Looking for Classic Great Reads, Plus a Recommendation for a Book I Just Finished 求经典好书，另推一本刚看过的书
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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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Pokémon: I Am Giovanni 精灵之我是坂木老大
[Pokemon + Team Rocket + Giovanni + A Dark, Gritty Take] Do you think every Bug Catcher is named Giovanni? Not just anyone can take on a legendary Pokemon head-on with a Beedrill! Transmigrating into the role of Giovanni, the boss, he rises from a dying boy in Viridian Forest to the throne of the underworld, builds Team Rainbow Rocket, and conquers the world! This time, there'll be no Giovanni of the Earth brought down by a few kids. This is a crime lord who rules over everything!
25.7kReads9.0Score2.8kShelves
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My Fair Princess: Yantai Are Reborn 新还珠之燕泰重生
Watching Yongqi walk away, Xiao Yanzi’s heart turned cold… “Yongqi, if I could live my life over, I’d do everything in my power to get away from you… Brother, sister-in-law, Ziwei, Erkang, Ertai… I’m sorry. Xiao Yanzi will be going on ahead…” … “Xiao Yanzi, thank goodness you’re all right!” Xiao Yanzi stared blankly as Ertai pressed her into his arms. What was going on? Hadn’t she died? “His Majesty has arrived!!!” “Your subject, Fu Ertai, pays his respects to His Majesty!” Ertai gently laid Xia
954Reads8.7Score103Shelves
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Cai Dongfan: Popular Romances of Successive Dynasties (12-Volume Set) 蔡东藩：历朝通俗演义（全12册）
The Dynasties in Popular Storytelling, a series of historical novels offering a sweeping account of China The author’s narration is plain, fluent, and well organized, with a lively style that balances reason and emotion. Open this book and discover Chinese history through the clash of armies and rival states, tender romances, and battles between good and evil! Included with the book is a long, expert-reviewed historical reading mind map. Using big data to present a panoramic view of historical c
474Reads9.5Score106Shelves
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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
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Shocking! The Secret Identity Big Shot Takes the White Lotus Down From Every Angle 惊！马甲大佬她对白莲花横踢竖卷
[Publishing deal signed] [Satisfying revenge, lighthearted comedy, secret identities, putting scumbags in their place, a quirky and formidable mercenary boss VS a principled young heir from Beijing’s elite circles, devoted heroine] At their first meeting, Shu Lan shoots Lu Jinhan and leaves him badly wounded. She chases him all the way back to China, then becomes an ordinary university student. He runs, she chases; he has nowhere to hide. She’s the world’s number-one mercenary king! She’s a foun
65.1kReads9.5Score9kShelves
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Oh My! The Little Incubus Has Been Snatched Back to His Lair by His Yandere Again 哦莫！小魅魔他又被疯批叼回窝了
[Two Male Leads + Quick Transmigration + 1v1 Romance + Equally Matched Leads + Face-Slapping] As a little incubus, Shi Jiu'an has only two things to do in his mission worlds! First, complete missions, collect Systems, and earn points to buy little cakes! Second, whenever he sets his sights on a man, he has to flirt his way into the man's arms! He won't let incubi down! The consequences? They don't exist! But when he finishes a mission and tries to leave the world, the man wraps an arm around his
3.9kReads9.4Score587Shelves
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Shocking! My Junior Sister's Teammates Are All Picked Up Along the Way 震惊，小师妹的队友全靠捡
[Four-Person Team] [Xianxia-Inspired] [Ensemble Cast] [Sect Life] [Light Humor] [Redemption] [Unity] [No CP, No Romance Allowed in This Cultivation Story!] A somewhat unorthodox account of orthodox Daoist cultivators on their path to immortality. In the early part, they cultivate merit in the mortal world through several short stories. Later, they enter a secret realm for a chaotic free-for-all, with multiple sects joining in. The four youngsters save one another and grow together. There is too
10kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
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God of Cooking: A Little Restaurant from the Start, Making the Cultivation World Drool 厨神：开局小食肆，馋哭修真界
Gourmet, healing, no System, no romance, raising a daughter. After transmigrating from the apocalypse to the Cultivation Realm, Yang Feng runs a small eatery. Despite its humble size, the place is packed with big shots from every realm. The Demon Clan's holy maiden: “Waaah, mapo tofu is so delicious! I accidentally ate three more buckets of rice.” A sect leader: “The giant pork knuckle is the best! I can polish off ten in one go!” A celestial master: “I’ve read the signs, and today is a good day
4.4kReads8.7Score421Shelves
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You Said You’d Open a Private School, So Why Are You Producing Sword Immortals and Martial Sages? 说好办私塾，你教出剑仙武圣？
[No heroine + taking disciples + attributes + System] Chen Weiyang transmigrates to a fantasy world. After opening a private academy, he activates the “Title-Based Disciple Recruitment System”! As long as he grants a “title” to a disciple, that disciple can grow into a super expert of the corresponding kind? Martial Sages? Sword Immortals? Zither Immortals? Go Saints? They’re all my disciples! Once his disciples reach a certain level, Chen Weiyang can obtain a special ability called an “attribut
1.3kReads7.7Score107Shelves
