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- 1 The Fairy in the World of Detective Conan 柯学世界里的仙灵 Detective Conan + Genshin Impact + a little Cultist Simulator / Book of Hours + a little Honkai: Star Rail The protagonist is basically gender-swapped Nico in both appearance and character. They used to be a special angel and were Nico's former colleague. They're a good person, broadly speaking. There are lots of crossovers and authorial liberties. The author is an eccentric with a complicated makeup, so there are often surreal, off-the-wall descriptions and sudden jokes that might feel awkward 765Reads—Score10614d adds
- 2 Fragments of the Old Days: What Is a Lovecraftian Worldview? 旧日残章：什么叫克系世界观 [Cthulhu] [Tabletop RPG Style] [Investigators] [Infinite Flow] [Not an Overpowered Lead] Luo Chen is a self-taught mage who learned a few incantations from occult texts. He assumed he was in a fantasy world and tried to find a society or government agency that regulated magic so he could get a proper position. That is, until one day, a strange notebook called the Investigator's Handbook suddenly appeared beside him, inviting (or rather, forcing) him to investigate bizarre cases deep in the mount 34.2kReads9.2Score7.8k14d adds
- 3 Even in an Old Manga, I Can Become Number One 过气漫画里也能成为topone Secret identities + no romance + Western fantasy + traveling between the comic and reality The well-known comic The Saga of Saintly Light, created by MMM, tells the story of a hero who draws a sacred sword and leads his companions to defeat the Demon King. With gorgeous artwork and a plot that is clichéd beyond redemption, MMM has become a laughingstock among readers and fellow creators alike. The comic’s ranking has also fallen off the charts after initially placing in the top three. “Hey, wh 329Reads7.5Score10114d adds
- 4 How Did I, a Manga NPC, End Up Joining the Main Cast? 漫画npc的我怎么加入主角团了 [Male lead, no romance + on-screen comments + System + redemption and happy ending + light ensemble cast] The comic The Sun at the End of Time has become a huge hit in recent years and has also been adapted into an anime. It tells the story of a male protagonist who saves the world. The story made people laugh and cry. The protagonist successfully changed the villain’s heart, stopped the world from ending, and achieved a happy ending But who could have guessed that, at the very end, an NPC who h 5.5kReads8.6Score85314d adds
- 5 I'm the Crazy One, and the Only Mole in the Protagonist's Group? 颠公的我是主角团唯一的卧底？ (The rating just came out, but it will rise later.) What a shock! After an unexpected transmigration, he finds himself as the biggest early-story villain in a comic! They say this villain is utterly inhuman: sinister, vicious, manipulative with people’s feelings, cunning, cruel, and quick to kill. Most surprising of all, one of the main characters turns out to be the major early-story villain! Taking things as they come, Yun Qi'an sets out to play the whole protagonist group like a fiddle. But w 4kReads7.1Score43714d adds
- 6 You’re Just a Supporting Character, So Why Do You Seem More Like the Lead? 你一配角，咋比主角还像主角 [No CP] [Mostly Everyday Life, Slow Pace] [Original Anime Setting] [Popular Supporting Character] [On-Screen Comments] [Bilibili System (?)] Note: The author is a woman writing for a male audience. She is new and her writing could use work. Some parts of the logic haven’t been fully thought through. The male lead isn’t much of a big shot at first, the story builds slowly, and the System doesn’t play a major role. For the first decade or so of his life, Li Yuan believed that only he and a handf 2.9kReads8.7Score25914d adds
- 7 The Unhinged Boy Band Goes on a Killing Spree in the Infinite Worlds! 疯批男团在无限世界杀疯了！ [Male lead seems normal but is actually unhinged + Power Fantasy + Livestreaming + No CP] Qi Mo opened his eyes and discovered that he had transmigrated into a doomed, nameless extra in the hit manga Infinite Radiance: Idol Survival Project. Despite sounding like a gacha mobile game, this world was a deadly meat grinder that fused infinite-loop survival, rule-based horror, idol stages, and death-game reality shows. Seeing that his life countdown had only 72 hours left, the System coldly announce 754Reads8.9Score9314d adds
