Looking for Stories About Building a Faction: Not Too Wish-Fulfillment, With Strategy, and Not for Beginners 求组建势力，不要太爽，有谋略的，不要小白文
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The Sui Dynasty: After Ten Years of Amnesia, Yang Guang Takes the World by Storm 大隋：失忆十年，杨广杀翻全世界
This book is also known as: “I've Got a Brain Disorder, So How Did I Become the Most Powerful Warlord?”, “Oh No, I've Been Urging My Dad to Rebel This Whole Time, But He's Actually Yang Guang?”, and “The Only Village Chief on Earth,” among other titles. Synopsis: During the Daye era of the Sui dynasty, Yang An transmigrates into the body of an amnesiac only son of a wealthy merchant surnamed Yang, living outside Luoyang, the eastern capital. Determined to make his father great, Yang An devotes a
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The Chess Girl 棋女
Shen Yanyan is the star courtesan of the Zu Yue Brothel. To seek out her beloved, the chess sage Lan Qing, and the match he left unfinished, she flees in the dead of night. But barely has she escaped one pit of fire before falling into another trap. With no other choice, she travels to the capital with Xiao Qing, an official on the road. She is willing to be his bedmate, just for another chance to see Lan Qing. Xiao Qing takes her for a foolish woman who doesn't know her place, and watches coldl
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Transmigrating to the Tribal Age Ten Thousand Years Ago 穿越到一万年前的部落时代
Wang Yan accidentally transmigrates to a small tribe from around ten thousand years ago, in a fictional otherworldly continent. The moment he wakes up, hunger is already tormenting him. Follow along as he tackles food shortages and a host of other problems, adapts to his new life, and leads the tribe step by step toward strength and prosperity. (No magic, no immortal cultivation, no System, no golden finger. There is war, strategy, and invention.)
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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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Taking My Ancestral Home to Another World: From the Start, I Must Support Six Households 带老宅穿异界：开局兼祧六房
Transmigrated into an ancient farming family as its only son, Liu Jingxing opens his eyes to find himself forced to inherit six family branches and marry six beautiful wives? He’s at a loss. With his frail body, can he even handle it? Luckily, his transmigration came with a golden finger: a modern homestead he can carry around, complete with a German Shepherd, strange bees, and exotic chickens and cats. Beyond the fence lies a small orchard and vegetable garden brimming with spiritual produce! A
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A Lone Woman in Troubled Times, Plotting an Age of Prosperity 乱世孤女，谋千古盛世
[Strong Female Lead + No CP + Empress + Ensemble Cast + Political Scheming + War + Power Struggles in a Chaotic Era + Nation-Building and Farming + No Spatial Storage or System + Slow-Burn Growth + Epic Length] Yun Huaijin suddenly became a "corpse" in a world torn apart by chaos. She crawled out of a pile of bodies, with only a child on the verge of starving to death beside her. In this world, nobles lived in drunken indulgence, powerful clans monopolized knowledge, bandits slaughtered withou
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Wasteland Swordsman: The Unclaimed Blade 废土剑士无主之锋
The old civilization was destroyed, technology regressed, and humanity returned to the age of cold weapons. In this wasteland overrun by ferocious beasts and bandits, the protagonist has no supernatural powers and is no invincible hero. With only a knife and a clear head, he struggles to survive amid the brutal power plays between rival factions. From investigating the truth behind the old world's destruction to building his own faction and restoring order to the wasteland, this is no wish-fulfi
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The Whole World Is Transported to Another World, and I’m Shaking in My Boots 全球降临异世界，瑟瑟发抖
Fight the kobolds for food, wrest territory from the boarfolk, seize passes from the ogres, battle the centaurs for a chance to live, and fight every race for the right to survive!!!!!!!
