I Love Upright, Kind Protagonists 正直善良主角我超爱

1. 1 在 The Days of a Night Watchman in Ancient Times 在古代打更的日子 The Great World大世界Romance1.4M WordsCompleted New novel, The Hidden Bell, is updating daily! This novel will be available to paying readers starting August 3, 2022. I hope you’ll support it! Love you all! A cry pulled Gu Zhao from the world of the dead back to the realm of the living. Life is beautiful. Life can also be bitter. Birth, aging, sickness, death; parting from loved ones; meeting those you resent; wanting what you cannot have... Gu Zhao thought poverty was the greatest hardship in life. Unable to do hard physical labor, she c 106.7kFavorites203.2kClicks/ch313.6kGifts

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   This is one of the few novels I recommend that are even better without a male lead. Of course, the male lead is practically a background character, while the female lead is kind, upright, and ruthless—a very interesting one. Another novel by the same author, where the male lead takes a civil service exam in the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, is also excellent and has a similar style.

2. 2 师 Every Disciple in My Sect Is a Walking Disaster 师门个个皆冤种 The Real Wave浪本浪Romance284k WordsCompleted 13.9kFavorites22.7kClicks/ch10.3kGifts

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   Pure love is the best! This is a sweet, heartwarming story with no angst. The setting is somewhat like Journey to the West. It's a childhood sweetheart cultivation story. Just the scene where the male lead tears open his clothes to breastfeed the female lead as a child, and almost castrates himself with a knife to sleep with her, makes me laugh at the male lead for the rest of my life.

3. 3 掳 I Kidnapped the Wrong Male Lead and Fled in the Middle of the Night 掳错男主后我连夜出逃 Qiu Baiguo秋百果Romance209k WordsCompleted Sheng Tang transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a female supporting character from the Hehuan Sect. In this cultivation novel, the male lead has a saintly aura and is determined to reform every villainous person. The original Sheng Tang came from the Hehuan Sect and had coveted the male lead for a long time. One day, she successfully kidnapped him and brought him back to the sect to use as a test subject for practicing the sect's techniques. The male lead spent three miserable months in 15.5kFavorites36.9kClicks/ch3.6kGifts

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   The male lead's character isn't actually that great, and the author's character is even worse because he abandoned the story. But it's really good, especially the love triangle scenes. The author stopped updating right at those scenes, which infuriated me.

4. 4 我 I'm the Scummy Daughter-in-Law of My Master 我是师尊的渣儿媳 Dai Dan岱旦Romance133k WordsCompleted I was the most valued disciple under my master's tutelage. That year, I had a lover who understood me, a good reputation in the cultivation world, and everything was going my way when I accidentally wandered into a painting. In a single night, my circumstances took a drastic turn. Trapped in the world inside the painting, with no hope of ever escaping, I chose to give myself to a handsome man who had entered this world just like me. During the five years we spent inside the painting, we had 1.3kFavorites4.5kClicks/ch192Gifts

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   Finally, I've encountered a male protagonist who's intelligent, emotionally intelligent, and not easily fooled by the villain's words.

5. 5 签 After Ten Years of Sign-In, I Became the Strongest in the Cultivation World 签到十年后我成为修仙界最强 Love Begins with a Single Thought情一念生Romance213k WordsCompleted [Completed] Meng Du transmigrates with a Mary Sue Godhood System, but then discovers she's transmigrated into the cultivation world. Meng Du: I might as well slack off. Meng Du assumes that the cultivation world must be full of powerful experts who can shatter stars and universes with a flick of their fingers and easily turn her to dust. She stays in the beginner village and slacks off like a lazy fish. The poor System does the sign-ins for its Host, and Meng Du successfully levels up to 20 12.5kFavorites26kClicks/ch4.9kGifts

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   The female lead is the strongest and lives a carefree life.

