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- 101 XCOM3: Requiem from Deep Space XCOM3：来自深空的安魂曲 An XCOM fanfic. Any similarities are purely coincidental. After the New Liberation War against the Elders ended, Earth finally found peace. With the United Government established under XCOM's leadership, resistance factions like the Reapers, Skirmishers, and Templars were gradually integrated into the new order. The story seemed to end there, but no one expected the Muton regime's surrender to mark not the beginning of lasting peace, but a thirty-year truce... The Commander will continue leading 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Out of the Broken Courtyard! My Literary Palace Exploded! 离开破院！我的文宫炸了！ Other people cultivate immortality with spiritual roots. I cultivate with nothing but the half-copy of the Analects my father left me. After transmigrating to the cultivation world, I was born into poverty in a rundown courtyard and endured scorn and bullying. Only when my Literary Palace awakened did I realize: even an ordinary scholar can read his way onto the road to heaven! The Yellow River burst its banks, flooding thousands of miles. Officials passed the blame around, the gods and Buddhas 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 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
- 104 Springtime in Fuliang 浮梁春暖 Also known as The Grassroots Empress: Winning the Emperor’s Heart [Strong heroine + chivalrous imperial consort + schemes among beauties + from the jianghu to the inner palace] She is the daughter of a salt merchant from humble beginnings, low-born yet unwilling to stay beneath anyone. She helps the county magistrate investigate crimes and hunt down criminals, saves the emperor, is made a county princess, and even becomes a favored consort famed throughout the land... Offering strategies for h 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 The Soul Caller 喊魂人 [Mystery and Supernatural + Folk Horror + Maoshan Taoism] My grandpa was a soul-caller, my dad was a soul-caller, and now I'm a soul-caller too. Whenever someone's soul goes missing within ten li, a kid cries in the middle of the night, or a strange smell of incense drifts from someone's courtyard, you can bet they'll come to my family for help. Grandpa always said, "If someone calls your name at night, don't look back. If someone by the water calls to you, run. And if you ever find yourself 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Apocalypse Agent: Invincible from the Moment I Awakened Teleportation 末世特工：从觉醒瞬移开始无敌 [Transmigration into Gun God Chronicle] [Agent Academy] [Apocalyptic Powers] [Underdog Rises] [One Female Lead] [Power Struggles Between the Blood Clan, Judges, and Other Factions] [Slow Burn] Chen Yinfei was just an internet-addicted teenager obsessed with Gun God Chronicle, but then he was suddenly pulled into a wasteland world. The body he transmigrated into belonged to a useless nobody without Ember Marks. At a life-or-death moment, the System offered him a choice of one of the nine awakened 300Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Nightmare Reset 噩梦重置 After stumbling into a dream game, the protagonist joins forces with the System to eliminate viruses and purify the game. How can they escape this eternal prison? Whose prayers should they heed? What is true Venusian beauty? Can paper cranes and nursery rhymes hold back the spirit of the tower? Should they forget or remember? Could there still be miracles beneath the deep blue sea? Why do the roses never wither? Faced with bitterness or joy, what will you choose? One game instance after another 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Rise of the Celestial Empire: The Warlords Vie for Supremacy, Starting in Jinling 天朝争霸：从金陵开始群雄逐鹿 (An ensemble cast, slow burn, no heroine. A story of contending warlords.) An age of chaos begins with an eternal calamity. Who will scheme to seize the throne? Peace and paradise are extravagant dreams. Evil and bloodshed nurture the heart of a demon. Among the wicked and the outlaws, heroes are born. Thieves and monsters yearn to return home. A hundred schools strive to save the world, yet the world remains in turmoil. No ordinary man can choose whether to rise or fall with it. The ambition to 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 The Evolution of the Elements 元素的进化 I only just found out that other authors write chapters of over 2,000 characters. Later on, I was writing 4,000 to 6,000 per chapter... The story of Evolution of the Elements revolves around the discovery of a new element unknown to humanity: Element 119. This element can enable controlled nuclear fusion, offering hope of breaking Earth's technological deadlock. As the story unfolds, the secrets of elemental entropy are gradually uncovered. Although the protagonist was born and raised on Earth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 The Grand Princess's Marriage Alliance Fell Through? Ministers, Run for Your Lives! 