Stories with a Despairing, Oppressive Worldview Where the Protagonist Doesn’t Get Pushed Around 求世界观绝望压抑，但主角不憋屈的文
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On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
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- 52 A Kiss from the Clouds 白云之吻 A Kiss from the White Clouds 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Never Go to the Old House 千万不要去古宅 Na Ling and Bao Datong were looking for a thrill, so they drove around robbing old houses. One day, they came across a photo of Fengmen Village online and went there to steal a Grand Tutor's chair. They sold it to Li Wei, a chamber of commerce boss, but because the chair was haunted, he resold it to the speculator Meng Guozhao. During the handoff, Na Ling secretly kept the jade marrow hidden inside the chair. After leaving Fengmen Village, Na Ling traveled to Anhui, where he stumbled upon the an 7.8kReads8.6Score233Shelves
- 54 Treasure Hunting in Warehouses: From the Start, I Donate the Twelve Animal Heads 仓库寻宝，开局捐回十二兽首 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Yang Yi becomes a professional storage-unit treasure hunter in the United States. Countless abandoned storage units across the country hold all kinds of treasures. Marilyn Monroe's dress, Captain America's shield, Iron Man's armor... What delights Yang Yi most is discovering one of the Twelve Zodiac Animal Heads: the Snake Head. From then on, he searches for treasures all over the world, determined to bring all twelve of China's zodiac animal heads home! 2.2kReads8.3Score213Shelves
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Day N of Pretending to Be a Genius in a World of Morons 在弱智世界装天才的第n天
[Feel-good power fantasy + plot-driven + absurdist + requires just a little bit of brainpower] (Trust me, it’s definitely interesting. If you’re unsure, you can check out the reviews first.) After being expelled from school, Jiang Chen had resigned himself to hauling bricks at a construction site. But then, the world suddenly changed. An ordinary high school student became the most intelligent person in the world. And so… Cambridge Professor Norman: “In fact, Dr. Jiang Chen is the only person al
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- 56 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 Across the Ocean 61Reads—Score—Shelves
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Impostors Invade: I Build a Super Battleship with Enhancements 伪人入侵：我靠增幅打造超级战舰
Identifying impostors + naval combat + decisive and ruthless + no female lead + base-building upgrades. Impostors invade Blue Star. The land falls completely, leaving the ocean as humanity's only safe haven. Zhang Nian is a transmigrated captain. His only duty is to sail to fallen ports, pick up passengers among whom impostors are hiding, and take them to safety. Passenger A: “Captain, please let me aboard! My eyes are red because I used expired eye drops!” Passenger B: “Hello, Captain! I'm a Bl
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- 58 The Peerless X-Ray Worker 极品透视民工 Ye Tao, a migrant worker, injures his eyes in an accident involving a cement mixer and suddenly gains X-ray vision. With his extraordinary eyes, he quietly rises to the top, tramples the worst people, becomes the best of the best, and reaches the pinnacle of life. 325Reads8.3Score100Shelves
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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- 60 Dreams of Tokyo: Love Through the Four Seasons 东京梦华：爱有四季 Tokyo Dreams: Love Through the Seasons 83Reads—Score—Shelves
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Online Gaming: Lord of Boundless Infinity 网游：无垠无尽之主
[Elegant + epic + expansive worldbuilding + lone wolf + plot-driven + solo domination] [Transmigrator Application Form] [You have chosen to tackle: Boundless Infinity (a despair-level online game world)] [Enemies: The Curse of Immortality, Eternal Aberrations, the End] [Golden finger: Fate's Guidance (Boundless Infinity, all-knowing and all-seeing edition)] [Transmigration point: Year 10,000 of the Online Gaming Era] [Transmigration method: Hit by a speeding truck] [Partner: None] [Application a
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- 62 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 947.2kReads9.6Score122.9kShelves
- 63 Sunset on Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 云顶落霞：幽灵骑士 Sunset on the Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 38Reads—Score—Shelves
