In a Reading Slump, Any Recommendations? 书荒了，有谁能推荐？

1. 1 穿 After Transmigrating to a Year of Famine, I Became the Worst Mother-in-Law 穿到荒年后，我成了极品恶婆婆 Morning Clouds Purple朝云紫Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + adorable kids + no male lead] Cheng Wanqun woke up in the body of a 33-year-old farmer's wife in ancient Dahuang Village. Her four sons were kneeling by the bed, calling her Mother, and her daughter-in-law had another grandchild on the way. After being single her entire life for 33 years, she'd suddenly become a mother-in-law and grandmother. Raising four sons was already hard enough, but then disaster struck: locust plagues, droughts, snowstorms. 67.7kReads9.4Score7.6kShelves

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   It's absolutely, positively good!!! I watched it until 2 AM!

2. 2 你EN You Go Crazy, I Go Crazier, Side by Side on a Dating Show 你发癫，我更癫，恋综上面肩并肩 Six-Six Fruit六六果Two Male Leads640k WordsCompleted [Audio drama now available~~~] [Dual Male Leads + One-on-One Romance + Dating Reality Show, Hilarious, Sweet, and Satisfying] [Unhinged Young Heartthrob VS Even More Unhinged CEO] He transmigrates into a book and immediately gets pressured by a scumbag into breaking off their engagement? Shen Yan goes berserk on the spot: “If you want to save face, you have to give some too. Having a mistress doesn’t make you right. Pay me four million, or I’ll see you outside the proctology clinic!” Early i 25.3kReads9.5Score3.6kShelves
3. 3 快 Quick Transmigration: Delicate, Yet Adored by Powerful Men 快穿：娇气，但被大佬们追着宠 Pure-Hearted Puppy 9527纯情小狗9527Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No Fixed Couples + All Male Leads Are Chaste + Sweet Romance + Immersive Romantic Conquest + Coercive Love + Yandere Lunatics + Everyone's Favorite + Multiple Male Leads + Rivalry for the Female Lead + True Love + Not a Strong Female Lead + Soap Opera Drama] Wanwan transmigrates into the cannon-fodder female lead of each world, and conquers all kinds of male leads. She's only doing her mission, so why have all these men become so infatuated with her? 1. Sexy Little Wildcat Trains Her Dog Online 34.1kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves

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   Who says eclectic stories can't be good? This one is so addictive! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Delicate beauties vs. Young bodyguards, flirtatious widows vs. Charming scholars, fake heiresses vs. Their uncles, female anchors vs. Aloof professors, and many more! A wide variety to choose from!

4. 4 无 Infinite: The Dawn Game 无限：黎明游戏 In the Lanshan Mountains岚山里Two Male Leads3.3M WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow Dungeons] [Two Male Leads] [Ensemble Cast] [Return to the Human World] Psycho! Ever since Yu Shijiu could remember, people had called him a psycho, one insult after another. He picked at his ear and said nothing. What made someone a psycho? Being mentally unstable, having something wrong with your head... or killing people? Does killing someone make you a psycho? Yu Shijiu laughed. "Then there are far too many psychos in this world." Killing someone isn't limited to taking their l 18.4kReads9.3Score3.1kShelves

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   Dual male protagonist novel, suitable for fans of the infinite flow genre.

5. 5 与 A Contract Marriage with the Powerful White Moonlight Who Returned, Then Love 与强势归来的白月光大佬先婚后爱 Clear Skies, Clear Skies晴好晴好Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Both leads are each other's first and only + Marriage Before Love + Secret Crush Comes True + Reunited Years Later] A restrained, powerful male lead vs. a cool, intellectual Chinese teacher heroine (at least on the surface) Gu Xiangling never thought she would see Chu Fanzhou again. After all, they barely interacted in high school. He graduated in such a hurry, and she left school for a while just as abruptly. But the capital city isn't so small that you can never cross paths, nor so big that y 3.3kReads8.9Score348Shelves

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   The first book is super good, the male lead is very doting, don't be fooled by its rating.

