Any Sensible Alternate-History Novels? No Brain-Dead Plots, Just Solid Logic 有没有那种正常一点的历史架空文？不无脑，有逻辑
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Sky Screen: You're an Emperor of a Fallen Kingdom, and You Still Have Something to Say? 天幕：都亡国之君了还有说法？
(Plenty to enjoy!) Steady updates + sky screen + watching short videos + lighthearted historical commentary + skits. Who could have seen this coming? Who could have seen this coming? A huge truck from another world gave Zhao Fei’s life a fresh start. As he ate hotpot, sang, and scrolled through videos on his phone... He had no idea that the sky screen was broadcasting his life to the people of every dynasty... From then on, Zhao Fei’s modern life became a favorite topic among his ancestors: “Tha
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- 252 The Engineer Emperor 工科大明 Lu Ren, an engineering professor, unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a baby in a farming family in Henan during the Hongzhi reign of the Ming Dynasty. He first entered the imperial examination arena to compete against the greats, then used his engineering knowledge to advance technology and improve people's lives. As he steadily expanded his influence, he wrote an extraordinary legend in the Great Ming. 4.1kReads8.8Score513Shelves
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Three Kingdoms: I Only Want to Conquer, but These Women Are All Acting Strange 三国：我只想争霸，她们全不对劲
[Transmigration + a world with many women and few men + all the heroes turned female + farming and conquest + daily romantic rivalries + political intrigue + lighthearted comedy + meticulous historical research] After waking up, Xiang Xuansun found himself transmigrated into the body of Xiang Bei, the magistrate of Lin'an County. The good news: he was a member of the Xia royal clan, with a perfectly legitimate claim. The bad news: this world was populated entirely by women. Every fierce general
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I Was Given a Wife When I Enlisted, and Conquered the Chaotic World with My Beauties 当兵发老婆，我靠美娇娘称霸乱世
[Ming dynasty, multiple heroines, ruthless struggle for supremacy, no System, crushing the Qing dogs, rebellion] “Do soldiers get wives? Living ones, the kind who can have kids?” After his soul lands in the late Ming, he opens his eyes on the verge of starving to death. Desperate for a bite to eat, he spins a tale to the recruiting officer. He only wanted to get enough food to eat, but the new recruits' camp is overrun with bullies, and he can't even get a bowl of sour porridge. Wang Ergou snaps
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Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云
Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent
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Berlin in Another World: In the Kaiser's Name 异界柏林：以德皇之名
[Transmigration + no System + 10,000 words updated daily + white-haired protagonist + old-school tsundere + one heroine + history + morally gray] The Ruthless Man of Tongliao, Issue 114514: From Commoner to Royal Consort, How Does a Lowly Adviser Win the German Empress? If you don’t like it after reading, you can challenge the author to PvP. My name is Claude Bauer. I was just an overworked office drone pulling a late-night shift when a bolt of lightning struck, and I returned to the German Empi
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A Strategy for Realm and Rivers: Chronicles of Court and Jianghu 山河策【庙堂江湖录】
[Peerless Heir] [Jianghu and Court] [Blood-and-Iron Warfare] [Political Intrigue and Wits] [Alternate History] [Chivalry and Tenderness] [No Transmigration] [No Golden Finger] The Dingbian Prince’s household is wiped out. Ten-year-old heir Ling Canglan narrowly escapes. After years in hiding, he makes his name in a single stroke. He studies both literature and martial arts, and grows into a man of great talent. Faced with the enmity of his country and the hatred of his family, he joins the army
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I Transmigrated, and They Made Me Emperor! 一朝穿越，我被黄袍加身了！
Also known as The Finest Young Master from a Humble Family One month after transmigrating, a woman I've never even met wants to be my wife? And she wants to have my babies! What does it matter if the dynasty is in chaos and the times are turbulent, even if I'm out in the countryside, far from the centers of power? Foreign enemies are invading and want to take my money? Dream on!
