Novels like Talent: Idol’s Second Act
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- 151 Urban Temptations: Love, Intoxicating as Poison 都市诱惑，人间中毒 Urban temptation, intoxicated by life. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 The Lazy God Cultivates 懒神修仙 Xu Renjie, a good-for-nothing with all five spiritual roots, is widely known in the cultivation world as the ultimate slacker. While others cultivate, he sunbathes. While others fight over treasures, he takes a nap. When refining pills, others proceed with extreme caution. Xu Renjie dumps ten batches of ingredients into one cauldron so he can have more days to play. If the furnace explodes, that's a perfect excuse for a break. A beast tide arrives? He doesn't even lift an eyelid. He pats the spi 721Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Lida's Wish 丽达的心愿 [A serf girl accused of witchcraft after breaking up a couple from the start: how can she survive the medieval witch-hunting frenzy?] [Alternate history | Western Middle Ages | A turbulent era and its many characters | Vocational ideals | Love and friendship | Realism] [If this time we choose love, kindness, and courage, could things turn out differently?] Theme: A story about love, growth, understanding, and healing Events: The witch hunts, the Renaissance, the Reformation Elements: A serf r 166Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 After Heaven's Army Attacked, the Great Sage and I Joined Forces to Slay the Gods 天庭来袭后，我和大圣共赴斩神榜 [Multiple Heroines] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Ensemble Cast] [Steal Divine Powers] [Careful, Step-by-Step Farming] The mortal Li Chanshe sacrificed himself to save someone and ascended to the Celestial Court, only to become a crippled immortal. His cultivation stalled, and his life hung by a thread beneath the fangs of an immortal beast! At the brink of death, a shocking truth came to light. The turbid energy that every banished immortal dreaded becoming tainted by was the one-of-a-kind source of 2.6kReads9.4Score275Shelves
- 155 After Reincarnating as a Seductive Fox Spirit, I Became the Beloved of Beijing’s Buddhist Heir 钓系魅狐穿成真千金后，我成了京圈佛子的心尖宠 After Reincarnating as a Flirtatious Fox Spirit in the Real Heiress’s Body, I Became the Apple of the Capital’s Buddhist Prince’s Eye 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 This Dharma Says, Let There Be Light 本法说，要有光 [Legal Fantasy] [Path to Godhood] [Cthulhu Mythos] [Corruption] [One Female Lead] [Pure Love] [Dystopia] "Teacher, why is Earth the only place in the galaxy with life?" "Because that's what the law says." "Then where did light come from?" The teacher flipped through the legal code. "I know this one. The law says, 'Let there be light!'" The technology and civilization of the past have fallen silent, and an unprecedented power now rules the new world. It is neither arcane, inscrutable magic nor ce 383Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 Bound to a Social Death System, I Kissed the Ice-Cold CEO in Public 绑定社死系统，我当众强吻了冰山总裁 Bound to a Public Humiliation System, I kissed the icy CEO in front of everyone 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 You Punk, Stop Right There! 痞子，你给我站住！ [Double Male Leads + Rekindled Love + Childhood Friends + Devoted Top + Bottom Who Thinks He's the Top] Roguish, shameless, energetic bottom VS devoted, gentle, beautiful top His childhood friend, dead for many years, appears in a border town. Could the notorious local troublemaker really be the legendary painter who vanished years ago? Ling Shumo couldn't help but embrace him. “Do you know what I'd be like without you in this world?” Before the promise, one man answered with a calm expression. 374Reads—Score105Shelves
- 159 Undercover? Three Years, Then Three More, and I Became the Demonic Sect's Leader 卧底？三年又三年我成了魔道掌教 [Undercover Agent] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Invincible Power Fantasy] + [Hilarious] + [Beautiful Senior Disciple] Li Xing is an oddball in the cultivation world. While everyone else wants to seek the Dao and become an immortal, all he wants is to lie flat and become a peaceful elder. For the sake of a happy sex life, he risked everything to go undercover in a demonic sect. Three years! “Elder, it's been three years. Can I go back now?” “Wait a little longer. The sect is thriving, and we stil 7.3kReads7.9Score796Shelves
