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1. 1 朕 I'm Shocked! The Prodigal Son Is Actually a Demonic National Preceptor! 朕震惊了，败家子竟是妖孽国师！ Strolling in the Wind漫步风中Historical2.7M WordsCompleted He transmigrates into the Da Feng Dynasty as the son of the Duke of Ying, a notorious fool and wastrel known throughout the capital. Lin Chen cracks his knuckles. “If I’m the duke’s son, who do I have to fear?” And so Lin Chen charges headlong through life, from the capital to Jiangnan, from temples to court, from the northern frontier to the grasslands, leaving a fearsome reputation in his wake. Da Feng’s merchants are stunned. “Wait, you became the richest man in Da Feng. How is that being a w 81.2kReads8.7Score7.1kShelves

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   Who in the family understands? I became a super spendthrift through time travel. My dear friends, we are so blessed to have been short of books recently! I would like to recommend to you a tomato novel that I stayed up all night to finish - "The Prodigal Imperial Master". Once in time, the protagonist Lin Chen became the son of the British Duke of the Great Feng Dynasty. He thought he would start a cheating life, but unexpectedly he turned out to be a fool and prodigal son who was famous in the capital. He was disliked by everyone at the beginning. But he was not willing to just "show off" like this. With the wisdom and courage of modern people, he rampaged all the way and successfully counterattacked. It was so exciting!

2. 2 未 My Fiancé Wants to Care for His Widowed Sister-in-Law, So I Turned Around and Married His Cousin 未婚夫要照顾寡嫂，转头嫁他堂哥 I Have a Longbow吾有长弓Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Xie Xinyue nearly drowned, but the three Gu brothers saved her. She chose to marry Gu Jianshe because he was handsome. After they married, Gu Jianshe doted on his nephew and went out of his way to help his sister-in-law, but treated Xie Xinyue with cold indifference. She thought she wasn't doing enough, so she worked herself to the bone and tried to please everyone in the family. At last, her husband noticed her efforts and began treating her differently. Thinking her hards 2.9kReads7.9Score443Shelves

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   All good novels

3. 3 分 After Three Years Apart, She Asks for a Divorce, and the Chaste Commander Loses His Cool 分居三年提离婚，禁欲首长红了眼 Tun Er豚二Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + raising children + no golden finger + native-born characters + life in a military compound + everyday family drama] This is not an effortless wish-fulfillment story. It’s a warm tale of personal growth, so read with care if that’s not your thing. Cen Jing Yi gives birth to her daughter prematurely and is thrown out by her in-laws. She struggles alone to raise her daughter until she’s two. Then her husband, who returned to his unit the day aft 16.6kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
4. 4 穿 Transmigrate into a Book: A 1980s Mom with a Cold-Faced Officer Doting on Her 穿书八零喜当妈，冷面军官掌中宠 Fish Delight in Spring Night春夜喜鱼Modern Romance356k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate Into a Book + Military Marriage + Alternate Historical Era + Raising Kids + Food + Pocket Dimension] Ye Qiu woke up one morning to find she'd transmigrated into a book and become a minor cannon-fodder character who eloped with a male educated youth. She was also the notorious lazy wife in the village, with a reputation so bad it had spread for miles. Fortunately, her pocket dimension had come with her. Ye Qiu grabbed a chicken in one hand and a piece of meat in the other, while th 251Reads6.9Score—Shelves
5. 5 五 Born in the 1950s, Switched at Birth 五零，出生被调换 One-Legged Bird一只脚的鸟Modern Romance825k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + 1950s + transmigrated as a baby + spatial storage + self-interested heroine + military marriage] Gu Yihan is caught up in a transmigration to the 1950s because of a mutated hamster. The moment she opens her eyes, she discovers that her mother, who favors boys over girls, has switched her with someone else's son. Her adoptive mother dislikes her, and her adoptive father favors boys over girls. From childhood, Gu Yihan works hard to win her grandmother's favor and earn the chance 14.4kReads7.8Score1kShelves
6. 6 长 Immortality Begins with Transporting Goods Between Two Worlds 长生，从两界搬运开始 Qizhou Sea齐州海水Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted Yun Zheng, a student at the Alliance Cultivation High School, had one great wish in life: to get into the least prestigious academy and bring honor to his family. Then he transmigrated to another cultivation world, where alchemists, looked down upon in the Alliance, were revered by everyone. Spirit herbs, extremely scarce in the Alliance, could be bought everywhere here. So Yun Zheng decided to aim a little higher... 43.8kReads7.8Score4.6kShelves

