Smart Protagonists Who Outsmart Everyone, With Plenty of Twists and No Idiot Ball for the Villains or Supporting Cast 主角以智商来碾压，多反转，反派或者配角不降智

1. 1 开 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 Sis, Don't Be Like That姐姐别这样Mystery4.4M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 133.6kReads9.4Score13.7kShelves

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   Worth a look, you can read it when you are bored

2. 2 末 In the Apocalypse, I Am the Factory 末世我就是工厂 The Beggar Is No Beggar叫花子不是花子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse507k WordsCompleted I just got a System. My goal was to become the richest person in the world. I never expected the apocalypse to arrive in the blink of an eye. Looks like I'll have to sell my products at a loss. "Fruit Knife Pulse Accelerator. Fires 600 fruit knives per minute, enough to pierce the armor of three-star beasts. 100 yuan, buy one get one free. Steel Needle Magnetic Submachine Gun. Fires 4,000 steel needles per minute. Member price: 20 yuan each." "An AK-47? I'll give you ten thousand of the ones you —Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 3 臣 I Was Born a Commoner 臣本布衣 Wu Liang Ye武梁耶Historical1.2M WordsCompleted [Adapted into a comic-drama: Cast aside despite my great achievements, I build my own royal court] [Adapted into a short drama of the same name + I was once a commoner] [The emperor’s jealousy + never looking back + heading south to capture the dragon + immensely satisfying] Li Zhen transmigrates to an ancient continent! He assists the newly enthroned emperor of Dayu in bringing order to the court. But before his great undertaking is even halfway done, the emperor grows suspicious of him out of 20.4kReads8.1Score3.8kShelves
4. 4 我 My Wife Is Always Trying to Kill Me 我家娘子总想弄死我 A Little Frozen Li一只小冻离Historical1.1M WordsCompleted “Gu Chuan, are you plotting a rebellion?!” “Your Majesty, I’ve been wronged!” “Then why are the commander of the Xuanyue Army, the White Lotus Sect’s Holy Maiden, the Shadow Guards, the Queen of Jialan, and the Daoist Sect’s itinerant cultivator all with you?!” Gu Chuan swears that all he wanted at first was to lie flat. But the longer he lay low, the more people gathered around him. He had no choice but to mount his horse and take up arms to bring peace to the land! In the first year of the Wuh 13kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves

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   The protagonist's IQ is online, and the content is witty and humorous. It's still a novel worth reading [Like]

5. 5 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 protagonists in each of the three books are intelligent. Needless to say, the first book is a masterpiece. The protagonist in the second book is transformed into a big liar. The whole book is passionate and humorous. The entire third book is a bit of a brain-burning psychological game between the protagonist and the enemy.

6. 6 惊 What?! That Kept Man Has Gone to Wreak Havoc in the Immortal Realm 惊！那个软饭男，他去祸害仙界了 Little Chubby Ding from the East Market东集市的小胖丁Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [No Harem + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Decisive and Ruthless + Scheming + Passionate and Funny] Jun Moran transmigrates into a hot-blooded fantasy novel, becoming the personal lackey of the story’s great villain and awakening the Strongest Lackey System. At this point, the villainous Saint hasn’t yet gone down the path of darkness because of Tan Qingzhu. To change his own fate of not surviving past three chapters, Jun Moran launches straight into a campaign of persuasion after the Saint is dumped by h 8.9kReads8.6Score697Shelves
7. 7 问 Three Sins Against Heaven 问天三罪 4035Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted [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 38.3kReads9.2Score4.7kShelves
8. 8 明 It’s Supposed to Be a Fireball Spell, So Why Did It Turn into a Meteor Shower? 明明是火球术，怎么变陨石坠落？ Long Song Sighs at the Leisurely Clouds长歌叹云悠Eastern Fantasy893k WordsOngoing [Fantasy] [Magic] [Plot] An Xia only wanted to join a magic academy and become a mage. But after learning his first spell, Fireball, he noticed a problem. Why is my magic different from everyone else’s? As he wondered, An Xia looked up. A meteor was slowly falling from the sky. [Fireball → Planetary Devastation!] … Volume One: When the Fireball Fell (Complete) (1–53) Interlude (54–71) Volume Two: When the Daylight Faded (Complete) (72–167) Interlude (168–171) Volume Three: The Destruction of Ete 3.5kReads8.5Score306Shelves

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   Strongly recommend the fifth book. Both the protagonist and villain have IQs online, fighting wits and bravery to see who has more trump cards [already planted][already planted][note]

