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The 1970s: I Spend Every Day Smoothing Things Over with a Madman for a Better Life 七零之为了好生活每天都在哄疯批
Short drama adaptation: My Eldest Sister Has a Script from the Seventies, and I Have a System That Can Hear It (1v1 + Period Drama + Pampered Romance + Female Lead Pursues Male Lead + Timid Heroine with a Few Tricks and a Sweet Tongue + Male Lead with an Unusual Case of Love-Brain) In both her lives, Lou Qingqing had only one wish: to marry into a family with good prospects. She thought the Rong family was well-off, and that marrying in would mean she’d never lack food or clothes and wouldn’t ha
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- 2 Qing Dynasty Transmigration: Good Fortune and Great Prosperity 综清穿之大吉大利 This story is entirely fictional. It includes characters who never existed in history, and some characters’ ages may not match the historical record. Please treat it as an alternate universe. 1. The easy life of a concubine in Kangxi’s harem Shen Anning, a woman who transmigrated from the apocalypse (Ulanara Naanning, with a wood-type golden finger and the ability to share sensations with Kangxi: if she gives birth, Kangxi gives birth; if she dies, Kangxi dies) × Kangxi 2. The daily struggle to 9kReads9.0Score47614d adds
- 3 The Madwoman Takes Life and Death in Stride, and Just Wants to Turn the World Upside Down 颠婆生死看淡，唯恐天下不乱 [Quick transmigration + no CP + lighthearted comedy + unhinged power fantasy + snark] (The comic adaptation is now available. Thanks for your support!) University student You Yu collapsed in the library with a thud after being crushed by the combined torment of her internship, graduate school entrance exams, and thesis. Good news: She was finally dead. Bad news: She had transmigrated. After being bound to a quick transmigration System, You Yu broke down. What kind of born workhorse constitut 24.7kReads9.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 4 A Beautiful Bad Woman’s Quick Transmigration Journey Through the Eras 美丽坏女人的年代快穿之旅 [Quick transmigration through different eras + self-serving heroine + a touch of outlaw spirit + flower-soul dimension + Heavenly Secrets Mirror (damaged)] Note: The heroine is stunningly beautiful, but she is NOT universally adored! Xia Zhizhi comes from another world where men are beastmen whose true forms are wild animals, women are called Rui, and their souls take the form of flowers and trees. The Rui, who are responsible for reproduction in that world, are extremely rare and delicate, so b 33.5kReads8.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 5 Transmigrated to the 1970s: My Young Thug of a Husband Is Surprisingly More Than Meets the Eye 穿越七零，小混混老公竟深藏不露 (Transmigration + Spatial Dimension + Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Raising Kids + Everyday Family Life) Su Xieqiu grew up with a father who didn't care for her and a mother who didn't love her. Her grandparents, who raised her, passed away early, too. After working hard to buy a home in a big city, she wakes up one day to find herself transmigrated to the planned-economy era of the 1970s. The original owner was an educated youth sent to the countryside. She was timid and a little 82.8kReads9.2Score7.6k14d adds
- 6 Marrying Up 攀高枝 [Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping 162.8kReads9.6Score22.7k14d adds
- 7 Watching Palace Intrigue with Cold Eyes 综影视冷眼看宫斗 A centenarian woman steps into the story of Empresses in the Palace. The first story is about the Guarjia clan. There’s no System, no magical spring water, and no pocket dimension, just a rather unusual space. She has a cheat, but it’s all thanks to her own ancestors being so capable. The second story begins. This time, Hongxuan is ready to live a different kind of life: spending her days teasing cats and dogs, keeping birds in their cages, and enjoying the carefree, wealthy life of a spoiled yo 7.9kReads8.9Score27014d adds
- 8 Transmigrated Into the Nineties: The Villainous Big Shots Are All My Kids 穿书九零：反派大佬们都是我的崽 After Wang Qi died in a car accident, she transmigrated into a romance novel called The Overbearing CEO Falls for Me. By an unfortunate twist of fate, she became the male lead’s stepmother and the mother of three future villainous powerhouses. But Wang Qi transmigrated to the 1990s, five years before the novel’s story began. The original heroine had yet to be reborn, and the plot had not started. The eldest son, one of the future villains, was only fourteen, while the other two hadn’t even been 191.2kReads9.4Score24.1k14d adds
- 9 EN Unhinged? We're All Unhinged—and That's a Good Thing! 癫，都癫，癫点好啊 [Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay. 335.5kReads9.8Score46.5k14d adds
