Satisfying Stories With Smart Characters and Logical Plots 不降智有逻辑爽文
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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What Immortal Path? What Heavenly Dao? Hah! I Cultivate the Path of Slaughter 什么仙道天道?呵!我修的是杀道
[Print edition out September 12 + refuses to look back + satisfying growth story + ensemble cast] In her past life, Wanwan died at the hands of her master and six senior brothers, pierced through the heart by seven swords and left without a whole body. Her master only loved her little junior sister, and her senior brothers only doted on her. When the little junior sister lost her Golden Core, they dug out Wanwan's to replace it. When the little junior sister was wronged, Ye Wanwan was made to su
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Starlight Out of Control 失控星光
[The print edition of Uncontrolled Starlight goes on sale nationwide on May 30] [Two male leads + secret love + entertainment industry + younger man + rekindled romance] Shen Jixing, a legendary movie star in the Chinese entertainment industry, is as aloof as snow on a mountaintop, noble and cold. He has long held an unshakable place at the pinnacle of the industry. Then one day, a tidal wave of vicious scandals engulfs him… His status plummets overnight. With nowhere else to go, he calmly knock
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Ten Years in Politics: The Men and Women I Knew 官场十年:那些男人和女人们
In his previous life, Lin Feng earned rapid promotion after he arrested a powerful figure during a drunk-driving investigation, refusing to bend the rules. Reborn on the night of that same assignment, he realized his girlfriend had also been reborn when she insisted on rushing out to investigate the drunk-driving case first... However, she didn’t know that in his previous life, his rapid rise through the ranks hadn’t depended on that case at all... Refusing to bend the rules wasn’t a virtue, it
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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
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Galactic Conflict: I Recreated Humanity's Glory 银河纷争:我重现人类荣光
In the dark galaxy, humanity, once powerful, has become the slave of countless alien races, until a soul from another world arrives. An Emperor-class Titan fights alongside an AT-AT walker. A Gloriana-class battleship fights alongside the Executor. The Astra Militarum advances in coordination with the Stormtroopers. The Primarchs fight alongside the Jedi. All of this is in the book. Humanity First, with no female lead. (Warhammer, Star Wars, Stellaris, Halo, and more) Note: The author is a fan o
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I Accidentally Became a Popular Big Bad 一不小心成为了人气大反派
A star employee from the comics department transmigrates into an unfinished, hot-blooded interstellar comic. For the huge bonus and six months of paid leave, she has to get the comic onto the popularity charts! [This work is complete and cannot be edited. Please bear with any typos or other mistakes you notice. Sorry (╥﹏╥)] [Things to note:] [The female lead has no romantic pairing. Everything she does is to complete her mission, and Sang Le remains independent of the comic world at all times.]
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Why Is the Crazy Gu Master Pretending to Be Good Again? 盗笔:疯批蛊师今天怎么又在装乖
Gu-Controlling, Sweet on the Outside but Black-Hearted Within, Vengeful!!! Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic, with a System, Everyone’s Favorite, Irresistible, Sharp-Tongued, Zhang Family Bloodline, Gu Spirit Saint Body After dying, Ruan Shuo wakes up in an unfamiliar world, in an unfamiliar body, inside an unfamiliar pit. As he walks along, someone knocks him out, ties him up as bait, and throws him into a tomb to scout ahead. The good news: he has a System. The bad news: the System isn’t all-kno
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The Dark Moonlight Is Full of Lies 黑月光她满口谎言
Everyone's scheming + a supporting character awakens + adored by all + love-triangle chaos Ya Yin is reborn and discovers she's nothing but a cannon-fodder character in a campus romance novel. The plot had her die in a horrific car crash on a stormy night. Given another chance, the awakened cannon-fodder wants to collect a little interest for herself… But she soon gets entangled with three men at the very top of the social pyramid. She gets caught up in one melodramatic romance showdown after an
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The Capital's Most Notorious Beauty 京城第一祸水
Currently being published [rival suitors in a dramatic love triangle + top-tier schemer + supporting villainess fights back + everyone comes around] [Historical romance + told entirely from the wicked supporting female character’s perspective] ❣️Blurb One Qiao Wanyan learned from a storybook that she was nothing but a wicked supporting character who abandoned her childhood sweetheart and chased after wealth and status. She sowed discord, poisoned her elder sister, and committed every imaginable
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The Saintess Is Cool and Kind. How Could She Be the Villain? 圣女清冷善良,怎么可能是反派?
[System-driven + villainess protagonist + egoist + top prodigy + near-invincible power fantasy + no romance (no male consorts)] After transmigrating, Nan Xian becomes a fake prodigy used by a top family to save face. She is about to fight the real prodigy. Should she just wait to die? No rush, the System is here to help. [Ding! The Ultimate Villain System is at your service.] [Humiliate your arrogant fiancé and get a divine beast mount as a reward.] Nan Xian: Kill him. Her younger siblings are d
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Villainess Game: Slay the Gods, Destroy the Heavens, Leave No Survivors! 恶女游戏:弑神灭天,无人生还!
