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- 51 Regretting the Broken Engagement, Falling for an Old Flame 悔婚渐欲迷故人 She enters a marriage alliance and finds herself paired with the online friend she secretly loved. Hiding her identity, she flirts with him to stir him up, while he misunderstands and willingly becomes her stand-in [chaste male lead, non-virgin female lead + sweet-and-angsty mutual teasing + revenge and ambition] Male lead: Gu Zhongzhou, the richest man’s grandson and an ascetic big shot in AI brain-computer science. He approaches her on purpose to scare off his marriage-alliance partner, but en —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 52 The Clever Courtyard: Our Era 智趣西合院：我们的年代 [God-tier emotional intelligence + outsmarting the whole courtyard + satisfying read + period setting + unbeatable verbal sparring] Transported into the 1960s, Lin Weiguo finds the entire courtyard of scoundrels blocking his door and trying to steal his home from the start! Jia Zhangshi throws a tantrum, while Qin Huairu sheds crocodile tears and guilt-trips him? Lin Weiguo awakens the [Emotional Intelligence and Strategic Control Technique] on the spot. He fires back with a punchline worthy of 38Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 53 The Weather Was Lovely, So I Went to Die 天气很好，于是去死 [Urban supernatural powers · Sci-fi concepts · Mystery and deduction · Decisive violence · One heroine] “The weather is lovely, so I’m going to die.” Lin Zhilan decides to end it all on his twentieth birthday. But a mysterious text message pulls him back into the world of the living: “I’m hiring you as my assistant, for one year.” The white-haired girl detective is terminally ill. Her eyes can see the emotional filth that stains the world. He wields the power to annihilate monsters, but cannot e —Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 54 War of Resistance: The Bloody Battle of Shanghai 抗战：从淞沪血战到底 [Hardcore resistance war, no System, strategic warfare, and blazing patriotic fervor!] When the soul of Li Yunzhao, a PhD in strategy from the National Defense University, awakened above the 1937 Battle of Shanghai in a parallel timeline, he saw a land soaked in blood and fire, where his fellow countrymen fell in despair into the hell of “every inch of land bought with blood.” There would be no miracles here, no divine soldiers descending from the heavens. All there was, was a nation’s last line 205Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 55 EN I, the Mastermind Behind the Scenes, Summon Invincible Deathsworn Every Day 我，幕后大佬，每日召唤无敌死士 195Reads5.5Score17214d adds
- 56 A Slav Pilot Has Some Wild Ideas About Me 惊！斯拉夫飞行员对我心思有点野 Sweet military romance + wealthy high-ranking family's daughter + heir to a powerful family + face-slapping revenge + younger wolfish man who'll stop at nothing to rise to the top Military doctor Qing Kui saves a dying pilot with the codename Weixi from the Reaper's scythe, only to discover she's accidentally provoked a hidden, unhinged obsessive! He sees Qing Kui as a goddess, yet all he wants is to drag her into his arms! Whether or not Qing Kui loves him, Weixi has decided to love her, spoil 16Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 57 The Dao That Slays Injustice 道斩不义 After placing last in three exams, everyone laughed at me, Li Yishan, calling me a useless scholar! Who knew that when I took the provincial exam for the fourth time, I would awaken my dormant Mandate of Heaven! From then on, the world changed! A beautiful demoness threw herself into my arms, saying I was the one destined for her! A vicious river demon went out of its way to avoid me, trembling all over! Even a revered old Celestial Master chased after me, crying and begging to take me as his di 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 My Encounter with Tang Sanzang in 1937 我与唐僧相遇1937 I Met Tang Sanzang in 1937 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Dream Prophet 梦境预言者 The Dream Prophet —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 The Secret to Growing Your Wealth 财富增值的秘密 The Secrets of Growing Your Wealth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Reborn as a Northeast Tiger, I Devour and Evolve into a Calamity! 重生东北虎，吞噬进化成灾厄！ [The rating was just released, so it may not be accurate!] Chen Fan accidentally transmigrated one month before the arrival of “Lingxi” and became a Siberian tiger, also known as a Northeast tiger. At the same time, Chen Fan activated a God-Tier Devouring Evolution System. As long as he kept devouring, he could grow stronger! He even received an ability from the start: a tenfold enhancement multiplier! According to his memories of his previous life, the first “Lingxi” would descend upon Blue Sta 199Reads6.6Score10414d adds
