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1. 1 迷 City of Enchantment 迷魂之城 Dugu Yiming666独孤一鸣666Modern Romance236k WordsOngoing This novel tells the story of Li Zhongcheng, who unexpectedly meets a girl from another realm in his dreams and finds the most sincere, pure, and beautiful romance he has searched for all his life. By weaving together reality and fantasy, it conveys his realizations about family, friendship, and love. It also seeks to inspire and warn readers: while alive, cherish the present, never forget your original aspirations, and face the unknown with courage. Only then can we truly return to our natural 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The supernatural and fantasy time-travel serial novel "The City of Ecstasy" is divided into four volumes: "Dragon and Phoenix Treasure Box", "Infant Spirit", "The Secret Book" and "Konghou Yin". The novel tells the story of a male protagonist who, through an unexpected encounter with a girl from another world in his dream, realizes his life-long dream of being a talented man and a beautiful woman, who is the most true, pure and beautiful mandarin duck. He also expresses his perception and epiphany of family, friendship, and love through the interweaving of reality and virtuality.

2. 2 诡 Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖 Fallen Leaves Return to the Earth叶落归泥Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost 225kReads9.5Score27.4kShelves

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   A very powerful novel that makes people want to put it down. The style is very similar to "Spare My Life" and "I Have a House of Horrors", but it redefines the word "Holy Mother" in terms of exorcism. It often makes people laugh. The pace is okay, but it ends a little too quickly. Another point of this novel is that there is no heroine, but it is not completely absent, it is just flirting without a confirmed relationship. However, Tomato is also one of the best novels. For me, there is no awkward plot, and there are no golden sentences to set the story. I have read novels for many years, and I can say that I have read countless books. I can never find good novels. I also thought about ignoring the cerebral palsy setting and reading some assembly line novels, but I accidentally saw this book, and I sighed that the quality of the novels in Tomato seems to be much better than before. If you are like me If you are short of books or in a bad mood, you might as well try this novel. Although it has some shortcomings, it can slightly relieve your book shortage and allow you to put your mind in order and face a new day.

3. 3 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

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   A top-notch time-travel and brain-burning masterpiece, Sanjiu's new work after Killing Gods is integrated into Chinese drama culture. The protagonist is not a brainless child of destiny. Every time, he is wandering between life and death, narrowly defeated or rescued. It has wonderful fighting scenes. If anyone has seen it, the scarlet master of the ghost mocking the abyss, pick it up!

4. 4 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 130.1kReads9.6Score15.4kShelves

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   The writing is funny and interesting, and it is not the cliché design of some fake daughter who knows the truth in advance, so she can defeat everyone in advance. It is the story of a little girl who has no sense of security and is self-reliant. The author writes very deeply. I just can't write an introduction, what does it have to do with the main text? Is it okay that no one will look at me and make me sad?

5. 5 三 A Three-Lifetime Pact: Reborn 三生契之重生 Dugu Yiming666独孤一鸣666Historical134k WordsCompleted This work tells the grand love story of its hero and heroine, who meet across three lifetimes, traveling between ancient and modern times and from the mortal realm to the underworld and the heavenly court. They never abandon each other, enduring countless trials as they honor their pact and fulfill their promise. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The supernatural fantasy serial novel "The Rebirth of the Three Life Contract" tells a great love story in which the hero and heroine have three lives and three lives, traveling through the past and present, from the mortal world to the netherworld to heaven, never leaving, going through hardships, and abiding by the contract.

6. 6 只 I Can Only Instantly Kill Great Emperors, So I Became an Emperor-Harvesting Machine 只能秒大帝的我，化身大帝收割机 Asteroid West小行星西Eastern Fantasy562k WordsCompleted Synopsis: This book is also known as “Sorry, I Can’t Beat Anyone Else, but I Can Instantly Kill Great Emperors” and “At Level 999, I Can Instantly Kill Great Emperors; One Level Lower, They Instantly Kill Me.” Lin Xuanqing transmigrated into the Zixiao Holy Land as its patriarch, but had no cultivation at all. To keep anyone from discovering he was a complete weakling, he kept a straight face and pretended to be a master for a hundred years. At last, one day, he awakened a System that could inst 7.4kReads8.6Score1.6kShelves

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   It was very mindless in the early stage, but unexpected in the later stage.

