Urban High-Martial Arts Novels Recommended by a 6,000-Hour Bookworm 都市高武6000小时书虫推荐
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Isn't He an Evil God? Why Did Seeing Me Drive Him Mad? 祂不是邪神吗？见我怎么疯了？
"A Must-Read in 2026" [Eerie Revival]+ [Revenge before the day is out]+ [Saintly do-gooders must die]+ [The protagonist is crazy, not stupid]+ [No female lead]+ [This is actually a food story] The red moon rises, and the eerie returns. After transmigrating to a world where the eerie has returned and evil spirits roam the earth, Ye Kui opens his eyes to see himself being devoured by monsters! But if monsters can eat people, there’s no reason people can’t eat monsters! After three years of plottin
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A Prodigy? A Monster? No, a Hardcore Grinder 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝
[The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H
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My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[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
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The Ancestor Is Forced to Work Off His Debt 老祖被迫营业还债中
I, the sect patriarch who had slept for ten thousand years, was awakened by my unworthy descendants using a secret bloodline art, all so that I, the sect's "legal representative," could inherit the... nine hundred billion in debt under the sect's name! The creditors include banks, venture capital firms, and the descendants of several enemies I casually beat up back in the day, who have since become business tycoons.
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The Yin-Yang Chaos Art: Reversing Possession 阴阳混沌决之反夺舍
Zhang Hao was an ordinary person from an ordinary world, but by chance he obtained the mysterious legacy of the Yin-Yang Immortal Emperor and embarked on a wondrous, extraordinary path of cultivation. Using the secret arts from the legacy, he displayed abilities beyond the ordinary. The sea churned with mighty waves, yet he stood atop the tide and absorbed the immense power carried in their crashing waters. Typhoons howled and ravaged the land, but he stood within them and turned their power of
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The Not-So-Cold Magician 不太冷的魔术师
[Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a
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Lying in a Coffin, I Somehow Hacked the Evil God’s Dream 人在棺材躺，我竟黑了邪神梦境
A sunlit beach, a lover returned from the dead, a wedding three years overdue... Lin Yuan jolted awake from a perfect world, only to find himself lying in a cold coffin reeking of decay. A writhing tendril of flesh was embedded in the back of his head. Above him stretched an endless crimson dome, while millions of others like him floated all around. Their faces wore crazed smiles as, inside their false dreams, an evil god called the Black Mountain Lady drained their souls, one mouthful at a time
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Who Taught You to Be a Brother Like That? 谁教你这么当兄弟的
[The print edition is now available under the title Planetary Effect] Chen Zhijuan is the top orthopedic surgeon at Beicheng People's Hospital, usually cold and taciturn. Dr. Chen is strikingly handsome. His white coat only adds to his restrained, chaste air, and he's tall and elegant. The girls who pursue him could circle the hospital three times. Unfortunately, his heart belongs to someone else. He's been secretly in love with his good friend for nearly ten years. That friend is straight as an
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Zombies Descend on the World, and I Awaken the Celestial Master Sequence? 全球僵尸降临，我觉醒天师序列？
The apocalypse arrives + the Celestial Master Sequence + a savior + lightning techniques striking everywhere Forty years ago, a mysterious fog invaded Earth, and the whole world was overrun by zombies! At the same time, people with supernatural abilities began awakening one after another! Golden Light Spell, Yang Five Thunder, Spirit Commanding... Lin Chen, who transmigrated here, looked at the unfamiliar “Celestial Master” pathway and resolutely chose this unknown sequence: the Celestial Master
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In the Name of Fate 以命运之名
The God of War’s spear is already at humanity’s throat. The God of Secrets is peering into the world’s mysteries. The God of Judgment seeks to weigh the world. The God of Prophecy wants to change the future. The body of the God of Redemption is rotting. The God of Reincarnation seeks to transcend the cycle. The God of Life is sculpting his perfect creation. Xu Yuan flicked the Coin of Fate high into the air and explained with a shameless grin: “My ability is mine, and your ability might be mine
