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Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂
[Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and
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Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！
[Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you
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I Had Only One Skill, Yet Evolved into a God or Demon 只会一个技能的我，进化成了神魔
They bullied me, humiliated me, mocked me, looked down on me... No, wait. Start over. Sorry, I walked onto the wrong set just now. (Who the hell would dare treat me like that?) [Host: Bai Ye] [Physique: Lv. 1] [Spirit: Lv. 1] [Skill: Power Punch (D) Lv. 1] [Evolution Points...] After transmigrating into this world that was familiar yet not quite the same, Bai Ye stared silently at the cheat interface before him. He knew this thing well. He’d designed it himself. In his previous lif
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- 4 Starting Out as an Armor Summoner 从变成铠甲召唤器开始 After transmigrating into a world plagued by monsters, Lin Ti became an armor summoning device. Use the device to summon powerful, mysterious armor. Defeat monsters to keep evolving. Raise both hands above your head, young man. Use your card to transform! “Armor, unite!” 11.4kReads9.2Score731Shelves
- 5 Immortal Cultivation: A Celestial Touch Bestows Eternal Life 仙侠：仙人抚我顶，我授仙人长生 Gu Ning'an accidentally transmigrated to a world of immortals and heroes, where he came across an immortal cultivation manual called The Daoist Path. After years of practice, he mastered its techniques and killed a tiger with a single finger. Feeling capable of making his way in the world, Gu Ning'an descended the mountain and traveled for five years. Over those five years, he explored the martial world and mortal life, made new friends, and slew demons. Then one day, he spotted a copy of The Da 18.3kReads8.9Score2kShelves
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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
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Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆
[A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra
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Weight Exchange System: The Fat Man's Comeback Plan 体重兑换系统：胖子逆袭计划
[An entertainment-industry story about the protagonist's struggle to make it in show business.] [No slacking off, no meltdowns, no dating shows, no livestreaming. She acts earnestly, works hard on set, and becomes a top-tier star through her skill and body of work.] In her previous life, Shang Ye was an out-and-out comic foil. She stumbled into the entertainment industry, but a congenital illness left her overweight, so all she could do was play chubby nobodies in low-budget comedies. After
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Reborn Mom Forces the Villainous Family to Go Straight 亲妈重生，反派一家被迫从良
[Rebirth | Redemption | Happy ending] A car accident sent Yu Sheng straight ten years into the future. From the start, her eldest son nearly sent her to the afterlife by pressing a knife to her throat! At this point in time, her husband, Pei Yexing, ranked first in the country in wealth and net worth. After his wife died, he became a madman whose very name struck fear into people's hearts. Her eldest son, Pei Yu, was a college sophomore starting his own business, ruthless in his methods. Her sec
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Rules of the Strange: From the Start, I Can See Through the Rules 开局规则怪谈：从看破规则开始
[Thriller + mystery + livestream + national fate + no female lead] The supernatural is resurging, terrifying games are spreading, and rule-based horror stories have descended upon Earth. The supernatural has entered the real world. Those who are chosen will be sent into a world of strange rules to face supernatural challenges on behalf of their countries. Mo Fan, a challenger representing the Dragon Kingdom, gains the ability to tell whether the rules are true or false. If he wins, he’ll buy the
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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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Snowflake Town 雪粒镇
[Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue
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- 13 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 957.1kReads9.6Score121.4kShelves
- 14 No Need to Say Goodbye 不须辞 [Sweet-faced schemer who cries easily x icy beauty] [Ancient setting + acclaimed novel + two male leads + fantasy + alternate world + equally matched leads + happy ending + younger love interest] Thirty thousand years ago, Chang Shu found a little black dragon and brought it back to his chambers to nurse it carefully. Once its wounds had healed, he tried to send it away. The little black dragon took human form, tears in its eyes. It walked up to him, tugged at his sleeve, and showed him the woun 14.1kReads9.6Score2.5kShelves
- 15 The Affliction of Silence 无言之症 [Signed for print publication] His Love Is Deafening Dual rebirth + mutual salvation + realism + happy ending + extreme madness Antisocial, cold and aloof heartthrob vs. beautiful, quirky little troublemaker After being imprisoned for three months, Xu Mi was killed by Chen Huangnian over a single breakup. Only in his final moments did he realize that the boyfriend he had spent every day with had an antisocial personality. When he opened his eyes again, he was back ten years ago, at the time whe 14.9kReads9.6Score2.5kShelves
