There Are Hardly Any Great Historical Novels These Days. Disagree? Come Debate Me 现在的历史文根本没多少精品 ，不服来辩
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How Cao Cao Was Made 曹操是怎样炼成的
Everyone calls Cao Cao the disgraceful offspring of a eunuch's concubine, the remnant of a eunuch clan, and says his birth makes him the laughingstock of the realm. Born amid the chaos at the end of the Han dynasty, he starts with every disadvantage: no family connections to back him and people looking down on him at every turn. No one could have guessed that the child everyone scorned on the streets would spend half his life fighting and, through his own efforts, pacify the Central Plains, domi
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Red Sky: The Dynasty Cycle 赤霄：王朝周期律
Note: This is an epic war story. Don’t see that the protagonists are two men and assume it’s the sort of “two male leads” story some female readers enjoy. It isn’t! There are two male protagonists named here only because there isn’t room to list more than a dozen. Each subsequent volume will have its own protagonist, and the complete story will feature more than a dozen protagonists. Each protagonist belongs to a different historical period. Faced with the crises of their time, whether struggles
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A Puppet Emperor from the Start: I Summon China's Legendary Heroes 开局傀儡皇帝，我召唤华夏英灵
On the first day Xiao Cheng transmigrated, the entire court was laughing. They laughed at him for being the most pathetic puppet emperor, and laughed that he wouldn't live to see the end of the year. Xiao Cheng didn't answer back. He was counting, figuring out how many of those smiling faces in the hall would still be around by year's end. On the third day, Gao Lishi cleared out the imperial harem. A month later, Zhang Juzheng's performance assessment system had half the court on its knees. L
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The Redemption of Xiao Shenkè 肖神客的救赎
The ancient divine artifact Moon-Piercing Raft crashes down, striking the peak of Mount Buzhou. On the Wind Emperor's orders, Xiao Shenkè sets out to seize the Five-Colored Stone guarded by the Four Spirit Beasts, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, as well as the Red Vulture. Wind Monkey sacrifices himself for justice, helping Nuwa successfully mend the sky. Later, the Yellow Emperor and the Red Vulture, reincarnated as Chiyou, wage the Battle of Zhuolu. Xiao Shenkè a
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Eastern Han: My Life of Rising in Rank, Making a Fortune, and Killing My Father 东汉：我升官发财死亲爹的一生
[The female lead is not a good person. Not a good person. Not a good person! That’s important, so I’m saying it three times!] [Mostly focused on the female lead’s growth, with a somewhat slow pace.] This story has a little crossover with Love Like the Galaxy, and there’s also a character similar to Shaoshang. I really love Shaoshang, but the fanfiction elements are minimal. Here’s the actual synopsis: March of the twenty-fourth year AD. Amid the rumble of thunder and a woman’s cries from inside
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My Laid-Back Life in the Tang Dynasty 我的悠闲唐朝生活
Li Runtian gazed at the compost that had been fermenting for three months, brimming with confidence as he prepared to “get down to business.” Just then, villagers gathered around, murmuring among themselves. Second Uncle said, “It stinks to high heaven. Can anything grow in this?” Li Runtian began explaining nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, leaving the villagers staring blankly at one another. Scholar Liu translated: “Young Master Li says the land eats too, and this is its meat and vegetable
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The Mighty Phoenix Ode: Li Shimin 威凤赋之李世民
In the waning years of the Sui dynasty, warlords contended for supremacy, matching wits and fighting with everything they had. Emperor Taizong and Empress Zhangsun were young newlyweds who supported each other and brought peace and prosperity to the people. Adapted from history, this is not an alternate-history novel. It features political maneuvering, warfare, and noble ideals. It vividly recreates the four major battles of Li Shimin's career and shows how, before the Xuanwu Gate Incident, this
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A Beggar Fleeing Famine: Just Stay Alive 乞丐逃荒，不死就行
A little beggar on the streets of Sanxi Town, known by the nickname Bamboo Viper. For the first ten years or so, he barely managed to scrape by. When floods struck the Two Huai regions, he somehow survived and, for reasons he couldn't explain, fled the disaster with a string of little ones in tow. He took in children, learned to fish, and cleared land to farm. A beggar makes mistakes, is fiercely protective of his own, and tries his best to become a good older brother. The siblings go from havin