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Man and Ghost 人和鬼
Humans and Ghosts
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My Path to the Heavens 我的通天之路
When chaos first began to take shape, spiritual energy filled the world. Across this vast and boundless realm of immortal cultivation, countless cultivators tirelessly sought immortality and the Great Dao. There was a mysterious cultivation art known as the Heaven-Piercing Divine Art. Legend had it that it came from an ancient, mighty cultivator and held power capable of reaching the heavens and shaking the earth. Those who mastered it could shatter the void and attain the supreme rank of Immort
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The Spirit Medium's Hall: Let's See What This Client's Deal Is 出马鬼堂：我看看这缘主怎么个事
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
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The Seven Kings Reunite, and Judgment Descends 七王重聚，审判降临
[Decisive and ruthless + high martial arts + comedy + King of Slaughter + plot-driven power fantasy] Distant bells toll! The horns of war spiral through the air! Eagles survey the earth! Vultures feast on all living things! The Sword of Judgment hangs high! An ancient king descends! Slaughter! The prologue to an absurd apocalypse! Slaughter! The finale of a false golden age! At the end of the last century, the vast and devastating War of the Gods, sparked by the Radiant Army and the Eternal Nigh
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The Ninth Empire 第九帝国
[Alternate Empire + War Among a Hundred Races + Supernatural Powers + Battles Across Different Worlds + Hunter Guilds + Slow-Burn Opening + Ensemble Cast + Both Thrills and Heartbreak] God gave life to all things and created the world. As God lay dying, humanity betrayed the divine, seized greed and wisdom, and founded an empire. The successor inherited the gods' power, swore to destroy the world, and founded the Church. From then on, the Empire and the Church waged war for ten thousand years. T
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Global Superpowers: My Double SSS-Rank Powers Keep Everything in Check! 全球异能，我双SSS镇压一切！
[Unresolved Regrets, No Female Lead!] [Not a Pure Power Fantasy!] [A Strong Sense of Duty to Country and Family!] [Disclaimer: This book may not be for readers who only enjoy pure power fantasies!!!] Three hundred years after supernatural abilities first awakened, rifts in spacetime tore open the heavens and unleashed war. While ability users were still protecting Blue Star civilization with fire and blades, Chen Ang graduated from the academy and shattered everyone's understanding of the world.
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Don’t I Have a Name? You Only Ever Call Me Strategic-Class! 我没名字吗？只知道喊我战略级！
[Superpowers] + [School Life] + [Passionate] + [Defend the Homeland] + [Aloof Protagonist Who Dotes on His Little Sister] In his previous life, Zhong Yuan watched helplessly as his sister fought desperately against monsters, only to meet her tragic end. When he opened his eyes again, a mysterious golden coffin had sent him back four years and given him a special ability: a 100% success rate when absorbing the abilities of other races, with the potential to reach the highest level. Four years ago
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A Short-Lived Forbidden Spell Caster? I Have an Undying Body 禁咒师短命？我拥有不死之身
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
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The Forbidden Immortal Body of the Hehuan Sect, Betrayed by a Thankless Disciple 合欢宗仙禁之体，白眼狼背叛师尊
Su Wu is the fourth disciple of Ye Jianglan, the master of Xuanyin Peak in the Hehuan Sect. Born with an Immortal-Banishing Constitution, he is unable to cultivate. To break through to the Nascent Soul realm, Ye Jianglan enters the Forbidden Ruins of Yin and inhales a large amount of its aura. The profound yin spiritual energy within her spirals out of control, leaving her gravely injured. “Master, I wish to leave Xuanyin Peak and sever our master-disciple relationship. I hope you will grant my
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The Ruyi Ring 如意戒
A ring opens the door to a life of thrilling possibilities. With this ring, the young Yang Qiang Gong can move between two eras. I can help whoever I please, hehe, especially beautiful women, and help them realize their dreams of marrying rich, handsome men. As for the underdogs, I’ll help them too, of course. Rich second-generation kids and officials’ children, though, well, that depends on your character.
