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- 151 Dreamscape Redemption: Huan Yang 梦境救赎，欢阳 It is now 2056. Thanks to technological advances, ZM Entertainment has created an app that lets people download and create dream worlds. But as more and more people choose to stay in their dreams, society descends into chaos. Even after the government shuts down ZM Entertainment, people continue downloading the app through illegal means, and many remain trapped in their dreams. The government therefore establishes a Space-Time Administration, tasked with entering the app and waking them up. You, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Spirit Armor: The Legend of Taming 灵装：塔明传说 [One Female Lead + Childhood Sweetheart + Apocalypse + Some Gore + Tokusatsu Elements] Five hundred years ago, the final battle between light and darkness began. The twelve spirit beasts and four divine beasts who fought for the side of light exhausted all their power to protect the planet known as Taming, sealing away the evil forces of darkness. Five hundred years later, the twelve dark beasts of the shadow faction awaken and overrun the world. Then some upstart kid comes out of nowhere, gets 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 The Saint Returns: The One I Love Is Her Doppelganger 圣女归来：我爱的竟是她的分身 The Saintess Returns: The One I Loved Was Actually Her Clone 55Reads—Score113Shelves
- 154 The Seven Tribulations 七道劫 [Ensemble cast + power struggles + play the pig to eat the tiger + face-slapping + Eastern fantasy + wuxia] Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things like straw dogs. The Great Way plays favorites, determining the fate of the world through fortune. There was no Way in this world to begin with. But as more and more people walked the path, seven roads to heaven came into being: Human, Divine, Demon, Devil, Ghost, Buddhist, and Confucian. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Alchemy Sequence: I'm Too Much of a Genius 炼金序列：我太过天才 “In a world overflowing with alchemical elements, you can’t get anywhere without powerful nuclear energy.” Cang Yeyu: “So what if I don’t have nuclear energy? I’ve got a Furnace of Pure Fire. Doesn’t that blow your argument apart, brother? Want me, a chosen heir and child of prophecy, to teach you how to turn around a losing battle?” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Night Talks of the Five Babies 五娃夜话 When moonlight spills beside the pillow like silver foil, the five red-lacquered, gold-trimmed nesting dolls quietly awaken in the darkness. They are five sisters who have come from the depths of history: the eldest, from the Tang Dynasty, is as gentle as honey; the second, from the Song Dynasty, as serene as a stream; the third, from the Yuan Dynasty, as bold as a copper bell; the fourth, from the Ming Dynasty, clever and witty; and the youngest, from the Qing Dynasty, lively and innocent. On e —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 The Workplace: My Performance Bonus Is a Little Too Much 职场：我的绩效是亿点 Office Life: My Performance Bonus Is Just a Tiny Billion —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 My Husband Isn’t Human 夫君不是人 My Husband Isn’t Human —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 My Encounter with Tang Sanzang in 1937 我与唐僧相遇1937 I Met Tang Sanzang in 1937 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 The Dream Prophet 梦境预言者 The Dream Prophet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 The Secret to Growing Your Wealth 财富增值的秘密 The Secrets of Growing Your Wealth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Spirit Vein Sign-In: I Slay Demons in the City 灵脉签到，我在都市斩妖魔 Chen Fan, a 22-year-old unemployed college graduate, was humiliated by a rich second-generation heir and abandoned by his ex-girlfriend. Just as he was sinking into despair, he bonded with the [Urban Spiritual Vein Sign-In System]! Signing in at an ancient tree in an old park earned him Qi Refining cultivation. Signing in at a subway station granted him a spiritual qi shield. Skyscrapers, suburban temples, the heart of secret realms: every spiritual vein node in the city was an extraordinary opp 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 I Found a Divine Artifact of China While Collecting Scrap 收破烂收到华夏神器 [Urban supernatural powers + treasure appraisal + power fantasy][A down-to-earth take on "Golden Eyes" + "The Mysterious Revival"] “I’m 38,000 yuan in debt. I start sorting scrap and awaken a guardian bloodline. From the start, I have a washbasin; in the end, I rule the myriad realms.” Wu Kun is 38,000 yuan in debt and forced to collect scrap to pay it off. By chance, he picks up a broken crock being used to prop up a table. A rune on its base awakens a lost bloodline within him, allowing him to 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Jiang Chu and Mugwort 姜楚与艾叶 Jiang Chu and Ai Ye —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 A Desolate Grave in the Mountains 山野荒坟 A Desolate Grave in the Wilderness —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Ark Breaker: Partners Become Beloved Wives 方舟破壁者【搭档终成娇妻】 [Duo Survival × Rise of the Rulebreakers] The whole world plunged into Survival Ark, and I was forced into a two-person survival game. My teammate turned out to be Su Jueqian from the school next door. The System wanted us to perform a “patient and nurse” role-play in a psychiatric hospital, until we were conditioned into obedient data. I laughed. Then let’s