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1. 1 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score191.2kShelves

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   The red star fell, civilization came to a halt, and the gray world engulfed the human world - when modern theater director Chen Ling traveled to this wasteland, there was actually a group of "audiences" hiding in her body who controlled disasters! If the expectation value is lower than 20%, the body will be taken over by disaster. He can only use opera as a blade and go against the will of heaven on the path of opera. The 14 avenues to the gods are intertwined into a fateful chess game. The actor's sleeves hide the secret of fate, and the blood-stained red ribbon is a game of life and death. The betrayal of her parents, the sacrifice of her younger brother, the Shinto duel between enemies and friends, Chen Ling grew up crazy in the identity paradox of "world-destroying disaster" and "savior of mankind". The intangible cultural heritage elements collide with the doomsday setting, every battle is a drama with climaxes, and every reversal is foreshadowing and shocking. There is no perfect protagonist, only the glimmer of humanity that perseveres in desperate situations; not to mention the refreshing feeling of suspension, but the cry of "human civilization will never end" is full of stamina. With its suspenseful and brain-burning time loop and Chinese-style romantic combat system, this is a wall-breaking work that combines tradition and fantasy. You won't be able to stop reading it until you stay up all night!

2. 2 北 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 Yun Feng云峰Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 700.4kReads9.6Score91.5kShelves

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   [Northern tomb robbers, my world!] Others rely on technology to fight against each other, while the Northern faction relies on rules to rob tombs. A clue from the Northeast leads to a thousand-year-old shocking inside story. From a "pangolin" plum blossom nail to the lost folk formula of "look, hear, ask and feel"; from Laojingou in the mountains of Jilin to the inexplicable Warring States Cellars underground in Luoyang. This set of books will not lie to you - 🕯️ Real industry slang, every sentence has its origin 🕯️ Restore the hard-core Feng Shui mechanism, each chapter reveals the foundation 🕯️ The grievances of three generations of local masters, everyone is a drama 🕯️ The creepy "living rules" behind those cultural relics The author calls himself "a long-time smoker who has worked in prison", and the earthy smell in his writings makes people unable to open their eyes. When reading, you always feel a chill on the back of your neck, as if someone is blowing a dark wind in your ear: "This bright weapon knows the Lord." 📖 As soon as you turn the first page, you hear the sound of the shovel hitting the soil 📖 By the time you see a third of it, you have learned to "look at the mud to identify the dynasty" 📖 After reading the last book... You feel something is wrong even if you look at the basement of your home [Warm Tips] 1. It is recommended to turn on the light when reading at night, and it is especially taboo to read to the corner 2. You may have a strange curiosity about Luoyang Shovel 3. Be cautious, because after reading it, you will feel that other tomb robbing themes are almost earthy 👉 Are you saying it is a novel? It's more like a compilation of the memoirs of a "retired person". The smell of patina, corpse wax, and old banknotes has seeped through the pages.

3. 3 开 From the Start, I Hand Over the Immortal Cultivation World, and the Nation Tells Me to Become an Immortal First 开局上交修仙界，国家让我先成仙 Beautiful Onion美丽的洋葱Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsOngoing “Chief, I request permission to hand over an unclaimed cultivation world.” “This world is rich in resources and abundant in spiritual energy. I recommend taking it over as soon as possible.” Lu Li transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a low-ranking mine slave in a demonic sect. Without an old master or a System to guide him, he thinks he'll have to cultivate the hard way. But by chance, he awakens a twin-fish jade pendant that can contact Huaxia. The news shocks the entire country, an 305.6kReads9.2Score38.3kShelves
4. 4 出 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 Four Happiness Pavilion四喜阁Mystery3.1M WordsOngoing My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 42.5kReads9.6Score3.4kShelves
5. 5 民 Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册） Er Dong Shuishou耳东水寿Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by 41.1kReads9.6Score6.4kShelves

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   A report was received late at night that all members of the archaeological team "evaporated out of thin air" in the ancient tomb. The surveillance video only captured them walking into the stone wall with smiles on their faces. This is under our control - the "Folklore Research Bureau", a mysterious agency that specializes in investigating supernatural events. From the Miao witch ancestors to the ghost ship in the blood sea, the files we dealt with cannot be explained by science. My colleagues are a bit special: the white-haired Director Wu who has lived for a thousand years, the evil-minded Fatty Sun, and me, Shen La, the former special soldier who accidentally inspired my abilities. Welcome to the backside of the real world. Click to follow and unlock the next top secret dossier.

