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How Could I, a Top-Tier Star from the Start, Ever Fade Away? 开局顶流的我怎么会糊
Chu Zhi transmigrated to a parallel world and became a top-tier star in China. Even a throwaway post on Weibo earned him hundreds of thousands of comments. A young idol who'd become a complete has-been after a series of malicious smears: throwing his weight around, plagiarizing a new song, secretly getting married, and cheating. With everything going wrong from the start, he was lucky to have the [Personality System]. By doing things most celebrities wouldn't dare, he could earn points and draw
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- 2 A Certain Hogwarts Professor of Runes 某霍格沃茨的魔文教授 Three years after graduating from Hogwarts, Felix walks into the magical school once more, but this time he is a professor! What sparks will fly when Muggle ingenuity meets magic? PS1: Professor of Ancient Runes; PS2: The timeline is set in the trio's second year; 33Votes483.9kRecs845.5kFans
- 3 Closer to My True Form Every Day 每天都离现形更近一步 “If a venomous snake uses its venom to poison a venomous snake, will the venomous snake be poisoned to death by its own venom?” When Feng Yi’s startup hit a snag and he found himself in dire straits, his grandaunt’s private butler arrived with a massive inheritance. Feng Yi: “She had so many relatives of my generation. Why did she leave it to me?” Butler: “Because you’re the most pleasing to look at.” Feng Yi touched his own sharp, angular face. “She certainly had excellent taste!” Yet after inh 17Votes3.3MRecs1MFans
- 4 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
- 5 EN I Am Louis XIV 我乃路易十四 What could be worse than realizing, while you’re still in swaddling clothes, that you’re none other than Louis XIV? Well, there’s this: it’s a fantasy version, too. 1Votes287kRecs126.4kFans
- 6 Players Are Super Just 玩家超正义 The long night has come, and the blood moon hangs overhead. Hoarse whispers drift through street corners, while brass steam engines spew clouds of blood mist. Your brain is singing, your eyes are chanting. Your skin cracks, and lumps of flesh swell beneath it. In the gray mist, a wall of flesh that has devoured thousands of corpses howls day and night... “Don't cry. Our players don't bite. They just want to play with you.” The lonely, underhanded game planner; the top player; savior of the Mist 7Votes676.9kRecs1.2MFans
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Super-Dimensional Wizard 超维术士
Wizards hold an exalted, unrivaled status across the continents and the multiverse. Mystery, wisdom, cruelty, and bloodshed are practically synonymous with wizards. But what are wizards really like? After encountering the world of wizards, Angel reached a conclusion: Wizards are a group who use idealist thought to illuminate themselves, yet approach the world dialectically with a materialist attitude. In other words, they are a breed of rigorous scientists who walk alone on the road to discoveri
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- 8 EN The Great Dao Leads to Heaven 大道朝天 “Having become human, I want to become an immortal; born on earth, I want to ascend to the heavens.”, Lu Xun. (The official First Group for A Path Toward Heaven, group number: 311875513; the official Second Group for A Path Toward Heaven, group number: 220593959; the VIP fully subscribed readers' group, group number: 670061923. Everyone is welcome to join.) 41Votes6.9MRecs1.6MFans
- 9 Dawn Doctor 黎明医生 The bustling streets of the past now lay in a grotesque, deathly silence. Hoarse, frenzied whispers coiled across the sky, while indescribable ancient giants drifted beneath the sea. Unknown diseases broke out, terrible disasters ravaged the land, and panicked people searched day and night for imaginary places of refuge. Blood-rain fell. Lightning revealed the gathering crows. Nevermore, nevermore, they answered. “We can see that this aberrant creature has twelve pairs of ribs, just like a human 15Votes603.9kRecs793.4kFans
- 10 Global Superstar: Starting as a Trainee 全球巨星从练习生开始 Chen Minhao discovers that he has transmigrated to Huaxia in a parallel world, where he has also become an idol trainee. Through his own efforts, he learns to command the three chariots of intelligence, emotional intelligence, and good looks. Starting as a trainee, he rises step by step to become a top star, and ultimately a global superstar who conquers the world in both singing and acting. This is not a Korean entertainment novel! The three characters in Chen Minhao's 0Votes396.3kRecs199.6kFans
