Looking for Korean Entertainment Novels with IU, Lee Ji-eun, as the Female Lead. They're Hard to Find on Tomato Novels 求韩娱IU李知恩女主的书 番茄很难找
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A Tea House in Seoul 首尔的茶室
If you’re willing to read this, I’ll give you a very different kind of entertainment story. No melodramatic relationship drama, no forced tearjerking, just a gentle, understated encounter. A young man tends a teahouse, where time passes slowly and life is quiet. By a twist of fate, he meets Song Yuqi and a few of her friends. From then on, there is a breeze in a faraway place, and tenderness in the passing years. A journey as calm as a gentle breeze beneath drifting clouds, yet one that stays wi
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- 2 Peninsula: Out of Sync Across Time 半岛：错位时空 HY, a writer who never abandons a story or leaves it unfinished! (A redemption story) A super-conglomerate heir (just think about how super!) loses the will to live after a string of devastating blows. Then, by chance, he sees an online report about a celebrity who died because of cyberbullying, and decides to spend the rest of his life judging the people responsible! After meeting some people on the Korean Peninsula, a series of events beyond his understanding unfolds. Things gradually get inte 2.7kReads—Score177Shelves
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Foolish Princess Marries the Ninth Lord with Her Four Maids 退婚后，傻妃携四大丫鬟嫁九千岁
[Palace Intrigue + Household Intrigue + Historical Romance + Princess Consort + Legitimate Daughter + Medical Skills + Two Powerful Leads + Cunning + Playing the Fool + Reborn + Fiercely Protective + Political Scheming] 99% of the comments are positive! Read with confidence! Su Qian, once the leader of a special forces unit in the apocalypse, died unexpectedly while carrying out a mission. With her portable medical space, she transmigrated to ancient times and into the residence of a great gener
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In Korea, Surrounded by Female Idols 人在半岛：身边都是女爱豆
A Korean entertainment novel! A Seoul National University intern joins JYP Entertainment, one of the peninsula’s four major entertainment companies, and gets involved with some idols! Multiple female leads, mainly fifth-generation idols, with fourth-generation idols in supporting roles!
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- 5 Korean Peninsula: If They Give It to Me, I’ll Take It 半岛之她们给我就要 A Korean entertainment novel about an international student from a great Eastern nation and his adventures with a whole host of female idols on the peninsula! Pure feel-good wish fulfillment. Heroines: Sana, Mina, Jisoo, Irene, and others. 5.9kReads7.1Score317Shelves
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Transmigrate into a Book About Korean Showbiz: Starting with a Top-Tier Variety Show 穿书韩娱：从顶流综艺开始
He transmigrates into a book: the very novel he wrote. Most people who transmigrate into books struggle to survive, but for Qian Daozai, an author whose works always flop, it’s a return to his “home.” The proper synopsis: If the feelings between Kang Gary and Song Ji Hyo had never been kept buried in their hearts, and if the legendary producers had never walked away, might the cameras on Running Man have captured nothing but laughter and joy forever? Song Ji Hyo grips the hem of her clothes, una
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- 7 Korean Showbiz: IU, I'll Take Care of You 韩娱：IU，我养你啊 Korean entertainment #tycoon #single heroine (IU) #healing and nurturing #feel-good story Watching that girl struggle in the mud, he decides to make the whole world step aside for her. “Oppa, are you Superman?” “No, I’m just a man who happens to be rich, happens to know a little about the future, and happens to like only you.” [Pure romance + tycoon + healing + cozy everyday life] 3.8kReads—Score393Shelves
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Korean Showbiz: A Female Singer’s Celebrity Bodyguard 韩娱：女歌手的明星保镖
Kim Minjun is a man who has emerged from the darkness. He returns to Korea to fulfill a childhood promise to his younger sister from the orphanage, but through a series of coincidences, he becomes the “errand boy” for the members of Convenience Store. Another stroke of bad luck lands him a job as the personal bodyguard of a top female singer, setting off a series of events... P.S. This is an entertainment-industry novel, so don’t take it too seriously. New chapters every day at 5 p.m. Come by an
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League of Legends: Moving the LPL to Tears as an Actor 【联盟】作为演员感动LPL
