Plot-Driven!!! No Brain-Dead Characters, No Invincible Leads, No Saintly Leads, Not a Power Trip 走剧情的！！！不无脑，不无敌，不圣母，不是爽文

1. 1 死 After Faking My Death Failed, the Whole Main Cast Went Mad! 死遁失败后，主角团全疯了！ Hmph Hmph Ji哼哼唧Two Male Leads349k WordsCompleted [Two male leads, a universally adored shou, romantic rivalry and chaos, identities exposed, everyone loves the one they can't forget] Gentle yet aloof beloved shou X cool, devoted junior gong. Younger gong, one-on-one, happy ending. After dying, Xie Ying transmigrates into an old-fashioned, melodramatic body-double novel as the beloved white moonlight who dies young. After the white moonlight dies, the protagonist shou, who looks five parts like him, will take his place as the true white moonlig 13.2kReads9.4Score1.9kShelves

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   I just watched it and it's really good. The protagonist is always very sober and does whatever it takes to get home. Moreover, he is not completely forced to follow the plot. The protagonist always controls the rhythm.

2. 2 清 Cold, Untouchable Moonlight? No! I'm the Villain Chosen by Fate 清冷白月光？不！我是天命大反派 A Clear Song by the Pool一曲潭清Ancient Romance578k WordsCompleted [System-driven + villainess protagonist + egoist + top prodigy + near-invincible power fantasy + no romance (no male consorts)] After transmigrating, Nan Xian becomes a fake prodigy used by a top family to save face. She is about to fight the real prodigy. Should she just wait to die? No rush, the System is here to help. [Ding! The Ultimate Villain System is at your service.] [Humiliate your arrogant fiancé and get a divine beast mount as a reward.] Nan Xian: Kill him. Her younger siblings are d 48.1kReads9.5Score6.8kShelves

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   It is indeed a plot, the heroine is the villain, she can do whatever it takes to get something, she is definitely not a saint, nor is she brainless.

3. 3 逆 The Reverse Maze 逆位迷宫 Peng Pai彭湃Urban1.7M WordsOngoing On the day of his eighteenth birthday, Bai Ze's life begins a countdown. Survive or perish: that is the choice. // Three lives, six paths, a mist-shrouded maze. Nothing is harder than choosing one's fate. 73.4kReads9.5Score5.9kShelves
4. 4 传 Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 206.5kReads9.6Score28.9kShelves

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   Legend type, from this book you can see that the bug team's ambush pen is gone forever.

5. 5 道 Fellow Daoist! That Thief Has Written Another Book 道友！那贼子她又写新书了 Three or Four Times三四番Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Cultivation + ensemble cast + no romance + divination cultivator + light literary borrowing] What do you do when you transmigrate to the cultivation world and are about to starve to death?! I’ve just arrived in the cultivation world, fresh off a mule. Thanks for asking: of course I’ll write stories to make money! . Her quest for immortality could wait. One book, After My Spiritual Root Was Destroyed, I Became the Immortal Venerable’s First Disciple, made her famous. Zhu Wuyou thought she could 10.9kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves

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   Not a cool article.

6. 6 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 1.7MReads9.9Score183.5kShelves

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   The plot has ups and downs, and the male protagonist's absolute IQ is online. He is looking for himself between drama and reality. Tomato Book! Not invincible but with plot, perfect fit! Highly recommended! Not a navy!

7. 7 惊 Shocking! The Legitimate Princess Defies Fate Every Day! 惊！嫡公主她每天都在逆天改命！ Ran Qiqi冉七柒Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Female-led power fantasy + ruthless, unhinged heroine + an extreme “I’d rather betray others than let them betray me” mentality] Xuan Mingyao was reborn at the age of seven, back before anything had happened. Though she was the empress’s legitimate daughter, a princess treated like royalty, her younger brother, the crown prince, was about to die of illness. Her mother would soon be consumed by worry, grow estranged from the emperor, and eventually be deposed in the witchcraft scandal. Overnight 29.5kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves

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   The heroine has no buffs, so she relies on her own efforts to fight against the so-called daughter of destiny and finally takes the throne of God. It's a brain-burning story.

8. 8 幼 A Young Dragon from the Start, and You Really Think I'm a Beggar? 幼龙开局，你真把我当乞丐？ Sour Candy酸宝Urban2.2M WordsCompleted Gods run rampant, and strange creatures are everywhere. In a world gripped by fear, where anyone might undergo a monstrous transformation, a lowborn boy emerges from an old graveyard. He carries a mysterious space where killing strange creatures lets him absorb their power and conjure items. [Legendary creature, Jade-Eyed Corpse: Its eyeballs can peer into the Yellow Springs and read the scriptures of the dead. Requires a sixth-rank martial artist who has mastered a pupil technique.] The sevent 75.1kReads9.2Score7.2kShelves

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   A very good book, 9.3 Is given to the author of Love to Write, Love to Procrastinate, and Love to Disappear

9. 9 开 From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 Purple Spirit Wind and Snow紫灵风雪Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 813.7kReads9.7Score96.1kShelves

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   It's not a cool novel, the plot is smooth. Funny and fast-paced.

10. 10 快 Quick Transmigration: Rewriting a Cannon-Fodder's Life 快穿之改写炮灰人生 I Love the Rain Lily爱尔风雨兰Modern Romance2.8M WordsCompleted No fixed pairing. Stories set in various eras, including Qing transmigration, dating shows, and the apocalypse, with a space. Note: The heroine is a hedonist and a refined self-interest seeker. The tone is light and cheerful. She never lets anyone take advantage of her, and she is no saint! Tang Tiantian, an ordinary office worker, was in a car accident on her way home from work. Luckily, she was bound to a System and given a chance to be reborn. After somehow passing the new recruit assessment, 8.2kReads8.4Score808Shelves

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    Super nice.

