Novels like Devour and Evolve: Starting as a Snake to Guard China
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- 1 Primordial Chaos: From the Start, I Forge a Sacred Body with the Essence and Blood of Gods and Demons 洪荒之开局神魔精血铸混元圣体 Young Lin Xiao transmigrates to the Primordial World and is taken as a disciple by the embodiment of Pangu's will. He takes form from Pangu's spiritual embryo, while the blood essence of the three thousand Chaos Gods and Demons forges his Chaotic Great Encompassing Body. Hongjun: “Young Lin Xiao, your master and I are both Chaos Gods and Demons. You should call me Martial Uncle. Your status is equal to that of my personal disciples, making you a first-generation disciple of the Daoist sect.” Tai 67Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 2 Apocalypse: Rebuilding China After Seizing Everyone's Golden Fingers 末世：从收缴金手指开始重建华夏 Apocalypse + legions + vying for supremacy + building a career + confiscating golden fingers + ensemble cast + no female lead The apocalypse is a grand stage. If you have a life to spare, come on in. Your protagonist is pretty useful, but now he belongs to me! This book features lots of plaintiffs and one defendant. Don’t ask who the defendant is. Wait until I finish writing, and then we’ll hold court. 32Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Honghuang: Born from Human Remains, I Must Slay Taiqing 洪荒：人族尸骸诞生，当砍死太清 The human race was slaughtered by the demon race. Countless corpses piled into mountains, and blood stained the earth. At humanity’s most desperate moment, a blood-red pillar of light descended from the sky. As the pillar enveloped the mountains of corpses, a young man appeared within it. “My name is Jiang Chen. I was born from the corpses of the human race, and I shall protect humanity’s peace for all eternity. Whoever harms humanity shall die!” When Jiang Chen began slaughtering the demon race 6kReads7.6Score445Shelves
- 4 Honghuang: I Am the Demon God of Time! 洪荒：我为时间魔神！ [An invincible protagonist and a myriad-worlds adventure. I haven’t decided whether there’ll be a heroine yet!] The good news: I transmigrated! The bad news: This is the Chaos World! An ordinary soul transmigrates as the Time Demon God, one of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods. Should he accept his fate and die beneath the Pangu Axe, or defy destiny and transcend it? Wait, you don’t know about the Chaos Demon Gods? That won’t do. You have to know! What? You don’t want to know? No problem. I’ll 13.1kReads7.4Score798Shelves
- 5 God-Tier Choices: From the Start, I Cultivate with the Queen Mother of the West! 神级选择：开局与西王母双修！ From the start, he transmigrates as Dong Wangong, the first wisp of Yang energy in the Primordial World, and awakens a god-tier Choice System. Well-versed in the events of the Lich Calamity, he chooses to go into seclusion for countless years right from the start, fuse with the origin of the Yin-Yang Chaos Demon God, awaken the Twelve-Petal Three Flowers of the Great Principle, and forge a Chaos Demon God’s body. He wins the heart of the Queen Mother of the West from the very start! In this life 14.6kReads7.9Score1kShelves
- 6 Han Towers: The Immortal Dynasty of Glorious Han 汉阙炎汉仙朝 [Everyone is sharp-witted, and masters the Thirty-Six Stratagems. Liu Bang, Wang Mang, Liu Xiu, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang. An ensemble cast, passionate battles, cultivation, comedy, and a struggle for dynastic supremacy. The emperors of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang of the Heavenly Stems, and Cao Cao of the Earthly Branches: how will this group of remarkable figures from the Han Dynasty meet in the cultivation world? What kind of waves will they stir up, what hilarious mishaps will follow, an 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Villain Enters the Game Himself, Scheming Against Heaven, Earth, and All Living Beings 反派以身入局，谋天谋地谋众生 [Villain + System + high IQ + scheming + defies destiny + ruthless and decisive] Dongfang Wudao: “Si Hanyue, I saved you right here three years ago!” Si Hanyue: “Did I ask you to save me? Who told you to meddle?” Dongfang Wudao: “I turned your family from a nobody into a first-rate power. You didn't notice that?” Si Hanyue: “What, are you trying to guilt-trip me with that? Wasn't it your duty?” Dongfang Wudao: “You asked me for resources. Did I ever turn you down?” Si Hanyue: “You can't even han 3.7kReads8.5Score391Shelves
