In a Reading Slump, in a Reading Slump, in a Reading Slump: Repeating It Three Times for Emphasis 书荒 书荒 书荒 重要的事说三遍，

1. 101 原 Genshin Impact: I Turn the Story into a Novel and Spoil the Future 原神：我将剧情写成小说剧透未来 Fishing by Casting a Net into the Abyss临渊结网抓鱼Anime Fanfiction3.7M WordsOngoing [Making up for regrets + lighthearted + the protagonist starts in Fontaine + the novel starts in Mondstadt, because following the story means it takes too long to reach Fontaine, and I can't wait] [Spoiling the future for Genshin Impact characters, including more than just the main story] Mondstadt Barbara: “The Anemo Archon is a drunkard? In that case...” Rosaria silently watched Barbara run off. Before long, Barbara returned with a bottle of wine in hand. “Lord Barbatos, I offer you this fine 47.3kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
2. 102 人 In One Piece, I'm Luffy's Childhood Friend 人在海贼，我是路飞发小 Six-Spirit Immortal六灵仙Anime Fanfiction4.1M WordsCompleted [One Piece] [Joining the Crew] Two people with the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit appeared at the Paramount War! Could the appearance of two world-destroying powers change the outcome of the Paramount War? It all began when our protagonist, Bai Yun, transmigrated and met Luffy as a child. As the saying goes, when you're unlucky, even drinking cold water can make you choke. Bai Yun merely grumbled about it, then really did drop dead and transmigrate into the One Piece world. There's a S 6.1kReads8.2Score477Shelves
3. 103 诡 Anomaly Containment Facility, You're Containing Me, a Human? 诡异收容所，你收容我一个人类？ Yi Chen逸臣Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 63.3kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
4. 104 冠 Champion Trainer 冠位训练家 River, Mooring by Misty Islets江泊烟渚Male-Channel Fanfiction2.4M WordsCompleted Also known as The Crown-Rank Trainer. The main story is complete. Pokemon + creature wallpapers + urban fantasy + parallel worlds + action + daily life + comedy + not an invincible protagonist! Extra fan service every ten levels~ Years later, when people ask Su Wen how he raised Pokemon that surpassed their limits and earned him the crown rank in trainer history, this is what he says: “In this age when golden-fingered trainers are everywhere, I became a crown-rank trainer through my own hard wor 46.9kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
5. 105 诡 The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [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 758.7kReads9.6Score131.3kShelves
6. 106 邪 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Three Winds 11三风11Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca 154.5kReads9.3Score16.8kShelves
7. 107 精 Pokemon: My Friends Are Pokemon All Over the World 精灵：我的精灵朋友遍天下 Fish on a Rainy Day下雨天的鱼Anime Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 10.9kReads9.0Score818Shelves
8. 108 诸 The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 538.7kReads9.7Score74.7kShelves
9. 109 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score189.8kShelves
10. 110 东 Tokyo: Stay Home at a Shrine and Write Novels, Beautiful Ladies, Please Behave 东京：宅在神社写小说美女请自重 Thousand-Cherry Fox千樱狐Urban679k WordsCompleted [Lighthearted]+ [Slice of life]+ [Exorcism]+ [Light novel] Lin Xingye transmigrates to Tokyo in a parallel world and becomes Hoshino Tsuki, the heir to his family’s shrine. Looking at the sanity-destroying sight in the distant sky, he can’t help shaking his head. “This place really is… dangerous!” So he simply holes up in the shrine and becomes a novelist, keeping a low profile while he grows stronger. One day, the beautiful editor Tamiya Sakurako comes to visit. Does she want to move in with hi 784Reads6.9Score107Shelves
11. 111 阴 The Yin Calamity Brings a Fox 阴祸得狐 Wangquan Yuechu王权月初Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted On the night I was born, strange celestial signs appeared, and I seemed to glimpse a mythical beast. A fortune-teller said I was born with a noble destiny, that good fortune was at my door, and that I was sure to achieve great things. But when I was twelve, an accident left me plagued by misfortune and illness. Desperate to survive, I went to pay respects to my ancestors and pray for their protection, never expecting to visit the wrong grave... That night, a man with nine tails, as beautiful as 10kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves

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    Good-looking, good-looking, good-looking. Say important things three times.

