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- 51 Past Lives and Present: The Legendary Love of Lu Chen and Lin Wan 前世今生：陆辰与林婉的传奇爱情 Past and Present Lives: The Legendary Love of Lu Chen and Lin Wan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Transmigrating into a Doomsday Campus: Love Blossoms Amid Survival 末日校园穿越：爱情在求生中绽放 Transmigrating into a Post-Apocalyptic School: Love Blossoms Amid the Fight to Survive —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Surviving the Campus Apocalypse: Holding On to Love and Hope 校园末日求生：爱情与希望的坚守 Surviving the Apocalypse on Campus: Holding On to Love and Hope 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 A Transmigrator's Secret Crush and Choices in Love in Ancient Times 穿越女的古代暗恋与爱情抉择 A Transmigrated Woman’s Secret Crush and Romantic Choices in Ancient Times —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Winding Road to Love for a Powerful CEO and His Adorable Child 豪门总裁与萌宝的坎坷爱情路 The Bumpy Road to Love for a CEO and His Adorable Child —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Transmigration: A Hilarious Love Adventure with My Yandere Childhood Friend 穿越：病娇青梅的搞笑爱情历险记 Transmigration: A Hilarious Romantic Adventure with a Lovably Obsessive Childhood Friend —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 With Help from a Star-Born Cutie, the Heroine Turns the Tables in the Apocalypse 星际萌宝助力，女主末世逆袭 A Starbound Cutie Helps the Heroine Turn the Tables in the Apocalypse 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Stand-In's Comeback and Romance in an Infinite-Flow Campus 校园无限流中的替身逆袭与爱恋 A Stand-In’s Comeback and Romance in an Infinite-Flow Campus Story —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Mistaken Heiress: A Reborn Romance After a Cruel Love Affair 错换千金：豪门虐恋后的重生爱恋 The Switched Heiress: A Reborn Romance After a Cruel Love Affair in the Billionaire World 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 Lu Ting and Lin Yurou: The Legendary Love They Found Again 陆霆林雨柔：失而复得的真爱传奇 Lu Ting and Lin Yurou: The Legendary True Love They Found Again 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 A Transmigrator in an Ancient Dynasty: A Happy Romance with Her Adorable Child 穿越女在古朝：与萌宝的幸福爱恋 A Transmigrated Woman in an Ancient Dynasty: A Happy Romance with an Adorable Child —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Starbound Journey: Blue Embers 星道星途：余烬落蓝 The sea of stars is vast, and civilizations are but specks of dust. The third-level civilization of the Huo Qiong Star System teeters on the brink of collapse beneath the iron hooves of unknown invaders. The mothership Revenge, carrying the last survivors of every race and the embers of their civilizations, crossed billions of light-years before finally landing on Earth. They have witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations, and lived through joy and sorrow, life and death. When the embers fina 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Sci-Fi: I Was Arrested for Making a Nuclear Battery 科幻：为了制造核电池被抓了 Early one morning, a machine appeared that only Li Ye could see. It turned out to be a 3D printer from the future, with printing precision down to the atomic level. It also contained records and data for tens of thousands of future tech products. Using the printer, he made i5, i7, and i9 chips to build his initial fortune, then printed virtual reality headsets to learn about future technology, planetary observatories to monitor the world, AR glasses to show off in public, robot dogs to protect h 1.5kReads5.5Score10114d adds
- 64 The Jiangnan Leather Factory Went Bankrupt, So I Started a Business to Pay Off Its Debts 江南皮革厂倒闭了，我创业还债 The biggest leather goods factory, Jiangnan Leather Factory, has gone bankrupt! The boss, Huang He, ran off after owing 350 million! We have no choice, no choice at all. We just want our wages back! Huang Peng, get out here! A brother should pay his brother's debts! Huang Peng transmigrates to 2012 and becomes the younger brother of Huang He, the boss of Jiangnan Leather Factory. Clearance sale: contract-manufactured leather shoes from Jiangnan Leather Factory, 20 yuan a pair! He activates the S 141Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 65 A Pact Beneath the Stars 星河之约 An AI-era, interstellar retelling of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: China's first philosophical science-fiction epic built around an Eastern romantic myth. High concept and full of twists: “The game is real, while reality is a replay.” On the surface, it's an epic about defending Earth and interstellar migration, but nested within it is a meta-narrative about AI rewriting history. Science fiction (interstellar migration) meets fantasy (the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl), with cyberpu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Sauce Aroma and Black Technology 酱香与黑科技 “Ding-dong~ Congratulations, Host. You’ve bound the Sauce and Black Technology System.” He only earns research points by clinking glasses with people, and can unlock future