Modern Novels Are Completely Brainless, Are There Any with Intelligent Characters? 现在的小说完全不带脑子，有没有长脑子的书

1. 1 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 1.7MReads9.9Score188.4kShelves

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   The first book is thriller + suspense + twist, this book is amazing! The protagonist you thought was actually an NPC? What you thought was a plot was actually a scam? What you thought was the ending was actually the beginning? The whole process is high-energy and mind-blowing. After reading it, I called the author a devil! The second sci-fi masterpiece "The Gate of Star Marks" transformed from False Ring has a strong setting of unlimited flow and exciting writing. The three major camps in the Star Gate world are fighting fiercely. The author sharpened his sword for three years, clicked to start an interstellar adventure, and witnessed the rise of the gods. The third book of the pseudo-deification of gods, "The Ninth District", in the disaster wasteland, the young police officer Qin Yu broke out from the area to be planned, relied on ruthlessness and wisdom to cling to the powerful, and fought side by side with his brothers Lao Mao and Qilin in the three districts. The group portraits are vividly portrayed, and the power struggle is thrilling!

2. 2 星 Gate of the Star Scar 星痕之门 Wei Jie伪戒Urban6.2M WordsOngoing There are Star Gates in this world. Everyone who enters becomes a god. Ren Ye has already served two and a half years in prison when a mysterious visitor suddenly comes to see him. The visitor says, “If you’re willing to take part in a game, you can walk out of here right now. The price is… you might die.” Many years later, Ren Ye stands alone within a Star Gate, looking back on the past. Many of the faces in his memories have grown indistinct… 2024: The tide is coming, and the travelers keep wa 54.3kReads9.0Score2.4kShelves
3. 3 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... 235kReads9.6Score28.4kShelves
4. 4 光 The Saintess of Light Would Never Fall for a Demon God of the Underworld 光明圣女才不会爱上冥界魔神 The Cat Who Loves Nuclear Bombs爱吃核弹的猫Eastern Fantasy309k WordsCompleted [One Female Lead] “Great Demon Lord, have you fallen for me?” In the mortal realm, a white-haired girl with blue eyes gazed at the raven before her, its eyes bloodred, and smiled sweetly. Lucifer watched the girl draw closer. Why would the Saintess of the Church of Light fall for a Demon Lord of the Netherworld? The synopsis does it no justice. Head to the story for more. 19.3kReads9.3Score2.6kShelves

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   I rarely read this kind of light novel-like writing style. I feel it is very gentle and cute. I really fell in love with it at once. The white-haired saint and the little crow🐦‍⬛The Demon God. I fell in love with it after reading a dozen of them [Bookshelf plus one] [Already planted] The second one is a game adaptation, which is rare and well written. The third one is very well written. Sometimes I like to send out knives very much, just like Mo's mouth is twisted into Nike

5. 5 从 Starting Out as a Space Junk Scavenger 从太空垃圾佬开始 Harvester Ant收获蚁Sci-Fi & Apocalypse4.0M WordsCompleted [Space Opera] [Exploration and Frontier Development] [Interstellar Trade] [Dreadnoughts and Big Guns] [Interstellar Colonization] A modern man transmigrates to the interstellar age, but can't handle future technology? No problem, Emperor Gaozu of Han already showed us the way. I'll start my own business, offering benefits with one hand and dangling promises with the other. I don't need to master everything; the talented people will take care of it for me. From the start, my unreliable parents di 71.9kReads9.4Score7.9kShelves
6. 6 弃 Surviving on a Forsaken Star: Combine Identical Junk into Brand-New Gear 弃星生存：相同垃圾合成全新装备 Wang Zilü王自律Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.1M WordsCompleted After the Second Era, Earth became the largest technological junkyard in the Milky Way. A scavenger's cloak billows in the wind as Cheng Qi stands atop a mountain of trash. [Similar technological object detected] [Beginning synthesis] [Damaged Nanny Bot], [Safety-Guard Nanny Bot], [Environment-Adaptive Nanny Bot]! [Mechanical Exploration Shoes], [Mechanical Exploration Leggings], [Jet-Powered Turbine Boots]! [Surgical Assistant Gloves], [Intelligent Assistant Gloves], [Gravity-Field Adjustment G 609.3kReads9.1Score108.1kShelves
7. 7 兄 Bro, Are You Some Kind of Human Incubus? Fluffy Creatures Are Chasing You Everywhere 兄弟你人类魅魔啊？毛茸茸追着跑 Yue Jian Ying月见莺Urban3.4M WordsOngoing [This book has been signed for print publication] [Light livestreaming + Animals + No romance] Lu Xiao, a professor of botany and zoology, quits his job and heads alone to the Kunlun Mountains to gather research material, becoming a solitary yet vibrant mountain guardian. During his first winter in the mountains, he says he wants a cat. The very next moment, his dog brings him a snow leopard cub abandoned by its mother. Dog, this isn’t what I meant by a cat. This is a little too hardcore. He thi 76kReads9.7Score5.6kShelves

