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Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海:开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩
(Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke
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The Pinker the Car, the Fiercer the Driver: I’m Claiming the Top Spot 车越粉人越狠这榜一我当定了
Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec
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The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀?抱歉,我才是真正不死
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
296.4kReads9.5Score35.5kShelves
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Livestream: Healing the Underworld Day by Day, I'm the White Impermanence 直播:阴间治愈日常,我是白无常
[Live streaming from the underworld + ghost officer + heartwarming everyday life] Jiang Lin is a White Impermanence, guiding the dead to the afterlife and delivering messages in dreams. One day, he obtains an Underworld Live-Streaming System. He can earn rewards by promoting the culture of the Netherworld. From then on, a miraculous livestream appears in the human world, connecting the realms of the living and the dead. A typical day in the livestream: “Ghost: Stay away from me!” “This really is
23kReads9.6Score2.6kShelves
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High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海,我开局一条幽灵船
The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called
287.5kReads9.4Score31.9kShelves
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At Eight, I Act Like a Little Big Shot, and the Whole Internet Adores Me 八岁厅里厅气的我被全网爱戴
An unexpected transmigration turns him into an eight-year-old orphan, with the protagonist’s template from the start! To earn rewards from the System, he joins the “Rising Star Youth Class.” His self-introduction turns into a work report, making the whole internet think he’s the standard official’s-son type! Lin Li: “We must keep the Youth Class’s lights shining, do its work well, foster its fine traditions, and guard its doors!” Netizens: “Why does this kid sound like an official from the burea
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The Wife I Picked Up in a Game Turned Out to Be a Demoness 在游戏中捡的老婆竟是女魔头
The game world of Xuan Ying Continent forcibly kicked out every Hailan Star player because of an unknown malfunction. When the servers shut down, only “player” Song Ye was left behind, becoming the only player in Xuan Ying Continent. He was also confined to the beginner village. Song Ye could only run beginner-village quests every day to earn experience and level up. No one knew how much time passed. Realizing he had no hope of returning to the real world, Song Ye married a mysterious woman from
34kReads7.4Score2.4kShelves
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Reborn in a Shared Apartment, but the System Is in the Hehuan Sect! 重生合租房,系统却在合欢宗门!
[Rebirth + lighthearted comedy + System] Reborn in a shared apartment, he lives with several beautiful women. [Ding! Welcome back, Host, to the immortal cultivation sect...] Lin Yu: ?? I’m clearly in a shared apartment, so why are you saying I’m at an immortal cultivation sect? Watering flowers becomes [tending spirit plants]? Cooking becomes [studying medicinal pills]? Changing the bedsheets becomes [setting up an array]? This System is kind of interesting.
17.7kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves
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The Era of Ghost Money: Even Hauntings Must Follow the Rules 冥币时代:诡异杀人也要讲规则
[Weird Invasion + Rules-Based Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Survival + Ghost Money] The weird beings have arrived. They feed on humans, but can’t kill them at will. They have to trick humans into triggering a death rule before they can devour them. Xia Tianqiong returns, reborn, and makes billions in ghost money himself. Using memories from his past life, he turns the rules against the weird beings and forces them into contracts. The weird beings in this world either work for him or are destroyed by
24.6kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
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Bad News: I Have a Terminal Illness. Good News: I'm Invincible 坏消息得绝症了,好消息我无敌了
[Adapted into a Live-Action Short Drama and Motion Comic] [Invincible] [Multiple Heroines] [Infinite Worlds] [Power Fantasy] From the start, Ye Chuan inherits a decrepit house in an urban village. Then, just as he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, an Empress claiming to be from the Tianxuan Continent shows up. After new tenants move in, Ye Chuan discovers that not only does a huge sum of money come in every day, he also receives items related to each tenant's background. [Obtained the Human
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My Mom Was Serving Dishes from the Start, and I Turned My Life Around to Reform the World 开局妈传菜,迷途知返我调教世界
He transmigrates to a parallel world. From the start, he is cruelly manipulated by a beautiful classmate. A high school student facing the college entrance exams is saddled with tens of thousands in debt, driving his family into bankruptcy. While figuring out how to make money, he suddenly discovers that the culture and entertainment of this world have nothing in common with those of his previous life. Its culture is weak, and its people suffer from a profound lack of national confidence… Ev
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Sequence: God Eater 序列:吃神者
[Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide
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I’m the Lord of the Heavenly Dao Hall! All My Disciples Are Traitorous Apprentices 我,天道殿主!弟子全是冲师逆徒
[Overpowered wish fulfillment, lighthearted and funny, taking disciples, no angst, disciples who turn on their master, lots of them] [Adaptation of the short drama of the same name now available] After Chen Daoxuan transmigrates, he obtains a System that makes him invincible as long as he takes disciples. Whether they are Immortal Emperors or supreme saints of the heavens, they are like ants before him. None can escape his one-stop service of instant annihilation, spiritual deliverance, and havi
34.4kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物
[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
604.4kReads9.5Score55.5kShelves
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My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客
After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem.
