Novels Set Against Real History, Based on Facts, Engaging and Never Boring 真实历史为背景的小说，有真实依据，有趣不无聊
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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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The Song Dynasty Textile Worker 大宋纺织工
This story takes place in an era very much like the historical Northern Song dynasty. Its physical world is also very similar to Earth as readers know it, composed of the elements on the periodic table. There is no spiritual energy and no ghosts. The only invisible thing is electricity. The protagonist’s golden finger is the ability to gain knowledge, though he needs some kind of medium to obtain it. This is a story with multiple female characters. It explores feelings, but not romance. There is
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- 203 Unofficial History of the Daoist Sect 道门野史 The strange adventures of Wang Tianhua, a folk Taoist in Republican-era China... —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Oh No! I Just Transmigrated and a Beautiful War Goddess Is Forcing Me to Marry Her 糟糕！刚穿越就被美女战神逼婚
[Transmigration + Alternate History + Light Political Scheming + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Dimensional Overkill] Transmigrated into the body of a frail young nobleman, Ye Liujiang just wants to lie flat. Instead, the female war god of the Yun Kingdom kidnaps him in the street: “This general needs someone to warm her bed. You’ll do.” Ye Liujiang: “All right. I’ll live off a woman and enjoy it. Fine by me.” But on his left is his haughty, domineering warrior wife, and on his right is a m
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- 205 I Am Compiling the Yongle Encyclopedia in the Ming Dynasty 我在明朝修永乐大典 What secrets lie hidden in the Yongle Encyclopedia? Steam engines, alternating current, ocean-going iron ships: these are no legends, but the butterfly effect set in motion by a physics professor from 2026. Huang Zhibai transmigrates to the final years of the Yongle reign. After surviving an execution, he brings modern physics to the industrial foundations of the Ming Empire. Hot-air balloons rise into the sky, steam engines roar, and the chimneys of the Steam and Fire Bureau belch smoke day an 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Chronicles of the Han 逐汉记
Han dynasty, year seven of the Guanghe era. Outside Luoyang, dusk settles over the land. My name is Xiang Yun. I was a soldier in the twenty-first century, but after an accident during a time-space experiment, I opened my eyes to find myself in a land on the brink of war. The noise of the city was gone. In its place came the pounding of hooves and soldiers shouting. There were no skyscrapers before me, only a blood-red sunset illuminating the Han army banners as they snapped in the wind. The s
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- 207 Exiled, I Built a City 被流放后我建了一座城 Song Yuandao transmigrates to the Great Yan Dynasty as an editor at the Hanlin Academy. Before he can even settle into his chair, he's caught up in an imperial examination fraud case and exiled to the barbaric southern wilderness. He starts with twenty-five convicts, three dilapidated huts, and no food at all. While everyone else waits to die in exile, he gets to work building infrastructure. He smelts iron, makes salt, builds rammed-earth houses, constructs waterwheels and digs canals, then 450Reads5.5Score—Shelves
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A Stranger in the Tang Dynasty 大唐异乡客
>The year I transmigrated as Li Bai’s elder brother, he was still wetting the bed. >Five-year-old Xiao Taibai clutched my leg and cried, “Brother, the moon fell into the wine bowl!” >I ruffled his hair. “That’s called ‘Golden goblets of fine wine, ten thousand coins a jug.’” >Ten years later, he penned “Bring in the Wine,” stunning Chang’an. >With the imperial consort grinding ink and Gao Lishi removing his boots, he pointed at me through bleary eyes: >“Without your words about golden goblets an
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The Complete Story of Tang 说唐全传
Centered on the gathering of heroes at Wagang Stronghold, the story spans the period from Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou’s conquest of Northern Qi and Emperor Wen of Sui’s pacification of Southern Chen, to Li Yuan of Tang’s defeat of the rival warlords and Li Shimin’s ascension to the throne. It mainly recounts how the heroes of Wagang joined forces to rebel against the Sui and help establish the Tang dynasty, recreating the turbulent age of the eighteen rebel kings and sixty-four bands of rebels.
