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- 1 The Days of a Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder and Background NPC 快穿当炮灰路人NPC的日子 [Quick Transmigration + Two Male Leads + Some Worlds Are Exclusive, Others Aren’t + 1v1] An orphan who finally worked his way to a PhD dies unexpectedly and is sent by a System to another world, where he must complete missions as a cannon-fodder character. But the System’s golden finger is utterly useless, and it’s always making fun of him. When you’re under someone else’s roof, you have to keep your head down. Just wait: thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river… Uh, give h 33Reads—Score114d adds
- 2 I Reincarnated as a Nobody, Just Watching the Drama, Then the Male Lead Kidnapped Me! 穿成路人甲吃瓜，被男主掳走了！ [Forcing Love + Transmigrate into a Book + Ruthless CEO + Sharp-Tongued, Hilarious Heiress with an Odd Way of Thinking + She Runs, He Chases] Huo Xiaozhou is the original male lead, the most mysterious big shot in the capital. He keeps his distance from women and has businesses all over the world. In the original story, he falls in love at first sight with the heroine, Bai Niannian, and forces her to be his. But Zhang Ying'er suddenly transmigrates into the book as an extra, and this extra happe 4.1kReads—Score20714d adds
- 3 Oops, I Got Pregnant with a Random Guy's Baby 一不小心，怀上了路人甲的崽 (Complete) [Transmigrates into a Book + Villainess + One-Night Stand + System + Adorable Baby] Xu Zhaodi worked herself to death from overtime and transmigrated into a book as the villainess Nan Ruyan. She didn’t want to work hard, only to lie low and slack off. After learning she could live a long life, she started looking for loopholes in the plot so she could survive it. She was bound to a target she had to win over. She hadn’t even started pursuing him, yet her progress was already at 90%? T 1.6kReads8.3Score10014d adds
- 4 Tales of an Ordinary Cultivator 路人甲修仙趣闻录 Yue Ya, who never drinks, gets scolded by her boss at work. After clocking out, she wants to drown her sorrows, only to discover she’s allergic to alcohol. Two cans of beer kill her outright, and she wakes up in the body of a five-year-old girl who was just beaten to death by a beggar. The little girl’s head was badly injured, so Yue Ya wakes up with no memories. Disguising herself as a boy, she manages to survive and becomes an apprentice to a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, slowly learnin 5.2kReads8.3Score55014d adds
- 5 An Ordinary Person Transmigrates into a Cultivation World 平凡人穿书修真世界 [Dual male leads + transmigrate into a book + cultivation + insecure, timid, ordinary, and looks-obsessed Yang Fan x cold, manipulative, and awkward Song Xinluo + slow burn + younger male lead + not a power fantasy (the romance and plot both move slowly)] Yang Fan felt that his transmigration into a book had been an accident. There were no prompts, no golden finger, and no encounters with the story's plot. He came to this unfamiliar and dangerous world and spent ten years as an outer sect discip 4.3kReads8.6Score52714d adds
- 6 Quick Transmigration: World Survival Time Loaded 快穿之世界存活时长已加载 [Quick Transmigration + No Male Lead + Ordinary Daily Life] Thanks to her mom’s connections, Xi Ming successfully lands a permanent government job. From then on, her daily routine is to lie flat, wait for retirement, and live on welfare. There are no missions in this Quick Transmigration story. She starts out as an orphan, and the longer she lives in each small world, the greater her rewards. She’s also given a golden finger, and every day Xi Ming feels completely content. 6.8kReads8.7Score61114d adds
- 7 The Supporting Nobody Keeps Taking Hits for the Main Cast 路人甲又在给主角团挡刀 A full-cast audio version is now available [Two male leads + transmigrate into a book + xianxia + a touch of ensemble cast + slow burn + one-on-one, both pure] An ordinary, resilient, laid-back nobody bottom, Shen Liuchun, x a tsundere prodigy who means what he says, Xie Xiaohan The timid office drone Shen Liuchun died at his desk from overwork, only to transmigrate into a power-fantasy cultivation novel he had read in his second year of high school. At least other transmigrators get to be conne 13.5kReads9.3Score1.6k14d adds
- 8 Slow Travel Through Life: Learning Until the Very End 慢穿活到老学到老 [Slow transmigration] [No CP] [Fanfiction] {World 1: Empresses in the Palace} Complete {World 2: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, starting with The Mystic Nine} Complete {World 3: Dae Jang Geum + Lu Xiaofeng} Complete {World 4: Hunter x Hunter} Complete {World 5: Scarlet Heart} Complete {World 6: Harry Potter} Complete {World 7: A fairy-tale crossover} Complete {World 8: Original world} Zhang Ruoqi died. She was a nobody from the outer sect of a cultivation school, caught in the crossfire when the 9.4kReads9.1Score70814d adds
