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- 1 Zombie Apocalypse: The Black-Stocking Beauty Goes on a Killing Spree for Points 丧尸末世：黑丝美女积分制杀疯了 [Not reborn + Zombie apocalypse] [Female CEO, campus beauty, many beautiful women] [Point shop + unscrupulous merchant] [Decisive and ruthless + tyrant + wish-fulfillment] When the apocalypse arrives, Qin Feng obtains a point-shop System. All he has to do is kill zombies to earn points, which he can exchange for all kinds of supplies, skills, and buildings. From the start, he gets an SSS-rank pill that gives him an indestructible body. Qin Feng makes full use of the zombie-horde economy and has 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Apocalypse Rebirth: I Get a System and Assemble a Team of Beautiful Women 末世重生：获得系统组建美女小队 Doomsday rebirth + Zombies (which can evolve) + System + Supplies returned + Forming a team of beautiful women + Won't kill good people indiscriminately, but won't spare the wicked Growth is slow early on, and the protagonist isn't invincible. He starts taking off in the middle stages, gradually becoming unstoppable. The protagonist leads a team of beautiful women, killing monsters and leveling up along the way, gradually establishing a new order in the apocalypse. It's a classic, straightforwar 203Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 3 A Ship from the Start, and All My Gear Comes from Loot 开局一条船，装备全靠爆 After waking up, everyone in the world had somehow transmigrated to an island realm. Countless unclaimed islands awaited the survivors' exploration... Jiang Hao had even obtained a Survival System. [Kill 10 ferocious beasts: Increase the drop rate of rewards by 1%] [Kill 100 ferocious beasts: Increase the drop rate of rewards by 5%] Several years later. While everyone else was still worrying about food and clothing, Jiang Hao had turned survival into a vacation. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Thriller: They Call Me Kuang Ye, the Beast Among Ghosts 惊悚：我叫疯夜，鬼送绰号畜生 [Horror game + absorbing ghosts’ negative emotions + unconventional thinking] Ye Feng, nicknamed “Mad Night,” transmigrates to another world invaded by horror games and enters a solo horror instance where death is all but certain. Luckily, he awakens an emotion System that lets him exchange ghosts’ negative emotions for rewards. And so, once a “madman” gets his hands on the System, the nature of the game begins to change. Tales of “Beastly Mad Night” gradually spread through the horror world, st 748Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 5 Urban Legends: After Transforming, Can I Win Over Female Urban Legends? 怪谈：变身后，我能攻略女怪谈？ [Tales of the Strange + Transformation + Subtle Yuri + Girls’ Love] Monsters infest a corrupted world, and strange tales run rampant. Su Yu has just transmigrated into the body of a female college student. She’s ready to make her mark and conquer the business world, but suddenly gets dragged into a supernatural incident, turning the entire school into a living hell. Su Yu stares silently at the dried corpse bride before her, dressed in a wedding gown. Several options appear before her eyes: [One 99Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 6 Survival by Meme: I Can Predict the Rules in Advance 表情包求生：我能提前预知规则 [Infinite Flow, Horror Instances, Survival, Rule-Based Horror, Brain Teasers, Twists] [If strange instances descended upon the world, which meme would you choose to save yourself?] [Longtu? Panda Head? Or... that pink starch sausage?] The Meme Survival World has descended upon the entire planet! Beginner Instance: [Musical Chairs]! A group of desperate players fight over the limited seats on a subway train. Get a seat and live. No seat, and you die! But... Su Yi awakens the ability to see th 1.7kReads8.4Score136Shelves