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Help! This Lousy System Is Making Me Found a Sect! 救命！这破系统让我开宗立派！
After transmigrating to another world as a sickly man, the male lead triggers a System: if he fails to save twenty people within three years, he’ll die of his illness. He sets off on a journey to save people, meeting one lovely confidante after another along the way. In the end, he’s forced to found a sect and finds his happy ending. (This is not a cultivation novel.) The premise is fairly fresh, leaving behind the traditional level-up-and-fight-monsters formula. The protagonist is frail at firs
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Perseverance 毅书
[Alternate History] [Court Intrigue] [Ensemble Cast] [Multiple Storylines] [Family Massacre and Revenge] [No System] [Not a Transmigration] [Struggle for Supremacy] [Slow Burn] In the winter of the forty-seventh year of Jing Tian in the Great Feng dynasty, an imperial decree summoned more than twenty frontier generals from the northern border to the capital. That night, flames soared over Qingzhu Lane Twelve. Thousands of miles away, the Qi family met with disaster. Nine-year-old Qi Jian'an es
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He Is Mine, He Always Has Been 他是我的，一直都是
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- 12 Five Years of Marriage, the Truth Comes to Light 婚后五年，真相揭开 Five Years into Marriage, the Truth Comes to Light —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Night Rain Over Returning Clouds 归云夜雨 Night Rain Over Returning Clouds —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Turns Out He’s the Rebellious Son of a Tycoon 原来是豪门逆子 Turns Out He's the Rebellious Heir of a Powerful Family —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Story of Starting Life Over 重启人生的故事 A Story of Starting Life Over —Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Three Hundred from the Start, Destined to Become the Heavenly Emperor 开局三百人，成就天帝
From the start, he transmigrates into the Great Wilderness and becomes a tribal chief, taking charge of a weak tribe of three hundred people. To survive in a world overrun with ferocious beasts, relentless natural disasters, and hostile tribes, watch as Ye Tian, a young man from another world, builds a heavenly kingdom on earth amid a harsh and unforgiving land!
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Three Kingdoms: The Han Dynasty Rises Again in Liangzhou 三国之大汉再起西凉
[Power Struggles, Strategy, Development, Alternate History] From a down-and-out scholar to the King of Xiliang! The end of the Han dynasty, the Three Kingdoms era. Liu Mu, a poor young man from a declining branch of the Han imperial clan, earns his living writing letters for people on the street. He buys an official post, digs up ancient tombs to raise funds for his army, and builds a covert guard force. He recruits renowned strategists Li Ru, Jia Xu, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, and Chen Gong to manage
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Red Sky: The Dynasty Cycle 赤霄：王朝周期律
Note: This is an epic war story. Don’t see that the protagonists are two men and assume it’s the sort of “two male leads” story some female readers enjoy. It isn’t! There are two male protagonists named here only because there isn’t room to list more than a dozen. Each subsequent volume will have its own protagonist, and the complete story will feature more than a dozen protagonists. Each protagonist belongs to a different historical period. Faced with the crises of their time, whether struggles
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Three Kingdoms: The Greatest Warlord of a Chaotic Age 三国：乱世第一枭雄
[Three Kingdoms] [Conquest] [Invincible] [System] [Summoning] [God of Slaughter] Transmigrating to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty with a summoning System, I summon Yuwen Chengdu from the start. I want this realm, and I want the beauties too! With the most lavish lineup in history, I set out on a legendary path to unify the land!
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- 21 The Emperor: A Young Man's Journey Through the Land 帝：山河少年行 By a twist of fate, Qin Ziyu obtained the Mo Bing Token and forged a bond with the Ancestral Dragon. Every step forward brought him into contact with secrets of an even higher order. Trapped in layer upon layer of intricate schemes, he presses on through an endless climb and game of wits, driving himself ever forward. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Heavenly Realm Taobao Shop 天界淘宝店 To start a business by opening a Taobao shop, Chu Yang was swindled into a massive debt. Just when he was at the end of his rope, he accidentally discovered that his shop had connected to the Heavenly Realm Taobao. On the Heavenly Realm Taobao, he could not only buy heavenly treasures and earthly rarities, but also open a shop and earn spirit stones. From then on, Chu Yang embarked on a one-way road of fleecing the gods… 288Reads7.2Score138Shelves
- 23 The Fierce Bastard Son 庶子凶猛 Su Hanwei took the money Xu Mu’s mother needed to save her life just to win favor with the man she loved. What she didn’t know was that Xu Mu, the good-for-nothing she had always looked down on, was someone she could never hope to measure up to… 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Every Inch of Land Is Bought with Blood 一寸山河一寸血 He transmigrates with a System. Lu Fengxian, the fiercest warrior of the Three Kingdoms, just watch as I, Li Cunxiao, Ran Min, and Gao Chong take on Lu Bu together! Second Master Guan, you've got your Green Dragon Crescent Blade, but I, Yuwen Chengdu, have my gilded phoenix-wing trident too. System, do you have any of those monkeys that showed up in the Ming Dynasty? Give me a dozen. This is a tale of bloody conquest: driving the barbarians north, men may bleed but never weep, and the Han people 1.2kReads8.2Score103Shelves