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How Can the Me Inside the Simulator and I Team Up? 模拟器内的我要和我联手怎么办
[Xuanhuan] [Simulator] [Two protagonists, one inside and one outside the simulator] [System-driven] [Genius] [Good-for-nothing] [Our heartfelt thanks to all our dear readers.] Chen Yuan transmigrated as the owner of a supreme immortal spirit root and reached the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence in just a few decades. But what do you mean, the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence is the ceiling, and there’s no immortal realm above it? And there are millions of Tribulation Transcende
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- 65 A Good-for-Nothing's Second Chance at Life 废柴重启人生 [Modern Slice of Life + Rebirth + Farming + School Life + School Beauty] With help from an old classmate, Zhao Xinghe unexpectedly finds himself reborn in the year 2000. Starting from scratch, he studies while building a business and making his fortune. As he grows, he meets many kind people, and his childhood sweetheart, the school beauty, stays by his side. As Zhao Xinghe's business grows bigger and bigger, he sets out to give back to his hometown. A mystery that has troubled people for genera 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Walking Beneath the Moon: The Age of Machines 踏月而行：机械纪元 Walking Beneath the Moon: The Mechanical Era 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 EN The Only One Using the System for Normal Cultivation 只有我在坚持使用面板正常修仙 [Absurd] + [Defying Heaven] “I told you, even though I’m from the Heaven-Defying Sect, at heart I’m a traditional cultivator. I’m not some heaven-defying god.” “What? You say I practice the blade every day and don’t cultivate spells or techniques, so how could I become a powerhouse? Are you saying I cheated?” “Rubbish. It’s all because I want to get closer to ordinary people. Don’t talk about hacks or cheating. I’m not that kind of person.” The Daily Life of Cultivating at the Heaven-Defying Sec 77.7kReads9.0Score8.3kShelves
- 68 The Max-Level Cutie Raised by the Abstinent Master Yu Beats Up Ghosts Like a Pro 禁欲郁爷养的满级小可爱揍鬼超凶 [Metaphysics + adored by everyone + ghost-catching + two powerful leads with secret identities + face-slapping + absurd comedy + sweet romance] (A beauty in a qipao with a hairpin × the groveling, utterly unimportant young heir of the capital’s elite) The moment she opened her eyes, metaphysics master Su Wu had transmigrated into a book. She was sitting in a morgue, just about to question her entire existence, when she learned that keeping watch here for one night paid this much? She jumped righ 23Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 69 The Compass of Time 时光罗盘 The Time Compass 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 EN One Entry Per Year: Even a Simulator Can Do It 一年抽取一词条，模拟的也可以？ [Trait extraction + simulator + inherit everything + immortal martial arts] (Animated adaptation now available) Chen Yi transmigrates to a martial arts world and obtains a System that draws one trait every year. Unfortunately, all he draws are useless white traits. The probability of obtaining high-quality traits is extremely low, and the highest-grade mythical trait has a chance of only 0.001%! To improve the odds, he must raise his martial arts realm, but he has no innate aptitude and cannot c 429.7kReads8.8Score42.3kShelves
- 71 National Fate Survival: I'm a Python, and You're Stunned, Aren't You? 国运求生：我，蟒蛇，傻眼了吧？ [National Destiny survival game + wild imagination + livestreaming + evolution System + no romance] Lin Yan is reborn as a little python. After finally binding himself to an evolution System, he is unexpectedly chosen for the National Destiny survival game and becomes a contestant for the Dragon Nation. Excuse me?! What the heck! Weren't the contestants supposed to be selected from among humans?! I'm obviously not human... I'm just an ordinary little python!! P.S. This novel has no romance and n 3.4kReads8.9Score355Shelves
- 72 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 1.5kReads9.3Score370Shelves
