Novels like Infinite: You Think You Can Beat Me With Half a Brain?
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- 1 Prisoners on a Strange World 异域囚途 [Infinite-flow, no female lead, fictional setting, sci-fi apocalypse, intelligent protagonist] Xu Muchi is diagnosed with a terminal illness. He plans to forgo treatment and enjoy what little time he has left, but then he suddenly realizes that the world he has lived in for over twenty years is strange in every way... The supermarket downstairs is fake, his wife is fake, even the entire world is fake... Xu Muchi panics. Clinging to a faint glimmer of hope, he wanders all over the city, but every 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Phoenix Game 凤凰游戏 Bu Fan, an ordinary office worker, was framed at work and fired. Faced with the pressure of daily life, including his mortgage, he sank into confusion and despair. By chance, he came across a money-making competition called the “Phoenix Game.” The winner would be reborn from the ashes and reach the pinnacle of life, while the loser would fall into a bottomless pit of debt. To build a better life, he chose to take part in the Phoenix Game and embarked on an epic gaming adventure… (I’m a student, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Seven Days to Murder 七日谋杀 [Mystery] + [System] + [Sci-Fi] + [Locked-Room Mystery] The System makes everyone kill one another? Jiang Chen secretly cheats! Exceptional detective skills + unlimited exclusive hidden missions = unlimited skills + unlimited items In the distant year of 2090, humanity developed a groundbreaking technology that could upload the consciousness of the dead into a digital world, granting them a form of “immortality.” But for Jiang Chen, a journey that should have led to the hereafter instead became 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Have the Zodiac Signs Screwed You Over Today? 今天你被生肖坑害了吗？ When the final bell tolls, what you must give up is not your life, but the knowledge that you were ever human. The only price of staying alive here. Perhaps... is to climb over the ruins of human nature. Climb over the still-warm bodies of your companions, kneel beneath the twelve crowns, and beg for your life. Then you can become a new “Zodiac.” Bow your head and worship the gods. Raise it, and become one. This has never been a place for games. It is a wild feast for beasts, a flesh-and-b 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Performance at the Hour of Taboo 忌时演绎 The death knell rings, and black fog descends. With death hanging over you, you have no choice but to assume someone else's identity. Survive in an unfamiliar place where vengeful ghosts lurk, and struggle to breathe beneath the malice of unknown beings. With layers of fog all around, how long can you stay alive? Perhaps others have suffered the same fate as you, but will they be allies, or jackals ready to push you into the abyss? An emotionless, ethereal voice rings out: The forbidden hour has 390Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 6 The Fate Ledger: I Tore Up Books to Reach the Top 逆命簿：我靠撕书走上人生巅峰 Late one night, Chen Yan came into possession of a mysterious notebook. He opened to the first page and was dragged into a hell of threads. When he barely made it back alive, he saw the words in blood on the page slowly seeping into an ominous, dark red. The next morning, during the staff meeting, his supervisor once again tried to dump the dirty work on him. Chen Yan tore out that page. An invisible thread seemed to stitch the supervisor’s lips shut. Not a sound came from his throat, and his f —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Eerie Survival Game 诡异生存游戏 Mind-bending puzzles + deduction + battles of wits + no overpowered protagonist + dungeon games A beautiful woman shows up at his door with a card. He scans it and becomes a player. From then on, Lin Chen begins his battle to survive in a bizarre game. Sweet Home, the beginning of a dream; a battle for life and death that dispels lies. The Killer Game, where it’s hard to tell police from criminals; votes decide the verdict in the Hall of Judgment. A wedding brings everyone together in a snowy ca 124Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 8 The Half-Soul Wasteland 半魂荒原 Alive, he takes revenge with his own hands. Dead, he rules the underworld. Who says you can’t start a business in the land of the dead? His teammates hail from different eras, each with their own talents. As long as they’re not completely dead, this bunch can tear the underworld apart! A true male lead is a male lead wherever he goes. No romance, just conquest! [Strategic mind games] [Male lead and ensemble cast] [No harem] [Long-term foreshadowing] 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Was Supposed to Be Reborn, But Is This a Mission Anyone Can Accept? 说好的重生，这任务是人能接的？ (No System, not invincible, no mindless power fantasy. Read with caution if that bothers you.) I died for no apparent reason, only to discover I still had a chance to be reborn. When I embarked on a series of challenges, hoping to make my way back by overcoming them one by one, I realized this path was doomed to fail. I have no interest in becoming a lofty god. All I want is to return to the world I came from… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Dead: Samsara Sacrifice Game 死者：轮回祭杀游戏 [Twists and Deception + Squid Game + Class Division] (Short title: Dead Man's Game. A first full-length novel packed with thrilling battles of wits. Watch the protagonist turn the tables.) “How can there be fairness in the six paths of reincarnation? Ordinary people are nothing but playthings of the Grim Reaper. The end of life is set from birth, and death is already decided.” 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月 My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 On the Front Line of a Murder Case 凶案一线 New Release: Global Awakening: Dragon-Taming Celestial Master! Slaying All Evil in the World Synopsis of The Murder Case Frontline: Li Rulong, a detective in the First Criminal Investigation Brigade, left the force after an unusual incident. Later, he became entangled in hundreds of cases and had no choice but to resume investigative work under a different identity. As he solved case after case, Rulong gradually noticed that many of them shared striking similarities. He became increasingly convi 195Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 God's Chosen Game: Starting with an Escape Room 神选游戏：从密室逃生开始 (Mind-Bending Games + Tactical Mind Games and Puzzles + Infinite Escape + No Clichés + No System + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel for Beginners + Genius Protagonist + Protagonist Isn't a Saint + No Female Lead) (There are no ghosts in this story, and it's not horror. It's similar to Alice in Borderland and Squid Game. Please move along if that's not your thing.) The moment Fang Que opened his eyes, he found himself trapped in a dangerous sealed room, where a mysterious person demanded that he take 645Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 15 The Gate of Paradox 悖论之门 I walk among the wreckage of logic, repairing one twisted reality after another. My ability is both “hope” and perhaps the deepest of curses. Then I realized that every time I saved someone, a whisper sounded in my ear: The ultimate price of repairing this broken world may be becoming an even greater mistake. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Truth Beneath the Scalpel 解剖刀下的真相 This is a sequel to my previous book, A Murder Case on the Front Line. The protagonist was still our Li Rulong back then. A new character will gradually appear next: Qianqian, the disciple of Wen Ya, Li Rulong’s master. They’ll join forces and set off... 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Counterattack: A Beautiful Revenge 逆战：美丽的复仇 His new novel, Doomsday: Stockpiling Supplies in a Shelter to Save a Goddess, is currently updating to rave reviews. [Manhunt]+ [Escape]+ [Revenge]+ [Explosive Action]+ [High Intelligence] He graduated from the School of Architectural Design at a top university. While out for a night run, he was abducted and thrown from a car. The police found drugs on him, then discovered more drugs at his home and office. All three packages bore his fingerprints. With no other evidence, the court sentenced him 52Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 18 The Logic of Sin 犯心罪理 He had no grand finale, no tears. He was just an ordinary man standing on the edge of life and death, struggling through the darkness. “Red” was a scar he refused to uncover; resentment was the foundation he stood on. Perhaps everything had brought this calamity upon him because of that one incident. He was only searching, after all. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Dark City Police: A Mysterious Case 暗城公安：悬疑迷案 Three days before the wedding, Wang Hao found his fiancée Li Yanchen’s body in a demolition zone. The ring was still there. She was already cold. He refused to look the other way and insisted on investigating the case himself. He was determined to tear the truth wide open, even if it meant turning the whole Dark City upside down. 13Reads—Score195Shelves
- 20 The Big Shot Is Still Lying Flat Today 大佬今天依然在躺平 A big shot spends his days teasing his wife, showing off, and getting put in his place. There’s a couple, but their scenes together may not be frequent. The male lead loves showing off and seems like a harmless white cutout with a dark side {?}. Anyway, welcome! This isn’t a mindless power fantasy. A sharp-tongued, lie-flat, peacock-proud male lead who loves dressing up VS a gentle, beautiful “little white flower” heroine who can handle anything. Qi Yan is Executive Officer A of the building. He 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Infinite Game, With Lifespan as the Stake 无限游戏，筹码是寿命 A pure battle of wits, with no superpowers and no System. Born from the Human Genome Project, the protagonist possesses absolute intelligence, putting him at the very pinnacle, like a god. His endless battle of wits begins the moment he enters the Domain of Fate. Genius is merely the entry ticket to this gamble. What does true peak intelligence look like? What is the truth about this world? And it turns out the final opponent is… [Some readers may worry that the protagonist’s zero personality a 214Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 22 Beneath the Rules: A Survival Trap in a Supernatural World 规则之下：诡异世界的生存迷局 [Survival]+ [Rules]+ [No System]+ [Eerie]+ [Multiple Timelines]+ [Breaking the Deadlock]+ [Supernatural]+ [Spy vs. Spy]+ [Traditional Culture] A beautiful wife who knows pharmacology serves a soothing tonic hiding a deadly poison? Strange-behaving parents whose eyes hold not a trace of humanity? A mysterious neighbor, Lao Wang, while a sister far away secretly keeps watch? A shy, solitary outsider with no one to rely on... Xu Yang can only pretend to be mentally impaired, treading carefully amon 11.9kReads6.8Score5kShelves
