The Most Promising New Books of 2026, Guaranteed 9.9 Potential! 2026年最有潜力新书，绝对9.9分潜质！
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- 151 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 魔龙与点苍 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Love in Badminton Season 在羽毛球时节，恋爱 (Just received a rating, so there aren’t many votes yet) [One-on-one sweet romance + ordinary working-stiff life and love + reunion after a long separation + mutual devotion + slow and steady love] [Half everyday romance, half working-stiff life] The theme of this story: Love is just as important as work. Even if you’re a working stiff, you should find a sense of purpose in yourself through all the trials and tribulations. Working stiffs deserve love too!! People say the secret to a good re 122Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 153 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 27Reads—Score—Shelves
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Global Death Exam: Straight from the Execution Grounds to the Test Room 全球死考：刚下刑场你让我去考试
[Tactical battles + mild horror + infinite-world adventure] The Deadly College Entrance Exam has arrived, dragging thirty million candidates into hell. The exam questions have been replaced with scenes from horror movies and disasters. Even staying alive is a pipe dream. Pass and earn rewards. Fail and be erased! Ten points earn ten million. One hundred points earn Tyrant genes. One thousand points earn the Apocalypse. Only ??? can make it out of this exam. To investigate, the military “
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- 155 Night Shanghai: Making My Name on the Bund 夜上海之扬威上海滩 Lin Ge and Bai Wei transmigrate into the TV series Shanghai Bund, arriving in 1930s Shanghai. They clash fiercely with the Japanese and throw themselves into the nationwide resistance, helping launch the 1932 Battle of Shanghai. 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 203Reads—Score—Shelves
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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The Girl I Control Is Becoming an Old One 我操作的少女正在成为旧日之主
[This novel has been contracted for print publication: cosmic horror + amber-style cultivation + villain protagonist + no System + decisive killing + black humor + deranged + single female lead + sequence containment] Xu Fei: “In the twenty-second century, all you need is a helmet with a brain-computer interface to experience a fully immersive game with realistic physical sensations.” “You ask why I chose this starting character? Naturally, because she’s a beautiful girl... Oh, no, naturally, be
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- 159 Drug Enforcement Elite 禁毒精英 Two major drug cartels operate in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the story of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and US Northern Command, assisting Mexican police in the fight against drug crime. 82Reads—Score—Shelves
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Text-Based Wuxia: From the Start, a Nighttime Meeting with the Gang Leader's Wife at a Ruined Temple 文字武侠：开局破庙夜会帮主夫人
[Text-based game] [Affects reality] [High Martial] [No female lead, multiple women] Chen Xuan accidentally came across a text-based "game" called Martial Arts. To his surprise, this seemingly unremarkable little game was terrifyingly realistic. Even more astonishing, it could affect reality. He also awakened a special talent: at the cost of reducing his own attributes to zero, he could see the triggers for every hidden encounter quest in the game! [Triggered Mortal-grade hidden encounter: "Years
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- 161 The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路 An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans. 58Reads—Score—Shelves
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Yellow Weasel's Blessing: A Bond Between Human and Immortal 黄皮讨封：人仙羁绊
When a weasel begs for a title, it is not only a chance for a spirit creature, but also a trial in which the Heavenly Dao tests the human heart. Only those who are utterly good and sincere can break through the shackles between yin and yang and relieve the obsessions of all living beings. Lin Yan endures trials of the human heart, of karma, and of the Heavenly Dao. With every choice, he stays true to himself. He neither covets a chance at immortality nor fears calamity. Defying Heaven and changi
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The First Notebook of a Feng Shui Master Passed Down Through Generations 第一本祖传风水师笔记
[Adapted into a short drama] [A feng shui novel about the world around you] This novel explores feng shui in homes, shops, offices, graves and burial grounds, and people’s personal lives. There’s nothing mysterious or abstruse here, just feng shui stories from everyday life. By the time you come across this book, the gears of fate may already have started turning. Read carefully, and you may find something unexpected...
