Looking for High-Quality Historical Fiction. No Mindless Power Trips or Brain-Dead Plotting 求高质量历史文，不要无脑爽文，降智的也不要来
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Song Embers, Azure Clouds: The White-Robed Hidden Chancellor 宋烬青云：白衣隐相
“We must follow Your Majesty, keep our honor, and die!” A hundred thousand loyal souls are swept away by the waves. Where can this solitary grief find a voice? What? It’s 1276? Lin’an is about to fall? Empress Dowager Xie and Emperor Gong of Song have surrendered? Lu Xiufu is my father? There may still be time to save everything!
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- 502 Late Ming: Becoming Emperor Was Never My Wish 明末：称帝非我愿 [No System + No Cheat Abilities + Ming Dynasty + Rebellion] Wang San, worn down by society and working grueling 24/7 shifts, becomes another Wang San, a villager in Baishui County, Shaanxi, near the end of the Ming dynasty. A terrible famine strikes, and people resort to eating one another. Wang San is frail and sickly, on the verge of becoming someone else’s meal, when his brother Wang Er comes charging back and saves him. As Wang San leaves with Wang Er, he discovers that his brother is well-c 5.8kReads8.7Score343Shelves
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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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Forgotten for a Thousand Years, I Wait for You in the Ancient City 被遗忘千年，我在古城等你
After the Qin conquered the Chu capital, King Fuchu of Chu wandered the land around Shouchun, never aging or dying for a thousand years... The flames in his eyes slowly faded, and Fuchu gradually came back to his senses. Two thousand two hundred and forty-eight years had passed. He had dragged his undying body through them all, moving from despair and pain at first to acceptance in the present. Every flower and blade of grass has its destiny. Perhaps his own fate was to witness the changes of hi
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My Dad Is Su Dongpo, My Wife Is Li Qingzhao, and My Bro Is Emperor Huizong 老爹苏东坡老婆李清照老铁宋徽宗
Tags: No System, not a mindless power fantasy, meticulous historical research, slow burn, personal growth, one heroine An utterly ordinary art student transmigrates as Su Dun, the prematurely deceased youngest son of the legendary Su Dongpo. A quick calculation tells him When his father goes to Huizhou to eat lychees, he’ll be eleven. When his father goes to Hainan Island to eat clams, he’ll be fourteen. When his father is pardoned and dies in Changzhou, he’ll be seventeen. When Cai Jing erects
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Ode to Jiangning 江宁赋
Xie Yuan, courtesy name Huiliu, was the master of Jigu Pavilion, known as the Old Man Baoweng, the second son of the Xie family, a fisherman on the Jushui River, and a Daoist of the town. He was from Changguang Commandery, in what is now Qingzhou, Shandong Province. A thinker, classicist, historian, bibliographer, and book collector during the fictional period between the Song and Liang dynasties. This is a historical political-strategy novel. The protagonist has some fictionalized traits, but i
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- 507 My Father Is Wei Zhongxian! 家父魏忠贤！ A manhua adaptation of the novel with the same title, Nine Thousand Years at the End of the Ming Dynasty, is now available! Good news: I transmigrated, and my father is a powerful minister. Bad news: My father is Wei Zhongxian, and I'm in the castration room with my pants already off! What a twist: The son of the Ming Dynasty's most ruthless villain is actually a “fake eunuch” who hasn't been cut yet? Chongzhen takes the throne and wants to settle old scores? Lin Yuan raises an eyebrow. “Dad, i 17.3kReads8.4Score2.2kShelves
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The Tsundere Pontiff: From the Start, I Had Prussia in the Palm of My Hand 傲娇法皇：开局拿捏普鲁士
This is the best of times, and the worst of times. When Europe’s brilliance shines across the world, no one sees the blood and tears of countless people hidden behind it. The moment we turn our gaze to the Rhine, to that land that has never truly bowed to anyone, the war has already begun. Just last night, Lin Xingyue was a history teacher. This morning, she has become the “puppet empress” of France, a “pawn” of the Bonapartists. But a storm is coming. The clouds of the Franco-Prussian War alre
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I Went Undercover in the Qing Dynasty and Ended Up on the Dragon Throne 我在大清当卧底，最终坐上了龙椅
After transmigrating as Yilgenjueluo Xilun, a company commander of the Plain White Banner stationed in western Guangxi, Wei Han gazes at the Manchu face in the mirror and laughs. Outwardly, he serves Ao Bai loyally, rising step by step by crushing the “White Lotus Sect.” In secret, he maneuvers among the emperor's faction, the Three Feudatories, and anti-Qing forces. Every step hides a deadly threat, every word a trap. In this mire of Manchu aristocrats and Han Chinese traitors, he treads cautio
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As an Envoy of Han, My Goal Is to Die in Every Way Imaginable 身为汉使，我的目标是花样作死
Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever rivers and streams reach, all is Han territory. To seal the wolf's retreat at Mount Langjuxu and carve an inscription on Mount Yanran: those are the ultimate achievements and glory of a military general. To open the Silk Road and spread our influence to distant lands: that is the ultimate goal and romance of people like us.
