Historical Novels with Literary Merit and Beautiful Prose 历史类，文学，文笔好的小说
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- 51 Bloodstains in the Neighborhood 小区血痕 Bloodstains in the Residential Compound —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 His Majesty Wants Me to Tutor the Crown Prince 陛下让我当太子师 His Majesty Wants Me to Be the Crown Prince's Tutor 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Legend of the Condor Heroes: Winds Rise in Xiangyang 射雕之风起襄阳 The Legend of the Condor Heroes: Winds Rise in Xiangyang 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Secret in the Chess Game 象棋局中秘 Secrets of the Chessboard 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Paper Figure in the Hallway 楼道里的纸人 The Paper Figure in the Hallway —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Tenant Farmer I Mistreated Became the Top Scholar 我作践过的佃农成了新科状元 The Tenant Farmer I Once Mistreated Became the Top Scholar —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 My Mute Older Sister 哑女姐姐 My Mute Older Sister —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Good-for-Nothing Immortal Attendant Strikes Back 废柴仙侍的反杀 The Good-for-Nothing Immortal Attendant Strikes Back —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 A Chance Encounter at the Bridal Shop 婚纱店的偶遇 A Chance Encounter at the Bridal Shop 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 I Have Hyperthymesia 得了超忆症 I Developed Hyperthymesia —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 The Winds Rise in Anqing 风起安庆 When the Wind Rises in Anqing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 The Legend of Murong Fu: The Swallow Takes Flight Across the Martial World 慕容复传:燕起江湖 The Story of Murong Fu: The Swallow Takes Flight Across the Jianghu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Forget Your Sorrows 忘愁 Forget Your Sorrows —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Dugu Qiubai: The Pinnacle of the Sword Dao 独孤求败:剑道巅峰 Dugu Qiubai: The Pinnacle of the Sword Dao 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Every Bloom Has Its Season 璀璨花期终有时 Even the Most Brilliant Blooming Season Must End —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Defying Fate Through Nine Lifetimes 九世逆命 Defying Fate Through Nine Lifetimes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Descendant of the Yue Clan 岳氏后人 Descendant of the Yue Clan —Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Strategy for Realm and Rivers: Chronicles of Court and Jianghu 山河策【庙堂江湖录】
[Peerless Heir] [Jianghu and Court] [Blood-and-Iron Warfare] [Political Intrigue and Wits] [Alternate History] [Chivalry and Tenderness] [No Transmigration] [No Golden Finger] The Dingbian Prince’s household is wiped out. Ten-year-old heir Ling Canglan narrowly escapes. After years in hiding, he makes his name in a single stroke. He studies both literature and martial arts, and grows into a man of great talent. Faced with the enmity of his country and the hatred of his family, he joins the army
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I’m Just a Web Novelist, So How Did I Become a Literary Great? 我就一写网文的，怎么成文豪了
[Parallel World + Single Female Lead + Coming of Age] “Recently, Mr. Luo Ji, one of only two people in Hua Kingdom to win the world's highest honor in science fiction, released his memoir of his friendship with literary giant Gu Yuan. He admitted that it was the most legendary and controversial friendship of his life...” “Because Gu Yuan made him the protagonist of one of his books, the world remembers him as the sword-wielder who ushered in the Deterrence Era, rather than as a world-class maste
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- 70 The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Metaphysics Prodigy Tells Her Top-Tier Star Scumbag Dad to Get Lost 玄学大佬三岁半，顶流渣爹靠边站 [Raising a Child + Beloved by All + Metaphysics + Showbiz + Wealthy Family + Livestreaming] The three-and-a-half-year-old founder of the Daoist sect finally ascends to immortality. But when she opens her eyes again, she has become the little blood bag of the lucky heroine in a story where everyone dotes on her. The little founder makes a run for it on the spot to find her biological father, throwing her arms around a certain top-tier star in the middle of an interview. “Daddy, Niannian missed yo 20.8kReads8.9Score3.5k14d adds
- 71 Quick Transmigration: The Vicious Fiancée Becomes Everyone’s Dream Girl 快穿：恶毒未婚妻成了万人迷 [Print edition signed] [Quick transmigration + mildly irresistible heroine + love at first sight + sweet romance + one-on-one + both leads are virgins + face-slapping] The main story is complete; bonus chapters are being updated. In every clichéd melodrama, once the male and female leads fall in love, the male lead’s perfectly legitimate fiancée is usually reduced to a vicious supporting character. She’s obsessed with him, jealous, and willing to do anything. In the end, everyone turns against 80.5kReads8.4Score5.2k14d adds