6. 6 除 Everyone but Me Is the Protagonist 除我之外，全员主角 Cong Wen从温Romance749k WordsCompleted [Signed for simplified Chinese publication. For publication updates, see Weibo @Jinjiang Congwen.] Song Nanshi transmigrated into a cultivation world made up of three novels, where everyone in her sect except her was a protagonist. Her eldest senior brother is the male lead of an old-school, wish-fulfillment novel, complete with a broken engagement, a jade pendant containing an old master, and the nickname Dragon Aotian. Armed with a battered sword, he reaches Foundation Establishment and kills 465.8kFavorites785.8kClicks/ch602.7kGifts

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   I really like silly and absurd stories. The male and female leads are real; they're two poor guys who just happened to meet.

7. 7 修 Why Is the Cultivation World So Sick? 修真界为何如此有病 Ji Ying纪婴Romance700k WordsCompleted [The print edition is titled Stars Come on a Cold Night. * Players have poked this cultivation world full of holes. Romance, cooking, combat, management: somehow, every game skill works here. Xie Xingyao became a doomed supporting heroine destined to suffer both physically and emotionally. Betrayed by the one she loved, she was abandoned in the perilous Dark Abyss, where death was all but certain. As a surging tide of demons rushed toward her, she remained expressionles 277.6kFavorites371.7kClicks/ch228.7kGifts

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   I still prefer reading lighthearted stories like this.

8. 8 剑 After the Sword Cultivator's Reputation Was Ruined 剑修风评被害后 Xiong Ye熊也Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [This novel has been licensed for print publication in simplified Chinese. Preorders open May 30, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.] Short blurb: After receiving a storybook that foretells the future, Yun Xian decides to leave the mountain and revive the Sword Pavilion. The sect leader strokes his beard, deeply gratified. My girl has finally grown up. One year later. “Yun Xian, could you tell us how you managed, in just one year, to turn everyone’s stereotype of sword cultivators from ‘aloof, good at fightin 201.6kFavorites280.1kClicks/ch240.4kGifts

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   A lighthearted, comedic story about a group of teenagers who, through a series of mishaps, manage to save the world.

9. 9 十 Ascend on the Spot Within Ten Meters 十米之内，原地飞升 Jin Cheng锦橙Romance571k WordsCompleted Yun Wan transmigrates into a villainess in a male-oriented power fantasy. The villainess was born into the Hehuan Sect and has an indescribably extraordinary constitution. Any cultivator within ten meters of her can use her to increase their cultivation. She’s basically a walking spring of spiritual energy, and if two people cultivate with her, they might even ascend on the spot. That’s why her father offered her as a “gift 188.6kFavorites356.4kClicks/ch92.1kGifts

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   It's a pretty interesting story. The first half is great—lighthearted, silly, and fun. But I dropped it after it started getting angsty. It felt like the angst was just for the sake of angst, and I got the feeling that nobody except the male and female leads didn't get a happy ending.

10. 10 正 How the Leader of the Righteous Path Was Raised 正道魁首是如何养成的 Never Say Goodbye不言归Multi-Orientation1.9M WordsOngoing [If you encounter repeated chapters, check whether your subscription rate is too low or clear your cache.] Blurb: In her twentieth year after transmigrating to the Cultivation world, Song Congxin has a book fall from the sky, informing her that the world she lives in is doomed to destruction. Her junior sister, who has yet to enter the sect, will love her master without being loved in return, suffer persecution at the hands of the immortal sects, narrowly escape death before awakening her blood 149kFavorites144.3kClicks/ch725kGifts

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    I want to say it a hundred times: I love the timid, upright, kind, and gentle character. There's no overpowered protagonist who gets slapped in the face. This isn't a story of one person's lonely struggle, but a story of a group of people working together to overcome fate. Every character is incredibly well-developed.

11. 11 师 Junior Sister, You're So Strange. Let Me Take Another Look 师妹好怪，再看一眼 Listening to the Moon by the River一江听月Romance605k WordsCompleted (A goofy, adorable, completely unserious sweet romance. The author's other novel, Why Is My Junior Sister Always Like That?, is now available.) Here's the blurb: Chu Yu is an unlucky transmigrator who ended up in a second-rate role. But she cheerfully makes the most of her greatest advantage: The original novel's male lead is a heaven-defying chosen one who can do anything he wants, but right now he's just an illiterate. She'll become his junior sister and bask in his luck to extend her life. T 93.9kFavorites147.1kClicks/ch29.1kGifts

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    It's a silly, funny piece of writing, quite interesting, but it's more about being entertaining than anything else.

