Wuxia, Court Politics, Scheming, and Alternate History 江湖，朝堂，权谋，架空历史
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The Empire as My Canvas 江山为卷
[A completely fictional xianxia history: political intrigue + xianxia + no System.] “Your Majesty, the Ninth Prince has broken through all four passes. He has led his army across the Yinma River and is closing in on Tianmen Pass.” The ministers were speechless. How could that dissolute heir, who spent every day drinking and womanizing and even brought dancers on military campaigns, have broken through all four passes? From the looks of it, he was going to attack the strongest pass in Western Shu
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Great Qin: Emperor Qin Shi Huang, I Really Don't Want to Live Off You! 大秦：始皇帝，我真不吃软饭啊！
[The Analects + Hilarious + Cunning + Lighthearted + His Majesty Zheng + Shamelessly Stealing + Absolutely Outrageous] Qin Feng inexplicably transmigrates to the Qin dynasty before Qin unifies the six states, and the First Emperor overhears his thoughts. The two then embark on a hilarious daily battle of wits. “Qin Feng, tell me, what does ‘The Master does not speak of prodigies, force, disorder, or spirits’ mean?” “It means the Master doesn’t want to talk to you, and will use brute force to bea
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- 153 Great Qin: The Ruthless Chancellor, Whom the First Emperor Begs Not to Kill 大秦：最狠丞相，始皇求我别杀了 [Decisive and Ruthless + The Protagonist Is a Master Schemer + No Romance + Career-Focused Protagonist] After transmigrating into the Great Qin dynasty, Liu Bai rose straight to the position of Great Qin's Left Chancellor. From the start, he had seven thousand surrendered rebels buried alive. When he returned to Xianyang, everyone was sharpening their knives, ready to impeach the chancellor. Only then did they realize it was all just the beginning. “Your Majesty, Left Chancellor Liu Bai beat Zha 32.1kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
- 154 I’m the Only One in the World Who Can Use Magic 全世界，只有我会法术 [Supernatural abilities + traditional occult arts] Ghost soldiers marching along the road, a hundred ghosts wailing at a funeral, a fox immortal worshipping the moon, nine dragons carrying a corpse... Evil forces crawl across the earth, while ancient malevolent spirits lie hidden in the depths of Guixu, silently watching the world of the living. This is a world teeming with evil spirits, a world ruled by people with supernatural abilities. Evil spirits lurk in the darkest corners of the night, w 8.8kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 155 Great Qin: The Greediest Official of All Time, Praised as a Loyal Minister by the First Emperor 大秦：千古贪官，祖龙夸我是忠臣 [Political intrigue] + [fiery passion] + [rivalry for supremacy] + [ruthless action] + [no System] In the twenty-eighth year of the First Emperor's reign, after performing the Fengshan sacrifice at Mount Tai, Qin Shi Huang disguises himself as a wealthy merchant to tour the land incognito. To his surprise, he discovers that the local township head, Heifu, is openly accepting bribes, colluding with merchants! He is only a township head, yet his residence is extravagantly luxurious, with hundreds 6.1kReads9.2Score614Shelves
- 156 Wang Xiaoming's Cultivation Journal 王小明修仙记 Across the long river of time unfolds a moving history of an ordinary man's cultivation journey, the story of a common man's growth as he cultivates his strength, his heart, and his path to immortality. Wang Xiaoming leaves his mountain village and rises in the mortal world. As the world changes, he ascends to immortality in the blink of an eye. 7.8kReads9.0Score714Shelves
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The River-Crossing Pawn 过河卒
The world is a game of chess, and its people are the pieces. Qi Xuansu is a pawn that has crossed the river: there is no turning back, only pressing forward.