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7. 7 我 I, the Life-Fueled Martial God, Fear the Campus Isn't Violent Enough 我，氪命武神，害怕校园不够暴力 Catfish Book猫鱼书Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [The Stars and the Sea] [High Martial Arts in Space] [Decisive and Ruthless!] [Action-Packed and Satisfying!] [New Book Now Available, Come Check It Out] Chen Yuan transmigrated, and he was terrified because he was bullied at school from the start. [Lifespan-Fueled System bound. Spend lifespan to deduce martial arts without limit] [Spend eighteen years of lifespan to take basic saber techniques from beginner to proficient, advanced, and perfect, and even comprehend the secret of 32.3kReads8.8Score2.9kShelves
8. 8 杀 You Killed Me to Sacrifice Me and Save Your Family, So Why Are You Freaking Out? 杀我献祭你全家，你破防啥？ Dreaming Back to Three Thousand Provinces梦回三千州Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsCompleted Also known as: [Burn Bright and Live Forever, Borrow Heaven's Destiny, Become Invincible Across the Ages!] Synopsis: [Eternal life + life-borrowing talent + lighthearted, with a touch of poignancy] Gu Ming accidentally transmigrates into a cultivation world. From the start, he has eternal life and awakens the talent to borrow lives. If he is killed, he can borrow the life of the killer's closest relative to resurrect himself, and randomly gain one of their skills, including but not limited to fo 48.7kReads7.9Score6.5kShelves
9. 9 宗 The Sect Is Recruiting Disciples, and from the Start I Can See Their Attribute Panels 宗门收徒，开局看见属性面板 Golden Beast of Changtu Mountain长涂山的黄金兽Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted Comedy + Everyday Life + Taking Disciples + Sect Building + System + Heartwarming + Slow Pace + The Protagonist Has Both Legs and Joins in the Fun.] After transmigrating into a cultivation world, Chu Xingchen awakened a disciple-recruitment System and gained the ability to see his disciples' traits! Starting from scratch, he would build the strongest sect. First Disciple: Li Yingling [Gold Trait: Cultivation Prodigy][Purple Trait: Extraordinary Luck][Blue Trait: Beautiful] Second D 125.4kReads9.0Score14.7kShelves
10. 10 天 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 The Leaf Riding the Wind御风而行的葉子Urban3.6M WordsOngoing [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 311.2kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves

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    This book is the best

11. 11 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 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 1.7MReads9.9Score188.4kShelves

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    9.9 Points! Definitely ceiling level! It just makes you "stay up all night! Chen Ling's madness is breathtakingly handsome, and the adrenaline rushes from beginning to end." The red meteor tears apart technological civilization, and mankind returns to its original predicament. The protagonist Chen Ling, wearing a blood-stained red robe, plays out the game of life and death in the ruins of the nine realms. With the original "audience expectation" survival rule, every performance is the ultimate tension between madness and reason - the "beginning of the show" is not only a line, but also the curse and redemption of the doomsday.

12. 12 海 The Navy’s Pinnacle! It All Began When Garp Captured Me 海军的巅峰！从被卡普抓走开始 biubiu Jottingsbiubiu随笔Anime Fanfiction1.3M WordsCompleted [Raising Luffy and Ace to Become Marines from Childhood] [Training Zoro and Kuina to Become Master Swordsmen] [Giant’s Physique + Instant Teleportation + Fist of Love] [Multiple Devil Fruit Powers] [Ridiculous Training Diary + Fiery Battles + Cozy Everyday Life] [No Female Lead] After being sent flying by the “Truck for Transmigrating to Another World,” Roy is dumped into the world of One Piece by a goofy goddess. But when Garp actually grabs Roy by the collar and drags him to Marine Headquarte 18.9kReads8.7Score1.5kShelves
13. 13 精 Pokemon: The Poison-Type Champion Loves Playing with Fire 精灵宝可梦：毒系天王爱玩火 Nine-Turn Pork Ribs九转大排骨Anime Fanfiction2.0M WordsCompleted [Pokemon / Pokemon / Pokémon / Pokemon] Urban fantasy, dark themes beginning in the middle and later parts. Ye Kai transmigrated by accident to a world of urban Pokemon. He discovered that this was a world where Pokemon were divided into ranks and classes. Poison-type Pokemon carried deadly toxins, so people avoided them at all costs! His starting Pokemon was a Shiny Koffing. This world didn't have a Poison-type Elite Four member yet. Maybe I can fill that vacancy? [Ding! Detected that Host has 49.7kReads8.7Score9.6kShelves
14. 14 小 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 Hu Yu蝴俞Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted 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 91.2kReads9.6Score10.5kShelves

