Novels like I Write Bestsellers in the Underworld
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- 1 A Billion Death Warriors: I Conquer the Myriad Worlds 亿万死士：我横推诸天万界 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Chen awakens the Infinite Dead Soldier Summoning System! One soldier per second, with no upper limit. Billions can be raised into an army in an instant! Hunger, exhaustion, pain, curses... He can dump every negative effect onto his dead soldiers! A dead soldier falls in battle? They return at full strength after 24 hours, and the ranks never shrink! A lethal attack? He can have a soldier take his place and be reborn. The protagonist is immortal! With 401Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Selling Out Song Jiang from the Start: Outsmarting Ximen Qing's Family Fortune 水浒开局卖宋江，智谋西门庆家产 🔥 Black-on-black? No! It’s the Blackwind Emperor’s double conquest! Athlete Li Xiao transmigrates into Li Kui and, from the start, sells Song Jiang into a death-row cell. Then he grabs Ximen Qing by his most vulnerable spot: “Give me seventy percent of your wealth, and I’ll restore your virility. Deal?” A secret formula for kidney tonic drains the Ximen empire dry, while he turns Pan Jinlian into a deadly weapon at his side. As the fake-death drug is brought to Ximen Qing’s lips, he grips the b 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Mount & Blade: Water Margin: From Twin-Tailed Scorpion to Peerless War God 骑砍水浒：从双尾蝎到无双战神 Transmigrate as a Death Row Inmate? A Bloodbath in Dengzhou from the Start! The System Forces Me to Borrow Against My Life to Recruit Underlings! Xie Bao, a community doctor, is zapped into the hell of Water Margin by a shoddy computer. He wakes up as a death row inmate in Dengzhou, shackled and with his brother Xie Zhen lying nearby, on the brink of death! In this desperate situation, the [Mount & Blade Overlord System] activates by force, only to pull a ridiculous stunt right out of the gate 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Minecraft: Farming in Peace and Conquering Other Worlds 我的世界：为了安稳种田横扫异界 A peace-loving rabbit transmigrates to a Western fantasy world with Minecraft and a homemade Mount & Blade-style mod, and begins his peaceful life of farming. As for what happens if you refuse to give me land to farm: I'll plant you in the ground first, Qin Ming says... Opening up new land... Open it up! Can a farmer's work really count as a fight? Then came one hard-to-swallow remark after another, things like “bury them all” and “burn it all down,” making the soldiers burst out laughing. The t 960Reads8.6Score10114d adds
- 5 Every One of My Maids Has a Golden Finger 我的侍女人手一个金手指 Meng Jinghong has been transmigrated into the Great Wilderness Dynasty for eighteen years. He had an unbelievably fortunate start: as the only legitimate son of a marquis, the highest rank among the twenty noble grades, his biggest daily worries were what to eat later and where to go tomorrow. Just as he’d always thought he’d transmigrated into an ordinary ancient dynasty, his System awakened. [Ping! Congratulations on surviving for eighteen years in the perilous world of cultivation. You have a 133Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 6 I Transmigrated with a Recruitment System 穿越我有招兵系统 Modern-day Ye Qing transmigrates to the Great Sheng Dynasty with a Summoning System. He uses points to summon soldiers and recruit martial arts experts to his cause, builds warships, and assembles a navy. At Black Shark Island, he breaks through the pirates’ defenses in a naval bombardment. Armed with evidence of corrupt officials colluding with the pirates, he builds his power on the sea and carefully advances through warfare and political intrigue toward the pinnacle of power. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Fantasy Three Kingdoms: My White Horse Dao Soldiers, Three Thousand to Suppress Ten Thousand Daos 玄幻三国：我的白马道兵，三千镇万道 Fantasy Three Kingdoms: My White Horse Dao Soldiers, Three Thousand Strong, Can Suppress Ten Thousand Dao 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Gates of Hell: A Journey to Another World 地狱之门：异世界征途 #NoFemaleLead #NoHarem ##War ##Organization ##Conquest ##Hardcore ##Governance A soul from another world arrives here, carrying the generation menu from the game Gates of Hell and a longing for Conquest Mode. He sets off a war in this otherworld and establishes the Rhine Federation. “From this day forward, Rocktown is under full wartime mobilization!” “We will begin a total wartime mobilization! All work will give way to the war, all resources will serve the war, and everyone will fight to defen 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 North America: I Can Raise Infinite Troops, From Cannon Fodder to American Emperor 北美：我无限爆兵，从炮灰到美帝 [High martial arts + urban setting + North America + an endless army of loyal soldiers + political intrigue + high-octane thrills + building a faction + growth and development] After transmigrating to North America during the spiritual qi revival, Lin Xiangyang has his family fortune stolen and is thrown into a barracks to die. Then his golden finger awakens, allowing him to summon loyal soldiers. [Recruit → company commander → battalion commander → regimental commander → governor... → president —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Disciples of the Windbell Moonshadow Sect, Present! 风铃月影宗弟子参上 No memes, alternate history, plenty of demon-like creatures and other nonhuman races. Wang Lei, a transmigrator, arrives in the war-torn Youzhou of the Great Zhou dynasty with the Mount & Blade System. Faced with drought-stricken lands stretching for thousands of miles, rebels rising in droves, and warlords occupying strategic passes, he can summon tons of provisions from thin air with a wave of his hand and blast open city gates with the thunder of 185mm cannons! Cavalry charges across the lan 235Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 11 Wind Chimes and Moonlight Over Tianyuan 风铃月影照天元 A slow-burn story, a fully realized alternate world, the end of a dynasty, foreign invasions, and fighting back against the invaders. Note: This is not a mindless power fantasy. The protagonist starts out as an ordinary wage slave with cheats, not some cruel landlord or cunning old fox. He has to grow stronger little by little. Shen Lang arrives in the northeastern wilderness at the end of the Tianyuan Dynasty, carrying the “Wind Spirit Moon Shadow” System. Invincible, with an infinite inventory 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Ling Cage: A Random Barracks from the Start 灵笼：开局一座随机兵营 Also known as Spirit Cage: A Random Barracks from the Start Also known as My Barracks Produce Soldiers Every Day, Starting from the Apocalypse ~ [System + ensemble cast + Warhammer Fantasy races / 40K Space Marine chapters / warbands + Necrons + Tyranids + Aeldari + T'au + Sisters of Battle + Astra Militarum + Titan Legions + Knight Houses + StarCraft + Red Alert + Overwatch + Yu-Gi-Oh! + Halo + Transformers + super robots + Girls' Frontline + Punishing: Gray Raven + Titans + Righteous Red Lions 2.5kReads6.9Score19414d adds
