Books Set During the Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 两晋南北朝、五代十国时期的书
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The Nation's Doomed from the Start? First, I'll Cuddle My Consort and Take a Nap 开局就要亡国？先搂着妃子睡一觉
I woke up to find that I had become Gao Wei, the last emperor of Northern Qi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. [Historical what-if] + [Tyrant emperor] + [Everyone is unhinged] + [Subverting expectations] + [Prince of Lanling] + [Feng Xiaolian, displayed in all her glory] Grandson of Gao Huan, son of Gao Zhan, and enemy of Yuwen Yong. The good news: I am the supreme ruler of the realm, with a beauty in my arms. The bad news: I am the notorious tyrant in history, who trusted treacherous
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The Ancestors of Sui and Tang, Uniting North and South 南北一统之隋唐先祖
Why write about this period? The most gripping power struggle in Chinese history did not take place during the Three Kingdoms or the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It was at the end of the Northern Wei. What does this history contain? A mother who poisoned her own son, Empress Dowager Hu; an emperor who personally assassinated a powerful minister, Emperor Xiaozhuang; a warlord who slaughtered two thousand officials in a single night, Er Zhu Rong; a legendary battle in which thirty
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Awakening of the Soul: The Song of the Rift War 魂觉醒之裂合战歌
On the eighth day of the ninth month, in the autumn of the late Tang, chrysanthemums bloom and all other flowers wither. The setting sun drips blood, smoke from the beacon fires blots out the sky, and horses trample the cracked earth amid utter chaos. Everywhere, blades flash and refugees roam... A down-and-out young man with nowhere else to turn seeks refuge with a fellow townsman, hoping to make something of himself. Instead, he stumbles straight into his enemies' den and nearly loses his life
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The Cao Clan’s Heroes and Bears 曹氏英熊
I woke up to find myself at the end of the Han dynasty, and the youngest son of Bian, Cao Cao’s concubine. Wait, am I Cao Xiong? The Cao Wei mystics: Young Master Xiong, a flying bear in your dream! What an auspicious sign! Zhang Xiu: You brat! How dare you treat me like this!!! Chen Gong: Cao Mengde, how dare your son Xiong treat me this way! Xin Pi: Young Master Pi, I pledged myself to you in good faith. Why did you let your younger brother bully my daughter? Lady Bu: Does Young Master no long
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The Lone Cloud Sword 独步孤云剑
The Six Garrisons uprising reignited the flames of war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It swept the ten sworn siblings from Wuchuan: Dugu Xin, Yuwen Tai, Heba Yue, Heba Sheng, Heba Yun, Zhao Gui, Yang Zhong, Li Hu, Yao Erzhu, and Guo Murong, along with the hard-drinking, rebellious youths Gao Huan, Hou Jing, Sima Ziru, and Sun Teng from Huaishuo, into an age of turmoil. The struggle opened the curtain on the contest between Eastern Wei and Western Wei for dominance of the north, giv
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My Years in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 我在五代十国的那些年
[No golden finger, a struggle for dominion, battle scenes, political intrigue] He transmigrates to the tumultuous era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, where war rages and political intrigue abounds! He only wants to keep a low profile, but gets swept into conflicts between rival factions. Without any heaven-defying artifacts, he relies solely on his knowledge of history and a heart full of reckless courage to find his footing in troubled times, rising from an unknown nobody to a pivotal f
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I’m a Con Artist in the Eastern Jin 我在东晋当骗子
In 317, as the Eastern Jin is first established and aristocratic clans flee south in droves, Yang Chong seizes the opportunity to pass himself off as a scion of the Taiyuan Yang clan. With a face of unparalleled beauty and a mind steeped in the classics and histories, he thrives amid the turmoil of the southward migration. Great houses compete to befriend him, and powerful men take him for a confidant. Step by careful step, he rises from an impostor to the court, gaining power in his own hands.
