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- 1 Doomsday: Hey, Zombie King, Ever Tried a Nuclear Bomb? 末日：尸王兄，吃过核弹么？ [Reborn in an Ancient-Style Apocalypse + Passionate Slaughter + Goddesses Pursue Him + Over-the-Top Wish Fulfillment] On day 101 after being reborn, the zombies have reached the tenth tier under the influence of supernatural powers. On day 2,980, Lu Chen holds a quantum disintegration blade from the 26th century in his left hand and the long-lost Maoshan “Five Thunder Orthodox Method” in his right. Grinning down from the city wall, he says, “Everyone, welcome to the hardcore age of the apocalyps 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reborn to Find My Wicked Mother-in-Law Making Me Kneel to Serve Her Tea 睁眼重生恶毒婆婆让我跪着敬茶 This book is entirely fictional. It tells the story of Li Xiaowan, a wealthy young woman from Zhejiang who marries for love and moves to the mountains of Guizhou, only to have her money stolen by her scumbag husband’s family and be tortured to death, pregnant with her child. Reborn on her wedding day, she takes the spirit of her unborn daughter and sets out on a path of revenge, repaying blood with blood. “I died in a mass grave in the mountains of Guizhou. Wild dogs chewed me down to the bone, 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 My Best Friend's Sweet Trap 闺蜜的甜蜜陷阱 A high salary, vacations, and a best friend: it was all a trap. Tian Xiangxiang’s social media posts were fake, her friendship with me was fake, and she was a complete and utter liar. After I was tricked into going to northern Myanmar, I endured a living hell every day. Here, there are only two kinds of people: those who deceive and those who are deceived. I want to be the one who gets out, and I’ll pay any price to escape! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Don’t Be Afraid, Honey. I’ll Play This Game of Chess With You 老婆别怕，这盘棋我陪你下 [Urban fantasy / Rebirth / Mystery / Revenge] After being reborn, Jiang Chen thought his previous life had been nothing more than a messy love affair and a business feud. But as he prepares to marry his childhood sweetheart, a company president, and sets out to take revenge, he discovers that his scheming ex, her lover, and even his wife’s family are all pawns of a vast multinational organization called Ark! Both his death in his previous life and his wife’s predicament were part of the organiza —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Floating Life in Dongguan: The Sisters’ Love and Hate 东莞浮生：姐姐们的爱恨 [Urban life + Life among Dongguan’s working class + Personal growth + Love, hate, and tangled relationships] This is not the story of one person, but a realistic ensemble portrait of working-class men and women in Dongguan, centered on the protagonist, Lu Xiaohou. It is filled with desire, struggle, betrayal, and the will to protect one another. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Directing in the Apocalypse: Making Movies With Living People 末世当导演：用活人拍戏 [Post-apocalyptic wasteland + Behind-the-scenes scheming + Sandbox + Mind games + Villain protagonist] Puppet of fate: Ling Ye can turn “audience expectations” into “script marks” and implant them in any person or object. Those marked have their fate placed under the protagonist’s control to a certain extent, becoming pieces in his script. By expending a large amount of expectation, the protagonist can set a “finale” and force events toward the ending he has designed. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Insectoid Invasion: I Became a Super Soldier 异虫入侵，我成为了超级战士 In 2077, alien insects invade Earth. Humanity is driven back at every turn and has no choice but to launch the God-Making Project ahead of schedule. Countries begin mass-producing super soldiers, but research into the super serum is still immature, and the soldiers cannot be produced in the numbers people had imagined. To ensure the survival of civilization, humanity builds underground bunkers and lives below the surface, plotting to reclaim its former home. Note: Set in a fictional world. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Rising Star 1: The Shining Star Who Surpassed Her Dreams 将星1超越梦想的闪耀之星 The power born from dreams is something wonderful that anyone can possess: a shining star to accompany us on our journey. But can you be sure the seed of a dream planted in childhood will grow strong, weather every storm, and stay by your side until the dazzling day you have been waiting for? Now, your dream has taken the form of a star general and appeared before you. The future is said to be in your own hands. What kind of path will you choose? Will it be just like the one you dreamed of? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 After I Was Kidnapped, I Took Down the Traffickers' Hideout 被拐后我把人贩子老窝端了 Strong Female Lead + Revenge + Period Drama + Tormented Romance + Suspense + Crime + Both Sides of the Law + Turmoil in Northern Myanmar (The heroine is no saint. She is ruthless and merciless. Readers with conventional moral values should proceed with caution.) The story is entirely fictional. In 1993, Zhao Laidi was born in Yunpan Village, deep in the mountains of Guizhou. She was the Zhao family’s fourth “useless girl,” her name stamped with their longing for a boy. At seventeen, she dreamed 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Judgment Protocol 判客协议 Rating: 9.8 [His left hand was twisted off when he was five]+ [Stylized violence]+ [A warm-hearted man’s romance]+ [High-martial urban fantasy]+ [Older woman-younger man romance] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Healing in Light and Shadow 光影相随之疗愈 Gu Yu, a stern architect with a scar on his wrist, believes in absolute structure and eternal truth. He hopes to mend a past torn apart by plagiarism by renovating an abandoned textile mill as part of the Light and Shadow Renewal Project. Su Man, a vibrant beauty brand director, is devoted to the discontinued perfume Chasing the Light, which symbolizes both her pain and her original aspirations. She sees the factory as crucial to her career and believes in the power of dreams and emotions. When —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Complete Guide to Saving the World 拯救世界大全 (Old embarrassing stuff, don't read) Quick transmigration + no romance + forum + a heroine who is invincible in a certain sense To put An Ke Bu Lai La's ideals into practice and obtain core energy, researcher Bai Zhaoyi resolutely set out on the path to saving the world. When she appeared in the second world, strange streamers, a comic depicting her, perverted comments, and people returned from the dead all began to appear. Everything pointed to one thing: none of this was normal. [Holy crap! I 68Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 13 The Wandering Dragon Revelation 游龙启示录 In this undercurrent-ridden world of lurking emissaries, patrolling hunters, and warring elites, Li Huai is a carefree rogue who seems invincible yet can't stand a hassle. How many plots will his devil-may-care wanderings shatter, and how many hearts will he win? And what astonishing past and identity lie behind his seemingly irreverent facade? The answers slowly unfold with the never-ending fragrance of wine. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 From the Start, I Was Sacrificed in a Blood Rite, but I Used Spirit Talismans to Subdue the Myriad Worlds 开局被血祭，我以灵符镇诸天万界 An invincible cultivation adventure, defeating monsters and leveling up! A black spirit brush swept across the Myriad Worlds and carried away a young man from Blue Star. The cultivation world's fate had changed! “When it was Luo Yi's turn to be sacrificed in a blood ritual, he felt strangely less nervous. Perhaps he hadn't yet adjusted to transmigrating. Everything before his eyes seemed unreal, but the thick stench of blood in his nostrils told him this wasn't a hallucination.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Hive City Journey That Began with March 7th 和三月七一起开始的巢都之旅 [Warhammer] [Honkai: Star Rail] [Multiple heroines] [Farming] [Lighthearted comedy] Mi You, a veteran corporate drone and armchair Warhammer player, transmigrates into the dark underhive of Warhammer 40K. While desperately fleeing the perverted gang boss to avoid being forced into his bed, he unexpectedly runs into a spirited girl who seems completely out of place in this hopeless universe: March 7th, the poster girl of Honkai: Star Rail, who ended up here by accident in a train warp mishap! One 1.7kReads—Score144Shelves
