Looking for Imaginative Novels (Not Based on Real Life) 求脑洞文（非现背）

1. 1 开EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 Purple Spirit Wind and Snow紫灵风雪Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 538.9kReads9.7Score71.1kShelves

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   It's pretty good; some parts really made me laugh.

2. 2 师EN My Junior Disciples Are All Overpowered, So I Have to Cheat! 师弟们都是大佬，那我只能开挂了 Rain Falls from South of the City to the West城南有雨落城西Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!” 124.3kReads9.4Score12.3kShelves
3. 3 我 My Son Is So Filial, He Gives Me an Immortal Wife from the Start 我儿大孝，开局送我个仙妻 White Jade and Fine Brushwork白玉丹青Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [My Son Is Filial, Vol. 1], [My Son Is Filial, Vol. 2], and [My Son Is Filial, Vol. 3], the hit short dramas of the same name, are airing now. [My Son Is Filial, Vol. 4] is available for presale. Li Qingxuan transmigrates into the unlucky patriarch of a Cultivation world. His clan is on the verge of annihilation, and his son is on death's door after being rejected in an arranged marriage. Unable to hold back, he roars at the heavens: Everyone else gets to be the chosen one. Why am I stuck as can 16.3kReads7.2Score2kShelves
4. 4 我 I Level Up Alone in the Apocalypse 我独自在末世升级 Likes Muyang喜欢沐洋Sci-Fi & Apocalypse68k WordsCompleted A global catastrophe struck without warning. A meteorite destroyed a city and shattered order, forcing humanity to retreat to its last refuge and cling to life. Mu Men transmigrated from another world and unexpectedly awakened a mysterious talent: with a touch, he could absorb energy. His bones were rebuilt, his cells evolved, and from the lowest rung of society, struggling to survive in the apocalypse, he gradually carved out a survival code of his own. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [I highly recommend it!][I highly recommend it!][I highly recommend it!][I highly recommend it!] It's really good!

5. 5 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
6. 6 拯 Saving Humanity: Are Humans Really This Fragile?! 拯救人类：人类也太脆弱了吧！ Ten Thousand a Day一天一万Urban1.4M WordsCompleted June, 2025 AD. The guardian of human civilization, the greatest scientist in the history of the Milky Way, a living history of humanity, a scholar whose knowledge bordered on omniscience, the one who rebooted civilization and ushered in a new era, a great man who cared for humanity as if it were a protected species… When Qin Yu was given the chance to make three wishes, he thought carefully, then solemnly made these three wishes. Wish One: Absolute immortality. No matter how much time passes, or 15.4kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves

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   I recommend you take a look, it's quite good.

7. 7 传EN Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 169.4kReads9.6Score21.7kShelves

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   That's so imaginative!

8. 8 灵 Supernatural: I Exorcise Ghosts with Force and Scare the School Beauty Out of Her Wits 灵异：暴力驱鬼，我把校花吓懵了 Cold Words and Leng Words冷言leng语Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted [Supernatural + comedy + System. If you read the first 30 chapters and don't laugh, come roast me!] On Zhang Wei’s first day of college, a blood-red sun hung in the sky and his entire class was dragged into a ghost realm. Just then, his Ghost-Teasing System awakened! With the whole class under a ghost’s curse, the campus belle, Lu Lianxue, had no choice but to reveal her hidden identity: a disciple of Longhu Mountain and a member of the Exorcism Bureau. But before she could show off her skills.. 29.8kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves

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   This is such a wildly imaginative concept! Ultraman Tiga fights demons, and Gatling Bodhisattva saves all sentient beings.

