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- From Small-Town Exam Taker to Provincial Governor 从小镇做题家到一省之首 Qin Zhiyuan, a cadre stationed in the countryside, saved a mysterious man from the provincial capital. The city held him up as a model worker and planned to shower him with honors. But a deputy county magistrate used his authority to pull a switcheroo, giving the credit to his own brother-in-law and stealing Qin Zhiyuan's honor. Afraid the truth would come out, the deputy magistrate decided to leave no loose ends. He joined forces with various factions to hem Qin Zhiyuan in, both openly and be 79.1kClicks78Favorites24Recs
- The Book of Rules 规则天书 Everything in the world follows rules. Life and death have their numbers, cause and effect their threads, and the Heavenly Dao is like an invisible code of law. Others can't see it, so they can only accept their fate. Jiang Yan can see it, and he can change it. He is merely the lowest-ranking servant in his sect, judged to have a ruined spiritual root and destined to go no further than Body Tempering. His death in an accident three years from now has already been written. Then one day, he finds 6kClicks2Favorites0Recs
- Island Civilization 荒岛文明 A group of people from the lowest rungs of society are stranded on a deserted island. At first, they face despair and struggle to take even a single step forward. Later, the metaverse within them awakens, and they begin rebuilding civilization on the island. 5.3kClicks9Favorites0Recs
- Emperor of Soul and Martial Arts 魂武之皇 A university student from China dies while resisting tyranny. By chance, he transmigrates to the Soul Martial Continent and takes over the body of a useless third young master. He unexpectedly receives guidance from a mysterious expert and is given an ultimate cultivation manual. Inheriting the legacy of a mighty powerhouse, he gradually cultivates until he becomes the Supreme Venerable. He commands the sun and moon and plucks the stars from the sky. There is no one like him in all the world. 3.2kClicks8Favorites44Recs
- I Can Reclaim a Failed Life 我能回收失败人生 While delivering takeout, unemployed young man Lin Yan finds an old phone that can only recover failed lives. Doomed projects, bankrupt shops, laid-off teams, and debt-ridden companies with no one willing to take them over are all ruins in other people's eyes. To him, they're orders to rebuild someone's fate. With each recovery, he gains the experience, resources, and connections the failed person had left unused. Starting from the very bottom, Lin Yan revives one hopeless mess after another. Al 2.3kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- Spiritual Qi Revival: My Gray Text Can See Through Everything 灵气复苏：我的灰字能看破 Three months into the spiritual qi revival, delivery driver Gu Yuan finds a piece of broken jade at an intersection. He successfully draws qi into his body, and gray text appears before his eyes: [Northwest: spiritual energy stirring. Manifestation in less than half a day.] While others fight tooth and nail for resources, he finds hidden treasures by following the gray text. A chipped bowl he bought for five yuan at a flea market has spirit markings on its base. A copper bell he bought for three 1.1kClicks2Favorites0Recs
- Offering to the Dao of the Mystic Heaven 玄天祭道 Xie Xuan was hunted by the Immortal Emperor and fell into the Dark Moon Continent. When he woke, he had become the sacrificial offering on a temple altar. The chief priest planned to use his blood to summon a god. The faithful waited to watch him turn to ash, and even Meng Yue, who tried to save him, was dragged into the temple's sacrificial formation. Everyone thought he was as good as dead. But as Xie Xuan looked at the blood-red patterns beneath his feet, he only laughed. He knew this formati 944Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- Director Feng Transmigrates to the Five Dynasties and Becomes an Unshakable Survivor 冯导穿越五代终成不倒翁 Director Feng, whose real name is Feng Yuan and whose stage name is "Xiaobao," is a B-movie director who started out as a modern comedy actor. He specializes in period comedies, with hits like I Became an A-List Star in Bianliang and General, Your Secret Identity Is Showing. While filming his thirty-seventh movie, The Old Loyalist of Changle: One Thought Between Loyalty and Treachery, the funding dried up, the crew went unpaid, and the leading man walked off set. After shouting one last "Action! 331Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- Starting Martial Arts with Daily Intelligence 从每日情报开始武道通神 The Great Yin Dynasty, Mud Alley. His father is a gambling addict buried in debt, his mother is frail and sick, and his seven-year-old sister is so hungry she's barely conscious. Sixteen-year-old Shen Yan is being hounded by the gambling house for payment, and they're even threatening to drag his little sister off to settle the debt! At the brink of despair, the [Daily Intelligence System] awakens! [First: Thirty-seven taels of stolen silver from the previous dynasty lie in a dry well in the aba 313Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Debt Collector 旧账清算人 Lu Cen was once a top financial trader. After his fellow partners and superior joined forces to frame him, he was saddled with the blame for enormous losses and lost his professional license. His father was so shocked that he fell seriously ill, and the family spent all their savings paying off debts. Forced to conceal his identity, Lu Cen kept a low profile for three years, working as an ordinary clerk in an old office building downtown. Others thought his edge had worn away and that he was not 258Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Crossing into Immortality: A Mortal's Bones Ask the Azure Heavens 渡仙：一副凡骨问青天 People everywhere cultivate by tempering their dantian and refining their qi sea. Only one lineage cultivates the bones. Bones are the boat, qi is the water. As long as the boat does not sink, the person does not die. To reach the next realm, they must replace a bone each time: first give up one of their own bones, then put in someone else's. After nine replacements, not a single bone in their body is their own, and their name is gone too. 151Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Lowest of the Nine Ranks? I’ll Dance the Lion and Slay My Way Through the Ages 下九流？老子舞狮杀穿万古 While others cultivate immortality in pursuit of eternal life, I, Chen Shitou, cultivate the Dao of the lion dance. The immortal sects step on my lion head and call me low-class? Then I'll use a coffin lid as a drum and roar back ten thousand evil spirits! Before my master died, he left me seven battered lion heads and a lightning-struck wooden brush. The White Lion escorts the dead and specializes in killing immortals and Buddhas. The Black Lion suppresses evil and swallows heavenly tribulation 145Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- Disaster Night Watch 灾厄守夜 Wei Ci, 28, is a former firefighter and now a night-shift delivery worker in Linjiang. One late-night delivery, he "saw" a pedestrian overpass collapse three minutes in the future. From then on, he was always one step ahead of everyone else, rushing into each disaster before it happened. Each time he receives a warning and saves a group of people, one mark on his palm burns away. Behind every "natural disaster" in this city lurks a hand pulling the strings. And inch by inch, he is finding that h 44Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Fifteen Days of Grain Transport 十五日漕运 During the Qingli era of the Northern Song dynasty, the front line of the Song-Xia war is in crisis. Shen Li, a low-ranking transport clerk, receives an order that amounts to a death sentence: deliver a thousand dan of military grain from Bianliang to Yanzhou within fifteen days. A single day's delay means execution, with his whole family implicated. There aren't enough carts or laborers, and every checkpoint along the way is squeezing them for money. Everyone thinks he's doomed, because there' 43Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Fueling the Flames with Blood 以血为薪 In a world where magic defines everything, he was born at the very bottom. Talent? None. Connections? None. Countless people claw their way upward, only to become bones by the roadside. But he refuses to accept his fate. He can sacrifice his flesh and blood, trample his own dignity, and follow this road to the bitter end. He will either become a god or turn to ash. 36Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- I Borrowed a City While Delivering Takeout 我送外卖借来一座城 Lin Du is a delivery rider without a martial meridian. He owes rent, and still needs half his younger sister's tuition. On a stormy night, he takes his final order to a demolition site at the City God Temple and catches someone smashing the temple. He drops his delivery box to help Chen Bo, the temple keeper, and a character meaning "city" burns itself into his palm. [Urban Mark awakened: Guard a landmark, borrow a city's abilities.] Guard the old city wall, and he borrows "Inchstep." Guard t 34Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- A Coroner at the Demon Suppression Bureau Who Can Hear the Dead 镇魔司仵作我能听见死者 Lu Chen, the lowest-ranking coroner in the Demon Suppression Bureau, can hear the last three things a dead person said when he touches their bones with his left hand. After hearing their final words, he can take away a wisp of their martial intent. Each unfulfilled wish he owes adds another black line to his palm. In the River God case, the sixth bride says, "I didn't drown," and the seventh bride is due to board a boat in three days. He has only three days to let the dead finish what they have 21Clicks0Favorites0Recs