- 25 Our Whole Class Transmigrated to Great Qin, and the First Emperor Made Me His Heir? 全班穿越大秦，始皇竟传我皇位？ [Group Transmigration + Power Struggles + Class Beauty + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Invincible] The entire class transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty. The class sports representative becomes the Crown Prince of Zhao? The class monitor becomes a princess of Han? The discipline committee member becomes the Crown Prince of Qi? … In the entire class, are all the princes and princesses of every state except Qin? Once they gain power, their human nature changes completely! But Zhao Cheng awakens a 113.8kReads9.2Score12.2kShelves
- 26 If You Won't Take Risks, How Can You Cultivate Immortality? 不浪修什么仙 [Lighthearted comedy + ensemble cast + a shameless scoundrel + cunning schemes + outrageous antics] “What! The manor was sold, the spirit mine was sold, the marriage contract was sold, and even your sister-in-law was sold?” Yun Ji had just transmigrated. Looking at the thick stack of IOUs, he pointed to his own heart and said, “How about putting a price on my conscience? I'll sell it to the highest bidder.” Having transmigrated into the body of a hopeless gambling addict, he set off on a life 16.3kReads8.1Score1.8kShelves
- 27 The Three Kingdoms: Seizing the Advantage to Win the World 三国之截胡赢天下 Cao Cao: Liu Xiu, son of Liu Jingsheng, really is a child prodigy. He’s blessed with tremendous fortune! Liu Bei: Liu Xiu has countless fierce generals and wise strategists. Can someone tell me how I’m supposed to take Jingzhou from him? Sun Quan: Just hearing Liu Xiu’s name makes me uneasy. He isn’t going to take Jiangdong from me, is he? 14.9kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 28 I Never Meant to Become a Rebel 我真没想当反贼 In a game set during the Three Kingdoms era, Han Xinghe randomly landed in the rebel faction from the start and became a Yellow Turban soldier. He had planned to desert and join the imperial court to restore the Han dynasty, but through a twist of fate, he defeated government soldiers and was promoted to the Holy Son of the Way of Great Peace. Through tireless effort, he eventually inherited Zhang Jiao’s legacy and reached the pinnacle of life. Lü Bu is my big brother, Dian Wei is on my left, an 7.3kReads8.9Score567Shelves
- 29 The Beginning: Pan Feng Is in a Panic from the Start 开端：开局潘凤很慌张 I am Pan Feng, and I’m freaking out. I’ve been reincarnated five times already. Hua Xiong is coming to chop off my head, and Lü Bu wants to kill me too. How am I supposed to survive? The Yellow Heaven is dead, the Great Wind shall rise. 9.5kReads8.9Score760Shelves
- 30 Boss, Another Flock of Easy Marks Has Arrived 大当家，肥羊又又又来了 [Alternate History + No System + Slow Burn + Farming and Development + Decisive and Ruthless + Outlaws + Warring States Competition + No Heroine in the Early Story] Also known as: If You Transmigrate and Don't Rebel, Are You Just Waiting for New Year's? Starting from a Village, Building a Prosperous Dynasty A hellish start, but he chose to fight his way out! From the moment Tang Feng transmigrated, he was trapped in the quagmire of a chaotic age: taxes were tigers, landlords were wolves, and ba 15.9kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 31 EN Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊 (Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho 497.6kReads9.7Score72.9kShelves
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When the Lanterns Fade, the Calamity Ends 灯明劫尽
[Two strong leads, brilliant strategists, devoted only to each other, revenge, dual identities, dual personalities, an alternate world not based on any historical dynasty, plenty of witty flirting] She is the eldest princess, rumored to be cherished by all, yet she witnessed her mother spend her life being manipulated by the man she loved. Gentle and composed on the surface, she excels at reading people and understands human nature. To stir up the court, she will stop at nothing. She will destro
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The Mighty Little Constable 神通小捕快
“One leaf riding the wind, roaming ten thousand miles; a dashing constable, famous throughout the land.” The most righteous men are often those society looks down on, and heroes rise from the streets. The spring breeze and I are both passing travelers, but your name alone belongs to the martial world. Ye Fei, a lowly errand boy at an inn, is rejected by the Su family because he's nothing but a nobody who runs errands! Who could have guessed that after getting drunk, saving a beauty, and catching
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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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Apocalypse Reboot: I'm a Military Contractor 末世重启，我是军事承包商
Starting out as a tiny private military contractor, he rockets his way to the top five military powers on Blue Star. The Apocalypse has arrived. Zombies and mutated beasts, are you ready? [Apocalypse] + [Reborn] + [Technology] + [Superpowers] + [Zombies] + [Mutated Beasts] + [War] Good news: A meteor struck Blue Star, but humanity intercepted most of it outside the atmosphere with mushroom bombs… Bad news: I’m a private military contractor who worked my way up through hell, finally building an i
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Xianting Academy 贤庭学府