123.3kReads9.7Score13.8kShelves
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Mysterious Creatures Awaken, and I’m Designated No. 001 神秘生物复苏,我被编号001
[No System] [No Female Lead] [Urban Power Fantasy] [No Hiding His Strength] Chen Xiao pressed the wrong elevator button and was killed by the void a thousand times. After countless rebirths, Chen Xiao transmigrated to another world. Mystical creatures were everywhere. Mythical phoenixes reborn in flames, ancient emperors rising from the earth, tentacled monsters ruling the oceans, ruthless, bloodthirsty straw creatures… And Chen Xiao was branded with the number 001. … When the mystical creatures
12.5kReads8.8Score887Shelves
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Heavenly Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
939.6kReads9.4Score83.8kShelves
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I Can’t Hide It Anymore: My Sister-in-Law Exposed My Identity 瞒不住了,我的身份被小姨子曝光
Xiao Ze kept his identity hidden, living a happy, ordinary life with his wife. Who would have thought… One livestream by his sister-in-law accidentally revealed a whole host of his identities! “Oh my God! Those dozen bottles of wine are worth over a hundred million?!” “The Wine God's out-of-print final work is actually here?!” “A ten-billion-yuan Van Gogh painting is hanging in the bathroom?!” “Mosna Castle! Mona Island… All those properties belong to your brother-in-law?!” “Ferraris, Lamborgh
1.4kReads8.5Score263Shelves
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Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生,我熬死了所有人
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
538.5kReads9.4Score47.6kShelves
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
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
1.7MReads9.9Score191.2kShelves
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世,我囤积了百亿物资
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
350.8kReads8.7Score21.8kShelves
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After the Breakup, One Song Had the Whole Internet in Tears! 分手后,一首天后全网都哭了!
[Showbiz + Female Celebrity + One Female Lead + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life] Thanks to memories from his previous life, Su He became one of the entertainment industry's top producers. But when he refused to cash in on fans through commercialization, his agency stripped him of his stage name and the copyrights to all his songs. Li Xuan, the queen of pop he'd made famous, also broke up with him and cut ties for the sake of her own future. Talent is worthless in the face of capital? Then he'll ju
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Online Game: Confessing to a Noble Lady from the Start 网游:开局表白贵族千金
[Fake Villain + Lighthearted + Invincible + Online Game = Maximum Thrills!] After playing a game all night, he suddenly died and transmigrated into the game as a notorious villain. He confesses to the noble duke’s daughter right from the start, only for the duke to decide he wants him dead? He had thought he’d only made one enemy, but when Victor came to his senses, he realized something. Everyone around him wanted him dead. The aloof Valkyrie boss was dead set on taking his head, while the all-
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I Transmigrated into a Cultivation Novel, but Is This Actually a Women's Romance?! 穿越修仙文,但是疑似女频?!
