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  1. 151 Don't Be Afraid, NPCs, I'm a Good Person NPC别怕,我是好人 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Shen Shixu is a veteran gamer who skips story scenes, dialogue, and anything else that gets in the way of fighting bosses. If she sees a health bar, she attacks; if she sees a chest, she loots it. One day, she wins a spot in the beta test for the new single-player game Second Life. She transmigrates shortly after entering the game. And has no idea it happened. Because the game’s System came along too. The player enters the game. The player skips all the background information. The player is ama 94.4kFavorites132.1kClicks/ch275.1kGifts
  2. 152 Xiaoyu's Adventures in the Crossover World 小玉综漫世界历险记 No CP2.2M WordsCompleted [The full story is complete.] [The full bonus story about watching the show is free, but two chapters have been set up incorrectly, so please purchase with caution. The bonus story about watching the show is also unfinished.] [Blurb] After transferring to Teitan Elementary School, Xiao Yu gradually realizes that everyone around her is more than they seem. On the first day of school, she encounters a murder case. A first-grade schoolboy actually has a Tranquilizer Dart on hand, solves the case 86.7kFavorites157.4kClicks/ch355kGifts
  3. 153 The Contaminators 侵染者 Romance793k WordsOngoing Zhou Huaixia never dreams. She only passes through other people's dreams. It's a secret she's kept for years. Perhaps it was the change of scenery when she started college, but Zhou Huaixia began spending whole nights wandering through other people's dreams. She'd watched dreams of unfamiliar classmates being eaten by pigs, hanging themselves... She'd witnessed all sorts of bizarre and fantastical dreams. The chaotic dreams left Zhou Huaixia mentally and physically exhausted. She'd give anythin 208.6kFavorites204.2kClicks/ch933.6kGifts
  4. 154 My Exes Are All Over the Immortal Realm 前任遍仙界 Romance2.8M WordsCompleted One-line blurb: The road to immortality stretches for thousands of miles, and my exes are scattered across the Immortal Realm. Leave love and romance behind, and your path to eternal life will unfold on its own. "Official Blurb" Q: What’s it like to transmigrate as a female cultivator who can only level up through… intimate activities? A: Thanks for the invite. As they say, transmigration is like getting a second life, and if you get it wrong, you lose at the starting line. A lot of girls are 141.4kFavorites382.5kClicks/ch359.3kGifts
  5. 155 After My Romance with Reverse-Order Mi Went Wrong 和逆序米恋爱翻车后 Romance599k WordsCompleted [Main Story Complete] [Bonus Extra Chapters: 70% Subscription Rate] Mia is a transmigrator, but one without any cheat abilities, and she has lost most of her memories. When she was eighteen, her childhood friend, who was also the person she envied, suddenly told her that he was the eldest young master of the Wayne family, heir to the League of Assassins, and the future Batman. As her memories returned, Mia blurted out, “Impossible. Damian is the fifth…” Before she could finish, she saw her ow 37.5kFavorites44.1kClicks/ch245.4kGifts
  6. 156 Stockpile Supplies, Then Survive 囤货,然后活下去 No CP2.8M WordsOngoing Zhang Baibai, who was born with little emotional capacity, spent more than twenty years as an ordinary corporate drone, living by the rules and keeping her head down. Who could have guessed that one day, while she was working as usual in the office, she'd get up to pour herself some water and suddenly be pulled into a safe house? Zombies roared outside. The safe house was falling apart, and an electronic 278.2kFavorites273.3kClicks/ch2.6MGifts
  7. 157 Fate Is on My Side 天命在我 Romance1.6M WordsOngoing [Editing mode: in progress] [Don’t mention other people’s stories in my comments, and don’t mention my story in other people’s comments.] “My name is Shang Min, descendant of King Wu. If I ascend to the throne of the Human Emperor, I will uphold Heaven’s mandate and the people’s will, pacify the foreign tribes across the four seas, suppress the demons of this world, restore an age of peace and prosperity, renew the fortunes of our human race, and preserve its lineage.” The emperor is incompe 128kFavorites123.6kClicks/ch250.8kGifts
