Novels like Covert Manipulation
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- 1 This Matchmaker Reaches for a Knife at the Drop of a Hat 这个月老动不动掏刀子 Other Matchmakers tie red strings. Mine pulls out a knife, the kind that can turn into a halberd and stab straight through the demon clan! Lin Yan, a jinx with no luck in love, is baffled. The “Matchmaker” Jun Yu who rescued her is a hundred times better at fighting with a knife than tying love knots! Red strings snap or short-circuit the microwave when they get near her. She even manages to lock two straight men into a couple! Jun Yu, a former god of slaughter from the Celestial Realm and a f 9Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 2 What? You Won't Read It Because It's Too Absurd? Then Open It Up Yourself 什么！因为太抽象不看！自己掰开 [Urban Slice of Life] [Absurd Humor and Memes] [Campus] [System Glitch] [The System Transmigrated, Not Me] [Light Novel] (The rating just came out, so it's a bit low. Don't run off!) “Doctor, I think my friend is sick.” “What is your friend's name?” “Dog System.” “What symptoms does it have?” “It keeps treating our world like a cyberpunk world. It thinks the internet is the Origin World, the girls who dance while wiping glass are desire-cultivating evil cultivators, and our phones are peerless m 584Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Keep Sleeping, Don’t Wake Up 继续睡，不要醒 [Infinite Dreams + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Horror + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Bizarre + Romance + Sophisticated] Lin Du has been dreaming ever since he was born. He often wakes with a start in some strange room and desperately flees to a subway station, only to discover that his every move is being livestreamed and everyone is watching. When he rushes out of the subway, he finds himself sitting in a car with no end, where every passenger is horrifyingly strange. The car stops at one st 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Humanity Performs a Scripted Murder Mystery for Higher-Dimensional Life in the Apocalypse 末世人类为高维生命表演剧本杀 What's it like to perform a murder-mystery game for higher life forms during the apocalypse? Mess up, and you die… Decisive killing + No Female Lead + Apocalypse + Instances + Multiple Worlds Warning: The male lead is greasy. Extremely greasy. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental. No false claims of plagiarism. 64Reads8.8Score116Shelves
- 5 From the Start, I Report the System and Transcend Beyond It 开局举报系统，我超脱了 “Attention, passengers. The train is about to arrive at Tai'an Station. Passengers getting off at Tai'an Station, please prepare your luggage and get ready to disembark.” “Attention, passengers...” Zhou Zheng carried his luggage out of the station with the surging crowd, then boarded the Number 1 bus without hurry. Out of habit, he walked to the back of the bus and took a window seat in the last row. He closed his eyes to rest and silently thought to himself: “System!” A screen of light invisibl 6.6kReads7.9Score403Shelves
- 6 As the Heavenly Dao, I Save the Myriad Worlds 天道的我拯救万界 After awakening, he discovers that he has become the Heavenly Dao of a world. Through his own tireless efforts, he guides his world step by step toward the center stage of the myriad heavens. In this world, the Chosen Sons of Heaven and Systems are constantly at odds. The myriad races take turns fighting for dominion, technology clashes fiercely with Cultivation, and individual power continually struggles against the collective will. The ruler of a System world glares angrily at the System befor 10.6kReads8.7Score724Shelves
- 7 Infinite Reincarnation: Survival Begins with the Stone Village 无限轮回：求生从石村号开始 [Infinite Flow + Death Rewind + Horror Games + No Female Lead + Survival] Survive for 24 hours in one of three worlds, Silent Hill, Raccoon City, or the USG Ishimura, and you can win 100 million. Mu Xing thought the pop-up was a prank and casually clicked the dialogue box, only to be transported to the perilous USG Ishimura. Fortunately, he gained the ability to loop infinitely, giving him chance after chance to find a way to survive by dying and rewinding. When he finally managed to escape the 32.1kReads8.7Score3.3kShelves
- 8 Hilarious! I Mistook an Evil God's Curse for an Ultimate Move and Trained with It 搞笑！我把邪神诅咒误当大招练了 [Trope Subversion]+ [Invincible Unhinged Comedy]+ [Absolutely Hilarious]+ [A Mentally Ill Author’s Wild Imagination] What the heck? Zhang Yi'ang feels like the heavens are messing with him. He tried practicing a cultivation technique, only to accidentally learn an Evil God’s curse. First ultimate move: The Zhang family is stronger than the Li family, so you can only attack people surnamed Li. But how many people in the world are actually named Li? Second ultimate move: Stay completely still, but 5.2kReads8.2Score441Shelves
