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- 1 I Transmigrated into a System and Raised an Invincible Host 穿越成系统，培养无敌宿主 Ye Qiu, a billionaire playboy, accidentally transmigrates into a System and begins raising Hosts. To make them invincible as quickly as possible, he has no choice but to activate all kinds of cheats. Ye Qiu: Hurry up and become invincible. I’m ready to slack off. I’m no good at writing blurbs, so please head to the main story! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Became Someone Else's System 我成了别人的系统 Ling Yu had always wondered: were the Systems in novels really that noble? They asked for nothing in return and devoted themselves to raising their Hosts, helping them reach the pinnacle of life. Were they really that good? Everything happens for a reason. After enduring twenty years of hunger, Ling Yu was revived at the very moment before his death, and learned what he really was. He belonged to the System race, a species that fed on Hosts! Hosts were the only thing on Ling Yu's menu. He had to 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reborn as a System 重生的我，变成了系统 Other people are reborn with a System. I was reborn... so how did I become the System myself? After dying suddenly, former game administrator Jiang Feng became a system administrator. He’s in charge of distributing and managing systems for Hosts across different worlds, becoming the man behind the protagonists. [Multiple protagonists and interwoven storylines, a new experiment. Come check it out!] 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 After Binding to the System, I Became the System 绑定系统后，我成了系统 Do you know what it feels like to have a System? She runs a dungeon and comes back with thousands of spirit beasts. The powerful scramble to keep them as pets, and shower her with all kinds of rare treasures every day! When the scumbag and his scheming mistress can’t stand it and come looking for trouble, she casually copies missiles, nuclear bombs, and laser cannons, blasting them straight out of the Ninth Heaven in one go! As long as she has points, she can summon anyone from Qin Shi Huang to 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 5 Avatar System: Roaming the Myriad Worlds 化身系统，漫游诸天万界 Some grow corrupt, while others are reborn; Some wail in despair, while others cheer; Lin Wu becomes a System and embarks on a different kind of System journey, helping others across the Myriad Worlds. Xianxia: Reaching the Summit, Shop System (Complete) Xianxia: Betrayed by a Junior Brother, Face-Slapping System (Complete) Xianxia: The Song Family's Funeral Offering, Q&A System (Complete) Western Fantasy: Will of the Wilderness, Prophetic Rebirth (Ongoing) Urban Fantasy: Esper Experiment, Smart 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 How Did I End Up Becoming a System? 我怎么就变成了系统 I woke up as a System and felt my way forward step by step. After screwing over ninety-nine Hosts, I finally got my hundredth. But then I received a notice: if I failed again, I would be destroyed. Only then did the protagonist start taking the job of being a System seriously, gradually uncovering the secrets of the entire World Tree and the conspiracy behind its administrator. Why were the millions of worlds on the World Tree created? Is the System regime righteous or evil? Why did the rebels d 259Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Those Years I Spent as a System in the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界，我当系统的那些年 Usually, a troublemaking System forcibly binds itself to a Host. Chen Ming, however, turns the tables: after breaking the System, he takes its place. Wait... this System can travel between worlds? In a modern-day revenge showdown, every detail counts as he crushes the Chosen One. Why should a villain explain himself? I want to slack off, but I also want to prove that the old and poor can still rise. Luckily, I have System Dad! Wait, what the heck is the Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent Syst 54Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 8 Incarnated as a System, I'll Be the Biggest Bug in All the Heavens 化身系统，我将是诸天最大BUG The Myriad Worlds, an infinite-flow story (more or less), no female lead (the one true protagonist really is male), and a System. Volume One: Ruthless Martial Artist; Volume Two: Infinite Martial Souls; Volume Three: Playing at Ghosts and Gods; Volume Four: Armored Warriors; Volume Five: The Immortal Emperor Returns to Crush Zombies; Volume Six: Beast-Taming Champion. The first four volumes aren't very good, since the author was still