The Best Book You've Ever Read: Pick Just One and Recommend It! 心中排名第一的书，只能选一本，求推荐！
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I Became the Beloved Child Who Died Young 穿成早夭的团宠
[No main CP, side CPs + everyone’s darling + doomed early-death white moonlight] At the Main God’s request, the System Zhaozhao travels to different worlds as a quick transmigrator, completing missions. His journey through life begins, and one legend after another unfolds. He is the exceptionally gifted divine son of the solemn God Realm. He is the beloved little prince of the lonely Underworld. He is the Black-Bellied Immortal Venerable’s one and only sword spirit. He is the Buddhist son, older
29.9kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
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1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷，
New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available.
233.9kReads9.4Score14.9kShelves
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Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生：大佬从百万囤货开始
[Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot
123.6kReads9.4Score12.3kShelves
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
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
1.8MReads9.9Score232.4kShelves
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Pure Desire 纯欲
(Sapiosexual romance + Beijing elite circle + secret crush + marriage before love + both leads’ first love) [Beijing elite heir × divine maiden] Jiang Ruan got married in a whirlwind. Her husband was a notoriously spoiled, arrogant young man in Beijing. Yet this utterly overbearing man would spend many nights afterward begging her with reddened eyes full of devotion and obsession, as humble as could be: “As long as you don’t leave, I’ll do anything.” “Please don’t leave me, okay?” How could a f
171Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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I Accidentally Became the Ultimate Villain! 一不小心成了终极大反派！
[Transmigrated into a book, no System, historical setting, female lead] What should you do after transmigrating into a book as a female-oriented novel’s villain, when the heroine has a prince backing her? Easy: either marry her or destroy the country! What if you can’t stand this world? Why not change it while you’re at it?…
11.3kReads8.7Score610Shelves
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Rapturous Bliss 酣欢
[Glamorous, pampered, willful heiress × wild, abstinent B-king bodyguard] Miss, can you tell me how you picked me out from among all those bodyguards? The Xie family's heiress was born into a life of luxury and splendor. Bold and uninhibited, she had a pair of seductive fox eyes that could captivate anyone. “He's handsome, he's got a great body, and he looks like my future boyfriend.” The handsome, stern man bent down on one knee and held her pale jade ankle as he put on her high heels. “Too bad
17.8kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
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Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
161.9kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
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The Campus Belle Had Never Been Linked to Anyone, Until I Went to College 校花学姐从无绯闻，直到我上大学
[Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t
411.5kReads9.8Score43.9kShelves
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
503.1kReads9.7Score69.9kShelves
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Fear No Scorching Sun, Look Not at the Moon 不惧骄阳，不看月亮
(A heads-up: the content doesn't have much to do with the title.) It's probably the story of a little girl learning to stand on her own two feet. There is no male lead. (Setting: The female lead's combat ability is maxed out.)
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Above All Officials 百官之上
First, this is a genuine political novel, written by one of the genre's most experienced authors. The story is logically sound and highly readable. Quality guaranteed! Second, the story starts at the prefecture-level city from the very beginning. The protagonist will not be sent down to the towns and villages. This book will not spend hundreds of chapters at the township level. Third, there is political maneuvering, economic development, satisfying revenge, and, naturally, personal life as well.
223.5kReads9.3Score21.3kShelves
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The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令
[Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave
297.1kReads9.5Score34kShelves
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A Flower, a Jug of Wine, an Immortal; Sleeping or Drunk, I Live Forever 一花一酒一仙人，亦眠亦醉亦长生
[This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master
240.2kReads9.5Score28.7kShelves
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Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖
[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
858.5kReads9.7Score90.1kShelves
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Going Wild with Misinterpretations from the Start, I Turn Out to Be the Evil God 开局疯狂迪化，结尾邪神本人
[Western fantasy + mass misinterpretation + no female lead + a few secret identities + a touch of cosmic horror] [The first two chapters set things up; the misinterpretations begin in Chapter Three] Ji Ping sometimes reflects on the past few years of his life. His routine is simple: go home, eat, study books, then take on commissions to make ends meet. Nothing seems particularly wrong with that. At most, he worships a sufficiently benevolent evil god, and as a result, keeps running into all sort
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The Outcast: The Daily Lives of Two Drama Queens 一人之下：两个戏精的日常
Are there gods in this world? [Under One Person + Some Comedy + No System + No Female Lead + Genius + Everyone's Favorite + Slice of Life] Lin Yan is blessed with a stunning face. From the start, he moves into an orphanage, and everything he says with his jinxing mouth comes true. He and Zhang Chulan spend ten years as kindred spirits in misfortune, each more of a drama queen than the other. As the years pass, they meet, and the truth hidden in the fog is about to come to light. Feng Baobao: “Wh
2.9kReads9.0Score246Shelves
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The Not-So-Cold Magician 不太冷的魔术师
[Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a
344.1kReads9.5Score31kShelves
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Livestreaming Intangible Cultural Heritage, Bringing the Beauty of China Back to Life 直播非遗技艺，重现东方华夏之美
After Xiao Yunyi and his wife parted amicably, he took their three-year-old daughter and returned to the countryside. Then, while fishing one day, he unexpectedly acquired the Legacy of a Hundred Crafts. From then on, he could gather the faith of all living beings and learn traditional intangible cultural heritage crafts in his dreams. For example: bamboo weaving, wood carving, oil-paper umbrella making, Chinese martial arts, embroidery, iron painting, and iron tree silver flowers. As time went
2.2kReads9.0Score200Shelves
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He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！
[Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot
110.2kReads9.2Score10.6kShelves
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Mad, All of You, Mad. Being a Little Mad Is Good! 癫，都癫，癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
454.8kReads9.8Score55.8kShelves
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
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
1.2MReads9.9Score171.6kShelves
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The Spirit Gourd’s Path to Immortality 灵葫芦修仙记
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...
154kReads9.0Score11kShelves
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
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
1.8MReads9.9Score184.7kShelves
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Gu King Ajie 蛊王阿杰
[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
101Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷
[The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he
21.2kReads9.6Score4.5kShelves
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My Family Can Hear My Thoughts and Goes on a Killing Spree, While I Just Focus on Feeding 全家偷听我心声杀疯了，我负责吃奶
The Red Fruit short drama adaptation of My Whole Family Hears My Thoughts: Fu Bao Chaochao is now open for reservations! Please show it lots of support and give it a follow! [Whole-family mind reading + cannon fodder + beloved by the whole family + powerful figure transmigrates into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger + feel-good story] Lu Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character who was drowned at birth, while the heroine stole her identity. The heroine turned
17.9kReads9.6Score3.6kShelves
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