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1. 1 开 From the Start, I Snatched the Protagonist’s Fortune 开局抢了主角的机缘 Supreme Daoist Scripture太上道经Sports2.0M WordsCompleted The tenant next door turned out to be reborn! That alone was absurd enough, but even more absurd was that one tiny change caused the reborn man, who should have been making his mark and shaking up the world, to die ahead of schedule... Xu Fei unexpectedly inherited the protagonist's opportunity. With only a few scraps of information to go on, he snatched a spot in the first closed beta test of the world's first virtual game, Land of the Forsaken. But he soon discovered that this game world, rife 28.2kReads8.6Score1.8kShelves

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   The first novel is about survival in reality, cheating in the game, and dual-line operation to bring about the doomsday! (, Has been fattened). In the second novel, the world travels through a foggy apocalypse, while others struggle to survive. You rely on spirit pattern technology to build dungeons and tame the giant puppet tiger into the universe.

2. 2 求 Survival: Defending My Cabin Against the Cold Wave 求生：从小木屋开始抵御寒流 Shan Xun山寻Sports3.5M WordsCompleted [Survival] [Building a Shelter] [Disasters] [Stockpiling Supplies] Everyone transmigrated. When Qi Yuan woke up, he found himself in a fog-shrouded world full of danger. Cold, hunger, wild beasts, and torrential rain became the constant themes of everyone's lives. Everyone fell into the same routine: work at sunrise and rest at sunset! 161.7kReads8.2Score11.8kShelves
3. 3 魔 The Demon King's Crown 魔王冠冕 Campfire Tales篝火夜话Anime Fanfiction2.9M WordsOngoing First World: Tokyo Ghoul I/II (Complete) Second World: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (Complete) Third World: Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory Arc (Complete) Fourth World: Akame ga Kill! (Complete) Fifth World: Tokyo Ghoul:re (Complete) Sixth World: FGO (Complete) Seventh World: Original World: Battle Royale (Complete) Eighth World: One Piece: Before the Summit War (Complete) Ninth World: Hellsing (Complete) Tenth World: Naruto (Complete) Eleventh World: Jujutsu Kaisen: Final Arc (Complete) Twelf 4.2kReads8.0Score399Shelves

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   Man-Han banquet, you are trustworthy

