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Dreaming Back to Southern Ming: A Han Man Is No Slave 梦回南明，汉儿不称奴
Lin Yan, a construction contractor, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Southern Ming dynasty and meets Li Dingguo, who has twice defeated the Ming princes. Watch me help Prince Jin Li defeat them a third time! Knowing that the Manchu queue hairstyle marked nearly three hundred years of oppression for China, he resolves to fight the Qing and restore Han clothing and customs with the knowledge he has brought from modern times.
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Great Ming: You Punch a Warhorse to Death, and You Say You Want to Be a Civil Official? 大明一拳打死战马你说要当文官？
Chen Dong transmigrates to the Yongle era. During Zhu Di’s first northern campaign, he starts out tending horses in the rear with Yu Qian and awakens the Immortal Civil Official System. Since he is on the battlefield, why is the System’s first reward the strength of a hegemon? What? The System is only active for three days? If he doesn’t become one of Zhu Di’s civil officials within three days, the System will shut down automatically, take back his rewards, and start a death countdown. Just then
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Tales of the Sixteen Reigns of the Ming Court 明宫十六朝演义
The Romance of the Sixteen Reigns of the Ming Court delves into the imperial palace, recounting the love and enmity between emperors and their consorts, while ranging widely across history to survey the twists and turns of feudal dynasties. Understand this series, and you will understand the court; understand the court, and you will understand history; understand history, and the realities of the world will become clear to you.
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- 54 A History of the Ming Palace 明代宫闱史 Venture deep into the palace to explore the love and hatred between emperors and their consorts; delve into history and discover the twists and turns of feudal dynasties. Understand this series, and you understand the palace. Understand the palace, and you understand history. Understand history, and the realities of the world become clear. Palace romances are an important branch of traditional historical fiction. 33.9kReads9.6Score588Shelves
- 55 A Grand History of the Ming Dynasty 明朝大历史 This book is the culmination of Mr. Meng Sen's research on Qing history. It is also a representative and foundational work on the subject. Drawing on the Veritable Records of the Qing, the Draft History of the Qing, archival records of the Qing court, and rarely used sources such as the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty, Meng Sen reveals and analyzes many of the central issues in Qing history. He offers a comprehensive account and assessment of more than two hundred years of Qing politics, 6Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 56 Party Struggles Throughout Chinese History 中国历代党争 Chinese Factional Struggles Through the Ages is a history of power struggles between factions, between factions and imperial authority, and between individuals. Using strategy as its thread and history as its fabric, it recounts a host of tangled stories. Covering three thousand years of factional strife, from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods through the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the book details major events, rises and falls, triumphs and humiliations, and 296Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 57 The Complete Collection of Courtly Tales Through the Ages 历代宫廷演义全集 Xu Xiaotian brings the secret histories of the Ming, Qing, and Tang courts to life in the style of a novel: the bloodshed of the Nine Princes’ struggle for the throne, Wu Zetian’s political schemes, and the tragic final days of the Chongzhen Emperor... The book has the solid historical foundations of a meticulously researched account, enlivened with the colorful flesh and blood of historical fiction. More vivid than official histories, yet more rigorous than tales of the past, it is an ancient v 137Reads9.5Score—Shelves
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Reviving the Great Ming: A Lone Minister Founds Constitutional Rule 中兴大明，我以孤臣开宪政
The protagonist, Su Ran, transmigrates into another world when the Tianqi Great Explosion occurs. Through a stroke of fortune, he takes over the original owner’s body and enters the chaotic final years of the Ming Dynasty. See: A modern transmigrator versus the chosen one of the age. Heaven itself seems determined to help the Qing, the chosen ones of this world, sending one disaster after another: droughts, locust plagues, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis... A whole new game of political intrigue,
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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Reborn in Shi Jin's Body, I Never Meant to Become the Leader of the Outlaws 魂穿史进，我真没想做绿林盟主
Original title: I Transmigrated into Shi Jin, but I Really Didn't Mean to Become the Leader of the Outlaws. A Bajiquan master transmigrates into the book Water Margin, befriends heroes across the land, and takes Song Jiang's path, leaving Song Jiang with nowhere to go! He gradually brings all the mountain strongholds under his command, becomes the leader of the outlaws, weakens the failing Song, destroys the Liao and Jin, and sweeps across the land! Liangshan, Erlong Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain,
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Colonizing the Ming Dynasty 殖民大明
Wang Ding obtains a magical piece of jade that can open a spatial rift, creating a gateway to the Ming dynasty. There, Wang Ding finds wealth and glory in a new world. This is the story of how he saves people and kills them.
