Novels with No Romance, Smart Characters, and Great Writing 无CP，有智商，文笔好的小说
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- 1 Tomb Raiding: I, Chen Yulou, Seek Only Immortality 盗墓：我，陈玉楼，一心修仙 A body clad in golden-threaded jade that never decays, seven stars to extend one’s life by stealing from Heaven. Bones dug from tombs are refined into golden elixirs, while vermin in the city and community feed on offerings of incense. After transmigrating here, I look upon a world overrun with demons and monsters, where the Dao is nowhere to be seen and everyone seeks immortality. How could Chen Yulou still care about being the leader of the bandits? The tomb-raiding world is full of opportunit 0Votes39.4kRecs334.6kFans
- 2 Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Cheat Life 快穿之炮灰的开挂人生 Now that I’ve been reborn, I have to live a life that’s truly my own. Otherwise, wouldn’t this second chance have gone to waste? New book Quick Transmigration: The Cannon-Fodder Heroine Gets Spoilers Revenge stories are all the rage, and old-school angsty novels are making a comeback. The heroine is the one who gets the worst of it. In angsty novels, the heroine is tormented emotionally and physically by the male lead, dies several times over, and still has to forgive him. In revenge stories, th 1Votes154kRecs128.1kFans
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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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Transmigrating Through the Wilderness on a Farming and Famine-Escape Journey 穿越之种田逃荒路
The new novel, What Use Is This Chaotic World to Me?, is now being serialized. It's a farming and infrastructure-building story, so give it a try if you like that sort of thing. Su Qiqi is having the worst luck! She falls asleep and has a dream. When she wakes up, she has transmigrated into a cursed planet! There are mountains here, but no immortals. There is an ocean, but no mermaids. And there's... a rock that eats jade! Famine, epidemics, and war are rampant here... Su Qiqi waves her little h
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- 5 Spirit Energy Is Pressing 灵气逼人 Vast stars, ten thousand races vying for supremacy, a spiritual tide surging in, and a bloody war rekindled. The public security situation in Happiness New Village, Garden Community, Heping Subdistrict, Lingshan City, is exceptionally grim. Only when even the neighborhood aunties stop doing square dancing and switch to practicing magic and battle aura does the legend of Chu Ge truly begin. 0Votes551.3kRecs348.6kFans
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The Female War God's Black Bag Group 女战神的黑包群
(New book: The Little Cook of the Imperial Academy is next door~) Dong Shu, the greatest female war god in the interstellar world, suddenly joins a mysterious red-envelope group one day! The war goddess is completely baffled, but gives it a tap anyway! Quick transmigration, no romance (except in the first world).
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- 7 A Cheat-Fueled Life: The Fake Immortal of the Cultivation World 开挂人生之修真界的假仙 The new novel The Heroine Is Overnourished, spun off from Fake Immortal, has passed review and is now officially updating. The author has completed The Daily Life of a Passerby and Cheat Life: Fake Immortal. The 700,000-word period fantasy novel Tales from the Fifties is currently updating. Speaking of “cheat life,” it seems the phrase was invented just for Nuannuan. “To return home, to cultivate, to see the scenery in distant lands, to seek the lost ancient past 0Votes33.6kRecs32.6kFans
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The Embarrassing Couple in Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼之尴尬夫妻
Transmigrating into Dream of the Red Chamber isn’t scary. What’s scary is becoming the most awkward person in the whole story. At least I’m not alone, but my husband is even more awkward than I am. Now that’s awkward.
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Interstellar Headlines 星际大头条
[Official notice: This is not an entertainment-industry novel! Not an entertainment-industry novel! Not an entertainment-industry novel!] Lin Yi transmigrated to the interstellar era. She was dealt a terrible hand, but somehow played it like a champion (not really)! People thought she was showing off, only to be caught off guard when she slapped them in the face. People thought she was about to get face-slapped, but actually, she really was showing off. Her baffling, flamboyant antics keep landi
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A Long Song in the Apocalypse 末世之长歌行
New book: A Guide for Reborn Female Cultivators. No male lead. "The first half focuses on the apocalypse, while the second half focuses on cultivation. Cultivation and the apocalypse come together." No male lead. That's all.
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- 11 Too Rich to Be Silenced 富贵不能吟 Prince of Zhenbei Yan Tang was a paragon of propriety, chaste and virtuous. Then he slipped up, and his life didn’t just have a blemish on it. It turned into a whole ink-wash painting... 1Votes574.6kRecs238.5kFans
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Rules for Surviving the Qing Dynasty 清穿守则
Fourth Master: “I rule my own estate. I won't allow anyone beyond my control to exist here!” Someone: “Mm, Fourth Master is absolutely right. Master, would you like roasted quail or pickled chicken wings tonight?” Fourth Master: “Shut up!”
