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- 51 Cause and Effect 平因，安果 “I... wasn't I dead?” “What do you think?” a voice replied, amusement lurking in its tone. Half-human and half-ghost, Bei Chengpeng had already fallen on the execution grounds. Now, suddenly, he had returned. In the distance stood three gods. Farther still was a shadow, faint and elusive. “The world is an illusion, and nothing is as it was. Despair, won't you? You don't need to understand. Why look for so much meaning? “Keep a calm heart and let everything go. Be puzzled, won't you? You have to 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 I Just Want to Play Games, So Why Am I the World’s Only Savior? 想玩游戏的我，是世界唯一救星？ Chen Keke, whose growth had been guided by a hidden mastermind since birth, unexpectedly becomes a superpowered being one day. To defeat the mastermind, he actually enters the game world? He only wants to play games, yet turns out to be the world's only hope? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Demon God Grants Wishes 魔神还愿 I... might be called Bai Suli. I think the Su is the one in "long-cherished wish," and the Li means "to leave." I had a wish I'd lost sight of, but just as it was about to come true, I transmigrated to this absurd and eerie world. It has no past, no future; dreamlike and illusory, sinister and bottomless. It traps the body and sets the soul free. In the tear-filled marsh, a "female ghost" who seems to have a split personality comes to me. Offering "power" as a bargaining chip, she makes a stra 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 I Found the Campus Belle on a Rainy Day, and She's Surprisingly Clingy 雨天捡到校花，居然是个粘人精 [Everyday Romance] [No System] [One Female Lead] [Mutual Healing] [Sweet Romance] [Special Forces] [A Touch of Patriotism] On a rainy day, retired Special Forces soldier Chen Lie unexpectedly meets a beautiful girl who is being bullied, and so begins a clichéd tale of a hero saving a damsel in distress... After making a promise to a comrade, Chen Lie starts looking out for the pretty girl, who is awkward and deeply insecure. He never expected that... “Why do you keep following me?” “I-I brought 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 My Hellish Redemption 我的地狱系拯救 (Loli + Cthulhu + dungeons + two heroines + saving the world + lighthearted) (The pacing may be a little slow) In 2035, Blue-and-White Characters Inc. released My Healing Life, claiming it could give every player a perfect new beginning. On the day the game topped the charts, millions of people put on their headsets. Ye Bai was one of them. He pressed the start button, and the System's voice sounded warm and gentle: “We hope you have a healing world.” Three seconds later, the screen crashed bl 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Reincarnation Nebula 轮回星云 [Traditional Fantasy + Reincarnation + Sword Cultivation + Martial Arts] The Great Dao plots in secret, reincarnation never ends. The Five Fates move through the heavens, and the spear shatters all the ten thousand ways! In an age beyond antiquity, a Heaven-Anointed sword cultivator named Gong Baiyin joined forces with the undying Jun Wunian, who bore the power of the Five Fates. Together, they extinguished the Great Dao and broke the unchanging cycle of reincarnation that had lasted for count —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Uphold the Will of the Overlord Without Compromise 坚决贯彻落实霸之意志 Have you heard? A transfer student has joined our class. They say he killed someone at his old school. “Should we be careful around him from now on? Better not provoke him.” “Obviously. I heard he didn’t just kill one person, either. He wiped out a whole family of three.” In the corner, Wei Jing slowly opened his eyes. “Oh? Then I’ll have to go over and kick him a couple of times.” … His underling clung to Wei Jing, drenched in a cold sweat. “Boss, don’t go! You’ll really die!” Wei Jing’s eyes b 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Devouring the Heavens, Starting with Soul Land 从斗罗开始吞噬诸天 This novel is pure brainless fun, so if you want something that makes you think, don't read it. [Transmigration]+ [Devouring]+ [Evolution]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [Douluo Dalu]+ [Primordial Chaos]+ [Invincibility]+ [Behind-the-Scenes]+ [the Myriad Worlds] “Since this world is ruled by the law of the jungle, I'll become the strongest predator of all.” Zhou Tian transmigrates to Douluo Dalu and becomes a weak Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, but awakens the “Devour Heaven and Earth” System. From then on, h 43Reads—Score106Shelves
- 59 Haunted, Part One 撞鬼第一部 Do you know why every household keeps its doors and windows tightly shut at night? It was only after I became a food delivery driver that I discovered those terrifying folk customs passed down for generations weren't just superstition from the older generation. They were how you stayed alive... 16.3kReads6.7Score519Shelves
