Never play a game 100 times, no matter how addicting it is. ~My Lovely Harem School Life~ is a well-known dating sim famous for its beautiful heroines and the significance of player choices that influence the endings.
So why did the protagonist end up transmigrating into Yagami Reiji — the scummiest character in the game, heir to the biggest Yakuza group in the country? The trash who harassed the main cast, bullied students, and stole heroines if the player made the wrong decisions. A walking bad ending.
Now trapped in a life that isn't his, surrounded by classmates who flinch at his presence and a father who expects him to inherit an empire built on blood, he must decide: can he rewrite Reiji's fate before the past drags him down with it?
Power of friendship? Getting stronger when enraged? A powerful monster sealed inside you by your father? That wasn't me. I was the arrogant youngster who got punched in the first panels of the shounen manga I was reading. I wouldn't have even remembered his name — if I wasn't stuck in his body.
When Yao Shen, Patriarch of the Heavenly Sky Sect, ascends and regains memories of his past life on Planet Earth, he realizes he can no longer accept the cruel and violent ways of Eliria, the realm of cultivation.
So he decides to change it. It was time to found a new sect — one based on the values of honor and equality over senseless violence and discrimination. A sect where all, from the mortal farmer's son to a sect elder's daughter, are held to the same rules.
Welcome to the Modern Sect.
The year is 1329, and the Horns of the Apocalypse are about to sound. In a small Scottish town, a young boy begins a journey from carpenter's apprentice to one of the most powerful forces in the Host of the Heavens.
A path of adversity lies before him, spanning from the Scottish Borders to the Spanish Reconquista, the Holy Land, and realms beyond. His ascension is an unceasing trial where one misstep may condemn his soul — facing mythical beasts, hordes of demons, and fell beings created by the System for the Tribulation of Mankind.
Will he live by the Words of God, be guided by his own intent, or will other forces claim him for their own ends?
4.69· 392
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+4
Despite being a young master of the Zearthorn sect, Neave refuses to cultivate — years of beatings and abuse haven't changed his mind. Forced to choose between an arranged marriage and a path of cultivation, he makes a third choice: entering a secret vault and touching a book he should never have touched.
Trapped in a hellish time loop of death and suffering, he fights waves of demons in an impossible challenge of skill, creativity, and perseverance. What will happen when he finally returns — oblivious to the apocalypse he has become, unaware of the horrors he dragged back with him?
Mythic Cultivation: My Tongtian can't be this Cute
D.C. Haenlien
B68/100
In the grand myth of creation, Pangu split the chaos and sacrificed himself to form the world. From his remains arose all things — dragons, phoenixes, gods, and the Three Purities, inheritors of Pangu's legacy.
Tongtian, the Heavenly Venerable of Numinous Treasures, has returned — with one small problem. "Why the hell am I a girl?" A story drawing on Chinese mythology and the rich tradition of xianxia cultivation, reframing the grand myths from an unexpected angle.
Twelve souls were chosen to expand into the void surrounding the known universes and given a grace period to grow their domains in relative safety. Once that period ends, they are free to interact with each other—and with whatever lurks in the depths of the Abyss, the Void, and the Primordial Chaos.
One of those souls navigates the overwhelming demands of divine stewardship: raising mortals into an immortal army, managing squabbling children, and maintaining the balance between all realms of existence. Being a deity, it turns out, is incredibly complicated.
4.66· 854
Base BuildingIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1
Array King Dane has had enough of the cultivator's world. Fight, kill, grow stronger, and fight some more — that was their lifestyle. Cultivation was nothing more than the eternal rat race of immortals, and everyone falls eventually. Eternity made any odds a guarantee given enough time, so Dane quits the game while he's still ahead.
And so he retires. No more fighting, no more killing, no more violence. He's chosen peace — but unfortunately, peace has to be protected.
Raika used to be a cultivator — living in a sect, fighting in tournaments, defying the heavens as cultivators do. She was never the strongest or wisest, but she never gave up and always stood by her ideals.
Then an Imperial Cultivator destroyed her soul organs and left her crippled.
In a world ruled by a millennia-old Emperor and his Blades, where enslaved Daemons serve as weapons of mass destruction and eldritch entities roam at the edges of reality, Raika is now less than worthless. But when the choice is surrender or madness, she chooses madness. Embarking on a strange new path, she will abandon humanity, sanity, and the rule of the Empire to become something far stranger and more powerful than she ever imagined.
A story of slow-burn progression, expansive worldbuilding, and a protagonist who keeps transforming — body, mind, and soul — until she is truly free.
Rhys loves trash — trashy anime, trashy novels, trashy games. That passion gets him mistaken for an actual trash god and whisked away to another world, where he wakes up in a trash heap with trash talents, trash skills, and no chance of progression.
But Rhys loves trash. There's only one path forward: embrace it, empower it, and dig the diamonds out from the refuse. Polish the trash until it shines brighter than gold.
In the midst of faking his death, Xiao Hui finds himself transmigrated into a cultivation world. With great hopes for what is to come, he gets taken in by a sect and chosen by a powerful master — except his master seems to have a hole in his brain.
As a weakling who recognizes his place in the world, Xiao Hui faces certain death at every turn. So why fight it? He does what he does best: fake it, duck the fallout, and somehow claw his way to the top through a combination of cleverness and enthusiastic self-preservation.
