Novels like I'm Really Not a Charlatan
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- 1 The Immortal Emperor Returns: The Villainous Empress Becomes My Mother-in-Law 仙帝归来：反派女帝变岳母 The arrogant Emperor Xuan is reborn on Earth and vows to keep a low profile while cultivating with Moutai. He is even forced to learn how to woo women. But what he never expected was that his mother-in-law would be the female emperor who wiped out his entire family in his previous life and died with him... 44Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 2 The Haunted Graves of Ghost Village 诡村阴坟 All the strange things began when I came to this strange village. Every house in the village looked like a tomb, but what I found even stranger was that there was a grave beneath the bed, too. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Fated Burial Master 天命葬师 Of the Seventy-Two Burial Rites, the most mysterious and hardest to accept is “dissection burial.” It involves professionally cutting up the corpse and burying only the facial features and internal organs. The remaining body parts are sealed away, and the pieces are given to relatives and mourners as keepsakes. The first burial rite I ever witnessed was a dissection burial. The person being buried was my grandfather. Before he died, my grandfather stayed up all night and had five coffins made fo 117Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 4 Reborn and Fierce as a Tiger: The Empress Becomes My Mother-in-Law 重生猛如虎，女帝变岳母 In his previous life, Tang Xuan possessed the Immortal Realm’s greatest treasure, the Chaos Pearl, but the Seven Immortal Emperors joined forces to attack him. As he lay dying, he perished alongside one of the villainous female emperors. But fate had other plans: both of them were reborn. The villainous female emperor had become the beautiful heroine’s mother, his future mother-in-law! When Tang Xuan heard the news, he trembled with excitement and grinned. “In that case, I have a bold idea...” 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I Have a Fox Immortal Wife 我有一个狐仙老婆 As the old saying goes, when a fox comes asking for your hand, it’s either deeply in love or out to harm you. When Gu Ning was five, a white fox with magical powers tricked him into a wedding ceremony, making him take the heavenly tribulation in her place. To stay alive, Gu Ning opens a café that only operates after midnight and caters exclusively to wandering spirits... 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 6 Impossible, My Aunt Is Invincible Under Heaven 不可能，我姑姑天下无敌 The King of Hell decreed that I would die at three, but my aunt kept me alive until eighteen. At three, a minor calamity: a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, intent on taking my life. My aunt gave a cold snort, and they scattered in terror. At six, a major calamity: Ox-Head and Horse-Face came to claim my soul. My aunt shouted at them, and the two gods lowered their heads and retreated. At nine, an earthly calamity: a judge entered our home, intending to cut short my life. My aunt told him, “E 56Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 7 I Keep a Low Profile on the Blue Star: Quietly Growing Stronger 我苟在蓝星：偷偷发育 [No System + Urban + Immortal Realm + Divine Realm + Primordial Chaos + Xianxia Cultivation + Invincible Power Fantasy + Romance] After the person I loved vanished without a trace, I began a deep investigation with only a half-baked set of skills. One strange event after another came crashing down, and I seemed to have fallen into a vast conspiracy. If that’s how it is, then I’ll take up the three-foot blade in my hand and cleave my way across the world! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 A Taoist College Student: I Cultivate Thunder Arts at School 道士大学生，我在学校修雷法 The handsome, dashing young Taoist Li Xiaoyu comes down from the mountain to attend college. As soon as the semester starts, all sorts of people set their sights on him: the class beauty, bullies, officials’ spoiled kids... They all come looking for trouble! Don’t mess with me, Taoist Master. Push me too far and I’ll strike you dead with a bolt of heavenly lightning! Cultivation realms: [Laying the Foundation, Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit, Refining Spirit to Return to the Vo 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Pure and the Turbid 清浊引 Those gifted in the art of space-time are known as Riftwalkers. They can travel through time and space, refine spatial energy, and use space-time techniques to alter the past and future. The art of space-time is divided into five disciplines: Longitudinal, Transversal, Fate, Fixed, and Calculation. These disciplines generate and counteract one another, and most people in the world possess only one. Jin Yuan, an ordinary psychologist, activates the Transversal art, whether by accident or design. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 From the Start, I Saved a Little White Fox 开局，救只小白狐 My name is Yun Qingchi. What is a cloud? A cloud has no shape or substance. It can be white or black, righteous or evil! Clouds conceal all things, and my origins are just as shrouded as they are... (The historical figures mentioned in this book are entirely fictional. Please do not take them as real.) 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Yin Grave 阴坟 A soul on the bed, a grave beneath it. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, offerings are made to the gods. One ritual burned several people alive. Were they human, or spirits? 16.3kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
