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- 101 EN You Mistook Me for a Villain? Then I'll Take the Job 怎么误会我是反派？那我真上岗了 [Coming-of-age] [Warning: triple-identity spy ⚠️] [The three identities come after four instances] [Lone Wolf, no male-gaze content] [The protagonist is pursued early on, extreme protagonist stans, back off!] [Fictional setting with a realistic feel] The “Carnival Paradise” arrives and gradually devours the real world in the form of a game. Zhu Yan unexpectedly awakens the talent “Impersonation” and becomes one of the first closed-beta players. He thought he could safely build up his strength, 97.7kReads9.4Score12.8k14d adds
- 102 Kill Those Men: From Ugly Chick to Beautiful Swan 杀死那些男人之丑小鸡变白天鹅 [Transformation and glow-up + triumphant heroine + uplifting feel-good story + top student's growth + fairytale romance + authentic post-80s generation] Note: Please don't let the heroine's looks put you off! The protagonist is called “XX Fat” purely because the author has a mischievous sense of humor. In reality, Xia Weiwei has a figure the likes of which appear only once every three thousand years. She's an outgoing, adorable girl with sky-high emotional and intellectual intelligence; she's th 1.3kReads9.3Score11214d adds
- 103 The 1970s: You Have Space, So Why Not Hunt and Trade? 70年代：有空间你不打猎倒卖？ [Travel between two worlds ➕ resell supplies ➕ raise hunting dogs ➕ hunt ➕ raise wild animals ➕ fish for rare giant fish ➕ build a wellness resort ➕ bring technical documents for missiles, aircraft carriers, and fighter jets, along with high-yield hybrid seeds, to the 1970s and 1980s] He transmigrates to 1977, an era when guns and hunting are unrestricted and wild animals are unprotected. Yang Guangshu, fifteen Chinese hunting dogs, Tibetan Mastiffs, Xiasi dogs, and East Sichuan hunting dogs, pl 24.6kReads8.4Score1.5k14d adds
- 104 Cutting Ties with My Past Life 了缘断残生 Li Qing was an orphan everyone felt entitled to slap! After both his parents died, people seized his family’s property and drove him out of the village. He’d been in a juvenile correctional facility, an orphanage, and, of course, prison! One day, by chance, he met an old swindler on the street, and his life seemed to take a different course! In a single night, he walked through a bone cave glowing with a sickly green light, received several inexplicable guests, and made it through a foul-smel 192Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Modern Immortality: Starting with the Eight-Section Vajra Arts 现代长生：从八部金刚功法开始 [Traditional martial arts + longevity + no female lead + daily life + lighthearted + secluded living] After working himself to death in his previous life, Lin Qing is reborn and angrily quits his job, returning to his hometown to slack off. He awakens a status panel that lets him add points to and upgrade every attribute. In literature, Taiji brings peace to the world. Yin and yang complement each other, emerging from the formless, and four ounces can deflect a thousand pounds. [Taijiquan reache 23.6kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 106 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 3.9kReads9.1Score48314d adds
- 107 Chronicle of All Laws Returning to the Void 万法归墟录3 This book gathers an extraordinary range of wondrous techniques from across the world. At one end are ancient immortal arts from primordial secret realms, revered as legends, whose every move seems to contain the immense power to create heaven and earth. At the other are unique secret arts passed down through generations by hidden martial sects, each carrying the blood, sweat, and wisdom of countless cultivators. It covers everything in detail: external cultivation methods renowned for their fie 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Reborn in the 1960s: Sent to the Countryside from the Start 重生60年代，开局就上山下乡 [Period]+ [Reborn]+ [Pocket Dimension]+ [Single Female Lead] Ye Hao transmigrates to a parallel world in the 1960s. Just as he is about to starve to death, he awakens an ancient treasure passed down from antiquity: the Azure Lotus Mystic Jade! Watch as he lives it up during the famine, improving his own life while also doing his part to help this country rebuild from the ground up! Our goal is the stars and the sea! 1.9kReads8.8Score23914d adds
