Looking for a Good Book With an Ensemble Cast and a Youthful Feel 求好书，群像，少年
Translated by GPT-6 Luna
In this list
Reader notes translated by Google Translate
31
-
1
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
[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
1MReads9.5Score95.4kShelves
Reader note
-
2
Shocking! The Holy Sons and Daughters Are All So Awful 惊！圣子圣女们竟然都缺德
[Absurd humor and memes + no romance + laugh-out-loud comedy + ensemble cast] With a loud crash from the heavens, Chun Jin met her end on the spot. Dying was bad enough, but then she transmigrated into a book, and not only that, she became a character everyone hated! As the saying goes, a doting older brother spoils his little sister. In the original story, Chun Hanwen was the unluckiest guy around. Even a dog would have left its mark on him. But a joke should never be made at a person's expe
58kReads9.3Score9.3kShelves
Reader note
-
3
Dragon Raja: Oh No! The Dragon King Is Studying at Kassel Too! 龙族：坏！龙王也在卡塞尔上学！
[No heroine, no OOC, no brainless decisions, faithful to the original setting, making up for regrets, not a power fantasy] Swept into this world by a temporal rift, McLaren wakes on a beach. Looking at a world so similar to the one he came from, he feels a faint sense of bewilderment. His father, Nidhogg, was affected by some unknown force and destroyed their world. McLaren had been drifting through the universe when he was accidentally caught in the rift and brought here. Having lost every last
2.1kReads8.7Score244Shelves
-
4
I’m the Favored Son of Heaven in the Cultivation World 我在修真界做天之骄子
No heroine + no romance + a goofy comedy (P.S. This is a silly, funny slice-of-life story, so don't take it seriously!) A story for female readers. If you're feeling down, come take a look! My dear readers, the world may be full of disappointments, but please believe that hidden in all the cracks and bumps are the little sweets fate has secretly tucked away. If you're unhappy, imagine you're the protagonist and grow alongside them! The author will write you a joyful, carefree world. What does it
36.5kReads8.9Score3.8kShelves
-
5
Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！
Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca
153.6kReads9.3Score16.6kShelves
-
6
Apocalyptic Calamity: Who Let These Lunatics Save the World? 末日灾祸：谁让这群癫子去救世的
[No romance, ensemble cast, apocalyptic disasters, urban fantasy. Split up, and trouble strikes from every direction. Together, and the world faces annihilation.] (The animated series adaptation is now available.) The team’s main mission: save the world. Hidden achievement: elbow-check the world. Code of conduct: As long as we elbow-check fast enough, disaster will always be one step behind us! People around the world: Thanks to the Daxia Squad for the elbow-check survival kit. We refuse deliver
210kReads9.4Score37.7kShelves
Reader note
-
7
Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
135kReads9.7Score18.7kShelves
-
8
Master Calligrapher? Poet Immortal? Chief Minister? That's Right, I'm All of Them 书圣？诗仙？首辅？没错，都是我
In his previous life, Cui Xian was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from a top-tier university. In this life, he transmigrates to ancient times into a poor family with humble origins. There’s a destitute household, a pregnant mother, older siblings still young, a father who has failed the imperial exams six times, and a grandmother whose obsession with her son placing high in the imperial examinations has driven her to delusion. And then there’s Cui Xian, who is only eight years old. Cui
29.5kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves
-
9
Driven to Death by a Cultivator’s Mistress? I’ll Raise My Sword to the Nine Heavens 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄
[Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho
90.5kReads9.6Score11.9kShelves
Reader note
-
10
I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
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
1.7MReads9.9Score190.9kShelves
Reader note
-
11
Spirit Ruins, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman 灵墟，剑棺，瞎剑客
[Watch the short drama The Hidden Ruins of Mountains and Seas: The Eyeless One Sees the Heavens on Red Fruit!] [No System] [Swordsmanship prodigy] [Passionate] [Decisive and ruthless] He is blind, carries a coffin on his back, and has suffered a bitter fate. The sect says: “We’ll protect you.” His brothers say: “We’ll stay by your side.” The sword spirit says: “I... will wait for you.” Later, he becomes the ruler of the Immortal Realm, and his sight returns. Looking back on the road he has trave
350.3kReads9.2Score24kShelves
Reader note
-
12
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
1.1MReads9.9Score252kShelves
-
13
The Crown of the Dark Moon 黑月光冠冕
[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
571.6kReads9.5Score99kShelves
Reader note
-
14
My Sect Is Full of Great Demons? What a Coincidence, So Am I 师门全是大妖？好巧我也是
[Female lead transforms into human form / no romance for now / no saintly heroine] Good news: Bai Jiu has landed in a group-pampering cultivation novel. Bad news: she's a village dog, and she's been brought back to the villains' lair in a sect. The villains' lair is full of great demons. She's terrified every day, trembling at the thought that they might eat her as a snack. Every day, she trembles her fluffy ears and wags her tail, acting cute to stay alive. But she has no idea that her fellow d
10.4kReads9.1Score2kShelves
Reader note
-
15
The Whole Sect Is Sick, Me Included 全宗门有病，加我一个
[No romance + ensemble cast + everyone's favorite + everyday life + everyone awakens] In Shi Mo's world, she was all alone. 001 restarted the world a hundred times, just to find Shi Mo a way to survive. “You're my whole world. There's nothing wrong with saving you.” Fortunately, this time they succeeded, and Shi Mo gained a loving family. The First Senior Sister is blind, but she never wears the same hairstyle twice. The Second Senior Brother has a split personality, so Shi Mo gets twice the lov