  8. 158 Extreme Cold Disaster: Hot Spring Town Management Simulator 极寒天灾温泉街模拟经营 Romance826k WordsCompleted [Next up: The Billionaire Investor Who Makes Ten Million a Day [Showbiz], a feel-good power fantasy. Blurb below] Shu Mo was transported to a frozen apocalypse and bound to a business simulation System. At the start, the System asked her to choose a type of shop to run. Shu Mo, who was freezing her tail off: ...Do I really have to choose? Shivering, she typed in “Hot Spring Town.” The entire world was dragged into a bizarre survival game. Temperatures plummeted, monsters invaded from all sides, 112.3kFavorites204.7kClicks/ch182.2kGifts
  9. 159 Shattering the Void in the Song Dynasty [Wuxia Crossover] 在大宋破碎虚空[综武侠] Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Complete] A lilac knot on a hibiscus sash, no pearls tied there, but a treasured blade. □□秀 has three secrets to walking the path of shattering the void: 1. A martial art called The Void Scripture (her golden finger, obviously!) 2. A male lead. If there's a chance to fall off a cliff, count me in too. (Er Kang hand.JPG) 3. She's a genius (For real?) She joined Little Cold Mountain Temple. By day she swept up fallen leaves; by night she was in an infinite-flow story. Life was peaceful. Later 86.2kFavorites93.3kClicks/ch1.2MGifts
  10. 160 The System Mistook Me for a Cat 系统把我识别成了猫 Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Complete] [Coming next: [Full-Dive] Weren’t Games Supposed to Come to the Real World? Please add it to your reading list] Ten years after her parents divorced, Chu Tingwu’s grandmother, who had raised her, passed away. Her relatives kept passing her around like a hot potato. Just then, something calling itself the “Cub-Raising System” suddenly appeared and tried to bind itself to her, aiming to train her into an outstanding graduate of its course. Chu Tingwu was about to refuse when she saw the 100.6kFavorites181.5kClicks/ch696.4kGifts
  11. 161 [Wu Zhou] Founding the Dynasty [武周]定鼎 Romance2.1M WordsCompleted [Current arc: Wu Zhou] Wu Qingyue never imagined that one moment she’d be grabbing her keyboard to argue with someone that the claim Empress Zhaoyi had murdered her daughter was complete nonsense, and the next she’d be reborn as Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang’s third daughter. In other words... the daughter of Wu Zetian who died before her first birthday. [Good news: You come with a System.] [Bad news: The System has just one function: convert 153.4kFavorites216.6kClicks/ch503kGifts
  12. 162 Entering a Game with Cheat Codes 带着作弊码穿游戏 Romance837k WordsCompleted Meng Jintang transmigrates into the wuxia single-player game Jianghu Qingyun Road, which she bought only a few days ago. The moment she confirms her situation, Meng Jintang wants to close her eyes again and peacefully drift off. If she can’t go back to reality, she might as well daydream for a while. Although the road ahead is uncertain, Meng Jintang finds some comfort in the fact that her transmigration also came with the game’s System. Jianghu Qingyun Road is famous for its complicated control 103.1kFavorites204.5kClicks/ch223.6kGifts
  13. 163 Entering a Wuxia World with a Detective System 带着侦探系统穿武侠 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Life is full of surprises. Zhao Qingshou expected to work overtime after her promotion, but she never imagined that working too many hours would make her close her eyes and open them again on the other side of the transmigration threshold. After Zhao Qingshou struggled to adapt to the world she had transmigrated into and successfully awakened her golden finger (?), the Detective System, she learned something else: The world she had transmigrated into was one where martial arts experts existed 64.6kFavorites96.8kClicks/ch413.4kGifts
  14. 164 When the Villain Is Bound to the Female Lead System 当反派绑定了女主系统 Romance526k WordsCompleted [Publication title: Bound by Light. Preorders open July 24 at 20:00. Follow @JinjiangRifuri] Yu Yi transmigrates into a xianxia novel as its heroine, who suffers both physical and emotional abuse. The story is 800,000 characters long. She's tormented for 700,000 of them, and in the final 100,000, the heroine reconciles with her past, stays true to love, and gets a happy ending with the male lead. Yu Yi absolutely refuses to be a sucker like that. To avoid the main plot, she sticks to the prin 251.8kFavorites409.6kClicks/ch115.1kGifts
