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1. 1 金 The Jin Army Besieges the City: Reborn as Emperor Qinzong of Song 金军围城，重生宋钦宗 Painting Lingyan画凌烟Historical3.2M WordsCompleted In the halls of government, rotten wood holds office. Between the palace steps, beasts feast on their salaries. Men with hearts like wolves and the ways of dogs crowd the halls of power. Toadies and bootlickers fill the ranks of government, bringing the state to ruin and the people to misery! You dare demand to know whether the sword in my hand is sharp? 162.1kReads9.4Score18.6kShelves

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   Recommended star rating: 5-star recommendation Story summary: At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin army came to Bianjing. Just when Song Qinzong was about to go north to live in a 5-star thatched house, the protagonist traveled to Song Qinzong. This book is one of the rare fairy tales with good writing and the author's skillful use of methodology.

2. 2 不 If the Male Lead Is Out of Reach, the Villain Is a Better Deal 不是男主要不起，反派更有性价比 Taishi Ying太史婴Modern Romance2.7M WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation of Quick Transmigration: Spoiled and Cherished is now available on Fanqie, the comic is out, and a print edition is in the works. Please show your support. [Sweet romance + yandere, one-on-one] To stay alive, Sheng Nuan must transmigrate into different worlds, play doomed cannon fodder, and save the darkest villains. They're cold-blooded, obsessive, and ruthless, capable of leaving a million corpses in their wake with a laugh and destroying the world with a wave of the 88.8kReads9.5Score8.7kShelves

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   What I recommend is a quick-travel novel, without being pretentious. The third one is enough to be a scumbag, but it doesn't matter. It's the kind where you can conquer three scumbag boys at the same time. There is no CP, and the heroine will die in the end. Because there is a time limit on the strategy, which is the death time of the original protagonist. You can also learn to identify scumbags by reading novels, right? Why not? These three novels are my favorites. I recommend you to read them!!

3. 3 快 Quick Transmigration: The Sickly-Sweet Big Shot Is Fierce and Clingy 快穿：病娇大佬他又凶又黏人 Sui Sui Er岁岁儿Modern Romance3.3M WordsCompleted [Comic adaptation complete] At the moment of her death, Nan Qing’s greatest wish is to have a healthy body. After she dies, she gets bound to something that calls itself the System. It can give her a healthy body, and in return, she has to complete the tasks it assigns. Save the male supporting characters? Er’er: “Save the male supporting characters in stories about saving the world, and change their tragic endings of loving someone they can’t have, growing old alone, and spending their whole li 59.3kReads9.5Score5.2kShelves
4. 4 快 Quick Transmigration: My Scumbag Ex Cries as He Eats My Ashes 快穿修罗场：渣男哭着吃我骨灰 Meat Sauce Eater吃肉酱Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation is out! [Conquest + Shura Fields + No CP + Abusing Scum + Everyone's Favorite] Yu Ai is the best task-taker across all of time and space, a beauty blessed with both talent and looks. Hearing that men are always looking for trouble, she teams up with System 001 to teach them a lesson. She's the original green tea, a master of acting, and she's ready to fight back online. * The scheming CEO pins a woman beneath him. "Woman, behave. You're only allowed to be my caged bird." The 15.9kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
5. 5 青 Love of the Green Rock Grass 青岩草之恋 This Splendid Season斑斓这一季Modern Romance124k WordsCompleted [A workplace elite returns to school + hardship before happiness + both leads are slow to warm up] Ling Xiao and Du Changxing are both enrolled in the BM part-time graduate program at Chun University’s School of Business. Du Changxing has a daughter, Du Muchen, born out of wedlock. Both father and daughter suffer from R-type chronic heart failure, a rare inherited disease with no specific drug treatment currently available. He had planned to keep his little secret about taking part in a clinical —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   No tricks! The male and female protagonists are thirty years old and have formed a relatively stable understanding of this society. The female protagonist is engaged in clinical trials, and the male protagonist is involved in aerospace research. He secretly participated in clinical trials because of illness and was discovered by the female protagonist. The two were also studying as part-time graduate students at prestigious universities at the same time, and they went from being disliked by each other to sympathetic to each other. I wrote more than a dozen chapters and updated them one chapter a day.

