I've Run Out of Books. Looking for Satisfying Stories with No Doormat Protagonists. 书荒，求爽文，非圣母

1. 51 冰 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Sea of Memories记忆的海Sci-Fi & Apocalypse7.2M WordsOngoing Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 377.3kReads8.7Score31.5kShelves
2. 52 天 Sky Screen: They Showed the Dragon Banner's Advance, Is This the Great Song? 天幕：刷龙纛前压，这是大宋？ Beiqi Beiqi北起北起Historical2.2M WordsOngoing The protagonist isn’t just a prop. Besides short videos and historical video compilations, the story also focuses on showing people from the past modern life! Lin Qi has no idea that videos of his daily life are being shown to audiences across every dynasty. And so, beneath the sky screen, Lin Qi’s life becomes entertainment for countless ancestors during their downtime. An AI short video titled “Oh no, Ying Zheng got MVP” makes Ying Zheng lose it. A video of “The Song Dynasty’s dragon standard 134.9kReads8.4Score6kShelves
3. 53 不 The Undying Emperor’s Mentor 不死帝师 One Durian No. 3一只榴莲3号Eastern Fantasy5.5M 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 586kReads9.4Score50.1kShelves
4. 54 全 The Full-Time Sword Cultivator 全职剑修 Half a Pot of Sake清酒半壶Sports4.4M WordsOngoing [Qingjiu's New Novel] Lin Jichen was a master at the Dao Enlightenment Realm in Eight Wastelands, the strongest spell cultivator under heaven. He should have had countless admirers, the power to command the winds and rain, and an boundless path to immortality. But after his lover and sworn brother both betrayed him, he was tricked into entering the lair of Zhulong, a Level-to-Immortality Realm boss. In the end, he died in the jaws of a beast, his body and soul destroyed. Unexpectedly, fate gave 31.9kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
5. 55 你 You’re Already a Great Emperor, and You’re Still Attending Graduation?! 你都大帝了，还来参加毕业典礼？ I'm Not a Cavalryman我不是铁骑Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [High martial arts + stat-point system + martial arts school league + battles in another world + invincible + no heroine] “I long for a worthy opponent...” Jiang Hao, founder of Haotian Martial Arts Academy, Blue Star's strongest councilor, Lord of Calamity, the All-Heavens Fish-Fryer, and Chaos Evil God. (All the iconic scenes have now been revisited.) [Ping! Congratulations, Host! You instantly killed a Tier One opponent and earned 1 point!] [Ping! Congratulations, Host! You instantly killed a 25.9kReads8.8Score2kShelves
6. 56 系 The System Bound to the Wrong Person, So Why Am I, the Invincible One, Mistaken for Trash? 系统绑错人，无敌的我被当废材？ 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 10.4kReads8.3Score882Shelves
7. 57 我 I'm a Fate-Swapper. So What If I Can Revive Without End? 我一换命师，能无限复活咋了？ A Year of Boundless Heaven一年弥天Sports1.0M WordsCompleted [Online game + whole population + gaming + invincible + urban] Su Yu wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to a world where online gaming is open to everyone! Anyone can enter the [Mythic World], awaken a talent and a class, and become a player! Everything in the Mythic World can be brought into reality in its entirety! This is an age of gaming for all! From the start, Su Yu awakens a Dao-grade talent: Infinite Resurrection! He revives immediately after dying! He also awakens a god-tier cla 6.6kReads7.9Score641Shelves
8. 58 素 The Silk Wolf Pattern Incident 素纱狼纹惊变录 Flame Whispers焰语Ancient Romance208k WordsOngoing Amid the schemes of a chaotic age, she casts off her plain veil and takes up her chilling spear. With her left hand, she grips the black-armored troops’ command seal and rebuilds the cavalry; with her right, she wields the Wolf King’s totem to cow the northern frontier. She makes anyone who seeks to control her fate understand: this realm was never a bridal chessboard, but a battlefield where she rides free and strikes at full gallop! 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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9. 59 大 My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 666kReads9.5Score50.8kShelves

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   The novel treats both men and women equally, especially the first one. There are countless female prodigies who died in the hands of the protagonist. It doesn't matter whether you are a colleague, a native of the country, a foreign country, a local or a foreigner. If you make a mistake and offend the protagonist, the protagonist will kill you without hesitation.

