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- 101 The Fun Side of Teacher Xu's Lessons 徐老师的教学趣事 Teacher Xu's Funny Classroom Stories 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Everyone Stakes Their Life: I Become the Grim Reaper and Save the Goddesses of the World 全民氪命：化身死神救济天下女神 [Transmigration into another body + multiple heroines + hidden secrets + everyday life + cheat ability + ruthless decisiveness + absurdly high stats + two-form transformation + Titled Douluo certified] Take it slow at first, then become invincible in the middle and late stages! Good news: I transmigrated. Bad news: I transmigrated into a tabby cat! In this world, people awaken their Life Wheel Spirit Mark at eighteen, and lifespan is quantified as a stat. To get stronger, you have to spend —Reads—Score74.3k14d adds
- 103 EN Ringlord of the Source Realm 源界环主 With one sword, he splits the heavens; all things return to the void. Qin Yu traverses annihilation, cuts through nothingness, and finally sees the Zero Page: the primordial blank beyond all settings, authors, and readers. He neither contests nor merges with it. He simply takes the manuscript paper back into his arms. From then on, the supreme powers of all worlds are no more than dust on a page. The master of the Zero Page is Qin Yu alone. One final question: who has the right to define what is 7kReads8.3Score81614d adds
- 104 My Husband and His Childhood Sweetheart Made Me Miscarry, So I Finally Got Over Him 夫君和青梅害我流产，我恋爱脑好了 My Husband and His Childhood Sweetheart Made Me Miscarry, and I Got Over My Lovesick Foolishness 832Reads—Score1414d adds
- 105 Chinese Showbiz: My Double-Cultivation Life with the 85 Flowers 华娱：我与85花的双修生活 Here is this book's synopsis: [Not a Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Ensemble Cast + Multiple Heroines + A Touch of Urban Cultivation + No System + Scheming + Entertainment Industry] Luo Junze was a worldly veteran who worked in the film and entertainment industry at Tencent in 2023. One day, he wakes up ten years in the past as Ying Bao, a rising star in the ent 45.5kReads8.4Score2.9k14d adds
- 106 Myriad Realms: Starting in the Backrooms 万界：从后室开始 [Minecraft] [Transmigration Across Multiple Worlds] [Film and TV Worlds + Anime Worlds] [I have no idea what kind of person the protagonist will turn out to be] At first, people thought it was just an ordinary trade. No one paid it any mind. But every gift fate bestows comes with a clearly marked price. A few blocks of dirt, some stones, a few trees... It was far too greedy, and in the end, everything would become the price to pay. 18.3kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 107 Genshin Impact: In Eerie Teyvat, I Just Want to Survive 原神：诡异提瓦特，我只想活下去 [Genshin Impact + Transmigration + The Supernatural + Horror + Rule-Based Mysteries + Regressing] Su Yuan transmigrates to Teyvat. Another, eerie power descends upon this world. All of Teyvat is affected to varying degrees. To save Fontaine, Furina endures five hundred years of loneliness. But just before the dawn of victory, the eerie influence drives her mad… “No one understands my loneliness… No one understands my fear… There’s no one I can confide in…” “Why should I make such selfless sa 7.3kReads9.2Score56014d adds
- 108 Doctor, My Little Sister Drools When She Looks at Me. Is There Any Hope? 医生，我妹看我流口水，还有救吗 [Younger Sister + Multiple Heroines + Sweet Romance + No Angst + All Kinds of Personalities + Cozy Daily Life + Emotional Comfort] My childhood friend, who is my "younger sister" despite us having no blood relation, got into the same university as me after the college entrance exam. After graduation, instead of going home, she unexpectedly chose to stay in my city. Is it revenge, or does she have another scheme? The story begins when my younger sister and I start living together after she gradua 17.9kReads8.9Score2.2k14d adds
- 109 My Blind Date Turned Out to Be My High School Chinese Teacher 相亲对象竟是曾经高中语文老师 His blind date turns out to be his former Chinese teacher. “Teacher, what a coincidence. Are you here on a blind date too? We’re just going through the motions, right? I get it.” “Teacher, want to see a movie?” “Teacher, let me take you home.” “Teacher, your hands are so small.” “Teacher, you smell so lovely.” 23.5kReads9.4Score2.6k14d adds
- 110 From Pangu to Puyi 从盘古到溥仪 [A Tomato-style Records of the Grand Historian + a blessing for audiobook listeners + grounded in historical sources + told with the flair of a novel] [Also known as From Pangu's Creation of the World to the Last Emperor's Abdication] A million-character epic spanning from Pangu's creation of the world to the last emperor's abdication. This isn't a mindless power fantasy: it combines historical authenticity with an engaging, nuanced touch. The book tells the whole story of Chinese history, from 615Reads8.3Score13014d adds
