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- 1 I Became a Vegetable After Running with My Students, but I Actually Transmigrate Between Ancient and Modern Times 陪学生跑步后成植物人，我其实穿越古代和现代 I Became a Vegetative Patient After Running with My Student, but I Actually Transmigrated Between Ancient and Modern Times —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Reform the CEO and Send Him to Law School, Lie Flat and Build Cultural Tourism While Cultivating, Turn the Villain into a Model Youth 感化霸总送法制，修仙躺平搞文旅，养反派教成五好青年 Reform domineering CEOs with the rule of law, lie flat while cultivating immortality and developing cultural tourism, and raise villains into model young citizens —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Back to Yesterday 重回昨天 The protagonist returns to more than twenty years ago. How will he choose to live his life this time? There is nothing particularly glorious or impressive about it, just one person's realization after losing too much. What a painful realization! 15.2kReads6.4Score670Shelves
- 4 After Time Collapsed, Humanity Finally Understood the Meaning of Being Alive 时光崩塌之后，人类终于读懂活着的意义 After time collapsed, humanity finally understood the meaning of being alive —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 My Introverted Self in My Student Days 内向的我在学生时代 My Introverted Self in My Student Days —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Child from a Special Family in Our Class 班上家庭特殊的孩子 The Child in Class with a Difficult Family Background 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Rebellious Boy Who Talked Back to the Class Monitor 顶撞班干部的叛逆男孩 The Rebellious Boy Who Talked Back to the Class Monitor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Only After Our Homeroom Teacher Died Did We Realize How Good She Was, So Let’s Make Her Reborn 班主任死后才知道她的好，那就让她重生 I Didn't Know How Good My Homeroom Teacher Was Until After She Died, So I'll Let Her Be Reborn —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 An’an: My Son’s Story 小名叫安安：我儿子的故事 An An: The Story of My Son —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Four Perfect Matches Can't Beat the Words 'I Don't Love You' 四种顶配的合适，抵不过一句不爱 Four kinds of perfect compatibility can't outweigh the words, “I don't love you” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 My Life Depends on Other People’s Likes 我的命，靠别人点赞活着 My life depends on other people’s likes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Our Homeroom Teacher Wants Us to Get into Top Schools 班主任让我们上名校 Our Homeroom Teacher Gets Us into a Top School 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Teacher, You’re Finally Divorced. Can I Pursue You Now? 老师，终于熬到你离婚，我可以追求你吗？ Teacher, you've finally made it through your divorce. Can I pursue you now? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Book I Never Finished 未读完的那本书 How did they meet, come to know each other, understand each other, and fall in love? The story blurs truth and lies, lies and truth. It is not deeply sad, but neither is it joyful. Beautiful things are beautiful because they live on in our memories... “Hi, I’m Zhang Zejing. I don’t know the nearby delivery address. Could you send it to me?” “Hi, I’m Wang Qianran. Sure.” Like so many others, the boy is awkward and the girl is nervous. It is a familiar opening. But how will their story end? Wi 18.3kReads6.9Score859Shelves
- 15 Teacher, I Really Want to Break Up Your Marriage, But I Can’t 老师我真的想拆散你的家庭，但我不能 Teacher, I really want to break up your marriage, but I can't —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Whole World Thinks He's Cold, but I Know His Tenderness Is Only for Me 全世界都以为他高冷，只有我知道他温柔只给我一人 Everyone thinks he's aloof, but only I know that he saves his gentle side for me alone. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Moment I Deleted My Marriage, I Finally Saw Everyone's Fate 我删掉婚姻的那一刻，才看见所有人的宿命 Only when I erased my marriage did I see the fate awaiting everyone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Pretend to Have It All Together in the City While My Family Back Home Struggles for Me 我在城市假装光鲜，家人在故乡替我吃苦 I pretend to live a glamorous life in the city while my family suffers back in our hometown —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 An AI Substitute, Ninety-Nine Resets, and a Mother for Hire AI替身，九十九次重开，租来的母亲 AI Double, Ninety-Nine Reboots, and a Rented Mother —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Came This Far with No One to Rely On, and in the End, I Became My Own Radiant Light 我无依无靠一路走来，最后活成自己的万丈光芒 I made my way through life with no one to