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Core of the Secret Realm 秘境之核
Dreamcore + psychedelic + mildly terrifying + multiple storylines I shouldn't have joined that outdoor hiking trip. If I hadn't gone, I wouldn't have ended up stranded in this place. During the hike, I accidentally entered a different kind of space. Gradually, I became lost here.
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Backrooms Exploration Notes Backrooms后室探索笔记
[Exploration across levels] + [Rigorous and realistic] + [Plausible plot] + [Easy to get into] + [No brainless characters] A meticulously researched Backrooms survival and exploration story, based on the Wikidot version of the Backrooms, featuring images from the original documents as well as original artwork. “If you noclip out of reality in the wrong place by accident, you’ll end up in the Backrooms. There’s nothing but the stench of damp carpet, the maddening monotony of yellow, the endless
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- 3 Pure Dreamcore 纯梦核 I stand… static, the surroundings here are beautiful (harsh). I am very misera-static-ble… Maybe I never want to stay here again (crossed out). Emptiness everywhere, noise, incoherent murmurs. The temperature is just right (-114514°C). I constantly feel the warmth (314159269297°C). I see a blinding light. What is that? (A supernova explosion?) My body grows heavier and heavier, the corners of my mouth keep turning upward, my soul rises… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Backrooms Dreamcore 后室梦核 Backrooms Dreamcore 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Little Dreamcore Stories 梦核小故事 A Little Dreamcore Story 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Bizarre 怪诞 Bizarre 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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Diary of a Collapsing World 世界崩坏日记
This is an ordinary diary by Zhuo Tan. Zhuo wrote about my wonderful university life. This world is very normal, perfectly normal... Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for yourself! Come and see for
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Late at Night... You're Awake. Run! They're Watching You! Time to Go to School... 深夜…你醒啦，快跑！他们在监视你！该上学了…
Late at night... You're awake? Run! They're watching you! It's time to go to school...
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The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城
[Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do
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- 10 A Shady Merchant in a Horror World 在惊悚世界当奸商 [Horror world, transmigration, System, comedy, no female lead, survival, feel-good story, infinite worlds, horror, the uncanny] Lin Wu adjusted quickly to suddenly finding himself in an unfamiliar place. After all, those people in white coats often moved him around while he was asleep. The people here looked a lot like the ugly things he used to see. They were a little uglier, but a 19.9kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
- 11 I Smell a Ghost! 我嗅到了鬼味！ [Infinite Flow]+ [Mild Horror]+ [No Romance]+ [Despairing Tone] One night, Gu Quan walks out of the funeral home carrying two memorial portraits, having just attended a funeral. His father calls to tell him that his mother has been in a car accident and is at death's door. In a panic, Gu Quan heads to the underground garage, hoping to drive over and see his mother one last time. On the way, he unexpectedly catches the scent of his natural enemy! Terrified, he gets into a car without thinking, un 195.3kReads8.6Score13.8kShelves
- 12 I Summon the Fourth Calamity in My Dreams 我在梦境召唤第四天灾 Chu Yang transmigrates to another world and discovers that there are no movies or games here, leaving the spiritual world utterly barren. That is, until he awakens the [Dream Editor], which lets him draw people into dreams. ◆ He can bring the apocalyptic New York of I Am Legend into a dream, sending players' adrenaline soaring as zombies lay siege to the city. ◆ He can recreate the Battle of Hulao Pass from Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a dream, drawing millions of online viewers to watch Lu 20Reads—Score—Shelves
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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- 14 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 15 The Last Diary Entry 最后一篇日记 [Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] I only used looking at the flowers as an excuse. All I really wanted was to see you once. 27.1kReads9.1Score4.8kShelves
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Awakening of the Other Core 梦醒异核
[Dreamcore] + [Not mindless] + [Smart characters] + [Liminal spaces] + [Superpowers] + [Wild imagination] Meng Xing unexpectedly enters a dreamcore world, a place of bizarre and fantastical sights, filled with rules and Superpowers. Deep within the dream's core seems to lie an even greater secret...
