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1. 1651 我 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ Xi Yao喜杳Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 70.4kReads9.6Score8.6kShelves
2. 1652 你 Don’t Even Think About Reincarnating 你们一个都别想重生 Hua Maobai花毛白Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [Everyday school life + sunny heroine + no reincarnation or transmigration + warm and healing] [Special notice: The heroine won't have a romance. Other characters may have romantic storylines.] After narrowly escaping death, Gu Qinghuan partnered with the System and enrolled in Class Three, Year One, at a private high school. [Someday in the future, your classmates may be reborn.] [Before then, they will be deceived, hated, attacked, and destroyed,] [Your mission is to stop them from being rebor 35.8kReads9.5Score5.7kShelves
3. 1653 她 She Finds It Tiresome 她对此感到厌烦 Feihe妚鹤Anime Fanfiction315k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + No Romance + Western Fantasy + Female Awakening + Strong Female Lead] At a friend’s recommendation, player 6237486 bought a dating sim called The Goddess Chronicle. But she never expected to transmigrate into the game and become its heroine, Lilith. Even after successfully winning over the male lead, Lilith didn’t return to reality. To escape the game, she had no choice but to complete every route. Round after round, she replayed the game, winning over all the male leads and re 48kReads9.7Score7.9kShelves
4. 1654 就 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 Ji Furan纪扶染Modern Romance659k WordsCompleted [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 132.6kReads9.6Score15.9kShelves
5. 1655 我 I Get Apocalypse Protagonists Government Jobs 我给末世主角们发编制 Bian Lu边鹿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse758k WordsCompleted (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 137.3kReads9.7Score19.5kShelves
6. 1656 都 I Told You, Everyone Who Studies Magic Is Crazy! 都说了学魔法的都有病！ Ghost Denier无鬼论者Modern Romance2.8M WordsOngoing [Not Western fantasy: a Chinese-style magic academy, absurd comedy + ensemble cast + hilarious daily life, with romance] [A ridiculous heroine causes trouble and leads everyone astray: a bunch of lunatic students hilariously learning magic] Li Wenyin woke up in a magical world and struggled to survive at a top-tier Chinese-style magic academy. She cut up the school flags to make uniforms, stole textbooks and sprinted for her life, and made the deans so furious their eyes nearly popped out. She w 111.5kReads9.6Score12.4kShelves
7. 1657 规 Rule Horror: The Prince Is Always Lusting After Me 规则怪谈：王子总是对我垂涎欲滴 There Will Always Be Youth总有青葱Mystery2.1M WordsOngoing [Volume One of the print edition goes on sale August 7] [Short drama and comic adaptation now available] [No romance + Infinite-flow + Horror game + No national destiny + Dark fairy tales] A young woman weeps softly at midnight. A handsome prince turns into a bloodthirsty “beast” at night. Cinderella dies a gruesome death on the night of the ball. The horror game is wrapped in shiny glassine, disguised as a sweet candy. What lies hidden behind the enchanting fairy-tale world... Weird tales desc 98.1kReads9.3Score12.6kShelves
8. 1658 虫 Insectoid: What Should I Do After Transmigrating and Becoming the Queen Bee? 虫族：穿越之后成为蜂后该怎么办 Lily of the Valley of Fate命运铃兰Two Male Leads240k WordsOngoing [Insectoid race, pure romance, sweet episodic stories, interstellar, females reign over males] A word of caution: Not every couple is mutually exclusive. Unless stated otherwise, characters' original forms are female. Everyone looks male, but they don't have that part. The protagonist was originally male, but became female after transmigrating. Our protagonist, Gu Jianguo, was gay even before transmigrating, and after transmigrating he became a queen bee. Of course Gu Jianguo isn't the sort of g 138Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Friends, don't be fooled by the title of the book.