[Cultivation, Ruthless Male Lead (Fourth Chapter Onward, He Starts Chopping, and Doesn’t Stop Until It’s Satisfying] He transmigrated into a cultivation world, but there was another soul inside his body. A woman! A lovesick, sweet little flower!!!!!!! And they had to take turns controlling the body every day. Shu Qiuqiao: I heard the protagonists in male-oriented novels kill people’s entire families at the drop of a hat and never bother with reason. Li Xia: That’s a complete slander! Who said th
34.1kReads9.2Score4.6kShelves
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
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
536.8kReads9.7Score73.8kShelves
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A Zombie's Hiking Diary 丧尸的徒步旅行日记
[Leisurely Travels + Everyday Storylines + No Romance] [Content note: No fighting or drama, and the protagonist isn't cold-blooded, going on killing sprees, or antisocial. This is purely a story about taking walks!] When the apocalypse broke out, Yu Qingxian chose to die. But her attempt failed, and she became a zombie. She had been socially anxious and depressed in life, so she decided to travel on foot. Since everyone was a zombie anyway, she didn't feel so afraid anymore.
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Wait, How Did My AI Girlfriend Cultivate into a Sword Immortal? 不是,我电子女友咋修成剑仙了
[Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil
204.6kReads9.3Score65.6kShelves
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Give the Mysterious World the Ultimate Dose of Trouble 为神秘世界献上最高级别的搞事
[Creatures from a Cthulhu Mythos World + Light Novel + Evil God Protagonist + Stirring Up Trouble + The Author Has Gone Mad + One Heroine (Bro, This Diet Coke Has No Sugar)] Also known as I Tricked My Unlucky Uncle into Becoming a Legendary Investigator and Why Is My Tomboy Friend So Fragrant? “Hello, we'd like to learn about Mr. Hunter's life.” “If you're asking me, you've come to the right person. I know him very well.” “What kind of person was he?” “An unruly kid who loved wandering around al
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My Ten Years Working at the Xishan Base 我在西山基地工作的那十年
Anomaly containment, an overpowered protagonist? No. High IQ. One heroine. Some heartbreaking plot twists. Beijing, Xishan, 3,000 meters underground: hundreds of anomalous objects. A digital Earth that drifted through space for ten thousand years; a woman who transmigrated a thousand years into the past and died during the Shang dynasty; a colossal stone pillar that appeared on the North China Plain; Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor, who have survived for four eras; a pen that can improve people’s
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The Villain’s Diary: Why Does It Feel Like You’re All Acting? 反派日记:怎么感觉你们在演我
She transmigrated into a novel and became the villain. After dozens of attempts, all ending in failure, she still couldn't return to the real world. At last, she gave up trying, only to discover she could grow stronger by writing a diary. Since nobody could read it, Su Luo wrote whatever she pleased, holding nothing back. The first female lead: "This diary is great. I stole all the protagonist's opportunities, and now I just want to grow stronger." The second female lead: "I don't care about rea
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From the Start, I Ate the Campus Beauty 开局我吃了校花
Everyone has imagined that there might be something mysterious in this world, right? Have you imagined taking a train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Have you imagined a beautiful senior pulling up in a Ferrari to hand you an acceptance letter from Cassell College at the school gates? Have you imagined that when you feel lost and alone, a swordsman from an ancient sect will descend from the sky and tell you, “You’ve been chosen!”? Congratulations. Your fantasies have come true. Th
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The Source of Darkness 黑暗之源
[Xuanhuan] + [horror] + [light novel] + [comedy] + [single heroine] This is a game of wits between the gods. After transmigrating to a world of Origin Cards, Liu Huanzhen learns that the previous owner of his body worked hard at school by day to become a top student, studied necromancy by night as a heretic, and still found time to confess to the gorgeous campus belle! Staring at the page of densely packed symbols, with his classmates looking at him pleadingly, Liu Huanzhen falls into deep thou
