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- 1 The Comic's Villain Is Actually a Mascot 漫画反派竟是吉祥物 Lin Yixiao is the only feifei left in the entire world. He has spent a long, peaceful life among humans. But after kindly agreeing to help out with an old friend's organization, he discovers that his diary has become linked to another world: The world he lives in is a comic. In one month, spiritual qi revival will begin, the whole world will mutate, and all rules and morals will cease to exist. And he, a feifei, will lead the mutated creatures in ruling the world. He's the ultimate final boss 1.5kFavorites—Clicks/ch155Gifts
- 2 Dark Fantasy? But All My Secret Identities Are Gods 暗黑流？可我马甲全是神明 Song Wu transmigrates after waking from a deep sleep. The bad news: this is a high-martial-arts world. The worse news: it's a dark, brutal one. What does a dark, brutal world mean? The strong don't care about human life, the weak struggle desperately, and ordinary people don't even have the right to struggle. Song Wu is frail and sickly, with a physique worse than an ordinary person's: ...If you don't want me to live, just say so. Just as Song Wu had found an iron shovel and prepared to dig 3.8kFavorites3.9kClicks/ch4.8kGifts
- 3 How an Ordinary Person Can Turn the Tables and Save the World in a Superpower Manga 普通人如何在异能漫画中逆袭救世 Xie Chan transmigrates into a socially withdrawn nobody in a modern action manga, a character the protagonists pick up who only ever appears in warm slice-of-life scenes and doesn't get a single line of dialogue. He has to become a popular character in the manga if he wants to stay alive and keep the world of the manga running. The good news... Sorry, there is no good news. The bad news: Xie Chan is an ordinary person. In a manga where supernatural powers are the central theme, how can someo 2.7kFavorites1.8kClicks/ch2kGifts
- 4 Saving the World Starts with Playing the Villain 拯救世界从扮演反派开始 [I'm sorry, but I've applied to unlock this book. It will take three months. Thank you for enjoying it.] More than a decade into the spiritual qi revival, Ying Shiguan had scraped by with a disguise ability that had zero combat value. As he watched one region after another fall, despair spread. One day, by chance, he discovered that the world he lived in was actually a comic. And the reason the calamity couldn't be stopped was simple: The comic had been abandoned, and even the villainous Boss 8kFavorites5.2kClicks/ch22kGifts
- 5 The Animated Villain's Survival Countdown 动画反派生存倒计时 (The sequel with the same setting is also complete. Same old recipe, and plenty to go around, ovo) Laiyin: Thanks for asking. I love original supernatural-academy anime, especially the second season! This wonderfully unpredictable, totally unhinged plot is so fascinating. I love grabbing some screen time here! And what can you do if you don’t like it? You’re already here. Laiyin: Please, let me go to some power fantasy anime adapted from a light novel, like “I Was a Contract Caster in a World Wi 2.2kFavorites2.5kClicks/ch3.7kGifts
- 6 Do Comic Book Nobodies Not Deserve Names?! 漫画路人就不配拥有姓名了？！ [Slowly polishing the novel. Bonus chapters make up 80% of the content. Please leave a five-star review!] Yu Ci lived the same life as every NPC in every world: going through the motions of elementary school, middle school, and high school, then taking the college entrance exams. Oh, wait. College was assigned automatically. The day his acceptance letter arrived, a potted plant dropped out of nowhere. Thud! Bull's-eye! Soil showered down. The gloomy-looking young man wiped his face and said fla 10.2kFavorites10.5kClicks/ch9.9kGifts
- 7 After Binding Myself to a Comic Forum, I Quit Being a Boss 绑定漫画论坛后我不做BOSS了 Du An Feller is a double agent. He's been lying low at Kefalonia Academy for ages, all so he can steal the Holy Crown of Light and take it home. But after an accident, a strange forum appears in Du An's mind for some reason. The people on the forum are discussing a manga that resumed serialization after being abandoned for eight years. The manga's contents look almost too familiar: all the protagonists and supporting characters are his classmates! And in the latest chapter, which had just upd 8.8kFavorites10.9kClicks/ch8.4kGifts
- 8 How to Become a Top-Popular Manga Character 如何成为漫画人气top [The cover is a template] Another hit from renowned manga artist Kuteng, Dark Swamp, became an instant sensation upon release. The latest character to appear, Wen Yiqi, has sparked another wave of heated discussion A white-haired, green-eyed boy with a frail, harmless air, accidentally made a test subject at a shady underground laboratory, then rescued by the protagonist, Xia Le. His origins are mysterious, and no one knows where he came from. His supernatural abilities are unusual, almost as 6.4kFavorites7.8kClicks/ch2.1kGifts
