Looking for Intrigue-Filled Court Politics and Scheming in Ancient Settings 求权谋文，朝堂上的纵横，算计，古代权谋
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The Prince of Beizhen: Guarding My Eight Houses of Beiliang 镇北王：守我八房北凉
Nine lifetimes of reincarnation, all for one long-held wish! With sand and smoke filling the air, how can good and evil be told apart amid the chaos? Watch how Xiao Bufan leads the Xiao family out of the capital of Great Qian, takes charge of Beiliang, and searches for the bond that has spanned nine lifetimes!
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I Turned My Superstitious Father into the Chief Councilor 我把神棍老爹卷成首辅
[Ensemble cast + imperial examinations + daily life + farming + court politics later on] Father and son join forces to build a Ming dynasty on which the sun never sets. Yan Xun transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and discovers that his father can do everything except study. His dad has so many secret identities, like an onion with layer after layer to peel back. Huh! If I push Dad hard enough to make him Grand Secretary, can I become a Junior Grand Secretary? The filial son Yan Xun sells everythin
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- 53 Great Ming: From the Imperial Exams to Absolute Power 大明：从科举到权倾天下 Li Ji accidentally transmigrates back to the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty, becoming the illegitimate son of a minor gentry family in Jiangnan! For ten years, no one knows he exists. His father dislikes him, and his elder half-brother and the servants bully and beat him at will. What a miserable life! No System, no inherited memories, just a completely new life... In the Great Ming, where everything else is beneath contempt and only scholarship is worthy, Li Ji originally only wanted to study, p 12.5kReads8.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 54 Great Ming: The Path to Becoming the Emperor's Teacher Begins with the Imperial Exams 大明：帝师之路，从科举开始 Xu Wen transmigrates to the Ming dynasty just as his family falls on hard times. His parents die, and someone shows up to break off his engagement, stacking two major disadvantages on him at once. He takes the imperial examinations, makes a name for himself as a young man, and enters government service, serving through nine reigns: Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, Tianshun, and Chenghua. During the Hongwu reign, he is Zhu Yuanzhang’s sharpest weapon against corrupt of 14.5kReads7.9Score1.6k14d adds
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Great Ming: I Transmigrate as the Chongzhen Emperor, Starting with a Rope 大明：穿越崇祯帝，开局一根绳
[No System + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Ruthless Combat + War] Good news: Zhu Lian transmigrated and became Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming dynasty. Bad news: It was the tenth day of the third month of Chongzhen’s seventeenth year, just seven days before Li Zicheng’s rebels stormed the outer city. The Ming dynasty was already on the brink of collapse, in grave danger. The Jurchens threatened from the north, rebels from the west, with one natural disaster after another an
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- 56 Rules for Transmigrators: I Become an Online Keyboard Warrior in Great Ming 穿越者守则：我在大明当键盘侠 (Alternate history + no System + no golden finger + imperial examinations and political intrigue + one female lead) Chen Ke, a transmigrator, enters the Jiajing era. From a boy who tended cattle to top scorer in the imperial examinations, from Hanlin compiler to Earl of Jinghai, he cuts a path through one challenge after another, navigating the treacherous court with care at every step. With a brush in his left hand and a sword in his right, he uses modern knowledge to maneuver among the uprigh 4.4kReads8.7Score28214d adds
- 57 The Grass and Trees of Fengyu Grow Tall 枌榆草木长 [Signed for print publication: ensemble cast + rival nations vying for supremacy + political intrigue and strategy + patriotism and national pride + original poetry + memorable supporting characters] [This is a fictional setting, and some historical references should not be taken as fact. This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. The plot is carefully developed, the logic is rigorous, and the cast and scope are large. There is no System or golden finger. There are no brainless villains or c 24.2kReads8.9Score1.7k14d adds
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Ghost Bean 鬼豆
History, mysticism, enlightenment, cultivation, qi refinement, and political intrigue. Not for beginners. Gui Dou is neither a ghost nor a bean. He is simply Guiguzi’s son. At sixteen, he left the mountain during the early Warring States period, an age of upheaval that few records describe. This book follows on from Guigu’s Divine Stratagem, telling a historical fantasy of intrigue and turbulent events in the Warring States era, as well as conflicts in the martial world.
