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1. 1 望 Tide Over the Sea 望海潮 Clouds Deep, Moon at Dawn云深月朝Baihe (GL)545k WordsCompleted Ruthless Regent vs. A Foreign Princess with a Blood Feud / An Insecure, Dog-Like Advisor / A Gentle Childhood-Friend General / [70% Anti-Piracy Measure: Some Content Has Been Revised and Differs from Pirated Copies] Fifteen years after transmigrating into a book, Xiao Jinsui became regent, second only to one and above all others. In her sixteenth year, the System warned her that, according to the original plot, the book's heroine, Lin Yanru, was supposed to come kill her. Her advisor, Fu Chang 12.2kFavorites7.8kClicks/ch17.6kGifts

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   The combination of "Emperor Gong" (dominant male lead), "Charismatic Beauty," and "1vN" (one-versus-man) is incredibly appealing. While there are many common criticisms (such as weak political maneuvering, a rushed coronation scene, excessive explicit content later on, and too much abuse of the main character), they are negligible to me. After all, this kind of dominant male character that suits my taste is extremely rare. Sui's character is truly captivating; initially a cold-hearted, indifferent, and world-loving natural emperor, he gradually becomes gentler and more loving later on. [Hugging thigh] Besides Sui, I also love the Saintess the most. When I saw "My Butterflies Only Fly to You," my heart skipped a beat. No wonder Sui later dotes on this charming, older, and slightly spoiled girl. And then there's Chang Qi; although she was initially disappointing, I felt so sorry for her later. [Biting handkerchief] Overall, each character has their own charm, making it hard not to like them all.

2. 2 卧 After Going Undercover, I Got Tangled Up With the Heiress of Hong Kong Island 卧底后被港岛大小姐缠上了 Sui Xun岁寻Baihe (GL)1.2M WordsCompleted 1. The first night Shen Wu met Pei Boyan, she was washing the blood off her hands. A woman flushed an unnatural red threw herself into Shen Wu’s arms, begging for help. “Save me. The Pei family will give you whatever you want.” The drugs had turned Pei Boyan’s eyes red at the corners, and she was close to losing control, yet her voice still sounded commanding. Shen Wu wasn’t interested in the Pei family’s money. She wanted the woman in front of her, and the immense power her family wielded in 183.1kFavorites186.9kClicks/ch1MGifts

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   Undoubtedly, the best of 2026 has arrived! An undercover police officer x a Hong Kong heiress, the romance is beautifully developed, the push-and-pull dynamic in the early episodes is sweet, both are the tsundere type, and I absolutely love the submissive-dominant type (the heiress is both a sister and a mother figure) [glasses]. The plot is also quite engaging, and every character is very well-developed. Whether it's Sister Wing, Sister Yung, Liang Zhuoyi, Aunt, or Zhou Minglan, they all have their own stories. Actually, everyone is quite tragic, but powerless to change their fate; one wrong step and everything is ruined 😩😩 Hehe. Finally, it's Sheng Yan's 99th wedding anniversary! Old Liang, you and Lang Bao must be happy forever 🙏 Reading the extras was so blissful, and following the serialization was also so blissful 😣

3. 3 失 Amnesia Trap 失忆陷阱 Sea Salt Calamansi海盐卡曼橘Baihe (GL)311k WordsCompleted Sheng Zhi and Ji Qingfan have been married by agreement for six months. In the eyes of outsiders, Ji Qingfan is cool and beautiful, quiet and ascetic. But to Sheng Zhi, she is an archrival she can't stand, someone with whom she's utterly incompatible. On the day their agreement finally expired, Sheng Zhi couldn't wait to end the marriage. But on her way to find Ji Qingfan with the divorce papers, she got into a car accident. When she woke up again, Sheng Zhi was lying in a hospital bed. Thinkin 34.6kFavorites51kClicks/ch20.5kGifts

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   The story features an unconditionally pampered seme, likely a tsundere younger seme (s1) and a yandere loyal uke (m0) pairing. The author is quite skilled at writing playful elements.

