Novels like Chinese Entertainment, 1998: Starting by Propelling the Queen of Pop to Stardom
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- 1 Doomsday Mechanic: My Train Has Unlimited Upgrades 末日机械师：我的列车无限改造 Psychic energy brought the world to ruin, electronics vanished, and human civilization was thrown back into the Iron Age overnight. Wang Zhengyang returned, reborn with the power of a mechanist. Using a quantum stabilization field, he rekindled the flames of science and technology. Starting with an armed train, he devoured metal, forged armor, and built mobile fortresses... Amid the chaos, he established a mechanical kingdom ruled by absolute reason, using information technology to crush every m 0Votes774Recs0Fans
- 2 The Starry Sky's Cycle of Fate 星空命轮 A young scion of a noble family becomes the lord of a city and drags an ordinary little town into the whirlpool of a turbulent age. A golden age dawns, geniuses rise everywhere, and the mastermind behind it all is far more formidable than anyone could imagine... An epic Eastern fantasy that will take you into a vast, vividly realized fantasy world. 0Votes368.8kRecs0Fans
- 3 Urban Legend Eliminator 怪谈消除员 [New Chinese-style traditional culture | Subverting expectations | Interspersed with comedy and the bizarre] Souls are constantly reincarnated, and the underworld keeps pace with the times. People from past and present arrive in the netherworld. Though old stories end, new chapters begin. This book opens through the perspective of Hu Xie, a newly deceased soul, and introduces a new underworld. The underworld's records of the dead state: 1. Hu Xie was once the strongest Yin Messenger, a Soul 76Votes3.4kRecs53Fans
- 4 Sky Screen Manhunt: I Became the King of Ten Thousand Beasts With the System 天幕追杀：我靠系统成为万兽之王 Ascenders must die? Nonsense! I, Yun Qingzhu, was born with just two words to describe me: tough as nails! With the System at my side, fate is mine to command. Watch me pull off something huge! There's no way I'm dying. At most, I'll leave a bowl of food behind when I flip the table. A sky screen hunting me down? Is that all you've got? If that's your trump card, then start praying! My trump cards aren't that simple. An army of ferocious beasts! Building up an immortal estate! Raising my faction 83Votes2.4kRecs516Fans
- 5 Late Han: Born in Bingzhou, Destined to Be a Hero 汉末：生于并州，当为枭雄 Born on the frontier, he must carve out land for his people to survive, and establish laws for other tribes to live in peace! Born and raised in Bingzhou, Chen Yuan never felt that Luoyang’s splendor had anything to do with him. To him, the only rule for staying alive was to be fiercer than the nomadic tribes around him and craftier than the cunning merchants. He had thought his life would amount to nothing more than fighting for a sliver of hope for his neighbors in this land where Han Chinese 101Votes3.6kRecs21.4kFans
- 6 Great Ming: From the Start, I Was Thrown in Jail 大明：开局被抓大牢 Ordinary office worker Shao Shude unexpectedly transmigrates to the ninth year of the Chongzhen reign. From the start, he is mistaken for a Japanese pirate and thrown in jail. Just when he thinks he’s about to die, he transmigrates back to the modern era. So he has no choice but to bring antiques from the Ming Dynasty back to the present, and take modern technology to the past. He builds up his initial capital by traveling back and forth between t 0Votes342Recs29Fans
- 7 Cultivating Immortality Through Pig Farming 长生修仙从养猪开始 After transmigrating to the world of cultivation, Zhu Fugui found himself a useless body with no spiritual roots. He thought he would spend his life among pig manure in the Qingyun Sect's servants' quarters, living out his days in obscurity. Then the [Pig-Raising System] suddenly activated. “Raise ten spirit pigs and receive a low-grade wood spiritual root!” “Raise a hundred spirit pigs and increase your spiritual root quality by one level!” “Raise a thousand spirit pigs and unlock a special spi 0Votes906Recs4.8kFans
- 8 Lord, Starting with the Hunter Sequence 领主，从猎人序列开始 After transmigrating to another world, he obtains a Sequence System and some of the Red Priest’s abilities, becoming the chosen one of war. With that in mind, Green Sotos, the illegitimate son of a count, resolutely leaves the count’s household to develop a territory on the frontier. It all begins in his territory, Mermaid Bay. 0Votes35Recs2Fans
