The Protagonist Usually Keeps Up a Good Front, but His Dark Side Emerges When He’s Provoked 主角平时伪装的很好，一旦受刺激，阴暗面就出现

1. 301 全 I’m the Only One in the World Who Can’t See the Supernatural 全世界只有我看不见诡异 Editable Polygon可编辑多边形Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted That day, the heavens showed strange signs, and terrifying entities beyond human understanding descended upon the world en masse. They took all sorts of forms and each followed different rules for killing. They were collectively known as the Strange Entities. “You all keep telling me the strange things have invaded, but where are the ghosts?” “Isn't this just an ordinary Barbie doll?” “What? It attacks anyone who brushes its hair?” “I plucked out every strand and nothing happened. How do you exp 11.4kReads8.0Score922Shelves
2. 302 异 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 The Mountain Moon Knows Not of You山月不知君Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 5.8kReads—Score334Shelves

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   How about giving this a try? It's absolutely divine! The more you read, the more captivating it becomes! Every beginning and character introduction is intricately connected by a powerful causal system. I highly recommend this isekai (another world) novel to my family—a truly amazing read. The thrilling plot, logically sound plot twists, and exquisite aesthetics make it an absolute must-read this year.

3. 303 高 High Martial: The Blackflame Spear Suppresses Demons 高武：长枪黑炎镇妖魔 Black Cat Beneath the South Wall南墙下的黑猫Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Genius + Everyday Life + Plot] “According to the Temporary Regulations on the Management of Demonkind in Donghuang, anyone who crosses the boundary and harms another shall be killed without exception.” In a dark alley, eighteen-year-old student Shen Changan stared at the monster before him and recited the regulations without expression. He went to school by day and hunted demons by night. As the top official of Qingzhou’s Night Watch Bureau, he had long since gotten used to this life. Until one 260.7kReads8.5Score30.1kShelves
4. 304 什 What Do You Mean I Became a World-Ending Urban Legend? 什么叫我成了灭世级怪谈？ Wild, Bold, Cool, and Flashy Shark狂拽酷炫鲨Mystery277k WordsOngoing [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] [Turns Into a False Person in One Chapter] [The Protagonist Is a Pure Monster] Su Yuan transmigrated to a bizarre world rife with danger. Here, everything from horror legends had become real: false people, vengeful spirits, old gods hidden beneath the ocean... And an official organization lurking in everyday life: the Cleanup Bureau. This was an age of despair. With urban legends becoming reality, ordinary people could hardly fight back, and even the authorities we 270.7kReads8.3Score45.9kShelves
5. 305 邪EN The Evil God Is Stunned: Are These Players Even Stranger Than Me? 邪神懵了：这群玩家比我还诡异？ I'm a Pastry Pro我时糕手Eastern Fantasy875k WordsOngoing After transmigrating to a world overrun by the uncanny, Lin En discovers that he has become a backwater fake god, his divine power depleted and his existence about to fade away. Outside the church, indescribable monsters are pounding on the door. The desperate countdown has begun. To save himself, Lin En grits his teeth and fabricates a full-dive VR game called Ancient Gods Awaken, summoning a group of hardcore players from Blue Star to serve as his followers. He thought the players would cower 759kReads9.0Score136.9kShelves
6. 306 我 I Have a Hypnosis App for Female Ghosts 我有一个女鬼催眠APP As Long as the Green Hills Remain苟得青山在Mystery545k WordsOngoing Qin Ming meant to download a hypnosis game app, but ended up with a female ghost hypnosis app instead. As he gazed at the app’s dazzling array of female ghosts he could romance, then watched one actually appear in the real world, he fell silent. If he wanted to stay alive, he had no choice but to romance the female ghosts! Female Ghost Hypnosis App: Activate! 202kReads8.5Score27.1kShelves
7. 307 诡 Eerie: A Dog from the Start, Gear You Scavenge 诡异：开局一条狗，装备全靠捡 I Love Watching the Show我爱围观Mystery1.0M WordsOngoing [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Apocalyptic Awakening] [Stat-Allocation Sequence] [Horror Survival] [Extreme Combat Style] Terror descends upon the world, and a Black Tide begins to devour cities. The uncanny, demons, monsters, forbidden artifacts... Human life is as worthless as grass. People struggle to survive by any means. In an apocalypse of endless terror, the only way to stay alive is to awaken and become part of a Transcendent Sequence! Others awaken as doctors, surviv 464.5kReads8.5Score51.3kShelves
