Temporary Reading List: Paid For but Didn't Finish, Part 2 临时书单，花过钱没看完-2

1. 51 我 [Crossover] I'm Your Mother! [综]我是你妈啊！ Qin Shen秦诜Romance552k WordsCompleted Blurb: Su Yunshuang was reading a novel while slacking off during a dungeon run when she transmigrated. Along the way, she got bound to a Jinjiang System. From then on, Su Yunshuang set out to act as everyone's mom, straighten out their values, and save the world. Faced with all the big and small BOSSes who had already gone astray or were about to, Su Yunshuang felt overwhelmed. 〒▽〒 Reader's Guide 1. Shizi doesn't care about historical accuracy and likes to make things up, so readers who value 22.9kFavorites146kClicks/ch14.4kGifts

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   Some chapters are locked so I can't subscribe to the whole thing. It's a silly novel about becoming the mother of my crush.

2. 52 五 Five Elements, But No Chicken [Classic Tales] 五行缺鸡[综话本] Sticky Candy黏糖Romance387k WordsOngoing This story updates extremely slowly: monthly, seasonally, or whenever inspiration strikes. Update schedule is irregular. Here's the blurb. An accident turns heaven and earth upside down. Wu Ji dies and comes back to life, feels below his navel, and lets out a howl. *Wu Ji, the popular finance whiz, dies young and transmigrates. *He leaves behind Italian handmade calfskin shoes, '82 Lafite, and goddess Wang Zuxian to enter a wondrous world of cultivation… *…And loses the dignity of a man, 22.7kFavorites27.9kClicks/ch26.9kGifts

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   [Niche genre is a plus] [Male transmigration/female transformation novel] No romantic pairing. The protagonist is surrounded by various handsome men, but he considers himself straight and therefore doesn't want to get married. There are also some "ordinary women" around the protagonist, used to highlight how "unlike ordinary women" he is. These "ordinary women" only have eyes for men and don't care about the protagonist, and the protagonist doesn't care much about them either, so there's no yuri (lesbian) element. Aside from the handling of the male and female supporting characters, the writing, plot, and main character design are all excellent. It primarily draws upon various Ming and Qing dynasty tales of the strange and supernatural, a rather rare genre. The author blends these different stories very well, creating a novel and clearly defined power system. It's a fast-paced, leveling-up story. Updates are very slow. (Deduct half a star for update speed, deduct one and a half stars for the author's unkindness towards female supporting characters (given the uncertainty of the protagonist's gender, this can be considered as an unkindness towards all female characters). If you don't mind these two points, this novel is a gem.)

3. 53 超 Early Access: Change Your Fate Online 超前点播，在线改命 Fame and Fortune名利No CP744k WordsCompleted [2024 Successor Novel: Within Virtual Reality] [Coming Soon: Strange Tales, a female protagonist, original fiction, no romance; Beneath the Ice, a female protagonist, original romance] ↓ Blurb for this novel ↓ #If your life were a book, what would its title be? Luo Shiqin, a fourth-year university student: Thanks, it would definitely be My Love-Hate Relationship with My Graduation Thesis. Don't you yearn for reincarnation into a world of immortals, with a deeply passionate and tragic roma 21.1kFavorites34.8kClicks/ch34.7kGifts

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   This is a brain teaser, and the writing is a bit messy.

4. 54 生 Born in the Investiture of the Gods 生于封神 Ze Mei则美Romance735k WordsCompleted Coming soon: [Ancient to Modern] My Little Sister Is Lin Daiyu Zan Baolin gets a call from the hospital. The mother and younger sister of the body she's inhabiting have been in a car accident. Their condition is critical, and they need surgery immediately. Zan Baolin runs to the underground parking lot. As she drives out, she thinks, "How am I supposed to handle this? I just possessed this girl's body and haven't even figured out the situation yet, and now I have to face her family. I can't no 18.6kFavorites71kClicks/ch15kGifts

