Looking for a Group-Cast Story About Spirited Young Heroes Roaming the Jianghu 求少年意气风发,闯荡江湖,群像文
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My Dad's on the Straight and Narrow, I'm in the Underworld 白道爹,黑道我
[Not invincible! Not invincible! Not invincible!] The martial world is a road of no return, and its people are pawns that have crossed the river! Where will the drifting ship in this forbidden zone finally end up? Watch as this wandering youth stirs up a storm! Black side: I've got countless brothers! White side: My backing is powerful beyond belief! Money is just something you can't bring with you when you die! [Entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental!]
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A Young Man's Years in the Jianghu 少年之江湖岁月
The jianghu is a road with no return, a maze, an abyss. Some manipulate events from the shadows, while others struggle for their lives in the mire. Watch who rises above them all, and who comes crashing down.
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Dragon Head Supreme 龙头至尊
The campus beauty he'd loved for three years was brutalized and killed! Chen Xuewen, who had done nothing, was framed and sent to prison! His honest, hardworking parents both died horribly while seeking justice for him! After nineteen years of living by the rules and obeying the law, Chen Xuewen finally saw the true face of the world. “Those who kill and burn their way to riches wear golden belts, while those who build bridges and roads leave no bones behind!” “If others can kill and burn, why
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The Northern City Kingpin 北城枭雄
Formerly titled The Northern City's Underworld Boss, also known as Tales of the Northeastern Underworld. They say the underworld is all about human relationships and worldly ways, but have you ever seen the real underworld? The underworld is dangerous, but the human heart is even more dangerous. Spring ice is thin, and human nature is thinner still. The underworld is nothing more than a game of chess. Once you enter the game, you can no longer control your own fate. I will use my own experie
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Those Were the Days: My Life in the Underworld 那些年,混过的日子
Sleeping rough and braving the elements are just part of life. Clashing blades and exchanging blows can put old grudges to rest. Brothers are heaven, brothers are earth. With brothers, you can stand tall between heaven and earth. Brothers are the wind, brothers are the rain. With brothers, you can summon the wind and call down the rain. Based on real events, this novel commemorates the years we spent getting into trouble together and pays tribute to the youth of those born in the 1980s. End
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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Honor of Kings: You're the Support, So Why Are You First in Gold? 王者:你辅助啊,经济全场第一?
Su Cheng transmigrates into the 2022 KPL Spring Split, right into a do-or-die match! He awakens the [Canyon Tycoon System]. As long as he finishes the game with the highest net worth, he’ll earn a reward! Li Luo: I told you to play more aggressively, and you picked Lu Bu as the support? Have you taken “aggressive” a little too far? SK: What? I banned four support heroes, and you’re telling me they picked a support first? The Wolves players: “Wait, you’re the support. How come you have more gold
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The Lavish Daily Life of a Max-Level High Schooler 满级高中生的豪横日常
[Comedy + scheming + tycoon] One day, the rebellious Fang Qimai got a special System. Whenever someone called on him, he could receive a reward from them. Ding! Your math teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering Olympiad Math. Ding! Your rich classmate called on you. Character unlocked: Billionaire Dad. Ding! Your PE teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering English Grammar. Wait a minute... Did something weird just sneak in there...?
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Cicadas Sing as the Sun Sets in the West 蝉声且送阳西
[Wuxia + swordsmanship + political intrigue + scheming protagonist + comedy + multiple leads] The world’s great currents form a chessboard, and all living beings are its pieces. One player commands the black pieces, another the white. One person has double pupils and looks down coldly on mortal life, overturning heaven and earth with a single gesture. Another is refined and graceful, laying schemes one after another, each linked to the next. Another, though only at the second rank, takes one ste
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The Ancient Martial Arts Berserker 古武狂兵
[New novel: The King of Hell's Divine Needle, by Gongzi Rulong. Just search for it~~] Eight years ago, he was chosen by the Yanhuang Organization. After enduring brutal, hellish training, he became their deadliest blade! Eight years later, he returns with grave injuries and is reduced to a cripple! With his meridians destroyed and his beloved murdered, he transforms into a bloodthirsty Asura in the depths of despair. The day he rises like a dragon and commands the winds and clouds, the whole wor
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Who Let a Mere Martial Artist Cultivate the Sword? 你一个武夫,谁让你炼剑的?
