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- 1 Help! My Students Want to Kill Me Every Day! 救命！学生天天都想刀我！ Roland accidentally transmigrates into a game world, where he becomes the new professor of the Assassin Department at the Royal Academy of Aelazea, a high-grade consumable about to be sent to the slaughterhouse. To make matters worse, before transmigrating, he had chosen Hell Mode. And worse still, assassinating professors is legal in the Assassin Department, and every student is absurdly strong. To stay alive, this weakling disguises himself as a cold and powerful figure, fighting desperately t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Death Rewind: The Retro Handheld That Saves Your Lives! 死亡回档：复古掌机能存档轮回！ [Handmade All the Way] [Death Rewind] [References and Memes] [Chinese Dreamcore] [Time Travel] [Mild Horror] In his parents' room, Lin Yu finds a knockoff game console bearing the words "Little Turtle." Death! Save! Loop! Amnesia! With every save-and-reload cycle, Lin Yu gains the abilities of the game cartridges, while accidentally getting drawn into an even deeper mystery. All he has is the knockoff console marked "Little Turtle" and a digital camera that can't even take a clear picture. This 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Death Rewind: I'll Wipe Every Vengeful Ghost from the World 死亡回档：我要荡尽世间一切厉鬼 My name is Ye Xiu. By the time you read this, I will already be dead. Yesterday, I swallowed an entire sheet of cephalosporin pills and downed half a dozen beers. I should be dead already. But this morning, I woke up again. Time had returned to before my suicide attempt. In the room lay another version of me, a knife buried in his chest. He grabbed me and screamed with pitch-black eyes: "Hurry up and kill yourself!" "Don't go to that place! It's full of ghosts!" "I barely managed to esc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Walk Toward the End in Reincarnation 我在轮回中走向终焉 (Transmigration, another world, no System, death and reincarnation. No heroine, one heroine, or multiple heroines: different choices after each reincarnation lead to different endings.) After being out of business for a long time, the truck driver finally came for Xie Yuechuan. This is a world of magic. Its technology is at the level of the nineteenth-century steam age. And this world is gradually nearing its end! When he opens his eyes again, the town where the protagonist lives is about to fac —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Three-Day Judge: From the Start, I Arrest the Creator God 三日判官：开局逮捕创世神 I, Detective Liu Xiao, am trapped in a death loop. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: the same three days repeating over and over. With the memories I’ve accumulated through countless loops, I’ve become the precinct’s “psychic detective,” seemingly able to predict the future. I thought Heaven had granted me a chance to punish the wicked and uphold justice. Then I received an anonymous text: “Having fun?” Only then did I realize that this loop was a carefully orchestrated conspiracy, and that to the ma 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Death Rewind: Welcome to the Observer's Cage 死亡回档：欢迎来到观测者牢笼 Don’t read this. It’s badly written, and it’s been discontinued. The author was just going crazy. Don’t read it!!! [Infinite Flow + Live Streaming + Death Regression + Pain Aversion + No Female Lead + No Romance + Later Audience Misinterpretations] [Feel free to skip the beginner dungeon. I don’t want to write a plot where a newcomer makes a scene and insists on going out to stir up trouble. Start at the Deep-Sea Laboratory.] Because his sense of pain is far more acute than an ordinary person’s 961Reads—Score114Shelves
- 7 Thriller Game: I Became a Legend with the Help of Save Scumming 惊悚游戏：我靠回档被观众封神 [Infinite Flow + Death Regression + Live Survival + Partial Delusions + No Romance] Jiang Xia accidentally transmigrated into a world invaded by survival games. He even discovered that he had the ability to rewind time upon death, and used it to escape danger again and again. After clearing an instance thanks to his regression ability, he was mistaken by people in the real world for a top-tier expert! “I never would have guessed that was how you cleared it. How did Jiang Xia figure it out?” “Tha 2.9kReads8.1Score281Shelves
