I Want Novels with a Lively Ensemble Cast, No Romance, and a Whole Cast of Geniuses 看书就要看那种热热闹闹的群像、无cp，全员天才的
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Seriously, Your Metaphysics Club Is Way Too Obscure 不是，你们玄学小组也太冷门了吧
[No romance + ensemble cast + supernatural ghost hunting + folk horror tales + only a little family drama, which wraps up quickly] Fang Shining was born with a mental disability. Her parents dumped her in the countryside with her father, a folk sorcerer, and never gave her another thought. When she was nineteen, the village was demolished, and she was brought back to the Fang family. On the day she returned, everyone mocked the Fang family's idiot eldest daughter for coming home, and the family
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The Whole Sect Is Crazy, and It's All Thanks to Our Little Junior Sister 满门癫佬，全靠小师妹带飞
[Ensemble cast + absurd comedy + outrageous antics + everyone’s favorite] After Li Li worked herself to death, she transmigrated into a cultivation novel and became a cannon-fodder female supporting character. Her only purpose was to be a stepping stone for the heroine. If the heroine wanted a spirit sword, she took Li Li’s. If she wanted resources, she took Li Li’s. She even stole Li Li’s own father. Li Li packed up and fled down the mountain that very night, only to be picked up halfway by a c
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My Senior Brothers Are Panicking: The Little Junior Sister Has Really Brought the Sky Down! 师兄们慌了，小师妹真捅破了天！
(Completed) [Top-Tier Talent, Powerful and Thrilling, Master of All Six Paths, Strong Female Lead, Everyone Has a One-Sided Crush, Ensemble Cast, No Romance] “My name is Ning Xin. By the time you read this, I will have been dragged onto the Spirit Platform to have my spiritual roots tested in public, and drawn down seven blessings from the Heavenly Dao...” That day, the entire cultivation world was thrown into an uproar. “The Heavenly Dao has been silent for over a thousand years and never respo
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A School of Magic? We Have One in the East, Too! 魔法学院？我东方也有！
[Ensemble cast + academy + magic + no romance + (important: slow burn!)] [Note: There are no absolute villains, and being “stupid” doesn't necessarily mean someone is actually stupid.] Beep--- “Your admission letter to Hualing Magic Academy has arrived. Please check your inbox.” Who could have imagined that the magic novels she once loved would become reality? And even more surprising, there was a magic academy in the East. An Miao hugged her admission letter, beaming as she set off for the acad
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After Seeing the Manga Comments, I Tear Up the Cannon Fodder Script 看到漫画弹幕后我手撕炮灰剧本
[Not a wish-fulfillment story. Superpowers + defying fate + no romance/just friendship + ensemble cast + character growth. Not fanfiction.] [Ah, is that purple-haired guy a minor background character? Getting killed by a billboard is just too tragic.] On an otherwise ordinary day, a sentence like this appeared out of nowhere in front of an ordinary person named Lu Jiuxiao. That was how he learned he was inside a comic. As an insignificant little extra, his greatest contribution was to die and
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I Told You, Everyone Who Studies Magic Is Crazy! 都说了学魔法的都有病！
[Not Western fantasy: a Chinese-style magic academy, absurd comedy + ensemble cast + hilarious daily life, with romance] [A ridiculous heroine causes trouble and leads everyone astray: a bunch of lunatic students hilariously learning magic] Li Wenyin woke up in a magical world and struggled to survive at a top-tier Chinese-style magic academy. She cut up the school flags to make uniforms, stole textbooks and sprinted for her life, and made the deans so furious their eyes nearly popped out. She w
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Apocalyptic Calamity: Who Let These Lunatics Save the World? 末日灾祸：谁让这群癫子去救世的
[No romance, ensemble cast, apocalyptic disasters, urban fantasy. Split up, and trouble strikes from every direction. Together, and the world faces annihilation.] (The animated series adaptation is now available.) The team’s main mission: save the world. Hidden achievement: elbow-check the world. Code of conduct: As long as we elbow-check fast enough, disaster will always be one step behind us! People around the world: Thanks to the Daxia Squad for the elbow-check survival kit. We refuse deliver
245.3kReads9.4Score52.1kShelves
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Interstellar: Who Did Those Five Beat Up This Time? 星际：那五个又把谁狠狠揍了？
[Military academy + mecha + no romance + coming of age + ensemble cast + light humor + five-person team + strong team spirit] For the first seventeen years of her life, Jiang Lin's goal was to get into Mingde's mechanical engineering department and become a highly paid mecha engineer. But an unexpected turn of events sent her to Dawn Military Academy and set her on the path to becoming an elite solo fighter. Inter-academy tournaments, live-fire drills, interstellar battles... Years later, five s
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I Get Apocalypse Protagonists Government Jobs 我给末世主角们发编制
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
