A Game Invades the Real World, with a Clever Female Lead and Smart Characters on All Sides 游戏入侵，女主聪明，不同立场的人都有脑子

1. 1 沙 Desert Survival: I Entered a Month Early 沙漠求生，当我提前一个月进入 A Nuyo阿奴哟Modern Romance762k WordsCompleted Strong female lead, no romance, a level-up story with a slice-of-life focus. A System bug sent Feng Chan into a survival game called Lost Civilization a month before it was supposed to begin. Starting in the desert, she struggles to get by each day by opening three to five chests. Beneath the eerily quiet surface, danger lurks everywhere, and one careless move could cost her life. A month later, when the game officially begins and the first three billion players enter, she finally realizes she i 7.3kReads8.8Score969Shelves

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   Both books were discovered when I was not particularly interested in them. The plot is all about being pulled into a survival game + changing the survival map. The heroine is not a cool story where she crushes everyone at the beginning, but develops slowly. The first book is finished and the second one is being serialized. They are both very interesting.

2. 2 公 Highway Survival: I Gain the Upper Hand by Chatting in Group Chats 公路求生：我水群获得先机 Smiling Star微笑星Sports1.2M WordsCompleted Meng Qingyin’s phone got a virus. But aside from being added to a mysterious chat group, her phone worked just fine. The group had an odd name, too: Road Survival Management Group. [Residents can enter the game with whatever they have on hand.] Meng Qingyin immediately put together a wilderness survival kit! [Why won’t these residents take a good look at their surroundings?] Meng Qingyin surveyed the area and spotted a beginner’s gift box hidden in the bushes! [This is driving me crazy. Have the 24.6kReads8.7Score3.5kShelves
3. 3 游 Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998.4kReads9.5Score94.6kShelves

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   It is not a cool novel, but it allows you to watch how the heroine reached her current status step by step, and how much effort she put in. The writing is brilliant, the author is very meticulous, and some of the words and sentences in it are very rigorous. You have learned a lot of truths and learned to love yourself. You are the most important thing.

4. 4 全 Gods for All: My Followers Are Obviously Pretty Useless 全民神祇：我的眷属明明就很菜 Just a Little Bean Dumpling是个豆团子Sci-Fi & Apocalypse702k WordsCompleted [Global Dimensional Reduction] [Apocalypse] [Survival] [Infrastructure Building] [Ascension to Godhood] [Cute Creatures] [No Romance] The number one powerhouse on the Divine Realm leaderboard speaks up. Zihan: So what if my followers are weak? I'm strong, and that's all that matters! Don't look down on them or pick on my little darlings. Everyone wipes the cold sweat from their brows, staring at the creatures in the livestream and drawing a sharp breath. Talk about humblebragging. Does this powe 10.7kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves

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   Highly recommended, they are all very nice game-related articles.

5. 5 她 She's Gone Crazy: Reborn and Spending Ten Million on a Game Account 她疯了，重生氪金千万买游戏账号 Mystical Gate Koi玄门锦鲤Sci-Fi & Apocalypse438k WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + Apocalypse + Fighting monsters and leveling up + Game accounts sync with reality + The heroine is always overpowered + Romance pairing to be decided as the story unfolds] In her previous life, Ling Wei Rui was slandered and cyberbullied by a scumbag and his sidekick in the game. Furious, she sold her account and focused on her real life and studies. She never expected the game to invade reality the very next day, allowing everyone to sync their in-game characters. With no game a 13.8kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
6. 6 身 As the Big Shot's Fiancée, I Know Nothing 身为大佬的未婚妻我一无所知 Lazy Dog Who Loves Cilantro喜欢香菜的懒狗Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted [Multiple Male Leads + Female Lead’s Growth + Sweet Romance at Heart + Plenty of Plot + A Touch of Ensemble Cast] Lin Mo was born with the tragic memories of her previous life into a happy family straight out of a CEO romance novel. Nothing about her life was particularly unusual until, for some inexplicable reason, she entered a so-called “horror game.” And then... she became everyone’s favorite. [I’m not good at writing synopses, so please check out the story itself. If you don’t like it, feel 6.9kReads9.0Score712Shelves
7. 7 我 There’s Something Wrong with the World I Live In 我所在的世界不正常 My Cat Went Bald我家猫秃头了Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Xu Wushuang is blind. She lost her sight in an accident as a child, but one day it suddenly returns, and she sees her boyfriend kissing her sister. Then a mysterious phone draws her into a terrifying world of games. After Xu Wushuang fights her way back alive, she discovers that everyone around her has become extremely strange. The world I live in is not normal. I’m trying to escape. By the time you see my plea for help, I may already be dead... 1.1kReads8.4Score119Shelves