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- 58 Five Dynasties: Iron Cavalry Unstoppable 五代：铁骑纵横 Wang Yanting, an ordinary man, transmigrated to the chaotic late Tang dynasty. He had no golden finger and no powerful patron to rely on. He could only survive through his own efforts. In this age, rites and music had crumbled, and moral principles had been cast aside. Whoever had soldiers could do as they pleased. But in this same age, the soldiers under your command could turn their weapons on you at any moment. Li Keju, military governor of Lulong, had a subordinate general, Li Quanzhong, who 1.6kReads8.5Score10214d adds
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If Murong Fu Had Not Been Born, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Would Be So Bleak 天不生我慕容复，五代十国多寂寥
This book starts a little slowly, so readers who are in a hurry can start from Chapter Six. It's a straightforward transmigration story, with no System and no golden finger. I wouldn't dare call it a tale of political intrigue and clever schemes. It's simply a dark comedy about one person doing everything they can to survive in a chaotic era.
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The North and South United (Complete in Three Volumes) 南北归一（全三册）
Through sixteen great battles, this book recounts nearly two hundred years of history, from the end of the Eastern Jin through the Southern dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen, and the Northern dynasties of Northern Wei, Eastern and Western Wei, Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou, ending with the unification under the Sui. Key figures link together the history of the Northern and Southern dynasties, including Liu Yu, Tuoba Gui, Liu Yilong, Tuoba Tao, Xiao Daocheng, Empress Feng, Tuoba Hong, Er Zh
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The Biography of Ge Hong 葛洪传
#A Daoist Healer Couple Braving a Chaotic Age# #Historical Fantasy and Dual Cultivation# #Medicine, the Dao, and Political Intrigue# #Ge Bao Couple Saves the World# #Zombies and Elixirs Galore# During the Eastern Jin dynasty, Ge Hong’s friend Ji Han is murdered, and Guo Mai uses the Fish Eye organization to hunt Ge Hong down. Ge Hong crosses paths with his runaway fiancée, Bao Qianguang, and they join forces to brave dangers, treat the sick, and save lives. Their adventures include a zombie batt
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A Bastard Son in the Eastern Jin: From Dowry Servant to Rising Star 东晋庶子：从陪嫁仆从开始逆袭
The comic adaptation just came out. If you’re interested, go check it out. No System + political machinations + comeback + reform + aristocratic clan power struggles + plotting from behind the scenes In the first year of Jianwu, Sima Rui declared himself emperor, while the Langya Wang clan held the court in the palm of its hand. Under the Nine-Rank System, those from humble families had no way forward, as aristocratic clans monopolized the court generation after generation. Lu Heng, a tomb raide
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Li Tianxia 李天下
More than a thousand years ago, during the turbulent Five Dynasties period, a remarkable hero rose to prominence. With his courage and wisdom, he carved out an impressive legacy. Yet fate had other plans, and the end of this hero's story is one that leaves us sighing with regret... Join us as we step into those eighteen years of contests in wisdom and courage, those eighteen years of clashes between literary and military prowess, those eighteen years of dizzying rises and falls...
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Wei and Jin: A Thief of the State Becomes a Marquis 魏晋：窃国者侯
The Jin court fled south to Yongjia, and the Central Plains sank into chaos. This was perhaps the darkest and most absurd era in Chinese history. Behind vermilion gates, scholars lounged in flowing robes, chatting as they picked lice from their hair. Even as they fled for their lives, they still powdered their faces, applied perfume, and carefully groomed themselves. Outside those gates, there was not a rooster to be heard for a thousand miles. White bones lay exposed in the wilderness, and huma
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Warlord of the Republic: I Turned Shanghai’s Nightlife Upside Down 民国枭雄：我掀了夜上海的天
When Chen Mo wakes up, he has returned to the age of fifteen, facing the hellish slums of Shanghai. In his previous life, he lived an unremarkable life and died in humiliation. This time, he’ll overturn this world that devours people! Armed with the [Warlord System], his fists draw blood and his blade takes lives. Starting in Fangualong, he recruits followers, seizes territory, and gathers wealth... He swears to become the greatest warlord in all of Shanghai’s pleasure quarters! The underworld i
