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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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- 2 EN 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 696.8kReads9.4Score50.3kShelves
- 3 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score181.2kShelves
- 4 Mobile City: The Divine Resource Wholesaler 移动城市，神级资源批发商 [Raved about by ten thousand readers | One million following the updates | Ten million currently reading!] [Lord-Building] [Overwhelming Power] [The stats are still professional] [From Chapter 78 onward, the protagonist can print unlimited money] [A beacon-of-civilization story! (Elementary schoolers who want to see the protagonist act like a ruthless doomsday human trafficker, stay away)] (The novel's theme song, “Alliance of the Singularity,” is now available on all platforms.) All of humanit 163.5kReads9.2Score13.2kShelves
- 5 When I'm in the Rules Horror Game, Nothing Is Forbidden 当我在规则怪谈百无禁忌 [No female lead + supernatural horror + mental illness + comedy + national destiny] My name is Su Ming, and I'm a transmigrator. I currently work at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, where I'm in charge of the important project of “being studied.” They keep saying I'm sick, but I know I'm fine. It's the world that's sick. After I escaped from the psychiatric hospital, I was chosen by Rule Horror to become Longguo's chosen participant, representing Longguo in the upcoming horror games. [Ding! The Ho 65.5kReads9.6Score7.5kShelves
- 6 I Founded the Night Watch, Protecting the Nation from the Supernatural, and Now I'm Exposed! 我创建守夜人，为国镇诡被曝光！ [Supernatural resurgence + no romance + subverting expectations] Lin Wuyang transmigrated to a parallel world and discovered that supernatural entities were gradually returning. So he planned ahead, founded the Night Watch organization, and secretly spent ten years suppressing the supernatural for Daxia! Ten years later, he gathered a hundred ghosts and used his own flesh and blood to build a Great Wall protecting the nation, holding back the supernatural tide! The sudden appearance of the red G 4kReads9.2Score305Shelves
- 7 Genshin Impact Adventurer Qingchuan 原神冒险家青川 I transmigrated into Genshin Impact, but way too early. The main story was still at least a decade away. Looking at Barbara, who was still a little girl, I fell into thought. But no matter what, you can’t just starve to death because you transmigrated somewhere unfamiliar, right? So after transmigrating to Mondstadt, I began my career as an adventurer. I started with odd jobs, training bit by bit until I could at least pass for a normal person. Little by little, I found my footing in this world. 42.4kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
- 8 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
- 9 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 10 Honkai: Star Rail: What Should I Do About Ms. Herta Looking at Me Like That? 崩铁：黑塔女士这么看我怎么办？ [Slice of Life] [One Female Lead: Ms. Herta] [The Protagonist Will Become an Emanator of Erudition] [Original Planets] “Ms. Herta, what do you think about your assistant, Bai Luan, constantly telling people he's not a genius?” “I don't. When I see him, I just tell him to get back to work.” This exchange comes from a rushed interview with Ms. Herta. Bai Luan is reborn by the System right in front of the Great Herta, in the world of Honkai: Star Rail. At this point, the Herta Space Station hasn't 106.4kReads9.7Score5.8kShelves
- 11 Genshin Impact: I’m The Envoy of Snezhnaya 原神之我是至冬使节 As the newly appointed twelfth Harbinger, known as the Instructor, Bai Luo admits he’s a little nervous. The Tsaritsa has given him a mission: travel to Inazuma as an envoy from Snezhnaya. As someone who transmigrated, he knows exactly what will happen if he goes to Inazuma: the Raiden Shogun will absolutely annihilate him. But if he refuses to go, the Tsaritsa will annihilate him instead. So he chooses Teyvat’s time-honored tradition: slacking off. 50.7kReads9.7Score3.7kShelves
- 12 EN Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ [Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you 535.6kReads9.3Score87.5kShelves
- 13 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 518.8kReads9.7Score68.3kShelves
- 14 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
