Novels like A Bone of Startling Grace
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- 51 The Forbidden Colors of the Deep House: The Wife's Lapdog Wolf 《深宅禁色：太太的掌心狼》 "Forbidden Colors in the Deep Estate: The Madam’s Palm-Sized Wolf" 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 EN There's Always Someone More Cautious 没有最苟的只有更苟的 What is an immortal? What is a demon? What is righteous? What is evil? It all comes down to what the victors say! With absolute power, no matter how cunning your schemes, how brilliant your plans, how overwhelming your fortune, whether you are Heaven’s favored child or blessed with one opportunity after another, you can still only be crushed… Qin Fusu of the Great Qin Dynasty had been its crown prince since childhood. As the saying goes, a man of great wealth should not sit beneath a dangerous r 6.3kReads9.0Score449Shelves
- 53 A Japanese-Style Sweet Romance: My Mother-in-Law Spoils Me Rotten, and My Husband Adores Me 日式甜宠爽文：《婆婆她超宠我，老公他超爱我》 A Japanese-Style Sweet Romance: “My Mother-in-Law Spoils Me Rotten, and My Husband Is Head Over Heels for Me” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Palace of Embers: A Caged Sparrow Becomes a Consort 烬宫欢：囚雀为妃 The Joys of Jin Palace: A Caged Bird Becomes a Consort 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Prisoner of Emberflame: The Demon God’s Heaven-Defying Divine Marriage 烬火囚宠：魔神的逆天神婚 The Cinderflame's Captive: The Demon God's Defiant Divine Marriage —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Haunted Mirror Livestream: My Yin-Yang All-Seeing Eye Makes Me a Global Sensation 凶镜直播：我靠阴阳通天眼爆红全球 Haunted Mirror Livestream: I Became a Global Sensation with My Yin-Yang Eyes 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 A Rainy Night of Ambush Amid Thorns and Twilight 荆棘与黄昏的雨夜围杀 A Rainy Night Ambush Among Thorns at Dusk 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Ten People's Secret Crushes, Only One Couple 十个人的暗恋，只成一双人 Ten Secret Crushes, but Only One Couple 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Perfect World: My System Only Connects to the Desolate Heaven Emperor 完美世界：我的系统只连荒天帝 “Other people’s Systems give them cultivation techniques and divine artifacts. Mine… only gives me a chat box.” “But on the other end of that box is the Desolate Heaven Emperor.” An Lan attacks the pass? “Desolate Heaven Emperor, lend me your Cause-and-Effect Blade.” A flash of sword light, and the giant hand is severed. Meng Tianzheng falls to the demonic path? “Desolate Heaven Emperor, send me some of your essence.” Golden light rises, and the demonic aura vanishes. The Willow God falls? “Deso 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 One Piece: After Awakening, I Became the Harem King of the Seas 海贼王：开窍后，我成了海上后宫王 One Piece: After Awakening, I Became the King of the Harem on the High Seas 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Tyrannical CEO Falls for an Ordinary Girl! 霸道总裁爱上普通的她！ The Domineering CEO Falls for an Ordinary Girl! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Mad Beauty Goes on a Killing Spree! From Lowly Marquis's Concubine to Empress of the Empire 疯批美人杀疯了！从侯府贱妾到帝国皇后 The Mad Beauty Goes on a Killing Spree! From a Lowly Concubine in the Marquis's Household to Empress of the Empire 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Supreme Mad God 至尊狂神 The God of War is reborn, wielding the divine weapon Heaven-Sealing Chessboard. He can craft the mightiest pills with a wave of his hand, easily tame the most powerful divine beasts, and have the most beautiful women throw themselves into his arms. In this life, Tang Long swears to reign supreme across the Ten Realms, find his old nemesis, and exact his revenge. 1.4kReads8.2Score107Shelves
- 64 Eternal Rebirth 生生不灭 Young Chen Feng possesses an unparalleled divine artifact and cultivates peerless demonic arts. He battles the Human Realm, slaughters the Demon Realm, challenges the Immortal Realm, and charges into the Divine Realm. He fights his way across countless worlds, carving a bloody path to the heavens and becoming the supreme ruler above all. 5.1kReads7.8Score481Shelves