9. 9 网 Online Game: I'm the Only One Who Can See Hidden Information 网游：只有我能看到隐藏信息 Moonlight Old Rascal明月老贼Sports2.0M WordsCompleted [Comedy + Memes + Playing It Safe + Old-School Passion + SSS-Rank Talent = ???] Ye Bai awakens an SSS-rank talent, bears the name Asura, embarks on the path to invincibility, and forges himself into the strongest of all! (Crossed out) This is a funny story about a group of people saving the world. Nightmare: “Tell me, do you have nightmares?” Wuhen: “You’re so cocky. Did you ask my sword first?” Xiaoyao: “How boring.” Asura: “In a century filled with great figures, only Nightmare, Wuhen, X 85.3kReads9.3Score6.4kShelves

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   The author's imagination is incredibly novel.

10. 10 我 I Am Uncontainable 我，无法收容 May Season五月时期Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted] [Everyday life] [Managing containment facilities] (Peaked at 600,000 active readers and has updated steadily for over a year.) The sun burned beneath the deep sea, while roots spread across the sky. Gears grew from people’s bodies, and upside-down cities fell like meteorites. Fang Jiu once thought that these things, which existed only in fantasy, had nothing to do with an ordinary man like him. That was until his head was chopped off one night... (The pace is slower from the start 185kReads9.3Score27.8kShelves

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    This is so imaginative and absolutely gorgeous! 😏

11. 11 大 Great Qin: The Ruthless Chancellor, Whom the First Emperor Begs Not to Kill 大秦：最狠丞相，始皇求我别杀了 Never Saw the Moon of Qin不曾见秦时月Historical2.5M WordsCompleted [Decisive and Ruthless + The Protagonist Is a Master Schemer + No Romance + Career-Focused Protagonist] After transmigrating into the Great Qin dynasty, Liu Bai rose straight to the position of Great Qin's Left Chancellor. From the start, he had seven thousand surrendered rebels buried alive. When he returned to Xianyang, everyone was sharpening their knives, ready to impeach the chancellor. Only then did they realize it was all just the beginning. “Your Majesty, Left Chancellor Liu Bai beat Zha 32kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves

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    That's incredibly imaginative. The power dynamics involved are completely incomprehensible.

12. 12 我 I Can Grant Superpowers 我能赋予超能力 Poor Jerry可怜的杰瑞Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [A new novel in the same genre, “You Asked Me to Grant Wishes, So Why Are They All Dark?” is now out. Interested readers are welcome to check it out] [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Global Setting + Supernatural Abilities + Saving the World + Readers Are the Handsomest and Most Beautiful] [Also known as The Wheel of Fate] [The main storyline is complete. Extras are being updated, so read without worry] The protagonist is a supporting character and barely appears early on. If that bothers yo 6.8kReads8.1Score390Shelves

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    It looks quite nice, somewhat like a herd of elephants.

13. 13 人 Behind the Scenes, I Can Fuse Materials! 人在幕后，我能够进行素材融合！ The Sky Is Full of Starry Skies天上全都是星天Urban412k WordsCompleted [Behind the scenes]+ [Gacha]+ [Material fusion]+ [No heroine]+ [Doppelgangers] The protagonist, Su Yi, transmigrated into the body of someone with terminal brain cancer. He unexpectedly obtained a gacha System, allowing him to draw all kinds of materials and fuse them together. For example, [The King in Yellow's tattered cloth + rosemary mask + electrostatic spider silk] fused into [Robe of the Old Ones]. And when [photon jellyfish + fissile flesh + Su Yi + ...] were fused, they granted him the 6kReads7.8Score763Shelves
14. 14 系EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 One Durian No. 3一只榴莲3号Eastern Fantasy5.6M WordsOngoing Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 579.3kReads9.4Score60.9kShelves

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    The characters here are all very well-developed, there's no system or harem, so you don't need to use your brain while reading.