put on a show for you first. I used the madness of “erotomania” to coax out every secret, while she hid behind a mask of “detached nursing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 The Legend of Ningshuang 凝霜传奇 Transmigration + reborn + court intrigue + palace struggles + strong male and female leads Song Ningshuang transmigrates into the body of a country girl and wakes up on the verge of being assaulted. After she saves Prince Jing, Xiao Jue, by chance, he spoils her endlessly. Drawing on her modern knowledge, she improves weapons, boosts troop morale, and resolves crises in the prince's household. But the mystery surrounding her origins stirs controversy at court. The legitimate and illegitimate b 104Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 168 The Wind Sweeps Over a Thousand Mountains, Leaving No Trace in the Snow 风过千山雪无痕 (Mortal cultivation) (Betrayed by a beloved friend) (Court intrigue) (Heartbreaking martial world) (Fantasy power struggle) He gave his whole heart, only to be framed! Rising against adversity with mysterious powers, he fights for supremacy in the martial world and schemes amid court politics, where life is full of warmth and cruelty. In his previous life, the friend he trusted with all his heart severed his meridians, while the lover he cherished plunged a sword into his chest. The mastermind b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Fallen Star’s Path 殒星之路 [Two Powerful Leads + Life-or-Death Competition + Memory Loss and Recovery + Multiple Identities + Academy] The Fallen Star Competition has opened once again, but this time it has undergone sweeping changes compared to previous editions. The contestants now possess “phantom power,” something past competitors never had, and the live broadcast System, which had been cut off, has resumed. “The winner of the Fallen Star Competition can have everything.” In every world where the broadcast can be watc 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 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 1.2kReads—Score117Shelves
- 171 Iron Cavalry: The Emperor's Claim, Part One 铁骑称皇1 The Iron Cavalry Claims the Throne 1 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Full-Time God of Wealth 全职财神 With only five yuan left in his account, rent breathing down his neck, and his life at rock bottom, Jiang Li put on a secondhand gaming headset. In the world of Epoch, he unexpectedly acquired the unique skill [Eye of Wealth]. From then on, the monsters dropped more than just gear: they dropped wealth with a price tag. One copper coin equaled one yuan, and the crisp clink of gold hitting his pocket was the sound of money arriving in his real-world bank account! From a “useless mine owner” mocked —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 Tales of Karma and the Supernatural 因果怪谈 The timid should stay away!!! [Supernatural Horror] [Rule-Based Mysteries] [Cthulhu Mythos] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [No Harem] [No Female Lead] [No National Destiny] Seven islands are connected to one main island, and all seven are covered in Xingyu's footprints. Deeply carved into each footprint are the characters for cause and effect. At last, the blade of the Lord of Cause and Effect rested against his own neck, and he silently ended his life. Under the rule of someone so ruthless eve 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 The Player in the Story: Please! Exorcise Me! 戏中人：请！超度我！ [Traditional Chinese theater and dance / Everyday street life / Fated twins / Supernatural resurgence / Causality and reincarnation / Interwoven storylines / Political intrigue / Rules-based horror / No golden finger / Not a wish-fulfillment story] My name is Lin Xi. By the time you read this, I will already be dead. My birth was nothing more than a carefully planned murder. The world ordinary people see is a city of everyday routines and mundane concerns. But beneath that disguise lies a second 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 I'm a Security Guard in Heaven: I Alone Decide Who Becomes a God 我在天庭当保安：成神唯我说了算 (Invincible) (Lighthearted Comedy) (No Female Lead) (Security Guard) (Sun Wukong) (Yang Jian) (Heavenly Court) The gateway to the path of godhood, the route from the mortal world to the Heavenly Court, is a modern skyscraper. The Ascension Gate is on the top floor, while Chen An sits in the security office on the first floor. In his own eyes: a temp, slacking off and eating instant noodles until he gets fired. In the eyes of mortal cultivators: a hidden powerhouse, unfathomably deep. In the e —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 The System Was Gifted to Me from the Start 开局就送系统 After transmigrating to another world, Xiao Lin unexpectedly binds himself to an overpowered System. Short on resources? Trade for spiritual energy and easily make up for gaps in your cultivation. Weak cultivation? Master both alchemy and artifact forging, and watch your strength soar. Even ordinary weapons can be tempered and upgraded, while common pills can be refined to perfect quality. He lies low and builds his strength in Qingyang City as turmoil rages across the Central Region, where a my 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 People Are Like Trees 人亦如木 Yan Qing was the real heiress, her life stolen from birth by a wicked nanny. When she was kidnapped, she refused to accept that she was going to die. Her own family had abandoned her in favor of the fake