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1. 1 主 Protagonist, Can You Get to the Point? 主角，能不能干正事 The Manor of Craft-Brewed Fake Wine精酿假酒的庄园Two Male Leads440k WordsCompleted [Slow-burn transmigration + mutually devoted couple + split-personality top + top has natural heartthrob appeal] Lu Ren was just an ordinary passerby until a car accident sent him transmigrating into the worlds of all kinds of strange books. He wasn’t the protagonist or a supporting character. He was just some random passerby in each of those worlds. Lu Ren: Fine by me. But Lu Ren never expected to gain an extra ability, too. He could always hear what the protagonists were up to. And so... While 3.2kReads8.1Score243Shelves

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   This is a genuine passerby.

2. 2 路 How Did I, a Nobody, Become Everyone's Favorite Again? 路人甲的我怎么又变成了万人迷 The Gluttonous Homebody贪吃宅本宅Two Male Leads631k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration➕everyone is drawn to the protagonist➕one-to-many➕love rivals at every turn] After finally making it through eighteen years of cutthroat academic competition, Yuan Yuan gets into a car accident and transmigrates into a virtual-reality game set in a futuristic interstellar world. He begins his diligent grind to level up. If he reaches the game’s highest level, he’ll be resurrected without pain and become one of those despicably rich people. Having spent years grinding through 11.1kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves

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   These are all my favorites, especially the first one, hehe (๑•ω•๑)

3. 3 快 Quick Transmigration: How Did a Nobody Get the Protagonist Treatment? 快穿，路人甲怎么有了主角待遇 panelTwo Male Leads610k WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration + Two Male Leads + Mutual Devotion, One-on-One Romance + Sweet and Funny] Snarky beauty bottom X Devoted top To come back to life, Lin Yiqing, a doctoral student who died from overwork, is forced to bind himself to the “Feel-Good Story Makeover System.” He thought he could coast to victory by tweaking the plot, but who knew the System would not only provide a love interest, but specifically a male one! ✅ [World One: Programmer in an Idol Competition Story] Programmer x Big 2.1kReads7.4Score239Shelves
4. 4 我EN I'm an NPC at an Elite Academy 我在贵族学院当npc Jiang Shi Taoist江尸道士Two Male Leads506k WordsOngoing Transmigrating into a book + everyday life at an elite school + no romance in the main story!! + an apparent background character who is actually adored by everyone + straight male protagonist, in the receiving role + unconventional “everyone loves him” trope, read with caution This world is a fusion of different books. His job is to play a background character in them, an onlooker in the crowd... As long as the scene doesn't feature the protagonists alone, he'll be there. He's Classmate A passi 98.1kReads9.2Score13kShelves
5. 5 七 Everyday Life on the Margins of a 1970s Novel 七零小说边缘人的日常生活 Yu Yi Yu Yi余意喻意Modern Romance502k WordsCompleted [Fictional period setting + transmigrate into a book + no golden finger + works in the city, doesn’t go to the countryside] Though Lin Yingxian works hard to get by, she knows how to be content. After learning that she’s become a minor character in a novel, she continues to live her life in this 1970s setting as usual, barely fazed. But when news comes that housing is being allocated, her life begins to change… Reader’s guide: The story focuses mostly on everyday family life. Neither the male no 28.6kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves

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   The story is simple, yet incredibly captivating thanks to the author's solid writing style. I absolutely adore Lin Yingxian's character—bold and decisive without being overly pessimistic, tactful yet not worldly-wise. It's fantastic! The different stories from various periods, and her handling of them, taught me many practical tips for the workplace. This is my favorite book recently! [Kissing emoji]

6. 6 作 The Lowest of the Low at a Noble Academy 作为贵族学院的人下人 Zhi Xiang知向Two Male Leads249k WordsOngoing (The rating just opened, so it’ll gradually rise.) [Two male leads + ABO + rival suitors + romantic showdown + dog training] After five years of undergraduate study and three years of residency, Ying Shuangque had endured eight grueling years. The moment he finally got all four certifications, he transmigrated. He had returned to his original world, into a novel called After I Messed with the F4 of the Noble Academy, I Became Everyone’s Crush. Ying Shuangque wasn’t the protagonist gong or the pr 6.4kReads9.0Score556Shelves

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   This book is definitely number one in my heart! The author's writing is so delicate, and the interactions between the young couple are so sweet and addictive Ψ(￣∀￣)Ψ

7. 7 贵 The Sickly Beauty Who Took a Leave of Absence from the Aristocratic Academy Is Back 贵族校园文的休学病美人回来了 An Wen安闻Two Male Leads367k WordsCompleted This book is dead. New readers, stay away. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 224Reads8.9Score104Shelves

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   Highly rated completed novels, those that explicitly state minor characters and cannon fodder in the title, guaranteed to meet the requirements.

