[For Mature Readers, Beautifully Written, Slow-Burn] 【适合中年+文笔好+慢热】

1. 51 大 After We Started Dating in College, My Cool Senior's Image Crumbled 大学恋爱后，学姐高冷人设崩塌了 I Won't Descend to the Mortal World我不下人间Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Urban slice of life] [A somewhat realistic college-life experience] [Slice of life + one-on-one romance + no System + senior student + campus romance] [The heroine appears within ten chapters] “Son, your dad is actually the richest man in the Dragon Kingdom!” One sentence from his mom left Lin Xun completely dumbfounded. His dad, who hauled bricks at a construction site, was the richest man in the Dragon Kingdom? His mom, who washed dishes at some restaurant, was actually a noble lady? This su 70.2kReads9.4Score6.6kShelves
2. 52 高 The Aloof Campus Belle? She’s Obviously My Sweet Wife! 高冷校花？那明明是我甜妹老婆！ Hawthorn Tea山楂煮茶Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Everyday Romance] [One Heroine] [Sweet Romance] [Campus Life] [Romantic Comedy] [Sweet from Start to Finish] [No Harem] For years, Jiang Ciyuan revolved around Tang Yueran as he pursued her. The night she hinted that he should confess, all he got in return was her scornful sneer: "A bag that costs tens of thousands of yuan is the bare minimum to show your sincerity." His years of affection ended in a humiliating anticlimax. After Jiang Ciyuan walked away, he met a cool, aloof campus beauty who 19.8kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
3. 53 高 The School Belle Was Reborn and Is Madly Chasing After Me 高冷校花重生了，疯狂倒追我 Little Bao, Go Go Go小包冲冲冲Urban2.4M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted daily life]+ [One heroine]+ [Sweet romance]+ [No System]+ [Mutual healing] … In a car accident, Lin Ran bravely risks his life to save his former high school deskmate, the school belle. When he wakes up reborn, Lin Ran is back in his high school classroom at eighteen. The next second, the school belle beside him rushes over with tear-filled, red eyes and hugs him tightly! School belle, choking back tears: “I found you!” Lin Ran: “?” … It turns out his school-belle deskmate has been 90kReads9.4Score11.6kShelves
4. 54 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 92.7kReads9.6Score10.6kShelves
5. 55 被 Forced to Register Our Marriage, the Campus Beauty Senior Keeps Playing Me 被迫领证后，校花学姐反复拿捏我 Drunk on Dreams in Chang'an梦醉长安Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Campus Life] + [One Love Interest] + [No System] + [Sweet Romance] + [Contrasting Ice-Cold Campus Beauty] + [Sweet from Start to Finish] When the girl he had secretly loved for three years said she would date him if he got into the same university as her, Fang Haoyu chose to retake his entrance exams. He spent a whole year studying day and night just to be with her. But when he finally got into the same university, the girl he'd loved from afar suddenly changed her mind! It hurt! It hurt so muc 55.6kReads9.3Score7kShelves
6. 56 偷 I Overheard the School Beauty's Thoughts, and She's a Hopeless Romantic! 偷听校花心声，她居然是恋爱脑！ Zai Yu Ye A在于野啊Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [One female lead + pure romance + super-sweet everyday life + mutual devotion + no System] Ye Zhou discovered that the new neighbor next door was actually the campus belle, Lin Qianyue! Lin Qianyue: “Hello, Ye Zhou. Looks like we're neighbors now.” [Hehe, Ye Zhou, I finally moved in next door to you!] [Next step: moving into your bed!] Ye Zhou: ??? Looking at Lin Qianyue's expressionless face, Ye Zhou suddenly realized he could somehow hear the campus belle's thoughts?! After they became nei 41kReads9.3Score6kShelves
7. 57 学 Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你 Gege Wuwu隔胳呜呜Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 351.9kReads9.8Score37kShelves
8. 58 让 You're Supposed to Be the Strategist, So Why Are You Dating the Enemy's? 让你当军师，你和女方军师好上了 A Bystander Knows Xiao Xi路人知小熙Urban574k WordsCompleted (Romantic slice of life) + (One female lead) + (Not reborn) + (No System, no golden finger) Gu Xing helps his roommate add a girl on WeChat, and all the guys in Dorm 301 pitch in with advice. “Guys, what should I send as my first message?” “Do you even have to ask? Just send, ‘You there?’...” Gu Xing says, “Opening with ‘Hey, are you there?’ is guaranteed to make you look like a clown.” Under his roommates’ watchful eyes, Gu Xing becomes their romance coach. He sends, “The other person is typing 1.8kReads9.5Score346Shelves
9. 59 喜 You Should’ve Said You Liked Me Sooner. Good Thing I Was Reborn 喜欢我不早说，得亏我重生了 Ji Bai97既白97Urban934k WordsOngoing [Reborn / Campus romance / Everyday life / One heroine / No System] Liang Jing never in a million years expected that the dazzling, icy campus beauty had secretly loved him for twelve years. When it came to love, even if he handed in a blank paper, Zhu Wanxing would give him full marks. But in his previous life, he didn't just miss the exam, he even smashed up the “exam room” itself To win favor with the mean girl he'd pursued when they were young, Liang Jing unwittingly helped spread a false 22.7kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
10. 60 别 Don’t Mess with His Little Darling 别惹他的小可怜 Dai in Her Boudoir呆字闺中Modern Romance535k WordsCompleted [Print edition now available] [Published under the title Blazing Sun] [Cocky, unruly, flirtatious young master from Beijing’s elite circles x delicate yet resilient top student who’s been bullied] [Campus Romance x Healing x Top Students x Mutual Devotion] Tang Yu is the top student at Qingyuan High School, but she has endured years of bullying. When she’s driven to the brink, she sets her sights on the new transfer student. He’s cocky enough and wild enough. That day, bruised from head to toe, 45.3kReads9.5Score7.6kShelves
11. 61 一 A Blossom, A Cup of Wine, An Immortal Life 一花一酒一仙人，亦眠亦醉亦长生 Eat a Billion Less少吃亿点Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master 217.9kReads9.5Score25kShelves
12. 62 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 1.7MReads9.9Score189.8kShelves
13. 63 太 Snow over Taicang 太仓雪 Fish Who Loves Catsyu爱吃猫的鱼yuHistorical164k WordsOngoing (A note from the author is in Chapter One) He opens his eyes and finds himself as the Chongzhen Emperor? Great, except the timing couldn’t be worse. Kneeling before him, Wang Cheng’en wails, “Your Majesty! Li Zicheng has breached Tongguan!” Rubbing his throbbing temples, Zhu Youjian, with a new soul inside, can only ask, “Have they prepared the old crooked-neck tree?” Wang Cheng’en is dumbstruck. The story starts in hell mode: the treasury is empty, the court is full of parasites, Dorgon lurks —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's so beautiful [Sending my heart] I can believe this is a book written by a junior high school student [Shocked]