6. 6 婚 Passionate Love After Marriage 婚后热恋 A Rice Cracker一个米饼Two Male Leads94k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Marriage Before Love + Secret Crush + Love at First Sight + Sweet Newlywed Romance] [Sharp-Tongued, Arrogant CEO Who Says One Thing and Does Another × Open-Minded, Perceptive, Gentle Actor] Shen Shujie used to work at a dessert shop. After entering into a marriage contract with Jiang Haofeng, he became an actor. When they first got married, the desserts he made kept mysteriously disappearing. Shen Shujie: "Did you eat the cake in the fridge?" Young Master Jiang replied without 7.7kReads9.6Score915Shelves
7. 7 星 Interstellar Beast World: The Rare Female Is Spoiled by Powerful Men 星际兽世，稀有雌性被大佬们宠翻 Shi Mian时勉Modern Romance444k WordsCompleted (A devoted, loyal-dog type male lead with a strong service mentality.) (Not a story about a strong female lead. Trust me! The heroine is really well taken care of!) Mo Ran used to be the most useless person in the Beast-Taming Kingdom. She was frail and softhearted, and had awakened the most useless power of all. After transmigrating, she discovers that her purification power is actually the rarest treasure in the interstellar beast world! She can easily cleanse the loss-of-control levels of SSS 7.1kReads8.8Score809Shelves

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   They are all sci-fi 1vN stories with clear themes, multiple male protagonists, and no saintly female leads.

8. 8 在 Becoming the Most Popular S-Rank Guide in a Sentinel-Guide World 在哨向世界成为万人迷顶级向导 Dawn Rose朝露蔷薇Modern Romance513k WordsCompleted [Sentinel-Guide + military academy + coming of age + everyone's favorite + interstellar] Yan Qiao opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated to the interstellar age. After wandering for two days, she nearly starves to death, but luckily, a kindhearted handsome guy gives her a nutrient drink and even sends her to school. After she luckily becomes a Guide, she discovers that the benefits are incredible: high status, an easy job, and adorable fluffy creatures she can pet. The military academy i 6kReads8.9Score453Shelves
9. 9 哨 Sentinel-Guide: From Universally Hated to Universally Adored 哨向：从万人嫌苟成万人迷 With the Solitary与孤Modern Romance438k WordsCompleted [Heroine’s growth + all male leads are devoted only to her + groveling and redemption] [Original plot, previously plagiarized] [I make the rules for my Sentinel-Guide setting. Do not bring up other Sentinel-Guide settings in mine. The maximum safe blood draw is one thousand milliliters. Sentinels are strong, Guides are weak.] [The heroine is gentle and delicate, but still resilient] [The heroine suffers a little early on, followed by intense groveling and fierce competition among the male leads] 27.2kReads8.7Score4kShelves
10. 10 全 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves

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    #Cultivation #FemaleLead #RefreshingNovel #RiseUp

11. 11 揉 Sundered Spring Tides 揉碎春潮 Jian Bing Guozi煎bing果子Modern Romance492k WordsCompleted [Forced love x campus romance x obsessive love x younger man] Xie Jinghe was born into the elite Xie family. Handsome in every way, with silver hair and a wild, untamable nature. Shen Shuangli had the face of a cool, ethereal beauty and a quiet, reserved personality. No one knew that two people who seemed to have nothing in common had once been lovers in secret. That relationship ended in failure, with Xie Jinghe as the one who got dumped. When they meet again, Xie Jinghe rescues Shen Shuangli a 62kReads8.8Score7.3kShelves

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    🔥He relentlessly pursues her, while she desperately tries to escape. His repeated calls of "sister" are enough to make her fall for him. A cunning young man versus an innocent, naive girl—what sparks will fly? Let's see what kind of chemistry the Xie family's chosen one and the Shen family's daughter will create. The male lead's forceful love ❤️, the female lead's endearing nature—let's see what sparks will fly between them. #ForcedLove #SweetYouth #LongSeparation

12. 12 我 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ Xi Yao喜杳Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 63.9kReads9.6Score7.5kShelves

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    The first book is a supernatural tale about rules, specifically about a girl group. The second book is a beast-taming type.

13. 13 御 Beast Taming: My Beasts Are Strong, and You Get One Free 御兽：我的宠兽不但强还买一送一 The Evening Breeze Isn't Cold晚风不冷Modern Romance2.1M WordsOngoing [Beast Taming]+ [Genius protagonist]+ [No romance]+ [Native protagonist] [Also known as: My Beast Pets Are Strong, and Each One Comes with a Bonus] The Tower Realm is a wondrous, dazzling world of Beast Taming. Here, people use Beast Taming Towers as a medium to form contracts with supernatural creatures and gain extraordinary powers… Yun You's awakening is unlike anyone else's. While everyone else gets stronger, she gets weaker. If this is a necessary step on the way through the nine floors of 15.5kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
14. 14 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves

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    This book is so good, I will never give up recommending it.