8. 8 路 After the Supporting Extra Awakens, They Run Away and Everyone Forces Their Love on Them 路人甲觉醒后逃跑，被全员强制爱 Chubby Lefty肥嘟嘟左左门Two Male Leads377k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + ABO + mutually devoted + intense romantic tension + fierce rivalry for the love interest] Ji Chengyan awakened to the truth. He discovered he was a disposable Alpha in a comic, hopelessly pining after the protagonist Omega. In the end, the protagonist's love interests would take revenge on him, and he would die young. What the hell? Why would a straight guy like him chase after an Omega? Without a second thought, Ji Chengyan sidestepped the entire plot and settled down as an ut 4.8kReads8.8Score596Shelves
9. 9 路 After Failing My Background Character Mission, a Psycho Forces His Love on Me 路人甲任务失败后，被疯批强制爱 Chubby Lefty肥嘟嘟左左门Two Male Leads538k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + jumping between manga worlds + heartthrob + devoted to one another + rivalry for love] Gu Minchen is a mission-taker who specializes in playing the role of an inconspicuous passerby. This time, he lands in a melodramatic body-double novel. The story is about three top-tier big shots who can't have the woman they love, their unattainable first love, so they eventually find the protagonist, the shou, to serve as her substitute. Surrounded by all these male heartthrobs, Gu Minchen 4.8kReads9.2Score667Shelves
10. 10 快 Quick Transmigration: The Passing Character Roleplay System 快穿：路人甲扮演系统 Floating Fish Swimming浮鱼游水Two Male Leads181k WordsCompleted [Female-oriented, two male leads + beloved by everyone + love at first sight + all worlds are fictional] After Yu Tang dies unexpectedly, he gets bound to a System that calls itself the Background Character System and invites him to join a new company. Yu Tang died young and hasn’t yet been beaten down by society. …He refuses. He doesn’t really want to live. Thanks. The System is stumped, then rattles off a long list of its company’s impressive achievements. When Yu Tang hears he can travel betw 97Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 11 快 Quick Transmigration: Another Day of Barely Meeting the Quota 快穿路人甲：又是保底的一天 Qian Gui Gui钱龟龟Ancient Romance190k WordsCompleted Tao Yu isn't just a new employee in the Supporting Characters Department. She's also the disposable extra who watches the ending, the villain who mocks the protagonist, the background character in the protagonist's family... Wherever she's needed, that's where she goes. Her motto: just passing by, but never missing out. World One: The palace maid who drugs the Crown Prince “Tao Yu.” Tao Yu's hand shook, and the entire packet of medicine fell into the soup. She hadn't ev 3.9kReads8.2Score400Shelves
12. 12 去 Being a Nobody in Different Worlds [Quick Transmigration] 去各个世界当路人甲【快穿】 Su Ruo宿婼Modern Romance245k WordsCompleted This story has no romance. At the end of a world in ruins, a girl becomes a probationary employee at the Quick Transmigration Bureau. She can only become a full employee by successfully completing three missions. But she gets the worst possible start. Looking at the chubby little hands in front of her, she falls silent. And then... Then she realizes this place is basically her happy home! The minor character who is the female lead’s uncle’s daughter: An independent mom, a dad who’s afraid of hi 939Reads—Score104Shelves
13. 13 快 Quick Transmigration: Does Even a Background Character Need a Forced-Love Plot? 快穿：路人甲也要拿强制爱剧本吗 Lightly Tipsy Special微醺特调Fantastical Romance1.3M WordsOngoing [Quick Transmigration + Clear-Headed, Laid-Back Heroine + Supporting Character's Comeback + Diverse Worlds + No Fixed CP] In fictional worlds, there's a kind of person who makes up the vast majority of the population but gets the fewest lines. Sometimes they even have to sacrifice themselves to help the protagonists because the plot demands it. They all share one name: extras. Ren Lu is one such nobody, an ordinary person since childhood. Just when she finally gets lucky enough to be bound to a 24.5kReads8.0Score2kShelves
14. 14 快 Quick Transmigration: How to Escape When a Passing Cannon Fodder Is Stolen Away by Force 快穿：路人炮灰被强取豪夺怎么破 Wu Ren Jiu梧人酒Two Male Leads355k WordsOngoing [Quick transmigration + Two male leads + One-to-one, both leads inexperienced + Possessive love + Love at first sight + Sweet happy ending] (Some worlds feature multiple fragments of the same character.) [Cool, beauty-loving, flirtatious uke vs. possessive, love-struck seme] The pacing is fast, and the intensity of the coercive romance varies. The author is a hopeless romantic ∪･ω･∪, so don’t read if it’s not your thing. Shen Nanyu travels between worlds with the System Bajie, playing a supporti 780Reads8.4Score100Shelves
15. 15 都 You Said You Were Straight, So Why Are You Secretly in Love with Me? 都说是直男了，暗恋我干嘛？ An Manman安漫漫Two Male Leads214k WordsOngoing [Quick transmigration, male leads only! Bottom-focused! Everyone’s favorite! Split personalities! Love triangle chaos] When Jiang Leyu first joins the Quick Transmigration Bureau, his mission is to play a cannon-fodder son-in-law in a gal game. The kind of pure cannon fodder who bullies the male protagonist, throws his weight around, flirts with everyone, and wants to have his cake and eat it too, only to get discovered by the protagonist, beaten to pieces, and kicked aside... But the moment he 1.6kReads8.9Score175Shelves

