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The Devil's Brigade 魔鬼部队
During a live-fire exercise, a special forces unit of the People's Liberation Army suddenly transmigrated to the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, setting off a series of rousing tales of resistance.
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- 52 The Northeast Anti-Japanese First Army: Sequel 东北抗日第一军续 My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 407Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Fist in Hand, Roaming the World: Part One 倚拳闯天涯上 I was a miserable wage slave, rushing to deliver a package, when suddenly a car knocked me down. My head struck a gravestone, and everyone thought I was dead. But I felt an invisible force burrowing into my head. I had learned martial arts. 289Reads—Score—Shelves
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She Followed Her Husband to the Battlefield and Became a Sharpshooter 陪郎上战场，童养媳成了神枪手
Chen Dani, a child bride, has one greatest wish: to farm the two fine acres handed down through her husband Zhou Tieshuan’s family and live a happy life together, with him farming and her weaving. But with tyrannical landlords running rampant, Japanese invaders wreaking havoc, and the reactionaries ruling in darkness, she has no choice but to take up arms and go to war alongside her husband. She fights the tyrants, battles the Japanese, joins the War of Liberation, and finally goes to resist Ame
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Retreat to the Savage Mountain? I Activate the Strategic System! 撤退野人山？我激活战略系统！
Tick-tock! Tick-tock! Deep in the dense forests along the China-Myanmar border, everything was silent, save for the soft patter of water dripping from the treetops. Li Chenfeng lay motionless in the undergrowth. A drop of water landed on a leaf beside his face, splashing into his eye, but he didn't dare blink. His neck throbbed with pain. A leech squirmed happily against it, swollen with blood. The bushes in the distance swayed. Li Chenfeng glanced at Zhang Xiaoyu, tamped down his agitation,
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- 56 God of Slaughter on the Taihang Mountains During the War of Resistance 抗战之太行杀神 If you transmigrate to 1937, what's the first thing you'd want to do? Kill the Japanese invaders? No, fill your stomach first. Qin Yu struggles to survive with his younger sister. By chance, he gets his hands on a few guns. He learns to shoot, takes revenge, and kills collaborators and Japanese invaders. No System, no pocket dimension, no special forces experience. The only thing buried deep in his bones is his hatred of the Japanese, and the only skill he can boast of is his accuracy at shootin 11.7kReads8.8Score892Shelves
- 57 Guerrilla Warfare in the Yimeng Mountains During the War Against Japan 抗日之我在沂蒙山区打游击 Chen Feng is an auxiliary instructor with the country's Yanlong Unit. While carrying out a solo mission in northern Myanmar, he falls into a trap, and the villa complex where he is stationed is blown to pieces. By chance, he transmigrates back to his hometown in Shandong in 1937. As the autumn wind blows, he knows the Japanese will arrive in just a few months. Since he's here, he might as well make the best of it. He gathers a group of brothers and prepares for the enemy's arrival. He has to do 5.3kReads8.9Score340Shelves
- 58 The War of Resistance Begins with a Dying Datong Coal Miner 抗战从濒死的大同煤矿工人开始 In Datong in November 1937, the weather was already bitterly cold. Wang Hansheng, who had transmigrated there, felt his name suited him perfectly: in the freezing winter, he was about to freeze to death and be reborn. As a prisoner-of-war laborer in a mine, he knew that under the Japanese policy of exchanging people for coal, a serious illness meant death. Two moldy steamed buns a day and sixteen hours of digging coal: how could he survive in such conditions? Wang Hansheng envied those mighty tr 3.3kReads8.6Score165Shelves
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Zeng Guofan's Methods of Scholarship 曾国藩治学方法
This book explores three dimensions: self-cultivation, managing affairs, and reading. Its discussion of self-cultivation advocates integrating “resolve, insight, and perseverance,” building a foundation for body and mind through meditation and a regular routine. Its approach to managing affairs reveals, through practical examples such as running a household and leading an army, the unity of hands-on action and institutional innovation. Its discussion of reading emphasizes “mastering one field” a
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- 60 History of the Song: Annals of Emperor Taizu 宋史·太祖本纪 He may have been the best “actor” among the founding emperors in Chinese history. In 960 CE, a carefully orchestrated “forced enthronement” at Chenqiao Station propelled Zhao Kuangyin from a general of the Later Zhou into the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Over drinks, he stripped the founding generals of their military power; amid the shadows of an axe and candlelight, the mystery surrounding his bizarre death remains unsolved to this day. Some call him a wise ruler who ended the chaos o 142Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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100 Events That Shaped World History 影响世界历史的100件大事
This book selects 100 landmark events from world history, covering politics, economics, military affairs, culture, science, and technology. Some broke new ground, some marked turning points, and others shaped the course of history, changing the lives of humanity over decades, centuries, or even millennia. In clear, accessible language and a concise format, the author explains the origins and development of these 100 events, highlighting the most important points and revealing their far-reaching
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The New Shun, 1644 新顺1644
[Peasant Rebel Army Perspective + Research-Oriented + No Golden Finger, No System] (Late Ming Dynasty, research-oriented, a people's history perspective, no System, and a somewhat slow start.) You can think of it as a prequel fanfic to New Shun 1730, or perhaps a sort of tribute.