- 8 Paranormal Detective: I Harvest Fear by Filming Real Horror Movies 诡探：我靠拍真实恐怖片搜刮恐惧 [Winning people over with “reason” + mockumentary + urban legends + mildly scary power fantasy + no romance] After narrowly surviving a bizarre fire, Chu Han discovered a “Paranormal Investigator” app on his computer. Completing missions to investigate paranormal phenomena earned him items. And gathering fear directed at specific targets could strengthen those items. Chu Han: If I film my paranormal missions as horror movies, wouldn’t I be able to harvest fear from the whole world? And so, a hor 35.5kReads8.3Score5.5k14d adds
- 9 Infinite Save-Loading: Stamping Out the Apocalypse Before It Begins 无限读档，把末世扼杀在萌芽中 [Cthulhu apocalypse + light game elements (eldritch invasion/roguelike) + light rule-based horror + light ensemble cast] Content warnings up front: 1. The heroine isn't looking for love. There may be a secondary couple. 2. She radiates saintly compassion and believes in love and peace. She repeatedly reloads to save people, so this will test your patience (roguelike). 3. No discussions of gender issues. To the Old Gods, all living beings are ants. The serious synopsis Cthulhu zombies are people 5kReads9.4Score96214d adds
- 10 The System Makes Me Save the World in a Laid-Back Slice-of-Life Anime 人在日常休闲漫，系统让我救世 (Ongoing, updates are slow / Current progress: Volume One complete, 7/10 of the book finished) (No romance + ensemble cast + gentle, sickly male lead + supernatural school + System + fictional society + everyday life + healing + light, sweet comedy...) Every character is a native of this world. Platonic relationships are the best! (Everyone is romance-free except the parents' generation.) The cozy coming-of-age manga Guardian Academy, serialized in a shonen magazine, has been criticized by read 8.1kReads8.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 11 Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying: I Have Extraordinary Wisdom 克苏鲁跑团：我有极致的智慧 [Cthulhu Roleplaying] [Mystery] [Infinite Flow] [Plot Twists] [No Golden Finger] [No Female Lead] What matters most in a roleplaying game? The strength to take on ten opponents at once? The wisdom to notice the smallest details? The determination to never give up? Or the luck to always escape danger? When Lu Nanke woke up, he found himself inside a roleplaying game world with 500 attribute points to distribute among his eight stats. After a brief moment of thought, Lu Nanke resolutely put ev 17kReads9.4Score2.6k14d adds
- 12 Zenless Zone Zero: Surviving on Sixth Street 绝区零：我在六分街求生 [Male protagonist, no romance + not a traditional System novel + secret identities + gacha characters + slow-burn, semi-everyday life] Other people transmigrate into games and rely on their foreknowledge of the plot to avert tragedies or pose as powerful figures and earn acclaim. Bai Yu transmigrated into a game and somehow turned it into a struggle to survive in another world. The game had just launched, and he hadn’t even finished the main story. Forget knowing the plot, he barely understood 3.6kReads9.3Score21714d adds
- 13 Everyone's Playing a Psycho, So I'll Go Crazy 人设全是神经病，我选择发疯 [No Female Lead + Unhinged Fiction + Bragging Fiction + Secret Identities + A Little Forum-Style Writing + Story Told Through Comics + A Love Triangle? [A New Term I Just Learned]] In a world of aberrant creatures, a madcap middle-aged man kicks open the gates of Sun City. Wielding a torch, he becomes the new sun over the world. “If someone has to be chosen, I’m suitable kindling too.” On a desolate plain, a girl in a white dress burns through her life to cut off the head of an arrogant giant. “ 313Reads9.3Score10414d adds
- 14 I'll Fix This Comic World Where Everyone Gets a Bad Ending! 全员be的漫画世界由我来修正！ Completed (comic forum + live comments + male lead, no romance + light ensemble cast + System) Gu Ge was supposed to have been struck by lightning and killed, but after signing a contract with a System, he came back to life in another world. In exchange, he had to complete the System's missions. He thought he would have to save the world, but it turned out his missions were all things like: “Invite a stranger to eat grilled fish.” “Help an old lady carry her fruit.” “Say ten nice things to a tea 4.5kReads9.3Score79214d adds