15. 15 第 The Ninth Empire 第九帝国 Honored Guest of the Qing Tower清楼贵客Urban3.6M WordsOngoing [Alternate Empire + War Among a Hundred Races + Supernatural Powers + Battles Across Different Worlds + Hunter Guilds + Slow-Burn Opening + Ensemble Cast + Both Thrills and Heartbreak] God gave life to all things and created the world. As God lay dying, humanity betrayed the divine, seized greed and wisdom, and founded an empire. The successor inherited the gods' power, swore to destroy the world, and founded the Church. From then on, the Empire and the Church waged war for ten thousand years. T 168.5kReads9.4Score15.3kShelves

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    Super good urban martial arts novel

16. 16 富 What Should I Do About My Rich Best Friend Being a Vicious Female Lead? 富婆闺蜜是恶毒女配怎么办？ Lin Ye林也Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted Name: Li Mu Occupation: Full-time best friend to a rich woman Taking the view that it’s better to make your best friend work hard than to work hard yourself, Li Mu enjoyed an easy life at a young age. But her good fortune didn’t last. She transmigrated into a book. In the story, the fake heiress Jiang Xingyue rides the heroine’s halo, tramples the villainous real heiress, and coasts to success, becoming a top-tier star with a thriving career and a happy romance. Meanwhile, her best friend Jian 729Reads8.7Score107Shelves

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    It's really good, I just hope the main storyline between the male and female leads develops further.

17. 17 顶 The Ultimate Power Game! The Crown Prince Willingly Becomes My Devoted Servant 顶级名利场！太子爷甘做我裙下臣 Roasting Ants with a Magnifying Glass放大镜烤蚂蚁Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [High-IQ, Clear-Headed Villainess VS Pure-Hearted Heir to a Wealthy Family] Shen Yao lives by one motto: “Overt sexiness is vulgar. Just the right touch of restraint is the best way to capture someone’s heart.” She packages herself as a perfect work of art: The length of her knitted dress is precisely calculated. The lemon water in her mug is there to keep her breath fresh. Even their “first meeting” was inevitable after she staked out the place for three days. Cheng Yu thinks he’s found hi 862Reads8.7Score102Shelves

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    I absolutely love this! 😍😍 A strong, capable woman, and the male lead is also very understanding. The female lead is fantastic, amazing, amazing, I love it!!!

18. 18 窝 I'm Pathetic, But Somehow Everyone Loves Me, Haha! 窝囊吧，但还是成万人迷了哈哈！ Hu Yu蝴俞Modern Romance592k WordsCompleted The print edition of The Side Character Could Never Be a Doormat is now available on all platforms [Outwardly meek but secretly hilarious heroine x violent, untamed hero whose rough edges are eventually worn smooth] Xu Nuo transmigrates into the role of a famously spineless supporting female character, then foolishly sets about seducing every male lead. When her secret comes to light, the male leads join forces to condemn her. Then she is dumped by her fiancé, setting her on the path to a deadly 33.3kReads9.5Score5.1kShelves

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    The male lead has incredible sexual tension, and his connection with the female lead is incredibly strong. The plot is so coherent that you can't stop watching once you start!

19. 19 温 A Tender Rose Becomes His Cherished Favorite in the Apocalypse 温软玫瑰沦为他心尖偏宠【末世】 Fallen Today落今朝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse360k WordsCompleted [A post-apocalyptic setting + a trash man’s regret + the arch-enemy villain takes the lead + love triangle drama + mutual salvation + swoony romance + romantic aesthetics + both leads are devoted to each other] [Gentle, steadfast beacon of righteousness x refined, unhinged smiling schemer (irresistibly wicked)] Even as she lay dying, Wen Yao couldn’t understand what she had ever liked about Shen Yichuan. Was it his coldheartedness, or his selfishness? As his partner, she had risked her life for 43.8kReads9.5Score5.1kShelves

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    The first post-apocalyptic novel was amazing! It's a story with two strong leads, the male lead is proactive, and the female lead has an independent personality.

