Looking for Ancient-Era Novels About a Prince or a Marshal's Descendant Plotting to Conquer the World 求古代，亲王或元帅后人布局天下的书
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The Great Qi Marquis of One Step 大齐一步侯
[Alternate history, airtight logic, a treat to listen to, multiple heroines, lighthearted daily life, the jianghu and court politics, love and hate, national and family vendettas...] A modern-day criminal investigator transmigrates into the body of a minor official in the State of Qi. At first, his only dream is to stay alive. But when foreign barbarians invade the Central Plains, slaughtering and pillaging until the kingdom falls and families are torn apart, he has no choice but to enter the fr
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Great Solitary Peak 大孤峰
In court or in the jianghu, every injustice in this world can be settled with a single sword. If one strike isn't enough, then a hundred more, until nothing remains before me. Three million sword immortals fill the heavens, yet even they must bow their heads before me!
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Father, I Only Want to Be a Prince 父皇，我只想当个王爷
In the 115th year of the Jingli era, the realm was in turmoil, with three kingdoms standing in opposition. On that day, Ye Zhuo, heir to the Prince of Shou, opened his eyes after being unconscious for three years... Ye Zhuo only wanted to live a quiet, carefree life as a hedonistic playboy. But he was so outstanding that he shone wherever he went. See how Ye Zhuo carves out a path to becoming a wise prince in this chaotic age, one that belongs to him alone!
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The Evil Ninth Prince 妖孽九皇子
Ye Chen transmigrates into the body of the Ninth Prince of Xia. His royal brothers want him dead, the emperor wants him dead, and the powerful nobles at court all want him dead. Ye Chen has had enough. If everyone wants to kill me, then I’ll seize control of the military, train a million elite soldiers, sweep across the land, and claim the throne.
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First Rate! 第一流！
[No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De
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Great Ming Cavalry: I Conquer the Realm for the Yongle Emperor 大明铁骑:我为永乐打天下
This book was originally titled The Mythic Ming Dynasty. The story is full of decisive action, with no saintly do-gooders: when armies clash, we fight! The battles are epic, intense, and thrilling. A college student transmigrates six hundred years into the past, awakens within Zhu Gaoxu, and acquires a White Tiger Martial Soul. After lying low for ten years, he follows his father Zhu Di to seize the throne, sweep across the northern deserts, pacify Annam, and hunt down the deposed emperor. From
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I Risked Everything to Help the First Emperor, and Finally Got a Wife 我玩命辅佐祖龙，终于取到老婆
Zhang He transmigrates to the Great Qin dynasty and gains the strongest support System. As long as he helps Ying Zheng, he gets a ten-draw summon. So Zhang He sets out on diplomatic missions to the six kingdoms. He roars through their courts, berates the King of Han, points his sword at the King of Zhao, sweet-talks the King of Chu, sows discord with the King of Qi, schemes against the King of Yan, and outmaneuvers the King of Wei. With Zhang He's help, Great Qin's iron cavalry crushes the six k
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The Winds of Change in Fengge 锋戈之风起云涌
After a century of prosperity, the Great Yu Dynasty is in decline, beset by troubles at home and abroad. The court is in turmoil, and Xu Yunshan, the Great Yu's foremost commander, who had already retired to the mountains, is forced back into a web of intrigue and power struggles...
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Storms Over the Great Jin 风雨大晋
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The Lords of Great Zhou 大周王侯
Tread the thorny road, turn the course of fate and Kunlun, bask in flourishing beauty, and bring prosperity to all under heaven.
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On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
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Contending for Supremacy: Summoning the Xiliang Iron Cavalry from the Start 争霸：开局召唤西凉铁骑
Lin Yi transmigrates to another world and becomes a prince's heir. There are no Four Books and Five Classics here, nor the Hundred Schools of Thought, but warfare rages on all the same. Dynasties rise and fall, ministers and nobles scheme, and heroes vie for control of the Central Plains. Fortunately, Lin Yi awakens a System and summons the fierce general Ma Chao and the elite Xiliang Cavalry from the Three Kingdoms era from the start. As long as he can win people over or beat them into submissi
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Great Ming: The Strongest Crown Prince in History 大明：史上最强太子
[Great Ming] + [System] + [Invincible] + [Feel-Good Story] He transmigrated as Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son, Zhu Biao, the crown prince with the most secure position in history! He awakened the Fortune Golden Egg System! Once a year, he could smash open a golden egg. The stronger his fortune, the more amazing the prize! A flawless body, peerless swordsmanship, a divine command... With the System's support, he became the greatest crown prince in history! Under Zhu Biao's leadership, the Great Ming
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Iron Cavalry in a Chaotic World 乱世铁骑
A nation's decline is never caused by foreign peoples; chaos in the court is the true root of a country's troubles. A top special forces soldier from Huaxia dies in a foreign land, only to transmigrate to another world and become the sixth prince of the Great Wu Empire. Yet this illustrious identity makes him the laughingstock of the entire Great Wu dynasty, mocked and ridiculed by all.
