A Man's Romance: Massive Warships and Huge Guns, Late Qing, World War I, or Republican-Era China Are All Fine! 男人的浪漫大舰巨炮，晚清，一战，民国，都可以！

1. 501 欢 Welcome to 19th-Century Europe, Where Strength Reigns Supreme 欢迎来到实力至上的19世纪欧洲 Aitier艾蒂尔Historical1.3M WordsCompleted [Otherworld + Character development + Healing + Farming + A New European Order] Amid the upheavals of the nineteenth century, royal power gradually declined, while liberalism began to rise… 757Reads9.4Score—Shelves
2. 502 崩 Honkai: Star Rail: Interstellar Warlord from Jarilo 崩铁，从雅利洛开始的星际军阀 Tang Chen of Eugene尤金的唐宸Anime Fanfiction367k WordsCompleted Qin Huairen, warlord of annihilation, is a renowned figure throughout the universe. The influence of a single human is almost on par with that of an Aeon. The war empire under his command has even become a nightmare for the Interastral Peace Corporation. Aeon of Preservation: I never imagined the walls I built would be used to hold back humanity. Aeon of Destruction: Qin Huairen may not be my Emanator, but what he does is very much to my liking. Aeon of the Hunt: At this rate, it feels like the 1.9kReads8.9Score208Shelves
3. 503 重 Reborn as a Warlord in the Late Ming 重生明末当军阀 Village Hunk of the Galaxy星河村草Historical336k WordsCompleted The chaotic final years of the Ming dynasty. Chen Ke emerges out of nowhere, recruiting troops and reclaiming farmland, developing industry and commerce, building ships and casting cannons. He wages war across the north and south, ruling the seas in every direction. Is he a saint? He kills without batting an eye. Is he a demon? He also loves the people like his own children... Hong Taiji: Chen Ke, you villain! You slaughter my people and ruin my plans! Chen Ke: Huang Taiji, right back at you. Th 1.7kReads7.3Score100Shelves
4. 504 民 Republican Era: Rising to the Top from Second-in-Command of a Gang 民国：从帮派二把手开始做大做强 Classmate Xiaoming2小明同学2Historical249k WordsOngoing Blurb One: I transmigrated and became the second-in-command of a gang, but now the boss wants me to marry his daughter. What should I do? Accept, or accept? The story moves at a breakneck pace. The protagonist is ruthless and decisive, not a bleeding heart. The fake heroine is killed in Chapter Six. Blurb Two: I transmigrated to a world like the Republican era, where warlords fought each other and foreign powers bullied the country. Qin He awakened a Sign-In System and set out to revive the Drag —Reads5.3Score—Shelves
5. 505 汉 The Roar of the Hans Tiger 汉斯虎的怒吼 The World Returns to Unity天下重归Urban168k WordsOngoing Everything is left unsaid Novel Disclaimer Dear Readers, We sincerely thank you for your interest in and readership of this book. We hope you will carefully read the following disclaimer to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings or disputes. The content is entirely fictional: Everything in this book, including its characters, events, and locations, is fictional. Please do not directly compare it with real life or historical events, or assume that it refers to specific real people or events. 7Reads6.1Score—Shelves
6. 506 从 Rising to Power in Africa! 从黑洲开始崛起！ A Lollipop一根棒棒糖Urban367k WordsOngoing No female lead + no saintly do-gooder + independent development + urban power fantasy! Xing Fan transmigrates to a parallel-world Blue Star and binds himself to the "War King System!" He establishes his own mercenary force and technology company, then dominates the world in military and technological fields! Feature One: Spend a certain amount of money to recruit all kinds of talent! Feature Two: Spend a certain amount of money to obtain various resources, weapons, equipment, and technology. 1.2kReads8.4Score—Shelves
