A Sickly Scholar Who Faithfully Serves the Emperor 病秧子书生，忠心辅佐皇帝
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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.
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In Great Qin, I Turn Out to Be a Martial Saint! 人在大秦，原来我是武圣！
After transmigrating to the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Xin gains the power of a Martial Saint! He intends to take to the battlefield, help the First Emperor conquer the realm, and achieve great things. But then an imperial decree arrives, ordering him to travel to Goryeo and bring back the beautiful consort of Great Qin! Princess Yushu: “The Qin Empire’s great general is truly mighty, worthy of a citizen of the Celestial Empire. I admire you! I would gladly spend the rest of my life with you!” Zhao Xin:
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My Brother Is Qin Shi Huang, I Just Want to Lie Flat in Great Qin 吾兄秦始皇，我只想在大秦躺平
Transmigration changes destiny. Cheng Jiao unexpectedly transmigrates to the end of the Warring States period and becomes Ying Zheng's only younger brother. This younger brother doesn't rebel, but he does cause trouble. “Brother, I beat up Lord Changping.” “He tripped and fell on his own.” “Brother, I took... borrowed money from Chancellor Lü.” “We'll split it when we meet. Remember, you don't have to pay it back.” “Brother, I got Lao Ai to help me stage a rebellion.” “My Lulujian is already thi
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Teaching the First Emperor of Qin to Beat Fusu with Lunyu Leaves Hu Hai Terrified 大秦教祖龙抡语暴揍扶苏吓惨胡亥
(Great Qin + First Emperor + revelations + princes + Analects-inspired beatdowns + shocking Zheng-ge) After transmigrating, Zhao Mu mistook Ying Zheng for his wealthy father, who had gone out on business. Thinking of the corpses that would soon litter Xianyang, Zhao Mu tried to persuade his father, rich enough to rival a nation, to wait for the chance to rebel! Ying Zheng: “A gentleman loves wealth, but acquires it through proper means!” Zhao Mu: “You’re right, Dad. I love money, so taking yours
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Great Qin: No More Hiding, I Leave the Village and Crush the World 大秦：不苟了，出村吊打全世界
What...! That Bai Ye kid from Luofeng just left the village and already earned the rank of Gongshi! He joined the army and became a centurion almost immediately! You really can’t compare one person to another. I served three times before I managed to earn the rank of Gongshi and become a squad leader. A centurion has to be a veteran of a hundred battles, an elite commander who has climbed over corpses and won major victories to earn his rank! And that rookie actually managed it! Chancellor Wang
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Great Qin: The First Emperor Discovers My True Identity as His Grandson 大秦：我皇孙身份被秦始皇曝光了
After Qin conquered the six kingdoms, the First Emperor ordered all nobles from the former kingdoms to be enslaved, dragging countless others into their downfall. Ji Xi, concubine to Prince Fusu and already pregnant, is caught up in the purge as well. With Fusu’s help, she goes into hiding in Yan territory. Shortly after giving birth to Zhao Zhen, the place where they are hiding is unexpectedly attacked and massacred by remnants of the Yan kingdom. As it happens, the First Emperor is touring the
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Transmigrating to the Great Qin, I Help Zheng Ge Live Forever 穿越大秦，助政哥长生
The author is a history enthusiast, and the story includes quite a bit of historical material. Read at your own discretion. Also, the protagonist publicly reveals that he is a transmigrator. Read at your own discretion. Please note, this story has no heroine. After blowing up the public toilets at Yasukuni Shrine, Qin An should have gone straight to the underworld. Instead, he transmigrated to the Qin Dynasty. After a brief period of confusion, Qin An quickly regained his composure. Now that he
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Great Ming: I Beg the Emperor to Punish Me Every Day, and Zhu Yuanzhang Is Losing It 大明：我天天死谏，朱元璋人麻了
On the eve of Crown Prince Zhu Biao's death, Lin Hao unexpectedly transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes a censor. He also activates a time-travel System: if Zhu Yuanzhang executes him, he'll return to the modern world and enjoy the pinnacle of life. Lin Hao embarks on a reckless campaign to get himself killed. He lambastes Old Zhu for ruining the country, declaring that the maritime bans, the Ancestral Instructions of the Ming Dynasty, the civil service examinations based on the Eight-Le
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I Was Born a Commoner 臣本布衣
[Adapted into a comic-drama: Cast aside despite my great achievements, I build my own royal court] [Adapted into a short drama of the same name + I was once a commoner] [The emperor’s jealousy + never looking back + heading south to capture the dragon + immensely satisfying] Li Zhen transmigrates to an ancient continent! He assists the newly enthroned emperor of Dayu in bringing order to the court. But before his great undertaking is even halfway done, the emperor grows suspicious of him out of
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Running a Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic: From the Start, Treating Young Ying Zheng 经营中医药馆，开局救治少年嬴政
Chen Che was a doctor with advanced degrees in both Chinese and Western medicine. After graduating, he joined a top-tier hospital in Chuting, Chuyun City, Nanyue Province, as an emergency medicine clinician. But an accident destroyed his reputation. He was fired and forced to leave the hospital, and all his earnings went to compensating the patient's family. With no other choice, he moved to a village in Yongzhou, Guixi Province, and began practicing traditional Chinese medicine. From then on, h
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I Transmigrated into the Sickly Big Shot in My Own Book 我穿成了自己书里的病秧子大佬
[One heroine, doting heroine and male lead, female-audience leaning, two powerful and devoted leads, romance, plot-driven.] [Beautiful, strong, tragic, sickly male lead with a melancholic air vs. a cool, commanding, badass older-sister heroine with a nurturing side. They choose each other and save each other.] The moment Xiao Wujie opened his eyes, he found himself inside his own book, as the sickly male lead. He had written the book himself, but the problem was, he had died before finishing it.