4. 4 白 White Moonlight Omega Always Wants To Possess Me 白月光Omega总想拥有我 Pigeons Don't Go Coo Coo Coo鸽子不会咕咕咕Baihe (GL)624k WordsCompleted [Next up: After Marrying a Disabled Omega Powerhouse, a fake playboy heiress Alpha × a real icy powerhouse Omega. The blurb is below. If you’re interested, feel free to add it to your reading list~] [The audio drama of the same name is available on Fan Jiao, with new episodes every Friday. The comic White Moonlight Heroine Always Wants to Keep Me to Herself is complete on Kuaikan Comics. There is no print edition, so don’t be fooled!] Blurb One: Ji Xiao discovers she has transmigrated into an A 210kFavorites251.9kClicks/ch188.7kGifts

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   ABO is a very popular and well-known book. The plot is okay, but there's a counterattack later on when the world changes.

5. 5 冰 When the Glacier Begins to Warm 冰川渐暖 Qin Huaizhou秦淮洲Baihe (GL)330k WordsCompleted [A radio drama of the same name is now available on the Fanjiao app] As Lin Zhiyang's lover, she is forbidden from getting too close. After knowing the professor for a year, all she knows is the exact location of a few moles on her body. She tries to melt a glacier, only to have the woman walk right past her as if she doesn't exist on the day she carefully prepared to confess. So when Lin Zhiyang says, “Let's break up,” Yu Che's deathly pale face makes those words seem strangely sweet, as though 110.9kFavorites138.4kClicks/ch65.4kGifts

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   In the early stages, because we didn't know Yu Che's hardships, it was quite heartbreaking from Lin Zhiyang's perspective; it was a bittersweet tug-of-war, with a tiny bit of heartbreak in the middle. I like Zhiyang's character design [shrug].

6. 6 被 What Should I Do If My Brother's Goddess Has Taken a Liking to Me? 被我弟的女神看上了怎么办 Sleepless Golden Night金夜无眠Baihe (GL)247k WordsCompleted Under the tree, Xi Ning panicked when the pretty girl who'd said she wanted to talk suddenly leaned closer and closed her eyes. She'd only kept up the pretense of being “sisters” with her twin brother's crush because she couldn't stand his endless pleading. So why was this sisterly friendship suddenly turning into something gay? Did you get the wrong idea? I'm really not into girls! Kong Nianxi stared at Xi Ning's stiff, panicked expression and laughed in exasperation. Was she really still play 98.4kFavorites146.5kClicks/ch53.2kGifts

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   A rather naive and somewhat immature campus romance novel, but quite cute.

7. 7 女 The Female Imperial Son-in-Law 女驸马 Meng Jinkan孟今看Baihe (GL)443k WordsCompleted [Full novel now complete] [Disguised as a man / married first, fall in love later / one-sided love becomes mutual / female-female couple] In her previous life, Qiu Che disguised herself as a man and took the imperial exams in her brother's place. For the so-called grand plan of her father and brother, she stopped at nothing to marry Li Qingwu, the most favored princess in the empire. Yet in ten years of marriage, she never so much as touched a hair on her wife's head. The day she became the mos 88.6kFavorites117kClicks/ch48.7kGifts

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   A woman disguised as a man: her past and present lives [Milk Tea]

8. 8 忽 Spring Came All at Once 忽然而至的春天 Xiao Tanluan小檀栾Baihe (GL)500k WordsCompleted *Please see the author’s note in Chapter One for reading information and content warnings. Blurb: Song Cheng and Wen Xiangyi have been together for ten years, and Song Cheng has always thought she was being forced into it. Wen Xiangyi only chose her because she was an athlete and looked decent enough! Reborn in high school, Song Cheng is determined to study hard and never again become a woman’s plaything. Most importantly, she must keep Wen Xiangyi from taking an interest in her. She’ll get rid 87.9kFavorites104.6kClicks/ch225.4kGifts