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- 63 That's Just How War Is: Yuan Tengfei on the History of Warfare (World War I, World War II: Part One, World War II: Part Two) (Three-Book Set) 战争就是这么回事儿：袁腾飞讲战争史（一战+二战上+二战下）（套装共3册） Before the October Revolution, why did Germany secretly send Lenin back to Russia? The Germans won almost every battle, so why did they lose the war? Did planes in World War I really fight in the skies with rocks, fishing nets, and chains? Yuan Tengfei, one of China's leading popular historians, draws on new historical sources, fresh perspectives, and lively language to bring back the style of historical storytelling as he boldly recounts the largest land, sea, and air war in human history: Worl 218Reads9.2Score—Shelves
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Transmigrating to the Late Ming: From Tightening Screws to Farming 穿越明末：从打螺丝到种田
Transmigration to the late Ming dynasty + Peasant Rebellion + Resistance against the Ming and Qing! (Respecting history + No cheats + No System + Slow-paced + Not a power fantasy!!) Wang Tie is an ordinary man with no particular skills. By a twist of fate, he transmigrates to the late Ming and early Qing, a chaotic era that is practically a living hell. How will he find a way to survive in this turbulent age?! And once he reaches the pinnacle of power, where will he lead this people and nat
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- 65 A Complete Record of the Three Great Campaigns 三大战役全记录 War has been a constant theme throughout human history. In every era and every country, it takes on a form unlike any seen before. The brief year from September 1948 to September 1949 was undoubtedly the period of most dramatic change on Chinese soil in more than a century. Victory in the three major campaigns of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin destroyed the main forces on which the Kuomintang depended to maintain its rule, completely changing the country's course. In this war, the fates of great 3.7kReads9.6Score628Shelves
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A History of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 五代十国史
A focused analysis of the briefest and most chaotic period of division in Chinese history. The book reveals how, behind the military men’s grip on power, society struggled to rebuild its order, and how this turmoil gave rise to the civil official politics of the later Song dynasty. A profound study of social transformation and the patterns of power changing hands, it offers a distinctive perspective and rigorous reasoning.
