I've Been Reading for 15+ Years, and This Has the Best-Written Female Characters I've Ever Seen 书龄15+，这本真的是我看过描写女性角色top1的

1. 251 画 A Wife Painted in Bone 画骨成妻 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊20k WordsCompleted A Wife Painted in Bones 4Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 252 我 My Two-Faced Princess Consort 我的双面王妃 Fu Family Seventeen1傅家十七1Ancient Romance6k WordsCompleted My Two-Faced Princess 80Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 253 三 After Thirty-Nine Thousand Years, I Was Won Over by a Puppy-Like Young Man 三万九千岁后，我被小狼狗拿下了 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Ancient Romance17k WordsCompleted After Thirty-Nine Thousand Years, I Was Won Over by a Puppy-Like Boyfriend 6Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 254 我 I Was Scammed, Then Extorted for Ten Thousand Yuan 我被骗了，还被勒索了一万块 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted I got scammed, and they extorted ten thousand yuan from me. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 255 我 My Husband Is Out “Making Money,” and Three Women Have Come Knocking 我老公在外“搞钱”，三个女人找上了门 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊11k WordsCompleted My Husband Was Out “Making Money,” and Three Women Came Knocking 25Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 256 悔 After I Called Off the Wedding, My Male Concubine Turned Out to Be My Long-Lost Wife 悔婚后，男妾竟是我失散多年的娘子 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊12k WordsCompleted After Breaking Off the Engagement, My Male Concubine Turned Out to Be My Long-Lost Wife 4Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 257 师 Master, You Said the Three Realms Were at Peace 师尊他说，三界太平 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊7k WordsCompleted Master Says the Three Realms Are at Peace 1Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 258 领 After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend's Scam 领证后，我戳破了女友骗局 Fu Family Seventeen1傅家十七1Marriage & Romance6k WordsCompleted After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend’s Scam 102Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 259 对 The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall 对门的离异邻居 Fu Family Seventeen1傅家十七16k WordsCompleted The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall 1kReads—Score—Shelves
10. 260 穿 Reborn as a Peasant Girl, I Won't Live for Someone Else 穿成小农女，不为他人做嫁衣 Daxin大心Ancient Romance161k WordsCompleted Zhou Qingling unexpectedly transmigrated. In the book, she spent her whole life making wedding clothes for others. This time, she’s here, and she even has a portable space. She’ll decide her own fate, and nobody gets to take advantage of her. 6.9kReads8.3Score458Shelves

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    I highly recommend this book, it's very good.

11. 261 穿 Transmigrated into an Old Woman 穿越成为古代老妇 Daxin大心Ancient Romance152k WordsCompleted No romance, a wholesome story about an old lady Song Xinyue, a modern woman, accidentally transmigrates to an alternate ancient world and becomes a forty-year-old woman. She also gets five wonderful sons and a daughter who dreams every day of marrying into a wealthy family. What can she do? She can only grit her teeth and raise her badly behaved children while rolling up her sleeves and working hard. Poverty, locust plagues, and turmoil: she overcomes them all! 777Reads8.9Score—Shelves
12. 262 快 Quick Transmigration: The Tool Character Says Nothing and Just Stockpiles Supplies 快穿：工具人不语，只一味囤物资 Rumors Easily Stir Up Trouble流言易乱Fantastical Romance825k WordsCompleted System + space + hoarding supplies + no fixed couples (some worlds have romances, others don't) + low-key tone + a heroine who grows over time + period settings + fleeing famine P.S. This heroine develops over time. If you want instant gratification from the start, check out the author's other quick transmigration novel, Lu Jie Lyu's Life Is Satisfying from Beginning to End. One more P.S.: Dear readers, if you enjoy this, please leave a good review! Li Li is an ordinary wage slave among the mass 15.7kReads8.2Score1.8kShelves

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    The first book features a system, a spatial dimension, resource hoarding, and no romantic pairing (some worlds have one, some don't) + a lighthearted storyline + a female protagonist who grows through life + a historical setting + a time of famine escape. The second book is a quick transmigration story where the protagonist learns skills, hoards resources, doesn't get involved in the main plot, features a strong female protagonist with clear and definite goals, and no fixed romantic pairing.

