Novels like Bound by the Lifespan Rule, I Leave a Scar on the Hearts of the Immortals
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- 1 You Kicked Me Off the Team? Next Time, Call Me Uncle Wang! 逼我退队？下次见面叫我王叔叔！ [Everyone Awakens + High Martial Arts + Uncle Wang Next Door + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Multiple Heroines + Kicked Off the Team] [The scores just came in. They’re all low because the ratings are being protected, you know how it is] Wang Chu transmigrates into a game he has fully completed and joins a team made up of its heroines as their support. To his surprise, these heroines are useless, with plenty of talent but absolutely no skill! After finally dragging them into qualifying for the “Hero 59.7kReads7.7Score4.5kShelves
- 2 Transmigrated into a Book as the Second-Generation Villain, I Make All the Heroines Go Bad 穿书反派二代目，女主全都坏掉了 [Villain + Multiple Heroines + Everyday Life + Second Round After Transmigrating Into a Book + Love Rivalry + Growth and Reversal] Trillionaire heir Su Mu transmigrates into the clichéd wish-fulfillment novel The Divine Abyss Continent, becoming a cannon-fodder villain. The System tells him that he can go home once he completes the entire plot. So Su Mu keeps honing his acting skills and playing the bad guy. Who knew that after the story wrapped, the Heavenly Dao would collapse and make him do i 26.2kReads7.4Score2.5kShelves
- 3 Ultraman: My Online Dating Partner Is Belial 奥特：我的网恋对象是贝利亚 (Genderbent characters, comedy, absurdity, antics, multiple heroines) Desis, an ordinary, unregistered Ultraman from the Land of Light, starts an online romance with a tsundere older woman who claims she wants to destroy the Land of Light, all because of the System. To help her reform, Desis earnestly tries to persuade her, finally getting her to promise she won't destroy the Land of Light. When the domineering older woman Belial, wielding a combat instrument, storms into the Land of Light and e 7.9kReads8.9Score863Shelves
- 4 I Accept Your Regret 你的悔恨，我收下了 One heroine or no heroine. A true “she regrets losing him” story, with maximum regret. The heroine is guaranteed to be traumatized. Chen Anyun was killed by a truck, but his talent for writing tragedies that killed off characters without mercy caught the System's attention. He transmigrated into a xianxia world where several female-led novels had merged, becoming the most miserable, ill-fated male supporting character. His main purpose was to guide the heroines toward awakening through his painf 5.7kReads8.2Score429Shelves
- 5 He Is Gone in This Life, and the Heroines Break Down in Tears 这一世他已不在，女主们崩溃痛哭 [Reborn]+ [The Husband-Chasing Crematorium]+ [Deep Regret]+ [Cold-Hearted Protagonist] “Lin Yang, if there is another life, I only wish that we had never met.” After killing the man they loved and making this anguished vow, the seven most powerful female immortals on the Lingxuan Continent are unexpectedly reborn. In this life, their vows come true. The man they loved in their previous lives is now a stranger. And after losing Lin Yang, their lives take a tragic turn. One by one, they end up wee 6.2kReads7.3Score243Shelves
- 6 Transformed into a Peerlessly Beautiful Fox Fairy, I Leave a Scar on the Hearts of the Heaven's Chosen 变身绝美狐仙，给天骄心上留道疤 [Gender swap] + [System] + [Scheming protagonist] + [Gender-bender romance] + [Xuanhuan] (The rating just came out and will rise later) I transmigrated, but not all the way. I became the most beautiful female villain in the game Divine Path: the Nine-Tailed Fox Immortal! The main story won't begin for another 1,000 years. But I'm trapped in a deadly secret realm from the start, and my ending is to be cut into a thousand pieces and turned into equipment? Just when I was about to cry in despair, I 10.5kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
- 7 Simulation: After I Became a Blaze, My Childhood Sweetheart Regretted It for Life 模拟：身化烈焰后，青梅后悔终生 Zhang Jie, a corporate drone at an interstellar company, crashes on his way to negotiate a deal in another star region, but unexpectedly activates a life simulator. So Zhang Jie chooses “Turn My Broken Body into a Blaze,” “Gene Hacker,” and “Failed Art Student” to begin his first simulation. “You are born on a planet built around genetic technology. You have a loving family and a childhood friend your age. You grew up together, close as can be.” “Then the human front against the catastrophe coll 24.4kReads9.2Score3kShelves
- 8 Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation: I Made My Ex-Girlfriend, Who'd Regained Her Memories, Cry 万世轮回：气哭恢复记忆的前女友 Shen Yun binds himself to the Myriad Lifetimes Reincarnation System. If he enters his past lives with special talents and changes his tragic fate, he can earn rewards from the System! Spiritual qi revival begins, the supernatural descends, and the world falls into ruin! In an instance, he discovers that the villainess killed by the male lead in the fantasy world of his first life is actually the campus belle from the real world! In his second life, the apocalypse arrives, and the fitness instruc 12.2kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
