Any Stories Where the Protagonist Saves Everyone but Can't Save Themself? 有没有那种,主角拯救了所有人,却拯救不了自己。
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Quick Transmigration: Every World Starts in Hell 快穿:每次都是地狱开局
[No romance pairings / alternate history / nation and family] [Please don't use AI to generate the heroine. The author commissioned the illustrations at personal expense.] Yin Lingyu is one unlucky girl. In her quick transmigration missions, she always gets the most hellish start and has to roll up her sleeves and climb her way up, becoming the beautiful, tragic woman everyone admires. World One: The top scholar's younger sister, sold into a brothel. (Setting: Li Shimin of the Tang dynasty) Worl
21.9kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves
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Ten Days to the End 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
1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves
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After a Thousand Simulations, I've Mastered the Escape Game 模拟一千次,我有逃生游戏速通法
[Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced
272.2kReads9.6Score55.9kShelves
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Every Rescue Is an Act of Plunder 每一次拯救都是掠夺
[I Became the Price of Saving the World] After I transmigrated, I was bound to a World Restoration System. The price was everything I had, from my sense of taste and my memories to, eventually, my emotions. [She Became My Only Wake-Up Program] When I was reduced to an empty shell, my partner Su Wan never gave up. She started telling me corny jokes every day, saying they were the only password that could wake me. [Later, My Jokes Became the Sacred Scripture That Saved Two Worlds] No one on E
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The God Who Dwells in the Wild 栖野神明
[Sweet on the Outside, Dark on the Inside True Heiress × Charming Male Siren, Happy Puppy] [Campus Ensemble Cast | Healing Each Other | About More Than Romance] [Two Endings | Check the Content Warnings | The Extra Chapters and Main Story Complement Each Other] - Zhou Qiye first saw Chen Suiyi when they brushed past each other at the elevator. At first glance, he thought she was beautiful. At second glance, she looked like a little nun. Everyone noticed the string of prayer beads on her left han
7.8kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
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Me, a Psycho? Let Me Use My Memories to Wipe You All Out 我疯批?看我记忆创死你们所有人
[No Romance + Rehabilitating a Mad Villain + Multiple Male Supporting Characters + Secret Identities + Metaphysics] Tao Ying, a top-tier supervillain who carved her way through the underworld, has a more legendary story than Jiang Yuyan. The first male lead, Xue Xiu, took her in, but she pushed his beloved fiancée into the water and left his brother and father in vegetative states. She made the second male lead, Chou Yu, her sworn younger brother, then slaughtered an entire assassin organization
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Tomb Raiding: I, Young Master Tang, Specialize in Fixing Unfinished Business! 盗墓:小唐爷我,专治意难平!
[Female-oriented!!! System + a no-regrets tomb-raiding story + immersive acting] [The protagonist is acting from beginning to end, so their personality is definitely not always the same] [OOC + mountains of original headcanon] Tang Zhou wakes up as the young master of a martial arts school run by a family in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. Looking at the very real, carefree Wu Xie before him, he thinks of Pan Zi's tragic death. Tang Zhou: I'm not accepting this lousy plot! So the Iron Triangle an
11.9kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I'm So Overpowered, Yet I'm Trapped in a Massive Shura Field 盗笔:超强的我陷入了大型修罗场
[Shen Huai: Modern-Era Arc, Extra-Long Republic-Era Watch-Along] [Everyone's Darling and Romantic Rivalry, Go Ahead and Ship Them + A Hint of Being Everyone's Favorite + Imagining a Powerful, Beautiful, Strong Yet Tragic Character] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At this very moment, my body was lying right beside me, looking like a beautiful, flower-like person in a coma. The good news: I can create a secret identity that can't be killed. The bad news: the System sa
66.8kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Posing as a Mysterious, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Man 盗笔:装出个高深莫测但美强惨
"The only Grave Robbers' Chronicles fic rated 9.6, come see!" [Starting with the Old Nine Gates, Beloved by All, Pick Your Favorite Pairing + Slightly Everyone's Favorite + Everyone Imagines the Powerful Heartbreaking Beauty] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At that very moment, my body was lying right beside me, playing the part of a breathtakingly beautiful vegetative patient. The good news: I could create an immortal secret identity. The bad news: the System told me
40.9kReads9.6Score5.1kShelves
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Witch of Another World: Awakening Radiance at the Stake 异界魔女:开局火刑架觉醒辉光
I transmigrated to another world and became a fourteen-year-old witch on trial. Lin He, a programmer, drops dead after another late night at work. When he opens his eyes, he has become Alia, a fourteen-year-old girl in another world, bound to a stake for burning. Her crime: being a “witch.” Her parents cry out from the crowd, the bishop reads the charges, and the flames are about to consume her when the ultimate energy theory he devoted his previous life to researching suddenly resonates with th
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Good, Male Lead, Don’t Move. Let the Villainess Touch You 乖,男主别动,让女配摸一下
After transmigrating into a male-oriented harem novel about a live-in son-in-law, Bai Niannian becomes the cannon-fodder Daoist partner who bullies and humiliates the male lead. At the same time, she's bound to a System that gives her daily tasks involving him. Ding! Dress the male lead. Bring him some warmth. Take the initiative and kiss him... Have you lost your mind? I'm not going to be the male lead's lovesick puppy! Congratulations, you've leveled up to Demon Venerable. Bai Niannian: Okay,
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Forced to Rewind Time to Stay Alive 为了保命,被迫开启时空回溯
As a supermarket cashier, Li Chu felt that life was like the near-expiry food on the shelves: utterly hopeless. Then she was forcibly bound to a “Time Rewind” System. System: “If you don’t save people, I’ll take years off your life!” Li Chu: “Go ahead. If I can learn the Way in the morning, I can die in the evening.” System: “Then shall I take years off your little sister’s life too?” Li Chu: “...You son of a, fine, I’ll do it!” And so a cashier whose only thought was “What’s it to me?” was forc
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The Crown Prince Gave Away His Country 太子他把国家送人了
[Complete]“No CP + no love interest + focused solely on building a career and saving the world + no female lead + reborn + tragic ending” A twist of fate turned Zhu Fanyi from the protagonist into a supporting character. Reborn, he turned his fate around. The System sobbed, “Heaven won’t let me go home. I want to atone and give everything back to you!” At first, Zhu Fanyi couldn’t have cared less. He thought, Don’t flatter yourself and dump that mess on me. Going along with fate is actually pre
1.7kReads9.3Score303Shelves
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My Junior Disciples Are All Overpowered, So I Have to Cheat! 师弟们都是大佬,那我只能开挂了
The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!”
