Novels like The Villainous Master's Guide to Self-Cultivation
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- 151 My Disciples and Their Daoist Partners Force Their Love on Me, Leaving the Beloved Master with Nowhere to Run 弟子道侣强制爱，万人迷师尊无处 [Two male leads + transmigration into a book + mature woman System + power fantasy + cultivation] Xiao Yuanzhi has transmigrated into a book! The bad news: the most dangerous job of all, becoming a master. He's determined to raise his disciples into well-rounded young men with good morals, intelligence, physical fitness, an appreciation for beauty, and practical skills. But his disciples' gazes are growing increasingly strange. Sheng Qingye: "Master, where else do you think you can run?" Jin Xia 5kReads9.3Score83714d adds
- 152 System: Cuddle Up to Your Gloomy Villainous Disciple 系统：在阴郁反派徒弟怀里撒个娇 Can an original cultivator in the cultivation world get a System, too? Shen Qingwei gets a "Raise the villain for me, and I'll help you increase your cultivation" System. Well, all right, then. He follows the System's instructions, brings the little villain back to the mountain, and teaches him. But why is this little villain so obedient? Something's not right! Then, one day, they go down the mountain and meet another astonishingly talented young man, brimming with righteousness. System: "Villai 458Reads9.1Score10114d adds
- 153 The Socially Anxious Master Rips Up the Script That Made Everyone Hate Him 社恐师尊手撕万人嫌剧本 [Two Male Leads + Yandere + Transmigrate into a Book + Villain] Socially anxious master x yandere disciple, with the disciple younger Transmigrated into the role of a despised cannon-fodder master, Yan Huailiu finds the System offline from the start. A severe social phobic, he's stuck with the task of reforming the villain and plans to keep his head down until the ending, then go home. Facing his villain disciple as he grows up, Yan Huailiu tries desperately to curry favor: “What a good boy yo 6.8kReads9.3Score1.2k14d adds
- 154 You Rebellious Disciple, Get Far Away from Your Master 逆徒，给为师滚远点 [Two male leads, beloved by all + both reborn + yandere rivalry for the love interest + one-on-one happy ending] Xie Qing, sect leader of the Canglan Sword Sect, possessed the most exquisite looks in the world. Yet he was ruthless and merciless, aloof and proud. Many coveted him, and even more despised him. His junior fellow disciple coveted him, so Xie Qing whipped him. The man hid in his room, drawing portraits of Xie Qing and cursing him. The demon king coveted him, so Xie Qing kicked him off 5.8kReads9.3Score95214d adds
- 155 Everyone Else Became a Master, But I Became That Evil Disciple 别人都穿成师尊，我穿成那个孽徒 What should you do when you transmigrate into a cultivation novel as its tragic, beautiful, and powerful male lead? Don't panic. Just follow the usual tropes, win over your master first, and become an ungrateful scoundrel who betrays his teacher and ancestors... Jun Ruyan lowered his eyes to the person kneeling before him and asked in a clear, gentle voice, “Do you know what you did wrong?” Sang Li's eyes brimmed with tears. Unable to utter a word, he could only look up at Jun Ruyan pleadingly. 5.7kReads9.4Score76114d adds
- 156 I Kicked My Former Disciple to the Curb, and the Villain and I Got a Happy Ending! 一脚踹掉前徒弟，我和反派HE！ [Signed for print publication, progress updates at Qin Lingling] [Two male leads, 1v1, both each other's only one + younger love interest + cultivation + face-slapping the arrogant protagonist + touches of an ensemble cast + happy ending] [Fake-cold, secretly snarky master who flirts without realizing it x pure-hearted, loyal, clingy wolf-demon disciple raised from a pup] [Jiang Yinian x Qin Leyou] The moment he opened his eyes, Jiang Yinian found himself inside the worst arrogant-protagonist no 15.7kReads9.5Score2.6k14d adds
