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1. 1 寒 The Imperial Exam Routine of a Poor Butcher's Son 寒门屠户之子的科举日常 Diki DaddyDiki粑粑Historical3.3M WordsOngoing 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 204.7kReads8.9Score27.6kShelves

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   It's well written, the protagonist is a man with a science degree, and the characters are all well-rounded

2. 2 我 I Just Chopped Down a Tree, So How Did It Become World-Ending? 我就砍个树，怎么灭世级了 Hall Yuzi殿堂郁子Urban1.7M WordsOngoing To earn tuition, medical, and living expenses for her two younger sisters, Lin Xia has done every kind of job imaginable. Hauling corpses at a crematorium, spending the night in haunted houses, retrieving bodies from the Yellow River... This time, for a monthly salary of thirty thousand, he came to the Great Forest Company to work as a lumberjack, venturing deep into the mountains alone to cut trees. There was just something strange about this place. Tree species he had never seen before, beasts 52.7kReads8.4Score4.3kShelves
3. 3 每 Daily Settlement: From My Neighborhood, I Rule the Universe! 每日结算：从小区开始统领宇宙！ Delicious Burger King美味汉堡皇Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.8M WordsOngoing The ratings just came in, and the low score is because this is a new book. The author is posting like crazy, so don't let it scare you off~~ [Apocalypse] [Transmigrate with an entire residential complex] [Farming and developing] [Survival and evolution] [Daily settlement] I woke up from a nap and everything had gone mad! The entire residential complex was forcibly transmigrated into an extreme environment. Every household got a construction panel, and every day brought a survival score. Even mor 87kReads6.9Score9kShelves

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   Okay, good-looking, not Holy Mother

4. 4 全 Surviving the Misty Apocalypse, I Build a Home with Eldritch Flesh 全民迷雾求生，我用邪神血肉建家 Half an Acre of Sunshine半顷阳光Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.0M WordsOngoing [Flesh and Bone + Apocalypse + Lovecraftian Survival + Civilization Graveyard + Mass Transmigration + No Romance] When mist shrouded the world and monsters howled outside their windows, all the players huddled and trembled inside their dilapidated shelters. But Bai Yi was teleported onto the face of the Great Being known as the “Lord of Flesh,” where he witnessed a horrific feast as an even more terrifying being devoured a planet of flesh. The fragments of flesh and bone that splattered from th 137.3kReads9.1Score11.6kShelves
5. 5 黑 Dark Survival: After Losing My Shelter, I Taught Myself to Become a God 黑暗求生：丢失庇护所后自学成神 So Happy to Be Out Selling出来卖好开心啊Sports2.0M WordsOngoing [Everyone Transmigrates] [Dungeons] [Unconventional Survival] [A Bounty of Cheats] [No Female Lead] [Nonlinear Stats] [Infinite Worlds] The whole world transmigrates to a land of darkness, and all people plunge into an endless abyss. Growth comes with madness, and power comes with risk. A thousandfold boost, information prompts, daily draws, offense and defense in one, luck, master of contracts, negative values, immortality, Deep Blue, daily settlement, temporal synchronization, mind over matt 136.5kReads8.5Score12.1kShelves
6. 6 以 Entering the World Through Demonic Cultivation 1 以魔入世1 Hello, My Name Is Long Yun你好我叫龙允Eastern Fantasy168k WordsCompleted 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! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I think these books are quite good.

7. 7 葬 Lord of the God-Burial Abyss 葬神渊之主 Hello, My Name Is Long Yun你好我叫龙允Eastern Fantasy527k WordsOngoing Lin Feng, an archaeology student, unexpectedly transmigrates to the cultivation world, where he becomes a cripple whose Spirit Root has been completely destroyed and suffers endless humiliation. A mysterious piece of ancient jade that can devour the energy of all things becomes the beginning of his defiance of fate. As he roams the world in the guise of a carefree playboy, Su Jiuli, a fox immortal from Qingqiu, emerges from the God-Burying Abyss and reveals that the ancient jade is connected to —Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 烬 Ashen Bones, Corrupting Power Through Nine Heavens 烬骨权蚀九重 Hello, My Name Is Long Yun你好我叫龙允Historical689k WordsOngoing Long Yun was the son of a general stationed along the northern frontier. After distinguishing himself in battle, he was specially promoted and sent to the capital. But when the new emperor ascended the throne, Long Yun was falsely accused of colluding with the enemy. His entire family was executed, and only he managed to escape. He spent three years surviving in death row, clinging to life with his last breath and a tattered military treatise. Eventually, he made his way to the Jianghu's secreti —Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 龙 The Dragon Abyss Emerges from Its Case 龙渊出匣 Hello, My Name Is Long Yun你好我叫龙允9k WordsCompleted The Dragon Abyss Emerges from Its Case —Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 10 末 The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临？我先降临！ Noodle King Zai板面王仔Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.8M WordsCompleted [The print edition of I'm a Supplier of Survival Plans for the End Times is now available on major platforms] [Character growth · Multi-theme stages · Ensemble cast · Occasional brutal takedowns · No cookie-cutter plot · No mindless wish fulfillment] After facing repeated layoffs and betrayals, Su Jin was at the lowest point of his life when he was accidentally hired by a mysterious company. Countless worlds are on the brink of destruction. Only by saving their clients can the sparks of civiliza 504.6kReads9.2Score52.7kShelves

