Any Really Good Historical Novels? Farming, Palace Intrigue, or Cultivation Are All Fine 有没有特别好看的古代的小说，种田宫斗修仙都可
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Dust Mountain 尘埃山
This story follows ordinary people struggling to survive through the long, chaotic ninety years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It portrays how a group of common folk make their way in life, far from the halls of power, with no special advantages or extraordinary encounters. Like specks of dust drifting through time, they endure the weight of the years, unnoticed and unheard.
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Opening a Little Restaurant in Shengjing 我在盛京开小馆
[Alternate world, slow burn, not a wish-fulfillment novel, food + court intrigue + transmigration. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] Miss Li’s Changhuan Eatery, tucked away on Qingxing Alley, serves delicious food at affordable prices. The officials who get up early for roll call tug at their increasingly tight uniforms, but still can’t help ordering another bowl of fresh pork wontons. Pei Hongzhi happened to eat there once and discovered that Miss Li didn’t just make excellent breakf
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Great Qin: The Ruthless Chancellor, Whom the First Emperor Begs Not to Kill 大秦：最狠丞相，始皇求我别杀了
[Decisive and Ruthless + The Protagonist Is a Master Schemer + No Romance + Career-Focused Protagonist] After transmigrating into the Great Qin dynasty, Liu Bai rose straight to the position of Great Qin's Left Chancellor. From the start, he had seven thousand surrendered rebels buried alive. When he returned to Xianyang, everyone was sharpening their knives, ready to impeach the chancellor. Only then did they realize it was all just the beginning. “Your Majesty, Left Chancellor Liu Bai beat Zha
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The First Emperor Overhears My Thoughts: He Unifies the World, Not Just the Six Kingdoms 始皇偷听我心声，不统六国统全球
[Main story has no romance, and is set in an alternate Great Qin. Not everything is historical: a mix of history and comedy] "The final bonus chapter is for readers' satisfaction and has a hint of romance. If that bothers you, feel free to skip it" Good news: Li Jiang transmigrates to the Qin dynasty and gets to see her idol in person. At last, she lays eyes on the legendary ancestor, nearly two meters tall, with thick brows and big eyes. She gets to watch the First Emperor unify the Six Kingdom
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She Played at Being a Divine Being in the Late Eastern Han Dynasty 她在东汉末年装神弄鬼
[Career-minded heroine + domineering, dashing hero] [Please note: This is a novel, not an academic paper. It has flaws and mistakes. If that bothers you, don't read it.] [The heroine is fifteen when she first transmigrates.] She thought transmigrating would let her live an easy, wonderful life. Instead, Heaven hit her with a harsh reality: she had landed in the late Eastern Han dynasty, with chaos about to engulf the land. To stay alive and protect her family, she has no choice but to embark on
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Help! I Sold the Male Lead to a Brothel from the Start! 救命！刚开局就把男主卖青楼了！
[Read comments with care to avoid spoilers] [See the author's note in Chapter One] [1v1 romance + plot-driven + equally matched leads + both leads devoted to each other + happy ending] Fu Sheng, the greatest spirit painter in a modern ancient martial arts family, is like a real-life Ma Liang with a magic paintbrush. She never imagined a System would bind itself to her one day and send her into a cultivation novel she'd read, where she becomes Chun Tao, the young male lead's maid during his youth
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My Years Cultivating Immortality in a Male-Oriented Novel 我在男频修仙那些年
Jiang Chan transmigrated into a male-oriented cultivation power fantasy, but she arrived too late: the original owner had already gotten herself killed. Now Jiang Chan has no choice but to agree to a duel with the male lead over their engagement. System? Doesn't exist. The original owner of this body was vicious and wicked beyond measure. She killed her master, destroyed her own sect, and caused trouble everywhere until the male lead tore out her tendons and crushed her bones, leaving not even h
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The Pretty Palace Maid's Step-by-Step Rise to Empress 娇娇宫女，步步为后
[Palace intrigue / not both partners’ first time / devoted love in the later story / not a strong heroine; the female lead cries easily and isn’t particularly clever, so don’t expect too much!] After three years in the palace, Yue Li has worked carefully and waited for a chance at promotion. Just before she is promoted, a palace maid sharing her room is sentenced to death for offending a consort. Thunder crashes and rain pours that night as blood spatters everywhere. Terrified, Yue Li cannot sle
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Farming in the Cold Palace 我在冷宫忙种田
After transmigrating, she becomes an unwanted empress discarded in the Cold Palace. What? The palace has stopped providing her with food and clothing? No problem, she has a pocket dimension and plenty of grain. What? The emperor is a greasy, overweight middle-aged man? No problem, she’ll sell steamy little books, save up enough silver, and leave the palace. What? The impossibly handsome man before her is actually the emperor? His handsome face draws closer and closer. “My beloved consort, where