a novice. New readers can skip straight to Volume Five. Just 69Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 9 From the Start, I Became a God-Tier Villain System 开局，我成了神级反派系统 Chen Ye is arguing online with a struggling author late at night when a shooting star hits him. To his surprise, he becomes the [God-Tier Villain System], binding itself to villains across countless worlds and taking down protagonists favored by fate. Dragon King Live-In Son-in-Law World: What? You're the heir to the most powerful family in the Dragon Kingdom, yet you turn down a fiancée from a family of equal standing and fawn over an arrogant female CEO instead? Tycoon System World: A food 175Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 10 After I Became a System 当我化身系统以后 System + no female lead + quick transmigration + righteous protagonist The author writes with a perfectly straight face, but the readers insist this book is a comedy. There’s not much the author can do about that! I’m a hired Origin Harvester. There are plenty of harvesters like me. We transmigrate through the Myriad Worlds with just one mission: harvest origins. We all share a common title: System! “I’m a perfectly respectable System, so why does every Host I bind to end up becoming so disreput 224Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 11 After Making the System Furious, I Became the System of All Worlds? 气炸系统后，我成了诸天系统？ Ye Qiu drove the System so mad that he became a System himself. He thought traveling through the myriad worlds would let him take off at once. Instead, every day he has to try everything he can just to stay alive. 80Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 12 Villain: The System Has Taken Turns Picking Hosts, and This Year It's My Family's Turn 反派：系统轮流做，今年到我家 [Villain] [The Protagonist Is the System] [The Myriad Worlds] [No Female Lead] [Partly Behind the Scenes] Chen Zhou, a failed author, dies of anger while reading book reviews. In a daze, he becomes Villain System 95666, and before he can figure out what's going on, he's thrown into a mission. Villain System 95666? That name won't do. It's not imposing enough. When you're out in the world, you choose your own name. In an instant, Chen Zhou renames himself Heaven's Chosen Villain System and sets 578Reads7.0Score108Shelves
- 13 After Becoming a System, I Turned My Host into a Wage Slave 化身系统后，我让宿主沦为打工人 [Comedy + Absurdity + Wild Imagination + the Myriad Worlds] One day, Li Xingchen becomes a garbage-recycling System. Armed with the previous System's pile of junk, he sets out to trick Hosts into working for him... He transforms into a super-cheat System. Li Xingchen: Host, just charge up my item and you'll become an invincible man! Host: Then why is charging it so expensive?! He transforms into a domineering CEO System. Li Xingchen: Host, use an electric scooter, a Polaroid camera, and a pa 120Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 14 I Blew Up the System 我把系统给爆了 Unwilling to be bound by a scummy System, Lin Feng blows it up and becomes a scummy System himself. I roam the Myriad Worlds, devouring origins and remaining evergreen throughout the ages. I become an Escape System, helping supporting characters beat the daylights out of the protagonists. I become a Great Villain System, and grow stronger while keeping my head down in the kitchen. I become a Hostage System, and turn into a ray of light for the world. 36Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 15 The System Arrived Ten Years Late, So I Turned Around and Ate It 系统迟到十年，我反手吃了系统 [City Life + Comedy + Wild Imagination + Replacing the System + Onion] The System showed up ten years late. What would you do in his shoes? Jiang Fan had no idea what anyone else would do, but he promptly ate the System. It was crunchy. And so he became a System, drawing the attention of the world's Origin Heavenly Dao. Broke? System funds? No, wait. Change my balance to MAX! Want some skills? X-ray vision, a God of War aura, the Chosen One's luck, master-level bedroom skills: give me the whole 39Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 16 I Became a System, the Big Boss Behind the Scenes 成了系统，我是幕后大老板 [The Myriad Worlds + The Protagonist Is a System (And a Person) + Lighthearted Comedy + One Heroine + Serving as Heaven’s Will + Behind the Scenes] A lousy System possessed him. Then it took control of his body and made him crash into a King… In the hospital operating room, Yan Cheng cursed out the lousy System, making it so angry that it tried to forcibly bind him. Then Heaven’s Will ganked it. And so! Yan Cheng