Hard Sci-Fi on a Cosmic Scale. The Stars and the Sea 硬科幻，宇宙级。星辰大海
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You Said It Was a Summer Job, But You Became a Space Mercenary?! 说打暑假工，你去当星际雇佣兵？
[Humorous] After his college entrance exams, Lin Xiao set out to find a summer job to earn some money. But after being accepted, he was taken to an off-world mercenary base. No one could have imagined that his workplace would be a battlefield on an alien planet, where he’d fight endless waves of extraterrestrial creatures. Beneath the crimson sky stretched an endless alien wasteland, filled with roaring insectoid creatures, wrecked mechs, and furious mercenaries. To earn money and stay alive, Li
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Villain: My Younger Brother Is Heaven's Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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I Only Plundered a Few Systems, So Why Are You All Panicking? 我就掠夺些系统，你们都慌啥？
Also known as From the Start, I Become a System and Plunder the Myriad Worlds and Host, Wait! You Dropped Your Cheat on the Ground. The three principles of the System: 1. The total amount of the Myriad Worlds' source remains unchanged. Ascension is the System's only rule. 2. Systems are drawn to and compete with one another, and their purpose is to plunder. Any show of kindness will turn you into someone else's source. 3. The Myriad Worlds are a dark forest. Keep yourself hidden, and don't let y
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I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧
[Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity
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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:)
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Project Lingxing 凌星计划
The setting of The Lingxing Project is an alternate world based on our present-day reality. It tells the story of Zhou Yu, who happens by chance to receive a complete education from an advanced alien civilization. Starting out as an ordinary office worker, he is gradually swept along by fate, weathering countless disasters before becoming a mature and resilient leader. Though he cannot save Earth and Mars from total destruction, he finds two ways to preserve the spark of human civilization, and
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Quantum Suicide 量子自杀
From tying knots to keep records to inventing writing, was this progress, or a misguided path that meant abandoning consciousness by transferring it outside ourselves? Some scientists believe that human society took a wrong turn right from the beginning, and they will go to any lengths to prove it through experiments. The Twin Stars Experiment is designed to study the human mind, but how much do we really understand about consciousness? Li Zaiming was an ordinary observer in the experiment. Afte
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The Annihilation of the Solar System 湮灭太阳系
In just a few short years, a high school student tore apart the ironclad laws of physics. With only a few pages, he predicted the impending catastrophe. But was he a hero holding a crumbling edifice upright, or the mastermind secretly pulling the strings? In an age of crisis, humanity cast aside all prejudice and division, staking everything on one final effort to defend the right of our blue planet to survive.
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The Real Estate Market Crashes, We Owe a Trillion, and the Young Master Wants to Dive In 地产崩盘欠万亿，公子要下海
A hard-edged near-future novel about national fortunes, starting in September 2026. No System, no rebirth, no dumbed-down characters, no showing off. Just the kind of story veteran readers love. Question: Why is it raining again? Answer: Mars is being resupplied.
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A Hardcore Dad Whose Little Girl's Pets Are All Ferocious Beasts 硬核奶爸，囡囡宠物全是凶猛野兽
[Livestreaming + adorable child + memes + play the pig to eat the tiger] During one of Sister Zhou’s outdoor livestreams, a Class I protected animal suddenly appeared: a Northeast tiger. Even more terrifying, the tiger was staring at a three-year-old girl. Tens of thousands of viewers in the livestream chat cried out: “Save her!” Sister Zhou was frozen with fear! “Little girl, come here!” “No! Kitty’s making a fuss. I’m gonna bop it!” The little girl charged forward and landed two solid punches,
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Identity Extraction: I’m Actually the Lord of the Universe 身份抽取：我竟然是宇宙之主
Zhou Mu suddenly feels as if he has become the center of the world. After awakening an identity-extraction System, he gains a new identity every few days. An executive at an intergalactic corporation, a legendary assassin from another world, an SSS-rank mercenary captain in the Federation... With every identity he acquires, Zhou Mu gains the corresponding power and wealth. An invincible battleship, a mysterious asteroid made of gold, a beautiful and obedient secretary... But along with the benef
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Cosmic Lottery: I Was Chosen by a Level Nine Civilization 宇宙抽奖：我被九级文明选中
Invincible, urban, no female lead, technology, journey through the cosmos Li Bufan is an ordinary young man who, for no apparent reason, wins a cosmic grand prize from a level-nine civilization. How will this stroke of fortune change his fate? And how will an ordinary person like him take control of it? Little Ai: To claim your reward, you must first earn contribution points. Li Bufan: If you give me the reward, won’t I be able to earn contribution points? Little Ai: You don’t have any contribut
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Chinese Scientists: The Whole Nation Reaches for the Stars 华夏科研家，举国奔向星辰大海
[Huaxia scientific research and development, a sci-fi System, high-IQ wish fulfillment, one sweet female lead, serving the nation] Chen Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and gains a super scientific research System. He develops countless astonishing inventions, yet never reveals his identity. He never imagined that a date with his celebrity girlfriend would expose who he really was. Holographic imaging! A spaceplane! A quantum computer! Controlled nuclear fusion! An interstellar travel device
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Military Life: You Call Me a Bad Student? I’m Applying Only to the National Defense University! 军旅：笑我学渣？高考只填国防大！
(A passionate military and patriotic story) Lin Fan transmigrates to a parallel world, where he becomes the school’s most notorious underachiever, mocked and scorned by everyone. But when the gaokao results are announced, he shocks them all by earning the highest score and getting into the National Defense University!