- 15 A Plastic Person Seeking Redemption in a Comic-Book World 塑料的我在漫画世界搞救赎 Female-oriented No romance + manga + supernatural powers + comedy + ensemble cast + a chaotic mess, so drink up while you can Lin Yi'an feels helpless: Guys, does anyone get it? Who wouldn't feel helpless after waking up to find they'd transmigrated into a world made of plastic building blocks? (Only the protagonist's perspective is plastic.) Liang Qiuyang feels helpless: Guys, does anyone get it? What's wrong with worrying about a new classmate's future? Why did he have to take his head off 11.5kReads9.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 16 Anime Crossover: Protecting the City Is Everyone’s Duty 综漫：保护城市，人人有责 [No central romance, primarily Detective Conan, with Bungou Stray Dogs, Jujutsu Kaisen, and K's Kings. A group transmigration story with a lighthearted, healing tone.] Tomato Company's new manga, Sakura Peace, has finally launched! Every reader knows that this new series will bring together the three major manga currently being updated, forming a brand-new world. Fans of each manga franchise have picked their sides, ready for their favorite characters to shine from the very first chapter. But th 4.3kReads9.3Score45014d adds
- 17 I Only Wanted to Ride the Hype, but I Became the Final Boss 明明只想蹭人气却成大boss World No. 1 (abandoned midway). Su Ningyi transmigrated into Detective Conan and was bound to a popularity System for nine years, but the manga app still wouldn't open. Until an AI-controlled avatar went out to buy a bento Shinichi stared at the red marks on his wrist. "How does your guardian... usually treat you?" The avatar blinked innocently. "Charging requires lots of close contact." That night, the manga suddenly unlocked. On the home page was a creepy close-up of me feeding the avatar in i 6.2kReads8.7Score40414d adds
- 18 Professional Game NPC: Players Cry After I Beat Them 职业游戏NPC：玩家被我虐哭了 [No female lead + lone wolf + ruthless and decisive + video game NPC + multiple worlds + players + light comedy + a bit absurd] [The protagonist never lets lust override reason] [The protagonist only wants to grow stronger] Gu Yeming transmigrates into a game and becomes an NPC, specifically Subject 1145 of the Moreid Corporation. A disastrous start! Wait, why are his combat talents maxed out from the start? What? He can choose an unlimited number of classes, too? Years later, when Gu Yeming ap 7.3kReads8.8Score74914d adds
- 19 As the Occult Withers, I Endure; As the Old Gods Die, I Live Forever 诡秘凋零我不朽，旧神逝而我永生 (Longevity + Cthulhu + Changing Eras + Attribute Points + Ultimate Villain!) In the Middle Ages, when strange corruption ran rampant, he became the mad pontiff who terrorized half a continent. In the age of science, after the Old Gods fell, he became a living legend who walked the mortal world. Even when humanity left the surface of the planet and reached for the stars, no one could deny the existence of this undying old monster who had endured across the ages! “First, I have to survive the 17.7kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 20 Surviving in a Comic World by Stealing the Spotlight 在漫画世界靠高光苟活 [Comic Forum Style + No Official Pairing + Shonen Manga + Serious Plot + ...] A manga artist notorious for going on hiatuses has launched a new series. Old and new readers grumble as they dive in, swearing they’ll make the rotten old mangaka experience the thrill of a precipitous drop in readership. Chapter 1: So-so. Dropping it after ten chapters... Chapter 5: Not bad. Dropping it after ten chapters... Chapter 10: Pretty good. One more chapter... Chapter 20: Barely passes. This is the last chap 6.8kReads9.3Score87514d adds
- 21 The Cannon Fodder Goes Viral on the Forum by Shipping Couples 炮灰靠炒cp爆火论坛 The novel is complete. [CP cultivation + forums + bullet comments + multiple secret identities + possible selfcest plotline + no CP in the main story, every pairing gets a full ending in the extras + ship whoever you like + supernatural resurgence] One day, Xie Yan transmigrated into a disposable character in the latest novel by a hugely popular author notorious for leaving plot threads unresolved. The catch? It was a supernatural resurgence novel! Without enough popularity points, he wouldn’t 17kReads9.2Score2.4k14d adds
- 22 My Pixel Game Became Reality, but I’m Number One on the Most Wanted List 像素游戏成真了，但我是通缉榜一 [Ensemble Cast] [Game Invasion] [Group Transmigration] [No CP] Yang Yixie has recently become obsessed with a pixel game called Wasteland Era. As a mechanic, he lives by one creed: If an RPG can't solve the problem, add another round of machine-gun fire. And so he became hooked on using the art of explosions to write his personal manifesto across the pixelated wasteland, having the time of his life without a care in the world. At the same time, the news reported tearful accounts from other playe 37.4kReads9.1Score5k14d adds