- 111 Tycoon: Starting by Rejecting the Richest Man 神豪：从拒绝首富开始 Su Changyuan gets into Magic City University. His aunt and uncle want him to stay in Yangcheng for school and take over the family business after graduation. Su Changyuan insists on going to Magic City. After turning them down, he awakens the “Tycoon Independence System.” From then on, he begins his climb to the pinnacle of life. But gradually, he discovers that his parents aren't ordinary people, and embarks on a journey to restore the family to glory. 7.8kReads—Score46114d adds
- 112 Reborn in 2002: I'm Really Not Schizophrenic 重生2002我真的不是精神分裂 [Rebirth in a bygone era] + [Everyday urban life] + [No System] + [No cultivation] [Multiple heroines] + [No yanderes] + [Making money through business] + [Campus romance] Zhao Chuyun grew up with his grandfather after his parents divorced. He repeated a year to get into college, only to discover that his first love already had a boyfriend. With a love life and a family like that, he has no regrets he wants to make up for after being reborn. He just wants to live recklessly for once. If you're r 50.9kReads8.5Score3.2k14d adds
- 113 Godhood for All: There's Something Off About My Divine Realm 全民神祇：我的神域有点不对劲 [Godhood for All] [Farming] [Mutation] [No CP] [Multiple Cultivation Systems] [An Increasingly Unhinged Zoo] In the era of divine domains for all, everyone awakens their own divine domain in high school. Tang Shi awakens an A-rank talent: [A Wild, Chaotic Explosion of Growth]. Its effect is simple: the plants and animals in his divine domain mutate at random. The good news is, they might get stronger. The bad news is, they might grow in all the wrong ways. Luckily, he also has a special building 175.3kReads8.3Score24.8k14d adds
- 114 Honghuang: The Four Great Tyrants of Journey to the West! 洪荒：西游四大霸王！ [Scheming in the early chapters + becoming bandits in the middle and later chapters + no harem + System-based story!] Shocking! Were all the travelers in the Journey to the West actually transmigrators? And were they all four guys who shared a dorm at the same university in the future? Looks like Mount Ling is in trouble this time! Tang Sanzang: “Amitabha! This monk’s Dharma name is Tang Sanzang! I bury the heavens, bury the earth, and bury the Tathagata!” Sun Xingzhe: “Thirty years east of the 4.6kReads8.2Score36714d adds
- 115 Life Restart: Back to the End of Middle School 人生重启：回到中考结束后 Science has proven that the human body can be cloned, but can the soul be cloned too? Perhaps everyone simply keeps reincarnating in the long river of life, with all their memories disappearing at the moment of death. In 2039, Xu Ming, who had spent his whole life as a corporate drone, finally died of illness one year after retiring. When he opened his eyes, he hadn’t become a newborn baby. Instead, carrying all his memories, he had returned to the day he finished his high school entrance exams 4.1kReads5.7Score21014d adds
- 116 Back in 1977, I Married the Queen of the Daughters' Kingdom 回到1977年，娶了女儿国国王 Ji Yuning transmigrated back to 1977. He went from being a 21-year-old educated youth returning to the city to a literary young man, a great poet, and a famous novelist. It was all thanks to his memories of his previous life and the books he copied. But his greatest reward was marrying a wife as beautiful as a fairy. 11.7kReads8.0Score77814d adds
- 117 Third Sister 三姐 “If you don't talk about the world's troubles to everyone you meet, then you're someone who lives free of the world's troubles.” Never think too highly of people's hearts, and never underestimate human nature. Nothing is colder than human nature, nothing more chilling than people's hearts. Be a little kinder to yourself. A life in this world is hard-won, and every tribulation is fate. This is the strange coming-of-age journey of an innocent young man. Ordinary people dream of becoming immortals, 118.9kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 118 EN Sequence: Ascension 序列：升华 [Train Survival + Lone Wolf + Always One Step Ahead + Ascension and Evolution + No Saintly Heroine + No Spineless Hero] The moment Ye Qiyan opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of train survival. Everyone had to get off at a series of stations and explore to stay alive. The lucky found treasure; the unlucky lost their lives. Opportunity and danger went hand in hand. Gather supplies, upgrade your train, and build a train world of your own. As for Ye Qiyan, he possessed a one-of-a-kind asc 244.3kReads8.3Score22k14d adds
