Books That Hook You from the Start, Without Brain-Dead Characters or Stupid Plotlines 开篇上瘾的好书，不无脑不降智
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- 101 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 1.4MReads9.3Score171.5kShelves
- 102 EN 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 “ 1.6MReads9.3Score315.2kShelves
- 103 System Tasks Too Hard? The Nation Says, “Leave It to Me” 系统任务太难？国家：放着我来 [Signed for print publication] [An unconventional story about turning in a System, focusing on the protagonist's growth and the country reaching out to him in return] Good news! I've got a System! Bad news! The System seems to have a bug and keeps trying to kill me! Faced with a System devoted to erasing its Host, Li Ce made a decision that went against his ancestors' wishes. He turned the System over to the country! P.S. The author has only posted on Dianzi. It's a great book, but I'm not very 2.3MReads9.2Score381.1kShelves
- 104 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 763.1kReads9.5Score75.3kShelves
- 105 You're Supposed to Fight Monsters, So Why Are You Fighting Me! 你们刷怪啊，刷我干嘛！ [Print edition deal signed: no System, plot-driven, fast-paced from the start, no mindless decisions, thrilling and exciting, hard-hitting fights, told from the monsters' side!] Ever since the words [Divine Order 001: Undercover] appeared in Jiang Xia's mind, he felt that he wasn't normal. No matter what he ate or how much he ate, he never felt the slightest bit full. Hungry. So hungry he was about to lose his mind! Then, at the school beauty's eighteenth birthday party, he smelled the presen 508.7kReads9.1Score41.3kShelves
- 106 I, the Supreme Being of Old, Defy the Rules When I Strike 我，旧日至高位格，出手无视规则 I was once the world's first transcendent, a pioneer who ventured into the unknown. When I returned from two hundred years of being lost, the world had changed, and the mighty ran rampant. They said I was merely a relic abandoned by the times, the remnant of an ignorant fantasy. There was no place for me in the new world. What they did not know was this: I had witnessed the most insane horrors and the grandest downfalls. Dormant within me was an exalted existence capable of shattering the very l 304.3kReads9.3Score26.5kShelves
- 107 Jiahao Gets Stronger? Sword Dancing in the Rain on the Field to Open Heaven's Gate 嘉豪就变强？操场雨中舞剑开天门 [Jiahao? Sword Saint!!] [Invincible] [Ultimate Show-Off] Lu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens a System at eighteen. He thinks he's about to reach the peak of life. Instead, he awakens the Jiahao Ascension System. And so Lu Ming gets started with his Jiahao antics. "A grudge from ten years ago, and you're just going to let it go?" "Didn't you say Jiahao spawns on the sports field? I've done two laps and still haven't seen him." "A hero descends from the heavens! Fury twists his f 111.6kReads8.4Score23.5kShelves
- 108 EN You're Speedrunning High-Level Martial Arts While Others Suffer? 别人练功吃苦，你直接速通高武？ [Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r 142.9kReads9.1Score10.8kShelves
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At the Demon Suppression Bureau, I Kill, Never Save, and Get Explosive Traits 人在镇妖司，只杀不渡爆词条
Transmigration + System + ruthless action + power fantasy + no goody-two-shoes hero Transmigrated into the Great Xia Dynasty, where demons run rampant. Lu Chen awakens a trait-fusion System! Slay a demon and get a trait. Traits advance through white, green, blue, purple, gold, and red. With top-tier red traits at his disposal, his combat power defies the heavens. While others cross the river to atone for their sins, I slay demons and quell chaos! Join the Demon Suppression Bureau, wield a b
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All Things as One: Transmigrating Across Light-Years to Protect You 万有一体：穿越光年守护你
Fantasy cultivation, Eastern Zen, and post-apocalyptic science fiction intertwine in a beautiful romance between immortal and mortal. An immortal spirit descends to the mortal world to turn the tables and change her fate. With an expansive imagination and a plot full of twists and turns, the story blends cultivation and tribulations, a love spanning dimensions, and the secrets behind the universe’s ascension to a higher dimension. Set against Earth’s ascension to a higher dimension, the novel fo
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Who Awakes First from the Great Dream: 0202 大梦谁先觉：0202
