Looking for Stories Without Cliches, Where the Protagonist Does Not Just Transmigrate and Spend All Their Time Giving or Looking for Love 求不套路文,穿越后也不是一味地付出或者寻找爱情
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I Became a Wealthy Family's Stepmother and Went Viral on a Parenting Reality Show 穿成豪门后妈上娃综爆红了
[Showbiz + One-on-One Sweet Romance + Celebrity Parenting Show + Big Imagination + Monsters] Song Qianqian failed to ascend to immortality. When she opened her eyes, she found herself inside a wealthy-family romance novel as the wicked stepmother. In the book, the original owner was forced to marry an ugly, disabled villainous tycoon. She took out her resentment on her stepson, and after causing his death, fled in her car and died in an accident. Song Qianqian: “...” She didn’t get it. What was
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This Carefree Sword Cultivator Doesn't Understand Love 这个逍遥剑修不懂情
(A flamboyant, jokey male lead versus a calm, observant female lead) [Two powerful leads + unconventional cultivation + senior and junior disciples + a lover who guides the other + a magical treasure that lets them transmigrate + witnessing other people's lives + multiple-couple arcs + the mortal world's path and the carefree path] Lian Yinghuan died on the day her entire family was wiped out. She thought, So that's how this life ends. Just as she closed her eyes, a sweet and innocent System sho
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Ten Days to the End 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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After the Gloomy Imperial Tutor Took Her In, the Little Darling Gave Up Trying 被阴郁太傅捡走后,妹宝她摆烂了
[A powerhouse heroine bursting with energy × a frail, proper official who's secretly a master manipulator] Her mother is a troublemaking, vicious supporting villainess, and her father is a lovestruck, devoted second male lead. Reincarnated as the daughter of this pair of disasters, she watches the three of them work tirelessly until their lives finally become a complete mess... A simp for a father, a bewitching mother, a confiscated home, and her life in ruins... Zhan Xinjia feels like the sky h
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Pretty Eighties Stepmom Marries a Factory Director and Raises the Kids 八零漂亮后妈,嫁个厂长养崽崽
[Short drama: I Became a Stepmother in the 1980s] The 1980s, stepmother, raising kids, everyday life, love after marriage The moment she opens her eyes, Si Nian finds herself in a period novel as a fake heiress. She’s sent back to the countryside to marry a twice-married man in place of the real heiress, and has to raise a whole brood of children. To make matters worse, she runs into the real heiress, who has been reborn. In her previous life, Lin Sisi was pressured by her family into marrying a
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Transmigrated to the 1970s: My Young Thug of a Husband Is Surprisingly More Than Meets the Eye 穿越七零,小混混老公竟深藏不露
(Transmigration + Spatial Dimension + Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Raising Kids + Everyday Family Life) Su Xieqiu grew up with a father who didn't care for her and a mother who didn't love her. Her grandparents, who raised her, passed away early, too. After working hard to buy a home in a big city, she wakes up one day to find herself transmigrated to the planned-economy era of the 1970s. The original owner was an educated youth sent to the countryside. She was timid and a little
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- 7 After Becoming the Original Wife in a Period Novel, I Divorced Him at Once 穿成年代文原配后,我火速离婚 [This story is anything but normal. Not a single character is normal, so don't read if that bothers you!] Jiang Banyue is a twenty-second-century pastry chef who accidentally transmigrates into a military romance set in the past. The hero, Shen Yunhe, is her husband, while she is his first wife, destined to die young. As soon as Jiang Banyue opens her eyes, she feels her barely showing belly. There are three babies inside. Great, she gets the babies without having to deal with the man. Jiang Ba 4.1kReads8.2Score170Shelves
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Transmigrate into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than I Do 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张
[Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste
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Go Crazy, No One Can Outdo You People [Vicious Supporting Female] 癫吧,谁癫的过你们【恶毒女配】
[Transmigrate into a book + unhinged antics + wealthy family + goofy comedy + yandere + swoony romance] [A sweet, delicate heroine who doesn't realize how unhinged she is & a powerful male lead who pretends to be abstinent but is secretly a total lunatic] Sang Ling transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainess in an unhinged CEO novel. She was only three when her memories awakened. Faced with the choice between courting death and dying horribly, she chose to head up the mountain and forage
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After Waking, I Saw the Comments: The Villain Wants to Fall in Love with Me 醒后看见弹幕,反派他想跟我热恋
(Completed) [Lighthearted Comment Banners + Male Lead Has a Secret Crush + Both Leads Are Each Other’s First] After waking up from a car accident, Lin Jinluo could see floating comment banners appearing before her. They said she was the evil supporting female character in a novel, and her older brother was the male lead. Whenever she framed the female lead, she also used up the affection her brother felt for her. When that affection reached zero, she would die within days, and her death would be
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- 11 What Researcher? Call Her the God of Science! 什么研究员?请叫她苏神! [Wilderness Survival + Variety Show Livestream + Turning It Over to the State + Beast-Type + Healing] On the surface, genius girl Su Su is a researcher who just got into the Institute of Biology. In truth, she is a summoner who came back from the year 2256. What is a summoner, you ask? Well, it’s just: Levels 1–5: ordinary biological summons. (Beast-Type) Levels 6–9: ordinary cellular summons. (Healing-Type) Level 10: ordinary elemental summons. (Max-Level Expert) But her life is miserable! On h 913Reads8.8Score121Shelves
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This Is Crazy! I Opened My Eyes and Was Already Marrying the Future Chief Minister! 疯了,睁眼就在跟未来首辅拜堂!