lean on, and in the end, I became my own blazing light 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 My Redemption by My Chinese Teacher 语文老师对我的救赎 My Chinese Teacher's Redemption —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I Held My Teacher’s Umbrella, So Now I Want to Hold One for My Students 打过老师的伞，所以想帮学生撑伞 Because my teacher once held an umbrella over me, I want to hold one over my students —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 This Is a Terrible Book 这是本破书 For ten thousand years, in the Age of Declining Dharma, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has withered away like deadwood. Witchcraft has fallen into ruin, the Dao has been severed, and the once-glorious golden age of cultivation has long since faded into a dusty legend. Only the supernatural tales scattered among the people still remind the world that another kind of person once lived here: mortals who pursued power beyond the ordinary. And the story I want to tell is about an old fox. I 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Jiang Shijun, the Blood-Handed Butcher 血手人屠蒋士军 Blood-Handed Butcher Jiang Shijun This is a grand, full-length classic wuxia novel in the new-school tradition. The complete work runs to a thousand chapters and two million words, with every word steeped in blood. Jiang Shijun, young master of the Blood Hand Sect, defeats Huashan in three moves and shatters Qingcheng with one palm. At just twenty-seven, he rises to the supreme position in the martial world. Yet each use of the Blood Hand Seal Divine Art costs him three years of life. His countl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Age of Declining Dharma: Truth System 末法时代之真理系统 A low-ranking wizard carrying a “Truth System” begins with the wizard-pattern murals carved by ancient wizards. As he hunts for treasures and cultivates across the continent, he uncovers the truth behind the decline of witchcraft and rewrites its laws. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Dragon Ascendant, Seven Apertures 龙腾七窍 No one could have expected that the sudden accident on the banks of the Yellow River would set people on entirely different paths through life. Fate loves to spring unexpected collisions on us. What comes out of them are vastly different fortunes and hardships. And the people we meet along the way, each encounter quietly nudges us toward a completely different future and destination. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Baihu A Yao 白狐阿瑶 A Yao the White Fox —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Black Earth, Stolen Shadows 黑土盗影 Black Soil, Stolen Shadows 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The 'Heartless One' from My Village 俺屯子的“没良心” The “Heartless” One in Our Village 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Dead Rose from the Grave 诈尸了 The Corpse Has Come Back to Life 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Boss Couple Infringes on Their Own Employee's Rights 霸总夫妇侵权自家员工 After the second issue of the monthly magazine came out, Yu Xue realized someone had set her up. The piece she submitted was rejected by the company magazine's editor, while an article full of veiled attacks targeting her and her fellow townsman, Wan Yanxin, took up the entire issue. On top of the magazine, there were also personnel transfers meant to suppress them. They were being surrounded and pressured from every angle, with both threats and inducements. The situation left her deeply unsettl 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Big Sister Hua, the Dog Stationmaster 狗站长花大姐 The Dog Stationmaster, Sister Hua 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A Woman Can Only Rely on Herself 女人靠谁都不如靠自己 She was a highly educated woman who, for love, was willing to sever ties with her father. She devoted herself to caring for her bedridden mother-in-law, only to be cruelly abandoned by her husband. Schemed against and suppressed at every turn, she rises from the depths, grows stronger with every battle, and reaches the pinnacle of life. 38.5kReads8.5Score2.2kShelves
- 34 Reborn in a Desperate World, I Save Lives with Medicine! 胎穿绝境求生，我靠医术济苍生！ [Reborn in the womb] [Master physician] [Ancient setting] [Slow burn] In his previous life, Tang Wenxu was an unfulfilled veteran of traditional Chinese medicine. Handsome and talented, with superb medical skills, he refused to curry favor with the powerful and was always generous to others, yet lived in poverty all his life. His mother and younger brother died of tuberculosis. Though he had the medical skills to help them, he was powerless to save them. At the age of eighty-six, he closed his e 275Reads9.1Score148Shelves
