Novels like Silicon Core
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- 1 Five Years and Three Days 五年零三天 Five years and three days. They had spent more time apart than together. Five years ago, the top-tier star CP fell out. One left for a life overseas; the other shut himself off in silence. Five years later, they reunited on the music competition show “Duo Season.” In front of the cameras, their chemistry was as effortless as ever. Behind them, Jiang Yu cornered Lin Chi in the dressing room, his voice hoarse, as if sandpaper were scraping his throat. “That line in your song, ‘The one who turns a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 White Heart’s Farewell 挽心白 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] This was supposed to be an ordinary adventure story, but from the very first moment, it had an unusual feel. The boy thought he was one of the “chosen ones.” After obtaining a divine artifact, he believed he could reach his ultimate goal ahead of everyone else and become the strongest person in the world. Along with the artifact, a “strange” white-haired girl appeared by his side. He took her with him, and his journey was no longer ordinary. Only after traveling th 22Reads—Score124Shelves
- 3 Historical Instances Across the Heavens: I Rewrite History 诸天历史副本：我改写历史 (Disclaimer: This story is fictional and based on a high-dimensional simulation premise. It has no connection to real history.) A modern college student transmigrates to the Yan Song era and faces the greatest crisis in China's thousand-year history. Knowing full well that the land will be shattered and the people will suffer, he still dares to defy fate and change the future! Using modern knowledge to break through every deadlock, he turns the tide when all seems lost and saves the state from c 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Pivot of Good and Evil: I Can Absorb Negative Emotions to Level Up 善恶之枢，我能吸收负面情绪升级 After having barbecue with his best buddy, Yu Ling was inexplicably hunted down. Luckily, he awakened an ability to absorb negative emotions and level up, escaping what seemed like certain death. He also learned that the world was made up of Source Matter, which a small number of people could control and use. The Blessed. The Blessed had two paths to advancement: the nine ranks of the Present Realm and the nine steps of the Abyss. The Present Realm and the Abyss were natural enemies, locked —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Old Farmer of Zhuolu: Three Ancestral Divine Bloodlines Awaken in My Fields 涿鹿老农：我家地里觉醒三祖神脉 [Three Ancestral Divine Bloodlines + Immortal Cultivation Through Farming + Livestreaming + Rural Revitalization + Gods at Work + Donating Everything to the State + Silver-Haired Immortal Cultivators] Gods show up every day, and the live chat explodes every day. Sun Wukong steals corn | Zhu Bajie mukbangs | Buddha stirs up trouble making rice cakes | Zhang Guolao delivers manure | Nuwa kneads oat dough The main idea: Get the fields in order, and you’ll make it. Read one chapter, laugh for three. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 All the Beautiful Girls Want to Sign a Contract with Me 美少女们都想和我签订契约 [Romance + vampires + yandere + redemption + lots of sweetness + multiple heroines + slow burn + light-novel style + love rival drama + no System] [Heroine traits: aloof + cunning + queenly + cute + assertive + forward + obedient + long, straight black hair] My aloof stepsister has secret feelings for me, my witchy little sister schemes at every turn to get revenge on me, the stunning vampire girl I once provoked has crossed thousands of miles to find me, and the righteous, tsundere class monito 5Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 7 Chronicles of the Otherworldly Soul Douluo 异魂斗罗记 Xiao Zhu, a residential compound security guard, was about to jump into a river and kill himself. By a strange twist of fate, not only did he survive, but an incredibly ferocious evil spirit took up residence inside him, becoming his “other soul.” After gaining an other soul, Xiao Zhu’s life changed in many ways. Before long, he learned that he wasn’t the only person in the world with an other soul. But while other people with other souls were using their powers to enjoy life or commit evil, Xia 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 After