Novels like Herald of Calamity
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Herald of Calamity, best match first.
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The Writer’s Handbook 作家手册
Tell me, do authors who write harem novels actually have harems in real life?
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The Players' NPC Daddy 玩家们的NPC大爹
Blazer is an NPC in a wildly popular, fully immersive game. Every day, he lives the same unchanging life within the city walls. Then one day, he decides to take a look at the world outside, and his life is transformed. … Honestly, Blazer wishes players would stop giving the flowers he uses to thank them to the special boss, the Ghost Bride, as a way to skip class, or to the Queen of the Eternal Kingdom as a way to trigger a story event. …
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Is That Cybernetic Implant Legal? 你这义体合法吗
I’ve transmigrated, and I still have to pay a two-thousand-percent tariff to use Great Yan prosthetics? I don’t even get health insurance if I use the United Brothers’ prosthetics? I have to pay patent fees just to get online wirelessly? Am I supposed to beg for food on my knees? Legal? My golden finger whipped up the laws! Who’s going to stop me?
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Am I Really a Hallucination? 我还真是幻觉？
“You mean to say that you have a girlfriend only you can see, wealth and money that no one else acknowledges, and anything you want within easy reach, but war airships frequently pass overhead, giant beasts roam the great cities whenever mist descends, handsome men dressed in black transform randomly in public, and there is even a perfect piece of toast chasing people down the street and biting them, while your nonexistent friends do not believe you and often laugh at you, saying that you are dr
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The Villain of Greece 希腊带恶人
If you had a golden apple, who would you share it with? At the banquet, Lorne saw the golden apple on the platter, engraved with the words “For the fairest goddess,” and the three goddesses arguing before him. Smiling, he picked up a knife. First, he peeled it and gave the skin to Aphrodite. “Honestly, you are pretty beautiful. You still look good as a layer of skin.” Next, he cut up the flesh and gave it to Hera. “You’re the queen of the gods, yet everyone on Olympus, from the eight-hundred-yea
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Lu Mingfei, If You Don't Work Hard, How Can You Slay Dragons?! 路明非，不卷你屠什么龙！
After spending seventeen years coasting through life, Lu Mingfei had a brief burst of ambition and cobbled together a grindset System for himself. Study, run, work out, play basketball... As long as he keeps grinding, he can gain proficiency and grow stronger, and leveling up even earns him trait rewards! Three years later In the headmaster's office, Angers was reviewing the daily report Lu Mingfei had submitted. “3:00–4:00: Sleep, ensuring one full hour of sleep every day? Young people really a
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The Dragon's Cry 鸣龙
“Here’s what happened. I was trapped in a desperate situation when I unexpectedly met a dragon. It insisted I was a martial arts prodigy and promised to show me the road to immortality...” “And that’s why you broke into the Demon God’s tomb and became a servant to monsters?!” “I, Xie Jinhuan, would never accept being beneath anyone. It was the dragon who served me. To be precise, I was serviced by a dragon...” … The author has completed “The Heir Is Fierce,” “The Immortal Maiden Is Fierce,” and
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The Wizard Log of a Kobold 狗头人的巫师日志
Rugg was feeling down. He’d noticed that he’d been shedding a little lately. But that wasn’t important. The door to the supernatural world was opening before him. He would become a powerful wizard, then grow scales all over, just like that annoying, terrifying, twenty-eight-clawed burrowing dragon. In his spare time, he often dreamed that he would no longer have a dog’s face, but would become the clean-cut human he used to be. He also often thought about growing the slender, twisted, curved horn
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Illegitimate Son of a Noble House 高门庶子
[Alternate history + over 10,000 first-month subscriptions] I transmigrated to a dynasty called Dayu and became a well-known young nobleman from a powerful family in the capital, Sheng'an. My father is the magistrate of Sheng'an, a third-rank official. My stepmother is from the Cui clan, one of the Five Great Families of the capital, an illustrious noble house. Their son is a dashing young genius, handsome and talented. Before he was even fifteen, he passed the provincial examinations as a juren
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There Are Ghosts 有诡