- 9 Deer Soul Jade: Seven Kills, Shaking Light, Bound for Eternal Tribulation 鹿魂玉：七杀摇光赴永劫 [Scheming Demon King] [Cold and Aloof Immortal Maiden] [Traditional Xianxia] [Plot-Focused] [Pure Romance] [Love and Kill] Jiang Yanling, king of all demons and monsters, has slaughtered countless lives. Du Yaoguang, a cold and aloof prodigy of the righteous path, lost her master at Jiang Yanling's hands. · A thousand years ago, after Chiyou's defeat, he nursed his hatred and made his descendants into sacrifices, preparing a heavenly calamity that would sweep across the world and purge all life. 3kReads9.2Score298Shelves
- 10 When They Wanted to Turn Back, I Was Already Gone 当她们想回头时，我却早已不在 In his previous life, he was the youngest son of the prestigious Jiang family, lost as a child. After they found him, they never accepted him. No matter how hard Jiang He tried to please them, nothing worked. During a fire, his three older sisters abandoned him without hesitation, anxiously taking the fake young master away and leaving him to burn alive... In this life, Jiang He stops debasing himself by begging for the ridiculous, biased love of that family. He simply waits quietly until he com 10.4kReads8.6Score885Shelves
- 11 Gender Swap: My Life as a Wife Begins from Scratch 变身：从零开始的人妻生活 [Gender Swap + Transformation into a Bride + 1v1 Romance + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] After an accident, An Meng, a tough guy, discovered that she had become a married woman. And her husband was a domineering CEO. Luckily, they were only pretending to be a married couple under a contract, and the CEO claimed he already had someone he liked, whom he was slowly wooing. To get out of the contract as soon as possible, An Meng did everything she could to help the CEO turn up the heat. But when An 31.7kReads9.5Score2.4kShelves
- 12 Career Challenge: From the Start, I'm a Firefighter, and I Move the Entire Internet 职业挑战：开局消防员，感动全网 After transmigrating from the start, Su Bai takes part in the show Career Inheritance. He awakens the Strongest Career Master System. He chooses the most dangerous profession: firefighter! He charges into blazing infernos and climbs skyscrapers with his bare hands. His red-clad figure stuns the entire internet! Every profession deserves our respect. In a world where no one wants to choose a dangerous profession, Su Bai will use his actions to make an announcement to everyone! There is no such th 2.4kReads9.5Score374Shelves
- 13 Eerie: A Dog from the Start, Gear You Scavenge 诡异：开局一条狗，装备全靠捡 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Apocalyptic Awakening] [Stat-Allocation Sequence] [Horror Survival] [Extreme Combat Style] Terror descends upon the world, and a Black Tide begins to devour cities. The uncanny, demons, monsters, forbidden artifacts... Human life is as worthless as grass. People struggle to survive by any means. In an apocalypse of endless terror, the only way to stay alive is to awaken and become part of a Transcendent Sequence! Others awaken as doctors, surviv 466.4kReads8.5Score52kShelves
- 14 Genshin Impact: Storytelling in Liyue Harbor Leaves Hu Tao in Tears 原神：璃月港说书，胡桃泪目 [A hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, bringing Hu Tao to tears] There were no twin [Raiden sisters]. It was only a cliched story made up by the dying Thunder Demon. There was no free-spirited [bards]. It was merely the wind becoming a boy's eyes, seeing the world beyond the tower for him. There was no immortal [zombie Qiqi]. It was just the dying old man's humble plea, heard by a god. Li Mo had lived a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation in Genshin Impact. He only had one final life's task left 6kReads9.5Score857Shelves
- 15 You’re a Game Designer, So Why Are You Filing Reports at the Police Station Every Day? 你个游戏设计师，天天警局备案？ [Extremely Illegal] [Come Get Me] [Not Human] [Livestream Meme Mayhem] [Hilarious] PS: This is a lighthearted, funny story full of livestream antics and memes. After transmigrating to a parallel world, Chu Sheng awakens a god-tier game designer System. He gets streamers and viewers worked up, earns emotional points, and unlocks more games. But Chu Sheng discovers that every game he unlocks is way too illegal! He unlocks Thief Simulator and makes Dai Xiaomei cry. But the robbery is so realistic t 25.1kReads9.2Score3.5kShelves
- 16 Transmigrating to Republican-Era China: The Spy Enters the Game 穿越民国：谍影入局 Transmigration to the Republic of China era + resistance-war espionage + multiple identities + spies within spies + mutual devotion (Main story complete, bonus chapters in progress) One day, Lin Ruotang suddenly transmigrated to the Republic of China era. She wasn’t a young lady from a wealthy family, a concubine, or a schoolgirl. She was a refugee who had nearly starved to death. She had barely transmigrated before she was on the brink of starvation. Luckily, a kind stranger gave her a sesame f 23.9kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
- 17 A Different Ming Dynasty: I Became a Saint with a Hundred Lives 异世大明：我用一百条命成圣 Alternate-history Ming Dynasty / Fighting for the People / The Art of Toppling Dragons / Loyal Ministers Who Risk Their Lives to Remonstrate / Rules Horror Lately, the atmosphere at court in the Fengtian Hall has grown rather grim. For several days in a row, officials from one particular residence have been risking their lives to remonstrate, and they really do die on the spot. “I stake my life on this remonstrance!” Here we go again. But Emperor Zhu Chongba has changed his approach, too. “Do yo 9.9kReads9.2Score755Shelves
