Interesting, Smart Reads for Passing the Time: Neither Pretentious nor Dumbed Down 不高冷不小白有趣味有智商地打发时间
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The God Mimic 神的模仿犯
Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them.
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Reborn in Hong Kong’s Entertainment World: I Turn Movies into Myths 重生港娱:我把电影拍成了神话
In his previous life, spiritual qi revival brought the gods and demons from movie screens into the human world. Thor raised his hammer, and the Western gods crossed the sea. On the night Pearl Harbor fell, down-on-his-luck film distributor Lu Jinghui was trapped beneath the ruins of a theater. Suddenly, a reel of old film began to run backward, and the familiar Maoshan Daoist priest burst out of the battered screen. He looked back with a grin, straightened his glasses, rang a copper bell for the
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Cultivating Immortality Across a Hundred Lifetimes 百世修长生
Meng Yuan transmigrated and gained the power to reincarnate a hundred times, starting over after every death. After five lifetimes, Meng Yuan finally found a path to immortality. Refine the heart in the mortal world, attain the Dao over a hundred lifetimes. (Not a simulation story)
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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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Picking the Day to Become Famous 择日走红
From 375 first-month sales to over 10,000 average monthly subscriptions! - He transmigrates into the body of a washed-up idol who debuted at just fifteen, and is still a high school senior. His unscrupulous agent forces him to quit the entertainment industry. No work means no income. His most pressing task after transmigrating is, unexpectedly, to figure out how to feed himself. But without a System or a golden finger, how can he recreate a miracle with nothing but his own limited memories? No b
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Building America: My Campaign Manager Is Roosevelt 缔造美利坚:我竞选经理是罗斯福
My name is Leo Wallace. I'm a history PhD student, and I'm $137,542.89 in debt. At the darkest point in my life, I lost my job. The reason? I trashed a tech giant called Omni online, and they “optimized” me right out of a job. I thought my life was going to be like Rickshaw Boy, until an uninvited intruder showed up in my head. He said his name was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yes, that one, the guy on the dime. “Kid, stop ranting online. It doesn't work.” “Want to take them down? I'll teach you how.”
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The Ten Kingdoms' Shadow Warriors 十国侠影
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. This is an apocalypse where Buddha has closed his eyes and demons devour people. Famine, war, and cannibalism: all order has vanished from this land. There is a monastery called Wuchang. It does not save people from suffering. It produces asuras. Those who enter its gates are neither human nor ghost. They struggle for a sliver of life in a millstone of blood and flesh. Zhao Ji
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Herald of Calamity 天灾信使
The Messenger is an MMORPG that has won the Global Best Game Operations Award ten years in a row. It was also the first online game in the world to surpass ten million concurrent players. Yan Qing had never played it before. Now, he is the game’s only player.
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My Girlfriend Is from the Future! 我的女友来自未来!
One day in September, a beautiful girl fell from the sky and appeared in He Tianran's life. She said she was reborn, and that she wanted to change the boy's future. A butterfly flaps its wings, and a breeze stirs in the heart. And so, a series of stories began to unfold, their encounters seeming at once like first meetings and reunions. Also known as: “So I'm the One Living the Dream?” and “This Isn't the Romance I Wanted”
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Are We Destroying the World Today? 今天毁灭世界了吗?