- 157 The Wolf Cub Is Rebelling Against His Master Again 狼崽子他又欺师灭祖 [Two male leads + younger love interest raised by the older one + transmigrating into a book + comedy] “Ding-dong! System mission: Help Crown Prince Xiao Xuan bring about a peaceful and prosperous era. Reward: a return to the modern world.” Xiao Xuan, an arrogant, unruly little tyrant, x Ji Yun, a teacher with a knack for disciplining students. Xiao Xuan: He skips class and gets into fights, leaving nothing out. The Grand Tutor keeps him firmly in line, but he refuses to submit and wants to figh 5.9kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 158 Do I Really Have to Be Your Master? 这师尊非做不可吗 [Signed for print publication] My disciple is looking at me strangely. I really want to run away Sweet romance + equally matched leads + one-on-one + secret identities + irreverent cultivation Liu Yu'an transmigrates into a book and becomes the cannon-fodder master of the arrogant male lead. The male lead is gifted, but he takes the demonic path. To keep the plot moving, Liu Yu'an fusses over the male lead every day, showing him every kindness in an effort to bring him back to the righteous pat 63.6kReads9.1Score10.5k14d adds
- 159 When a Puppy-Like Emperor Meets a Wolf-Like Regent 当犬系皇帝遇上狼系摄政王 [Sweet Puppy vs. Scheming Wolf + Extra Sweet Romance + No Female Lead] The loyal dog Yun Sheng suddenly transmigrates into the body of a puppet emperor. The regent looks exactly like his former boss, but doesn't remember him... Feeling wronged, Yun Sheng decides to behave himself and win back his boss's affection. As a well-behaved dog, of course he obeys his boss's orders to the letter. When the regent tells Yun Sheng to practice his calligraphy, Yun Sheng stays cooped up in the study, writing 1.5kReads9.5Score26014d adds
- 160 The Trouble-Making Disciple 惹祸的徒弟 Because of natural disasters, the people of Liangcheng in Tianguo suffer from severe hunger. With no choice but to leave their hometown to survive, they head for the prosperous capital. A mother and son cling to each other as they make the arduous journey of a thousand li. By the time they reach the outskirts of the capital, the unfortunate mother is on the verge of death from hunger. Looking at her young son, she hopes some kindhearted person will take him in so he won’t starve to death. After 1.7kReads6.9Score10314d adds
- 161 EN The Cannon-Fodder Senior Brother Gets the Heroine’s Script 当炮灰大师兄拿了女主剧本 [Goofy + Sweet Romance] Transmigrating into a melodramatic Mary Sue xianxia romance novel as the doomed senior disciple, Xiao Qinghe thinks things can’t get any more tragic. Then the System keeps assigning him bizarre missions, and the readers this time around are harder to please than ever. Can someone tell me why these missions are so suggestive?! 1.2kReads9.5Score18314d adds
- 162 I Saved My Master’s Honor, but Lost My Own 拯救师尊的清白后，我的清白没了 [Print edition publication deal signed; progress updates at Qinlingling] [Two male leads + cultivation + older top + master and disciple + both virgins + happy ending] [Cold, gentle, white-snake master top x sunny, affectionate puppy-like disciple bottom] Chu Xianlan discovered that he could have prophetic dreams. At first, he thought they were just coincidences, until every dream turned out to involve his most respected master, Yichen. [The arrogant and domineering Fourth Prince finds himself u 28.9kReads9.5Score5.2k14d adds
- 163 Locked-Room Warning! The Charismatic Villain Is Actually Me 黑屋警告！万人迷反派竟是我自己 [Transmigrate into a book + fake death escape + unhinged snake-like master] One day, Xie Huai transmigrated into a book. In tears, he was just about to diligently complete his missions, get close to his target, and steer the runaway plot back on course. Who could have guessed the story had already become a complete mess? Xie Huai spread his hands and put them on his hips. “Heh. I’m done. I’m out of here.” But who could have guessed that his usually aloof master would come after him to kill him? 14.2kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 164 Sang Biao, Master, Why Does He Call You Mimi? 丧彪，师尊他为什么叫你咪咪？ [The physical edition of Meeting Spring Snow is now available on all platforms] [Two male leads + younger disciple and master + transmigrates into a book + aloof, beautiful shou] A master who seems aloof but is actually a shy introvert, and a disciple who loves to act cute but is really a brooding mad dog. Warning: The master is changing hands! (Your master is wonderful, but he’s mine now.) Shen Yingji transmigrates into the beautiful, aloof master who is the male lead’s doomed first love and di 20.2kReads9.4Score3.5k14d adds
