Looking for Novels with Sensible Characters 求智商正常的小说
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Quick Transmigration: The Background Character Doesn't Die as Cannon Fodder 快穿之路人不炮灰
[Some worlds have a couple + slice of life + lighthearted] One day, Chen Rou enters the world of a novel and becomes one of those passersby who are mentioned in only a few lines. As she goes through one quick transmigration after another, will she be able to hold on to the heart she started with? Most worlds have no romantic pairing, while a few do, and the pairings aren't fixed! The characters' values do not represent the author's values!!!
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Quick Transmigration: Could You Please Stay Away from Me? 【快穿】拜托你们离我远点好吗
[This is an embarrassing piece of my past. Please don't read it! (っ╥╯﹏╰╥c)] [This isn't a good no-CP story. You can't even call it no-CP, because although there's no male lead, there are indeed ambiguous moments and one-sided crushes from side characters. (I really want to slap myself. I don't know what I was thinking back then. I wrote it like a pile of crap, and it was so childish... It was my first book, after all, and I was young when I wrote it. I was far too naive.)] [Now I understand clea
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Slow Travel Through Life: Learning Until the Very End 慢穿活到老学到老
[Slow transmigration] [No CP] [Fanfiction] {World 1: Empresses in the Palace} Complete {World 2: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, starting with The Mystic Nine} Complete {World 3: Dae Jang Geum + Lu Xiaofeng} Complete {World 4: Hunter x Hunter} Complete {World 5: Scarlet Heart} Complete {World 6: Harry Potter} Complete {World 7: A fairy-tale crossover} Complete {World 8: Original world} Zhang Ruoqi died. She was a nobody from the outer sect of a cultivation school, caught in the crossfire when the
14.2kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
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
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Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
129.6kReads9.5Score13.3kShelves
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Don't Call Me a Demon 别叫我恶魔
[Qing Feng's new novel, This Player Has Something Wrong with His Head, is now serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] The sacred heavenly gates stand across the sky, while the demonic abyss of time and space lays waste to the human world. When twelve spirit springs burst from the earth, when the moon no longer belongs to humanity... Where will we go from here? A world of gods? A world of demons? No. This is a world that belongs to humanity! I will take up the crown no one else wou
199.6kReads9.4Score19.7kShelves
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Slay the Gods: Born to Be an Emperor, I Am Heaven's Will! 斩神：生而为帝，我即是天意！
[Slay the Gods + Emperor Armor + Shura Armor + Yatales Armor...] After transmigrating into the world of Slay the Gods, Su Chen possesses the Five Elements bloodline and becomes the wielder of the Emperor Armor. As long as he seals a mysterious creature and refines its energy, he can keep growing stronger. No matter what realm a mysterious creature has reached, even if it's a god, if the Forbidden Ruins can't hold it down, the Demon-Sealing Sticker will keep it fed and housed. And if the Star Bla
28.5kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves
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Seven Souls Pave the Path to Invincibility: Remember My Name, Wen Liang 七魂成就无敌路，我叫温良你记住
[No Angst in the Entire Novel] [No Harem] [No System] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Awakening Weapon Souls] [National Tournament] [Alternate World] [High Martial] [Quantum-Level Mild Wish Fulfillment] A young man from a small town bears a burden no ordinary person could carry. He raises his blade against the abyss, his blood staining the heavens! When he appears alone at the headquarters of the myriad races... The ruler of the myriad races: “What? You’re saying he handled the a
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The Seven Kings Reunite, and Judgment Descends 七王重聚，审判降临
[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
110.5kReads8.6Score7.2kShelves
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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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On Our Wedding Night, My Comatose Husband Suddenly Kissed Me 新婚夜，植物人老公突然亲了我
[Complete] [No angst in the whole book. It’s super sweet.] The day the Tong family went bankrupt, Tong Yan, Jiangcheng’s most sought-after socialite, became a target for everyone to trample on. Who could have guessed that Miss Tong would turn around and marry Lu Tingxiao, a living corpse who had been lying in bed for six months without ever opening his eyes? Well, now she was the punchline of every joke. Just as everyone waited for the ridiculous drama of Young Master Lu’s wife getting lonely an
3.6kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
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Rule Horror: I’m an SSS-Rank Supernatural Being 规则怪谈：sss级异能我是诡异
[Rule-Based Horror] [No Romance] [Plot-Driven] [Original Instances] [Mild Scares] After a sudden accident, Li Mu was led into a rule-based horror world by an old man. Several characters have special abilities, not just the protagonist, so there are few useless characters in this book. Dear readers, you are welcome to leave comments.
