Any Books Where the Protagonist Is the Light of the City? 有没有主角是城市之光的书
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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
[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
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Godsfall in the City: I'm Just a Mortal Who Hunts Gods 都市封神：我是凡人，专逮神仙
My full name is Lin Chongxiao, and my nickname is Gou Shengzi. But nobody knows my real name. Everyone just calls me Gou Shengzi. My parents died when I was little, and my grandfather and I scraped by selling junk. When I was eight, I was scavenging with him at a garbage dump when we found my little sister, Lin Zao'er. She got her name because she was gnawing on a rotten date. Lin Zao'er has a heart condition and needs a fortune for surgery. For us, it was the last thing we needed. After Grandpa
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Slay the Gods 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
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The End of Ten Days 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
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Fresh Humans 新鲜人类
Chinese-inspired sci-fi + Eastern fantasy + social science fiction An alien civilization conducts genetic hybridization based on the Classic of Mountains and Seas! An Earth office drone gets caught up in an alien power struggle! An alien scientist obsessed with making tangyuan tries to fix the flaws in their technology! A group of aliens who love Earth culture keep getting into hilarious situations! Pig faces, mechanical arms, cemeteries for consciousness, a rigidly stratified interstellar empir
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] 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
496.5kReads9.7Score72.6kShelves
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Wu Zetian, Empress of the Tang Dynasty 唐朝女皇武则天
Wu Zetian is widely recognized as an empress. In these stories, she possesses the vision and talent to govern a nation, and on the battlefield she achieves the great feat of conquering kingdoms. Many strange and winding tales, full of twists and turns, unfold around this formidable figure.
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Lilies Still Awake 百合未眠
Lilies sway gracefully in the midnight moonlight, while her husband's ambiguous chat records make the air freeze in an instant! As the lies dissipate like morning mist, can she forge her shattered heart into a sleepless sword of revenge?
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The Hidden Treasures of Yushan 鱼山秘藏
Legend has it that when Cao Zhi went to the palace to pay his respects, he passed by Luoshui Lake and encountered the goddess of the Luo River, Mi Fei. Captivated by her beauty, Cao Zhi moved her with his sincerity, and Mi Fei gave him a jade pendant. With it, he could see her. But after Cao Zhi entered the palace, he was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life and never saw Mi Fei again. According to later accounts, Cao Zhi was buried at Yushan after his death, and Mi Fei's jade pend
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Enlisted Four Times! My Original Unit Put Me on Its Blacklist 入伍四次！我被原部队拉进黑名单
Over seven years, Wu Hanfeng enlisted three times and left the service three times. He had somehow turned himself into a permanent fixture in the military! Every time he left, his old comrades wept their hearts out. He alone stayed calm. “Don't panic. I'll be back.” His comrades were at their breaking point: Please, just don't come back to torment us again after you leave this time! His old superior warned him, “If you dare come back again, I'll arrest you as a spy!” But half a year later... Whe
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I Just Finished Renovating My New Home, and You Broke In to Get Married? 我刚装的新房，你们撬开结婚？
Streamer Zhang Xiaoman had just spent a million yuan renovating a spacious apartment, but before he could spend even a single night there, a bizarre family broke in to hold a wedding banquet and trashed the place. How could he put up with that? No man with any backbone would! He had to stand up to them! Zhang Xiaoman awakened the Bizarre Behavior Cleanup System. He gathered evidence and sent the whole family to prison, helping clean up society. The mission was a huge success, and the System rewa
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Bloodbath on the Peninsula 浴血半岛
Set against the history of the Korean War, this novel follows Yu Yingjie, a staff officer in a volunteer regiment who had once led an uprising in the Expeditionary Force, as he fights across Korea and takes part in many famous battles and campaigns of the era.
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The Strongest Martial Emperor in the City 都市最强武帝
When Yang Qi wakes up, his life is no longer ordinary. Beautiful women keep barging into it, leaving him at a loss. Since protesting is useless, he might as well accept it!
