Any Genre Is Fine, Any Stories Where the Protagonist Doesn't Start From Scratch? 什么类型都可以，有没有主角不是从头开始的？

1. 1 三 Three Kingdoms: I Grow Stronger Through Hard Work, and Defeat Lu Bu with One Slash 三国：努力就变强，我一刀败吕布 Big Rabbit9527大兔子9527Historical826k WordsOngoing If you were Yuan Yao, the only legitimate son of the famous historical Yuan Shushu, also known as the Skull King, Forklift King, and Honey Water King, what would you do? Would you dread Yuan Shu's imminent declaration of himself as emperor and the collapse of his regime? Or would you try to turn things around, smash the imperial jade seal in Yuan Shu's hands so he couldn't claim the throne, then lie low and develop your strength? Yuan Yao thinks he's playing a brain-computer strategy game, and h 909Reads9.0Score—14d adds

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   Those from the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period all started with established status and resources.

2. 2 三 Three Kingdoms: I Am the True Imperial Uncle, Reviving the Han Dynasty for Three Generations 三国：我，真皇叔，三兴大汉 No Mortal Delicacies不吃烟火Historical1.3M WordsCompleted [Three Kingdoms] [Invincible] [Warring for supremacy] [The real imperial uncle] [System] Do all dynasties perish because they grow weak, while the Han alone falls because it is strong? After four hundred years, beacons of war burn across the land. Everything lies in ruin, and the people wail in misery. Thirteen provinces are strewn with bones, so numerous that even the fertile fields beside the roads cannot contain them. Some maneuver through the world of politics, while others roam as heroes wi 42.1kReads9.3Score3k14d adds
3. 3 都 The Strongest Madman in the City 都市之最强狂兵 Great Fortune and Fame大红大紫Urban15.2M WordsOngoing A pillar of the nation, a fierce tiger unleashed! His destiny was never meant to be ordinary: a man who is both righteous and wicked, shackled yet wielding the power of life and death. He stands at the forefront of the age, singing a bold song throughout his life. His life is glorious, forged through sheer ferocity, as he dances beneath the vast sky! 93.2kReads7.1Score2.9k14d adds

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   God-like from the start

4. 4 我 My Junior Sister Is Delicate and Frail, How Could She Be the Great Demon Lord? 我家师妹身娇体弱，怎会是大魔头 Delicate and Soft身娇体软Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted # Original Title: My Junior Sister Is Delicate and Frail, How Could She Be the Great Demon Lord? # Romance Title: The Tsundere Demon God's Training Manual # Also Known As: Is Our Sect Full of Evil Cultivators? Then I Won't Pretend Either Feng Ci transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the good-for-nothing daughter of a sect leader. After her parents, the sect leader and his wife, both died, her fiancé and the sect elders tried to seize her life-extending treasure, the Biluozhu, for a genius wi 67.3kReads9.3Score12.5k14d adds

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   The book is transformed into a fairy tale about cannon fodder and a real daughter. At the beginning, the fiancé tries to save the fake daughter and seizes the life-extending magic weapon. How to play this bad card? The heroine Feng Ci backhandedly signed a contract with the devil. During the day, she was Feng Ci, and at night she transformed into the "Demon God Crazy Ci". She asked the devil to beat up the scumbag and bitch for her, and she even joined the Bailingmen, a small sect - but it turned out that this was not an immortal cultivator sect, but an evil cultivator's lair! The senior brothers and sisters who appear to be immortals actually have evil hobbies: seizing luck, killing people, refining the body, refining the soul, and saving lives. Even the master is a spirit beast incarnation. There is no serious immortal cultivator in the entire sect, so he feels like a "funeral gate". Watch Feng Ci fight his way through the evil sect and make good use of bad cards. It's exciting and funny. It specializes in curing all kinds of grievances. For lovers of immortality literature, hurry up!

