I'm in a Reading Slump. Everything Feels Formulaic. Any Books With Truly Original Premises? 最近有点书荒了，感觉都千篇一律有没有设定很新颖
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Film and TV Crossover: The Female Leads Swap Places and Go on a Killing Spree 综影视：女配互换后杀疯了
[Drama adaptations of "The Story of Minglan" + "Empresses in the Palace" + "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace"] The three pairings I'm definitely writing, with their characters swapped: 1. Nian Shilan and Little Qin-shi (Nian Shilan, chapters 1–145; Little Qin-shi, chapters 146–233; both complete) 2. Fucha Langhua and Wang Ruofu (Langhua, chapters 234–420, complete; Wang Ruofu, chapter 421 onward, in progress) 3. Yixiu and Lin Qinshuang After finishing the above, if I have energy left, I'll write:
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The Supporting Girl in the Period Novel Rolled Her Eyes 年代文女配翻了个白眼
[The blurb is misleading. This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, and the leads are ordinary people. If you only like mindless wish fulfillment, please don't read this. Thank you.] Qiu Bailu transmigrates into a period novel as a clownish, supporting villainess, destined to scheme her way to a lifetime of poverty. She's so angry she laughs. She's unapologetically hypocritical. When she read the book, she sided with the protagonist and thought the villainess was awful. Now that she's the villainess,
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Surviving in the Sea of Sand: I'm Just an Ordinary High School Student 沙海求生：我只是个普通高中生
She was just an ordinary high school girl, but an accident swept her into the maelstrom of the desert sea. Wu Xie's plans, the eerie ancient city of Gutongjing, deadly black snakes, and layer upon layer of ruins all became deadly trials she had to face. This is no side character's story, nor is it about romance. This is Zhang Weiwei's adventure alone. In a desert where no one would hear her, she confronts her fears and finds a way through every peril. Amidst the sweeping yellow sands, she carve
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Transmigrate to Yunnan Worm Valley: A Survival Guide for the Consort of King Xian 穿越云南虫谷：献王妃求生指南
[Ghost Blows Out the Light] + [yandere] + [King Xian is a straight-up tyrant, no redemption arc] The rating has just been posted, so it’ll go up. Updates are steady, so you can’t go wrong giving this a try! I transmigrated, but instead of getting a comeback story, I landed straight in the palace of King Xian of the ancient Dian Kingdom! All around me, women wailed in agony. Before me stood a mad tyrant with a bronze sword in hand and a sinister look in his eyes. No System! No supernatural abilit
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Tomb Raiding: Li Cu Returns to the Beginner’s Village at Max Level 盗墓：满级黎簇重回新手村
[After Sand Sea, the Young Wolf Transmigrates into a Book + Everyone's Favorite + All + Li Cu's Daily Life of Being Persecuted] Li Cu had just graduated from college and was thinking about visiting the Badain Jaran Desert again when he unexpectedly transmigrated. Even more horrifying, he found himself face-to-face with a Wu Xie ten years younger, a talkative version of Wang Pangzi, the elegant but dangerous Master Hua, the grinning Black Glasses, and the aloof, lonely Zhang Qiling! Li Cu: Did I
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Qing Transmigration: The Career-Driven Actress Climbs Her Way to Empress Dowager! 清穿：事业咖靠演技卷上太后！
[Fourth Prince's household + enjoying the good life without hardship + a System that only provides support, with the heroine in control + slice of life, eventually becoming Empress Dowager] Workplace warrior Song Man transmigrates to the Qing dynasty with a half-broken little System and becomes a concubine in the Fourth Prince’s household, having just lost her daughter. From the start, the servants bully their mistress, and she nearly can’t get a meal. The Fourth Prince has all but forgotten her
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The Consort Fang’s Everyday Schemes 芳贵人的微操日常
Noble Lady Fang was an inconspicuous background character in Empresses in the Palace, the previous owner of the Broken Jade Pavilion. Shallow, a standard-issue extra, and unlucky. Until she died in the Cold Palace and was chosen by the System to live her life over again. To be honest, she had always thought of herself as an ordinary little nobody in the imperial harem. The System must have picked her by mistake out of inexperience. But the System said, “Choosing you is the most rigorous and opti
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[HP Pro Generation] Predator Strategy Manual 【HP亲世代】掠夺者攻略手册
[No need to pressure points, no need to control points] [1v1 strategy without system can be viewed as three independent stories] [What's the use of having a secret crush! Attack him! As usual, Wormtail was expelled from the Predator class by me. [If you don't like watching, exit and you are prohibited from attacking my daughters. Each strategy story is independent and parallel in time and space. The endings are all HE, and no one in the family dies. Some of the female protagonists are n
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She Came from the Mountains and Doesn't Know the Rules 她山上来的，不懂规矩
[The heroine is immortal, has a special identity and a golden finger, with several romantic interests but only one-sided feelings (though romance is not described much)] An unworthy ruler reigns, warlords divide the land, and flames of war once again engulf the Central Plains. At first, only a young male courtesan died. Few people cared about the dead courtesan, and nobody cared about the person who killed him. Then a nobleman's son died, followed by a general, a princess, and even the emperor.
