Villainous Mad Artist? 反派疯子艺术家？

1. 1 我 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 Walking the Dangerous Path危行Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [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 15.2kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
2. 2 爆 Going Viral Starts with Calling the Cops 爆红从报警开始 Yu Siyuan余四元Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Microdrama style, silly and lighthearted. The protagonist has no romantic pairings, male or female. Actor Mo Fei gets a Role System. From a holy monk, he gains an ability to attract criminals; from a serial killer, he learns human anatomy; from a detective, he learns to talk to cats; from a master thief, he learns sleight of hand... To everyone else, all of this seems downright bizarre. Would a normal actor radiate murderous intent? Would a normal actor know the human body so well? Would a norma 73.2kReads9.5Score10.8kShelves
3. 3 我 I, the Grim Reaper of the Night, Am Invincible in a World of Demons 我，黑夜死神，于妖魔世界称无敌 Don't Cry, Don't Cry莫哭莫哭Urban503k WordsCompleted Ye Changning, a fifth-tier Skyborne cultivator from the Dragon Kingdom on Blue Star, gave his life to protect an entire city during a mission, falling to the demons. Though his body died, his soul endured, lingering in the mortal world. After his death, Ye Changning watched his family suffer abuse, his achievements in battle get stolen, and the people of the city he had once saved turn against him. His heart finally died. In spirit form, he roamed all of Blue Star for countless years. Demons ran 947Reads8.3Score108Shelves
4. 4 靠 You Need Me to Survive? I'm an NPC, Not a Player! 靠我存活？我是NPC不是玩家哦 Sui Sui Er岁岁儿Mystery782k WordsCompleted Wu Le is a murderous NPC in a horror game, rotating through different scenarios to "work"! Wu Le is free-spirited and willful. Deceiving players, playing tricks on them, and terrifying them are all part of her daily routine. Sometimes she likes to disguise herself as a player, getting a close look at the evil in people's hearts. She gives players hope, then crushes it completely, enjoying the look of despair on their faces. Other times, she plays the part of a proper horror NPC, hunting down pla 27.7kReads9.3Score3.7kShelves
5. 5 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score189.8kShelves
6. 6 九 Nine Princes Fight for the Throne: The Mad Prince 九龙夺嫡：疯批皇子 A Man's Cigarette男人的烟Historical1.0M WordsCompleted [Political intrigue + unhinged protagonist + everyday life + palace intrigue] (If it’s not your thing, don’t read it) Qin Wu fought countless mutated beasts until he finally died of exhaustion. When he awoke again, he had transmigrated into a nonexistent dynasty from history, inside the womb of a powerless beauty in the imperial household of the Eastern Qin Dynasty. He had become the dynasty’s youngest prince. And so his struggle for the throne began. (Dear readers, please go easy on the ratings 19.1kReads8.6Score983Shelves

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   Highly intelligent lunatic.

7. 7 我 I Returned from Hell to Plan the Perfect String of Revenge 我从地狱归来，策划连环完美复仇 Leaves Can't Predict Autumn叶难知秋Mystery525k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [Mad Protagonist] [Elegant] [High-IQ Crimes] [No System] Ten years ago, the Shen family was wiped out by a mysterious organization known as the Alliance. Shen Feng was beaten to death and left in the wilderness. Now, Shen Feng’s soul has returned from hell. That day, the criminal investigation squad received a call from a mysterious person claiming he would kill the famous CEO Liu Ruxu at a shareholders’ meeting. The nightmare began at that very moment. Shen Feng planned one per 43.3kReads9.5Score4.5kShelves
8. 8 诸 The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 538.7kReads9.7Score74.7kShelves

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   Crazy to the extreme, elegant genius.