- 74 Ultraman: I Am Chaos 奥特曼之吾为混沌 Xiao Han was transported to the Ultraman universe after an accident. To find his way home, he keeps working to grow stronger and forms bonds with many people along the way. In the Orb universe, he turns Jugglus Juggler into an Ultra Warrior. In the Tiga universe, he tells Daigu, “You are both light and human. Go fight as a human.” He is also drawn into the conflict between Noa, Zagi, and Lucifer. Caught at the center of the storm, he treads carefully and strives to grow stronger, all for the sak 117Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 75 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Pollution Has Arrived? I Studied to Purify the World! 污染降临？我学的就是净化世界！ [No romance, no System, delusions of grandeur, comedy, invincible, ensemble cast] “I’m here because I’m sick, not because I’m stupid.” Strange dreams descend, and the door to a new world slowly opens for Zhang Fan. A wealthy academy that comes knocking on its own is brimming with an air of unreliability. Your first lesson as a new student: this is offense, this is defense. Got it? Great, you're ready to take on strange pollution all by yourself. Go defeat them! Stone figures awaken at a manor de 11.8kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
- 77 You Asked Me to Cook a Country Feast, but I Made the Imperial Banquet Chef Drool 让你农村烧大席，你馋哭国宴主厨 He transmigrates to a parallel world and binds to a food System. Qing Yun, an unemployed man who has returned to his hometown, begins his rise to the top by cooking grand feasts in the countryside. First, an old woman wants one last taste of her own funeral banquet before she dies at ninety. Then a baby at a full-month celebration cries their eyes out because the food looks so good... With no other choice, Qing Yun takes up his giant wok again and again. “Red-braised pork knuckle, oil-splashed a 1.8kReads8.7Score108Shelves
- 78 Drug Enforcement Elite 禁毒精英 Two major drug cartels operate in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the story of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and US Northern Command, assisting Mexican police in the fight against drug crime. 82Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Day the White Tower Fell 白塔倾倒之日
The author has fallen into a black hole. Signal lost, updates suspended, and the text has been replaced with filler. I've run off with the original manuscript. I'll come back and fill in the gaps once I've stolen some inspiration from a parallel universe. Farewell for now, fellow readers!
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- 80 Death Rewind: Save the World in 48 Hours 死亡回档，48小时拯救世界 A car accident gave Wang Cong the ability to rewind time upon death! Just as he was getting ready to buy a lottery ticket and reach the pinnacle of life… The sky split open. Alien spaceships descended, and a flash of white light wiped out the world! Only two days remained. The countdown to extinction had begun. … “If I can rewind time by dying, can I save the world?” “You can, but you can't fill every hole the apocalypse leaves behind.” “Then if I bring along a group of comrades who've ri 122kReads8.6Score12.6kShelves
- 81 Night Shanghai: Making My Name on the Bund 夜上海之扬威上海滩 Lin Ge and Bai Wei transmigrate into the TV series Shanghai Bund, arriving in 1930s Shanghai. They clash fiercely with the Japanese and throw themselves into the nationwide resistance, helping launch the 1932 Battle of Shanghai. 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 I Am Eternal 吾既永恒 What is eternity? What is immortality? Is it the immortal? The demon? Heaven? Or the Dao? No! Immortals can be slain, demons destroyed, Heaven defied, and the Dao severed. It is me! I am immortal! I am eternal! My surname is Luo, and I am your Heaven. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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Global Death Exam: Straight from the Execution Grounds to the Test Room 全球死考：刚下刑场你让我去考试
[Tactical battles + mild horror + infinite-world adventure] The Deadly College Entrance Exam has arrived, dragging thirty million candidates into hell. The exam questions have been replaced with scenes from horror movies and disasters. Even staying alive is a pipe dream. Pass and earn rewards. Fail and be erased! Ten points earn ten million. One hundred points earn Tyrant genes. One thousand points earn the Apocalypse. Only ??? can make it out of this exam. To investigate, the military “