140.6kReads9.4Score13kShelves
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Disguised as a Man: Playing a Heartbreaker in a Wealthy-Family Novel 女扮男装:在豪门文里演海王
[Everyone's favorite + no central romance in the main story + girl disguised as a boy] The new god Ci Wen was unable to understand human emotions, so her memories were erased and she was sent to the human world for a trial. After binding to a mission System, she dutifully began playing all kinds of second male leads: The childhood sweetheart who is the first love of a poor, fragile girl; The gentle senior admired by the school's icy beauty; And the childhood friend of the heroine in a redemption
6.3kReads9.4Score742Shelves
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A Silent Kindness 无声恩
[Strong female lead, two endings, mute and unhinged, twists, two strong leads, second male lead takes the lead, school, suspense, childhood sweethearts, campus heartthrob and beauty] “I like you. Even if you really are crazy, I still like you!” “I was born in the depths of misery. I can't drag you down with me.” “She isn't just my little sister!” “Tell me, do two people count as a ‘rabble’?” “Yan Qianlin, you owe me an explanation!” “What do I owe you?” “Xiaoyi, I... love you.”
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A Leaf Reveals the Heart 一叶知心
Brilliant campus beauty with bipolar disorder and OCD vs. aloof, introverted star athlete [equally matched leads, 1v1, campus, mutual healing, tragic romance, bipolar disorder, campus heartthrob and beauty, top students] “Light without warmth cannot thaw a heart that has already died...” “Trapped in endless darkness, I want to see the sun again. Besides, that sun was never mine...” “Cheng Qi, neither of us can stay behind the other’s protection for our whole lives.” “The person I love is worth e
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The Person Who Loves Me Most in the World 世界上最爱我的人
The purest kind of love is this: you rejected me, and I’ll never resent you for it, but I won’t come near you again. If you ever need my help, I’ll still give everything I have to help you...
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The Red Lotus 红衣菡萏
[Overworked Office Drone] + [Household Intrigue] + [Xianxia] Haha, cultivating immortality really can take you to the heavens. But you still have to be careful up there. As a newcomer, you’re bound to end up in a lousy position. At best, you’ll be a servant to some immortal master, or a maid. You have to spend your days working like an ox or horse and build up enough merit before you can become an immortal master yourself. But poor Chun Chong Chong was so unlucky that before she could even start
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My Heart Burned to Ashes, Yet I Still Smile Beneath the Trees 真心焚尽林下笑依然
[Angst] [Modern Romance] [Feuds Among the Wealthy] By the time Lu Chuan regretted everything, I was dead. He frantically called my number again and again, until my phone finally went dead. He could no longer sit still. Agitated, he rushed to my room and kicked the door open. When he saw my body lying on the bed, already giving off a foul smell, his eyes reddened. He lunged at me like a madman and held my nearly rotting body tight, tears streaming down his face. His stubbled cheek pressed against
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Flower Fairy: My Perfect Match 小花仙:我的最佳搭配
(One heroine) (A straightforward story) (Happy ending) He transmigrates as Xia An’an’s younger brother, starting from the beginning with a broken Build Driver, and nearly gets killed by his dad’s disastrous cooking! But was it really transmigration? The boy hates tragedies, so he changes the ending.
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Save the Protagonist? I Can Barely Save Myself 拯救主角?我自己都自身难保
Bright and upright, with a hard-luck life, bottom X cold, gentle, and darkly brooding top What happens when you use your phone while walking down the road? You get hit. By. A. Car! Zhou Yan was that lucky guy. But no one could have guessed that when he woke up, he would find himself inexplicably part of a plan to save protagonists. Forced to bind to the [Redemption System], he began an endless cycle of transmigrating into books: He had to enter different fictional worlds and change the fates o
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