5. 5 绝 Dreadbane 绝魇 Purple-Clad, Hints of Blue紫衣微蓝Modern Romance594k WordsCompleted {Period Setting + Rebirth} Do love spells really exist in this world? Are dream visitations and being reborn really possible? Or are there truly masters who can divine the future with plants, commune with spirits, perform life-for-life exchanges, and defy fate to change someone’s destiny? Why is Qiao Meilin’s mind always haunted by unbelievable, supernatural dreams? Why do those few inescapable moments in Zhang Chenyu’s memories follow him like a shadow? A dream carries her across thirty year —Reads—Score—14d adds

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   The male lead's name remained a legend until his stunning entrance. The female lead's appearance was bizarre, stemming from a prediction made by a dim-witted female guest.

6. 6 师 After My Master Lost All His Cultivation, a Wife-Doting System Arrived! 师尊修为尽失后，宠妻系统来了！ Moonlight Reminds Me of Home明月思故乡Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing [Single Female Lead] [No Romantic Tension] [Decisive and Ruthless] [爽文] [Fast-Paced] [Several adaptations of this novel are already underway. Adaptation teams, please contact the author through their homepage to discuss the plot before proceeding.] Su Wanqing, the greatest prodigy of the Northern Region, lost all her cultivation because she was too eager to break through to the next realm. Once, she was an all-powerful prodigy in the eyes of the world, an unparalleled sword cultivator with the p 47.8kReads8.3Score5.6k14d adds

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   Single female protagonist cultivating immortality, a story of a woman's rise to power.

7. 7 玄 Xuanhuan: Even the Empress's Master Has Been Reborn!? 玄幻：女帝师尊竟也重生了！？ Wang Xiaofeng王小疯Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [Fantasy / one heroine / System / both reborn / slightly obsessive heroine / devoted couple / lots of daily life / partly feel-good / tons of heroine scenes!] Wang Chen had spent a thousand years in the world of cultivation and had even awakened a System. But just when he thought he was invincible as a Great Emperor, thousands of Chosen of Fortune joined forces and mercilessly killed him! The image that appeared most often before Wang Chen’s eyes as he died was that of his peerlessly beautiful m 87.6kReads9.2Score10.5k14d adds
8. 8 谁 Who Dates Their Childhood Friend? I Do! 谁会和青梅竹马谈恋爱啊，我谈！ If You're Bad, Just Type More菜就多码Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Slice of life, meme-filled comedy, baby protagonist, choosing genes, System, childhood sweethearts, two heroines, slow burn] They say you can't afford to lose at the starting line. So why not start competing from the womb and amaze everyone? Reborn, he starts by selecting the best genes from both parents, combining their strengths and adding just a little help from the System. And so Xu Qing gains a superhuman physique and talent. His comeback begins in infancy. Since he has another chance 25.3kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds

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   Rebirth, then choosing genes. People often say, "You can't lose at the starting line in life." You might not understand this when you're young, but as you grow up, you realize... Damn, people were already competing fiercely back then. But as we all know, the resources people acquire during their growth are not equal.

9. 9 玄 Xuanhuan: Defying Fate Through Ten Thousand Lifetimes, I Beat the Immortal Emperor to a Pulp 玄幻：逆命万世，我打爆仙帝 The Cat That Doesn't Love Fish不恋鱼的猫Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [The print edition of "Mayfly Chronicle" is now on sale] If life is as fleeting as a mayfly, how can it shake the heavens? After dying in poverty in old age, Su Chen discovered that his golden finger was a book that defied fate. After death, he could earn Fate-Reversal Points based on his life's achievements and keep reincarnating. He could spend those points to improve his next life's aptitude, comprehension, and even background. Across the long years, he was the ineffectual young master of a m 116kReads9.0Score10.6k14d adds