- 16 Model Delinquent 优等败类 [Signed for publication: @You Yu Ru Zhou] [Two powerful leads + devoted to each other + 1v1 + madman + pervert + a wild mix of melodrama + younger love interest + happy ending] Xu Yi has a wife. She's beautiful, sweet, and obedient, so gorgeous that the whole world covets her. Everyone envies Xu Yi for winning such a beauty, but only Xu Yi knows that she's insane. The day Tan Fei Lian, a self-aware advanced experimental subject, escaped from the laboratory... Was the beginning of Xu Yi's nightma 16.7kReads9.6Score2.3kShelves
- 17 Joy Blossoms in a Dark Alley 暗巷生欢 [Publication rights signed: @Youyu Ru Zhou] [Healing + Devoted Couple + Intense Push and Pull + Bittersweet, Over-the-Top Drama + Major Twists] [Cold-Blooded Big Shot × Frail Beauty, A Clawed Cat Toying with a Tiger] Xia Xunqian was sickly and had depended on others since childhood. Even as an adult, he still had nowhere of his own. When his father sent him to live with Feng Lin, Xia Xunqian chose to obey. He was docile and compliant, and knew every trick in the book when it came to staying aliv 15.2kReads9.6Score2kShelves
- 18 Wild Desires 欲野肆望 Already signed for print publication: The Handsome Neighbor and the Dark Pervert Are the Same Person An extremely twisted story! Extremely twisted! Coercive love + confinement + one-on-one romance + intense push and pull + yandere + time-space displacement Original title: Tonight, the Deity Kneels to Kiss Him A beautiful, dark, unhinged schemer with a sweet, innocent facade VS a gorgeous, depressed radio host who only pretends to be proper Chen Sizhuo had been stalked by a pervert for three m 27.1kReads9.5Score3.9kShelves
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An Unconventional Villainess 非典型恶女
An Unconventional Villainess
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Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态
[Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The
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Survival for All, Obtaining the D-Class Personnel Simulator 全民求生，获得D级人员模拟器
Everyone transmigrates into an apocalyptic world, where each person starts with a shelter and a unique talent. Lin Ye gains the D-rank Personnel Simulator ability, which lets him enter other worlds and simulate being D-rank personnel. Lin Ye: ???
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- 22 Driven to Death by Her Cultivator Mistress? I Take Up My Sword and Storm the Ninth Heaven 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 78.6kReads9.6Score10.3kShelves
- 23 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 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 434kReads9.4Score40.6kShelves
- 24 Rule Horror: I Heard the Path to Godhood! 规则怪谈：我听到了成神之路！ “You might not believe me, but being chosen by a rules-based horror story isn’t something to be afraid of.” “Then what would you call it?” “A blessing!” Facing a reporter’s questions, Ye Ling says calmly, “Rules-based horror is the grave of the mediocre, the doom of the timid, and the executioner’s blade for the arrogant.” “But more than that, it is…” “The path to godhood for the strong!” … From “A Family of Three” to “The True Immortal of Ancient Jiang,” from an ordinary nobody to ascending to 9.5kReads8.4Score766Shelves
- 25 Cultivation: The Male Lead Sacrifices Himself, but My Powers Are Boundless! 修仙：男主祭天我法力无边！ [Mutated insect-cultivating heroine Su Youyan vs. underdog-reversal male lead Jiang Mohan] [Transmigrate + System + two strong leads + enemies who fall in love + one-on-one romance + pure love] Su Youyan had been sickly since childhood. Her congenital weakness left her increasingly frail, and she suffered from illness every day. Her greatest wish was to have a healthy body and run freely beneath the sun. But no matter how hard she tried to get treatment, her body kept wasting away. At eighteen, 460Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 26 Film and TV Crossover: The Black Lotus's Path of Cultivation 综影视：黑莲花修炼路 The female lead is a scheming girl who loves to act innocent and helpless. (See the author's notes for the worlds.) 775Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 27 The Brain-Twisting Maze City 烧脑迷城 [Mind-Bending]+ [Lord of the Mysteries]+ [Superpowers] [Not a Power Fantasy]+ [Not a Harem Power Fantasy] Lin Yuan, the sole survivor of a minibus crash over a cliff, had only just opened his eyes when he realized he was in even greater danger. Every step was fraught with the bizarre, and finding a chance to survive took extraordinary brainpower. One careless move, and his life would end at once! After barely making it through one deadly trial after another, he suddenly discovered that the absur 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Under Mad Interrogation, All Debts Are Blood Debts 疯审之下，皆为血债 [No System] [No Female Lead] [Gore] [No Superpowers] [Crime] As a child, Su Ye watched his family die with his own eyes. His adoptive father saved him just before he was subjected to a heart transplant, awakening Su Ye's desire to kill. Guided by his adoptive father, who is a police officer, he begins to learn how to act like a normal person, evade police pursuit, and hunt down criminals hiding in society's darkest corners. After his adoptive father dies, he leaves Su Ye a list of everyone conne 331Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Revisiting Strange Cases: Piecing Together the Source of Evil in the Abyss 诡案回溯：我在深渊拼图罪源 [The abyss is whispering. You’re running out of time.] As the System’s cold notification rings out, Lin Si’s bone blade is buried in the serial killer’s spine. Every time she cracks an unsolved case, lividity creeps another inch up her neck, counting down the