Any Recommendations for Smart, Satisfying Novels Without a Golden Finger? 有书推荐嘛，带智商的爽文，不要金手指
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A Blind Swordsman's Sword Coffin 灵墟，剑棺，瞎剑客
[No System] [Genius Swordsmanship] [Passionate] [Decisive and Ruthless] He is blind, carries a coffin on his back, and has a tragic past. The sect says: "We'll protect you." His brothers say: "We'll stay by your side." The sword spirit says: "I... will wait for you." Later, he becomes the ruler of the Immortal Realm, and his eyes regain their sight. Looking back on the road behind him, all that remains is one sentence: "When the wind blows, I'll walk slowly. When it rains, I'll keep to the side.
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- 2 After Ten Years in Seclusion, I Start by Forcing a Marriage with the Demon Clan's Female Emperor 闭关十年，开局逼婚妖族女帝 Also known as My Wife Keeps Trying to Kill Me and Ten Years in Seclusion, Invincible the Moment I Emerge [Human-demon romance + one female lead + devoted husband + invincible] Humans and demons have been sworn enemies since ancient times, locked in conflict for thousands of years. Xia Changming transmigrates here by accident, blessed with an immortal’s grace and jade-like bones. He gains the legacy of a Sword Immortal, and after ten years of seclusion, rises to the pinnacle of the world! When he 15.4kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 3 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
- 4 EN The Hidden Demon Lord: The Empress Demands Responsibility 隐世魔尊，女帝带娃上门求负责 [One Female Lead] [Devoted Husband] [Raising a Child] [Invincible] Ning Yechen was once an unparalleled Demon Venerable. He unified the Demon Realm by himself, beat the Immortal Realm to a pulp, and struck terror into the hearts of the Six Realms. Tired of all the fighting and killing, he eventually chose to live in seclusion among mortals, quietly enjoying life as a carefree hermit. Then one night, an Immortal Realm Empress, afflicted by a lust-inducing aphrodisiac, fell into the mortal world a 38.1kReads8.9Score4.6k14d adds
- 5 EN Starting as the Peak Master: Signing In for an Ultimate Emperor Armament! 开局成为首座，签到极道帝兵！ [Lighthearted daily life + invincible + Backer Sect + call for reinforcements when unable to win + schemer + no martial ethics + longevity] Because he had died once before, Hua Yunfei always put staying alive first. He had hidden away on Daoyuan Peak for a hundred years, performing sign-in for a hundred years. [Beep, congratulations to the Host on completing one hundred years of sign-in and obtaining the Ultimate Emperor Weapon: the Chaos Bell] The Dark Blood Era arrived, plunging Heaven an 136.9kReads9.2Score7.8k14d adds
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Get Lost, Conqueror 攻略者滚
[Male lead’s perspective, no romance, quick-transmigration story] For no apparent reason, he was bound to a System calling itself No. 2151, and now he was supposed to get started? What was going on? Help the Awakened hold on to their original selves? What was that supposed to mean? Shen Mo could only say that he was an ordinary nobody. He couldn’t do this! He couldn’t do this! (Not a revenge fantasy. Respecting everyone’s tastes, thank you!) What? In the first world, he achieved the title of Ete
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- 7 A Beta Boy Working in Another World 在异世界打工的Beta少年 [Quick Transmigration / Working Through Different Worlds / Everyone's Favorite / No CP / The One They Never Forgot] After binding with a System, Ye Sui becomes a worker sent to different planes. He earns money while experiencing the customs and culture of each world. But he never expected to get swept up in a whirlwind of romance and become the one everyone holds dear. World One: Working as a shop assistant in a magical world (complete) World Two: Working as an inn server in a cultivation world 1.5kReads9.1Score20514d adds
- 8 Quick Transmigration: The Mission Is King 快穿之任务为王 [Quick Transmigration + the Myriad Worlds + Male Side Characters + Comeback + Some Romance] They were tools, experience points, stepping stones, existing only to make other people look impressive and find happiness. Original male and female leads: This is your fate! Faced with the protagonists' halos, Chang Qing decided to be himself. [1] From the start, he breaks off his engagement to the Dragon King's fiancée. Will the world come crashing down? Chang Qing: Sorry, I reinforced this with ti 14.6kReads8.9Score79914d adds