- 109 Tales of the Rare Treasures Pavilion 聚珍阁轶事 Tales of the Rare Treasures Pavilion 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Uncle Nine: Oh No, My System Is Acting Up Again 九叔：糟糕，我的系统又不服了 The successive Grandmasters of Maoshan once said: When roaming the world, what matters most is the strength of your foundations. If you can avoid trouble, do so. The world is in turmoil, and one less problem is better than one more. If you can’t avoid it, make a friend. If you can’t make a friend, negotiate face to face. If negotiations fail, then fight. When following these three rules, always keep three principles in mind. First, never hold back. Call upon the gods, the saints, and the Grandma 23.1kReads9.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 111 I Transmigrated into the Prime Minister’s Mansion as a Concubine-Born Daughter 魂穿相府庶女 My Soul Transmigrated into the Prime Minister's Concubine-Born Daughter 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Cultivation, Futuristic Style 未来式修仙 Centuries after the spiritual qi revival on Earth, spiritual technology reigns supreme. Cultivation no longer requires spiritual roots, talent, or insight. A miniature spiritual qi reactor can be implanted in the dantian, and a chip can be implanted directly in the brain to attain enlightenment. Even the Heavenly Dao is just something that can be observed and exploited by a supercomputer. Yet on this Earth, where even pigs can become immortals, the rampant proliferation of cultivators has caused 12.3kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 113 The 1950s: Starting Out as a Wanderer, I Make My Home in the Deep Mountains 50年代：隐居深山从流浪开始 Tags: (farming + reclusive life + family saga + harem + science fiction + interstellar + universe) (Entirely hand-written, no AI) (Author’s note at chapter 3480: I’ve been writing this book for over three years. Its rating went from 9.4 to 8.9, and its readership has fallen from several hundred thousand to forty or fifty thousand. It was once a huge hit, and then it faded into obscurity. Many readers have probably come across it more than once, but very few have made it to the later chapters. (S 33.8kReads8.9Score2.4k14d adds
- 114 Minecraft: The Road to Immortal Cultivation Across the Myriad Worlds 我的世界：万界修仙之路 [Infinite Flow] [Minecraft] [7 Days to Die] [Stat-Based] [Probably an Invincible Protagonist] [Maybe a Xianxia Story] “An immortal strokes my crown, tying my hair to grant me eternal life!” “I already have eternal life. I stroke the immortal's crown, and a short punch splits his skull!” This is a game, a performance. Behind it all, dozens of pairs of eyes are watching. 14.8kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 115 The Secret Realm's Dragon-Elephant Art Legacy 秘境传承龙象诀 The Dragon-Elephant Art, an inheritance from a secret realm 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Reboot: Living Life as I Please at Work 重启：混在岗位上的恣意人生 A new book in the same vein, Restart: Small, Certain Joys of Office Life, is already 800,000 words long. You’re warmly invited to give it a read! A carefree life doesn’t require tens or hundreds of billions in assets, power that lets you look down on the world, or throwing punches and kicks at people showing off... It’s enough that I feel my life is going well, and that the people around me can see it, imagine having it themselves, and feel inspired! Given another chance, Yang Zhan has a better 53.1kReads9.3Score2.9k14d adds
- 117 Transmigrate with a Rainbow Spirit Root 穿越七彩灵根 Transmigrated with Seven-Color Spirit Roots 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Proving the Dao in Dreams: From the Start, I Scheme Against Cultivators 梦中证道，开局算计修仙者 After transmigrating to the world of immortal cultivation, he spends ten years searching for a way forward, yet can barely make any progress. Fortunately, he has a golden finger that lets him weave dreams. So he painstakingly lays his plans, finally waiting for cultivators to arrive. From then on, he cultivates in dreams and proves the Dao in dreams! He turns illusion into reality and ultimately becomes an unrivaled Immortal Venerable. 21.3kReads8.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 119 Siheyuan: Getting By in the Era with a Game System 四合院，带着游戏系统混年代 Li Qinghe accidentally transmigrates into a television drama world set in 1955. In this composite world, where many period dramas have been brought together, Li Qinghe uses a video game cheat and works hard alongside his family to build a better life. Moving into a siheyuan, watching the drama, enjoying the gossip: a laid-back slice of life. No angst, no angst, no angst. If that's not your thing, don't come in! 44.9kReads8.3Score2.1k14d adds
- 120 I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案，晚上地府当差 I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha 21.3kReads8.7Score2.1k14d adds