- 15 I Use Illusions to Control the World 我用幻术控制全世界 [A rare illusion-based novel featuring a villain protagonist, nightmare invasions, and original instances] Su Mu has the same dream every night. Each time he wakes, his mental strength has increased by one percent. He grows stronger just by sleeping. In the first year, hypnosis. He discovers his mental strength is already powerful enough to hypnotize others, and soon gang bosses, the campus belle, beautiful CEOs, and more have all become his slaves. In the second year, control over the five sens 68.2kReads9.4Score7.5kShelves
- 16 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43.3kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
- 17 National Destiny: Dark Zone, I’m the Only One Who Can Choose My Spawn Point 国运暗区：只有我能选择出生点 “The National Destiny Battlefield?” “China has lost nine matches in a row, and one more loss means we’re out for good?” “Whoa, this plot feels so familiar. Don’t tell me I’m about to make my entrance?!” Wu Zhijing was shocked to discover that he had not only transmigrated to a parallel world with a National Destiny Dark Zone, but had also awakened the overpowered [Lucky Emperor System]! He can choose his starting location from the start! If he doesn’t choose a starting location or open a safe, h 5.1kReads9.1Score598Shelves
- 18 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
- 19 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 20 Genshin Impact: Weird? How Could I Not Be Weird Too! 原神：诡异？我又何尝不能诡异！ [Eerie] [Rules] [Mild Horror] [A Touch of Sweetness] [Regression] "Isn't that Director Hu Tao? Good morning." An utterly ordinary greeting leaves the quirky girl so terrified that her face turns deathly pale, as if all the blood has drained from it. She looks as though she's seen a monster. Teyvat has gone through countless cycles, and yet no one expected things to change. Eerie creatures from beyond have invaded, disrupting the old order. The streets are still bustling with crowds, but it is as 3kReads8.8Score292Shelves
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Stubborn Bones 犟骨
[Reunion After Years Apart + The Chase to Win Her Back + Two Cool, Distant Personalities + Eight-Year Age Gap] (Not a pure one-to-one romance. Please read the blurb before starting!!!! If it’s not your cup of tea, don’t read!!!! Malicious ratings will lower your luck!) “Arrogant and refined, stern and composed, a CEO from the elite” Zhou Congjin vs. “Cool and stubborn, worldly-wise, an ordinary-class beauty from a scholarly family” Shen Yi Shen Yi had always known that someone like Zhou Congjin
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- 22 A Deeply Devoted Temptation 深情诱引 A novel in the Niaosongmi Universe: Deep Affection and Allure. The short drama The Height of Summer, a special story about the eldest brother and sister-in-law, is now online. [Love after an arranged marriage, a regretful husband’s pursuit of his wife, one-on-one romance, both devoted only to each other] [Gentle, cool-headed ophthalmologist vs. devoted, wayward young master] Lin Yuxi used to think Zhou Yanjing was a carefree playboy with a fickle heart. Only after they married did she learn just 92.8kReads9.2Score7.9kShelves
- 23 His Forceful Possession After Dark 入夜强势占有 A heart-wrenching, satisfying, sweet original novel [Both are virgins + possessive hero + reunion after years apart + sexual tension + obsessive pursuit] She reunites with her boyfriend, whom she broke up with three years ago, when she’s arrested in a prostitution raid. The man questioning her is her ex-boyfriend, Police Officer Shen Yanzhou. He curled his lip in a mocking smile. “Three years apart, and you’re still making money with your body?” At first, he mistakenly thought she was clinging 3kReads5.7Score148Shelves
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One Kiss and He Goes Weak! 亲一下就软！
"Signed for publication" (A cocky, irreverent, handsome school bully × a cool beauty with a gentle, easygoing nature, the “good girl” top student) A prodigal son turns over a new leaf, carefree and rebellious, campus romance, sweet and angsty redemption, rekindled love, one-on-one, both leads are devoted only to each other “Shen Li, you can repeat the year. Don't gamble with your future. You still have a chance at one of next year's guaranteed places at Qingbei.” “No, teacher. I've made up my
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- 25 The Years of Si Yang 斯漾年华 [Childhood sweethearts] [A sweet bedtime treat] Guiding childhood-friend older brother VS a sweet, oblivious girl Theme: The simple things in life are what matter most Yu Sinian had a fiancée he’d been promised to from a very young age. Everyone else thought his little fiancée was the one who clung to him, following him around like his shadow since childhood. But that wasn’t the case. I was the one who couldn’t bear to be apart from her. I loved how she relied on me for everything, how she’d fee 2.7kReads8.7Score360Shelves
