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1. 51 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 214.5kReads9.6Score26.4kShelves
2. 52 男 My Timid, Beautiful Husband Is Spoiled and Comforted by the Villain Every Night 男妻又怂又美，反派夜夜宠夜夜哄 Wind, Wine, and Moon风酒月Two Male Leads336k WordsCompleted [Scheming, all-powerful villainous tycoon / timid, beautiful, obedient husband who can’t escape] Two years ago, Mu Xingci was framed by a coworker. To protect himself, he registered his marriage to a mysterious man, only to be stunned when he saw the man’s name after signing the papers. Yin Lu, the major villain in a story that ran for three thousand chapters, who controlled everything for 2,999 of them and died alongside the male lead in the final chapter, had become his husband in every se 11.8kReads8.4Score1.6kShelves
3. 53 我 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！ Nameless End断末无铭Urban3.4M WordsOngoing [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 23.6kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
4. 54 万 A Straight Man Surrounded by S-Class Alphas 万人迷top Reject Pure Water拒清水Two Male Leads198k WordsCompleted [Print edition contracted] [Transmigrates into a book + Warmhearted, straightforward, handsome bottom x Sick, deranged, S-rank gorgeous top + Custom ABO setting + Coercive romance + Everyone’s darling + Over-the-top melodrama + Tense romantic push and pull] Jiang Chaoyang suddenly became self-aware and discovered that he was actually a character in a novel. In the real world, there was no such thing as ABO genders! Just then, the protagonist arrived in this world with a System. To come back to 58.4kReads9.4Score9.3kShelves
5. 55 我 I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌 Azure Company蔚蓝公司Urban2.2M WordsCompleted They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52 223.3kReads8.9Score43.8kShelves
6. 56 孩 My Kids Become Famous Online, and My Secret Identity as Their Orphanage Director Is Exposed 孩子全网出名，我院长马甲被曝光 Rainy Days Keep the Guests下雨天留客Urban427k WordsCompleted [Livestream Revelations+Champions+Intangible Cultural Heritage Heirs+Ensemble Cast] [Boxing/Lion Dance/Culinary Genius/Table Tennis Champion] [Traditional Chinese Medicine/Shadow Puppetry/Sugar Painting/Sichuan Opera Face-Changing] Chu Chen transmigrated to a parallel world and took over his family’s orphanage as soon as he arrived. He bound himself to the Orphanage Director Reward System. Whenever an orphan at the orphanage achieved something, he would receive all kinds of rewards. Having grown 607Reads8.7Score126Shelves
7. 57 觉 Awaken as Qin Shi Huang, and Even Valkyries Must Kneel! 觉醒秦始皇，女武神也得跪！ A Little Libationer一个小祭酒Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Power Fantasy] [Passionate] [No Romance] [Conquering the World Alongside Emperor Qin] [Not many reviews yet, so don't rely on the rating] I transmigrated to a parallel world with a broken historical record. Here, alien beasts from the void run rampant, and humans can only protect themselves by awakening their “Heavenly Souls.” And I, Lu He, a history graduate student, became the only person in this world who knew all the spoilers! Other people have to guess which spirit they'll awaken. I can li 1.5kReads7.0Score127Shelves
8. 58 我 I'm a God? Don't Spread Rumors! You Might Get Banned! 我是神？别造谣！小心封号！ Writing Is Just Going Crazy写文就是发癫Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [No female lead + no harem + unconventional ensemble cast + high-energy growth] The strongest permission-hog is forced to save the world Spiritual qi revival? Superpower awakenings? The world ending? This world has already been shot full of holes by these cheaters! Gu Xing, an utterly ordinary “G-rank loser,” awakens the ultimate cheat: [Administrator Privileges] Skill One: Warning Skill Two: Ban Passive Trait: Succubus Physique (debuff) [Dog-headed emoji for dear life] When a villain uses chea 21.1kReads9.0Score3.7kShelves
