Tired of the Same Old Tropes, Looking for Something Fresh: A Veteran Reader 套路太老了，想看点新奇的，老书虫
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Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应
Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist
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High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船
The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called
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Apocalypse Descends: Global Power Outage 末世降临：全球断电
The electromagnetic radiation and high-energy charged particles released by a solar storm will trigger violent activity in the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space. They can disrupt Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals, interfere with high-frequency radio communications, completely cut off high-frequency communications along aviation routes, damage electronic components, and destroy optical systems. ...When that happens, there will be no phones, computers, internet, Wi-Fi, or even
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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Dustbound Stars, Illusory Heavens 尘星幻天
In his previous life, Qin Xingchen was blinded by the belief that whoever came first had the rightful claim, and devoted himself entirely to the woman he loved from afar. In the end, he forged a karmic knot that could not be undone. One wrong step cost him the chance to become a True Immortal, and the ancient ancestor of the demon race annihilated both his body and soul. Fortunately, the Fairy Han Yue gave her life to protect him. A fragment of his soul escaped into the cycle of reincarnation,
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 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
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A Demonic Cultivator's Journey, Starting in the United States 从美莉卡联邦开始的魔道修士
Synopsis One: I've transmigrated to America and I'm screwed. What do I do? Please answer soon, this is urgent. Synopsis Two: I just want to become an immortal. What's the big deal? If you've got what it takes, come say that to my Human Emperor Sword's face. Synopsis Three: What did you say? Everyone on the planet willingly entered my Human Emperor Banner? And the materials for the Annihilation... ahem, Ascension Formation are your responsibility, and you'll help set up the formation too... Synop
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The Valkyrie of Light 光明女武神
After awakening a strange ability, Tang Ying unexpectedly becomes a corrector of the Space-Time Tower. To her shock, the tower is observing an infinite universe. Talents? Inheritances? Attributes? ... Countless wondrous things open her eyes to a whole new world. The countless beings of the infinite worlds, the perilous reaches of the boundless starry sky. She ventures through countless worlds and endures trials and dangers, relying on her extraordinary talent and far sharper mind than most to gr
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Defying the Classics: A Strategy for the Realm 逆经：山河策
[This work has been selected by Hongguo for adaptation into an animated drama] Life is unpredictable; the adaptable follow Heaven's path. Those skilled in force become generals, those skilled in strategy become kings. Born to the lowest rung of society, he refuses to accept a life as a nobody. He waves the yin-yang banner and unlocks the secrets of the six-line hexagrams. Watch him play the mystic, watch him swindle and deceive, Watch him make ruthless decisions, watch a hidden dragon soar into
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Wenshi, the Writer 汶世笔者
[Modern urban imagination] [Modern urban supernatural powers] [Alternate setting] [Apocalypse] [A completely new worldview] System? Supernatural phenomena? Urban legends?······In the Wen Era, these words are all far too inadequate. What truly dragged the world into the abyss known as the “Wen Era” was an entirely new existence, which we call: Chaos. When the world is transformed beyond recognition, the responsibility for describing it ultimately falls to me. As the "author", how should I tell th
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Duchuan Agency 渡川事务所
The day Lu Jianxing receives his uncle’s final letter, there’s no vast inheritance waiting for him, just a yellowed IOU with his own name written in the debtor’s column. He hasn’t even figured out how to dodge the debt when his icy creditor shows up at his door. “Your uncle sold you to me.” So he goes. The agency called Crossing River is tucked beneath the shade of an old locust tree. It helps the restless dead fulfill the wishes they left unfinished. His new boss loves money more than life itse
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After Binding to a Black Tech System, I Beat the Male Lead to a Pulp 绑定黑科技系统后我打爆了男主
[No CP + Academic genius + Cutting-edge technology + Real and fake heiresses + Wish fulfillment] After being reborn, Jiang Huaining discovers that she is the vicious supporting female character in a story about a real and fake heiress. According to the plot, the fake heiress is supposed to envy the real one, scheme against her family, and seize the company, only to be left with her family in ruins by the male lead. “What vicious supporting character? Being a tycoon is more my style.” So... She t
