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- 1 In the Name of the People: The Pinnacle of Power 名义：权利巅峰 After transmigrating into In the Name of the People, Zhao Yang grew up in an orphanage. A car accident unraveled the mystery of his origins. Zhao Yang: “I jolted awake from a near-death dream. Turns out, I'm the foreign powers myself?” In the Name of the People, Ice Breaking Action 21.6kReads8.5Score75414d adds
- 2 The Outcast: Spirit Summoning? A Dragon Lady of the Horned Dragon Star! 一人：拘灵遣将？亢金龙娘！ [The Outcast] Bai Mo transmigrated into a world of outcasts, and thought it was an ordinary world until one day, a virtual streamer named Xing Tong invited him to meet up in person. Feng Shayan, Feng Xingtong, Feng Yaya? Bai Mo's innate ability, “Destiny,” activated, instantly granting him the advanced mystical art of “Spirit Binding and Sending.” It was called “Deification.” He happened to meet Zhang Lingyu and Xia He for the first time. He activated two of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions: 21.5kReads8.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 3 Spy Games: I Infiltrated the Enemy and Became a Japanese General!? 谍战，我潜伏成了鬼子将军！？ (Japanese nobility, safety first, no female lead, willing to sell out when necessary) In the 21st year of the Republic of China, by a twist of fate, a thoroughly patriotic young Chinese man was taken to Japan and somehow ended up with the status of a Japanese noble. After being trained by Japanese militarists, he was ordered to return to China to carry out the “Lighthouse Plan.” What outsiders didn't know was that this young Japanese noble was actually a true Chinese patriot, a secret agent for 28.3kReads8.5Score2.4k14d adds
- 4 Backed by the Strongest Family, What's a System Good For? 背靠最强家族，系统是什么东西？ Bound to the Fated Villain System from the start. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've successfully bound to the System. The System will lead you to become the strongest under heaven.] Ling Chuan: Don't need it. Get lost! System: ????? [Host, don't you want invincible power? Don't you want to be revered by everyone?] [Complete your missions, Host, and you'll obtain double pupils.] Ling Chuan: Double pupils? You mean the marbles I played with as a kid? System: ? The reason Ling Chuan looks down o 9Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 5 Jiuzhou Auction House 九州拍卖阁 An ordinary office worker born in the 1990s transmigrates to another world. With the System’s help, he rises step by step to the top. His beginner’s gift pack contains character summoning cards, which he uses to summon Wei Zhuang and Shen Wansan. He establishes the Kyushu Auction House and the Shadow Pavilion, an assassin organization. One operates in the open, the other in secret, while Qin Yun manipulates everything from behind the scenes and rises to the very top. 621Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 6 Wuxia Crossover: The Academy's Junior Uncle, One Sword Quells Beili 综武：学宫小师叔，一剑镇北离 Li Qingfeng transmigrates into a world of martial arts and awakens the Read Ten Thousand Books, Travel Ten Thousand Miles System! As long as he keeps reading, he can receive System rewards and grow stronger. For decades, he stays shut away in Tianyi Pavilion, refusing to leave until he can become the strongest under heaven! Li Changsheng: Everyone says I'm the best in Beili, but that's not true. My junior fellow apprentice, whose talent is practically monstrous, is the real number one! Baili 7.6kReads6.3Score50114d adds
- 7 I’m the Leader of the Multiverse Hitman Group, and I Sold the Primordial Heavenly Dao 我万界打手群主，卖掉了洪荒天道 Ye Feng transmigrated into the Primordial World and waited billions of years before his golden finger finally arrived: the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. Unfortunately, he wasn’t the group owner. That was Tang Si, the Sea God from another world. It didn’t matter if he wasn’t the owner. Take out the owner, and I’ll be the owner! Ye Feng took out the shameless group owner and successfully claimed the position, then activated a god-tier card-draw System. The First Kirin pulled a perfect hit on his first 6.1kReads8.9Score39814d adds
- 8 Prehistoric Times: Starting with a Primordial Treasure 洪荒之开局获得先天至宝 Reborn in the Primordial World as Zhen Yuanzi, he starts out with the top-grade Innate Spiritual Root, the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Earth Book. At this moment, he also unlocks the Immortal Dao Random Reward System. “Ding! Random reward triggered: You have obtained the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Taixu Divine Sword!” “Ding! Random reward triggered: You have obtained a wisp of Primordial Violet Qi!” “Ding! Random reward triggered: You have obtained the 815Reads7.7Score10214d adds
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Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球：开局扮演反派大佬
Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th
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- 10 You’ve Got It Wrong! I’m Not the Mystic God, I’m a Cat! 你真的认错了，本猫不是玄神！ [Unchanging Human Form + Slow Burn + Everyday Life + No Romance + Spiritual Qi Revival] After being reborn, he somehow turned into a cat, and not just any cat, but a kitten on the verge of starving to death. At a critical moment, he awakened a System. Improve a skill to earn attribute points; max out a skill to earn skill points; unlock an achievement to receive a random Meow Gift Box. Pounce (Beginner 10/10) → Pounce (Proficient 0/50), earning 1 attribute point. Bury Droppings (Beginner 10/10) 3.3kReads8.6Score31914d adds
