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1. 101 大 Grandmaster Zun 大师尊 Cheng Ru成如Eastern Fantasy409k WordsOngoing A seasoned old hand from the martial world transmigrates into the cultivation world. Thanks to his wife's connections, he gets into an immortal sect. Senior sisters, junior sisters, saintesses, grand elders, sect masters... Pure wish fulfillment, utterly invincible, but not brainless. Overwhelming combat power, a sharp mind, devious beneath a good-guy exterior, and full of schemes. He borrows the tiger's skin to wave a great banner, winning people over with virtue. He throws lime in their eyes a 10.2kReads—Score579Shelves

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   A veteran in the world of martial arts traveled through the world of cultivation. Relying on his wife's nepotism, he entered the fairy gate. Senior sister, junior sister, saint, great elder, sect leader... Pure and cool, invincible, not brainless, with explosive force, absolute IQ, dark belly, good person on the surface, but full of evil. Pull the tiger's skin, pull the banner, and convince people with virtue. Sprinkle lime, knock on the sap, and use skill to break the force. Talking about north and south, talking about east and west, his words are invincible. He became a son-in-law from an immortal family and eventually became a great master. [Top post]

2. 102 小 The Tiny Boss Is Everyone's Favorite, and She Coddles Her Scumbag Dad Like He's Her Placenta 小小老子当团宠，把渣爹当胎盘哄 Hu Yu蝴俞Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The print edition of A Boat in a Single Thought is now available on all platforms. [Comedy + raising kids + everyone’s favorite + 1v1 romance + devoted couple + the adult heroine’s love interest is Lu Jinghuai] [A funny, sunny heroine who actually has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve x a saintly beauty who is really a sinister, venomous schemer] Ji Nian transmigrates into a novel where the heroine is adored by everyone, becoming the universally disliked biological daughter of the heroine’s pow 109.5kReads9.6Score12.6kShelves

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3. 103 被 Driven to Death by Her Cultivator Mistress? I Take Up My Sword and Storm the Ninth Heaven 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄 Bian Lu边鹿Ancient Romance710k WordsCompleted [Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho 90.6kReads9.6Score11.9kShelves
4. 104 我 I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界搞内卷 Cong Yue丛月Ancient Romance3.2M WordsCompleted [Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn 155.5kReads9.5Score24.2kShelves
5. 105 游 Game Invasion 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 1.3MReads9.5Score112.3kShelves
6. 106 超 Unbelievably Wild! Six Uncles Protect the Little Firecracker, So Who Dares Mess with Her? 超野！小疯批六个舅舅护着谁敢惹 Li Yaoyao梨窈窈Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The short drama, The Fake Heiress Tears Up the Script, is now streaming [Showbiz + absurd humor and memes + everyone’s favorite + wild imagination + gossip + going off the rails] Chi Qian failed her tribulation and returned to the real world, only to discover she was the villainous fake heiress in a novel! The plot had already reached the point where the real heiress came back, and Chi Qian was about to be kicked out of the family home. A broken engagement, a wave of online hate, and a grueso 164.5kReads9.6Score19.2kShelves
7. 107 嘎 I’m Going Wild Without a Care, Let Me Enjoy My Idleness in the Imperial Ancestral Temple 嘎嘎发疯不内耗，老娘摆烂享太庙 Not Dim-Witted After Waking Up睡醒不呆Modern Romance2.6M WordsCompleted [Print edition signed for publication] [Insanely outrageous wish-fulfillment + a few secret identities + savage online roasts + devoted romance with both leads’ first love + dazzling the world] In her previous life, she died with regrets. Now she has been reborn in the middle of a massive online hate campaign! If they’re going to hate on her anyway, she might as well stop pretending! Her scumbag fiancé gets shoved into a cold pool, then coughs and blames her? Sheng Wenyin: “What, caught a cold? 152.8kReads9.6Score17.9kShelves
8. 108 荒 I Rule the Desert Island Variety Show, Top-Tier Star. You’re Strong as a Wild Boar 荒岛综艺我称王，顶流野猪你的强 Beyond the Mountains山外Modern Romance296k WordsCompleted Jian Xun is a wild boar. Right now, she’s being forced to serve as a laborer in this world. With an alcoholic father, a mother who favors her son, a hard life, and a broken family. The little wild boar sneered: “You don’t know when you’ve got it good. You people are beyond saving!” To her son-obsessed adoptive mother, she smiled and suggested: “Why not just marry your son? You can be his wife and his mother. Everyone will praise you for managing the household!” To the arrogant male lead whose be 13.6kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves
9. 109 女 The Queen Starts Out as a Top-Tier Star 女王从顶流做起 I Took Great Pains我煞费苦心Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Print edition preorders open September 5, 2026, at 7:00 p.m.] From the start, she transmigrates and nearly kills her younger brother. If she doesn't complete the System's missions, she'll be punished with electric shocks. Following the System's instructions, Nan Xiangwan joins a survival show for aspiring idols. While the other young women sing and dance... Nan Xiangwan: “I'll perform a brick-breaking trick with my bare hands!” 52kReads9.5Score5.7kShelves
10. 110 攀 Climbing the Social Ladder 攀高枝 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance424k WordsCompleted [Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping 189.6kReads9.6Score34.5kShelves
11. 111 何 Why Not Cross the River Together? 何不同舟渡 Xian Yuke羡鱼珂Ancient Romance483k WordsCompleted "The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten 172.1kReads9.7Score50kShelves
12. 112 十 The End of Ten Days 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.8MReads9.9Score232.6kShelves
13. 113 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted 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. 184.1kReads9.7Score19.9kShelves
14. 114 玫 The Rose Crown 玫瑰冠冕 Jiujiu Qi久久萋Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us 81.9kReads9.6Score9.8kShelves
15. 115 双 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban2.6M WordsOngoing Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 257Reads7.2Score149Shelves

