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The Marvelous Cook 妙厨
Song Dalang of the Song Family Eatery at the end of Sour Jujube Alley drowned and died, leaving behind a mountain of gambling debts and a sweet, delicate daughter. Some people had their eyes on the eatery, while others had their eyes on that daughter. Who could have guessed that, before long, the daughter would take over the eatery herself? In less than a year, everyone from peddlers and laborers to high officials and nobles was scrambling to become her customer. * Song Miao: Please forgive me.
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The Nine Palaces Soul-Summoning Case 九宫引魂案
By the banks of the Canglan River, Jiang Xiaoyue, a fisherman's daughter, was raised by her parents to always treat others with kindness. But after more than a decade spent doing good, her parents were brutally murdered for saving a man from the Yu Kingdom. Gazing at her parents' bodies, not yet cold, and faced with the authorities' half-hearted response, the last remnants of innocence in Jiang Xiaoyue's eyes shattered bit by bit. If Heaven won't punish the wicked, then she'll do it herself! She
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Tenth Year Of The Catastrophe: Come Farm With Me 天灾第十年跟我去种田
After surviving the tenth year of disasters following the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea, the volcanic eruptions across the entire Blue Star, and gamma-ray bursts, Xia Qing walks out of the safe zone with her head held high. No one is stopping me. I'm going farming. The sheep in my territory? Companions. The wolves in the nearby evolved forest? Neighbors. Bears? Trading partners. Monkeys and squirrels? My employees! [There is a male lead, but he does not have many scenes]
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Immortality Cultivation Begins at the Clan School 长生修仙从族学开始
Su Jin, a young cultivator from the Su family, begins her long journey toward immortality when she enters the clan school at the age of six!
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A Hard-Core Worker in the Five Dynasties 五代硬核打工人
Chai Zhao felt that her brother had become different after taking a sword for her. It seemed... he was no longer himself. He would always say things that even Teacher Zheng had never heard before, yet they sounded especially like truths that embodied the principles of the world. Fortunately, no matter how difficult life became, he was willing to take her along and find a way to make a living. Chai Rong felt that at least half the hardships in his life came from his little sister, Chai Xiaomei. A
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The Farmer’s Daughter Becomes a First-Rank Official 农女她官拜一品
Kindness won't keep you alive. Only ruthlessness can defy fate! Chun Xiao knows this all too well. She searches for worthy talent, steps in when others fall short, solves cold cases and clears the innocent, and outwits corrupt court officials. She doesn't rely on men. She earns her rank and title through her own abilities. From a country girl to a top-ranking official, she fights her way into a court full of men, establishes her footing, and holds pow
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I Can Communicate with Fuzzy Creatures, and They Turn My Farm into a Hit 和毛茸茸无障碍沟通,农场被带飞
[Farming + cute pets + food] After transmigrating to another world, Josie takes her only possession, a big-tailed yak, to enter the farm recruitment drive. This place is full of danger! Everywhere you turn, there’s peril! But what does that have to do with a fan of farming games like me? Cotton candy, cat-tongue cookies, pink cakes… Truffle-digging pigs, bouncing lambs, bubble snails… Here I come!
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Beast Taming Begins With Contracting a Dragon 御兽从契约一条龙开始
Qin Yao misses a step and transmigrates. This is a world of beast tamers, where birds breathe fire, rocks can fly, and cacti can walk. Once she adjusts to her new world... In Qin Yao's own eyes: orphaned and alone, dirt-poor and frugal, transmigrated to another world and turned into an illiterate. It's a rough start, so all she can do is work hard. In everyone else's eyes: a strong, taciturn peerless genius who loves a challenge, has plenty of money but keeps a low profile, and likes pretending
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The Zhaokong Dart 照空镖
Beyond Yanmen Pass, she could grip a short dagger as wolves circled her without so much as a twitch of her eyelid. At the Black Wind Pass, she could carry a secret letter and listen to arrows whistle through the woods without her fingertips trembling. With a bodyguard agency's banner in hand, she could quell the turmoil of the martial world. With an examination blade in her grasp, she could unravel the world's baffling cases. Her blade guarded the road for her charges, and the flash of her sword
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The Rise of a Household-Born Servant 家生子的发家之路
Reborn in a new life, Liu Ye arrived in the Great An Dynasty of another world and became a lowly cook. A shrewd father, a hardworking mother, an honest older sister, a quiet older brother, and her, the crafty one. From a household-born servant in an official’s residence to a female clan leader who eventually leads the villagers out of poverty, her life holds more possibilities in the Great An Dynasty, where both men and women can sit the imperial examinations and enter officialdom. In a nutshell
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No One Survives Jingzhe 惊蛰无人生还
The young master of the Wei household has gone blind, and she is the "guide" they hired to lead him. (The stories in this series can be read in any order. Each is standalone, so feel free to pick whichever one you like.
