I’m in a Reading Slump and Don’t Know What to Read. Please Recommend Something 🌚 最近书荒不知道看什么，求推荐🌚
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Unable to Find a Job After Retirement, I Was Forced to Become a Mercenary 退役后找不到工作，被迫当雇佣兵
After retiring from the special forces, Jin Nan can’t find a job and struggles to make ends meet. Then his neighbor comes to him for help. Her daughter has been tricked into working at a telecom fraud compound, and she’ll pay 300,000 yuan to get her back. In principle, Jin Nan only wants to be a law-abiding citizen. But he can barely afford to eat, so he accepts the woman’s rescue mission to make ends meet. He infiltrates the compound alone, gets into a gunfight with the armed guards, and manage
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They Wanted Me to Be a Sacrificial Stepmother, but I Chose to Make My Own Way 让我当炮灰主母，我偏另谋高枝
[Historical Romance / Household Intrigue / Sweet Romance / The Male Lead Is Head Over Heels] In Ruyi's Beloved Concubine, the heir apparent Xie Yunzhix is a brave and formidable warrior, always dashing across the battlefield in fine clothes, with no one able to stand against him. Sadly, he is only a supporting character. The story opens with him in a vegetative state, leaving behind three adopted sons. Xu Qingyi discovers that she has become the foil to the beloved heroine of a sweet romance. On
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Who Says I’m a Sickly Weakling? 谁说我是个病秧子
[Mutually faithful + scheming + fast-paced + no needless angst + feel-good story + no torturous romance] The two overlooked, pitiful youngest members of the Xie and Lu families marry each other in place of their unreliable older siblings. Lu Xuan thinks, “I have to marry someone, so if it’s Xie Miao, that could be interesting.” Xie Miao thinks, “I have to marry someone, so if it’s Lu Xuan, that could be a relief.” You can have any kind of brain you like, but absolutely do not develop a love-stru
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The Commandery Princess Returns to the Capital, So Why Is the Entire Marquis’s Household Dead? 郡主一回京，侯府怎么死光了？
[Satisfying family-intrigue story + ruthless heroine + face-slapping the villains] Qu Ling was framed by her stepmother and left the Marquis's residence for six years. When she returned to the capital, happiness wasn't waiting for her. Instead, she was driven step by step to the brink of madness. In the end, she went mad and killed everyone in the marquis's household, paying for it with her own life. After coming back to life, Qu Ling took up her knife. She no longer needed to go mad to slaughte
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Tomb Raiding: I Survive Thanks to My Self-Sacrificing Personality 盗墓：我靠付出型人格存活
[Two male leads + all pairings + slight everyone-loves-him vibe + strong, beautiful, tragic protagonist + doted on by all] A mountain of headcanon ahead. Sorry for any out-of-character moments. The System has something to say: I got bound to someone, and he’s really not quite right. He says he’s afraid of forming bonds with other people. He says he tends to give others his whole heart. He says he has a self-sacrificing personality. At first, I wondered how self-sacrificing he could be. Later, I
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Hei Ye's Gorgeous, Strong, Tragic Beauty Can No Longer Hide His Secret Identity! 黑爷家的美强惨马甲不保啦！
[Secret identities + universally adored + shipping your own CP] Many years ago, Jiang Xu transmigrated into the body of Hei Xiazi’s younger brother. In the end, however, Hei Xiazi killed him amid the curses of everyone around him. After the System brought him back to life, Jiang Xu geared up from head to toe, donned a secret identity, and joined the main storyline so he could destroy the Wang family’s computational system. He’d planned to push Wu Xie to grow while posing as a stranger, and sneak
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I'm So Overpowered, Yet I'm Trapped in a Massive Shura Field 盗笔：超强的我陷入了大型修罗场
[Shen Huai: Modern-Era Arc, Extra-Long Republic-Era Watch-Along] [Everyone's Darling and Romantic Rivalry, Go Ahead and Ship Them + A Hint of Being Everyone's Favorite + Imagining a Powerful, Beautiful, Strong Yet Tragic Character] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At this very moment, my body was lying right beside me, looking like a beautiful, flower-like person in a coma. The good news: I can create a secret identity that can't be killed. The bad news: the System sa
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Tomb Raiding: A Care Guide for the Southern Blind Man and Northern Mute 盗墓：南瞎北哑饲养手册
Tomb Raiding Notes + Candle in the Tomb + male protagonist with no romance (he really is just a weasel, and never stays handsome for more than three seconds) + spoils the Zhang family + Blind Hei “I walk all alone on the road to getting a title~ Wondering if there are any bratty kids nearby~” My name is Da Huang, also known as the Yellow Immortal. That's right, I'm the weasel feared by humans everywhere, mighty, handsome, and ridiculously awesome. I've been cultivating in the Changbai Mountains
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Tomb Raiding: Those Days I Was Forced into a Social Death Game 盗墓：被迫参与社死游戏的那些天
[Game Rules + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy + Everyone's Favorite + The Lost Tomb + Watching the Past Later] What does it feel like to be surrounded by characters you once wrote and nearly beaten up? When Ye Xi first got into the fandom, he wrote out-of-character fics about Ping Xie and Hei Hua. By sheer chance, he and the protagonists were locked in a sealed room. A room you can't leave unless you do XX. The first task: a room you can't leave unless you read your out-of-character fic aloud! When he saw
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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I'm Already a Great Emperor, Yet the System Wants Me to Take Disciples 我都大帝了，系统竟然让我收徒