9. 59 让 I Was Asked to Manage a Class of Good-for-Nothings, So How Did It Become the Martial God Hall? 让你代管废材班，怎么成武神殿了 A Heart Facing the Sun向阳的心Urban4.9M WordsOngoing [Ensemble cast + slow-burn character growth early on + fake enlightenment + comedy + teacher-student bond (it only takes off in the middle and later parts, so don’t read if that’s not your thing)] Three homeroom teachers were driven away in half a month. Class Five, Grade One was full of little tyrants, and every student was a hopeless martial arts talent. Even with the director of academic affairs offering an extremely generous salary, no one would take charge of them. That was when Su Yang act 67.9kReads9.4Score5.5kShelves
10. 60 全 Dream Masters for All: My Dreams Come from China's Ancient Past 全民梦师：我的梦境来自千古华夏 It's Wind Chime Duck是风铃鸭Urban644k WordsCompleted [Chinese Gods + Underworld and Heavenly Court + Dreamweaver + Livestreaming] Giant star beasts descended, and the final battle began. Countless civilizations fell, and a rift opened in the heritage of Chinese civilization! Only those who awakened as one-in-ten-thousand dreamweavers could stand against the star beasts! Su Mu transmigrated to this world. From the start, he awakened an S-rank talent and joined the global dreamweaver entrance exam! First question: Create a dream of a dead world. Whi 15.8kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
11. 61 红 Red and White Wedding 红白囍 AyeAyeCaptainTwo Male Leads186k WordsCompleted [Republican-era nostalgia + supernatural + two male leads + equally matched powerhouses + pure-hearted madmen] [Brilliant and passionate young diviner Tian Suanzi, Mu Geshen X cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside heir to a family of physicians, the saintly doctor Chai Shuxin] A funeral is mournful, a wedding joyful, I travel from the world of the living to the Yellow Springs, Prepare incense, candles, paper horses, and a bridal sedan, Lady Meng offers us the nuptial wine. White paper, red rob 55.9kReads9.7Score14.3kShelves
12. 62 游 Game Invasion: Stealing the Male and Female Leads’ Opportunities Is Addictive 游戏入侵 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 1.2MReads9.5Score105.5kShelves
13. 63 满 Reborn at Max Level: A Washed-Up Star Becomes a Top-Tier Star Through Horror Variety Shows 满级重生：糊咖靠恐怖综艺成顶流 The Mountain Speaks Not, Twelve山不语十二Two Male Leads744k WordsCompleted [Showbiz livestream + lighthearted supernatural thrills + sweet romance] [Two male leads: the bottom is strong and crazy, the top is a clingy, scheming sweetheart] Jiang Nuo is hated across the internet. He has the looks to match his acting skills, and his only fans are antis. The one thing no one can find fault with is his face, so stunning it seems like Nuwa showed off when she made it. After dying, he was thrown into an infinite world of deadly challenges. He endured countless trials, reached 9.6kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
14. 64 大 First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 638.1kReads9.5Score52.6kShelves
15. 65 附 Additional Inheritance 附加遗产 Shui Qiancheng水千丞Two Male Leads467k WordsCompleted Yaya was gone. She had killed herself. Though they weren't related by blood, she had been his older sister for over ten years. Now she had vanished just like that, leaving him a sizable inheritance and... a child. He was only nineteen that year, still a child himself, yet somehow he had to look after a teenager. The kid wasn't difficult to care for. The moodiness and rebelliousness of adolescence were nowhere to be seen. He was brilliant, far more mature and levelheaded than his age suggested, a 56.5kReads9.5Score16.7kShelves
16. 66 重 Reborn: Summer in Full Bloom 重生之花开盛夏 Yonezu Kenshi米津玄师Urban104k WordsOngoing My new work is out! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Not so childish, but full of youthful feeling, quite interesting

