Any Cozy Stories Like Pavilion by Moonlight, with a Small Ensemble Cast and No Sweet-and-Angsty Romance? 有没有类似楼台明月，微群像的温馨文，不要甜虐

1. 1 楼 Moonlight Shines on the Pavilion 楼台月明 Gentle Scholar温柔文人Modern Romance474k WordsCompleted [Print edition signed] Jiang Yunxin had a close friend she'd grown up with. When they were eleven, an unexpected visitor came to her friend's house: her cousin, Leng Yizhi. Her friend said that even at such a young age, her cousin seemed detached from everything. He never showed happiness or sadness and hardly spoke at all. So her aunt announced that she'd pay him one yuan for every word he said. And so... “Cousin, what's your name?” “Cousin, what grade are you in?” “Cou...” After being bombarde 153.6kReads9.5Score30.5k14d adds

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   God knows how much I love this novel! There are no flaws whatsoever, and every character is vivid and interesting. I regret not reading it sooner. My feeling about this book is that the male and female leads are like children I've watched grow up. Seeing them fall in love and be happy made me incredibly happy.

2. 2 小 Listening to Spring Rain All Night in a Small Tower 小楼一夜听春雨 Bright Moon Tilts明月倾Ancient Romance876k WordsCompleted A critically acclaimed historical romance ensemble that topped the annual charts! A calculating, lovesick beauty versus a dark, scheming top scholar! A historical take on Pride and Prejudice: life in the inner household isn't all scheming and rivalry, but also deep sisterly affection. The clever and capable Second Madam Lou takes the greatest pride in her life in having three beautiful daughters. To marry her three marriageable girls into “good” families, she travels a great distance to the capi 35.4kReads9.6Score5.8k14d adds

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   These are all short stories featuring small groups of characters, and they're especially heartwarming and inspiring 😘😘😘

3. 3 穿 Transmigrated Into a Male-Oriented Novel? I’ll Ascend First 穿进男频文？那我先飞升 Cilantro kmsm香菜kmsmAncient Romance941k WordsOngoing My brother is a Dragon Proud and Heavenly, and so am I. What is the younger sister of a male power-fantasy protagonist supposed to be like? A parasitic flower clinging to a mighty tree, or a beautiful, wildly popular character for male readers to fantasize about? No. Mu Qianxue, who transmigrated into the younger sister of a male power-fantasy protagonist, will tell you that she can only grow stronger, and faster. Hundreds of years later, people in this world will speak with reverence of the twi 3.9kReads8.8Score32614d adds
4. 4 被 After My Fortune Was Stolen, I Lay Low and Became a God in the Cultivation World 被夺气运后，在修仙界苟成神 Wei Xun唯寻Fantastical Romance1.8M WordsOngoing [Dual-blade sword cultivator + archer + cautious survival style + a touch of ensemble cast + growth-focused power fantasy] Rong Shu transmigrates to a cultivation world where mortals are mere ants, becoming the personal disciple of Tianyan Sect's Immortal Venerable. But who could have guessed that her new master, senior brother, and doted-on senior sister would all be idiots? For no reason at all, they belittle her, threaten her, and want to kill her! Rong Shu: “Mom, there's an idiot here!” If s 32.3kReads9.4Score3.3k14d adds
5. 5 恐 A Horrifying Apocalypse: The Cannon Fodder Villainess Starts with God-Tier Tools 恐怖末世，炮灰女配神级道具开局 Silent Worry不语忧Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted Reborn, Wu Yue finally learns that she's nothing more than a vicious cannon-fodder supporting character in a book. She has no mental power or awakened abilities, gets crushed by the heroine, a delicate, qipao-wearing charmer adored by everyone, and is eventually torn to pieces by evil spirits after being used as bait. She immediately decides to stay far away from the leads, find a hidden instance that nobody knows about, and lie flat like a lazy salted fish for the rest of her life. But a change 39.9kReads9.2Score6.4k14d adds
6. 6 师 Junior Sister, Stop Competing! There's No One at the Summit! 师妹别卷了，山顶真的没人！ Ink-Pen Raw Fish墨笔生鱼Ancient Romance2.1M WordsOngoing The manhua adaptation is now live. [Genius grindmaster + wish fulfillment + goofy comedy + a touch of ensemble cast + bonus chapters with romance] Wang Jingyue has terrible talent and is just about ready to accept her fate and lie flat when she discovers she is a minor cannon-fodder character in a xianxia novel. In the story, which lasts only a single short chapter, she will suffer the gruesome trio of having her kidneys harvested, her corneas gouged out, and her heart ripped from her chest, bef 14.9kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
7. 7 全 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6k14d adds
8. 8 穿 After Transmigrating into a Book, I Was Exiled with My Metal Powers 穿书后，我带着金属异能去流放 Daydreaming Little Tangyuan发呆的小汤圆Ancient Romance361k WordsCompleted [Complete] Transmigrating into a book × Exile × Food × Farming × Strong heroine × Golden finger × Light ensemble cast I’m doomed! Everyone else transmigrates with a spatial ability, but how did I end up transmigrating with a metal ability??? Bai Zhi transmigrates into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder wife of the male lead’s older brother in a male-oriented novel. In the original story, the cannon-fodder wife runs off with all the money belonging to the male lead and his brother during their ex 2.2kReads8.4Score17314d adds

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   I highly recommend this strong female lead, fast-paced, and slightly ensemble-like novel! What can a metal-based superpower do on the road to exile? Answer: It's like having a cheat code! While others transmigrate with spatial abilities, she possesses a metal-based superpower—seemingly useless, but actually a game-changer! When the cannon fodder original wife, Bai Zhi, wakes up on the road to exile, facing the icy wilderness and hateful gazes, she smiles. She gathers gold into a pot and cooks delicious meals! She uses her hardcore superpower in creative ways, building a home in the desolate wasteland. This isn't a passive exile; it's a grand-scale wilderness infrastructure building and food management adventure! The villainous brother-in-law? Sooner or later, he'll be recruited as a teammate.

