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- 1 I’m Done Hiding: My Summons Make Me Unstoppable 不装了，我靠召唤强无敌 [Imperial power struggles + Summoning System + factions + massive armies + beauties + court rivalries + conquering the martial world] If you refuse to fight for power, you won't even keep your life! Fifth Prince Qin Heng has neither influence nor powerful connections. All he wants is to live carefree as a prince. But With the nine princes fighting for the throne and the court in turmoil, giving up means he's doomed to lie flat for good. Except he'll be lying flat in a coffin. Qin Heng, a young m 38kReads6.5Score2.4k14d adds
- 2 Traveling Between Two Worlds, I Become the Strongest Earth God! 两界穿梭，最强土地神！ (A new book with a low rating, by an author with over a decade of experience and more than twenty million words published) Every three li has a Land God, and every ten li a City God. Every mountain has a Mountain God, every stretch of river a River God, and even every well has its own Dragon King. This is a world teeming with deities. The faith of ordinary people has already been divided up, with a corresponding deity ruling every territory. The mighty gods named in the Investiture List are reno 4.6kReads8.1Score69214d adds
- 3 Transcending All Things: Starting as the Sixth Son of a Concubine 超脱一切，从庶子老六开始 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth comes accumulating virtue, and fifth, studying. Lu Chen, an office drudge from Earth, was on his way home from work when a meteor from beyond the heavens struck him, leaving not a trace of his body. When he woke, he had become an illegitimate son in the residence of the Jiedushi of Mingzhou, in the Great Kang Kingdom. In this world, fate and fortune rule everything. Everyone is born with a destiny and an aspect, both bestowed at birth and di 15.6kReads7.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 4 Summoners Are Trash? From the Start, I Summon Erlang Shen, Yang Jian 召唤师废？我开局召唤二郎神杨戬 [Class Change + Summoning + Heroes from Chinese Mythology + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] (Yang Jian, Great Sage, Nezha, and Meng Po have already been summoned. Read with confidence.) The demon race invaded, and humanity awakened all kinds of classes and talents to fight back and seize a chance of survival. Chen Cang transmigrated into this world and awakened the most useless class of all: Summoner. But then the System appeared, and he summoned Erlang Shen, Yang Jian, from the start! He summon 10.9kReads8.1Score89114d adds
- 5 A Stepmom Falls from the Sky, and Suddenly I Have Nine Older Sisters 天降后妈，我突然多了九个姐姐 Li Mu's father married the richest person in the Magic City. From then on, Li Mu not only gained a stepmother who was the city's wealthiest woman, but also nine stunning older sisters who were incredibly powerful. Li Mu overcame one challenge after another and eventually became even more formidable than his stepmother and nine sisters! 5.4kReads9.3Score55414d adds
- 6 Building a Dynasty: Rising to Power After Being Sent to the Fiefdom 运朝：从就蕃后开始崛起 [Fantasy · System · Summoning · Imperial dynasty building · Conquest · Emperor] Ying Chen transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes the sixth prince of the Great Qin Dynasty... At the age of eighteen, the princes of the Great Qin Dynasty must leave the capital to govern their own fiefs. Fortunately, the System awakens just days before Ying Chen is due to depart... “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the Eternal Divine Emperor Art!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained o 21.4kReads7.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 7 My Chickens Can Evolve Without Limit 我的鸡可以无限进化 [The print edition is now available.] After transmigrating to the final years of a dynasty, Chen Dao has no money to his name and is suffering from hunger and cold. Fortunately, just then, the only chicken in his household walks right past him. [Gray-Feather Chicken. Traits: Long growth period, lays few eggs.] [Gray-Feather Chicken evolution path one: Mate a female Gray-Feather Chicken with a male Redheart Chicken for a 50% chance of hatching a Red-Feather Chicken.] [Red-Feather Chicken traits: 5.2kReads8.1Score46414d adds
- 8 Great Xia Summons: I Begin to Rule the Heavens After Ascending the Throne 大夏召唤：登基后开始称霸诸天 [From the start + founding an empire + summoning + System + conquest + the Myriad Worlds + emperor] Everything under Heaven is the king’s land, and everyone within its borders is the king’s subject! Liu Hao transmigrates to the Tianxuan Continent and is made emperor from the start. From there, he launches into a relentless campaign of conquest. Whether you’re a sect prodigy, an imperial princess, or an emperor of the Myriad Worlds, those who submit will prosper, and those who resist will perish! 26kReads7.8Score1.4k14d adds
- 9 From the Start, I Can Summon: Turns Out I'm the Mastermind 开局召唤：我竟是幕后黑手 He transmigrates as the Sixth Prince of the Great Qian Dynasty, a prince incapable of cultivation. But he can summon all kinds of people and factions from Chinese history. The hidden Web in the depths of Great Qian, Wudang, the leader of the righteous martial world, the Money Gang, which gathers the world’s wealth, the Beggars’ Gang, the world’s greatest gang, Bai Xiaosheng, who knows everything about the martial world, the eccentric Demon Cult, and Lu Bu, who loves having adoptive fathers... Th 16.2kReads8.0Score66914d adds