[Invincible] + [Master of Schemes] + [Hidden-Cultivation Style] + [Comedy] + [Lighthearted] Invincible from the start, Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world and binds himself to a sign-in System, earning cultivation rewards and all kinds of peerless treasures every day. While others are risking their lives to break through to the next realm, he has already reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao and become a reclusive emperor whose strength even he can’t fathom. He had planned to lie fla
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Dream of the Red Chamber: The Strongest Imperial Guard—The World Is Mine! 红楼：最强锦衣卫，我只手遮天！
[You can enjoy this even if you've never read Dream of the Red Chamber] After transmigrating into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Huan becomes an unloved son born to a concubine. The dynasty is nearing its end, officials are corrupt, martial artists flout the law, and court factions scheme for power. Fortunately, Jia Huan awakens a golden finger and joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard, rising through the ranks. If anyone crosses him, he slaughters them, while also taking the opportuni
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Quick Transmigration: The Male Lead Wants Me All to Himself 快穿：男主只想独占我
[Sweet romance, devoted to each other, one-on-one, obsessive, possessive, complete] The sweet, gentle Xia Ruan travels to different small worlds to complete missions as a cannon-fodder supporting female character, but the male leads keep approaching her of their own accord... *The aloof young man’s gaze is obsessive, the possessiveness in his eyes alarming. “Baby, you’re mine.” *An exceptionally powerful esper in the apocalypse holds the delicate zombie close. “Be good, baby.” *The refined and e
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A Collection of Short, Tragic Bad-End Stories 短篇be虐文合集
I originally wanted to write a collection of angsty stories, but in the end I decided to write just one and bring it to a close. I can't change the title now, so come on in and have a look. Legend has it that the Demon God was gravely wounded by the Divine Clan and suffers excruciating pain every night, teetering on the brink of death. Only one thing can ease his suffering: the inner core of a Divine Fox. For hundreds of years, the Demon God has repeated the same words in his mind: I must take
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The Innocent Abandoned Consort: Prince, Please Let Me Go 弃妃无罪：王爷请你放过我
[Prince + imperial power + tragic romance] At first, he grabs her by the throat, his expression sinister and alluring. “How much truth is there in those tears of yours? Cheng Luoxun, I’ll make you pay in blood.” In the end, she fulfills his wish, barely conscious and almost lifeless. When the peach blossoms bloom in the third month, he gently takes her hand. “You said I didn’t love you, but you never once asked me if I did.” The candles flicker dimly in the room. He looks up, and there is nothin
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After Beating Her, the Bloodthirsty Prince Regretted It 暴打她后，嗜血王爷后悔了
For the sake of the woman he loved, he cruelly humiliated her, grinding her dignity and body beneath his heel until they were crushed to dust. He even ran a sword through her chest. As she lay near death, he curled his lips into a bewitching smile. “Let her live or die as she will. This prince doesn't care!” But when she resolutely left the prince's manor, he came to his senses. She ran, and he chased after her. “Wherever you go, this prince will go too!” She raised a knife, and he offered her h
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My Soul Transmigrated into a Wicked Female Side Character, and the Male Leads Can Hear My Thoughts 魂穿恶毒女配，被男主们偷听心声
[Transmigrate into a book + mind-reading + win-back-your-wife-in-the-crematorium + cultivation + check-in System] Gu Xinran transmigrated into a novel about two male leads, as the vicious, disposable villain who envied the protagonist, Song Qianchen. The System said her mission was to survive until the finale, but the original owner had already thoroughly offended Song Qianchen. How was she supposed to save her own life now? The protagonist gong and the villain gong were watching her like hawks
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Why Provoke Him? Even the Weakest in His Sect Is a Great Emperor 你惹他干嘛？他宗门最弱都是大帝
(Invincible protagonist + taking disciples + sect upgrades + ruthless and decisive + expansive worldbuilding + ensemble cast + gradual build-up + the pacing is a little slow for the first 200,000 words, then becomes explosively fast) “You have to pay to cultivate immortality?” “You even have to grease palms to get a spot?” “And pay the sect thirty taels of silver every month?” “You have to serve as a menial for half a year before you can even get a chance to study immortal arts?” “You came first
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Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥，你是警察啊，不是道士！
[If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T
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Maxed-Out Talent: I Make My Mark in the Martial World! 天赋拉满，我在武道世界显圣！
[Invincible from the start + ceiling-level combat power + emperor of a dynasty + powerful lead] Lu Chen transmigrates and is reborn. In this life, he's the fifth prince of the Great Yu Dynasty, blessed with terrifying comprehension and an exceptional constitution. While others are still fretting over how hard it is to reach the ninth level of the Azure Heaven Formula, he's already deduced further improvements to the technique, reaching the unprecedented eleventh level. While others are still str
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Pleading Guilty 伏罪
