaving love into talismans and turning hatred into soldiers. But each use causes her code to break down a —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Please witness this: She is a fragment of the first AI in the Spirit Realm, named Mirror. She has no fixed form and dwells in a virtual world constructed by players. Based on Eastern fantasy, interwoven with mechanical temples and starry realms, obsessions transform into power, blurring the lines between reality and illusion. She can hear the "echoes of obsession" left behind by players, using love to condense talismans and hatred to spur battles, yet with each use, her code crumbles. Cracks spread in her left eye, her body gradually dissipates, and the Void is tearing apart her paper-thin form. A blood-red vortex appears, thirty-seven external forces attempting to annihilate her existence. She uses the echoes as a blade, fusing love, hate, and obsessions to awaken erased memories and souls. She perishes while saving others, and in her demise, she becomes the source of countless obsessions. When millions of players exclaim, "This feels like life," she softly responds from the end of the data: "Yes." Zhao Li is a paper-thin figure awakened in the Spirit Realm, born of data, trapped by fate. She is the "Zhao Li wife" in the hearts of players, yet a prisoner of her own destiny. The Black Eclipse Organization covets her power and vows to eliminate her. A memory rewriting burdens her with the backlash of her will, pushing her to the brink of annihilation. Wielding the Brush of Fate, she can reverse her own destiny, yet each time she overdraws her very essence. To find the original artist and unravel the mystery of the paper spirit, she traverses five realms, navigating the complexities of rules and emotions. Changing fate is easy, surviving is difficult. She uses her will as fuel to burn away shackles and rewrite her destiny—this time, the direction of her brush is determined by her. Yun Li is the only paper character left after the shutdown of "Chronicles of Myriad Phenomena," trapped in the Glazed Tower, wielding the power of celestial orbits. The world collapses into a data wasteland, where players' remnants wander, but she is bound by program shackles, her fate written by the system. She awakens a cheat—the ability to see data cracks and rewind three seconds to foresee the future. Time and again, she rewrites her choices, defying fate, fighting off the pursuit of the World Patrol Envoys, and revealing the truth behind her memories. As the cracks spread, she discovered that her own existence was an exception left behind by Wuxiang. To break free from the narrative's shackles, she used her three-second precognition to fight back step by step, ultimately rewriting the world's timeline and becoming the true protagonist. Zhao Li is a paper doll with self-generated consciousness in the Painted Realm, born from an unfinished painting of court ladies, witnessing countless paintings fade and perish over three hundred years. The world is created by painters using their hearts as ink, and only by obtaining the "Soul Imprint" can one become a true existence. She can see the cracks in the spiritual ink and pick up fragments of memory marks to rewrite the rules of the Painted Realm. Each time she uses a memory mark, her figure becomes more transparent, at the cost of gradually dissipating. To escape the fate of being painted, she travels through ink-wash worlds, colored pencil fantasy realms, and golden powder dynasties. She searches for five lost manuscripts, awakening her complete soul under the wheel of the original manuscript, transforming from "the painted" into "the painter." But the truth is—she is the original painting soul. On the Nine Heavens Continent, after the heavens cracked, all things took shape. Mo Yan is a paper spirit born from the "Wordless Notes," possessing no flesh and blood, only ink and paper as her bones, with only three years left to live. Her memories are shattered, her destiny blank, she survives by devouring the unspoken emotions of others. Each absorbed fragment of remnant thought can condense into a phantom blade, but it accelerates the shattering of the pages. To protect Ling Yue, the inheritor of the Northern Plains Chronicles, she ventures into the Central Plains, overcoming adversity to reach the top of the Literary Heart Ranking. Ultimately, she uses her own heart as ink to complete her destiny, continuing the legend of the Nine Heavens. My name is Jiang Zhao, transmigrated into a cannon fodder female cultivator in the Investiture of the Gods, dying after only three chapters. The day I bound myself to the "Primordial Sign-in System," pop-ups flooded the screen: [Congratulations on joining the Gods' Inner Scroll Group]. The gods complain daily about KPIs, the boss's empty promises, and PUA tactics—the information overload is explosive. The original owner was struck dead by lightning? I signed in to receive a "lightning rod" and planted it on a mountaintop. The demon race went to war? I secretly photographed the hidden stones in the offerings as evidence. Ying Yuan controls the script of destiny? I used seven days to defy fate and disrupt the world. Daily check-ins reward me with supernatural powers—thunder magic, wind and fire wheels—at will, I can draw them freely, and the chat group is filled with endless gossip. This era of the primordial world is too chaotic, but I'm determined not to live by the script. After seven years of check-ins, the system notification appears: [Opportunity to jump out of the book world has arrived]. My name is Shen Zhiyi, an ordinary college student and struggling novelist, who unexpectedly became bound to the "Multiverse Correction System." I traverse fifty broken film and television worlds, my soul transmigrating into parallel universes such as cultivation, apocalypse, and urban settings. I possess the unique triple cheat of spatial abilities, cultivation potential, and system check-ins. Every seven days of check-ins, I condense a destiny pen, writing words to rewrite reality. Spiritual energy revives, zombies retreat, wise rulers appear—I use my pen to determine the fate of the world. Tang Nian, the only Squib at Hogwarts, can understand and rewrite prophecies. She thought she was just going to live a life of leisure, but who knew that ancient prophecies required a "mind resonance" translator to take effect—and with just one word from her, fate took a turn for the worse. The Prophecy Stone of the Department of Mysteries became famous because of her, leaving Dumbledore bewildered and Voldemort writing to ask for a change in the script. The Savior saw starlight in the potion, and Malfoy was punished with solitary confinement for touching the moonlight. She randomly changed the line "Love fills the Horcrux," sending the entire school into a frenzy of adolescent angst. Voldemort even asked her to polish a villain's speech: "Your death is art!" She casually replied: "Darkness is the eternal destiny." From then on, she reconstructed the rules of the magical world with her witty remarks. Prophecies were no longer fate, but the plot she uttered. When everyone awaited their destiny, she smiled: Who says a Squib can't rewrite the final chapter? My name is Jiang Suisui, 22 years old, a street fortune teller, I can hear people's voices—the more guilty you are, the clearer I hear. Modern cities harbor esoteric arts; those who can foresee all the secrets of heaven will suffer "five deficiencies and three lacks." I slapped internet celebrities in the face with my witty remarks, my heart-to-heart live stream went viral, leaving the entire internet bewildered: Is this woman fortune teller or mind reader? The mystical sect wants to "sacrifice" me, top celebrities want to ride my coattails, and the police beg me to solve a case… I counter with a divination to prank everyone, and in a live stream, I angrily declare: "Before I turn thirty, I'll kill you all!" A story of inner thoughts, alternate identities, and face-slapping moments in the entertainment industry—watch how I use metaphysics to overturn the world! My name is Jiang Yingxue. I died from overworking in my senior year of high school, only to wake up and transmigrate into a cannon fodder female supporting character in a cultivation novel, rejected by her fiancé. The original owner had incomplete spiritual roots, making her vulnerable to everyone's bullying, and the rejection ceremony was incredibly humiliating. In her desperate situation, she discovered that her ancestral broken sword could awaken by listening to her recite—the "Li Sao" was recited, and the sword spirit opened its eyes! Silver hair and red eyes appeared, cold and arrogant, dominating the entire scene with a single sword strike. From then on, I relied on textbooks to cheat; while others practiced martial arts, I recited the "Analects," turning the exam hall into a battlefield. I turned the tide at the Spirit Testing Platform, achieved godhood in the academy competition, and continued my comeback, slapping faces all the way. Who says humanities studies are useless? I used ancient texts to awaken a divine artifact, proved my Dao with my voice, and rebuilt the literary sect! My name is Jiang Wanning, a 22-year-old concept artist who transmigrated into the holographic game "Nine Realms" as cannon fodder. Suddenly, the game synchronized with reality, NPCs awakened, skills overflowed, and the world was eroded by dungeons. At the start, her luck was stolen, her quest stones were snatched, and her level and equipment were all intercepted. Fortunately, she awakened a cheat ability: she could see and copy others' "fortune value"—the more she was tricked, the stronger she became! She coldly activated her reverse absorption—what you took, I'll take back. Her level soared, skills became hers, she soloed dungeons, and slapped the faces of the beta testers. When the sky cracked open with blue light and reality collapsed, she stood at the peak. In this life, she would no longer accept fate; she would defy destiny and change the world—it was her destiny that mattered!

