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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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The Founder of Future Games 未来游戏创始人
“Super Black Technology! His Tech Is Fifty Years Ahead of Its Time” “The Greatest Innovator Since the Dawn of the Internet Age” “A Revolution in Gaming, the Pioneer of a New Era” “This Is Not a Game. It’s a Whole New World” “A Mega-Corporation Is Born Today” After this game, which drove the world wild with excitement, was released, every media outlet devoted its front-page headlines to singing Su Li’s praises. They all printed the words he had spoken at the launch event: “This is a spiritual oas
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Super Sect: My Sect Buildings Can Level Up 超级宗门:我的宗门建筑可升级
[A work with over twenty thousand premium subscriptions. Read with confidence.] After living another life, he became the young sect master of a sect that ruled one region. He had thought that, with a towering tree to shelter him, he was destined to enjoy a carefree and worry-free life. Unfortunately, an unexpected calamity struck, and the sect withered and declined. When the last ten disciples were forced to leave, and the sect was left with only a deaf old man and a dog named Haha, I suddenly d
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The Cutting-Edge Technology Research Center 黑科技研发中心
A research center deep in the mountains has captured the attention of the entire world. Every breakthrough that comes out of it sends ripples across the globe. It gives streamers who dream of broadcasting from the wilderness hope that they can have a metal orb follow them around. It gives those who wish to explore the mysterious ocean depths a chance of success. Technology changes lives, while Wang Hao simply studies one technology after another.
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Cultivation Chat Group (The Daily Life of a Chat Group) 修真聊天群(聊天群的日常生活)
One day, Song Shuhang accidentally joined a chat group for veteran sufferers of immortal-cultivation chuunibyou. Everyone in the group addressed one another as fellow Daoists, and their profile names were all things like Palace Master, Cave Master, Perfected One, and Celestial Master. Even the group owner's lost pet dog was described as a great demon hound that had run away from home. All day long, they chatted about alchemy, exploring secret realms, cultivation experiences, and such. Then one
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How to Become a Creator God 创世神是怎样练成的
Lao Tai's new book, My Attribute Right Hand, is essentially a sequel to this novel! Fang Yuan painstakingly crafts a steel ball. By accident, he connects the patterns inside it, causing the steel ball to mutate and giving birth to a world within. Thus, Fang Yuan gradually adds ingredients and embellishments, evolving the steel-ball world into a genuine world and becoming its world god. Whenever he has nothing to do, he creates a living species and lets you compete for the c
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I Just Want to Be a Quiet Top Student 我只想当一个安静的学霸
"Do you yearn for knowledge?" "Once you reach the pinnacle of human knowledge, you can have anything you want." "Then I yearn for knowledge!"
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The Immortal Realm 长生界
The Immortal Realm anime premieres exclusively on Tencent Video every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. starting October 29. Join Xiao Chen as he ventures into the game, and witness the Immortal Realm together! … Who in this world can escape death? No matter how peerless your beauty or unrivaled your charm, in the end you will become a skeleton. No matter how extraordinary a hero you are or how vast an empire you command, in the end you will become a heap of dust. And yet, legends of immortality have endure
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The Iron-Blooded General in the War Against Japan 抗日之铁血战将
The new book, Reborn in 1970: Divided from the Family from the Start, has been uploaded. It's a farming novel set in the commune era, with no golden finger. I hope all you dear readers will continue to support me and add it to your collections. Li Hao said with a resolute look after transmigrating. From then on, Li Hao began his life as a military cook, fighting his way through the ranks...
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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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The Emperor of the Mountain Valley 山沟皇帝
The protagonist's father had a dream and thought he was the Son of Heaven. Then a Taoist from a run-down temple read his fortune and said he was destined to be emperor. And so, this little landowner, who had never even been to the prefectural city, declared himself emperor and founded a country in a remote mountain valley. (According to reader feedback, this book moves at lightning speed: he becomes emperor in just three chapters, and before you know it, the whole nation is at war…)
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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.