8. 308 全 Zombies Descend Across the World, and You Say the Taoist Class Is Useless? 全球僵尸降临，你说道士序列没用 A Lamp for the Bright Moon一盏明月灯Urban1.4M WordsOngoing Purple-hair zombies, white-hair zombies, black-hair zombies, green-hair zombies, fur-covered zombies, flying zombies, wandering zombies, lurking zombies, unrotting-bone zombies, and drought demons… This is a world overrun by zombies across the globe! Xu Yi arrives in this world and awakens the Taoist path. But people accuse him of being inferior to those on the fire-element path. Xu Yi scratches his head and looks at his Dragon-Tiger Evil-Slaying Talismans, Golden Light Incantation, corpse-dr 257.7kReads8.8Score30.4kShelves
9. 309 骇EN Dread Night: Getting Rich in a Horror Game 骇夜：我在恐怖游戏里暴富 A-One Is Not A-Two阿一不是阿二Mystery714k WordsOngoing (The rating just came out and will rise later. Infinite flow + mild horror + original instances + no female lead) A tower stands in the eternal night, with a group of players trapped inside. They have to keep taking part in bizarre games to earn the food and supplies they need to survive. A killer in red embroidered shoes, a child with no eyes, a haunted mountain where an entire expedition team died... One deadly trap after another, with death around every corner. Players: “We're going to die, w 2.8MReads9.5Score588.3kShelves
10. 310 妖 Demons and Evil Spirits? They’re Clearly All Auspicious Omens! 妖魔邪祟？明明都是祥瑞！ Someone's Coming, Run!有人来了快跑Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsOngoing [Evil spirit from the start] [Eerie cultivation] [Recruiting demons] [Sheltering humanity] [Believers’ delusions] [No female lead] Chen Zhou transmigrated to a bizarre world teeming with demons and rampant evil spirits. Demons slaughtered humans, specters preyed on them, immortals devoured them. Monsters ran amok, evil spirits wreaked havoc, gods and Buddhas had fallen, and humanity was in decline. Fortunately, Chen Zhou hadn’t transmigrated as a human either. He started out as an evil spirit 88.3kReads8.8Score9.6kShelves
11. 311 序 Fate Sequence, Yet They Call Me the Primordial Calamity 序列命运，可他们叫我最初灾厄 Cyberpunk Old Spring赛博朋克老泉水Urban904k WordsOngoing [Creating Monsters] [Creating the Supernatural] [No female lead] They all say I am calamity itself. My name is Zhao Jin. What I love most is rummaging through the piles of discarded history for strange, forgotten legends, then bringing them to life. An age without the supernatural? Then I'll create it myself. When the first monster burst from the ground, the world thought it was a natural disaster. When the second arrived, they began to panic. By the time the seventh and eighth swept across t 145.6kReads8.6Score19.8kShelves
12. 312 人 I'm in America, Faking a Reincarnation Space 人在美利坚，我伪造轮回空间 Li Gongde from Xiaokang Village小康村的李功德Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Building a Lord God] + [Behind-the-scenes] + [Infinite Flow] + [Dark] + [Ensemble cast] “This world had no god until I came along.” After transmigrating to a parallel Blue Star, in America, and spending half a year there, I thought I could live well in the legendary land of opportunity. But it turned out to be heaven for the rich and hell for the poor. I go to school during the day and wash dishes at night. Life is miserable, but luckily I inherited a dilapidated divine realm and the authority 42.7kReads8.0Score5.3kShelves
13. 313 我EN The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！ No One in the World Will Ever Meet Me Again世人千万再难遇我Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O 65.6kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
14. 314 我 I Told You, That Villain Isn't Me 我都说了，那个反派不是我 Big Bai Bai Bai大白白白Urban2.4M WordsOngoing [No Female Lead + Sequences + Mild Horror + Slow Burn] Jiang Yan is a high school student. One day, he suddenly noticed that everything around him had started to get strange. “I don’t know what’s going on. Everyone who sees me is terrified, saying I brutally slaughter my own kind and that I’m a deranged lunatic. But I’ve always treated everyone politely and kindly. I respect my teachers at school, take good care of my elders at home, and I’ve never even met these people... Doctor, do you know wh 10.3kReads8.8Score1kShelves

