Looking for a Male Lead with That Worn-Down Office Worker Vibe 求那种社畜有班味淡淡死感的男主。
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After Dying Time and Again, I Became Everyone's Crush 数次死亡后,我成为了万人迷
[Personal preferences · beautiful male corpse fiction · bottom protagonist · read with caution] Please decide for yourselves whether to read. If you can't handle it, leave immediately. The settings are all in place. The protagonist's ending depends entirely on what he wants. A crossover of multiple anime worlds; which series get added depends on inspiration. An utterly ordinary person longs to become the protagonist, but can only ever be a background character. So set out, background character.
15.1kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
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How Can a Burned-Out Wage Slave End Up Raising a Mute Dad? 丧ber社畜怎么资助出个哑巴爹
[Younger top, mute boy, Liao Chuan] [Older bottom, office drone, Mu Chang Qing] [Both pure, happy ending, raising him, devoted dog] The thing Mu Chang Qing regretted most in his life was smiling at a mute boy who snatched his empty soda can, outside a convenience store. The boy stood backlit. He didn't say a word. He just stared at Mu Chang Qing. Thin and wiry, his eyes dark and heavy. His knobby fingers pointed at the empty can in Mu Chang Qing's hand like a boss signaling an employee to hand o
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After Being Forced to Marry an S-Rank Alpha 被迫嫁给S级Alpha之后
[Overworked omega x CEO alpha, married first and fall in love later, lighthearted daily life] System notification: A partner with a highly compatible pheromone profile has been selected. Please register your marriage within 30 days. Yu Qian: ??? He is just an ordinary overworked employee. All he wants is to keep his credit record clean, hold on to his job, and stay alive. He meets that Alpha at the marriage and family services center. Quan Xuan, S-rank, with coffee-scented pheromones. Grea
87.4kReads8.1Score17.8kShelves
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The Everyday Life of an Ordinary Beta 普通beta的日常生活
[Two male leads + ABO + earnest, down-to-earth He Ping × detached, slightly messed-up Cheng Xu + rural life at first, then working in the city + everyday life + slow burn + younger male lead + cases that happen around them described from an onlooker’s perspective + a touch of horror] Because his father is ill, He Ping quits his city job and comes home to help out. Summer in the countryside is scorching, and without air conditioning, it’s especially miserable. Then, for some reason, two young al
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Pure and Upright, Like the Wind 亭亭净植如风
Gu Tingzhi and Xiao Moze had known each other for over a decade, from high school to college and then into the working world. Their relationship had never been very good, because they both fell for the same person, Lu Jingchen. They were rivals in love, but unfortunately Lu Jingchen wasn’t interested in either of them. He liked someone else. The unexpected happened on the night they went to Lu Jingchen’s wedding. Xiao Moze had been drinking heavily when he suddenly found Gu Tingzhi’s beauty irre
5.5kReads8.4Score535Shelves
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E's Golden Cage: A Love Prison for a Broken Old Beta E的黄金笼囚爱老Beta残鸟
[Complete] The groveling pursuit begins in earnest from Chapter 61 [Entertainment industry | EABO | Younger man | Status gap | Rivals in love | Raising a child] Main story, EB | Qin Jian × Mu Yansheng (amnesiac, cold-hearted, crazy, controlling top-tier star enigma seme | honest, domestic older beta uke, disfigured) At nineteen, Mu Yansheng was disfigured in a fire while saving Qin Jian. His dream of becoming an actor was shattered, so he could only do odd jobs and work as a script supervisor on
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I’m Just a Resident Physician, So How Did I Become Famous Worldwide? 我一个规培生,怎么全世界闻名了
[No Romance + Medicine + Research + Residency Growth + System] At thirty-six, Gu Lin dies suddenly at his computer after staying up night after night revising papers, attending research meetings, and working with clinical data. One of the country’s youngest doctoral advisors in medicine, he has published more than ten SCI papers in top journals such as Nature and Cell. To countless medical students, he is a “genius doctor.” But no one knows that, more than all those honors, what he really misses
72.8kReads8.9Score8.6kShelves
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No More Wage Slavery After Graduation: I'm Becoming a Bounty Hunter 毕业后不做牛马,去当赏金猎人
[Comedy + Alternate setting + A touch of mystery + Adventure + Urban + No female lead] Investigating a murder from more than a decade ago, he pits his wits against a deranged serial killer. He transmigrates into a primeval jungle no one dares enter, searching for the bodies of people lost in a sinkhole. He enters a mysterious village deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find a little girl... What drove a recent college graduate to embark on this one-way journey? It all began with a haunted
122.2kReads9.3Score15.1kShelves
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An Office Drone Reincarnates as Another Office Drone 一个社畜穿成另一个社畜
What should an overworked office drone do after transmigrating into the body of another office drone? Obviously, eat when it's time to eat, drink when it's time to drink, and cause trouble when it's time to cause trouble. This is a comedy told from two perspectives.