- 8 The 1960s: A Daily Blind Box and a Carefree Life 60年代：每日盲盒，悠闲生活 [Period + System + Countryside + Lighthearted + Family Bonds + Hunting + Inventions + Getting Rich] After awakening memories from a parallel timeline, he discovers that it's the 1960s, and there's no food or clothing! He originally plans to use his newly awakened memories to give his family a better life, but who could have guessed that the Daily Mystery Box System would bind itself to him! Day One: “Mystery box opened. Reward: 30 Shaxian-style braised duck legs!” Day Two: “Mystery box opened. R 1.1kReads8.3Score171Shelves
- 9 Great Ming: The Murderous Prince Scared Old Zhu Half to Death from the Start 大明：杀星皇子，开局吓疯老朱 After an accident, Zhu Su transmigrates to the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty and becomes Zhu Yuanzhang’s fifth son, Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou, the full brother of Zhu Di, Prince of Yan. He is bound to a rather troublesome System that grants rewards for exposing secrets. And so he starts doing all sorts of strange things! "Congratulations, Host, on exposing the love-hate affair between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu, the daughter of the wealthy Liu family of Fengyang" "Exposure successful! You have received 10.7kReads8.8Score410Shelves
- 10 Asura Sword God 修罗剑神 Born with a supreme divine meridian, the youth fell from grace into the mortal world because of his kind heart. His boundless resentment awakened the Divine Demon Token, granting him the legacy of the supreme overlord of the divine realm. His body was tempered with the true blood of the Ten Primordial Ferocious Beasts, and he rose to power against all odds! With a mortal body, he battles the gods and Buddhas who fill the heavens. He asks: how much are worldly bonds worth, and what is the truth o 21.1kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
- 11 Transformed into a Beautiful Girl, I Stun the Internet on a Dating Show 变身美少女，从恋综开始惊艳全网 [Girl Transformation + Daily Life + Showbiz, No Marriage, No Marriage, No Marriage!!!] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Mu Cheng became a stunningly beautiful girl. She had planned to live off her rental income and coast through life, but to her surprise, she received an invitation to join a dating show. She also accidentally activated a Heart-Throbbing Choice System. As long as she completed its choices, she would receive rewards from the System. And so… The world gained a girl wh 25.9kReads9.1Score4.3kShelves
- 12 EN Primal Chaos: Even the Three Pure Ones Must Call Me 'Second Uncle' 洪荒：三清也得乖乖叫我一声二叔 At the dawn of chaos, before Heaven and Earth had been formed. Before the Three Thousand Chaos Gods had ever appeared. Hong Yuan had already transmigrated here, and become Pangu's younger brother by the same mother. He also became the only being in all of chaos to survive. Faced with the primeval world transformed from his elder brother, Hong Yuan naturally upheld the fine tradition of a younger brother inheriting from his elder brother. Do you even know where the word “Hong” in “Honghuang” come 49.8kReads8.6Score5.1kShelves
- 13 Xuanhuan: From the Start, I Gain God's-Eye View 玄幻：开局获得上帝视角 He transmigrated into the world of the fantasy novel he had written and personally witnessed the protagonist being jilted? Li Ye was dumbfounded. Not only had he transmigrated, but he’d become the villain of the story? The heroine’s father had even decided to call off her engagement and throw his lot in with Li Ye, desperately trying to sell him on his precious daughter? Was Heaven playing a joke on him? No one knew the fate of this character better than he did! The more he laughed now, the hard 12.4kReads9.0Score950Shelves
- 14 The Eternal Demon Emperor! 万古魔帝！ [Villain + invincible domination + System + three emperors from one family + building a faction + ruthless decisiveness + ultimate power fantasy + the plot becomes legendary in the middle and later stages] Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world and binds himself to the Demon God System. As long as he keeps killing, he can quickly and easily increase his demonic cultivation and obtain all kinds of heavenly treasures! From there, he rises against all odds, founds the Heavenly Demon Cult, an 22.8kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
