Novels like Drunk on a Golden Age
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- 151 My Pixel Game Became Reality, but I’m Number One on the Most Wanted List 像素游戏成真了，但我是通缉榜一 [Ensemble Cast] [Game Invasion] [Group Transmigration] [No CP] Yang Yixie has recently become obsessed with a pixel game called Wasteland Era. As a mechanic, he lives by one creed: If an RPG can't solve the problem, add another round of machine-gun fire. And so he became hooked on using the art of explosions to write his personal manifesto across the pixelated wasteland, having the time of his life without a care in the world. At the same time, the news reported tearful accounts from other playe 37.1kReads9.1Score4.8kShelves
- 152 The Jade Wave Immortal Lake 碧波仙湖 The Emerald Lake of Immortals 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 The Legend of Shushan 蜀山传说 The Legend of Shu Mountain 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Starting in Shuangqi Town, I’ll Slay My Way Through the Heavens 从双旗镇开始，刀斩诸天 [The Outcast crossover] [Wuxia] [Late Qing Dynasty] [Guanzhong blade-for-hire] [National and family vendettas] Screen works featured so far: The Outcast, The Swordsman in Double Flag Town, The Blade, A Touch of Zen, The Grandmaster, Fist of Legend, the Huo Yuanjia series, House of Flying Daggers, The Gold Robbers, the Huang Feihong series... I have two blades. One is called Hero. The other is called Spare My Life. Hero isn't heroic. And Spare My Life won't spare anyone. I'm a Guanzhon 45.6kReads9.0Score4.5kShelves
- 155 Reborn from the Weakest Esper to the Mist's Overlord 重生后从最弱异能者成为迷雾主宰 [Reborn] + [Comeback] + [Wild Imagination] + [No Female Lead] + [Good-for-Nothing Comeback] Chen Chen, the weakest ability user at Northeast Academy, was abandoned by his teammates on the Eastern Front. After the Poppy devoured his body, he fought with all his might and escaped to the Gate of Mist, the boundary between the mist and reality. As his consciousness faded, the God of Time reset the continent's timeline. Because Chen Chen was at the boundary between the mist and reality, he was rebor 2.5kReads9.1Score351Shelves
- 156 The Calamity Canticle 灾厄乐章 [Musician + Summons + Mysterious Organization + Villain + No CP + Fun-Seeker] Perhaps, in some corner unknown to you, mysterious rituals are underway. Strange life forms secretly covet the flesh and blood of the living. The colossal entity that maintains order lurks beneath the surface of society. A bloated, foolish god's child rots and stinks in an underground palace. The giant king in the flames silently blesses his people. A fantastically colored giant shark swims through the deep sea. A skel 9kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 157 Wind and Rain in Huayan 华炎风雨 Huayan Through Wind and Rain 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 Sequel to the Carefree Tale of Yunhua in Jiuzhou 九州云华逍遥记续 A Continuation of the Carefree Chronicles of Yunhua in the Nine Provinces 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation: Immortals Like Abysses, the Dao Dust 万世轮回：仙如渊，道为尘 Chen Yan has died countless times. Every time he breathes his last, he is reborn on some day in his long life, bringing his cultivation with him. His cultivation stacks, and so do his memories. But reincarnation is no salvation. Instead, it drives him into an even deeper despair. “Senior Brother, what lies at the end of the Immortal Dao?” Chen Yan has lost count of how many times he has answered this question, and he has never given the same answer twice: “It is a prison, an abyss of reincarnati 66.7kReads8.7Score3.6kShelves
- 160 The Strange Events of Yunjing 云京诡异事件 Strange Incidents in Yunjing 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Spending Money Doesn't Work? I'll Get Them Through the Long March With My Life 氪金没用？我用命带他们走完长征 “Guys, whatever you do, don’t trust that designer named Luo An! He’s a fraud!” Kuang Ge, a top streamer with tens of millions of followers, is bawling in his livestream like a three-hundred-pound toddler, clutching his VR headset and refusing to let go. “He said it was a relaxing travel game, but from the start he dumped me on a snowy mountain in forty-below temperatures!” “He said there’d be no pay-to-win or in-app purchases, but I had to risk my life just to get a cold, hard black bun!” “He sa 119.4kReads9.5Score15.2kShelves