- 9 I Have Chuunibyou: Every Fantasy Came True 中二病的我：一切幻想都成真了 [Behind-the-Scenes Protagonist + Infinite-Flow + Comedy + Plot-Focused + Chuunibyou + Lighthearted + No System] My name is Lu Jing. For certain reasons, I can’t take off the eyepatch covering my left eye. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to handle my golden eyes. Shatter, reality! Crumble, mind! Cast this world into exile!!! Portals appear, and monsters return. Lu Jing has a severe case of chuunibyou, but he’s just an ordinary person who can’t awaken. As he grows older, Lu Jing graduall 8.2kReads8.8Score809Shelves
- 10 Life as an Extra in a Cultivation World 在修仙世界做路人日子 Li Xiaoniu is an ordinary passerby, as ordinary as they come. So why do I have a spiritual root? Why was I assigned to live with the male lead? Why do I have to take the blame for him? And why do I have to deliver a letter from the female lead to him? Please stop treating me like a useful tool. Even passersby have their dignity… Years later, looking at the male and female leads living in blissful wedded harmony, and the pile of gorgeous supporting heroines tossed my way, I suddenly think this is 6kReads8.1Score475Shelves
- 11 System? Didn't I Just Bind to One? 系统？我不是刚刚绑定过了吗？ [Transmigration] [Dual Systems] [Multiple Heroines] [Hilarious and Absurd] Everyone else gets cheat powers from a single System. My two Systems spend every day fighting each other! Ye Ao transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation. His name happens to match the legendary online-game ID "Ye Ao, What Can You Do About It?", accidentally activating an online-game System. He thinks he is about to sweep across the immortal world with cheat powers all the way, but who could have guessed a whol 8kReads8.3Score713Shelves
- 12 Proving the Dao in Dreams: From the Start, I Scheme Against Cultivators 梦中证道，开局算计修仙者 After transmigrating to the world of immortal cultivation, he spends ten years searching for a way forward, yet can barely make any progress. Fortunately, he has a golden finger that lets him weave dreams. So he painstakingly lays his plans, finally waiting for cultivators to arrive. From then on, he cultivates in dreams and proves the Dao in dreams! He turns illusion into reality and ultimately becomes an unrivaled Immortal Venerable. 21.2kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves
- 13 Your Talent Is Great, Too Bad It's Mine! 你的天赋很好，可惜是我的了！ [Adapted into a comic, a short drama, and an animated comic; animation adaptation coming soon] In a dark age where order has collapsed, Lin Luo still clung to his morals, only to die horribly at someone else's hands! Fortunately, he returned to the moment just before the age of universal class advancement began! Reborn, he no longer suppresses his [Plunder] talent, which lets him level up by killing! He's going completely berserk! Villain: My S-rank talent, [Book of Wishes], can grant any wish! 23.3kReads8.8Score2.6kShelves
- 14 EN I Only Want to Destroy the World, Yet I'm the God Who Created It! 只想灭世的我，真的是创世神！ [Ensemble cast] [Invincible] [World creation] [Ridiculous netizens] [Pocket worlds] Su Mo binds himself to the Creation God System, only to discover that he can grow stronger simply by destroying worlds! A ladle of water becomes a world-ending flood! A shovelful of dirt becomes a meteor that destroys the world! Some revere him as the Creator of Worlds, the one who gave them life and intelligence. Others curse him as an evil god who destroys the world every thousand years. Countless lives wail in 13.2kReads7.6Score827Shelves
- 15 After I Ran Away, the Heiress of the Capital Went Insane! 当我逃走后，京圈大小姐疯了！ After I Ran Away, the Heiress of the Capital’s Elite Circle Went Crazy! 1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Creating the Uncanny: My Creations Throw the World into Chaos 诡异创造，我的造物们霍乱世界 [Superpowers + Supernatural Horror + Lovecraftian + Contamination + No Female Lead + Behind the Scenes + Natural Disasters] Mysterious myths awaken amid natural disasters, while an unknown corruption quietly takes over the world. Abominable creations howl, and contamination continues to spread. Distortion returns alongside the supernatural: eyes that target human nature, domains that twist it, and strange shackles that cannot be broken. Destruction and rebirth intertwine to create a new mytholog 1.9kReads—Score151Shelves