12. 112 开 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 Sis, Don't Be Like That姐姐别这样Mystery4.4M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 127.8kReads9.4Score12.7kShelves
13. 113 就 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 Ji Furan纪扶染Modern Romance659k WordsCompleted [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 130.1kReads9.6Score15.4kShelves
14. 114 心 My Heart Races! A Secret Crush! My Childhood Friend Is Beautiful and Sweet-Voiced 心动！暗恋！小青梅她人美声甜 Moonfield Mountain Fox月野山狐Modern Romance303k WordsCompleted [The print edition of Heart-Pounding Secret Crush: My Childhood Friend Is Beautiful and Sweet-Voiced is now available. Search for it on major platforms. Details: @Yueye Shanhu] [Sweet Campus Romance | Childhood Friend Takes the Lead | The Pursuer’s Road to Regret | Secret Crush] Qiao Zhen dreams of fragments of memories from her past life: “For seven years, she followed the aloof campus heartthrob Ji Xian, obedient and gentle, offering him her whole heart, only to be casually cast aside.” When 33.3kReads9.5Score4.3kShelves
15. 115 随 Random Street Stalls: I Use Food to Lure Snakes Out of Their Holes 随机摆摊：我用美食引蛇出洞 AAAA Prosperous BloomsAAAA花开富贵Urban889k WordsOngoing [Food + undercover work + comedy + catching criminals + System + no heroine + no romance] Also known as Food: The Undercover Cop Sets Up a Street Stall, and Fugitives Beg Him to Get Back to Work Xiao Lan transmigrated into the body of a police officer in a parallel world and was assigned to pose as a street-food vendor while keeping an eye on a suspect. As it happened, he’d been a cooking genius in his previous life. This was right up his alley. The next day, a tricycle loaded with top-tier food 10.9kReads9.4Score957Shelves
16. 116 舔 Three and a Half Years as a Simp, Then the System Told Me I Had the Wrong Target 舔狗三年半，系统说我攻略错对象 Beauty Zhang Sanfeng美女张三疯Ancient Romance386k WordsCompleted [The physical edition of Abandon the Dark and Join Him, Volume One, is now available for purchase online] [The Second Male Lead's Redemption Arc] 1. Qiao Yin spent three years and eleven months fawning over Lu Jinzhi. Everyone in the capital knew she would marry no one but him, yet the System told her: She had pursued the wrong target. Qiao Yin: ... 2 Qiao Yin suddenly vanished from Lu Jinzhi's side. On the first day of her disappearance, Lu Jinzhi sneered: Just a little game of playing hard to 53.5kReads9.4Score5.7kShelves
17. 117 史 The Harshest Test Setter in History 史上最狠出题人 Clouds Stop, Water Flows云止流水Urban507k WordsCompleted [Adapted into a short drama] He's elementary school students' worst nightmare, the most deviously cruel exam setter in the world! One test paper wiped out 140,000 students in Jiangcheng, while a single question made 200,000 students in Huicheng cry! Every student who has ever taken Qin Ye's exams is left with a hundred thousand questions in their head. What color was Daji's bellyband? Did Qin Shi Huang circle the pillar clockwise or counterclockwise? This is a Chinese exam, so why are you asking 8.9kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
18. 118 丑 Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家 Green Falcon青鹫Modern Romance654k WordsCompleted [Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to 155.5kReads9.6Score23kShelves
19. 119 我 Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1.1MReads9.9Score179.9kShelves
20. 120 阴 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 80kReads9.4Score10kShelves
21. 121 五 The One-Fifth Death Game 五分之一的死亡游戏 Liu Hongchan柳红缠Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing [Clever mind games + deduction + all kinds of scenarios + no System + no harem + plot-focused] On a whim, Lin Shuo took part in a quiz show offering a cash prize of one hundred thousand yuan. And so the gears of fate began to turn, as one deadly game after another came his way. A hidden, lethal poison: how could he identify it quickly? A terrifying old building haunted by ghosts: how could he escape alive? An unsolvable locked-room mystery involving werewolves: where were they? A train trapped i 1.1kReads8.7Score133Shelves
22. 122 国 The National Team's Top Mystic Master, Commanding a Hundred Thousand Yin Soldiers 国家队顶级玄师，手握十万阴兵 Little Wildcaty小野猫yModern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Completed]+ [Livestream]+ [Metaphysics]+ [Crime Solving]+ [National Team]+ [Reforming the Entertainment Industry] Shen Sangning has a rare Daoist constitution. Just as she is about to ascend, she transmigrates back to when she was eighteen. A murderer lives downstairs and keeps cornering her on the stairs to grope her? Shen Sangning greets him politely: “Back from your walk, old geezer? Off to prison with you!” A female ghost is haunting the PE teacher, but Professor Wang says it’s a surgical c 9.7kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
23. 123 不 Don't Pick Up Your Boyfriend in a Trash Can 不要在垃圾桶里捡男朋友 Mist Star雾星Modern RomanceCompleted Before my usual evening emo session, I got a text from an unknown number asking to get back together. I kindly told them they had the wrong number, but they called me by name without missing a beat. Huh??? Turns out this guy really was my ex-boyfriend. —Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    This book is suitable for readers who like fast-travel/system novels but are tired of routine plots; Danmei lovers who prefer delicate emotional lines and two-way redemption; viewers who have a special liking for the "gentle attack × tough sufferer" character; those who pursue compact plots and perfect story control with foreshadowing.

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