- 121 Reforging the Heaven-Burning Cauldron 重铸焚天鼎 Reforge the Burning Heaven Cauldron 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Dowry's Road to Ruin 彩礼不归路 The Road to No Return: Bride Price 182Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Myriad Worlds: Taking Charge of Reincarnation, Starting with the Primordial World 诸天：从洪荒开始执掌轮回 Myriad Worlds: Taking Charge of Reincarnation, Starting from the Primordial World 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Superpowered Spycraft: An Agent's Blissful Path to Immortality 超神谍武，特工修仙爽歪歪 Truth and illusion are hard to tell apart, And love, hatred, and old grudges stretch beyond count! Greed, anger, delusion, sorrow, joy, and resentment, Who among us hasn’t tasted them all? Spy wars, schemes within schemes, a world of temptation, Half-drunk, half-sated, still unable to enjoy the night. I can change a thousand ways, And unleash every supernatural power. Why should I fear their schemes and plots, Their sharp tongues and cutting words? I roam the sea of stars to settle old scores, W 4.9kReads9.5Score37514d adds
- 125 Dragon-Elephant Body Tempering Art 龙象淬体诀 Dragon-Elephant Body Tempering Art 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Siheyuan: Xu Damao, Clear-Eyed About the World 四合院：人间清醒许大茂 Siheyuan: Xu Damao, a Clear-Eyed Man 518Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 My Cultivation Progress Carries Over from a Cultivation Mobile Game? I'll Spend Ten Billion! 修仙手游反馈修为？我氪金十亿！ Also known as I Am a Legend. Lin Yu was killed in a battle against a demon boss, only to be reborn ten years in the past. At that point, the mobile game Misty Immortal Path had yet to start granting players the cultivation they earned in the game! What a lucky break! Lin Yu immediately sold off all his possessions and spent a billion yuan in the game! Lin Yu took first place on every leaderboard. When the game shut down its payment channel and began granting players their cultivation, everyone w 29.5kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds
- 128 Immortal King, Please Hurry Back! 仙王，求求您快回去吧 To better temper himself in the mortal world, a generation's Immortal King entered a world in the Age of Declining Magic. Little did he know that once he went, he would never want to return. "Immortal King, have you had your fun? If you have, hurry back! The Immortal Realm can't do without you!" "No way. There are no short videos or games in the Immortal Realm. I've spent billions of years there. I've had enough!" "I want to see for myself what this world has that's worth staying for!" From then 12.2kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 129 We Agreed to Slack Off and Play Games, So Why Are You Crushing Wall Street? 说好摸鱼打游戏，你爆杀华尔街？ Wall Street prints his image on the back of banknotes to ward off evil. European leaders hang his photo to protect their nations’ fortunes. And that night, when he turned his gaze toward Japan, the entire island nation heard the sound of its national destiny shattering! Only Su Hao felt terribly misunderstood. He swore he was just a kindhearted gaming nerd who had somehow wandered into the stock market. It was just that the decisions he made on instinct always seemed to cause some inexplicable 28kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
- 130 After I Transmigrate, I Become Both a Physician and an Agricultural Scholar 穿越后成为医农双卿 After Transmigrating, I Became a Dual Physician of Medicine and Agriculture 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 EN My Steady Farming Path to Immortality 我的种田流修仙太稳健了 [Slice-of-life farming + steady cultivation + no female lead, multiple dao companions + System + hoarding hamster] While fellow prodigies from my sect are blinded by greed and slaughter each other over opportunities in secret realms, I have been watering my radishes with spirit spring water in the spirit fields for three hundred years. While demonic cultivator overlords blood-sacrifice a million cultivators, I am using demon-binding ropes made from immortal vines to build a fence around my spiri 92.6kReads8.3Score10.4k14d adds
- 132 I’m a Gangster, and You Want Me to Fight Evil? 我是黑社会，你叫我除恶扬善？ The only supernatural element. A little martial arts is fine. This is a story about seeking justice for the people, with some political intrigue. It is not a mindless killing spree. The protagonist isn't a pushover: he punishes evil and rewards good, and the supporting characters aren't made unnaturally stupid. Fang Zheng transmigrates into the body of a small-time gang boss in a parallel world. He also awakens a "Killing Makes You Stronger" System. As long as he kills someone with a crime score 32.5kReads9.1Score3.1k14d adds