- 10 Luo Zijun Reincarnates Before Her Divorce 罗子君魂穿离婚前 How can a good-for-nothing housewife make the most of her life? Give Luo Zijun another chance. Give the Desperate Housewives another chance. Sometimes marriage isn't just about love. It's also about money, power, trust, balance, and a whole host of other issues. If I could live my life over, could I change the first half of it? Could I break the curse of relying first on my husband, then on my best friend's husband? 34.1kReads9.4Score3.2k14d adds
- 11 Quick Transmigration: Everyone Knows I'm a Good Person 快穿：所有人都知道我是好人 Across three thousand small worlds, there are countless wicked women. Shu Jiao’s task is to make things right for the people whose lives were ruined by all kinds of wicked women. From then on... [World One: I’m a spendthrift? The nation will support me.] She’s kind, generous, patriotic, and beautiful. So what if she likes spending a little money? Let her have it! [World Two: The marquis’s daughter who lies all the time.] Lies? What lies? She’s so gentle and kind. How could she possibly lie? [Wor 129.8kReads9.4Score5.7k14d adds
- 12 I Took My Sister's Place and Married the Eunuch Lord 替姐姐嫁给九千岁 [Both leads are each other’s first and only + exclusive devotion + sisters swap marriages + ruthless Chief Eunuch vs. easygoing beauty] Jiang Yunshu transmigrates into the illegitimate daughter of the Marquis of Xiping’s household. She has food and shelter and can laze around to her heart’s content. All she wants is to remain an invisible nobody in the marquis’s household forever. Her legitimate older sister, Jiang Zhaohua, is famous throughout the capital. A decree from the palace summons her 27.9kReads9.2Score3k14d adds
- 13 My Fake-Rich Husband Is the Top Supporter in My Livestream 豪门塑料老公在我直播间当榜一 [Marriage before love, one-on-one, both leads inexperienced in love, livestreaming] Zhong Yi transmigrated into a book, becoming a vicious supporting female character who was already married but still coveted the male lead and dreamed of stepping on the heroine to climb to the top. Though her role wasn't exactly challenging, Zhong Yi was quite happy with her character setup. She just had to complete her mindless villain tasks and collect a huge divorce settlement. But on the eve of starting the 994Reads9.0Score11814d adds
- 14 How Embarrassing! The Sickly Sweetheart Sneaks His Wife’s Skirt into His Work Trip 羞人！病娇出差偷带老婆小裙裙 [Forced romance, whirlwind marriage, love at first sight, later she runs away while pregnant, both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance, seven-year age gap, doting older husband] [Gentle, beautiful, pure-hearted good girl like a white jasmine flower x possessive, obsessive man] All it took was for Wen Suhe to say he liked obedient girls, and Qiao Yin’s father sent her to him. Raised under the oppressive rule of her biological father and stepmother, Qiao Yin had become an expert a 22.8kReads9.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 15 Honghui Is Reborn in Empresses in the Palace: I’ll Protect My Mother 弘晖重生甄嬛传，我的额娘我来护 Hong Hui, the eldest prince who died young, watched with his own eyes as his mother’s heart grew cold, as she committed one misdeed after another, and finally, in Jingren Palace, struck her head against a wall and took her own life. She left the world alone. “May we meet morning and night, just like this ring.” “I never want to see you again, in life or in death!” Mother, it was all because your son died too young. Father grew estranged from you, and his consorts fought you to the death. In the 5.2kReads9.1Score50114d adds
- 16 The 1980s: When an International Student Becomes Chinese 八零：当留子变成华裔 [Post-2000s + No CP, Multiple Male Companions + Two-Faced Green Tea + Talks Nonsense + Invincible Jinx + Slight Supernatural Elements + MAX Luck] Most people who transmigrated were poor at worst. Duan Danqing nearly starved to death. To sum it up: a dad in prison, a sick mom, an edgy little brother, a sister with autism, and her, nearly starved to death. It doesn’t get much worse than that from the start. She already hated bland Western food, and now she had to eat it for the rest of her life. O 5.4kReads8.9Score43614d adds
- 17 I Look Like Xiao Zhan, but the Dragon-Slaying Hero Aura Doesn’t Work on Me 长得像肖赞龙傲天光环对我失效 No romance, no harem. The protagonist focuses on cultivating immortality, accompanied by friends. There's more friendship, and they grow together. His only golden finger is his good looks. The protagonist respects women, so don't click if you want a harem novel. 7.6kReads8.4Score60314d adds
- 18 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 342.4kReads9.5Score38.6k14d adds
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No Life in the Mortal World 尘间无生
[Sword cultivator + genius + dual bloodlines of demon and immortal + ruthless + no transmigration + no System + not a saint] One man, one sword, roaming a world of dust for ten thousand miles. Amid broken walls and ruins, he beholds all the suffering beneath the sun. May there be no frost and wind to silver our hair, no sorrow to weigh on our hearts, and may every year bring peace and warmth. Life is fleeting, its meetings and partings like smoke, its fortunes and declines ever-changing. May eve
