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- 1 Quick Transmigration: The Darkened Male Lead Won't Stop Clinging to Me 快穿：黑化男主偏要缠上我 Two male leads + quick transmigration + equally matched leads + one-on-one romance + possessive, obsessive top + coercive love + both leads sexually inexperienced Emotionally steady, cool, straight-guy bottom x fragmented, unhinged, obsessive top In a nutshell: A stone-cold straight guy is forced to play along, and every male lead wants to date me Qin Beiyu is the golden boy everyone admires: born into a prominent family and exceptionally capable. He inherited the family business at a young age 7.3kReads9.1Score80214d adds
- 2 The Down-and-Out Second Male Lead in a Redemption Romance 救赎言情文里的落魄反派男二 [Two male leads + healing + two strong leads + devoted to each other] [Easygoing, straight-laced bottom x gentle, dark, and calculating top] [The top is frail early on and mentally unstable] Xu Wen transmigrates into an early-era domineering CEO novel, as the assistant to the doomed second male lead. An unreliable System tells him he can only survive by redeeming the villainous second male lead. Unfortunately, the story is already near its end. The sweet, innocent heroine and the scandal-ridden 19.7kReads9.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 3 Redemption at the Abyss 临渊救赎 [Two male leads + transmigrate into a book + one-on-one, both virgins + younger man + elegant doctor by day, ferocious boxer by night (top) x deceptively sweet, celibate CEO (bottom) + mutual devotion + happy ending + satisfying, sweet romance] He Yan: The top. By day, he is a medical genius and the director of an international private hospital. Once he takes off his white coat, he becomes an unbeatable underground boxer who dominates the ring by night. Sheng Yuan: The bottom. Gentle and refined 3.2kReads9.3Score41214d adds
- 4 The Villainous Cannon Fodder, Yet a Darling Everyone Loves 恶毒炮灰，但娇气万人迷 [Two male leads + beautiful airhead + everyone's darling] [A catty, spoiled bottom who thinks he's fierce × a possessive, obsessive, fatherly top] Yu Deng transmigrated into a minor world and became the male lead's boyfriend. But he wasn't the protagonist. He was a cannon-fodder character. He tricked the male lead into working to pay his tuition, put him through college, and rent him an apartment, buy him a fan and a television, all while spending money recklessly. When the male lead had money, 13.5kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds
- 5 Flirting with Straight Men, Messing with Exes: The Scummy Bottom Is Always in a Shura Field 撩直男，耍前任，渣受总在修罗场 Jiang Chi is a famous and influential figure at A University, renowned for his beauty. He is beautiful and gentle, always knows what he wants, and falling in love with him is easier than breathing. Anyone who has met Jiang Chi can never forget him. They draw close, touch him, become infatuated with him, and fly into the flames like moths, only to meet their doom. A seductive beauty trains his dogs, a battle royale for his affection, an overwhelming number of exes, and an alternate-world setting 775Reads9.2Score11714d adds
- 6 Quick Transmigration: What Do You Mean, Cannon Fodder? That’s My Wife! 快穿：什么炮灰？那是我老婆！ Original title: Quick Transmigration: What Do You Mean, Cannon Fodder? That's My Wife! 1. Two male leads, a sweet story with mutual devotion, and the leads fall in love. 2. A male-lead-focused quick transmigration story. The love interest is the same person in every world. In many stories, there are people who are exceptionally handsome, come from distinguished backgrounds, and have good hearts, yet become stepping stones on the protagonist's path to success and end up with tragic fates. Qin Yi 5.4kReads9.4Score34914d adds
- 7 The Madman's Rules: Dr. Shen, Be Good 疯子守则：沈医生乖乖 [Dual male leads, a deranged, high-hormone, rabid-dog villain patient x a cool, alluring, teasingly seductive psychologist; System + two deranged leads + equally matched strength + romantic conquest + simmering tension + younger love interest] Shen Zhuoqing dies in the real world and is bound to a System, which sends him into a novel to complete missions. Each world has a different mission and a different level of difficulty. For his final mission, he encounters the hardest character to win over 9.5kReads9.5Score1.4k14d adds
