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1. 1 七 Hong Kong's Newspaper Tycoon in the 1970s 七零香江报业大亨 Yu Zaichuan喻在川Romance708k WordsOngoing Wen Danming transmigrates to Hong Kong in the 1970s. Her whole family is crammed into an old tenement building in Jordan, scraping by on the newspaper they run. But the paper's circulation keeps falling, and it looks like it will soon go under. Wen Danming immediately spots the problem. Hong Kong's entertainment industry is thriving, and other papers are packed with juicy celebrity gossip, while hers insists on taking a serious approach. Unfortunately, her father is adamant about preserving 20kFavorites20kClicks/ch41.3kGifts

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   It's good, logically sound, and has a smooth plot. I also want to read the text.

2. 2 我 I Write Novels in a Zerg Prison 我在虫族监狱写小说 Seven-Fruit Tea七果茶Danmei (BL)1.4M WordsOngoing [Main CP complete!] [Story within a story 9, The Insectoid Celebrity, complete!] More stories within the story, bonus chapters, married life, eggs, and more will appear whenever the mood strikes~ An Ruo, a hugely popular online novelist, transmigrates into An Nuoer, an insectoid male who abuses female insectoids in the novel he wrote. By the time he arrives, it's too late to change anything. The court has already sentenced him. He is to be sent to a military district to serve as a mental stabi 171.5kFavorites197.3kClicks/ch1.8MGifts

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   It was actually quite good, but I got tired of reading it towards the end. I got to chapter 281, but I just didn't want to read any further.

3. 3 在 Writing Novels to Support My Family in the Northern Song Dynasty 在北宋写小说养家 Li Qilang李七郎Romance559k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the household of a poor family in the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Man Niang found herself in Bianjing, the Song Empire's capital, a city of splendor captured in Along the River During the Qingming Festival. But the original owner was just a young girl, renting a dilapidated, supposedly haunted house by Nanxun Gate with her younger brother and sister. They had nothing to their name. In winter, the wind cut like a knife, and charcoal was too expensive. The three sibling 45.4kFavorites57kClicks/ch48.6kGifts

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   The romance plot is forced, the writing is amateurish, and the language is absurd. I couldn't bear it anymore after chapter 39.

4. 4 在 My Pure-Love Story Went Viral in a Restricted Novel 在限制文里写纯爱爆火了 Lord Hai海大人Romance1.2M WordsCompleted My new story, My Dead Husband Keeps Coming Back, is now underway. Please check it out, cuties! The blurb is at the very end! Blurb: Ji Xiaocha transmigrates into an erotic novel set in a world with many males and few females. -And becomes a wicked supporting female character with a tragic ending. Determined to change her fate, Ji Xiaocha resolves to stay away from the hero and heroine, only to receive a notice demanding an enormous bachelor tax. It turns out the male-to-female ratio in this w 41.1kFavorites52.6kClicks/ch96.4kGifts

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   I dropped the story twice; I just couldn't continue after chapter 52. The scene where the female lead gets fined felt like it was me getting fined too [laughing and crying emoji]. Her arrogant, fanatical male lead was really unlikable and extremely annoying. The writing style was also rather childish.

5. 5 从 Starting Out as a Novelist in Chinatown [The 1960s] 从在唐人街写小说开始[六零] Sang Xueqing桑雪青Romance748k WordsCompleted In 1965, Hollywood was alight with stars. Taylor and Monroe were making waves on the big screen, while the Beatles had become idols to young people everywhere. The old, conservative era had passed. Rebellion, awakening, upheaval, and the pursuit of freedom became the defining marks of a new age. But none of that had anything to do with Yang Leyi, who had just arrived in Manhattan's Chinatown. Her predecessor's father had just died, and her mother worked in a laundry. Their income was so meager t 28.6kFavorites36.3kClicks/ch53kGifts

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   So far it's not bad, and the plot development is worth looking forward to. The female lead was a medical student in her past life, and she is reborn in Chinatown, using her parents' struggles as a prototype for the story. It starts with a Chinese novel, then moves on to writing English novels, interspersed with other writing activities. There are some campus club elements, but the part about starting a business in college is a bit off-topic and feels a bit padded. It's almost over, but I'm starting to lose interest.

6. 6 十 A 19th-Century Woman Writer 十九世纪女作家 Frozen Orange冻京橙Romance381k WordsCompleted Check out my upcoming novel: The Department Store Princess of the 19th Century Blurb: "Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade" "When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st." After transmigrating to 19th-century England, Margaret finds herself in a quiet, isolated village. An orphan with neither parents nor fortune, she has almost nothing. After going to live with her aunt, she gets what seems like a respectable job as a maid at an estate. The work is monotonous: cleaning the stu 24.2kFavorites31.5kClicks/ch27.2kGifts

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   The ending was a bit of a letdown; the romance was as weak as ever, but the female lead's career development was worth watching.

7. 7 我 Making My Debut in Another World Through Cultural Exports 我靠文化输出在异世出道 Splendid Screen, Beautiful Days锦屏韶光Romance1.4M WordsCompleted In the Victorian era of the nineteenth century, the gears of the Industrial Revolution turned slowly and silently, and cities awoke amid steam and coal smoke. Fog shrouded the towering chimneys. The gods watched with cold eyes, silent and unmoved. Elena awoke from her sleep, having become a vampire about to be hunted by humans. She took up her quill. A lady’s fantasies drifted between the bed curtains, tales of the dead echoed at midnight, and Cinderella danced lightly through the music hall 24kFavorites30.5kClicks/ch91.6kGifts

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   Good-looking, erotic, looking for similar types

8. 8 非 [Nineteenth Century] An Atypical Novelist [十九世纪]非典型小说家 Eighteen of Mountains and Seas山海十八Romance1.1M WordsOngoing Nabla Lance, an astrophysicist. After transmigrating to London in 1880, she challenges herself to try her hand at novel writing. Her first book is titled "48 Hours Until Pompeii's Final Days: I Made Ten Thousand Pounds in a Fury." When the novel becomes a bestseller, the detective Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street comes calling. Sherlock: Your apocalyptic novel seems to have foreshadowed the sudden death of an archaeologist working in Pompeii. Nabla: Interesting.jpg Her second book is tit 22.7kFavorites20.6kClicks/ch64.6kGifts

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   So far it's good, the logic is clear, the female lead is highly intelligent, and the handling of the original owner's character and career path changes is very reasonable.

9. 9 我 Writing Novels in Xiangjiang [Period] 我在香江写小说[年代] Yu Zaichuan喻在川Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Yan Shaowei transmigrates to Xiangjiang in the 1940s. She has no money to her name and is living on the streets, with two tagalongs in tow. In her previous life, Yan Shaowei was a top-tier web novelist. She wasn't good at anything else, but she knew how to tell stories. Clacking a bowl for attention, she becomes a street storyteller and earns enough to eat by telling tales. Later, she returns to her old line of work, writing novels, scripting plays, and making films. Before long, the people o 19.7kFavorites24.9kClicks/ch25.8kGifts

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   First, the adaptation of the Harry Potter scene was really awkward; second, they insisted on portraying the female lead as using a pipe to relieve stress and look cool.

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