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The Martial Emperor Comes to Qing: Wielding Dream of the Red Chamber to Restore the Ming 武皇临清：手执红楼复大明
“My empire! Who’s kneeling down and handing it over to someone else?!” Outraged by the late Qing’s incompetence and treachery, Wu Zetian and Zhu Di rise from the dead and travel through time in a fury. With the cipher key to Dream of the Red Chamber in hand, they restore the Ming dynasty…
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My Sect Ordered Me to Marry, So I Activated an Infinite Exchange System 宗门强令娶妻，激活无限兑换系统
[“Good-for-nothing’s comeback” + “System exchange” + “Marriage and growth” + “Play the pig to eat the tiger”] The sect orders an old man in his seventies to take a wife, and he activates the Marriage and Longevity System! A different kind of System, a different kind of thrill! While everyone else has to grovel to survive and grow, the protagonist insists on fighting back, soaring through the skies on his sword. Immortality is no longer a dream.
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- 64 From the Start, I Drew a Barren Field: I Rise by Slaying Insects 开局抽到废田：我靠杀虫逆袭宗门 [Cautious cultivation + farming + earning spirit stones + no System + no harem]. Important things bear repeating: this is a cautious cultivation story, a farming story, and the protagonist is the sort who will keep hiding and playing it safe until the end of time. If that's not your thing, please don't click in. The heavens collapse, countless realms sink into ruin, and all living beings are but ants swept along by the tides. Even the Supreme Immortal Emperor cannot escape the fate of being cons 2.6kReads—Score205Shelves
- 65 Iron-Blooded War of Resistance: The Spoiled Quartermaster Awakens a Divine Machine 铁血抗战：纨绔军需官觉醒神机 [“War of Resistance, 1937” + “Divine Machine System” + “Hardcore War Against Japan” + “Burma-Yunnan Front”] Every inch of land is soaked in blood! Antique shop owner Chu Yun transmigrates into Chen Jiaju, a quartermaster in the 69th Provisional Division. Though born a spoiled rich boy, he raises a force and joins the main battlefield of the war against Japan. Fighting alongside troops from all walks of life, they pit their flesh and blood against the Japanese army to the bitter end, turning ever 4.3kReads6.4Score308Shelves
- 66 War God Possessed: I Transmigrated to 1937 to Fight the Japanese 战神附体：穿越到1937打鬼子 “As long as Hunanese remain, China will never fall!” During the eight years of resistance against Japan, the Nationalist government conscripted about 14 million people nationwide. Hunan contributed nearly 2.1 million, or 15% of the total. More than 600,000 Hunanese soldiers on the front lines were killed, wounded, or went missing. About 300,000 were killed, accounting for one-quarter of all Nationalist soldiers killed on the front lines, the highest death toll of any province. Over the eight yea 3.2kReads5.9Score205Shelves
- 67 War of Resistance: Sending a Japanese Major to Meet Amaterasu from the Start 抗战：开局送鬼子少佐见天照大神 Lao Ma, an armored corps veteran, is caught in a temporal mishap and transmigrates to 1941, a year engulfed in war, landing right in the middle of a Japanese encirclement. Gunfire erupts all around him as the enemy’s footsteps and battle cries close in. Stranded in an unfamiliar era without the modern armored equipment he knows, he has only his past combat experience and a soldier’s iron will. In this desperate fight for survival, Lao Ma begins an unknown journey of resistance. 7.3kReads8.7Score641Shelves
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Late Ming: An Unemployed Courier Reclaims the Han Homeland 明末：失业驿卒，我重整汉家河山
What’s it like to lose your job alongside Li Zicheng? In the second year of Chongzhen’s reign, Yu Zhao transmigrated into a courier station worker in Yinchuan. His monthly wages were stolen, his severance pay withheld, and his late father’s five-tael debt had ballooned to twenty taels. And looming just ahead were rebel bands overrunning the land and the fall of the Great Ming. While everyone else just wanted to survive, Yu Zhao started by reclaiming those five taels. He took on the station head,
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The Art of Imperial Politics: The Jiajing Era 帝王心术：嘉靖时代
This novel offers a profound look at Jiajing’s transformation from an energetic reformer into an emperor obsessed with Daoism. Daoist priests such as Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen used mysticism to manipulate his inner world; Yan Song and his son won favor with Daoist prayers and monopolized power for twenty years; Xu Jie bided his time before finally bringing down the treacherous ministers; and Hai Rui risked his life to submit a memorial condemning the ills of the age. Together, these vivid ch
