The Writing Doesn't Have to Be Great, Just Make the Protagonist Interesting 不求文笔多好,但求主角比较有趣的
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The Host Is Getting Cozy with the Villain Again 宿主又在和反派贴贴了
[Top's POV + Episodic Quick Transmigration + 1v1 Sweet Romance] In all kinds of worlds, there are always a few poor, beautiful, powerful yet tragic second male leads who are forced to play villains and become “stumbling blocks” on the protagonist's path through life. The System, the Villain Protection Association, exists to help these poor souls. * 1. Bar singer ✖️ Temporarily blind, amnesiac CEO Jiang Lan regained his sight, but couldn't find Bai Liu. He drank himself into oblivion at the bar w
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I Told You to Save the Villain, Not Make Him Your Husband! 让你拯救反派,不是拐他当老婆!
[Two male leads + seme protagonist + episodic stories + saving the villains + 1v1] In novels, there are people who are sinister, deranged, and twisted... But they all meet the same end: a truly horrific death. Countless readers feel sorry for them, believing their actions don't warrant such tragic endings. And so, the Villain-Saving System came into being. It selects lucky readers to save the beautiful, strong, and tragic villains. But... Watching the outrageous stunts pulled by one Host aft
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Quick Transmigration: After Redeeming the Villain, I Couldn't Shake Him 快穿:救赎反派后,我被赖上了
[Top + Madman + Two Powerful Leads + Redemption + System + Episodic] Holding their mission briefing, System 002 of the Time-Space Bureau roars at the group of recruited souls before it: “There’s a kind of person in this world who is breathtakingly elegant and brilliantly gifted! They’re the best of the best, the villains in everyone’s stories! They’re the protagonists who fell into darkness, the once-cherished prodigies cast down from their altars! And yet they suffer endless humiliation and di
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Quick Transmigration: Steal the Second Male Lead Away as My Husband 快穿:拐个男二当媳妇
(Warning!!! Two male leads. Don’t read if you dislike that. No hate, no arguing.) In the real world, Shen He was a diamond bachelor. Unfortunately, he was a man who liked men, breaking the hearts of countless girls who secretly adored him. Quite a few men made advances too, but Bachelor Shen, ahem, Shen He had high standards and wasn’t interested in any of them. So he’d remained single until now. Then his luck changed. An alien creature called the System took an interest in him. He was cursed to
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Quick Transmigration: Saving That Pitiful Little Villain 快穿:拯救那个反派小可怜
The novel is complete. Pick a genre you like and dive in! [Two Male Leads] [Top Male Lead] [Both Are Each Other's Only One] [Overwhelmingly Sweet Romance] [1v1] Super sweet, super romantic, and full of laughs, with plenty of exciting plot! Jin Chen was a big shot in the Comeback Department, and he was just about to finish his job when a mission sent him right back to the Three Thousand Realms. "Temporary work reassignment: go save the villains of small worlds." Jin Chen: ? A certain System: Host
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I Transmigrated Into a Tragic Romance as the Female Lead's Tool of a Big Brother 穿成虐文女主的工具人大哥
[Two male leads, 1v1, both devoted to each other: a sharp-tongued, steady big brother × a unruly, lonely younger guy] Shen Yiheng transmigrates into a book and becomes the tool of a tragic romance heroine’s older brother. The heroine comes to her senses and wants a divorce, but her tool of a brother goes bankrupt and she can’t leave. The male lead wants the heroine to donate an organ to save his first love, and the tool of a brother becomes critically ill. The heroine gets kidnapped, and the vil
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I Played Matchmaker for a CEO, but Ended Up as His Wife 我给霸总当媒婆,结果当成了老婆
[Two male leads + both each other's only partner + sweet romance + transmigration golden finger] [A versatile secretary who flirts without realizing it + a devoted, single-minded CEO who secretly knows how to flirt.] Tang Lu accidentally transmigrated to another world. The only way to return to reality was to help Gu Boming find true love. Tang Lu applied to be President Gu's secretary. He not only worked for the man, but also wanted to find him a partner. Tang Lu: “President Gu, Miss Zuo is liv
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Transmigration to the Apocalypse: Lin Feng’s Legendary Life 末世穿越:林峰的传奇人生
[Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Supreme Above All]+ [A Classic Revisited] Because of a woman, Lin Feng lost everything and was even sentenced to death. Luckily, he transmigrated to a completely unfamiliar world. Unfortunately, everyone in that world was facing a cataclysm... His original passion remains, and his blood still runs hot! This work is dedicated to the classic game that has passed into history: Legend of Mir.
