Novels like Taking Control of the World, Starting with the Patrol Office
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- 1 The King of Immortals in the City 都市仙王之王 When Feng Xiaolou was twenty, his parents mysteriously disappeared, leaving him only an oral account of his family's past. The once illustrious Feng clan, a family of cultivators, now had no one but him left to fend for himself. Forced to drop out of school to make ends meet, he scraped by doing odd jobs in Jiangcheng. Starting with the Yin-Yang Mirror, he began his journey from ordinary mortal to peak powerhouse. Guided by the mirror, he took control of Jiangcheng's economic lifelines and estab 45Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 2 Northeastern Spirit Doctor 东北阴医 The Northeast's Yin Healer 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Thirteen Tales: The Yellow Weasel Spirit 十三讲故事之黄大仙 Thirteen Tells a Story: The Yellow Immortal —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 I Passed the Civil Service Exam and Got a Government Job in the Underworld 考公上岸，我进了阴界编制 Si Yan ranked in the city's top ten on the written exam and answered every interview question with ease. He thought he was a shoo-in for a key department at the municipal bureau. Then a reassignment notice dumped him in the Civil Affairs Bureau's most obscure department: Folk Customs Affairs Coordination. A dilapidated little building, crumbling walls, and a department head whose idea of work was steeping goji berries and reading the newspaper. Si Yan thought: A cushy government post, a perfect 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Apocalypse: Unbeatable at Home, I Rule Thanks to the System 末世：宅家无敌，我靠系统成霸主 The apocalypse arrives, and zombies overrun the world, turning it into a living hell. While everyone else risks their lives for a piece of moldy bread and struggles to survive amid zombie hordes, Han Dao lounges in his rented apartment, munching on braised snacks, sipping ice-cold cola, and watching zombies slam against his door. He can't even be bothered to move! Just the day before, he was a low-level office drone: his crooked supervisor stole credit for his work and fired him, his greedy land 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Kill Line: I Slay Gods in America 斩杀线之我在美利坚斩神 Overnight, Bai Yu loses everything, from Beverly Hills to the hell of Epstein's island. His bank accounts are frozen, the IRS comes knocking, and he is put under surveillance, all because he witnessed the darkest secrets of the powerful. When the law becomes a tool for the hunt, the Chinese have only one choice: blood for blood. This is a life-or-death escape that tears the American Dream apart. In America, when you're below the kill line, you either become prey or become the one who slays gods. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 On My Wedding Night, I Discovered My Wife Was a Japanese Spy 新婚夜，我发现妻子是日本间谍 On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered My Wife Was a Japanese Spy 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 My Prosecutor Brother Was Brutally Murdered, So I Buried the Entire Criminal Underworld with Him 检察官弟弟惨死，我让整个黑恶势力陪葬 My Prosecutor Brother Was Brutally Murdered, So I Made the Entire Criminal Underworld Pay 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Fried Noodle Stall Owner Is a Former Detective 炒粉摊主是前刑警 The Fried Noodle Stall Owner Is a Former Detective 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 To Save My Sister, I Entered the Forbidden Zone of Spirit Artifacts 为救妹妹，我踏足灵物禁区 My little sister is on the brink of death, and the astronomical cost of her medicine has pushed me to my breaking point. Then I discovered that there was something in this world called spirit relics. They can grant wishes, but they always demand a price. And I can see the threads of that price. I traded a Republic-era copper lock for a chance at survival, and bartered with a warped set of scales for a life-saving prescription. The black-market hunters see me as easy prey, while medical giants wa 40Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 11 Vocational High School's Battle God 职高战神 Vocational School's Battle God 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The College Student Who Only Kills Bad People 专杀坏人的大学生 A College Student Who Only Kills Bad People 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Ringing Bell: Calling the Dead from the Locust Shade 一声铃：我在槐荫里给死人打电话 A Ringing Bell: I Make Phone Calls to the Dead in Huaiyin Lane 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Dragging the Salt Kiln God: Ten Rules for the Sedan Chair Bearers 盐灶拖神：扶轿人十不准 The Salt Kiln’s Spirit Escort: Ten Rules for the Palanquin Bearers 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Hell's Deliveryman 地狱外卖员 Hell's Deliveryman 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 My Archrival Turned Out to Be the Perfect Lover 我的死对头竟是满分恋人 My Archrival Turns Out to Be a Perfect Lover 