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- 1 The Fundamental Laws of Deduction 基本演绎法则 This is a shattered age. Gray fog blankets the world, and heretics descend. Deformed flesh monsters struggle to break free of their mechanical shells, howling within sticky steel and crawling beneath disorienting neon lights. Jiang Cheng awoke in the bitter cold of December, his vision blurred and hazy. Water dripped. He was tied up in a bathtub, the shower slowly pouring water into it. The water had already reached his chin. 0Votes30.9kRecs148.3kFans
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The Naming of the Night 夜的命名术
Amid neon lights of blue and purple, beneath a dense canopy of steel, lies the frontier of a flood of data: a world transformed by the technological revolution, and the boundary between reality and illusion. Steel and flesh, the past and the future. Here, the surface world and the hidden world coexist. Everything before your eyes seems as close as the wall of time itself. Darkness slowly closes in. But you have to understand, my friend: we cannot face the darkness with gentleness. We must use fi
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- 3 EN Step Aside, Let the Emperor Handle It! 退下,让朕来 [The print edition is now available] Shen Tang woke up on the road to exile and discovered that this world made no sense. Divine stones fell from the sky, and a hundred kingdoms fought over them. Scholars cultivated literary talent, making their words come true. Warriors cultivated martial courage, able to split mountains and cleave seas. The pretty boy she’d taken him for recited, “Spear in hand, galloping into battle,” and the next moment armor covered him and a lance appeared in his grasp. On 46Votes4.7MRecs2MFans
- 4 The Genius Psychologist 天才心理学家 A secret code hidden at home. A sandalwood box containing the truth behind events from more than a decade ago. A group photo of eighteen members of a mysterious organization. A death list covered in X marks... The protagonist, Chen Dong, is a patient with low-risk depression and a genius with an extraordinary talent for deduction and logic. Medication kept his condition under control, allowing him to live an ordinary life for more than twenty years. The story begins with the accidental theft of 0Votes66.1kRecs70.6kFans
- 5 The Best Principal 最校长 Ren Feng transmigrates into a strange parallel world much like Earth, where he becomes the principal of a disreputable college on the verge of bankruptcy. Then he gets a prestigious-school System. So he has Qi Baishi teach traditional Chinese painting, Beethoven teach piano, Socrates teach philosophy, Gauss teach mathematics, Qian Zhongshu teach Chinese classics, Hayao Miyazaki teach animation, Jordan teach basketball… “In the twenty-first century, far away in the East, there stands a school ren 0Votes82.4kRecs83.8kFans
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House Dad’s Literary Life 奶爸的文艺人生
“Daddy!” He had just transmigrated to a parallel world when a sweet little girl called him Dad. Yang Yi was completely dumbfounded. Well, it turned out that Xixi really was his daughter, and her mother was a gorgeous, aloof former pop diva. This was getting out of hand! And one problem after another soon followed. How was he supposed to take care of a kid? Yang Yi, a lone-wolf assassin in his previous life, was at his wit’s end. Maybe he could tell her some stories? Yang Yi never expected the st
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- 7 Entertainment Star Factory 娱乐星工场 Run an entertainment star factory, upgrade the recording studio, and recruit a sound engineer! Hire five-star screenwriters and train four-star performers. Work hard to turn ordinary scripts into blockbuster hits! Keep it fresh, steer clear of tacky glamour! Put heart into the production, and make the journey a joyful one! 0Votes236.3kRecs91kFans
- 8 The Splendor of Light and Shadow 光影风华 An accident that was never supposed to happen changed Zhou Bai's life, plunging him headfirst into the dazzling, bizarre world of showbiz. And so, in the extraordinary year 1996, he embarked on a different path. The stories unfolding in the light and shadow of the screen would become the finest chapter of Zhou Bai's life. 0Votes31.8kRecs46.6kFans
- 9 The Omniscient and Omnipotent One 全知全能者 Part One: Set in a modern city, a cultivation story about a rogue cultivator’s journey. (Complete) Part Two: A grandmaster’s identity, and his travels through the world. (Complete. Friends who have been saving this one can finally start reading.) Part Three: A grandmaster behind the scenes, a rookie in plain sight, and the path to enlightenment in a cultivation world through a dual identity. (Ongoing) 0Votes745.3kRecs291.2kFans
- 10 Hunter of Strange Creatures 奇异生物猎人 Bai Yujing was tired of his ordinary life. One day, he acquired a System for hunting strange creatures and began a journey to explore the world in search of them. An ancient castle in England, a seaside town in Japan, the Amazon rainforest, an old village in western Hunan: any of these places could be home to mysterious creatures. Bai Yujing will take you into this hidden world you never knew existe 0Votes3.9kRecs8kFans
