Enough with the Eccentric, Elegant Male Leads. Give Me Someone Genuinely Highly Intelligent 不要天天疯癫优雅男主了，来点真正意上的高智商
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Great Ming: From Book Boy to the Strongest Imperial Guard 大明：从书童到最强锦衣卫
Zhou Chu transmigrated to the Zhengde era of the Ming dynasty. To survive, he was sold to the Lu family as a page. Just as Zhou Chu was helping the family’s second young master study and make steady progress, disaster struck the Lu family. Its members were thrown into prison. Zhou Chu took the Lu family’s only daughter with him, earning money while bribing the guards to make life in prison more comfortable for the family. Then Zhu Houzhao died, and Zhu Houcong took the throne, changing the era n
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From the Start, I Was Divided Up for Food, So I Swallowed the Evil Spirit Whole 开局被分食，我直接生吞邪崇
"A Must-Read in 2026" [Eerie Revival]+ [Revenge before the day is out]+ [Saintly do-gooders must die]+ [The protagonist is crazy, not stupid]+ [No female lead]+ [This is actually a food story] The red moon rises, and the eerie returns. After transmigrating to a world where the eerie has returned and evil spirits roam the earth, Ye Kui opens his eyes to see himself being devoured by monsters! But if monsters can eat people, there’s no reason people can’t eat monsters! After three years of plottin
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Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态
[Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The
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- 4 Are There No Gods or Ghosts in China? Chinese Horror Terrifies the World 华夏无鬼神？中式恐怖吓哭全球 [National-Destiny Livestream + Horror and Terror + Designing Scenarios] Bai Lang, a fanatical horror-culture enthusiast, transmigrated to a world similar to the one he had known in his previous life. The only difference was that the Dragon Kingdom had never developed its own Chinese-style horror culture. Instead, Western horror legends had captured the public imagination, with figures like chainsaw-wielding maniacs, man-eating sharks, and zombies. When the horror national-destiny arena descended 12.5kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves
- 5 Rule Horror: They Say I Have Multiple Personalities 规则怪谈：他们说我有多重人格 [Comedy, lighthearted, invincible, bizarre, ever-changing personality] This is the second year of the showdown between humanity and bizarre creatures, and the situation is growing increasingly tense... Bi Yi transmigrates into the body of a man who had jumped to his death. The moment he opens his eyes, he is chosen as a contestant. But his head was damaged in the fall, so he is always getting into trouble. Every day, he loses his memory, goes crazy, then turns around and becomes incredibly obedi 30.7kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 6 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
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The Immortal Path of the Uncanny 诡道仙路
[Uncanny cultivation, no female lead, mortal protagonist] A black sun hangs in the sky, and the Uncanny Realm invades! Mortal Zhou Yi transmigrates into this world and makes a living by writing for others. One day, starving and freezing, he is hired by the sinister Shopkeeper Dong to copy ancient texts. By chance, he activates a beast-hide Bagua diagram and uses it to refine a perfect uncanny technique, killing the sinister shopkeeper. As he cultivates, he discovers that this world has long been
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Midnight Nightmare 深夜噩梦
[Infinite Flow] [Hell Difficulty] [Original Dungeons] [Multiple Twists] Note: The dungeons are extremely difficult, so proceed with caution. The first two are only warm-ups. They say that “Ghost Eyes” can see a person’s “good and evil.” Wang Cheng was born with a pair of Ghost Eyes. But he discovered that this claim didn’t tell the whole story. Because Ghost Eyes can see more than people. They can also see cats, dogs, houses, mountains, and rivers… Or perhaps a strangely lifelike doll, or an old
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- 9 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 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 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7kShelves
- 10 The Immortal Food of Mankind 人种仙食 "Weird Cultivation, Behind-the-Scenes Story" The Tang Dynasty: strange things are coming. When Li Qing transmigrated here, he thought Mr. Huayue had kindly taken him in. Little did he know that the man saw him only as livestock to be raised for food. At the brink of life and death, the jade tablet on Li Qing revealed its power, gravely wounding Mr. Huayue and allowing him to escape. But the danger was far from over. The scheme of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to devour all living beings had 38.1kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