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- 66 Wei Xiaobao Conquers the World 韦小宝争霸天下 Funny, lighthearted, a little System, transmigration, souls returning... Nong di ge dong, xian ren ban ban, Xiao Xuanzi, I didn't rebel, but somehow I became a wanted criminal! What a load of nonsense! For the sake of a thousand generations, Xiao Xuanzi, I'll take your throne, and you can have Tongchi Island back! 10.8kReads8.7Score98914d adds
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Late Tang: Book of Turmoil 晚唐：乱世书
[Late Tang Dynasty] [Rebel Army] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Unify the Realm] The difficulty is hell from the start! For other people, joining the army means getting killed. For me, it's starting a business! From a low-ranking auxiliary soldier in Huang Chao's army, one who could die at any moment, to the founding dynasty's Grand General Who Guards the Nation. From the corpse-strewn lands of Lingnan to Chang'an, where rivers of blood flowed. From a regional warlord ruling the northern frontier to t
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No Offenses Against Jin 不轨于晋
Who in history has never had regrets? Zhang Ao, the King of Zhao in the early Western Han dynasty, originally lived in the shadow of Liu Bang’s purge of kings with different surnames, spending his days in constant fear, never knowing whether he would see the next day. Heaven gave him a second chance to be reborn, in the form of Zhang Gui more than four hundred years later. Unfortunately, he now faced an even darker and more degenerate age of Wei and Jin. And so begins a tale of saving a world wh
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- 69 The Blue Robe Supports the Heavens 青衫扶苍 [Studying at the Imperial Academy + Farming + Contending for Hegemony + Beauties + Meticulous + Not for Beginners] During the Sixteen Kingdoms period, in the fourteenth year of the Jianyuan era of Former Qin (378 AD), an age of upheaval and crisis, the young scholar Wang Yao, born to a humble family, carries the ideal of “serving the world and bringing peace to its people” as he travels from Huayin in Hongnong to Chang'an's Imperial Academy to study. Underneath the surface, Chang'an seethes with 2.5kReads9.4Score27714d adds
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The Border General 边将
The historical novel The Border General is set against the backdrop of the Ming Dynasty, with a major fortified town on the northern frontier as its stage. It portrays several generations of military commanders, represented by Du Ruzhen. The story touches on many major historical events along the Ming Dynasty's northern borders and depicts the everyday lives of the people there. It conveys the generals' loyalty to their country, as well as the purity and resolve of their emotional lives. The nov
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- 71 I Became the Founding Ancestor of the Sui and Tang Dynasties 我混成了隋唐祖源 No System, no golden finger. Beginning with the Rebellion of the Six Garrisons in the final years of the Northern Wei, witness the heroes of Wuchuan and the shifting tides of the Six Garrisons. Erzhu Rong, Yuwen Tai, Dugu Xin, Gao Huan... One renowned historical figure after another comes together in a magnificent chronicle of the final fifty years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
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Restoring the Tang with Loyalty 归义复唐
(The numbers were too poor, so it was discontinued.) [No transmigration, no System, no superhuman strength.] The chaotic late Tang era is in turmoil: regional warlords carve up the realm, the Central Plains are in upheaval, and the Western Regions are cut off and isolated. In 907, Zhu Wen usurps the Tang, the Tang banners fall in Chang’an, and the chaos of the Five Dynasties engulfs the Central Plains. Yet in Shazhou on the western frontier, the Guiyi Army still raises its battered Han banner, h
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The Five Barbarians Ravage China: Starting with a Surprise Attack on Shi Le 五胡乱华：从偷袭石勒开始
No System. [Survival + Comeback + Farming + Political Scheming + Conquest]. In the first year of Yongxing, the Western Jin dynasty collapses, the Five Barbarians ravage the land, and Bingzhou becomes a living hell. Li Yin, who transmigrates into this world, leads a dozen or so battered soldiers to fight for survival in dire straits. With no System and no golden finger, he relies solely on ruthless courage and exceptional cunning to launch surprise attacks on the Hu cavalry, defeating the strong
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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…
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- 75 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!!! 254Reads7.6Score10114d adds
