My Fellow Book Lovers, Any Similar Stories for My Reading Slump? 书佬爷，书荒有没有类似的
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Gu Qingyu's Cheat-Filled Life in a Period Novel 顾青玉在年代文里开挂的一生
[Period setting + strong female lead + career-focused plot + one-on-one romance + both leads devoted to each other + male lead appears late and doesn't get much page time] Gu Qingyu transmigrates into a period novel as an insignificant passerby. Sent back to her family's village as soon as she's born, she becomes a pitiful child no one wants after her parents divorce when she's three. But Gu Qingyu doesn't think she's pitiful at all. At three, she leads the village children in making money. At f
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Online Dating a Horror Boss, I Tried to Escape but Was Kissed Until I Cried 网恋到恐怖boss，逃跑被亲哭
[Infinite-Flow Horror + Sweet Romance + Growing Heroine + Obsessive, Yandere Male Lead + Mutual Firsts] Yun Fu falls in love online with a boyfriend. She gets his contact information from a dream. He spoils her endlessly, flirts with her all day, and comforts her every night. He's a total lovesick husband who lives for his wife. But when Yun Fu wants to meet him in person before starting school, he keeps hemming and hawing and refuses to see her. “If you won't meet me, we're breaking up!” Yun Fu
59.8kReads9.3Score7.8kShelves
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Apocalypse Underworld Emperor: After Dark, I Make the Rules 末世地下皇帝，天黑以后我说的算
(No System, passionate, brotherhood, not an invincible protagonist, high martial arts) (Ensemble cast, every character has a distinct personality and their own moments to shine) A young man framed and imprisoned by his own boss unexpectedly gains the blood of the Demon Ancestor and awakens as a superpowered fighter, embarking on a path of revenge. The story of a group of youths from the bottom of society fighting their way up. A legend about a young man who rises to become the Underworld Emperor
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Infinite Flow: Using the Saintly System to Reform a Mad Villain 无限流：用圣父系统感化疯批反派
[Dual male leads + imaginative infinite survival game + livestreaming + Saintly System + rekindled romance] [A crazy, lovesick, murderous demon in public but a lovestruck girl at heart as the top VS a seemingly saintly, clever bottom with a hidden dark side] Zhang Chuliang binds himself to the Saintly System. His mission is to save the future ultimate villain. After he and the Saintly System work tirelessly, they finally succeed in reforming the villain and turning him into the perfect, devoted
23.3kReads9.6Score3.5kShelves
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Married First, Love Later: The Aloof CEO Mo Spoils His Wife Without Restraint 先婚后爱，禁欲系墨总宠妻无度
[Mutual firsts + married first, love later + sweet romance + both leads speak their minds] Just as the An family business was thriving, An Yiruo and her mother were thrown out of their home by the woman who had stolen her mother's place. Later, her half-sister schemed against her and drugged her, leading to her accidentally losing her virginity to Mo Jingchen. Afterward, Mo Jingchen said, “Miss An, you have to take responsibility for me.” An Yiruo replied, “We both wanted it. I’m not taking resp
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Winning Over the Brooding Boy, the White Lotus Falls in Love 攻略阴鸷少年，小白莲动心了
Flirtatious push and pull, a seduction story, a bad-boy charmer, a white lotus, youth and campus life, sweet romance [One-on-one] Sweet romance, seduction and counter-seduction. The little white lotus is a mantis stalking a cicada, while the oriole waits behind. The best hunters often end up as prey. Little white lotus versus beautiful immortal lord Whatever the boy likes, I’ll play the part. Under the sun, the girl is youthful and radiant, so pure and beautiful that she captures your heart at f