- 23 My Years as a Male Nanny 我做男保姆的那些年 [No harem, no cuckoldry, no invincibility. Urban slice of life + mystery. To be clear, this has mystery elements. Don’t read if that’s not your thing.] I only went to interview for a male nanny job, but after meeting the female employer, I was dragged into a room with eight doors, where I encountered all kinds of bizarre things. An ex-convict, a male model, a nun, a lawyer, a beautiful streamer, a UN expert, a rich second-generation heir, and a butcher: what will happen when all eight are trappe 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Killer Inside My Mind 颅内杀人犯 A series of murders has taken place in Xian City. All the victims suffered from rare psychological or mental disorders, including a company executive with delusions of insects and a famous actress with Capgras syndrome. They had all sought treatment from a brilliant psychologist named Fang Zhou. After investigating, the police ruled each case a suicide. Then an elderly man with Alzheimer’s suddenly showed up at the police station and turned himself in. Everything changed. The man claimed to have 51Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 25 No Gambling, Just Life! The Desperate Gambler Villain 不赌钱只赌命！绝望的胜负师恶棍 When you’re out of options, remember: you still have at least one life left! As long as you’re alive, you possess the universe’s most precious asset: life! As long as you’re still breathing, you’ll always have a chance to start over! Please do not associate this story with any real people, events, things, or organizations! This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is impossible! Over 95% five-star reviews! Don’t go by the new-book rating; check the comments! Want to know how to go from pe 324Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 26 Falling Homework 坠落作业 [Campus horror + coming-of-age + no saintly heroine + one heroine + combat + heartbreaking] One day, a mysterious assignment appeared on the blackboard. As a high school student, I felt a terror unlike anything I’d ever known. All kinds of ghosts appeared in the world, coming to take human lives. From that day on, my life changed completely. I was forced to fight for my life through the assignments, but that was far from all. A slew of conspiracies began to close in around me. Worse still, a mas 1.8kReads8.2Score140Shelves
- 27 The Demon Gate Puppet 诡门人偶 [Infinite-dungeon horror + dark humor + outrageous antics + daily life + absurdity = the author's a total menace] Xu Zhifan and Chen Yu are just two ordinary office workers. Nine to nine, six days a week; meager pay, endless overtime. Until one day, the two of them are apparently “kidnapped” and taken to an unfamiliar villa. In the villa's courtyard stands a door, silent and still. Beyond it lies a resort where a considerate butler “sees the guests out”; an unsolved case in which they have —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Perfect Revenge: Please Follow My Script and Die 完美复仇：请按我的剧本赴死 What you see is coincidence. What I write down is inevitable. They think they won because they believe they’re clever, not knowing it was a plot I had written long ago. Every betrayal, every moment of triumph, was a script I handed them. Fang Wen has returned from the shadows for one reason: to invite his enemies onto the stage, one by one, and watch them laugh, watch them gloat, then watch them step toward the ending he has arranged. You think you’re in control? No, you’re just an actor. And th 14.4kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 29 The Thousand Gates Saga Continues: After Chu Liu 千门未了：初六之后 Important Announcement: Now that Teacher Ma Xiaohu has resumed updating, I won't presume to teach my grandmother to suck eggs. I only regretted the hiatus and wanted to chat with fellow Qian fans. Starting today, I will stop updating permanently. Anyone who wants to discuss the continuation of my story or the plot of Old Qian is welcome to join the group. Next month, I will take this book down. The unpublished content will stay buried in my gut. I'll write a new book called Midnight, with an up 8.7kReads8.2Score638Shelves