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Back to the Song Dynasty as a Prince 回到宋朝当王爷
[Historical Contest Entry] His soul is reborn in the body of Zhao Ji, Prince Jing, the fourth son of Emperor Huizong of Song, a prince who never existed in history. He plans to coast through life, but trouble keeps finding him. Song Jiang and Fang La rebel! The Six Bandits wreak havoc in government! Western Xia invades! The Liao advance south into the Central Plains! Jin troops invade, and the Jingkang Crisis looms! Don’t panic. Stay calm.
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- 260 I'm Eighty! And You're Telling Me I Placed First in the Imperial Exams? 吾龄八旬！你告诉我状元及第？ After transmigrating to ancient Ning, a dynasty that never existed in history, Li Chang’an unexpectedly finds himself in the body of an eighty-year-old man! From the start, he offends the Wu’an Marquis’s household and becomes the target of the marquis’s spite. With no other choice, he sets out to pass the imperial examinations and become a provincial graduate so he can protect himself. But to his surprise, he draws on the poetry and literature he learned in his previous life to outshine all the 75Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 261 Journey Along the Road 陌上行 Everything worth cherishing needs to be protected! Everything beautiful deserves to be defended! 10Reads7.6Score—Shelves
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Transmigrated into a Young Lord: Tempering My Body with Literary Qi Is More Powerful Than Taking Pills 穿越世子：我文气淬体比嗑药还猛
[A Clever, Satisfying Story, No System + Plagiarism + Multiple Heroines + Political Intrigue + High Martial Arts + A Compelling Read] Chen Lan transmigrated by accident and became the heir of the Earl of Wen’an’s estate in the Great Qian Dynasty. Well-read and armed with a gift for poetry and a rare talent for martial arts, he thrived in Great Qian. His romantic entanglements piled up faster than he could ever repay! Great Qian’s double agent Jiang Xin: “Chen Lan, you know, I don’t think the wor
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- 263 The Human Emperor's Chronicle 人皇纪 “I will not hand this world over to people I despise!” And so Wang Chong trampled across a sea of blood and bones to claim the throne of the Human Emperor. He turned the tide when all seemed lost, shored up the collapsing empire, and forged an unparalleled legend! 2.7kReads8.6Score314Shelves
- 264 The Han Dynasty Weekly 大汉时代周刊 This is the story of a foodie who returns to the Han Dynasty... After transmigrating to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, Zhao Qiming wants nothing more than to coast through life in comfort as a proper spoiled official's son. But he is forced to bring in his half-baked modern knowledge and ideas, launching all kinds of inventions. Before he knows it, he has built a Great Han Empire that trounces the entire world... 1.5kReads8.0Score110Shelves
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The World Is Falling Apart: Escape from Tumu Fortress and Flee for My Life! 天崩：逃出土木堡，亡命狼居胥！
[Survival of the Fittest] [No System] [Political Intrigue] He transmigrates into Zhu Qizhen. He is emperor for just one day, before being forced to flee into the snowy north. The Battle of Tumu is riddled with unanswered questions. First, he has to stay alive. Only then can he think about anything else...
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The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路
An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans.
