Looking for Novels with an Esoteric Female Lead, or Any Kind of Cultivation Story 🉑 求玄学女主文，修仙文各类型的都🉑
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The Reborn Senior Sister Doesn’t Want to Work Hard 重生大师姐不想努力了
As the sect’s senior disciple, Song Wu had always worked diligently, trained hard, and taught her fellow disciples, all to protect the sect’s reputation. But her fiancé thought she wasn’t gentle or considerate enough. Her fellow disciples called her rigid, strict, and lacking in compassion. Even her master, the sect leader, advised her to be more generous and kind. Heartbroken, Song Wu forced a breakthrough and lost her life. She never expected to be reborn at a time before she had even become t
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What?! The Beloved Little Junior Sister Is the Strongest in All Nine Provinces! 惊！团宠小师妹竟是九州最强者！
(Complete; no romance, invincible protagonist, hilarious, face-slapping, pure feel-good fun) The moment Qing Jiujiu transmigrated, she was bound to an Invincibility System! By accident, she crawled into her master's bed and fell fast asleep. Master: ??? The whole sect was in an uproar! The senior brother, second senior brother, third senior brother, fourth senior brother... all 108 senior brothers were stunned! Of all the beds the junior sister could sleep in, she had to choose her master's! The
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After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰
[Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo
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The Tragic-Romance Heroine Is Obsessed with Cultivation 虐文女主沉迷修仙
No romance, strong female lead, and the heroine stays single, single, single. The heroine works hard at cultivation, plays it safe in the early stages, and stays focused on herself. She’s a genius who grows stronger over time. She’s neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and does as she pleases. The System is only useful for transmitting the plot and little else. Tragic-romance scenario one: She becomes the stand-in for a wealthy young master’s true love. The heroine: “I’m going to cultivate immor
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Claiming a Father from the Start! The Cultivation Villainess Doesn't Suffer for Even a Second 开局认爹！修真女配一秒都不被虐
From the start, Meng Jiaojiao is being abused, so the moment she transmigrates into a book, she reveals who she is: “Dad, help! I'm your daughter!” The First Sect's leader immediately panics and protects his daughter, while her five villainous senior brothers rush to defend their little sister! The Xuanjian Sect, which punishes criminals, is dumbfounded. How did this orphaned criminal suddenly become the First Sect's beloved treasure? They're in deep trouble now! After claiming her father on
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The Reborn Supporting Lady at Five and a Half 重生女配五岁半
[Fantasy + Past and Present Lives + Spatial Artifact + Supporting Female Character + Sword Cultivator + No Romance] In her previous life, A Xue was weak and helpless. Her dantian was destroyed, and she died a miserable death in a secret realm. She was reborn at just over five years old, on the eve of Xuantian Sect's disciple recruitment. There was still time to change everything. In this life, A Xue dumped the scumbag, trampled the heroine from her previous life, took her spatial artifact, and s
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Transmigrated Into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than Me 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张
[Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste
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Power Over the World, Sword in Hand Beneath the Heavens 权倾天下，剑挽天华
Also known as: I Pay, You Risk Your Life, and We Both Go Crazy; The Ultimate Scapegoat; Power Over All, Sword to the Heavens Someone has set a trap to make everyone turn against me. "It's fine. I have a System..." Luo Yinyou comforted herself. "Even if the System is a total troll!" The world order had changed drastically, and the flow of destiny had been redistributed. Countless geniuses emerged, but the most dazzling of them all was the young lord Ye Ci of Dragon Island, hailed as the greatest
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An Ordinary Female Sword Cultivator, the First to Ascend to the Immortal Realm 普普通通女剑修，飞升仙界第一人
Transmigrating into a book + System + comedy and domination! + no CP + a touch of everyone-falls-for-the-heroine! Take the path of the Dragon-Aotian protagonist and leave him with nowhere to go! Lan Zhezhi, who transmigrated into a book from modern society, became Lan Qi, a girl who tended cattle in Shen Family Village in the mortal realm. Having read Immortal Dao Venerable, she knew she was just a cannon-fodder village girl who would take a blade for the male lead, Shen Hanye. Lan Zhezhi knew s