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    Yes, yes, yes, that fits perfectly.

15. 315 自 Ever Since I Got a Mental Illness, I’ve Been Feeling Much Better 自从得了精神病，整个人都精神了 Barbecue Salted Fish Knight碳烤咸鱼骑士Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [No female lead + eerie happenings + multiple personalities + comedy + slow burn + everyday life] A red moon appears, and contamination descends. Most people in the world become mentally ill, carrying mental contamination. Xiao Liang is a mentally ill man who has been contaminated but hasn't gone mad. He uses his dissociative identities to beat eerie creatures, and moonlights as a one-stop murder-and-body-disposal service. Only when a god dies beneath his own iron shovel does he realize that he 15.7kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
16. 316 一 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 No Joy无喜Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst... 29.8kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
17. 317 我 I Think I Transmigrated the Wrong Way 我穿越的姿势不太对 Deep Stream溪深Mystery2.8M WordsOngoing [Weird + No System + Foundation-Like + Mystery + Comedy + No Heroine? One Heroine?] Bad news: I'm dead. Good news: I transmigrated. Bad news: I don't think I'm the protagonist. Even worse news: I think my buddy is the protagonist. Seriously, buddy, what makes you think you get to be the protagonist? Do you even know what protagonist aura is? You're the worst! Seriously, buddy, can you stop freaking out? What do you mean I'm freaking out too? You're the one who's completely nuts! A crazy world, a 843Reads9.0Score422Shelves

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    The first book is pretty much the same, Chen Xiao is awesome 👍 The second book isn't exactly dark, but it's still pretentious and wicked.

18. 318 罪 Case Files 罪案集 Ji Nanyi季南一Mystery126k WordsOngoing [No romance, plot-focused + mind-bending suspense + bizarre murder cases + unusual perspective] We do not worship absolute peace. But when no crime is ever brought to justice, crime becomes the norm, and chaos takes the place of order. Ten years ago, Lian Huai watched with his own eyes as the entire building, his parents included, was reduced to rubble by an explosion. The trauma drove him insane. Unable to live a normal life and exhibiting an antisocial personality, he was locked in a psychiatr 959Reads8.1Score180Shelves

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    Uh... I don't know if this meets your requirements.

19. 319 神 The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏 Hu Qiuqiu胡球球Mystery3.4M WordsOngoing The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no 75.8kReads8.3Score6.9kShelves
20. 320 斩 Slay the Gods: The Demon Venerable of Mortal Life 斩神：浮生魔尊 Master Qingxiao青霄先生Male-Channel Fanfiction1.5M WordsCompleted Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up in a world that's both strange and familiar? Have you ever wondered if the friends of old might one day stand before you as enemies? Have you ever wondered which way you'd turn when forced to choose between an old friend and your own life? My name is Fang Sheng. I have a bit of a sweet tooth, especially for cake. 84.2kReads9.1Score9.4kShelves
21. 321 诡EN Anomaly Containment Facility, You're Containing Me, a Human? 诡异收容所，你收容我一个人类？ Yi Chen逸臣Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 52.2kReads9.2Score5kShelves

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    It's worth watching!