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Azure Lord 青君
There are two ways to live in this world: go with fate, or defy it. When fate decreed that Meng Ning must die, she decided to strike first and stab that treacherous fate to death!
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Please Don't Doubt a Veteran Player 请不要质疑多周目玩家
[Volume One is complete; Volume Two is ongoing] [No romance + precognition + masterful scheming + wild imagination + expansive worldbuilding] “I feel like I’m missing a chunk of my memories.” “I was supposed to join the Sword Sect at four, born with a sword heart.” “I went to the Sword Tomb to awaken a spirit sword, then trained day and night, forgetting to eat or sleep.” “By eleven, I became the Sword Venerable and turned the tide in the final battle.” “After the battle ended, I decided to retu
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When Clear Days Come 逢晴日
In the twelfth year of Tianhe, on a snowy night in the dead of winter, eleven-year-old Shaowei cut off her ties to her family with a single slash and went down the mountain alone. That night, Prince Liu Qi, who had inexplicably been beaten by her like some unlucky stray dog on the roadside, got to his feet and wiped the blood from his nose. Standing in the snow, he watched her blood-soaked figure disappear. … [Note: The heroine grows over the course of the story; she is not an empress or a domin
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Where Has the Demoness Gone? 魔头她干甚去了
After Du Yushu was cast out of her sect, she discovered that the martial world was nothing like she’d imagined. The great heroes who soared through the skies and traversed the earth were tearing their hair out over the city lord’s office civil service exam. The City Lord of Jinming, who could command everyone outside, had to grovel to get promoted. The demonic cultist who had spent thirteen years in seclusion returned to the martial world, only to run into one setback after another. And most imp
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Robbed of All, I Rose First on the Immortal Path 被夺一切后我成了仙道魁首
[Leveling up + strong heroine + no romance + slow burn + lots of original worldbuilding] Lu Shaoheng was born into privilege, exceptionally talented, surrounded by loving family and friends, and promised to a future husband. She grew up spoiled and willful, believing life came far too easily. Then it was all taken from her, swiftly and by force. Only then did she realize, to her shock, that her life was nothing more than a clichéd story? At the lowest point in her life, a voice from the heavens
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Autumn’s Bounty 酿秋实
In the autumn of the fourth year of the Great Zhou, the Yu family collapsed. Yu Youjia and her mother clung to their dilapidated little courtyard, where they awaited the most ironic of supplicants: The noblewomen who had once sworn never to let them set foot in the Yu family home were now disheveled and begging to be taken in. “If you want to live, tear up The Admonitions for Women.” Yu Youjia acted swiftly and decisively. With a single stroke, she cleaved through the former dignity and pride of
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The Whole Sect Goes to Work 全门派打工
Split mountains and shatter peaks, one slash breaks ten thousand techniques! [Fierce, unrestrained heroine × shameless but fierce hero] The heroine is part of an ensemble cast. There's romance, but they're more like comrades who have been through life and death together. Whether you ship them is up to you. Shi Xuanying spent her whole life leading the Blade Sect to glory. She fought her way to the top, undefeated under heaven, and reached the pinnacle of the food chain. Then she closed her eye
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The First Murderous Sword of the Imperial Guard 皇城司第一凶剑
The new book, Nine Chapters of Strange Cases, is now out. Three years ago, the Flying Sparrow Case began. Her father was falsely accused and murdered, while Gu Shenwei was ambushed and surrounded at a mass grave! Three years later, she returns to Bianjing as the Imperial City Office’s most fearsome sword, ready to slay dragons! Censor Han has been engaged three times, and all three families ended up convicted and thrown into prison. This time, he is determined to f
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I Swept My Whole Family Away, Then Lay Flat 卷飞全家后我躺平了
Haitang used to be a workaholic in her past life. Unfortunately, she couldn't escape being betrayed by those closest to her. This life, she's tired. She's decided to give up and do nothing. Her family can work hard to get ahead. All she has to do is lie flat. What? You don't want to work hard? Then she'd better get that little whip cracking...
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