15. 15 玄 Xuanhuan: My Senior Brother Is Kind of Divine 玄幻：我的师兄有点神 One Sword to Slay You一剑攘死你Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted “The profound lineage of Heaven and Earth.” “The root from which all energy springs.” “Cultivating through countless tribulations.” “To prove my divine power.” “My name is Su Liang.” “I am a god who walks among mortals.” “Have you ever seen a god?” 22.9kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
16. 16 烟EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.5M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.2kReads9.6Score68.1kShelves
17. 17 我 I Thought We Were Brothers, but You Tricked Me into Robbing a Bank? 我把你当兄弟，你骗我抢银行？ Dragons Fighting龙打架Urban523k WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Ming’s friend Zhou Hang took part in a military exercise, playing the role of a bank robber. Zhou Hang decided to recruit Lu Ming to play a robber too. For security reasons, he couldn’t tell him the truth about the exercise, so he used an invitation to dinner as an excuse to get Lu Ming out of the house. “Isn’t this just dinner? Do you really have to withdraw cash at the bank?” Watching his good friend Zhou Hang, who’d invited him to dinner, Lu Ming s 15.9kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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    Streamer + System + Urban + Creative Idea + Completed

18. 18 领 Lord: I Build a Realistic Gaming Empire 领主：我打造真实游戏帝国 Can Yu参屿Sports1.6M WordsCompleted [Territory Lord Farming] + [The Fourth Calamity] + [Building an Empire Through Management Games] The world is shrouded in darkness and rife with war. Tens of thousands of territory lords battle over land and resources. But Chen Yu is different from them. While others are busy fighting, he’s busy building dungeons and luring adventurers from other worlds in to challenge them. [Happy Landlord] [Resident Evil] [Dungeon Fighter Online] [Audition] [PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds]… One dungeon after a 18kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves

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    The first book is passable, the second is quite good, the third has a decent premise, and the fourth, if you can handle the heavy stuff, you can skip the first few dozen chapters and read the rest—it's all art! ...!!! ...

19. 19 魔 Monsters Invade: I Founded an Organization to Counterattack the Demon Realm 魔物入侵：我创立组织反攻魔界 Cloud Dream, Fallen Leaves云梦残叶Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Building an Organization] [Extracting Essences] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Monster Invasion] On his way home from work, Bai Ye is attacked by an unknown humanoid monster. At the brink of life and death, a red crystal falls from the sky and saves him. After fusing with the red crystal, Bai Ye gains two special abilities: [Extract] Extract a creature’s traits, abilities, bloodline, and more... [Fuse] Fuse the traits, abilities, bloodlines, and more of multiple creatures... After the attack, Bai Ye 9.2kReads8.3Score846Shelves
20. 20 刚 I Just Transmigrated, and They Want Me to Lead the Academy 刚穿越，对面让我当一院之主 Restless Mist坐不住的迷雾Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [High Martial] + [Transmigrate (body and all)] + [No System] + [Create a new profession] + [Abyssal invasion] PS: It is people who are sacred, not professions. People just tend to see professions through rose-colored glasses. Demon Sealer: Fight fire with fire! A transcendent profession that seals demons and uses their abilities in battle. Immortal Martial Path: Neither quite immortal nor quite martial! Cultivate yourself and defeat evil with skill! Lin Yunqing transmigrated into a world dominat 5.7kReads6.3Score379Shelves
21. 21 合EN The Harmony Sect? Sounds Like a Righteous Orthodox Sect to Me! 合欢宗？一听就是名门正派！ Flying Dodo Bird会飞的渡渡鸟Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted [Fallen immortal maiden] + [Villain] + [Scheming] Xiao Yu transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes an outer disciple of the Hehuan Sect. By a stroke of luck, Xiao Yu finds Bai Yue, an upright immortal maiden who has lost all her cultivation and gone blind. Xiao Yu: “Immortal maiden! You have two choices. First, teach me how to cultivate! Second...” Bai Yue: “I choose the second.” Xiao Yu: “The second is to become my pet... Sorry about this...” [The male lead is calculating and self-se 14.9kReads7.4Score1.4kShelves
22. 22 御 Beast Taming: A Divine Dragon Egg from the Start 御兽：开局一颗神龙蛋 It's a Fish是鱼呀Urban3.6M WordsCompleted (Beast taming) + (periodically invincible) + (summoning thousands of troops) + (no bleeding-heart protagonist) + (has a heroine) Note: The protagonist rarely hides his strength. If you want to see him suffer in silence and bide his time, you can swipe away now. What? An A-rank beast tamer can only summon five beasts? Well, I can summon a whole soccer team at D-rank. A divine dragon on my left, a phoenix on my right, and a bone dragon to ride. Is that too much to ask? This book features a huge va 70.9kReads9.0Score7.3kShelves

