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- 1 Ten Thousand Arrows, Immortal Zither 万矢筝仙 The comic adaptation is now available. Reincarnated from birth + no romance + satisfying power-up story + treasure hunting + golden finger Ever since Mu Zheng transmigrated, she had always thought her mother was following the plot of a countryside version of a historical romance: a pampered wife running away while pregnant. But who could have expected this? When she was five, her mother dropped a bombshell on her out of nowhere. The good news: This was actually a cultivation world where men and 69.9kReads9.0Score9.2k14d adds
- 2 Endless Icefield: Three Toolboxes from the Start 无尽冰原：开局三个工具箱 [Survival Game] [Game Invasion] [Frozen Apocalypse] [Building Maniac] [Cute Pets] [Stockpiling] [Game Dungeons] The countdown begins, and the frozen apocalypse descends. Everyone is instantly teleported to an endless ice field. From the start, all they have is a campfire on the verge of going out. The only supplies they have are “what they’re wearing” and “what they’re holding.” The wealthy hoarders who’d stockpiled mountains of rice, flour, cooking oil, and even monopolized entire supermarkets 8.7kReads8.4Score71114d adds
- 3 Quick Transmigration: Every Romance Leaves a Regret 快穿，风月皆憾 An alternate history. Don't overanalyze it. Not a sweet, doting romance!!! Not a feel-good story!!! Not a female-lead power fantasy!!! Each world has a different style, sometimes melodramatic and over-the-top. The male lead is sexually inexperienced. World One: Emperor Wu of Han, the spirited young emperor × his gentle, composed older cousin World Two: Alternate history, brother succeeds brother. She is a lively, uninhibited young woman in Chang'an, and becomes empress twice in her life. World T 20.9kReads9.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 4 A Real Princess? No, a Real Monarch! 真公主？不，真君主！ (No romance + Strong female lead + Military academy competition in the early stages + Unifying humanity in the later stages + Passionate) Question: How many steps does it take to evolve from a monarch’s juvenile form to its complete form? Juvenile Ling Zhao: Orphanage from the start, with a game chip suspected to be a golden finger that keeps holding her back. Complete Ling Zhao: The first person of the post-interstellar era, first commander, divine star-caster, hope of humanity, sole heir to th 104.7kReads9.4Score14.5k14d adds
- 5 I Became the Fourth Calamity in Yokohama, and Now Everyone Spoils Me 在横滨当第四天灾的我被团宠了 *Main story complete [Primarily Bungo Stray Dogs, also includes: Natsume’s Book of Friends, Detective Conan, Jujutsu Kaisen... (depending on how things develop)] [No CP in the main story + player is chaotic neutral. Not a Paradox-style war-criminal Fourth Disaster, more RPG-like. She doesn’t care which side she helps. There’s a plotline where she joins the Port Mafia, so don’t read if that bothers you (her golden finger is powerful, but she needs time to grow early on; she’s the strongest later) 15.1kReads9.5Score1.4k14d adds
- 6 Film and TV Crossover: Starting Out as a Prince in Empresses in the Palace 综影视：从在甄嬛传当皇子开始 Male protagonist's perspective + everyone's favorite + attracts men and women alike + original characters The protagonist attracts both men and women, so this is recommended for readers who enjoy both male-male romance and romantic fiction. Volume One: Empresses in the Palace “Imperial Mother, you are so generous. Why not give Aunt Jianqiu to your son?” “Eunuch Su is so attentive. I want him.” “Princess Chao Gui is being sent away to marry? Imperial Father, how about sending me instead?” He beco 14.9kReads8.1Score57214d adds
- 7 On the Wasteland, I Scavenge My Way to a Home in the Safe Zone 废土之上，我靠拾荒在安全区买房 Female lead: Chu Ci, transmigrated from another world. Male lead: Ji Xuan, a mercenary suffering from genetic collapse. The story mainly focuses on scavenging and farming, with a slow-burning romance woven through it. Note: The two only want to live a good, quiet life of their own. There is no plot about saving all of humanity. The story follows ordinary people at the bottom of society as they struggle to survive in a harsh environment. After the apocalypse, on this 27.9kReads9.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 8 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 95.1kReads9.4Score13.7k14d adds
- 9 Survival: Defending My Cabin Against the Cold Wave 求生：从小木屋开始抵御寒流 [Survival] [Shelter Building] [Disasters] [Stockpiling Supplies] Everyone transmigrates. When Qi Yuan wakes up, he finds himself in a fog-shrouded world full of danger. Cold, hunger, wild beasts, and torrential rain become the daily lot of everyone. Rising with the sun and resting at its setting become the way of life for all! 125.6kReads8.2Score9.2k14d adds
- 10 Quick Transmigration Across Planes: I Own a Little General Store 位面快穿，我有一间小杂货店 [No romance + no male lead + general store + ensemble cast + doing business in various novel worlds, including storylines where the heroine gets help] [Main characters: Su Ling + a calico cat] After waking up one day, Su Ling finds that her general store has bonded with a planar trade System, and she transmigrates into a book. First book world: a lucky heroine in a story set during the era of rationing. A general store suddenly appears on the hill behind Dawang Village. It has more goods tha 52.1kReads9.3Score4.6k14d adds
- 11 When the Female Sword Cultivator Starts Quick Transmigration 当女剑修开始快穿 [Quick transmigration + face-slapping + satisfying read] The book transmigrator who wants to have several lovers at once, the scheming cousin who wants to take her older cousin's place, the evil woman in the entertainment industry, the rich family's live-in son-in-law who builds his success on his wife's sacrifice, the top scholar who abandons his first wife, and the great general who loves only his concubine are all trash in the eyes of the female sword cultivator Qi Sha. So what if you're rebo 33.2kReads9.3Score2.8k14d adds
- 12 Film and TV Crossover: A Shi 综影视：阿十 World 45: Tang Dynasty, Li Mao (ongoing...) The Great Dao gives rise to fifty, of which forty-nine are manifest, while the last remains elusive. Those controlled by fate give everything they have for a chance to change their destiny and rewrite their lives. This time, at last, they find the perfect ending! World 44: The Glory, Yin Yuji World 43: Chong Zi, Wen Zi World 42: Story of Yanxi Palace, Chen Bi World 41: The Knockout, Jiang Nianyi World 40: A Dream Behind a Crystal Curtain, Wang Lvp ping 40.4kReads8.9Score1.5k14d adds
- 13 I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太，别人逃荒我开荒 (No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled 85.6kReads9.5Score8.2k14d adds
- 14 The Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder Won't Play by the Rules 快穿炮灰她不走寻常路 No fixed pairing, Qing-dynasty setting + historical eras + other worlds, with a pocket dimension Note: The heroine is a hedonist and a self-serving perfectionist. Her motto is that she can eat anything but hardship and endure anything but suffering. She tries to live comfortably in every world. After more than twenty years of bad luck, college student Shen Anning finally catches a break, only to die the day before her fortune is due to arrive. Perhaps her resentment is too great: just before sh 62.4kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 15 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 1MReads9.5Score87.2k14d adds