11. 11 自 Surrender 自首 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery660k WordsCompleted (Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed 16.4kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves

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    🌺🎍This book is really well written, 🌿I don't even know what words to use to express it. 🌵At first, I felt that part of the case was realistic, 🌲part of it was very novel, and the plot was very compact. Later on, I felt that I couldn't just look at the case itself, 🌺🌺 but also the patriotism of each character and their unswerving loyalty to our country. I wanted to comment many times, but I held it back. I wanted to read the entire book to comment, but after reading it, I couldn't help but burst into tears. 🌸🌸Our country is great, 🎍🌴The figures behind our country are even greater. Highly recommended!!!!🥀🥀

12. 12 上 This Life, the Next Life 上辈子，下辈子 Secondhand Good-for-Nothing二手废柴Historical1.7M WordsOngoing A meeting across time and space between people from two worlds turns both their lives and destinies upside down. Whether it brings blessing or disaster, sorrow or joy, all depends on the choices they make in the end. Having lived two lives, they still cannot see through the warmth and coldness of the mortal world. After half a lifetime of hardship, there are no words enough to describe the world's cruelty. 10Reads6.3Score—Shelves

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    Then you should calm down and read this.

13. 13 叮 Ding! With an Immortal Achievement, the Cousin Miss Starts Reading 叮，成就流芳百世，表小姐开卷了 Tianyang Peak, Who Loves Handmade Wheat Dumplings爱吃手工麦饺的天阳峰Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to 138kReads9.6Score16.3kShelves

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    Just grow up step by step ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧IQ but not brainless (=¯ω¯=)👍👍👍Super fragrant😍😍😍In the end, it will be famous forever

14. 14 道 A Dao Heart Reaching for the Heavens 道心参天 Situ Qingchen司徒清尘Eastern Fantasy5.3M WordsCompleted The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi 188kReads9.1Score25.4kShelves

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    In the first book, you dare to believe that a tree can bring the protagonist to the pinnacle of the world of immortality; in the second book, you think that the most powerful thing is the Yi Jin Jing, but the most powerful one is the protagonist himself; in the third book, there is a cheap wife just after time travel. The plot is exciting and the pace is fast, suitable for book-hungry netizens.

15. 15 武 Wuxia: The System Is Here, So I Choose to Add All My Points at Once 武侠：系统来了，我选择直接加点 The Salted Fish Is Ready to Take Off咸鱼要起飞Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Gain cultivation by killing enemies + ruthless and decisive + level up fast] This is a world full of powerful experts and sects: the Nine Sects and Six Gangs, the Eight Demonic Sects, the Three Daoist Orders, the Two Buddhist Temples, and the Great Qian imperial court, whose might holds the four seas in awe. The powerful see the weak as ants, while princes treat the martial world as a chessboard. Fortunately, Xiao Bieli activated the Kill to Gain Cultivation System. As long as he kills an enemy 118.5kReads8.7Score7kShelves
16. 16 神 Immortal Lord Shennong 神农仙君 Ye Fei Ye叶非叶Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing From the start, I inherited a complete mess: a house with nothing in it, a bully hounding me for my life, and a bargain wife who thinks I’m going to sell her. Bully: Tonight, we’ll set this good-for-nothing’s place on fire and kill him! Jiang Che: Thanks for asking. I’ve already hauled a train through the night... No, wait, I’ve hauled a wooden barrel into the mountains. With heavy snow sealing off the mountains, he simply waves his hand and makes wheat ripen in the snow. While everyone else hud 25.4kReads8.4Score2kShelves
17. 17 死 Death Without Guilt 死无罪证 Mottled Garment斑衣Modern Romance781k WordsCompleted One of the [Crime Investigation Trilogy] series by Ban Yi. Chu Xingyun vs. He Cheng A brash, flamboyant, righteous police officer who thinks he rules the world vs. a cool, aloof, arrogant, refined scoundrel of a CEO who thinks he rules the world This edition is the complete, unabridged, uncensored version. 5.5kReads9.4Score1kShelves
18. 18 余 Embers (Also Known as The World Lost Its Guard) 余烬（又名《人间失守》） Mottled Garment斑衣Two Male Leads790k WordsCompleted [Seasoned, calculating, hot-blooded detective VS. an enigmatic, morally ambiguous young nobleman from the slums] [Two powerful male leads + Criminal investigation + Mystery + Case-solving + Happy ending] A seasoned, calculating, hot-blooded detective VS. an enigmatic, morally ambiguous young nobleman from the slums. The world is a city, and even when its walls crumble, you can still see the light from atop the ruins. Wei Heng: “This world is strange. People only care about when you’ll die; no on 27.6kReads9.6Score5.5kShelves
19. 19 小 How Did Xiao Ming Die? 小明是怎么死的 Curled Horn卷角Two Male Leads561k WordsCompleted I investigated a case. The victim was me. The summer after the college entrance exams. My deskmate invited me back to our old school building to reminisce. By chance, we found a death message left by the victim of a campus fall case that had been hastily closed years ago. From then on, strange things kept happening around me, and I narrowly escaped danger several times. To protect myself, I played along, and hitmen, top agents, mercenaries, and all kinds of giant monsters kept appearing. Then on 9.8kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves
20. 20 穿 Transmigrated Into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than Me 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张 Chenchen Little Darling晨晨小宝贝Ancient Romance984k WordsCompleted [Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste 54.8kReads9.3Score7.2kShelves

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    The main heroine follows the plot and has no love brain

21. 21 逆 Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下 First Day, Seeing the Moon初一见月Ancient Romance6.2M WordsCompleted [Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her 196.6kReads9.6Score26.7kShelves

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