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Attached to Ink Painting 墨画附
(Possessive Pursuit / Stealing Someone Else’s Love, Both Pure) (Coolheaded, gentle heroine vs. seemingly frivolous but truly obsessive hero) For three generations, the men of the Fu family had been passionate lovers: devoted to the point of obsession. But then an exception came along. Everyone in Beijing’s elite circles knew that Fu Mo, the Fu family’s heir, was a notorious playboy. He drifted from one woman to the next, never keeping anyone by his side for more than a month. He was both heartle
17.9kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
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She Played the Obedient Replacement in Her Past Life, But After Being Reborn, She Can't Get Enough of It 上辈子装乖当替身，重生她当上瘾
The short drama “When the Breeze Returns, You’ll Know My Heart” is now streaming on Hongguo~ [Reborn + present-day male lead aggressively competing for her affection + previous-life male lead as a humble substitute + second male lead paying for his mistakes in both lives + two timelines + mutually devoted] [A seemingly sweet little fox vs. a devoted, scheming romantic] After the Xia family goes bankrupt, Xia Wei moves in with her childhood friend’s family. Zhou Jin treats her as his younger sist
1.5kReads9.1Score164Shelves
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Sundered Spring Tides 揉碎春潮
[Forced love x campus romance x obsessive love x younger man] Xie Jinghe was born into the elite Xie family. Handsome in every way, with silver hair and a wild, untamable nature. Shen Shuangli had the face of a cool, ethereal beauty and a quiet, reserved personality. No one knew that two people who seemed to have nothing in common had once been lovers in secret. That relationship ended in failure, with Xie Jinghe as the one who got dumped. When they meet again, Xie Jinghe rescues Shen Shuangli a
38.2kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
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A Secret Crush Is Like a Sugar-Sweet Star! 暗恋是颗星星糖！
[Sweet, gentle, and soft-spoken heroine x roguishly handsome flirt] [College romance | Mutual pining comes true | Both leads are each other's first | Sweet romance | Flirty and romantic] In high school, Tan Xuze was a born winner, with a top-tier family and looks to match. His grades were always at the top, and everyone adored him. Shu Mian wasn't one of the stars surrounding him, and she never dared hope her secret crush would ever see the light of day. At college, Tan Xuze was still the cente
18.3kReads9.4Score2.5kShelves
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Hey, Dog, Stop Trying to Sweet-Talk Me 狗，少和我撒娇
[Gentle, dazzling dog-trainer × love-struck, jealous business tycoon] *Reunion after a long separation + lots of sweetness, little angst Everyone knows Gu Sishi as a domineering, abstinent beauty on a pedestal. Only Ji Zhaomu thinks he's a fluffy white Samoyed. A tug-of-war of desire × mutual attraction * Gu Sishi was always convinced Ji Zhaomu didn't care about him. He had a fight with her, hoping she'd pay him a little more attention. He didn't expect that, once the fight was over, Ji Zhaomu w
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After My Ex-Boyfriend Acquired the Company 公司被前男友收购以后
[Lazy, bootlicking heroine + arrogant Capricorn who buys your company when you dump him + workplace romance + sweet pampering = rekindled love] The thing Tong Nian regrets most is making a bet with her best friend during her freshman year to flirt with the aloof campus heartthrob Liao Yuncheng. And somehow, it worked! Her second biggest regret is that a year later, she dumped him in a daze, only to be dragged onto his blacklist. His reason: he had no shortage of ordinary friends. N years later.
