Novels like The Eternal Night Awaits the Returning One
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- 51 From Army Brat to Immortal: The Invincible Ancestor 兵痞变仙人之老祖无敌 Invincibility is so... so lonely! He was once a special forces king, and “he” was once a genius of an immortal sect... He fused with “him” and inherited “his” legacy, determined to rebuild the system in another world. He also had a goal of his own: once his work was done, he would search for a way back home... He Ming, a special forces king from Blue Star, transmigrated to a cultivation continent after being shot in the back, where he became an invincible ancestor. To establish a new order of cu 586Reads9.5Score134Shelves
- 52 The Void's Desire: I Am Their Only Taboo 虚空垂涎：我，是祂们唯一的禁忌 Her memories were torn apart by a conspiracy, and she was abandoned in a prison of the mind. Everyone thought she was just a broken madwoman. But after an unexpected awakening, she became the "Twin Key" linking life and the void, and their one and only taboo. Her former enemies regard her as the supreme "Holy Grail," while the mysterious "Flower Court" wants to prune her into a docile "nursery" plant. Deep underground, the ancient "Cradle" protocol has fallen out of balance, and beyond the sea 44Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 53 Everyone’s Surviving the Supernatural: I’m the Hidden Prophet 全民诡异求生：我是隐藏预言家 [Strong Female Lead + Powerhouse Heroine + Mind Games + Awakening] “Are you a seer?” “No.” “Then how did you know Tang Yue was an impostor?” Wen Yixiu smiled but didn’t answer. She couldn’t. Her talent was called “Copycat,” the only one of its kind, hidden at the System level. When the real seer investigated someone, she automatically copied their ability. From that moment on, there were two seers in the game. One in the open, one in the shadows. The one in the open drew the fire. The o 245Reads—Score120Shelves
- 54 At Memory's End, the Lost Road Home 记忆之末，迷惘归途 (Dark suspense) + (memory erasure) + (a multi-path skill system), with a fresh setting. (Also known as Crimson Illusion: I Use Strategy to Break the Cycle.) Please, read a few more chapters. Once the story gets going, it’s amazing. The early chapters are just setup 😭😭😭 A pristine prison of illusions, a crimson ruler of reality, yesterday repeating without end, and a future stretching beyond the horizon. With his memories constantly crumbling, his pact hiding a betrayal, and reality shrouded in m 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 You Were Born to Hide Your Edge 卿本藏锋 As the poisoned wine burns its way down her throat, Su Yuheng catches sight of the mottled blood curse on the beams of the cold palace. In her previous life, a bowl of saffron tea seared through her insides. Her half-sister Su Qinghe ground her embroidered shoe across Su Yuheng’s bloodied fingertips, then smiled as she picked up the Spirit Spring Jade Pendant that had fallen from Su Yuheng’s arms. When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to her coming-of-age banquet: dog’s blood splashed 4Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 56 The Solar Eclipse Apocalypse 日蚀启示录 [Rules Horror + Mind Games + Terror + The Supernatural] Strange regulations, an eerie head of security You must follow the rules on the night shift, or you'll die Visitors must not ask anyone's name Do not look in mirrors without a reason If a child cries, give them candy At first, Wu Ming thought the old man was just playing a prank on the newcomers Until one day, he saw a dark figure standing behind him in the mirror Even more terrifying, the candy in his pocket kept multiplying every day And —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Handwriting Beneath Shattered Light 碎光下的笔迹 📖Story Synopsis📖 Xia Bu'an's sudden, passionate confession threw Bai Xiaoyi's entire youth into disarray. That dazzling love was within reach. She reached out to touch it, only to be forced to let go in the end. Only then did she understand: some people are cinnabar marks etched on your heart, unforgettable, yet forever beyond your embrace. 🥀 Throughout all three years of middle school, Bai Xiaoyi had eyes only for the boy Lei Haoran. He was the unspoken love she kept buried in her heart, her 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 I’m Truly Out of Options in This Infinite Flow World 我在无限流真的没招了 [Two Male Leads + Imaginative Infinite-Flow + Ensemble Cast Elements + Slow Burn] Cool-headed, unhinged, sharp-minded bottom x split-personality, obsessive top A book suddenly appeared in his home. It was called The Nameless Book, and its cover bore just one sentence: “Darkness is coming. Evil spirits roam. Those who read this book will never see daylight again.” Chen Yanchu, defiant to the core: Then I'm opening it just to see what happens. And that's how he entered the infinite-flow world. Ins 73Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 The Tomb Returns to Its Master 墓归主 [Strong Female Lead] [Political