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Reborn: Guided by the Campus Belle from the Start 重生：开局被校花指导
Cornered against a wall by the campus belle he'd had a crush on for ten years, Ye Feng was dumbfounded. Reborn, all he wanted was to quietly make money and avenge the tragedy of his previous life. But the pure-hearted campus belle's bold confession and the domineering queen's forced confinement dragged him into a deadly whirlpool of tenderness. One was his moonlight, the other his cinnabar mole. When he commands trillions in capital, tramples multinational financial conglomerates, and stands ato
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Nine-Year-Old Cracks Alien Signal, Nation Rushes to Their Door Overnight 九岁破译外星信号，国家连夜上门
Nine-year-old Lu Mianmian loves looking at the stars. One night, using an old radio her father had retired and a small antenna she had put together herself, she picked up a strange signal. She translated it on a whim and wrote the result in her diary: "4.2 light-years from Blue Star, a low-level civilization detected. Requesting establishment of an observation channel." When her mother saw the diary, she just thought her daughter had a vivid imagination. That was until observatories around th
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Keep Moving Forward, Young Man 少年且前行
Bearing the hopes of his disabled parents and supported by every uncle and elder in Kaoshan Village, Wang Yan arrived in Binhai carrying a fertilizer sack full of the future. He stepped onto campus and began his journey toward changing his life…
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There’s Something a Little Different About My Shelter 我的避难所有点特殊
A young man arrives in a wasteland world. Not only do I have a shelter, but there's something special about it, too. Can't see any game while hunting? No problem, the Shelter System offers limited-time X-ray vision. Need protection? Try the cloning barracks. Even in a wasteland world, I can live life to the fullest!
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From the Start, I’m a Lowly Security Guard, Catching Undercover Fugitives Alongside the Cops 开局小保安，便衣逃犯一起抓
[System + Livestream + Everyday Life + Goofy Comedy + Lighthearted Laughs] After being born with memories of a previous life and trying ten different jobs over the course of 24 years, Jiang Xing finally activates a Career Experience System. He has to try out different professions to earn its rewards. On his first day, Jiang Xing tries being a security guard. He spots a skewered-food vendor acting suspiciously and promptly arrests him, only to discover the man is an undercover officer on a missio
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Dawn of Superpowers 破晓异能
"When ordinary life is torn apart, superpowered people lurking in the darkness begin to emerge. Chen Yu thought his world had been turned upside down, only to discover that he was at the center of this upheaval. How will he choose between darkness and light, armed with his mysterious powers? Will he become a hero who protects the city, or fall into darkness and unleash forbidden power? A new legend where the modern city intertwines with supernatural abilities is unfolding!"
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Peerless Glory: Guardian God of the City 绝世荣耀之都市守护神
Urban + Superpowers + Romance + Multiple Female Leads + Lighthearted Comedy + Showing Off Handsome young Luo Cheng is an ordinary college student. By a stroke of luck, he gains extraordinary superpowers, and his life is turned upside down. He gradually rises from a poor loser to the pinnacle of success. When Luo Cheng steps in, he's worth a thousand armies. That's what people say about him. Many beautiful women fall for Luo Cheng and want to make him their boyfriend. As a handsome man with littl
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Reborn as a Live-In Son-in-Law 重生赘婿
His mother is gravely ill, his ex-girlfriend humiliates him, his supervisor gives him a hard time, and his boss exploits him. One disaster after another leaves Wang Ran in unbearable pain, until a sudden car crash ends his life. By chance, he obtains a supreme treasure and is reborn ten years in the past. Watch as this so-called good-for-nothing son-in-law turns the world upside down with a wave of his hand. Wang Ran: You have to live in the present. Everyone: Right, right! Live in your crotch!
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The Pinnacle War God in the City 巅峰战神在都市
A special forces soldier from the apocalypse met with an accident during a mission to mend the heavens on behalf of Nüwa. His soul possessed a timid, spineless young master from a powerful family in the twenty-first century, and from then on he began an extraordinary life. He held wealth in his hands, cradled beauties in his arms, and trampled his enemies beneath his feet.
