Are Urban Fantasy Stories Only About Romance? 都市脑洞只有恋爱？

1 今 Have I Been Found Out Today? 今天我暴露了吗？ Little Ai 2024小艾2024Urban301k WordsCompleted [No CP + wild imagination + adorable genius kid + top student + aerospace + feel-good power fantasy] Before his home planet was destroyed, Chi Hao climbed into an escape pod. His friends and family repeatedly warned him: If you survive and reach a new planet, be sure to hide your alien identity. Chi Hao took their words to heart. After stepping out of his spaceship and meeting the first human, he decided to start by pretending to be mute. At first, he quietly and smoothly blended into human soc 7.4kReads9.3Score841Shelves

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I don't read much about urban fantasy, but I have a lot of novels that don't involve romance, so I'll share them briefly. If anyone is in love, tell me and I will delete it. [Blowing kiss]

9 改 A True Record of Changing Fate 改命记实录 Light of the Dao道之光Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 422.1kReads9.6Score67.4kShelves

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There are also spiritual practices, life-changing records and different choices. I listened to them more than three times.

10 盗 Thief Game: Starting with Kaito's Card 盗贼游戏：从获得基德卡片开始 The Last Glow at the World's End天涯余晖Anime Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted [Character cards, gentlemanly, elegant, livestreaming, System, wish fulfillment] If you had the chance to commit theft legally, would you do it? In the year 2050, in a parallel world, peace has spread across the globe. To raise public awareness about crime prevention, China, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, and other nations have joined forces to produce a show called The Thieves' Game. Contestants can exchange the items they steal for cash through the production team. In an instan 26kReads8.9Score4.4kShelves

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Who says only love is possible

11 人 In Japan, I Tamed a Group of Campus Beauties as Maids 人在小日本，驯服一群校花当女仆 Greedy Dog贪财狗Urban333k WordsOngoing A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 278Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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Ccccc until I'm tired of it (the second book is considered pure love) [Sending Hearts]

14 十 The End of Ten Days 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 1.8MReads9.9Score227.2kShelves

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With how good these books are, it would be a shame if you didn't read them

15 月 Project Moon: Star of the Mortal World 月计：尘世之星 Adorably Grilling Gluten Skewers萌萌哒得烤面筋Anime Fanfiction1.7M WordsOngoing (The opening contains a lot of defensive disclaimers.) [The complete Project Moon collection, with the dream of pulling out every knife. No System, no transmigration, just the author's own indulgence.] Carmen: "Mr. Youno, I cordially invite you to join our research institute!" Youno: "I'm not going." Carmen: "Mr. Youno, I cordially invite you to join our research institute!" Youno: "I'm just a man of action. I'm afraid I'm not up to the task." Carmen: "Mr. Youno, I cordially invite you to join 30.5kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves

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This is also a city

17 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 39kReads9.4Score6kShelves

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This is okay. After the protagonist comes back from the world of cultivation, he starts a live broadcast to tell fortunes. The supernatural story is basically independent, but there are also some supporting characters who use this live broadcast to get to know the protagonist and start the story.

18 禁 No Bad Endings 禁止be Ying Mufeng应沐风Two Male Leads200k WordsCompleted [Sweet, easygoing bottom × attentive, doting top] [Two male leads + sweet romance + devoted to each other + unconventional dating livestream show] After a car accident, Yuan Mu gained a new set of memories and learned that this world was actually one giant romance novel. Shen Heng, who had doted on him for five years of marriage, was really the devoted second male lead who loved the novel’s protagonist, the bottom, without hope, could never let go, and ultimately chose to live out his days alone 45.2kReads9.5Score6.1kShelves

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Super pretty!!!

22 人 Everyone's Playing a Psycho, So I'll Go Crazy 人设全是神经病，我选择发疯 Offer Flowers, Present Dogs接花献狗Urban481k WordsOngoing [No Female Lead + Unhinged Fiction + Bragging Fiction + Secret Identities + A Little Forum-Style Writing + Story Told Through Comics + A Love Triangle? [A New Term I Just Learned]] In a world of aberrant creatures, a madcap middle-aged man kicks open the gates of Sun City. Wielding a torch, he becomes the new sun over the world. “If someone has to be chosen, I’m suitable kindling too.” On a desolate plain, a girl in a white dress burns through her life to cut off the head of an arrogant giant. “ 453Reads9.3Score104Shelves

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These two books are so delicious

25 异 The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [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 504.8kReads9.7Score65.3kShelves

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Who says that urban imagination is only for love? Isn't there a knife?

26 养 I Raised a Monster Girlfriend 养成了个怪物女友 Arale Ya阿拉蕾呀Urban528k WordsCompleted [I’m too lazy to edit the few chapters that dropped. If they’re gone, they’re gone.] [Cthulhu-inspired monster girl, yandere, one heroine, pure romance] The first seventeen years of his life were like a pile of mud rotting in a corner. Until one rainy night, when he brought home an extraterrestrial monster on the verge of death. He thought it was just an unreal, fantastical game of raising a pet. He fed it, gave it a name, taught it human language and rules, and watched it grow from a gooey blob 9.3kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves

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Great needless to say.

34 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 124.9kReads9.5Score17.6kShelves

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This is the best urban fantasy article I have ever read. It makes me cry. It is the author's autobiography.

