Books with Depth That Make Me Think 能让我长脑子的，有深度的书

1. 951 那 The Father Who Wanted Me to Marry My Stepbrother Was Frozen Solid by My Stepmother 那个让我嫁给继哥的父亲，被继母冻成了冰棍 RTY, Rich for Life一生有钱的RTY8k WordsCompleted The Father Who Wanted Me to Marry My Stepbrother Was Frozen Solid by My Stepmother —Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 952 都 I Told You, Everyone Who Studies Magic Is Crazy! 都说了学魔法的都有病！ Ghost Denier无鬼论者Modern Romance2.8M WordsOngoing [Not Western fantasy: a Chinese-style magic academy, absurd comedy + ensemble cast + hilarious daily life, with romance] [A ridiculous heroine causes trouble and leads everyone astray: a bunch of lunatic students hilariously learning magic] Li Wenyin woke up in a magical world and struggled to survive at a top-tier Chinese-style magic academy. She cut up the school flags to make uniforms, stole textbooks and sprinted for her life, and made the deans so furious their eyes nearly popped out. She w 111.5kReads9.6Score12.4kShelves

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   The characters are three-dimensional and vivid, and the foreshadowing is also very good. You can't guess what will happen next. It's not a loss.

3. 953 开 From the Start, I Snatched the Embroidered Ball: Will Becoming a Live-in Son-in-Law Stop Her From Taking Power? 开局抢绣球，入赘影响她当权臣吗 Garlic Bamboo Shoots蒜香竹笋Ancient Romance749k WordsCompleted [Female-Supremacist World + Court Intrigue + Women Stronger Than Men + One-on-One Romance + Sweet Doting] [Refined Scoundrel, Scholarly Imperial Tutor × Lively, Proud Heiress to a Wealthy Merchant House] Before Lou Yushen became a live-in son-in-law, the standard for a good one was simple: don't covet the family's wealth, and don't take anyone's life. Lou Yushen thought, The people who came before me sure made the path easy! One day, while coaxing someone, she said, “Since the world is so lenien 21.8kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves

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   Every book is super beautiful

4. 954 师 Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了，整个宗门数你嘴严 Garlic Bamboo Shoots蒜香竹笋Ancient Romance717k WordsCompleted [Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and 44.3kReads9.5Score5.9kShelves
5. 955 簪 The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their 10.8kReads9.6Score1.7kShelves

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   Authority, basic humanity

6. 956 前 A Popular History of the Former Han 前汉通俗演义 Cai Dongfan蔡东藩Historical563k WordsCompleted [Cai Dongfan's Historical Romance, The Complete Founding History of the Han Dynasty, The Qin-Han Rivalry, A Plain-Language History, Political Intrigue and War] This book is Cai Dongfan's A Popular History of the Former Han, a classic historical novel that recounts the dynasty's rise and fall from the chaos at the end of the Qin through the middle and late Western Han. Spanning one hundred chapters, it begins with Lü Buwei's extraordinary investment and Qin Shi Huang's unification of the realm, a 98Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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   I feel like I'm past the age of reading novels, and I'm starting to like studying [face covering]

7. 957 后 A Popular History of the Later Han 后汉通俗演义 Cai Dongfan蔡东藩Historical582k WordsCompleted [Historical Romance Grounded in the Official Record, The Complete History of the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms, An Easy Introduction to Official History] A Popular History of the Later Han is a classic historical novel in episodic form and a continuation of A Popular History of the Former Han. Across one hundred chapters, it follows the full historical arc from Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han and Emperor Guangwu's restoration, through the decline of the Eastern Han, to the division of the rea 91Reads8.5Score—Shelves
8. 958 五 A Popular History of the Five Dynasties 五代史通俗演义 Cai Dongfan蔡东藩Historical344k WordsCompleted [A Classical, Accessible History of the Entire Era | A Beginner's Guide to History | A Complete Overview of the Ten Kingdoms] Can't get through dry official histories? This popularized retelling of the Five Dynasties uses a story-driven, episodic format to make this lesser-known period of turmoil easy to understand. Its sixty chapters cover the rise and fall of all five dynasties, Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou, while also tracing the history of the Ten Kingdoms' r 51Reads9.2Score—Shelves
9. 959 宋 History of the Song: Annals of Emperor Taizu 宋史·太祖本纪 Tuo Tuo脱脱Historical21k WordsCompleted He may have been the best “actor” among the founding emperors in Chinese history. In 960 CE, a carefully orchestrated “forced enthronement” at Chenqiao Station propelled Zhao Kuangyin from a general of the Later Zhou into the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Over drinks, he stripped the founding generals of their military power; amid the shadows of an axe and candlelight, the mystery surrounding his bizarre death remains unsolved to this day. Some call him a wise ruler who ended the chaos o 163Reads8.4Score—Shelves
10. 960 圭 Fire's Song on the Gui River 圭江火吟 Xiao Mi筱沵Mystery369k WordsCompleted Forty-year-old has-been streamer Lin Wanqing discovers that the collapse of her family's century-old dragon kiln has unearthed Ming-dynasty human bones carved with a children's rhyme, along with the first living lead in her mother's disappearance thirty years ago. This place almost overlaps with Earth and is also called Beiliu, but it isn't quite the same Beiliu. Rare-earth veins let pottery record the final words of the dead. Twenty-three human-shaped clay figures lie sealed beneath the cannery —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    There are both long and short stories, take a look?

