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1. 1 虚 A Virtual Idol Enters a Boy Band Audition 虚拟爱豆穿进男团选秀 Being Plain Is the Cute Part三无是萌点No CP962k WordsCompleted The night before a boy band survival show started filming, a popular contestant had a scandal. With nothing left to lose, the production team grabbed some random amateur to fill in. When the news broke, countless hate posts appeared: [Where did Jiang Xingcan come from? What a nobody. Is there no entry bar for survival shows? Any washed-up loser can get on now?] [Haha, just waiting for Jiang Xingcan to get sacrificed in the first round!] But during the first-stage performance recording... Under 30.8kFavorites37.5kClicks/ch60.2kGifts

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   Waiting for updates. In short, beans have benevolence.

2. 2 别 Others Sail the Seas, I Farm 别人航海，我种田 The Wind's Chime风的铃铛Romance906k WordsCompleted [Warning: Don't Starve + One Piece. Not faithful to canon, with lots of game-related headcanons. The protagonist is a player, and this is a Fourth Disaster story. You don't need to have played the game to enjoy it.] [A separate Whole Cake Island what-if story is now available] I’m Wendy, a Don’t Starve player, and I’ve arrived in this new world with the Don’t Starve game System. To make sure I stay alive, I’ve been working hard to clear land and grow crops. But I’m not very efficient on my own, 86.2kFavorites90.7kClicks/ch1.1MGifts

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   I haven't played Don't Starve, but I have played farming games like Stardew Valley. As for One Piece, I only know Luffy, but that doesn't stop me from reading this. (????????)Y

3. 3 公 Roadside Survival: I Have a Traveling Food Truck 公路求生，我有旅行餐车 Bear's Day熊的天Romance717k WordsOngoing To reach her goal of buying a home as soon as possible, Su Zhou planned to sell snacks from a street stall after work. But just after she bought a tricycle at a secondhand market, a food-truck business System landed in her lap. Fortune had fallen from the sky! Having read hundreds of business-success novels, she could practically see a villa, a swimming pool, and handsome models beckoning her! [Ding-dong! Host, please follow the navigation prompts to reach your stall location and check in!] G 27.1kFavorites35.7kClicks/ch41.1kGifts

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   The protagonist's overpowered abilities are incredibly satisfying, but the male lead's immature personality and the romantic subplot are meaningless to me.

4. 4 海 Island Survival: Life-Type Player Farms and Hoards Goods 海岛求生：生活玩家种田囤货 Fei Yi绯夷Danmei (BL)2.8M WordsOngoing Nan Liujing woke up to learn that he'd been kidnapped by an evil game System called Island Survival. From then on, he had to say goodbye to Blue Star and spend the rest of his life tied to a barren little island. What do you mean, one island from the start and everything else has to be earned through grinding? Faced with a desolate island where not even birds would land, Nan Liujing's hoarding instincts kicked in. No way. He had to start grinding!!! He went beachcombing, farmed, raised slimes, a 130.6kFavorites126.4kClicks/ch3.2MGifts

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   I didn't really enjoy the romance aspect, but I loved everything else; it felt like a simulation management game.

5. 5 食 Eating the Bright 食明 Spring Creek Flute at Dawn春溪笛晓Romance1.9M WordsCompleted In the first year of the Longqing reign, the new emperor appointed Zhang Juzheng Vice Minister of Personnel and concurrently Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion. The famous Ming official Zhang Juzheng officially became Grand Secretary Zhang. That evening, a boy carrying a wok stopped Zhang Juzheng on his way home. “Brother-in-law!” The boy with the wok, Gu Xian, rubbed his hands together and began his dramatic performance. “I’m your long-lost brother-in-law. I came all the way to the capital 117kFavorites170.4kClicks/ch1.6MGifts

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   Gu Xiaoxian's Journey of Accompanying the Emperor (Eating, Drinking, and Having Fun) I also loved reading DaDa's previous book, which featured adorable little birds.

6. 6 南 South Street Bakery [The 1990s] 南街面包店[九零] Pine Snow Pastry松雪酥Romance663k WordsCompleted [Signed for publication. Follow Weibo @Haoshide Songxuesu for publication updates and announcements.] Tao Tao only dozed off for a moment, and woke up back in 1997. That year, Hong Kong returned to China. She was eight, and everything was just as it had been. The family bakery hadn't gone under. Her stepmother, Aunt Yu, hadn't been driven away by her difficult, sharp-tongued self. And Yu Luan hadn't died. As the old sunlight streamed through the vintage glass display case in their home, she watc 116.3kFavorites128kClicks/ch289.4kGifts

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   I feel like it would be difficult to write a story where the female lead transitions into a romantic relationship.

7. 7 我 I Have a Safe City 我有一座安全城 Cat in the Sugar糖中猫Romance1.5M WordsOngoing Cheng Qisheng was an ordinary person with a terminal illness. She received a miniature planet. Apart from one ruined city, there was nothing on it. Time on the miniature planet flowed many times faster than in her world. Cheng Qisheng decided to cultivate human civilization there and have the new humans find a cure for her illness. The good news: The new humans had a loyalty imprint that made them worship Cheng Qisheng as their creator god. The bad news: The new humans still couldn't find a cu 116.6kFavorites125kClicks/ch1.8MGifts

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   The story of the creator god and his loyal eighth brother

8. 8 洛 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in Luoyang 洛阳农牧事 Red Bean Soup绿豆红汤Romance854k WordsCompleted Fu Ruyi transmigrates to the Northern Wei dynasty, landing in Luoyang, where nomadic and agricultural civilizations are deeply intertwined. She lives in the countryside, a place lacking in literary culture but rich in military strength. In the Northern Wei, different peoples live side by side, with Xianbei and Han cultures mixed together. In the countryside, farming is backbreaking, and taxes and labor duties are heavy. Fu Ruyi is trapped in the hardships of primitive farming and despises the 82.1kFavorites90.1kClicks/ch186kGifts

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   Older woman with a puppy [panda head]

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