Starting Over and Finding Redemption: The Protagonist Tries to Escape the Shadows of the Past! 重新开始与自我救赎：主角试图摆脱过去的阴影！！

1. 1 王 My Lord, This Secret Guard Knows He Was Wrong and Begs to Be Punished 王爷，暗卫知错了，主动求罚 Mu Chenze慕辰泽Two Male Leads405k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + prince and bodyguard + domineering top and loyal bottom + sweet romance + a little physical angst] A romance between two men: a prince and his young shadow guard. The domineering Prince Jun Yu, the top, versus Ying Mo, his loyal shadow guard, the bottom. In his previous life, Jun Yu spent ten years fighting on the battlefield, devoting himself to supporting his elder brother. He was the renowned Prince of Qin of the Dayan Kingdom, a young hero praised by the people. Yet when h 19.4kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves

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   Very nice, I recommend it

2. 2 单 Master Shan's Darling Is Sweet and Sassy 单爷家的宝贝可软可A Happy1哈皮1Two Male Leads786k WordsCompleted [Completed] They say that Lord Shan, the most powerful man in Sucheng, is as mighty and imposing as a tiger: violent and bloodthirsty, feared by everyone. But his brothers watched the decisive, ruthless Lord Shan pursue a sweet, gentle young man, and saw him coax and even trick the boy into giving him a chance. What a joke! Anyone Lord Shan sets his sights on usually washes up and comes straight to him! But this young man was particularly ungrateful. When someone bullied the boy's friend, Lord S 8.2kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
3. 3 偏 The Obsessive Tycoon's Little Sweetie Is Reborn 偏执大佬的小奶包重生了 Nan Jiangzhou南江舟Two Male Leads358k WordsCompleted A sweet, tearful bottom and a possessive CEO top In his previous life, Shen Lubai always believed Huo Ting was the one who killed his parents. He was constantly thinking of ways to avenge them. The better Huo Ting treated him, the more Shen Lubai thought he was acting out of guilt, trying to ease his conscience because he had something to hide. But it was only when he died that Shen Lubai realized how terribly wrong he had been. It was all because he was too stupid, falling for a villain’s trick 4.3kReads9.0Score464Shelves
4. 4 谁 Whose Simp of a Male Supporting Character Gets Held and Kissed by the Male Lead? 谁家舔狗男配被男主抱在怀里亲啊 Dreaming of Night Plays夜戏梦Two Male Leads377k WordsCompleted [Irresistible bottom, bittersweet romance, angst first and sweetness later, livestream variety show, a chaotic love polygon, two male leads, both virgins, happy ending] Wen Yanyu, a universally hated supporting character who hounded the male lead relentlessly and dragged himself into a storm of public outrage, suddenly awakens to his own consciousness. The System binds him and sends him off on missions. After countless cycles of torment leave him exhausted in body and mind, Wen Yanyu returns wit 68kReads9.5Score8.9kShelves

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   ① After being stalked by the plot in the early stage, which led to a public controversy and being blackmailed by the entire network, he suddenly awakened to his own will and was bound by the system and sent to do tasks. ② After the mission, Shou was exhausted physically and mentally. He suffered a lot. After returning to the original world, he decided to mess up. In order to cope with the company taking on the variety show, everyone became curious about him and felt sorry for him. There is also the awakening of the consciousness of the parents, etc. It is really beautiful.

5. 5 下 I Went Down the Mountain to Reunite with My Family, Only to Find My Little Brother Had Become a Controversial Top-Tier Star 下山认亲，发现弟弟成了黑红顶流 Feng Ling lI风灵lIModern Romance463k WordsCompleted [Strong female lead + no romance + showbiz + livestream + on-screen comments] Jian Xueqing is famous, famous enough to take the country by storm. But it's the kind of fame that comes from being hated. He has thirty million followers on Xingbo, half of them haters and the other half casual passersby who follow him for the gossip and good looks... His few genuine fans are lost in the crowd and can't make a ripple. Before their contract expires, his unscrupulous agency spitefully signs him on as a 9kReads8.6Score863Shelves

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   This book says so. A heroine accidentally learns that she is a character in a novel and that her younger brother is cannon fodder in the book. She has no character in the book. She decides to do research for the country and then save her younger brother.