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- 20 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office 我在售楼部的日子 As a member of the post-80s generation, I’ve witnessed this industry’s rise and fall. I’ve ridden the wave, reaped the rewards, felt the bubble, and watched it go from flourishing to decline, its fortunes ebbing away... There was fate’s hand, society’s shaping, and the trials of life... All these true stories will be recorded in full as a mark of our times. 168Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Seven Red Coffins 七口红棺 “Do you have seven big red coffins that haven’t been lacquered?” For four days in a row, a woman in red asked Shen Mo, owner of the White Street Coffin Shop, the same question. Her face was deathly pale and her lips bloodred. Every time she left, the temperature in the shop plummeted, and dark red footprints appeared on the floor. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Haunted Tycoon: I Use Hell Banknotes to Bridge Yin and Yang 诡豪：我用冥币通阴阳 Haunted Tycoon: I Use Underworld Currency to Bridge Yin and Yang —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Fallen Star Mecha: I Slay Gods with a Mortal Body 星陨机甲：我以凡躯斩神明 Starfall Mecha: With a Mortal Body, I Slay the Gods —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Substitute Bride's Medical Skills: The Crippled Prince's Beloved 替嫁医妃：残王的心尖宠 The Substitute Bride Physician: The Crippled Prince’s Beloved —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Who Stole My Love? 谁偷走了我的爱人 Who Stole My Love? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Reborn as My Archenemy's Spirit Pet 重生后我成了死对头的灵宠 Reborn, I Became My Archenemy’s Spirit Pet —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Funeral Clothes 孝衣 Funeral Garments 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Banquet Pact 赐宴之契 While hunting a muntjac to save her people, Bai Xian fell into a secluded pool and was infected with scale poison after coming into contact with a Great Wilderness fish. Her younger sister, Bai Xu, refused to leave her side, scraping off her scales for three days. To show that she would never abandon her, Bai Xu painted the same pattern on her own shoulder with lacquer ink. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Poison Doctor Duo: The Crippled Cult Leader's Substitute Bride 毒医双绝：残疾教主的替身新娘 The Poison Doctor Duo: The Substitute Bride of the Disabled Cult Leader —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Abyss of Ghost Marriage: The Mad Ghost Groom’s Prison of Love 冥婚之渊：疯批鬼夫的囚爱陷阱 Abyss of Ghost Marriage: The Mad Ghost Husband's Trap of Captive Love —Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Hunter's Legend 一个猎人的传奇
I used to be a real hunter. Over more than twenty years of hunting, I experienced all kinds of wonderful adventures. Now, I’ll tell them in the first person and take you along to experience the thrill and excitement of hunting in the frozen wilderness. In my stories, you’ll feel the heart-pounding struggle against ferocious beasts and the wits-and-cunning battles with crafty prey. You’ll also encounter the eerie terror of many supernatural events, the rock-solid bonds between brothers, and a lov
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Dream of the Red Chamber: A Chancellor of Unmatched Grace 红楼：风华首辅
[No System + intellectual battles + political intrigue + everyday life] Every line is stained with bitter tears, every page filled with absurdity. You might think this is merely a tale of infatuated, indulged young men and women behind closed doors, but who could know that the rise and fall of the world are all intertwined? Are the fortunes of the four great families destined to change? Is the dynasty beset by internal and external threats destined to fall? Must the path to a noble title and hig
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- 33 Wasn’t This an Arranged Marriage? Why Is Lord Pei So in Love with Me? 不是联姻吗？裴大人怎么这么爱 Jiang Shiyuan spent ten years pursuing Shen Lüchu, only to receive four words on her eighteenth birthday: “You make me sick.” So Jiang Shiyuan, the girl who made Shen Lüchu sick, turned around and agreed to her family’s arranged marriage, preparing to marry into the Pei family. The Pei family was the most powerful clan in the capital, with influence that reached the heavens, far beyond what Jiang Shiyuan could aspire to. Fortunately, the family was full of talented men, but one grandson, Pei 50.3kReads9.1Score6.5k14d adds
