Transmigrate to Ancient Times as a Scion of a Great Clan, With a Protagonist Who's Actually Smart 穿越古代，世家子弟，智商上线
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The Red-Gate Play 朱门戏
Transmigrating into the eldest legitimate son of a top aristocratic clan? I know this plot! Xie Daolin, a burned-out screenwriter, unexpectedly transmigrates into the eldest legitimate son of the powerful Xie clan In his previous life, he worked from nine to nine, six days a week, just to pay his mortgage. Now he lives behind grand vermilion gates, in silks and luxury, with twin maidservants at his side and even tribute tea to rinse his mouth. This decadent life... is amazing! Now that he has
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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
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The Chosen One Is Stealing My Bride? This Life, Fate Is on My Side 气运之子抢婚？可这一世天命归我
The Child of Fortune tries to steal the bride? I slap him down with a flick of my hand. Xie Qing, young lord of the Jinlin Xie Clan, one of the six top aristocratic houses, is reborn at the engagement banquet where the Child of Fortune, Ye Yu, is trying to take his bride. The bloody vendetta from his past life is still fresh in his mind. In this life, Xie Qing will strip Ye Yu of every opportunity, every scrap of fortune, and even his destiny. Xie Qing: If someone has to become an emperor in thi
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Reborn as a Five-Year-Old Marquis 穿成五岁小侯爷
After transmigrating into a book, Chu Zhao became the sole heir to the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor’s estate. The only catch was that he was just five years old, and someone had pushed him into a lotus pond, leaving his life hanging by a thread. No problem! Beneath his toddler’s appearance was a business magnate who had lived for nearly sixty years. While other children were still playing in the mud, he was already wielding great power and plotting his moves in court. Reform the salt and iron i
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The Imperial Exams: From a Duke’s Bastard Son to a Powerful Official 科举！从公府庶子到权臣的青云路
[Not a BL novel! Not a male-male romance! One male lead, little to no romance, and a plot-focused story.] [Transmigration + Illegitimate Son of a Duke’s Estate + No System + Imperial Exams + Political Intrigue] He transmigrates, and the good news is that he’s now an illegitimate son of the Duke of Wei’s household, with food and clothes taken care of and no need to worry about making a living. The bad news is that he’s not only unloved, but also mocked and looked down upon. Heh. Never look down o
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The Tang Dynasty Novelist 大唐小说家
(Transmigration, reforming an aristocratic clan, building a golden age for the Great Tang, court intrigue, and making up for the golden age’s regrets.) My name is Cui Shaoyu, of one of the Five Surnames and Seven Clans. I want the world to see a fully realized golden age of the Great Tang. In the original Tang, most of the military was used to guard against threats at home. But when the aristocratic clans and imperial authority worked together as one, that was the Tang at its peak: a peak no one
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I Dumped the Cheating Princess and Chose the Noble Girl Next Door 放弃出轨长公主，改选青梅世家女
Alternate Wei-Jin setting + nested “chase your husband to the crematorium” plots + a transmigrated book character taking over the role of a living King of Hell + the second female lead rises to the top + the consort prince usurps the throne Chen Qian accidentally transmigrates into a third-rate historical romance novel, becoming a cuckolded consort prince whose wife, the woman he married, kills him by cutting out his heart and draining its blood. See how the protagonist, Chen Qian, escapes the o
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The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令
[Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave
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Bound Together Across Two Lifetimes, We’ll Grow Old Together 双世缱绻，与君共白头
[Two powerful leads who rise to greatness | Complete souls | Extreme contrast | Love across two lifetimes | Sweet romance and court intrigue] A modern married couple are reborn as babies in the Tianqi Dynasty. He becomes an iron-fisted Crown Prince, commands the Xuanhuo Army, and plots to industrialize the realm. She becomes a queen of commerce, controls trade routes along three borders, and holds the lifeblood of the people in her hands! Toward their enemies, he presides over the execution of t
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My Dad Is Su Dongpo, My Wife Is Li Qingzhao, and My Bro Is Emperor Huizong 老爹苏东坡老婆李清照老铁宋徽宗
Tags: No System, not a mindless power fantasy, meticulous historical research, slow burn, personal growth, one heroine An utterly ordinary art student transmigrates as Su Dun, the prematurely deceased youngest son of the legendary Su Dongpo. A quick calculation tells him When his father goes to Huizhou to eat lychees, he’ll be eleven. When his father goes to Hainan Island to eat clams, he’ll be fourteen. When his father is pardoned and dies in Changzhou, he’ll be seventeen. When Cai Jing erects
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The Dynasty Teeters on the Brink of Collapse, and the Heir Apparent Plots His Bid for Power 王朝即将崩塌，世子布局争霸
