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- 101 I, King Zhou, Have Already Become a Sage. Why Are You Still Trying to Deify Me? 我纣王都成圣了，你还封神？ Also known as I Am the Sun in the Great Shang. Those who know, know. It’s really good, and I can’t say more than that. I guarantee it’s a great read! Di Xin’s vision of a glorious legacy for the ages will shine forever. Loyalty! 44.7kReads7.3Score3.7kShelves
- 102 Urban: A Beautiful Mature Woman Sets Her Sights on Me from the Start 都市：开局美妇赖上我 [Urban dual cultivation + all the beauties + exhilarating plot + decisive and merciless + multiple heroines] Xu Xiaofan is devoted to his girlfriend, but one day, an alluring married woman unexpectedly invites him into her car. Inside, she tells him that his girlfriend has been sleeping with her husband. After learning that his girlfriend has betrayed him, Xu Xiaofan breaks up with her for good. No one knows that he is actually a hidden cultivator. After suffering heartbreak and humiliation, he 45kReads7.8Score4kShelves
- 103 Wandering the Wasteland: Trait Bonuses from the Start, a Daily Prophet 流浪废土，词条开局，每日预言家 (The rating just came out, so it’ll rise later.) In the 350th year of the wasteland era, the sky is forever leaden gray, like a rusted iron sheet pressing down overhead. The air of the wasteland era is forever tinged with the sweet, metallic stench of rust, decay, and radioactive dust. Every breath is like swallowing shards of glass. The protagonist, Qin Lang, awakens a Trait System and risks his life to secure the daily prophecy from the start. Watch as Qin Lang, alongside his honest and valian 3.8kReads6.3Score224Shelves
- 104 It All Started with a Chili Pepper Trade 从辣椒交易开始 On modern-day Blue Star, in a coastal village in the southwest of Huaguo, the countryside was poor and remote but rich in produce. Chen An, 22, had graduated from high school and spent several years working away from home, but couldn’t make ends meet. He returned to his hometown to help his parents grow chili peppers. That year, they had a bumper crop, but buyers drove the price down to just a few cents per jin, and nobody wanted to buy them. Just as he sat worrying on the ridge between the fiel 3.5kReads6.2Score206Shelves
- 105 Global High Martial: My Luck Is Just a Little Too Strong 全球高武：我的幸运有亿点点强 Lin Fan wakes to find himself “sent” by Earth’s will to another world shrouded in “black fog.” While everyone else struggles desperately to awaken their talents, his luck stat starts at one hundred million, and his talent, “Fortune Beyond the Heavens,” lets him make his wishes come true and turn his words into reality! He finds divine weapons just by walking around, enemies get struck by lightning, secret realms deliver treasures right to him, and even ferocious beasts fall into infighting and k 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Sequence: Old One Sovereign 序列：旧日主宰 (Cthulhu Mythos + Potions + Sequences + Satisfying Combat. An established author with three highly rated, full-length novels. Quality guaranteed. The new novel’s early ratings are being suppressed.) When Asla opened his eyes from death, he saw: Guns, potions, churches, evil gods, angels, Beyonders, armies, spies, mercenaries, hunters, gangs, monsters... This was free America, a land where chaos and order coexisted. Death and the ravages of capitalism fell equally upon everyone. These were the be 131.2kReads8.8Score13.7kShelves
- 107 Reborn from the Start: I'm Just a Scrap Collector 开局重生：我就一个收废品的 From the start, he collects scrap! Lin Zan, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, wields the Great Dao of Dust, sweeps across the outer realms to crush countless strange beings, personally restrains the Ancestor of World-Destroying Evil, and ascends to the highest peak of the heavens. Though his Great Dao makes him invincible throughout the ages, he cannot protect the loved ones by his side. His wife, children, and kin all perish in the outer-realm calamity. Having seen through the joys and sorrows of m 1.7kReads8.6Score151Shelves
