Books with a Strong Jianghu Flavor, by Someone Who's Really Been in the Underworld 江湖味道浓重的书，真实混过江湖。
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Eighty Years in the Sword Pavilion, Then I Emerged as an Earthly Immortal 剑阁八十年，出世陆地神仙
The original novel behind the hit short drama “Earthly Sword Immortal: Eighty Years Guarding the Sword Pavilion” Meng Fan, gifted with the talent “Swordsmanship as Divine,” is reborn in a cultivation world and becomes the sword keeper of the Sword Pavilion at the Shushan Sword Sect. Touching the “Seven Stars Sword,” he obtains the Seven Stars Sword Art. Touching the “Demon-Suppressing Sword,” he obtains the Sword Intent of Demon Slaying. Touching the “Fuxi Sword,” he obtains the Fuxi Divine Body
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- 52 The Golden Son-in-Law 金牌帝婿 [Farming] [Lighthearted] [Alternate world] [No System] Qin Yu transmigrates, and from the start he’s the second son of the Prince of Qin’s household. His father is a non-imperial prince of Great Wei and the Minister of Revenue. His mother is a wealthy daughter of a prominent Jiangnan family. His older brother is a peerless general who guards the frontier. With such powerful connections and an exalted position, Qin Yu gives up on ambition, indulging in wine, women, and song, and reclining in the 47.7kReads9.0Score4.7k14d adds
- 53 I'm Just an Outer Sect Disciple, Sect Master, You Can't Do This 我就一外门弟子，宗主使不得 He transmigrates to a fantasy world. While everyone else transmigrates into someone else's body, Tang Zhou arrives in his own. With no identity, no connections, and no one to turn to, he is on the brink of death when the Sect Master of the Shanhe Sect saves him, barely preserving his life. He awakens the strongest Part-Time Job System: all he has to do is take on part-time jobs to grow stronger. He goes all over the place, taking odd jobs while still a sect disciple. “I'm just an outer disciple. 5.5kReads7.9Score38914d adds
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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The Allure of Darkness 黑色之诱惑
By chance, Xia Xue’er steps into a casino and catches a fleeting glimpse of Chen Feng, the underworld boss. It proves to be a trap laid by fate. From then on, she is seized by the demon of gambling and takes one step after another toward the abyss of crime. The curtain rises on her tragic life…
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Hunting a Movie Star: I Took Down the Underworld 围猎女星：我干翻地下江湖
[A passionate underworld saga set in the jianghu, with female celebrities, a harem, cunning scheming, power struggles, capital, and intricate, brain-burning plotting] [This is not a brainless story. If you like low-quality, mindless fiction, stop after the first three chapters. The underworld is more than gangsters, and the jianghu is more than fighting. The first thirty chapters reveal just a fraction of the picture. I’ll use my own experiences to show you what the underworld really is, and wha
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Searching the Underworld for My Missing Son, I Clean Up Crime and Clear My Father's Name 失子入江湖扫黑恶，父冤得伸
(Passionate urban action, a comeback! Multiple female leads!) Also known as "Lost Son Enters the Underworld to Fight Crime, Father’s Wrongful Conviction Finally Overturned" I am the son of a soldier. After getting lost during a sorrowful journey, I was raised to adulthood by a kind rural couple surnamed Ye. I thought it was pure chance that my master taught me peerless martial arts. From then on, I became the greatest martial artist in Nan Yue! Later, to improve my family’s financial situation,
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Burn Until Nothing Remains 燃烧直至灰烬
[Childhood friends / raising each other / two strong leads / school life / ensemble cast / period setting] He looked at his face and saw those ten years, both unfamiliar and familiar. An old phone filled with text messages, a damaged photo pulled from a raging fire, and a relationship steeped in resentment and push and pull. Two boys who made their unsteady way through the 1990s, a broken moon and a butterfly flying into the flames. In their short lives, they save themselves, set each other a
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- 59 Supreme Warlord 至尊战王 After ten years on the battlefield, the God of War returns. He wields power over all and is richer than a nation! But his entire family has been slaughtered, and the mastermind turns out to be his fiancée... 594Reads8.4Score8714d adds
- 60 The Peerless God of War 绝世战王 After ten years on the battlefield, the War King returns, rich enough to rival a nation! But his entire family has been slaughtered, and the culprit turns out to be his fiancée... 2.2kReads7.2Score16514d adds
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Tales of Shanghai’s Underworld 沪上黑道往事
My new novel is here! You’re welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! The male lead of this book loses his father at a young age and depends on his mother. To avenge his father, he goes up a mountain to study martial arts under a master. After completing his training, he comes down and succeeds in taking revenge. To escape the authorities’ pursuit, he brings his mother to Shanghai. By chance