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16. 116 在 In the ’80s, Pretending to Be a Returnee Tycoon 在八零，伪装归国神豪 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban237k WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an overworked office drone in 2026, accidentally transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1980s. Fortunately, he can still return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 2.3kReads—Score127Shelves
17. 117 双 Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Historical477k WordsOngoing In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 22kReads7.2Score1.7kShelves
18. 118 听 Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌 Splashing Water from the Far Bank隔岸拍水Urban186k WordsOngoing 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 488Reads—Score—Shelves

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    "Tingfenglouge" is the first sadomasochistic emotional novel that is true to its true feelings and is a timeless classic. It is lonely and speechless. It makes you laugh out loud in the midst of sorrow and makes you regret everything. Everything is worth it.

19. 119 两 Crossing Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban361k WordsOngoing Drop the pretense of being a decent person and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to waste your energy on inner turmoil; if something’s wrong, just lose it. Rather than make yourself suffer, make life difficult for someone else. That’s Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrates to Beiping on the eve of liberation. The booming economy of 2026 and the war-torn year of 1949: two vastly different eras lie before him. 5.5kReads5.8Score280Shelves

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    Crisis because he knows five

20. 120 在 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Urban1.5M WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 6.1kReads5.8Score284Shelves
21. 121 你 Is Your Life Worth Enough to Pay? 你的命，够付么？ Not Autumn Zhang不秋张Urban541k WordsOngoing 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! 503Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A fairy tale for adults about cultivating immortality, which is exciting, lustful, and outrageous. "Is your life enough to pay for it?" ", Written by Bu Qiuzhang, the male protagonist is dumped at the beginning and is in poverty. He accidentally obtained the inheritance of cultivating immortals. He practices to be supreme and forgets his feelings, but he insists on controlling the cause and effect - whoever betrays him will be repaid a hundredfold; whoever loves him will protect him to the death. I met girls of all kinds along the way, and I treated them all sincerely. Double cultivation is not only a warming of feelings, but also a breakthrough in cultivation. From a mortal to the pinnacle, he has done it: not only to keep his beauty, but also to surrender to the world.

22. 122 星 Interstellar: My Dear Comrade 星际：亲爱的达瓦里氏 Yu Fei鱼绯Modern Romance859k WordsCompleted [Romance + Military Academy + Mecha + Zerg + Ensemble Cast] Content warnings up front: 1. The heroine has a romantic pairing. 2. The story discusses class issues, not gender issues. 3. The author’s imagination runs wild and there are no limits on language. Cyber censorship is not welcome. Official Synopsis Bolsheviks / Resident Evil / cyberpunk, all thrown into one pot. Patriotism with a Soviet flavor. The main story follows one person’s journey from undocumented nobody to commander, while the s 23.3kReads9.5Score4kShelves

