Everyone! Looking for Stories About Earnest, Down-to-earth Guys! Any Recommendations? 家人们！想看老实人文学！求推荐！

1. 1 就 I Want a Clueless, Irresistible Straight Guy to Be the Daddy! 就要迟钝万人迷直男当男妈妈！ Mie Mie Ye咩咩也Two Male Leads72k WordsOngoing [Everyone's favorite + slow-witted beauty + straight man + bottom lead + quick transmigration + dual male leads + no faked death + happy ending + intense romantic rivalries + split personalities] Shen Zhi considers himself a total straight man. Aren't brothers supposed to help each other and stick together? Wait, bro, what are you doing behind me? World One: The dorm's mom friend As the dorm's oldest resident, he has to take responsibility even if he's the youngest. Right, remember everyone's li 133Reads—Score—Shelves

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   These four books are all popular literature about honest people [laughs]

2. 2 逆 [Quick Transmigration] The Beautiful Cannon Fodder Who Takes Everything in Stride 【快穿】逆来顺受的漂亮炮灰 Xu Xinnian许新年Modern Romance601k WordsCompleted One-on-one, both leads are pure, and their marriage is only in name. Pretty, lovestruck husband x scheming, tea-green villainess Chu Yan has been a hopeless simp since childhood. That trait catches the attention of the Main God, who binds him to the Honest Person System. There are eight worlds, and the story is complete. A word of warning: the protagonist has a harem magnet trait. 21.1kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
3. 3 老 The Plain, Honest Guy Became Everyone's Favorite 老实男变成万人迷了 Snow Pear Juice雪梨梨汁Two Male Leads245k WordsOngoing Song Luo thinks he's the most miserable man in the world: a tragic background, a poor family, and an ordinary face. Then one day, Song Luo gets hired by the Time Administration Bureau. He's shocked, delighted, and eager to sign the employment contract. He completely misses the HR representative's meaningful smile and the HR assistant's uneasy expression. Only after he arrives at the company does he discover that he's been assigned to a department no one wants to join: LM Cannon Fodder. Song Luo 241Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 4 快 Quick Transmigration: Playing a Straightforward Cannon Fodder Doesn't Make Me a Scumbag 快穿：扮演炮灰老实人不是渣男啊 En Meng恩蒙Two Male Leads185k WordsOngoing [Two male leads, quick transmigration, everyone's favorite, love at first sight, 1v1, immersive quick transmigration, one gong split into multiple incarnations] Beautiful shou baby VS devoted gong World One: The Useless Husband When choosing a husband for his fiancée, why are all those men looking at him? World Two: The Poor Little Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel What should he do when the dead guy insists on becoming his husband? Oh, and there's also a burly man from the same village and an edu 434Reads6.7Score106Shelves
5. 5 快 Quick Transmigration: The Honest Female Lead Isn’t So Honest 快穿之老实人女配不老实 Cx330 DuckCx330鸭Modern Romance973k WordsOngoing Ji Chaoxi was an extremely honest person. That was the System’s first impression of her. When she saw the System staring at her, Ji Chaoxi managed a smile. It made her look even more honest... The System frowned hard and eyed her suspiciously. “Can you really complete the mission?” The System eyed the villainous résumé Ji Chaoxi handed over, full of doubt. Its senior had once told it that many of today’s Hosts were only half-competent, and their résumés were often at least a little fabricated. I 58kReads9.0Score3.7kShelves

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   Who knows! Who can understand the charm of pure love? Pure love is invincible!!! I want to live to be a hundred years old! I want to see pure love for a lifetime!!! The male and female protagonists in each world make me so cute! Honestly, let me chew it! All laughed at it! [Sending Hearts]