- 133 Ten Thousand Years of Sign-In: From the Start, My Younger Sister Exposed Me on Livestream 签到万年：开局就被妹妹直播曝光 At eighteen, Ye Qiu spent ten thousand years in another world, taking tens of thousands of disciples. When he woke again, he had finally returned to the world he had left ten thousand years earlier. His streamer sister: “Brother, the viewers in my livestream are asking what that little pill you gave me was.” Livestream viewers: “I love listening to your brother brag. He's lived for ten thousand years and can make pills? I'm obsessed.” From then on, Ye Xiyao's livestream had a crowd of viewers wa 9kReads8.8Score1k14d adds
- 134 Deception and Catching Them in the Act 欺骗.捉奸 Deception. Catching Them in the Act 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Chinese Showbiz: My Double-Cultivation Life with the 85 Flowers 华娱：我与85花的双修生活 Here is this book's synopsis: [Not a Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Ensemble Cast + Multiple Heroines + A Touch of Urban Cultivation + No System + Scheming + Entertainment Industry] Luo Junze was a worldly veteran who worked in the film and entertainment industry at Tencent in 2023. One day, he wakes up ten years in the past as Ying Bao, a rising star in the ent 45.5kReads8.4Score2.9k14d adds
- 136 Mastery of the Esoteric Arts 高术通神 When I was in eighth grade, the school bully picked on me. I found someone, a person connected to a mysterious incident from my childhood. He taught me something called traditional Chinese martial arts. I trained in boxing, but never let it interfere with my studies. Baji, Iron Wire Fist, Xingyi, Taiji, Baguazhang, Tongbi, Xinyi. I met masters who carried on the traditions of these powerful styles. I also discovered a vast, deeply secret world of traditional martial arts, unknown to ordinary peo 20.6kReads9.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 137 EN With a Pocket Dimension in Hand, Farming and Walking Dogs 空间在手，种田遛狗 [Male-oriented opening: Get a spiritual spring space, go home to farm and raise dogs. Male-oriented ending: Sweep every race across the Myriad Worlds into the trash] A rural farming story set in a mountain village. The protagonist stumbles upon a fortuitous opportunity and figures out cultivation on his own. A laid-back cultivation novel with no System, but with a space. Later on, it has two male leads, a father and son, and changes maps after about a thousand chapters. Ye Huan, who works in a b 27.9kReads9.1Score2.7k14d adds
- 138 Myriad Realms: Starting in the Backrooms 万界：从后室开始 [Minecraft] [Transmigration Across Multiple Worlds] [Film and TV Worlds + Anime Worlds] [I have no idea what kind of person the protagonist will turn out to be] At first, people thought it was just an ordinary trade. No one paid it any mind. But every gift fate bestows comes with a clearly marked price. A few blocks of dirt, some stones, a few trees... It was far too greedy, and in the end, everything would become the price to pay. 18.3kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 139 Don't Mess With Her! The Rogue Immortal Lady Cultivates the Path of Slaughter! 别惹！散仙娘娘她修的是杀戮道！ [Strong female lead + powerful from the start + romance + plot-driven feel-good story + happy ending] [Female lead stronger than the male lead] [Male lead has few scenes but a complete romantic storyline] [Morally gray villainess heroine] Si Jinchao, the Three Realms’ number one rebel. She was fated to be stillborn, yet came into the world as a coffin-born child. Even her very existence defied the will of Heaven. Heaven wanted her frail and sickly, her life full of misfortune, her days wretched 8.1kReads9.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 140 Blazing Embers Shine Bright, Illuminating the Land 烬火昭昭，照亮山河 Brilliant Embers Illuminate the Mountains and Rivers —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Strange Tales: The Evil God Gets a New Job 诡谈：邪神再就业 [Horror + Twists + Foreshadowing: The Series Where Even the Righteous Gods Are Worshipped by Villains] The supernatural invaded, and Shi Fei received a mission invitation from a dead person. Horror, slaughter, and escape: everyone was fighting to survive. When the supernatural blocked his only way out, Shi Fei calmly tried to talk it down: “Move aside. Don’t make me stop being human.” The creature refused to surrender and launched an attack instead. So Shi Fei really did stop being human, turnin 47.8kReads9.4Score6.9k14d adds