- 65 School by Day, Cultivating Immortality in My Dreams by Night 白天上学，夜梦修仙 A strange dream split Chen Ze’s life in two. One half was an ordinary modern school life, The other, a vast world of fantasy cultivation. Sleep = transmigration. Dreaming = cultivation. Waking up = getting stronger. He thought it was all just a dream, Not knowing it was an extraordinary opportunity connecting two worlds. He cultivated both yin and yang, and lived between two worlds, His identities as an ordinary person and a cultivator overlapped in him at a dizzying pace. The school beauty fell 1.9kReads6.6Score228Shelves
- 66 We Swapped Souls, and Now My Billion-Dollar Fortune Is at Risk 互换灵魂，我的亿万家产保不住了 Soul Swap? My Younger Sister Made a Birthday Wish! Chen Bin woke up one morning to find his whole world turned upside down... Had his younger sister Chen Kexin’s dream really come true? Her soul had taken over my body, while mine had been shoved into hers! No! I still have an inheritance to claim! My spring hasn’t even arrived, but I’ve already got the first cup of milk tea of autumn... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Text-Based Wuxia, Starting with Calling My Enemy Father 文字武侠，从认贼作父开始 [Wuxia] [Text-Based Game] [Fully Handwritten] [High Martial] [Affects Reality] By chance, Shu Tiange comes across a text-based game called Jianghu. To his astonishment, the game can affect reality, bringing not only death, but also immortality and power. Luckily, he's one of the chosen few, with an equipment slot that follows him everywhere! You equipped 'Aerospace Steel'. Constitution +5. You gained the Diamond-Body Protection effect. You equipped 'Jade Tree Mecha'. Arm Strength is now fixed at 26Reads—Score169Shelves
- 68 The Smiling, Proud Wanderer: I, Yue Buqun, Refuse to Castrate Myself 笑傲江湖：我岳不群拒绝自宫 (Not a mindless power fantasy + No System + Ming Dynasty setting) As the saying goes: A gentleman is judged by his actions, not his thoughts. Judge him by his thoughts, and no one is truly a gentleman. With his sect in decline and on the verge of collapse, he lives in constant fear, treading on thin ice, yet never forgets to be a gentleman. Thus, he earns the title “Gentleman Sword.” In this rotten, corrupt martial world, he endures schemes, betrayal, and despair, and in the end gives himself 4.2kReads6.3Score137Shelves
- 69 The Heaven Devouring Dragon Emperor 噬天龙帝 Jiang Tian is a gifted young man, yet a problem with his bloodline makes him a laughingstock, subjected to relentless oppression! Just when his life seems at its lowest, fate suddenly takes a turn! With a mysterious treasure his mother left behind, Jiang Tian fuses with the bloodline of the Savage Blood Divine Dragon, rises to power, and crushes every genius in his path! But as he continues to grow stronger, he realizes that the people and events around him are not so simple. Even this world is 8.9kReads8.2Score727Shelves
- 70 The Return of the Condor Heroes: Cultivating Immortality and Eternal Life with the Ancient Tomb Sect 神雕后传：我在古墓派修仙长生 No System + no heroine + complete + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers A story filling the gap between The Return of the Condor Heroes and The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, with a sensible explanation of how the characters in the two books are related. It reveals the century-long struggle by the descendants of Guo Jing and Yang Guo to plot resistance against the Yuan Dynasty. The protagonist transmigrates as Guo Jing’s grandson. After Xiangyang falls, Yang Guo takes him away, and he joins the 5.2kReads8.4Score265Shelves
- 71 The Return of the Condor Heroes: Guo'er, Do You Know What You Did Wrong? 神雕：过儿，你可知错？ Who says the Divine Condor Hero has to suffer a tragic life of widowhood? Yang Guo is determined to defy fate and rewrite his destiny! On the day he is crowned emperor, Xiaolongnu wears a phoenix coronet and bridal robes, becoming empress of the realm, while his other consort wears splendid silks and casts him sidelong glances. Is it gratitude, conquest, or an entanglement ordained by fate? See how Yang Guo breaks free of his tragic destiny, claims both the empire and its beauties, and establish 2.1kReads8.4Score122Shelves