22. 322 无 After Retiring from Infinite Games, I Just Want to Be Ordinary 无限游戏退休后我只想做个普通人 May I Soon Have All the Strawberries I Want早日实现草莓自由Two Male Leads388k WordsCompleted [Two male leads] [Both devoted to each other] [Happy ending] [Both leads are formidable] [Complete] [A cool beauty who wants to live an ordinary life but is a powerhouse in a fight, paired with a powerful, hot-tempered husband who is completely devoted to his wife] After barely making it out alive from an infinite-flow game, Zhong Yao stretches out his legs and settles in to enjoy an ordinary life as still and uneventful as a pool of stagnant water. But the good times don't last. Zhong Yao disco 4.7kReads9.3Score668Shelves
23. 323 除 Everyone in My Family Is a Boss Except Me 除我之外，我们全家都是BOSS Little Zhezi小折子Two Male Leads743k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Unconventional Infinite Flow + Everyone’s Favorite + One-on-One Romance] It is common knowledge that the boss base in an Infinite Flow world is home to three kinds of people: bosses, NPCs, and Shi Yu. As the second-generation offspring of a powerful union between a demon and a ghost, Shi Yu’s greatest contribution to Ghost City is joining forces with the players to report a coworker whose performance was too good. In response to this second-generation boss’s indiscriminate at 7.6kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
24. 324 惊 Horror Game: You Want Me, a Vengeful Ghost, to Be a Player? 惊悚游戏，你让我一厉鬼当玩家？ Chi Chi's Little Naughty Crow池池的小污鸦Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted Infinite-survival + no romance + fun + memes + a touch of horror + bizarre = unhinged fiction [Warning: A god-tier supernatural monster has been spotted wandering through an instance in the guise of a human player. All monsters and players in every instance, proceed with caution.] Lu Wang: I'd say The Abyss of Death is an utterly heartwarming game. There's a clown who gives me balloons. And a sweet old lady who eagerly invites me home to make dumplings. I even have a cat that likes to wear r 5.2kReads8.8Score947Shelves
25. 325 诡 In a Bizarre World, My Whole Family Is Bizarre 诡异世界，我们一家诡异 Lettuce to Those Who See Me见者生菜Mystery2.0M WordsOngoing When Su Mo was eighteen, his older brother died saving someone, and his father was killed in a workplace accident. When Su Mo received his college acceptance letter, his mother passed away from overwhelming grief. On his eighteenth birthday, Su Mo was the only one left in his family of four. He died of illness at twenty-four, only to be reborn as a ghost. That was when he discovered that this world had a realm of ghosts, where his parents and older brother were waiting. His family had become a n 29.3kReads8.6Score1.9kShelves
26. 326 刑 After Being Released from Prison, the Paranormal Claims to Be My Ex 刑满释放后，诡异自称前男友 Huo Fei惑非Two Male Leads1.2M WordsCompleted (Completed) [Two Male Leads + Infinite Flow + Rekindled Romance + Not Invincible + Twists + Foreshadowing + Happy Ending] [A beautiful but hot-tempered bottom who’s always flirting with death, paired with a seemingly innocent, calculating, vindictive green-tea top.] Gu Wei is a lowly F-rank criminal in the live-stream performance system. After blowing an entire instance sky-high along with his little assistant, he is exiled by the System to a punishment instance. The players thought Gu Wei would 26.8kReads9.4Score4.9kShelves
27. 327 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Taming Brash Xie and Hua 盗笔：解拽拽驯花记 Lucky Jerry招财杰瑞Two Male Leads245k WordsCompleted A cat becomes a person after gaining humanlike intelligence. CP: Hua Ye If you want to know what kind of trouble a cat can cause, Xie Yuhua can certainly tell you. There’s no end to it Xie Zhuazhua is a long-haired lion cat that doesn’t shed. Its ears and paws are covered in brown-black fur, which is quite unusual. Most notably, it has heterochromatic eyes, blue on the left and yellow on the right, both very beautiful. It’s also incredibly cheeky. He rules the household like a king, and his unde 1.9kReads9.1Score367Shelves

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    Not bad, I think it matches the titles quite well.

