I'm in a Reading Slump. Looking for Great Books with No Tragedy 书荒了，求无刀好书
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I Mistook Her for Someone Else from the Start, and Became My Ex-Girlfriend’s Brother-in-Law? 开局认错人，我成了前女友妹夫？
[No System + Not Reborn + Lighthearted and Fun + Twins + Everyday Urban and Rural Life] Zhou Tian, a senior in college, never imagined that after getting drunk one day, he would mistake his ex-girlfriend’s twin sister for her. And then…
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Turning the Tables in the Civil Service Exam: Climbing the Ladder from the Interview Onward 公考逆袭：从面试开始一路攀登
People's affections are as thin as paper, and the world changes like a new chess game with every turn. Li Xiuyuan starts at the grassroots level, driven by a desire to get ahead. He takes one steady step after another, climbing higher with every move!
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A Little Wooden Boat from the Start, and I Take Over the Entire Ocean 开局一条小木船，我承包整个海洋
I only wanted to rescue someone who had fallen into the sea. I never expected to get dragged into it myself and wake up back in 1990. It was the same familiar little fishing village on the island, but I was no longer the jerk I used to be. I was reborn aboard the boat on my first trip out to sea, and happened to come across a school of large yellow croaker. A few drift nets brought in hundreds of pounds. I was rolling in money. At first, I thought I was just lucky. But on later fishing trips, I
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Run! If He Gets You, You'll Lose Everything! 快逃！死他手里会失去一切！
When a blood moon blankets the globe, the game All Living Beings becomes a meat grinder that devours lives. There are no NPCs here. Every living thing is a player, and every player is prey! Humanity screams beneath the claws and fangs of monsters, and their only currency is game credits bought by burning away their lifespan! Ye Xuan has fought through mountains of corpses and seas of blood for ten years, hand in hand with his childhood sweetheart Feng Xuening, finally earning the Golden Blood t
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Li Jiacheng of Chaoshan: Africa’s Billionaire 潮汕李家成，非洲百亿富豪
Asia's drug kingpin, Li Yaodong, returns from Hong Kong to his hometown of Shanwei and gets the entire village involved in making drugs. His fellow villager Li Zheng objects, so Li Yaodong has his men cripple him. Li Zheng's son, Li Jiacheng, goes to confront Li Yaodong, but accidentally injures his son and is forced to flee his hometown. After being smuggled into Hong Kong, Li Jiacheng enters illegally and has no legitimate job. He is constantly bullied by the snakehead Zhang Kun. Li Yaodong se
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The Pinker the Car, the Fiercer the Driver: I’m Claiming the Top Spot 车越粉人越狠这榜一我当定了
Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec
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Hello, I Am the Swordbearer of the Mortal Realm 你好，我是人间执剑者
[Genius] [Passionate] [Decisive and ruthless] [Nearly invincible] Fifty years ago, after the Red Moon appeared, gods, ghosts, and monsters all descended upon the human world. They stood high above, saw humanity as ants, and slaughtered at will. The edifice of human civilization teetered on the brink of collapse, about to become a wasteland. The transmigrated youth Bai Ye awakened a supernatural ability and became the Swordbearer of the Human World. The gods descend, disaster begins. Bai Ye stand
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The God-Tier System: A Billion Sword Draws 神级系统拔刀亿万次
Yang Qi transmigrates into a world overrun by demons and monsters, where he unlocks the Draw-Sword System and obtains a super Heaven-tier cultivation technique: Ten Million Sword Draws. Every time he draws his sword, he earns draw points and grows stronger! These points can evolve his physique and weapons! “Ding! Spend 10,000 draw points to evolve an ordinary physique into a Primordial Physique.” “Ding! Spend 300,000 draw points to evolve the Black Iron Demon Wolf Blade into the Red Flame Prison
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One Blade to Subdue All Under Heaven 一把刀，镇压诸天
Ning Tuo, the Northern King, has his bloodline power stolen by his imperial elder brother, the crown prince, from the start. Reduced to a cripple, he is sent to an enemy nation as a hostage and son-in-law. But on the journey, he awakens an unparalleled talent for time and becomes an inheritor of the Heaven-Cutting lineage. He can seize fate and destiny from above, and sever luck and opportunities from below. No matter how peerless a genius you are, all the opportunities you possess will become m
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If I’d Known, You Needn’t Have Made Me Transmigrate 早知如此，大可不必让我穿越
[System runs in the background, ordinary-person cultivation, not a wish-fulfillment story, tactical spell battles, starting from scratch] Tang Zhen was among the luckiest transmigrators out there. In the eighteenth year after his transmigration, thanks to a spell-copying System with simple mechanics but ridiculously powerful functions, he became the leader of the greatest generation of prodigies in a thousand years of cultivation. The pillars of the righteous sects looked after him with great ca
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Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你
[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
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I Really Didn't Want to Be a Prince 我真没想当王爷啊
Prince + fictional setting + multiple heroines + lighthearted comedy “Spring breezes and peach blossoms, a cup of wine; ten years of lanterns glowing through rainy nights in the martial world.” During the Chenghe era of the Great Ning dynasty, rival powers rise up, the people suffer, and the realm is thrown into chaos. Across three northern and southern dynasties, ministers and nobles, talented scholars and famed courtesans paint a vivid portrait of the realm. The imperial court, the batt
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I'm the Chosen One, So Beating Reborn People Is No Big Deal 我是欧皇，吊打重生者不过分吧
The world's biggest virtual online game, "Lord Era", has launched! Su Chen, hailed as the luckiest player alive, is just about to dive in when he suddenly realizes something is wrong! “Holy crap, my roommate is reborn?” “He's come back as a king from ten years in the future and re-entered this game?” “Ten years from now, I'm his enemy? He wants to steal my girl? He came back to crush me?” “Who would've thought that once the story got going, I'd be the villain getting crushed by the reborn guy?”