- 16 They Want Me to Save the Continent, but I Just Want to Run Away 叫我拯救大陆，而我只想跑路 Corporate wage slave Wang Riqin wakes up to find himself in another world, running naked through a stable from the start! His only golden finger is a cursed sword: [The Shame of the Lucky] has a 99% chance to deal a tenfold critical hit and obliterate enemies, but a 1% chance to miss and force him into a humiliating public spectacle! He only wanted to keep his head down, but on impulse, he buys Xueli, a wolf-eared girl. From then on, protecting the beautiful women of other races around him becom 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Fated Star of the Moon Abyss 月渊宿命星 [Orphan] [Revenge] [Collusion] [Three Lifetimes of Love] Who are you? Are you my benefactor? That’s right. I’m your benefactor and your husband. And who am I? You are my wife. Bai Lingyue, I hate you. If your blood weren’t valuable, you would have been dead seven years ago! My lord, why are you treating me this way? Because you’re nothing but a pawn! It’s all because of you that I’ve fallen so far... (It’s so sad that nobody reads this book. It needs someone to keep it company too━(￣ー￣*|||━━) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Borrow a Dream to Hold You 借场幻梦拥抱你 [Redemption + Happy Ending] Chunfeng, a young teacher sent to teach in the countryside, meets A Cao, a troubled girl. She is lost, then finds redemption, but when she wakes from her dream, all the beauty shatters. Only then does she realize that she is the “A Cao” waiting to be saved. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Reborn Hundreds of Times, This Time I’ll End It All 回生千百次，这次我要终结一切 A soul that has fought alone for 90,000 years, someone who never knew what happiness was, finally learns how to love in their 653rd life. (This is my first time writing, so please go easy on me 😭😭😭) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The More I Die, the Stronger I Get. Are You Deaf? I Said, Kill Me! 越死越强，喊你杀我你耳朵聋吗！ [Stronger with every death + high-octane later arcs + satisfying + lighthearted humor] Xiao Ran transmigrates into a world belonging to envoys. On his very first day, he is killed by an unknown area-of-effect attack in the first second. Just as he thinks he couldn’t possibly be any deader, the System activates. The ability he gains, [Stronger with Every Death], makes Xiao Ran wildly reckless. He tries to get everyone he meets to kill him. After awakening his will and becoming an envoy, he is kno 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Eight Dragons Toy with Heaven 八龙戏天 Seventeen years ago, my father left and never came back, leaving behind only a family heirloom: a jade pendant carved with a dragon. My ordinary school life was shattered. Within the pendant, eight ancient divine dragons lay dormant. My father sacrificed himself to seal them away, and I am the last guardian in this world. Various forces covet the pendant, and danger closes in with every step. When the eight dragons open their eyes, the age of urban high martial arts begins. You want my pendant a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Chronicles of Divine Cuisine 神肴纪 There are three thousand great paths, and each is different. This novel unfolds in a wholly new world, where flavor and the Dao merge. In modern society in the 21st century, mythology has not vanished. It survives in secret. The ancient pantheons of the East and the West have forged a fragile divine pact. Unbeknownst to mortals, they compete through their agents, and the victor will shape the laws of the world for the next millennium. The fundamental conflict between Eastern and Western mytholog 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Wutian Returns: What Has My Grandson Sun Wukong to Fear? 无天归来，我孙悟空又有何惧 Wutian Has Returned. What Have I, Sun Wukong, to Fear? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Realmbound Servant 界役 [Infinite Flow] [Datafication] [Evolution Paths] Jiang Chuan, twenty-nine, is a former Marine officer. Now, burdened by a disabled body and a chest full of honors, he is living out an early retirement in Beichuan City. His battles have left indelible scars on him, until one peaceful autumn morning, when the world revealed a deeper fracture. He discovers that he has been drawn into a silent war between two overlapping dimensions. Branded a “tool,” he is forced to travel through the cracks in time 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Fluorescence in the Forbidden Realm 禁域流荧 [Resurrection + ensemble cast + urban fantasy] The female lead you expect (goes on a crazed killing spree all the way through) The female lead in reality (gets killed all the way through) The female lead you expect (a hopeless romantic) The female lead in reality (a walking misery) Hundreds of thousands of people infected by the Fluorescent substance were hidden away in a parallel world by the people of the mysterious Ancient Ruins Secret Realm. Those inside call it the “Forbidden Zone.” 