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    It's really super beautiful!!! The withdrawal reaction is so severe!!! At first I was attracted by the title and synopsis of the book and thought it was an ordinary systematic book. But later I found out that it really has an emotional thread and there is no bloody plot about female competition and waiting. The heroine remembers saving many people in the plot of the original book, and every character in the novel is presented vividly. Who knows? I felt like crying and laughing while watching it in the middle of the night. I really highly recommend it!! Niannian, Princess, Tangtang, Hajixiang, Niuniu, Ahuai, Cicada, Momo, Yangwei, the best group portrait!!! This novel presents every step of Nian Nian's growth and heals everyone in the book step by step. The author's writing is very good and gives us readers a perfect and complete ending. Whether in the parallel world or the world of the original book, Nian Nian allows the people in it to have a good life!!

15. 15 黑 The Crown of the Dark Moon 黑月光冠冕 Three Lives, Three Three叁生三三Modern Romance2.5M WordsCompleted [The first print volume is now available] [Sweet Romance in a Wealthy Family] + [A Forbidden Love Falls from Its Pedestal] + [Characters Awaken] + [A Chaotic Love Rival Showdown] “You are a cannon-fodder character in this world. Your character tags are: beautiful, vicious, and stupid. When you were eight, you were adopted by the Shen family, the most powerful family in Whale Harbor. The head of the family treasured you like a gem, but you joined forces with your villainous mother to scheme agai 536.2kReads9.5Score94.8kShelves

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    This one!!! It's a bit like a group portrait novel. The heroine returns from rebirth in order to change the tragedy of her grandfather's death in her previous life and help friends around her tear off the labels attached to them. It feels like girl helping girls. The heroine is really great! There is also a family line. Grandpa really loves Xiao Hua'er unconditionally. There is also a Shura field scene where three men compete for one woman. Why does the male protagonist get the upper hand? Because he competes and competes for it. Ahhhhhhhh. Really super pretty.

16. 16 癫 Crazy, All Crazy, A Little Madness Is Good 癫，都癫，癫点好啊 Little Salt小盐子Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay. 376.2kReads9.8Score54.9kShelves

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    Beautiful, the heroine is crazy

17. 17 游 Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [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 1.1MReads9.5Score97.2kShelves

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    Unparalleled wine. This is a work that becomes more and more interesting the more you read it. Interesting souls are one in a million. Remember to look at the back. The front may be cliché, but the back is beyond imagination.

18. 18 猫 A Cat’s Wasteland Survival: Where Are You, Master? 猫猫废土求生，主人你在哪儿？ X Alley Wine XX巷酒XSci-Fi & Apocalypse501k WordsCompleted [True cat's-eye view × no romance × coming-of-age + happy ending + supernatural powers] The apocalypse arrives, and my human is gone! Fachai has no choice but to strap on a pack of dried fish and set off to find their human. Awaken supernatural powers, make friends, join the resistance... When cat paws tear open the cage and green light floods the heart of hell, can this journey allow new shoots to break through the earth and bring the wasteland era to an end? “Don't be afraid. I'll take you ho 320Reads8.6Score103Shelves

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    New book, hot to read, a rare good work, highly recommended

19. 19 别 Stop Scrolling, Bro! This Streamer Isn’t Here to Perform 别刷了哥！这主播根本不是卖艺的 Blue Chalk蓝色粉笔Urban1.8M WordsCompleted Jiang Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens a livestream money-grabbing System! As long as he earns gifts and tips and meets his cash-grabbing targets, he can receive random rewards from the System! And so, the internet's most shamelessly money-hungry streamer is born! "Boss! Singing, dancing, doing stunts, rapping, standing on my head, whatever other streamers can do, I can do too. And whatever they can't do, I can do even better!" "Boss, just tell me what you want me to do! As lon 158.4kReads9.4Score15.2kShelves

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    I have watched it all by myself, I am not a novice, I am not aggrieved, don't worry brothers.