When humanity still lived by slash-and-burn farming, the thunderbolt that split the sky was both a chance natural phenomenon and the wrath of ghosts and gods. After an old man passed away, the creaking rocking chair on the balcony was both a gust of wind passing through and... his return. The bizarre scenes seen by the mentally ill are illusions turned upside down and warped in the eyes of ordinary people. But turn those illusions right side up, and they are just as real. The woman upstairs bric
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Seeking Eternal Life Through Fortuitous Encounters 我以机缘觅长生
When a giant whale falls, all life flourishes! The mightiest “dragons” and “immortals” in the world are all on the verge of death. The mountains pressing down on countless sects and cultivators across the world are about to crumble, leaving the seat of supreme power vacant… The greatest era for cultivation has arrived! Anyone can aspire to eternal life! The Four Great Regions, immortal mountains overseas, three thousand deserts, and a realm of countless nations: every shackle has fallen away, an
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History Is Sick 历史病了
An unknown affliction struck the long river of history, sinking it into the reflections of the present. Ancient Celestial Venerables awoke from the past, seeking forbidden secrets. Great masters used the years as their game board and all living beings as pieces, plotting across the ages. Familiar ancient legends, folk monsters, and even the heroes people once worshiped became warped by the affliction, turning into eerie beings sunk in the abyss of the past. A once wise and mighty emperor became
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My Avatar is Becoming the Final Boss 我的化身正在成为最终BOSS
After living an utterly ordinary life for more than a decade, one night Ji Minghuan awakened a supernatural ability that let him “create game characters” in the real world. Each character came with a unique main quest and a unique skill-tree System. From then on, he couldn't stop. He kept creating new game characters in the real world, developing skill trees, and building character systems... The more famous a character became, the stronger it grew, so he began causing a huge commotion, doing wh
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This Taoist Is Going to College! 贫道要考大学
Also known as: The Young Daoist Chen Wants to Go to College Chen Shi'an has lived on the mountain for eighteen years. The text he knows best by heart is the Dao De Jing, and the ritual he performs most skillfully is the rite for sending off the dead. It was not until the day his master breathed his last that he learned the truth: in this day and age, funeral rites must be registered, and inheriting a Daoist temple requires a diploma! What is a dropout who slipped through nine years of compulsory
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Wasteland of the Otherworld 异度荒尘
In this otherworld, the top of the food chain is nowhere to be seen. People are no more than grains of sand in a desert.
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The Yin-Yang Mirror 阴阳镜
Not long after graduating, police officer Zhou Ping'an obtains a damaged mirror by chance, one that can travel between otherworlds. From then on, the sky is high enough for birds to fly, and the sea wide enough for fish to leap...
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Hogwarts' Rogue Professor 霍格沃茨的混子教授
First, Dumbledore knows that Gilderoy Lockhart is a fraud. Second, Luo Ha knows it too, because he transmigrated into Lockhart. The problem now is that Dumbledore plans to invite him to Hogwarts as a cautionary example, while Luo Ha, a fraud who can't even cast the simplest spell, just wants to lie flat and enjoy the enormous fortune his predecessor amassed. But in the end, Luo Ha still went to Hogwarts to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Are magical mansions and vaults piled high with Galle
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Trenches, Bolt-Action Rifles, and Magic 堑壕大栓与魔法
After someone punched Morin awake, he discovered he was a prisoner of war. He had thought this was a world much like the one on the eve of World War I, but the reality was worse than he’d imagined. And why was an imperial soldier like me fighting alongside volunteers from the International Brigades as an ally?! Assault troops wielding swords and shields like tin-can armor, diesel-and-magic-powered armored knights, and military mages... Everything was telling Morin that something was very wrong w
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The Absolute Gate 绝对之门
A dream accidentally opened a heavenly gate to reality, and creatures from an illusory dimension invaded the real world. They brought yet another insignificant apocalypse to a universe already doomed to extinction.