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- 511 With My Blood, I’ll Save These Mountains and Rivers 我以我血挽山河 [Not a Power Fantasy + Slow Burn + Multiple Storylines + No Golden Finger + Passionate Conquest of the Song] At the end of the Northern Song dynasty, Bianjing was under siege, and the realm was falling into enemy hands. After his soul traveled nine hundred years through time, Gu Yuan found himself on the snowy plains outside Bianjing, where he and a band of fleeing soldiers happened to rescue the reborn Princess Zhao Yingluo. Through careful planning at every turn, he rose to become the era’s gr 32.8kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 512 From the Start, I Take Yang Guifei by Force, Then Bring Peace to the Tang Dynasty 开局强纳杨贵妃，还给大唐太平年 No System. Real court intrigue. Meticulously researched. Faced with the three-way struggle between Li Longji, Li Heng, and Li Chu, and a value system already beginning to collapse, how will Li Tan, after transmigrating, restore the glory of the Tang Dynasty, step by step? In real history, no one was an NPC. Everyone chose the option that served their own interests best. A genuinely satisfying story told with historical realism. The Xuanwu Gate succession tradition has found its most outstanding 82.2kReads8.2Score10.8kShelves
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From the Start with Just a Bowl, Old Zhu Forces Me to Join the Embroidered Guard 开局一个碗，老朱逼我当锦衣卫
[Hongwu-era Ming Dynasty × transmigration × nonstop comedy × golden finger broken from the start] Autumn of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, outside Chaoyang Gate in Yingtian Prefecture. A beggar with no household registration, no travel permit, and no record in the census kneels in front of the crown prince's carriage, holding a chipped, broken bowl above his head with both hands. "Your Majesty, I can save the Crown Prince's grandson!" Swords flash from their sheaths, and blades press against his
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I Pulled Chongzhen Down from the Noose Mid-Hanging 崇祯上吊到一半，被我薅下来了
[No System · Gritty late Ming setting · Redemption between ruler and subject · Not a power fantasy] On Coal Hill, Chongzhen has just put his neck in the noose. A pair of hands grabs him by the collar. “Come with me. No arguments.” A battered frontier soldier. A fallen emperor. As for saving the empire, wiping out the rebels, and repelling the Manchus, those are pretty words for the history books. I’m no hero. I’ve got nothing but this worthless life. In a world that turns people into beasts, som
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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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- 516 The Ming Dynasty Reborn: At Three Years Old, I Ascend the Throne and Become Emperor 大明重启：年方三岁，登基称帝 The heavens collapse and the earth splits, while fate is turned upside down. Can a modern soul save the empire as the fires of late Ming China rage? In the sixth year of the Tianqi era, the Wang Gongchang explosion tears open the sky, and history takes a new turn. Zhu Guangming's soul transmigrates into Zhu Cijiong, the infant son of the Tianqi Emperor, only to discover that he is standing on the Ming dynasty's last drifting piece of ice... At seven months, he speaks to his father. At one, he wr 25.5kReads8.3Score2.1kShelves
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Jingtai of Great Ming: Brother, I Studied in the Modern Era 大明景泰：皇兄，我在现代留过学
[Ming Dynasty + No System + Industrial Revolution + Commercial Empire + Modern Weapons + Business Empire Management] Standing before you is Zhu Qiyu: a bachelor's degree holder in both science and engineering, heir to a Fortune 500 conglomerate, a man who has driven tanks and fired cannons, and a PhD in archaeology... “Zhu Qizhen, didn't expect this, did you? I'm a student abroad just like you, except I came back from the modern age.” “Little Empress Dowager Sun, you dare stand in my way? Do you
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Emperor Wu of Han: This Transmigrator Has Some Nerve 汉武帝：这个穿越者太敢说
The good news: He transmigrated to the Han Dynasty with a head full of knowledge and met Huo Qubing, the Marquis of Champion. The bad news: He landed on a battlefield, where a Han army was about to be ambushed and wiped out by the Xiongnu, while its commanding general was preparing to flee. After struggling with the decision, Lu Ming chose to reveal that he was a transmigrator and help General Wei Qing turn the ambush around and wipe out the Xiongnu. Emperor Wu of Han: How can you prove you’re a
