I Don't Believe Tomato Has Any Masterpieces with Deep Ideas, Epic Scope, and a Grand, Sweeping Feel 不信番茄有思想深刻、格局宏大、富有史诗感的神作
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A Lowly County Office Clerk with Kids at Home and No Rice to Cook 穿成县衙小吏，家有儿女等米下锅
[A clerk is no official, and the desk is a mountain of blades] [No errors in the ledger, every stroke of the brush decides joy and sorrow] The male lead had only just transmigrated when someone cracked him over the back of the head. After missing work for three days, he nearly got struck off the rolls. His father thought he was saddled with two useless dependents. His older brother thought he was too inflexible to make money. His fourth younger brother feared his lowly clerk's status would tarni
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Black Gauze and Rouge 乌纱与胭脂
Human nature is like the sun: impossible to look at directly. Many people appear charming and refined on the surface, but strip away the facade and you’ll see human nature laid bare. By portraying the real chaos of society, this work exposes the evil and filth within human nature and calls on people to choose kindness and uphold social decency.
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Back in 2003, This Time the Advantage Is Mine 重回2003，这波优势在我
A working-class laborer dies in a car accident in 2026 and is reborn on June 5, 2003, with every memory from 2003 to 2026 intact. Using his knowledge of the future, he makes his first fortune in Hong Kong's futures market, then starts with a Taobao shop and expands into e-commerce platforms, his own logistics network, brick-and-mortar retail, mobile phone hardware, and payment systems. In just six months, he goes from having nothing to a net worth of hundreds of millions, takes on Eachnet head-o
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- 154 In the Name of the People: Qi Tongwei Quits Politics for Business from the Start 名义：开局祈同伟弃政从商 After shooting himself on Solitary Eagle Ridge, Qi Tongwei was reborn at the turning point of his fate! Back at the moment when he knelt before the Liang family, before taking the wrong path in officialdom, he carried memories of the future from 2026. He rejected Liang Qunfeng's promotion on the spot, abandoning his political ambitions for good and refusing to repeat the old path that had ended in disgrace. He seized the first opportunities brought by reform and opening up, using treasury bond a 7.4kReads6.1Score201Shelves
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Ambush 伏杀
[Original title: Ambush] Beneath the awe-inspiring might of Heaven, all living beings are mere ants. And yet he dares, with the strength of an insect, to turn the world upside down. For family, for friends, for the burning hatred in his heart, for the nightmares that haunt him year after year, for justice, and for fairness. This story is set in an imaginary world and has no connection to actual history. Everything in it is fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental.
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The Soul of Tang Returns to the Righteous Cause 归义唐魂
To the west, he allied with his uncle’s Yutian Kingdom; to the east, he reclaimed eleven prefectures of Helong. He drove the Uyghurs north and secured the Tianshan Mountains; looking south toward Chang’an, he reclaimed the old frontiers. Gunpowder shattered the Tibetan ranks; iron cavalry trampled the Khitan camps. The Three Stars Banner swept across Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the Han realm’s sky was opened anew beneath the sun and moon.