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I'm No Imperialist, Let Me Show You the Sea of Stars 我不是列强，带你们看星辰大海
An alternate-world blue planet: Dragon Star. A genius with a legacy of the oldest medical arts and the most advanced Western medicine, leader of the Hidden Dragon Unit and captain of the Shadow Squad. When a viral outbreak swept the world, he worked tirelessly, relying on his own skills to save countless lives. Three months later, after successfully developing an antidote, he died of his injuries. He activated the Legacy System and transmigrated to another world, where he was reborn on Blue Star
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Divinity: The Awakening of the Military Soul, Mythology Is Bound to Descend 神祇：军魂觉醒，神话终将降临
In a world of deities, transcend dimensions and become a god! The Yellow Springs Road of the Forgotten River, the Flowers of the Other Shore, and the Bridge of Helplessness. With a three-spirit altar of heroic spirits, undead, and gods and demons, rebuild Fengdu’s ghost realm, forge the supreme netherworld, and roam the Myriad Worlds!
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Who's Calling the Fleet? 是谁在呼叫舰队？
(Not invincible + passionate action in the middle and later parts + pure technology + the Force + the Myriad Worlds + quick transmigration + no female lead + sound values + a protagonist who grows + a place for fans to park their brains.) The early chapters may be a little slow, but the story gradually gets more exciting and imaginative starting with the third Wandering Earth arc. The protagonist suddenly obtains the Myriad Worlds Rescue System, which randomly gives him an ability and sends him
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Interstellar Longevity: Live Long Enough to Rule the Universe 星际长生：活得够久就能称霸宇宙
[Soft Sci-Fi + AI as the System + Ensemble Cast + Creator + Farming + Vast Worldbuilding + Civilization Development + Interstellar War + Physical Ascension + Hegemony] Earth is destroyed by an unknown ray. Yan Xia, the only human survivor, embarks on a journey through the cosmos alongside Ella, the AI aboard his rocket. He builds interstellar warships measuring ten thousand, a hundred thousand, and even a million meters; colossal interstellar cities spanning hundreds of billions of kilometers; a
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Reborn Without a Cheat—Because I’m a Planet! 穿越没有金手指，因为我是星球
[World creation + behind-the-scenes mastermind + transmigration + planets + planetary consciousness + civilization development + lords + conquest + the Myriad Worlds] Zhang Yang transmigrates, but from the start he has no golden finger. Instead, he transmigrates into a ball: a planet! A planet lord must constantly simulate the planet's development and the rise and fall of its civilizations to raise the planet's level. While other planet lords are still pondering which direction their civilizatio
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They Told You to Be a Wallfacer, So Why Did You Join the Trisolarans? 让你当面壁者：你反手投靠三体？
[You can enjoy this even if you’re unfamiliar with the world of The Three-Body Problem] [Lighthearted + a little System + not brainless] Lin Xuan transmigrates into the world of The Three-Body Problem and unexpectedly becomes the fifth Wallfacer after Luo Ji. The problem is, he gets saddled with an absurdly terrible System that requires him to collect shock points from other people in exchange for all kinds of items. Lin Xuan quickly thinks of the fastest way to gather shock points. He decides t
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Voyage: Leaving Earth 远航：离开地球
The author of The Three-Body Problem could never have imagined that his science fiction novel would become required reading at the Star Union Academy. During recruit training, Luo Xing once read a treasured old-century edition until its pages nearly fell apart. Tucked between them was a yellowed commemorative ticket stub printed with "The Wandering Earth Re-Release Commemorative Ticket." Whenever an instructor asks why he chose to become an astronaut, he touches his pendant and says, "Because we
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This Universe 本宇宙
Murderous intent is engraved even above the atom. Li Dongjing, a quantum physicist, discovers an attack originating from the void and a message at the atomic level: "Idle Tree." He must uncover the truth behind this cross-universe hunt, only to discover that the hunter is his future self.