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- 158 Great Qin: The Divine Rankings Appear, and I Get Exposed for Trying to Lay Low 大秦：神榜现世，苟不住的我被曝光了 [Hilarious + extreme extrovert + shameless + System + invincible] He transmigrates into The Legend of Qin and encounters a whole host of big shots, including Ying Zheng, Zhao Gao, and Donghuang Taiyi. His innate gift for socializing soon helps him thrive, while also making him infamous… Ying Zheng: “Wang Xuan is the most shameless rascal in all of the Great Qin. I will brook no argument…” 35.4kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 159 Better Than the Clouds 莫若凌霄 Tang Congxin, an art school reject, unexpectedly arrives in a world ruled by an empress and becomes a fallen imperial grandson whose life is hanging by a thread. But even an abandoned child can aspire to greatness. A fallen imperial grandson should rise like a dragon. If my grandfather could be emperor, and my grandmother could be empress, then I, an abandoned child, can do it too. 27.2kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
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The Authorities Give Me a Wife, and I End Up with a Princess from the Previous Dynasty! 官府发娘子，我竟领到前朝公主！
[Transmigration to ancient times + building wealth + vying for supremacy + wondrous martial arts + beauties of every kind + warrior goddesses on the battlefield] [The historical novel with more female leads than any other on Tomato Novel, bar none!] Jia Daoshi transmigrates to the Great Jing Dynasty. It resembles ancient China, but never existed in real history. Years of warfare have left the population dwindling! The martial world is in chaos, with heroes rising everywhere! To address the popu
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The Chilling Wind Over the River 长风江上寒
Not only them, but everyone in the martial world had heard the legend of the Blade Demon. What they didn't know was that the seemingly harmless boy standing before them was that very Blade Demon! The God of Slaughter! H-he's not dead! He's back! A beauty tucked under one arm, a killing blade in the other! Living freely, roaming the world at his leisure! When you find yourself caught in a scheme, do you ever suspect it's a scheme within a scheme? Or perhaps... a scheme within a scheme within a sc
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- 162 The First Emperor Made Me His Successor, and I Accidentally Extended the Dynasty by a Thousand Years 始皇让我当二世，不小心延续千年 Also known as: Did I unify the Six Kingdoms or the Six Realms? [Passionate] [Thrillingly satisfying] [Farming and conquest] [A veteran author who’s spent ten years pouring heart and soul into writing, guaranteed quality!] [Two Systems, one for each father and son] In the year 2333 of the Great Qin era, elementary school students from Great Qin visit the Great Wall. The children marvel at the wall’s grandeur and magnificence. Their teacher explains, “The Great Wall is a defensive fortification bu 24.4kReads9.0Score2kShelves
- 163 Great Qin: I'll Come Clean, I'm Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng 大秦：我摊牌了，我是始皇嬴政 [Grand Tutor of the Qin Dynasty + Lecture-Focused + History Buffs + Hundred Schools of Thought] In the tenth year of King Zheng’s reign, the immortal Xu Shang met a young noble from the Guanzhong region in an abandoned place, and won his protection… From then on, Xu Shang began teaching him the Way and answering his questions. “Master, what’s the core framework behind Confucianism on the outside and Legalism within?” “Master, the details of the Qin dynasty’s system of rule and its legal principl 2.2kReads9.0Score165Shelves
- 164 Martial Radiance Across the World 武曜天下 [Alternate history / emperor / smart protagonist / territorial expansion / empire-building] He transmigrates into the body of a puppet emperor, stripped of real power. Reborn as an emperor, how could he accept being anyone's subordinate? With beauties in his arms, why envy the immortals? He'll survey a vast empire stretching ten thousand miles! Crush the petty schemers and usher in a golden age! Build a great empire and unite all under heaven! A true man should forge achievements that endure for 362Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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The Peerless Chivalrous Hero 绝世奇侠传
[This is a slow-burn novel that only gets better as it goes. The main draw is a great read that stands the test of time!] Young hero Guo Yi rises to the pinnacle of the martial world. To uphold justice, he joins forces with his beloved Shui Rouqing to defeat the great evil of the martial world. But just as the mantis stalks the cicada, a hidden force lies in wait behind them, its vast web already spread… Is human nature ultimately good, or evil? The plot twists and turns, while a heroine even th
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- 166 Ten Thousand Years of Great Qin: Who Let Him Teach the First Emperor? 大秦万年，谁让他当始皇老师的？ At the end of the Warring States period, amid one of the greatest upheavals in Chinese history, Jiang Wang arrives in this era. He studies under Guiguzi, plunges into this turbulent age, and personally sets in motion the fall of the six kingdoms and the unification of the realm. The First Emperor of Qin, Ying Zheng, calls him his teacher. Unifying the written language and measurements, establishing academies, and enlightening the people: one groundbreaking initiative after another takes shape un 8.5kReads8.9Score462Shelves
