“Hello, everyone! My name is Shen Jianguo. I am a night school instructor teaching ideological development and Marxist philosophy, occasionally analyzing recent policies and measures for my students.... more>>

All my classes are held in the middle of the night; I’ve never seen my coworkers or students during the day. The training institute’s classrooms are all in abandoned schools, hospitals, or residences. The license plate number of the bus that picks me up is 444; it always arrives at my house at precisely midnight and disappears at five in the morning.

What? You’re saying I’ve met a ghost? Impossible! As a staunch scientific materialist, I absolutely don’t believe there’s any such thing as ghosts!

I’ve only had one problem recently: couldn’t the training institute hold its classes a little earlier? Wouldn’t around 8 PM do? I fear neither heaven nor hell, but I do fear going bald.” <<less

“A very sweet entertainment circle novel about a closeted gong x fudanshi shou.”... more>>

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Review: probably one of the sweetest novels I’ve read. Mc stumbles onto some CP material of him and his rival and slowly starts to ship it lol. Just read it, you won’t regret it.  <<less

“Some people begin their lives with the odds in their favor but still end up failing miserably.... more>>

Lin Jingzhe, having suffered many losses and setbacks, returned to his eighteen-year-old self just before failing his college entrance exam.

Business opportunities were everywhere in the early 1990s when the Chinese economy started taking off.

Now, this golden age would be his.”

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Review: MC has a cheat, but it’s not overpowering; he still has to take risks and use his own insights to obtain his goals. ML is kind of a tsundere, but sometimes his “foolishness” doesn’t match up with his character settings. E.g. the ML, who can easily buy stocks that will multiply in worth and has the ability to earns millions, will dazedly state at MC while MC proposes a risky cooperation that would cost millions if it doesn’t go well? And the ML just accepts the deal even though he (in his own words) didn’t hear a thing MC said? Ml does review the plan later, but for someone of his caliber, I wouldn’t expect him to daydream during such a serious moment.  <<less

“Yu Zhengdu joined a small start-up company that claimed to offer “life management services”……as a programmer.... more>>

On his first day in office, he received a phone call from a stranger: “Hello, I received a text message from your company that informed me of my reincarnation tomorrow……”

Yu Zhengdu: “……??”

Shang Que, the beautiful little boss, said, “New employee, welcome to the Hell organisation in the human world. A thousand years ago, I was known to the human world as the Ghost King of Luofeng Mountain.”

Yu Zhengdu: “……??” 

From then on, he was incredibly distressed about the development of Hell.” <<less

“Ren Zhu: Quiet! Quiet! Look at the blackboard! I’m going to start teaching!... more>>

Bear child 1 [1]: Hahaha! Who is this weak chicken!

Bear child 2: May as well dance than listen to class. Why start the class!

Fake good child: Sit upright.

Ren Zhu: ……

Bear child 1: You received the class teacher’s quiet gaze x 1. Physical strength -500. Entered the weak state!

Bear child 2: You received the class teacher’s deep gaze x 1. Intelligence -50. Entered the dumb state!

Fake good child: You received the class teacher’s gratified gaze x 1. Intelligence and physical strength +50. Entered the excited state.

Ren Zhu: My goal is to teach and educate people, and bring love to every bear child. Thank you.

[1] 熊孩子 – literally translates to ‘bear child’. The term is used to address mischievous children.” <<less

“Short, rich, and handsome, Lin Feiran was always the center of attention. But after transferring schools in his second year of high school, he discovered that his limelight was snatched by his Adonis classmate, Gu Kaifeng.... more>>

Lin Feiran was very resentful, and he and Gu Kaifeng became archnemesis (one-sidedly). Although the two lived together, they were like strangers.When Lin Feiran went back home to attend his grandfather’s funeral, he accidentally inherited the Yin-Yang eyes that had been passed down from generation to generation. After gaining the ability to see ghosts, the timid Lin Feiran discovered that his two-person dormitory was actually a sixteen-person (ghost) room. Every day, he was scared to the point of collapsing.

The more aggravating thing is that because of Gu Kaifeng’s innate body constitution, he possessed an abundant amount of Yang energy. Lin Feiran found out that whenever he touched Gu Kaifeng, Gu Kaifeng’s Yang energy could temporarily disable his Yin-Yang eyes. A light touch would disable it for five minutes, a kiss for an hour, and so on…

Lin Feiran had no choice but to throw himself into his archnemesis’s embrace. This complete reversal in attitude to being intimate with Gu Kaifeng persisted every day from morning till night.