- 72 The Return of the Condor Heroes: A Beauty's Ordeal 神雕侠侣之红颜劫 [Transmigration + wuxia + multiple heroines + male-oriented + fan fiction] He transmigrates as Yang Guo, with a naturally intoxicating scent. A completely new wuxia tale in a different version of Jin Yong’s martial arts world. 142Reads—Score151Shelves
- 73 The Beggar's Record of Immortal Cultivation: A Commoner's Rise to the Immortal Path 乞丐修仙录：草根逆袭仙途争锋 If fate treats me with such merciless cruelty, then I’ll defy heaven and change my destiny. I’ll destroy this damn Heavenly Dao. Only those who bear everything can press ever onward. With blood and tears as my cinnabar brush, and hardship carved into my memorial, I’ll ensure this world is controlled by neither gods nor demons. It belongs in our own hands. Whether divine or demonic, I decide what I am. Though our paths may differ, we all share the same human nature. Foundation Establishment, Ill 113Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 74 I Slay Immortals for the Root of All Evil 我为万恶之源斩仙 “I sent people to slaughter your family,” she said, without a drop of blood on her. Ji Lang thought he could lie flat after transmigrating, but on his very first day, he was met with the massacre of his entire family. His fiancée, Xue Youlan, slaughtered the Ji family, then her own family. Eyes bloodshot, Ji Lang roared at her, demanding a reason. Xue Youlan forced him to go to the Demon-Sealing Hall, promising to tell him when she returned. Inside the hall, two female immortals who had been sea 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 I Began Immortality by Using My Disciples as Corpse-Refining Fodder 从把徒弟当做练尸耗材开始长生 [Handcrafted from scratch + self-interest + no brainless protagonist + definitely not abandoned midway + decisive and ruthless + no saintly heroine + dark style + multiple female cultivators as pawns] Qin Yu transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a rogue cultivator who barely survived a body-snatching attempt. But this is a world that devours people. As long as saints live, thieves will thrive; mortals are like grass, and cultivators are no different. Fortunately, he has an Eight Tri 1.5kReads6.0Score125Shelves
- 76 Five Beautiful Homeowners Take Turns Asking for Help 五位美女业主轮番求助 After leaving the army at 38, former scout Lin Feng becomes a security guard at Tianxi Bay. He never dreamed that five residents would take turns asking him for “help.” A clogged toilet? They call him. A feverish child? They call him. 270Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Reborn from the Start: I'm Just a Scrap Collector 开局重生：我就一个收废品的 From the start, he collects scrap! Lin Zan, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, wields the Great Dao of Dust, sweeps across the outer realms to crush countless strange beings, personally restrains the Ancestor of World-Destroying Evil, and ascends to the highest peak of the heavens. Though his Great Dao makes him invincible throughout the ages, he cannot protect the loved ones by his side. His wife, children, and kin all perish in the outer-realm calamity. Having seen through the joys and sorrows of m 1.8kReads8.6Score174Shelves
- 78 Plane Crash: Life on a Deserted Island with Beautiful Girls 空难：和美少女们的荒岛生活 After a breakup, Lin Bei survives a plane crash and ends up stranded on a deserted island with twelve haughty girl group members. He goes from going hungry and begging for food, to trading his talents for grilled fish, to having them crawl into his cabin night after night. After discovering treasure hidden on the island, he becomes a tycoon worth hundreds of billions two years later and buys their company. 528Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 You Beast of the Hehuan Sect, Let Me Have a Go! 