Rational, Cool-Headed, Taciturn, and Stoic Protagonists: High-IQ, No Female Lead, Strong Logic 主角理智冷静话少面瘫，高智商，无女主，逻辑性强
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The Crown Prince Gave Away His Country 太子他把国家送人了
[Complete]“No CP + no love interest + focused solely on building a career and saving the world + no female lead + reborn + tragic ending” A twist of fate turned Zhu Fanyi from the protagonist into a supporting character. Reborn, he turned his fate around. The System sobbed, “Heaven won’t let me go home. I want to atone and give everything back to you!” At first, Zhu Fanyi couldn’t have cared less. He thought, Don’t flatter yourself and dump that mess on me. Going along with fate is actually pre
1.6kReads9.3Score282Shelves
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After Becoming the Sea God, I Accidentally Conquered the Stars 成为海神之后：一不小心征服星际
[No Pairing + Male Protagonist + Gods + Summoning Players + Fourth-Dimensional Disaster + Ensemble Cast] The galaxy is a river, and the sea of stars is an ocean! Keg has survived in the oceans of Ryan Star for five hundred years. All he wants is to return to Blue Star and embrace his beloved phone... There are only two ways to travel between two different planets: build a starship, or become a god. That's right, Ryan Star is a planet with supernatural powers. After five hundred years of arduous
3.5kReads8.8Score551Shelves
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The Netherworld Scholar Immortal 通幽小儒仙
“Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem
74.7kReads9.4Score8.2kShelves
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(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
210.3kReads9.6Score29.2kShelves
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You Call This a D-Rank Ability? 你管这叫D级能力？
Five million words, plenty to read [Mind games] [Strategizing] [Intricate plot] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] Transmigrating three years ago brought Xu Ye to an unfamiliar world! In this world, Void Demons invade and Void Beasts run rampant! Humans have abilities that allow them to become Void Hunters and fight to protect humanity! Xu Ye awakens an SSS-grade ability by chance, only to discover that it lets him understand and use D-grade abilities alone! His beloved dies tragically in the belly
52.3kReads8.7Score4.9kShelves
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The Great Emperor's Forbidden Zone: I Went Mad After My Master Died 大帝禁区：师傅死后，我疯了
[At the end of the immortal path, who stands supreme? One glimpse of red hair, and the Dao is lost.] (Not a wish-fulfillment novel. A brain-teasing, increasingly captivating long story.) “My eldest senior brother is reborn. In his previous life, he was an ancient-era Great Emperor.” “My second senior brother transmigrated from another world, one where technology and shady shortcuts coexist.” “Our junior sister is the little princess of the Ji family, peerless in swordsmanship and unrivaled in ta
51.7kReads9.3Score4.8kShelves
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Where I Am Is Where the Jianghu Is 我所在之地，便是江湖
“Cultivators are people too, and people die.” Chen Dao sits at the table, staring at the calligraphy and painting before him. After a moment of silence, he says softly, “Pass down the order. Tell our Dao Gang brothers to get ready for tonight’s operation. The target is the Tianxian Restaurant.” “Keep it quiet. I don’t want my father finding out that there’s a band of bandits outside the city who belong to his precious son.” In a secret chamber somewhere in the Chen residence. Chen Dao’s
2kReads8.9Score702Shelves
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The Unhinged Villain: Everyone Here Is Trash 疯批反派：在座的各位都是垃圾
[Dark male-lead story + powerful, merciless sadist who dotes on the protagonist + no female lead + no canon couples (ship whoever you like) + fantasy, not realistic + slow transmigration] [The protagonist has friendship arcs only, no romance! No kissing scenes! He will never get involved with any character from beginning to end!] Qi Zui is the most terrifying criminal mastermind in the history of the Imperial Star. His crimes are too numerous to count, and his sentence has reached a record-break
1.3kReads8.7Score175Shelves
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The Big Shot Has a Little Conscience, but Not Much 大佬他有点良心，但不多
[Decisive and Ruthless] x [No Romance] x [Ridiculous Power Fantasy] x [Unhinged but Handsome Male Lead] x [Refined Pervert] “Executioner No. 001, mission completed perfectly.” After dying, Yan Wugui, who had spent ten years in a psychiatric hospital, became an executioner for the Myriad Worlds System. He travels across the heavens and countless realms to hunt down rule-breakers and keep the worlds running as they should. An executioner? Call me the Reaper. [System] Executioner No. 001. Assassina
17.2kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves
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Ten Days to the End 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
1.7MReads9.9Score234.1kShelves
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High Martial: Dad, Can You Take a Beating? 高武：爹，您扛揍不？
[Chinese Martial Arts] [Action-packed fights] [Some logic] [Jokes and fun] [Bandit’s credentials unclear] A century into the age of the supernatural, demon lairs descend upon the world. The number-one big spender is reborn and takes the college entrance exam. He makes his debut, placing second in the whole city. He moves on to the casinos, where a bandit arrives. Ladies and gentlemen, next up is the pride of Changling, the merciless bulldozer of Nantian, master of the blood-red machine tool, the
22.1kReads8.2Score1.8kShelves
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
604.4kReads9.5Score55.5kShelves
