Looking for Engaging Plot-Driven Novels with Smart Characters, Not Mindless Power Fantasies 求好看的剧情文，人物智商在线，不要无脑爽
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Urban: A Pen Shocks the World from the Start 都市：开局一支笔震惊世界
On July 31 of year XX, a supercriminal who shocked the world is about to be released without charge due to a lack of evidence. The news immediately enrages people all over the world. Everyone hates him, but no one can do anything to bring him to justice. Then a young man appears and, armed with nothing but a fountain pen, delivers justice in a way no one could have imagined. The world is stunned! “Ding! You have shocked the entire world!” “Congratulations, you’ve received 280 million?” “Congratu
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Tycoon: Ten Draws from the Start, Billions in Rewards 神豪：开局十连抽亿万奖励
Dumped from the start and looked down on by his girlfriend~~ The very next second, he activates the Tycoon Lottery System. [Reward: One supercar!] [Reward: One luxury villa!] [Reward: One entire Century Building!] [Reward: One bottle of body-enhancing serum!] Ten consecutive draws make him insanely rich, with all kinds of miraculous rewards. By the time he appears before his girlfriend again, his life has already taken an entirely different path!
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The Campus Queen’s Powerful Cultivator 校花的修仙强者
After three hundred years of cultivation, I return, having defied the laws of heaven and earth as a Renegade Immortal, all to send those who humiliated me straight to hell!!!
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A Cultivation Expert in the City 修真强者在都市
After his gold-digging girlfriend cheated on him, an ordinary young man from the city unexpectedly inherited the legacy of a mighty cultivator. From then on, he could summon wind and rain, becoming an immortal among mortals. A renowned traditional medicine doctor? My disciple. A gang boss? My underling. A top power player? My subordinate… With one hand, I turn the clouds and bring in endless wealth; with the other, I summon rain and slap faces. Life is this exhilarating, this satisfying! I leave
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Reborn: I, Xu Lei, Will Become a Tech Tycoon 重生狂飙：我徐雷要做科技大佬
A national defense researcher transmigrates into the TV drama The Knockout. He becomes Xu Lei, the beloved only son of Xu Jiang, a hot-tempered big shot in Jinghai. To change his tragic fate, Xu Lei avoids electrofishing and helps Xu Jiang transform his business. “I worked my tail off to build a business that brings in a fortune every day. Why should I change course and open an internet cafe?” “Son, why are you sending the beauties from White Gold Han off to sing and make movies? Can selling a s
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You’re the Expert Team, So Why Are You Learning Criminal Investigation from Me, a Fugitive? 你专家组，怎么跟我一逃犯学刑侦
Su Chen, who specialized in unsolved cold cases, transmigrated to a parallel world and was selected for a reality show about escape. He would be the show’s sole fugitive, hunted by a team of top experts selected from within the public security system! The show’s purpose was to showcase the power of the police and show the public just how easy it was to catch someone in modern society. But no one expected Su Chen to infiltrate the public security system from the start. Using his own methods of si
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War of Resistance, 1950: From the Start, I Have a Tabby Cat 抗战1950，开局一只狸花猫
During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the war that founded the nation, battlefield journalist Li Nuoyi heads for a snowbound front line with a mischievous tabby cat, enduring countless hardships along the way. The Americans are nothing special, and their lackeys are even more pathetic. He goes toe-to-toe with the great powers and brings glory to China!
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Reborn in 1980: From the Start, I Married My Sister’s Best Friend 重生1980：开局迎娶姐姐闺蜜
[The new novel Reborn in 1975: I Want It All, From a Loving Wife to a Fortune in Scientific Research is now a hit! Click the author's name to read it!] Li Yi is reborn, back in a small mountain village in 1980! When Tang Xue asks him to marry her once again, he doesn't hesitate. His answer rings out loud and clear: “I do!” In his previous life, he was blinded by his own foolishness and watched helplessly as Tang Xue fell into darkness! With a second chance at life, he swears to make her the happ
14.7kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
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My Father Is the Emperor Who Begs at the Gate 我老爹是叫门皇帝
In the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign, my father, Zhu Qizhen, personally led an expedition beyond the borders, hoping to spread the might of the Great Ming far and wide. He never expected it to be like sending meat buns to a dog: he went out and never came back, becoming the Emperor Who Knocked at the Gates. Once he was no longer useful, they sent him back to the capital and confined him in the Southern Palace. Now Father is knocking at the gates again. Zhu Jianshen, who had been countin
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My Whole Family Are Cannon Fodder, but After They Read My Mind, They Rebel 满门炮灰读我心后，全家造反了
[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
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
473.2kReads9.7Score73.9kShelves
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切
[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
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Piloting a Mecha to Ride the Tides and Battle Disaster Beasts 身穿机甲操纵浪潮打灾兽
The Bloody and Turbulent Years in the Kingdom of Velitan Hidden calamity beasts escaped the gods’ purge ten thousand years ago. Now, driven mad with hunger, they are pouring out of their lairs to wreak havoc in the mortal world. Thanks to the heroic resistance of the Calamity Beast Corps and the human ingenuity embodied in the Beast-Slaying Armor, the Kingdom of Velitan enjoyed a thousand years of peace. But now, a meteor from beyond the heavens has shattered that tranquility. The celestial wond