13. 263 空 Space-Hopping Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Is Stockpiling Goods to Change Her Fate 空间快穿炮灰正在囤货改命中 Rumors Easily Stir Up Trouble流言易乱Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted No fixed pairing, and some mission worlds have no romance. System, personal space, hoarding supplies, period settings, escaping famine, and more. The heroine is a laid-back woman who wants to die a happy death. Her motto is: don’t do anything unnecessary, or you might lose your life. If she does make a move, it’s always for the sake of profit. Lu Jielv dies in the tenth year of the apocalypse. After death, her soul returns to the underworld, where she begins a life of quick transmigration. She t 19.4kReads8.2Score1.5kShelves
14. 264 换 My Short-Lived Husband Is Counting on Me to Save Him With My Superpower 换来的短命夫君，要靠我用异能救 Brave Little Chunk勇敢的小肥肉Ancient Romance706k WordsCompleted Wish fulfillment + a golden finger + a pocket dimension + no putting up with mistreatment Zuo Qixing, who came from the apocalypse, transmigrates into a book. Now she has the following problems: Her illegitimate younger sister insists on swapping betrothed partners. Zuo Qixing: “Fine. As long as the terms are right, we can talk about anything.” The fiancé she gets in the swap is short-lived. Zuo Qixing: “Whatever. It’s not as if I’m going bankrupt, and besides, I have wood-based powers.” T 11.1kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves

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    This is a must-see, ladies! The female lead is so cool. She has no romantic entanglements, no sisterly or familial bonds, no flaws, and no weaknesses. She'll throw one punch at an enemy and two punches at a friend—it's all about "those who obey me prosper, those who defy me perish." It's so satisfying!

15. 265 他 After His Herniated Disc, He Swindled People Out of Money and Sex 他腰椎间盘突出后，骗财骗色 Jing Jiuzhe荆九折10k WordsCompleted After His Herniated Disc, He Swindled People Out of Their Money and Their Virtue 289Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These are all lighthearted, female-centric, and sweet romance novels featuring equal living conditions with men.

16. 266 六 The 1960s: After Getting into Technical College, I Secure a Cadre Position 六零：考上中专后，我稳坐干部岗 Don't Know Any Better孬不道Modern Romance999k WordsCompleted [1960s + everyday life + extremely, extremely slow-paced + family squabbles + no rural assignment + vocational school entrance exams + few awful relatives] [This is a female-oriented novel! The heroine is an ordinary person, not a powerhouse heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Heartbroken and still looking for an internship? To escape reality, senior college student Zhou Yuan casually signed a contract for the full-immersion game Awakening. When she opened her eyes, she had become Z 17.2kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves

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    This period drama is written with delicate prose, and the female characters are exceptionally well-developed. There are no spoiled wives; every character is independent, strong, and realistic. The female lead's mother names her daughter Wanhao (meaning "ten thousand good things") because she believes her daughter is perfect in every way. The grandmother says that grandchildren and adopted grandchildren are the same. The female lead is intelligent, opinionated, and has her own ideas. She also has a clever classmate, a gentle older sister, and even the supporting characters are not stereotypical.

17. 267 没 Nobody Told Me I'd Need to Swing a Sledgehammer in the Beast World! 没人告诉我兽世要会抡大锤啊！ Wu Leshui无乐水Ancient Romance985k WordsOngoing Beast world, one female to multiple males, female supremacy, supernatural abilities, strong females and males. Many descriptions of female supremacy. Content warnings are provided, so don't read if you dislike it. Or click the top-left corner to leave. Keep the comments civil, and may we all be happy. Lan Yuan was born into the beast world, and thought she'd get to live the sort of easy, carefree life she'd seen in all those beast-world stories she read in her previous life, surrounded by hands 49.5kReads8.9Score9.9kShelves

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    This is an absolutely female-oriented novel, absolutely free of any derogatory terms for women, and absolutely based on the principle of the strong ruling the weak. Please take a look, it's a completely different kind of beast world novel, a type of beast world novel I've never seen before.

18. 268 坐 The Lu Family’s Eldest Daughter Is Back After Ten Years in Prison 坐了10年牢的陆家大姑娘回来了 Heartfelt at Midnight深夜走心Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Lu Xiaoxia, who is serving a prison sentence, is reborn at the age of 19, on the very day her stepmother gives her to a scumbag as a present. Having killed, done time, and fought for her life against prison bullies, Lu Xiaoxia starts dishing out payback from the start. The scumbag is right outside the door? She cripples him right from the start. Her stepmother schemes to squeeze every last bit of value out of her? She makes her pay back every cent, with interest. The house is crawling with monst 36.8kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves

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    It's so well-written; it feels like Lu Xiaoxia is right there in the story. Every character is perfectly portrayed. The author's writing is excellent, bringing everything to life. Whether it's revenge, career, saving lives, family, or romance, every storyline is interwoven beautifully.