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   Looks good, you'll know just by looking at it

8. 8 震 Shocking! The Host Is a Grain-Stealing Rat 震惊！宿主是只偷粮鼠 Espresso意式浓缩Modern Romance927k WordsCompleted Quick transmigration + no romance [a cunning, scheming heroine + someone who's adorable only with the System] System 088 passed its evaluation and proudly took up its post. After weighing its options again and again, it finally found the right candidate: an undercover police officer who would be shot dead by drug dealers while escaping to a granary that very day. It calculated the perfect time to capture her soul and make a contract! But after all that effort, it discovered that the one it had b 51Reads9.1Score—Shelves
9. 9 走 Why Have the Side Characters Following the Plot Turned into Such Goofballs Again? 走剧情的配角们怎么又沙雕了？ Little Leaf Chong虫小叶Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [No CP + infinite-flow + group transmigration + absurd comedy + a little mind-bending] A crisis strikes! People who fall into a deep sleep are randomly dragged into illusions. If they can’t get out, they die! Qin Qing never expected that staying up late to binge a show would lead to her closing her eyes and waking up in a completely different world. What the heck! Did I transmigrate? To return to their bodies in the real world, a group of equally unlucky people chosen by the illusions are forced 4kReads9.3Score473Shelves
10. 10 惊 What?! Which Young Lady Cuts Ties with Her Family Right After Being Reborn? 惊！谁家千金刚重生就断亲啊 Small Bridge by the Flat Shore平岸小桥Ancient Romance747k WordsCompleted [Reborn with a System + Face-slapping revenge + Refuses to take abuse + Unhinged, doted-on heroine] Gu Xiaoyue completes ten lifetimes' worth of missions and finally earns a chance to be reborn, only for the System to pull a fast one on her: she has to complete missions to earn life points! She is the unloved real daughter of a general's household, but the System orders her to win over the fake daughter who took her place, her biased mother, her cold father, and her bullying brothers, or else sh 2.2kReads8.9Score225Shelves

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    They are all great heroine stories

11. 11 国 National Fate: My Secret Weapons Are Just a Little Too Numerous 国运：我的秘密武器有亿点点多 Tong Hua桐画Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted Xu Jingyan transmigrates into the otherworld survival game she had been playing late at night. But it seems she hasn't simply transmigrated into the game. She's ended up in a parallel world, in the body of someone who looks just like her and has the same name. That person happens to have been chosen by the National Fortune game and sent into the otherworld survival game... Wait, are they playing some kind of nesting-doll game with her? At least there's one thing to be glad about: right before sh 10.6kReads7.9Score1.2kShelves
12. 12 车 The Pinker the Car, the Fiercer the Driver: I’m Claiming the Top Spot 车越粉人越狠这榜一我当定了 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Sports2.9M WordsOngoing Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 464kReads9.4Score53.6kShelves
13. 13 三 The Third Young Lady Goes on a Rampage After Returning from the Cultivation World 三姑娘从修真界回来后杀疯了 Fishing Ace钓鱼小能手Ancient Romance212k WordsCompleted Fake Heiress vs. Real Heiress + Satisfying Revenge + Cultivation + No Romance The heroine will return to the cultivation world later, so don’t get too invested in seeing her return to the dynasty and become emperor. Mu Yunkai had finally cultivated to the peak of the Golden Core stage and was just about to become a Nascent Soul cultivator when a tribulation lightning bolt sent her straight back to her previous life. It was the very day she’d been brought home in her previous life. What perfec 192Reads9.2Score—Shelves
14. 14 生 Survival Game: The System Begs Me Not to Die 生存游戏：系统求我别死 When the General Is Away将在外Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsOngoing [No romance + strong heroine + stockpiling + survival dungeons + infinite survival] It all begins when a survival game suddenly descends upon the world. Jiang Li becomes a player and enters the beginner map, [Wasteland Town]. She comes back from the dead and gains a talent that lets her evolve items and add traits. Thugs prowl outside her safe house. With a repair hammer in hand, Jiang Li takes them out in ten seconds and gets their gear. No food or clothes? No big deal. The enemies deliver supp 12.5kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves

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    What I've been watching recently, my favorite one is Drinking and Songs [I'm almost crying]