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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
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- 10 Those Years I Worked Part-Time Down Below 那些年，我在下面兼职的日子 [Guiding souls, stories, healing, retribution, one heroine] Ox-Head and Horse-Face: “Hey, kid, how about a 300,000-yuan annual salary for a part-time job in the underworld?” Chen Yi, who earns 4,000 yuan a month: “I’m in! I’m in!” Once he started, he was soon drinking and laughing with underworld marshals from all walks of life, and raising cups with the Four Great Judges as if they’d known each other forever. He even passed the civil service exam and landed a coveted government job in the huma 34.8kReads9.1Score2.9k14d adds
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Bone-Mining and Blood-Draining: A Madwoman Goes on a Rampage in the Cultivation World 挖骨取血，疯批在修仙界杀疯了
(No romance + unhinged heroine + skewed values + a touch of ensemble cast + a touch of redemption + selfish, growth-oriented female lead. If that's not your thing, don't read or leave hate. Just quietly move on; it's better for everyone! Sending love ❥(ゝω·✿ฺ)) After transmigrating, Jiang Hanqing became a pitiful senior sister whose spiritual root had been stolen. Her own younger sister took her bones and seized her spiritual root. Was she supposed to put up with that? Absolutely not! When you
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- 12 The First Female Cultivator's Daily Life 第一女修的修仙日常 [No romance + character growth + power progression + cultivation + no romantic entanglements] Zhou Manying, a modern Taoist who catches ghosts and exorcises demons, unexpectedly finds herself in the body of Lin Ruochen, a girl unloved by her parents and burdened with a blood feud. From the start, she's faced with a deadly situation: she must marry the mountain god in her younger sister's place. Zhou Manying yanks off her phoenix crown and hurls it at the vile mother and daughter. She'll take the 657Reads8.7Score10314d adds
- 13 The Heroine Is Still Keeping Up Her Image, While the Cannon-Fodder Cultivator Is Going All Out 女主还在立人设，炮灰女修卷疯了 [No romance + cultivation + reborn + cannon fodder + strong heroine + pocket dimension + ensemble cast + comeback] In her previous life, her genius elder sister, the legitimate daughter, drained her heart’s blood to cure a supposed heart condition. The family members she trusted most neither pleaded for mercy nor mourned her. They even planned to trade her corpse for cultivation resources. But her genius elder sister had no heart condition at all, and those family members weren’t even her real f 583Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 14 EN The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙，但是无限读档 [No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro 74.2kReads9.4Score9.9k14d adds
- 15 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 230.7kReads9.6Score66.9k14d adds
- 16 Infinite Feel-Good Stories: Thrill the Heavens, Thrill the Earth, Thrill You to Pieces! 无限爽文，爽天，爽地，爽爆炸！ [An Unabashed Power Fantasy + Tycoon + Urban + Cultivation + Myriad Worlds + Comedy + Lighthearted + Infinite...] Proceed with caution. This is a classic infinite-flow power fantasy, with an endlessly stacking golden finger. Congratulations, Host, you have acquired god-tier gambling skills! Congratulations, Host, you have acquired X-ray vision! Congratulations, Host, you have acquired god-tier driving skills! Congratulations, Host, you have acquired the Star-Absorbing Technique! Congratulations, 21.5kReads8.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 17 Guess the Golden Finger or Die 猜对金手指，就会死 Across the land of Shenzhou, a heavenly gift descends once every hundred years. Those chosen can receive a powerful golden finger. Those who receive one are known as Chosen Ones. The Chosen Ones have endless trump cards and can suppress peerless prodigies. But if anyone correctly guesses a Chosen One's golden finger, that person will die! The transmigrator Song Tianli has spent twenty years laying his plans, waiting for his golden finger to arrive. 32.8kReads7.3Score3.8k14d adds
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
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Nailed into a Coffin and Drowned in a Pond, I’m Reborn to Make the Scumbag Lose His Heirs 被钉棺沉塘，重生让渣男断子绝孙
