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- 51 Madness in the Marquis’s Residence: The Black Lotus and the Regent King Go on a Killing Spree! 癫行侯府：黑莲花携摄政王杀疯！ [Revenge after being reborn]+ [Palace power struggles]+ [Scheming within the household]+ [Unhinged, over-the-top devotion]+ [Ruthless and decisive] Key highlights/tropes: High stakes from the start: After being reborn, she doesn't return to her family home. She heads straight for the palace and clings to the biggest power player, the Empress Dowager, humiliating her family on the spot. Unhinged meets unhinged: The heroine is clear-eyed and crazy, the hero is violent and crazy. Together, they're 137Reads—Score11114d adds
- 52 Guan City in Turmoil: From the Start, I Had the Gangster Boss's Wife Wrapped Around My Finger 莞城风云：开局拿捏黑道大嫂 [Underworld Fiction + Multiple Heroines + Coming-of-Age + Rags-to-Riches] A free-spirited underworld big sister-in-law? A gentle, considerate factory girl? A tender, sweet mistress? Eighteen-year-old Lin Sheng arrives in Dongguan in 2004 to make a living. By a twist of fate, he joins a local boss and becomes a bona fide enforcer. Unfortunately, the good times don't last. A few years later, Dongguan launches a major crackdown on crime. With the underworld big sister-in-law's help, Lin Sheng is sm 519Reads—Score12414d adds
- 53 Two Worlds: Enjoying Life in the Fantasy Realm and the City 两界：玄幻享福，都市也享福 From the start, Lin Feng was thrown into a prison in America. Inside, the Black inmates thought he was a weak, easy-to-bully Chinese American and wanted to torment him at will. Some even hoped to make him “drop the soap.” But once they actually got to know him, they realized they were the little white rabbits. This Asian man was the real demon: impervious to bullets and blades, incredibly strong, practically Superman come to life. What they didn't know was that Lin Feng could transmigrate to a c 148.1kReads8.2Score18.7k14d adds
- 54 A Story Inspired by In the Name of the People: The Zhao Family's Eldest Young Master 名义同人，赵家大公子 This story is entirely fictional. The protagonist, Zhao Wenjie, transmigrates into The Name of the People as Zhao Dehan's son. He is in a vegetative state and has spent five years in a hospital bed. Five years later, he wakes up to find that he has won by doing nothing. His company has grown into a conglomerate, and his assets have multiplied several times over. Five years have passed. He now has his own conglomerate, his own team, and his own connections in the capital. He has even begun to tou 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 In My Dreams, I Have a Prison 梦里我有座监狱 At seventeen, Liu Sile fell asleep one night, and a bronze door opened, bringing a netherworld prison into the mortal realm. In the prison, he judged Bai Qi, Lord of Wu'an, and subdued the butcher of countless ages as his guardian deity. From that day on, summoned by Yanluo, he became an Underworld Marshal serving beneath King Yanluo and embarked on the path of cultivating as a yin deity. Strange incidents multiplied in the mortal world, while vengeful ghosts and monsters ran rampant. With Bai 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Auntie, I Want a Job. Give Me a Chance 阿姨，我想工作，给我一个机会 At last, love and career are both flourishing! [Urban] + [Romance] + [Slice of Life] + [Boys' Love] With every date, he gains real-world experience in getting along with friends; In every scene, his feelings deepen and love grows. He grows and levels up, one step at a time; He gets to know his friends, one by one. A 25-year-old playboy navigating the workplace, with no shortage of emotional intelligence. An unexpectedly fun story, with a fresh, lighthearted feel. 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 When the Splendor Fades, Only You Remain 《落尽繁华唯有卿》 When All Splendor Fades, Only You Remain 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 My Dream Wife from the Hehuan Sect Is Actually a Gorgeous, Ice-Cold Professor 梦里合欢宗师尊竟是冰山女神教授 It just got its rating, and it will climb from here!! [Multiple Female Leads] [Dream Heists] [Campus Belle] [Professor] [Dreams] [System] [Entrepreneurship] [Unforgettable First Love] [Love Rivals] Liang Chen, a broke senior in college, faces unemployment and the challenges of starting a business as graduation approaches. Then he binds to the "Red Dust Dream Game," giving him the ability to enter the same dream as the goddesses from his real life! The aloof, icy professor, who is as cold as 278Reads6.7Score33014d adds