- 108 I Grow Stronger by Devouring the Dead, but the Goddess Wants to Devour Me 我靠吞噬死者变强，女神却想吞我 [Urban high martial arts + varied supernatural abilities + new power system + no System / but a loot-box-style golden finger + intelligent protagonist who grows stronger + satisfying story with brains + mind games and martial combat] Lin Mo is a cleanup worker for the Special Affairs Administration in Shenzhen, tasked with handling the affairs of unclaimed "lonely deaths." During a routine funeral, he unexpectedly awakens the supernatural ability "Echoes of Last Wishes": by touching a dead pers 353Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 The Legendary Han Xin, the Greatest General of All Time 千古第一将韩信之千古传奇 Han Xin was born a beggar, so where did he learn his astonishing military strategies? Where did he master such superb swordsmanship? How did he win every battle without a single defeat? Why were his victories so decisive, with large-scale clashes against his opponents so rare? How were his battlefield instincts and judgments so precise? This book recounts every one of Han Xin’s legendary exploits in detail. 4.1kReads8.4Score356Shelves
- 110 A Fleeting Moment 寸阴 [Infinite-loop adventure in the early stages + an intelligent villain + detailed supporting characters + haven't figured out the later stages yet ^_^] Urging someone to study medicine is a recipe for disaster! Even with a golden finger, you still can't overcome human nature! So let it go. Take off that white coat, as if shedding the shackles weighing you down, only to fall into a cycle, an apparently endless loop. Within the cycle of 2015, you uncover a shocking secret from hundreds of years ago 6.7kReads—Score535Shelves
- 111 The Floating City in the Freakish Sea 畸海浮城 [A World of Strange Realms] [Backrooms-Inspired Setting] [Dark Humor] [Monstrous Creatures] [Light Apocalypse Scavenging] [Uncovering the Truth] The original world has shattered into countless eerie pocket worlds: A silent city where the sun never rises, A man-eating forest where every tree walks, An endless wasteland forever watched by a giant eye... And also, A colossal Buddha traveling beneath the city, Moving walls of steel rebar mixed with rotting flesh, A black humanoid figure stan 138.2kReads9.1Score13.5kShelves
- 112 The Authorities Have Been Led Astray, and the Post-2000s Have Invaded the Country 官方被带歪，国家被零零后入侵了 Yuan Tao transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a new-media host at China Central Television. To promote a new tank, he edits a video. The soundtrack: “Whoever talks nonsense gets a punch from me.” The square-dancing beat and insanely catchy lyrics leave netizens stunned. [Is this a CCTV video account?] [The whole style has changed!] [It feels like the post-2000s generation has invaded.] For his second edit, he promotes a new fighter jet. The soundtrack: “Toward the Clouds.” Netizens are 31.4kReads7.1Score3.2kShelves
- 113 The Nascent Soul Ancestor Becomes a Security Guard 元婴老祖当保安 He is the only Nascent Soul Ancestor in the Age of Declining Dharma, yet he chose to seal his cultivation and become a lowly security guard in a bustling city. Li Qingfeng had stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world a thousand years ago. To break through to the Deity Transformation realm, he sealed his cultivation and plunged into the mortal world. By day, he is "Old Li," the cheerful security guard at the Shengshi Huating residential complex. He patrols, watches the gates, settles disput 417Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Superpowers: The Good-for-Nothing Star Dust Awakens 异能：废柴星尘觉醒 Explosive action + high martial arts + ruthless combat + fiery passion + invincibility + ensemble cast + satisfying thrills + no angst. The Star-Eaters, an alien race, have disguised themselves as humans and are secretly hunting the people of Blue Star. With Blue Star on the verge of occupation, humanity is about to become food for the aliens. One day, a young man awakens an unparalleled supernatural power. He rises up and leads his closest friends, both male and female, in wiping out the invade —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Revolutionizing the Qing: A Changing Era of Self-Strengthening 革清：自强变局 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 128.3kReads9.1Score8.4kShelves