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I Was Barely Born When the Empress Dowager Used Me to Fight for the Throne! 刚出生，母后就拿我争皇位！
Alternate history, no System, strategy and warfare He was once a prince, but fate left him stranded beyond the frontier. Now the land is shattered and warlords vie for supremacy. How could he, a prince by birth, stay out of it?
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The Empire's First Prince Consort 帝国第一驸马
[New book release: The Rebellious Son Is Invincible, the final installment of the Empire Trilogy] Guan Ning transmigrates, hoping to live a carefree life of wine, women, and luxury as a young prince. Instead, he becomes a prince consort whose engagement has been broken off. Rumor has it that no dynasty can last more than 300 years. The Great Kang Dynasty is at that very threshold: a golden age is in turmoil, loyal ministers are being persecuted, and an age of chaos is about to begin. He will top
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Hu Xiaotian 壶笑天
Yang Yu dies alongside drug lords at the border and transmigrates to the Sui dynasty, into the body of the useless heir of the Prince of Zhenbei! He wants to be an idle young lord, but there are always petty troublemakers pushing him to grow stronger! Breaking off an engagement? Fine, but I’m the one breaking off my engagement to you, Liu Wanqing! From a useless young lord to taking command of 200,000 Zhenbei troops, inventing all sorts of things from the twenty-first century, and opening a brot
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The Nation-Protecting Prince Consort 镇国驸马爷
[System + political intrigue + mind games! The story only gets better as it goes] Ji Ping’an, a die-hard Three Kingdoms Kill player, passes out while gaming. When he wakes up, he’s transmigrated to the Dayu Dynasty and, by some fluke, become its biggest doormat of a son-in-law: the princess’s husband. He also activates a Three Kingdoms Heroic Spirit System. With enough gold, he can summon any general, strategist, warlord, or beauty from the Three Kingdoms. From then on, Ji Ping’an sets out to ge
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The Primordial Otherworld 鸿蒙异世
While studying an inscription, archaeologist Ye Tian was unexpectedly transported to another world and became the only heir of an empire's marshal. Orphaned and widely believed to be incapable of cultivation, Ye Tian nonetheless possesses the primordial ancestral qi recorded in the inscription. In a world where strength rules and the situation is complex, watch how Ye Tian takes control of it all.
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The Princes of Great Wei 大魏王侯
Xu Zixian, a fallen prince's heir, is reborn in the final days of a dynasty. He fights to save himself, eventually ascends to the throne, and becomes the ruler of Wei. Later generations recorded the revival under the Great Wei ruler, recounting how, with extraordinary talent and unruffled composure, he competed with heroes for supremacy and ultimately stood above them all.
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Tang's Grand Strategy 唐谋天下
After nine reincarnations, he is born into the imperial family. Fate grants him the exalted status of crown prince, but also a cruel and merciless home life! Here's the harsh reality he has to face: his father is Li Zhi, and his mother is called Wu Mei.
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The Carefree Little Landlord 逍遥小地主
He was lucky enough to transmigrate, and even into the family of a wealthy landlord. He'd never have to worry about food or clothes, but he had no intention of wasting his life doing nothing. So Fu Xiaoguan casually set a few things in motion, never expecting the impact to be so enormous. The emperor wants to make him a first-rank official, the princess wants him as her husband, the daughter of the Minister's household refuses to marry anyone else, the barbarians want his head, the Yi Kingdom wa
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A Grand Plan for the Realm: Old Friends, New Beginnings 谋定山河之缘起故旧
(History + political intrigue + brain-teasing + detective work) To plan in the temple is to lay the foundations for moving mountains and rivers, to seek benefits for all under heaven, to bring prosperity to the state, and to secure peace for the common people. This is the mettle of a man across the ages! Plotting from within the command tent and securing victory a thousand miles away: the intricacies of rites, laws, systems, decisions, strategy, competition, balance, and compromise are endless!
