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1. 51 萤 A World of Fireflies 萤萤众生 Xiao Xu小叙Rural Life3.8M WordsCompleted When I was thirteen, I had an accident and nearly died. Everything I saw and felt was horrifying, and I could only keep company with bad luck. But I swore a solemn oath: I would not fail Heaven and Earth or my parents, nor harm my friends and family. I would hurt only myself, devote myself to goodness, and hold fast to sincerity! From then on, I walked between the realms of yin and yang, sought a master and learned the Dao, awakened my spiritual senses, and slew demons and evil spirits... I fear 10.3kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
2. 52 我 I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生 Xiao Xu小叙Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a 4kReads9.4Score517Shelves
3. 53 女 The Female Yin-Yang Master 女阴阳师 Nineteenh十九hMystery411k WordsCompleted Everyone says I'm a jinx who'll bring death to my whole family. My dad sent me to live with Old Li, the cemetery keeper. He's all alone, and Grandpa says he's got a strong enough fate that I can't curse him. I never expected Old Li to be so nice to me. He sent me to learn Daoist arts from a smelly old Daoist, and that's how my career as an exorcist began. Red-and-white funeral celebrations in the cemetery at midnight, eerie dolls that move on their own, ancient secret arts involving human-skin d 113Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 54 在 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 25.9kReads9.2Score4.3kShelves
5. 55 惨 Disaster! The Fourth Top in a Noble Romance Novel Was Forced Into It 惨！贵族狗血文里的攻四被强制了 Nineteen Ninety-Seven一九九七Two Male Leads331k WordsCompleted [Aristocratic melodrama, jealousy and dramatic redemption all at once, lots of love interests, genuinely old-school, escalating confrontations, obsessive and lovesick, deranged and coercive. A clever, beautiful, truly flirtatious bottom versus dark, twisted, deranged tops] Content warnings: None of them are good people; older men; the perversion is real; melodrama is the main attraction; he runs, they chase; both sides are devoted to each other. Cang Zhuo transmigrates into an old-fashioned aris 4kReads8.5Score467Shelves

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6. 56 大 My Freshman Internship: 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 645.9kReads9.5Score52kShelves
7. 57 A An Alpha in the Stars, Fresh Off the Zerg Crown Prince’s Aircraft A在星际，刚下虫族太子飞行器 I Live to Get Into Uniforms活着就是为了搞制服Two Male Leads1.4M WordsCompleted [Two male leads / ABO / insectoid race / pure-love devotee / infuriatingly earnest S-rank military officer top × pure-hearted, cocky little butterfly crown prince who can uproot a willow] * Good news: Earth's people encountered the insectoid race while expanding into space. What are the insectoids? The universe's pinnacle species: their bodies are mechs, they sweep across the cosmos, and they're a top-tier interstellar power with a Level Five civilization. A human from Earth swept the insectoid 18.4kReads9.6Score2.7kShelves
8. 58 带 Reborn in the Bizarre Realm with Two Symbiotic Seeds 带着二颗伴生种子投胎荒诡界 A Thousand Autumns Facing My Reflection千秋对影Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted Chu Hua was born into a powerful tribe that had endured for ten thousand years in the strange and desolate world, bringing two miraculous companion seeds with him from the start. This world is overrun with the uncanny and beset by countless disasters. Humanity struggles to survive. Chu Hua was born with exceptional gifts, and the forces backing him grew stronger by the day. From the young son of a mountain clan to the seventh-ranked human, he swears to change the world through his own strength. 8.1kReads8.6Score743Shelves
9. 59 快 After Quick Transmigration, He Wants to Die of Old Age 快穿后他想寿终正寝 Gu Yun Bie顾云别Two Male Leads299k WordsCompleted [Amateur writing, uke protagonist, no fixed pairing] [Characters stay in character and don’t go off the rails. An immersive experience of life: even when bullied on the outside, he remains calm inside. If he’s truly upset, he’ll quietly get even afterward.] He was born from nothingness, with no shadow or form. Bored, he woke up in the body of a handsome young man who had just breathed his last. From then on, he was Yun Youhe, indistinguishable from the young man, even down to his soul. Then one 527Reads8.7Score—Shelves