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Fired on My First Day Working at a Prison 去监狱上班第一天，被开除了
(Completed) [Coming-of-age heroine + plot-driven + romance + ensemble cast + fantasy adventure + an entirely new world] “I’ve been fired?” Wen Jiu laughs in disbelief. Who’d want to stay in this dump anyway! “I owe more than ten million?” Wen Jiu sighs. What can I do? I’ll just pay it off bit by bit. “You like me?” Wen Jiu shakes her head furiously, her eyes wide with alarm. Wen Jiu is a nobody in this world, but she gradually gets drawn into a massive conspiracy. A young lady driven from her ho
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749 Told You to Turn It In, So Why Did You Tattoo a Weird God Sequence? 749让你上交，你纹诡神序列？
[Decisive and Ruthless] [Freshman Intern at Organization 749] [Supernatural Horror] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Mystic Tattoo Powers] [Tai Sui Fatekeeper] [Gu Wei Nan Ting] [One-Punch Demon Slayer] [Paper Bride] [Sun and Moon Out of Sync] [Passionate Team] "No heroine, no harem! The villains are smart, and no matter how far they run, they will be hunted down!" (About one standalone case every ten chapters, with the overall story tying together in a closed loop. A highly satisfying read with plenty of
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I’ll Own Every Accusation, But Don’t Cry When I Wipe Out Your Whole Clan! 污蔑我全认，灭你全族可别哭！
[Fantasy premise + System + villain + no saintly behavior + ruthless and decisive] Qin Luo transmigrates to another world and becomes the Holy Son of the Taixu Sacred Land, standing trial. His unrequited love, his fiancée, and the protagonist accuse him of being a spy for the Heavenly Demon Sect. Every disciple of the Sacred Land denounces him. “Qin Luo murdered his fellow disciples to cultivate demonic arts, the legendary Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art!” “Qin Luo isn't an orphan. He must have joi
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The Fairy Asked If You’d Done It, and You Made Her Fly 仙子问你开没开，你让仙子飞起来
[Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r
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A Disaster Rocks the Awakening Community: This Person Is Wicked to the Core 觉醒圈传来噩耗：这人邪得发邪
Also known as: [There are good rule-breakers? Don’t make your daddy laugh] [Everyone awakens a profession, and my ability is a yandere loli] [The author has already completed a million-word high-martial-arts novel with one female lead and an antagonist protagonist. Read with confidence.] [One female lead + equally matched leads + pure villain protagonist + evil beyond evil + forgotten roots + thrilling fights + devoted-wife route + all rule-breakers must die] “Ding! The Main God announces
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Star-Picking Alley, Also Known as Stars Among the Fireworks 摘星胡同又名烟火里的星辰
Stars Among the Fireworks [Urban Fantasy] A bloodstained chip is unearthed beneath an old date tree, and that very night, a demolition crew kicks down the door and kidnaps people! Ordinary man Song Mi is trying to protect the century-old tree his great-grandfather planted and rescue his father, who is being hunted. His own older brother, Song Mingyuan, launches a relentless pursuit, and in the face of death, Song Mi awakens plant-based abilities: phoenix tree branches become blades, and weeds t
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Fixing a Pipe Opened a Parallel World 修水管通了平行世界