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- 62 Within Canglan 苍兰之中 After the planet Qingmu Huanhai was unified by Huangfu Shou, the Canglan Kingdom was founded. The former kingdoms of Bailong, Hei, Lushu, and Xingji rose in rebellion, hoping to restore their old regimes. The protagonist, Liu Yicheng, was orphaned at a young age and taken in by the abbot of Shaolin Temple. He trained at the Bodhidharma Hall from childhood, mastered all of Shaolin’s martial arts, and breezed through the Eighteen Bronze Men formation. After completing his training, he descended th 27Reads—Score—14d adds
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Northeast China: The Tragic End of the Underworld 东北往事黑道悲情大结局
This is a fanfiction inspired by the tragic underworld saga Black Morality. It tells of the people who appeared and the events that took place in the four years after Wang Luoguo's death and before Zhao Hongbing's crew burst onto the scene. Readers of Northeast Tales Prequel: Black Morality 1, Northeast Tales Prequel: Black Morality 2, and Northeast Tales: Twenty Years of Underworld Turmoil may have wondered what happened during those four years between Black Morality and Twenty Years of Underwo
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Martial Arts School Graduate 武校毕业生
Martial arts school / traditional martial arts / realistic / passionate / brotherhood / jianghu Adapted from real experiences. No fantasy, no System, and no cheats. A true-to-life portrayal of what life at a martial arts school is really like. A boy defies his family's objections to pursue his martial arts dream. Day after day, he trains relentlessly at school, enduring the long, monotonous years of practice alongside his fellow students and brothers. After graduation, he enters the wider world,
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The Mighty Little Constable 神通小捕快
“One leaf riding the wind, roaming ten thousand miles; a dashing constable, famous throughout the land.” The most righteous men are often those society looks down on, and heroes rise from the streets. The spring breeze and I are both passing travelers, but your name alone belongs to the martial world. Ye Fei, a lowly errand boy at an inn, is rejected by the Su family because he's nothing but a nobody who runs errands! Who could have guessed that after getting drunk, saving a beauty, and catching
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- 66 Uncommon People, Uncommon Deeds, Uncommon Words: The Complete Three-Book Set 非常人+非常事+非常言（套装共3册） This collection recounts little-known, fragmentary episodes from history that can bring fresh insight to readers today. It is worth keeping for readers interested in history and for creators seeking unusual historical material. History is often shaped by personal, accidental, and even seemingly insignificant circumstances. Over the past century or so of modern Chinese history, social upheavals, shifting currents of thought, and changing fortunes have all been more dramatic than ever. In a style 178Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 67 The Life of Li Chang'an 李长安的一生 Li Chang'an, a librarian. Li Chang'an, a teacher in Li Family Village. Li Chang'an, an immortal Daoist priest at Qingfeng Temple. Let's see what other identities Li Chang'an has in this world. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Journey to the West: The Tenth Trial 西游：十世劫 The gods and Buddhas are not eternal or indestructible. The so-called journey west is nothing but a conspiracy! And some people are born to be pawns! The nameless god-demon beneath the Ginseng Fruit Tree is actually connected to the Demon Lord Luo Hou! The secret behind Sun Wukong’s invincibility, however, is nothing more than an absurd joke. Countless schemes and intrigues have been seen through, all bound up in cause and effect. Li Qingyuan, the Tang dynasty’s imperial disciple, is forced to j —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Defying the Heavens in the Spirit Firmament: Li Changsheng 灵霄逆世之李长生 A down-and-out young man named Li Changsheng transmigrates into the world of cultivation. How will he rise step by step to the peak in another world and become an unrivaled Divine King who towers over an entire age? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Road to Power: The Pinnacle of Officialdom 官道：权力巅峰
Peng Zijuan’s Notes on Climbing the Career Ladder Peng Zijuan was an ordinary female official who had hoped to lead a quiet life. But her husband, Wu Dashan, chose a rich woman over her and divorced her. Wu Dashan said, “You’re a woman. Why are you always thinking about becoming an official?” Peng Zijuan replied, “That’s right. I want to become an official!” Wu Dashan said, “You’re a woman. You should stay home and take care of the kids. Stop thinking about becoming an official all the time!” Pe
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The Jianghu: No Shore to Turn Back To 江湖：回头无岸
Years later, Cheng Yuan had left the jianghu behind and planned to become a businessman, living out the rest of his days in peace. But an old acquaintance's verdict dragged him back into the blood-soaked mire of the underworld. Once, they had ridden proudly through the world, putting brotherhood first. As the years passed, they either rode the crest of the tide or plunged into the depths. In the end, none of them could withstand the unstoppable current of the times...