- 11 EN 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
- 12 Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子 (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m 38.7kReads9.4Score5.6kShelves
- 13 The Dead Rise on Campus 尸起校园 No System. An ordinary person from the start. No fighting monsters and leveling up. If you like realistic portrayals of human nature in the apocalypse, come on in! Please note: this is not a brainless, lightweight novel. Human nature is portrayed realistically, and conflicts are shrouded in mystery. It follows an ordinary student from the lowest rung of society as he experiences despair during the apocalypse, searches for shelter, and gradually grows. There are no rigid moral standards here. No 13.5kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
- 14 The Bu Liang Guide 不良引 In the first year of Hongdao, a blood-red moon hung overhead. It was the birthday of the Buddhist demon king, the Lord of the Six Heavens. Demons rampaged and monsters attacked Chang'an. Rumors spread that the demon king had been born into the world, heralding a land in mourning and chaos throughout the realm. The Great Tang dynasty was beset by storms, teetering on the brink of collapse. It was also said that the ancient divine artifact, the Chart of Mountains and Rivers, had reappeared in the 106Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 15 EN 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 232kReads9.5Score28.6kShelves
- 16 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 17 Horror Revival: My Body Can Make Ghosts Crash! 恐怖复苏：我的身体能让鬼死机！ The supernatural is resurging, and the apocalypse is near. A bewitching ghost in a cheongsam walks down the corridor in blood-red high heels. An unattended room-service cart slowly rolls through a hotel, ramming into doors... A pair of dorm-room slippers appears in the corridor, waiting for someone to put them on... In this era of supernatural resurgence, Tang Yu gains a ghost capable of controlling screens. It enters shutdown inside his body, allowing him to control ghosts at virtually no c 28.3kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves
- 18 Horror Game: I Get Stronger by Talking Back 恐怖游戏，抬杠我就能变强 [No romance + infinite-flow + jokes and memes + System power fantasy] Cheng Fei transmigrates into a wilderness world and thinks he's doomed, but to his surprise, he's pulled into a horror game. He realizes that these games seem to contain tons of supplies he can use to survive! So he... This book is also known as: "A Mine Owner's Self-Cultivation" "I Went on a Free Shopping Spree in the Dungeon" "I Get Stronger Every Time I Roast Someone" "They Were Already Stupid, So Why Are You Teasing Them?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 In an Eerie World, I Have to Complete Every Mission on My Own 人在诡异世界，刷任务全靠自己 Lin Luo is terribly unlucky. He wakes up one day to find himself in a bizarre world. The good news is that he has his own golden finger! The bad news is that its greatest ability requires the cooperation of the legendary Fourth Calamity: the players! [Ding! The task you assigned to a Cloudfish has been completed!] [Under the terms of the agreement, you will receive ten percent of this task's earnings!] [Ding! Congratulations on unlocking the achievement: A Shameless Leech!] A leech? What a joke! 4.9kReads8.7Score500Shelves
- 20 EN The Pillar Project 支柱计划 [Eerie] [Cthulhu] [Doomsday Descends] [Rebuilding Civilization] [Cultural Relics] [Culture] Xu Chen felt that studying history in this parallel universe had no real prospects, so after some maneuvering, he switched to medicine. He never expected that he had just jumped straight into the fire. What awaited him was fear in its most direct form. After a certain island nation dumped wastewater into the sea, unspeakable horrors arose from the depths. Eerie symptoms began appearing one after another, 38.2kReads9.2Score3kShelves
- 21 My Years as a Daoist Master 我当方士那些年 With five fingers, he divines the fate of all under heaven; with a single reading, he plots the destiny of dynasties for generations to come. Uncover a mysterious and unfathomable world of Daoist arts. His predictions are always spot-on, and his word is absolute! 2.3kReads8.7Score421Shelves
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Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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Sorry, I'm the Villain! 抱歉，我是反派！