6. 6 普 Just an Average Girl: An Honest Man Is Forced to Become Everyone’s Dream 普女：老实人被迫万人迷 Dodecyl十二烷基Modern Romance450k WordsCompleted [Rivalry for Her Affections + A Socially Anxious, Timid, Snarky Girl vs. All Kinds of Brooding Psychos + All Male Leads Are Virgins] Luo Shiren has been finding things very strange lately. First, a handsome stranger inexplicably offered to hold an umbrella for her and asked to add her on WeChat. Then men with absolutely no connection to her started showing up one after another... A gentle, calculating man in a position of power, a dazzling and arrogant blond, a fresh-faced, harmless boy, a beaut 7.2kReads8.4Score988Shelves
7. 7 不 Stop Picking on the Honest Guy 不要欺负老实人了 Can't Think of a Name想不出来叫什么Modern Romance1.3M WordsOngoing (Second-person POV / reader-insert / purely BG / short-story collection, featuring nonhumans, gloomy yandere types, and all kinds of male leads. They have a weak sense of morality and lean toward coercion.) Most stories feature: a meek, honest you x a rotten guy (if that's not your thing, beware). 1. You're an introverted, socially anxious, hugely popular author of male-oriented infinite-flow novels. Your male lead is a cold, calculating madman who shuns women and is ruthless. One day, you op 102.9kReads9.4Score8.6kShelves
8. 8 快 Quick Transmigration: The Honest Man and the Dragon-Aotian System 快穿：老实人和龙傲天系统 Clear Little Pi清澈的小皮Two Male Leads811k WordsCompleted At Headquarters, Xie Li is known by everyone as the “Brick King.” He has long held the top spot on the points leaderboard, and insists he’s only been diligently completing the tasks assigned in each small world. Because his completion rate is so high, Xie Li, the model employee, is often assigned to abnormal worlds or ones no one else is willing to take on, where he plays all sorts of unlucky cannon fodder, vicious villains, and workhorse tools. As the Lord God wished, Xie Li excelled at every j 9.7kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves

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   This author personally certified an honest person. The protagonist is honest, conscientious, and diligently completes tasks one after another. [Smile][Smile][Smile] Until he is bound to a system that has always been doing Long Aotian's tasks, and then he starts the task mode that you dare to tell me to do.

9. 9 老 The Tale of an Honest Beta Being Deceived 老实人Beta上当受骗记 Wei Nuo Time and Space薇诺时空Two Male Leads552k WordsCompleted [Dual male leads + ABOE + playboy, roguish, scheming Enigma top x honest, simple, cheerful Beta bottom] Content warnings: both leads have past sexual partners; no pregnancy or Omega transformation; a small amount of entertainment-industry content, not the focus. Li Qing is a Beta. When he heard that his younger sister had found an Omega boyfriend in the imperial capital, he happily left the countryside to visit and bring her the betrothal money. But her boyfriend seemed quite wealthy, and the mo 52.5kReads9.2Score8.2kShelves

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   Wow, this is so beautiful. I'm still browsing the community to find a replacement.

10. 10 快 Quick Transmigration: The Honest Person with an Odorless, Colorless Deadly Poison 快穿：无色无味剧毒老实人 Lotus Root33莲藕33Fantastical Romance515k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration, earnest heroine, maybe a little bit of a male-magnet?] Song Yunxia gets bound to a System and is forced to complete a series of shameful tasks. From then on, she goes further and further down this road, becoming a notorious pervert. [School] You’re an honest student and a classmate of the campus heartthrob. Because your System is obsessed with the heartthrob’s underwear, you’re forced to steal his “tea.” [Powerful CEO] You’re the CEO’s assistant. Your System has its eye on 10.4kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
11. 11 你 Go Crazy Over Your Moonlight, Then Cry When Your Boss Falls for Me 你跟白月光疯，女上司爱我你哭啥 Grand Leader Huang黄大盟主Urban1.8M WordsCompleted [Officialdom + business + workplace + power and desire + men and women: What could drive people this mad?] Enough already! At thirty, a man shouldn't have to face a conspiracy to strip him of his position, the betrayal of his pregnant fiancée after seven years together, the merciless bullying of his beautiful boss, a terminal illness, and constant rejection and abuse from everyone around him! No, I'm done holding back! Just as he learns that his fiancée is about to get together with her white mo 2.3kReads8.0Score441Shelves

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    If you want to read a good and exciting book, this is what you want! Workplace + underworld + power and sex + men and women will make you ready to make a move! The workplace, officialdom and the world are all human nature, and life is a game! Thanks for reading and updating! Once you click in, you can never come out again! Explosive and beautiful

12. 12 老 The Daily Life of Consort Shun, an Honest Woman 老实人顺嫔的日常 I Don't Talk to Tasteless People不和没品的人说话Ancient Romance10k WordsCompleted The Everyday Life of Consort Shun, an Honest Woman 89Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's interesting [laughs]

13. 13 司 Commander Si, Why Are You Standing with the Monsters? 司统大人，您怎么站怪物那边了？ Little Black the Firebreather喷火小黑Urban3.6M WordsOngoing [No female lead + no romantic tension + no romance + ruthless and decisive] Amid the crowds beneath the neon-lit cityscape, there are monsters wearing human skin, walking among them just like ordinary people. The news says these people are called the Awakened. They feed on human flesh and are savage monsters. One quiet afternoon, an ordinary high school sophomore undergoes a transformation and becomes one of the Awakened, standing against all of humanity! To survive, he makes a pact with a god a 117.3kReads8.7Score12.9kShelves

