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- 1 Eternal Equality: I Command Three Thousand Gods and Demons 万古平权：我执掌三千神魔 "Immortals have fished for ten thousand years, treating all living beings like grass. I have returned from reincarnation, and I will make heaven and earth change hands." Su Yuan descends into the world carrying the memories of his past life and the origins of three thousand gods and demons. In this life, he has no feelings or desires, only an age-old game of strategy, with pieces set across the Five Continents. "When the banner of unification flies across all Five Continents, I will personally s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Built the Strongest Villain Sect 我建立了最强反派宗门 Su Changqing transmigrates to the Tianji World and obtains the Strongest Villain Sect System. He sets out to give all the villains in the world a home. Within the sect, the disciples get along harmoniously, help one another, and live in cheerful camaraderie. Outside the sect, they stir up trouble, kill without hesitation, and make enemies of the world. The eldest disciple is ruthless, just as his name suggests, cold-blooded and without feeling... The second disciple, Ancient Buddha, is Buddha in —Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 3 The Global Gaming Era: I'm the Mastermind Designer! 全球游戏时代：我是幕后设计师！ [The only one of its kind on the whole site] Su Chen transmigrates to a parallel world. Every child who has turned eighteen has just received a notification from the Game Space! The Game Space, which will overturn everything people know about the world, will go online in one day! At that point, all selected players around the world will enter the mysterious Game Space and begin playing! Winners can earn long lives, superpowers, and magical items! Lose twice, and you die on the spot! Before the g 60Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 4 Game Design: Players Keep Telling Me to Change Careers 游戏设计：玩家都劝我改行 Movie buffs: Your game trailers are good enough to win an Oscar! Hurry up and make a movie! Music fans: Your game theme songs top every chart and keep winning awards! When are you writing a new song? Book fans: The novel based on your game won the Mao Dun Literature Prize! If you don’t update this month, I’m sending you a box of blades! Players: Your game’s architectural design won an iF Design Award! I suggest you change careers. You’d be better at anything than making games! Ye Hao: I real 23Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 5 Tower Defense Game: Maxing Out My Luck From the Start 塔防游戏：开局点满幸运值 Ye Chen is reborn into the era of the online game "Tower Defense for All" and logs in an hour ahead of time. Players have just defeated the beginner boss. Announcement: Ye Chen is the first to kill an S-rank boss. Players have just obtained a C-quality commoner. Announcement: Ye Chen is the first to obtain an SSS-quality warrior. Players have just successfully upgraded to a B-rank defense tower. Announcement: Ye Chen is the first to build an SSS-rank defense tower. Player 1: “How is he so strong 485Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 6 Lord of National Fortune: My Talent Is No Cheat 国运领主：我的天赋真不是挂 The Lord’s War descended upon Blue Star. One person from each of the world’s 130 nations was randomly selected and transported to the Lord’s Realm. If the chosen player succeeded in the Lord’s Realm, their country would receive corresponding rewards. If they died, the entire country would lose some of its resources. Each player could choose one talent upon arrival. Li Yan was too slow to pick, and the only talent left was “My World,” which nobody else wanted. Thirty days later: Sakura Country: “ 120Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 7 Undead Emperor: All My Underlings Are Idiot Players 亡灵大帝：我的手下都是傻雕玩家 After transmigrating to the Underworld for half a month, Lei Luo finally becomes a lowly undead lord through his own efforts and activates the Otherworld Summoning System. From the start, he summons his Blue Star buddies, whose souls transmigrate as a group. They use skeleton soldiers to rebuild their bodies and become the Underworld's version of the Fourth Calamity! Where's Diao Chan: Oh my god! This isn't the Underworld at all. It's practically paradise! Diao Chan on My Waist: Not even a god c 281Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 8 Super Domination System: Lead Your Clan to Rule the World 超级争霸系统：带着家族争霸天下 Ling Yun is an ordinary office worker on Earth who accidentally transmigrates to the Yuanling Continent after a car accident and awakens his golden finger, the Super Hegemony System. With the System's help, Ling Yun leads his entire family from a tiny village in a barren land, step by step, to the pinnacle of the continent. 3.8kReads8.4Score203Shelves
