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- 1 Yunlan Partners 云澜合伙人 [Two female leads + transmigration + getting rich + everyone’s darling] Xia Muxue transmigrates to ancient times and saves a marquis with her medical skills, just as she’s starting to find her footing. Then she unexpectedly reunites with her modern-day best friend, Lu Yilan! One knows medicine, the other knows business, and together they build their enterprise. Using modern marketing ideas, they launch hit products, turning her secret recipes into citywide sensations that everyone clamors to buy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Reborn as a Palace Maid, I Specialize in Devouring Wicked Systems 穿成宫女后，我专吃黑心系统 Chi Ting transmigrates as a palace maid and wants nothing more than to quietly eat the black-hearted System out of house and home. But then she eats one world into ruin, and then another... The Lord God breaks down: “Who ate my breeding farm into bankruptcy?!” And in every world, some madman falls in love with her at first sight. Chi Ting: “Why do you all taste the same?” (*°▽°*) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Northeast India’s Brahmin: The Supreme Ruler of India in 1826 东北婆罗门：1826年印度至尊 Wang Hao, a good-for-nothing graduate of a second-tier university in Shenyang with a degree in Hindi, gets drunk and unexpectedly transmigrates 200 years into the past, to British India. He becomes the disgraced eldest legitimate son of a fallen Brahmin family, on the verge of being stripped of his status. From the start, he is caught up in a succession crisis, and comes with four stunning wives who loathe him but each possess extraordinary talents: a martial arts expert, a miracle-working physi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Transmigrated: The Real Heiress's Daily Death Wish 穿越之真千金的作死日常 [Transmigration + devoted husband + comedy] [Sharp-tongued heroine × male lead who says one thing but means another] Shen Qiaoyi transmigrates into the true daughter of the Shen family, who was switched at birth. Her mother may not like her, but her father dotes on her, her older sister is fiercely protective, and her older brother gives her all his attention. From then on, she starts looking for trouble at every turn. When people pick fights, Shen Qiaoyi's only response is: if you don't like it —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Transmigrators' Rebellion 穿越者们的反抗 The Resistance of the Transmigrators 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Phoenix Returns from the Cold Palace: The Emperor’s White Moonlight Reclaims Her Throne 冷宫凤归：白月光弃妃重登后位 She was a modern career elite who awoke in the body of an abandoned consort in the Cold Palace. So what if she had been the late emperor's cherished first love? The Shen family's annihilation left a sea of blood and a deep-rooted vendetta, while danger lurked at every turn in the imperial harem. She wielded intelligence as her blade and strategy as her shield, carefully climbing from discarded consort to power: bringing down corrupt officials, regaining imperial favor, ascending to the empress's —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Apocalypse Big Shot Can't Get Enough of Her Crystals 末世大佬她，沉迷晶核不可自拔 [Apocalypse + System + Female Lead + No Romance] Build a base. Round up a bunch of underlings. But they're way too crazy! And way too competitive! They won't even let me slack off. This is completely backwards... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 With the System, I Keep Switching Between White Lotus and Villain 靠系统在白莲花与恶人间反复横跳 [A heroine with endless wild arguments + a System that strengthens the nation + deep-rooted love] After transmigrating to another world, Jiang Xuxin became the beloved eldest legitimate daughter of the headmaster of the Second Academy of the Great Wei Dynasty. She had hoped to live freely as a wandering heroine, but her soul needed “energy” to endure in this strange world. She worked diligently to gather energy for five years, and finally saved enough for a single soul transfer, only for a “last 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Stranded in the Primitive World with a Gem, Watch Me Build a Civilization 带着宝石漂落原始，看我发展文明 [Ensemble cast] Transmigrating isn’t about having an overwhelming advantage over ancient times. It’s about rethinking the road that brought us here. A desolate prehistoric world, ruled by giant beasts and survival of the fittest, where human life is worth less than grass. No System, no storage space. Everything starts from zero! Knowledge: geology and gemology. Identity: a primitive human. Supplies: a tourmaline and a bottle of mineral water. When real prehistoric survival becomes a reality, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 An Accountant Transmigrates into a Handsome Ancient Man About to Be Jailed? Please, I Just Got Out of Prison in the Modern World 会计穿成即将坐牢的古代美男？拜托，我在现代刚出狱 An accountant transmigrates into an ancient beauty destined for prison? Come on, I just got out of prison in the modern world. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 More Than Just Seeing You Tomorrow 不止明天见 [Transmigration + Two Female Leads] [Redemption + Growth] Jiang Yue: My arranged-marriage princess gives a PowerPoint presentation in my head every night Modern office worker Jiang Yue wakes up to discover that she's switched bodies with an ancient princess sent away for a political marriage. By day, she's a stand-in princess consort treated coldly in a neighboring kingdom. By night, she livestreams a modern women's survival guide to the real princess in her dreams. The princess cries, "Women in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Three Days After I Died, I Looked in the Mirror and Nearly Fainted 死后三天，照镜子吓傻了 Three Days After I Died, I Looked in the Mirror and Nearly Lost My Mind —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 After Transmigrating to the Cultivation World, I Only Want to Become a Nascent Soul Old Monster 穿越修仙界的我只想成为元婴老怪 No saintly heroics. The pace picks up later on, and the protagonist is ruthless and decisive, with one divine ability and one spiritual physique. What seemed like the very beginning turns out, in the end, to have been nothing more than a dream. Everything was destined in secret from the start, and no one could change it. 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Transmigrate to the Stars: A Young Master’s Style 穿越星际：少爷的排面 Transmigrating Across the Stars: The Young Master's Style —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 I’m a Young Master from Beijing’s Elite Circle, Now a Nepotism Hire in Space 我，京圈大少，在星际当关系户 I’m the Big Shot of Beijing’s Elite Circle, Playing the Well-Connected One Among the Stars —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 I Found a Jade Pendant, and Now the Heirless Wealthy Family Wants Me Back 扫出个玉坠，豪门绝嗣我归位 I Scanned Up a Jade Pendant, and Now the Heirless Wealthy Family Has Welcomed Me Back —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I Transmigrated to Another World with Nothing but a Toilet Plunger 穿越异世而我只有一个马桶栓 [Comedy + transmigrate + play the pig to eat the tiger + passionate battles + unconventional sweet romance + another-world continent]“Everyone has a toilet plunger in their heart. She is the girl who stayed by your side and grew up with you when you had nothing.” Other people tame beasts; I wield a toilet plunger. Ma Wen, a martial arts specialist, transmigrates to another world inhabited by rough-skinned people (orcs), steel-skinned people, dragons (beast tamers), goblins, undead machines, the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Qin Jin: The Black Dragon Descends 秦烬：黑龙临世 The novel’s framework is built on the core foundations provided by history, incorporating Qin dynasty details in depth to create a complete, grand, and workable fictional world. Centered on transmigration into history, political power struggles, Qin dynasty reforms, emperors and their ministers, and epic warfare, it tells the legendary story of Su Yan, a modern associate professor of history who transmigrates to the Qin dynasty and helps the First Emperor enact reforms and prevent the empire fro —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Thirteenth Instance 第十三号副本 When ordinary people are forcibly dragged into a strange space known as “Instance Thirteen,” what awaits them is no game, but a survival trial with their lives on the line. A sealed setting, merciless rules, and deadly puzzles: every choice could lead to death, and every successful clear comes at a price. Protagonist Ji Zhou Bai is forced into this place of despair, struggling to survive one bizarre incident after another. He must uncover the traps hidden within each scenario while confronting 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Hongtian Divine Lord 洪天神尊 Awaken in humble mortal dust, rise to the summit through the trials of countless worlds. Hong Tian, a Kunlun menial disciple carrying the “Immortal-Deity Chaos Body” yet sealed away, suffers humiliation at the hands of his fellow disciples. Framed in a scheme, he is forced to leave the sect as a traitor. In his darkest hour, he meets the most important person in his life: Yan Yu, the treasured pearl of Penglai Immortal Island. From then on, he gradually awakens his bloodline and, through trials —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 From the Start, a Death Row Convict: I Averted the Witchcraft Disaster! 开局死囚，我改巫蛊之祸！ A flash of steel at the execution ground, and condemned prisoner Zhu Anshi is dragged into the death-row prison. He suddenly opens his eyes: a modern detective has transmigrated while on a mission! Transmigration comes with no System and no golden finger, only a hellish start: an outstanding detective has transmigrated into the wretched Zhu Anshi, whose actions sparked the Witchcraft Rebellion. It was Zhu Anshi’s accusation, submitted from prison, that lit the fuse. Save himself, make salt, recl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 High School for Dungeon Prep: Class D Is Full of Oddballs 副本备战高中，丁班皆是异类 [Sky screen dungeons descend + school life + problem children + goofy comedy + romance + one female lead + coming-of-age + mostly slice of life.] Eleven years ago, an endless sky screen suddenly descended over Blue Star. Pale blue walls of light cut off the heavens, forcing reality to overlap with dungeons in other dimensions. An apocalyptic transformation swept across the globe. When dungeons descend, life and death are no game. Entering one means a genuine struggle for survival, and death is p —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Transmigrated as an Idle Prince, I Spoil My Political Marriage Princess, Then Discover My Second Brother Wants to Kill Me and Take Her 穿成闲散王爷，把和亲王妃宠上天，发现二哥想杀我夺妻 Transmigrate as an easygoing prince, spoil your princess consort sent in a political marriage, and discover that your second brother wants to kill you and steal your wife. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 After Nine Lives, I Awoke as the King of the City 九世轮回醒来已是都市王 Nine lifetimes of reincarnation + modern urban cultivation + invincible protagonist + the Myriad Worlds + multiple heroines + CEO A thousand years of reincarnation, nine lifetimes as an emperor. Qin Feng awakens once more in a modern city, carrying vast memories and an unfinished empire-building ambition. When the mysterious organization “Nine Cauldrons” designates him as a target for evaluation, he turns the tables, using an ancient emperor’s heart to wage war in the modern age. Starting at uni —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Transmigrated as the World's Richest Man, I Was Forced Into Love by a CEO 穿成世界顶级富豪，被霸总强制爱 [One-on-one, super sweet with a little angst + Time Travel + Amnesia + Two Strong Leads + Face-Slapping + Revenge for the Original Host + Devoted Love + Lighthearted Humor + Semi-Forced Romance] [An arrogant, unconventional female scientist + A cunning, wolf-dog-type CEO] Song Zhi transmigrated. Song Zhi traveled from an era of advanced technology back to 2025. She flirted with a handsome stranger on the street, only to be taken home and forced into a whirlwind romance. He turned out to be Jin Z —Reads—Score114d adds
- 26 The Cursed Doll: The Vengeful Prince Haunts Me Night After Night 禁忌人偶：怨灵太子夜夜缠 [Transmigrating Through Time + Defying Fate + An Ancient Jade as Their Bond + A Devoted Love That Saves] I made my soul a lantern and crossed the river of time, all to gather every shattered piece of you. Mu Rongwan, a top modern dollmaker, was commissioned by the mysterious Su family to create a doll of a Crown Prince. She never imagined that afterward, the Crown Prince's vengeful spirit would haunt her every night, leaving her soul in turmoil. Her feelings soon took hold, carrying her across —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 I Became the Heavenly Dao’s Dad by Farming ‘Shock Value’ 我靠刷“震惊值”成为天道爸爸 I Became the Heavenly Dao's Dad by Farming 'Shock Points' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 What?! The Government Recorded My Sleep-Talking 什么？！我的梦话被国家录音了 A higher-dimensional civilization on the brink of destruction initiated its final plan before perishing: “Civilization Seed.” After screening 1,261 parallel dimensions, it found only one suitable host. Twenty years later, the child had grown into a young man as ordinary as they come. Second-tier college graduate → marketing major → can’t find a job → mocked across the internet for talking in 34Reads—Score614d adds
- 29 Three Kingdoms: From Deserter to Warlord 三国：从逃卒到枭雄 After transmigrating to the Three Kingdoms era, Chen Qian becomes neither a strategist nor a young noble from an aristocratic family. When he wakes, he is just a dying foot soldier on the Changshe battlefield. The Yellow Turban soldiers are searching the corpses. The Han army is executing deserters. His superiors are stealing credit. The people around him are either starving mad or so terrified they want to run. He can't ride a horse or wield a long halberd, and this body is so frail it ca 566Reads5.5Score12414d adds
- 30 TV Dramas, Starting with Nothing But Thirty 影视，从三十而已开始 Reborn in the modern city, Su Chen becomes an investment manager. When he sees beauties like Gu Jia and Qiao Yingzi, he realizes that this is a world of television dramas. Fortunately, he has a System, and before he knows it, he has become the richest man in this fictional world... 1.3kReads5.2Score16514d adds
