Romance Novels With a Holy Monk, Buddhist Sage, or Monk as the Male Lead 求男主是圣僧、佛子、和尚的言情小说
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- 101 After Raising Hell in Every Way, I Dragged the Holy Monk from His Pedestal 花式作妖后,圣僧被我拉下神坛 [One-on-one romance] [Both leads are sexually inexperienced] [The heroine is a master bluffer] [The hero is utterly innocent] [Fantasy elements] Me! The dignified Empress! I was deposed. That’s right, I was deposed less than five minutes from the start. Then they sent me to a temple, where I was forced to eat vegetarian food every day. I got so hungry that I went up the mountain to catch fish, but I couldn’t catch a single one. I did catch a monk, though. Some ti 214Reads8.5Score106Shelves
- 102 I Would Betray the Buddha, but Never You 宁负如来,不负卿 He cultivated Buddhism for nine lifetimes, then fell into demonic ways in the tenth. He always called her a sinful creature. At first, she would argue back, but later all she could do was sigh. The first time she saw him, he wore a monk's robe that shone so brightly it hurt her eyes. The red of his robe was more dazzling than the sunset on the horizon. When he draped his white jade prayer beads around her, she lost her heart in an instant. How could anyone like him exist? He was so beautiful he 75Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 103 I Flirted with a Little Monk 撩了一个小和尚 One fleeting glimpse in childhood made Li Moran remember the handsome little monk forever. After more than twenty years of twists and turns, the carefree little princess has grown into the powerful Princess Who Guards the Nation. Li Moran has been through so much and lost so much. Fortunately, after weathering countless storms, she has finally found her home. • A stoic, ascetic bunny-like monk × a dark, unhinged princess 231Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 104 Little Monk, I've Set My Sights on You! 小和尚,我看上你了! [Marriage first, love later + devoted couple + reborn] After traveling thousands of miles from the modern world to this era, she suddenly found herself inhabiting the body of a little girl. To avoid being discovered, she did her best to act like a young lady from a prestigious family. But she was a female general and a secret agent! A scheming, taciturn man set her up, her fiancé disappeared, and she was forced to marry a man who had only just left the monastery. This heartless monk dragged her 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Transmigrate into a Book: Monk, We Really Are Destined to Meet 穿书之和尚我跟你真有缘 "I actually transmigrated into a book, but I've never read this novel! And my mission is to win over a monk before I can go back? Ahhh, can someone come save me?!" That's right, Fang Xiaoying transmigrated into a book. After reading countless romance novels and becoming hopelessly engrossed in the plot of a domineering CEO falling in love with me, she transmigrated into an ancient romance novel. There are no domineering CEOs here, no forced love, just one monk... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Peach Blossoms in Bloom: The Young Saintly Monk Enters the Mortal World 桃花夭夭:少年圣僧入了尘 [One-on-one, strong male and female leads, sweet romance] [A monk who has withdrawn from the world + a thousand-year-old peach blossom tree spirit; they start off fighting, then accompany each other on a little cultivation journey] The peach blossom spirit Yaoyao spent a thousand years cultivating before taking human form. She’d been mooching off people for nearly a decade when she ran into trouble with a young Daoist priest. Later, Yaoyao clutched her aching waist and glared at him. “You’re a m 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 After I Transmigrated, the Monk Returned to Secular Life for Me 穿越后和尚为我还俗 Don't bother reading this. It's not well written. If I could delete the work, I'd take it down myself. If you don't mind the writing, feel free to keep reading. [Fahai x Green Snake] [Everyday sweetness] Capital Arc: After transmigrating into a green snake, she has to pose as a noble family's young lady to help White Snake win back her love. She also happens to fall in love, only to discover that her first love is none other than Fahai. Jinshan Temple Arc: Her first love's character has totally 67Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 108 Holy Monk, Calm Down! This Isn’t How You Exorcise a Demon Lord 圣僧冷静,魔尊不是这样渡的 [Two male leads] [Reincarnated holy monk vs. demonic leader, both strong] [Domineering, hot-tempered, stunning, proud sect leader vs. ascetic, obsessive, germophobic holy monk] [Forbidden sweet romance, come on in!] Nian Ci, a holy monk reincarnated from a Buddha, gave half his cultivation to save Tan Wuwang, the dying leader of the demonic cult. After saving the demonic leader, the first thing the cool, detached holy monk asked was, “Why did you do that to me?” Tan Wuwang's eye twitched. If he 593Reads8.9Score100Shelves
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Love Across Worlds: She and Her Chief Mage 跨世爱恋:她和她的首席法师
[Forbidden sacred-and-secular romance, mutual salvation, one-on-one, both pure] He entered the Buddhist order at the age of three and never let go of his prayer beads. The faint white mark around his wrist was the imprint of more than a decade of keeping the precepts. Later, he gave her the beads. He wrapped them around her wrist three times, and they fit perfectly. She was cursed as a bringer of misfortune, a witch, and a seductress. Her straw effigy was raised atop a stake for burning, while