(The score is low because there are few ratings; this has nothing to do with the content.) [A power fantasy in disguise. The heroine kills her teammates, no one survives, no saintly do-gooding, no romance.] [Everyone around the heroine is pure, regardless of gender. One-sided crushes, dark themes, a killing game.] [A parallel world, different from reality.] [No tiresome family drama or annoying relatives, no obnoxious side characters who just won't die. The heroine is a lone wolf who wipes out a
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Slay the Gods: The Villainess Becomes the Tengshe’s Proxy 斩神:当恶女成为腾蛇代理人
[Villainess] [Moderate horror] [Slay the Gods] [Ambiguous romance in the main story, no couple] [One-on-one pairing in the extras] As the title says, this is a villainess story, but that doesn't mean the author's own values are the same. Please don't attack me personally (hiding behind a pot lid). In a nutshell: A proxy chosen by the ferocious beast Teng Snake, a terrifying woman who can turn villains into victims. Synopsis: Everyone says Tang Wanru, the campus belle of Linjiang, is gen
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The Inborn Pair: Tangled Hearts and a Riddle 萌学园:意乱情谜
Completed. Don't read this anymore. This book is nothing but a deeply embarrassing relic of the past. This is a dark fan-made work based on The Mysteries of the University. Written as a writing exercise and a labor of love, the story includes repeated out-of-character portrayals, a villainous heroine who kills people, and the breaking up of canon couples. It explicitly departs from the original's “youthful magic and positive growth” tone. All plot points and characters come from the author's own
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Ye Luoli: My Golden Finger Is a Choice System 叶罗丽:金手指是选择系统
[Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within + System + Transmigration + Everyone’s Favorite + No Ye Luoli Warriors + Mischief + Adorable] Ai Zhen transmigrates to the world of Ye Luoli and becomes the Love Princess, one of the Holy-Level Fairies of the Spirit Rhinoceros Pavilion, at the very top of the pyramid of all living things. But something seems off about the timeline. The backlash from negative emotions has already reached its limit, and the unbreakable Nightmare Curse has already taken hold. At a
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Blind Box Draws Around the World, But I Got X-Ray Vision 全球盲盒抽奖,我却开了透视
[Apocalyptic game + mystery boxes + satisfying plot + zombie girl + multiple heroines + leveling and class changes] Everyone is opening mystery boxes in this game. Is it really too much to ask for X-ray vision? If you can equip weapons, is it really too much to ask for a weapon that can grow stronger? I’ve been reborn, so is it really too much to ask that I know how to unlock hidden classes? Everyone has battle pets, so is it really too much to ask that I start with a zombie girl? Now that I hav
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The Killing Game: Become an Artist by Killing Millions 杀戮游戏:杀戮千万成为艺术家
[Infinite horror + no female lead + cold-blooded male lead + split personality + author’s mental state is questionable + kill, kill, kill!] When everyone is unexpectedly dragged into a survival game, Cheng Xu discovers that his name appears in the administrators’ group. By day, the survivors search for resources and strengthen themselves and their shelters. At night, ghosts run rampant and disasters erupt. Only those who rely on their shelters can survive. One deadly trial follows another, and b
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵:我称帝了玩家才穿越
[Transmigrating ahead of time + political scheming + dynastic power struggles + succubus + worlds merging] This book is also known as [I, the Empress's Fiancé, the Strongest Villain Behind the Scenes]. After waking up, Xia Chen finds himself logged into the mysterious game from his previous life ahead of schedule, starting out as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Zhendong. What? I have a younger brother named Xia Hao, who seems to have a mysterious bone inside him? It looks just like the lege
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Passing Myself Off as a Langya Native 冒姓琅琊
(Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho
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The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏
The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺,非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
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Your Majesty, I Think Your Palace Maid Is Cursing You Again 皇上,你家宫女好像又在骂你
[The irresistible appeal of what you once rejected + powerful men bowing their heads + a double-standard male lead + raising her before a story of power and statecraft + romantic push and pull + he truly doesn’t love her at first, but gives his all once he does] Su Nanchu is unruly. Shen Jingzhi has always known that. But life in the palace is dull, and he doesn’t mind having a little plaything who can kick and scream. She becomes his daily amusement: reading memorials, practicing calligraphy, a
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From Mortal Lord to Ruler of the Chaos Continent 从凡人领主到混沌大陆之主
[Apocalypse + lordly power struggles + building a faction + famous historical generals + the myriad races of the cosmos] The Primordial World has arrived. Is it a disaster or an opportunity? When the power of the Primordial World was brought into reality, the myriad races of the universe went wild. Before being reborn, Wu Tianxing had lived worse than a dog. After his rebirth, he swore to change everything. But he had no idea that the Primordial World he knew was merely the tip of the iceberg.
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My Superpower Can Break Down Anything 我的异能破解万物
In his third year of the apocalypse, Chen Bugu finally used his myth-class ability, [Resurrection], for the first time. Yes, he died. But something went wrong. Instead of coming back to life, he was reborn before it all began. When he awakened the [Resurrection] ability again, he was forbidden from using it to resurrect himself repeatedly. This time, the ability he awakened was the unheard-of virus-class ability, [Crack]. “A thief stole a divine power and secretly forged it into the seed of a vi
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Glory at the Summit 荣耀巅峰
A sequel to Honor of Kings. To climb the ranked ladder, a female streamer actually did something like this... The pinnacle King returns to Honor of Kings, ushering in an era of his own!