14. 64 我 I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者 Evergreen Greens长青菜菜Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. … 2.3kReads—Score126Shelves

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    Recommend a good book

15. 65 凡 Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Swimming Champion游泳冠军Eastern Fantasy4.8M WordsOngoing Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 95.9kReads8.9Score8.5kShelves

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    The flow of mortals, step by step to the top, slow and steady

16. 66 凡 A Mortal's Immortal Fate 凡人仙缘 Floating Dust Master浮尘子Eastern Fantasy6.2M WordsCompleted Main character: Li Yi. [Traditional cultivation] [Mortal's journey] [One female lead] [Spatial powers] [Farming] [Decisive and ruthless] [No System] An ordinary boy from a mountain village leaves home to pursue immortality, fighting his way into the cruel, dark world of cultivation. With his clever, decisive, and cautious nature, he cuts down his enemies without hesitation and encounters countless wondrous opportunities for immortality. After passing through Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment 37.7kReads8.3Score4.1kShelves
17. 67 凡 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: A Farm Boy's Path to Immortality 凡人修仙：农家少年修仙记 Here to Sharpen Scissors and Knives磨剪子来戗菜刀Eastern Fantasy618k WordsCompleted [The Ultimate Ordinary Cultivator: V5.0 + Fast-Growing Protagonist + Thrilling Plot + Clever Characters + Decisive and Ruthless + Cunning Humor] My name is Han Muyu, though people also call me Han the Little Devil. Don't call me sinister or cunning; that's just envy of my intelligence. The truth is, I'm a good person. I was born a poor farmer, but I'm ambitious too. Wanting to get stronger isn't a crime, is it? Don't doubt how decisive I am. Lying low isn't in my nature. I'm not here to play the 321Reads8.8Score—Shelves
18. 68 问 Aspiring to the Immortal Path 问鼎仙途 Maple Boat Seeks Zen枫舟问禅Eastern Fantasy9.1M WordsOngoing [Mortal-style cultivation + no System] Su Shier, a village boy of mediocre aptitude, is forced to embark on an endless, arduous path to immortality in pursuit of revenge for a blood feud. It is a world of deceit, the law of the jungle, scheming, and hardship... The road ahead is long, the way fraught with danger. Though this humble mortal must fight through every obstacle, he swears to forge his own path to immortality. 198.6kReads8.9Score20.3kShelves
19. 69 九 Immortal Fate Beneath the Nine Heavens' Thunder 九霄雷霆仙缘 The Enlightened One Said悟道子曰Eastern Fantasy3.2M WordsCompleted [Ordinary protagonist + thunder arts + beast taming + spatial treasures + insect control + corpse puppets + artifact forging] The ordinary man Wu Dao unexpectedly inherits the legacy of the Thunder Ancestor at the Sanqing Temple. Armed with the True Scripture of the Thunder Emperor, the Divine Heaven Thunder Art, and the Thunder Tempering Technique, he sets out on the path to immortality alongside two little beggars, a blacksmith’s son, and an auctioneer, leading thirteen divine beasts. Carrying 8Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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    In the Demon World chapter of "Nine Heavens Thunder Fairy Fate", the chubby Wu Xu brings five beautiful beauties with different styles and leads thirteen powerful magic thunder dragons, magic thunder whales, and magic thunder sharks to explore the crisis-ridden world of cultivation. Along the way, they were surrounded by clones of gods and thunder demons, and disputes among the five major forces, but they relied on tacit cooperation and the magical powers of the monsters to survive in desperate situations. Amidst the roar of thunder, passion and strategy are intertwined. Every step of this fantasy journey of cultivating immortality is thrilling! [Tomato Listening Book]

