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- 51 In the Palworld, Why Can’t I Be King? 到帕鲁世界，怎就不能当王 [Business Warfare] [War] [Pokemon Battles] [Palworld] [Multiple Heroines] [Can Pals Cultivate Immortality Too?] [Multiple Transmigrators] This is a strange Palworld, where people from all kinds of eras have arrived. They have to explore it little by little before discovering that this world is completely different from what they expected. Go conquer it and rule it! Make the trip count! 300Reads—Score367Shelves
- 52 The 304th Confession in the Black-and-White Village 黑白村庄的第304次告白 If I told you this was my three hundred and fourth time coming to this place called Black and White Village, would you believe me? If I told you none of you are yourselves, that you are assembled from consciousness, would you believe me? If I told you that this place was created by someone from Earth, would you believe me? If I told you that the last time, you were yourselves, and yet not yourselves, would you believe me? Would you really believe me? (There are bonus extras in the author's notes 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Online Game: The Pinnacle Throne 网游：巅峰王座 Online Game, Esports. Lai Zhiyi was hailed as a god-tier player in the online game Peak Throne. Near the end of his career, the club he had been with for nine years fired him. But giving up was never in his vocabulary. In the newly opened Zone 21, he took up the new class of Chessmaster, retraced his old path, and formed his own team to return to the summit. 111Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 A Record of Heart-Piercing Crimes 诛心记 Autumn of the first year of Baozheng, the night before Frost’s Descent. Silver King Ye Wuqing launched the “Black Armor Coup” in the imperial capital. Iron cavalry trampled the moonlit streets, and smoke from the fires advanced toward the ninefold palace walls. Emperor Ye Wushuang wept as he stood before the palace hall. Unwilling to treat the people as mere straw dogs, he removed his crown and issued an edict of abdication. That night, the emperor climbed the Star-Gazing Tower alone, gazed no 116Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 55 After the Fake Heiress Dies, My Family Forces Me to Keep Vigil for Her 假千金死后，全家逼我替她守灵 After the fake heiress dies, my whole family forces me to keep vigil for her —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Return to the Inn 归栈 Return to the Inn 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Don't Mess with the Grand Tutor, She's an Immortal Lord 别惹太傅，她是仙君 Jiu Fangyi bears a calamitous fate. While seeking the truth behind it, he meets Feng Lishan. The two are opposites, one cold and one warm, and they unexpectedly discover that their origins are opposite as well. Jiu Fangyi's Source of Returning to the Void is withered, lifeless, and marked by death and separation, while Feng Lishan's Source of Primordial Vitality is its polar opposite, as different as clouds and mud, fire and ice. Yet at their roots, both come from the same source. As long as Fen 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Lock the Sane People In 把清醒的人关进来 Lock the Clear-Headed Inside 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 The Hilarious Life of a Rich Girl Married to a Fake Rich Guy 富家女嫁假富公子的搞笑生活 The Hilarious Married Life of a Rich Girl and a Fake Rich Heir 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 I Want to Marry Your Cousin, but You Became My Dad First 我想娶你表妹，你却先当我爹 I Want to Marry Your Cousin, but You Became My Dad First 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Hidden-Edge Son-in-Law 藏锋赘婿 The Hidden-Edge Live-In Son-in-Law 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Traveling Together on Misty Island 雾岛同行 Companions on Misty Island 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Terror at the Ancestral Home in the Deep Mountains 深山祖宅惊魂 Terror at the Ancestral Home in the Deep Mountains 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Good Lord, the Mad Homeless Man I Picked Up Is the Missing Trillionaire Tycoon Everyone Online Has Been Searching For 天，我捡的疯癫流浪汉，竟是全网失踪的千亿首富 Oh My God, the Deranged Homeless Man I Picked Up Is Actually the Trillionaire Who Vanished from the Internet 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 A Chilling Mystery: The Seventh Recipient 惊悚悬疑故事：第七个收件人 A Gripping Mystery: The Seventh Recipient 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Women Who Have Fallen into Pit Toilets Have Especially Keen Noses 掉过茅坑的女人，鼻子都比较灵 Women Who’ve Fallen into a Pit Toilet Have Especially Sharp Noses 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Apocalypse! A Good-for-Nothing? Recycle! I Can Become the God of This Region!!! 