- 7 Apocalypse: Is It Really So Wrong to Enslave Goddesses in My Shelter? 末世：避难所奴役女神不过分吧 [Apocalypse + System + Wasteland + Reborn + Beauties + Control + Ruthless + Building a Faction] At first, people thought it was just an ordinary rainstorm. They had no idea the rain contained an incredibly deadly virus! When the apocalypse came, all the plants and animals that drank virus-contaminated water turned into terrifying zombies and monsters! In his previous life, Su Xu was betrayed by his girlfriend and brutally murdered by her and her male best friend. Reborn one week before the apoca 682Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Apocalypse: You Were Told to Stockpile Supplies, So Why Did You Hoard Billions in Ghost Money? 末世：让囤货，你囤亿万冥币干嘛 [Apocalypse + tycoon + multiple heroines + unlimited storage space + System + spiritual qi revival in the middle and later stages] Black fog appears, and the apocalypse descends! Only by using ghost money to trade and form contracts with ghosts and gods can people become “binders” and have any chance of survival! Su Long unexpectedly gets a second life and awakens the [Ghost and God Investment System]. In the early days, when signs of the apocalypse are emerging and everyone else is frantically 6.5kReads7.0Score888Shelves
- 9 I Asked You to Write an Essay, Not a Rule Horror Story! 让你写作文，你写规则怪谈？ [Behind the Scenes]+ [Creating Rules Horror]+ [No System]+ [No Saintly Hero] Lin Chen wrote nothing more than a school essay, yet it plunged all of Longguo into panic. Because the rules horror he wrote had become real! The night before, wanting revenge on the gangsters who bullied him, Lin Chen had used one of their birthday parties as the template for a rules horror scenario. The next day, he was astonished to discover that several classmates who had attended the gangsters' birthday party the p 2.8kReads8.2Score375Shelves
- 10 Ocean Survival: Starting with Daily Treasure Chests! 海洋求生：从每日宝箱开始！ [Slow burn + developing romance + survival and building + multiple heroines] Lin Yan had never dreamed that one day the nation’s goddess, Su Xingyue, would invite him to her home. Even less did he expect that transmigrating into a game would make them teammates. [Ding! Treasure Chest System activated!] [Binding candidate detected: Su Xingyue! Your bound partner can obtain treasure chests for you. Once the cooldown resets, you can open a chest!] “Lin Yan, we’re teammates from now on. I’m counting 35.8kReads7.2Score3.4kShelves
- 11 Eerie Revival: From the Start, I Possess a Body and Become a Loli 诡异复苏：开局夺舍变萝莉 [Genderbender + Two Heroines + Supernatural Revival + Cthulhu Mythos + Urban Supernatural] Li Yin successfully possesses the body of a supreme being whose very existence makes all life tremble! But when she wakes from her dream, all her boundless powers are gone from memory. She looks down at the delicate yet unfamiliar little girl in the mirror and the light lace dress on her body, utterly stunned. The strongest BOSS has turned into a total weakling? This isn't how the script is supposed to 6.1kReads8.9Score820Shelves
- 12 National Highway Survival: A Hiking Cart from the Start 全民公路求生：开局一辆徒步车 No AI, entirely written by hand. Have you ever seen a survival story still rated 5.9 a year after it started? I hadn’t either, before I began writing one! Everyone transmigrates into a road-survival game, and from the start, all he gets is a busted car pushed by a fake hiking streamer. He thinks he’s doomed, but somehow turns survival into a life of leisure. “I just wanted to be an ordinary, laid-back slacker and master schemer. How did I end up at the top of the rankings?” [One female lead] [T 2.8kReads6.0Score170Shelves
- 13 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Turned into a Cute Girl 规则怪谈：开局变成可爱美少女 [Gender-bending + numerous original supernatural mystery instances + lots of beautiful female ghosts + lots and lots of cuddling] After Lin Xiao was rejected when he confessed to the campus belle, he was chosen the very next second as a [Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom] and sent into the world of supernatural mysteries! He chose a female avatar and unlocked the Goddess System. In the second instance, she encountered... A yandere girl who could kill people by singing “Dark Sky.” And the only way 5.9kReads9.1Score697Shelves