- 119 EN Honkai: Star Rail: When the Stars Shine Across the Xianzhou 星穹铁道：仙舟群星闪耀时 [Honkai: Star Rail + Fourth Cataclysm + One Female Lead, Jingliu] [Two alternating storylines, the synopsis covers the Marshal storyline] Xianyu became a general of the Xianzhou Yaoqing from the start, only to run into a revolt by the gold automatons. He went to great lengths to reclaim the territory, while Aha teamed up with the troublemaking commoners to cause more chaos. After finally seeing Aha off, he took another look at the tech tree. Neutron annihilation, planetfall… He unlocked them all 13.4kReads9.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 120 You Were Reborn to Make Up for Your Regrets, Yet You Take the School Beauty for Yourself 让你重生弥补遗憾，你却霸占校花 [Have you ever regretted anything?] Lying in his hospital bed, Lu Yiming looked back on his life and thought of all the things he regretted. Did he really want to turn evil? He didn't want to be all alone, either! But fate had other plans. Reborn into a new life, he finds himself at the crossroads of his life from the start. This time, Lu Yiming will live life on his own terms. Don't call me a spoiled rich kid. If I'm going to be one, I'll be the greatest spoiled rich kid of all! Su Rongrong, th 39.6kReads8.3Score10.5k14d adds
- 121 The Dog-Walking Judge: Money Makes the World Go Round! 带狗判官，有钱能使我推磨！ [The rating has been deliberately pushed extremely low, rock-solid and steady!] [The Douyin comic adaptation has over 100 million views and ranks 31st in Hongguo’s comic history. The quality speaks for itself, so enjoy with confidence!] (Villains, bandits, human nature, and a realistic writing style. Saints are welcome.) God created light, and you insist on picking a fight with Him? If you’re wondering who God is, then whoever has the biggest fist is God, damn it! Shu Yinghui: A man with flexibl 59.3kReads7.2Score5.1k14d adds
- 122 Reverse-Cultivating the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Somehow Became a Supreme Immortal Art 逆练玉女心经，竟然成至尊仙功 Huang Ye transmigrates and is reborn, only to be attacked from the start by the maid assigned to his bedchamber. The person behind it is shrouded in mystery. To unravel the deadly plot, Huang Ye has no choice but to rack his brains and find a way to save himself. As his abilities continue to grow, he gradually discovers this strange, unknown world. Starting with accepting the maid, he encounters a female mentor, an older-sister type, a loli, a spirit, an ice-cold beauty, twin female ghosts, a de 19.2kReads8.5Score2.3k14d adds
- 123 I'm Trapped in a Death Loop. Who Is the Real Killer? 我陷入了死亡循环，真凶究竟是谁？ I'm Trapped in a Death Loop. Who Is the Real Killer? 174Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 丝路玉鉴：苏氏星象之陇右佛窟 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 丝路玉鉴：河氏水文之疏勒河谷 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Lin Clan's Joinery Art and the Soul-Hanging Staircase 丝路玉鉴：林氏榫卯诀之悬魂梯 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Lin Clan's Mortise-and-Tenon Technique and the Soul-Hanging Ladder 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 After My Husband Passed the Exams, He Courted a Princess, But I’m the Real Heiress 夫君高中后攀附郡主，可我才是真千金啊 After my husband passed the imperial exams, he cozied up to the county princess. But I’m the real daughter! 283Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 A Pure Heart: A Life-or-Death Game 纯净的心：生死牌局 A Pure Heart: The Life-and-Death Card Game 428Reads—Score114d adds
- 129 I Mistook My Husband for an AI 错把夫君当AI I Mistook My Husband for an AI 1.2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Who Says These Evil Spirits Are Fierce? I Specialize in Taking Down the Worst! 谁说这邪祟凶？我专治大凶之物！ [No female lead] [Decisive and ruthless] [Unlimited growth] [Slow burn] “You all call it an evil spirit, but I say it's clearly a good omen!” “Do you really think I don't know whether it can help me cultivate?” “Hand it over to me!!!” Shan Liang wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth and strode forward with a knife... Evil spirit: “Don't come any closer!!!” 41.2kReads9.1Score3.6k14d adds
- 131 Past and Present, Swapping Lives: She Takes Down Scumbags in My Rich Family, While I Farm in Exile for Her 古今互穿：她替我豪门虐渣，我替她流放种田 She travels between ancient and modern times: she helps me take down scum in a wealthy family, while I help her farm in exile. 12.6kReads—Score21414d adds