11. 961 曾 Zeng Guofan's Methods of Scholarship 曾国藩治学方法 Hu Zhefu胡哲敷Historical77k WordsCompleted This book explores three dimensions: self-cultivation, managing affairs, and reading. Its discussion of self-cultivation advocates integrating “resolve, insight, and perseverance,” building a foundation for body and mind through meditation and a regular routine. Its approach to managing affairs reveals, through practical examples such as running a household and leading an army, the unity of hands-on action and institutional innovation. Its discussion of reading emphasizes “mastering one field” a 344Reads9.0Score178Shelves
12. 962 粗 Rough Porcelain 粗瓷 Xiao Mi筱沵9k WordsCompleted Coarse Porcelain —Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 963 念 Still Holding on to the Past? 念旧？ Xiao Mi筱沵15k WordsCompleted Still Hung Up on the Past? —Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 964 北 Strange Tales of Beiliu Oil Tea Porridge: I Save the Cultivation World by Eating 北流油茶粥异闻录：我靠干饭拯救修真界 Xiao Mi筱沵8k WordsCompleted Tales of the Strange at Beiliu Oil Tea Porridge Shop: I Save the Cultivation World by Eating —Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 965 回 On My First Night Back with the Rich Family, They Knelt to Look at My Transcript 回豪门第一晚，他们跪着看我的成绩单 Large Intestine Durian大肠榴莲25k WordsCompleted On my first night back in the wealthy family, they knelt as they looked at my report card. —Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 966 红 Red Dragon Estate Residents’ Guide: Congratulations on Your New Home 红龙小区入住须知：恭喜您成为新业主 Xiao Mi筱沵8k WordsCompleted Honglong Residential Compound Resident’s Guide: Congratulations on Your New Home —Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 967 下 It's Raining, Shen Zhi Doesn't Fit In 下雨了，沈枳不合 Large Intestine Durian大肠榴莲Marriage & Romance19k WordsCompleted It’s raining. Shen Zhi doesn’t fit in. 144Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 968 别 Hands Off My Demon Soldier Jar 别碰我的猖兵罐 Xiao Mi筱沵9k WordsCompleted Don’t Touch My Changbing Jar 2Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 969 天 Work Report from the Heavenly Court’s Beiliu Office 天庭驻北流办事处述职报告 Xiao Mi筱沵20k WordsCompleted Work Report of the Heavenly Court’s Beiliu Office —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 970 幸 Happiness Gardens’ Exorcism Guide: Pay Your Management Fees First 幸福苑驱魔指南：先交物业费 Xiao Mi筱沵11k WordsCompleted Happiness Gardens’ Guide to Exorcism: Pay the Property Fee First —Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 971 小 Xiaohan’s Divination: Today Is Good for Wrecking the House, but Bad for Exorcisms 小寒卦象：今天宜拆家，忌作法 Xiao Mi筱沵7k WordsCompleted Xiaohan’s Divination: Today Is Good for Wrecking the House, but Avoid Casting Spells —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 972 系 The System Forces Me to Become the Ultimate Guangxi Everyman 系统强制我活成“最强广西标配” Xiao Mi筱沵8k WordsCompleted The System Forces Me to Live as the "Ultimate Guangxi Stereotype" —Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 973 珑 The Search for Heaven in the Jade Ruins 珑墟天寻 Your Little Long'er你的小珑儿Eastern Fantasy80k WordsCompleted In the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, the land is in turmoil, and a deadly trap of astonishing proportions appears in a valley in Shandong! One wrong step by high-ranking official Ding Baozhen will send him tumbling into the avengers' inescapable web. Li Sanshun is a peerless strategist who refuses to cross the line and kill anyone. With nothing but a deadly contest like a game of Go, he seals off every escape route for the late Qing's most capable official! Paper effigies summon spirits, illu —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The author expresses rigorous logic, truth-seeking and pragmatism. Find a laxity v50