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10. 10 全 Everyone Digs for Treasure, but Only I Can See the Hints 全民挖宝，只有我能看到提示 Thirty Thousand a Day一日三万Urban6.0M WordsOngoing [First release anywhere online + no saintly heroine + satisfying story + decisive and ruthless + gleefully slaughtering everything] “Shocking! Shocking! The whole world is shocked! Daddy Ma spent one billion yuan to buy ten Super Treasure Maps and finally dug up a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. He has now attained immortality!!!” “Good news, good news! A high school senior used a Treasure Map to dig up an ancient golden elixir. From now on, my fate is mine to control!” “Rumor has it that netizen Ye us 69.3kReads8.8Score4.5k14d adds
11. 11 王 Dynasty Showdown: From the Start, I Summoned the Mighty Qin Warriors 王朝对决，我开局召唤赳赳老秦 A Leaf Knows the River一叶知江Urban1.2M WordsCompleted In the year 2000, Blue Star underwent a cataclysmic change. All advanced weapons became useless, and summoners from every nation on Blue Star had to summon dynasties from history to wage war against one another. The victor could devour the other dynasty’s fortune, strengthening both itself and its nation’s fortune. The loser’s dynasty would be annexed, its nation’s fortune diminished, and earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters would follow without end. The ancient and powerful empires of 7kReads7.0Score34414d adds
12. 12 帝 An Emperor's Card-Making System, Starting with Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng 帝王系制卡，从始皇帝嬴政开始 A Lion Fighting a Rabbit狮子搏兔Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [Cards have arrived, demons invade, Chinese emperors sweep across the universe, invincible throughout the heavens] This is a world where immortals and Buddhas are no more, civilization has been lost, and demons run rampant. The only thing people can rely on is cards filled with mysterious power. Xu Zhixian transmigrates into a card-based world, but a defect in his mental powers leaves him unable to create or control cards. Homeroom teacher: “You’re being forcibly transferred to an ordinary schoo 43.9kReads8.5Score5.3k14d adds
13. 13 人 In Honghuang, I Pick Up Golden Traits from the Start 人在洪荒，开局拾取金色词条 Deep-Sea Diver深海下潜Eastern Fantasy549k WordsCompleted Zhou Xuan transmigrated and became a Heaven-Swallowing Toad, a strange species from the Primordial World. He also gained a Trait Plundering System. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the golden trait Heaven-Swallowing Devourer!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the golden trait Innate Divine Being!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the golden trait heaven-defying comprehension!] [...] During the Witch-Demon Tribulation, he was still strengthening his tr 8.3kReads8.3Score58814d adds
14. 14 洪 Honghuang: In the Spring and Autumn Period, I Become Laozi's Disciple from the Start 洪荒：人在春秋，开局拜师老子 Cold River in Yunmeng云梦寒江Eastern Fantasy573k WordsOngoing (The rating has only just come in, but it'll go up later.) As the embers of the Investiture of the Gods still drifted across the Heavenly Court, and the Journey to the West calamity was brewing in chaos, bronze swords rang amid the wars between the kingdoms of Nanzhan Buzhou, while an immortal stone in Dongsheng Shenzhou absorbed the essence of the sun and moon. Yin Wen arrived with a prompt-based golden finger and became the younger brother of Yin Xi, the Perfected One of the Beginning of the W 374Reads6.8Score—14d adds
15. 15 万 Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation: I Walk the Path to Immortality in a Mortal Body 万世轮回，我以凡躯踏长生 Listening to Wind and Rain at Night夜阑听风雨Eastern Fantasy290k WordsOngoing Reincarnation is a matter of pure luck. Fortunately, Lin Qi has mastered the art of reincarnation. What? I had bad luck in this life? No problem. I can save up wealth, companions, cultivation techniques, and even spiritual roots and comprehension for my next life. After all, I have only one goal while I'm alive: to become an immortal and live forever! From then on, he is a gentleman of a prominent family in a mortal dynasty, a live-in son-in-law to a cultivation clan, a wandering cultivator who 34Reads6.3Score—14d adds
16. 16 我 I Built a Conglomerate in Honghuang 我在洪荒建立集团 Fish of the Sea海的鱼Eastern Fantasy291k WordsCompleted Waking up in the era when chaos first began to divide, Lin Feng used the System’s help to bring the Great Dao of Chaos in as an investor and found the first conglomerate in the Primordial World, known simply as the Primordial Group! From then on, a new force stirred up storms across the Myriad Worlds, as Lin Feng led all living beings through countless battles in the chaos. For what happens next, please read on! 601Reads7.0Score10014d adds
17. 17 洪 Rejected by the Three Pure Ones and Scorned by Zhunti in Honghuang 洪荒：三清不要我，准提也嫌弃 A Wobbly Puppet摇晃得人偶Eastern Fantasy754k WordsOngoing I transmigrate to Honghuang and become one of the first humans, molded from a speck of mud flung by Nuwa. Don't people who transmigrate usually get a System? Why don't I have one? If I can't become sworn brothers with Pangu, becoming a disciple of the Three Pure Ones would be pretty good. What? The Three Pure Ones look down on me? The human race faces a great calamity. How are we supposed to survive it? And why won't Nuwa intervene? In the Primordial World, humanity is weak and the road ahead is 94Reads6.2Score—14d adds
18. 18 师 Disciple of Pangu, I Help Hongjun Mend Honghuang 师从盘古，我助鸿钧补洪荒 Er Mo Xiao尔莫笑丶Eastern Fantasy230k WordsCompleted At the dawn of creation, Xiao Ling transmigrated into the Primordial World. He became the only innate human in existence, while Pangu, by chance, retained a wisp of his remnant soul and entered Xiao Ling's sea of consciousness to recover. He kept a low profile for thirty yuanhui, until Pangu's remnant soul finally awakened. With the Dragon-Han Calamity about to begin, Xiao Ling told Pangu how the Primordial World would unfold. Later, he unexpectedly befriended the Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who was t 90Reads—Score—14d adds
19. 19 百 A Hundred Lifetimes of Cultivation: Starting from Scratch to Build the Xuanniao Immortal Clan 百世修仙：从零开始建立玄鸟仙族 Kunlun Fish昆仑鱼Eastern Fantasy165k WordsOngoing Xiao Xuan transmigrated to the cultivation world, but his aptitude was so poor that he reached only the seventh level of Qi Refining by the time he died. Afterward, however, he awakened the supreme treasure, the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes. When he died, he could begin a new life among his descendants, and even improve his talents and awaken divine abilities! After cultivating diligently life after life, he finally reaped what he had sown and became a powerful figure in the cultivation world! Th 4Reads6.4Score—14d adds
20. 20 离 After Her Divorce, She Marries a Wealthy Young Wolf and Wins Big 离婚后，嫁豪门小狼狗的她赢麻了 Fight Monsters, Level Up, Farm Bosses打怪升级刷bossMarriage & Romance10k WordsCompleted After her divorce, she married into a wealthy family with a wolfish young man and came out on top. —Reads—Score—14d adds