12. 12 圣 The Holy Monk Gets Cursed [Book Transmigration] 圣僧中蛊之后[穿书] Farewell, Limit-Breaker下限君一路好走Romance402k WordsCompleted Wen Ning transmigrated into a cultivation novel she had once read and became a junior disciple of Xinyue Sect. Xinyue Sect was a small sect. Its beautiful and kind-hearted leader was a carefree beauty, and her senior and junior brothers, sisters, and nephews were all harmonious, lovable simpletons. They stayed far away from the plot and its main characters. It was an obscure sect full of walk-on characters, and Wen Ning was very satisfied. One day, the masters from Ciji Temple brought over a yo 66.2kFavorites250.6kClicks/ch72.4kGifts

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    The male and female leads have a very pure love story.

13. 13 被 After Someone Took Over My Body, My Love-Struck Husband Went Mad for Me 被穿后恋爱脑夫君为我发疯 Listening to the Moon by the River一江听月Romance656k WordsCompleted [The main story is told in third person. Be sure to read the guide below! Please add my upcoming novel, She Can't Really Want to Kill Me, to your collection! Blurb: I was an ordinary inner disciple of Flowing Song Mountain, with a spoiled temperament and a fiance I'd been promised to since childhood. My fiance was the sect leader's personal disciple, my sixth senior brother. He was exceptionally gifted and peerlessly handsome, the greatest swordsman of our generation. 65.1kFavorites85.9kClicks/ch25.7kGifts

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    The romance between the male and female leads is so sweet! And the male lead's "darkening" is only apparent to others as his obsessive pursuit of the female lead; in reality, she's been possessed by someone else. No one else noticed, which is completely different from those "darkening" stories that involve destroying the world at the drop of a hat.

14. 14 冤 The Suckers’ Alliance! 冤种联盟！ Zombie Slayer打僵尸Romance544k WordsCompleted [The main story is complete. Sending love~] [New novel Shut Up, You! launches in early October~] [Wacky little skits may appear in the author's notes.] Si Wuyuan never knew she was the world's biggest punching bag. She just thought she was unlucky, with dubious luck and a knack for dragging friends and family into trouble. Nothing ever went right, so she was better off staying home and lying flat. Luckily, her parents had left behind a legacy of good karma, so she could quietly laze around on he 64.3kFavorites125.1kClicks/ch102.6kGifts

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    I absolutely love it! They never bottle up their grievances; they're covered in memory stones, always seeking justice and revenge, and never implicating the innocent. Most importantly, the male and female leads are fellow disciples, true geniuses who grow together, not some big shots pretending to be fools.

15. 15 黑 The Dark Witch Stands for Justice [Book Transmigration] 黑暗女巫立身伟正[穿书] Mu Mu Mu Zi Tou木木木子头Romance714k WordsCompleted Haiyin is a highly intelligent, straightforward young woman who has studied both medicine and law. After dying innocently in a medical dispute, she is born into another world, into the family of the most notorious dark witches on the continent of Dexi... What? A human girl and a vampire duke are in love? Munching on a red apple, Haiyin thinks that love across species must be steadfast and true. She'll pray every day for their happiness. What? The Silver Wolf King loves that human girl too? Haiyi 64.3kFavorites176.4kClicks/ch81.5kGifts

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    Hardship nurtures the most resilient and powerful flowers.

