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You Win, Your Game Is Niche and Twisted 你赢了,你的游戏小众又变态
As a terminal patient with a “niche game” obsession, Xiao Zhong lives by one creed: make niche games and filter for high-quality players. Dark Souls: dark art direction, tough combat, and virtually no guidance. “This is niche enough. Surely nobody will jump on the bandwagon and put themselves through this, right?” Kingdom Come: Deliverance: hardcore realism, with none of those enticing fantasy spells. “A medieval role-playing game? There’s no market for this in China! Now this is niche!” Just as
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The AI Wave Tycoon's Rise 首富从AI浪潮开始
[Entrepreneurship] [Business Battles] [Internet] [Artificial Intelligence] [Smart Protagonist] On the day you get laid off, your eyes suddenly gain the ability to see information that no one else can. What would you do? Catch the trap in your severance agreement on the spot, then give your former supervisor, who set you up, a taste of face-slapping. What next? Han Lu Yi, a top university graduate who spent several years grinding away at a major tech company, takes his severance pay and decides t
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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
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Madness 迷狂
Southeast Asia, 1996. The steamy little town was packed with torn-open souls. Using their wounds as eyes, they saw the divine madness lurking behind the world. A strange being in a yellow raincoat wanted to become human, so it blended in among them. The monsters received their correspondence cooking courses and wrote on the back of a videotape: “Please don't let Doudou find out our brains make better jam.”
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Sister, Do I Have to Be a Maid Too? 姐姐,我也要一起当女仆吗?
[Romantic Daily Life] [All Characters Are Adults] The premium version costs 60,000, with 27,000 average subscriptions. Enjoy with peace of mind! On his first day collecting rent, Jiang Yubai ran into twin sisters pleading desperately with their landlord because they couldn't afford to pay. Lin Jianxia: Let's make this clear beforehand. Once we've paid off the back rent, we're even! Lin Jianxia: I'm only cleaning and cooking. There's no way I'm putting on a maid outfit! After graduation. Lin Jian
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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
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The Treasure Mirror of Pure Light 清光宝鉴
“Come, let us invite the moon from the Milky Way's highest heaven, and together admire the eternal spring of the human world. Let us ignore the world's turmoil and spend half a lifetime cultivating a body beyond tribulation...” The moon in the water is like a dream, like flowers reflected in a mirror. Even a child knows that the moon in the water can only be seen, never touched. But Qin Xuan can scoop it up... …
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Real-World Programming Association 现实编程协会
[A literary IP recognized by the China Writers Association as having the greatest adaptation potential in 2026] [The 37th Galaxy Award’s most valuable science fiction IP] [Shortlisted for the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature; award-winning entry in the Galaxy Project and Human World Theater writing competitions] Heavy rain has been falling over Jiangcheng for months, concealing many things that aren’t right. Yu Xian thinks he’s sick. People around him are disappearing one after another, s
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