- 34 Daiyu Has a Younger Brother, and the Red Chamber Is in Chaos 黛玉有弟红楼乱 Lin Jingyan, the eldest son of the Lin family, returned to the age of three. After lying unconscious in bed for two years, he woke just before his elder sister left for the Rongguo Mansion. In his previous life, after he died, he stayed by his sister’s side and shared her entire life. He saw that even the Lin family’s immense wealth could not keep their only daughter safe. So this time, I’ll do it myself! But don’t cry, Sis. My head hurts. 30.4kReads9.0Score3.5k14d adds
- 35 Transmigrate into a Book: The Crown Prince Is Suspected and Framed, So I Go Crazy on the Spot 穿书太子被猜忌陷害，我当场发癫 This book has been adapted into a short drama. After my father the emperor grew suspicious of me, I chose to rule the world. Suspected despite being the crown prince, I chose to become a bandit. Reborn as a cannon-fodder crown prince who was framed, I threw a tantrum on the spot. [Father and son turn against each other + unhinged crown prince + face-slapping + ruthless kills + exhilarating thrills + going crazy] Li Yi transmigrates into a political intrigue novel as the crown prince, bringing al 14.3kReads8.7Score92514d adds
- 36 The Yandere Hero Dotes on Me Like a Treasure, and the Original Heroine Regrets It 病娇男主宠我如宝，原女主后悔了 [Quick transmigration, obsessive male leads, stunning female lead, love at first sight, forced possession, sweet romance, original female leads regret it] In some small worlds, the female leads couldn’t bear their obsessive male leads’ relentless pursuit and imprisonment, and their love turned into mutual destruction. Xie Lanyin, however, has a special fondness for these powerful yet tragic, obsessive male leads, so she came along. But once all the obsessive male leads fell in love with her, the 26kReads8.8Score1.9k14d adds
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Seeking the Way in the Legal World 律界问道
[Comeback and growth + charming lawyer + mysteries surrounding cold cases + officialdom and workplace + wits and will] He turns his life around, with Death brushing past him several times. A string of cold cases remain shrouded in mystery...
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Divining the Three Kingdoms: The Record of the Mysterious Mirror's Beauties 算鼎三国：玄镜红颜录
No transmigration, no System! At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, in an age of turmoil as the Three Kingdoms era approaches, Lu Zhao, a young man from a poor family, solves a murder case in Yingchuan with Cai Yan's help, exposes Dong Zhuo's plot to move the capital in Luoyang, cracks a secret case there with Diao Chan, intercepts Yuan Shao's secret envoy at the Battle of Guandu, offers a stratagem within a stratagem at the Red Cliffs battlefield, saves Sun Shangxiang from a raging current, an
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Who Taught You to Be a Brother Like That? 谁教你这么当兄弟的
[The print edition is now available, published under the title Planetary Effect] Chen Zhijuan is the top surgeon in the orthopedics department at Beicheng People's Hospital. He's usually cold and taciturn. Dr. Chen is strikingly handsome, and his crisp, slender figure in a white coat gives off an air of restraint. The girls chasing after him could circle the hospital three times. Too bad his heart belongs to someone else. He's been secretly in love with his best friend for nearly ten years. The
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- 40 I Rely on the System to Become a Goddess 我靠系统当神女 After binding with a System, Xiyue began transmigrating through different worlds to collect faith. When she became an unloved illegitimate daughter in the family of an ancient official, she didn’t hesitate to use her System skills to stage a grand apotheosis ceremony, and was revered by the people as a goddess. After transmigrating to the modern world, she rode the divine beast White Tiger from the moon down to Earth. And so began her journey of playing a goddess in world after world. But after 10.9kReads8.8Score83314d adds
- 41 Quick Transmigration: After the Lucky One Unlocks the Sign-In System 快穿：欧皇能签到后 No romance! No romance! No romance! (Don’t ask why the protagonist doesn’t find a partner. The author just doesn’t know how to write romance.) I’m no good at writing introductions, so just read the story. After Yuan Xi gets hit and killed by a dump truck, she embraces the simple belief that a bad life is better than no life at all and binds herself to System Fifty-Eight. Together, they travel to different worlds to help people fulfill their wishes. What’s it like having a Host who’s ridiculously 44.3kReads9.2Score4.5k14d adds