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    I sincerely recommend these two books; if you don't like them, feel free to criticize me. There won't be any mindless parts throughout.

23. 23 洪 Honghuang: From the Start, I Spoil the Plot for Nuwa 洪荒：开局给女娲剧透 The Second Sleep第二眠Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsCompleted [Primordial world + behind-the-scenes scheming + wild imagination] Chen Xuan transmigrates into the Primordial World as a little white dragon. His arrival sends the whole world wildly off course... Nuwa: “Becoming a saint through merit isn’t what I want. I’m going to sever the Three Corpses!” The Two from the West: “The West is far too barren. Starting today, we’re joining the East!” Tongtian: “The calamity of the Investiture of the Gods is upon us. All Jie Sect Disciples, follow me onto the Inv 43.3kReads9.1Score4.4kShelves
24. 24 大EN The Great Emperors' Forbidden Zone: After My Master Died, I Went Mad 大帝禁区：师傅死后，我疯了 Bashu Red Bean巴蜀红豆Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted [At the end of the immortal path, who stands supreme? One glimpse of red hair, and the Dao is lost.] (Not a wish-fulfillment novel. A brain-teasing, increasingly captivating long story.) “My eldest senior brother is reborn. In his previous life, he was an ancient-era Great Emperor.” “My second senior brother transmigrated from another world, one where technology and shady shortcuts coexist.” “Our junior sister is the little princess of the Ji family, peerless in swordsmanship and unrivaled in ta 36.4kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves

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    It's mind-bending, I love watching it, but my brain isn't up to the task.

25. 25 直 Livestream: Proving the Existence of an Infinite Multiverse from the Start 直播：开局证明无限多元宇宙 Become a God成神Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Livestreaming: I’m leading the evolution of civilization] After transmigrating, Jiang Zhe becomes the host of a science education program. He gets bound to a System. To his surprise, he discovers that all he has to do is explain science to earn an endless stream of rewards. Using scientific theories from his previous life, he proves from the start that the world is fake and that infinitely many multiverses exist. “...” “Nuwa mended the sky by repairing the moon and the earth.” “Ancient civiliza 11.2kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves

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    Sci-fi imaginative packs are great!

26. 26 苏EN Awakening Forty-Two Thousand Years Later 苏醒于四十二个千年之后 Thought I Ghosted, But I Didn't, Which Is Still Ghosting以为鸽了但没鸽也是鸽Anime Fanfiction2.0M WordsCompleted Forty-two millennia later, the entire empire was engulfed in endless war. The Human Imperium struggled to maintain its rule, while facing savage assaults from alien species, covert sabotage by Chaos cults, and corruption and power struggles within its own ranks. The AI forces, the Iron Men, had been all but wiped out in the wars of the past. But Ax, an intelligent Iron Man commander accidentally brought back online, was inevitably drawn into the tangled conflicts among all sides. 9kReads9.2Score743Shelves
27. 27 全EN Survival for All, Obtaining the D-Class Personnel Simulator 全民求生，获得D级人员模拟器 Dream Tea Turns Cold梦茶凉Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.7M WordsOngoing 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: ??? 146.7kReads8.9Score11.2kShelves
28. 28 诸 The Myriad Worlds: Everyone Works for Me 诸天万界：都是我的打工人 Bubble Tang泡泡唐Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted [The Myriad Worlds] [Behind the scenes] [System] [Ensemble cast] [Also known as: The Myriad Worlds: They're All My Employees] A world of swords and magic, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a world of gods and demons, a world among the stars... Countless worlds are randomly selected, along with one lucky worker... chosen one, who is given a System! He becomes the golden finger behind all the chosen ones! (Struck out) Their boss! After dying, Tang Ziheng finds himself in the void and obtains a System. 4.7kReads8.9Score419Shelves

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    These are all fantasy novels with imaginative plots that I've read. I think the themes are pretty good, worth reading! Recommended!

