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The Scholarly Prodigy's Sea of Stars 学霸的星辰大海
“You should put the same effort you spend gaming into your studies.” When this famous line parents everywhere have used to lecture their children becomes reality, a super-achiever with an intense hunger for knowledge and power is born. He loves studying, not women. No games, just practice problems!
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- 2 Omni-Data 万能数据 When Cheng Nuo woke up, he found that the world looked completely different to him. In his eyes, everything could be converted into sets of data. The pool table in Cheng Nuo's eyes: the balls are 57.15 millimeters in diameter and weigh 170 grams; the cue is 145 centimeters long; sinking the three ball requires a force of 2.14 newtons at an angle of 68.54 degrees. Cheng Nuo's eyes saw... You can call Cheng Nuo a top student! A data genius! A mental math ace! His skills include: making every baske 0Votes138.3kRecs209.5kFans
- 3 EN The Top Student's Black Tech System 学霸的黑科技系统 “System, can I exchange points for money?” “No.” “Damn, then what use are you to me?” “I can make you a top student.” - From mathematical conjectures to controlled nuclear fusion, from a single blackboard to the boundless starry sky. This is a story about a top student. 31Votes6.6MRecs3MFans
- 4 Dragon Raja V: The Return of the Departed 龙族Ⅴ:悼亡者的归来 Dragon Raja Season 2 premieres July 18, with new episodes every Friday at 10 a.m., streaming on Tencent Video! The passionate dragons are back, and the boys have returned! This is a hellish battle as demon kings tear into one another. Iron swords and sharp claws rip through the air, leaving trails of frost and flame. Blood has barely begun to spray before the heat turns it into crimson steam. Shockwaves race back and forth along the long corridor. Not a single pane of glass remains intact, and e 0Votes5MRecs10.2MFans
- 5 Dragon Raja IV: Odin's Abyss 龙族Ⅳ:奥丁之渊 Lu Mingfei becomes the new student council president of Cassell College. By chance, he discovers that Chu Zihang has disappeared. No one but Lu Mingfei remembers that Chu Zihang ever existed, and they suspect Lu Mingfei suffered a concussion during a mission. Tormented by the truth, Lu Mingfei seeks out Nono, who is far away on an island taking bridal lessons. He has no idea that on the day he left the colleg 0Votes22.8kRecs152.6kFans
- 6 Dragon Raja III: The Black Moon Tide, Part Two 龙族Ⅲ:黑月之潮(下) Season 2 of Dragon Raja is streaming on Tencent Video from July 18, with new episodes every Friday at 10 a.m.! After the Cassell trio withdraws from Genji Heavy Industries, they are once again caught up in Tokyo's undercurrents. To evade pursuit by the Sheqi Eight Families, Lu Mingfei and Erii hide in a love hotel. Erii is one of the keys to unlocking the White King's treasure. Caesar and Chu Zihang hope Lu Mingfei can take Erii out of Japan. Meanwhile, Sakurai Mai and Chip Girl carry out their 0Votes37.7kRecs115.5kFans
- 7 Dragon Raja III: Tide of the Black Moon, Part Two 龙族Ⅲ:黑月之潮(中) Dragon Raja Season 2 premieres July 18, with new episodes every Friday at 10:00 on Tencent Video! Dragon remains are discovered deep in the Japan Trench. Cassell’s ace agents Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Lu Mingfei are attacked by dragons during their deep-sea dive. The three struggle to escape and try to contact headquarters, only to discover that the entire Japanese branch has betrayed them and is hunting them down. On the streets of Chikaramachi, they cross paths with the rampaging biker gang Akab 0Votes13.2kRecs82.6kFans
- 8 Dragon Raja III: Tide of Darkness, Part One 龙族Ⅲ:黑月之潮(上) Season 2 of Dragon Raja premieres on Tencent Video every Friday at 10 a.m. starting July 18! At an unnamed Siberian harbor, Colonel Bondarev brought news of the Soviet Union’s dissolution and struck a deal with Dr. Herzog, agreeing to fund his continued research into dragon genes. Just before he left, a sudden upheaval erupted: Bondarev shot Herzog, and the frozen dragon corpse beneath thousands of years of ice at the harbor suddenly spread its wings. Its master, Zero, stood high above to face a 0Votes18kRecs108.8kFans
- 9 Dragon Raja II: The Pupil of the Mourner 龙族Ⅱ:悼亡者之瞳 Season 2 of Dragon Raja premieres on Tencent Video every Friday at 10 a.m. starting July 18! On his birthday, Lu Mingfei receives an invitation to a class reunion and accepts a mission from Cassell College. Chu Zihang, however, takes on the entire mission alone and completes it perfectly. The two immediately fly to Chicago to begin a new semester. There, they meet their beautiful junior, Xia Mi. Meanwhile, Principal Angers arrives and leads Lu Mingfei in bidding a staggering one hundred million 0Votes39.7kRecs134.7kFans
- 10 Dragon Raja I: The Dawn of the Fire 龙族Ⅰ:火之晨曦 Dragon Raja Season 2 premieres July 18 and streams every Friday at 10 a.m. on Tencent Video! Lu Mingfei is just an ordinary, clueless high school student. A letter from Cassell College changes his uneventful life. Drawn by the call of adventure and mystery, and torn between love and dreams, he resolutely chooses the unknown. A black helicopter cuts across the sky, and the gates of a foreign land slowly open before him. An ordinary Chinese boy sets out on an extraordinary path to slay dragons. Ye 0Votes120kRecs182.5kFans
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The Sacred Ruins 圣墟
Rising from ruin, returning from extinction. The seas turn to dust, lightning and thunder fade away, and that wisp of dark mist draws near the earth once more. The shackles of the world are broken, and a brand-new world reveals a mysterious corner of itself...
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A Will Eternal 一念永恒
With a single thought, the sea becomes vast; with a single thought, the fields turn to mulberry groves. With a single thought, ten thousand demons are slain; with a single thought, ten thousand immortals are destroyed. Only my thought… is eternal. This is Er Gen’s fourth full-length novel, A Will Eternal, following Renegade Immortal, Pursuit of the Truth, and I Shall Seal the Heavens.
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The Immortal Mortal 不朽凡人
In this world, only those with a spiritual root can cultivate immortality. Those with ordinary roots are destined to remain ordinary people. Mo WujI has only an ordinary root. He is nothing but an ordinary man!
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Flying Sword, Seeking the Dao 飞剑问道
The ninth novel by Tomato after Swallowed Star, Desolate Era, and Lord Snow Eagle. In this world, there are fox spirits, river gods, water monsters, and great demons, as well as cultivators who seek eternal life. Cultivators open their spiritual eyes to see demons and ghosts, forge a flying sword to slay enemies from a thousand miles away, and use far-seeing eyes and keen ears to scout their surroundings. The Qin family's second young master, Qin Yun, is one such cultivator...
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