Novels like Specimen Zero
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- 1 Film and TV Crossover: I'm a Heartbreaker, So What? 综影视之我就是渣女，怎么了？ [Self-insert romance] [Mistress fiction] Recommended starting from the fourth world. Ashes of Love: Xu Feng, Runyu, Jin Mi A Journey to Love: Xie Zheng, Song Yan, Qi Min, Li Huaian Princess Agents: Yuwen Yue, Yan Xun, Yuan Song, Xiao Ce, Yuwen Huai, Wei Shuye, Yue Qi, Chu Qiao The Legend of the Female General: He Simu × Cang Xuan, Bai Zhi × Yan Ke × Duan Xu Empresses in the Palace: An Lingrong, adored by everyone The Legend of the Magnate: Xiao Wei, the drought demon Yan Bi, Mo Yuntan, twin but 855Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 EN Reborn as a Titan God: My Cells Are All Players 重生泰坦巨神，我的细胞全是玩家 (No romance + ensemble cast + Fourth Disaster + soft science fiction) Gu Yuan transmigrates into a Chaos Titan floating in the cosmic abyss, its body as vast as a star system. The bad news: he's on the verge of death, his body teeming with planet-devouring Void viruses, dimension-rending Abyssal parasites, and countless rebellious, cancerous followers. The good news: he awakens the [Divine Body System]. Using his [Dimensional Link] talent, he can connect to Blue Star and disguise the world insid 70.6kReads8.6Score9.5kShelves
- 3 I Bought the Sharp-Tongued Male Courtesan's Freedom: This Lady's Heart Aches 赎了刻薄男花魁：奴家心口疼 [Male Courtesan + Male Lead Will Become the Other Woman for Love] Everyone says Jiang Wuyou, head of the Jiang family of Liyang, has the face of a bodhisattva and the heart of a devil, and never makes a deal at a loss. Yet she spent a fortune to buy the freedom of Liu Se, a flamboyant and sharp-tongued male courtesan. He was beautiful, but mean, greedy, arrogant, and contemptuous of the poor. When they first met, he sneered at her: "Dressed that shabbily, even if you're a maid, you must be the o 9.8kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
- 4 Deep in the Clouds, Qingye; At Peace in My Thoughts, at Peace in My Heart 云深有清野，念安心自安 [A slow-burn small-town romance] [Long-haired, foxlike guitarist x overly composed, insecure female bookworm] [Yearning and push-and-pull] [They save each other] Xu Nian'an quits a dead-end job, only to be abandoned by her boyfriend of six years. Leaving behind a letter, she flees with a heart full of despair to Yunshen Town, a remote mountain town. She thinks all that remains of her life is learning to heal, unaware that the man who is always silent in the shadows and occasionally sharp-tongued 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Divine Right of Kings: I Am the Only Immortal in the World 君权神授：我是世间唯一仙 [Ensemble Cast] [Behind-the-Scenes] [Faith] [Alternate History] [Cultivation and Sci-Fi] [No Female Lead] The animated series I Am the Immortal of This World is now available. Search for it to watch. The modern arc is the second volume: 224 chapters in the pseudo-modern arc, and 334 chapters in the modern arc. If gods and immortals really existed, how would history have unfolded? Also known as The World's Only Cultivator, Worshipped by All and I Created the Celestial Court and the Underworld. Cu 41.9kReads8.2Score4.2kShelves
- 6 I Kissed the Ghost King by Force from the Start, and Now the Whole World Wants Me to Keep a Low Profile 开局强吻诡王，全球求我低调点 [One-on-one / yandere, cold beauty with a volatile streak vs. sunny, shrewd college guy who jealously guards what's his / thrilling power fantasy / no hiatus / growing love and mutual healing / the Myriad Worlds] When the gods toy with humanity under the guise of a “game”: Become a god, or turn to ash. Xu Yan is thrown into the core of the eerie realm from the start: The Red-Clad Forbidden Zone, with a survival rate of 0.03%. Facing certain death, Xu Yan is forced to sign a “marriage contract” w 187Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Asakura, Saint on the Outside, Demon on the Inside 外圣内魔的浅仓同学 After nine lives of wickedness, can you do one good deed every day in this life? “Of course!” “So confident?” The angel was astonished. “Ha! Look at my handsome face, gentle personality, selfless generosity, and sincere love. If I'm not a good person, who is?” Asakura Naru declared. “So flirting with innocent women everywhere counts as good deeds now?” “Fair enough.” In short, this is probably a Tokyo-style romance novel. 12.1kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 8 Who Says She’s Just Support? 谁说她只是辅助？ [Rebirth + Academy League + Superpowers + Unrequited Love Becomes Mutual + Light Ensemble Cast] Song Qinglan had once had her body taken over by someone who had transmigrated into her world. She could only watch as one person after another whom she treasured died. Now she had been reborn. She returned to the moment the transmigrator suffered a mental breakdown, reclaimed her body, and crawled off the battlefield covered in blood. The first thing she asked when she saw someone was, “Is Jiang Ze s 571Reads—Score107Shelves