- 116 Sequence: Sacrifice 序列：祭品 The rating is being suppressed during the new-book period, so feel free to dive in! [Sequence-based growth + He An's new novel + the usual promise: no frustrating setbacks] Sold by his parents to be a human sacrifice, he returns with the Five Ghosts in place of his organs and the Six Demons transformed into his viscera! Mom, Dad, why aren't you smiling anymore? Those people and gods who took my organs, are you ready? I've come to collect what you owe me! 292.7kReads9.1Score32.5kShelves
- 117 Text-Based Wuxia: From the Start, a Nighttime Meeting with the Gang Leader's Wife at a Ruined Temple 文字武侠：开局破庙夜会帮主夫人 [Text-based game] [Affects reality] [High Martial] [No female lead, multiple women] Chen Xuan accidentally came across a text-based "game" called Martial Arts. To his surprise, this seemingly unremarkable little game was terrifyingly realistic. Even more astonishing, it could affect reality. He also awakened a special talent: at the cost of reducing his own attributes to zero, he could see the triggers for every hidden encounter quest in the game! [Triggered Mortal-grade hidden encounter: "Years 1.4MReads9.3Score171.5kShelves
- 118 Have You and Her Done It Three Times Yet? 你和她达到三次了吗 Have you and her done it three times yet? 468Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 System Tasks Too Hard? The Nation Says, “Leave It to Me” 系统任务太难？国家：放着我来 [Signed for print publication] [An unconventional story about turning in a System, focusing on the protagonist's growth and the country reaching out to him in return] Good news! I've got a System! Bad news! The System seems to have a bug and keeps trying to kill me! Faced with a System devoted to erasing its Host, Li Ce made a decision that went against his ancestors' wishes. He turned the System over to the country! P.S. The author has only posted on Dianzi. It's a great book, but I'm not very 2.3MReads9.2Score381.1kShelves
- 120 My Golden Finger Awakened, and I Took Revenge as an Unstoppable Force 金手指觉醒，我以无敌之姿复仇 Feel-good power fantasy + no angst + transmigration + revenge + ruthless action + hot-blooded battles + invincibility + ensemble cast + cultivation + pure excitement. A college student transmigrates into the body of the foolish young master of the Chu family. As his clan faces annihilation, he binds himself to the ultimate revenge cultivation System and sets out on a path of cultivation and vengeance. This is a first-person fantasy power fantasy with a breakneck pace and one satisfying moment af 678Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Starting in Shuangqi Town, I’ll Slay My Way Through the Heavens 从双旗镇开始，刀斩诸天 [The Outcast crossover] [Wuxia] [Late Qing Dynasty] [Guanzhong blade-for-hire] [National and family vendettas] Screen works featured so far: The Outcast, The Swordsman in Double Flag Town, The Blade, A Touch of Zen, The Grandmaster, Fist of Legend, the Huo Yuanjia series, House of Flying Daggers, The Gold Robbers, the Huang Feihong series... I have two blades. One is called Hero. The other is called Spare My Life. Hero isn't heroic. And Spare My Life won't spare anyone. I'm a Guanzhon 45.6kReads9.0Score4.5kShelves
- 122 Awakened Pain Sharing, and Everyone Was Terrified to Tears 觉醒痛觉共享，所有人都吓哭了 182.6kReads9.0Score29.3kShelves
- 123 You Don’t Understand the Art of Being a Simp 舔狗的境界你不懂 You have no idea what it means to be a devoted simp. 96Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Drink. Brag. Die. 喝酒.吹牛.死 Drink. Brag. Die. 187Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Lucky Little Girl Follows Her Mom to the Military Compound and Becomes Everyone's Favorite 锦鲤幼崽随妈上军区：成大院团宠 [Adorable Kids + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + Animal Speech + Pocket Dimension + Light Mysticism + Everyone’s Favorite] In her past life, Tangtang lived a miserable life. Her mother was deceived, and her cousin stole her lucky koi fate, leaving her a poor little thing. Before she died, she dragged her scummy uncle and his whole family down with her. When she opened her eyes again, Tangtang had returned to the year she was six. Her mother was about to agr 65kReads8.5Score11.4kShelves
