Third Reading List | 2026 第三期书单｜2026

1. 1 全 Global Flood Apocalypse: I Have a Safehouse on the Water 全球水灾末日：我有漂流安全屋 Nan Ling南绫Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Complete] Apocalypse · Stockpiling in a Safe House · Everyday Survival · Escape · Upgrades · Infrastructure Building · Food Storms, tsunamis and hurricanes, thunderstorms and hail, aquatic creatures mutating... The world has grown unstable. Floodwaters swallow cities, waterspouts ravage rivers, rioters invade residential compounds, mysterious creatures appear in small towns, blizzards force people to flee the countryside, and underwater volcanoes erupt... One day, Shu Fu wakes from a dream and 107.9kFavorites179.8kClicks/ch207kGifts

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   Survival | Flood | Series Highly not recommended. ①The evil man joined the main characters' group with a laugh, just like that, clinging to their coattails, which is extremely dangerous; ② Several minor and major mysteries are dragged out over and over again, with characters interrupting the author by writing something else, and then claiming that readers of the previous books in the same universe will understand 😂 It's really ridiculous. Since this isn't even part of a series, do I really have to have read the other books before I can read this one? The reading threshold is really high.

2. 2 高 The Marquis’s Lowly Maid 高门小婢 Little Sweet Potato少地瓜Romance912k WordsCompleted The day-to-day struggles of a little girl. Blurb: On her deathbed, Jin Yu once made a wish: Please let me be born into a wealthy family in my next life! Heaven heard her. So when she opened her eyes again, Jin Yu had become a laundry maid in the household of a government official in ancient times! Jin Yu: “...Damn it!” Heaven: “You got a rich family, didn’t you?” The story features household intrigue, delicious food, farming, and steady progression. The heroine is ambitious. Passages marked w 61.4kFavorites63.5kClicks/ch301.2kGifts

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   Time travel | Ancient times | Domestic intrigue | Daily life Highly recommended! The writing and theme are both excellent! The female protagonist transmigrates into the body of a lowly maid, gradually rising through the ranks, shedding her status, becoming a steward, gaining freedom, and finally finding a place to stay. The depiction of the "high-ranking family" is excellent; it's not about simply working from a distance, but rather a feudal behemoth that "devours" people if they don't work hard.

3. 3 末 Stockpiling Supplies in a Doomsday Safe House 末日安全屋囤货求生 Gathering Starlight and Frost挽星霜Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Jiang Qibai, a survival-game enthusiast, was heading home from work when she stepped into empty space, fell into a sewer, and landed inside an apocalyptic game. Every player awakens a talent. The System's cheerful voice rang out: [Congratulations! You have gained the talent: Achievement Hunter!] [Achievement Hunter: You have access to a more extensive achievement system than other players.] [Achievement unlocked: Where the Hell Did the Manhole Cover Go?! Reward skill: Sword, Come! Summon a 29.8kFavorites28kClicks/ch80.7kGifts

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   Hoarding | Survival | Ordinary People Not recommended. I initially read it as a substitute for stocking up on other things, but the writing style and art style became increasingly strange as it progressed: plagiarism, disjointed narratives, the female lead suddenly becoming mentally challenged after meeting the male lead, unresolved foreshadowing, and numerous plot holes. I planned to give up after finishing the "mentally challenged" part, but after finishing it, I realized that giving up halfway through or at the end made no difference (equally bland and bizarre).