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    [Flying kiss][Flying kiss][Flying kiss]

16. 16 老 How Did This Plain, Spineless Straight Guy Become Everyone's Crush? 老实窝囊直男怎么也万人迷了？ Spicy Strips with Rice辣条泡饭Fantastical Romance550k WordsOngoing [NOT a two-male-lead story!!! This is a no-CP, everyone-loves-him story. The tags were randomly changed by the System] [Somewhat slow-paced transmigration] [My own take on the everyone-loves-him trope] Chen Yu, an honest office worker approaching thirty-four, accidentally binds himself to a System after falling down the stairs while working overtime. He's assigned to play insignificant supporting characters. System: This ordinary role should be a safe bet. Chen Yu: A socially anxious, spineless, 4.7kReads8.7Score200Shelves
17. 17 懦 A Timid, Honest Guy? He's the One Everyone's Falling For 懦弱老实人？他才是箭头中心 Sending You a Little Leopard送你一个豹豹Two Male Leads610k WordsCompleted [ABO + Two Male Leads + Straightforward Beta Bottom + From Universally Hated to Universally Adored + Alpha Rivalry Showdown] Yu Mian transmigrates into an ABO harem novel where everyone is completely unhinged. He isn't the protagonist, who is loved beyond measure. He's the protagonist's straightforward Beta fiancé, a disposable character whose sole purpose is to make the protagonist seem more charming. The System tells him: You have to play along. When someone pursues your fiancé, pretend you d 14.9kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
18. 18 快 Quick Transmigration: The Little Cannon Fodder Who Gets Face-Slapped by the Protagonist Group 快穿：被主角团打脸的小炮灰 Tao Yaonanxun桃姚楠寻Two Male Leads525k WordsCompleted Also known as [Quick Transmigration: The Minor Character Who Gets Face-Slapped by the Protagonist Group] [Two male leads, weak bottom, quick transmigration, a touch of everyone-loves-him, all one-sided crushes, split-soul top, rivals fighting over the same man, all male characters are virgins, ordinary straight bottom. A snarky bottom who seems timid on the outside but mutters to himself under his breath] As a miserable wage slave, Xie Ziyou accidentally stepped on an electrical outlet one even 6.4kReads8.8Score549Shelves
19. 19 顶 Can Even the Most Beautiful Passerby Become Everyone’s Beloved? 顶美路人也会是全员白月光吗？ lokoFantastical Romance673k WordsOngoing [Cool-faced, adorable heartthrob adored by everyone + passerby heroine + career plot + laid-back female lead + everyone loves the protagonist + no rivalry between women] Heartthrob❗ Cool-faced and adorable❗ No romance❗ Lin Su works for the passerby-role department at the Quick Transmigration Bureau. Her first mission: become a warehouse manager with no name in an online game novel. A monthly salary of three thousand, playing a male character, and nothing but work from the moment she opens her ey 21.2kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves

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    It's so good, the female lead is unambitious and has no romantic relationship.

20. 20 炮 After Transmigrating into a Book as a Cannon Fodder, I Found My Happy Ending with a Nobody 炮灰穿书后和路人甲HE了 Su Se苏瑟Two Male Leads373k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a book, where he becomes a cannon-fodder character in a melodramatic novel, Wei Wu neither courts death nor has a System. Instead, he quickly cuts ties with the story's male lead and stays away from him. That way, there's no chance of him becoming cannon fodder. After peacefully ending his engagement to Ji Qingyan, Wei Wu rushes to find a match and lands himself a thoroughly satisfactory boyfriend, an ordinary side character who won't get caught up in the leads' melodra 3.6kReads8.6Score477Shelves

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    I guess this counts too.