- 60 Great Luo 大罗 [Traditional cultivation + cunning schemer + decisive and ruthless + ordinary mortal's journey] [Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Dao Origin, Dao Union] Lin Yuan unexpectedly finds an ancient tomb containing a jade pendant identical in shape to his family's heirloom, but with the colors reversed. He accidentally enters a dreamscape, where he obtains a cultivation method called the "Primordial Scripture." It allows him to refine all 57Reads—Score118Shelves
- 61 A Good-for-Nothing Legitimate Son? My Mother Is the Grand Princess of the Immortal Dynasty 废柴嫡子？我娘是仙朝长公主 A corporate wage slave transmigrates into the good-for-nothing legitimate son of the Ling family, only to be publicly dumped by a Saintess on his wedding day. His own father hates him to the bone, his half-brother steps on him to climb the ladder, and even his mother leaves him with these words: “He should never have been born into this world.” Then he is thrown into the Soul-Devouring Abyss, where the remnant moon in his palm awakens. It turns out the high and mighty eldest princess of the Immo 162Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Weird? The Game! 诡？弈！ [Subverting tropes + suspense + comedy + dual forms + death switching + the supernatural arrives + cowardly protagonist + OC fiction + the author is an artist, and the characters have pictures] (The author’s writing could use some work early on. Could you read a few more chapters?) What on earth is that red figure in the mirror…? … Xiao Huajia’s life was a complete mess, until one night he discovered that he wasn’t even “human” anymore. His skin split open, revealing slippery red tissue undernea 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 I Am Evil Incarnate, and I Bury Every Immortal Who Possesses Another 我为世间恶，葬尽夺舍仙 [No System] [One Heroine] The day I was expelled from my sect, Su Ciyan was smiling. I was the only one who saw him smile. The whole world says I’m evil, a madman, a demon, and the culprit behind the massacre of an entire city. But they can’t see the truth: My senior brother was a fake, the one who slaughtered an entire family was a True Immortal, and the one who blood-sacrificed a city was a Golden Immortal. I killed them. The whole world is hunting me. I became the world’s villain to bury the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 A Guide to Saving a World with a Bad Ending 烂尾世界拯救指南 [Not a Power Fantasy] [Transmigrated Into Her Own Novel] [Growth-Oriented Female Lead] [Slow Burn] [Light Ensemble Cast] Jiang Ning transmigrated into her own unfinished novel. The System said, "Host, you dug the hole yourself, so of course you have to fill it in yourself ^_^" She didn't take it seriously. Wasn't it just becoming someone's disciple, cultivating, fighting monsters, taking a beating, dying once, then dying again? She did it. Halfway through, she realized something was off. Why did 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 The Firefly’s Rebirth 晚萤新生 A bittersweet romance. Lin Wanying’s life is running out. A sudden cancer diagnosis has trapped her in a prison called despair, and all she wants is to spend the time she has left quietly reaching the end of her journey. Chen Ye, a genius designer, has had the edges of his life worn away by the hardships of his childhood and the endless grind of each day. His heart is barren, and he can find no meaning in life, until he meets a girl whose eyes conceal both brokenness and extraordinary strength. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 A Love Born of Tokyo's Heartbreak 东京伤痛之恋 [Worthless Male Lead | Tokyo | Pure Love | Redemption | Some Angst Early On | Japanese Light Novel | First Person | Multiple POVs] My high school life was bleak, an endless stretch of pain. As a first-year student at a Tokyo high school, I couldn't see what was so great about this place. My days were woven from fantasies and pain. After school, I would hide at home and watch anime, letting my fantasies heal my heart. I thought I'd be stuck in the dark forever, but a girl sitting next to me was t 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Tale of Lin Wan 凡人修仙记林晚传 Mortals bear the kindling; a spark sets the firmament ablaze. In an age when spiritual roots and talent decide everything, and the order of the Heavenly Palace blankets all worlds, Lin Wan, a humble servant as insignificant as dust, becomes an anomaly in the old order. She inherits the forbidden path of “wishes,” born from the thoughts of all living beings. This feeble kindling lights her way, but also brings endless hunts and attempts to erase her. Bearing a promise to protect and the legacy of 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Tales of the Ming Dynasty: The Loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu 大明演义：忠贞侯秦良玉 Qin Liangyu is reborn, twelve years before the