4. 4 高 Show Off Like a God, Grow in the Shadows 高调装神，猥琐发育 Ma Hu Zijun马户子君Danmei (BL)362k WordsOngoing A hilarious, clever battle of wits with a leveling-up progression Bai Xu had lived in the outer district for eighteen years. To survive, he took any job he could get. His best chance at a better life was getting into a prestigious school. Then he received a strange letter of admission. - Entropy Reduction Academy, a top school rumored to have a 100% employment rate. In reality, it was an academy for people with special abilities. Students were divided into Classes A, B, C, D, and E according 155.2kFavorites114.6kClicks/ch852.8kGifts

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   BL | Academy | Superpowers "What happens if Mr. Mato misses a joke?" "He'll make up for it." It was so enjoyable to read! I've now stepped right into the ongoing series again! [Laughing and crying emoji]

5. 5 老 The Necessity of Old-Fashioned Dating 老派约会之必要 A Roll of Soft Measuring Tape一卷软尺Romance447k WordsCompleted The main story and all bonus chapters are complete. My next book, By the Rhine, will be updated next. Cheerful younger dog-like male lead | Reunited after years apart | Unrequited love becomes mutual | Older-sister-younger-brother romance Originally titled The Happy Puppy and the Potion Lady's Little Adventures 1 After graduating from high school, Xu Jinhuan saw Ji Yunchuan again downstairs from her new apartment building. Sitting in a wheelchair and holding a golden retriever's leash, he smile 3.3kFavorites2.6kClicks/ch3.5kGifts

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   Bg|Completed The male lead with the big feathers is so cute... He's totally a big puppy! (Very interested but haven't read much yet. I'll put it in the reading list for easy reference.)

6. 6 从 Starting from Zero: A Cultivation Family Simulator 从零开始的修仙家族模拟器 Walking with the Gods与神同行Romance878k WordsCompleted You play a family-building game. You start as an ordinary mortal, without even the faintest trace of a cultivator in sight, yet the goal is to build the greatest cultivation clan in the world. Unlike an ordinary family game, this one lets you pass the game down through generations. You can create each new clan leader, your apparent descendant, from scratch. After countless generations of hard work, you look at your overflowing inheritance points and the traits you’ve given the next clan leader y 86.6kFavorites81.4kClicks/ch319.5kGifts

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   In this vast universe, the immortals will meet again. A generation never sees spring Nidaime Aoyama Third Generation Golden Crow Shining Sun

7. 7 市 A Girl from a Humble Town Family 市井小户女 Tangxi Ke堂溪客Romance589k WordsCompleted [The new novel, Good Things Have Arrived, is currently updating. Come check it out!] Zhu Fusheng transmigrates, not into a wealthy, powerful household or a servant's life, but as the seven-year-old third daughter of the second branch of the Zhu family, an ordinary town family. Grandpa is a licentiate, and has been one for most of his life. Dad is a student who has passed the county-level examinations, and has been one for half his life. The family isn't particularly wealthy, but they aren't 8kFavorites13.3kClicks/ch6.6kGifts

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   Ongoing | Highly Recommended bg | Slow pace | Food | Business (36.6W at the time of recording) The pacing is relatively slow, and the battle lines for dealing with the villains are quite long, but they are handled very decisively.

8. 8 异 Ghosts and Strange Phenomena Cut Class in Period Novels 异闻鬼怪在年代文逃课 Chirp Huanhuan啾桓桓Romance1.1M WordsOngoing Yangyang was a ghost in a modern urban supernatural tale in her previous life. In the third year after her birth, she transmigrated into a period novel set in an alternate world, bringing the original book with her... That didn’t matter, because she couldn’t read. Before she turned three, she spent her days in the village fighting roosters, chasing dogs and geese, catching fish, and running wild. At three, she was sent to kindergarten and began learning to read. That was when she discovered th 13.4kFavorites22.8kClicks/ch34.2kGifts

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   Serialized | Currently Recommended A three-year-old catching ghosts! Generally, people don't like this type of story because of its slow pacing, repetitive plot, slow foreshadowing and forgettable endings, and rushed transitions between storylines that feel tedious. But I still highly recommend this one! It has none of the above drawbacks! The reading experience was smooth [sunglasses] (I can't guarantee the others, I'll comment again after it's finished). (Ps: The main character has many relatives, so their names are easy to forget/mix up, but it's not a big problem).

