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- 151 Honghuang: This System Is a Total Rip-Off 洪荒：这个系统是个坑货 [No conspiracy theories, just some of my own ideas and innovations, with elements like the Myriad Worlds and a System. This isn't a brainless power fantasy, and since this may be my first book, I might not be very good at writing satisfying moments.] The unluckiest thing that ever happened to Lu Hong was getting bound to a System. Even unluckier was the System's mission: kill Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Unluckier still, the System broke as soon as it said that. He could only rely on himself. From 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Please, Beauties, Leave Me Alone, I Only Want to Make Money!! 求求美女们放过，我只想搞钱！！ [Urban] [System] [Multiple Heroines] [Unfaithful Relationships] [Not Mindless Power Fantasy] [Slow-Paced Slice of Life] (The pace is slow at first, then things get much darker later. Shan Chuan was losing it. Why was this System nothing like the ones in web novels?! Laid off in middle age, Shan Chuan secretly drove a rideshare to earn money while struggling with his mortgage and car loan. He didn't 213Reads—Score414d adds
- 153 The Age of Mad Science 疯狂科技时代 Science Fiction | Madman | Players in the Game | Dust of the Times | Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel | A Sense of Fate | Emotion-Driven Let the world be destroyed. A college student whose suicide attempt failed is accidentally drawn into a plot surrounding the Star Alliance's plan to destroy the world. I came here to infiltrate them, so why does everything they say sound so reasonable? Let the world be destroyed. You say you want to save this world? Has this world ever saved me? So what, in the end 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Old Zhou's Late-Blooming Romance 老周的黄昏恋 Lao Zhou, a 61-year-old retired senior government official, lives alone after his wife passes away. Lonely, he longs for a new relationship, but fears a second marriage will cost him his money and his heart. At matchmaking meetings, he encounters the calculating Zhao Yun and the sincere Lin Xiuqin. His unguarded love for Zhao Yun leaves him hurt, while his excessive caution creates distance between him and Lin Xiuqin. After a string of failed matchmaking attempts, Lao Zhou realizes that a “zero- 8.6kReads8.6Score42614d adds
- 155 The Heartless Daoist Immortal Lord Has a Wife 无情道仙君他有老婆了 [Theatrical little ray of sunshine × handsome, tragic widower] Feng Yun Zhao transmigrates, and from the start, she runs into a powerful man killing someone in the woods. To save her life, she pouts and sheds a few tears, then blurts out a lie: “I’m your wife, lost to you for many years!” As luck would have it, the white-robed cultivator has amnesia. He lowers his icy phoenix eyes to look at her, and actually believes her. From then on, Feng Yun Zhao is forced to tread carefully in her life as h 26Reads—Score10714d adds
- 156 No One Wants the Mute CEO? Fine, If Even a Dog Won't Marry Him, I Will 哑巴总裁狗都不，嫁，狗不嫁我嫁 [One-on-One Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Wish-Fulfillment + Lighthearted Daily Life + Both Pure] Optimistic, chatty heroine vs. cold-faced, adorable mute hero (he’ll get better) After catching her older sister kissing her boyfriend, Ling Qingfu is slapped so hard she ends up in the hospital, and suddenly awakens to the truth. She learns that she is the villainess in a novel. In the book, a month from now, her parents and the leads will pressure her into marrying a powerful, influ 5.6kReads8.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 157 The Yellow River Rises Daily 黄河日上 One afternoon, Zhang Yindui returned home to pick something up and caught his sister-in-law, Li Qiaoyun, having an affair with Gu Chengshan, the village butcher. In a fit of rage, he killed his sister-in-law’s lover, Gu Chengsan. After Gu Chengsan’s murder, his thirteen-year-old daughter, Gu Qiaoqiao, suddenly disappeared. As the police searched for the killer and for Gu Qiaoqiao, they found a red sneaker on the banks of the Yellow River. The New District Public Security Bureau issued Yellow Riv 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Hard Work Pays Off? No, It’s All About Gaming the System 天道酬勤？不，天道酬编 (Lovecraftian cultivation, no System, not invincible, not brainless, downplays the individual in favor of the group, urban fantasy, hilarious everyday life, a “peak” work of absurdity, with an unlucky, wisecracking protagonist) After stumbling into a cult and being rescued, I was forced to become a civil servant. They said I had a special constitution and needed to “cultivate immortality scientifically.” So I provide psychological counseling to panda spirits at the zoo, compare pectoral muscles —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 The Strange Path of the Dao 道诡神途 [Superpowers + Mystery] A crimson countdown flashes wildly across the train car's electronic display. A hellish rumble rises from the depths of the dark tunnel, while a mechanical voice repeats over the intercom: "Warning: discrepancy exceeds one person." At each stop, the dead get off while the living carry on. The rules are deadlier than the night. That eye is watching