“So you're saying the world is about to end, and that's why you want to steal a rocket?” “This is a first. I've arrested people for robbing jewelry stores and banks. I've even arrested someone for hijacking a train, but never anyone trying to steal a rocket.” “What were you thinking? Even if you actually managed to steal it, could you fly it?” Lin Xu slowly nodded from across the table. “I can.” “Really. I've flown it countless times already.” “Also, you really need to hurry. I'm out of time.” “
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Thirteen Years as King of Great Song, Then I Learned It Was Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils 大宋为王十三年,方知是天龙
Zhao Ti is the eighth son of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty and the younger brother of Emperor Zhezong. He’s got a lot on his mind. Twelve years have passed since the five-pronged campaign against Western Xia, and less than a year remains before Empress Dowager Gao Tao Tao dies. In seven years, Emperor Zhezong will die, and Empress Dowager Xiang will insist that Prince Duan take the throne. He will later become Emperor Huizong, the Daoist ruler. In twenty-seven years, the Liangshan outlaws
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The Imperial Court's Eight-Hour-Shift Hounds 八小时工作制的朝廷鹰犬
“It's you!” The martial arts expert who stepped into the inn turned pale with shock, then went ashen. “I never thought I'd end up in the hands of a lackey of the imperial court like you!” Li Miao picked up a piece of beef with his chopsticks, took a sip of wine, and waved a hand. “I don't have time for you. I'm off the clock. Even a lackey of the imperial court deserves a personal life, you know.” “I only work eight hours a day.”
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God Simulator 神明模拟器
Lu Yao accidentally stumbles into a pixel game in which he plays a deity, only to discover that the game is connected to worlds in different dimensions. The game's [sacrifices] can enter reality, while the [blessings] he grants can also reach the game world. As an apprentice deity, there is not much he can do beyond creating various natural disasters. Until he grits his teeth and revives a supermodel apostle. The rules of the game undergo a slight change... (The new book, "Wasteland Development
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Shi Potian Transmigrates into Linghu Chong 石破天穿越令狐冲
Shi Potian, who had just sworn brotherhood with Zhang San and Li Si, woke up one morning to discover that he had become Linghu Chong, the Huashan Sect's senior disciple. And so... [Scene One] Yue Buqun: “If you aren't Linghu Chong, then who are you?” Shi Potian: “I am Dog Bastard.” Yue Buqun: “???” [Scene Two] Yu Canghai: “Do you mean that, in your eyes, all the disciples under my command are useless? That you could kill every one of them without lifting a finger?” Shi Potian: “No, no, how could
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Wanli Emperor 万历明君
In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending
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My Players' Second Playthrough 我的玩家二周目
Li Li transmigrates into the role of the Creator and wants to recruit some souls from Blue Star to help him purge the corruption spreading across the world. It’s just that these hometown folks, going on about “classic servers,” “New Game Plus,” and “saving the waifu”... Seem a little too overpowered. [Behind-the-scenes story, Fourth Cataclysm. The number of players will keep growing.]
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I Attained Immortality in the Real World 我在现实世界得道成仙
Heaven and earth shift and change; the five elements turn upside down. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors came first, then the mysterious ways of the Shang and Zhou. Qin and Han rose, the Two Jin fell into chaos. Tang and Song forged new paths, while Ming and Qing severed the dragon veins and cut off the road to heaven. Who wields the axe to cleave the Five Sacred Mountains? Crimson, black, white, azure, and great yellow skies. The road to immortality ends, the mortal world is stained; the m
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Island of Sin and Punishment 罪狱岛
In the world after a nuclear war, twenty giant corporations seized control and established a global government. They govern through AI and pass judgment on everything. Gao Xin only wanted to live out a peaceful life, but he inexplicably became a scapegoat for the powerful. Then, unable to pay the cost of his imprisonment, he was sentenced to ten years of exile on Sin Island! On this island, there are no laws and no restraints. The only order comes from the many official game arenas established b
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Trapped in the Cube 我被困在方块之中
Upon waking, Mo Ling finds himself trapped inside a sealed cube. With one cubic meter of room to move, an indestructible metal shell, and no food or water, it is like waiting to die inside a coffin. At the critical moment, however, Mo Ling discovers that his perception has undergone a strange change, extending continuously through the walls and outward. The outside world is filled with danger, but he cannot move. He can only hide inside the cube and influence this bizarre world. Faced with the i
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My Simulated Path to Immortality 我的模拟长生路