The celebrated forensic pathologist Ning An opened her eyes and found herself as Zhao Ning’an, the useless eldest legitimate daughter of the General Who Guards the Nation’s household. Apart from her good birth, she had nothing going for her. Bratty. A troublemaker. A man-chaser. Every eligible man in the capital gave her a wide berth, except... the Grand Secretary. Shen Changting: “I hear the four thousand household rules the princess wrote were specifically for me. I’m honored by your favo
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Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人?不如成全自己
In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her.
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The Queen Starts Out as a Top-Tier Star 女王从顶流做起
[Print edition preorders open September 5, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.] From the start, she transmigrates and nearly kills her younger brother. If she doesn't complete the System's missions, she'll be punished with electric shocks. Following the System's instructions, Nan Xiangwan joins a survival show for aspiring idols. While the other young women sing and dance... Nan Xiangwan: “I'll perform a brick-breaking trick with my bare hands!”
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My Landlord Is a Pop Idol 我的房东是偶像歌手
Gu Zhinan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an online novelist. Could his beautiful landlady really be a washed-up idol singer? One day, she leaves her guitar in the living room... "I can't write songs. I'm just a novelist. I was only messing around." That is, until his landlady is left stunned by the song Gu Zhinan wrote. "Didn't you say you couldn't write songs?" "I know a little, I know a little."
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- 16 Reborn: I Doted on My Wife and Kids and Shocked the Whole Village 重生:我宠老婆孩子震惊全村 [Reborn Romance + Regretful Scumbag + 1980s Dad Life + Devoted Husband, One Heroine + Satisfying Read + Cozy Daily Life + Healing] Chen Sanye, the village's notorious hooligan, suddenly changed after a night of heavy drinking! The idle, foul-mouthed delinquent became polite. He was not only hardworking, but even learned how to make money! He stopped barking orders at his pretty, mute wife and began speaking to her softly and treating her with the utmost tenderness. The neighbors were baffled. Ha 36.8kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves
- 17 Palace Intrigue? High IQ? I Kept a Low Profile in the Inner Palace and Became Empress! 宫斗?高智商?苟在深宫成皇后! City life is full of schemes, so I'm off to fight for power in the palace. The kind where I leave my opponent speechless every time... Palace intrigue + strong female lead + scheming + playing dumb to catch the tiger + inspirational + personal growth + high IQ + becoming empress —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Deserted Island, My Followers Are Gorgeous 荒岛,我的跟班超美 [No System + deserted island + age gap + survival + vying for dominance] [Short drama now streaming: My Life on a Deserted Island Isn't Quite Right] A mysterious bolt of lightning struck the cruise ship, and Zhou Feng woke up on a beach. The only person beside him was the neighbor, Auntie Qin Xiaoxue. It didn't take long for them to discover that the secrets of this island were beyond anything they could have imagined. 33kReads8.8Score3.1kShelves
- 19 Join the Army and Get a Wife? I Marry Eighteen Women in a Rage 当兵就发媳妇?我怒娶十八房老婆 “What? You can get a wife for free if you enlist? Then I’m joining the army!” Li Wannian is reborn into the declining Li Tang imperial family. He proceeds carefully, extending the Li Tang Dynasty's life by three hundred years! 28.2kReads8.6Score3.3kShelves
- 20 A Great Drought Hits the Countryside in the 1970s, and My Family Digs Up an Underground River 七零农村大旱,我家挖出地下暗河 After Zhang Jianguo’s father was beaten to death, he grew timid, submissive, and honest. Though kindhearted, he led an incredibly rough life. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to fifty years earlier. This time, he would change his ways. A man who fails to avenge a grudge is no gentleman! Meanwhile, his family dug a cellar and uncovered an underground cavern filled with abundant water and fish! With these supplies, he not only helped his family build a good life, but also avenged his 13.5kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