合欢宗的孽畜，放开让我来 Lin Feng, a menial disciple, accidentally obtains the lost and complete supreme cultivation art of the Hehuan Sect. From then on, he pretends to be a good-for-nothing while quietly building his strength amid the righteous and demonic factions. He practices dual cultivation with prodigies from various sects, causing their cultivation to soar and their status to rise. Keeping a low profile and shifting the blame along the way, he fights his way from a small sect into a major one. In the end, he ma 342Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Demonic Path Sequence: Stripping Away the Myriad Worlds 魔道序列：剥离万界 Is cultivation a climb to the top, or a process of being sifted through layer by layer? Su Fan was an unaffiliated cultivator in the mortal realm until he chanced upon a damaged ancient scroll that could strip the essence from all things. At first, all he wanted was to survive. Then one day, on the eve of his ascension, he saw a list meant only for the strong: It was no Investiture of the Gods, but a harvest order. From the mortal realm to the spirit realm, from True Immortals to the Dao Domain, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Supreme Lord of the Primordial Wilderness 太荒主宰 His flesh can hold back the vast sea, and a single sword strike can shatter the sun, moon, and stars. With a flick of his finger, the heavens collapse; with a glance, the myriad worlds rise and fall. Born among vast mountain wilderness and raised amid the smoke and mud of ordinary life, an ordinary boy sets out from the mountains. He tempers his body, cultivates his soul, refines his qi, and braves countless dangers and hardships. Rising step by step from humble beginnings, he pushes against the 5.1kReads6.7Score297Shelves
- 82 The Scarlet Flame Star Lies Barren, and Water Is the World’s Greatest Treasure 赤炎星焦枯，水源即是世间至宝 Crimson Flame Star was once crisscrossed with rivers and lakes, with water in plentiful supply. But for reasons unknown, the entire planet began to bake beneath the relentless sun. The earth cracked and hardened, all surface water vanished, and water became the world's most precious treasure. The great sects and powerful clans fought desperately over underground rivers and hidden springs. Bloodshed and conflict never ceased. The powerful Huang Zheng family forced me to haul water through the des —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 I’m Just a Servant, and You Want Me to Dual Cultivate? 我都杂役了，你让我双修？ Young Gu Changqing sells everything he owns to join an immortal sect for the sake of his childhood sweetheart, only to be humiliated and pushed off a cliff by the woman he loves and a peerless prodigy working together. At the brink of death, he obtains an ancient legacy and begins defying fate. Rising to power through dual cultivation with a bevy of beauties, he eventually becomes a co-ruler who saves the world, then retires with his beloved women. 241Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Blood Ancestor's Path 血祖道 [A traditional cultivation story about an ordinary person. No transmigration from Earth, no System, no golden finger, and no heaven-defying treasures!!!] The struggle between outsiders and the clan: if you are not a direct descendant of the clan, you cannot establish a foundation. The struggle between lower and upper sects: if you are not a Golden Core cultivator of the sect, you cannot form a Nascent Soul. The struggle between humans and demons: if you are not a living being of the same race 461Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 The Void Dream of the Dao Source 道源虚梦 They seek the Heavenly Dao and trace everything back to its source. Is it all an illusion, or does it truly exist? The humans living in the world today are so weak. They have no control over birth, aging, sickness, or death. Mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas are impassable barriers, and they need outside tools just to travel. Yet who could have imagined that humans were not native to Blue Star? It is almost impossible to believe... In the Primordial Era, humans crossed countless starfields to a 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Lord of the Mortal World in Tianlong 天龙尘主 In middle age, he dreams of the Song Dynasty and awakens in the Shaolin Temple, where a master takes him in and secretly reveals the secrets of Heaven. Will he climb to great heights and roam the world at ease, or spend a peaceful life by the lamp, devoted to Buddha? In his previous life, he was a drudge, and a moment of leisure was hard to come by. If he has the chance in this life, why not live freely? Yet the surging tide of history sweeps him along, time and again. Unwilling to live an ordin 100Reads8.6Score217Shelves