How difficult is the path to immortality! And all the more so in this cultivation world, utterly transformed by a plague! Mortals carry disease. If immortals come into contact with them, their cultivation may decline in mild cases, or they may return to the heavens in severe ones. Thus mortals and immortals are forever divided. Immortals cannot cultivate together, and the entire cultivation world has become one vast dark forest. Li Fan transmigrated into this world with soaring ambitions, ye
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Why Is It Endless? 为什么它永无止境
Winner of the 36th Galaxy Award for Best Original Book If becoming a “tool” is a cruel fate that cannot be resisted, then perhaps more cruel still is retaining one’s “human” nature along the way. The real world is destined to be flawed, but some refuse to be assimilated into its broken parts. They will use reason, emotion, and every form of purposeful labor to fight this fate. In World Year 4632, a middle-aged man who had been imprisoned in a foreign land for many years returned to his ho
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Playing the Brute in a Wuxia Text Game 在武侠文字游戏里当莽夫
"What's the most important secret behind your success?" Every spotlight shone on Chu Junhui, etching his calm expression into the monument of history. "Go all in! How can you play a martial arts game without going all in?" Two text-based games project extraordinary powers into reality, turning Blue Star upside down. One is a cultivation game, where players live by one rule: stay cautious, stay aloof, and keep your word. The other is a martial arts game, where players live by one rule: go all
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The King of Completed Novels 完本之王
The nobody author Yue Qingyan worked himself to death rushing to meet a deadline. But even for an author, dying from overwork for a mediocre book is exceedingly rare. And so, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity came his way. He was reborn, and gained a strange ability: Every time he finished writing a story, he would gain a skill, either from one of its characters or from the story’s original author. It was as if the world was finally going to start being kind to this nobody…
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Dawn Doctor 黎明医生
The bustling streets of the past now lay in a grotesque, deathly silence. Hoarse, frenzied whispers coiled across the sky, while indescribable ancient giants drifted beneath the sea. Unknown diseases broke out, terrible disasters ravaged the land, and panicked people searched day and night for imaginary places of refuge. Blood-rain fell. Lightning revealed the gathering crows. Nevermore, nevermore, they answered. “We can see that this aberrant creature has twelve pairs of ribs, just like a human
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This Spiritual Energy Is Deadly 这灵气要命
[The Grand Narrative, Part One: Reverse Time and Space, Restart the Future] The Old Ones are my weapons, and the Outer Gods are my incarnations. I come from the distant past and walk through a collapsing future. The more they want to kill me, the stronger they make me. I am the revenge of humanity from the old days. I am the darkness even the gods fear.
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I'm a Lawyer in North America 我在北美当律师
After taking revenge for his great grudge, Gu Zheng unexpectedly finds himself reborn in a parallel world and given a new life. A legal aid lawyer who graduated from a second-tier law school is now a Harvard golden boy, reduced to working at a second-tier firm in Los Angeles. The only problem is that this glittering diploma didn't come with the memories to match. “Gu, I know you don't want to be someone else's assistant. No problem: you can go to court on your very first day!” “I...” “Here are f
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Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主
Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th
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The Strange Detective Agency 光怪陆离侦探社
A gloomy haze blankets the earth Among the ruins of the cities, the traces of humanity's past have yet to disappear from this land Glory has faded, and humanity hides like rats beneath the firelight. The black sun hanging high overhead symbolizes that this place has changed hands: it is their paradise What is rising from beneath the surging deep sea? Thick muttering echoes through the void, while a strange, veiled silhouette silently observes The venomous compound eyes beneath the bed flash and
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The Turn of a Hand 覆手
The law doesn't stop you from doing certain things. It tells you what you'll have to pay if you do them and get caught. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. Nine hundred and ninety people see the law as forbidden territory. The other ten see it as nothing but a weapon. All they have to do is grip the handle and point its sharp edge at others. These ten are what we call famous lawyers. In the courtroom and out on the streets, they can turn clouds into rain and rain into cloud
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My Deskmate Is Ferocious 同桌凶猛
His childhood friend and deskmate has actually become a superstar: fierce yet adorable. VIP group: 9555-74517 (subscribe to any one of the following in full: "Deskmate", "Hunting Forgeries", or "Dragon King")
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Dead on Mars 死在火星上
My name is Tang Yue. I'm on Mars. I just saw Earth explode.