- 21 After Becoming a 200-Pound Princess Consort, She Became His Favorite 穿成二百斤的胖王妃后,她得宠了 [One-on-one romance, a frail prince who can barely care for himself + an ugly princess consort strong enough to move mountains + married first, love later + a groveling husband] A descendant of an ancient medical family, she transmigrates into the body of the ugliest woman in the land, with three chins, and marries a gravely ill war god of a prince. On their wedding night, she’s locked in the woodshed, where even the lowliest maid can torment her mercilessly! They call her a fatso and an ugly 1.9kReads9.1Score306Shelves
- 22 Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志 His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China! 84.2kReads9.6Score9.2kShelves
- 23 Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事 “First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had 32.4kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
- 24 Dustbound Ties Between Humans and Ghosts 人鬼尘缘 A one-of-a-kind heartwarming story about people and ghosts. He Qiu met the little ghost Yixiu when she was seven. A girl and a ghost, both alone and helpless, support and encourage each other through hardship. He Qiu grows up day by day, while Yixiu remains seven years old. At sixteen, He Qiu is forced to drop out of school and go to the city to work as a nanny. After enduring countless difficulties, she finally finds her footing in the city. To protect Yixiu, she also becomes a medium. He Qiu’s 12.6kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 25 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此,奇门风水震天下 [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
- 26 They Want to Sell Me? No Way! I’ll Take My Little Sister and Brother and Escape into the Mountains 想卖我不行带着妹妹弟弟逃进深山 [Ancient setting, imaginative premise + transmigration + farming + building a fortune] Su Yuhe, a modern-day graduate student, transmigrates into the body of a thirteen-year-old girl with the same name after working herself to exhaustion while preparing for her doctoral entrance exams. To escape abuse at the hands of her stepmother, she takes her six-year-old twin brother and sister and flees into the mountains. They live in a cave, gather wild fruit, dig up edible plants, hunt, and farm. With n 3.8kReads7.8Score525Shelves
- 27 My Immortal Uncle Wants to Be My Husband 神仙叔叔要做我老公 My name is Jiang Moli. I was born into a family of yin-yang masters. Because of my ancestors’ greed, I was promised to someone as his bride before I was even born. The story begins when I was eight. If I hadn’t gone bird’s-nesting with the village kids, would I have lived an ordinary, uneventful life? But there are no what-ifs. What was meant to happen still happened. The day I went looking for bird eggs, I met my immortal uncle. And, well, damn it, this immortal uncle wanted me to be his wife. 1.3kReads8.2Score161Shelves
- 28 Heir of the Yin Sect 阴门传人 This section of the story focuses on the first time Li Changsheng learns his grandfather's true identity after graduating from high school, as well as how he uncovers the secrets of his family. It shows the beginning of his transformation from an ordinary student into the heir to the Yin Sect. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 A Collection of Folk Tales 民间故事选集 Some things seem inconceivable only because you have never experienced them. The ignorant are fearless; what people truly fear is their imagination when they know just enough about the unknown to be afraid of it. 897Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 30 At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I’m Done Serving Everyone 人到五十,操劳半生后我不伺候了 [Silver hair, a middle-aged woman awakens] Originally titled “At Fifty, After a Lifetime of Toil, I'm Done Serving Everyone” After marrying Fu Guoping, Lin Yuelian spends more than ten years caring for her paralyzed mother-in-law. She won't even buy herself a nice outfit, yet one day she sees her husband going around with his mistress, decked out in Chanel and carrying a Hermès crocodile-skin bag worth hundreds of thousands. And the mistress isn't alone: she has a son out of wedlock, about ten y 17kReads9.2Score2.2kShelves
- 31 Lone Wanderer 孤行者 An abandoned “simpleton” takes his first bold step, and a brilliant, shining life begins to unfold. Life’s wonders are not made up of laughter alone. There are far more tears along the way, but come rain or shine, he presses on and grows stronger! 211kReads9.4Score17.9kShelves
- 32 My Stories of Macau's Stormy Underworld 我的澳门风云故事 Once you've been to Macau, it's yours for life! What kind of city is A-Ma-Gau? Why are so many people obsessed with it? What kind of tumultuous life awaits a naive young woman who ventures into Macau alone? Here, stories unfold every day, and miracles happen every day. In these most authentic stories, you'll see human nature at its rawest, the most insatiable desires, and the cheapest emotions. Welcome to my life in Macau. 25.8kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 33 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