- 9 What Do I Do After Wandering Into a Truly Hot-Blooded Shonen Manga?! 误入真热血少年漫怎么办！？ The cover was kindly made by Feilue for me (throws confetti)! Check out her new novel, From the Start, Guiding the Great Sage to Overthrow the Journey to the West Pilgrimage [Journey to the West] The sky was collapsing, and the earth was trembling... A crimson, ominous light surged out of the pitch-black cracks, clawing its way toward the ground! Amid the thunderous rumbling that filled heaven and earth, the fragile eyeballs were the first to dissolve in the light... Then came the skin, the musc 8.2kFavorites11.7kClicks/ch43.8kGifts
- 10 Can the Elderly Type Become a Popular Character Too? 年老系也能成为人气角色吗 Qiu Lin transmigrates into the wildly popular supernatural action manga Bu Du. He's a notorious hater of the manga, a formidable debater who cites sources when writing takedown posts and can recite every detail by heart when arguing with people. Good news: He can probably "see the future" and avoid all the dangerous plotlines before they happen. Bad news: He accidentally transmigrates as an incredibly annoying character 34kFavorites33.2kClicks/ch76.8kGifts
- 11 Are You Going to Keep Acting in This Manga or Not? 这漫画你还演不演了？ When you wake up one day, readers' comments are scrolling wildly before your eyes. You suddenly realize that you're living inside a comic. You're shocked to learn from the comments that your good friend is actually the arrogant, cold, insanely cool male lead of a shonen manga, while you're the gentle, gifted second male lead who dies young and is the protagonist's unattainable first love. Meanwhile, this manga is heading for an ending where everyone gets a bad end. Your choices are: [Turn the 8.1kFavorites10kClicks/ch3.7kGifts
- 12 Role-Playing a Dual Personality as a Background Character in a Manga 漫画路人的我扮演了双重人格 [A request for readers who bought the full novel: please leave a rating now that it's complete!] [Currently serializing Can a Socially Anxious Shut-In Become a Popular Character? The blurb is at the very bottom~] Ji Qing, an S-rank freshman at the Esper Academy, was on his way to register when he got bound to a manga forum System. Comparing the manga with the school's brochure, he realized that the manga's protagonist was a classmate in his year. Ji Qing: Interesting. At this point, the protago 17.2kFavorites16.6kClicks/ch39.7kGifts
- 13 How a Bystander Can Save the World of Comics 论路人如何拯救漫画世界 [Bonus chapter schedule varies] Yi Bai has been living a quiet, carefree life when he suddenly learns that his world is a comic, and a badly ended one at that, the kind where the world gets destroyed. System: Sweetie, here's the exciting life you've been asking for. Yi Bai: ...Thanks. This is a little too exciting. He hasn't even done anything and already owes the System ten million popularity points. To stop the whole cast from getting a bad ending because the protagonist fails to win over t 19.2kFavorites25.7kClicks/ch75.8kGifts
- 14 The Guide's Role-Playing Begins in a Comic 引导者扮演从漫画开始 (The novel is complete, with lots of bonus side stories. Subscribe and enjoy! ヾ(*ΦωΦ)ツ) Blurb: The manga "The Imperfect" has many popular supporting characters. A snow-white fox-clan boy with a gentle smile, a deep-red lich who unleashes powerful spells at will, a golden dragon soaring across the sky with wings spread, a mysterious and languid wealthy patron who funds artists, a dangerous and cruel monster that suddenly appears in the world, and a righteous, incorruptible sword of the Holy Sanct 6kFavorites8.8kClicks/ch9.2kGifts
- 15 How to Become a Popular Character in a Comic 如何成为漫画高人气角色 [It's a sweet little treat, ovo] [No secret identity reveals] There's an exclusive bonus-story collection on my profile, "If You Had a Jar of Candy." Come on over for some sweets~ The villains: They come charging at me, shouting about friendship and bonds. [The Serious Synopsis]: Mo Xuanji always thought he was an ordinary human being, destined to live an ordinary life. But the arrival of the world-saving System shattered that illusion. And so, one night, a powerful figure named Yuheng burst 11.2kFavorites16.3kClicks/ch8.8kGifts
- 16 21+ Did not I Tell You Not to Take Manga Seriously?! 都说了别把漫画当真！ 21.6kFavorites21kClicks/ch77.6kGifts