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21. 21 港 Hong Kong Films: I Traded Good Deeds for Skills and Struck It Rich 港片：善功兑换技能，我发达了 Night of Clear Wind and Cold Moon清风冷月夜Male-Channel Fanfiction1.4M WordsCompleted Shen Dong transmigrates to Hong Kong Island in the 1980s, where he becomes the right-hand man of Uncle Bo, the boss of the Hongmen gang in Tuen Mun, and activates the Good Deeds Exchange System. I may only be a small-time gang boss, but you actually expect me to do good deeds? This is outrageous. “Congratulations on killing Crow of the Dongxing gang and saving countless lives. Reward: 100 Good Deed Points.” “Congratulations on leading your men into legitimate business. Reward: 500 Good Deed Poin 74.6kReads9.2Score4.7k14d adds
22. 22 飘 The Drifting Immortal Path 飘浮仙路 Sunset Rainbow Bridge夕阳虹桥Eastern Fantasy434k WordsCompleted “I never imagined that I, Haoyu Divine Lord, a mighty Divine Lord, would actually die here... here!” So he began to perform a forbidden art he had once stumbled upon. “Heaven and earth, the way of all things, the soul of my life, the path of my body... condense... condense... gather...!” Haoyu Divine Lord let out one final, mournful cry. All that remained was the Universe Diagram, slowly drifting into a rift in space until it disappeared from sight. A conflict sparked by a divine artifact s 44Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Wang Zifeng, a boy from a mountain village, was taken in as a disciple by the rogue cultivator Wu Qingsong. Thus, he started by learning to read and write, growing step by step. There was no such thing as "genius," only hard work and perseverance.

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