末世！废物？回收！我能成为这片区域的神！！！ Apocalypse! Useless? Recycle! I Can Become the God of This Region!!! 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Dimension of Calamity 厄境维度 | Lighthearted Daily Life | Mind Games and Illusion Battles | A Group of Boys Join Forces | Long-Term Foreshadowing Payoffs | No Mindless, Overpowered Wish Fulfillment | This world is made up of multiple dimensions, but for various reasons, the number of souls in each dimension is dwindling. Before long, every dimension will be lifeless. The only solution is to merge the dimensions, but doing so will cause many people to die. To this end, the Two-Headed Bird selects a group of people from differ 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 I Went Undercover in a Scam Compound 我在诈骗园区当卧底 I'm an Undercover Agent in a Scam Compound 162Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Chronicles of the Western Departure and Eastern River 西别东川录 The four kingdoms of Zhongzhou, through three generations of warfare Love and enmity, passions and grudges, chronicled across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers Ten realms of triumph, where meetings and partings are forever uncertain The Five Elements Tribulation, the Sixfold Heavenly Dipper The Fourteen Evil Paths venture where none dare go; with breath fading to a thread, they ascend to the ninth heaven Heaven and earth give rise to one another, yin and yang are both extinguished. If y 105Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 71 Mrs. Lu, I’m Done Holding On 陆太太，不熬了 Mrs. Lu, No More Staying Up 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 From the Start, One Ball: Others Struggle to Survive, I Plan for Growth 开局一个球，他人求生，我谋发展 Everyone on Earth is pulled into a survival game in a post-apocalyptic star domain. Billions of people land at random and randomly receive a single item or one inactive ability. They are all trapped in a desperate world of scarce supplies, rampant alien beasts, and relentless disasters. Everyone has one goal: to stay alive. To that end, they compete ruthlessly, loot, fight, betray one another, and do whatever it takes to survive. Only the protagonist, Zheng Zhiyuan, is bound to the [Planet Evolu 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 I Took Down the Entire Online Fiction World by Writing Novels 我靠写小说干翻全网文界 I Took on the Entire Online Fiction World by Writing Novels 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Day We Registered Our Marriage, My Fiancée Refused a Premarital Checkup 领结婚证那天，我的未婚妻拒绝婚前体检 On the day we were supposed to get our marriage license, my fiancée refused to have a premarital checkup. 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Retiring from Showbiz to Recover: CEO Qin Gives Up His Career to Spoil Her 爆甲退圈养伤，秦总弃业独宠她 [Mutual Devotion] [Secret Identities] [Strong Female Lead] [Modern] [Some School Life] Ruan Xia'an was kidnapped as a child and fortunately rescued by a powerful figure. Her intelligence won his favor, and she grew up by his side, eventually establishing her own mercenary group. Unpredictable by nature and exceptionally gifted, she inspired fear in others even as she rapidly expanded the group. This also made her the target of jealousy, and she was repeatedly ambushed. She had become the top fig 138Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Half-Mountain Ferry: No Shore Beyond, So I Make a Way 半山渡：彼岸无岸，我开路 A boy’s pursuit of pleasure turns into a youth filled with the bittersweet aches of growing up. [Depressed, frail, adored-by-all campus beauty × a battlefield of love rivals | 1990s school days | bittersweet youth, tragic ending | push and pull | dissociative identity | based on a true story] Who can save her shattered soul? ① The domineering class monitor: “Even if I can’t win your heart, I’ll have you.” Du Qinghuan bit her lower lip. “You wouldn’t dare!” His desire got the better of him. “Gues 88Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 77 That Day, I Saw Countless Versions of Myself with My Own Eyes 那天，我亲眼看到了无数个自己 That day, I saw countless versions of myself with my own eyes. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 A Temp Worker Gets Set Up by the Powers That Be, Then Descends to Earth in the Apocalypse to Master Time 临时工被资本做局，末世下凡到地球修时间 A temp worker was set up by capitalists and descended to Earth during the apocalypse to cultivate time. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Lord of the Mortal World in Tianlong 天龙尘主 In middle age, he dreams of the Song Dynasty and awakens in the Shaolin Temple, where a master takes him in and secretly reveals the secrets of Heaven. Will he climb to great heights and roam the world at ease, or spend a peaceful life by the lamp, devoted to Buddha? In his previous life, he was a drudge, and a moment of leisure was hard to come by. If he has the chance in this life, why not live freely? Yet the surging tide of history sweeps him along, time and again. Unwilling to live an ordin 100Reads8.6Score217Shelves