17. 67 竹 My Childhood Friend Spoils Me More! Who Still Chases the Cold School Hunk? 竹马更宠！谁还追高冷校草啊？ Moonfield Mountain Fox月野山狐Modern Romance303k WordsCompleted [The print edition of Heart-Pounding Secret Crush: My Childhood Friend Is Beautiful and Sweet-Voiced is now available. Search for it on major platforms. Details: @Yueye Shanhu] [Sweet Campus Romance | Childhood Friend Takes the Lead | The Pursuer’s Road to Regret | Secret Crush] Qiao Zhen dreams of fragments of memories from her past life: “For seven years, she followed the aloof campus heartthrob Ji Xian, obedient and gentle, offering him her whole heart, only to be casually cast aside.” When 32.1kReads9.5Score3.9kShelves
18. 68 坠 Falling Into His Midsummer 坠入他的盛夏 What Tree Grows Peanuts?花生什么树Modern Romance478k WordsCompleted [From secret crush to mutual love + both pursue each other + healing and redemption + slow-burn romance + light ensemble cast] When she was fifteen, a boy swept into Si Qing’s world without warning, carried on the orange-gold summer breeze. Qi Fang came from one of the most illustrious families in the capital. With the carefree air of a playboy, he seemed to never let his gaze linger on anyone. When she started university, a video of Si Qing speaking as the freshman representative was posted to 31.1kReads9.4Score5kShelves
19. 69 校 My Campus Crush Cheated, So I Married the Crown Prince. Now He’s Lost It 校草出轨，我闪婚太子爷，他疯了 Little Fuzzball小毛球Modern Romance335k WordsCompleted [Reborn in school + possessive childhood friend steals her away + heartbroken campus heartthrob pursues his wife in tears + living-under-one-roof romance + 1v1 sweet love] It isn't until she dies that Su Niansheng learns her marriage was a lie. The campus heartthrob has been deeply in love with his first love all along, and married her only for revenge. Reborn back in her school days, she returns to the family of the richest man and impulsively marries her childhood friend, the young heir. She n 55.8kReads8.7Score8.4kShelves

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    I feel good about myself ૮ ⑉ ᗜ ⑉ ა

20. 70 稀 A Rare Female Becomes an Interstellar Heartthrob 稀有雌性成为星际万人迷 Little Fuzzball小毛球Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted [Interstellar beastfolk + female supremacy and male subordination + beloved heroine + male rivalry and a battle royale + everyone is chaste] Su Miantang transmigrates into the body of a rare female and awakens SSSS-rank pheromones that make everyone fall for her. A group of powerful figures from across the stars pursue her frantically, hoping to receive her soothing touch so they won't turn into beasts. The White Tiger God of War, the lion prince, the panda king, the dragon chieftain... powerful 45kReads9.0Score4.3kShelves
21. 71 第 The First Female Marshal Is Reborn: Disguised as a Man, She Captures the Emperor’s Heart 第一女帅重生，女扮男装惹君心 Chili Pepper Fried with Garlic辣椒炒蒜Ancient Romance461k WordsCompleted [Satisfying power plays + woman disguised as a man + palace intrigue and rebirth + powerful heroine adored by all + nation and home + heroine stands alone, with the ultimate tragic beauty] The greatest female marshal of the Li Dynasty gave her life for her country. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the frail ninth prince, struggling to walk and at the mercy of anyone who wished to humiliate her! She beats up her eighth brother, kills a ferocious tiger, and makes a name for herself. 139Reads8.0Score—Shelves
22. 72 军 The Military Big Shot Can't Hide It! She's the Real Heiress of the Underworld 军方大佬藏不住！她是黑道真千金 Chili Pepper Fried with Garlic辣椒炒蒜Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted A satisfying secret-identity story, with thrilling, patriotic action. Multiple secret identities: female special agent (special forces sniper) × powerful Beijing big shot (Female-led! Super cool! Sweet romance! Face-slapping!! Beloved by all!) “She’s a country girl who couldn’t even finish school. What could she possibly amount to? It’s a waste of food to keep feeding her! She should just get married already!” When country girl Wen Ni returns home after three years away, she’s burdened with a mo 21.4kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
