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- 101 When the Moon Returns 月归来时 Su Ning is a transmigrator who enters an immortal-hero novel and wins over Bai Qingci, the Heavenly Emperor's son. After completing her mission, Su Ning fakes her death and returns to the modern world. Three years later, the System finds her again and gives her a new mission: help the mortal Ye Wuyou inherit the position of Death God. But when Su Ning arrives in the divine realm, she discovers that the one seated in the highest place is none other than Bai Qingci, the target she pursued three ye 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Please Spare Me in This Instance 我在副本里求放过 When Yan Wan, an author of sweet romance novels, dies suddenly after getting writer’s block, she opens her eyes to find herself in the body of a “useful extra” who never existed in her own story: a goddess who was kicked down to the mortal realm by the Star Lord of Fate to undergo a tribulation. In the imperial palace, the empress says disturbing things, while the heroine’s fiancé, the Imperial Preceptor, hides scheming intentions behind his smile. Even cannon fodder who should have been written 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 A Bloody Case Sparked by a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn 一串糖葫芦诱发的血案 A String of Candied Hawthorns Sparks a Bloody Case 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Soul Tears 魂泪 Actor Xiao Shuhe × Sinner Yu Xi “Welcome to my script! I’m your host, TOPA. A warm welcome to my old friends as you enter this book. Now, turn the page and open the chapters written just for you. Follow the mission instructions and escape from the prison I’ve prepared with such care!” “We... have to survive!” “Get out of here quickly! TOPA is dead, and this script is about to collapse. If we don’t escape, we’ll all die here!” “Please... kill me... I can’t go on living. Hurry, kill me! Kill me!” 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Murky Currents: Tales of Finance 浊流：金融往事 This is a financial exposé rooted in reality. It lays bare the brutal truth behind loan-broker schemes, shell-company loan fraud, and debt-driven ruin. It exposes human greed and wishful thinking, and captures the helplessness and fragility of ordinary people swept along by the tides of the times. The murky waters churn, financial traps abound. A moment of glory ends in dust. Every path that looks like a shortcut comes with a hidden price. Every unchecked greed will eventually end in total col 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Honeymoon Crisis 蜜月危局 Honeymoon in Peril 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 The Creepypasta Game Invades: Who Are You? 诡异游戏入侵：你是谁？ [Games + Instances + Romantic Rivalry + Unhinged Yandere] Yu Zhou just wants to lie flat, but then the apocalypse arrives. His childhood friend is devoured by the supernatural, and humanity is plunged into an endless game of slaughter. Pass the Handkerchief, Dou Dizhu, Billions of Zombies, Jurassic Park, Are You the One?, Escape from the Bermuda Triangle, the Age of Extreme Cold... Games of all kinds: play badly, and you die! Humanity lives on because of its obsessions: What is the truth about t 92Reads—Score11114d adds
- 108 Eight Thousand Eight Hundred for Four Days in the Gobi 八千八买四天戈壁 Four Days in the Gobi for 88,000 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Villain: From the Start, I Make a Move on My Master and Steal the Chosen One’s Fortune 反派：开局冲师，截胡气运之女 [Multiple Heroines] [Rebellious Disciples] [Villain Intelligence] [Snatching Opportunities] [Beautiful Illustrations] [Defying Heaven's Will] [QCQS] As a possessor of a Heavenly Spirit Root, Lin Xiao always thought he'd gotten the script for a feel-good genius novel. It wasn't until the Son of Fortune reported him for secretly investigating a demoness spy that he realized he had actually been handed the villain's script. His master is suffering from icy energy invading her body, his junior siste 71.6kReads7.6Score9.1k14d adds
- 110 A Carpenter's Home Has No Stool to Sit On, While Ghosts Sing in a Taoist's Home 木匠家中无凳坐，道士家中鬼唱歌 [No System + Not a power fantasy + No cultivation + Supernatural + Fantasy + Horror + Suspense + Realistic thrills + First-person diary style] If that bothers you, proceed with caution~ "The carpenter has no stools at home, and ghosts sing in the Daoist's house." This is a common saying. It means that people tend to be too lazy to do their own line of work at home. Similar sayings include "The tailor wears tattered clothes" and "The doctor can't treat himself." Rather than call this a book, it w 21Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 111 In Uncle Nine's World, I Become a God by Picking Up Entries 人在九叔世界，我捡词条成神 [Uncle Jiu + System + thunder arts + Hong Kong horror crossover + multiple female leads] In the Age of Declining Dharma, cultivating the Tao is difficult. Su Bai transmigrates into Uncle Jiu’s world and is taken in by the head of Maoshan as his last disciple. From then on, Shi Jian and Uncle Jiu are his senior brothers, while Qiu Sheng and Shao Jian are his junior disciples’ sons. Already blessed with extraordinary talent, he awakens a Trait System at the age of eighteen. With the [Profound Fort 40.5kReads7.0Score5k14d adds