20. 20 生 After Giving Birth, the Cold and Aloof Demon Emperor Begs Me to Stroke His Tail 生崽后，清冷妖皇哭求我摸他尾巴 Big Tangerine, Big Fortune大橘大利Fantastical Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Cool, aloof seductress VS domineering female demon] The female demon Chu Qun was reborn. A thousand years had passed, yet her legends still covered the continent. The Saint of the Pill, the world-destroying Marquis Chu Yi, the sword-forging patriarch... They were all her secret identities! In her previous life, her siblings betrayed her. She was torn apart by chariots, and her soul was sealed beneath the abyss. This time, she returned in triumph, slaying prodigies, killing her enemies, and supp 39.1kReads9.6Score5.5kShelves
21. 21 壕 So Rich It’s Absurd! My Junior Sister Plants Divine Herbs Like Vegetables 壕无人性！师妹她将神草当菜种 Meow Jinjin喵金金Ancient Romance417k WordsCompleted [Ridiculous comedy + sweet romance + everyone’s favorite + fictional setting!] Ye Jiulian transmigrates into another world, rubs her hands together, and gets ready to make a splash. But it turns out she has a useless spirit root, and the one System she finally gets is there to serve her senior brothers! Ye Jiulian: Whoever wants this life can have it! Show-off No. 1: Host, wait! You’re actually the legitimate daughter of the Ye family. Your parents left you a fortune! Ye Jiulian: ...Actually, th 2.7kReads9.2Score416Shelves

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    They are all my precious treasures