- 160 I’m Going Wild in the Update-Halt Management Bureau 我在断更管理局癫翻全世界 [Comedic Infinite-Flow + Unhinged Power Fantasy + Absurd Humor + Slow-Burn, Sweet 1v1 Romance] [Fill-In-the-Blanks Agent Who Goes Wild vs. Cross-Dimensional Sucker of a CEO] Jiang Mian transmigrates into an abruptly discontinued novel. The moment she opens her eyes, her own mother has her strapped to an operating table, ready to harvest her kidneys. The System pops up with an announcement: "Welcome to the Abruptly Discontinued Novel Management Bureau!" Job description: Become the heroine of an u 335Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Welcome Back to the Nightmare's Beginning 欢迎回到噩梦起点 (Infinite survival, puzzle-solving, mild horror) Late at night, Shao Jie stumbled sleepily toward the bathroom. The instant he opened the door, the whole world spun upside down! When he came to, he found himself in a gloomy, terrifying otherworld. There, he was forced to take part in a horrifying survival game: eerie footsteps sounded outside the door during the midnight room inspections, villagers mysteriously vanished from a remote village every night, and worst of all... the woman who had onc 15.8kReads7.8Score1.7kShelves
- 162 Keep Sleeping, Don’t Wake Up 继续睡，不要醒 [Infinite Dreams + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Horror + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Bizarre + Romance + Sophisticated] Lin Du has been dreaming ever since he was born. He often wakes with a start in some strange room and desperately flees to a subway station, only to discover that his every move is being livestreamed and everyone is watching. When he rushes out of the subway, he finds himself sitting in a car with no end, where every passenger is horrifyingly strange. The car stops at one st 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 The Top Outdoor Adventure Streamer Nearly Died Live on Camera 户外探险第一网红，差点死在直播间 The biggest outdoor adventure streamer nearly died live on camera 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Whoever I Write About Dies: First My Best Friend, Then My Ex-Girlfriend 我写谁谁死，先写好兄弟，再写前女友 Whoever I write about dies. First my best friend, then my ex-girlfriend 175Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 When the Wind Rises, the Clouds Soar 风禾尽起云飞扬 I was born to a military family in Yunzhou, on the frontier. My youth was marred by hardship, and I was sent far beyond the border. After surviving countless brushes with death, I finally returned. Then my father and brothers were framed, and I had no choice but to come to the capital to save them. Heaven be praised, they were unharmed. The emperor showed me kindness, and I bore him a son. In times of crisis, I rooted out treacherous officials, defended against foreign enemies, and safeguarded t —Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 166 National Fate Survival: My Skills Are a Little Too Powerful 国运求生：我的技能有亿点点多 [National-fate survival, livestreaming, infrastructure, farming, wilderness survival, no female lead] Su Han transmigrated to Blue Star, only to find it struck by an apocalyptic calamity. The planet’s resources were almost completely depleted in just three years. Then national-fate survival suddenly began! Three contestants would be randomly selected from each country to enter the Savage Realm. Whenever a contestant died, their country’s national fate would be reduced. If it fell below a certain 146.7kReads8.2Score11.6kShelves
- 167 The Eldest Daughter Doesn't Feel Like Being Sensible Today Either 嫡长女今天也不想懂事 The Legitimate Eldest Daughter Doesn't Want to Behave Today Either 96Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 Online Game: Players Across the Server Beg Me for a Talisman 网游：全服玩家跪求我一张符箓 [Online game + Taoism + ensemble cast + power fantasy + comedy + nation-versus-nation wars + puzzles + strategy + dungeons in every style + nothing spills over into reality] From the start, Li Guiyi accidentally obtains the only hidden Taoist class on the server, setting him on the path to becoming a god and dominating the game. Want to fight? Sure! How about a spell Gatling gun and a fixed-position turret? I just happen to carry more than twenty different kinds of talismans, over ten thousand i 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 A Scumbag Wants to Marry for My Money? I’ll Leave Him Penniless! 渣男想吃绝户？我让他倾家荡产！ That scumbag wants to marry into my family and take everything? I’ll leave him penniless! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Creatures of the Three Realms, Listen Up: I Am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Titiankong 三界众生，听好了，我乃齐天大圣孙替空 Hear me, all beings of the Three Realms! I am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Tifukong 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 After Being Dumped, the Regent King Turned Dark 被甩后，摄政王黑化了 (Just got its rating) [Two male leads + mutually faithful + two equally strong leads + tsundere, hopelessly devoted regent top + mischievous young marquis bottom + rekindled love + angst before sweetness] Seven years ago, on the day Shen Jinghan left the capital, he never looked back. Seven years later, he returned to the capital covered in wounds, and went to the Prince Regent's residence on his very first night back. He begged Xiao Che to save the Shen family and the supply route to the northe 3.1kReads8.2Score358Shelves