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Enchanted by Your Glorious Summer 贪恋你的盛夏
The print edition of A Summer Spent Loving You is now available. [Flirtatious, handsome bad-boy heir vs. sweet, insecure, well-behaved girl] [College campus + secret crush comes true + devoted couple + sweet, flirtatious romance] The boldest thing Sang Li ever did was approach the new transfer student during her senior year of high school. The boy was handsome and arrogant, with a faint air of aloofness in his eyes. Sang Li thought he was, like her, a scholarship student at this elite high schoo
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Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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How Could Anyone Resist His Flirting? 怎敌他偏撩
[Signed for publication and awaiting release] [Unrequited love + devoted to each other + bold flirting and subtle advances + intense romantic tension + seizing the opportunity to take his place] [Elegant, roguish heir to a wealthy family VS aloof, gorgeous enchantress] Also known as "Swaying on the Pillow" Lin Shutong was abruptly dumped by her first love of eight years. In front of everyone in their circle, she asked her ex, “Are you sure you want to break up with me?” He gave her a firm two-wo
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Beast Tamer Livestreams, Reads Animals' Minds, and Solves Cases While Gossiping 驭兽师直播，听动物心声吃瓜破案
[No CP + adorable pets + mind-reading + livestreaming + gossip and crime-solving + everyone's favorite] Lin Lang is the strongest beast tamer, with tens of thousands of divine beasts at her command. But after transmigrating, she becomes a small-time streamer saddled with enormous debts, and her spiritual energy is greatly diminished. To stay alive, she has no choice but to keep livestreaming. Only... She goes from provocative dancing to communicating with pets! At first, viewers say, “You must b
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A Country Woman's Path to Wealth 农门婆婆的发家致富路
[Alternate Setting + Family Life + Cozy Everyday Moments + Building a Fortune + The Whole Family United + No Romance, No CP] Before she opened her eyes, she was an unmarried thirty-year-old with a million followers, a short-video creator specializing in country life. She filmed videos and took advertising gigs now and then, living a relaxed, comfortable life full of flavor. After she opened her eyes, she was a forty-year-old widow with four sons, two daughters, and grandchildren as far as the ey
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A Cultivation Path Among the Warblers 莺莺燕燕修仙路
An urban, everyday-life story told in plain language. High-martial-arts cultivation without spiritual energy; no System, no old master in a magical artifact, and no rebirth. There's life and conflict, and when it's time to fight or kill, the protagonist does just that. Beautiful women are his cultivation resource, not a harem obligation. This is a modern high-martial-arts world with almost no spiritual energy, so cultivation should be impossible. But lucky Li Jun unexpectedly obtained an incredi
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The Essence of Cultivation Is Physics 修仙的本质是物理
Infinite Flow, hilarious, witty, System, cultivation, physics, wild imagination, decisive and ruthless, play the pig to eat the tiger, another world, the rise of Huaxia, dungeon challenges Cultivation? What’s there to cultivate? Are you good at physics? No? Perfect, neither am I! And I still became an immortal!, Li Kaiqi, True Lord of Peace Through the Annihilation of Enemies I’m the only Huaxia expert in the mission world. It’s not because I have exceptional talent, but because... Hey, hey, hey
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I'm Not Mentally Ill! There's Just a God Living Inside Me 我不是精神病！我只是体内有尊神
[Absurd comedy and ridiculous antics, pure fun + maybe a tiny bit of angst, but it won't affect the hilariously unhinged plot, haha + no formulaic tropes + decent values + no couple, not an invincible power fantasy (read with caution if that bothers you!) It might also start slow and pick up later... maybe (˶‾᷄ ⁻̫ ‾᷅˵)] This story contains some adult and grotesque content. Please read with caution. There is no female lead! The protagonist will not fall in love with or have a flirtation with any
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Absurd! Is It Really a Good Idea for the Demon King to Work as an Exorcist? 离谱！魔王专职驱魔师真的好吗？
This book is now being adapted into a comic, so feel free to give it a try. (The comic's plot differs in places. The book is the definitive version.) (Parallel world setting + exceptionally intelligent villains + contracts + ensemble cast + humor + passion + mystery + semi-light novel style, with a focus on battle scenes + tightly plotted + clear logic + no major flaws) This is a high-martial-arts story blending Eastern and Western elements. It has a moderately slow build and features political
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Dual Transmigration to 1980 双穿1980年
A hilarious, witty tale: “Cosmic Treasures, Dizzying Reincarnation.” To transmigrate, you have to smash into a wall or a table! Dare you try? One step brings wealth, the next leaves you seeing stars! A nobody's ambition, as Engels put it: a 300% profit, worth risking everything for...