Intrigue] [Revenge] [Powerful Allies] [High-IQ] She has died twice: once for the realm, once for someone she loved. She was once a homeless ghost, spending ten years in a coffin beside a skeleton. She wasn't trapped there. She was waiting for someone who would come to ask her for help. Shen Mulan offered her own body, begging her to settle a blood feud. She borrowed that face and entered that city. On the pleasure house stage, she was a bewitching courtesan; be 32Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 60 Seated in the Dao 坐道 My new work is out! You can read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Bullied at School, I Became a Magical Girl 被校园霸凌的我成为了魔法少女 An utterly ordinary high school girl is being bullied at school one day when a dark angel named Black Jade God descends from the sky and grants her the power to transform into a magical girl. But as her fragile heart takes on the role of a magical girl, she also steps into a trap laid long ago. The secrets of the Twenty-Eight Demons, the Judgment Girls, and the Six Great Magic Stones, along with an unknown world and many other mysteries, are all waiting to be revealed. 169Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Devour the Uncanny and Cultivate Immortality: The Great Powers Kneel and Sing of Surrender 吞噬诡异修仙，列强跪着唱征服 [A collision between Western horrors and Eastern immortal cultivation, with a somewhat humorous style. Dark and oppressive content is limited, so it's an easy read] Hell's seal has cracked, and horrors have resurfaced across the globe. The third son of the Zhang family from Northeast China during the Republic of China era had planned to flee to Europe to escape his pursuers, but he couldn't avoid one bizarre incident after another. Zhang Xuewei's ancient bloodline as an Emperor awakens within h 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 My Campus Life at a Certain Men's Technical College 我在某男子技术学院的校园生活 I recorded every little detail of my campus life. Half a lifetime has passed, and it all feels like a previous life now. Classes, sports, clubs, romance, and even a national debate competition. I only went as a substitute and never got to compete, but apart from not studying hard, I can say I have no regrets. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Shocking! The Entire Legion Was Wiped Out, and I'm the Only Survivor! 震惊！军团全灭唯我独活！ [Reborn + No System + Powered Armor + Passionate Action + One Female Lead] Shocking! The entire legion was wiped out, and I was the only survivor! That man right there will reveal the whole secret to you. In his previous life, he was a soldier in the Imperial Guard. After returning to his hometown, he found his younger sister and fellow villagers slaughtered by exotic beasts. He fought the beasts and died on the battlefield. After death, his soul was reborn in what seemed to be a future world. W 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Tide of Pus 脓潮 [No System + No Rebirth + Hard-Core City Defense + Worldbuilding Foreshadowing] Low-level filth beasts shouldn't have eyes. Three days after he encountered one, people began dying in that city. His adoptive father pressed a pocket watch into his hand and managed to say just one thing: "Take this to Yunqi." Inside the watch was a secret that even monsters couldn't digest. 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Chronicles of the Great Yaoguai 大妖纪 [Honghuang] [No human transformation] [May have a female lead] [Great demon cultivation] [Genius protagonist] The vast sun blazes, the dark heavens shine. This is another world ruled by monsters... Xu Chen's soul transmigrates into another world and arrives in the dense forest of the Dog Clan. The Dog Clan is a minor, peripheral family established by down-and-out descendants who fled from the two river valleys of Huai and Wei. He had planned to drift through life in a daze, but he discove 14.4kReads8.2Score1.4kShelves
- 67 Xuanhuan: The Villainous Senior Brother? No, the Heavenly Venerable 玄幻：反派大师兄？不，是天尊 The protagonist, Mu Ge, transmigrates into a book and becomes its major early-game villain. He expects to become nothing more than experience points for the Chosen One, but then he awakens a System. “Heh heh heh, now that I have a System, it’s anyone’s guess who the protagonist is!” And so Mu Ge sets out on his own path to immortality. “The villainous senior disciple? No, I’m a Celestial Venerable!” Many years later, standing at the pinnacle of the immortal path and looking back on all that had 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 A Tangled Parallel Line 一条交错的平行线 [Everyday life + School life + One heroine] (The ratings just opened. They should go up later, right?) (Big boss, big boss, does anyone actually read our book?) (They will, they will. There’ll be readers like Yifei and Yanzhu.) Who doesn’t want a colorful youth? High school lasts long enough for all kinds of things to happen and for you to meet countless people. Relationships that once