21. 21 路 The Bystander’s Guide to Good Manners 路人甲修养手册 Zhan Yu Yan展欲言Two Male Leads438k WordsOngoing [Dual Male Leads] [Xianxia Fantasy] [Background Character Awakening] [Secret Crush] [Younger Top] [Mutual Firsts] [Ensemble Cast] [Happy Ending] Devoted, Pure-Hearted Top Chai Jiangli × Optimistic, Oblivious Bottom Zhao Xiting Zhao Xiting awakened. After learning that he was a background character in a book, someone who could accomplish nothing no matter how hard he worked at cultivation, he decided to give up and coast. Unfortunately, fate had other plans. A fellow sect disciple who shared his 375Reads8.9Score100Shelves

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    Looks good! [Flying kiss][Flying kiss][Flying kiss]

22. 22 看 After Seeing the Manga Comments, I Tear Up the Cannon Fodder Script 看到漫画弹幕后我手撕炮灰剧本 Mo Xiao Mo莫晓moUrban1.8M WordsOngoing [Not a wish-fulfillment story. Superpowers + defying fate + no romance/just friendship + ensemble cast + character growth. Not fanfiction.] [Ah, is that purple-haired guy a minor background character? Getting killed by a billboard is just too tragic.] On an otherwise ordinary day, a sentence like this appeared out of nowhere in front of an ordinary person named Lu Jiuxiao. That was how he learned he was inside a comic. As an insignificant little extra, his greatest contribution was to die and 61.7kReads9.1Score6.9kShelves
23. 23 穿 Transmigrated as a Background NPC, I’m Courting the Beloved of Everyone 穿成路人npc，攻略万人迷 Laughing All Day Long每天笑不停Two Male Leads653k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + cultivation + two powerful leads + transmigration + lighthearted comedy + carefree, irreverent NPC with endless complaints × canonically popular, scheming heartthrob gong] Ge Shanqing accidentally got bound to the Lone Wolf System and transmigrated into a world of cultivation. Here, he was a passerby NPC with no part in the plot, and his only mission was to stay alive. Well, if staying alive was all he had to do, that still left him free to enjoy life in the cultivation world~ 42.5kReads9.3Score5.2kShelves

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24. 24 路 An Extra's Guide to Surviving in a Comic 路人乙漫画生存指南 The Long Road Back South迢迢南归Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Dropped by the author. You can go straight to the final three chapters. Male lead, no romance. Ensemble cast. Academy for people with special abilities. A year after the school arc of the comic Superpower Academy ended, the college arc finally began. It opened on September 1, with the main cast entering Supernova Academy for the Gifted. [The main cast ending up in Class F really is a classic] [That person in Class F must be a big shot] [The people in Classes S and A are so strong too] [What abou 25.2kReads9.5Score2.8kShelves

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    There's no random passerby A, but there's Lu Renyi (Passerby B)! Come check it out, top-quality stuff! [Admiring][Admiring][Drooling]

25. 25 捡 The Boyfriend I Picked Up Is Tomie [Book Transmigration] 捡来的男友是富江【穿书】 Pine Needles Make Good Wine松叶堪为酒Two Male Leads538k WordsCompleted [A seemingly insignificant character in the book, a detached, gloomy transmigrator with emotional deficit disorder × A playful man who seems gentle but is actually a twisted, sadistic menace, and has Tomie-like powers] [Two male leads, happy ending + transmigrate into a book + shou protagonist + both devoted and strong] Looking at the beautiful, fragile-looking boy kneeling in a pool of blood, gazing up at him and softly pleading to be taken home, Chi Mian lets out a weary sigh. This is an absur 20.9kReads9.6Score3kShelves

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    I came in and found that very few of them were [awkward laugh].

26. 26 路 A Random Cannon-Fodder Character, Yet Everyone's Favorite 路人炮灰，但万人迷 Morning Melody晨奏Two Male Leads470k WordsOngoing [Two Male Leads + Quick Transmigration + Bottom Lead + Everyone's Favorite + 1v1] World One: Song Nanchu is a low-grade Alpha. Jealous of the protagonist's love interest, he secretly follows him around, hoping to snap some compromising photos. At the same time, he's secretly in love with the love interest's fiancée and curries favor with her every day. But the fiancée, who should have been a top-tier Omega, suddenly presents as an Alpha. She traps him against the wall and says she's going to mar 6.4kReads9.1Score634Shelves

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    Babies, the titles are pretty obvious, right? [Shy] A lot of people recommended the last one! The first two and the last one are the same type—all three are quick transmigration novels, but all have two male leads. If you have any of these triggers, please avoid them! [Heart emoji]

27. 27 快 The Everyday Extra's Alluring Life in Quick Transmigration 快穿之路人甲的万人迷日常 Dearest Heart卿卿吾心Modern Romance405k WordsCompleted [No romance + quick transmigration + airheaded heartthrob adored by everyone + a chaotic love polygon] [Warning: This is my first time writing, and my prose is rough. The first two worlds aren’t very good, so you may want to skip them. The heroine is an airhead, and this is an unapologetically silly Mary Sue story.] Shen Shu is a beautiful airhead with incredible charm. She may be dim-witted, but everyone who meets her, man or woman, can’t help being kind to her, and may even fall in love with h 11.4kReads9.1Score627Shelves