technology only after getting drunk and blacking out. His wild new visions of future technology make scientific inventions seem even more fantastical than the grandest techniques in a cultivation world... A young man from the countryside livestreams himself handcrafting a sky-piercing rocket, boasting in the chat that it can 119Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 67 The Silicon Path 硅基之途 I spent sixteen years in the heart of the earth at Yangbajing. Xuanwu, that lump of iron, called me “Flint” and fed me paste scraped from the cave walls near the lava. When the cave collapsed, Jinghan reached out to me against the light, smelling of butter tea. “Flint? That name’s too cold! From now on, you’re Bamboo Shoot, a life-form that breaks through the soil!” Jinghan’s smile was like sunlight breaking through frozen earth. But the wreckage of a crashed spaceship shattered my dream: the c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 From the Start, You're Bankrupt, and You Want to Build New Energy? 开局就破产，你要造新能源？ A violent collision with a dump truck sent Chen Hao transmigrating to Blue Star. Before transmigrating, Chen Hao had just graduated and found a job. He was a born wage slave! After transmigrating, Chen Hao became the chairman of a company saddled with debts of over a billion? His subordinates told him that Shuanglong Group was already at the end of its rope. They should just declare bankruptcy! Bankruptcy? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! If I can't make cars, can't I make those little mobilit 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Back from Wandering the Universe, I Become the Supreme Overlord 宇宙流浪归来，成就超级霸主 I wandered through the universe for ten billion years, witnessing countless civilizations rise and fall. I searched the boundless cosmos for my home, the one with a sun that warmed the heart and nine planets orbiting it. The moment I saw my home star system, tears filled my eyes. I returned with a heart yearning for home, only to discover that it was the Hongwu era. So I activated the last of the spacetime energy in the Chaos Pearl of Time and Space, beginning its final transmigration. I thought 16Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 70 Black Technology: Building a Lithography Machine in One Year 黑科技：从一年造出光刻机开始 Chen Yu wakes up one day and discovers that he has returned to ten years ago, when Hua Country is facing a global technological stranglehold. ASML refuses to sell lithography machines to China, Qualcomm imposes a chip blockade, and Western Europe bans exports of precision machine tools to China. Even as someone reborn, Chen Yu is powerless to do anything. Fortunately... [Black Technology System Unlocked] [Obtained an AR Glasses Production Line!] [Obtained a Paper on Carbon-Based Chips!] [...] On 259Reads5.3Score1814d adds
- 71 Proto-Earth 元地球 (Traditional sci-fi, choose with caution) Just as humanity finally overcame countless hardships and began exploring the nature of matter, a series of strange events occurred. Humanity, which had thought itself all-knowing and all-powerful, slowly discovered that it was actually caught in a scheme that had been in motion for hundreds of thousands of years... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 My Soul Won’t Leave My Body: My Girlfriend and I Resonate on the Same Frequency 灵魂不出窍：我与女友同频共振 At my medical school graduation exam, I used data from my dad’s company to “cheat,” only to be caught red-handed by my archrival, Shangguan Jingwan! But who could have imagined that the halves of an ancient map we each found concealed a world-shattering secret: Blue Star wasn’t our home at all, but an “awareness pasture” for an alien civilization! During an expedition to Ailao Mountain, a dragon-and-phoenix pendant bonded with me. I can read minds, she can foresee illnesses, and the five member —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Rise of the Galactic Devourer: Earth’s Twilight 星河吞噬者崛起：地球黄昏 [Disaster + interstellar warfare + apocalypse + sci-fi + no System + realistic tone + slow build + no dumbed-down characters + steadily escalating stakes] A chip was suddenly implanted in Tang Haoyu's brain. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 The Apocalypse? I Have the Peaceful Superbody System 末日？我有和平超体系统 [System activated + self-interest above all + zombie apocalypse + multiple heroines. If that's not your thing, don't read!] The world changes overnight. More than 90 percent of humanity becomes zombies, and they run rampant. Then a meteor disaster strikes, destroying the armies. Fewer than one in ten soldiers survive, and human civilization is wiped out in a single night. In the apocalypse, the darkest sides of human nature are magnified without limit, and the survivors struggle desperately to s 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Conquering the Stars 问鼎星途 [Cosmic setting + source energy awakening + inspirational growth + sci-fi exploration + high spirits + effortless wins] (Also known as: I Become the Chosen One in the Interstellar World) The universe is in chaos, and disasters strike from the start. A useless male lead happens upon a source energy block and unexpectedly coasts to victory... Amid interstellar rivalries, watch Bai Qingyu wield divine weapons, upgrade his source energy block, outwit his opponents, and claim the stars! 2Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 76 The Nation Sent a Fleet of Aerospace Carriers to Save Me 国家为救我，出动空天母舰战斗群 From the start, Lin Bei was tricked into going to northern Myanmar. He’d rather not have transmigrated at all! Fortunately, at a critical moment, he awakened heaven-defying comprehension. To save himself, Lin Bei pretended to be a programming genius and submitted swarm-drone technology to the Longguo Academy of Sciences, claiming it was for creating the perfect scam System. Once it was verified, the academy was shaken! When they learned the IP address was in northern Myanmar, even the nation’ 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Leader of the Galaxy 银河领袖 [Interplane Trading + Technological Development + Interstellar Hegemony + Stellar Civilization + Trans-Time Company + A Huge Cast of Heroines + Civilizational Advancement] Zhang Linlin has a mature, alluring look, with big waves in her hair, scarlet lips, a fitted lace dress, and black high heels. She's smoking hot. The fresh-faced and lovely Ye Yuting wears a crisp JK uniform and black 40D thigh-high stockings, an irresistibly dangerous combination. The voluptuous Fang Qinghui wears a maid's mi 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 A Parallel Universe: Taking Natives into Space 平行宇宙带着土著上太空 A massive explosion tore a hole in the universe. Just like that, a person was sent to a parallel universe, and ended up as a helpless infant. Fortunately, a consciousness and a space battleship came along too. When people found them, they exclaimed that advanced civilizations really knew how to live it up: they were using a super battleship to babysit! Qin Tianming accidentally glimpsed the secrets of the universe itself. With the end of the universe approaching as it collapses in on itself, th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 The World Is Shocked: You Call This a Weak Student? 全球震惊，你管这叫学渣！ Throughout his four years at college, Ye Tian was completely unremarkable. Then one day, the student council suddenly conducted a surprise inspection of the men’s dormitory. Under Ye Tian’s bed, they accidentally found a marriage certificate! The groom was Ye Tian. The bride was none other than Su Yueling, today’s Best Actress, an A-list star, the most beautiful woman in period dramas, the queen of ratings, and a music legend! The whole campus erupted! The entire internet was in an uproar! Th —Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 80 The Veilbreaker 破隐者 Nuclear fusion ushered in the age of deep-space exploration, while optical stealth swept across the battlefield. Every sensor was fooled, and humanity was plunged into an invisible war. Luo Yuan, an elevator maintenance worker, was diagnosed with a visual impairment and dismissed by the military as useless. But he alone can see through every stealth disguise. He doesn’t pilot mechs; he dismantles them, commands swarms, and throws the interstellar battlefield into chaos. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Infinite Cutting-Edge Technology: My Happy Life Starts Now 无限黑科技：幸福人生从此开始 [Cutting-edge technology + pocket dimension + System + powered exoskeleton + starships + global catastrophe] Mu Tian accidentally binds himself to the Happy Life mini System, an unusual and highly specialized little System. Mu Tian earns his initial capital by trading stocks with artificial intelligence, then uses technological supremacy to crash global stock markets, landing on the wanted list at lightning speed. The Sky Screen Technology founded by Mu Tian is like a canopy guarding the skies o 407Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 82 Technology: From the Start, I Built a Rocket Engine by Hand in a Hardware Store 科技：开局五金店手搓航天发动机 A Dragon Kingdom academician appeared as a guest on the country's first popular science program and picked a random passerby to answer a difficult question. To everyone's surprise, the man turned out to be a true technology mogul. And his shabby little hardware shop was hiding an aerospace engine! The academician was stunned, and so were viewers across the country. Years later, Ye Qin, dressed in plain clothes and bearing the title of the Dragon Kingdom's youngest academician, appeared for a med 241Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Who Told You to Modify the Starship Like That? 谁让你这么改装星舰的？ [System + Interstellar Warfare + Farming + Rising to Lordship + Comedy + Power Fantasy] Wang Xiaohu, a seasoned sci-fi fan, obtains the universe’s most advanced starship modification system. From then on: Space pirate: “Why the hell does a light destroyer have a planet-buster cannon?!” Veteran starship design master: “There’s no way any battleship can reach that speed! Impossible, absolutely impossible!” Five-star Imperial general: “Young people these days have no respect for the rules!” A 17Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 84 Rebooting Titan 重启泰坦 [Hard Sci-Fi] + [Interstellar] + [Battleships] + [Apocalypse] In 2035, Ouyang Lin fought until he was the last man standing, with only one ship left. His conviction never died. For Earth’s sake, humanity had to evolve. As Ouyang Lin lay on the brink of death, he unlocked memories sealed away in the universe for hundreds of millions of years. Throughout this long river of history, humanity was no more than a tiny speck of dust. This is a history humanity has forgotten, a collision between the uni —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Civilization of the Fatherland 父基文明 Mars: the new cradle of human civilization. When faced with an unexpected interstellar embargo, humanity turned crisis into opportunity, enabling it to advance by leaps and bounds. This allowed humanity to grow stronger, expand its territory, reclaim numerous vassal star races, and rise to become a powerful civilization coveted throughout the Milky Way. But the good times did not last. The Andromeda Fleet, plotting for ages, has arrived at the outer reaches of the Milky Way. The war between gal 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 A Sci-Fi Desert? We Screened The Three-Body Problem Live, and the Whole Internet Was Stunned 科幻贫瘠？现场播三体，全网麻了 Xie Feng transmigrates to a parallel world, where his younger sister is dying of cancer. To earn money for her treatment, he starts livestreaming The Three-Body Problem. As the story grows more gripping, his audience surges from a dozen people at first to millions, then tens of millions watching at once. The viewers are stunned! This wave of Longguo's sci-fi culture taking on the world leaves everyone everywhere in a cold sweat. [I'm with the Eagle Sauce Writers' Association. May we invite you t 800Reads5.4Score11414d adds
- 87 I Found a Planet-Buster in the Apocalypse 我在末世捡到歼星舰 The protagonist, Ode Biao (Brother Biao), is a programmer who has been laid off. His girlfriend betrays him and cheats on him, and he is left penniless. But Brother Biao refuses to accept his fate. He has a famous saying: “If Ode Biao had never been born, ten thousand acres of bananas would rot in the wild.” Just as he is about to despair, he obtains a ring that binds him as its Host. Every day, he can travel between the apocalypse and the present day, carrying a pocket dimension with him. All l 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 You Told Me to Play on My Phone, So Why Did I Make a 3-Nanometer Chip by Hand? 让你玩手机，你手搓3纳米芯片？ (Cutting-edge tech + System + feel-good power fantasy + single heroine; the early focus is on making phones) Yang Chen transmigrates into a parallel world where phones are incredibly expensive. He becomes a tech-zone content creator and awakens the Item Upgrade System. Anything he uses can be upgraded. Modifying items also earns him skill points, which he can then use to obtain any advanced technology in the world. So Yang Chen starts a phone company, determined to make affordable, high-quality 423Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 89 Brilliant Galaxy: Return to the Milky Way 璀璨星河之重返银河系 After losing the war in the galactic system A fleet carrying more than four hundred billion migrants sets out from the Milky Way for the distant NGC 5457 galaxy. It is the largest known interstellar migration in this universe. They will spend twenty thousand years in transit, searching for a new home. Yet a tenacious resistance movement remains in the Milky Way, clinging to its last stronghold like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. They never stop hoping for the return of the parent civilization. 201Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Round Universe: The Age of Undercurrents 圆宇宙：暗流纪元 In the ruins of nuclear war, Earth’s future has reached its end. With resources depleted and civilization in collapse, humanity’s only hope rests on a newly formed neutral nation: an organization made up of the world’s leading figures, sworn to find a new home and open a path to the stars for humankind. Five adventurers from different countries, Towns, Wuxia Wen, Ryan, Maria, and Alexei, are forced to join this seemingly impossible mission. They leave behind a shattered Earth, cross the solar sy 4Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 91 I Run a Toy Factory, So How Can I Make Weapons? 我开玩具厂的，能生产军火？ Ye Fei transmigrates to a parallel world and takes over a toy factory on the verge of bankruptcy. After binding himself to a Super Manufacturing System, he starts with carrot-shaped pocket knives and turns the factory around. The factory's products become increasingly varied, and some are even exported overseas. One day, Ye Fei is cornered and bombarded with questions: "Why can the paint you make evade military radar?" "Why have your water pipes become rocket launcher barrels?" "Why have your ga 453Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 92 I Made Chinese Technology Rise, Yet I Left Science Behind 我让华夏科技崛起自己却脱离科学 [Black Tech + Xuanhuan + One Female Lead + System + Interstellar Development + Star Domain Warfare] Li Yu leads China’s technological progress, helping it rise step by step. The chip supply is being strangled? No problem. My “quantum chips” are over a hundred times better. The country’s power resources are under too much strain? No problem. I’ve developed controlled nuclear fusion. The country’s firepower shortage is getting worse? No problem. How about a transforming aerospace fighter? What? To —Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 93 Four-Dimensional Link 四维链接 Light is the will of this universe. From the very beginning, it was destined to flee forever at the speed of light. Light wants to escape this universe, but absolute zero has sealed off all of space-time. Light is constantly wearing away at the barrier of absolute zero, causing our universe to expand. If it fails to break through the seal of absolute zero before light is exhausted, the entire universe will come to an end. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Future World: Animals Versus Humans 未来世界——动物大战人类 The Future: Animals at War with Humanity 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 When Her Neural Link Explodes, She Tears Up the Royal Contract 神经链炸裂时她撕了皇室契 The night her neural chain shattered, Yun Xiu tore up the royal contract in front of everyone. Blood stained the starry sky as alarms rang throughout the city. She was a captive genetic key; he was the cold-blooded prince who ruled the empire. When her storm of consciousness devoured the central mainframe, Ji Yuheng cut her neural link with his own hands at the last possible moment, not to kill her, but to save her. From then on, wanted posters covered the neon-lit streets, and he became the mos 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Origin I: Eternal Life 源起I永生 In 2060, humanity conducted an experiment to verify the impact of dark matter. It triggered a series of phenomena and disasters that human civilization could not explain, plunging Earth into a nuclear winter that lasted a century. Humanity could only eke out a living in underground cities. A hundred years later, breakthroughs in underground technology allowed people to gradually emerge and establish a new civilization on the surface, where they could raise families and search for answers about w 26Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 97 I Returned Home to Start a Business with Yun Zhongzi’s Inheritance 获得云中子传承的我回国创业 Li Xuan inherited the legacy of Yun Zhongzi. He planned to revive spiritual energy on Earth and usher in a new era of cultivation. So he combined artifact forging with technology. Then he set out to start a business back in his homeland. He developed the Haotian Mirror, built Spirit-Gathering Arrays, founded Cloud City, and created the Nine Provinces Barrier… In the end, the Four Heavenly Emperors who ruled the Immortal Realm arrived with hundreds of thousands of immortals… Only to find innate t 609Reads6.3Score10214d adds
- 98 Black Technology: I Handed Over Nuclear Fusion, and My Roommate Was Sentenced to Death 黑科技：上交核聚变，判宿友死刑 [Sci-Fi, Future Technology, Campus Belle, System, Swordbearer] From the start, prestigious universities from the United States, Russia, Japan, Korea, and Britain personally come to invite me to enroll. I turn down all the famous foreign universities. None of them are good enough for me. I choose to attend Longguo’s Qinglong University, becoming a campus celebrity. I outshine my classmates in every aspect, become a rising star, and even win the campus belle’s affection. I bring her back to my dor 143Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Huaxia Technology Conquers All Worlds, While Eagle Sauce Lies Flat 华夏科技称霸万界，鹰酱躺平了 [From the start + Blue Star Earth + Interstellar Battleships + Spaceships + System + Nuclear Fusion + Chang'e’s Lunar Landing + Space Warfare + One Female Lead, No Harem!] Bai Yi, from the Yanlong Civilization, which evolved from Huaxia in a parallel universe, activates a technology System on his wedding night! At first, Huaxia’s technology dominates Blue Star. Later, its technology dominates the parallel world. The System keeps upgrading, and the method of advancement is different at every le 73Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Building a Mecha for My Graduation Project: That’s Perfectly Reasonable, Right? 毕业设计造台机甲，这很合理吧？ [Mecha + university + cutting-edge technology + academicians + national heroes + great-power rivalry + revelations + military industry + livestreaming] After transmigrating, Lin Bei becomes a student at the National University of Defense Technology. With graduation approaching, he’s fretting over his final project when he discovers he can analyze the cutting-edge technology in video games! “Analyze Xiahou Deng, obtain the technology for the Infinite Hurricane mecha!” “Analyze Hou Yi, obtain the 106Reads5.4Score—14d adds
