Strong Female Lead, No Romance, and a Behind-the-Scenes Mastermind During the Spiritual Qi Revival 女强无cp，灵气复苏幕后黑手流

1. 1 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Become the Mastermind Behind the Scenes with My Secret Identities 灵气复苏，我靠马甲成为幕后黑手 Tang Leaf Chatter棠叶喧Modern Romance600k WordsOngoing Slow burn, spiritual qi revival + mastermind behind the scenes + no romance + multiple secret identities + identities never exposed + discarded character cards Chen Xu binds herself to a spiritual qi revival System and follows 099 to Blue Star, which has been caught up in the Calamity of the End. To save the planet, she chooses to disguise herself and deceive everyone. She writes about the tangled relationships born where cultivation and magic intertwine. She writes of the resolve of every chara 16kReads8.7Score2k14d adds

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   The female lead is so busy, playing multiple roles all by herself. Some of these roles even bring opportunities to those she likes, attracting more ordinary people to join her and become people with special abilities, showing that spiritual energy is about to revive. 😂😂😂

2. 2 重 Reborn at Sixty: The System Helps Me Bring About a Mysterious Revival 重生六十老太，系统带我神秘复苏 From Today On, I'll Be a Godly Tycoon从今天开始当神豪Modern Romance606k WordsOngoing [No Romance]+ [Reborn as an Old Lady]+ [Many Secret Identities, All Women]+ [Can Become Young Again]+ [No Catfighting]+ [Mystery Revival]+ [Doesn't Cooperate with the Authorities]+ [The Protagonist Isn't Always Behind the Scenes] Mu Rongqiu, a promising young person from the 21st century, closed her eyes and opened them to find herself as Rong Qiu, the elderly matriarch of the Rong family in a parallel world. Over sixty years old, poor and destitute, frail in health, with her husband and daughte 108.6kReads8.2Score19.4k14d adds

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   The main character is an old lady, and there's no romantic pairing, which is quite reassuring. Her presence isn't very strong, and there's no deliberate emphasis on her perspective; it's all from an omniscient viewpoint.

3. 3 末 Doomsday: She Has a Family Group Chat 末日：她有一个家族群 Mushrooms Love to Eat the Big Bad Wolf蘑菇爱吃大灰狼Sci-Fi & Apocalypse279k WordsOngoing (The results just came in, so please give it a little more time.) [Apocalypse, spiritual qi revival, game arrival (fake), no CP, horror, behind-the-scenes focus, strong female lead, lightly comedic] As a wage slave who had to pay to work, Jiang Miaoxin finally worked herself to death. Before she could even experience a peaceful, eternal sleep, she was reborn in another world and gifted a work-slave System. Apocalypse Family System: The apocalypse will arrive in two months. Until then, work hard 2.8kReads8.0Score50514d adds

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   They are all the masterminds behind the spiritual energy revival.

4. 4 游 Cultivating Immortality Through Games: Boundless Magic 游戏修仙，法力无边 A Bowl of Lamb Offal Soup喝碗羊杂汤Modern Romance860k WordsOngoing (No CP, spiritual qi revival, mastermind with many secret identities) Nan Zhi accidentally discovers that the items she gets in a game can apparently be taken out into the real world. [You received “Blood-Replenishing Pill” ×1] [You received “Hemostatic Herb” ×1] [You received “Treasure-Seeking Mouse (Purple Quality)” ×1] [You received “Gold Ingot” ×1] [You received “Yin Niangzi Brand Stinky Tofu” ×1] And as her game character’s cultivation improves, she can use spells in the real wor 6.8kReads9.2Score78414d adds

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   Teacher, could you suddenly release a huge amount of new chapters and finish the series?! 😢😢😢

5. 5 我 I, a Screenwriter, and the Spiritual Qi Revival 我，编剧，灵气复苏 A Bowl of Lamb Offal Soup喝碗羊杂汤Mystery906k WordsOngoing Unkind female lead, no romance, game invasion, spiritual qi revival, mastermind, dungeons, infinite flow, rules-based horror, reborn, secret identities, horror game … Song Mo died at the end of the Song dynasty, then came back to life in a parallel world. The first thing she sees when she opens her eyes is a blood-soaked corpse: [Low-level material: Landlord's corpse (click to view related material)] [Scriptwriting points: 0] [Time remaining: 6 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes, 40 seconds] [Write a s 74.8kReads8.8Score9.6k14d adds

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   Strong female lead, no romantic partner, behind-the-scenes mastermind. However, this doesn't fit the description of someone with multiple identities.