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Look! The Princess Born Frail Has Become a God 看！先天不足的公主殿下她成神了
[Strong heroine, no romance, decisive and ruthless, no melodrama, fast-paced plot. Come give it a try! ♥] She was a star from the heavens, born with nine-tenths of an ominous aura. Yet she was born into privilege, loved by her parents and master, adored by her people, and supported by close friends. “Little girl, if one day, and of course, this is just a hypothetical, someone calls you a harbinger of disaster, an evil spirit, a calamity for the continent, and everyone rises up against you, wha
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My Little Martial Uncle Really Doesn't Push Herself. She Just Wants to Kill the Female Lead 小师叔真不卷，她只想杀女主而已
[Ensemble cast] [People say the blurb did this book a disservice. I'm no good at writing blurbs, so just read the story.] Reincarnated as a doomed female supporting character destined for a gruesome death? No problem. Kill the heroine from the start, wreck the plot, and reset everything. This time, I'm the heroine. The original heroine was a pitiful girl born to a concubine. She had a lowly start but a powerful protagonist's aura. No matter what danger she faced, she always escaped disaster, ros
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The Dark and Dashing Senior Sister Has the Cultivation World Going Crazy 阴暗师姐她超帅，修真界全疯了
[Publication pending] [No romance + ensemble cast + strong female lead + sect life + everyone’s a little crazy] [The main cast are unhinged and shameless. The heroine is fiercely independent, loyal, and more than a little mad] Xie Qing transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder supporting character and finds herself struggling to survive in a sect full of slackers. Who wants to pick a fight with the heroine? Xie Qing will set the whole cultivation world straight. She encourages her world-weary
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Cold, Untouchable Moonlight? No! I'm the Villain Chosen by Fate 清冷白月光？不！我是天命大反派
[System-driven + villainess protagonist + egoist + top prodigy + near-invincible power fantasy + no romance (no male consorts)] After transmigrating, Nan Xian becomes a fake prodigy used by a top family to save face. She is about to fight the real prodigy. Should she just wait to die? No rush, the System is here to help. [Ding! The Ultimate Villain System is at your service.] [Humiliate your arrogant fiancé and get a divine beast mount as a reward.] Nan Xian: Kill him. Her younger siblings are d
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A Hundred Years in the Forbidden Zone! She Can No Longer Hide Her Strength 禁地百年！她的实力藏不住了
[No CP (no male lead) + Extremely powerful heroine + Power fantasy + System is support only + Ferocious fighter + Decisive and ruthless + Nontraditional cultivation + Some flaws, readers with high standards beware + A little logic, but not much] A genius girl was deceived by a scumbag, who stole her heart and her mutated Ice Spiritual Root. She died young, and Ning Zhi, a soul from another world with the same name, gained control of her body. With the System descending from the heavens, a new er
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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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Wife, Are You Human or Ghost? 娘子你到底是人是鬼？
[Neither ghost nor god, neither human nor demon + no romance + a girl squad + no love stories, just monster-hunting] A delicate young lady and a little maid travel through mountains and rivers. The half-human, half-ghost lady loves to eat ghosts. Her golden, one-eyed gaze sees through spirits and monsters, while her maid is a skilled ghost cook who takes meticulous care of her. The lady wanders the mortal world in search of the missing half-inch of her heart. Without it, she cannot be human. Wh
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Back in the Capital, the Brilliant Miss Is Famous Across the Land 回京后，神算大小姐名满天下
[No romance + metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying read + secret identity + ghost-catching + lighthearted, no angst~] Yun Zhuo of the Xiao family was abandoned as a child. When her relatives come looking for her, she decisively returns to the capital to become a thorn in their side. Her birth mother says she’s uncouth and illiterate? But in the blink of an eye, she’s welcomed into the capital’s circle of master scholars, discussing poetry and prose and interpreting the fate of the world. T
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Shocking! The Metaphysics Master Can Hear People's Thoughts 震惊！玄学大佬被读心了
[Mysticism + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + mind-reading + lighthearted] After graduating with a law degree, Xia Wange, heir to a Daoist sect, sees a wheelchair shimmering with purple energy at a car crash site. Born unable to gather energy, she can’t bring herself to leave the wheelchair alone. [I’ll carry this wheelchair off and borrow the energy on it to draw talismans. Then I’ll be the undisputed goddess of the supernatural world!] Lu Qiu, the CEO still trapped in the wreckage, inexpli