When sleeping, he must squeeze in the same bed as Gu Kaifeng. Going to the toilet? He must drag Gu Kaifeng with him. Homework? It must be done hand-in-hand with Gu Kaifeng… He also had to try his best to persuade the teacher to make him Gu Kaifeng’s deskmate. Every day in class, he would rub Gu Kaifeng’s calf with his foot beneath the desks…

Following the clingy little bastard’s sudden change in personality, the initially shocked Gu Kaifeng gradually became smitten. Every day he would chase Lin Feiran to flirt with him, make crazy confessions, and even routinely push him against the wall and kiss him…

Gu Kaifeng: “Don’t you like me? I like you, so let’s be together.”Lin Feiran: “I don’t like you! Don’t come over!”Gu Kaifeng: “……”Five minutes later, to avoid seeing ghosts, Lin Feiran sneakily came to touch Gu Kaifeng.Gu Kaifeng turned around, stopping his hand: “After you just rejected me, you come back to flirt with me!?”Lin Feiran: “Who’s flirting with you! I was careless and touched you; don’t imagine that I like you back.”Oh, that’s it.”

Review: yoyoyoyoyoyo so sweet! Gave me such a toothache, really. Seeing the number of ghosts-related novels I’ve added to this list, I’ve come to a horrifying realization—I have a ghost kink  <<less

“To survive in the world he transmigrated into, Model Citizen Gu Xizhou became a demonic cultivator.... more>>

But then… but then he transmigrated back. 

The returned Gu Xizhou was furious. The student that had sacrificed his body to reincarnate him had used a demonic array meant for summoning evil spirits. He, Gu Xizhou, had been a law-abiding citizen who upheld the core socialist values prior to transmigration, the very picture of a model citizen. So how had he become a heinous malicious spirit since his return from transmigration?!

————In the spirit worlds, the ghosts and spirits had been living merry lives where they were second only to Heaven itself when one day, inexplicably and out of nowhere, came a demonic cultivator.

The ghosts and spirits: QAQ

luck-maxed-out-hellish-yandere gong x definitely-not-berserk-demonic-cultivator shou

1. Infinite flow, survival in spirit worlds

2. Ghosts and spirits appear, but is not horrific at all since little shou is a demonic cultivator whom all the ghosts and spirits tremble at the sight of haha

One-line synopsis: A survival game? A demonic cultivator has nothing to fear!”

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Review: MC is actually very low-key when beating up ghosts. Still cannot tell who the ML is, but I’m hoping for it to be the “wife” at home heheh <<less

“SGH is a multiplayer online tactical competitive shooting game.When Wen Xi first came into contact with the game, like most people, he used a gun as his main weapon.... more>>

But his shooting skills were too poor, often having teammates vent about whether he was the master of outlining the human body.

Until one day, he picked up a bow. Since then, SGH has had another archer assassin named “Wency”. It’s said that his arrows never miss their shot, a hundred shots and a hundred hits, killing with one blow. It’s said that only the first ranked sharpshooter “Mac” succeeded in killing him. It’s said that he likes “Mac”.

Wen Xi: …where did this rumor come from? Mac, come out and clarify!

Mo Chen: En, it’s a rumor. Actually, I like you.

A shou who wholeheartedly wants to make money through livestreaming vs. A gong who wholeheartedly wants to trick the shou into joining his team.” <<less

“Xie Chi is a patient with multiple personality disorder. On the surface, he is educated and gentle but the secondary personality is cold and powerful, with explosive strength.... more>>

Xie Chi can never fall in love because the secondary personality is his boyfriend. Xie Chi’s only dream is to one day embrace his lover. In order to realize his dream, Xie Chi voluntarily bound to the Horror Movie Actor App. The app regularly releases horror movie notices such as Spirit in Red Clothes, Zombie Lovers, 1552 Haunted House…The selected actors will be placed in a real horror environment to survive.

On the first day of filming, the first male lead with a dirty personality blocked Xie Chi in the corner. “Follow me and I’ll help you be the second male lead.”

Xie Chi smiled softly and shook his head. “That isn’t enough.”

The first male lead was dumbfounded.

Xie Chi smiled slightly. “Brother, help me beat him up.”