6. 6 游 Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 1.1MReads9.5Score97.2kShelves

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   The first thing Yu Xunge did after his rebirth was to rush home and give his younger brother, who was about to marry into the Su family, a bottle of something white, so that he would miss the first internal beta test of the game. In my previous life, I had been fooled by this bitch, and it wasn't until I was dying that I realized that he had been hiding behind my back to plot against me. On his deathbed, he learned that he was just the villain of a book about a man who frequently married a son-in-law... And that he was responsible for all the malice he suffered. In this life, it's me who is hiding behind my back. Male and female protagonist, right? I want all your opportunities. Participate in the closed beta and re-draw talents! Make trouble behind your back!

7. 7 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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   The end of the ten days of shocking things

8. 8 早 If I’d Known, You Needn’t Have Made Me Transmigrate 早知如此，大可不必让我穿越 The Writer Who Draws码字的画家Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsCompleted [System runs in the background, ordinary-person cultivation, not a wish-fulfillment story, tactical spell battles, starting from scratch] Tang Zhen was among the luckiest transmigrators out there. In the eighteenth year after his transmigration, thanks to a spell-copying System with simple mechanics but ridiculously powerful functions, he became the leader of the greatest generation of prodigies in a thousand years of cultivation. The pillars of the righteous sects looked after him with great ca 33.9kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves

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   A bit slow to warm up, but the author's writing is very good

9. 9 身 You Can Steal My Identity, But What About My Mental Illness? 身份可以偷走，那我的精神病呢？ Flickering Candle Stub残烛跳荡Modern Romance484k WordsCompleted [Publication rights signed ✚ Absurd memes ✚ Chaotic variety show ✚ Animal mind reading] Ming Li wakes up in the body of a celebrity who was sent to a psychiatric hospital by her family. From the start, she’s mocked by the entire internet, saddled with a family that leeches off her, and called mentally ill! Ming Li: Whatever. The things that don’t kill her will only make her even crazier! When a sharp-tongued entertainment reporter comes after her, she says, “A tadpole with a frog tattoo, and you 70.1kReads9.6Score10.3kShelves

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   [The nonsensical super-powerful salty fish heroine

10. 10 全 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 249.4kReads9.7Score28.2kShelves
11. 11 重 Reborn to Save My Cold, Tea-Drinking Self 重生后拯救高冷茶味的自己 Just Enough to Eat恰口饭吃Two Male Leads385k WordsCompleted Gentle, dark, and seductive without realizing it ✘ aloof, restrained, and sweetly calculating (proud cat ✘ younger wolfdog, narcissistic romance) In his previous life, Xiang Nansheng was exploited and tortured in the apocalypse, spending years in a daze as an experimental subject. It wasn’t until he became the Zombie Emperor that he finally escaped their control. After an explosion, he transmigrated ten years into the past and met his younger self. In this life, Xiang Nansheng refuses to let him 1.4kReads9.4Score237Shelves
12. 12 就 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 Ji Furan纪扶染Modern Romance659k WordsCompleted [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 132.6kReads9.6Score15.9kShelves
13. 13 开 From the Start, I Was Divided Up for Food, So I Swallowed the Evil Spirit Whole 开局被分食，我直接生吞邪崇 Bi Huo彼火Urban1.3M WordsOngoing "A Must-Read in 2026" [Eerie Revival]+ [Revenge before the day is out]+ [Saintly do-gooders must die]+ [The protagonist is crazy, not stupid]+ [No female lead]+ [This is actually a food story] The red moon rises, and the eerie returns. After transmigrating to a world where the eerie has returned and evil spirits roam the earth, Ye Kui opens his eyes to see himself being devoured by monsters! But if monsters can eat people, there’s no reason people can’t eat monsters! After three years of plottin 9.8kReads8.9Score973Shelves

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    I didn't expect Tomato to have another masterpiece. I would like to call this novel Tomato's only masterpiece! The opening chapter is very addictive. The more I read, the more I want to read it. I wish I could finish it in one go and I will not stop until I finish it. [Eat melon]

14. 14 路 An Extra's Guide to Surviving in a Comic 路人乙漫画生存指南 The Long Road Back South迢迢南归Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Dropped by the author. You can go straight to the final three chapters. Male lead, no romance. Ensemble cast. Academy for people with special abilities. A year after the school arc of the comic Superpower Academy ended, the college arc finally began. It opened on September 1, with the main cast entering Supernova Academy for the Gifted. [The main cast ending up in Class F really is a classic] [That person in Class F must be a big shot] [The people in Classes S and A are so strong too] [What abou 25.1kReads9.5Score2.9kShelves