[Alternate history] + [No System] + [Unrivaled] + [Development] + [Struggle for supremacy] + [War] When he was ten, Lin Lingqi woke up. In his previous life, he was an engineering student. In this one, he is the only son of a marquis. A dynasty a century old is on the verge of collapse, wolves are circling, and an age of chaos is coming. So he chooses the most dangerous path: pretend to be useless and become a hidden piece on the board. An auxiliary cultivation technique left behind by an old Da
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Water Margin: Starting a Bid for Supremacy with More Children, More Blessings 水浒从多子多福开始争霸
Multiple heroines, no System, leading troops to resist the Jin, and keeping things grounded Zhang Zhenniang: Meeting you is a gift from Heaven! Zhao Fujin: I am a princess of the Great Song! Pan Jinlian: My lord, I could ask for nothing more in this life! Lin Chong: My lord, I am willing to join the army and wipe out those bandits! Emperor Huizong of Song: I can't beat him, and I'm not allowed to reward him. He's my son-in-law! Golden Crow Pig: This guy never plays by the rules! Zonghan: Wait,
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The Young Lord of the Protector of the State: The Great Qian Dynasty’s Number One Playboy 镇国公子：大乾第一纨绔
His soul transmigrates into the body of Great Qian’s number one wastrel. He marries an enemy princess and rides across the land! With the spirit of a literary plagiarist upon him, he borrows Du Fu’s “Climbing High” and listens to music at the pleasure quarters, though it’s all just an act. The Northern Mang invade, the Northwest rises in rebellion, and the Western Regions seize the chance to plunder. Watch as the Duke of Zhenguo’s son puts them all down, one by one!
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Dream of the Red Chamber: I Am the Moral Exemplar 红楼：我在红楼当道德天尊
Li Jie transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber as the legitimate son of a distinguished scholarly family. With a ceremonial fan in his left hand, he is the picture of refined virtue; with incriminating evidence in his right, he can kill without lifting a finger. The nobility? Merchants? Soldiers? All are sacrifices beneath the rites and laws! Smiling, he strides across the ruins of the Jia mansion as the people kneel before him and his prestige soars: “Your humble servant is the
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Reborn as Emperor Zhezong of Song: From Puppet to Power Player 重生宋哲宗：从傀儡开始逆袭
In the eighth year of Yuanyou, Empress Dowager Gao died. Zhao Xu, Emperor Zhezong of Song, finally took power after eight years under her thumb. At court, the Old Party was entrenched. On the borders, Western Xia watched like a tiger ready to pounce. Everyone was waiting to see the young emperor make a fool of himself. But no one knew that his soul came from a distant future. He renamed the era Shaosheng, recalled Zhang Dun, purged the Old Party of Yuanyou, and restored the New Policies. At the
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Great Ming: Tyrant Chongzhen Executes the Vassal Kings from the Start 大明之暴君崇祯开局先诛藩王
[No System!] [Ruthless!] [Shadow Warfare!] [Unification!] The Later Han had a succession of child emperors, while the Ming emperors suffered one unexpected death after another! This emperor is no longer rash and suspicious, nor stubbornly overconfident. He stabilizes the court and slowly consolidates power! First, control of the military. Then, new faces in the court! He gives Sun Chengzong important posts to lull the Donglin officials and balance the court. When someone wants to levy commercial
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The Descendants of the Hongwu Emperor 洪武朝的子孙们
After an accident, his soul travels a century into the past. On an ordinary day in the seventh year of Hongwu, he is born in the imperial palace of Yingtian Prefecture. He is the most honored child in all of the Ming dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang’s beloved grandson. Zhu Biao’s eldest legitimate son. And yet, in the history books, he is merely a passing mention: Prince Yu Huai. Looking at the still-healthy Crown Prince Zhu Biao, at Hu Weiyong and the Blue Jade case, which have yet to unleash their blood
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Great Ming: Zhu Biao Turns Evil, and the Jingnan Campaign Is No More 大明：朱标黑化，靖难没了
History records that Crown Prince Zhu Biao died of illness in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. What history does not record: he died once, then came back to life. His soul wandered for three days, and he saw the entire fate of the Ming dynasty over the next 276 years: The Jingnan Campaign, the burning palace, Tumu Fortress, and the strip of white silk hanging from a tree on Coal Hill. When he opened his eyes again, he was in his sickbed in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu. The charcoal fire blaz
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Great Ming: If the Tianqi Emperor Lives, Great Ming Will Never Fall 大明：天启不死，大明不灭
[Rating just released, and it’ll rise later] [Handcrafted] + [No System] + [No mindless protagonist] + [Power struggles] + [Imperial court] + [Battle for supremacy] The soul of the Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming dynasty drifted through four hundred years before he was reborn on the eleventh day of the eighth month of the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, just eleven days before his historical death. At this point, the Ming dynasty had just won the Battle of Ningjin. The Mongol tribes had