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- 84 Videos Connect the Dynasties: From the Start, I Edited a Tribute to History’s Greatest Emperor! 视频通万朝，开局剪辑千古一帝！ Gao Yang accidentally discovers a piece of software on his computer called Editing Across Ten Thousand Dynasties. It claims that any video uploaded can be seen by everyone across all the dynasties. That means emperors from every dynasty, historical figures, and more. Thinking he'd upload a few videos just for fun, Gao Yang posts lists of the greatest emperors of all time, the top ten strategists, the top ten commanders, and so on. But gradually, Gao Yang stops holding back... Lists exposing the 11.6kReads9.0Score704Shelves
- 85 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 206Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Moment the Pen Falls Silent 封笔之刻
This novel tells the story of how Bufeng came to possess the power of a god, and how he eventually gave it up. After joining the Writers' Association, where members keep company with the abyss, Bufeng uses the godlike power bestowed upon him to preside over several deadly games. Everything comes down to the moment he picks up his pen and puts it to paper: [Narration] In the tunnels of the labyrinth, they use despair to write the light of an exit. When ordinary people are given the chance to rewr
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- 87 The Ghost's Knocking Was So Loud, the Neighbors Came Over to Beat Me Up 鬼敲门声音太大竟引来邻居毒打 Hear a ghost knocking on your door at night? Don't panic. Call the neighbors and ask them to come claim the “takeout.” Run into a vengeful ghost demanding blood money at a crossroads? Just drop the cash into the Buddha's merit box. A Ghost King disguises himself as a delivery guy and kills people at random. Who knew the delivery would be to the place where the patriarch of Longhu Mountain was in seclusion? After transmigrating to a supernatural world, Li Yi awakened the Unconventional Celestial 9.4kReads9.2Score661Shelves
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Isn't This a Death Note? Why Is Everything Being Given Away?! 不是死亡笔记吗？怎么全变给了！
[Not Fanfiction] + [Meme References] + [Wild Imagination] + [Absurd, Unhinged Comedy] + [Godlike Characters] When anything is born, it produces a notebook. Anyone who owns one can form a contract with the angel bound to that notebook and become a godlike being. Yue Shenye looks at the notebook in his hands, and all the humiliations of the past come flooding back. He grips his pen tightly. “I want every last one of you dead!” The ballpoint pen sweeps across the page, filling it with names. Then t
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- 89 The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路 An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans. 58Reads—Score—Shelves
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Cultivating for an Immortal Rank? I Can Simulate Becoming an Immortal 果位修仙？我能模拟成仙
[Simulator + talents + strategic planning + cultivation through Daoist positions + Nascent Soul True Monarchs + supreme Deification + golden finger free-for-all + unstoppable in the late game] Chen Fan had transmigrated to the cultivation world twenty years ago. At last, he awakened the [Simulator]. It could draw talents, and even upgrade them continuously. But why was each simulation getting stranger? What did it mean for a [Foundation Establishment Ancestor] to manipulate karma? What did it me
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- 91 Zombie Apocalypse: Surviving on Campus with My Classmates 丧尸末日：我与同学校园求生 No one knows how this disaster began. By the time people realized what was happening, the catastrophe had become inevitable. Food, water, daily necessities... These once-common things have become rare, and dilapidated classrooms are now the students' only hope of survival. What do they do about sleeping? What do they do without toilets? What do they do when conflicts break out between the boys and girls? A string of problems weighs on everyone's mind. In this struggle to survive, sacrifices are 308Reads5.2Score—Shelves
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Cave Prison: The Twelve Zodiac Signs Hunt the Gods 溶洞囚笼：十二生肖逐神
[Ensemble cast, no fixed protagonist.] This is a real game, a game in which the Twelve Zodiac Signs hunt one another. Hundreds of rounds have been played over thousands of years. Each round has a zodiac victor. The victors become emperors or powerful figures in their own right. Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han: victor of the Snake; Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang: victor of the Horse; Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song: victor of the Dog; Qianlong of the Qing dynasty: victor of the Rabbit; Ther
