Reading List 07-20-25

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I'm a demonic Cultivator, not a capitalist ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(modern cultivation, making games, no harem, no system)

MC is in a modern cultivation world, he has average spirit root, but activated the heavenly Demonic Body physique that can generate spirits based on people's emotion. The positive emotions generate positive spirits and must be spent immediately as it conflicts with his demonic body, the negative emotions helps him level up. So he makes "dreamscapes"(which are like VR games) based on stuff he knows from earth. Like one based on "bizarre Dao Immortal" that can help the mind cultivators cultivate. Even though his goal is always to torture the players so he gets negative emotions, but it always end up generating positive ones due to series of coincidence and mis-understandings. I guess it is just fun to watch such reversal, same reason why I enjoyed losing money to be tycoon so much.

Weak and Friendly me ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(no harem, modern urban, big brain hole, slow pace ,mystery, aliens)

MC is weak in a wheelchair, and start with two abilities "Weak", and "Friendly". By been weak, he is not noticed by any strong person, and by friendly, he can be compassionate and ease other's pain. With those two abilities, he also activates the "Weakling survival system" that allows him to pick up additional abilities like "Scavenging" and see other aliens in this world trying to also get abilities, and discover the cause of his disease and the true truth of the world. This novel is kinda hard to read, as it has some twists and turns. Proceed with patience.

This Bad Luck is so Awesome ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(a lot of harem, modern urban, system, karma)

MC has a system that turn bad lucks into good outcomes. He is a bulldozer and will have many many harems. See DeepSeek translated description for examples:

Chen Mo is cursed with spectacularly bad luck... that somehow always pays off.

After accidentally injuring a delivery customer, he discovers the victim was a wanted criminal—netting him a $20k bounty.
When his upstairs neighbor floods his apartment, their brawl gets them arrested—only for the neighbor to be exposed as a spy, earning Chen Mo a $50k reward.
His brand-new car malfunctions and bursts into flames upon leaving the dealership—but the manufacturer pays him $3 million in hush money plus a replacement vehicle.
He invests heavily in a stock that immediately crashes—before revolutionary tech breakthroughs send it soaring 300%.
He offers a $500k betrothal gift to a tycoon’s daughter for 10x the dowry—she flees before the wedding, yet the magnate still grants him $5 million.

"Who says my luck is bad?" Years later, lounging back with hands in pockets as a newly minted Billionaire, Chen Mo smirks: "This kind of misfortune is absolutely perfect!"

Mirror in the Dust ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(haremish, scheming, ruthless MC, ancient China dynasty)

MC wakes up in the game he played before as the sacrificial lamb in the first act. He schemes to reverse his fortune and dominate the game through his prior knowledge. Since he starts from such a bad position, it still requires a lot of scheming to make it happen. I like the progression and the MC's acts. Not much harem, just a lot of maybes.

Description:
The world is a crucible, Yin and Yang its coals, humanity the bronze, and the Dao its flame.
Those who spread the Dao like carrying firewood to quench a blaze only court self-immolation—wrong, wrong, wrong!
Only when Gu Fangchen opened his eyes and transmigrated into the world of the game Dusty Mirror did he finally grasp the secret within these words.
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That year, the Princess of Zhenbei was still gentle as water, doting on her son to the point of obsession.
The Eldest Princess was cold as frost, her gaze haughtily aloof—her smile couldn’t be bought with a thousand gold.
The Younger Princess, charmingly naive, dreamed only of heroic knights and loathed vile villains above all.
The Grand Princess commanded armies like a War God, while the Female State Preceptor overturned clouds and rain with a wave of her hand.
And the sole heir of the Prince of Zhenbei—notorious for his worthlessness and rotten-to-the-core depravity—had just been exposed as the lowly son of a horse groom, swapped at birth by a demonic cult.
The true heir stood revealed: the newly crowned Top Scholar, a true disciple of the sages, endowed with a breath of noble spirit.

Player Gu Fangchen didn’t care one bit—and decided to start speedrunning.

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