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I Woke Up to Find That My Great Ming Had Only Ten Days Left? 一觉醒来，朕的大明只剩十天了？
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming dynasty faces its final countdown. (No System) As Zhu Youjian dozes on the dragon throne, he has a long, vivid dream. In the dream, he becomes a child and studies several centuries in the future. He opens the History of the Ming, its pages filled with the humiliating end awaiting him. In the end, he becomes a battle-hardened soldier forged by modern military training. Twenty years of trials pass, and he wakes from the dream. The memorials reporting
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Great Ming: Your Son Zhu Changluo Requests That Wanli Abdicate 大明：儿臣朱常洛，请万历退位
[Not a beginner-friendly read + historical power struggles + no farming + court factional battles. The author is a seasoned political operator who used to work in government, and knows power games inside out.] After transmigrating, he discovers he has become the most pathetic Crown Prince in the Ming Dynasty. For thirty-two years, he has been everyone’s punching bag. His court robes are patched, his mother has been imprisoned until she went blind, and his father lavishes forty thousand qing of f
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Chongzhen: My Life Has Been on Thin Ice 崇祯：我这一生如履薄冰
(An immersive experience of Zhu Youjian's life and the true nature of the chaos at the end of the Ming dynasty! Not a power fantasy!) At the end of the thirty-eighth year of the Wanli reign, a report that Liaodong postal couriers had frozen to death was being used by a eunuch to prop up a table leg. The rice wasted at banquets by wealthy gentry in Jiangnan was worth more than three years of disaster relief in Shaanxi. Nanmu timber for the construction of the three great halls in the Forbidden Ci
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I Became the Wanli Emperor's Crown Prince, So Whoever Wants the Red Pill Can Eat It 穿成万历太子，这红丸谁爱吃谁吃
Reborn as an emperor who has only been on the throne for a month, he faces the Palace Coup and the Red Pill Incident, with treacherous officials within and bandits without. From crown prince to emperor, he plans every step. Great Ming, are you ready to welcome your Emperor Taichang? Nurhaci, are you ready to be put through the wringer?
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Zhu Yunwen: This Time, I Cannot Lose 朱允炆：这一次我不能输
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died. When he opened his eyes again, he had become the Jianwen Emperor, Zhu Yunwen, doomed to lose his empire, with his fate shrouded in mystery. He knew that suppressing the vassal princes would drive Zhu Di to rebel, that Li Jinglong would be defeated, and that one day Nanjing would fall. So this time, he wanted to take a different path. He would not rush to suppress the vassals or blindly trust the civil officials, and he would not turn a feud
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Chongzhen! Reclaim the Throne! 崇祯！重征！
After Zhu Youjian hanged himself at Coal Hill, his soul returned to the day his elder brother, the Tianqi Emperor, died in the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, just as Zhu Youjian was about to ascend the throne. He is not a transmigrator with modern knowledge. His only golden finger is the memory of the seventeen years he spent as emperor in his previous life: he knows which decisions led to the fall of the dynasty, whom he can trust, and whom he must not put to use. Every memory was bought wit
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The Cannon-Fodder Eldest Son of a Concubine in a Reborn Daughter's Story 嫡女重生文里的炮灰庶长兄
After being reincarnated as the illegitimate son who serves as a cannon-fodder in a novel about a legitimate daughter seeking revenge, Jian Xungui only wants to protect his concubine mother and younger sister as best he can, and keep them from making the wrong choices. But on his very first day in this world, his identity is exposed. He's taken to the front courtyard and kept from the outside world for four years. His concubine mother has long been locked in an irreconcilable feud with his legit
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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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Heading South to Capture the Dragon: The One I Caught Was Actually the Emperor! 南下擒龙：擒的居然是朕！
Transmigrating into the crown prince who was about to ascend the throne, Jiang Chen had assumed he was holding the perfect emperor's script. But then he discovered that the dynasty was on the verge of collapse, and the enemy army would breach the city gates tomorrow! His runaway father had left him a complete mess, while the whole court was forcing him to abdicate and die for his country. Give up and wait to die, then start over? Absolutely not! Ding! [System binding successful] A. Take your
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A Woman in a Man's Body: The Concubine-Born Heir's Rise to Power 女穿男，庶房嫡子的逆袭