- 112 I Make a Fortune by Controlling Dreams 我靠控梦赚大钱 Lin Zhouyue was an easygoing office worker who just wanted to lie flat. She had no lofty ambitions and didn't care about promotions or raises. But one day, she woke up to discover she could bring things from her dreams into the real world. Soon, she realized she could control her dreams and make all sorts of things happen. Before long, she became a high-paid success who made money hand over fist. Just as life was going swimmingly, the unexpected happened... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Forging My Path to Immortality 锤定仙途 Gu Yang, a boy from a small town, witnesses the aftermath of a fierce battle between immortals destroy his home, and resolves to seek immortality. His father has him spend three years at the forge to hone his skills, secretly teaching him the Thousand-Layer Hammer technique and the foundations of body refinement. At twelve, he sets out on the path to find immortals, carrying an iron hammer and the jade pendant his mother gave him. From the free cultivators' market in the Cangwu Mountains to the 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Xiaojiang Town 晓江镇 Amid the clashes of interest and struggles of human nature in the trenches of the workplace, Mo Ye is a hands-on doer who remains true to his original aspirations. How can he break through the obstacles and achieve a win-win for his own ambitions and local development? This story explores how idealism can survive and bloom in the soil of reality. 25Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 115 Don't Board the Boat Coming from Upstream 别接江上来的船 Don't Take the Boat Coming from Upstream 15Reads—Score114d adds
- 116 Awake! 醒！ Faint blue lights drift slowly through corners no one ever notices. Pairs of eyes from the shadowy depths of hell gradually open. They have “awakened”! Amid the ruins, human civilization teeters on the brink of extinction. The last remnants of humanity are divided over the future: Some advocate venturing into space to seek a new home, Some want to rely on the enemy and coexist with it, And others insist on reclaiming humanity’s power and restoring civilization to its former glory... [I have awak 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 The Barge and the Fading Lotus 兰舟残荷 “A leaf drifts away from Wanzhou at dusk; the orchid boat returns, ripples stirring among the withered lotuses.” [Fictional ancient setting / political intrigue / archaic style / presented as a pseudo-historical document / many original elements / two male leads] [The first half focuses mostly on everyday local affairs; political intrigue begins in the second half] [Unhurried storytelling, no AI] [Sharp-tongued and sinister] the disgraced crown prince sent to a remote posting [Cool-headed and ra 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 My Three Little Goals 我的三个小目标 Wang Yang, 32, was once a star product director at a major tech company, fluent in every buzzword and framework for getting users hooked and driving growth. Now he has proudly joined the ranks of the unemployed, with just 2,300 yuan in his account and a notice that his mother is critically ill arriving at the same time. Just when he thinks he has hit rock bottom, a devilish contract lands in his lap: Spend 300 million in three months. Spend it all, and he gets 50 million. Fail, and he gets n —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Reborn in Dongguan in 1998: From the Start, You Want Me to Live Off a Woman? 重生98东莞：开局你让我吃软饭 [Passionate Jianghu] [Everyday Urban Life] [Feel-Good Read] [Human Relationships] [Multiple Heroines] [Underworld] [Business] One day, Zhou Mo wakes up transmigrated back to 1998, at the height of Dongwan's "Heaven on Earth." In his previous life, he scraped by on weekends by throwing fixed fights and acting as a sparring partner for the rich. This time, Zhou Mo vows to make something of his life. Armed with a sense of grievance and information from the future, he moves from the entertainment in 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Three Kingdoms: The Path of a Discarded Soldier 三国之弃卒行 [No System] [Rivalry for Supremacy] [Stratagems] [Ruthless Schemer] [Wuxia] Cao Cao: “Without me, who knows how many would call themselves kings and emperors.” Chen Qi: “I want to try assassinating…” 70Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 121 After Drinking My Blood, the Cold Dragon Princess Started Acting Cute 吸我血后，高冷龙姬撒娇了 (The rating just came out, so it’ll rise. I hope 🥲) [Original illustrations + no System + traditional fantasy + magitech + Western Fantasy + romance + adventure] Aether has run dry and magic has fallen. This is a fractured age where traditional magic and magitech intertwine. Luxion: Saint City Academy’s only “F-rank special companion student,” with zero magical sensitivity, dismissed as “dust that happens to be alive.” Nono (Yalisticinia): The brightest dragon-born star of the Western Empire, a 160Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 122 The Crows Will Eventually Fly Higher Than the Sun 群鸦终将高过太阳 Crows foretell disaster and death. Yet we live beneath the crows’ shadow. The crows protect us. They hold back disaster. They hold back death. What did you say? No, the crows you mean aren’t like ours. Please look up. The crow is right there. 844Reads—Score14214d adds