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(Two Male Leads) Dragging the Aloof Monk from His Pedestal (双男主)将清冷高僧拉下神坛
(Dual male leads) Bringing the aloof, high-minded monk down from his pedestal
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Abbot Xuanxin: Starting with a Sci-Fi Online Game 玄心方丈:从星际网游开始
Good news: I've transmigrated to the interstellar age! Bad news: Eighteen years have passed, and I still don't have a single cheat! Then the groundbreaking full-dive martial arts game The Contenders bursts onto the scene! Federation players stare in confusion at the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms and the Nine Yin Manual. Lin Feng laughs: Aren't these just my childhood extracurricular reading? While players are fighting tooth and nail over third-rate sword manuals, Xuanxin has quietly mastered Sh
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My Husband Is a Holy Monk 我的老公是圣僧
Also known as: The Matchmaker Made a Mistake, and My Husband Is a Holy Monk No System, sweet transmigration romance, episodic stories, Ji Gong the Living Buddha In her previous life, she and he were bound by a love tribulation. In this life, she transmigrates and meets him, and they become husband and wife. The world of Ji Gong the Living Buddha is crawling with demons and monsters. Together, they get up to mischief, fight monsters, and help people in need… The challenges keep coming, and
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- 113 Pampering My Little Rose: The Ascetic Monk Pins Her by the Waist and Kisses Her 娇养小玫瑰,禁欲佛子锁腰缠吻 [Uncle figure + sweet secret crush + variety shows and entertainment industry + secretly yandere + eight-year age gap] [Cool fairy ✖ ascetic Buddhist] Word has it that the head of the Pei family is an elegant, extraordinary business magnate, an ascetic Buddhist who lives a detached life. He keeps to a vegetarian diet year-round and wears Buddhist prayer beads around his wrist. He keeps a low profile and rarely appears in public, and his private life is a mystery. Everyone in their circle knows t 619Reads8.7Score104Shelves
- 114 Prayer Beads in Hand, Fallen from the Altar: The Aloof Buddhist Monk Breaks His Vows 戴佛珠,坠神坛,清冷佛子破戒了 [A bold, flirtatious temptress versus a pure-hearted, restrained monk who has renounced desire, a forbidden 1v1 sweet romance] Jin Huan is a nine-tailed fox born with heterochromatic eyes, oppressed by her own bloodline and treated as a disgrace by her entire clan! In her previous life, her adoptive father and sister drained her blood with their own hands, then her husband pierced her heart. She died, withered away! In this life, she returns in triumph, striking down the chosen ones, defying Hea 81Reads5.5Score—Shelves
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A Corporate Drone Enters the Priesthood, and Her General Ex-Husband Tracks Her to the Merit Box 社畜入佛门,武将前夫追到功德箱
A Burned-Out Office Worker Enters the Buddhist Fold, and Her General Ex-Husband Tracks Her Down to the Donation Box
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A Little Zombie Went Looking for Brains, Ended Up in the 1970s, and Joined the Army 小丧尸找脑子找到七零后,随军了
[Island military romance + transmigration + super-brain genius + special abilities + real and fake heiresses] Zhou Shi is a zombie with brains. She pushes a shopping cart around looking for supplies. Because humans say that if you have food, you have nothing to fear. She uses her brain as a mouth to talk, because she’s heard that if you don’t use your brain, it’ll rust. Her goal in zombie life is to become the most high-class Zombie Queen. High-class means pretty and smart. So this little zombie
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Amitabha, What Should I Do If My Sister Is a Demon? 阿弥陀佛,姐姐是妖精怎么办
A flower demon executive sister and her Buddhist novice intern brother [Love that grows over time / Mutual devotion / 1v1, both pure / Secret crush] The best thing in life is meeting you! I never chose to be a demon. Shi Mohe, I… like you! … He breaks the six precepts, destroys his Buddhist robes, burns the scriptures, and buries the Buddha statue. The Buddha saves all people, but cannot save her. If that is so, then he might as well stop being a Buddha. … Yiyi, don’t be afraid! The Buddha sav
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My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神
Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec
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Stop Kneeling, Heir! Your Wife Has Married the Imperial Preceptor and Is Showing 世子别跪了夫人嫁国师大人显怀了
(Revenge after being reborn + Buddhist scion + inheriting two family lines + men competing for her + face-slapping + chasing his wife to the crematorium, but failing to win her back) On her wedding day, news arrived that the eldest son of the marquis's household had died in battle. Was her husband suddenly expected to inherit both family lines? On their wedding night, he even spent the night with his sister-in-law, while someone drugged Luo Zhaoning and violated her, leaving her pregnant... The
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The Enchanting Maid Who Lured a Monk into the Mortal World 婢子妖媚,缠诱佛子入红尘
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When an Evil Cultivator Becomes a Cannon-Fodder Fake Heiress 当邪修穿成炮灰假千金