- 172 Obsessive Madmen Fight to Claim Me, and the Reborn Scumbag Ends Up on His Knees 偏执疯批又挣又抢，重生渣男全跪 388Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 The Song of Flute and Sword 笙箫剑鸣 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Detective, Innocence, and the Future 侦探，天真与未来 “You, be my assistant!” A girl calling herself Rochitar appears before him. When the logic of deduction falls apart and the mind evolves into fists, is this an awakening or a descent? Forged over 1,660 days, seventy souls blaze through nine volumes of epic. From the depths of mystery to a frenzy of supernatural powers, a new-generation tale of superpowered battles begins! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 I Want to Be Rich 我要做个有钱人 In 2023, Lin Hua was buried in debt because of the mask shortage during the pandemic. While hiking on Baiyun Mountain, he heard a debt collector harassing him over the phone. He accidentally fell from a high stairway near the summit and crashed into Chen Nan, a simpleton. Their souls switched bodies. There was no transmigrate, no System, no reborn, and no golden finger. It was simply an ordinary soul swap between two people, in a story of urban life, entrepreneurship, romance, and messy love and 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Divine Punishment Descends 神罚莅临 The virtuous suffer poverty and die young, while the wicked enjoy wealth and long lives. When you are oppressed by evil, have you ever wished, even for a moment, that the underworld existed? If it did, would you dare to peer into it for even one-millionth of a second? The year quantum computing underwent a revolution, Company R offered an answer: the Cyber Underworld. Professor Qi Yuan used computer simulations to resurrect sinners in a virtual world after death, where they would endure eternal 222Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 During the Divorce Cooling-Off Period, I Inherited My Husband’s Estate 离婚冷静期，我继承了丈夫的遗产 During the divorce cooling-off period, I inherited my husband’s estate 191Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 High Martial: I Become Strong Against My Will Through Infinite Soul Transmigration 高武：从无限魂穿开始被迫变强 At the moment the Antarctic entered its long night, an unknown "thing" slipped past the eternal laws of nature. And so the fusion began... As the fusion brought more intelligent life forms, reproductive isolation arose between the fused beings and the old forms of life. The era when nations were divided by human political systems came to an end, and the era of nations classified by species officially began. Four hundred years later, a college student transmigrated from the underground world to t 175Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Apocalypse: The Holy Armored Soldier, Definitely Not EVA! 末世之圣装机兵，真不是EVA！ [Apocalypse + hard sci-fi + no System, no golden finger + Lovecraftian horror + interstellar war + invincible] As the shadow of destruction blots out the sky, humanity's civilization has only seven days left. That day, a god descended without warning over Tokyo. With absolute power, it declared the end of the old era, turning a prosperous world into scorched earth and wasteland in just one week... The survivors cling to life in despair. To reclaim their lost home, they pour every resource the 578Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 From the Start, a Jinx! Everyone Kneels and Begs Me to Keep Quiet 开局乌鸦嘴！全员跪求别开口 Everyone is waiting for the country bumpkin girl to leave in disgrace? Little do they know that this country girl has a whole stack of secret identities and is a big shot in every field. The most unbelievable and exasperating thing about her is that everything she says with her jinxing mouth comes true! The moment she speaks, payback strikes! No delays! Her adopted sister acts helpless at every turn and lays traps at every opportunity, doing everything she can to drag her into the mire! And her 54Reads—Score113Shelves