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I Can Inherit Other People’s Estates 我能继承别人的遗产
After failing the college entrance exams and being dumped by his girlfriend, Chu Yunfei, an orphan, unexpectedly obtains the Inheritance System. From then on, he can inherit any estate in the world that has no rightful heir. Thus begins his road to wealth. From the start, he inherits an estate worth 100 million, but buys only an ordinary-looking card. He hires the finest symphony orchestra in the world, only to play music to a cow. During disaster relief, he spares no expense in using helicopter
1.6kReads—Score249Shelves
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City of 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
467.2kReads9.7Score72.7kShelves
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Call Me the 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
118.8kReads9.5Score11.8kShelves
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Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！
Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca
153.1kReads9.3Score16.6kShelves
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The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
291.2kReads9.5Score34.8kShelves
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
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
535.7kReads9.7Score73.6kShelves
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Spiritual Qi Revival: The Frail Young Master Spits Blood Every Day 灵气复苏：病弱少主每天都在吐血
Time never stops turning, and blood flows on without end. As spiritual qi revival began, a new wave of chaos erupted under cover of night. The red moon hung high, and the gods opened their eyes in the shadows. Families that had lain dormant for a thousand years emerged one after another. Ancient churches revealed their fearsome faces. Su Zhi, young master of the Su family, was, in everyone’s eyes, frail and sickly, needing an hour’s rest after walking three steps. Every day, he was either coughi
3kReads9.0Score319Shelves
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You Clumsy Evil God! Why Do You Faint Every Time We Kiss? 笨蛋邪神！为什么亲亲都会晕倒？
[Female Dominant Lead, Powerful Heroine, Infinite Romance Worlds, Role-Playing, Yandere, Extremely Sweet Romance, Devoted First Loves Only ♥] [Powerful Female Lead vs. Sweet-and-Obedient Male Lead] For no apparent reason, Shen Zhizhi is kidnapped into a game of dungeons. Pretending to be a clueless beginner, she accepts a mission to play a yandere. But the more she plays the part… the more she becomes a real yandere. Great. She loves this feeling of going crazy. Dungeon 1: A dark corner in a
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After We Moved In Together, I Discovered My Gentle Husband Was Both Crazy and Clingy 同居后发现，温柔老公又疯又病娇
[Unhinged psychopath + marriage first, love later + gentlemanly scum + groveling to win his wife back] Before they married, Jiang Yusheng always thought Yu Siyan was gentle, refined, dignified, and polite, perfect in every way. After they married, Jiang Yusheng found a diagnostic report that said Yu Siyan had an extremely negative Y-type personality! People with an extreme Y-type personality lack empathy, are selfish and cold, and use ruthless tactics. They have an extremely pathological possess
8.5kReads9.2Score768Shelves
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Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀！我七原罪，得了MVP！
[Dark comedy + hilarious + ruthless action + global setting + unconventional ideas + one heroine + near-invincible protagonist + power fantasy with a brain (or without one)] Horror games descend upon the world. Those chosen to participate must face challenges of inhuman difficulty. Though the games are full of torment, they also offer people a chance to gain supernatural powers. Life or death. A meteoric rise, or losing everything. But Lu Ce, who has been unable to feel pain since childhood, fee
136.3kReads9.3Score15.9kShelves
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You're Speedrunning High-Level Martial Arts While Others Suffer? 别人练功吃苦，你直接速通高武？
[Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r
131.8kReads9.1Score9.3kShelves
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Ne Zha: Wall-Facer Shen Gongbao, Speak Your Mind! 哪吒：面壁者申公豹，申情讲话！
(Shen Gongbao’s journey of revenge) (Nezha + Primordial Chaos + Classic of Mountains and Seas + fun stuff) (Ensemble cast, slow burn) (There’s a brain! There’s a brain!) One day, Shen Gongbao happened to find a phone in the dense forest. After reading The Three-Body Problem and learning what happened to Shen Xiaobao and Shen Zhengdao, he forcefully suppressed his murderous gaze, made himself regain his composure, and calmed down before saying: “My name is Shen Gongbao. I request an audience with
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The Evil King’s Obsession: The Genius Madwoman Slays Her Way Through the Three Realms 邪王嗜宠：天才狂妃杀遍三界
[Spirit spring space + all attributes + unmatched healer and poison master + no saintly heroine + two powerful leads + sweet, satisfying romance] She was an heir to an ancient martial arts family, a woman who once commanded the world. One transmigration later, she becomes an ugly good-for-nothing. After repairing her dantian, she awakens a five-element spiritual root, breaks through to the innate sacred body, bonds with divine beasts, concocts divine pills, forges divine artifacts, and builds he
26.8kReads9.3Score3.7kShelves
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Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你
[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
344.5kReads9.8Score35.6kShelves
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Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 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
1.1MReads9.9Score285.7kShelves