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   For someone who likes small animals, being able to listen to the voices of various animals is really fascinating. There is no brainless love and love, but just a long and gentle relationship with animals and plants. It may be a little dull, but occasionally there will be small surprises.

8. 8 征 Conquering the Misty Immortal Palace 征服飘渺仙宫 The Heart Won't Stir, Won't Stir, Won't Stir心不动不动不动Eastern Fantasy405k WordsOngoing A friendly reminder: This book moves at a breakneck pace. You won't taste its flavor unless you savor it slowly. [Multiple Heroines] [Reborn] [Villain] [Reform] [Alternate Setting] A powerful figure from the Demon Realm is reborn in the mortal world below... What will he do down there? I have no idea... The author doesn't dare calculate his fate. I still have too much to live for. Everyone who tried to calculate his path has met a grim end... Can this former great demon change his ways? Watch hi 2.8kReads6.5Score178Shelves

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   [The masterpiece of bird food][The masterpiece of bird food]

9. 9 冒 Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊 Eastern Zhou Young Master Nan东周公子南Historical1.5M WordsOngoing (Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho 501.2kReads9.7Score59kShelves

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   The author has a literary background and is currently studying for a Ph. D. The content of the novel is very sophisticated and will definitely make you think. It is also refreshing and intensive, humorous, and not at all old-fashioned!

10. 10 十 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves

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    The protagonist Qi Xia is both a genius and a madman, solving mysteries and confronting rules in infinite reincarnation. The novel combines suspense, philosophy and psychology, and explores the relationship between fate and free will through the settings of "curse" and "reincarnation". The plot is full of twists and turns. For example, the protagonist gradually disintegrates the logic of the system by planting "seeds". Readers need to repeatedly scrutinize the details to understand the profound meaning of the foreshadowing.

11. 11 趋 Seek Fortune and Avoid Disaster: With Fate on My Side, How Could I Lose? 趋吉避凶，天命在我怎么输？ Three Thoughts at Night夜间三思Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Decisive and ruthless + both saint and demon + political scheming and battles of wits + no System + divination by lot + progression-focused story + no female lead] In this corrupt world of the Five Turbidities, people are tormented by the eight sufferings. Hearts are wicked, no one cultivates virtue, false views prevail, and heresy flourishes. No living being escapes harm. Whenever Zhou Qingfeng reached a crossroads in life, he would draw a lot and cast a divination, avoiding misfortune and cho 5.6kReads8.3Score415Shelves

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    2400+ Old bookworms recommend it. You can check out these and see which one you like.