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   This is a fanfiction about the Investiture of the Gods. The female protagonist is the younger sister of King Zhou of Shang. She is adopted by her uncle to inherit the throne of the Western Wilderness and is protected by the ancient gods of the Western Wilderness. After King Zhou is bewitched by Su Daji, the queen returns to the Central Plains to act as regent, wielding supreme power in the Shang Dynasty and defying the will of Heaven to overthrow the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou. The female protagonist is a wise and powerful ruler who quells the rebellion of the Western Zhou, participates in the sage's game as the ruler of the human race, and presides over the Investiture of the Gods with a mortal body, maximizing the protection of the interests of the human race and the Shang royal family. There is a romantic pairing. The male lead is Tongtian, who admires the female lead's courage and treats her as a friend. In the early stages, he acts as a business ally and provides her with some buffs. The female lead and Tongtian have a demigod child, but she leaves the child with the father to focus on being a queen. Warning—Zhou Fang, the antagonist of this story, may have a slight lapse in intelligence and a slow start. For a long period in the early stages, the female protagonist conceals her ambitions and quietly develops herself in front of sages and immortals. She is purely mortal, with a mortal body, relying mainly on power, status, strategy, luck, and the backing of an ancient god from the Western Wilderness comparable to a sage. She is always the regent queen, and legally, the legitimate royal family consists of her brother and nephew. In the end, she presides over the investiture of the gods, bestowing the title of Ziwei Emperor upon her brother, King Zhou, and the title of Taishan Lord upon her nephew, the Crown Prince. Her own throne in the Western Wilderness is inherited by another nephew. Although the Shang Dynasty royal family in this story is very united, with no internal strife and everyone listening to the female protagonist, her brother and nephew really… won too easily!

5. 55 个 Saiki Kusuko with a Superpower Personality [Crossover] 个性超能力的齐木楠子[综] Delusion Fetish妄想癖Romance346k WordsCompleted [See you in my next book: The Games I've Played Have All Become Reality [Crossover], probably opening in June] Able to talk at 14 days old. Walking at one month old. The elementary school bully seems to have confessed to me. The short, rich, handsome guy in middle school treats me differently. I attend Yuuei, the nation's top high school. And I even have superpowers beyond human imagination. But I'm not a Mary Sue, just an ordinary person named [Kusuo Saiki]. Wait, you say this world is a super 15.6kFavorites62.9kClicks/ch9.5kGifts

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   [Plot + Romance] A bit disappointing. The female lead is much weaker than the original Qi Shen. Or rather, the author gave her a cheat code, making many of her superpowers controllable, naturally weakening their strength as a balance. Therefore, the female lead lacks the divine mindset of Qi Shen, who believes "the more you have, the more you lose," and is just an ordinary girl with ordinary superpowers. Her ordinary superpowers are also very weak. She is extremely distressed by being caught in a love triangle but doesn't know how to use telepathy. She gets startled when someone suddenly pins her against a wall. My first reaction was that the author was calling her Nendou Nendou... I skipped around to the end, and even the main couple, Qi Shen, was quite weak. He was just an ordinary boy with superpowers, only slightly stronger than an ordinary girl.

6. 56 天 Destined to Rule 天命为皇 Yan Ke燕柯Romance1.1M WordsCompleted I am the Son of Heaven. I am Heaven's will. In the ninth year of Tianqi under the Jin dynasty, the young emperor was still a child. His maternal relatives held power, powerful ministers rose on every side, and people across the land took up arms in revolt. Foreign enemies ravaged the borders, while the imperial clan remained lost in wine and pleasure. The Jin dynasty teetered on the brink... In the Jin Mountains, a woman general of the Yao clan raised a rebellion. She quelled civil strife, repe 12.9kFavorites44.8kClicks/ch22.5kGifts

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   The female protagonist transmigrates and finds her entire family exiled. She leads them to survival, rising from bandits to mountain queens, and finally becoming an empress. Her cheat ability is superhuman strength, and she's kind to the female supporting characters.