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    ✨Quickly check out these novels for "Passerby A"! "Passerby A is a Heartthrob [Quick Transmigration]" (8.7 Rating): A clean break story where an ordinary person becomes the center of attention; "Quick Transmigration: Passerby A's Guide to Playing it Hard" (9.2 Rating): The "playing it hard" route is still captivating; "The 1960s: Passerby A Made Her Fortune Through Divorce!" (9.3 Rating): A period novel where getting rich through divorce is incredibly engaging; "Cultivation Novel: Passerby A Becomes a Heartthrob Through Farming" (8.7 Rating): Farming and cultivation lead to becoming a heartthrob. Covering quick transmigration, period drama, and cultivation themes, see how ordinary people break through the ordinary and rise to become shining stars. A must-read for those looking for something to read!

28. 28 快 Quick Transmigration: The Ordinary Passerby in a World of Mary Sues' Guide to Slacking Off 快穿之万人迷路人甲摆烂攻略指南 Ze Le则乐Ancient Romance2.8M WordsOngoing [Everyone's Favorite + A Useless College Student's Slacker-Style Conquest + Wild Imagination + No Fixed Male Lead + Love at First Sight] The hopeless Yu Qiao gets bound to a brand-new conquest System. Watching the System confidently tell her to conquer high-quality men in different worlds, Yu Qiao smiles. She thinks it's time to show the System what college students are really capable of. World One: She becomes a doomed palace consort who is bestowed upon a cuckolded man in a story about a ruler 94kReads9.0Score7kShelves
29. 29 惊EN Shocking! Forced to Follow the Plot as an Extra at an Elite Academy 惊！贵族学院当路人甲被迫走剧情 Slurping Noodles at Midnight半夜嗦粉Two Male Leads500k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Transmigrate into a Book + Harem Magnet + F4 Love Triangle] Jimo transmigrated into a book, becoming an ordinary person in a melodramatic, Mary Sue school romance set among the wealthy. To keep the plot on track and finish his mission, Jimo diligently played the part of a perfectly ordinary background character. So when the delicate, sweet male protagonist was bullied, Jimo sneaked in to rescue him. When the sweet boy showed off his body on social media, Jimo reported the post 15.4kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves

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    Both of these are super interesting, the one below is the best, it's so good, the main character has such a great personality, the character design is just so appealing!

30. 30 癫 Crazy! A Background Character at an Aristocratic Academy Sneaks Through Tasks Between the Cracks 癫！贵族学院的路人甲夹缝苟任务 Xiangtan湘潭Two Male Leads240k WordsOngoing [Old-school + ABO + two male leads + aloof, universally adored character + a touch of dog-training fiction] An imaginary world, so don’t take it too seriously. An overlooked character early on, later a universally adored, cool-headed, resilient, and seductive love interest X a hypocritical, malicious, rich, and deranged aggressor who plays hard to get Jian Yu accidentally entered an ABO world where every alpha doted on omega with an arm around the waist, and became a passerby. Every day, he wand 882Reads9.5Score116Shelves
31. 31 路 The Background Character Had No Intention of Winning Anyone Over 路人甲没想攻略任何人 Mountains and Rivers Send Their Regards山河寄君Two Male Leads335k WordsCompleted [Transmigrated into a book as a passerby / No fixed CP / Bottom protagonist / Slight reverse harem] [Everyone is impure / Everyone is crazy / A protagonist who sees off the dead / Bad ending] After transmigrating into a book, Duan Yu was reborn with his memories intact. He is a passerby who witnesses the world's splendor and endures the trials of love, encountering a different, fascinating story in every life. Note: This is not a wish-fulfillment story. It has some angst, a large c 1.5kReads8.4Score164Shelves

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    This looks good, I like it.

32. 32 是 If We’re Brothers, Let’s Transmigrate Together 是兄弟就一起穿 Naughty Leaf叶子不乖Two Male Leads389k WordsOngoing Dual couples, with two bottoms as the protagonists. Both are completely devoted to their partners, one-on-one relationships. A sugary-sweet comedy, an awkwardly dramatic Mary Sue-style story. Campus F4, the four great families, childhood friends who grew up together. ABO, because the author really loves neck-biting, so it’s part of the setting. Zhang Yang and Zhang He are the best of brothers, though they have different fathers! Their miserable lives are pretty much a tie. Both of them have it 76.1kReads9.2Score13.3kShelves

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    It wasn't explicitly stated, but the F4 boy band plus the "naive" Niu Xiaotu, Zhang Xiaoyu, and Yang Xiaomei are already minor characters. However, this is a dual-protagonist story, and the leader of F4 is only half with one of the main characters. The other half involves an imperial prince and an outstanding male protagonist (half childhood sweetheart). There are quite a few ABO elements, the F4 family, the imperial alliance, and a reincarnation plot—there's no typical transmigration storyline. But when the F4 plus the naive and innocent characters appear, everything becomes clear.