- 30 Welcome to the Game for Those Who Value Strength 欢迎来到实力至上主义者的游戏 (Mind-game adventures + Infinite worlds + No harem + Not mindless wish fulfillment; enter at your own discretion) At some point, a virtual world called the Paradise of All Spirits began circulating online. In the Paradise of All Spirits, you can buy anything that doesn’t exist in the real world: loli bodyguards, infinite-capacity pistols, gene serums, supernatural items... If you can imagine it, the Paradise of All Spirits can sell it. More importantly, anything you obtain in the Paradise of All 393Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 31 Simulating a Way Out 绝境推演 [No System, High-Stakes Mind Games | Human Nature at Play | Survival Game] Chen Mo, a police academy student, enters a death auction on a deserted island in search of his missing older sister. Here, human lives are bargaining chips, rules are traps, and human nature is the biggest wildcard. He can calculate the loopholes in every rule, but he can't see through the betrayals and schemes of those around him. His sister's disappearance isn't just about an auction. Behind it lies a vast, sinister we 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Prodigious Scholar’s 39th Book 妖孽书生第39本书 [New book: They sent you undercover, so why did you sleep with the mob boss's daughter?] I caught my fiancée cheating, then married the man she was cheating with's fiancée on the spot. She was fair-skinned and beautiful, with a stunning figure and plenty of money and influence. I thought I'd hit the jackpot. But I never expected that on our wedding night, she would actually... 1.7kReads7.7Score215Shelves
- 33 Arcane Magic Out of Control 秘法失控 [Mystery and Crime Investigation]+ [Logical Deduction]+ [Bizarre Unsolved Cases]+ [Modern Magical World] A baffling murder and a corpse whose bones, flesh, and skin had been inexplicably separated drew Iris Moreau, a police detective on the homicide squad, into a dazzling yet dangerous world. The boundary between the demon realm and the mortal world was growing increasingly blurred. Legendary magicians, forbidden ancient arts, and killers who continually crossed ethical lines all came one after 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 After the Strange Arrivals, I Became a High-Risk Anomaly 诡异降临后，我成了高危异常 [Game Invasion + Infinite-Flow + Mild Horror + No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Not a Saint + Twist After Twist + Totally Unexpected] Qi Wu is known as the “walking death warrant.” Trouble strikes anyone who gets involved with her, and whoever she crosses is doomed to bad luck. On the day she was born, a fortune-teller said she was cursed with an evil fate, destined to spend her life chasing souls and claiming lives. So Qi Wu grew up with her own user manual 96Reads—Score107Shelves
- 35 The One-Fifth Death Game 五分之一的死亡游戏 [Clever mind games + deduction + all kinds of scenarios + no System + no harem + plot-focused] On a whim, Lin Shuo took part in a quiz show offering a cash prize of one hundred thousand yuan. And so the gears of fate began to turn, as one deadly game after another came his way. A hidden, lethal poison: how could he identify it quickly? A terrifying old building haunted by ghosts: how could he escape alive? An unsolvable locked-room mystery involving werewolves: where were they? A train trapped i 1.2kReads8.7Score137Shelves
- 36 The Game of the Gods: Apostle Number Thirteen 神明的游戏：第十三号使徒 (A battle of human nature + suspense game + in the vein of and + ensemble cast + infinite-loop progression) The doomsday bell tolls A divine oracle appears without warning, a magic cube descends, and the firmament splits with a roar! The selection tournament for the game [The Primordial Age of the Gods] begins. Attention: [The Thirteenth Apostle] has awakened. Now making his entrance [The Thirteenth Apostle] [The Founder of the End] [The Blood-Red Clown] [The 961Reads8.0Score104Shelves
- 37 Parallel Island 平行岛 In 2065, on an unnamed island deep in the ocean. An ordinary girl with no special abilities. A deadly game where the stakes are her life. Win, and she rises to the top overnight. Lose, and she dies. Traps, betrayal, and an endless struggle for survival: she can only rely on her wits and logic to make it through. But the closer she gets to the finish line, the more terrified she becomes. It seems a shocking secret about the fate of all humanity lies behind this brutal bloodshed. 33Reads—Score123Shelves
- 38 The Affairs of the Gods 上帝们的那些事儿 [Once the top post in the Three-Body Tieba forum, with over 100,000 replies] [Ensemble cast of geniuses]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [Mind games]+ [Wild ideas] Two hundred geniuses are invited to take part in a God Game spanning 28 different worlds. Contestants must conquer their own worlds within 30 days, while entering into battles and strategic contests with other worlds. A mechanical world ruled by AI… A zombie world overrun by the undead… An electronic world gone virtual and chaotic… A world populate 4.7kReads8.7Score926Shelves
- 39 I Became a Tutor and Got Caught Up in an Imperfect Revenge 我做家教，卷入了不完美复仇 [Realism] [High-IQ Crime] [Ultimate Battle of Wits] [No Female Lead] [For Logic Lovers] Li Hongjian, a top-tier star influencer with tens of millions of followers, is enjoying a relaxing seaside vacation when an uninvited guest interrupts him: Che Xinggang, the police officer who investigated that serial murder case years ago. Did it all begin with that accidental fall from a building? No. It began even earlier, with an invitation to tutor someone for half a million yuan. A poor-born top stud 108Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Chronicles of the Abyss 踏渊录 Ning Nian is a poor boy who lost both his parents at a young age. Fortunately, he later inherits his father's post as a patrol officer in the capital, giving him a meager livelihood. All he wants is to live out the rest of his life in peace. But