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- 1 No One Understands How to Save the Ming Dynasty Better Than I Do 没人比我更懂救大明 Chongzhen's Diary In the first year of Taichang, the emperor spent three million in a single month. He abolished the mining tax and recalled the eunuchs stationed across the realm. Now I finally understand who that unlucky kid Chongzhen was imitating. In the third year of Tianqi, my elder brother spent tens of millions in a year. The Donglin Party was far too expensive to keep around. In the first year of Chongzhen, the Ming may fall, but the Manchus must die. In the third year of Chongzhen, to 268Votes23.8kRecs128.2kFans
- 2 I Passed the Martial Arts Exams, but Only Got the Martial Arts Editor in My Later Years! 我武举人，晚年才来武学修改器！ Steam roared, ironclad ships blocked the river, gunfire tore through the sky, and the empire fell. The Yin Dynasty crumbled amid the combined assault of Western ironclads and forces beyond comprehension. From then on, the dragon veins were severed, the fortune of the vast realm dissipated, and demons and monsters roamed the wilderness, devouring the living. The new Great Xia was founded! Lu Yun had transmigrated into this world sixty years ago. It took him thirty years to go from a common labore 10Votes21.3kRecs250.8kFans
- 3 EN Clash of Geniuses 天才对决 Original title: System, I’m Really Not a Soviet-Era Academic Prodigy My name is Qi Hao, and I’m a first-year mathematics student. The field of mathematics is full of talented people, and I always thought I was just an academic cannon fodder brought in to make up the numbers. I never expected to be targeted by a Soviet academic prodigy System from the Cold War era. In the blink of an eye, four truths spread throughout the world: 1. Research can be done through archaeology. 2. If the force is grea 582Votes49.1kRecs292.1kFans
- 4 The Cultivation World's Only Spirit Medium 修仙界唯一出马仙 A rainy night, a highway, a semi-truck. No Odin, no Nibelung, none of that foreign stuff. Just a yellow-skinned rat in a raincoat, popping the truck's tire with its head. The man and the rat both died in the crash, then transmigrated together. Only after arriving in the other world did Zhou Li realize this thing wasn't a so-called yellow-skinned rat at all. It was a Huang Daxian. Then the Huang Daxian invited Zhou Li. “To stay alive, become a spirit medium.” 367Votes40.3kRecs159kFans
- 5 The Treasure-Hunting Ship of the Steam World 蒸汽世界的猎宝船 [April 11: Successfully hunted and dissected a Windwing Serpent. Perception +1] [May 17: Successfully explored an abandoned floating island and evacuated. Acquired a “miniature differential engine,” which can activate a Level 3 specialty.] [July 23: Failed to explore the “Abandoned Construct Factory.” Lost 37 armor-piercing rounds. Unlocked a new route, “Passage to the Depths of the Fog Tide,” now added to the atlas.] … The Fog Tide swallows the land. Airships patrol the skies, humanity retreats 150Votes32.4kRecs172.4kFans
- 6 EN Mythical Card Creator: Myriad Ghosts Night Parade at the Start 神诡制卡师：开局百鬼夜行 A mythological card novel with over 20,000 premium subscribers! [History and Folklore] [Meticulous Research] [Illustrated] Lin Chen, a scholar of mythology and folklore, transmigrates to an unknown card-based world. From the start, he finds himself in the extremely dangerous [Night of a Hundred Demons] dungeon! At a critical moment, Lin Chen harnesses the incense offerings at the [City God Temple] to create the [Door Gods: Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong] card. After surviving the crisis, Lin Chen disc 92Votes78.9kRecs269.8kFans
- 7 The Mage Returns: Speedrunning Earth! 法师归来，速通地球！ Only I Can Use Magic + Cutting-Edge Technology + Corporate Giants + No Dumbed-Down Characters Conquer Silicon Valley in three months, plant the flag in Southeast Asia in three years, and in thirty years send humanity’s fleet toward the planet Kepler-452b. All of it happened simply because Chen Xi returned from studying abroad in a world of mages. 445Votes30kRecs159.7kFans
- 8 I Brought the Mount Shu Game to Life 我具现了蜀山游戏 Also known as: “I Openly Cultivate Immortality on Douyin,” “Casting Spells Under the Guise of Special Effects,” and “With AI Around, I Fly Without Hiding It” … Chen Han obtains a game System that is supposed to take him to the game world of The Swordsmen of the Shu Mountains. But the transmigration fails, leaving the game System acting rather strangely. [The dog demon is right in front of you, releasing a powerful aura of demonic energy. Drive it away at once!] Chen Han stares blankly at the li 9Votes206.7kRecs439kFans
