Looking for Ruthless Characters Who Are Smart, Cunning, and Take Revenge Without Delay 求有智商，有谋略，有心眼报仇不过夜的狠人文
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Reborn as the Crown Prince of a Fallen Kingdom, I Throw Myself into the Enemy’s Arms 穿成亡国太子我直接投入敌军怀抱
Completed. Search “Fanqie Listen” for the full-cast audiobook. [Manic, unhinged, vicious beauty vs. proper, restrained, aloof Buddha-like lord] [Two male leads + equally matched + mutual secret crush + both virgins] From the start, he was on an ancient battlefield, surrounded by soldiers and generals splattered with blood. He was the crown prince of a fallen kingdom. With a sworn enemy ahead, pursuers behind, and the burden of restoring his country on his shoulders, who could stay sane? While he
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Pursuing You Is Like Taming a Hawk 追你跟熬鹰似的
[Sweet and Satisfying] [Brooding Boy x Martial Arts Girl] [Happy Ending] [Male Lead Is Crazy and Possessive] [Original title: Chasing You Is Like Taming a Wild Falcon] Quan Zhishui couldn’t understand why people from other schools beat up Wei Shixu every day, forcing her to rush in and save him from danger time and again. Later, she discovered that those people were being paid to do it. By Wei Shixu. “I’m done with you!” she said sternly, drawing a clear line between them. Wei Shixu grinned, utt
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You Destroyed My Dantian This Morning, Now I’m Burning Paper at Your Grave 上午毁我丹田，下午在你坟前烧纸
[The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng
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Little Junior Sister Sobs and Pouts, Yet One Sword Destroys Heaven and Earth 小师妹哭哭唧唧，但一剑毁天灭地
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th
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Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家
[Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to
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She Transmigrated into a Torture Romance and Tore Up the Script, Slaughtering Her Way Through 穿进虐文，她手撕剧本嘎嘎乱杀
Ye Zhi had only wanted to find a brainless sweet romance to relax with, but she never expected to be duped by an angst-ridden story disguised as a sweet romance! In this novel, the male lead drives the female lead's family into bankruptcy, gets her whole family killed, and then locks her up, subjecting her to every kind of physical and emotional abuse. Yet after a series of melodramatic events, the male lead apologizes and gives in, and the female lead has already forgotten the deep blood feud b
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After Her Family Tortured Her to Death, the Heiress Went on a Rampage Through the Elite 被全家虐死后，大小姐杀疯豪门
She is the heiress to a wealthy family. At birth, she is falsely branded a bringer of bad luck by a wicked schemer and abandoned by her parents. Because she is engaged to the heir of the elite Ye family, she is not brought back to the Tang family until she is seventeen. Her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, her brothers hate her, her younger sister frames her, and her fiancé refuses to break off the engagement. Everyone torments her, and they ultimately cause her death. S
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Reborn Before My Family's Tragic Demise: In the Capital, I Take Down the Worst of Them 重生全家惨死前，进京后杀疯极品
She is the current empress's most beloved cousin, and the wife of the serving Minister of Revenue, a high-ranking court official. One told her he would never harm her, while the other promised never to take a concubine! But it turns out she was nothing more than a pawn in their hands! When she pushes open that door herself, the naked truth is gradually laid bare before her. Her younger brother's fall, her mother's grief-stricken death, her elder brother's fall from his horse... Every single trag
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Book Transmigration: The Villainous Chancellor Covets My Beauty Every Day 穿书：反派丞相天天觊觎朕的美貌
Chu Ning transmigrates into a book, becoming the tragic emperor who spent over a decade disguised as a man, only to be mercilessly killed by the villainous chancellor. She thinks she has done an exceptionally good job of keeping her secret identity under wraps. A little scene: Shen Shihan reached out and tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear, then said softly, “Your Majesty wants my protection, so why go all the way to Jiangnan to find a beauty? Isn't there one right here?” Chu Ning didn't
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On Our Wedding Night, the Reborn Vixen Came Back with a Knife! 新婚夜，重生辣妻提刀杀回来了！
[Rebirth + Strong Heroine + Revenge + Scumbag Retribution + Feel-Good Revenge + Sweet Romance] Her childhood sweetheart and treacherous younger sister teamed up to kill her and the unborn child she carried. They also killed the man who had silently protected her. Now that Jian Xiran has been reborn, she’ll make every one of them pay! They say the Shen family has Junze, a cold-blooded man with a cruel heart. She refuses to believe it. Since fate gave her another chance at life, she’ll turn this m
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The Merchant's Daughter Strikes Back: Keep Your Little Schemes to Yourself! 商女要逆袭：藏好你的小心思！
(Past life) Lin Wanqiao was blinded by love and fell for a scumbag! On their wedding night, he held his cousin in his arms! After ten years of marriage, she was still a virgin! Once her dowry was gone, one by one, they stopped pretending! One great fire brought it all to an end! (This life) She returns to the days before marrying the scumbag. Luckily, there's still time to change everything! Haha, she even has a cheat now? The power to read minds?!!! Watch me turn the tables in this life!!! Figh
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My Junior Sister Is Overpowered, Yet Ridiculously Goofy 小师妹明明超强却过分沙雕
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
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Fortune-Telling Livestream: The Real Heiress Will Never Forgive Them, Even After They Beg for Her Back 直播算命，真千金永不原谅火葬场
[No romance + mysticism + livestreaming + real and fake heiresses + satisfying read + wealthy family + adorable child + exes regret it + no forgiveness] Gu Jinge, an ancient master of mysticism, is reborn as a discarded wealthy wife and a shameless real heiress. As soon as the baby is born, a test reveals that it isn’t her husband’s child. While the whole world waits to laugh at Gu Jinge, she resolutely starts livestreaming fortune-telling to support her child. Viewer: “Streamer, I’m wet again!”