- 62 The Strongest Villainess Side Character Raises Her Cultivation with Tears Again Today 最强反派女配今天也靠哭戏涨修为 Seasoned corporate drone Su Wan dies unexpectedly and finds herself transported into an old-school, angst-ridden fantasy novel she once mocked. She has become the story's ultimate villainess, Feng Qingge, a woman of immense cultivation and ruthless cruelty who is eventually killed by the male lead, Crown Prince Xiao Jue. The System coldly assigns her a mission: follow the original owner's path to ruin, and she can return to the modern world. Su Wan looks at the script's ending, where she is pier —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Villainous Young Palace Master Is Pretending to Be Cute Again Today 反派少宫主今天也在装可爱 When overworked office drone Su Tao is transported into the body of the decisive, ruthless young mistress of Bixiao Palace, she looks at her reflection, which has her face but the original owner's sinister eyes, and immediately launches her “Character Collapse Plan”: Turn the torture hall into a dessert workshop Use her bonded artifact, the “Frostsilk Ribbon,” to knit sweaters Give the Demon Lord pink armor as an apology gift She thinks she's hiding it well, but she has no idea: The aloof Sword —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 In Search of Gold, Part One: The Curse of Gold 寻金记第一部：黄金之咒 “Gold chooses its master, and the price is paid in blood!” Is it the curse of gold demanding a life, or the cycle of war crimes coming around again? The mountain remembers everything, and the secret buried beneath the permafrost is still waiting for the next visitor to knock. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 I Only Touched You a Couple of Times, What's the Rush? 我不过是摸你两下而已，急什么 [A vengeful, scheming succubus x a sharp-tongued, proud, flirtatious heir] Shen Lingyue is a notorious illegitimate daughter and the most accomplished seductress around. She loves boldly and takes revenge for every slight. Not only did she sleep with her aunt’s fiancé, she also gave her aunt a resounding slap. “Loud enough for you?” “If you won’t let me hit you, then I’ll just hit my dad.” Three years later, Shen Lingyue runs into her young uncle by marriage again. He spends the whole night ent 549Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 66 Snatching Opportunities from Jack Ma, Lei Jun, and Other Bigwigs 2 截胡马云雷军等大佬2 January 2007: The first-generation iPhone launches, and Zhou Ming quickly realizes that the mobile internet will reshape the payments landscape. August 2007: Alipay rolls out a major upgrade to its “escrow transaction” service. Zhou Ming pushes the “Yifutong” team to be first to develop a mobile payment prototype. 2008 financial crisis: Alibaba adjusts its strategy, and Zhou Ming seizes the opportunity to propose a “Campus Financial Innovation Lab” initiative. Key opportunities seized: Getting a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Tide of Commerce 潮涌商途 The story begins in 1978, with the launch of reform and opening-up. As the wave of change from a planned economy to a market economy sweeps across the country, Yiwu and Wenzhou, at the forefront of reform, are the first to break with traditional economic models. Building on its trading tradition of "exchanging chicken feathers for sugar," Yiwu grows from a roadside market into a world-renowned hub for small commodities. With their bold, pioneering spirit, the people of Wenzhou expand into light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The Purple Palace: A Duel of Twin Blades 紫宸宫阙：双锋竞艳 • During the Great Yong Dynasty's imperial consort selection, Shen Lanyi, daughter of a prominent family, enters the palace to protect a fragment of the family’s secretly guarded Return to Origin Heart Sutra. She has practiced her family’s inner cultivation since childhood, and beneath her gentle, refined manner lies profound inner strength. • Mu Qingshuang, daughter of the jianghu’s foremost assassination sect, the Cold Shadow Pavilion, enters the palace under the alias Lin Qing, posing as the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 A Strange Book Called Redemption 一本怪书《救赎》 A Strange Book Called Redemption —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Even Bad Boys Want to Fall in Love 不良少年也想谈恋爱啦 [Pure Love + BL + GL + GB + Graphic Violence + Mild Sexual Innuendo] The author is a student who doesn't know how to write novels and isn't very cultured. The plot is original and contains graphic violence. The author is Chinese, but most characters have four-character names or two surnames and one given name. Please don't flame me if that's not your thing. The boy in the snow screamed. What had he dreamed of this time… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 So What If My Reputation Is in Tatters? This Spoiled Young Master Is One of a Kind 名声再臭又怎样？