- 76 Warlords of Two Worlds: The Pirates' Last Stand 两界枭雄之倭寇末路 Su Tianci was betrayed by his girlfriend. He got drunk, and when he woke up, he had somehow transmigrated to 1936, a year ravaged by war. Seeing the Japanese invaders bullying ordinary people, how could Su Tianci possibly stand by and do nothing? 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Dual Crossing to 1936: I Looted the Japanese Army’s Treasury 双穿1936我搬空鬼子金库 Lin Feng is a retired special forces soldier. After leaving the military due to an injury, he works as a security guard. His parents are ill, and his brother is in debt. Thanks to a jade pendant, he transmigrates to 1936, an era engulfed in the flames of war... 560Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Trading Between Two Worlds in 1983: A Tycoon Rises 两界倒贩1983巨鳄崛起 Destitute Su Tianci accidentally transmigrates from 1983 to 2025, an age of soaring economic growth. Two vastly different eras now lie before him: one wad of bills from 1983 can be exchanged for over a hundred thousand, while an electronic watch from 1983 costs only a few bucks in 2025... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 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 172Reads7.2Score14914d adds
- 80 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 532Reads7.7Score13514d adds
- 81 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. 131Reads7.6Score—14d adds
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The Cold Calamity of Doomsday: The Dragon Source's Flame Rekindles 末日寒劫，龙源火种重燃
I, Xie Yan, am still a good-for-nothing in the eyes of my people, three years into the apocalyptic Cold Calamity on the Dragon Source Continent. The Five Northern Clans marched south and besieged the Hua Clan on the southern bank of the Longjiang River for three years. They swore to wipe out the entire clan and seize the warm lands along the river that the Hua Clan controlled. I was born with a cultivation physique unseen in ten thousand years, but on the day I was born, my mother sealed my spir
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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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I Introduced Feudal Fiefs in the Late Tang 我在唐末搞分封
The old case against his great-grandfather, Li Deyu, stained his family’s name and shut him out of the proper path to an official career. He joins Huang Chao’s army and earns a fearsome reputation amid the chaos, then withdraws in time and wins a good name among the literati through his writings. He is made military governor of Tianping and gradually takes charge of three circuits, securing real power. He opens mints and casts coins, drawing the wealth of the realm through the profits of salt an
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The Dragon Rules Liangzhou 龙驭凉州
Folks, let’s really dig into the tangled history of the three powers that held sway over Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Shazhou in the northwest during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: the Tanguts, the Six Valleys, and the Guiyi Army. This area was the choke point of the Silk Road. Whoever controlled Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Shazhou held the lifeline of the northwest, so these three powers fought fiercely while also dealing with the central Chinese court and the surrounding big players. It wa
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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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Transmigrated as Hu Hai: From the Start, I Kill Fu Su to Save Meng Tian 穿越胡亥：开局杀扶苏救蒙恬
The moment I opened my eyes, I had become Hu Hai. Qin Shi Huang had just breathed his last. Zhao Gao was smiling at me, Li Si was still hesitating, and Fusu was about to be sentenced to death. And I was the puppet who, according to history, would lose the empire in just three years. If I followed the script, I’d kill my own brother, trust Zhao Gao, rule as a tyrant, and eventually be forced to take my own life. I didn’t want to die. So I had to become emperor: a real emperor, not a marionette in
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Passing as a Langya Native: I Read 165 Chapters, Then Transmigrated 冒姓琅琊：读了165章我穿越了
He was reading Chapter 165 of The Usurper of Langya when he transmigrated. The trouble was, he had only read as far as Chapter 165. The peach blossoms of the Southern Dynasties had come and gone, and he knew nothing of them. The blizzards of the Northern Dynasties were sweeping down, and he had stepped right into them. In Jiangnan, there was Wang Yang, dressed in white, holding a folding fan, passing himself off as a member of the Langya Wang clan and disrupting a game of strategy in Jiangling.