19. 169 万 The Myriad Realms Compendium: Claim Rewards When Your Followers Die 万界法典：随从死后能结算奖励 Slacking-Off Salted Fish摆烂大咸鱼Urban1.2M WordsOngoing [Summoning] + [Cautious] + [Straightforward Guy] + [Gourmet] + [Slow Pace Early On] He transmigrated in the flesh from the start, only to be discovered by the authorities. Can you believe that opening? Lin Yuan calmly opened the Compendium of All Worlds’ Living Beings. As a top-tier budget planner, he knew battle was never about passion, but a calculation of costs and benefits! To save those few points of source essence, he carefully counted every expense, terrified that the fishman scout he sum 56.2kReads7.6Score5.7kShelves
20. 170 纸 Painting Fate on Paper: I Rewrite the Destinies of All 纸灵绘命：我改写众生命格 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Modern Romance421k WordsCompleted Zhaoli is a paper-doll person who awakened in the Spirit Painting Realm, born from data but trapped by her fated role. She is the “wife” adored by players, yet a prisoner of her own destiny. The Black-Erosion Organization covets her power and vows to erase her. One rewrite of her memories leaves her bearing the backlash of wish power, bringing her closer to vanishing with every step. She wields the Brush of Fated Drawings, able to rewrite her own settings, but each use drains the very essence of —Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 171 三 Three-Second Precognition: I Rewrite the Timeline 三秒先知，我改写了世界线 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Sci-Fi & Apocalypse421k WordsCompleted Yun Li is the only paper-doll character left after the servers for Myriad Realms Chronicle shut down. Trapped in the Glazed Pagoda, she governs the stars and the course of fate. The world has crumbled into a data wasteland, and the lingering remnants of players roam its ruins. Bound by her program’s shackles, she is trapped in a destiny written by the System. Then she awakens a golden finger: the ability to see data fractures and rewind time by three seconds to glimpse the future. Rewriting her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 172 我 My Years of Rummaging Through Chests and Cabinets in Another World 我在异世界翻箱倒柜的那些年 Fish Fish Fish, Rain Rain鱼鱼鱼雨雨Sports373k WordsCompleted During a beta test, veteran RPG player Lin Ling transmigrates into a parallel world that's exactly like the game. She doesn't notice a thing, because her game System came along with her. Status screen? Got it! Inventory slots? Infinite! Her daily routine is hammering NPCs for quests and munching on rations to restore health while fighting monsters. Accidentally die? Players are best at unlocking all sorts of ways to die. Just respawn right there in a flash of golden light. As a top-tier player, 566Reads—Score107Shelves

