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- 101 Help! These Magical Girls Are Acting Strange 救命！这些魔法少女不太对劲 In a world where only women can transform into magical girls, one man becomes a magical girl. After Li Yang transforms into a magical girl, he uses that as a foundation to embark on a different path of cultivation. Along the way, he meets all kinds of magical girls. The little glutton who loves to slurp: “I want to eat you again today~” The sunny girl who loves to show off: “Look at me. Tell me, if your eyes are empty, why are you afraid to raise your head and look at me?” The artsy girl who lov 1.7kReads6.7Score12214d adds
- 102 Heir to the Five Arts 五术传人 All the arts of divination under heaven fall into five branches. They are: Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy. More specifically, they include magic, talismans and incantations, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Men Dun Jia, feng shui based on the principles of qi, face reading, bone reading, and more... Our Wei clan is the guiding principle behind all five arts. The five arts encompass everything and seize the workings of Heaven. Thus, only those blessed with 1.8kReads8.3Score21014d adds
- 103 Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳 Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv 115Reads—Score15514d adds
- 104 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 The Pawnshop 典当 [Urban + supernatural + mystery] My name is Mo Linyuan. I run my family’s ancestral pawnshop. Other pawnshops deal in dirty money; mine trades in lives! Grandpa says our family has always had three storerooms: one for Heaven, one for Earth, and one for mortals! Rules: No strange item is ever refused; the redemption price is a hundredfold. Advertisement: Pawn ghosts, take immortals as collateral. We do not pawn past lives or future ones. Deceive Earth and Heaven, and you can redeem a life as old 242Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 106 Matriarchy: From the Start, I Get the Essential Talent for Building a Harem 女尊：开局就送后宫必备天赋 (My first book flopped, but I couldn't let it go, so I polished it up again. If you're interested, take a look. It's an infinite-world story, though the first two worlds may be a little frustrating.) Also known as: Female Supremacy: Extreme Imbalance (This story leans toward high-octane action. I'm single and won't write a harem. The beginning might be a bit rough, but it gets better later.) Yan Xiaoyuan transmigrated into a world of high martial arts. But what if it were a matriarchal world, wi 1.9kReads8.1Score36314d adds
- 107 I Saw Hidden Information from the Start, So I Borrowed Money to Pay Off My Debts 开局看到隐藏信息，我借钱还外债 Former title: “I Can See Hidden Information from the Start, So I Used Payday Loans to Clear My Debts” [Tycoon + Appraisal + Stock Trading + X-Ray Vision + Hidden Information + Urban Power Struggles + Daily Life + Not a Goody-Two-Shoes] Lin Feng transmigrated to a parallel world and became a loser and a deadbeat. But from the start, he bound himself to the Divine Eye System, which lets him see hidden information about everything. [Ding! Acquired 4 pieces of real-time information.] [The woman outs 1.1kReads7.6Score10414d adds
- 108 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6kReads8.8Score49014d adds
- 109 A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才 A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil. 1.6kReads8.8Score11314d adds
- 110 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 994Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 111 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Stop Sacrificing Girls, My House Is About to Burst 别献祭少女了，我家被撑爆了 [Travel between two worlds + playing a god + decisive killing + the only one with supernatural powers in the city] A village in a game suddenly offers a sacrifice to Wang Mo. After accepting it, Wang Mo receives all kinds of offerings, one of which turns out to be a young girl! When he enters the game world, he discovers that he has become a god! He easily resolves the crisis facing the villagers! But when the other villages hear about it, they all start arranging for young girls to be offered a 2.2kReads7.5Score33014d adds
- 113 Reborn in a New Era: How Did I End Up with Three Ex-Wives? 重生年代：我怎么多了三个前妻 Adapted into the short drama [Reborn in 1970: Hunting, Raising Kids, and Spoiling My Ex-Wife] [Country Life] + [Period] + [Hunting] + [Fishing] Chen Yang is reborn and returns to 1980, but he quickly realizes something is very wrong. Who married these three beautiful, virtuous women to me as ex-wives? And why are there three kids, too? Well, since they’re so devoted to me, I guess I’ll raise them. After all, they really are my ex-wives and children. 83.2kReads8.1Score6.2k14d adds