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   It's a heartwarming and healing story, even interspersed with many humorous and interesting scenes, yet I kept wanting to cry while reading the high school episodes. In their previous lives, Chengzi and Wenwen, due to their family circumstances, neither seemed to be able to easily and naturally express their love. Even though they both desperately needed each other, they constantly doubted and felt insecure. Fortunately, Chengzi was given a second chance, allowing her to connect with Wenwen earlier. Chengzi also gained the courage to rebel against her family of origin and helped Wenwen avoid what could be considered a crucial turning point in her life—being caught by her father and forced to confess. Both of them continuously healed each other. Whether it was Wenwen's unintentional warmth towards Chengzi, helping her plan her future, or Chengzi's seemingly reluctant but actually protective nature towards Wenwen, they gradually became an inseparable part of each other. But this life is different; they can both recognize each other's care and love and are able to face and express these feelings directly. Therefore, I think my tears were more due to being moved. Chengzi and Wenwen suffered far less harm because of each other; the people around them were kind, and everyone was becoming a better person.

9. 9 哑 The Mute Beauty 哑巴美人 Tu Ni荼倪Baihe (GL)421k WordsCompleted Yu Ting got cheated on. Her ex-girlfriend, Ran Xue, fell for someone else while abroad and plans to spend her life with a French woman. But the Yu and Ran families have long been engaged in an arranged marriage, and the alliance is important. Yu Ting’s grandfather gives her an ultimatum: if she wants to inherit the family fortune, she must not break the engagement. Ran Ling is Ran Xue’s older sister and the e 84.9kFavorites80.9kClicks/ch81.6kGifts

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   Shockingly delicious, every book by this author hits my sweet spot (with a touch of mental illness). A crazy, beautiful bottom + a later loyal top, S0m1, some parts are abusive towards the top, but actually both of them are mentally unstable, so it's more like mutual abuse.

10. 10 穿 Transported to the High School Days of an Iceberg Omega 穿到冰山O的高中时代 Chi Shu池数Baihe (GL)312k WordsCompleted (This novel was completed on December 17, 2022.) [Chapter comments are open] Blurb: Jiang Shuyi is taking an extra year to graduate. The art student breaks down crying and declares that she hates her Omega advisor, Wen Yao. To drown her sorrows, Jiang Shuyi drinks herself senseless. When she opens her eyes, she has somehow traveled eighteen years into the past! After Jiang Shuyi wakes up in the body of a rich delinquent who used to rule her professor’s high school, eighteen-year-old Wen Yao 75kFavorites101.6kClicks/ch80kGifts

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    Wen Yao seduced

11. 11 救 A Scummy Alpha Supporting Character Accidentally Marks the Heroine After Transmigrating into a Book 救命，女主o怎么黑化了 Eternal Star亘星Baihe (GL)714k WordsCompleted [Coming soon: The Cannon-Fodder Beauty Everyone Covets [Quick Transmigration] and After Becoming a Trash Alpha, the Female Lead’s Omega Tea Fragrance Fills the Air. Please add them to your reading list.] Blurb: Yan Nanque transmigrates into an ABO novel with a female lead who is sweet on the surface and dark underneath. The System tells her that she is the trash alpha supporting character who forces herself on the female lead, an omega, and makes her marry her. After the wedding, she torments t 67kFavorites55.8kClicks/ch97.6kGifts

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    The beginning might have been a bit boring and cliché? But the later plot twists were absolutely brilliant. From the moment the bug appeared and Baymax showed up, the story became increasingly interesting. Later, when Baymax confirmed his feelings, his increasingly "crazy" behavior and various forced actions were also very engaging. But when the two of them finally confirmed their feelings, it was just so cute! [Pity][pity] I really liked Wan-jun's line, "Thank you for coming."