- 72 How Could Anyone Resist Her? 怎敌她动人 [Physical book goes on sale September 19 at 7:30 p.m.] [Reborn in school + healing + secret crush from the male lead + both leads have no past relationships, happy ending] Bright, charming sweetheart x obsessive, restrained man * In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Jiqing was refined and aloof, a dazzling new elite from a wealthy family and a self-made miracle who had risen from poverty. Su Xia was unbelievably lucky to marry him at her most desperate. Only Su Xia knew that Xu Jiqing was a madman. She 194.3kReads9.5Score28.7k14d adds
- 73 I Just Chopped Down a Tree, So How Did It Become World-Ending? 我就砍个树，怎么灭世级了 To earn tuition, medical, and living expenses for her two younger sisters, Lin Xia has done every kind of job imaginable. Hauling corpses at a crematorium, spending the night in haunted houses, retrieving bodies from the Yellow River... This time, for a monthly salary of thirty thousand, he came to the Great Forest Company to work as a lumberjack, venturing deep into the mountains alone to cut trees. There was just something strange about this place. Tree species he had never seen before, beasts 37.2kReads8.4Score2.6k14d adds
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The Guanshan Pact 关山契
On the western frontier, yellow sands bury the dead, and honor is as fragile as paper. The young Zhao Tianhao was merely a merchant’s son from Ping Wharf. With a heart full of sincerity, he kept his contracts, protected his family business, and brought peace to his neighbors. Yet the crushing might of the war-torn age destroyed his household, driving him to abandon trade and take up arms. He entered the death camp, managed military rations, trained a corps of death-defying soldiers, and defended
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Jialan in the Misty Rain: The Twilight of Northern Wei 伽蓝烟雨，北魏的黄昏
Why Does Listening to “Song of Chile” Bring Me to Tears? Watch Gao Wang rise from an impoverished family that couldn’t afford even a horse to become a powerful minister of Northern Wei, only to fail to keep Northern Wei’s last emperor, Yuan Xiu, from leaving. Northern Wei splits into Eastern Wei and Western Wei. He tries to destroy Yuwen Tai of Western Wei, and the two clash five times with victories on both sides, until Gao Wang is finally defeated beneath the walls of Yubi City. His life was f
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The Late Ming Trilogy 明末三部曲
This is a late-Ming historical epic told primarily from the perspective of the Daxi Army and the peasant rebels. The general approach is seventy percent fact and thirty percent fiction: the main characters and major events are real, but some real historical figures’ personalities, backgrounds, and experiences have been fictionalized. The trilogy’s central themes trace a path from the ensemble cast’s “instinct to survive and ideal of universal harmony” in the Survival arc, to “destruction, plunde
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I Hold Power in Eastern Wu 我在东吴当权臣
My soul transmigrated to the end of the Han dynasty, where I became a lowly soldier in the Jiangdong camp, likely to end up in a mass grave at any moment. In my previous life, I read history and laughed at “Sun of Ten Thousand,” mocked as he was chased by eight hundred of Zhang Liao’s men. I thought him incompetent. In this life, with a cold blade pressed against my neck, I finally understood: in these chaotic times, human lives are as worthless as grass. Since I’ve come here, I can’t let his
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Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云
Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent
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I Became an Evil Ghost in the Western Jin Dynasty 我在西晋当恶鬼
In 311 AD, the fifth year of the Yongjia era under the Western Jin. Two university students from the twenty-first century transmigrated through time during a hiking trip and fell into the darkest abyss in Chinese history. More than a hundred thousand Jin soldiers were surrounded and slaughtered by Jie cavalry. Their bodies piled up like mountains. And Chen Yuan and Shen Zheng, naked and unarmed, stood in the very heart of that slaughterhouse. This is an epic about staying alive. Shen Zheng chose
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Great Song: A Max-Level Master Saves Li Qingzhao from the Start 大宋：满级大佬开局救了李清照
[Max-level power crushing the world below + fiercely protective pure love + unconventional wish-fulfillment + time-and-space mystery] Lu Yun, a max-level powerhouse from the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty, opened his eyes and found himself in a blazing festival fire in the Yuanfu era of the Song. A thousand-jin beam came crashing down over his head. He raised a hand and smacked it into a shower of splinters. The Imperial Guards fled in disarray through the streets. He pulled a young lady out
