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- 1 I Have a Map of the Stars 我有一幅星辰图 [Not Mindless + No Harem + Believably Overpowered + Plenty of Twists + If You Don't Like It, Move Along] When the blade of justice begins to grow dull, who would be willing to use filthy blood to rouse the rust-stained land? Jiang Lai transmigrates from Blue Star to a Spirit Star where everyone awakens their spirit. The talent to awaken one's spirit is humanity's defense against the “Shadow.” Jiang Lai's awakening talent is [Yin-Yang Type: Spirit-Drawing Brush / Cosmic Star Chart]. It is not m 5Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 2 A Game Developer Becomes CEO of a Beijing Entertainment Company 游戏开发者在京圈娱乐公司当总裁 In this story, same-sex marriage is legal. After his parents died in an accident, genius game developer Gu Zhao was forced to take over Zhaohua Entertainment, his family’s Beijing entertainment company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. The tech geek became a goofy CEO. To save the company, he set his sights on Lin Shen, the person behind a virtual idol who had fallen out of favor after a hate-fan scandal. Lin Shen had once been a top-tier star, but after refusing his company’s casting-couch 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Doomsday Disaster: I Rise Amid the Crisis 天灾末日：我在危途中崛起 [Rebirth + space storage + male-oriented + no romance + natural disasters + passionate action] The male lead's entire survival squad is wiped out in a clash between a major faction and a minor one. Thanks to Heaven's favor, the male lead gets a second chance at life. Reborn, with memories of the previous life's devastating disasters and the ugliness of human nature, he decides to live differently. After making thorough preparations, he faces the apocalypse and the darkness in people's hearts, us —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Terrifying Night of Food Delivery: From the Start, I Livestream Rescuing Little Monsters 外卖惊魂夜：开局直播救助小妖怪 Lin Fan is a dirt-poor delivery driver who was nearly thrown out by his landlord. One stormy night, he delivers his final order to the wrong address and unexpectedly inherits a strange old house and a glowing "Bestiary of Two Worlds." From then on, his world is turned upside down! On his delivery routes, he keeps running into ancient-style beauties in strange outfits (Chinese wild spirits) and neon-clad Japanese cuties (Japanese yokai) fighting in the streets! Little monsters even leap out to st 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Hidden Truth Between These Lines 此间隐真意 The boundless firmament has no limits, and the passage of time between heaven and earth is an illusion. On the path to immortality, Buddhas and immortals ride the clouds, gods and demons shake the mountains, and monsters and ghosts lurk in the depths. The six realms drift and leap through reincarnation, and even those who cultivate the power to move mountains, fill seas, defy fate, and live forever remain trapped by one word: the Dao. Three questions bind their hearts: What is the Dao? Which Dao —Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 6 Transmigrated as the Villainess in a Period Novel, She Reinvents Her Life 穿成年代文恶毒女配，她爆改人生 Medical PhD Shen Wanqing opens her eyes and finds herself in a period novel, reincarnated as its notorious, idiotic, vicious female side character! With rumors at her door and thugs surrounding her home, she clings to the leg of a stern-faced military officer in hopes of surviving. From then on, she saves the wounded, develops medical equipment, opens factories, and dives into the business world... A bowl of soy-braised pork knuckle warms the tough soldier's heart, while a rehabilitation device —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 We Fight, He Falls for Me: The Sickly Beauty Coughs Blood and Steals His Heart 打一架就动情，病美人咳血勾他命 [Dual male leads / love and hate / deranged assassin vs. sickly villain / evenly matched / wuxia jianghu] “Ling Sui, if you fake being sick to scheme against me again, I'll put this knife straight through your heart.” Zhen Lue's blade rested against the hollow of the other's throat. Its edge gleamed coldly, but he didn't dare press down. The man was coughing so hard his shoulders trembled, his face pale as paper, yet a smile still curled his lips. “Calm down, Young Master Zhen,” Ling Sui said le —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 My Sect Is Destroyed from the Start, and My Junior Sister and I Flee for Our Lives 开局宗门被灭，和小师妹亡命天涯 He wakes to find his sect destroyed and every last member dead! Lin Ye discovers that he is gravely wounded and has lost his memory. He is now the only male disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, and the only one left by his side, junior sister Su Qingyue, looks at him with icy hatred, as if he were the culprit! “Lin Ye, stop pretending you don't know! If you hadn't colluded with the enemy, how could the sect have been wiped out overnight?” Faced with