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My 99 Ghostly Roommates 我的99位死诡房客
Blood is seeping from the mirrors in the lobby. A pair of transparent toes dangle beneath the magnificent chandelier. The refrigerator is always stocked with fresh meat. The elevator travels to nonexistent floors after midnight. The hotel windows are covered in countless handprints. The garden statues spy on every passerby. “Please, esteemed guests, don’t be alarmed. This is just the latest interior design style at the Xi Wang Grand Hotel.” “What? You just saw one of our employees’ heads fall of
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New Utopia 新，乌托邦
[Political Thriller] [Montage Style] [Psychologically Oppressive] [Dystopian] (The plot moves slowly at first. Please be patient and read to the end.) After the catastrophe, a city-state rose from the ground. People called it New Utopia. Beneath its gleaming order, those in power had long since ceased to be human. Monsters wore human skin and occupied the highest offices. Their eyes were connected, and everything was under surveillance. A colossal beast hung in the sky, while monsters roamed t
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Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶
[Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w
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- 160 In the Name of the People: From the Start, Qi Tongwei Becomes a Legend by Copying Books 名义：开局祁同伟抄书封神 A gunshot rang out on Guying Ridge. Qi Tongwei took his own life with a bullet, only to be reborn at the pivotal age of eighteen, just as he was entering Handong University. He resolved to change himself and rewrite the fate that had been destined to end in ruin. In the 1980s, a time of rapid development in Chinese literature, he made his first fortune by copying books. He ventured into film and television and finance, assembling a reliable team and moving forward steadily. Seizing opportunities 113Reads—Score140Shelves
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No Offenses Against Jin 不轨于晋
Who in history has never had regrets? Zhang Ao, the King of Zhao in the early Western Han dynasty, originally lived in the shadow of Liu Bang’s purge of kings with different surnames, spending his days in constant fear, never knowing whether he would see the next day. Heaven gave him a second chance to be reborn, in the form of Zhang Gui more than four hundred years later. Unfortunately, he now faced an even darker and more degenerate age of Wei and Jin. And so begins a tale of saving a world wh
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- 162 Mount & Blade: Kingdom of Heaven 骑砍：天国王朝 When he opens his eyes, he has become a two-year-old boy: Elias of Anjou, the youngest son of Fulk V, Count of Anjou. In this era, French castles are built of stone, winters are cold enough to leave your fingers stiff, and noble lords fight in the mud wearing chain mail. His elder brother Geoffrey, the historical Duke of Normandy and father of the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty, is the heir to Anjou. The good news is that he has a golden finger: the Mount & Blade: Bannerlord System. Troops, 1.8kReads—Score226Shelves
- 163 Scheming for a Night of Passion 春宵谋幸 [No Transmigration. Native-Born Heroine Develops Early On, Becomes Powerful Later.] [Everyone's Darling, Not a Submissive Wife. Political Intrigue, Coming-of-Age Female Lead, Multiple Male Leads, All Pure and All End Up with Her.] Shen Zhixing died a pathetic death in her previous life. As the only daughter of a marquis's household, she gave everything to help a man ascend the throne. In the end, her family was branded traitors plotting rebellion. When she begged him, all she got was a death tha 13.8kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
- 164 Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记 In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!) 1.1kReads—Score131Shelves
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From the Start, I Had a Plague Chicken: Zombies Chased Me Through the Village 开局一只瘟鸡，满村丧尸追我
[Infinite-flow + sci-fi + suspense] What would you do if you accidentally wandered into an AI video? From the start, you’ve got a sickly chicken, and the whole village is full of zombies chasing after you to bite you. Wait, you also have administrator privileges? Spend points to alter parameters, generate items, and even rewrite the script so thoroughly that its own creator wouldn’t recognize it? They say AI videos are all acted by real people. But what happens if you die inside one? Want to fin
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- 166 My Green Tea Classmate Stole My Graduate School Recommendation, So I Quit the Exam and Shocked the Whole School! 绿茶同学顶替保研，我反手弃考震惊全校！ My Green Tea Classmate Took My Recommended Graduate School Spot, So I Dropped Out of the Exam and Shocked the Entire School! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Devour the Immortal Cosmos 噬仙宙
“The stars are beginning to vanish one by one, far off in the distance.” What kind of power could be responsible? “Could there be a beast hidden in the depths of space, larger than the sun, swallowing stars one by one?” Immortals and gods vie for supremacy, and fiery battles sweep across the myriad realms of the heavens. The young Cheng Bai awakens the Gluttonous Beast Physique, ventures into another world and gains the legacy of a fiendish god. He cultivates the strongest divine arts, comprehen
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Are My Opponents Earthlings? 我的对手是地球人？
Five hundred years ago, two people from Earth crossed sixteen light-years and came to our world, bearing vast knowledge and magnificent technology. They were like gods. We prostrated ourselves before them, humbly seeking their guidance in all things and praising their great deeds. A hundred years ago, twenty million people from Earth followed in the gods' footsteps and came here as well. In keeping with the reverence for Earthlings in our legends, we once again wanted to welcome these angels who
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Back to 1996: Taking Down the Supply and Marketing Cooperative 重回1996：干翻供销社
[Reborn] [Period] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Ensemble Cast] [Sweet Romance] [Modern Romance] At forty-eight, seasoned old hand Meng Qiheng touches an old mirror and returns to rural northern Jiangsu in 1996! From the start, he stops his father from signing away everything for a brick and tile factory. With just 2.5 yuan in startup capital, he uses his insider knowledge to catch and sell eels, sell rainproof tarps, and crush the state-run supply cooperative! He teams up with his buddies to open a vid
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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Humanity Performs a Scripted Murder Mystery for Higher-Dimensional Life in the Apocalypse 末世人类为高维生命表演剧本杀
What's it like to perform a murder-mystery game for higher life forms during the apocalypse? Mess up, and you die… Decisive killing + No Female Lead + Apocalypse + Instances + Multiple Worlds Warning: The male lead is greasy. Extremely greasy. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental. No false claims of plagiarism.