This isn’t a pure esports novel. It’s set in an alternate parallel world. There’s some Korean and Chinese entertainment industry content. If you don’t like it, you can roast me, but don’t leave just yet. He gets an Actor System from the start. The better his acting, the more rewards he receives. “Sorry, everyone. I don’t want to act either, but the System just gives me too much.” Who would have thought that the last glimmer of light in the LPL’s darkest era would be an actor playing for an LCK t
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Peninsula: From the Start, I Became Lee Kwang-soo’s Neighbor 半岛：开局从和李光洙做邻居开始
Just started getting ratings! [Multiple heroines] [Comedy] [Daily life] Sending me to study in Korea during THAAD? What were they thinking! But there's a System, so I'm going! Liu Zhimin: Oppa, tell me, how do you think our story will end? Qin Wen: Let's talk about that later. Let's eat first! Zhang Yuanying: Oppa, I have money. Come live the rich life with me! Qin Wen: I'm rich too! Qin Wen: Autumn? Winter? Summer? What about spring? Why isn't there a spring? Uh... I'm living through spring rig
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- 11 Ultimate Challenge: Where the Dream Began 极限挑战，梦开始的地方 [Showbiz + System + Parallel World (No Transmigration) + The Men of Go Fighting! + Small Ensemble Cast + One Female Lead: IU, Lee Ji-eun] From the start, Lin Lei sold the script for Go Fighting! to Yan Min and became one of the original members of the Men's Gang. Sun Honglei, Huang Lei, Huang Bo, Wang Xun, Luo Zhixiang, Zhang Yixing, Lin Lei: “Go Fighting! That's just fate!!!” The bridge where Go Fighting! began, the place where the dream first set sail... Years later, Sun Honglei became an inte 6.9kReads8.3Score376Shelves
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The Day I Went to Korea, I Got Daily Rewards 赴韩旅游当天，我绑定每日奖励
After retiring, he sets out to clear his head and gets this System. From now on, he never has to force himself or worry about what other people think. He can simply enjoy himself and have fun to his heart's content, and everything will be his! (He gets a little carried away early on and does whatever he wants!)
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- 13 I’ve Been Reborn—Why Would I Still Chase After Her? 都重生了谁还追她啊 [Publication rights acquired] [Short drama released] [Comic drama released] One argument made Jiang Feng realize that his life had already been ruined. Just then, he was reborn in the 2014 college entrance exam hall. He was eighteen that year, and he and Gu Mengyao had yet to become a couple… 244kReads9.1Score17.6kShelves
- 14 Please Answer: The Korean Entertainment Café 请回答：韩娱咖啡店 Jiang Zaiyu was reborn in America with his memories and talents intact. After moving to Korea with his parents, he met the girl who had been his childhood sweetheart. Jiang Zaiyu had wanted to become an all-around idol, but circumstances forced him to become the youngest piano maestro instead. After reaching the peak of his career at a young age, he returned to Korea ten years later. He gave up his old dream of becoming an entertainer, opened a cafe, and decided to lie flat. And this story begin 2.2kReads6.8Score106Shelves
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IG: Top-Tier Horse, Bottom-Tier Horse, No Horse at All IG：上等马，下等马，没有马
[S7 + Incheon fans, assemble early + Crush the LCK + Can Play Every Position!] “Dash was right! KID was wrong!” Back at the Bird's Nest, Zhou Ming awakens the Five Horses System, which randomly gives him a buff before each match. Heavenly Steed: The living incarnation of the relic! Carries the whole team on his back! Fine Horse: Sets the pace and keeps a clear head. Average Horse: Does an adequate job, makes no mistakes, and contributes nothing special. Inferior Horse: Feeds one kill on the left
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Apocalypse: Founding a Pantheon on the Peninsula! 末世：从半岛开始开创神系！
In his previous life, Li Zhou scraped by and struggled to survive on a peninsula in the apocalypse. This time, however, an ownerless, blank divine persona sends him back to before the apocalypse begins. Facing an apocalypse governed by a data system. System: The Huangdi Neijing runs in your blood. Li Zhou looks at the female zombie before him, awkwardly: Isn't this a little inappropriate? Divine Persona: Ever heard of turning someone into a follower? Li Zhou: Well... I guess I'll give it a
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My Girlfriend Is Korea's Top-Tier Star 我的女朋友是韩国顶流
[Sweet Romance + Urban Slice of Life + Showbiz + Multiple Heroines + Campus Life] He went with his roommate to Seoul to see IU in concert. One unexpected incident led him to save the hugely popular actress Lee Ji-eun, bringing him trouble again and again. Furious, Jiang Mubai picked a fight with a chaebol in Korea. It felt great to beat him up, but it seems he may have landed himself in trouble. Now he’s become Korea’s greatest sinner of all time, all because he whisked away the nation’s little