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 A Bowl of Wild Greens Soup from the Start, and I Became the Ming Dynasty's Culinary Sage 开局一碗野菜汤，我成了大明厨圣 A Bowl of Wild Vegetable Soup from the Start, and I Became the Culinary Sage of the Ming Dynasty 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Golden Hour: Don't Talk Rules to Me, I Save Lives 黄金一小时：别跟我谈规矩，我只救命 The Golden Hour: Don't Talk to Me About Rules, I Only Save Lives 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Funeral Makeup Artist: After Seeing Karma, I Went on a Killing Spree 入殓师：看见业力后我杀疯了 The Mortician: After Seeing Karma, I Went on a Killing Spree 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 My Superpower Is Spending Money: The More I Spend, the Stronger I Get 我的超能力是花钱，花光就变强 My Superpower Is Spending Money: The More I Spend, the Stronger I Get 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Corpse-Driving Rules: The Eighteen Forbidden Charms of Chenzhou 赶尸守则：辰州符十八禁 Corpse-Driving Rules: Eighteen Taboos of the Chenzhou Talismans 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Rule Horror: The Comic Strip Rules of Room 601 规则怪谈：601室的连环画守则 Rule Horror: The Comic-Strip Rules of Room 601 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Dad! Please Stop Trying to Become the Martial Arts Alliance Leader! We're the Villainous Demon Cult! 爹！求你别当武林盟主了！咱魔教是反派啊！ Dad! Please stop trying to become the leader of the martial arts world! We’re the villains here! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Real Heiress Was Sent into a Paranormal Dungeon, and Her Family Regretted It Too Late 真千金被送进诡异副本后，全家悔爆了 After the Real Heiress Was Sent into a Horror Instance, Her Whole Family Regretted It 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 I Devour All Things and Rise to the Top of the Heavens Through Feedback 吞噬万物我靠反馈登顶诸天 An overworked factory hand transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing disciple and awakens the Devour All Things System! Plants and herbs, pills, monsters and enemies, treasures and techniques: whatever he devours makes him stronger, letting him fuse them straight into Heaven-ranked martial skills and high-grade spiritual treasures! He hides his strength in the outer sect and trounces the sect’s geniuses. Eight grand elders compete to take him as their disciple and give him divine weapons 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Transmigrate into a Book and Get Bound to a System? Yeah, No. What’s That Got to Do with Me? 穿书绑定系统？我去你的关我屁事 After dying in a car accident, I transmigrated into the multi-heroine novel The Splendor of Lonely Hearts and Sunlit Days. Was the original male lead in the book Gu Yifan? Given a second life, I recognize only myself: Yuan Pengrong. In my previous life, I was timid and cautious. This time, things are different. The System bound to me keeps tossing out cash rewards, urging me to follow the written script and win over the original heroines. A script? A formula? I don't want to act according to s 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Divine Land Warning 神州警示录 A legend of ten realms, a game of life and death. The land of Shenzhou, spanning the nine provinces. The apocalyptic program of the [Twelve Treasures] legend has restarted. Who is the chosen one? A Shenzhou detective? A colorless-realm power, formed beyond the realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity; an evil capital, the Old City; a sealed warning record, now reopened... An ensemble cast, thrilling adventures that never let up, two souls in one body... When a supernatural detective cultivates, mas 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 AI Overlord AI霸主 [The Horrors of the Apocalypse + Interstellar War + Quantum Weapons + Advanced Technology + High-Octane Sci-Fi + Earth’s Core + The Truth About the Moon + The Solar System + The Milky Way] A conversation with an untraceable IP address reveals the horrific state of the world thirty years in the future. The protagonist is entrusted with the mission of saving the world and drawn into a thrilling battle to defend Earth, as well as a conflict engulfing the entire universe. 6Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 29 Great Qin: I Am the Lord of Black Ice 大秦：我就是黑冰之主 Zhao Bo’s soul transmigrates to 238 BCE. He is the son of a commoner, and Qin is on the verge of unifying the Six States. You think that’s all there is to it? No, no, no. It turns out this is a parallel timeline! It turns out my soul transmigrated into someone else! No System, but I do have cultivation techniques! When Ying Zheng comes calling, I’m no commoner! This is a story about quietly cultivating in the Great Qin. 555Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Siheyuan: The Path to Cultivation, Starting as an Engineer 四合院：从工程师开始的修真路 A new story is here. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Zhao Song was born into a wealthy merchant family before the liberation. His parents were murdered by secret agents before the founding of the People’s Republic. At the age of twelve, his father sent him to study in Britain, where he specialized in industrial mechanical design and manufacturing. After awakening a golden finger that simulates mechanical design, he sets ou 246Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Reclusive Peak Master: Gifts for Taking in Disciples, Reaching the Peak of Shrouding the Heavens 苟道峰主：收徒返还，问鼎遮天 (The protagonist is weak at the start. If you can’t stand him playing it safe and holding back, you can skip ahead and start reading when his cultivation reaches the Four Extremes, at Chapter 49.) Lin Xuan transmigrates to the Big Dipper World two thousand years before Ye Fan arrives. He becomes the weakest peak master of Qingyun Sect in the Eastern Wasteland of the Big Dipper Star Region and activates the Disciple-Acquisition Return System. From the start, he picks up a pair of siblings with 59Reads5.5Score614d adds
- 32 Ordinary Waves 凡浪 Fan Lang 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Avenger of Memory 记忆的复仇者 Li Wei uncovers memories belonging to his family and vows to avenge them. Following the clues in their memories, he overcomes all kinds of hardships and dangers in search of their enemy, and finally gets his revenge. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Better to Strive for Yourself Than to Find a Godfather 认义父不如自强不息 (This is a wildly imaginative fantasy novel, dedicated to fellow wage slaves as busy as I am. May life get a little easier for us all!) Lü Bu is reborn in the modern era. No Three Kingdoms this time, but China! It was bad enough being strangled to death at White Gate Tower, but the history books also branded him with the shameful label of “the man who stabbed his foster fathers.” He had only been forced by those powerful old men to do their bidding. He put those scoundrels to death with his own 705Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 35 When the Evening Breeze Rises, Love Runs Deep 晚风起o衍情深 A newly appointed boss and I started off at each other's throats. After a long period of adjustment, we went from colleagues to lovers. After we got married, our life together was so sweet, joyful, and happy. 62Reads—Score314d adds
- 36 A New Journey to the West: Wukong 西游新记悟空 Lin Kong is maliciously laid off by his company, dumped without a second thought by his girlfriend, and pressured by his landlord for rent, hitting the lowest point of his life. Then he unexpectedly awakens an immortal-cultivation jade pendant and obtains an unrivaled technique. From then on, he defies fate and turns his life around, using extraordinary abilities to rise again and swearing to repay every humiliation he suffered. 19Reads—Score114d adds
- 37 Scam Prevention Handbook 防骗手册 After Zhang Zheng unexpectedly gains supernatural abilities in the hellscape of a telecom scam compound in northern Myanmar, he narrowly escapes. It feels like he has been given a second life, and he vows to spend the rest of it fighting fraud. Using his abilities to see through every scam, he joins forces with reporter Chen Lin, chronicler Xiao Fang, and law PhD Li Fanfan. Together, they delve into real cases and expose romance scams, fake online tasks, blackmail through nude chats, pension fra 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 I Died Twice from the Start, Then Came Back to Life with a Mechanical Heart 开局死两次，我靠着机械之心重活 Three days before the big exam, Lu Chen blew himself up. The assassins circled the wreckage and confirmed his death. No one noticed that another “Lu Chen” was crouched in the shadows at the mouth of the alley, watching the show. In this world, everyone is a mechanical body. But Lu Chen was born with two bodies. In plain sight, he’s a beat-up mechanical body, so broke he has to use tractor parts for his engine. Hidden away, his flesh-and-blood body is the real killing machine. He steals mechanica 305Reads—Score2014d adds
- 39 The Rhine Operation 莱茵行动 Operation Rhine 123Reads—Score214d adds
- 40 Escaping Through Time and Space 逃离穿越的时空 After an unexpected transmigration to 1972, he became an educated youth sent to the countryside, where life was harsh and impoverished, and the future bleak. At his lowest point, he unexpectedly awakened an ancient cultivation legacy. From then on, he defied fate and embarked on the path of cultivation. Making his way through a difficult era, he took down vile villains, protected his loved ones and friends, and quietly built up his strength; traveling between the modern world and the past, he c 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Death Row Inmate from the Start: My Immortal Palace Levels Up Without Limit 开局死刑犯：我的仙宫无限升级 [The rating has just been posted and will rise later] After being reborn, underground kingpin Huang Yu is framed and sentenced to death. As the lethal injection floods his veins, the dormant Netherworld Immortal Palace, Hall of Reincarnation, awakens within him! A hundred years pass in the immortal palace for every instant in the outside world. Huang Yu returns from years of prison cultivation with the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art perfected. His Nine Nether Ghost Eyes see through the underworl 1.2kReads8.6Score10614d adds