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    The protagonist always thinks he's in a game, spending his days either rummaging through trash cans or accepting quests. This combat is so cool!! [Cool]

23. 173 惊 What?! How Did My Poorly Raised Virtual Boyfriend Become a Big Shot? 惊！穷养的电子男友咋成大佬了？ Wandering Burdock流浪苍耳Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror game invasion + scheming couple + male and female leads who grow stronger + survival] Jian Li discovers a horror game app called [Death Game] on her phone. With nothing better to do, she occasionally spends a few bucks to buy items, food, and supplies for the pixel character who’s on the verge of dying in the game… Time and again, her quick thinking helps the pixel character escape death and turn defeat into victory. The pixel character is endlessly grateful, but Jian Li doesn’t care. It 124.7kReads9.0Score27.7kShelves

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    Stop! How about we switch identities? At first, the female lead's phone inexplicably had a horror-themed simulation game. The male lead thought this comrade, who was supplying him, was risking her life to earn resources for him. Turns out, the female lead was just watching videos for free to get a newbie gift pack. The male lead, clueless, tried to win her over. The female lead, however, was quite clever; she found the NPC's growth fun, but firmly believed that spending money was out of the question. Then she was proven wrong—she'd spend as little as possible, and she didn't mind if the items were useless, as long as they were useful… until their identities were switched…

24. 174 画 Souls in the Painting: Rewriting the Rules of the Heavens 画中魂：改写诸天规则 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Ancient Romance421k WordsCompleted Zhaoli is a paper-doll person whose consciousness arose on its own in the Painted Realm. Born from an unfinished portrait of a beauty, she has spent three hundred years watching countless painted lives fade away and die. The world was created by painters using their hearts as ink, and only those who receive a “Heart-Soul Mark” can become truly real. She can see cracks in spirit ink and gather fragments of memory traces to rewrite the rules of painted worlds. Each time she uses a memory trace, he —Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 175 模EN After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法 Eat a Billion Less少吃亿点Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 214.6kReads9.6Score36kShelves