7. 57 教 The Emperor in the Textbook 教科书中的朕 Xuan Yin渲洇Romance785k WordsCompleted The emperor's legitimate daughter, Zhou Jiahe, accidentally found a middle-school history textbook from the future. After studying it for years, she finally learned to understand its future writing and grammar. The book said: Her father would be assassinated, the country would be beset by troubles at home and abroad, and her ministers would push her onto the throne, making her the first female emperor since Wu Zetian. Then, after laboring tirelessly for over a decade, just as the clouds finally 9.1kFavorites10.9kClicks/ch7kGifts

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   Good ideas and a good plot were written in a bland and stale way. Both are about a historian who transmigrates to observe and study the future, and a puppet emperor who slowly grows after receiving information from the future. The sexual tension in this story is less than a tenth of that in "The King Without Illness." This one, despite having a much more compelling empress, was abandoned halfway through. The female lead's father is like the Eighth Emperor, her mother like Empress Lü, her older sister like Judy, and the female lead herself… being placed on the throne, is like Liu Ying. It's simply doomed.

8. 58 这 This Esports Champion Puzzle Piece Is Ridiculously Strong [Esports] 这块冠军拼图强得离谱[电竞] Cola Fish Boy可乐鱼仔No CP1.3M WordsCompleted [Complete and ready to binge! The next full-dive game novel, The Demon King Is Back, is already underway. Come check it out~] The legendary powerhouse once again fell short at the World Finals. The whole internet fell silent. A few months later, the number-one swordsman on the Chinese server, missing for three years, knocked on the team's base door. "My master said you need a warrior. Think I can still do it?" The top players hesitated. "Who's your master?" Feng Chang: "Your captain! Your captai 8.4kFavorites15.3kClicks/ch30.5kGifts

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   It's a female-centric, plot-driven novel with no romantic pairing, somewhat reminiscent of the e-sports setting of "The King's Avatar." It's a simple, straightforward, and satisfying read; the female lead is strong and knows how to banter, which really appeals to me.

9. 59 我 My Adventures with Huang Shulang 我与黄书郎二三事 Idle Dreamer梦里闲人Romance709k WordsCompleted Back in my hometown in Northeast China, weasels, also known as yellow weasels, are highly deified and personified animals. Legend has it that when a weasel is about to master shapeshifting, it will wear human clothes and imitate human actions in front of people. If someone who sees it says, "That yellow weasel only looks a little like a person," it will successfully transform. But if they say, "That yellow weasel doesn't look human at all," it will be stuck looking like a weasel for all eternity 6.3kFavorites24.4kClicks/ch8.8kGifts

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   This is a supernatural/mystery story, and the author's storytelling ability is quite good; each subplot is connected to the main storyline. Warning: The female lead has a weak personality, and her fourth uncle, also known as the weasel, suppresses her.

10. 60 当 When I've Lived a Hundred Lives [Quick Transmigration] 当我百世之后[快穿] Burgundy酒红色Romance512k WordsCompleted The opening is just as melodramatic as any other, but different character settings bring a different kind of story. Who says that living through the rise and fall of countless ages must make you shrewd, worldly, and good at dealing with people? Birth, aging, sickness, death, love, hate, resentment, and the pain of parting. Even after traveling through countless worlds and experiencing everything, the many things of this world have failed to smooth her edges. She still laughs, curses, and lives 5.3kFavorites34.1kClicks/ch2.7kGifts

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    It's a story about punishing scumbags, it's been so long I've almost forgotten. Note that although the synopsis uses the pronoun "she," the protagonist is essentially genderless and can be either male or female.

11. 61 亿 The Rise of a Billionaire Heiress 亿万富婆发家史 Jasmine Painting茉莉画Romance511k WordsCompleted The Rise of a Billionaire Heiress If you could be reborn twenty years in the past, what would you do to make your fortune? Zhang Mingyue gives the classic, textbook answer. From a monthly salary of 600 yuan to a trillion-yuan fortune, it's the exhilarating life of a little fairy who shoots straight to the top as if she'd taken a potent tonic. The year she graduated from university, Zhang Mingyue received her first internship paycheck: 600 yuan. She immediately felt flush with cash. She 5.3kFavorites19.1kClicks/ch8.1kGifts

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    [I'll definitely read it when I have time] A very grounded historical novel; you can even learn some basic financial knowledge while reading it.