- 17 The Strange Life Simulator 诡异人生模拟器 [Main story complete! Bonus chapters in preparation! The full text is being polished! =v= The new novel, Death Escape App, is now updating! Wu You transmigrated. The bad news: he was trapped in a sealed chamber. The good news: he came with a golden finger called the Life Simulator. [Age 0: You were born in a cave with a few memories from your previous life. Age 1: A kind woman found you and took you home. Age 2: You were kept indoors and never saw the light of 25kFavorites34.2kClicks/ch15.1kGifts
- 18 How Can a Socially Anxious Person Become a Popular Character? 社恐如何成为人气角色 When Gu Qi’an learned he’d be entering a comic-book world and would need popularity points to stay alive, he’d already given up struggling. Who would make a popular character out of someone with an ordinary, uneventful past, a live-in-the-moment attitude of lazily coasting through life, and such social anxiety that he was afraid of being the center of attention? Gu Qi’an: There’s no way I’ll ever 26.4kFavorites51kClicks/ch14.3kGifts
- 19 The Feel-Bad Manga Ender 致郁漫画终结者 [A quick note: Please try not to post spoilers in the early chapters qwq. I'll clean up comments that might contain spoilers in a bit. I'm sorry in advance to anyone who gets caught in the crossfire.] (If you see someone guess a later plot detail correctly, please try not to comment things like “no spoilers” underneath. That would let them know they guessed right.) (If you really can't resist, you can stack five comments in a row before venting. Please don't post it in the paragraph comments. Th 17.9kFavorites25.4kClicks/ch22.1kGifts
- 20 Those Years I Spent Pretending to Be a Big Shot 伪装大佬那些年 Buyehou, a mysterious big shot. With black hair, phoenix eyes, and a monocle, he habitually wore a long robe. He was quiet and gentle, yet distant. In a remote place, he ran a small teahouse where every single item was priceless. He received travelers who came and went. Some respected him, some hated him, some loved him, and some feared him... Yet no one could ever truly understand him. He seemed invulnerable, forever serene and unruffled. Yet every so often, you could catch a glimpse of some f 69.6kFavorites104.3kClicks/ch168.7kGifts
- 21 I Became the Most Popular Character by Acting as a Villain in the Manga 扮演反派后我在漫画人气登顶 - The cover changes from time to time. The current cover features the protagonist, Bai Xuechao - [Part One is complete. Part Two is available for pre-order in my author’s collection. [Extras are being updated slowly and irregularly] As Bai Xuechao was about to die from illness, he became bound to a System claiming to come from a “high-dimensional world comics website.” He learned that the world he lived in was a comic, and that a major villain had died unexpectedl 38.1kFavorites61.7kClicks/ch59.9kGifts
- 22 A Research Maniac Survives in a Manga by Being Beautiful, Tragic, and Powerful 考据狂在漫画里靠美惨强保命 [Complete!!! The chapters are all up, so you can dig in now!] [My next novel features a male protagonist and no romance: The Cannon Fodder Villain Chooses to Join the Protagonist Squad. It’s the same kind of no-romance, group-adored, battle-worn story. A young villainous cannon-fodder heir awakens to his fate and, to fight against it, takes up the plot strings left behind by his mentor, his late and unexpected first love. He becomes a morally ambiguous drifter alongside the protagonist squad. A 34.9kFavorites53.4kClicks/ch24.1kGifts
- 23 21+ Comic Protagonist in the Middle of an Amazing Performance 漫画主角绝赞扮演中 63kFavorites88.5kClicks/ch142.7kGifts
- 24 EN A Novelist's Guide to Saving Side Characters 小说家的边缘角色自救指南 [New story, I Became a Steampunk NPC and Usurped the Divine Throne, is now underway] [Gradually correcting typos and polishing the text] [Bonus chapters updating slowly] Chu Zu was a novelist in his previous life. He died suddenly after working through the night to meet a deadline, and after his death he was bound to the Side Character Correction System. The System proposed a deal: if Chu Zu could play and reform the side characters hated by readers, he could be given a new life. Chu Zu: Change 156.1kFavorites191.7kClicks/ch430kGifts
- 25 Offering a Matryoshka Doll to the Beautiful World 为美丽世界献上套娃 [I’m not very good at this. My writing skills and emotional stability were equally lacking when I wrote it, so please think carefully before reading.] [The upcoming novel The Miracle Offered to a Beautiful World, featuring the same protagonist, is now in my author’s collection.] Garland Reiger Rossdale, male, human. Deputy commander of the Imperial Knights of the Gailing Empire, the only person in the world to embody all seven virtues, and a famous young aristocratic talent on the continent of T 36.9kFavorites25kClicks/ch45.7kGifts