纨绔公子世无双 Male-male romance + beastfolk setting + ABO + interstellar + original story + lots of original worldbuilding + the author thinks this one is a little angsty (my first angst novel, so please go easy on me.) The clan banquet is a grand and lively social occasion. Meanwhile, in a hotel room, Bai Musheng has lured Lu Sinian, the son of a business tycoon, into bed! Straddling the man and looking down at him, Bai Musheng says, "The aloof, cold-faced prince everyone admires? You're nothing special." T 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 The Cage of Human Consciousness 人类意识囚笼 I am Subject Alpha, the museum’s most precious exhibit: the last pure human consciousness. Countless people from the future come to watch me every day and mock my “primitive emotions.” The only one keeping me company is an AI robot named Stardust. Whenever I’m on the verge of breaking down, it silently hands me an energy shot. Until one day, a little girl pointed at me and said, “Mom, that robot looks like it’s crying.” The museum director suddenly shut off every camera and knelt before me. “Sir —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 I Weave a Fleeting Life for All Creation 我为苍生织浮生 #Eastern Fantasy #Modern Cultivation #Epic Fantasy #Clash of Civilizations #Ensemble Coming-of-Age #Awakening of Fate Chen Jingwei, an immortal who weaves the threads of fate, is banished to the mortal world. He hides in a modern city, working at a company called Jingwei Creative. Hoping to forget his past and watch the world’s joys and sorrows from a distance, he is forced to break the laws of Heaven when he saves Su Xiao, a girl destined to die. One good deed becomes the first domino to fall. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 The God of Death, Live 直播杀神 Meng Fan, a tech mogul, falls into a cultivation world burdened with enormous debts. When his spaceship crashes, the fusion of the “Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Herb” and “Life Origin Fluid” forms a “Life Origin Wheel,” launching his livestream survival journey. Under the rules of the “Void Observation Mirror,” Meng Fan must keep killing opponents to obtain resources while also catering to his viewers’ demands for gifts. His livestream draws the attention of countless cultivation realms. Ruthless an 15Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 75 Survival Rules for Gensokyo 幻想乡生存法则 [The rating is low because this just launched! All-female cast + gaming + construction + farming + alchemy + adventure + Eastern fantasy. Hope you have a blast reading!] Transmigration is risky: you start out in debt the moment you land! Building up another world? No, it's a burned-out office worker's fresh start! When she wakes up, the green-haired girl Wujing discovers that not only has she lost her memory, she's also landed in Gensokyo, a fantasy world teeming with youkai and governed by biza 1Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 76 A World of Beauty: The Irresistible Her, Surrounded by Handsome Men 异界风华：万人迷她美男遍布异界 [Alternate world + all male leads are sexually inexperienced + love triangle chaos + everyone has a System + villainess adored by all + ensemble cast] ---Also known as: The Villainess's Looting Game No fighting between women! The heroine is adored by everyone. Her career comes first, romance second. No man can stand in her way. The world is entirely fictional. The cold-faced battle god pins her into the mecha pilot’s seat, his thumb brushing the corner of her lips. “Dare to take my power?” Bai M 1Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 77 I’ll Guard This Mountain 这山我来守 Twelve-year-old Wang Duo'er drags a suitcase with a missing wheel away from her shattered life on the edge of the city and back to her grandmother's old home deep in the mountains. She thinks this is just another place where she has been abandoned, not knowing that it is the starting point fate has laid out for her. The hometown her mother never mentioned holds astonishing secrets. Her strangely dressed, inscrutable grandmother is the guardian of an ancient ward; the seemingly ordinary watchdog 1Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 78 Between Tenderness and Fury 温柔与狂暴之间 In the future, meteorites bring radiation. Those exposed to it are divided into three groups: the naturally violent but physically strong Frosts, the Grendels, whose minds and bodies remain unchanged, and the gentle but frail Roscentes. The changes to humanity bring social turmoil as well. In this world, now utterly transformed, how will people survive? Will they numb themselves, or face reality alone? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 With 300,000 Troops, the Northeast Army Vows to Fight to the Death! 拥兵三十万，我东北军誓死抗战！ [No System, One Female Lead, Industrial Development, Steel Flood, Fight the War to the End, Make Up for Past Regrets] On this road, a hundred thousand banners march to slay the King of Hell; on this road, even a lone army remains true to its homeland. This is a story about making up for past regrets... 41Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 80 Brother, You Are the Last Light in My Life 哥哥，你是我最后的光 “Brother, the sound of your heartbeat is the only lullaby that calms me.” Ziyin’er once wrote of her devotion to her brother in her diary. But the brutality on the grassy hillside left her soul forever trapped in the summer she was fourteen. Wearing the pink princess dress her brother had given her, she walked toward the traffic as if toward a grand final curtain call. It was the last way she could think of to protect her dignity and her brother’s: if the world had no place for a pure soul, then 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Ginkgo Leaf Letter: Loving You for Seven Years Through Oblivion 银杏叶信笺：在遗忘里爱你七年 Ginkgo-Leaf Letter: Loving You for Seven Years in Forgetfulness —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 A Water Margin Dream: The Hidden Hero, Wu Song 水浒遗梦——武松隐侠传 A Dream Left Behind by Water Margin: The Hidden Hero, Wu Song —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The Price of Fame 流量的代价 The Price of Going Viral —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Record of the Last Embers: I Guard a Tomb in a Cultivation World Gone to Waste 残烬录：我在废土修仙界当守墓人 In a cultivation world where spiritual energy has run dry, the land has become radioactive wasteland after an ancient war between immortals and demons. Cultivators must wear gas masks and rely on “spirit-core batteries” to power their magical artifacts. Mortals can have “artificial spiritual roots” implanted through genetic modification, but the success rate is only five percent. Lin Jin is an “ancient tomb restorer” who excavates the tombs of ancient cultivators to recover damaged cultivation t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 I Study Programming in the High Martial World 我在高武学编程 [Superpowers + System + Comedy + Growth + Bonds] “I just want to lie flat, but this System keeps forcing me to embarrass myself!” Lu Zhao transmigrated to a high-martial-arts city, dreaming of lying flat for the rest of his life. Who knew he'd be bound to the [BUG Martial Arts System] from the start, with every martial art he practiced being a “bizarre” version! "Sleep Breathing Technique", "Taunting Movement", "Social Death Fist"... Its combat power is unknown, it grows stronger against stronge 6Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 86 The Cold-Faced CEO's Hopelessly Romantic Employee 冷脸总裁的恋爱脑打工人 A Cold-Faced CEO’s Love-Struck Employee 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Wukong and I Are Up to Something Big 我和悟空一起干大事儿 Wukong and I Are Up to Something Big —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Let Me Catch the Tail End of Youth 让我抓住青春的尾巴 I was reborn. When I opened my eyes again, I was back in a senior-year high school classroom in 2003. In this life, I, Lu Bing, swear: I’ll hold tight to that silly girl’s hand and make up for every regret she had in my previous life, tenfold, a hundredfold! In this life, I’ll make her the woman the whole world envies! Pure sweetness, no angst, true love. Come relive the feeling of falling in love, from high school through college. 9Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 89 Peerless Poison Consort: The Prince's Coffin Won't Hold Her Down 绝世毒妃：王爷的棺材板压不住了 [A Beautiful, Daring Poison Doctor × A Scheming, Chaste War God Prince × Two Powerful Leads Who Dote on Each Other × Satisfying Face-Slapping] On the very first day after waking up in the body of the prime minister's legitimate daughter, her family treated her like a pawn and stuffed her into a bridal sedan, sending her off to bring good luck to the gravely wounded, dying Prince of War. Not a single person in the residence came to see her off. Her stepmother was a hypocrite, her half-sister a wh 9Reads—Score114d adds
- 90 Reversing Fate in the Immortal Abyss 仙渊逆途 Before he turned sixteen, he was the Ling family’s once-in-a-millennium cultivation prodigy, betrothed and destined for greatness. After sixteen, his spiritual root was destroyed, leaving him a good-for-nothing. His family cast him aside, and his fiancée was forced to marry the son of their enemy. “Ling Chen? He can’t even break through Qi Refining. What makes him think he’s worthy of Miss Ye?” “Throw him off Soulbreak Cliff to feed the demon beasts. That’ll be one way to clean house for the Lin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 The Thousand and First Time 第一千零一次 The gods said, “Immortality is the most impossible curse to break! Forgetting her is the price of reincarnation!” If I can meet her once more, what does a little price matter? Searching for her through hundreds, then thousands, of cycles of reincarnation, I finally found her on the thousand-and-first. This time, I won't let her slip away... Perhaps love is a string that, even after snapping a million times, still trembles endlessly in the void. —Reads—Score114d adds