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- 59 The Divine Schemes of Guiguzi 鬼谷神谋 [Historical Fiction Writing Contest] Other people are reborn into wealth and privilege, but I came back as a stalk of rice. No, a stalk of rice growing on a grave! A lovesick woman ate me, and became my mother. I became Guigu Wang Chan, whom later generations called Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Vertical and Horizontal School. In this turbulent age, watch me stir up the world once more and make my mark on the battlefields of the Warring States! 550Reads6.6Score10214d adds
- 60 Great Ming: From the Imperial Exams to Chief Grand Secretary 大明：从科举到寒门首辅 Zhang Muzhi, a university student who majored in Ming history in his previous life, transmigrates into the body of an impoverished boy in Zhangjia Village, Jiangnan, during the Jiajing reign. Faced with a drafty shack, a sharp-tongued adoptive mother, and a family barely scraping by, he knows the imperial exams are his only way out. He shows his talent at the village school, offering a fresh interpretation of the Analects and earning a special tuition waiver from Teacher Zhou. He stands up to hi 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 This Prince Has Gone Mad. Why Would You Provoke Him? 这皇子都疯了，你惹他干嘛？ [No System + High-Stakes Scheming + Laying Low to Build Strength + Logical Plot + Brains and Brawn + Suspense + Ancient Espionage] His mother consort dies suddenly of an illness. His older brother dies mysteriously in battle. All his backers are gone!! His father distrusts him, and his other brothers all want him dead! Not a single court official is on his side? In that case, he has no choice but to carve out a path to survival from between the cracks! After transmigrating to another world, he b 62kReads8.8Score4.9k14d adds
- 62 The Emperor’s Favorite Minister? No, I’m Rebellious to the Bone! 皇帝宠臣？不，我一身反骨！ [Power Struggles] + [Political Scheming] + [High-Stakes Play] + [Not Mindless] The great clans grew powerful and took control of the imperial court. The emperor wanted to use me as a weapon to reclaim imperial authority, but he devised countless ways for me to die. Once he realized how useful I was, he even wanted to castrate me and turn me into a eunuch, so I could continue serving as his blade. The Left Chancellor, head of the great clans and a man of unfathomable depths, pointed to the fish 7.6kReads9.0Score72614d adds
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Transmigrating to the Zhengde Era: Restoring the Dynasty, Starting with the Seizing of the Gate 穿越正德：从夺门开始中兴
In the sixteenth year of the Zhengde reign, I “died.” When I opened my eyes, I had become Zhu Houzhao, the Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The good news: I had transmigrated, and I was an emperor. The bad news: According to my “death edict,” I had been dead for three days. The new emperor, Jiajing, was on his way to the capital to seize the throne. The entire court, including my birth mother, was busy arranging my funeral and welcoming the new ruler. The even worse news: Grand Secretary Yan
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The Evil Spirit Symbiosis of Slaying Loulan 斩楼兰之恶鬼共生
[Unhinged, cold-blooded beauty bottom VS flashy, decadent, scheming top + Black-and-White Impermanence-style demon couple + equally matched leads + intellectual romance] “This dynasty is rotten to the core, starting with its foundations, like the salt administration.” “Then let’s tear it down. The two of us will be the demons who lay it to rest.” !!!!! Two male leads!!! Not a wish-fulfillment story!!! Absolutely no misogyny!! If you don’t like that, don’t read!!!