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Teacher Chang Mao 长矛老师
Originally titled “You Sell Swords, I Go Crazy: Together, We Set the Entertainment Industry Straight” [Rebellious CEO × Defiant Top-Tier Star] [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + dating show + nonsense + memes + shameless antics] Jiang Qiyu transmigrated into a book. She became a brainless cannon-fodder character in a novel about a fake heiress in the entertainment industry. After taking a phone call, she realized the plot was already more than halfway through. Her family had abandoned he
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What?! The Villainess's Husband Is Actually the Crown Prince of the Capital's Elite 惊！恶毒女配老公竟是京圈太子
[Print edition signed, awaiting release] Marriage first, love later / older, fatherly male lead / devoted couple, sweet romance Carefree, high-maintenance heroine × abstinent, scheming older man Jin Zhao transmigrates into a sweet romance novel as the vicious supporting heroine. Not only is she beautiful, with fair skin, but she's also secretly married to the heir of a powerful family in the capital. But she'd heard her bargain husband was abstinent, so she decides to cling to his coattails. “Ho
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
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
1.7MReads9.9Score233.7kShelves
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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The Campus Hottie I Forced to Love Me Was Bitter and Cold, So She Stopped Chasing Me After Being Reborn 强扭的校草酸又涩，重生她不追了
[Reborn + devoted one-on-one romance + both leads are pure and each other's first + a long road to winning her back] In her previous life, Su Jiani fell in love with the campus heartthrob at first sight. She pursued him for years without success, then resorted to despicable tactics to get pregnant and marry him. Knowing he didn't love her, she gradually lost hope. Reborn before the college entrance exams, she no longer clings to him for help with homework. She gets high marks, but doesn't apply
44.9kReads8.9Score3.6kShelves
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Yu Ye’s Cherished One 彧爷的掌心娇
[Over-the-top indulgence + matched social status + faithful to each other + possessive and obsessive + clear-headed, independent beauty + anxious CEO] “Niannian, let me introduce you. This is Auntie’s son, A Yu.” “Hello, Mr. Huangfu!” The young woman pretended they were meeting for the first time, lowering her head slightly. Her voice carried a note of distance. He didn’t rush to call her out. Then his deep, magnetic voice sounded beside her ear. “Is your back feeling better?” The words hit like
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Back from the Border, the Little Heiress Is Everyone’s Darling 边境归来，小千金成团宠啦
[No romance + strong female lead + coming-of-age + genius top student + tough and taciturn] Ye Qing saves a group of wealthy heirs. After coming back from the border with the resolve to become a good person, she accidentally discovers that she's the An family's true daughter, who went missing years ago. A status-obsessed father, a biased mother, a sister vying for attention, and a quiet girl. She doesn't care about Grandpa's hundreds of millions in inheritance: she can win that much in a hacki
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Campus Ace: The Big Shot Is Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger Again 校园王牌：大佬又在扮猪吃虎
[Print edition signed] She was the world's number one genius assassin, a name that struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. Cold and ruthless, she killed without a trace, only to be deceived and used by her organization and brutally murdered. Then she was reborn as a fat, stupid, good-for-nothing female student? Fat? Once she slimmed down, she stunned everyone! Stupid? The president of Jing University personally came to recruit her! Good-for-nothing? A legendary hacker begged to call h
59.9kReads9.3Score6.6kShelves
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The Mystic Girl Says You’ll Die at Three in the Morning. Pay Up to Change Your Fate 玄学少女说你三更死，打钱改命
[Metaphysics + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + satisfying read + lighthearted + sweet romance + CEO + wealthy family + no angst] After enduring a tribulation, Wu Yin is struck by lightning and sent back to the twenty-first century. With no money to her name, she can only set up a fortune-telling stall online. She tells fortunes, catches ghosts, and treats illnesses. If you can pay, she’ll take the job. “Master, if you’re really any good, tell me where my daughter, who was kidnapped years ago,
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The Fake Heiress Is Sweet and Charming, and Her Five Brothers Dote on Her 假千金又软又撩，五个哥哥宠上天
After Su Wan transmigrated into a book, she took one look at her character's setup and ending and fell into deep thought. She could have coasted to victory, but instead she had to court death. Was this really the standard ending for a vicious supporting female character? To change her fate, she decided to return to the countryside and cling to her five older brothers. After all, they would all become big shots one day. Her eldest brother would become a third-rank official at court. Her second br
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The General Doesn't Like Me 将军他不喜欢我