- 26 The Sweet Little Troublemaker and Her Childhood-Friend Big Brother 竹马哥哥的甜甜小作精 Xu Yi has a childhood sweetheart: sweet smile, cutesy voice, and a little demon who always causes a fuss. Whenever she cries, he wants to comfort her even if it costs him his life. But she doesn’t want his life. After living a second life, Ruan Qinqing becomes clingy, chasing after him every day for kisses, hugs, and to be lifted up high. On the sports field, she wraps her arms around his waist and gazes up at him pitifully. “Xu Yi, I miss you so much. More than you can imagine.” In the rainfore 5.1kReads8.9Score614Shelves
- 27 The Rose That Gazed at the Stars 仰望星星的玫瑰 [Three-year age gap + mutual pining + sweet romance + each other's first and only] When they first met: Luo Ning mistook him for someone else and threw her arms around the slender waist of the young man. “It's my first time meeting someone so bold about taking advantage of me.” A teasing, unfamiliar voice came from above her head. Luo Ning looked up in astonishment, meeting his amused, unreadable eyes. Five steps away, Luo Cheng stared in shock as his darling little sister threw herself into the 2.4kReads9.2Score330Shelves
- 28 Qingfeng Villa 清风墅 [Print edition now available] [Marriage first, love later + Age gap + Literary family + Slow-burn romance + Both leads are each other's first] *Theme: Children who are cherished don't have to say they're sorry.* As a child, Shu He was utterly broken by her coldhearted father. During an extreme snowstorm in Jingbei, she wandered alone by the roadside, clutching the doll that had grown up with her. The blizzard raged, and she eventually collapsed, frozen stiff. A Bentley pulled over. The young man 115.4kReads9.5Score14.9kShelves
- 29 EN Letters Tracing the Rain 溯雨信笺 [The physical book is now available. Its published title is Letters in the Rain] [Small-Town Literature | Bittersweet Slow Burn | Mutual Healing | 1v1 | Happy Ending] [Gentle and Resilient x Jaded and World-Weary] When Pu Yu was seventeen, she transferred to a remote town in southern China. There, she met Yuan Su. He had once been the town's brightest star, a prodigy destined for greatness. Now he had fallen from grace, and everyone avoided him. Everyone except Pu Yu. - An old street. A repair s 254kReads9.6Score50.1kShelves
- 30 So Sweet! The Campus Heartthrob Coaxes His Adorable Crush in a Husky Voice 超甜！校草哑声诱哄小可爱 [Bad-boy school boss × sweet, soft-spoken top student] [A sweet campus romance, two strong leads, lighthearted and affectionate, healing each other] Rumor has it that Jiangcheng No. 8 High has a school boss named Gu Cilan: unruly, arrogant, and looking down on everyone. In their second year of high school, a sweet transfer student arrives. Li Su is beautiful with a honey-sweet voice, and she takes first place in her grade on her very first monthly exam. She’s just far too bold, always picking on 27.8kReads9.3Score4.6kShelves
- 31 Let Big Brother Hold You 让哥哥抱抱 [Now available in bookstores everywhere] One day, Wen Xu accidentally got drunk and pinned Shen Tingnan beneath her. Taking advantage of the alcohol, she asked, “Brother Tingnan, will you go out with me?” “Do you know what you’re saying?” “I do.” Shen Tingnan turned the tables and pinned her beneath him, kissing the lips he had longed for. He whispered in her ear, “You’re finally mine.” 7.3kReads9.2Score846Shelves
- 32 When the Clouds Are Deep and the Waters Clear 云深清浅时 Xiao Yunxing is the dashing, top-of-the-class heartthrob admired by every girl at school: someone to admire from afar, but never touch. Yet he smiles only for Chen Qinghuan, the “childhood sweetheart” who transfers to his school, and spoils her in every way. Chen Qinghuan is a proud, domineering, yet adorably naive math genius. Math is her talent, and loving him is her dream. She stays by his side, always. One waits, the other pursues, and together they earn places at their dream university. Aft 18.6kReads9.6Score2.1kShelves
- 33 Don’t Stand on Tiptoe! I’ll Bend Down 别踮脚！我低头 [The physical edition of Don’t Stand on Tiptoe, I’ll Bend Down is now available at major retailers] [Sickeningly sweet and lighthearted + devoted couple + healing romance + wild, doting love + campus life] Pampered, carefree heiress ✖️ wicked, arrogant bad-boy heir “Ow! Stop touching me…” Ji Shuyi glared through teary, pink-rimmed eyes at the “big bad wolf” looming over her. She sniffed reproachfully. “You’re always picking on me!” They say Jiang Cheng of Jing University’s Law School is arrogant 11.2kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