22. 22 就 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 Ji Furan纪扶染Modern Romance659k WordsCompleted [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 117.8kReads9.6Score13.7kShelves
23. 23 假 The Fake Heiress Tears Up the Script and Lazily Gives Up 假千金手撕剧本，沙雕摆烂躺麻了 Li Yaoyao梨窈窈Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The short drama, The Fake Heiress Tears Up the Script, is now streaming [Showbiz + absurd humor and memes + everyone’s favorite + wild imagination + gossip + going off the rails] Chi Qian failed her tribulation and returned to the real world, only to discover she was the villainous fake heiress in a novel! The plot had already reached the point where the real heiress came back, and Chi Qian was about to be kicked out of the family home. A broken engagement, a wave of online hate, and a grueso 131.6kReads9.6Score14.1kShelves
24. 24 小 My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神 Lop-Eared Rabbit Who Loves Cilantro爱吃香菜的垂耳兔Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec 37.9kReads9.3Score4.6kShelves
25. 25 谁 Whose Sea God Is Pretending to Be Mute Again? 谁家海神又在装哑巴 Shen Tinghe沈听鹤Two Male Leads276k WordsCompleted [A cool on the outside, warm on the inside, self-pursuing, protective, and scheming top x a powerful, vengeful, innocent-looking but cunning bottom] Qi Heng x Huai Zhi Qi Heng is an S-rank space-type ability user and the captain of Team One at the Ability Execution Bureau. Known as the “ultimate human weapon,” he can crush any alien below A-rank as easily as an ant. While out on an assignment, he happened upon an Alliance team that had run into trouble during an alien extermination mission. An a 6kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
26. 26 见 Who Transmigrates into a Book Like They're Coming Home? I've Done It Three Times! 见过谁穿书跟回家一样？都三次了！ Ding-a-Ding丁了个丁Two Male Leads373k WordsCompleted Super sweet! Mutual doting! [Clingy, coquettish cutie x aloof beauty / 1v1 / no past relationships / HE] Su Ci transmigrates into a book. He lands in the novel he wrote himself, becoming a wealthy but disabled young master with a short life expectancy. When he opens his eyes, he’s lying in a hospital bed. A handsome man is staring intently at him, clutching his oxygen tube… “I…” Su Ci and the handsome man stare at each other for a long moment. “I think I can… still try to stay alive…” The handso 2.5kReads9.3Score311Shelves
27. 27 说 I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修，怎么是犯贱的贱 Qi Yi Zi七一子Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b 106.6kReads9.5Score15.4kShelves
28. 28 玄 The Mystical Beauty’s Calculations: What Do I Do If She Calculates Her Husband to Death? 玄门美人轻点算，算死老公怎么办 Wind, Wine, and Moon风酒月Two Male Leads552k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + two powerful leads + supernatural atmosphere + ghosts in the book + sweet romance and satisfying revenge + fortune-telling livestreams + eerily accurate predictions, no matter the consequences] Qi Mubai, Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect, refused to cultivate dual cultivation with anyone. He picked up a book of destiny and took up fortune-telling as an amateur. His predictions were scarily accurate, but he didn't care who got hurt. One moment, he predicted that the cultivation wor 27.5kReads9.4Score4kShelves
29. 29 身EN Trapped in a CEO Romance, I Struggle to Protect His Unhinged Older Brother 身陷霸总文学，努力护住癫公他哥 It's kk是kkTwo Male Leads410k WordsCompleted [Complete + two male leads + workplace gossip + mind reading + one-on-one romance + comedy + unhinged men and women] [Assistant who falls apart every day × silent, gossip-loving CEO] Also known as: I Gossip About People and Bring Them All Down! Zhu Yu, who loves money, wakes up inside the CEO romance novel he’d been reading. That would be fine if it were just one book, but the problem is that every novel by this author is connected. Three pairs of unhinged men and women in one world!!! Luckily, 7.6kReads9.4Score1.1kShelves
30. 30 手 My Subordinates Are All Rebellious, and I Become the Army's Greatest Villain 手下全是反骨仔，我成全军大反派 God of War Dad战神奶爸Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [A super contrarian + master trap-setter + comedy + old fox + invincible] Transmigrating into 1979, Ye An unexpectedly finds himself on a battlefield engulfed in the flames of war. He hopes to distinguish himself and make a name for himself, but his unit is ambushed and suffers heavy casualties. In a crisis, Ye An is ordered to rebuild the unit. The new recruits sent to him are all exceptional, but they're also notorious troublemakers and rebels from their respective units. His superiors promise 24.8kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
31. 31 这 Are There Any Normal People Left in This Cultivation World? 这个修仙界还有正常人吗 KELJINXAncient Romance535k WordsCompleted [Group Transmigration + Absurd Humor + Lighthearted + Ensemble Cast] [Completed] A shocking incident has recently rocked the cultivation world: several celebrated prodigies have disappeared one after another, their whereabouts unknown. These astonishingly gifted young geniuses all come from extraordinary backgrounds. Among them are sword cultivators from Kunlun Mountain, music cultivators from Wuwang Mountain, and even the Demon Realm has not been spared. Just as everyone laments, “The cultivati 5.9kReads9.1Score818Shelves
32. 32 恋EN Dating Show Chaos: Going Unhinged Made Me a Star! 恋综修罗场，我让癫学成为顶流！ It's kk是kkTwo Male Leads292k WordsCompleted Complete [Two Male Leads + One-on-One Romance + Both Pure + Hilarious Dating Show + Comedy, Sweet Romance, Power Fantasy] Shen Ting wakes up to discover he’s transmigrated into a melodramatic entertainment-industry novel he’d just been reading before bed. He hasn’t become the male lead, either the top or the bottom, or even the third male lead. He’s the younger brother of the third male lead, a low-ranking cannon-fodder character. Shen Ting is at a loss. Watching his brother eagerly prepare to b 15.4kReads9.4Score2.6kShelves
33. 33 重EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 Bian Lu边鹿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse758k WordsCompleted (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5kShelves
34. 34 我EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
35. 35 2 Lie Flat at 20, Save Yourself 40 Years of Detours 20岁躺平摆烂，少走40年弯路 I'm a Kitty是猫猫吖丶Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Completed] [Goofy Comedy with No Logic + Showbiz + Supernatural Arts + Face-Slapping + Taking Down Scumbags + Satisfying Read + One-on-One Romance] Lin Ting transmigrates into a new life. Tired of the rat race, she decides to do absolutely nothing this time around. But as she lazes about, she ends up turning the entire entertainment industry on its head. When a variety show goes live, the guests and viewers are left stunned. “You caught a snake with your bare hands, and you call yourself delica 4.2kReads9.0Score543Shelves
36. 36 人 A Human Cage 人间囚笼 Yan Yizhi言一知Urban538k WordsCompleted [Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel 117.1kReads9.5Score16.4kShelves
37. 37 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves

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    Highly rated books, not mindless wish-fulfillment novels.