- 18 Infinite Life: Trapped in a Lifetime 无限人生：被困在了一生的时间里 He had once been an explorer, a war correspondent, a business genius, and the king of investment. He had also been a notorious war profiteer, a world-famous charlatan and prophet. He was also the greatest composer and novelist of the century. And a materials scientist, a physicist, a giant in the history of science... Countless times, in countless different ways, he had stood at the pinnacle of the world. Only he knew any of it, however, before he broke through the limits of a single lifetime. U 24.1kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves
- 19 EN Cihang City 慈航市 At Cihang's grand arena, don't show up without a cheat. Chen Feng transmigrated to another world and discovered that the bosses here were unbelievably sneaky. “Let's go level up in the newbie village first.” “Ha! Got you, transmigrator.” “I'll be reborn and buy a lottery ticket.” “Ha! Got you, regressor.” “Fine, if you're going to play dirty, I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman either.” Chen Feng discovered that every time he died, he could refresh and get a new System. A System's power ha 1.1MReads9.2Score130.5kShelves
- 20 I’m a Hero, but I’ve Ended Up on the Streets, Kept by the Demon King 英雄的我流落街头，被魔王包养了 [Everyday life] [One heroine] [Plenty of sweetness] “My name is Lin En. I'm a hero... or rather, I used to be one.” In the ruins, a radio crackled to life: “Hero Lin En has killed his former comrades! The Hero Association launched a desperate assault, but all thirteen S-rank heroes were wiped out... The Federation has sentenced Lin En for crimes against humanity! Wanted throughout the Federation!” On a stormy night, the retired Demon King Keliya opened the door. Her mortal enemy 59.3kReads9.4Score8.5kShelves
- 21 Longevity: Days of Splendor in the Ye You Court 长生：我在掖幽庭风华日月 Synopsis: Xing Bang transmigrates into the palace as a fake eunuch. From the start, he is sent to the Cold Palace, where he finds not only deposed consorts but also the families of disgraced officials. Even the stunningly beautiful birth mother of the Crown Prince has been imprisoned there. Xing Bang’s eyes light up, and he activates the System... (The synopsis doesn’t do it justice. Please read the story.) 37.3kReads8.8Score4kShelves
- 22 Eldest Son: My Brother and Sister Simulated My Life, and I Broke Down in Tears 长子：兄妹模拟我人生，泪崩 [Anti-drug trafficking] [Narcotics officer] [High IQ] [Mastermind] [Undercover] The Wei family has five children. The second is a wealthy businessman, the third has an impressive background, the fourth is a research professor, and the fifth is a pop star. Only the eldest has amounted to nothing. He’s notorious and despised by his siblings. Because he sold off his younger siblings and drove his family away! He’s done every kind of evil, and his siblings loathe and spurn him! Then, on the day the 80.6kReads9.5Score12.8kShelves
- 23 Commander Si, Why Are You Standing with the Monsters? 司统大人，您怎么站怪物那边了？ [No female lead + no romantic tension + no romance + ruthless and decisive] Amid the crowds beneath the neon-lit cityscape, there are monsters wearing human skin, walking among them just like ordinary people. The news says these people are called the Awakened. They feed on human flesh and are savage monsters. One quiet afternoon, an ordinary high school sophomore undergoes a transformation and becomes one of the Awakened, standing against all of humanity! To survive, he makes a pact with a god a 103.8kReads8.7Score10.6kShelves
- 24 After Adopting the Down-and-Out Female Lead, I Died Horribly in Front of Her 收养落魄女主后，惨死在她面前 [In your first simulation, you transmigrate to a cultivation world.] [You become a refugee fleeing famine. Along the way, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her older brother.] [You depend on each other and become one another's only support.] [At the end of the simulation, you shield the grown girl and give your life to hold off a horde of demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in her eyes goes out too.] [In your second simulation, you transmigrate to a world where steam and mag 119kReads9.1Score13.9kShelves
- 25 As Long as They Have Health Bars, I'll Kill Even the Gods 只要有血条，神明也杀给你看 [Hunter: You can see the health bars of all things, and every attack is guaranteed to deal damage, even to gods!] [Stalker: Stealth through the darkness, hunt beneath the light!] [Executioner: The time for your sentence has come!] “Come on, come on, take a blade!” “Immortal? Once your health bar hits zero, you die!” “As long as it has a health bar, I can kill it, even if it’s a god!” The dark side of the world, a shattered map, strange creatures from the abyss... There is no light behind them, 130kReads9.3Score14.6kShelves
- 26 EN The Netherworld Scholar Immortal 通幽小儒仙 “Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem 63.4kReads9.4Score6.7kShelves
- 27 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
- 28 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 232.8kReads9.5Score28.3kShelves