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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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- 71 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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A High Schooler Transmigrates into the Chongzhen Era and Saves the Great Ming from Collapse 高中生穿越崇祯力挽大明天倾
My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. I’ll do my best to tell every story well! A high school student transmigrates into the Chongzhen era without any cheats. He comes up with an original three-year strategy to pacify Liaodong, defeat Huang Taiji, wipe out the Later Jin, and overcome both internal and external crises. Even an ordinary person can use this strategy to clear the late-Ming challenge. Revive the Ming dynasty and build a glorious empir
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In the Ming Dynasty, I Just Want to Keep My Head Down, but the Law Enforcement Bureau Goes on a Killing Spree 大明本官只想苟活执律司却杀疯了
[Mastermind Behind the Scenes] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Building an Empire Through Farming] + [Extreme Contrast] The first year of the Chongzhen reign: a nightmare from the start! After transmigrating into the body of Lin Feng, county magistrate of Chengcheng County in Shaanxi, he faced almost certain death: Execution in three days, 30,000 taels in taxes, cannibalism across the city, powerful clans barricaded in their strongholds, and refugees surrounding the city! Lin Feng just wanted to
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Ming Dynasty Natives Versus Transmigrators 皇明土著大战穿越众
Current plot: A newcomer to officialdom enters the inner circle as a pawn, but refuses to settle for mediocrity and wants to break free of his constraints. By chance, he gets caught up in turmoil on the frontier, where three hundred battered soldiers rout thirty thousand northern invaders. Zheng Zhi, a household retainer of the Zhen Ding Guard under the Ming rear army's Governor's Office, dreams of himself sixty years in the future. From then on, the Ming Dynasty gains a peerless talent in both
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代
Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him.
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- 76 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score135Shelves
- 77 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score101Shelves
- 78 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score149Shelves
- 79 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.6kReads5.8Score316Shelves
- 80 Taking Silly Girl on Adventures in the Sixties 带着傻妞闯六零 Su Tianci is a military academy graduate. On his way to find Technician No. 88, he is inexplicably struck by a falling object and transmigrates to the fiery 1960s. He thinks he’s doomed, but to his utter surprise, the thing that hit him was actually the Chinese-made 2060 model, Sha Nü… 703Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Transmigrating to the 1960s: The Rise of a Nation 穿越六零之民族崛起 Su Tianci was a graduate of a top university, but despite his excellent grades, someone else took his place. With no other options, he donned the iconic delivery uniform and started delivering food. But when it rains, it pours. On the road while making a delivery, he ran into a menace on wheels: a heavy truck. With the truck’s buff in effect, he resolutely joined the transmigration brigade… 172Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Dual Crossing in the 1960s: The Fiery Years 双穿60之火红年代 Su Tianci was an outstanding graduate of a military academy with a bright future ahead of him. But after accidentally discovering the principal’s affair, he was expelled on a trumped-up charge. His family was already poor, and the incident dealt a devastating blow to the energetic young man. He had not even entered the working world, yet the sordid ways of society had already taught him a harsh lesson. He planned to drown his sorrows in alcohol, but when he closed his eyes and opened them again, 267Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Dual Transmigration to the 1960s: A Prosperous Nation and Strong People 双穿六零之国富民强 In 2025, Su Tianci was just another overworked wage slave. He ate a roujiamo at Red Romance, then opened his eyes to find himself back in that fiery era. What’s more, he had somehow become a wanted criminal. See how Su Tianci fares with the System’s help: will he be doomed from the start, or turn danger into safety? 295Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Dual Travels in Republican-Era China: Slaughtering the Japanese Invaders 双穿民国之屠戮倭寇 Li Xiaren was an outstanding young man who had been 25 for years. After finally finding a girlfriend, he was just about to duo queue with her when a ball lightning bolt whisked him away to Shanghai during the Republican era. To his surprise, the mark left by the ball lightning lets him travel back and forth between the two worlds. In an instant, two monumental eras open up before him... 1.7kReads6.7Score—Shelves