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- 67 The History of the Tui Bei Tu 推背图的历史 For years, The Tui Bei Tu has been considered a book of historical prophecies. There are countless rumors and interpretations surrounding it, yet its true nature has grown ever more elusive. Taking a scientific approach, the author analyzes the sixty hexagrams of The Tui Bei Tu and compares them with major historical events in China from the Tang dynasty onward. The author concludes that The Tui Bei Tu is not a prophecy, but rather conveys a view of history in which order and chaos arise from on 261Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 68 Unsolved Mysteries of Chinese History 中国历史未解之谜 This book explores Chinese history from a fresh perspective. Drawing on a wealth of documents and archaeological discoveries, and incorporating the latest research, the editors examine emperors, the imperial harem, politics, the military, notable figures, religion, culture, and science and technology to analyze and unravel major historical mysteries, bringing history's twists and richness back to life. The concise format, polished prose, innovative layout, and beautiful illustrations come togeth 5Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 69 The Complete Collection of History's Hardest Truths to Stomach 历史不忍细看大全集 Step into a forbidden place sealed off by history for a thousand years, and uncover strange tales and secrets no one has ever told you! Did you know that Kangxi owed his accession to the throne in part to a German? Do you know how hard the princes' daily lives were? Do you know who delivered the most famous flattery in Chinese history? Do you know how many rules governed an emperor's meals? Do you know what the true relationship was between Qin Hui and Yue Fei? Xing Qunlin and Nie Xiaoqing answe 321Reads8.8Score105Shelves
- 70 The Chaos of the Two Jin Dynasties 两晋之乱 The Jin Dynasty was a period with little presence in the history books. It ended one age of chaos only to begin another. During the Jin, the exclusive dominance of Confucianism was broken, and philosophy, literature, art, history, and technology all underwent changes, with some fields emerging as independent disciplines. New ideas included the indigenous schools of metaphysics and Daoism, as well as Buddhism, which had spread east from India. Grassland cultures of the frontier peoples gradually 2.7kReads9.6Score437Shelves
- 71 History Without Borders: Nine Faces of Chinese History 历史无间道 : 中国历史的九张面孔 Lü Buwei, Huo Guang, Erzhu Rong, Yan Song... These men once shook the land and changed the course of history. Their presence even dimmed the authority of the emperor, which was supposed to be supreme. For years, the historical truth about them has been obscured by simplistic labels and caricatures that cast them as either wholly good or wholly evil. This book faithfully and vividly recounts the lives of nine powerful ministers whose stories bear the deep imprint of Chinese dynastic politics, bri 114Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 72 The Law of Blood Tribute: The Survival Game of Chinese History 血酬定律：中国历史中的生存游戏 The Blood Compensation Principle: The Survival Game in Chinese History This book introduces concepts such as blood compensation and meta-rules. Blood compensation refers to the rewards gained by risking one's life in a struggle, reflecting the exchange between life and resources for survival. The Blood Compensation Principle has three key points: 1. Blood compensation is the gain from violent plunder carried out at the cost of one's life. 2. Violent plunder occurs when blood compensation exceeds 955Reads9.4Score362Shelves
- 73 Chinese History That Gets You Hooked from the First Page 一读就上瘾的中国史 A sweeping series on the historical patterns of five thousand years of Chinese history, helping you build a rational, objective, and pattern-seeking framework for a new way of thinking! This series is, in fact, a history book even more captivating than a novel. Starting with the Qin and Han dynasties, it covers the Jin dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Song, Liao, Jin, and Xia dynasties, the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and the Taiping Heavenly Ki 37.5kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves
- 74 A Collection of History Too Gruesome to Read Closely (Complete in Two Volumes) 历史不忍细看合集（共2册） "History Is Too Painful to Examine Closely: A Refined Edition" This book gathers a wealth of forgotten and misunderstood historical material, separating fact from fiction and clearing away the dust to reveal history in its true colors. From power struggles and writers’ private lives to palace intrigues and tales from the streets, it cuts through layers of mystery with clear, accessible explanations. Long-standing misconceptions are corrected with lively, witty accounts, bringing the colorful yea 1.2kReads9.1Score292Shelves
- 75 The Code of Power: When History Meets Economics 权力密码：当历史遇见经济学 A brand-new work from Wang Wei, bestselling author of the Understanding the Global Landscape series! Guided by the principles of understanding the reasons behind prosperity and decline, judging how power should be used, observing the art of managing people, and considering the path to success, this fresh take on history aims to uncover the rules and secrets behind how power works by examining historical events through the lens of economics. From Yu the Great controlling the floods to Liu Bang fo 1.1kReads9.5Score363Shelves
- 76 Three Hundred Years of Tang Dynasty: Rise and Fall (Complete in 7 Volumes) 大唐兴衰三百年（全7册） This series tells the story of the three centuries of the Tang dynasty, from 607 to 907. Drawing on official histories and classic historical works such as the Old Book of Tang, the New Book of Tang, the Record of the Founding of the Great Tang, and the Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, it uses time as its framework and the key figures and events that shaped history as its focus. Told in a witty, humorous style, it offers a sweeping portrait of the lives of the Tang dynasty's twenty-one 3kReads9.5Score674Shelves