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From the Start, I Transmigrated into a Deity Statue and Was Worshipped as a Goddess in a Year of Famine 开局穿成神像，我在荒年被奉神女
[No CP] [Mountain God] [Infrastructure Building] [Transmigrators Helping Each Other] From the start, she transmigrates into the statue of a god in a ruined temple on a barren mountain. No problem: she’s also bound to a Godhood System! When Yu Luo gives a roasted chicken to a mother and daughter who have long been bullied, they become incredibly strong and turn the tables on their tormentors. The black soil she gives them makes crops grow at astonishing speed. Cotton, sweet potatoes, and potatoes
4.5kReads8.9Score424Shelves
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Bang, Bang, Bang! The Five-Year-Old Lucky Little Treasure Takes the Bench 当当当，五岁福宝小青天升堂喽
[Adorable child + handsome father + origins + county magistrate + martial arts] Tao An'an, one of the notorious troublemakers from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the body of an adorable five-year-old. While her father is taking the imperial examinations, a chance encounter brings her face-to-face with the emperor, who is traveling incognito. She cleverly answers his questions and is personally named the top scorer in the palace examinations, then appointed magistrate of Wanping Cou
1.3kReads8.6Score164Shelves
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
102.4kReads9.6Score11.2kShelves
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Strange Phenomena Run Rampant: I Investiture the Gods in Another World 诡异横行：我在异世敕封神明
[No System] [No Female Lead] [Relatively Slow-Burn] [Character Growth] Zhang Xuan is from Jibei Province. According to his grandfather, their family is a direct descendant of the Jiangxi Longhu Mountain lineage. His grandfather named him Zhang Xuan, saying he had the talent to attain the Dao. He hoped Zhang Xuan would become a figure like the Celestial Master Zhang Daoling, and that future generations would call him Zhang Daoxuan. But Zhang Xuan scoffed at the idea and didn’t believe a word of i
19.4kReads8.3Score1.6kShelves
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I Have a Blade 我有一刀
I am Ye Feng, born with an ordinary mortal body to a woodcutter, and I began my life in the army. I have no immortal roots, no treasured physique, no Dao weapon, and no supernatural powers. All I have is a saber, straight and unbending, advancing without retreat. Its blade points forward, slashing immortal roots, destroying treasured physiques, cleaving Dao weapons, and breaking supernatural powers.
2.4kReads8.3Score192Shelves
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Chaos Sacred Physique, Curing a Fairy's Poison from the Start 混沌圣体，开局为仙子解毒
[Witty and calculating] [Thrilling and invincible] [Classic high fantasy] [Transmigrated to another world] [Decisive and ruthless] [Many beautiful women] [This book features many beautiful women, but it isn't a brainless harem story. If that's not your thing, proceed with caution!] Zhang Yang transmigrates to another world and encounters a snow-white beauty who has been struck by a deadly poison... Zhang Yang: “Miss, please behave yourself. I'm an honorable man!” Zhang Yang: “Miss, don't do that
38.6kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
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Transmigrate into a Book as the Villain: My Cultivation Is Gone, and the Female Lead Turns the Tables on Me 穿书反派：修为尽失，女主逆推
Xu Yang transmigrates into the world of a novel and becomes its villain, the master of Purple Cloud Peak, one of the six peaks of the Qingming Sect. Once he figures out his situation, Xu Yang panics and immediately wants to grab his things and run. The one thing he can be grateful for is that The story hasn't started yet, so there's still room to change his fate. After awakening the Ten-Thousandfold Return System, all he has to do is accept a gift from one of the novel's heroines for a chance to
53.1kReads8.9Score5.3kShelves
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I Just Started Third Grade, But They Insist I'm an Emperor in His Twilight Years 刚上三年级，非说我是暮年大帝
He had only just started third grade this year when he was told he had become a Great Emperor, albeit one in his twilight years. [As a Great Emperor, you ruled supreme through the ages. In your twilight years, your vital energy and blood are fading. You have exhausted your imperial power and risked everything to transmigrate to this world, where danger lurks everywhere and opportunities abound.] Lin Chen looked at the rubber running track and the towering buildings before him, utterly speechless
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A Female Ghost Shows Up Pregnant, and You Say You're a Proper Daoist? 女鬼怀孕上门你说你是正经道士？
[Mystery Solving] [Ghost Stories] [Chinese Folk Traditions] Su Yun is an heir to the Yin-Yang School, one of the pre-Qin traditions. Introduced by an acquaintance, he went on a blind date and met his girlfriend. After they broke up, Su Yun prepared to turn her into a zombie. Just as the process was nearly complete on the seventh day, a policewoman burst in and arrested him for murder. Su Yun: “I'm innocent! My ex-girlfriend was a flight attendant, fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged. Why wo
204.1kReads9.1Score22.4kShelves
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Purple Sun 紫阳
When the Hu invaded, he lost his family, his home, and his newlywed wife, who was taken from him. He searched for her across a thousand miles but failed to find her. Through a twist of fate, he embarked on the path of Shangqing cultivation. A pedantic scholar gained immortal arts, mastered the immortal way, saved the people, and brought order to the world.