28. 328 盗 Tomb Raiding: The Walnut Seller 盗墓：那个卖核桃的 Xue Yin薛喑Two Male Leads174k WordsCompleted [Dual Male Leads] + [Angst] + [Severe Protagonist Suffering, Not for the Faint of Heart] 2026 editor’s note: Please read the author’s statement in the book’s discussion section. Thank you, everyone. The protagonist is completely love-struck, extremely so, and there will be no switching love interests. If you can’t accept that, feel free to leave using the top-right corner. Li Cu × Qian Heng After spending seven or eight years out in the dirt, Qian Heng had thoroughly wrecked his health. With now 2.9kReads9.3Score566Shelves
29. 329 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Slow Steps, Fleeting Glances 盗笔：步缓缓，匆匆看 Bu Zhidao歩知道Mystery992k WordsOngoing [The protagonist has no romantic pairing + unconventional transmigration into a book + unconventional System story + no angst] Born on Qingming Festival, he is named Qingming. He arrives in this world naked, with no memories and no choice. Most protagonists who transmigrate into a book get a System, and Qingming does too. But aside from letting him choose three abilities before entering a world, his System is little more than a data-storage device that can communicate with headquarters. As a chi 11.8kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
30. 330 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Yin-Yang Twins 盗墓笔记之阴阳双生 Playing with the Setting Sun戏残阳Mystery223k WordsCompleted (Pure angst. Some characters may be out of character. This is a story about redemption; please don’t read if that bothers you. Apologies for the OOC.) “Thud.” The knife slipped from his hand and fell into the bathtub. A smile of relief spread across his face as his consciousness gradually faded from this world. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a completely different world. Hearing people call a name stirred memories of a hugely popular novel from his previous life: The Grave Robbers' Chr 8.4kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
31. 331 我 I'm the Invincible Big Bad: From the Start, I Ruthlessly Crush the Chosen One! 我，无敌大反派，开局狂虐气运之子！ A Lifetime一世Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted (Readers with fragile hearts, and holier-than-thou types, stay away) The chosen one, blessed with immense fortune, wants to kill me. The embodiment of Heavenly Law regards me as an aberration from the Great Dao. And the sword saint, whose life is a glorious tale of effortless success, declares me a demon… Should I just accept my fate? No. Never! How could I, Jiang Heng, let you kill me and walk all over me? You think you're the chosen one? I'll take your fortune. You want to kill me? I'll k 3.3kReads7.4Score146Shelves

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    Low rating but enjoyable! The protagonist is decisive and ruthless, using the world as a chessboard and all living beings as pawns. He completely lacks the typical brainless, useless, and gentle womanizer protagonists of light novels; he acts decisively and efficiently, with principles and convictions. In the cultivation world, he disguises himself as harmless, but is actually ruthless and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. When facing enemies, his dark and cold side is fully revealed.

32. 332 七 The Seven Kings Reunite, and Judgment Descends 七王重聚，审判降临 Baili Guyan百里孤烟Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless + high martial arts + comedy + King of Slaughter + plot-driven power fantasy] Distant bells toll! The horns of war spiral through the air! Eagles survey the earth! Vultures feast on all living things! The Sword of Judgment hangs high! An ancient king descends! Slaughter! The prologue to an absurd apocalypse! Slaughter! The finale of a false golden age! At the end of the last century, the vast and devastating War of the Gods, sparked by the Radiant Army and the Eternal Nigh 98.7kReads8.6Score6.1kShelves

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    Not the dark side, but a stronger version of yourself.