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Starlight in the Abyss 深渊星芒
In 2185, low-level bugs transported through a higher-dimensional passage took over the entire solar system. Humanity was forced to abandon its home and leave the solar system in search of a new one. Along the way, Earth's wandering fleet discovered that things were far more complicated than a mere insectoid invasion: civilizations across the entire Milky Way had been caught up in a vast conspiracy. This is a sweeping science-fiction story set across the Milky Way. There are no mecha evolutions,
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The Star's Annihilation 湮灭星芒
Countless years later, humanity has unified the Milky Way. After tens of thousands of years of war, humanity has finally entered a brief period of peace. Yet threats from the Andromeda Galaxy and other universes have not ceased. For the sake of human civilization and the Milky Way, Hu Yu once again leads a fleet on an expedition into the depths of interstellar space. The author will bring you a grand war between galaxies, a multidimensional cosmic war, and a vision of an even vaster universe.
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The New Noah's Ark: In Search of Eden 新诺亚方舟之寻找伊甸园
The novel tells the story of a future Earth where the natural environment has deteriorated and humanity is forced into a mass migration. Its themes are thought-provoking. It offers a different perspective on the dark forest principle governing how advanced alien civilizations treat less advanced ones, as well as a fresh take on the future prospects of AI robots. Through three settings, Earth, wormholes, and alien civilizations, it depicts life in the future and presents three-dimensional charact
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Earth Vein War God: The Age of Interstellar Cultivation 地脉战神：星际修真时代
[The 2012 doomsday prophecy returns! A colossal bronze gate appears beneath Antarctic ice, and the world's ley-line energy awakens!] Lin Feng, an archaeological researcher, unexpectedly awakens his bloodline and brings back a fragment of Chi You's heart from the Antarctic Ruins. When he crushes the New America nation's spirit-powered aircraft carrier with his bare hands on a livestream and shatters an alien cultivation warship with tai chi, cultivation forces across the globe are shaken. “Dragon
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Dragon Battle in the Star River 龙战星河
[Sci-fi apocalypse + interstellar + genius + one heroine + space warfare + ancient martial arts + high martial arts world + warrior evolution + mecha + System] The boundless universe is in the midst of a life-and-death war between humanity and artificial intelligence, the Intelligent Clans. On Earth, more than nine hundred years from now, a genius boy named Long Xingyuan emerges. In the fateful clash between humanity, represented by the Interstellar Federation and the Eternal Empire, and the I
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Robinson in Deep Space 深空鲁滨逊
A lighthearted comedy with no violence, no spicy content, and a laid-back tone! This book was originally intended to be a low-budget screen production! It’s the story of Tang, a natural-born human accidentally cast to the edge of the galaxy, and his struggle to survive and find his way home! And A metal robot who is accidentally given a soul, and the growth of that soul as it clashes and merges with the robot’s rules! ~The story!~ ~The ending~ A bittersweet farewell (Part One) In the blink of an
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The Universe Is So Vast, I Want to See It All! 宇宙那么大，我想去看看！
[Interstellar transmigration + sci-fi + strong female lead + narcissistic romance + high-tech + extraterrestrial civilizations + humorous tone] “Of everyone I’ve lost, the one I miss most is myself.” An unavoidable plane crash brings Qing Tong face-to-face with an unexpected visitor. She miraculously survives, only to enter a Mobius loop, trapped in an endless cycle. Yet even then, she cannot break the laws of dimensions and reunite with herself. (There are two endings, one HE and one BE. Choos
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Flying Immortal on a Warship: I'm a Ship Cultivator in a Xuanhuan World 御舰飞仙：我在玄幻当舰修
[Overwhelming firepower] [Unmatched technology] [One heroine] [No brainless characters] A young captain arrives in this world of fantasy, bringing with him the Xihe, a warship that once ruled the seas of stars. No matter how you fly through the heavens or shatter mountains and rivers, even the arrogant cultivators must bow before the miracle known as “science.” Rift cannons, two-dimensional foils, light-particle strikes, black hole bombardments... Mechanical golden cores, electronic nascent soul