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: The Female Ghost Is Anxious About Her Looks 直播算命：女鬼她容貌焦虑了
Also known as: Live Fortune-Telling: Your Dad’s Been Running Around Naked Down There for Three Years [No romance, livestreaming, fortune-telling, episodic stories] Lin Qingwan transmigrates into a book while attending a metaphysics lecture and reading a tearjerker. She becomes the poor, lovesick heroine who loses a kidney, a leg, and her sight, goes bald, yet stubbornly survives to get a happy ending with the male lead. After waking up to find her home completely bare, Lin Qingwan returns to her
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: Bouncing Around in the Gossip Fields Every Day! 直播算命：天天在瓜田里蹦跶！
[No romance + episodic stories + the supernatural + livestreaming + transmigrate into a book + fortune-telling, face-reading, and ghost-catching] The moment Meng Sheng opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a book and taken the place of a cannon-fodder character with the same name. But what greeted her was a suitcase drifting down the river, wrapped in layer upon layer of shackles, with a ghost floating above it... Meng Sheng: “Same old rhythm, same old feeling! Even the ghosts look quite a
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The Mystic Girl Says You’ll Die at Three in the Morning. Pay Up to Change Your Fate 玄学少女说你三更死，打钱改命
[Metaphysics + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + satisfying read + lighthearted + sweet romance + CEO + wealthy family + no angst] After enduring a tribulation, Wu Yin is struck by lightning and sent back to the twenty-first century. With no money to her name, she can only set up a fortune-telling stall online. She tells fortunes, catches ghosts, and treats illnesses. If you can pay, she’ll take the job. “Master, if you’re really any good, tell me where my daughter, who was kidnapped years ago,
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Call Me a Fake Heiress If You Want, I'm Born Lucky as a Koi 管你真假千金，我天生锦鲤好命
[Everyone's Favorite + Fake and Real Heiress + Secret Identity + Childhood Friends + Satisfying + Admiring the Strong + No Angst, Extra Sweet] After living for seventeen years as the Tang family's heiress, Meng Wan very sensibly left with a million yuan when the real heiress showed up. Her family was simply too poor? No problem, she happened to have a teeny-tiny bit of social connections~ Her parents were unemployed layabouts? Her younger brother with autism was an artistic genius? Her second br
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The Pampered Life of a Spoiled Commandery Princess 纨绔郡主得宠日常
Signed for publication. The print edition is expected to be available by the end of the year. No! This! Is! Not! A! Romance! No CP! No rebirth, no transmigration, a thoroughly evil heroine, a power-struggle story A truly wicked heroine, vying for power over the realm, genuinely unhinged, ruthless, and rotten to the core Questions that come up while reading can only be answered by reading on. The willful, overbearing young princess of the Prince of Zhenbei’s household takes a fancy to Pei Jinnian
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How Could Anyone Resist Her? 怎敌她动人
[Physical book goes on sale September 19 at 7:30 p.m.] [Reborn in school + healing + secret crush from the male lead + both leads have no past relationships, happy ending] Bright, charming sweetheart x obsessive, restrained man * In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Jiqing was refined and aloof, a dazzling new elite from a wealthy family and a self-made miracle who had risen from poverty. Su Xia was unbelievably lucky to marry him at her most desperate. Only Su Xia knew that Xu Jiqing was a madman. She
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The Joys of Life 人间欢喜
A young couple’s bittersweet romance, sweet moments amid the angst, with an adorable kid to play matchmaker! They had no choice but to break up five years ago, then miraculously reunited five years later. When a sweet, gentle lamb of a woman meets a cunning, calculating fox of a man, every reunion after a long separation has been planned all along. On the day she married him, she curled up in his arms and sobbed. On the day he divorced her, they raised their glasses and wished each other well. W
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The Metaphysics Master Shakes the World After Coming Down from the Mountain 玄学大佬下山后轰动全世界