- 9 Reborn in the Apocalypse: Raising My Powers from Childhood 重生末世，异能从娃娃抓起 [Apocalypse + Reborn + System + &*#%￥] The apocalypse has arrived. Monstrous creatures run rampant, and humanity and the world are on the brink of annihilation! The good news: I was reborn at the very beginning of the apocalypse. The bad news: I’m still a baby. Are you kidding me!? Fine, fine, you’re forcing me to use cheats, huh? Where’s my sign-in System? Bring out the Italian cannon! Today I’m driving every last one of these monsters out! Not a single one left behind! 0Votes119.7kRecs4Fans
- 10 The World's Second 世界的二 Will you accept fate's arrangement, or become the one who chooses your fate? Which are you, the former or the latter? 0Votes86.8kRecs0Fans
- 11 Conquering Evil: Make Yunxing Great Again! 横扫极恶：让云星再次伟大！ Mu Gou was born for just two words: joy and delight. He knows he will die, but he will remain a boy until the end. Can shamans predict good fortune and avoid disaster? Count him in! Is the average rate of change being squeezed downward? Get to the bottom of it and break through! Can memory fragments grant extra abilities? Hand them over... no, imitate them! Just how wonderful can a person's life be? Mu Gou is about to find out. 0Votes373Recs0Fans
- 12 The Human Race's Journey to the Heavens 人族赴诸天传 This story is entirely fictional: cultivate immortality while developing Huaxia. Secret realms and pocket worlds in the cultivation world: Mine... mine... it's all mine. With more land, we can grow low-grade spirit herbs and grain, raise livestock for meat, and develop worlds for tourism... Life becomes better for everyone. Bring resources from other worlds back home. With abundant resources, technology booms, Jiuzhou becomes completely stable, and we develop the Moon and Mars... sending large n 0Votes4.7kRecs0Fans
- 13 Alliance of Celestial Masters: The Heart-Cleansing Mantra 天师联盟之净心咒 It took Zhu Mo twenty-six years to realize that all the strange phenomena surrounding him stemmed from the Celestial Masters’ Alliance. As a descendant of Celestial Masters, should he gradually uncover the truth behind his mission and protect the magical artifacts, or pretend nothing happened and return to his peaceful life? 0Votes1.5MRecs0Fans
- 14 Xuantian 2: Demonic Mystery Throws the Heavens into Chaos 玄天2：魔玄乱天 Some lead the world into the light, while others drag it down into darkness. Some pull everyone into ruin, while others save them from suffering and bring them ashore. Posterity called him “The Wound of the Immortal Realm.” There is no compassion on the dissection table, only truth. Follow the second book in the Xuantian series: Demonic Xuan Rends the Heavens Recommended for: readers with deep emotions Theme: Tempering Core: Cause and effect, and suffering (About 10% of readers will enjoy this 0Votes550Recs0Fans
- 15 Detective Conan: A World of Twisted Fate and Detective Science 柯南：阴错阳乱的柯学世界 My name is Lin Qingsheng, and I’m the president of the Nissho Environmental Services Corporation. As a cleaner who operates in the gray areas, my motto in life is: As long as your thinking doesn’t go off track, there are always more solutions than problems. Then my life went off track. Not only was I knocked unconscious at a crime scene, but when I woke up, Shinichi Kudo, the “savior of the Japanese police,” had named me his prime suspect. I also began seeing the “spirits” that are usually invis 0Votes1.2kRecs6.7kFans
- 16 I Transmigrated into a Book and Was Killed to Prove His Dao? The Demon Lord Woos Me Every Night 穿书被杀妻证道？魔尊追妻夜夜哄 Xie Qingyi, who never dreams, transmigrates into a male-oriented cultivation novel and becomes a cannon-fodder female supporting character. The book spells it out clearly: she is the male lead's tool for "proving his Dao by killing his wife," and her ending is dismissed in a single line. But all she wants is to stay alive, cultivate, and keep away from the plot. What she never expected was that the Demon Lord, who was supposed to kill her, would be so breathtakingly beautiful, like a begonia tou 64Votes9.3kRecs592Fans