12. 62 大 Empress Chen Ajiao of the Han Dynasty 大汉女皇陈阿娇 Ye Zhuyue叶逐月Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Both were empresses, yet one was deposed and confined to Changle Palace, while the other ruled the realm as sovereign. See how Wu Zetian is reborn as Chen Ajiao, planning every move, commanding countless troops, wielding thunderous power, and claiming an empire that stretches for thousands of miles. She can turn the tides and seize heaven itself. The imperial ambition is hers to grasp. Who says women are inferior to men? I shall be empress of the Han empire! Recommended daily-update story: Born 3.8kFavorites51kClicks/ch1.2kGifts

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    Don't delve too deeply into the plot

13. 63 女 Empress [Alien Star] 女帝[异星] Xi Zhu夕诛Romance477k WordsCompleted 2.7kFavorites13.2kClicks/ch373Gifts

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    This is an old post; to be honest, I've almost forgotten what I wrote.

14. 64 末 The Ladies of the Apocalypse 末世闺中秀 Song Tan宋昙Romance248k WordsCompleted Synopsis 1. An apocalypse story set in ancient times. The setting, supernatural powers, and ending are all... quite unusual. 2. The romance starts with mutual hostility, then turns to love. The male lead is Xu Ping. He appears in Chapter 8 and will be redeemed. They are not related by blood. 3. The supernatural power comes from Chinese characters. It appears in Chapter 9. ~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~ [Important Notice] This story will be entering VIP status on Tuesday, July 1. Ther 2.6kFavorites12.9kClicks/ch363Gifts

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    [Niche Theme Bonus] A refined lady from an ancient noble family, but in a zombie apocalypse.

15. 65 末 Strong Woman in the Apocalypse: Throne of Thorns 末世女强之荆棘王座 Hua Diao Jiu花貂九Romance412k WordsCompleted [New story: Global Nuclear Blast [Apocalypse] is now underway~~ A boys' love team battle, with an imagination that still reaches beyond the universe!~] Cover art: Thanks to Jinjiang author Xu Mu, my lovely girl =3=~ A thrilling team-battle story~~ A female-empowerment story, one-on-one, with absolute loyalty and trust between the leads. The apocalypse arrives, viruses run rampant, and zombies roam everywhere. Social order collapses and morality crumbles. The weak become subservient to the stron 2.4kFavorites18.9kClicks/ch923Gifts

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    This story is from ten years ago, so the nostalgia factor adds to its appeal. One chapter is locked, preventing me from subscribing to the whole thing; otherwise, it would have been added to another reading list. The female lead is incredibly cool, but as an older story, it has its flaws. The female lead is more of a social Darwinist than a feminist, being rather harsh on struggling women in the post-apocalyptic world. Of course, there are also storylines where she supports a powerful female supporting character, which was quite ahead of its time.

16. 66 只 Only Sister Ying Knows How to Have Fun 只有英姐是最爽的 Wallfire垣火 Take Off, Daughter! 2.1kFavorites—Clicks/ch—Gifts

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    Good

17. 67 晋 [Journey to the West] Princess Jinyang Tears Up the Script Again! [西游]晋阳公主她又手撕剧本了！ Thick Earth厚土Romance450k WordsCompleted Coming soon: The Growth of Empress Xu. Check the author's profile for the blurb. Let's go, let's go! *A constantly rebellious princess with plenty of secret identities, ready to rise again, X a proud and unruly traveler brought low and kept in chains. A sweeping ensemble portrait of all kinds of lives.* [Mystery Blurb] Li Mingda, Princess Jinyang, daughter of Emperor Taizong and Empress Zhangsun, returns from the dead and embarks o 2kFavorites3.8kClicks/ch695Gifts

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    The idea is good, but writing it feels a bit flat.

18. 68 锦 [Southern Song] Splendid Rivers and Mountains [南宋]锦绣山河 Undercooked Millet夹生的小米Romance378k WordsCompleted Zhao Yuan transmigrates into Princess Roufu. It is already the second year of the Jingkang era. Bianjing has fallen, the two emperors have been captured, and the empresses, imperial princesses, and noblewomen are being marched to Liuji Temple. Those who aren't killed are mutilated. Behind her lies a land strewn with the dead and dying. Before her, the surging Yellow River roars toward the sky. What you took from me, spit it out. What you stole from me, return it. And those you killed, pay for 1.8kFavorites4.4kClicks/ch196Gifts

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    It's alright, I'd add a star for the theme.

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