Non-Power-Fantasy Novels 非爽文

1. 1 从 Outlive Then Ascend 从长生苟到飞升 Xiao Shi, You Little Scumbag小时你个渣渣Romance2.7M WordsCompleted Lin Nanyin transmigrates into a world of cultivation, becoming an ordinary mortal. The heavens give her a golden finger: eternal youth and immortality. Yes, her lifespan is endless. She arrived at eighteen, and will be eighteen forever. But being immortal doesn’t mean she can’t die. To stay alive, Lin Nanyin decides to keep her head down. No one is going to outlast her. Much later, the underlings she once led become pillars of the righteous sects, the pets she raised become leaders of the d 199.1kFavorites313.2kClicks/ch944.1kGifts

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   It's a slow-burn, long novel, not a light read. I cried buckets while reading it for two weeks, and I haven't dared to continue reading since. My subscription rate is only around 80%.

2. 2 请 Please Keep Your Tentacles to Yourself 请收好你的触手 Swallowing Fish吞鱼Romance147k WordsCompleted She heard whispers from the darkness worming into her ears; she felt a cold gaze clinging to her skin. Then something wrapped around her, soft and slick. She tried to cry out, but the sound sank into her throat. A vast shadow swallowed her, coiling around her and tightening as it dragged her toward deeper, darker waters. Yet death was not what awaited her. It was a monstrous love. … Out on the ocean, there was a Storm Lord of legendary renown. The entire storm season was named after it. It was 32.1kFavorites27.3kClicks/ch29.6kGifts

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   "I am the last mammoth in the world." Because I fell in love with you, I started wanting to become a rabbit. The deepest confession is not "I love you". "It means I'll never have a new little finger again." 🥺 May Yinyin and Fengbao be happy forever. Your stories made me feel happy.

3. 3 穿 Reincarnated as the Third Holy Mother, Causing Trouble Everywhere with Nezha 穿成三圣母后跟哪吒四处添乱 Spring Rain, Awakening of Insects春雨惊蛰Romance925k WordsCompleted [The official version is on Jinjiang. Writing is hard, so please support the original.] Yang Chan was a little freeloader who knew nothing but how to wheedle people, but after her family was destroyed, she was forced to grow up. Hunted by her enemies, she hides in a cave and decides to take revenge. She’ll kill the first person who finds her, then start with him and kill everyone in Heaven. But the first person she meets is Nezha. Nezha binds her with the Red Armillary Sash and carries her on 20.5kFavorites24.6kClicks/ch13.9kGifts

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   I've read half of it, and it's great! It's not a strong female lead story or a wish-fulfillment novel, but I still patiently read it. We shouldn't have too many prejudices against romance-driven stories.

4. 4 乌 [Lord of the Mysteries] A Crow’s Fairy Tale [诡秘之主]乌鸦童话 Bu Keshu布可菽Romance687k WordsOngoing [Six updates a week, with one random day off. Fully outlined. Updates at noon. No bonus updates.] In my fifteenth year since transmigrating to this world, I prayed to the crow on the windowsill to save my gravely ill grandmother. The crow brought a "miracle," and I caught a glimpse of the other side of another world. The other world really does have gods and angels, but as someone who transmigrated into the lowest rung of society, all I care about is what I'll have for lunch tomorrow. Now that 12.5kFavorites10.7kClicks/ch29kGifts

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   Not a wish-fulfillment story, but a slow-burn coming-of-age story.

5. 5 魔 Magical Girl and Blond DK 魔法少女与金发DK Wuliang雾椋Romance273k WordsCompleted Goshima Mayumi used to think there couldn't be a more thankless job than being a magical girl. Port Mafia: "Oh, there is." Tokyo Jujutsu High: "The comment above is right." A magical girl stuck working 996 at the Mafia tears through Yokohama and Tokyo, leaving everyone completely bewildered. Yokohama: "Is that an ability?" Tokyo: "Nonsense, it has to be jujutsu." Goshima Mayumi: "It's magic, thank you." * Pursuing happiness and fulfillment is second nature to magical girls. But Yokohama and Tok 5.8kFavorites11.6kClicks/ch2.2kGifts

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   Mayumi, please be happy. He, but actually very little sweetness, a bumpy road. Third viewing Madoka Magica Derivatives

6. 6 十 [Harry Potter] Crossroads [HP]十字路口 Saito Guichou斋藤归蝶Romance969k WordsCompleted In 1945, at the trial held at Nurmengard Castle in Austria, Albus Dumbledore, the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and chief judge of the tribunal, attending on behalf of the British, asked: "Defendant Gail Nash, do you have anything to say regarding the witnesses' testimony about the devastating humanitarian persecution you inflicted on Japan? "Do you plead guilty?" "I have nothing to say." The half-Asian witch in the dock already had flecks of white in her black hair, but her back was strai 4.5kFavorites2.4kClicks/ch1.9kGifts

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   I've forgotten most of it, but I have a very good impression of it.

7. 7 我 My Father, a Follower of the Panxing Sect 我的盘星教徒父亲 Wuliang雾椋Romance360k WordsCompleted [Coming Soon: Justice in Yokohama, details at the bottom] * The cult leader of the Star Plasma Vessel Cult divides ordinary people into two categories: those to squeeze for money, and those to collect cursed spirits from. That is, until one day, he attends the funeral of a certain “sponsor.” He plans to squeeze the last of the money out of that family while he is there. However, the sponsor’s daughter is a magical girl. He mistakes her for a jujutsu sorcerer. Only later does he realize that sh 2.3kFavorites3.5kClicks/ch2.3kGifts

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   The emptiness of completeness is like the girls' initial transformation into magical girls.

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