- 17 On the Day We Were to Get Our Marriage License, My Fiancée Ran Off with Her First Love 领证当天，未婚妻跟白月光跑了 On the Day We Got Our Marriage License, My Fiancée Ran Off with Her First Love 1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The White Bone Daoist Court 白骨道庭 Cultivate true energy, build the foundation of the Dao, and manifest the Yin Spirit. The unorthodox path makes seeking the Dao difficult: refine baleful energy, taint the soul, and seek freedom for a fleeting moment. The heterodox path is arduous too: evade earthfire, dodge astral winds, and give birth to the Yang Spirit. A master of the unorthodox path is reborn. In this life, I will establish a Dao lineage, nurture Dao artifacts, and suppress an entire age. 16.1kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 19 I Made the Game Descend into Reality 我让游戏降临现实 [Behind the Scenes / Players / Gaming / No Female Lead] That day, the epoch-making full-dive VR game Land of Seals burst onto the scene, setting off a gaming craze across the world. Its average number of players online topped three billion at one point! But no one knew that one day in the future, everything in the game would descend upon reality! The Tower of Seals, the Legions of the Old Ones, the Doomsday Church… Only Ye Qiu, a reborn person, knew what was coming. But I don’t care, because… “I 22.1kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
- 20 The Working Stiff's Cultivation Chronicles 牛马修仙录 A nationwide online game turns out to be a path to immortality! Paralyzed from the waist down, he is forced to embark on the path to becoming an immortal! By day, Shi Jin is a food delivery guy, ground down by the hardships of life! By night, Shi Jin is a Great Golden Immortal, and all the gods from every direction had better keep their distance! This book has a bit of everything: spoofing Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, and wreaking havoc in the Celestial Court and the Primordi 22.8kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
- 21 Online Game: Rebuilding My Life 网游之重塑人生 Qin Feng used to be a hopeless romantic. He gave his girlfriend his whole heart and treated her like a queen. And what did he get in return? She casually tossed out, "You can't give me the life I want," then turned around and walked away. Qin Feng was completely crushed. He holed up in his rented apartment every day, questioning his whole existence and wondering what the point of living was. Eventually, with nothing else to do and no other options, he plunged into an online game to kill time. 492Reads9.5Score343Shelves
- 22 A Bizarre Tale of Feng Shui! 风水奇谭！ Chen Yan, a top student at a 985 university, suffered a devastating blow at just twenty-two: His roommate set him up and framed him, driving him into a dead end; His girlfriend of three years cheated on him; his father was hospitalized with a serious illness, and he couldn't even scrape together the 5,000-yuan deposit. His loan payments were overdue and collectors were after him. He was about to become... Just as he sank into utter despair, a mysterious old Daoist appeared, opened his heavenly e 4.3kReads8.5Score332Shelves
- 23 I Launched the Immortal Realm Version of Douyin, and the Holy Land Ancestors Lost It 发布抖音仙界版，圣地老祖破防了 [Cultural invasion of the cultivation world] + [Lighthearted comedy] Lin Ye transmigrates into a cultivation world where righteous and demonic factions are locked in mortal opposition, becoming a demonic overlord who has gone undercover in the righteous path. If war breaks out between the two sides, he’s as good as dead. Fortunately, he awakens the God-Tier Entertainment System. It gives the entire cultivation world access to the internet and brings over a host of entertainment devices and apps 30.7kReads9.3Score2.7kShelves
- 24 Deity: Starsea Swarm 神祗：星海虫群 [Worked to death by overtime] [Grind until your liver gives out] [King of the rat race] [Wild-imagination fantasy] [Profit above all] [Keep a low profile] [Insectoid] [No System] Han Fei transmigrates to an interstellar society where everyone has a chance to become a god. Those who set foot on the path to godhood all aim to raise their divine kingdoms high and enter the real world to gain immortality. Han Fei figures that with his divine trait, Gene Modification, and his followers' talent, Gene 38.5kReads9.3Score4kShelves
- 25 I Raise My Employees' Salaries, and You Say I'm Disrupting the Market! 提升员工工资，你说我扰乱市场！ [The short drama is now online: I raised my employees' wages, and you say I'm disrupting the market] [Business growth, globalization, cross-industry expansion, coming-of-age story] How do you rate the youngest person ever to become the world's richest man on the Forbes list? Economic Times: “The whole world is working for Song Jiang!” Peace Master: “Thank you, Song Jiang, for your contributions to peace. The world has never been more peaceful!” America: “Damn it! China is so despicable! He's usi 52.6kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