20. 70 雷 Thunder Gazi 雷霆嘎子 The Enlightened One Said悟道子曰Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Lei Ting Gazi's Cultivation Chronicles: Got a Problem? Let's Settle It! The Cultivation world has a new shameless “honey badger”: Lei Ting Gazi. Rules? What rules? “Don't touch my woman. Don't touch my treasures.” That's where he draws the line. Cross it, and whether you're an Immortal Venerable or a demon lord, he'll grab a weapon and fight you head-on. He's never learned the meaning of backing down. See a beautiful female immortal? He'll brazenly say, “It's your good fortune that I took a fanc 45Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 71 雷 The Creation of Thunder 雷霆创世 The Enlightened One Said悟道子曰Eastern Fantasy736k WordsCompleted A miserable chef transmigrates with his culinary skills. The eight great beauties of the Drunken Flower House fall for him, a three-eyed hyena becomes his kitchen maid, and an army of praying mantises serves as his honor guard! Who in the cultivation world has ever seen someone conquer the realm with a spatula? He's witnessed a princess's shy affection, tasted an immortal maiden's tenderness, and even brought the greatest beauty of the Miao frontier completely to heel! Thunderous Marquis of Jinb 14Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 72 概 Conceptual Calamity: Fabricating Myths in a High-Martial World 概念灾厄：我在高武世界编造神话 Lone Whale off the Northern Island北岛孤鲸Urban278k WordsCompleted [Urban Supernatural Martial Arts] [No Heroines] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible] [Feel-Good Read] [Infinite Flow] His fingertips brush against death: the cold threads of law that bind the world. Lin Jin awakens the “Calamity Tailor” as he teeters on the brink of death. Concepts? They're just thread in his hands! He weaves his enemies' “fear” into a coat of a hundred ghosts. The slums' “hunger” becomes shears that devour. An era's “humiliation” is forged into a banner that subdues dragons! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book [Chigua][Chigua][Chigua]

23. 73 文 The Flame of Civilization: My Whole Family Transmigrated a Hundred Eras 文明火种：全家穿越一百个纪元 The Imperial City Storyteller皇城说书人Modern Romance240k WordsCompleted [The Whole Family Transmigrates! From Mythology to the Future, Conquering 100 Civilizational Milestones!] One morning, the whole family woke to find themselves dragged through a rift in time and space into the Paleolithic era! An ordinary couple became guardians in an instant, while their daughter awakened a «civilization resonance» golden finger. At the scene of Sumerian mythology, Tiamat’s chaotic eye loomed before them, while the primordial power of creation rampaged behind them. In ancient E —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This one is very good

24. 74 我 My Years in Dongguan 我在东莞的岁月往事 Second Brother of Liaocheng聊城二哥Urban952k WordsCompleted It was the year 2000, in a luxury KTV room in Guancheng. Looking out at Guancheng's bustling nighttime streets and prosperous cityscape, Wang Lei raised a glass of XO, then set it down again. He was already used to the fine liquor in his glass. The Cuban cigar between his lips had burned down until it was almost too hot to hold. Thinking back on the hardships and setbacks of his entrepreneurial journey, Wang Lei was overcome with emotion. 56Reads6.2Score—Shelves

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    It is worth recommending as a potential good book. The plot has ups and downs and tells the inside story of the nightclub industry.

25. 75 我 I Grind Proficiency on the Bones of Giant Beasts 我在巨兽骸骨上刷熟练度 If Today Isn't Happy如果今天不快乐Eastern Fantasy308k WordsOngoing [Hunting] [Hunter x Hunter] [Giant Beasts] [Beastblood Fusion] [Proficiency Panel] Chen Yu opens his eyes and finds himself in a world of hunting. Hunters inject beast blood into their bodies to gain power. He discovers that he possesses the supreme bloodline of the Hunting God and can even fuse different kinds of beast blood! [Powerful Ape] + [Golden Wolfhound] = [Mighty Vajra Ape]! [Undying Bird] + [Weave of Living Flames] = [Undying Phoenix]! [Frost Dragon] + [Eternal Silence Skeleton] = [Fro 21Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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    A good book that was delayed by ratings. I highly recommend it as a 20-year-old bookworm.

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