I'm Out of Books to Read. Any Stories with Characters Who Actually Have Brains?!!!! 书荒了，有没有智商在线的文！！！！
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After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神
The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei
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- 2 The Big Shot Is a Little Twisted Because He's Too Refined 大佬因太过斯文而有些变态 [Decisive and Ruthless] x [No Romance] x [Ridiculous Power Fantasy] x [Unhinged but Handsome Male Lead] x [Refined Pervert] “Executioner No. 001, mission completed perfectly.” After dying, Yan Wugui, who had spent ten years in a psychiatric hospital, became an executioner for the Myriad Worlds System. He travels across the heavens and countless realms to hunt down rule-breakers and keep the worlds running as they should. An executioner? Call me the Reaper. [System] Executioner No. 001. Assassina 18.7kReads9.4Score3.6k14d adds
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The Savage Bandit of the Great Wilderness 大荒悍匪
Everyone knows that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is actually a cookbook. Transmigrate across mountains and seas, and stew a Kunpeng with a phoenix, or cook a Zhujian with a black tortoise. In the demon wasteland, the countless great demons are dangers to everyone else, but Zhang Chu sees them as food. One bite of demon meat doubles his strength. One sip of demon blood sends his cultivation soaring. From then on, Zhang Chu goes farther and farther along the path of cultivating by eating demo
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- 4 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 974.8kReads9.4Score97.1k14d adds
- 5 The Human Emperor's Chronicle 人皇纪 “I will not hand this world over to people I despise!” And so Wang Chong trampled across a sea of blood and bones to claim the throne of the Human Emperor. He turned the tide when all seemed lost, shored up the collapsing empire, and forged an unparalleled legend! 2.6kReads8.6Score29914d adds
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Bad Girl 坏女孩
Six years ago, she was abducted and taken to a remote village. Six years later, she nearly found herself forced into marriage. With her life on the line, she risked everything to escape the countryside and make it back to the city. But waiting for her were the cold-blooded parents who had sent her away with their own hands, and an adopted younger sister with no blood ties to the family. After enduring six years of captivity and being abandoned by her own parents, she fights alone to reclaim ever
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- 7 EN 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
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The Family's Beloved Girl: The Cannon-Fodder Darling of Her Terrible Family 七零团宠：极品家人的炮灰娇娇女
[Brooding, Brawny Man + Sweet Wife + Completed] Lu Jiajia is delicate and soft. Then, in the blink of an eye, she becomes a useless cannon-fodder character in the 1970s, with a whole family of vicious oddballs in tow. Yet in an era that favors men above women, she is the apple of her family’s eye. Her father and mother: “Jiajia is our precious girl. She deserves to be spoiled.” Her brothers: “My sister is frail and sickly. How could she do farm work!” Lu Jiajia: “…I want the ultimate winning han
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Chronicles of the Qingxi Era 庆熹纪事
A classic of political intrigue, featuring unexpected schemes, a passionate sense of loyalty to family and country, and elegant, understated prose. The protagonist, Bixie, is the ninth son of Prince Yan. After Prince Yan is framed, his entire family is sentenced to death. Boys under fifteen are allowed to enter the palace as servants. All of Prince Yan's sons choose death over humiliation, except Bixie. To fulfill his father's wish to overthrow the vassal princes and unite the realm, he chooses
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- 10 Villain: I Steal His Fortuitous Encounters, and He Thanks Me for It! 反派：抢他机缘他还得谢谢咱呢！ Gu Chen'an transmigrates into a fantasy world and discovers that his original body had made an enemy of the Child of Fortune, the protagonist favored by destiny. What's more, the Child of Fortune will secretly kill him in just a few days. Just as Gu Chen'an worries about how to deal with this, he awakens the ability to view people's life scripts. Gu Chen'an: “What? I have the face of someone destined to die young, and I'm the first person the Child of Fortune will kill? Does that mean I'm fated 14.6kReads8.5Score1.4k14d adds