6. 6 谁 Who Says a Divine Maiden Can't Be a Man? 谁说神女不能是男的？ Half a Taro半颗芋头Urban369k WordsCompleted Level-up cultivation + System + a little livestreaming + cross-dressing Good news: Spiritual qi revival is here, and Lin Xian has bound himself to the Goddess Development System. Bad news: He's a guy! Lin Xian has bound himself to the [Goddess Development System]. As long as he appears in women's clothing and inspires positive emotions in others, he can earn faith points and exchange them for any cultivation item in the System! And so, Lin Xian is forced down an unconventional path to immortalit 70Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Although the protagonist is male, he always appears in the form of a goddess.

7. 7 原 Genshin Impact: After Genshin Impact Secret Identities Transmigrate to the Cultivation World 原神：原神马甲穿越修真界后 Also My Heart亦余心之Fantastical Romance560k WordsOngoing No CP, secret identities, plot-focused, with a slight all-for-Ying angle. Synopsis: A new faction suddenly appears in the cultivation world. Its members have all kinds of abilities, yet their powers are completely different from the cultivation arts of this world. Coming back from the dead, predicting the secrets of heaven, crossing realms in a single breath... Even a dish they casually bring out can restore spiritual energy! The people of Teyvat are elusive and mysterious, but one thing about t 6.4kReads8.4Score88414d adds

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   Strong female leads, some with hidden identities, some have romantic partners but it's okay.

8. 8 天EN Apocalypse Mutants: That Cheat? Yoink! 天灾异种：金手指？拿来吧你 Sugar Million糖百万Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.7M WordsOngoing [Natural disasters + mutations + strong heroine + reborn + pocket dimension + System farm + stockpiling + no romance] [Slice-of-life farming + younger sister + pets] Natural disasters strike one after another, mutations begin, and alien species arrive. Ming Jiu, an ordinary person with no special powers, cautiously survives until the seventh year of the apocalypse. She's careful, sneaky, and never draws attention if she can use a dirty trick instead. She works diligently, farming and doing odd j 53.1kReads8.5Score6.5k14d adds
9. 9 求 Survival Instance: The Beauty Only Wants to Stay Alive 求生副本：美人她一心苟命 Yi Xiao已晓Fantastical Romance1.4M WordsOngoing One day, the world suddenly plunges into survival dungeons. The dungeon is an ocean survival challenge from the start, but Jiang Changning doesn’t even have a fishing rod... Fortunately, she gets bound to the Impostor System. To survive, the delicate, unlucky, yet stunningly beautiful Jiang Changning quietly sets her sights on clinging to powerful players. Dungeon bosses, elite players... She impersonates dungeon natives, says what people want to hear and what ghosts want to hear, and makes up r 114.6kReads9.0Score15.6k14d adds
10. 10 游EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 1MReads9.5Score87.2k14d adds
11. 11 穿 Book Transmigration: I Stole the Female Lead's Role by Playing the Heiress 穿书：我靠扮演大小姐，抢了女主 Gou Ze, Who Loves Vermouth爱吃味美思酒的苟泽Two Female Leads441k WordsOngoing [The theatrical young lady × the cool and aloof sword cultivator] Shen Qingci transmigrated into a story about a chosen hero as an extra with not even a single line. The male lead had a luck value of 999, while hers was only 1. The System told her to play the role of a young lady from a reclusive clan, earning resources for card draws by making others fear and respect her. She laughed. In her previous life, she had worked in planning, and her greatest talent was making an empty shell look dazz 22.5kReads8.2Score3.8k14d adds
12. 12 她 She Has Countless Secret Identities, Posing as a Supernatural Being as Spiritual Qi Revival Begins 她马甲无数伪装超凡开启灵气复苏 Yi Xiao已晓Modern Romance593k WordsOngoing After obtaining a card-drawing System, Jiang Ning’an slowly breaks into an innocent smile. And then… The Dawn Council, the Dark Court, the Demon Capital… Then the underworld manifests in the mortal realm, the Celestial Court descends, and the Spirit Clan is reborn… One force after another gradually emerges, and one “history” after another unfolds… Until at last, Jiang Ning’an sits enthroned above all the heavens. [The heroine is the mastermind behind the scenes, and everyone is unrequitedly in l 14.6kReads8.3Score1.4k14d adds