4. 4 御 Beast Taming: Evolution by Sequence 御兽，序列进化 Daylight Reader白昼读者Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [No System + No Academy Setting + Bloodline Research + A New Beast-Taming Style with Wizards] No matter how powerful your beasts are, a single bullet can still take down their tamer. No problem. We have class advancement. [Ferocious Beast Knight] → [War Knight] → [Radiant Knight]. Bound together in life and death, sharing honor and disgrace. [Phantom Beastmaster] → [Arms Master] → [Elemental Annihilator]. Command the elements and attack with spells. [Herder] → [Legion Commander] → [Totem Master] 11.4kReads9.1Score954Shelves
5. 5 人 In a High-Martial World, My Talent Is Cultivating Demonic Word Traits 人在高武，天赋却是词条魔修 Grayish White Rain灰白色的雨Urban264k WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless + no heroine + self-interest + lone wolf + high martial arts + demonic cultivator + infinite worlds + trait system] Gu Bai transmigrates to a prison in a high-martial-arts world. The crimes committed by the original owner earn Gu Bai a hefty thousand-year sentence. But there is always a way out. In prison, Gu Bai awakens a second talent: cultivating immortality through traits. Every time he breaks through a major realm or fulfills a special condition, he can choose one of 23Reads7.0Score—Shelves
6. 6 神 Gods and Demons Game: Mages Are the Eternal Truth! 神魔游戏：法爷才是永恒真理！ Qiao Qi巧七Sports5.9M WordsOngoing [Gods and Demons Game + Card-Based Gameplay + A Rich Class System + An Expansive World] When brain chips completely replace traditional mobile phones, a card-based game called Gods and Demons Game is forcibly installed. From then on, the world enters the age of Gods and Demons Game. Everyone has their own talent and class. [Mystic Controller], [Templar Knight], [Archmage], [Mechanical Ascension]... Advancement, class changes, and a game that never ends. Holy light and evil. Mechanical modificati 79.6kReads9.0Score8kShelves
7. 7 火 Flames Shall Stand Above the Stars 火焰，将立于群星之上 Salted Fish Eats Watermelon咸鱼吃西瓜Sports3.4M WordsCompleted Everyone knows there are three kinds of mages: 1. Mages who cast spells with intelligent assistance 2. Mages who only know how to reuse spell frameworks 3. Archmages who use knowledge and mana to move the elements So where do mages who wield a deeper understanding fit in? “Luo Wen Yi, you're not fit to be a mage! A deeper understanding? You call that a deeper understanding?! It's nothing but a crude warrior's delusion!” “But... if it exists, there must be a reason.” “You're a disgrace to mages!” 84.4kReads9.1Score7.4kShelves
8. 8 诡 The Eerie Carving 2 诡雕2 Daylight Reader白昼读者Eastern Fantasy117k WordsOngoing This book is a seamless sequel to The Strange Carver (Three Years of Seclusion, at Last a Master of the Uncanny). If you enjoy this book, you can read The Strange Carver first. Its quality is guaranteed; otherwise, the author wouldn't have written a sequel at readers' suggestion, only to waste their effort. The story depicts a world where Qin Fan transmigrates to another realm, a strange place filled with demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits, and uses the art of carving to gain supernatural pow 394Reads7.7Score—Shelves
9. 9 此 The Moment the Sword Rings 此刻，剑鸣之时 Don't Eat Fish Porridge不吃鱼粥Urban2.5M WordsCompleted [The Church’s divine light shines upon the world, while mechanical armor soars across the sky. You wonder: Can a sickle tear through a mech? Can a war hammer reforge faith?] [Swords, spears, and clubs are no match for guns and mechs. A lifetime of hard training is no match for cybernetic augmentation. You declare: How can weapons be such cumbersome things!] [After swinging your blade a thousand times, you resonate with your weapon and create the “Breath Resonance Method.”] [Even ordinary iron ca 61.7kReads9.0Score6.2kShelves
10. 10 潜 Three Years of Seclusion, and I Became a Master of the Arcane Arts 潜修三年，终成奇诡匠师 Daylight Reader白昼读者Eastern Fantasy468k WordsCompleted The sequel to this book, Strange Carvings 2, is now being written. It picks up seamlessly from where this story ends, so read on with confidence. A world of evil gods, demons, and strange creatures. One dynasty gathers the people's hearts, hopes, and will into the nation's fortune and dragon qi, then uses them to forge a divine artifact that protects the realm and safeguards humanity. Cultivators use their souls as a foundation, casting spells through objects and commanding supernatural power. M 4.2kReads8.8Score307Shelves
11. 11 无 Infinite: I’m Ascending to Godhood with Primordial Blood 无限：融合原初血统的我正在超神 Qu Mingfan曲铭凡Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow]+ [Plot-focused]+ [Villain protagonist]+ [Fourth-dimensional disaster] Yan Feichen, who died because of a conspiracy, is chosen by the Calamity Space. To seek revenge and survive, he makes a pact with the Calamity Space and begins a journey transmigrating through countless Calamity Games. In the underground research facility world, terrifying creatures such as zombies, jiangshi, werewolves, and vampires appear, and a secret experiment begins. In the world of dawn and dusk, the spi 3.5kReads7.3Score345Shelves
12. 12 全 Global Game: I Just Want to Quietly Grind Achievements 全球游戏：我只想静静的刷成就 The Wind Has Risen Again in Luoyang洛阳又起风了Sports1.3M WordsOngoing (No female lead + decisive and ruthless + infinite-flow + the protagonist is no saint, read with caution) “Are you tired of an ordinary life? Do you yearn for power? If you want to escape the ordinary and gain power beyond all living beings, come join this game.” Ye Shuangluo is chosen by a mysterious game to become a reserve player. As a player, he must face players from other parallel timelines and multiverses. Fortunately, Ye Shuangluo awakens the exclusive talent “Achievement Master.” By com 60.2kReads9.1Score6kShelves
13. 13 世 The World Became a Game, but Forgot to Generate the Players 世界游戏化，却忘了生成玩家 Red Bean Tea红豆茶Eastern Fantasy3.2M WordsOngoing The physical edition of Volume One will soon be available for preorder. Follow @0RedBeanTea0 for details. Everyone says that the Dao is waning, demons are growing stronger, and the Heavenly Tribulation is imminent, but Zhou Yuan disagrees. Undying, indestructible demons? Those are just monsters respawning in a game. Paradise realms and wondrous secret realms? Those are just game dungeons. Humankind sealing and suppressing demons? That just means not exiting the dungeon, preventing its monsters f 211.6kReads9.3Score19.3kShelves

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    Five excellent books, if you are the one!!!

