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1. 401 诡EN 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 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
2. 402 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
3. 403 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 140.5kReads9.6Score21.6kShelves
4. 404 重 Reborn as the Beloved of Everyone: The Movie Emperor's Wife Is Poor and Fierce Again 重生团宠：影帝夫人又穷又凶 Not Dim-Witted After Waking Up睡醒不呆Modern Romance2.6M WordsCompleted [Print edition signed for publication] [Insanely outrageous wish-fulfillment + a few secret identities + savage online roasts + devoted romance with both leads’ first love + dazzling the world] In her previous life, she died with regrets. Now she has been reborn in the middle of a massive online hate campaign! If they’re going to hate on her anyway, she might as well stop pretending! Her scumbag fiancé gets shoved into a cold pool, then coughs and blames her? Sheng Wenyin: “What, caught a cold? 137.3kReads9.6Score14.4kShelves
5. 405 家 There Is an Immortal Lord in My Home 家中有位仙尊大人 Chu Cat褚猫Urban333k WordsOngoing [Cultivation + past life + romance + Immortal Venerable + transmigration + epic-length] He was the Hunyuan Immortal Venerable, fallen in the world of cultivation. When his tribulation failed, time and space reversed, and he found himself the most useless live-in son-in-law of the wealthy Xiao family. Lin Feng looks at the young man in the mirror, mocked as a “freeloader,” while the hand making a spell in his sleeve never stops. A thousand years of change have passed, yet within this mortal body —Reads—Score—Shelves

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6. 406 桃 Peach Blossom Debt 桃花债 Da Feng Gua Guo大风刮过Eastern Fantasy141k WordsCompleted Who is whose tribulation, and who owes whom a debt? A scheme laid a thousand years ago was nothing but a wait for a fateful meeting. Song Yao, the prime minister's son, was infatuated with the celebrated courtesan Yao Xiang, but she was in love with a poor scholar. By a twist of fate, the devastated Song Yao accidentally ate an immortal pill and ascended to become a deity. Tian Shu, the Star Lord of the Heavenly Court, was involved with Emperor Nanming. The Jade Emperor banished them to the mort 4.5kReads9.7Score1.1kShelves

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   The writing is quite good; it's a book written by a renowned author, and it must have been published quite some time ago.

7. 407 不 No Forgiveness, No Getting Back Together: Miss Su Is Thriving on Her Own 不原谅，不复合，苏小姐独美 Shi Yi拾一Modern Romance2.6M WordsOngoing After six years together, Jiang Yihuai puts an arm around his new flame and breaks up with her. Su Yumian makes no fuss. She packs her suitcase, takes the enormous breakup settlement, and moves out without hesitation. His friends all egg him on: “How long do you think Su Yumian will last this time?” Everyone in the capital knows she loves Jiang Yihuai desperately, so much that she has no pride or temper. She’ll come crawling back within three days, for sure. But three months pass… And she still 47.8kReads8.6Score4.4kShelves

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   Haha, let's reminisce about how it was in the beginning.

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