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The Sorrows of the Ming: Joking About Li Zicheng 明殇之笑侃李自成
The completed historical novel set in the late Ming, Ming Tragedy: Laughing About Li Zicheng, focuses on the rebel king Li Zicheng and the chaos of Chongzhen’s final years, recounting the entire course of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming dynasty. From Chongzhen’s abolishing of the courier stations and the severe drought in northern Shaanxi, to loan sharks driving people to desperation, Li Zicheng’s uprising, the Battle of Luoyang, Sun Chuanting’s defeat, the fall of Beijing, Chongzhen
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I Transmigrated as Hu Hai, and You Call This a Thousand-Mile Horse? 穿越成胡亥，你说这是千里马？
The moment I opened my eyes, I was in Xianyang Palace, where the courtiers stood as silent as cicadas in winter. The eunuch Zhao Gao led in a deer and asked with a beaming smile, “Your Majesty, this is a thousand-mile steed. Isn't that right?” I was Hu Hai, the ruler who lost his kingdom, a puppet emperor in the history books. At that very moment, the soul of Li Yue, a graduate student in history, entered this body! A horse? To hell with that! As everyone watched in horror, I drew the Son of Hea
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Along the Way, I Saw All the Flowers of Chang'an 一路看尽长安花
From the Northern Zhou to the end of the Tang Dynasty, a little-known chapter of history: After a century of division between north and south, Yuwen Yong endured in silence for twelve years before eliminating the treacherous and seizing power in a single night. During six years of personal rule, he reformed the military, defeated Northern Qi, and unified the north, laying the foundations for good governance with his reverence for scholarship. He ended chaos through force and forged the spirit o
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Qin Shi Huang Has Been on the Moon, Protecting Earth for Two Thousand Years 秦始皇在月球，守护地球两千年
[Urban Sci-Fi | Lunar Mysteries | Great Qin Heavy Industries | Pure Science and Technology | No System] In 2030, a Chinese crewed lunar landing team is caught in a cosmic turbulence and forced to land on the far side of the Moon. To their surprise, they discover a vast ancient city of Great Qin, where armored guards have stood watch for a thousand years without ever leaving. This fortress from beyond the stars conceals a shocking secret. An extraterrestrial threat is closing in, and a crisis for
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Journey of the Cold Blade: From Refugee to Ruler of the Realm 寒锋行：从流民到摄山河
A hidden heir lurks in the refugee camps, while the Nine Cauldrons fracture the land and set the beacon fires alight. Xiao Yu, a lowborn refugee struggling to survive in a border camp in the state of Yan, has no idea that his blood carries the loyalty and grievance of a renowned general from the former dynasty. A forced conscription sweeps him into the meat grinder known as the Battle of Canglang Plains. Amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, his innate “Eye of Insight” lets him spot a g
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- 215 Everyday Life in Beiping During the War of Resistance 抗战时期的北平民间 A friend said that the area east of Beiping served as a buffer zone, and Tanggu was covered by a treaty, so Japan wouldn't make another move for the time being. I'm afraid this matter... If we fight the war to the bitter end, our allies will naturally help us. After all, if we really lose, they won't be able to bear it either, so we know they'll help. 33Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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1582: The Ten Missing Days in the Ming Dynasty 1582：走进大明消失的十天
Open the calendar on your phone right now and scroll to the date after October 4, 1582. You’ll see that the calendar jumps straight to October 15. Ten whole days vanished from human history. The history books offer only a cold explanation: a calendar reform. But no one can explain what happened during those ten days. While researching archives, modern historian Lin Xuan stumbles upon a record that has been repeatedly crossed out and rewritten: “The ten days happened.” When he tries to uncover th
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Nan Jingchun 南景春
A princess who commands armies and wields great power X a poor-born statesman who claws his way to the top Lu Nanjing is the Great Xi’s Goddess of War, a princess who rides through the imperial city with a mighty army at her back and the world beneath her feet. Du Ruolan is a statesman from a humble family, ruthless and cunning, who fights his way into the heart of power with sheer courage and ingenuity. One spring day on the street, she casually tossed him a fortune and rescued him from the mud
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The Winds Rise in Southern Guizhou: I Become Prince Mu in the Southern Ming 风起黔南，我在南明当沐王爷
A chemistry graduate student unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian in Guizhou at the end of the Ming dynasty! He opens his eyes to find himself in the empire’s final days. The southwestern frontier, guarded by his family for generations, is beset by internal strife and external threats, and he knows that unless he takes action, he is doomed to see his country fall and his family perish, with his blood spilled in a brutal sacrifice. Within the realm, there are ch
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Super AI: Regret Repair Game 超级AI悔恨修复游戏
A fantasy take on Forrest Gump and To Live, with palace intrigue and warfare to rival Game of Thrones. If that sounds like your kind of story, come on in! An ordinary international student dreams of becoming a wealthy entrepreneur. But fate has other plans, and he becomes a powerful figure who influences the rise and fall of dynasties throughout history and the course of international relations in the present day. Mind-bending, suspenseful, bizarre, and romantic, all that’s left is his ending...