- 11 Global Survival: Evolving from the Bottom of the Food Chain 全民求生：从食物链低端进化 A world where everyone must fight to survive. Song Chen wakes up to find that all of humanity has been transported to a world of hunger. And they've become the lowest rung of the food chain. Hiding their human scent and avoiding becoming prey to other creatures is everyone's shared goal. But Song Chen can see a kind of hidden prompt that seems to defy the rules of this hungry world. [Hungry World: Stamina warning! [Hidden Prompt: Don't worry, keep walking. There's food just ahead and to your rig 26kReads8.4Score4.2k14d adds
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The Imperial Physician's Wife Has Quadruplets, Ending the Royal Family's Century-Old Single Heir Line 医妃一胎四宝，破皇室百年单传
[Devoted couple + doting husband + adorable children + medical space + delicious food + multiple births] Luo Qingyan is a medical PhD in the twenty-first century who has saved countless lives. She never imagined that one extra sip of milk tea would kill her, when a tapioca pearl lodged in her throat and choked her to death. When she wakes again, she finds a man on top of her, doing unspeakable things to her. If this had happened before, she would have swung a scalpel at him. But she has only jus
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- 13 Married an Officer and Moved into the Military Compound: The Ultimate Military Wife Goes on a Rampage 嫁军官住家属院，最强军嫂杀疯了 Su Li, an all-around secret agent, transmigrates to the 1980s. The moment she opens her eyes, a scumbag and his shameless lover pressure her to call off their engagement. Su Li refuses to put up with them. She gathers everyone in the family compound and boldly calls out to her former fiancé: “You begged me on your knees to marry you. Now you can get down on your knees to end it!” The girl everyone used to bully, who was as ugly as a demon, now punches the scumbag, tears into his shameless lover, 5.8kReads8.8Score83614d adds
- 14 Young Master Li, Your Seven Sons Are About to Take to the Skies 厉少，你七个儿子要上天了 [Secret Identity + Two Powerful Leads + Face-Slapping + Genius + Scheming + Top Student + Devoted Husband + Cherished by Everyone] [Audiobook with a full cast now available] Five years ago, Tang Xue was framed by her best friend and became pregnant. After she gave birth, her friend took the baby away, leaving Tang Xue with nothing and nearly costing her life. Five years later, Tang Xue returns in triumph, a force to be reckoned with at the top of the food chain. Her best friend? Of course Tang X 4.2kReads9.2Score59314d adds
- 15 Adorable Agent Baby: The CEO's Daddy Is Asking for Trouble 特工萌宝：总裁爹地惹不起 Six years ago, she was set up and spent one wild night with a man. Six years later, she makes a triumphant return with her adorable genius twins, vowing to make everyone who schemed against and humiliated her pay in blood. After taking her revenge, just as she is about to leave it all behind, she finds herself trapped in the arms of the terrifying man everyone fears. "You stole my genes and thought you could run? Then I'll just have to make sure you can't get away..." 2.5kReads8.8Score36414d adds
- 16 Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传 This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. In every corner of history, he left his name behind. To some, he was a nightmare. To others, he awakened them from the nightmares that haunted them. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. By the end, his name was Invincible. 22.5kReads9.4Score2.2k14d adds
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Son-in-Law's Revenge: The Qilin Possesses Me, and Now I'm Invincible! 赘婿复仇，麒麟上身，我无敌了！
[No Cultivation, Invincible from Start to Finish + Senior Sister Romance + Explosive, Satisfying Read] Three years ago, the live-in son-in-law Ye Chen went mountain climbing with his wife, Shen Aoxue, only for her to push him off a cliff. No one knew whether he was alive or dead. Three years later, Shen Aoxue had become a CEO worth tens of billions. On the very day she remarried, Ye Chen made a powerful return!