- 12 The Daoist Half-Immortal 道门小半仙 [Fox Wife, Single Female Lead] [Pure Supernatural Horror, No Cultivation, No Invincibility, Intelligent Male Lead] The night I was born, it snowed all night despite the sweltering midsummer heat. The descendant of the Willow Immortal, one of the Five Great Immortals of the Northeast, and the current Celestial Master of Mount Longhu both came to my home. A fate marked by an evil dragon, rejected by Heaven? Then I'll defy Heaven itself. My grandfather used eight coffins, eight yin souls, and eight 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 To Save My Life, I Married a Fox Who Had Gained Human Form 为保命，我娶了只成精的狐狸 [Supernatural] + [Fox Wife] + [Single Female Lead] + [Character Growth] Chen Shisan was born with all seven orifices blocked and deathly energy clinging to him. He was doomed to die before turning eighteen. To snatch him from the King of Hell, his grandfather, Chen Huangpi, dared to defy the heavens. He abducted a newly transformed little fox spirit from Sealed Fox Ridge behind the village and forced her into a “marriage pact unto death” with Chen Shisan, using her demonic energy to extend his h 22Reads—Score121Shelves
- 14 God Cultivation: The Limit-Breaking System 修神之极限突破系统 [Transmigration] + [System] + [Cultivating Divinity] + [Leveling Up] + [Long Novel] Xin Xin, a top physics student, transmigrated into another world and took over the body of the empire's despised, down-and-out, good-for-nothing eldest prince. By accident, he activated a System. With the System's help, he soared to greatness! What? You have the bloodline of the Human Emperor? No big deal, I have the bloodline of the Divine Phoenix too! Others cultivate the true path, but I cultivate divinity. Ot 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 From the Start: Saving Xu Xian 开局：从拯救许仙开始 Lin Tian unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of The Legend of the White Snake. Remembering the heartbreak of Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen’s story, he decides that something needs to change. “Foolish disciple, don’t be afraid. Your master is here!” “You old bald donkey, getting a little too full of yourself, aren’t you? Even the Tathagata wouldn’t dare talk to me like that!” This book exists only to resolve the lingering heartbreak of White Snake 3: A Floating Life. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Beautiful Snake Wife 蛇妻美人 I slept in a coffin from the time I was little. When I was six, a snake slithered in and kept me company in the coffin for six years… He had never slept in a bed as a child, only in a very ancient coffin. When he was six, a snake slithered in and kept him company in the coffin for six years. Later, a graceful fairy came and said she would marry him when he turned eighteen. 123Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 17 The Haunted Clinic: I Use My Snake Wife to Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 恐怖医馆：我以蛇妻镇百鬼 I grew up in a gloomy, ruined temple, where I unexpectedly met a white snake. When I turned eighteen, the white snake became the love of my life. For its sake, I also became a rising star in the underworld of occult practitioners... 413Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 18 I’m the Fox Immortal’s Son-in-Law 我给狐仙当女婿 On his birthday, he gets cheated on and loses his loved ones. Then a fiancée suddenly appears at home, and she claims to be a fox spirit... 32Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 19 On Our Wedding Night, My Wife’s Fox Tail Came Out! 洞房花烛，媳妇的狐狸尾巴露出来了！ This is a dazzling world of cultivation, where the wise teach through parables, eminent monks expound the Dharma, and real people preach the Dao. Yet demons wreak havoc, monsters run rampant, and the people weep blood! Xu Dao transmigrated here by chance, only to awaken a slack-off System. With no other choice, he could only keep his head down and grow stronger. On their wedding night, his empress wife accidentally revealed her fox tail, exposing her identity as a demon. With no other option, th 45Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 20 The Nine Heavens Emperor God Art 九宵帝神诀 Once a Divine Emperor, he was betrayed by his beloved and his brothers over the Nine Heavens Emperor God Art, a scripture concealing the secrets of primordial antiquity. His divine soul was utterly destroyed. A wisp of his undying true spirit clung to the divine treasure known as the Chaos Pearl and fell into the lower realm, where he was reborn as a cripple who had been stripped of his family's bloodline and forced to endure contempt from everyone around him. In this life, he will use the morta 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 You, You Idiot of a Daoist 你个二货道士 I had the Fate of the Limitless, the destiny countless cultivators envied. But the heavens were jealous of my talent, and my fate was left incomplete. Was I destined to be a good-for-nothing all my life? No, I refused to accept it! I would slay demons and vanquish evil! I would uphold justice! “Hey! Wake up. Stop dreaming. You’re a good-for-nothing.” “Take this, you wicked fiend: my Ten Dragon-Subduing Slaps!” “Please. You’re a complete idiot of a Taoist priest!” 4Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 22 The Strange Taoist 怪道士 My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduating, I’d get promoted, earn a higher salary, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who could have guessed the company would go bankrupt and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single cent of my wages, and I couldn’t even afford rent, so I slept at the train station every day! A shabbily dressed Taoist priest told me I was plagued by bad luck and haunted by a hun 1.9kReads8.4Score136Shelves
- 23 The Fox Wife 狐妻 At the Bridge of Helplessness and along the Road to the Sun, I set out on the path of cultivation to save my own life. All the eerie, terrifying stories began when I brought home a fox... 367Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 24 Taking My Demon Wife to Guide Spirits Across 带着妖妻去渡灵 The new book, This Enchanting Spirit Takes Me Ghost-Hunting, is now available! In this vast world, there are countless things beyond belief. Over the course of a long life, everyone is bound to encounter something unclean, and even many years later, the memory can remain vivid… When I was ten, I got lost in the mountains with my chubby friend because we were fooling around. That was when my life began to change dramatically. From then on, armed with my thousand-year-old demon wife, an incomplete 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Strongest Immortal Cultivator in the City 都市至强修仙 The age of declining cultivation? So what! With the Myriad Source Cauldron, anything can be a great cultivation resource. The Chaos Five Elements Art needs ten times the spiritual energy?! Easy. Just kill the enemy, then use the Myriad Source Cauldron to plunder the spiritual energy inside their corpse. Watch as Wei Lin rapidly grows into a pillar of the human race! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Ninefold Return 九还传 A traditional cultivation novel, following the most classic mortal cultivation path. Because the author is reluctant to leave the real world behind, the story stays in the protagonist's original world for the first hundred chapters. After that, he officially enters the traditional cultivation world and begins his classic journey to immortality. The author has ingeniously integrated multidimensional space with the cultivation system. Everyone in the story is intelligent, with no absurd or brainl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 28 The Strongest Son-in-Law in Another World 异界最强赘婿 They say all things under heaven began with Hongyuan… A peerless genius of his age, the uncrowned Evil Emperor, obtains Hongyuan’s supreme treasure and transmigrates to another world. Though born into lowly circumstances and treated with contempt, he bears none of it in his heart. Armed with a peerless tome and supreme martial arts, he hides among the masses and manipulates the world in the palm of his hand. As they say: Let the mortal world stretch on and the Heavenly Dao remain distant. I’ll c 24Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 29 The Strongest Divine Doctor in the City 最强都市医仙 After breaking up, Qin Dong awakens the legacy of an Immortal Venerable, and the campus belle from his past comes knocking to live with him! With medical skills that can bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bones, he saves the people and brings peace to a troubled world, becoming the Divine Doctor Who Protects the Nation! He cultivates as easily as breathing, and with an invincible air, takes on the powerful and punishes tyrants. People call him an unparalleled prodigy! 1.6kReads8.9Score166Shelves
- 30 Cultivating Immortality with My Beautiful Teacher 带着美女老师去修仙 A common-born boy accidentally steps onto the path of immortality, then unwittingly obtains a fragment of the Chaos World. From then on, he takes a beautiful teacher with him, breaks through chaos, and enters the Immortal Realm. To discover why Earth's cultivation world fell into decline, he slays immortals and demons all along the way. Only after reaching the summit does he learn that he is the Son of Heaven's Dao. Seeking to break free of his restraints, he returns to Earth to find the origin 971Reads8.8Score120Shelves