- 167 The First Blade to Slay Demons 斩鬼第一刀 Want to see the greatest bone-cleaving blade in the martial world? This book offers you a different kind of martial world, a passionate tale of love and hatred unlike any other, and a strange martial-world story whose echoes will linger for days. 408Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 This Top Scholar Plays by His Own Rules 这个状元路子有点野 [Farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + lighthearted] My Parents Flipped the Table and Quit, So I Want to Take the Imperial Exams Too Just as Wang Xuezhou was about to reach the peak of his life, he transmigrated. The good news: in this life, his parents were loving, and his siblings got along. The bad news: the whole family was pinching pennies to fund his eldest uncle's studies. They had next to nothing and were living on coarse grain and wild greens. But before he could flip t 52.4kReads8.9Score6.5kShelves
- 169 The Qin Empire Rises, and I Alone Hold Back the Sky 大秦风起，我只手挽天倾 [Passion + Political Scheming + Ruthless Decisiveness + No System] The Qin Empire is on the rise. Countless Qin veterans shed their blood on the battlefield, conquering the Six Kingdoms and uniting them under Qin. Mighty Qin, a newborn empire whose flame is guttering like an oil lamp running dry. The thirteenth prince bears the fate of all Qin's people. With one hand, he holds up the tottering empire; with the other, he turns back the falling heavens. 24.4kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 170 Great Qin: From the Start, I Get Ten Times Lu Bu's Combat Power with Sign-In 大秦：开局签到十倍吕布战力 Ying Yu transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty and becomes the First Emperor's sixth son. The First Emperor faces a crisis, and the Nation-Protecting Sign-in System activates. From the start, he signs in for Lu Bu's template, extending the First Emperor's life and increasing his own combat power tenfold. He slays Zhao Gao and obtains the peerless divine general Zhao Yun! The Xiongnu invade. He signs in at the Great Wall and gets the Snowstorm Dragon Cavalry, wiping out the Xiongnu! The six kingdoms re 35.6kReads9.0Score4kShelves
- 171 Empress: My Husband Really Is This Fierce 女帝：我家夫君就是这么凶猛 [Dynastic power struggles + court politics + jianghu + one female lead + no System (the System is an experience pack) + decisive and ruthless + farming] Shen Lang had just left the army when he transmigrated to this world and joined the newly established Jingwei Bureau of Great Chu. The empress had just ascended the throne. The state was beset by internal and external troubles. All seemed calm on the surface, but undercurrents ran deep. It was at this time that Shen Lang entered the empress's li 17.1kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves
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Strumming a Sword and Singing Along the Way 弹剑行歌
Half martial arts novel, half story: In the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli reign, a prince who has been living among the common people makes a surprise assault on the imperial palace after years of secret preparation, invoking the precedent of the Jingnan Campaign. A group of heroes from the martial world, led by a former official who resigned from office, rise up to stop him. But all of this is under the control of Zhao Gong, a prince consort, and in the end both sides suffer devastating losses
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- 173 The Far Shore of the Great Dao 大道彼岸 In the capital, April brings the bustle of everyday life, yet beneath the seemingly tranquil surface, undercurrents are stirring. The young Yang Zhao arrives by chance in this strange and wondrous world of immortals and martial heroes, and gets swept into the heart of the turmoil. … A vast world, home to countless races, where immortals and demons rise together. Sacred lands, sects, the imperial court, clans… This is a story about pursuing the Great Way to Immortality in the name of love. (The 17.5kReads8.4Score1.6kShelves
- 174 Great Qin: What a Nasty Trick, the Ancestral Dragon Can Hear My Thoughts! 大秦：夺笋呐，祖龙偷听我心声！ [Hilarious + Wits and Wit] This book is mainly a comedy, with history playing a supporting role. It’s not a dry history textbook. Qin Shi Huang eavesdrops, then gets into a daily battle of wits and insults with the protagonist. If I don’t scam you, I’m letting you down. If I do scam you, I’ll profit at your expense. This book has only one purpose: to make readers laugh and starve the pandas. If it fails, then I guess I’m not good enough! 5.3kReads9.0Score496Shelves
- 175 Great Ming: The Path to Becoming the Emperor's Teacher Begins with the Imperial Exams 大明：帝师之路，从科举开始 Xu Wen transmigrates to the Ming dynasty just as his family falls on hard times. His parents die, and someone shows up to break off his engagement, stacking two major disadvantages on him at once. He takes the imperial examinations, makes a name for himself as a young man, and enters government service, serving through nine reigns: Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, Tianshun, and Chenghua. During the Hongwu reign, he is Zhu Yuanzhang’s sharpest weapon against corrupt of 14.5kReads7.9Score1.7kShelves