- 8 Everyone Thinks I'm a God: I'm Almost Being Worshipped as One 全员迪化：我都快被当成神了 After transmigrating to the end of the Han Dynasty, Chen Mo, courtesy name Chenzhizhi, becomes a lowly clerk in a small county town. He has only one wish: Keep his head down and stay alive. To achieve this thoroughly unremarkable goal, he develops his own rules for surviving in chaotic times: [Avoiding risk comes first, avoiding entanglements second, making money quietly third. Staying alive is the only principle, always.] He will never put himself in any danger that could cost him his head, eve 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Your Majesty! The Empress Is Rewinding Time Again and Again 陛下！娘娘她又又又在读档 [Save-scumming + transmigration + System + lighthearted daily life + palace intrigue] Important warning: the male lead is not a virgin! Not a virgin! Not a virgin! Bad news: Yan Yunge, a game-resetting fanatic, wakes up in the body of a palace candidate in a fictional dynasty. Worse news: Yan Yunge has a palace-intrigue System, and her mission from the start is to enter the palace as a consort. Yan Yunge: Before she can unleash a thousand curses, Yan Yunge discovers some good news: she can r 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Speedrunning Creepy Instances, Starting with a Save-Point Reset 从回档开始的诡异副本速通 [Regression + Misunderstandings + Livestreaming + Infinite Flow] [No Romance] [Chat Comments] The lairs descended, and the world’s death dungeons opened. Gu Yan slowly awoke to find himself in a strange apartment… With death closing in, the ability to regress suddenly appeared. Die. Revive. Conquer the dungeon. He cleared each dungeon flawlessly, time and again, leaving the world utterly astounded. He stood at the pinnacle of all players, worshipped by everyone. “It’s him again! This time, it on 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Don't Worship Me, I'm Really Not Your Ancestor! 别拜我，我真不是你们老祖啊！ [Misunderstandings and Wild Speculation] [No System] [Lighthearted Cultivation] After transmigrating to a cultivation world, he becomes an ordinary monk sweeping the Buddhist temple's scripture repository. He was just an utterly insignificant nobody, until he scares a Demon Venerable to death when the latter comes knocking. From that moment on, his fame skyrockets, and everyone imagines him to be an ancient grandmaster with supreme divine powers. “I just dozed off. How did three thousand years p 412Reads—Score114Shelves
- 12 Infinite: After Rewinding, I Became a Legend in the Game 无限：回档后，我在游戏中封神 [Game instances + death rewind + mistaken assumptions about the protagonist’s greatness + second personality + possible narcissism] After dying, Liu Qingshu is dragged into an infinite escape game. From the start, he awakens the [Death Rewind] talent skill. Skill effect: Die enough times, and you can clear the game in a single life! While countless players struggle to survive in the game instances, Liu Qingshu already knows where the way out is. The viewers can’t help but exclaim: He’s definitel 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Paranormal Descends? I Can Rewind Infinitely and Slaughter the Whole World! 诡异降临？我无限回档，杀穿全世界！ A bizarre apocalypse has arrived, with evil ghosts running rampant and the world transformed into a terrifying living hell! As countless people struggle to survive in this strange apocalypse, Lu An, who has transmigrated here, awakens a System. But because the previous owner of his body had such terrible grades, Lu An’s homeroom teacher strips him of the right to enter dungeons, and the System is about to erase him! To stay alive, Lu An makes a bet with his teacher and enters a bizarre dungeon, 1.5kReads—Score1.3kShelves
- 14 Save-Scumming for Survival: Please Stop Reading So Much into Everything 回档求生：求求你们别再脑补了 [Infinite Flow + Death Rewinds + Livestream Misinterpretations + Everyone's Wild Speculation + Hilarious Power Fantasy] Lu Fan transmigrated into [The Endgame] and discovered that he could save his progress. He only wanted to keep his head down and survive, but his teammates and viewers were all wild speculators, and they forced him onto a pedestal! He was so scared that he collapsed on the ground and pretended to be dead. Teammate: “Oh my god! He used a shifted center of gravity to brake at th 2.6kReads6.5Score335Shelves