- 26 The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍 Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.” 3.3kReads—Score260Shelves
- 27 Back to the Beginner’s Village? No! I’m Here to Retire! 重回新手村？不！我是来养老的！ After completing 9,999 repair missions in minor worlds, Hua Yi decisively retires and chooses a world to spend her remaining years in. She seems like a fresh-faced newcomer who has just entered the world of cultivation, but behind the scenes, she’s a powerhouse who dares to go head-to-head with the Heavenly Dao! Along the way, she plays the pig to eat the tiger, picks up strays, and enjoys the gossip and drama. There’s the Child of Misfortune, sealed away by a powerful cultivator. There’s also t 9.8kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
- 28 Lie Flat Immortal Venerable 躺平仙尊 [Rapid-fire laughs + lighthearted + no romance] Lin Xian transmigrates to a cultivation world gripped by cutthroat competition. His previous incarnation was the ultimate grind king, who worked himself to death from cultivating nonstop. Lin Xian binds himself to a System that rewards him with cultivation whenever he rests, lies flat, or slacks off, but punishes him if he cultivates seriously... 1.2kReads—Score103Shelves
- 29 Ordinary Immortal of the Nine Domains 九域凡仙 The path to immortality is uncanny, and humanity is lowly. All living beings are but pagodas, while the immortal heart is cold as frost. The young Fang Chen unexpectedly gains an immortal opportunity, but he has only one wish: to wield the immortal sword in his hand and bring peace to the world for all generations. 63.6kReads9.0Score5.2kShelves
- 30 I Use Illusions to Control the World 我用幻术控制全世界 [A rare illusion-based novel featuring a villain protagonist, nightmare invasions, and original instances] Su Mu has the same dream every night. Each time he wakes, his mental strength has increased by one percent. He grows stronger just by sleeping. In the first year, hypnosis. He discovers his mental strength is already powerful enough to hypnotize others, and soon gang bosses, the campus belle, beautiful CEOs, and more have all become his slaves. In the second year, control over the five sens 68.8kReads9.4Score7.5kShelves
- 31 I Told You to Cultivate Immortality, Not Wreak Havoc in the Cultivation World! 让你修仙，没让你祸害修仙界啊！ [Comedy][Sneaky Schemer][Lighthearted][Absurd][Gets Better the Further You Read] [This book focuses on comedy and fun. The pace is somewhat slow, so please do not read it if that bothers you.] Year 17,863 of the Cultivation Calendar When Emperor Qin Yu became an immortal and ascended, powerful figures from every realm came to see him off. Firecrackers exploded, and everyone had tears in their eyes as they murmured their farewells. Sect Elder: “He's leaving. This scourge is finally leaving. We ca 171.3kReads9.1Score23.8kShelves
- 32 EN The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！ [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O 66.7kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
- 33 I Really Run an Orphanage, Not an Assassin's Den 我开的真是孤儿院，不是杀手堂 [Physical book edition now available] [Short drama of the same name is now streaming! Watch it on Hongguo!] [The only martial arts ensemble novel on the entire site with such a wild premise!] [At its peak, 1.5 million readers were following it, ranking seventh across all of Tomato Novel. Readers, come on in and take a look!] [Ensemble cast + System + traits + martial arts] Chen Ye transmigrates to the Great Wu Dynasty and binds himself to an Orphan Training System. As long as he raises orphans, 116.1kReads8.9Score12.2kShelves
- 34 Wait, How Did My AI Girlfriend Cultivate into a Sword Immortal? 不是，我电子女友咋修成剑仙了 [Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil 185.1kReads9.3Score243.7kShelves
- 35 EN High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船 The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called 272.9kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 36 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情，职业舔狗我最行！ (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 261.1kReads9.5Score18.8kShelves
- 37 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 343.1kReads9.5Score39kShelves
- 38 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 538.5kReads9.5Score43.9kShelves
- 39 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 711.1kReads9.6Score100.9kShelves
- 40 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.5kReads9.7Score69kShelves
- 41 City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 473.6kReads9.7Score67.7kShelves
- 42 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score183.1kShelves
- 43 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score209.2kShelves