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Reigning Supreme Across Eternity, Starting as a Magical Girl 从魔法少女开始独断万古
A ten-year veteran reader of online fiction, Jiang Si is different from everyone else. He has always firmly believed that he, too, could forge a path to cultivation. Taking the great online-fiction heroes of the past as his goal, he constantly searches for a way to set foot on the path of cultivation. Qigong, genetic locks, magic, superpowers, zombie outbreaks... anything will do. As long as supernatural powers exist, there must be a way to pursue the Dao. All powers ultimately lead to cultivati
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Are We Destroying the World Today? 今天毁灭世界了吗？
“So you're saying the world is about to end, and that's why you want to steal a rocket?” “This is a first. I've arrested people for robbing jewelry stores and banks. I've even arrested someone for hijacking a train, but never anyone trying to steal a rocket.” “What were you thinking? Even if you actually managed to steal it, could you fly it?” Lin Xu slowly nodded from across the table. “I can.” “Really. I've flown it countless times already.” “Also, you really need to hurry. I'm out of time.” “
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Heir to a Kingdom of 1.4 Billion Citizens 十四亿国民的王国继承人
Xia Mingyu accidentally transmigrates from Blue Star to another world that resembles a fantasy medieval era, where everyone has a status label floating above their head. Those labeled commoner: Spend their whole lives struggling for a few pieces of black bread and a cramped house, exhausted all day and living in constant fear. Those labeled noble: Born with wealth, handsome looks, and the power to tear the law to shreds. All they have to do is enjoy life. Those labeled king: I don't eat beef. Af
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Our Apartment Complex Transmigrated… Again 我们小区又穿越了
[Homesteading, survival, gathering, evolution, development] Overnight, an entire residential complex was transmigrated to a primeval wilderness where life had gone haywire. Survival became the first hurdle. Food, water, disease, ferocious beasts, mutated creatures... Once the residents had struggled to adapt, they discovered in despair that this was only the beginning. After surviving for a certain amount of time, the complex would transmigrate again, this time to an even more dangerous region.
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The Charlatan Mage’s Thirteen Trials 诳言法师的十三试炼
[90% of campus life is a romantic comedy, and the other 10% is a heroic legend!] 1. Shamelessly impersonate a descendant of an immortal 2. Make the evil organization eat its fill 3. Reveal your divine nature in broad daylight 4. Drink the entire school under the table 5. Steal the imperial jade seal of the magical world 12. Shoot down the maddening Sun of the Apocalypse 13. Confess to the girls who like you, like you, like you “Of these New Era’s Thirteen Trials, twelve are just idiots doing
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A Necromancer, Summoning a Type 055—What the Hell? 亡灵法师，召唤055什么鬼？
From the moment his bloodline sacrifice connected him to the Motherland, Chen Mo's life as a necromancer went completely off the rails. Other people summon zombies. My skeletons come with automatic rifles and deliver physical exorcisms. Other people summon dark warriors. My skeletons carry heavy sniper rifles and take you out with one shot. Other people summon flesh golems. My skeletons drive five-axle trucks and create explosive works of art. As a legion of bone dragons roared toward him, blott
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Terrifying! They’re Actually Making This Kind of Game! 可怕！居然做这种游戏！
In 1990, Qing Zhiyuan transmigrated to an island nation in a parallel world and became the president of a game company. Having already seen the direction the next thirty years would take, he could not possibly fail. But several years later… Qing Zhiyuan still could not figure out one thing. I clearly made so many landmark games: the king of turn-based strategy games, the pioneer of RTS, the creator of major IPs, the ancestor of online games… so why does everyone call me the father of galgames?
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Venerable of the Turbid World 浊世武尊
In the third year of the Great New Republic, the nation is falling apart. The southern government has just been established, while northern warlords carve up the land and fight among themselves. Western ironclads batter at the gates, and the ghosts of the previous dynasty refuse to fade. This is an era when firearms and physical prowess vie for supremacy, and rebels dance alongside evil spirits. Beneath the undercurrents of revolution, folk cults flourish, alongside martial warriors, demons, str
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Technology Invades the Modern World 科技入侵现代
1960: Lin Ran opens his eyes on a New York street in the 1960s. He has six decades’ worth of future technological data, but no legal identity. He becomes the head of NASA in the 1960s, spending ten percent of America’s GDP every year, taking on Congress in fierce debate, rallying talent from universities around the world, and leading global scientific collaboration. 2020: He returns to China to build a corporate behemoth, establishes a base on Mars, assembles a crew of astronauts bound for Europ
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A Lantern Across Mountains and Seas 山海提灯
The woman took the boy’s hand and guided it as she taught him to write the character for “teacher.” Thus, the boy gained a surname. He carries a mountain and sea lantern, its light vying with the bright moon!