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The Fake Heiress Becomes the Villain Squad’s Beloved, So Of Course She Takes It Easy 假千金成反派团宠了当然要摆烂啊
Yuan Luoyi thinks of herself as a little hamster in a nest of venomous snakes. Everyone in her family is a lunatic villain, while she, the fake heiress, is the only one focused on doing nothing. Her father is an arms mogul, and her mother is a top assassin. Her eldest brother is a business-world killing machine with factitious disorder imposed on another. Her second brother is a cold-blooded lawyer with no sense of morality. Her third brother is a born sociopath with a bloodlust. Her fourth brot
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Quick Transmigration: The Alluring Beauty Refuses to Be a Cannon Fodder 快穿之钓系美人拒绝炮灰
Quick transmigration, two male leads + 1v1 + mutually exclusive first-time relationships + sweet little story Shirong, an obscure actor, is bound by rogue System 009 from the Space-Time Bureau and sent to various little worlds to play expendable characters. But the plot goes off the rails in every world… World One: aloof, dignified Crown Prince × sweet, gentle omega Weren’t you supposed to break off the engagement? Why are you holding on to him so tightly now? World Two: lovesick straight guy ×
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I Command Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Return as the Strongest in the World 身具万千厉鬼,我归来即人间最强
[Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe
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The Righteous, Sharp-Tongued Emperor: Insulting People Makes Me Happy and Rich 正义毒舌帝:怼人让我爽且富
[Unbeatable Tycoon + Hilarious Comedy, Wildly Satisfying and Sharp!] The protagonist receives the “Sharp-Tongued Tycoon System.” He speaks his mind and stands up for what's right, tearing into everything he can't stand! With the light of righteousness on his side, he becomes the richest person in the world!
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The Lavish Daily Life of a Max-Level High Schooler 满级高中生的豪横日常
[Comedy + scheming + tycoon] One day, the rebellious Fang Qimai got a special System. Whenever someone called on him, he could receive a reward from them. Ding! Your math teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering Olympiad Math. Ding! Your rich classmate called on you. Character unlocked: Billionaire Dad. Ding! Your PE teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering English Grammar. Wait a minute... Did something weird just sneak in there...?
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I'm a Goofball, So Being a Little Invincible Is Totally Reasonable 我一个沙雕无敌亿点很合理吧
Top rich kid Lin Bei becomes intellectually disabled after a car accident, commonly known as an idiot. At the same time, the world undergoes a global upheaval: demons and monsters return, and danger keeps closing in. Lin Bei: You don’t actually think I’m a moron, do you? [Ding! System warning: Host, please don’t use your mental impairment as an excuse to do whatever you want…]
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Honghuang: I’m an Invincible Powerhouse, but the System Fooled Me for a Hundred Thousand Years 洪荒:我,无敌强者,被系统骗了十万年
Synopsis: [Misunderstandings + Primordial World + Absurd Comedy] The protagonist is a bit muddleheaded and funny at first, but as time goes by, he gets a little closer to the truth every day. When Hongjun began preaching, he started to feel that something was off. By the time of the Investiture of the Gods, he finally realized, holy crap, he was invincible! So, in front of the gods of Shang and Zhou, he beat up every single Sage. Getting carried away, he transformed into Tang Sanzang and gave th
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The Troll Streamer and His Poor, Put-Upon Viewers 老六主播和他的怨种观众
[Livestreaming + Comedy + No Romance + Infuriating + Shameless] After binding himself to a Hatred Farming System, Xu Muge stops acting like a decent person. At university military training, he steals the campus beauty's drink from the start, then makes her cry with a single remark. On livestream, he constantly unleashes savage, sarcastic takedowns on his viewers. He writes a novel, then leaves it on a cliffhanger at the climax for half a month, making readers so furious they want to mail him raz
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Cooking Demons 煮魔
[No System, Intelligent Protagonist, Playing It Safe, Decisive and Ruthless] The heavens collapse and blood rains down as evil demons ravage the world. Armed with a treasured family heirloom pot that can absorb demonic energy, Niu Yongshou struggles to survive in the apocalypse, stumbling his way to the age of fourteen. When he finally gathers all the materials needed to refine the pot and becomes a cultivator, an even more dangerous and bizarre world unfolds before him. If demons want to eat hi
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Wang Erniu’s Immortal Cultivation 王二牛修仙
[No System, no female lead, ruthless, passionate, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, boundless compassion] Reborn in the body of a cow demon, he rises from the lowliest depths. One bellow from this mere bull demon, and even gods and immortals tremble. This is the story of a boy’s gradual growth, full of ruthless battles, boundless compassion, humor, and tearjerking moments. Overthrowing the decayed rule of the Immortal Kingdom is only the beginning of his life as a demon. This b
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The Transcendent Time-Space Soldier King 超时空兵王
This story follows Heda, a human hero from the Sunlit Star Domain. He rises from an ordinary man at the bottom of society, enduring hardship, to become a legendary super-temporal soldier king. The story is set against the backdrop of a human interstellar engineering expedition being hunted by an unknown spacefaring civilization. Forced to flee, the expedition accidentally enters the Great Attractor, and its four starships are flung into the Sunlit Star Domain of the Perseus-Pisces Supercluster.