- 31 Chronicles of the Great Yan Martial World 大衍江湖志 [System + transmigration + martial world + tomb raiding + overwhelming advantage] Others transmigrate into the martial world to practice martial arts. Lin Yan transmigrates to “exploit bugs.” In the Great Yan world, grandmasters are everywhere and the martial path is arduous? Lin Yan looks at the thing in his mind called the “System,” which is actually a “program for decoding the world's underlying code,” written by his grandfather after thirty years of painstaking work, and silently picks up hi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Mastermind Can Bring a City to Its Knees 谋心者，亦可倾城 Shen Zhiyi, a top modern business strategy consultant, is driven to her death by the people closest to her, both family and lover. When she opens her eyes again, she has become a merchant's illegitimate daughter in ancient times, bearing the same name and facing a deadly frame-up. On the eve of her wedding, with conspiracies closing in, she smiles and turns the inner quarters into a psychological battlefield. A few words are enough to turn a wicked servant against her masters, revealing her tale —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Quantum Player of Time 时间量子玩家 What's the most important thing in a game? Gear? Strength? No, bugs! From the day the house he had transmigrated into was inexplicably smashed to pieces, Zhuang Sheng found himself taking part in a game. As a clumsy newbie player, he relied on his rule-breaking play style to begin his adventures in a new world. A laid-back robot who loves fishing, a mysterious werewolf who'll do anything for a meal... One by one, these bizarre teammates become reliable companions on his fun-filled adventures in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Good Grief! I Transmigrated Into the Villainess of My Own Novel 夭寿嘞！穿成自己小说的恶毒女配 Seriously? Modern office worker Xia Zhixue has actually transmigrated into the unfinished novel she was writing, as the vicious supporting female character... According to the plot, she’s so universally despised that even the dogs hate her. Making it past three episodes would be a challenge. Xia Zhixue’s response? “Relax. Watch me work.” From then on, she takes on villains, sorts out the male lead, and wins over the emperor and empress. Before long, she’s living the good life, surrounded by 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Ultimate Leech in an Infinite Game Just Wants to Slack Off and Go Home 混分巨兽在无限游戏只想混分回家 [Dungeons + No Romance + Livestreaming + Comedy] Jiang Yanjuan is a gaming casual. She plays Malphite in League of Legends, Sage in Valorant, and Yao in Honor of Kings. She doesn’t just like those characters: she simply isn’t skilled enough to play anything else. After staying up late to climb the ranks for night after night, she “got her wish” and died suddenly. Then the Infinite Games Company dragged her into a real-life dungeon, where she began a deadly ranked competition. The rules are simpl 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Help! My History Homework Came True! 救命！历史作业成真了！ [Alternate universe + slight everyone-loves-her vibe + transmigration into the body + …] Before falling into the river, Song Ji'an was just a history freshman tormented by a teacher who was an obsessive fan of Emperor Zhaoming. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an amnesiac orphan girl taken in by a mother and son from a mountain village. A System? None! A golden finger? Amnesia! Life here was completely alien to her, and one influential figure after another entered her world. A sunn 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Better to Raise Mom Than Raise a Kid 鸡娃不如鸡妈 [Transmigration] + [Heartwarming] + [Everyday Life] + [Urban Farming] + [Entrepreneurship] + [College Entrance Exams] Have your parents spent half your life pushing you to excel, only for you to remain ordinary? Have you ever imagined what things would be like if you could start over and push your parents instead? Xing Zhigang, an unemployed and impoverished young man from the modern era, gets knocked unconscious during an escape-room mishap. When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 All But You 唯君不在 [One Heroine + Two Male Leads] Alone in a foreign land, far from home! When a modern soul inhabits an ancient body and ideals collide with reality, who can truly turn the tide? After transmigrating to an ancient dynasty, she is convinced that her modern knowledge and way of thinking will let her make her mark and go wherever she pleases. She thinks she has won everything after one contest of wits after another, only to be dealt a crushing blow by reality. A sudden palace coup turns her life upsi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 I Transmigrated to the Great Zhou Dynasty and Became a Detective 穿越大周我成了神探 [Mistaken identities, suspenseful investigations, and eerie rule-based mysteries] While others transmigrate as nobles and high officials, Xu Zhao transmigrates as the lowest-ranking neighborhood warden in the Great Zhou Dynasty. On his very first day, he faces a thorny problem: three households in his district have mysteriously vanished. Their neighbors insist they never existed, while refugees eye their homes with hungry looks. According to Great Zhou law, if residents are missing for seven day —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Thanks for Asking, I’m in a Dungeon and Already Invincible 谢邀，人在副本，已经无敌了 [Invincible + no level suppression + leveling up + instances + choose-your-own cheat + decisive and ruthless] Shen Guan was suddenly chosen to become an instance player, and unexpectedly activated an assistant device. From then on, he began his path as an invincible player! Entering the Demon