- 13 Between a Single Thought of Demon and Buddha 魔佛一念间 Ling Chen suffered endless humiliation within his sect, until a spirit monkey from the back mountain, the Heaven-Splitting War Venerable, saved him. The Buddhist Realm called him a demon and slaughtered his entire village. Ling Chen crossed countless deadly trials before finally understanding his true nature and the Great Dao. He asks not whether something is righteous or evil, but whether it is right or wrong. He seeks no mandate from heaven, only his own path. The road of defying convention is 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Tales from the Borderlands: All My Relatives Are Ruthless Bandits 边水往事，我家亲戚都是悍匪 Jiang Wang opened his eyes and found himself in the story of The Longest Day in Chang'an? No, a closer look told him this was the original setting! And not just any setting, but the borderlands, at the most lawless time in the Golden Triangle: the early 2000s. There was no order in this era, only bloody cruelty in the forests and stacks of cash. It was a wild gold-rush age, full of outlaws. River-crossing dragons, mountain-tunneling tigers, gunshots ringing without end. When I have a gun, you c 18.9kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 15 Republican Era: The Last of the Jianghu 民国：最后的江湖 From an outlaw to a high-ranking general in the Republic of China, then into the War of Resistance against Japan, he walks the loneliest path of all. He seeks no place in the history books, only for the land and rivers to bear witness: on this black soil, there will always be those who refuse to kneel! (Xiang Bei, formerly known by the pen name Lao Zei) 32.5kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 16 No Three Kingdoms After the Han 汉后无三国 Liu Xia transmigrates to the end of the Han dynasty, but refuses to become emperor or king. With fifty cavalrymen, he slaughters five thousand Xiongnu. Beneath Xiapi, one strike of his halberd leaves Lu Bu crippled. He casually tosses aside the Imperial Jade Seal: "Just a broken stone. Can it put food on the people's tables?" His motto is: "Whoever dares threaten our mighty Han, no matter how far away, must be destroyed!" "The people are the true masters of the Han. The Son of Heaven is just the 10.6kReads9.4Score86514d adds
- 17 The Skeleton Lord's Growth Journal 骷髅领主的成长日记 I unexpectedly transmigrated to another world. Others became immortals or Buddhas, while even the less fortunate got to rise from being nobodies. But when Gu Erdan got here, he realized he had nothing to look forward to. Because this guy had become a skeleton soldier! And not just any skeleton soldier, but a low-grade, headless, battle-damaged wreck of one! Life is hard, so the skeleton sighed. Looking at his body, without an ounce of flesh on it, Gu Erdan decided he would show everyone how to m 3.6kReads9.1Score46114d adds
- 18 Farming: From Sect Tenant Farmer to Supreme Across the Myriad Worlds 种田：从宗门佃户到万界独尊 [Farming] + [Ensemble cast] + [Lord] + [Conquest] + [System] + [Satisfying wish fulfillment] Zhang Guiyuan transmigrates to a parallel world at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, where he becomes a tenant farmer growing spiritual plants for a sect. He awakens the strongest Lord System and obtains an unparalleled book: Postpartum Care for Sows He settles into a fine life of farming, raising pigs, and teasing his wicked sword cultivator little sister. But then a calamity that comes once every tho 3.2kReads5.7Score18714d adds
- 19 War System in the Apocalypse 战争系统在末世 I Became the Commander-in-Chief in the Apocalypse Apocalypse + raising a massive army + hard-core stats + characters with brains Just as the apocalypse arrives, Gu Chengyuan obtains the War System and starts raising a massive army, sweeping through the apocalypse with an unstoppable tide of steel! The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story. 66kReads9.0Score4.1k14d adds
- 20 Deity: Starsea Swarm 神祗：星海虫群 [Worked to death by overtime] [Grind until your liver gives out] [King of the rat race] [Wild-imagination fantasy] [Profit above all] [Keep a low profile] [Insectoid] [No System] Han Fei transmigrates to an interstellar society where everyone has a chance to become a god. Those who set foot on the path to godhood all aim to raise their divine kingdoms high and enter the real world to gain immortality. Han Fei figures that with his divine trait, Gene Modification, and his followers' talent, Gene 38.6kReads9.3Score4k14d adds
- 21 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score13514d adds
- 22 The Movie Emperor Keeps Trying to Make a Move on Me 影帝他总想对我图谋不轨 Shen Yi, stage name Wei Long, was an actor of superstar caliber who took the world by storm in the 1970s. But after he disappeared one day, he vanished from history without a trace, as if he had never existed. One day, Rong Qian spotted a photo of herself with Shen Yi, taken more than thirty years ago... This incredible discovery sent her on journey after journey through time, transmigrating into the past to save him! For Rong Qian, only a few days passed between each trip to the past. But for S 35.6kReads9.7Score5.6k14d adds
- 23 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 24 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
- 25 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 26 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