[Rational madman + businessman’s mindset + straight-guy bottom VS master of a thousand faces + gentle + obsessive male ghost top] Both are each other’s first and only partner + soulmates The prequel is now available Lin Fusheng is a textbook businessman. He lives by the principles that profit comes first and money is god. He was slacking off at work, following the principles that work is work and slacking is how you make money, when he suddenly found himself in an Infinite Flow dungeon full of
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The Gluttonous Fate Chart: I Turn the Tide in the Cultivation World 饕餮命盘，我在修仙界扭转乾坤
- Setting: The fictional cultivation world of Lingxiao Realm follows a traditional system where aptitude is judged by spiritual roots. But the Reincarnation Well, built by ancient immortals, unexpectedly collapses, throwing the laws of heaven and earth into chaos. - Central conflict: The protagonist unexpectedly gains the Taotie Fate Chart, which can devour other people's bad luck. This unique ability will shatter the cultivation world's long-held belief that innate talent determines one
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- 25 EN 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 26 Reborn as a Frail Medicine Jar, I Get a Regent King as a Reward 穿成病弱药罐子，奖励一个摄政王 [Sickly, slow-burn, and talkative + unhinged, scheming, and aloof] Su Li transmigrates, only to become a sickly invalid, a complete weakling. The current emperor and the regent have been at each other's throats for years. He's always enjoyed watching those two scheming fools fight, but things are getting more and more out of control. Wait... Why are they trying to wipe out the entire Marquis's household when they're the ones fighting each other? Are you kidding me? One day, the regent tilted his 2.4kReads9.3Score364Shelves
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Becoming a Female Streamer 绝地求生之变身女主播
Huh? I’ve been reborn! For some reason, I’ve turned into an incredibly gorgeous young woman! Well, being a pretty girl isn’t so bad! She grips her mouse, determined to become the most popular female gaming streamer. But who could have guessed she’d become a total disaster in the streaming world...
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I’m the Only One in the World Without Powers 全世界只有我没有异能
The apocalypse arrives, and after destruction comes new life. Everyone gains special abilities, while Li Chang'an, who has none, lives like a beast. Some teach him to be kind to others; others teach him to fight his way to a better world. Little by little, he comes to believe that there is light even in the darkness. Though the road is hard, he still wants to become one of the strongest, standing at the very top. But one day, the light vanishes before his eyes.
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Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群
[Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's
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- 30 Make Friends Chat Group: This Monkey Knows a Lot 交个朋友聊天群：这个猴子懂的多 Reborn during his freshman-year summer break, Xia Jie gets a System that lets him copy his friends’ talents and skills, and even double them. He thought he’d been reborn into an ordinary modern world, but before long he had two Systems... “Ding! The Myriad Worlds Chat Group has arrived!” “Intelligent life detected in a monkey. Invite it to the group?” Soon after, A Xing from Hong Kong cinema, Kizaru, Han Li, and the First Emperor join the chat group. Fang Laomo: “So I’m not a stable hand after a 2.7kReads8.0Score165Shelves
- 31 The Three-Body Problem: I’m the Big Bad 三体，我是大反派 Three souls dwell in one body. The first belongs to someone who once stood at the summit. He was the strongest person in history, blessed with extraordinary talent. Yet that very talent brought him endless suffering. His soul once shone like a galaxy, but now it is little more than a solitary sun. Envy of his gifts cost him everything. The second belongs to a man destined to become the world's richest person. His face was disfigured, and from the very beginning, misfortune seemed to follow him a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I Feed on Gods and Demons 我以神魔为食 Lin Hao is terminally ill, with no cure in sight. To avoid burdening the family members who are willing to give everything for him, he secretly takes part in the “God Eater” project. He goes in fully prepared to die, hoping only to earn five million yuan to support his parents in their old age. But to his utter astonishment, Lin Hao makes it through the God Eater project, where the death rate is as high as 99.9%. He becomes a man who devours gods and demons, standing at the top of the food chai 3.8kReads8.3Score354Shelves