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The Fierce Young Lord 世子凶猛
The new dynasty has just been founded, and every trade is waiting to be rebuilt. The recommended civil officials strike grand poses and hold forth, already the forerunners of keyboard warriors. The founding generals endure every humiliation without complaint, keeping their heads down and tails tucked. At the Prince of Yue's residence, the third young master, Qin You, clutches the letter confirming his broken engagement. He looks over the accounts showing that the household staff's wages are over
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National Fate Survival: Starting with Plant Zombies, I Shock the World 国运求生：从植僵开始震惊全球
[National Fate] + [Survival] + [Burial Ground] + [Plant Zombies] + [Lovecraftian Horror] + [No Female Lead] A hundred years ago, the [Burial Ground Game] descended, turning parallel Blue Star into a wasteland. Each country immediately selected contestants to enter the [Burial Ground] game and fight for survival. The better they performed, the more resources their country received. To improve their contestants’ strength, countries around Blue Star carried out a human culling plan, exterminating t
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Lord: My Heroes Come with Their Own Troop Types 领主：我的英雄自带兵种
In her previous life, she entered the game too late and could only remain obscure, wasting her life away. Who would have thought she would be reborn five years earlier, before the game’s public launch? The regrets of her past life would never happen again. SSS-rank talents, SSS-tier heroes, rare items, top-tier unit types: hand them all over! She just hadn’t expected every SSS-tier hero she obtained to be a woman, each one accompanied by units ranked high-tier or above. Well, she certainly wasn’
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Xuanhuan: Living Off Others from the Start, I Emerged as a Confucian Sage 玄幻：开局吃软饭，出世即儒圣
[Slice of life + not a power fantasy + the Hundred Schools of Thought + empress + Confucian cultivation] Shen Wuming transmigrates to Northern Han, with an unbelievably fortunate start. His wife is devastatingly beautiful: "May all be well with you, my husband!" His father-in-law is powerful and influential: "My brilliant son-in-law!" Though surrounded by comfort and luxury, Shen Wuming has no intention of living off his wife. With his heaven-defying insight, he becomes a Confucian Sage. [Y
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All My Female Disciples Have SSS-Rank Talents! 我的女徒弟全是SSS级天赋！
Xu Che transmigrates to a world of superpowers overrun by ferocious beasts, becoming a bottom-ranked teacher at a superpower high school who is about to be dismissed. With everything stacked against him from the start, he is fortunate enough to obtain the Master Teacher System. [See Through]: The Host can detect flaws in superpowers, techniques, and even all things. [Evolve]: When the Host improves someone’s strength and evolves their superpower, he receives a corresponding reward. And so... “Ol
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With Percent-Based Damage, Why Play a Tank? 百分比伤害，不玩肉盾玩什么
[A VR Game Novel That Doesn’t Pad Its Word Count] [Afraid of getting sliced up hit after hit?] The government has forced everyone to play games. There’s no way to opt out! What does it mean that the whole world has passed this new law forcing people to play games, in flagrant disregard for human rights? After going seven days without playing, Li Wu was invited down to the station for a chat. With no other choice, he entered a virtual reality game called .