- 123 Fatty Makes a Ruckus in Chang'an: The Prosperous Tang Dynasty Has a Big Appetite 胖爷闹长安：盛唐的肚量不一般 During the Kaiyuan era, Wang Fugui, a portly imperial kitchen chef banished for sneaking a taste of the Shaowei banquet, sets up a stall on Zhuque Street selling his “Fugui Meat Buns,” using his belly as a chopping board. By a twist of fate, he embarks on a down-to-earth, absurd, and heartwarming entrepreneurial journey. He sips milk tea for customers, keeps them company and chats away their boredom, and walks vicious dogs for them. Thanks to his belly's “magical abilities,” he defuses one crisi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Hundred Family Surnames: Your Surname Hides Your Origins 百家姓：你姓什么就藏着什么来路 The Hundred Family Surnames: Your surname holds the secret to your origins. 40Reads—Score114d adds
- 125 The Demon King's Return to Another World 异界魔王归途 [High-Octane + Transmigration + Two Worlds + Magic + Fantasy + Lighthearted Comedy] After finally becoming the Demon King in another world, I somehow came back? And to the very day I was sent flying ten meters by a “portal to another world”?! Qi Chaoguang looked up at the bright blue sky, then down at the truck bumper embedded in his body... Where’s my Demon King body? Where’s my massive Ironclad Blood City? And my demoness assistant?! After finally fighting his way to the throne of the Demon Ki —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 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—14d adds
- 127 Sword Sea Tower 剑海楼 The road ahead is long and far; I shall seek high and low. Chen Sanye never dreamed that he, a man from the modern world, would transmigrate to an imaginary ancient era, a martial world rife with bloodshed and turmoil. In this world of thrilling vendettas and constant danger, watch as he either makes a name for himself or ends up in a sorry state, feeling his way toward finding a road home. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Lock the Sane People In 把清醒的人关进来 Lock the Clear-Headed Inside 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 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—14d adds
- 130 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 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Hidden-Edge Son-in-Law 藏锋赘婿 The Hidden-Edge Live-In Son-in-Law 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Traveling Together on Misty Island 雾岛同行 Companions on Misty Island 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Terror at the Ancestral Home in the Deep Mountains 深山祖宅惊魂 Terror at the Ancestral Home in the Deep Mountains 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 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 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 A Chilling Mystery: The Seventh Recipient 惊悚悬疑故事：第七个收件人 A Gripping Mystery: The Seventh Recipient 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 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 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Exiled from the Start, the Prime Minister's Legitimate Daughter Comes After Me 开局被流放，丞相嫡女追来了 First thing to do after transmigrating into an imperial prince: smash the mirror! The original owner was clearly a man, but this face looks exactly like mine in my past life... My furious father demotes me and sends me to a barren frontier fief. Fine by me. I can get away from palace intrigue and use my modern knowledge to farm and build infrastructure. But I hear the prime minister’s legitimate daughter refused to marry the Crown Prince and insists on marrying me? Well, I suppose I can bring an 141Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 After Losing My Memory, the Ice-Cold CEO Took Me Home 失忆后，我被冰山美女总裁捡回家 The protagonist is thrown off a cliff by his wife and her lover. At the brink of death, his memories come roaring back! For three years as a live-in son-in-law of the Xu family, Zhao Yu did the laundry, cooked, and never complained. He gave them everything he had, only to be repaid with betrayal, beatings, and humiliation. On a rainy night, they wrapped him in a bedsheet and threw him off a cliff on Wuxing Mountain. He should have died in the storm-ravaged wilderness, but the blood running down 59Reads—Score314d adds
- 139 A Century-Old Earth Immortal Fell in Love with Me 百年地仙竟然爱上我 [Comedy] + [urban cultivation] + [transmigrate to another world] + [Gender Swap] + [Xuanhuan] + [mythology] What kind of hilarious and bizarre chain of events will unfold when an extraordinarily beautiful young fairy meets a self-conscious, down-and-out college student? This is a novel where both the heroine and the hero are "very beautiful." A whole group of modern-day, down-and-out college students transmigrate from urban cultivation to a Western fantasy world, then on to the age of ancient m 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 He Said Through Tearful Eyes, 'Let the Heavenly Lightning Strike Me' 他泪眼汪汪地说：天雷劈我 A wisp of a remnant soul survived a calamity hundreds of years ago. Clinging to life, it made its way to the Kingdom