- 80 The Book of Fated Bonds 兰因簿 [Underworld Temp Worker + Civil Service Bureaucrat + Yin-Yang Romance] Do you think Fengdu opens its gates to the human world only on the Ghost Festival? It doesn't. The gates of the netherworld don't wait for any one particular festival. They stand open every day, day and night. Do you think that once you cross the Naihe Bridge and drink a bowl of Meng Po's soup, all love, hate, and longing will vanish without a trace? That's not true either. Countless obsessions will wander the depths of 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 A Strange Immortal Fate: The Good-for-Nothing Without a Spiritual Root Turns His Life Around 奇仙缘：无灵根废柴的逆转之路 [New release] + [Fantasy with a System] + [Laugh-out-loud fun] + [One heroine] Su Qingxuan, a humble errand boy of the Qingfeng Sect, was born without a spiritual root. Amid the crowd’s scorn, he unexpectedly found an immortal gourd and became bound to a System! Later, a mysterious voice in a secret realm told him that he wasn’t actually without a spiritual root. He had the legendary… spiritual root. The little System is adorable and mischievous, and always good for a laugh. A fox demon at t 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 From Menial Servant to Immortal Emperor 杂役问鼎仙帝 Xiao Mi is a genius with a Chaotic Divine Physique, yet he can only support himself by working as a menial in his sect. With unparalleled talent, he makes a comeback and becomes the most dazzling genius of the Sword Dao Sect. If his chaotic meridians prevent him from cultivating, then he’ll use the common-as-dirt Tiger Subduing Fist to become the supreme Sword Emperor. If no one recognizes his Chaotic Divine Physique, then he’ll shatter the heavens and become the Divine Emperor of All Immortals, 2.2kReads8.0Score198Shelves
- 83 A Literature PhD Transmigrates and Is Reborn, Rising to the Throne 文学博士穿越重生，登顶皇位 A literature PhD transmigrates and is reborn, then ascends to the throne. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 I Return from the Forbidden Zone 我自禁区归来 [No System / No Transmigration / No Rebirth / No Cliches / No Harem. If you want a brainless power fantasy, this isn't for you.] After the Fall Power descended, countless protective barriers appeared across Huaxia, guarding its cities, towns, and villages. Inside the barriers, people were safe. The lands beyond them were known as the Forbidden Zones, because anyone who spent a day in one would lose their mind and turn into a terrifying Fallen Beast. When Bian Ning woke up, he found himself inexp 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 One Piece: I Drew the Outer Path Demon Statue 海贼之我抽出了外道魔像 [One Piece Fanfiction] [Naruto System] After transmigrating to the world of pirates, Zhang Chunhui bound himself to the Naruto Gacha System. Starting out by selling kunai on Hachinosu, he drew a White Zetsu physique and became "Mr. White," manipulating events from behind the scenes. God Valley, Rocks, Roger, and the Marines were all pieces on his board. The moment he drew the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from the System, he understood: this world needed a new way to play. Now his Sharingan 461Reads5.5Score107Shelves
- 86 Five Elements Grotto-Heaven: I Cultivate in Secret and Become an Immortal Through the Eight Trigrams 五行洞天，我靠八卦苟成仙 Portable grotto-heaven + mortal cultivation + divination + alchemy + artifact crafting + spirit insects + spirit beasts. After inheriting the legacy of his ancestor, King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, he comprehends the Art of the Zhou Yi Eight Trigrams, allowing him to discern opportunities, locate dragon veins and auspicious sites, and see fortune and misfortune at a glance. He gradually unlocks a portable Five-Element Grotto-Heaven secret realm! Its area keeps expanding, and the flow of time within 127Reads—Score271Shelves