The secondary personality gave a cold smile to the first male lead.

End of the shoot, the first male lead: Xie Chi.

Others: Struggling to survive.

Xie Chi: Defy the natural order to change fate.A combination of absolute wisdom and absolute force. Starting from the 18th tier, Xie Chi will eventually become… the horror movie emperor.”

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Review: I don’t know how the author managed to create s*xual tension between the MC and ML when ML doesn’t even have his own body yet, but PHEW, somehow the author did it. I like how both MC and ML are willing to form friends (true friends!) and the instances. YanJing is such a cutie~~~  <<less

“Xiao Lan was a pauper who couldn’t do anything that required money. On the road after work, he was engulfed by darkness and opened his eyes to a frightening and dangerous survival game.... more>>

The app that can’t be deleted; the people it locked on to were unable to escape except through death.

Ordinary players: Save me, I don’t want to die!!!

Xiao Lan: Sorry, the phone is too broken and it froze. Can you wait a little longer?

A hand reached out from inside an old-fashioned television; the people caught would enter its world.

Ordinary players: Ahhhhhhh! What to do?!

Xiao Lan: According to my many years of experience repairing old household appliances, it seems that this model can be opened like this….

Finally, the bosses gathered around Xiao Lan one day, prepared to deal with this (game) bug. But they saw him roll up his sleeves and stride forward on long legs, and he beat up the bosses until they doubted their ghostly births.

Xiao Lan: Do you think an overtime worker’s night travels are for nothing?

Luo: Master is always this cute.

Passer-by (shivering): Isn’t your definition of cute a little strange…

【Omnipotent, tall, broke and handsome shou x Refined degenerate big bad wolf gong】”

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Review: hilarious! A light, easy-going novel. There are some horror elements, but it’s not enough to make me scared, which is nice. The comedy off-sets most of the horror, so I guess that’s why the story doesn’t feel very scary. Mc is very funny, hehe <<less

“Lin Qian and Zheng PingQing, two people who have wanted to kill each other for many years, fell in love. After a lot of ups and downs, they finally married.... more>>

But they didn’t expect to get reborn together on the day of their wedding.

Back to the year when their feud was at its most intense.nThe friends around them also saw each other as enemies. Yet the two men in question were…in the eyes of the frightened relatives and friends of both sides; they began to scatter dog food.

Friends and relatives: ???

Ermm…..this is awkward.” <<less

“Ever since he was little, Xi Jia’s yin energy was strong, and every day he saw ghosts and ran into ghosts. One day, he accidentally broke the protection amulet. Celestial Master Ye Jingzhi happened to pass by and helped. Are ghost catching Celestial Masters all legit masters? WeChat official accounts, Taobao online shops, looking at gossip tabloids every day. Since then, Xi Jia has refreshed the lower limit again and again, and met a group of completely unreliable Celestial Masters. Binding spirits, doppelgängers, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the ghost market of Poyang… The door to a new world is slowly opening.... more>>

Set in an urban city with supernatural elements, this is a love story between Xi Jia, who has a body of extreme yin, and Celestial Master Ye Jingzhi, nicknamed the King of Hell. The seemingly weak Xi Jia, in actuality, can rip apart ghosts with bare hands; the seemingly cold Ye Jingzhi, in actuality, is shy and gentle. A marriage contract binds the fate of two people together. See how the two people overturn the heavens in the gossipy and wacky metaphysical world.”

Review: good comedy and little-to-no angst. A light novel with an interesting premises.  <<less

“Shi Jin once read a book. It was supposed to be about satisfying the desire for vengeance.... more>>

The main character, also named Shi Jin, was the sixth son of his harem-novel-protagonist-like father. All was well—while his father was alive. But after his death, Shi Jin’s five elder half-brothers tormented him, eventually leading to his death. The protagonist was reborn, determined to take revenge, and… the novel was discontinued.

That day, Shi Jin almost spat blood and dropped the book into a shredder. The next day, he died in a car accident. Somehow, when he came to, he had transmigrated into a teenager, a youth also called Shi Jin.

There was only one problem. His father had just died. His older brothers were about to torment him…

Shi Jin: Let’s eliminate my brothers’ hatred, my goal is to keep my life!”