Now available as an audiobook with a full cast. [Alternate history] + [Woman transmigrates as a man] + [Born into this world] + [Imperial exams and business in the early story] + [Court politics later on] + [One female lead, with a relatively small role] + [A touch of ensemble cast] + [No golden finger] Xie Chengxi was born into another world as the sixth son of the Xie family, a minor family in Bianjing's Grain Transport Guild. His father was the clan's rejected son, kept under pressure for yea
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Tales of the Northern Song Dynasty 关于北宋的那些事
A new work is here! I hope you'll head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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I Transmigrated into a Women's-Fiction Novel, So I Cling to the Heroine to Survive 穿书女频，为了活命紧抱女主大腿
[Single Heroine + Imperial Court + Ensemble Cast + Succession Struggle + Transmigrate into a Book + Soul Transmigration + Rise from the Bottom] Chen Yunhao, a modern-day corporate drone, unexpectedly transmigrates into a book and becomes the doomed seventh prince in a historical romance novel, destined to die from excessive sexual indulgence in a brothel. Hoping to change his fate, he tries to lie flat and stay alive. But after saving Luo Qianqian, the reborn heroine seeking revenge, he is dragg
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A Fated Hero, Forced to Conquer by the Goddess of Vengeance 天命枭雄，复仇女神逼我称霸
[An alternate-history story, not based on real history. Set in the era after the Three Kingdoms, as the Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms period begins.] Cheng Feng, a state-owned enterprise employee, sees his hopes of marriage crushed by an exorbitant bride price. After one night of heavy drinking, he transmigrates to the war-torn Northern Jin, becoming the nephew of the head of the Jiang clan in Liangzhou. At this time, the Five Barbarians are wreaking havoc across the Central Plains. The empir
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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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The Benevolent Ancestor of the Tang Dynasty 【大唐仁祖】
[Golden Finger] [Transmigration] [Li Ke] [Political Intrigue] [History] From the start, he transmigrates into Li Ke. Facing certain death, he uses Li Shimin as a chess piece and goes head-to-head with the Changsun clan and the Guanlong aristocratic families, deftly resolving the struggle over the crown prince's succession. From the start, he is trapped in a dead end: Changsun Wuji has already begun plotting to frame him, and the deadly purge of Zhenguan Year 17 is less than six years away. He
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I Only Wanted a Comfortable Life, but Ended Up Ruling the World 本想小富即安，结果权倾天下
[Alternate History] [Poetry and Prose] [Business and Farming] [Court Intrigue] [Multiple Heroines] An Ran transmigrates into the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Fuyang’s household in the Great Jin dynasty. Bullied by his stepmother and abused by his legitimate elder brother, he plans to start a small business, leave the marquis’s household, and live a carefree life. But after accidentally saving the Sixth Prince at a royal banquet, he is drawn into the struggle at court and gradually rises to
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Chang'an of This World 此间长安
A lifetime in a frail body, half a life among books. After an unexpected long sleep, he wakes in the Tang dynasty, during the Zhenguan era. Young Lin Chen has nothing to his name and a life as insignificant as a blade of grass. The moment he opens his eyes, he falls into a deadly predicament. In his previous life, he was confined to a sickbed, unable to live freely. In this life, even if he must walk through the mud, he will make every step shine. He will neither curry favor with the powerful no
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The Shadow War Between the Eastern Jin and the Sixteen Kingdoms 暗战之东晋与十六国
The title may not sound very much like a Tomato Novel, but the story is great. A descendant of the reborn Zhuge Liang marries a future female agent, a descendant of Sima Yi who has transmigrated into a woman with the same name? One of them goes undercover in Former Qin, while the other hunts spies in the Eastern Jin? And they have a female partner who transmigrated along with her body and disguises herself as a man to get things done? A villainess even brainwashes Xie Daoyun, the talented woman
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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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Elegy of a Chaotic Age: Prelude 乱世挽歌之序曲
[Transmigration + History + Three Kingdoms + Male Protagonist + No Golden Finger] His work after 98 grueling hours gets scrapped? A burned-out screenwriter transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms and takes on history with workplace tactics! Have KPIs ever pushed you to the breaking point? Senior writer Wang Cheng spent four straight days working through the night on his script, “Turbulence at the End of the Han,” only for the client to demand a complete rewrite with one dismissive remark: “It’s not
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After I Was Stripped of My Commoner Status, the Entire Court Begged Me to Ascend the Throne 被贬庶民后：满朝文武跪求我登基