[Female-led story, with a male lead. If that's not your thing, don't read. Half supernatural, half cultivation, with little romance.] A genius heretic cultivator failed to overcome her tribulation and transmigrated to the modern world, where spiritual energy was scarce, charlatans ran rampant, and sinister forces were everywhere. Rong Yi: “Isn't this the perfect place for me to practice cultivation?” To absorb baleful energy and restore her cultivation, she casually took care of one supernatural
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- 122 Half a Life of Foolishness, Book 3 半生荒唐半的第3本书 Independent, clear-headed, spirited heroine x gentle, jade-like, long-suffering monk prince Marriage first, love later + affection growing over time + mutual respect + helping each other thrive + mutual understanding + ensemble character growth + court intrigue + long-form story + no catfighting between women + heroine who grows On the very day overworked office worker Bai Zhi transmigrated, she was married in a wedding ceremony. She never expected her new husband to avoid her afterward. Only l 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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Monk, You’ve Broken Your Vows 和尚,你破戒了
“Monk, where are you taking me?” Cen Yuanqing shook off Wuchen's arm, which was clamped tightly around him. Wuchen: “Come back with me. I'll reflect facing the wall, and you'll observe the rules and precepts.” Cen Yuanqing: “...” He's a snake demon. What does he need with rules and precepts? Cen Yuanqing was exasperated. Could someone tell him why this monk had turned demonic and become so unreasonable?! Snake demon bottom x monk top
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- 124 The Cold-Faced Buddha’s Little Fox Wife 冷面佛陀的小狐妻 He was a Buddha, and she was a fox spirit. Their forbidden love bound their fates together forever. In their first life, she watched him have his heart torn out and die saving her. All she could think of was bringing him back to life, not only because he had saved her, but also because he had loved her with all his heart. In their second life, she overcame countless trials and became the leader of the fox clan, while he was an emissary of the Western Buddha. They met to stop the awakening Demon 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves
- 126 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 525.3kReads9.5Score41.9kShelves
- 127 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 128 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 518.8kReads9.7Score68.3kShelves
- 129 EN 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 988.6kReads9.5Score85.7kShelves
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Between a Single Thought of Demon and Buddha 魔佛一念间
Ling Chen suffered endless humiliation within his sect, until a spirit monkey from the back mountain, the Heaven-Splitting War Venerable, saved him. The Buddhist Realm called him a demon and slaughtered his entire village. Ling Chen crossed countless deadly trials before finally understanding his true nature and the Great Dao. He asks not whether something is righteous or evil, but whether it is right or wrong. He seeks no mandate from heaven, only his own path. The road of defying convention is
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The Tyrant Buddha with 999 Merit Points Suddenly Kisses Me 功德999的暴君佛子突然吻我
[Hedonistic heroine with the laws of the world at her disposal × world-weary, merciless tyrant villain who practices Buddhism] [Su Jiali × Wu Shuyi / Tanjia] [Reincarnated in the womb + unconventional fate-changing + foreknowledge of the future + turning back time + forbidden tension + two highly intelligent leads taming each other + bittersweet, sweet-and-satisfying romance] "A sprawling, genre-blending historical fantasy romance with a serious tone" Su Jiali is an extreme hedonist. When she di
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- 132 Zheng He's Voyages to the Western Seas: A Plain-Language Fantasy Retelling 郑和下西洋神魔白话版 This is not a serious history book! It reimagines the historical voyages of Zheng He as a “Journey to the West at Sea.” The eunuch Sanbao, Zheng He, becomes the bane of the demon realm, setting out for the Western Ocean with the Buddhist big shot Jin Bifeng, reincarnation of the Ancient Buddha Dipankara, and the Taoist Celestial Master Zhang, leading thirty thousand troops and a thousand treasure ships! From the Soft Ocean and its treacherous waters to the Hall of Yama in the Ghost Kingdom, from 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Unconventional Path to Immortality 一本不正经的修仙感悟
[Fantasy] [Xianxia] [Xuanhuan] [Comedy] [Urban] After three lifetimes, I finally attained the Dao, Roaming the mortal world, laughing at its vicissitudes. I ferry souls across the River of the Underworld, following fate, But whoever the hell dares lay a hand on my people, I’ll beat you to death, you little bastard...
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I Practice Buddhist Magic in the City 我在都市修佛法
[Buddhism and Taoism Side by Side] [Campus Life] [Underworld Reapers] [A Great Calamity Is Coming] [A Thousand Years of Waiting] When Luo was eighteen, his master kicked him out of the temple. His master said, “Go make money. Go listen to what other people have to say.” He thought that with his Buddhist powers and his ability to see the future, guiding all living beings would be a piece of cake. But after setting up a stall at the train station for three days, he hadn't made a single cent.
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