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- 1 The Heavens Begin with Becoming the Disciple of Child Elder 诸天从拜师童姥开始 Programmer Lu Qingyi didn’t get worked to death by his fellow programmers. He worked himself to death first. He lands in the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and finds a wild Tianshan Child Granny. Martial techniques click the moment he tries them, and mental cultivation methods make sense at a glance. He learns everything he studies, so it’s time to run rampant through the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. “I really am a martial arts prodigy, one in ten thousand!” P.S. A myriad-worlds story 0Votes13.3kRecs173.9kFans
- 2 Let Me Debut, I Can Still Become a Hit! 让我出道，我还能爆！ “My secret admirers ruined me, my rivals sabotaged me, the haters insulted me, the industry took advantage of me, and my fans abandoned me... I've returned from hell! I'm going to war with my secret admirers! With my rivals! With the haters! With the industry!!! And with my fans, ” “Pah, pah, pah! Wasn't it you who got exposed for dating right before your debut night, then had to leave the group and quit the industry, only to get married at lightning speed and become a live-in son-in-law? How do 0Votes39.7kRecs49.3kFans
- 3 Among the Models, My Intel Refreshes Every Day 混在模特圈，我的情报每日刷新 [Over 10,000 premium subscribers, now an editor’s pick, with nearly 3,000 tips uncovered so far! Starting in the modeling and fashion worlds, then moving into entertainment, he’ll win over every rising star, established actress, and top-tier beauty!] Lin Qingsong, a seasoned agent who had spent two and a half years in the modeling world, unexpectedly gained the Daily Intelligence System. [Today’s tip: In the garbage room beside Building 2 of the Tianhai residential complex, there’s a jar of aban 18Votes47.1kRecs194.5kFans
- 4 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Director Who Only Promotes Rising Actresses 华娱：专捧小花的顶流导演 Rewinding to 2015, Lu Yunzhou binds to a Director System. Every time he makes a film, he gets a reward: [Delayed Aging], [Perfect Physique], [Immune to All Illnesses], and [More Children, More Blessings]! He only meant to focus on directing and rack up rewards, but the temptation of a million yuan a day proved too much. He took a guest role, and before he knew it, there was no turning back! … 10 million, 20 million, 30 million… What? I have over a hundred million female fans around the world! T 286Votes54.8kRecs186.5kFans
- 5 A Fashionable Life Beginning in Paris 从巴黎开始的时尚人生 Antwerp's rigorous academic culture shaped an Eastern prodigy who would rewrite the history of Parisian fashion. Designer Li Yan fell from the crest of the fashion wave in 2025 back into the height of summer in 2007. Fresh out of school, he was parachuted into the role of head designer for YSL womenswear. A rare anomaly in the world of luxury fashion, he was personally endorsed by Yves Saint Laurent, drew the frequent attention of Karl Lagerfeld, and earned lavish praise for his talent from Gio 0Votes17kRecs51.3kFans
- 6 EN Don’t Bother the Dark Arts Scholar When He’s Doing Research 别打扰邪术师搞科研 “Every spell I’ve developed and improved has come from a search for truth and a pursuit of science. You shouldn’t slander a plain, simple scholar like me.” In the first year of the Third Era, the greatest spellcaster in history, inventor of over ten thousand spells, and warlock known as the Forbidden Spell Factory, Jiaxiu, gave this answer when accused of genocide. “Why does your Infinite Healing Spell give its target cancer all over their body? You tell me, aren’t cancerous tumors healing endle 0Votes32.2kRecs153.6kFans
- 7 Espionage: The Red Shopkeeper 谍战：红色掌柜 In 1938, the organization sends a three-person team to Shanghai to raise funds. The protagonist, Gu Yansheng, is tasked with infiltrating the puppet regime and becoming a source of information. As everyone knows, all the ways to make money are in the criminal code. Gu Yansheng may not know how to do business, but in his previous life he was a criminal defense lawyer, so he knows a thing or two about certain matters... 2Votes57.5kRecs143.2kFans
- 8 Reborn: Taking Over the County's Internet Celebrity Scene 重生从操盘县城女网红开始 [Internet celebrity + high finance] After working hard for ten years, Lin Lang is financially trapped for life simply because he bought an apartment in Modu. His assets worth tens of millions are tied up, and even the dating scene looks down on him because his parents have no pensions and he isn’t a local. Meanwhile, his old classmates who stayed in the county town, from elementary, middle, and high school, are all living happily with beautiful wives and complete families. Reborn in 2018, Lin La 4Votes66.7kRecs278.5kFans