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Fallen Falcon: The Rescue of an F-15E Pilot, Based on a True Story 猎鹰坠落之营救F15E飞行员·真实改编
Falcon Down: The Rescue of an F-15E Pilot, Based on a True Story
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- 78 The History Hidden in the Tui Bei Tu and the Song of the Sesame Flatbread 推背图和烧饼歌里的历史 Drawing on history, this book analyzes and interprets The Tui Bei Tu and The Song of the Sesame Cake, two ancient Chinese works of prophecy. It covers topics including “A master writes prophecies, and the prophecies reveal the Great Way,” “The Li Tang line stands alone, then the fall of Li lets a hundred flowers bloom,” “Weak and refined under the Zhao Song, while the Mongol Yuan governs scholars through military might,” and “Every branch and leaf is red, while the world remains shrouded in chao 65Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 79 One Tank Held Off a German Armored Division for 24 Hours, Based on a True Story 一辆坦克挡住一个德军装甲师，长达24小时，真实改编 A single tank held off a German armored division for a full 24 hours. Based on a true story. 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Silent Thunderbolt: The 57th Air Battle 沉默的霹雳之五七空战 Silent Thunderbolt: The May 7 Air Battle 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Unofficial History Is Even Wilder: The Unusual Charms of the Tang and Song Dynasties 野史更疯狂：另类的唐宋历史风情 With popular amateur takes on history flooding the book market, the author has chosen a different approach, drawing on a wealth of Tang and Song literati writings. Through a modern lens, the book explores emperors and ministers, palace secrets, anecdotes about famous people, political intrigue, the spirit of the Tang and Song dynasties, and gossip from everyday life. Its language is light and humorous, and its prose concise and lively, keeping readers chuckling at history’s dark humor and eager 524Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 82 The Great Ryukyu Naval Battle: A Landlocked Sea 以陆引海之琉球大海战 The Great Ryukyu Naval Battle, with Lu Yin Leading the Fleet 67Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Late Ming Trilogy 明末三部曲
This is a late-Ming historical epic told primarily from the perspective of the Daxi Army and the peasant rebels. The general approach is seventy percent fact and thirty percent fiction: the main characters and major events are real, but some real historical figures’ personalities, backgrounds, and experiences have been fictionalized. The trilogy’s central themes trace a path from the ensemble cast’s “instinct to survive and ideal of universal harmony” in the Survival arc, to “destruction, plunde
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Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明，工科生横扫满清复华夏
In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis
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- 85 An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末 A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline. 2.9kReads7.8Score197Shelves
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The Guanshan Pact 关山契
On the western frontier, yellow sands bury the dead, and honor is as fragile as paper. The young Zhao Tianhao was merely a merchant’s son from Ping Wharf. With a heart full of sincerity, he kept his contracts, protected his family business, and brought peace to his neighbors. Yet the crushing might of the war-torn age destroyed his household, driving him to abandon trade and take up arms. He entered the death camp, managed military rations, trained a corps of death-defying soldiers, and defended
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- 87 Xu Fei's Wild Life 徐飞的浪荡人生 Just after the Lunar New Year, Xu Fei returns with a simple pack to the small northern city where he was born and raised, after three years away. He'd planned to find any wife and settle down to an ordinary life, but fate has other plans. He is pushed onto a path unlike any other, and begins a life far from ordinary. 787Reads6.7Score111Shelves
- 88 The Spy's Snow Fox 谍之雪狐 On the evening of the eighth day of the first lunar month in 1945, snow was still falling in Xiangcheng. Inside the Ma Family Shaomai Shop on Second Street, a middle-aged man suddenly collapsed and began convulsing, foam bubbling from his mouth. At the shop entrance, a man wearing a felt hat and a scarf that concealed everything but his eyes hurried inside. He snatched up the fallen man’s briefcase, turned, and left, disappearing into the endless snow. 11.3kReads8.6Score941Shelves
- 89 I Became a Spy in Republican-Era China 我到民国当间谍 Zhang Yunxuan, a team leader in the Criminal Investigation Squad of Xiangcheng Police Bureau, is a spoiled rich kid who spends his days loafing around and making friends. He has a taste for eating, drinking, and gambling. The only thing he doesn't do is visit brothels. But what people don't know is that he is the military intelligence agent Judge, a man despised to the bone by the Japanese and their Chinese collaborators. 6.8kReads8.6Score435Shelves
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Wandering in 1937 流浪在一九三七
A rare realistic War of Resistance novel on the Tomato platform. Its selling point is the absence of a golden finger, and its strengths are its harsh realism and emotionally compelling characters. However, the prose is rough early on, partly due to the author's writing ability and the platform's pacing. Best suited to readers who enjoy hard-hitting War of Resistance stories and don't mind a slow start.