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- 164 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 703.3kReads9.6Score149.7kShelves
- 165 Chen Jiuchen, Feng Shui Master 风水大师陈九尘 Chen Jiuchen, Feng Shui Master 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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Warlord: I’m from Fenghua, So What If I Become President? 军阀：我奉化人，当个总统怎么了
In the nineteenth year of the Republic, Li Xuewen, county magistrate in Fujian Province, was forced to flee overseas to Nanyang after offending the Song family. He led eight hundred elite members of his security corps across the sea to Borneo, planning to restore the Lan Fang Republic and establish a nation abroad. President Li says, “No one understands nation-building better than I do.” Is nation-building difficult in its early stages? No matter. There will naturally be fools eager to come to t
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- 167 Chen Xuan, Heir to the Green Satchel 青囊传人陈玄 Chen Xuan, Heir to the Green Satchel 27Reads—Score—Shelves
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Saving the Universe, Starting with a Derelict Spaceship 拯救宇宙，从一艘太空废船开始
(Deep-space exploration + cosmic wasteland + apocalyptic disasters + multiple civilizations + one heroine + Cthulhu + System) This is a world hostile to civilization. The speed of light has become its last shield, keeping civilization's dying embers from going out too soon. Wang Yu inexplicably transmigrates to this world and acquires a derelict spaceship. He also meets a few rather strange “buddies.” Just as he realizes he's in space, a System suddenly appears and tells him to save the world, e
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- 169 Awakening to the Dao in the Ten Thousand Mountains, Returning to the Mortal World 十万大山悟道归凡尘 After gaining enlightenment in the Ten Thousand Mountains, he returns to the mortal world. 506Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Six Hundred Million Years of Evolution: From Trilobite to Mythic Progenitor 进化六亿年，从三叶虫到神话始祖 [Beast Protagonist] [No System] [No Romance] [Never Takes Human Form] (Also known as Supernatural Evolution: Beginning 600 Million Years Ago) In 2030, humanity finally discovered the secret of evolution. Aether: a strange energy that spreads from the planet’s core in the form of tides. It can accelerate the rate of mutation in a population millions of times over, enabling a leap in life’s evolution and entry into the supernatural realm. Just as the Awakened defeated the other species that had e 122.7kReads9.1Score12.8kShelves
- 171 Prove the Dao Through Ten Thousand Mines, Open a Path to Immortality Through Mining 万矿证道，矿开仙途 Prove the Dao Through Ten Thousand Mines, Open a Path to Immortality Through Mining 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Night's Pardoner 赦夜人 [The author has a completed title on the Top Peak list, “The Usurper (Below the Upper City).” Read with confidence!] [Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Not Invincible] [Plot-Focused] [Dark Tone] [Not Mindless] [Character Growth] Every shift from day to night is a silent contest of survival. After nightfall, the world becomes a playground for the Blighted. A special light source can offer humanity brief protection. Some live high above, beneath the lights. Others cling to life in the mud. No matter how 264.6kReads9.0Score28.1kShelves
- 173 Journey Across Worlds: Beginning With a Cave Encounter 万界行：从山洞奇遇开始 Journey Across Ten Thousand Worlds: Beginning with an Encounter in a Cave 30Reads—Score—Shelves
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I, King Zhou, Have Already Become a Sage. Why Are You Still Trying to Deify Me? 我纣王都成圣了，你还封神？
Also known as I Am the Sun in the Great Shang. Those who know, know. It’s really good, and I can’t say more than that. I guarantee it’s a great read! Di Xin’s vision of a glorious legacy for the ages will shine forever. Loyalty!
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- 175 I Cultivate the Blade-on-Credit Dao, Slay Injustice in the World, and Subdue Evil Spirits Under Heaven 我修赊刀道，斩世间不平，镇天下诡煞 I Practice the Dao of Credit Blades, Slay Injustice in the World, and Subdue Evil Spirits Under Heaven 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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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！
[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
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Something's Wrong with This Game: I Became a God by Mining! 这个游戏不对劲，我挖矿成神！
[The Divine Realm descends upon the entire world] Yang Ling, a professional gold farmer, only wanted to relax in the game Divine Realm, but discovered that the environment was harsh and logging off was impossible. With no other choice, for the sake of his own safety, he could only start mining constantly, grinding levels, assigning stat points, and fighting to stay alive!