7.6kReads9.2Score849Shelves
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The Peerless Dao Lord 绝世道君
After seventeen years, Lu Yu finally devoured the Heavenly Emperor’s soul and took a fresh look at the world. Since heaven and earth were remade and spiritual energy returned, countless people had pursued immortality, drawing on fortune to rise above the rest. Gather true qi, and you can split mountains and shatter stone, traveling a thousand miles in a day. Master spells, and you can summon wind and rain, soar through the clouds and mist. A tiger roars through the mountains; a dragon swims in s
8.9kReads8.4Score409Shelves
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Devouring Immortals 吞仙
Terminally ill, Chen Chang’an jumps from the hospital rooftop so he won’t burden his parents, then transmigrates and is reborn in another world. He awakens the Heart of Taotie, gains the immortal artifact Eternal Divine Furnace, and masters the Taotie Heaven-Swallowing Art. He defies fate, devours the sky and earth, plunders all things for his own use, and grows stronger. Your cultivation is higher than mine? I’ll devour you! You have more magical treasures than I do? I’ll devour you! Your fathe
1.3kReads7.0Score172Shelves
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Cultivators of Immortality and Demons 仙魔同修
The sea of clouds stretches into the distance, and the heavens are boundless. Who among the multitude of living beings does not yearn for them? The Heavenly Way is elusive, beyond anyone’s sight. Amid the endless mortal world, who does not long for eternal life? The grudges of a pair of lovers spanning three lives and seven lifetimes, and the age-old feud between the righteous path and the demonic sect. With one man and one ancient sword, how will he face the entire world...?
10.6kReads8.5Score935Shelves
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The Chaos Heavenly Scripture 混沌天经
Among the seven peerless cultivation arts of the Tianmeng Universe, only the Chaos Heavenly Scripture has eight levels of mental cultivation. The other six peerless arts are complete, with nine levels each. Yet the power of the Chaos Heavenly Scripture is comparable to that of the other six. Legend has it that whoever creates the ninth level of the Chaos Heavenly Scripture will become an unrivaled being in the universe, transcending the universe and attaining undying, imperishable existence.
6.1kReads8.6Score721Shelves
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Supreme God of Slaughter 无上杀神
Killing one is a crime. Killing ten thousand makes you a hero. Kill hundreds of millions, and you’re a hero among heroes! A lowly servant is beaten to death on the spot, only to unexpectedly inherit the legacy of the God of Slaughter. He cultivates the Five Palaces God-Slaying Art, and across the Myriad Worlds, among all the gods and demons, there is none he cannot kill!
17.5kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
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Heaven-Defying Emperor 逆天帝皇
Qin Junxie marries into the Su family as a renowned genius, but fate has other plans, and he loses all his cultivation. Ten years later, he awakens in a single moment and embarks on a path of defying the heavens and slaying his foes.
25.9kReads8.6Score2.4kShelves
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Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘
[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
125.7kReads9.2Score14.7kShelves
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Supreme Creation System 无上造化系统
His spiritual root was torn out, his dantian destroyed, and he was reduced to the lowest of the low, a laborer clearing wasteland. At the moment of crisis, he unlocked the Supreme Fortune System. Other people cleared wasteland and did nothing more, but when he did it, he could unearth countless treasures and refine the land into his own personal territory. “Ding... Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s Ruyi Jingu Bang.” “Ding... Congratulations, Host, you h
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Reborn in 1993: Dark Sea 重生1993，暗海
The physical edition of Wrathful Sea, Calm the Abyss is now available. Presales officially begin at 19:00 on October 11. [Reborn] [Mystery] [Undercover Agent] [Revenge] [Anti-Drug Operations] [Counterespionage] The golden finger is extremely weak, and he relies on his own abilities. This is a battle of wits between highly intelligent opponents, so you need to keep your brain switched on. There is no showing off and face-slapping! Ideal for veteran readers. If you understand it, you'll find it ve
319.1kReads9.6Score40.4kShelves
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The Leisurely Prince of Zhenguan 贞观小闲王
[No System]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Farming] Have you ever wondered what you’d do if you transmigrated to ancient times with no System and no golden finger? You’re not a physicist, chemist, or historian, just an ordinary person from the future. Everything you know comes from movies, TV, short-video platforms, and the media. How would you survive? Follow an ordinary person who transmigrates into Li Shen, Li Shimin’s tenth son at the beginning of the Tang dynasty. With nothing but his limited knowledge
112.8kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
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The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫
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...
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The Mortal's Cultivation Journey: Ancestor of Talismans 凡人修仙之符祖
[Mortal's journey, no System.] Xu Changshou, a young cowherd, is brought into the world of cultivation after saving an errand disciple of the Green Immortal Sect. He later awakens a bloodline jade talisman and obtains a legacy in the Dao of Talismans. Starting with the art of drawing talismans, he steps onto the path of cultivation, ascends to immortality, slays demons, attains eternal life, questions the heavens, creates the Great Dao of Talismans, and achieves the rank of Talisman Ancestor.
245.5kReads8.7Score19.9kShelves