7. 7 回 Back in the Past, I Became the Crown Prince’s Dark Moonlight 回到过去，我成了太子的黑月光 Gentleman Xiao Yu君子小俞Ancient Romance22k WordsCompleted Back in the Past, I Became the Crown Prince’s Dark Moonlight 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The ancient saying sweet pet redeems

8. 8 塞 By the Banks of the Seine 塞纳河畔 Dugu Yiming666独孤一鸣666Modern Romance32k WordsOngoing By the Seine is destined to be a modern biographical novel steeped in nostalgia and infused with classical Western European elements. It tells the thrilling, heart-stirring love story of Li Zhongtian, a renowned Chinese silk fashion designer and company president, nicknamed Xiaotian, and Ming Kexin, a famous Chinese-French writer living in Paris, France, nicknamed Yue'er. Both have fathers whose lives were shaped by the Cultural Revolution, a turbulent period in Chinese history. Their romance is —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   On the banks of the Seine is destined to be a modern biographical novel with a nostalgic color and containing Western European classical elements. It tells a thrilling and touching love story between Li Zhongtian, a well-known domestic silk fashion designer and company president, and Ming Kexin, a well-known Chinese female writer living in Paris, France.

9. 9 直 Livestream: One Song, "Tears of a Dancer," Leaves Dai Xiaomei Stunned 直播：一首舞女泪，唱懵呆小妹 An Accident是个意外Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Livestreaming + outrageous antics + sign-in rewards + comedy + absurdity + female streamer + female entertainer] Jiang Yun unexpectedly obtains a livestream sign-in System. All he has to do is livestream to receive sign-in rewards! To rack up livestream hours and claim the System’s rewards, he decides to connect with other streamers. His first guest is the popular streamer Dai Xiaomei. Dai Xiaomei: “What talents do you have?” Jiang Yun: “I can sing.” Dai Xiaomei: “Let’s hear it.” Jiang Yun: “On 49.9kReads9.1Score3kShelves
10. 10 入 Nightfall 入夜 Empty-Headed脑袋空空Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The door opened, and a tall, slender man stepped out. Lin Mian stared at him, dumbstruck, forgetting even to snap out of it. “What are you looking at, hmm?” 8kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
11. 11 网 An Online Romance, Only to Find He's the Young Master of Beijing's Elite 网恋，结果对方是京圈太子爷 A Tong Mu Muma阿彤木MumaModern Romance12k WordsCompleted I started an online romance, only to find out the other person was the crown prince of Beijing's elite circle —Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 穷 You Denied Me When I Was Poor, but Now You Call Me Mom? No Way! 穷时不认娘富时喊娘？没门！ Lemon with Sugar柠檬加糖Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Rebirth + feel-good power fantasy + farming + strong heroine + building a fortune] Zhao Nian'er died on a bitterly cold winter day. Looking back on her life, she'd endured one hardship after another. Her wicked mother-in-law beat and berated her, and even sold her daughter off. Her brother and sister-in-law bullied her and taught her son to disown her. Reduced to a servant in her own home, she froze to death! By a twist of fate, she was reborn! This time, watch her climb out of the mud and tram 2kReads8.9Score280Shelves
13. 13 五 At Fifty, I Married a CEO in a Flash, and My Ex-Husband's Family Cried Their Eyes Out 五十岁闪嫁霸总，前夫一家哭麻了 Northeast China's All-Nighter Champion东北熬夜冠军Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Silver-haired romance + divorce/second marriage + domineering CEO + wolfish younger man + middle-aged woman’s relationship crisis] After twenty-eight years of marriage to Xu Guodong, An Yuqing had gone from a career woman to a dutiful housewife who never complained. She had a nearly seventy-year-old mother-in-law to care for and a five-year-old grandson to look after. To help cover household expenses, she took two jobs. Then she accidentally discovered that Xu Guodong had been cheating with his 1.1kReads7.7Score164Shelves
14. 14 八 The 1980s: The True Heiress Turns Dark, Tears Down the Green Tea, and Dumps Her Jerk Husband 八零：真千金黑化，撕绿茶踹渣夫 Tang Dachui汤大锤Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + sweet romance + love after marriage] The moment Ji Xiaoyue opened her eyes, she became the real daughter: timid and impossibly self-sacrificing. Her life as the real daughter was a miserable one: a biased father, a cheating scumbag, a shameless little green tea, and a lonely death with no one to claim her body. Ji Xiaoyue immediately made sure the scumbag and the little green tea were stuck with each other! Catch them in the act! I’ll get the 9.2kReads8.9Score984Shelves