you. It is counting your sins! At the next stop, it will decide once and for all whether you even count as "human." —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Curfew Food House 宵禁食馆 [Historical Fantasy Romance + Transmigration + Light Mystery + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] "...For poisoning your master, Lu Dezhang, and brutally murdering two guards, you are sentenced to immediate execution!" "Are you people blind?! I'm just a helpless little kid. How could I kill three grown men?!" When the Seven Stars aligned, she made a wish. Other people transmigrated and landed in luxury, but she transmigrated straight onto the executioner's block! She hadn't even had time to sit 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Hunter, You've Got a Heart of Darkness 这位猎人，心好黑 Flesh is not me; my soul dwells within it. I ask myself why, and only the spirit flame flickers. What can be called its name? Its life? Its existence? I am myself, and nothing else... I live again, for myself alone. The platform has dropped this novel. It features a large ensemble cast and is quite long. It is not a conventional wish-fulfillment power fantasy: there is no gripping opening three-chapter hook or a steady stream of thrills. Readers who mind these things should give it a pass. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 After I Transmigrate into a Rebirth Novel, I Grovel at the Female Lead's Feet 穿越进重生文后，我跪舔女主 [Funny, fussy transmigrator heroine × general who got the wrong script] [Alternate-universe setting + historical romance + sharp-tongued, tsundere male lead + devoted couple + ensemble cast] Luo Qiancheng transmigrates into a novel she used to sneak peeks at in class. Worse, it is a rebirth story, and she is the villainess who deceives the heroine into getting together with a scumbag. * Feng Chenjing is an utterly ordinary university student at A University. Out of nowhere, he gets dragged into —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 The Doorway: Daybreak 门扉：启明 The Gateway: Dawn: When it comes to choice, choosing an ordinary life is more powerful than transcending the ordinary When a “gateway” opens in the sky and supernatural abilities become reality, the life of a girl named Mo Yan falls apart. She learns to control her dangerous power of purification, all the while trying to hold on to the ordinary future that is slipping away. Then her memories return. She and her mentor, Feng Xin, are not ordinary people but “sowers” from a higher civilization. A 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, No, Call Me the White-Robed Sword Lord 妖皇大人，不，请叫我白衣剑主 [Wild imagination]+ [Reincarnation]+ [Demon hunting]+ [Sword cultivation] The white-robed sword cultivator Li Chun slays demons and protects the Dao, but is actually a vessel for the reincarnated Demon Emperor. The Azure Lotus Sword seals the Demon Emperor's origin, yet turns him into a pawn in Heaven's game. When the Crimson Firmament Demon Wolf appears, he awakens to his demonic power and the woman he loves. Together with Su Chanyi, he breaks through reincarnation and uses a demon blade to sev —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 The Mortician: I Can See the Dead's Final Moments 入殓师：我能看见死者最后的画面 Lin Mo has worked at a funeral home for six years, handling more than a thousand bodies. The moment his fingertips touch a dead person's forehead, he sees fragments of the final few seconds of their life. The ability has made him quiet, and it has left him uneasy. Then one day, while restoring the body of a rebar worker named Zhou Haisheng, he sees three things: a hand wearing a silver-banded watch, clutching a folded piece of paper with eleven names written on it. Zhou Haisheng's death certi 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 An Overworked Wage Slave Watches a Cultivation Drama, and the Heroines Hear All My Complaints 加班牛马看修仙短剧，剧中女主全听见我吐槽 An Overworked Wage Slave Watches a Short Cultivation Drama, and the Heroine Hears Every Word of My Commentary —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Reborn as a Mosquito After My Wife Killed Me, I Overhear the CEO's Inner Voice as She Takes Revenge 被妻子害死重生蚊子，女总裁偷听我心声复仇 Reborn as a mosquito after his wife had him killed, he hears the female CEO’s thoughts as she plots her revenge 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Across Three Lifetimes, We Both Fell in Love With Someone Else 三世情劫，我们双双爱上了别人 Across three lifetimes of love and tribulation, we both fell for someone else —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Every Time I Die, the Female Emperor and I Return to the Tragic Beginning 每一次死亡，我都和女帝重回悲剧开端 Every time I die, the Empress and I return to the tragic beginning —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The CEO Roasts a Drama About the Real and Fake Heiresses, and I Hear Every Thought 霸总看真假千金剧狂吐槽，心声全被我听见 The domineering CEO watches a drama about a real and fake heiress and can’t stop ranting, and I hear every thought —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Making It to America: Watch Me Expose the American Dream on Livestream 润到美利坚：看我直播拆穿美国梦 [America]+ [Comedy]+ [Immigrant life]+ [System]+ [Entrepreneurship]+ [Local color] Zhou Mancang, a