- 11 I Created a Cultivation Method, and the Whole World Trains for Me 一人创法，全世界替我修炼 [Longevity + Invincibility + Remaking the World + Reaping Rewards + Mastermind Behind the Scenes] Xu Qing arrived in the Great Xuan Dynasty with the Everlasting Dao Fruit. It was an ordinary place, with no supernatural powers. By using the Dao Fruit to improve his abilities, Xu Qing became the only immortal. But every hundred years, he had to fall into a century-long sleep. Xu Qing possessed immense magic power, but could not use divine arts or Dao techniques. What could one man do compared to 11.3kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 12 EN 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 12.5kReads7.6Score79114d adds
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Alien Beasts Invade: I've Become the Evil Cult's Boss! 异兽入侵：我成了邪教boss！
[Villain + Gene Fusion + Cult Leader + Behind the Scenes + No Female Lead] Qin Sheng is transmigrated, and though he survives by sheer luck, he has less than a year to live. Luckily, he binds the System carried by the transmigrator. It can extract and fuse alien beast genes to create all kinds of potions. In this era, alien beasts have been invading for a hundred years, and humanity has been forced to establish nine cities. Alien beast genes are considered taboo. But to stay alive, he has no cho
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- 14 Slay the Gods: The Demon Venerable of Mortal Life 斩神：浮生魔尊 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up in a world that's both strange and familiar? Have you ever wondered if the friends of old might one day stand before you as enemies? Have you ever wondered which way you'd turn when forced to choose between an old friend and your own life? My name is Fang Sheng. I have a bit of a sweet tooth, especially for cake. 84.2kReads9.1Score9.4k14d adds
- 15 A Max-Level Account from the Start, How Could I Lose? 开局满级号，你让我怎么输？ Xia Yu transmigrates and becomes the holder of the Dark Spark. Xia Yu: “This is bad, this is bad! How did I become the human host of that unlucky bastard, Dark Lugiel? I need to get rid of him as soon as possible!” “Hahahaha! Dark Zagi, Hyper Zetton, Dark Lugiel. With a few max-level characters like these, how could I possibly lose?” “Come on! There’s no way I’ll end up as Ginga’s stepping stone again!” Ginga: “Hey! Don’t come over here!!” Xia Yu: “Hehe, let’s see!” 20.7kReads8.4Score2k14d adds
- 16 Wand in One Hand, Gun in the Other: I’ll Take My Time Becoming King of Hogwarts 左手魔杖右手枪，霍格沃兹缓称王 [Slytherin + Elegance Never Goes Out of Style + Utterly Self-Serving] After transmigrating as the only son of a mafia family, Ervin used the novels and TV dramas he had read and watched in his previous life to save the faltering Cavendish family from collapse, painstakingly building it up from its crisis. He was looking forward to a happy life afterward, when the appearance of a white-bearded old man changed everything. It turned out this was the magical world of Harry Potter. At the same time, 22kReads8.8Score2.2k14d adds
- 17 Infinite Summons: My Cultivation Is the Sum of Everyone's 无限召唤，修为是所有人总和 [System + Summoning + Invincibility + Semi-Behind-the-Scenes + Decisive and Ruthless + No Female Lead] Lin Tian wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated to the Tianhuang Continent and become a prince of the Yan Kingdom, which is on the verge of rebellion. To his surprise, the vanguard general he sent out defects to the enemy with an army of a hundred thousand. Chaos breaks out in the camp as several of his subordinates rebel, driving Lin Tian to the brink of death. Fortunately, the Invinci 1.5kReads6.8Score11014d adds
- 18 EN Summoning the Martial Saint: Kicking Away the Green Tea Childhood Sweetheart 开局召唤武圣，脚踹绿茶青梅 [High Martial Arts] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [System] [Sign-In] [Summoning] [No Female Lead] [Invincible] [Decisive and Ruthless] Lin Tian transmigrates to Blue Star after the spiritual qi revival, awakens the Invincible Host System, summons a Martial Sage from the start, and becomes a martial artist at the peak of his potential. To his surprise, he has a gorgeous childhood friend. But Lin Tian won't indulge her. He kicks her away. “My high-martial strength is almost invincible. Why would I care a 16.4kReads7.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 19 EN Framed on the Spot: I Edited Myself an Emperor's Background! 被污蔑当天，反手编辑大帝背景！ [Wish-Fulfillment + Empresses and Demonic Beauties + Factions + Raising Pigs to Harvest] Chu Yun transmigrates into a fantasy world and starts out on trial, falsely accused by the sect's leaders, abandoned by his beloved, and framed by his rival in love. What a disastrous start. At the crucial moment, he activates the Background Editing System and rewrites his background: he is the long-lost Ninth Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty. The instant his soul lamp lights up again, countless powerful memb 19kReads8.7Score1.9k14d adds