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Reborn as the Yongli Emperor: From the Start, I Befriended the Prince of the Guo Clan 重生永历：开局结识国姓爷
“Your Majesty, how did you... end up stranded in the freezing river?” Zheng Chenggong stares coldly at the emperor, dripping wet after being pulled from the river. “Because I don’t want to run anymore.” Zhu Youlang wipes the blood and river water from his face, his gaze burning bright. “Mingyan, will you join me... in mending the heavens?” A modern military engineer’s soul transmigrates into the most pathetic emperor of the Southern Ming, the Yongli Emperor. From the start, he’s drowning in the
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- 860 Transmigrated into a Young Lord: Tempering My Body with Literary Qi Is More Powerful Than Taking Pills 穿越世子：我文气淬体比嗑药还猛 [A Clever, Satisfying Story, No System + Plagiarism + Multiple Heroines + Political Intrigue + High Martial Arts + A Compelling Read] Chen Lan transmigrated by accident and became the heir of the Earl of Wen’an’s estate in the Great Qian Dynasty. Well-read and armed with a gift for poetry and a rare talent for martial arts, he thrived in Great Qian. His romantic entanglements piled up faster than he could ever repay! Great Qian’s double agent Jiang Xin: “Chen Lan, you know, I don’t think the wor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 861 Conquering the Wilderness, Defeating Japan, Winning the Empress: I Am Invincible 征蛮荒打倭国征女帝我已无敌天下 “Grandson, if you were going to drug someone, why pick the daughter of that old Prime Minister Lin? I mean, no matter how desperate you were, you couldn't do it in the imperial palace, could you? Still, you've got a bit of your grandpa's old flair!” “Uh, Grandpa, you did it in the palace back then too...” “Not quite as spectacularly as you, though!” Ning Fan, a mercenary who had just taken a bullet meant for a teammate on the battlefield, opened his eyes to find himself in the body of one of 2.1kReads8.7Score212Shelves
- 862 Our Whole Class Transmigrated to Great Qin, and the First Emperor Made Me His Heir? 全班穿越大秦，始皇竟传我皇位？ [Group Transmigration + Power Struggles + Class Beauty + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Invincible] The entire class transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty. The class sports representative becomes the Crown Prince of Zhao? The class monitor becomes a princess of Han? The discipline committee member becomes the Crown Prince of Qi? … In the entire class, are all the princes and princesses of every state except Qin? Once they gain power, their human nature changes completely! But Zhao Cheng awakens a 116.4kReads9.2Score12.5kShelves
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Emperors Cultivate Immortality: Ying Zheng Starts with Nine Supreme Bones! 诸帝修仙，开局嬴政九块至尊骨！
What would happen if China’s emperors and its famed historical ministers and generals transmigrated to the cultivation world? From the start, Ying Zheng awakens nine Supreme Bones, the bloodline of the Ancestral Dragon, and the growth-type divine artifact, the Ding Qin Sword! Ying Zheng: “The human race is livestock for the myriad races to feed on?” “From this day forth, humanity shall rule over the myriad races. That is the law of Qin!” Li Shimin: “I have awakened the bloodline of the Primordia
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Great Ming: Jiajing Is My Brother 大明：嘉靖是我哥
To my elder brother, A letter from your younger brother, Lu Bin. The situation in Jiangnan has become as bad as it can possibly get. I feel as if I'm trapped in a mire, struggling to find a way out. First, the most obvious problem is the Japanese pirates. They come from the sea, made up of desperate men who call themselves ronin. They are poor and have no fear of death, so smuggling merchants hire them and bring them inland. The Jiangnan army is no longer fit for purpose. Its equipment has falle
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Twelve Hours with Du Fu 杜甫十二时辰
Du Fu's Twelve Hours
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- 866 Lychees of Chang'an: The Last Glory of the Prosperous Tang 长安荔枝：盛唐最后的荣光 No System, no harem, no golden finger. A compelling story with a strong plot, in the traditional style. A thousand miles of red dust, and the consort smiles. What is this red dust? What is Yang Guifei smiling about? Zhang Zhi is a low-ranking clerk at the very bottom of Chang’an society. After saying something while drunk, he is forced to take on the task of delivering fresh lychees to Chang’an before a strict deadline. Under immense pressure, he comes to understand the rules of officialdom. Wit 27Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Jiangzuo Mystery: I Investigate a Murder and Get Caught in a Power Struggle for the Throne 江左之谜（我查命案卷入皇权博弈）