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A Battle Royale at the Magic Academy, Where a Pack of Unhinged Students Gather for Make-Up Exams 魔法学院修罗场，疯批群聚补考场
[Magic + academy + competitions + progression and adventure + Western fantasy setting + slight ensemble cast]#Has a CP, both pure One second she was asleep, and the next she was being dumped. When Cynthia opens her eyes, she finds she has transmigrated into a fantastical, bizarre magical world and become a villainous female supporting character who shares her name. In this world, mages draw their power from different gods. Most awaken a divine sequence at the age of sixteen and receive a sacred
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The Pinker the Car, the Fiercer the Driver: I’m Claiming the Top Spot 车越粉人越狠这榜一我当定了
Strong female lead, no romance, no romantic subplots, clear-headed protagonist, ensemble cast, team-focused. Qi Xu wandered alone along this highway filled with danger and death for nearly four years. With disasters striking endlessly and monsters growing ever stronger, she gradually transformed from a frail woman who could not even kill a chicken into a seasoned player who killed without hesitation. Yet she still died regrettably inside a dungeon... Just before her death, she triggered the prec
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I Told You to Take the Throne, Not Conquer the Whole Galaxy 叫你继位，没让你创翻星际
[Urban Imagination + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + Interstellar] It all began when five burly men showed up at her house. “Miss Zhixin, we have been waiting for you!” Zhixin (not a text message!): What?! Overnight, she became the heir to East Xia’s foremost family, and discovered that this world didn’t seem quite right. Zhixin slapped her thigh. “We can talk about being the young mistress later. Looks like things are about to get interesting.” The principal set her up when she enrolled, so Zhixin
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Everyone on the Team Is a Villain Except Me 除我以外，全队反派
An original fictional society with lots of personal worldbuilding and foreshadowing. Don’t come in with your own preconceptions and impose them on the author or the story. No suggestions, please. There is a couple, but the romance doesn’t take up much of the story. An alternate “what if” storyline will be written after the ending. Readers with strict moral sensibilities, please stay away. The protagonists aren’t perfect, so don’t judge them by universal standards of morality. If this isn’t to yo
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In the Interstellar Era, I Summon the Glories of Ancient China 人在星际，召唤的是千古华夏
[Reviving Chinese civilization + summoning figures from Chinese mythology + civilization map] [A fun-loving heroine vs. a hero with a somewhat split personality, traditional boy-girl romance.] [The Primordial Era + Investiture of the Gods + Journey to the West + Classic of Mountains and Seas + famous historical figures, and more...] She woke up to find she had transmigrated into an interstellar age, where mythological figures appeared one after another, while Chinese mythology had faded into obs
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You Call That a Healer? She Bludgeons Everyone to Death 你管这叫奶妈？她把人头都锤爆了
The print edition of I Can Pluck the Stars is available on all platforms. Genius + rich woman from the start. The day Ning Ruan left her village, a menace appeared on the Nine Provinces Continent. A mage? A sword cultivator? No, she just wanted to be a healer! All the continent’s geniuses: Shut up, you poisonous healer! Later: “Help! I never knew healers could heal people to death until I met Ning Ruan!” “But isn’t she a metal-element spiritual adept?” “Isn’t she wood-element?” “She’s clearl
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My Junior Sister Is Overpowered, Yet Ridiculously Goofy 小师妹明明超强却过分沙雕
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
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My Sect Is Full of Hidden Dragons and Young Phoenixes, but My Junior Sister Is the Best of Them All 满宗卧龙凤雏，师妹她是个中翘楚
What should you do if you accidentally become the senior sister who serves as a stepping stone for the female lead in a novel? Gu Xia is in a complicated mood after from the start receiving a wonderful package deal: a huge drop in cultivation and a blind master who plays favorites. There’s no way she’s going to admit she did anything wrong. She hands back her disciple token, dusts herself off, and heads down the mountain to find a new backer. Instead, she leaps straight to the top and joins the
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Help! The New Junior Sister Is a Tortoise 救命！新来的小师妹是只王八
[Ensemble cast + no male lead] Li Yang transmigrates into a book, going from a young, eccentric woman to a little turtle in a wish-granting pool inside an illusion. Who would’ve thought she’d land in a love triangle from the start, with the male lead and the main villain fighting over her. According to the original story, she’s eventually contracted by the original male lead and becomes his greatest trump card on his path to immortality. She spends her entire turtle life taking hits for him: blo
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No One's More Devious Than Me, and No One's Worse Than Me 比我阴的没我坏，比我坏的不存在
