Epic Reads for When You're Out of Books 史诗级无敌书荒
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My Trainee Class Became Top of the School, and Now the Parents Want a New Homeroom Teacher 实习教出金牌班,家长要换班主任
[Wild ideas + System + no pent-up frustration + buffs + cards + traits + wish-fulfillment novel] After graduating, Lu Qian becomes the intern homeroom teacher of Senior Two, Class Seven. On his first day at work, he awakens the [Strongest Teacher System], which gives students buffs to improve their learning efficiency and talent. What other students learn in a day, the students of Class Seven learn in an hour. While other students grow tired from studying, the students of Class Seven remain ener
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Just Started High School, and I Can See the Colors of People's Emotions 刚上高中,我能看见情绪颜色
(The animated series is now streaming on Hongguo) [Real Deal High School Romance]+ [Chinese-Style Light Novel]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Funny and Lighthearted]+ [Superpowers]+ [No Reincarnation, No System]+ [Romance and Flirting] (Backed by a completed, million-word high school romance rated 9.5) On Sunday morning, Xu Chuan, a freshman in high school, awakened a superpower. He could see the colors of other people's emotions. Pale red meant restlessness, gray meant exhaustion, orange meant exciteme
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A Tycoon? No, Just Call Me the Gentlemanly Kept Man 神豪?别,还是叫我绅士软饭王吧
[Multiple Female Leads] + [Subverting the Usual Tropes] + [System] + [Romantic Push and Pull] + [Living Off Women Without Losing Your Pride] That’s right! Me! Jiang Ye! The god of awkwardness! After binding to the “Living-Off-Women Cash-Back System,” Jiang Ye’s life went completely off the rails: The campus belle showered him with gifts, including stockings, and he got 4,000 back in cash. He played pool with a beauty and won 8,000. Even sending gifts in a voice-chat room earned him a “show of si
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Phantom Eighteen Needles of Medicine King Valley 药王谷之幻影十八针
Most heroes of the world temper their bodies and toil at martial arts, striving to win glory through valor. This man alone chose a different path. He scorned the mundane road of martial cultivation and devoted himself to seeking the Dao and cultivating immortality. He commands miraculous healing arts that can cure every affliction, understands mystical secrets that reveal the ebb and flow of yin and yang, and masters the arts of divination and geomancy, adept at laying out the formations of heav
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Starship Shadows in the Mist 迷雾之星空舰影
Interstellar adventure, warships, cutting-edge technology, exploration, battles... After unexpectedly taking command of an ancient civilization's warship named Star of Mists, Yang Xu, who lives by the principle of keeping his head down, sets out to stir up trouble and travel among the stars. Fast-paced and never meandering, entirely handwritten with no AI.
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Spiritual Qi Revival: I Snatched the Prodigies' Immortal Ascension Spots 灵气复苏:天骄成仙名额被我截胡
[Tomato Original | Self-Made Success | Spiritual Qi Revival | Imperial Examinations and Court Politics | Cautious Path to Immortality | Alternate History | Hands-On Craftsmanship | Ordinary Protagonist | A Splendid World | Positive Energy | Cultivation | Fantasy | Treasure Appraisal | Seizing Heaven's Mandate] This is a story set in an imaginary ancient era. It takes place in an age when imperial fleets have established the Maritime Silk Road. At that very moment, spiritual qi revives. Strange f
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Essence World 1: The Artificial Human Arc 精世索1人造人篇
This complete series explores the love, hatred, grudges, and passions among humans, ghosts, gods, demons, immortals, monsters, Buddhas, and spirits. The only person who could reveal the relationships among these eight beings and the mysteries of the universe mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Their surviving manuscripts are scattered around the world, but no clues have ever emerged. Years later, someone claiming to be a god appeared and began destroying the Earth. Fortunately, a person w
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Horrifying Paranormal Livestream: The Old Witch Predicted My Death 恐怖的灵异直播间:老巫婆把我算死
A Terrifying Supernatural Livestream: The Old Witch Predicted My Death
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Marriage Riddles: Every Ordeal Leads to a Perfect Match 姻猜寻:历劫皆为美满良缘
Matchmaking Mysteries: Every Trial Leads to a Happy Match
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The Marriage Hunt: After a Suitcase Swap, I Somehow Became a Kidnapper 姻猜寻:皮箱调包后我竟然成为绑匪
Marriage Guessing: After the Suitcase Swap, I Somehow Became a Kidnapper
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Marriage Riddles: Who Killed Whom? 姻猜寻:谁杀谁
Matchmaking Mysteries: Who Kills Whom?