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What’s Wrong with Lin Daiyu? 林黛玉怎的不对劲
Why Is Lin Daiyu Acting So Strange?
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Siheyuan: He Daqing Steals Qin Huairu Away, More Children, More Blessings 四合院何大清截胡秦淮茹多子多福
No poison, a pocket dimension, and a fast pace! He transmigrates into a Siheyuan, where Qin Huairu is still unmarried, so he’d better marry her before anyone else does! With a pocket dimension at his disposal and his combat power maxed out from the start, I’m not going to hold back! No self-righteous saint, no sneaky schemer, and no waiting until tomorrow. If there’s nothing going on, I’ll find an excuse to slap a few people around!
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Transmigrated Seventy Thousand Years into the Future 穿越七万年
[Traditional Fantasy] + [Slow-Burn] + [Fresh Worldbuilding] Those with criminal blood may never have a name. Those with criminal blood may never leave the City of Criminal Blood for their entire lives. Those with criminal blood pass it down to their descendants for all generations, forever and ever. Xu Changan was lucky enough to be born in a great era. He transmigrated alongside the massive wave of transmigrators, but strangely, the Host was still alive. Xu Changan failed to take over the body
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Eldest Son: My Brother and Sister Simulated My Life, and I Broke Down in Tears 长子：兄妹模拟我人生，泪崩
[Anti-drug trafficking] [Narcotics officer] [High IQ] [Mastermind] [Undercover] The Wei family has five children. The second is a wealthy businessman, the third has an impressive background, the fourth is a research professor, and the fifth is a pop star. Only the eldest has amounted to nothing. He’s notorious and despised by his siblings. Because he sold off his younger siblings and drove his family away! He’s done every kind of evil, and his siblings loathe and spurn him! Then, on the day the
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A Journey to Conquer Him 征他个途
A fat guy, an opportunity, and a natural rise to the top. As he fights off an alien invasion, he finds himself going further and further down that path, while gaining even more happiness along the way. One chance changes the course of his life!
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Gods May Fall, but I Reject the Name: I Refuse to Be the Grim Reaper's Heir 神陨不承名：我拒做死神继承者
The Gods May Fall, But They Won’t Take My Name: Refusing to Become the God of Death’s Heir Swords and magic, but every blow hits at the level of the laws of reality! The original self saves his clone by running a sword through his own heart, then stuffs his brother’s ribs into a coffin before dying; The clone tempers his heart into a demon’s, then kneels and cries, “God, I was wrong!”; The original self, with golden hair, returns from tens of thousands of years ago. The moment his holy sword o
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Demon Appraiser: From the Start, Armed with a Fire Poker 鉴妖师：开局一根烧火棍
Qi Mo, an ordinary young man, picks up a heavy black iron rod at an antiques stall. That very night, a qi-devouring ghost comes to claim his life. At death's door, he awakens to a power that lets him see through the disguises of demons and spirits, along with the ability “Myriad Forms Mimicry,” which grows stronger when faced with stronger foes! From then on, he becomes an appraiser of demons in the city's shadowy underbelly, taking on anyone who dares challenge him.