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Myriad Lives of Cultivation: Talent Lock-On 百世修仙：我能固定天赋
Chen Sheng transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a worldly prince with no spiritual roots. He thinks he'll spend his whole life achieving nothing, enjoying a century of wealth in vain. Unexpectedly, he awakens the supreme treasure, the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes. It allows him to cycle through a hundred lifetimes within his own bloodline without losing his true spirit. As long as his bloodline endures, he can seek immortality for a hundred lifetimes! Chen Sheng no longer hesitates. I
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Who Says This Top Streamer Is Crazy! This Top Streamer Is Amazing! 谁说这顶流癫！这顶流太棒了！
[You're in the entertainment industry. If you had the chance to speak your mind without holding back, what would you do?] One day, Chi Ye, a second-tier young actor in the Chinese entertainment industry, wakes up and sees these words before him. He falls into deep thought. What would he do? Born a master of sarcasm and a sharp-tongued critic, he decides to unleash his true nature! Before long, everyone in the industry is saying that Chi Ye has gone crazy. On a certain low-key variety show, an in
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Beneath the Fist 拳之下
What is martial prowess? The exertion of strength. What is the martial-arts spirit? The exertion of will and courage. … With a raised foot, victory and defeat are decided; beneath a fist, life and death are settled. "I am Lian Youming. Please enlighten me!"
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The Netherworld Skin-Painting Scroll 幽冥画皮卷
The print edition has been published. It is titled Formless and available from platforms such as Qidian and JD.com. Generally speaking, Li Wuxiang gives himself a little maintenance every six months or every five thousand li. The main jobs are tending to his outer layer and renovating his internal organs, with a little fatty fluid added if necessary. When applying a new skin, he has to be careful with the materials. Otherwise, in extreme weather, it might peel or de
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Borrowed Sword 借剑
"Just now, my sword was summoned away by a shout of 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to Their Origin.' What should I do?" "Waiting for an answer, and I'm in a real hurry. I wonder if I'll get it back..."
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Winter Returns 冬日重现
Zhang Shutong once had two female classmates: One was a proud heiress from a wealthy family. The other was a cool, aloof girl who served as a temple keeper in the mountains. One was murdered eight years ago. The other died eight years later. Zhang Shutong also had a secret he could tell no one: He could return to the past. But after going to all that trouble to save them, why are they fighting each other? Deep mountains, a great lake, an ancient temple, shadows beneath the water, a strin
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My Restaurant Connects to the Northern Song Dynasty 我的饭馆通北宋
“I am Su Shi. My younger brother and I have come from Meizhou to sit the imperial examinations. We miss the flavors of home. Do you serve Sichuan cuisine?” “We do! This is a Sichuan restaurant!” Ever since Wu Ming opened the door to the year 1056, he never had to worry about his restaurant’s business again. “The Wu Restaurant south of the prefecture is the finest tavern in the capital, with well over a thousand patrons a day. Every customer, whoever they may be, must take a number before ent
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I Wrote a Bug, but It Became the Core Gameplay 当我写了个BUG却变成核心玩法
Also known as: How a Programmer Used One Bug to Turn a Trash Game into an All-Time Classic Recently, Gu Fan, CEO of Inverse Heaven Games, once again rose to legendary status because of a tiny bug in his new game. As one of the industry’s top designers, Gu Fan’s games all share a striking feature: At first, players think these games are monotonous, boring pieces of trash designed purely to torment them. But once players discover a major bug, the gameplay changes beyond recognition, leaving them u
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I'm No Monster 才不是妖怪
If you hear their whispers too, do not panic; If you accidentally stumble into their banquet, pretend you are one of them; If they discover you, listen carefully to their stories; If you want to find them, forget that they exist; For you must never form a bond with them, lest you form a bond with the Empty Cicada. Yuan Mei once wrote in What the Master Would Not Discuss: You must know that all kinds of beings are different. Some are human yet know nothing of the strange; some are strange yet wis
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The Fourth Natural Disaster Has No Normals 第四天灾就没有正常的
Yue Buqun sighed deeply. “Even if you’d followed the Sword Sect’s path, that would’ve been fine, but you...” Yu Lianzhou said with profound regret, “If I’d known you’d turn out like this, I would’ve taught you the Tiger Claw Hand.” Qiu Chuji said helplessly, “You wretched scoundrel! You... you... Sigh! I’d better go ask your martial uncle for the Nine Yin Manual.” Uncle Jiu rubbed his forehead and shook his head. “This one is the Corpse Refining Method, and this one is the Lunar Form Refining Ar