became a System. He roams the Myriad Worlds, relying on his “worker” Hosts to plund 226Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 17 Invincible Across the Worlds, Starting by Becoming a System 无敌万界，从成为系统开始 [Feel-good power fantasy + comedy + unconventional twists + the Myriad Worlds] Every successful novel draws on the world origin of its plane to create a parallel world. The Systems in novels aren't made up, either. They truly exist in those parallel worlds. After reading 99,999 novels about Systems, Lin Nian caught the attention of the plane's will. He absorbed a blank System and became a System himself! Is the plane's will really going to fleece him? No! His path to invincibility has only just 7Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 18 From the Start, I Became the System's Big Shot 开局我成了系统大佬 [System + Clones + Infinite Worlds + Transmigration + Mastermind] In a modern urban rebirth novel, Zhong Li became a life-for-points System and helped the reborn protagonist discover the joy of learning. In a world of psychic powers, he became the God of All Cats, revered by everyone. In the Firmament Plane, he raised an unmatched female emperor! In the Journey to the West Plane, he became Brother Li, the one Wukong thought of constantly! Traveling through the Myriad Worlds, Zhong Li became 150Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 19 From the Start, I Enrage Myself into Becoming a System 开局气炸自己，化身系统 As a self-proclaimed full-time hack author, Li Hao couldn't stomach his readers' abuse. After trading insults with the only few readers he had for three days and nights, he worked himself into a rage, his resentment soaring. In the end, the Great Dao intervened, turning him into a System so he could experience the worlds of various web novels. P.S. The author is trying out a new kind of novel. The story takes place across many worlds, and the writing style changes from one world to the next. Som 1.1kReads8.8Score—Shelves
- 20 Xuanhuan: I'm the Protagonist's Golden Finger 玄幻：我是主角的金手指 Chen Tianxiu transmigrated to a fantasy world and awakened a golden finger System that let him serve as the golden finger for people destined for greatness. As long as they bonded with a golden finger he had created, all their opportunities and cultivation would be shared with him. So he became the old man in a ring, the spirit of a divine weapon, all kinds of Systems, a sage's soul, and even the Supreme God! From then on, the whole world became a source of experience for him, and he could ascen 1.3kReads8.7Score107Shelves
- 21 Commanding the Heavens: I Help My Host Live in Luxury 掌缘诸天：我带宿主吃香喝辣 [Absurd comedy + anti-trope + the protagonist is a System + the Myriad Worlds] Chu Shuang transmigrates into a crippled System on the brink of death, desperately short on energy. To earn the source energy he needs to repair himself, Chu Shuang starts taking on the role of all kinds of bizarre Systems. A world invaded by the mysterious: A professional yo-yo player binds to the Firepower Ghost-Hunting King System, spinning his yo-yo to summon spirits that beat the mysterious entities to a pulp. A 1.7kReads8.9Score198Shelves
- 22 Xuanhuan: I Have a Million Systems, So I'm Invincible 玄幻：拥有百万系统的我无敌了 My name is Bai Xiaozhen, and I have a million Systems! Activate the [Automatic Sect System], and there's no need to worry about any sect business. The sect runs itself. Activate the [Automatic Cultivation System], and you'll never have to worry about cultivation again. Techniques train themselves, and your cultivation rises automatically. Activate the [Alchemy System], and you can effortlessly refine perfect-grade pills and immortal elixirs! Activate... {I'm no good at writing blurbs. Please rea 416Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 23 Forced to Become a System, I Became the Male Lead’s White Moonlight 被迫成为系统后我成了男主白月光 [Transmigrate into a book + System + obsessive madman] After Lin Wenze died, he somehow became a System. Taking the attitude that he might as well make the best of things, he casually bound himself to a timid little Host. He: “Kill someone to save the male lead.” The timid little Host: “No, I'm scared!” He: “Give the male lead a little punishment.” The timid little Host: “No! I'm scared!” He: “Go with the male lead to the secret realm and get his golden finger.” The timid little Host: “No! I'm s 434Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 24 Starting with Chaos Energy, I’ll Flatten the Three Thousand Great Worlds 从混沌能量起步，踏平三千大世界 Li Ji Nian transmigrates into a feeble Heavenly Dao with barely any source energy. He becomes a “heartless capitalist” and recruits fellow transmigrators as his workhorses. While setting them up with Systems and golden fingers, he ruthlessly squeezes them, constantly urging them to harvest spiritual energy from other Heavenly Dao worlds in his place. (Ensemble cast + the Myriad Worlds + behind-the-scenes scheming + Heavenly Dao + System + golden fingers + hilarious misunderstandings + slow pac 1.5kReads6.3Score—Shelves
