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- 1 A Love I Can't Show Off 拿不出手的恋爱 [Modern Romance] [Two Female Leads] [Best Friends] [Marriage Before Love, Then Growth] [Mutual Healing] [Clear-Headed, Slow-Burning Ad Designer X Radiant, Sharp-Tongued Female Influencer with 3 Million Followers] [Rational, Slow-Burning, Clear-Headed Older Sister X Sharp-Tongued, Soft-Hearted Hopeless Romantic] The first time Qi Dian met Jiang Yupeng, she was going to catch a mistress. The man in the photo was her boyfriend of six years. The woman in the photo would later become her best friend 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Mountains and Seas: Becoming a Beast Hunter 山海：从成为异兽猎人开始 What? You can gain an exotic beast's power just by eating it? Then I guess I have no choice but to become an exotic beast hunter. What? A college student on the brink of death wants to be reborn by transmigrating into my body? Let me show you what the spiritual power of a primitive man looks like. In this world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, where Qi flows through the five organs and grants the power of the five elements, I kept eating and eating, gaining strength beyond the reach of coun —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 My Roommate Is an Ancient Goofball 我的室友是只上古憨憨 A human girl who loves money accidentally breaks the seal on the divine beast Bai Ze, binding their fates together for life! Bai Ze is rich, handsome, and devoted to her, but he’s a beast. How can a beast and a human have children? So the heroine dies and is reincarnated as a little divine beast. Now that’s a happy ending! The hero has it a little rough, though: he has to wait eight thousand years for his wife before he can finally win her back! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Huanling Throne 桓灵王座 Just writing whatever… Aaaaaaaah, why does the title have to be fifty characters long?! I'm going to die of exhaustion! Waaaaaaaah —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Now That I'm Reborn, I'll Work Hard 即已重生，开始发奋 Shen Feng is about to jump into the river and take his own life when he receives a text message out of nowhere: Jump in and start over. Reply TD to unsubscribe. On a whim, Shen Feng replies TD. To his surprise, the wind blows him into the river. When he wakes up again, he finds himself back at a pivotal point in his third year of middle school. [Reborn + System + school life + lighthearted comedy + urban superpowers + wish fulfillment] Also known as Back to the Past, Change the Future —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Becoming the Master of Superpowers with the Book of Wishes 凭借许愿之书成为特能之主 [Gods + supernatural powers + mystery investigations + magic + fantasy + golden finger + leveling up + ensemble cast + dungeon arcs] What's it like to be a special-abilities police officer in another world? Solve cases, slack off, level up, and, along the way, contemplate becoming a god. My Book of Wishes can grant any wish, except... sending me home. I had planned to live a quiet life with my family in this other world, until I discovered Black Locust's ultimate plan: apocalyptic disasters were 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 A Return Through the Ashen Haze 灰蒙回溯 [Transmigration + No System + No Cheats + Slow Burn + Cultivation + Spiritless Prison + The Truth of the World] Gray clouds blot out the sky, and a cataclysm's mystery waits to be unraveled! Bin Han woke up to find his soul had transmigrated to another world. No System, just a strange, eternally gloomy bank of clouds shrouding the heavens! Worse still, he had taken over the body of the “genius” Han Bin, and the entire village suspected him of being an evil spirit that had stolen someone else's b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Promise of Wutong and Midsummer 【梧桐与盛夏的约定】 [Mutual pining + sweet campus romance + ensemble cast with multiple POVs + childhood sweethearts + reunion after years apart + happy ending] [An airheaded girl with incredible fighting skills x a genius boy who never says what he means] Ji Yunqing A Peking Opera martial-role performer with formidable kung fu, she hides the edge of her training clothes beneath her school uniform. Her palms are marked with the faint calluses left by years of wielding a spear. She's naturally absent-minded and s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 You Said She Was Supposed to Be Yandere, So What’s with This Clingy Kitten? 说好的病娇呢，这粘人小猫咪是什么鬼 Wasn’t she supposed to be a yandere? What’s with this clingy little kitty? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 My Best Friend Wants to Compete with Empress Ma for Favor. Now That I’m Reborn, I Won’t Stop Her 闺蜜要和马皇后争宠，重生归来我不劝了 My best friend wants to compete with Empress Ma for the emperor’s favor. Now that I’m reborn, I won’t talk her out of it. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Nightmare Simulation Pod 噩梦模拟舱 Nightmare Simulation Pod —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Demon Tribulation 劫妖 When I was born, I cried for three days and three nights straight, and my tears were blood. My grandmother said I was missing one of my three souls and wouldn’t live past seven. To save me, she got a little black dog from somewhere and tied it to the head of my bed. Every night, it watched me fall asleep. It stayed tied there for six whole years. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Record of Heavenly Treasures and Mystical Powers 天宝玄通录 A newly formed continent, mysterious black fog, and hidden creatures. The Ten Heavenly Treasures appear in the world, and countless geniuses are brought to their knees. Born with a divine physique, he is nevertheless plotted against by demons. His family is destroyed, and he loses everything. A white-haired youth grips a broken axe. He opens the heavens and splits the earth, exterminates demons, slays ghosts and gods, and cuts down wicked immortals to prove the Great Dao. Born in barren soil, he 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Spirit-Devouring Scrap Body? I Cultivate the Chaos Dao 噬灵废体？我修的可是混沌道 I am Lu Chuan, a spirit-devouring waste of a body, the loser everyone looks down on. They laugh at me for having no chance at immortality, but they don’t know that in the depths of despair, I formed the first Chaos Core in the world. They see ascension as an honor, but I have glimpsed the prisons and scythes beneath the Heavenly Dao. If that’s the way it is, then I’ll wield my mortal body as a blade, sever my shackles, shatter the Immortal Court, and rewrite the laws of heaven and earth! This pa 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Have Two Innate Divine Powers 我有两个本命神通 [Eastern Fantasy + No System + Comedy + One Heroine + Three Male Leads] My name is Xiao Yibai. I’m a recent college graduate, but I was drawn into the Canglan Realm by an emperor’s game of chess and tasked with saving all living beings. But who’s going to save me? My name is Xia Longyuan. I am the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom and the Human Sovereign of the Canglan Realm. When horrors from beyond the realm descend, I myself will be the Great Wall that protects humanity. I can withstand the Ca 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Goodbye, Until We Meet Again 再见即重逢 After Shen An died, he transmigrated to the modern world by chance and became little Qi Jing. He went through countless twists and turns in search of the person he had loved in his past life. “Yes, I’m just a thief.” He came to this world all alone, only because he was looking for you. Even he wasn’t sure whether he would be able to find you. If not for that glimpse on the hospital rooftop, and that call of “Ji Chen,” he might have died soon after arriving in this world. I want to go home, but J 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Tribulation Broker 天劫中间商 He awoke from a heavenly tribulation with no memories, yet wielded power that even the Heavenly Dao feared. Young Lin Xiuzhu rescued a man whose entire body was charred black, never imagining that this seemingly ordinary amnesiac was a monster capable of controlling heavenly tribulations. When Su Xing recovered his memories, he discovered that his past was far darker than he had imagined... Descent into darkness or redemption... A fantasy novel blending xianxia, mystery, redemption, and persona —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Way of Jidao 济道 A child from a rural family grows up and excels in the military, becoming a special forces instructor. During a counterterrorism operation, he is nearly killed in a suicide attack by criminals. At this critical moment between life and death, a twist of fate involving a piece of jade that his grandmother had prayed over for him at a temple transports Zhu Hong to an unknown world of immortal heroes! His fantastical adventure in the world of cultivation begins! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Touch Your Right Hand with Your Left, and Even the Mightiest Must Kneel 左手摸右手断，神通强者也得跪 [Daoist-style Supernatural Powers + One Female Lead + Slow Burn + Unconventional Supernatural Academy + Rigorous Worldbuilding + Intelligent Characters + Equally Matched Leads] Gao Liang transmigrated into a supernatural world nineteen years ago and awakened an incredible ability: he can see death lines and golden lines on other people. Cut a death line, and his psychic energy surges. Cut a golden line, and all magic vanishes! On the first day of school, he saw a prodigy from the news at the sch 1.8kReads—Score295Shelves
- 20 I Cultivate to Survive, Yet the Campus Belle Won’t Stop Chasing Me 修仙只为活下去，却引来校花倒追 Urban cultivation, everyday campus life, plenty of foreshadowing, sweet daily romance, protecting beauties and making a comeback, with a distinctive foreign setting. The Heavenly Dao is collapsing, and it refines people to complete itself. Luo Yin has been extraordinarily gifted since childhood. He becomes a saint as a young man and takes one step into immortality, only to discover at the very end that he is the perfect tonic cultivated by the Heavenly Dao. But by then, it is too late. Just as t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Social Death: I Mistook the Top Student and Campus Heartthrob for Gay 社死，我把学霸系草当成gay [Energetic sports major with sunshine-in-her-heart energy vs. aloof academic star from the medical school] [Comedy + mutual devotion + university + secret crush] The biggest blunder of Tang Ran’s life, as captain of the university team, was mistaking Jiang Yan, the famously aloof heartthrob of the medical school, for a gay bestie who wasn’t interested in women. Relying on her outgoing personality, she became convinced that Jiang Yan and the gentle vice president Li Qing were a couple. She gossip 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Refining the Body Through the Five Elements: Proving the Dao with the Body 五行炼体之以体证道 Orphan Chen Yuan has a ruined spiritual root, but he proves the Dao through his body, transforms into the Five Elements, and unites them as one. He shakes the mortal world, breaks through the realms of immortals and demons, and strides into the void... The Taotie devours the heavens, chaos transforms into the Dao. Watch as this young man forges an unrivaled sacred body amid a world in turmoil! 358Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Phantom Star Eyes 星目幻影 “Since I'm not dead, I'll climb back to the summit once more!” By a stroke of luck, Chu Xin is reborn as a boy after an accident, despite being besieged by more than a dozen Primordial Saint Immortals. Given another chance, he'll protect his grandfather so he won't die because of him, and he'll gain even greater power. An invincible mortal rebirth story. The synopsis can't do it justice, so read the novel. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Strange Great Qian: I Solve Cold Cases with Forensic Investigation 诡异大乾，我用刑侦破悬案 Shen Ye, an elite member of the major crimes unit, wakes up as a penniless coroner in the Great Qian dynasty. From the start, he’s faced with a case of a ghost bride: on her wedding night, the bride dies suddenly in a locked room, with five claw marks across her chest. The villagers say a mountain spirit took her soul. After examining the body, Shen Ye scoffs. “A mountain spirit? The marks are exactly the same depth. They were made with an iron tool. The victim died of poisoning and suffocation. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 From the Start, I Have an Insanely Powerful Nascent Soul! All Laws Become My Own, and I Explode 开局超夯元婴！万法尽加吾身，爆 [Original, not fanfiction+All arts+Sword immortal+One heroine+Lighthearted+Never forgets his roots+Never overthinks+Just read it!!!] The Vast Righteous World, the Central Divine Continent, the Jixia Academy. Lu Xingzhou, a “god of the new age” born into this world, wears the refined guise of a Confucian gentleman while doing things more audacious than the demonic path. While others cultivate through grueling effort, he relies on System Xiao Qi, who gives him cheat powers while being sarcastic 124Reads—Score110Shelves
- 26 Whispers of the Fallen Dragon Star 龙陨星的低语 [No instant kills, no golden finger, no leveling System, no transmigration] [Just steel, gunpowder, faith, the Warp, and cultivation magic colliding] Lin Lan, a cultivator at the Deity Transformation stage, was struck by a tribulation bolt while breaking through his heavenly tribulation and ended up in Warhammer 40K, on the Imperium's remote planet, Dragonfall. What happens when a weakened cultivator faces a boltgun at point-blank range? What will happen when his once-elegant spells clash with 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Destruction of the Primordial World 洪荒灭 [A thrilling, classic xuanhuan tale, no System, decisive and ruthless, highly recommended, by an author who never misses an update.] Thieves coveted his secret bloodline, leaving his entire family slaughtered and everyone dear to him dead. After four years of brutal imprisonment, the young man shatters his chains and returns to the world, bearing the souls of gods and demons. He wields the power to devour, able to consume mountains, rivers, and all manner of techniques. Thunderous might dwells w 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Nine-Tailed Wolf-Badger 九尾狈 [Fantasy court intrigue] [A must-read for CP fans] [Scheming protagonist] [Play the pig to eat the tiger] [No regrets once the move is made] Have you ever wondered what it would look like when sorcery clashes with magic? Or how a male lead might protect the woman he loves, shoulder the fate of his country, and search for his mother while uncovering the mystery of his own origins? The Far West, Ashen Plains. The sky was gray, and so was the earth. Two thousand sorcerers from the Western Frontier 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Villainous Regent Has His Own Story 恶人摄政王他自有说法 [Two male leads + reborn + court politics + both chaste + happy ending + sharp-tongued, troublemaking, sensitive and suspicious regent as the pursuer × timid, pure-hearted, heterochromatic puppet emperor determined to bide his time as the pursued] In short, an emperor is never free to do as he pleases, and Jiang Ci is often at a loss for words. Historical boys' love - rebirth / court and ministers / historical fantasy Original - boys' love - alternate history - romance - pursued lead Jiang Ci s 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 I Came from Baimen: The Final Road of Lü Bu 我自白门来：吕布的亡途 (No System, no transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger. An authentic Lu Bu, with mythology woven into history, adventure, and battles.) “Am I dead?” “Yes, but everything is only just beginning.” An unexpected turn of events pulls Lu Bu, the fierce tiger of the late Han dynasty, also known as Lu Fengxian, away from his destined path. He had already met his end at White Gate Tower and was about to cleanse himself of his sins before being reincarnated. Thus begins a legend, a journey of trans 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Path to Immortality Is Faint, Yet Fate Cannot Be Defied 仙途渺茫，天命难违 [Reincarnation and Rebirth + Amnesia + Rescued by a Beloved from a Past Life and Brought Back to Her Sect + One Female Lead + Faux Ensemble Cast + Invincible Protagonist] You have lived through countless epochs of reincarnation. You do not know when or where you will awaken, and your memories slowly return. People you once knew so well appear before your eyes. Your beloved, your brothers, your friends: they come back to you one by one, and you have lost count of how many times your eyes have tur —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Arrow of Time 光阴的箭 The mountains are high and the rivers long, and the road through the martial world stretches far, but one day we will meet again. All things move through endless cycles of renewal. Mountains rise, streams flow, and birds sing. A new beginning has arrived, and the next chapter of his story is unfolding. An ending does not have to mean the end. His name is Lu Jian. Jian, as in “simple.” An event five hundred years ago led him to choose nirvana. Now, returned from that rebirth, he shines once more 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 My Childhood Friend Is Super Cute 我的青梅竹马超可爱 [One heroine + sweet romance + no System or golden finger + childhood friends] (An alternate world) What’s it like to have a childhood friend who’s been by your side since you were little? As a child, she was always trailing after you, bursting into tears at the slightest disagreement. Now she’s