12. 12 司 Commander Si, Why Are You Standing with the Monsters? 司统大人，您怎么站怪物那边了？ Little Black the Firebreather喷火小黑Urban3.6M WordsOngoing [No female lead + no romantic tension + no romance + ruthless and decisive] Amid the crowds beneath the neon-lit cityscape, there are monsters wearing human skin, walking among them just like ordinary people. The news says these people are called the Awakened. They feed on human flesh and are savage monsters. One quiet afternoon, an ordinary high school sophomore undergoes a transformation and becomes one of the Awakened, standing against all of humanity! To survive, he makes a pact with a god a 117.7kReads8.7Score13kShelves
13. 13 死 After Dying a Hundred Thousand Times, I Bribed the River of Time and Space 死亡十万次，我直接买通时空长河 Natsume Says Nothing夏目不语Urban1.8M WordsCompleted [Future Setting] [One Female Lead or No Female Lead] The Shijing appeared, strange beings invaded, and the Chosen Ones charged with fighting them were on the brink of defeat. So the most determined among the Chosen Ones began searching for a way to save the world. “Ten years later, the basic body-tempering method appeared, and the first martial artists were born.” “A hundred years later, spiritual martial arts burst onto the scene, and the martial arts community officially took shape.” “A thousa 63.8kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
14. 14 我 My Childhood Friends Are All Game Bosses 我的青梅竟都是游戏BOSS A Shot of Whiskey一支威士忌Sports4.2M WordsOngoing [Game world + fake villain + myriad races + battles + multiple heroines] “Come on, I'm the young master of the Night City family of gene-modified mutants. Can you stop always making me live off a woman?” In this game world, countless races stand side by side. Genetic evolution, flourishing martial arts, technology-based cultivation, magic, and supernatural abilities all collide, while city-states wage constant wars over territory. Ye Ge is reborn into the family of magic-mutated humans in the 45.6kReads8.9Score4.7kShelves
15. 15 请 Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted 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 126.6kReads9.5Score12.9kShelves

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    The plot of the story develops reasonably and does not drag on, and the protagonist kills decisively and without mercy. If you like the supernatural genre, I recommend Ghost Hunters, Ghost Eating and Paranormal Journey to the West. Among them, the author of Ghost Eating is Slime, and the funny elements are very good. The Horror Voyage is a survival-navigation genre with a decisive protagonist, a reasonable plot, and a single female protagonist.

16. 16 邪 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Three Winds 11三风11Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted 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 154.9kReads9.3Score16.7kShelves
17. 17 全 High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 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 288.5kReads9.4Score32.3kShelves
18. 18 百 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 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 91.5kReads9.5Score7.4kShelves
19. 19 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 231.6kReads9.5Score28.5kShelves
20. 20 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 200.5kReads9.6Score24.4kShelves
21. 21 没 Are You Sick? Why Talk About Kindness with a Man-Eating Demon? 没病吧？你和食人魔谈什么善良？ Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + invincible hero + food + farming + keeps his distance from humans + no do-gooder heroine + survival + everyone] How does an ogre usually eat? Step one: Find a desert monster. Step two: Hit it. Step three: Beat it up. Step four: Throw it into a pot. Step five: Simmer it over low heat for two hours. Gorkin had transmigrated to this endless desert world twenty years ago, but he was an ogre with a huge, burly build. He had finally become a chief, and now all the people of Blue Star 31.6kReads9.1Score3.9kShelves
22. 22 我 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 23.6kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
23. 23 骷 The Skeleton Lord's Growth Journal 骷髅领主的成长日记 Even a Prawn Can Be a Hero大虾也是侠Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted I unexpectedly transmigrated to another world. Others became immortals or Buddhas, while even the less fortunate got to rise from being nobodies. But when Gu Erdan got here, he realized he had nothing to look forward to. Because this guy had become a skeleton soldier! And not just any skeleton soldier, but a low-grade, headless, battle-damaged wreck of one! Life is hard, so the skeleton sighed. Looking at his body, without an ounce of flesh on it, Gu Erdan decided he would show everyone how to m 4kReads9.1Score508Shelves
24. 24 紫 Purple Sun 紫阳 Feng Yu Jiuqiu风御九秋Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsOngoing 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. 7.9kReads9.2Score931Shelves

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    It's a traditional fairy tale. It's not a cool novel. The plot is brilliant.

25. 25 穿 How Can a Villain Who Transmigrates Into a Book Defy Fate? 穿书反派如何逆天改命？ Daydreaming Little Dingdang白日造梦小叮当Sci-Fi & Apocalypse294k WordsOngoing [When a Mad Villain Is Choked by Fate] Reborn as a doomed villainess? Ren Xingyao tears up the script and sneers, eerie blue light rippling across the cards between her fingertips. As a wormhole tears open a rift in space and time, a tech genius adjusts his glasses over his quantum computer and says, “You think pulling an SSR means you can do whatever you want? Careful, or you’ll end up in a psych ward!” The deranged beauty strikes back by blowing up the plotline. At the moment her mental energy 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Science fiction + book-traveling villain + card drawing system + dimensional travel + imagination

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