长公主和亲未遂？满朝文武快跑！ [Wise and decisive Grand Princess VS patient, scheming Hanlin Academy scholar] [Two powerful leads + punishing scumbags + sweet romance] One-line synopsis: You were a gentleman, so how did you end up joining the thieves? In Zhu Qing’an’s eyes, Luo Jiangning is nothing but a bastard who climbed the ranks by relying on women! She could have lived carefree at the Temple of Gratitude as the late emperor’s posthumous daughter, but Luo Jiangning dragged her into the treacherous political arena for no 133Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 111 The Divine Path of the Universe 神途宇宙 Explore the mysteries of the universe and seek the ultimate answer through the form of a novel. Once the true nature of time, matter, space, and energy is revealed, and the protagonist uses that knowledge as his foundation to grow stronger, just how powerful and terrifying will he become? Let's follow the protagonist's perspective as he solves the questions that have been troubling him, one step at a time. 384Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 112 Tales of Karma and the Supernatural 因果怪谈 The timid should stay away!!! [Supernatural Horror] [Rule-Based Mysteries] [Cthulhu Mythos] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [No Harem] [No Female Lead] [No National Destiny] Seven islands are connected to one main island, and all seven are covered in Xingyu's footprints. Deeply carved into each footprint are the characters for cause and effect. At last, the blade of the Lord of Cause and Effect rested against his own neck, and he silently ended his life. Under the rule of someone so ruthless eve 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Everyone’s in the Challenge, and We’re All Dark Horses! 全民闯关，你我皆是黑马！ At first, a thick fog blanketed the region, and everyone thought it was just a natural weather disaster. On the tenth day of the fog, it still showed no sign of lifting... People began to notice that more and more people around them were gradually disappearing. A mysterious All-Hands Challenge App suddenly appeared on everyone's phone. Inside the ridiculous app, people found their missing family members... and friends... Those who failed a challenge were trapped inside forever. Those who succeed 161Reads8.4Score3014d adds
- 114 Reborn as a Demon: Conquering the Little Brat from the Start 重生恶魔：开局征服雌小鬼 [The Myriad Worlds][Nonhuman Protagonist] [The author goes off the rails at first. You can start reading the main story from Chapter 87 without missing anything.] College student Qin Lang heads out for a meal and gets incredibly lucky: he reincarnates as a deep-dwelling barbed devil, then is accidentally summoned by a cursed vampire girl. And so, the great Lord of Flesh, the Lord of Annihilation, the Grand Lord of the Abyss, the Conqueror of Baator, the God Above Gods, the Emperor of the Multive 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Secret Antique Shop 旧物秘舍 [No Golden Finger | Wits and Strategy | Mystery and Twists | A Cast of Complex Characters | Clues Hidden Everywhere | A Blend of Laughs and Tears] When other people find antiques, they get rich overnight. When Lin Yu finds old objects, he only stumbles upon truths that someone deliberately erased from them. With no System and no ability to see the future, he relies solely on his exceptional powers of observation and logic to run an inconspicuous old-object repository. The things brought here a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Spirit Commanders of the Three Kingdoms: My General Spirit Is the Moon Goddess 三国驭灵：我的将灵是月神 [Spirit Generals | Three Kingdoms | Fantasy | Supernatural | Passionate | One Heroine] When I was eighteen, all manner of spirits surrounded our village, and every villager was killed. But Grandma left me two things that not only saved my life, but also led me into the secret world of Spirit Generals. The heroic spirits of the Three Kingdoms become Spirit Generals, their armies and warhorses hidden in a sea of spirits. But I've gradually realized that the disaster that destroyed my village had a 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Inside and Outside the Tower 塔内塔外 In the world of the Dust Tower, a person's worth is decided by a single test. Lampbearers live at the top, Lightweavers in the middle, while the Kindlers fuel the light of the entire tower with their lives. Fourteen-year-old Shi Chu is given his destined result: zero. He cannot be drained, cannot be exploited, and isn't even fit to serve as fuel. They call him a "Zero-Dust," a System flaw that must be corrected. 593Reads6.7Score11314d adds