The Mystery of Jiangzuo (I get caught up in a struggle for imperial power while investigating a murder case)
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Li Shizi of the Tang Dynasty: My Six Tycoon Darlings! 大唐兕子：我的六个神豪小囊君！
A woman who transmigrates into another world finds her way to a higher-dimensional acceptance of her own strength and weakness, maturity and immaturity, dignity and disarray amid the height of the Tang dynasty. In the first five volumes, she is intensely drawn to strength and despises foolishness, ashamed of her own imperfections. When her energy is high, she is the model of a refined, high-born lady: restrained, sensible, and keenly observant. When her energy is low, she becomes anxious, avoida
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- 869 The Splendor of Bianjing in the Song Dynasty: Provoke Her, and the Storm Will Pass! 宋韵京华：惹她，山雨歇！ 1. (Transmigration to Song history) (Ancient-style romance, infinite worlds) (Literary foundations and imaginative ideas) (One female lead, occasionally a full cast of men) (Funny and never long-winded). Best savored slowly, one little bite at a time. 2. The two male leads are really just a pair of grown-up brats whose delayed adolescence is still dragging on. Once their rebellious phases end and they stop making everything about themselves, their worldviews will emerge. 3. Each incident is ordi 19Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 870 The Husky and His White Cat Shizun 二哈和他的白猫师尊 [The audiobook adaptation of the same name, starring Gu Jiangshan and Sanshi, is complete. Tune in and give it a listen!] Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning's disciple had been a mistake. His master was far too much like a cat, while he was like a silly dog wagging its tail and fawning over him. Dogs and cats can't reproduce together, and the silly dog hadn't wanted to reach out his fluffy paws toward that cat in the first place. He'd always thought dogs should be with dogs, like his senior bro 100.4kReads9.7Score19.3kShelves
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Emperor Wu of Han Rebuilds Weiyang Palace in the Eerie World 汉武帝在诡异世界重建未央宫
I ate one of the alchemist’s pills and woke to find my Weiyang Palace transformed into an eerie dungeon. The System notified me that I had to take part in the beginner’s trial: [The Looping Elevator]. The rules said: On the 13th floor, a ghost opens the door. On the 14th floor, a human opens it. A ghastly pale hand had just reached through the crack in the door I held down my Ba Fu Sword and asked, “Why don’t you kneel before your emperor?” The ghost hand shrieked and pulled back. Later, the vet
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Song Renzong from the Start: I’ll Send the Entire Court of Nobles to Their Graves! 开局宋仁宗，我给满朝朱紫送终！
On his first day after transmigrating into the Song Dynasty, Zhao Yan found himself in a nightmare from the start. The army had been wiped out at Sanchuan Pass, Western Xia’s cavalry had smashed through the frontier, yet the court was full of high officials who could only kneel and weep in protest: “Your Majesty! We must not abandon the laws of our ancestors!” He smashed the peace treaty memorial and sneered as he pointed at the censor-in-chief. “The enemy is only eight hundred li from Bianjing.
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Tales of a Great Song Storyteller 大宋说书人传
Lin'an, on a bitterly cold winter's day. The protagonist was blind, lying in a dilapidated room with only one devoted young apprentice and three stray dogs by his side. He asked his apprentice to gather all the neighborhood children, saying he had one “last story” to tell. The children crowded around his bed as he told the tale of Yue Wumu. When he reached the words “Give me back our rivers and mountains,” he suddenly sat upright, his voice ringing out as powerfully as it had in the teahouses of
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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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The Gentry of Great Ming 大明豪绅
[Farming] [Fishing] [Hunting] [Study and Imperial Exams] In the thirty-second year of the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, the young Qi Zhengyan leaves the fields behind, builds his fortune, and studies for the imperial exams, becoming a wealthy gentryman of the Great Ming. The Manchus will not be allowed through the pass.