[No System] [No transmigration] [Invincible physical body] [Supreme swordsmanship] [Ruthless and decisive] [Overwhelming victories from start to finish] Qin Guan is a powerful eighth-realm martial artist. Following his master’s orders, he descends the mountain to fulfill a marriage contract. The Nan family thinks Qin Guan is a good-for-nothing who can’t cultivate. They don’t want to break the engagement and earn a bad reputation, but they also don’t want to marry off their exceptionally ta
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The Urban Underworld: Power and Influence 都市江湖:权势滔天
The short drama of the same name premieres on January 4, 2026, at 10 a.m. on Hongguo Short Drama: Urban Underworld: Power Overwhelming Chen Yi had never met his biological father. Then one day, his parents were summoned to school, and he watched helplessly as his teacher was beaten badly enough to end up in the hospital...
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My Irresistible Boss Lady 我的心动老板娘
Talk money with the poor, and feelings with the rich! I refused to believe it, and got hurt from head to toe! It wasn't until the boss's wife appeared that I realized I had fallen into a whirlpool of human nature. My name is Yu Nan. My story begins now!
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The Super Son-in-Law 超级上门女婿
Ye Fan, a useless live-in son-in-law, accidentally inherits the Taiji Scripture and the Stone of Life and Death, setting him on a very different path in life. He saves beautiful women with his medical skills and slays enemies with his martial arts. Not only does he overcome the scorn and ridicule of others and win his wife's heart, he also rises to the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all creation.
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I've Been Reborn, Can't I Be a Rich Second-Generation Heir? 都重生了还不能是个富二代啊
[Daily life] [School life] [Reborn] [No System] [Multiple heroines] [Slow burn] [Not a tycoon fantasy] [Entrepreneurship] Gu Ruochen is an orphan. By the time he turns thirty, he still has no money, no woman, and no… Heaven gives Gu Ruochen, who is burdened by countless regrets, the chance to unexpectedly be reborn in 2012. When he opens his eyes, his first thought is to make money and make up for the regrets of his previous life. But who could have imagined… he’s actually a rich second-generati
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
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My Years as a Con Artist 我做老千的那些年
The short drama adaptation of the Old Cheater series is now streaming on Red Fruit and Tomato. Come check it out! I'm a professional gambler. At the table, I can turn the odds on their head. But I want to use my own experience to tell you a simple truth: stay away from gambling. Because nine out of ten games are rigged, and you lose every time!
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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Heavenly Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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Wang Xiaoming's Cultivation Journal 王小明修仙记
Across the long river of time unfolds a moving history of an ordinary man's cultivation journey, the story of a common man's growth as he cultivates his strength, his heart, and his path to immortality. Wang Xiaoming leaves his mountain village and rises in the mortal world. As the world changes, he ascends to immortality in the blink of an eye.
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A Young Dragon from the Start, and You Really Think I'm a Beggar? 幼龙开局,你真把我当乞丐?
Gods run rampant, and strange creatures are everywhere. In a world gripped by fear, where anyone might undergo a monstrous transformation, a lowborn boy emerges from an old graveyard. He carries a mysterious space where killing strange creatures lets him absorb their power and conjure items. [Legendary creature, Jade-Eyed Corpse: Its eyeballs can peer into the Yellow Springs and read the scriptures of the dead. Requires a sixth-rank martial artist who has mastered a pupil technique.] The sevent
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The Longevity Sword, the Immortal of the Mortal Realm 长生剑,红尘仙
[Steady even in the thick of things, sharp-minded, kind-hearted, skilled in both combat and scholarship.] [Upright values, a conscience, and unmatched strength. Keep a low profile to the extreme, and you can afford to live boldly.] A little Taoist priest who has not yet mastered his skills arrives on the Flowing Cloud Continent. True to his unwavering Taoist convictions, he slays demons, exorcises evil, and upholds justice. This book is also titled The Longevity Sword, the Immortal of the Mortal
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Green Duckweed 青萍
In one life, the Celestial River overflowed, and all nine provinces became a vast marsh. In another, ten suns appeared at once, turning the earth into a living hell. In yet another, the gates of the underworld swung wide, and the mortal world became a realm of ghosts... Heaven and Earth are cruel, treating all living things as straw dogs! Through countless ages of reincarnation, who is really in control? In this life, a lone youth, with only a sword at his side, sets the wind in motion here, ris
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My Senior Brother Is Too Strong 我的师兄太强了
Original title: My Senior Brother Is Too Strong The eldest senior brother is diligent and tireless, while the second senior brother likes to sneak off and take it easy. The eldest senior brother is hailed as a genius, while the second is the disgrace of the sect. Until one day, the junior sister discovers that the second senior brother is pretty amazing too... This blurb does it no justice. Read the story for yourself...