Synopsis Lin Chen is a laid-back repairman earning 3,000 yuan a month. His icy beauty of a landlady is always chasing him for rent, while rich heirs mock him as “a useless bottom-feeder.” One day, while fixing a water pipe, he unexpectedly binds to the Dimensional Infrastructure System. Repairing pipes brings spiritual stones gushing out, fixing electrical wiring connects him to interstellar energy, and clearing a sewer saves a princess from another world! Playing the pig to eat the tiger, he sw
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Contra: Jungle Infiltration 魂斗罗：丛林渗透
Contra: Jungle Infiltration
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Contra: Starfield Counterattack 魂斗罗：星域反击
Contra: Star Sector Counterattack
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After Raising Kids on Livestream, I Made the Divine Beasts of All Three Realms Rich 直播养崽后，我带三界神兽暴富了
After Livestreaming My Beast-Raising, I Made Divine Beasts from the Three Realms Rich
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Crimson Plumber: The Mushroom Kingdom's Doomsday Chronicles 猩红管道工：蘑菇王国末日录
Crimson Plumber: The Mushroom Kingdom's Apocalypse Chronicle
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Spicy Suzhou 辣翻苏州
[Spicy, Sensational Hit Version] The day I brought Zigong chili dishes to Suzhou, the whole old street exploded. The sweet girl from the century-old candy shop said I was “polluting the air.” The food street's local king demanded I “get out of Jiangnan.” I responded by developing osmanthus spicy rabbit, selling out three thousand portions in a single day. Later, I made it onto the international stage, where the judges said it wasn't “international enough.” My sweet-natured partner fired back in
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Mad Sign-In: I Rule the Universe with My Acting Skills 疯批签到：我靠演技统宇宙
Tomato Exclusive | The ultimate crazy sign-in power fantasy! Launching with 10 chapters, come claim your spot Transmigrated into a good-for-nothing in an interstellar sect, falsely accused from the start and thrown into the universe’s forbidden zone, the Mad Demon Abyss? Activate the [Crazy Sign-In System]: No going crazy, no heaven-defying rewards! “Ding! Dance ‘Subject Three’ in front of a murderous monster and unlock the Chaos Divine Physique!” “Ding! Give an interstellar overlord a sky-high
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I Forge Stars into Blades: The Good-for-Nothing War God of the Interstellar Age 锻星为刃，我在星际当废柴战神
Synopsis In Star Era 372, war between the Interstellar Federation and the Insectoid Empire rages across the stars, with a century of endless slaughter. Lin Che was once Blue Star’s brightest S-rank combat prodigy. But three years ago, he was ambushed, his genetic lock shattered, and he fell from the clouds into the mud, reduced to a good-for-nothing everyone could bully. Mockery, oppression, and humiliation: he endured it all for three years, just to find a sliver of hope for repairing his genet
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Reborn, the Miracle Doctor Mom Takes Her Child and Turns the Tycoon Family Upside Down 重生后，神医妈咪带崽炸翻豪门
After Being Reborn, the Divine Doctor Mommy Takes Her Kids and Blows Up the Wealthy Family
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The Cold Palace Cook: One Bowl of Chilled Rabbit Has the Whole Palace Drooling 冷宫厨娘：一碗冷吃兔馋哭皇宫
The Cold Palace Chef: One Bowl of Chilled Rabbit Meat Makes the Entire Imperial Palace Drool
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A Mortal Heart Meets the Divine 凡心遇神明
In this world, the gods descended. Along with them came demonic beasts. The gods placed no restrictions on the beasts, allowing them to rampage and destroy human homes, and seemed not to care. In places beyond human sight, someone grips a weapon and walks against the darkness.