- 33 Honghuang: The First Disciple of the Third Generation of the Xuanmen 洪荒：玄门三代第一人 No System. No cheat powers. No vilification of Hongjun or the Six Saints. Half of the Supreme Honghuang. Time measured in yuanhui. Alternate universe. The further you read, the closer it gets to Supreme Honghuang. There are a few reworked elements. No System, and the story is a slow burn. If you want an all-knowing, all-powerful protagonist who roams freely across time and space, start reading from Chapter 1 after Chapter 166. Before Old Ancestor Hongjun becomes a Saint, the protagonist transmig 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Human Race Is Weak? I'll Summon the Fourth Calamity! 人族弱小？我反手召唤第四天灾！ The Abyss has invaded, and the myriad races have formed an alliance. In this brutal world of war, humanity is oppressed and discriminated against because it lacks supernatural powers. But Yao Yuan, who transmigrates here and awakens the Fourth Calamity System, doesn't see it that way. Humanity is weak? Then I'll unleash the Fourth Calamity and show you! Humanity lacks combat prowess? Then I'll modify the soldiers into interstellar warriors with two hearts and three lungs! Humanity is unintellige 419Reads6.7Score102Shelves
- 35 What Do I Do When Everything Is Supreme Divinity? Contain It! 全是至高神性怎么办？收容它！ [Livestream]+ [Building an Organization]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Containing Monsters]+ [Behind-the-Scenes Story] When Fang Xiu woke up, he had transmigrated to a world full of danger and anomalies. Here, indescribable phantoms occupied the sky, spiders wove webs beneath the mountains in people's dreams, a new humanity was born underground, and the Children of the Sun and Children of the Night had switched places once more. Amid all sorts of eerie phenomena, a giant clock was slowly approaching from 51.8kReads8.7Score5.3kShelves
- 36 I Transmigrate Across the Heavens, Yet Somehow I’m in the Land of the Little People 同时穿越诸天的我竟然身处小人国 Ren Xiao transmigrated to a world with a strange cultivation system. He didn’t know whether it was because transmigrators were special, but he had quite impressive natural talent. Just as he was thrilled to discover that, despite only recently beginning his cultivation, he might have a chance to become an immortal, his true golden finger awakened. There were other versions of him in the myriad worlds, and they could share and stack their attributes, memories, potential, and abilities. Only then 33Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 37 EN The Third Era of the Astral Realm 星界第三纪元 [Three avatars] + [Alchemist] + [Esper] + [Giant beasts] + [Epic worldbuilding] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [Invincible protagonist] After Blue Star explodes, Luo Ge transmigrates through time and space carrying the [Miracle Artifact: Eye of Insight]. His soul is digitized and split into three, each part becoming an independent personality and setting off on a different path to transcendence. The alchemist Luo Ge pursues truth and the path to omniscience and omnipotence. “See Through Truth” “Alc 29.3kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
- 38 My Journey to Higher Dimensions 我的升维之旅 Zhou Heng fell into a low-dimensional world, but fortunately, his essence belonged to a higher dimension. In a world of gods and ghosts, he reshaped mythology and became the First God; In an uncanny world, he dispersed the mists of despair and became a beacon of hope; In a world of wizards, he pursued truth and became Truth itself; In a world of immortal cultivation, he glimpsed the Great Dao and attained his true self; When he returned to the higher dimension, he discovered that he had beco 14kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
- 39 Absolute Control: Preying on the Heavens 绝对掌控：捕食诸天 [The Myriad Worlds] [Multiverse] [Ten-dimensional space] [Concepts] [Behind the scenes] [Ensemble cast] [Playing it safe] [No female lead] [Invincible] [Control over everything] Melt down the myriad paths and arts, command the Myriad Worlds, create parallel universes, ascend to become a ninth-dimensional life-form, enter an infinite sea of multiverses and dimensions, and control every concept. (The worldbuilding is vast, and there’s a lot I want to write, so each world will have only a few chapt 2.5kReads6.7Score223Shelves
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Working in Shenzhen: The Factory Belle Falls for Me 深圳打工：厂花爱上我
I’m a low-level temp worker in Shenzhen. After graduating from a prestigious university, I ended up working as a factory hand. Then I met the factory beauty, and my heart skipped a beat.
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