16. 16 拜 I Panicked After Becoming a Disciple of the Sword Sect [Book Transmigration] 拜师剑宗后我慌了[穿书] Bie Han别寒Romance687k WordsCompleted Sui Xi transmigrated into a book, becoming the doomed older sister of the vicious male supporting character. Her parents had both died, and she was frail and delicate, leaving only her and her younger brother to depend on each other. Sui Xi looked at the young boy beside her, who barely came up to her waist. She remembered the tragic fate in the original story: after she died, her little brother coveted the heroine and was killed off by the hero and the villain. Sui Xi had no choice but to l 50.9kFavorites209.7kClicks/ch16.3kGifts

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    I quite like it, but those who like obsessive female leads shouldn't watch it.

17. 17 这 This Cultivation World Is a Little Strange 这个修真界有点怪 Go, Cheng Cheng!冲鸭小程程Romance501k WordsCompleted This copy is incomplete and pirated. Thank you for supporting the official version~ Coming soon: Ordinary Me Brings Down a School for Superpowered Students. Synopsis Song Yi had defied the heavens on her path of cultivation, but was overcome by her inner demon. After failing to survive the tribulation, she transmigrated ten million years into the future. The cultivation civilization was still flourishing, but something about this cultivation world seemed off. Shr 38.5kFavorites89.6kClicks/ch25.8kGifts

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    I read half of it, then stopped. It's a silly and heartwarming story.

18. 18 铁 Cooking a Heavenly Tribulation in an Iron Pot 铁锅炖天劫 Jue Ge绝歌Romance901k WordsCompleted Blurb, Version One: A Cantonese cuisine apprentice, not yet trained, dies of illness first. I open my eyes and become a wild fox, with three tails and four legs. Dad doesn't care, Mom doesn't love me. I grow up to be an ugly freak. I find a pot, set it over the fire, learn to cook, and become the toughest fox on the road to cultivation. Immortal-sect disciples arrive on a mission to exterminate demons: Look, look! There's an ugly fox cooking stew over there. Blurb, Version Two: I tra 29.5kFavorites77.7kClicks/ch127.6kGifts

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    I quite liked the first half, but the world-building became too extensive in the latter half, making it harder to follow. I really liked the female lead; she wasn't simply good or evil. She was reincarnated as a fox clan suffering persecution from humans, and she worked hard to lead her people to escape capture and fight back. She's much better than those characters who are reincarnated as different races, whose parents and clans are killed by humans, and then still fall in love with humans.

19. 19 剑 The Sword Immortal Is My Ex-Boyfriend 剑仙是我前男友 Mo Shubai墨书白Romance570k WordsCompleted center> After the wrongly accused talisman cultivator Su Qingyi is reborn, she gets a quest: "Help the Sword Immortal Jing Yan become a god." As she helps him, she suddenly realizes Could this Sword Immortal, a heartthrob in the cultivation world, be her ex-boyfriend from the twenty-first century? And the very same ex she beat up, cheated on, and dragged people to his workplace to plaster with big-character posters and banners? Reader's Guide Update notice: While the novel is featured on the 27.2kFavorites100.6kClicks/ch17.1kGifts

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    That final battle was so heartbreaking! The male lead was so, so good, so incredibly good. I really love protagonists with that saintly, saintly persona.

20. 20 咸 A Salted Fish Transmigrates into the Demoness of a Certain Sect 咸鱼穿成某宗妖女 Golden Blade Beneath the Snow雪下金刀Romance347k WordsCompleted Rumor has it that Mu Xingyao, the Holy Maiden of the Hehuan Sect, is breathtakingly beautiful and born with a bewitching constitution. Though still young, she has already reached the Nascent Soul stage through the art of dual cultivation. They say there is no man in the world whom Mu Xingyao cannot enchant. Mu Xingyao's reputation as a femme fatale is renowned throughout the cultivation world. Only a few high-ranking members of the Hehuan Sect know the truth: beneath that face capable of bringi 25.5kFavorites69.9kClicks/ch4.7kGifts

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    I liked this story, but I wouldn't recommend it. It started strong but ended weakly. I genuinely liked the male and female leads' characters, but the story was lacking. The last few chapters, if they had been longer and more carefully crafted, would have been much better.

