Smart Characters, No Dumbing Down, No Clichés, No Romance 智商在线，不降智，不狗血，无感情线
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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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
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Best Friends Transmigrate Into a Book Together! Marry a Rough-and-Ready Man! If You Leave, I’m Leaving Too 闺蜜齐穿书！嫁糙汉！你离我也离
[Transmigrate into a book + rough-and-tough hero + sweet romance + face-slapping + daily life + building a fortune + raising kids] The moment Shen Wu opened her eyes, she saw a man who was exactly her type. Realizing she had transmigrated into a book, she then heard a familiar voice and understood that she wasn't the only one who had transmigrated: her best friend had come along too, and now they were sisters-in-law... The two of them had entered a novel written by someone who envied them. In
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The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子
The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou
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I Saved the Entire Sect by Slacking Off 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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Solving Cases Takes Someone Like Me [Criminal Investigation] 破案需要我这样的人才【刑侦】
When it comes to Ling Wuyou, even an ant passing by would turn to its companion and say, “Don't mess with that lunatic!” Say a couple of words to her and she'll blow up like a firecracker. She doesn't care one bit about acting like a respectable adult. While she was studying at the police academy, she taught quite a few classmates a lesson more than once. It's because she's not very strong, but her dirty tricks are endless. Later, the lunatic became a proud police officer. She'd say, “Who wants
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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
30.7kReads9.3Score3.7kShelves
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I Get Apocalypse Protagonists Government Jobs 我给末世主角们发编制
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
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After My Childhood Friend Fell for the Nanny, I Struck It Rich~ 竹马爱上小保姆后，我发财啦~
My Childhood Friend Fell for the Nanny, and Now I’m Rich~
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Three Incense Sticks Before the Divine Hall 神明殿前三炷香
After saving silver for three years, I planned to buy myself a husband. I pointed into the crowd and ended up buying the crown prince, who had been living among commoners. At court, before the throne, the emperor asked me what I wanted. Just as I was about to answer, rows of on-screen comments floated past my eyes: [The villainess really seems to think the crown prince will still marry her as his principal wife.] [She'd be better off marrying the emperor. In the end, if it weren't for him, no on
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He's Her Official Husband, but Acts Like a Lover on the Side 将军他正宫的名分，小三的做派
He Claims the Status of the Official Wife, but Acts Like a Mistress
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Mom Will Wait for You in the Next Life 妈妈在来生等你
Mom, I'll Be Waiting for You in the Next Life
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The Live Comments Ship the Vicious Villainess with the Yandere Second Male Lead 弹幕开嗑恶毒女配和病娇男二
The Live Comments Ship the Wicked Female Supporting Character and the Yandere Second Male Lead
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I Regretted Forcing Him to Redeem Himself 强行救赎之后，我后悔了
I Regretted Forcibly Redeeming Him
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Husband, Why Don't You Drink This Bowl of Poison? 夫君，这碗毒药还是你喝了吧
My Lord, You Should Drink This Poison Instead
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Year After Year, We Carry on Together 岁岁承年
Year After Year
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After the Redemption Story Ends 救赎文完结后
After the Redemption Novel Ends
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Reborn for the Fourth Time, I Won't Save Him Again 第四次重生，我不救他了
Reborn for the third time, Sheng Shaoxi still died at twenty-eight. Unwilling to accept it, I started over again. As usual, we met and fell in love, then disaster struck. He began using his poor mental health as an excuse to visit his therapist again and again. That was until I caught them kissing in the consultation room. Sheng Shaoxi gave a mocking laugh and said: “You might think I’m crazy if I told you, but I really have died three times, and every time I died beside Xiao Ran. “I was going t
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Mistaking Stars 错认星星
Mistaking the Stars
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An Old Love Is Hard to Leave Behind 旧爱难辞
Old Love Is Hard to Leave Behind
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After My Husband's Illegitimate Child Was Sent to Us by His White Moonlight 老公的私生子被白月光送上门后
After My Husband’s Illegitimate Child Was Sent to Our Door by His First Love
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City of 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
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The Beloved Little Darling of a Farming Family 团宠农家小奶包
Everyone in Xixiang Village knows that the Zhao family recently found a little girl. She’s three years old, chubby and fair-skinned. Everyone says a girl is a burden, but the Zhao family treasures the little one. Later, Zhao Heng, who had been blind, regained his sight. Zhao Xuan, who had been poisoned, was cured. And the Zhao family, nearly ruined by the cost of medical treatment, became a wealthy household. Some people grew envious and snuck over to the Zhao home at midnight to eavesdrop, hopi
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Slay the Gods: I’m the Proxy for Big Gray Wolf, and Even Conceptual Gods Are Gods 斩神：代理灰太狼，概念神也是神
[Slay the Gods]+ [Mentally Ill Protagonist]+ [Unhinged Comedy]+ [Big Bad Wolf’s Agent]+ [Conceptual Gods Are Gods Too]+ [Woolly]+ [Tom Cat]+ [Doraemon]+ [Who Cares If You Get It? Just Click and Read!] After transmigrating into the world of Slay the Gods, Chu Ming discovered that he had become a mental patient, and that he shared a doctor with Lin Qiye. Chu Ming was tied tightly to a hospital bed. Doctor Liu: “Sorry, your condition is rather serious. We have to restrain you.” Chu Ming: “I’m r
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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I’m Only Playing a Psychopath, but I’m Actually a Good Prisoner 我只是扮演变态，其实我是好囚犯
[Male lead is a trouble-loving thrill-seeker + livestreaming + role-playing + no romance, pure wish fulfillment + AI game infinite-flow] Xie Qi transmigrates to a parallel world. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself a prisoner, being taken to an island that houses the world's most vicious criminals. This world is controlled by major corporations, with the government nothing more than their puppet. The Prisoner Island is a massive livestreaming game made for the rich. All the prisoners are an