- 9 Crazy! A Background Character at an Aristocratic Academy Sneaks Through Tasks Between the Cracks 癫！贵族学院的路人甲夹缝苟任务 [Old-school + ABO + two male leads + aloof, universally adored character + a touch of dog-training fiction] An imaginary world, so don’t take it too seriously. An overlooked character early on, later a universally adored, cool-headed, resilient, and seductive love interest X a hypocritical, malicious, rich, and deranged aggressor who plays hard to get Jian Yu accidentally entered an ABO world where every alpha doted on omega with an arm around the waist, and became a passerby. Every day, he wand 856Reads9.5Score11614d adds
- 10 The Cannon Fodder Won't Follow the Plot, and the Protagonist's Fate Is None of My Business 炮灰不走剧情，主角死活随便 Male lead, quick transmigration, a true powerhouse, feel-good story, punishing scumbags, romance may or may not feature a fixed CP, transmigration targets aren’t limited to humans Plot armor? The Heavenly Dao’s restrictions? Forced stupidity? The protagonists step over the corpses of countless cannon fodder, achieving success and living happily ever after. But cannon fodder lives matter too! o((>ω< ))o Gu Changqing transmigrates through the Myriad Worlds to seek justice for the cannon fodder wh 73.3kReads8.2Score3.9k14d adds
- 11 The Reborn Novel’s Cannon-Fodder, Nerdy Nobody 重生文里的炮灰学渣路人甲 The print edition, titled Better Than the Mountains and Seas, is now available, and a short drama under the original title is also out! The original title is The Cannon-Fodder Academic Loser and Background Character in a Rebirth Novel. Transmigrate into a book, one woman and two love interests, mildly comedic [Bright and sunny heroine Xue Jialuo] VS [passionate, straightforward puppy Liang Chong] VS [scheming, calculating cat Zhou Xubei] After commenting on a book, Xue Jialuo transmigrates into 24.7kReads9.2Score2.7k14d adds
- 12 Quick Transmigration: A Professional Background Character Who Just Wants to Lie Flat 快穿之路人甲专业躺平 After You Jia died, she was forced to bind herself to a System. Apparently, because she’d donated money before her death and saved many people, she was finally getting her just rewards. So now she had a guaranteed job: transmigrate to various worlds and correct crooked ways. Could she just say no? Couldn’t they let her reincarnate into a rich family instead? It wasn’t even her idea to donate. Whoever wants these rewards can have them. But it was no use. She had no bargaining power. She could onl 25.6kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 13 Quick Transmigration: The Little Cannon Fodder Keeps Hitting All the Right Spots for the Deranged Villain’s Kinks 快穿小炮灰在疯批癖好上疯狂踩点 [Unhinged, possessive male lead x sweet, timid beauty, one-on-one romance, both pure and devoted to each other] [A genuinely fluffy little sweet treat!] Song Jinhuan needed to complete her transformation, so she signed a contract with Sanjin. After entering each small world, she threw herself into her missions with utmost diligence. But she never expected the male leads, glitching out and already at max level, to unleash their ultimate moves right away. They were impossible to handle! The abstin 2.1kReads9.1Score61214d adds
- 14 The Sweet Little Background Character Is Always Coveted by the Crazy Male Lead 娇娇路人甲总被疯批男主觊觎 [Love at first sight + possessive pursuit + dark themes + soul-bonded hero and heroine, 1v1] Nan Qiao was a rookie in the Supporting Character Department. Before entering a small world, she had thought that once she completed her mission, she could do whatever she wanted there. She never expected that from the start, the male lead would inexplicably fixate on her. She could only watch as her role kept getting bigger and bigger, transforming her from a nameless passerby into the unfortunate heroi 58.2kReads7.8Score5.6k14d adds
- 15 The Everyman’s Rise to Greatness Through Quick Transmigration 快穿之路人甲奋斗成大佬 [No Romance + Quick Transmigration + Gender-Flexible Protagonist + Building a Strong Nation] When Shui Miao (Si Shui) was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, she encountered Shi Lei (Rock), a hapless passerby A System. They signed a contract and began traveling through myriad worlds. The protagonist has no plot armor or golden finger (probably). Each transmigration is a life of its own. I’ll do my best to avoid simplistic writing, so please go easy on me. Quick Transmigration World One: Money 35.6kReads9.2Score2.8k14d adds
- 16 Quick Transmigration: The Ordinary Passerby in a World of Mary Sues' Guide to Slacking Off 快穿之万人迷路人甲摆烂攻略指南 [Everyone's Favorite + A Useless College Student's Slacker-Style Conquest + Wild Imagination + No Fixed Male Lead + Love at First Sight] The hopeless Yu Qiao gets bound to a brand-new conquest System. Watching the System confidently tell her to conquer high-quality men in different worlds, Yu Qiao smiles. She thinks it's time to show the System what college students are really capable of. World One: She becomes a doomed palace consort who is bestowed upon a cuckolded man in a story about a ruler 93.3kReads9.0Score6.9k14d adds
- 17 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 63.9kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