6. 6 我 I'm a Bit Player in the Myriad Worlds 我在诸天万界跑龙套 Silent Xizhou西洲无声Eastern Fantasy546k WordsOngoing [One heroine] + [A protagonist who grows over time] [Not quick transmigration! Not quick transmigration! Some worlds are revisited! The pacing isn't fast!] Jiang Du was tricked by a shady agency into signing away his freedom. He was sent to countless minor worlds to play bit parts and move the plot along. The pay was low, and his life was often in danger. With no other choice, Jiang Du had to board this pirate ship for the sake of staying alive (and making a fortune), tears in his eyes. But... w —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   In the first book, I became a worker and participated in the growth of the protagonist in various dimensions, but is the so-called protagonist really the protagonist? It is not poisonous and can be eaten. In the second book, the lazy heroine is so cute that she almost falls asleep while walking. In the third book, the bad news is that there are routines, but the good news is that the routines are just tricks.

7. 7 震 The Cultivation World Is Stunned! The Laid-Back Junior Sister Draws Her Sword 震惊修仙界！摆烂小师妹她拔剑了 Li Jiu理久Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [The comic is now available on Tomato Novel. Search for "The 108 Ways a Villain Can Give Up" to read it] [This is a slow-burn story with a couple. The male lead, Yu He, arrives late. The female lead is incredibly powerful, but she just gives up! This is not a conventional power fantasy, so fans of power fantasies should steer clear! Note: This story has lots of original worldbuilding. Please don't compare it to other works!] [A solemn announcement: Actually, never mind. Just make do with it! If 28.6kReads9.2Score7.1kShelves
8. 8 上 You Destroyed My Dantian This Morning, Now I’m Burning Paper at Your Grave 上午毁我丹田，下午在你坟前烧纸 Holding Hands by the Fire执手烟火Ancient Romance4.2M WordsCompleted [The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng 185.3kReads9.5Score24.7kShelves
9. 9 原 Genshin Impact: I Am the Envoy of Snezhnaya 原神之我是至冬使节 A Fox, Not a Raccoon Dog是狐狸不是貉Anime Fanfiction6.1M WordsOngoing As the newly appointed twelfth Harbinger, known as the Instructor, Bai Luo admits he’s a little nervous. The Tsaritsa has given him a mission: travel to Inazuma as an envoy from Snezhnaya. As someone who transmigrated, he knows exactly what will happen if he goes to Inazuma: the Raiden Shogun will absolutely annihilate him. But if he refuses to go, the Tsaritsa will annihilate him instead. So he chooses Teyvat’s time-honored tradition: slacking off. 63.8kReads9.7Score4.9kShelves

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   It is precisely because the moon is too obvious and close that you cannot see the galaxy that is even more dazzling than the moon many light years away. But don't let the moon block your sight, there are stars in this sky

10. 10 技 My Skills Are So Ridiculous, They Drive My Enemies Crazy! 技能超沙雕，敌人都被整疯了！ Unable To Sleep At Night夜不能寝Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Animated comic released + lighthearted and funny + games invade reality + supernatural powers + shameless antics + causality concepts + invincible + one heroine + frequent updates!] A century ago, the world underwent a cataclysmic change. Games descended into reality, and monsters began to run rampant. Bai Yi was a [Nobody] who couldn't learn any normal skills, but from the start, he awakened a god-tier Skill System. From then on: [Someone, protect me!] Summon someone to appear in front of you 69.3kReads9.2Score7kShelves
11. 11 斩 City of Demon Slaying 斩鬼之城 Dust-Covered Little Earth蒙尘小土Urban1.4M WordsCompleted Original title: The Card Game of the Ghost Slayer [No System] At dawn, Qiu Xiaoye obtained a card called [Sword God] and gained the power to wield the sword. Then he suddenly discovered that his younger sister, Qiu Xiaolu, was a ghoul. His sister bared her fangs and lunged at him, so Qiu Xiaoye had no choice but to draw his sword and hack away. The restaurant was instantly transformed into a heartwarming scene of deep sibling love. 57kReads8.3Score9.4kShelves
12. 12 规 Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆 Alas, Deep Love奈何情深Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra 64.6kReads9.6Score8.8kShelves
13. 13 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 185.2kReads9.7Score20.3kShelves
14. 14 特 Commander Te, One of a Kind 特总，不一样 Ancient Plank Road古栈道Urban322k WordsCompleted A kidnapping that happened purely by chance, a rescue that came without warning. One was the heir to a conglomerate, the other a retired special forces soldier. Their lives were on completely different tracks, like two lines that should never have crossed, yet they began a long journey toward convergence. Though their story began by chance, what followed was rooted in reality. Perhaps people live in completely different worlds, but in the end, whether true feelings can bring them together may ha 324Reads8.9Score104Shelves

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    A potential work in the urban daily genre, the author incorporates more than 10 years of working experience into the work through a love story. It starts with an old-fashioned story about a hero saving a beauty, and then tells the true stories in life and workplace.