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The Age of Su Hong: Battle for the Stars 苏红时代丨决战星宇
“Either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind, or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind.” The Soviet call has sounded, and the Soviet flag will one day fly proudly among the stars. One red Soviet Alliance starship after another sets out for the sea of stars. The glorious Red Soviet Era is bound to arrive, and the ideals of the Internationale will ultimately be realized among the stars.
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Star Legend: Code Name: Civilian Hero Plus 星际传奇:代号平民英雄Plus
On January 1, 2024, an evil alien civilization of the Scorpion race, ranked at Level 2.61, sets out to destroy Earth’s civilization, which is only Level 0.81. Under the surveillance and assistance of a god-tier civilization System, I am chosen to enter a parallel universe and take the place of Lu Bu’s soul. My codename is Commoner Hero Plus. In other words, I am Lu Bu, the new Lu Bu. On January 1, 224 CE, I begin my journey to restart human civilization in the parallel universe. The System tells
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The Wandering Daoist 游方道
[Not a self-sacrificing saint + Not a mindless power fantasy + Laid-back cultivation] After more than a decade of cultivating in the mountains, Lu Li discovers that he is terminally ill and has little time left. His master sends him down the mountain to find the legendary immortals and seek a cure. He travels across famous mountains and great rivers, encounters monsters and ghosts, and experiences the customs and ways of the world. In the end, Lu Li discovers that there are no immortals in this
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Xiaohuan in Beijing 小寰在北京
[Urban Life + Entrepreneurship + No Saintly Heroine + No Simping + No Idiocy + Realistic + Humor + Intelligence] Xiaohuan in Beijing is a full-length novel. The novel tells the story of Zhao Xiaohuan, a man born in 1991, as he works and lives in Beijing. After graduating from university, he worked for two years in his hometown of Shenyang, but he never forgot the boast he had made in college: that he would become the richest man in the world. However, reality left him increasingly dispirited, an
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Little Wu in Shenzhen 小武在深圳
[Urban life + wage work + martial arts + betrayal + no holier-than-thou protagonist + no doormat + no brainless decisions + realism + humor + intelligence] Xiao Wu in Shenzhen is a long novel divided into five volumes by year. It tells the story of the male protagonist, Ying Xiaowu, born in 1985, and the five years he spent working and living in Shenzhen. In 2015, he left his hometown of Wuxue for Shenzhen for the first time. Confident that his talents in both the literary and martial arts coul
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You're at the Police Station Every Day, and You Call That a Side Hustle? 天天警局备案,你管这叫搞副业?
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Xia becomes a minor celebrity stuck near the bottom of the industry. Everyone knows that D-list celebrities are treated worse than dogs. Life is tough, so Lin Xia makes a living with odd jobs. To get by, Lin Xia has no choice but to take up some side gigs. Day one: picking a lock at someone’s home, netting 200 yuan. Day two: setting up a fortune-telling stall, netting 500 yuan. Day three: selling cartoon-print underwear at a street stall, netting 800
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This Villain Has a Conscience, Just Not Much of One! 这个反派有点良心,但是不多!
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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Great Tang: From the Start, I Used the Imperial Jade Seal to Crack Walnuts 大唐:开局传国玉玺砸核桃
[Great Tang] [System] [Mischievous Kid] [Sign-In] [Funny, Hilarious] After transmigrating to the Great Tang, Li Ke becomes an eight-year-old boy. He has been signing in for eight years from the start and has received countless rewards! One day, Li Ke uses the Imperial Jade Seal to crack walnuts. Li Shimin: TAT Ke'er, don't, don't smash it! Li Ke: Come on, Father. Give me a dog’s bark! Li Shimin: Ah!!! I am the emperor, and you want me to bark like a dog? Li Ke: If not, then how about letting me
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The Ultimate Identity-Swap Challenge: I Shocked the World 身份互换大挑战,我震惊了全世界
Lighthearted + funny + devoted father and filial son + wish-fulfillment Chen Yuan joins a reality show called The Great Identity Swap Challenge. As the son, he has to earn money to support the family, while his middle-aged father has to study hard. By the time Chen Yuan's name has spread across the world, his dad is still exclaiming, “Studying... is so hard!”
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The Ancient Record of the Descending Gods 上古降神录
Of the two five-colored stones left behind when the ancient goddess Nuwa patched the sky, one took shape on a certain mountain during the reign of Emperor Ku. Just as Heaven was making a grand push to rule the mortal realm, a group of immortals descended to unify it. The many peoples of the earth fought among themselves, plunging the Three Realms into chaos. Not long afterward, a boy was born in the mortal realm. A brilliant light shone from his eyes straight into the heavens: he was the one des
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The Devil's Mutterings 恶魔的呓语
A sudden blizzard hits a remote border town. Amid the endless snowstorm, one murder after another takes place. A cult ritual? Devil worship? And what is the symbol found at the crime scenes? Was it done on purpose, or was it required by the ritual? Behind it all, is it a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality? Tune in every night at nine for Exploring Science... No, tune in for The Devil's Murmurs.
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