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Help! Assistant Pei Is Cold and Chaste, but the Boss Keeps Sneaking Looks 要命!裴助禁欲高冷,老板又偷看
[Dual male leads + ABO + intense push and pull + arrogant, picky, razor-tongued Alpha top who’s a top expert versus a brilliant, highly capable, superb cook who’s the perfect homemaker bottom] When Pei Wu first joined the company, everyone thought he wouldn’t last three months. President Lu was strict, picky, and a nitpicker. He shouldn’t even be allowed to live among ordinary people. He was the hardest boss to deal with. With documents in one hand and a spatula in the other, Pei Wu diligently s
80.2kReads9.5Score15.3kShelves
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A Flower, a Jug of Wine, an Immortal; Sleeping or Drunk, I Live Forever 一花一酒一仙人,亦眠亦醉亦长生
[This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master
240.2kReads9.5Score28.7kShelves
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Date a Dad-Type Boyfriend, Live a Laid-Back Life 谈爹系男友,享咸鱼人生
"Sweet and easygoing lie-flat bottom × Gentle, refined, doting top" "Older man + Childhood friends + Both each other’s first + Growing up together" One day, a male classmate asked Xu Zhixia if he wanted to take their relationship further. Terrified, he spent the night tearfully telling his childhood friend Song Huaijin, who was nine years older, convinced he was about to fall victim to some new kind of scam. Suppressing a laugh, Song Huaijin explained this group, which most people didn’t accept,
5.2kReads9.0Score517Shelves
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Quick Transmigration: A Wage Slave's Guide to Self-Rescue 快穿之社畜自救指南
Dual male leads + quick transmigration + 1v1 + both leads are virgins, a powerful God Lord as the gong and an overworked office worker as the shou Ji Jie was a diligent, conscientious office worker, but his life as a wage slave came to an abrupt end when he suddenly died from overwork. He woke up bound to a cannon-fodder System. Ji Jie: “How can anyone work two lifetimes in a row?” System: “Don’t worry. Here’s a guide to saving yourself from office work.” He opened it to find just one sentence:
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The Burned-Out Livestreamer Becomes the Pampered Darling of a Top Tycoon 社畜主播沦为顶级大佬的掌心宠
[Two Male Leads + Secret Identity + Ridiculously Silly Comedy + 18-Year Secret Crush + Both Pure + One-on-One Romance + Over-the-Top Drama + Sweet Romance and Tension + Mutual Healing] [Guiding, affectionate top × Bottom who loves photography, dyed hair, lip piercings, tongue piercings, and cat piercings: an exceptionally talented all-rounder, slightly a heartthrob, slightly hot-tempered, rebellious, dramatic, and overworked] Overworked office drone Rong Yin wears a wig, black-framed glasses, a
7.2kReads8.2Score988Shelves
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I'm the Administrator of a Death Instance 我在死亡副本当管理员
