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- 1 The Way of Grass and Trees 草木行 [No CP × Ensemble Cast × Tension-Driven Plot. Every character has both light and dark sides. You can read the final chapter first for the character afterword.] [Yu (a mirrored existence), subtle foreshadowing, with a second installment.] [The new story just launched and is still fresh. As readers gather, the ratings will soar.] “An assassin must never have a heart.” 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Can an Average Girl Be the One on Top? 普女也能当攻吗？ [Female-Led Romance + Older Woman/Younger Man + 1v2 + Male Leads Are Chaste] Zhi'an: Can an ordinary girl be the one in charge? More or less, it’s the story of an ordinary divorcée with a child discovering her sexual preferences. ⇩ Normal bodily functions, age gap of seven years or more. The heroine is clear-headed and self-interested, with a somewhat low sense of morality. She isn’t career-driven. The business plot is just background, and everything is there to serve the story. ⇩⇩ Shao Qi'an 197Reads8.2Score110Shelves
- 3 Tales of Love and Intrigue Behind the Vermilion Gates 朱门风月事 [Content warning: household intrigue and political machinations + ensemble cast + not an empowering female-lead fantasy + everyday family life] Song Wenjun died. She dropped dead while delivering takeout. A college graduate from a tiny mountain village, she never got to enjoy a single good day before she kicked the bucket. Luckily, she transmigrated. Into an entirely fictional dynasty, no less. Back when Song Wenjun was still alive in the modern world, money was tight, and the only hobby she co 59kReads8.5Score4.7kShelves
- 4 An Ordinary Girl Can't Win Over a Dream Guy? They're All Obsessed with Her 普女钓不了男神？他们都被钓疯了 [One Woman, Multiple Men, All Chaste + Cool and Adorable Heroine + Scheming Conquest + Average-Looking Woman Wins Everyone's Hearts + Multiple Men Compete + No Female Suffering + Transmigration + System] [The heroine schemes to win them over, while the male supporting characters gradually fall for her. The main plot centers on emotional conquest.] Xie Yu transmigrates, only to find that her new body is in terrible shape, with just three days left to live. At the same time, she's bound to a Syste 9.2kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 5 Transmigrated to 1950s Hong Kong: My Rise as a Singer 穿越50港岛：从歌伶开始逆袭 This novel has earned a unanimous verdict from readers: "A great book let down by its title." [Ensemble cast of strong female characters, realistic but not harsh on women, no chastity-obsessed heroine, not set in the entertainment industry, the female lead focuses on her career, and the childbirth System is used to have daughters without harm.] ---Synopsis--- "A Yue, your younger brother owes a huge debt from smoking opium. Your parents can only sell you to pay it off..." Lan Yueru: "My brother? 8.8kReads8.8Score961Shelves
- 6 A Beautiful Woman's Journey as a Livestreamer 漂亮美人的直播之路 Ming Yuantang wanted to make her way as a livestreamer by relying on her beauty. Little did she know that her absurd antics would become famous before her looks did. On her first day streaming, a big spender tried to give her advice. She talked back, but he didn't get mad. Instead, he sent her a Carnival gift and waited to walk her off the clock. Sister Xuebi helped connect her with a top streamer, a famous host personally taught her how to battle other streamers, and Third Brother suddenly show 661Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Scheming for a Night of Passion 春宵谋幸 [No Transmigration. Native-Born Heroine Develops Early On, Becomes Powerful Later.] [Everyone's Darling, Not a Submissive Wife. Political Intrigue, Coming-of-Age Female Lead, Multiple Male Leads, All Pure and All End Up with Her.] Shen Zhixing died a pathetic death in her previous life. As the only daughter of a marquis's household, she gave everything to help a man ascend the throne. In the end, her family was branded traitors plotting rebellion. When she begged him, all she got was a death tha 13.8kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
- 8 I Live, I Die I活I This story has a fragmented, fast-paced feel. The heroine is forced to take over her entire family in the middle of an extremely chaotic emergency. I want you to experience alongside her that suffocating feeling of not even having time to catch your breath. Take your time reading, and don't rush. Historical Fantasy | Female Lead | Tragedy | Ensemble Cast | Political Intrigue | No Romance “What does it mean to be alive?” A little girl answers with a curse that lets her remember everything she 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 No Official Status? These Insecure Handsome Men Just Want Her Affection 没名分？自卑美男们只想要她宠爱 [Women-loving women + beauty standards turned upside down + 1vN + truly doted on by everyone + funny and lighthearted + doting on husbands] All male love interests are chaste | The heroine is a huge flirt | Men compete in a battlefield of love | The System has very little presence Women-centered | Women hold power | Female friendship | No women competing against women | No misogynistic terms P.S. Given the world setting, the heroine will inexplicably gain power~ * Bai Ying transmigrates to a par 1.9kReads8.1Score211Shelves