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I Serve as a Court Historian for Empress Wu Zetian 我为女帝武则天做史官
A screenplay adaptation is in the works. Stay tuned! The Tang dynasty was the pinnacle of women's status in feudal society, and not only because of the one and only empress in history, Wu Zetian. Though she shone like the brightest light in the sky of women of her time, she was not the only star. The heavens then were filled with brilliant women. Even the empress's radiance could not completely eclipse their flourishing. There was the haughty Princess Gaoyang, the elegant Princess Wencheng, and
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Three Thousand Miles on the Long Wind 长风三千里
"Li Shimin's Tang delegation was ambushed in Tianzhu." "What happened to the envoys?" "Only two survived, and they were captured. One is a civil official, the other a third-rate swordsman." "The swordsman is mortally wounded, and the official is unarmed. What can they possibly do?" "Ask for troops." "How many?" "Twelve hundred from Tubo and eight thousand from Nepal." "How many are they up against?" "A million." "...So why fight at all?" "Fight." Nine thousand two hundred men cut through a milli
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Three Kingdoms: I Just Became a Scion of the Yuan Clan, and Dong Zhuo Arrived 三国：刚成袁家公子，董卓来了
Yuan Jing transmigrated to the late Han dynasty and discovered that he had become a member of the Yuan clan. For four generations, the family had held the highest offices in the empire, with students and former subordinates spread throughout the land. His father, Yuan Wei, was one of the Three Excellencies of the imperial court. He thought he'd landed in a game of conquest with an unbeatable start. But he gradually realized that something about the winds blowing through Luoyang was not quite rig
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An Iron-Blooded Map of the Realm 铁血山河图
(No harem, no cookie-cutter plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless protagonist, and no wish-fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) The snow had yet to melt in Bianjing. Zhao Huan stood on the city wall with his hands behind his back. The Jin cavalry had reached the far bank of the Yellow River, their banners looming like dark clouds. Clutched in his hand was a newly devised gunpowder formula, yet reflected in his eyes was a war-game simulation from a thousand years
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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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A Hotpot Through the Ages 火锅春秋
The state is founded on its people, and the people put food first. Transmigrating into the turbulent Spring and Autumn period, a master chef stirs up the world. Follow the protagonist across the river of time as, armed with culinary skills and the Zuo Zhuan, he rewrites the course of Chinese civilization and creates an epic “Spring and Autumn of Fine Food”!
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Reborn in Li Bai's Body? From the Start at Mawei Post Station, I Save Yang Yuhuan 魂穿李白？开局马嵬驿，我救玉环
One of Tomato's rare gems. The An Lushan Rebellion, an exiled immortal and a noble consort, intrigue amid chaos, and fervent devotion to the nation. A man remains a boy until the day he dies. As he makes his way through life, apart from Yang Yuhuan, his unattainable first love, which of the colorful women of the Tang dynasty became his cinnabar-marked love? And who remained the one he could never let go? Most importantly, whether heroes or villains, everyone is sharp-witted. This story is entire
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Ming Prince: I’ll Found a Nation Overseas 大明藩王：我要海外建国
He transmigrates into Zhu Yiliu, Prince Lu during the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty. Empress Dowager Li has just rebuked the Wanli Emperor and demanded that Prince Lu be made the new ruler. Zhu Yiliu falls from his horse and lapses into a coma. After waking, he can't shake the feeling that the Wanli Emperor wants him dead, so he plans to build a ship and take a group of people to hide in the Nanyang, putting some distance between himself and the Manchu barbarians, who will arrive before long. Bu
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- 884 Great Ming: I Transmigrate as the Chongzhen Emperor, Starting with a Rope 大明：穿越崇祯帝，开局一根绳 [No System + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Ruthless Combat + War] Good news: Zhu Lian transmigrated and became Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming dynasty. Bad news: It was the tenth day of the third month of Chongzhen’s seventeenth year, just seven days before Li Zicheng’s rebels stormed the outer city. The Ming dynasty was already on the brink of collapse, in grave danger. The Jurchens threatened from the north, rebels from the west, with one natural disaster after another an 60.3kReads9.3Score6.3kShelves