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The Warring States Strategist: I Lay a Grand Scheme in Times of Chaos 战国谋主，我于乱世布天局
He was once an obscure scholar. One day, he transmigrates, his soul landing in the Warring States period. He becomes a discarded prince of Qi, confined in Jiangyang Commandery in Wei and left to die in his sickbed. Clinging to life, he stirs up the commandery with a single warehouse voucher and turns the game of fate around with his schemes. The court is full of intrigue, and people’s hearts are mirrors. A hostage prince, a discarded son, a lone soul in a chaotic age: he advances one careful s
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The Redemption of Xiao Shenkè 肖神客的救赎
The ancient divine artifact Moon-Piercing Raft crashes down, striking the peak of Mount Buzhou. On the Wind Emperor's orders, Xiao Shenkè sets out to seize the Five-Colored Stone guarded by the Four Spirit Beasts, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, as well as the Red Vulture. Wind Monkey sacrifices himself for justice, helping Nuwa successfully mend the sky. Later, the Yellow Emperor and the Red Vulture, reincarnated as Chiyou, wage the Battle of Zhuolu. Xiao Shenkè a
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On the Verge of Being Exposed! A Fake Scholar Becomes the Ming Emperor’s Tutor 掉马边缘！冒牌举人在明朝当帝师
[Ming Dynasty + transmigration + political intrigue + secret identity exposed] Modern historian Lu Wang accidentally transmigrates to the late Ming Dynasty and impersonates Lu Xiangzhen, a successful candidate in the provincial examinations from Songjiang. He is drawn into a living hell of factional strife, the imperial guard, natural disasters, and warfare. Using ancient astronomical knowledge to predict a solar eclipse, he wins the trust of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. Then, by improving
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Half a Life on the Battlefield, Yet I Return as the Same Old War God 战死沙场戎半生，归来仍是旧武神
Wang Xian, a half-step Martial God at the eighth realm of Old Martial Arts, died on an alien battlefield protecting ordinary people, only to return in a dream to his youth in his senior year of high school. In my previous life, I achieved greatness late, reaching the peak of the half-step Martial God realm, only to stop at the eighth realm and die with regrets. In this life, I will use my self-created Starry Sky Body-Tempering Art to forge a starry sky martial body capable of devouring stars and
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- 224 Northern Song: What a Coincidence, I'm a Spoiled Noble Too 北宋：好巧我也是纨绔 The first story's pacing is a little slow and it's hard to revise, so just take your time reading! The Great Song: This is a subtle power fantasy, not an obvious one. It might leave you itching for more! You can learn history while reading the novel, as the Yang clan's descendants rise to prominence again. Women: Li Qingzhao, Li Shishi, Pan Jinlian, Chen Miaochang, and Meng Chan. Men: Su Shi, Fan Chunren, Zhe Keshi, Zhong Shidao, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, and Yu Yunwen. This is the brilliant splend 1.9kReads8.0Score234Shelves
- 225 My Soul Reborn in the Tang Dynasty: I Fight My Way Back to Chang'an with Tang Poetry 魂穿大唐：我靠唐诗杀回长安 [Transmigration + Tang Dynasty + History] I woke up to find that I had become Li Chengze, a down-and-out young nobleman in the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty! Both my parents are dead, my family fortune has been seized, and my vicious clan uncle wants me dead. In an age when human lives are worth less than grass, how can someone with no strength to defend himself survive? Thankfully, I come from the modern world, with the entire treasury of Tang poetry in my head! My first poem, "Wild View," r 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 226 Great Tang: If You Won’t Rebel, Father, Then I Will! 大唐：父亲您不造反，我造反！ [Ruthless and decisive]+ [Golden finger]+ [Conquest and expansion]+ [Industrial Revolution]+ [Age of Discovery] Also known as The Crown Prince Should Stop Competing, the Tang Dynasty Already Has Nine Dragons in One Court, Tang Dynasty: Father, You’re This Old, How Can You Still Sleep?, and I, Li Chengqian, the Steadiest Crown Prince in History. He transmigrates to a parallel Tang Dynasty and becomes Li Chengqian, still the heir of the Prince of Qin’s household. Faced with Li Shimin’s indecision, 13kReads8.6Score785Shelves