- 9 My Creation Game 我的创世游戏 Chen Han, bored with his life, discovers the “Creation Game” on his computer by chance. From then on, he creates countless worlds amid chaos. Billions of living beings are born at his hands, and millions of gods emerge from his creations. But when Chen Han arrives in the real universe, he discovers that humanity may not be alone... 196Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 10 The Game Developer: I Got Players Fired Up by Swinging a Sledgehammer 游戏制作师之从抡大锤引爆玩家 [Also known as: Players Have Lost Their Minds. You’re Only Making Proper Games Now?] Game designer Lu Ming transmigrates to a parallel world. He plans to rely on his experience to make some great games. But then he awakens a System that rewards him with emotional points whenever someone plays his games. Lu Ming remembers how some games tormented him before he transmigrated. He decides to let the people of this world have some fun too! And so, games like Getting Over It, Cat Mario, and Human: Fal 61Reads8.1Score103Shelves
- 11 Game Design: Creating Miyoushe from the Start 游戏设计之开局创建米游社 Su Yi transmigrated to a parallel world and awakened a Game Design System. He discovered that every game out there focused on player-versus-player combat. There wasn’t a single anime-style game driven by story and text! Su Yi made his decision on the spot: “If nobody else wants this huge market, I’ll take it all for myself!” Rich, unparalleled storytelling. Adorable, captivating character designs. He founded miHoYo from the start. Houkai Gakuen 1 and Houkai Gakuen 2 were released one after anoth 588Reads8.5Score103Shelves
- 12 The All-Around Game Designer Who Started by Making Players Cry 从虐哭玩家开始的全能游戏设计师 Zhang Yang transmigrated to a parallel world. Seeing how backward game design was there, he knew it was his moment to make a name for himself! He developed one hit game after another, leaving every game company dumbfounded. Huh? The games aren't fun enough? He made games like “The Strange Adventure” and “Cat Mario,” making tens of millions of players cry in frustration. Huh? You have to pay to play games? He brought over all kinds of online games from his previous life, giving players “free” gam 475Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 13 Global Lord: Getting a Vampire Empress from the Start 全民领主：开局获得血族女帝 Overnight, countless people from Blue Star transmigrated to the Lord Continent. Here, everyone became a lord of great prestige. Each lord would randomly receive a type of troop. They built structures, recruited troops, and vied for supremacy against other lords and the continent’s native powers, seeking to establish an eternal dynasty. Unlike the other players, Jiang Cheng obtained the top-tier Undying Blood Clan troops and, from the start, even got the Blood Clan Empress... The strongest lord o 1.2kReads8.5Score174Shelves
- 14 Creation Game: Players, Come at Me! 创世游戏：玩家给我上 Synopsis: The all-new game, Genesis, has launched. With 100% realism, experience the joys of another world. Get a divine weapon from the start, and find all your gear as loot. Enjoy incredible freedom and create the story yourself. If you’re a real brother, come play Genesis. Player: This game is so much fun. It’s like there really is another world out there. Zhou Heng: Sigh, I got another divine weapon today. A god’s life is always so plain, unadorned, and dull! 1.7kReads8.8Score138Shelves
- 15 Deity: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start 神祇：开局招募地球玩家 Su Xiao transmigrates into the age of gods and awakens the Main God System. Other people's followers are merfolk, wraiths, elves, and other creatures... His followers, however, are the Fourth Calamity, players summoned from another world. They can kill monsters to provide their Main God with faith. And so... While other Main Gods are still false gods, Su Xiao has already become a true god. By the time others become true gods, Su Xiao has reached the rank of Supreme God. Even more terrifying, Su 1.1kReads8.6Score115Shelves