- 885 The Mengjin Crossing 盟津渡 Also known as The Awakening of the Ferry Boy. Wu Heyuan, a young man from a Yellow River ferry crossing, suffers the massacre of his entire family, and his younger sister goes missing. After delivering a letter to the Weishui Alliance for a mysterious stranger, he becomes Jiang Shang’s disciple and embarks on a path of political intrigue. When his sister is trained to become an enemy nation’s assassin, when his beloved tastes poison to save him from the brink of death, and when his master gives —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 886 EN The Wei Clan's Cursed Son Becomes Grand Secretary—Now They Beg Me to Return 魏家孽种成首辅，全族跪求我认祖 (Also known as The Wei Fox) [Political Schemes][One Female Lead][Ensemble Cast][The Wei Faction] Condemned from birth, I was given the name Niesheng. On the day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and my grandfather mourned before the ancestral hall. The whole household looked at me askance, all calling me a disaster star who had stolen another's fate. My biological father hated me like an enemy, my elder half-brother regarded me as an omen of bad luck, and my stepmother hid a knife behind 645kReads9.2Score90.3kShelves
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Mount & Blade: Rise to World Domination in an Era of Peace, Starting with Patricide 骑砍：太平年从弑父开始问鼎天下
Just started getting ratings, and they'll rise later [historical epic + political scheming + ensemble cast]. The protagonist is Han Chinese, but he isn't the author's favorite. [You can enjoy this even if you don't know the Mount & Blade games! The System can train super-strong soldiers, and they're all normal people, not brainless NPCs.] He transmigrates to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and becomes the adopted son of Zhang Yanze, the "Cannibal Ogre." On the very first day, his fath
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Tao Dian, the Transmigrator, Is a Little Crazy 穿越的陶巅有点儿癫
[Transmigrated lunatic + no female lead + higher-dimensional black technology + hilarious, wildly satisfying madness + god of slaughter + soul power + time-adjustable space] Tao Dian transmigrates into the body of Nineteen, a bastard son of the Left Chancellor’s household who was nearly killed by his stepmother. He has barely crawled out of a pile of corpses when someone casually sells him as a girl to a brothel. He discovers that his tears can bring the dead back to life and flesh can grow back
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His Name Is Zhu Youtang 他叫朱佑樘
There are so many emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone writes about Hongwu, Yongle, Jiajing, and Chongzhen, but I insist on writing about Zhu Youcheng. A nearly perfect emperor, with one point deducted for dying young. Zhu Youcheng: Being crown prince is so hard. My mother died early, I didn't meet my father until I was six, and my position as heir is hanging by a thread. Noble Consort Wan: I am a good person. I've never hurt anyone. I'm not some wicked viper! Zhu Jianshen: I am a good emperor
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I, Wu Zetian, Was Reborn as Wei Zifu! 我武则天，竟然重生成了卫子夫
In the winter of the first year of the Shenlong era, eighty-two-year-old Wu Zetian died at Xianju Hall in Shangyang Palace, Luoyang. But when she opened her eyes, she had been reborn as Wei Zifu, Empress to Emperor Wu of the Western Han, and from the start found herself at the scene of Lady Gouyi giving birth. When the Emperor demanded that she look after Lady Gouyi, she shot back without hesitation: “Your Majesty, my phoenix seal governs rank and order, and the dignity of the imperial household
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Late Han War Chronicles: The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry 汉末烽烟录之并州狼骑
[Three Kingdoms] [Struggle for Supremacy] [Powerful Minister] [Legacy of Emperor Wu] [No System] [Multiple Heroines] The north wind lashes the banners, and cold blades gleam beneath the setting sun. During the Zhongping era, the Yellow Turban Rebellion throws the realm into turmoil. From the frontier of Bingzhou comes a cavalry force riding through frost and snow. Its warriors are clad in mourning white, and its advance is as fierce as a pack of wolves. Wherever it passes, the dust raised by th
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- 892 The Prince Consort in Black Rests Beneath the Mountains and Rivers 乌衣驸马枕山河 The world is ever-changing, but who laments the fall of the nation? Life is all about putting on a good show. In the sixth year of the Xianhe era, nearly twenty years have passed since the Central Plains fell to foreign rule. On the northern battlefield, the bloodiest war in ancient history is raging, while the southern dynasty’s noble young men remain lost in wine and dreams. The elegance of the Wei and Jin eras has ultimately become a pile of cold leftovers. Huan Ziyuan, a history student, arr 118Reads—Score—Shelves