20. 20 带 Taking a Rebel on the Journey to the West, I Gave the Demons Eighty-One Tribulations Instead 带反骨仔取经，反给妖怪八十一难 Little Doctor小医生Female-Channel Fanfiction1.3M WordsCompleted [Journey to the West fanfic + hilarious antics + punchline-packed + healing and redemption for each other + Heaven's three rebellious troublemakers + retracing the journey west] On my first start, Nezha stabbed the Destined One to death! On my next start, Erlang Shen's dog bit me to death! On my third start, I forgot the gold headband and got beaten to death by Sun Wukong! Tang An: “So I’ve been transmigrated as the new Destined One, and I have to go fetch the scriptures? And I have to get those 28.2kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
21. 21 失 After a Breakup, I Found Out My Best Friend Was the Cool School Beauty 失恋后，发现好兄弟是清冷校花 Shui Sheng Xi Gua水生西瓜Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Not reborn] + [No System] + [Youthful campus life] + [Romantic comedy] + [One heroine] + [Everyday life] After chasing his unrequited love for two and a half years, Lu Yibei was still secretly mocked by her for being a simp. Once he finally let go, Lu Yibei received a call from his gaming carry, who had never once used voice chat. The cool, clear, lovely female voice on the phone left Lu Yibei silent for a long time. Lu Yibei: “Bro, don’t we have a younger sister at home?” The reply: “I don’t h 93.3kReads9.6Score10.7kShelves
22. 22 毒 The Poisonous Strategist, the Emperor's Son-in-Law: Zhu Yuanzhang, Don't Panic 毒士帝婿，朱元璋你别怂 Desolate Dust荒尘Historical2.0M WordsCompleted Li Qi transmigrated. And, of all people, he ended up as Li Shanchang’s only son! To avoid the fate of having his entire family executed, Li Qi decided to court disaster and unconditionally fawn over the wise and mighty Hongwu Emperor, Taizu of the Great Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang. “What? There’s a corrupt official?” “Your Majesty, don’t worry. How about peeling off his skin and stuffing it with straw?” “What? Most scholars in the early Ming refuse to serve in office?” “Don’t worry, Your Majesty. Strip 3.2kReads8.7Score559Shelves
23. 23 寒 A Crane Perches on a Frostbitten Branch 寒枝栖鹤 The Palace's Midnight Nurse皇宫的午夜护士Ancient Romance858k WordsCompleted When Su Mingwei, a woman general of Yanyun, was reborn on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, she realized her family had been caught up in a plot to annihilate them over the embezzlement of military funds. Having died with regrets after falling off a cliff in her previous life, she now uses her “dreams of turning back time” to change her fate: she catches her cousin swapping the military tally in the ancestral hall, draws the secret signal of the Jinghong Bureau in blood at the lantern festi 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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24. 24 魅 Midnight Phoenix: Chronicles of Ten Beauties 魅夜凤凰：十艳录 Honghu Sheng虹湖生Urban922k WordsOngoing The protagonist, Shen Xuanyue, was originally a plum-blossom deer spirit. His cultivation has always been hindered by the Lone Lamp Art, keeping him from reaching the highest realm. Only by coupling with ten women who possess a special kind of heart-tingling spiritual energy can he break free of the Lone Lamp Art’s constraints and gain immense power. Who are these ten beauties? What secrets lie behind each love story? What will become of Shen Xuanyue? Find all the answers in the book, waiting fo 1kReads8.7Score—Shelves

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    The strongest in 2025! Come and see Meiye Phoenix! Modern cultivation, double cultivation or multiple cultivation? It's all led by her! Turn your fingers into a straight man in seconds! The key is that you can customize the plot! Can you refuse this?

25. 25 黔 Racing Wild on the Guizhou Roads 黔路狂飚 Honghu Sheng虹湖生Historical316k WordsCompleted Reborn in 1980, he uses his experience from his previous life to avenge his father. He also rides the wave of reform and opening-up, setting up a cooperative, a construction crew, and a real estate company, then taking the company public. Step by step, he builds a business empire. 49Reads8.2Score—Shelves
26. 26 扮 Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger, Then Lure Your Archenemy Home 扮猪吃虎，将死对头拐回家 His Highness Xuan Yin玄音殿下Modern Romance374k WordsCompleted [Secret Identities, Two Powerful Leads, Cunning, Double Lives, Sweet and Docile Yet Vicious] Qian Si is an ace assassin, codenamed Death, and the uncrowned king of the underworld. In public, she is a delicate heiress who can barely take care of herself. In secret, she can stir up the world all on her own. Yan Li’s influence reaches across both the underworld and the legitimate world. He has secretly crossed paths with Qian Si for years, and through a twist of fate, he snatched something she had 12.4kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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