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A Human Cage 人间囚笼
[Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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The New Shun, 1644 新顺1644
[Peasant Rebel Army Perspective + Research-Oriented + No Golden Finger, No System] (Late Ming Dynasty, research-oriented, a people's history perspective, no System, and a somewhat slow start.) You can think of it as a prequel fanfic to New Shun 1730, or perhaps a sort of tribute.
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- 175 Transmigrating to the Late Ming: From Tightening Screws to Farming 穿越明末：从打螺丝到种田 Transmigration to the late Ming dynasty + Peasant Rebellion + Resistance against the Ming and Qing! (Respecting history + No cheats + No System + Slow-paced + Not a power fantasy!!) Wang Tie is an ordinary man with no particular skills. By a twist of fate, he transmigrates to the late Ming and early Qing, a chaotic era that is practically a living hell. How will he find a way to survive in this turbulent age?! And once he reaches the pinnacle of power, where will he lead this people and nat 17.3kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
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The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍
Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.”
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The Mengjin Crossing 盟津渡
Also known as The Awakening of the Ferry Boy. Wu Heyuan, a young man from a Yellow River ferry crossing, suffers the massacre of his entire family, and his younger sister goes missing. After delivering a letter to the Weishui Alliance for a mysterious stranger, he becomes Jiang Shang’s disciple and embarks on a path of political intrigue. When his sister is trained to become an enemy nation’s assassin, when his beloved tastes poison to save him from the brink of death, and when his master gives
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Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
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- 179 My Grandfather Is Zhu Yuanzhang 我祖父是朱元璋 I have the most illustrious name: Zhu Yuntong. I am the legitimate grandson of the founding emperor of Great Ming, and the legitimate son of Crown Prince Zhu Biao. My mother is the daughter of Chang Yuchun, and my maternal granduncle is Lan Yu. I am the most illustrious imperial grandson in Great Ming, and the most influential and legitimate heir to the throne. I will usher in a different Great Ming, magnificent beyond compare, its sun and moon shining bright. It will embrace all rivers and welc 234.7kReads9.4Score27kShelves
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Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明
In the late Ming dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow that the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial and smallholder economies that coexisted under the Ming were both hit by deflation. Combined with the effects of the Little Ice Age, one domino after another fell, plunging the realm into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the roving rebels crossed the river south of Mianc
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Systems Are All Human Traffickers! Wanderers, Come Home! 系统都是人贩子，流浪者，回家！
[Strong female lead] [No CP] [The moment she remembers her own name, the rules are rewritten.] "My name is Sheng Heqing. Sheng as in a prosperous age of peace, Heqing as in calm seas and clear rivers." Transmigrators stranded in another world, want to join the national team? What do you do if you've transmigrated into a book and are being abused? Don't worry, Mom Country has sent people to rescue you! The ancestral planet is calling. China's rescue mission has officially begun! Win their hearts?