33. 333 被 Delusion of Being Loved 被爱妄想 Li Huaisha李怀沙Two Male Leads233k WordsCompleted [Signed for print publication] Sister-in-law, open the door. It’s your brother-in-law Powerful coercion + unconventional happy ending + ultimate love triangle drama + unhinged characters + groveling redemption + melodrama galore + substitute romance A cruel, unhinged, sickly scumbag top VS a cool, ruthless bottom who delusionally believes he’s loved I catered to his every whim and granted his every request. He mocked and tormented me at every turn. But I stayed by his side, never leaving no 5.4kReads9.4Score699Shelves

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    The first book by Li Huaisha was great. I read over 400 chapters of the second book in two weeks. It's a huge and great read. The protagonist of the third book seems harmless on the surface, but secretly enjoys killing villains to get his friends in return.

34. 334 仙 Above the Immortals 仙人之上 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban1.5M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no brainless characters, and no wish-fulfillment. Read at your own discretion.) The ancient Immortal Court had crumbled into ruins, and the immortals of old had fallen into slumber. The world changed with every passing day, and seas became fields. All that remained of ancient times existed only in myths. Thousands of years later, the ruins of the Immortal Court once more rose above the nine heavens, and the sleeping immortals be 60.7kReads9.3Score5.6kShelves

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    It meets the requirements of the question. The protagonist does indeed pretend to be quite well and is very cheerful, but he goes crazy when everyone leaves, and he also goes crazy if there is no one opposite him.

35. 335 披 He's Back Again, Wearing a Secret Identity 披着马甲的他又回来了 Pithy Radish糠心萝卜Ancient Romance806k WordsCompleted [Secret identity trope]+ [Loves faking his own death]+ [Ensemble cast]+ [No heroine]+ [Main story complete, extras in progress] As a demonic cultivator, he is far too low-key. He neither kills nor sets fires, yet other people think he's a famous madman. As a demonic cultivator, he follows the Path of Ruthlessness. He once played a folk doctor who lusted after beauty. Flowers served as betrothal gifts, a blade as the matchmaker, and blood and tears filled their nuptial cups. He died in the arms o 1.3kReads9.2Score198Shelves

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    This book may be obscure, but it's really good; it's just that there are quite a few typos.

36. 336 疯 The Unhinged Boy Band Goes on a Killing Spree in the Infinite Worlds! 疯批男团在无限世界杀疯了！ Walking the Dangerous Path危行Mystery423k WordsCompleted [Male lead seems normal but is actually unhinged + Power Fantasy + Livestreaming + No CP] Qi Mo opened his eyes and discovered that he had transmigrated into a doomed, nameless extra in the hit manga Infinite Radiance: Idol Survival Project. Despite sounding like a gacha mobile game, this world was a deadly meat grinder that fused infinite-loop survival, rule-based horror, idol stages, and death-game reality shows. Seeing that his life countdown had only 72 hours left, the System coldly announce 816Reads8.9Score118Shelves
37. 337 神 Mysterious Creatures Awaken, and I’m Designated No. 001 神秘生物复苏，我被编号001 Zhang the Second Generation张二代Urban488k WordsCompleted [No System] [No Female Lead] [Urban Power Fantasy] [No Hiding His Strength] Chen Xiao pressed the wrong elevator button and was killed by the void a thousand times. After countless rebirths, Chen Xiao transmigrated to another world. Mystical creatures were everywhere. Mythical phoenixes reborn in flames, ancient emperors rising from the earth, tentacled monsters ruling the oceans, ruthless, bloodthirsty straw creatures… And Chen Xiao was branded with the number 001. … When the mystical creatures 6.7kReads8.8Score589Shelves
38. 338 说 You Say I'm Sick? But I Really Can Make My Words Come True! 说我有病？可我真能言出法随啊！ Time Without Ink时光无墨Mystery767k WordsOngoing [National Fate] + [Mental Illness] + [No Heroine] + [Absurd Humor] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Invincible] Rule-based horror descends, and players are bound to their nations' fates. Complete the game's missions to strengthen your nation's fate. Fail, and you will suffer a penalty to it! Li Ziyuan, who has been diagnosed with mental illness, is selected for the Weird Game by a twist of fate. But the weird creatures realize that Li Ziyuan seems to be the one who's truly the most insane! His talen 208Reads8.8Score100Shelves
39. 339 灰 Beyond the Gray Fog, I Am the Absurd 灰雾之上，吾即荒诞 Star-Cleansed World, Nine Pure Abysses星净世九洁渊Male-Channel Fanfiction529k WordsCompleted [Transmigration] [Eerie] [Invincible] [Troublemaker] [Redemption] I transmigrated into the world of I Am Not the God of Theater and became the only BUG in the Gray Mist. While Chen Ling acted out life’s joys and sorrows onstage, I devoured the indescribable Calamities beneath it. They saw me as a raving nightmare, a plague on logic, an error that should never have existed. Until world-ending despair descended, all living beings trembled, and the curtain was about to fall. I rose from the chaos, 46Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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    The three became one, and then he kicked himself out of his body.