- 59 Dark Glory: Twenty Years in the Underworld of Northeast China 黑暗荣耀：东北江湖二十年 1.3kReads8.8Score10614d adds
- 60 My Life in the Underworld 我的黑道人生 Reborn in a parallel world, life is brutally hard and every day is a struggle. A nobody at the bottom has no money, no connections, and no one to turn to. How are they supposed to get by? Even if this is an unfamiliar world, after being reborn, they have to take a chance and fight their way forward. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 My Cold-Outside, Clingy-Inside Sword Immortal Girlfriend Likes Me So, So, So, So Much 外冷内齁剑仙女友超超超超喜欢我 [Multiple Female Leads +幕后 Big Shot + Lighthearted Comedy + Galgame] My name is Lin Yexi, and I'm a gaming expert. Lately, I've been trying out a galgame. It has incredible freedom, polished gameplay, and flawless character models. Its only shortcoming is that there are too few fanservice scenes. Just as I was about to quit, the aloof sword-fairy in the game suddenly appeared right in front of me... Who said this game had no fanservice? This is fantastic! My name is Jiang Shiyuan. Ever since 19.5kReads8.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 62 Underworld Storms: Zhang Yue 黑道风云之张岳 He is the staunchest believer in the code of the underworld, fiercely loyal to his brothers to the point of obsession; he believes most in repaying every blow, dealing with his enemies with ruthless finality; he holds fast to his fighting spirit, staying true to himself to the very end. He is Zhang Yue, the underworld boss known as the Pale-Faced Scholar. 10.9kReads8.1Score60814d adds
- 63 Reborn: You Can't Imagine Life Surrounded by Beautiful Women 重生，美女如云的生活你想象不到 27.1kReads8.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 64 Reincarnating Through the Martial Arts World 从武道世界开始轮回 Hello, everyone. My name is Li Zhao. The Li is the one in my surname, and Zhao is the character made of the sun and moon together. As a high school senior about to take the college entrance exam, I was chosen by the Paradise and became an Apostle the day before the exam. I woke up and found myself in the body of Chovy! Where the heck am I? Is this still China? [First World: Martial Arts] The White Lotus Sect and the emperor are in cahoots, Beiliang eyes the throne, and natural and man-made disas —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Underworld Storms: Qiao Si's Strategists, Xiao Ke and Wang Wei Fan 黑道风云之乔四军师小克王伟范 He was Qiao Siye’s strategist, known as the Brains. Only five-foot-three, he had an exceptionally quick mind, earning him the nicknames Little Zhuge and Ghost Six among the underworld. He wasn’t known for violence, but for his sense of honor and loyalty. Born into poverty, he started out as a bathhouse scrubber and worked his way up to become one of the Three Musketeers of Bingcheng, even driving the city’s first Mercedes-Benz 560. Follow the turbulent life of Wei Wan, the Little Master of Bingc 167.7kReads8.7Score9.2k14d adds
- 66 Are You Crazy? My Counselor and the Campus Belle Are Both Ex-Girlfriends 疯了吧！辅导员和校花都是前女友 [Multiple Heroines + Young Ladies from Prestigious Families + A Variety of Types + Romantic Push and Pull + Sweet Everyday Moments + Love Rival Showdowns] Zhu Xunchuan had barely started his first year of college when his ex-girlfriends cornered him at his door! It was all supposed to be a joke, so why wouldn't his exes let him off the hook? He'd have come clean if it were anyone else, but every one of them came from a terrifyingly powerful family! Also known as: “After I Sent a Breakup Text to 59.9kReads8.4Score10.3k14d adds