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- 17 Quick Transmigration: Beautiful Host, Stop Fooling Around 快穿之绝美宿主别浪 The heroine, Liu Ruoxi, goes through quick transmigration worlds and has children for male leads from all kinds of backgrounds. She has System 0006, a childbearing System. (Note: Only the heroine can give birth, and the male leads are infertile.) Some couples are mutually exclusive, while others have the heroine as the sole favorite later on. Readers who require mutually exclusive couples, please don’t read. And please don’t attack the author! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Dreamwalker 2025 梦行者2025
[Dreamcore psychological sci-fi] [Dreamcore] [Cyber fantasy] [Artificial reincarnation] [Unconventional infinite-loop story] [Aloof genius heroine] [No romance] [Psychological] [Niche] This book is an unconventional record of a cast of minds, a dream called “life” from which no one needs to wake. A slow burn with a touch of horror. No power-fantasy tropes, only people who pass each other by, and no true romantic pairings. In April 2025, dreamwalker Qian Ye arrives in Moshou City and stays wit
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Parallel Worlds Adventure: Into the Backrooms 平行时空大冒险：深入后室
[The Backrooms] + [SCP Foundation] [Hardcore survival] [Not overpowered] [Superpowers] [Cultivation-style] [Original content] In 2050, Earth's population surpassed 10 billion. A US-based company began implementing a parallel-dimension expansion plan, with irreversible consequences. It forcibly opened a brand-new dimension known as "the Backrooms," causing massive energy fluctuations. Spatial rifts between the Backrooms and reality began appearing around the world. Li Yu, Dai Kun, Chen Li, Lu Wen
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- 20 A Good-for-Nothing From the Apocalypse Travels to Ancient Times: Ace the Exams and Lift the Whole Family 末世废柴穿古代：考科举带飞全家 Xiao Yan was a good-for-nothing in the apocalypse who died a tragic, unexpected death and transmigrated to ancient times. What awaited him? A shabby farmhouse with a leaky roof and missing tiles... A spineless father, an honest mother, young siblings, and a version of himself who had starved to death. A hellish start from the very beginning? No problem. He had a mobile warehouse and a photographic memory. These two abilities, dismissed as useless in the apocalypse, could help him rise to great h 2.7kReads8.2Score323Shelves
- 21 The Whole Village Supports Me, a Seven-Year-Old, in the Imperial Exams 全村供七岁的我考状元 [The rating is low because the book just came out. It’ll rise.] Modern engineer Chen Liyan transmigrates into the body of a seven-year-old boy in Shanghe Village, the poorest place in the Great Xia Dynasty. Here, getting an education is an unreachable dream. Then a sudden natural disaster nearly wipes out the village’s last hope. At this desperate moment, Chen Liyan draws on knowledge far ahead of its time to propose a way to fight the disaster and turn the tide. He also improves the tea-making 544Reads7.4Score106Shelves
- 22 I Bled My Family Dry in My Past Life, Now Six Yuan Makes Me a God 前世吸光全家血，今生六元来封神 [Farming]+ [Imperial examinations]+ [Making a fortune]+ [Power fantasy]+ [Lighthearted comedy] Lin Yunzhou spent half his life working his way up to the rank of interstellar marshal. He never expected to transmigrate to an ancient era with not a trace of technology... The good news: He went from being an orphan to the most doted-on youngest son in the family, and fell in love at first sight with a young lady. The bad news: His parents play favorites, his brothers are blindly filial, and his olde 5.8kReads8.0Score430Shelves
- 23 The Imperial Exam Routine of a Poor Butcher's Son 寒门屠户之子的科举日常 The Wang butcher family is full of burly men, all tall, broad, and muscular, like a whole den of reincarnated black bears! But their youngest son, Wang Sanniu, is the odd one out: frail, delicate, and liable to fall over in a breeze. Standing beside his family, he looks like a little fox that wandered into a bear’s den. Butchering pigs? The moment pig’s blood splashes over him, he faints! Farming? The hoe is taller than he is! With the family fearing he’ll become a good-for-nothing, his mother m 188.1kReads9.0Score24.1kShelves
- 24 My Entire Clan! Supports My Imperial Exams 全族！供我科举 Imperial exams + transmigration + imperial exams + no golden finger, no System. The story draws on the privileges enjoyed by scholars in the Ming dynasty! The clan elder was a licentiate, and that was the only reason Baihu Village was protected. Now the elder is gone, and no new licentiate has appeared. The entire clan can only pool its strength to support one child. Just one licentiate can improve life in the village, give the children a future, boost the village economy, and make officials thi 13.8kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