- 14 Highway Survival: I Can Draw Vehicles Without Limit 公路求生：我能无限抽取载具 [No Goody-Two-Shoes] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Never Lets a Grudge Go Unsettled] When Chen Anzhi woke up, he discovered that everyone on Earth had transmigrated into a highway survival game. He started with a bicycle and kept upgrading it. As luck would have it, Chen Anzhi awakened the “I Want It All” System! Resources, food, upgrade blueprints: hand them over! While everyone else was worrying about what to eat tomorrow, Chen Anzhi had already achieved total material freedom. Later, when an apoca 3.4kReads7.6Score221Shelves
- 15 Rule Horror: I Sign-In to Become a God, and Even the Horrors Fear Me 规则怪谈：签到成神，诡异都怕我 [Redemption + sign-in + national destiny + no female lead + comedy + original story + a tiny bit of touching moments] Over-the-top blurb: Rule-based horror games invade the world. Those chosen are bound to their nations and forced to take part in the games! Victory brings countless resources. Failure means death, and the horror game descends on the city! The games are terrifying? Almost impossible to survive? Participants have to tread on eggshells? Jiang Fan says, this is way too easy! He activ 1.9kReads8.9Score295Shelves
- 16 Rule Horror: It All Begins with Mom’s Note 规则怪谈：从妈妈的纸条开始 In a parallel world, rule-based horror stories descended upon humanity. Each country was assigned a randomly selected player. If a player died, the horror story would descend upon their country; only clearing it could make it disappear. Lin Feng was fortunate enough to win the draw and represent the Dragon Kingdom in a rule-based horror story. The first story was called Mom's Note. Mom can't come back. Remember to go to Grandma's house in three days. 1. You should leave between 9 and 11 p.m. Do 1.8kReads8.9Score183Shelves
- 17 Highway Survival: Sign In for the King of Fortune from the Start 公路求生：开局签到气运之王 Everyone transmigrates into a road-survival game. Each person starts with a tricycle and speeds along an endless road. Along the way are supply crates, treasures, and unexpected encounters, as well as countless dangers. Disasters shift without warning, strange beasts swarm, people’s hearts are impossible to read, and killing never ends! The players seem trapped in a hopeless situation… Fortunately, the game gives everyone a chance to draw a talent skill. On her very first day, Ji Xinghan gets a 7.9kReads8.0Score937Shelves
- 18 I Created the Committee for the Management of Forbidden Objects! 我创造了禁忌物管理委员会！ [Ensemble Cast] [Behind the Scenes] [Somewhat Dark] In a bustling city, mysterious items with incredible powers and negative side effects begin to appear. They are called Pandora, also known as Forbidden Objects. 3-001, Marquardt’s Mask. 3-002, Lilith’s Blood Needle. 2-00X, Eris’s Magic Mirror. 0-001, Forbidden Ring. … A mask that lets its wearer become someone else; a silver hairpin that, once driven into a person’s heart, drains every drop of blood from their body and prolongs its owner 7.5kReads8.5Score650Shelves
- 19 Wasteland Survival: I Can Summon Players 废土求生：我能召唤玩家 In the ruins left by the catastrophe, human factions reorganize. Immortals with mechanical bodies, gene warriors from Dawn City, mechs atop the Beacon of Civilization, and more... After Su Chen is bitten by a zombie, he awakens a Tinder Chip and uses it to summon players from Blue Star. From then on, a mysterious faction swiftly rises in the wasteland. They cannot be killed, fear nothing, and even dare to bite zombies back! They're clever, stay up all night grinding away, and will even raid a mo 10.4kReads9.3Score824Shelves
- 20 National Fate Survival: My Whole Family Transmigrates Together! 国运求生：我全家一起穿越！ [An original all-family national-fortune survival story. The rating just came in and will rise!] In a national-fortune survival game, Dragon Kingdom draws the “Death List”: Lin Chen’s family of seven, with the old and young, men and women all thrown into the fight! Blue Star is certain Dragon Kingdom is doomed, and the country is filled with despairing cries. Only Lin Chen grins wildly as he looks at the awakened [Strongest Family Survival System]. “You think my grandma’s too old? One word from 5.9kReads7.5Score388Shelves