- 67 With a Trillion Likes at My Command, I Guard the Dead 坐拥万亿音浪，我死亡守护 [Multiple heroines, urban, System, comeback] The frustrating part lasts only the first three chapters. After that, it's one satisfying face-slapping triumph after another, with every insult returned in kind. After graduating, Hao Qiang and his girlfriend Long Yan join the same company but work in different departments. In less than three months, Long Yan hooks up with the boss's son. After leaving Long Yan, Hao Qiang gets drunk to drown his sorrows, then watches livestreams to take his mind —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Tearing Up the Love Letter 撕掉情书 Tear Up the Love Letter 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Embers of Splendor: The Reborn Legitimate Daughter's Schemes 锦绣烬：重生嫡女谋 The Embers of Splendor: A Reborn Legitimate Daughter's Schemes 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Fire of Our Youthful Years 那些年我们青春的锋芒 To everyone else, he was an honest man and a spineless loser. His middle school years were a living hell, until one day, a friend his age from the neighboring family transferred back from a school out of town and came to his defense with a commanding presence. The boy, Wu Feng, took the baton handed to him and strode ahead, rising from a meek, honest kid into a powerful figure who radiated authority and revealed his sharp edge. 28Reads—Score214d adds
- 71 Cultivation in the Age of Declining Magic: Women Consume Resources and Get Unlimited Returns 末法修仙：女人消耗资源无限返还 In the Age of Declining Dharma, spiritual energy has run dry. As cultivation resources become precious, nonrenewable commodities and everyone frets over how to get their hands on them, Xu Yuan discovers that giving cultivation resources to his women earns him an unlimited return. And so, Xu Yuan makes a solemn vow: To shape the hearts of young women, and give purpose to mature beauties! To pass on the legacy of the fairies, and bring peace to the empresses! 53.2kReads7.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 72 Underworld King: From the Detention Center to a Black-Gold Empire 黑道枭雄：从拘留所到黑金帝国 During the Jiajing era of the Ming dynasty, Li Sheng, leader of the underworld gang known as the Four Seas Gang, is betrayed by his subordinates. As he lies dying, his resentment forms a soul, and he unexpectedly travels through time to the modern day. On the day he arrives, Li Sheng is locked up in a detention center. Amid the center’s motley mix of people, he realizes that no matter how times change, human nature and desire remain eternal. The underworld will never disappear. The gang boss fro 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 The Underworld: A Fight for the Blood Road 黑社会：血路争锋 In the late 1990s, the waters of the Hai River in Jinmen City carried a stench that wouldn't wash away. They lapped over the dock's bluestone slabs and soaked the mud-caked trousers of Lin Shen. The sixteen-year-old boy huddled in the shadow of a shipping container, clutching a brown paper bag. Inside were three packs of cigarettes he'd managed to “borrow” from a cargo ship that day. They were tribute for Brother Hu, the third-in-command of the Shunfa Gang, and his only bargaining chip for survi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Hong Kong Films: You Told Me to Shoplift for Free, Now I've Gone Legit and Become a Boss 港片：让你零元购，你洗白当大佬 Ye Tianlong transmigrates into the world of Hong Kong action movies set in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a mainland-born robber! By chance, he gets a Spend-Nothing System that rewards him whenever he gets things for free. At last, his skills have found the perfect use! From the start, he's handed an AK, sweeping across Hong Kong Island and setting off on a path to conquer the world. Ghost Brother, the masked man with an AK, the Dragon Gate leader, the King of Electricity, a glory to the Chinese 14.6kReads7.1Score58914d adds
- 75 Siheyuan: A Leisurely Life That Begins with Marriage 四合院：从娶妻开始的悠闲生活 Modern young man Cao Ren wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into the world of The Birds Fill the Courtyard, where he has become Silly Zhu. He gets married from the start, plays pranks on Jia Zhangshi, and makes fools of all the courtyard's troublemakers. In this life, he will make something of himself and completely rewrite his fate. Starting out as a chef, he rises all the way to a senior leader and reshapes the courtyard's social order. The neighbors are sent spinning by his pranks, wh 227Reads5.8Score15614d adds
- 76 Dongguan After Dark 夜幕下的东莞 [Underworld Power Fantasy | Beauties Galore | Relentlessly Ruthless | Beauty-Protector Extraordinaire] He’s the ultimate protector of women. Anyone who lays a hand on his women, whether they’re underlings from the Shanzhu Gang, thugs from the Black Dragon Society, or big shots from the Hongxing Gang, gets taken out! He recruits followers, seizes nightclub territory, raids casinos, and roots out traitors. Armed with nothing but a steel pipe and sheer ruthlessness, he fights his way from wanted fu 108Reads6.4Score10214d adds