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    I also recommend you to read these books. They are all very good and very beautiful.

11. 11 大 First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 610.2kReads9.5Score57.7kShelves
12. 12 公 Highway Survival: Why Is the Boss Inspecting Monster Supplies? 公路求生：大佬咋在验收怪物物资 Icebreaking Sledgehammer破冰大锤子Sports1.6M WordsCompleted [Road Survival raft + Infinite Dungeon Progression + Stockpiling] [Not an ensemble story, with a lone-wolf focus. Team battles only begin much later, after around chapter 450. Not a war-between-nations story, and not a rebirth story.] The early chapters borrow general elements from road-survival stories, such as vehicles, professions, and service stations. The story gradually opens up around chapter 100, combining an infinite-dungeon format with a road-survival setting. Current dungeons include 101.1kReads9.2Score10.6kShelves
13. 13 倒 90-Day Countdown: China Enters First-Level Combat Readiness 倒计时90天：华夏进入一级战备 A Salted Fish Swaying in the Wind风中摇摆的咸鱼Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.3M WordsOngoing #Ensemble Cast #Reborn in the Apocalypse #Nationwide Mobilization #Hardcore Military Industry #Everyone Transmigrates #Rise of a Great Power "If the apocalypse were imminent, Dongguo would deliver the most stirring answer!" At a single order from the nation, Huaxia immediately activated its highest-level state of combat readiness! We would not sit back and wait for the gods to save us, nor pin our hopes on aid from other countries. Billions of people united as one, building a nationwide line of 56.2kReads9.2Score3.9kShelves
14. 14 我 I Was Banned for Life, Not Retired 我只是被终身禁赛了，不是退役了 Yellow Springs Falcon黄泉隼Sports3.5M WordsOngoing [No System] [Competition] [High-Octane] [The King Returns] [Nontraditional Sports] [Not Esports] [Ensemble Cast] [Not Mindless] He was once the “Magician,” unbeatable on the field. A three-time world champion, he was permanently banned after a match-fixing scandal, reduced to a “banned competitor” burdened by crushing debts and a dark secret. To protect his family, he buried his glory and his blade alike. He bowed to life in a dilapidated tuning shop, building high walls of money and indifferenc 36.5kReads9.4Score3.2kShelves
15. 15 废 In the Ruined City, There Are Escort Guards 废城，有镖人 Birds Fly, Fish Swim鸟飞鱼Urban1.1M WordsOngoing [Cyberpunk × Cthulhu Mythos × apocalypse × sequences × wasteland × civilization reborn] He was just a tourist who wandered into the ruins of District 404. With nothing but a “Shark Bandit” business card, he survives among the scum and becomes a walking glitch. But this is only the beginning of his sequence mutation. [Tourist] → [Shark Bandit] → [Night Patrol Shark Guard] → [Mourning Shark Commander] → [Venom Shark Overseer] → [Ghost Shark] → [First Emperor Dragon Shark] → ?? He rises through the 10kReads8.8Score681Shelves
16. 16 提 I Raise My Employees' Salaries, and You Say I'm Disrupting the Market! 提升员工工资，你说我扰乱市场！ Dong Fenghu东风胡Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [The short drama is now online: I raised my employees' wages, and you say I'm disrupting the market] [Business growth, globalization, cross-industry expansion, coming-of-age story] How do you rate the youngest person ever to become the world's richest man on the Forbes list? Economic Times: “The whole world is working for Song Jiang!” Peace Master: “Thank you, Song Jiang, for your contributions to peace. The world has never been more peaceful!” America: “Damn it! China is so despicable! He's usi 58.6kReads9.1Score4kShelves

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