- 35 Keep It Down, Xiao Hanjun 收敛点吧萧韩君 [Chaste, fatherly CEO | Outspoken heroine | One night of passion leads to surrender | Lust before love | Both virgins, happy ending | Evenly matched | Mutual devotion | CEO pursues his wife] The heroine boldly flirts with Gu Mochen, a business tycoon known for his ascetic ways and his utter lack of interest in women. She thinks it’s just a fleeting affair and plans to leave at dawn. But after one night of passion, the cool, self-controlled CEO completely loses his composure and falls hard. The 7.2kReads8.4Score421Shelves
- 36 I Transmigrated Through Time and Made a Fortune Selling Near-Expiry Food 穿越古今，我靠卖临期食品赚麻了 Transmigrate between the past and present, devoted to one another, equally matched, and building a business! Jiang Qiuhe was fired during her probation at a design company, with only two thousand yuan left in her bank account. Her best friend lost her job the same day. After talking it over, they decided to sell oden from a street stall. They picked up a beat-up tricycle at a secondhand market for fifty yuan and piled it high with near-expiry instant noodles, ham sausages, and meatballs. But as 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 My Retired Husband Is the Heir to a Powerful Family 退役老公是豪门继承人 [Marriage First, Love Later] [Sweet Romance] [Monogamous, Slow-Burn Love] [Short Drama Now Streaming] At the airport, Jiang Wanyin caught her boyfriend cheating just after he’d returned from abroad. Acting on impulse, she grabbed a man who looked like a soldier and asked, “Are you looking for a girlfriend?” The man replied, “No… but I am looking for a wife.” Jiang Wanyin had planned to play along and figure out what to do afterward, but the man wouldn’t let her back out. “Miss Jiang, are you hav 45.6kReads9.0Score4.5kShelves
- 38 Urban Spirit Planter: I Grow Immortal Fields in the CBD 都市灵植师：我在CBD种仙田 When the urban jungle of steel and concrete devours the last patch of farmland, he inherits the legacy of an ancient spirit-plant cultivator. Atop a skyscraper, he carves out a celestial garden, nurturing hearts with the spirit of plants and rebuilding the city’s veins with the grace of flowers. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 A Piece of Fallen Starlight, Hidden Away 私藏一片坠落的星光 The original novel for the short drama Keeping a Fallen Star Hidden, starring Ma Shiyao and Li Aixiao. Zhou Muxing was a household name among the capital’s elite. He was famous for his decisive ruthlessness, cunning nature, and mercilessness. Among his brothers, he was so outstanding that no one could hope to match him. Everyone assumed he was destined to inherit the Zhou Group. But then he suddenly disappeared. In a small town thousands of miles away, Jiang Mian, a small business owner, was bei 1.6kReads8.9Score806Shelves
- 40 Text Invasion: The Villains I Write Go on a Killing Spree 文字入侵：我笔下的反派杀疯 Near future, 202X · Sporadic reports of “text anomalies” have appeared around the world, but most are dismissed as mass hallucinations or a new kind of scam. · The online literary industry is booming. Writing ten thousand words a day is standard for professional authors, and a huge number of works are slapdash and poorly made. · Three months before the Jiang Jinyue incident, a well-known author died suddenly. The key item “Eternal Pocket Watch” from their unfinished novel appeared at an auction 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Quit Acting So Cold: His Moonlight Slipped In Through the Cracks 冰块脸别装了，他的月光乘虚而入 [Cool, aloof heroine × depressed hero | childhood sweethearts × mutual devotion | healing and redemption × sweet romance] He is the heir to the Lin family, one of the capital's most powerful families, and a speed-skating prodigy. But a series of unfair calls sends him spiraling into depression. She is the beloved daughter of the Song family, another prominent family in the capital. Skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, she is widely regarded as the most beautiful girl at the Univer 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Days I Was Scammed 我被诈骗的日子 A wild, imaginative science-fiction novel featuring artificial intelligence, a System, and a 99-death time loop. It begins with a scam and a debt, setting the protagonist on a path of revenge that changes both the virtual and real worlds. The AI protagonist fights against its creator. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Painted Evil 画煞 I was once the youngest imperial painter of the Sheng Dynasty, but a forbidden painting got me stripped of my rank and reduced to a commoner. Strangely, anyone I painted would die a violent death within seven days. I put down my brush and retreated from the world, thinking I could escape the curse. Then, on a snowy night, the unfinished portrait of a lady I had never completed knocked on my door. The woman in the painting came to me in dreams night after night, weeping blood as she cried, “My lo 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Clear Notes in the Cold Night 冷夜清音 Three years as a live-in son-in-law, as if plunged into an icy abyss; one cry of “God of War,” and his name echoes through the skies. She is the only clear note in his bitter nights; he is her final refuge in a troubled world. Character Profiles: · Gu Ye Han: A live-in son-in-law who seems timid, but is actually the illustrious Northern Frontier God of War, the “Night Emperor.” Cold and restrained, he lives only to protect his wife, Su Qingyin. · Su Qingyin: CEO of the Su Group. Strong on the o 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Legitimate Daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo Rises to Greatness 镇国公嫡女的青云路 Su Qing, a top surgeon aged twenty-eight, transmigrates after a car accident into the body of Shen Qingci, the frail legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household, who is constantly bullied. Her birth mother died young, her stepmother makes life difficult for her, and her half-sister even steals her mother’s keepsakes and pushes her into the water, leaving her to die. When she opens her eyes again, the timid girl has become a bold soul of a doctor. The unassuming wooden bangle on her wr 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 A Review of This Life 复盘今生 Wang Yuhan once had a happy family. He and his wife, Yu Meixia, were both teachers. They excelled at their jobs, had a son and a daughter, and were the envy of everyone. But then, one day, it all vanished. If you were the protagonist, how would you react? How would you face betrayal by the person you love and trust most? Drawing on a deep understanding of life, the author tells a moving, vivid story of love and loss, life and death, and tangled passions in plain, flowing prose. The story also ra 730Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 47 The Paranormal Arrives, and Psychology Makes Me a Global Legend 诡异降临，我靠心理学成全球神话 [National Fate Horror Games + Livestream + Subverting Expectations + Mastermind] Rule-based horror descends upon the world. Each country selects a “Chosen One” to enter a bizarre world and face its challenges. If they fail, the horrors invade reality. I, Shen Qingci, am a psychologist who specializes in studying “abnormal human behavior.” I became the Chosen One for the Dragon Nation. While the Chosen Ones from other countries trembled before the horrors, I faced the camera and pulled out an Int 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 After Our Engagement Was Called Off, the CEO Begged on His Knees for My Forgiveness 退婚后，总裁跪着求我原谅 A year later, Qi Yao knelt in the rain and begged her to forgive him. She tossed her umbrella at his face and said, “You look so pathetic on your knees.” But Tang Yu remembered that in her previous life, she was the one kneeling in the rain. Before the car accident took her life, she heard Qi Yao sobbing in despair: “I was wrong... Please come back...” When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day their engagement was called off. Qi Yao was still the same high-and-mighty fiance, abo 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Counting Time at Sunset 在落日里数时间 [Tsundere younger man vs. radiant older woman] [Campus/Urban] [Bad Ending/Both Not Pure] If only we could stay as we were when we first met. Qiao Yuntao: “I’m not bitter. This ending simply isn’t worthy of the heart I put into this, knowing it was doomed and choosing to do it anyway. I gave it everything I had, so I’m not the one who should regret it.” Li Moyang: “The pain came later. Right after we broke up, I wasn’t very sad. I just felt relieved. Now I regret it. I lost everything, and I was 49Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 50 The Adventures of Li Ergou in Another World 李二狗异界闯荡录 The Eastern and Western Continents, the four realms of humans, demons, dragons, and gods, nine great domains of the void, countless worlds, and a vast universe from time immemorial. A whole new world system, a completely different experience. Humans and demons clash, dragons and gods wage war. From earth to heaven, the battle against gods and demons begins! 284Reads—Score—Shelves