- 15 Fourteen Days Until the Male Lead Dies 距离男主死亡还有14天 This train is traveling through the Forest of Eternal Mist, bound for Fusheng Village. In Car Seven, seat 08A, sits Siming, a recent college graduate. A baby cries in the next seat. A train attendant accidentally falls and spills coffee on Siming's jeans. Outside the window, a bird flies headlong into the glass and dies... After a series of mishaps, the train derails. The entire steel train becomes a blazing inferno and hurtles into the forest depths of the Forest of Eternal Mist... After the se 253Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 16 Huh? I'm a Big Shot with a Heavenly Background? 啊？我是背景通天的大佬？ A new work is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read my story. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 45.4kReads8.4Score2.8kShelves
- 17 After 999 Resets, I'm the Real Monster 回档999次，我才是真正的怪物 [Monsters] [Horror] [Time Rewinds] [Multiple Systems] [Highly Intelligent Villain] [Snark] [Plot Twists] Happiness City, a city full of monsters from the underworld. “Happiness City, bringing happiness to everyone!” “Welcome to Happiness City.” If you don't like a slow start, begin with Chapter Five. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Infinite Save Scumming: You Bitch, I’m Going to Kill You 无限回档，贱人我要杀了你 [Mystery and horror + infinite retries + twists upon twists + the paranormal returns + tragic fated love] Xue Wen woke up one morning to find that a beautiful, gentle wife had appeared out of nowhere. But that sweet domestic life was a deadly trap. Just as he began to fall for her, the woman beside him devoured him alive! From then on, he unlocked endless respawns after death. Every time he died horribly, he returned to the moment he woke up. After 108 loops, each ending in a gruesome death and 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Rewind and Cultivate Immortality: From the Start, I Have a Diary That Lies 回档修仙：开局一本会说谎的日记 [Regression + No Harem + No Heroine + No Clichés + No System + Not Invincible, Read at Your Own Risk] “Your name is Bai Chen. By the time you read this, you will have lost all your memories of this place.” “From now on, believe every word in this diary. That’s the only way to avoid dying.” Bai Chen has suffered from memory loss since childhood. After transmigrating to the Great Jing Dynasty, he obtains a diary that can record the past and predict the future. The first time, he is poisone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 System, I'm a Fake Genius, and After Just Three Days I Have to Save the World 系统我伪人才三天就要拯救世界 Two male leads + delusions of grandeur + dungeons + beautiful but tragic characters + System A dignified kitty who says one thing but means another × an affectionate, clingy, dog-like leopard who knows just how to lead him on 01 is a System, but it’s dying. Yet somehow, fate has other plans, so it transmigrates. When it opens its eyes, it’s face to face with another System, blue screen to blue screen, data to data. “Hello, 01.” “I’m your System. Just call me 88.” 01: ...Huh? Stealing my line? Th 580Reads8.1Score108Shelves
- 21 Eerie Revival: I Can Rewind Time Without Limit 诡异复苏：我无限回档 [Eerie]+ [Infinite retries]+ [No female lead]+ [Smart protagonist] Eerie forces returned, tainting their surroundings. Many people, knowingly or not, were drawn into them and became “players.” Players had to follow the rules of each game and clear it to survive. Otherwise, they would die. The Eerie killing rules were obscure and complex, and could even change in real time depending on the circumstances. The only way players could fight back against the Eerie was with rule crystals, which could e 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 They Think I'm Invincible, But I Really Am 他们脑补我无敌，其实我真是 [Dual male leads + light comedy + a touch of delusional scheming + Western fantasy nonhumans + power fantasy + system] Huo Zhe was tricked by a pirated System into jumping off a building. He thought he was about to reach the pinnacle of life, but when he opened his eyes, he had fallen into a Gothic world where monsters and humans lived side by side! Even worse, it seemed he'd taken over the body of some mysterious big shot. From then on, he had to live a precarious life, hiding behind the face o 238Reads8.7Score108Shelves