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The Sickly Young Master of the Rong Family Is a Little Toxic 容家那个病秧子，有点毒
Rong Jiuyue, the orphaned daughter of the Great General Who Protects the Nation, was born with the beauty of a celestial: almond eyes, rosy cheeks, and a delicate, supple figure. Every smile and frown of hers was breathtaking. Rumor had it that she grew up in the countryside, was frail, and was the sickly daughter no one in the Rong family cared about. But then, who was the woman uprooting a willow tree, punching out a bandit chief, and swinging a cleaver as she cut down enemy after enemy? One d
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After Marrying the Sickly Man to Bring Him Luck, I Became a Powerful Official's Wife 给病秧子冲喜后，我成了权臣之妻
Gu Qingqing transmigrated, and her step-grandmother sold her to a sickly man as a lucky bride. Xu Xing, from the neighboring village, was always taking medicine and was said to be short-lived. Everyone for miles around knew the Xu family was a living hell. When Gu Qingqing married into the Xu family, everyone said she'd become a young widow. But as a genius poison doctor, she not only cured her sickly husband's illness, she also opened shops and started a business, making their life better and b
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I, Sun Shan, and the Imperial Examinations 我，孙山，科举
“Imperial exams + transmigration + farming + exams + no space System” “Romance included, devoted male lead. The female lead is his childhood sweetheart, but she appears infrequently. Romance is not the main plot.” “The male lead rises step by step through hard work and good luck.” “The male lead is no good at scheming, but he gets things done and has technical skills.” “The imperial examination system is based on the Ming and Qing dynasties.” After an accident, he is transmigrated into the womb
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To Avoid Planting Rice, I Work Hard to Pass the Imperial Exams 为了不插秧，努力考科举
[The short drama adaptation is now streaming] A modern SSS-rank researcher dies suddenly and transmigrates to the Great Xing Dynasty. His health is so poor that he's not allowed to pick rice in the fields until he's six. Sunstruck and light-headed, Li Jing decides that farming with this body is a risky business, so he immediately resolves to study for the imperial examinations. That's what he's good at; the transplanting can be left to the professionals! The following year, now named Li Yiqing,
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Shadows Behind Vermilion Gates 朱门幽
Xie Yan, the legitimate eldest grandson of the Chenjun Xie clan, was abandoned by his family seven years ago in a bid to save the rest of the clan after becoming embroiled in a succession crisis. Branded a “traitor,” he was exiled to the bitter cold of the northern frontier. He faked his death and returned to Jiankang, the imperial capital, in the guise of the mysterious scholar “Mister Xuanlin,” a man from humble origins. He has no interest in settling old scores. Instead, he will make Jiankang
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The Strongest Xu Xian 最强许仙
“I am Xu Xian, courtesy name Hanwen. A humble physician at a clinic in Hangzhou.” “They all say I’m cursed with bad luck in love, that I married a snake demon and am destined to die young.” “But what they don’t know is that I’m not short-lived. I’m immortal.” “Fahai thought he was the hunter, bringing his golden alms bowl to suppress my wife.” “But I told him that golden bowl of his couldn’t even withstand a breath of my cold air.” “I’m not picking on Fahai. I’m just saying, here on the shores o
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From Death Row to a King’s Equal: Slashing My Way Out of a Nightmare Start 天崩开局，从死囚营砍到并肩王
[Reborn + invincible + ruthless + the ultimate path] Li Dao is reborn in the Great Qian Dynasty as a third-rank earl. During a palace banquet, he accidentally gets drunk and stumbles into a palace. Just then, his memories of his previous life return, and between the memory confusion and the alcohol, he ruins the virtue of the palace's mistress. In a rage, the emperor sends Li Dao to a death-row camp on the frontier, hoping he'll die beyond the border. Instead, he unexpectedly awakens a “gain sta
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Reborn as a Dragon, Building the Strongest Dragon Palace 重生为龙，打造最强龙宫