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The Plane Merchant’s Creative Ways to Court Death 花式作死的位面商人
Ye Junwen suddenly received a cross-dimensional trading System, just as he was hoping to become a great merchant. Now he seemed invincible? But things weren’t that simple. The System had three rules: 1. Only someone who harbors intense hatred toward you can kill you. After death, you jump to another plane. 2. The same person can’t kill you twice. 3. Attacks that can’t kill you will make you stronger. Faced with such a troublesome System, Ye Junwen felt the pressure. To achieve his goal, he had n
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Scheming for the Nine Provinces 谋断九州
A fortune-teller once made a prophecy: If this child keeps his mouth shut, he will be a worthy minister who brings peace to the land. If he opens it, he will become a tyrant who throws the world into chaos. At eighteen, the young lord opened his mouth, and sure enough, he saw the world plunged into turmoil. He saw rival warlords vying for supremacy and the common people suffering. He believed that scheming could cause chaos, but could also end it. He would find a true emperor and bring this trou
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Blood-Soaked Battle 浴血激战
Flesh is weak; machines are the way to ascend. Bah, that’s all a trick to fool newbies. Someone has to fight and bleed before freedom can exist in this world.
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The Tathagata Must Fall 如来必须败
From the start of Journey to the West to the end of myth Across the vast world, banners stir like clouds, blades stand like a forest With grace, he pursues justice, blazing with light and fire, illuminating the wilderness and shrouding the marshes “Great Immortal, I must be off.” “If you shine as brightly as the sun, dear brother, then no matter what lies ahead, no host of men can stand against you!”
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Bug House 虫屋
A slightly plump man carrying a broom walks into the courtyard. He sweeps up the fallen leaves, then turns to look at the plaque over the gate: Insect House. “If you don't show yourselves, I'll turn you into flower fertilizer.”
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Starting with the Gu Huo Bird 从姑获鸟开始
The body is as light as a goose feather, life as fragile as wild grass. I have witnessed the darkest night, so the blazing, brilliant flame in my heart has never wavered. The physical edition of From the Gu Huo Bird's Beginning (Volume One) is now available. Search for the title on Dangdang, JD.com, Taobao, Douyin, and other platforms, or purchase it from a physical bookstore. Thank you all for your support.
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The Mutant Knights 异种骑士团
An associate professor of bioengineering transmigrates to an alternate world resembling medieval Europe. Using modern biochemistry, he discovers that viruses, bacteria, and parasites long extinct in human history are actually the source of supernatural abilities. He rescues and unites the people whom the mundane world calls “the Otherkin,” founding a knightly order that sweeps all before it and unleashing a revolutionary upheaval across the medieval world. An alternate world with a fantasy setti
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The Matrilocal Husband 赘婿
In the final years of the Wu Dynasty, the age was turbulent and the realm was in chaos. Jin and Liao faced off against each other, the situation was unstable, and after a century of humiliation, the first faint glimmer of dawn signaling its end had finally appeared. Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wuqimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamuka, Chilawen, Mukhuali, Bo'erhu, Bo'ersu, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, and Zhang Bangchang: loyal ministers and treacherous
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Thief and Detective 贼警
Faced with criminal attacks and reprisals that were organized, international, and increasingly sophisticated, Serious Crimes Unit Seven teetered on the brink of disbandment. At a time of crisis, Zuo Luo was appointed leader of Unit Seven. He recruited Su Cheng through the Against All Odds Plan, and together they pooled their strengths to restore the unit to glory. But would Su Cheng, a criminal himself, truly help Zuo Luo? Meticulous schemes, wild ideas, strange and baffling cases, and crimes in
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Ruler of Tomorrow 明日支配者
Fang Ziyu gets a magical notebook from the future... a computer. With this computer, Fang Ziyu can not only see glimpses of the future, but also buy items that exist in the future. From then on, Fang Ziyu is one step closer to reaching the future. VIP group: 587128644 (Join if you have purchased all of The Night Is Coming or have reached Steward rank or higher in Tomorrow's Ruler).