- 8 Book Transmigration: Has the Villainous Junior Disciple Bullied His Senior Today? 穿书：反派师弟今日以下欺上了吗 [No Female Lead + Comedy + Plot-Driven + Irreverent Cultivation + Strong Leads, Ensemble Cast Early On, Love Rival Showdown Later] Gu Bai transmigrates into a cultivation novel he had read, becoming the cannon-fodder eldest disciple of a laid-back sect. Armed with foreknowledge of the plot, he beats everyone to the punch and brings back the little villain, giving him spirit stones and elixirs and doing everything he can to help him, even paving the way for his ascension. But he never expected th 3.1kReads9.5Score56314d adds
- 9 After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Take Over the World Through Manipulation 穿书后，我靠PUA执掌天下 New book: "Oh No! What Do I Do If Their Affection Goes Too Far?!" It's signed and updates regularly, so dig in! [Search "The Crown Prince's Child-Rearing Diary" for the motion comic] Two male leads, 1v1, transmigration meets rebirth, a huge love-triangle showdown, raising a child while falling in love, warm and healing sweet romance, Xie Chang'an x Ye Jingchen, main POV character is the bottom Modern office drone Ye Jingchen pulls an all-nighter reading a novel and dies, only to transmigrate int 17.8kReads9.2Score2.6k14d adds
- 10 After Awakening, the Beloved Cannon-Fodder Is Targeted by the Unhinged Male Lead 万人迷炮灰觉醒后被疯批男主盯上 [Two male leads + captivity + devoted to each other + sweet pampering + crazy, perverted top + calculating and obsessive + vicious heartthrob] When Su Ze awakened, he found himself bullying the real young master. The boy was battered and disheveled, pinned down in the bathtub beneath Su Ze’s foot, while Su Ze sat on a tall stool beside the tub with his foot planted on the male lead’s chest. The real young master’s eyes were bloodshot, his gaze fixed directly on Su Ze’s face. Su Ze panicked, beca 13.3kReads9.2Score1.7k14d adds
- 11 I Reared the Male Lead Wrong After Reincarnating as Cannon Fodder 穿成炮灰的我养歪了男主 Two male leads + devoted to each other + happy ending + pure comedy + no secondary couples + younger top Gu Yuhuan stayed up all night and died suddenly. After being bound to a System, he was dropped into a fantasy novel and became the cannon-fodder senior disciple. System: “Advance the plot at all costs. Strike while the male lead is sick and finish him off!” No big deal. The male lead hasn’t turned evil yet. He’s just a delicate little flower, so this should be a piece of cake, right? The plot 11.9kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 12 Quick Transmigration: The Stunning Host Is On a Mission 快穿：绝美宿主在线攻略 [Two male leads + pure power fantasy + face-slapping + acting virtuoso + sweet romance + one-on-one, both devoted to each other] Su Yang is one of the System headquarters' eight ace employees! He has never lost a mission, is decisive and ruthless, and has been the top performer at the Cicada-linked System headquarters for three consecutive terms! One day, the boss assigns him a new project: Win over the mission target? Isn't that just finding different ways to date? He knows how! He's been singl 14.3kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 13 Wicked Disciple, Stop! He’s Your Master! 孽徒住手他是你师尊 [No heroine] [Demon King VS Heavenly Master, two powerful male leads] [Straight-laced master who says one thing and does another VS seemingly sweet, secretly scheming disciple] [Sweet romance, come on in] Shen Zhenye never imagined that just reading a book could make him transmigrate into it. He had become the villainous cannon-fodder master who abused the male lead, advanced the plot, and then died in disgrace! Looking at his disciple, who had already been abused, Shen Zhenye thought: Should I 5.3kReads9.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 14 After Flirting with My Unhinged Junior Brother, I Somehow Became Everyone's Crush 勾搭疯批师弟后，我竟成了万人迷 [Two male leads + one-on-one, both each other's first and only + from universally despised to universally adored] Ji Ci transmigrated into a book. He went from a pure and sunny college student to the vicious male supporting character beside the universally adored protagonist of a Green River novel. System: [Endure humiliation and survive. One day, Host will achieve greatness and reach the pinnacle of life!] Ji Ci: Got it. So whenever the protagonist was in danger, he took the blade for him. When 19.6kReads9.5Score3.4k14d adds
- 15 EN Trapped in a Dating Show Love Triangle, I Found My Happy Ending with the Obsessive Second Male Lead 穿进恋综修罗场和偏执男二he了 [Two male leads + ABO + sweet romance + devoted couple + feel-good power fantasy + mutual pining] A refined, abstinent, possessive CEO who talks himself into love × a long-haired, cool-looking beauty writer with a soft, adorable heart Jiang Yumiao transmigrates into an ABO dating-show story with a reverse harem and a romantic battlefield, becoming a background contestant who shares his name. His main purpose is to serve as a foil for the beloved protagonist, and the System orders him to win over 40.8kReads9.6Score6.2k14d adds
