2025 Completed Reads Log 2025完结文记录

1. 1 嫁 Marry My Iron Buddy 嫁给铁哥们 Clothes Falling into Flame衣落成火Danmei (BL)3.8M WordsCompleted The pride of Kun Yun City, Wu Shaoqian, has been crippled! In a single day, he falls from the clouds into the mud. His soul is also dissipating, and he's on the verge of death. The Wu family thinks he's useless now but still wants to save face, so they pressure the Zhong family to marry off one of their daughters and provide a dowry of Soul-Fixing Fruits that can save his life. The Zhong family holds an emergency meeting that night. None of their three marriageable daughters is willing to go, bu 277.4kFavorites624.4kClicks/ch1.6MGifts

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   It's a super long book, and there are quite a few exciting cultivation scenes, but the romance is just too saccharine, too saccharine, too saccharine! It's so saccharine at times that it feels a bit off, so I skipped through the parts I wanted to read [chin resting on hand]. It's not that I don't want romance, it's just that we can't wait for the two characters to suddenly start gazing sweetly at each other halfway through cultivation! [Chin resting on hand]

2. 2 空 Island in the Sky [Apocalypse] 空中孤岛[末世] Gray Valley灰谷Danmei (BL)969k WordsCompleted “Hell is other people.” Zhou Yun returns to life after the apocalypse, choosing to avoid the crowds and retreat to a solitary building. But this time, he hopes he can keep Guan Yuanfeng by his side. The desire to grow stronger begins with wanting to protect someone. I hold my ground on a lonely island amid a sea of clouds, with the stars and moon as passing visitors. “On my floating island in the sky, I am second to none, utterly unparalleled.” Then you came, and for you, I am willing to build 238.3kFavorites319.2kClicks/ch937.1kGifts

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   I almost gave up on the first thirty-odd chapters because it felt too much like a single-player game. It was only thanks to the author's good writing that the later chapters got better. The main appeal of the protagonist having overwhelmingly powerful abilities in a post-apocalyptic world really hit my sweet spot, so I basically finished it. It's so hard to find similar stories! I also love reading about building your own base [crying emoji].

3. 3 女 Female Machinist [1960s] 女钳工[六零] Yu Yue Yuan Fei渝跃鸢飞Romance740k WordsCompleted They were revered and held in high esteem. They were synonymous with master artisans, the workers of their era who enjoyed star-like fame, and the backbone of the nation’s industrial rise. “Eighth-Grade Craftsmen” “So why can’t I be one of them?” “She’s just a wild girl, fierce as can be!” Lin Qiaozhi never dreamed that her speed, strength, and sturdy build would lead to her dying young, writhing in pain on a dirt bed while giving birth. “Ha!” Lin Qiaozhi jolted awake, drenched in cold 85kFavorites107.3kClicks/ch485.6kGifts

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   This is a period drama, and the career storyline is great! However, there's a bit too much focus on the female lead's family background... It's unnecessary. There are many instances where the focus is on her mindset without addressing her indecisiveness.

4. 4 决 The Showdown on Wall Street 决战华尔街 Qi Cha岐茶Romance541k WordsCompleted Next up: Hong Kong Stories Stories of Hong Kong’s upper class during the Republican era. Blurb: In 2009, Hailey Karadzic topped Time magazine’s Person of the Year list. People had grown used to calling her the King of Wall Street. The routes of her private jets had kept the FBI awake all night. Her trading strategies had been copied by hedge funds around the world. Her name had appeared at audit and compliance meetings in more than thirty countries. But at the very beginning, right at the 13kFavorites10.6kClicks/ch33.1kGifts

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   It's incredibly good; it depicts the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, but it has a certain reading threshold, containing a significant amount of content related to finance.

5. 5 角 Character Experience System [Entertainment Industry] 角色体验系统［娱乐圈］ Little Haven in Search of Light寻光小筑No CP1.6M WordsCompleted [Thanks to all the lovely readers who like Xiao Yu! My other serial in the same genre, "Top-Tier Star Reborn: Starting in Hong Kong’s Entertainment Scene", is updating now. Please support it. "Role-Playing System: Director Edition" is coming in 2026, so please add it to your favorites!] As a protagonist with maxed-out luck, Yu Xunguang received a System before his acting career had even begun. The so-called Role Experience System lets you meet the character you played in another dimension afte 39.2kFavorites44.8kClicks/ch189.3kGifts

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   It was alright, but the play-within-a-play was written in too much detail. I preferred seeing the audience's reaction, so I didn't finish it…

6. 6 六 A Hoarding Expert in the Sixties 六零之囤货强手 Big Goose Treading Snow大鹅踏雪泥Romance838k WordsCompleted Upcoming: A Military Wife's Diary in the Seventies Blurb, normal version: Chu Qin, a transmigrator from the apocalypse, loves this perfectly ordinary land with all her heart. She was born ten years after the apocalypse, when newborns generally received upgraded genes and had outstanding resistance to disasters. She alone got a radish tower defense game. She got to play one round a day, and whether she won a biscuit or a luxurious cold noodle dish depended entirely on whether that lousy game 32.7kFavorites77.5kClicks/ch54.7kGifts

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   It was fun stocking up, and I was really looking forward to the disaster at the beginning. But after skipping around and watching the disaster, I got bored and gave up.

