10 Billion Words of a Novelist's Reading List
It's been several years since I volunteered at the 2010 World Expo and dove into the world of web novels. From obscure apps to chasing after books on popular platforms, I've consumed over a billion words. Here, I'll share some unforgettable classics I've read along with the new series I'm currently following. Expect unique and original concepts, rich character development, clever plot twists, and an array of emotions—whether it's thrilling, heartwarming, comedic, or sweet.
Novels on this list
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- Qin Bai, a third-year university student, discovered months ago that he was the illegitimate son of the wealthy Qin family, brought back to serve as a marriage pawn. During an arranged meeting with Shen Muyu, the second young mistress of the Shen Corporation, she presented an extravagant dowry list—8.88 million in cash, a villa, a Rolls-Royce, and gold. After reading the overwhelming l...
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- Zeng Anmin, a modern man who had retired early with over a hundred million yuan, transmigrated into the Great Saint Dynasty. He woke up as the dissolute only son of Zeng Shilin, a Confucian Cultivator in the Embracing the Kindling Realm and a Regional Governor overseeing three prefectures. The dynasty had stood for six hundred years, populated by body cultivators, dao cultivators, Conf...
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- Lu Ye, the second son of the Lu Family in Tianhe County, was once a peerless prodigy. At three he began cultivation, at six he tore apart a vicious tiger, at nine he entered the Great Qian Prodigy List and became engaged to the direct daughter of the Qin Noble Family. At fourteen he passed the Autumn Examination as the youngest top scholar in three hundred years, earning the emperor's...
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- Miao Yunyou is the leader of the demon cult, a modern person who transmigrated into a wuxia world three years ago. She has zero combat power but possesses the world's best lightness skill. Her closest subordinates are Right Protector Chu Ning Shuang, a doctor, and Left Protector Luo Xinglan, a cold and skilled fighter. When righteous factions launch a full-scale assault on the mountain...
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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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- Lu Ran spent one hundred thousand years atop Kunlun Peak, waiting for the chance to ascend. After successfully enduring the nine bolts of tribulation lightning he ascends but arrives in the Spirit Realm instead of the Immortal Realm. He appears in an Immortal Washing Pool where he meets Mu Yunzong and his party from the Great Luo Sword Sect who are retrieving their young lady Mu Yao th...
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- Gu Qingcheng was rescued by the police after three years of being trafficked to remote mountains, where she was chained in a pigsty and abused. Returning home, she found her family hosting an engagement party for her childhood sweetheart boyfriend Chen Yunmo and her adopted younger sister Gu Ruyi. Her parents and brother, once loving, now treated her coldly and kept their distance. The...
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- Zhao Li, a modern elite special agent at twenty-eight, is betrayed by her own organization after a final mission and shot dead. She awakens in the body of Xiao Jiu, a sixteen-year-old girl sold for two taels of silver to become the stepmother of Gu Mohan, a widowed hunter with a broken leg. The family lives in the impoverished Xiaohe Village. Gu Mohan broke his leg in a fall while hunt...
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- Shen Aiguo, a super soldier king from China's most elite special forces, was blown up in a suicide attack while covering his comrades' retreat. He woke up as a time traveler in 1956, inhabiting the body of a company commander with the same name who was injured in a firefight and forced to retire. To prevent his upright parents from being exploited by the cunning residents of No.95 Nanl...
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- Wen Wan, a concubine in the General’s Mansion, overhears her mistresses discussing a Taoist priest’s prophetic pouch left after a ritual for the Old Madam. The priest wrote “Yin and Yang harmony, only then can one achieve lasting peace.” Wen Wan immediately understands this means the Old Madam should send women to the borderlands to bear the Grand General’s child. The ladies relay her...
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- Minato, a young girl living in a dysfunctional family, is killed by her father after he murders her mother and a police officer. She meets a frivolous god who reincarnates her into a fantasy world, granting her a part of his power in the form of an options menu. She wakes up bound to a log being carried by goblins in a forest. The goblins plan to boil her alive. Still tied, Minato disc...
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- Wu Qiuqiu was an overworked salaryman who died from exhaustion and was reborn as a tiger cub in the Beast Kingdom of the Savage Continent. The cub was picked up three years ago by a half-beast couple in the Distant Mountain Tribe and raised as a child bride for their son Yuan Fu. The couple and their son treated the cub cruelly, starving her and beating her daily because she could not...