6. 6 仙 Immortal Realm Civil Service Exam: Li Ergou's Road to a Comeback 仙界考编：李二狗的逆袭之路 The White Camel's Appearance白色骆驼的样子Eastern Fantasy249k WordsCompleted After transmigrating to the world of cultivation, Li Ergou discovers that even immortals have to take civil service exams, earn promotions, and write annual performance reports. Determined to escape his lot as a low-level rogue cultivator, he sets his sights on becoming an immortal civil servant, an official of the Celestial Court. But on the day of his interview, the chief examiner turns out to be the Yaochi Immortal Maiden, the woman he stood up and jilted five hundred years ago. With the lure 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   It's so funny that I gave me appendicitis from laughing so hard

7. 7 笼 The Canary in the Cage Turns Forty 笼中金丝雀他年满四十 Uncle Pink Bunny Head粉色兔头大叔Two Male Leads382k WordsCompleted (The rating was just posted, so it’ll go up later) [Emotionally detached, possessive younger man (26) x wrongfully imprisoned, broken-hearted older man (40)] [Dual male leads + both devoted + forced love + younger man + father’s friend + 14-year age gap + 1v1 + happy ending] [A wealthy heir with emotional detachment, who doesn’t know what love is, turns a handsome forty-year-old man into a caged bird, while gradually thawing his own emotionless heart.] “Uncle He, be good and come home with me.” 12kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves

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   This book exposes the illusion that "technology is omnipotent": sustainable development does not only rely on policies, but also requires a complete change in the mindset of ordinary people. From politics to society, from the present to the future of civilization, the essence of the climate crisis is revealed. Want to understand the "long road ahead" of human civilization? This can give you the clearest answer.

8. 8 大 The Tang Dynasty's Pearl-Dispelling Record (Original Novel of the TV Adaptation Starring Tian Xiwei and Song Weilong) 大唐辟珠记（田曦薇、宋威龙主演同名影视原著） Meal Card饭卡Martial Arts810k WordsCompleted [All-New Bonus Edition] [A Screen Adaptation with the Same Title Has Been Officially Announced, Starring Tian Xiwei and Song Weilong] [Beloved Princess Reborn: Looks Like a Delicate Crybaby, Actually a Well-Rounded Warrior] ✖ [Defiant, Doomed, Devoted, Pure-Hearted Top Jianghu Big Shot] [Their Romance Is So Sweet It Makes You Cry] Princess Wanshou, blessed with the Tang emperor's favor and love, died of an illness at just seventeen. A thief secretly opened the eerie underground palace, only to d 201.2kReads9.7Score31.6kShelves

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   The glazed lanterns in Chang'an Night Market were still shaking, and the camel bells of the Western Region caravan had just stopped when the young minister of Dali Temple was struck between the eyebrows by a "talking" bead - "This bead can break the yin and yang, but it cannot break the unpredictability of people's hearts." The assassination of powerful ministers, the secrets of princesses, and the conspiracies of alien races are all entangled in this bead. The male protagonist investigates the case with the bead, and gradually uncovers the bloody mystery of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When the unpopular prince handed over the marriage contract, and when Pizhu reflected her own death prophecy, she drew her sword and chuckled: "This Tang Dynasty, it's time to change the way we live!" There are twists and turns in every chapter, the plot lines are so brain-burning that you get goosebumps, the emotional lines are sweet and sad, and the Easter egg at the end directly subverts historical understanding! After staying up late to catch up on Chapter 200, now my mind is filled with the wind of Chang'an, the light of Pizhu, and the tenderness in his eyes~ Suspense novels of the Tang Dynasty, ancient sayings of Machiavellian ceiling, must-read novels if you stay up late

9. 9 时 Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手，邪神也得给我跪下！ Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.6M WordsOngoing [Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov 856.1kReads9.4Score70.5kShelves

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   Very good!!!!