(Short drama now available) [One-on-one romance, devoted to each other, powerful and doting] In everyone's eyes, Princess Su Chenyu of Fengyi has nothing but beauty. In truth, she's spoiled, rude, and incredibly stupid, known as a good-for-nothing. Her fate is to have her fingers nailed into a coffin before being drowned in a pond. Who could have expected the useless princess to be reborn and reveal her brilliance? They called her foolish, useless, and rude. In her previous life, her heart was c
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- 20 I Transmigrated into a Book, but the Powerful Male Lead Won't Play by the Rules 穿书，权臣男主不按套路出牌 (Mutual devotion + tsundere + sweet romance) Fu Jing transmigrates into the novel The Most Powerful Chief Councillor of Wanxiang as Ruan Jing, the male lead's ill-fated stepsister. Without the protagonist's halo, a golden finger, or a pocket dimension, how can she turn her tragic fate around... 4.5kReads8.9Score30414d adds
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Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规
[Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th
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My Brain Has Been Enhanced, and Even I'm Scared of How Powerful I Am 我大脑被开发，强的自己都怕
Huang Ye had a dream in which a hole was drilled into his brain. After waking, his brain began to evolve. The show was about to begin, and his era of invincibility was quietly approaching. Brain development: 100%. What are gods? Ants? Or trash?
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- 23 After My IQ Left, I Became Invincible 智商出走后，我无敌了 Your IQ detected that you had transmigrated, and it just couldn't take it, so it chose to leave on its own. “...” Your IQ has returned, bringing you a talent: Tempered Through a Thousand Trials, and an Invincible Domain. “Tempered Through a Thousand Trials: Don't be afraid. Just hit them.” “Invincible Domain: Say ‘screw you’ and take invincibility home. Simple trash talk, unbeatable satisfaction.” Your IQ has returned, bringing you a talent: All-Knowing and All-Powerful, and Fancy Footwork. “All 138Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 24 From the Start, Everyone's Intelligence Drops to Zero Except Mine 开局全球智商幼零化只有我没变 Zhu Xiaoming woke up one day to find that everyone's intelligence had dropped! Everyone's except his! A 12-year-old who can learn all the pinyin is a child prodigy! A 20-year-old who can make compound words is a top student! A 30-year-old man who can make a sentence is practically a scholar immortal! I worship him! An 80-year-old who is reading for a doctorate! First to sixth grade: learning pinyin! Seventh to ninth grade: learning strokes! Tenth to twelfth grade: learning characters and compoun 84Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Marquis's Wife Holds All the Power, and the World Is Mine 侯府主母权利在手，天下我有
In her previous life, Shen Zhiyun and her elder half-sister, Shen Baoyi, were betrothed at the same time. Her sister married into a powerful marquis’s household and became the heir’s wife, envied by everyone. Shen Zhiyun, meanwhile, was forced to marry a lowly merchant. Later, the marquis’s household was implicated in a crime, stripped of its possessions, and exiled. Her sister was thrown into prison. The merchant, on the other hand, won the emperor’s favor and became one of his most trusted off
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- 26 Mandarin Ducks Take Flight 鸳鸯于飞 [Traditional historical household drama + strong heroine and hero growing together + mutual devotion + a general who dotes on his wife] After dying a tragic death, Feng Jinyi was lucky enough to be reborn on the very day she married Song Yuan, heir to the Marquis of Yong'an. This time around, she has three things to do: First, take control of the Song family, just as they had done to her in her previous life. Second, win over her promising younger half-brother and restore her family to prosp 88Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 27 Famed Throughout the Capital 名满京华 [Rebirth + Revenge + Taking Down the Trash] Chu Muqing, the eldest daughter of the Yongning Marquis Household, was raised from childhood by her second uncle’s family in Hezhou. After returning to the capital, she believed her stepmother was kind, her younger half-sister was good-hearted, and all her relatives in the marquis household loved her. Who would have thought that one day she’d wake up and realize the loving mother and daughter, the harmonious family, were all an illusion? Meanwhile, tho 5.3kReads8.9Score59914d adds