- 20 Drinking in the Imperial Mausoleum for Three Hundred Years, Invincible the Moment I Emerge 皇陵喝酒三百年，出世即无敌 [Overwhelming Power]+ [Passionate]+ [Feel-Good]+ [Decisive and Ruthless] Ye Tianming transmigrates to the Great Qian Dynasty and becomes one of its princes. He thought he would live out his days in peace, but after someone framed him, he was demoted and sent to guard the imperial tombs. Just then, Ye Tianming awakens a System: drinking alcohol makes him stronger! Every time he samples a fine wine, he receives a reward. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on sampling a century-old vintage. You have obt 6.8kReads7.6Score47014d adds
- 21 Xuanhuan: A Billion Years of Cultivation from the Start 玄幻：开局一亿年修为 [Invincible + sect building + taking disciples + thrilling power fantasy] After transmigrating to another world, he awakened a quest System and started with a billion years of cultivation. He founded a sect and recruited the chosen children of destiny far and wide. His words became law, and he could reverse life and death. With a wave of his hand, he could slay the Heavenly Dao and cut down eternity! Above the nine heavens, I am the Night Venerable. Luo Ye: My invincibility begins now! 2.7kReads8.8Score23514d adds
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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
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Reborn in the 1980s 重生于80年代
(Period drama, no System, no golden finger, an alternate modern history, revelations drawn from authentic historical records and events) Moral standards vary with money! If you’re already this rich, why repeat the miserable life you had in your previous one? Every regret must be made right! Following the passage of time and based on the facts, the story looks back at this period of history through the protagonist’s eyes. The reborn story of an ordinary man, rising from humble beginnings to becom
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Heavenly Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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- 25 Suspended from the Start? I Join the Discipline Inspection Team Instead 开局停职？我转投纪委调查组 His superior was under investigation, his girlfriend was cheating on him, and after being targeted by office rivals, he was forced onto leave. Yang Dong hit rock bottom from the start, never imagining that a phone call would change the course of his life. He was seconded to the Discipline Inspection Commission's investigation team to save his superior, only to inadvertently trigger a massive storm. Yang Dong had this to say: "No need to panic. I'll have a cigarette and calm down first!" (No hare 531kReads9.3Score28.7k14d adds
- 26 Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Run with the Gangsters? 都重生了谁还混社会 Short drama: "Loyal to the Skies: Starting Over" is now streaming The novel was originally titled "Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Would Still Run With Gangs?" [Reborn + business + lots of underlings + no groveling + no cowardice + taking the righteous path + law-abiding] A big shot from the underworld returns to 2010. Should he repeat his old mistakes and keep running with gangs, or abandon his underlings and take the road to a brighter future? No! I won't choose! In this life, I, Qin Jiang, wil 142.8kReads9.3Score14.7k14d adds
- 27 Reborn in the 1970s: An Educated Youth in the Great Northern Wilderness 重生七零：知青在北大荒 He Siwei is reborn in the year she went to the countryside. She refuses to go to the farm where her childhood sweetheart works, as she did in her previous life. Instead, she chooses a firewood farm in the mountains. Armed with the traditional Chinese medicine skills she learned by her father’s side and her knack for identifying herbs, she begins her life as an educated youth sent to the countryside in the Great Northern Wilderness. 27.9kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 28 A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常 (Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband 53.1kReads9.3Score4.5k14d adds
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My Daughter's Words Become Law, and Her Mad Mother Lies Back and Becomes a God 闺女言出法随，癫娘躺赢成神
Qin Youyou has an incomplete soul and is reborn as a good-for-nothing orphan in a fantasy world, with only a farming System to her name. She lives tucked away in a small mountain valley, until one day she returns to her family. She has to care for her deranged mother, feed her good-for-nothing older brother, and support her declining family. She rolls up her sleeves and keeps working hard to grow vegetables and feed her family. Until... Her useless older brother drinks her tea and smashes a hund
