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1. 51 谢 The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 Yi Ran怡然Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of 124.8kReads9.6Score17k14d adds
2. 52 快 Quick Transmigration: A Thousand Ways to Heal Adorable Animal Cubs 快穿：动物萌崽的一千种治愈方式 This Fish Is Very Poisonous此鱼甚毒Modern Romance475k WordsCompleted [No romance + baby protagonist story (a real toddler) + adorable pets + healing + everyone's darling] A three-year-old phoenix chick was kidnapped by the quick transmigration System. What? If she sets the reborn plots disrupted by vicious supporting characters back on track, she can become the most powerful phoenix in the world? The little chick was easily tricked into going along with it. Every mission is a rebirth. First world: The puppy in a story about a CEO mom who runs away while pregnant. 2.4kReads9.2Score25814d adds
3. 53 我 The Fluffy Beasts I Healed Turned Out to Be Heaven’s Chosen 我救治的毛茸茸竟全是天之骄子 Even a Salted Fish Is the Saltiest咸鱼也是最咸的Modern Romance614k WordsCompleted [Animal Fiction + No Fixed Male Lead + Everyone's Favorite] (A healing story full of fluffy animals. There is rivalry among the men, but the heroine only loves animals.) After graduating, Shu Yun began looking for a job. She was eager to throw herself into the arms of all the fluffy animals at the zoo, but life is unpredictable: one moment she'd finished writing her resume, and the next she'd transmigrated. Somehow, her rambling, muddled resume had ended up in the hands of a handsome man. Handso 4.4kReads9.2Score42814d adds
4. 54 回 Back in the Capital, the Brilliant Miss Is Famous Across the Land 回京后，神算大小姐名满天下 Bright Blue灿蓝Ancient Romance741k WordsCompleted [No romance + metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying read + secret identity + ghost-catching + lighthearted, no angst~] Yun Zhuo of the Xiao family was abandoned as a child. When her relatives come looking for her, she decisively returns to the capital to become a thorn in their side. Her birth mother says she’s uncouth and illiterate? But in the blink of an eye, she’s welcomed into the capital’s circle of master scholars, discussing poetry and prose and interpreting the fate of the world. T 151.8kReads9.6Score19.7k14d adds
5. 55 震 Shocking! The Entire Entertainment Industry Can Hear My Thoughts 震惊！全娱乐圈都能听到我心声 Tang Shiwu糖十五Modern Romance432k WordsCompleted [Ridiculous comedy + everyone can hear thoughts + meme-filled + nonsensical wish fulfillment + later, everyone can hear the male lead's thoughts too] Qu Tiaotiao gets bound to an “All-Knowing Search” golden finger. It lets her dig up dirt on everyone in showbiz, so her daily routine becomes one long gossip session. What she doesn't know is that her fans can hear all her thoughts. Qu Tiaotiao: [What! That hot traffic star only lasts seven seconds!] Haters: “A man can be handsome, but he still has 4kReads9.3Score69614d adds

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6. 56 末 Raising Kids in the Apocalypse Is Tough: Good Boy, You Go First 末世养儿不易：乖宝你先上 Yun Yaowu云姚雾Fantastical Romance517k WordsCompleted [Zombie apocalypse; stockpiling superpowers; a trickster mom and her highly intelligent, powerful little one] Who would have a baby in the apocalypse? Shu Lan would. She'd die sooner or later anyway, so she might as well take a big gamble. And that gamble gave her a son, Shu Maomao, with the most powerful superpower of all: “Plunder.” Every day in the apocalypse is an adventure for Shu Maomao, with his dramatic mom, his missing dad, endless zombies, and his own little self. A mama's boy? You bet 29.4kReads9.5Score4k14d adds
7. 57 捡 The Little One I Took In Is the Young Master of a Powerful Family 捡回来的幼崽是豪门小少爷 Translucence透光Two Male Leads677k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Adorable Kid Doted on by Everyone + Parenting Variety Show + Wealthy Family + Lighthearted and Healing] Three-year-old Su Youli is about to face the first major event of his life: His dad is going to find his biological father and send him away!!! How could a little toddler bear such an injustice? He copies the neighborhood kids and goes on a hunger strike, trying every trick in the book, from acting cute to playing up his suffering. But his dad is so heartless that he simply 9.1kReads9.4Score83314d adds
8. 58 小 That Little Brat's Always Causing Mischief, and Her Parents Can't Stop Grinning 小鼻嘎不过作作妖，爹娘被哄翘嘴 Piggy Who Loves Cilantro吃香菜的猪猪Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Comedy] [Beloved by the Whole Family] [Wins Over Everyone] [A Touch of Political Intrigue] [The Female Lead Returns] [Her Future Love Interest Is Murong Yan] [Original title: The Little Brat Only Causes Trouble, Yet Somehow Wins Her Parents Over] [Talkative, sharp-tongued heroine whose mouth moves faster than her brain ❤️ Hero reborn nine times, with eight hundred tricks up his sleeve] Luo Yan transmigrates into a book, where her entire family consists of villains. Her scumbag father is the vil 42.7kReads9.0Score6.9k14d adds
9. 59 离 Back to High School Before the Divorce: This Time, I Won't Fall for You 离婚前重回高中，这次我不心动了 Xun Can旬灿Modern Romance429k WordsCompleted (Print edition signed) [Campus rebirth + regretful pursuit + bad-boy wins her heart + living-under-one-roof romance] [Slightly rebellious good girl x laid-back, aloof bad boy] After her grandmother passes away, both the Tan and Lu families feel sorry for Xu Entang, who has no family left, and want to take her in. When she arrives in Beicheng, she sees again the boy she never forgot after meeting him once. Lu Jin is brazen and unruly. Over the years they grow up together, she watches one woman af 99.3kReads9.4Score10.7k14d adds
10. 60 青 Old Friends, Unsent Farewells in Qing'an 青安难寄故人辞 Xu Ning许宁Ancient Romance31k WordsCompleted Princess Song Yu of Qing'an was born with an irresistible allure, yet she married a powerful eunuch, the Nine-Thousand-Year Lord. After their wedding, she tried to seduce Jiang Yi 99 times in a gauzy dress, but he never so much as blinked. “Princess, I am a eunuch.” Knowing his body was incomplete, she said it did not matter and boldly kissed him anyway. Only when their passion reached its height did Jiang Yi, his face still cold, finally give her a proper wedding night. Afterward, the colder an 11Reads—Score914d adds

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    This short story is quite good; the plot is original, the characters are well-developed, and it's refreshing.

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