Returning to My Demon Form, My Unruly Disciple Finally Went Mad 重回妖身后，便宜逆徒终于疯了 (Dual male leads) Shen Yanqing was once an ancient great demon and the younger brother of the Demon Emperor, but he suddenly transmigrated to the modern world. After living there for ten years, he got cancer and cursed the heavens. He was struck by lightning and died, only to transmigrate back to his original world. The good news: this time, he was the junior brother of the sect master of Litian Sect, a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator! The bad news: the original owner of his body was a villain 85Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Live in Seclusion in the Ten Thousand Mountains, and My Wife Is a Demon Emperor 隐居十万山，我家娘子是妖帝 (Useless System, One Female Lead, Reclusive Daily Life, Devoted Husband, Female Lead’s Growth, Sweet or Not, Not Pure Wish Fulfillment) My name is Gu Changqing. I transmigrated and gained peak cultivation. Before I transmigrated, I’d had enough of the grind and finally chose to live in seclusion. Unexpectedly, one day three years later, a meteor fell from the sky and delivered a nine-tailed demon empress to my doorstep. I saved her on a whim and planned to have her repay me while she recovered. 2kReads—Score127Shelves
- 10 Cosmic Model Axiom Spectrum 宇宙模型公理光谱 Everyone has different experiences and ways of thinking, so you may not understand how I imagine the universe. You don't need to understand it; just put together your own model of the universe. Think of that model as another way of looking at the universe. I'm sharing mine so that you can use it to piece together your own. Then I can use your models to refine mine. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Time Reversal Project 时间回溯计划 Time Reversal Plan 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 What Kind of Idiotic Plot Is This? I Take Everyone Down Equally 什么弱智剧情，我平等创飞每个人 [Pure Powerhouse Female Lead] [No CP] [System] [Never Takes Things Lying Down] [Sharp Tongue] [Transmigration] [Fortune] [Quick Transmigration] Zhiyue had lived alone in a valley for many years when she found a kitten there. It called itself the System, Shuang Bai. Then an accident happened. Afterward, the two of them struck a strange kind of deal. They immediately decided to travel to different worlds, save the protagonists, and restore their fortune. "Wait! Are you sure you're not a jinx?" 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Seasons and Fate 季虞 [Invisible cages, freedom, life, death, war, chessboard, duty, emotions, self-reliance, choices, secret identity] All things are cages, and you and I are both prisoners inside them. You must set yourself free. If you don't want to be forced to die, you have to fight to live. There are never any true winners in war. Only sacrifice and bones remain its eternal themes. Even a pawn can turn the tables against the odds. I bear the lives of tens of thousands of my people on my shoulders. I real —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Charming Villain Loves to Stir Up Trouble 迷人的反派爱作妖 She hears the street acrobats laughing and shouting, the peddlers hawking their wares, and the clopping hooves of passing carriages. What a bustling city Jinzhou is! She lifts the curtain and peers through the finely carved window of the carriage. Ahead, the Little Qing River glitters in the sunlight like a ribbon of scattered gold, crossed by a blue-stone arch bridge. Porters and traders, carrying shoulder poles or food boxes, bustle along both banks, working to make a living... An ensemble fee —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Road to Survival in the Apocalypse 末日中的求生之路 (No System, no supernatural powers, not a power fantasy. A coming-of-age story. If that’s not for you, please don’t read.) When I thought I had been reborn, I discovered it was all a dream. When I thought I could survive by fighting ordinary zombies, I discovered I also had to face other powerful survivors. Only after the people around me began to die one by one did I finally realize that I had to grow stronger. When I had no one else to rely on, the campus beauty stayed by my side, growing alon —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 A Guide to Raising a Harem Favorite from an Abandoned Consort 冷宫废妃万人迷养成指南 [Unconventional, trope-subverting palace intrigue + no romance + saving