Qidian Top Novels This Week: What's Trending Right Now

TL;DR: Qidian top novels for September 2026 currently have Ye Wu Jiang (夜无疆), an Eastern xuanhuan novel, in first place with 25,382 monthly votes, followed by four other Chinese-original novels not yet available in English translation.

Key Takeaways

• This is a live, dated snapshot of Qidian's Monthly Vote (月票) ranking, not a fixed or permanent list.
• Ye Wu Jiang (夜无疆), an Eastern xuanhuan novel, currently holds #1 with 25,382 monthly votes.
• None of the current top 5 have a confirmed English translation yet, they're all still Chinese-original serials.
• The board includes one completed novel, Lao Shi Ren (捞尸人), sitting at #3 despite already having finished its run.

Qidian Top Novels: This Week's Top 5

Qidian's own Monthly Vote ranking page, screenshotted directly at the time of writing.

Qidian's Monthly Vote ranking resets every calendar month and moves daily as readers spend monthly tickets on their favorite ongoing serials. This qidian yuepiao ranking snapshot reflects what the board actually looked like at the time of writing, for September 2026, not a static or historical list:

1. Ye Wu Jiang (夜无疆), 25,382 monthly votes. An Eastern xuanhuan (东方玄幻) novel, ongoing, current through Chapter 811 as of September 8. No confirmed English translation exists yet.

2. Xuan Jian Xian Zu (玄鉴仙族), 22,477 monthly votes. A xianxia novel tagged under cultivation-civilization (修真文明) themes, ongoing, past Chapter 1,590. No confirmed English translation yet.

3. Lao Shi Ren (捞尸人), 21,406 monthly votes. An urban supernatural (都市·灵异超能) novel centered on a traditional ghost-and-corpse-retrieval premise. Notably, this one is already complete, holding a top-3 spot despite having finished its run, a signal of unusually strong lingering reader support.

4. Mei Qian Xiu Shen Me Xian? (没钱修什么仙?), 20,365 monthly votes. Another xianxia entry in the cultivation-civilization tag, ongoing, past Chapter 989. The title itself translates roughly to "No Money, What Cultivation?", a premise built around the financial cost of cultivating.

5. Qing Wu Gaokao Shi Du Jie (请勿高考时渡劫), 17,166 monthly votes. An urban-fantasy entry whose title translates to something like "Please Don't Face Your Tribulation During the Gaokao," referencing China's high-stakes college entrance exam.

Why These Qidian Top Novels Matter This Week

None of this week's top 5 have surfaced yet on Webnovel.com or in any Seven Seas Entertainment licensing announcement. That's normal. The Monthly Vote board tracks what's resonating with the Chinese-reading audience on Qidian directly, well upstream of the English licensing pipeline this site otherwise covers. A novel spending real time in this top tier is one of the stronger organic signals that it could eventually draw a translator's or publisher's attention.

Curious how the Monthly Vote system itself actually works, ticket mechanics and all?

Qidian Monthly Vote Ranking Explained →

Lao Shi Ren's presence at #3 despite being a completed novel is worth sitting with specifically. Most Monthly Vote activity concentrates around ongoing serials, since ticket-voting is partly a way for readers to keep a story's momentum alive. A completed novel holding a top-3 slot suggests a genuinely large, still-active fanbase continuing to support it well after the story ended, the kind of signal that sometimes precedes a licensing announcement for a finished, lower-risk backlist title.

Want to see what a real Seven Seas licensing announcement looks like once a Chinese-original novel actually crosses over?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is the Qidian Monthly Vote ranking? A: The Monthly Vote (月票) ranking is Qidian's own leaderboard of novels ranked by monthly ticket votes, a currency readers spend to support their favorite ongoing serials. It resets each calendar month and reflects real-time reader support rather than lifetime popularity.

Q: What novel is #1 on the Qidian Monthly Vote ranking this week? A: As of this snapshot, Ye Wu Jiang (夜无疆), an Eastern xuanhuan novel, holds the #1 spot with 25,382 monthly votes, current through Chapter 811 and still ongoing.

Q: Are any of the current top novels already available in English? A: None of the current top 5 have a confirmed official English translation or Webnovel.com listing as of this writing. They are presented here as titles trending on the original Chinese platform, not as English-reading recommendations.

Q: How often does this ranking change? A: Monthly votes reset at the start of each calendar month and shift daily as readers spend tickets, so a snapshot like this one reflects a single point in time, not a fixed or permanent ranking.

Q: Is this different from the Qidian Monthly Vote mechanism explainer? A: Yes. This article is a live, dated snapshot of the current board. For how the Monthly Vote system itself works, see our separate explainer on the ranking mechanism.

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References

[1] Qidian: official Monthly Vote ranking page [2] Qidian: official Chinese web novel platform