- 9 In the Name of an American Citizen 美利坚公民的名义 In 1997, the Cold War is over, and the American Empire stands alone as the world’s dominant power. Luke, a forensic pathology master’s graduate, political expert, and emotional counselor who has transmigrated from another world, stands dumbfounded on the West Point parade ground. He had hoped to escape the U.S. military’s cage, but then discovered he had a [Restart the Match] golden finger! If he can’t die, then it’s time someone else took the seat of the American presidency! -> He’s West Point’ 967Votes79.1kRecs343.2kFans
- 10 1994: The Vegetable Farmer's Comeback 1994：菜农逆袭 Vegetable farmer Chen Jiazhi returns to 1994. That year, he is 21. He leaves home for Huacheng and begins his first stint as a vegetable farmer. Then the rookie farmer is hit by one disaster after another: the rainy season rots his crops at the roots, torrential rain wipes out his harvest, typhoons bring floods, heat waves bring drought, and then a cold snap strikes... Now he has a chance to start over. For vegetable farmers, terrible weather is both a disaster and an opportunity. (Farming + Dai 29Votes116.3kRecs174kFans
- 11 From Fully Invested in A-Shares to a Capitalist 从满仓A股开始成为资本 (A high-stakes financial stock-market novel told from the perspective of a speculative trader. There is nothing else like it anywhere online, so do not miss it!) A plane crash meticulously orchestrated by Jewish capital causes Zhang Yang, a manager at Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s top asset-management firms, to unexpectedly return to 2009. That year, the aftershocks of the subprime mortgage crisis had only just subsided, while the global economy and stock markets were poised to su 450Votes160.7kRecs505kFans
- 12 Artist of a New Era 新时代艺术家 (The early part of this book is a standard entertainment-industry story, but it really takes off in the middle and later chapters. It started with 400 paid subscribers and grew to over 6,000 average subscribers, with 2,000 still following the latest updates. I hope you'll be patient. You can also jump straight to Chapter 113, which lays out the author's historical perspective and the tone of the book.) Shen Santong, born in 1984, the king of cinema. He forges box-office hits into epic tales, mak 7Votes98.1kRecs297.2kFans
- 13 Game Development: Starting with a Reboot of an Anime Game 游戏制作：从重铸二次元游戏开始 2015: an era when even pigs could take flight. That year, the anime game boom began as a tiny ripple. Over the next few years, familiar names like Honkai Impact 3rd, Arknights, Azur Lane, and Punishing: Gray Raven would rise alongside a wave of new companies and take their places on the stage of history. That year, China's single-player games were still stumbling forward in confusion, huddled in the fading afterglow of The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Gujian, desperately waiting for someone to 129Votes67.4kRecs182.3kFans
- 14 Chinese Showbiz: I Was Reborn, Yet They Still Make Me Play the Bad Boy 华娱：重生了，还逼我做渣男啊 (In two years, this went from 300 to an average of 10,000 subscriptions. A very slow-burn, serious story about an actor. The scumbag stuff is all just a joke :) A stunning internet celebrity with tens of millions of fans is reborn in 2004. Good news: He’s twenty years younger. Bad news: There’s no System. Good news: He’s just started his final year of high school. Bad news: He scored 351 on the placement exam. Good news: His family is pretty rich. Bad news: A financial crisis is coming. So… 1.4kVotes186.6kRecs607.3kFans
- 15 Hancheng: A Door to the Future 韩城：我与未来有扇门 When Lin Xiuyuan from 2013 pushed open that door and arrived in 2025, what story would unfold? Then... The past Zheng Xiuyan would begin settling accounts with the future Jessica. Sulli and La Gu, who should have died, would stand before their own gravestones, separated from themselves by life and death. Lin Yun'er, who had made bad films for most of her life, would receive the true teachings from the future and begin to soar, with one goal: the Blue Dragon Best Actress award. Ham Eun-jeong, who 489Votes368.3kRecs249.2kFans
- 16 Who Studies Psychology Without a Few Issues? 没点毛病谁学心理学啊 [You’ve got to have something wrong with you to study psychology.] “Who said that?” Nan Zhuren raised an eyebrow. “He’s right!” … A professional novel about psychology. Serious keywords 1: [depression] [personality disorders] [illness anxiety disorder] [post-traumatic stress disorder] [Oedipus complex] [groupthink], and more. Serious keywords 2: [Big Five personality traits] [behavior modification] [dream interpretation] [sandplay therapy] [rational emotive therapy], and more. 13Votes68.8kRecs104.3kFans
