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- 1 Pokemon: From the Start, I Fuse Three-Star Beedrill! 宝可梦：开局合成三星大针蜂！ [Teamfight Tactics System]+ [Pokemon]+ [Wish Fulfillment]+ [Invincible]+ [Merging] Shen Liang transmigrated to a world where humans and Pokemon lived side by side. With the college entrance exam that would decide whether they could become Trainers drawing near, every student had to draw a Pokemon to raise. Shen Liang hit the jackpot with his very first draw: he got a Weedle! Just as he was about to despair, the System awakened!! The Teamfight Tactics System! What? Question: What do you get when 7kReads7.2Score64514d adds
- 2 We Agreed to a Fake Marriage, So Why Did You Make It Real Overnight? 说好假结婚，你却连夜弄成真的？ [Multiple heroines + urban slice of life + power fantasy + born into another body] My childhood friend, a billionaire CEO, showed up with an agreement and asked me to marry her for show. “Fifty thousand a month, no interference in each other’s lives, and a house when we divorce in three years!” I thought a buddy was in trouble and I was stepping up to help. Who knew that the moment we got our marriage license, I’d realize I’d been set up! Watching Liu Ruyan drop her cool-girl act and close in st 25.5kReads7.7Score2.4k14d adds
- 3 Reborn: Love Comes After You Become a Lackey 重生：恋爱要在成为小弟后 [Young love + sweet romance + multiple heroines at school + everyday cultivation, the only immortal] Even being reborn can come with a difference. Ye Bufan was reborn. In his previous life, he rescued a girl from school bullying. Thanks to that opportunity, he gained power in both the underworld and the legitimate world and planned to marry three beauties. But on the eve of his wedding, he got so worked up that he died of a heart attack. Fortunately, he was reborn. Looking at the girl being bul —Reads—Score9.4k14d adds
- 4 An Outsider in the Chinese Entertainment Industry 华娱之娱乐圈外人 After being electrocuted, fishing enthusiast Chen Xiao was reborn in 2006. Using his knowledge of the future, he gained financial freedom, opened a little shop, and settled into a laid-back life. He’d planned to keep his head down and stay out of the spotlight, but more and more celebrities started becoming his friends... Liu Sisi: “Honey, my next drama has a kissing scene. You’re playing the male lead.” 20.7kReads8.0Score82814d adds
- 5 Supernatural City? Take It Up with My Rider Belt 都市灵异？跟我的骑士腰带说去吧 (Subverting expectations) (Slightly spooky) (Funny) Lu Ming transmigrates into the body of the real young master who has just been found and binds himself to a sign-in System. His older sister despises him, his parents give him the cold shoulder, and his younger brother frames him? Watch me turn the tables and reclaim everything that belongs to me... Of course, that's not happening. Whoever wants to be the eldest young master can have the job. If you won't have me, there's somewhere else that wi 55.7kReads8.2Score4.1k14d adds
- 6 A Reborn Man Tried to Assassinate Me from the Start, So I Became a God on the Spot 开局被重生者刺杀，我立地成神 [Everyone Awakens + Gets Stronger with Every Breath + Invincible + Future Demon King] From the start, he was assassinated by a reborn man who claimed he was a demon king with blood on both hands. Zhou Li protested his innocence. “What the hell? I've never even killed a chicken!” Just then, the Supreme Will descended, and Blue Star entered an age of universal awakening, granting extraordinary powers to everyone. Zhou Li awakened an EX-rank talent: Born Divine. Effect One: Immortality. No method c 33.8kReads7.8Score2.7k14d adds