- 16 Dark Lord: My Subjects Are Dragons 暗黑领主：我的领民是巨龙 [Everyone becomes a lord + dragons + battling for supremacy in another world, ruthless and decisive, no saintly hero] In a parallel world, energy reserves ran dry. Countries stood on the brink of war as they vied for energy. Fortunately, a space-time portal appeared, connecting to the Dark Demon Realm. The humans chosen could become lords of the demon realm and enter the fray. The metals smelted from the demon realm’s mines were harder than even humanity’s most expensive alloys. A crystal from t 2.9kReads9.0Score275Shelves
- 17 Xuanhuan: I Founded a Sect in the Forbidden Zone and Guarded the Mortal Realm for Ten Thousand Years 玄幻：我立宗门于禁区，镇守人间万年 “The thing I regret most in my life is founding the Qingshan Sect. Otherwise, how would I have ended up managing so many genius disciples and elders, reclusive experts, ancient secret realms, and rare treasures? It’s just too painful...” “Let’s start with a small goal, like recruiting a billion disciples.” “Securing the right to recruit across an entire continent? I can’t exactly call that easy, or I’d sound too arrogant... Let’s say it’s moderately easy.” Years later, when someone asked Li Qing 1kReads7.9Score102Shelves
- 18 I Have a Bunch of Hilarious Players 我有一群沙雕玩家 [Behind-the-Scenes] [The Fourth Calamity] [Lighthearted] [Online Game Style] “Men! Flatten this world for me! Bring it under our rule!” The Demon Lord pointed toward the Land of Primordial Dawn as countless demons and evil spirits came through spatial portals. “O brave heroes who protect the world!” The goddess radiated divine light, her spirited voice ringing across the heavens and earth as she spread her arms toward every direction. “Us!” A group of strange creatures appeared, each with a colo 1.3kReads8.8Score109Shelves
- 19 Another World: I Have a Little Brother from Earth 异界：我有一个地球的小弟 Wang Fugui was framed by his sect and exiled to the wilderness to fend for himself, but he obtained a Hongmeng Sacred Artifact that could let Earth players transmigrate their souls into the Hongwu Continent through a virtual online game. Using it, Wang Fugui founded the Qiankun Sect and recruited Earth players as disciples. From then on, a peculiar sect appeared in the Hongwu Continent. “What? Qiankun Sect's disciples are this fearless of death?” “What? The person I've killed several times just 1.4kReads8.6Score128Shelves
- 20 I Really Don't Want to Be the City Lord 我真不想当城主啊 Shen Mu accidentally transmigrates to a world where thousands of cities vie for supremacy and hundreds of races coexist. Forced by the System to become the unwilling lord of a declining city, he’s given an impossible mission! But then he discovers... The rarest of attribute masters can be produced in bulk in Tianxin City? One-of-a-kind legacies are given to everyone in Tianxin City? Even invincible powerhouses capable of destroying heaven and earth are rushing to Tianxin City to work as servants 3.4kReads8.7Score245Shelves
- 21 The Creator: I Cultivated a Monster Civilization 造物主之我培植了怪兽文明 Lin Han used to be a game designer, but by chance, he transmigrates into the world of a game he designed! This online game revolves around the development of civilizations. Players are like creator gods! From the start, each player gets one planet and can do whatever they want with it! While everyone else is still cultivating cells, Lin Han chooses a monster civilization from the start! [You spent 1 Authority Point to create a cell.] [Your creation has advanced to the biological stage through pa 1kReads8.4Score119Shelves
- 22 I Ignite the Divine Flame and Command Billions of Fanatical Believers 点燃神火，我有亿万狂信徒 [System + absurd comedy + everyone misreads the situation] Ye Yu transmigrates to a world of gods where anyone has a chance to become a deity. Ignite divine fire, condense a godhead, and create a divine realm: that's all it takes to become a god. While everyone else dreams of having followers from special races, the absurd players from Earth become Ye Yu's followers! While other gods are still fretting over how to earn faith points, Ye Yu has already started rampaging through the divine world wi 4.8kReads8.7Score332Shelves