- 165 After Binding to a System, I Caught a Villain in the Cultivation World 绑定系统后，我在修真界钓到反派 Main Couple: Chu Han X Luo Qingyu Secondary Couple: Song Qianzhi X Hua Wumian [Available as an audio drama with voice actors] [Transmigrate into a book + System + sweet romance + 1v1 + male-male romance + cultivation] [First installment in the series] [Scheming and cunning X cool and devoted] [Loads of secondary couples!] Content warning: A fluffy, feel-good story with no regard for logic. Every plot point exists to serve the romance. An unconventional cultivation story, with the protagonist adv 6.4kReads9.5Score72514d adds
- 166 Quick Transmigration: Cuddling Up to the Yandere Villain 快穿：在病娇反派怀里撒个娇 Possessive, obsessive big shot + dark and twisted fixation Jiang Shen, who has been frail and sickly since childhood, binds himself to Quick Transmigration System 1177 to save the sickly villain and earn a chance to come back to life, preventing the villain's descent into darkness from destroying the worlds. Jiang Shen is thoughtful and caring in every way. Just as the villain's affection meter is finally close to one hundred percent... The villain turns dark. “Why are you running, A-Shen? I'm l 2.9kReads9.4Score27314d adds
- 167 The Demon Venerable Senior Brother Below: The Immortal Venerable Junior Brother Goes Heh Heh Heh 魔尊师兄在下：仙尊师弟桀桀桀 [This! Is! A! Women’s! Fiction! Male-male leads! Romance! Male readers, proceed with caution!! Who else! Who else doesn’t read the blurb or tags! Ah!! Who else!!!] [Goofy, awkward, absurdly satisfying, unconventional and ridiculous. Two old men, neither grows as a person. Invincible from the start, with no rivals or pressure. No cultivation, no fighting, no humiliating the opposition. They’re just playing around, playing around, playing around!! Ah!!! Everyone, read the blurb!!!] (The blurb belo 5.8kReads9.5Score82714d adds
- 168 You Told Me to Kill My Villainous Master, So Why Did You Kiss Him?! 让你杀反派师尊，你亲他干嘛！ [Signed for print publication] [Complete + two male leads + shou protagonist + everyone speaks their mind + devoted romance] [Gentle, beautiful master × outwardly obedient, tea-scented villain disciple who is secretly unhinged] Shang Qingshi transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder master. Born into a noble family and blessed with striking looks, he even has both the male lead and the ultimate villain as his disciples. It’s a dream start from the start. But his cauldron physique prevents him 38kReads9.5Score7k14d adds
- 169 I Reared the Male Lead Wrong After Reincarnating as Cannon Fodder 穿成炮灰的我养歪了男主 Two male leads + devoted to each other + happy ending + pure comedy + no secondary couples + younger top Gu Yuhuan stayed up all night and died suddenly. After being bound to a System, he was dropped into a fantasy novel and became the cannon-fodder senior disciple. System: “Advance the plot at all costs. Strike while the male lead is sick and finish him off!” No big deal. The male lead hasn’t turned evil yet. He’s just a delicate little flower, so this should be a piece of cake, right? The plot 11.9kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 170 My Brother's Wedding Outfit Looks Great. Good Thing I Have One Too 哥哥婚服真好看正好我也有一套 Complete: [Dual Male Leads + Sweet Transmigration-Into-a-Book Romance + Goofy, Sharp-Tongued Banter + Obsessive Madman + Beloved Younger Man] The aloof, taciturn, beautiful-but-tragic villainous second male lead VS the goofy, sharp-tongued, socially inept, spoiled third male lead Shen Yu accidentally opened a romance novel aimed at female readers and transmigrated into the novel as a third male lead with the same name, a pathetic simp who was eventually ordered executed along with all 108 member 11.5kReads9.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 171 The Path to Becoming the Cultivation World's Top Healer 修仙界顶级治疗养成之路 [Two male leads + System + older master and younger disciple + guiding lover + sweet romance + both virgins + happy ending + ensemble cast] [Slow burn + progression fantasy + coming-of-age] After transmigrating, Lin Chen becomes bound to a [Top-Tier Healing and Growth System]. Other people's Systems: divine skills from the start! An instant legendary weapon! His System, Da Bai: a healer System + a laid-back chat companion (?) + 0 (?) punishment. Its motto is all about keeping a good attitude: “C 57.8kReads9.4Score8.8k14d adds