19. 269 我 My Yesterday 我的昨日时光 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤Modern Romance239k WordsCompleted This is the ordinary coming-of-age story of a girl from the countryside... It could be you, her, or any perfectly ordinary girl around you... 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The story of the kitten fishing

20. 270 成 Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己 Yue Cangyun Nali月藏云那里Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her. 141.6kReads9.5Score11.6kShelves

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    This book must have almost everyone who's ruthless.

21. 271 男 My Male Coworker Moved In With Me 男同事合租到我家 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤6k WordsCompleted My Male Coworker Moved In With Me 1Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 272 公 The Top-Ranked Road Survivalist Says She'll Walk to the End of the Road 公路求生榜一说她要走到公路尽头 Zhang Paopao张泡泡Sports2.9M WordsOngoing Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec 428.2kReads9.4Score40.7kShelves

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    So good! They're all my treasures! I love how charming the female characters are in every book!

23. 273 绣 Tales of the Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 绣鞋魂记 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤Ancient Romance51k WordsCompleted The Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 2Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 274 全 Global Survival: I Became the Eternal Second Place 全民求生，我成了万年老二 Air Fryer Reheated Rice空气炸锅热饭Sci-Fi & Apocalypse823k WordsCompleted [No romance + stockpiling + infinite survival + natural disasters + teammates + food + mildly scary] [The rating just opened, so it’ll gradually rise. Don’t miss out, come take a look!] People know that among all the rankings, you can remember the number one spot, because it might belong to the leading sheep, the fierce wolf, the agile leopard, or the farsighted eagle. You can also remember the number six, because that one’s a troublemaking stick, a fish coasting along, a bucket waiting to be fi 72.2kReads9.3Score11.9kShelves

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    Game/infinite flow genres, ensemble casts, strong female leads—all highly-rated, well-written, and logically sound novels. Except for the first one, all the others are completed.