[Mysticism + satisfying read + sweet romance] Everyone in the industry says the newly reunited eldest daughter of the Su family is a menace. One sentence from her can break up a marriage, shatter a family, drive someone into bankruptcy, or land them in jail, so people steer clear of her. What’s more, she has opened a Taoist temple and does fortune-telling, face-reading, feng shui, sells talismans, and catches ghosts. She’s done every sort of scam imaginable! Later, word gets around that the elde
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After Reaching Max Level, the Metaphysics Master Enters the World and Cheats Her Way to Exorcise Ghosts 满级后，玄学大佬入世开挂虐鬼
After mastering her cultivation, Ran Yun Zhao descended the mountain, crushed vengeful ghosts, and told fortunes, answering people's questions and dispelling their troubles. Seeker 1: Help! My husband suddenly became a cross-dressing pervert and wants to castrate himself. Seeker 2: My dead secretary is haunting me. She insists I killed her, but I'm innocent! Seeker 3: I'm eighteen, but I suddenly turned gray-haired and my whole body is covered in wrinkles. A computer that turns itself on in the
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Shocking! The Fake Heiress Is Actually a Metaphysics Ancestor! 惊！假千金竟然是玄学老祖！
[Supernatural exorcism + sweet romance + marriage before love + devoted couple] (Main story and bonus chapters complete) Tan Lingyin, an ancient grandmaster of the mystic arts, wakes up to find herself in the body of a pitiful girl loved by neither her father nor her mother. When the real daughter returns, her adoptive parents throw her out into the rain. Everyone expects her to become a laughingstock, but she becomes Nancheng's top scorer in the college entrance exam. Her adoptive parents try t
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The Beloved of a Wealthy Family, the Metaphysics Master Rises to Power in High Society 豪门团宠，玄学大佬在上流圈杀疯
The rating just came out. It'll slowly go up! [Occult powers + feel-good wish fulfillment + strong heroine + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + pampered by everyone + no romance] [Main plotline + episodic stories] There's a new piece of gossip among Xincheng's elite: the Shen family's long-lost youngest daughter has been found. As soon as she returned, she severed her eldest brother's romantic ties, tormented her younger brother until he was skin and bones, and even dared to hit her own grandmoth
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
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One Man Destroyed My Spiritual Root, So I Summoned the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to Beat Him Up 一人毁我灵根，我摇四海八荒群殴
[Goofy strong female lead + hilarious feel-good power fantasy] Qin Qian Ning transmigrates into a book! She becomes the miserable female supporting character in a story where everyone dotes on the heroine. The heroine is the chosen one, who finds rare spirit herbs just by walking around and wins without lifting a finger. Meanwhile, Qin Qian Ning studies and trains hard, only to get struck by lightning on her way to the bathroom, and eventually beaten to death by her senior brothers. What a sucke
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After I Led My Sect to Ascension, the Tragic Romance Hero Went Mad 我带宗门飞升后，虐文男主他疯了
[Everyone’s favorite + two strong leads + the hero’s agonizing pursuit of his wife + no forgiveness] Gu Xi transmigrates into the heroine of a tragic romance novel. In the story, the heroine is born into a noble family, yet she is hopelessly lovestruck, with her whole heart and mind devoted to the hero. The hero hurts and misunderstands her, treating her family with the kind of cruelty that tears them apart down to the eighteenth generation, yet she still loves him as deeply as ever. In the end
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Everyone in the Sect Is Crazy, So I Max Out My Luck Instead 满门皆疯批，小师妹反手气运拉满
[Everyone's Darling + Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + No Love Rivals + System] After Yun Yici transmigrates into a book, she's bound to a damnable fortune System. By earning the favor of those destined for great things, she can exchange their affection for fortune points and unlock draws. But after finally joining the sect at the heart of the story, she discovers that she's arrived two hundred years before the plot begins. Fortunately, her ethereal yet unreliable master has impossibly high standa
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The Little Junior Sister Saves the Cultivation World Through Dreaming 小师妹她靠做梦拯救修真界
[Just received its rating] A heroine who grows over time + all male love interests are devoted only to her Jiang Yu swore she'd never read another brainless novel! After suddenly entering a dream, she finds herself in a story about Yaoling, the heaven-blessed heroine, and Yanian, the domineering, wicked fallen god. Bound by lies, the two are irresistibly drawn to each other, chasing and yearning until they can't resist their feelings, creating a lovely tale of a sweet innocent girl saving a poss
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