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- 267 Great Qian’s Top-Tier Star: The Fugitive Son-in-Law Who Ran from His Wedding 大乾顶流：逃婚驸马爷 [Transmigration + alternate history + no System + showing off and face-slapping] My name is Su Yan, and I transmigrated into the body of the spoiled son of a Duke of the Great Qian Kingdom. At first, I wanted to start a small business and coast on my father's glory, living the carefree life of a god: fighting crickets, walking dogs, taking a whole harem of wives and concubines, and listening to music at the pleasure quarters whenever I had nothing else to do. Then my father told me I was betroth 210.5kReads8.6Score15.2kShelves
- 268 Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候 Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later 22Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Am Hongli, Building a Golden Age for the Qing Dynasty 朕是弘历打造大清盛世
[Political Intrigue + Harem Rivalries + Factional Strife + Romance + Emperor] Hongli ascended the throne at twenty-five and ruled for sixty years, making him the longest-reigning and longest-lived emperor in history. He governed with diligence, excelling in both civil and military affairs, and led the Qing to the height of its golden age. Yet factional strife raged through the court, conflicts in the deep palace never ceased, and danger lurked behind the splendor. In the end, the golden age ga
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The Unrecorded 不足录者
This novel is also titled The Pamir Crime Boss: I Worked as a Tour Guide in the Late Qing. I am Wa Han, known as Pei Zu Lu, “Eagle,” and once the head of the Eighth Mountain Lodge of the Gelaohui. To find the hidden Shangri-La, a secret realm that could turn this chaotic age around, I agreed to guide the British scholar Yintan Si and his archaeological team, doing what people today would call working as a tour guide. My sworn brother Tu Fu grabbed me and warned, “After all these years, you sti
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- 271 The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记：星尘之战 Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 272 Empress Dowager Cixi and Her Three Favored Eunuchs 慈禧皇后与她的三个宠爱太监 [Eunuchs + Palace Secrets + Empress Dowager Cixi + Court Intrigue] From the time Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace to the day she ruled from behind the curtain, she shared an unusual relationship with three eunuchs: An Dehai, Li Lianying, and Xiao Dezhang. They were like master and servants, like friends, and more than anything, like old companions. She doted on the three eunuchs, who relied on her favor to do as they pleased, throw their weight around, and take part in court affairs. This 51.3kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
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The Fox Comes 狐来
Alternate world | Modern fantasy | Coming of age | War and antiwar For a hundred years, the Three Realms have coexisted, with humanity, immortals, and demons maintaining order together. In 2144, militarism rises again in Japan, and war spreads across the globe. No one knows that this Japanese island, sealed off by black miasma for ten years, is the deadly focal point of a world-ending game. The protagonist, Sifan, half-immortal and half-demon, should have perished with the Immortal Realm, but
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- 274 The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车 Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter 26Reads—Score—Shelves
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Bound to a System, I Become the Invincible Adviser to My County Magistrate Father 绑定系统，做县令爹的无敌女师爷
[A novice female player who pays to transmigrate + an honest, bookish father + a talkative male lead] The heroine is one of the least capable players to transmigrate. She lands in a fictional dynasty with strict rules of etiquette, a typical feudal society that devours its people. The System forcibly comes online and tells her the game is difficult, but there’s no need to worry: someone is paying to give her an advantage. But the heroine has no grand ambitions. She just wants to help her father
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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I Win by Doing Nothing Every Day 朕每天都在躺赢
“Work harder? No way! After working 996 hours a week and dropping dead, I transmigrated into a crown prince. All I want is to be a useless layabout and eat until I die!” “But who could have guessed? I doze off during morning court and somehow realize a peerless martial art. I go fishing in the back garden and pull up the Imperial Jade Seal!” “The officials call me a useless, incompetent fool, and enemy barbarians laugh that I just sit around waiting to die. But they don’t know that the more peop
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- 278 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 你是别样的风景 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 91Reads—Score—Shelves
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Late Han: Starting as a Village Headman, I Cook Up a Feast 汉末：从亭长开始烹小鲜
