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- 1 Transmigrate into a Book: The Cannon-Fodder Girl Defies Fate 穿书八零：女炮灰逆天改命 [A school queen bee transmigrates into a book set in the 1980s. At first, she outsmarts the scheming green tea, awakens the male lead, wins over the second male lead, and reforms her mother-in-law. Later, she dives into business, brings the underworld to heel, and thrives in both the legal and illegal worlds, making her mark on the era.] [More than a story about transmigrating into a book and changing one's fate, this is a story of a woman's growth. Watch our strong female lead take the 1980s by 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Ghost Bride 阴鬼新娘 Zhang Fan's birth killed his mother, and strange supernatural incidents plagued the village one after another. From then on, he was considered cursed. With no other choice, his grandfather arranged a ghost marriage for him, hoping it would protect him and free him from his fate. But things did not go as planned. It wasn't until an old Taoist priest appeared that Zhang Fan began his journey to subdue demons and exorcise evil. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 What! My Doomsday Partner Is a Top-Tier Star! 什么！末世搭子是顶流偶像！ [Apocalypse stockpiling + smart, capable female lead + S-rank storage space + aloof yet warmhearted, adorable top-tier star idol] A dual narrative: power shifts in the apocalypse, as an obscure, struggling web novelist wins over an aloof yet warmhearted, adorable top-tier idol, while ordinary people face difficult choices and the dark side of a country run by its institutions. I put my heart into every line, my loves! Before the zombie virus breaks out, struggling author Qin Jiang is chosen by t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Spirit Mediums Beyond the Pass: Making a New World in the Internet Age 关内出马：互联网时代闯出新天地 The Hu and Huang spirits never cross Shanhai Pass, but I'm a spirit medium for the new era, and I'm going to venture out! So I crossed Shanhai Pass, stepped into the world of the internet, and entered a world unlike any other... A brave spirit medium fears no hardship! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Northeast Dragon and Phoenix Hall: This Spirit Medium Is a Little Unhinged 东北龙凤堂，这个弟马有点癫 The Ma family of the Northeast practices an occupation steeped in mystery. I've been at it from the age of fifteen to twenty-five: ten years honing my craft, though I haven't exactly honed it quickly. This book will be updated as things happen, and I'll share some of my experiences from these years. Discussion is welcome. Here's the important part!!! To anyone who wants to hurl insults: you definitely won't win that contest with me. To anyone who disparages the profession: go ahead. Things reall 190Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Strange Tales from Northeast China 东北民间诡异故事 A demolished Changxian Temple, the eerie Little South Mountain, a great fox who came to visit, the person behind the resurrection of paper effigies, a wronged female ghost come to call, a full-term fetus dead in the womb. Tell me, am I the one telling the stories, or am I a character in one? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Horse-Riding Immortal: My Old Immortal Can’t Be Trusted 出马仙之我的老仙不靠谱 I was born with yin-yang eyes, but I refused to become a spirit medium no matter what. Until my grandmother, on her deathbed, forced me to accept the legacy of the Huang family immortals. I thought I could make a fortune with their supernatural powers, but the Huang immortal who showed up turned out to be completely unreliable. “Little girl, want me to read your feng shui? Send me 50 first, and tonight I'll help you steal the neighbor's lucky cat to guard your home.” “Exorcism? Hold on, let me r —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Superpower Rewind: I Dominate the World by Exploiting Weaknesses 异能回溯：我靠破绽碾压全球 In an age when everyone practices high-level martial arts and the weak are like ants, I awaken a lethal regression ability. I can see through the flaws in any technique and endlessly reset the instant of a killing blow, crushing opponents above my level, turning the tide of life-and-death battles, and tearing through the upper echelons' stranglehold. From a good-for-nothing at the bottom, I fight my way to become the world's one and only forbidden Martial Venerable. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Journey to the West: The Kingdom of Women Is the True Western Heaven 西游反骨：女儿国才是真西天 Journey to the West with a Rebel Streak: The Kingdom of Women Is the True Western Heaven —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Dreams and Destiny 梦与命运 What truth lies behind the dream that has come to him every time he has had a fever for the past twenty years? Can someone who has always been by his side truly be trusted with his whole heart? Is he destined to be a mere pawn of fate, or can he truly defy fate and change his life? What is the real world like? No, I don't care. I just want to live an ordinary life. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Rule Horror: Survival Guide to the Criminal Hall of Fame 规则怪谈：犯罪名人堂求生指南 [Rule Horror] + [Mystery and Deduction] + [Infinite-Instance Survival] Newly promoted criminal investigator Huo Chenggang enters a horror game with his consciousness to complete an assignment from his superiors. He must fight his way to survival in a school where every staff member is a real criminal, proving to the world that there is no such thing as a perfect crime. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Day Time Stood Still 时间停摆之日 When blue mycelium spreads from deep underground, the truth behind Earth’s stopped rotation is about to be revealed. A stopped Earth is full of unknown adventures. What else can Lin Dao lose after losing his memories? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Life Among the Pond Flowers Is a Little Sweet 池花生活有点甜 [No cookie-cutter tropes, no saintly protagonists, and neither lead is fickle...] [Love that grows over time, both leads are each other's first and only, one-on-one romance, a slow and steady life, personal growth, healing, and helping each other thrive...] [Farming + everyday family matters + daily life] Chi Hua, who'd been called a jinx ever since she was little, somehow ended up married. Wang Youcai had been conscripted into the army and was gone for years without a word. When he finally ca —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Heart of the Demon Slayer 斩鬼之心 Part One: Sobbing in the Rain Before all this, college student Yang Chen had given up his studies without a second thought after an enthusiastic invitation from a JK girl, joining the so-called ghost-slaying organization, the Xuanwu Sect. Slay ghosts? It sounded pretty exciting. Besides, he'd heard that mysterious organizations like this always made a grand entrance: black clothes, sunglasses, and fancy cars, just like secret agents. He'd always yearned for that. But when a handsome blond guy pu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Legend of Zenonia 泽诺尼亚传奇 Shadows quietly spread across the continent of Zenonia, while a prophecy in the shrine's secret scrolls breaks a thousand years of silence. Having lived for a thousand years, Quwumaru sets foot on this land in search of her destiny and the meaning of existence. As the forces of darkness close in, she and her companions must choose between protecting what they hold dear and venturing forth, between fate and freedom. This journey, woven with supernatural powers, bonds, and self-discovery, will ult —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Give Me Seven Days, and I'll Leave You with Nothing 我只要七天，够让你们一无所有 All I need is seven days to leave you with nothing. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 This Chuma Immortal Is Too Vicious 这个出马仙太凶狠了 My father had never once imagined, even as an adult, that he would have a child. Then one day, I came into the world and shattered that age-old belief for good. The thing is, I was born frail and sickly. It was only thanks to Chang Er Ye taking possession of me that I survived in this world. This is my extraordinary tale of spirit-medium tricks and supernatural dealings... 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Realm’s Boundaries 域界之方圆 The path of cultivation has always defied heaven itself. As for the strange, unknown things encountered by spirit mediums, which science and the naked eye cannot explain, how can they be dismissed in just a few words? I’ve been reading the signs through incense for nine years. Along the way, I’ve tasted every kind of joy and sorrow, experienced the warmth and coldness of human nature, and seen plenty of scheming and rivalry. I’ve read so many stories that I’ve come to disagree with some of them, 33Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 19 Strange Tales of Northeast China's Spirit Mediums 东北出马诡闻录 Ever since I inherited Grandma’s old incense lineage, I’ve encountered far too many supernatural incidents. I don’t just help the living with their problems, I also help the dead and the ghosts... People say ghosts are terrifying, but they’re the ones with true feeling. They repay kindness with kindness and settle grudges in kind. They’re far better than people. Then, as my cultivation grew stronger, I saw the true face of another world, and what I witnessed left me deeply shaken. Do you want to 152Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 20 Secrets of Spirit Mediums: Incense-Bearing Rituals and Journeys Between Worlds 出马秘闻：顶香出马，走阴串阳 Cultivating immortality requires a destined connection to the Immortal Path, and every immortal has a master to recommend them. Masters roam far and wide, and miraculous powers appear when one falls from grace and passes the imperial examinations. Born in the 1990s, I once thought I had a bright future ahead of me. But one strange thing after another began happening, and all my ambitions came to nothing. Then someone pointed out that I was meant to become a spirit medium and serve the spirits. F 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 I Was Forced to Take the Spirit-Channeling Seat Too 我也被迫出堂了 The protagonist, Zhang Muchen, lives in a small county in northern China. His childhood is plagued by one disaster after another. His story isn’t exactly bizarre, but it is full of twists and hardships. After passing through trials of