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The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms: Starting from Weibo to Conquer the Realm 五代十国：从魏博开始争霸天下
In the third year of Tianyou, Zhu Wen slaughtered the eight thousand families of the Weibo Guard overnight. Deputy Commander Li Hu led five hundred survivors, escorting a thousand families as they fought their way out of the encirclement. Three thousand li away, north of Yanmen Pass, beneath a soot-blackened banner bearing the character “Wei,” they established the Li family stronghold. Ten years later, the chieftain’s legitimate son was born, carrying the soul of a man from a thousand years i
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Dreams Shattered in the Dying Tang Dynasty 梦碎残唐
Set against the turbulent reigns of Emperor Xizong and Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, this novel explores the tangled power struggles of the late Tang court: factional strife, rampant eunuch power, and the warlords’ campaigns to suppress rebellions. Through upheavals that shook the realm, including the Huang Chao Rebellion, chaos in Guanzhong, the siege of Fengxiang, and the warlords’ struggle for supremacy, it paints a portrait of a world in turmoil on the eve of the Tang dynasty’s final decline. Th
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From Pangu to Puyi 从盘古到溥仪
[A Tomato-style Records of the Grand Historian + a blessing for audiobook listeners + grounded in historical sources + told with the flair of a novel] [Also known as From Pangu's Creation of the World to the Last Emperor's Abdication] A million-character epic spanning from Pangu's creation of the world to the last emperor's abdication. This isn't a mindless power fantasy: it combines historical authenticity with an engaging, nuanced touch. The book tells the whole story of Chinese history, from
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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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Saddling Up in the Waning Tang Dynasty 秣马残唐
He transmigrates to the end of the Tang Dynasty and becomes a refugee on the verge of starving to death. The moment Liu Jing opens his eyes, he sees a tragic world of warring fiefdoms, endless conflict, and people living in misery. Corpses litter the land, and for hundreds of miles, not a wisp of cooking smoke rises. Yet he also sees the romance of warhorses and flashing weapons, of heroes with the courage to swallow the world. This is the worst of times, and the best of times. Looking back at t
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Transmigrating to the Three Kingdoms, I Became a Lowly Soldier 穿越三国，我成了一名小卒
(This book introduces history, with much of its content drawing on Records of the Three Kingdoms.) Tian Chuan, courtesy name Xun Han, was a native of Yiquan, Qianzhou. Born to a humble family and raised in an ordinary village, his name never made it into the historical records! Yet as the protagonist, he was destined for a legendary life. I, the unworthy Mu Yuan, have presumptuously recorded it all in this book. At nineteen, Chuan enrolled at the Qian Dong Academy. He cared little for his studie
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The Five Dynasties’ Turbulent Age: The Rebellious Son of a Military Family! 五代乱世，将门逆子！
From blood-soaked battlefields to the imperial throne, see how Han Linggui conquers the realm and takes command of the empire. Expect hard-hitting schemes and passionate struggles for supremacy, with no padding or dragging. You won't regret following this story.
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When the Wind Rises in Lingbiao: The Five Dynasties’ Seven Governors 风起岭表之五代七刺史
Ning Mengli possessed strength enough to reach the heavens and virtue that rivaled the divine emperor. He guarded the nation's frontier and reclaimed the wilderness. Ning Changzhen had the ambition to encompass mountains and rivers and the noble bearing of clouds and mist. He subdued Jiaozhi, campaigned against Linyi, and seized Shebei. Ning Yuan Ti was the first successful candidate in the imperial examinations from Lingnan, a distinguished remonstrance official in the Kaiyuan Golden Age. Begin
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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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Sima the Old Rogue 司马老贼
He is the gravedigger of Cao Wei and the founder of Western Jin. He is the “old rogue Sima,” and the last winner of the Three Kingdoms. Centered on Sima Yi, this novel unfolds a sweeping panorama of the late Han and Three Kingdoms era. Witness how he treads carefully under the suspicion of three generations of powerful rulers: Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui; how he and Zhuge Liang wage an ultimate contest of will and national strength at Mount Qi and the Wei River; and how, in his twilight years,
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- 99 Whoever Offends the Han, No Matter How Far Away, Must Be Executed 明犯强汉者，虽远必诛 Born into poverty, he survived by begging and borrowing, yet wrote the most defiant declaration in Chinese history. He fought only one battle in his life, but it kept the backbone of an entire people straight for two thousand years. He was a hero and a sinner, a genius and a miser. He forged the words, “Whoever dares to offend the mighty Han will be executed, no matter how far away they are,” yet became a prisoner of his own greed and fate. His name was Chen Tang. Late in the Western Han dynasty 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Divine Realm: Song of the Lone Flame 神界：孤火之歌 The Seven Gods have fallen; their divine essences become fuel. The Void is coming, and only a lone flame burns bright. Twenty years ago, the God-Awakened Lucien slew three gods, causing the pantheon to collapse and faith to fracture. The seven divine essences scattered into the bloodlines of the seven great races, sparking endless conflict. At the same time, an erosion known as the “Void” quietly began to spread. It was not chaos, but a cold, orderly “reset program.” Kael, an amnesiac young ma 1.6kReads9.4Score12414d adds
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