9. 9 游 Game Reincarnation: Strive On, Even in Another World! 游戏转生：在异世界也要努力啊 Flying Claw Fish会飞的爪巴鱼Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted Dragons, elves, beast-eared girls, swords and magic: a fantastical adventure in another world, and a long journey! A top-tier gaming power-leveling service provider is reborn in another world as a boy of just six years old, Mel Carlo! Skill proficiency +1 Effort +1 The System girl is on vacation. The Host has been left to fend for himself... 11.5kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves
10. 10 接 Ascension Through Grafting: From the Start, I Obtain the Arm of a Divine Corpse 接肢登神：开局获得神尸手臂 Peerless Genius Sauce绝代智酱Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted [Western Fantasy + Lovecraftian Horror + Occult Weirdness + Forbidden Artifacts + Multiple Heroines + All Kinds of Strange Arms] I awaken inside the body of a dead noble and look up at a sky overshadowed by a colossal planet. Steam rifles clash with supernatural blades; evil rituals and mysterious paths abound. To survive, I graft on the arm of an evil god. Countless limbs become part of me, and divine abominations and cursed spirits accompany me. A monster’s claw? Graft it on! A dead person’s l 12.9kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
11. 11 我 I Really Just Want to Outlive You All. Why Are You Forcing Me? 我真的只想熬死各位，为什么逼我 Radishes Are Crispy萝卜很脆Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted [Immortality + eerie cultivation + immortal cultivation + cunning and utterly inhuman + no angst + slow burn] (The protagonist plays it rather safe early on, but only temporarily. This is not a story about living cautiously.) (Also known as: “Don’t Ask If It’s Right or Wrong. Just Tell Me, Did You Become a Dao Ancestor?”) Fang Qing woke up to find he had transmigrated into a cultivation world where the Great Dao was manifest for all to see. All living beings could gaze directly upon the Grea 15.8kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves
12. 12 九 I’ve Survived Nine Near-Death Experiences, and My Life Has Been Like Walking on Thin Ice 九死一生，我这一生当真如履薄冰 Bitter Melon Doesn't Taste Very Good苦瓜不太好吃Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted Xu Qingshui transmigrated to a strange otherworld. Thanks to one unexpected encounter after another, he escaped danger and turned misfortune into good luck. [Encounter A: You show admirable courage and choose to fight the monster barehanded. You die, but years later, you become a vengeful ghost and successfully take revenge.] Xu Qingshui: “I don’t want this encounter. I don’t want to become a ghost.” [Encounter B: You choose to flee alone. Ye Yaxin is tortured to death by the monster, and this s 7.4kReads8.4Score604Shelves
13. 13 地 Laugh at Any Dark Joke You Like, I'll Pay the Merit Penalty 地狱笑话随便笑，扣功德算我的 Xia Shiqi夏士奇Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Wei Lai, who loves telling dark jokes, is slapped straight into a wasteland apocalypse 300 years in the future. The Four Pillar Evil Gods from the Chaos Universe are constantly corrupting the entire world. All the technology and knowledge of the old era have been tainted, and only those who hold fast to their sacred faith can weather the storm. Do a good deed each day and earn Merit Points, unlocking an angel's blessing. Commit an evil deed and earn Depravity Points, receiving a demon's blessing 13.3kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
14. 14 聊 Chat Group: My Brothers' Survival in the Haunted Sea Helps Me Become Superhuman 聊天群：兄弟诡海求生助我成超凡 Coo-Coo Crazy咕咕疯Urban2.8M WordsOngoing [Urban fantasy + transmigration + chat group + eldritch mystery + nonstop thrills + smart characters] One day, Su Wange receives a message from a stranger, only to discover that it's from his best friend, who's been dead for a year! Even more incredible, his best friend has transmigrated to a mysterious world of the high seas, where his sanity is about to hit zero and he's on the brink of death. There's not a single thing to eat anywhere on him, just gold and jewelry. After all, the creatures he 12kReads8.6Score879Shelves

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    Strongly recommend the fifth book. Both the protagonist and villain have IQs online, fighting wits and courage to see who has more trump cards [already planted][already planted][note]

15. 15 孤 A Solitary Seeker of the Dao 孤独的寻道 Egg Fried Rice Fried Rice Egg蛋炒饭炒饭蛋Urban3.3M WordsCompleted The Dao has died! The laws have begun to fade! Only techniques remain, reaching into every corner of the world. Ye Ming, the hated, ill-fated loner, suddenly discovers he has a grandfather. Then his grandfather takes him to a new world. His new book, Envying the Dao, is now online. 63.8kReads9.0Score5.4kShelves
16. 16 皇 The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令 Noodle King Zai板面王仔Historical2.7M WordsCompleted [Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave 305.6kReads9.5Score44.8kShelves
17. 17 七 Seven Days Back to the Ruins 七日溯墟 Mist Grassh雾草hMystery125k WordsOngoing [Spirit Ruins, infinite flow, mind-bending, horror, time loops…]“I’m certain I’ve discovered a marvelous proof, but this margin is too small to contain it!” When the person beside you in bed becomes a vengeful ghost, and cozy domestic life turns into a death sentence, can you find a way out within seven loops? When the laws of physics fail, the police become accomplices, and your loved ones turn into evil spirits, will you sink into the illusion of a happy reunion, or carve a path to survival f 40Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Some brothers, some. Have you seen the protagonist of this book who uses calculus and Cauchy's definition as a spiritual figure? The style is also similar to Toka, and it is also one of the best in Tomato's book. The new book just released a few days ago is his first big fan. Not recommended for the unintelligent

18. 18 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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    This is possible. It depends on your IQ and logic.