an accident draws him into a shocking conspiracy. The young man struggles to survive in the cracks, and to seize that sliver of hope, he has no choice but to raise the narrow blade in his hand... 17Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 41 After Sending My Husband to a Psychiatric Hospital 把丈夫送进精神病院后 When I received my husband Zhou Huai’s psychiatric diagnosis, I sobbed so hard my whole body shook. Only I knew those were tears of excitement. After all, I was the one who had slipped drugs into his coffee every day for the past six months. He had it coming. His diary was filled with plans to use psychological manipulation to drive me to suicide and inherit the billions my parents left behind. I had him committed to the most heavily guarded psychiatric hospital in the city, thinking I’d won. U 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Love Between Immortal and Mortal: All Spirits as Slaves 仙凡恋：万灵为奴 [No System, No Harem, No Cliches, No Invincibility, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Mind-Bending] The celestial laws are amended, immortals and mortals fall in love, and their children are born. Divinity and humanity collide. Some gods keep to their place and abide by the rules, while others plunder the myriad heavens. Unluckily, I became a scapegoat for an immortal's descendant and was thrown into the Underworld. As my soul was about to dissipate, I stumbled into the realm between life and death, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Ragnarok: Who's Pulling the Strings? 诸神黄昏，谁在操盘？ No System cheats, no rebirth and face-slapping, and no harem drama. This novel puts logic at its core, revealing the truth behind every “unreasonable” event and offering you a different kind of story that avoids the usual tropes. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Have You Had Your Soup Today? 今天您喝汤了吗？ [Sea Turtle Soup] [Livestream] [No System] [Mystery] [Mild Horror] Have you had your soup today? That is the sentence Gu Ming says at the start of every livestream. At first, people thought he was just an ordinary paranormal streamer. But gradually, they realized that his stories all seemed to have real-life counterparts... A girl who lost both hands... A boy who was assaulted by his female boss... And the exact address of a drug lord's hideout... No one knows who Gu Ming really is. The police w 663Reads8.5Score140Shelves
- 45 Autumn Wind Tower 秋风楼 An ordinary man entered the world of cultivation only in his twilight years. He toyed with the martial world through strategy and rode into the imperial court through sheer cunning. He spent fifty years laying his plans, waiting for the day autumn arrived. Autumn came, the play began, and all the people of the world became its audience. 388Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 46 The Art of Strategy 算谋局 What? The Heavenly Dao is actually my master's clone! My sword spirit can chop the Heavenly Dao down like a chicken. No, no, no, I can do more than that: I can calculate the fate of people, demons, and all living beings. I have another scheme, too: plotting against heaven, earth, and the world. And I have a game to play: the chessboard of heaven and earth, the game of life. Once the piece is down, there's no taking it back. Come play with Daji? Fellow cultivators, please add this to your booksh 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Heaven’s Aid 天之佐 [Sci-Fi] [Urban] [Martial Combat] [Wits and Strategy] [Teamwork] [Comedy] [Lighthearted] [Underdog] [Awakening] [Superhumans] [Ensemble Cast] Lan Tianzuo is an ordinary high school student. He never expected to get caught up in a conflict between superhumans before the college entrance exams, or to discover by chance that he had two souls in one body, along with supernatural abilities like blood replication and blood-based healing. In an instant, he went from being a good-for-nothing to ascendin 364Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Ladder of Sinners 罪人梯 Falsely accused and imprisoned three years ago, he received guidance from a powerful figure. Three years later, he returns as a king, ready to settle old and new scores alike. The final installment in the Ladder trilogy: Sin, Man, Ladder. A victorious general is built on the bones of ten thousand soldiers. See how Chen Lubing climbs to the summit, step by step, over the bodies of his enemies… 18.5kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 49 A Trap Within a Trap, a Lie Within a Lie 局中局，骗中骗 Greed grows in people’s hearts, and scams can find their way through any opening. No one is born lucky or immune to being deceived. The only reason you haven’t fallen into a trap is that you haven’t yet encountered one designed specifically for you. Desire is the bait, weakness is the opening. As long as greed remains, there will always be a scam waiting to draw you in. 2.3kReads8.3Score273Shelves
- 50 Eerie: This Novel Isn’t Right II 诡异：这个小说不对劲II Instance difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare, Hell. Lin Han is in a different parallel universe in every instance, and the plots are unrelated, so feel free to read them out of order. Lin Han is clever, resourceful, and bold enough to act on his ideas. He’s damn awesome. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