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Creepy: I Play the Villain in a Horror Game! 诡谲：我在恐怖游戏中当反派！
[Infinite Flow] [Horror Survival] [Supernatural Whimsy] [Strong Female Lead] [Not a Saint] Si Bo wakes up inside a terrifying dungeon... The good news: she has found Gu Nianci, her closest friend, bound to her through life and death. The bad news: Gu Nianci wants to kill her! She says Si Bo is a bad person. A demon who kills without batting an eye, at that... How could that be possible? She is a perfectly respectable, upstanding young woman. How could she have turned bad? She refuses to believe
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Rule Horror: I Can Foresee Death 规则怪谈：我能预见死亡
[Original Scenarios + Foreknowledge of Death + Deduction + National Fortune + Live Broadcast + Suspense + Horror] Supernatural tales descend, and the bizarre invades. One person in each country will be chosen as the lucky contestant, entering countless Rule Horror worlds where all manner of horrors lurk. Clear the scenario, and your country will earn a brief respite! Fail, and the rules descend upon a city, bringing disaster and leaving countless people dead or grieving! This time, Su Li is chos
18.4kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
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The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界
(The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w
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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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Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友，你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊？
Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity!
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The Whole Family Can Hear My Thoughts: I’ll Just Watch You Perform 全家偷听心声，演，我就看你们演
[Physical edition of "Claiming the Pearl 2" goes on presale October 17 at 7:30 p.m.] [Mind reading + System + adored by the whole family + transmigrate into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger] Qiao Jiaojiao had accumulated so much virtue in her past life that the Old King of Hell granted her a rebirth with all her memories intact, plus a golden finger: a Virtue Points Shop. Qiao Jiaojiao was thrilled to start her new life, only to discover she hadn't been reborn at all. She'd transmigrated i
133.1kReads9.7Score15.8kShelves
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Crazy, All Crazy, A Little Madness Is Good 癫，都癫，癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
370.9kReads9.8Score53.1kShelves
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Teacher Chang Mao 长矛老师
Originally titled “You Sell Swords, I Go Crazy: Together, We Set the Entertainment Industry Straight” [Rebellious CEO × Defiant Top-Tier Star] [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + dating show + nonsense + memes + shameless antics] Jiang Qiyu transmigrated into a book. She became a brainless cannon-fodder character in a novel about a fake heiress in the entertainment industry. After taking a phone call, she realized the plot was already more than halfway through. Her family had abandoned he
144.4kReads9.7Score15.8kShelves
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Stockpiling a Hundred Billion in Supplies: An Assassin Squad Clears the Apocalypse 囤百亿物资，杀手小队通关末世
(Female-led story, zombies, team-based, decisive and ruthless, not a bleeding heart) Bai Yaoyao, ranked number one on the assassin leaderboard, awakened a spatial ability after the apocalypse began. She led her brothers from the organization to carve out a path through the carnage and reach the top of the apocalypse's Ten Strongest list. Yet, in the end, she still died in the apocalypse's tenth year, cut to pieces by an Emperor-rank spatial zombie. She thought her life was over. But when she ope
118.1kReads9.5Score13.6kShelves
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Beast World Shock! She’s Once Again Spoiled by Handsome Beastmen 惊爆兽世！她又被美男兽们强宠了
This story features a strong heroine and hero, a woman adored by everyone, and secret identities. Ye Luoxing accidentally enters a beast world full of handsome men while on a mission! The men of the beast world are savage, domineering, and brutal, while females are incredibly rare! Beautiful and sweet-voiced, skilled in martial arts and medicine, Ye Luoxing is an all-around flirt. As soon as she arrives in the beast world, high-ranking beastmen set their sights on her. To complete her mission an
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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Roses and Guns [Criminal Investigation] 玫瑰与烈枪【刑侦】
[Their flesh and blood will forge my glory, becoming the honor I pursue for the rest of my life.] One June, two major events took place at the Qin City Public Security Bureau. First, a female captain named Gu Ji joined the anti-narcotics squad, and her darts flew in dazzling patterns. Second, a police badge number that had been dormant for ten years was reactivated, and this female captain was its successor. That same June, two major things happened to Song Yanci, leader of the major crimes