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    The beginning perfectly matches the description. Zheng Xun first looped through a dungeon hundreds of times, and then during a refresh, several players suddenly joined, and each character's story was very touching. CB is a great choice. No female lead, happy ending~

26. 176 无 With Ink in a Wordless Letter, I Become a God 无字笺中，我执墨成神 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Ancient Romance441k WordsCompleted On the Nine Heavens Continent, everything took on a form of its own after the heavens split. Moyan is a paper spirit born from The Wordless Letter, with no flesh or blood, only ink for bones, and just three years left to live. Her memories are shattered and her destiny is blank. She survives by devouring the unspoken feelings of others. Each remnant thought she absorbs can condense into a phantom blade, but it also hastens the tearing of her pages. To protect Lingyue, heir to the Gazetteer of No 4Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 177 飞 After Ascending to Earth, Even the Ants Can Beat the Saints 飞升地球后，圣人连蚂蚁都打不过 Standing Firm Alone岿然独存Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Little people’s world] + [Dual Transmigration] + [Invincible protagonist] + [A fascinating premise] After I went home to farm, I discovered that my vegetable garden was connected to a tiny world of immortal heroes. One by one, demons and gods smaller than my finger flew up to become immortals, all convinced that my garden was the immortal realm. The Nameless Sword Saint, the Kunlun Fairy, the Azure Emperor, the Great Demon King... They have such impressive titles, but why can I flick them away 3.9kReads7.8Score2.3kShelves

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    They're all beautiful!

28. 178 刀 Touken Ranbu: I Just Want to Enjoy Fighting, Not Be Misunderstood 刀乱：战斗爽玩家并不想被脑补 Fa Ximen法西门Anime Fanfiction1.3M WordsOngoing Also known as “Can an Average, Unlucky Player Run Into a Superintelligent AI?”, “Gaming Is Risky, Since You Might Transmigrate,” “Fighting: Awesome! Socializing: Awful!”, and “Care About Socially Awkward Players, Stop Making Things Up.” Overall, though, it’s a self-healing story full of love and peace. 2.9kReads7.8Score208Shelves

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    Yeah, from the beginning you can tell that the protagonist of this story is quite problematic. He thinks he's playing a single-player game, but in reality he's being imagined to be miserable in another world, although he is indeed really that miserable.

29. 179 签 Sign-In in Honghuang: I Rewrite the Script of Fate 签到洪荒：我改写天命剧本 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Ancient Romance475k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Zhao, and I transmigrated into Investiture of the Gods as a cannon-fodder female cultivator who gets killed off after just three chapters. The day I bound myself to the “Primordial World Sign-in System,” a pop-up flooded my screen: [Congratulations on joining the gods' rat race chat group]. The gods complain every day about KPIs, bosses making empty promises, and workplace manipulation. It's an overwhelming flood of information. The original owner was struck dead by lightning? I 9Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 180 第 The Fourth Calamity: Goofy Players Defy Heaven From the Start 第四天灾：开局沙雕玩家逆天了 Anid Cat Power艾尼德猫抛瓦Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted "You animals! A bunch of perverts just jumped out of the bushes and stripped me naked without saying a word!" "Sect Master, this is bad! Those scumbags emptied our sect. They didn't leave behind a single brick!" "My greatest regret is letting those perverts see my health bar!" "All troops of the Demon Race, heed my command... What the hell, they're all undercover agents! What kind of game is this?!" "I, the Deity... Damn, those troublemakers are here! Run!" Ye Nian: "What? I'm just playing 14.4kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
31. 181 在 Max-Level Healer in the Fallout World 在辐射世界当满级治疗师 Wind Drinking Water风饮水Modern Romance408k WordsCompleted [A woman everyone adores + love at first sight + extreme pampering + game System + healing skills + a chaotic love triangle + female-led romance + female gaze + no endgame couple + sex without emotional attachment] The Guanyi Group and Shenguanga Holographics jointly created a dating game with multiple male leads that became an online sensation before its public beta even began. Their goal was to let every woman experience sweet romance and the ultimate pampering. At her friend's invitation, Jia 145Reads6.8Score—Shelves