7. 7 末 Surviving the Apocalypse 末世之绝地求生 He Daren何大仁Danmei (BL)1.8M WordsCompleted [The story is complete! Please leave a five-star review~] *The author can’t remove ratings after a story is complete. Please contact customer service by phone to confirm. Space + cultivation technique + spirit spring + crystal core setting Also known as “After Raising a Dog, I Was Never Afraid of Zombies Again” This story has undergone major revisions several times, so it differs greatly from what’s on pirate sites. Please don’t read a pirated version and then come here to question the plot. (An 194.8kFavorites364.9kClicks/ch334.4kGifts

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   The beginning was quite good, but it started to have a lot of flaws after halfway through... The author is not good at writing team coordination, and the fights are basically one-on-one battles. If that's the case, then don't write team battles. In the end, adding team battles to a post-apocalyptic world is just inexplicable.

8. 8 从 Outlive Then Ascend 从长生苟到飞升 Xiao Shi, You Little Scumbag小时你个渣渣Romance2.7M WordsCompleted Lin Nanyin transmigrates into a world of cultivation, becoming an ordinary mortal. The heavens give her a golden finger: eternal youth and immortality. Yes, her lifespan is endless. She arrived at eighteen, and will be eighteen forever. But being immortal doesn’t mean she can’t die. To stay alive, Lin Nanyin decides to keep her head down. No one is going to outlast her. Much later, the underlings she once led become pillars of the righteous sects, the pets she raised become leaders of the d 199.1kFavorites313.2kClicks/ch944.1kGifts

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   Traditional cultivation novels are rare these days. This story is written in a very traditional way, but the plot is a bit bland and can get boring at times. The limited romance is a plus.

9. 9 娘 The Empress Enjoys the Emperor's Favor 娘娘颇得圣眷 Stars In The House屋里的星星Romance565k WordsCompleted [Complete. Coming soon: The Noble Consort Rules the Harem, another palace intrigue novel. Please add it to your reading list.] Chu Qingwan was born into a distinguished family. Beautiful and radiant, she had a childhood sweetheart she’d grown up alongside. The two families had long tacitly agreed to a marriage between them. But before the Xie family could send a matchmaker, news came from the palace: The Empress Dowager intended to select consorts for His Majesty, and every unmarried woman of go 86.1kFavorites94.5kClicks/ch176.4kGifts

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   It's a palace intrigue novel, but it seems like there wasn't much intrigue before the female lead became the emperor's favorite. The male lead is a rather scummy and difficult-to-fool character. I remember it being quite good, but don't expect much romance in palace intrigue novels; just focus on the female lead's promotions.

10. 10 中 The Medieval Lady Lord 中世纪女领主 Spring Scenery三春景Romance1.4M WordsCompleted On her way home to mourn a family member, Louisa transmigrates into the fictional medieval novel she just finished reading, bringing along her supermarket. Good news: She's nobility, and has a claim to an inheritance. Bad news: This is the Middle Ages!!! Although the idea of the "Dark Middle Ages" came from the Renaissance, and was used mostly to emphasize the progress of civilization in their own era by looking down on the period before, it can't be denied that the Middle Ages weren't exactly 31.5kFavorites54.4kClicks/ch42.8kGifts

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    I gave up halfway through. It's about inventions and commerce in the Middle Ages, and the writing style is quite verbose, describing a lot of local customs, food, drink, and even basic necessities—which is fine, but there's just too much explanation of the scientific principles behind the inventions. It's not that I couldn't understand it, but this is a bit of filler.

11. 11 庶 The Unambitious Son (Imperial Examinations) 庶子无为（科举） Ginseng Fruit Baby参果宝Romance961k WordsCompleted Shen Jianglin transmigrates into another world and becomes a lowly illegitimate son of the Rong'an Marquis Household. Though he is only an illegitimate son, he was born into a wealthy family of officials. His stepmother and father favor only his legitimate older brother and have never expected much of him. Shen Jianglin has always been rather lazy, so he is more than happy to keep to his own corner and enjoy an easy life. An illegitimate son, right? As long as he does not compete, does not mak 83.6kFavorites113.4kClicks/ch177.8kGifts

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    The early parts had some bugs but were generally a satisfying read. Later, when it got to the part about fighting the Grand Secretary, the protagonist was supposedly tipped off but still got exiled?! The change of setting felt abrupt and didn't fit the overall feel of a satisfying read. And the female characters... Well, in a civil service exam story, the female lead is basically just background scenery. It's rare to see a female lead well-written like that, and she wasn't really the focus anyway.

12. 12 长 After the Eldest Sister Awakens [1990s] 长姐觉醒后[九零] Pork Belly Hot Pot酥肉锅Romance716k WordsCompleted [Complete] [My author page has several completed stories set in the past, including food stories. Follow me if you're interested.] In her previous life, Yuan Tang was a dutiful eldest sister who put four younger siblings through college; a devoted daughter who cared for her seriously ill parents until they passed away; and a generous elder who exhausted herself looking after her siblings' children after her parents died... Even when she died alone from an illness on New Year's Eve, Yuan Tang ne 79.6kFavorites172.1kClicks/ch88.7kGifts

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    The career storyline is good; I stayed up all night reading it. The romance is a mess, inexplicable and awkward. The career storyline could probably be expanded into hundreds more chapters by the end… Overall, it's readable for the career storyline in the early stages. However, it's a bit frustrating before it goes premium, but it gradually becomes enjoyable after that.

13. 13 五 The Military Industrial Compound in the 1950s 五十年代军工大院 Deer Grass鹿子草Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Ye Manzhi’s view of herself: the prettiest flower in the military-industrial compound, and the glue that keeps her family harmonious. That is, until she sees a line of text above her third sister-in-law’s forehead: [When is this home-wrecker finally marrying into Director Zhou’s family? I’m ready to throw hands!] Ye Manzhi rubs her eyes. ??? When she discovers that she’s living inside a novel as the heroine’s co 229.4kFavorites378.7kClicks/ch1.1MGifts

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    The pacing was a bit slow at the beginning, so I watched it while playing games to pass the time. It got really good from the moment the female lead graduated from university and started working at the Provincial Industrial Bureau!! Thankfully, it didn't run away when it was boring at the beginning.

14. 14 穿 Transmigrated to the Republic of China Era to Become a Tailor 穿到民国做裁缝 Xi Feng西枫Danmei (BL)1.1M WordsCompleted Fashion designer Ji Qingzhou was traveling for inspiration when he checked into a distinctive guesthouse reputed to be a hundred years old. When he woke, the room was the same, but he had transmigrated into the Republican Era, a hundred years in the past, and become the male spouse of a blind, discharged military officer. He had been married to the officer to bring him good fortune. The officer was tall and handsome, but cold and difficult, often making cutting remarks and ignoring him. Ji Qing 82.3kFavorites93.8kClicks/ch144.3kGifts

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    The writing is good in all aspects. The early part focuses heavily on the career storyline, which is very enjoyable. The romance is also a rare find in career-themed novels, and the back-and-forth is quite interesting. However, once the characters start getting too lovey-dovey, both storylines become rather bland...

15. 15 直 I Stream Myself Writing Boys' Love, and Become a God Among the Insectoids 直播写纯爱文的我在虫族封神 MRADanmei (BL)2.1M WordsCompleted [The print edition of My Live Writing Streams in the Insectoid World: A Star Among Stars is now available. Search for it on your favorite platform to buy it ^^] [Fake gentle, sickly, secretly calculating and sharp-witted top x cold, gloomy, aloof beauty who seems pure and proper but is actually all talk and secretly a lovesick romantic bottom] Shi Cunjin is a well-known novelist. The night after he wrapped up a major project, he closed his eyes and opened them to find he had transmigrated into 493.2kFavorites858.6kClicks/ch5.7MGifts

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    I thought the beginning of this book was really good and enjoyable. The later parts, well, it wasn't exactly a disaster, just not as enjoyable as the beginning. Overall, it was still pretty good. The romance scenes even really appealed to me, hehehehe.

16. 16 磨 Sharpen Your Axe Before Chopping Wood [Esports] 磨刀不误砍菜弓[电竞] Lin Fengzao林风早Danmei (BL)1.2M WordsCompleted In the age of esports for all, a game called Fate took the world by storm. A fully immersive battle royale with a hundred players, it focuses on close-quarters combat with traditional weapons like swords, guns, and bows. The thrill of clashing at close range, the tactical dance of blades flashing, and the brutal struggle in which only one in a hundred survives have players hooked. Major esports tournaments around the world are in full swing. Chen Xingran, a weapons master from a family of tradi 108.5kFavorites151.4kClicks/ch211.8kGifts

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    The esports competitions and action sequences were well-written and very exciting, but the romance was awkward. I hope all authors can focus on what they excel at.

17. 17 要 The College Entrance Exams Are Coming, So How Do I Pilot a Mecha? 要高考了,机甲到底怎么开啊 Demon Milk Tea恶魔奶茶Romance876k WordsCompleted [Bonus Side Story Takes Place in a Parallel World and Is Unrelated to the Main Story. If That Bothers You, Don't Click!!] Wu Jixing, a practitioner of ancient martial arts from the twenty-first century, transmigrates to a future interstellar world. Superpowers, mechs, ferocious beasts, genetic modifications, alien races, holographic games, and all the other flashy things you only see in sci-fi movies have become reality. And she is just a little, ordinary high school senior in this world full of 31.8kFavorites42.1kClicks/ch33.7kGifts

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    It's alright, but it suffers from a common problem with JJ series: the power system feels too arbitrary for a story-driven series... It's watchable to pass the time, but there aren't any particularly exciting parts. I probably won't watch it a second time.

18. 18 我 I Really Didn’t Mean to Time Travel 我真没想穿越啊 Dream Basket梦箩Romance516k WordsCompleted Zhu Shuangjiang is a university student nearing graduation. One day, she suddenly transmigrates thirty years into the past. Transformed into a child, she lands on the street and is eventually sent to an orphanage after passing through several hands. The orphanage provides for basic survival, but offers no freedom. After thinking it over, she realizes the only reliable path is to study hard. ① There is a romance, but the main focus is the plot, with a slice-of-life feel. ② This is a wish-fulfill 71.4kFavorites130.9kClicks/ch235.7kGifts

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    It's a slice-of-life story where the protagonist is shrunk to a 3-year-old and sent back to the 1990s. The plot is actually quite straightforward, but its strength lies in its heartwarming and humorous writing style. The later part, where the protagonist buys lottery tickets and then donates the proceeds, felt like a slight flaw, but overall it's alright.

19. 19 八 The Female Tycoon of the Eighties 八零年代女首富 Golden-Faced Buddha金面佛Romance2.8M WordsCompleted Next up: My Night School Teacher in the Seventies. In one sentence: My students are big shots, and so am I. Complete, so dive in without worry. Also known as: The Spicy Mom's Wealth-Building Days in the Eighties; I Was Beaten to Death by My Husband, Then Reborn; Men Only Slow Down My Money-Making. The story focuses mainly on her career, with everyday life as a secondary thread. Her daughter died young, her son was cold and distant, and her husband beat her. After her fifth failed attempt to div 16.2kFavorites52.4kClicks/ch69.9kGifts

    Curator note

    The outline has been cut; I haven't written anything since 1993. Sigh, it's become rather dull. I think the problem with this book is that there are many ways to make money, but they're not well connected. There are too many storylines, jumping from one to another, making it confusing. There are also some extremely high-tension characters who basically don't contribute anything to the plot.

20. 20 东 The Eastern Palace's Blessed Concubine (Qing Dynasty) 东宫福妾（清穿） The Southern Wind Never Ends南风不尽Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [The print edition goes on presale at 7:00 p.m. on March 28, with a limited number of copies featuring special author signatures! The print edition also includes several exclusive bonus chapters. If you love A Wan and the Crown Prince, go check it out!] After working herself to the bone for 996 years, Cheng Wanyun finally dropped dead from exhaustion. She transmigrated, but before she could enjoy the good life for more than a few days, she was assigned the lowly title of a palace maid in the Yu 177.4kFavorites427.7kClicks/ch410.6kGifts

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    It's a good read. The author excels at writing about family and romantic relationships, making it perfect as a refreshing and enjoyable read.

21. 21 影 The Birth of a Movie Star (Hollywood) 影帝的诞生（美娱） Swaying Lotus摇曳菡萏Danmei (BL)1.5M WordsCompleted Coming soon: The Great Aubrey William Brandley's previous life was utterly ordinary, so this time around, he decided to make it more exciting. And then, by accident, he made his life exciting enough to become Hollywood's most legendary Best Actor and the world's youngest billionaire. Also known as: Hollywood Is Full of My Bros; The Male Idols I Dated in Hollywood; Vanity Fair (Showbiz); Hollywood's Shining Stars; A Star's Journey in Hollywood P.S. Thanks to Wangque de You for constantly cheerin 48.1kFavorites161.8kClicks/ch62.2kGifts

    Curator note

    I only read this book five years after it was finished. I guess I really like stories about acting! Any recommendations for similar works? I've already read *Hollywood Domination*.

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