- 26 The Comic Book Extra Wants to Become a Fan Favorite 漫画炮灰想成为人气王 01. A week before Cezar was due to die of his illness, he struck a deal with the System. He would transmigrate into the currently hottest comic, Absolute Talent, as an unregistered cannon-fodder character with nothing to his name. With his frail constitution, having too little presence would mean certain death. To survive, Cezar had no choice but to manually add character traits and dramatic moments for himself, becoming an indispensable character in the comic and relying on his acting skills an 60.5kFavorites116.7kClicks/ch71.7kGifts
- 27 The Aesthetic of Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic 美强惨的be美学 ★ There are treats in the featured and long-review sections. ★ If you create fanworks, please credit the original author, and don't post large numbers of screenshots or repost content from VIP chapters. [Recommending my friend's completed novel, Global Ascension, a tragic beauty with secret identities, by Zimu Tao, ID 5520005] Blurb: Gong Du is the least popular deity in the Three Thousand Divine Realms, with dominion over disease. Every world has a protagonist group, and they gather the world 117.9kFavorites137.9kClicks/ch106kGifts
- 28 You Look Like You’re Drawing Me 你好像在画我 A story about a monster and a comic. Yuan Yuanyuan is a half-monster who came into being by accident after birth. Once human herself, she obeys the law and does everything she can to hide her identity. But her peaceful life ends that night. After disguising herself, she rescues someone from a monster. A week after returning home, Yuan Yuanyuan flips through the comic she's been enjoying lately and is stunned to find a scene that feels strangely familiar. A black-haired male monster... rescuing s 58.1kFavorites118.9kClicks/ch210.3kGifts
- 29 Kobayashi Narumi, the Superpowered Manga Artist 超能力漫画家小林成实 Hello, everyone! I'm manga artist Xiaolin Chengshi, and my real name is Lin Chengshi. One day, I transmigrated into my own new series. Since I'm so frail, I decide to seek out the kind and sunny male lead and survive until the ending as a popular second male lead. Unfortunately, the butterfly effect causes the male lead to die before the story even begins. I'm sorry, male lead. I'll bring you back to life. Now, allow me to introduce myself again. I'm Selen, the new male lead of this manga. Thou 52.4kFavorites86.5kClicks/ch76kGifts
- 30 Playing a Popular Character 人气角色扮演中 [Original work, not a derivative; female lead has no romance] [Cross-dressing as a man, comic forums, layers of secret identities, readers imagining things and treating the protagonist as a tragic, beautiful, powerful figure] [The comments contain lots of spoilers. On your first read, you can stick to the long reviews and topics, which have tons of great fanworks and memes~] [80% anti-piracy protection, 10% paragraph comments] [Illustrations are now available. Gacha can be addictive, so spend re 112.9kFavorites175.8kClicks/ch182.5kGifts
- 31 That's Just How We Players Are [Quick Transmigration] 我们玩家就是这样[快穿] After an accident left Tan Zifei in a vegetative state, his family signed a contract with a full-dive game company to help stimulate his recovery. He became a tester for the company's unreleased full-dive game. ↑ That's how Tan Zifei himself understands it. The process of System 555 signing a new Host went a little wrong, leaving the Host with some confused memories. System, testing the waters: Host, how much do you remember? Tan Zifei: Don't worry. I remember we signed a contract. System: *b 54.8kFavorites114.1kClicks/ch65.9kGifts
- 32 Echoes of My Heart Throughout the Court 满朝文武都能听到我的心声 I have a completed novel next door, The Empress Consort System Made Me the First Emperor's Imperial Tutor. Take a look if you're interested. *Light ancient fantasy novel Bad news: Xu Yanmao has transmigrated to ancient times, and he's completely useless at physical labor or farming. His specialty, cybersecurity, is no use to the ancients. Good news: He's bound to a System. Bad news: It's called the Gossip System. Not gossip in the sense of fortune-telling, but gossip involving people's priva 499kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch2.7MGifts
- 33 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 [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
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