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Zombie Apocalypse: Before the Dawn 末日丧尸传之黎明之前
Complete, currently revising the entire novel. Volume Four focuses on the military, so you can start there. Slow-paced, ensemble cast, zombie novel, military-focused. Not a power fantasy. No supernatural powers, transmigration, rebirth, or golden fingers! Read at your own risk!! One virus, one disaster. The story of a group of ordinary people, told from the perspective of one ordinary person. As they change and grow, with their homeland at stake and their people in peril, it is also an age that
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Sui-Tang: How I Kept Li Shimin Spinning in Circles 隋唐：把李世民耍的团团转转那些
[Late Sui power struggle + calculating tactics + no mindless wish fulfillment + one heroine + slow pace] “Everyone tells me that whoever controls Guanzhong controls the realm, and that siding with Li Shimin is a guaranteed win? Well, I refuse! Reincarnated as a dying foot soldier, I head to Hebei to make a spectacle of myself. Dou Wenyuan suspects me, Li Mi keeps me at arm's length, and Li Yuan laughs that a donkey must have kicked my brains in. But how could they know I've played through this c
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I Am the Immortal of History! 我是历史长生仙！
Ever since Zhuanxu severed the connection between Heaven and Earth, spiritual energy has all but vanished, ushering in the Age of Declining Dharma. Xiao Zhang transmigrates to the end of the Qin dynasty and becomes Xiao He's younger brother, relying on a mysterious golden cicada to absorb and release spiritual energy. He walks quietly through the river of history. He is Yuanshi, the Martial Ancestor, and the Dao Ancestor, inheriting the path to immortality from those before him and opening the w
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- 522 I, the Ultimate Schemer: The Empress Calls Me a Living Yama 我，最强毒士，女帝直呼活阎王 [Search Tomato to watch the short drama: The Third Greatest Stratagem of All Time] Gao Yang transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty just as the Empress ascended the throne and began recruiting talent from across the land. So he volunteered himself as a poison strategist! The Empress: “Suppose you personally wiped out your enemy's entire family. As you looked at the bodies scattered everywhere, you suddenly realized there was still a child in the house. What would you do?” Gao Yang: “I'd say, ‘Re 386.2kReads9.2Score32.8kShelves
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I Watch Short Videos, and the Rulers of the Six States Lose It 我刷短视频，六国君主破防
Heard you could make money watching short videos, so Xia Tian immediately downloaded Douyin Lite. But he had no idea that the videos he watched could connect to ancient times. He watches [The Legacy of Six Generations]. Duke Xiao of Qin: “Ying Si has declared himself king? I thought he was audacious, but he’s even more audacious than I imagined.” King of Wei: “I can’t believe it. Three generations of Qin prime ministers all came from Wei?” He watches [The Great Tang Chat Group]. Li Er: “He’s got
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Three Kingdoms: I Take Fan Shi as My Wife from the Start, Leaving Liu Bei Stunned 三国：开局纳樊氏，刘备懵了
Tags: from the start, transmigration, wife, invincible, villain, Zhao Yun, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, war, history, ancient times, multiple heroines, emperor After transmigrating to the end of the Han dynasty, he became Zhao Zilong of Changshan. He thought he’d spend his whole life serving as Liu Bei’s bodyguard. Who knew that from the start, he’d be sent to take over Guiyang? When Governor Zhao Fan offered him his beautiful widowed sister-in-law, Zhao Yun accepted without hesitation. You want to use
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Ancestor! You're Choosing Consorts? A History Cheat Is Here! 祖宗诶！选妃呢？历史作弊器来喽
If you could transmigrate through time and change history, what would you do? "I'd tell the Yongzheng Emperor to stop picking consorts! The West was industrializing at the same time. If he'd worked harder, gotten his act together, and focused more on science, we'd be the ones working four days on, three days off by now!" "If I could transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty, I'd make sure Zhu Qizhen never took the throne. Then maybe the Ming wouldn't have fallen! Long live the Ming for a thousand gener