- 31 Master, You Teach Me Taoist Magic, Yet Make Me Woo Your Fiancée 师父：你教我道法却让我泡未婚妻 "Campus Belle + Fortune-Telling + God of War + Corpse-Driving + Female CEO + Divine Doctor + Tomb Raider" A corpse-driving soul exorcist destined to become a great warlord was summoned home from a thousand miles away by his master, who had a special task for him. “Disciple, I’ve found you a wife. Go marry her and bring her home. Give me a whole brood of disciples and descendants, or else... Hmph!” “Yes, Master!” Chen Feng replied, looking crestfallen. “By the way, is she pretty?” Chen Feng sudde 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 A Fox’s Dream, Traveling by Your Side 狐梦伴君行 Also known as: Down on My Luck, I’m Forced to Marry the Fox Family’s Eldest Daughter My name is Xu Rong. I was born in a remote mountain village. My mother left when I was little, and my father passed away when I was twelve. I thought I would spend my whole life alone, until the night I came of age at eighteen, when I had a dream that completely turned my life upside down. In the dream, a young woman caressed my face, calling me her husband. But I never expected her hand to be a furry animal paw 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Lingxiao Divine Palace 凌霄神殿 Also known as Reborn: Years After Becoming Crown Prince, I Became the Ruler of the Six Realms [Decisive and ruthless, with a golden finger but not a brainless protagonist. The villains get what they deserve. Read with caution! The pacing is a little slow at first. If you’re looking for mindless power fantasy, this may not be for you!] “What? Your father is a minister?” “Sorry, my father is the emperor, and I’m the crown prince!” “Your big brother is an Immortal King?” “Too bad, my little brother —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 My Wife Is a Dragon Maiden 我的老婆是龙女 When my mother was giving birth to me, she had a difficult labor. In a dream, she found herself in the Dragon Palace, where a fairy handed her a cup of tea. She drank it without thinking, then miraculously survived. Little did she know, that was the tea a bride serves her mother-in-law at the wedding. And somehow, I ended up with a Dragon Princess for a wife... 597Reads8.9Score112Shelves
- 35 The Young Zombie Hunter 捉僵少年 On one side is a passionate young man just starting out, dreaming of becoming the greatest zombie-hunting celestial master. On the other is a thousand-year-old zombie, the strongest in history, who has slumbered for a century. An unforeseen turn of events sets the rookie young man on the path of hunting zombies. Strength and weakness, good and evil, who will emerge as the ultimate victor? 17Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 36 After Ascending, I Became a Yellow Turban Strongman 飞升之后我成了一名黄巾力士 As Qin Yun underwent tribulation to ascend, he was caught in a thunderstorm that raged across the nine heavens. His cultivation was destroyed, his Dao foundation damaged, and the Upper Realm seized him as a cripple to serve as a “Yellow Turban Strongman.” The once-mighty giant of the cultivation world was reduced to hauling immortal mountains and clearing spiritual ley lines every day, even having to answer summons from cultivators in the lower realm and serve them like an ox or a horse. Then, w 52.7kReads8.5Score4.4kShelves
- 37 The Hundred Wonders Medical Dao Talisman 百妙道医箓 A serious urban cultivation fantasy novel. No transmigration, no wish fulfillment, and plenty of logical consistency. Every character is smart, and there’s both Daoist magic and medicine. You’re all welcome to give it a read! Cultivation takes time, so why the rush? Honestly... I’m a humble Daoist with superb medical skills and profound mastery of the Dao. There’s no need to hurry... “Master Zhao, please save my life!” “I can’t. This humble Daoist doesn’t have a medical license!” “Master Zhao 681Reads8.0Score105Shelves
- 38 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 167Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 39 The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王 On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute 129Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 40 The City’s Powerful Cultivator 都市修真强少 On his very first day reborn on Earth, Lin Zifeng did something huge: he dumped Ye Qingrou, the most beautiful woman in the capital, then voluntarily cut ties with the Lin family. One problem after another soon came his way! Watch as a good-for-nothing climbs to the pinnacle of the world! 968Reads7.0Score102Shelves