- 172 Are You an Idiot? The Top-Tier Star Emperor Has Had a Crush on Me for 3,000 Years! 傻了吧，顶流影帝暗恋我三千年！ [No heroine + yandere + hilarious + entertainment industry + swoony, flirtatious, sweet romance] After the Demon Venerable Pei Yan died, he was reborn in the modern world three thousand years later. To repay the original owner's debts and escape his scumbag boyfriend, he entered a talent competition. His slender waist and supple figure made his dance so stunning that he shot to fame. Fans: That waist, those moves, that face! Absolutely perfect! Mentor Jiang Che sat among the judges, his eyes dar 7kReads9.5Score1.4k14d adds
- 173 After the Younger, Unhinged Man I Personally Abandoned Set His Sights on Me 被亲手抛弃的疯批年下盯上后 [The print edition of The Eighth Year's Moon is now available on all platforms] [Two Male Leads + Both Powerful and Devoted + Intense Push and Pull + Sweet Mutual Seduction] With foxlike eyes, gold-rimmed glasses, a sharp suit, and a mole on his Adam's apple, Gu Cheng, the nine-time Best Actor, is still the entertainment industry's most popular idol of the year, even as he approaches thirty. As the saying goes, Gu Cheng's thirtieth birthday marks the end of the road for half the entertainment in 11.6kReads9.6Score1.8k14d adds
- 174 EN Divine Ability Wielder 神通者 Among the living things of this world, some are born with strange bones. These bones can be inscribed with wondrous arts, granting their bearers immense power: conjuring fire and wind, summoning thunder and lightning, swallowing the sun and plucking stars, suppressing demons and imprisoning gods. These are Divine Ability Bones. Those born with such bones are called... Divine Ability Users. 2.7MReads9.5Score379k14d adds
- 175 After the Immortal Venerable Was Publicly Jilted, She Became the Emperor’s Wife 仙尊被当众退婚后，成了帝尊夫人 Powerful Master of the Six Realms VS Beautiful, Cold Immortal Venerable 1: Su Wenqing was unlucky. He had just sealed the Demon Venerable and lost all his cultivation when his fiance publicly broke off their engagement. Su Wenqing was glad to be rid of the fuss. No one knew that beneath his cold heart, he had a cherished corner where, for thirty years, he had used his heart's blood and all his spiritual power to nourish a fragment of a soul. Then, on the very day his engagement was broken off, t 8.5kReads9.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 176 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun 二哈和他的白猫师尊 [The audiobook adaptation of the same name, starring Gu Jiangshan and Sanshi, is complete. Tune in and give it a listen!] Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning's disciple had been a mistake. His master was far too much like a cat, while he was like a silly dog wagging its tail and fawning over him. Dogs and cats can't reproduce together, and the silly dog hadn't wanted to reach out his fluffy paws toward that cat in the first place. He'd always thought dogs should be with dogs, like his senior bro 100.9kReads9.7Score19.5k14d adds
- 177 Twin God-Tier Martial Souls, Shocking the Demon Emperor's Wife! 双生神级武魂，震惊妖帝老婆！ [Multiple heroines + shocking, passionate action + fairies and demons with unexpected sides + hilarious, outrageous “filial sons”] The thrills never stop after he leaves the mountains, and neither do the schemes. Luo Fanchen, a legendary heartbreaker and “playboy,” transmigrates and is dragged back to a village by his demoness wife from the very start. He awakens two heaven-defying, mysterious martial souls, encounters fairies and demonesses, and pulls one outrageous stunt after another… In this 225.8kReads9.5Score18.5k14d adds
- 178 The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世，我囤积了百亿物资 Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war 359.7kReads8.7Score17.9k14d adds
- 179 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
- 180 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
- 181 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
- 182 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