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The Villainess Says Nothing, She Just Keeps Stealing Opportunities 女配不语,只一味抢夺机缘
[No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro
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Game Invasion 游戏入侵
[Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w
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Ding! With an Immortal Achievement, the Cousin Miss Starts Reading 叮,成就流芳百世,表小姐开卷了
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
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After Being Reborn Three Times, I Found My Happy Ending with the Hostage Prince from the Enemy Kingdom 重生三次后,我和敌国质子HE了
[Strong female lead + reborn + three lifetimes + little poison doctor + no golden finger + political intrigue + satisfying read + sweet romance + reverse raising + romance + ensemble cast + scheming + a little angst] Xia Shi has been reborn three times, and each life has been more exciting than the last! Now in her third life, she’s an invincible little poison master. Who would dare let her suffer even the slightest grievance? In her first life, she lived for herself and married a foolish empero
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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
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Demon Game: I Can Command Unmatched Luck! 恶魔游戏,我能驾御无双运势!
[Mind Games and Deception + No Dumbed-Down Characters + No Saintly Hero + Infinite Worlds + Horror Game + Mastermind of Fate] Su Yi, a mystery novelist, was chosen for a demonic game that stakes players' lives. From the start, he drew the unpopular class of Deceiver and was cursed with only sixty days left to live. Demonic Game: “Do you want supernatural power? Do you want astonishing wealth?” “Then win the Demonic Game and stay alive...” Su Yi: “I'll gamble sixty years of my lifespan for t
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Infinite Shadow Clones: Find the Original and I’ll Admit Defeat! 无限影分身,找到本尊算我输!
[Seriously Ill Teen + No Female Lead + Mischievous Clones + Real-World Instances + Unlimited Restarts + Lighthearted Comedy + Rivers of Blood + Not a Cowardly Survival Story!] [Sequel: “Stars: I’ve Never Lost, So Why Are You Calling Me a War Criminal?”] In a revived cultivation world, Tang Gao gets the Shadow Clone Technique from the start. His shadows can idle automatically, project their consciousness, and enter all sorts of instances based on the real world to reap rewards. What’s more, Tang
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I Died a Billion Times, Copied the Ultimate Talent, and Slaughtered My Way Through the Myriad Races! 死亡亿次,我复制天赋杀穿万族!
“My name is Su Mu. By the time you read this, humanity will have been wiped out...” Su Mu unexpectedly came across a diary, and its first sentence sent a chill down his spine. Ten thousand years ago, countless races invaded Blue Star, ushering in a global era of advanced martial arts. When people turned eighteen, they awakened their talents and set out on the path of martial arts. Over the past ten thousand years, humanity had produced countless powerful fighters. Thanks to their efforts, humani
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Logged In Early! With Health Bars in Sight, How Could I Lose? 提前登录!能看到血条我怎么输?
[Character build] [Health bar] [Horrors] [Martial artists] [Sequence] In 2035, a fully immersive game called Dark Realm hit the market and instantly took the world by storm. But a year later, the game descended into reality. Flesh-eating horrors, murderous foreign races, and paranormal Ascendants brought about the apocalypse and drove humanity to extinction. Zhang Qing is reborn two years earlier and is shocked to discover that his headset has returned with him. So he logs in ahead of time! Rebo
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The Han Dynasty's Campaign 大汉征途
On his way home to visit family, special forces soldier Wu Quan came upon a serious traffic accident. As he risked his life to rescue passengers in danger, an explosion sent him tumbling off a cliff, leaving him with a severe brain injury and unconscious. While unconscious, he dreamed that he had returned to the final years of the Eastern Han dynasty, where he served under Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, as a military commandant leading five hundred Xiliang cavalrymen. Thus he entered the stage
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The Elite Student of the Noble Ladies' Crash Course Turns the Marquis's Household Upside Down! 贵女速成班优秀学员,癫翻侯府!
Song Xiyan had a round, bun-like face and was determined to die. The System rejoiced inwardly. This woman was timid and easy to control. It would trick her into transmigrating into a book and completing missions. Song Xiyan pinched the corner of her clothes. “I don’t know how, sob~” The System coaxed her with a smile. “Our company has a special training course for supporting female characters. We teach you everything you need to know.” It sneered inwardly. Playing herself and waiting quietly to
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What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统:全二册(王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著)
What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his
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The Loop on May 3 循环5月3日
On the third day of his May Day holiday back home, Wang Yu discovered that time had stopped on May 3. At first, he thought it was a gift from heaven. No matter how badly his body was injured, the next day would reset to May 3, with him lying in his bed at home. No matter how much money he spent, it would all come back the next day. No matter what he did, everyone would forget it the next day, and things would return to how they were on May 3. But as time went on, Wang Yu went mad. He no longer
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