- 42 Quick Transmigration: The Charismatic Flirt Gets Outplayed by the Male Lead 快穿：万人迷钓系被男主反攻略了 Quick transmigration + two male leads + top pursuing bottom + no fixed couple + mild love-triangle drama On his first day at work, Xie Xingchen was transferred from the Romance Department to the Scumbag Top and Doormat Bottom Department. He was a random cannon-fodder character, the sort who only appeared for a few episodes. For the sake of the job, straight man Xie Xingchen took the position with tears in his eyes. His mission was to reform the bottoms in the small worlds and cure them of their 14kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 43 Good Grief! The Heartthrob Idol Is Just Too Good at This! 天！万人迷偶像他太会了！ [Dual male leads + boy band + entertainment industry + feel-good and sweet story + lots of creative liberties; readers who prefer rigorous details, beware] Cold, calculating, and flirtatious (bottom) & cool, handsome, direct, and cocky (top) Mi Bai closed his eyes, then opened them to find himself back in the year a talent scout discovered him. By chance, he became bound to the Idol Heartthrob Development System. [Ding! Idol Heartthrob Development System successfully bound! Please choose a direc 16.1kReads9.5Score2.7k14d adds
- 44 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World with Video Game Models 我带着游戏建模穿越修仙界了 [Don't read this one, it's been abandoned.] [Fantasy for male readers + even Shennong would be left flat on his back + this really is a book that would terrify even Shennong + male-reader fiction+++++++] 890Reads—Score10114d adds
- 45 I Transmigrated into a Book Set During a Famine and Became Invincible Through Cultivation 穿书荒年，我靠修仙无敌了 [Space + farming + no romance + wealth + feel-good revenge] [The animated adaptation is now available. If you’re interested, check it out!] Qiao Qi transmigrated into a book and became the vicious female supporting character. The good news: Her medicinal garden space came with her, and she could cultivate and level up to her heart’s content. The bad news: The male lead had just stabbed her to death. ☸ 1. A ridiculously powerful golden finger, a feel-good story, ruthless decisiveness, and ov 45.2kReads9.2Score6k14d adds
- 46 After My Thoughts Were Exposed, Everyone Came to Win Me Over 泄露心声后，所有人都来攻略我 1V6, everyone is pure, the heroine is doted on by all, everyone can hear her thoughts, a light and fluffy read Fang Ruotang is an unremarkable, sickly girl from the prime minister's household. One day, a cute little thing called the Rewind Mirror clings to her and reveals a lot of secrets no one knows. But it says Prince An loves her so much he'll willingly become her secret lover, the crown prince will force her to be his, the young prince will rebel for her, and the former top scholar will eve 70.7kReads8.1Score17.1k14d adds
- 47 Insectoid: The S-Rank Male Insect's Kiss-Crazy, Cold Major General 虫族：S级雄虫亲软冷漠少将 [Zerg + two powerful leads + sweet, doting 1v1 + military female Zerg] Tan Chi, a max-level powerhouse with dual psychic and plant abilities, was sent to the Zerg world when the Zombie King blew himself up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he discovered that he had become the villainous male Zerg who fawned over the protagonist in a novel, throwing money at him and protecting him while constantly hurting his own female spouse. Ugh, what a scumbag Zerg! Luckily, he arrived at just the right time. T 23.9kReads9.1Score3.1k14d adds
- 48 Turns Out I’m the Marquis’s Fake Young Master 原来我是侯府假少爷 [Two male leads, transmigrate into a book, little ones, love, friendship, and family affection, everyone’s favorite] Gu Zhiwang was born into a marquis’s household and grew up surrounded by flowers and affection, the family’s little darling. His father indulged him, his mother doted on him, and his older brother looked out for him. At seven, Gu Zhiwang only had to worry about what to eat and what to play. He knew nothing of sorrow. Until he discovered he was the fake young master and a sacrifici 21.7kReads9.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 49 The Cultivator Side Character Becomes a God Through Sign-In 修真男配靠签到成神 (Cultivation + System + two male leads + pocket dimension + special constitution) Chu Xingci is the sole inheritor of his family's medical tradition in his generation. But his jealous brothers poison him at a banquet celebrating his success. Something goes wrong, though: he doesn't die. Instead, he transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a supporting male character doomed to die in a melodramatic novel he once read. Watch as he makes his way through the cultivation world. (Note: This 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Quick Transmigration: Animal Cubs on the Prowl, Melting the Whole World 快穿：动物幼崽出击，萌翻全世界 [No Romance + Everyone's Favorite + Little Boy (A Real Toddler) + Healing + Face-Slapping and Putting Scumbags in Their Place] Reborn as the big villain's little one, your mission is to hide your identity as a monster. Feng Wu leaned close to the big villain's ear and whispered, “Daddy, I be a little monster. I really not your baby!” Villain: ?! System: Now that's turning everything upside down!!! World One: A Dazzling Showbiz Career Sharp-tongued, infuriating little one (giant panda) vs. the sc 5kReads9.3Score51514d adds
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