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National Mecha Warfare: Made-in-China Mechs Go on a Rampage 全民机战：国产机甲杀疯了
Lu Ziye arrives in a world of mecha. Here, every nation sends representatives to compete. Guardian mecha, Raider mecha, Infiltrator mecha, Rover mecha... All kinds of mecha take the stage, competing for the abundant resources of this world of mech warfare. As captain of the Dragon Nation's mecha squad, Lu Ziye is astonished to discover that he has gained a god-tier aura. Unlimited ammunition... Radar range +100% (entire squad) Armor +100% (self + one shared ally) Attack +100% (self + one shared
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A Common Man Takes the Stage 匹夫驾到
(Signed for print publication) (One heroine, no System, not a power fantasy, Chinese-style supernatural abilities) Among the infinite parallel worlds, there is a special world called Nanke, and a special group of people known as Calamity Exorcists. They soar through the skies and burrow underground, know the past and present, and travel between parallel worlds in different eras to carry out missions. A young man who calls himself a commoner is chosen by fate to enter Nanke’s mysterious academy,
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The Divine Cage Game 神笼游戏
In a dazzling technological future, a powerful being descends, calling itself a god and ruling over all. Everything becomes a game for the gods. The gods become humanity’s sole objects of faith. Above all faith, humans are the pieces and the gods move them. The world is a cage, and this is a game ruled by the gods. The gods rule everything! The gods create the games! The gods make the rules! Rule One: Every human must take part in the game. You need a ticket to compete, but the winner takes all,
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Ultimate Restraint 顶级克制
Rain poured outside the window, and the air was heavy and damp. The room was silent except for the soft rustle of Zhaoming Ji wiping her hair with a towel. Lu Daiqing sat on the sofa, watching her. She smiled, then padded slowly toward him on her wet, bare feet, and stepped on his white sneakers. - The air was hot and humid, the gloom unending, the tension thick with the scent of gunpowder, and the unspoken intimacy impossible to ignore. Under the same roof, she and he held themselves back, each
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Waiting for Your Heart to Flutter 在等你心动
Shen Shiyu comes from a good family, gets good grades, and is good-looking. He's a model student through and through. Tong Yang thought he was an untouchable beauty on a snowy peak, but it turns out he's a hopeless romantic. Tong Yang is fair-skinned and beautiful, with long legs. Shen Shiyu thought she was a cool, fairy-like beauty, but it turns out she's a total comedian. Shen Shiyu racks his brains trying to make her his. After they get together, Tong Yang isn't satisfied that Shen Shiyu stay
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I Promise You a Sea of Stars 许你万里星海
She is a new-generation aerospace professional from a family of aerospace pioneers. Her faith gives her the composure to face hardship with calm. He is an aloof-looking ophthalmologist. The shadows of his youth and painful memories have sealed his heart behind many locks. She says, “I’m not captivated by worldly splendor. I only have eyes for that vast sea of stars.” He says, “I just want to care for your eyes, so you can see higher and farther.” The best career is one you can pursue without hes
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Capital City: Kill 京，杀
[Heiress to a Fortune x Scion of a Powerful Family] [An Intense Push and Pull] Jin Chu had spent half her life dazzling everyone, a socialite admired by all in the capital. She lost just once in her life, betting everything on a man. She lost completely and gave up everything... Until one day, someone came to ask for peace. Her gaze was cold, her tone flat and devoid of emotion. “I’d quite like to see what a heaven-blessed prodigy looks like when he’s brought low.” The man’s dark eyes roiled
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On Night Duty, I Was Kissed by the Goddess Who Mistook My Car 半夜执勤，被上错车的女神强吻了
[Transmigration + campus goddess + a little detective work and crime-solving + urban slice of life + one female lead + guaranteed sweetness (with a mix of spicy and mild scenes)] [This is a career-and-romance novel! Career and romance! Career and romance! The important things must be said three times!] [This is neither an invincible protagonist story nor a power fantasy! Just an ordinary urban slice-of-life novel!] [Romance is the focus, with crime-solving as a secondary element (though the case
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A Polite Scoundrel 斯文败类
Zhou Luochen is the legal profession's devil's advocate. He has never lost a case, and everyone trying to escape the law's punishment goes to him for representation, no matter how steep his fees are. He's always impeccably mannered, courteous, quiet, reserved, gentle, and kind. When Fang Yi joined the law firm as a typist, she couldn't believe that such a mild-mannered gentleman could be the “well-spoken scoundrel” everyone described, even if he was supposedly the devil's advocate. That is, unti
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Starry Sky Martial Venerable: My Mech Era 星空武尊：我的机甲时代
Mecha are a man's romance, and conquering the stars with mecha is an even greater romance! A vast universe, five great empires, subdimensional lifeforms, cosmic oddities, living planets, wars across dimensions, and atomic calamities! How can you conquer the universe if you're too weak? This is the story of a mecha-obsessed boy who grows stronger and stronger as he conquers the universe.