  15. 165 What’s Wrong with Letting Me Be a Parasite? 让我寄生一下怎么了? No CP953k WordsCompleted Lin Ao transmigrates from a coming-of-age romance into a chaotic wasteland. In the original story, she was a woman like dodder, a parasitic vine. Dodder is hardy and competes with its host plant for nutrients and sunlight. The good news: she awakens a dodder ability and can acquire powers through parasitism. The bad news: she has a split personality, and her alternate personality goes around parasitizing people to get stronger. Long afterward, people all say that Lin Ao is an unpredictable, me 136.5kFavorites137.3kClicks/ch266.7kGifts
  16. 166 The Marquis of Huaiyin Is Ready to Go on a Rampage 淮阴侯她准备发癫 Multi-Orientation454k WordsCompleted (Full text undergoing revisions...) Among the many founding generals of the Dafeng Dynasty was the valiant and extraordinary Marquis of Huaiyin. She had fought in countless battles, her whole being steeped in the blood and fury of war. For more than a decade, she had ranged across the battlefield, skilled at deploying troops and fond of killing with a smile. The powerful Marquis of Huaiyin carried herself with imposing dignity and unmatched beauty. Even surrounded by an aura of menace, she was 75.1kFavorites124.5kClicks/ch98kGifts
  17. 167 How the Leader of the Righteous Path Was Raised 正道魁首是如何养成的 Multi-Orientation1.9M WordsOngoing [If you encounter repeated chapters, check whether your subscription rate is too low or clear your cache.] Blurb: In her twentieth year after transmigrating to the Cultivation world, Song Congxin has a book fall from the sky, informing her that the world she lives in is doomed to destruction. Her junior sister, who has yet to enter the sect, will love her master without being loved in return, suffer persecution at the hands of the immortal sects, narrowly escape death before awakening her blood 149kFavorites144.3kClicks/ch725kGifts
  18. 168 I’ll Take That Knee! 这膝盖我收下了! Romance803k WordsCompleted Blurb: After Song Juyao dies, she floats out of her computer and discovers that her life was nothing but a reality show, controlled and manipulated by others. A billion viewers watched the livestream, judging and mocking her life, while the production team did everything they could to set obstacles in her way and bring her down again and again. Later, Song Juyao is reborn, and this time her memories have not been suppressed. This is a crazy world. People are fed up 327.2kFavorites630.9kClicks/ch621.5kGifts
  19. 169 Damn! I Got Tricked by Her [Infinite] 可恶!被她装到了[无限] Romance864k WordsCompleted [My new story, She Was Born to Win [Infinite], is now underway. If you're interested, feel free to take a look!] [The logic and settings were revised multiple times along the way, so many parts differ greatly from pirated versions. Please read the official version on Jinjiang.] [I recommend subscribing chapter by chapter. Be sure to read the warnings.] Story blurb>> . Pollution spreads across the globe, and horror begins to return. A spiritualist organization establishes the Supernatural Admini 209kFavorites269.7kClicks/ch259.2kGifts
  20. 170 I’m Not An Immortal 我不成仙 Romance3.2M WordsCompleted [Note: Only volumes 1–5 have been published in simplified Chinese, covering chapters 1–177 of the online version. If you bought the simplified edition but haven’t read the ending, start at chapter 178.] Even if you become an immortal, you won’t escape my sword. She wielded her sword across the world, and countless immortals died by her blade. So people with time on their hands gave her a nickname: The Immortals’ Bane. The Immortals’ Bane, the Immortals’ Bane, even immortals fret when they see 304.7kFavorites667.2kClicks/ch538.4kGifts
  21. 171 A Little Eatery in Chang'an 长安小饭馆 Romance336k WordsCompleted "Completed in September 2019" For information on the reprinted edition, please visit Weibo @A Jin Jia De Ying Tao Gao Fine rain and a gentle breeze, a little shop with a blue banner, a beautiful foreign barmaid. Fine wine from Xinfeng, tender greens and bamboo shoots, golden pickled fish. Lin Yan, Assistant Prefect of the Capital, turns his attention to the landlady, whose skin is as white as snow and whose eyes are like apricots. It’s truly sad and pitiful for a highborn lady to have fallen s 307.6kFavorites626.6kClicks/ch170.5kGifts