7. 507 融 Fuse with the Supreme Flame and Become the Shadow Leader 融合至尊火种，成为暗影领袖 Two Strokes, One Line两笔一划Anime Fanfiction502k WordsCompleted [Transformers + Special Mechanical Lifeforms + Mecha + Villain Protagonist + No Romance + Sci-Fi + War + Dark + Three-Name System] Chen Tianren transmigrates to a parallel-world Blue Star, where he is betrayed and dies full of hatred from the start. He swears to become a mighty being in the universe with no feelings. But there is always a way forward. By chance, he fuses with a Supreme-class Spark lost by Cybertron, becoming a Transformer and gaining a System. By completing the System's missions 5.5kReads9.2Score447Shelves
8. 508 星 Honkai: Star Rail: I Invent the Unknown and Scare the Gods to Tears 星穹铁道：我编造未知，吓哭诸神 Autumn Wind Enters Dreams秋风入梦Anime Fanfiction438k WordsCompleted [Honkai: Star Rail]+ [Foundation]+ [Aeons]+ [Great Old Ones] After transmigrating into the world of Honkai: Star Rail, Su Ye gained the ability to invent the unknown. From the start, he created indescribable creatures. The greater the commotion his invented creatures caused, the stronger his ability became! It all began with a strange sculpture that appeared in Herta Space Station. In Elio’s script, it was a peculiar little peanut statue that would kill anyone who looked away from it. Out in the 6.9kReads9.2Score573Shelves
9. 509 我 My Great Qin Empire 我的大秦帝国 Qin Alliance秦联盟Historical107k WordsCompleted System + cannons and battleships + conquest + naval warfare + decisive ruthlessness Lu Zihang transmigrated to a place called the Qin Kingdom, whose technology was roughly equivalent to that of the 1930s. The nations of this continent were locked in war, and their people were living in misery. Beyond their borders, other empires watched them like hungry wolves. See how Lu Zihang uses his sign-in System to unite all the nations and build a supreme Great Qin Empire. 684Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 510 开 A Bismarck Battleship from the Start: The Great Ming Empire's Sun Never Sets 开局俾斯麦战列舰，大明永不落日 Stewed Duck with Scallions炖煮大葱鸭Historical351k WordsOngoing 1644, the fall of the Ming dynasty. Zhu Cilang, the eldest son of the Chongzhen Emperor, is taken away by a palace eunuch and travels west by ship. Who could have guessed that someone aboard would discover his identity midway through the voyage and try to take him back to the Qing court to claim a reward? Just as Zhu Cilang thinks he's about to bite the dust, he suddenly awakens the [Take What You Want System]. Every day, he can randomly obtain technology, armies, people, food, and other things. 2Reads6.9Score—Shelves
11. 511 大 Smoke Rises Over the Desert: A Transmigrator's Love in a Chaotic Age 大漠狼烟起，穿越乱世情 Big Bowl of Worries大碗忧忧Historical673k WordsOngoing [No System + Multiple Romance Routes + History + Late Qing and Early Republic + Wuxia + Slow Burn + Side Plots] Zhao Kangyi is unexpectedly transported to a parallel world after a VR experience. Stranded in the northwest during the late Qing dynasty, he first works as a hired hand for a landowner. Then, after an unexpected forced marriage, he becomes a young marshal and is swept up in the revolutionary tide. “You’re saying my father is a governor-general, and my mother is Hong Xiuquan’s daughter 22Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist travels to a parallel world in the northwest at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. He is misunderstood by the daughter of a warlord and becomes himself in this world. They get married by chance. By chance, he helps the Tongmenghui succeed in their uprising. Later, he learns that he in this world is actually the son of the governor. It is still being serialized, please pay attention to it