(Political intrigue, upright scholars taking on powerful clans, outlaws, historical research, farming, hegemony, cold-weapon battles, a weak System) The story begins in 181, when the protagonist is a low-ranking village head in Beihai, Qingzhou, three years before the Yellow Turban Rebellion. He rises step by step, survives into the chaotic age, and eventually fights to conquer the realm. What makes this book stand out: the officialdom and Confucian scholarship of the late Han, meticulous hist
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- 280 The Compass of Time 时光罗盘 The Time Compass 37Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Song Dynasty: The History That Should Have Been 宋朝：本应如此的的历史
He is the light, and I am the shadow. He dons the imperial robes, while I toil away, mending every crack in the future. By the end of my life, the Great Song will be invincible, shining forever like the sun and moon. Hidden in the shadows of the history books, I am the one and only player behind the Great Song. Three hundred years of regret will be wiped away in a single stroke, and I will reshape the heavens for Huaxia. Zhao Muchen (Zhao Kuanghong)
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- 282 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 Across the Ocean 61Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Empress Begs: The Poor Scholar Builds a Thunder Cannon 女帝跪请：寒门首辅造雷神炮
"Technology Saves the Nation" "The Mad Empress" "Dark Lolita" "The Humble Scholar Who Became Prime Minister" As her mother clutched the military token of Suolong Pass and breathed her last, Shen Mo burned the Four Books and Five Classics to ash. The so-called upright scholars accuse him of throwing in his lot with Western sorcery? Then let microscopes expose the plague, and granular gunpowder blast the officials' hats right off! Until, on a stormy night... The armored empress dropped to one
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- 284 A Soldier's Journey at the End of the Tang Dynasty 唐末从军行 The Tang dynasty was at the height of its glory, yet its political failings could only be reversed by a hero of the ages. As the saying goes, rise and fall are governed by fate, and after reaching its peak, prosperity must decline. After three hundred years of glory and turmoil, the magnificent Tang dynasty finally crumbled. That year, Chen Congjin arrived in this world. He would bring this chaotic era to an end. 130.1kReads9.0Score13.9kShelves
- 285 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 286 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 35Reads—Score—Shelves
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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 People's He Liu Hun: This Time, I Won't Become Prince Gao 人民的贺六浑：这一次我不做高王
With a soul from a later age, he plunged into a world of chaos that devoured all who entered. In 2023, on the rainy night his thesis defense failed, history doctoral student Chen Zhiqing opened his eyes to find himself in the Northern Wei's Zhengguang era, year four, as Gao Huan, a courier in a frontier garrison. No System, no golden finger. His only asset was the unfinished manuscript in his mind, A Study of the Six Garrisons Rebellion. From the start, it was hellishly difficult: Poliuhan Bali
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Love and the Crown: The Hunting Duke and the Lost Princess 爱与王冠：狩猎的公爵与迷失王女
No saintly heroine + the heroine is the story’s biggest villainous BOSS + a story of villains falling in love with villains + no magic or System + alternate-history Western European court ➕Using a “dark fairy tale” style to deconstruct traditional royal romance myths and reveal the anatomy of power. Princess Sera of Lumiere escapes from a convent, murders nobles, fakes her own suicide, and manipulates public opinion, embodying a “holy madwoman.” She turns religious symbols into weapons, committi
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The Broken Imperial Seal 残玺
“Anger is commonplace, but a smiling man is inscrutable...” Inspired by a hidden chapter of real history, this tells the story of a wild strategic-level scientist’s rise and growth. The premise is fresh, fantastical yet grounded in reality, and encompasses history, the workplace, the military, scientific research, national security, criminal investigation, elaborate schemes, murder, and modern high-stealth espionage, high-tech hacking, and high-intensity aerospace electronic warfare. The ending
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Transmigration: The Clan Chief Leads You to Nobility and High Office 穿越：族长带你封侯拜相
A thunderbolt struck down, and when Zhao Xu, a top modern engineering student, opened his eyes, he had been cast into Jing, a kingdom ravaged by famine and war. He had become one of the Zhao clan members fleeing their home. Ahead, government troops lay in ambush, demanding bribes as arrows rained down. Behind them, bandits burned, killed, and looted without restraint. The clan leader was near death with several arrows in him. His mother had died of hunger and cold. Some clan members had been sol
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Hidden Dragon of Great Qin 大秦潜龙