his junior sister's hatred and the blades —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 My Boyfriend Is a Taoist Priest 我男友是道长 Welcome to Tomato Novel to read my works. I hope you enjoy them. Life is like a script, and a script is like life. This is a modern fantasy romance that offers a reading experience unlike any other. Your support is my greatest motivation to write. I’m grateful that fate brought us together! Wishing all my readers an ever brighter future! May boundless blessings be upon you! 36Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 10 Infinite: The Marionette's Fool's Game 无限：木偶愚戏 [Infinite Flow / One Female Lead / Ensemble Cast / Chinese-Style Infinite Flow] Hello, everyone. I'm Zhou Ze, and I sincerely invite you all to come and see this grand puppet show. See black and white, good and evil, and the performances of souls putting on airs. Take a look at these hollow shells, all dolled up... The puppets sit beneath the stage. So who's putting on a show up there? Darkness gives birth to fear, but evil always comes from the demons within. I stand atop the mountain, looking —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Little Gua with AI, and Ancient Big Shots Compete to Outdo Me 小猹带AI，古代大佬抢着卷我 [Ancient setting + multiple male leads + sweet romance + fierce rivalry for her affection] In her previous life, Ning Xia worked herself to death. She accidentally took too many sleeping pills and was ruled a suicide. After dying, she realized that lying flat and watching the drama was the way to go. For her second life, she was determined to be an invisible little melon-munching creature in the fields, enjoying the gossip in comfort. To make up for its mistake, the Supreme God sent her to an al —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Dead Servants' Apocalypse: Conflict 亡仆启示录：纷争 “You aren't devoted enough to death.” On the blood-red throne, the king who had once looked down on all things finally bowed his noble head. Time continued to pass. The iron hooves of war shattered the peace, and the flames of revenge still burned. Countless pairs of golden-yellow eyes stood beneath the banner of the Grim Reaper, smiling scornfully at the mayflies who dared defy fate. Nuclear cells trembled amid waves of “resonance,” in a graveyard piled high with corpses and blood-stained tears —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Dao Lies Beyond the Self: Without Equality of Things, There Is No Freedom 道非身外：无齐物，不逍遥 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Everyone Here Is Trash 在座的都是渣渣 Ye Xiu was once the mightiest War God, who fell in the battle between gods and demons. His primordial spirit was reborn in the Xuanxiao Realm. A fragment of his battle soul remained, awakening his fighting spirit, but he had lost all his cultivation and his meridians were completely shattered. Living in the small city of the Chen family, he was mocked as a good-for-nothing by his clansmen and humiliated on the trial platform. By chance, he gained a golden finger: “The stronger the opponent, the —Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 I Found True Love After the Divorce, So Why Do You Regret It? 离婚后我遇到真爱，你后悔什么 [One heroine]+ [Urban]+ [Everyday life]+ [Never looking back]+ [The husband-chasing crematorium] Jiang Ming and Zheng Zhaoyi have been married for three years. He has been attentive and devoted, loving her deeply and humbly, yet he still couldn't compete with the slightest attention from her white moonlight. In the end, all he got was the realization that he'd only moved himself. One day, he finally came to his senses and resolved to divorce her. “You can't marry her!” “When I did everything I c —Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 16 Don't Kneel, You Scumbag! Your Wife Married a Powerful Man After Her Cremation 渣夫别跪了，太太火化后嫁大佬了 [Reunion after a long separation + groveling to win her back + powerful man going mad with love + both leads are romantically inexperienced] On her wedding day, her mother-in-law drives a car into the wedding venue, then tears open her wedding dress in front of everyone and humiliates her: “You shameless tramp! Today everyone will see what kind of woman you are! You think you're fit to marry into the Li family?” —Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 17 The Divine Grace Game: I Became a Proxy Deity 神恩游戏，我成为代理神明 [Comedy of errors + gods descend to earth + faith game + infinite worlds] God of the End: “Are you ready to meet the requirements to become a god?” Li Feng flicked the last coin in his pocket into the air. “What does it take to become a god?” God of the End: “A sufficient number of followers, a vast amount of divine fragments, certification from three Supreme Gods...” Li Feng: “Everything in this world comes at a price.” The next second, the coin landed with a crisp sound. The curtain of the uni —Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 18 A Simp Awakens a Succubus System? This Feels Pretty Awkward! 舔狗觉醒魅魔系统？怪不适应的！ Wang Tian is Jiangcheng No. 3 High School's notorious simp, and the bottom of the barrel among martial arts students. For three years, he was school beauty Su Wanqing's human ATM and emotional punching bag. All he got in return was milk tea dumped over his head in public and ridicule from the entire school. Then he unexpectedly awakens a Succubus System! And everything goes completely off the rails: The once aloof school beauty Su Wanqing looks at him with stars in her eyes as soon as the filter —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 19 Thank Goodness, It's the Apocalypse! 太好了，是末日！ [Strong female lead + no romance + reborn + stockpiling + personal space + ruthless + pets] Ni An never expected the apocalypse to come. But she quickly adapted to her new life after it began, even though there was never enough food or warm clothing. Want to steal her weapons? Ni An would turn around and lead them straight into an ambush! Want to take her supplies? Ni An would storm their base and bring the whole place down! While everyone else struggled to survive and sought shelter, Ni An beca —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 How Did I, a Great Immortal Cultivator, End Up at a Superpower School? 我修仙大佬怎么上异能学校了 [Cultivation in a Superpowered World] + [Humorous and Hilarious] + [Playing the Fool to Outsmart the Mighty] + [No System] + [School Beauty] In the Age of Superpowers, he was once a prodigy of the immortal path. Now, he's widely dismissed as a "superpower washout" who can't awaken his abilities. Everyone laughs at him as a relic of a bygone age, unaware that his mind still holds a complete cultivation manual! While the superpowered prodigies search desperately for a path to the heavens, he has a 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I’m Done Hiding: My Mom Can Crush Anyone Below the Tenth Realm 不装了，我有一妈，十境以下乱杀 [Mama's Boy] [Invincible] [No System] [Easygoing Daily Life] [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] My name is Lin Fan. I'm not a rich second-generation heir, but I ride a top-grade spirit beast. My family isn't highly ranked, yet I have more spirit stones than I can spend. In the cultivation world, more than one in every ten people is a cultivator. And every one of those cultivators has a chance to give me spirit stones. Because... I'm a mama's boy, and my mom... is powerful! —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 22 Search, Fight, Extract: I Keep a Low Profile and Become an Immortal in the City 搜打撤：我在都市苟成仙 [Spiritual qi revival, play the pig to eat the tiger, lighthearted comedy, urban supernatural powers, one female lead] Everyone awakens to their powers, and beasts run rampant. Chen Shu makes do with a knockoff phone, playing loot-and-extract games while laying low, steadily growing stronger in secret. Ning Yi keeps her eyes fixed on him. “Your energy fluctuations are abnormal.” Chen Shu: “Phone radiation.” Ning Yi frowns. “Your energy is too pure.” Chen Shu: “That’s because my heart is pure whe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Cyber Journey to the West: Data Tribulation 赛博西游：数据劫 Jin Chanzi was banished to the mortal world, his consciousness uploaded into a cybernetic human body. Five Finger Mountain became a gigantic energy field, imprisoning a war machine designated “Great Sage Equal to Heaven.” Tang Sanzang used electronic Buddhist scriptures to deliver souls to the afterlife, only to discover an insidious backdoor program hidden within them, one the Celestial Court used to control mortals. The headband spell was actually a remote formatting command. When Wukong was f 11Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 24 Let Go of Those Heartthrobs 放开那些男神 Transmigration + Strong Female Lead + Just Here for the Fun + No Romance Also known as "More Children, More Blessings: I Became the Goddess of Life" and "Mad Noblewoman? I Turn Around and Make the Gods Call Me Mom". I stayed up all night pulling cards and died, only to transmigrate into a mad noblewoman who had died after “spending the night with ten men”! The moment I wake up, my furious earl father treats me like trash and exiles me to the monster-infested “Weeping Wasteland” with three beastm 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I’m Just a Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor, and You Want Me to Extend the Dragon Vein’s Life? 我一介中医，你让我给龙脉续命？ [Reviving Traditional Chinese Medicine] [Metaphysics] [National Fate] Jiang Fan inherits his grandfather's dilapidated traditional Chinese medicine clinic, along with a mountain of debt. To pay it off, he starts livestreaming, hoping to make a living with his family's traditional skills. Unexpectedly, the [Miraculous Healing] System awakens, rewarding him every time he treats a patient! From then on, Jiang Fan's livestream takes a strange turn. “Streamer, I've had insomnia for three years, and W —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Everything Gets Split 60/40, Turns Out I'm a Conceptual God 万物四六开，原来我是概念神 (Demonic sect + xianxia fantasy + countless beauties + multiple partners + System) Lin Fan transmigrated to the cultivation world three years ago, and from the start, the Heavenly Dao granted him an extra hundred thousand years of life. The good news: he has a System. The bad news: he ends up evenly matched with everyone! “Even with a System, I still have to fight people to a draw!” System, are you sure this is right? [Host, what if you include the treasured Canglan Diagram?] Lin Fan studied the —Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 27 Ten Lifetimes as a Formation Spirit: Bai Ze Enters My Dreams and Awakens Me to Save the World 十世阵灵，白泽入梦引我觉醒救世 It began with a recurring nightmare of a frozen snowfield at 3:15 a.m. History student Lin Mo's ordinary life came crashing down. A bloody calamity struck without warning. The Blood Demon Cult slaughtered his family, leaving his loved ones drained of their blood and withered in death. His once-warm home became a crime scene. The markings on his shoulder blades, present since birth, and a fragment of the Tui Bei Tu left behind by his grandfather concealed his fate: the tenth reincarnation of a sp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Martial Arts Skill Synthesis: Turning My Rejected Exam Results into a Comeback 武技合成：从落榜生开始逆袭 When the results of the martial arts college entrance exam were announced, Lin Che’s score of 785 had been changed to 621. The deputy director of admissions threw his exam pass in his face. “A worthless country bumpkin like you thinks you can check your score?” He didn’t cry or make a scene. He turned and walked into the military recruitment office. The wilderness war zone had a seventy percent death rate, but it was his only way forward. Between life and death, the [Myriad Worlds Martial Skil —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Drove the White Moonlight Heroine to Madness 穿书后，我让白月光女主杀疯了 A weary, perceptive, modern top-tier book editor with an expert grasp of online traffic and human nature unexpectedly transmigrates into an early, old-fashioned tragic romance she had just reviewed, one with a worldview that makes your jaw drop. She becomes the heroine, who shares her name and surname and is fated for a miserable ending: the story’s “one true love.” Refusing to follow the original plot’s path of emotional and physical torment, she uses modern marketing strategies, psychological 1Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 30 I Want the Great Dao to Bow to Me! 我要这大道朝天！ I was once the foremost second-generation immortal in the Celestial Court, the son of an Immortal Venerable. I reached the Deity Transformation Realm at fourteen! Yet I died by the sword of my childhood sweetheart, my soul utterly destroyed! Two thousand years later, I awoke from the dust. She, however, had become the sole female sovereign seated high above the nine heavens, commanding the Three Realms! The world mocks me as a good-for-nothing, my elder brother humiliates me like a dog, and my —Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 31 The Dragon’s Treasured Artifact 龙华法宝 [“Lighthearted and heartwarming” + genius protagonist + not invincible + rapid growth + clear main plot + real-world parallels + ensemble cast + devoted romance] In a dark room at the Taoist academy, a gaunt old man coughed violently. “Go… Go to Penglai Immortal Island and Laoshan Academy. Fulfill your master’s final wish and broaden your horizons. From now on, the world belongs to you young people.” Dao Yu clasped his hands and accepted the order, but his heart was filled with sorrow. He kne 1Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 32 Reborn in the Apocalypse: The More Goddesses, the Stronger I Become 重生末世：女神越多我越强 [Apocalypse + reborn + dark cultivation + special abilities + ruthless + no bleeding-heart saint + lots of beauties + villain protagonist + extremely selfish + cold-blooded and merciless] [No breaks, three chapters every day] Li Ying is reborn before he transmigrates. He plans to cultivate on Blue Star and make his way back to the Immortal Mu Continent to take revenge. The apocalypse is here! Special abilities against cultivators? They’re all ants! Other reborn System users? They’re all my under 3Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 33 Summer's Wicked Echo 夏日邪响 No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincible protagonist, no System, and no brainless decisions. A campus murder case leads to the darkest secrets of the city’s gangs, while one careless choice triggers an incomprehensible time-space paradox. When I start to be controlled again and again by an ancient voice within me, a truth spanning time and space drives me into a desperate corner... —Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 34 You Can Call Me the Scarlet Star Demon! 你可以叫我：赤星天魔！ [If You've Seen This Book, Please Give It a Look] [The Mysterious Three-Updates-a-Day Freak] [Transmigration + Modern Cultivation + System + Lighthearted + Shenanigans + Slow Pace] Only after spitting out a mouthful of blood does he manage to clear his head. Is this blood? But before Lu Xing can make use of what little thinking power he has left, a voice rings out in his mind. “Oh my god! Host, you're finally awake! If you hadn't woken up, you'd have died all over again! What am I supposed to do —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 School Hunk, I'll Protect Your Life! 校草大人，你的命我护定了！ [Both reborn + sweet romance + school life + healing] A heartfelt work, with both laughs and tears~ Hope you readers love it~ If you could relive your youth, would you dare grab the school's heartthrob and tell him you love him? Bai Yiyi, the top scorer on the high school entrance exam, returns to her first year of high school with her family's heirloom jade bracelet. In her previous life, rumors drove the school's heartthrob Xiao Fan to his death, and her heart shattered into pieces. Now she op —Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 36 Surviving in Troubled Times: An AI Laborer and His Butler System 乱世生存AI民工和他的管家系统 Volume One is complete, so feel free to dive in (Chapters 4–9 can be skipped). Volume Two is ongoing… [Farming + carving out territory + hard-core manufacturing + The Prince + infrastructure] #System #revenge #infrastructure #power fantasy #political intrigue Transmigrate, and it’s hell from the start! A programmer opens his eyes in a chaotic age, with no home or land and both parents dead. The village chief sends him to a deserted island to fend for himself. Luckily, he binds to a large-model 1Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 37 The End of the Career Track 走到编制尽头 From a civil engineering student at a 211 university to a construction-site cost estimator, from a debtor who quit his job to prepare for the civil service exam to an insider in the public sector, he spent three years and sat for countless exams to travel a path millions are walking. Lin Yiwei’s life began with a poor boy’s determination to “escape poverty and get rich.” He chose civil engineering and entered the construction industry, only to meet the cold reality among steel and concrete. Qui 1Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 38 Chronicles of Jiuzhou's Mortal Dust 九洲凌尘录 The skies above the eight provinces of the Yuan Realm are about to collapse! Several eras ago, the insect and ghost clans invaded, and the ancestors of humanity forged a barrier wall with their own bodies. Now, enemies are knocking at the gates while dangers take root within, and humanity's former glory has faded. The young Tang Luochen carries the mystery of his ancestors' deaths and defies fate to change his destiny. On the surface, he is the dead-last son of a fallen family. In truth, he beco —Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 39 One Piece: Reborn as Kaido, My Fate Is Mine to Command 海贼：重生凯多我命由我不由天 [Change the fate of becoming a teacher] [Elite recruitment policy for the Beasts Pirates] [The whole crew takes off] [The Paramount War with Kaido] [Admirals? Send in the Three Calamities] [Shichibukai? All six of you, go] [Everyone else? Leave it to me] No System, no female lead, just a gang of pure violence. 5Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 40 A General Store Martial Soul? I Trade Across Worlds and Become a Tycoon! 杂货店武魂？我交易万界成神豪！ Chen Fan is an orphan whose parents were erased from existence by the “Forgetfulness Spell.” His awakened martial soul is even more useless: the owner of a general store, leaving him to endure ridicule and abuse. But no one knows he possesses the [Myriad Worlds Ledger], which lets him trade across the myriad worlds. At last, a deal with the Giant Spirit God changes his fate. [SSR Character Card: Tushan Susu (Trainee Shop Assistant) summoned!] A soft, adorable little fox spirit who can do nothing —Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 41 Yang Jian and Li Yuan? They're Both My Nephews! 杨坚李渊？都是我侄儿！ [History + Smart Protagonist + No System + Transmigration + Political Intrigue + Conquest] More than two hundred years after the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians, Yang Mao transmigrated into a volatile era on the eve of another three-way division of the realm. He had no powerful father in office and no prestigious clan behind him. All he had was a good friend who loved climbing up to the third floor. It was a nightmare from the start, and every step felt like walking on thin ice. But the spark th —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 42 A Brilliant Career in Politics, from Underworld Boss to Political Titan 官途璀璨，从黑道一哥到政坛大佬 In his previous life, Zhao Jindong was singled out by his superiors for his outstanding grades and exemplary conduct, then expelled from the police academy and sent undercover. They said it would only be three years, but three years turned into three more. His superiors always found some excuse to keep him in place. Fortunately, he distinguished himself time and again, rising