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1. 51 拯 Saving the Poor Little One, the Host Gets Locked Away Again 拯救小可怜，宿主又被锁小黑屋了 Ming Shiyu明释予Two Male Leads519k WordsCompleted [Male-male leads + quick transmigration + sweet and cathartic with a touch of angst + devoted to one another + 1v1 + bottom protagonist + redemption] Lu Ye won twenty thousand yuan in the lottery. He got robbed the moment he stepped outside, then was hit by a car while chasing the thief. He fell into a river and drowned. Then he was dragged into a novel world and ordered to save a poor, pitiable soul. He had to win him over with love. When he arrived in the first world, the original host had alr 12kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
2. 52 雄 What Should I Do If My Male Lord Is a Brooding, Unhinged Younger Man? 雄主是阴湿疯批年下怎么办 Lu Zuo路左Two Male Leads1.1M WordsCompleted [Insectfolk + younger love interest + mild coercion + anthology + native-born male insects + possessive] Story One: Crown Prince Male Insect X Military Female-Insect General (younger love interest) Saint Ellis, a native-born male insect of the royal family, forced an S-rank general, Amit, into a match. The moment the match succeeded, the judgmental comments appeared: “How can there be such a disgusting villain? Can’t you see Amit doesn’t want this?!” “That’s how these stories go. Once the bottom 12.2kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
3. 53 重 Reborn: The Little Fool Is Soft and Sweet Again 重生后，小傻子他又软又甜 UrdrTwo Male Leads274k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance x reborn x older man] In his previous life, Xu Zhiqiu spent four years mentally impaired, making a scene and tormenting the person who loved him most until they were both miserable. After being reborn, Xu Zhiqiu pretends to be as foolish as he was in his past life, wishing he could cling to Shen Jinglan every moment. When Shen Jinglan blow-dries his hair, he rubs against his palm. When Shen Jinglan works, he climbs onto his lap. When Shen Jinglan sleeps, he crawls under the co 6.2kReads8.9Score1k14d adds
4. 54 我EN I Exchange Black Technology by Crushing the School Bully 我靠打爆学霸兑换黑科技 Meat-Eating Panda吃肉的熊猫Urban4.6M WordsCompleted [Academic Prodigy + Black Technology + Technology to Strengthen the Nation + War and Terror Bureau] High school student Song He gets the Academic Grudge System. As long as he can make top students lose their composure, he can exchange their resentment for all kinds of black technology. So Song He keeps driving the top students over the edge: “You snatch first place in the grade, and every other top student drops in the rankings. Resentment +10,000!” “You receive a special research allowance for 55kReads9.3Score6.3k14d adds

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   Judging by the length, it's quite high-quality, and the author's writing skills are solid, but the ending is a bit rushed.

5. 55 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Urban3.7M 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 266.5kReads9.5Score22k14d adds
6. 56 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds

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   —10-day countdown! Break the deadlock or die! Extreme survival × Human nature battle × High-energy plot twists, one person dies every night! How many days can you survive? #MindBending #BrainTeasing #SuspensefulBattleOfWisdomInADesperateSituation, A Moral Choice Between Life and Death, Tense and Thrilling, Full of Twists and Turns.

7. 57 从 After Disappearing from the True Young Master's Body, He Went Mad! 从真少爷身体里消失后，他疯了！ Zhao Jiujiu昭九玖Two Male Leads366k WordsCompleted [A true young master who gets accused of having schizophrenia, infuriates everyone, and really does become ill later + a sunny, cheerful recipient who pretends to be his second personality] [Contains pseudo-selfcest elements] [Main story and bonus chapters are complete] [Dedicated to two lovers reunited across time and space] Wen Jiaran had a secret. Every time he fell asleep, he would enter the body of a major villain in some novel he had read. The villain, Lu Yanze, was the true young master. 23.5kReads9.4Score4.4k14d adds

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8. 58 工 The Rugged Construction Worker, a Real Young Master, Picks Up a Beautiful Wife 工地糙汉真少爷捡到个漂亮老婆 Green Tree Duck Feet青树鸭爪Two Male Leads358k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance, ABO, rented apartment, rugged man, happy ending, both leads are virgins! Straightforward, rugged top x pure, scheming beauty bottom] Fang Shaoheng is an Alpha construction worker from the slums, scraping out a living among steel and concrete. His lifelong dream is to save enough money to marry a sensible Omega. Then, one late-autumn evening, he finds a filthy little “beggar” by a garbage heap. Shen Muyang is a noble Omega from Imperial Capital Star, stranded on a level-eigh 831Reads7.2Score10014d adds
9. 59 又 Possessed Again? I Heard He Has a Second Personality 又被顶号，听说他有第二人格 Lin Jiong林顭Two Male Leads1.4M WordsOngoing [Signed for publication] Fun fact: His second personality secretly calls him “wife”! [Ensemble cast + two male leads + mystery romance + ghost hunters + black-hearted beneath a gentle exterior + tomb raiding + both leads are each other’s one and only] Before his death, Grandpa used his last chance to set a trap, drawing the Ghost King into Zhang Jizhi’s body to protect him from a deadly calamity. Zhang Jizhi had been blind from birth, but after that night, he could suddenly see white qi. An irri 98.6kReads9.5Score13.9k14d adds
10. 60 康 The Kangxi Emperor (Complete in Four Volumes) 康熙大帝（全四册） Er Yuehe二月河Historical1.2M WordsCompleted The Great Kangxi Emperor is a historical novel by Er Yuehe. The author began writing it in 1984 and completed all four volumes, totaling more than 1.6 million characters, over the course of four years. Volumes one through four were published by the Yellow River Literature and Art Publishing House, and traditional-character vertical-text editions were later released in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Great Kangxi Emperor is an epic work. It vividly portrays the 61 years of the early Qing dynasty, from 1.6kReads9.6Score26214d adds

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    High score that meets historical requirements

11. 61 大 The Ming Dynasty (2 Volumes) 大明王朝（共2册） Liu Heping刘和平Historical653k WordsCompleted The novel of the hit drama Ming Dynasty 1566, rated 9.5 on Douban, is essential reading for Taiwan’s political circles and a political reference book for Singapore’s cabinet. It is the celebrated work of Liu Heping, screenwriter of Yongzheng Dynasty and author of No War in Peking. Centered on the downfall of the powerful official Yan Song, the book tells the gripping story of a complex anti-corruption campaign in the Ming Dynasty. It uncovers the mystery behind Jiajing, one of the most unconvent 43.1kReads9.6Score7.7k14d adds

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