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I Transmigrated to Another World to Cultivate Immortality, but I Really Just Want to Live Longer 穿越异世修仙，我真的只想活更久
Jiang Qian, a young modern designer, went hiking to unwind and fell off a cliff. After transmigrating to another world, she became a little girl who had been kidnapped and sold. Things were hellish from the start. She tried every way she could to escape, but while keeping her head down, she somehow grew stronger and stronger. Jiang Qian, who only wanted to live longer, figured she had at least achieved her goal. Haha~
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- 19 A Blossom, A Cup of Wine, An Immortal Life 一花一酒一仙人，亦眠亦醉亦长生 [This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master 196.6kReads9.5Score24.6k14d adds
- 20 Three Babies at Once: Li Hanyi Brings the Kids to Block My Door 一胎三宝，李寒衣带娃堵我门 Luo Qingzhou transmigrated into the world of The Blood of Youth and unexpectedly became a disciple of Master Lü of Qingcheng Mountain. He also awakened a sign-in System! He thought he would spend this life carefree, watching the sun rise over the sea and set over the mountains. But he never expected Heaven to play such a cruel joke on him! The arrival of three adorable little ones instantly turned his routine upside down! “Daddy, why do you always like lying down and looking at the sky?” Little 2.2kReads7.5Score12014d adds
- 21 Reborn as a Tiger: What's Wrong with a Little Self-Discipline? 重生成虎，我自律点怎么了？ [Mythical Beasts + Wilderness from the Start + Growth Story + No Female Lead] Cang Nian is reborn as a newborn tiger cub deep in the snowy mountains of Northeast China. But from the moment he is born, he is far smaller than his littermates and on the verge of dying. Fortunately, the System’s golden finger, a standard perk of rebirth, may be late, but it always arrives! [Ding~! Crawled 1 meter. Crawling skill proficiency +1! (1/100)] [Ding~! Drank 100 ml of milk. Milk-drinking skill proficiency + 13.4kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 22 I’ve Been Reborn—Why Would I Still Chase After Her? 都重生了谁还追她啊 [Publication rights acquired] [Short drama released] [Comic drama released] One argument made Jiang Feng realize that his life had already been ruined. Just then, he was reborn in the 2014 college entrance exam hall. He was eighteen that year, and he and Gu Mengyao had yet to become a couple… 243.2kReads9.1Score17.5k14d adds
- 23 How Did My Wife Get Reborn Too? 怎么连老婆也重生了 [Both reborn] + [One heroine] + [Romance] + [No System] + [Sweet couple moments] Li Chen and his wife failed to get divorced, then died in a car accident on the way home. Reborn in high school, he swears that in this life he will have nothing to do with his wife ever again. But then he suddenly discovers that his wife has been reborn too? · Xiao Ruolin and her husband failed to get divorced, then died in a car accident. Reborn on the eve of the college entrance exam, she swears that in this life 463Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 24 I Can Transmigrate in My Sleep, and From the Start I Kissed the Future Female Emperor 睡觉就能穿越，开局吻了未来女帝 [Genius + empress + fantasy + time and space collide + everyday life] (Volume One, The Empress’s Rise, is complete. The early chapters were written before the story was fully developed and aren’t as good. It gradually finds its footing after Chapter 46.) Have you heard of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl? A day in Heaven is a year on Earth. In the end, they became stars gazing at each other, able to meet only once a year. When he was eighteen, Mo Qian, newly appointed Dao Sect heir, had a dream. 11.8kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 25 High Martial: After His Memories Were Revealed, the Whole Country Wept for Him 高武：记忆曝光后，全国为他流泪 [No System + Passionate + No Female Lead + Fast-Paced and Straightforward + No Forced Showing Off and Face-Slapping + Genius] He was once Daxia's top prodigy, with countless military achievements to his name. But during one mission, he defected to the foreign races and turned his blade on his own people. When the footage was released, everyone condemned him. The entire country wanted to tear the flesh from his bones and peel off his skin. But after one memory was revealed, everyone learned what 2.9kReads8.9Score25714d adds