- 25 Poor-Born Child Prodigy: At Five and a Half, I Face-Slap My Entire Clan in the Imperial Exams 寒门神童：五岁半科举打脸全族 [Genius child from the start, satisfying comeback, putting every skeptic in their place!] Xu Fei is a five-and-a-half-year-old farm boy who was born into an ancient era, yet is treated as a “nobody” by his family. His biased grandmother makes him work and feed the chickens, while every egg goes to his thirty-year-old uncle, a licentiate who has yet to pass the imperial exams, and his “child prodigy” cousin! Xu Fei is furious: Pretend to be a prodigy? I can do that, too! He recites poetry in publ 4.7kReads8.0Score334Shelves
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Dreamcore Tour 梦核巡回
“You saw the world as it was then, but you couldn't see yourself as you were then.” [Infinite Flow]+ [Invincible]+ [No CP]+ [Scheming] [Dreamcore]: A projection of reality, where illusions and virtual realms are made plausible. In [Dreamcore], everyone is a pitiful player. In the [Nest of Order], I open one door after another Tokyo, Japan, in the 1980s: neon lights, vaporwave, and exquisite dolls in shop windows; Ghosts, fox spirits, scholars, and lonely mountains: the loves and appetites of Str
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- 27 The Affairs of the Gods 上帝们的那些事儿 [Once the top post in the Three-Body Tieba forum, with over 100,000 replies] [Ensemble cast of geniuses]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [Mind games]+ [Wild ideas] Two hundred geniuses are invited to take part in a God Game spanning 28 different worlds. Contestants must conquer their own worlds within 30 days, while entering into battles and strategic contests with other worlds. A mechanical world ruled by AI… A zombie world overrun by the undead… An electronic world gone virtual and chaotic… A world populate 4.7kReads8.7Score926Shelves
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Spring's Joy, Year After Year 岁岁春欢
[The print edition of Years of Spring Joy is now available on all platforms] [Heroine and scumbag reborn + male lead transmigrates + mutual salvation + play the pig to eat the tiger] At seventeen, Shen Jiasui married Lu Yunzheng. The Shen and Lu families were both military dynasties, making them a formidable match. Two years into their marriage, Lu Yunzheng defeated the enemy kingdom and won renown across the land. But the Shen family was condemned for treason and executed to the last member. On
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The Art of Devouring Ten Thousand Daos 万道吞噬诀
Once a genius of the Northern Domain, Lin Feng had his supreme-grade Thunder Spirit Root publicly taken from him during the Ancestor-Worship Ceremony, supposedly as a “loan” to Ye Chen, a prodigy from the Central Great World. In a single night, the genius fell, enduring humiliation from all sides. His fiancée broke off their engagement, and his clan members mocked him. In this desperate situation, Lin Feng awakened memories of his past life in the mountains behind his clan and obtained the supr
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- 30 The Longevity Sect Begins in the Burial Grounds 长生宗门从埋骨之地开始 A new story is here! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! [Immortality-focused + Sect-building + Behind-the-scenes plotting + No heroine] Other people's sects rely on geniuses. Mine relies on “collecting corpses.” The protagonist, Mo Yuan, binds to an Immortality System from the start and becomes the unluckiest corpse collector in the cultivation world. But he discovers that buryi 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Ninefold Divine Meridian Art 九转神脉诀 In Qinglan City, all bloodlines in the Shen family are treated as servants. Shen Ling is the lowliest of them all. After suffering endless humiliation and losing everything, he thought his life was over. Then he stumbled upon the truth about his bloodline: the so-called distinction between noble and lowborn was nothing but 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Cultivating Immortality, but Failing My Performance Review 修仙，但绩效不合格 After transmigrating into the world of immortal cultivation, everyone else awakened a Sword Heart or Dao Bone, while the sound of a DingTalk clock-in notification rang in my head. Looking at the dilapidated sect, penniless and on the verge of disbanding, I pulled out a copy of the Qingyun Sect Performance Appraisal Management Measures V1.0. From then on, senior disciples had to calculate their alchemy success rates, senior sisters had to meet work-hour targets for drawing talismans, and even t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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House for Rent: Haunted 凶宅出租
Firsthand experiences and true cases from a real estate agent, adapted supernatural incidents from haunted houses. Each chapter is a standalone paranormal story, uncovering the secrets behind haunted houses and the tangled struggles of human nature.