- 9 Can I Still See the Girl Who Lies in My Heart? 躺在心底的那个她，还能见到吗？ Will I ever see the one who lies deep in my heart again? 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Neighbor's Young Wife Schemed Against Me and Ruined Half My Life 隔壁小媳妇算计我，毁我半生 [Period drama] [Northeastern factory district] [Forbidden affair] [Deception and schemes] [Pregnancy troubles] [Long-buried secrets] [Redemption through guilt] [A painfully realistic tragedy] In a northeastern chemical factory neighborhood in the 1980s, the life of honest factory worker Jia Jun is ruined by the young wife next door! One act of misplaced trust draws him into the enormous lie Su Min has spun. One wrong step, and he's trapped in a forbidden affair, lost beyond redemption! An unexpe 5.6kReads8.1Score268Shelves
- 11 Sunny Skies Above the Humble Life 鸡毛之上有晴天 [Marriage and love] [Heartbreak] [Betrayal] [Comeback] [Redemption] [The truth about marriage] [Urban romance] [Realistic relationships] [Healing] A broken marriage has worn away every last trace of warmth, leaving two lives utterly out of step! He fought his way up from being a low-level technician at a chemical plant, only to have his own brother steal his hard work and stab him in the back! His former lover suffers through pregnancy; old love and hatred entangle them, betrayal cuts deep, devo 1.2kReads8.1Score104Shelves
- 12 The Fake Heiress Goes Wild with Her Illness, and the Young Master She Saved Clings to Her 假千金持病发癫，救的真少爷求贴 [Short-Tempered, Sexually Cold-Hot Pepper X Lovesick, Pretty Peacock, Poor Little Thing] In her previous life, Zhen Daiyu was nicknamed the powder keg. She died after her scheming boss smashed her over the head with an ashtray for ruining his plans. When she opened her eyes again, she was in an unfamiliar world, a fake heiress who had been thrown out of a psychiatric hospital and swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills in a rented apartment. Reborn and already crazy from the start, Zhen Daiyu 576Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Working Down South: Those Wild Years 南下打工，风流的那些年 This is a story about Dongguan. After graduating from college, I couldn’t find a job. My cousin was working in the south, so I went to stay with him. My cousin was a carefree sort who dressed like a gangster every day. He took me to internet cafes, played pool with me, and treated me to late-night snacks. Life in the south was slow and easygoing. My cousin was my mentor. He found me a job and showed me how to eat, drink, and enjoy life. My cousin and I had a great time fooling around, but then h 332Reads7.5Score100Shelves
- 14 Back Before You Became the Light 回到你成为光之前 [Qi Shengnan × Shen Yanzhou → one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first + fictional setting + mutual salvation + a touch of ensemble cast] When Qi Shengnan was six, she once met a very handsome person in the park near her home. Strangely, a red scarf was draped over his thigh. She gave him a strawberry-flavored candy and her umbrella too... When high school began, Qi Shengnan ended up in the same class as Shen Yanzhou, the top student in the city. She ran, he chased, and she wished s 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Obsessive Female CEO Has Lost It, and the Villain Gets Kissed Until He Cries 偏执女霸总疯了，反派被亲哭 [Devoted Romance + Lighthearted + Subverting the Usual Tropes + Two Strong Leads, Obsessive Female CEO X Adorable Rabbit-like Villain] A nobody transmigrates into a book as a female CEO, and the System actually wants her to play a pervert? Obsessive System 009: “Host, maintain your obsessive persona to complete your domineering-love missions. Fail, and funds will be deducted from your existing inheritance. Succeed, and you'll get money back.” Wait, money back? Well, money doesn't matter. She jus 838Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Days in Public Relations 我当公关的那些日子 You probably won’t believe me when I tell you what I do for a living. You’re a liar! That’s right! I make a living telling tall tales and keeping people company as they chat. Anyone can spin a yarn, but I might be the first to turn it into a respectable profession and earn tens of millions a year! I spend all day spinning stories to women, talking nonsense nonstop, and somehow they still like me and are willing to pay me. The secret to business: It doesn’t matter what you’re selling, even if it’ 8.9kReads7.5Score650Shelves