- 41 Divine Venerable Liu Yi 神尊柳毅 Across ten thousand eras, the Chaos Divine Stone gave birth to twin sisters Bai Ling and Bai You, who became the second and third True Gods in the world. They spent countless ages alongside the first True God, the Primordial True God, born at the dawn of the universe. Then the three True Gods faced the world's Heavenly Dao as it underwent its first rebirth, evolving from an unconscious Heavenly Dao into one with awareness. This brought a cataclysm upon the entire mortal world... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Legend of Uncle Jiu 九叔传 When night fell, the atmosphere in the mountains turned sinister. In the vast darkness, a hunched old woman appeared before a large tree, materializing out of nothing. She looked toward the direction in which Xiao Fengjiao had left and laughed eerily! [Note! Any historical events or figures in this book are fictional. Please do not take them seriously!] 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I Have a Scroll of Shangqing Scripture 我有一卷上清书 These days, who doesn't have a side hustle? Liu Yuan's side hustle is transmigrating to the Southern Dynasties to become a Daoist priest. No System, no invincible cultivation, and no heavenly destiny backing him. He's just an ordinary man, carrying a damaged copy of the Shangqing Scripture, a few Yun Zhuan talismans that work only sometimes, and a piece of salvaged rebar. Under the name Zhao Chengyang, he ventures into a world unrecorded in county gazetteers, where the dead can speak. Mass grave 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Seeking a Blessing? I'll Get a Fox Immortal for a Wife! 讨封？讨个狐仙当老婆！ [Supernatural] [One Heroine] [Lighthearted Daily Life] [Comedy] That day, an eerie blood-red coffin was unearthed at a construction site, along with a dried-up female corpse with a swollen belly, a white fox with five tails, and an ancient bronze mirror... The next day, that very white fox latched onto me and asked me to grant her a human form... A nontraditional supernatural story 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Immortal Healer's Disciple 仙道医徒 A strange experience gave Gao Haoshen not only the immortal roots of the Bai family’s healing arts, but also the medical formulas left behind by Hua Tuo and the legacy of the Yuanhua Sect. From then on, he embarked on the path of an immortal healer, with luxury cars and beautiful women within easy reach. The world’s richest man sent a private jet to bring him in for treatment, the Saudi royal family wanted him as their imperial physician, and an American medical university wanted him to become i 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 My Fated Little Fox Immortal 我的天命小狐仙 Born with all eight characters of my birth chart belonging to yin, every ninth year brings disaster. That is my fate. To save my life, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me when I was nine. But when I was nearly eighteen, he personally called it off. Because of that, I embarked on a path unlike that of any other feng shui master! I said, “Our marriage was fated. You’re written in my destiny, and we’ll be together for three lifetimes!” She said, “Cut it out. If you don’t wash the dishes today 315Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 47 Missing for Five Years, I Cultivate Immortality in the Mountains and Become Unrivaled 失踪五年，我！深山修仙举世无敌 Five years ago, the world bullied me, and my girlfriend left me. Heartbroken, I leaped alone from Mount Kunlun. Five years later, I return, having cultivated the path to immortality! Every old grudge will now be repaid in full! No matter how wealthy you are, rich enough to rival a nation! No matter how high your position, powerful enough to control everything! I, Qin Wendao, have but one sword, and with it I shall cut down all under heaven! 25.7kReads6.4Score2.9kShelves
- 48 The Fifth Legend 第五传奇 [Passionate Action - Fantasy - Earth Setting] [Military King - Ancient Figures - Classic of Mountains and Seas] After the founding of China, the mysterious Bloodkill squad spent years fighting overseas. They had just quelled unrest at an African gold mine when, on returning home for leave, they were urgently assigned to Shennongjia! Thirty internal security officers had gone missing, tourists had been gruesomely killed, a thirty-meter python blocked the way, and a cave hid ferocious beasts from 402Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 49 Devour Demons, Slay Immortals 噬魔弑仙 [Blood Dragon Battle Physique] [One Female Lead] [No System] [Slaughter Across the Three Realms] [Fictional Setting] [Not Mindless] [Intelligent Protagonist] [Decisive and Ruthless] The Blood Dragon Pearl appears, and the dragon veins stir. Burdened with hatred for his country and family, the young man is reborn with the Blood Dragon Physique! The Blood Dragon Pearl is no more. There is only Jiang Lin! He enters the Demon Realm and devours demonic spirits, ascends to the Immortal Domain and slay —Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 50 The Aura of an Apostle 使徒的气息 Chen Tian was one of the Ten Great Heavenly Emperors. He entered the Sumeru Dimension to explore, only to be torn apart by the monsters inside. He should have died, but instead he woke up in a brothel, mistaken for a peeping Tom. The Sumeru Dimension was shrouded in mystery, and even Chen Tian, a Heavenly Emperor, had no idea what secrets it held. “Am I... still alive?” [How does it feel? It's been a long time, hasn't it? Doesn't your blood feel like it's racing, your heart pounding faster, your —Reads—Score—Shelves