- 87 Half a Lifetime of Enduring, Half a Lifetime Beloved 半生隐忍半生卿 When Gu Yan was nine, his dying father entrusted him to his old classmate, Shen Dean. From then on, he lived under the same roof as the Shen family, growing up alongside their daughter, Shen Wan. She was the cherished daughter of the household, while he was the child of an old friend. An invisible wall separated their stations in life. Yet she had warmed him with porridge on cold nights, and he had shielded her from the rain that poured across the city. Love took root in their everyday closenes 211Reads8.2Score103Shelves
- 88 I’m Hunting for Bugs in a Superpowered Otherworld. If I Can’t Find One, I Die! 我在超能异世界里找bug，找不到，就得死！ I'm searching for bugs in a superpowered parallel world. If I can't find them, I die! 142Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Keep Sleeping, Don’t Wake Up 继续睡，不要醒 [Infinite Dreams + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Horror + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Bizarre + Romance + Sophisticated] Lin Du has been dreaming ever since he was born. He often wakes with a start in some strange room and desperately flees to a subway station, only to discover that his every move is being livestreamed and everyone is watching. When he rushes out of the subway, he finds himself sitting in a car with no end, where every passenger is horrifyingly strange. The car stops at one st 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 The Top Outdoor Adventure Streamer Nearly Died Live on Camera 户外探险第一网红，差点死在直播间 The biggest outdoor adventure streamer nearly died live on camera 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Whoever I Write About Dies: First My Best Friend, Then My Ex-Girlfriend 我写谁谁死，先写好兄弟，再写前女友 Whoever I write about dies. First my best friend, then my ex-girlfriend 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Creatures of the Three Realms, Listen Up: I Am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Titiankong 三界众生，听好了，我乃齐天大圣孙替空 Hear me, all beings of the Three Realms! I am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Tifukong 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情 Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself. 526Reads8.9Score111Shelves
- 94 The Neighbor's Young Wife Schemed Against Me and Ruined Half My Life 隔壁小媳妇算计我，毁我半生 [Period drama] [Northeastern factory district] [Forbidden affair] [Deception and schemes] [Pregnancy troubles] [Long-buried secrets] [Redemption through guilt] [A painfully realistic tragedy] In a northeastern chemical factory neighborhood in the 1980s, the life of honest factory worker Jia Jun is ruined by the young wife next door! One act of misplaced trust draws him into the enormous lie Su Min has spun. One wrong step, and he's trapped in a forbidden affair, lost beyond redemption! An unexpe 5.4kReads8.1Score266Shelves
- 95 Driving Through the Waves 浪里行车 [Traditional Wuxia] [Male-Female Couple] [Half Martial World Family History] [Plot-Driven] Nanhe Xuan (Ziche), a highly skilled martial artist, is investigating a matter that could affect the entire martial world. On his way to celebrate his nephew's wedding, he happens to save Donghe Piaoxue, who has nearly made enemies of the entire martial world. As a result, he gets drawn into another storm in the martial world. Like a carriage tossed on the waves, the two press on through hardship, graduall 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Legend of Lu Hua and Hua Fei 吕华与华飞传说 The Legend of Lü Hua and Hua Fei 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 This Dharma Says, Let There Be Light 本法说，要有光 [Legal Fantasy] [Path to Godhood] [Cthulhu Mythos] [Corruption] [One Female Lead] [Pure Love] [Dystopia] "Teacher, why is Earth the only place in the galaxy with life?" "Because that's what the law says." "Then where did light come from?" The teacher flipped through the legal code. "I know this one. The law says, 'Let there be light!'" The technology and civilization of the past have fallen silent, and an unprecedented power now rules the new world. It is neither arcane, inscrutable magic nor ce 368Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 唐小鸣与叶华传说 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Sunny Skies Above the Humble Life 鸡毛之上有晴天 [Marriage and love] [Heartbreak] [Betrayal] [Comeback] [Redemption] [The truth about marriage] [Urban romance] [Realistic relationships] [Healing] A broken marriage has worn away every last trace of warmth, leaving two lives utterly out of step! He fought his way up from being a low-level technician at a chemical plant, only to have his own brother steal his hard work and stab him in the back! His former lover suffers through pregnancy; old love and hatred entangle them, betrayal cuts deep, devo 1.2kReads8.1Score104Shelves
- 100 The Legend of Hua Xiang and Ling Zifei 华翔与灵子飞传说 The Legend of Huaxiang and Lingzi Fei —Reads—Score—Shelves