Alternate history + frontier army + wild ideas + commerce + satisfying political scheming. The useless prince banished to the frontier gets dealt the worst hand in the Great Yu: thirteen old, weak, sick, and disabled soldiers, five hundred elite cavalry on the other side, and someone above him who wants his head at any moment. But he knows things no one in this era has ever heard of. A handful of sand and stones yield transparent glass. A pot of brine produces snow-white salt. A silver mirror
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Thirty Days on the Run 逃亡三十天
Five years of deep affection could not withstand greed and scheming. Jiang Ling was set up by his lover of five years and her lover on the side, who conspired to seize complete control of his company. In a single day, his love was shattered, his career collapsed, and his life plunged into an abyss. With all hope gone, he chose to retreat to his remote, quiet hometown in the countryside. By chance, in an abandoned mine in a desolate area, he stumbled upon a ton of gold buried deep underground. Af
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Transmigrating to the Southern Song to Become the Iron Sword Hero 穿越南宋成为铁剑大侠
I transmigrated to the Southern Song dynasty and became Yang Yunxiao, a descendant of Yang Zaixing! As the nation falls and families are torn apart, Wen Tianxiang raises an army against the Yuan, Jia Sidao wreaks havoc at court, and the Xuanming Sect stirs in the shadows. I endure humiliation at Wudang for over a decade, while Daoist Chongxu secretly teaches me martial arts. With the Xuanyuan Sword, I face the Xuanming Sword, righteousness overcoming evil; with the Primordial Chaos True Art, I c
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The Ethnic Alchemist 民族炼金术士
When international gold prices surged by more than 70% in 2025, surpassing U.S. Treasury bonds for the first time in 30 years to become the world's leading reserve asset held by central banks, the real-world rush to “hoard gold in troubled times” echoed the battle over gold in this novel. Amid geopolitical upheaval and the restructuring of the monetary system, gold's value as a safe haven is once again in demand. Yet The Nation's Alchemist had already revealed the truth in its story: what people
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Shadows over the Hall of Loyalty 影落忠义楼
[Shadow Guard’s Rise + Court Intrigue and the Martial World + Stunning Beauties] He is the sharpest shadow guard in Prince Night Falcon’s hands. With his Feihong Sword, he has spilled countless drops of blood and never once failed. During a mission, he meets Mu Yao, a tender moonlight in a turbulent age, and then catches the fiery starlight in Shen Siyue’s eyes, a beacon of hope in utter despair. Little does he know that from the moment they met, Tong Xinling, an attendant of the Ruyi Tower, has
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The Northern Song Dynasty’s Greatest Treacherous Chancellor 北宋第一奸相
After transmigrating as Cai Jing, I'm going to carry out a once-in-a-millennium reform with Wang Anshi! A modern history student transmigrates as Cai Jing. By the age of seven, people are already calling him a prodigy. Looking at the corrupt court on the brink of collapse, he silently clenches his fists. In this life, he'll stir up the winds of change from the shadows. Secretly amass wealth, recruit talented people, gather leverage... Ten years of planning, all waiting for the right moment. When
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Song Cavalry Rules the World 宋骑天下
Modern engineering PhD Zhao Qi unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji. With the Jingkang Incident looming, he resolves to turn the empire’s fortunes around. His first move is to expand the Imperial City Bureau and divide its duties into specialized branches. When his ministers denounce him for “neglecting his proper duties,” Zhao Qi quietly equips all three armies with newly developed Shenbi crossbows. When the Jin army marches south toward the Sixteen Prefe
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If You End Up in the Northern Song Dynasty’s Liangshan, Can You Really Leave Without Regrets? 来了北宋梁山还能留下遗憾么
This book centers on the rallying cry: “Drive out the Tartars and reclaim the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!” A historically satisfying novel officially endorsed by the authorities → multiple female leads → leading troops to repel foreign invaders → avenging the Jingkang humiliation in blood → reclaiming the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!! Add it to your bookshelf to read later. A different take on the story of the Water Margin. The protagonist is warmhearted and down-to-earth, and the overa
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Great Tang: I'm Li Ke, and I Win by Collecting People's Last Words 大唐：我，李恪，靠收遗言躺赢
After 36 straight hours of overtime, Li Ke, a burned-out 996 office worker, dies suddenly. When he opens his eyes, he has become the most ill-fated prince of the Tang dynasty: Li Ke, Prince of Shu! He carries the bloodlines of both the Sui and Tang imperial houses, and history marks him as a high-risk figure who was wrongfully executed. It’s hell mode from the start! Fortunately, his golden finger, the “Kind Words App,” comes online. It senses regret within five zhang, and collecting it earns re
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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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