- 114 The Soul-Suppressing Stele 镇魂碑 Telling the eeriest stories and exposing the most unfathomable human hearts! The final installment in the Evil-Quelling Trilogy! (The first two, Evil-Quelling Notes and Thousand Corpse Town, are both complete.) After the first thirty thousand words, there will be three updates every day! No delays, guaranteed! Thank you all for continuing to support Lao Zhang! 669Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 115 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5kReads8.6Score37314d adds
- 116 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 624Reads8.1Score13414d adds
- 117 A Yin Corpse Brought Me to the Mortal World: The Living, Keep Away 阴尸送我来人间，生人退避 My name is Luo Ansheng. I was delivered by a Yin Corpse. A Yin Corpse brought me into the world, and a hundred ghosts fought over their food. All manner of fearsome beings gathered, eager to devour my flesh and essence. After I gave them a good beating, they settled down and began competing to protect me. 4.2kReads8.8Score38614d adds
- 118 I Put on a Mask and Became a God 戴上面具，我成了神 I woke up with amnesia from the start. Did I kill someone? The security footage shows me brutally slaughtering two burly men all by myself? Yan Zhile: That wasn't me. I put on a mask and got possessed by a god. Do you believe me? Police: Why not say you're Ultraman while you're at it? From an ordinary college student to the Host of a forbidden mask. She takes down scumbag dads, slays heavenly fiends, and tames ancient divine beasts. When she has collected every mask, she stands atop the Ea 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 120 EN Apocalypse Road: Awakening the Asura Sequence 公路求生：开局觉醒修罗序列 [A million words and counting, ripe for the picking] Soul transmigration + apocalypse + multiple heroines + no System + Sequence Pathway + the supernatural descends The red moon hangs overhead as the supernatural descends. Cities become forbidden zones, and humanity is forced onto the highways, migrating endlessly in search of a way to survive. Anyone left alone will struggle to make it until dawn. A convoy that stops may never see morning again. Mercenary Shen Ye dies on a mission and transmi 144.7kReads8.0Score15.2k14d adds
- 121 EN Villain Reborn: Surrounded by Heroines! 反派重生：我被女主团包围了！ [Villain Reborn + Multiple Heroines + No Dropping the Story] Lin Ao had died at the hands of the Chosen Ones time and again. At last, he finally got a chance to turn things around. Fine, you won’t give me a way out? This time, he had broken free of their control, with Heaven’s favor on one side and several beauties backing him on the other. How are you going to kill me this time? 13.1kReads7.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 122 The House of the Dead 空亡屋 There is a kind of house in this world whose door is always half open and half closed. The open half is for the living to enter. The closed half is for the dead. This kind of house is called a House of the Lost. As it happens, I'm the owner of one. In three years, I've encountered both clingy ghosts and evil people who cling to ghosts. 780Reads8.7Score12514d adds
- 123 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 124 The City's Exorcist 都市驱魔先生 When shadows emerge beyond the reach of the city’s neon lights, young exorcist Jin Lei sets out on the path fate has laid for him. He inherits more than his family’s powers: he also inherits a tragic mystery spanning a hundred years. Why did his ancestor and fellow disciple turn evil? What earth-shattering scheme is the Xuanjing organization plotting from the shadows of history? From strange happenings on campus to bloody feuds in the countryside, from urban crime investigations to a battle ove 266Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Having a Son Is Like Having the King of Hell 生个儿子是阎王 Five years ago, I gave birth to a child. Everyone who saw what the child looked like died. Five years later, I met a man who told me he was the child's father. 16.4kReads8.9Score36314d adds
- 126 Great Tang: I Became a Mysterious Merchant Who Can Sell Anything 大唐：我成了什么都能卖神秘商人 [Daily life + no female lead + street vending] I was just running a stall, but when I set it up in Chang'an, the capital of the Tang dynasty, strange things started happening. Every customer is odd, and they all buy goods I never expected. There's no shame in making money, so I'll sell whatever the customers want. Huh, I've somehow become a mysterious merchant who can sell anything. 8.2kReads7.7Score58514d adds