9. 9 仙 Above the Immortals 仙人之上 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban1.5M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no brainless characters, and no wish-fulfillment. Read at your own discretion.) The ancient Immortal Court had crumbled into ruins, and the immortals of old had fallen into slumber. The world changed with every passing day, and seas became fields. All that remained of ancient times existed only in myths. Thousands of years later, the ruins of the Immortal Court once more rose above the nine heavens, and the sleeping immortals be 78.2kReads9.3Score7.5kShelves
10. 10 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 1.7MReads9.9Score231.9kShelves
11. 11 恐 Horror: From Puppet to Demon God of Fear! 恐怖：从木偶到恐惧魔神！ Wenzhi Tianya文之天涯Mystery379k WordsCompleted When Lin Qi opened his eyes, he had become a puppet of the “paranormal” type. All he had to do was earn fear points to grow stronger and stronger. “When you see me, it means fear has arrived!” “Struggle! Scream!” “I am the Demon God of Fear!” An era of resurgent terror, an era when ghosts roam the night. Lin Qi commands fear! 1.5kReads8.5Score189Shelves
12. 12 全 Global Class Awakening: Puppet Masters Are Weak? From the Start, I Get Sasori of the Red Sand 全民：傀儡师弱？开局赤砂之蝎 Flash Wanderer闪客游神Sports481k WordsCompleted Chu Tian transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where games have descended upon reality and dungeons, secret realms, and monster bosses run rampant. At eighteen, everyone awakens as a class-holder to fight the monsters. On the day he changed class, Chu Tian became a hidden-class puppeteer. Puppeteers have a low success rate when making puppets, consume enormous amounts of materials, struggle to get started, deal too little damage, and have poor defenses. They've always been consider 327Reads6.8Score—Shelves
13. 13 诡 Strange Creatures: I Transmigrated Into a Paper Effigy Maker 诡怪：我穿越成了纸扎匠 That Year, That Summer, Those Cicadas那年那夏那蝉Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Supernatural horrors + an uncanny family + play the pig to eat the tiger + behind-the-scenes scheming + an army of paper effigies] Su Yu wakes up to find he has transmigrated into a semi-industrialized world where supernatural horrors are part of everyday life. (It's roughly equivalent to the Republican era: big cities are bright and bustling, while villages are still stuck in ancient times.) Lost and alone, he is taken in by Uncle Seven, the owner of a paper effigy shop. During a supernatural 7.6kReads8.8Score796Shelves
14. 14 真 The Real-Life Escape Club 真实逃杀俱乐部 Making Tea on Tong Mountain彤山煮茶Mystery4.5M WordsCompleted This world is dead. But I want to live. This is an age where the supernatural is paradise, and humanity is in hell. I saw the club as the only [Beacon of Hope], blind to the schemes and betrayal behind it. Resurrected supernatural creatures, blood-soaked death zones, slaughter experiments that defy human understanding. The boundary between life and death began to blur, until people and the supernatural could no longer be told apart. Standing atop a mountain of corpses, I faced the weeping, despa 22.7kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves

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    These bags are fine

15. 15 诡 The Haunted Garden 诡园 Zuo Fei左绯Mystery5.4M WordsCompleted Xi Chen felt that he had already done everything he wanted to do. The world was so boring that he wanted to end it. But even he thought this boring world didn't deserve to be dragged down with him, so he let it be. He didn't just fail to die, though. He was forced to join a game. Impossible to solve? Impossible! Maybe life wasn't quite so dull after all. No CP 21.7kReads8.4Score2.2kShelves
16. 16 惊 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 78kReads9.5Score8.9kShelves
17. 17 悲 How Unlucky! I'm a Painter, and You Want Me to Catch Demons? 悲催，我一个画师，你让我去捉妖 Awakened Ox醒牛Eastern Fantasy207k WordsCompleted Boss, this is bad! The Lich King is attacking and has already captured the South Gate. Hold them off! If the South Gate falls, you will answer for it. Boss, we really can't hold them back. The enemy is too strong. I suggest we fall back to the Central Gate. Fine. Evacuate the people south of the city into the city. Boss, it's no good again! The Demon King is leading the demons and is about to break through the Central Gate. No! If the Central Gate falls, we're all finished. Then give us more 2Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 18 开 How Do I Survive After Becoming the Villain in a Formulaic Novel from the Start? 开局穿成了套路文的反派怎么破 Meow Nineteen喵十九Eastern Fantasy627k WordsCompleted The sequel is underway and can be found in the author’s works. This leans toward the female-audience genre. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Lighthearted and funny, an irreverent fantasy story. The protagonist is adored by everyone, men and women alike. All flirtation, no CP. After transmigrating, Cang Yu finds himself cast as the villain in three different books! Even though he’s the villain, he’s stuck with the job of saving the world! He decides he’d better save himself first. 007 4kReads9.2Score378Shelves
19. 19 奇 A Strange and Mysterious World: Selling Medicine with My Left Hand, Wielding Electromagnetism with My Right 奇诡世界：左手卖药，右手超电磁 A Vast Sky in a Grand Dream大梦长空Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [Sequences + Martial Artists + Electromagnetic Force + Mad World + Potions] Jiang Yang transmigrates into a strange and uncanny world and joins a gang. Just after becoming the boss of a local branch, he is caught up in an anti-gang crackdown; Later, he becomes an apprentice at a potion shop, embarking on an utterly (grass-growing) life. [Supreme Forbidden Sequences]: Electromagnetic Force, Door, Spotless Void, Magic, Mechanic, Happy Thief, Side-Effect Incantation… [Guardian Sequences]: Snow 29.6kReads8.6Score2.7kShelves
20. 20 我 I’m a Dual-Personality Surgeon, Professionally a Ripper 我，双面手术师，职业开膛手 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Some call him Miracle Doctor Lu, while others call him Lu the Skinner. Some owe their battlefield dominance to the mechanical limbs he fitted them with; others have breathed their last beneath his surgical knife. He can save someone on the brink of death, or make a corpse disappear without a trace. By day, he is the warmest kindness in the world; by night, he is a terror that makes the whole world tremble. A scalpel rests between his fingers: one side is a demon, the other an angel. His name is 22.9kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves
21. 21 情 I Have No Emotions, So I Found a Sniper for a Girlfriend 情感缺失的我找了个狙击手女友 The Bird Who Loves Collecting Stamps爱收集邮票的飞鸟Urban664k WordsCompleted (One heroine. She isn't a campus beauty, just above average in looks. The moment they meet, they both realize the other is a big shot.) (The romance develops slowly.) On the surface, the world where humanity lives after World War II is peaceful. But in the hidden world of shadows, national organizations like Xuanyuan Sword, Eagle's Wing, and Winterhold are locked in constant conflict. Genetically enhanced people hiding among the crowds possess physical abilities far beyond those of ordinary huma 36kReads9.6Score4.8kShelves
22. 22 诡 Anomaly Containment Center: You're Containing a Human Like Me? 诡异收容所，你收容我一个人类？ Yi Chen逸臣Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 63.3kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
23. 23 第 The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局 The One Surnamed Yi姓易的Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted “If we want the people of this world to live in the sunlight and keep their sanity, then we must keep secret the things they were never meant to know.” “Because the moment they see those terrifying beings that defy all known science and truly discover how horrifying this world is... believe me, Earth will become the biggest asylum in the universe.” Chen Xian, Ninth Secret Bureau 3.8kReads9.2Score466Shelves
24. 24 冰 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Sea of Memories记忆的海Sci-Fi & Apocalypse7.3M WordsOngoing Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 352.8kReads8.7Score25.1kShelves

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    Without warning, global temperatures plummeted, and extreme cold and ice swept the world instantly. High-rise buildings are buried in ice and snow, animals and plants are extinct in the severe cold, and human civilization is in danger. Relying on the knowledge of the coming doomsday in advance, the protagonist started preparations before the disaster broke out and built an indestructible doomsday safe house. The house not only stores a large amount of food, water and energy, but is also equipped with advanced defense and survival facilities. In this global frozen apocalypse, the protagonist must not only use the safe house to resist the cold and lack of supplies, but also deal with various crises in the outside world, such as dangerous creatures encountered while searching for supplies, and survivors with evil intentions. He explores a way to survive in a desperate situation and gradually uncovers the shocking secrets hidden behind the global ice.

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