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Reborn After the Fall of the Gods, I'll Live This Mortal Life to the Fullest 神落转生,到了尘世就认真活一次
Awaiting a print edition and anime adaptation [Original] [Anime and Manga] [Western Fantasy] [Xuanhuan] [Battles] [Slice of Life] [Some Power Fantasy] [Biography] [Illustrated] [CADPA 16] [No System, no clichés, no formula, no mindless writing, quality prose] I was once the structure that upheld the world, half divine, ignorant and insensate, half human, breathing in and out with every heartbeat. Until one day, the part of me that was human was completely drained away, and the world began to swa
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Weaving Dreams in the Mortal World 现世织梦
[A slow burn, ensemble cast, not a wish-fulfillment novel, no brainless characters, the male and female leads are not a couple, mainly told from the female lead’s perspective, not a true high-martial-arts setting, with more focus on emotions. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] When another world invades our own, an ordinary girl who became a pawn of that other world before she could even understand what was happening sets out alone on a journey to save the world, pitting herself agai
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Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明,工科生横扫满清复华夏
In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis
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An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末
A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline.
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I Grow Stronger by Devouring the Dead, but the Goddess Wants to Devour Me 我靠吞噬死者变强,女神却想吞我
[Urban high martial arts + varied supernatural abilities + new power system + no System / but a loot-box-style golden finger + intelligent protagonist who grows stronger + satisfying story with brains + mind games and martial combat] Lin Mo is a cleanup worker for the Special Affairs Administration in Shenzhen, tasked with handling the affairs of unclaimed "lonely deaths." During a routine funeral, he unexpectedly awakens the supernatural ability "Echoes of Last Wishes": by touching a dead pers
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Dread Night: Getting Rich in a Horror Game 骇夜:我在恐怖游戏里暴富
(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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A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物
[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
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Reborn in 2000: I Single-Handedly Carried Chinese Entertainment 重生2000:一人扛起内娱
(Rebirth, showbiz, a legendary debut album, female lead Liu Qianqian) With his debut album, he became a legend and a young king of Mandopop. His second album made the gods retreat, establishing him as a king of mainland China. His third swept East Asia, making him Asia's pop king. His fourth pushed into Europe and America, earning him the title of mysterious magician from the East... A down-and-out bar singer was reborn from 2024 into the turn-of-the-century year 2000. That year, he was stil
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From Fishing Enthusiast to Martial Arts Master! 从钓鱼佬开始武道通神!
[Steady Growth + No Female Lead + Decisive and Ruthless + Fishing] Jiang Yu transmigrated into the body of a young fisherman. From the start, his family had nothing, he owed three taels, and the winter tax collector was breathing down his neck. Luckily, he awakened the [Angler’s Fishing Rod]: he would never come home empty-handed, and fishing made him stronger! Spirit fish brought in money, opportunities came his way, and his martial arts realm rose by leaps and bounds. But Jiang Yu was clear
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Family System: I, the Villainous Patriarch, Develop Steadily 家族系统:我,反派家主稳健发育
[Dark Writing, Do Not Read If You're a Goody-Two-Shoes] + [Cautious] + [On the Side of Righteousness, but With a Demonic Heart] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Family Interests Above All] + [Cruel and Merciless] + [No Holds Barred] + [Family Unity] At seventeen, he takes charge of a cultivation clan and forges it into an immortal family through cold-blooded slaughter! “The old family head died suddenly, enemies surround us, and the clan is in panic. I'll take the seat!” Li Xingge was born into a
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Rejected on a Blind Date! I Turned a Punk Girl into a Superstar 相亲失败!我把精神小妹捧成天后
Just after breaking up with his blind date, Jiang Feng bumps into three "spirited young women" on the road. By sheer coincidence, he discovers that although he couldn't carry a tune in his past life, he now has a beautiful voice. But first, he decides to make them famous...
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From the Start, a Butcher, with a Butcher's Talent to Match! 开局屠夫,天赋也是屠夫!
[Wuxia + hard work + kill when necessary + female lead] [An animated adaptation is available. Go check it out.] Chen Jing transmigrated into a chaotic age and became a butcher. After he followed Butcher Zhang's instructions and finished slaughtering his first pig, he suddenly heard an inspiring voice: [Heaven rewards the diligent. Success is inevitable.] [Pig-Slaying Saber Technique: Beginner]...
