Novels like The 12-Hour Death Game
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- 151 Extreme Growth 极致生长 This is not AI-generated fiction! A special note: This is an extremely slow-burn story. The first two arcs focus mainly on the protagonist's growth and laying the groundwork for the plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel! Many readers who started with the third arc went back to read the first two. A naturally frail child from a mountain village, through his own efforts and various strokes of fate, gains the supernatural ability of the Five Elements Seal. After trying his hand at all kinds of 578Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 152 Yun Xi Has Cultivated for a Billion Years. So What If She's a Little Stronger? 云汐修仙亿年，强一点怎么了 She was a higher-dimensional being who came to Earth on a mission. But she discovered, by chance, that life had already emerged on this planet… As she hesitated, a dimensional strike came crashing down. It scattered her apart. The pure part became gods, the wicked part became demons, and the treacherous part became monsters… When a few unexpected visitors accidentally awakened her, she embarked on a journey to recover her memories. When her memories return, will she still stand with humanity? 4Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 153 Greenhide Overlord 绿皮霸主 [Epic Fantasy, Magic and Immortal Arts, Cyberpunk Sci-Fi, Epic-Length Saga, Immersive, Ensemble Cast, Slow-Paced] Deadwood Camp, a spore factory in the Greenskin world. The lowest of the low are goblins, whose lives are worth less than mushrooms. Bai Feng was one of them. When an orc overseer kicked him flying, everyone thought he was done for. Until he raised a bloodstained club and let out his first “Waaagh!” His muscles grew like crazy, his mind awakened, and a beast stirred within him. 698Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 154 Please Kill Me Before I Wither 请在我凋零前杀了我 A series of bloody cases unfolds around the struggles of three women from the lowest rungs of society. Poverty-stricken families are like a curse, twisting into a cold, terrifying chain that follows them like a shadow and weighs heavily on the whole family. Will fate offer them a key to break the code? Can Shu Yunyan, Chen Xuanlan, and Chen Jingyun break the chain that passes misfortune down through generations, find redemption, and escape the tragic paths laid out for them? “Officer Peng, this 40Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 155 A Dog Named Wang Meiju Can Actually Cultivate Immortality 一条名叫王美菊的狗竟然会修仙 An ensemble fantasy with an Eastern setting + high-concept, multi-threaded storytelling + a rejection of fate + unflinching tragedy + a war epic + moral dilemmas + weighty literary style + vivid imagery + intense emotional tension + multiple perspectives Beneath the Red Lotus is not a wish-fulfillment story. It has none of the play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger tricks, none of the overpowered hero’s unstoppable domination, and none of the harem-collecting fantasies. It is a war epic with “love” as it 720Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 156 Don't Move! I've Got Connections in the Underworld 别动！姐地府有人 The continuation of Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma: filling in the gaps from before, meeting the people who came afterward, and briefly recording the everyday happenings that followed. It also teaches a few simple things that you can put into practice. 745Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 157 Mary, Do You Know? 玛丽，你知道吗？ [Western fantasy + historical what-if + scientific superpowers + ensemble cast + serious drama] In the Victorian era, an Eastern girl is brought to Europe. She possesses the same “Trinity” abilities as the legendary “Mary”: mind-reading, control, and healing. Yet she does not believe in miracles. Instead, she uses science to explain supernatural powers, seeking to uncover the mystery of a contract hidden in her bloodline. Theodore, her gentle childhood friend, returns from war covered in scars, 78Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 158 The Shan Hai Ring 山海戒指 This is a mirror universe, with an Earth-like terrestrial planet called Earthstar. Its planetary system is known as the Xuanyang System, and the stretch of stars overhead is called the Milky Way, though the stars visible through a telescope are not the same ones. For billions of years, this universe has remained sealed off. Lin Qian’an, once a hopeless romantic, naively believed his first relationship was true love. After the breakup, he lost heart. His second relationship, begun on a whim, turn 173Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 