- 85 Invincible Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之无敌 Wu Xiaoyao was an ordinary wage slave. To survive in this damnable era, he had no choice but to go abroad and become a mercenary, risking his life for a living so his family could have an easier life. Who could have guessed that, through a twist of fate, he would transmigrate back to the late 1970s? See how Wu Xiaoyao, equipped with the golden finger every transmigrator needs, makes a name for himself in that red-hot era! 653Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Controller of Ten Thousand Worlds, Roaming the City 万界掌控者都市逍遥 Wu Zhantian, a young man from Huaxia, accidentally fell from the summit of Mount Hua. He was rescued by the Venerable Myriad Swords, who happened to be passing by Earth. Wu Zhantian was then taken to the top-tier world of the Hongmeng Realm, where he became the Venerable Myriad Swords' disciple and began cultivating. By chance, his master found the Origin of the World in the Myriad Venerables' Secret Realm. But Dragon Rock Emperor, an ancient skeleton, and the Venerable Myriad Swords' eldest dis 1.4kReads6.4Score116Shelves
- 87 Rising to Power Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之崛起 After getting drunk and tumbling down a flight of stairs, the protagonist Wu Xiaoyao accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, he has the essential transmigration golden finger: releasing animals. See how Wu Xiaoyao carves out a place of his own in this fiery era. 562Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 88 The Iron-Blooded Tigers Battle the Ming 铁血虎贲战大明 Chinese special forces king Wu Zhantian was betrayed by a traitor during a mission. To avoid being captured by the enemy, Wu Zhantian set off the miniature bomb strapped to his body, dying alongside dozens of enemy special forces soldiers. By chance, he touched the laws of the game. He rebuilt his body, copied abilities, and saved the Ming Dynasty from ruin. To stop the Yangzhou Massacre and the Jiading Massacres, Wu Zhantian, China's special forces king, refused to stand by. He tore Aobai apart 1.2kReads7.2Score103Shelves
- 89 Between Two Worlds: 1973 两界穿梭之1973 An unexpected transmigration brought Wu Xiaoyao, an outstanding young man from the 21st century, to the 1970s. The golden finger that comes with transmigrating gave him hope of surviving. As the System leveled up, Wu Xiaoyao discovered that he could travel back and forth between the modern era and the 1970s. Two completely different worlds opened up before him! 490Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 90 Dual Crossing to Republican-Era China: A Blood Sacrifice to the Land 双穿民国之，血祭山河 Su Tianci is an ordinary office drone from 2025. To make ends meet, he joins a film crew shooting short dramas. Who could have guessed that he would lose his footing and fall into a deep pit? When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated to 1937, a year engulfed in war. Fortunately, he has a portal that lets him travel back and forth between this war-torn era and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before Su Tianci… 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
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Border Fires of the Great Ming 大明边火
This is the turning point at which an empire began to decline, and the starting point of a warlord's rise. During the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, the seemingly powerful empire was already rotten to the core, plagued by factional strife and lax frontier defenses. Beyond the empire's gaze in Liaodong, among the Jurchen tribes, contemptuously called the “wild men of Jianzhou,” a man named Nurhaci raised an army with thirteen suits of ancestral armor, unified the Jurchen tribes, and founded the
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Dusty Dreams of Southern Ming 尘梦南明
In 1645, the first year of the Hongguang reign. The realm lies in ruins, Qing troops advance south, and war and displacement engulf the Central Plains. Wang Mochen, an ordinary man from the modern era, unexpectedly transmigrates into this age of chaos. At first, he is overwhelmed by fear and uncertainty, helpless and in constant danger of losing his life. He awakens a System that seems capable of helping him survive in this troubled world, but its conditions are harsh and its price steep. It wil
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Bring It On! The Zuan Eunuch Rants Online in the Late Ming Dynasty 贱来！明末祖安太监在线狂喷
[History] [Ming Dynasty] [Political schemes and mind games] [Scheming protagonist] [Power fantasy] [Fun] He transmigrated to the late Ming Dynasty and became a eunuch. Wang Chao had lost all hope in the dynasty, but then his [Keyboard Warrior Governance System] activated. Whenever he sees something he doesn't like, he has to rant about it. If he doesn't, his heart starts to ache! He had no choice but to let loose! Wei Zhongxian wields overwhelming power? One essay, “On the Effects of Eunuchs'
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