- 17 EN The AI Wave Tycoon's Rise 首富从AI浪潮开始 [Entrepreneurship] [Business Battles] [Internet] [Artificial Intelligence] [Smart Protagonist] On the day you get laid off, your eyes suddenly gain the ability to see information that no one else can. What would you do? Catch the trap in your severance agreement on the spot, then give your former supervisor, who set you up, a taste of face-slapping. What next? Han Lu Yi, a top university graduate who spent several years grinding away at a major tech company, takes his severance pay and decides t 2kVotes111.9kRecs407.3kFans
- 18 The Academic Ace's Military Research System 学霸的军工科研系统 Chang Haonan, an arms industry engineer from 2023, is reborn in 1996, back in his university days. At this darkest hour, before China's military industry takes off, he obtains a [Scientific Research Guidance System] that rivals the greatest mentor. Starting with improvements to a fight 21Votes554.6kRecs847.8kFans
- 19 Starting with Chips in 1991 1991从芯开始 Su Yuanshan, chief architect at Haixin, was reborn in 1991. Back when AMD was still surviving by copying Intel, he began laying the groundwork with EDA, seizing the initiative before the Wassenaar Arrangement. He would give the domestic semiconductor industry a whole new lease on life. A great nation's rise begins with chips! A new novel is underway: Reborn in '99: Starting Out as a Tutor to a Top Student 2Votes217.4kRecs302.5kFans
- 20 The All-Around Painter 全能大画家 “He is the highest-paid illustrator of all time, and the reason children fall in love with art!”, The New York Times. “East and West in perfect harmony, drawing on the strengths of many traditions. He is the most brilliant graduate in the two-century history of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.”, President Martin Köttering. “We have seen countless artists become overnight sensations here... Tonight, another newcomer will join the ranks of these great names.”, Venice International Art Biennale 12Votes213kRecs278.3kFans
- 21 This Movie Star Wants More Money 这个影帝要加钱 Transmigrating from the Ming dynasty to the year 2000, Ding Xiu can only live a different kind of life this time around. Director: I hear you're good in a fight. I have a role I'd like you to take. It's very difficult. Ding Xiu: Pay me more and it's fine. Director: Actually, I'm hiring you just as insurance. We may not even need you. Ding Xiu: That's not my concern. If you hire me, you have to pay me. Not a single penny less... P.S. New book: The Unscientific Movie Emperor. Feel free to check it 0Votes226kRecs851.8kFans
- 22 The Sword Emerges from the Tang Dynasty 剑出大唐 Zhou Yi woke up to find himself in the Taiping Daoist Temple. The Old Heavenly Master said, “Heaven is dead, and the Yellow Heaven shall rise. From now on, you will be the leader of the Taiping Sect.” Zhou Yi said, “What, me?” … In the world of Twin Dragons of Great Tang, a failed art student sets out to bring order to a chaotic martial world! 34Votes743kRecs1.3MFans
- 23 EN Lying Low While Cultivating Immortality in Two Worlds 苟在两界修仙 The fortunes of the years, the turning of spiritual influences, the transformations of yin and yang: these are but minor achievements of the Year Keeper… This is the story of a young man who transmigrates between two worlds to cultivate immortality, and strives to become a Year Keeper… 208Votes701.7kRecs1.3MFans
- 24 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 25 America, 1982 美利坚1982 He has received the most dazzling praise and the most vicious insults. Every vein in his body pulses with defiance. He is a white kid who will never become a member of high society. He is a young man whom the public sees as a country boy. He is Tommy Hawk. He has been reborn. Welcome to a story whose first half tells the tale of the American Dream and whose second half tells of the American Nightmare. Let's welcome Tommy Hawk to the stage, on a winter's day in 2022. 0Votes302.6kRecs479.2kFans
- 26 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 27 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 28 Gu Dao's Immortal Life 顾道长生 I thought this was going to be a realistic urban-life story, but then the setting changed without warning! Spiritual qi revival, the return of Taoist arts: this is probably a story about modern civilization transforming into a cultivation civilization. This book still takes its time. Reader group: 666-464-52. VIP group: 465-455-757 14Votes2.5MRecs1MFans