- 11 Back to the Past as a Cat 回到过去变成猫 At the gate of the East Family Housing Compound at Chu Hua University, the gatekeeper uncle answered a phone call, then threw open the window and roared toward the nearby grove in a booming voice: “Black Charcoal, your mom’s calling you home for dinner!” Whoosh! A black cat shot out of the dense grass at the edge of the grove and raced toward one of the buildings, disappearing into the entrance in the blink of an eye. After it, one cat head after another poked up from the grass. It was mealtime: 25Votes1.2MRecs1.1MFans
- 12 The Entertainment Industry's Big Mouth 娱乐大喷子 Born in a parallel world where entertainment is booming, Mo Zhuosi finds that most productions are shoddily made and terribly low in quality. As a result, critics have become an enormously popular profession. From that day on, Mo Zhuosi swears to heaven that he will never lie again. To his superiors, the media, and online commenters, he speaks his honest thoughts. “If the judges weren’t out of their minds, how did The Tomb Raider get nominated for an Oscar?” “You say this is a singing variety sh 0Votes80.8kRecs44.3kFans
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The King's Avatar 全职高手
The top expert in the online game Glory, hailed as a textbook-level player, was driven out by his club for various reasons. After leaving the professional scene, he took refuge in an Internet cafe and became a lowly manager. However, with ten years of gaming experience, he returned to the game in Glory's newly opened Tenth District. Carrying memories of the past and an unfinished homemade weapon, he began his journey back to the summit.
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The Psychological Restricted Zone 心理禁区
This book has been officially published, and 150 limited-edition signed copies are now available for preorder. The limited edition is sold at Manyu Culture's Tmall store. Search for Psychological Forbidden Zone on Tmall and grab your copy now! Lu Ran was an intern psychological counselor. By chance, he came across a strange collection of bizarre psychological case files. It contained many absurd, bizarre, and terrifying missions, yet completing them brought great rewards. During his tense and th
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Ace 王牌
Deception is not black magic, but a weapon. Used for good, it is righteous; used for evil, it is wicked. Private detectives are not police officers, but they pursue the truth all the same. When a little con artist becomes a private detective, everything changes, because there is no longer just one truth. What matters is not what the truth is, but what truth you need. This is the story of a little con artist growing and making his way in the city. P.S. While the book is new, recommendations, favo
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Striving in Dream of the Red Chamber 奋斗在红楼
In the winter of the seventh year of the Yongzhi reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the beautiful, haughty little girl Lin Daiyu has just entered the Jia household. A modern science graduate transmigrates into the body of Jia Huan, a bastard son in the Jia household from Dream of the Red Chamber. If he doesn’t want to be dragged down by his useless Jia relatives and have his family confiscated and his head chopped off, he needs to prepare early. This is the story of a bastard son making a comeback
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The Gourmet’s Supplier 美食供应商
“In the distant East, there is a strange little restaurant that has turned down Michelin three-star ratings several times. It’s expensive: a bowl of egg fried rice with soup costs RMB 288. Oh, I forgot, it also comes with a plate of pickles. Even so, plenty of people line up for a table. The restaurant doesn’t take reservations. You have to queue in person, and countless people fly in on private jets just to get in line. Of course, there’s no place to park your plane or your car. The service is
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- 18 Pet King 宠物天王 [1. Download a suspicious game] [2. Catch a few magical pets to be your companions] [3. Lead your pet shop to success through a fun, easygoing daily life] ###Volumes 1–3 of the print edition are now available from major online retailers### VIP group: 567288256 (for readers with a fan rank of 5,000 or higher) 8Votes1.7MRecs882.7kFans
- 19 The Future King 未来天王 An old legion commander who died in battle during the apocalypse is reborn as a fresh-faced young celebrity in the new century, five hundred years after the apocalypse ended (?)… “Whenever a BGM starts playing in my head, I feel like there's nothing I can't face.”, Fang Zhao. Author of three novels: Star Rank Hunter, Return to the Past and Become a Cat, and Primitive Wars. 4Votes6.6MRecs905.3kFans
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