35 关 Life After Transmigrating to the Late Ming Dynasty and Meeting Mansui 关于穿越到明末，遇到满穗的生活 I'm So Bad I Can't Even Tie My Shoes我菜的抠脚Anime Fanfiction1.3M WordsCompleted At three in the morning, the amateur author was so devastated by the first playthrough’s “Vanished” ending that he nearly threw his laptop. Then he came up with an idea, and this fanfiction was born. Note: This book has no Liang-Sui pairing. If you’re a fan of that ship, read with caution. From playing the game through to the ending, the author never thought they’d be a couple. If the plot didn’t require it, why would they be together? I once seriously put myself in Liang’s shoes and realized: t 2.9kReads8.6Score379Shelves

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I almost never read City, but the following book has 500 chapters and it's so exciting for you to read it all at once!

36 反 Villain: All the Women Who Dumped Me Are Yanderes 反派：被渣女主们全是病娇 Coin-Minting Xiaoxiang铸币小向晚Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Original title: The Villain: All the Trashy Heroines Are Yanderes In his previous life, he had been scummy toward the heroines, driving them to become terrifying yanderes. Given another life, Su Mu decides to stay away from them. But for some reason, the heroines start coming to him of their own accord! Su Mu: Can someone please take these yanderes away! 7.2kReads8.5Score718Shelves

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The protagonist is the biggest villain in the whole drama, and all the stories revolve around the villain. Over 200 chapters (later) are about cultivating immortals, and the ending is not about love, but the extra chapter gives us a space for imagination. The early stage is a bit sadistic, and dozens of chapters later, the villain jumps off the building and resurrects, saving the girl who was born. Murong Xi, whose legs were paralyzed (female protagonist +1), later refused Murong Xi's confession and became enemies with her father, the Swatton school director. At a school meeting to welcome Lilia to Swatton, he was named by the Swatton school director to introduce the school to the second person, Lilia. At that time, the villain transformed from a giant baby He has the IQ of a normal villain. He spent a long time with Lilia and Tifas (after being captured by Vivian in an adventure and brought him back to the castle to meet a eldest sister, Tifas, the first natural disaster who had his IQ and strength sealed). From time to time, he fell in love with and killed other female protagonists, but not much later. Jiu was misunderstood by Lilia on a trip to buy clothes and was locked up in a room specially built for him (unable to use powers and blocked the system). He was intercepted by other heroines at his wedding to Lilia. Little did he know that before that, Lilia had an affair with the villain's sister (the villain's sister has a system) They all formed an alliance, and then they were all killed by the villain's sister using a virtual style, Snap Finger Xu. The villain stood in front of the heroine at the critical moment and died together with the heroines, which caused the world to be unable to function. The first-generation goddess (the spokesperson of heaven) and the first natural disaster (Tifas) destroyed the earth. It merged with the Ancient Immortal Continent and resurrected everyone. From then on, they began to cultivate immortality. The villains only woke up after nearly ten years of fusion and development. The heroines have long become the first batch of combat power (god emperors) in the world today. No one can do anything to anyone. Later, they wanted to enter the Cangshi Secret Realm to find weapons and became a good brother. Looking for it together, the villain met the contemporary goddess (one of the heroines) Wu Xueji on the way to find equipment to become stronger, and lived with her in the secret realm until the end to fight for the conceptual weapon [Sky Lock] (all creatures around the weapon cannot use all spiritual power), and then kept hiding. The brother stabbed him in the back. Before that, Wu Xueji fought with the God Lord (cultivation level: above the God Emperor) who wanted to attack the villain. His vitality was seriously injured, and then he was killed by the villain's good brother holding the [Sky Lock]. The villain (formerly the Violent Demon God) awakened the tyrannical gene and bound the tyrannical system to take revenge. He was almost exterminated by the three thousand-year-old (the ancestor of the God Emperor of the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect), but was rescued by the heroines. He started the road to become a god in order to save Wu Xueji and become stronger. After learning the truth, he became an Immortal Emperor (above the God Emperor) and reshaped time and cause and effect. However, he found that the heroine's memories of the God Emperor were controlled by black energy one by one. The master of the black energy also wanted to unify the worlds without heaven. The villain went to a world to train two apprentices, and then worked with the system to kill the Lord of Darkness. Both the system and Tifas sacrificed their lives just for the villain to go to the location of the Lord of Darkness. Then the villain discovered that the last boss was himself, and the disparity in strength was too great. The protagonist used the speed and power of comprehension to get the qualification to compete with the Lord of Darkness. Finally, after summoning and resetting the immortal ancient continent's artifact Sky Lock, he and the Lord of Darkness died together in hand-to-hand combat. Under the leadership of the Mother of Darkness and the cadres, the dark army continued to conquer all the worlds. I don't know how many times. Years later, the villain's two apprentices and ten heroines became Immortal Emperors and joined forces to eliminate the Dark Lord's army and the remaining party. The Immortal Emperor (above the Divine Emperor) or the Divine Lord (above the Divine Emperor) will not die as long as they are not forgotten. The villain later found a time when the heroine was not in front of his tomb and resurrected, and found the system to continue his adventure with Tifas... Just like his original dream, to give girls all over the world a home. "Full text complete"

37 重 Reborn: I Started by Rejecting My Childhood Friend and Winning Over a Rich Heiress 重生从拒绝青梅傍上小富婆开始 Old Rascal, Face My Spear老贼看枪Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Reborn + golden finger + extra sweet romance + feel-good power fantasy + single female lead] Reborn with a cheat, he returns to the day before the 2008 college entrance exams. His childhood sweetheart wants to break up? This time, he absolutely refuses to be a simp! Make money, build a business, get rich! Step one to getting rich: find yourself a rich girl to lean on. You said you wouldn't be a simp, so why are you so good at it? It's muscle memory. What would you know? Besides, I'm not simping 2.6kReads8.9Score422Shelves

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Yandere deserves to be loved [laughing][laughing][laughing][laughing]