Reading List 2025-05-18

**You can see my previous reading lists Here: www.chaosdrifter.cc

I've just been doing a lot of catch up reading on existing novels, and qidian just doesn't have much good ones now a days to keep up with my weekly schedule. so I might be doing the post every two weeks or whenever I have enough novels.

**Practice the Dao of MTL to read these novels:
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From Dungeon to Gaming Empire ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️
(kingdom building, video games, dungeon, no harem)

MC is a dungeon master and his dungeons are based on video games from earth, like "Left4Dead, Sekiro, CS " etc. etc. it is fun to see the adventurers playing these game like an immersive VR, but they actually get items and experiences from the game in real life, and MC get their "mind spirits" to build and expand the dungeon. Kind of fun, I'm always a sucker for good video game developing novel, like the titanfall one. Although sometime the novel spends too much on the plot of the video games, but you can just kinda skim through that part if you know the game well.

DeepSeek Description:
This is a miraculous dungeon.
Countless adventurers are obsessed with it, losing themselves in its depths.
Because here—
They’ve faced hordes of zombies to unravel the mystery of the biochemical apocalypse, and scaled the rooftops of Ashina Castle to duel the Sword Saint in a life-or-death clash.
They’ve danced beneath the blade of the Valkyrie in the Lands Between, and hunted ancient gods in Yharnam, confronting horrors beyond human comprehension.
They’ve soared through the skies as elite Pilots in high-octane mech battles, and relived the Journey to the West, wreaking havoc in the Heavenly Palace, clashing with the Erlang Shen in his cosmic form.
And me?
I am the creator of this legendary dungeon—the Lord of Miracle City, Qi Ji!

Cancelled ? I'm going to Wreck this stupid entertainment industry
(Chinese entertainment, system, no harem, modern China, ruthless MC)

MC is an idol that just got cancelled due to scandals such as plagiarism, disrespecting elder actors, etc. etc. He then has a system that give him intels on other entertainment idols that also has scandals but hidden well. The more he exposes it, the more points he gets. So he can use use the points to trade for songs and other stuff to help him back on track. Many of the scandals are actually based on current events, such as tax evasion, lurid affairs, sex parties, etc. etc. Kind of fun to match the events in the novel with the real life ones... but if you don't know the scandals or are not familiar with Chinese entertainment, then it might be kind of boring.

This bad luck is so good !
(Luck, karma, modern Urban, harem, no system)

One day, MC heard a "Ding !" in his head, then he hit someone with his delivery bike and spilled hot soup on the person. This would have been very bad luck, except the person is on the Police's most wanted list so MC subdued him with his bike and called the police. He got 200,000 RMB as a reward and a flag for his bravery..... So he knows that whenever he hears the "Ding" something bad will happen but he'll reap reward for it. Like buying a stock of a drug company that has a drug with failed trial, then it turns out the drug is the next viagra. Or the upstair neighbor has a kid that keeps playing loud music and jumps on the floor, but turns out he was kidnapped and the parents is super rich. etc. etc. The interesting part is to see how the bad luck turns into good, and also the portrait of the harems. One of them is a gold digger, but in a unique way.

Divine Horror Cardmaster: Starting with Night Parade of a Hundred Demons
(card building, ghosts, Chinese mythology, no simp MC, no harem)

It is interesting to see the card building system based on Chinese mythology and literatures such as the journey west, Watermargin heros, etc. etc.

DeepSeek translated description:

Folkloric mythologist Lin Chen transmigrates into an unknown card-based world—only to immediately face the ultra-deadly dungeon [Night Parade of a Hundred Demons]!

In this desperate moment, Lin Chen taps into the divine power of [City God Temple] incense offerings to craft the deity card [Door Gods – Qin Qiong & Yuchi Gong].

After surviving the crisis, Lin Chen discovers that this world’s mythological history has been severed! Incense offerings have ceased, benevolent gods no longer answer, demonic deities reign supreme, and horrors run rampant.

Here, card-crafting materials are all cursed objects—countless cardmasters succumb to corruption because of them.

Yet Lin Chen can fuse historical myths and forge cards from these horrors!

• [Rakshasa Bones] evolve into [Mortal Year God – Wu Song]
• [Drowned Specter] evolve into [Chu Spirit Shaman – Qu Yuan]
• [Decapitated Corpse] evolve into [Battle-Mad Chi You Slayer – Xing Tian]

With each heroic spirit and divine card he creates, Lin Chen saves the world, educates its people, rekindles lost worship, and rebuilds faith in the gods!

• [Door Gods] guard homes, repel evil, and bless households.
• [Water Margin Heroes], heavenly stars incarnate, punish wickedness without mercy.
  • [Flame Emperor] spreads fire, purges filth, and lights the darkness.
• [Qu Yuan], the spirit shaman, dances to commune with gods and divine the heavens.
• [Kitchen God] governs food, banishes misfortune, and judges virtue and sin.
• [Emperor Guan], ruler of the underworld, vanquishes demons as guardian of dharma.
• [Great Yu] tames floods, calms the land, and stabilizes the world with nine sacred cauldrons.

But as Lin Chen summons these gods into the world, dark organizations begin targeting him. The hidden truths behind this world’s broken divine legacy and the demon gods’ shrouded ambitions slowly unravel!