Novels like I'm Really Not a Charlatan
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- 151 Born as an Ant, I Still Aspire to Soar 生如蝼蚁，当立鸿鹄之志 Though born as lowly as an ant, one should aspire to soar like a swan. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 A Burning Pain to the Bone, Regret That Tears the Heart 蚀骨灼心，悔断肠 Burned to the Bone, Tormented at Heart, Regret Beyond Measure 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 An Immortal Venerable Transmigrates to the Modern City: Now I Have to Start Training from Scratch? 仙尊穿越都市：竟要我从零练起？ [Cultivation and technology, a world where swords and guns coexist, a real hidden gem] The most timid student at a high school is actually a reincarnated Immortal Venerable who remembers every ancient cultivation technique. When the first spark of spiritual energy awakens in math class, cultivators across the entire city feel the pressure of an ancient power… 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 With a Life as Fragile as Paper, I Must Have an Unyielding Heart 命薄如纸，应有不屈之心 Though life is as fragile as paper, one should have an unyielding heart. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score165Shelves
- 156 Supreme Nine Suns 九阳至尊 The cultivation world is full of treachery. After an unexpected transmigration, he is reborn as an abandoned son with a miserable past. Fortunately, he encounters Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Divine Bow and subdues the Nine Suns Furnace. He sweeps through the Eight Gates sects of the Human Realm, returns to the cultivation world, and rises to the peak amid clashing blades, intrigue, and betrayal. Though the path to immortality is endless and every step arduous, his unwavering heart defies the current a 2kReads8.8Score364Shelves
- 157 The Immortal Emperor Returns: Spoiling His Wife and Daughter 仙帝归来：把老婆女儿宠上天 [Invincible + Ruthless + One Female Lead + Doting Dad + No Doormat Hero + Urban Cultivation] Immortal Emperor Xiao Chen of Lingchen misses his beloved girlfriend on Earth so much that he breaks through the dimensional barrier and returns, only to discover he has a daughter. Xiao Chen vows to protect his wife and daughter and spoil them rotten. “Whoever dares lay a hand on my wife and daughter, not even the stars of the nine heavens can save him!” “Daddy, I want a star!” “Of course!” Xiao Che 1.3kReads7.3Score104Shelves
- 158 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score541Shelves
- 159 Qingyun Comes Down the Mountain: I Cultivate Qi in Yunhai 青云下山：我在云海修引气 [Master Descends the Mountain + Urban Cultivation + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Bodyguard to a Female CEO + Invincible + Superpowers] When everyone thinks he is just an ordinary young man, Jiang Chen returns after three years of grueling cultivation. The patience he showed in the past was not meant to help him scrape by. It was the prelude to an astonishing comeback after descending the mountain. Faced with pressure from powerful families, provocations from formidable foes, and deadly traps 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Alone on the Fragrant Garden Path 小园香径，独徘徊 Along the Fragrant Garden Path, I Wander Alone 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 One Thought Turns Me into a Demon, and I Slaughter Every Hypocrite Under Heaven 一念成魔，屠尽天下伪善之徒 One Thought Turned Me into a Demon, and I Slaughtered Every Hypocrite Under Heaven 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Cultivate What? Immortality? (Vol. 01–Vol. 16) 修个妹的仙（Vol.01-Vol.16） Ever since Xingyun was taken in by the sect, he’d realized that the immortal cultivation world he’d arrived in seemed a little unusual. From time to time, female disciples from Jade Maiden Peak would streak across the sky on flying swords, calling themselves a biker gang. The disciples of Artifact Refinement Peak, famous for crafting magical treasures, were apparently planning to launch another communications satellite the day after tomorrow. They’d already sent about a dozen into orbit. The gee 258Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 163 The Tribulation Dao Lord: Reincarnation Across the Three Realms 天劫道主之三界轮回 In his previous life, he was the Purple Heaven Dao Lord who mended the heavens and saved the world. But just as he was about to fulfill his mission, his closest friend betrayed him, scattering his soul into oblivion. In this life, he is reborn as the disgraced son of a military family. An ancient seal locks his dantian, and he suffers one humiliation after another. In the Immortal Burial Valley, the dying youth touches a bloodstained jade slip. Memories of the Primordial Chaos awaken, and his C —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 The Immortal Emperor Is Reborn in the City 仙帝重生混都市 Immortal Martial Emperor Su Yan endured eight cycles of reincarnation and became the supreme ruler of the Immortal Realm. Just as he was about to reach the summit, he was ambushed by his enemies. Fortunately, a wisp of his divine consciousness managed to transmigrate across countless planes to Earth, entering the body of a dead boy. In this life, I’ll not only vent the anger in my heart, I’ll also reclaim that peerless peak! A cool, elegant city beauty, the sweet childhood friend from next door, 6.2kReads7.6Score636Shelves
