In a Reading Slump. Please Recommend Good Books With Smart Characters, No Doormat Heroines, No Female Rivalry, and No Romance 书荒中，跪求全员智商在线不圣母不雌竟无cp的好书

1. 1 都 Urban: Ten Years of Cultivation, and I’m Unrivaled the Moment I Descend the Mountain 都市：修仙十年，下山即无敌 Feng Yibing冯一病Urban3.2M WordsCompleted The new book has built up a backlog of chapters and can be found on the author's homepage. It tells the story of the hundred thousand years after this book. [Expert Descends the Mountain + Invincible Cultivation + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Decisive Killing + Multiple Realms] The Great Dao is flawed, and spiritual energy has withered. A mighty cultivator who had survived the tribulation traveled the world. By chance, he discovered a peerless prodigy born with a spiritual physique, forcibly took 256kReads9.0Score23.2k14d adds

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   This is the book.

2. 2 疯 My Unhinged Persona Can't Crack [Infinite Flow] 疯批人设不能崩［无限流］ Da Yao大夭Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted [Infinite quick transmigration + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + no romance. The heroine acts like a lunatic, but she's absolutely sane! Slow-paced! Slow-paced! Slow-paced!] After the S-rank felon Ye Li is forcibly bound to a Punishment and Rehabilitation System, she's exiled to countless perilous worlds created in virtual reality to serve her sentence and undergo punishment. The more she suffers while serving her time, the more of her sin points are deducted. During her sentence, Ye L 4.5kReads9.5Score64814d adds

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   These are all books with high IQs, and none of them have a romantic pairing (CP). 😎 They're all really good reads. 🤔 Plus, they're all completed. The third book is a suspenseful crime thriller, 😄 the author's IQ is definitely on point. These books will keep you awake, and you won't be able to sleep if you don't read them!

3. 3 作 I Brought This on Myself, but Now the Escape Boss Won’t Leave Me Alone 作死的我被逃生boss缠上了 Bai Zuizui白醉醉Two Male Leads1.1M WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance + Two powerful leads + Infinite-flow + Comedy + Yandere] Some people enter the escape game with a bug built right in. Lu Wu is one of them. While everyone else is seriously trying to escape, Lu Wu treats the escape game as nothing more than a game. Most outrageous of all, the escape game’s boss confessed his feelings to Lu Wu. The players, who risk their lives and wade through blood just to survive, are depressed. They’re going to report Lu Wu for cheating! Lu Wu: I didn’t, I 14.2kReads9.6Score1.8k14d adds
4. 4 穿 Transmigrating to the 1980s: The Whole Soldier's Family Dotes on Me 穿越八零：被兵哥哥全家宠爆了 Loves Roasted Potatoes Most最爱烧洋竽Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Military marriage + sweet romance + sudden wealth + putting villains in their place] After Bai Wei was hit by a car and sent flying, she transmigrated to the 1980s. Framed by her wicked cousin and forced to marry Zheng Hongsheng, who had lost his sight, she became the target of everyone's ridicule. They thought she was destined for a miserable life, but she possessed peerless medical skills and easily cured Zheng Hongsheng, restoring his sight. The entire Zheng family doted on her, especially Z 987Reads8.9Score17814d adds

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   I've come to rescue this book! Come and take a look; I think it's great, very enjoyable, with clear writing and logical thinking, so I'm recommending it to you. I hope you like it.

5. 5 穿 Transmigrated as the Young Aunt in a Period Novel 穿成年代文里的小婶婶 Candy Ball Mama糖球麻麻Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed] [Transmigrate into a book + fictional era setting + golden finger + everyday family life] Gu Lanzhi wakes up one day to find that she has transmigrated. After listening to her mother-in-law, who has been helping her through her postpartum recovery, she realizes that she hasn't just transmigrated: she's landed inside an era novel. She's become the male lead's wealthy but wicked little aunt by marriage. What the heck? Wealthy and wicked? His little aunt? But it's still early, and the s 5.5kReads8.7Score29414d adds
6. 6 穿 Transmigrating to the ’80s to Build a Fortune 穿越八零发家致富 The Little Chirper Who Writes码字的小吱吱Modern Romance150k WordsCompleted Bai Xiaolu transmigrated with a pocket dimension into the golden age of the 1980s. Her family was poor? She started selling snacks, then opened restaurant chains all over the country. She was born with dark skin? Did she think the spiritual spring in her pocket dimension was just plain water? Wealthy ladies lined up to buy a bottle of her highly concentrated whitening and slimming essence. Her clothes were unfashionable? Everything in her clothing shop sold out as soon as it hit the shelves. Eve 6Reads5.9Score—14d adds
7. 7 我 You Have Every Trait I Can't Stand 我嫌弃的样子你都有 Little Bu Loves Egg Tarts小布爱吃蛋挞Modern Romance99k WordsCompleted A confession-themed book for everyone in a long-distance relationship! A sweet romance author versus a devoted, sharp-tongued young master. A collection of sugary-sweet romantic skits by popular Jinjiang author Xiao Bu Ai Chi Dan Ta! Ten years of love, 185 hilarious moments, from school uniforms to wedding gowns. The person I’ve always liked is you. 132Reads9.3Score—14d adds

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   Sweet, so very sweet. I like to eat a piece of candy on lonely nights. I've always known I shouldn't be addicted to sweets, but... Only sweets can bring me a brief moment of relief.

