Looking for Beautifully Written Books, but No Romance 请文笔很好的书，但不要有言情。
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Your Honor 法官阁下
[Two Female Leads + Wealthy, Glamorous Older Woman VS Beautiful, Strong, Wretched Younger Woman + One-on-One Sweet Romance + Modern Alternate Setting + Marriage Allowed Later + No Angst] Jiang Shuyan was born into a powerful family. Whatever career she chose, she had the means to make mistakes and try again. For the first twenty years of her life, she followed the path her family had laid out for her, and at the time, she didn’t mind. Then a sudden upheaval changed her completely. It wasn’t unti
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The Moonlight Drapes Me in Splendid Robes 月光衣我以华裳
Just after returning from abroad, Chi Mu runs into a little punk at a bar. The punk is dead drunk and grabs her, kissing her without warning. Chi Mu doesn’t think much of the punk, since she’s hanging around a bar and has brazenly taken advantage of her. But later, when Chi Mu is injured, the punk rushes to treat her. When Chi Mu gets sick, the punk hurries to take care of her. Chi Mu is moved by the young woman’s sincere affection, but the shadow of her previous relationship keeps making her
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A Gentle, Flowing Seduction 似水撩拨
Two heroines / unrequited love turns mutual / sweet romance / easygoing and gentle & aloof beauty / surgeon and her younger college girlfriend / thirteen-year age gap (no blood relation or adoption) The summer before college, Jiang Lijin was deceived in love for an entire year, then cruelly dumped by her girlfriend. Her luck got even worse when she scraped an outrageously expensive Porsche while riding her bike. The owner was a beautiful older woman, who fortunately didn't hold her responsible.
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Trapped in a Game, the Femme Fatale Wants to Win Me Over 穿进游戏，蛇蝎美人竟想攻略我
Luo Xin is struck by lightning while playing a game...! She transmigrates into the player character she created. Just a second before she entered the game, Luo Xin was controlling the player character as she forced a kiss on the final villain, the male lead’s one true love! She never expected the fire she started to end up burning her, too... With no other choice, Luo Xin focuses on leveling up and becoming a powerhouse! After finally shaking off the side characters who keep pestering her and be
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Forced Into a Political Marriage, I Won Over My Aloof Senior Sister 被迫和亲，缠上清冷师姐
[Two female leads] [Angsty story] [Happy ending] After transmigrating into a book, Jin Yao discovers she's become the tragic second female lead, a mermaid despised by the protagonists. The male lead breaks off their engagement, then tears off her scales to make a skirt for the female lead, all to make her smile. So Jin Yao immediately decides to lie low and cling to the strongest woman in the whole book: a beautiful, cold-eyed woman who wears a blindfold! The blindfolded beauty treats her wonder
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I Pledged Myself to a Slacker, and the Metaphysics Master’s Secret Identity Was Exposed 我与咸鱼画押，玄学大佬马甲被扒
[No romance + mysticism + a cast of lovable goofballs + spiritual qi revival + a little wish fulfillment + secret identities + transmigrate into a book + everyone’s favorite] Gu Juanyan transmigrates into a novel about secret identities as a fake heiress side character with her brain in her backside. All she does is court death and give the heroine chances to face-slap her. After learning her situation, Gu Juanyan decides to keep out of trouble and live like a lazy fish. She had hoped to coast t
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I'm a Frail, True Heiress, So What's Wrong With Knowing a Little Mysticism? 我病弱真千金，会亿点玄学怎么了
[Metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying revenge + absurd comedy + no romance] Chi Le had lived for sixteen years before finding out his younger sister had been switched at birth! His parents said, “Your sister is frail and sickly, and can't take care of herself. You have to look after her.” One sleepless night, Chi Le went outside for a walk and saw his frail, sickly sister jump straight down from the third floor without a scratch. Chi Le: ? Then his supposedly helpless sister punched a thou
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Bloodstained Kyoto 血色京都
Li Nanle and Huo Yunxia were companions in the apocalypse who could trust each other with their lives. They survived together for ten years. Then one day, they transmigrated together, changing from peers into sisters eight years apart in age. Huo Yunxia had a cheerful disposition. After leaving the apocalypse, a world of daily bloodshed, and arriving in the feudal past, she had just one dream: to win a man's heart, have three or five children, and grow old together. Huo Yunxia got married and mo
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Yu Zhao Reborn: Cutting Ties and Settling Scores 虞昭重生断恩仇
Original novel of the short drama "After Switching to the Heartless Path, My Senior Brothers Wept and Begged for Forgiveness" In her previous life, Yu Zhao spent her whole life fighting Ye Congxin to win back the affection of her master and five senior brothers. In the end, she became a traitor despised by everyone and was killed by the very master she loved. Reborn, she gave up trying to mend her relationship with her master and senior brothers, and took the initiative to cultivate the Heartles
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Stepping Into the Divine Ruins 踏神墟
You’re all so powerful, armed to the teeth with money and influence. And I’m just a broke student. I don’t even have any friends, just a few sworn brothers from years past who’d lay down their lives for me. You call them the Ten Kings of Hell. I also have a childhood friend, whom you call Lady Meng. That road between life and death, that gate of reincarnation, I walk through them like they’re nothing. Getting tired of an opponent who can revive endlessly on the spot?