the world] On the very first day after Jiang Lan transmigrated, someone falsely accused her and had her banished to the Cold Palace. Even a lowly woman of the Jiang family, exiled to the Cold Palace, could bully her without fear. Fortunately, she was bound to a System. Using her golden finger, she earned the Empress Dowager's trust and brought down the Noble Consort. But only after the Shen family fell did she learn that thi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 My Sugar Daddy Isn’t Up to Snuff, So I’ll Have to Teach Him 金主他不合格，我得教教他 [Dual Male Leads + 1v1 + Kept Lover + Sugar Daddy Top + Canary Bottom + Secondary Couple] Cold-faced sugar daddy who doesn't know how to love × canary who packs up and leaves The one-year sugar daddy contract had finally expired. Yan Feng grabbed his suitcase and ran. For that last month, Gu Zeyuan told him to go east, and he never went west. All he could think was: I'm leaving anyway, so I might as well humor him. Gu Zeyuan thought keeping a pet was too much trouble, so he decided to keep a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Red Chamber Son-in-Law: A Legendary Journey from Marriage to Love 红楼赘婿：先婚后爱的传奇之旅 Dream of the Red Chamber: A legendary journey from marriage to love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Gods of the World: I Have a Investiture of the Gods List 全球神祇：我有一部封神榜 [Divine Being Sequence] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Prove the Dao by Photographing Corpses] Four hundred years ago, the sun split into three. From then on, sunlight shone everywhere, and everyone had a chance to awaken a sacred token and become a Chosen of the Gods. Some were wrapped in iron chains that dragged souls to the underworld. Some held jade scepters that could turn stone into gold. Some sprouted wings from their backs and commanded wind and thunder. Some rode on twin wheels with three hea 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Cultivate by Going Crazy! 我靠发疯修炼！ Everyone says emotions are poison, and that cultivation requires severing all feelings and desires. Lin Ziqiu wore an emotion suppressor for over a decade, living like a corpse. On the day of the academy test, he crushed the suppressor with one hand. His emotions erupted, his cultivation soared, and everyone present fell to their knees. Later, he used the seven emotions and six desires to punch through the heavens of the Path of Ruthlessness. Others cultivate ruthlessness; he cultivates the huma —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Phoenix Sword Art and the Hidden Dragon Saber 凤诀剑与龙隐刀 [Jianghu Feuds + Court Intrigue + Treasure Hunting + Strange Encounters + Love and Passion + Fantasy Cultivation] Zhang Xutian is a kind-hearted young man and the descendant of a loyal family. After the Zhang household is slaughtered, he steals the Dragonhide Blade to save his mother, setting off a tangled story of love, hatred, and jianghu feuds involving Lin Xiaorou and Yu Xiaoyao. Beneath a cliff, he learns peerless martial arts. Later, he discovers that the Phoenix Art and the Dragonhide Bla 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The True and Fake Heiresses: A Strange Romance in Journey to the West 真假千金之西游穿越奇情 The Real and Fake Heiresses: A Strange Romance in a Transmigrated Journey to the West —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 A Love Across Time, a Liangshan Dream Fulfilled 古今爱情交错，梁山遗梦终团圆 Love across past and present, as the Liangshan dream finally ends in reunion —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Listen to My Brother? Not a Chance. I’m Heading Next Door to Get Some Cuddles First 听哥哥的话？不存在的。我先去隔壁发呀的哄 Listen to my brother? Not a chance. First, I'll go next door and comfort Ya. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 A Boning Knife from the Start 开局一把剔骨刀 As a celestial body draws near, gravity collapses, and tsunamis and fissures repeatedly ravage the surface. Humanity is forced to undergo genetic mutations: without eating the flesh of mutated beasts, people starve to death, but even one careless bite can turn them into monsters. While the whole world fights over a single safe piece of meat, Lu Yan, once the finest chef before the disaster, takes out his family's ancestral boning knife. With the first cut, he strips away gravity, and an indestru —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Wonderful Days I Spent with You Beneath the Cherry Blossoms 樱花树下和你在一起的美好时光 They have a dream. A dream of flying into the vast sky one day. They know how far away the sky beyond the glass really is. In the distant future, humanity has built mobile fortress cities called “Plantations” on a desolate Earth, and celebrates its civilization. Within them are living quarters for the pilots, called “Mistilteinn,” better known as the “Birdcage.” That is where the children live. They know nothing of the outside world. They know nothing of the free sky. They have been told that th 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The New God, Part One: Cocooning 新神第一部作茧 [Not a feel-good power fantasy. Challenging to read. A must-read work of hard science fiction for humanity in the twenty-first century!] This may not be a science fiction novel so much as a chillingly accurate book of prophecy. A hard science fiction novel about humanity’s future, emotional control, and self-redemption. In a vast metropolis of the near future, people are no longer ruled by their emotions, because emotions themselves have been “vaccinated.” Fear, anger, grief... all can be sup —Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 28 Book Transmigration: The Author Keeps Digging Pits and Never Fills Them 穿书：作者她挖坑不填 [Multiple CPs + Ensemble Cast + Arcs + Fantasy Cultivation] Each arc has a different protagonist, and the story is linked through the perspective of Jiang Zuiwan, the nominal main character. The type of each arc will be marked at the start: BG, GL, or female-no-romance, with a small amount of BL as well. -- Jiang Zuiwan suspected that some kind of unclean thing had set its sights on her. With the major exams approaching, she was dreaming every day, and all the people in her dreams were ancient f 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Cosmic Edict: The Star Dome Collapses 寰宇律令：星穹崩塌 At the heart of the universe lies a fundamental “ecological law”: the Celestial Decree, maintained by the ancient civilization known as the Watchers. It forbids any civilization from permanently abandoning the material universe through “mind uploading,” preventing runaway quantum consciousness from contaminating the structure of space-time. Humanity’s groundbreaking “universal upload technology” triggers the Decree, bringing down the Correctors, a cosmic ecological cleanup program. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 After the Cool, Handsome Class President Was Pursued by the Bully 清冷校草被恶劣校霸缠上后 [Persistent, Malicious, Jealous School Bully Pursuer × Cool, Aristocratic, Two-Faced Campus Heartthrob Love Interest + University Campus + Two Male Leads + Rivals + Both Powerful + Both Chaste + HE] Lu Jinye is a notorious school bully at Kyoto University: arrogant, overbearing, vicious, and guilty of every kind of misdeed. He has another identity too: the younger son of the chairman of the Lu Group. With powerful backing, Lu Jinye has even the school administrators and teachers giving him spec 1.1kReads8.2Score122Shelves
- 31 A Sleepless Summer Night 未眠的夏夜 The secret crush that began in middle school slowly took root and grew through the days of high school. The summer night held the rhythm of a fluttering heart. Across opposite ends of the city, distance could not stop their hearts from leaping. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 My Village 我的村庄 I'm Niu Wa. Told in the first person, this story looks back on life in a remote village in southwestern Shandong during the 1980s. My father, Uncle Laogen, and my mother, Cuiying, raised my three older sisters and me. Amid the everyday warmth of an ordinary farming family, the story explores family bonds, youthful romance, and simple friendship. As the tide of the times rolled on, the village quietly changed. Three generations, from grandparents to parents to us, were continually pulled between —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A Supernatural Encounter on Campus: Redemption Across Time and Space 校园灵异奇遇：穿越时空的救赎 A Supernatural Campus Encounter: Redemption Across Time and Space —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 After I Transmigrated into a Book, My Husband Became the Male Lead 穿书后，我老公变成了男主 [Transmigrate Into a Book] [Yandere and Unhinged] [Redemption] Wen Shuran was complaining to her best friend about a video she'd recently watched. The male supporting character was incredibly handsome, but the screenwriter had killed him off. She swore she'd kill the screenwriter. In her dream, Wen Shuran chased after the screenwriter, demanding justice for the male supporting character and insisting he be brought back to life! Instead, she unexpectedly transmigrated into the novel and became it 996Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Last Frontline: Reset Edition 最后战线重置版 At 9:30 p.m. in the year 6001, the Anomaly suddenly appeared. Humanity reclaimed Earth from the Anomaly’s fog, and the years 5000 to 6000 became a golden age. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Ink Jade 墨珵 Jing Yu’an was the revered Lord Yu’an of Cangwu Peak, admired by thousands. Yet on his first trip to the human world after emerging from seclusion, he unexpectedly met Luo Lingxiu, the master of the Wansheng Hall. They met under ordinary identities: one was called Yun Jing, the other Ling Mochen. More than a hundred years later... “Ah Jing, I heard the peach blossoms on Yushan are in bloom.” “Good. Let’s go to Yushan, and not return to Qianjing Cliff.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Ten Years of Qi Refining, and My Spear Is More Driven Than I Am 凝气十年，我的枪比我还卷 Other cultivators compete over talent. Chen Yuan competes against time. Ten years after joining the sect, he's still stuck in the Qi Condensation Realm. Everyone says he'll never reach Foundation Establishment in this lifetime. Until one day Chen Yuan unexpectedly discovers a black spear in his sea of consciousness. The spear is strange. It can devour spiritual energy. It can devour spells. It can devour the power of weapons. It can even devour other people's cultivation techniques and divine ab 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Stand-In's Comeback: Lin Yuqing's Journey to Love 替身的逆袭：林雨晴的爱情之旅 The Stand-In's Reversal: Lin Yuqing's Journey to Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Past Lives and Present: The Legendary Love of Lu Chen and Lin Wan 前世今生：陆辰与林婉的传奇爱情 Past and Present Lives: The Legendary Love of Lu Chen and Lin Wan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Transmigrating into a Doomsday Campus: Love Blossoms Amid Survival 末日校园穿越：爱情在求生中绽放 Transmigrating into a Post-Apocalyptic School: Love Blossoms Amid the Fight to Survive —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Surviving the Campus Apocalypse: Holding On to Love and Hope 校园末日求生：爱情与希望的坚守 Surviving the Apocalypse on Campus: Holding On to Love and Hope 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Transmigrator's Secret Crush and Choices in Love in Ancient Times 穿越女的古代暗恋与爱情抉择 A Transmigrated Woman’s Secret Crush and Romantic Choices in Ancient Times —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Winding Road to Love for a Powerful CEO and His Adorable Child 豪门总裁与萌宝的坎坷爱情路 The Bumpy Road to Love for a CEO and His Adorable Child —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Transmigration: A Hilarious Love Adventure with My Yandere Childhood Friend 穿越：病娇青梅的搞笑爱情历险记 Transmigration: A Hilarious Romantic Adventure with a Lovably Obsessive Childhood Friend —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 With Help from a Star-Born Cutie, the Heroine Turns the Tables in the Apocalypse 星际萌宝助力，女主末世逆袭 A Starbound Cutie Helps the Heroine Turn the Tables in the Apocalypse —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Stand-In's Comeback and Romance in an Infinite-Flow Campus 校园无限流中的替身逆袭与爱恋 A Stand-In’s Comeback and Romance in an Infinite-Flow Campus Story —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Mistaken Heiress: A Reborn Romance After a Cruel Love Affair 错换千金：豪门虐恋后的重生爱恋 The Switched Heiress: A Reborn Romance After a Cruel Love Affair in the Billionaire World 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Lu Ting and Lin Yurou: The Legendary Love They Found Again 陆霆林雨柔：失而复得的真爱传奇 Lu Ting and Lin Yurou: The Legendary True Love They Found Again —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Transmigrator in an Ancient Dynasty: A Happy Romance with Her Adorable Child 穿越女在古朝：与萌宝的幸福爱恋 A Transmigrated Woman in an Ancient Dynasty: A Happy Romance with an Adorable Child —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Ashen Armor, No Return 烬甲无归 The Ashen Armor Has No Homecoming —Reads—Score—Shelves