from a deputy section-level undercover officer all the way to a division-level one. By middle age, he thought that after 438Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Symbiosis of the Void 虚无共生 [Urban Fantasy + Superpowers + Everyday Campus Life + Youth + Lighthearted Comedy] Whenever an emotion reaches a certain threshold, the chaos within spills over, and an unknown energy erupts, unleashing destruction. The powers that lie dormant within the body alongside the illness give rise to the Awakened. Through successive inheritance and evolution, awakenings and transformations keep emerging. From then on, a century-old scheme and conspiracy begin to reveal themselves, one by one. Ten years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 From Hometown Drudge to Guardian God of China 从异乡打工仔到华夏守护神 [Apocalypse, Epic, War, Passion, Decisive and Ruthless, No Harem, No System, No Idiotic Decisions, Not a Power Fantasy] In a single night, the world falls, and only Huaxia remains! Yun Ye was just a wage earner in Hangzhou yesterday, struggling to make ends meet. Now, with an insect flute in hand, he has become a [Spirit Medium of a Hundred Gu]. He wields spirit Gu as blades and defends his second home to the death! When the empire’s expeditionary banners are raised, he sets out as a wandering h 2Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 45 All Are Dragon Warriors 都是龙战 [High Martial] + [Superpowers] Sun Tianyu, the disowned son of Great Xia’s wealthiest man, was rescued by an elder from the Temple of War and trained to become its master, code-named Black Dragon. He returns to Great Xia with his superpowers, only to face hardships from every direction. The Sun family and other vested interests see him as a threat and stop at nothing to hinder his rise, sabotage his relationships, and seize resources. Meanwhile, the city’s complicated social ties and constraints —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Beyond the Sea of Stars 星海之遥 [Starships, mechs, cultivation, one female lead. No System, no brainless villains, and maybe this counts as a wish-fulfillment story!] Was the blood-refining formation covering the city really built just to resurrect one person? What love and hatred lie along the River of Forgetfulness, where the flowers of the other shore bloom? What secrets does the City of Eternal Night conceal? Why did an alien civilization suddenly launch an invasion? Is it for the secret of eternal life? Or the path to asc —Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 47 Reborn in the 1970s: My Adorable Child Helps Grandma Defy Fate 重生七零：萌宝守护奶奶逆天改命 [Everyday life + heroine’s comeback + feel-good period drama: Watch an overworked office girl use a modern mindset to thrive in a planned economy!] Zhao Yuexin, an overworked office worker, dies suddenly after working overtime. When she opens her eyes, she’s back in 1975, inhabiting Li Erni, the little sidekick of her grandmother, Li Yueya. Her twin brother has been adopted by their grandmother as her younger brother, and she’s gone along with him to live in the coal mine’s workers’ compound, su —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 48 The Long Road to High Office: A Poor Scholar's Rise Through the Ranks 官途漫漫：穷书生的仕途逆袭 [Imperial Exams + Officialdom + Political Intrigue + Palace Coup + Factional Strife + No System + No golden finger] A poor scholar from a remote mountain village wins the imperial examination despite the scorn and ridicule, becoming the new top scholar and marrying the Chief Councilor’s daughter. His future seems bright, but he is drawn into factional strife, becoming a stepping stone for the powerful and getting caught up in a palace coup from the previous dynasty. His path through the bureaucr 6Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 49 Timon Terror: The Shaman and the Curse of the Kuman Thong 泰蒙惊魂【萨满与古曼童的诅咒】 [Mongolian Folk Culture + Thai Kuman Thong + No CP + Supernatural Horror + Deities] A border-trade merchant doing business in Inner and Outer Mongolia encounters ghosts and suffers a series of bizarre ordeals. A Kuman Thong statue from Thailand in Sui You's cargo container lets out a piercing infant's wail. A curse spreads like a plague. His employees die one after another, their corpses covered in b —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 A Slave to the Tightening Headband? Old Sun Slaughters Every God in Heaven 紧箍咒奴？老孙屠尽满天神佛 Five hundred years ago, I shattered the Hall of Lingxiao. Five hundred years later, I intend to slaughter every god and Buddha in the heavens! All because I saw through the truth of Journey to the West: the pilgrimage was a scam, merit was a shackle, and we were all playthings in the hands of the gods and Buddhas! When compassion becomes a butcher's blade and faith turns into lies, there is no need to be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven anymore! From this day on, better to carry a sharp blade in y —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