young man from a small town, quits his steady job and heads to Los Angeles with two suitcases and the words, “There are opportunities everywhere in America,” hoping to stay with an online friend. What do you mean the local thug Zhao Shihao is giving me trouble? What do you mean by Chicken Man, Saul Goodman, Heisenberg, Jesse Pinkman, the Eastwood cowboy, and Stallone, characters from TV shows and m 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Apostle of the Dragon Soul Continent 龙魂大陆使徒 Mo Yi, an outer disciple of the Mohist School, secretly learned the core of its mechanical arts. The family elders forced him to his death, but he unexpectedly entered another world under a different identity. This was a world ruled by dragons, with no magic or martial arts, but strange dragon souls and essences. Together, dragon souls and dragon essences formed what was known as the Soul Warrior path! When Mo Yi, carrying the Mohist School’s mechanical arts, arrives in this strange world, can h —Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 173 The Supreme Immortal Empress: My System Can Collect Everything 无极仙后：我有系统能收万物 Pursuing the Peerless Immortal Empress + beauties everywhere + Infinite Flow + ancient and modern settings + different worlds + all kinds of wondrous Pokemon + the Yingluo System The term “Pokemon” here does not refer to the Pokemon from any anime. It is a collective name for all kinds of mysterious species. 1Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 174 The Mysterious Records of Mountains and Seas 山海玄中录 Male-oriented, meme-filled, modern transmigration and cultivation, fantasy, wild imagination, mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Dragon King son-in-law never meant to transmigrate to the cultivation world and live off a woman, but went from a nobody to the pinnacle of the immortal realm. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Shocking! The Legends of Mountains and Seas Really Exist! 震惊！山海传说竟真的存在！ The mountains and seas have revived, and mythical beasts have returned. When I learned that every other country in the world had fallen, and only Daxia had survived, I silently made up my mind. I would subdue all the beasts and protect the lights in every home behind me. Welcome to a world where the mountains and seas have revived. My name is Duan Lu, the Duan Lu in “Have a safe journey.” You can also call me the Guardian of the Mountains and Seas. Legends of mythical beasts from the mountains a 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 I Became a Drama Queen and Took Over Showbiz with Chaotic Fortune-Telling 穿成作精，靠发癫算命整顿娱乐圈 Tang Youyou is a master of the occult. When she casts a divination, she doesn't just read the signs, she sees the threads of a person's karma directly. Her mental state is delightfully unhinged, but in her own world she still has reservations and needs to hold herself back. After transmigrating into the internet's most hated scheming celebrity, she decides to stop pretending and go completely off the rails. Her scumbag ex pressures her to leave showbiz? She slaps him into next week, then divine —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Fuyue: The Transmigrator’s Scheme 扶岳：穿越者之谋 Li Zhe, a modern civil servant, unexpectedly transmigrates into the role of a junior clerk in Yue Fei’s camp. Knowing the tragic fate awaiting the hero at Fengbo Pavilion, he resolves to turn the tide with modern ideas. Caught in a vortex of suspicion and false accusations, he helps Yue Fei reform logistics, shape public opinion, and outwit Qin Hui. It is a battle against the fate of history, a life-or-death gamble in which a nobody tries to rewrite the destiny of a loyal minister. Can he really —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Stop Chasing Me! I’m Really Not Your One and Only 别追了，我可真不是你们的白月光 [A touch of universal adoration + ensemble cast + transmigrate into a book, but the heroine has never read it + lighthearted comedy + no romance] A story with an unequivocally strong female lead, featuring a beloved first love and a stand-in, who turn out to be the same person all along. Ruan Yuanyuan wakes up one morning to find she has transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty. Even more bizarrely, someone in this dynasty seems to know her. The obsessive emperor begs her desperately not to forget 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 A Corporate Drone's Ancient Diary of Lying Flat 社畜的古代躺平日记 [Historical fantasy | Ancient romance | Lighthearted personal growth | Slow-burn healing | Mutual salvation] Su Wan, an overworked office drone, transmigrates into the body of a little girl in a remote mountain village. The good news: A renowned physician took her in. Even better news: The valley is peaceful, there are plenty of medicinal herbs to tend, and all three meals are taken care of. No job, no clocking in, and no boss to appease. Su Wan does the math: This is fantastic! She worked herse 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Born to Be an Emperor 本是帝君 Discontinued I Cleared the Dungeons, and We Were Once Emperor Lords At five years old, Qi Ling met Jiang Zhixu at an orphanage. They both thought the place was a monster that devoured people, so