For When You're Tired of the Same Old Cultivation Tropes 如果你厌倦了千篇一律的修仙套路
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The Demon Venerable Senior Brother Below: The Immortal Venerable Junior Brother Goes Heh Heh Heh 魔尊师兄在下：仙尊师弟桀桀桀
[This! Is! A! Women’s! Fiction! Male-male leads! Romance! Male readers, proceed with caution!! Who else! Who else doesn’t read the blurb or tags! Ah!! Who else!!!] [Goofy, awkward, absurdly satisfying, unconventional and ridiculous. Two old men, neither grows as a person. Invincible from the start, with no rivals or pressure. No cultivation, no fighting, no humiliating the opposition. They’re just playing around, playing around, playing around!! Ah!!! Everyone, read the blurb!!!] (The blurb belo
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How Do I Survive After Becoming the Villain in a Formulaic Novel from the Start? 开局穿成了套路文的反派怎么破
The sequel is underway and can be found in the author’s works. This leans toward the female-audience genre. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Lighthearted and funny, an irreverent fantasy story. The protagonist is adored by everyone, men and women alike. All flirtation, no CP. After transmigrating, Cang Yu finds himself cast as the villain in three different books! Even though he’s the villain, he’s stuck with the job of saving the world! He decides he’d better save himself first. 007
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Heaven’s Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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Ancestor, Stop Laying Low: The Universe Is About to End 老祖别苟了，宇宙要没了
[Lighthearted daily life + invincible + Backer Sect + call for reinforcements when unable to win + schemer + no martial ethics + longevity] Because he had died once before, Hua Yunfei always put staying alive first. He had hidden away on Daoyuan Peak for a hundred years, performing sign-in for a hundred years. [Beep, congratulations to the Host on completing one hundred years of sign-in and obtaining the Ultimate Emperor Weapon: the Chaos Bell] The Dark Blood Era arrived, plunging Heaven an
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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
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After Faking My Death, I Became the Cold Immortal Lord's One True Love 死遁后，我成了清冷仙君的白月光
Demon Lord Jiang Xiyin failed her tribulation. When she woke, she had been reborn as a frail, blind young woman. Legend had it that the divine doctor of Wuchang Sect could bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bare bones. As it happened, some Wuchang Sect disciples passed by. Jiang Xiyin pretended to be a pitiful, delicate little thing and clung stubbornly to their junior uncle, Chu Shangu. Who would have thought that the first time the immortal lord saw her, tears streamed down his f
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Oops, I Accidentally Corrupted My Cold and Aloof Master 糟糕一不小心把清冷师尊弄黑化了
[Sweet romance, sweet romance, nothing but sweet romance] [Playful disciple × aloof master] [Both virgins] [Lighthearted] Ever since coming of age, Yan Xi’s goal had been to trick her master, the untouchable beauty, into coming home with her! But what was she supposed to do if her master couldn’t take a hint? Whenever she got the chance, Yan Xi played up her pitiful side and acted miserable, while sneaking in kisses, hugs, and hand-holding! After years of coaxing her master, she finally got he
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Redeem the Darkened Villain? I'll Just Become the Villain Myself 救赎黑化反派？我直接自己当反派
She transmigrated into a book, only to find she had to sleep with the villain? And after sleeping with him, she’d get killed? Could anyone be more unlucky than Jiang Yin? Luckily, she can rewind time when she dies! After being killed three times, Jiang Yin figured it out! She lightly traced her fingertips over Shen Que’s waist and abdomen, then smiled. “He can’t get it up.” Shen Que smiled too. “Have you decided how you want to die?” To change her fate of being hacked to pieces, Jiang Yin decide
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Book Transmigration: Cold and Aloof Master, Please Mind Your Manners 穿书：清冷师尊请自重
[One-on-one romance] [Sweet and doting] [Transmigrate into a book]. The male lead is cold and stunningly beautiful; the female lead seems like a soft, sweet little green tea but is constantly ranting inwardly. Su Xin never expected to transmigrate into a book and be reborn as a cannon-fodder villainess who drugs her master with an aphrodisiac and makes a spectacular mess of her life. To survive, she has to work hard to raise her master's favorability. Luckily, a sign-in System gives her a golden