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I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修，怎么是犯贱的贱
[Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己
In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her.
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I Became the Wicked Stepmother Who Was Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel 我穿成了年代文女主的炮灰恶婆婆
After dying of a serious illness, Yang Mei transmigrates into the body of a village woman in the 1970s and becomes the hateful mother-in-law everyone despises. After inheriting the original owner's memories of her past life, Yang Mei sets some goals for the future: First, make the most of this healthy body. Sleep until she wakes, eat meat until she's full, and enjoy life to the fullest! The only problem is, right now every household eats coarse-flour flatbreads, so that's going to be tough. Seco
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Took the Heroine Home as My Sister-in-Law 女配穿书后把女主拐来做嫂子
After Tang Tian is hit on the head with a brick, she transmigrates into a period novel, as a nobody not even important enough to be cannon fodder. She's the lovesick girl the male lead meets in the countryside, and a stumbling block on his way back to the city. With a new soul inside her, Tang Tian kicks the male lead to the curb without hesitation. She tells everyone he's hideous, with enormous nostrils that give her nightmares every night. A certain soldier quietly picks up a little mirror. Ye
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Back in the 1980s, Starting My Career Anew 回归八零再就业
While everyone else who transmigrates gets to live another life, Qi Xinlan loses twenty years of hers! One moment she's a thriving, ambitious administrative director at a multinational corporation; the next, she's a fifty-two-year-old woman. This is the bittersweet story of how the white-collar elite Cindy Qi became Auntie Qi to her neighbors. Her most promising son is gone, her daughter-in-law has run off, and a whole bunch of little children are left behind! See how a modern HR and administrat
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Transmigrated to a State-Owned Factory in the 1970s: From the Start, I Land a Cushy Job 穿到七零国营厂，开局考上萝卜岗
1970s + no rural assignment + multiple Systems + career building + strengthening the nation through research Overnight, Shi Xia becomes a minor supporting character in a period novel, an unemployed youth at a state-owned factory. Her mind is in turmoil. The good news: she has a bunch of Systems. The bad news: every one of them is still in beta. No matter. She'll handle it. The male lead who failed his blind date? No need to waste him: let him go to the countryside and suffer. The womanizer who c
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The 1980s: Dote on Your Rebellious Son, and You'll Suffer for Life 八零：心疼逆子倒霉一辈子
[Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + No Romance] Shen Huihui, an unmarried woman past her prime, had a bright future ahead of her. Then one dream transmigrated her into the body of an old woman. When this old woman was young, she devoted herself entirely to her children and never gave herself a thought. But in her old age, her children kicked her around like a ball. None of them was willing to support her for even one more day. Shen Huihui was furious. Now that she has become Old Madam Shen, she
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The 1970s: My Whole Family Is Cannon Fodder, While I’m a Native Trouble-Maker 七零：全家都是炮灰，我土著极品
Also known as: I'm a Cannon Fodder in the Seventies (No romance!) When eight-year-old Mo Erya was playing with mud marbles, her five-year-old brother Mo Wuwa, nicknamed Shitou, by her side, both of them covered in dust, Qiao Qiao next door transmigrated after falling into the water. So eight-year-old Mo Erya learned that she would grow up to be cannon fodder in a lucky heroine story, fighting the female lead over a man, making trouble at every turn, and meeting a tragic end! Mo Erya boldly wiped
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She's the Daughter of Heaven's Will. Is It Really So Strange That She's a Little Overpowered? 身为天道之女，她有亿点厉害怎么了
Lu Shiran was sent by her family to Qingyun Temple as a child and left to fend for herself. They only remembered to bring her back to the Lu family when they needed her to marry Mo Junlin, the disabled head of the powerful Mo family, one of the capital’s top-tier-star families. The Lu family had assumed Lu Shiran was a useless pawn. They never expected that a talisman in her left hand could save Mo Junlin, a bolt of violet lightning from her right could strike down evil spirits, and she could be
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A Sweet Green-Tea Beauty Marries an Officer in the 1970s 七零年代绿茶娇美人嫁军官
Tian Xinyi transmigrated into a feel-good novel set in the 1970s. Unfortunately, she wasn't the heroine, but her invisible younger sister, who was going to be traded in a marriage swap. On the second day after arriving, Tian Xinyi burned the heroine's admission letter. If the heroine wanted her younger sister to spend her whole life stuck in Tianjia Village, then none of them were leaving. After burning the letter, Tian Xinyi went to help care for her sister-in-law during her confinement and s
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