- 23 Death Rewind: Struggling to Survive in a Death Game 死亡回档：我在死亡游戏艰难求生 (Original dungeons) (No mindless characters) (No invincible protagonist) (No female lead) A playground for gods, a cradle for desperate souls. After dying, nineteen-year-old Song Ming transmigrated into the body of a boy with the same name. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was thrown into a death game. The [Death Rewind] talent he gained seemed like the perfect way to stay alive, but every mission pushed survival to its limits. His very first mission almost became his last. 474Reads8.1Score113Shelves
- 24 Time-Loop Escape: You Got It Wrong, I'm Really Not a God 回档逃亡：误会了，我真不是神啊 [Infinite Flow + Death Rewinds + Livestreaming + Partial Misinterpretation + Death] [Contains lots of chat comments] By his seventh death, Lin Shen had grown numb... Meanwhile, in the real world's livestream chat, viewers were going wild. “What the hell is going on with this guy? He just got into the dungeon and went to sleep?” “Come on, guys, let's go watch my bro take on the dungeon!” But when Lin Shen kept rewinding time and cleared the dungeon on his third, fourth, and fifth attempts, the co 752Reads6.1Score101Shelves
- 25 They Worship the Gods in the Infinite World 他们在无限世界供奉神明 (The rating is a little low since it just came out.) (I said I’d revise the novel, and I’d planned to do it after finishing, but once the completed tag was added, I wasn’t allowed to make changes anymore. Sorry, everyone.) [Two Male Leads] [Infinite Flow] [Misinterpretation Trope] [Overactive Imagination] [Power Couple] [Mutual Devotion, 1v1] (Also known as: The Unhinged Male Lead Always Thinks I Want to Die) As a cannon-fodder character, Feng Ranmo transmigrates into a book and is immediately g 2.5kReads8.0Score319Shelves
- 26 Save-Scumming Survival: I’m Really Not Some Big Shot 回档求生：我真不是大神啊 [Livestream] [death resets] [no romance] When the “Salvation Game” becomes humanity's last hope! While every player struggles to survive, Chen Fan commands the power of “reset” from the start, turning death into a stairway to godhood! When the whole world goes wild over his one-minute dungeon clears, they don't know that behind that one minute lies a path paved with six of Chen Fan's lives. “The dungeons you see as hell are nothing more than a backyard where I save my home.” “One day, I will 525Reads6.9Score103Shelves
- 27 Saving the World? Who Says You Have to Be Sane? 救世嘛，哪有脑子正常的 [Infinite-world adventure + multiple instances + wild mechanics + unconventional world-saving + occasional delusions of grandeur] “If you were given the chance to save the world, would you take action?” Qi Ming was a modern rich kid who had just graduated and whose emotional threshold had long since broken down. Looking at his phone, he tapped “Agree” with the simple thought: “Might as well. It’s not like I have anything else to do.” Then he opened his eyes to a disastrous start from the very be 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The World Rewinds: Save Earth in 36 Hours 世界回档，36小时拯救地球 Zheng Jiu died when a falling electric fan struck him during a club rehearsal, then was reborn. Thinking it was a precognitive dream, he dodged the fan and made it through the day unscathed. The next night, during the school’s apocalypse-themed performance, at 11:59 p.m., a meteorite struck Earth. He was reborn again. At last, he understood: This wasn’t precognition. It was a death-triggered time rewind. It wasn’t an accident. It was the precise annihilation of the world! He had only 36 hours le 705Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Stop Overthinking! I’m Just a Forced-to-be-Cold-Hearted Big Villain 别脑补！我只是被迫冷脸的大反派 (Just rated) [Misunderstandings + Everyone’s Darling + No Romance + Livestreaming + Horror Game + Overpowered] Chu Yu may look like he’s smiling with a knife behind his back, speak sweetly while hiding malice, and be ruthless and cruel, but he’s a good person. Ever since he got saddled with a useless System, he’s been straying farther and farther down the path to becoming a world-ending villain. Whenever he smiles, everyone from his closest friends to villains big and small ends up bleeding! 819Reads8.0Score110Shelves