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23. 123 穿 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 The Little Cat Fell Asleep小猫睡了Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 36.9kReads9.6Score3.8kShelves
24. 124 鹿 Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺 Silent Worry不语忧Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts. 7.7kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
25. 125 这 This Princess Consort Is a Force to Be Reckoned With, and She Deserves to Be Spoiled! 这个王妃路子野，得宠！ Noble Title for a Meal封侯拜饭Ancient Romance2.2M WordsCompleted The Prince Regent says, “My princess consort is of royal blood, a delicate flower who can't lift a finger.” Meanwhile, the Prince Regent's consort, a whip in her left hand and a blade in her right, beats a gang of rebels until they flee in terror. The Prince Regent says again, “My consort only knows how to sew. How would she know anything about the occult?” A century-old ghost, sewn up like a kite by the Prince Regent's consort, weeps as it flies through the sky. The Prince Regent sighs again. “ 11.1kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
26. 126 嘘 Shh, Whatever You Do, Don't Play a Murder Game on a Dating Show 嘘，千万别在恋综里玩杀人游戏 My Cat Went Bald我家猫秃头了Modern Romance261k WordsCompleted Cen Yueyue is a D-list actress who gets incredibly lucky when her agent shoves her onto a dating reality show starring famous actors, where she’s cast as a disposable extra. The director’s script calls for her to make a scene and squeeze every last drop of usefulness out of her supporting role. So on the very first night, the man Cen Yueyue is supposed to fall for gets a short arrow through the head. Night has fallen. Close your eyes. Killer, open your eyes and choose your prey... A mountain vil 10.1kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
27. 127 男 Hey, Leads! I'm Here to Send You Both to Prison 男女主好，我是来送你们吃牢饭的 Camellias and Wine茶花与酒Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Xuanxuan is an orphan, not her biological daughter] Jiang Sui transmigrates again, this time into the body of a C-list star with a terrible reputation. On a parent-child livestreaming variety show, she and her daughter become the foil to a mother-daughter duo whose motto is to do absolutely nothing. The laid-back duo wins countless fans by slacking off, while Jiang Sui's group attracts nothing but haters. In a triathlon challenge: The laid-back mom makes her son drag her along. Comments: “What 12.5kReads9.2Score2kShelves
28. 128 不 No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话 Yin Zaishui尹在水Ancient Romance925k WordsCompleted An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the 94.9kReads9.4Score16.4kShelves
29. 129 栖 Bough of the Phoenix Perch 栖凰枝 Lu Shiqi鹿时七Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Short drama now available. Search "A Sigh for Youth". Starring Mi Qi and Wang Kang] Also known as "I'm a Psychology PhD, and I'll Slaughter My Way Through the Palace" Palace intrigue + sweet romance + not both leads' first relationship + heroine focused on her career On her first day after transmigrating into the harem, Jiang Xinyue fell out of favor. Everyone said she was nothing but a pretty face, a vase. On her second day after transmigrating into the harem, Jiang Xinyue regained the emperor 45.2kReads9.4Score5.5kShelves
30. 130 小 The Little Princess Saves Her Imperial Father with Her Inner Voice 小公主心声拯救父皇 Research Arbitration研究仲裁Ancient Romance874k WordsCompleted [Complete] [Mind-Reading + Beloved by All + Alternate History + System + Sweet Romance + Adorable Baby + Underdog's Rise + Transmigrate into a Book] (Mind-reading only works when affection for the heroine reaches the required level. The threshold rises as she grows older, and eventually requires maximum affection.) Bei Jingchu transmigrates into a book and gets bound to a governance System. Before she can even start celebrating, she discovers she's been reborn as the princess switched at birth. 18.5kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
31. 131 血 Beneath the Crimson Skirt 血色裙下 Shi E 12释厄12Modern Romance1.5M WordsCompleted The Scheming Maid's Road to Revenge The first time Shen Luo met Han Shu, she was his friend's maid and pet, timid and meek. A little over half a month later, when he saw her again, she was his friend's father's companion, dressed to the nines at a gala and dazzling the entire room. By the third time they met, she had become his uncle's fiancée. She had leaped three ranks in status, rising from a live-in maid at the very bottom of society to the wife of a powerful multinational corporation's bos 5.9kReads9.4Score801Shelves
32. 132 白 The Girl Who Was My Moonlight Is Done with This! 白月光她不干了！ Hai Ying海盈Modern Romance367k WordsCompleted “You are the beautiful, high-born second female lead, the childhood sweetheart who returns from abroad as everyone’s unattainable ideal. You marry the CEO of a multinational corporation for a business alliance. But you can’t help falling for the male lead, your childhood friend, and you constantly scheme against the innocent, sweet female lead. In the end, the leads live happily ever after, while your husband and family abandon you, and you die a horrible death.” After transmigrating into the an 68.4kReads9.2Score7.1kShelves

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