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A Commoner Holds the Imperial Seal, So Let Me Be Rude 草民执玺，庶我无礼
[Alternate history + political intrigue + factional strife + succession struggle + war] No System, no invincibility, no treasures, no special bloodline, no golden finger… nothing at all! From the start, all He Yan can say is “Ah!” He’s the unlucky soul who transmigrates into a book as a lowly slave on the frontier. Mired in the dirt, he’s caught in a time of chaos, with a life as cheap as an ant’s. When even a bowl of porridge and a meal of rice are no longer guaranteed, should he accept his fat
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A Stick in the Tang Dynasty 大唐一根棍
[Comedy + Suspense + Brainy Wish Fulfillment + Historically Grounded Tang Dynasty] A farm boy with a serious lack of virtue gradually grows into the Tang dynasty's number-one troublemaker (no, wait, strike that). He grows into a pillar that holds up the sky, a beam that spans the sea. If I'm having a good time and you're not, I'll beat you until you are. If I can't reform you, I'll cremate you. I crush foreign kingdoms, dissect the aristocratic clans, discipline princes, and slap emperors I can'
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At the End of the Ming Dynasty, Singing Through Turbulent Times 明末，乱世高歌行
In the summer of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the two capitals and Shandong suffered a severe drought and locusts. Famine ravaged the land, and people ate one another. Yu Mu opened his eyes and found himself in an era when people casually roasted human flesh over a fire. Ahead, corrupt officials cracked their whips like wolves. Behind him, Qing soldiers and rebel bandits stood ready with blades and axes. As a refugee, what was he supposed to do? Should he grovel and die like a blade of grass,
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Bound Together Across Two Lifetimes, We’ll Grow Old Together 双世缱绻，与君共白头
[Two powerful leads who rise to greatness | Complete souls | Extreme contrast | Love across two lifetimes | Sweet romance and court intrigue] A modern married couple are reborn as babies in the Tianqi Dynasty. He becomes an iron-fisted Crown Prince, commands the Xuanhuo Army, and plots to industrialize the realm. She becomes a queen of commerce, controls trade routes along three borders, and holds the lifeblood of the people in her hands! Toward their enemies, he presides over the execution of t
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The Pampered Life of a Spoiled Commandery Princess 纨绔郡主得宠日常
Signed for publication. The print edition is expected to be available by the end of the year. No! This! Is! Not! A! Romance! No CP! No rebirth, no transmigration, a thoroughly evil heroine, a power-struggle story A truly wicked heroine, vying for power over the realm, genuinely unhinged, ruthless, and rotten to the core Questions that come up while reading can only be answered by reading on. The willful, overbearing young princess of the Prince of Zhenbei’s household takes a fancy to Pei Jinnian
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A Game of Mountains and Rivers: Schemes in Troubled Times 山河弈：乱世谋
They say poor families produce no great men? Then you haven't met someone truly ruthless. Ling Ce, a graduate student in history, opens his eyes to find himself a low-ranking official from a poor family on the northern frontier, beaten to death. He has studied the Twenty-Four Histories, witnessed the rise and fall of dynasties, and mastered the art of political scheming. As sandstorms rise on the northern frontier, he uses brilliant tactics to defeat his enemies and secure his footing amid mount
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- 71 Ming 1521: Dragon Abyss 大明1521：龙渊 Longyuan has three layers, and each one is an abyss. In the first month of the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Wu Jie, a physician of the Imperial Medical Academy, rested his fingers on the pulse of the Grand General and said two words: three years. The first layer cracked open, stretching outward from Xuanfu. The capital, Nanchang, and Anlu, the fissure ran beneath everyone’s feet. By lamplight, Yang Tinghe opened the imperial clan register, his brush pausing over the name of a thirteen-year-old bo 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Hahaha, Great Ming 哈哈哈，大明 In an age when everyone is rebelling, to survive, you have to be more ruthless than every rebel king. You have to become the greatest rebel king of all. Take down Gao Yingxiang first, then Zhang Xianzhong, then Li Zicheng, and after that, go straight for the Eight Banners. You Manchus, your emperor is back. 461.2kReads9.4Score64.9k14d adds
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I Refuse to Be an Emperor Who Dies Within a Month 老子不当一月就死的天子
Zhu Changluo, the timid and overlooked eldest prince of the Ming Dynasty, sees on a wall in a secluded side hall of Jingyang Palace the fate awaiting him: he will ascend the throne and die a month later, along with visions of the Ming Dynasty's collapse…