23. 73 我 I'll Wait for You Among the Thorns 我在荆棘深处等你 Half-Moon Cat月半猫Modern Romance187k WordsCompleted Mu Jinnian thought the woman named Cheng Nuanxi had no heart. So he ruined her face, cut off every path before her, and froze her heart. Only in the end did he realize that what he had carved and nurtured, cut by cut, was never hatred, but the love she had never lost in all her life. Cheng Nuanxi thought she had come to repay a mountain of debts. Later, she learned that Mu Jinnian had only ever wanted one thing from her. “One chance, Cheng Nuanxi.” Give us one more chance, a chance to fall in lo —Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 74 奶 The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Cutie Is Doted on by Her Six Older Brothers 奶包三岁半：被六个哥哥团宠 Su Xiaoyue苏小月Modern Romance227k WordsCompleted [Doted on by everyone + super sweet] Three-year-old Mianmian is found by the wealthy Chu family. Her billionaire father and six fiercely sister-obsessed brothers spoil her rotten! The people who used to bully her in the village are now kneeling and begging for forgiveness. Her billionaire father, chairman of the Imperial Group: “Buy Mianmian every limited-edition dress in the country.” Her eldest brother, the next CEO of Imperial Group: “A hundred-billion-yuan deal? I’d rather go home and spend 933Reads8.6Score102Shelves
25. 75 团 The Beloved Little Sister: Seven Powerful Brothers Uncover Her Secret Identity 团宠妹控：被七个大佬哥哥扒马甲 Su Xiaoyue苏小月Modern Romance141k WordsCompleted [Everyone’s darling + secret identity + play the pig to eat the tiger + extremely sweet romance warning!] The Chu family, the richest family in the city, has finally found their real daughter! Her seven powerhouse big brothers spoil her rotten! The eldest brother is the CEO of Empire Group, the second is a tech genius, the third is a top-tier lawyer, the fourth is a miraculous doctor, the fifth is a top-tier star and bewitching movie emperor, the sixth is a hacking expert, and the seventh is the 577Reads7.2Score113Shelves
26. 76 死 The Harder My Nemesis Kisses, the More Fiercely They Make Up 死对头吻得越狠，哄得越凶 Yangyang Loves Porridge羊羊爱吃粥Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted [ABO, two male leads + both alphas, both devoted + sweet romance + sworn enemies who flirt with each other] [Arrogant, easily flustered bottom VS deceptively sweet, seductive top] [Audiobook with real voice actors] Sworn enemies + childhood friends Before he loses his memory: “Bastard.” After he loses his memory: “What a catch. I can't resist him.” A month ago, Lu Zhuo was the designated heir to the Lu conglomerate. Then a DNA report hit him like a brick: he and his sworn enemy, Huo Qinye, had 32.5kReads9.1Score5.1kShelves
27. 77 谁 Whose Prisoner Gets Cuddled and Coaxed by a Mad General? 谁家囚奴被疯批将军抱在怀里哄啊 Yangyang Loves Porridge羊羊爱吃粥Two Male Leads538k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + seductive pursuit + coercive love + rekindled romance after heartbreak] [Audiobook now available] [Fragile, weepy, down-and-out, universally adored young master × scheming, devoted, dangerously obsessive great general] Su Yuqing was so good-looking, but with his elder brother's influence in the capital, no one dared make a move on him. But life is unpredictable. The Su family was arrested, and Su Yuqing was exiled to a bitterly cold place a thousand miles away. The once-arrog 8.4kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
28. 78 极 Irresistibly Tempting! Master Shao’s White Moonlight Is Wild and Unhinged 极限撩惹！邵爷的白月光又疯又野 Yu of the Three-Tiered Tower三重楼喻Two Male Leads671k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads, 1v1, Mutual Devotion, Both Strong] [Cold, world-weary, sharp-tongued beauty and mercenary powerhouse vs. the domineering, spoiled young heir of Beijing's elite] Shen Qingyan, the illegitimate son of Beijing's wealthy Shen family, looked delicate and soft, but was astonishingly skilled in a fight. After years abroad, his return sent Beijing's elite circles into a frenzy: “The Shao family's young heir's unattainable first love is back?!” Shen Qingyan opened a browser and silently 38.2kReads9.6Score5.1kShelves

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