2.2kReads8.9Score423Shelves
-
16
The Little Oracle Junior Sister Helps the Whole Sect Soar 神算小师妹，带飞全宗门
Zhu Yu is a renowned ghost-hunting exorcist in the mortal world. She deals with monsters and demons every day, and her ghost-catching skills are second to none. Who could have guessed that an accident would send her transmigrating into a book and into an unfamiliar world of cultivation? Worse still, she had become the book’s namesake, a minor character who wouldn’t survive past the third chapter. Zhu Yu’s mind buzzed with complaints. After a second’s thought, she decided to run. Before she could
14.5kReads8.7Score3kShelves
-
17
My Junior Sister Takes Down Every Young Prodigy with Cheesy Pick-Up Lines 小师妹用土味情话干翻各路天骄
(The short drama My Junior Sister’s Cheesy Pickup Lines is now available.) After gaming for three days and two nights without sleep, internet-addicted girl Xu Wu, unsurprisingly, had an unexpected outcome: she died suddenly. Who would have thought that when she opened her eyes, she’d transmigrated into a book and become the female lead’s foil? The female lead cultivates the heartless path, while the original Xu Wu was a lovesick fool. The female lead is loved, openly or secretly, by countless pr
25.4kReads9.2Score3kShelves
-
18
My Sect Is Full of Hidden Dragons and Young Phoenixes, but My Junior Sister Is the Best of Them All 满宗卧龙凤雏，师妹她是个中翘楚
What should you do if you accidentally become the senior sister who serves as a stepping stone for the female lead in a novel? Gu Xia is in a complicated mood after from the start receiving a wonderful package deal: a huge drop in cultivation and a blind master who plays favorites. There’s no way she’s going to admit she did anything wrong. She hands back her disciple token, dusts herself off, and heads down the mountain to find a new backer. Instead, she leaps straight to the top and joins the
23.8kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
-
19
The Whole Sect Has Cheats, and Senior Sister Keeps Them All Fed by Roasting Them 全宗开挂，大师姐她靠怼人奶全宗
Some people are just asking for a verbal takedown! Lin Xiao, nicknamed Lin the Roaster, transmigrates into a novel about a woman adored by everyone, becoming its miserable senior disciple. Is she supposed to put up with that? Lin Xiao promptly roasts the white-lotus heroine until she passes out. From then on, Lin Xiao powers her way through life, launching into a cultivation-world career of “talking absolute nonsense.” Trying to guilt-trip her? Sorry, that only works if she has a conscience. Try
31.3kReads9.0Score3.6kShelves
-
20
I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
213.8kReads9.6Score23kShelves
-
21
My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神
Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec
40.8kReads9.3Score4.8kShelves
-
22
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
886.9kReads9.6Score211.6kShelves
Reader note
-
23
Don't Be Weak, Don't Provoke Her: An Angry Palace Maid Can Restore a Fallen Kingdom 别太弱，别招惹，宫女发怒能复国
[Unusual premise + assassin’s rise + strong heroine + political intrigue + cold and heartless + mildly yandere + cool-headed lunatic + male lead rises from the nth place] * Su Mian was just a palace maid serving a princess. On the day the Southern Yan Kingdom fell, she watched everyone die before her without a flicker of emotion. The princess gave her an even more perilous mission. Until it was done, she had to stay alive. But in a world thrown into chaos, she was sold as a slave and forced to e
26.5kReads9.5Score4.8kShelves
Reader note
-
24
My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客
After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem.
123.3kReads9.7Score13.8kShelves
Reader note
-
25
My Qingdao Girl 我的青岛姑娘
[Celebrities] + [Female TV host] + [First love] + [Tenant] + [Older sister] + [Bad man] + [Super Big Tank Kobe] “I seriously can’t figure it out. With all these gorgeous women around, why do they have to like a guy like you?” My buddies are always asking me that. They all think I’m one of those men who believe women love a bad boy, but I’m really not a bad man! The truth is simple: we see women differently. They see a current starlet, the most beautiful woman in the entertainment industry. I see
37.4kReads9.4Score4.5kShelves
-
26
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
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
90.2kReads9.6Score10.5kShelves
Reader note
-
27
The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批，唯有师妹逗比
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th
304.1kReads9.6Score32.8kShelves
-
28
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
1.7MReads9.9Score233.7kShelves
-
29
Online Game: It Begins with an Encounter 网游：从一场邂逅开始
[Urban] [Online Game] [One Heroine] [Villain] [Superpowers] When Shen Lang wakes up, he finds a naked beauty in his arms. And that’s where the story begins... (The author has already completed two novels, so feel free to dive in.) Also, the rating just opened. It’ll naturally go up in a few days. As for updates, the schedule is steady: three chapters and 7,000 words a day.
148.4kReads8.7Score20.2kShelves
Reader note
-
30
The Fishing Enthusiast: Fishing Multiplies My Catch, and I Hunt for Thousand-Pound Giants 钓鱼佬：钓鱼爆倍率，寻千斤巨物
[Fishing] [Anglers Are Everywhere] [System] [Monsters] Jiang Fan was a college graduate from a top-tier 211 university. Just after graduation, he happened to catch his boss and secretary in the office investigating the origins of life. The next day, he was fired for stepping into the company with his left foot first. After that, he went home and became an angler, going from being the kid other parents wished they had to “the kid other parents wish they had.” Loser and good-for-nothing became his
14.2kReads6.8Score961Shelves
-
31
The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫
Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm...
146.7kReads9.0Score10.5kShelves
Other lists with Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies