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The Scholarly Prodigy's Sea of Stars 学霸的星辰大海
“You should put the same effort you spend gaming into your studies.” When this famous line parents everywhere have used to lecture their children becomes reality, a super-achiever with an intense hunger for knowledge and power is born. He loves studying, not women. No games, just practice problems!
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Super Monster Factory 超级怪兽工厂
My name is Ye Qing, and I was lucky enough to get an app called Monster Factory. These incredibly strong monsters can each do the work of a hundred people, and they come with all kinds of skills. Efficiency? Switch on the “Processing Speed +300%” skill, and you think you can compete with me? Precision? Ahem. Bring me my legendary-quality vernier calipers and let them see what absolute precision looks like. Ye Qing’s motto: A man who wants to swagger needs a fat wallet. The monsters’ motto: Don’t
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The Strange Immortal of Three Cultivations 三修奇仙
He went in for a trial, and somehow ended up running off with a treasure passed down for a thousand years?! The old ancestor went berserk, while Ning Feng became unstoppable. I want to become stronger. I want to defy Heaven. That is the only way to make a name for myself and pick up girls, the genius roared. I want to make a name for myself and pick up girls. That is the only way to become stronger, and, well, defy Heaven while I am at it, Ning Feng thought in loneliness. “I have made enough of
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The Urban Book of Heaven 都市天书
With an encyclopedia from three thousand years in the future at your fingertips, what would you do? Build flying cars, hunt for treasure, develop an elixir of longevity, or invent a new cancer drug? Lin Dong says: Master Lu's anything-goes approach is the best! I'll get you using virtual headsets from ten years in the future, driving flying sports cars from fifty years in the future, and living in sky gardens from a hundred years in the future. You can take trips to the moon or explore deep unde
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My Backyard Is in the Tang Dynasty 我家后院是唐朝
Li Yin's life changed forever after he opened the ancient well in his backyard! The Sixth Prince Li Yin? Or Li Yin, a homebody from the twenty-first century? Able to travel freely between two worlds, what kind of life should he choose? A harem? Conquest? Political intrigue? Was that all? No! With the advantage of modern technology, he would develop his fief into the world's economic center, and the world map would soon be covered with his colonies...
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Monster Administrator 妖怪管理员
Hello, I’m Qi Siyuan. Oh, they usually call me Group Leader Qi, the boring, uncool one. That’s right, I handle monsters. Any other questions? Sure. But I reserve the right not to answer. Of course there are. Monsters and ghosts are all around you, actually. You just haven’t noticed. No comment. Monsters need privacy too. But I can tell you that you see them every day. As for whether they want to eat you, how am I supposed to answer that?
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The Dashing Talented Scholar of the Great Song 大宋之风流才子
From childhood, he was surrounded by an extraordinary aura. Was he a great lyric poet, a Neo-Confucian scholar, a literary master, an agricultural expert, or an engineer? When he pushed his grandmother's wheelchair into the capital, countless young women secluded in their inner chambers eagerly awaited a glimpse of the elegant young man. His arrival captivated everyone, from the emperor and his ministers to the common people. With his help, an incomparably glorious Great Song Empire will rise. H
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The Superstar Couple 巨星夫妻
Zhang Le, a nobody of a director who had only made a few small commercials, suddenly becomes an overnight sensation and the focus of every major media outlet. But what frustrates him is that he isn't famous for his astonishing talent or the golden finger he got after transmigrating and being reborn. He's famous because his wife is a popular star. Become as famous as his wife! More famous than his wife! Make his wife as famous as he is… He vows to outshine every star in the world with the brilli
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Conquering the World 席卷天下
At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, the warlords fought among themselves. How many heroic tales were merely struggles for power and profit, with the various sides attacking one another? They may have seen only the authority to decide life and death from a lofty position, but not the exhaustion of the nation's lifeblood. After the Sima clan usurped the realm, the War of the Eight Princes opened the gates for the northern tribes to descend south, and the Central Plains entered a dark age. Liu Y
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Transmigrating Through the World of Fantasy 幻想世界大穿越
When fantasy becomes reality, can a young man from China set foot on the path to godhood? Chen Ang has the power to transmigrate, traveling through worlds of fantasy. In Limitless, he gains superhuman intelligence. In Lucy, he glimpses the secrets of becoming a god. Starting with The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, he practices internal martial arts and evolves. In Anaconda, he obtains the key to immortality. Super-soldier serum, Extremis, the X-gene, spider genes, lizard formula… The road to godhood t
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- 11 The Confucian Immortal of the Dao 道缘儒仙 As evening fell in spring, a gentle breeze ushered in the moon. The sun sank in the west, and the new moon hung like a hook. Lan’er lit a red candle as thick as a child’s arm, bathing the little wooden house in crimson light. She turned and sat down beside the bed, quietly watching Ye Haotian write at his desk. The sound of wind sighing through the pines reached her ears, filling her heart with tenderness. She rested her slender hand on Ye Haotian’s shoulder and asked softly, “Husband, have you 0Votes1.7MRecs127.3kFans
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Dreaming Back to 1997 梦回九七
Before going to sleep, it was 2004. When I woke up, it had become 1997. Had I dreamed about the future, or was I dreaming now? A student who had wasted countless hours reading novels and was good for almost nothing returned to a few years earlier. But history had changed, so what he knew about the future was useless, and what he had learned was hardly worth mentioning. What should he do now? How could he turn his hopeless life around?
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- 13 The Forty-Six Billion-Year Symphony of Evolution 进化的四十六亿重奏 Starting from the birth of life on a single planet, witness the rise and fall of countless civilizations, and the birth and extinction of species. Amid endless natural and geological catastrophes, nothing stays the same forever. Only by constantly adapting and evolving through adversity can one achieve perfect victory. The story begins with a tiny cell... 74Votes2MRecs1MFans
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