- 15 Livestream: One Song, "Tears of a Dancer," Leaves Dai Xiaomei Stunned 直播：一首舞女泪，唱懵呆小妹 [Livestreaming + outrageous antics + sign-in rewards + comedy + absurdity + female streamer + female entertainer] Jiang Yun unexpectedly obtains a livestream sign-in System. All he has to do is livestream to receive sign-in rewards! To rack up livestream hours and claim the System’s rewards, he decides to connect with other streamers. His first guest is the popular streamer Dai Xiaomei. Dai Xiaomei: “What talents do you have?” Jiang Yun: “I can sing.” Dai Xiaomei: “Let’s hear it.” Jiang Yun: “On 47.2kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 16 Villain: From the Start, Give the Child of Fortune Two Choices 反派：开局给气运之子两条路选择 [Destined villain + domineering + scheming + System + ruthless] Di Juetian transmigrated into the Divine Son of the Di family in the Immortal Realm. He had a noble status, like a true dragon from the highest heavens. He'd thought fate itself favored him, and that he would ascend to the heavens, crush all beneath him through the ages, and rule for eternity! Then the Destined Villain System successfully loaded, shattering Di Juetian's fantasies. At that moment, the fated heroine he'd raised like a 19kReads8.6Score1.8kShelves
- 17 The Ruins on Mars Are Revealed: The Thirteen Loyal Sons 火星遗迹曝光，忠烈十三子 In 2066, a scientific research base is completed on Mars, and researchers head to Mount Olympus to collect data. On the far side of the mountain, a dust-covered battlefield comes into view. The wreckage of shattered warships. Giant steel mechs. A massive head buried in the dust. And a familiar red flag, standing tall on a platform at the very center of the far side of the mountain. What kind of battle took place here? Blood had congealed into fortresses, shattered, then congealed once more! It w 15.4kReads9.5Score1.2kShelves
- 18 Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things Under Heaven 四合院：垂钓诸天万物 Lin Shaowen got drunk at a class reunion. After sleeping and waking up, he inexplicably arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming Lin Shaowen, an outstanding graduate of Beijing College of Chinese Medicine. He had just graduated from university and now faced a choice: should he become a promising full-time doctor at Union Hospital, or an obscure factory doctor at a steel mill? Without a second thought, Lin Shaowen chose to become a factory doctor. There was no helping it. Sending a 90.7kReads8.5Score2.5kShelves
- 19 Siheyuan: Seeing the Scheme Through to the End 四合院之将截胡进行到底 [Multiple female leads, not for everyone] [Protagonists from various TV dramas collide, each with their own protagonist aura] [Disinfecting with iodine while whipping] Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, People Are Like Iron, Glorious Times, The Great New Era, Golden Wedding, Hutong, The Qiao Family Children... In the Name of the People, Ordinary Years, The War Between Two Women] [System for stealing female leads, self-interest, do-gooders, stay away] [No original female leads, characters from other stori 199.3kReads9.0Score13.5kShelves
- 20 After Becoming the Villainess, the Princess Gives Up! 穿成恶毒女配后，公主她摆烂了！ [Short drama now streaming] [Showbiz + CEO + Secret Crush + Married First, Love Later + Face-Slapping Everyone + Sweet and Satisfying] Jiang Yue transmigrated into a book. She became the villainess in a CEO romance novel. In the original story, she did every evil thing imaginable: drugging the male lead, abusing her biological son, who would grow up to become the villain, bullying the female lead, whom everyone adored, and tormenting the male supporting characters, who would all go on to become 37.8kReads9.2Score3kShelves
- 21 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 957.1kReads9.6Score121.4kShelves
- 22 I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修，怎么是犯贱的贱 [Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b 106.6kReads9.5Score15.4kShelves
- 23 I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷 [Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn 129.5kReads9.5Score52.2kShelves
- 24 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 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 25 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves
- 26 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.3kShelves