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After Reincarnating as an Evil Immortal Venerable, My Unhinged Disciple Insists on Making Me His Cultivation Furnace 穿成反派仙尊后，疯批徒弟非要当炉鼎
Lan Xin'er transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious villain who keeps the male lead as a human cultivation vessel. To make matters worse, the System forces her to make choices. To stay alive, Lan Xin'er pretends to be a righteous immortal master, diligently teaching her disciple magic by day and nervously keeping her thoughts in check by night. But as she continues raising him, Lan Xin'er begins to suspect that her disciple has been reborn. Even more terrified, she works frantically to ra
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On My Road to Revenge, the Demon Lord Keeps Insisting He Be My Blood Bag 复仇路上魔尊吵着要给我当血包
Nan Luo is a thirty-thousand-year-old baby. Her true form is one of the Twelve Star Lords of the Star Alliance, but her gender is still undecided. She can be male or female, human or demon, cool or sweet. Unfortunately, she loves slacking off too much, so the Chaos Ancestor sends her to Planet Earth on an inspection mission. Somehow, she goes from the peak of a Star Lord to a weak mortal. Luckily, the Demon Venerable saves her whenever she is on the brink of death. There is just something strang
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The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者
(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
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Monk, You've Broken Your Vows Again 和尚，你又破戒了
A female PhD reborn in the womb × a scheming young marquis Transmigration + physician heroine + both leads devoted only to each other + sweet romance He Jiaojiao, legitimate daughter of the Yong’an Marquis’s household, is set up by her former fiancé, And ends up sharing a room with Zhou Yunshen, the Zhenwei Marquis who has renounced the world to become a monk**! He says he searched for her for six years, and from now on, he’ll never let her go again! At the Peony Banquet, she is framed and falls
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Technology Brings a Little Shock to the Cultivation World 科技给修仙界带来亿点点震惊
[What Even Is Fantasy?] + [Wild Imagination] + [Absurdist Humor] + [I’m Done Pretending. Here’s the Truth: I’m Just Here to Make You Laugh to Death] Xia Fan, a hardcore shut-in from the future, gets by on games and anime. Then one day, he transmigrates to a parallel world of cultivation! He thought he’d get the power fantasy of cultivating with one hand and taking disciples with the other. Instead, he transmigrated into the body of “Xia Erdan” and discovered he couldn’t cultivate at all! Just
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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Three Sins Against Heaven 问天三罪
[No System] + [Demonic cultivator] + [Decisive and ruthless] The gods choose the gifted. The demons choose those who never give up. My name is Chen Ze, and I was chosen by a demon. Of course, you can call me Gui Qing. Speak my name on the road to reincarnation, and Granny Meng will give you free soup. That day, I questioned the heavens three times. The gods and Buddhas across the realms said nothing, and I knew there was no place for me in this world anymore. In that case, I have no choice but t
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The Poor Little One Is Hated by Everyone, but the Villains Help Her Run Wild 小可怜是万人嫌，反派们带她发疯
[An all-villain pampered heroine + regret and redemption + rebirth + mind-reading + mutual salvation] Yu Xi is a half-demon child who was abandoned. Just before she starves to death, a sect of immortals takes her in. She thinks she has found a home, unaware that everyone in the sect despises the lowly demon race. Her master hates her, her senior brothers don't care for her, and even the sword spirit runs off with someone else. No matter how hard she tries, she remains universally loathed for ove
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My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神
Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec
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Among the Three Thousand Worlds, I Embrace the Moon and Become an Immortal 浮世三千，揽月为仙
Fuli came from an age when cultivation had all but vanished. After her death, she encountered the Heaven-ordained Three Lives Stone, and her soul transmigrated and was reborn on the Floating World Continent. This was a cultivation realm rich in spiritual energy, where any living thing could cultivate and attain the Dao if fortune favored it. Fuli looked at her Five Elements Heavenly Spiritual Root and her innate Chaos Body, which could contain every kind of energy, and smiled. Alchemy? Learn it!