24. 974 我 Live-Streaming the Supernatural at a Haunted House in Beiliu 我在北流凶宅搞玄学直播 Xiao Mi筱沵7k WordsCompleted I Livestream Occult Investigations at a Haunted House in Beiliu —Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 975 惊 A Horror Game? I'm Just a Frail Young Woman 惊悚游戏？人家只是个弱女子 Bai Yi柏亦Mystery574k WordsCompleted [Horror + occasional livestreaming + built-in golden finger + powerful lead + no CP] [When you have only 50 HP, you have no choice but to keep boosting your combat power] Yan He had already resigned herself to living an ordinary life. She never expected a horror game to descend on the day of the college entrance exams. The horror game has overtaken the real world. You never know whether the person in front of you is another player, an NPC, or something else entirely. Known in the horror world as 8.6kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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    Oops, this is my favorite, but I didn't understand the second part. The most impressive thing about the first part is that the heroine didn't enter. Have you entered the game? There was a scene where he had to get a student ID card at school. It seemed like, you can pass the level when you're done, so be it, but he didn't take the assessment. There was a question about a small house with several villains inside. For example, Xiao Hei died. To find the murderer, I thought he would find one of the three villains, but he robbed the villain of his logging tools and killed the murdered villain. He said that I was the murderer. I said I would go and still have fun like this.

26. 976 破 Mending a Broken Mirror 破镜重寻 Xiao Mi筱沵57k WordsCompleted Mending a Shattered Mirror —Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 977 道 What’s Going On at the Taoist Temple Today...? 道观今天……？ Xiao Mi筱沵9k WordsCompleted What’s Going on at the Taoist Temple Today...? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 978 岭 Those Years Working in Lingnan 岭南打工那些年 Dongting Fish Song洞庭鱼歌Urban1.0M WordsCompleted This work is a realistic urban novel based on my own experience of heading south to Guangdong for work in the late 1980s. It might be more accurate to call it a memoir of migrant work than a novel. The characters are all based on my colleagues, fellow villagers, and friends I knew well! I chose to write in the first person so that everyone in these pages would feel vivid and real, with a soul of their own. I hope readers will find the voice warm and familiar as they read or listen in their spare 16.1kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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    Regardless of the writing style, logic, or depth of the work, it is a rare masterpiece on the Internet in the past ten years! It was first published on Tomato and has since been reprinted on multiple platforms; it is very suitable for reading by book lovers born in 1960, 70 and 80!

29. 979 子 Midnight Delivery: Sign for Your Ghost Husband 子时快递，签收你的鬼丈夫 Xiao Mi筱沵12k WordsCompleted Midnight Delivery: Sign for Your Ghost Husband —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 980 子 Midnight Taoist for Hire: Live Exorcisms 子时共享道士，在线作法 Xiao Mi筱沵6k WordsCompleted Taoist Priests for Hire at Midnight, Casting Spells Online —Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 981 北 Beiliu Funeral Home Notes: None of My Clients Are Human 北流殡葬笔记：我的客户都不是人 Xiao Mi筱沵15k WordsCompleted Beiliu Funeral Notes: None of My Clients Are Human —Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 982 北 Beiliu Book of Strange Happenings: Getting by with Metaphysics Again Today 北流诡事簿：今天也在用玄学摆烂 Xiao Mi筱沵12k WordsCompleted Beiliu Casebook of the Supernatural: Today, Too, I’m Slacking Off with Occult Tricks —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 983 冬 On the Fifteenth Day of the Winter Month, I Was Forced to Become the Temporary Immortal Maiden of Beiliu 冬月十五，我被迫当上了“北流临时仙姑” Xiao Mi筱沵8k WordsCompleted On the fifteenth day of the winter month, I was forced to become the “Temporary Immortal Maiden of Beiliu.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 984 北 The Secret Scrolls of Beiliu: The Republican-Era Diary Filled with Death Predictions 北流秘卷：那本写满死亡预告的民国日记 Xiao Mi筱沵16k WordsCompleted The Secret Scrolls of Beiliu: That Republic-Era Diary Filled with Death Foretellings —Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 985 全 The Whole Internet Is Watching Me Hilariously Parent My Kid 全网都在围观我沙雕带娃 Xiao Mi筱沵Modern Romance329k WordsCompleted When she woke up, 35-year-old single mom Lin Xiao realized the world seemed a little... off. The apple cores her son gnawed on always rolled to the deepest part of the sofa. Her daughter always lost her homework the day before school started. And Lin Xiao herself had occasional uncontrollable eyelid twitches and wildly unreasonable premonitions, like knowing the dog downstairs would leave its mark outside her door for the third time that day. She thought it was just a hallucination brought on by 4Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 986 他 They Were All Plotting, So I Flipped the Board 他们都在布局，我反手掀了棋盘 Reading the Rain渎雨Eastern Fantasy120k WordsOngoing On Yunling Continent, two systems coexist: forbidden speech and supernatural abilities. Ye Sheng died, then came back to life, and then found himself caught in a scheme. Ye Sheng hated being pushed around. He had a temper, after all. Since everyone was plotting behind the scenes, he would play along. Since everyone wanted to control the game board, he would flip it over. But when he finally managed to get a cheat, he discovered... What the heck? Why does everyone have cheats? And how di 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Not bad. .