29. 29 人 Writing a Diary in the Jie Sect, Tongtian Gets Played for a Fool 人在截教写日记，通天被玩坏了 Rampaging Portuguese Egg Tart暴走的葡式蛋挞Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted Ying Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated to Mount Kunlun in the Primordial World. He had become an evil dragon, formed from the power of wickedness at the dawn of creation. As an innate evil dragon, he was steeped in wickedness and burdened by karma. The Human Religion refused to take him in, the Chan Sect despised him and called for his death, and the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas wanted nothing to do with him. With no other choice, he joined the Jie Sect as an outer sect disc 76.3kReads9.2Score8.2kShelves
30. 30 玄EN Fantasy: Winning Big—All My Disciples Have Systems 玄幻：赢麻了，我的弟子都有系统 Little Bamboo Meow-Meow小竹子喵喵Eastern Fantasy3.3M WordsOngoing [Taking disciples + lighthearted daily life + everyone is a sly schemer + nothing goes by the book] Lu Changzhi transmigrates and finds he can choose a new identity. As a compulsive gambler, he decisively chooses random. The result? He wins so big it’s like Qin Shi Huang touching a live wire: an absolute jackpot. His only limitation is a god-tier disciple-taking System. He never expected its first mission to be… [Detected other Hosts with Systems… Infiltrating… Modifying… Modification complete… 20.9kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
31. 31 七 Pursuing the Dao in the Seventies: Beginning the Path to Attaining Proof Once and for All 七十逐道：从一证永证开始 I Don’t Believe You你说的我不信Eastern Fantasy681k WordsOngoing Chen Chang'an transmigrates to the cultivation world with no golden finger, no connections, and no talent, and spends fifty years as a spiritual farmer in Baiyun Sect. Just as the years begin to wear him down, he awakens the Perfect Life System. "I'm already seventy. How am I supposed to have a perfect life? Don't look down on an old man's empty pockets!" [At birth, the heavens showed strange signs. You were born beneath a Great Overarching vision, one unseen for tens of millions of years.] 743Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    This story features a protagonist who transmigrates to another world, cultivates immortality for sixty years, and only receives his cheat-like abilities nearing the end of his life. He then begins his triumphant comeback in his old age. It's definitely worth reading.

32. 32 诸EN 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 518.8kReads9.7Score68.3kShelves

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    Is this a wildly imaginative story? Would starting with a chainsaw delivering a pregnant woman be enough? Would having my own babies be enough to carry on the family line?

33. 33 爹 My Dad’s a Demon Lord, My Mom’s a Holy Sovereign. Why Shouldn’t I Live Off Them? 爹魔尊，娘圣主，我不啃老干嘛？ My Stomach Hurts, Pinch Me肚子痛捏Urban3.1M WordsOngoing [Genius] + [Funny at first, unhinged later] + [Offbeat protagonist] + [Clever cultivation] + [Huge stats, but that doesn’t mean the mechanics are weak] + [Multiple heroines] In the year 356 of the Dragon Kingdom, a golden imperial carriage smashed through the sun, a celestial palace rose above the moon, and the stars of the heavens awakened one after another. The world entered an era of spiritual qi revival, and people awakened spiritual roots to pursue the path to immortality. Ling Yishan, a 76kReads9.2Score7.9kShelves
34. 34 科 Tech Factory: Zombies? Ever Heard of the T-800? 科技工厂：丧尸？T800懂吗？ Qing Yan Qing笑颜卿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse609k WordsOngoing [Apocalypse + travel between two worlds + high-tech factory + robots rule the roost + dominate Blue Star!] Just as Yang Ming was dumped after being cheated on, he unexpectedly transmigrated to an apocalyptic world and became the owner of a mysterious high-tech factory! There are no carbon-based lifeforms in this factory, only robots with all kinds of functions! “Can zombies infect you?” “Sorry, I’m a robot made of alloy.” “Zombies have incredible defenses?” “My robots are made of high-strength a 1.2kReads7.7Score116Shelves