heiress, Qing Ge. She fought desperately, determined to die alongside the kidnappers. But the two of them fell off a cliff together and entered a dungeon. There, she gained the power of the Grievance Warden's Flower, which could devour and control anything. She killed Madam Fu and took control o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 Saving the Nation Through Technology, Starting in 1920 技术救国从1920开始 A soul fused across billions of years inhabits Ye Kai, a young man in Republican-era China. Bearing the secrets of the universe's birth, he arrives in a nation torn by turmoil and war. The result is an epic tale of sweeping grandeur. Highlights of the novel: Intellectual growth: The protagonist's greatest advantage isn't raw strength, but the ultimate knowledge of “Superbrain 001.” The story focuses on how he wisely applies millennia-spanning technology, ideas, and strategy to an earlier age, br 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Nighttime Tales from the Old Mountain Village House 山村老宅夜事 After my grandfather passed away, I returned alone to a remote mountain village to take over the century-old ancestral home. Before I left, the village elders warned me again and again: under no circumstances should I break the old house's four taboos. Don't stare into the mirror in the old house late at night. Don't answer calls from outside the courtyard at midnight. Don't open the small back-garden door at three in the morning. And never go upstairs on a stormy night. I dismissed it all as ol 207Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 A Record of Heart-Piercing Crimes 诛心记 Autumn of the first year of Baozheng, the night before Frost’s Descent. Silver King Ye Wuqing launched the “Black Armor Coup” in the imperial capital. Iron cavalry trampled the moonlit streets, and smoke from the fires advanced toward the ninefold palace walls. Emperor Ye Wushuang wept as he stood before the palace hall. Unwilling to treat the people as mere straw dogs, he removed his crown and issued an edict of abdication. That night, the emperor climbed the Star-Gazing Tower alone, gazed no 130Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 181 The Netherworld Lord Is Panicking: His Wife Runs the Underworld Relocation Office 冥君他急了，老婆是地府搬迁办 Sang Luo is full of baleful energy, born with an iron-hard fate and the ability to beat ghosts bare-handed. After twenty years on the job, she tops the Underworld’s annual list of “Most Unwelcome Visitors.” The Ten Kings of Hell get a headache the moment they hear she’s coming. After all, whenever this formidable woman shows up, she not only makes the government reimburse her taxi fare, but also swipes a few jars of Meng Po’s soup to drink. Then she takes a job from Fu Yun Ci, the president of t 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 I Found the Campus Belle on a Rainy Day, and She's Surprisingly Clingy 雨天捡到校花，居然是个粘人精 [Everyday Romance] [No System] [One Female Lead] [Mutual Healing] [Sweet Romance] [Special Forces] [A Touch of Patriotism] On a rainy day, retired Special Forces soldier Chen Lie unexpectedly meets a beautiful girl who is being bullied, and so begins a clichéd tale of a hero saving a damsel in distress... After making a promise to a comrade, Chen Lie starts looking out for the pretty girl, who is awkward and deeply insecure. He never expected that... “Why do you keep following me?” “I-I brought 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Reversing My Fate with a Black Stone 凡人修仙：我靠黑石逆转仙途 “They have Celestial, Terrestrial, Mysterious, and Yellow meridians. They walk the path to Heaven, ride the wind and wield their swords, living free and carefree!” “I, Chen Bufan, have nothing but an ordinary meridian. I can't ride the wind or wield a sword at their speed!” “But so what?!” “The Great Dao reaches Heaven, and they can take their broad, sunlit road! My ordinary meridians may be shattered, but with these two feet, I'll step by step carve out a narrow path of my own!” “They travel a 257Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 184 Nianshuang, I’m the Extra Child in This Family 念双，我是家里多余的孩子 My name is Xu Nianshuang. I used to be the most unwanted child in my family. My mother remarried and brought home an adopted son, a brother who was spoiled rotten in a family that favored boys over girls. My sister Huaiwen and I were treated like burdens from childhood. When I was three, an accident left both my hands disabled. My family refused to get me treatment, so I gritted my teeth and learned to live with my feet. My sister was the only one who protected me. When I grew up and got married 78Reads—Score100Shelves
- 185 Reborn Three Years Before My Enemy 重生在仇人重生前三年 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 The Author Transmigrates into a Cultivation Novel: A Roguish System Makes Me Take the Blame 作者穿修仙：流氓系统逼我背锅 Blame-shifting power-ups + lucky unlucky protagonist + wish-fulfillment + play the pig to eat the tiger + lighthearted Lin Mo accidentally transmigrated after ranting about the System mechanics in his unfinished harem-style cultivation novel. To his utter bewilderment, he became bound to the "Rogue System" he'd created, and began his career as everyone's scapegoat that very day... 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Heavenly Realm Livestream System 天界直播系统 [System + wild imagination + urban life + passion + one heroine + cultivation + slow burn] Xiao Jingran accidentally starts livestreaming! And his viewers turn out to be the gods of the celestial realm??? There’s passion and face-slapping, but plenty of warmth, too. Come join the protagonist as he serves meals to a hundred households and discovers a hundred different lives! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 What? You Want Me to Kill a God? 你说啥，你让我去弑神？ [Urban high martial arts]/ [Single heroine] Jiang Jingsheng, an ordinary eighteen-year-old college freshman, stumbles upon a mysterious event beyond all reason during an otherwise unremarkable weekend. That night, a mysterious man appears in his dream and reveals a shocking secret, one powerful enough to overturn everything he thought he knew. What hidden truths lie beneath the dazzling lights of Tokyo’s streets, within the undercurrents of political life around the world, and behind the solemn 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 The Puppet Seeks the Dao 傀儡问道 An errand disciple branded “abandoned by the Heavenly Dao” uncovers the truth: the spiritual energy that fuels the cultivation world is quietly destroying the world. With nothing but a mortal body, he takes on the entire rotten order of cultivators and opens up a new path for humankind, one that does not depend on spiritual energy. This is an epic tale of turning the tables. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 After Losing My Memory, the Ice-Cold CEO Took Me Home 失忆后，我被冰山美女总裁捡回家 The protagonist is thrown off a cliff by his wife and her lover. At the brink of death, his memories come roaring back! For three years as a live-in son-in-law of the Xu family, Zhao Yu did the laundry, cooked, and never complained. He gave them everything he had, only to be repaid with betrayal, beatings, and humiliation. On a rainy night, they wrapped him in a bedsheet and threw him off a cliff on Wuxing Mountain. He should have died in the storm-ravaged wilderness, but the blood running down 59Reads—Score101Shelves
- 191 The Netherworld's Strange Tales: The Undying Yin-Yang Master 幽冥诡录不死阴阳师 In the fourth year of the Republic of China, red wedding candles cast a bloody glow over the Wang family home. A wedding feast turned into a massacre that wiped out the entire family. In the corpse-strewn mansion, a tide of sinister resentment swept over the village. Evil spirits ran rampant, and the living could find no peace. With his Daoist arts still rudimentary, Yang Jie broke his ancestors' rules at death's door and opened a mysterious box. In an instant, a demon fox bone mirror appeared. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Zhang Qi: The Life of a Wretch 章启，烂人的一生 Zhang Qi: A Scoundrel's Life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 From the Start: I Teach Li Shimin to Cultivate Immortality 开局：我教李世民修仙 Tang Chen, a history student, transmigrated to the thirteenth year of the Zhenguan era and became a menial servant in the Taiji Palace. With a single remark, “The pills are poisonous,” he exposed a fangshi’s scam in front of everyone and saved the gravely ill Li Shimin. From then on, he taught the emperor the path to immortality, won over court officials, united Buddhism and Daoism, and swept across the Turks and Goguryeo, forging an everlasting immortal dynasty with the fate of the entire natio 533Reads—Score113Shelves
- 194 Between Tenderness and Fury 温柔与狂暴之间 In the future, meteorites bring radiation. Those exposed to it are divided into three groups: the naturally violent but physically strong Frosts, the Grendels, whose minds and bodies remain unchanged, and the gentle but frail Roscentes. The changes to humanity bring social turmoil as well. In this world, now utterly transformed, how will people survive? Will they numb themselves, or face reality alone? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 Battleships and Roses: Tales of the Twenty-Third Century 巨舰与蔷薇：二十三世纪往事 Two centuries after nuclear war destroyed the old world, humanity has rebuilt itself on the African continent. The Eurasian-African United Empire and the United States of South America now face each other across the ocean. Tantai Qingxin is a young man who despises politics but is forced into the Empire’s power struggles, caught between ironclad warships and the royal rose. In the final war sweeping across the oceans, the land, and the stars, he must make one last choice for the people he loves —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Linlin Returns, and She'll Never Forgive Them 林林归来她绝不原谅 The cold wind swept across the rooftop and into her collar. A hand shoved her over the edge... Her soul drifted above the city for three years. She watched her enemy take everything that should have belonged to her, then push things even further. Her nails dug into her palm. Her hypocritical older brother wanted to swallow up the family fortune? She’d watch him become a prisoner. As for everyone who’d kicked her when she was down, she’d come knocking on their doors one by one, carrying the “debt 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Icecrown Saintess Legion 冰冠圣女军 The Ice-Crowned Saintess Army —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 The Wolf of Garcia 加西亚之狼 The Wolf of Garcia —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Olivia and Yang Sirong’s Modern Life (1) 奥利维亚和杨祀戎的现代生活(一) Olivia and Yang Sirong's Modern Life (Part One) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 The Tragedy That Began with a Box of Dinars 一箱迪纳尔引发的惨案 The Tragedy That Began with a Box of Dinars —Reads—Score—Shelves