- 165 Xuanhuan: I Become Invincible by Downloading a Chaos Constitution! 玄幻：从下载混沌体开始无敌！ Ye Tian transmigrates into a fantasy world, becomes the Dao One Sacred Ground’s Holy Son, and awakens a god-tier download System! [Download the Chaos Physique, and become peerless beneath the heavens!] [Download the God-Eater Art, and devour the heavens and earth to subdue the cosmos!] [Download the Supreme Bone, and let the Heavenly Tribulation Light shine across the world!] [Download the Nine-Tailed Fox, and bewitch the myriad Daos to throw the heavens into chaos!] A great age dawns. Myriad ra 1.8kReads6.6Score146Shelves
- 166 Urban Cultivation 《都市修仙》 Urban Immortal Cultivation 256Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 New Year's Day: A New Year Dawns, Spring Comes to Every Home 大年初一：新岁启，万户春 The First Day of the New Year: A New Year Dawns, Spring Comes to Every Home 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 Invincible Sword Immortal in the City 都市无敌剑仙 [Urban Cultivation, Overpowered Protagonist] Three years ago, he was a useless nobody, mocked by everyone, humiliated, and driven from his home. Three years later, he returns in triumph. He is the invincible sword immortal who dominates the cultivation world. I have a sword that can cut down all beneath heaven. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 A Demonic Cultivator’s Everyday Life on Campus 魔修的青春校园日常 [Supreme Above All] [Urban Cultivation] [Funny and Entertaining] [Everyday Campus Life] [Lighthearted and Enjoyable] [Ensemble Cast] A Demon Venerable at the Tribulation Crossing stage is hunted down by several righteous Immortal Venerables. When he wakes, he discovers that he has returned to his youth. It's 2018, an era everyone remembers fondly, a time that lives on in people's memories as something beautiful. Against this backdrop, a demonic cultivator experiences the everyday life of a teena 8kReads7.7Score649Shelves
- 170 I Never Chose This Alluring Nature; Who Can Understand a Life Adrift? 一身媚骨非我愿，半世浮沉谁可知 Born with a Bewitching Charm I Never Asked For, Who Could Understand My Half-Life of Rising and Falling? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 Peerless Mad Dragon 绝世狂龙 My name is Chu Yun. I grew up studying under my master, and I’m skilled at everything from healing and fortune-telling to feng shui, exorcism, and cooking. Today, my master told me to go down the mountain and fulfill a marriage pact... I never expected that, after coming down the mountain, I’d spend a passionate night with a beautiful woman. I never dreamed she would turn out to be my fiancée. “What? She has the legendary Divine Phoenix Physique, a supreme constitution for dual cultivation?” “Wh 8.9kReads8.8Score953Shelves
- 172 The Master of Medicine 医品宗师 He was the youngest martial arts grandmaster in the jianghu, blessed with a mysterious, unmatched instinct for combat. But now he was just an ordinary freshman at a university of traditional Chinese medicine. He had hoped to quietly study medicine, treat patients, and fall in love. Then he was forced to perform at a Mid-Autumn Festival gala and stunned the entire audience. His brilliant college life, destined to shine, began from that moment on. 105Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 173 Reborn: Turning the Rules of the City Upside Down 重生后，都市之逆转规则 Reborn: Reversing the Rules of the City 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 The Strongest Immortal Emperor in the City 都市最强仙帝 The Immortal Emperor Ye Chen, who once commanded the stars, fell beneath the heavenly tribulation, only to return to Earth at the age of twenty. His previous life was full of regrets. This time, I will roam freely across heaven and earth, settle the old scores, reclaim my place as Immortal Emperor, and create an entirely new world! 12.6kReads8.1Score1.2kShelves
- 175 No Song at Summer's End, No Meeting in the Life to Come 夏末无歌，余生不遇 No Songs at Summer's End, No Reunion in the Years to Come 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Look Out for Yourself, for a Woman's Heart Is the Most Poisonous 独善其身，最毒妇人心 Look Out for Yourself, for a Woman's Heart Is the Most Poisonous 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Born at Max Level, I Made Ancestor Hongjun Cry 娘胎出生就满级，鸿钧老祖哭了 [No good-for-nothing hero, no simp, just an invincible rise to the top among the chosen ones!] Nangong Hao was reborn into a fantasy world, in an immortal clan that had flourished for countless ages. Both his parents were super-geniuses! With a background this unbeatable, Nangong Hao also awakened a sign-in System. Can you believe how unfair that is? Sign in at the Hall of Ceremonies and receive the supreme physique, the Heaven’s Bane Divine Body! Sign in at the Great Emperor’s secret realm and 630Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 178 A Connection to the Heavenly Dao 天道关系户 Demons rampage in the Dark Abyss, and the Demon King descends upon the world. Tianlan City is in danger. “Ding. The System has detected that the Lord of Tianlan City has posted a bounty to exterminate the demons. Will you accept?” “Accepted.” Su Ge gazed at the demons blotting out the sky, his eyes burning with excitement. “Ding. In accordance with the principle of putting clients first and missions above all, the Host’s cultivation will be temporarily raised to the Emperor Realm to ensure the m 1kReads8.3Score104Shelves