33. 33 穿EN Transmigrated as the Protagonists' Bit-Part Roommate 穿成主角们的打酱油室友 Tu Tu Li兔兔狸Two Male Leads349k WordsCompleted [Sweet Romance + Absurd, Sharp-Tongued Humor + Obsession + Two Male Leads + Transmigrate into a Book] [One-on-One] An elegant, devoted, scheming male lead # A clearheaded botanist transmigrates into a book as the male lead. What do you do when you inexplicably become a nameless background character? Lie low and coast through life, become cannon fodder, or switch dorm rooms? In 90 percent of Mary Sue novels, there’s a certain plotline: a powerful, rich, and impossibly cool protagonist falls for 2.1kReads9.0Score197Shelves

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    A story featuring two male leads, both protagonists are virgins! I love it!

34. 34 穿 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World and Opened an Inn 穿到修真界开客栈 Snow Falling Over Six Bridges六桥倾雪Two Male Leads681k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + transmigrate into a book + cultivation + ensemble cast + lighthearted comedy + everyone’s darling] Chatterbox innkeeper Xiao Yao × the original story’s seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless male lead, Feng Yunzheng Xiao Yao thought he had transmigrated to another world, until a bizarre case revealed the truth: he had transmigrated into a book, becoming a minor innkeeper in a cultivation novel with no spiritual roots and an inn on the verge of bankruptcy. He had planned to lie 849Reads8.0Score166Shelves

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    This book! It's new and hasn't been rated yet, but it's amazing! I found a gem! It's a slow-burn slice-of-life story, but also hilarious and sweet! The protagonist transmigrates into a cultivation novel as an ordinary person running a run-down inn. He just wanted to make a living in the cultivation world, but he soon discovers that everyone around him is a hidden master in disguise. Princes, demon lords, powerful families, and nobles all come knocking. It's a lighthearted, comedic slice-of-life story with no angst; it's incredibly addictive!

35. 35 快 Quick Transmigration: The Cannon-Fodder Nobody’s Goal Is to Live Out Her Natural Lifespan 快穿之炮灰路人甲目标寿终正寝 Shi Ning诗凝Ancient Romance564k WordsCompleted She has a spatial dimension, there’s no fixed couple, and the female lead starts out ordinary and gradually grows stronger. When Su Tang was three, her parents divorced, and her grandmother raised her. Both parents remarried and started new families, leaving Su Tang as the unwanted extra, unloved by both her father and mother. At least they were generous with child support. Her grandmother died when Su Tang was twenty-two. While sorting through the belongings her grandmother had left her, Su Tan 2.1kReads7.5Score103Shelves

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    Push!!!!!!