  22. 172 Starting with Board Games: Infinite 从桌游开始[无限] Romance605k WordsCompleted No update on July 14. No need to wait, mwah. The title is for reference only. Gu Jingsheng used to think falling meteorites were something that only happened in badly concluded novels. She never imagined she'd experience it herself one day. A huge rock came hurtling down from the sky with a burning debuff, leaving her just enough time to shout, “I wasn't the one who abandoned the novel!” before her HP hit zero. Perhaps because she'd still managed to make a joke at the end, Gu Jingsheng didn't qu 95.6kFavorites164.3kClicks/ch117.3kGifts
  23. 173 Spend a Hundred Million from the Start [Entertainment Industry] 开局先花一个亿[娱乐圈] Romance651k WordsCompleted [My new female-led wish-fulfillment novel, Cultivating Immortality in a Catastrophe-Ravaged World, is now available. Please come take a look!] Sheng Quan transmigrated into a book, landing in an entertainment-industry novel she'd once read. She also acquired a System. The System said, [Sorry, I'm a newbie System. Apart from money, I can't give you anything.] Sheng Quan looked at the balance in her account, enough to make her the richest person in the world in an instant. [ ... You're being ver 220.5kFavorites495kClicks/ch876.3kGifts
  24. 174 Has the Grand Archmage Made Any Money Today? 大奥术师她今天赚钱了吗 Romance2.3M WordsCompleted My new novel, After the Demolition, My Whole Family Made the Pig-Butchering Scam List, is now available in my author profile. Please add my upcoming novel, Can Infinite Failures Only Deduct Love?, to your collection. Thank you!~ Synopsis: A murder takes place in District 13, a low-class slum in the alchemical fantasy game world of Arcane Throne, a world of low-level citizens, alchemy, and a touch of Western fantasy. The wooden door opens. Xie Keli, a scoundrel who used to roam the streets, stu 114.8kFavorites171.8kClicks/ch1.3MGifts
  25. 175 If You're a Dating Expert, Beat This 100-Level Mini-Game 是恋爱达人就闯100关小游戏 Romance287k WordsOngoing [Notice Board] On hiatus… [Notice Board] Please discuss the plot reasonably. Don’t label other readers or attack them personally. P&L. Love you all! “You” are an ordinary college student. One day, you download a romance game called "If You’re a Romance Master, Clear 100 Levels". Clear the game, and you’ll receive a wonderful reward. Do you want to give it a try? Before you begin: 1. Second-person narration ahead. 2. Updates are irregular and bite-sized. Theme: Learning to be confident and cou 115.3kFavorites150.7kClicks/ch131.5kGifts
  26. 176 After Dying Together With the Male Protagonist 和男主同归于尽后 Romance647k WordsCompleted The first volume of the print edition, "Same Tide: Mortal World", goes up for preorder at 7 p.m. on December 21, 2024. For updates, follow @Jinjiang Hua Qi. This story is featured on the homepage and has drawn a lot of comments lately, including heated arguments that have turned into long threads. The author is unwell and has been going back and forth to the hospital, so they don’t have the energy to moderate the comments. The comment section is now closed. Thank you for understanding. Blurb: 453.6kFavorites688.9kClicks/ch443.7kGifts
  27. 177 Ark [Wasteland] 方舟[废土] Romance737k WordsCompleted [Signed for publication. Updates are posted on Weibo at Mengyou Dashi Qieqie Jun] [Thank you for your companionship. The complete story ended on 2024.01.03] After dying one day, Fang Zhou transmigrated into the apocalyptic game Old City's Ruins, which was marketed for its wasteland setting and alien creatures. She became the protagonist's older sister, a useless, sickly burden who panted after every few steps. In this world, where the environment had undergone a drastic change, resources were 161.9kFavorites212.3kClicks/ch195.7kGifts
