Three Kingdoms: The Emperor's Road Begins as a Spendthrift Bandit
三国：败家山贼开始的皇帝路
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- Completed
- Length
- 1.5M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Historical High-Concept
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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- The Desperate Emperor’s Road in the Three Kingdoms三国之绝望皇帝路Former title · until Oct 2026
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Tired of Courts Full of Treacherous Officials: Give Me a Loyal Court from the Start
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A Story Where Subordinates and Enemies Imagine the Protagonist Is a Brilliant Strategist
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The Protagonist Wants to Lose, but His Subordinates Betray Him
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Late Han Three Kingdoms + Liberation + Reform + Red Ideology
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A different Three Kingdoms novel, relaxed, humorous, fun, a novel that I have been following for a long time. I laughed so hard, hahahaha, no, let me take a breath first 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Not bad, but too short 🤦 If you want to overturn the situation, how can you do it without Sima Yi (I am a professional in villains in basic historical literature) 🤔 I hope the author will become thicker and longer, and his writing will get better and better 😘
After reading most of it, I feel that the author's ideas are quite novel and the content is quite interesting. The fellow counselors around me are very good at thinking and can always accurately stab the protagonist in the back 😏. The important thing is that the author writes the routines in a wild and unconstrained way, and he can also round it out and fill in the details. It is quite imaginative. The writing is still in the Three Kingdoms genre, and it is definitely not easy to understand the personalities and characteristics of these wise men and women, as well as the historical background of the characters! Overall this book is okay! Give five stars to support the author! I hope you will continue to work hard! [Laughing] Also, I feel that the protagonist's feelings towards the people around him are relatively indifferent, mainly in the early stages. Although I know that it highlights the protagonist's firm belief in returning home, the attitude towards the surrounding people still makes me a little uncomfortable. As a modern ordinary person, Soul can be so indifferent to human life as soon as he travels through time. But the writing is still okay, and the protagonist's attitude is much better in the middle and later stages, and he is not so ruthless and indifferent. I hope the author can continue to work hard! Next time you write a new book, you can pay more attention to the design of the protagonist's character, identity and background! Come on! It's pretty good to write in big letters! 😄
A pretty good book. Some people may like it and some may hate it. If you hate it, there's no need to give it a low score, just don't watch it. It's not easy for the author either. If updates stop one day, it will be uncomfortable for those of us who like to read. Book friends, hold your hands high!
This book is really good. I hope the author will update it soon. It's not enough.
This book has been viciously underrated. This is the best book I have read in the past month.
It's coherent and fluent, very good, and the ideas are very strong. It's just that the final ending is a bit clumsy in order to close the loop (it doesn't affect the overall situation, the process is perfect). The rating should not be low, highly recommended. It tells the story of how the Three Kingdoms came to dominate the world, and there are many funny coincidences in it. It is not the same routine as most of the Three Kingdoms, but its completeness is excellent.
The writing style of this book is average in the early stage, but you can clearly feel that the author is making continuous progress and the character descriptions are becoming more and more fleshed out. I would rate it an 8 in the early stage and a 9.6 In the later stage. This is just my personal opinion.
I feel disappointed after reading this, a rare good ending. The overall mentality of the protagonist is a bit depressed. After all, he has been hung up by the system. Although the backfired fun is fun to watch, I also feel sorry for being fooled. Of course, both the ambition and the pattern of development direction are very pleasant. Talents who have left their names in the history of the entire era have used their whole life to develop changes and benefit the people. It is great.
Full marks. I saw more than 400 people came to comment after 168. Every character is really well written and every character is vivid. Tomato is one of the rare good books. I have nothing to say except that it is not passionate enough. Because the protagonist always wants to fail and return to modern society. The rest of the writing is fine. If you are passionate about it, it would be a sacred book.