36. 36 快 The Life of a Quick Transmigration Extra 快穿成路人甲的生活 Shi Haoran, Who Loves Liberated Guitars喜欢解放吉他的石浩然Modern Romance417k WordsCompleted - Transmigrating into the background characters of various small worlds, quietly keeping his head down. The first small world is the 1970s, the second is a world of beastmen, the third is the modern world... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 37 快 Quick Transmigration: The Life of an Ordinary Nobody 快穿之小人物的生活 Getting Rich富裕起来Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted If you could live countless more lives after death, would you want to? Thanks to a Void Stone, she got the chance to travel through countless small worlds and keep on living. Who says a life only counts if it is spectacular? Do ordinary, unremarkable people not have lives, too? Why should others look down on them, despise them, mock them, and compare them to others? Even if they are small fry, even if they have no special talents, it is still their one and only life. They only want to live out t 1.2kReads7.7Score102Shelves
38. 38 快 Quick Transmigration: Turning the Background Character into the Main Event 快穿之将路人甲进行到底 White Ginger Lily白色的姜花Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Lin Bingxia is reborn. She wakes up in the body of a fifteen-year-old sent-down youth who shares her name. Who could have guessed the girl was a complete menace, acting out from adolescence until her death and becoming someone everyone hated? [Ding! The Life Goes Your Way System is online. Host, please resolve the original owner’s lingering obsession and live to a ripe old age.] [The Life Goes Your Way System is giving the Host a welcome gift: a soul-bound storage space. Please claim it!] Well, 233Reads7.7Score102Shelves
39. 39 快 Quick Transmigration: The Stowaway 快穿之偷渡客 Wealthy Little Bird富贵小鸟Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (No fixed pairing + space + period setting + apocalypse + a modest golden finger) Lin Xia struggled to stay alive for 18 years in a frail, sickly body. In the end, her illness didn't defeat her. Just as she was about to step into a wonderful new life, she was hit by a car and killed! Lin Xia was furious, screamed, and felt helpless... Once she'd calmed down, she looked at the person and System in front of her, in the middle of binding, and fell into thought. It was worth taking a gamble: a bicyc 13.5kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
40. 40 快 Quick Transmigration: I Become a Top Dog Through Hard Work 快穿：我靠打工成为人上人 Fox Beneath the Green Mountain青山下的狐Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Sign-in System + Spatial Storage + Farming + No Fixed Pairing + Growing Heroine] Work hard, work your soul, and workers will rise above the rest. Tang Qianqian is someone her parents don’t value, and every day she has to work several jobs to repay them for raising her. But even that isn’t enough for them. They want her to spend her whole life as their work machine. At last, Tang Qianqian dies suddenly on the job. After her death, Tang Qianqian transmigrates to an unfamiliar world and, by good f 2.1kReads8.4Score127Shelves
41. 41 快 Quick Transmigration: A Professional Background Character Who Just Wants to Lie Flat 快穿之路人甲专业躺平 Ran Ran An然然安Ancient Romance403k WordsCompleted After You Jia died, she was forced to bind herself to a System. Apparently, because she’d donated money before her death and saved many people, she was finally getting her just rewards. So now she had a guaranteed job: transmigrate to various worlds and correct crooked ways. Could she just say no? Couldn’t they let her reincarnate into a rich family instead? It wasn’t even her idea to donate. Whoever wants these rewards can have them. But it was no use. She had no bargaining power. She could onl 25.5kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
42. 42 路 The Supporting Nobody Keeps Taking Hits for the Main Cast 路人甲又在给主角团挡刀 Chicken Stewed with Fries小鸡炖薯条Two Male Leads365k WordsCompleted A full-cast audio version is now available [Two male leads + transmigrate into a book + xianxia + a touch of ensemble cast + slow burn + one-on-one, both pure] An ordinary, resilient, laid-back nobody bottom, Shen Liuchun, x a tsundere prodigy who means what he says, Xie Xiaohan The timid office drone Shen Liuchun died at his desk from overwork, only to transmigrate into a power-fantasy cultivation novel he had read in his second year of high school. At least other transmigrators get to be conne 13.6kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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    The story is incredibly good! The shou (bottom) is a gentle and considerate ordinary person, while the gong (top) is a cold, arrogant, and sharp-tongued cultivation genius. Simply put, it's a domestic shou and a sharp-tongued gong. Both are a bit late to the game, but they're both straightforward. There are no melodramatic misunderstandings, which is great—they're both people with mouths! The author's writing is also excellent, and the interactions between the young couple are so sweet and heartwarming. I want to confess my love to the author!

43. 43 当 When a Beta and an Alpha Grow Up Together 当Beta和Alpha一起长大 The Puppy Loves Swimming小狗爱游泳Two Male Leads259k WordsCompleted Ning Yunxi has an outstanding older brother, an Alpha, and a lively, adorable younger sister who will likely present as an Omega. As for him, he is an utterly ordinary-looking Beta. He isn't much of a sweet talker either, and is the sort of person who is easily overlooked, both at home and out in the world. But he has a friend, Zhang Xiangnan, who has been with him since childhood. Zhang Xiangnan is handsome, talented, and even more eye-catching after presenting as an Alpha. As a result, even or 185Reads8.5Score117Shelves
44. 44 快 Quick Transmigration: They Said I Was Supposed to Be Cannon Fodder, So How Did I Become Everyone's Darling? 快穿：说好的炮灰，怎么变团宠了 You Are Not a Fish子非渔Two Male Leads258k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + snippets + quick transmigration + System + silly comedy + universally adored protagonist + strong leads + devoted pairing + pampered by everyone + no CP + Mary Sue] [Long-haired mixed-race beauty, villain and bottom] Yulin is the Antihero Department’s one and only 007 king, working nonstop all year round. After forty-nine years on the job, he finally gets to retire. System: Sorry, but the neighboring Cannon Fodder Department is desperately short-staffed, so you’ll have to put o 2.4kReads9.3Score223Shelves

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    This is awesome! 👍

45. 45 快 Quick Transmigration: Why Does the Male Lead Always Fall for the Cannon Fodder?! 快穿：男主怎么总是爱上炮灰？！ The Unluckiest One Ever 1老倒霉蛋了1Two Male Leads219k WordsCompleted [Two male leads! An unconventional heartthrob (the title will be changed later)! Quick transmigration, a vicious beauty as the bottom, the male leads love him unconditionally, and they’re the type to fall for a married man!] World One: (1v1) He transmigrates into an apocalyptic novel as an evil scientist who tortures the male lead, his test subject, in every way imaginable. In the end, the male lead tosses him into a horde of zombies, where he’s torn to pieces. But... Male lead, look carefully! 982Reads8.7Score114Shelves

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    This is great!