- 34 A Summer of Passionate Love 在这个盛夏热恋 The print edition is now available. [A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Sweet, Flirtatious Romance + Both Leads Have No Past Relationships + Mutual Devotion] [Cool, Slightly Rebellious Girl VS. Handsome, Bad-Boy Young Master with a Sharp Tongue] Bian Xu has a face made for living life to the fullest. His unruly blue-and-white streaked hair and three shining black studs along his ear cartilage give off an unrestrained air. He's a familiar figure on the school's forum. Lin Tingxia is an excellent student 28.3kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves
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Strange Tales from the Haunted School 诡校杂谈
This is a school where danger lurks at every turn: mountains of corpses, seas of blood, vengeful ghosts, corpses rising from the dead... But with a knife in my right hand and an umbrella in my left, ghosts and gods alike flee wherever I go...
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- 36 Falling in Love with a Ghost 恋诡 I’m a wandering fortune-teller. I’ve read people’s fortunes, battled ghosts, studied feng shui, and searched for burial sites... This line of work inevitably earns the dead’s ire, and a choice I made by accident as a child ended up putting my girlfriend in the crosshairs... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I Came from the Yellow Springs 我来自黄泉 At the border between yin and yang, at the mouth of the Yellow Springs, the living guard the Thirteen Ghost Gates. The prison governor, the jailers, and the Brocade-Robed Marquis; at the post station for the dead, a mountain dog keeps watch. The door gods, the water nymph, the Confucius Temple; red lanterns and white funeral banners circle the streets. This ghost ballad, missing one line, conceals a world-shaking secret. I was a child my grandfather stole from the Yellow Springs, so before I was 16.7kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
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The Stove Keeper: My Barbecue Stall Purifies the Supernatural 守灶人：我的烧烤摊能净化诡异
#Supernatural #Mystery #Destiny #Comeback #Passion #Celestial Master #Breaking Boundaries #Family Bonds. An entirely original story, with heart, warmth, logic, and plenty of satisfying moments! For generations, the Zhang family has guarded the hearth. They aren’t protecting the everyday comforts of mortal life, but the bronze gate that seals away countless ghosts. On the night of the full moon, the supernatural breaks through the boundary. My adoptive parents are captured, and the Chu family fac
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Year After Year, Like a Boat [Also Known As: He’s Wild and Flirtatious] 岁岁如舟【别名：他又野又撩】
[Mutual First Love + Childhood Friends + Wealthy Families + Mutual Devotion] One day, a transfer student arrived at Experimental No. 1 High School. A sweet, lovely girl, she happened to become the first desk mate of the school’s terror, Chi Yanzhou. Chi Yanzhou was not only an excellent student, but also had the face of a heartbreaker. He never missed a fight or skipped class, and was a legendary figure who was at once the school heartthrob, the school bully, and the top student. Unfortunately,
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I Really Didn’t Turn on the Life Simulator 人生模拟我真没开
Lin Ye's last memory was a line of error code. "Fatal Error." He had worked himself to death at his desk. After 48 straight hours of overtime, seven cups of cold coffee sat before him. His fingers still rested on the keyboard, and the bug on his screen was only half fixed. When he opened his eyes again, he saw two moons. One blue and one red, hanging in the sky screen as dawn's light faded, eerie yet magnificent. A dilapidated wooden hut, moldy straw, and strange energy surging through the air:
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God-Tier Feng Shui System: I Wanted to Die from the Start, but Ended Up Invincible 神级风水系统：开局想死却无敌了
[System + Feng Shui + Scheming + Playing the Fool to Outsmart Others + Apocalypse] You Ming was once a licensed physician. Now, he is one of the last pure humans in Jiuzhou. Under the rule of a silicon-based civilization, doctors have become the most useless profession. The planet is on the brink of destruction after its core was drilled through. He spends his entire savings to send his family and beloved aboard a ship, only to be cruelly abandoned. Desperate, he jumps from a building and falls