15. 15 人 I've Reached Fifty After a Lifetime of Toil. I'm Done Putting Up With This 人活五十，操劳半生的我不伺候了 The Other Person Is Growing Their Hair对方正在长头发Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Silver hair, a middle-aged woman awakens] Originally titled “At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I'm Done Serving Everyone” After marrying Fu Guoping, Lin Yuelian spends more than ten years caring for her paralyzed mother-in-law. She won't even buy herself a nice outfit, yet one day she sees her husband going around with his mistress, decked out in Chanel and carrying a Hermès crocodile-skin bag worth hundreds of thousands. And the mistress isn't alone: she has a son out of wedlock, about ten y 17.9kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
16. 16 重 Reborn to Discover My Flash-Married Husband Is a Tycoon’s Heir 重生发现闪婚老公竟是财阀太子爷 Falling Asleep on My Own自主入睡Modern Romance2.4M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Cheng Yinian gave up her booming career for Ling Zhan and devoted herself to their family. But Ling Zhan and his family treated her like a maid year after year, all while complaining that she didn’t earn money. In the end, Ling Zhan cheated on her with her best friend, Shen Xinyue. The two of them conspired to have her committed to a psychiatric hospital, where she was forced to live among the mentally ill. They even injected her with a drug that caused muscle atrophy, leav 25.7kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
17. 17 咸 A Laid-Back Mentor? All My Students Are World-Destroying Threats 咸鱼导师？我的学生全是灭世级 July Fire柒月火Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Ye Ran transmigrates to a world of awakened superpowers and high-martial cultivation. He becomes a teacher at a high-martial arts university, and unexpectedly awakens the Master Teacher System. For every superpower or technique he examines, he can immediately spot its flaws and problems. As he guides people in correcting them, he receives rewards. A flawed ability: Devouring Ferocious Boar? In my eyes, you're one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, Taotie, still waiting to awaken! A healer who ca 8.5kReads8.5Score834Shelves
18. 18 我 My Food Refreshes at Random, Leaving Customers Drooling 我的美食随机刷新，顾客馋哭了 Half-Sweet Iced Coffee, No Extra Ice冰咖半糖不加冰Urban1.7M WordsCompleted This book is also known as: Selling Extra-Spicy Grilled Wings Outside a Colorectal Hospital [Food + no female lead + everyday life + comedy + perfect with a meal] Lin Xuan didn't want to go to work, so he unexpectedly bound himself to a food System. Every week, it assigned a random location and a random dish. But the very first week's task left him dumbfounded. What? Sell extra-spicy grilled wings outside a colorectal hospital? What kind of devilish task was that? And that was only the beginnin 80.7kReads9.3Score8.6kShelves
19. 19 开 Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Urban8.9M WordsCompleted [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 343.7kReads9.7Score50.8kShelves
20. 20 藏 Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏 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 85kReads9.6Score15kShelves
21. 21 都 Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Run with the Gangsters? 都重生了谁还混社会 Bored Little Bai无聊小白啊Urban3.1M WordsCompleted Short drama: "Loyal to the Skies: Starting Over" is now streaming The novel was originally titled "Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Would Still Run With Gangs?" [Reborn + business + lots of underlings + no groveling + no cowardice + taking the righteous path + law-abiding] A big shot from the underworld returns to 2010. Should he repeat his old mistakes and keep running with gangs, or abandon his underlings and take the road to a brighter future? No! I won't choose! In this life, I, Qin Jiang, wil 151kReads9.3Score13.8kShelves
22. 22 桑 The Sang Method of Secretly Loving You 桑式暗恋法则 Gentle Scholar温柔文人Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted [Physical edition now available] Sang You transmigrated, landing back on the first day of her freshman year of high school. The three years of high school she'd finally made it through had suddenly been reset to square one. Thinking about going back to a high school life where she had nothing, not even a full head of hair, made her want to die. Later, she stopped wanting to die, but everyone else said she was crazy. She was a freshman, yet not long after the term began, she skipped ahead to seni 63.9kReads9.6Score10.9kShelves

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    The biggest characteristics of this book are sincerity, authenticity, sincerity, youth, enthusiasm, sourness, and hard work. The author describes the youth that we all long for. The supporting characters also have their own stories and lives, they are not just NPCs that highlight the protagonist, they are vivid and vivid. It made me cry and laugh at the same time. Everyone prepare tissues.

