Book List of a Decade-Long Bookworm
After over a decade of reading, I've grown tired of the same old tropes. If I come across truly exceptional works that stand out from the rest, I’ll be sure to recommend them.
Novels on this list
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- Zashuria Weltin is the eldest daughter and practical owner-driver of the Viscount Weltin family’s merchant guild, the only entity in the country legally permitted to trade magic stones from the Jarijuur territory in the distant Merdianne Empire. Her father Daniel is a kind but completely incompetent figurehead who approves final settlements and does minimal socializing. Zashuria handle...
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- Liu Wenying transmigrated from a modern nursing professional into the body of a destitute widow during a famine era. The original owner was sold as a child bride, married, gave birth to a daughter, and then lost her husband in a fall. Her in-laws called her a jinx, resented her for not bearing a son, and threw her and her infant daughter out during winter confinement. Penniless and hom...
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- Lin Wang woke up in a pitch-black, collapsed ancestral hall, surrounded by eerie paper figures, a paper bride, and a paper wedding procession playing a suona. The bride on the paper sedan chair smiled unnaturally. Lin Wang had no memory of how he got there. He was a psychological counselor from Earth, but suddenly he possessed the memories of another person, also named Lin Wang, from a...
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- Su Hong, a former office worker in Sheng City, was granted the Apocalypse Simulation Game, a system that allowed him to simulate the coming apocalypse and bring one reward back to reality per simulation. After three simulations at his company where he experienced the real pain of death, he realized the apocalypse was inevitable and resigned. Returning to his Garden Community apartment,...
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- Tang Feng joins the virtual reality game “Destiny” after the Miracle Company’s overwhelming publicity. He buys a Game Helmet for ten thousand yuan and becomes one of the first players. He logs in and is assigned the Mage class and a unique talent called Fate’s Blessing. This talent can bestow a blessing on any one thing, allowing its destiny to develop in a good direction and to grow....
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- Chen Jinyue was once an outstanding graduate in cultural relics from Capital University. Her parents’ business went bankrupt, leaving behind a mountain of debt and a will that gave their son Chen Jie all cash and the family villa, while Chen Jinyue inherited the factory and unsold inventory. The grandparents transferred the money, arranged for Chen Jie to go abroad, and left Chen Jinyu...
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- Si Shuo, originally a modern human, wakes from a coma after a heart transplant to find herself in the Beast World continent, where a cold mechanical voice announces the binding of the Peanut System. The system modifies her body into a special-grade “easy to conceive” physique and presents her with a main quest. She is in a stone cave belonging to her half-sister Yu Jiao, an orange cat...
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- Lin Lang transmigrates into the body of Shen Mingzhu, the cherished legitimate daughter of Chancellor Shen. Lying on an exquisite sandalwood canopy bed carved with flowers and painted with birds, the original owner opens her eyes revealing crystal clear glass like eyes. The room has the finest cyan silk gauze curtains gently fluttering in the breeze. A triangular bronze incense burner...
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- Wang Lun held the black gourd and examined it for a long time, but could not figure anything out. He put it down in disappointment. By accident, a splinter on the bedside snagged his finger and cut it. The blood dripped onto the gourd. The gourd slowly melted into his right palm, transforming into a gourd-shaped mark. It bonded to him. Streams of information flowed into Wang Lun's mind...
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- Yu Mu, the chief prodigy of the Yunhe Sect, was brought before the Law Enforcement Hall accused of stealing the earth vein energy and murdering thirteen disciples. His junior sister Liu He testified against him. Instead of defending himself, Yu Mu admitted to the guilt, knowing from his past life that arguing served no purpose. In that previous existence, he had fought the Child of Des...
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- Ji Shuyin was once the privileged only daughter of a prosperous and powerful family, with a father holding a high position, a mother as a core member of a research institute, and an older brother and sister-in-law who were educated abroad with important posts. Her life changed when her parents were sent down to the countryside and her brother and sister-in-law lost their positions, for...
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- Meru Lisris is a Forest Elf from a large, indigent family. Her engagement is broken off because of her family's poverty, her own plain features, and her negligible magical power. She decides to leave her forest home for the Royal Capital to earn money. She faces rejection from employers who see her pointed ears and consider elves difficult. An old woman suggests the Royal Knights Order...