- 10 Highway Survival: She's Really a Good Person 公路求生：她真的是好人 [Highway Survival + Subverting Expectations + Misunderstandings + Face-Slapping + A Touch of Ensemble Cast] The world collapsed, and everyone was thrown onto an endless highway. Along this ever-extending road were randomly appearing chests, mysterious rest stops, lost cities, and more... On the day the highway appeared, Lin Yan was riding a secondhand electric scooter to work at a kindergarten. She was a good-hearted person. If someone was short on water, she'd share hers. If someone asked for h 18.9kReads8.3Score2.5kShelves
- 11 Quick Transmigration! You’re Falling for Me Again, Aren’t You? 快穿！又被我迷住了吧！ [The rating just came out, so there aren’t many votes yet. It should go up later! Immersive quick transmigration, short stories, love at first sight, male leads of all kinds, weak morals, including yandere and obsessive types. All male leads are sexually inexperienced.] 1. God × young nun What can you do to repay a gift too overwhelming to bear? 2. Childhood friends, a boy and a girl It should have been a fun college graduation trip, but when she opened her eyes, seven years had passed. Why had 2.5kReads8.1Score138Shelves
- 12 I'm the Fake Heiress. Who's Afraid? 我是假千金我怕谁 [Fake and real heiresses + unhinged villainess + palace and household intrigue + all the usual tropes + lighthearted comedy] Huo Chenxuan jumped into a river to save someone, only to transmigrate into a book, becoming the evil fake heiress in The True Heiress Is Reborn, and Her Five Marquis Mansion Brothers Weep as They Beg Forgiveness. The first thing she sees when she opens her eyes is the classic drowning scene, with the scumbag General Xiao swimming desperately toward her. “Don’t come any cl 2.4kReads—Score252Shelves
- 13 The Frugal Rich Tycoon: The Female No. 1 Fan of a Male Streamer 抠门版神豪：男主播的榜一大姐 [Readers, please read the content warnings first. This novel has a lot of potentially upsetting content.] Wishing everyone who has found this book good health and smooth sailing in the new year, with wealth rolling in during the Year of the Snake. Here is a list of possible deal-breakers. Pick and choose what you’re comfortable with: 1. The female lead is strong and the male leads are weaker. There are multiple male leads. The female lead is not sexually inexperienced, and some male leads aren’t 25.2kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
- 14 Survival Journal: Back to the World of Ordinary Life 求生日记：重返烟火人间 Not a wish-fulfillment story, no cheat powers, no rebirth: a realistic struggle to survive against the odds. An innocent only daughter meets the ultimate scumbag. He tricks her into love, saddles her with debt, then runs off, delivering a triple blow. She tries to take her daughter into the lake with her, but survives. Having died once, she finally comes to her senses. There’s no one to catch her when she falls and no one to save her. Every meal and every bit of warmth must be earned with her ow 5.9kReads8.8Score425Shelves
- 15 I’m Already Doing Quick Transmigration, and I Still Have to Please Men? 都快穿了，我还讨好男人？ Quick transmigration + plot-driven + subverting expectations + worker's gripes + manic one moment, triumphant the next, then absurd Meng Wan is an ordinary wage slave. After staying up late to make seventeen PowerPoint presentations in a row, she successfully puts herself in a coma in the ICU. The System, Ma Li, tells her she can return to the real world if she completes missions and collects life points across three thousand small worlds. Has capitalism really gone so insane that it won't even 19.9kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
- 16 Where the Wind Leaves Its Trace, Beyond the White Line 风过留痕，白线之外 [Not a power fantasy, no System, realistic, action psychology, everyday mysteries] Bailing first met Chen Feng at a dinner her younger sister had arranged at the last minute. He was neat-looking and impeccably mannered, even keeping a carefully measured distance whenever he came close. But she soon realized this "temporary boyfriend" was no ordinary man. When she was hurt, he would pull his hand back. When she was wary, he would take half a step away. He always left every choice up to her, yet w 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Wicked Mother-in-Law Is Reborn: From the Neighborhood Office to the Provincial Committee Compound 恶婆婆重生：从街道办到省委大院 [The short drama is now streaming] [Career-driven female lead | 1970s political career progression | A female version of Game of Thrones] Striving to awaken women's consciousness + alternate historical setting + career-focused plot + blended family + male lead who understands her 💥 Modern media mogul Yin Chunjiao opens her eyes to find herself the notorious wicked mother-in-law of the 1970s. • Drove her daughter-in-law to her death? No way. I'll send her to university. • Throwing tantrums and ac 26.9kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 18 Quick Transmigration: The Honest Female Lead Isn’t So Honest 快穿之老实人女配不老实 Ji Chaoxi was an extremely honest person. That was the System’s first impression of her. When she saw the System staring at her, Ji Chaoxi managed a smile. It made her look even more honest... The System frowned hard and eyed her suspiciously. “Can you really complete the mission?” The System eyed the villainous résumé Ji Chaoxi handed over, full of doubt. Its senior had once told it that many of today’s Hosts were only half-competent, and their résumés were often at least a little fabricated. I 63.3kReads9.0Score4.2kShelves