- 10 Maple Fate City 枫缘城 The world is in chaos, rife with deceit and treachery. Evil spirits run rampant, and people are never satisfied. Countless peoples and clans are locked in endless war. The Jiang clan betrayed its allies, ambushing and wiping out the Jian and Hong clans. Only Jian Shu and Jian Hongtian, who were away on a journey, escaped by sheer luck! Thunderous roars, hatred that sears the heart, a blood feud beyond reconciliation: they will fight to the death! At this very moment... Jian Shu, who once revered 529Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Immortal-Slaying Platform 斩仙台 After transmigrating into the Primordial World, he became a rogue immortal. But from the start, he was on the Execution Platform, about to be executed by the Heavenly Court and the Western Church working together. Even the gods couldn’t save him. With death at hand, he awakened the Life Editor System. This System couldn’t be upgraded or provide magical treasures. Its only function was to let him freely make up his own past and turn it into “reality”! [Edit: I studied at Lingtai Mountain, and I’m 20kReads7.6Score10.1k14d adds
- 12 The Strongest Golden Finger: Nurturing a Trillion Immortal Emperors Every Day 最强金手指，每天蕴育万亿仙帝 [Tyrant + endless troops + conquest + countless beauties + ultimate thrills] Qin Zheng transmigrates into a fantasy world and becomes the emperor of Great Qin. He obtains a reincarnation pool for attribute-based troops, which can nurture a million soldiers every day with attributes such as destruction, time, space, curses, souls, and light and shadow! [Destruction-attribute troops are like walking bolts of divine destruction. Wherever they pass, the heavens collapse and the earth is shattered!] 30.6kReads9.0Score2.4k14d adds
- 13 Two Menaces from the Underworld Have the Whole City Eavesdropping on Their Gossip 地府两祸害，惹得全城偷听八卦 [Eavesdropping on Inner Thoughts + Golden Finger + Everyone’s Favorite] Note: There is a male lead! The Underworld has two great nuisances: one is a flower, and the other is a book. After the Book of Life and Death, which governs all things in the world, gained sentience, it took advantage of its innate gifts to gossip all day and do no work. After a thousand years, a Manjusaka flower took human form. The King of Hell saw that she had potential and made an exception, appointing her as Granny Men 35.4kReads9.0Score3.6k14d adds
- 14 EN Billions of Gods, Only I Get Hundredfold Offerings! 全民成野神？唯有我百倍供品！ [Handcrafted the Old-Fashioned Way + Everyone Becomes a God + Gods' Survival + Invincible Divine Path + Subjugating All Races + Generations Ahead] When three billion people around the world transmigrated and became wild gods. In this world, immortals and gods were nowhere to be found. Demons, monsters, and evil spirits ran rampant, while human traitors aided and abetted them. How could three billion wild gods gather worshippers, nurture subordinate gods, exorcise evil, and ascend to the throne o 127.5kReads9.0Score15.8k14d adds
- 15 After Maxing Out the Nine Suns Divine Skill, I Became a Living Forbidden Spell 九阳神功满级后，我成了人形禁咒 [Ghosts’ Worst Nightmare] [Ghost King Slayer] [Demon Meat Grinder] [Human-Shaped Forbidden Spell] Su Mo transmigrates to an era where the supernatural has returned, and from the start receives a love letter written by a female ghost! It’s unexpected, touching, and potentially deadly! Luckily, his Super Enhancement System awakens. A knockoff Nine Suns Divine Art? Enhance it! Nine Suns Devouring Heaven Art! Turn your body into a furnace, condense your blood and qi into a sun, and refine the evil g 108.2kReads8.6Score7.2k14d adds
- 16 Quick Transmigration: After I Became an Animal, the Villain Begged Me to Be His Wife 快穿：变成动物后反派求我当老婆 [Blurb] As a member of the Quick Transmigration Bureau, Yu Zhen takes on a mission. But since her targets are far too difficult to win over, she exploits a bug and chooses to become an animal so she can get close to the impossibly hard-to-win villains. She turns into a cat, a parrot, a snow leopard, a giant panda, a mermaid... She can act cute, play coy, and do it all, so she lets herself go completely. But whenever her affection score is nearly maxed out, she suddenly discovers that something i 22.8kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 17 The 1970s: The Hated Couple Goes Wild in the Compound 七零：万人嫌夫妇，大院发癫 [1970s setting + delightfully unhinged and a little funny + violent, crazy heroine + spoiled, two-faced, scheming young husband + both leads join the army later] Ye Sanqiu is notorious as the most hated person in Trumpet Flower Brigade. The villagers and her own family have suffered endlessly at her hands... Granny Ye and the brigade leader are going gray from worry. Left with no choice, Granny Ye hands her a letter of introduction and a marriage certificate. “Sanqiu, you've wreaked havoc all ov 56.1kReads9.0Score6.4k14d adds
