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- 1 My Basement Connects to Another World 我家地下室连异界 Jiang Yuan happened upon a strange gaming forum. The users were seriously discussing a cross-era game that was supposedly one hundred percent realistic. Jiang Yuan took it all as a joke, until he discovered that he had actually entered the “game world”! “Wait, everyone else logs in with their consciousness. Why did I transmigrate there in the flesh?” If it was a real-world experience, didn’t that mean he could bring the supernatural powers and items from the other world back to reality?! And so, 41Votes8.4kRecs101.7kFans
- 2 The American Mega-Influencer Begins with Shamelessness 美利坚大网红从无耻之徒开始 I transmigrated into Shameless, and Pinduoduo became my life’s cheat code? I transmigrated as Sean Gallagher, an Asian third brother who never appeared in Shameless, and woke up to a hell-difficulty life: I lived in a cluttered basement, surrounded by a bunch of “family” members who could cause a disaster at any moment, in the South Side, where shootings were most common. I thought this was how I’d spend my whole life: doing people’s homework for pocket change and spending it fast before Frank s 133Votes23.9kRecs139.2kFans
- 3 EN New Concept: Dao of Weirdness Ascends to Immortality 新概念诡道升仙 Good news: I transmigrated, and I have a cheat! Bad news: I'm about to die. I'm a sacrificial offering. Good news: I've successfully enslaved an evil god! … Opening the Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture, designed to invade the Immortal Realm, I manually switched to desperate survival mode in another world, ignored the stern warnings, and replaced spiritual energy with demonic pollution. Then I embarked on an unauthorized, illegal path to ascension as an aberrant species. Armed with the Immorta 36Votes104.1kRecs142.8kFans
- 4 The Abandoned Cultivator Returns Home to Farm and Sing 修仙弃徒，回乡种田唱歌 [True-to-life farming + everyday life + pastoral fairy tale] Luo Yihang, a mediocre cultivator expelled from the cultivation world, returns to the mortal realm, only to discover that his earth-and-wood dual spiritual roots are no longer suited to life in a big city. With no other choice, he takes a cat and heads back to his hometown, getting close to the land and the mountains and woods. He grows vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees; raises chickens, pigs, and geese; cooks up spicy sauce and mil 17Votes125.7kRecs118.8kFans
- 5 This Celebrity Is Almost Too Righteous 这个明星正得发邪 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lu Ran had planned to launch his career with an absurd “You’re So Beautiful,” but instead he got bound to the Positive Energy Entertainment System. Doing good deeds made him stronger! While others manufactured celebrity pairings, he cleaned rehearsal rooms to earn points; while others paid to trend, he got inspirational quotes reposted by official media; while others cranked up the electronic beats, his performance of Sailor shot straight to the top of t 132Votes174.8kRecs538.9kFans
- 6 EN Cultivating Immortality Across a Hundred Lifetimes 百世修长生 Meng Yuan transmigrated and gained the power to reincarnate a hundred times, starting over after every death. After five lifetimes, Meng Yuan finally found a path to immortality. Refine the heart in the mortal world, attain the Dao over a hundred lifetimes. (Not a simulation story) 862Votes40.2kRecs212.4kFans
- 7 EN Who Says I'm Not a Proper Adventurer? 谁说我不是正经冒险者 After transmigrating to a fantasy world teeming with dragons, elves, and adventurers, Lance sets himself three ironclad rules: Don’t join the crowds, don’t meddle in other people’s business, and don’t go out after dark. … He never expected the shady game he’d played in his previous life to keep chasing him even months after his transmigration. From then on, Lance has boundless stamina and a life that will never end. But in this world of adventure, dreams, greed, and danger, he’s just a copyist 7.5kVotes77.8kRecs648.4kFans
- 8 EN My Life in America: My Uncle Don Quixote 人在美利坚：我的叔叔堂吉诃德 [Successfully completed, read with confidence] [Over 10,000 first-month paid subscribers, 38,000 average subscribers, 150,000 peak subscribers: the highest first-month and average subscriber counts for an American-set novel] My name is Li Wei. After my parents passed away and left me saddled with a huge debt, I was taken in by a distant uncle in America and went to live with him in New York. Wait, what is this medieval adventure System? Why does it think my uncle is a mad knight? Why is the Uppe 1.2kVotes209.3kRecs1.4MFans
- 9 Starting a Civil War in America 我在美国搞内战 (18,000 average paid subscribers, the most authentic American “slaughter line” novel anywhere online.) After transmigrating into a homeless man at the bottom of American society, you’re lucky enough to bind a Dungeon Adventurer System. You discover the corpse of a retired demon knight and pick up [M4A1 Proficiency]; You save a fallen dark elf on the street, gaining 30 experience points; You discover a wandering, retired dark dragon knight and can guide him to the mysterious Eastern nation; You a 2.8kVotes138.9kRecs654.6kFans