- 162 Humanity’s Invasion Begins, and the Racial Trials Are Underway 全民入侵，种族试炼开启 An invincible body makes anything possible! Today, as I continued down the road of getting beaten up, I once again managed to make it through another day... A hundred years ago, a cataclysmic change struck the star sector! A higher civilization appeared in this galaxy, and trial stages emerged from thin air. Everyone could participate. By using a Star Key, they could be matched with and enter trial planets, searching, exploring, and killing, using every possible means to constantly improve thems 218.5kReads8.4Score19.5kShelves
- 163 The Sword Dynasty 剑朝 The Martial World Continent stretches without end. Four supreme races dwell here. Humanity battles the gods with magic, fights demons hand to hand, and clashes with immortals. Blood dyes the heavens, yet they fear nothing. A reborn young man rises from the endless mountains, carving a path through every obstacle as he climbs step by step to the summit. With nothing but the three-foot sword in his hand, his sharp edge can reac 20.2kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 164 Alas, Immortal 嗟仙 [The human side of cultivation, ensemble cast, no golden finger] Now that order has been established in the cultivation world, fighting and killing are no longer the norm. What matters more is navigating human relationships. Zhu Xiaosuo rises from an ordinary mortal to an immortal, one step at a time, in the name of “saving face.” 31.1kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
- 165 I Am the Concept God! I Suppress Eternal Wonders! 我！概念神！镇压万古奇迹！ [Miracles Awaken]+ [High-Energy Action]+ [Sequence Containment]+ [Superpower Academy]+ [Plot-Focused]+ [Character Growth]+ [Slow Burn] Fifty years ago, people discovered a colossal angel statue on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Its face was twisted in a fierce grimace, and it stood guard over a massive bronze gate behind it. Seven days later, the angel vanished without a trace, and the bronze gate was opened. From that moment on, the world entered the “Age of Miracles,” when spiritual qi reviv 35.1kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
- 166 Hua Yan: Storm and Strife 2 华炎风雨2 Hua Yan: Storms and Strife 2 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Hehe! Didn't See That Coming! My Companion Is Every Kind of Weapon 哎嘿！没想到吧！我伴生是全武器 [Complete! Enjoy with confidence!] [No CP, but feel free to ship whoever you like!] [Lots of slice-of-life] [Aimed more at female readers] [Lots of catlike character portrayal] [Important: The male lead will gradually grow up. He's just a little kid at the beginning, and his development is a bit delayed because he's a picky eater. (╬•̀皿•́)] Twelve-year-old Ning Yizhou is the most bizarre psychic power awakener in the entire galaxy. While everyone else awakens a bonded weapon at sixteen, he awak 6.3kReads9.3Score916Shelves
- 168 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 魔龙与点苍 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 317.9kReads8.8Score35.3kShelves
- 170 Legends of Wind and Rain in the Nine Provinces 九州云华风雨传说 Legends of Wind and Rain in the Cloud-Kissed Lands of the Nine Provinces 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 In Search of Fate in the Weiwei Realm 寻命维维界 The protagonist, Liu Zhongyi, transmigrates to the world of Weiwei, where two great guardian gods descend from the heavens and identify him as the chosen one… In this world, cultivating immortality is forbidden. He must find five beautiful women, each associated with one of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and gain supernatural powers in order to save the world of Weiwei… This is a lighthearted comedy, full of foreshadowing, gripping twists, and constant surprises. Join 667Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 172 First Rate! 第一流！ [No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De 39.7kReads8.5Score3.5kShelves