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Alien Girl 外星女孩
A fertilized egg left behind by aliens grew into a hero who stopped their invasion, killing decisively and crushing every foe in his path. In the end, he discovered that the ultimate destination of technology was humanity's extinction. Humanity's greatest enemy wasn't the aliens, but humanity itself.
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- 228 The Complete Biography of Zhuge Liang’s Wisdom and Stratagems 诸葛亮智谋全传 [Zhuge Liang + Biography] Before the Sleeping Dragon awoke, the realm was already in chaos. He could recognize a thousand characters at three and was orphaned at eight. He could have spent the rest of his life farming in Longzhong, but after one man's three visits to his door, he embarked on a journey from which there was no turning back. At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, warlords carved up the realm. Young Zhuge Liang possessed astonishing talent, yet willingly lived in seclusion in the mo 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 229 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 45.1kReads9.5Score4.5kShelves
- 230 Reborn as a Disciple of Sun Wu, I Soar with The Art of War 穿成孙武门徒，我靠孙子兵法狂飙 [Sun Wu + character biography + The Art of War] When his fingertips touched the bronze fragment, Lin Yue, a university history student, was swallowed by a blinding light. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the chaotic Spring and Autumn period. He became Sun Wu's disciple, bringing modern wisdom to bear on ancient military strategy. He proposed the strategy of wearing Chu down, witnessed the surprise attack at Boju and Wu Zixu's desecration of a corpse, and even saw Sun Wu execute 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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She Gets Away With Anything Because She's Beautiful 她就仗着美貌为所欲为
Arranged marriage, love after marriage, a slow-burn newlywed sweet romance, a pampered little darling, and a husband who is head over heels from start to finish Yun Chu was forced into an arranged marriage with Shen Yanchen, the head of the Shen family, who was five years older than her. Rumor had it that he was as refined as moonlight and a gentle breeze, aloof and noble, a rare beauty who never got close to women. But after they married, no matter how much she acted up, he indulged her ever
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Defying Heaven by Half a Move: I Am Cao Cao’s Legitimate Eldest Son 胜天半子，我才是曹操嫡长子
Not an invincible hero story. Respects history, with humor and gravitas side by side, and plenty of laughs and tears! Cao Yang, a history PhD from Changdu University, one of China's 985 universities, transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms for the first time and becomes Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang. Though he survives the Battle of Wancheng, the butterfly effect and chaos in time and space ultimately lead to his assassination. When he wakes up a second time, he knows that academic credentials are u
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Liu Ling Turns No Guest Away 刘伶不留客
No transmigration. This is the story of a young man in the final years of the Eastern Jin dynasty. His entire family is massacred. His father dies after laying a plan in motion, leaving behind a fragment of a map. The young man begins by investigating an old case involving the Zhenbei Army, founded by his father, bent on revenge. Then Former Qin invades, and Xie An prepares to take the field. Should he investigate the old case, or save the world? After the war, a powerful minister usurps the thr
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The Mengjin Crossing 盟津渡