15. 15 刚 Cast Out of the Rich Family, Global Apocalypse Strikes 刚被赶出豪门，末世天灾降临全球 Ye Zhenzhen叶榛蓁Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsCompleted [No Romance + Infinite Survival Challenges + All Kinds of Disasters + Transmigration + Strong Female Lead + Golden Finger + Management + Livestreaming + Wish Fulfillment + Taking Down Scum] Ye Zhao transmigrates into the real heiress who was switched at birth. She has just been kicked out of her wealthy family when the Black Hole Game descends upon the world. Zombie crisis; strange phenomena descend; global infection; gravity goes haywire; worldwide heatwave; global conflict; survival at sea; su 19kReads7.8Score1.7kShelves
16. 16 无 Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费 Mo Sibei陌肆白Mystery800k WordsCompleted [Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra 26.8kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves

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    Game invasion + heroine + cleverness but not intelligence

17. 17 男 My Boyfriend Is Insecure and Cries Easily. How Could He Be the Villain? 男友自卑又爱哭，怎么可能是反派 Little Duckling小鸭鸭Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Devoted and equally powerful couple + mildly scary infinite worlds + indulgent wish fulfillment] [They seem perfectly normal on the outside, but both are crazy inside. The heroine trains her man like a dog, while the hero is insecure and pitiful.] Yu Li and her boyfriend had known each other for four years and been together for three. They were deeply in love. Her boyfriend was gentle and considerate. Aside from being a little clingy and insecure sometimes, and always wanting her to watch horro 20.4kReads9.5Score2.6kShelves

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    [Double cleanliness, double strength + slight terror, unlimited + unlimited pampering] [The couple are normal people on the surface, but mentally insane, full of bad taste, able to see ghosts & dark, morbid and pure evil people] Yu Li and her boyfriend have known each other for four years and been together for three years. They are very loving. Her boyfriend was gentle and considerate to her. Apart from being too clingy and insecure at times, and always liking to make her watch horror movies, he had no other problems. He was about to get married, but they were both killed in a car accident together. After her death she passed through a book. The good news is that my boyfriend is also here, but the bad news is that he has lost his memory. Even worse news, a self-proclaimed system said that her boyfriend was originally the villain of this world. He is also a yandere and dark villain who is obsessed with the heroine. This book is a world full of weird settings. The protagonists will go to the horror set at night to complete tasks. If the score is too low, their lives will be in danger. And her little boyfriend is already teetering on the edge of danger. Yu Li was silent. Amnesia travels through books and adds unlimited streaming. What a stacking buff. The first time she entered a horror film set, she dressed as a neighbor of the protagonist group. When the male and female protagonists came to visit, her eyes fell on the second-floor window of the opposite house, and she raised the corners of her lips calmly. That night, the murderous evil spirit turned into a wisp of smoke and sneaked into her house, lying gently beside her, lowering his head and obsessively smelling the woman's fragrance like an addict. "You smell so good, I want to eat you so much, you smell so good..." Listening to the infatuated murmurs in her ears, Yu Li said silently

18. 18 惊 Thriller Game: I Can Copy Paranormal Abilities 惊悚游戏：我能复制诡异能力 Leisurely Cloud, Wild Crane, Immortal闲云野鹤仙Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror game + mystery + supernatural, not scary] A horror game descends upon the world, forcing players across the globe into terrifying instances to face one deadly game after another. But Li Chen, who has the ability to copy powers, thrives in the horror game. [Successfully copied the White Mist Ghost’s ability. Skill acquired: Mist Veil] [Successfully copied the Gluttonous Ghost’s ability. Skill acquired: Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony] [Successfully copied the Ghost Director’s ability. Skill a 4.6kReads8.5Score409Shelves

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    See how it goes

19. 19 全 Global Games: Starting with a Women's Fiction Dungeon 全球游戏，从女频副本开始 Little Bean, Strong Enough to Lift a Mountain力拔山兮小豆丁Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Single Heroine (or None)] + [Instance Dungeons] In this world, games and reality have merged. Once people turn eighteen, they can enter instance dungeons and earn rewards. Different players encounter different dungeons, but the ones Ye Heng gets are a little strange. [Female-Oriented Cultivation]: Become Gu Qingxue, a senior sister at the Deity Transformation stage, only to be framed by a green-tea junior sister with a Foundation Establishment cultivation? Pull out the Human Emperor Banner an 4.1kReads7.9Score236Shelves
20. 20 游 Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵：我称帝了玩家才穿越 Xiao Chu Still Hasn't Slept潇楚还没睡Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsOngoing [Transmigrating ahead of time + political scheming + dynastic power struggles + succubus + worlds merging] This book is also known as [I, the Empress's Fiancé, the Strongest Villain Behind the Scenes]. After waking up, Xia Chen finds himself logged into the mysterious game from his previous life ahead of schedule, starting out as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Zhendong. What? I have a younger brother named Xia Hao, who seems to have a mysterious bone inside him? It looks just like the lege 398.3kReads9.1Score37.9kShelves

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