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    [The male protagonist has no cp, group portrait, superpower academy, full text saved] [The label cannot be corrected in the background, I apologize to Baozi for coming here]

15. 15 黑 The Crown of the Dark Moon 黑月光冠冕 Three Lives, Three Three叁生三三Modern Romance2.5M WordsCompleted [The first print volume is now available] [Sweet Romance in a Wealthy Family] + [A Forbidden Love Falls from Its Pedestal] + [Characters Awaken] + [A Chaotic Love Rival Showdown] “You are a cannon-fodder character in this world. Your character tags are: beautiful, vicious, and stupid. When you were eight, you were adopted by the Shen family, the most powerful family in Whale Harbor. The head of the family treasured you like a gem, but you joined forces with your villainous mother to scheme agai 512.1kReads9.5Score90.3kShelves
16. 16 遇 When in Doubt, Blow Yourself Up! Who Could Be More Carefree Than Me? 遇事不决就自爆！谁能比我更逍遥 Five Bucks a Day一天赚五块Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Demonic cultivation + ruthless decisiveness + loves a good time + flexible moral compass] What would you do if you were immortal from the start and immune to all restrictions? Jun Lin: “I don’t eat beef!” What’s the big deal? I’m immortal, so why shouldn’t I act a little arrogant? What? You stole my stuff? I’ll blow you up! What? You look down on me? I’ll blow you up! What? You want to kill me? I’m still going to blow you up! I transmigrated here to be the emperor. If you make the emperor suffe 32.9kReads8.7Score3.6kShelves

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    📚💬. It's good to relax with poems and books on the pillow, and the scenery in front of the door is beautiful when the rain comes! , The first book mainly talks about: [Magic Cultivator + Decisive Killing + Fun Man + Flexible Moral Bottom Line] What will you do when you start with immortality and ignore all restrictions? ... The lights are on at three and the rooster is on at five, which is when men are studying📖❤️‍🔥💬. May your life be as beautiful as poetry, and the years will be gentle, and every step will be in the light of spring.

17. 17 重 Reborn: A Scumbag's Self-Redemption 重生，一个人渣的自我救赎 The Unlucky Former Wave悲催的前浪Urban615k WordsOngoing [Reborn] + [Period] + [Entrepreneurship] + [Multiple Heroines] Li You A real estate tycoon who betrayed everyone close to him in his quest for power. By chance, he was reborn in his final year of high school. The family and friends he had lost long ago have returned! Faced with the brothers and the woman he once betrayed, Li You is overwhelmed with emotion... You’re back. You’re all back! This time, I won’t hurt you again... 32Reads6.6Score—Shelves
18. 18 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
19. 19 都 I Was Reborn, So Why Am I Still a Loser?! 都重生了，我怎么还是混子？！ Eighty-Three八三Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [Undercover in the underworld + ruthless and decisive + no sanctimonious do-gooding + sharp as a tack] Brothers, this book once had over 500,000 readers following it, and kept that readership for several months. Quite a few people have adapted it into absurd animated videos and AI short dramas. I’m not a touchy person. You can post videos without my permission, but shouldn’t you at least show me a little respect? Couldn’t you include the original book title and the author’s name? Using Foqin’s n 27.7kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves
20. 20 校 Don't Bully Me, School Hunk. She's Reborn and Won't Chase You Anymore 校草别虐了，重生她不追你了 Mu Xia慕夏Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Xia Qianqian was blinded by love. She took the place of Qin Wang's first love and married him, devoting herself to cooking and caring for him, only to end up dead along with her unborn child. Reborn back in her school days, she had lost all hope in Qin Wang. She had only two principles in life. 1. Study hard. 2. Stay away from Qin Wang. But the man who had treated her like she didn't exist in her past life shamelessly pinned her against a pool table. She ran, he chased, and 327Reads8.3Score159Shelves

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    Xia Qianqian muddleheadedly married the man she liked in her last life, Qin Wan, but Qin Wan never liked her. After her rebirth, she began to redeem herself. She got into the top 20 in the province in the college entrance examination and was bound to get rid of Qin Wan...

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