- 10 I Am the Gunslinger! 我，枪神！ Gao Fei has failed at many things. His family's factory went bankrupt, leaving him with debts instead of an inheritance. He delivered takeout and drove for a rideshare service. Eventually, with no other choice, he went to Russia to collect a debt, only to be forced into the Russia-Ukraine war. Everyone has a stage that's right for them. Gao Fei found his on the battlefield. Becoming a mercenary was the beginning of his success. He fights his way through the Russia-Ukraine war, takes on drug cart 3.4kVotes566.6kRecs923kFans
- 11 EN 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 473Votes144.3kRecs432.4kFans
- 12 Reborn in 2008: Diagnosed as a Medical Authority 重生08，我被确诊为医学泰斗 [A career-focused novel with one heroine, averaging 30,000 paid subscriptions] Reborn in 2008, Jiang He holds medical technology twenty years ahead of its time. That year, the medical community was still helpless against the King of Cancer. Minimally invasive surgery was still considered off-limits in oncology, while genetic screening remained a barren wasteland... From revolutionizing the Whipple procedure and stunning the medical world to developing broad-spectrum anticancer drugs ahead of sch 490Votes143.7kRecs771.2kFans
- 13 This Sandbox Game is Unreliable 这个沙盒游戏不靠谱 As a sandbox game player who loves peace and enjoys farming, Chen Xiyi insists he isn’t the kind of Fourth Calamity who brings chaos to the world. He prefers to win over his enemies with truth and justice. “Let’s talk this out. Put away that weapon of mass destruction first. We can work anything out.” These were the last words of a certain red-name NPC. 0Votes59.1kRecs272.5kFans
- 14 Generation Z Artist Z世代艺术家 From Taking Down Public Intellectuals to Conquering the Entertainment Industry A Gen Z online troll born in 2005 is reborn in 1998. He has no rose-tinted view of this era, and it leaves him feeling utterly suffocated. The crude picture quality of TV and films, the eye-searing special effects, costumes like scraps of cloth, makeup that looks like a joke, and a filming philosophy of “good enough is good enough”... Men and women, directors and producers, every last one of them is garbage. The young 1.5kVotes1.3MRecs870.9kFans
- 15 EN One Dragon Against the World 以一龙之力打倒整个世界！ [Guided by a true dragon: no wild assumptions or careless writing] Steel for scales, flames for bones. The bloodlines of a red dragon and an iron dragon intertwine and merge within me, forging a radiant new life. Flame and steel are my inborn talents, while adaptation and evolution are the powers through which I attain eternity. The weak are full of misgivings. Kings have no taboos. Whatever doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. Before me, those who kneel live, and those who stand die. All 3.7kVotes457.3kRecs1.6MFans
- 16 Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角 New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 17 EN Becoming a Weird Tale Counts as Success 成为怪谈就算成功 Urban legends are uncanny things that feed on cognition, wield information as weapons, and use data as currency. They are neither living nor dead, existing in human rumors and dwelling in the shadows of the world. “So this means I’ll become an urban legend?” In ancient times, they were worshipped as gods, growing stronger through faith. “Then I’ll be a god!” In more recent times, they were feared as demons, nourished by fear. “I’ll become the Lord of Urban Legends!” But swept along by the tides 0Votes212.8kRecs675.3kFans
- 18 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 19 EN I Swear I’m Not a Demon Masquerading as a Human 不许没收我的人籍 “She was a demon to begin with. How could meeting a human like me have turned her bad? Those critics are always saying the most ridiculous things.” In 1798, Cardinal Lanci was asked by a reporter about his past with the exiled princess, the last scion of the demon race, and the recent signs of the demons’ resurgence. He replied: “I’ve done far too much to defend world peace. I’m quite certain that, under her leadership, the demon race has no chance of restoring its kingdom.” … In the winter of 301Votes505kRecs2.5MFans
- 20 A Guide to Time-Traveling in the Northern Song 北宋穿越指南 If you transmigrate back to the Song Dynasty, should you compose poetry and enjoy romance? Or raise an army and vie for supremacy? Either way, first things first: fill your stomach. 55Votes1.4MRecs2.6MFans
- 21 EN Reincarnation Paradise 轮回乐园 Su Xiao signs a reincarnation contract and enters various worlds to carry out missions. He has witnessed a world collapse into dust, and fought with blade in hand against a forgotten king. Dark ravens whisper, while colossal beasts roar beneath the Black Abyss. Welcome to the Reincarnation Paradise… 1.4kVotes15MRecs7.7MFans
- 22 The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏 At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately 131Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