- 173 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 If I’d Known, You Needn’t Have Made Me Transmigrate 早知如此，大可不必让我穿越 [System runs in the background, ordinary-person cultivation, not a wish-fulfillment story, tactical spell battles, starting from scratch] Tang Zhen was among the luckiest transmigrators out there. In the eighteenth year after his transmigration, thanks to a spell-copying System with simple mechanics but ridiculously powerful functions, he became the leader of the greatest generation of prodigies in a thousand years of cultivation. The pillars of the righteous sects looked after him with great ca 23.5kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 175 Reborn in 1990: From Having a Baby to Making My Way in the World 重生九零，从生娃开始闯荡江湖 [No goody-two-shoes] [Period] [Underworld] [Passionate] [Decisive and ruthless] [Multiple heroines + wish fulfillment] Xu Lin is reborn in the 1990s and activates the More Children, More Blessings System. 11.2kReads6.9Score822Shelves
- 176 EN The Wei Clan's Cursed Son Becomes Grand Secretary—Now They Beg Me to Return 魏家孽种成首辅，全族跪求我认祖 (Also known as The Wei Fox) [Political Schemes][One Female Lead][Ensemble Cast][The Wei Faction] Condemned from birth, I was given the name Niesheng. On the day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and my grandfather mourned before the ancestral hall. The whole household looked at me askance, all calling me a disaster star who had stolen another's fate. My biological father hated me like an enemy, my elder half-brother regarded me as an omen of bad luck, and my stepmother hid a knife behind 647.6kReads9.2Score91kShelves
- 177 The One and Only Origami Talent: I Can Fold Anything 唯一折纸天赋，我能折出一切 (Apocalypse + Transmigration + No Saintly Savior + No Romance + Leveling + Playing It Safe + Superpowers + Gets Even Better Later) Zhuang Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the safest wood-type superpower in the apocalypse. His future career is supposed to be farming in a safe zone. Other people grow potatoes with a soft, fluffy texture. His potatoes are as big as soccer balls and rock-hard. Other people grow crisp, juicy, sweet cabbages. His cabbages reach five feet tall and are r 27.2kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 178 A Carefree Tale of Yunhua in Jiuzhou 九州云华逍遥记 Ye Yi and Ling Ziyuan cultivate and wander through the mountains and rivers of Yunhua's nine provinces on the Cangyun Continent. The sect's people lend their full support to the Yunhua Dynasty, as heaven and earth together share life across the four seas of Yunhua. 400Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Mastering Both Magic and Mayhem, I Became the Top Student in School 魔法沙雕两手抓，我成了全校第一 [Modern magic academy, no CP, ship whoever you want, all-shippers welcome, absurd comedy + ensemble cast + coming of age] Luo Jiu transmigrated to a magical world. He thought that after enrolling at Gullis Magic Academy, he could take it easy, lie flat, and live as a happy slacker. But then he ran into a rookie homeroom teacher. Their class didn't have enough students and was nearly disbanded, so Luo Jiu and the teacher went around recruiting, tricking all the top geniuses from the other four sc 15.3kReads9.0Score3kShelves
- 180 I Saved the Sect Next Door by Being Shameless 我靠不要脸拯救隔壁宗门 [Audiobook adaptation now available, main story complete, bonus chapters ongoing] [Book Transmigration]+ [Saving the World]+ [Flirtatious]+ [Reunion] A beautiful, submissive man who talks a big game but is extremely reserved in practice X a gentle, aloof, and scheming top Jiang Su transmigrated into a book, becoming the sacrificial simp from The Cultivation World's Big Shots Spoil Him Rotten. As the title suggests, it’s a sweet romance. As bad luck would have it, he arrived just after the origin 4.7kReads8.5Score574Shelves
- 181 EN Cultivation: I Have a Peach Blossom Dao Fruit 修仙：我有一枚桃花道果 [Classic cultivation fantasy] [No System] This is a vast world of cultivation. A young man named Jiang Yang, carrying the supreme Dao Fruit, stumbles into it, still innocent and unaware. The Dao Fruit is wondrous and profound. Watch as he rises step by step to the heavens. He governs love and marriage, commands fortune and prosperity, determines lifespan, understands cause and effect, forges flying swords, and cultivates divine abilities... Jiang Yang: “I have a peach blossom branch in hand, and 38.7kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 182 EN One Entry Per Year: Even a Simulator Can Do It 一年抽取一词条，模拟的也可以？ [Trait extraction + simulator + inherit everything + immortal martial arts] (Animated adaptation now available) Chen Yi transmigrates to a martial arts world and obtains a System that draws one trait every year. Unfortunately, all he draws are useless white traits. The probability of obtaining high-quality traits is extremely low, and the highest-grade mythical trait has a chance of only 0.001%! To improve the odds, he must raise his martial arts realm, but he has no innate aptitude and cannot c 419.9kReads8.8Score40.7kShelves