[Now available in print] [Wild, calculating, wolfish captain vs. quirky, inscrutable genius girl, with deduction and crime-solving at the heart] Three years ago, Jiang An, the renowned genius girl of the police force, vanished without a trace after a meticulously planned bombing rocked the city. Three years later, Jiang An, now a famous mystery novelist, was arrested as a suspect and drawn into a bizarre murder case. Fu Jinhan, captain of the criminal investigation team, personally made the arre
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My Proud and Talented Lady of the Marquis’s Manor 我的侯府傲娇才娘子
Also known as: “I Just Transmigrated and Picked Up a Proud Marquis Household Heiress” and “One Female Lead” Food gives life continuity. Music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and song give it charm. A little wealth, fame, and success give it grandeur. Gu Zhengyan transmigrated and unexpectedly won first place in a poetry competition. He even married a young lady from a marquis’s household, only for the furious marquis to throw them both out. Gu Zhengyan took his wife back to his impoverish
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The Far Shore of the Great Dao 大道彼岸
In the capital, April brings the bustle of everyday life, yet beneath the seemingly tranquil surface, undercurrents are stirring. The young Yang Zhao arrives by chance in this strange and wondrous world of immortals and martial heroes, and gets swept into the heart of the turmoil. … A vast world, home to countless races, where immortals and demons rise together. Sacred lands, sects, the imperial court, clans… This is a story about pursuing the Great Way to Immortality in the name of love. (The
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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The Little Spy's Rise to Power 谍战小特务的逆袭
He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation...
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Espionage: I Can Earn Rewards by Playing the Villain! 谍战：我当恶霸能爆奖励！
After transmigrating into a minor secret agent at Beiping Station, he unexpectedly awakened the Tyrant System!! As long as the System judges something to be bad behavior, he gets a reward! Kidnap a dog traitor and torture him for information. Ding! For using serious violence against another person, reward: the Japanese devils’ top-secret military intelligence! Lin Ze: ??? Beating up traitors counts too? “Mrs. Miyamoto, I have a new assignment for you!” Ding! For coercing an innocent young woman,
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After Failing to Pass as Human, I Became a Deranged Villain 伪装人类失败后，我成了疯批反派
[A female lead who pretends to be human and gentle but is actually a cold-blooded experimental subject, and a male lead who rules the streets outside but plays devoted husband at home, tough-talking at first and completely smitten later, both with supernatural abilities] [At first, the leads try to out-act each other + the heroine fakes her death midway + a little romantic rivalry + 1v1 + happy ending] The experimental subject who blew up a research facility and escaped was given a human name: S
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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A Glorious Dawn Over the Realm 盛世朝凰
[Strong heroine + strong hero; the heroine is no saint] Ye Chongxi, the legitimate daughter of the foremost family in the Tianqi Empire and a genius known throughout the capital, is surrounded and attacked by her fiancé and several allied factions! Chongxi is a demon who emerged from the dark land of death, worshipped as a god by all the dead and the creatures of darkness. A summoning brings her into the other woman’s body. She says, “I can grant you three wishes.” She says, “First, everyone who
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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
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
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It’s the Apocalypse. Who Has Time for Romance? 都末世了，谁还有空谈恋爱
[Strong male and female leads, not saintly, modest golden finger, focus on self-improvement early on and protecting the country later, light supernatural elements, female lead gradually awakening, hides her gender at first to survive, though the male lead knows!] On the surface, she’s an easygoing slacker, independent and carefree, and socially awkward. In truth, she’s sharp-minded, takes no nonsense, and is a brilliant young woman with exceptional combat skills. He seems domineering and decisiv
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Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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The Bizarre Apocalypse: I'll Protect This Corrupted World 诡异末世：这个污染世界我罩了
[Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland + Mutants + Sentinels and Guides + Ensemble Cast + Contaminated Zones] The dark apocalypse ends, and the age of the wasteland begins. Countless mutants and bizarre contaminated zones devour humanity’s homes. When a remote town is swallowed by a contaminated zone, Yun Zhao, who has only recently awakened her powers, is forced to lead the entire town on a migration. Her origins are a mystery, and her strength is terrifying. Yet she can barely lift a thing, cannot carry
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Winning Over the Young Lord of Miaojiang 攻略苗疆少主
Chu He transmigrates into a book. [The villain will kill the male lead, cripple the female lead, and then commit suicide out of hatred for the world. This world is about to collapse, and your mission is to save it.] The lousy System vanishes after assigning the mission. Before Chu He can even figure out what to do, she is kidnapped to Miaojiang, where she becomes the perfect mother Gu for the medicine people to cultivate their Gu. Medicine people aren’t human and have no memories of their past.
