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- 151 He’s Clearly Powerful, Yet He Insists on Messing with His Loli Master 这个人明明很强却偏要坑萝莉师傅 Archmage Lin En transmigrated to another world. To keep the gods from treating him like a crop to be harvested, he disguised himself as a mage apprentice in Winter Spring Valley and decided to stay under the radar until he reached max level. But who could have guessed that his loli master could hear his thoughts? “Disciple, what do you think of this forbidden spell of mine?” [Kindergarten-level stuff. I don't even know if one splash of water could hurt anyone.] “Disciple, with five hundred more 31.2kReads9.6Score3.4k14d adds
- 152 Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁 (The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes 134kReads9.3Score16.4k14d adds
- 153 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 150.8kReads9.7Score13.6k14d adds
- 154 Transmigrated into a Book as the Villain: From the Start, I Kidnapped the Heroine! 穿书反派：开局，我绑架了女主！ [Lovable scoundrel of a villain + tea-artistry + male heartthrob + stunning looks + scheming + wild card + sweet on the outside, dark underneath + witty comedy + no fixed couple] Also known as: “I play a tea-green guy, and the male and female leads spoil me rotten!” Su Qing transmigrates into a modern wish-fulfillment novel. He becomes the rich villain who kidnaps the heroine in chapter one, gets beaten up by the hero in chapter two, and lands in prison in chapter three. Luckily, he awakens the 75.5kReads8.3Score4.9k14d adds
- 155 EN I Threaten the Female Lead from the Start, and I'm Set on Being the Villain 开局威胁女主，这个反派我当定了 [Scheming, shameless, hilarious. Pure-love fans, beware] Jiang Che transmigrated into the role of a rich second-generation villain in a modern wish-fulfillment novel, and was bound to a God-Tier Choice System. From the start, he happened to catch the heroine trying to sneak a peek at the exam papers. A villain’s choice was triggered! [Choice One: Pretend you saw nothing] [Choice Two: Shout at her, drawing a crowd] [Choice Three: ...] And so, a perverted supervillain was born. To avoid being 79.7kReads8.9Score6.6k14d adds
- 156 I Use Illusions to Control the World 我用幻术控制全世界 [A rare illusion-based novel featuring a villain protagonist, nightmare invasions, and original instances] Su Mu has the same dream every night. Each time he wakes, his mental strength has increased by one percent. He grows stronger just by sleeping. In the first year, hypnosis. He discovers his mental strength is already powerful enough to hypnotize others, and soon gang bosses, the campus belle, beautiful CEOs, and more have all become his slaves. In the second year, control over the five sens 67.8kReads9.4Score7.5k14d adds
- 157 EN Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你 [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 312.7kReads9.8Score31.4k14d adds
- 158 I Kept Up the Act for Two Years, Then They Suddenly Read My Mind 装了两年突然被读心了 [Signed for publication in print] Also known as When My Billionaire Husband Started Coughing [Brooding, secretly snarky CEO X quirky, 'fake' innocent flower] Qi Weiran was a CEO worth billions. Because he carried a rare gene, he had a body that never got sick. But he could only live to the age of fifty. After he died, half his estate would go to his contract wife. One day, Qi Weiran's body, which had never shown a single sign of illness, suddenly began to cough. His adoring young wife, who loved 28.9kReads9.5Score3.6k14d adds
- 159 EN Apocalypse: Stockpiling a Billion in Supplies from Day One 末世：开局先囤十亿物资 [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left 117.9kReads9.3Score9.4k14d adds
- 160 EN What Makes You Think I'll Keep Liking You Forever? 你凭什么认为我会一直喜欢你呢 [Everyday romance] [One female lead] [Mutual healing] Because of a promise made in childhood, Chen Lu spent seven whole years pursuing the girl he’d grown up with. In the end, all he got was a cold rejection. Chen Lu smiled in acceptance, but his heart had turned to ash… until he met the sweet, clumsy girl who’d come to thank him. The girl was lovely and innocent, standing alone in the rain right where the two of them had agreed to meet. “Why haven’t you left…?” The girl slowly lifted her head. 121.3kReads9.7Score14k14d adds
- 161 The Useless Disciple of the Hehuan Sect 合欢宗废材 [Absurd comedy + traditional fantasy + multiple heroines + espionage + battles of wits] Ye Huan is a disciple so disappointing that even the Hehuan Sect wants nothing to do with him. By chance, he obtains an inheritance, and from then on becomes a man who can hold up the heavens. One way for men to survive in the Hehuan Sect is to become spies. As it happens, Ye Huan is an espionage enthusiast, and with his exceptional powers of logical deduction, he matches wits with all sides on the covert fro 1.7kReads7.2Score16714d adds