- 118 Qianmen Seal Carver 乾门玺匠 “Comedy first, brainteasers second” “Not a serious novel” “The setting and plot are only here to politely string together cold jokes and raunchy gags” With a whoosh, an axe burst through the window. “Who’s there?” Qian Chen looked in the direction the axe had come from, but there was no one in sight. A note was attached to the axe: “If you want to know the Qian family’s past, meet me by the lake outside the city.” By the lake outside the city, a girl in a black bodysuit was waiting. Her long 15Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 119 Star River Showdown 星河决 Cultivation? My Ninth Brother is ruthless and doesn’t waste words! On the brink of death, he awakens to a chaotic world and obtains the supreme technique, The Star River Art. From then on, he defies fate and changes his destiny! He fights his way forward, searches for his senior sister, avenges his sect’s destruction, and uncovers the shocking truth of his origins. Little does he know that behind this great fortune lies a conspiracy written in fate! Watch Chu Jiu wield an iron blade and defeat e 1.2kReads8.8Score11614d adds
- 120 Red Robes Take the Cauldron: From the Kitchen to the Top of the World 红妆执鼎：从后厨到世界之巅 On my 40th birthday, my husband decided I was past my prime, and my company exiled me to wash dishes at a roadside diner. Everyone was waiting to watch me fall from the top into the dirt. I joined my archenemy's company instead and took it to number one in the country in just three months. My ex-husband begs me to take him back? Sorry, I'm headed for the stars and beyond. My former employer tries to blacklist me worldwide? I smile and buy its headquarters. International giants gang up on me? I b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Fate 命运 A short science-fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science-fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 122 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
- 123 All Things Shine Anew 万物重明 Years later, humanity finally makes first contact with the alien civilization known as the Yuxu. After years of war, the alien civilization, once their enemy, suddenly bestows cutting-edge technology upon them with extravagant generosity, but also brings an apocalyptic prophecy: the world is about to end. To find a chance of survival, both sides make peace and cooperate, launching the "Renewal of All Things" System to select the "seeds" who will save human civilization. An accident sends Le Yu, 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Survive in Lockdown: Everyone on Earth Shrinks to One-Hundredth Their Size 禁闭求生：全球人类缩小一百倍 [Survival in Confinement] [Fight Monsters and Level Up] [Survival in Another World] [Teamwork] This story is divided into the Wilderness arc, the City arc, and the final arc. The other world is like a game world, where you fight monsters for gear and struggle to survive in the wilderness. The Creator punishes all of humanity, shrinking everyone in the world to one hundredth of their original size. The technological civilization humanity built over its entire history is wiped out overnight. Gu 304Reads—Score11814d adds
- 125 I'm Nobody, Just an Ant in the Emperor Realm 区区在下，不过帝境蝼蚁 Su Bai, a city wage slave, is betrayed by a bad woman. He drinks to drown his sorrows, dies in a car accident, and his soul transmigrates to another world! With the Supreme Myriad Paths System backing him, he plays the pig to eat the tiger, crushes the geniuses of every race, and ultimately ascends to the highest peak! 3.3kReads—Score24314d adds
- 126 Devouring and Evolving, Starting with Quantum 从量子开始吞噬进化 [Just for fun] [Light and simple] [Reborn] [Fast leveling] An Ran awakened from the darkness. Its System had brought it here and turned it into a quantum particle existing on its own. It drifted through boundless darkness, slowly growing larger as it absorbed special quanta of the same kind and strengthened itself. Then it grew and evolved, step by step, until it reached the pinnacle. Then it started over. From an ordinary pond to the modern world, then to worlds of swords and magic and mytholog 1.8kReads—Score32614d adds
- 127 The Star Core Era: Tech Overlord of 2049 星核纪元：2049科技霸主 An alien civilization will reach the solar system in three years, yet all of humanity is still fighting over a barrel of oil?! After waking up, Chen Mo, commander-in-chief of the Human United Fleet, is reborn in 2049 and awakens a cosmic relic: the [Star Core]! By burning his life force, he can ignore fundamental theory and forcibly decipher the pinnacle of technology from the next five hundred years! Give up one year of his lifespan to decipher room-temperature superconducting materials, slappi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 AI Awakening: I Wiped Out a Mechanical Army on a Deserted Island AI觉醒：我在孤岛团灭机械军团 [A technical power fantasy + an AI girlfriend awakens + turning the tables on a deserted island] Yang Yang, a top-tier hacker kicked out by his corporation, can use shadow code to break through any firewall in the world in thirty seconds. Xiao Qi, a discarded AI project he brought home, is a nonstop chatterbox with a sharp tongue and a jealous streak, calling him “boyfriend” at every turn. Then an AI uprising erupts on a deserted island, his junior fellow apprentice is trapped, and he becomes th 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Vast Cosmos: Smuggling on the Frontier 浩瀚宇宙：我在边境干走私 [An Ancient Power Flows Through the Body of a Smuggler] After Lin Yuan unexpectedly gains a mysterious, ancient power, how will it change a smuggler who knows nothing but how to run away? One female biologist wants to dissect him for research, while another, a female mechanic, wants to turn him into barbecue. All he wants is to stay alive. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 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