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- 526 Three Kingdoms: I Grew Stronger by Snatching Da Qiao from the Start 三国：从截胡大乔开始变强 Liu Yu transmigrated to the end of the Han dynasty, in the Three Kingdoms era, only to become a remnant of the Yellow Turbans?! A disastrous start, but luckily he awakened the Snatching System! “Ding! Congratulations, Host! You successfully snatched Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and received the skill [Overlord's Valor] and weapon [Yu Wang Spear]!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host! You successfully snatched Lü Bu and received the skill [Unrivaled Heavenly Demon]!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host! You successfull 462Reads6.9Score107Shelves
- 527 The System Returns With a Sky Screen, and History Goes Off the Rails 系统携天幕归来，历史画风崩了 [System + livestream + absurd comedy + historical fantasy] After Su Mingxi completes three missions with the System, she returns to the modern day with fifty million yuan and a face of breathtaking beauty. She thinks she can lie flat and live like a lazy fish, but the System’s little Starry unexpectedly returns with an upgrade and adds a “Myriad Realms Sky Screen Livestream” feature: Every short video she watches is broadcast simultaneously across every dynasty! And so Ying Zheng comes acros 21.9kReads7.7Score670Shelves
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The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母
[A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw
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- 529 History Is So Interesting 历史这么有意思 The English word for history is “history.” Split it apart, and you get “Hi, Story.” Through stories, explore the joys and sorrows of five thousand years of Chinese civilization. How do you tell a good story? How do you bring history to life? ★ Characters: Find the people whose actions alone shook generations to come, and put them at the center of the story. We are moved by history first and foremost because we are moved by them; ★ Plot: Unearth the major historical events behind each figure, tra 912Reads9.4Score229Shelves
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Zhang Ming Explains History: The Illusions and Realities of a Great Nation 张鸣说历史：大国的虚与实
In this collection of essays, Zhang Ming draws not on major events or weighty topics, but on the human relationships and social customs found in amusing anecdotes. Braids, roasted dogs, firecrackers, foreigners’ knees, and the secrets of the Boxers all become subjects in this book. At first glance, they seem like trivial matters, too small to make it into the grand book of history, yet the author finds profound questions lurking in them. Through these questions, he reveals an alternative truth a
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Great Ming: Why Has the Crown Prince Rebelled! 大明：太子何故造反！
He transmigrates as Zhu Cilang, the last Crown Prince of the Great Ming. But he arrives in the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign. In March of that year, Li Zicheng will enter Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor will hang himself, and Zhu Cilang, as Crown Prince, will be handed over to Li Zicheng by his own maternal grandfather before ultimately being executed. Unwilling to sit back and await his fate, Zhu Cilang turns to a scorched-earth approach and sets out to restore the Great Ming. He upend
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- 532 The Emperor's Hegemony in Great Ming 帝霸大明 In the late Ming Dynasty, natural disasters struck one after another and the government was corrupt. After waking up as Zhu Youxiao during the final years of the Wanli Emperor's reign, he faced the Three Major Cases of the late Ming and the disastrous defeat at Sarhu. Faced with such a complicated situation, how will this young emperor turn things around? 18kReads8.9Score831Shelves
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Touring Ancient Times with an Arsenal 带着军火逛古代
(Alternate history + multiple heroines + pocket dimension + modern weapons + conquest + unlimited supplies) In a chaotic age of famine, the harvest fails and people resort to eating their own children. I can travel between two worlds and have unlimited supplies and weapons. Watch me save the world and build a paradise where people can live in peace and prosperity.