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- 18 The All-Around Superstar: Starting as a Top Agent 全能大明星：从金牌经纪人开始 After transmigrating to a parallel world, he originally just wanted to lie flat. He took in the goddess of every homebody’s dreams, Li Zhien, and planned to quietly enjoy life as a handsome man. But then his father suddenly passed away, leaving him twelve hundred million in debt, and he was forced to take over the company. He’d never seen an entertainment agency this broke. He was the boss, the agent, the driver, the bodyguard, the nutritionist, and even the assistant. Since there was no money.. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 I'm an Entertainment Mogul, So What's Wrong with Being Afraid of My Wife? 我一个娱乐教父，怕老婆怎么了 Transmigration + No System + One Female Lead + Entertainment Industry Plot-focused, not a mindless story, with a strong effort to keep everything grounded in evidence. Chen Mo transmigrates to a parallel world, where he pursues his dreams in the entertainment industry. 13Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 20 Godfather of the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈教父 A down-and-out keyboardist breathes his last in a hospital bed. From playing accompaniment in dance halls at sixteen to scraping by in Sanlitun at thirty-two, he'd tasted every sweetness and hardship life had to offer. When he opens his eyes, he's back in Northeast China in 2002. His young body houses a heart weathered by life's vicissitudes, along with classic melodies that shouldn't exist until the future. No System or cheat ability, just a lifetime's worth of musical talent and experience. In 51.2kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 21 Korean Showbiz: It All Began When I Met Her 韩娱：从遇见她开始 [P.S. My writing might be pretty bad. Read if you want, but if you really can't get through it, all I can say is that everyone has their own tastes. You can also look for other K-pop novels. There are plenty of people who write them better than I do. That's all!] A synopsis? What do I need one for? Why would I have to write one? [P.S. Li Zhien falling in love has nothing to do with our IU, does it? (◔◡◔)] 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Star System: Starting in K-Pop 明星系统：从韩娱开始 In 2021, shut-in writer Zheng Ze went to bed and somehow transmigrated to a parallel world! “What the hell! It’s 2009? South Korea?” “A Celebrity Entertainment System?” In the age of “the gods battling for supremacy” in South Korea, he, a citizen of Xia, takes on the identity of Zheng Yizhan and carves out an empire in Korean entertainment, one step at a time! P.S. This isn’t a feel-good power fantasy. It has one female lead, stays close to reality, and starts at a leisurely pace. It consists o 1.4kReads7.2Score—Shelves
- 23 Korean Showbiz: Redemption Between a Mercenary and Ji-eun 韩娱：雇佣兵与知恩之间的救赎 (One heroine: IU, Lee Ji-eun. The male lead is Yi Shui, a “Chinese orphan.”) This is a modern urban romance set in a parallel world, a fanfic featuring IU. The story follows the two leads as they save each other in the entertainment industry. The first half focuses on Korean entertainment and the latter half on Chinese entertainment. Along the way, there are thrilling fight scenes, dark sides of the entertainment industry involving powerful financiers, political circles and underground organizat 244Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The All-Around Producer in Korean Entertainment 韩娱之全能制作人 [The first Korean entertainment novel on the entire site] Yan Dong, who has the face of an idol, graduates from film school and joins Dongshan Television full of ambition. A rookie, he single-handedly transforms the variety channel and becomes a hot commodity courted by major TV stations. To further his studies, Yan Dong heads to Korea. Starting with Infinite Challenge, he ventures from variety shows into TV and film, determined to prove to the whole world that the true national IP comes from Hu 1.1kReads5.9Score100Shelves
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Elegy of a Loner in Another World 异世界孤魂的悲歌
A Korean entertainment story featuring Shinbi, Seohyun, and IU. A lone soul from another world arrives here, embarking on a journey. Along the way, they find a kindred spirit, a younger sister, and close friends. The companionship of friends fills the emptiness within and gives this wandering soul the strength to say goodbye to their former life and begin anew.