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The Era After the Martial World 后江湖時代
[Underworld + Passionate + Satisfying + Ensemble Cast + Jianghu + Big Shots + School + Comedy] “After midnight, we call the shots on this land, whether you’re on the right side of the law or the wrong one!” Jiang Nan stood proudly at the summit like a solitary eagle, looking down at the young generation shining like stars across the jianghu below. “The Su District...” “The tragedy from ten years ago will never happen again in our generation!” “I’ll make sure everyone knows that this era belongs
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No More Wage Slavery After Graduation: I'm Becoming a Bounty Hunter 毕业后不做牛马,去当赏金猎人
[Comedy + Alternate setting + A touch of mystery + Adventure + Urban + No female lead] Investigating a murder from more than a decade ago, he pits his wits against a deranged serial killer. He transmigrates into a primeval jungle no one dares enter, searching for the bodies of people lost in a sinkhole. He enters a mysterious village deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find a little girl... What drove a recent college graduate to embark on this one-way journey? It all began with a haunted
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The Code Immortal Realm: I Am the Heavenly Dao 代码仙域,我即是天道
My name is Tian Yingxue, and this is the tenth time I've been reborn. The Heavenly Dao played a cruel joke on me. On one hand, it granted me a golden finger of an opportunity, giving me a natural fire spirit root, letting me establish my Foundation at ten, form my Golden Core and keep my youthful appearance at nineteen, and reach the threshold of ascension at a hundred. On the other hand, it made me perish in the tribulation lightning as I ascended, then sent me back to the day before I was to j
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The Deliveryman's Strange Life 快递员的奇异人生
After overcoming one obstacle after another, they face the end of the Earth. The successive sacrifices of his friends crush the last glimmer of hope. Can a trace of humanity, lingering deep in his soul, bring the hero back and protect the ark as it sails into the vast universe? We’ll wait and see.
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The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍
Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.”
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The Great Dao of Hongmeng: The Heavenly Book of Ten Thousand Paths 鸿蒙大道之万道天书
Wang Jun: As a youth, he obtained a remnant tablet of the Ten Thousand Daos and mastered the Primordial Great Dao from the Heavenly Book of Ten Thousand Daos. Wang Qiang: With the power of Wang Jun's Great Dao origin, he successfully awakened the Primordial Sacred Body. The Primordial Great Dao from the Heavenly Book of Ten Thousand Daos brought the two together. Wang Jun became both mentor and friend to Wang Qiang, passing on the Primordial Dao lineage. One was wise, the other bold, and they
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I Just Awakened My System, and Her Dad Told Me to Get Lost? 我刚觉醒系统,她爸让我滚远点?
[Physical book deal secured, enjoy with confidence] [Ultimate power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Absurd comedy] [One heroine] [Ensemble cast] [Unhinged] Year 529 of the Cultivation Calendar. Yun Mochen wakes from a nap and unexpectedly awakens a System. [Absorb qi and blood to grow stronger!] But there's one big problem: his girlfriend of three months is the daughter of the Zhu Clan's Emperor, one of the five great cultivation clans. Even worse, her emperor father comes straight to his door
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I Died Twice from the Start, Then Came Back to Life with a Mechanical Heart 开局死两次,我靠着机械之心重活
Three days before the big exam, Lu Chen blew himself up. The assassins circled the wreckage and confirmed his death. No one noticed that another “Lu Chen” was crouched in the shadows at the mouth of the alley, watching the show. In this world, everyone is a mechanical body. But Lu Chen was born with two bodies. In plain sight, he’s a beat-up mechanical body, so broke he has to use tractor parts for his engine. Hidden away, his flesh-and-blood body is the real killing machine. He steals mechanica
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Back to 1996: Taking Down the Supply and Marketing Cooperative 重回1996:干翻供销社
[Reborn] [Period] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Ensemble Cast] [Sweet Romance] [Modern Romance] At forty-eight, seasoned old hand Meng Qiheng touches an old mirror and returns to rural northern Jiangsu in 1996! From the start, he stops his father from signing away everything for a brick and tile factory. With just 2.5 yuan in startup capital, he uses his insider knowledge to catch and sell eels, sell rainproof tarps, and crush the state-run supply cooperative! He teams up with his buddies to open a vid
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Everything I Write Into the Rules Comes True 我写的规矩都会应验
The old city has a street for funeral goods. Half the shops sell wreaths and burial clothes, and the paper crafts shop at the end of the street is the last one still willing to make paper figures by hand. Its rules are older than the shop itself: Never paint a paper figure's eyes. If you do, it will recognize its master. A white horse must not cross a bridge. If it does, it must be burned. Close the shop at sunset. Take no jobs at night. Chen Mo is the grandson of the last paper craftsman. He gr