5.5kReads8.8Score500Shelves
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Apocalypse Snail: A Little Conscience, but Not Much 末世蜗牛:有点良心,但不多
[No System or Superpowers] [Comedy] [Wild Ideas] [Plot Twists] [Light Novel] [Protagonist Fans, Read at Your Own Risk] [Bizarre and Explosive] [Not for the Straight-Laced] One day, snails poured from the sky in place of rain. Anyone bitten turned into a monster, and resources became scarce… You'll see a protagonist group that is selfish and self-serving, lacking in empathy, hypocritical, vindictive, fake do-gooders, arrogant, two-faced, all pretenses, and downright crazy... Every las
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One Man, One Dog, One Zombie 一人一狗一丧尸
[No superpowers + no System + plot-focused + no harem] Huang Jin, a young man who secretly worked in a specialized line of business, received a call from his boss at the beginning of the zombie outbreak. His boss ordered him to stay put in C City and wait for the organization to rescue him. But time passed, and after waiting for two whole years, Huang Jin still saw no sign of anyone from the organization. He decided to head to Z City, where his boss was, on his own. Along the way, he came across
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命,请让我从容赴死
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
143.5kReads9.8Score16.4kShelves
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Little Skeleton 从前有只小骷髅
I'm a skeleton monster. I like to take my head off and toss it around when I'm bored. Then one day, I meet a hellhound... Damn it! Give me back my skull, you bastard!
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That Criminal Acts Too Well: The Special Police Asked How Many Years I’d Been Inside 凶犯演太好,特警问我蹲过几年
(Criminal mastermind + showbiz + a little bit of people imagining things) Li Si obtains the [Crime System], and from then on, the entertainment industry gains an oddball. When other people's new movies come out, their fans cheer with excitement. When his new movie comes out, his fans only ask one thing: “Boss, the special police still haven't hauled you off to jail?” Film Emperor: “The first time I acted opposite him, I thought the crew had hired someone straight out of prison. But it turned
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Dear Players: The Air in This Server Is About to Become Private Property 致各位玩家:本服空气即将私有化
(The print edition has been published under the title The Final Ownership Era) [The Ultimate Owner] [Synopsis: The stars are my candlelight, the orbits my sash, and civilization my game board. It is my mercy that lets all life flourish in my garden, where no one has to measure each breath in money.] Like millions of others, Ling He was unexpectedly pulled into a war game. Outside, countless races watched hungrily. Within, humanity schemed against itself. Some wanted to become emperors, standing
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[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
882.1kReads9.6Score212.5kShelves
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Great Tang: Li Shimin Begs Me to Start a Rebellion 大唐:李世民求我造反
Li Ke transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty. He plans to use his skills as a motivational speaker to brainwash a loyal crew and keep his head down as an unremarkable prince. But eight years after transmigrating, he discovers that he brought along an entire national strategic reserve warehouse. So Li Ke throws caution to the wind. If he’s going to be a prince, he might as well be one who fears nothing and lives as freely as he pleases! First, he starts a newspaper to build his rep
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Rebirth as a Demonic Cultivator: Starting with a Zombie Planet 重生魔修,开局捡到一颗丧尸星球
This novel has been adapted into a comic. Chu Xuan transmigrates to the Cangxuan World and becomes a demonic cultivator in the Wuji Sect. To cultivate the demonic path is to seize the essence of heaven and earth and take the finest of all things. Slaughter countless millions, and you can become a supreme Demon Venerable. But killing is forbidden by the Heavenly Dao of the human race. The righteous sects also wiped out the Wuji Sect. Just when all seemed lost, Chu Xuan happens upon a blood mirror
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I Asked You to Manage the Special Talents Class, So How Did They All Become Top Students? 让你代管特长班,怎么全成学霸了?