- 9 The Coach Is a Beast 教练凶猛 (A League of Legends esports novel) Li Shu, a celebrated player in a parallel world, transmigrates to 2016. Apart from League of Legends itself, everything is unfamiliar to him: the major regions and every single player. With a completely blank resume, the first problem Li Shu has to face is... finding a job. 499Votes67.8kRecs307.6kFans
- 10 Tokyo: How I, a China Enthusiast, Became a King of Japanese Entertainment 东京：崇华的我竟成了日娱之王 (Don’t know anything about Japanese entertainment? No problem! This book is made for readers who love a bit of gossip!) After transmigrating to Tokyo, he finds himself at the end of the Heisei era. He missed out on all the boom years, but can’t escape any of the Reiwa era’s downsides. Knowing exactly how much Reiwa-era shut-ins are willing to spend, Sakurada Jun decides to latch onto a fellow countryman. As a friend of the University of Tokyo, he’s determined to make a living off that connection 3.4kVotes109kRecs413.3kFans
- 11 EN The Heretical Path to Immortality 方仙外道 The young Daoist was sixteen, in the springtime of his life, when desire stirred his troubles. Each day he saw the suffering of aging, sickness, and death, and the pangs of love, hate, anger, obsession, and resentment. I do not want my beauty to wither and fade. I do not want age spots to mark my skin. I do not want my limbs to shrivel, my organs to rot, and my bones to stink. The young Daoist was sixteen, and all he wished for was eternal life. A tale of an ordinary mortal refini 471Votes142.9kRecs473kFans
- 12 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. 5Votes78.7kRecs298.4kFans
- 13 Warhammer Returns: Saving the World from a Streamer’s Home 战锤归来，从女主播家开始救世 Friend, are you still worrying because you can't find a job? Are you still being rejected for lacking the right degree, work experience, or connections? Come join the Earth Chapter of the Extreme Warriors! Here, heroes are welcome from anywhere, and no one cares how old a rogue is. As long as you're willing to take up arms and protect the innocent, you can become one of us. Join us and you'll receive: Power armor and professional weapons training. Opportunities to travel to the myriad worlds. Th 74Votes1.1kRecs8Fans
- 14 The False Man of Jiangzuo 江左伪郎 The realm was divided into three, then reunited under Jin. Who could have known that the Rebellion of the Eight Princes would follow, then the Humiliation of Yongjia, the uprising of the Five Barbarians, the fall of the north, and the southward flight of the aristocracy? To secure a full meal and protect his brothers, the young slave made up a little lie, hoping to pull off a clever trick. But he overdid it. The lie grew bigger and bigger, until it deceived the entire realm. 832Votes131.5kRecs347.7kFans
- 15 EN Me, a Best Actor! 我，影帝！ The road to stardom for a PE teacher! There’s absolutely no way I’m going into adult entertainment. Not in this lifetime! Shen Qi loses his job as a PE teacher and refuses to enter the industry, only to end up as an extra in Hengdian. He wants nothing more than to earn money while keeping his clothes on! By chance, he gets his hands on a “spellbook.” He can record the “skills” he sees in the spellbook, then use them whenever he needs to. The spellbook contains another world, where he can find cl 1.9kVotes158.3kRecs307kFans
- 16 The Struggle for the Throne in the Jiajing Era 夺嫡在嘉靖朝 In the twenty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming, the Crown Prince died, leaving the succession vacant. The struggle between Prince Yu and Prince Jing would determine countless lives, fortunes, and reputations. On one side stood Zhu Zaiji, Prince Yu, first in line by age. Backed by the court’s upright officials and invoking ancestral precedent, he was regarded by the scholarly world as the obvious choice for Crown Prince. On the other stood Zhu Zaizhen, Prince Jing. With Grand Se 887Votes132.3kRecs446.7kFans