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- 74 Joy in the Tang Dynasty 喜唐 Bright and glorious is the Tang, favored by Heaven to rule the myriad lands. Our founding ancestors answered Heaven’s call, and the four imperial clans followed its ways. Heaven granted us boundless blessings, and our clans share a common virtue. Our descendants carry on the legacy, offering sacrifices to the gods and matching the Pole Star. What did it really mean for all nations to pay tribute? Was it about uncritically worshipping foreign languages, or going abroad and being treated as honore 122.5kReads9.4Score12.7k14d adds
- 75 Modern Cadre: I Play Power Politics in the Ming Dynasty 现代干部：朕在明朝玩权斗 The Hongzhi Restoration left problems piling up. The treasury was in the red, with deficits year after year! Land was swallowed up by the powerful, and displaced people rose in rebellion! The military was weak, and the Tartars threatened the border! Civil officials grew too powerful and challenged imperial authority. With troubles at home and abroad and the dynasty on the brink of collapse, Zhu Shou became the Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao. To struggle against Heaven is a joy without end. To strugg 5.5kReads7.4Score38414d adds
- 76 Those Memories Haven't Faded Like Smoke 那些往事并不如烟 Based on true historical events, this book recounts how Chinese public security and political security agents in the 1960s used extraordinary methods to endure humiliation and infiltrate enemy intelligence organizations in Taiwan. They remained undercover for more than twenty years, making major contributions to national security. The story paints a sweeping historical panorama. Its twists and turns are vivid and compelling, and its main events are adapted from historical fact. Rich in the spiri 558Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 77 A Wind of Cranes and the Rustle of Grass 风声鹤唳 A cuckoo cannot build its own nest. It can only take over the nests of other birds. What Feng Chen took over was not a nest, but someone else’s identity and name. Even the Military Statistics Bureau’s confidential files in Section Eight contained no photograph of him, only a codename known to no one: Red Cuckoo. A top Kuomintang agent, Feng Chen was ordered to infiltrate the Shanghai underground Communist Party to obtain the list of Communist agents embedded in the Military Statistics Bureau’s u 1.4kReads9.3Score17114d adds
- 78 Storms over the Nine Wilds 九野风云 When the west wind sweeps across the land, gray reeds drift through the city. Spiderwebs hang from the thatched eaves, an empty steamer dangles there, and a sick woman in rags counts the scabs on her many wounds. A young child gathers firewood and digs at the frozen earth. The sound of a shovel startles crows from the fields. The rats in the government granary feast on freshly milled rice, while wild dogs gnaw at the flesh of the dead in a lonely grave. 468Reads8.0Score10014d adds
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Late Jin: Sima Yi Is Reborn as a Jiehuo Army Soldier 晋末：司马懿重生为乞活军
A hundred and forty years after his time had passed! Sima Yi studied the young body he now inhabited. The Army of the Refugees was an armed force of displaced people at the end of the Eastern Jin dynasty, struggling to survive between the Hu and Han peoples. The original owner, Ran Cheng, was twenty-four. His father and brothers had all died in battle, and he commanded the three hundred survivors of the refugee army. Why do you fight to survive? To die like a dog by the roadside, or to reclaim t
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The Guide to Concealed Beauties 藏娇引
Winter. The last of the snow. Her sword is moonlight. Her poison is honey. Her name is a secret. Purple robes, swift as lightning. A woman, like a poem. The world knows Princess Jinning, Zhao Qingli, only as a living portrait of a court lady, hidden deep within the palace. Little does anyone know that she is also the Sword God’s sole disciple and a once-in-a-century genius of the Tang Sect. Her sword is called Purple Lightning. When it leaves its scabbard, it flashes like a startled swan reflect
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- 81 The Princess and the Sword Immortal 公主与剑仙 Atop Lock Dragon Peak, snow falls without a sound. Xiao Jianqiu, the “Lone Shadow Sword Immortal,” is invincible beneath heaven with his gleaming blade. He watches the clouds drift by, seeking nothing more than freedom and ease. The martial world? Just a place where grudges are settled and swords do the talking. In Jinling, behind the deep walls of the imperial palace, Princess Zhaoyang Zhao Jin is born to privilege, yet finds the palace walls too high and her life too stifling. The court? Nothi 2.5kReads—Score19114d adds
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My Drunkard Dad 我的酒鬼老爹
I really didn’t get the Burning Technique… A drunkard for a father and a scheming mother gave birth to a clueless boy. Mystery + political intrigue + deduction + crime-solving + martial arts world No System, no golden finger, and no reloading a save to start over. No invincibility, no brainlessness, no harem, and no saintly hero. Life is full of ups and downs, and people come in all sorts. With a broken sword in hand, the young man roams the world, gradually unraveling the mystery of his birth!