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Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东:林二妮的颠簸幸福路
[No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol
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Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年
My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt
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The Begonias Bloom for You Again 海棠今又为君开
[Historical Romance + Sweet Romance + National and Family Feuds] In her previous life, Xiuyi trusted a scumbag and agreed to marry him, only to be pushed into a pond by a scheming white lotus and drown! Reborn, she opened a clinic, saved her father and brothers, kicked the scumbag to the curb, and schemed to have the white lotus die a gruesome death in prison. The cold-faced marquis, whose power held sway over the realm, drew her into his arms: “Don't worry! With me here, everything will be your
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Dr. Tang, You're So Poisonous 唐医生你好毒
She is a hidden genius chief physician in the emergency department. After being set up by her stepsister and abandoned by her father, she returns with formidable medical skills. He is the most distinguished heir to a wealthy family. Afraid of marriage and children, he still wants to cherish her like a treasure after one unexpected night together. They enter a contract marriage in secret. She thinks they're simply getting what they want from each other, but he carefully lays his plans and places
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My Junior Sister Has Quit Being Love-Struck, and the Whole Sect Can't Adjust 师妹不再恋爱脑,全宗竟不太适应
[Transmigration] + [System] + [Strong Female Lead] + [Xuanhuan] + [Romance] If you’re tired of female leads who are always out to conquer the world or save all its people, you have to read this book! The heroine just wants to lie flat and be a carefree slacker, but the System insists on giving her a golden finger. The more she lies flat, the stronger she gets, and the stronger she gets, the more miserable she becomes, because everyone comes knocking to force her to “get to work.” It’s packed wi
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The Countryside Miracle Doctor: The City's Only Cultivator 乡村神医。都市唯一修真者
[Multiple Heroines] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Journeys Across Multiple Worlds] "This time, I'm not asking for a son. I'm asking for you!" His stunningly beautiful boss showed up at his door with all her assets in tow. After Chen Yang brought his drunk boss home, he never expected her to keep him by her side. A few days later, her ex-husband tried to kill him, and he fell off a cliff. He miraculously survived and obtained an ancient legacy of medicine and martial arts in a cave. The Qinglan jade p
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Exiled from the Lab, I Handcrafted Sacred Pills and Shocked the Interstellar World 被逐出实验室后,我手搓圣品丹药震惊星际
After Being Kicked Out of the Lab, I Handcrafted Sacred-Grade Pills and Shocked the Interstellar World
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I, Li Ji, One of the Four Great Beauties, Only Wanted to Survive but Turned Jin on Its Head 我,骊姬,四大妖姬,只想保命却搅翻晋国
I, Li Ji, One of the Four Great Beauties, Only Wanted to Stay Alive, Yet I Turned Jin Upside Down
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After My Brother Ruined Two Kingdoms, I Reincarnated as Duke Mu of Qin's Wife and Set Everything Ablaze 弟弟坑完两国,我穿成秦穆公老婆直接点火
After My Brother Ruined Two Kingdoms, I Reincarnated as Duke Mu of Qin's Wife and Set Things Ablaze
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I Kept Resigning from Office in the Tang Dynasty, Yet Became the Mentor to Two Emperors 在大唐反复辞官,我却成了两代帝师
I Kept Resigning from Office in the Tang Dynasty, Yet Became the Imperial Tutor to Two Generations of Emperors
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Help! I Just Want to Lie Flat, but They Forced Me to Become the Mad Dowager Empress Who Rules the Harem 救命!我只想躺平,被逼成权倾后宫的疯批太后
Help! I only wanted to lie flat, but was forced into becoming a ruthless Empress Dowager who holds the harem in the palm of her hand.
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I Took In a Tearful Beauty, But She Tore Off Someone's Skin in the Middle of the Night 捡回哭唧唧美娇娘,她半夜在家撕人皮
I Took In a Teary-Eyed Beauty, but She Rips Off People's Skin at Night
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Marquis An Chang: Half of the Analects Destroyed the Western Han 安昌侯:半部论语毁西汉
Marquis Anchang: How Half of the Analects Destroyed the Western Han
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The White Fox Who Lost Its Tail: I Betrayed My Immortal Fate and Married a Mortal Woman 断尾白狐:我负仙缘娶凡妻
The White Fox with a Severed Tail: I Betrayed My Immortal Fate and Married a Mortal
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Pine Soot and the Bewildering Cave: My Century-Long Dream with a Demoness 松烟迷洞:我与妖姬的百年幻梦
The Pine-Soot Cave: My Century-Long Dream of Illusion with a Demoness
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I Woke Up Without My Legs, So I Quit the Rat Race on the Spot 一觉醒来双腿没了,卷王当场放弃内卷
He wakes up to find both his legs gone, and the workaholic immediately gives up on the rat race
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The Eastern Han Dynasty's Greatest Harem Strategist 东汉第一后宫棋手
The Eastern Han’s Top Palace-Harem Strategist
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