Name: (Oneshot) I Shouldn’t Have Pretended to be the Female Lead
Rating: 4.58 (398 reviews)
Author: ars

The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life. An OP Dungeon Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG.

★ 4.54

MDW

[A failed Participant in the January 2023 Community Contest: I forgot to fill the form]

The world ended. Bam! The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone. Including me. But I got a second chance of life. Though it was as an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that I fault them. But to toss my half-eaten core into a landfill?

To add insult to injury, an earthquake brought the landfill and everything in it a mile underneath the earth. I guess I'm not in uncharted waters, because good luck finding any nearby.

Not that it would matter. I am pretty sure the apple I was reincarnated as was a GMO hybrid whose potential to germinate was as stunted as the empathy of a corporation CEO. So there's that. Also, no sunlight.

** DING **

SYSTEM INITIATION!

Oh, for the love of all —

Broken Class – A SPY LitRPG

★ 4.58

Tory Riter

Arthur was a top-tier spy, right up until he broke the first rule of espionage: never uncover a secret that’ll get you killed.

Oops. Now he’s dead.

Well… reborn actually, in a brutal System-driven world obsessed with voluntary slavery. That’s right, people here choose to be slaves. Apparently, freedom is overrated.

But Arthur? He’s not exactly the “yes, master” type.

Armed with sarcasm, spy training, and a system-gifted, wildly overpowered skill set, Arthur decides to do what he does best: ruin everyone’s evil plans, one corrupt tyrant at a time. If they can’t find him, they can’t stop him, and they definitely can’t kill him.

Expect betrayals, brutal boss fights, inappropriate jokes, and just a hint of accidental heroism.

🔥 What to expect:

- A LitRPG that focuses on story over stat sheets.

- MC with a powerful class, but it comes with strings attached.

- A sarcastic, strategic MC who wins with brains, not brute force

- Don’t expect the MC to punch a slime in Chapter 1 and instantly unlock god-tier powers.

- Expect spycraft, quiet revenge, and just enough humor to survive it all.

- One-Sided Romance (from Other Characters), No Harem

- Expect 3-5 new chapters each week.

An Immortal’s Retirement: To Achieve Peace [Volume One Finished]

★ 4.55

Malaklein

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 at one point or another. Eternity made any odds a guarantee given enough time, and Dane was quitting the game while he was 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.

Updates Monday Wednesday Friday Minimum Three Chapters Per Week

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Nero Walker (A Slow-Burn Litrpg)

★ 4.54

Leetle Sheet

Follow Nero’s journey through a world filled with every fantasy imaginable, while being stuck in a city filled with only humans. Watch as he struggles to understand how magic works, and what reality looks like when it’s based on fantasy instead of physics.

He’ll have to face a society focused on self-improvement and cooperation. Suffer the horror of competent administration. Persevere through the indignity of living in a world where people’s opinions are based on rational arguments.

Although Nero’s past life hadn’t prepared him for the challenges he’ll face, he won’t face them alone. He will find allies to assist him, mentors to guide him, even a few fans. There will be villains and threats, heroes and training. But mostly, it will be Nero trying to ignore what’s going on around him while focusing on learning magic.

The world is big, and there are characters aplenty. As time goes on, the story will grow. The leveling system may seem simple at first, but it's soon revealed to be so complex that our hero will do everything he can to ignore it, regardless of the consequences.

If you enjoy watching an internet troll with a heart of fool's gold be forced to grow up by circumstance and the influence of those around him, then this story will be worth your time. Just don't get your hopes up, our main character isn't ready for that kind of responsibility.

*Posting on Mondays at 5:30pm CT

Expect:
- Snarky banter bordering on rude
- A fantasy world built on a framework of satirical realism
- A unique progression system
- A slow, easy-going pace

Don't Expect:
- Overly complex emo characters
- Murderhobos
- Cliche villains and heroes
- To read the whole book without chuckling

His Soul Is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai

★ 4.64

The Cabbage Preacher

And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do,
For his soul is marching on.