25. 275 住 The Live-In Nanny Had Her Employer's Child 住家保姆生下了雇主的孩子 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤20k WordsCompleted The live-in nanny gave birth to her employer’s child 3Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 276 生 Survival Game: A Wang Baochuan from the Start 生存游戏：开局给个王宝钏 A Carrot一颗萝卜Sports554k WordsCompleted Synopsis: [Survival, divine games, ensemble cast, livestreaming, cooperation, growth] After Qiao Qing dies, she enters a special survival game. From the start, players choose one of three options: Pick a mercenary to help you survive in the game. Everyone else starts with Bear Grylls, Robinson Crusoe, or Matt. Qiao Qing starts with Wang Baochuan, Zhen Huan, and Lin Daiyu. As the game progresses, she discovers that this world is far from simple. It turns out that long ago, people really could 3.1kReads9.1Score385Shelves
27. 277 那 That Summer, I Saw My Aunt Fighting with a Strange Man 那年夏天我看见伯母在和陌生男人打架 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted That Summer, I Saw My Aunt Fighting With a Strange Man 2Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 278 异 Another World: That's Too Much! Starting from Scratch to Earn Contribution Points 异世：过分了，从零开始搞贡献值 Raise a Little Blue Cat养只小蓝猫Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [The opening can be read as an NPC being reborn + growing from weak to strong + stockpiling goods in various otherworlds + one-of-a-kind adventures in different worlds + romance + cozy vibes?] An Jiu was reborn in someone else's body. A barren wasteland, a strictly ranked beehive, sixth-class citizens scrambling to get their three meals a day, and a monthly trip to an altered world to gather supplies. Clenching her fists, she knew that if she wanted enough to eat, she had to... Fight! Like! Mad! 8kReads9.1Score872Shelves
29. 279 龙 Young Hero of the Dragon Abyss 龙渊少侠 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤Ancient Romance335k WordsCompleted On a dark, stormy night, a group of black-clad attackers raided the Weiyuan Escort Agency. With loyal servants fighting desperately to protect her, the heavily pregnant young madam fled through the siege. What earth-shattering secret lay behind this bloody massacre? The four fugitives traveled far and wide before finally taking refuge in the long-abandoned Ziyun Temple. Fortunately, the madam safely gave birth to a baby boy there. Time passed. When the boy was seven, a one-armed Daoist wandere 98Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 280 无 Infinite: People Can Die, but You Must Never Lose the Game 无限：人可以死游戏绝不能输 Ran Tu染途Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted (Completed) [Infinite Flow + Logical Deduction + Death Games + Brain-Burning + Slightly Unhinged Female Lead + Strong Leads] (Content warnings at the end of Chapter 1) After her parents died, Xin Zhixia witnessed the ugly faces of her relatives during a dispute over the inheritance and grew disgusted with the world. She devoted herself to the games she loved and drifted through life in a daze. Finding life pointless, she decided to jump off a building and kill herself. A man appeared beside her. 12.7kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
31. 281 关 Lord Guan's Descent to Exorcise Demons 关帝君降魔 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤10k WordsCompleted Lord Guan Subdues Demons 2Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 282 全 Global Survival: My Territory Is the Only Pure Land 全民求生：我的领地是唯一净土 Sang Zhi Ming桑枝明Modern Romance371k WordsCompleted [Global Survival] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Strong Female Lead] [City Lord] The entire world is transported to another realm. From the start, everyone gets a small wooden shack, and they have to earn all their own resources. Some people are on islands, some in deserts, and others in primeval forests. They chop down trees to upgrade their wooden houses and stave off hunger with wild grass and berries. Those who survive for a month can summon their families to join them. While others ar 8.5kReads9.1Score812Shelves
33. 283 借 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 借尸还魂之大郎，我们回家吧 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤9k WordsCompleted Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 2Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 284 身 As the Luckiest Player, What’s Wrong with Having a Few Billion Extra Items? 身为欧皇，道具多亿点点怎么了？ Qingqing and the Fish卿卿与鱼Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow × No CP, Strong Female Lead's Growth × Ensemble Cast × Livestream] [Content warning: Slow burn! This is my own style of fiction, written in my own way. Tastes differ, so it may not be your thing.] After dying unexpectedly, Song Qiao enters a mysterious, eerie game world. To be reborn, she has to clear the games and win. Earn 1,000,000 points and she can return to the human world For Song Qiao, whose intelligence and perception are maxed out and whose luck is off the charts, isn't 4.1kReads9.2Score554Shelves
35. 285 高 The Peak of Falling in Love with You 高峰爱上你的高峰 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤Marriage & Romance7k WordsCompleted A Peak of Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 286 言 The Romance Heroine Turns Dark After Becoming a Tool for Boys’ Love 言情女主成卖腐工具人后黑化了 Roar, Roar, Garlic啸一啸蒜了Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Live comments + includes some gay-to-straight storylines + multiple male leads] Mo Fengchun discovers that Lin Jingyao, her childhood sweetheart and husband, has been cheating on her and plans to come clean tonight. His lover, Jiang Chenhe, is waiting right outside the door. Live comments flood past, wildly cheering on the pair's love while cursing her with the most vicious words and telling her to hurry up and die. She does die, but she takes both scumbags down with her. Just before her consci 18.6kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
37. 287 一 A Box of Meile Soy Milk 一盒美乐豆奶 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤7k WordsCompleted A Box of Meile Soy Milk —Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 288 侯 The Marquess's Wife Wants to Die of Old Age in Peace 侯府主母要寿终正寝 Winter Melon Eats Pears冬瓜吃梨Ancient Romance553k WordsCompleted A history major pulls an all-nighter and dies suddenly, only to become Chen Yuhu, the matriarch of an ancient household, with no golden finger whatsoever. But you have to learn to be content. As a modern, clear-eyed college student, Chen Yuhu wants to tell the original matriarch: don't be such a lovesick fool. Treasure your life of immense wealth and status. She certainly does. She sends her biased mother-in-law away to cultivate in seclusion, keeps the obedient and pretty concubine around to pl 34.1kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves

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    These are all beautiful, and I really want to recommend them.

39. 289 骷 The Skeleton's Revenge 骷髅的复仇 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤6k WordsCompleted The Skeleton’s Revenge —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 290 乱 After Fleeing the Chaotic Era, I Became the Founding Empress 乱世逃亡后，我成了开国女帝 Nan Wanxu南婉徐Ancient Romance4.1M WordsCompleted [Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. The 95.8kReads9.4Score13.2kShelves

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    I've watched them all, they're super good!