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- 42 The Sword Keeper 守剑人 The story of The Swordkeeper follows Lin Mo, who bears a sword bone and seeks the legacy of the Seven Stars. It chronicles his rise from humble beginnings, his trials and tribulations, and his efforts to unite allies, ultimately gathering all Seven Stars, reforging the Demon-Suppressing Grand Array, and defeating the world-destroying evil fiend. In the end, he grows into the Lord of the Seven Stars and a guardian leader. Blending themes of personal growth, factional conflict, protecting the worl 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Chaos Art 【混沌诀】 My new work is here! Feel free to head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 539Reads6.4Score128Shelves
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Immortal Cultivation: This Is How the Unorthodox Do It 修仙：旁门左道就是这样的
[Classical-style cultivation] [No System] [Growth] [The clash between new and old cultivation methods] [The passage of time] [Some farming and management] [No level suppression] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fellow Daoist, rent a set of internal organs and a brain to help you cultivate!] [When you practice the Golden Core, you can dig up your ancestors and have them help you cultivate] [My family has a lineage stretching back ten thousand years, with the bones of a hundred thousand grandmaster martia
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The Truth Between the Pages 纸缝里的真相
A grounded suspense and criminal investigation novel that uses archive restoration as its point of departure. The protagonist, Chen Mo, is a temporary archive restorer at the city archives. Born with the ability to sense powerful emotions and fragments of memory lingering on paper, he can restore damaged files and retrace truths that have been altered or buried. The story unfolds through a series of standalone cases woven together by an overarching plot. Behind every file awaiting restoration li
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- 46 The Secrets of the Ink Pivot 墨枢秘藏 Lin Yan, the sole heir to the Mo Shu Sect, spent ten years working as a carpenter among ordinary folk to evade the blood feud that wiped out his sect. No one knows the lost mortise-and-tenon mechanism craft he has mastered, a technique unseen for a thousand years. When a dangerous Han dynasty tomb bearing the sect’s secret mark is unearthed at a university construction site, one tomb raider is dead and two are trapped, while no one can overcome the deadly mechanisms. Su Qingyuan, captain of the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 A Warm Lamp 暖灯盏 On her thirty-second birthday, Lin Zhan hits rock bottom: she is laid off by a major tech company, dumped by the boyfriend she has dated for five years, and left without a home, all while caring for her mother, who has Alzheimer’s. With nowhere else to turn, she moves into an old neighborhood and meets Chen Yan, a former cardiac surgeon who has chosen to live quietly among ordinary people. Two broken souls find healing in each other amid the everyday bustle, becoming lights to guide one another. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Investigating the Ancients 侦古 Modern-day overseas private detective Su Ya is splattered with blood while chasing a thief who stole a Tang dynasty jade pendant. The ancient jade sends her transmigrating into the body of a marginalized female officer at the Dali Temple. Fastidious, funny, sharp-tongued, and rebellious, she uses modern forensic techniques to solve one strange case after another. Along the way, she wins over her loyal servant Zhen'er and guard Zhang Qiang, rising all the way to become a senior official at the Da —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Guarding the Kunlun Ruins 守墟昆仑
She was restoring an artifact when she awakened a god-tier civilization that had been dormant for ten thousand years? On a stormy night, an old comrade points a gun at Lin Xia’s brow, and only then does she realize she has touched a secret she should have left alone. As she lies at death’s door, her ancestral jade cong shatters. It isn’t a hallucination: she “sees” ancient people sealing the earth’s ley lines with their own blood and flesh, and seven shining coordinates her father gave his life
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The Origin of the Dao 道之起原
A black-robed youth preached the Dao, bringing two beings into existence: Pangu and Haotian. Pangu split heaven and earth, leaving all living things with incomplete minds. The story follows the Primordial Heavenly Venerable as he descends to the mortal realm to teach the Dao and save all living things, creating the laws of heaven and earth and safeguarding one corner of the world.
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