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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Other Martial Arts University Students Play in the Mud, But You Enlist and Become a Marshal? 别人武大玩泥巴，你参军成元帅？
[High martial arts + System + satisfying story + fiery action + dominance + righteous path + decisive killing] Gu Ming transmigrated to a world of high martial arts. Because he had to make ends meet, he couldn’t follow the usual path of taking the college entrance exam and entering a martial arts university for a safe cultivation journey. With no other choice, he embarked on the extremely dangerous path of joining the army, fighting exotic beasts and the myriad races, and surviving one near-deat
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Cultural Tourism on the Rural Frontier: Demons Build the Grand View Garden Together 基层土地搞文旅：群妖共建大观园
[No romance + development and construction + lighthearted comedy + urban fantasy + scenic attraction management] After a century in office, their land ranks at the bottom in the annual assessment, and they’re about to lose their divine status. Underworld soldiers build high-rises, demons take on jobs, and a paper effigy maker runs a business in the mortal world. An old, unfinished opera house changes the fate of all beings across the Three Realms. Meng Po plays Daiyu, and the White Impermanence
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Teaching Qin Shi Huang to Mine Coal: From Miner to Imperial Tutor 教秦始皇挖煤：从矿工到帝师
Zhou Yongji, a construction site technician, transmigrates into a laborer in the Warring States era. The moment he brings out cement and thunderbolts, every kingdom scrambles to recruit him. Luckily, the apprentice by his side is named Ying Zheng, and for now he's still learning how to sift coal dust.
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My Days Catching Dragons in the Arctic 我在北极抓龙的日子
In the modern world, you're telling me those rare and exotic beasts actually exist? My name is Xu Yuan. After nine years of compulsory education and three years of high school that no human should have to endure, I stood out and got into a... pretty terrible university. I thought I was about to begin four years of lying flat at college. In my first month on campus, two soldiers took me all the way to the freezing Arctic. And that's how my... well, bizarre and downright absurd dragon-catching lif
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Suspended from the Start? I Join the Discipline Inspection Team Instead 开局停职？我转投纪委调查组
His superior was investigated, his girlfriend cheated on him, and petty people conspired against him, forcing him to take a leave of absence. Yang Dong faced the darkest moment of his life from the start, but he was not nervous in the slightest, because he had already experienced it in his previous life. Having returned to 2008, he could deal with all of this more calmly. What he never expected was that the course of his life would change because of a single phone call. To save his superior, he
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What? The Story Is Writing Itself 什么？有故事在自己书写
I’m a failed novelist, and the protagonist of my own story has threatened to kill me. To stay alive, I take up my keyboard to protect the world. But no matter how I revise things, the plot races toward destruction. Until I discover that even my “revisions” are just another part of the design. If I, a three-dimensional being, can’t fight the unseen hand from a higher dimension, then… what if I lower myself into two dimensions and become an anime character? (I’ll write more later, please be patien
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My Cancer Cells Devour Everything and Unlock an Interstellar Civilization 我的癌细胞吞噬万物解锁星际文明
Urban sci-fi, wild ideas, comedy, mystery, infinite-loop challenges, a cyberpunk comeback, and more... Stay tuned! Chen Zheng is a top hacker and a genius with a doctorate in chemistry. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer at the hospital, he takes on an international cybersecurity repair job to pay for treatment. He discovers a mysterious organization controlling the world, the Deep Alliance Council. Chen Zheng is shocked to learn of its existence. Driven by curiosity, he hacks into the o
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The Antarctic Ice Wall: Forbidden Zone Zero 南极冰墙：第零号禁区
Antarctic Ice Wall: The Zero Forbidden Zone
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Code 009: I Became a Robot Vacuum, Cleaning Corpses in a Haunted House 代号009：我变成了扫地机器人，正在凶宅里清扫尸体
Code Name 009: I Became a Robot Vacuum, Cleaning Up Corpses in a Haunted House
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The Patriarch Reforms the Cultivation Workplace 老祖整顿修仙职场
The Ancestor Reforms the Cultivation Workplace
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At This Moment, I Am China's Guardian Deity 此刻，我为华夏守护神
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 0260, a large horde of sea beasts appeared in Old Copper Mountain, Mi Nation. Not a single person in the city survived! On April 23, 0261, Level 6 sea beasts appeared in North Bear Nation. The entire country fell! On New Year's Day, January 1, 0262, a Level 10 sea beast appeared in Huaxia, codenamed [Taotie]. Huaxia fell! In January 0260, Huaxia's God of War, Chen Feng, was reborn eleven months before the sea beasts emerged. He won the trust of the country's
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