Review: The novel was *chef’s kiss* muah! MC starts off weak, but is willing to endure hardships to slowly become stronger. ML, although having that typical cold attitude, actually has a reason for why he’s so cold towards everyone and slowly learns to trust people again (thanks to the MC)! The only thing I don’t like about it is how the plot loses its presence after Mc and ML get together; it’s as if the tension, which was maintained throughout the story, suddenly slipped away. The tension comes back later though, so I don’t really mind. Just treat it as a “soothing” vacation for your heart <<less

“This novel is also known as [I was caught and brought back after using and tossing aside the Great Demon King of e-sports…]... more>>

Wei Xiao––the former rookie king of the league, now an accompanying player and tr*sh talk king, had a stupefied look on his face!

Someone bought 10,000 games with him!

200 yuan a game, for a neat and tidy total of two million yuan!

Wei Xiao: “Boss, you didn’t miscount the zeroes, right?”

“No.”

“You want me to accompany you to play 10,000 games?”

“Mm.”

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“From infancy to maturity, what Ye Zhou dislikes the most was “two”.... more>>

The reasons were: he was ranked second at home, he had been forever ranked second at school, no matter how diligently he worked and tried, he couldn’t shake off that “second” curse. What was more exasperating was that, at University, not only was he ranked second, but even his appearance that he was proud of had to be classified as second best!

Why can’t I obtain the first place!

The eternal second will rise!

Then, Ye Zhou, after his vigorous efforts finally rises and the result was… the first became his boyfriend.This is the story of a man who has been forced to be “second” and how he became the first, most popular.” <<less

“Palcemith.... more>>

A kingdom blessed by the dragons.I remembered this was the world in the game I had played in my previous world, [The Dragon and the Sacrificial Priestess]. But I had reincarnated as the Prime Minister Anderheim who would be led to ruin with his villainess daughter Julieta.

However, now that my memories have returned, I do not intend to give up that easily.

Making full use of my memories from my past life, with my daughter, let me show the capture targets how to turn the tables.”

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Review: a novel built on *pure revenge*. I can’t even begin to explain how mine-blown I was after the revenge ball got rolling.  Just be warned that this novel DOES show the dark side of society, so it’s not a happy-go-lucky-fluffy novel. Side note: I freaking love anti-hero MCs. <<less

“Xing Ye entered a strange world full of traps and snares after scanning his ‘deceased’ brother’s QR code to investigate the truth behind his death.... more>>

The first world:

System: Novice world, 4 players, PVP mode. Because your luck value is too low, you will be doing a 1v3.

Xing Ye: ……

System: You will not be told the rules or the identities of your opponents. You must discover everything by yourself.

Xing Ye: ……

System: You obtained a task prop: Mirror. It has no special skills and can’t move or talk. It thinks everybody is ugly.

Xing Ye: ……

System: How did you win?

Xing Ye: I just killed them all.”

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Review: chaotic, but chaotic good. MC (seme) can classify as lawfully evil lol. Very different from other survival game novels I’ve read; e.g. the MC actually gains breasts when he transmigrates into the body of a girl. Also, the MC isn’t too overpowered; choosing the “bad luck” camp gives him disadvantages in that he has to compete against multiple enemies, but he uses his brain to overcome them all <<less

“Lin Xun is a programmer. After coding all night, he found a program input window in his body.... more>>

He tried to program a cycle program.

The next day, the old man next door came to the door: Xiao Xun, you are so young but you have entered the Qi Refining period. Do you want to be my disciple?

On the third day, Lin Xun was patted on the street with a shoulder: Boy, your Spiritual roots are surprising, how about joining my sect?

Lin Xun: “? ? ?”Later, he discovered that modern society really has immortals. 

While others rely on spiritual power to cultivate immortals, he relies on programming himself, and he can also see the programs in other immortals.

A Nascent Soul: “How can you peep through my flaws?”

Lin Xun calmly withdrew the sword: “Your program has a bug.”

A half-immortal: “… that’s impossible! What is the name of your moves?

Lin Xun pushed up his glasses: “Monte Carlo algorithm.”

——Then he gradually became a legend in the cultivation world.” <<less

“I think my boyfriend is sick, the kind of sickness that’s too embarrassing to mention.”... more>>

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Review: MC is a bit silly, ML is a bit h**ny, and the misunderstanding is a bit big, but that just makes everything so much more hilarious. A light read, no angst, mostly comedy. <<less

“He is someone who would reply to every one of Qing Kong’s Weibo status updates, as well as sit in front of his laptop waiting in the Qing Kong channel with other people to listen to every one of Qing Kong’s songs at the fan gathering time, he would listen to every audio drama that Qing Kong participated in and then he would write a very long review under the audio drama post.... more>>

He may do all of that but he would never knock on the other man’s door to say: “Hi, Qing Kong-sama, I’m your number one die-hard fan!””