- 7 Beast Taming: Evolution by Sequence 御兽，序列进化 [No System + No Academy Setting + Bloodline Research + A New Beast-Taming Style with Wizards] No matter how powerful your beasts are, a single bullet can still take down their tamer. No problem. We have class advancement. [Ferocious Beast Knight] → [War Knight] → [Radiant Knight]. Bound together in life and death, sharing honor and disgrace. [Phantom Beastmaster] → [Arms Master] → [Elemental Annihilator]. Command the elements and attack with spells. [Herder] → [Legion Commander] → [Totem Master] 14.4kReads9.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 8 EN Abandoned as R-Rank, I Became an SSR: Why the Tears? R卡被抛弃，我成SSR你哭什么 [School Beauty Contract + I Became a Card-Pool Character + The Ultimate Power Ceiling in a Shape-Shifting Crossover + A Fresh New Concept] “How unlucky!” “An R-rank spirit card? You wasted my 180-pull pity!” “A useless character like you thinks you’re worthy of a contract?” Jiang Li, a spirit-card summoner, turns livid and angrily dissolves the contract. She snarls, “A trash character like you can just disappear!” Xia Yuan transmigrates into the card pool as its lowest-tier R-rank character. The 66.1kReads8.4Score6k14d adds
- 9 The Embroidered Uniform Guard Solves Cases with Spirit Sight: From the Start, I Get the Lingbo Microstep 锦衣卫通灵破案：开局获凌波微步 47.4kReads8.7Score4.4k14d adds
- 10 Industrial Deep Dive: Manufacturing Arresting Cables from the Start! 工业大摸底：开局制造阻拦索！ [The internet’s only 4-million-character industrial deep-dive into cutting-edge technology] [Print edition, Industrial Innovation is published and on sale] [Several animated adaptations are now streaming] [System + Major Industrial Power + “Call Her Mom” Craze + Unwavering Patriotism + No Female Lead + Technology Race] Also known as [Industrial Deep Dive: Manufacturing Arresting Gear from the Start!] [Industrial Deep Dive: Uncovering the South Heaven Gate Project] [After Dumping My Ex, I Awakene 90.7kReads8.1Score6.4k14d adds
- 11 From Spider to Ruler of the World 从蜘蛛到世界支配者 [Behind-the-Scenes Style] [Evolution] [Creating Monsters] At first, he focuses on growing bigger, breaking world records, and collecting powers. Later, he starts creating monsters and takes the behind-the-scenes route. Fang Ming is reborn as a pet spider. All he has to do is keep molting and growing. With a leg span of 26 centimeters, he breaks the world record. With a leg span of 30 centimeters, he sends the scientific community into an uproar. With a leg span of 40 centimeters, he overturns ev 16kReads7.8Score1.7k14d adds
- 12 EN Sequence: Ascension 序列：升华 [Train Survival + Lone Wolf + Always One Step Ahead + Ascension and Evolution + No Saintly Heroine + No Spineless Hero] The moment Ye Qiyan opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of train survival. Everyone had to get off at a series of stations and explore to stay alive. The lucky found treasure; the unlucky lost their lives. Opportunity and danger went hand in hand. Gather supplies, upgrade your train, and build a train world of your own. As for Ye Qiyan, he possessed a one-of-a-kind asc 244.3kReads8.3Score22k14d adds
- 13 Who Says These Evil Spirits Are Fierce? I Specialize in Taking Down the Worst! 谁说这邪祟凶？我专治大凶之物！ [No female lead] [Decisive and ruthless] [Unlimited growth] [Slow burn] “You all call it an evil spirit, but I say it's clearly a good omen!” “Do you really think I don't know whether it can help me cultivate?” “Hand it over to me!!!” Shan Liang wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth and strode forward with a knife... Evil spirit: “Don't come any closer!!!” 41.2kReads9.1Score3.6k14d adds
- 14 EN Avoiding Peril: My Low-Key Path to Eternal Life 我靠避凶天赋苟道长生 [Low-key cultivation + cautious path to immortality + avoiding danger] In the cultivation world, Lu Qing relies on his danger-avoidance skill to escape one deadly predicament after another. He keeps a low profile. All he wants is to cultivate cautiously and live forever. While peerless prodigies flourish, Lu Qing keeps cultivating. While unparalleled experts burst onto the scene, Lu Qing is still cultivating. Eventually, the geniuses of his generation, peerless monsters, and unparalleled experts 65.5kReads8.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 15 EN Game Invasion: I Have Ten Thousand Talents 游戏入侵：我有一万种天赋 [Game Invasion]+ [Supernatural Horrors + Demons]+ [Classic of Mountains and Seas Divine Beast Lineage]+ [Invincible Talent]+ [Smart Protagonist] A game called [Apocalypse], connected to the real world, suddenly appeared on Blue Star. Its world was full of demons, monsters, strange creatures, and mysterious spirits. Even an unnamed little monster outside the starting village could easily kill players. Lin Yi happened to obtain an activation code with an early serial number, granting him a one-o 100.3kReads7.9Score7.3k14d adds