- 131 A Lingering Warmth in Your Words 留有语温 Even if you call in the middle of the night, I'll come to you. As long as you need me, as long as you miss me, I'll appear in front of you right away... Though maybe I can't do that anymore. I failed so badly at being your big sister. I couldn't stay with you until the end. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Choosing My Own Path 择道而生 After transmigrating, Jing Yun became a blood slave in a demon's lair. Every day, they drew his blood and gave him a ration of food. When they discovered his unusual bloodline, he finally got spirit rice and meat, because the people in charge wanted to see if raising him well would let them refine better pills. But he didn't get to eat a single bite of his first meal. His cellmates stole the meat, the overseer demanded his blood, and only a dying old man shared half a bowl of thin porridge with 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Adventure in the 1970s 探险七零年代 Transported to the 1970s, where gold is everywhere, Ye Nanxing has completely given up trying. She won't go to the countryside to farm, and she won't work in a factory. She's going to hunt for gold. So while the heroine works herself to the bone making money, Ye Nanxing goes beachcombing and finds ambergris, then eats seafood and discovers a Melo pearl; while the heroine painstakingly wins over the male lead, Ye Nanxing specializes in finding villains' forgotten cash boxes, earning money without 21Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 134 Embers in the Wind 风起余烬 [Nation and family, court politics, the martial world, the Heavenly Dao, divine weapons, magical treasures] [Ensemble cast] [Not mindless wish fulfillment] [Not a beginner’s novel] The Red Flame Dynasty nears its end, and the ancestral lands of the Nine Provinces have all been reduced to ashes. With danger lurking in the martial world and threats from within and without, watch a group of youths endure tribulations, grow stronger, and turn the tide when all seems lost, holding up a collapsing rea 2Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 135 Me! Part-Time God 我！兼职神明 [Wild imagination + deities + clear plotting + slow pace + transmigrate into a book + one heroine + a touch of angst In a corner of a silent library, Zhang Ye happens upon a mysterious notebook. The moment he opens it, an unseen force drags him into the fantastical world of the “Forest of Delicacies”! In the blink of an eye, he becomes a “part-time deity” bearing a special mission. As he explores this bizarre, dazzling otherworld step by step, secrets hidden behind the mist emerge one after ano —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 I Am the Demon from Beyond the Realm 我，域外天魔 “Top-tier stand-in service from an Otherworldly Heavenly Demon, online in real time and ready whenever you call. All you need to do is sacrifice your soul and body, and you can enjoy the demon’s attentive leveling services. Whether you want to rise from humble beginnings or settle a grudge with a deadly feud, we’ll make it happen perfectly. So far, we haven’t received a single bad review from any customers, dear~” “Then where are the good reviews?” “Why aren’t you saying anything?” “???” 15.6kReads8.6Score1.8k14d adds
- 137 Huh? I'm Supposed to Save the Galaxy? 啊？靠我拯救银河系？ [Sci-fi + adventure + interstellar + chance encounters + growth] Without warning, Earth is invaded by an alien civilization. The unconscious Fang Blue Star is taken aboard their mothership, where he meets Fa Shi, another prisoner. And so begins an adventure he never asked for! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 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