love, wealth, and life itself, he is eventually forced to open a spirit altar and read fortunes. He thought things would go smoothly from then on, but instead he faced one ordeal after another... This book is based on the author’s personal experiences. All names ha 494Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 22 I Livestream Folk Customs and Taboos for the Eerie 我给诡异直播民俗禁忌 [Rule-Based Horror + Folk Mystery + Interactive Livestream + A Battle of Human Nature] I’m Lin Mozhu, a materialist and owner of a funeral-clothing shop. I was livestreaming to sell my wares, but somehow turned my customer group into a gathering place for the dead. Paper figures need their eyes dotted, funeral clothes need spells embroidered on them, and the viewers’ comments are full of bizarre requests. Forced to keep the business going, I discover that my family’s decrepit old shop is actuall —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Eternal Consciousness: I Create a New Universe 意识永生：我开新宇宙 At forty-two, Long Hua refuses to accept humanity’s fate of spending an entire lifetime struggling to survive. He resolves to use technology and consciousness to create a new world free from suffering. From the “Centennial Elixir” that ends famine to the “City of Flying Houses” floating above a sea of clouds; from nanomedicine that reverses death to a consciousness network spanning galaxies, he uses an ordinary human body to propel civilization toward the stars, one step at a time. When he build 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Chasing Killers Through Fading Memories 残忆追凶 In the future, a technology called “memory replay” has been put to use. Special equipment can connect to the residual brain waves of the deceased or people in comas, rendering fragments of their final 72 hours of memories visible for criminal investigations, medical care, or the pursuit of their last wishes. But the technology has strict limitations: memories are subjective and may be distorted, users’ mental health can be affected, and the law strictly prohibits its use on living, conscious peo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 No. 4 Red Moon Street 赤月街四号 "Welcome to Red Moon Street." "Names and surnames belong to the past; only the marks of sin remain as a record." "Remember: when you gaze into sin, sin has already begun to shape you." The Red Moon descends, and the Ghost Realm opens. Ten cards containing the power of original sin gather here. They may be a glimmer of light in the darkness, or the keys to unlocking the abyss: Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Envy, Pride, Lust, Wrath, Deceit, Betrayal, and Delusion. Those who wield the cards can use the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Wind Through the Bluestone Lane 风过青石巷 Their love has no grand declarations. Instead, like vines taking root in barren soil, they intertwine and support each other through life’s storms, growing tenaciously toward the sun. This is a story of poverty, responsibility, hard work, and the purest first love. Against a bittersweet backdrop, it paints the hopes and warmth that a young man and woman write with their effort and sincerity. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Autumn Wind Rises, Autumn Wind Falls 秋风起，秋风落 Meng Ranqiu, a bank teller in a small town, runs into Xu Qingfeng, her longtime crush from her youth and a rising bank president. Before she can even begin a secret romance, they both fall into a lake. At the brink of death, she transmigrates into another, 2.0 version of the story. In this one, Ranqiu gets her wish and marries Xu Qingfeng, only to be dealt a crushing blow on their wedding night: Xu Qingfeng is in his ex’s bed. Her obsession carries her into another transmigration. Can she find h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 A Pawn or a Player? 是棋子，还是棋手？ (Superpowers + Cultivation) (The protagonist has no System) (Supporting characters have Systems, golden fingers, and the souls of senior cultivators) Spiritual energy erupts, foreign gods eye the land covetously, and the demon realm descends into chaos. The Homeward Seekers, an army organized by a group of cultivators, begin to fight back. Chinese gods join the battlefield, then ultimately vanish without a trace. All of this seems far too coincidental. Is someone secretly pulling the strings, ar —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Splendor Fills Chang’an 锦色满长安 A distinctive career-focused storyline: Centered on “intangible cultural heritage Shu brocade,” it combines traditional craftsmanship with women’s entrepreneurship, offering the appeal of traditional culture while resonating with women who want to “make money on their own.” Appealing across age groups: The romance is sweet with no angst, and the male lead steadfastly protects his wife. The household and business rivalries aren’t complicated, as the heroine easily outmaneuvers her opponents with —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 996 in the Underworld Is Killing the Dead 阴间996害死鬼 Unemployed young man Chen Sanxian sets up a stall selling fakes at an antique night market. He hopes to get rich off a “spittoon just like Emperor Qianlong's,” but a family heirloom blood jade brings him under the spell of Zhu Hongling, a female ghost from the Republic of China era. Forced to sign a “ghost contract,” he becomes a worker between the worlds of yin and yang. His phone can check his merit points, his street stall becomes an underworld delivery station, and even the paper money burne —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Save the New World? Piece of Cake! 