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    The protagonist looks like an honest person at first glance

14. 14 玄 Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 Howling Gale哀嚎的狂风Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 157.5kReads9.6Score17.2kShelves
15. 15 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted 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. 203kReads9.6Score24.7kShelves
16. 16 哎 Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀！我七原罪，得了MVP！ Captain of the Trapping Camp陷阵营营长Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Dark comedy + hilarious + ruthless action + global setting + unconventional ideas + one heroine + near-invincible protagonist + power fantasy with a brain (or without one)] Horror games descend upon the world. Those chosen to participate must face challenges of inhuman difficulty. Though the games are full of torment, they also offer people a chance to gain supernatural powers. Life or death. A meteoric rise, or losing everything. But Lu Ce, who has been unable to feel pain since childhood, fee 136.8kReads9.3Score16.3kShelves
17. 17 大 First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 616.4kReads9.5Score55.1kShelves
18. 18 道 A Dao Heart Reaching for the Heavens 道心参天 Situ Qingchen司徒清尘Eastern Fantasy5.3M WordsCompleted The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi 186.1kReads9.1Score24.9kShelves

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    The protagonist is an orphan who becomes attached to a big elm tree. He opens his spiritual roots before getting wet by the elm tree's mother, and then starts practicing. This book has no system and no harem. It is a traditional fairy tale with novel plot settings and a novel about mortals becoming immortals. This book is really good.

19. 19 老 The Honest Man's Thorn 老实人的刺 Qiqi JiuW9琪琪九W99k WordsCompleted The Honest Man’s Thorn 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Take a look at this one

20. 20 老 An Honest Guy Doesn't Want to Be Forced into Love 老实人不想被强制爱 Liuliban六里阪Two Male Leads173k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Coercive Love + Chasing His Wife + Fake Pregnancy + A Chaotic Love Rival Showdown] Only after awakening did Zheng Anping realize to his horror that he was merely a cannon-fodder passerby in a book! With the plot already three-quarters complete, he is destined to become a pawn fought over by powerful players on all sides. His ex is the villain stirring up trouble, the law officer is hunting him down, and the hidden BOSS is altering his memories. Everyone has their eyes on him. T 171Reads—Score190Shelves

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    Very nice, this book

21. 21 开 The Great Dao From the Start: I'm So Bored! 开局大道：我好无聊！ Spring Breeze, Summer Cicadas, Autumn Moon, Winter Snow春风夏蝉秋月冬雪Mystery537k WordsOngoing [The Myriad Worlds + scheming + lighthearted comedy + loves making mischief + no female lead] What’s it like to become the Great Dao from the start? Su Nan can tell you: it’s worse than working 996! o(╥﹏╥)o After becoming the Great Dao, Su Nan was terribly bored, so he created clone after clone to explore the Myriad Worlds... Su Nan: “Explore what? Nobody’s allowed to go!!” Su Nan: “Who’ll play with me if you all leave!!!” Su Da: “Boss, I want to go.” Su Nan: “Take this flying kick!” Su Da: “Aah —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I honestly beg to be let go [crying]

22. 22 十 The Tenth Day's End: A Troublemaker's Paradise 十日终焉乐子人 Spring Breeze, Summer Cicadas, Autumn Moon, Winter Snow春风夏蝉秋月冬雪6k WordsCompleted The End of Ten Days: Mischief Maker 38Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 23 十 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score228kShelves

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    • Zhan Shen • Tweet: 🗡️ [Zhan Shen] Facing unknown challenges, courage is our sword! Join our heroes and break the shackles of fate together! #Zan#herojourney#fantasyadventure • The End of Ten Days • Tweet: ⏳ [The End of Ten Days] Time passes in a ticking sound, and every second is a matter of life and death. Follow the protagonist and uncover the shocking secrets within ten days! ##Suspense#Countdown • Flash Marriage Little Pregnant Wife • Tweet: 💍[Flash Marriage Little Pregnant Wife] Love comes fast, happiness comes true! Witness the sweet journey of this couple together and feel the power of love. #Pregnant wife##familywarmth • Heroine • Tweet: 🌟[Heroine] Blooms in adversity, and the power of women cannot be underestimated. Follow our heroine as she changes the world. ##Power#Growth story • I'm leaving Ultraman Tiga at the beginning. I don't know if there are any that you like. I think they are quite good-looking.