- 87 The Violent Pill Venerable 暴力丹尊 Chen Xuan, the Immortal Pill Venerable, was killed in an explosion while refining pills. He was reborn on the Wind and Cloud Continent. All he wanted was to quietly refine pills and level up, but somehow he ended up having to protect a fifteen-year-old girl. Fighting enemies? Chen Xuan tossed out a powerful hallucinogen, and the battlefield instantly descended into chaos. Cultivating? He casually refined pills that doubled the effects of the Profound Spirit Pill, and his level shot up without a 1.2kReads7.9Score101Shelves
- 88 From the Start, I Have a Pocket Dimension, and Mature Beauties from All Worlds Gather Around 开局随身空间，诸天熟女齐聚一堂 Myriad Worlds, multiple heroines, System, wish fulfillment, transmigration With an inner world from the start, the Myriad Worlds are all in his grasp. Naruto, Detective Conan, Comprehensive Martial Arts, One Piece, Korean comics The comments section has clues about the next world. Read them and you’ll know where he’s headed next. 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Dual Mastery of Alchemy and Martial Arts 丹武双绝 Pills can restore flesh and reverse the course of life. Martial arts can shatter the heavens and conquer every corner of the land. Qin Ming’s martial foundation is damaged, but through sheer determination, he awakens a divine-grade talent in the alchemical path. At the most crucial moment on his journey to becoming a Pill God, he is murdered by those closest to him. To his surprise, he returns to his youth. In this life, he will not only refine the stars themselves, but also reach the pinnacle o 32.6kReads8.3Score4kShelves
- 90 Yang Guo of The Return of the Condor Heroes: With Beauties in My Arms, the World Is Mine! 神雕杨过：美人在怀，天下我有！ He wakes up as Yang Guo in the world of The Return of the Condor Heroes. Since he’s here, he decides to go all out: he’ll marry Xiaolongnü and Li Mochou! But he knows that getting married is only the first step. Quanzhen dares to bully me? I’ll crush them! The Golden Wheel Dharma King is acting up? I’ll beat him down! He’s never been after a carefree life in the martial world. He wants to be the greatest martial artist under heaven. Because only the strongest can make the rules. Mongol cavalry c 2kReads5.1Score101Shelves
- 91 Falling Into Darkness Amid the Dust Calamity 尘劫入魔 The immortal path bars my way, so I carve open a demonic one. My sword points to the heavens, ready to sweep away all injustice! Lin Mo was an ordinary boy from the mountains. Then disaster struck: his parents were brutally killed, and the cold stares and humiliation he suffered at the hands of the Qingya Sect revealed the hypocrisy behind the so-called righteous path. No System, no rebirth, no stroke of heaven-sent luck. The world forced a decent man to become a demon. With nothing but the Te 1Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 92 The Undying Martial Venerable 不灭武尊 A cultivation technique dismissed as worthless, and a cultivation fanatic whom his fellow disciples regarded as a cripple: everything changed completely after he obtained a Yin-Yang jade pendant. With a cultivation speed ten times faster, Gu Fei repeatedly broke through the limits of martial arts. On the Tenglong Continent, where martial arts had fallen into decline and their true mysteries had been lost, see how Gu Fei defies the heavens with his fists, tramples Daoist arts and divine powers be 10.1kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