拯救新世界？不在话下！ Welcome to the [New World] Dear [Player] Come and embrace a new [Life] Face new [Games] Take part in cruelty and slaughter! Countless dead servants are waiting for you In this place that belongs to you alone: the “Land of Decisions” You’ll live a very good life here. I’ll take good care of your dear parents. Oh, your friends? I’ll make you forget them. As for you, take the [Crime] and run! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 A Possessive Man Chased Me from My Past Life into This One 偏执男人从前世追我到了今生 A possessive man pursued me from a past life into this one 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Twin Silver Mirrors: Two Very Different Teachers Save Each Other 银镜双生，两个反差女教师的双向救赎。 Twin souls reflected in a silver mirror: two teachers with contrasting personalities save each other. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Echoing Empty Courtyard: Between What Exists and What Does Not, You Must Choose 空响间庭，在那不存在与存在间，你要做出选择。 In the hollow, echoing courtyard, between existence and nonexistence, you must make a choice. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Northeastern Strange Tales: The Fox Immortal Helps Me Solve a Rural Mystery 东北奇谭：黄大仙助我破局乡村谜案 Northeastern Strange Tales: How the Yellow Immortal Helped Me Solve a Rural Mystery —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Quick Transmigration: A Plain Girl’s Quest to Win His Heart 快穿：女屌丝追夫记 [Sweet romance + alternate setting + 1v1] Yan Yan graduated from a third-rate vocational college. She's been in love with her boss, Murong Di, since she started her internship five years ago. To create chances for a chance encounter, she waits by the elevator, outside the office, in the café... Her friend Ye Rou tells her to stop being foolish. They're from different worlds, so she should find a boyfriend and get married! Yan Yan has never believed in fate. Whatever happens, she might as well tr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 After Leaving the Industry, I Became a Hit in Entertainment with Metaphysics 退圈后，我靠玄学爆红娱乐圈 Strong heroine’s comeback · Xuanxue face-slapping · Celebrity-world battle royale · Supernatural suspense · Two powerful leads saving the world Synopsis: “Jiang Li transmigrates into a scandal-ridden pretty face and is shoved by her manager onto a haunted-house reality show to cash in on the hype. When a female ghost appears in the middle of the night on the livestream, she calmly pulls out her Judge’s Brush: ‘Underworld KPI +1.’ Viewers: ‘That script is so fake! I’ll believe it if you can take 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Chronicles of the Void Realm 墟界衔尾录 The sensation of weightlessness was the last thing Lu Chen felt before losing consciousness. The agony of his body slamming into the ground did not last long before a bone-deep chill swallowed it, as if he had plunged into an icy pit in the dead of winter. Even the feeling in his fingertips slowly slipped away. He could clearly hear his faint heartbeat, every throb accompanied by a tearing, dull ache. His vision was blurred with blood, and in his ears lingered a deliberately hushed sneer and th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 A Practical Guide to Spirit Mediumship 出马仙实务手札 Dongshan, a former journalist, stumbles by chance into the fantastical world of Northeast China's chuma xian spirit mediums. Is it fate playing a trick, or destiny bringing things together? With an objective pen, he records strange and uncanny events as they really happen. Guaranteed to be true, this is a practical guide to understanding a parallel world. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 I Met a Northeastern Immortal in Hebei 在河北遇到东北仙 Because of his unusual fate, Zhang Yang kept running into all kinds of strange things before he turned eighteen. As a child, he helped his mother work in the fields. Whenever she set him down by the ridge, a white shadow would circle around him. On his way home from evening study at primary school, he once ran into an acquaintance who had died earlier that afternoon. When he was twelve, he made a bunch of wild guesses while telling someone's fortune, and every single one came true. Thinking he m 73Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 41 My Secret Crush Hides in the Moonlight 月光藏着我的暗恋 [A school-years secret-crush story] [A reserved, adorable top student × a gentle, shy girl who struggles with her studies] Love rises with the wind, but when the wind dies down, the longing remains!! Did he ever like her? If she had been a little braver, would he have liked her? The young girl’s feelings stay hidden between the pages of her textbooks. That unspoken crush becomes an unforgettable memory of my life!!! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 My Immortal House’s Male Pet 我的仙家男宠 A celestial bond spanning three hundred years, and a redemption that reverses the balance of yin and yang. Yuyao, a high school senior, has been tormented since childhood by strange dreams: a ruined celestial shrine, five imprisoned immortals, and a silver-armored general who always protects her in moments of danger. She thought they were just stress-induced hallucinations. But after her grandmother dies, she inherits a notebook and a key, and learns that she is a fated “spirit medium,” destine 5Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 43 Transmigrating as Ni Mantian: Defying Fate 穿越成霓漫天：逆天改命 After a long day at work, Su Jin wakes up to find she has transmigrated into the doomed villainess Ni Mantian, heiress of Penglai, in the xianxia drama The Journey of Flower. Faced with a tragic fate she already knows, Su Jin’s survival plan is simple: stay away from the storm at the center, Hua Qiangu! Avoid the cold, nuclear-bomb-like Bai Zihua! Keep a low profile, work hard at cultivating immortality, and quietly use her modern mindset and foreknowledge to change the plot. Her goal is to make 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Immortal Path of the Heavenly Dragon 天龙仙途 In 3078, during a photon-collider experiment on Earth, a photon particle escaped and carried an AI through time and space to a cultivation kingdom. It entered the body of the fifth young master of the Spirit Taming Sect, constantly absorbing the spiritual energy he cultivated and leaving him branded a good-for-nothing. But as it continued to recharge, the AI eventually rebooted. From then on, it helped the fifth young master embark on a path to greatness, level up, and defeat demons and monsters 102Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 45 The Secret of Origins 原秘 [No brainless decisions] [No System] [No harem] [Fast-paced] [Soul transmigration] [Transmigration] Cheng Hao transmigrated to the Tianyuan Continent by accident. He thought he would be just like the other transmigrators, blessed with a golden finger and able to breeze through life. But with a useless body and no golden finger to help him, all he could do was give up and coast along. Then fate intervened, and an accident dragged him into the world of cultivation once more. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Book of a Hundred Immortals: My Backer Is the Top Immortal in the Realm 百仙谱：我的靠山是仙界榜首 [Female-lead growth + First work about a cultivator] The Horse-Welcoming Immortal (A Biographical Collection of Shamanic Figures) · Supernatural and Folk Events “My own mother sent me off to be sacrificed. That vicious woman really went too far!” “He was the last drop of honey in my parched heart.” “As long as I can be with my godfather, I don’t care where we go.” “I crave the warmth of my godfather. He promised me forever…” “All the sweetness of the past has become a bone-scraping blade, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 All Paths Return to the Source: Defying the Way to Reopen the Eternal Heavens 万道归源：逆道重开万古天 A passenger plane strays into a spatial rift over the Bermuda Triangle. Ling Yuan and his girlfriend plunge into the Cultivation Prison, the Sealed Origin Realm. At the spirit-testing jade tablet, his girlfriend awakens a top-grade fire Dao seed and abandons him for the path to immortality, leaving him with only one parting line: immortals and mortals belong to different worlds. Though Ling Yuan is a powerless mortal with no Dao seed, he uses the jade pendant his parents left him to awaken its —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Unlocking the Bad Ending 开放坏结局 [Western fantasy mystery + official BL pairing + political content] Young Victor returns to his parents’ hometown to finish high school. At an accidental gathering, he hears that the cause of his father’s death remains a mystery. He and a large group of friends set out to uncover the truth, but they never expect to dig up an even bigger secret... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Romance Is All the Rage in the Immortal World, but I'll Restore the Immortal Order 只谈恋爱仙风日下，看我重振仙纲 The Heavenly Court's immortal spirit is in decline, with the gods all slacking off and dating. The peaches in the Peach Garden rot because no one harvests them, the Matchmaker knits with red threads as if they were wool, and the Thunder God and Lightning Goddess kiss before they make thunder. Wishes from the mortal world pile up like mountains. The Jade Emperor slams the table and roars, “What kind of conduct is this!” He appoints Du Yanqing as the new director of the Discipline Committee, taski —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Reborn Heiress Can't Bear It Anymore 重生千金她不忍了 [One-on-one, devoted romance, revenge, a hero who adores her, and a heroine who grows] In her previous life, Jiang Yu returned to the capital to await her wedding, thinking she could afford to give a little. But one day, while flying a kite, she accidentally fell into the water and was rescued by a young master of the Lin family. Under pressure from public opinion and her family, she married him... After the wedding, the Lin family showed their true colors. They caused her to miscarry, harmed he 1Reads—Score—14d adds