24. 24 我 Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted 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 1MReads9.9Score180.4kShelves
25. 25 失 After Going Blind, She Impulsively Married a Tycoon Worth Hundreds of Billions! 失明后，她和千亿总裁闪婚了！ Sweet Wine Seven甜酒七Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation, A Deep Confession in Your Eyes, is now available. Go watch it on Hongguo, everyone! [First Married, Then in Love + Devoted Couple + Age Gap + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Mu Qianqian accidentally goes blind while saving an old lady, then marries the old lady's grandson on a whim just three days later! Before her sight returns, Mu Qianqian worries every day that she's married an ugly guy with no car or house. Once she can see again, the man lifts her chin, his thin 12.6kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
26. 26 公 The Princess Arrives: The Scheming General Is Delighted to Be a Father 公主嫁到：腹黑将军喜当爹 If I Can't Write, I'll Just Make It Up不会写就乱写Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted They say the Princess of Lieyang is beautiful and useless, a spoiled tyrant who bullies men and women alike. She shamelessly broke up a loving couple and abused her power to force the Chancellor’s eldest son to marry her. After waking up reborn, Mu Yunchu resolves to turn over a new leaf and become a princess of lasting renown, accomplished in both letters and arms. They say the Chancellor’s eldest son wants to get back together with her, but the Gu family’s cold-faced, undefeated young general 3.2kReads9.1Score2.5kShelves
27. 27 开 From the Start, I'm Ultraman Tiga's Daigu, So Should I Leave? 开局迪迦奥特曼大古那我走？ Tomato Hotpot Fried Eggs番茄锅炒鸡蛋Anime Fanfiction759k WordsCompleted Lin Fan is an ordinary college student living in an ordinary city, working hard to make ends meet like everyone else. One morning, he wakes with dark circles under his eyes, exhausted in both body and mind by the bizarre dream he had the night before. In the dream, a mysterious little girl in a red dress can fly and carries a collection of Ultraman transformation devices. She asks him to choose one and take on the vital mission of saving the world, but Lin Fan refuses outright, preoccupied with 6Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 28 穿 Transmigrating to Great Qian as a Prince 穿越大乾当王爷 Wang Dongdong, a Late Bloomer大器晚成的王冬冬Historical627k WordsCompleted A worthless man from the twenty-first century transmigrates to the Great Qian Dynasty and tries his best to keep his head down. Instead, he is first made the Great Qian’s first non-imperial prince. Afraid the emperor will grow suspicious, he tries even harder to stay under the radar, only to gradually become the Great Qian’s richest man, the first prince to serve as a grand secretary in its Grand Secretariat, a pillar protecting the realm, and a minister entrusted with the emperor’s heir. He say 189Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Borrow a building and make arrangements, novels by new authors, fictional historical novels with flesh and blood, unsystematic, tearful, unbreakable, farming, plain novels. . . .

29. 29 真 The Real Young Master Goes Berserk After Being Reborn, and His Whole Family Regrets It in Tears 真少爷重生发疯，全家都后悔哭了 Ba Ba Liu Shi Si八八六十斯Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Male-Oriented + Reborn + The Whole Family Regrets It + All-Rounder True Young Master + Wish-Fulfillment] Everyone noticed that Su Yuan, who used to take every beating and insult without complaint, had changed. The Su family brought Su Yuan home from an orphanage. There, he learned traditional Chinese medicine from Grandpa Li and kickboxing from Grandpa Su. He longed for the warmth of a family and was willing to give everything for it. But after returning to the Su family, he discovered they alr 5kReads8.1Score403Shelves

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    Highly recommended by the 6895-hour old bookworm. If it doesn't look good, feel free to mock me with electronic music⠀‌‍‎

30. 30 惜 Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he 20.8kReads9.6Score4.6kShelves

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    Fighting in palaces and houses + doing business + getting rich + strong men and strong women. The TV series with the same name of this book has been released. Both the novel and the TV series are quite good. It is long-lasting, very warm, and very group-like.

31. 31 绝 Peerless Secret Words: The Spirit Heavens Chronicle 绝世密言：灵天记 Ouyang Miguo欧阳米果Eastern Fantasy997k WordsCompleted Through fantastical stories, this book explores the mysteries of the universe and explains the principles of life, helping readers understand why people live. In doing so, it can help them put their worries aside and embrace life's experiences with greater optimism and energy! 1kReads9.4Score122Shelves

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    Read this book, you will be enlightened after reading it, and you will benefit a lot!

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