- 183 EN Green Tea? She’s Clearly a Hidden Gem! 绿茶？分明是宝藏女孩！ [Slice of Life] + [Campus Romance] + [Comedy] Jiang Linyuan got bound to a lousy System... Whenever a bad girl toyed with his feelings, the System would give him a reward. Wait, buddy? Isn't this just making the protagonist suffer? Then one day, after he jokingly confessed and got rejected, the System gave him a reward. Getting rejected after a confession counts as having your feelings toyed with? Heh, now I get it. What bad girls? They're all hidden gems! "Stay focused, cultivate the te 57.4kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
- 184 Yunhua's Time Travel 云华时空穿梭 Yunhua's Journey Through Time and Space 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Xuanhuan: My Senior Brother Is Kind of Divine 玄幻：我的师兄有点神 “The profound lineage of Heaven and Earth.” “The root from which all energy springs.” “Cultivating through countless tribulations.” “To prove my divine power.” “My name is Su Liang.” “I am a god who walks among mortals.” “Have you ever seen a god?” 22.9kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
- 186 I Reached the Pinnacle of Superpowers Through a Comics Forum 我靠漫画论坛登顶异能之巅 [Comic / Superpowers / Forum posts / Slightly glorified character / No CP / Ensemble cast] After An Luo awakens to his true nature, he discovers he’s in a comic book world and is a cannon-fodder character who dies from the start. The consciousness of the comic tells him that the author will eventually ruin the ending, and only he can change it. To stay alive, An Luo agrees. He walks up to the protagonist. “Excuse me, coming through.” He bends down, picks up a female corpse, and begins stitching 70.4kReads9.2Score13.7kShelves
- 187 The Cangyun Calamity 沧云劫 Ye Yi travels through the myriad worlds of the Cangyun Continent, battling demons and evil forces. Across the four seas lies a world of immortals and mysticism. Calamities and fate are unpredictable, and legends unfold across Cangyun Dazhou and the Immortal Realm. 299Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Ever Since I Got a Mental Illness, I’ve Been Feeling Much Better 自从得了精神病，整个人都精神了 [No female lead + eerie happenings + multiple personalities + comedy + slow burn + everyday life] A red moon appears, and contamination descends. Most people in the world become mentally ill, carrying mental contamination. Xiao Liang is a mentally ill man who has been contaminated but hasn't gone mad. He uses his dissociative identities to beat eerie creatures, and moonlights as a one-stop murder-and-body-disposal service. Only when a god dies beneath his own iron shovel does he realize that he 15.7kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
- 189 Revolutionizing the Qing: A Changing Era of Self-Strengthening 革清：自强变局 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 128.3kReads9.1Score8.4kShelves
- 190 Yunhua's Memories 2 云华忆2 Memories of Yunhua 2 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Awakened Pain Sharing, and Everyone Was Terrified to Tears 觉醒痛觉共享，所有人都吓哭了 182.6kReads9.0Score29.3kShelves
- 192 Longevity: From Wandering Alone in the Mortal World to Everlasting Through the Ages 长生：从红尘独行，到万古长青 [Wuxia + longevity + ensemble cast + wandering the martial world] [Lighthearted and funny & occasionally rousing & no female lead & no tragedy] … [Reach a lifespan of one thousand years to unlock a feature (add points to martial arts): once you master any martial art in the world, you master it forever!] [Reach a lifespan of ten thousand years to unlock a feature…] [Reach a lifespan of one hundred thousand years…] From the start, he was all alone, until he stumbled upon a longevity panel. Eve 27.8kReads7.9Score2.1kShelves