The animated series is now available. Search for “I Became the Villains' Master, So How Could I Be a Good Person?” [No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Ensemble Cast of Villains with a Few Screws Loose] “This master will shelter you from wind and rain, but don't ask where the wind and rain came from.” The villain, badly wounded after being defeated by the protagonists, cries out, “Stop standing around and save me!” “Maybe you shouldn't have slacked off in your training. You can't even beat a bunch
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After Cultivating Immortality, I Became Heaven's Biggest Headache 修仙后我成了天道最头疼的存在
[Beloved by Everyone + Nontraditional Power Fantasy + Subverting Expectations + Ensemble Cast + System + No Romance] (Original title: Max-Level Lightning Spirit Root: Making the Entire Cultivation World Work Itself to the Bone) (The bonus chapters will include a romantic pairing) (Content warning: The heroine does not have everything go smoothly! This is not a power fantasy where she steamrolls everyone from the start! There are angsty moments. Read without overthinking.) When three-year-old Lin
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Our Entire Organization Is Trying to Keep Up the Act 我们整个组织都在努力伪装自己
Advanced technology, warriors temper their bodies. The nations have reached an unprecedented peak of technological development, while the mysterious forces operating behind the scenes are even more formidable. As the nations grow stronger, how long can the world’s apparent peace last? To prepare, the highest leaders of Guangxia held a secret meeting. In a seemingly casual conversation, they created Guangxia’s most fearsome guardian deity! Yu Jiu! From then on, the divine dragon rules the nine he
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On the Interstellar Battlefield, I Fly on a Sword! 星际战场，我！御剑飞行！
[Interstellar · Cultivation · Mecha · Military Academy · Ensemble Cast · Power Fantasy · No Romance] Ensemble cast! Ensemble cast! A huge ensemble cast! In the Renwu year of the Immortal Calendar, Shi An, sect master of Xuanqing, the foremost sect in the cultivation world, attempted to overcome the tribulation. Struck by the once-in-ten-thousand-years God-Slaying Heavenly Tribulation, she perished, reduced to ashes… In Star Year 424, a cultivator arrived on Federation Star 9527. That same year,
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Reborn: I Give the Nation a Cheat Code 重生之我给国家送外挂
[No romance + post-apocalyptic rebirth + ensemble cast + the nation steps in] (The first season of the animated series is out.) The Civilization Codices descended, devouring Blue Star in a dimensional attack and bringing the world to an end. Greed, envy, sloth... What secrets do the seven great Civilization Codices conceal? Yan Chu, a tomb keeper, was hit on the head by a brick and inexplicably reborn in the past. She decided to hand over what she had to the nation. With the Book of Fate and a b
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Cultivation Academy: The New Student Is Cheating Again! 修真学院：新生她又开挂！
[No romance] [Light ensemble cast] [Modern cultivation] [Growing heroine] [Five Realms team tournament in the later arc] [Happy ending] Cheng Qing, a high school graduate about to start college, transmigrates to another world. The university acceptance letter in her hand sends her straight to a cultivation academy there, and from then on, the students who have yet to graduate lead chaotic lives. Cheng Qing: Hehe, handsome guys and pretty girls, here I come!!! Senior sword cultivator: You mean t
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You Go Wild, I Farm, and We Take the Whole Village to Cultivate Immortality 你发癫，我种田，带着全村去修仙
[Reincarnated as a baby + ensemble cast + lighthearted healing + comedy + everyone’s favorite + cultivation] Previously titled: You Go Wild, I’ll Farm, and Take the Whole Village Cultivating / The Whole Village Is Full of Chosen Ones, and the Little Ancestor Is Unstoppable! Farming and growing up in the early stages, cultivation later on. No romance. After Ye Xi died, she was immediately reborn without drinking Granny Meng’s soup. And she was reborn in a world of cultivation, no less. The go
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Cultivation University: She Cultivates the Way of Heaven 修仙大学，她修的是天道
(Modern cultivation with no romance + academy life + spiritual qi revival) Also known as: An Undergraduate’s Daily Life at the Academy of Alchemy Five hundred years ago, a Taoist priest said that people should believe in science, then took off on a flying sword. From that day on, Blue Star officially entered the age of spiritual qi revival. Tang Jian Yue is an undergraduate studying alchemy at Jiangnan University. With only a fire spiritual root, she isn’t particularly outstanding. So Tang Jian
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Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚，道友何故下跪？
[No romance, ensemble cast] [A goofy trio of wandering cultivators] [Female-led cultivation progression, few scenes involving children, skip if that bothers you] Song Li transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the evil female supporting character. After bullying the heroine, she is thrown by her own brother into the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, where she dies at the hands of countless vengeful infant spirits. Waking inside the pagoda, she looks at the crying spirits and says, “I can be your mother