12. 512 明 A Farming Diary from the Late Ming Dynasty 明末种田日记 Yangjiang Peony阳江牡丹Historical1.5M WordsCompleted At Greenwater Academy, Li Qi only wants to clear land and farm, making sure his people have enough to eat. But the dynasty is on the verge of collapse, and a chaotic age is coming. To keep civilization from being buried, he has no choice but to fight back. Li Qi clears land, farms, builds ships and factories, digs canals, and raises an army, all for the sake of protecting himself. 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Li Qi traveled to the late Ming Dynasty and was just a bandit in a small village in the south. At this time, the Qing soldiers came and the country was about to perish. Li Qi led the bandits to open up wasteland and farm, build reservoirs, go to sea to fish, and then led the fleet to the north to fight against the Qing soldiers and defend the country that was about to be destroyed.

13. 513 御 Flying Immortal on a Warship: I'm a Ship Cultivator in a Xuanhuan World 御舰飞仙：我在玄幻当舰修 South Wind Awaits an Old Friend南风等故人Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Overwhelming firepower] [Unmatched technology] [One heroine] [No brainless characters] A young captain arrives in this world of fantasy, bringing with him the Xihe, a warship that once ruled the seas of stars. No matter how you fly through the heavens or shatter mountains and rivers, even the arrogant cultivators must bow before the miracle known as “science.” Rift cannons, two-dimensional foils, light-particle strikes, black hole bombardments... Mechanical golden cores, electronic nascent soul 24.2kReads9.5Score2.5kShelves
14. 514 我 I Am a Submarine Commander 我是潜艇指挥官 ffadHistorical775k WordsCompleted U-49: the beginning of it all. The moment I opened my eyes, I was aboard this submarine. The crew worked in perfect order, unaware of what awaited them: forging a legend, or sinking to the bottom of the sea... 367Reads9.4Score—Shelves
15. 515 首 A Tycoon? I Want to Be a Warlord 首富？我要当军阀 Kai Li Er Ke凯利尔克Urban291k WordsOngoing Li Haoran was reborn in a parallel world as the son of Huaxia’s richest man. But this was an era of warlords and foreign powers running rampant. Without enough ability, even great wealth would make him no more than someone else’s wallet, and he would be nothing but a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Li Haoran became the one holding the knife. 475Reads6.5Score—Shelves
16. 516 我 I Use Firearms to Beat Up the Races of Another World 我用火器暴打异界各族 Night Whispers, Lotus in the Breeze夜语轻荷Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted In a world that uses Chinese language and characters, yet is home to strange races such as beastfolk and elves, see how Zhao Mu builds everything from scratch, inventing gunpowder, rifles, and cannons. Using firearms and artillery, he turns humanity, a people who were not especially powerful, into the continent’s strongest race, leads human armies in a conquest of the world, and uncovers the truth behind many ancient legends. 472Reads8.4Score—Shelves
17. 517 二 World War II: An Electromagnetic Catapult Aircraft Carrier from the Start 二战：开局一艘电磁弹射航空母舰 A Flower of Zhongzhi中治一枝花Historical140k WordsOngoing During a routine voyage, they suddenly transmigrate through time and space, arriving at the very frontier of their motherland’s maritime territory. One person shoulders the entire responsibility of protecting its coast and territorial waters, while the world trembles before weapons built with technology from a new era. —Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 518 不 The King of Britain 不列颠之王 Si Qian肆仟Historical1.3M WordsCompleted Lin Li wakes up in postwar Britain, having crossed into another world. No money? No problem. Raise oil prices by five points. No land? North America is the backyard. No people? Ever heard of specialized security forces? Watch Lin Li stir up the world and carve his path to becoming Britain's greatest ruler. 15.7kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves

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    This book is really beautiful.

19. 519 明 Late Ming Butcher: I Prolong China's Destiny by Three Hundred Years! 明末屠夫，我为华夏续运三百年！ Chen Wan尘万Historical1.3M WordsOngoing Tags: Ming Dynasty, unhinged video game player, blood-soaked power fantasy, rivers of blood, absolute lunatic [Host, Host, it's late, but it's finally here...] “Skip, skip! Skip all the plot and explanations! I have unlimited power as a player!” “I'm the fiercest, most badass, strongest one around, and I'm going to hack the whole world to pieces and watch rivers of blood flow!” He transmigrates to the late Ming Dynasty, when the country is in ruins and the land lies shattered. The Battle of Song —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 520 大 The Ming Dynasty's Greatest Industrialist 大明第一工业巨匠 Warm Person by the River江边人暖Historical807k WordsCompleted In the first year of the Hongwu era, a young man with a head full of science, technology, and down-to-earth experimentation transmigrates into the body of a beggar. Given a second life, he will use his modern perspective to help the Ming dynasty enter the Industrial Age a thousand years before the West! Local gentry block the way? Powerful clans stand in the way? Officials oppose him? Before the unstoppable tide of steel and machinery, every force that impedes progress will be tossed into the du 12.4kReads8.7Score744Shelves
21. 521 穿 Transmigrating into a Spy War: My Codename Is God of Wealth 穿越谍战，我的代号是财神 A Thousand Stars Like Fire千星如火Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [Espionage + Political Intrigue + Undercover Agent + Supply Trading + The Ultimate Power Fantasy = A Must-Read] Chen Yang, a disposable agent from the Fuxing Society's military training brigade, is ordered to infiltrate Shanghai and gather intelligence. By chance, he gets into a collaborationist Japanese agency and is put in charge of transportation. To better conceal his identity, Chen Yang puts the art of trading money and sex, perfected in a later era, to good use. He conspires with logist 2.3kReads9.3Score309Shelves
22. 522 谍 Espionage: From Shanghai's Little Beggar to the King of Spies 谍战：从上海滩小乞丐到特工之王 Old Li's Pistol老李的盒子炮Urban2.9M WordsCompleted Chen Shaoan’s soul transmigrates to old Shanghai, where he becomes a beggar scraping by. By chance, he saves a wounded woman, and ends up stumbling into the Military Statistics Bureau. With the Japanese invasion of China underway, Chen Shaoan uses his Role-Playing System to purge traitors, capture enemy moles alive, and assassinate senior Japanese officers, becoming a world-renowned king of spies. 7.9kReads8.7Score717Shelves
23. 523 让 You Were Supposed to Become a Jianghu Boss, So How Did You End Up a Warlord? 让你当江湖大佬，你成了军阀？ Zoo Superstar动物园巨星Urban2.3M WordsCompleted (Republican era + warlords + martial world + high-octane action + slow burn!) In the seventeenth year of the Republic, the land of Guanzhong stretched for a thousand miles, scorched and barren, with not a single grain to harvest. A desperate man trudged across the cracked earth. When the Luo ran dry, the Xia fell; when the Yellow River ran dry, the Shang fell. Mountains collapsing and rivers drying up were omens of a dynasty's demise. Soldiers gone rogue, bandits, locusts. Zhao Ming looked up at 7.3kReads8.0Score348Shelves