Also known as The Awakening of the Ferry Boy. Wu Heyuan, a young man from a Yellow River ferry crossing, suffers the massacre of his entire family, and his younger sister goes missing. After delivering a letter to the Weishui Alliance for a mysterious stranger, he becomes Jiang Shang’s disciple and embarks on a path of political intrigue. When his sister is trained to become an enemy nation’s assassin, when his beloved tastes poison to save him from the brink of death, and when his master gives
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Transmigrating to the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians: A Bloodstained Chang'an Sings of War 穿越五胡乱华：血色长安启战歌
Transmigrating means hell from the start! Modern historian Xu Zhaoyuan opens his eyes amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood during the Five Barbarians’ Upheaval. A Xiongnu blade hangs over his neck, while tens of thousands of refugees, women, and children behind him are on the brink of death. This is a hellish start! A golden finger? I am the golden finger! ✅ Foresight into history: seize the initiative in a chaotic age! ✅ Technological superiority: establish farms along the Wei River, d
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The Last Scion of the Zhi Clan: Everyone in My Warring States Era Is Evil 智氏遗孤：我的战国全员恶人
Jinyang City fell, and a century of glory for the Zhi clan was wiped out overnight. Zhi Yuan fled west to Qin, carrying the mysterious infant girl A Yan, who bore the power of “recursion.” But he was drawn into a life-or-death war between Qin and the ancient evil known as the “Darkborn.” The brilliant Zhi Wenshu concealed her identity in Qi, stirring up a storm at the Jixia Academy. With the world as her chessboard, she laid a web of secrets aimed at the Three Jin states. The fierce warrior Zhi
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I Survived Gaixia, and Now I’ll Rewrite the Overlord’s Fate 垓下未死，我带霸王逆天改命
At the Battle of Gaixia, the Conqueror Xiang Yu is trapped with no way out and is about to take his own life at the Wu River. Xiang Ta transmigrates into this world and uses his memories from a previous life to defy fate and change the outcome. Not only does he save Xiang Yu, he also saves the fierce general Long Ju. Why should heroes have to die? Why should a petty man like Liu Bang get to rule the realm? In this life, Chu will replace Han, and the Conqueror will unite the realm!
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Qin's National Fortune Shouldn't Be Like This 秦国的国运不应该如此
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Bloodbath in the Great Ming 浴血大明
What was the Ming Dynasty’s greatest regret? Victory never truly came. Dingguo spent his whole life failing to secure the nation. A man with a checkered private life died heroically for his country, while a moral paragon shaved his head and adopted Manchu dress! A young man from a later age inexplicably transmigrates into Zheng Sen, the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong. He has no idea what great duty to family and country means. He just wants to stay alive, and if he can protect the people of one reg
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I Debate the Classics with Great Scholars in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫跟大儒辩经
Yang Zhi, a top salesman and philosophy graduate student in his previous life, transmigrates to the end of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty. Through a twist of fate, he joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard, passes the imperial examination, enters the Hanlin Academy, and debates the classics with the great scholars at court!
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Stranded on a Deserted Island with Only Diao Chan 我流落荒岛，身边只有貂蝉
[No System + Island + Survival + Three Kingdoms + Apocalypse + Hegemony] Starting with an island and Diao Chan at his side, he commands a vast world and has countless beauties in his arms. After transmigrating to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, he catches Cao Cao’s eye, but his ambitions are far greater. He divides the realm with Wei, Shu, and Wu, then sweeps across the six directions! Unifying China is not the end, but only the beginning...