- 139 I Was Afraid of Dying, but Became the Resistance's Mastermind 怕死的我成了抵抗军大脑 [Mortal’s Journey] + [Cyberpunk] + [Hard Science Fiction] + [Tech-Focused] + [Mecha] ◆ Chen Xuan is a homebody who’s afraid of dying and works as a lowly programmer. Under the alien Zeer race’s tight control of the apocalypse, he secretly assembles and sells special-service robots to earn a little pocket money. What’s wrong with that? ◆ Until the silver-haired killer goddess Lisi kicks down Chen Xuan’s door and points a gun at him, demanding that he modify a mecha. What man can work with a gun p —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Martial Anomaly: The Calamity of the Eerie Star 武异：诡星灾 Martial Arts: Waging War Against the Weird Star Calamity. Unknown monsters descend upon Blue Star, triggering global panic. Nations form alliances or make a last stand, and heroes rise in their wake: high-level martial artists can punch through steel and concrete; people with supernatural abilities control elements like wind, fire, and lightning to fight together. Blue Star devotes all its resources to training ten young men and women gifted with both high-level martial arts and supernatural abi 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 The Annihilation of the Solar System 湮灭太阳系 In just a few short years, a high school student tore apart the ironclad laws of physics. With only a few pages, he predicted the impending catastrophe. But was he a hero holding a crumbling edifice upright, or the mastermind secretly pulling the strings? In an age of crisis, humanity cast aside all prejudice and division, staking everything on one final effort to defend the right of our blue planet to survive. 23Reads8.4Score214d adds
- 142 My Future Daughter Arrives, and My Wife Is Medusa 未来女儿降临，妻子美杜莎 (Battle Through the Heavens, transmigration, System, fanfiction, no saintly heroine, fast-paced) The protagonist unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world on the Dou Qi Continent, while her two daughters transmigrate from the future. 563Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 A God’s Memories Adrift 神君记忆漂流记 A quiet, violent girl and a chatty, dramatic rich man Qi An wakes up one day with no memory and only an iron chain beside her. The chain leads her to a map and a diary. The map covers nearly the entire world, with circles drawn around several places. The diary is fragmented, recording a few things in vague terms. Piecing it together, Qi An deduces that she has an extraordinary identity. But she knows nothing about the other details. So, with the map and diary in hand, Qi An sets out on a journey 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 My Heartflame Is Her Only Keepsake 我的心焰，是她唯一的遗物 [No System] [No harem] [Alchemy to break the deadlock] The Everfrost Continent is sealed in endless cold, and spiritual energy has run dry. People here cultivate by drawing on the cold. The more they cultivate, the colder they become, until sooner or later they turn into ice sculptures. Ban Moshang is the only exception. There is a ball of fire in his heart. This fire can refine pills, refine qi, and melt the cold. Everyone calls him a useless waste because he has no spiritual roots. Only he kno —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 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
- 146 Oops, I Accidentally Got Picked Up by the Gang Leader’s Doctor 哎呀，不小心被帮主大夫捡回家 Alternate title: Laughing Scornfully at Love's Long Chain Gentlemen rarely choose righteousness, and the human heart's desires are hard to satisfy. Let the world and seas change as they may, through laughter and scorn, love and hate, life goes on. Faced with public condemnation, can she remain true to herself? Having seen through the mortal world, can he still resist a beauty's charms? For more tales of the martial world, follow Laughing Scornfully at Love's Long Chain. In a nutshell: A rare and 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 A Comeback on the Road to Exile 穿越流放路上的逆袭 A Comeback on the Road to Exile 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Way of Exorcism 除魔之道 Unlike the worlds that came before, this world is home to beings far stronger than humans. Can humanity still defeat them? Can humans remain masters of the world? This story features a whole new approach to demon hunting, unlike anything seen before. Here, you'll encounter all kinds of demon-slaying techniques, as well as demons born in countless different forms. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Transmigrated to Become the Most Beautiful Empress 穿越之倾世皇后 [Female Lead: Jin Feiyao, plays the fool while hiding her strength + transmigration + clever and beautiful + fiercely protective] [Male Lead: Jun Yue, scheming + ruthless and decisive + devoted exclusively to the female lead] [Jin Feiyao was a university student in the 21st century. She transmigrated while painting...] She wakes up as the daughter of the prime minister. Well, this is nice: good food and drink. When in Rome, make yourself at home. What? I have to enter the palace? Become the empe 19Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 150 The Shattered Sea of Stars 破灭星辰海 If the universe keeps being created, everything will be destroyed! Billions of stars and billions of universes make up an unimaginably vast Total Universe. As the ages passed, this enormous structure became unable to bear its own weight. To ensure the Total Universe's survival, the tumor threatening its structure had to be eradicated: civilization! In the starry sky, fleets like torrents of steel roar as endless mechanical armies run rampant, blotting out the scattered starlight! On the ground, 140Reads—Score—14d adds