  28. 178 Half a Spoiler 二分之一剧透 Romance657k WordsCompleted As a game addict who transmigrated into a game, Wen Yanran has a unique advantage that countless other transmigrators lack. First, she starts at the top: she’s the emperor from the start. Second, she comes with a game-assistance System, a standard feature for any protagonist. * Just as Wen Yanran was fretting over her ability to manage a large team, the World Will that had helped her transmigrate offered a friendly reminder: to prevent the current world from restarting over and over, the transmi 164.9kFavorites283kClicks/ch317.8kGifts
  29. 179 Level One Silence 一级沉寂 Romance900k WordsCompleted [In a world where words can catch fire and speech can explode, how will you survive?] [An unconventional apocalypse story] [The AI male lead is a ball] The print edition is now available on major platforms. It includes signed copies, special-edition signed copies, and a bonus story. For details, see WB @TypingNinthOrderMagicSquare. Some scenes have been revised, so this version differs from pirated copies. Returning readers can clear their cache in settings to see the changes. Thank you for supp 167.7kFavorites206.5kClicks/ch303.8kGifts
  30. 180 The Heroine Is Fed Up 女主对此感到厌烦 No CP886k WordsOngoing On a friend's recommendation, player 6237486 bought a romance game for women called Goddess Chronicles. But she never expected to get transported into the game and become its heroine, Lilith. After successfully winning over the male lead, Lilith didn't return to reality. To escape the game, she had no choice but to conquer every route. She replayed the game again and again, winning over every male lead and achieving all the happy endings and countless bad endings. At last, she reached the final 334.5kFavorites175.3kClicks/ch717.4kGifts
  31. 181 Supreme Year 太岁 No CP1.2M WordsCompleted “If I had a choice, I’d rather be a tiny ant among the mortal world, living in ignorance and dying in obscurity, never seeing the light of day beneath the fog of Jinping City. That would be better than taking this treacherous path to the heavens.” A steampunk cultivation world. Updates around eleven. If I can’t update, I’ll post a notice. Warning: Long and tedious. Theme: Overthrowing subjective idealism 485.3kFavorites516.3kClicks/ch1.7MGifts
  32. 182 EN My Junior Sister Can’t Possibly Be a Silly Sweetheart 我的师妹不可能是傻白甜 Romance2.6M WordsCompleted [Monster-slaying, leveling-up, and romance] //My Junior Sister Can't Possibly Be a Sweet, Naive Fool// - Not a strong female lead!!! Not a wish-fulfillment story!!! Slow-burn melodrama!!! Written for my own enjoyment!!!- Mei Liangyu: My junior sister spends all day with a bunch of top-tier villains. She smiles brightly and adorably, and speaks so softly, but she must have something up her sleeve. There's no way she's a sweet, naive fool in a circle of villains. - Six hundred years ago, the star 592.8kFavorites679.1kClicks/ch2.8MGifts
  33. 183 [Tang Dynasty] Chang'an of the Great Tang [唐]大唐长安 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted When Li Chang’an opened her eyes again, she was in the Tang Dynasty. The good news: It was the Kaiyuan era, the golden age of the Tang, and she was a daughter of Emperor Xuanzong. The bad news: The An Lushan Rebellion was just around the corner, and her father disliked her so much he wouldn’t even give her a princess’s title and made her become a Taoist nun. Princess Shou’an was born to Cao Yena Ji. She was born in the ninth month of pregnancy. The emperor hated her and ordered her to be dress 175.8kFavorites238.2kClicks/ch656.8kGifts
  34. 184 21+ An Honest Guy, but Mary Sue 老实人,但玛丽苏 Romance1.3M WordsCompleted 182.7kFavorites285.8kClicks/ch453.2kGifts
  35. 185 After Entering a Cyberpunk Game, I Killed the Boss and Claimed the Throne 穿进赛博游戏后干掉BOSS成功上位 Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [I’ve been informed about the incident involving trolls in the comments, and I sincerely apologize to everyone. The inappropriate text in the blurb has been removed. A detailed announcement is in the author’s note for Chapter 1. 2026.04.05] [Updates on the simplified Chinese print edition: See Weibo @An Bai ANBAI. The second volume of the simplified Chinese edition was released on August 22, 2025.] The cyberpunk game with cosmic horror elements, Crimson Earth, is about to be released. Kui Xin 835.4kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch3.4MGifts