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Junior Brother, Don’t Cultivate Immortality Like That 师弟，别这么修仙
By a stroke of fate, Lu Changsheng is brought into a sect and becomes the junior disciple of Qingyun Peak. Having seen how brutal the path of cultivation can be, he decides to keep a low profile and hide his true abilities. While his senior brothers cultivate, he sleeps. While his fellow disciples take part in trials, he slacks off. Under countless watchful eyes, he does the same thing day after day for ten years, never wavering in his commitment to being a quiet schemer. Until one day, everyone
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Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀！我七原罪，得了MVP！
[Dark comedy + hilarious + ruthless action + global setting + unconventional ideas + one heroine + near-invincible protagonist + power fantasy with a brain (or without one)] Horror games descend upon the world. Those chosen to participate must face challenges of inhuman difficulty. Though the games are full of torment, they also offer people a chance to gain supernatural powers. Life or death. A meteoric rise, or losing everything. But Lu Ce, who has been unable to feel pain since childhood, fee
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A Common Man Takes the Stage 匹夫驾到
(Signed for print publication) (One heroine, no System, not a power fantasy, Chinese-style supernatural abilities) Among the infinite parallel worlds, there is a special world called Nanke, and a special group of people known as Calamity Exorcists. They soar through the skies and burrow underground, know the past and present, and travel between parallel worlds in different eras to carry out missions. A young man who calls himself a commoner is chosen by fate to enter Nanke’s mysterious academy,
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Master of All Skills 全技大师
What? A Supreme Immortal Aperture Physique? I only get one chance, and they made me this useless body? Damn it! No! I'm different from them. I have a hidden quest built in!
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I’m Three and a Half, and I’ll Become a Legend in Rule-Based Horror With Basic Attacks 我三岁半，靠普攻在规则怪谈封神
The animated series is now available. [No heroine + comedy + subversion of expectations + infinite-flow + livestreaming + rule-based horror] Rule-based horror descends upon Blue Star, and each country randomly selects one person to take part. If the contestant wins, their nation prospers. If they lose, their nation declines. After losing two rounds of games, the people of the Dragon Kingdom are in dire straits. The next horror scenario arrives, and by sheer coincidence, it selects Xia Ye, who ha
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High Martial: I Became a Warrior of All Elements 高武：我成为了全系武者
[Elements + Devouring + Cosmos + Steady Protagonist + Ruthless Combat] In a parallel universe, cultivation depends on the elements. The more types of elements you master, the stronger you become. Qin Chen transmigrates to a parallel world, gets the All-Element System from the start, and awakens a devouring talent. Cultivation? Devour things to advance. Elements? Complete missions to gain more. Talent? Top-tier from the get-go. Body? Sorry, my cells are stars, and my body is the universe.
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Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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Leveling Up From Wild Monsters 从野怪开始进化升级
The first layer of the nine-layer virtual reality game, Nine Heavens, opened to a spectacular reception, taking the world by storm within a single day. Lu Chen unexpectedly lost his character and began evolving and leveling up from a level-one gnoll? Kill more species to gain new talents! Obtain talent fragments to raise your talent level! As the quality of his prefixes improved, from ordinary to strong to very strong and beyond, his base stats skyrocketed! Player A: That monster's prefix is ove
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Surviving the Nightmare World 在恶梦世界惊悚求生
In the Nightmare World, chosen candidates arrive to face a brutal elimination game where the last one standing wins. Here, you'll encounter all kinds of monsters and demons, strange and beautiful scenery, and heartwarming little stories. You'll walk on the edge of life and death. You'll face all sorts of trials and tribulations, but also gain talents, skills, equipment, bloodlines, pets, fortuitous encounters, legacies, and more... You'll even have a little wooden cabin. Develop it carefully, an
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I'm Really Not a Reckless Fool 我真不是莽夫
[Spiritual qi revival + invincible protagonist + lighthearted + wipe out every threat] Wang Zheng is unexpectedly reborn in a parallel world where spiritual qi has revived. He thought he would have to train hard, only to discover that all he needed to do was allocate points. He thought he would have to earn money and resources on his own, only to find out that his parents were both big shots. He thought he could be a cool and carefree mage, but from the start, he awakened the talent to reflect d
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Heavenfall 天陨
A falling meteor streaked across the sky, tearing open a rift in time and space that connected power and disaster, purity and corruption, and the realms beyond the “new” and the “old.” Heaven and earth were tainted, and people’s hearts turned impure. The Nine Realms became connected, and the uncanny began to spread. As heaven neared its fall, some stood firm in the mortal world, cleansing the way and suppressing demons, while others plunged into hell to hold up the sky, seeking a path with their
