A Protagonist Who Grows Stronger Gradually, with a Clear, Well-Structured Story and a Cunning Mind, Not a Fool 主角慢慢变强，全书条理清晰，有城府，不无脑
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On Campus They Call Me Professor Jiang, But What Do They Call Me Outside? 校内叫我江教授，校外称我什么？
[Slice of life + entrepreneurship + university] Reborn at the moment of his university graduation in 2011, Jiang Hao faces another chance to stay on at the university. He gives up the grueling 996 work schedule he endured in his previous life and chooses to stay on as a librarian. Drawing on the memories from before he was reborn, he originally only wants financial freedom. But as his fortune grows, he ultimately becomes someone others admire as a success!
59.7kReads9.0Score6.5kShelves
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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
1.8MReads9.9Score184.4kShelves
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Please, Just Retire Already 求求你快退役吧
How would you sum up LPL player Liang Chen's achievements in one sentence? “If Brother Chen had never been born, the LPL would have known only endless darkness!” After pulling an all-nighter, the down-and-out young man Liang Chen dies suddenly and is reborn in his youth, with the League System at his side. Starting out as an unknown boosting service player, he embarks on a legendary journey.
37.6kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
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Eternal Immortality: A Jailor Hiding Out in the Heavenly Prison 长生万古：苟在天牢做狱卒
[Smart characters, no brainless plotlines]+ [No System]+ [Cautious survival]+ [Immortality]+ [No heroine]+ [A sly schemer]+ [Political intrigue]+ [Prudent and cautious] Zhang Wu transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a jailer in the Imperial Prison from the start. For officials, the end of the road is the Imperial Prison. For soldiers, it is dying on the battlefield. For those in the martial world, it is getting killed in a vendetta. None of them meet a good end. If he wants to survive
69.8kReads9.1Score6.4kShelves
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One Hundred Thousand Death-Row Inmates Battle on Misty Island! 十万死刑犯，厮杀迷雾岛！
A meteorite crashed to earth, triggering a vast, strange fog. The fog covered the entire island of Nile. No one knew what bizarre events were taking place beneath it. Every soldier sent in to investigate vanished without a trace! To uncover the truth behind the fog, one hundred thousand death-row inmates were sent to Nile Island. Trapped on this mist-shrouded island, everyone had to fight brutally to stay alive... Meanwhile, mutated and bizarre creatures began to emerge from the fog...
7.6kReads8.5Score697Shelves
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Yanwan and Jinzong Are Both Reborn: Setting the Mad Palace Straight and Curing Yiyi's Madness 嬿婉进忠双重生，整顿癫宫破懿症
[Story of Yanxi Palace fanfiction + lots of Ying Zhong pairing + sweet, satisfying happy ending + angst for Ruyi] Formerly titled: Empress Lingyi Yanwan: Give Me Back the Fortune You Stole No rivalry between women. No Ruyi-syndrome, and there are also warm sisterly moments, but revenge will be served without mercy. Reborn, Wei Yanwan thrived, avoiding every mistake that had once given her away. Together with Jinzong, who had also been reborn, she tore away Ruyi's hypocritical mask and reclaimed
11kReads9.6Score1.5kShelves
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You Favor Your Adopted Son and Still Want to Bleed Me Dry? Dream On! 偏心养子还想吸我血？做梦去吧！
My new book is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
7.4kReads8.4Score647Shelves
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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
1.2MReads9.9Score172.8kShelves
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The Apocalypse Game Has Arrived: Fight to Stay Alive 末世游戏降临，请努力活下去
[Hunter: The process of evolution is often also a process of hunting and being hunted!] [Scout: See through the nature of the world, seek advantage and avoid danger!] [Mystic: At this moment, I am heaven and earth!] “You ask which class is stronger: Hunter, Scout, or Mystic?” “I really can't say...” “After all, I'm a game administrator. I can train in all three classes, and they all seem pretty strong!” The apocalyptic game is gradually descending into reality. Before them lies an age of peace
18.6kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
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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
1.8MReads9.9Score232.5kShelves
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Horror Descends: From the Start, I Hoard a Quadrillion Netherworld Coins 恐怖降临：开局狂囤百万亿冥币
[Decisive and ruthless + terrifying apocalypse + uncanny resurgence + supernatural horror + tycoon] The apocalypse arrived, and terror returned. Gods and ghosts roamed both the living and dead realms, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction. Money became nothing but piles of wastepaper, and bank balances were just meaningless strings of numbers. Underworld currency became the only money accepted between Heaven and Earth. Reborn two months before the apocalypse, Meng Ke went on a mad money-ma
2.9kReads9.1Score480Shelves
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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
420.9kReads9.6Score47.9kShelves
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How Strange! The Whole Cultivation World Is Fighting to Take Me as Their Personal Disciple 邪门！全修真界都在抢我当亲传
[Publication deal signed] Jiang Que transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the vicious female supporting character, doomed to a tragic fate and destined to be nothing but a foil for the heroine. The heroine is aloof and otherworldly, while Jiang Que is just a woman; the heroine is blessed with extraordinary talent, while Jiang Que has only her life to lose; the heroine has suitors everywhere, while Jiang Que has never even held a man's hand. Even worse, the day she transmigrates into the bo
88.3kReads9.4Score13.1kShelves
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I Was Reborn as the Villainess, So Why Are You Calling Me the Light of Righteousness? 穿成反派大小姐你叫我正道的光？
[No Romance, Pure Power Fantasy] Su Zhuo transmigrates into a book as the fake heiress of an immortal sect. As the protagonist’s sworn enemy, she’s doomed if she stays in the holy land for long. Without hesitation, Su Zhuo joins a villainous sect, saving herself ten years of detours! Her new sect is full of powerful figures: a fiercely protective master, a formidable mistress, genius fellow disciples, and her, who can simply lie flat. Su Zhuo thinks, “The sect’s scenery is so lovely. I’ll take i
19.8kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
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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
320.2kReads9.7Score31kShelves
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The Not-So-Cold Magician 不太冷的魔术师
[Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a
353.1kReads9.5Score31.7kShelves
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
29.4kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
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The System Abandoned Me, So I Took the Heavenly Dao as My Father 系统弃我不顾，我认天道为父
[No female lead + no System + traditional cultivation + comedy + bloody slaughter] Fifteen-year-old Li Chuyi finally awakens a System, only for it to try to run away before the day is out. Fortunately, before leaving, the System tells Li Chuyi to make the Heavenly Dao of this world his godfather. From then on, Li Chuyi becomes the Heavenly Dao’s godson, the darling of the world, blessed with good fortune. He finds money on the road and stumbles across so many senior cultivators’ graves that he c
24.5kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
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I Can Reload Infinitely, and See Through Every Hidden Card 我无限回档，洞悉所有底牌
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
376.8kReads9.5Score48.9kShelves
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From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世
The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li
117.8kReads8.7Score10.6kShelves
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I’m the Only One in the World Without Powers 全世界只有我没有异能
The apocalypse arrives, and after destruction comes new life. Everyone gains special abilities, while Li Chang'an, who has none, lives like a beast. Some teach him to be kind to others; others teach him to fight his way to a better world. Little by little, he comes to believe that there is light even in the darkness. Though the road is hard, he still wants to become one of the strongest, standing at the very top. But one day, the light vanishes before his eyes.
5.1kReads9.4Score650Shelves
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I’m the Lucky One in Politics 我是官场幸运儿
In the Game of Thrones, not everyone can emerge victorious. This book depicts how an ordinary person holds fast to his principles amid the whirlpool of officialdom, writing his own legend with wisdom and courage. Every twist grips the heart, and every choice is full of insight. If you want to understand the true meaning of being an official and the brilliance of human nature, this book will take you into a world that is real and deeply moving.
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One Sword, One Flask, One Universe 一剑一酒一乾坤
[Swordsmanship + Wine Immortal + Fantasy Xianxia + One Heroine + Mutual Devotion + Humanity’s Survival] A year ago, the boy watched his father shoulder his sword, slay demons, and save humanity, never to return. A year later, the boy arrives at Qingyun with only a sword and a jug of wine. Shunned by all, he is confined to the peach blossom grove. The sword his father called the “Sword of Protection” stands in the most prominent place in the Qingyun Sect, yet the world calls it the “Sword of Sham
72.1kReads9.3Score7.7kShelves
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Chasing the Sword 逐剑
[Traditional fantasy] [One female lead] [Lone cultivator] [No transmigration or rebirth] One day, if I hold a sword in my hand, even the saints of the world will bow their heads! One man, one dog, and one sword: together, they stir up a storm across the Six Provinces! After enduring the darkest moment of his life, the boy leaves the city at sunset with a sword on his back. How does he end up with white hair overnight, wearing a ghost mask and wielding a sharp blade, becoming the “Executioner” in
40.1kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves
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Cicadas Sing as the Sun Sets in the West 蝉声且送阳西
[Wuxia + swordsmanship + political intrigue + scheming protagonist + comedy + multiple leads] The world’s great currents form a chessboard, and all living beings are its pieces. One player commands the black pieces, another the white. One person has double pupils and looks down coldly on mortal life, overturning heaven and earth with a single gesture. Another is refined and graceful, laying schemes one after another, each linked to the next. Another, though only at the second rank, takes one ste
9.4kReads9.3Score984Shelves
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I Am the Sword That Can Slay Immortals 在下剑可斩仙
When common folk rise in anger, a million corpses litter the land and blood flows for a thousand miles. A half-immortal swordsman emerged from Dabe and slaughtered the wicked until the borders of Dabe ran red. His story begins the moment he set out for Changjing with a sword in hand.
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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