41. 291 快 Quick Transmigration: The Universally Disliked Fight to Become the No. 1 Fan Favorite 快穿：万人嫌争做人气角色No1 Han yuu寒yuuAncient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted After Shi Wuqing died, someone claiming to be a System found her. If she collected enough “popularity points,” she could come back to life. Shi Wuqing agreed. Then she was sent into various novels, where she became the cannon-fodder character readers hated most. Her mission was to become the character readers loved most, with the highest popularity, by the end of each novel! World One: Shi Wuqing became the scheming younger sister who took the heroine's place and married the prince. At the begi 42.7kReads9.5Score5.1kShelves
42. 292 暴 The Tyrant Tormented Me? I'll Turn Around, Seduce the Powerful Eunuch, and Seize His Empire 暴君虐我？转身勾搭权宦夺他江山 Green Mountain Has Its Say青山有辞Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted For eight years in the palace, Xiangjun fought to get ahead and tried to please everyone, yet the palace’s noble masters still ground her down, used her, humiliated her, and cast her aside... Those nobles basked in all the wealth of the realm atop heaps of corpses and bones, yet mocked her for trying her hardest and not knowing her place. In the end, the child Xiangjun risked her life to bear called her enemy “Mother,” while Xiangjun was cut open alive so the baby could be taken from her. She di 115.2kReads9.6Score16.6kShelves

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    Xiangjun, a big woman!

