Recommend a Book That's Intriguing Enough to Pick Up, Decent Once You Do, and Solidly Middle-of-the-Road 推一本不看又好奇，看了也还行，中庸的书
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Killer Legend 杀手传奇
This work is a tribute to Mr. Wu Ji and to our youth! The story really gets more exciting as it goes on!! A killer unlike any the martial world has ever seen suddenly appears. No one knows where he came from or where he is going. Wherever he goes, he is sure to stir up trouble, and his deeds can be horrifyingly cruel, yet they also make people cheer! Killer sects and lost martial arts reappear in the martial world: Ximen Swordplay, the Flower-Splitting and Willow-Brushing Palm, the Heaven-Smit
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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Heaven’s Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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From the Start, Selling Muscle-Building Tonics at a Street Stall 开局地摊卖大力
[The Dali anime premieres on July 29. Search the title on Tomato to watch the PV.] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Muscle-Boosting Potion? Detoxifying Soybeans? Lucky Cherries? They can't keep them in stock! The world's top tycoons, richest men, popular streamers, and strongest experts all come to buy them. Jiang Nan: "I'm not even a tiny bit interested in money!
346.5kReads9.7Score38.8kShelves
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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
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Call Me Master 叫我师尊
[Genius protagonist + master-disciple cultivation] The first time Tian Xia saw her, she wore a languid expression, as if no one else mattered. Her long black hair was pinned up behind her head, and her fitted dark robe accentuated her graceful, regal bearing. She’s probably the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen, Tian Xia thought. A moment later, a faint smile played across the lips of the figure seated above. “Xihe Divine Physique, unrivaled in this age! Good! From now on, remember to call me
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After Retirement, My Wife Brought People to Arrest Me 退休后，老婆带人来抓我了
From the start, a beautiful woman proposed to him. Liu Xuedong was a fake psychologist and, in reality, an S-Rank Cleaner. Just as he was happily anticipating a perfect life, he realized things weren't going quite the way he'd imagined… Wait, isn't my wife the one I hate most? (A professional writer registered with the Provincial Writers Association. Credentials verified, so read with confidence.) (My new book is out, God's Business Company. Thanks for your support.)
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Daily Life: My Wife Is the Leader of the Righteous Path 日常：妻乃正道魁首
No System + everyday life + living off a woman + not a power fantasy Three thousand years of history amount to nothing but fame, fortune, and power; after journeying ninety thousand li in search of the Dao, one still ends up with poetry, wine, and a country life. Four years after transmigrating, having weathered one hardship after another, he had hoped for a life of poetry, wine, and pastoral bliss. Instead, he was dragged into a conflict, with a long-prepared web closing in around him. All of t
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The Supporting Actress Cultivates Immortality: Two Golden Fingers from the Start 女配修仙，开局拿到两个金手指
[Life Simulator + cultivation + supporting heroine + strong female lead + no romance + fantasy + not a saint + comeback + leveling up + wish fulfillment + transmigrate into a book] Bai Lan transmigrates into a fantasy novel as the cannon-fodder supporting heroine who gives the female lead a golden finger, then disappears from the story. Just as she is fretting over how to escape her short-lived cannon-fodder fate, she binds to a life-simulation golden finger. Now she doesn't have to give away he
6.1kReads8.1Score537Shelves
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I’m in a Siheyuan, and I Can Reach the Heavens Above 人在四合院，我能上达天听
Synopsis [Lighthearted] + [Everyday Life] + [One Female Lead] + [China] + [Building a Strong Nation Through Technology] + [System] + [Alternate History] From the start, my parents headed off to the northwest and entrusted four-year-old me to Yi Zhonghai, the senior resident of the courtyard. My life changed completely from then on. The System arrived, and I unlocked a learning space, beginning a life unlike any other. He Yuzhu got married from the start, Banggeng became an engineer, Jia Dongxu b
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The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算
When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master.