- 17 I’m Already a Superhuman, and the Spiritual Energy Is Only Just Reviving? 我都成超人了，灵气才复苏？ [Paranormal Classification: 001] [Codename: Pangu] [Combat Assessment 1: The target appears to be an ordinary young adult male under normal conditions, but possesses physical strength far beyond biological limits] [Combat Assessment 2: The target may possess an unknown special form??? (Redacted)] [Threat Assessment: Extremely Dangerous!!!] [Note: The target may be the first naturally occurring paranormal entity in the world. The limits of its abilities cannot be estimated. No conventional weapon 281Votes98.7kRecs796.3kFans
- 18 EN My Immortal Dad 仙父 “I transmigrated, and so did my dad.” Li Ping'an had already arranged everything. He'd secured a solid livelihood for his old man back in the mortal world and pulled strings to get himself into an immortal sect. Then he planned to dedicate himself to the path of immortality and stake everything on his chance to become an immortal. But on the day he went for an aptitude test in the mortal world, everything changed... [A lighthearted xianxia comedy with an everyday-life feel. The author has comple 5Votes438.2kRecs1.6MFans
- 19 EN Wasteland Border Inspector 废土边境检查官 After transmigrating to a wasteland plagued by infected creatures and endless disasters, Cheng Ye becomes a border inspector in Happiness City. Every survivor hoping to join the city must undergo careful questioning and inspection to prevent any infected creatures from slipping inside. But Cheng Ye soon discovers that these creatures are nothing like he imagined! There are Whispering Tentacles, which can bring the dead back to life and survive through sheer obsession. There are Death Dandelions, 1.2kVotes331.5kRecs1.1MFans
- 20 EN 1984: Starting with a Sichuan Restaurant 1984：从川菜馆开始 Also known as Sichuan Flavors, Human Life [Period piece, food, everyday life, farming] Food blogger Zhou Yan is reborn in 1984. From the start, he takes over a bankrupt Sichuan restaurant. In this era of scarce supplies, he'll give diners a taste of truly exceptional food! Qiaojiao beef, couple's lung slices, mapo tofu, Dongpo pork knuckle, rabbit cooked in boiling water... Stir-fried, seared, braised, steamed, deep-fried, boiled, marinated, smoked... Sichuan cuisine has a hundred flavors, with 11.3kVotes718.8kRecs1MFans
- 21 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. 3.9kVotes302kRecs573.4kFans
- 22 EN Swarm of Heavy Cannons Annihilates Immortal Cultivators 集群重炮轰杀修仙者 Artillery shells are flying swords, too! The fake Qi Refining cultivator: casts water and fire spells, commands a flying sword to take an enemy’s head from dozens of paces away, and carries a shield artifact for both offense and defense. The real Qi Refining cultivator: drives a Type 99 main battle tank equipped with a 125 mm artifact main gun guided by divine sense, two 12.7 mm dual-purpose anti-aircraft and ground-attack artifact machine guns guided and aimed by divine sense, nine assorted ele 78Votes375.6kRecs642.8kFans
- 23 EN I Loaded the Occult System 我加载了神秘学面板 The Age of Steam, where reason and mysticism exist side by side. The more you know, the closer you come to madness. That is the consensus behind the Veil. Li Cha doesn't believe it. Or rather, that rule doesn't apply to him. His skill panel lets him dabble in many fields and master them all, like a steam engine that never needs to shut down. [Breathing Lv.3 · Healing: Chronic ailments vanish, old afflictions are completely cured] [Knowledge Lv.3 · Erudition: Every book you lay eyes on leaves 1.7kVotes199.4kRecs992.1kFans
- 24 EN Rise of an Esoteric Academy Monk 从密修学院僧开始 [Nonsense] [Forced connections] [Far-fetched interpretations] [Poorly expressed] An ancient scripture with no words, a timid monk, centuries of chance encounters, and enlightenment in a single lifetime. It all begins at a scripture academy called the Endless White Pagoda Temple, with a monk from the Esoteric Cultivation Academy 18Votes222kRecs307.5kFans
- 25 This Daoist Is Ascending 道爷要飞升 "Disciple Li Yuan humbly begs the Heavens to bestow upon me a register of divine investiture!" … … Completed works include The First Cause of All Realms, Projections Across the Heavens, and The Chronicle of the Great Dao. 160Votes962.6kRecs3.1MFans