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Divine Mecha Master 神迹机甲师
Mecha upgrades + insectoid invasion + interstellar warfare + warrior evolution + a rise from the bottom (This book is a slow burn, but it gets more exciting as it goes on.) This is a mecha world of interstellar warfare, where countless civilizations climb the tree of technology and embark on the path of genetic evolution in the face of insectoid invasion. There are mechas larger than planets, warriors who can shatter a planet with one punch, and those who use mental power to control everything
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Doomsday: I Livestream Mech Suit Hauls, and the Nation Freaks Out 末日：直播开机甲囤货，国家破防
[Apocalypse + mecha + nuclear wastewater discharge + livestreaming + System + stockpiling supplies] Japan dumps nuclear wastewater, and countless mutated giant beasts appear beneath the sea! Ye Qiu is reborn before Blue Star is destroyed and activates the “Wanderer System.” From then on, he livestreams his supply hoarding, sells at sky-high prices, and goes on to livestream the instant slaughter of prehistoric-level giant beasts. “Send me a big sword gift and you can pick whatever supplies you w
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From Mecha Pilot to Starfleet Commander: I Rule the Stars 从开机甲到星海舰队，我统御群星
(Modern warfare + mechs + starships + galactic scale + farming on a colonized planet + decisive combat + exhilarating battles. The author has a highly rated previous novel with 2.4 million words. Read with confidence.) Standard version: Li Xin wakes up on the colonized planet Guansuo IV. Guns, cannons, tanks, fighter aircraft, mechs, starships. Together, they forge a future of blood and fire. Tens of thousands of interstellar warships stand ready, along with countless void mechs. Dense beams fro
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Who Says My Mecha Is Scrap? 谁说我的机甲是破烂
Interstellar + military academy + powerful female lead The Pelos Empire, a perennial last-place loser in the Saiya star system rankings, had finally produced a peerless 3S genius, An Ci. But he set himself on fire in the final points match. The Empire’s people branded An Ci a deserter and vented all their pent-up fury on his younger sister, An He. Exile, enslavement, attacks, having her psychic rank stolen and claimed by someone else: all par for the course. But so what? An He has another name:
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Echoes Beneath the Stars 星空下的残响
(Sci-fi) (Apocalypse) (Supernatural powers) (War) “Wushang, welcome to Scarlet Crimson, the strongest and most badass special operations squad in Skyblade! From now on, this is your new home, and we’re your family. Remember our team motto: If you don’t like it, fight! Hey, what’s with that look? Relax, everyone here is totally normal!” The scorching-hot captain, whose combat power is off the charts: “Heh... Men? They’d only slow down my sword arm.” The good-natured rich young master: “Sure, I ha
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A Guide to Everyday Life with Nonhumans 非人类日常注意事项
[Speculative sci-fi + urban + no System + one heroine + slice of life] After the world’s order collapsed and was rebuilt following the sudden appearance of monsters, an ordinary person who wanted nothing more than a quiet life gained the ability to turn into a monster. His everyday life was anything but ordinary.
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Mechanic: God of Machinery and Flesh 机械师：机械与血肉之神
Who says a mechanic can't be a doctor? Just replace the patient's organs with machinery! After working overtime, Li Yu was flattened by a dump truck and turned into a two-dimensional character, then sent to a steam-and-magic fantasy world. The good news: He got two Systems. The bad news: Both Systems are only half complete. [Steampunk] + [Mecha] + [Slice of Life]
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The Invincible Heavenly Emperor 无敌天帝
A botched ascension sends Ye Fan back to life a hundred years in the past. A prodigy in every field, with an endless array of martial arts techniques, knowledge of everything under the sun, and the power to foresee the future. Now that I am reborn, I shall rule heaven and earth. Those who disobey me will die! Those who refuse to submit will be slain! One word can bring an age of chaos to heel; one sword can cleave the nine heavens. I command divine beasts, forge divine weapons, shatter the void,
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Riches and Splendor 富贵芳华
When it came to Ning Fang’s idol, there was only one: Xia Zhenzhen, the Xia family’s legendary great-aunt, whose glory peaked more than a century ago! Renowned for her “exceptional intelligence,” she was chosen at just fifteen by a family of scholars and married into a prestigious household as the legitimate wife, despite being a merchant’s daughter. After the wedding, she and her husband were “deeply devoted to each other,” and even her mother-in-law praised her: “She is as good as my own daugh
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Lone Phoenix 孤凰
The genius Yue Ning’an dominates the business world, amassing a fortune and never suffering a defeat. That is, until she takes a major fall because of Lu Zangfeng. She has been married to him for three years, spending all three alone in the bridal chamber. At last, General Lu returns victorious, but instead of sharing in her husband’s glory, she gets handed a divorce decree. Having lost both her money and her heart, Yue Ning’an takes the decree, cuts her losses, and leaves with a carefree stride
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