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- 1 Reborn at the Turn of the Century 重生世纪之交 This is the story of an ordinary man who keeps moving forward quietly, approaching life with humility and striving to pursue his dreams. 0Votes751.3kRecs247.8kFans
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Divine Path Revival 神道复苏
Spiritual qi revival brings suffering to all. Dou Changsheng arrives by transmigration, holding the Investiture of the Gods. He issues divine decrees, contends for destiny, gathers incense offerings, rises through the divine ranks, and claims the world. And so on. How did I wake up as the Celestial Emperor? Am I still dreaming? Note: This book features the divine path, battles for dominion through destiny, farming, and a madman with countless secret identities!
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- 3 EN Summon Nightmare 召唤梦魇 This is a story about an ordinary person who gains power from his nightmares… One day, Lin Sheng noticed something strange in his otherwise ordinary, everyday life. A recurring nightmare set him on an indescribably eerie journey. A vast nightmare, a disorienting secret. A new book begins: Hidden Dead Corner, a story of futuristic terror. Come give it a try. 14Votes1.4MRecs789.9kFans
- 4 Reborn in a Legendary Era 重生之传奇时代 Family, love, friendship, two sets of memories, one life. Watch as an unassuming student transforms in spectacular fashion and makes an extraordinary name for himself in the world of business, surrounded by powerful tycoons. 0Votes296.6kRecs171.8kFans
- 5 Above the Heavens 苍穹之上 A thousand years of arduous cultivation beneath the firmament, all for the day he can stand above it! In Skybreak Gorge, a strategic choke point between the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty and the Seven Killings Tribe of the demon race, a strange object suddenly fell from the sky. It swept up a group of cultivator-soldiers and hurled them into the mighty currents of history... Song Zheng was only one of the less remarkable among them. He has read the sages’ classics, but he is also a condemned wolf-sol 1Votes5.9MRecs319.2kFans
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My 1980s 我的八零年代
If you had the chance to start over, what would you do in the sweeping decades of the eighties and nineties? The past is as good as dead; today is a new beginning. Reborn, Guan Xiaojun has long since stopped worrying about love and the like. What matters most to him are his family. If his family is doing well, then everything is well. He fights only to put their lives back on the path they should have followed. And, along the way, he hopes to indulge a few modest desires.
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- 7 EN A Mortal's Cultivation of Immortality: The Immortal Realm Arc 凡人修仙之仙界篇 A mortal cultivates immortality, and the storms rise again. Travel through time and space, reverse the cycle of reincarnation. Golden Immortals and Supreme Unity Immortals, Grand Luo Dao Ancestors. Three thousand great paths, supreme laws. The Immortal Realm arc of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: the story of Han Li making his mark in the Immortal Realm, and the undying legend of an ordinary boy's path to immortality. A note for readers who haven't read the previous story: it won' 141Votes30.1MRecs10.7MFans
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Way of the Devil 极道天魔
New book: Dark Night of Desperation, I Alone Am an Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you’re interested. Demons and monsters run rampant, and the people suffer. Divine weapons and demonic blades shine over the land. A game modifier on Lu Sheng’s phone accidentally became a supernatural ability in his mind. It also became his only lifeline in this dark, chaotic age.
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Rekindled 重燃
Cheng Ran is reborn in a world that is both familiar and strange... Every step of the way, he burns bright.