- 162 EN Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊 (Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho 497.6kReads9.7Score72.9k14d adds
- 163 The Whole Family Is Insanely Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 全家偷听我心声杀疯了，我负责吃奶 The Red Fruit short drama adaptation of My Whole Family Hears My Thoughts: Fu Bao Chaochao is now open for reservations! Please show it lots of support and give it a follow! [Whole-family mind reading + cannon fodder + beloved by the whole family + powerful figure transmigrates into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger + feel-good story] Lu Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character who was drowned at birth, while the heroine stole her identity. The heroine turned 14.9kReads9.6Score3.2k14d adds
- 164 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择：这个御兽师有亿点生猛 [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 177.9kReads9.7Score21.5k14d adds
- 165 EN Apocalypse Game: Killing My Girlfriend on Day One 末日游戏：开局手刃校花女友 [Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab 131.1kReads9.4Score10.8k14d adds
- 166 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.7kReads9.6Score22.6k14d adds
- 167 EN Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 168.1kReads9.6Score21.5k14d adds
- 168 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 6.1kReads—Score36014d adds
- 169 EN OMG! What Nobody Actor Kisses the Unhinged Villain Right Away? 天！谁家糊咖上来就亲疯批反派 Highlight: The secondary couple's story is concentrated in the extras. If they appear in the main story, it is only to serve the plot, and they occupy very little space. Readers who dislike this should proceed with caution. [Double male leads + entertainment industry + face-slapping + a vicious, ruthless, indulgent top with a hidden perverted side versus an all-around, dazzlingly talented bottom who openly flirts] Shen Lian was a top-tier star, but when he opened his eyes, he had become a nobody 134kReads9.7Score15.5k14d adds
- 170 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 948.8kReads9.6Score117.8k14d adds
- 171 Bound by Spring 缚春情 [The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef 90.9kReads9.6Score12.1k14d adds
- 172 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
- 173 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 342.4kReads9.5Score38.6k14d adds
- 174 EN After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法 [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 214.3kReads9.6Score36k14d adds
- 175 EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5k14d adds
- 176 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 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1k14d adds
- 177 After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神 The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei 103.2kReads9.7Score14.5k14d adds
- 178 Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏 A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t 84.2kReads9.6Score14.8k14d adds
- 179 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 168.8kReads9.8Score19.3k14d adds
- 180 The Whole Sect Are Simps, but the Junior Sister Is a Real Menace 全宗都是舔狗，小师妹是真狗 [The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng 181.6kReads9.5Score23.4k14d adds
- 181 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
- 182 Teacher Chang Mao 长矛老师 Originally titled “You Sell Swords, I Go Crazy: Together, We Set the Entertainment Industry Straight” [Rebellious CEO × Defiant Top-Tier Star] [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + dating show + nonsense + memes + shameless antics] Jiang Qiyu transmigrated into a book. She became a brainless cannon-fodder character in a novel about a fake heiress in the entertainment industry. After taking a phone call, she realized the plot was already more than halfway through. Her family had abandoned he 105.6kReads9.7Score12.2k14d adds
- 183 EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.2kReads9.6Score18.1k14d adds
- 184 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 185 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
- 186 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 187 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 188 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 189 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6k14d adds
- 190 EN Unhinged? We're All Unhinged—and That's a Good Thing! 癫，都癫，癫点好啊 [Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay. 335.5kReads9.8Score46.5k14d adds
