A Reading List for Veteran Readers Who Can't Get Into Mainstream Fantasy 看不下去主流玄幻文的老读者的书单
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Joy of Life 庆余年
A family that does good deeds will surely enjoy blessings in abundance. Leave blessings for the future, leave blessings for the future, and in time meet a benefactor. How fortunate, how fortunate, that my mother accumulated hidden merit. I urge people to help the needy and support the poor… But who could know that, though we inherit the blessings of those who came before us, in the end we must choose our own path in life? Thus, at the fork in the road: The east wind brings clouds and rain, and y
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City at the End of the World 终末之城
The apocalypse arrived. Without any warning, disaster erupted and swept across the entire world. Countless people died in the catastrophe. When the survivors opened their eyes again, they discovered that the world had been utterly transformed. Mysterious powers and terrifying monsters left humanity with only two paths: survival or death. People abandoned everything, hoping only to struggle through one more day in this cruel world. But for Feren, there was more to it than that. “I think they need
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Late Ming 晚明
In the final years of the Ming dynasty, the northern frontier is shrouded in the smoke of war, with mountains of corpses, while the south of the Yangtze enjoys tranquil streams, stone bridges, song, and dance. Amid the internal strife and external threats of a dynasty on the brink of collapse, a calculating office director rises to power and sounds the last call for China. A true hero can change fate. Brutal, bloody ancient wars and authentic scenes of everyday life in the Ming, where ordinary p
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Endless Divine Artifacts 无尽神器
The ancient immortals and gods broke through the heavens and departed, leaving behind only the Daoist resonance of divine artifacts, engraved between heaven and earth. This is a world of divine artifacts. By comprehending the laws of heaven and earth, one can learn a divine artifact's name and form, how to forge it, and its wondrous powers, then record it in a compendium of divine artifacts. By communing with the compendium, one can refine their own magical power into the corresponding divine ar
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The Ace of Dawn 拂晓的王牌
In the year 2300, after twenty years of interstellar war, the Earth Federation was finally defeated and surrendered. Earth became an alien colony, and all of humanity became a conquered people... The most prosperous district of Huahai City was the aliens' concession. There, music and dancing never ceased, as if it were paradise. Countless traitors groveled there, shamelessly currying favor with their occupiers. Yet in the shadows, far from all that splendor, a resistance movement had quietly tak
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The Elemental Tower 元素高塔
The tale of a first-charge player in a browser game struggling to survive in another world. "Survival, my ass!" This is the anguished roar of a bunch of miserable souls treated as stepping stones beneath someone else's feet. Really, it's just the story of someone who brings a fortress from a game, summons a group of girls, and simply wants to make a life here, only to rise step by step to heights no one else can reach. New book: My Home Has a World of Immortal Heroes
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Spirit Sword Mountain 从前有座灵剑山
The Spirit Sword Sect was founded in the year 4233 of the Jiuzhou calendar. For thousands of years, it has been dedicated to supplying the industry with first-rate cultivators. It is now one of the five Super-Grade Sects of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals, and its leader, True Person Feng Yin, serves as one of the Alliance's seven standing elders. His cultivation is peerless. The Spirit Sword Sect upholds peace and development, and its core values are the pursuit of truth, goodness, and s
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Dreams of Tosa 土佐之梦
It was an age of civilization, with flourishing commerce, thriving culture, and the collision of technology and ideas; It was an age of barbarism, with powerful lords rising everywhere, wars raging without end, and betrayal and slaughter running rampant. It was paradise for the strong, but hell for the weak. The strong could not always be relied upon, and might collapse with a roar in an instant; the weak need not despair, for they might ultimately carve up the world. What kind of path will a mo
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Pillars of the Samurai Clan 武家栋梁
The warrior houses rose from humble beginnings, and their pillars crumbled during the Warring States era. As the absurd way of the samurai holds sway, who still remembers the Genji clan's original oath? While Hashiba Hideyoshi is still fretting over finding a godfather, Tokugawa Ieyasu has begun calling himself a descendant of the Kawachi Genji. They will never understand what it means to be the pillar of the warrior houses. Deep in the overgrown grass before Hachiman Shrine lies the warrior hou
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Chronicles of Unusual Monsters 异常魔兽见闻录
The Barov Family is a wealthy and mysterious clan of Arathor descent. Their vast lands stretch from Brill in the north to Southshore in the west, Tarren Mill in the south, and Caer Darrow in the east. Reborn into such a family, Carlos lives a happy, carefree life. In spring, he enjoys the attentions of three thousand maids at the lakeside fortress on Caer Darrow. In summer, he escapes the heat in the apple orchards of Tarren Mill. In autumn, he admires the falling red leaves in Brill’s maple gro
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Striving in the New Ming Dynasty 奋斗在新明朝
A geeky humanities student transmigrates to a baffling version of the Ming Dynasty. He starts at the very bottom as a crude little yamen runner, with no hope of passing the imperial examinations. Let’s see how our protagonist happily carves out an unconventional path to success from the bustling streets. Along the way, we’ll uncover all sorts of rules governing the Ming bureaucracy! New blurb: This is a serious work grounded in history and fact, with rigorous logic and precise details. Well, mor
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Thriller Paradise 惊悚乐园
This is a game that transcends dimensions. It is also a race in pursuit of truth. An unknown seal, a wager with ghosts and gods… The struggle of data, the salvation of humanity… In that virtual world connected to reality, consciousness determines us, consciousness chooses us, and consciousness determines our consciousness. Now, cast away your fear. Cast away your selfish distractions, questions, and distrust… Liberate your mind. Welcome to the Thriller Paradise. The physical edition of “Thril
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The Ultimate Con Artist 超级大忽悠
The simplified Chinese edition of The Super Bluffer has been published under the title The Expert by China Drama Press. It is available from online bookstores and major bookshops.