- 127 The Local Official 土官 In some parts of northern China, a local ritual master is the person who presides over funeral rites. The role is semi-official, and local ritual masters are also responsible for the village shrines to the Earth God. As the times change, this profession is destined to disappear. But the protagonist, whose mother died when he was ten, finds a different path: he lives with an open heart and no fear, and with kindness in his heart and no regrets. 4.6kReads8.9Score47314d adds
- 128 I Turned Into a Monster from the Start, Let's Make a Deal! 开局变诡异，来交易吧！ [The Supernatural Descends + Madness + Fun-Seeker + No Romance + Fresh Premise] After becoming a supernatural being, I understood the truth of the universe: there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but you can always get a ridiculously expensive dinner. My shop is where you come for “dinner.” Here, you can get anything you desire, as long as you can afford whatever price I make up on the spot. Thanks to my flexible approach to pricing and formidable debt-collection skills, my shop has become “infa 288Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 129 Infinite Returns: He Gave Me Far Too Much 无限返还，他给的实在太多了 [Infinite Rebate System + Defying One’s Master + Multiple Heroines + Traditional Cultivation] After transmigrating to a cultivation world, he awakens the Tycoon System. Whenever he gives an item to a woman favored by fortune, he receives a massive rebate. After years of obscurity, he achieves the Dao in a single night and soars to the top. A sly little tea girl, a charming master, an unfeeling sword immortal, an imperial princess... And he’ll repay the great benefactor who helped him achieve the 18.3kReads7.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 130 What? They Weren't Hypnotized? 什么？她们没有被催眠？ The System told Gu Chengyin that hypnosis was foolproof. And it really was. Even the aloof and famously solitary Grand Princess became the most docile lamb, obeying his every command without question. But when the game was over, and Gu Chengyin had seized everything and was about to ascend, the princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her voice full of a dependence he had never heard before: “Wait, you still haven’t... ordered me to love you forever.” Gu Chengyin froze. She... hadn’t been hyp 12.3kReads8.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 131 I'm the Villain's Dad, So Why Are You Flirting with Me? 我反派他爹啊，你们撩我干嘛？ Lin Sihai transmigrates into a modern urban novel about a smirking Dragon King. His son is supposed to be a top-tier rich, handsome young man, yet insists on becoming a lovesick lackey of a Villain. It’s a surefire recipe for dragging his dad down with him. Just as Lin Sihai binds himself to a Villain System that makes him stronger whenever he ruins the fated male lead’s plans, and gets ready to use his knowledge of the future to stay one step ahead, he discovers that something is off about this 1kReads7.6Score18114d adds
- 132 Oh No, Why Have All the Fairies I Tormented Become Real? 遭了，我祸害的仙子怎么都成真了 Lu Feng transmigrates into a world where women are superior to men and becomes the Demon Palace's holy son. From the start, he is made a sacrifice and forced into a marriage alliance with a bug. Fortunately, he awakens the Book of a Hundred Lives, which lets him create characters, experience different lives, and earn rewards from them. I was once a peak master of the Heavenly Secrets Sect, yet I personally dug out the Exquisite Heavenly Bone and returned it to the girl it had been taken from. Th 3.9kReads8.0Score17214d adds
- 133 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 458Reads9.2Score10514d adds
- 134 My Days Running a Shop Across the Heavens 我在诸天开黑店的日子 [Invincible Protagonist] [the Myriad Worlds] [Patchwork Novel] [Behind-the-Scenes] By a twist of fate, I transmigrated to a Cultivation world and got bound to a Main God Space. Should I summon reincarnators to invade the Myriad Worlds? Or summon reincarnators to destroy the world? Liu Shao says all that fighting is too dangerous. He’d rather do a little business across the Myriad Worlds and skim some profits from them. And so, the Cultivation world’s first online shopping platform is built. Then 2.2kReads8.7Score12514d adds
- 135 I Opened an Inn and It Became a Safe Haven for All Worlds 开个民宿，成了万界安全屋 [Business Management] [No CP] [Feel-Good Story] [Lighthearted] [Everyday Life] Burned out from working himself to the bone, Lin Yi decides to lie flat and return to his hometown to open a homestay. His neighbors shake their heads and sigh: “The kid worked so hard to get out of here, only to come right back. What a waste!” “Open a homestay? Who’s going to visit a remote mountain village like this?” But Lin Yi’s homestay starts attracting guests from all kinds of different worlds. There are litera 2.8kReads8.8Score22414d adds