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The Martial World Weapon Rankings 江湖兵器谱
[High Martial] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Immersive 3D Combat] + [Villains Who Don't Get Dumber] + [Wuxia on a National-War Scale] The Weapon Rankings have appeared once more, throwing the Five Provinces into turmoil again. In an age of chaos, there are no heroes, only a sword to sweep it all away! Two male leads. Xue Ningchen, young master of the Frost Pavilion in Beiluo Province, changed drastically in temperament as a child after his father, Xue Zhaonan, practiced the Netherfrost Severed Meridian A
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The Day I Went to Prison: She Blazed a Trail Alone and Smashed My Shackles 入狱当天：她单枪铺路，为我砸镣
[Not Reborn]+ [No System]+ [One Female Lead] The last big sister of the underworld! The day I went to prison, she broke into the jail and smashed my shackles, clearing a path for me with a gun in hand! If the rest of my life is destined to be without light, at least in this moment, she is by my side! Some even call her the last big sister of Southeast Asia! Truth is, she was just forced to take charge in a crisis, with no other choice! Since we're already fugitives, then let's take our dark love
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- 74 I'm a Locksmith, and You Want Me to Exorcise Demons and Ferry Souls? 我一个开锁匠，你让我摆妖渡魂？ Guo Cheng is a master locksmith who has never failed. Until one day, he opens a “lock” and unlocks the door to another world. From then on, his clients are no longer limited to people with security doors. They include the demon spirits that wander among the living. He picks locks to “lock” away danger, and ferries spirits so they can depart in peace. In the shadows of the city, demons and ghosts run rampant. Watch as a locksmith uses his skills to forge his own path as a ferryman between the wor 49Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Exorcist from a Poor Family 寒门镇邪师
The three-year-old daughter of Lin Yan, a poor woodcarver, grows a fragrant green shoot in her palm, just as three golden lines appear in a crack in a copper lock passed down through his family. Only then does Lin Yan realize that a peddler's prophecy from three years ago has come true. His daughter, Nian'an, is the Chosen One of the Dao Fruit, but this divine gift is also a death sentence. Evil spirits from the outer city knock at the door in the dead of night, while members of the Spirit Infan
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Legend of Bloodshed on Mount Wudang 血溅武当山传奇
A severely underrated work of literature, an epic masterpiece full of vivid emotion. Martial arts + history + romance + leveling up through monster-slaying + a regretful pursuit of a wife + tangled grievances + emotional turmoil. A good-for-nothing male lead and an impulsive female lead meet because of a misunderstanding and are forced to wander the martial world together. They study under the same master and each finds their own opportunities to learn martial arts. Their differing ideals lead t
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- 77 Bloodshed on Mount Wudang 血溅武当山 A weather-beaten young man gradually finds his way through confusion, survives against all odds in a world plunged into chaos, and steadily gets everything he wished for. But he loses things far more precious, such as family, friendship, and love. If only time could turn back. 1.4kReads6.6Score10814d adds
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The Flying Errand on Mount Hua 华山飞役
[Traditional wuxia + coming of age + jianghu + imperial court + Jin Yong-inspired series] The Yuan court bans martial arts, bringing ruin to the jianghu, and the Huashan Sect is destroyed. As the young master of the Demon Cult, I take the sect leader’s daughter with me to roam the jianghu, growing stronger along the way as I strive to save the martial world...
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The Crane Calls in the Ninth Heaven 鹤鸣于九天
Has martial arts fiction really died? I don't believe it! Who among us didn't dream of the martial world when we were young? Martial arts fiction is a romance unique to us Chinese, deep in our bones! A chivalrous heart, tender affections, drinking and singing with abandon, brewing tea with snow: this is a martial world full of love, loyalty, gratitude, revenge, poetry, wine, flowers, and tea!