10. 60 朝 A Hound of the Imperial Court? You’ve Never Faced the Six Fan Gate’s Blades 朝廷鹰犬？没挨过六扇门的刀 Tian Yan天衍Eastern Fantasy5.7M WordsOngoing Also known as: Six Doors: Confiscating Estates and Wiping Out Clans [Transmigrate into a book + ruthless and decisive + single or no heroine] Reality isn’t a game, nor is it a storybook. Reality has rules, and breaking them brings retribution. My name is Li Jun Su. I paid the price for breaking the rules. After that, I was reborn. Unlike the real world, this world was dominated by martial arts, and the path to immortality flourished. Power mattered more than authority. The Great Qian Dyna 65.8kReads9.2Score5.2kShelves
11. 61 无 Infinite Fusion: My Bonded Gu Have All Become Immortals 无限融合，我的本命蛊都成仙了 The Bearing of a Sixty-Year-Old Hall六十岁殿堂之姿Eastern Fantasy2.9M WordsCompleted A bloody catastrophe shattered a dynasty that had ruled for a thousand years. Li Yuan, its sole surviving prince, concealed his identity and fled to the southern frontier, where he joined the Gu Master lineage and unexpectedly awakened a Gu-Insect Synthesis System. Lords from every corner of the land, demons and monsters, and the various martial-world factions were all looking for him. They wanted to use his bloodline as the key to unlock the Martial God treasure left behind by the founding empe 211.9kReads9.0Score31.2kShelves

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    Digging into the family fortune [crying], there will be a shortage of books

