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- 51 You’re All Chasing the Heroine? Then I’ll Marry the Demoness 你们都追女主?那女魔头我娶走了 [One heroine + everyday affection + guaranteed sweetness + cultivation system + grand setting] Shen Yi'an transmigrates into a rather outrageous novel. Born into the world, he discovers that he’s the original protagonist, the one with a massive green hat hanging over his head: the Sixth Prince of the Great Qian Dynasty, His Highness Prince Chu! The second, third, fourth, and nth male leads all like the heroine. Whoever wants that whole field of green can have it. I don’t. You’re all going after 121kReads9.3Score8.9kShelves
- 52 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世,我用道术搬空仇人仓库 An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Yu Zhao Reborn: Cutting Ties and Settling Scores 虞昭重生断恩仇 Original novel of the short drama "After Switching to the Heartless Path, My Senior Brothers Wept and Begged for Forgiveness" In her previous life, Yu Zhao spent her whole life fighting Ye Congxin to win back the affection of her master and five senior brothers. In the end, she became a traitor despised by everyone and was killed by the very master she loved. Reborn, she gave up trying to mend her relationship with her master and senior brothers, and took the initiative to cultivate the Heartles 16.3kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
- 54 Every Sect Wants to Kill Me, So I Just Reload After Death! 宗门都想噶我,我直接死亡回档! [Transmigrated into a Book + Villainess + Death Rewinds Time + Eldritch Cultivation + Unhinged + Quirky Style] Lu Xiaojin transmigrated into a book, becoming the lovesick senior apprentice sister in a cultivation novel where everyone falls for the heroine. She kept fighting the heroine for men and ended up dying horribly. No problem. She wasn't stupid. She knew how the plot went, so she could avoid trouble, stay away from the men, and survive. But! Can someone tell her why her junior apprentice 24.8kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
- 55 Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了,整个宗门数你嘴严 [Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and 33.9kReads9.5Score4.3kShelves
- 56 EN You're Speedrunning High-Level Martial Arts While Others Suffer? 别人练功吃苦,你直接速通高武? [Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r 142.9kReads9.1Score10.8kShelves
- 57 Now That I’m Reborn, Who’d Still Run with the Gangsters? 都重生了谁还混社会 Short drama: "Loyal to the Skies: Starting Over" is now streaming The novel was originally titled "Now That I've Been Reborn, Who Would Still Run With Gangs?" [Reborn + business + lots of underlings + no groveling + no cowardice + taking the righteous path + law-abiding] A big shot from the underworld returns to 2010. Should he repeat his old mistakes and keep running with gangs, or abandon his underlings and take the road to a brighter future? No! I won't choose! In this life, I, Qin Jiang, wil 140.4kReads9.3Score14.2kShelves
- 58 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 957.1kReads9.6Score121.4kShelves
- 59 EN The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙,但是无限读档 [No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro 74.6kReads9.4Score9.9kShelves
- 60 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世:我成了最强御鬼师 [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 115kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves
- 61 The Unparalleled Little Scapegoat 绝世小冤种 Also known as: I Pay, You Risk Your Life, and We Both Go Crazy; The Ultimate Scapegoat; Power Over All, Sword to the Heavens Someone has set a trap to make everyone turn against me. "It's fine. I have a System..." Luo Yinyou comforted herself. "Even if the System is a total troll!" The world order had changed drastically, and the flow of destiny had been redistributed. Countless geniuses emerged, but the most dazzling of them all was the young lord Ye Ci of Dragon Island, hailed as the greatest 32kReads9.6Score4.4kShelves
- 62 Li Chengdao 李承道 Special forces soldier Li Chengdao unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange valley. He transforms the valley and makes his way out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he builds his own Heavenly Dao Group in the world of immortal cultivation. He establishes the Li Family Medical Hall and heals the sick. He makes his fortune with spiritual-root wine, branches into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes a free Heavenly Dao Academy and cultivates a great 1.1kReads9.2Score245Shelves
- 63 EN Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 168.1kReads9.6Score21.5kShelves
- 64 Shocking! The Secret Identity Big Shot Takes the White Lotus Down From Every Angle 惊!马甲大佬她对白莲花横踢竖卷 [Publishing deal signed] [Satisfying revenge, lighthearted comedy, secret identities, putting scumbags in their place, a quirky and formidable mercenary boss VS a principled young heir from Beijing’s elite circles, devoted heroine] At their first meeting, Shu Lan shoots Lu Jinhan and leaves him badly wounded. She chases him all the way back to China, then becomes an ordinary university student. He runs, she chases; he has nowhere to hide. She’s the world’s number-one mercenary king! She’s a foun 56kReads9.5Score6.6kShelves
- 65 EN Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊 (Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho 497.6kReads9.7Score72.9kShelves
- 66 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情,职业舔狗我最行! (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 262.2kReads9.5Score19.2kShelves
- 67 What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统:全二册(王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著) What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his 40.3kReads9.7Score6.3kShelves
- 68 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择:这个御兽师有亿点生猛 [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 178.3kReads9.7Score21.4kShelves
- 69 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派:我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 342.6kReads9.5Score38.8kShelves
- 70 EN Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕,我来保护你 [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 310.7kReads9.8Score31.1kShelves
- 71 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.7kReads9.6Score22.6kShelves
- 72 EN After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次,我有逃生游戏速通法 [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 214.6kReads9.6Score36kShelves
- 73 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves
- 74 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred 81.1kReads9.7Score14.1kShelves
- 75 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 525.3kReads9.5Score41.9kShelves
- 76 My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客 After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem. 120kReads9.7Score13.9kShelves
- 77 The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批,唯有师妹逗比 After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th 247.3kReads9.6Score24.8kShelves
- 78 I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修,怎么是犯贱的贱 [Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b 106.6kReads9.5Score15.4kShelves
- 79 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 80 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀?抱歉,我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
- 81 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
- 82 EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵:抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 988.6kReads9.5Score85.7kShelves
- 83 EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集?我带国家队下场 (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5kShelves
- 84 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 976.7kReads9.4Score99.9kShelves
- 85 Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽:绝世妖女倾天下 [Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her 147.3kReads9.6Score19.1kShelves
- 86 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑,唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves
- 87 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.3kShelves
- 88 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
- 89 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 90 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
- 91 EN Unhinged? We're All Unhinged—and That's a Good Thing! 癫,都癫,癫点好啊 [Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay. 335kReads9.8Score46.9kShelves
- 92 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves









