grew distant and encounters that never got the chance to begin will quietly take a turn at some point. Liang Ji 138Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 69 The Final Seven Days: Time-Space Hunter 七日终焉：时空猎人 [Don't Doubt It: The Past, Present, and Future Exist Simultaneously] I accidentally revealed the truth about the spacetime network as it exists today. Three years of painstaking work, day and night, and at last it's here! A hardcore story for a female audience! No brainless characters! No stale tropes! The pinnacle of eerie rule-based mysteries, delivering a double blow of mind-bending puzzles and heartbreak! Three trials built around layered concepts shatter your perception, while the suffocati 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 I Devour All Things and Rise to the Top of the Heavens Through Feedback 吞噬万物我靠反馈登顶诸天 An overworked factory hand transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing disciple and awakens the Devour All Things System! Plants and herbs, pills, monsters and enemies, treasures and techniques: whatever he devours makes him stronger, letting him fuse them straight into Heaven-ranked martial skills and high-grade spiritual treasures! He hides his strength in the outer sect and trounces the sect’s geniuses. Eight grand elders compete to take him as their disciple and give him divine weapons 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 After My Engagement Is Called Off, I Shock the Cultivation World with My Herb-Gathering 退婚后，我以采药震惊修仙界 Ye Wuyi had depended on his grandfather since childhood. When his grandfather fell gravely ill, Ye faced a broken engagement, debt collectors, and the ridicule of those around him, suffering one humiliation after another. To save his grandfather, he risked his life venturing into Void Mountain. An elixir demon snake knocked him off a cliff, awakening the legacy of the Herbal Canon and changing his fate against all odds! Others toil in cultivation to advance their realms; he gathers herbs and p 425Reads9.0Score104Shelves
- 72 The Tower of Dark Dust and Bright Moon 暗尘明月楼 He spent his whole life achieving nothing, made it to the age of forty-nine, and then transmigrated. As if transmigrating weren't strange enough, he transmigrated into someone his own age. The average life expectancy in this world was only forty-eight, so he'd already lived to a ripe old age. Worse still, he had a whole family to support. In his new life, he had no official position or power, no land, and no money. He was dirt-poor, with nothing but the title of marquis to his name. The title wa 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Transmigrated as a Chubby Farm Girl, I Grow Crops and Build a Fortune 穿成农家小肥妞，种田发家巧致富 [Business + System + Food + Farming + Family Life + Building Wealth + No Imperial Authority] Chen Yao, a former special forces soldier and food blogger, transmigrates one day into the body of Chen Bao'er, a lazy, greedy, spoiled, and overbearing country girl. Her mother dotes on her like crazy, and they have a poor life that needs improving. No need to panic. She's not worried in the slightest. With a transmigration cheat in one hand and extraordinary skills in the other, getting rich is just ar 432Reads8.2Score116Shelves
- 74 Reborn in the 1980s: I Became a World-Famous Doctor Through Chinese Medicine 重生八零我靠中医绝世医名震天下 Reborn in the 1980s, a story of traditional Chinese medicine saving lives, face-slapping satisfaction, rural revitalization, fame in the city, and the passing down of traditional Chinese medicine. Grounded in professional expertise, not quackery; packed with satisfying moments without resorting to melodrama. It balances real-life resonance with cultural heritage. Its core tone is heartwarming healing, satisfying triumph, and professional expertise. It does not smear Western medicine or indulge i 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 From the Start, I Was Burdened with Countless Sins, Yet You Want Me to Become a Saint Through Merit? 开局一身杀孽，却要我功德成圣？ [Invincible + humorous + decisive and ruthless + cultivation with seals breaking open] The Great World of Tianqian contains four forms of Creation Qi: Mystery, Wonder, Calamity, and Evil. By a twist of fate, the protagonist, Pei Zhaoming, obtains one of them, but it turns on him, driving him mad and plunging him into a bloodthirsty frenzy. The resulting karmic fire burns his soul! He barely survives the world-ending heavenly lightning, but the bone-eating karmic fire becomes a thousand-year deat 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 The Gene Crucible: The Ancestral Devourer Wolf Gene 基因之锲：返祖噬神狼基因 [Over one million words, complete and guaranteed. The pacing is a little slow, but readers can dive in with confidence.] Every living creature in this world struggles to survive. The strong rely on their own power to dominate their territory, while the weak band together, making use of everything around them to stay alive. The difference between the strong and the weak is the divide between magical beasts and humans. In a world where countless races vie for supremacy, humanity has gained the abi 151Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 77 After Prison, I Erased My Identity 出狱后，我注销了身份 After Getting Out of Prison, I Erased My Identity 15.8kReads—Score624Shelves