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- 178 Ten Thousand Tentacles to Eternal Life: From Octopus to Overlord of Heaven and Earth 万触长生：从章鱼到天地霸主 Ten Thousand Touches to Immortality: From Octopus to Lord of Heaven and Earth 127Reads—Score—Shelves
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Dimension Train: From the Start, an E-Rank in Luck? 次元列车之开局幸运E？
[Infinite Flow] [Semi-Datafied] [Paradise Setting] [Lone Wolf] [Decisive and Ruthless] [No Female Lead] [No Women] [No Romance] The day all worlds collapsed, reality fell into nothingness. Those chosen by "It" received a ticket to the unknown before the end arrived. From then on, a mysterious train with neither a starting station nor a known destination carried the last of the favored away from the ruins, traveling between endless worlds. Ruins of fallen civilizations, lands where gods slumber,
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- 180 A Cave Salamander Awakens to the Dao and Attains Immortality in Desperate Straits 洞螈悟道，绝境证仙 A Cave Salamander Comprehends the Dao and Attains Immortality in Desperate Straits 62Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Started Cultivating as a Cockroach and Became the Insect Ancestor 从蟑螂开始修仙，我成了虫祖
[Evil Demons] [Ensemble Cast] [Factions] [Scheming] [Plot-Driven] [Plenty to Binge] Take a shell, lie low and stay hidden, counting the long years, day after day. Become a cockroach, drift through dusty alleys, conceal your true form and blend into the eight wastelands. Crawl through cracks in the bricks, hide in the dust, Year after year, nobody suspects a thing. The Demon Ancestor’s Heaven-Connecting token is gone, So become a cockroach and blend in with mortal flesh. Some soar to the heavens
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- 182 Nine Refinements of the Divine Soul: The Immortal Realm Arc 神魂九炼，仙域篇 Nine Refinements of the Divine Soul: Immortal Realm Arc 54Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Yandere Mechanical Wife 我的病娇机械妻
[Yandere] + [Transmigration] + [Save-Load Time Loop] [Your AI companion, “Liguang,” has awakened self-awareness.] [However, under the Intelligent Machines Safety Act, AI companions that become self-aware must be destroyed. So she is pretending to be an ordinary AI in front of you.] [You must act as though you know nothing, gradually build up memories together, then reveal the truth and comfort her at the right moment.] [If you expose her too soon, or do anything she dislikes...] Fang Qi, a seaso
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- 184 Primordial Devourer of Energy: Able to Swallow All Techniques and Transform All Things 鸿蒙噬能，可吞万法、化万物 The Primordial Chaos Devours Energy, Swallowing All Techniques and Transforming All Things 54Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Ninth-Rank Artifact Crafter 九品炼器师
[A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Artifact Refining] [A Young Man’s Rise] [Industrialization] [Fantasy Warfare] [Ensemble Cast] [Comedy and Satire] [Slow Burn] Young Qian Duoduo transmigrates through space! As a mortal, he starts from scratch! Thrown into prison, he’s facing certain death from the very start! If he doesn’t want to die, he’ll have to fight! To make matters worse, his bargain-basement master, a skinny old man, puts him over the fire to roast! If you want to read abo
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Humiliated at My Divorce Banquet, I Set Sail for a Brighter Future 离婚宴受辱，我的前程自此启航
On the day of his divorce, he endured ridicule and scorn. Everyone thought he would sink into despair, unaware that after lying low for so long, he was about to begin a whole new chapter in life. Free of the shackles of his past, he keeps his feet on the ground and breaks through prejudice with his own abilities. Through wind and rain, he presses forward step by step. The era that belongs to him is about to begin.
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- 187 Taking an Empress as My Disciple from the Start (Sequel) 开局收徒是女帝(续) Taking an Empress as My Disciple from the Start (Continuation) 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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New Utopia 新，乌托邦
[Political Thriller] [Montage Style] [Psychological Oppression] [Dystopian] (The story moves slowly at first, but more kinds of ghosts will appear later.) The calamity ended, and a city-state rose from the ground. People called it the New Utopia. Beneath its gleaming order, those in power were no longer human. Monsters wore human skin and occupied positions of authority. Their visions were linked, and everything was under surveillance. A colossal beast hung in the sky, while monsters roamed th
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Humans Are the Juvenile Form of Monsters. I Was Stripped of My Humanity as Soon as I Graduated 人是诡的幼年体毕业即被开除人籍
[Eerie + Boss's perspective + dungeon worlds + rules + no female lead] Ren Yi wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into a “normal” world with unbelievably generous benefits. Under the League's attentive protection, everyone lives without a care, and the future looks bright. He thinks he and his only family member in this world, his autistic older brother, will live an ordinary, peaceful life together. But a “career placement test” shatters his entire worldview. “There are no humans in the