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    Strong female leads, some with hidden identities, some have romantic partners but the overall feeling is okay.

13. 13 死 Death Game: The Beauty Is Deceiving the World 死亡游戏：美人她欺诈世界 Yi Xiao已晓Mystery688k WordsOngoing [The author’s note at the end of Chapter 1 contains content warnings. Please remember to read it, thank you.] [The author’s brain doesn’t work right. The first instance is deliberately obscure, which means players can’t clear it. If you don’t understand it, feel free to skip straight to the second instance. The overall tone of this story is: secret identities, a heroine adored by everyone, an airheaded goofball, and hilarious love-triangle drama. (I already put that in the blurb, so if you still 6.9kReads9.2Score68114d adds
14. 14 c What Do I Do After Cosplaying as Tomie and Landing in Meteor City? cos富江穿进流星街该怎么破 A Pear Who Wants to Lie Flat一只想躺平的梨Anime Fanfiction579k WordsCompleted [Pseudo-selfcest + female-oriented Hunter x Hunter shipping + my take on Tomie + secret identity story (identities never exposed)] Lilith is an unlucky Chinese otaku who cosplayed as Tomie and transmigrated into Hunter x Hunter's Meteor City. Her body has shrunk, too, giving her a truly disastrous start from the start. Fortunately, there is still a way out. The world's consciousness gave her two additional secret identities with the potential to become powerful, and weakened Tomie's abilities, 12.6kReads9.4Score1.3k14d adds
15. 15 快 Quick Transmigration: Today, I'm Once Again Fighting for Survival in the Supporting Actress's Womb 快穿：今日又在女配肚子里求生存 Win-Win双赢Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted After Cheng Shuhan wakes up, she’s told that she slept herself to death and must complete quick transmigration missions to come back to life. She assumes quick transmigration missions are either about winning someone’s heart or punishing scumbags. As it turns out, she’s far too naive! A quick transmigration mission can also be: make sure the baby is born safely! The discarded empress in the cold palace: “As long as my baby is safe, who cares if I turn evil and rebel?” The CEO’s one true love: “P 2.9kReads9.1Score26614d adds
16. 16 木 Raft Survival: I'm Determined to Build a Mouse Utopia 木筏求生：我致力打造鼠托邦 Little Seven Sounds七小音Sports1.8M WordsOngoing [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Farming] [Infrastructure Building] [Satisfying Survival] [Growth] [Leveling Up] She wakes up to find the world submerged beneath the sea. Everyone is forced to take part in a “maritime survival game.” From the start, all she has is a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Everything she needs must be caught. Hunger, monsters, natural disasters, betrayal... People struggle to stay alive in this game. The beginner’s gift pack grants a mutation to one item you carry, turn 30.4kReads8.6Score5.8k14d adds
17. 17 不 Isn’t This Detective Conan? Why Are the Roads Full of Chinese Flags? 不是在名柯吗？怎么路上全是华旗 San Shenme Zhi三什么芷Anime Fanfiction517k WordsCompleted Detective Conan + female-led story + Chinese patriotism + golden finger + wish fulfillment + Gin pairing Revenge is the main focus. The novel's iconic scenes: Planting the Chinese flag on Sakura Mountain Scattering spirit money inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department A bolt of heavenly lightning chasing someone down Installing bird-themed wallpapers at the National Police Agency Playing celebratory music at a state funeral Hitting the Emperor on the head with a small stool Vengeful spiri 1.1kReads8.9Score10714d adds