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The Tang Dynasty's Number One Idler 大唐第一闲人
Reborn in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Xiao Gui wanted only to see the world's splendor and live freely, growing old with a beautiful wife and raising a hundred children and grandchildren. He wanted to be a wealthy idler, neither too tired nor too busy.
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The General Is Fierce 将军好凶猛
In the fifth year of the Tianxuan era of the Great Yue, Wang Bing, Vice Censor-in-Chief, is demoted to Tangzhou for disrespect. On his way there, he passes through the Tongbai Mountains and is pursued by assassins sent by his political enemy, Cai Ting, the Privy Councilor. Xu Huai, a brave but simple-minded youth, suddenly awakens to a fragment of unfamiliar memories from a later age. By some strange twist of fate, he frightens off the assassins and is drawn into the treacherous assassination pl
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Claim the Throne 问鼎
A star born without warning brings change to the continent. A prince stripped of his identity, a eunuch's son who has usurped another's place, and the destined daughter of the grasslands: the lives of three young people are changed by the new star, then entwined because of it. A mysterious Seven Luminaries from across the sea. A ruthless cavalry of destiny. The Mohist School, sworn to protect the world. Who will win, and who will lose? Who will live, and who will die? The mountains and rivers ar
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Restoring the Kingdom 复国
After the Great Marquis Dynasty falls, the story follows the Third Prince, Hou Yunce, as he fights his way through bloodshed to restore it.
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The Prince Who Rose from Nothing 草根王爷
A 21st-century delivery guy mysteriously transmigrates to a village in ancient times. As he struggles to adapt, he finds ways to survive and create a new life. Along the way, romance comes knocking, changing everything he thought he knew and opening the door to an exciting new life.
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My Years in the Tang Dynasty 我在唐朝的那些年
She was the first princess of the Zhenguan era, one of the gentlest and most virtuous women in history. Her paintings and calligraphy could outshine polished mirrors and make flowers and grasses bow their heads. She flashed me a playful smile, her brows relaxing as her eyes curved. Her dimples didn't show, but the corners of her lips rose into a perfect arc. Another her, the greatest female emperor of all time, so beautiful and proud to the bone that she left me utterly breathless. Wu Zetian, wh
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Ascend to the Ninth Heaven 欲上云霄九重天
A coral pendant engraved with a fire phoenix emblem draws Qi Ming, a destitute youth who lives on credit at a teahouse in Tianque City, into a shocking secret plot sweeping across four kingdoms. The moment the iron hooves of the Longxiang Army smash through the door, he still has no idea that the token his parents left him is the “key” that can overturn the world. The grand machinations governing the realm have barged into his life without warning. From a tide of Gu poison in a dungeon to a pack
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The King’s Way: Who Can Stand Against Me? 王之道谁与争锋
He is Zhao De, the empire's fourth prince, raised in luxury and wanting for nothing. Yet, by imperial decree, he assumes a false identity, abandons the dignity of his princely rank, and joins the army on the battlefield. Starting as an unknown soldier at the very bottom, he fights bloody battles on the frontier and narrowly escapes death time and again. Together with brothers-in-arms who share his life and death, he rises step by step amid the smoke and chaos of war. In the mortal world, he
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Intrepid Blade’s Path in the Snow 雪中悍刀行
The jianghu is a beaded curtain. Great and small figures are its beads; great and small stories, the strings that bind them. And loyalty and affection are the spirit that gives those beads their luster. The story is drawing to a close. The final chapter will end with those words: “Waiter, bring us some wine.”
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In the Name of Her Majesty the Queen 以女王大人的名义
(Two protagonists, two storylines, not a power fantasy, no cheating golden finger, slow-paced) Warning!! This book strives to depict the brutality of ancient times as realistically as possible. Some of the content may be disturbing to readers, so please don’t read if that’s not for you! The wealthy Eastern Continent was dominated by the Great Zhou Empire. Its mighty national strength struck fear into foreign peoples, while its vast territory and unprecedented economic prosperity made th
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