Satisfying Novels With Good Writing and a Protagonist Who Actually Thinks 不无脑且文笔好的爽文
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The Madwoman Takes Life and Death in Stride, and Just Wants to Turn the World Upside Down 颠婆生死看淡,唯恐天下不乱
[Quick transmigration + no romance + lighthearted comedy + absurd, satisfying revenge + snark] Under the combined torment of her internship, grad school exams, and thesis, college student You Yu keeled over in the library with a sudden thud. Good news: She was finally dead. Bad news: She had transmigrated. After being bound to a quick transmigration System, You Yu had a complete breakdown. What kind of born-to-be-a-wage-slave physique did she have? Even death couldn't stop her from having to
18.9kReads9.4Score2.2kShelves
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You Only Have an F-Rank Talent, Yet You Outshine the Geniuses of the Nine Provinces 你一个F天赋,竟能力压九州天骄
[Rise of the underdog + foreseeing the future + martial arts competitions at university + demon invasion + ensemble cast of humanity + no nested worlds + no System] Hong Yuan's diary can predict the future. He learns that before long, he'll be tested as having an F-rank talent, his girlfriend will break up with him, and his parents will be murdered by evil cultivators. Though things go badly for him from the start, the predictions in his diary help him obtain divine cultivation techniques, rare
37.7kReads8.2Score3.8kShelves
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Quick Transmigration: The Demon King Wrecks the Plot 快穿之大魔王崩坏剧情
(No romance, brainless wish-fulfillment.) The heroine is an overbearing, chuuni, unhinged supervillain. She isn't human! She has no human morality and is rotten to the core. Anyone seeking justice or a saintly heroine should stay away. She takes the scumbag's path and leaves scumbags nowhere to go. If she can solve something with violence, she won't waste a word. She's a master of every kind of scheming green tea and black lotus trick: if you can imagine it, she can do it. A mama's boy ends up w
32.8kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves
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The Real Heiress from the Countryside Is Actually a Feudal Ancestor 乡下来的真千金,竟是封建老祖宗
Originally titled The True Heiress from the Countryside Is Actually a Feudal Ancestor When Sang Ning opened her eyes again, she found herself the real heiress who had been left behind in the countryside by a wealthy family. She had been born the legitimate eldest daughter of a distinguished family, raised from childhood to become its matriarch. But when she opened her eyes, she had arrived in a strange new era. Fortunately, she was still the legitimate eldest daughter. Her fake sister thought
29.1kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
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Driven to Death by a Cultivator’s Mistress? I’ll Raise My Sword to the Nine Heavens 被修仙外室逼死?我提剑杀上九霄
[Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho
88.1kReads9.6Score11.8kShelves
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I Livestream My Cultivation of the Heartless Path in the Cultivation World 我在修真界直播修无情道
After being reunited with her birth family, Su Nielan gets the full package: an engagement, having her spiritual root ripped out, being married off to a useless man, and getting kicked out of the family. One day, while she’s lounging in bed like a contented couch potato, a transparent screen suddenly appears before her eyes, filled with scrolling comments. It turns out her world is just a book. It turns out her useless cultivation partner will soon become the foremost figure in the cultivation w
4.8kReads9.0Score556Shelves
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Sparrow Slayer 诛雀
[Transmigration + Fated Goddess + Strong Female Lead + Female-Centered Story + Cold-Hearted + Pursuing Her Comes at a Price + Coming of Age + Power Progression + Decisive and Ruthless] The Ji family had twin daughters. The elder was named Ji Feng, and the younger Ji Que. Everyone knew the Ji family had only one daughter: their eldest young lady, Ji Feng. From the moment Ji Que was born, her existence was destined to remain unknown. When she turned fifteen, she would be offered in a fiery sacrifi
54.4kReads8.9Score10.1kShelves
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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
319.1kReads9.5Score38.4kShelves
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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
80.8kReads9.4Score9.2kShelves
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Online Game: Confessing to a Noble Lady from the Start 网游:开局表白贵族千金
[Fake Villain + Lighthearted + Invincible + Online Game = Maximum Thrills!] After playing a game all night, he suddenly died and transmigrated into the game as a notorious villain. He confesses to the noble duke’s daughter right from the start, only for the duke to decide he wants him dead? He had thought he’d only made one enemy, but when Victor came to his senses, he realized something. Everyone around him wanted him dead. The aloof Valkyrie boss was dead set on taking his head, while the all-
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Reviewing Horror Movies on Livestream, and It Turns Out It's All Real? 直播点评鬼片,竟然一切都是真的?
Jiang Yuan wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and discovers that he’s joined the wave of transmigrators, ended up in another world, inherited a shop, and awakened a System! But what gives him a headache is that he awakened a supernatural System! And yet! Just as he’s fretting over it while watching a livestream, his System unexpectedly awakens! With his System awakened, Jiang Yuan becomes a keyboard warrior who pontificates about the world, giving live advice on how to deal with zombies! B
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
539.7kReads9.7Score74kShelves
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I Am Not the God of Drama 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
1.7MReads9.9Score188.4kShelves
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After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后,我在规则里养大邪神
The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei
108.7kReads9.7Score16.1kShelves
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Reborn, I Finally Gave Up Trying 重生后,我彻底摆烂
[Multiple Heroines] [System] [Reborn] Ye Chongyang, a high school senior, saw a criminal up to no good and stepped in to help. He accidentally left the criminal brain-dead, but the person he saved denied the whole thing. Not wanting to get arrested, Ye Chongyang ran away. After spending five years mining coal at an illegal pit, the mine collapsed…
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