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I Am Not Goblin Slayer 我不是哥布林杀手
[Fantasy world, slow-paced adventure, mages, monster encyclopedia collection] After arriving in a fantastical otherworld, Gauss received an adventurer's handbook that grew more powerful the more monsters he killed and collected. He'd thought he'd embark on a classic adventure: slay dragons, kill devils, and save kingdoms. Instead, he found himself facing goblins that bred like vermin and could never be completely wiped out. As the number of kills and rewards in his monster encyclopedia shot up,
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Super-Dimensional Player 超维度玩家
[Capturing a Human Avatar] [Infiltrating the reality universe...] [Infringing upon the root laws of the world!... Detecting higher-dimensional life forms!... No life forms from other dimensions detected...] [Loading human avatar!] You are a player who can transmigrate beyond all dimensions, wielding authority almost like God's illegitimate child. You have countless identities: beggar, lowborn, pirate, gladiator, ranger, northern dragon, infernal executioner, interstellar wanderer, monster hunter
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I Have to Get Lucky Right Now 我必须立刻撞大运
My name is Feng Xue. I transmigrated, there's writing over my head, and I have sixty days left to live... At first, I didn't panic. Every effect must have a cause, and if my life was short, there had to be a way to extend it. I went online to look, but nothing was spelled out directly. Crookedly and slantwise, every page seemed to say “slice-of-life world.” I tossed and turned, unable to sleep. After staring at it all night, I finally read between the lines: the whole thing was screaming two wor
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The Long Night Is Almost Over 长夜将明
By accident, Qiu Sheng broke into the home of a blind girl named Xia Youyou. The girl did not notice him and went about her life right in front of him. This gave Qiu Sheng a peculiar feeling: it was as if he had become invisible. From then on, he became a regular visitor to the girl's home.
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Hurry, Hurry, as the Law Commands 急急如律令
Your supernatural stuff is only just coming back? I've been haunted by a ghost for over two years! And you're telling me the most vicious spell in the world is one I created?
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Naruto: Turning Lies into Truth and Deceiving the Shinobi World 火影：弄假成真，欺诈忍界
[Lies Come True] [Read the First Three Chapters] [A Wild Imagination] When Hinata Unsen saw that his golden finger could make his “lies come true,” he quietly made a decision. “I’m going to tell a gigantic lie and make the entire Shinobi World dance to my tune.” In the very end, the figure of “Hinata Unsen,” the savior trusted by all, merged with that of “Otsutsuki Unshiki,” the Shinobi World’s public enemy. At that moment, every lie became reality, and every hope turned to despair. “From n
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Corpse Liberation Immortals in the Age of Dharma's Decline 末法时代的尸解仙
Emperors and generals, world-shaking achievements; virtuous scholars and exiles, writings that endure for millennia; fine carriages and beautiful women, heroic spirit… I ask just one thing: Can any of it grant eternal life? This is a story about transmigrating to an ancient age in the declining Dharma era and seeking immortality. Time flies, the years pass; shed the mortal body and ascend, and live forever in this world.
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The God Mimic 神的模仿犯
Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them.
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No Heavenly Tribulations During the College Entrance Exam, Please! 请勿高考时渡劫
Demons, spirits, and cultivators hide in modern society, enjoying the conveniences technology has to offer. A thousand-year-old tree spirit passes itself off as a prized ancient tree and collects government subsidies every month; An eight-hundred-year-old fox spirit livestreams herself posing seductively, sucking the life force from her viewers; A five-hundred-year-old Confucian cultivator shuts himself away for a century to study the Eight-Legged Essay, only to discover upon emerging that the i
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Dragon Zang 龙藏
Wei Yuan had never harbored great ambitions, but the tide of the times forced him onto the path of conquest and expansion, until he had crossed every mountain pass without ever turning gray. A less serious blurb: Even immortals fear industrialization! This is the story of an Industrial Revolution in a fantasy world.
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Real-World Programming Association 现实编程协会
[A literary IP recognized by the China Writers Association as having the greatest adaptation potential in 2026] [The 37th Galaxy Award’s most valuable science fiction IP] [Shortlisted for the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature; award-winning entry in the Galaxy Project and Human World Theater writing competitions] Heavy rain has been falling over Jiangcheng for months, concealing many things that aren’t right. Yu Xian thinks he’s sick. People around him are disappearing one after another, s
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