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The Homebody Master 宅师
Being a homebody is not merely a way of life, but a state of being! Yin dwellings and yang dwellings, the art of feng shui and geomancy: looking up to observe the celestial phenomena, looking down to examine the terrain, and studying human harmony in between, grasping the profound principles of change between heaven and earth, and foreseeing fortune, calamity, good luck, and misfortune. Not only are there feng shui artifacts worth ten thousand pieces of gold and coveted by ordinary people, but a
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Eternal Kingdom 永恒国度
At midnight, a cataclysm struck. The Heavenly Dao changed, and the desires and obsessions of all living beings filled the world. The Heavenly Dao could no longer bear it. Evil thoughts ran rampant, while the thoughts of all beings gave rise to worlds of fantasy. Evil thoughts, good thoughts, obsessions, and desires tangled without end. The Heavenly Dao was at its limit. When things reach an extreme, they change. Fantasy descended, myriad worlds merged, and all things competed for freedom beneath
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A Leisurely Countryside Livestream 悠闲乡村直播间
Rural livestreaming, the grand viewing platform. There are plenty of livestream rewards: go hunting in the mountains with a fine bow, or catch fish downstream with a good net. There is endless fun in the wild mountains, and adorable pets are a must. Open mountain roads, cross the fields and rivers, pick wild fruit: livestreaming is full of fun. Have fun, make some money, tease the dogs, chase wild boars. A little rural livestreaming brings food and drink, while everyday t
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Building Cars 造车
“I want to build cars!” Han Hao said with complete seriousness. “You?” Everyone around him laughed, and someone sneered, “Other people build cars with money, but the cars you, Han Hao, build will have to be bought with your life!” In the face of all the doubts, Han Hao remained unmoved. “In that case, let me be the first to test-drive it. I, Han Hao, will stake my life on a future for China’s automobile industry!”
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I Really Don’t Want to Be a Star 我真不要当明星
And with that, my new book sets sail! Please add it to your collection and recommend it. More importantly, I hope you distinguished readers will take a moment each day to click on the latest chapter with those lucky hands of yours and read for 30 seconds. It affects the book’s future recommendations and its performance. Many thanks!
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Spare Me, Great Lord! 大王饶命
A car accident changes high school student Lu Shu’s life. When the age of spiritual qi revival arrives, he’s determined to lead the way. Survival of the fittest. The victor rules. …
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The Daily Life of the Immortal King 仙王的日常生活
[The original novel of the popular domestic 2D animated IP of the same name] This book is promoted under the title “The Daily Life of Wang Ling.” Its side story is “The Only Koi in the Cultivation World.” At the age of ten, or six in the animated version, Wang Ling casually defeated the Demon King Swallowing Heaven Toad. As an omnipotent cultivation prodigy, he had to conceal his overwhelming power and survive among a group of ordinary cultivation students. Money, immortal arts, magical treasur
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The All-Round Farmer 全职农夫
Zhang Fan, who works for the city landscaping department, is dismissed for no reason. Disheartened, he returns to his hometown, where he happens to obtain a miraculous Guanyin purification vase while sorting through his family’s belongings. The vase contains a space with a pool of water inside. The pool can accelerate the growth of plants and animals and improve living organisms. With the miraculous vase in his possession, Zhang Fan can still make a name for himself in the countryside, leading t
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The Mountain Hermit's Miscellany 山野杂家
Bound to the game “The Hundred Schools of Thought,” he lives in seclusion deep in the mountains. He spends his free time farming, reading, tending to the sick, and occasionally doing a bit of carpentry... So why do so many famous celebrities keep showing up, each hoping for a chance to meet him?
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Chaoyang Police Affairs 朝阳警事
The heavenly eye and earthly eye are no match for the human eye. Community police officers work at the grassroots level, relying on the watchful eyes of the public to solve one bizarre case after another. The Chaoyang residents have a message: Don't break the law, or you're finished!
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The Sword Saint of the Flourishing Tang 盛唐剑圣
The Three Wonders of the High Tang: Li Bai’s poetry, Zhang Xu’s cursive calligraphy, and Pei Min’s swordsmanship. A Chinese literature student transmigrates into the one and only Pei Min, the sword saint officially recognized by the state. With a three-foot green blade, he is invincible beneath heaven. He reaches up to the highest heavens and the vast universe, and forges the poetry of the High Tang anew.
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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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