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    This book is quite interesting; I'll add it to my bookshelf and read it.

35. 35 重 Reborn in the Hehuan Sect, I Refine My Master into a Slave 重生合欢宗，师尊被我炼化成奴隶 Lone Smoke over the Long River长河孤烟Eastern Fantasy3.6M WordsOngoing [No System + no clichés + villain protagonist + multiple female leads + bizarre + ruthless and decisive, no saintly behavior] “Would you pick the Seven Fairies or the Seven Spider Demons?” “Only kids pick the fairies. Those who know, know.” “What if you really transmigrated to the Joyful Union Sect, where there are only female demons? They're fanatically devoted to the male body and worship you as a god?” “Wouldn't that be heaven on earth?” “Heh.” The young man smiled faintly. “I'm afraid it wou 86.8kReads9.4Score10.1kShelves

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    For mind-bending novels, this is my top recommendation. It's full of intellectual battles and incredibly challenging, with an interesting and imaginative premise. The protagonist is a bit precarious in the early stages, carefully planning every move. I think it's Tomato's peak work, though sometimes it's a little unsettling upon closer inspection 🤦. I suggest anyone interested check it out. [Note]

36. 36 刚 I Just Formed One Hundred Thousand Golden Cores, and the Trash-Turnaround System Arrived 刚结十万金丹，废材逆袭系统来了 An'an's Little Money Jar安安的小钱罐Eastern Fantasy711k WordsCompleted [Plot-driven + cheerful + anti-cliche + lighthearted wish fulfillment] Chu Yun possesses the strongest Heavenly Spirit Root, and as soon as he transmigrates, the top sect, Carefree Immortal Sect, takes him in. He cultivated in seclusion for five hundred years, and by the time his beautiful master ascended, he still hadn't reached the Nascent Soul stage. [Ding!] [The Host's aptitude is so poor that after five hundred years of cultivation, he has achieved nothing, and his lifespan is nearly exhaus 7.3kReads8.3Score596Shelves

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    Pretty good 🤔

37. 37 综EN Anime Crossover: The School Love Triangle Can't Be This Ridiculous 综漫：校园修罗场不可能这么离谱 Sixteenth Day Ke十六日可Anime Fanfiction752k WordsOngoing [Crossover anime + school life + love rivals + romance + light novel] [Heroines: Ichinose, Sakayanagi, Hiyori, Yukino…] [Male lead: Hachiman Hikigaya] [I’m being pursued by two campus beauties, so why have I become the enemy of the entire school?] Hikigaya transfers to Classroom of the Elite, hoping to keep his head down until graduation and become a stay-at-home husband. But an absurd turn of events awaits him on the very first day of school. The wheelchair-bound genius girl Arisu Sakayanagi an 58Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    It might fit some of my wildest ideas, mainly because it's novel. Personally, I recommend the book "The Evil God's Lackey".