19. 19 当 By the Time They Came to Their Senses, I Was Already the Strongest Villain 当她们幡然醒悟，我已是最强反派 Heartbreaker可破心Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted [Villain + System + Regretful Pursuit + Sweet and Angsty + Building a Villain Faction + Yandere + Master and Junior Sisters Turn Dark] Also known as "After Becoming the Strongest Villain, My Master and Junior Sisters Begged Me for Forgiveness" He transmigrates into a fantasy novel, becoming the villainous senior brother who gets crushed by the protagonist and ultimately serves as an experience point dispenser. He plans to change his fate as a villain, get along with his junior sisters who are th 11.6kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
20. 20 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.4kReads9.7Score17.9kShelves

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    Ten days are over!

21. 21 反 Villain Simulator: Starting Off by Having My Supreme Emperor Bone Dug Out 反派模拟：开局被挖走至尊帝骨 Xu Moqing徐墨卿Urban2.6M WordsCompleted [Villain Simulations + High-Martial World + Invincible Domination + Ruthless Killing] Lu Qian transmigrated and became a playboy villain from the Lu family, one of the top families in the Great Xia Empire. From the start, he saw the drunk, unconscious fated heroine, Liu Ruyue, lying right in front of him. Yet the fated male lead, who served as the icy beauty Liu Ruyue’s bodyguard, was nowhere to be found. Wait, this plot... [Ding! An unconscious fated heroine has been detected ten meters ahead.] 51.6kReads8.7Score4.9kShelves

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    Good looking [I highly recommend it]

22. 22 异 City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [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 473.2kReads9.7Score73.9kShelves

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    Hey, now you can read the heart-warming novel Sweet Reunion and the Lost City of Strange Beasts

23. 23 大 First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [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 614.1kReads9.5Score56.7kShelves

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    That must be Tai Sui. The combat power increases quickly, the pace is fast, the protagonist has a high IQ, and the supporting characters are not stupid either.

24. 24 哎 Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀！我七原罪，得了MVP！ Captain of the Trapping Camp陷阵营营长Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [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 136.8kReads9.3Score16.3kShelves

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    I have bad teeth and only eat soft food.

25. 25 大 I’m the Great Villain, but I Never Wanted to Rule the Ages! 大反派的我，真没想独断万古啊！ Kaneki Ken金木研啊Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Cunning protagonist + decisive and ruthless + doesn't play the pig to eat the tiger + pure power fantasy] A transmigration novel. Ji Xiu discovers that he has become the tragic villainous Big Boss in a novel! The novel's male lead has an invincible golden finger? The novel's heroine is an Immortal Emperor reborn? His own future means certain death? Ding! The god-tier sign-in System has awakened! [Ding! Congratulations, Host. Your sign-in reward is the nine-star Divine Heart Dao Bone!] [ 33.3kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
26. 26 这 This Saint Son Is Obsessed with Eating Human Heads! 这个圣子他酷爱吃人头！ Qin Hongyi秦红衣Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted (Chosen One, Villain, Comedy, Schemer, An Emperor's Banner Wreathed in Black Smoke, Subversive Plot, Xuanhuan, Decisive and Ruthless.) A proper transmigrator arrives in a cultivation world. Naturally, he should be the chosen one, right? His Dao Bone is stolen, his mother has vanished, his father wears a sorrowful expression, and his fiancée comes to break off their engagement. This is just perfect. Transmigrator Lin Ye is about to deliver the classic line, “Don't bully a poor young man,” when 7.8kReads8.6Score625Shelves
27. 27 穿 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 Crossing the River on a Reed一苇渡江Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsOngoing 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 55.5kReads8.9Score5.8kShelves
28. 28 这 This Protagonist Won't Take Orders, So I'm Done 这届主角不服管，老子不干了 Maple Drifts Past Chang'an枫过长安Urban2.2M WordsCompleted [Recruiting protagonists + ensemble cast + slow start] The black-hearted System gives me an impossible mission: make the urban war god, the miraculous doctor, the martial arts prodigy, the Dragon King God of War, the reincarnated emperor, the blind Sword Sovereign, the reincarnation, the reborn one... submit to me. What the hell? They’re all absurdly powerful protagonists. You expect them to take me as their boss? I quit! 133.6kReads9.6Score16.4kShelves
29. 29 反 Are the Villain Bosses Fierce? I Raised Them 反派boss们猛吗？我养的 Doggy, Don't Cry狗子别哭Eastern Fantasy488k WordsCompleted (Not a conventional arrogant villain story. Plot-focused, so read the synopsis first.) (New book out now: Reborn three times? Who's that amazing? Me?! Come check it out, or click my profile to find it.) Instance One: They say when an emperor gets angry, bodies lie for thousands of miles, and when an ordinary man gets angry, blood spills five paces away. Tired of emperors? Come see how an ordinary man spills blood five paces away. (Deng Quan arc, through Chapter 19) Instance Two: What do you do 9.8kReads9.4Score843Shelves

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