Recommend Highly Rated Books: No Brain-Dead Plots, No Saintly Heroines, Preferably No Romance. Please! 求高分，不要无脑，不要圣母，最好无CP，求求求！
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
1.8MReads9.9Score227.2kShelves
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
195.8kReads9.6Score24.7kShelves
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
184.7kReads9.7Score20kShelves
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
504.8kReads9.7Score65.3kShelves
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What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统：全二册（王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著）
What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his
38.7kReads9.7Score6.5kShelves
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Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂
[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
153.2kReads9.6Score18.9kShelves
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
60.3kReads9.7Score9kShelves
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The Argumentative Cultivator: No One Has a Sharper Tongue Than Me 杠精修仙：没人比我说话更难听
The comic adaptation, Bickering My Way to Immortality, Driving the Cultivation World Mad, launches on August 23. Wen Yin transmigrated into a book. She became the stepping-stone female character in a male-oriented novel, the one who breaks off her engagement with and humiliates the Dragon Proud Heaven. “I told you back then: in thirty years, the east bank will be the west bank, and the west bank will be the east bank. Never look down on a poor young man! Wen Yin, here’s the divorce letter I pro
39kReads9.2Score4.7kShelves
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Her Fortune-Telling Is So Accurate, the Police Nationwide Are Watching Her 直播算命太准，被全网警察关注了
[No Romance + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Showbiz] A metaphysical master fails her tribulation and wakes up in the body of a universally hated, C-list villainess. To pay off her breach-of-contract fees, Ji He starts livestreaming fortune-telling. A viewer with dark circles under his eyes calls in: “Streamer, why do I dream every night that my grandpa is telling me to burn joss paper?” Ji He: “Your grandpa's starting a business down below. He's short on cash.” Viewer: “...” On
57.5kReads9.3Score10.1kShelves
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I [Urge] You to Believe in Science 我【劝】你相信科学
[Metaphysics + the supernatural + cultivation + urban life + strong female lead + 1v1] An everyday story about city life. Jiang Qing was born with spiritual perception and awakens the bloodline of a great shaman. Her mind comes with a built-in great-shaman-branded “portable hard drive.” Jiang Qing had hoped to keep a low profile, but as soon as she arrives in the capital, she accidentally wanders into the Special Affairs Office, completes her identity verification for no apparent reason, and bec
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Full Dive: From the Start, I Make Ends Meet by Recycling Empty Bottles 全息：开局靠回收废瓶勤俭持家
Also known as Healing Game Content warning: This is a romance novel set in a virtual reality game, with the romance as the main focus. It is not a game-focused power fantasy. Both leads grow throughout the story, so if you’re looking for a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, this isn’t for you! [Romance + survival + healing + positive energy + two powerful leads + sweet romance + livestreaming + gaming streamer] The large-scale human society survival game Living begins. Its stages are intricately li
7.8kReads9.3Score975Shelves
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Surviving at Sea: My Raft Leads to Peach Blossom Spring 海上求生：我的木筏通桃源
When she woke up, the world had turned upside down. Countless people had entered a game called Survival at Sea. From the start, all they had was a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Every supply had to be caught on a line. Sharks, giant beasts, bitter cold, hurricanes, and merciless hunting between people. Survival became incredibly difficult, and supplies were scarce and precious. Lu Xingchen entered the game and obtained a god-tier pocket dimension on her very first day: the Peach Blossom Sanctuar
71kReads9.1Score8.1kShelves
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National Fate Survival: The Lucky One Becomes a God on Animal Island 国运求生：欧皇在动物岛封神了
[National Destiny + Survival + A Little Livestreaming + Infrastructure Building + Powerful Heroine with a Golden Finger] [No romance for the heroine in the main story. In the extras, she has a background-character boyfriend. She is not the unlucky captain numbered 009 and won't support anyone financially.] In the 35th century, Blue Star's resources are completely depleted. An extraterrestrial game called “Island Survival Station” descends, randomly selecting one hundred people from each existing
14.5kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
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Transmigrating to a Bygone Era: The Shameless Female Lead Does Whatever She Wants 穿越年代：缺德女配为所欲为
[A transmigration story set in a period drama: As long as I'm more of a piece of work than the worst people around me, no one can make me suffer!] [At home, she torments her parents; outside, she torments her friends; sent down to the countryside, she torments the neighbors. She treats everyone equally.] Xia Zhizhi is good at making empty promises and manipulating people. She loves acting, and she's equally talented in both the literary and martial arts. Not a traditional period drama. The heroi
7.4kReads9.2Score576Shelves
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Global Survival: My Territory Is the Only Pure Land 全民求生：我的领地是唯一净土
[Global Survival] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Strong Female Lead] [City Lord] The entire world is transported to another realm. From the start, everyone gets a small wooden shack, and they have to earn all their own resources. Some people are on islands, some in deserts, and others in primeval forests. They chop down trees to upgrade their wooden houses and stave off hunger with wild grass and berries. Those who survive for a month can summon their families to join them. While others ar
9.4kReads9.1Score967Shelves
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The Five Elements and the Art of Physiognomy 五行相术
Rumor has it that centuries from now, the Five Elements Art of Physiognomy will reappear in the martial world, sparking a scramble among heroes from every corner. Strange events from the decade of calamity, the Qinling Demon Tower, the ancient city of Fuxian, the Tianshan Blood Tomb, the ghost city of Miaojiang, and the haunted lake of Qinghai: after his grandfather mysteriously vanishes, Yuan Yuan must uncover a series of secrets.