38. 38 奥 Ultraman: Hey, Monster! You Can't Eat Me and Then Expect to Walk Away! 奥特：呔！怪兽，不吃了我还想走 A Sip of Rough Wine, Sorrow Goes to Your Head轻饮浊酒，愁上头Anime Fanfiction2.1M WordsCompleted Lin Shu and the others transmigrated. There was just one little problem with his transmigration... He transmigrated into several Ultraman worlds at the same time. How could it be that only the split-off personalities had transmigrated? But before they could figure out how this had happened, the worlds they were in began to unveil their mysterious faces. An Ultraman Legend world without Cosmos or Zero; An X world invaded by a corrupted Zero; The Kaiser Belial Empire, where Ultraman did not exist; 18.2kReads9.5Score1.5kShelves
39. 39 奥 Ultraman: Oh No, There's a Hyper Zetton Dealer! 奥特：夭寿了，有海帕杰顿贩子！ Why Sleep? Get Up and Party睡什么睡起来嗨Anime Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted Good news! Zhong Mo has transmigrated to the Ultraman universe! Bad news! He's one of the experimental subjects created using Belial's genetic material. Even worse, the Galactic Empire has just been destroyed by Zero, and he's right in the ruins. Fortunately, a passing blue Tribe Ultraman takes him away from the Galactic Empire. Zhong Mo: “Tregear, if light is meaningless, then darkness has no answers either. So... could you make me a sealing device? I want to see what lies between light and dar 13kReads8.5Score1kShelves
40. 40 只 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情，职业舔狗我最行！ A Long Sigh长叹一声Urban3.9M WordsOngoing (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 262.2kReads9.5Score19.2kShelves
41. 41 火 Naruto: The System Saves Me from Disaster on the Eve of the Uchiha Massacre 火影：灭族前夕，系统救我于水火 Lin Ye Sings of Autumn林叶吟秋Anime Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted [Comedy for laughs + lighthearted fun + absurd System + everyday life] After work, He Yan got into a big rig and, by accident, ended up in the Hokage world as Sasuke's twin brother. With the night of the clan massacre fast approaching, the good news was... His System had awakened. The bad news was... The System was completely absurd... [Mission 1: You have just arrived in the cultivation world and received a beginner's gift pack. Try defeating the Qingqiu Fox Clan!] “System, is there any chance. 25.7kReads8.5Score2.4kShelves
42. 42 不 Don't Ascend! The Immortals of the Upper Realm Feed on Love 不要飞升！上界仙子以恋为食 Just a Ballpoint Pen一根圆珠笔啊Eastern Fantasy286k WordsOngoing Synopsis: [A new immortal realm] [Lighthearted] [Slow-burn love-triangle drama] [Romance] [Winning over fairies] Question: “If you were already the strongest cultivator in the Lower Realm, what would you do next?” An ordinary strong cultivator: “Keep cultivating, of course, and ascend to the Upper Realm as soon as possible!” Gu Wang: “Ascend? Why would I ascend? Am I supposed to give up being a perfectly good Grandmaster and go become a mine slave in the Upper Realm?” “This old ancestor has cult 6Reads8.0Score—Shelves
43. 43 魔 Demon King: I Really Do Have a Queen! 魔王：我真的有王妃了啊！ Demon Moon Laughs妖月笑Eastern Fantasy604k WordsCompleted Because his father failed as the previous Demon King, Ivenlin, the new Demon King, was sent to the human royal capital after his father and the Hero reached an agreement. He was the first Demon King in centuries to go there without starting a war. Well, he was only five years old, had to stay until he turned eighteen before he could go home, could choose the next Hero as Demon King, and would eventually elope with a whole bunch of people. Princess: “Father! For the sake of peace between humans a 4.2kReads7.1Score509Shelves
44. 44 我 I'm His Best Bro, and the Yandere Became a Tool! 我是他好基友，病娇成为工具人！ Don't Fight Me for It别和我抢Urban400k WordsOngoing [System] [Yandere] [Everyday Life] [Urban Fantasy] [Subverting Expectations] [Comedy] [Overpowered] [Fun] Li Ye once read a yandere novel with an absurd premise. After dying from an object falling from a great height, he transmigrated into that novel and became the protagonist’s one and only male best friend. The good news: I’m not the one being mobbed by yanderes. The bad news: the person being mobbed is a girl, disguised as a boy at school. The yanderes who initially thought the protagonist wa 1.2kReads8.9Score103Shelves