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Help! Whose Obsessive Villain Gets Kissed Until He Cries? 救命！谁家偏执反派被亲哭啊
[Complete] [1v1 sweet romance] [Pseudo-transmigration into a book] [A brooding young palace master who wants to die at any time × a demon hostage who grovels and is good at pretending] She transmigrates into the role of the vicious female side character, the foil to the adored heroine of a cultivation novel, and is also the cannon-fodder fiancée of a sinister villain. Worse, the villain is going to dismember her that very night. Faced with the System's unreasonable demands, Ning Xiyuan decides t
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My Little Martial Uncle Really Doesn't Push Herself. She Just Wants to Kill the Female Lead 小师叔真不卷，她只想杀女主而已
[Ensemble cast] [People say the blurb did this book a disservice. I'm no good at writing blurbs, so just read the story.] Reincarnated as a doomed female supporting character destined for a gruesome death? No problem. Kill the heroine from the start, wreck the plot, and reset everything. This time, I'm the heroine. The original heroine was a pitiful girl born to a concubine. She had a lowly start but a powerful protagonist's aura. No matter what danger she faced, she always escaped disaster, ros
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I Use Illusions to Control the World 我用幻术控制全世界
[A rare illusion-based novel featuring a villain protagonist, nightmare invasions, and original instances] Su Mu has the same dream every night. Each time he wakes, his mental strength has increased by one percent. He grows stronger just by sleeping. In the first year, hypnosis. He discovers his mental strength is already powerful enough to hypnotize others, and soon gang bosses, the campus belle, beautiful CEOs, and more have all become his slaves. In the second year, control over the five sens
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Did She Make You Lick Her? Isn’t the Rich Campus Belle Better? 她逼着你舔了？富婆校花不香吗
[Mostly Campus Slice of Life + One Heroine + Devoted Girlfriend + Slow Start, Sweet Later + No Cheating, No Begging for Love, No Angst + Making Money + Comedy] Chen Mo, an overworked office drone, is unexpectedly reborn, returning to the day in 2005 that changed the course of his life. Faced with the girl he once confessed his love to and was rejected by, Chen Mo no longer clings to her like the lovesick puppy he was in his previous life. After all, “Life is short. If you happen to meet the wron
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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
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Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！
[Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you
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We Asked You to Hike Around the World, Not Catch People and Shake Them Down 让你徒步环球，没让你抓人薅羊毛
The comic adaptation under the same title is now online: They Said We’d Hike Around the World, So Why Am I Going Hungry Nine Times in Three Days? [Wilderness survival + crime-catching + comedy + sly tricks + action-packed + no female lead?] From the start, after transmigrating, Su Mo discovers he is taking part in a show called Hike Around the World. The rules: All expenses along the way must be earned legally by the contestant himself. He thought it would be a miserable competition of sleeping
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After Her Body Was Dumped, She Became the Villain Legion’s Cherished Darling 被抛尸后，她成了反派军团家团宠
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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Spring Comes Across the Cold Branches 寒枝渡春来
[Max-level alchemy grandmaster enters the beginner village + slice of life + family bonds + a touch of ensemble cast] (There is a male lead: Shen Zhuochuan) What should you do when you transmigrate into the body of the frail, doomed-to-die-early older sister of a heroine? Everyone knows that protagonists like Long Aotian and Feng Aotian tend to have tragic backstories. Their families are wiped out, or their parents die. After reading the original story and learning that she was destined to di
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Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚，道友何故下跪？
[No romance, ensemble cast] [A goofy trio of wandering cultivators] [Female-led cultivation progression, few scenes involving children, skip if that bothers you] Song Li transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the evil female supporting character. After bullying the heroine, she is thrown by her own brother into the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, where she dies at the hands of countless vengeful infant spirits. Waking inside the pagoda, she looks at the crying spirits and says, “I can be your mother
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I Dig the Pits, You Fill Them In. Everyone in Our Sect Is a Rebel 我挖坑，你填土，师门全是反骨
[Original title: I Became the Beloved Little Junior Sister and Turned the Cultivation World Upside Down] Xie Sisi transmigrated and became the cannon-fodder supporting character in a novel she’d once mocked, a character with the exact same name. The supporting character’s role was to bring the heroine to an immortal sect, dutifully serve as her medicine human, and ultimately die after being used to test the heroine’s medicines. Xie Sisi, who knew the plot: “Bah! Whoever wants to be a medicine hu
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How Could My Life Simulator Have a Shura Field? 我的人生模拟器怎么会有修罗场
(My new novel, I Am the Heroine's Adoptive Father!, is out.) After transmigrating into a world much like a light novel, Lin Zhixia had planned to live freely, without working himself to the bone or being constrained by society's idea of success. But his parents' sudden deaths left him with no choice but to take responsibility for supporting his younger sister. Just then, he obtained a life simulator. The simulator's rewards were generous, so there was no reason to hesitate. He decided to use thi
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Everyone Else Cultivates Qi, but You Train Your Body? You Call That Immortal Cultivation? 别人炼气你炼体，你管这叫修仙？
Lin Yun transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. He thinks joining the strongest sect will guarantee him a smooth path to success, but after returning from a training mission, he gets kicked out. From then on, he embarks on an unusual path of cultivation… "You call this cultivating immortality?"
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