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The Warlord of the Warring States 战国野心家
After transmigrating to the early Warring States period, he has no family name and a status so lowly, yet he dares to harbor ambition. To make that ambition a reality, he becomes Mozi’s disciple, then spends years enduring hardship within the Mohist school as he schemes to seize the position of Grand Master. Mozi passed down teachings but wrote nothing, so he compiles the Mohist Canon and changes it beyond recognition. Amid the rivalry of the feudal lords and the tumultuous age, he alone believe
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The Legendary Mechanic 超神机械师
Han Xiao, a veteran power-leveling player in Stellar Sea, was thrown into the transmigration crowd by a mysterious force from the East, or rather, from a certain otaku. With a player interface in tow, he became an NPC and returned to the days before Stellar Sea's open beta. He resolutely chose the highest-difficulty class: Mechanic. Warships sail in formation across the stars, star-powered mechs twist through the heavens like dragons, psychic cannons lay waste to worlds, and an endless mechanica
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Scripture of the Dead 死人经
A book of the dead, half a scripture without the Dao. I have severed a thousand heads and devoured the bones of a hundred bodies.
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The Sword Saint of the Flourishing Tang 盛唐剑圣
The Three Wonders of the High Tang: Li Bai’s poetry, Zhang Xu’s cursive calligraphy, and Pei Min’s swordsmanship. A Chinese literature student transmigrates into the one and only Pei Min, the sword saint officially recognized by the state. With a three-foot green blade, he is invincible beneath heaven. He reaches up to the highest heavens and the vast universe, and forges the poetry of the High Tang anew.
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War Paradise 战争天堂
To all you hardcore virtual game players: Tired of the same old linear storylines? Want to try a truly open-world game? Had enough of RPGs where you can only play as one character? Want to lead your subordinates in virtual reality and experience the thrill of commanding an army? Welcome to the large-scale open combat game, “War Paradise.” … After seeing the rules of the game, a professional player who had focused on PVP for twenty years and was also fascinated by AI broke into a radiant smile.
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Infinite Hunting Grounds 无限猎场
In the world of "The Mutation Crisis", not a single zombie ever appears. Instead, schemes abound, and every living soul is caught in someone’s calculations. A demon card System that finds all sorts of ways to screw people over. A dazzling, fantastical, kaleidoscopic infinite world of historical settings.
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The Eunuch Chief 厂公
With a castrated body, he holds the power of life and death. Clad in a dragon robe, he is hailed as “A Thousand Years” by every official. In a martial world soaked in blood, he stands alone: a skeleton wrapped in skin, a blade in his hand. The modern man Bai Muqiu transmigrates to the great central plains empire of the Wu Dynasty, only to discover that he has become a lowly eunuch. In that year, the Great Liao massed its troops at the border, the Jurchens emerged from the lands of white mountain
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Ballad of Assassination 吟游刺杀录
This is a land of heroes, swords, and magic, home to a bard with grand ambitions. He is determined to write the most magnificent tales, spread love and peace throughout the world, and bring laughter to everyone. He hopes that whenever a great swordmaster or archmage opens their mouth, one of his jokes will come out. To that end, he set out to travel at the age of fifteen. After ten years on the road, he had crossed half the continent, only to fall deeper and deeper into poverty. In the end, he h
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The Demon of the Great Ming 大明妖孽
If gods exist in heaven, why are demons running rampant in the world? If there are no gods in heaven, why is the heart filled with so many doubts? During the Chenghua era of the Ming dynasty, a group of Embroidered Uniform Guard officers known as "fox-born and ghost-raised" are ordered to seek the true gods in a godless world and search for the path to immortality within their brief lives.
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