  36. 186 How the Strong Are Made 强者是怎样炼成的 Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [This novel goes premium on the 22nd!] No blurb could do justice to the utterly outrageous content of this novel. She died, then was reborn. When she opened her eyes, she found she’d become a dinosaur, while her former kindred, now human beings, were studying her. They called her the Tyrannosaurus Rex! 1. A leveling-up story, slow burn, with a couple. 2. The female lead doesn’t remember who she is at first. 3. A crossover of horror and Marvel/DC. Theme: What joy it is to crush fate bene 160.8kFavorites216.7kClicks/ch2.2MGifts
  37. 187 The First Paranormal Demolition Office 第一诡异拆迁办 Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Published under the title The First Book of Strange Rules. Volume One is out now. For updates on subsequent volumes, follow Weibo @Jinjiang_Sizhenyomian] [New novel, My Strange Tales Containment Facility, updating now. Come check it out in the author's column] Blurb: [Hello, and welcome to the Demolition Office family. Below is the ninth edition of our internal employee handbook. For your personal safety, please read it carefully and commit it to memory.] [1. As a member of the Demolition Of 198.4kFavorites290.1kClicks/ch334kGifts
  38. 188 Girls’ Dormitory Escape 女寝大逃亡[无限] Romance943k WordsCompleted [All four volumes of the print edition are out now! For details, see Weibo @A_Tea_Fire] [The audio drama is now on Ximalaya and Maoer. Search for Dormitory Great Escape] When your dorm becomes a game arena, how will you survive? At eight in the evening, the university dorms were just beginning to come alive for the night. Suddenly, the lights went out. Every university in the world was plunged into darkness. “Ding ding ding, clang clang clang!” “Dear students, welcome to the [Dormitory Survival 491.8kFavorites676.3kClicks/ch642.3kGifts
  39. 189 I Clean Up Garbage in a Wasteland World 我在废土世界扫垃圾 Romance2.0M WordsCompleted Zhu Ning, who was leading the charge against zombies in the apocalypse, transmigrates, this time into a wasteland world. Eighty percent of this world’s land has been contaminated. Humanity is divided into five classes. She ends up in the lowest, a fifth-class citizen, which is just another way of saying she’s a defective good-for-nothing. Penniless and with nothing to her name, Zhu Ning has no choice but to become a cleaner and sweep up garbage. She’s heard that cleaning up trash in the wastelan 828.4kFavorites957.5kClicks/ch3.3MGifts
  40. 190 I Have the Overbearing CEO Aura: Book Transmigration 我有霸总光环[穿书] Romance522k WordsCompleted [Print edition published under the title There's a Halo Over Your Head. For more information, follow @Jiang Yue Nian Nian Nian Nian on Weibo] Chu Chu suddenly transmigrated into a book as its vicious female CEO. The original character was not only obsessed with the male lead, but also tried to kill the female lead. In the end, she got a bad ending: the family business went bankrupt and shut down, and her face was disfigured. On her first day after transmigrating into a book, Chu Chu opened a 291.6kFavorites649.2kClicks/ch329kGifts
  41. 191 The Fundamental Principles of Genius 天才基本法 Romance760k WordsCompleted Everyone thought Lin Zhaoxi was a genius. Only she knew that she was using years of experience in math competitions to go back and “cheat.” Until one day, the boy she admired looked at her in silence. Times overlap, and the past is revisited three times. The past can change you. 1. A story about returning to three periods in the past to find yourself. Take it easy: it’s a journey where you go wherever the road takes you. 2. The schools and competition system are fictionalized. 3. Anti-pirac 522.2kFavorites731kClicks/ch778.2kGifts
  42. 192 [Harry Potter] My Owl Got Lost [HP]我的猫头鹰迷路了 Romance318k WordsCompleted In my previous life, my owl got lost over the Pacific Ocean. It never brought me my Hogwarts letter, not even by the time I graduated from college. In this life, the owl arrived right on time and a Transfiguration professor (?) came to the orphanage (?) to take me away. Something about this feels off?! Though I start out in an orphanage, I'm not the third-generation Dark Lord. The heroine is in Hufflepuff. It's an upward-progression, coming-of-age story, and her goal is to become the next he 179.8kFavorites324.5kClicks/ch398.2kGifts

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