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- 81 Zhenguan: The Princess Is Too Young, So I'll Raise Her First 贞观：公主太小，我先养着 After sighing over the tragic fate of Princess Jinyang, Li Chengyao, the young owner of a neighborhood supermarket, suddenly transmigrates into the Tang Dynasty as its most forgettable, laid-back prince. Fight for the throne? Not even a dog would do that! He has just one goal: lie flat and, while he's at it, save a few princesses whose tragic fates have always bothered him. From the start, a nine-link puzzle brings a smile to the bedridden Princess Jinyang. A casual word from him nips Princess 185Reads6.8Score15014d adds
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My Ninety-Eight Transmigrations 我的九十八次穿越
[Transmigration + history + wild imagination + ensemble cast + fantasy] One moment of carelessness led her to recite a spell from a book, reconstructed from the Xia dynasty. Then she transmigrated. Not once. Ninety-eight times. Every time, she thought she was going to die. The air in the Xia dynasty was so pure it felt like a vacuum, and she nearly suffocated. In a Shang dynasty market, she was mistaken for a monster and nearly seized for a sacrifice. In a palace of the late Tang, she watched S
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Zhang Koukou Transmigrates to the Great Tang 张扣扣穿越大唐
After his execution, he transmigrates to the late Tang dynasty. With modern wisdom and knowledge, and the help of several women, he writes his own epic legend in an era engulfed by war.
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I Became the Wanli Emperor's Crown Prince, So Whoever Wants the Red Pill Can Eat It 穿成万历太子，这红丸谁爱吃谁吃
Reborn as an emperor who has only been on the throne for a month, he faces the Palace Coup and the Red Pill Incident, with treacherous officials within and bandits without. From crown prince to emperor, he plans every step. Great Ming, are you ready to welcome your Emperor Taichang? Nurhaci, are you ready to be put through the wringer?
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- 85 The Longqing Restoration 隆庆中兴 I transmigrate as Zhu Zaihou, but I won’t be a little sycophant. For the sake of tribute and trade, I dare to wage righteous war. I open the passes and command the four seas, my proclamations reaching the eight directions. The people receive sweet rain, and the dynasty flourishes forever. Alas! I would rather be a man of the Longqing era than aspire to rule like Yao and Shun. 8.4kReads8.5Score71414d adds
- 86 Chronicles of the Xuanhe Era 宣和风云录 Turmoil in the imperial palace, factional struggles among the officials. The Tanguts are divided, while the Jurchens watch like prowling tigers. A true man’s heart remains steel to the very end. Let me test my hand and mend the rift in the heavens. I’ll summon the Milky Way’s celestial waves and scour the northwest clean of the barbarians’ sands! The storm is raging. 51Reads—Score10714d adds
- 87 Xuanyuan: The Legend of the Cauldron That United the Realm 轩辕：鼎定山河传 Also known as: The Yellow Emperor Never Left! He Guards the Mountains and Rivers of the Mortal Realm; Who Says the Yellow Emperor Ascended? He Guards the Mortal Realm Before mythology came epic. Beneath legend lies the human heart. The story we know as “The Yellow Emperor Casts a Ding and Ascends on a Dragon” was not the end. It was the most glorious beginning. As later generations gaze up at the myths, we look closer and ask: What if the dragon did not descend from Heaven, but came from the 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Ming Dynasty Imperial Exams: From the Start, I Became the Father of Five Children 大明科举，开局成了五个孩子的爹
(Farming + daily life in ancient times + imperial examinations) A reassuring read. Shen Lin'an inexplicably finds himself reborn in ancient times in the body of a widower, with four sons and a daughter to care for, as well as a mother in her fifties. The original owner was a scholar, but he had never even earned the title of licentiate. He was too weak to shoulder a load or lift a hand, knew nothing of farming, and spent every day in drunken stupors, letting the years slip by. Let's see how Shen
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Crown Prince Zhaoming 昭明太子
A historical biographical novel centered on Crown Prince Xiao Tong of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Blending court intrigue, the smoke of war, the bond between father and son, and literary ideals, it breathes vivid life into the framework of historical fact and captures both the warmth and the tragedy of a crown prince who seemed perfect in every way.