40. 340 恐 Horror Movie NPC Goes on a Killing Spree in a Terror Game 恐怖片NPC在惊悚游戏杀疯了 Snow-Skin Lantern冰皮灯笼Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + comedy + power fantasy + no female lead (male protagonist has no romantic pairing)] A horror game swept across the world. Fu Yan, an NPC from a horror movie in a higher plane of existence, was accidentally dragged into the game. Fu Yan: Since you've all gone to the trouble of inviting me, I won't hold back. From then on, the “horror game” was plunged into the shadow of someone named “Fu Yan”... Horror NPCs: Please, don't come any closer! Livestream viewers: Can someone do something abo 64.7kReads9.6Score8.5kShelves
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42. 342 死 Death Rewind: Welcome to the Observer's Cage 死亡回档：欢迎来到观测者牢笼 Sheep-Sheep Guide咩咩指导Mystery400k WordsCompleted Don’t read this. It’s badly written, and it’s been discontinued. The author was just going crazy. Don’t read it!!! [Infinite Flow + Live Streaming + Death Regression + Pain Aversion + No Female Lead + No Romance + Later Audience Misinterpretations] [Feel free to skip the beginner dungeon. I don’t want to write a plot where a newcomer makes a scene and insists on going out to stir up trouble. Start at the Deep-Sea Laboratory.] Because his sense of pain is far more acute than an ordinary person’s 961Reads—Score114Shelves
43. 343 越 The More Off-Roading, the More Addictive It Gets 越野越上瘾 A Passing Guest in the Flow of Time往事流年稍作客Ancient Romance111k WordsOngoing ◆ Powerful leads tame each other ◆ Obsessive Emperor × Proud, Defiant Princess ◆ Explosive revenge plot ◆ A tragic romance that lasts until death ◆ “You once shackled me. Now I’ll repay you by turning your empire into a cage.” “Ye Huang, the wilder you get, the more addictive it becomes. This time, I’ll play along with you all the way to the depths of hell.” She was Liang’s most bewitching and unruly Ninth Princess, Helian Ye Huang. Three hundred li beyond the capital stood the royal hunting gro 2Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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    [Making a face][Making a face][About to cry][About to cry][Feeling wronged][Feeling wronged][Feeling wronged]

44. 344 特 Special Cleaner, Occasional Crime Scene Stager 特殊清洁员，偶尔也布置案发现场 South Morning, North Moon南晨北月Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted (Content warnings: no female lead, no romantic ambiguity, dark plot, protagonist is not a good person, lighthearted everyday tone) (No female lead does not mean no female supporting characters. Recommended that you stay away. The male lead is very much a criminal, not a positive role model, and people get killed on a regular basis.) Good news: He transmigrated. Bad news: The body’s original owner seems to have just killed someone. Is Qi Shu panicking? He’s practically panicking to death. After a 511Reads8.6Score102Shelves

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    No female lead + no ambiguous relationship

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