- 193 Outsider of Shenzhou 神州方外人 [Chinese-Style Superpowers] [One Female Lead] [Not a Power Fantasy] On an ordinary day, all the people of Huaxia were dropped onto an unfamiliar planet seemingly stuck in the Stone Age. The alien atmosphere gave rise to the "Outlanders," people with supernatural abilities. As Huaxia rebuilt its civilization and fought bloody wars against other races, it eventually came to dominate the Shenzhou Continent. A strange Outlander named Qin Wuyang was said by everyone to have seven personalities. He hi 12.9kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
- 194 EN Soul Knights in Arknights 人在方舟：元气骑士 Four college students are playing Soul Knight when one roommate’s gacha-pull vow sends them transmigrating to Terra. With their strange appearances, all four are mistaken for Sarkaz the moment they land. The eldest brother, a paladin, lands at Rhine Lab (skin: Infernal Axe Gregor). “So this is the power of the Inferno Demon!?” “Inferno Demon? Who?” The second brother, a necromancer, lands in Kazdel (skin: Ember-Eyed Demon Vera). “The corpse just stood up! Is that an incantation? She’s a banshee! 101.4kReads9.4Score5.8kShelves
- 195 Yunhua's Memories 1 云华忆1 Memories of Yunhua 1 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Immortal and Undying, the Lord of the Sacred Dynasty Invites Me Down the Mountain 长生不死，圣朝之主请我出山 The mortal world is vast. How could a hundred years be enough to see it all? In his previous life, Gu Changge had worked hard for half his life. Just as his career was beginning to bear fruit, he died with regrets. Given another chance at life, all he wanted was to see the flowers bloom and wither across the world, and devote himself to the Dao in pursuit of immortality. Who could have guessed that, when he looked back, everything he had done without a second thought would already have come to f 67.3kReads8.4Score6.1kShelves
- 197 The High Martial Arts Era: I Loaded Tian Boguang’s Template from the Start 高武纪元：开局加载田伯光模板 [Ensemble cast, fiery passion, youthful spirit, decisive killing, arrogance + forgetting one's roots] Spiritual qi revival! The Firmament Barrier protects the cities, but beyond it lies a deadly wilderness ruled by strange beasts and haunted by the whispers of evil gods! Tan Xing transmigrated into a hellish situation: His father was dead, his mother gravely ill, and his little brother needed raising. A poor student from the lowest ranks of the Body Tempering Realm, he had scarce resources, medi 119kReads8.0Score10.3kShelves
- 198 Transmigrate to Another World and Start as a Mountain God 穿越异世从山神做起 [Lighthearted and fun] [An otherworldly system of immortals and gods] [The protagonist becomes a mountain god, but is more human than divine. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] [No female lead] Li Yuan is the disgrace of transmigrators. While everyone else transmigrates as a live-in son-in-law, an invincible agent, or an almighty emperor, he transmigrates into a rock and spends several thousand years on a mountain. Until one day... A golden book descends from the heavens, and Li Yuan becomes 40.4kReads8.9Score4.3kShelves
- 199 Rusty Sword 銹剑 (No brainless plot, no System, no harem, not a power fantasy, and only half committed to lying flat) Pull the helpless drops of water out of the martial world. Use rivets that refuse to be ordinary to pry up an entire edifice. Let a one-of-a-kind self return to heaven and earth. Draw the rusty sword that has earned its rest from the Yellow Springs. Warning 1: This book is a broad, multi-perspective narrative with a certain reading threshold. Please don't leave your brain at the door. Warning 2 21.8kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
- 200 Apocalypse Snail: A Little Conscience, but Not Much 末世蜗牛：有点良心，但不多 [No System or Superpowers] [Comedy] [Wild Ideas] [Plot Twists] [Light Novel] [Protagonist Fans, Read at Your Own Risk] [Bizarre and Explosive] [Not for the Straight-Laced] One day, snails poured from the sky in place of rain. Anyone bitten turned into a monster, and resources became scarce… You'll see a protagonist group that is selfish and self-serving, lacking in empathy, hypocritical, vindictive, fake do-gooders, arrogant, two-faced, all pretenses, and downright crazy... Every las 9.4kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