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A Merchant's Journey Abroad 异国商途
Guo Feng mortgaged his family home and handed 200,000 yuan to an agency. They promised him a job at a New York restaurant, with meals and accommodation included and a monthly salary of $3,000. But when he arrived, he discovered that the so-called “high-paying position” was nothing but illegal kitchen work in Chinatown. The pay was only a third of what they had promised, and they kept deducting various “agency fees.” When he tried to seek justice, the unscrupulous agency had already vanished with
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A Hundred Million HP Boost Just Came Through, and My Dad Tells Me to Get Lost? 亿血增幅到账，她爸让我滚远点？
[Physical book deal secured, enjoy with confidence] [Ultimate power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Absurd comedy] [One heroine] [Ensemble cast] [Unhinged] Year 529 of the Cultivation Calendar. Yun Mochen wakes from a nap and unexpectedly awakens a System. [Absorb qi and blood to grow stronger!] But there's one big problem: his girlfriend of three months is the daughter of the Zhu Clan's Emperor, one of the five great cultivation clans. Even worse, her emperor father comes straight to his door
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Dao Yan's Profound Heavens: Loading the Deduction Module from the Start 道衍玄天：开局加载推演模组
[The Myriad Worlds + Genius + Decisive and Ruthless + Ensemble Cast] Cultivation is like this: other people only need to devote themselves wholeheartedly to advancing their cultivation, but Chen Xiao has a lot more to consider. One day, Chen Xiao awakens memories of his past life and realizes that everything he once knew has become strange and discordant. Looking at this alternate-world civilization, which the predecessors have wildly remade, he finds the whole thing mind-blowing. Beneath the pr
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I’ll Rebuild the Era of Advanced Martial Arts 我来重构高武纪元
[Feel-good power fantasy]+ [Invincible]+ [face-slapping] What would happen if you could edit and deconstruct every martial skill, cultivation technique, and talent in the world? You would reshape the world! Follow Lin Mo as he rises from the bottom of his high school class to the pinnacle of life! This book is a tribute from a ten-year veteran reader. The writing may get a little wild, so read at your own risk!
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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Global Awakening: I Reach the Divine Summit with the Slacking System 全民觉醒：我靠摸鱼系统登顶神坛
In the age of universal awakening, supernatural powers are the throne, and good-for-nothings are a sin. When Lin Chen is declared an ordinary man with zero powers, he activates the [Strongest Slacker System] on the brink of death. While everyone else trains relentlessly, he sleeps; while they risk their lives, he goes AFK. By lying flat and slacking off, he rockets through the ranks, claiming divine gear and incredible skills! Everyone thinks he is just a lucky good-for-nothing making a comeback
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The Spirit Path of All Things 万象灵途
Lin Feng, a good-for-nothing outer sect disciple of the Qingyun Sect, suffers endless bullying because of his mixed spiritual roots. On the brink of death, however, he activates an ancestral jade pendant and awakens the ancient Myriad Manifestations Spirit Abode, setting out on the path to turn his fortunes around. The Spirit Abode can purify spiritual energy, grow spirit herbs, and unlock ancient inheritances, helping him break through the limits of cultivation and skyrocket from the Qi Refinin
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A Mechanical Prodigy in the Gobi Defense Industry: A Genius Kid Shakes Up the Researchers 戈壁军工小天才：机械萌娃震科研
On the Gobi border, swept by wind and sand, a five-year-old girl named Nuonuo walks out of the dunes. With a mechanical talent beyond that of ordinary people, she becomes the brightest little figure in a youth innovation workshop. She starts by solving the outpost's power shortages, developing a Gobi solar power system with automatic cleaning and sun-tracking features to bring warm light to outposts battered by cold winds. To let unmanned devices "heal themselves," she designs an intelligent mec
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The Kite’s Flames Consume Our Marriage 鸢火焚婚
A Kite's Flame Burns the Wedding
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Cotton Candy Melts the CEO's Heart 软糖撞进总裁心
A Gummy Candy Lands in the CEO's Heart
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Su Qinghe's Comeback 苏清禾的逆袭
Su Qinghe’s Rise to Power
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The Heavenly Way of the Kingpin 枭途天道
Luo Sen, a poor vendor at the local market, fights back when a gang of thugs pushes him to the brink. That desperate act draws him into Yuntai City's criminal underworld. Starting as a street peddler, he takes control of the market and the docks, then establishes an international trading company to launder smuggling profits. He bribes and recruits people across the establishment, playing the police, prosecutors, courts, and government against one another. In time, he becomes the godfather of Yun
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The Eighteen Hands of the Black Dragon 黑龙十八手
I am the sole inheritor of the Eighteen Black Dragon Hands. The protagonist, Lu Chen, carries the burden of a family feud and cultivates his family's inherited Eighteen Black Dragon Hands in secret amid the common folk. His techniques are vicious, including moves like Bone-Splitting Hand and Throat-Locking Hand, as court intrigue intertwines with grudges from the martial world.
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