- 132 Martial World Villain: Huang Rong Became My Master's Wife 宗武反派：黄蓉成了我师娘 [Beautiful author + lifestyle photos] [Comprehensive wuxia + multiple heroines + nuanced romance + ruthless combat + not a saint + villain] The Yue Maiden Sword is drawn, and I save Huang Rong, my master’s wife, right from the start! Other experts spend ten years honing a single sword. I gain attributes every time I fight! Hitting an enemy boosts my attack, getting hit boosts my defense, and a successful dodge boosts my speed. The fiercer the fight, the stronger I get! A rain of arrows? The 22.4kReads8.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 133 The Villainous Lord: Players and the Protagonist Both Want to Kill Me 反派领主：玩家和主角都想刀我 [Fake villain + transmigration + fantasy + game lord + farming + System + sweet romance + beast-eared girls = pure fun] He transmigrated into the villainous lord boss from the game he played in his previous life. He thought he could overturn his fate of being defeated and fleece the players instead. But thanks to a rotten System, he had no choice but to oppose the players. The players’ respawn point? Blocked off. Their guide NPC, the Saintess? Carried off. Where there is oppression, there is res 2.1kReads9.4Score24314d adds
- 134 What Can I Do to Save You, Little Dragon Girl? 小龙女我拿什么救你 Ao Xi, an 1,800-year-old dragon girl, runs away from home to explore the world, but ends up trapped in an underground chamber for 2,000 years. By accident, she activates a teleportation array that transports Li An, the male lead from Earth, to the Silvermoon Continent in another world. The two are trapped in the underground chamber, and a few years later, the dragon clan comes knocking! 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Bright Sword: Brigade Commander, Congratulations on Your Fortune 亮剑：旅长，我恭喜你发财啊 [No System + hardcore technology] This time, I, our military industry big shot Yu Ye, will make sure to turn the tide. This time, Ping'an Gele will be the true turning point. This time, my Independent Regiment will be terrifyingly strong! 64.4kReads9.3Score4k14d adds
- 136 Modern Immortality: Starting with the Eight-Section Vajra Arts 现代长生：从八部金刚功法开始 [Traditional martial arts + longevity + no female lead + daily life + lighthearted + secluded living] After working himself to death in his previous life, Lin Qing is reborn and angrily quits his job, returning to his hometown to slack off. He awakens a status panel that lets him add points to and upgrade every attribute. In literature, Taiji brings peace to the world. Yin and yang complement each other, emerging from the formless, and four ounces can deflect a thousand pounds. [Taijiquan reache 23.6kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 137 My Mom Regretted It After She Forced Me Into Prison 把我逼进监狱后我妈后悔了 After Driving Me Into Prison, My Mother Regretted It 2.3kReads—Score—14d adds
- 138 I Dug a Fishing Pond, and Anglers Across the Country Hailed It as a Sacred Site 挖了个鱼塘，全国钓鱼佬奉为圣地 Farming + everyday life + family and village affairs + comedy + development + fishing + no female lead (focused on work). A leisurely pace, starts slow and builds momentum, so dive in without worry. After three years drifting in Beijing, Li Fan unexpectedly obtained a fishing-ground System after a night of drinking at a club. He returned to his hometown, Ligang Village, dug fish ponds, and opened a fishing park. Starting with one small fish pond, Li Fan gradually built his business up step by st 34.3kReads9.2Score3.2k14d adds
- 139 World Peace Through Nuclear Weapons: Starting with the Umbrella Corporation 世界核平，从创建保护伞公司开始 Reborn in a parallel world based on films and television, he starts with a bankrupt security company and builds it into Umbrella Corporation. With his own hands, he creates a massive enterprise wealthier than any nation and builds a business empire of his own. Katyusha in his left hand, PPSh in his right, vodka in hand, he dares to make Uncle Sam his home. 1.1kReads9.0Score14814d adds
- 140 Starting College: I Begin a Life of Luxury 大一开学：我开启神豪生活 The short drama of the same name is now online!!! [Tycoon]+ [System]+ [Campus Beauty]+ [Feel-Good Read]+ [Face-Slapping] [One Female Lead, One Female Lead!!!] Lin Chen, a freshman just about to start university, binds to a Tycoon System. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, on having a meal alone with the campus beauty! Reward: one Lamborghini Veneno!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, on a successful face-slapping! Reward: a 51 percent stake in Louis Vuitton!” Before he has even graduated, Lin Chen has a 39.6kReads8.4Score3.3k14d adds