Stop asking why there haven’t been any updates. The story has already been edited beyond recognition. [Leveling up and evolving] [Building a Dragon Palace] [Clear-cut sides] [Spiritual Qi Revival] Jiang Bai is reborn as a flood dragon and awakens the [Myriad Realms’ Strongest Dragon Palace System] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve unlocked a god-tier Dragon Palace!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve obtained the Ancestral Dragon’s blood essence!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you’ve transf
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Sima Yi Transmigrates into Qin Hui 司马懿穿越秦桧
One day in the sixth month of the third year of the Jiaping reign, Sima Yi, who had feigned illness his entire life, finally fell truly ill. He had endured for a lifetime, and decades of living on tenterhooks had left him utterly exhausted. Fortunately, he had everything in place before his death. All he had to do was wait peacefully for it to come. What Sima Yi never expected, however, was that his long-awaited path to unleashing his pent-up ambition was far from over...
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Great Ming: Nine-Dynasty Veteran, Thanks to a Long Life 大明：九朝元老，就是活的长
During the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Qiniu, an ordinary four-year-old farm boy, accidentally comes across a silver bell. From then on, he dreams every night of entering a room filled with books: the Thousand Character Classic, the Hundred Family Surnames, the Four Books and Five Classics, collections of successful candidates’ exam essays from every dynasty, and more. With his golden finger and relentless effort, he becomes the top scholar before the age of ten. Beloved by Old Zhu, Litt
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Liu Bei Pulled a Cart for Eight Hundred Paces, and I Extended the Han Dynasty's Life by Eight Hundred Years 刘备拉车八百步我为大汉续命八百
Ming Zhang was a minor town official who had spent more than a decade in local government. He died while on a flood-control assignment and transmigrated to the late Eastern Han, when eighteen warlords were joining forces against Dong Zhuo. Fishing by the Yellow River, he happened to meet Liu Bei. Liu Bei invited Ming Zhang three times to come out of retirement and serve him. To put on the airs of a great sage, Ming Zhang declared, “Bring me a fine carriage and fine horses. Xuande, pull my carri
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I Sing the Song of Mortals for You 吾为君吟凡人歌
[Male-Oriented, Transmigration, Fictional Setting, Farming, Everyday Life, Imperial Examinations, No System, No Golden Finger, Rural Life, Rustic Setting, One Heroine, Not a Power Fantasy] Lin Zezu, an ordinary nobody from Blue Star, transmigrates to the fictional Wu Kingdom. He arrives just as the original body's father, a scholar, dies of illness. Since the original body's birth mother was a brothel girl, his stepmother and eldest half-brother in the Lin family never treated him well. After Ma
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Ming Dynasty Natives Versus Transmigrators 皇明土著大战穿越众
Current plot: A newcomer to officialdom enters the inner circle as a pawn, but refuses to settle for mediocrity and wants to break free of his constraints. By chance, he gets caught up in turmoil on the frontier, where three hundred battered soldiers rout thirty thousand northern invaders. Zheng Zhi, a household retainer of the Zhen Ding Guard under the Ming rear army's Governor's Office, dreams of himself sixty years in the future. From then on, the Ming Dynasty gains a peerless talent in both
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The Ming Dynasty's Greatest Imperial Preceptor: From the Start, I Save Zhu Yuanzhang from a Deadly Crisis 大明第一国师：开局替老朱挡死劫
Also known as The Sickly Imperial Preceptor: Old Zhu Begs Me Not to Die Also known as I Help Old Zhu Conquer the Realm with the System I’m reborn as the frail young brother Ma Huanghou never knew she had, and open my eyes to find myself on the walls of Haozhou amid the chaos at the end of the Yuan dynasty. My brother-in-law, Zhu Yuanzhang, looks at me as if I’m a ghost who shouldn’t exist. To eliminate any future trouble, he throws me onto the city walls, where death is all but certain. Only by
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