- 25 Myriad Worlds: I Became a System, and Now I Have to Take the College Entrance Exam? 诸天：我成了系统，还得高考？ I'm Ye Ming, and my transmigration was a little abrupt. How can someone transmigrating into a System steal another System's body? Before I could even figure out what was going on, I was sent into the myriad worlds. What the heck? The System has to take the college entrance exam too?? The System's favorite hosts are people from Earth, the source world? Ahem, ahem. This System is from Earth, the source world. I know this routine! [A silly, comedic story with characters who are completely out of ch 4.4kReads9.2Score297Shelves
- 26 I'm the Strongest Wish-Granting Machine, with Zero Bad Reviews So Far 我是最强许愿机至今0差评 [Big villain + quick transmigration + no female lead + a little dark-heartedness + no saintly heroine + explosive action + satisfying revenge] Hao Ren was born as a product with nothing going for it. A crippled System, it was casually thrown away. It roams the Myriad Worlds, rising from weakness to become the strongest. “Cut the crap, System. I'm being chased right now. Get me a gun!” “On it!” Zhang Lin stared speechlessly at the red-tasseled spear in his hands, then stopped running. “I'll fight 288Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 27 Transmigrating Across the Heavens, Creating a System World 穿越诸天，创建系统世界 “You’re a useless bum with no car, no house, and no money. I must have been blind to stay with you this long! Hurry up and divorce me!” “Ding! Host’s state of mind has risen after the divorce, opening a new chapter in life! Bind the Myriad Worlds Cultivation System?” “Bind!” A fresh start! 1.7kReads6.0Score116Shelves
- 28 I Hand Out Systems from Behind the Scenes 我在幕后发系统 [Behind-the-scenes] [Infinite Flow] [System] Lin Hang is forced to merge with most of Earth’s authority as its planetary will. Together with the planetary will, Blue Star, he develops countless planes and guides civilization toward advancement. Historical worlds, anime worlds, game worlds, war-torn worlds... As the one pulling the strings from behind the scenes, he grants Systems to those onstage and uses them to control the entire situation remotely. “We’ll stay behind the scenes. There’s no ne 2.5kReads9.1Score156Shelves
- 29 I Only Plundered a Few Systems, So Why Are You All Panicking? 我就掠夺些系统，你们都慌啥？ Also known as From the Start, I Become a System and Plunder the Myriad Worlds and Host, Wait! You Dropped Your Cheat on the Ground. The three principles of the System: 1. The total amount of the Myriad Worlds' source remains unchanged. Ascension is the System's only rule. 2. Systems are drawn to and compete with one another, and their purpose is to plunder. Any show of kindness will turn you into someone else's source. 3. The Myriad Worlds are a dark forest. Keep yourself hidden, and don't let y 14.2kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
- 30 It's My Fault for Being Too Strong: I Scared the System Out of Its Wits from the Start 怪我太强，开局吓蹦了系统 The System submits to me and becomes my slave from the start? It gets so scared that it destroys its own intelligence program? I cause a sensation across the Nine Heavens the moment I’m born? “On my first contact with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, I awakened the supreme Innate Great Dao Physique, which can fuse countless Great Daos!” “On my first breath, I awakened the innate ability ‘Devour Heaven and Earth,’ which can consume the energy of all things in the world and make it my o 11.6kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves
- 31 The System Exploded, and I Became the System 系统炸了，我成了系统 What's it like to be a System? After Ye Tian angered the System that coveted him, he became a System himself. He travels through the Myriad Worlds, stealing the essence of each world. He transforms into the “Great Villain System,” helping villains beat the living daylights out of protagonists. In a world where men are inferior to women, I become the “Great Man System,” giving my Host a little extra charm every day and attracting the empress's attention. He evolves into a Creator System, and the 14.3kReads9.4Score1.1kShelves