- 28 Spring's Joy, Year After Year 岁岁春欢 [The print edition of Years of Spring Joy is now available on all platforms] [Heroine and scumbag reborn + male lead transmigrates + mutual salvation + play the pig to eat the tiger] At seventeen, Shen Jiasui married Lu Yunzheng. The Shen and Lu families were both military dynasties, making them a formidable match. Two years into their marriage, Lu Yunzheng defeated the enemy kingdom and won renown across the land. But the Shen family was condemned for treason and executed to the last member. On 265.2kReads9.6Score31k14d adds
- 29 Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝 (Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo 254.1kReads9.7Score29.8k14d adds
- 30 The Darling in the Palm 掌上娇娇 [Print edition preorder opens July 17] [Film and TV rights sold] [Reader's guide: sweet romance, devoted couple, feel-good wish fulfillment, with clever schemes and political intrigue, many clues and details, and a large cast of well-developed characters. The heroine never gets the short end of the stick; anything that doesn't make sense will be explained later] Prince Xuan, He Junting. In the novel Devoted to the Imperial Consort, the author wrote of how he slaughtered the entire Northern Di co 82.1kReads9.5Score9.3k14d adds
- 31 He Spoiled His Concubine and Neglected His Wife. Reborn, I Broke Off My Engagement to the Scumbag and Married the Prince 宠妾灭妻，重生我退婚渣男嫁王爷 The physical book is available on all major platforms. Formerly titled Riding the Phoenix. [Reborn + Powerful Female Lead and Male Lead + Nation and World + Political Schemes] Before the age of seventeen, Shen Yu was the legitimate daughter of a military family who could wield a blade and charge into battle. After seventeen, she became the frail wife of Jiang Manor's Vice Minister Jiang. Her father and brothers died in battle, and the entire Shen family was honored for their loyalty. Bearing 87.6kReads9.5Score12k14d adds
- 32 Her Highness Is Back! 本宫回来了！ Lady Hua Fei from Empresses in the Palace has been reborn! Thinking of how Zhen Huan had provoked her into banging her head against a wall and dying in her past life, she felt deeply aggrieved. Luckily, she had returned to the time before entering the prince's manor. She could start over. This time, she would live life to the fullest and do her best to have lots of children! She would get along with her sisters and stop obsessing over that dog of an emperor. Besides having children, I wouldn't e 294Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 33 Reborn in Empresses in the Palace: Gua Liu Makes Her Mark in the Qing Palace 重生甄嬛传：瓜六在清宫搞事业 In her previous life, Guarja Wenyuan trusted the wrong people and became someone else’s pawn for no reason. After losing in the palace struggle, she met a tragic end, leaving her entire clan without an heir. Now reborn, her entry into the palace is set in stone, but she is no longer the same Gua Liu she once was. This time, she has no interest in romance. All she wants is to keep herself and her entire clan safe. In the Qing palace, she will play the pig to eat the tiger, take advantage of the c 84Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 34 With a Childbearing System, I Become Everyone’s Favorite in Empresses in the Palace 带着生子系统在甄嬛传当团宠 Your Majesty, you have made life so hard for Hualan Zhuang Xiaomeng is always saddened by Consort Hua’s fate. When she transmigrates into Consort Hua, she sets out to fulfill her wish, bringing a Childbearing System to the imperial harem and handing out babies. Who says a Childbearing System means you have to give birth to the children yourself? Consort Duan, Consort Jing, Consort Li, the Empress... With all this free time for palace intrigue, why not have everyone give birth to a child? 411Reads6.5Score—14d adds
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A Girl Transmigrates to Another World and Makes the Crown Prince Sit the Imperial Exams 女孩穿越异世逼着太子考状元
[Transported as a Group + Whole Family Transports + Conspiracy + Everyone's Favorite + Mutual Devotion] Countless times and spaces exist throughout the universe. Mu Qingcheng falls into a rift in time and space and transmigrates to another world. She has no idea what dynasty this is, and she's only a high school graduate. The moment she arrives, she's nearly sold off, then ends up stranded in the wilderness... How could one word, "miserable," possibly describe it all? At last, it's time to pick
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