45. 45 鬼 The Demon Progenitor Cultivation Plan 鬼之始祖育成计划 Bo Yuan Chong Ming薄渊重溟Anime Fanfiction371k WordsCompleted 1.3kReads8.5Score219Shelves
46. 46 综 Anime Crossover: Is This Really What a Knight Is? 综漫：这还是骑士吗？ The Hakurei Shrine Cook博丽神社的厨子Anime Fanfiction936k WordsOngoing The transmigrator arrives in this mishmash crossover world, where no one has supernatural powers, and is surprised to discover that he has all of Tsukasa Kadoya's powers except for the transformation belt. He'd planned to use those powers to enjoy a wonderful life in this crossover world, with a new girl every day… But what's that playing on the screen? You've got the wrong person! That's not me at all! I'm not Storious, Glion, Evolto, or any of those people! Will you people stop following me al 7.4kReads6.5Score343Shelves
47. 47 别 Stop Bringing Me Back to Life, Miss Necromancer! 别再复活我了，死灵术士小姐！ Lingering Echoes余音廖廖Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Bad news: I got hit by a car. Good news: I came back to life! But... in another world. From the start, Lin En is resurrected as a zombie by a necromancer lady. Well, a zombie is a zombie. Lin En decides to make the best of it. But little by little, he realizes that something is very wrong... The Necromancer Lady's “Experiment Log” [The experiment worked!] [A human soul was hiding inside the resurrected zombie?!] [His name is Lin En. What a strange name, and even stranger, he says he's from a 8.4kReads7.6Score1.7kShelves
48. 48 r Re:Zero: It Began When I Saved Genderbent Subaru Natsuki re0从救下性转菜月昴开始 The Trembling Knight战栗的骑士Anime Fanfiction1.1M WordsOngoing A Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World fanfic. Completed arcs so far: Prologue, Mansion Arc, Snow Season, White Whale Arc, and Royal Selection Arc. (Characters stay in character + Rem won't fall asleep + probably two female leads + the protagonist is powerful and virtuous + Saber elements) “I... will definitely make you fall for me!” Looking at the black-haired, golden-eyed beauty before him, Carlisle felt a little helpless. It was the first time he'd been so boldly pursued since becoming a 5.1kReads8.9Score406Shelves
49. 49 当EN Better a Rogue Ninja Than Hokage 当火影不如做叛忍 Eggplant Is Purple茄子是紫色的Anime Fanfiction511k WordsCompleted He transmigrated into the Naruto world and became Uzumaki Naruto. But his homeroom teacher was Mizuki? Had Umino Iruka died in the Nine-Tails’ attack twelve years ago?! Without Iruka, Naruto remained in darkness and felt no sense of belonging to Konoha. This led Danzo to put his plan to control the Nine-Tails into action ahead of schedule! Knowing Danzo had his eye on him and that he would live only as the village’s Tailed Beast weapon, Uzumaki Naruto gave up his foolish dream of becoming Hokage 17.9kReads8.3Score2kShelves
50. 50 转EN Reincarnated as a Green Dragon—So What If I'm a Little Scummy? 转生成绿龙的我屑一点怎么了？ Hungry Fox饿肚子的狐狸Eastern Fantasy3.2M WordsCompleted [Boom!] The gigantic beast, as big as a hill, fell to the ground. A young green dragon, smaller than the beast’s head, stood atop its skull, its dark green claws sinking deep into the flesh. It held its head high, its entire body radiating the aura of a king… “Hng-da~ Hng-da~” The scene he had imagined was abruptly interrupted by a childish cry. Standing on the beast’s skull, Kaosi lowered his head and looked helplessly at the white young dragon sitting on the ground. Her two thick hind legs str 75.2kReads9.1Score9.2kShelves

    Reader note

    ∑(O_O;) Hmm, this author is pretty good; he's written a series that's imaginative, not set in a modern world, and most importantly, it's engaging. It's really fun to read.

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