9. 9 死 My Arch-enemy Has Been a Widower for Three Hundred Years 死敌守寡三百年 Jiang Wei Jie江为竭Danmei (BL)663k WordsCompleted [Main story complete] Modern alternate setting, anomalous creatures, two powerful leads, happy ending. Three hundred years after Pei Yueming's death, his fame has not faded. Many people once admired him. Then he betrayed them all, and the one they had adored became the one they loathed overnight. He once gravely wounded a boy who admired him. On a mountaintop, the bloodied boy roared, "The next time we meet, you'll be dead!" He replied coolly, "We'll never meet again." They truly never met ag 18.2kFavorites5.2kClicks/ch11.5kGifts

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   The campfire dungeon was too long and tedious... I couldn't finish it.

10. 10 十21+ A Nineteenth-Century Editor 十九世纪女编辑 Frozen Orange冻京橙Romance287k WordsCompleted 11kFavorites12.2kClicks/ch13.8kGifts

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    Serialized | Recommended bg|Medieval|Workplace Driven by curiosity about the editor, I resumed reading this author's serialization. The pacing, narrative, and plot handling are all excellent. I'll write a summary after it's finished.

11. 11 我 I Make Games Just to Provoke Humanity 我做游戏纯粹为了挑衅人类 Wu Liu Su Qing Niao无流苏晴鸟No CP881k WordsCompleted [The cover features character art. If you're used to that, feel free to skip the illustration [kiss]] Si Wu binds herself to a Malice Collection System, and her future reputation is on the line. Faced with options like “war profiteer” and “outlaw” from the System, she flies into a rage after getting brutally shafted by the gacha pool in a game. She chooses to make a gacha game of her own using the System. The game is top quality, but there’s no way to pay for pulls, and no drop rates at all. “L 48.5kFavorites56.3kClicks/ch215.3kGifts

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    I relied on a filial son and a dog to plan a two-way journey (all from the Bible). If you don't like watching toilet shows or entertainment, then don't watch this. There are quite a few technical terms [laughing and crying emoji]. You'd need to have at least some experience with internet slang/nga to understand it fairly well. The children were all happy, and the filial son was also very happy.

12. 12 纽 A Guide to Surviving as an International Student in New York [The 1980s] 纽约留学生存指南[八零] The Flute Player吹笛人Romance1.1M WordsCompleted In 1982, a penniless student lands in America, hit with a debuff the moment she arrives: no money, Asian, and a woman. In America's golden age of rampant consumerism and resurgent conservatism, racial and gender discrimination combine with class oppression. With all three debuffs stacked, she's sent straight to the bottom of the food chain. Fortunately, Lu Changying has a heart of steel, and fists even harder. Next, she has a two-step plan: Step one: An East Asian mean girl takes on an America 16.6kFavorites19.6kClicks/ch36.7kGifts

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    Recommend Female protagonist's perspective | Historical fiction | Study abroad Stock buying articles, exotic cultures and customs The romance is very delicate and smooth (sigh, pretty boy).

13. 13 丧21+ Zombie Apocalypse: Me and My Cat 丧尸异世我和喵 Xiu Ce袖侧Romance697k WordsCompleted 53.9kFavorites71kClicks/ch241.5kGifts

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    Highly recommended (ongoing series) Female protagonist's perspective | Apocalypse A very different perspective! How does a female leader quickly build a neighborhood-based "base" to withstand the apocalypse without losing power?

14. 14 恋 A Guide to Romance for Villains [Quick Transmigration] 恋爱反派指北[快穿] Si Mi Er Lan思弥尔蓝Danmei (BL)390k WordsCompleted [Come check out my upcoming seme-perspective novels: “You’re the One Living Off Me While Acting Tough?” and “Don’t Throw Away the Guide I Found.” Blurbs are on my profile ^^] In Villainy Class, the teacher had a question written above his head: How do you become a good villain? With a deadpan expression, he encouraged his students in an impassioned voice: “A villain needs the ambition to grind the protagonist underfoot! A villain never gives up until he gets what he wants!” His only student pa 4kFavorites3.5kClicks/ch1.7kGifts

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    Recommend BL | Quick Transmigration | Protagonist's Position Flow...? Number of People Flow Old-fashioned flavor, those who like chaos and evil, come in, come in!