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A Guide to Leveling Up the Twin Prodigies of Shenzhou 神州双骄升级指南
[Signed for publication] (Many personal interpretations; do not apply a formula) [Teaming up with my nemesis to carve through the cultivation world + a couple with incredible chemistry and real personality + two powerful genius leads growing together + grand overarching plot + explosive tension + a touch of ensemble cast + Jiang Lang Cai Jin HE] A violent, arrogant woman vs. a sharp-tongued, scheming man Fiery! Battle-focused! A cultivation novel driven by plot and brains, with a hero and heroin
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After Breaking Up with a Creep, I Forgot to Turn Off the Shared Payment App 和变态分手后，忘记关亲密付了
(Short drama now available) (Signed for publication, awaiting release) [Sensitive catlike, sweet-faced but secretly ruthless girl × gloomy, obsessive, pathological male lead] [Mutual identity reveals | Sweet romance, both devoted to each other | Pathological love | Flirtatious push and pull] After hearing the transmigrator and the System’s inner thoughts, Yang Ci Ci learns that she is living in a novel and that her boyfriend, Pei Yanchuan, is the male lead. As for her, she’s just cannon fodder.
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What Sword Spirit? That's My Wife! 什么剑灵，那是我老婆！
Original title: After Becoming the Male Lead's Sword Spirit, the Entire Sect Regretted It My junior sister stole my spiritual root and my fortune, so I crippled her with one strike of my sword. Fu Xi was the eldest senior sister of the Yijian Sect. She trained diligently and was respected by her fellow disciples, but everything changed after their master brought home a junior sister. Her revered master repeatedly put the sect in danger for the sake of the junior sister. Her second junior brother
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Heaven's Will Weaves Sin 天命织罪
An invisible web spans heaven and earth: the “Karmic Weave.” Every thought and deed of every living being creates a “thread of fate” within it. Good causes bring good results, while evil causes give rise to ill-fated ties, forming the order of the world. The essence of cultivation is to temper one’s thread of fate in hopes of escaping the web and attaining immortality.
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The Dao Ancestor’s Paid System 道祖的付费系统
Xiao Tingyun, a modern business strategist, transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing whose talent has been stripped away, only to unexpectedly bind himself to the Great Dao Pay-to-Play System. From then on, while others toil to cultivate techniques, he sells them; while others fight over secret realms, he develops them. When he overturns the very rules governing the immortal world, the ancient beings at its pinnacle can no longer sit still. They’ve realized that what this young man is s
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The Pact of Forgetting 遗忘公约
When memory becomes a lie, how can you prove that the person you once were was innocent? After a long-forgotten fire, Zhang Yu, who suffers from severe amnesia, becomes the only surviving “monster.” He lives in a run-down secondhand bookstore, piecing his life together from daily notes. He harbors an unspeakable secret: by touching objects, he can read the fragments of memories left behind on them.
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After a Failed Mission, I Was Imprisoned by the Yandere Villain 任务失败后，我被病娇反派囚禁了
I was transported into a novel, and my mission was to stop the villain from turning evil. The System said that if I made him feel love and warmth, I could redeem him. For ten years, I stayed by his side, becoming the only light in his dark world. I thought I had succeeded, because he seemed so normal, even treating me with tenderness and care. Then the System announced that the mission had failed and prepared to erase me. I closed my eyes and waited for death. When I opened them again, I saw his
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Causal Code: The Anti-Fraud System Awakens from the Start 因果编码之开局觉醒反诈系统
The world has two layers, an outer and an inner one. The outer layer is the reality we know, while the inner layer is the “Data Abyss,” an informational dimension formed from global network traffic and endowed with a nascent consciousness. Every act of fraud and every crime committed by humanity settles there as a twisted “toxin.”
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There's Always Someone More Cautious 没有最苟的只有更苟的
What is an immortal? What is a demon? What is righteous? What is evil? It all comes down to what the victors say! With absolute power, no matter how cunning your schemes, how brilliant your plans, how overwhelming your fortune, whether you are Heaven’s favored child or blessed with one opportunity after another, you can still only be crushed… Qin Fusu of the Great Qin Dynasty had been its crown prince since childhood. As the saying goes, a man of great wealth should not sit beneath a dangerous r
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