- 93 My Martial Arts Rank Second to Last in the World 我的武功天下倒数第二 He is a swordsman known throughout the martial world as Gu Longfei, half man and half ghost, the greatest of sword masters. His swordsmanship is so fast that it’s impossible to see. Wherever he appears, corrupt officials and crooked villains all lose their heads. Never provoke him. Push him too far, and he can split into hundreds of clones to attack his enemies all at once. He is a terrifying swordsman, and his sword style is called the Yuqi Heavenly Sword, also known as the Living Dead Sword. I 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Memories of a Past Life: I’m Actually Yinggu from The Legend of the Condor Heroes! 前世记忆：我竟是射雕瑛姑！ Memories of my past life: I was Auntie Ying from The Legend of the Condor Heroes?! 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Reborn in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: Forging a Martial Dynasty from Tingxiang Valley 重生天龙：从听香谷铸就武道天朝 The Taixuan Scripture has appeared on a deserted island overseas! Which is stronger, the Xiaoyao Sect’s Wind-Riding Method or the Taixuan Scripture? Ma Ji becomes a martial arts grandmaster on the deserted island, then returns to swallow the world whole. Ma Ji from Blue Star is reborn in the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, becoming the son of Ma Wude, the old master pugilist and major Pu'er tea merchant who appears at the beginning of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. He takes up martial arts again 46Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 96 Wuxia Crossover: The Guanghan Sword Saint of Qixia Town 综武七侠镇：广寒剑圣 After archaeologist Wang Qianwu reincarnated and awakened the memories of his past lives, he discovered that he had been reborn in a world where martial arts from many universes coexisted. A splendid new life began. He changed his name to Wang Yi and made a name for himself in the martial world. Just as he was thinking of retiring, he stumbled upon a town called Seven Heroes Town... Volume One: Mixed Martial Arts + Seven Heroes Town. Volume Two: The Legend of Qin. The second volume begins with T 1.1kReads5.1Score126Shelves
- 97 Martial Emperor of the Heavens 御天武帝 The Great Dao has no form, and the Great Dao has no feelings. The young Chu Yan carries a heart of pure innocence. To pursue his dream, he is willing to cross mountains and rivers and shatter three thousand worlds, ultimately becoming a generation-defining Martial Emperor Who Rules Heaven. 12.8kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 98 Wuxia Crossover: I'm Yang Guo, Borrowing Ximen Chuixue's Sword 综武：我是杨过，借剑西门吹雪 (Anti-Qing + Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Wen Ruian, and Huang Yi + multiple heroines + based on TV adaptations + a mash-up of other wuxia works + carefully crafted reinterpretations + internally consistent history) (Some figures who were whitewashed, like Yuan Chonghuan, will be shown as they really were.) (Some figures who were smeared, like Zheng Keshuang, will be shown as they really were.) After transmigrating, he becomes Yang Guo as a child and gains the golden finger of a magic door 2.1kReads6.0Score104Shelves
- 99 Cultivating Immortality Through Science: From Good-for-Nothing to Creator God 科学修仙：从废柴到创世神 Wang Linyuan is the good-for-nothing castoff of the Qingyun Sect, someone anyone can bully. Born with damaged meridians, he has no path to cultivation. After enduring endless humiliation, he leaps into the deadly Burial Immortals Abyss in despair, vowing to become a vengeful spirit and take his revenge. Yet what awaits him at the bottom of the abyss is not death, but the skeleton of a transmigrator from another world and an astonishing legacy known as “science.” From then on, he enchants a Gatli 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: I Am Xiao Feng, the Best Under Heaven 天龙八部：在下萧峰，天下第一 [A top-tier Jin Yong fanfic] [No System. Xiao Feng is brilliant, mighty, and invincible. Everything bows before the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms!] Han Jie, a young man from Earth, transmigrates into the body of Xiao Feng, the young hero from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. From the start, he learns the Tendon-Transforming Classic. Of course, he has to learn the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms. The Beggars' Sect leader? Let whoever wants the job take it. The Lesser Formless Skill, the Northern Darkne 3.2kReads6.6Score240Shelves