Cataclysm of 1644. The court is eight months behind on military pay, more than half the White-Pole Soldiers have scattered or died, the Jianzhou Jurchens are attacking the passes in Liaodong, and rebels are rising across the Central Plains. In her previous life, she died of illness in the army, breathing her last as she listened to the wind outside her tent. This time, the first thing she does upon opening her eyes is gather five hundred men and hea 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Five Years of Burning Corpses: I Expose Martial World's Wrongful Cases Through Bone Reading 焚尸五年，我靠摸骨掀翻武林冤案 Lin Mo, a corpse burner in Buried Bone City, carries the blood feud of the entire Guxi Village. Five years of burning corpses have taught him the Bone-Knocking Secret Art. By touching dry bones, he can read fragments of the dead's memories. By touching living bones, he can predict an opponent's moves and spot their weaknesses. But the secret art comes with a curse. Every time he uses it, dark blue-black bone markings eat away at his flesh, and the calamity of death draws ever closer. The arrival 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 An Otter and Their Otter Play House Together 海的獭和獭的人一起过家家 Lan Jia was a model corporate drone, until a seaside holiday brought her a stroke of good luck. Then a shipwreck swept her away to an impossibly beautiful world, where the sky was blue, the sea was colorful, and the strangest thing of all was that the wild animals were unusually intelligent and could turn into people! Lan Jia also met a giant sea otter. She named him Huandoudou, then willingly played house with him~ 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Ancestor Xin 辛祖 [30,000 words posted daily] [Gets better as it goes] [Three heroines] [Classic xianxia] [Rags-to-riches rise] [Power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Passionate] [Fast-paced] Life is as brief as an ant's, a fate as insubstantial as dust. If Heaven won't let me climb high, I'll shatter these nine celestial heavens! If fate won't let me rule supreme, I'll forge the laws of all worlds anew! Only then will all beings across the myriad worlds learn that there is always a heaven beyond h 333Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Canglan Medical Chronicles: My Golden Age Was Madness 沧澜行医录：我的盛世是场疯癫 This book moves at a very slow pace (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤~ Dear readers, the later chapters have not been revised yet; that means everything from Chapter 53 onward. [Main character has no romance + psychological suspense + ancient political intrigue + two male leads (supporting characters in a pure romance) + childhood friends (supporting characters)] Shen Yuan is an extraordinary woman at the very forefront of brain research. While others treat illnesses, she deciphers the codes of the human heart. While ot —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 The Crown Prince Is Reborn in the Modern World, and My System Is Way Too Powerful 太子重生在现代，我的系统太逆天 [Multiple female leads] [Reverse transmigration] [Golden finger] [Not a puppet controlled by a System] A thousand years ago, the crown prince of the Great Chen Kingdom was framed by villains. His imperial fortune was sealed, condemning him to live as an ordinary person for all eternity. A thousand years later, an unexpected tomb-raiding accident broke the seal. He was not only reborn in the body of his fifteenth reincarnation, but was also accompanied by an absolutely loyal servant: the [God- 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Demon King's Return to Another World 异界魔王归途 [High-Octane + Transmigration + Two Worlds + Magic + Fantasy + Lighthearted Comedy] After finally becoming the Demon King in another world, I somehow came back? And to the very day I was sent flying ten meters by a “portal to another world”?! Qi Chaoguang looked up at the bright blue sky, then down at the truck bumper embedded in his body... Where’s my Demon King body? Where’s my massive Ironclad Blood City? And my demoness assistant?! After finally fighting his way to the throne of the Demon Ki 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Snow Will Come, and So Will Spring 风雪会来，春天也会来 The Snow and Wind Will Pass, and Spring Will Come Too —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 I Give You Peach Blossom Wine, Wishing You Health and Peace 桃花酒赠君，往愿君安康 [Power struggles + historical setting + wandering heroes and warfare + country and family + an undying love with a BE ending] Shen Qingci was a young physician from a renowned medical family. After the massacre at Blackwind Stronghold, she was forced to sell peach blossom wine at Peach Blossom Cove. By chance, she met Long Yan of the Imperial Guards and discovered that he had also taken part in the massacre. Yet she could find no memories linking Long Yan to Blackwind Stronghold, and he had suff —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 The Mole in Journey to the West: The Tathagata Was Once Duobao 西游内鬼：如来本是多宝身 [Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods crossover] [Behind-the-scenes power struggles] [Righting the regrets of the Jie Sect] Li Zhe transmigrates as the Buddha Tathagata of Spirit Mountain, with a System in hand that can ruin the calamity of Journey to the West! At first, he only wanted to sabotage the pilgrimage in secret. Who could have guessed the situation would spiral completely out of control? Sun Wukong is born a thousand years early, awakening the origins of the Chaos Demon Ap 3.7kReads—Score365Shelves