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- 13 The Lin Clan's Glory 林氏荣华 A deity told Lin Qingwan, “You don’t have long to live.” So Lin Qingwan agreed to work for him in another world, taking the place of his sister, who had died young, and raising his daughter. After the deity’s body passed away, his clan and enemies came knocking. Some became obstacles in her path, while others turned into stepping stones. This is the story of a young aunt raising her niece and striving for wealth and glory. Note: The female lead has no romantic pairing. Please think twice before 2Votes123.1kRecs64.7kFans
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Auspicious Divination 吉卦
New book: My Beloved Consort, Save Me [One-on-one pampering romance, doted on beyond measure] While visiting the mountain, she encounters a handsome man, as ethereal as an immortal banished from heaven. Yuheng: If I could choose only one between the throne and you, Ji Yunliu, I would choose only you. Even being above all others cannot compare to a single glance from you. There is a reader group: 4-2-1-1-5-6-9-1-6. Join the group and enter the male lead's name. (⊙o⊙)
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- 15 The Empress’s Livestream Strategy Guide 女帝直播攻略 [The new novel, Step Aside, Let Me Take the Throne, is being serialized] [A different story, just as exciting] Jiang Pengji acquired something called a palace-intrigue livestream System. Jiang Pengji: “All right, System. No problem, System!” Many years later, Jiang Pengji finally achieved her goal: she became the emperor’s woman, the female emperor. Jiang Pengji: “Praise me!” System: “(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ I told you to fight for favor in the palace! Who told you to conquer the world?” #The future’s top g 14Votes3.7MRecs1.5MFans
- 16 Hilarious Cultivation: Senior Sister, Hurry and Transform! 爆笑修仙：师姐，快变身 This is a world where the strong rule. All living beings in the Three Realms can cultivate, shatter the void, and ascend to the Immortal Realm. The path of cultivation is long... 0Votes83.7kRecs22.2kFans
- 17 Chronicles of the Green Ghost 青诡纪事 Synopsis: He Qing is an ordinary college student living an ordinary life. The only unusual thing about her is that she can always see things other people can’t… The old-fashioned writing style is a little rough around the edges [important!!!], so please be patient. The characters’ values do not represent the author’s. Some of the Taoist spells in this story come from online sources, and some are made up by me. No romance. If any chapters 0Votes436.5kRecs519.3kFans
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Transmigrating to the Future: It's Tough Being a Man 穿越未来之男人不好当
To inherit her father’s military honors, she embarked on a miserable journey of growth. At long last, she reached adulthood and could choose whom to marry, only for her father, who had come back from the dead, to throw her into the Federation’s First Men’s Military Academy. Through a twist of fate, Ling Lan kept straying further down the road to becoming cold, domineering, and wickedly cool... I’ve created a few groups: Lan Shao VIP Group: 392111243 (only for readers with a paid subscription); L
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- 19 Brocade in Commoner’s Clothing 布衣锦华 Du Feifei, a 36-year-old single woman and modern-day psychological counselor, transmigrates one day into the body of a stubborn little girl in the Yan Kingdom. A tiny thatched hut, a baby brother crying to be fed, and a home so poor it doesn’t even have four walls. Du Feifei sighs. Well, when in Rome, make yo 0Votes64kRecs45.7kFans
- 20 Xia Li’s Modern Daily Life 夏梨的现代日常 In her previous life, Xia Li was the fake young lady of a pawnshop owner’s family, but in truth she was an unwanted little cabbage, unloved by her father and her stepmother. After being injured by accident, she got a chance to be reborn. But what kind of place was this? These people had no shame, baring their arms and legs, and there was even a magical little square box in which tiny people moved around. Most astonishing of all, the chamber pot her family had used in her previous life was now tr 0Votes79.3kRecs50.7kFans
- 21 The Lin Family's Daughter 林家女 Who says transmigration always comes with a catch? Lin Xi thinks hers turned out pretty well. She’s the legitimate daughter of the Lin family, has a portable space, and can even cultivate! She’s got the complete package of a supporting heroine’s comeback gear. So, where’s the white-lotus heroine? Her slap’s ready, all she needs is a face to land it on. What? You’re the male lead? My destined one? The door’s on your left. Don’t let it hit you on the way out! 0Votes123.4kRecs87.4kFans
- 22 Entertainment Headlines 娱乐圈头条 From the cherished daughter of the Feng family, she is reborn as a newcomer from a poor family, wholly determined to enter the entertainment industry by relying on her beauty. 5Votes1.5MRecs584.7kFans
- 23 Farming and Embroidery 农绣 My new book, The Art of Fragrance, is a farming story and is now available. Please stop by, save it, and give it a read. She becomes an embroiderer in a farming household. Her family is poor, but she has a skill she can use to support herself. Luckily, her family is kind, and wise elders steer the household. Their lives grow better and better, filled with the warmth of everyday family life in a little farmyard. 0Votes132.2kRecs76.4kFans
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