- 126 I Rule the Archives of Life and Death on the Other Shore 我在彼岸执掌生死档案 "Chen Mo, would you be willing to work for the Underworld?" "That lousy place? Not even a dog would go!" "A monthly salary of fifty thousand." "If even dogs won't go, then I'll go!" "Triple overtime pay, and if anything goes wrong on a mission, we'll make sure you get a good next life." "Big Brothers Hei and Bai Wuchang, you can count me as clocked in today." "Lord Yama, you're paying me so much, it's got me worried." 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 I Was But a Common Soldier, Yet Forged a Green Blade and Slashed Down Every Celestial Above 我本凡卒铸青锋，背剑斩尽天上人 [Sequence-Based High Martial Arts] [High Martial Arts College Entrance Exam] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Unconventional One-Heroine Romance] [No Holding Back on Power] The 3D animated series of the same name, A Young Man Born to Defy Fate, Sword in Hand, He Scorns Princes and Lords, is now streaming on Hongguo Short Dramas. Welcome to the Infinite Tianyuan World. Here, countless races vie for a place to survive in a world where habitable land makes up just one percent of the total area. Here, [iden 64.1kReads8.2Score6.7kShelves
- 128 The Misadventures of a Cultivator 苦逼修仙传 Unable to visit a brothel, unable to die, he unexpectedly obtains a useless immortal artifact: "Young man! From this day forward, you will defy fate, crush every genius in your path, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life!!" From martial arts to qinggong, internal arts, heart sutras, flying on swords, riding dragons and treading on jiaolong, spiritual power, immortal arts... Not an invincible protagonist story, not mindless, not a System story, mostly lighthearted and f 1.1kReads—Score105Shelves
- 129 Upscale Residential Area Ahead, Impostors Keep Out 前方高档小区，伪人止步 This is a world overrun by impostors. Yu Tang is a night-shift security guard of the highest caliber. His job is to stay at the security post, identify impostors, and alert the relevant organizations so they can deal with them, making sure none slip into the residential complex at night. But this job isn’t easy. It seems the impostors aren’t the only things he has to deal with here… … Wealthy homeowner: “Xiao Yu, take this ten thousand yuan for now. I’ve got an important client coming at 3 a.m. 68.5kReads8.5Score7kShelves
- 130 High Martial: The Blackflame Spear Suppresses Demons 高武：长枪黑炎镇妖魔 [Genius + Everyday Life + Plot] “According to the Temporary Regulations on the Management of Demonkind in Donghuang, anyone who crosses the boundary and harms another shall be killed without exception.” In a dark alley, eighteen-year-old student Shen Changan stared at the monster before him and recited the regulations without expression. He went to school by day and hunted demons by night. As the top official of Qingzhou’s Night Watch Bureau, he had long since gotten used to this life. Until one 260.7kReads8.5Score30.1kShelves
- 131 My Saber Is Sheathed, Yet I'm Still Number One Under Heaven 战刀入鞘，我依旧天下第一 [Unmatched in slaughter + absolute power + surrounded by beauties + steamrolls all the way] He once ruled over hell. The name King of Hell made the world's powerful tremble in fear! The moment he emerged, three Black Hawks cut across the sky as forces from every direction knelt to welcome him! He could wipe out a powerful family with a snap of his fingers, slay formidable foes with a wave of his hand, and win the devotion of beauties who would follow him to their deaths! In this chaotic age of h 2.2kReads9.2Score176Shelves