they didn't take long to decide to run away. Qi Ling later developed a habit: whenever she went out, she'd always bring someone home. At six, she picked up five-year-old Xing Chen. At thirteen, she picked up Lin Beifo, who was a year older than her but really was an orphan, so she took him in. At seve 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Wayward 离踪Wayward (Moderate pace; not a wish-fulfillment story; half adventure, half road movie; light fantasy, with the amount of fantasy depending on the plot) When the sky is veiled in yellow dust, how many will remember the flash of blades from a hundred years ago? When will the century-old secrets buried in jade-green eyes finally see the light of day? Change, destinations, friendship, redemption... No one knows what they are searching for along the road. Yet that figure presses ever onward, transmigrating a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Three Thousand Years in Seclusion, and the Saintess Holds a Knife to Make Me Marry Her 闭关三千年，圣女拿刀逼我成亲 [After sleeping for three thousand years, he wakes to find the Saintess holding a blade to him and demanding marriage?] On the first day Shen Ji emerged from seclusion, the entire sect took him for a joke. The Saintess blocked the door with a blade: “Marry you? As if you’re worthy!” But late that night, the lofty Saintess grabbed his sleeve with tear-filled eyes: “Husband… you’re the only one who can save me.” Shen Ji sighed helplessly, then split open the heavenly gate with one sword, making th 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The God-Prison Academy 囚神院 [Dystopian] + [Mystery] + [Absurd] “System” Perhaps it is often not an opportunity to defy fate and change everything, but a more serious illness. Once countless “Systems” find their Hosts, is their only goal to make the protagonist stronger and rule the whole world? Without growth, how can the protagonist rule? And is the protagonist even in their right mind? All it does is make the illness worse. Does that mean anyone with a System is the protagonist? Can Jiang Tingyu heal himself here and esc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 End-Times City: Grab a Brick and Become a God of Slaughter 末法都市：抄起砖头成为杀神 [Urban Survival Game + Cultivation Dungeons + Raising a Crew + Protagonist’s Growth] With his parents murdered and no way to cultivate, Cheng Guang finds satisfaction in revenge thanks to his brick-wielding divine power. An immortal in his previous life, bait in this one, he is surrounded by danger in the city. The killer remains unknown, and wicked people are everywhere. So I won’t let a single one of them get away. As the saying goes: In the apocalypse, finding the true way is hard; killing im —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 At the Extreme 极度之下 One day in the future, the whole world experienced a disaster on an unprecedented scale. Natural disasters erupted across countries around the world: meteorites, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and more. Strangely, they all struck at the same time, without warning, and in perfect coordination. Human civilization was helpless in the face of these disasters. After they ended, the world’s population plummeted. Fortunately, many countries had measures in place to deal with natural disasters, but t 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 My Phone Can Evolve 我的手机会进化 [Dark cultivation + one female lead + written with absolute care + a slow start] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, he discovered that his phone had come along too: fully charged, connected to the internet, and even capable of evolving. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Heart-Fluttering Alert: My Heart Is Racing Again Today 心动预警今天也有在心跳 [Dotting on His Wife + Face-Slapping + Mutual Teasing + Feel-Good Romance + Healing Each Other] Su Nian'an had planned to get her hands on thirty million first, then become a wealthy woman focused on her career and done with romance. But she never expected Fu Jinshen to steal her heart. Damn her weakness for handsome faces! Fu Jinshen had meant to test her, but somehow ended up falling into the very trap he'd set himself… 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 I Petition the Heavens 臣启上苍 Foolish mortals, you dare try to hold up the heavens and shake the pillars of the earth. Do you not know that you have long been trapped in this vast cycle of reincarnation? The gods must not be challenged, surpassed, or profaned. Then the apocalypse arrived. The Heavenly Dao was broken, calamities struck, and the common people, already struggling through fire and water, were plunged into even greater misery. This became a paradise for the gods. The slaughter began, and the enslavement of all ra 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 A Survival Guide to the Asylum: The Amnesiac 疯人院求生指南失忆人 The rain came down as if the sky had sprung a leak. When Zhang Baowei made his fifth round to the back entrance, he finally spotted the shadow. At first he thought it was a trash bag, but what trash bag wears a suit? Even after twenty years working at a psychiatric hospital, the sight left him frozen for five seconds. “Hey! Who’s there?” The shadow didn’t move. Zhang Baowei tightened his grip on his flashlight and reached for his walkie-talkie with his other hand. Eight hundred possibilities fla —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Everyone Awakens, but I Alone Plunder the Dead's Echoes 全民觉醒，唯我掠夺死者残响 Three years after the public launch, Lin Yuan still has no talent at all. (Slow burn 🥵) Until he kills his first mutated beast and finds a gray-white fragment inside its skull. System notification: Plunder successful. Stone Skin Lv. 1. He thinks it's a golden finger. Only later does he learn that every fragment is a dead person's keepsake. The stronger he gets, the clearer the voices in his ears become. Until the day the purge order is posted all over the city. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Cultivation: A Lifespan Longer Than Heaven 修仙：寿比天高 [Sect-building + not a good-for-nothing + long life without hiding away + formations + not a goody-two-shoes + adapt on the fly] Qin Shan entered a cultivation sect and discovered that he had an endless lifespan. From then on, he devoted his life to studying formations, using them to obtain resources and improve his cultivation as he journeyed toward the end of the path to immortality. On the road to immortality, Qin Shan's life was as long as the heavens, yet as fragile as paper. He roared inwa 709Reads—Score11714d adds
- 192 Jiaojiao, Big Brother's Heart Hurts 皎皎，哥哥心口疼 [The main couple's everyday sweetness / The supporting couples have their own ways of being sweet, too] A wealthy young heir whose fate is too precious, sickly since childhood VS a noble young heiress who loses her family overnight and develops aphasia When Fu Xujing was born, the old master of the Fu family, who had been paralyzed and unconscious in bed for years, miraculously woke up and stood again... After hearing his devoted cousin speak from the heart, the male lead had a sudden epiphany 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 After My In-Laws Rejected Me, I Became the God Who Protects the Nation 被婆家嫌弃后，我转身成了护国神 Cruelly abandoned by her boyfriend because of their difference in social standing, and mercilessly bullied by workplace schemers. At thirty, Shen Changge was reborn from the depths of her darkest despair. She saw through the city’s disguise and glimpsed the truth of the demons lurking among ordinary people. She awakened her very own “Demon Devouring Inheritance System”! Kill a demon, inherit all its cultivation, supernatural abilities, savings, property, and shares. The more she kills, the str 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 I Swear by Neverland: For the Rest of My Life, I'll Spoil Only You 永无岛为誓，余生只宠我一人 I Swear by Neverland: For the Rest of My Life, I'll Cherish Only You —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 After My Secret Crush on My Rich Best Friend Ran Away, She Asked Me to Be Her Wife 暗恋豪门闺蜜逃跑后她让我当老婆 [Secret crush + exclusive devotion + scheming + confinement + one true love + both leads are inexperienced + happy ending] Ren Jiangxue and I were the orphanage’s inseparable “partners in crime.” She handled the knife-wielding and beatings to protect her friends, while I waved the flag and cheered her on. We divided the work perfectly and made quite a name for ourselves at the orphanage as “the boss lady and her sidekick.” When we got to college, we were so broke we counted every grain of rice 3.5kReads8.8Score58714d adds
- 196 Ghost Story Survival Game: Starting at the Postpartum Care Center 怪谈生存游戏：从月子中心开始 [Rule Horror] + [Standalone short stories in separate volumes] + [Collection] + [Light thrills] + [First/third person] Have you ever wondered whether the world you take for granted is filled with invisible “rules”? When the blood moon rises, you receive a bizarre [New Student Handbook]. Every school rule is written in scarlet ink, and anyone who breaks one... will be “cleaned up.” When you walk into a 24-hour convenience store in the middle of the night, the [Employee Handbook] warns you that 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 After Six Years Away Taking the Exams, the Female Ghost Blocking My Way Turns Out to Be My Unconsummated Wife 赶考六年不归，拦路女鬼竟是我未圆房娇妻 After six years away taking the imperial exams, the ghost woman blocking my way turns out to be my beloved wife, whom I never consummated the marriage with 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 I Met You by Chance 一不小心遇到你 I Met You by Chance —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Madam, Where Are You Running? 夫人，哪里逃 Madam, Where Are You Running? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Battling the Strange: A Thousand Autumns 2, Longing Through the Flowering Season 斗诡千秋2花期意难平 My name is Ai Dong. Everyone else calls me a convict. Why must sheep huddle inside their pens on the grasslands at night? Because what lies beyond the fence is no longer just a legend. The danger is real. Demons, fiends, ghosts, and monsters are no longer creatures from myths. They lurk in the darkness, watching and waiting. When humanity lost its kindness and the world turned cruel, a Heavenly Road that had been closed for a hundred years suddenly descended upon the mortal world. Take eight hu —Reads—Score—14d adds
