Qidian Top Novels This Week: The Ranking Barely Moved

The Qidian top novels didn't move between our September 8 and September 10 captures. Same five books, same order, each with more votes on the Qidian monthly ticket board. Ye Wu Jiang (夜无疆) led then, and it was still first when September closed. The one real change came later, when the only finished book in the top five fell to 13th.

For this month's order rather than September's, see the current Qidian ranking.

Qidian Top Novels on September 10, 2026

Screenshot: Qidian Monthly Vote board (月票榜), September 2026, latest-update stamps up to September 10

Qidian describes the board as a ranking ordered by the monthly votes cast on its platform, and it resets every month.

Ye Wu Jiang is Chen Dong's current book. Wikipedia lists it as Night Without Bounds, and Chen Dong also wrote Perfect World and Shrouding the Heavens. Lao Shi Ren is the odd one out: the board marks it complete (完本), with the author's afterword posted August 31.

Why the Qidian Top Novels Barely Moved

The two captures are only two days apart, so a frozen order isn't a surprise. What's worth noticing is the gap at the top. Ye Wu Jiang's lead over second place widened by a few hundred votes in those two days. Lao Shi Ren kept collecting votes a week and a half after it ended. Its readers were still paying to back a finished book.

One caution comes from someone who worked inside the system. goodmore233, who writes "Before joining Wuxiaworld, I worked as an editor at one of China's top web novel platforms", describes the monthly ticket ranking this way: it "Reflects support from paying users." and "authors can manipulate rankings, or organize their readers to do so." If you're wondering how books from this board later reach English readers, Webnovel vs Wuxiaworld vs Qidian International sorts out the platforms.

How do monthly votes work, and who gets them?

Qidian Monthly Vote Ranking Explained →

How September Finished

Screenshot: Qidian Monthly Vote board (月票榜), September 2026 final, captured October 8, 2026

The September board is closed now; the totals were the same when we checked on October 8 and October 16. Four of the five mid-month leaders stayed in the top five:

Lao Shi Ren, third on September 10, finished 13th. Its place went to Wu Dao!, a high-martial-world (高武世界) xuanhuan novel that wasn't in the top five in mid-September.

Chart: NovelBrief, built from the two Qidian board screenshots above

Our Take

A mid-month lead on Qidian held all the way: first and second on September 10 were first and second at the close. The finished book was the one that dropped. That fits a board where readers spend votes on stories they're still following. It's one month, so treat it as a pattern to watch, not a rule. For the rest of the month, see week 4 and the September snapshot. To follow the race across months, our Qidian monthly vote race timeline puts these board posts in date order.

How We Checked This

The mid-month figures come from our own screenshots. Qidian draws its vote counts in a scrambled font, so plain text copies don't show them. We reopened the final September board on October 16, 2026, and rechecked Wikipedia's Chen Dong page and the Reddit thread the same day.

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References

[1] Qidian: Monthly Vote ranking, September 2026 [2] Wikipedia: Chen Dong (writer) [3] r/noveltranslations: How a Chinese web novel actually gets produced