- 30 Why Does Everyone Think I'm Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic?! 为什么都把我想成美强惨啊？！ [Dehua-style misunderstandings + unconventional Infinite Flow + lighthearted comedy] Gu Shi is accidentally killed in a car crash. Because System 1020 thinks of the tragic protagonist in the novel Everyone Misses Me After I Die, which it has read twice, Gu Shi gets a new lease on life! He thought he’d thrive with the System’s cheat abilities. But in reality, the unreliable System gave him 70 fewer life points than it was supposed to. Faced with a terrifying world that’s completely unfamiliar, Gu 302Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Oh No, I've Become the Mastermind! 完蛋，我成幕后大佬了！ [Supernatural + System + delusional takes on a tragic, powerful beauty + slight harem vibes] When Shen Jiang woke up, he discovered that some useless System had brought him into the world of a novel. A mission? There wasn’t one. According to 02, it was just a plot System. Just as Shen Jiang thought he could slack off, wait for the plot to finish, and then go home, 02 shakily opened the original novel. Shen Jiang: This world has ghosts? The boy before him had snow-white hair and a pair of amber 287Reads8.7Score112Shelves
- 32 How I Was Reborn as a Luck-Based Assassin 关于我重生成为运气流杀手这件事 Tang Ze is reborn on an island nation, only to become a low-ranking hitman. His first job: assassinate a small-time gang leader who fled with the money. The next morning's news: “According to eyewitnesses, the victim ran a red light and collided with a dump truck. The entire vehicle was destroyed...” Tang Ze: ? His second job: assassinate a wealthy tycoon's mistress who is up to no good. The next morning's news: “The woman had an accident while mountain climbing. Police found her body at the foo 19Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 33 The Eerie World Descends: I Hold the Power to Rewind and Be Reborn Infinitely 诡异降世，我手握回档无限重生 [High Martial Arts + Supernatural Powers + Eerie + Infinite Rebirth + No Romance + Government + Ensemble Cast + No System] What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger. The Eerie descended upon the world, and Wen Lin was inexplicably dragged into a revenge plot by the Eerie. His once-friendly neighbors crumbled to dust. Rising from underground, they unleashed their fury on the human world. And Wen Lin… was just an unlucky high school sophomore who happened to be passing by. “Damn it, golden finge 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Death Rewind: I’m Really Not a Big Shot 死亡回档：我真不是大佬啊 [Rules-based horror + semi-misinterpretation comedy + death rewind + infinite-flow + no romance + survival horror + lots of bullet comments + urban supernatural powers + instances + suspense] Xie Yi died for reasons unknown and transmigrated to Blue Star, a world much like Earth. Blue Star had long since been overrun by supernatural horrors. When he transmigrated, he entered the body of a person with the same name who had been selected by a horror after falling into a pit on the way to buy medic 9.3kReads8.6Score764Shelves
- 35 Infinite Rewinds: They All Think I'm a Prophet 无限回档：他们都以为我是预言家 The rating has only just been posted. It’ll go up later. [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Horror] [Live Streaming] [Time Rewind] [Fake Prophet] [Destiny] A horror game descends upon Earth, turning the entire world into an inferno. Yi Yubai is unlucky enough to be chosen for the game. Unluckier still, thanks to a System allocation error, she dies right from the start. But fortunately, she gains an SSS-rank ability: Infinite Rewind. From then on, she becomes the mysterious [Prophet] in everyone’ 11.7kReads8.4Score2kShelves