159 The Murong Clan: A Legend of Yan 慕容世家之燕国传奇 Drawing on the historical legacy of the five Yan states of Former Yan, Later Yan, Western Yan, Southern Yan, and Northern Yan during the era of the Five Barbarians ravaging China, this epic tells the story of Murong Xuan, a descendant of the Yan people, and Lin Wanqing as they work together to promote peace and trade. The story begins in the northern deserts, where the two lead a Eurasian alliance to pacify the Hephthalite wars and break up an encirclement by Central Asian tribes. Throughout, th 47Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 160 I Didn't Have to Be Transmigrated to This Tang Dynasty 这个唐朝也不是非穿不可 After transmigrating: “King Qin, being a wise ruler is exhausting. Why not become a foolish king instead? Eat well, sleep well, have fun, do nothing, lie flat and slack off. It’s wonderfully relaxing. Pick up a girl now and then, listen to some music, go out for a meal, and have a drink or two. That’s the life.” “That’s not a bad idea. But what about the affairs of state?” “Easy! We’ll follow the teachings of Huang-Lao and rule through non-action.” “Wow, Eunuch Ha really is the chief eunuch of t 1.3kReads9.2Score103Shelves
- 161 Don’t Be Fooled: That Ditzy One Is the Strongest of Them All 别信，那个呆萌是战力天花板 [Two male leads + multiple secondary couples + passionate supernatural battles + brotherly bonds + powerful partners] “I once fell into the abyss, but because of you, I glimpsed the light of day.” Airheaded powerhouse with maxed-out combat ability (Bai Ye) x jealous, fiercely protective older man (Xuan Zhao) Bai Ye, 18, was a mercenary who died tragically in his previous life before transmigrating into the body of a gifted supernatural. His all-element abilities are stronger than his older br 3kReads9.4Score466Shelves
- 162 The Wind Rises in Jingdu, Awaiting the Coming Rain 荆都风来待雨临 Overnight, a young blacksmith from a shop in Shengang becomes the last surviving grandson of a powerful family of scholars, whose influence once reached the highest halls of government. A pigeon’s whistle marks the way home, and old books conceal a conspiracy. With a nameless sword in hand, carrying his grandfather’s hopes and his adoptive father’s instructions, he steps into the turbulent world of Jingdu. The Shanfu Academy, deep within the Imperial College, is no ordinary place of learning. It 105Reads8.7Score125Shelves
- 163 Please Stop Cursing Me, There'll Soon Be No One Left in the Industry! 求求你别骂了，圈内都快没人了！ [After the first hundred chapters, the story's ideas are unlike anything else online!] [No Female Lead, No Flirting, I Swear + Sharp Critiques and Debates + A Master of One-Liners + The Modern-Day Lu Xun, a Mentor of Ideas + Idealism, a Peerless Patriot + An Adult Fairy Tale + Guaranteed Writing Quality] Bad movies shoved in your face, pretty young actors' expressionless performances polluting your eyes: in his fury, Jiang Li unexpectedly awakens the “Public Enemy of the Internet System” and be 8kReads8.7Score523Shelves
- 164 Strange Tales: The Evil God Gets a New Job 诡谈：邪神再就业 [Horror + Twists + Foreshadowing: The Series Where Even the Righteous Gods Are Worshipped by Villains] The supernatural invaded, and Shi Fei received a mission invitation from a dead person. Horror, slaughter, and escape: everyone was fighting to survive. When the supernatural blocked his only way out, Shi Fei calmly tried to talk it down: “Move aside. Don’t make me stop being human.” The creature refused to surrender and launched an attack instead. So Shi Fei really did stop being human, turnin 47.8kReads9.4Score6.9kShelves
- 165 EN Villain: Master and Senior Sister, I Beg You 反派：师尊师姐求你们了 [Multiple heroines] [Humor] [Plenty of romance] [Sweet later on] [Inner thoughts] Lin Heng transmigrates into the book A Record of Beauties as a cannon-fodder villain. As long as he follows the proper villain or hero plotline and keeps his head down until the end, he can become an unrivaled powerhouse. But then the heroines somehow start hearing his inner thoughts. No matter how the story transitions between hero and villain arcs, he now risks being killed by the protagonist! [That airheaded mas 51.7kReads8.3Score4.7kShelves
- 166 The Spoiled Asura: The Heaven-Defying Goddess Is Irresistible 修罗娇宠：逆天神女太撩人 The short drama Nine Heavens Divine Realm: The Spirit Falls to the Mortal World is now available, with an extra-sweet bonus ending. [Multiple male leads + everyone is chaste + sweet romance and satisfying revenge + heroine stronger than the men + a harem-style love rivalry + over-the-top passion + 1vN happy ending] She was once the noble Goddess of the Spirit Clan, ruler of all living spirits, but the jealous Divine Empress framed her and forced her to leap from the God-Slaying Platform. She tho 399Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 167 EN The Halls of Power: A Nobody's Ambition 官场：一个小人物的野望 Starting as a grassroots police officer in 2005, he repeatedly cracks major cases. Amid the treacherous twists and turns of officialdom, he carves out a distinctive path to promotion. 132.2kReads9.5Score15.3kShelves
- 168 Great Qin: The Ruthless Chancellor, Whom the First Emperor Begs Not to Kill 大秦：最狠丞相，始皇求我别杀了 [Decisive and Ruthless + The Protagonist Is a Master Schemer + No Romance + Career-Focused Protagonist] After transmigrating into the Great Qin dynasty, Liu Bai rose straight to the position of Great Qin's Left Chancellor. From the start, he had seven thousand surrendered rebels buried alive. When he returned to Xianyang, everyone was sharpening their knives, ready to impeach the chancellor. Only then did they realize it was all just the beginning. “Your Majesty, Left Chancellor Liu Bai beat Zha 32.3kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves
- 169 Dragon Head 龙头 For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing. 27.2kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
- 170 EN The Great Emperors' Forbidden Zone: After My Master Died, I Went Mad 大帝禁区：师傅死后，我疯了 [At the end of the immortal path, who stands supreme? One glimpse of red hair, and the Dao is lost.] (Not a wish-fulfillment novel. A brain-teasing, increasingly captivating long story.) “My eldest senior brother is reborn. In his previous life, he was an ancient-era Great Emperor.” “My second senior brother transmigrated from another world, one where technology and shady shortcuts coexist.” “Our junior sister is the little princess of the Ji family, peerless in swordsmanship and unrivaled in ta 36.4kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves
- 171 EN Villain: The Female Lead Overhears My Inner Thoughts and Her Persona Crumbles 反派：女主偷听我心声人设崩了 Tang Yu transmigrates into the world of a modern power fantasy novel, where he becomes a rich, playboy villain. Every time he survives a story arc, he gets a reward! He decides to play it safe and keep his head down all the way to the ending! From the start, he calls off an arranged marriage to avoid being beaten to death by the Dragon King! But unexpectedly, everyone is acting around him, determined to make him draw their hatred. Su Muyue: “You want to break off the engagement? No, you don't.” 78.8kReads9.4Score7kShelves
- 172 The Cicada Project 蝉计划 [Spiritual qi revival + crafty schemer + comedy + meme references + one heroine] As spiritual qi revived, Jiang Bai unexpectedly arrived in the age of the fifth mysterious tide. Everything he knew had faded with the passage of time. The world had been utterly transformed, familiar places and people were gone, and the career he had once fought for had turned to dust. The past was beyond recall. In this chaotic, dark age, order had long since collapsed, civilization was no more, and the shadow of 68.3kReads9.3Score7kShelves
- 173 Five Years of Waiting Came to Nothing: My Husband Brings His New Love to Demand a Divorce 五年痴等成空，夫君带女逼我和离 [Both Chaste] [Romance with His Older Brother's Wife] [Male-Male Story] [The Male Lead is repeatedly seen completely naked but stays faithful. Later, what looks like infidelity is actually a guard in disguise; the male lead remains devoted to the female lead throughout.] [Dear readers, we're very sorry! When you reach Chapter 139, please skip straight to Chapter 146. Chapters 140 to 145 are inconsistent and can be ignored.] On their wedding night, unrest broke out at the border, and her husband 5.8kReads9.3Score434Shelves
- 174 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 (The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w 349.6kReads9.5Score70.9kShelves
- 175 When the Uncanny Descends on the World, Death Is the End 当诡异降临世界，死亡即是终点 [Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa 394.7kReads9.3Score44.1kShelves
- 176 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.6kShelves
- 177 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 113kReads9.5Score12.3kShelves
- 178 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 179 EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8kShelves
- 180 EN Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场 (A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for 123.7kReads9.7Score17.5kShelves
- 181 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
- 182 EN City of Beasts 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 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6kShelves
- 183 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 184 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