- 181 A Life of Lying Low in the Brocade-Clad Guard 苟在锦衣夜行的人生 His younger brother, who shared his mother but not his father, went missing. Bai Yu opened the black suitcase the boy had left under the bed and understood one thing: The world is a bride beneath a veil. Whoever lifts her veil, she belongs to him. Fifty years spent cloaked in luxury, walking unseen through the night. Life is like dust beneath the bright moon. 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 The Domineering Tomato Falls for Me 霸道番茄爱上我 A warning: this story is completely unhinged, so a lot of it makes no logical sense. I came up with it on a whim, and didn't want to dampen my creative enthusiasm by writing an outline first. The plot covers a lot of ground and jumps around quickly, so I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Zhou Yanzi woke up to find herself entangled with a tomato, who claimed to be the man she loved. Zhou Yanzi: “But you're a tomato.” Tomato: “You've been thinking about me every night, so I came. Woman, why 1kReads8.2Score135Shelves
- 183 Financial Ruin 破財 Dead... They're dead. The day the secret sealed away for nine years was revealed, everyone in Yunshui Town died! In the past, Cen Ziyu always thought the mountain demon that ate children was just a bizarre tale the adults had made up to scare them. Until one day, he uneasily remembered something. When he was little... he had eaten a person! Cen Ziyu and his grandmother depend on each other. Their life is hard, but the uncles and aunties in Yunshui Town have always been kind to them, ofte 286Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 Stockpiling Supplies in the Apocalypse: I Have Your Dad's Survival System 末世空间囤货：我有你爹生存系统 “Sis, are we making a baby together again today?” Reborn and returned from the apocalypse, she sees everyone else fighting to survive, but she picks up a sweet little puppy of a guy who spends every day acting cute, while stockpiling supplies in her space alongside the “Your Dad” System. The most ridiculous part is that the Your Dad System is also obsessed with dressing up. It can transform into a Pretty Guardian Sailor Warrior at any moment, and it even unilaterally cuts down the space availabl 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Three Words Revealed My Husband’s Affair 三个字，让我发现老公出轨 Three words were all it took to make me discover my husband’s affair 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Hello, Ghost Bride. I Think We've Met Somewhere Before 你好阴婚娘子，我好像在哪见过你 [White Moonlight + Local Legends + A Dream of Yellow Millet] Jiang Chen was born in the yin year, on the Ghost Festival, at the yin hour. He was born with an ill-fated destiny and a heavy yin aura. Rumor had it that he had caused his parents' deaths. To ward off the calamity fated to befall him when he came of age, he had no choice but to enter into a ghost marriage. But the bride from this ghost marriage looked more and more familiar to him. It was as if he'd seen her somewhere before. 2.1kReads—Score147Shelves
- 187 My Secret-Crush Comic Went Viral, and the CEO Himself Is Begging for Updates 暗恋漫画爆火，霸总亲自催更 Her secret-crush comic goes viral, and the domineering CEO personally begs her for updates. 381Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Douluo Dalu: My Martial Soul Is Bemular 斗罗：我的武魂是贝蒙斯坦 After transmigrating into Douluo, Yu Jin, an ordinary college student, discovers that his Martial Soul is Bemular! As he grumbles to himself about how transmigrating should at least have gotten him a good awakening, a System called “Monstrous Beast Supremacy” suddenly appears. “Ding! The Host has been detected to possess the bloodline of a Reionics. Host, control the space monster Bemular and survive this battle royale to the very end.” 10Reads—Score192Shelves
- 189 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 2.7kReads—Score255Shelves
- 190 I Grow Stronger by Devouring the Dead, but the Goddess Wants to Devour Me 我靠吞噬死者变强，女神却想吞我 [Urban high martial arts + varied supernatural abilities + new power system + no System / but a loot-box-style golden finger + intelligent protagonist who grows stronger + satisfying story with brains + mind games and martial combat] Lin Mo is a cleanup worker for the Special Affairs Administration in Shenzhen, tasked with handling the affairs of unclaimed "lonely deaths." During a routine funeral, he unexpectedly awakens the supernatural ability "Echoes of Last Wishes": by touching a dead pers 353Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Thunderous Edo Sticker 雷霆江户贴 She is the thunder from Genshin Impact, yet steps into the warmth of everyday life, carving “eternity” into the space between absurdity and epic grandeur. When she first arrives in Edo, she topples the Tokugawa shogunate and brings a new everyday life to everyone amid the bustle of Kabukicho. Strawberry milk from the Odd Jobs crew, mayonnaise from the Shinsengumi, the first glimmer of dawn over the ruins of Yoshiwara: from the Raijin who once sat enthroned in her castle, she becomes a country b 2kReads8.6Score151Shelves