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Wuxia Crossover: It All Starts with Stealing Li Canghai's Chance 综武：一切从截胡李沧海开始
[Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, and Wen Rui’an worlds + multiple heroines + invincible + feel-good power fantasy + rebellion and kingship] After transmigrating into a combined martial arts world for twenty years, he gambled ten years of his fortune on Drum Mountain! Ten years trapped like a dragon in a well, then one day he rises to the clouds. From the start, he became Wuyazi’s disciple and learned the Xiaoyao Sect’s secret arts. He gambled his fortune and doubled his opportunities: the Bloo
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Abstinence Temple: Starting with a Broken Vow 戒色寺，从破戒开始
At the Abstinence Temple, starting with breaking the rules
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The Tiger Roars Across the Central Plains 虎啸中州
Three cups of wine for the mortal world, one pot of tea for a legacy that lasts a thousand years. What does it mean to truly live? Let me tell you what it means to unleash a ferocious tiger. Some ride horses, some sit in sedan chairs, while others push carts and shoulder their loads. I’ve never admitted defeat. You can beat me a thousand times, but I still won’t cry!!!
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A Major Case in the Northeast: The Dark Road 东北大案，黑路
This novel follows the entire story of a violent gang led by Wang Xin in Northeast China, from its rise in the 1980s, through its transformation, to its eventual downfall in the early 21st century…
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Be the Fiercest One 做最凶的那个
Lin Yu had always been troubled by a question: Why must good people endure eighty-one trials to become Buddhas, while bad people only need to lay down their butcher's knives? Fairness has never been something the poor get to talk about. If you want fairness, there's only one way: make yourself strong enough to create it. This world has both light and darkness. It won't treat you well just because you're kind. His father was unable to repay his debts and eventually took his own life. The creditor
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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Bloodshed Before the Sword Is Sheathed 喋血封刀
A mysterious and legendary ancient blade made its first appearance in the martial world, plunging the realm into years of turmoil. The Six Great Sects, the Four Great Sword Schools, the Three Great Evil Cults, and the Ten Great Masters were all swept into the bloody conflict. The world was in uproar! At last, Luo Yanqing, the foremost man under heaven, known as the “Star Elder,” guided Zhuge Tianzhao, the Demonic Cult’s leader, onto the righteous path. Together, they took the treasured blade and
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After I Transferred Schools, My Ex-Girlfriend Became the School's Top Dog 转校后，前女友成了学校老大
[Underworld] [Not invincible, not brainless, no harem] [Capable of every evil] That year, I scraped by like a stray dog. Then I rose like a dragon bursting from the sea. Who would dare stand in my way? That year, I was beaten at school until I cried for my parents. That year, I wielded an AK-47 and killed my way through the school, oblivious to heaven and earth! Only those willing to risk everything, daring to drag the King of Hell from his throne, can become kings! From school to society, from
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I Transmigrated Into a Powerful Figure, and Now Romance Is Everywhere 穿越成为大佬从此桃花遍地
Multiple heroines + power fantasy + transmigration From a street thug to a big shot, his life becomes like he’s activated cheat mode. Liu Zhuang, who has lived two lifetimes, uses his intelligence to create a colorful life for himself...
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Cast Aside in Desperation: Returning in Glory 绝境弃子：归来荣耀
For ten years he kept his head down, enduring every sneer. The world saw him as a discarded nobody from the bottom rung, lowly as mud and fair game for anyone to bully. But Jiang Mu is the last heir of Jiang City’s most powerful hidden clan, and a dragon-patterned jade pendant conceals an immense force. A hidden dragon in the deep will one day reclaim its place. When he gives the word, armies will gather. Those who oppress me will see their graves overturned; those who have shown me kindness wil
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- 90 Xu Fei's Wild Life 徐飞的浪荡人生 Just after the Lunar New Year, Xu Fei returns with a simple pack to the small northern city where he was born and raised, after three years away. He'd planned to find any wife and settle down to an ordinary life, but fate has other plans. He is pushed onto a path unlike any other, and begins a life far from ordinary. 780Reads6.7Score11114d adds
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The Imprisoned King 囚王
Who am I? I woke up in a prince's manor after a seven-day dream. I had forgotten who I was, where I came from, and where I was going. It seemed I had once been plotting something, but before I could investigate, an assassination attempt sent me stumbling into the martial world. Thus began the weaving of a conspiracy spanning both court and martial world.