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- 30 EN A Family of Hopeless Romantics, Except for the Evil Little Junior Brother 满门恋爱脑，唯有小师弟正的发邪 [No System + Slow-Burn + Cautious Protagonist + Funny and Lighthearted] The senior apprentice brother is love-struck, and the second senior apprentice brother is burdened with a blood feud. The third senior apprentice sister has loved and fought the Demon Lord through three lifetimes, while the fourth senior apprentice sister is a white lotus. The sect leader left the sect for love, and the uncle-master ventured deep into the demonic path for the woman he loved... Neither immortal nor heroic, th 21.1kReads8.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 31 Reborn as the Villain, I Became a Supporting Character Through Sheer Strength 重生反派，我靠实力当上了配角 The unlucky Lu Fang was reborn into the world of a novel as a minor villain. He got on the Dragon King’s bad side from the start. Although he had no System, he wasn’t worried in the least. That was because none of his neighbors had ordinary identities: The live-in son-in-law selling vegetables was the Asura of the Asura Hall. The barbecue vendor was the Hades of the Heavenly God Hall. The barber at the hair salon was the number-one assassin on the hit list. The little girl from the single-parent 3.2kReads8.2Score20714d adds
- 32 Villain: I Just Wanted to Be a Nobody, So How Did I Become the Male Lead? 反派：只想当路人，怎么成男主了 He transmigrated into a book as a brainless villain. Chen Tianyou felt like the sky was about to fall! Readers of brainless power fantasies know that a brainless villain exists to be the male lead’s cannon fodder and stepping stone. In the original story, the villain keeps courting death. In the end, the male lead takes both his family fortune and fiancée, leaving him penniless and, to top it all off, bitten to death by a dog. After learning his lesson the hard way, Chen Tianyou decides to steer 938Reads6.3Score10814d adds
- 33 EN I Threaten the Female Lead from the Start, and I'm Set on Being the Villain 开局威胁女主，这个反派我当定了 [Scheming, shameless, hilarious. Pure-love fans, beware] Jiang Che transmigrated into the role of a rich second-generation villain in a modern wish-fulfillment novel, and was bound to a God-Tier Choice System. From the start, he happened to catch the heroine trying to sneak a peek at the exam papers. A villain’s choice was triggered! [Choice One: Pretend you saw nothing] [Choice Two: Shout at her, drawing a crowd] [Choice Three: ...] And so, a perverted supervillain was born. To avoid being 79.7kReads8.9Score6.6k14d adds
- 34 The Protagonist Got Old Before the System Arrived, So I Became the Villain’s Guardian 主角老了系统才到，成反派护道者 I was once an unparalleled genius destined to become a Great Emperor, but the protagonist chosen by fate shattered my Dao Heart. I sealed myself away and became an elder in the Scripture Pavilion of the Donglin Sacred Land, reading scriptures and taking no interest in martial cultivation. One day, I awakened a System that lets me see other people's fates and destinies. I can make investments, and the returns depend on the investment, but only when investing in villains chosen by fate. Who would 46.4kReads7.6Score4.5k14d adds
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What?! Someone Stole My Secret Identity 震惊！有人抢我马甲
The Ji family of Jiangcheng has a private rule that is never shared with outsiders: when you turn twelve, you have to choose. Either become a caged canary, enjoy the wealth and comfortable life your family provides, and marry for family ties when you come of age; or leave your comfort zone. The family will only cover basic tuition and living expenses, and you'll have to make your own way in the world. Ji Yu thinks the choice is obvious. Of course she's leaving. Let whoever wants to marry for fam
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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
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The Snake Heavenly Emperor 蛇天帝
An old snake from the village accidentally swallowed a human elixir and gained intelligence, setting out on the path to immortality. With a mysterious little cauldron and a cultivation technique that can transform it into a dragon, the snake has only ten short years to live, so it must seize every moment. This is the story of an old snake becoming an immortal. [Original title: The Old Snake’s Path to Immortality (Snake Ancestor). A manga adaptation is currently being serialized.] [No System, tra
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- 38 Infinite Fusion: My Bonded Gu Have All Become Immortals 无限融合，我的本命蛊都成仙了 A bloody catastrophe shattered a dynasty that had ruled for a thousand years. Li Yuan, its sole surviving prince, concealed his identity and fled to the southern frontier, where he joined the Gu Master lineage and unexpectedly awakened a Gu-Insect Synthesis System. Lords from every corner of the land, demons and monsters, and the various martial-world factions were all looking for him. They wanted to use his bloodline as the key to unlock the Martial God treasure left behind by the founding empe 93.1kReads9.0Score11k14d adds
- 39 After Sleeping for Ten Thousand Years, I Was Dug Up by the Great Emperor, My Father, to Be a Villain 沉睡万年，被大帝父亲挖出做反派 [Heaven's Chosen Villain + Cunning + Overbearing + Ruthless + Overwhelmingly Satisfying, Unmatched Domination] Su Jiuxiao transmigrates as the heir of an ancient imperial clan, born with a primordial Chaos God Body. Because the Heavenly Dao is incomplete and he cannot become an Emperor, his father seals him away to sleep within an Ancient Divine Origin. Over the next one hundred thousand years, all the Emperors of the myriad heavens perish. And his father actually becomes the only living Emperor 23.4kReads8.5Score2.1k14d adds
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