12. 62 天 Maxed-Out Talent: I Make My Mark in the Martial World! 天赋拉满，我在武道世界显圣！ July Shooting Star七月飞星Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Invincible from the start + ceiling-level combat power + emperor of a dynasty + powerful lead] Lu Chen transmigrates and is reborn. In this life, he's the fifth prince of the Great Yu Dynasty, blessed with terrifying comprehension and an exceptional constitution. While others are still fretting over how hard it is to reach the ninth level of the Azure Heaven Formula, he's already deduced further improvements to the technique, reaching the unprecedented eleventh level. While others are still str 95.8kReads8.9Score5.4kShelves
13. 63 市 Immortals Hidden Among the Common Folk 市井藏仙 Flying Flowers in the Fine Rain密雨飞花Eastern Fantasy6.7M WordsOngoing Zhao Mu transmigrates to the Great Jin dynasty and gains the power to grow young again. Whenever one life reaches its end, he returns to his youth, living forever without ever dying. For fifty years, I serve as an official at the entertainment bureau, leisurely watching celebrated courtesans dance and seeing every beauty the world has to offer. I live through the rise and fall of dynasties, watching wise rulers bring peace and foolish emperors plunge the realm into chaos. I roam the rivers and l 94.4kReads8.4Score9.6kShelves
14. 64 来 The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传 Yun Feng云峰Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 560.5kReads9.6Score46.4kShelves
15. 65 盗 Tomb Raiding: To Secure My Grad School Recommendation, I Rolled a Campus Beauty into a Mess in the Tomb 盗墓：为保研，墓里把校花卷麻了 I Use Cai Wenji我用蔡文姬Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted The campus belle posted her dating criteria: “If you want to pursue me, come tomb raiding with me. If you’re afraid to die, don’t bother.” Her schoolmates said, “Pursuing you could cost us our lives!” Ye Fan, meanwhile, was role-playing Zhang Qiling. He decided to raid a tomb in hopes of finding a shortcut to graduate school. Campus belle: A shut-in simp like you thinks you can pursue me? Campus belle: Does this impossibly aloof guy really like me? Campus belle: You save me every time, then say 18.9kReads8.3Score2.2kShelves
16. 66 开 From the Start, Selling Muscle-Building Tonics at a Street Stall 开局地摊卖大力 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Urban8.9M WordsCompleted [The Dali anime premieres on July 29. Search the title on Tomato to watch the PV.] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Muscle-Boosting Potion? Detoxifying Soybeans? Lucky Cherries? They can't keep them in stock! The world's top tycoons, richest men, popular streamers, and strongest experts all come to buy them. Jiang Nan: "I'm not even a tiny bit interested in money! 347kReads9.7Score40.2kShelves
17. 67 阴 Yin Immortal 阴仙 Jiang Muxi江沐淅Eastern Fantasy7.3M WordsOngoing Born inside a coffin, the young man honors the dying wish of the old caretaker of the charity cemetery and personally sends his sworn younger sister to join an immortal sect. After she enters the sect, he accidentally stumbles into the Yin Mountain of a Hundred Ghosts and has no choice but to embark on the path of ghosts… Thus begins the legendary cultivation journey of a ghost cultivator wielding a ghost blade, slaying giant demon overlords and cleaving immortal sect masters in two… 18.3kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
18. 68 踏 Stepping Into the Divine Ruins 踏神墟 Lamplighter秉灯人Urban2.7M WordsCompleted You’re all so powerful, armed to the teeth with money and influence. And I’m just a broke student. I don’t even have any friends, just a few sworn brothers from years past who’d lay down their lives for me. You call them the Ten Kings of Hell. I also have a childhood friend, whom you call Lady Meng. That road between life and death, that gate of reincarnation, I walk through them like they’re nothing. Getting tired of an opponent who can revive endlessly on the spot? 2.6kReads8.4Score211Shelves
19. 69 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 1.8MReads9.9Score184.7kShelves
20. 70 这 Something's Off About This Demon Prince 这个魔子不对劲 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Urban5.7M WordsCompleted The Sacred Heavenly Gate stands across the vault of heaven, while the Space-Time Demon Abyss lays waste to the mortal world. When twelve spirit springs burst forth from the earth, and the moon no longer belongs to humanity... Where will we go from here? A world of gods? A world of demons? No. This is a world that belongs to humanity! I will take up the crown that no one else dared to bear and become the king of a new era. My name is Ren Jie! A man should live to be a hero! 200.9kReads9.4Score19.2kShelves
21. 71 黄 A Dream of Huangliang: The Mad Heroine Hates Me to the Bone 黄粱一梦，疯批女主竟恨我入骨 Cowherd Boy of Lonely Mountain孤山放牛娃Eastern Fantasy4.1M WordsOngoing [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Decisive and Ruthless + Cunning and Devious + Invincible Among His Peers] Ye Lingtian transmigrates into a romance-and-intrigue novel as the villainous Third Prince of Great Zhou. From the start, he’s supposed to marry the heroine, Feng Huojun? On their wedding night, the crazy heroine tries to kill me. The reason? She loves me to the point of obsession? As the poison-coated dagger sinks into my heart, I know I’m done for. This villain really doesn’t survive pa 67.1kReads8.9Score5.4kShelves
22. 72 谁 Who Says a Little Page Can't Draw the Gentlemanly Sword? 谁说小书童拔不出君子剑的 Cup of Snow杯雪Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted [Traditional fantasy + no System + one heroine + slow burn + passionate adventure] In the Eastern Lands, a tavern waiter wears twin sabers at his waist and tempers his heart in the mortal world. In the Western Regions, a devoted monk carries a paintbrush, bringing flowers to the world. In the Southern Mountains, a Daoist wields peachwood, using talismans to subdue mountains and seas. In the northern lands, a monster carves a wooden staff, its dragon's roar shaking the Nine Heavens. And in the Ce 19.2kReads9.2Score2kShelves
23. 73 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger 灵气复苏：我在扮猪吃虎 Slaughterer of All Living Things屠戮苍生Urban2.5M WordsCompleted Lin Chen transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has revived. Since he didn't awaken a talent, his teachers, classmates, and family see him as a complete good-for-nothing, and even his girlfriend breaks up with him. Awakened ones? What's that? I'm an unparalleled cultivator! Across the Myriad Worlds, no matter how peerless or brilliant you are, no matter how you shake the ages, I can suppress you with a wave of my hand. I have enemies in every direction and factions all around me. No matte 32.5kReads8.6Score2.1kShelves
24. 74 逐 Chasing the Sword 逐剑 Cooked Laifu Pigeon煮熟的来福鸽Eastern Fantasy3.4M WordsCompleted [Traditional fantasy] [One female lead] [Lone cultivator] [No transmigration or rebirth] One day, if I hold a sword in my hand, even the saints of the world will bow their heads! One man, one dog, and one sword: together, they stir up a storm across the Six Provinces! After enduring the darkest moment of his life, the boy leaves the city at sunset with a sword on his back. How does he end up with white hair overnight, wearing a ghost mask and wielding a sharp blade, becoming the “Executioner” in 39.6kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves
25. 75 那 That Year, That Cicada, That Sword 那年那蝉那把剑 Mo Yu默煜Eastern Fantasy3.1M WordsCompleted Holding a cicada from summer doesn’t necessarily mean holding the whole summer in your hand. But grasp that sword, and you hold an entire world of martial arts. Wield a three-foot blade of gleaming steel. Dream of becoming a revered Sword God, if only for a day. Be an invincible Sword Immortal, if only for a moment. Sever the headmaster’s treasured pagoda and knock the emperor’s crown from his head. He laughs aloud: “Eight kings with zithers, lutes, harps, and pipes; four imps with grotesque fac 83.9kReads9.3Score8.7kShelves
26. 76 少 Girl, I Fused with a Ghost Immortal, and No One Is More Eerie Than Me 少女，融合成鬼仙没人比我更诡异 Ruo Xiaomeng若小萌Eastern Fantasy817k WordsOngoing [System + Transmigration + Xuanhuan + Transmigration to a Post-Apocalyptic World + Decisive and Ruthless + Card Draws + Strange World + Invincible + Constant Leveling Up] After finally becoming a big shot in the post-apocalyptic world, Ruo Xiaomeng thought she had saved the world. But she soon discovered that this was merely the world's surface, and it shattered before her eyes. At the brink of death, the System activated transmigration automatically. An accident during the journey sent her to t 326Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    The heroine studies fairy tales and is not a virgin