At the start of the Gengzi year, disaster fell from the sky. A reporter who claimed to come from a “civilized country” looked down on this “barbaric land” mired in calamity. He was given to sneering and distorting the truth, making no effort to hide his biting sarcasm. His words laid bare his arrogance and contempt. He turned a blind eye to the locals’ suffering and cared nothing for the harm his remarks caused them. In his eyes, they were no more than ants struggling to survive. Yet no one expe
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The Star River's Abandoned Young Master 星河弃少
Su Mo was once a core disciple of the Star Evolution Dao Sect in the Star River Star Domain. When the sect was besieged and destroyed by extraterrestrial demons, he carried its supreme Star Core treasure, tore through the planes, and fell onto Blue Star. He was reborn as the despised, disowned young master of the Su family in Jiangcheng, Huaxia. A marriage contract was torn up in public by Cheng Chuchu, the heiress of a top-tier family. She publicly humiliated him, saying he came from a lowly ba
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Ascension, Yet No Immortality 羽化非仙
[No System, no golden finger, no harem, not a transmigration story] [There is no sect competition, and yet it is the truest sect competition of all: the losers will see their lives, sects, traditions, and even their entire races erased.] The righteous path is not as bright and noble as it appears; The demonic path is not as cruel and bloodthirsty as it is portrayed; But evil cultivators are even more wicked than anyone could imagine. Here, there is love that spans ten thousand years, hatred that
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- 114 The Immortal World's Idol 仙界的爱豆 The Idol of the Immortal Realm 281Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Words That Never Miss 言出次随 Say it, and it happens next time 863Reads—Score—Shelves
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Beacon Fires in the Long Night 长夜燃烽
[No System] [Eastern Fantasy] [Military Rise to Power] [Faction Building] [Outsmarting Every Crisis] The charges say that Han Lian abandoned his post before Yanhuai City fell, crossed Suolong Slope, and opened the gates to the enemy. But he was the one who sealed that road shut. To survive long enough to uncover the truth, and to protect Xie Sui'an, the nine-year-old daughter of a fallen comrade, Han Lian presses his bloodied thumbprint onto a grain-transport transfer order and sets off in ch
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Is Your Life Worth Enough to Pay? 你的命，够付么？
I crave madness, so what do I fear from Heaven's punishment? I have cast off all worldly attachments, so what do I fear? Above all dominance, I am the one who rules! Watch as the protagonist, Wu Tian, cultivates step by step, challenges Heaven, and fights his way from modern society, the Human Realm, into other worlds, ultimately reaching the pinnacle!
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I Followed a Beauty into a Cave, and Ten Years Later I Became a Monster 追美女进山洞，十年后我成了妖怪
I followed a beauty into a mountain cave. Ten years later, I became a monster.
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- 119 A Valiant Woman in Troubled Times: One Lone Blade to Avenge a Sea of Blood 乱世烈女：孤刀报尽血海仇 A Fierce Woman in Troubled Times: One Lone Blade to Avenge a Blood Feud 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 A Fox's Claw Marks Appeared on the Bride's Back on Our Wedding Night 新婚夜，新娘背上现出狐伤 On their wedding night, a fox-shaped wound appears on the bride's back. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Six Years in the Cold Palace: I Nurtured an Emperor for the Ages with My Life 冷宫六年，我以命养出千古明君 Six Years in the Cold Palace, I Nurtured an Eternal Wise Ruler with My Life 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Clear Words Hidden in Reed Leaves, Carried on the Wind for Twenty Years 芦叶藏清词，风吹二十年 Pure Words Hidden in Reed Leaves, Carried by the Wind for Twenty Years 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Longqing Murders: A Scholar's Wrongful Conviction, and I Set His Spirit Wife Straight 隆庆奇案：秀才冤狱，我判灵妻归正 The Longqing Mystery: A Scholar's Wrongful Imprisonment, I Rule That His Spirit Wife Be Set Right —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 I Didn't Kill My Best Friend, But He Did Die Because of Me 我没动手杀挚友，但他确实因我凉透了 I didn't kill my best friend, but he did end up dead because of me. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Hongwu's Wrath: A Lowly Clerk Defies Heaven, Three Hundred Households Lose Their Heads 洪武怒：小吏抗天，三百户枭首 Hongwu's Fury: A Petty Official Defies Heaven, Three Hundred Households Beheaded —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 The Tang Banner in the Far Reaches 绝域唐旗 The Tang Banner in the Forbidden Lands 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 A Carefree Fairy Descends to Earth and Takes the Internet Giants by Storm 逍遥仙女下凡，卷爆互联网大厂 A carefree fairy descends to earth and takes the internet giants by storm 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Ink and Tang Style: The Biography of Xue Tao 笺染唐风：薛涛传 Ink on Silk, Tang-Era Style: The Story of Xue Tao 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Burning the Manuscript at Qingzhi Cove: The Southern Song Poetess Refuses to Cross Over 焚稿青芝坞：南宋才女不肯渡 Burning the Drafts at Qingzhi Dock: The Southern Song Talented Lady Refuses to Cross the River —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Pines and Cypresses at Xiling Betray Our Promised Time 西陵松柏负佳期 Pines and cypresses of Xiling, missing the promised day 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Carefree Immortal: After Descending to the Mortal Realm, I Ascended by Scrounging Meals 逍遥仙：下凡后，我靠蹭饭飞升了 Carefree Immortal: After Descending to the Mortal Realm, I Ascended by Scoring Free Meals 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 I Became Fahai and Discovered Bai Suzhen Was My Ex-Girlfriend 穿成法海，发现白素贞是我前女友 I Transmigrated as Fahai and Discovered That Bai Suzhen Was My Ex-Girlfriend 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Unluckiest Young Master in the Great Song Dynasty 大宋第一倒霉少爷 The Song Dynasty's Unluckiest Young Master 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Warlord of a Chaotic Era: I, Yang Zhong, Lay the Foundation for Sui's Eternal Empire 乱世战神：我，杨忠，奠基大隋万古江山 War-Torn Era’s War God: I, Yang Zhong, Laid the Foundation for the Sui Dynasty’s Eternal Reign 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 No More Meetings at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Are Selling Riverside Apartments in Heaven 鹊桥别相会了，牛郎织女去天庭卖银河江景房 No more meeting at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl head to Heaven to sell Milky Way-view apartments 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 I'm Dead! Bajie Works with His Old Flame at Huaguoshan Tourism 笑死！八戒在花果山文旅和旧情人上班 I’m dead! Bajie is working at Huaguoshan Tourist Resort with his old flame. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 The Pig Who Couldn’t Escape Gao Laozhuang: Bajie Works Like a Beast at Gao Laozhuang 逃不出高老庄的猪，八戒在高老庄当牛马 The pig who can't escape Gao Laozhuang: Bajie works like a beast of burden at Gao Laozhuang 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Master Sent Me Down the Mountain to Break Off My Engagement and Marry My Senior Sister 高手下山，师父让我退了婚娶师姐
Little Taoist Lu Xuan is ordered by his master to go down the mountain and break off his engagement. His fiancée, the Su family, gives him a hard time, but his senior sisters arrive to help. They also reveal a secret from eighteen years ago: his parents' deaths were no accident. His fiancée's grandfather, Su Zhenhai, was responsible...
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Owing a Hundred Trillion, I Grow Stronger the More I Borrow and Become a Martial God 欠债百万亿，我越借越强修成武神
My name is Qi Zhai, and I'm a dirt-poor laborer who earns forty spirit stones a month. A System suddenly appeared in my head. Its first words were: [Go borrow money. If you can't, you'll be erased.] I had only a few coins in my pocket, but I screwed up my courage and barged into the lair of the biggest loan shark in town. To my surprise, the more debt I took on, the stronger I became. Then things got even more outrageous: paying it back came with a backlash. Debt makes you stronger. Paying it ba
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I’ve Been Possessed for Ninety Thousand Years 我被夺舍九万年
I transmigrated, and then... I was possessed again. I was possessed for ninety thousand years. So, now that I've finally returned, let's see how I conquer the cultivation world and build a mighty empire.
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