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    Warlord, not bad.

24. 524 四 Siheyuan: Back to 1950, I Take Silly Zhu into the Army 四合院：重回50，带傻柱从军 Make Some Money搞点钱Male-Channel Fanfiction636k WordsCompleted Wang Yongqiang had spent half his life accomplishing nothing. Then he transmigrates back to the 1950s, in the midst of the War to Resist America and Aid Korea. To his surprise, he finds himself in a den of beasts. Yi Zhonghai, the moral paragon; Jia Zhangshi, the necromancer; Yan Bugui, the penny-pinching schemer. How can he fight them? Forget it! Given a new lease on life, Wang Yongqiang wants to make the most of it and live with his head held high. Why should a man not take up his sword and re 20Reads9.2Score—Shelves
25. 525 神 The Rise of the Holy Empire 神圣帝国缘起 Mysterious Fish in the Sky玄鱼在天Sci-Fi & Apocalypse50k WordsOngoing History has an astonishing way of repeating itself. The rise and fall of every dynasty is only a tiny echo in the boundless river of time, with neither beginning nor end. After the purges, the empire's growing strength was only a matter of appearances. There were border crises, factional rivalries at home, and contests of both intelligence and strength. Special operations on the frontier played out against the shifting tides of history, revealing people's mercurial natures or their steadfastness 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first one is my own, it's worthy of being a giant gun. The second one is War of Resistance, it's very enjoyable in the later stages.

26. 526 抗 War of Resistance: I Can Grant Traits to My Soldiers 抗战：我能赋予小兵词条 Write It into Zhang落笔成張Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Traits] + [Sign-In] + [Steamrolling] (Already commanding five groups and 150,000 troops, so dive right in.) After transmigrating to the War of Resistance era, Qin Feng becomes a Jin-Sui Army regiment commander. At the same time, he activates the Sign-In Trait System. As long as he signs in every day, he gets trait rewards that can be bestowed upon his officers and soldiers. [Tiger General: Greatly improves aircraft handling and equipment development, but increases the chance of disobeying o 19.7kReads8.9Score880Shelves
27. 527 我 I Build an Aircraft Carrier in Great Ming 我在大明造航母 Dreaming Back to Ancient Times梦回古代Historical2.5M WordsCompleted What should you do when you return to the Ming Dynasty just before the Jiading Massacre? Don’t panic, I have a super technology System. First, make a flintlock for self-defense, then build a few thousand to conquer the realm. The more land and people you rule, the more advanced technology you can create, until you’ve built an aircraft carrier and the whole world kneels before the Ming. 459Reads8.3Score182Shelves

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    Battleships and cannons are a man's romance.

28. 528 大 Great Ming: I'm the Richest Man in the World 大明：全球我最富 Qi Xi期羲Historical1.7M WordsCompleted Zhu Yijun: “What? You think you can bully me because I’m young? Qi Jiguang, chop that dog of an official down. Hai Rui, give his family fortune a thorough investigation...” Zhu Lei, an astronaut who somehow ended up in the Ming dynasty, can barely contain his delight at finding himself surrounded by a host of capable ministers: Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Hai Rui, Zhang Siwei, Wang Xijue, Wang Jiaping, Shen Shixing, and Gao Yi. And among the generals: Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Li Chengliang, Liu Xian, 3.5kReads8.5Score203Shelves
29. 529 抗 War of Resistance: A Third-Line Arsenal Helps Me Build an Empire 抗战：三线兵工厂助我创霸业 Gossiping Old Yi吃瓜老羿Historical82k WordsOngoing After earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Longguo’s top university, Li Yi, a retired special forces king of soldiers, made the most of some rare free time by enjoying a meal of Linzi skewers. While touring the site of a local small third-line arms factory, he accidentally discovered a golden ring, which sent him transmigrating to the parallel world of Xiaguo, just before World War I. Using the supplies and technology provided by the ring, as well as the small third-line arms —Reads—Score—Shelves

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