10. 10 禁 A Short-Lived Forbidden Spell Caster? I Have an Undying Body 禁咒师短命？我拥有不死之身 Eat the Little Almond吃掉小杏仁Urban3.9M WordsOngoing Ye Lin transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and monsters, where he gains an immortal body. Because changing jobs in this world costs a fortune, he exploits a bug and sells his own organs to scrape together enough money to take part in the job-change ceremony. On the day of the ceremony, he becomes an SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcaster, but everyone around him mocks him. That's because SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcasters have to sacrifice their lifespan or their flesh to cast spells, so they're usu 220.6kReads8.8Score11.6kShelves
11. 11 烟 Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.4M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 882.1kReads9.6Score212.5kShelves
12. 12 载 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 Prajna Xiaoguo般若小果Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.8kReads8.4Score815Shelves

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    The protagonist is unemployed. He originally wanted to buy a car for online ride-hailing, but he unexpectedly bought a soul ring car to help the female ghost solve the mystery of her death, and then became an online ride-hailing driver. ​It must be five stars. The plot is constantly innovative and promoted. The elements involved are all my favorites, such as supernatural, suspense, mythology, traditional culture, religious understanding, life insights, and the emotional line of the protagonist is great. What I like most is that I will not be wronged, I will take revenge when I have a grudge, and I am glib but not greasy.

13. 13 捡 The Art of the Steal 捡漏 The Real Gold Yuanbao金元宝本尊Urban11.9M WordsCompleted One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p 18.3kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
14. 14 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 190.9kReads9.6Score22.7kShelves
15. 15 最 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 Too Sleepy to Sleep困的睡不着Mystery4.9M WordsCompleted They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 66.5kReads9.2Score6.6kShelves
16. 16 吾 I Suppress Ten Thousand Evil Spirits with My Own Body 吾以吾身镇万诡 Too Sleepy to Sleep困的睡不着Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Zhao Xingzhou grew up in a funeral home. He is steeped in yin energy and has seen all kinds of strange and bizarre things, because the Zhao family are the legendary wardens of the funeral home. Only later does Zhao Xingzhou learn that he isn't the only warden there. The old man at the gate, the crematorium shift supervisor, the hearse driver, and even the director are all extraordinary in their own ways. The entire funeral home is shrouded in mystery, with everyone showing off their own unique a 1.6kReads7.9Score237Shelves
17. 17 诡 The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 761.2kReads9.6Score139.5kShelves

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    Staying in a hut, is the rule written in blood a dead end? He uses logic as his blade and specializes in killing ominous people, making him the most feared resident of evil spirits.

18. 18 全 All-Element Affinity? Watch Me Carve Through the World of Magic 全系亲和力？看我杀穿魔法世界 Moyou陌犹Eastern Fantasy483k WordsCompleted An office drone transmigrates to a magical world. A six-year-old magic prodigy? Max affinity for every type of magic? Why do these magic spells sound so much like Cantonese? Why does this magic script look so much like cursive? As a person from Guangdong, my talent is unbeatable. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Future Domination Book

19. 19 返 Cashback Makes Me Invincible: Starting by Taking in a Troubled Young Woman 返现无敌，从收留精神小妹开始 Sleeves Full of Galaxies满袖银河Urban2.1M WordsOngoing The old geezer’s run out of money for food. You know what to do! Plenty of girls in this feel-good story, and no angst. A cashback cheat starts with a pink-haired, edgy little sister. This is the place to shake off the day’s fatigue and leave with a smile. A lovely place to while away the time. [Feel-good story + harem + comedy + passion++] 10.5kReads7.3Score619Shelves
20. 20 斩 Immortal-Slaying Platform 斩仙台 The Little Cockroach Is Seven小蟑螂七岁了Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the Primordial World, he became a rogue immortal. But from the start, he was on the Execution Platform, about to be executed by the Heavenly Court and the Western Church working together. Even the gods couldn’t save him. With death at hand, he awakened the Life Editor System. This System couldn’t be upgraded or provide magical treasures. Its only function was to let him freely make up his own past and turn it into “reality”! [Edit: I studied at Lingtai Mountain, and I’m 22.6kReads7.6Score10.9kShelves
21. 21 青 The Green Satchel Corpse Robe (Complete Collection, Volumes 1–3) 青囊尸衣（1-3册合集） Lu Banchi鲁班尺Mystery625k WordsCompleted In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), beneath the unsteady glow of an oil lamp, a white-bearded old man handed a cloth bundle to the jailer and whispered, “This can bring the dead back to life.” In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), three days before Zhu Yuanzhang ordered his death, Liu Bowen faked his own death. Afterward, he hid in Wolong Valley and devoted all he had learned in his lifetime to completing The Corpse-Cloth Scripture. In 1975, within a single month, Zhu Hansheng, a barefoot do 19.4kReads9.4Score3.6kShelves