- 36 Infinite Replays in the Trial Run: Now Clear It in One Life 试玩无限重开，接下来请一命通关 (The rating just came out, so it'll rise later!) [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Romance + No Cheats + Not a Feel-Good Story + Smart Characters] One night, the police station received a phone call. A man named Chen Mo turned himself in. He had murdered all four members of his family, and even killed the family dog. During repeated interrogations, Chen Mo remained completely calm. “Officer, I'll say it again.” “I didn't kill people. I killed... a bunch of ghosts.” After dying and rewinding ti 309Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 37 Surviving the Hypercube: I Can Reload Infinitely 超立方体求生：我能无限回档 Adventures and mysteries unfold across the heavens, with plenty of exploration and plot twists. [Immortality] [The Myriad Worlds] Eighty percent of the global population transmigrates at the same time. Across the endless Myriad Worlds, they must survive by taking on different roles. In the first world, Bai Yifan unexpectedly gains the ability to rewind time. From then on, his life is “filled with determination”! Hunted by assassins sent by a Fortune 500 company, he manages to bring down his foes 79Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 38 In the Horror Game, I Refuse to Share the Same Sky with That Overthinker 惊悚游戏我与脑补侠不共戴天 If you like speed-reading, you can skip straight to the main story of Volume Two. (No CP + a little character misinterpretation + mild horror + a disguised tragic beauty + third-person narration + protagonist’s own efforts + a little angst + slow burn + ensemble cast focus early on) I transmigrated into the horror novel I’d just been reading and got bound to the defective System 0443. “Appearance Modification” makes me get injured at any moment, while “Affection Check” is always delayed. Inside 797Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 39 An Ordinary Office Drone Transmigrates and Gets Mistaken for a Tragic Beauty 普通社畜穿越后竟被脑补成美强惨 The main story has no romance, so ship whoever you like. Qu Li, an ordinary corporate drone, unexpectedly dropped dead and ended up in another world. From the start, he was forced to cosplay as Louis XVI. The useless System even told him he could only stay alive by completing missions. This is just getting a job in a different place! Save the male lead? No problem, he's got a plan. Get involved in politics? No problem, that's his specialty. Get chased? No problem, he's fast. Save the world? Uh… 128Reads6.4Score119Shelves
- 40 Infinite: How Did a Slacker Like Me Become a Big Shot? 【无限】混子的我怎么成大佬了 The ratings just opened. Thanks for your support! [Two Male Leads] [Infinite Flow] [People Think He's a Master, but He Never Gives Himself Away] [Bottom Lead] Qin Xi transmigrates into a book, a no-romance infinite-flow novel for male readers called Realm-Breaking Madman. The problem is, he has never read it. All he knows is that the male lead's name is Li-something-Yuan! With no other choice, Qin Xi strikes a deal with the original System. Luckily, the System is pretty reasonable (?). It agree 18.4kReads7.6Score2.8kShelves
- 41 The Legendary Adventurer of the Horror World 恐怖世界的传奇冒险家 In the first year of the Calamity Era, the uncanny and the terrifying returned. More than ninety years have passed since then. Human civilization endured the chaos, fear, collapse of order, destruction, and doomsday that followed the arrival of the uncanny and the terrifying. After regaining its strength, humanity struggled and fought back, reaching a stalemate with the uncanny and the terrifying, then gradually gaining the upper hand once more. Order was rebuilt, and people learned how to coexi 4.8kReads8.4Score414Shelves
- 42 After Blocking Pain, I Brought My Beautiful, Strong, Tragic Character to Life 痛觉屏蔽后我演活了美强惨 Don’t mind the rough writing? Then come on in! The story’s fallen apart, so don’t mind that either!!! If anything doesn’t make sense, just treat it as my own headcanon. Updates whenever. The logic won’t stand up to scrutiny. [Cyberpunk + Apocalypse + No CP + Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic (Fake) + System + Everyone Loves Me] The day I got bound to the System, it told me it could block pain with a single click. So the entire cyberpunk world saw me catch bullets with my bare hands, shield Gu Lin fr 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Mirror City Loop 镜城循环 If you were trapped in the same day, would you go crazy, or turn it into a game you could beat? College student Lin Che chose the latter. By the 37th time he woke up on July 15, he couldn’t even be bothered to panic. Confessing to the principal in front of everyone, jumping from the fourth floor of an academic building to test the limits of physics, trying every flavor of instant noodles sold in every convenience store in town: he had turned the time loop into a massive open-world game. Then h 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Fight to the Death: The Other Shore! 至死方休：彼岸篇！ [Fanfiction + Death Rewind + Foreknowledge + Restarting the Other Shore] Original novel: I Died a Hundred Thousand Times and Became a God in the Bizarre World! by Liu Ge Hulu. [Death Rewind + Foreknowledge + Restarting the Other Shore] The Other Shore: the end of the bizarre. After stopping the Other Shore from invading the present world, Fang Xiu, who can rewind time through death, ventures there alone in search of the secret to becoming a god. There, he witnesses a much more real bizarre world 1.1kReads—Score104Shelves