18. 18 拒 I Refuse to Fawn Over the Chosen One, and Build a Longevity Clan Instead 拒舔气运之子，建立长生家族 A Pigeon Takes Flight at the Sound of the Brahma Bell梵铃声响鸽惊飞Ancient Romance788k WordsCompleted [Ensemble cast with many supporting characters + protagonist working behind the scenes + no romance + slow burn] [Former goddess setting + development of an immortal clan + single ruler at first, then dual rulers + slow burn + development from ancient times to the modern era] After Zhang Pingxia died, she was taken away by something calling itself a System. Only after bringing her into its consciousness did the System realize it had bound the wrong person. Since things had come to this, they cou 1.1kReads6.3Score10414d adds
19. 19 N After the NPC Awakens, the On-Screen Comments Call Her the Villainess NPC觉醒后，弹幕叫她恶毒女配 Shu Cha术茶Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration + bullet comments + livestreaming + villainess awakening + System + supremely satisfying] [A white-moonlight beauty on the surface, but a black-lotus schemer behind the scenes] (No male lead, completed) In the full-dive game Supreme Crown, Shi Jiao is a villainess NPC created by the screenwriters to make the actors playing the protagonists shine. In the campus CEO world, she's a highborn young lady, proud and beautiful, talented and accomplished, as well as the foil to the 5.7kReads9.3Score94614d adds
20. 20 分 Sending Clones to Ye Luoli? I'm Just Here for the Laughs 分身闯荡叶罗丽？其实是乐子人哒 I Wasted the Whole Day Without Meaning To大意水了一天Anime Fanfiction586k WordsCompleted Min Yun is unlucky enough to get into a nasty accident on a high-speed train, then transmigrates into the world of Ye Luoli as the so-called Fairy of Fate. But Damn it! I don't have even a shred of fairy power! My inheritance says to change the plot, so fine, I'll change it. But then again, why am I trapped in the void from the start?! Good thing I can create clones: a king, a teacher, a blacksmith, a doll girl... Go make a name for yourself in the Fairy Realm (and cause trouble)! Min Yun only w 2.2kReads9.3Score19814d adds
21. 21 游 Game Descends: The Original Heroine Flips the Table on the Spot 游戏降临：原女主选择当场掀桌 Shun Yunhua舜云华Fantastical Romance1.9M WordsOngoing [Reborn + No Romance + Unhinged + Lone Wolf] Content warning: There are pets. The protagonist had a romance in her previous life, but there is no romance in this life. She isn’t invincible from the start, and the early part is on the dark side. She is a female lead who had her fortune stolen and must win everything back on her own. Her dark past is the road that brought her here. The hardened version of the female lead won’t take her anger out on everyone, and will give ordinary people a chance 38.9kReads8.4Score5.1k14d adds
22. 22 叶 Ye Luoli: My Golden Finger Is the Flower Codex 叶罗丽：金手指是花之法典 Yue Lili月鲤鲤Anime Fanfiction552k WordsCompleted [Read This First: The author has added a ninth Pavilion Master; slightly harem-like; the protagonist is the villain; System; face-slapping; character growth] After cosplaying a character she'd designed herself at an anime convention, Yue Long found herself transported to the world of Ye Luoli. She had tons of abilities, but they were all support skills. Yue Long, who possessed the power of a Saint-rank fairy, was understandably panicking. How could she make a difference in the Immortal Realm 9.2kReads8.3Score1.2k14d adds
23. 23 我 Why Does My Game Boss Have a Billion Secret Identities? 我游戏BOSS多亿点马甲怎么了 A Salty Fish Named Mu一只咸鱼沐Sports959k WordsOngoing [Game Boss + Game Invasion + Behind-the-Scenes Boss + No Romance + Player Exploitation + Anti-Fourth Calamity] What do you do when you transmigrate into a game boss? Asking online. It’s urgent. Terrified of becoming a boss whose drops will be claimed by six trillion players, Lu Cang decides to give herself several secret identities. Game Invasion: Legendary Hidden Boss, “Soulbound Puppet”: Lu Cang Pulling the strings behind the scenes, a puppet takes the stage Legendary World Boss, “Life-Substit 2.3kReads8.3Score37714d adds