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- 182 With My Blood, I’ll Save These Mountains and Rivers 我以我血挽山河 [Not a Power Fantasy + Slow Burn + Multiple Storylines + No Golden Finger + Passionate Conquest of the Song] At the end of the Northern Song dynasty, Bianjing was under siege, and the realm was falling into enemy hands. After his soul traveled nine hundred years through time, Gu Yuan found himself on the snowy plains outside Bianjing, where he and a band of fleeing soldiers happened to rescue the reborn Princess Zhao Yingluo. Through careful planning at every turn, he rose to become the era’s gr 32.8kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
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Bound Together Across Two Lifetimes, We’ll Grow Old Together 双世缱绻，与君共白头
[Two powerful leads who rise to greatness | Complete souls | Extreme contrast | Love across two lifetimes | Sweet romance and court intrigue] A modern married couple are reborn as babies in the Tianqi Dynasty. He becomes an iron-fisted Crown Prince, commands the Xuanhuo Army, and plots to industrialize the realm. She becomes a queen of commerce, controls trade routes along three borders, and holds the lifeblood of the people in her hands! Toward their enemies, he presides over the execution of t
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- 184 EN The Wei Clan's Cursed Son Becomes Grand Secretary—Now They Beg Me to Return 魏家孽种成首辅，全族跪求我认祖 (Also known as The Wei Fox) [Political Schemes][One Female Lead][Ensemble Cast][The Wei Faction] Condemned from birth, I was given the name Niesheng. On the day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and my grandfather mourned before the ancestral hall. The whole household looked at me askance, all calling me a disaster star who had stolen another's fate. My biological father hated me like an enemy, my elder half-brother regarded me as an omen of bad luck, and my stepmother hid a knife behind 645kReads9.2Score90.3kShelves
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Frozen for a Century, Humanity Became an Endangered Species on Earth 冷冻百年，人类成了地球濒危物种
What would happen if humanity fell to the bottom of the food chain, unarmed and starting from scratch? What would become of the world? At the end of the 21st century, a strange virus swept across the globe, targeting only humans. Civilization collapsed in a matter of months. Other species took over the Earth. Humanity was no longer at the top of the food chain. Even worse, people’s memories were fading. Unless civilization could be rebuilt before knowledge was completely forgotten, humanity wo
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- 186 The Last 24 Humans on Earth 地球最后24个人类 I slept for three hundred years. When I awoke, the world had taken on a new face. Forests had returned to the land, birds and beasts roamed freely, and Earth was still teeming with life. It simply no longer belonged to humanity alone. We returned from our slumber and learned to live alongside all things, rebuilding our home with our own hands. This is a journey about surviving, and about learning once more to respect and protect the world around us. The road is long, but every step counts. 105Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 187 The Classic of Mountains and Seas: An Endless Myth 山海经：道不尽神话 (Mythology reimagined, Classic of Mountains and Seas, slow-paced, not a power fantasy, ensemble cast, faux fourth calamity, farming and management) The gods sit high above in the heavens. Divine registers bind humanity, incense offerings are taxes, and all living beings are fuel. People have grown accustomed to kneeling and begging the gods for help, never realizing that each prayer sells away a piece of their future. Pangu creating the world, Nüwa mending the heavens, Fuxi devising the trigrams 20Reads—Score—Shelves
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Three-Line Cycle: Reversing Course Westward 三线轮回：逆骨西行
A mysterious letter drags me into a deadly game spanning centuries! In the modern-day snowfields, I face evil spirits. Amid the flames of war in the Republic of China era, I save our ancestors. In the hidden palace chambers of the Ming dynasty, I uncover the secrets of the Jianwen Emperor... Piao Zhixuan and I battle across time, unlock the bronze mirror’s seal, and fight an evil spirit a thousand years old. Family destiny, duty to our country, and bonds forged through life and death knot togeth
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You Promised Me Cultivation, So Why Are You Making Me Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor? 说好的修仙你让我造核聚变反应堆
“A voice suddenly appeared in my head: It said that if I built a nuclear fusion reactor, it would teach me how to cultivate immortality! When I refused, it turned into words floating in front of my eyes. It’s so annoying!” “Then why didn’t you agree?” Song Ning rolled his eyes. “Are you stupid? The doctors said my schizophrenia was caused by a mental illness brought on by a nervous disorder. If I knew how to build that thing, would I have been sent to a psychiatric hospital?”