- 77 I Refuse to Be a Stand-In, I’ll Become a God Through Poetry 拒绝当替身，我靠诗词封神 [The rating has only just come in and will rise later, so feel free to read] After transmigrating into a novel as a lowly stand-in, Shen Yi has barely opened his eyes when the heroine, Song Qingci, hands him a termination notice. “Mo Bai is back in the country. Our contract ends here. Get lost.” The original owner loved her pathetically, giving her his whole heart, only to be treated as a shadow of her true love and discarded like trash. But Shen Yi now finds the whole thing tiresome. So what if 4.9kReads6.6Score34014d adds
- 78 Abyss of the Black Eye: From the Start, I Enslaved a Female Sword Saint as My Bodyguard 黑瞳之渊，开局奴役女剑圣当保镖 [Transmigration] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Do Whatever You Want] + [Master Schemer] + [Scheming Villain] If you had the golden finger of spirit-speech, what would you do with it? After transmigrating, he finds himself with a mother who died young, a father who doesn't care, and a stepmother and younger half-brother who want him dead. Talk about a disastrous start from the start! I'm so broken even the maids can humiliate me at will! Fortunately, the heavens have taken pity on me. Now that I have 3.6kReads6.0Score31414d adds
- 79 The Era After the Martial World 后江湖時代 [Underworld + Passionate + Satisfying + Ensemble Cast + Jianghu + Big Shots + School + Comedy] “After midnight, we call the shots on this land, whether you’re on the right side of the law or the wrong one!” Jiang Nan stood proudly at the summit like a solitary eagle, looking down at the young generation shining like stars across the jianghu below. “The Su District...” “The tragedy from ten years ago will never happen again in our generation!” “I’ll make sure everyone knows that this era belongs 24.8kReads8.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 80 It's 2026, How Can I Still Have More Children, More Blessings? 都2026了，还怎么多子多福？ [More Children, More Blessings] [500 Trips to the Hospital] [Ensemble Cast] [Tycoon] [Urban Superpowers] At thirty, he's achieved nothing: a bachelor, an exploited office worker, and a quitter who's decided to lie flat and rely on welfare in old age. His own father slaps him and calls him unfilial. Then he awakens the More Children, More Blessings System. But it's already 2026. How is a low-level office worker, whom not even a woman from an eighth-rate prestigious family would marry, supposed to 59.4kReads7.3Score6.6k14d adds
- 81 King's Academy: I Gain a Little Attribute Point Every Day 国王学院：我每天增加一点属性点 In this world, everyone’s talent and profession are decided the moment they are born. At sixteen, everyone awakens their talent. Kelan originally thought he had awakened an ordinary C-rank talent: allocating attribute points. But he soon discovered that his attribute points worked differently from everyone else’s. Other people gained one point a year, while he gained one point a day. Before long, Kelan will show the geniuses of this world what it means to be a walking stat monster. I don’t care 6.5kReads7.2Score49214d adds
- 82 Undercover, Caring for the Deceased Crime Boss's Sister-in-Law 卧底，代死去的黑老大照顾大嫂 [Underworld] [Undercover] [Cunning] [Ruthless and decisive] [Absolutely no do-gooder heroine] [Multiple heroines] When a crime boss suddenly drowned, an undercover police officer who looked just like him impersonated the boss and stepped into his life. He took over the boss's mansion, spent the boss's money, looked after his sister-in-law, and commanded countless underlings as they continued to expand and advance. On his perilous path undercover, he kept climbing to ever greater heights... 161kReads8.7Score12.4k14d adds
- 83 The Women I Met in Dongguan Back in the Day 那些年，我在东莞遇到的女人们 [Urban underworld + no System + nostalgia + beauties + power struggles + ruthless action + pure wish fulfillment, no self-torture] Back in Dongguan in 2004, he rises from bodyguard to nightclub beauties to the godfather of Dongguan's underworld. Li Zhan moves to Dongguan for work and meets A-Zhen, who works at a nightclub. After an unexpected incident, Li Zhan drives away a customer harassing A-Zhen, only to find himself at odds with the local underworld. To survive, he's forced into the crimina 21kReads8.6Score1.5k14d adds