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Review: full of fluff. There’s a very slight amount of angst, but that’s quickly resolved. It’s nice to finally read about an MC that doesn’t look like a supermodel. ML is such a gentleman and he really goes for it once he realizes his feelings; “he wants it, he gets it~” Ariana grande WHO—cough, anyways, good read.  <<less

“The third young master of the Gu household, Gu Ye, had a wooden personality, a stuttering speech, couldn’t remember an answer after being told ten times, didn’t dare to protest after being bullied, was considered the shame of high society. His father, in a fit of anger, sent him back to the old home in the country for the new year. But unexpectedly, he came back like a new person, in half a year testing into the top university of the capital with the highest score in the whole school. The entire high society circle was shocked!... more>>

After receiving his acceptance letter, the Gu family searched for Gu Ye for three days, and finally found him under an unassuming overpass. The Gu Ye who used to remain silent after being beaten had laid out a stall, stepping on a few hoodlums beneath his foot, and was selling drawings while he called out: “Exorcism Wards! Guanyin safety talismans! Wards against evil for the house! Anti-goblin and demon talismans! ……Supersale on wards and talismans! If you have the right karma, 88 per ward! Don’t pass this by!”

He looked down beneath his foot, saying with a grin: “I have special Give Up Wickedness Talismans, I think you each need three.”

Sassing heaven, earth, and air, if you don’t obey then let’s fight and don’t blather, supernatural arts grandmaster bottom. Polished scoundrel, beast in human clothing, wife-spoiling maniac, black-bellied top.” <<less

““I curse you to never die in peace!”... more>>

Thus, Shang Ke started a never-ending (forced) cycle of constantly throwing away his miserable life.He would always show himself as a martyr while letting others cry over his death.It was because of a woman’s curse that Shang Ke was hit by a car and turned into a human vegetable. This led to him becoming bound by an unlucky system in which he was cursed to die. The most unfortunate part was that he never cheated on anyone’s feelings. The reason for why he was cursed by a woman was because of a guy named Qi Chen. Qi Chen was a ladies man, and he would always use Shang Ke as an excuse to break up with any woman that he was with. As a result, Shang Ke was always blamed for the breakups. Since then, the main character could only be forced to cross into different worlds. He would thus experience for himself, the hero’s “thrill”.”

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Review: and I curse those onion-chopping ninjas to death... <<less

Gu Xia has long yearned for Ji Zheng to f*ck him senseless. However, he always held himself back, continuing to feign innocence in front of the man he loves.... more>>

Ji Zheng has long yearned to f*ck Gu Xia senseless. However, he always held himself back, continuing to put on an honest man’s facade.

A story of two men, unaware of their mutual feelings of love, trying to seduce each other while one pretends to be innocent and the other honest.

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Review: definitely not for the weak-hearted...*coughs in shame* <<less

“They had been together since high school. Together, they faced the cold faces of their parents and the satirical or disdainful eyes of others, started a business and experienced all kinds of ups and downs. When their company was on the right track, Zhishu He was asked to give up his career to stay at home, while Wenxu Jiang gradually changed and began to indulge in merry-making. However, Zhishu chose to forgive him. Zhishu got an incurable disease, while Wenxu Jiang was still indifferent. Zhishu still chose to forgive him. Love had become a kind of habit, which was equal to an incurable disease.In a peaceful sunny day, Zhishu quietly left Wenxu Jiang and the... more>> house in which they had lived for a long time without an advance notice.

Soon he was gone. A man with pure spirit and deep love for Wenxu Jiang disappeared from this world forever…Sometimes love cannot stand the test of time. Someone will not know how to cherish the love until he loses it…”

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Review: OKAY FOR ALL YALL THAT WANT AN ANGSTY AF NOVEL, HERE IT IS. Warning: it’s a BE. Super sad, just buckets of tears (even though I MTL-Ed it). It’s not as hardcore as Xia NiangNiang in that this novel’s author at least lets us off with a bittersweet ending. <<less