- 19 Yearning for Immortality 欲求仙 Something seems off about this transmigration? If you transmigrate into the cultivation world as an utterly ordinary passerby, get a golden finger in the form of a useless panel from the start, get sold to a talisman shop owner to work, and nearly starve to death while in seclusion, is there any hope for a life like that? And does being abandoned count as having your parents sacrificed to the heavens? By the time Fang Mingliao finally reached the Golden Core stage, she realized that ninety-nine 12kReads8.8Score982Shelves
- 20 Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记 [No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u 331Reads8.3Score153Shelves
- 21 They Say Everyone Rumored to Be Involved with This Maid Gets Promoted 听说和这丫鬟有绯闻的都升官了 [Transmigrated Maid + Ensemble Cast + Political Schemes and Twists + Hilarious Chaos] One-sentence summary: A maid and two minor officials are brought together by a wastrel marquis to resolve crises and crack bizarre cases. Zhuxin transmigrated into the body of a maid in a Duke's manor. She thought her future would involve either household intrigue or farming, but then the manor was confiscated and she landed in the Imperial Prison. Zhuxin felt like she was doomed. They were all picking on her j 16.8kReads9.3Score2.3kShelves
- 22 Superpowered Spycraft: An Agent's Blissful Path to Immortality 超神谍武，特工修仙爽歪歪 Truth and illusion are hard to tell apart, And love, hatred, and old grudges stretch beyond count! Greed, anger, delusion, sorrow, joy, and resentment, Who among us hasn’t tasted them all? Spy wars, schemes within schemes, a world of temptation, Half-drunk, half-sated, still unable to enjoy the night. I can change a thousand ways, And unleash every supernatural power. Why should I fear their schemes and plots, Their sharp tongues and cutting words? I roam the sea of stars to settle old scores, W 5kReads9.5Score391Shelves
- 23 Bound to an Ancestor, I Make a Fortune in the Modern World 绑定老祖宗，我在现代疯狂暴富 [Rewriting history from the moral high ground + cause and effect + unwavering devotion] She loved Gu Sinan for five thousand years. But her ancestor, Gu Mingze, erased all her memories! Fate took an unexpected turn. In a new world, she fell in love all over again with the cool, calculating Gu Sinan... Though Gu Shengwan was born unlucky and ill-fated in this new world, with little affection from her family and misfortune at every turn, she spent half her life struggling under a cloud of despa 25Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 24 The Bankrupt Exorcist's Haunted House Livestream 破产天师的凶宅直播间 “Congratulations. You've inherited a mansion worth a fortune, as well as... 200,000 yuan in deadly yin debt.” The lawyer's voice was like a scalpel, cutting through all my beautiful dreams. I'm Wu Suowei, a con artist who edits photos to pass myself off as a master of the occult. I was planning to pack up and run. But when I opened the doors of Jingxin Studio and saw the strange assortment of “family members” inside... I knew there was no escape. This wasn't a haunted house. It was an ancient se 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Weight Exchange System: The Fat Man's Comeback Plan 体重兑换系统：胖子逆袭计划 [An entertainment-industry story about the protagonist's struggle to make it in show business.] [No slacking off, no meltdowns, no dating shows, no livestreaming. She acts earnestly, works hard on set, and becomes a top-tier star through her skill and body of work.] In her previous life, Shang Ye was an out-and-out comic foil. She stumbled into the entertainment industry, but a congenital illness left her overweight, so all she could do was play chubby nobodies in low-budget comedies. After 16.2kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 26 Shocking! The Metaphysics Master Can Hear People's Thoughts 震惊！玄学大佬被读心了 [Mysticism + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + mind-reading + lighthearted] After graduating with a law degree, Xia Wange, heir to a Daoist sect, sees a wheelchair shimmering with purple energy at a car crash site. Born unable to gather energy, she can’t bring herself to leave the wheelchair alone. [I’ll carry this wheelchair off and borrow the energy on it to draw talismans. Then I’ll be the undisputed goddess of the supernatural world!] Lu Qiu, the CEO still trapped in the wreckage, inexpli 378.3kReads9.5Score76.8kShelves
- 27 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反 [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 108.1kReads9.5Score12.4kShelves
- 28 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 118.9kReads9.6Score13.8kShelves