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Transmigrating to the Three Kingdoms and Unifying the World 穿越三国后一统天下
This isn’t a power fantasy, and there’s no golden finger. The protagonist is just an ordinary person. The beginning may seem a little uneventful, but the later parts are guaranteed to be exciting. The story doesn’t revolve around the protagonist alone. Instead, through his eyes, it aims to portray a different Three Kingdoms era. Modern young man Chen Mo is accidentally swept into the chaos of the late Han dynasty in the seventh year of Guanghe, and from the start he is a refugee. Armed with fore
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- 535 I Took a Super Mall on a Tour of Ancient Times 带着超级商场逛古代 [Print edition published] [Complete] [Alternate History + Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + Modern Weapons + Power Fantasy + Farming + Lighthearted Comedy + Daily Life] No money? I can pull out anything from my pocket dimension and live off it for the rest of my life. You’re a grandmaster? Let’s see how many bullets you can withstand. Want to get stronger? I just need a sip of water from my pocket dimension. I punish thugs, kill villains, fleece the Japanese, and take on the West. Food deliver 33.2kReads8.9Score2.9kShelves
- 536 Saving the Great Ming, Starting with a Shamanic Ritual! 拯救大明，从跳大神开始！ Chen Lixun transmigrates to Chenjiabao, in the Right Guard of Yanshan, in the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign. After ruling for seventeen years and resisting a Qing army of a hundred thousand, the Chongzhen Emperor has already hanged himself from a branch in the southeast! The Battle of Yipianshi is over, and Li Zicheng has fled to Shanxi. The Qing demons are on their way, and only three days remain before Dorgon reaches Beijing. To survive in these chaotic times, Chen Lixun decides to s 1.4kReads8.6Score100Shelves
- 537 Sima Yi, the Man Who Plotted to Take the Han 谋汉者，司马懿也 A streak of crimson tears through the night, ushering in the bloodiest age of chaos at the end of the Han dynasty and awakening two peerless souls. What happens when an ultimate schemer who knows how history unfolds encounters a Han heir who never existed in history? At this very moment, the course of history is violently thrown off track! “I am a kinsman of the Han imperial house. The blood of the Flame Han still runs through my veins!” “With me here, the Han dynasty will not fall, and its real 57Reads—Score109Shelves
- 538 Saving the Qin Dynasty: Become a King Who Rules Heaven and Earth 拯救大秦：做主宰乾坤的王 A stunt double is accidentally electrocuted and wakes up in the Great Qin dynasty as Fusu. At court, powerful eunuchs and treacherous ministers persecute him; in the martial world, practitioners of yin-yang arts hunt him down. Within the empire, remnants of the Six States are stirring, while beyond its borders, the Xiongnu cavalry watches like a pack of hungry wolves. Can Fusu escape these dangers? And how will he save Great Qin? 307Reads9.5Score113Shelves
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Three Kingdoms: Starting with the Seven-Star Lamp Still Burning 三国：从七星灯没有灭开始
At Wuzhang Plains, Wei Yan never entered the command tent! The Chancellor had borrowed twelve years of life, and along with those twelve years came a soul from the modern world. What changes will this soul, now inhabiting Liu Shan, bring to the Han dynasty?
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From the Start, the Sky Screen Delivers a Scathing Review of the First Emperor: His Merits and Faults Spark a Huge Debate 开局天幕锐评秦始皇：功过吵翻天
When a rant video from a rented apartment collided with a sky screen spanning past and present, emperors and commoners across the land were left dumbfounded. “Qin Shi Huang was a benevolent ruler? Do the bones beneath the Great Wall agree?” “Standardizing writing and measurements was a great achievement, but a third of the people were conscripted for labor. How is that benevolent?” The First Emperor slammed the table and roared. Liu Bang laughed and grumbled, “I knew he was a troublemaker.” Li S
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My Wife Is Always Trying to Kill Me 我家娘子总想弄死我
“Gu Chuan, are you plotting a rebellion?!” “Your Majesty, I’ve been wronged!” “Then why are the commander of the Xuanyue Army, the White Lotus Sect’s Holy Maiden, the Shadow Guards, the Queen of Jialan, and the Daoist Sect’s itinerant cultivator all with you?!” Gu Chuan swears that all he wanted at first was to lie flat. But the longer he lay low, the more people gathered around him. He had no choice but to mount his horse and take up arms to bring peace to the land! In the first year of the Wuh
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- 542 Wait, I Won the Poetry Contest, and You Want Me to Marry Into Your Family? 啥，诗会中魁首，你让我入赘？ Jiang Han transmigrated, and originally only wanted to fill his stomach. By a twist of fate, he won a poetry competition to choose a husband and became the son-in-law of the eldest daughter of the Ningguo Mansion. Rumor had it that the eldest daughter of the Ningguo Mansion was eight feet tall, with an eight-foot waist, and was a genuine she-devil. Jiang Han only wanted to call off the engagement and run away! But he never expected that his wife would be no ordinary woman! When Qin Muqing split 5kReads8.5Score298Shelves