- 132 Reborn in 1985: A Young Man with a Bright Future 重生1985，少年大有可为 At forty, Shen Mo returned to 1985. The child of educated youths sent to southern Yunnan, he was left behind when his parents returned to Shanghai and divorced. “Dad has a home, Mom has a home, and I'm left all by myself. Am I just in the way...” The lyrics from a TV drama he'd once watched had become his own life. Shen Mo was now an unwanted burden, unloved by both grandmothers, but he still had his second uncle. “Xiao Mo, the city registration fee is nearly four hundred yuan, but your second u 189.4kReads8.5Score17.1kShelves
- 133 Humanity’s Invasion Begins, and the Racial Trials Are Underway 全民入侵，种族试炼开启 An invincible body makes anything possible! Today, as I continued down the road of getting beaten up, I once again managed to make it through another day... A hundred years ago, a cataclysmic change struck the star sector! A higher civilization appeared in this galaxy, and trial stages emerged from thin air. Everyone could participate. By using a Star Key, they could be matched with and enter trial planets, searching, exploring, and killing, using every possible means to constantly improve thems 218.5kReads8.4Score19.5kShelves
- 134 There's No Water Left on Red Sun Star 赤阳星没水了 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Reading Books Grants Stats: The Path to Godhood 看书加属性，成就通神之路 [Boosting Stats vs. Gaining Abilities]+ [Personal Growth vs. Plotting Across the Universe]+ [Protagonist vs. Author]+ … [Blurb 1: Reading books boosts your stats. The more you boost them, the more you read; the more you read, the more you boost them. And so you slowly grow stronger. Since the protagonist grows by reading, the change happens gradually. Give it a try if that sounds like your kind of story.] … [Blurb 2: Whether in fiction or reality, reading books gives you knowledge. What would 830Reads7.3Score106Shelves
- 136 The Little Five-and-a-Half-Year-Old Bun Makes His Dad's Head Split in Two with Anger 小小包子五岁半，气得老爹头两瓣 The manhua adaptation is now online. Enjoy! [Period setting + coming-of-age + a touch of ensemble cast. This little girl is just an ordinary child, with no superhuman strength or instant cheats. Her personality and background mean she will never let anyone push her around.] Li Tian, an overworked office drone, catches the latest trend and transmigrates into a book! The good news: she becomes a third-generation military family kid, with an impressive background! The bad news: she transmigrates in 321.3kReads8.6Score3.2kShelves
- 137 A City Wage Earner's Rise to Legend 都市打工人，逆袭成传奇 [Millennium Era] [Factory Comeback] [Mature Women] [Multiple Female Leads] [Workplace] [Romance] [Urban Underworld] [Feel-Good Story] [Heiresses] [Campus Beauties] [Goddesses] [Rich Beauties] [Older Women] [Everyday Family Life] [Urban Comeback] [Adapted from Real Life] This is an inspirational story about Hao Qiangzhuang, an ordinary wage worker who suddenly gets the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the boss's son-in-law and heir! But he has no idea that a web of schemes lies behind it all. 33kReads7.7Score4.4kShelves
- 138 Daily Life of a Mining-Type Beast Tamer 挖矿系御兽师的日常生活 Beast Tamer is a noble profession. Most people associate it with wealth, protection, and power. But they don’t know that one major at Beast Taming University is called: Environmental Survey and Development. Xiao Sui has regretted choosing this major more than once. The only time he’s happy is when he finds precious ore in certain secret realms. What’s wrong with environmental surveying? It’s absolutely fantastic. (The ratings just opened, so they’re on the low side. A 7.1 opening score is alread 184.6kReads8.8Score20.3kShelves
- 139 Fatal Illusion 致命幻觉 Deadly Hallucination 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 EN One Entry Per Year: Even a Simulator Can Do It 一年抽取一词条，模拟的也可以？ [Trait extraction + simulator + inherit everything + immortal martial arts] (Animated adaptation now available) Chen Yi transmigrates to a martial arts world and obtains a System that draws one trait every year. Unfortunately, all he draws are useless white traits. The probability of obtaining high-quality traits is extremely low, and the highest-grade mythical trait has a chance of only 0.001%! To improve the odds, he must raise his martial arts realm, but he has no innate aptitude and cannot c 419.9kReads8.8Score40.7kShelves