23. 23 洪 Honghuang: I’ll Come Clean, I’m the Ancestor of Wisdom! 洪荒：摊牌了，我就是智慧祖巫！ Duo Lai Dreams哆来做梦Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsCompleted [Primordial World + Investiture of the Gods + Journey to the West + invincible + comedy + scheming + play the pig to eat the tiger] Wu Tian transmigrates into the Primordial World and becomes a member of the Wu Clan. Unlike the others, he has no interest in fighting and killing. He just wants to stay behind the Ancestral Shamans, occasionally offer them advice, cultivate cautiously, and attain the Great Dao. Why fear the Calamity of the Wu and Yaoguang Clans? As long as he can hang on until the 107.6kReads8.9Score17.9kShelves

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    Hardcore reader. If nothing else, these two are really awesome. If you don't have a book, look here.

24. 24 我 I’m the Protagonist’s Disabled Younger Brother with an SSS-Rank Talent 我，主角残疾弟弟SSS级天赋 Little Mengya一只小小梦雅Urban2.6M WordsOngoing [High Martial Arts + feel-good power fantasy + overwhelming dominance + decisive killing + invincible talent] This is an era of universal genetic awakening. The powerful cross the void, expand their borders, and seize star systems. Otherworldly gods launch attacks from across the stars. Jiang Hao is a nobody, looked down on because both his legs are paralyzed and he can only use a wheelchair. He has a brother who is the child of destiny and a younger sister who will become an empress. Yet he awa 12.9kReads7.4Score1.2kShelves
25. 25 凡 The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫 Ximen Woxue西门卧雪Eastern Fantasy4.3M WordsOngoing Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm... 144.7kReads9.0Score10.3kShelves

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    The writing is relatively novel, overall it is flesh-and-blood, the emotions are aroused, and the storyline is not cliche.

26. 26 那 The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者 Squirrel Under the Mushroom House蘑菇屋下的松鼠Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted (Everyman’s cultivation + no System) Unlike traditional xianxia, don’t read if that’s not your thing. That year, a seven-year-old boy took his little sister into the cultivation world. Then all the cultivators went crazy! When you set out to cultivate, it doesn’t matter if you have talent, treasures, or lucky opportunities. But there’s one thing you must remember: there’s one person you must never provoke. Even though this person isn’t a cultivator at all. His blade is faster than light, so fast 175.3kReads9.3Score19.5kShelves
27. 27 仙 Immortal Tomb 仙墓 July Snow Immortal七月雪仙人Eastern Fantasy5.6M WordsCompleted One hundred thousand years ago, the immortals waged a great war. Countless immortals perished, the path to immortality was severed, and immortal tombs sprang up across the Immortal Realm. One hundred thousand years later, a tomb raider arrives in the Immortal Realm, carrying the Heavenly Book of Life and Death. “That’s not how you rob a tomb!” Lu Yun watches the immortals floundering in an ancient immortal tomb and smiles. “Want to learn? I’ll teach you.” 12.8kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
28. 28 大 Snow Blankets the World, the Wind Carries the Blade 大雪满风刀 An Ren Dao Ruo Shan安仁道若山Historical3.3M WordsCompleted [No System, alternate history, political intrigue, a touch of cultivation, no mindless characters, no invincible heroes] A mysterious woman is imprisoned in the depths of the imperial jail. The first time jailer Yang Zhan met her, he cursed her, calling her shameless! From then on, she had a name... Bilian! 25.7kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
29. 29 宝 Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘 Xiao Bu Yu箫不语Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd 129kReads9.2Score15.4kShelves
30. 30 仙 Renegade Immortal: Wang Lin Helps Me Sweep Through Vermilion Bird Planet 仙逆:王林带我横扫朱雀星 Author Xiaoyang作者小阳28k WordsCompleted Renegade Immortal: Wang Lin and I Sweep Across Vermilion Bird Planet —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Anyway, I read this novel. I can't stand other novels anymore

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