At the crossroads of life at eighteen, they were people society had given up on completely. Some had failed the college entrance exam and been branded failures for good; others had never even made it through the gates of middle school and were already written off as having no chance of success in life. A closely guarded rumor became their desperate last hope: deep in the northern wilderness, hidden within a sacred mountain, stood a mysterious academy. It asked nothing about their past or their g
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The Lingxiao Sect Bankruptcy and Restructuring Plan 凌霄宗破产重组计划
[Traditional cultivation]+ [Sect farming]+ [Comedic daily life]+ [Passionate battles]+ [Ridiculous antics]+ [System upgrades]+ [Raising disciples] Twenty years in the cultivation world, and still only at Qi Refining. Then the sect System suddenly came online: [Quest: Recruit five disciples within the time limit!] [Failure penalty: Instant death!] A ruined mountaintop, a toxic atmosphere, and no capital from the start. From then on, everything took a sudden turn: Other sects' Alchemy Peaks toil o
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- 38 I’m the Crown Princess, but the Crown Prince Doesn’t Love Me 我是太子妃但太子不爱我 I'm the Crown Princess, but the Crown Prince doesn't love me 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Spring Lantern Debt 春灯债 Debt of the Spring Lanterns —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 It’s My Sixteenth Year as the Villainess, and I Think I’ve Fallen for the Hero 这是我穿成女配的第十六年，我好像喜欢上男主了 This is my sixteenth year as the villainess, and I think I've fallen for the male lead 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 My Ex-Boyfriend’s Cat Became a Spirit 前男友的猫成精了 My Ex-Boyfriend's Cat Became a Spirit —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 A Socially Anxious Illustrator and Her Cat Take On the Art Festival 社恐插画师带猫逆袭艺术节 A Socially Anxious Illustrator and Her Cat Take the Art Festival by Storm —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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Farming: From Sect Tenant Farmer to Supreme Across the Myriad Worlds 种田：从宗门佃户到万界独尊
[Farming] + [Ensemble cast] + [Lord] + [Conquest] + [System] + [Satisfying wish fulfillment] Zhang Guiyuan transmigrates to a parallel world at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, where he becomes a tenant farmer growing spiritual plants for a sect. He awakens the strongest Lord System and obtains an unparalleled book: Postpartum Care for Sows He settles into a fine life of farming, raising pigs, and teasing his wicked sword cultivator little sister. But then a calamity that comes once every tho
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The Iron-Boned Ming, Zhu Qizhen the Fortress Emperor 大明硬骨头，堡宗朱祁镇
[No System, no golden finger, no overpowered protagonist, no crushing everyone with brute force] On the eve of the Tumu Crisis, he transmigrates as Zhu Qizhen and is emperor for just one day. Why did Zhu Qizhen clear Wang Zhen's name? Was the Zhu Qizhen who returned to power in history really the same man? Did the Ming dynasty truly begin its decline with him? Of the sixteen Ming emperors, how many met a clear-cut end? He must survive first. Only then can he think about anything else. With three
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The Myriad Worlds Mall of the Wilds 蛮荒之万界商城
“Dad, Mom, please don’t die!” Chu Tianlong watched his parents die before his eyes, powerless to do anything. In the end, he could only flee for his life. On the Savage Continent, the human race’s first Savage God, Xue Pengyu, mysteriously disappeared a thousand years ago, cutting off the path of cultivation for humanity. Generation after generation of sages had no choice but to develop martial arts that tempered the body. From then on, the oppressed demons rose to power, and humans became like
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The Path of the Emperor 皇者大道
Lin Fan transmigrated and unified another world through conquest. He struggled, hesitated, and wavered, but in the end he was destined to walk an extraordinary path: as a minister, a friend, a general, a marquis, a king, and an emperor. At last, he would ascend a throne piled high with bones and blood.
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A Reborn Apocalypse Expert with Three Powers: Even Scoundrels Have Their Principles 重生末世的三系强者：渣亦有道
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I Transmigrated to the Tyrannical Qin: Chen Sheng Led Me in Rebellion 穿越暴秦：陈胜带我起义
Are kings and nobles born to their station? The protagonist transmigrates into the brutal Qin dynasty and rises in rebellion alongside Chen Sheng, in an age ruled by harsh officials. Facing divisions between sworn brothers and the relentless turning wheels of history, he plots and schemes to save the brothers who stood together when their oath was first made. Where will he lead them from here...?
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Transmigrating to the Warring States: Two Rice Balls in the Second Year of Eiroku 穿越战国：永禄二年的两个饭团
Sengoku Japan, in the second year of Eiroku. Two rice balls save a life. No System, no golden finger. Only increasingly hazy knowledge of the future, a bold yet cautious way of handling affairs, and a man from a later age who rises from humble beginnings. Starting with nothing, he survives the chaos, stands tall, and fights his way to prominence, eventually vying for supremacy in the Sengoku era. He studies medicine and builds castles, trains in swordsmanship and spearmanship, and learns the p
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