43. 293 搞 A Collection of Humorous Parables 搞笑寓意选集 User26182811用户26182811Urban2.1M WordsCompleted The Workplace Absurdist Comedy Collection is an unprecedented modern fable project. Through 500 independent stories, it plans to build a panoramic literary palace of humor and wit. The book breaks through traditional genre boundaries, weaving philosophical insight into laughter and revealing the truth through absurdity. The collection introduces a unique “double-helix story” structure. Each installment first unfolds as a highly dramatic absurd tale, from an office printer that gains sentience to 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    When even the gods start to compete – Why I'm so enthusiastic about recommending "A Collection of Humorous Allegories"? I. An afternoon that made me laugh until I cried and then fell into deep thought. That afternoon, I just wanted to find something to kill time. I ended up reading three stories in one go, laughing so hard I was pounding the table, and then standing there in a daze for a long time. The first story was about the Nian monster becoming a social media influencer. Can you imagine? The legendary Nian monster, who was said to be "afraid of red, afraid of fire, afraid of loud noises," stood on an empty village road one day, waiting all night for someone to come and drive him away. Because—fireworks were banned in the village, and the couplets were changed to electronic ones. Three thousand years of frightening business, gone overnight. I watched the Nian monster squatting at the village entrance, being mistaken for "someone who escaped from some village" by an old man getting up in the middle of the night, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud. But as I laughed, my nose started to sting. Later, he transitioned to becoming a short video blogger, talking about Spring Festival customs, and his followers grew to ten million. Some people questioned whether he was an expert and whether his explanations were professional. He posted a video at 3 a. M., Saying: "I'm not an expert, but I've been in this industry for three thousand years. Three thousand years ago, you lit bonfires at the village entrance, and we hid in the mountains to watch. Over the past three thousand years, your customs have changed, and our fears have changed too. But one thing hasn't changed—the New Year is still the most important ritual in your hearts." The top comment under that video was: "He's the Nian monster." I don't know why, but seeing those four words brought tears to my eyes. II. When the Kitchen God Starts Writing Rectification Reports. The second part is the Kitchen God's performance evaluation. Heaven is reforming. The Kitchen Gods can no longer just squat on the stove and watch the human world's cooking, then report back to Heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Now they have to submit quarterly reports, fill out KPIs, and write rectification reports. Household visit rate, awareness rate, completeness rate of good and evil records, timely reporting rate of violations… To meet his targets, an old Kitchen God started secretly sending people to argue in his dreams—so he would have "material" to report. Three points are deducted for each argument between husband and wife, two points for wasting food, and ten points for hiding money... He watched as the family remained silent for three days, the child hiding in the house in fear, and the fire in the stove not burning as brightly as before. Yet, his reports did look better. Reading this, I couldn't laugh anymore. Isn't this just like us? To meet KPIs, to avoid being eliminated at the bottom, how many times have we "sent dreams to make people argue"? We know it's unreasonable, we know what harm it will cause, but we still do it. Because the system is there, the targets are there, and if we don't do it, we'll be the ones eliminated. Later, the Jade Emperor judged the Kitchen God and said something that I still remember: "Your duty is not to supervise, not to score, not to deliver messages. Your duty is to protect this home, to protect this family, to protect this hearth fire." I copied this sentence into my notebook. Part Three: Big Data Can't Calculate Heart-Fluttering Moments. The third part is about the Matchmaker using big data. Heaven introduced a "big data matching system" that can match 10,000 couples per second. The Matchmaker's seven thousand years of manually tying the red thread has been replaced by a computer. Three months after the system went online, the divorce rate in the mortal world skyrocketed by 300%. It wasn't that the system was inaccurate; on the contrary, it was too accurate. It matched people with similar conditions, compatible personalities, and shared interests, but after marriage, these people discovered—"suitable" doesn't equal "loving." One girl complained that the boy matched by the system was a mama's boy who kept calling his mother to ask what she should eat before they met. The information office replied: "Upon verification, the boy's 'family value index' is indeed high, but the system judges him as a 'high-quality family-oriented man,' and the matching result is valid." Another boy complained that the girl matched by the system had violent tendencies and constantly said, "Men should listen to women." The reply was: "Upon verification, the girl's 'feminine strength index' meets the system's standards, and the matching result is valid." Looking at these "valid matches," I felt a chill run down my spine. Isn't this the "distortion of matchmaking" we are experiencing? We look at conditions, income, property, and education, turning marriage into a data-driven matching process, forgetting to ask ourselves: Am I happy with this person? Do I want to talk to him? Am I willing to argue with him and then make up? The Old Man of the Moon concluded with the words, "The best marriages are never 'matched,' but 'harmoniously' built." I thought of my grandparents, who argued their whole lives, yet remained harmonious for eighty years. If big data were to calculate their marriage, it would probably fail. Yet, they lived a lifetime together. IV. Why You Must Read This Series: After reading the three stories, I discovered a common thread: they all use the most absurd settings to depict the most realistic aspects of life. The story of the Nian Beast is about the clash between tradition and modernity. We always say the festive atmosphere of the New Year has faded, but what exactly is it? Is it firecrackers, couplets, staying up late on New Year's Eve, or the sentiment of "being willing to do something specific with specific people at this specific time"? The story of the Kitchen God is about the struggle between systems and human nature. We complain about KPIs, but aren't we ourselves distorted by them? How many times have we created problems to meet targets, or compromised our original intentions to avoid being eliminated? The story of the Old Man of the Moon is about the contest between algorithms and emotions. Big data can calculate "suitable," but not "heart-fluttering"; it can recommend the "optimal solution," but not "I'm willing." This book series is called *A Collection of Humorous Allegories*, a title that sounds like a collection of jokes to be casually flipped through. But it's actually a mirror—using the absurdity of the gods to reflect our own daily lives. It makes you laugh because the scenarios are genuinely hilarious—the Nian monster making short videos, the Kitchen God writing a rectification report, the Matchmaker using big data matching—each one is so absurd it's impossible not to laugh. It makes you pause because, while laughing, you suddenly realize—isn't this me? Isn't this our company? Isn't this this era? It makes you think because the story ends, but the reflection has just begun. About tradition, about the workplace, about love, about everything we are experiencing. V. Some sentences that have stuck with me: "For three thousand years, the relationship between us and humans has never been a simple one of 'driving and being driven.' We are each other's mirrors, each other's references, and the indispensable other half of this festival." (From "The Nian Beast's Self-Media") "The significance of the Kitchen God's existence has never been to report to the Jade Emperor, but to let people know—there are gods three feet above your head, and you should act with conscience. Similarly, KPIs in the workplace, if they deviate from the fundamental principle of 'making people's lives better,' will become shackles that bind us." (From "The Kitchen God's Performance Appraisal") "Big data can calculate whether two people's conditions are comparable, but it cannot calculate whether two people are willing to make sacrifices for each other. It can match the most suitable people together, but if these two people are unwilling to work together, even if they are perfectly suited, it's useless." (From "The Matchmaker Uses Big Data") "What is truly important is often impossible to quantify; truly warm relationships never need to be assessed." (From "The Kitchen God's Performance Appraisal") VI. To be honest, I haven't read a story like this in a long time. These books aren't like those motivational platitudes that "teach you how to be a person," nor are they like those realistic pronouncements that "make you anxious." They offer a divine perspective, allowing us to rediscover ourselves—to see ourselves struggling to adapt to the tides of time, to see ourselves struggling under the pressure of KPIs, to see ourselves searching for authenticity amidst algorithmic recommendations. If you've been feeling a bit tired, a bit lost, a bit unsure of where to go—try reading this series. Let the mythical beast Nian make you laugh, let the Kitchen God make you sigh, let the Matchmaker God keep you company while you daydream. Then, amidst the laughter and sighs, rediscover the self that hasn't been alienated. I'm serious, go read them. You'll thank me.

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