- 17 Why Is This Sweet Host a Villainess? 甜系宿主她怎么是恶女 GL, one-on-one romance with a protagonist who appears in different roles across the arcs. Zhouzhou has a bit of a universal charmer vibe. Industrial-strength sugar (not really), no logic, and some arcs move at a slow pace. Zhouzhou is a laid-back, lazy top who isn’t particularly domineering. A passionate Host who spends all day trying to get high scores and complete missions vs. a System that’s been thoroughly battered by reality and has become a couch potato. “What’s our wish? The stars and the 306Reads—Score103Shelves
- 18 As a Girl Everyone Loves, Shouldn't I Be Proud of My Players? 身为万人迷，我玩家骄傲了吗 Fourth Disaster + multiple secret identities + a player everyone loves + no romance As a gaming enthusiast, Jiang Wei became a moderately well-known game tester not long after losing her job. Her main task is to test the gameplay experience of various games. She takes on all sorts of identities in the games: Yuan San, the River God's bride, trapped for her entire life in a small mountain village with no way out; Xu Lingyuan, the city lord's daughter, who wept as she sent the little beggar away w 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Boyfriend Who Cheated First 主动出轨的男友 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Bystander Female Lead Is Loved by Everyone 路人女配她被所有人爱着 Ordinary girl + Tomie-like, universally captivating beauty + everyone has one-sided feelings for her + turning gay men straight After accidentally transmigrating into a boys' love novel, unlucky Wen Yang has no intention of getting involved in this ridiculous plot. She even manages to spend eighteen years after transmigrating into a book as a mere background female character. After she accidentally encounters a strange woman on a moonless night, Wen Yang is cursed. The curse is called... love? W 2.9kReads—Score281Shelves
- 21 Imprisoned for 100 Days by a Celestial Dragon 【女囚男】对天龙人的百日监禁 Stockholm syndrome: When a victim develops an emotional attachment to their abuser. A variation on the domineering CEO imprisoning his canary. This is a captivity-and-taming story where the heroine imprisons the domineering CEO. It is not a 4i romance, just a regular harem romance with a popular heroine. After the imprisoned CEO falls for the heroine, he becomes afraid she’ll abandon him and will do whatever it takes to come back. The second man she imprisoned was the president of the Jiang Cor 127Reads8.4Score122Shelves
- 22 Stranded on a Deserted Island: I Have to Survive! 流落荒岛 必须活下去！ A plane crashes, leaving its passengers stranded on a deserted island's shore. Among the survivors is Fan Jian, a special forces soldier from the Marine Corps, who searches everywhere for other survivors. They scrape together a group of nineteen women and one lone man. Fan Jian leads everyone in their fight to survive. They start with a small makeshift shelter and eventually settle down for good. They need a leader, someone to make the decisions. As they compete for limited resources, more than 1kReads7.7Score230Shelves
- 23 Beauty Is the Deadliest Weapon 美色是最强杀器 I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I lov 625Reads—Score120Shelves
- 24 How Could the Villainess Be So Adored? 女配怎么会被痴迷 P.S. A harem of men, not a universally adored heroine. Steady updates, and pretty surreal content. Gender-bending, love at first sight (a lot of it), a challenge to resist falling in love, and the men aren't necessarily virgins. A girl who had never been loved made a desperate wish: to be loved by someone forever. Her powerful obsession drew an unknown being into this world, though it should never have existed here. A gaze as pure as a god's, yet terrifying, follows you. That unknown being is li 1.6kReads—Score100Shelves
- 25 My Conquest Target Still Thinks I'm Infatuated with Him Today 攻略对象今天也以为我在迷恋他 My Conquest Target Still Thinks I'm Infatuated with Him Today 297Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 EN Don’t Read This Book, or You Might Defy Fate and Change Your Destiny 别看这本书我怕你逆天改命 This is nothing more than an ordinary online novel. It is nowhere near as miraculous as fellow readers claim! The only reason you can click to read it is that your luck has already begun to change. When you start from the first chapter and read carefully, the gears of your destiny may already have begun to turn. 386.6kReads9.4Score60.7kShelves
- 27 Don't Mess with That Miaojiang Boy, He's Twisted and Sadistic 别惹那个苗疆少年，他病娇又变态 [Print edition signed, awaiting release] [Exclusive 1v1 Romance + Healing + Sweet Romance + Happy Ending] [Straightforward Sweetheart x Sharp-Tongued, Brooding Tsundere] Original title: Don’t Mess with That Miaojiang Boy, He’s Obsessive and Twisted When Chai Xiaomi reads how the righteous female side character tries to stop the villain from planting a love gu in the heroine, only to be eaten by venomous insects until not a bone remains, she shudders in silence. She is stung to death by a poisono 82.3kReads9.4Score14.5kShelves