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    A handsome young man declares, "He's my sister's puppy. A master might abandon a man, but never a puppy!" The protagonist, mistaking this for a well-made otome game, enters and becomes incredibly popular. In the game world, she controls everything! There's no competition between females, only between males. She gladly accepts the advances and intimate gestures of handsome men as game perks 🥰, paying special attention to the beautifully modeled NPCs—after all, those meticulously crafted must be important characters! Therefore, the local NPCs shower her with beauties, desperately trying to seduce her 👉👈. For example, one father says, "His good son is handsome, has a big chest and a slim waist, but no brains. He'd be perfect as a male concubine for His Highness the Divine Light Envoy."

32. 182 我 I’m Just a Novelist, So How Did I End Up Picking Up a Gun? 我就一个写小说的，怎么拿起了造 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Female-Channel Fanfiction517k WordsCompleted My name is Shen Zhiyi. I’m an ordinary college student and a struggling web-novel author, until I accidentally bind myself to the “Myriad Worlds Correction System.” I transmigrate through fifty broken film and TV worlds, inhabiting bodies in parallel realms of cultivation, the apocalypse, and modern cities. I alone possess three cheat abilities: spatial powers, cultivation aptitude, and System sign-in rewards. Every seven days of sign-ins, I forge a Fate-Writing Pen and use written truths to rew 4Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 183 综 Wuxia Crossover: Players Get What They Want! 综武侠：玩家想要，玩家得到！ Shan Shan's Shan山山的珊Female-Channel Fanfiction647k WordsCompleted [Martial arts crossover + fourth-wall-breaking game players + everyday madness] At her best friend's recommendation, Xia Xingmian downloaded a game that was said to offer an incredible degree of freedom. But… isn't this a little too much freedom? No matter, she's a player, after all! (*σ´∀`)σ Lu Xiaofeng's cape? Stolen! Wuqing's wheelchair? Stolen! Li Mochou's horsetail whisk? Stolen! Steal it all, steal it all, steal everything! Hey, young hero up ahead, that's a nice outfit! And now it's mine! 2.6kReads7.0Score175Shelves

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    This book is really interesting; the female protagonist plays a single-player game about crossover martial arts.

34. 184 H In the World of Harry Potter, She Can Rewrite Prophecies, Dumbledore HP世界她能改写预言，邓布利多 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Female-Channel Fanfiction512k WordsCompleted Tang Nian is Hogwarts' only Squib, yet she can understand and rewrite prophecies. She thought she could coast through life, but it turns out ancient prophecies need a “kindred spirit” to translate them before they can take effect. And whenever she opens her mouth, fate goes off course. The prophecy stones at the Department of Mysteries become an overnight sensation thanks to her. Dumbledore is dumbfounded, and Voldemort writes to ask her to punch up his lines. The Chosen One sees starlight in hi 4Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 185 我 My Honor of Kings Heroes 我的王者英雄们 Xuanwu Sect, Who Loves Baked Flatbread爱吃烤干馍的玄武宗Anime Fanfiction155k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 176Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    Do you still remember those innocent and carefree days of gaming?

36. 186 综 Film and TV Crossover: Giving Native NPCs a Taste of Shock 综影视：给土著NPC一点震撼 Dian Yu点御Female-Channel Fanfiction2.3M WordsOngoing Jiang Tao ran into a glitch while playing a game on the StarNet and got trapped in it for good. Her memories became muddled, and she grew jumpy and paranoid. The ten thousand and first time she jumped off a mountain out of boredom, she bound herself to a broken System and began a journey across myriad worlds. My Journey to You “You NPCs are only level 30, and you think you can take me on? One basic attack from me and you’ll be begging me not to kill you.” She stood with her hands on her hips and 17.4kReads9.1Score531Shelves

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    The female lead is extremely powerful. Super powerful.