time until her sister’s body rots away. Her blood-red left eye reflects the scene of a dismemberment, where a thousand-year-old corpse and a mechanical prosthetic overlap in a vision of bloody memories. When all ninety-nine pieces of the pu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Logic of Death 死亡逻辑 [Mystery, logic, intellect, mind games, horror, survival, puzzles, character cards, no harem, no System, not a power fantasy] Logic, human nature, and mind games: here, each game wagers lives! Fog shrouds everything in this world, including my memories. Every nightfall, this world reveals another side of itself, one that is all too real and terrifying. Amid the dreadful darkness, only the endless towers point the way forward. What awaits me is one deadly contest after another, and mysteries 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Necromancer Game 死灵游戏 [A Suspense and Mystery Novella] Ten men and women in white hospital gowns wake one after another in a completely sealed white room. A chilling voice rings in their ears, laying out the rules of a murder game about to begin. At a banquet in an ancient castle, tension fills the air and everyone is terrified. Are the knocks at the door in the night someone's coded message, or a demon whispering? Outside the window, a boy weeps in the pouring rain. Beside him stands a girl who died long ago. Whose 150Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Infinite Twists: A Memory Puzzle 无限反转：记忆拼图 [A sci-fi mystery with wild ideas and serious brain-bending twists! Not for the faint-hearted!] [An ensemble cast, fragmented storytelling, and airtight logic!] Fifteen people are trapped in sealed coffin pods. Their only chance to escape is to tell their memories. Fragmented perspectives and fading memories piece together a complete, true, and coherent story. You think you've already learned the truth, but there is another truth behind it. Only at the very end do you understand: this book must —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Game That Must Be Broken (Complete Edition) 必须犯规的游戏（全集） The murder-mystery game based on the novel of the same name is now available for preorder! In a locked-room battle for survival, endless twists turn every detail into a contest for victory. This time, you get to decide your own fate! Fourteen novelists, fourteen days, fourteen terrifying stories: a deadly game has begun. Fourteen mystery writers are "invited" to a mysterious location. Each must improvise a mystery story to tell the others. When the story ends, everyone votes, and the highest-sco 12.5kReads9.5Score1.9kShelves
- 34 No Hope of Survival 生还无期 [No CP, No Female Lead] + [Infinite Deaths and Resurrections] + [Superpower Awakening] + [Mind Games and Strategy] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Life in Review] The keywords of this book are “human nature,” “death games,” and “setting traps.” The thirteen characters who appear from the start all play important roles! Each has a distinct personality, and every one of them will have a major part to play later in the story. This book also features endless deaths, so if that’s not your thing, please read wit 8kReads9.3Score830Shelves
- 35 The Doomed Witness 绝命证人 What is evil? Anything born of weakness is evil! Fang Ya survived a massacre that wiped out his entire family. Nourished by the flowers that bloomed from the seeds of evil, he resolved to become a police officer. Ahead of him lay countless baffling cases: A murder in a locked room at a wealthy family’s estate, a deranged artist who kills, a deadly game of love, a killer who hovers at the boundary between life and death to carry out euthanasia, the vicious crimes of a social group whose members a 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Suspect’s Escape 嫌疑人的逃亡 Are you a broke loser being pressured into marriage? Are you at your wits’ end trying to buy a house? To win over a beautiful woman, delivery guy Fang Bao pretends to be a rich second-generation heir. Then, to secure the marriage, he tries making money on the stock market so he can buy a house... But instead of earning a fortune, he ends up owing a huge amount in loan-shark debt. Forced to steal to pay it back, he accidentally gets caught up in a murder case, and his tumultuous life as a fugitiv 70Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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Criminal Synopsis 犯罪提要
Silver-haired beauty with a genius IQ [Qin Yinluo (Chong Hu)] vs. shameless, scheming, lovesick big shot [Long Jinfeng] [Double purity, equally matched, two big shots, two male leads + crime solving + undercover criminal investigation + comedy + happy ending + sweet romance] What should you do when the one who got away returns home after years apart? Long Jinfeng's answer: Easy. A golden cage and chains. Qin Yinluo had been away for many years and met all kinds of people, but few had ever struck
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- 38 A Mechanical Genius Reincarnates as a Science Whiz: Taking Off from the Start 机械大佬魂穿理科学霸：开局起飞 [No CP] [Career-focused] [National University of Defense Technology] [Creating a New World] Gu Yi, a mechanical engineering genius from the 25th century, transmigrates into the body of Zeng Li, a top science student in 1999. From then on, she lives each day planning two hundred steps ahead. She overcomes every obstacle and leaves her rivals in the dust, eventually becoming Huaxia's youngest general. Just as she leads Huaxia to become the world's leading power, she also happens to establish a new 1.2kReads9.3Score228Shelves
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