a versatile childhood friend whose eyes hold only you. Welcome to a fast-paced romantic comedy of pure love, where the childhood friend reigns supreme over the girl who appears out of nowhere, and every 185Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 34 Taboo God King, Doting on His Mortal Wife 禁忌神王，把凡人娇妻宠上天 [God King] [Devoted Husband] [One Heroine] [Face-Slapping] [Invincible] Shen Yi is a God King with a forbidden divine physique. To attain supreme godhood, he must live as a mortal, undergo tribulations, and break through the forbidden limits. The Gu family has a daughter of peerless beauty, born to a collateral branch and beset by misfortune. To avoid becoming a pawn in a political marriage, she stakes everything and searches among the Gu family’s servants until she finds Shen Yi. She proposes a 141Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Next Stop: The Finish Line 下一站终点线 A sudden viral outbreak swept across the globe, and those infected awakened supernatural abilities. The Awakened sought to conquer the world and become its masters, while the surviving humans who had escaped infection fought back doggedly against their invasion. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 When Cherry Blossoms Meet the Warm Sun 樱花与暖阳相遇时 “Pure Sweetness” “One-on-One Romance” “Pure Love” “Possessiveness Through the Roof” “There I go fantasizing again, imagining a sweet, gentle Japanese schoolgirl falling in love with me.” Because of his father's job, Jiang Huai is forced to transfer to a school in Japan. There he meets Fujiwara Yingnai, who is being bullied. Seeing the girl's pitiful, tearful face, Jiang Huai can't bear to leave her alone. But why does it seem like this girl has latched onto him? 398Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 37 Rustsleep 锈寐 [Post-apocalyptic ensemble cast + Everyone’s a little eccentric + Coming-of-age + Semi-cultivation] Ye An, female, 17, a social anxiety sufferer. She stupidly clicked on a post-apocalyptic novel about playing house and couldn’t help complaining about it. Then, for some inexplicable reason, she choked to death on a potato chip. She reincarnated as a brainless female side character who looked just like her and had the same name. But she soon realized that neither the plot nor the characters’ perso 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 After Touching an Ancient Mirror, a Teacher Defies the Heavens 触碰古镜后，后勤教师逆天了 After touching an ancient mirror, a logistics instructor defies the heavens. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Cultivating Divine Power, Starting as a Tiny Ant 从小蚂蚁开始修炼神力 A unique divine power System where even a tiny ant can defy the heavens! Xiao Manyi’s unsatisfying life on Earth came to an end, and he was reborn in the body of Xiao Yi, a handsome young man from the Azure Sky Continent. By chance, he obtained the source of a little dragon ant’s strength and embarked on a journey to divine power... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 My Brothers' Sisters Keep Flirting with Me. I Really Can't Take It! 兄弟姐姐疯狂撩我，真顶不住啊！ This book is also known as "Sorry, Bro, but Your Sister Is Too Hot!" Li Yuchen won two championships in three years in the Huaguo High School League. In his first year at North China University, he secured a starting position and led his team to the national semifinals of HUBAL, becoming a star guard in China. But he's also mildly afraid of women and has always kept his distance from them. Yet there's always someone who can get through to you. Thanks to his buddy, ahem, his brother, he meets his 85Reads—Score217Shelves
- 41 Reborn: Starting from Ordinary 重生之从平凡开始 This novel has no System, no womanizing protagonist, and characters with their wits about them. The pacing may be a little slow, so please be patient. Synopsis: A man willing to do anything for love, a man who bet everything on the woman he worshiped. But he lost, and lost everything. So he leaped from a tall building, only for fate to play an enormous joke on him and send him back to the eve of the college entrance exams! 8Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 42 The Southern Hua Chronicles 南华录 Now, if someone could ride upon the regularity of Heaven and Earth and harness the six breaths of nature to roam without end, what would they have to rely on? Thus it is said: The Perfect Man has no self, the Divine Man has no achievements, and the Sage has no name. The story begins with an assassination on a rainy night. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Green Blade's Chronicle of Love 青锋问情录 During the Jingkang crisis, Zhending fell. The orphaned Dugu Yanxing, branded the son of a traitor, plunged from Butterfly Cliff and was reborn after obtaining the Kongshan Sect’s secret arts. After eight years honing his sword, his blade gleams with frost. When he first enters the martial world, he takes up his sword to clear his father’s name and purge his master’s sect. But a Seven-Star Jade Pendant draws him into a world-shaking vortex far beyond a personal vendetta: Xiao Qianjue, master of —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Dawn's First Light, Reforging the Radiance 初生的东曦，重铸光明 [Invincible Protagonist + Long-Lived Species + Meme Humor + Lighthearted Comedy + One Heroine] “First, vampires don’t eat beef to begin with. It’s simply a matter of dietary preference.” “Second, let me reiterate: the more my enemies oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing. If even my enemies have no choice but to support me, that proves I’m doing the right thing beyond any doubt. And if my enemies, friends, and random bystanders all support me, that proves even more clearly that 3.6kReads8.9Score480Shelves
- 45 The Sun and the Stars 骄阳与星 My name is Chen Yang. Chen, as in striving to escape the dust of the world; Yang, as in turning toward the sun. As I struggled to break free from the ways of the world, I met the sun that drew me into it. My name is Cheng Xing. Cheng, as in a bright future; Xing, as in countless stars. As I toiled toward my future, I saw, amid the ordinary world, a star that shone for no one but itself. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 I’d Just Become an Unrivaled Expert When My Fiancée Came Knocking 刚苟成绝世强者，未婚妻却找上门 After transmigrating from Earth to the Xuanhuang Continent, Luo Qian spends ten years keeping a low profile and quietly building his strength, guided by the clear-eyed understanding that “the tallest tree in the forest is the first to be battered by the wind.” He grows step by step from an ordinary man with no cultivation to a Nascent Soul expert who has reached the ultimate realm three times. Though he has become an unparalleled powerhouse, he has no choice but to disguise himself in public as 9.5kReads8.2Score798Shelves
- 47 I Spoil My Wife, So What Are You Jealous Of? Don’t Like It? Fight Me One-on-One! 我宠妻你们眼红啥？不爽单挑啊！ He transmigrates into a world of martial spirits and activates the Wife-Spoiling System. As long as he dotes on his wife, he earns affection points. After saving up a year’s worth of contribution points to exchange for a peerlessly beautiful, gifted wife, the world gains a hopelessly devoted wife-spoiler who spends every day thinking of new ways to spoil her. He has plenty of iconic sayings, such as: “My wife takes care of looking beautiful, while I take care of the cooking and bills.” “Every da 227Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 48 The Ancestor Has Returned to the Ruins. Run While You Still Can! 老祖宗归墟了，抓紧时间跑路吧！ [Traditional fantasy][the Myriad Worlds][Comedy][Misunderstandings][No System] Qi Xiu is a loafer tucked away in a corner of the cultivation world. His greatest dream is to coast through life, eating his fill until he dies, and that's exactly what he does. Cultivating immortality is, after all, just a means to get food and live longer. There's no shame in being a little timid! But everything took a sudden turn after he met a black dragon... What? You're saying I'm the chosen one? What? You're sa 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Sword Rises in Liju Cave Heaven: My First Meeting With the Caged Sparrow 剑起骊珠洞天，初见笼中雀 188Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 50 The Lingering Dream of Chen Lou 陈楼遗梦 [Light horror + folk customs + suspense + puzzle-solving + adventure + mystery + fantasy + supernatural abilities] A treasured pear-blossom jade pendant and a long-sealed book called Records of the Blue Collar lead Jiang Yichen to Chenlou Village, a place shrouded in mist all year round. In the village stands an ancient well known as the Dragon-Locking Well, forbidden for generations. Something unknown seems to be sealed beneath it. Is the ancient Pear Blossom Festival a dance meant to soothe th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