[History] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Court Intrigue] + [War] His mother was a weaver from a fallen kingdom, and he had no powerful family to rely on. As a child, he had to tread carefully amid the undercurrents of the imperial harem. At eighteen, he was named crown prince. He traveled far and wide, resolving crises at court, and thought it was all thanks to his own schemes. Then he discovered that someone else had been playing an even greater game in the shadows. After years of planning, he brought
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Dynasties Across the Myriad Worlds: A Clash of Generals and Emperors 万界朝代融合：名将帝王大乱斗
[A Trillion Descend, Ten Thousand Dynasties Vie for Supremacy] Eight billion people from the modern world, along with one hundred billion people from throughout Earth’s history, arrive simultaneously on the continent of Gaia. This is no individual’s transmigration. It is the ultimate collision of every civilization and every emperor and general in human history. Here, Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song, Genghis Khan, Napoleon... all arrive with organ
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An Age of Great Strife: From the Start, I Take to the Hills and Summon Heroes 大争之世，开局落草召唤豪杰
Yun Fan became a conscripted laborer. His attempt to escape camp and take revenge failed, so he took to the hills of Jiulong Mountain. Just as government troops were about to wipe them out "Ding! Fate System activated!" [Congratulations, Host, on earning the achievement: First Blood. Reward: 10 achievement points] [Ten-pull started. Congratulations, you obtained: renowned minister Di Renjie, mighty general Zhang Liao, elite Tiger Guard troops, the Mo Dao forging method...] From that day on, Y
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Whispers from the Terrifying Deep 恐怖深海的低语
I analyze audio for a living, and I took on a bizarre job involving a deep-sea recording. In the audio, a voice clearly predicted: Tomorrow at 14:30, at the intersection of Nanting Road, a truck will run over and kill a woman in a red dress. I didn't believe in the supernatural, but I reported it to the police anonymously. The next day, the news reported it right on time. The time and place matched down to the second. A notification chime from my inbox rang out abruptly. The title of the new aud
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- 296 Two Souls, One Han Envoy: Exiled from the Start, I Slay My Way to Glory with the Original Owner's Help 双魂汉使：开局流放，靠原主杀疯 The Two-Souled Han Envoy: Exiled from the Start, I Rely on the Original Owner to Slaughter My Way Through Who gets it, folks? Seriously! I, Lin Xiaoman, a modern-day college student with a stubborn mouth, transmigrated into the body of an illegitimate son of the Western Han imperial clan. The moment I opened my eyes, a tiger had me by the throat! I barely managed to escape with my life, only to be discarded as a political pawn and exiled to the Western Regions by imperial decree. They were clea 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Stars Adrift, Never to Return 星斗无归
[Just got a rating, and it’ll go up, so give it a try!] [Sci-fi x Western fantasy x apocalypse x high-octane action x no mindless plot x exploration of civilizations x one famous female lead] One day, the planet Earth was chewed through by alien bugs, leaving behind a wormhole... That night, Shi Chen stumbled into the wormhole with an old key in his hand. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a strange world where magic and alchemy flew everywhere. He had planned to lay low in a goblin li
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A Literary Youth in the Han Dynasty 大汉文艺青年
[History] [Alternate World] [Transmigration] [Witty and Humorous] [Multiple Heroines] Fan Li, a rogue who runs a bar, undergoes Transmigration into ancient times. One poem stuns the literary world, and one song brings listeners to tears. From his initial, desperate flight to making his first splash at a grand literary gathering; from showing off his divine prowess at Chongli Terrace to fighting bloody battles in a lone northern fortress, the rascal laughs and curses his way through it all. In t
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I’m Really Not a Walking Corpse 朕真的不是冢中枯骨啊
In the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu, known as a withered skeleton in his grave and hounded by warlords on all sides, had reached the end of the road. Even in his final moments, he clung desperately to his Imperial Jade Seal. Yuan Shu thought it was all over, but he never imagined that the throne was still within his grasp. But he has heard that the Jin people took his Imperial Jade Seal. This time, no matter what, he will take it back.
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- 300 The Chronicles of Later Zhao, Volume One: The Biography of Shi Le 后赵演义第一卷石勒传 Shi Le (274–333) was the only person in Chinese history to rise from slavery to the throne. Born into the lower ranks of the Jie people, he was once sold into slavery. He later rose to prominence with a band of “eighteen horsemen,” unified much of northern China, and founded the Later Zhao regime. During his rule, he introduced a number of reforms: he established the Imperial Academy, reduced taxes and corvée labor, and appointed the Han official Zhang Bin to high office. He also created a “thre 377Reads—Score—Shelves