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The Unwanted: The Tang Dynasty Rises Again 不良人之再现盛唐
Li Siyuan became emperor? Shi Jingtang betrayed the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun? Despite Li Xingyun’s best efforts, nothing went as he hoped. He fainted from a fit of anger, and when he woke up, he was at the Longquan Treasure site, face-to-face with Yuan Tiangang. Given another chance at life, Li Xingyun swore to bring peace and prosperity to the people and peace to the realm. So he chose to become emperor!
938Reads9.3Score101Shelves
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Apocalypse of the Stars 群星启示录
[Star Cluster] + [Ship Girls] + [Interstellar War] 2403 was an ordinary office worker until an accident transmigrated him into a mechanical civilization in the interstellar age. After passing the civilization's assessment, he officially became a fleet commander. His adventures across the galaxy are only just beginning.
591Reads9.3Score180Shelves
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After the Divorce, the Villainous Stepmother Brings Blessings to the World! 和离后，反派后娘福载天下！
Su Xin peered into the secrets of fate and discovered that her terrible luck in this life was because someone had stolen her fortune and the merit she'd accumulated over a hundred lifetimes in her previous one! As she was pondering how to fix it, a bolt of lightning sent her back to her previous life. From the start, her stepfather had already packed her off to become someone else's stepmother. A wild System suddenly bound itself to her, too. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven troublesome k
27.5kReads9.6Score3.5kShelves
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Exiled to Hainan, I Made My Fortune by Foraging Along the Shore 流放海南后我靠赶海发家
Jiang Wan is incredibly unlucky to get into a car accident, but she's also lucky: she and her mother, Yin Huaixi, transmigrate to the same dynasty and are still mother and daughter. As soon as they arrive, they learn that her mother's family has been exiled for life to an island, where they're forbidden to leave. What?! The place of exile is just like Hainan Island?! Jiang Wan's mouth waters so much that she starts to cry. She picks up her old beachcombing skills and brings all kinds of seafood
13.5kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
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In the Famine, the Whole Village Chews Tree Bark, but My System Fills My Storeroom with Meat 荒年全村啃树皮，我有系统满仓肉
[Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms.
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Teacher Chang Mao 长矛老师
Originally titled “You Sell Swords, I Go Crazy: Together, We Set the Entertainment Industry Straight” [Rebellious CEO × Defiant Top-Tier Star] [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + dating show + nonsense + memes + shameless antics] Jiang Qiyu transmigrated into a book. She became a brainless cannon-fodder character in a novel about a fake heiress in the entertainment industry. After taking a phone call, she realized the plot was already more than halfway through. Her family had abandoned he
175.8kReads9.7Score21kShelves
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Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生：大佬从百万囤货开始
[Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot
142.8kReads9.4Score13.9kShelves
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National Destiny Card Draw: I Use the Heavenly Eye to Play with My Cards Face Up 国运抽卡：我用天眼通玩明牌
Blind man Li Jiuye gains the Dragon Kingdom's secret art, the Heavenly Eye, from the start. Though his eyes are blind, his heart can see. Just as he's about to leave the mountain and return to a normal life, he's selected by the National Destiny Game and becomes a player representing the Dragon Kingdom. The bad news: The Dragon Kingdom's representative is blind. The good news: It's a card-drawing game. Players from every nation enter a gigantic cube, which contains countless smaller cubes. Each
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
1.2MReads9.9Score172.5kShelves
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Flame Eyes 火瞳
Modern city + wild imagination + fantasy + 1990s Zhang Wen, a poor country boy, unexpectedly inherits the power of the Fire Eyes, uncovering the conflicts of the Age of the Violet Flame God. In the 1990s, mining is rampant, tomb robbers are everywhere, and overseas smuggling rings operate in defiance of the law. How will Zhang Wen help the government catch the criminals smuggling cultural relics? And what are the conflicts of the Age of the Violet Flame God? This book will answer all these quest
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