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Disguised as a Man, I Rise to Glory with the Help of a Mute, Enslaved Boy 女扮男装，罪奴小哑巴扶我上青云
[Disguised as a man + disguised as a woman + farming + imperial examinations + building a fortune + love growing over time + slow and steady romance] Li Liuyun thought everything through before doing it. Was it worth it? Was it a good deal? Was there a way out? After giving up on the imperial examinations and returning to farming, she married a mute convict slave under a written marriage contract. She wrote stories, made soap, sold medicinal sachets, cleared land, planted flower fields, kept bee
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Even a World-Weary Country Girl Deserves to Be Loved by a Young Master, Right? 厌世农村妹也要被少爷强制爱吗？
Complete [Country Girl and Young Master | World-weary, wooden girl × arrogant peacock of a man | Some coercive romance | Both pure] Yeman saved a young master from the city who had come to the mountains to film a variety show and experience rural life. Yi Yan thought she was tacky, ugly, and stupid. Yet when no cameras were around, he pinned her against the door behind the house and kissed her hard. A year later, she went to university in the city. At the opening ceremony, Yeman saw Yi Yan sta
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Mud Pearl 泥珠
[A naive, insecure girl from the mountains x a cruel young master, a rotten scion of privilege] ㅤ When Yu Pandi was thirteen, her parents “entrusted” her to the Yue family for 100,000 yuan. Yue Jianche renamed her Yu Zhu. He said Zhu meant a rare pearl, but what he really meant was a stupid pig.ㅤㅤ She was a grimy, ragged mountain moon from the depths of the Qinling Mountains: quiet, awkward, insecure, and never daring to ask for anything. He was a beautiful rabid dog raised in Chang'an: gentle,
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The Blind Prince Fights, Robs, and Drinks 盲眼王爷他又争又抢又茶
(Long flowing water/Love grows over time/Two-way redemption/Youth love/he) Fleeing the wilderness and heading north, Su Ying was so hungry that she almost died in the snowstorm. It was Pei Xiu, the blind young master of Shangshu Mansion, who rescued her and brought her into the mansion. Two years later, the imperial power changed and the Pei family fell. On the night of the house raid, Su Ying took advantage of the chaos to rescue the little blind man. · That year, Su Ying was sixteen years old,
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Bound to a Baby-Making System, but I'm Surviving on the Road 绑定生子系统，可我在公路求生啊
1v1 + sweet romance + devoted to each other + surviving the apocalypse + happy ending + System [I overestimated my sense of humor. This isn't a lighthearted comedy, just an ordinary post-apocalyptic romance. The heroine isn't overpowered, and her strength grows over time. She won't be invincible from the start, though she'll become very strong later.] On the third day of surviving on the road, Fu Li had finally accepted that she would face the lonely journey alone, fighting monsters and finding
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Why Is My Superpower So Hopelessly Romantic?! 我的异能怎么是恋爱脑啊！
[Leveling-up story + no romance in the ending + a new crush in every round] Xia Xianyue was a C-list actress who had spent five years in the industry playing countless bit parts. Her beauty often made her go viral, only for her sharp tongue to send her back to obscurity. After she turned down yet another casting-couch offer, she figured she was about to be blacklisted. Then she unexpectedly entered a survival game. Xia Xianyue: I bet some guy who couldn't have me is trying to ruin my life. In a
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KO One: Cause and Effect 终极系列之因果
Preface: Gods think they rule over humanity, when in truth, they are the ones abandoned by the world! All things give rise to and overcome one another! Good and evil have always coexisted! There is no absolute right or wrong in this world, only choices! Schemes, cunning, open clashes, and secret struggles all lead into the cycle of fate and cause and effect. It is nothing more than a feast of unnatural deaths! Excerpt: Wind: After giving up on protecting them, I face the world’s blame Fire: Mal
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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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Game Invasion 游戏入侵
[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
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Please Live Until Dawn 请活到天明时分
(The rating just came out and will rise later. Infinite flow + mild horror + original instances + no female lead) A tower stands in the eternal night, with a group of players trapped inside. They have to keep taking part in bizarre games to earn the food and supplies they need to survive. A killer in red embroidered shoes, a child with no eyes, a haunted mountain where an entire expedition team died... One deadly trap after another, with death around every corner. Players: “We're going to die, w
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After a Thousand Simulations, I've Mastered the Escape Game 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法
[Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced
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The Movie Emperor Keeps Trying to Make a Move on Me 影帝他总想对我图谋不轨
Shen Yi, stage name Wei Long, was an actor of superstar caliber who took the world by storm in the 1970s. But after he disappeared one day, he vanished from history without a trace, as if he had never existed. One day, Rong Qian spotted a photo of herself with Shen Yi, taken more than thirty years ago... This incredible discovery sent her on journey after journey through time, transmigrating into the past to save him! For Rong Qian, only a few days passed between each trip to the past. But for S
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Quick Transmigration: Who Knew I’d Get Such a Sweet Deal? 快穿之还有这好事
[Quick transmigration + bickering System + absurd comedy] She works for a company that connects the real world with the worlds of novels. How will she grow step by step, and where will things go between her and the System? On my first quick transmigration, I woke up to find the domineering CEO was only 1.7 meters tall?! On my second quick transmigration, I was reborn. If you can't even be a good emperor, then I'll take the throne myself! On my third quick transmigration, there was a baby involve
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