- 45 Escape Game: They Think I’m a Master from the Start 逃亡游戏：开局被认为我是大神 [No Romance] [Early Half: Misguided Adoration] [Livestream] Ming Chen dies unexpectedly and ends up in an escape game. He can only return to the real world by clearing one level after another. But as Ming Chen looks at the levels teeming with danger, he is terrified. Yet the correct moves he makes by sheer dumb luck while scared out of his wits convince the viewers and his teammates that he’s an expert, and they spam “6” like crazy. Ming Chen is exhausted: he really isn’t an expert. Until an une 168Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 46 Tomb Raiding: I Told You, I’m Just an Ordinary Temp 盗墓：都说了我只是个普通临时工 [New book ratings are in, and they’ll rise later] [Everyone enters a tomb-raiding world + death rewind + livestream + mistaken-identity antics + no romance, female-led] [Content warning: There’s a “everyone loves her” storyline, with unrequited crushes from both men and women! See the beginning of Chapter One for all content warnings!] After overworked office drone Zhang Kaiyan dropped dead, she opened her eyes to find she hadn’t been turned into a loot box. The good news was that she had transm 1.8kReads8.5Score259Shelves
- 47 Playing a Weak NPC, I Beg the Entire World to Stop Acting 扮演弱小NPC，全球求我别演了 [Mistaken assumptions + horror game + playing eerie NPCs + secret identities + powerful protagonist + infinite worlds + no romance] When the whole world thinks you're a powerful figure, your only rule for survival is to keep up the act! “I'm just an ordinary college student. How did I become the ultimate big boss in the eyes of every supernatural ability user on the planet?!” Shen Yan wakes up to discover that he has been forcibly bound to the Horror Game System, which requires him to play eerie 32Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 48 Escape Game: Don't Mess with Me, I'm Really a Rookie 逃亡游戏：别扒拉我，我真是菜鸟 [Misunderstandings + original dungeons + infinite flow + no female lead + plot-focused, no romance] [No female lead, no female lead, no female lead. Important things must be said three times. Some female characters are needed for the plot!] After dying unexpectedly, Su Chen is summoned to a survival game. A bona fide rookie, he plans to coast through by sticking with his expert teammates. To his surprise, several teammates die one after another, and their deaths are closely connected to him. Onl 521Reads7.3Score100Shelves
- 49 Escape Game: I’m Really a Rookie, Not a Big Shot 逃亡游戏：我真是菜鸟，不是大佬 [Deification + Livestream + Infinite Flow + No Romance + Horror Game Instances + Supernatural] Chi Nian woke up to find herself dragged into a survival game called "Escape the Sinkhole." A genuine rookie, Chi Nian racked her brains trying to follow the experts and coast along. Instead, through a string of mishaps, she became the bane of all the experts. Every one of these big shots had overwhelming combat ability, yet whenever they were around Chi Nian, the "walking jinx," they kept finding all 297Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 50 Rule Horror: How Did I Not Know I Was a Big Shot? 规则怪谈：我怎么不知道我是大佬 [Rules-based horror + infinite flow + split personality + no romance + devoted fans + a touch of deification + livestreaming + hilarious absurdity + unexpected twists + instances + System-based progression + power fantasy + negative emotions...] From elementary school to middle school and then high school, Lin Xin was constantly bullied. Someone was always picking on him, attacking him with the false rumor that his father was a “deserter.” The anger, grievances, urge to run away, and hatred Lin 263Reads—Score—Shelves