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A Little Land of Mountains and Rivers 小山河
When Chi Xia first joins the special investigations team, Luo Xun strongly recommends transferring her elsewhere. The intern is so thin-limbed and wooden, like she can barely keep her eyes open. What makes her suitable for this team? She’d be much better off in Publicity! The thin-limbed intern says nothing, responding to everything with, “Captain Luo, solving the case comes first.” Luo Xun is so frustrated he can barely contain himself. The team is doomed, he thinks. Before long, Captain Luo ge
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Why Not Sail Together 何不同舟渡
"The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten
152.7kReads9.7Score61.5kShelves
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
114.6kReads9.6Score12.6kShelves
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I Rule the Desert Island Variety Show, Top-Tier Star. You’re Strong as a Wild Boar 荒岛综艺我称王，顶流野猪你的强
Jian Xun is a wild boar. Right now, she’s being forced to serve as a laborer in this world. With an alcoholic father, a mother who favors her son, a hard life, and a broken family. The little wild boar sneered: “You don’t know when you’ve got it good. You people are beyond saving!” To her son-obsessed adoptive mother, she smiled and suggested: “Why not just marry your son? You can be his wife and his mother. Everyone will praise you for managing the household!” To the arrogant male lead whose be
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A Hard Nut to Crack 硬骨头
The new major-crimes squad captain, Lin Cuo, is gorgeous, cool, confident, and bold enough to take on Jiang Yi, the icy demon king of the criminal investigation corps. Everyone waits for her to make a fool of herself, but... Captain Lin keeps sending in good news: the shattered-skull case, the Lolita case, the death of a female livestreamer... Captain Lin is incredible! Jiang Yi is a top criminal investigator, a walking iceberg who solves cases with ruthless speed and dominates the police force.
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Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事
These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap
114.8kReads9.6Score11.7kShelves
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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
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The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱
[This novel has been contracted for publication] [Strong female lead + high-IQ palace intrigue + heroine schemes against the entire harem + psychotic villain personality] Song Zhao has always been a woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals, and she is also more clear-headed than anyone. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was perfectly clear: “I’m entering the palace to become Empress. Otherwise, what would I go there fo
87.9kReads9.5Score10.4kShelves
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Palace Intrigue Begins Before the Selection 宫斗从选秀前开始
In her previous life, she endured a life of hardship and instability. From the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Wu’an to a government courtesan available to any man, she finally escaped a life of being passed from one man to another, only to jump from the tiger’s jaws into the wolf’s den. She walked on eggshells at every step until she finally became the real power behind the prefect’s household. But the misery of her first half of life had already left her body broken beyond repair. Only o
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My Boss Ran Off With Me 我被老板拐跑了
When Ye Linghui was 300,000 yuan in debt, she couldn’t get in touch with her first boyfriend. To keep her family from worrying, she rented a five-square-meter attic room. The company where she worked herself to the bone was acquired, and the woman who came to take it over was beautiful. After a company outing, Ye Linghui ran into her gorgeous boss again, and never expected to find her being kidnapped. From Ye Linghui’s perspective, anyone normal and capable would have stepped in. But from Hu Qin
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Professor Qi, May I Borrow a Marriage? 祁教授，借个婚
Just as Wen Zhixian is about to register her marriage to Gu Yuchen, she accidentally breaks a mug his ex gave him. Gu Yuchen’s slap shatters the affection they once shared. Mr. Qi always seems to appear when she’s at her most miserable. Her parents are unhappy that she broke up with Gu Yuchen, and, overwhelmed by heartbreak and their undeserved blame, she impulsively asks the first person she sees, Qi Yanjing, “Mr. Qi, would you marry me?” Qi Yanjing not only refuses, but gives her a long lectur
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