- 141 The Demon Venerable of Three Thousand Years Is Writing a Thesis at the Academy? 三千载魔尊竟在学府写论文？ Urban cultivation + subverting tropes + invincible protagonist + hilarious comedy + the Myriad Worlds The Eternal Night Demon Venerable wakes from a three-thousand-year slumber during an archaeological livestream. His first words: "What's the Wi-Fi password?" He's shoved into a university for "reeducation." The professor's laws of the universe are just his old drafts. He gets reported for cheating after taking on five players in an esports match, and draws a circle on a soda can to seal a camp 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Steer Clear of High-Paying Job Offers 远离高薪诱惑 Beware the Lure of a High Salary 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 A Soul's Bloody Path 灵魂血路 Blood Trail of the Soul 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Apocalypse Is Crazy Too 末世也疯狂 Going Crazy in the Apocalypse 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 I Became a Wanted Man Just by Working as a Space Hunter 当个星际猎人，怎么登上通缉令了 As an outlaw in the boundless stars, Mr. Lauren is an outstanding example of his kind. The renowned Interstellar Daily once offered this assessment: Mr. Lauren is a respectable yet mad gentleman. At times, he even acts like a well-mannered aristocrat from a bygone era. He isn't greedy, isn't lustful, and has none of the other perverse vices common among outlaws. Mr. Lauren has only one passion: carrying out terrorist attacks, which he does with tireless enthusiasm. He is always found in dan 30.6kReads9.1Score2.2kShelves
- 146 Overpowered Physique and Double Pupils from the Start, I Conquer the High Martial World 开局霸体加重瞳，高武被我打穿了 [High Martial] [Starry Sky] [Prodigies] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Overwhelming From the Start] "The way of the cautious: There's no such thing as being too slick, only slicker. You'll foresee every danger and only pull out a sucker punch at the crucial moment. Even if a whole domain turns to ash and the universe is destroyed, you'll remain completely untouched. Your only hobby is collecting beautiful women." "The way of dominance: You'll have the greatest cultivation talent and the strongest comb 9.8kReads8.8Score723Shelves
- 147 After Reincarnating in a Corpse, the Whole World Finally Finds Peace 借尸还魂后，整个世界都清净了 After Coming Back to Life in Another Body, the Whole World Finally Got Some Peace 124Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The First Traveler 第一寰客 [Chinese-Style Supernatural Powers] [Abstract Instances] [Puzzle-Solving Challenges] [Team-Based Adventures] Delusion is the reflection of reality; madness is the ultimate clarity! After an exam, Fang Lai is chosen to become a Traveler and take part in a game organized by the Heavenly Dao called the “Delusion Realm.” He discovers a place filled with strange and wonderful things, a world of bizarre sights. Follow logic and you're a weakling; ignore logic and you're dead. He also discovers that ev 54.3kReads9.2Score5kShelves
- 149 We're Already in Showbiz, Who Still Cares About Romance? 都混娱乐圈了，谁还谈感情啊 Zhang Xin, a cryptocurrency operations manager, is reborn as a lovesick trainee on Blue Star who died from holding his breath. You came to work in the entertainment industry, so why are you talking about love... "Playing along is fine, but catching real feelings is out of the question!" But... A singing diva, a top-tier starlet, an award-winning actress, a wealthy heiress... No, he couldn't take it anymore. Faced with the choice between being a beast and being worse than a beast, he chose "somew 859Reads—Score116Shelves
- 150 R Virus, How Compatible Are You? R病毒，你的契合度高不高 R Virus: How Compatible Are You? 144Reads—Score—Shelves