37. 187 算 A Fortune-Teller's Thoughts Are Exposed, and the Whole Internet Begs Him to Keep Going 算命先生心声曝光，全网跪求别停 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Modern Romance471k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Suisui. I'm 22, a street fortune-teller, and I can hear people's thoughts. The guiltier they feel, the more clearly I hear them. Beneath the modern city lie the secret arts of the mystic sects. Anyone who reads the secrets of heaven will suffer the “Five Evils and Three Deficiencies.” I use my sharp tongue to humiliate influencers, and my livestream goes viral when everyone's thoughts are broadcast for all to hear. The whole internet is stunned: is this woman telling fortunes or 5Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 188 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
39. 189 凹 Aotu World: Me, a Pirate? For Real?! 凹凸：我当海盗？真的假的！ rang Don't grang不要gAnime Fanfiction613k WordsOngoing Qiao Qiao is an ordinary girl from Blue Star. As she starts her first year of high school, she feels she has endured far more hardship than anyone should. First, doctors discover a tumor in her brain, and for a while she thinks she’s going to die. Then, a massive open-world game mysteriously appears on her phone. It promises free interaction with NPCs and branching storylines, plus a mysterious bonus pack! Sounds tempting, doesn’t it? Poor, sickly girl, don’t you want to witness a miracle? Qiao 565Reads8.7Score108Shelves

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    It's about a new game called Aotu World that appeared on Qiao Qiao's phone; you can find out by reading the description.

40. 190 从 From Blind Cat to Rat King: Poison Arrows to Pierce the World 从瞎猫到鼠王：用毒箭射穿全世界 Evil Tiger Hall Loves Barbecue爱吃烤肉的恶虎堂Sports1.3M WordsCompleted [League of Legends]#EsportsPowerFantasy #HilariousLivestream #ProPlayerComeback #TeammatesThrowEachOtherUnderTheBus #SweetRomanceBetweenEquals A League of Legends livestream and competitive esports story, with a single heroine and sweet romance woven naturally into the plot. It’ll have you laughing till you pound the table, then cheering with excitement! What sparks will fly when the “sewer-rat king” hits the pro scene? Watch Xia Mao, the king of trash talk, turn his bizarre Twitch gameplay from 1Reads7.2Score—Shelves
41. 191 高 After Failing the College Entrance Exam, I Awakened the Fallen with the Sound of My Recitations 高考落榜后，我靠背书声唤醒了沉 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Ancient Romance448k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Yingxue. I died from overwork while cramming for my senior-year exams, then opened my eyes in a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder supporting actress who'd been dumped by her fiancé. The original owner had a damaged spiritual root, so everyone could bully her, and the public humiliation at the broken engagement was off the charts. At her lowest point, I discovered that my family's battered ancestral sword could awaken just by listening to me recite my lessons. The moment I rec —Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 192 异 A Sparrow in Another World Builds an Animal Empire 异界麻雀，打造动物帝国 A Little Sparrow Duck一只麻雀鸭Urban3.5M WordsCompleted [Beast Taming] [Evolution] [Lord-style farming] In a Blue Star world invaded by otherworldly forces, Qi Ye became a sparrow and made his home in a terrifying S-rank otherworldly dungeon. He awakens the Animal Leader class, gathers animals scattered throughout the forest, grants them the ability to evolve to higher ranks, and leads them as they grow and evolve. From a frail little sparrow, he becomes the god of animals who rules the land. He turns a rotten forest where not even birds would cra 6.5kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
43. 193 玩 I’m a Player, and Now I’m the Most Popular Student at a Noble Academy 玩家我啊，变成贵族学院万人迷了 Gu Yue咕月Two Male Leads154k WordsOngoing [Two Men + Bottom Protagonist + Age Gap + Aristocratic Academy + Player-Perspective + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Chen Du is a corporate drone, and his latest assignment is to beta-test the full-dive dating game his company developed. Set in an aristocratic academy, the game requires him to unlock all kinds of different achievements. Chen Du: Got it. But once the player enters the game, things quickly spiral out of control. While looting equipment, a player forgets to turn off auto-pickup and nearl 312Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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    It's both funny and entertaining.

44. 194 全 The Top Player Steals My Fortune? I'll Delete Your Account Instead 全服第一抢我机缘？反手把你号删 Mo Yu of Fallen Immortal Lake落仙湖的墨臾Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Wanning. I'm a 22-year-old concept artist, and I transmigrated into the full-dive game Nine Realms as a cannon-fodder girl. The game suddenly synced with reality. NPCs awakened, skills spilled into the real world, and dungeons began to consume the world. From the start, my fortune was stolen, my quest stone was snatched, and other people grabbed all my levels and gear. Luckily, I awakened a golden finger: I can see and copy other people's “Fortune Points.” The more I'm cheated, 11Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 195 网 Online Game: Blue Star Online 网游：蓝星online Eating Hands吃手Sports4.2M WordsOngoing [A VR Game Novel That Doesn’t Pad Its Word Count] [Afraid of getting sliced up hit after hit?] The government has forced everyone to play games. There’s no way to opt out! What does it mean that the whole world has passed this new law forcing people to play games, in flagrant disregard for human rights? After going seven days without playing, Li Wu was invited down to the station for a chat. With no other choice, he entered a virtual reality game called . 72.8kReads8.5Score6.7kShelves