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Shocking! I Started with a Patch of Land and Struck It Rich with Critical Hits 震惊！开局一片地，暴击出奇迹
As eras turn and the Heavenly Dao creates a new world, every race across the Myriad Worlds transmigrates into it. From the start, each person gets a plot of land and nothing else. They must build houses, farm, tame beasts, mine, and defend against attacks... Every living being must work hard to build a base of their own and stay alive. Luo Yu obtains the divine skill [Primordial Critical Hit], which can trigger a critical hit on anything in the world! [Gather ordinary strawberries and trigger a
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Sign-In: Stranded on a Deserted Island, I Just Built a Luxury Villa 签到，人在孤岛，刚自建豪华别墅
A burst of blinding light, and the continent shattered! Everyone was assigned an island measuring just two meters on each side! You start with nothing but a shabby fishing net. Whether you survive depends on your own abilities! "Ding! Sign-in System activated!" "First-day sign-in successful. Reward: fully automatic fishing net!" "Everyone else has to rely on their abilities, but I have a System!" Xiao Yi muttered as he took a bite of grilled fish. While everyone else was struggling to survive on
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Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘
[Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd
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Global: I Memorized Three Thousand Daoist Texts and Changed Class to Celestial Master 全民：我背诵三千道藏转职天师
[Everyone Changes Class + No Harem + Passionate Action + Multiple Classes + Invincible Leveling] A hundred years ago, otherworldly races invaded at will, bringing humanity to the brink of extinction. To fight back against the demon beasts, everyone undergoes a class change at the age of twelve. Only by becoming a class-changer and continually leveling up can one reach the pinnacle of the world! On the day of his class change, Ye Xiang became a Taoist priest with a natural level of ten. But Taois
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The Eternal Life Game Arrived, and I Turned It into a Speedrun 永生游戏降临，被我玩成了速通
[Cosmic-scale game + online game + plot-driven + invincible + ruthless + no saintly do-gooder + treasure hunting] Countless species, numbering in the trillions upon trillions, across the boundless universe were dragged into a deadly game. Neither the peak races nor the weak humans were spared. The victors would gain eternal life; the losers would be erased. When the game began, Qin Han entered it with the hard-earned experience he had accumulated in his previous life. After that, he had no scrup
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Train Survival Begins as My Home Planet Explodes 从母星爆炸开始列车求生
[Supernatural evolution] [Civilization collection] [Theism] Their home planet explodes, and humanity escapes into the depths of space aboard interstellar trains. Chen An becomes a train conductor, carrying passengers through the struggle for survival among the stars and creating a unique civilization of his own: the Fuyao Civilization. Under his direction, the passengers sweep across the stars like locusts. They develop technology, plunder species, destroy empires, and trample civilizations. Cou
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Overlord of the Starry Sky 星空主宰
In the vast universe, a hundred races coexist. A mutated blood spirit helps Mu Qing rise from Earth and stand against the insect race. A purple bamboo forest summons millions of tribulation lightning bolts, while a black Kunpeng beats its wings and crushes countless powerful figures. In this starry sky, there can be only one ruler!
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You Need a Combat Rating of 100 to Break 100 Million. Am I Qualified Yet? 百级战力才破亿，请问我合格了吗
Also known as: A 100% Drop Rate for Killing Monsters, and You Think You Can Beat My Luck? [Game Stats + No Female Lead + Power Fantasy + Building a Faction + War Between a Hundred Nations + Battle of the Ten Thousand Races] Seven billion people from over a hundred countries were transported to the world of gods and demons, embarking on a journey of evolution. In his previous life, Ye Chuyun spent ten years struggling in that world. Now he has been reborn on the very day he first transmigrated. Y
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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A Mortal's Cultivation of Immortality: Portable Space 凡人修仙之随身空间
An ordinary village boy stumbles upon a portable space, and from then on, Wu Fan embarks on the path of cultivation. He grows spirit herbs and medicines, makes pills, and trains inside the space. Watch as he rises step by step to become the strongest of all, unrivaled across the Three Realms.
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I Exchange Black Technology by Crushing the School Bully 我靠打爆学霸兑换黑科技
[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
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Critical Hit Loot Boxes! Critical Hit Fishing! Critical Hit Survival! 暴击开箱！暴击垂钓！暴击求生！
[Animated series now available. If you're interested, you can watch it on Hongguo.] [Disaster survival] + [farming and development] + [supernatural elements] + [no harem] + [stat-based progression] + [no saintly protagonist] Everyone transmigrates to an island world. Some land on deserted islands from the start, while others are forced to flee across the sea. They rely on a single resource-fishing rod to catch resources and food. White fog descends beneath the dark sky, forcing everyone to huddl
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