15. 15 剑 Sword Cultivators? Not Even Dogs Would Date Them 剑修，狗都不谈 Good Umbrella好伞Romance616k WordsCompleted Lin Zhengdu had a secret crush on Xie Guanqi, a disciple of the Sword Sect. To win him over, Lin Zhengdu accompanied him on his travels, slaying demons, upholding justice, and doing just about everything under the sun, except cooking for him. It wasn't that Lin Zhengdu didn't want to. The main issue was that Xie Guanqi had actually been poisoned unconscious by Lin Zhengdu's cooking. After pursuing him for a long time, Lin Zhengdu felt the time was right and planned to confess her feelings to X 76.5kFavorites59.3kClicks/ch160.4kGifts

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    Recommended (This story was abruptly ended...! Enter at your own risk!) Bg|Cultivation|Sweet Romance Sweet treat! Sunny puppy ghost x lazy but clever Master Lin The straight-legged octopus and its sunny puppy are so cute! Sword cultivators are so much fun! But is the Yin-Dampness Cultivation a lineage passed down from top to bottom? And the Sword Sect has so many scandals (laughs). The ending felt a bit rushed (flat-faced walks away).

16. 16 论 The Former Idol Who Lost Her Job and Lives Downstairs from Me 论我家楼下的下岗前爱豆 As If Prepared如有所备Romance431k WordsCompleted (Xun Shi, the older brother, makes many appearances in Boss Wants to Find a Sweet and Silly Secretary, which starts on October 15.) Xu Daoying went back to her hometown and ran into her former idol, Xun Zhe, who had changed careers and was fixing phones downstairs from her home. And then they fell in love. Younger man and older woman, three-year age gap, third-person narration, a collection of short episodes An atypical entertainment-industry story, no real-life inspirations A gentle big sister 1.4kFavorites5.2kClicks/ch1.5kGifts

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    Available to watch bg|Entertainment Circle|Sweet Little Cookie It's a very cute romance novel, and the main characters' interactions flow smoothly with just the right amount of tension. I'm giving it four stars because the interspersed stories take up too much space and aren't really related to the main characters (I'm talking about the best friend's story), while the other story is more closely connected to the sisterly romance novel that follows. I don't quite understand why they wrote so much about it... Was it because they were upset about the best friend's family background?

17. 17 海 Stockpiling Supplies and Surviving in a Seaside Safehouse 海上安全屋囤货生存 Graceful Evening Glow翩翩晚照Romance2.4M WordsCompleted [Welcome to The God Game: Raft Survival] [New player quest: The extreme heat disaster, Scorching Season, is approaching. Upgrade your safe house as soon as possible.] He Ni, who can't swim, wakes up to find herself floating on a raft. Surrounded by an endless sea, she casts a line beneath the blazing sun and, from the start, reels in ten garbage bags in a row. Just as she's on the verge of despair, a notification appears: [You excel at and love collecting garbage. The Sea God approves of your 239.3kFavorites243.5kClicks/ch2.7MGifts

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    Not recommended bg|Golden Finger|Stockpiling Reason: The game was overly optimized; after becoming number one, the content became monotonous, lacking any real excitement or depth, and utterly boring. A complete waste of coins. The opening scene is incredibly overpowered, with a massive accumulation of resources; after making many friends and relatives, they all become my cheat codes; after becoming the top player, I'm unstoppable, and my focus shifts from scavenging/recycling to adventure: my friends and I take turns using our cheat codes, turning exploration/combat adventures into social interactions, buying resources and then giving them to each other. It lacks the unpredictability and excitement of true exploration. The romance is abrupt, and the male lead only appears briefly in the synopsis… his presence in the career storyline is far too prominent. I couldn't continue watching and dropped it.

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