- 23 Raising All of Humanity: I Simulated a Perfect Future 饲养全人类：我推演了完美未来 Zheng Xuan transmigrates into a parallel world and becomes the Host of the Future Simulation System. He gathers the wisdom of six billion intelligent beings across the globe and builds a Tower of Wisdom, simulating and creating a supernatural system for humanity: “Equivalent Exchange: Truth Alchemy.” Drawing on generations of medical professionals’ research into the human body, he simulates and develops a supernatural martial arts system! Using the principles of civilization to open a gateway to 2.8kReads9.1Score265Shelves
- 24 I Am the Lord of Yama, Leading My Ghost Army to Sweep Across All Races 我，阎罗领主，率鬼军横扫万族 [Transmigration + System + Invincible + Reborn] Under the System’s control, billions of people transmigrate and are reborn on the Creation Continent as lords of their own territories. Every lord receives an initial building for recruiting troops. They can recruit units, grow their forces, plunder resources, and compete against the myriad races. To Xu Ye’s surprise, his initial troop-building structure is actually the Gate of the Underworld! It can summon countless ghosts to fight the myriad race 11.6kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 25 Honghuang: I Am Lu Ya, the Demon Emperor, and I Roam the Hundred Thousand Mountains 洪荒：吾妖皇陆压，转战十万大山 Lu Yu transmigrated into the Primordial World and became Lu Ya, the Demon Clan's tenth crown prince. He also awakened the Campaign System. After the War Between the Wu and the Demons, Lu Ya was the only Golden Crow left in the Primordial World. Lu Ya became the sole legitimate heir to the Demon Emperor. After the Demon Clan's defeat, it was forced into exile. As its crown prince, Lu Ya led the clan on a campaign through the Hundred Thousand Mountains. [Claim the Demon Emperor's legacy and ob 17.7kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 26 Online Game: A Resource Satellite from the Start 网游：开局一颗资源卫星 The era-defining game Global War has launched. Starting from a thatched hut, players develop their settlements from the tribal stage, gather resources, train troops, recruit famous generals, and build armies to challenge the world’s top powers! The Great Song Duchy, the Great Qin Duchy, the Great Han Duchy, the Great Ming Duchy, the Mongols, the Xiongnu... The Empire of Alexander, the Holy Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Maurya Empire, the Egyptian Empire... Unemployed young man Chen F 9.6kReads8.9Score820Shelves
- 27 Wasteland Survival: I Can Summon Players 废土求生：我能召唤玩家 In the ruins left by the catastrophe, human factions reorganize. Immortals with mechanical bodies, gene warriors from Dawn City, mechs atop the Beacon of Civilization, and more... After Su Chen is bitten by a zombie, he awakens a Tinder Chip and uses it to summon players from Blue Star. From then on, a mysterious faction swiftly rises in the wasteland. They cannot be killed, fear nothing, and even dare to bite zombies back! They're clever, stay up all night grinding away, and will even raid a mo 10.4kReads9.3Score824Shelves
- 28 Global Lord: Recruit Shadow Soldiers and Crush All Rivals! 全民领主：招募黑影，横推无敌！ Billions of people around the world are reborn on a continent of war, each becoming a lord and competing with the myriad races for supremacy. Everyone is randomly granted the power to recruit troops, summoning all kinds of powerful units to fight over resources. The troops recruited by Li Yuan are the Shadow Corps. Endless in number, immortal and made for slaughter, they are the ultimate weapons of war. Wherever their blades point, the land becomes their king’s! From lord to city master, then to 2kReads8.8Score329Shelves
- 29 I Created the World 我创造了世界 Chen Luo found a Primordial Brush that let him create worlds at will. Whatever he wrote with it would become real in another world. He wrote down light, and the world gained a sun. He wrote down life, and the world gained countless species. More amazingly, he could bring players into this world and have them help evolve its species, advancing the world itself. So Chen Luo turned it into a hit online game that took the world by storm! “Second Life, a casual life-simulation game. Ten years in the 14.6kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves
- 30 Maple Fate City 枫缘城 The world is in chaos, rife with deceit and treachery. Evil spirits run rampant, and people are never satisfied. Countless peoples and clans are locked in endless war. The Jiang clan betrayed its allies, ambushing and wiping out the Jian and Hong clans. Only Jian Shu and Jian Hongtian, who were away on a journey, escaped by sheer luck! Thunderous roars, hatred that sears the heart, a blood feud beyond reconciliation: they will fight to the death! At this very moment... Jian Shu, who once revered 529Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 A Magic Mecha War? No, an Iron Tide! 魔法机甲战争？不，钢铁洪流！ In a world of magic and battle auras, the goblin race rises to power with colossal combat mechs! Every race rushes to follow suit, and war rages without end! But the natives of this otherworld have been blinded by the aesthetics of violence! Now and in the future, let me teach you what kind of mecha embodies a man's romance! Let me teach you what kind of propulsion brings a flood of steel! Let me teach you what kind of weapon delivers the deterrence of nuclear peace! Let me teach you what a full 17.3kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 32 EN Lordship: Starting as a Pioneer Knight 领主：从开拓骑士开始 (Farming and slow burn) At eighteen, when he came of age, Weilin chose to become a pioneer. With aid from his family, he set off for the frontier to develop new territory. Step by step, he would eventually reach the very top. 75.6kReads9.1Score5.9kShelves
- 33 Sign-In to Sainthood: I Discover My Wife Is Actually a Demoness Empress 签到成圣：发现老婆竟是魔道女帝 [Invincible]+ [Sign-In]+ [Empress]+ [Swordsmanship]+ [One Female Lead] Xia Xin transmigrates to a world of cultivation. During an expedition to ancient ruins, he falls for a woman, shares an intimate night with her, and marries her. Only after leaving the ruins does he learn that his wife is a member of the demonic path and keeps company with demonic enchantresses. His sect punishes him by sending him to the Cliff of Reflection to meditate on his mistakes. There, he awakens a sign-in System. Sig 48kReads8.9Score4.5kShelves
- 34 We Villains Don't Want to Be Stepping Stones 我们反派才不想当踏脚石 What the hell! The Chosen One has singled me out to take him on? And the beauties around me are looking at me strangely too? What do I do? I'm freaking out! Are we villains destined to be stepping stones for others? No! I refuse! I, Ling Xiao, will crush every last one of you so-called protagonists beneath my feet! 4.4kReads8.9Score312Shelves
- 35 Sign-In from the Start for Half-Saint Cultivation, Summoning Two Great Gods and Demons 开局签到半圣修为，召唤两大神魔 He transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes the weakest prince of the dynasty. Xuan Ming plans to give up the fight for the throne and live out his days as a carefree prince. But the late emperor needs to fake his death for a while as he practices a forbidden divine-demon technique. To make it easier to reclaim the throne, he deliberately passes it to the weakest son. The news shocks the court, setting the dynasty in turmoil as undercurrents stir across the land. Just then, the Myriad Realms 48.8kReads8.9Score3.5kShelves
- 36 I've Been AFK for a Trillion Years, and I'm Richer Than the Heavenly Dao 挂机万亿年，我比天道还有钱 [Invincible + Building a Faction + Laid-Back + Nurturing] After idling for a trillion years, I built the strongest family! World Will: Dad Ye, I want to reinforce the world's barrier. Could you give me some pocket money? I'll rub your feet. Will of Heaven: Big Boss Ye, someone's been secretly siphoning the world's essence lately. Could you lend me some money? Whenever people mention Ye Suifeng, one word comes to mind. Filthy rich beyond all reason! 49.1kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves
- 37 EN The Villain Should Be Invincible 反派就应该无敌 The animated adaptation is now streaming: The Lord Who Suppresses the Nine Heavens: The Protagonist Should Be Invincible Reborn as the leader of a demonic cult, he obtains the Villain Invincibility System and from then on makes the cult invincible. I am Zhou Qiong, leader of the demonic cult. No one is allowed to contradict what I say. Even while protecting the cult with one hand, I remain invincible in the world. 33kReads9.3Score2.6kShelves
- 38 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 113kReads9.5Score12.3kShelves
- 39 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves
- 40 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