A xianxia comedy in the vein of A Will Eternal and Spirit Blade Mountain — neither grimdark nor fluffy, but woven through with both silly and intense moments.
His family was his world. Now he's in a new one. When a fatal accident rips Caleb Foster from his wife and kids, the forty-year-old gets a second chance in a realm of dungeons and monsters.
A cosmic system offers him a choice of legendary powers, but Caleb refuses the flashy magic. He chooses the abilities to learn faster, remember perfectly, and master any physical skill. A father's instinct to protect doesn't die with his family.
To survive and shield the new lives that depend on him, he must use a lifetime of quiet competence to navigate a dangerous frontier town, hunt deadly beasts, and outwit men who mistake his lack of flash for weakness. In a place where might makes right, Caleb is about to show that the most lethal weapon is a mind that misses nothing.
Hans had a realization that changed the direction of his adventuring career: "above average" is different from "great." At 39, with a litany of lingering injuries, he accepted that he would never progress from Gold-ranked to Diamond-ranked. With his prime behind him and disillusioned by guild politics, he accepts a guild master posting in a remote village — an insignificant position no one else wanted.
Looking forward to a quiet life of teaching, Hans arrives in the small town of Gomi at the foot of the Dead End Mountains. As he rebuilds the local chapter of the Adventurers' Guild, his unconventional teaching methods earn him allies and enemies alike, while his career failures find ways to resurface.
A slice-of-life fantasy exploring life post-adventuring and the challenge of reconciling dreams with reality.
A young orphan works hard every day trying to keep his parents' business alive while suffering under a terrible curse. Then a wizard becomes his mentor — and he learns his entire life was a lie. His parents were murdered, he was never cursed, his uncle was not his uncle, and he can channel magic.
Thrown into an entirely new world, Yaric must push himself to catch up with his new peers at the academy, learning the secrets of combat, weapons, and magic. But mysteries run deeper than his training: the secrets of the academy, a missing ambassador, hidden dragons, and empires marching to war have all been buried in an abyss so deep they should never be found.
Yaric grew up in the abyss. And as his new world gets dragged down by its secrets, he is forced to plunge back in.
Potential is everything within the Vitrian Empire — and a provincial orphan boy is about to prove he has more of it than anyone.
Found in the ruins of the Old City, the orphan Alarion is taken in by Assessor Elena, who bends the rule of law to adopt him into the House of Hunger. To earn his place, he must learn the ways of his new House, endure a grueling training regime, and battle deadly fiends — all while scraping together enough strength before those who hate what he represents finally close in.
After all, potential unrealized is no power at all.
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When Muchen wakes up as an orphan living a hardscrabble life in a world of magical kung fu, he immediately sets his sights on the obvious goal: get rich. Money can make ghosts work hard, let alone cultivators. He can worry about immortality once he has secured a comfortable standard of living.
Unfortunately, on the Qianzhan Continent, it takes a clever mind to earn a fortune — but it takes strength to keep it.
Sorin Atharel was already a legend. After forty years of calculated risks, dead companions, and spent fortunes, he was ready to take the final step to immortality at the top of his tower. Instead, his soul space was stripped bare, all his abilities ripped away, and his anima drained to nothing.
He wakes at the bottom of a different tower, surrounded by strangers in a strange city — his entire life reset. With only a mysterious tile mosaic as a clue, Sorin must navigate his new reality.
If he wants answers to what was done to him, there is only one path forward: he must climb again.
Rome fights an endless war against the greenskinned. Maximilian, an orphan, is caught stealing a Class Shard to activate his Patron Inheritance — but he stowed away a Skill Shard too.
Thrown into a Cursed Legion and hurled to the frontlines of a massive war, Max must learn how to use his Patron Inheritance to improve and merge Skill Shards, forging himself into the greatest legend ever to wear the maroon and silver.
4.68· 252
Base BuildingClass SystemGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMilitary+6
Jacob Cloud is sixteen, a miner's son, and he knows his fate: die young, broke, and anonymous in the town that feeds silver ore to richer cities and spits out its sons in pine boxes. He dreams of becoming a Knight — but that takes gold, rare Skills, and connections he will never have.
Then the mine floor gives out beneath him. Jacob falls — not to his death, but onto a Rainbow-ranked Skill Crystal, something so rare people kill over it. He doesn't get a weapon or a healing Skill. He gets The Grimoire Extraordinaire — a support Skill that can only show him the flaws in any other Skill or item. No instant power. No glory.
But Jacob isn't an idiot. He grinds, he experiments, and he uses the Grimoire to optimize the basics. In five days trapped underground, he boosts his skills to levels nobles would envy — and when he claws his way out, he's ready to quit the mines for good.
3.93· 1.3K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3
A raging fire devoured the world of the Ancients. Where great cities once stood, there is nothing but ruins swallowed by sand. In this wasteland, strength is the only currency that matters.
A young man who enjoyed his childhood without paying attention to the world around him pays a devastating price for that ignorance. Cast out and humiliated, forced to look into the eyes of the man who took everything from him, he resolves to become one of the strong — to avenge his father's death and bleed dry the bastard who destroyed his family.
4.39· 722
GrimdarkLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to StrongWuxia