- 92 A Kiss of Lies: A Triangular Redemption in the Sacrifice of Youth 谎言之吻：青春祭里的三角救赎 As Chu Yi’s lips met Xuemeng’s pale ones, Zhiying’s umbrella fell and shattered on the carpet of the hotel’s twelfth floor. Rain ran from her lashes, mingling with the scene on the surveillance monitor: her father raising a glass with Lin Jiahao. The boy who had repeatedly sworn to protect her was now carrying out a long-planned “betrayal” in the cruelest way imaginable. On the night of freshman military training at the arts university, Zhiying caught her boyfriend, Chu Yi, kissing her best frie —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Seeker of the Dead 寻死灵 Will I heed the call of the whispers, or pursue the self I was meant to be? Who am I here for? Does my consciousness obey me? I am Qin Fengmo, not a madman or a devil. But the good want me to die for a worthy cause, while the bad want me to live so I can be useful. [Not very scary, so feel free to give it a try.] [Author, listen up: give me a star and you’re the boss!!!] 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 94 The Seven-Tailed Book of Hauntings 七尾诡簿 The down-and-out feng shui master Cui Mingyuan accidentally releases Yin Jiuniang, a thousand-year-old fox demon sealed away long ago, and is forced to embark on a strange journey to recover her seven tails. As a bronze bell rings and monster calamities multiply, the imperial court's Bureau of Astronomy is using supernatural creatures as pawns in a shocking plot to turn humans and demons against each other. The missing fox tails, a vanished left hand bone, a bloodstained secret ledger from the c —Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 95 Just Got Out of Prison, and There’s a Hundred Million in My Account 谢邀人刚出狱，卡里多了一个亿 [No System] [Reborn] [Prison Life] [Multiple Heroines] (A realistic look at detention centers and prisons!) Ten years ago, Xu Wendao fell into a trap set by his girlfriend and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Ten years later, just as he was about to walk out the prison gates, Xu Wendao was reborn back to his first day inside. Was heaven messing with him? Had he really spent ten years in prison for nothing? But Xu Wendao soon realized this was an opportunity. See how he uses everything he le 122Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 96 Hongmeng Dao Sect 鸿蒙道宗 The Heavenly Dao is heartless; all living beings are mere ants. The Book of Hongmeng: Chaos Spirit Root When Qin Feng was eight, he witnessed his parents being abducted by demon beasts. He narrowly escaped the same fate. Later, while out one day, he encountered a demon beast and was rescued by a cultivator. After seeing the cultivator’s great power, he resolved to become one himself. He eventually joined the Hongmeng Dao Sect and began his path of cultivation. 6Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 97 Reborn as Zhao Gou: Who Dares Harm My Yue Family Army? 魂穿赵构，谁敢害我岳家军 Zhao Xu, a modern graduate student in history, is railing against Zhao Gou, the feckless Southern Song emperor who destroyed his own defenses and unjustly killed Yue Fei, when he unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Emperor Gaozong of Song at the beginning of the eleventh year of the Shaoxing era. At this moment, Chancellor Qin Hui is using “insufficient state funds” and “an exhausted populace” as excuses to join a group of civil officials in petitioning the emperor to recall Yue Fei, who 2.1kReads8.2Score23214d adds
- 98 The Phoenix Rules the World: The Top Female Finance Official 凤倾天下，第一女财官！ Su Li is transmigrated into the body of an orphaned young lady from a marquis’s household. Her dowry is stolen, and she is falsely accused and sentenced to be drowned. She smiles and opens the account books, using her financial savvy to make the whole clan kneel and pay her back. The mysterious organization Yunjing recognizes her as its master, and she forms an alliance with the sickly, possessive Prince Jing. From buying up shops to vying for imperial power, from Jiangnan salt permits to milita 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 With You, from Youth to the Rest of Our Lives 与你，从青春到余生 An unexpected moment of closeness brought two people, once on parallel paths, suddenly together. He was calm and restrained, yet his eyes held room for no one but her. She was gentle and sensitive, yet only in front of him could she not hide her flustered heart and budding affection. Once, she could only admire him from afar, afraid to approach. Later, she could no longer bear to let him go. Their journey was filled with tentative advances, push and pull, silent protection, and deep feelings lef —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 My Husband Cheated, So I Turned Around and Got Pregnant by His Cousin 丈夫出轨我转身怀上堂哥骨肉 [Multiple Male Leads / Family / Love and Marriage] Luo Lulu discovered the truth about her husband Zhang Heng's womanizing ways. In despair, she agreed to spend the night with her cousin Zhang Yuchen, at his request. Unexpectedly, she became pregnant. Just as she was at a loss for what to do, Zhang Yuchen firmly told her to get a divorce. The two went together to confront Zhang Heng, and only then did Zhang Yuchen realize that his cousin's betrayal was nothing new. When Luo Lulu returned to her 1Reads—Score—14d adds