- 34 My Years Running a Fortune-Telling Shop 我开命理馆的这些年 [Metaphysical divination, esoteric arts, thunder formulae, the Four Pillars of Destiny and feng shui, astrology, ghost hunting, folk sorcery, witchcraft...] This is the true story of a yin-yang master. How much do you know about the metaphysical arts? You may have heard of feng shui, the Four Pillars, Qimen Dunjia, and the Six Yao, but you may never have witnessed the true power of these arts of fate and divination. In the early 1990s, as interest in the Book of Changes surged, I formally took u 27.6kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
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Reborn: The Hot-Tempered Tycoon Calls Me His Little Ancestor 重生后暴躁大佬叫我小祖宗
[Reborn + Older Brothers + Everyone’s Favorite + Extra Sweet + Revenge] “Run away again and I’ll break your legs!” the volatile big shot roared. The next second, the young woman lunged forward and hugged his leg. “Hubby, I’m sorry. Will you love me for the rest of my life?” Reborn, Song Beitang was determined not to let the events of her previous life happen again. As she carefully looked after the man who could go mad for her at any moment, she also took revenge on the scumbag man and the shame
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Reborn in the 1990s: Making a Fortune by Selling Snacks 重生九零:致富从卖小吃开始
[Sweet comeback romance + building a fortune + family life + supporting each other] In her previous life, when Zhou Sui was eighteen, her wealthy biological parents brought her back to the city. She thought the wheels of fate were finally turning in her favor. But her timidity, low self-esteem, and constant people-pleasing left her life in shambles. Her biological parents were distant and cold, favoring their adopted daughter. A scumbag toyed with her feelings, and she died young from a sudden i
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- 37 Quick Transmigration: The Heiress Is Selfish and Self-Serving 快穿:大小姐她自私自利 [Quick transmigration through period dramas + self-interest + sweet romance + golden finger + no rescuing the poor + no saintly heroine + no becoming a stepmother + no adopting children + no fixed love interest] Some worlds may have no romantic pairing. The heroine retains no memories of her quick-transmigration worlds, but she does remember her first life as a wealthy heiress. Her golden finger is assigned at random. 1. The little childhood sweetheart manipulated in the 1960s 2. The village gir 11.9kReads8.8Score776Shelves
- 38 The 1990s: Why Date When I've Transmigrated into a Book? 90年代:穿书了谁还谈恋爱啊 Lin Ting had just secured funding when she transmigrated into a romance novel where everyone was eight hundred percent love-brained. From the start, she was stuck in an icy wasteland with a talkative male lead threatening to kill her. Lin Ting: “Date you? I'd rather get a dog.” The original male lead: “...?” No space, no System, no mind-reading ability... Luckily, she still had a business brain running at full speed. “I'm never dating anyone. Not in this life.” “If I run out of money, I can earn 42.6kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves
- 39 With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零,搞事赚钱样样行 Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members 101.8kReads9.6Score10.1kShelves
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Infinite: The Mysterious Lord of the Weird 无限之诡秘神主
The Wasteland Era, the Mystery of the Fog City, the Yellow Turban Calamity, the Reincarnation Paradise, the Endless Sea, the Cybernetic Divine Kingdom… Countless worlds, real or false? Countless choices, countless trials. “■■” is with you.
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The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春
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The Special Agent Physician Consistently Tears Down the Prince's Residence 特工医妃今天也在拆王府
On their blood-red wedding night, the “sickly” prince coughs blood onto her wedding dress, and his pulse feels bizarre. Shen Miao, a modern military doctor and secret agent, transmigrates after a plane crash and immediately senses the deadly lie at Prince Jing’s estate. By day, she is the new princess consort, fretting as she “tears the place apart” in search of blessings, prying open hidden compartments in the Buddhist shrine and probing the copper pipes at the bottom of the pond. By night, she
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