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Cheating at Cultivation? That's Just My Talent! 开挂修仙？我的天赋罢了！ After transmigrating into a xianxia world where the powers of the myriad heavens were intertwined, Chen Mo looked at the computer’s main screen in his mind. To his astonishment, the computer itself had somehow fused with him. What people called cultivation techniques? They were just [EXE installation updates] for software. [One-Click Cleanup] let him enter a state of sudden enlightenment, making cultivation as easy as drinking water. And when he tested his spiritual roots, he discovered a [Multi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Nightmare After I Became the Game's Boss? 穿成游戏BOSS的噩梦？ Also known as: Abyssal Redemption | After Grinding Out the SSS Ending, I Became the Enemy of Every Boss #GameWorld #WesternFantasy #MultipleHeroines #NoRomance #RedeemingVillains #EnsembleCast I transmigrated into the ultimate Boss I had created, and it was hell difficulty from the start. Everyone had turned evil, and my enemies were everywhere. How was I supposed to play a hand this bad? All I could do was pay off my debts while searching for a way out. But when I tore away the world's outer sk —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Eldest Senior Brother, Master Has Been Captured by Monsters Again 大师兄，师傅又被妖怪抓走了 My name is Xu Qingliu. I’m the Daoist heir of the Great Dao Sect and the senior disciple of my generation. Right now, there’s one urgent matter I need to take care of: run for it. People always assume “Imperial Preceptor” is an exalted title for my master. In reality, it’s a joke the Three Realms use to mock her. Back then, on a whim, she went to the Demon Domain to teach the young Nine-Headed Dragon Emperor. The human immortal sects condemned her, branding both of us traitors to humanity. Who c 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 A Single Thought Without the Dao 一念无道 Also known as: I Was Mistaken for the Savior, and One Thought from Me Brings the World to Nothingness On a night of raging wind and torrential rain, an ordinary boy chosen by fate embarked on a path of god-slaying. At the end of the future, he alone would remain, able with a single thought to plunge the world into a lawless void... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 My Career in Sales 我的推销生涯 Wang Zijian, a young man from the countryside, leaves his hometown for the big city of Xidu. With no one to rely on, he gradually grows from a naive young man into an independent, self-reliant, mature, and insightful adult. Along the way, he follows his company from city to city, continually broadening his horizons and gaining experience that lays a solid foundation for his future. Years later, looking back, I, Wang Zijian, realize just how extraordinary that period of my life was. Told in a ca 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Quick Transmigration: The System Is Hounding Me to Repay My Debts 快穿之系统催我还债 Fu Qingqing is framed by her boyfriend and friends and falls into the sea. A System forces her to save people, while the cold and ruthless Meow Meow System orders her to complete tasks for wish-makers and earn energy to pay off a debt! Pay it off! Whose debt is she repaying, anyway? Who does she owe? Who is good, and who is really bad? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Sister Who Sacrifices Everything for Her Brother 扶弟魔 (Not a wish-fulfillment story. No formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, and no mindless antics. Please read with that in mind.) I thought our marriage, after meeting as fellow townspeople at university and making it through thick and thin together, was the safest harbor in either of our lives. Then I discovered that you had already mortgaged the future of our little family to your birth family’s preference for sons. I thought that after we married, you and I would work together f 269Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 33 The Lord of All Things: An Internet Cafe Nerd Transmigrates into a Game as a Slave 万物之主网吧大神穿越游戏成奴隶 Huo Qiming headed to the restroom, fixed his hair, and washed his face. His haggard appearance and pungent body odor often made people mistake him for a vagrant. At the internet cafe counter, the young woman behind it looked at him with disgust and asked, "How much are you putting on?" "Fifty. And move me to a private room." Holding his ID card, Huo Qiming went to the private room. As soon as he turned on the computer, he nodded off again, still half-asleep. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 My Family Is Pressuring Me to Marry. Is the Boyfriend I Rented Online My One True Love? 家里催婚，我在网上租男友是白月光？ My Family Keeps Pressuring Me to Marry. Is the Boyfriend I Rented Online My White Moonlight? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Reborn, I Sewed My Enemies' Names into My Wedding Dress 重生后，我把仇人名单缝进嫁衣 [Strong heroine · Revenge · Reborn · Only devoted to each other] In her previous life, on the night her entire family was sentenced to death, she wrote down each of her enemies' names and stitched them into her prison uniform. She never got the chance to clear her family's name. Instead, a noose awaited her. When she opened her eyes again, she was sitting in a bridal sedan chair on her way to marry in her sister's place. She embroidered the list all over again, and this time, she stitched it int 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Immortal Craftsman: I Founded a Sect in the Immortal Realm 灵匠仙工：我在仙界开宗门 [Modern Soul Transmigration] + [Cultivation Prodigy] + [Balanced Worldbuilding] + [Everyday Slice of Life] Modern engineer He Wenhang suffers a ground short circuit while closing a switch at a work site, and his soul transmigrates to the cultivation world of the Nine Provinces. He becomes He Quan, a traveling merchant from the He family of Baiyuan Province. His cultivation journey goes smoothly at first, and he quickly rises to become one of the era’s top cultivation powerhouses, inheriting the 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Journey to the West: A Thin Man, a Beggar, a Monkey? 西游：瘦子，乞丐，猴子？ I'm here! I've always been here! Five hundred years east of the river, five hundred years west of the river. Don't look down on a monkey just because he's down on his luck! Old Sun, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, has returned, and I'm going to turn Spirit Mountain upside down... Atop Spirit Mountain, clouds billowed and rosy light shimmered. Buddha's radiance poured down like a heavenly river, washing over the Three Thousand Worlds. The four members of Tang Sanzang's party shattered the last wi 85Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 There Was Once a Qingyun Temple: The Fallen Heroes' Journey Home 从前有座青云观：英魂归途 In the year 1931 of the Chen calendar, the nation of Xiaori secretly sent yin-yang masters and monks into Longguo society. Disguised as merchants and Buddhist pilgrims, they moved stealthily across the land. They surveyed the ley lines and spiritual energy, quietly severing the fortune of the dragon veins. They also offered ten thousand yin-yang masters and ordinary people in blood sacrifice, staking their own nation’s fortune to win the war. They sought to sever souls and bring down the nation, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Apocalypse Puzzle: Six Pieces 末日拼图：六块碎片 The day Shen Lan married Lu Zheng and became stepmother to his twin daughters, a blood-red rift split open in the sky. On moving day, one daughter’s smartwatch exploded, and the reflection of a strange woman flashed in the mirror. Lu Zheng was forced to come clean: his ex-wife, Wen Jing, the biological mother of two of his four children, had entered the Mirror World six years ago and become an anchor. She had yet to return. Stopping the apocalypse required six fragments, two of which were insid 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Abandoned Wife's Mental Evaluation: Her Husband's Entire Family Is Seriously Ill 弃妇的精神诊断夫家全员病得不轻 Shen Buyan, the youngest attending physician at the city mental health center, has seen countless afflictions of human nature. One day, she transmigrates into the body of the legitimate wife of the Marquis of Anyuan, who was hounded to death. When she wakes, the original owner's lingering consciousness is still screaming inside her head: “You are unworthy of being a Gu wife.” “Die, and at least your reputation will be intact.” Her mother-in-law arrives with a crowd, smiling as she pressures Shen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Secrets of Strange Beasts, Volume 1 奇兽秘闻录1 This book serves as a prequel to my next book, mainly expanding the worldbuilding and setting. There may be a second volume of Secret Records later, updated in real time. Thank you for your understanding. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Fate Is Written in the Stars 缘分就是天注定 A chance act of kindness brought together two people who had nothing in common. They fell for each other before they knew it, love at first sight. Then came one seemingly accidental encounter after another, and their love grew deeper until their two young hearts became one. Though they faced twists and turns, hardship, and even desperate situations, who can resist a fate ordained by heaven? 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 It All Began With Kissing a Female Ghost 从和女鬼接吻开始 A Conferred Gods Pagoda appeared in Zhou Du's mind. It had thirty-six rooms, each able to enshrine a god. Red-Robed Fire Ghost + Ghost Spear + Red Fiend Hide + Spotted Dragon Corpse: Mighty and Illustrious Great General. Flower-Eroded Boy + Ghost Flute + Ghost Willow + Green Boy Corpse: Jumang. Bronze Grudge Head + Ghost Axe + Xia Geng Corpse: (unknown). Ghost Bride + Ghost Veil + Red Embroidered Shoes + (unknown): God of Joy. The Yin-Yang Water-Fire Jade has a fire ghost sealed on its yang side 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 My Lord, You're Sick! 君有疾！ Gu Shangshu picked up an ancient familiar capable of controlling human diseases, and through a series of fortuitous encounters, ended up living a double life. On the surface, he was the most prized prodigy of the dean of a university of traditional Chinese medicine. In secret, he was also the sole disciple of the province's greatest fortune-teller. Your boyfriend cheated? A big surprise from Ai will teach him a lesson. The richest man is in critical condition with heart disease? By tomorrow, he' 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Salvation on the Rooftop 天台上遇到救赎 Finding salvation on the rooftop 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Careful, I Just Mopped 别踩，刚拖的 [Mystery + wild imagination + rules-based horror + the supernatural] Wang Xiulan, a fifty-year-old night-shift cleaner, accidentally uncovers the shocking secret of Tongming Tower. Old lights inexplicably flicker on in the dead of night, time fragments repeat endlessly, and bizarre rules are everywhere… Hidden inside the building is a strange contamination left behind by the Red Light Machinery Factory forty years ago. No System, no golden finger, no superpowers: she has only a mop, half a stick 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 A Single Thought, a Thousand Years of Mistakes: She Is Both Buddha and Demon! 一念千年错，佛魔皆由她！ One fleeting thought can bring a thousand years of error. She makes both Buddha and demon! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 High Martial: Beginning with a Spiritfire Body 高武：从灵火体开始 Beneath the neon lights of a bustling city lies a world of high-level martial arts, hidden from ordinary people. College student Lin Yu had been living an ordinary life until an accident awakened his rare “Spiritfire Physique.” Now he can see spiritual energy coursing between steel and concrete, and even draw on the heat within him to unleash flames that can consume the heavens. When the flames burn away the darkness, what will remain: ashes, or new life? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Fallen to Earth: In Two Thousand Years, I’ve Loved Only One Fool 星落人间：两千年只爱了一个笨蛋 Also known as: I'm Alive, and I'm the Manager of a Haunted Hotel! After Xinglan slays a god, she is cursed with immortality and forced to stay at a nine-story inn, receiving the dead. Loneliness makes her seal off her heart, turning her sharp-tongued, haughty, and money-loving, until one day, a young man who is trying to save his younger sister enters her world. Not a feel-good power fantasy. Past and present lives + fated encounters + the supernatural + happy ending Written entirely by hand. Or —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Don't Panic! We Take on Abnormal Cases! 别慌！异常案件，我们受理！ [Mystery and Supernatural] [Supernatural Powers] [Heavenly Dao Sects] [Ensemble Cast] What?! Xia Shiguang is actually a fated spirit body?! The demons want to eat her? The Dark Hall wants to capture her?! The earth veins beneath the human realm are cracking, too?! Underlying currents surge, and all kinds of strange events are happening more and more often! Shocking! Nan County is on the verge of falling! How can they defend Nan County and protect the human realm?! It's all right. One person's st 2Reads—Score—Shelves