- 28 The Impostor's Observation Log 伪装者的观测日志 [Dark] Series 2 Jiang Wang is called the perfect test subject for “love.” Though she has the ability to make everyone fall in love with her, she can't understand how the purest human emotions come into being. By a twist of fate, during that great fire, a System named 012 came to her. Together, they embarked on a new journey, beginning an observer's tour of the world of pretenders... PS: Baby Jiang Wang is a master of disguise. She can imitate the appearance and emotions of people she has seen a 579Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Wicked Heartthrob's Quick Transmigration: Trapped in a Shura Field 恶毒万人迷快穿之深陷修罗场 [Villain Harem] ✔ [Legend of the White Snake] ✔ [The Lotus Lantern] ✔ [The Sea's Son] Swear to the heavens, curse you to live forever ✔ [Trashy Female Alpha] ✔ [Undercover Senior Sister] Black turned white: the immortal sect's chief disciple, but a spy for the demonic path ✔ [The Investiture of the Gods] The defiant King of Shang, determined to take everyone down ✔ [Corpse of the King] She is an emperor, but she is not human ✔ [Sinking in the Deep Sea] A villainous researcher and a little mermai 4.5kReads8.9Score427Shelves
- 30 Brother, You’re Really Something 兄弟，你可真行 Bro, you really are something. 360Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Quick Transmigration: The Heartthrob Is Always Getting Hit On 快穿：万人迷总被碰瓷 [Everyone’s favorite + unbelievably gorgeous + no couples + love at first sight + Rongmei lives for herself and loves her freedom] Each world has only one-sided crushes, with no secondary couples. With multiple male leads, the heroine comes off as rather fickle. She has no unrequited-love storyline. The writing is awkwardly self-indulgent, with an over-the-top, artsy style and a stream-of-consciousness plot. No male or female lead or supporting character who appears in the story is vilified. The 2.6kReads9.0Score147Shelves
- 32 After the Walk-On Character Got an Everyone-Loves-Me Aura 路人甲拥有万人迷光环后 A quick transmigration story. The heroine is an ordinary person with an ordinary appearance and a mild personality. She really is ordinary! All the handsome guys fall in love with her at first sight. It’s the ultimate Mary Sue story! Everyone has a one-sided crush on her, so if that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Thanks for understanding. [A lot of readers couldn’t accept the first world. You can take a look at the settings revealed in the conversation with the System in Chapter 11, then s 9.9kReads9.1Score588Shelves
- 33 Diary from a Conversion Therapy Center 戒同所日记 A diary recording the final two months of my life... Maybe I'm just not meant to be loved. Otherwise, why would everyone who loved me leave? 12.6kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 34 When I'm in the Rules Horror Game, Nothing Is Forbidden 当我在规则怪谈百无禁忌 [No female lead + supernatural horror + mental illness + comedy + national destiny] My name is Su Ming, and I'm a transmigrator. I currently work at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, where I'm in charge of the important project of “being studied.” They keep saying I'm sick, but I know I'm fine. It's the world that's sick. After I escaped from the psychiatric hospital, I was chosen by Rule Horror to become Longguo's chosen participant, representing Longguo in the upcoming horror games. [Ding! The Ho 65.5kReads9.6Score7.5kShelves
- 35 Talk Trash and Win Prizes 对骂就有奖 Hao Tie was treated like a pack mule and was about to hit rock bottom because he refused to keep living like one. Then he suddenly got a System that rewarded him for trading insults! From then on, he used verbal sparring to reach the pinnacle of success! 24.5kReads7.1Score1.1kShelves
- 36 EN Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手，邪神也得给我跪下！ [Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov 696.8kReads9.4Score50.3kShelves
- 37 EN Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊 (Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho 493.7kReads9.7Score71.7kShelves
- 38 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
- 39 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 525.3kReads9.5Score41.9kShelves
- 40 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择：这个御兽师有亿点生猛 [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 178.3kReads9.7Score21.4kShelves
- 41 EN Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你 [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 310.7kReads9.8Score31.1kShelves
- 42 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5kShelves
- 43 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 44 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves
- 45 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 538.9kReads9.7Score71.1kShelves
- 46 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