- 136 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... 5.4kReads9.1Score47014d adds
- 137 The Death and Life Inn 生死客栈 (Don’t read this. Go away.)… 240Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 138 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 491Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 139 After Merging with the Empress, I Rampage Against the Gods in Venom Form 合体女帝后，我毒液形态暴虐神明 The animated series I Reincarnated as Venom, Season One is out. I, Lin Ye, a perfectly ordinary modern man, somehow got reborn in another world as a blob of... Venom? I was mistaken for the most good-for-nothing black slime, then contracted by a terrifying woman! And this woman turns out to be a future empress who was reborn! In her previous life, she was hunted down and killed by the Mist Gods. Now she's back for revenge, but from the start she contracts a “useless” like me. She sighs over me e 87.9kReads7.5Score10.4k14d adds
- 140 You Were Supposed to Catch Demons, So Why Are You Dating a Fox Demon? 让你去捉妖，你和狐妖好上了？ When I was born, the King of Hell sent a child, and the Yin Marshal guarded me. Strange things happened one after another. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged five betrothals for me. On my eighteenth birthday, a bewitchingly beautiful fox spirit came to my door... 289Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 141 With an Embroidered Spring Sabre, I Take Down the Entire Entertainment Industry 手持绣春刀，推平整个娱乐圈 [Mission One: Kill ten bandits who rob and plunder, committing every imaginable crime] Li Mo: System, never mind where bandits would come from in a modern parallel world. You want me to kill ten? Can I just fight ten of them? [Mission Two: Defeat the wounded elite monster, the Red Tiger] Li Mo: System, are you seriously taking me for Wu Song? You want me to go fight a tiger? Wait a second. Does killing the villain while filming count? Oh, this little kitty is the elite boss you said was terroriz 9.3kReads7.7Score93314d adds
- 142 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺匠 My family has dealt with the dead for generations. Following in my father’s footsteps, I became a coffin bearer. Before carrying a coffin, I always offer the deceased five incense sticks. When offering incense to the living, three long sticks and two short ones are taboo. When offering incense to the dead, three short sticks and two long ones are taboo. That day, I carried a coffin, and the dead pregnant woman inside gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl! [Shh, keep quiet! We’re settin 2.8kReads8.3Score18414d adds
- 143 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 313Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 144 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 145 Eerie Revival: I Died from the Start and Became the Ghost Boss 诡异复苏：开局死亡，成为诡老板 [Villain] [Creating Urban Legends] [No Female Lead] After signing a strange contract, Wang Yuan is killed by the “Greedy Ghost.” When he comes back to life, he becomes the owner of the “Haunted Shop.” From then on, countless products are created in the Haunted Shop. “Life-Buying Money,” which can take the life of someone you hate. “Fate-Binding Cord,” which makes someone fall in love with you unconditionally. “Wish Coin,” which can grant any wish. Everything you want can be found in the H 810Reads6.7Score12414d adds
- 146 Xuanhuan: I Auction Hongmeng Purple Qi, and the Dark Supremes Go Mad! 玄幻：拍卖鸿蒙紫气，黑暗至尊疯狂！ [Auctions + Myriad Worlds + Behind the Scenes + Building a Faction + Ruthless] Gu Sheng transmigrated and acquired a Celestial Pavilion of Creation. Inside the Celestial Pavilion of Creation, it had every cultivation technique, divine ability, and treasure from across the Myriad Worlds. And so began an auction that would sweep across three thousand worlds! Everyone went wild! The empress of the Jiuli Dynasty: “I am an empress for the ages. This Supreme Bone is mine, and mine alone!” The Hol 346Reads6.5Score6014d adds
- 147 The Blood-Binding Corpse Scripture 血引尸经 The world of Changbai’s demons, home to the northern immortals. I was just an ordinary village boy from Changbai Mountain until I accidentally obtained the strange books Blood Guide to the Corpse and Soul-Eating Blood Eyes. I wanted to save people, yet somehow I was always killing them. My father’s bizarre sect legacy, the thousand-year secrets of the Twelve Strange Sects, the shadowy depths of the Tomb That Moves Mountains. Just how many plots and mysteries are hidden all around me? The bronze 1.1kReads8.8Score14214d adds
- 148 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.6kReads9.1Score14414d adds