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After His Wicked Disciple Blasphemed the Gods, His Ascetic Master’s Eyes Turned Red 孽徒亵渎神祇后，禁欲师尊红了眼
[Completed] Su Yunche is a straight-as-an-arrow straight man who finds himself inside a BL novel. Him? A cold, abstinent master? He takes in a deranged, lovesick disciple who’s a little monster? Su Yunche wants to laugh. How could the disciple he raised with his own hands possibly have bad intentions toward his master? Some time later, Su Yunche is locked in a dark room by the disciple he trusted. Su Yunche: “...” Well, this is bad. The little brat has two faces and is forcing himself on him. Af
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Reborn: I Made My Obsessive Master Turn Dark 重生：偏执师尊被我撩黑化了
[Two male leads, no female lead, unhinged, obsessive and corrupted, master and disciple] Originally titled Reborn: My Obsessive Master Was Corrupted by My Flirting A doting, unhinged master as the pursuer x a naturally flirtatious, adored disciple as the pursued Shen Ziyu, a cultivation-world prodigy, entered the demonic path and defied heaven for the sake of his beloved, only to be run through the heart by a sword and die a gruesome death. Even after death, his vengeful spirit lingered. Shen Zi
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Master, Go Easy on the Punishment! Your Disciple Can't Take It! 师尊轻点罚，徒弟扛不住！
[Complete] Note: this has two male leads! It gets really sweet later. From the moment he was born, Shen An was branded an ill omen. When he was eight, his master, Chu Weiming of Bu Ming Mountain, rescued him from a fire. Shen An then swore to protect his master and keep him safe for the rest of his life! After ten years apart, they met again, and Shen An fell in love at first sight. But Shen An never imagined that the first thing his master would do after emerging from seclusion was use an Immor
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Xiaoyong Wushuang: The Hidden Story Behind the Bizarre Imperial Matchmaking 霄勇无双之奇葩赐婚背后的隐情
No transmigration, no golden finger, and still this powerful. Who says Emei women are inferior to men? I'm the leading lady. My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's. The responsibilities passed down to the next generation of the Ling and Xiao families have taken a slight turn. What secret is hidden behind it all?
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
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Mr. He, Your Husky Has Turned into a Human! 贺总，你家二哈变成人了！
Also known as Let Go of This Young Master's Paws! [Two Male Leads + Adorable Pet + Raising and Nurturing + Sweet Romance + One-on-One] Bai Xi had been swaggering through life for over twenty years. He never expected to crash and end up as a little husky. After carefully picking out a human to clean up after him, he managed to land the life he'd always wanted. Since he was here, he might as well make the best of it. Aside from his owner's slightly excessive possessiveness, everything was great.
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Hiring a Cat 聘狸奴
[No CP + adored by all + everyone has a one-sided crush + light mystery + solving cases] Ji Li is an unlucky soul who transmigrates to the Great Xia Kingdom after clicking on a shady ad. His worst luck is that he turns into a cat and gets taken home by six little kids to their ramshackle house. The first thing Ji Li does after transforming into human form is look for a job. He gets tricked into working as a page at a brothel without even realizing it. Little does he know that the brothel’s owner
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Reborn as a Cat, I Kicked the Movie Star 重生成猫后我踹了影帝
When Wen Song wakes up, he discovers he's become a little white cat that can only meow. Though he's no longer human, he still intends to make a name for himself in the cat world. For starters, he'll find a litter-scooper with serious clout: the movie star. Then Wen Song is frustrated to discover that being a cat brings him even more popularity than all his hard work in showbiz ever did! The movie star takes one photo of him, and it trends that very day. The whole internet learns about the star's
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After Coming Down the Mountain, the Little Hamster Was Kept by the Black Cat Mountain God 小仓鼠下山后，被黑猫山神圈养了
[Two male leads + mutually exclusive devotion + 1v1 + fluffy sweetness] [Soft, innocent little sunshine hamster × cunning, powerful, double-standard big black cat] After a century of cultivation, little hamster Bai Luo'an sneaks down the mountain to repay the mountain god, hoping to take human form. But... The moment he sees the mountain god, Bai Luo'an turns and bolts, clutching his little bundle. Why did no mouse tell him the mountain god's true form was a cat?! The big black cat dangles the m
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A Cat Falls into the Human World and Gets Carried Back to Its Nest by a Giant Snake 意外掉落人间的猫咪被巨蛇叼回窝
[Two male leads + adorable pets + everyone’s favorite + one-on-one romance + modern fantasy] Yun Zhou accidentally fell from the demon realm into the human world. On his first day as a little cat, he was so dazed that an old man picked him up. Then he crashed headfirst at the feet of a man who came over to visit. Yun Zhou felt he’d embarrassed himself beyond redemption. After mooching a meal from that man once, he discovered that staying by his side helped him regain his demonic power. So Yun Zh
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Those Days I Spent Reborn as a Cat 重生做猫的那些日子