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An Ordinary Man’s Path Through the Martial World 江湖凡人路
This is my first long novel. The early chapters move slowly, but they follow an essential part of the characters’ emotional journeys. After much deliberation, I decided to keep them. Feel free to skip the prologue and start with Chapter One. I hope you’ll understand. On the execution ground, I, Timur, a gifted blacksmith, had become a condemned prisoner. The common folk cursed me for cutting corners and causing the deaths of soldiers on the frontier. My parents knelt below the platform, sobbi
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- 93 The Hundred Shaman Taboos 百巫禁忌 > Lu Ming never imagined that after reaching the peak of the virtual game Epoch, he would be repeatedly challenged by Chen Chuan, his strongest rival, who would stop at nothing to kill him. > At first, he thought Chen Chuan only wanted the ultimate artifact in his possession. > Until he accidentally discovered that every time Chen Chuan fought him, he deliberately avoided Lu Ming’s fatal weaknesses. > An indescribable chill slowly crept up his spine. Why did his opponent understand him better th —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Legend of Lu Laoqi 陆老七传奇
In the province of Rehe during the Republican era, a catchy rhyme circulated through the martial world: “Lu Laoqi, Li Changjiu, undefeated throughout Rehe; the Beggar, Detective, and Master Shang; Dalong, Qingshan, and Zheng the Crooked; the Driver, Drunkard, and Wang Chaojie; Pockmark, Du Wu, and Liu Minghu; the Twin Fiends, Kou Haiyang, and Yu Xingba.” It vividly described the eighteen peerless fighters of Rehe at the time. Ranked first was Lu Yishan, a boy from a poor family in the province.
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- 95 Above Canglan 苍兰之上 The planet Qingmu Huanhai is home to many nations, including two great powers: Tianqiu and Lushu. Many minority tribes near Tianqiu frequently raided its border, plunging the kingdom into years of war and leaving its people in misery. Under the leadership of King Qiu Lianjie and the Eighth Prince Huangfu Shou, however, Tianqiu eventually reached its peak. Lushu, by contrast, enjoyed peace and prosperity. The kingdom favored civil officials over military ones, while powerful in-laws and a succes 21Reads—Score114d adds
- 96 The Chronicles of Clan Feuds and Grudges 宗武：世仇恩怨录 Rushing waterfalls surge out of the primordial wilderness, while winding roads stretch into the distance. Through the jianghu we travel, with chivalrous hearts and passions, our heroic spirit forever enduring. Riding across the land, sleeping beneath the stars, standing firm amid the mighty river's current. All praise those who hold up the sky and clouds in their hands, ridding the world of demons and beasts. A century passes, a moment of love; a barren hill, a tomb. Has love truly ended? The he 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 The Underworld Heiress Makes a Fierce Bodyguard 黑道千金猛保镖 [Underworld] + [Urban] + [Multiple Female Leads] + [Power Fantasy] [Not for readers under 18] Wang Meng rose from bodyguard to godfather of the underworld, unifying both the criminal and legitimate worlds. His was a life of power and grandeur. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Gray-Eyed White Cat 白猫传灰瞳
The young heir of a crime family is forced to become a beggar. With nothing but a bowl from the start, he becomes the Zhu Yuanzhang of the underworld. Fresh twists and airtight logic. Italian mixed-race, ruthless, cruel, and realistic. He kills decisively, with every punch landing hard, every blade striking true, and every bullet finding its mark. A slow burn. Trust me, it only gets better as it goes. (No saintly heroine, no System, no harem, pure underworld fiction.)
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- 99 The Peerless Sword God 绝色剑神 That winter, the martial world died. Tianwaitian slaughtered the entire martial world, staining rivers and mountains with blood. Beauty meant death. Zhao Qinghe was the most remarkable princess in the world, and the most beautiful woman in the world. When she smiled, the mountains and rivers paled. When she drew her sword, even immortals bowed their heads. Her Flowing Cloud Soft Sword made her invincible in three moves. Two even more dangerous women were always at her side: Luo Qinghan, “De 464Reads8.1Score19114d adds
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Legend of Mir: The Dragon Era 热血传奇：天龙纪元
Lin Xiao was an ordinary person from an ordinary world. After an accident, he transmigrated into a thrilling, legendary world full of danger. Unknown threats and challenges lurked everywhere. New to this strange world, Lin Xiao struggled to find his footing. But fate can turn in an instant. He met like-minded companions, including Su Li and Nuoxue. Fighting side by side and growing stronger together, they gradually conceived a bold idea: to establish the Longyuan Star Alliance. Through everyon
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