- 26 EN Journey to the West: The Roadblock! 西游：拦路人！ Transmigrating into Journey to the West, he awakens the Roadblocker System. As long as he stops Tang Sanzang and his disciples from continuing their pilgrimage at each trial, he can receive rewards. Block them for three days, reward: the Art of Moving Mountains Block them for seven days, reward: Six-Turn Golden Elixir Block them for half a month, reward: True Dragon Pearl Block them for one month, reward: Acquired Spirit Treasure: Five-Flame Divine Fan Block them for one season, reward: Divine A 424Votes179kRecs861.5kFans
- 27 EN The Fated Embers 天命皆烬 Tread the path to heaven, defy the road of fate. In a murky, benighted age, one sword reduces all to ashes! Elements: Martial chaos, cyberpunk cultivation, a portal between two worlds Completed works totaling 15 million words and reaching one million paid subscribers: Soul of Burning Steel, Monsters Die When They’re Killed, and Above the Firmament 286Votes537.1kRecs906.5kFans
- 28 EN Desperate Dark Night 绝境黑夜 There are monsters and ghostly shadows everywhere outside. I’m so scared. I just want to stay in my safe house until the end of time... The ghostly shadows can’t be killed, and the monsters are endless. Yu Hong came here with a mysterious black seal. Using its power to strengthen anything, he slowly built an absolutely safe zone of his own inside his safe house. As everyone voted, this book is a fusion of eerie cultivation and extreme-path cultivation. Lao Gun keeps his word. 27Votes861kRecs1.7MFans
- 29 War Smoke and Beauty 烽烟揽姝 The peerless beauty of Jiangnan, Shen Qingdai. Caught amid the flames of war and chaos, she is trapped in the power struggles of a military camp. With no way out, she fights to survive, using her wit to save herself. In a chaotic age, gentlemen are powerless to act, while a ruthless warlord can quell the turmoil. Wolves must be brought to heel by someone fiercer still. When they first meet, the iron-blooded general feels no love at first sight. He sees her only as a prize to seize in their conte 0Votes877Recs0Fans
- 30 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
- 31 EN Celestial Being's Codex 天人图谱 If human life could grow ever stronger without limit, then one day we would reach the heavens! 465Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
- 32 EN Becoming a God, Starting as a Water Monkey 从水猴子开始成神 [A completed, high-quality novel with an average of over 7,000 paid subscribers. Quality guaranteed, so read with confidence.] Choosing the right path matters more than hard work! Martial masters fight tooth and nail over terrestrial treasure trees, while deepwater divine herbs are ignored. After transmigrating as a fisherman, Liang Qu gains the Cauldron of the Waters. He refines the [Water Monkey] talent, commands aquatic beasts, reaps rewards at every turn, and rises to the top! [Water Monkey] 2kVotes2MRecs3.1MFans
- 33 The Incredible Mountains and Seas 不可思议的山海 Yun Zai said he only wanted the people of his tribe to have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear. He had never thought about anything else. Emperor Yao said the young man was quite impressive. Emperor Shun considered him a rival. Yu the Great wanted to write him a letter of recommendation. Yun Zai: “If the Mandate of Heaven is mine...” A farming story inspired by the Classic of Mountains and Seas! The old group got nuked. 1Votes302.5kRecs297.6kFans
- 34 Becoming a Fox Immortal in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 从聊斋开始做狐仙 Being human is hard; being a fox is even harder. Gong Mengbi has no choice but to cling to Lady Mount Tai's coattails and become an immortal official first. For a fox, making connections far and wide is the way to cultivate immortality. Only later do people realize that this fox seems to be everywhere, no matter how vast the world is. 166Votes458.9kRecs508.8kFans
- 35 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 36 EN Cultivation? Ain't Got No Money For That! 没钱修什么仙？ The old man asked, “You want revenge?” The boy replied, “I’ve been humiliated again and again by the powerful, and my master considers me trash. How could I not want revenge?” The old man patted the boy’s head and sighed. “Good boy, let me pass my cultivation power on to you.” The boy exclaimed, “Senior! How could I accept that?” The old man held out his hand. “Give me your phone.” Watching the changes on his phone, the boy cried out in shock, “Senior! Where did all this hundred-year cultivation 17.7kVotes4MRecs7.2MFans