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Sequence Survival: I Slay Ghosts Like Flies with My Superpowers 序列求生：我靠异能杀诡如麻
No romance + eerie apocalypse + convoy escape + a small ensemble cast The blood moon rises, the apocalypse arrives, and the eerie runs rampant. Survivors have no choice but to keep fleeing, escaping the eerie creatures' hunts. Only the supernatural can kill the eerie creatures. Su Yue is an esper who came from a zombie apocalypse. An apocalypse? She's familiar with those. Just level up and fight monsters. She'll take a shot at this one with her own survival rules. “I know you like me. If you agr
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- 35 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! 471Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Use the Analects to Open a Path Between the Living and the Dead 我用论语打通鬼神路
This is a lighthearted, fairy-tale-like story. Shen Qingyan transmigrates into the body of a down-and-out scholar who has failed the imperial examinations three times in a row. His classmates laugh at him for studying himself stupid, while he laughs at them for failing to see the truth. In this world, some cultivate immortality and others practice martial arts, but the sages' books he studies seem to have... taken a crooked path! No one cares for his essays in the examination hall, yet the words
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- 37 The Dao-Devoted Mortal Immortal 嗜道凡仙 Spiritual energy will eventually run dry. Cultivation was a fraud from the start. In this universe, spiritual energy is fixed, and cultivators are nothing more than "spiritual energy vessels" kept by the Heavenly Dao. When the strong fall, their cultivation returns to Heaven and Earth, and the cycle repeats. No one can truly transcend. The so-called ascension is nothing but a carefully planned sacrifice. Lin Fan, a mortal-boned youth disowned by his family, swallows a useless pill in despair. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Dreaming Within the Prince's Dream 我在王爷的梦中梦
I’m in the Prince’s Dream Within a Dream
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- 39 Fantasy: Night Falls, and I Conquer 玄幻入夜，征服 [Traditional fantasy with thrilling action + ruthless and decisive protagonist + fast pace + many beautiful women] Lu Chenzhou transmigrated to the cultivation world as the possessor of a body that had been useless for ten thousand years, but unexpectedly awakened a Pure Yang Dao Body! From then on, Lu Chenzhou could raise his cultivation by killing enemies and comprehend supreme techniques at a glance, setting out on the path to invincibility! The world is vast, and powerful experts abound. To 5.7kReads8.1Score955Shelves
- 40 Cao Yang's Journey South 曹阳南下记 Passionate and exhilarating. Now complete. Read with confidence. Cao Yang heads south to seek refuge with his older sister, setting off wave after wave of upheaval… 40.9kReads8.9Score4kShelves
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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
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Apocalypse Star Crystals: I Have an Army of Contract Beasts 末日星晶：我有一个契约兽军团
[Superpower Evolution] [Egoism] [Reborn] [Dark Humor] [Early Development, Lone Wolf] [Multiple Heroines, Skip if You Mind] A meteor shower descended, and the whole world collapsed into ruin. Most people turned into terrifying monsters, while animals and plants ceased to be resources for the survivors and became hunters instead. The meteor shower also brought star crystals, which could yield extraordinary food, weapons and equipment, evolution potions, and bloodlines with supernatural abilities..
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- 43 Aspiring to the Immortal Path 问鼎仙途 [Mortal-style cultivation + no System] Su Shier, a village boy of mediocre aptitude, is forced to embark on an endless, arduous path to immortality in pursuit of revenge for a blood feud. It is a world of deceit, the law of the jungle, scheming, and hardship... The road ahead is long, the way fraught with danger. Though this humble mortal must fight through every obstacle, he swears to forge his own path to immortality. 194.6kReads8.9Score15.8kShelves
- 44 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 45 Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家 [Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to 140.5kReads9.6Score21.6kShelves
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I’m a Dream Pathfinder 我是梦境寻路人
This is an infinite-loop novel of bizarre nightmares, blending oldcore, dreamcore, weirdcore, the Backrooms, comedy, and other elements. No System, multiple instances (depending on what the author dreams up each night). Note: This isn't pure horror. It's just pretty weird. Do you believe that the world we stand in is actually just someone's dream? We're no more than passing figures in the dreamer's memories. The moment they wake, everything in the world will be erased... Except for one “unlucky
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The School Ace 学校高手
One punch takes down a gang of thugs, catches the school beauty’s attention, and draws the hidden mastermind out of the shadows. When the people he cares about are threatened, the silent expert finally speaks up. Beneath his fists, everyone follows the rules.
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- 48 The Forget-Me-Not Cafeteria 忘忧食堂 Down on my luck and unemployed, I stumbled into a strangely decorated restaurant called Forget Your Worries. Its stunning owner offered me an astronomical salary, but with an utterly bizarre condition: I had to spend the night with her. I thought my luck had finally turned, but from then on, strange things began haunting me. Unexplained noises in the middle of the night, mysterious shadows appearing one after another, and terror closing in with every step. It turns out the words “Forget Your Wor 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Reborn: The Special Forces Soldier Returns 重生之特种兵归来 A mercenary ace is reborn with bitter resentment and memories of his past life. He tears traitors apart and tramples his enemies underfoot! The thugs who bullied him beg for mercy, the first love who deceived him is disgraced, and the people who laughed at his poverty can only watch as he amasses a fortune and lives in luxury. Their former scorn turns to flattery in an instant! Beautiful women fall for him, allies lend him a hand, and his road to revenge is a smooth ride. The face-slapping is im —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Running a Street Stall in the Underworld from the Start 开局地府摆地摊 Jiang Yan died suddenly from working overtime, only to wake up in the business hall at the Bridge of Helplessness. The Judge slammed the table and roared, “If you don’t meet your KPI, you’ll be a crispy roast chicken in your next life!” The Meng Po Soup in Jiang Yan’s hands tasted like dishwater that had sat around for three days. His soul nearly scattered on the spot. [Ding! The Everything Can Be Sold System has been bound!] The next second, he grabbed a lovesick ghost. “Buddy, want to check ou 4Reads—Score—Shelves