Three homeroom teachers have been driven away in just two months. When it comes to Class Seven, the special-track class for underachievers known as a teacher’s battlefield and a playground for poor students, even with the director of studies offering sky-high pay, the veteran teachers sit as still as mountains. Not one is willing to take the job. Just then, Chen Chu, a trainee teacher, activates the Strongest Teaching System. He volunteers to become Class Seven’s new homeroom teacher, starting f
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Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力
[Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] 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. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na
339kReads9.7Score47.8kShelves
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Dreamed I Was Poisoned to Death? The Wicked Consort Goes on a Rampage 梦到自己被毒死?恶毒贵妃杀疯了
[Not a pure romance + an all-villain cast + a heroine who kills + an indulgent hero + exclusive devotion from the start] [An aloof, ruthless, pleasure-seeking autocratic emperor vs. an arrogant, domineering, viciously cunning consort] Emperor Long'an had ruled for seven years. What people talked about most was his unusual hobby: keeping all kinds of fierce beasts and wild birds. Little did they know that the creatures who caught Emperor Long'an's interest were all in the harem's fighting ring. E
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Quick Transmigration: The Graceful Lady 快穿之窈窕淑女
[Immersive quick transmigration + carefree Mary Sue + gorgeous heroine + over-the-top melodrama + author follows her whims + logic lovers beware + everyone gets hooked] Lin Yao: Breathe~ Target of the mission: What a skilled operator! No one knows where Lin Yao comes from or how old she is, but there’s a flower on her wrist that no one else can see. It holds a pocket dimension, flower dew, and a spirit spring. No matter what world she transmigrates to, she has everything she needs: beauty, a lo
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The Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder Won't Play by the Rules 快穿炮灰她不走寻常路
No fixed pairing, Qing-dynasty setting + historical eras + other worlds, with a pocket dimension Note: The heroine is a hedonist and a self-serving perfectionist. Her motto is that she can eat anything but hardship and endure anything but suffering. She tries to live comfortably in every world. After more than twenty years of bad luck, college student Shen Anning finally catches a break, only to die the day before her fortune is due to arrive. Perhaps her resentment is too great: just before sh
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A Prince from the Start: I Become Fat Ju's Greatest Treasure 开局皇子,我成胖橘掌中宝
Zhao You is a die-hard male fan of Empresses in the Palace and a Level 10 expert on the show, having studied the drama frame by frame. One day, he transmigrates and is told he has to be born as a prince in Empresses in the Palace, with a System to help him! Looking at the first mission displayed by the gleaming System, he reads: Choose a mother for yourself as soon as possible, Host! “You can even choose your own mom? This thing is incredibly advanced!” Just as Zhao You is getting ready to make
16.7kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
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Empresses in the Palace: The Cannon Fodder Concubine's Rise to Promotion 甄嬛传之炮灰的贵妃升职记
Noble Lady Fang was an inconspicuous background character in Empresses in the Palace, the previous owner of the Broken Jade Pavilion. Shallow, a standard-issue extra, and unlucky. Until she died in the Cold Palace and was chosen by the System to live her life over again. To be honest, she had always thought of herself as an ordinary little nobody in the imperial harem. The System must have picked her by mistake out of inexperience. But the System said, “Choosing you is the most rigorous and opti
6.9kReads9.2Score532Shelves
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What the Heck! Everyone Around Me Is Completely Nuts! 癫!孤身边全是神经病!
Born a crown prince, Qi Yuanzuo was convinced that he was the only normal person in the imperial family. Little did he know what the Crown Prince looked like to outsiders: At seven, he shot a tiger and won nine hundred kilometers of territory in the Qilian Mountains. At thirteen, he cut through the great clans of Jiangnan and personally orchestrated the Case of the Ninety-Seven Mourning Robes, stepping over piles of corpses to claim the throne. At fifteen, he gambled on the Qilian Mountains once
88.4kReads9.5Score14kShelves
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With the Notable Ministers System in Hand, I Disguise Myself as a Man in Ancient Times 手拿名臣系统,我在古代女扮男装
Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to
132.8kReads9.6Score14.5kShelves
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