- 179 There's a Fox Spirit Living in My House 家里养个狐狸精 After getting drunk, college student Li Yundong obtained a Human Origin Golden Elixir, which transformed his body. When he woke up, he found a cute, alluring fox spirit beauty sleeping beside him, and his life changed forever! With the power of the Human Origin Golden Elixir, he became invincible, and joined forces with the little fox spirit in dual cultivation to create a legendary romance between humans and demons! 1.2kReads9.0Score205Shelves
- 180 Xuanhuan: I Awaken a Chaotic Sword Body from the Start 玄幻，开局觉醒混沌剑体 Crisis lurks at every turn, so playing it safe is only reasonable [Steady and cautious + invincible + sects + taking disciples + the Myriad Worlds] Xiao Yu transmigrates to the Lingbao Continent and, from the start, activates a fully intelligent cultivation System. He obtains the Chaos Divine Sword that Cleaves Heaven and awakens the Chaos Sword Body, gaining unparalleled talent and comprehension! He quietly devotes himself to cultivation, seeking only eternal life and invincibility beneath the 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 The Handsome CEO's Bodyguard 贴身兵王俏总裁 As a former king, Xia Tian feels under a lot of pressure. He never knows why those spoiled young masters and young upstarts keep picking fights with him for no reason. Having just avenged himself, Xia Tian quietly returned to China and went into seclusion. With his harmless appearance, this seemingly sunny fellow is as mysterious as they come. Plenty of people can’t stand this harmless-looking guy. But after they personally create one tragedy after another, they’re stunned to discover that he’s 13.5kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 182 Cultivation: I Can Cultivate Even Without a Spiritual Root 修仙：无灵根我也能修仙 [Mortal’s journey] [Earth-to-cultivation-world teleportation] [Cultivation] [Decisive and ruthless] [No System] [Traditional cultivation] At forty-five, the useless Wang Hao had achieved nothing. He jumped off a cliff to end his life, only to trigger an ancient teleportation array and land in the cultivation world. With no spiritual roots, he was treated like trash by the sect and sent to the abandoned pill room to await death. In despair, he swallowed a poisonous spirit fruit and unexpectedly a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Young Sword Venerable in the City 凡人修仙：少年剑尊在都市 No rebirth, no transmigration, and no System: can an ordinary mortal honestly cultivate, stumble across immortal opportunities along the way, and still fight his way to survival? To create a god, the royal family stripped Ye Feihua of his foundation and implanted it into his twin sister. He became an ordinary mortal and was cast aside as a useless son. After a chance encounter with a country doctor, he acquired the secret identity Yuntian and set off to explore his ancestral plane 25Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 184 Fellow Daoist, If You Want to Scam Someone, Find a Living Person 道友，碰瓷请找个阳间的活儿 My name is Dong Qingyun. I’m an ordinary college student, but I somehow ended up with two ridiculous masters. One has such incredible technique that he uses lightning talismans to zap washing machines and save electricity. The other is a shameless clown who catches ghosts while patrolling the streets and delivering takeout. Then, by a stroke of bad luck, a sorcerer came after me and shoved a pair of yin-yang twins into my soul My masters immediately freaked out: “We’re screwed! This ritual’s goi 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Half Farmer, Half Taoist 半农半道 A record of life’s fleeting moments, a modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! In the Age of Declining Dharma, beneath the White Lotus, the greatest hermits hide in plain sight. The truly gifted master Suan Potian and his young apprentice Liu Yi, with help from Captain Liu of the J Team, travel through all kinds of strange tales. They fish drowned souls from the water, battle spirit mediums, drive out evil, escort ghosts and capture monsters; they read the veins of yin energy, set the ea 350Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Path of Slaughter 戮途 Horror cultivation + graphic violence. An ordinary mortal stumbles into the world of cultivation, where the strong prey on the weak and only the fittest survive. A highly intelligent villain, a protagonist who returns from the dead to take revenge, and the secrets behind the cultivation world and its immortals are gradually revealed. Why did the ancient Heavenly Court go to war with the Witch Clan? What consequences were left behind when the Soul Clan was wiped out? Are the Divine Clan’s followe 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 A Cultivation Master on Campus 修真高手在校园 I picked up an improper cultivation manual. Should I practice it? Urgent, waiting for answers online! 1.4kReads8.1Score117Shelves