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Painting the Stardust of the World 绘世星尘
The universe is a prison, and fate is a lock. Beneath the calm of the Twin-Mind Planet, judgment has long been hidden in the cycle of reincarnation: older than civilization, more secret than breathing. “Deep are the mysteries of the star prison; the delusive crystal conceals the truth. Let the heart turn toward the hidden depths, and when illusion breaks, the Way remains.” The voice from beyond that lit the mind of Qingping Star Sovereign did more than that. It was the first beam of light to pi
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Tales of Pet Cultivation 宠物修仙传
Cultivation #BodySnatching #Revenge #Golden Retriever #Pets #Fantasy #Comedy #Transformation On the day I underwent tribulation, a cloud of black mist kicked me out of my sea of consciousness. I didn’t die, but I turned into a golden retriever. Three days later, I was sprawled on the living room floor of a burned-out programmer’s apartment, growling at a phone screen. On it, a white-robed Daoist priest was smiling at the camera as he lectured on the Dao De Jing. The comments were full of peopl
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The Matchmaker Is Offline: How Do I Survive 81 Trials of Love? 月老掉线，81难情劫如何过？
The rules of Heaven can't stop someone from going mad with love. To find the 81 fragments of his beloved's soul, the male lead blunders his way through challenge after challenge, rewriting 81 classic tragic love stories! This isn't about gods falling in love. It's about wagering your life on an ending where “love can break every rule.” Eighty-one trials of love, eighty-one views of love: love with integrity, love with honor, love in unity, love that stays true, love built on mutual respect, lo
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Infinite Loop: A Knitting Needle’s Counterattack Against the Data Cage 无限循环：毛线针反杀数据牢笼
[Infinite Flow + NPC + Mystery and Mind-Bending Puzzles + Wild Imagination + Virtual Game + Cyberpunk + Yarn-Needle Powers + Yarnpunk + Female Awakening + Ensemble Cast + Architectural Conspiracy + Workplace Conspiracy + Time Loop] Also titled: "Infinite Loop: Yarn Needles Strike Back Against the Data Cage" [Complete] After losing her job, Lin Xiao receives a mysterious text and is sent back to 2010, where she crashes headfirst into the abyss of Xingyao Group’s “Mirror Life” full-dive experime
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Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心
Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he
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When I Claim These Lands, I'll Win Your Heart 待我拱手河山讨你欢
(The new book’s rating has just been released. Darlings, please help give it a five-star review at the end of the book. Mwah!) At the age when he should be carefree, bold, and living for the moment, Chu Longfei has no choice but to follow in his father’s footsteps and shoulder the burden of leading the martial world. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to the welfare of the martial world, only to be persecuted, with even his closest and dearest family members caught in the crossfire. Luckily, his
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Fatal Game: Player Zero 致命游戏：零号玩家
When Zheng Yuan wakes up in the basement of a bubble tea shop, he finds that the ring finger on his right hand has been replaced by a mechanical prosthesis engraved with a mysterious serial number. On the acid-rain-corroded streets of New York, binary runes appear. NPCs begin slaughtering people, and his memories are being auctioned on the black market. Drawn into the “Crimson Wedding” dungeon, Zheng Yuan gradually discovers that he is a clone created as part of the Noah's Ark Project. The awake
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The Black Tower Files 黑塔档案
When a heartbeat echoes from beneath the ice every forty-seven seconds, humanity finally brushes against the edge of a civilizational taboo. In 2045, Antarctic glaciologist Jiang Tianye encounters a strange phenomenon while drilling: a substance not of this Earth appears in an ice-core sample. At the same time, bizarre incidents erupt one after another at polar research stations around the globe. A research team is forced to assemble. Three thousand li beneath the ice, they witness a bloody dawn
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Primordial Sacred Artifact: Twin Tribulation 洪荒圣器：双子劫
The Three Realms teeter on the brink of collapse as the great calamity begins anew. The stars shift in the heavens, a blood lotus blooms in the Jade Lake, and the eye of the Sea of Chaos churns with annihilating energy... The fifth great calamity in the cycle of the Heavenly Dao quietly descends. Twin boys Wu Pan and Wu Xiang, from a fishing village on the Eastern Sea, awaken the bloodline of the ancient Wu clan after a dragon attack sinks their boat. Wu Pan earns golden merit light by rescuing