24. 24 火 In Naruto, I Was Only Collecting Cards, Yet Became Everyone's Favorite 火影明明只是收牌却成了万人迷 Tangerine Hugs You橘抱你Anime Fanfiction888k WordsCompleted [No romance in the main story + irresistible charm + lots of original setting details + multiple timelines and worlds + redemption + no Boruto plot] [Warning! In the early stages, the heroine doesn't have enough magic to sustain her cards, so she may pass out from exhausting her magic. If you think this is female-lead abuse, I have nothing to say. If you can't stand the heroine suffering even a little, don't read this. She isn't an invincible female lead from the start. The matter of transmigrat 2.6kReads8.5Score37314d adds
25. 25 我 I'm the White Bone Spirit. I'll Make Nezha My Backer 我白骨精，让哪吒当靠山 Shabby School Heartthrob破烂校草Female-Channel Fanfiction625k WordsCompleted [Not Demon Child Nezha] [Nezha + Romance + Secret Identity + Comedy + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Flawed Leads + Journey to the West + Childhood Friends] Heart-and-body-stealing White Bone Spirit X Third Prince Nezha, who kills but never saves Bai Yuling was from Chentang Pass. After being flayed alive, she became a White Bone Spirit and was trapped on White Bone Ridge for a thousand years. What greeted her was not freedom, but Nezha. Heaven sent Nezha to White Tiger Ridge to eliminate the d 6.5kReads9.1Score85814d adds
26. 26 三 After Completing the Three Kingdoms' Notable Figures Collection, I Ascended the Throne 三国名士全图鉴后，我登基了 Grilled Green Mushrooms炙烤见手青Ancient Romance452k WordsOngoing Also known as: How Can a Tiny Little Girl Conquer the Three Kingdoms? By Bending Without Breaking! [A heroine adored by all + An Eastern Han-era enchantress focused on her ambitions + A female ruler who makes no secret of being a woman + A true goddess with a built-in golden finger] Handcrafted with traditional techniques. If you don't like AI-written stories, come on in. Blurb: Bad news: Liu Ying died. Good news: Liu Ying came back to life inside a strategy game set in the Three Kingdoms era. B 194Reads8.9Score1014d adds
27. 27 我 I Became the Mastermind by Writing Scripts 我靠写剧本当幕后黑手 Oh My God, What Should My Name Be我的天呐到底什么名字Mystery159k WordsOngoing [Female-oriented + no romance + mastermind + spiritual qi revival + instances + lighthearted + content warnings in the author's notes] Zhu Changsheng transmigrates one day. There's no toxic family, no melodrama, but her new body is sick. To survive, Zhu Changsheng starts having fun with her golden finger. She sets the protagonist up to star in a gold commercial, then cashes in the gold! She makes the protagonist a genius hacker, then cashes in hacking skills! She makes the protagonist a martial 157Reads6.1Score1114d adds

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    Female protagonist, no romantic partner, behind-the-scenes mastermind novel

28. 28 到 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.5kReads—Score10714d adds

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    Supernatural horror, catching ghosts and fighting zombies

29. 29 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 306.1kReads9.4Score27.2k14d adds
30. 30 玩 I Played a Game and Saved the World 玩个游戏，拯救了世界 Osmanthus and Longan Rice Wine桂花龙眼酒酿Mystery280k WordsOngoing [Game + secret identities + behind the scenes + ensemble cast] [No identity reveals] [No secret identity awakenings; they're all the female protagonist] After living for over twenty years, Bai Linghuai had accepted that she was just an ordinary passerby. Then she dug an old, battered game console out of her mother's belongings. She'd never seen her late mother play it, but the single-player game inside was pretty good. But... was she just dizzy from staying up all night gaming? The mysterious bi 49Reads8.4Score—14d adds

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    This is one of the few things I can watch.

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