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Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主
Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th
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My Many Masters 我的师父很多
Conflict filled the jianghu in an age of great contention. The leader of the Great Qin people wielded a Mo Dao and thrashed the whole realm until everyone had black eyes and swollen faces. The old immortals of the jianghu squatted atop their mountains, then turned around and cast the entire world beneath them. Some strongmen measured the earth on foot, while some jianghu heroes split the sky with a single sword, only to get drunk in a beauty’s arms moments later. Daoists carried swords on their
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- 13 Great Doctor Ling Ran 大医凌然 Ling Ran, a medical student, had a modest goal: to become the greatest doctor in the world. Then, by accident, he achieved it. 53Votes8.5MRecs2.1MFans
- 14 The Swordstep Court 步剑庭 This is an age when legends grow old: In the north, the Old Dragon King rolls over and the earth shudders. In the west, the peacock lounges amid beauty and has no wish to move. Two old men who wield swords have no grievance against each other, yet must fight to the death. And a poor, miserable scholar tosses aside his books, suddenly draws his blade, and chops apart half the land. This is an age when legends are born anew: The beauty destined to topple kingdoms has yet to learn how to put on mak 2Votes299.2kRecs249.3kFans
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To the Rooftop 上天台
Heaven, lend me five hundred more years, and I'll build myself a Heavenly Platform. The Heavenly Platform stands eighteen thousand zhang high. Step by step, climb without hesitation. In his past life, he was just one step away from the Heavenly Platform when he missed his footing. Now reborn, he steels himself and starts over. I ride auspicious clouds, wrapped in golden light. Reborn, I have come to play a very big game of chess! Enter the novel's title for verificati
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The Legendary Mechanic 超神机械师
Han Xiao, a veteran power-leveling player in Stellar Sea, was thrown into the transmigration crowd by a mysterious force from the East, or rather, from a certain otaku. With a player interface in tow, he became an NPC and returned to the days before Stellar Sea's open beta. He resolutely chose the highest-difficulty class: Mechanic. Warships sail in formation across the stars, star-powered mechs twist through the heavens like dragons, psychic cannons lay waste to worlds, and an endless mechanica
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- 17 The Saint 圣者 “I am evil, from beginning to end, and that will never change.” “Is that so?” A tragic tale about an evil, unfortunate lich and an absurd otherworldly soul forced to share a body… That’s it, really. (Shrugs.) No harem, no boys’ love, no reverse harem. 11Votes553.9kRecs138.7kFans
- 18 EN Cultural Invasion of Another World 文化入侵异世界 A group of dragons sat on little stools, staying up day and night to watch Game of Thrones. The elven archdruids were moved to tears by Hachiko: A Dog's Story. Humans and dwarves brawled in the Hearthstone tavern over a legendary card. Even the gods came down to the mortal realm to demand the next installment of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In the end, the archdruids started a business called “One-Click Druid Beatdown,” while goblins and gnomes joined forces to build online stores. A cultu 5Votes1.5MRecs1MFans
- 19 Light, Short, Scattered 轻,短,散 All kinds of wild imaginings, in short-story form. The trilogy: “Light, Short, Scattered,” “Soft, Transformed, Things,” and “Turn, Leave, Depart.” Part science fiction, driven by wild ideas. Light novels, short stories, and prose. Endless tracks, a long journey. Only your thoughts keep you from being alone. 0Votes131.3kRecs243.9kFans
- 20 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
- 21 EN Inner Demons 心魔 The new book, The Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll, is currently being serialized. The print edition has already been published under the title Formless. Perhaps on a cold winter night, you hear someone softly singing on the other side of a wall: A feather-robed heart, as pure as clouds, a zither, a sword, and a brush. Light snow, a red brazier, yellow-sprout wine, reading the Purple Star and Dongting scriptures by night. The lingering melody sounds like mus 4Votes410.7kRecs584.5kFans
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