[Two Male Leads + Devoted Love + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life + Healing] What should you do after being reborn as a fluffy little creature? Fall in love, of course! Lu Yu was reborn as a tabby cat. That’s right, a Chinese tabby, famously fierce in a fight. But the world is so beautiful that he doesn’t want to fight. He just wants to be a lazy cat who enjoys life, and help his human attract viewers during livestreams along the way. Then one day, a mighty black cat blocked his path and declared d
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Can’t Even a Little Calico Win Your Heart? 穿成小三花也不能俘获你吗
Two male leads + adorable pet + goofy comedy + can turn human (and can eat anything) Qin Miao was reborn. At first, he thought he’d landed in a horror movie: he opened his eyes in a cemetery, where he was wandering around as a tiny kitten. He made it through the night and met that man the next day. Oh, all right, so this was a sign of happiness! Life had been miserable as a human, but as a cat, he’d instantly reached the pinnacle of life. The domineering CEO was right there beside him! They say
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After Escaping Her Maidservant Status, She Became Obsessed with Making Money 摆脱通房丫鬟身份后，她沉迷搞钱
[Complete + no transmigration or rebirth + winning back his wife + slow-burn romance + political intrigue and business rivalry + pure-love devotees] She was a farmer’s daughter. After her father died, she was sold and became a kitchen maid in a marquis’s household. By a twist of fate, she was forced to follow the marquis’s family into exile for a heinous crime. She endured countless hardships and suffered many injuries to keep the whole family fed, all because the young marquis had made a solemn
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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
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I'm Not a God of Theater 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
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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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Reborn in 1993: Dark Sea 重生1993，暗海
The physical edition of Wrathful Sea, Calm the Abyss is now available. Presales officially begin at 19:00 on October 11. [Reborn] [Mystery] [Undercover Agent] [Revenge] [Anti-Drug Operations] [Counterespionage] The golden finger is extremely weak, and he relies on his own abilities. This is a battle of wits between highly intelligent opponents, so you need to keep your brain switched on. There is no showing off and face-slapping! Ideal for veteran readers. If you understand it, you'll find it ve
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The Thief's Way 贼道
My name is Xiao Wu. I was a wild child no orphanage could keep in check. At nine years old, I charged into this dog-eat-dog world. I saw through it then: living was like clinging to a moving train. You either held on or fell and were crushed to pieces. The first steamed bun I stole wasn’t because I was hungry. I wanted to see whether these hands that picked pockets could grab fate by the throat. The juvenile detention center, the shelter, and the detention center were my schools. The thieves wer
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The Tang Dynasty’s Fine Prince 大唐好贤王
[Funny and Stress-Relieving + Fiery Battles + Alternate History + “A Loving Father and Filial Son” + Top-Tier Jokesters Teaming Up + No System, Just a Golden Finger + Deep Grandparent-Grandchild Bond] In an alternate universe, in another Tang dynasty, the blood of the Xuanwu Gate Incident stained the flagstones beneath the palace walls red, and a different legend of the prosperous Tang began! Li Kuan, the second prince raised by his grandmother, Empress Dowager Taimu, survived a brush with dea
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The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了
[Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has
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The Official's Path: Rising to Prominence from a Funeral Home 官道：从殡仪馆平步青云
With a touch of scholarly refinement and a strong sense of justice, Zhang Yuanqing had been thriving in the officialdom until he hit a major setback. Then his girlfriend betrayed him, and he was banished to conduct research at a funeral home. Faced with deceit and sinister schemes, he refused to give up, finding a way to survive against all odds. Armed with the skill to bring down dragons, he set out from a humble background to forge a path to the very top. I am but a commoner from Jiangbei.
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My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客
After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem.
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Reborn with a Stockpile: The Beloved Toxic Girl Sweeps Through the Apocalypse 重生囤货：团宠小毒女横扫末世
[Post-Apocalypse + System Pocket Dimension + Stockpiling + Infrastructure Building + Strong Heroine + Everyone's Favorite + No Saintly Heroine] Who says a five-year-old can only be a burden? Yun Xiaoxiao is a tough survivor of the apocalypse. Reborn six days before it breaks out, she finds herself with a father who doesn't care for her and a mother who doesn't love her. Even after their divorce, neither wants her. So the five-year-old finally snaps. She clears out all the supermarkets and ca
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The Whole Sect Are Simps, but the Junior Sister Is a Real Menace 全宗都是舔狗，小师妹是真狗
[The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng
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The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批，唯有师妹逗比
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
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Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生：大佬从百万囤货开始
[Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot
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