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Starting as a Samsung Executive, I Set Out to Save Korean Entertainment 从三星社长开始拯救朝鲜娱乐
[Peninsula] [Korean Showbiz] [Loyalty] [Gratitude] I wake up as the president of Samsung, and luckily, I brought D Director with me. Wait, what do you mean this is Joseon? And what do you mean there's also a Chinese Empire? There's no Qing dynasty, no South Korea, and no Big Three entertainment companies. In their place stands the Chinese Empire, a colossus that succeeded the Shun Dynasty and practices a distinctive form of monarchy. For decades, the entertainment industry in the Empire's mainla
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- 27 Peninsula: The Youngest Son of a Chaebol Family 半岛：财阀家的小儿子 The early story features multiple female leads In 2014, the Korean entertainment industry was anything but peaceful. Girls’ Generation took a clear hit after Jessica’s departure, while Wonder Girls failed to break into the U.S. market and lost much of their popularity in Korea... The old order was crumbling, and a new era was about to begin... … 91Reads—Score—Shelves
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The System Took Me into Korean Showbiz, but I Only Want to Pick Up Girls 系统带我混韩娱，我却只想泡妞
[Multiple Heroines]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Korean Showbiz]+ [System]+ [Girl Group Bulldozer] On July 11, 2010, Running Man premiered. Hosts: Yoo Jae-suk, Ji Suk-jin, Kim Jong-kook, Ha Dong-hoon, Gary (Kang Hee-gun), Lee Kwang-soo, Song Joong-ki, and Ximen Liuxiang! Ximen Liuxiang? That's right! Young Master Ximen is determined to learn from “The Thief,” Chu Liuxiang.
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- 29 My Idol Girlfriend 我的爱豆女友 (Everyday life, Korean entertainment) 2014, the golden age of Korean variety shows. Gu Yi, an established PD from Huaguo’s Blue TV, arrives at SBS with a mission to “learn from advanced practices.” On the set of Running Man, he is Jo Hyo-jin’s most prized apprentice; In a tea room in Cheongdam-dong, he is the nephew of the chief prosecutor of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office; And on the upcoming Running Man China, he is the behind-the-scenes mastermind controlling resources on both sides of th 136Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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Korean Showbiz: Life Pretending to Be Cute in a Girl Group Full of Energy 【韩娱】在元气女团装可爱的生活
Blurb: A spin-off born from a wild idea. A story about a girl weighed down by a painful past and naturally unsmiling, voted into stardom by a crowd of jokesters, as she grows while living in a bright and adorable girl group. Reader’s guide: 1. The original tenth member of TWICE, the group’s producer, and an all-around ace. 2. The male lead is BTS’s seventh member. The story also features other boy groups and girl groups. 3. The author likes a good laugh and will include some rather mean jokes. 4
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- 31 K-Pop: Starting Out in a Girl Group 韩娱【从女团出发】 This story features real-life groups, so if that bothers you, feel free to skip it. I'm a new writer, and the writing may feel a little episodic. The story follows a chronological timeline. ♡♡ If you're reading, please leave a comment or two! I write everything on my phone, all by myself, so your comments would give me the confidence to keep going!! Thank you! ദ്ദി˶><)✧ Real-life groups: BTS, SJ, BP, TWICE, SVT, and so on. The heroine is a Chinese female idol. Her real name is Jin Yuanchen, her 427Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 32 Reborn in Korean Entertainment: A Path Strewn with Thorns 重生韩娱之荆棘塞途 Please read the blurb before you start reading!!! This is important, so I’ll say it three times: This book is entirely fictional. This book is entirely fictional. This book is entirely fictional. (I wrote it because I’m a fan of f(x) and EXO [OT9]. The heroine might not be to your taste. Repeating the same mistakes is just part of her personality.) Warnings: You may find the heroine melodramatic and prone to self-delusion. Important note: If the above bothers you, please leave. I write for love, 364Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Yan Haoxiang: Slowly Sweet Like Salted Soda 严浩翔：盐汽水慢慢甜 ◆ Lively, adorable, naturally beautiful little fairy Yan Lin (look: IU, Lee Ji-eun) ◇ Cool, composed, aristocratic little prince Yan Haoxiang Yan Lin is the most doted-on daughter of Beijing's Yan family. She's had everything go her way since childhood: if she wants the sun, she gets the sun; if she wants the moon, she gets the moon; if she wants the stars, she gets the stars. Yan Lin is good at everything except studying. And it seems the young Miss Yan has her eye on the top student, the impos 107Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 34 Korean Showbiz: The Beloved Idol 韩娱：万人迷爱豆 After being reborn, Zheng Qihan became a Chinese girl who had lived in Korea for many years. Her looks caught the attention of talent scouts from several companies, and she signed with JYP. After going through the selection process, she became TWICE's tenth member. She had planned to take it easy and be a couch potato, but unexpectedly, she turned out to have a knack for making trending topics and became a top-tier star. In Korean entertainment, where shipping celebrities can be downright danger 1.4kReads5.9Score—Shelves
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Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记
In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!)