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Life Is No Easy Ride in Another World 异世界不好平躺
This is not a power fantasy. It is dark fantasy, a world of despair built around the game Dark Souls. Every step the protagonist takes leads him further down an endless abyss. The story is told primarily in a Western style. Every character exists to serve the story, and even the protagonist is little more than a tool.
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- 191 The Space-Time Bridge: Earth's Era 时空桥之地球时代 [Sci-fi] + [Mystery] + [Ensemble cast], with airtight logic and no brainless plot twists. Zhang Xiaotian: holder of the third secret key to the Space-Time Bridge; Song Yaoyao: a knower who can read any data in simulated spaces; Xiang Wanwan: a top student and cool, mature beauty; Chen Yifan: a righteous police detective; Lillian: a short-tempered little girl. From death threats to exploring ancient ruins, from the prehistoric plans of the Giant race to the future invasion of the Divine race, fol —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门
For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr
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When an Ultraman Appears in the Era of Human Civil War 当奥特曼出现在人类内战的年代
Not a power fantasy + Merged worlds + No System + Multiple protagonists + Military history + No heroine + Action-packed While carrying out their missions, the Giants of Light known as Ultramen encounter humanity’s wars throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What role did Ultramen really play during that time? Were they defenders who favored Earth at all costs, or impartial enforcers who never let personal feelings sway them? In 1945, Red Kai left northern Shaanxi and set out to inv
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Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明，工科生横扫满清复华夏
In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis
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The Last Movie Star in the World of Cinema 电影世界最后一个影帝
[A multiverse story focused on supernatural, sci-fi, and fantasy films, with a few other genres mixed in.] [Not a monster-grinding, level-up story. There is no clear power system; the focus is on storytelling.] [Not a conventional wish-fulfillment novel. It touches on traditional thought and culture, including but not limited to the Hundred Schools of Thought and Wang Yangming's School of Mind.] [The protagonist is a bleeding heart, funny, and righteous, with no showing off and face-slapping, an
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- 196 An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末 A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline. 2.8kReads7.8Score196Shelves
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The Five Strokes of the Spirit 灵之五划
No one gets to define what web fiction should be! Within books lies a path to heaven; between the lines are the deeds of ten thousand ages. Three thousand great characters, each taking root; roots plunge deep into the earth, branches flourish and pierce the sky. Where does the mystery lie? Where does the fantasy begin? Hold a staff in either hand, swing blades with every stroke, hook your fingers around a cup, and join me for a drink.
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The Guanshan Pact 关山契
On the western frontier, yellow sands bury the dead, and honor is as fragile as paper. The young Zhao Tianhao was merely a merchant’s son from Ping Wharf. With a heart full of sincerity, he kept his contracts, protected his family business, and brought peace to his neighbors. Yet the crushing might of the war-torn age destroyed his household, driving him to abandon trade and take up arms. He entered the death camp, managed military rations, trained a corps of death-defying soldiers, and defended
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Chill of the Sword Qi 剑气寒
The protagonist has no golden finger and did not transmigrate. This is a story about the sword and love, the Dao and her. Trapped in one prison of fate after another, caught between the human way and the heavenly way, he struggles to break free. He grows through struggle, holds fast as he grows, and gradually comes to understand the truth of the human heart and the universe. Immortality may be wonderful, but the mysteries of the Dao are endless; Sword energy may be fierce, but it cannot sever ev
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- 200 Salt and Iron 盐铁 Liaodong is bitterly cold, and salt is worth its weight in gold. To save his parents, young Shen Huai pawns his hairpin for salt. But without a permit, the officials seize it. His father dies in prison, and his mother’s blood stains their doorstep. After a blizzard, he leaves his home behind and follows his uncle, a wandering man of the jianghu, onto the path of the black salt trade. From then on, he is drawn into the fateful abyss of salt and iron, military funds, and political power. At first, 453Reads—Score—Shelves
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