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- 93 The Yin Corpse Emperor's Fate 阴尸帝命 My name is Zhang Chuan. As far back as I can remember, I've had to burn incense and paper offerings to my own portrait. I've asked Grandpa countless times why I had to do it, but he never had an answer. It wasn't until Grandpa's final moments that I learned a shocking secret: I was already dead, and there was more to it than that. I had the fate palace of the Ziwei Emperor, so I was neither alive nor dead, with my soul and body separated. After that, my life became even more extraordinary. A tho 83Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 94 Dark Survival: After Losing My Shelter, I Taught Myself to Become a God 黑暗求生：丢失庇护所后自学成神 [Everyone Transmigrates] [Dungeons] [Unconventional Survival] [A Bounty of Cheats] [No Female Lead] [Nonlinear Stats] [Infinite Worlds] The whole world transmigrates to a land of darkness, and all people plunge into an endless abyss. Growth comes with madness, and power comes with risk. A thousandfold boost, information prompts, daily draws, offense and defense in one, luck, master of contracts, negative values, immortality, Deep Blue, daily settlement, temporal synchronization, mind over matt 188kReads8.6Score28.5kShelves
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The Day After, Tomorrow 次日，明日
Yang Yuan used to wear a dog collar around his neck. Zhao Er said he was worth less than a dog. Later, Zhao Er died. Yang Yuan strangled him with the same iron chain that had once held him like a dog. After that, Yang Yuan dragged the chain out of the coal mine. Opening theme: “Drunk on a Jug of Immortal Wine, Wandering the Eight Wastelands” Insert song: “Three Drinks in the Jianghu” Ending theme: “Drinking Alone” by Feng Gou Linyuan
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When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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- 97 EN Pacific Rim: The Great Wall's Vigil 环太平洋-长城守望 Luo Sen looked up at the steel giant. This thing had only ever appeared in movies and comics. It wasn’t until the “Seagull Project” was launched that men’s dreams finally became reality. To fight monsters, we created monsters. (Hong Kong Shatterdome Base:) 1.1kReads9.3Score149Shelves
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An S-Rank Horror from the Start, but They Give Me a C-Rank Talent? 开局S级怪谈，但给我C级天赋？
[No Female Lead + Endless Twists + Wild Ideas and Clever Logic + Mild Horror + Protagonist and Villains Are Both Smart] [This is absolutely not a mindless power fantasy. If you don't like the first instance, go ahead and curse me out.] [This isn't a traditional rule-based horror story. The horrors can think and are intelligent, so readers who prefer traditional rule-based horror should steer clear.] Horrors run rampant, and strange tales are everywhere. Beneath every shadow may lurk an unknown t
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- 99 Dating Show: The Has-Been Star Goes Viral by Breaking Character Every Day 恋综，小糊咖她靠每天崩人设爆火 [Dating Show + Sweet Romance + Comedy + One-on-One Romance + Face-Slapping + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + System] Jian Mian took a drug she had developed herself. The side effects were so severe that she died on the spot. When she woke up, she had transmigrated into the body of the original owner, who shared her name. From the start, she was schemed against by her scumbag boyfriend and his mistress, vilified across the internet, and unable to land any acting roles. She thought that was the 16Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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The Girl I Control Is Becoming an Old One 我操作的少女正在成为旧日之主
[This novel has been contracted for print publication: cosmic horror + amber-style cultivation + villain protagonist + no System + decisive killing + black humor + deranged + single female lead + sequence containment] Xu Fei: “In the twenty-second century, all you need is a helmet with a brain-computer interface to experience a fully immersive game with realistic physical sensations.” “You ask why I chose this starting character? Naturally, because she’s a beautiful girl... Oh, no, naturally, be
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