- 192 Mystic Arts Streamer Live: Your Remaining Lifespan Is Running Low 玄学主播在线：你的阳寿余额不足 Who is she? She’s the ultimate master of mystic arts, going viral across the internet by livestreaming fortune-telling and making all three realms bow to her! With a single sentence, she can tell whether an editor is a homewrecker. She’ll beat a vicious ghost until its soul is scattered, then angrily demand to know why a college student thinks she’s unfit to write novels! She’s so infamous in the underworld that everyone trembles at the mention of her, honoring her as the Great Fiend! She’s slep 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 Wildflowers Bloom at the World's End 末日野草开花 Order collapsed in an instant. The neon lights of civilization were swallowed by the wasteland of the apocalypse, and simply staying alive became the most extravagant stroke of luck. Chen Mingfei never imagined he would be swept into a catastrophe engulfing the entire world. From a frantic fight for life and death in a hospital to the despairing struggle to survive in a dead, empty city, he is forced to wage a long and brutal battle with death amid the ruins. Here, suffocating cold snaps and na 2kReads—Score197Shelves
- 194 Slay the Gods: A Mysterious Invasion? Then Let's Have a Midnight Snack! 斩神：神秘入侵？那今晚加餐！ Xu Xiaoman had been unable to taste anything for eighteen years, yet she had always helped out in her family's little restaurant. She measured seasoning by the gram, judged the heat by the bubbles, and guessed whether a dish was salty or bland by watching the customers' expressions. Then, on the night the restaurant was closing, a masked monster burst into the kitchen. The creature's flesh, bones, and the core hidden inside suddenly appeared in layers before her eyes. When a trace of mysterious 135Reads—Score102Shelves
- 195 A Mortal's Quest for Immortality 凡骨求长生 [Mortal Cultivation] [Traditional Wuxia] [Witty and Humorous] [Logical Deduction] [Lopsided Genius] [One Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] This book has no fast-food-style, three-chapter hook, no exhilarating face-slapping from the start, and focuses on plot, careful buildup, and deeply rooted characters. The protagonist is an ordinary mortal, an undocumented resident of the immortal realm. His talents and shortcomings are sharply defined. He is no transmigrated or reborn overpowered hero, with neith 835Reads8.1Score232Shelves
- 196 Born with a Bewitching Charm and Overwhelmed by Desire, I’m Spoiled by Beijing’s Most Eligible Heir 天生媚骨遇上极度高热，我被京圈太子爷宠上天 Born with an irresistible allure and struck by a scorching fever, I became the pampered darling of the capital's most powerful young heir. 14.2kReads—Score123Shelves
- 197 We Married by Contract, and My Chaste Husband Helped Me Take Down Seven Unhinged Groomsmen 契约成婚，禁欲老公帮我反杀了七个疯批伴郎 A Contract Marriage: My Abstinent Husband Helped Me Take Down Seven Insane Groomsmen 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 Life as an Extra in a Cultivation World 在修仙世界做路人日子 Li Xiaoniu is an ordinary passerby, as ordinary as they come. So why do I have a spiritual root? Why was I assigned to live with the male lead? Why do I have to take the blame for him? And why do I have to deliver a letter from the female lead to him? Please stop treating me like a useful tool. Even passersby have their dignity… Years later, looking at the male and female leads living in blissful wedded harmony, and the pile of gorgeous supporting heroines tossed my way, I suddenly think this is 6kReads8.1Score475Shelves
- 199 The Son I Raised for Five Years Isn’t Mine, and His Birth Mother Secretly Switched Our Babies 养5年的儿子不是亲生，亲妈竟偷偷换走我的娃 The son I raised for five years isn’t mine, and his biological mother secretly switched him with my baby 165Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 Reborn as a Concubine Forced to Die as a Sacrifice, I Had the Mad Prince Begging Me to Live 穿成了殉葬太妃，疯批皇叔跪求我别死 Reborn as a concubine doomed to die with the emperor, I had the mad prince kneel and beg me not to die 163Reads—Score—Shelves