27. 77 九 Nine Phoenixes Descend to the Mortal Realm: My Boyfriend Is Human 九凤临凡：我的男友是凡人 Hui Mo Bai徽墨白Fantastical Romance271k WordsCompleted **“Wanwan, who are you really?!”** At the summit of Tianzhu Mountain, Chen Yan witnesses his girlfriend, Su Wanning, transform into a golden-flame phoenix and battle powerful enemies from beyond the heavens! Only then does he learn that the gentle woman he has dated for three years is actually the reincarnation of one of the **Nine Phoenixes of the Celestial Realm**! **“I'm sorry I kept it from you for so long.”** Su Wanning fights on, drenched in blood, to protect him. **“Funny, I kept somethin —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Every book has its own points of view.

28. 78 千 The Thousand-Smoke Tower 千烟塔 Hui Mo Bai徽墨白Historical344k WordsCompleted A village with the Feng surname in the mountains of southern Anhui. A scholar heads to the capital to sit the imperial exams and earns the top honor. The emperor asks what his hometown is like. Nervous, he describes it in a way that leads to a lifetime of trials and hardship. This story is entirely fictional. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 79 野 Wild Wheat Grows Untamed 野麦疯长 Hui Mo Bai徽墨白Female-Channel Fanfiction791k WordsCompleted How does a village woman marked by the poisonous sore of fate spend thirty years transforming from an object to be bartered into a person awakened to her own humanity? At eighteen, Yu Xiaomai develops a skin disease after exposure to pesticides, falling from “a girl whose price is yet to be named” to “a flawed product.” Forced into marriage, she is sent to an even more remote village. This story is entirely fictional. —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 80 仙 A Hilarious Tale of Immortals and Heroes 仙侠笑传 Yun Xi Jiuxiao云兮九霄Eastern Fantasy3.3M WordsOngoing A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 57Reads7.7Score—Shelves

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    Funny, witty and imaginative, please comment and collect

31. 81 重 A Reborn Life in the Siheyuan 重生之四合院人生 Yun Xi Jiuxiao云兮九霄Urban877k WordsCompleted A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 82 春 Spring Banquet 春日宴 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance664k WordsCompleted She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis 16.1kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves

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    This book is really good to read. I was read by Amway, a fan of Yuan Bingyan. The Spring Banquet is a typical story about a strong man and a strong woman. The interaction between the male and female protagonists is so interesting. I really like the words "see each other year after year" written in the text.

33. 83 谁 Who Says There Are No God-Tier Experts in the City? I Alone Can Subdue All Under Heaven 谁说都市无神境？我一人镇压诸天 Yaosi Lingjiu Wuyáo妖肆翎酒勿摇Urban132k WordsOngoing [Urban High Martial Arts + Return of the Strongest + Multiple Heroines + Unstoppable Domination + Decisive and Ruthless + Blood-Pumping Power Fantasy] After the great cataclysm, spiritual qi revived, otherworldly invaders arrived, and the world's order collapsed. Humanity struggled to survive in despair! I, Lu Chen, have returned from a world of blood and fire with the [Chaotic Devouring Body]. With divine-level cultivation, I move unseen through the city! Martial arts families abusing their pow —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    🌆 When the gods and demons come to the city... He is buying soy milk and fried dough sticks! "Rules? My soy milk stall has a radius of a hundred miles, and gods are not allowed to fly!" 💥 "Who said there is no god in the city?" I alone suppress the heavens"

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