God Paradise instance: [Please choose an assistant device!] [1. Infinite Arsenal!] [2. Planetary Will!] [3. Infinite Superpowers!] “I’m reporting him. He’s cheating!” Shen Guan: “Being good at the game mean —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The General's Money-Loving Little Wife: His Beloved Transmigrated Concubine 独宠穿越庶女：将军的财迷小娇妻 The General's Money-Loving Little Wife: Doting Exclusively on His Transmigrated Concubine-born Bride 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Longevity in the Great Ming: The Turmoil at the End of the Yuan Dynasty 长生大明之元末乱世 Immortality in the Great Ming: The Turmoil at the End of the Yuan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Rise of a Clan: Starting with Radio Calisthenics 家族崛起：从做广播体操开始 Ding! Your [Myriad Worlds Supreme Clan-Building System] has been bound. System: “Newbie task: Perform a solemn set of ‘Hopeful Sails’ exercises in front of your ancestors.” Ji Hao: “...Are you serious?” So, under the bewildered stares of the entire clan, young and old alike, Ji Hao began his “sacred ritual.” But when the tune of the broadcast exercises began, the clan's long-lost spiritual seed of fortune really did stir... From then on, things took an increasingly bizarre turn. Other young clan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 As If Falling into an Icy Abyss 如坠寒渊 (No System, no heroine, not historical, not wish fulfillment, with a bleak tone) If good fortune is bestowed on me alone, then it is no blessing. It is more like a curse, a spiritual torment that targets only those capable of feeling. Because this good fortune is never a gift that comes from nowhere. It is a form of shifting plunder. I gain, he loses. I survive, he dies. And every time I escape by a hair's breadth, it makes me count with full awareness: whose chance I stole, whose fate I took ov 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Lost Between Two Worlds 双界迷途 A devastatingly handsome but deranged college student searches for the truth while hunted in two worlds: is he cultivating immortality, or has he gone mad? Everyone thinks Lin Yi is crazy. Since he was fifteen, he has been able to see another world: ancient buildings overlapping skyscrapers, people flying through the sky, and spiritual energy flowing through the city like water. He isn’t sure whether it’s a gift or an illness, because his mother “went crazy” the same way and died. He took medica —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Princess Consort Jiang Yao: Peerless Beauty 王妃姜夭，倾世无双 People in Nan Commandery all say that Jiang Yao, the only daughter of Prince Yaoyang, is a good-for-nothing who only knows how to cause trouble: spoiled, overbearing, and utterly uneducated. Even when she kidnaps people, she picks them based on their looks. That is, until she abducts a “scholar” as beautiful as an immortal, brushes his jade clasp with her fingertips, catches the scent of his sachet, and sees through his disguise with just a few words. “My lord, a scholar wouldn’t hold a sword 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Two Top Students Transmigrate, Each Guarding an Empire 学霸双双穿越，各守一朝江山 Two top scholars in love transmigrate together, only to end up in enemy countries far apart. They love and fight each other amid court intrigue in an ancient dynasty and ancient bioweapons, caught in a battle of wits and a maddening push and pull between love and hate! A surging tide of corpses against a million troops, national enmity and family vendettas against eternal love. It all unfolds in A Dynasty’s Realm!!! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Young Master of the Capital Has Cheats in His Dreams 京圈大少在梦里开挂了 The Young Master of the Capital's Elite Circle Gets Cheats in His Dreams —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Brother Monkey Transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei Becomes My Big Brother 猴哥穿三国：刘备成了我大哥 Monkey Brother transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms era. But this isn't the Monkey Brother you know: he's the Six-Eared Macaque. After transmigrating, he takes the name Liu Yi and, through a twist of fate, becomes Liu Bei's sworn younger brother. He fights alongside Liu Bei, takes on Lü Bu and Cao Cao, and helps Zhao Yun at Changban Slope. Who says Shu Han has no great generals and has to put Liao Hua in the vanguard? With me here, that's more than enough! 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 An Unbroken Realm: Transmigrating to the Jin Kingdom as Empress 金瓯无缺：穿越金国当皇后 Tales of the Jin Kingdom: The domineering Taizu dotes on the timid little girl who transmigrated here [One-on-one romance + sweet pampering + two strong leads + satisfying story + older hero + nurturing romance + ensemble cast] “Before I got here, the Host defied fate, suffered heaven's curse and backlash, and offended people left and right. Why do I have to take the fall? I'm just an introvert!” This book recounts what I saw and heard after I transmigrated back more than nine hundred years to a 10Reads8.0Score—14d adds