of Nian'an and attached itself to a blade of grass on Guisu Mountain. After a century of wind and rain, it cultivated itself into a spirit. From then on, the weather on Guisu Mountain became unpredictable, and thunder roared overhead, relentlessly chasing him down to strike. Until one day, he met a cloud by the riverbank. The “broken in body but unyielding in spirit” him looked at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Return to the Inn 归栈 Return to the Inn 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Reborn, I Return to Earth as a Delivery Guy 重生的我回地球当外卖小哥 Once a member of the Interstellar Federation, he was betrayed and killed. He was reborn in the body of an ordinary young deliveryman on Earth who shared his name, and was then bound to a System that gave its Host special abilities. The System orders him to fight monsters and level up, and to overcome any challenges he encounters and uncover the truth behind them. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Let Me Run Wild, Season One 容我猖狂第一季 Synopsis of I’ll Let Myself Run Wild, Season One Zhang Wudi was once dismissed as a castoff of the city, enduring contempt and humiliation. His family went bankrupt, his loved ones fell seriously ill, and his lover betrayed him. Everyone thought his life was over. At his most desperate, he resolutely enlisted in the military, just to find a way to survive. Who could have expected that he would return utterly transformed, becoming a God of War who shook the entire city! On foreign battlefields, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Reborn: Back to the Day We Met 重生之回到相遇那天 [Love at First Sight + Redemption + Reborn] After struggling for a year, Zhou Yi'an, who suffered from severe depression, finally couldn't take it anymore and took his own life. When Zhou Yi'an opened his eyes again, he stared speechlessly at the fluffy little ball in front of him. The fluffy little ball claimed to be a Reborn System and demanded that he return to the past and stay there for a year. Zhou Yi'an: That's forcing me into a deal. System: Not listening, not listening. With that, i 22Reads—Score17114d adds
- 145 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!!! 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Broken Jade Woven into Brocade 碎玉成锦 Three qian of silver for a three-year contract. Life or death is no concern; any child belongs to the Wen family. On an autumn night of rain in Suzhou, her father coughs up blood and the family has nothing left. With a single stroke of her brush, Shen Xiuniang sells herself into a wealthy household, becoming the lucky-bride bride of Wen Yan, the ailing young master of the Wen family. The payment is three qian of silver a month, and the contract lasts three years. She thinks it is merely a cold t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 I Lay Low as a Menial Worker in the Demon Realm, and the Stunning Saintess Fell for Me 苟在魔界当杂役，绝色圣女爱上我 [Fantasy, transmigration, System, wild imagination, multiple heroines] Unemployed after studying civil engineering, I was delivering takeout when I got into a car accident and unexpectedly transmigrated to the demon realm. The System rewarded me with a top-tier furnace physique, the Nine-Yang Demonic Body, and I saved a stunning human saintess. I’m a modern man. What do the sect’s rise and fall have to do with me? What do the battles between immortals and demons have to do with me? But if anyone 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Summer of 2005 零五逢夏 A transmigration-themed story about entrepreneurship. At 50, after a life of mediocrity and years of being put down and emotionally manipulated, a woman transmigrates and finally discovers the ambition to reach for the sky. The coldness of the world is crushed and swept away. The human world isn’t a dead end, but a vast sea of mortal life. Golden finger: reborn, meets fellow reborn people, and later the male lead’s soul transmigrates into another body. The leads are not each other’s first. Both 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Mecha Girls: The Delinquent Won’t Make a Contract with the Socially Awkward Boy 机娘：不良少女不会契约社恐少年 (Mecha Girls + Romance + School Life + Corrupted Beasts + Battles + Passion + System...) This is an age overrun by Corrupted Beasts, an age of glorious mecha. We came from the base cities, heading for distant lands! Chen Muyu: What does it take to become a great mecha girl pilot? First, you need a mecha girl who loves you as much as you love her. As luck would have it, he meets one, but she seems a little fierce, like a delinquent girl. Yu Lulu: I'm so hungry. Eat, eat, eat, gobble it all up... 6Reads—Score12014d adds
- 150 The Northwest Case 西北大案 Northwest Major Cases is a collection of true-crime investigative stories by Yu Mo. It takes you deep into China’s northwest, uncovering real cases that are harrowing and little known. As the book puts it… I’ve always been deeply interested in major criminal cases, especially the memorable cases from around the 1990s. These include the recent case of Lao Rongzhi that made headlines, the wife-murder and dismemberment case, the Shaanxi cannibalism case that shocked the nation, and the massive robb 21Reads—Score—14d adds