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China's Bright Sword: Iron-Blooded Men Fight Japan to Save the Nation 中华亮剑铁血男儿抗日救国
The Japanese invaders seek to destroy our nation, exterminate our people, and violate our wives, daughters, and sisters. Every patriotic Chinese man has a duty to defend our land and fight the war. Japanese imperialism is the sworn enemy of the Chinese people, who would rather die than become slaves in a conquered nation and vow to fight the invaders to the bitter end. The Red Army guerrillas who survived three grueling years of guerrilla warfare in the south are reorganized as the New Fourth Ar
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War of Resistance: One Man and His Dog Take on the Japanese 抗战：一人一狗打鬼子
Song Yicheng, a young hunter who only wanted a quiet, steady life, lost his wife and child to the Japanese soldiers at a stronghold. He picked up his hunting rifle and, with his puppy Bailang by his side, began a dangerous revenge mission as a lone man and his dog... His gambling-addict cousin Zhou Tianxi had turned over a new leaf and wanted to raise a force to fight the Japanese. But at Heifeng Pass, he ran into the handsome second-in-command of Baodu Stronghold, who robbed him and forced him
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- 93 Forging the Golden Realm 筑金瓯 [War, lighthearted, meticulously researched, history, no System] This is the Tang dynasty, a dynasty forged on the edge of a blade. The Tang emperor Xuanzong's dream ends in the Tianbao era, and the banner of the great Tang falls. There can be an Earlier Han and a Later Han. There can also be an Earlier Tang and a Later Tang. If the great Tang is gone, then we will build another great Tang. If the golden age is gone, then we will create another one. Let every child have a home, every elder have 3.4kReads8.2Score272Shelves
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The Qin Army Swallows the Six Kingdoms: The Fall of Qi, the Final Battle for Unification 大秦兵吞六国之灭齐（一统天下最后一战）
The Qin Army’s Conquest of the Six Kingdoms: The Fall of Qi, the Final Battle to Unify All Under Heaven
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- 95 The Qin Army Swallows the Six Kingdoms: The Fall of Chu, Li Xin's Army Suffers Its First Defeat 大秦兵吞六国之灭楚（秦军初挫李信军败） The Qin Army’s Conquest of the Six Kingdoms: The Fall of Chu, Qin’s First Setback and Li Xin’s Defeat —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Wildflowers of the Battlefield Bloom All the Brighter 战地黄花分外香 Don’t judge it by the rating alone! The story runs from the April 12 counterrevolutionary massacre in the Republic of China era to the founding of New China! The male lead lives three lives in one. He’ll take you into the tangled world of the Republic of China: is he a “nail” planted by the Communist Party, a “poison fang” of the Kuomintang, or an elite agent of Japan’s Tokko? How can he survive between three shifting powers and turn one victory into another? Watch Guo Heyu in action! This work 31Reads5.8Score109Shelves
- 97 Another Version of the Self-Defense Counterattack: System Upgrade 自卫反击的另一个版本之系统升级 Another Version of Self-Defense Counterattacks: System Upgrade 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Century of Rise and Fall: The History of the Late Qing Dynasty 百年兴亡清末史
The Rise and Fall of Society in the Late Qing A Century of Rise and Fall: The Late Qing Dynasty is a profound historical account of how the Qing dynasty went from prosperity to decline. From the glory of the Kangxi and Qianlong era to the humiliation of the Opium Wars, then the upheaval of the Taiping Rebellion and the disastrous defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, this book offers a panoramic view of the Qing dynasty's journey from its peak to its demise. With meticulous attention to detail,
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Three Kingdoms: I Take Fan Shi as My Wife from the Start, Leaving Liu Bei Stunned 三国：开局纳樊氏，刘备懵了
Tags: from the start, transmigration, wife, invincible, villain, Zhao Yun, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, war, history, ancient times, multiple heroines, emperor After transmigrating to the end of the Han dynasty, he became Zhao Zilong of Changshan. He thought he’d spend his whole life serving as Liu Bei’s bodyguard. Who knew that from the start, he’d be sent to take over Guiyang? When Governor Zhao Fan offered him his beautiful widowed sister-in-law, Zhao Yun accepted without hesitation. You want to use
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- 100 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