14. 14 欺 Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ Violent Purple-Skinned Person暴力紫皮人Mystery5.2M WordsOngoing [Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you 521.9kReads9.3Score99.5kShelves
15. 15 恐 Horror on the High Seas 恐怖大航海 Newly Bought Peaches新买的桃子Sports2.6M WordsCompleted The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 303.4kReads9.4Score33.3kShelves
16. 16 让 I Told You to Make a Pact with a Ghost, but You Made One with Zhong Kui? 让你契约鬼，你契约钟馗？ Yi People's Firelight彝人烟火Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 102.7kReads9.5Score8.3kShelves
17. 17 她 She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了 Autumn Chill秋日凉Modern Romance308k WordsCompleted A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t 106.4kReads9.6Score19kShelves
18. 18 高 High-IQ Masterminds of Revenge: They Call Me a Madman 高智商复仇家，他们叫我疯子 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 61.3kReads9.5Score6.7kShelves

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    I don't know if it counts

19. 19 都 City Detective: The King of Solving Cases, Starting with Summer Vacation 都市神警：从暑假开始的破案天王 Codonopsis-Stewed Chicken党参炖鸡Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 18.8kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
20. 20 穿 Transmigrate to a Martial Arts World and Make a Little Breakthrough Every Day 穿越武侠世界，每天获得一点突破 Hong Yan Niyuan洪炎逆渊Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted [Wuxia + Transmigration + Rebirth + Decisive and Ruthless + Slice of Life + One Heroine + Invincible] In the land of Shenzhou, might makes right. Sects hold sway over the realm, and the people live in misery. Lin Feng transmigrates into the body of a poor hunter and awakens a System that gives him one breakthrough point every day! His martial arts advance one level each day. He masters every martial art under heaven and becomes invincible. He slays demons, exterminates fiends, strikes down immor 37.9kReads7.9Score2.5kShelves

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    Madam, madam, so pretty

21. 21 开 They Took Me for a Simp from the Start, So I Confessed to the Reborn Empress 开局被当舔狗，反手表白重生女帝 Inscription Beneath the Moon月下铭Urban2.4M WordsCompleted [Spiritual qi revival + campus belle + High Martial + empress + growth-oriented + multiple heroines] After transmigrating into a world undergoing a spiritual qi revival, Shen Xingyu finds humanity in dire straits as alien races invade. Everyone can awaken a talent and become a spirit martial artist. From the start, he is bound to the strongest support System. As long as he completes the bizarre tasks it assigns, he can earn all kinds of rewards. His beginner task is to randomly confess to a pass 23kReads7.9Score2.3kShelves
22. 22 崽 After the Baby Reads Minds, the Tyrant Catches the Man Pretending to Be the Empress Dowager 崽被读心后，暴君黑脸抓出男太后 Miao Zhilin妙芝霖Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Everyone Hears Her Thoughts and Gossips Together + Beloved by the Entire Court + Adorable Baby + Silly, Lighthearted Wish Fulfillment] She transmigrates into a book. The lucky part is that she has a System, and the mission rewards are fantastic. The unlucky part is that this is a prank System. Which emperor would willingly get stuck with needles? Which court official would willingly wear women's clothes? Which prince would willingly roll around in a mud pit? Even worse, she transmigrates into t 12.9kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
23. 23 师 Master, Big Brother and Second Brother Are Fighting Again 师父，大师兄和二师兄又打起来了 Ke Ning可宁Eastern Fantasy6.4M WordsCompleted Original title: My Senior Brother Is Too Strong The eldest senior brother is diligent and tireless, while the second senior brother likes to sneak off and take it easy. The eldest senior brother is hailed as a genius, while the second is the disgrace of the sect. Until one day, the junior sister discovers that the second senior brother is pretty amazing too... This blurb does it no justice. Read the story for yourself... 67.4kReads8.2Score5.2kShelves
24. 24 第 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 Wei Jie伪戒Urban6.1M WordsCompleted After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 237.6kReads9.6Score27.8kShelves

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25. 25 烟 Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.4M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 899.4kReads9.6Score170.4kShelves
26. 26 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 1.8MReads9.9Score184.4kShelves
27. 27 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 596kReads9.7Score75.2kShelves
28. 28 蛊 Gu King Ajie 蛊王阿杰 Little Sheep That Can Fly Every Day每天会飞的小羊Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing [Fantasy + Gu Arts + Comedy + Rebirth + Hidden Identity + Mystery + Feuds + First Person] “Reborn to defy fate and slay the Blood Demon, break the curse and ascend to Emperor, unrivaled among the gods!” [Laughing out loud! Can Gu King A Jie cut his way through a fantasy world with this trick?] Miao Awei (roaring): Miao A Jie, prepare to die! He kicked me off a cliff in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. When I opened my eyes again, I had been reborn three years in the past. Miao Cuihua (poundi 102Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    [Fantasy [love] + first person] [make faces] [make faces] [love] [love] [like] [smile] → [love] cool article → [love] Chapter 132 → [love] Sakura Gu [love] → here , Hua Tianhu deliberately lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard: "At this moment, an unexpected scene happened. The Imperial Master suddenly hugged the Queen from behind, and the two hugged each other tightly."

29. 29 我 Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1.2MReads9.9Score172.8kShelves

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