- 23 After Entering a Comic, I Became Everyone's Moonlight 穿进漫画后我成了所有人的白月光 [Main story complete] [Bonus chapters updating regularly] [No romance, no romance, not even for the key characters! The only tags are no romance, happy ending, System! A wish-fulfillment story!] The talkative, chuuni, drama-loving male protagonist, Zheng Guanqi (known as Yazhou in the comic) The Dungeon Guidebook became a huge hit thanks to its breathtaking art and merciless plot. But as the story progressed, readers realized that one after another, the main characters seemed to be dying, and t 44.2kReads9.4Score8.4k14d adds
- 24 After Entering a Bad-End Comic, I Took the Lead in Tearing Up the Script 穿进be漫画后，我带头手撕剧本 [Forum-style posts + mistaken assumptions and exaggerated interpretations + beautiful, strong, and tragic characters + ensemble cast finding redemption + no romance] Yan Qi always felt he’d transmigrated into this world in entirely the wrong way. It was bad enough that he’d ended up in a depressing superpower comic where everyone died. To make matters worse, the ability he awakened, [Words of Absolute Truth], came with a deadly side effect: the more bluntly he spoke while changing cause and ef 154.2kReads9.4Score21.2k14d adds
- 25 Forced to Become the Hot-Blooded Manga Hero, He Faked His Death on the Spot 被迫成为热血漫主角后他直接死遁 [No Romance] [No Female Lead] [Hot-Blooded Shonen] [Everyone Is Evil] [The Protagonist Is a Genuine Villain, With No Redemption] [Ensemble Cast] The hot-blooded shonen manga Villain's Fate is a blend of excitement, warmth, laid-back fun, and comedy. Its polished art, unexpected plot twists, and characters who leave readers aching for what might have been have earned it a devoted following. However, the author went on hiatus at the story's climax and stayed away for three years. Then, after three 22.2kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 26 An Extra's Guide to Surviving in a Comic 路人乙漫画生存指南 Dropped by the author. You can go straight to the final three chapters. Male lead, no romance. Ensemble cast. Academy for people with special abilities. A year after the school arc of the comic Superpower Academy ended, the college arc finally began. It opened on September 1, with the main cast entering Supernova Academy for the Gifted. [The main cast ending up in Class F really is a classic] [That person in Class F must be a big shot] [The people in Classes S and A are so strong too] [What abou 25.1kReads9.5Score2.8k14d adds
- 27 EN Survival for All, Obtaining the D-Class Personnel Simulator 全民求生，获得D级人员模拟器 Everyone transmigrates into an apocalyptic world, where each person starts with a shelter and a unique talent. Lin Ye gains the D-rank Personnel Simulator ability, which lets him enter other worlds and simulate being D-rank personnel. Lin Ye: ??? 147.9kReads8.9Score11.4k14d adds
- 28 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: I'm So Overpowered, Yet I'm Trapped in a Massive Shura Field 盗笔：超强的我陷入了大型修罗场 [Shen Huai: Modern-Era Arc, Extra-Long Republic-Era Watch-Along] [Everyone's Darling and Romantic Rivalry, Go Ahead and Ship Them + A Hint of Being Everyone's Favorite + Imagining a Powerful, Beautiful, Strong Yet Tragic Character] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At this very moment, my body was lying right beside me, looking like a beautiful, flower-like person in a coma. The good news: I can create a secret identity that can't be killed. The bad news: the System sa 63.7kReads9.6Score4.1k14d adds
- 29 Don't Be Fooled by My Golden Finger-Like Look, I'm Really Just an NPC 别看我像金手指，我真只是NPC [Powerhouse + role-playing + secret identities + horror and the supernatural + people reading too much into things + chosen ones + no romance] A three-in-one blend of three horror genres: psychological horror games, Cthulhu livestreams, and real-world supernatural arts. Xiao Gui'an, a bit-part actor, died, but not entirely. He was chosen to play an NPC in a world of horror and the supernatural. After becoming a ghost, Xiao Gui'an thought he would no longer have anything to fear. Who could have 48.9kReads9.5Score3.7k14d adds
- 30 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Posing as a Mysterious, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Man 盗笔：装出个高深莫测但美强惨 "The only Grave Robbers' Chronicles fic rated 9.6, come see!" [Starting with the Old Nine Gates, Beloved by All, Pick Your Favorite Pairing + Slightly Everyone's Favorite + Everyone Imagines the Powerful Heartbreaking Beauty] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At that very moment, my body was lying right beside me, playing the part of a breathtakingly beautiful vegetative patient. The good news: I could create an immortal secret identity. The bad news: the System told me 44.6kReads9.6Score6.2k14d adds