9. 9 我 Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？ Xi Yao喜杳Mystery2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com 63.5kReads9.6Score7.5k14d adds

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   An ensemble piece, no romantic pairings, female-centric, all the main characters are incredibly intelligent and detail-oriented, and all the plot holes are resolved. Highly recommended.

10. 10 五 Five Blessings at the Door 五福临门 Xin Xiaoyao辛逍遥Female-Channel Fanfiction465k WordsCompleted [Novel based on the hit drama Five Blessings] Produced by Huanyu Entertainment and directed by Yang Huan, starring Lu Yuxiao, Wang Xingyue, Ni Hongjie, Liu Xiening, Chen Heyan, Wu Xuanyi, Huang Shengchi, Ke Ying, Liang Yongqi, Huang Yangtiantian, and Dong Sicheng, with Zhao Qing, Mi Jin, Luo Zekai, and others. During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song, Lady Li, a wealthy woman in Luoyang, moves her entire family to Bianjing to find suitable husbands for her five beautiful daughter 1.9kReads8.8Score28814d adds

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    This book is super good, it features a large ensemble cast.

11. 11 黑 The Crown of the Dark Moon 黑月光冠冕 Three Lives, Three Three叁生三三Modern Romance2.5M WordsCompleted [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 305.9kReads9.5Score42.1k14d adds

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    Super super good

12. 12 游EN 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 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [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 998kReads9.5Score85.8k14d adds
13. 13 穿 Transmigrate into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than I Do 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张 Chenchen Little Darling晨晨小宝贝Ancient Romance984k WordsCompleted [Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste 47.2kReads9.3Score6.6k14d adds
14. 14 刑 After Being Released from Prison, the Paranormal Claims to Be My Ex 刑满释放后，诡异自称前男友 Huo Fei惑非Two Male Leads1.2M WordsCompleted (Completed) [Two Male Leads + Infinite Flow + Rekindled Romance + Not Invincible + Twists + Foreshadowing + Happy Ending] [A beautiful but hot-tempered bottom who’s always flirting with death, paired with a seemingly innocent, calculating, vindictive green-tea top.] Gu Wei is a lowly F-rank criminal in the live-stream performance system. After blowing an entire instance sky-high along with his little assistant, he is exiled by the System to a punishment instance. The players thought Gu Wei would 26.8kReads9.4Score4.9k14d adds
15. 15 我 I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷 Cong Yue丛月Ancient Romance3.2M WordsCompleted [Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn 130.4kReads9.5Score53k14d adds
16. 16 满 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 Wei Xiaoxi未小兮Ancient Romance3.5M WordsCompleted 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 251.1kReads9.6Score25.1k14d adds
17. 17 全 The Whole Sect Are Simps, but the Junior Sister Is a Real Menace 全宗都是舔狗，小师妹是真狗 Holding Hands by the Fire执手烟火Ancient Romance4.2M WordsCompleted [The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng 181.6kReads9.5Score23.4k14d adds
18. 18 你 Why Are You Messing with Her? The Little Junior Sister Has the Heavenly Dao’s Favor 你们惹她干嘛，小师妹有天道宠着 Saving Up for Stickers努力攒钱买贴纸Ancient Romance1.0M WordsOngoing [Print Edition: I Hope You’ll Come in Person] [No Romance, Strong Female Lead] Tian Ning was the long-lost blood descendant of the Wenren family, a prominent clan in the cultivation world. When she was fifteen, they brought her back home. Everyone thought she was just a country bumpkin from the mortal world, nowhere near as good as the fake heiress, Wenren Xue, who had been raised in luxury and treated like royalty. Wenren Xue was exceptionally talented. At a young age, she had successfully form 41kReads9.4Score4.9k14d adds

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19. 19 位 Quick Transmigration Across Planes: I Own a Little General Store 位面快穿，我有一间小杂货店 Pipi Loves Tangerines爱吃橘子的皮皮Modern Romance4.1M WordsOngoing [No romance + no male lead + general store + ensemble cast + doing business in various novel worlds, including storylines where the heroine gets help] [Main characters: Su Ling + a calico cat] After waking up one day, Su Ling finds that her general store has bonded with a planar trade System, and she transmigrates into a book. First book world: a lucky heroine in a story set during the era of rationing. A general store suddenly appears on the hill behind Dawang Village. It has more goods tha 52.3kReads9.3Score4.7k14d adds

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    An ensemble piece, no romantic pairing, featuring cross-dimensional management. The protagonist, Su Ling, runs a magical general store in different worlds with her calico cat. In each world, she encounters all sorts of people in need of help, from villagers in historical fiction to famine refugees…

20. 20 琴 The Exquisite Calamity of the Qin Dao 琴道玲珑劫 Teacher Xiao Yin小殷老师Eastern Fantasy403k WordsOngoing Xia Linglong, the leader of the Zither Sect in the cultivation world, was unrivaled thanks to her peerless beauty and her divine mastery of the zither. Yet when she tried to reach the Great Ascension realm, she became stuck at the final hurdle: she had not overcome her tribulation of love. After glimpsing the secrets of heaven, she sealed a thousand years of cultivation and reduced herself to the Foundation Establishment realm. She shed her immortal robes for a plain dress and took her life-boun —Reads—Score—14d adds

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