- 17 Xuantian 3: Fighting Mystery Shatters the Heavens 玄天3：斗玄破天 Who am I? I am Muerlundo. But I have another name. They all call me the Pirate King. He was called “The Revolution of the Immortal Realm” by Gu Beiwei. Follow the third book in the Xuantian series: Battle Xuan, Shatter the Heavens Recommended for: those unwilling to be ordinary and those who never forget their roots Theme: Civilization Core: Order and gratitude (About 33% of readers will enjoy this book. Read it if you wish.) 0Votes44Recs0Fans
- 18 This Ant's Evolution Makes No Sense 这只蚂蚁的进化不科学 [Reading Simulator activated] You opened the blurb for This Ant’s Evolution Makes No Sense and saw the line: “When everyone finally recognizes that one ant, they all cry out in astonishment: This ant’s evolution makes no sense!” You thought the ant’s evolution sounded fascinating. After all, it was a monster-evolution novel, so you clicked into the book, eager to watch the ant devour its way to rapid evolution. You finished the first ten chapters. You hadn’t seen the ant rapidly evolve into a gi 0Votes107.9kRecs109.6kFans
- 19 Phantom Empire 幻影帝国 Earth, 2037. The Phantom Empire has grown steadily stronger, developing into a digital virtual nation founded on anonymity and devoted to protecting privacy and freedom. The Phantom Empire brings together hacker wizards, builders, tech fanatics, financial operators, artists, exceptional talents, hunters, assassins, and criminals. Here, innovation intertwines with wealth, ingenuity dances with challenges, crime and conspiracy take root, and justice clashes with political machinations! The physica 0Votes1.1MRecs0Fans
- 20 The Profound Yellow Chronicles: Returning to the Heart of the Dao 玄黄志：道途归心 The five lands of Xuanhuang are ringed by boundless natural barriers. The faint light guarding the realm is fading, and unknown shadows are spreading through the cracks in the domain gates. The terrifying legend of the Thoughtless Purgatory whispers on the wind once more. The torch of the Shackle Breakers is about to go out, and the hopes of countless beings hang by a thread. Young Lin Yue rises from a desperate plight with a mysterious black jade in hand. Carrying on the legacy of his predecess 0Votes2.8kRecs0Fans
- 21 Mystic Heaven 4: The Great Mystic Transforms the Heavens 玄天4：太玄化天 After one hundred and ninety-six generations, the story of the Mu Clan finally reaches its conclusion. He had not yet been born, yet his succession to the throne was already determined. He is the Fourteenth Immortal Lord, and also the final Immortal Lord of the Left Chronicle of the Profound Heaven. This is the Immortal Realm's version of the Last Emperor. The Right Chronicle called him: “The Love of the Immortal Realm.” Please look forward to the fourth installment of the Profound Heaven serie 0Votes1.3kRecs0Fans
- 22 The Immortal Fate of the Mystic Umbrella 玄伞仙缘 After spending a night at a desolate temple, Ji Cang steps into a turbulent martial world. He stumbles upon a startling secret: his family's old umbrella holds a whole world within… [Ordinary Protagonist] [Longevity] [Alchemy] [Talisman-Making] [Formation Master] 63Votes26kRecs57.5kFans
- 23 I Own a 24-Hour Convenience Store 我有座24小时便利店 This is a game that takes play the pig to eat the tiger all the way to the extreme. However, as the story goes deeper, the protagonist, "Lin Yi," discovers that many people around him are playing the pig to eat the tiger, and some are even playing the pig to eat the dragon. To exchange for all kinds of divine artifacts and cultivation techniques in the shop, the protagonist endures everything and pretends to be a good person, establishing a glorious image as a savior. In secret, however, he is t 0Votes4.2kRecs6.3kFans
- 24 My Dad Is a Hidden Billionaire 我的爸爸是隐藏首富 “Xiao Li, can you do the job or not? If you can't, get lost. Plenty of people can do it.” “I'm so fed up.” Xiao Li checked her WeChat chat history. The messages clearly recorded the conversation, so she could confirm whether she'd really made a mistake. Client: “Make a 60-by-90 lightbox panel.” Me: “OK.” A few days later... “Xiao Li, can you do anything right? What did the client actually ask for? Look at what you've made. It's all wrong! They wanted a landscape lightbox panel. What did you make 0Votes271.4kRecs0Fans