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Taking Over the Gaming World, Starting as a Noob Outsourcer 称霸游戏从菜鸡外包开始
Urban Online Gaming | Business Battle Comeback | Ensemble Cast Power Fantasy In the online game World of the Firmament, Jiang Che is a bottom-tier weakling everyone can push around. His gear gets stolen in dungeons, and when he goes out on quests, wealthy players hunt him down. Again and again, he’s crushed without the slightest chance to fight back. With nowhere left to turn, he takes on an outsourced game development project. Outsiders assume they’re just a cheap labor team, never realizing th
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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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Shocking! The Holy Sons and Daughters Are All So Awful 惊！圣子圣女们竟然都缺德
[Absurd humor and memes + no romance + laugh-out-loud comedy + ensemble cast] With a loud crash from the heavens, Chun Jin met her end on the spot. Dying was bad enough, but then she transmigrated into a book, and not only that, she became a character everyone hated! As the saying goes, a doting older brother spoils his little sister. In the original story, Chun Hanwen was the unluckiest guy around. Even a dog would have left its mark on him. But a joke should never be made at a person's expe
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The Cold Palace's Talent Reemployment Plan 冷宫人才再就业计划
The comic adaptation, My Cold Palace Bestie Squad, is now available. A word of warning: This story is red and professional, and puts the people first. The heroine seeks to liberate all the toiling masses of ancient times, regardless of gender. She won't be saving women alone. The story does not emphasize unconditional love for women. It objectively portrays the limitations and struggles of its female characters, does not pit men against women, and has both male and female characters among the he
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The Five of Us Are Bound to Tear the Sky Open 我们五个势必捅破天
[Ensemble cast + team adventure + no romance + cyberpunk + supernatural powers + virtual game] Yan Qi’s memories are sent 150 years into the future as she searches for a way to save the world. In this future city where neon and decay coexist, she becomes a debt slave. A robot, too. Stress? Not for her. Debt? Not a chance. Her connection to the present suddenly cuts off, and she’s been dumped in the future. No problem. She’ll clear away every obstacle and break every injustice with her own hands.
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The Wind Rises in Jingdu, Awaiting the Coming Rain 荆都风来待雨临
Overnight, a young blacksmith from a shop in Shengang becomes the last surviving grandson of a powerful family of scholars, whose influence once reached the highest halls of government. A pigeon’s whistle marks the way home, and old books conceal a conspiracy. With a nameless sword in hand, carrying his grandfather’s hopes and his adoptive father’s instructions, he steps into the turbulent world of Jingdu. The Shanfu Academy, deep within the Imperial College, is no ordinary place of learning. It
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My Junior Sister Is Insane, and Her Mental State Is Miles Ahead 小师妹疯癫，精神状态遥遥领先
{No Romance + Ensemble Cast + Everyone Has Two Faces + Multiple Storylines + Echoes of Fate + The Entire Main Cast Is Platonic} (Also known as: A Thousand Strategies, One Wager) Gathering splendor, Xie Ning; may you flourish through the years. They wished for her to be by their side every day, safe and well year after year. But the world rarely goes as people wish. When the pale red lotus blooms, the blood-lit barrier of ghostly fireflies rises. From the moment Xie Yang stepped back into the dea
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Is There Even One Normal Person on Your Demon-Slaying Squad?! 你这斩魔小队也没个正常人啊！
[No Romance + Ensemble Cast + Passionate Action + All-Female Main Cast] Others slay demons with profound cultivation and formations that reach the heavens. They slay demons like this: Never mind the details, I'm charging in first! We'll figure out the tactics as we fight. They're only rookies, yet they keep challenging demon servants far stronger than themselves. They win, but end up covered in wounds. Still, these girls always forget the pain as soon as they've healed. If demons threaten the wo
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Do Punk Girls Need to Learn to Repair Mechs Too? 精神小妹也要修机甲吗
Wang Tianwei transmigrated from the apocalypse into the body of a “punk girl” in the interstellar era. Now she has to keep up with the times, study hard, become a mecha engineer, and deal with psychological and emotional problems too!? Someone who spent ten years fighting zombies wouldn't know the first thing about that! So she waved a hand and transferred schools! But everyone and everything at her new school reeks of “unorthodox cultivation”... The interschool tournament is streaming live, and
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