38. 38 诡 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 Young Master Yanque燕雀大公子Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43.3kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
39. 39 序EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 No Brain, Just Cerebellum不要大脑要小脑Urban4.3M WordsOngoing [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 1MReads9.3Score123.9kShelves
40. 40 司 Commander Si, Why Are You Standing with the Monsters? 司统大人，您怎么站怪物那边了？ Little Black the Firebreather喷火小黑Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [No female lead + no romantic tension + no romance + ruthless and decisive] Amid the crowds beneath the neon-lit cityscape, there are monsters wearing human skin, walking among them just like ordinary people. The news says these people are called the Awakened. They feed on human flesh and are savage monsters. One quiet afternoon, an ordinary high school sophomore undergoes a transformation and becomes one of the Awakened, standing against all of humanity! To survive, he makes a pact with a god a 102.6kReads8.7Score10.4kShelves
41. 41 杀 After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神 White Peach Wuwu Dragon白桃呜呜龙Two Male Leads1.1M WordsCompleted The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei 102.4kReads9.7Score14.2kShelves
42. 42 垂 On My Deathbed, I Sat Bolt Upright: The Old Ones Were Me All Along 垂死病中惊坐起，旧日竟是我自己 Ten Tons in Three Days三天吃十吨Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Not an invincible protagonist + progression novel + no System + Lovecraftian horror + not fast-paced wish fulfillment + follows the official route] Lu Ning wandered through the fog for two thousand years. When he finally emerged, he found that the world seemed to be sick. The sun was covered in tentacles, planets were blanketed in flesh, the moon had sprouted countless eyes, and even Earth was groaning and crying for help. The diseased, disaster beasts, and followers of evil gods ran rampant, w 48.8kReads9.1Score5.8kShelves
43. 43 我 I Learn to Slay Ghosts on a Paranormal Forum 我在怪谈论坛学斩鬼 Young and Unaccomplished, Yet Never Insecure年少无为不自卑Mystery735k WordsCompleted [The printed edition of Strange Tales Forum is in production] [The short drama adaptation of Strange Tales Forum is in production] Gao Shen joined a strange tales forum by chance. The forum often posts eerie stories, describing every detail so vividly that they seem to have really happened. Users who reply seriously analyze the source of each incident and discuss how to deal with it. They even address each other as Heavenly Masters, Soul Tamer 50.1kReads8.7Score6.4kShelves
44. 44 我 I'm Almost a Max-Level Evil God, and You Want Me to Switch to Summoning? 我快邪神满级，你劝我转职召唤？ The Sky Isn't Dark Around the Corner转角天不黑Urban2.3M WordsOngoing The animated series is now streaming: Buried Gods! If you can't get enough of the novel, please go show it your support!!! (Story-focused, somewhat dark, with a touch of warmth, no female lead, not invincible, not a System power fantasy, a modest ensemble cast; read with caution if any of that bothers you) On the wasteland, the gods greedily carve up their territories. To survive the beast tide, people can only offer up their humble faith, hoping to earn the gods' mercy and attain the supernatur 35.8kReads8.8Score4.7kShelves
45. 45 全EN Global Metahumans: Awakening the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning at the Start 全球异能：开局觉醒紫霄神雷 The Wind Is Howling Tonight今晚的风儿甚是喧嚣Urban4.5M WordsOngoing On Blue Star, vicious beasts run rampant. Everyone can awaken an ability and has a chance to become a powerful force, feared across the land! Yet Xu Jingming, who transmigrated here, had only an E-rank ability. Fortunately, the Deep Blue System appeared, upgrading his weak E-rank electric ability into S-rank Purple Firmament Divine Thunder! That’s not all. Every time he kills a vicious beast, he earns ability points. Spend ability points to raise his level and strengthen his skills. “Deep Blue, 247.9kReads9.1Score20.3kShelves
46. 46 大EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban4.0M WordsOngoing [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 525.3kReads9.5Score41.9kShelves
47. 47 惊 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 73.9kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves

    Reader note

    I first watched the short drama, which was so captivating, that I read the novel. Highly recommended!

48. 48 好 Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女 I Took Great Pains我煞费苦心Modern Romance361k WordsCompleted [Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co 30.9kReads9.5Score4.1kShelves
49. 49 什 So What If I Lack Morals? I’m Already Number One in All of Jiuzhou 什么仙道天道？呵！我修的是杀道 Jiang Xiaoyan姜小言Ancient Romance3.4M WordsOngoing [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 156kReads9.4Score12.5kShelves
50. 50 刺 What a Thrill! The Real Heiress Goes Wild with a Gossip System 刺激！真千金带吃瓜系统发大疯 Pihei痞黑Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted [Showbiz + mind reading + gossip + unhinged, no-brain fun] Jiang Qiyu transmigrates into a showbiz novel as a washed-up starlet, and she's the foil to the fake heiress heroine. In the end, the heroine will sell her overseas to the black market, where she will die a horrible death after causing trouble again and again! Gossip System: [Host, all you need to do is quietly enjoy the gossip and rack up explosive points to rewrite your ending!] Jiang Qiyu sneers: “No way! Dead sooner or later, so I mi 25.6kReads9.4Score4.4kShelves

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