- 84 The Fishing Grounds Are Full of Giants, and Anglers Can't Take It 渔场巨物多，钓鱼佬直呼受不了 Zhou Nan awakened the Super Fishery System. Upgrading his fish ponds brought him all kinds of benefits. Countless anglers flocked to him. Zhou Nan's life was transformed from then on. Just as Zhou Nan thought he would spend the rest of his life enjoying all the excitement, fate suddenly played a cruel joke on him. It turned out... 257Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Boss of the Underworld 江湖话事人 [Not many readers, so the rating just won’t go up] One wrong turn brought me into the jianghu. Watch as I summon storms with one hand and calm them with the other. Starting from nothing, I’ll carve out a path through the jianghu. They say you become what you eat, so if you want to climb higher, there’s only one thing to eat... 2.7kReads7.8Score20314d adds
- 86 A Bandit in North America 混在北美当悍匪 [Decisive and ruthless + scheming, tough bandit + points in the American cinematic universe + domineering, sweet romance] He transmigrated into the body of a Host who had been poisoned to death by his half-brother, and awakened super senses. From then on, this lawless bandit lived by the creed that killing meant growth and gunfire forged the throne. If you can’t understand reason, I know a thing or two about throwing punches. If one shot doesn’t put you down, then two will. And if that still doe 1.8kReads5.9Score—14d adds
- 87 The Pinnacle of Black Power 黑权顶点 (Ignore the rating. This is a black-market thriller with guaranteed thrills.) Qin Hui only wants to sell watermelons in peace, earn a little money, and find himself a wife. But the street thugs at the market bully him until he can barely get by. At the end of his rope, he finally picks up a watermelon knife and strikes back. “A man needs either money or power. Better to stand up and fight than live like a spineless loser.” An ordinary man transforms into a big shot, eventually reaching unima 17.1kReads8.5Score1k14d adds
- 88 Desire for Black Gold 欲黑金 [Underworld, Passion and Strategy, Multiple Heroines] Six years ago, Cao Zhishuang broke into the room of the campus belle, a teacher, and ended up behind bars. Now that he’s just been released, an invisible hand has already closed around him. Cao Zhishuang resolutely steps into the game, vowing to uncover the true cause of his father’s death and kill his enemies with his own hands. From then on, he sets out on a one-way road paved with desire and dirty money… 6.4kReads8.1Score67914d adds
- 89 The Pawn Who Crosses the River: Beyond Forgiveness 过河卒：罪无可恕 People who make money through shady dealings need to learn to burn incense and pray to Buddha. Those who move in the underworld have to believe that good things come to those who wait. After the turn of the millennium, Jiang Xinze was kicked off the police force for saving someone. He led his brothers into a world of guns and blades, with blood on their military daggers, riding the winds of a turbulent era to forge a dazzling legacy. If you’ve got a score to settle, settle it. If you won’t back 10.6kReads8.5Score89614d adds
- 90 My Sisters Raise Me Like Their Husband 姐姐们把我当老公养 [Just released, multiple female leads, feel-good wish fulfillment all the way through] Wei Yi was reborn, returning from 2026 to 2014. In his previous life, he was an utterly ordinary deputy director at a neighborhood office, and died young at thirty. The cause of death? It’s a little embarrassing to say. Let’s just say it had something to do with his wife, the older sister who was perfect in every way. On the very first day after his rebirth, his future wife called: “Come to Yanjing. If you don 354.4kReads8.8Score45.8k14d adds
- 91 Siheyuan: Liu Haizhong’s Uncle-in-Law 四合院：刘海中的小姑父 Strengthening the nation, cultivation, transmigration, invincibility, multiple heroines, System Zhen Xudong has just died and been reborn into the world of Courtyard House and its TV adaptations. He obtains a cash-powered lottery System that lets him draw once a month using his money. He spends untold sums of money on draws and wins all kinds of skills, inheritances, items, technology, and even people… 3kReads6.7Score15214d adds