- 78 The Resume of a Lone Star 天煞孤星的简历 The Resume of a Lone Star of Misfortune —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 What Do You Mean This Fly Is the Black Dragon King? 什么叫这只苍蝇是黑龙王 [Cultivation for All | Pet Mechanics | Upgradable System | Worlds Merging | Decisive Combat | Deduction and Rules | Defying Fate] When Chang Ye woke up, the gods had descended, and the entire world had entered the age of cultivation. The System handed out free mystery boxes containing divine pets to everyone. Chang Ye opened his with high hopes, only to find a single fly inside? Wait, what do you mean this fly can talk? And claims to be the sealed Black Dragon King? And says a whole bunch of ene 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Reborn at Thirty-Eight: This Time, I'll Protect You All 三十八岁重生：这次换我护你们 Zhou Yuan, thirty-eight years old, had suffered through a life of hardship. Her father died when she was young, and after her mother remarried, her grandfather struggled to raise her. Desperate for a child, she spent three years undergoing IVF, endured a hundred injections to stimulate ovulation, suffered two miscarriages, and went deep into debt. She risked half her life to give birth to her son, Youzi. But she had nothing and no one to rely on. Her husband was away for work most of the year, a 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Smell of Cigarettes on My Son's Breath 儿子嘴里的烟味儿 The Smell of Smoke on My Son’s Breath 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Grant Me a Breeze of Clear Air 许我一缕清风 [Traditional xianxia + Slow Pace + One Heroine + Faux Ensemble Cast] The tides of the world rise and fall, each in their time, as things are meant to be. Three thousand years ago, you, Li An, silenced the sword cultivators of the Great Wilderness with a single strike. Three thousand years later, I, Xu Qingfeng, struck fear into all the immortals beyond the borders with one sword. Everyone says I am you, but I say, “I would rather spar with myself and remain myself!” The wind should roam freely b 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Drinking Addiction, Like a Carp 饮瘾如鲤 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Transmigrated as a Young Wife, Forced to Raise a Child and Cultivate Immortality 穿越成少妇，被迫养娃修仙 (Female-led, clever and brave, focused on building a career, no System, no romance, with an emphasis on friendship) After dying, overworked office worker Liang Tian transmigrates into the body of Huang Yufei, a sixteen-year-old young wife and the chancellor’s daughter-in-law, with a baby in tow. From the start, she jumps off a cliff. The chancellor’s household falls, and mother and child are hunted down. Things couldn’t get worse. She plans to abandon the child and run, but a surge of maternal i 253Reads—Score100Shelves
- 85 The Seventh Forgetting: Womb of Time 第七次遗忘之时间子宫 The Seventh Forgetting: The Time Womb 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Way, Too, Has Feelings 道，亦有情 After transmigrating into the Tianyan Continent, Mo Li steps into a cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak. The cultivators here all say, “The Great Dao is merciless. Only by severing all feelings and love can you reach the pinnacle.” Only Mo Li scoffs at this. In his previous life, he was utterly alone, and love and affection were distant, unattainable luxuries. In this life, he is fortunate enough to find warmth. The comforts of everyday life and the people he holds dear are tre 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 The Last Sky Fox 最后的天狐 [We were young and carefree back then, always thinking the road lay at our feet. We never knew that some paths can’t be changed and offer no choice.] "Traditional Fantasy" "Ensemble Cast" "One Female Lead" Creatures like us are always waiting for a great rain. Even if it may never come, we keep waiting. We need that rain to put out the raging fires in the mountains and save all living beings. We need that rain to find our way home. This is a road I don’t want to take, but I have no other choice. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Hardship of Taking It Easy 清闲难享 No Peace in Leisure —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Live-In Nanny Had Her Employer's Child 住家保姆生下了雇主的孩子 The live-in nanny gave birth to her employer’s child 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 That Summer, I Saw My Aunt Fighting with a Strange Man 那年夏天我看见伯母在和陌生男人打架 That Summer, I Saw My Aunt Fighting With a Strange Man 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Servant’s Rise: I Want Both a Career and Romance 杂役逆袭：搞事业和谈恋爱我都要 [Female-led + cultivation comeback + concealed identity + mutual devotion + character growth] A Xu, a demonic cultivator's servant, has endured endless hardship and is dismissed as a good-for-nothing with no spiritual roots. No one knows that seven years of struggling in the demon caves have made her highly capable, or that she possesses rare Five Elements spiritual roots that have simply been misidentified all along. To escape her miserable life, she changes her appearance, takes the name Yan Q 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 After I Died, My Corpse Began Cultivating on the Cliff of Certain Death 我死后，尸体在绝命崖自动修炼 [Corpse Cultivation] [Wild Premise] [Leveling Up] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Revenge] Betrayed by his fiancee and senior fellow disciple, Jiang Ye had his innate spiritual root ripped out and was thrown into the Deadly Abyss. Everyone believed Jiang Ye was dead. But his soul was trapped in his corpse, which could absorb baleful energy and cultivate on its own. He could not attack on his own, but whenever an enemy struck his body, it triggered a retaliatory corpse fiend attack, harvesting the enemy 218Reads—Score263Shelves
- 93 In the Palworld, Why Can’t I Be King? 到帕鲁世界，怎就不能当王 [Business Warfare] [War] [Pokemon Battles] [Palworld] [Multiple Heroines] [Can Pals Cultivate Immortality Too?] [Multiple Transmigrators] This is a strange Palworld, where people from all kinds of eras have arrived. They have to explore it little by little before discovering that this world is completely different from what they expected. Go conquer it and rule it! Make the trip count! 300Reads—Score367Shelves
- 94 The 304th Confession in the Black-and-White Village 黑白村庄的第304次告白 If I told you this was my three hundred and fourth time coming to this place called Black and White Village, would you believe me? If I told you none of you are yourselves, that you are assembled from consciousness, would you believe me? If I told you that this place was created by someone from Earth, would you believe me? If I told you that the last time, you were yourselves, and yet not yourselves, would you believe me? Would you really believe me? (There are bonus extras in the author's notes 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 My Yesterday 我的昨日时光 This is the ordinary coming-of-age story of a girl from the countryside... It could be you, her, or any perfectly ordinary girl around you... 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 A Breath of Fresh Air 一缕清风 If there is another life, I wish to be neither immortal nor human, but only a breeze resting on your shoulder. A deep love thwarted by fate, destiny playing cruel tricks: amid the clash between the fated struggle of good and evil and the greater good of all living beings, individual feelings are fragile and tragic. 67Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 97 Welcome to the World of Cotton Dolls 欢迎来到棉花娃娃的世界 [Traditional Novel\Reborn in Another World\Redemption and Healing\Adventure and Battles\Fantasy] A cotton doll that unexpectedly came to life rescued its owner, who had tried to take their own life, with the help of an "ability user." The doll and its owner traveled to the world of cotton dolls. In this world, nobody has to worry about jobs or housing. People no longer marry or have children, devoting themselves to raising adorable cotton dolls instead. However, the anti-cotton-doll movement is —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Otherworldly Plantation Lord: My Summons Are a Little Strange 异世界种植园领主：召唤物有点奇 [Otherworld] [Western Fantasy] [Comedy] [Weird Stuff] Wei Li'an, a homebody born and raised on Blue Star, stayed up all night playing games until he suddenly died. When he opened his eyes, he had landed in the Western-themed game world he used to play. There, he was a down-and-out, concubine-born lord with a fief in the dangerous, remote Xingluo Forest. Three years in this world! He waited a whole three years for his world and his System to activate. After spending those three years hoeing the 226Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Peak of Falling in Love with You 高峰爱上你的高峰 A Peak of Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 One Stroke of Ink Stains Heaven and Earth 一墨染乾坤 The young Mo Ran displays his extraordinary talent, roaming the cosmos with his childhood sweetheart and journeying through countless worlds. He reverses the decline of spiritual energy, brings peace to turmoil across the Myriad Worlds, and ultimately restores order to the universe. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