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Geomancer 地师
Youfang is a drifter in Beijing. He once sold pirated discs in Zhongguancun and ran a stall at Panjiayuan. Born into one of the Eight Sects of the Jianghu, he learned the ways of the underworld at a young age. He was particularly skilled in feng shui and geomancy, though he never believed in the supernatural. The first time his conscience was stirred was when he set out to avenge an elder. He posed as a feng shui master and infiltrated a tomb-robbing gang, hoping to find a chance to strike. Inst
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Heart of the Castle 城堡之心
The Viscounty of Lane, cut off by dense fog, has endured countless sieges by monsters. A young knight's squire is gravely wounded in his first battle against a demon and only wakes after three days in a coma. Those three days mark the beginning of the squire's path to becoming a glorious hero. No one knows that his heart has vanished from his chest, replaced by a towering, majestic castle! With a human city at his command, he will forge glorious achievements. Darkness may shroud the world, but t
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A Top-Rank Scholar of Humble Birth 上品寒士
A seasoned modern-day backpacker transmigrates to the Eastern Jin dynasty, inhabiting the body of Chen Caozhi, a poor young man. His family’s farmland is about to be seized, and his virtuous widowed sister-in-law is being forced to remarry. How can Chen Caozhi overcome prejudice against his low-born status and change his fate, while protecting the interests of himself and his clan? Watch as this young man rises step by step through the rigid hierarchy of the Nine-Rank Official System, befriends
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A First-Rank Empire 一品江山
In the spring of the fifth year of Qingli, Fan Wenzheng's reform of the New Policies had failed, and Fu Bi was demoted along with him. Teng Zijing rebuilt Yueyang Tower, Ouyang Xiu drank himself into a stupor, Han Xianggong remained tall, handsome, and rich, and Wen Yanbo had become thoroughly extraordinary. Di Qing became the idol of the Great Song's underclass, while the Obstinate Chancellor and Sima Niu had only just entered the workforce. Justice Bao was not yet qualified to preside over Kai
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Release That Witch 放开那个女巫
Cheng Yan thought he had transmigrated to medieval Europe and become a glorious prince. But this world doesn't seem quite like the one he imagined. Witches really exist, and they actually have magic? A witch-farming story, taking farming all the way.
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The Mysterious Kingdom 诡秘国度
The company Xia Tianqi worked for offered a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, an Audi, and a villa as a dormitory, even during the probation period. It was a mysterious company. He thought joining it would finally turn his luck around, but soon discovered that the truth was nothing like he had imagined. One strange and bizarre incident after another unfolded, and one mystery after another came to light. By the tim
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The Black Iron Castle 黑铁之堡
After the Great Cataclysm, all the rules of the world were rewritten. The Iron Age began, and steel, steam, and martial power became humanity’s greatest means of survival. An ordinary boy named Zhang Tie, still bewildered by it all, gets a hard kick in the rear from the god of fate and receives a little tree that can continually grow all kinds of miraculous fruit. With a cry of pain, the boy tumbles headfirst into the currents sweeping across that boundless continent. The magnificent Third Centu
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A First-Rank Official 官居一品
Count the heroes, weigh their triumphs and defeats: a century passes like a dream, yet their hearts burn with purpose. They strive to govern wisely and save a crumbling realm, even if a flood of infamy follows them beyond the grave. They scorn death and cherish the rise and fall of nations, traveling alone through storms and tempests. Who wouldn't wish the Great Wall to stand forever? Yet none can know if the River of Sorrow will flow eastward, back into the sea.
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The Seat of Arcane Arts 奥术神座
“Knowledge is power.” “Gods are nothing more than especially powerful arcanists.” Xia Feng has transmigrated, bringing a mountain of knowledge with him.
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I Rule in the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋我为王
Reborn in the Spring and Autumn period as an illegitimate son of a noble clan, I was sent to live with the cattle and horses in the stables. Little did anyone know that this would lay the foundation for my hegemony. What does the partition of Jin matter? Watch as my Zhao clan takes its place! Laozi rides west on an ox, Confucius is full of ambition, and Wu and
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The Supreme Chapters 太上章
Born in a wild and untamed land, a young man overcomes every hardship, seeks the source of heaven and earth, ascends to the pinnacle of creation, and becomes the ancestor who founded the Dao!
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