- 188 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 8.1kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 189 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.7kReads8.9Score411Shelves
- 190 The Abandoned Young Master Returns 弃少归来 A once-mighty Immortal Venerable was betrayed and died at the hands of the woman he loved most. By chance, he is reborn in the modern city, only to become a discarded young master addicted to drugs. He intends to devote himself to cultivation, reclaim the pinnacle of his former life, and reign supreme across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. But the beautiful women around him keep causing trouble. Wait, why do I suddenly have a wife?! Should I be a beast, or even worse than one? Lin Junhe is torn. 16.2kReads8.1Score1.6kShelves
- 191 The Art of Chaos God Cultivation 混沌修神诀 An utterly ordinary young man from the countryside finally graduates from college after overcoming countless hardships, only to be dumped by his first love just as his beloved grandmother passes away. Heartbroken and despairing, he decides to end his life by jumping into a well, but unexpectedly gains an extraordinary inheritance. While others cultivate immortality, he cultivates godhood directly. From then on, he face-slaps his ex and searches the heavens above and the depths of the underworld, 8.9kReads8.8Score921Shelves
- 192 The Campus Queen’s Powerful Cultivator 校花的修仙强者 After three hundred years of cultivation, I return, having defied the laws of heaven and earth as a Renegade Immortal, all to send those who humiliated me straight to hell!!! 1.1kReads8.6Score109Shelves
- 193 Leisurely Days of Cultivation 悠闲的修仙时光 While out enjoying the spring countryside with his family, Ye Fei unexpectedly found a jade ring. Inside it was not only a cultivation manual, but also methods and spells for raising animals and growing plants. After that, Ye Fei decided to give up the bustle of city life and return to his hometown. He planted trees and flowers, raised chickens and walked dogs, caught fish and shrimp in the river, and searched the mountains for treasure, making a winner of himself. From then on, Ye Fei and his y 4.3kReads8.5Score294Shelves
- 194 I Returned from the Main God’s Space 我从主神空间归来 A traditional urban cultivation story, set in the modern world and imagining what the world would be like after the spiritual qi revival. [No harem] [No characters acting stupidly] [No tired tropes] [No school, and no classmates] An original story with no System, following the protagonist as he grows from an indifferent bystander into someone who... [Guards a city alone] [Defends a nation] [Protects a planet] Until finally, he unites every race in the Solar System to fight off invasions from oth 187Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 Ancient Arcane Arts 上古秘术 With an ancient secret art in hand, Qing Feng thrives in the world, gaining both fame and fortune. At last, he gets to live out the dream of becoming a great hero he had as a boy. Many secret arts originated in mysterious, distant eras, carrying ancient wisdom and endless mysteries. They are like mysterious gateways through time, leading us into a world filled with wonder and intrigue. The origins of these ancient secret arts can be traced back to the distant past. In that era, people used their 199Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 196 The Strongest Immortal Emperor Returns to the City 最强仙帝回都市 After cultivating for tens of thousands of years, Li Mu looked back and realized he had reached the pinnacle of the entire universe. One day, a sudden thought brought his parents and his memories of Earth from tens of thousands of years ago to mind. His steadfast Dao heart wavered, and his longing became impossible to control. He could no longer focus on cultivation. He couldn’t remember when he had become so cold-blooded. Even after gaining the ability to do so, he had never chosen to return an 4.3kReads7.8Score327Shelves
- 197 Urban Cultivation 都市修仙 After returning from a drinking session with his roommates, Lin Lang wanders onto the hill behind campus and unexpectedly gains the soul of “Lin Sanlang” from the Xuanchen Continent. Lin Lang's soul merges with Lin Sanlang's, and they discover that the world they inhabit is in the “Age of Declining Magic.” As time passes, it begins to enter the “Age of Prosperity”... 227Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 I Saved Thousands of Female Prisoners Alone and Won the Empress’s Heart 我一人拯救万千女囚，俘获女帝 Not a wish-fulfillment novel. No System. Deep in the mountains of Northeast China lies a village where every woman is breathtakingly beautiful, yet none can ever leave. Chen Daming only went on vacation, but wound up wandering into a haunted place, eating two and a half jin of expired immortal pills, and gaining a heap of useless superpowers. The seemingly worthless protagonist takes on the responsibility of protecting patriarchal civilization as the matriarchal civilization that ruled Earth for 1.4kReads8.9Score196Shelves
- 199 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.5kReads9.1Score496Shelves
- 200 Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局屠杀全村村民 [Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange —Reads—Score—Shelves