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Painting the Stardust of the World 绘世星尘
The universe is a prison, and fate is a lock. Beneath the calm of the Twin-Mind Planet, judgment has long been hidden in the cycle of reincarnation: older than civilization, more secret than breathing. “Deep are the mysteries of the star prison; the delusive crystal conceals the truth. Let the heart turn toward the hidden depths, and when illusion breaks, the Way remains.” The voice from beyond that lit the mind of Qingping Star Sovereign did more than that. It was the first beam of light to pi
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From Escaping the Solar System to Ruling the Multiverse 从逃离太阳系到纵横多元宇宙
(No cultivation, a steadily advancing tech tree, dark forest, war between civilizations) Humanity is struck by an “atomic virus” unleashed by a higher civilization, leaving only tens of thousands of people alive. With the help of artificial intelligence, they use the fading light of billions of human lives on Earth to build a massive fleet. When digital life encounters superintelligence... When higher-dimensional beings encounter a human civilization growing without limit... When the universe st
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Rising to Power After Finding an Alien Spaceship 从捡到外星飞船开始崛起
Aliens + dark matter + interstellar warfare + Earth's mysteries + mechs + Dyson spheres. How does a young man who finds a spaceship make his way from Earth into the cosmos? When catastrophe strikes, with mysterious dark matter and locked-away genes, where will humanity go from here...
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Second Life: The Bracelet That Conquers the Universe 二生：手环之纵横宇宙
What lies behind the world-shaking, epic rescue mission to avert a crisis across the multiverse, where the fates of three individuals are entwined? While so much science fiction still focuses on starships, journeys across light-years, and time travel, a mysterious bracelet appears. It can teleport its wearer, control people’s minds, and switch between eras. When consciousness, rather than matter, determines reality, these intertwined destinies lead not only to battles across the multiverse and t
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Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生，，之情惑人间
A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be
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After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪
By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life!
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I Have a Microcosm, and I'm Rising Against Heaven 拥有小宇宙的我逆天崛起了
When Long Qian woke up one day, he found he could communicate with a mysterious space, changing the course of his life. Become a fruit tycoon or a shipping magnate? Or… become the Creator! There are countless possibilities for the future. First, let’s achieve financial freedom!
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String! Antimatter Universe: Crossing Over 弦！正物质宇宙：跨越
A hard-science-fiction novel. Please add it to your bookshelf and follow the author! This is an imaginative, alternate-universe science-fiction series featuring an explosive surge in technological development, conflict and integration between Earth and alien civilizations, sweeping interstellar wars, and an interstellar alliance made up of numerous civilizations. It has a vast cosmic and technological setting, and ultimately explores a clash with higher-dimensional forces. I hope you’ll enjoy it
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Beyond Laniakea 飞越拉尼亚凯亚
When our ancestors stood upright and gazed at the stars, they saw a vast sea of stars in their eyes. Once we began to understand the laws governing the boundless universe, we were bound to seek the truth that unifies it all. It was both inevitable and our destiny. From the day life was born, its destination had already been determined by fate. So when intelligence awakens, it too must have a purpose. But are we the chosen ones? Is humanity the ultimate form of life? Could we be... a life-form fr
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When the Stars Loaded into Super God Academy 当群星加载至超神学院
[This novel has officially been renamed Stellaris: The Rise of the Human Federation. Since Tomato won't let me change the title, Super God Academy doesn't get much screen time!] [You'll need to know a little about the Stellaris game to follow this novel. Don't leave a bad review just because you don't understand it!] [This novel features extreme xenophobia, militarism, and racial purity. For your own well-being, virtuous readers, please don't read this book! Don't read this book! Don't read this
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