46. 46 校 The Background Character in a Campus Novel Doesn't Want to Work Hard Anymore 校园文路人甲不想努力了 The Puppy Loves Swimming小狗爱游泳Two Male Leads329k WordsCompleted After leaping from a bridge, Yi Fanwei learned that his entire life was nothing more than that of a background character in a campus novel. At first, he followed Yin Weiche and Jiang Yuxi around like a lackey, constantly clashing with Yan Danke. He thought the worst that could happen was being killed in revenge. “Please...” His father’s medical bills were still just a little short. The handsome young man knelt on the cold, luxurious floor. A pair of carefully polished black leather shoes slowly 8.1kReads9.2Score777Shelves
47. 47 淦 Damn! I Became a Saintly Male Tutor in a Cliché Romance, and Now Everyone’s Fighting over Me 淦！狗血文里当家教男菩萨被疯抢 The Actual Demoness妖精本妖Two Male Leads260k WordsCompleted [Mind-reading + one-on-one romance + college + villains everywhere + over-the-top wealthy-family drama + livestreaming + face-slapping and trash-taking-down + satisfying, sweet, and hilarious] Jiang Qi transmigrated into a tragic cannon-fodder tutor in an over-the-top melodrama. Jiang Qi, once a massively popular Douyin livestreamer who raked in money as a swoon-worthy heartthrob, thought: With natural advantages like these, why the hell would I work as a tutor?! He tried to find a chance to qui 4.1kReads9.3Score635Shelves
48. 48 是 Yes, I Have a System, but I'm Not Trying to Win the Male Lead Over, Okay? 是，我有系统，但没攻略男主啊？ Dawn Breaks over Green Mountains青山日晓Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Shen Youyou grew up following the path most parents would call that of a well-behaved girl. She studied hard and never dated in school. She majored in law, a humanities subject, and after earning her master's degree, joined a law firm as a diligent office worker. Nothing out of the ordinary ever happened. Then, purely by a stroke of luck, she won the lottery and transmigrated into a campus romance novel she had once read to pass the time, becoming the male lead's ordinary classmate. As an NPC wi 11.2kReads8.2Score1kShelves

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    I've never read this type of story before, so this was a pleasant surprise. It's quite engaging and keeps you reading.

49. 49 快 Quick Transmigration: Passerby A Goes with the Flow in an Angsty Novel 快穿之路人甲在虐文里随遇而安 A Little Rabbit Who Loves to Daydream喜欢幻想的小兔子Two Male Leads238k WordsCompleted [No fixed pairing + a touch of harem-protagonist vibes] Top’s perspective The homeless Lin Qing was bound to System Xiao Ba just as he died of illness on a bright spring morning. “Host, I’m Interstellar Transmigration-into-a-Book System 008. Our mission is to enter angsty danmei novels as a passerby, record the story from a close-up perspective, and upload the footage to enrich the reading experience of interstellar readers.” Lin Qing had no idea what Xiao Ba meant, but he obediently replied, 9.4kReads9.1Score678Shelves

    Reader note

    The first book is about a character who transmigrates into a background character to complete missions, their good looks hidden behind their hair. The protagonist has emotional issues and feels a kind of "living but dying" quality while on missions. This subtle sense of death, so different from the fervor of other background characters, unexpectedly attracts the attention of the male lead. The second book is about a background character who transmigrates quickly, attracting the protagonist's attention with their gentle and refined personality, subtle sickly aura, and unassuming demeanor. However, due to mission requirements, they won't reciprocate, withdrawing once their goal is achieved. You can choose which small world to read based on your interests. But they might not be as insignificant as some others; initially they are, but later, after gaining attention, they become, in my opinion, very popular.

50. 50 恋EN Dating Show: I Only Wanted to Be a Background Character, but Now They're Clinging to Me 恋综：只想当小透明结果被缠上了 sixdaysTwo Male Leads263k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + livestreaming + dating show + everyday life + sweet romance] Wen He was invited to join a dating show. But on the night before filming began, he had a dream: in the dream, he was a male… cannon fodder character in a novel? The novel's protagonist was Zhou Siyu, who reunited with the male lead on the dating show. The two went through an intense, push-and-pull romance on the show, attracting a huge following of CP fans and giving the program a massive ratings boost. And Wen He wa 11.9kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves

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    My two favorite books, the second one is about love that grows over time, a slow and steady romance, the kind that's all about quiet, understated love.

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