8. 8 我 The Sweet, Cozy Days My Husband and I Share 我与夫君的甜暖日常 Master Grass Lamp草灯大人Ancient Romance130k WordsCompleted [Published, both pure, devoted love, a scheming treacherous minister falls for me] As a princess of a fallen kingdom, I always thought the treacherous minister Jiang Xun was hiding remnants of the former dynasty so he could kill me. Who could have guessed he'd marry me, protect me, dote on me, and want to spend the rest of his life with me? Was the story really supposed to unfold this way?! Weren't Jiang Xun, my sworn enemy, and I supposed to love and fight each other, forever at odds? Just as I 433Reads8.8Score10114d adds
9. 9 给 After Being Four Big Shots’ Stand-Ins, I Earn a Billion a Year 给四个大佬当替身后，我年薪百亿 Rose Lord玫瑰卿Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [No fixed pairing + everyone gets their comeuppance + transmigrated female supporting character + female lead diligently follows the plot but doesn’t get emotionally involved] After dying from a brain hemorrhage, Jiang Nuannuan transmigrated into a book, specifically a chaotic mash-up of melodramatic CEO romances. She got the role of a disposable fake heiress and stand-in, and activated the Hundred-Billion Stand-In System. Jiang Nuannuan: For the sake of making a living, I’ll put up with it! I’l 14kReads9.5Score2.4k14d adds

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   Only happy people dwell on trivial matters and are sensitive to insignificant things; those experiencing great hardship have no time for such trifles. To measure a person's happiness, we should not look at how many joyful things they have, but rather at whether they are troubled by small things.

10. 10 软 A Gentle Seduction 软诱 Jiujiu Qi久久萋Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us 71.5kReads9.6Score8.6k14d adds
11. 11 拯 Saving My Hopelessly Romantic Brother: I Tutor Him for the Top Universities 拯救恋爱脑亲哥，我辅导他考清北 Come Ship the Couple来磕糖吖Modern Romance314k WordsCompleted Su Zijin is fifteen years younger than her brother, Su Gu. Su Gu has been the perfect child since he was little: handsome, academically gifted, and possessed of sound values. Everyone says he’s bound for one of China’s top universities, but no one could have predicted that he’d fall for Xie Sisi, a master manipulator. The golden boy falls from grace. The title of “academic genius” gradually gives way to “delinquent,” and their parents smile less and less. Su Zijin wants to change things, but she 6.4kReads9.4Score90214d adds
12. 12 我 I’m an Undercover Agent in the Beast-Slaying Squad 我在灭兽小队当卧底 Yu Hao's Final Journey雨浩的终末之旅Urban203k WordsOngoing Humanity never knew how lucky it was. The evolutionary substance known as “Spirit Particles” chose the apes, and the apes evolved into humans. But a massive wave of evolution swept across the world, and countless animals began evolving into human beings. These new humans were called “Beasts.” They were no different from humans themselves, yet for reasons unknown, they began going berserk in great numbers. In response, the old humans formed the Beast Control Organization. What they didn’t know wa —Reads—Score—14d adds

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13. 13 东 The East Wind Brings You Home 东风送君归 Haihai and the Fish海海与鱼Ancient Romance119k WordsOngoing Jing He opens her eyes one day to find herself deep in the mountains. She has a golden finger, the Heavenly Dao as her daddy, and an all-purpose System... She can split the heavens and earth and slaughter all in her path... Or so she thought. She has absolutely nothing, and has even lost her memories. As fragile as a mayfly, born at dawn and dead by dusk, she figures that as long as she can cling to a powerful patron, she might just survive. The top scholar, Chu Zeqing, and the heir to the Marqu 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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    There's no competition among women; everyone has different desires, and we're all just clowns struggling in the face of fate.

14. 14 盘 The Heart of Pangu 盘古之心 Pick a Good Name取一个好名字Sports173k WordsCompleted The history of Blue Star stretches far further back than humanity today realizes. There was a cultivation civilization that practiced qi and opened meridians, drawing spiritual energy into the body to soar through the skies and dive beneath the seas. There was an interstellar civilization that piloted starships through black holes in an endless quest to explore the universe. There was a beast-taming civilization that studied animal bodies and formed soul contracts. There was an ability-wielding 1Reads—Score—14d adds

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    It's not a mindless wish-fulfillment story; the data is rigorous. You can give it a try.

15. 15 玄 Xuanhuan: Killing the Child of Destiny from the Start 玄幻：开局击杀气运之子 Shen Wanxi沈宛汐Eastern Fantasy384k WordsCompleted Ye Changsheng, young master of an Eternal Clan, transmigrates to a perilous fantasy world with a background that puts him at the very peak. He kills a Child of Destiny right from the start. On top of that, he has a Villain System designed specifically to hunt down Children of Destiny. It looks like it’s here to send him even farther down the villain’s path. Let’s see how Ye Changsheng goes on a rampage and slaughters Children of Destiny in the fantasy world... 2Reads6.5Score—14d adds

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    A story featuring an invincible villain who is ruthless and decisive, without any saintly qualities!

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