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- 36 The Soul of Tang Returns to the Righteous Cause 归义唐魂 To the west, he allied with his uncle’s Yutian Kingdom; to the east, he reclaimed eleven prefectures of Helong. He drove the Uyghurs north and secured the Tianshan Mountains; looking south toward Chang’an, he reclaimed the old frontiers. Gunpowder shattered the Tibetan ranks; iron cavalry trampled the Khitan camps. The Three Stars Banner swept across Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the Han realm’s sky was opened anew beneath the sun and moon. 1.6kReads—Score142Shelves
- 37 The Heavenly Kingdom: The Rise of an Imperial Dynasty 天国王朝：帝朝崛起 This is the legendary life of God's agent, entrusted with shepherding His flock! From a modern transmigrator to a medieval infant, he relied on the Mount & Blade System and his own strategic brilliance to break free from constraints, defend the Holy City, establish an empire, and change the course of history for both the Crusaders and the Islamic world. (Early game: using Mount & Blade to break through; mid-game: political scheming; late game: cyberpunk space opera) 79Reads—Score106Shelves
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Life on the Peninsula 混在半岛的日子
Korean entertainment, the peninsula, idol auditions, K-pop, girl groups... From the start, she changes sex and gets set up on a blind date, then flees in a panic. She goes to Shanghai to look for work, but her education is too limited to find a job. Then a talent scout from Yuehua Entertainment discovers her. After competing on Produce 48, she debuts as a member of IZ*ONE.
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Ten Years of Frost: In the End, Even Fate Was Hard to Defy 十载寒霜：终是难敌天命
(Male-oriented, xuanhuan, immortal cultivation, xianxia, wuxia, sword cultivator, slow burn, heart-wrenching, multiple female leads, war) He was once the Crown Prince of the Xiaoyao Kingdom, and also the fiancé Shangguan Baili had waited ten years for. On the day his kingdom fell, his face was disfigured and he was left on the brink of death. Shangguan Baili saved him with her own hands. But she failed to recognize the man before her. Taking him for a lowly good-for-nothing with nowhere to go, s
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- 40 EN There's Always Someone More Cautious 没有最苟的只有更苟的 What is an immortal? What is a demon? What is righteous? What is evil? It all comes down to what the victors say! With absolute power, no matter how cunning your schemes, how brilliant your plans, how overwhelming your fortune, whether you are Heaven’s favored child or blessed with one opportunity after another, you can still only be crushed… Qin Fusu of the Great Qin Dynasty had been its crown prince since childhood. As the saying goes, a man of great wealth should not sit beneath a dangerous r 6.5kReads9.0Score477Shelves
- 41 Rain Beneath the Eaves: Some Loves Can Only Reunite in the Rain 檐下雨，有些爱，只能在雨里重逢 Rain Beneath the Eaves: Some Loves Can Only Reunite in the Rain 591Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Life-Eating Firefly 噬命萤 Life-Devouring Firefly 355Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Attack on Titan! 进击的巨人！ Attack on Titan! 331Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Inuyasha: Kikyo's Defiant Fate, A Heart Set Ablaze 犬夜叉·桔梗：逆命焚心录 Inuyasha and Kikyo: A Record of Burning Hearts Against Fate 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Naruto: Six Paths Naruto Wins Sakura Back, While Hinata Shakes Konoha as His First Wife 火影：六道鸣人抢回小樱，雏田为正妻震木叶 Naruto: Six Paths Naruto Wins Sakura Back, While Hinata Shakes Up Konoha as His One True Wife 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Naruto: I Defy the Heavens for Tsunade, and My Six Paths Golden Body Rejects Every Beauty 火影：为纲手逆天下，我六道金身拒尽红颜 Naruto: I Defy Heaven for Tsunade, and My Six Paths Golden Body Rejects Every Beauty 183Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Whole Village Calls Me a Lazy Wife, but My Hunter Husband Flirts with Me Every Night 《全村笑我懒汉媳，猎户夫君夜夜撩》 The Whole Village Calls Me a Lazy Wife, but My Hunter Husband Flirts with Me Every Night 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 My Family's Pressuring Me to Marry? I'll Bring Home a Northeast Bride Instead! 家里催婚？我反手带了个东北媳妇回家！ Your family pressuring you to marry? I’ll turn around and bring home a wife from Northeast China! 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Tokyo: From the Start, I Save a Kimono-Clad Beauty and Win Over All of Tokyo 东京：开局救下和服美人，我熟韵满东京 Tokyo: From the Start, I Save a Beauty in a Kimono and Become a Master of Mature Charms Across Tokyo 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Jujutsu Kaisen: Rewriting Causality, I Turned the Shibuya Deadlock on Its Head 咒术回战：因果逆写，我掀翻了涉谷死局 Jujutsu Kaisen: Rewriting Cause and Effect, I Turned Shibuya's Deadly Fate Upside Down 23Reads—Score—Shelves