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- 242 Transmigrating to the Song Dynasty: You Were Sent as an Envoy, Not to Marry Empress Dowager Xiao 穿宋，让你出使，没让你娶萧太后 “Minister Cao, how much must our Great Song pay in annual tribute?” “One million!” “What? One million! You insolent Cao Yong, I’ll have your head today!” “Your Majesty, I haven’t finished. The Liao are paying our Great Song one million a year!” “And on top of that, I’ve married Empress Dowager Xiao…” —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Awakening of the Soul: The Song of the Rift War 魂觉醒之裂合战歌
On the eighth day of the ninth month, in the autumn of the late Tang, chrysanthemums bloom and all other flowers wither. The setting sun drips blood, smoke from the beacon fires blots out the sky, and horses trample the cracked earth amid utter chaos. Everywhere, blades flash and refugees roam... A down-and-out young man with nowhere else to turn seeks refuge with a fellow townsman, hoping to make something of himself. Instead, he stumbles straight into his enemies' den and nearly loses his life
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How Cao Cao Was Made 曹操是怎样炼成的
Everyone calls Cao Cao the disgraceful offspring of a eunuch's concubine, the remnant of a eunuch clan, and says his birth makes him the laughingstock of the realm. Born amid the chaos at the end of the Han dynasty, he starts with every disadvantage: no family connections to back him and people looking down on him at every turn. No one could have guessed that the child everyone scorned on the streets would spend half his life fighting and, through his own efforts, pacify the Central Plains, domi
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Zhang Jiao Transmigrates to America 张角穿越美利坚
Zhang Jiao of the Yellow Turbans transmigrates into an American body and opens his eyes to a living hell! Shootings never stop, drugs run rampant, the rich and poor are worlds apart, and the powerful bleed the people dry. The working class lives like animals. Their so-called freedom and democracy are nothing but scams woven by capital! If they won’t give you bread, I will! If they won’t deliver justice, I’ll bring it! A bowl of talisman water to heal the sick and ease their suffering; A word of
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Liu Bowen: Tides of Fortune in the Imperial Court 刘伯温之宦海沉浮
Liu Bowen: Rising and Falling in the Sea of Officialdom abandons the magical realism commonly used in earlier works about Liu Bowen. Its main approach is realism, with touches of romanticism. Following the ups and downs of Liu Bowen’s official career, and set against the peasant uprisings led by Fang Guozhen, Xu Shouhui, Wu Chengqi, and others, it offers a many-sided portrait of the vibrant world of the late Yuan dynasty. It depicts both the contests of wits and political maneuvering among strat
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Elegy of a Chaotic Age: Prelude 乱世挽歌之序曲
[Transmigration + History + Three Kingdoms + Male Protagonist + No Golden Finger] His work after 98 grueling hours gets scrapped? A burned-out screenwriter transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms and takes on history with workplace tactics! Have KPIs ever pushed you to the breaking point? Senior writer Wang Cheng spent four straight days working through the night on his script, “Turbulence at the End of the Han,” only for the client to demand a complete rewrite with one dismissive remark: “It’s not
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Supreme Destiny 天命最高
He was the “Qin dog” everyone in Handan hated, a hostage who trembled in his mother’s arms. Before the age of nine, he lived for one reason alone: to avoid being beaten to death by the people of Zhao. Then one day, his father died, and he became the King of Qin. The road back to Xianyang was strewn with thorns: his grandmother wanted to depose him, his younger brother wanted him dead, powerful ministers treated him like a puppet, and the queen dowager and her lover controlled the inner palace. H
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The History of the Song Dynasty’s Imperial Court 宋代宫闱史
Drawing on official histories, unofficial accounts, and folk legends, this work offers a profound portrayal of the emperor's emotional world alongside a detailed depiction of life in the palace. It vividly recreates the lives of emperors and empresses in the secluded inner palace, while also offering readers interested in history clues to follow.
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The Qingfu Chronicles: My Years as an Official in Northern Song 青蚨录：我在北宋当官那些年
In the final years of the Northern Song, the wastrel Zhao Buqi stumbles upon a “Mother Coin of the Green Fly” and embarks on a life full of extraordinary encounters. What kind of nonsense is this? Zhao Buqi somehow becomes an official, befriends a bunch of remarkable men, and finds himself surrounded by stunning beauties. With the protagonist’s luck, the wastrel even grows into a hero who fights the Jin! Yet he is also tormented by the mystery of his own origins. Fate’s cycle turns! A far greate
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