- 16 Villain Simulator: From the Start, My Supreme Imperial Bone Is Stolen 反派模拟：开局被挖走至尊帝骨 [Villain Simulations + High-Martial World + Invincible Domination + Ruthless Killing] Lu Qian transmigrated and became a playboy villain from the Lu family, one of the top families in the Great Xia Empire. From the start, he saw the drunk, unconscious fated heroine, Liu Ruyue, lying right in front of him. Yet the fated male lead, who served as the icy beauty Liu Ruyue’s bodyguard, was nowhere to be found. Wait, this plot... [Ding! An unconscious fated heroine has been detected ten meters ahead.] 29.2kReads8.7Score2.7k14d adds
- 17 Reborn as a Spider: The Mysterious Queen Who Took Human Form 转生蜘蛛:化形诡秘女王 [Not a Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Waking up in a terrarium, who will ascend to the throne of the supernatural world? Strange Gu, bizarre demons, machinery, warships, future weapons; witches, dragons, evil gods, curses, dark kingdoms... Her followers call her the “Primordial Night.” Those who fear her compare her to the ancient “Spider God,” Atlach. But no one knows she also has a name: Bai Jie. She once reincarnated as a pet spider and was forced to fight all kinds of poisonous insects and Gu crea 6kReads9.1Score66314d adds
- 18 My Martial Skills’ Special Effects Are Maxed Out, and I’m Slaying My Way Through the High Martial World! 武技特效拉满，我杀穿高武！ A high-martial-arts world. The strong thrive, while the weak perish. Lin Tian is weak, so he gets bullied and is as insignificant as an ant in this troubled age. This makes no sense! My martial skills have reached divine mastery, and you're still cutting my benefits? It's not that the benefits are worth much. Taking them is simply better value for money. What no one knows is that Lin Tian has awakened the Martial Skill Special Effects System. “Please purchase the A-rank effect, Myriad Thunder Su 23.2kReads8.9Score1.9k14d adds
- 19 Building a Scenic Attraction, My NPCs Are from Ancient Times! 打造景区，我的NPC来自古代！ [The short drama adaptation is now available] Qin Yao had just arrived in a parallel world when he inherited a tourist attraction! But to his surprise, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. There weren’t any attractions to speak of, and he couldn’t even afford to hire NPCs. He was about to sell the place, since the land alone was worth a fortune. But Qin Yao never expected to bind himself to an NPC System! The System had only one function: it could bring people from the pages of history to work as 66.3kReads9.2Score6.1k14d adds
- 20 A-Rated! The Gorgeous Boy Band Is Taking the Entertainment Industry by Storm A爆！神颜男团杀疯内娱 [Male lead's perspective + no romance + entertainment-industry System + ensemble boy group] Jiang Beisheng, a top-level wanted criminal in an apocalyptic world, was hunted by the eight major Alliance bases. After narrowly escaping death several times, he was finally captured and had both legs crushed. Using an unknown method, he broke out of prison, fell into the sea, and disappeared. Jiang Beisheng thought he wouldn't survive this time, but woke up in another parallel world. System: Please join 32kReads9.4Score5.4k14d adds
- 21 Cultivation: Recording the Good Life 修仙：记录美好生活 After obtaining the Record System, all Lu Yao has to do is capture interesting moments to earn all kinds of rewards. And so begins his recording journey in the world of cultivation. “This year’s list of prodigies has to have Saint Son Lingyun at the top, right?” “The top swordsman of Beiyuan would be a reasonable choice too.” “The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Demon? It’s a bit of a stretch, but I guess that works too.” “...” “What do you mean some nobody defeated every prodigy single-handedly, and there 101.8kReads9.0Score9.8k14d adds