- 176 The Most Dashing Man in the Great Zhou 大周最风流 Above the East Sea, a scholar commands a third of the world's martial fortune and has been trapped there for sixty years. In a sacred land, a Taoist has reigned undefeated for sixty years, hailed as the Great Ease... The wind stirs from a duckweed-covered pond. Xiao Yi sets out into the world for the first time, to witness its splendor! 13.3kReads7.5Score784Shelves
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Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应
Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist
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- 178 That Year, That Blade, That World of Rivers and Lakes, That Imperial Court 那年，那刀，那江湖，那庙堂 [Transmigration] + [Alternate World] + [Court Politics] + [Jianghu] + [No System] The special forces king Zhao Chen transmigrates into the body of the heir to the Marquis of Dingguo, a frail scholar. Unfortunately, soon after arriving in the Great Xia Kingdom, his father is framed and dies on the battlefield, his mother dies of grief, and his hereditary title is coveted by the second branch of the family. Watch as he escapes his predicament, leaves the capital, abandons literature for martial ar 28.3kReads8.2Score5.2kShelves
- 179 The First Duke of the Great Ming 大明第一公 I am Li Jinglong. This is my story, and the story of the Great Ming. 130kReads9.2Score14.1kShelves
- 180 The Fierce Heir 世子凶猛 Year Sixteen of the Jingyuan Era The Prince of Jingnan died in battle. His heir was famous for being a wastrel, and everyone at court was waiting to see him make a fool of himself. But who would have guessed that this heir, seemingly frivolous and utterly debauched, was secretly the Lord of the Underworld, feared throughout the land? A young lord by day, the Lord of the Underworld by night. He battles high officials, toys with celebrated courtesans, destroys heretical sects, marries a princess, 1.2kReads8.0Score108Shelves
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Great Qin Lies to the West, Rising Like the Sun 西有大秦，如日方升
The blazing sun rose from distant Qin Yi, bringing a new order to this decaying world, where all ritual and morality had collapsed. Qin, a great nation. Even if given another chance, he would still lay the foundation for the unification of all under heaven. And the story all began beneath Beiman Mountain, under a sunset red as fire…
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The Prosperous Era's Medical Detective 盛世谋医神探
Tang Wei, a top modern forensic pathologist, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of an ancient criminal's daughter who shares her name. The original Tang Wei's family was confiscated after her father became embroiled in an imperial examination cheating scandal. She was reduced to a government servant and took her own life in despair. When Tang Wei wakes up, she is immediately trapped in a desperate situation: her status as a government servant leaves her as lowly as dust, and the shadow of
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- 183 Your Highness, Go to Your Death! 请皇兄，赴死！ Zhou Che is reborn as the sixth prince of Great Xia, but his five elder brothers keep closing in on him. They want to strip me of my claim to the throne! They want to confiscate what little my family has left! They want to take the woman I love and kill me! If that’s how it is “If you, my brothers, can kill your own kin, why can’t I?” “If you can fight for the realm, why can’t I?” “You all think yourselves capable. What makes me any less so?!” Zhou Che rises with his sword drawn. “Your sixth bro 31.3kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
- 184 The Legend of Shen He of Chang'an 长安禾火之沈禾传奇 The Legend of Shen He of Chang'an 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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Joy with You 与君欢
[Palace Intrigue and Political Scheming + Marriage Before Love + Mutual Devotion] A young king and queen join hands to bring peace to the realm, brimming with ambition! A sinister, calculating ruler versus a clever, decisive queen: evenly matched, they win the world together! Jiang He, daughter of an envoy from Qi, was forced to enter the palace as a servant after her mother died and her father disappeared. Then, just before the marriage alliance, the princess of Qi died a tragic death, leaving
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Tides of the Political Sea 宦海浮沉
No cheating spouse At the end of the day, every rule follows one fundamental principle: the strongest force gets to decide. This is the “meta-rule,” the rule that determines all other rules. The martial world isn’t all about fighting and killing; it’s about human relationships and social conventions. The same goes even more so for politics. Chen Bo is drawn into an unwinnable game of chess because of a debt he has no choice but to repay. He thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison, but
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Film and TV Crossover: Jinyu 综影视，瑾钰
Xiao Yu’s uncle Gu Yiran’s older brother Li Lianhua’s father