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I Am Not the God of Drama 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
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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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
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Aren’t You an Evil God? Why Does Seeing Me Lower Your SAN? 不是邪神吗？见我怎么降SAN值
[Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes
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Deicide Learning In A 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
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Reborn: She Dominates the Workplace 重生后她在工位大杀四方
Two minutes after Fang Leilei died, she came back to life on the spot and was sent straight back to the day of her new-hire military training. One familiar, youthful face after another. Back then, he hadn't become a department manager yet. Back then, she hadn't stabbed me in the back yet. Ah! Isn't that my dream man?! He married a scheming woman in my past life, so it's my turn to have him in this one! Just look at me, Fang Leilei: my career was a mess and my love life was a disaster in my last
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Darkness Invades: But All I Want Is to Go Home 黑暗入侵：可我只想回家
[Darkness Invasion] [No female lead] Darkness descended, and countless evil gods set their sights on Blue Star, known as the Origin Star. At this critical moment, Blue Star's consciousness awakened, granting humanity the power to repel foreign enemies. Talents were the power humanity relied on to survive. Su Yuan, who had transmigrated here for reasons unknown, had no ties to hold him back, so he decided to go home! However, his talent was Heroic Spirit Summoning, and the heroic spirits of this
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Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去
The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The
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The Wife No One Else Can See 别人看不见的老婆
[After the twists, the protagonist becomes decisive and ruthless. The story is packed with exciting content, so stick with it and you'll discover a hidden gem!] A sudden mutation plunged a once-peaceful world into chaos. The unstable void could tear open at any moment, and beyond those rifts lurked unknown terrors coveting this world. Two years ago, a mischievous little girl in a red dress suddenly appeared by Yun Yi's side. The strange thing was that no one else could see her. So he, who had al
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Slay the Gods: From the Start, I Suppress Nine Deities in the Peerless Demon Pagoda 斩神开局镇压九位神明之不世妖塔
Night falls over the bustling city as a sudden, mysterious disaster sweeps across it. Amid chaos and despair, the young Su Ran unexpectedly awakens an ancient, mysterious tower of unparalleled power within himself. When he discovers that it seals nine gods, each capable of destroying heaven and earth, his fate is changed forever. To survive in a world thrown into turmoil by divine power, Su Ran must learn to wield the tower, draw upon the gods’ abilities, and enslave them. The gods are no longer
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The God of War Gets Out of Prison 军神出狱
Five years ago, Ye Feng was framed by his family and sent to prison. His mother was killed as a result, and everyone branded him a criminal. Now he returns in triumph, carrying the glory of a God of War. He repays kindness with kindness and vengeance with vengeance. His return will make the entire world tremble. The enemies who framed him and the murderers who killed his mother will pay in blood. Back in the familiar city, his neighbors look down on him as a good-for-nothing, and his family’s
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One Sword Opens the Immortal Gate 一剑，开仙门
Classical xianxia romance + swordsmanship + immortal cultivation + love + the heavens and myriad worlds + one heroine + no harem + no stupidity + no mindless decisions + comedy + wild imagination Thirty thousand years ago, a great war to destroy the immortals erupted in the metaverse. The Immortal Court collapsed, the Heavenly Dao was damaged, and spiritual energy dissipated. The entire metaverse split apart into various domains, including the Myriad Heavens, the Sacred, the Demonic, and the Spi
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Reborn to Help China Rise 重生之助力华夏崛起
When ordinary people are reborn, they can defy fate and change their lives. When top students are reborn, the story is even more exciting! This book has a well-developed overall plot and pays close attention to logic. It starts a little slowly, but the story gets very exciting later on. I hope readers will give it a little time. Thank you. Top student Yang Xiaofan has exceptional intelligence and emotional intelligence, but his career has been full of setbacks. While serving as a deputy director
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Killing Amidst Splendor, Avenge My Past Life 锦上杀，祭前世
The short drama "Scheming Phoenix, Beloved Substitute Eunuch" is now streaming. Thanks so much for your support, guys. Love you all! [Both leads reborn + devoted to each other + family and country + power struggles] A heroine who always gets revenge + a patient, deeply devoted hero with a secret identity In her previous life, Li Shuangwan used the meritorious service of the entire General’s House of Zhenguo to help the helpless Ling Heng ascend the throne. She believed that after ten years of ma
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Reborn, I Awakened My Ancestral Pocket Dimension 重生后我唤醒了祖传空间
(Reborn + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Campus Life + Strong Female and Male Leads + Top Student + Character Growth + Patriotism) The female lead, Mu Wan, is kind but not a pushover. She has principles and always gets even with those who wrong her. The male lead, Xiao Jinyu, is the son of a military compound family and a military-affiliated scientific researcher. Before she was reborn, Mu Wan accidentally stayed up too late and died of cardiac arrest. A family heirloom, a Merit Pearl, took
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Absurd! Is It Really a Good Idea for the Demon King to Work as an Exorcist? 离谱！魔王专职驱魔师真的好吗？
This book is now being adapted into a motion comic, so feel free to dive in. (Parallel world + exceptionally intelligent villains + contracts + ensemble cast + humor + passion + suspense + light novel style (with a focus on battle scenes) + carefully structured plot + clear logic + no frustrating plot points) This is a high-martial-arts story blending Eastern and Western elements. It takes its time to build, with political intrigue and battles of wits between friends and foes. Best enjoyed with
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