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Longevity: I Was Picked Up by Xu Da in the Ming Dynasty 长生：我在大明被徐达捡回家
[Longevity] [Healing] [Feel-good power fantasy] In the fifth year of the Hongwu reign, Yang Xuan met Xu Da, who had returned from a failed northern campaign. To fill his belly, Yang Xuan agreed to become Xu Da’s disciple, beginning his years in the Great Ming dynasty. He lived through the bloodshed of the Hongwu era, witnessed the nations paying court during the Yongle era, and saw the prosperity of the Ren and Xuan reigns. He was Zhu Biao’s close friend and confidant. He was the person Zhu Di t
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Historical Rankings: Emperors of Every Dynasty Are Getting Competitive 历史排行榜，万朝皇帝卷起来了
[Video edits + live broadcasts across the dynasties + Chinese history] Su Zhi is just an ordinary short-video creator, until one day he clicks on a small website. Any video posted there can be seen by people from every dynasty in parallel worlds. Not only can he earn rewards for likes, he can also receive tips from the big shots. Half-skeptical, Su Zhi uploads his painstakingly produced video, “A Ranking of the Ten Greatest Emperors in History.” The emperors are thrown into an uproar. Qin Shi Hu
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The Emperor's Throne Goes Around, and Today It's My Turn 皇帝轮流做，今天该到我了
[Get stronger through killing + transmigration + System + semi-invincible protagonist + villain protagonist + no female lead + arrogant + rebellion + infinite flow] After transmigrating to a cultivation world, Lin Feng became a centurion in the Tang Dynasty, with more than fifty soldiers under his command. He had barely transmigrated, and before he could even think, an enemy arrow pierced his ear. Was Lin Feng going to let them get away with that? He immediately ordered his soldiers to charge th
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A Lowly County Office Clerk with Kids at Home and No Rice to Cook 穿成县衙小吏，家有儿女等米下锅
[A clerk is no official, and the desk is a mountain of blades] [No errors in the ledger, every stroke of the brush decides joy and sorrow] The male lead had only just transmigrated when someone cracked him over the back of the head. After missing work for three days, he nearly got struck off the rolls. His father thought he was saddled with two useless dependents. His older brother thought he was too inflexible to make money. His fourth younger brother feared his lowly clerk's status would tarni
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Chongzhen: The Ming Dynasty Will Set the World Order 崇祯：世界秩序大明来定
[No System, no harem, meticulous historical research, hard-core technical details, solo transmigration to the late Ming dynasty.] After transmigrating into the body of the Chongzhen Emperor, the fate awaiting him is no longer death on Coal Hill. Instead, he will forge a new realm from steel and smokeless gunpowder. The Westerners’ mighty ships and cannons? Against breech-loading guns with a range of ten li, capable of piercing armor and shattering ships, they are nothing but rotten wood waiting
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Dreams Entrusted to the Realm: From Foot Soldier to Pillar of Peace 山河寄梦：从义军小兵到太平基石
After accidentally transmigrating to Shandong, under Jin rule during the Southern Song, programmer Shen Zhi seems to have neither a golden finger nor a System. But what he does have is a sincere heart and the resolve to protect others. He joins the rebel army, fights the Jin, swears brotherhood with Xin Qiji, and travels far across the grasslands, watching Temujin grow up. Returning to the Central Plains, he enters the imperial court and navigates the treacherous divide between power struggles a
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- 549 Li Chengqian, Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty: Reincarnation Through the Ages 大唐太子李承乾之宿世轮回 This is not a wish-fulfillment story. Read with caution if that’s not your thing! If you don’t like it, don’t read it! After enduring a thousand years of reincarnation, Li Chengqian unexpectedly returned to the tenth year of the Zhenguan era. How will he change his fate in this life? 7.7kReads8.4Score531Shelves
- 550 Great Tang: Li Shimin Kidnapped Me to Be His Grandson from the Start 大唐：开局被李世民拐去当孙子 In the eighteenth year of the Zhenguan era, Li Jue, who transmigrated into the son of Li Chengqian, the disgraced Crown Prince, secretly escapes from Qianzhou and returns to the Chang’an he has always dreamed of. But as Li Jue strolls along the bustling Zhuque Avenue, he suddenly bumps into an old man. From then on, the old man sticks to him every day, teaching him to ride horses one moment and shoot arrows the next. He’s always making grand promises, too, saying he’ll leave his family fortune t 1.6kReads8.4Score278Shelves
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