12. 12 短 The Short-Lived White Moonlight Just Wants to Take It Easy 短命白月光只想咸鱼 Jiang Yishui江一水Baihe (GL)417k WordsCompleted The complete audio drama is available on the Fanjiao and Manbo apps. Since people have been asking, here's a warning: this is an ABO novel, and the original setting has not been changed. When Jiang Yi turned sixteen, she suddenly realized she had transmigrated into a book, and not just any book: an explicit one. The female protagonist, who is also the bottom in the story, is Jiang Sishan, the daughter of her stepmother's current girlfriend. And Jiang Yi is Jiang Sishan's short-lived white moo 61.2kFavorites103.2kClicks/ch70.8kGifts

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    The seductive uke is delicious, but the story is separated for a period of time, plus the female lead suffers amnesia and memory confusion, followed by pseudo-substitute literature (jealous of herself), and a series of melodramatic buffs [loading] (It seems to have supporting characters, so be careful to avoid triggers).

13. 13 让 Let Her Fall 让她坠落 Tu Ni荼倪Baihe (GL)532k WordsCompleted The new novel next door, Physiologically Captivated, is now out. Come check it out~ A notorious, fun-loving, flirtatious heartbreaker top x a reserved, scheming, possessive seductress bottom Not long after summer break ended and school started again, rumors began circulating at Huaizhong High. No one knew why the aloof, proud student council president from the top class, Qiao Shanwen, had provoked Miss Wen from the repeaters’ class, but she’d set her sights on her. Miss Wen was a troublemaker. 55.5kFavorites60.3kClicks/ch57.8kGifts

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    The early student days were pretty sweet, but afterwards it became a crazy, effeminate bottom story with a "wife-chasing-after-the-cremation" trope. I really felt sorry for Wen Luoluo in the middle, especially the part where he was devastated and contemplated suicide after his mother's death… [Please!]

14. 14 桃 The Peach Blossom Debt Comes Knocking 桃花债找上门来了 March Spring Never Ages三月春光不老Baihe (GL)481k WordsCompleted [To everyone who bought the whole book, please take a moment to leave a five-star review! I'm bowing to you!] A lighthearted, sweet little story to unwind with Pregnancy and running away / Fated encounter / Women can marry women in this world / Eight-year age gap The wealthy, pampered family treasure and heir apparent vs. the unlucky eldest legitimate daughter who can't find a husband no matter what The so-called family treasure: The hope of the family, the beloved grandson whom the old madam 47.7kFavorites70.9kClicks/ch59.3kGifts

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    A sweet and satisfying read, with delicate emotional descriptions. The "Land God of Wealth" setting is incredibly satisfying. Those who prefer a dominant male lead will find this "Heavenly Dragon Human" character irresistible. In the beginning, Ah Yang is completely obedient and puppy-like, and Sister Yuan is quite playful. Later, after being separated for several years, Tian Guoguo realizes his feelings and spoils him endlessly. [Hugs]

15. 15 成 Becoming the Comfort Alpha for the Aloof Movie Queen 成为清冷影后的抚慰A Chosen from a Thousand青钱万选Baihe (GL)491k WordsCompleted [Pirated copies are incomplete and missing passages. The only unabridged version is the official one. I am not responsible for incoherent wording in pirated copies.] ● Passionate, devoted puppy-like Alpha × refined, cool on the outside but warm within award-winning actress Omega ● Rising young actress × top-tier award-winning actress ● Liang Ruojing (23) × Ming Tanqing (27) Liang Ruojin 46.4kFavorites42kClicks/ch80.8kGifts

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    Liang Xiaogou and Ming Jiejie are both adorable [pity], but some parts of the early plot are a bit mindless, which might get a little annoying? The later parts are better.

16. 16 厌 The Anti-Alpha Protagonist is Exceptionally Biased Towards Me 厌A主角对我很双标 Feng Yu Li凤鱼梨Baihe (GL)473k WordsCompleted An outwardly aloof and distant alpha x a bold and uninhibited omega Mountain lotus leaf versus red wine, a clash between subtlety and passion 1. Gu Yu died suddenly from overwork and was bound to a System, transmigrating into an ABO novel as a cannon-fodder alpha. The original owner was destitute, a nobody ranked near the bottom of the entertainment industry, yet had ambitions far beyond her station. Online, she used a fake identity to flirt with rich people. And one of the people she flirted 40.4kFavorites49.9kClicks/ch33.9kGifts

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    A sweet romance novel with few major plot twists.