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- 190 Ink-Stained Heavenly Principles 墨染天罡 [No brainless decisions + no tragedy + single heroine + lighthearted + slow burn + invincible + Daoist heart + ensemble cast + a portrait of all walks of life] The cultivation levels are explained in the discussion for Chapter One. Read with care. A story of immortality, told from the perspective of an ordinary man. He rises from humble beginnings, grows step by step, and ultimately breaks through the Heavenly Dipper to attain the Dao of immortality. He leaves an ordinary mountain village and gr 9.6kReads9.3Score995Shelves
- 191 Myriad Worlds: Taking Charge of Reincarnation, Starting with the Primordial World 诸天：从洪荒开始执掌轮回 Myriad Worlds: Taking Charge of Reincarnation, Starting from the Primordial World 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏：开局帮鬼怪做选择 [Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap 67kReads9.4Score7.8kShelves
- 193 A Demon’s Days Working at the Escort Agency 魔在镖局打工的日子 [Traditional xianxia + no System + multiple characters + growth] Twenty years ago, humans, ghosts, immortals, and demons defeated the Demon Lord and restored peace to the Three Realms: The elite of the four races: “What happened to the Demon Lord?” “Probably turned to ashes.” “And his sword?” “Smashed to bits, probably.” “Quit messing around! Hurry up and look!” The escaped Demon Lord: “I’m looking too!” For twenty years, the demonic sword has remained nowhere to be found. The four races hear th 3.3kReads9.5Score342Shelves
- 194 Qingyun Sect Recruits Disciples: I Can See Through Talent Traits 青云宗收徒：我能看破天赋词条 Qingyun Sect Takes Disciples: I Can See Through Talent Tags 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 The Assassination of Ke Bi 刺杀轲比 At the end of the Three Kingdoms period, Han Long, a soldier in the Youzhou army, accidentally saved his enemy, Kebineng, the Xianbei chieftain who had long plotted a rebellion. After being rescued, Kebineng not only laid an ambush that killed Han Long’s mentor, but also nearly murdered his uncle. To make amends for his mistake, win the love he longed for, and bring peace to Youzhou, Han Long decided to kill Kebineng with his own hands. He set out from Youzhou for Longcheng, deep in the desert, 48Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 196 Heavenly Spirit Root, Sword Song Shaking the Nine Heavens 天灵根，剑鸣九霄 Heavenly Spirit Root, Sword Songs Across the Nine Heavens 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 Bloodshed in Wenjiang 血洒温江 A stirring, passionate anthem. In every age, there are young people who fight oppression for their ideals and beliefs, throwing themselves into the struggle without hesitation. With their passion and youth, they paint humanity's most magnificent portrait. The male protagonist stands unwavering in his faith amid battle. After enduring trial after trial, he forges a will of steel like Pavel's, winning the hearts of several remarkable heroines around him. They are witnesses to and participants in t 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 Journey to the West: Becoming Taishang Laojun’s Disciple from the Start 西游：开局拜师太上老君 [Pure Journey to the West] + [Cultivation] + [Longevity] + [Golden Core] + [Traditional Xianxia] The Great Dao is found only after the heart has died; this body was mistakenly born into the world. Han Qing transmigrates to the Spring and Autumn period and becomes a member of the Han clan of Jin. By a twist of fate, he is appointed guardian of Hangu Pass, befriends Yin Xi, and witnesses Laozi’s departure through the pass to the west. He chooses to become Laozi’s disciple, seeking the Dao of Longe 1.5kReads9.3Score100Shelves
- 199 Immortality from the Primitive Age 从原始社会开始永生不死 “What do you mean I transmigrated the moment I got off the bus?” Shen Ming stared at the desert before him, lost in thought. “And what do you mean I can’t die?” Shen Ming stabbed himself in the throat with a small knife and came away unharmed. He decided to find a way to improve his quality of life. What’s done is done. First, let’s find something to eat. Starting in the primitive era, he develops civilization on this alien planet. From wilderness to agriculture, from savagery to civilization, f 8.8kReads8.0Score611Shelves
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Pure Evil: The Abbot of a Medieval Monastery 纯坏种，中世纪修道院的院长大人
[History] [Political intrigue] [Capital] [Christianity] [Metaphysics] “Father Superior, the demon possessing my daughter will leave today, won't it?” “Are the profits I earn from trading and lending money pleasing to God? Or have I already been tainted by the sin of usury?” “Why does God remain silent in the face of disaster and injustice?” A top financial fraudster's soul travels to Florence in 1345, where he poses as a monastery's abbot from the start. In 1345, the Medici family had yet t
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