- 18 Bro, Are You Some Kind of Human Incubus? Fluffy Creatures Are Chasing You Everywhere 兄弟你人类魅魔啊？毛茸茸追着跑 [This book has been signed for print publication] [Light livestreaming + Animals + No romance] Lu Xiao, a professor of botany and zoology, quits his job and heads alone to the Kunlun Mountains to gather research material, becoming a solitary yet vibrant mountain guardian. During his first winter in the mountains, he says he wants a cat. The very next moment, his dog brings him a snow leopard cub abandoned by its mother. Dog, this isn’t what I meant by a cat. This is a little too hardcore. He thi 99.4kReads9.6Score8.7k14d adds
- 19 Where the Sword Rises, Storms Gather 剑起风云 In these turbulent times, it is not the world that is in chaos, but people’s hearts. The Gu family, loyal servants of the Tianfeng Kingdom, are heroes through and through. But fate is fickle. The heir to this illustrious military family spent twenty years in a daze, becoming the target of countless whispered insults and mockery. Then, on the young heir’s twentieth birthday, memories of his previous life suddenly returned. What troubles him most is realizing he seems to have done a lot of foolish 47.3kReads9.0Score5k14d adds
- 20 The Empire's First Prince Consort 帝国第一驸马 [New book release: The Rebellious Son Is Invincible, the final installment of the Empire Trilogy] Guan Ning transmigrates, hoping to live a carefree life of wine, women, and luxury as a young prince. Instead, he becomes a prince consort whose engagement has been broken off. Rumor has it that no dynasty can last more than 300 years. The Great Kang Dynasty is at that very threshold: a golden age is in turmoil, loyal ministers are being persecuted, and an age of chaos is about to begin. He will top 114kReads9.1Score10.8k14d adds
- 21 The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春 51.3kReads9.6Score7.5k14d adds
- 22 Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规 [Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th 41.2kReads9.6Score5.9k14d adds
- 23 Quick Transmigration: The Tough-as-Nails Housekeeper Sets Overbearing CEOs Straight 快穿：硬核管家，专治霸总癫公 [Quick transmigration + satisfying power fantasy, with a heroine who is the strongest in every world] After clearing an endless series of dungeons, Zhu Yin changed jobs. The Quick Transmigration Department gained a sweet and harmless-looking new employee. The protagonists of every world were about to meet their toughest assistant and go-to helper, whose main goal was to make her boss’s wishes come true. CEO world. The domineering CEO roared, “Find her! Turn City A upside down if you have to, but 69.1kReads9.5Score9.9k14d adds
- 24 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 142.8kReads9.3Score14.7k14d adds
- 25 EN A Blind Swordsman's Sword Coffin 灵墟，剑棺，瞎剑客 [No System] [Genius Swordsmanship] [Passionate] [Decisive and Ruthless] He is blind, carries a coffin on his back, and has a tragic past. The sect says: "We'll protect you." His brothers say: "We'll stay by your side." The sword spirit says: "I... will wait for you." Later, he becomes the ruler of the Immortal Realm, and his eyes regain their sight. Looking back on the road behind him, all that remains is one sentence: "When the wind blows, I'll walk slowly. When it rains, I'll keep to the side. 444.6kReads9.2Score46.8k14d adds
- 26 No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话 An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the 78.3kReads9.4Score13k14d adds
- 27 EN Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 141.6kReads9.6Score14.7k14d adds
- 28 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 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1k14d adds
- 29 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 974.8kReads9.4Score97.1k14d adds
- 30 EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 581.6kReads9.4Score60.6k14d adds
- 31 Reborn as the Beloved of Everyone: The Movie Emperor's Wife Is Poor and Fierce Again 重生团宠：影帝夫人又穷又凶 [Print edition signed for publication] [Insanely outrageous wish-fulfillment + a few secret identities + savage online roasts + devoted romance with both leads’ first love + dazzling the world] In her previous life, she died with regrets. Now she has been reborn in the middle of a massive online hate campaign! If they’re going to hate on her anyway, she might as well stop pretending! Her scumbag fiancé gets shoved into a cold pool, then coughs and blames her? Sheng Wenyin: “What, caught a cold? 137kReads9.6Score14.4k14d adds
- 32 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 342.4kReads9.5Score38.6k14d adds
- 33 Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春 [Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles 183.4kReads9.5Score25.3k14d adds
- 34 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 35 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5k14d adds
- 36 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 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 37 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 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6k14d adds
- 38 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 39 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
- 40 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. 335.5kReads9.8Score46.5k14d adds
- 41 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