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- 188 The Brocade Gambit: A Record of Power Plays in the Tang Dynasty 霓裳弈：大唐权谋录 Silk and Strategy: A Record of Tang Dynasty Power Plays 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Rise and Fall of the World Are Mine to Rule 天下兴亡我为王
“Chief, you're awake?”… What do you mean, transmigrating here didn't come with a golden finger? What do you mean the government troops are coming to wipe out our stronghold? What do you mean an age of chaos is about to begin? Then there's only one thing to do: step forward, throw myself into the fray, and fight my way through this chaotic age…
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The Greatest Warrior in the Mortal Realm 人间第一武夫
[Just received a rating, so the score is naturally low. It’ll improve over time!] [No harem + no System + not mindless + not invincible from the start + case-solving and deduction + witty + martial arts + supernatural abilities] In an age without immortals, the demon race has vanished, the fiend race is nowhere to be found, and humanity reigns supreme. Ten thousand years ago, the Sui Dynasty collapsed, and the various kingdoms rose! Over the past ten thousand years, hundreds of nations, great an
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- 191 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
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Wielding My Sword, I Slay Celestials for a Drink 仗剑，斩天人下酒
(Martial world + imperial court + ensemble cast + schemes) The martial world means flashing blades and clashing steel, the warmth and coldness of human nature, the realm and its beauties, the everyday necessities of life, and, in the end, the injustice found in the space between one’s steps. But did you know there are immortals above, fishing in the mortal world and tampering with the fates of men? Come, come! Watch me, Li Xianyu, cleave an immortal in two with one sword, and give you all someth
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The Nine Princes Vie for the Throne: From the Start, I Rebel with My Imperial Brother’s Head 九龙夺嫡：开局提皇兄人头造反
After transmigrating into the Great Yan Dynasty, Yan Xun becomes the useless Sixth Prince, a vassal prince of Beiliang Province. From the start, the Fifth Prince marches an army right to his doorstep. With the enemy at his gates, Yan Xun awakens a golden finger and makes a spectacular comeback! He personally kills his Fifth Imperial Brother from the start, launching a rebellion then and there! Taking full control of his fiefdom, Beiliang Province, Yan Xun proceeds cautiously, expands his army, i
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- 194 The Twin-Pupil Covenant: Throne of Thorns 双瞳盟约之荆棘王座 The Covenant of Twin Pupils: The Thorn Throne —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 He Shen in the City 和珅在都市 On February 22, 1799, Heshen received a white silk cord from the Jiaqing Emperor and met his end. Somehow, he found himself in the future, in 1983. As an ancient man in a modern city, how will he make his way in the world? 28.8kReads9.3Score4kShelves
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The Divine Martial Physician and the Charming Empress 神武太医俏女帝
(It only gets better from here!) Xiao Yun transmigrated into the Great Qi Dynasty and, from the start, was dragged into the palace to treat the emperor. As he felt around the emperor's chest... “The emperor's chest is so firm... Wait! You're a woman?” With his superb medical skills, he became a court physician, fought corrupt ministers, destroyed enemy kingdoms, and roamed the land unchecked... (The author's previous novel, From Eunuch to Emperor, also known as The Eunuch and Empress: The Most D
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My Drunkard Dad 我的酒鬼老爹
I really didn’t get the Burning Technique… A drunkard for a father and a scheming mother gave birth to a clueless boy. Mystery + political intrigue + deduction + crime-solving + martial arts world No System, no golden finger, and no reloading a save to start over. No invincibility, no brainlessness, no harem, and no saintly hero. Life is full of ups and downs, and people come in all sorts. With a broken sword in hand, the young man roams the world, gradually unraveling the mystery of his birth!
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- 198 The Amnesiac Sword Immortal 失忆剑仙 The Amnesiac Sword Immortal 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 The Imperial Tutor's Road to the Civil Service Exams 农门帝师的科举之路 Imperial Examination, One-on-One Romance After an accident, a young man from the modern era transmigrated into the Great Qian Dynasty. Looking at his family’s dilapidated brick house, Qi Wenyu wondered how he would make a living from then on... 21kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
- 200 From the Start, I'm a Disgraced Prince in the Cold Palace 开局冷宫废皇子 Transmigration + history + strategy + cultivation + a golden finger... "What? The useless prince has become an unrivaled god of war!" "The Chen Kingdom, on the verge of destruction, has somehow staged a comeback!" Chen Feng, a civil servant from Blue Star, transmigrates to another world and becomes a prince of a kingdom on the brink of collapse. Fortunately, the Strategic Mastermind System binds itself to him, allowing him to summon civil officials and military generals. Watch as I turn the tide 448Reads6.4Score—Shelves