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- 10 Born in Chinatown 生在唐人街 New book: My Life as a Landowner in North America From the beginning to the end of the century, Chinese Americans, a marginalized group born in the United States, seem never to have gained anything, lingering on society’s overlooked fringes. From Chinatown to Wall Street, follow Su Mu, born into an ordinary life, as he fights to build a bright future! (Author of the completed work The Great Rancher, with over 8,000 average subscriptions. Give it a try!) Full-subscri 0Votes335.4kRecs213.1kFans
- 11 Pay Your Respects to the Lord of the Cult 拜见教主大人 After an unexpected death, Chu Xiu discovered that he had transmigrated into the game world of Great Jianghu, becoming the biggest Boss of the game's third version before he had even come into his full power: the Kunlun Sect Leader! Great Jianghu brings together countless martial arts settings. There is the King of the Eastern Isles, who reads the qi of the heavens and kills with a smile. There is the leader of the Beggars' Sect, whose Dragon Subduing Palms shake the martial world. And there is 10Votes1.9MRecs1.2MFans
- 12 Golden Fishing Village 黄金渔村 P.S. I’ve started a new book, The Taoist Priest: Times Have Changed. Please check it out. After years of working in a big city, Ao Muyang returns to the small fishing village where he grew up. On the way home, he is attacked and falls into the sea, setting off a legendary tale of a grass carp leaping through the Dragon Gate... The deep sea’s countless treasures, the shallow sea’s myriad fish, a magical ocean, and dazzling life; Fishermen casting their nets, fields tilled in mountain streams 0Votes1MRecs275.1kFans
- 13 I Want to Become a Powerful Clan 我要做门阀 In the middle of the Western Han dynasty, the people were struggling to make ends meet, and the nation was in decline. Countless celebrated scholars cried out: "If Zhang Sheng does not emerge, what will become of the world?!" And so the saying went: "Zhang and Liu share the realm." 0Votes1.3MRecs474.3kFans
- 14 My 1979 我的1979 When you wake up, you’re back in that era. Facing the past once more, can you guess how it will end… 12Votes6.7MRecs2.2MFans
- 15 A Small-Time Rich Farmer in the Hills 山洼小富农 Wen Xu dislikes life in the big city. It makes him feel as if he is always in a hurry, with no chance to rest, body or mind. His paycheck never seems to stretch far enough, and that is before you even get to the skies where you can barely see the stars and the smoggy days that give you endless reasons to complain. At last, he gets the chance to escape the city and return to the countryside. Though life is a little hard at first, the land and scenery of his hometown finally bring peace to his res 0Votes601.8kRecs236.7kFans
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Tales of Herding Gods 牧神记
The ancestral rule of the Great Ruins says: When night falls, do not go outside. The old, weak, sick, and disabled residents of the Great Ruins’ Remnant Village find a baby by the river and name him Qin Mu. They raise him with painstaking care. One day, night falls and darkness engulfs the Great Ruins. Qin Mu steps out of his home… Be a villain who revels in the spring breeze! That’s what the blind man tells him. Qin Mu’s rise as a villain is just beginning!
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- 17 EN The Treasure Hunter 捡宝王 P.S. I’ve started a new book, The Taoist Priest, Times Have Changed. Please check it out. I love gold and silver, but I love glittering gemstones even more. Guns, jewelry, and precious metals: how could a collector’s world be complete without antiques? Warehouse auctions, secondhand deals, buying and selling real estate, prospecting and mining for gold, but when it comes to making money, searching for legendary treasures is really the way to go. At my command are a tiger cat, a gray wolf, a 0Votes1.3MRecs443.8kFans
- 18 The World of Film 电影的世界 “When people see the light of your success, they'll forget the darkness of the methods you used to get there.” The new book, What to Do When You Get the Wrong Cheat, is now being serialized. 0Votes1.5MRecs566.3kFans
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Silver Overlord 白银霸主
The most precious things in the world are free, yet ordinary people always overlook them. Besides such priceless things as air, sunlight, and family, there is another precious thing right beside you, within easy reach. I wonder if you’ve noticed it?
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- 20 There's a Bug in My Body 我的身体有bug Have you ever thought about using magic in a wuxia game, martial arts in a Western fantasy game, or piloting a planet-destroying battleship in a Stone Age game? Home is a game that encompasses everything. Players can enter different games through Home, experience those games while obtaining all kinds of rare items and skills, then bring them through Home into other games and become gaming experts who dominate the battlefield! Chen Bing became interested in the Home game, but before long he disco 0Votes564.8kRecs347.2kFans
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