- 78 Infinite Spiritual Power? No, I'm a Human Power Bank 无限灵力？不，我是人形充电包 Infinite spiritual power + dantian constipation + a power-supplying formation + play the pig to eat the tiger Others cultivate based on talent. Lin Que cultivates based on his battery level. He transmigrates with infinite spiritual power, but suffers from "dantian constipation syndrome," with spiritual power so blocked up that it leaks out through his lower half. Sect Leader: Go relieve yourself at the mountain-protecting formation every day. And so he becomes the Qingniu Sect's mobile power so 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Spirit of the Great Void 太虚灵 Divine-mortal forbidden love + powerful heroine + bold and spirited + national crisis in the mortal realm + a god undergoing tribulation + no System, no transmigration. “The Taixu Spirit has emerged from the Three Realms. Is this fate, sin, or tribulation?” Shui Qiong grew up in the forests of the mortal realm, surrounded by wild beasts, eating wild fruit and grains, and drinking from countless springs. Arrogant and unruly, free as the wind, she kept her life on the line, challenged a one-horned 19Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 80 A Literature PhD Transmigrates and Is Reborn, Rising to the Throne 文学博士穿越重生，登顶皇位 A literature PhD transmigrates and is reborn, then ascends to the throne. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Mastering the Rules 规则掌握 [Cultivation Novel, No Cliches, No Transmigration, No Harem, No System, Ensemble Cast, Genius Protagonist, Everyone Is Smart, Everyday Life, Maoshan Magic, Scientific Cultivation, Ghost-Hunting, A Tribute to the Classics] Ghosts are neither mysterious nor eerie. They are simply another form of human existence. They can be good or bad, and they have feelings of joy and sorrow, love and hate... What does it mean to be a true Taoist priest? Should you really capture every ghost you see? This is an 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 The Demon Catcher of Great Qi 大亓捉妖人 Demons run rampant across Great Qi, bringing misery to the people. Ding Fan, a demon hunter in the Imperial Demon-Suppression Bureau, is driven by a deep-seated hatred of demons and travels far and wide to hunt them. At first, his cultivation is weak, and powerful demons often abduct him. Though danger lurks everywhere, he also encounters countless opportunities. He joins a sect, obtains a famed sword, and masters the Nine Swords of Tai Bai. From then on, he cuts down demons and cultivates along 3.8kReads9.2Score367Shelves
- 83 The Food Delivery Uncle Is Reborn as a Goddess 外卖大叔重生成女神 After his business failed at fifty, Wang Defa became a delivery driver and got into a car accident. He bound to a down-and-out Sumeru Mustard-Seed System and was reborn in a young girl's body. In the end, Wang Defa accepted his new reality, cast off the shackles of his former life, became a scheming green tea beauty, joined a sect, and set out on the road to a comeback. 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Lazy God Cultivates 懒神修仙 Xu Renjie, a good-for-nothing with all five spiritual roots, is widely known in the cultivation world as the ultimate slacker. While others cultivate, he sunbathes. While others fight over treasures, he takes a nap. When refining pills, others proceed with extreme caution. Xu Renjie dumps ten batches of ingredients into one cauldron so he can have more days to play. If the furnace explodes, that's a perfect excuse for a break. A beast tide arrives? He doesn't even lift an eyelid. He pats the spi 721Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Chronicle of the Twin Bracelets 双镯记 [Transmigration to Another World] [Powerful CEO] [Women's Growth] [Mutual Devotion] A wealthy heiress and a princess from another world transmigrate and switch places. How will the rich young heir handle it? Told across two timelines, ancient and modern, this story focuses on women's growth and a love that brings two people together to save each other. Family, friendship, career: she wants it all! In the modern world, there's a wealthy young heir who has been her childhood sweetheart. In the anc 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 I’m Hunting for Bugs in a Superpowered Otherworld. If I Can’t Find One, I Die! 我在超能异世界里找bug，找不到，就得死！ I'm searching for bugs in a superpowered parallel world. If I can't find them, I die! 142Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Lida's Wish 丽达的心愿 [A serf girl accused of witchcraft after breaking up a couple from the start: how can she survive the medieval witch-hunting frenzy?] [Alternate history | Western Middle Ages | A turbulent era and its many characters | Vocational ideals | Love and friendship | Realism] [If this time we choose love, kindness, and courage, could things turn out differently?] Theme: A story about love, growth, understanding, and healing Events: The witch hunts, the Renaissance, the Reformation Elements: A serf r 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 My Relatives Dumped a Haunted Old House on Me, but It Made Me Rich 亲戚们把闹鬼的老宅子硬塞给我，但我却因此暴富 My relatives forced a haunted old house on me, but it made me rich 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Zombie Apocalypse: I Dumped My Scumbag Boyfriend and Took in the Scenery with My Sister 丧尸末日，甩了渣男与妹妹一起欣赏美好风景 The zombie apocalypse begins, and I dump my scumbag boyfriend to admire the beautiful scenery with my younger sister 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Transmigrate into Sword and Fairy II: I’m the Greatest Blacksmith 穿越仙剑二：我是最强锻造师 After an accidental explosion, fireworks maker Zhao Yiping transmigrates into the game world of The Legend of Sword and Fairy II. But as he travels, he discovers that this world isn't quite like the game he played. "The Seven Heroes of Xianxia? Weren't they the Five Wonders of Xianxia?" "My beginner's gift pack is... two revolvers!?" "What? Li Yiru knows the One Yang Finger!?" "What the heck? Why are there 108 Demon Stars?" "What!? Prince Jiangdu isn't Yun'er's father, but her enemy?" The Xianxi 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Adventures in the Sword and Fairy World 我在仙剑世界闯天涯 [Overpowered hero] The protagonist, Lin Shen, feels heartbroken over the tragic fates of the three main characters in the game The Legend of Sword and Fairy: Li Xiaoyao, Zhao Ling'er, and Lin Yueru. The System chooses him to transmigrate into the game world, where he can complete missions and earn rewards to rewrite the heroes' destinies. But as he gradually grows closer to Zhao Ling'er, Lin Yueru, and A Nu, he develops a special bond with all three girls. 416Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Chronicles of Time 光阴录 [Mortal's Journey] [Farming and Management] [Ensemble Cast] A black page has drifted through the river of time for as long as anyone can remember. Untouched by the passage of time, it records all kinds of remarkable people, cultivation techniques and martial arts, as well as strange tales and amusing anecdotes. Gradually, it develops intelligence and begins traveling through the river of time to explore countless worlds... After the protagonist, Ye Qi, accidentally exposes one of its pranks, the 642Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Keep Sleeping, Don’t Wake Up 继续睡，不要醒 [Infinite Dreams + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Horror + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Bizarre + Romance + Sophisticated] Lin Du has been dreaming ever since he was born. He often wakes with a start in some strange room and desperately flees to a subway station, only to discover that his every move is being livestreamed and everyone is watching. When he rushes out of the subway, he finds himself sitting in a car with no end, where every passenger is horrifyingly strange. The car stops at one st 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Who Exactly Did We Meet That Summer? 那个夏天，我们遇到的究竟是谁 Who Exactly Did We Meet That Summer? 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 The Top Outdoor Adventure Streamer Nearly Died Live on Camera 户外探险第一网红，差点死在直播间 The biggest outdoor adventure streamer nearly died live on camera 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Whoever I Write About Dies: First My Best Friend, Then My Ex-Girlfriend 我写谁谁死，先写好兄弟，再写前女友 Whoever I write about dies. First my best friend, then my ex-girlfriend 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Beautiful Poison 美丽的毒药 Beautiful Poison 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 A History Stand-Up Show: From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to Puyi 历史脱口秀：从三皇五帝到溥仪 This wildly entertaining historical talk-show collection will have you laughing as you etch facts into your DNA! [Three irresistible highlights] ■ An all-star cast: From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to Puyi's abdication, more than 300 historical and legendary figures join in the fun. ■ Immersive gossip: Relive history's iconic moments through trending-topic posts, bullet comments, and social media updates. ■ No-holds-barred roasts: Rate the job performance of Qin Shi Huang and Emperor 167Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 99 Secrets of the Old Teahouse: The Terrifying Basement 老茶馆秘闻之恐怖的地下室 Secrets of the Old Teahouse: The Terrifying Basement 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 After the Zombie Horde Ended, My Best Friend Turned into a Half-Human, Half-Zombie Monster 丧尸潮结束后，我的闺蜜变成了半人半丧尸的怪物 After the Zombie Horde Ended, My Best Friend Turned into a Half-Human, Half-Zombie Monster 8Reads—Score—Shelves