- 142 Rebirth in the Yin Tower 阴楼新生 Rebirth in the Yin Mansion 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 EN The Nation Stunned: Spirit Qi Just Recovered, And You're Already a Saint? 被校花分手后，我直接武道通神 Fang Yi transmigrated into this world just after his school beauty girlfriend broke up with him. He thought he was getting a modern romance from the start, but the System warned him that spiritual qi revival would begin in a year, bringing cataclysmic changes and the end of the world. “With a System, what’s there to be afraid of?” [You have encountered a celestial phenomenon: the Tianyang Forbidden Zone. Technique automatically created: Golden Sun Breathing Method.] [You have successfully imp 32.4kReads8.0Score2.1k14d adds
- 144 Magic for All: I’m the Only Cultivator 全民魔法师：我是唯一的修仙者 The legend of a generation's Divine Emperor comes to an end, and a new story begins. Ye Feng was reborn in a world without cultivators, where magic was revered. On Blue Star, humans and demons were locked in constant war, and humanity fought for survival. After a lifetime of fighting, all he wanted in this life was to quietly be a shut-in. He looked down on magic and secretly cultivated immortality instead, but his cousin, who lived with him, thought he was a good-for-nothing and urged him to st 20kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 145 The Secret Records of Mystic Talismans 玄符秘录 Secret Records of Mystic Talismans 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Way of Restraint 点道为止 Meng Ru Shen Ji brings back the spirit of Dragon and Snake! A high school student stumbles into the world of traditional martial arts, and from then on, rises like a dragon amid the storm, surpassing the limits of the human body, taking on artificial intelligence, and shaping the fate of the world! What exactly is kung fu? Flashy moves, or a way to kill? Are the techniques forged through three thousand years of cold-weapon warfare and countless private brawls really a scam? In this book, Meng Ru 23.5kReads9.1Score3.1k14d adds
- 147 I've Become a God, and You're Still Leveling Up? 我都成神了，你们还在升级？ (A game-world novel with no female lead, satisfying wish fulfillment, infinite skills, and an expansive world) The game became reality, and Su Mu had unlimited skill points from the start! He also became a full-time mage! While everyone else was still leveling up, he had already become a god! “Isn't he just a mage? What? I can't even break through his defense?” “This is insane! He took us all out with one skill?” “Great Mage, please, leave us a way to survive!” As countless planes manifested in 17.7kReads8.8Score1.4k14d adds
- 148 Secrets of the Spirit Police 灵警秘事 Lao Ye transmigrates into another world, a place teeming with all kinds of monsters! The original body's entire family was killed by monsters. Lao Ye transmigrates into the body of the original owner! He has been studying at the Spirit Police Academy since the age of six. Unfortunately, he can't draw talismans or memorize spirit incantations, and he can't even meditate to gather spiritual energy. Most of the time, he sleeps through every class from beginning to end! He has endured cold stares, t 195Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 A Young Heart Fell in Love, Then Drew Its Blade to Slay the Gods for You 终是少年动了情，为你拔刀斩神明 [One Female Lead] [Invincible] [Comedy] [Ensemble Cast] [Healing?] [The comic adaptation is now available on Fanqie under the title Frostfall Youth] Demons are beings beyond the bounds of common sense. They come in countless varieties, run wild and wreak havoc across the land, and have done so for thousands of years. Ordinary people cannot see demons with their own eyes, nor can they banish them with ordinary strength. Those who, guided by the gods, wield demonic power in mortal bodies to slay d 27.5kReads9.4Score3k14d adds
- 150 In the City, I Own 9,999 Film and TV Worlds 都市之我有9999个影视世界 [Sweet romance and warmth] [A feel-good romance] [Transmigrating through screen stories] Lin Yu happened upon a System that lets him transmigrate into films and TV shows and give their characters a different, perfect ending. He travels constantly through popular shows, from urban dramas and period pieces to anime. As for the protagonist’s personality, are you familiar with Sebastian from Black Butler? Handsome and gentle, yet cunning and ruthless. Completed: “Our Glamorous Time,” “One and Only,” 14.1kReads8.9Score56414d adds