(Main story complete) [Death game + dual male leads + one-on-one romance + a highly moral, clingy instance boss x a rational administrator with questionable morals] Want to exploit bugs in death-game instances and breeze through high-difficulty levels? Want a golden finger that lets you transcend the rules, dominate the instances, and reach the pinnacle of life? Li Qing, head of the Death Instance Maintenance Team, says: No. Absolutely not! Bugs? Patched! Cheats? Banned! No matter how destined y
5.2kReads9.2Score949Shelves
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The Boyfriend I Picked Up Is Tomie [Book Transmigration] 捡来的男友是富江【穿书】
[A seemingly insignificant character in the book, a detached, gloomy transmigrator with emotional deficit disorder × A playful man who seems gentle but is actually a twisted, sadistic menace, and has Tomie-like powers] [Two male leads, happy ending + transmigrate into a book + shou protagonist + both devoted and strong] Looking at the beautiful, fragile-looking boy kneeling in a pool of blood, gazing up at him and softly pleading to be taken home, Chi Mian lets out a weary sigh. This is an absur
34.3kReads9.6Score5.9kShelves
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The Villainous Toddler Pouts, and the Reborn Big Shot Rushes to Comfort Them 反派幼崽嘴一瘪,重生大佬追着哄
[Two Male Leads, Baby Boy, Warm Redemption, Supporting Characters Reborn, Child-Rearing System, Watching the Drama, Understanding Animals, Spoiling the Kid, Spoiling the Kid, Spoiling the Kid] Song Yunshu is the illegitimate son of the Song family. His father doesn’t care for him, his mother doesn’t love him, and he’s sickly to boot. One day, the frail boy catches a chill and faints after being abused by the servants. When he opens his eyes, he sees an older boy glaring at him and squeezing his
6.5kReads9.2Score652Shelves
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Thriller Game: Streaming Myself Sleeping from the Start 惊悚游戏:开局直播睡觉
Dark + System-powered wish fulfillment + Infinite Flow + decisive and ruthless Supernatural phenomena affect the entire world, and players are randomly chosen to take part in terrifying games! Unstoppable livestream videos appear online, vividly showing the players' perilous experiences. Tang Ping is a modern young man who likes to lie flat. His lack of ambition awakens the Insulator Talent. From then on, while everyone else struggles to survive in the games, he sleeps on livestream! Because the
2.5kReads9.2Score276Shelves
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But I'm Just a Capybara 可是,我只是一只水豚啊
[Two male leads, entertainment industry, hilarious and absurd] An Chen is a capybara who wakes up in the body of a villain. After his parents died, the original owner was taken in by the Fu family. But he caused trouble everywhere, picking fights with and framing the male lead, until the male lead got revenge and sent him to prison. An Chen thought, “As long as I don’t cause trouble or get greedy, I can live out my days at the Fu family’s expense, thanks to my big brother and second brother’s mo
4.3kReads8.9Score742Shelves
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Even as a Zombie, Do I Still Have to Do the Monthly Closing? 变成丧尸了也要做月结吗
Even after turning into a zombie, do I still have to do the monthly closing?