- 21 Train Survival: Activating the Foresight Module from the Start! 列车求生：开局激活预知模块！ Qi Xiao wakes up in a world where people must survive aboard trains. Every day at eight, the train stops at a random station. You can get off and explore, or stay aboard and wait for it to depart. There are endless treasures here, along with unknown dangers. Explore stations, gather supplies, upgrade your train, and do your best to survive. Qi Xiao's newcomer gift isn't food like everyone else's. Instead, he gets a module card that activates a special module: Station Forecast. Whenever the train 69.5kReads8.3Score5.2kShelves
- 22 Rule Horror: I Can See Hidden Clues 规则怪谈：我能看到隐藏提示 The world of supernatural tales has arrived, and everyone must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the world of supernatural tales has appeared once more. Sun Kai accidentally transmigrates into it, becoming one of the first contestants representing his nation’s fate. They carry the fate of Xia Nation on their shoulders! If they win, they survive, Xia Nation’s fortunes rise, and its people all benefit. If they lose, they die, the nation’s fortunes fall, and supernatural tales invade the 4kReads9.0Score518Shelves
- 23 All Eight Empresses Betrayed Me: Reborn to Die of Regret 八女帝全背叛，重生悔到肠断 [Reborn]+ [Wife-Chasing Crematorium]+ [Deep Regret]+ [Ridiculously Satisfying]+ [Absolutely No Reconciliation]+ [Commentary That’ll Make You Die Laughing]+ [Comedy] In his previous life, everyone envied Lu Ye, the Nine-Lives Heavenly Venerable. Not only did he have nine lives, he also had eight stunningly beautiful confidantes. Who could have imagined that when Lu Ye attempted to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, all eight of his confidantes would join forces to strike him down? Nine Heavens Sword 21.8kReads8.9Score2kShelves
- 24 Surviving at Sea: My Raft Leads to Peach Blossom Spring 海上求生：我的木筏通桃源 When she woke up, the world had turned upside down. Countless people had entered a game called Survival at Sea. From the start, all they had was a wooden raft and a fishing rod. Every supply had to be caught on a line. Sharks, giant beasts, bitter cold, hurricanes, and merciless hunting between people. Survival became incredibly difficult, and supplies were scarce and precious. Lu Xingchen entered the game and obtained a god-tier pocket dimension on her very first day: the Peach Blossom Sanctuar 62.6kReads9.1Score6.9kShelves
- 25 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 140.9kReads9.4Score15.2kShelves
- 26 Nightfall 入夜 The door opened, and a tall, slender man stepped out. Lin Mian stared at him, dumbstruck, forgetting even to snap out of it. “What are you looking at, hmm?” 7kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
- 27 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 28 I Told You to Cultivate Immortality, Not Wreak Havoc in the Cultivation World! 让你修仙，没让你祸害修仙界啊！ [Comedy][Sneaky Schemer][Lighthearted][Absurd][Gets Better the Further You Read] [This book focuses on comedy and fun. The pace is somewhat slow, so please do not read it if that bothers you.] Year 17,863 of the Cultivation Calendar When Emperor Qin Yu became an immortal and ascended, powerful figures from every realm came to see him off. Firecrackers exploded, and everyone had tears in their eyes as they murmured their farewells. Sect Elder: “He's leaving. This scourge is finally leaving. We ca 173.7kReads9.1Score24.1kShelves
- 29 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 335.3kReads9.5Score66.6kShelves
- 30 EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 1MReads9.3Score123.9kShelves
- 31 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 538.9kReads9.7Score71.1kShelves
- 32 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 33 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