- 141 Tycoon Dating System: I Can Collect Beautiful Women's Talents 神豪约会系统，我能收集美女天赋 His ex-girlfriend was poached by the boss of a film and television group. Before they broke up, Chen Fan asked her to sleep with him for the first time, and unexpectedly awakened a Tycoon System. He resolved to use the System to acquire the film group and get revenge on its boss. When his ex-girlfriend ran into Chen Fan again, she was shocked to find him driving a Bugatti Veyron, with an even more beautiful woman by his side. The group boss groomed Chen Fan’s ex into a movie star. Chen Fan, mean 7.3kReads8.1Score63914d adds
- 142 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Tale of Li Chongan, Jade Keeper 丝路玉鉴：守玉丞李崇安传 Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Story of Li Chong'an, Keeper of the Jade 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Carefree Mountain Village Divine Doctor 逍遥山村神医 [Alluring countryside, passionate sister-in-law, multiple heroines, rags-to-riches comeback] While in college, Fan Yunpeng offended the powerful and had one of his legs broken. He returned to his village and took up work as a pig castrator. Then, by a stroke of luck, he obtained an immortal inheritance and became a master healer. From then on, he soared to success... 10.2kReads8.9Score1.5k14d adds
- 144 Entertainment Tycoon, With Wuyou Media from the Start 娱乐神豪，开局一个无忧传媒 [The animated adaptation is now available, and a live-action short series is in production] Zhang Cheng transmigrates to a parallel world, inherits an empty shell of a media company, and gains the Entertainment Tycoon System. From Wuyou Media to Wuyou Group, and then to a massive Wuyou entertainment empire… Beautiful online influencers with tens of millions of followers and idol stars whom fans consider untouchable are all employees under his banner. Many years later, even after Zhang Cheng reti 49.6kReads8.8Score3.5k14d adds
- 145 Tokyo: Love Comes After the Rescue 东京：恋爱要在拯救后 [Tokyo + Romance + No System + Light Novel + Redemption] “If I died, the world would become a better place, wouldn’t it?” The girl smiled faintly, then leaped onto the tracks, bursting into splashes of brilliant red. Su Ying witnessed everything and assumed it was just an ordinary train accident. But the next moment, time rewound to a few minutes earlier, and the girl was still standing there, perfectly fine. From then on, whenever someone around him died, Su Ying became trapped in an endless ti 68.3kReads9.3Score7.8k14d adds
- 146 Night-Blooming Jasmine in the Mountain Village 山村夜来香 Mitao Village has beautiful mountains, beautiful waters, and even more beautiful people. There's a young man in the village named Tiezhu. This lucky fool unexpectedly gains an unparalleled inheritance, and from then on the mountain village is transformed. The roads improve, the people grow wealthy... 17.3kReads8.7Score1.3k14d adds
- 147 Undercover: Lost in the Shadows 潜伏:暗影迷途 While searching for his missing older sister, Chen Feng is silenced by those who want him dead. Reborn for reasons he cannot explain, he finds himself with an extraordinary range of abilities: medicine, mystic arts, feng shui, face reading... Even his luck with women takes a strange turn. By chance, Chen Feng saves a powerful underworld woman. To find his sister, he uses her trust to infiltrate a deeply concealed criminal organization. Circumstances force him to climb its ranks, step by step, un 2.4kReads7.0Score27814d adds
- 148 My Childhood Friend and Bestie Turned Down a Top Firm’s Offer for Me, So I Got Them Both Fired 竹马和闺蜜替我拒了巨头offer，我反手让他们被开除 My Childhood Friend and Bestie Turned Down a Top Company’s Offer for Me, So I Got Them Fired Instead 1.4kReads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Your Highness, Go to Your Death! 请皇兄，赴死！ Zhou Che is reborn as the sixth prince of Great Xia, but his five elder brothers keep closing in on him. They want to strip me of my claim to the throne! They want to confiscate what little my family has left! They want to take the woman I love and kill me! If that’s how it is “If you, my brothers, can kill your own kin, why can’t I?” “If you can fight for the realm, why can’t I?” “You all think yourselves capable. What makes me any less so?!” Zhou Che rises with his sword drawn. “Your sixth bro 31.4kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
- 150 Urban: The Prodigal Turns Over a New Leaf, and the Nation Calls on Me to Crack a Major Case 都市：浪子回头，国家请我破大案 They say that nine times out of ten, life doesn't go as planned, and that people are born to suffer. But Zhang Yang doesn't agree. He was abandoned at the gate of an orphanage as a child, but fortunately, he met a kind-hearted director. Fate had other plans, though: to make a living, he became a universally despised pickpocket. Then, by chan 27.1kReads8.9Score1.8k14d adds