- 92 The Jianghu: What Is It, Really? 江湖，到底是什么？ [Pure Underworld] [The Jianghu of the 1980s] Where there are people, there are grudges; where there are grudges, there is a jianghu; people are the jianghu! It used to be called the jianghu, but now it's called society! When the storms had passed, Lang Aowen knelt once more before the sacred image of Guan Yu, holding three sticks of incense high above his head. Only one question remained in his heart: The jianghu, what exactly is it? [Serious Warning: The characters and plot in this book are 1.7kReads—Score10114d adds
- 93 Sorry, I Have a Romance System 对不起，我有情圣系统 "Southeast Asia" "No Harem" "Realistic" “I chased after her for three years. I just couldn’t afford a house that cost 11,000 yuan per square meter, and I even ruined my family...” “Now, just when she’s finally entered the adult film industry, you insist this is an illicit relationship.” “How would I not know whether this love is real?” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Man Who Reached the Top of the Underworld 黑道触顶之徒 The underworld is shallow waters teeming with big shots. Thousands shout my name: Brother Tian. Xia Tian, a young man from the bottom of society in Northeast China, gets caught up by chance in the feud between two underworld bosses. From then on, he sets out to climb to the top of the criminal world. Benefactors, moles, bandits, desperados… all sorts of characters take the stage, and the action is heart-pounding. Watch as he leads his brothers from small-time nobodies to become the biggest kin 3.7kReads8.8Score25114d adds
- 95 Competing for Affection in a World with More Women Than Men 在女多男少世界被争宠 [The audiobook is now available, and the animated series is coming soon. Quality guaranteed, brothers, let's go~~] [Duck soup aroma + girl pursues boy + everyday life + brainless feel-good fun + chaotic antics] Ling Feng was an utterly ordinary office drone. After working overtime day after day, his vision suddenly went black, and he transmigrated to a world with an imbalanced gender ratio… 27.1kReads7.6Score2.3k14d adds
- 96 The Perfect Maid 完美的女仆 My name is Jiang Che, and I’m the head of Listening Rain Manor. There was a time when everyone took a turn stepping on me. Now, they don’t even have the right to look up at me. I clawed my way out of the mud, outmaneuvered every scheme and plot, and built an empire no one else would even dare dream of. In everyone else’s eyes, I’m a ruthless living King of Hell. Only I know that I’m really just the one and only protector of a group of young women. They can shield me from bullets and keep watch 127Reads—Score13814d adds
- 97 The Pinnacle of Nowhere 1 无人之巅1 I went into the underworld because I didn’t want to be bullied... I stepped into the darkness so I’d never have to turn my back on it again. I cast aside my conscience and sharpened my claws, trampling underfoot each person who had once humiliated me. 240Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Underworld Storm: The Uncrowned King 黑道风云：无冕王侯 (First person, period setting, underworld) A big brother? A big brother isn't some glamorous, all-powerful emperor who does whatever he pleases. A big brother is just the guy who picks up the tab. The underworld? It's brotherly loyalty, deceit and betrayal. It's a place that strips the tenderness from gentle-hearted men and hardens them, and turns green young boys into grizzled old gangsters. My name is Zhao Qingfeng. I've been around the underworld, and I was once a big brother! 37.3kReads9.2Score3.9k14d adds
- 99 Wang Hao, the Inverse Scale King 逆鳞王皓 A comeback, a defiance of fate. Bullied for years because of his weight, he finally reaches his breaking point and vows never to be weak again. He fights back, step by step descending into hell, and soon dominates the campus... 116Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Lone Wolf of the Underworld: I Came from Hell 黑道孤枭：我从地狱来 Orphaned at eight, I spent eight years keeping my head down. I came from hell, and I came for revenge. When the lone wolf strikes, the underworld runs red with blood. Those who owe me will repay me tenfold. Those who wrong me will be ground to dust! 201Reads—Score—14d adds