9. 1659 修 Cultivation: I Have a Peach Blossom Dao Fruit 修仙：我有一枚桃花道果 Prisoner Cathead牢猫头Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Classic cultivation fantasy] [No System] This is a vast world of cultivation. A young man named Jiang Yang, carrying the supreme Dao Fruit, stumbles into it, still innocent and unaware. The Dao Fruit is wondrous and profound. Watch as he rises step by step to the heavens. He governs love and marriage, commands fortune and prosperity, determines lifespan, understands cause and effect, forges flying swords, and cultivates divine abilities... Jiang Yang: “I have a peach blossom branch in hand, and 45.8kReads8.9Score3.7kShelves
10. 1660 火 Naruto: Founding a Nation in a Time of Chaos 火影：从乱世建国开始 Madman of the Ninja World忍界颠佬Anime Fanfiction1.2M WordsOngoing In the Warring States era, before the Shinobi World had established the system of one nation and one village, the transmigrator Oda Yayoi thought this world of shinobi was far too chaotic. Five great nations and dozens, even hundreds, of smaller countries had endured countless bloody battles, yet true peace remained out of reach. So Oda Yayoi decided to give the world of shinobi a little shock from another world. And the story begins in the late Warring States era, when human life was worth no m 129.2kReads8.8Score11kShelves
11. 1661 我 I Am the Concept God! I Suppress Eternal Wonders! 我！概念神！镇压万古奇迹！ Potato and Tomato马铃薯与番茄Urban1.6M WordsOngoing [Miracles Awaken]+ [High-Energy Action]+ [Sequence Containment]+ [Superpower Academy]+ [Plot-Focused]+ [Character Growth]+ [Slow Burn] Fifty years ago, people discovered a colossal angel statue on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Its face was twisted in a fierce grimace, and it stood guard over a massive bronze gate behind it. Seven days later, the angel vanished without a trace, and the bronze gate was opened. From that moment on, the world entered the “Age of Miracles,” when spiritual qi reviv 49.9kReads9.0Score4.7kShelves

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    It looks pretty good, I highly recommend it

12. 1662 穿 After Entering Sherlock Holmes, I Became a Literary Master 穿进福尔摩斯后，我成了文学巨匠 I Eat Ugly Tangerines Without Spitting Out the Peel吃丑橘不吐丑橘皮Urban589k WordsOngoing [No CP, no romance] [No System] [Identities stay hidden throughout the main story] [Career] [Book Transmigration] [Literary rewriter] [Classics] [Original Sherlock Holmes] [Victorian Era] [Slow burn] [Everyday life] [Sickly protagonist] [Not a wish-fulfillment story] London, 1880. A horse-drawn omnibus stops in front of 221B Baker Street. A pale, sickly young man steps down. No one knows that in the future, he will become the uncrowned Poet Laureate, a master of science fiction and fairy tale 19.9kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
13. 1663 癫 What the Heck! Everyone Around Me Is Completely Nuts! 癫！孤身边全是神经病！ Wen Yuan Party文元党Ancient Romance764k WordsCompleted Born a crown prince, Qi Yuanzuo was convinced that he was the only normal person in the imperial family. Little did he know what the Crown Prince looked like to outsiders: At seven, he shot a tiger and won nine hundred kilometers of territory in the Qilian Mountains. At thirteen, he cut through the great clans of Jiangnan and personally orchestrated the Case of the Ninety-Seven Mourning Robes, stepping over piles of corpses to claim the throne. At fifteen, he gambled on the Qilian Mountains once 99.8kReads9.5Score19.8kShelves
14. 1664 醉 Drunk on a Golden Age 醉于盛世 Mint-Infused Wine薄荷泡酒Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsOngoing [No Romance] [No Stupid Decisions] [No System] [True-to-Life Characters] [A Touch of Angst] [Slow-Paced] [Ensemble Cast] ⚠️Please note: (1) This book supports freedom of romance. Don't read if that bothers you. (2) The protagonist likes nothing except alcohol. Avoid if that's a dealbreaker. (3) This is not a traditional Foundation Establishment cultivation system. If you mind, move along and don't start a fight. Li Heng was an overworked young man in the twenty-first century. His parents died w 23.8kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
15. 1665 符 With Talismans Empowering Me, I'll Train Everyone 符咒加持，我将调教所有人 The Panda at the Village Entrance村口的熊猫Urban529k WordsCompleted There’s something wrong with this world. Everyone is completely unhinged. It’s clearly a high-martial-arts world, yet all anyone ever thinks about is romance. Fine, date if you want, but why do you have to drag me into it? And you’re calling me the villainess? What do you mean the protagonist is already on her way to stab me? Oh, I have the Twelve Talismans. Then we’re all good. I’m going to whip everyone into shape. 1.1kReads5.5Score107Shelves

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    This book really brings the spell to life, and the heroine's character is really awesome.

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