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Bureau of Legend Management 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
211.4kReads9.6Score29.5kShelves
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The Beloved Little Junior Sister Is Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger Again 团宠小师妹，又在扮猪吃虎
[Everyone’s Darling + Past and Present Lives + Eccentric Little Junior Sister + Romance] Xue Lingyue had known since childhood that she was tasked with collecting the scattered godhood of the Supreme God and bringing him back to life. Someone told her that if she went looking for the godhood before she could defend herself, she wouldn’t be able to claim it even if she found it. So she worked hard from a young age, cultivating and learning all kinds of things. Before long, people were calling her
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The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎
When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their
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The Whole Family Transmigrates: 18 Ways to Survive in Ancient Times 全家穿越：古代生存十八法
The whole family transmigrates to ancient times after an accident. Whether that counts as good luck or bad luck is anyone’s guess. They’ve barely woken up when they find out the family has no money, no land, and a mountain of debt to repay. Not one of them has a golden finger, either. But the dog that came along with them is rather interesting. Could it be some kind of divine hound? This big family has to put food on the table, keep the household harmonious, and make progress in their studies. W
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Fleeing Disaster: Our Whole Family Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Survive 天灾逃荒：全家穿到古代求生存
[No romantic pairing + farming + infrastructure development + exile + famine migration, a pure plot-driven novel] Ji Xingran never imagined that simply climbing a mountain would result in their family of three transmigrating. They even transmigrated into a group of exiles headed toward a bitterly cold land. Fortunately, all three family members' backpacks became spatial storage, and Ji Xingran also gained special survival skill points that allowed them to predict the weather, gather wild fruit,
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I Transmigrated to the 1970s, and My Dad Became My Little Brother 穿越七零，我爸混成我小弟
One stormy summer night, modern office worker Ye Qiutong is struck by lightning on her way home. She wakes up, blackened from the strike, as a crowd gathers around her, only to discover that she's transmigrated back to her hometown. There she meets her dad, Ye Baoqing, when he is just seven years old, and soon finds her mom, Song Wenjuan, his childhood sweetheart... But her grandparents on both sides in the 1970s are really, really poor... To make sure her parents have enough to eat and wear and
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I Laugh at Heaven, and Heaven Roars at Me 吾笑天，天哮吾
(For readers under 18: please read with a parent or guardian. This blurb is for reference only; the story itself is what counts.) Xu Nuo's soul transmigrates into the body of a little eunuch in another world, one with complicated ties. Can he keep his composure amid the beauties vying for attention in the imperial harem? Can he find his footing in a treacherous whirlpool of intrigue? At last, he obtains the Myriad Worlds Instance System, which lets him travel through famous scenes from history.
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Reborn as a Festive Bride and Stepmother: Fleeing Famine with the Children 重生冲喜后娘之带崽逃荒
Synopsis [Stepmother ~ Spatial Realm ~ Adorable Kids ~ Fleeing Famine] Jiang Zihan transmigrated into the bride brought in to ward off misfortune, in an age where the people were starving and the land was littered with corpses. To make matters worse, she had become the wicked stepmother of four children... A bride brought in to ward off misfortune? She never expected the ceremony to turn into a funeral. Jiang Zihan rubbed her forehead. And that wasn't all: her dead husband had left behind four c
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I Brought a Pocket Dimension Through Time, Prince, Please Step Aside 带着空间穿越，王爷请绕道
Lin Xi transmigrates into a life of utter misery: her family is penniless, and their house is bare. But with a System space at her disposal, she has everything she could need. What she thought would be a miserable new life brings her the warmth of family she never had in her previous life. Then the man she casually saves turns out to be a prince! Soon she's constantly on the run from assassins, and the prince even confesses his love for her. But with a romance spanning three lifetimes already de
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Ask Not the Way: Years in the Mirror 莫问道：镜中岁月
From the day she was born, Yu Sui’an was terribly unlucky: her own father abandoned her. Fortunately, fate was kind enough to bring her together with people who truly cared for her. But the good times didn’t last. Before Yu Sui’an had spent long enjoying her carefree, idle life, she suffered a devastating blow. Forced to grow up, Yu Sui’an enters a sect and meets a group of friends, as well as her master and senior fellow disciples. But the deeper she gets, the more she realizes that she may be
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From Involution to Lying Flat: A Corporate Drone’s Path to Enlightenment 从内卷到躺平：大厂社畜修行记
This is a story with a healing touch. From overwork to lying flat: A tale of a corporate drone’s journey at a major internet company, chronicling the endless grind of modern laid-off tech workers! Will you choose a cat-like approach to finding a job, a dog-like approach to working, or a Buddhist approach and lie flat? Between striving to get ahead and simply showing up to work, what will you choose? Join the cool and aloof Chi Mai as she explores modern city life and the path to healing yourself
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Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅
[Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The
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Another World: I'm Really Not a Pokémon Master 异界：我真的不是神奇宝贝大师
[Transmigrate + Xuanhuan + Elves + Somewhat Satisfying + Beast Taming + Mecha!] Just how amazing can Poke Balls, combat skills, and a phone transformed into a Pokédex be? With the help of the Pokédex, Xu Zhi searches for elemental spirits, awakens all kinds of strange abilities, and begins a new legend on the Xuanfeng Continent. Yet only when he reaches the summit does a world-shaking secret finally come to light.
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My Days in Great Ming 我在大明的那些日子
Jiang Xiaoyu unexpectedly transmigrates to the Ming dynasty, where he becomes a seventh-rank county magistrate and activates the Corrupt Official System. Being a corrupt official right under Zhu Yuanzhang's nose takes real skill! One little slip, and he's dead! See how Jiang Xiaoyu uses his modern-day smarts to navigate the treacherous world of officialdom and lead the Ming Empire, step by step, to the pinnacle of the world.
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