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I Picked Up a Puppy, and He Immediately Called Me His Husband 捡到一只小狗,他竟直接叫我老公
[Male Leads + Forced Love + Extreme Contrast] Luo Sheng’s greatest wish is to save enough money to marry a wife. One day, while hunting, he brings home a little black dog covered in wounds. Once the dog recovers, it transforms right before his eyes into a peerlessly handsome man wearing no clothes! The handsome man gazes at Luo Sheng with clear, innocent eyes and calls him, “Husband.” Luo Sheng: “??? He wants to be my wife?!” Only later does he learn that the man is the legendary domineering pri
338Reads—Score102Shelves
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I Thought This Was a Corporate-Slave Story, but I Have to Save the World 以为是社畜剧本,竟然要拯救世界
[Infinite Flow|mystery and wild ideas|two male leads|bottom's POV|younger man|equally matched leads|sweet romance|happy ending] [Cross-dressing, theatrical, scheming black-hearted top vs. sharp-minded, mischievous office drone bottom] The first time Liao Jiayi entered an instance, he met Mo Sheng. He thought she was a cute girl who needed his protection, but after they left the instance, he discovered... Liao Jiayi: I've become a shut-in. One attempt at being outgoing, and now I'm an introvert
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I, Sun Shan, and the Imperial Examinations 我,孙山,科举
“Imperial exams + transmigration + farming + exams + no space System” “Romance included, devoted male lead. The female lead is his childhood sweetheart, but she appears infrequently. Romance is not the main plot.” “The male lead rises step by step through hard work and good luck.” “The male lead is no good at scheming, but he gets things done and has technical skills.” “The imperial examination system is based on the Ming and Qing dynasties.” After an accident, he is transmigrated into the womb
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Don't Be Fooled by My Golden Finger-Like Look, I'm Really Just an NPC 别看我像金手指,我真只是NPC
[Powerhouse + role-playing + secret identities + horror and the supernatural + people reading too much into things + chosen ones + no romance] A three-in-one blend of three horror genres: psychological horror games, Cthulhu livestreams, and real-world supernatural arts. Xiao Gui'an, a bit-part actor, died, but not entirely. He was chosen to play an NPC in a world of horror and the supernatural. After becoming a ghost, Xiao Gui'an thought he would no longer have anything to fear. Who could have
74.4kReads9.5Score8kShelves
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The Tiny Boss Is Everyone's Favorite, and She Coddles Her Scumbag Dad Like He's Her Placenta 小小老子当团宠,把渣爹当胎盘哄
The print edition of A Boat in a Single Thought is now available on all platforms. [Comedy + raising kids + everyone’s favorite + 1v1 romance + devoted couple + the adult heroine’s love interest is Lu Jinghuai] [A funny, sunny heroine who actually has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve x a saintly beauty who is really a sinister, venomous schemer] Ji Nian transmigrates into a novel where the heroine is adored by everyone, becoming the universally disliked biological daughter of the heroine’s pow
117.5kReads9.6Score13.5kShelves
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Cultivating Immortality, Starting as a Corporate Drone 修仙,但从社畜开始
After working overtime for forty-eight hours straight, Lin Fan's vision went black. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a low-born outer-sect odd-job disciple in the great cultivation sect Yunlan Sect, bullied by everyone. The immortal sect was magnificent, yet rigidly hierarchical. The road to immortality was long, but resources were monopolized. The promised rewards of 996 had become the sect's “immortal blessings.” He'd gone from a code monkey to a wage slave, with just as much press
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A Top Student Is Just the Master of a Silly Dog in Love 所谓学霸,是傻狗爱的主人
[Coercive love + extreme control + a huge contrast] Jiang Lian is a top student and campus heartthrob, aloof and distant, the girls’ unattainable ideal. Lu Ye is the school bully, a rabid dog: unruly and defiant, the demon king all the boys steer clear of. But no one knows what their relationship is really like: lovers on the surface, master and servant in private. Especially in bed, the one who should be on his knees is the one calling the shots, while the one giving orders is the one being rav
920Reads8.4Score338Shelves
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Cyber Luogang 2099 赛博洛港2099
[Cyberpunk + Climbing the Career Ladder + No Escalating Power Levels + Hard-Hitting Realism. Office drone Xia Qi chooses to start out as a corporate lackey once again. This time, he’s determined to reach the top of the company!] Xia Qi is a seasoned wage slave who has spent two lifetimes working for others. After transmigrating, he finally lands a permanent job with health insurance in the after-sales department of the Nask Group. He hopes to coast along in peace, only to discover that his “afte
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Slacking Off at Work, I Awakened a Trillion-Dollar Tycoon System 上班摸鱼,我觉醒了万亿神豪系统
Work nine to five, six days a week, like a corporate drone? Slacking off is the real job! Lin Feng is hiding in the break room, killing time on his phone, when a screen suddenly pops up: [Trillionaire System]: Slack off for one minute and earn 100 million! Slack off for an hour and get ten buildings! His coworkers mock him as a lazy deadbeat. In the blink of an eye, Lin Feng buys the company building outright and tells his former boss to get out; The girl of his dreams thinks he’s broke. The ver
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