21. 21 女 The Witch Awakens on the Night of the Werewolves 女巫醒在狼人之夜 Warm Milk Tea溫奶茶Romance963k WordsCompleted Monsters known as werewolves are scattered across this continent. By day, they mingle in villages, and by night, they lie in wait to devour humans. Dill was an orphan from the East, bought at the port by the great witches for a dozen measures of dill spice. As an apprentice witch, she soon arrived at her first village and swore to find the werewolves and win the faith of humanity. But not even one night had passed when the handsome young man who had hit on her that day, only to be rejected, kn 13kFavorites15.7kClicks/ch21.1kGifts

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    This Western fantasy novel is truly amazing! The male and female leads are both incredibly cute, and the supporting characters are all very interesting. Reading it gives you a feeling of Alice in Wonderland.

22. 22 龙 The Overpowered Hero Became a Girl! [Book Transmigration] 龙傲天变成女孩子啦！[穿书] Yu Mie Mie鱼咩咩Romance462k WordsCompleted [My next story, Why Is the Whole World Full of Hopeless Romantics, will start once I've saved up enough chapters. After transmigrating into a male power fantasy web novel, Tang Li was told by the System that she wasn't the heroine with skin like ice and bones like jade, nor was she the vicious villainess who brought about her own downfall. Tang Li was very satisfied and quite happy. But That damned System didn't tell 6.4kFavorites13.5kClicks/ch5.1kGifts

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    I absolutely love this story! It's hilarious yet unconventional. The female lead transmigrates into the body of Long Aotian's second senior brother, while Long Aotian ends up in the body she was originally supposed to enter. The male lead is the eldest senior brother, and the female lead eventually becomes the junior sister of her sect. After switching back to her original body, she and Long Aotian team up with their swords to defeat the villains. All the supporting characters are also adorable.

23. 23 穿 After Becoming the Female Lead’s Foil in a Cultivation Novel, I Took the Civil Service Exam 穿成修仙文女主对照组后我去考编了 Bubbling Rice冒泡的米饭Romance370k WordsCompleted The Cultivation Diary of a Legitimate Daughter is a power-progression novel about a strong female lead, featuring revenge, putting scumbags in their place, household intrigue, and immortal cultivation. Ning Yi transmigrates into the book as a foil character, a stunning beauty who hopes to change her fate by marrying well, only to end up with a sword through her heart. After remembering the description of her own death in the book, she decides to take another path: leave the cultivation clans be 5.6kFavorites28.3kClicks/ch2.2kGifts

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    The author abandoned the project; the story was quite good, there was no bashing of the female lead, and she was genuinely intelligent.

24. 24 杀 Kill the Woman Who Transmigrated Into a Book [Quick Transmigration] 杀死穿书女[快穿] Drifting with Fate命运随波逐流Romance623k WordsCompleted Luo She: "You only get one life, and money doesn't fall from the sky. Come on, come back to the Underworld with me." The women who transmigrated into books: "No way. Who'd want to die when they can stay alive? Bring it on." Legend has it that the King of Hell's duties are shared by a brother and sister. The brother governs the affairs of men, and the sister those of women. The brother is Yan Mo, the sister Luo She, and together they're known as the King of Hell. The world knows the King of Hel 1.7kFavorites7.7kClicks/ch682Gifts

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    While watching, all I could think was that good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished; it's not that retribution won't come, it's just that the time hasn't arrived yet.

25. 25 反 The Villain Doesn't Want to Be Redeemed 反派不想被救赎 Ninety Lamps九十灯Romance199k WordsOngoing [This novel was started in a rush, and its main direction and details were all underdeveloped. Writing it became very difficult for a while. After realizing I'd left it untouched for a long time, I decided to make it free to read rather than force myself to keep writing a story with no clear future. Thank you to everyone who added it to your reading list. I wish you good health and all the best.] After I died, I became a wandering spirit floating in midair and saw Junior Sister crying on Senior 1.3kFavorites1.3kClicks/ch434Gifts

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    I quite like this story, it's just that the author stopped updating. It's pretty silly and funny if you don't think too much while reading.

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