15. 15 装 I Kept Up the Act for Two Years, Then They Suddenly Read My Mind 装了两年突然被读心了 Hu Yu蝴俞Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Signed for publication in print] Also known as When My Billionaire Husband Started Coughing [Brooding, secretly snarky CEO X quirky, 'fake' innocent flower] Qi Weiran was a CEO worth billions. Because he carried a rare gene, he had a body that never got sick. But he could only live to the age of fifty. After he died, half his estate would go to his contract wife. One day, Qi Weiran's body, which had never shown a single sign of illness, suddenly began to cough. His adoring young wife, who loved 47kReads9.5Score6.3kShelves

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    The first one is super funny and the author really knows the jokes hahaha. All the heroine can think about is waiting for the male protagonist to adjust well and inherit his property hahahaha. The author of the second book also knows the jokes very well hahahahaha.

16. 16 疯 I Woke Up in a Madman’s Arms, Only to Find I’m the Sucker 疯批怀里惊坐起，冤种竟是我自己 Tweet Tweet Blows Bubbles啾啾吹泡泡Ancient Romance530k WordsCompleted [Devoted couple + goofy comedy + transmigration into a book + mind-reading + sweet romance + groveling redemption + indulgent wish fulfillment + fictional setting] A deeply devoted, doting, deranged demon lord × a clever, quirky, adorable, goofy female disciple Sang Wanning transmigrates. She becomes the same-named unlucky female side character who made countless readers sigh with regret. In the original novel, Sang Wanning has a face of breathtaking beauty, and all the men fall head over heels 5.4kReads9.3Score779Shelves
17. 17 穿 After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Brought Warmth to the Tyrant 穿书后给暴君送温暖 Longing for a Long Time久念Ancient Romance361k WordsCompleted Bai Xintong never imagined she would transmigrate into a book one day, let alone become a cannon-fodder villainess. As the empress dowager's spy planted beside the tyrant, the character met a gruesome end. After the empress dowager fell from power, she was killed too, her body tossed straight into a mass grave, where wild dogs tore it apart. But Bai Xintong doesn't want to die. So she resolves to shower the tyrant with warmth, hoping he'll see her good side first, then make her his right-hand wo 88Reads8.6Score—Shelves
18. 18 穿 A Self-Help Guide for Transmigrating into a Book 穿书的自救指南 Xiao Xian Zi小娴子Ancient Romance254k WordsOngoing [Book Transmigration] [Disguised as a Man] [Wild Imagination] [Mind-Bending] [Multiple Male Leads] [Secret Identities] I transmigrated into a character with nothing to do with the plot: Mu Mu, the youngest daughter of the Mu household's thirteenth concubine, an utterly forgettable figure in the family. I was thrilled. I disguised myself as a man every day and ran a thriving business. I thought I could live an ordinary, peaceful life, but somehow I still crossed paths with the original story's he 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It depends on whether you are pretending or not. The more frustrated you become, the more courageous you become.

19. 19 算 Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 Nine-Rank Game九品一局Mystery5.9M WordsCompleted When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 23kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves

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    Focus on improving abilities and less on emotional lines

20. 20 我 I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者 Evergreen Greens长青菜菜Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. … 1.7kReads—Score101Shelves

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    Recommend reading this book

21. 21 乘 Chasing the Wind by Moonlight 乘月追风 Old Woman of the West Tower西楼老妪Mystery302k WordsCompleted [Mystery and horror + supernatural + ghost stories + not a power fantasy + no heroine] Intern doctor Lu Zhuifeng's family is framed by villains, and from then on, all kinds of spirits and ghosts frequently possess him, forcing him to get involved in supernatural incidents. He has only one unreliable, half-trained young fortune-teller by his side. How will they overcome the crises they face? As they get drawn deeper into the fray, a filthy conspiracy begins to emerge... 88Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Can you not pretend to be cool and be confused?

22. 22 战 War God Body-Refining Art 战神炼体诀 Wujin邬金Eastern Fantasy175k WordsOngoing 1. A good story needs to be patiently polished. Quality takes time. 2. This book is entirely fictional. Don't recklessly practice the techniques described in it. 3. The story moves quickly, and some chapters are worth rereading. 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    No pretense, no slap in the face, true traditional fantasy

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