[Sweet romance] [Marriage first, love later, slow burn] [A delicate, adorable sweetheart x A cold and fierce man on the outside, but a possessive, jealous wife-spoiler on the inside] Ying Qi’an, raised in seclusion by her elder brother, is breathtakingly beautiful, gentle, and adorable. But because of political rivalries, she is hastily married off to the general Mu Xuanqing. General Mu Xuanqing is valiant in battle and as cold as ice. He married a woman he never wanted only to get revenge on he
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The Hundred Officials Go Crazy After the First Emperor Hears Their Thoughts! 被始皇读心后，文武百官卷疯了！
[Mind Reading + Developing the Qin Empire + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Infrastructure Building + No Romance + Everyone’s Favorite + A Cast of Smart Characters] The genius PhD Gu Lingxue woke up one day and transmigrated to the Qin dynasty! With a wave of her little hand, she decided to become an official! If she became an indispensable favorite of Qin Shi Huang, wouldn’t she be able to make the rules? Just as she was drawing up all kinds of development plans, she never expected Ying Zheng to hear
20kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
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The Goofy Fortune-Telling Celestial Master Is Terrifyingly Strong 沙雕算命天师，她强得可怕
[Showbiz + Wacky Power Fantasy + Imaginative, Beloved by All + Metaphysical Master + Unhinged + Unexpected Contrast] Jiang Cha fails to ascend and is struck by a heavenly bolt of lightning, sending her back to her original world. Here, she is the villainous fake heiress in a novel: the real heiress steals her fortune, and Jiang Cha is expected to take the fall for the real heiress's deadly tribulation. The Jiang family announces her death. The very next moment, Jiang Cha kicks open the coffin li
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Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕！小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬
[Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a
72.4kReads9.5Score9.1kShelves
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Military Life: My Ex-Wife, the Queen of Pop, Had My Daughter 军旅：天后前妻给我生了个女儿
[Special Forces Fan Fiction + Dad-and-Daughter Story + Invincible Protagonist + Female Celebrity] After transmigrating to a parallel world of special forces, he became the company clerk of the Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company. He spent fifteen years in the post, and just as he was about to retire, his ex-girlfriend, now a household name across the country, sent him a three-year-old daughter through an intermediary. Then he accidentally awakened a System. And so his legendary journey began.
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I'm a Cash-Grabbing Streamer! But the Big Spender Really Does Send Gifts! 我，圈钱主播！但大哥是真刷啊！
Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens a livestream money-grabbing System! As long as he earns gifts and tips and meets his cash-grabbing targets, he can receive random rewards from the System! And so, the internet's most shamelessly money-hungry streamer is born! "Boss! Singing, dancing, doing stunts, rapping, standing on my head, whatever other streamers can do, I can do too. And whatever they can't do, I can do even better!" "Boss, just tell me what you want me to do! As lon
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I Only Want to Destroy the World, Yet I'm the God Who Created It! 只想灭世的我，真的是创世神！
[Ensemble cast] [Invincible] [World creation] [Ridiculous netizens] [Pocket worlds] Su Mo binds himself to the Creation God System, only to discover that he can grow stronger simply by destroying worlds! A ladle of water becomes a world-ending flood! A shovelful of dirt becomes a meteor that destroys the world! Some revere him as the Creator of Worlds, the one who gave them life and intelligence. Others curse him as an evil god who destroys the world every thousand years. Countless lives wail in
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I Was Asked to Manage a Class of Good-for-Nothings, So How Did It Become the Martial God Hall? 让你代管废材班，怎么成武神殿了
[Ensemble cast + slow-burn character growth early on + fake enlightenment + comedy + teacher-student bond (it only takes off in the middle and later parts, so don’t read if that’s not your thing)] Three homeroom teachers were driven away in half a month. Class Five, Grade One was full of little tyrants, and every student was a hopeless martial arts talent. Even with the director of academic affairs offering an extremely generous salary, no one would take charge of them. That was when Su Yang act
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Sun Wukong: If I Become a Demon, There Will Be No Buddhas in the World 孙悟空：我若为魔，天下无佛
[A different kind of Journey to the West!] On the journey west, during the trial of the true and false Monkey Kings, the real Sun Wukong is trapped by the Tathagata beneath the Golden-Purple Alms Bowl in the Great Thunderclap Monastery, using his immense powers. He is then transferred to the depths of the Eighteen Layers of Hell. Drawing on the power of Hell, the Tathagata fuses it with the supreme Evil Buddha’s teachings and spends five hundred years tempering Sun Wukong to death. Yet... the Ta
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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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