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The Princess Packs a Punch 公主她，战力爆表
Yun Li, the seventh princess of Great Yan and its most “famous” royal, is described in the imperial records as “frail and sickly, unfit for any important role.” Her emperor father treats her as a tool for keeping the peace, the women of the harem see her as a poor wretch, and enemy nations consider her an easy target. So when the dynasty is beset by troubles at home and abroad, an imperial decree ordering her to marry into another kingdom hurls her straight into the eye of the storm. Everyone ex
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Ming's God of War, Zhu Di 大明战神朱棣
Why do we love reading about him? Because he lived the way we wish we could: if you don’t like it, fight! If you lose, own it! If you win, don’t brag. He feigned madness, played the fool, and even ate pig feed in a pigsty. Then he fought his way from Beiping to Nanjing and seized the dragon throne with his own hands. Zhu Di, the fourth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, was twenty when he was sent to govern Beiping. No one had any faith in this “Fourth Son.” His imperial father suspected him, his nephew trie
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Laying Plans in the Great Tang: I Crush the An Lushan Rebellion 布局大唐：我平推安史之乱
After a dreamlike journey to the Tang Dynasty, he becomes one of Li Longji’s sons. He sees the military farming system crumbling and rebuilds the laws that hold the realm together. He crushes the An Lushan Rebellion and saves the people from disaster. The great clans fall silent under his hand. Commoners from humble families rise to join the ranks of Lingyan Pavilion because of him. This is no ordinary transmigration story. In the name of Huaxia, he rewrites a thousand years of regret! This bo
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Tales of the Northern Song Dynasty 关于北宋的那些事
A new work is here! I hope you'll head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Chronicles of the Chongzheng Era 崇正风云录
[Multiple male leads | Political intrigue and passion | An ensemble cast in an ancient setting] The usually gentle emperor thundered, “Between you and this imperial robe stands I. Between you and me stands death.” Amid the mountains of power and seas of desire, they are now beset on all sides… The shrewd prince hides his blade up his sleeve, confident of victory. The emperor’s younger brother, whose origins are unknown, consumes him in bed, his true nature impossible to discern. The young mast
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Zero Abyss 零溟
[Ensemble cast] [Another World] [political intrigue] [corruption] [spatial powers] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [both righteous and wicked] Jun Yuhan: [jiangshi] [invincible] Qin Xi (Ling Xi): [two souls, two bodies] Shu Yiqing: [swordsmanship] Si Yu: [New Heavenly Dao] Xia Hedong: [body cultivation] Ye Chenge: [ghost clan] Hu Miaoling: [nine-tailed fox] World structure: Power system: Zero, Spirit, Inner, True Unified timeline: Zero Origin Era, fourth year of the Mingyuan Era, fourth year o
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My Wife Is Already the Richest, So Why Take the Top Scholar Exam? 娘子都首富了，还要考状元？
[Whose husband is this? Whoever grabs him gets to keep him!] Xu Ye accidentally transmigrates while rescuing someone from drowning. When he reaches shore, he realizes he's holding the daughter of the richest man in the realm. He thinks he's landed himself a wealthy wife and can lie flat, living off her money, but then he sees his fiancée being schemed against... “Copy books to pay off your debts? Why not copy Battle Through the Heavens!” “The teahouse is empty? Let's get on the BBS!” The imp
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Great Ming: Reborn as the Chongzhen Emperor, I Choose to Give Up 大明：开局穿成崇祯，我选择摆烂
(No System!! Not a naive protagonist!! Not a wish-fulfillment novel!! Read at your own risk!! This is a story about Chongzhen transmigrating into the late Ming, firmly rooted in historical fact!! By the time you finish, all you'll feel is pain! So much pain!!!) (Absolutely no System! Don't believe the fake reviews posted by the Blackie Studio! They've been targeting this book!) History's dead ends are never something a transmigrator can rewrite with a casual stroke of the pen. Yuan Chonghuan'
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The Hidden Actor of Lin'an 临安戏隐