10. 60 快 Quick Transmigration: The Alluring Beauty Refuses to Be a Cannon Fodder 快穿之钓系美人拒绝炮灰 Just a Sliver一隙而已Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted Quick transmigration, two male leads + 1v1 + mutually exclusive first-time relationships + sweet little story Shirong, an obscure actor, is bound by rogue System 009 from the Space-Time Bureau and sent to various little worlds to play expendable characters. But the plot goes off the rails in every world… World One: aloof, dignified Crown Prince × sweet, gentle omega Weren’t you supposed to break off the engagement? Why are you holding on to him so tightly now? World Two: lovesick straight guy × 23.8kReads9.4Score2.5kShelves
11. 61 我 I Rely on My Talent for Avoiding Danger to Cultivate the Way of Longevity 我靠避凶天赋苟道长生 Roadside Banana Shade Wanderer路政蕉下客Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsOngoing [Low-key cultivation + cautious path to immortality + avoiding danger] In the cultivation world, Lu Qing relies on his danger-avoidance skill to escape one deadly predicament after another. He keeps a low profile. All he wants is to cultivate cautiously and live forever. While peerless prodigies flourish, Lu Qing keeps cultivating. While unparalleled experts burst onto the scene, Lu Qing is still cultivating. Eventually, the geniuses of his generation, peerless monsters, and unparalleled experts 77.2kReads8.5Score5.1kShelves
12. 62 快 A Little One's Salvation: Quick Transmigration 快穿之崽崽救赎员 The Moon Is My Crooked Crescent月亮是我恰弯哒Modern Romance383k WordsCompleted [No CP] After graduating from college, Zhang Zeyuan, who grew up in an orphanage, couldn’t find a job. On a whim, he posted, “I want to be a full-time son. Seeking parents with generous pensions.” The post caught the eye of Tomato Quick Transmigration Company, and he was assigned to the “Be a Villain’s Child” project team. And so Zhang Zeyuan began his journey of being a son in different worlds. World One: Be the child of a master chef World Two: Be the child of an educated youth sent to the cou 4.1kReads8.8Score289Shelves
13. 63 快 Quick Transmigration: A Little Monster, but a Cure for Every Kind of Defiance 快穿：妖怪幼崽，但专治各种不服 This Fish Is Very Poisonous此鱼甚毒Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [No Romance + Everyone's Favorite + Little Boy (A Real Toddler) + Healing + Face-Slapping and Putting Scumbags in Their Place] Reborn as the big villain's little one, your mission is to hide your identity as a monster. Feng Wu leaned close to the big villain's ear and whispered, “Daddy, I be a little monster. I really not your baby!” Villain: ?! System: Now that's turning everything upside down!!! World One: A Dazzling Showbiz Career Sharp-tongued, infuriating little one (giant panda) vs. the sc 6.7kReads9.3Score686Shelves
14. 64 末 In the Apocalypse, There’s Something Odd About My Pets! 末世之我家宠物不对劲！ How Long to Roast Chestnuts栗子炒多久Two Male Leads380k WordsOngoing This novel has two male leads~ If that's not your thing, feel free to leave! The protagonist is very weak. He'll give up chances to get stronger for people who need them more, and he won't grow stronger later on either [though he will get a few life-saving items]. Here's the blurb: As an antisocial shut-in, Bai Mu doesn't like talking to people, so he keeps a few [cute] pets. When the apocalypse arrives, those pets seem to mutate too. Sometimes they're just like they always were, and other times 470Reads9.0Score100Shelves
15. 65 我 I Have a Haunted House? 我有一座恐怖屋？ Xuanyuan Ling of Jiangguo疆国的轩辕翎Mystery231k WordsOngoing Chen Ge inherits an abandoned haunted house that has been deserted for thirty years. He thinks it’s just an ordinary business, but then he activates the Haunted Amusement Park System inside the building, drawing him into a terrifying adventure that spans the worlds of the living and the spirit realm. As he explores, the secrets of the haunted house gradually come to light. Thirty years ago, a mysterious ritual was performed here in an attempt to open a passage to the spirit realm and gain immen 135Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is really beautiful. The setting is something I have never seen before. The original name was I Have an Adventure House. The name has been changed here, but the content is the same. I highly recommend it! The author's writing is good and the plot is smooth.

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