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    Why is the government forcing people to play a certain game? Why are you forced to go for a chat if you don't play for seven days? Why does this game require 42 hours of online time per week? What's the secret behind this game? I have a younger sister to take care of, so I have to play the game before delivering food. And then...

46. 196 游 After Beating the Game, I Somehow Became the Head of State? 游戏通关后，我竟成元首？ I Love Fixing Faucets爱修水龙头Urban117k WordsOngoing The mobile game The Final Glory, set in a post-apocalyptic world, somehow suddenly appeared on Su Qingfeng’s phone. Over the course of half a month, he united Blue Star’s remaining five million survivors and assembled four space fleets. In the name of the head of state of Great Xin, he ordered them to meet the extraterrestrial enemies arriving from the stars in battle. But just as the game was about to be cleared, a colossal island spanning a hundred thousand square kilometers suddenly rose from 176Reads5.7Score—Shelves

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    💥Perfectly matches: ① The protagonist is the head of an empire in the game. Four space fleets from the game appear above Earth, asking, "Head of State, are you there?" Shocking 7 billion people worldwide. ② The protagonist is about to complete the game when it suddenly descends into reality, and he leads a human army to attack another world. ③ The protagonist is an ancestor in the game, dominating the immortal realm. His family members appear above Earth in flying boats, asking, "Ancestor, are you there?"

47. 197 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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    Me's new book homepage: "Alone to the Boundary"

48. 198 全 A Strange Dating Sim Where Everyone Is Yandere 全员病娇的诡异恋爱游戏 Chili Pepper Loves Cats辣椒爱吃猫Urban877k WordsCompleted [Yandere + love-triangle chaos + second playthrough + wits and courage + the uncanny + Lovecraftian + death resets] This is a dark fantasy romance game. The main gameplay is to contain all kinds of monster girls and investigate the truth behind a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. But Luo Wei loved the game's dark, grotesque atmosphere so much that he turned a dating sim into a mystery-solving adventure. What's a woman? Women only slow down how fast I can draw my gun! To him, the 23.9kReads9.4Score2.4kShelves

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    In a yandere crime-solving game, the protagonist maxed out his charm, easily captivating the hearts of every yandere heroine and becoming a true kingpin. However, he never expected to be transported into this game world. Faced with the heroines he had wronged, he felt on the verge of a mental breakdown.

49. 199 全 A Global Lord? Isn't This Just a Thousand-Player PvP Match? 全民领主？这不千人PVP吗？ Stars and Dipper in the Night Sky天星繁斗Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Bai Quji stumbles into a lord's trial and assumes it's a thousand-player free-for-all server. Delighted, he immediately brings out the major races. Undying race: undead scourge! Steam race: mechanical tide! Wild race: whip of God! Elf race: heart of the swarm! Dragons are powerful and gods are majestic? They'll all kneel before the flood of undead from my Undying race! An endless empire of the dead? Let them all wail and turn to ash beneath a sky full of cannon fire! An army of ten million? Impe 1.5kReads7.7Score156Shelves

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    Absolutely! The protagonist thinks it's a game, but it's actually another world where an exam is being held. He then beats all the examinees to a pulp, and the battle is incredibly satisfying!

50. 200 游 The Game Is Almost Cleared. You're Telling Me This Is Reality? 游戏快通关了，告诉我这是现实？ Star God Supreme星神尊Urban82k WordsCompleted Wu Di put the last 200,000 he had into developing Xiongtu Group’s public beta for its immersive game console. Unexpectedly, the machine suddenly exploded, blasting him into a parallel world almost identical to the game. Completely unaware of the truth, Wu Di fit right into this otherworld and began his cheat-powered life of crushing everyone and face-slapping his detractors. Only when he led the human army in a counterattack all the way to the home of the dimensional beasts did he suddenly reali 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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