- 16 I Kicked My Former Disciple to the Curb, and the Villain and I Got a Happy Ending! 一脚踹掉前徒弟，我和反派HE！ [Signed for print publication, progress updates at Qin Lingling] [Two male leads, 1v1, both each other's only one + younger love interest + cultivation + face-slapping the arrogant protagonist + touches of an ensemble cast + happy ending] [Fake-cold, secretly snarky master who flirts without realizing it x pure-hearted, loyal, clingy wolf-demon disciple raised from a pup] [Jiang Yinian x Qin Leyou] The moment he opened his eyes, Jiang Yinian found himself inside the worst arrogant-protagonist no 15.8kReads9.5Score2.7k14d adds
- 17 Quick Transmigration: The Alluring Beauty Refuses to Be a Cannon Fodder 快穿之钓系美人拒绝炮灰 Quick transmigration, two male leads + 1v1 + mutually exclusive first-time relationships + sweet little story Shirong, an obscure actor, is bound by rogue System 009 from the Space-Time Bureau and sent to various little worlds to play expendable characters. But the plot goes off the rails in every world… World One: aloof, dignified Crown Prince × sweet, gentle omega Weren’t you supposed to break off the engagement? Why are you holding on to him so tightly now? World Two: lovesick straight guy × 15.5kReads9.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 18 After Picking Up a Mad Villain, the Cannon Fodder Keeps Trying to Save Himself 捡了疯批反派后，炮灰总想自救 [Dual Male Leads, Transmigrated into a Comic, Two Powerful Leads, A Little Funny, Villain] A scheming, unhinged yandere villain who seems sweet but is secretly dark, with a love-struck puppy-dog side, falls for a fiercely protective, doting, powerful, universally adored top. [Modern setting in an alternate world] Xu Chi transmigrates into a comic and, without really knowing what he’s doing, takes home an unbelievably pretty boy. Only when his memories come back does he realize that the boy he pi 30.1kReads9.6Score4.3k14d adds
- 19 EN Who Says I Have It All? Forced to Love a Top E from the Start 谁有哥带派！开局就被顶E强制爱 [Male-male romance / Enigma-Alpha romance / forced love / both leads are devoted and powerful] [Wild, fiery, stuttering beauty of an Alpha ✖️ cruel, hard-of-hearing rich Enigma with a bad-dog streak] [Content warning: The receiving partner stutters; the pursuing partner has hearing loss and wears hearing aids every day] [No moral compass! No moral compass! No moral compass! Don't apply real-world values to this story. Readers with strong moral convictions should proceed with caution] Li Mao wil 27.2kReads9.5Score4.1k14d adds
- 20 Unbridled 脱缰 [Dual Male Leads] [Fake Death Story] [Manga Adaptation and Publishing Rights Signed; Print Edition Now Available] In Qi Zhen's eyes, Lin Shouyan is a silly little colt who has broken free of his reins, utterly sincere and devoted to him with all his heart. Qi Zhen falls for him quickly. But in Lin Shouyan's eyes, Qi Zhen is a fool playing the part Lin Shouyan made up for him, dragged down from his lofty pedestal and forced to teach himself, while Lin Shouyan has to personally teach his wife all 43.9kReads9.6Score6.2k14d adds
- 21 EN Whose Simp of a Male Supporting Character Gets Held and Kissed by the Male Lead? 谁家舔狗男配被男主抱在怀里亲啊 [Irresistible bottom, bittersweet romance, angst first and sweetness later, livestream variety show, a chaotic love polygon, two male leads, both virgins, happy ending] Wen Yanyu, a universally hated supporting character who hounded the male lead relentlessly and dragged himself into a storm of public outrage, suddenly awakens to his own consciousness. The System binds him and sends him off on missions. After countless cycles of torment leave him exhausted in body and mind, Wen Yanyu returns wit 56kReads9.5Score7.2k14d adds
- 22 Sickly Obsession 病态诱捕 Transmigrating into a book + proceed with caution: possessive, unstable love interest. Manga adaptation and publication rights have been signed; the print edition is now available. Other people who transmigrate into a book get a golden finger, a powerful System, and a huge protagonist halo. Li Dezhuang transmigrates into a book as a minor character: a disposable side character who’s good for nothing but his looks, with a ridiculously old-fashioned name to boot. To survive, Li Dezhuang resolves t 26.8kReads9.5Score4.6k14d adds