37. 987 身 I Command Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Return as the Strongest in the World 身具万千厉鬼，我归来即人间最强 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.3kReads9.5Score12.5kShelves
38. 988 东 Tokyo Exorcist Diary 东京除灵日记 Luo Ran 123洛然123Urban1.9M WordsOngoing Japanese-style light novel + not overpowered + slice of life + healing + a touch of the supernatural + Taoist arts + alchemy Hoshino Gen transmigrates, with a younger sister and a house, while both parents are always busy. His busy parents are loaded, and his younger sister is even a hugely popular idol. Without a doubt, Hoshino Gen has won at life. But then... A swordsman stands watch, sword in hand, for hundreds of years in a dilapidated dojo beneath the evening sun... In a warm and healing ga 44.3kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
39. 989 被 Abducted into the Mountains to Continue the Family Line, But I’m the Wrong Gender 被拐大山传宗接代，可我性别不合适吧 The Toad Who Can't Get the Swan吃不到天鹅肉的癞蛤蟆8k WordsCompleted Kidnapped into the mountains to carry on the family line, but isn't my gender a problem? 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These two books!!

40. 990 全 My Whole Family's a Bunch of Villains Who Love Doing Bad Things! No Worries, I'll Clean Up After Them with My Soft Heart 全家大反派爱干点坏事！没事，有点圣母心的我会善后 The Toad Who Can't Get the Swan吃不到天鹅肉的癞蛤蟆Ancient Romance9k WordsCompleted My Whole Family Are Big-Time Villains Who Love Doing Bad Things! It’s Fine, I’ll Clean Up After Them with My Kindhearted Streak 60Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 991 穿 How I Survive After Being Transported into a Male-Oriented Novel 穿到男频小说的我如何自救 The Very Real Jin Yao真真实实的金瑶Ancient Romance385k WordsCompleted What should you do if you transmigrate into a novel aimed at male readers? What if you transmigrate into a novel aimed at male readers as an emperor disguised as a man? Yu Tanyong strives to save herself so she won't become the doomed ruler from the original story, hoping to become a virtuous monarch whose name will be recorded in the history books. But it seems she may have gone a little too far. When her gender is revealed: The top scholar who passed all three imperial examinations says, "The 5.1kReads9.2Score828Shelves
42. 992 穿 After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰 Knife, Medicine, Pen刀药笔Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo 6.7kReads9.2Score702Shelves
43. 993 坑 Luring Ghosts and Catching Criminals: A Low-Ranking County Magistrate 坑鬼捉凶，一品小县令 Pipi Loves Tangerines爱吃橘子的皮皮Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted When Chu Ling opened her eyes, she had become the novel's number-one female side character, a troublemaker who ultimately got herself killed when the heroine shot an arrow through her heart. Knowing how the plot would unfold, Chu Ling spat in disdain, broke free of the story's control, and threw herself into building a career. But being a county magistrate is no easy job. One day, a ghostly maid comes to air her grievances; the next, a ghostly tutor shows up to reprimand her. Even stepping outsi 6.3kReads9.5Score1kShelves
44. 994 娱 There Are Ghosts in Showbiz 娱乐圈有鬼 Liu Zhiyi柳之易Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted {Romance + nonhuman male lead + lighthearted + supernatural + short episodic tales} Little white rabbit and big bad wolf: the rabbit isn't really a rabbit, but the wolf really is a wolf! This is a story about ghosts, and a legend about raising a wolf to be your husband! Long Xiaoxiao had a dream since childhood: to become a renowned international makeup artist and stylist... At last, she achieved her dream... She became the entertainment industry's dazzling number-one fraud of a fortune-teller! 3.2kReads9.4Score570Shelves

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