17. 17 穿 I Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel to Become a Master of Empty Promises 穿进虐文里做画饼大师 Sleepyhead嗜眠Baihe (GL)491k WordsCompleted [The next book, Romantic Allergy, is open for follows in the author's column] On the eve of her university graduation, Bian Yingning fell to her death. She had been so close to getting the diploma she had spent more than a decade studying for. What could she do? All she could do was listen to the System that had appeared out of nowhere, complete tasks bit by bit, save up points, and return to the world. In the book she had transmigrated into, the heroine and hero's torturous romance ran for a 37.9kFavorites65.1kClicks/ch35.8kGifts

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    It's so good! [Pity] Every female character in it is wonderful. Although they all gained favor with the female lead through her tasks, the characters are all very well-developed. In the end, each female character has her own storyline (not with the female lead). Personally, I like Sister Duanmu the most (she's a charming older woman who dares to love and hate). Although I don't usually like stories about mortal enemies, the couples in this book are really cute! [Hugs]

18. 18 万21+ After the Universally Hated One Casts Aside Love 万人嫌断情绝爱后 Little Koi小锦鲤呀Baihe (GL)494k WordsCompleted 35.1kFavorites46.4kClicks/ch45.3kGifts

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    Perhaps because it opens with Runqing's confession, there's a subtle sense of sadness throughout the story. Runqing is initially very insecure, but Xiaozhou's unwavering support and steadfast choice always resonate with her. Later, when Runqing loses her memory, Xiaozhou continues to be direct and honest, making their pure and innocent romance all the more endearing. No one can resist Xiaozhou's gentle, older-man-younger-woman charm; Runqing and Xiaozhou together is the best ending. [Pat on the head]

19. 19 竟 I Somehow Became a 200-Pound Alpha 竟成为两百斤的Alpha Longing for My Love While Hoeing at High Noon望美人兮锄禾日当午Baihe (GL)416k WordsCompleted Xiao Zigui transmigrated into a book and became the disposable “fiancee” of Song Ci, the original story's aloof heroine! She was a disabled Alpha weighing two hundred pounds, with “useless pheromones”! This fat, clueless girl had a crush on the class belle, Xie Qingmiao. She confessed in front of everyone, got rejected, and became a laughingstock at school! The girl was an A-grade Omega, for goodness' sake. Did Xiao Zigui really think she was good enough for her? Xiao Zigui rubbed her forehea 26.1kFavorites27.4kClicks/ch46.7kGifts

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    A sweet and heartwarming story with a satisfying twist [poor thing] Zi Gui and Nuo Nuo are both so cute

20. 20 会 Membership Day 会员日 Qin Huaizhou秦淮洲Baihe (GL)388k WordsCompleted 21.7kFavorites21.2kClicks/ch43kGifts

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    It's so cute! [Pity] Little Maple Leaf is really adorable. The whole story witnesses Maple Leaf and Xiao Ci slowly getting better together, making it hard to bear seeing the end.

21. 21 风 The Beautiful Feng Shui Master's Deadly Aura [Entertainment Industry] 风水美人煞[娱乐圈] Xian Er仙珥Baihe (GL)847k WordsCompleted [New Novel: Marking My Mother’s Ex-Wife O] (obsessive, gloomy little freak x gentle, doting, wife-like mom) Pirated copies of this novel have many passages cut. It’s best enjoyed alongside the comments. Note: There are three leads, one top and two bottoms (1v2), and it has a very happy ending! Lin Chuxia, Grand Preceptor of the Great Xia Dynasty and a powerful master of ancient metaphysics, accidentally transmigrates into a scummy top with the same name in an entertainment-industry novel called 17.6kFavorites14.1kClicks/ch55.9kGifts

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    Delicious sandwich cookies! The author really knows how to write various play scenarios. The older sister and Bai Yi are completely seductive, with many love triangles. The parts about metaphysics are also very well written.

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