- 25 The Flower-Cherishing Sword 惜花剑 He had only just set out into the world when gods and Buddhas began hunting him, making him the most wanted fugitive in the entire world. His heart was kind, yet he was framed by villains and, through a twist of fate, became the leader of the Four Great Flower-Picking Bandits. In the eyes of the world, he ran rampant and committed every evil. Even the boldest girls would tremble in fear upon hearing his name. On the day he first transmigrated into the Yunmeng World, Jiang Chen had absolutely nev 13Votes13.7MRecs213.4kFans
- 26 Li Yiyi Goes to War 李依依征战沙场 Li Yiyi arrived in another world engulfed in war. Charging across the battlefield, she stood amid the bloody carnage of war, bloodlust flickering in her eyes. Faced with this turbulent land, could she fight her way to a world of her own on the battlefield, establish herself at the pinnacle of this other world, and become an immortal legend? (Probably a slow-paced coming-of-age story.) I hope everyone enjoys it! 0Votes172.4kRecs0Fans
- 27 I Specialize in Killing Protagonists 我专杀主角 This is a story about the unknown; But its beginning stems from the mutual slaughter of countless protagonists. Is it a hunting ground, a game, a realm of apostles, or perhaps merely a chessboard in some lower dimension? Yiwans says: This entire work is independently original and handwritten. If anything seems similar, count it as copying me. 0Votes2MRecs246.2kFans
- 28 Holding Up the Ming 挟明 [A story of resisting the Qing with the Ming, seizing the throne, and conquering the realm...] On the eve of Li Zicheng’s capture of Beijing, at the end of the Ming dynasty... Xiao Jingchuan, a guerrilla general in the Capital’s Divine Engine Battalion, escapes with the Crown Prince! They flee through the mountains and forests, cross southern Zhili, recruit soldiers and gather supplies, then head south to establish a new dynasty! But outside, the Manchus invade through the passes, while rebel ba 0Votes6.1MRecs25.5kFans
- 29 EN The Great Gene Era 基因大时代 Clairaudience and far-sight have both been achieved through science. But what about the seventy-two transformations? Some say the end of science is mythology. Then what lies at the end of genetic evolution? The answer is all in this book. “Old Tang, which direction is the speed-related genetic locus you activated?” The question left Tang Ting looking utterly gloomy. “It’s... hand speed...” Xu Tui stared at him, dumbfounded. Hand speed... The teacher said the more you use a part of your body, the 3Votes509.8kRecs1.1MFans
- 30 Technological Cultivation: Leading Humanity Out into the Stars 科技修行：带领人族杀出星际 A cliched story about someone who awakens with the weakest talent, trains step by step to the highest level, and saves Earth and the universe. 0Votes111.2kRecs29kFans
- 31 Echoes of the Wasteland 废土回响者 [Fantasy + Cthulhu + wasteland + steampunk + misinterpretation-driven plot + ensemble cast + behind-the-scenes] The nightmare whispers of the wasteland and the arcane never cease, while the call of fate toward dawn and fantasy goes unanswered; the fiery mechanical heart throbs with restless unease, and the intoxicating glow of flame overlaps and intertwines. The authority of the Western Continent collapses with a roar, while the curtain of the Eastern Nation quietly rises. This is a journey of t 1Votes66.4kRecs76.2kFans
- 32 Pocket Hunting Dimension 随身带个狩猎空间 Lu Ze transmigrated to a galactic era two thousand years in the future. His predecessor came with parents who were always showing off their affection and a cute younger sister. His cultivation talent was average, but he had a happy, fulfilling life. It was a dream start from the start, and Lu Ze was quite satisfied. But as soon as he went to sleep, Lu Ze found himself in a strange space. After nearly trading his life for a kill against a super-giant white rabbit a meter tall, and finally managin 0Votes999.7kRecs737.9kFans
- 33 The Taste of Hogwarts 舌尖上的霍格沃茨 Elena Kaslana, a half-blood Veela, danger level: [Extremely Lethal] She ended a thousand years of conflict between the academies, turning Hogwarts into a sacred land. She saved countless endangered magical creatures and deepened humanity's understanding of nature. She brought magic and the non-magical world together, finding a balance at which the two could coexist. She possesses countless dazzling titles: Hogwarts' Big Sister, Master of Gringotts, the Third Dark Lord, Apex Predator, Enemy of Sc 9Votes1.8MRecs958.9kFans