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    A Generation of Celestial Masters is what happened after Zha Wenbin. Have you read it? Written by the same author, the second book was written by a true Taoist priest! The last two books were written by an outdoor adventure anchor, but he has brothers who are quite famous in his circle!

22. 22 清 The Records of Qingxu’s Exorcisms 清虚伏魔录 Recluse of the Void虚中散人Urban1.4M WordsCompleted A traditional Taoist novel based on real events. This is not a power fantasy. The first forty-seven chapters lay the groundwork for the grand story to come, so please read them patiently. Nine to five, I’m an office worker tapping away at a keyboard in a high-end office tower, walking through the city’s central business district in a shirt and leather shoes, using office software to bustle between reports and proposals. At dusk, I’m a Qingwei Taoist of the San Tian Gate, carrying ritual implem 6.8kReads9.5Score1.1kShelves
23. 23 匠 The Craftsman’s Earth Master 匠门土师爷 Xu Bai叙白Martial Arts452k WordsCompleted [Main plot + episodic stories + supernatural + horror + mysticism + special abilities + ensemble cast] [An immortal man who longs to die x a fierce little girl who can see how people will die] When strange cases defy explanation, ask the Artisans’ Guild. They can do anything, and neither ghosts nor gods can deceive them. The Artisans’ Guild, led by Yan Si, takes in a group of extraordinary people. Among them are the orphan Ye Tan, whose Judge’s Eyes can foretell life and death; Pang Hu, a reckle 180Reads9.2Score—Shelves
24. 24 我 I'm a Fortune-Teller (The Original Novel of I'm No Master, Starring Li Xian and Li Yitong) 我是个算命先生（李现、李一桐主演《我不是大师》原著） Yi Zhi易之Mystery547k WordsCompleted The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Li Xian and Li Yitong, I'm No Master The highest level of fortune-telling isn't predicting the heavens. It's reading people. During the Republican era, a secretive group called the Jiangxiang Sect operated in the underworld. They called themselves fortune-tellers, but made their living through fraud. From secret agents of the Military Statistics Bureau and bandit chiefs to scholarly households, sheltered women, and children, no one could escap 28.6kReads9.5Score4.7kShelves
25. 25 一 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Xia Yi夏忆Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.1kReads9.2Score870Shelves
26. 26 角 Tales from the Corner 角落往事 Believe It or Not爱信不信呗Mystery702k WordsCompleted This book is adapted from the real-life experiences of an adventure blogger with a million followers. It recounts what he saw and heard as he traveled through forgotten corners of the world. Compared with other novels, "Tales from the Corners" may feel more like a memoir, diary, or journal told through stories. I also hope readers can find answers to some of their questions in these stories, gain experience and insight, and learn something new. “Use bronze as a mirror to straighten your clothes 13.3kReads9.5Score1.8kShelves
27. 27 角 Tales from the Corner: A Dream of the Immortal Palace 角落往事之梦落仙宫 Believe It or Not爱信不信呗Mystery498k WordsCompleted People often say that a scary story is one thing, but the words "based on a true story" are what really frighten you. But what if most of the story is raw truth, untouched by embellishment? What is the truth about demons and monsters? Have the legends passed down by word of mouth really left traces in this world? And the dragon: was it merely an ancient totem imagined by people, or did it truly exist? If it did exist, what might it have been like? And where in the world is the mist-shrouded Kunl 4kReads9.5Score474Shelves

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