- 42 A Popular History of the Later Han 后汉通俗演义 [Historical Romance Grounded in the Official Record, The Complete History of the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms, An Easy Introduction to Official History] A Popular History of the Later Han is a classic historical novel in episodic form and a continuation of A Popular History of the Former Han. Across one hundred chapters, it follows the full historical arc from Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han and Emperor Guangwu's restoration, through the decline of the Eastern Han, to the division of the rea 95Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 43 The Great Azure Tribulation 太苍劫 Prologue: Dao Fire Ten thousand years ago. Fire, Dao fire filling the skies. Crimson flames erupted from beneath the earth, turning the entire Divine Capital the color of a hellscape. The bronze palaces that had once towered into the clouds collapsed one after another in the blaze. The dragon carvings on their upturned eaves warped in the heat, as if they had come alive to let out silent cries of agony. The man on the imperial throne had not left. He sat alone amid the collapsing palaces and bur 2.5kReads—Score25614d adds
- 44 Break Free of the Prison City and Awaken 斩破牢城，悟了 In the otherworldly Great Xia, Bai Mifan of Great Xia Medical University steals an ancient medical formula to save his mother, who is suffering from a terminal illness. But someone frames him, landing him in a situation where he faces the harshest punishment. After dying, he is reborn. Torn between family ties and the law, he takes the wrong path, but at last comes to his senses... 183Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Infinite Battle Cops 无限战警 The world has changed, and humanity can survive only inside bases. When darkness falls and devours the world, the real destruction has only just begun! Li Qiang returns from a bloody fight in the slave arena! He becomes a battle cop and embarks on the path to power! He leads Earth beyond the Milky Way and breaks through the darkness! His fury shakes heaven and earth! His rage makes the universe tremble! 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Everything Changed After My Father Drank Crane's Crown Red 自从爹爹喝了鹤顶红，一切都变了 [Everyone’s Darling, Multiple Husbands, Female Emperor, Punishing Scum, Dad Handles Everything] As the heroine of a transmigration novel She wasn’t the one who transmigrated, and she wasn’t reborn either. No matter, her father was! She had no System and no golden finger. No matter, her father had them! She was born timid and a good-for-nothing. No matter, her father was a ruthless man. She spent sixteen years wandering outside before finally returning home. Her father, once so powerful he had th 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Demon Catcher of Great Qi 大亓捉妖人 Demons run rampant across Great Qi, bringing misery to the people. Ding Fan, a demon hunter in the Imperial Demon-Suppression Bureau, is driven by a deep-seated hatred of demons and travels far and wide to hunt them. At first, his cultivation is weak, and powerful demons often abduct him. Though danger lurks everywhere, he also encounters countless opportunities. He joins a sect, obtains a famed sword, and masters the Nine Swords of Tai Bai. From then on, he cuts down demons and cultivates along 3.9kReads9.3Score39214d adds
- 48 The Cultivation Legend of Beigege 贝格格修仙传 Zhao Xiaobei, a student at Xichuan Middle School, floated a lantern on Lotus Lake and wished she could transmigrate to ancient times. To her astonishment, she transmigrated to the Song Dynasty and became the daughter of Prince Teng. Thanks to her modern-day intelligence, she won the emperor’s favor and was bestowed the title of Princess Beigege. Zhao Xiaobei then overcame one challenge after another, survived many brushes with death, and gained a great opportunity that made her a cultivator. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Defying Fate: I Used a Billion-Dollar Lever to Hostile-Takeover the Heavenly Dao 逆转天命：我用百亿杠杆恶意收购了天道 Defying Fate: I Used a Ten-Billion-Yuan Lever to Hostilely Acquire the Heavenly Dao 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Invincible Across Two Worlds: The Carefree Immortal's Journey 双穿无敌，逍遥仙途传 This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. With a fresh take, it follows Mo Chou, an ordinary member of society who one day accidentally obtains a jade pendant left behind by the ancient, powerful immortal Master Xian before his ascension. Sealed inside it are all the skills Master Xian mastered in his lifetime. Whoever finds it and becomes its owner will inherit everything he knew. The ancient jade also contains storage space and a portal 788Reads—Score10514d adds
