Novels like The Ming Dynasty’s Useless Third-Place Scholar
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- 51 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
- 52 The White-Robed Chancellor 白衣卿相 Clad in white, he entered Bianliang; half a lifetime as a minister, and he shaped the realm. 3.4kVotes298.2kRecs571kFans
- 53 Looking North at the Rivers and Mountains 北望江山 A story about a modern person struggling to survive in the late Yuan dynasty, in every sense of the word. 6.2kVotes745.2kRecs592.5kFans
- 54 EN My Magic Knows No Bounds! 我的魔法没有上限！ Zelier, a mage reincarnated into another world, acquired a cheat that could unlock god-tier talent skills. Upon reaching level two, he could choose one of the following talent skills: First: [Spell Surge] Raises your maximum mana, increases your mana regeneration speed, and boosts your spell power, making your magical foundation as solid as a rock. “Firepower is justice!” Second: [Formula Evolution] Allows you to analyze the structure of any magical formula you see and reproduce it for your own 9kVotes142kRecs1.1MFans
- 55 EN Mountains, Rivers, and the Grain Altar 山河稷 Heaven and earth are the furnace, and creation is the smith; yin and yang are the fuel, and all things are the metal. One day, the flames that refine this world will be replaced by a fire of my own. Ji means sacrifice: make offerings to the land and to the grain. 403Votes1.1MRecs3MFans
- 56 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 972Votes209kRecs1.4MFans
- 57 The Tribulation of Ten Thousand Dynasties 万朝之劫 [A 87,000 Premium Subscription, 34,000 Average Subscribers, and Over 10,000 Monthly Subscribers! Quality Guaranteed, Read with Confidence!] (Original title: The Plot of Real Historical Games Is Known Only to Me) “That Ma Su guy has a clear head. The key to victory at the Battle of Jieting is holding the high ground! Anyone who wouldn't even occupy the mountain is an incompetent fool, nothing to worry about!” “Don't bother grinding in Stalingrad. I just came out of the Western Front instance, and 9.4kVotes172.6kRecs1MFans
- 58 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… 172Votes701.2kRecs1.3MFans
- 59 EN Clearing Jin 廓晋 To clear the way means, first, to open it up, and second, to sweep it clean. Having arrived in the Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms era, one should strike out into the current, set one’s heart on the Northern Expeditions, drive the Five Hu tribes from the Central Plains, and then sweep away the aristocratic clans from the imperial court. Such is the way to clear the realm, build a new enterprise, and carry on Chinese civilization. That is the theory. But in the autumn of Yonghe 5, AD 349, when a 13.7kVotes901.7kRecs1.1MFans
- 60 EN My Post-Divorce Comeback System Arrived Before My College Entrance Exams 刚准备高考，离婚逆袭系统来了 [A 35,000-word campus romance about everyday life] He’s a high school senior, but his Divorce and Comeback System arrived twenty years too early. [At thirty-eight, your marriage has failed. Standing at the crossroads of middle age, you think back to your childhood sweetheart. After you got married, the two of you lost touch, and you never heard from her again. Reconnect with Xu Qianqian. Reward: RMB 300.] Eighteen-year-old Jiang Nian looked at the System mission on his screen, then at Xu Qianqia 987Votes799.8kRecs2MFans
- 61 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
- 62 EN Reborn 99 Days Before the College Entrance Exam 重生高考前99天 Chen Zhe, a provincial civil servant, unexpectedly returns to the year he was in his final year of high school. Once a wooden, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to a girl and knew nothing but studying, he suddenly becomes adept at handling people and situations, always saying and doing just the right thing. Not only does he change the course of his life, he also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Chen Zhe, what are your strong points? Chen Zhe: I’m honest, and I don’t talk m 4.3kVotes2.7MRecs4.6MFans
- 63 My Superpowers Refresh Every Week 我的超能力每周刷新 Chen Yuan discovered that his superpower refreshed once a week. In the first week, he saw a red number hanging over every living thing, ranging from hundreds and thousands to tens of thousands. The smallest number he'd ever seen was above a teddy bear: 0.00001. The next second, it was crushed to death by a large truck. In the second week, he discovered he could hear other people's thoughts, and he couldn't control it. Whatever was on their minds streamed straight into his head, so he no longer d 153Votes484.1kRecs2.9MFans
- 64 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
- 65 EN I Never Intended to Become an Immortal 我本无意成仙 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. I am a stranger in this land, with no intention of becoming an immortal. After twenty years of cultivating the Dao in the mountains, Song You's master sends him down the mountain to witness demons and monsters, the many faces of life, and the famous mountains and rivers, and to seek out the immortals of legend. He says that is what true cultivation is. Who would have thought that after traveling the length and breadth 192Votes1.2MRecs4.1MFans