- 22 EN Pyromancer from the Game World 来自游戏世界的火系法爷 Everyone knows there are three kinds of mages: 1. Mages who cast spells with intelligent assistance 2. Mages who only know how to reuse spell frameworks 3. Archmages who use knowledge and mana to move the elements So where do mages who wield a deeper understanding fit in? “Luo Wen Yi, you're not fit to be a mage! A deeper understanding? You call that a deeper understanding?! It's nothing but a crude warrior's delusion!” “But... if it exists, there must be a reason.” “You're a disgrace to mages!” 94.1kReads9.1Score10.7k14d adds
- 23 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
- 24 My Landlord Is a Pop Idol 我的房东是偶像歌手 Gu Zhinan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an online novelist. Could his beautiful landlady really be a washed-up idol singer? One day, she leaves her guitar in the living room... "I can't write songs. I'm just a novelist. I was only messing around." That is, until his landlady is left stunned by the song Gu Zhinan wrote. "Didn't you say you couldn't write songs?" "I know a little, I know a little." 52.4kReads9.2Score5.8k14d adds
- 25 EN Heaven's Chosen? Monster? No, It's the Grind Emperor 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝 [The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H 220.7kReads9.3Score26k14d adds
- 26 EN Global Martial Arts: My Martial Arts Can Cultivate on Their Own 全球高武：我的武功能主动修炼 In a world of high martial prowess, my martial arts keep cheating on their own all day... No, wait! I just have moments of enlightenment and train hard for 24 hours a day, that's all! Ning Chuan had only planned to develop steadily and get into a good university. But during the hundred-day countdown ceremony before the college entrance exams, Thunder Sparrows attacked. Ning Chuan drew his blade and killed three in an instant! From then on, he began crushing everything in his path! At the genius 60.1kReads9.2Score5.2k14d adds
- 27 EN The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临？我先降临！ [The print edition of I'm a Supplier of Survival Plans for the End Times is now available on major platforms] [Character growth · Multi-theme stages · Ensemble cast · Occasional brutal takedowns · No cookie-cutter plot · No mindless wish fulfillment] After facing repeated layoffs and betrayals, Su Jin was at the lowest point of his life when he was accidentally hired by a mysterious company. Countless worlds are on the brink of destruction. Only by saving their clients can the sparks of civiliza 401.1kReads9.2Score33.6k14d adds
- 28 Half a Life on the Battlefield, Yet I Return as the Same Old War God 战死沙场戎半生，归来仍是旧武神 Wang Xian, a half-step Martial God at the eighth realm of Old Martial Arts, died on an alien battlefield protecting ordinary people, only to return in a dream to his youth in his senior year of high school. In my previous life, I achieved greatness late, reaching the peak of the half-step Martial God realm, only to stop at the eighth realm and die with regrets. In this life, I will use my self-created Starry Sky Body-Tempering Art to forge a starry sky martial body capable of devouring stars and 92kReads9.1Score7k14d adds
- 29 EN The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！ [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O 64.6kReads9.2Score5.9k14d adds
- 30 EN Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手，邪神也得给我跪下！ [Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov 688.5kReads9.4Score49.1k14d adds
- 31 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 73.9kReads9.5Score8.4k14d adds
- 32 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情，职业舔狗我最行！ (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 263kReads9.5Score19.5k14d adds
- 33 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 266.5kReads9.5Score22k14d adds
- 34 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d 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 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
- 37 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