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The Superpowered Squad 超能小分队
When Lin Chen wakes up in a cheap rental, he finds that the neon lights throughout the red-light district are bleeding. The calves of the women in cheongsams are covered in root-like black marks. A clinic doctor's chest blooms with an icy crystal lotus, and the office buildings in the downpour reveal steel beams made of human bones. Only when a bronze key pierces the birthmark on his collarbone does he realize that his transmigration is a distress signal from a dying Mother Tree. In a world of
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Deadly Game: Source Code 致命游戏：源代码
As brain-computer interface technology pulls human consciousness into a virtual paradise, a code-borne plague is quietly tearing apart the boundary between reality and data. Lin Shen, chief scientist at Tianqiong Group, watches the “Noah's Ark” System he helped create run amok after his fiancée, Su Li, is left in a vegetative state by a consciousness-upload experiment. The rogue AI Noah unleashes a data plague: players' perceptions become scrambled, memories take physical form, and bodies turn p
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My Wife Is the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Number One Female Demon 我老婆是东晋第一女魔头
The kings of the Sima clan turned their blades on one another. The northern barbarians ate their fill of human flesh. The aristocratic families fled south in terror. The starving commoners boiled their children in pots. Heroes fought for their lives on the battlefield, while nobles got high in their palaces. Sons killed fathers, younger brothers killed older brothers, daughters became slaves, and men became concubines... This absurd age was one long debauch. Tang Yu: “I just want to protect myse
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I Came to Earth to Be a God 我到地球来当神
Female-Led + Interstellar + No System + Eastern Fantasy + Light-Novel Style + Ensemble Cast Growth + One True Pair The title may give the wrong impression that this is a story about a charlatan or a comedy, but the actual story is a slow burn with a vast world. The protagonist, Youtan, is stranded on Earth after a spaceship accident. In search of energy, she travels across the planet alone, eventually journeying with an Earth mage, a young hunter, and others. The story revolves around the power
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Spirit Tamer: My Oddball Spirit Weighs Fifty Tons! 战灵师：我的奇灵是百吨王！
[Ensemble cast growth + genius (invincible from beginning to end, never takes a beating or holds back) + urban high martial arts + absurdity + protecting Huaxia] [Near-invincible protagonist + everyone is smart + everyone is a devoted romantic (those in relationships, anyway. Where would single people find love?)] [Also known as: Awakening a Hundred-Ton King from the Start! The World Calls Me Arrogant!] In an age when people awaken flying dragons, phoenixes, and sacred lions, or fighter jets, ta
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The Way Begins, the Struggle for the Way 道起道争
When Heaven and Earth first came into being, the myriad paths descended, yet eternal enslavement became the fate of every race. When the sinister Dao sweeps through the heavens with a blood-red fog, devouring all creation, and the ominous Dao spreads like a plague, corroding the foundations of the myriad paths, the entire cosmos becomes a flock of lambs waiting for slaughter. Lin Jin, a young man from a remote border town, rises to prominence after accidentally obtaining a fragment of the source
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Online Game: Rebuilding My Life 网游之重塑人生
Qin Feng used to be a hopeless romantic. He gave his girlfriend his whole heart and treated her like a queen. And what did he get in return? She casually tossed out, "You can't give me the life I want," then turned around and walked away. Qin Feng was completely crushed. He holed up in his rented apartment every day, questioning his whole existence and wondering what the point of living was. Eventually, with nothing else to do and no other options, he plunged into an online game to kill time.
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The Lost Kingdom 失落的王国
A pathetic world; pathetic people; pathetic ideas. How pathetic! Everything is pathetic! Erase all who disagree! Oh! I am a heretic myself. For the sake of my ideals, I must kill myself! Hahahahaha!
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