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 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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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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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能:我有一面复刻镜
[Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th
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The Blind Sword Girl of the High-Martial Thief God Clan 高武盗神家的盲眼剑娘
[One heroine + equally matched leads + action and romance] One is a thief who loves stealing precious gems. The other is a blind swordswoman who does nothing but practice her swordsmanship. Lin Chuan, known as the God of Thieves in Longxia, unexpectedly acquired a bag that could trade for anything. As long as he put in enough treasures, he could get whatever he wanted. SSS-grade gene enhancers, top-tier breathing techniques, coveted combat skills... He had planned to use the trading bag to go fr
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I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌
They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52
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City of Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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Tales of the Dark River 暗河传
The Dark River can assassinate imperial relatives in the capital and destroy powerful clans and sects in the wilds. It is the foremost assassin organization, feared by all martial world figures. But the Dark River's leader, the Grand Patriarch, is growing old, and his control over the organization is gradually slipping away. After the Grand Patriarch is gravely wounded during a mission to kill Tang Er, the second master of the Tang Clan, several family heads within the Dark River send assassins
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The Silent Blade 刀不语
Someone once asked me, “What is the jianghu?” I thought for a moment. I thought of a jug of rough wine on the table, a distant figure walking away beneath the setting sun, a grave beneath the moon, and the cigarette burning down to ash in my hand right now. That person asked again, “Where is the jianghu?” I smiled and looked out the window. There were countless jianghus out there. One person is a story. Two people make a jianghu.
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Chasing the Sword 逐剑
[Traditional fantasy] [One female lead] [Lone cultivator] [No transmigration or rebirth] One day, if I hold a sword in my hand, even the saints of the world will bow their heads! One man, one dog, and one sword: together, they stir up a storm across the Six Provinces! After enduring the darkest moment of his life, the boy leaves the city at sunset with a sword on his back. How does he end up with white hair overnight, wearing a ghost mask and wielding a sharp blade, becoming the “Executioner” in
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Clouds Over You 君有云
Ten Li Langdang was home to the Academy, where the Confucian Sage held sway. Beneath him were nine Gentlemen and three hundred Confucian scholars, making it the place in the world with the greatest concentration of scholarly refinement. Whenever an Academy disciple was elevated to Gentleman, they had to proclaim a single phrase aloud as the maxim of their life. They would devote their whole lives to striving in accordance with that phrase, which was known as a “Gentleman's Word.” Su Baiyi, Feng
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Sword Immortal: Song Forms as the Lead, Poetry as the Move 剑仙:词牌作引,诗句为招
[The comic adaptation of this novel is now available on Hongguo.] [Lighthearted comedy + poetic tune titles + poetry + sword immortal] Rumor has it that the Ji Sword Immortal, who rejected Xie Zheng, the foremost qin player of Qinyuan, has three famous swords: "Snow in the Mist," "Green Jade Table," and "Nian Nu Jiao..."
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First Rate! 第一流!
[No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De
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Dashing Youth 少年白马醉春风
The long street was steeped in danger, loud and chaotic. A butcher wielding a cleaver brought it down, carving flowers into bone. An old woman selling embroidered shoes teased a flame from her candle with a needle. Not a soul could be found a hundred feet away. Then there was the oil seller, with eighteen swords hidden in his sleeves, always watching the steamed-bun shop across the street and its little beauty, whose hands could tear away one face and give her nine new ones. At the end of the st
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