[Me, a spoiled good-for-nothing: it’s all an act] After being reborn as the son of a Southern Song military officer, Zhang Ziyan decides to lie flat and make trouble for his father as a career. He raises fighting cocks, walks his dogs, and spends money like water. Lin’an City knows him as a complete waste of space. Everyone laughs at him: “Other than having a good father, what can you even do?” But they don’t know that... The imperial wine Jade Pot Spring is his creation, and its sky-high profit
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Back in the Ming Dynasty as the Emperor's Grandson 回到大明当皇孙
My name is Zhu Yingying. I am the eldest legitimate grandson of the Great Ming. My grandfather is Zhu Yuanzhang, founding emperor of the Great Ming. With a single thought, flowers bloom, and I rule over the capital, forging a glorious Great Ming unlike any other. (This is not a transmigration story. Zhu Yingying simply gains a set of memories from a later age, and this is a story of the Great Ming told from his perspective.)
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- 93 The Tang Crown Prince 大唐皇太子 One day a crown prince, the next a commoner. Li Chengqian ultimately brought about his own downfall. Then one day, I suddenly became him. In this unfamiliar era, I had planned to settle down and live quietly. But someone wanted to wipe out every last trace of me. If that's how it is, then I'll have no choice but to risk everything. I'll stake my life to reclaim all that I've lost. 2.9kReads8.3Score18514d adds
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A Promise in Blue Robes 青裳一诺
In their previous life, Qingshang (Heguan) and Duruo (Houpu) died together in a car accident, bound by death as they had been in life. In this life, Qingshang carries her memories of their past and journeys across mountains and rivers to reunite with him... But he no longer recognizes her, and love and resentment pull them in opposite directions... She practices medicine to save lives, solves one strange case after another, and uses her wisdom to stop a war between two nations and protect the pe
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- 95 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? 7.4kReads8.4Score50514d adds
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Selling Anxiety in the Tang Dynasty 我在大唐贩卖焦虑
A financial tycoon transmigrates into the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty, only to wake up as Wang Yuanbao, a bankrupt peddler. Amnesia, debt, and death at his door: from the start, he’s trapped in a hopeless situation. Yet in the depths of despair, he catches a glimpse of another side to this glorious age: Nobles fret over having no way to advance, merchants worry about competitors driving down prices, craftsmen fear they won’t have enough to live on, and officials dread a bleak future... Every
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- 97 Li Chengqian: I Really Don't Want to Be Emperor 李承乾：我真不想当皇帝 In 643 AD, the seventeenth year of the Zhenguan era, Crown Prince Li Chengqian was accused of plotting rebellion, stripped of his title, and exiled to Qianzhou. A year and a half later, he died at the age of twenty-six. When news reached Chang'an, Li Shimin was overcome with grief and wept uncontrollably. Li Chengqian had thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he found himself back on the eve of his rebellion. Given a second life, he would reclaim everything that had once 2.8kReads6.9Score16414d adds
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On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
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- 99 Fusu: This Time, I'm Claiming the Throne 扶苏：这一次皇位我坐定了 [Great Qin] [Political Intrigue] [Conquest] [No System] I am Fusu, the eldest prince of Great Qin. The heavens have given me another chance at life, and this time I will reclaim everything that belongs to me. In this age of fierce contention, anyone with the blood to fight will rise up and struggle. How could I let Great Qin fall after only two generations? I will quell internal strife, bring the Hundred Schools of Thought under my banner, strike the Xiongnu in the north, pacify the Baiyue in th 35Reads6.7Score—14d adds
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A Minister Below the Steps, Power Above Them 阶下臣，顶上权
A servant beneath the steps, power above all
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