- 26 My Girlfriend Ran Off at Her Engagement Party? I'll Wipe Out Her Entire Clan 女友订婚宴上私奔？我灭她全族 Qin Yan, young master of the Qin family, gains a set of memories and discovers that he is living in the world of a novel, where he is a villain who fawns over the heroine. In the story, at their engagement banquet, his fiancée, the heroine, elopes with the male lead, humiliating the Qin family. Qin Yan tries to get revenge again and again, but the male and female leads join forces to kill him instead. In the end, even the entire Qin family is wiped out. Qin Yan can't accept such an ending. His Q 7.1kReads7.3Score50114d adds
- 27 The Reborn Ice-Cold Campus Belle Is Relentlessly Pursuing Me 高冷校花重生了，疯狂倒追我 [Lighthearted daily life]+ [One heroine]+ [Sweet romance]+ [No System]+ [Mutual healing] … In a car accident, Lin Ran bravely risks his life to save his former high school deskmate, the school belle. When he wakes up reborn, Lin Ran is back in his high school classroom at eighteen. The next second, the school belle beside him rushes over with tear-filled, red eyes and hugs him tightly! School belle, choking back tears: “I found you!” Lin Ran: “?” … It turns out his school-belle deskmate has been 75.9kReads9.4Score8.8k14d adds
- 28 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 232kReads9.5Score28.6k14d adds
- 29 I Feed Demons with My Own Body in the Demon Suppression Bureau 我在镇魔司以身饲魔 [Get stronger when attacked by monsters + Transmigration + System + Invincible + Comedy + Villain + Demon Suppression Bureau] After transmigrating to a fantasy world overrun by monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a prison guard in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty’s Demon Suppression Bureau. From that day on, strange cases begin piling up in the prison, once known as a living hell and feared for its eerie, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the monsters in the prison scream every night? 68.7kReads9.3Score6.7k14d adds
- 30 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 117kReads9.6Score13.7k14d adds
- 31 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
- 32 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
- 33 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 34 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 35 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 168.8kReads9.8Score19.3k14d adds
- 36 Life with the Goddess: I Feel Like I've Seen You Somewhere Before 女神同居往事，我好像在哪见过你 Li Huangxuan was a recent college graduate, stuck in a miserable nine-to-five job and always broke. Like every young person just starting out, he felt lost and uncertain about the future. He longed for a love that would leave a lasting mark. He had a crush on his coworker, Xu Wanqing, but was too timid to approach her. Then one day, his roommate moved out, and a goddess named Lin Ximeng moved in next door, turning his life upside down. A month of living together gradually drew the two of them cl 43.8kReads9.7Score4.6k14d adds
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The Late Ming Dynasty 明末爲
There is plenty of debate about the history of the late Ming dynasty, but whatever the disagreements, the dynasty ultimately fell. Seen through the eyes of a modern person, with no golden finger, this is a story of the struggle at the end of the Ming dynasty.
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A Ming-Era Soothsayer: I Am the Heavenly Father's Spokesman 明末神棍，我是天父代言人
When Chongzhen fell, the Mandate of Heaven crumbled. The land was plunged into chaos, and the people could barely survive. Hong Tianxiu transmigrated into the body of a failed scholar. He summoned gods to possess him and roused the masses! The elegy from the walls of Jiangyin still echoed in his ears: "For eighty days, we wore our hair long and served loyally, honoring the heroes of the seventeen dynasties since the founding emperor. A hundred thousand shared life and death in righteousness, pre
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Greek Mythology: I Transmigrated into Daphne, the Goddess of Laurel 希腊神话：穿越成月桂女神达芙妮
Beneath the laurel tree, starlight weaves through the clouds and mist. An ordinary modern girl unexpectedly transmigrates and becomes Daphne, daughter of the river god Peneus from Greek mythology. New to this world, she hopes only to live in peace. But in the divine realm, where the strong prey on the weak, her beauty and vulnerability become shackles, leaving her repeatedly bullied and coveted. Driven to the brink, she begins to awaken, realizing that in a world where might makes right, power i
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