The land of Gemeinplatz is a land filled with fantastical creatures, adventurers looking to slay them, and heroes looking to distinguish themselves from the adventurers. The most common of these heroes are those who come from Earth, who enjoy a most leisurely time with their cheat skills. It’s a perfect world, the utopia of those who wish to become overpowered and get their own power fantasy, where even the most everyman of the everyman can pull themselves by their bootstraps and become a hero.

Yet, underneath this “Gemeinplatzer Dream” is a disgusting truth.

To satisfy the needs of heroes who can’t find function like a normal human being (which most of them can’t), the lucrative Gemeinplatz slave trade crushes the dreams and ruins the lives of hundreds every day. These slaves endlessly labor, in the harems of so-called heroes, at the mansions of the landowning “heroes”, and as rare materials for various dubious magical spells.

In a world that looks down at them as demi-human, where the ruling class has no incentive to end this profitable trade, in which their oppressors are overpowered as all hell, what hope is there for the slaves?

What hope is there, is named John Brown. This time, he’ll finish what he started.

Updates for Fall of the Slave Harem every Sunday at 19:30 GMT.

Weeaboo’s Unfortunate Isekai: The Necromancer’s Gacha

★ 4.66

Warby Picus

Hooray! I've been Isekai'ed! Into a gameworld, with waifus everywhere! It's my greatest dream come true! Isekai'ed by... some kind of black robe guy. Who grabbed the wrong guy. And now I have to survive waves of monsters that want to do terrible things to me. Just... awful, awful things. And the game is a gacha game, so I'm desperately trying to earn money to pull for summons. Desperately trying to build fortifications. Furnish my Tower. Gear up. Deal with the existential horror that is life in a gacha game. Because even a weeaboo has a bottom line. And the necromancers who made this game? They gotta pay.

Base Building, summons, monsters, and a complete absence of harem for this guy who can't handle 3-D, all brought to you by the guy who made theo-punk a thing with Slumrat Rising.

Launching on RR March 25. Favorite now, so you don't miss a single chapter!

Doing a five chapters/day sprint for 3/25 and 3/26, two on the 27-28th, and one on the 29th. 1chap/day M-F after that.

Merchant Crab

★ 4.53

H0st

Book 1 is on Kindle and Audible!

Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers, but then he had to go and accidentally discover the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie. With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day.

Follow Balthazar as he does everything to find a baker... except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Witness how adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home. And cheer for a crab who makes great new friends by simply buying them.

Book 3 is out now, with new chapters fresh off the bakery!

What to expect from this story:
- No harems, not unless they're a harem of gold coins.
- Silliness, lots of it. The story doesn't take itself too seriously, so you shouldn't either.
- The only kind of OP here is how "overpriced" the crab's deals are.
- A system simple enough for a crab to use, but still conveniently complex when necessary, for some odd reason.
- Proper realistic adventurers: they're not very bright, and they make very poor decisions.
- Did I mention there will be pastries?

Join the Discord here!

Magic Murder Cube Marine (Book 1 Stubbed)

★ 4.71

Alex Karne (TheDeliciousMeats)

Author's note: Don't overthink it, just read it. It's funny.

Francis Francis Francis the 3rd was one hell of a Marine. He died doing what he loved, killing everyone around him.

After being vaporized in the line of duty, Francis is transported to a new world full of gods and magic. Too bad Hades is trying to kill him for declining a job offer and System holds a grudge for what happened during character creation. At least his new patron deity seems nice.

Armed with nothing but his lucky pink booty shorts, a pair of matching flip flops, and nineteen years worth of experience fighting in the Marine Corps, Francis must find a way home to his fellow grunts, or be listed as KIA forever.

What to expect: An overpowered Marine running around a medieval LitRPG world doing grunt things with great enthusiasm, making friends along the way.

Monogamy, Comedic Violence, Military Humor, Murderous Unicorns, Crunchy Numbers, Fun Characters, Unique Systems, Great Representation, Intelligent Himbos, Meme Gods, and Taco Rice.

Grunts love this book, and you will too!

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