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- 91 The Great Tang's Ode: Saving the World and Bringing Peace to the People 大唐赋之济世安民 This novel tells the sweeping, legendary story of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang! Most of it is based on real history, though I've added some artistic touches and a few personal insights. I wrote this book because I like an actor. I hope that one day I can see him wearing a ceremonial robe embroidered with the twelve imperial symbols. He would look absolutely wonderful! 24Reads—Score—14d adds
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Four Winds Valley 四风谷
Zheng Wuyang, a poor farmer with an upright nature, provoked the powerful in a moment of anger and brought ruin upon his entire family. He died with bitter resentment amid the flames. His wronged spirit lingered, but somehow a Taoist priest from Four Winds Valley brought him back to life and gave him a treasured sword, allowing him to slay every villain that very night and exact his revenge. Yet even after avenging his family, Zheng Wuyang felt no relief, only endless confusion. To help him find
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Jiang Yan’s Dream: Flowers Bloom from His Brush 江淹一梦笔生花
In the winter of the seventh year of the Daming era (463 AD), Jiang Yan was gathering firewood in the biting wind by the Qingxi River. Suddenly, he spotted a young woman stumbling along the main road, clutching her wounded left arm, with three constables from the Court of Justice in hot pursuit. Jiang Yan pulled her into a reed bed, helping her evade the officials’ deadly grasp. It turned out she was Xie Wei’s daughter. Xie Wei had been implicated in the Fan Ye case because of his poetry and pro
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Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老
[Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr
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- 95 Apocalypse Stockpiling: I Don't Have Time to Play with You 末世囤货：姐没空陪你玩 [Apocalypse + reborn + hoarding supplies + storage space + unlimited supply duplication + not a self-sacrificing saint] Blizzards, extreme cold, extreme heat, earthquakes, tornadoes, molten rock from the Earth’s core... After struggling to survive in the apocalypse for four years, He Qiao is ultimately hacked to death by looters. Reborn on the very day the apocalypse begins, she seizes the initiative and unlocks her storage space. Shop, shop, shop; stockpile, stockpile, stockpile; deal with ever 5.7kReads8.5Score69814d adds
- 96 The Southern Song’s Last Glory 南宋最后的荣光 [This is my first time writing, and I didn’t know about the golden first three chapters. It gets good starting from Chapter Seven, trust me, I’m not kidding. No transmigration, no brainless plot, no golden finger. Respectful of history, fairly serious writing, solid logic, plenty to keep you occupied. Come take a look!] The story begins as the Southern Song teeters on the brink of collapse. The Yue Family Army is framed by treacherous ministers, the famed general Yue Fei dies unjustly, and his a —Reads—Score—14d adds
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One Piece: Is This Still That Passionate Anime? 海贼：这还是那个热血番吗？
Scheming, multiple heroines, Luffy as an adversary, a genuine king of running away, and Momonosuke must die. What the heck, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit? What’s the point of that? I can make lightning without eating it! Wow, this little girl has tan skin and big, sparkling eyes. She’s so pretty. “Ahhh, why can’t I understand what she’s saying? Where on earth have I ended up?!” “Heh, as expected of something handpicked by our ancestors. It works even here!” The Flame-Flame Fruit? Heh, even a d
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The Three Kingdoms: History So Addictive, You Can’t Put It Down 一读就上瘾的三国史
The Three Kingdoms era was marked by endless warfare and rival warlords, and is now familiar to everyone thanks to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But the novel isn't history, and some of the famous stories we all know never actually happened! Did Zhuge Liang really borrow arrows with straw boats? Why is Zhang He known as “the Three Kingdoms strength tester”? How did Fei Yi live a life worthy of the title “master of pacing”? Did Cao Zhi really love his sister-in-law? Why is Cao Cao's life said to
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- 99 The Three Kingdoms Is Fascinating 三国很有趣 The Three Kingdoms era was marked by constant warfare and rival warlords, and it is widely known thanks to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not history, and some of the famous stories we all know are not true! Did Zhuge Liang really borrow arrows with straw boats? Why was Zhang He called the “Three Kingdoms’ ultimate strength tester”? How did Fei Yi live a life worthy of the title “Master of Pacing”? Was Cao Zhi really in love with his sister-in-law? Why is it 16Reads9.2Score—14d adds
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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