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After She Died, the Coldhearted Powerful Official's Hair Turned White Overnight 她死后，冷冰冰的权臣一夜白头
[Not an angst novel + heartwarming + no logic + read it to see if it suits your taste] After transmigrating into a book, Hua Zhao had her memories erased and became a tool whose job was to give the heroine a golden finger. To top it off, she was also the infamous, short-lived first wife of the villainous minister. Luckily, she regained her memories and cut her losses in time. The heroine’s golden finger? Sorry, that’s a family heirloom that came with me when I transmigrated into the book! Her in
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After Our Divorce, I Plot a Rebellion with My Ex-Husband’s Younger Brother 和离后，我和前夫他弟一起谋反
[Ex-Wife Retrieval: Ashes Edition + Darkened Heroine Takes Down Scumbags] The wife of the General Who Guards the Far reaches, who had been dead for three years, has returned! A master of medicine and a favorite of the emperor, she secured an imperial decree granting her a divorce, then turned around and married her former husband's younger brother, known as the most handsome man in the capital! But it turned out her new husband was actually a young prince of the imperial family, and he was who
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Reborn as the Villainess, I Run Away Pregnant, and the Cold, Powerful Official Pursues Me to the Ends of the Earth 重生女配带球跑，清冷权臣追断腿
[The Wife-Chasing Crematorium, the Second Male Lead Takes the Crown] On the day Fu Ci married, Jiang Wan went into a difficult labor. As she lay at death’s door, she thought back on her brief life and could only feel that it had all been absurd and laughable. Her father was a treacherous minister. After his crimes were exposed, his entire clan was sentenced to execution. Fu Ci was a brilliant prodigy, the youngest prime minister in the realm. For her sake, he set aside his pride and knelt in the
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Goodness! The Maid Comes Home Pregnant and Finds a Bright New Path 惊！丫鬟揣娃回家，走出康庄大道
The short drama is out, and a publishing deal has been signed, awaiting release. [Soul transmigration + storage space + fleeing while pregnant + only ever been with each other + building wealth] Liu Yuehong was a country girl and a third-grade maid at the Duke of Zhenguo’s manor. At sixteen, hoping to buy her freedom early and earn fifty taels of silver, she became the antidote for the manor’s third young master, Lu Chen. During that time, memories of her previous life in a post-apocalyptic worl
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Aunt Chen Is Back from the Cultivation World 陈姨娘从修真界回来了
[Strong Female Lead + No Romance + Satisfying Revenge] Chen Qingzhu, a prodigy of the Yuqing Sect, is struck back into her previous life by a lightning tribulation during her Golden Core breakthrough. She is now a long-neglected concubine in the Jingnan Marquis's household. The mistress she loyally serves wants to make her the scapegoat, while the husband who once swore eternal love makes no effort to learn the truth before ordering her beaten to death. Even her own son looks down on her servant
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Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责
Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied
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The King of Hell's Junior Sister: One Verbal Takedown at a Time 阎王的师妹，怼死一个是一个
“Holy crap, Senior Brother, you actually mean it? All I did was lose your lousy old brush. Did you really have to dump me in the human realm?” “Senior Brother... Sob, I was wrong. Just let me come back.” “I promise I'll listen to you from now on, really~” “I'm your own junior sister, after all~” Your own junior sister? No, no, no. You're my own ancestor! The ghost official stood to the side, trembling as he asked, “My lord, is it really all right to just dump Xun'er in the human realm?” Ya
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The Legitimate Daughter Claims the Pearl 嫡女夺珠
Lu Yangyang dreams that she is the real daughter of a duke's family, her face disfigured and her life stolen by someone else. In the future, her jealousy of the fake heiress will earn her the family's rejection. She will be married off in haste, then abused to death by her husband. The carriage sent to bring her back to the capital is already waiting at the gate. Lu Yangyang was born with superhuman strength. She refuses to believe in that fate, rolls up her sleeves, and heads back to the capita
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A Splendid Realm: The Empress’s Road to Greatness 锦绣河山之女帝的成长之路
[Entirely fictional setting!] The emperor grants Ye Xuzhi a marriage in front of everyone. Ye Xuzhi feels both delighted and terrified. She is delighted because she is to marry Princess Xiao Jingyuan, but terrified because if her identity is exposed, she will be guilty of deceiving the emperor. Although she is alone and has no clan to be punished, she still has a duty to defend her country. Remembering how her homeland fell in her previous life, how she was made a camp prostitute for the amuseme
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Flower Demon 花妖
[Past and Present Lives + One True Love + Palace Intrigue and Power Struggles] A thousand years of longing will not go unanswered; a lifetime of devotion will never bring regret! A brilliant, resilient surgeon versus a suspicious, ruthless God of War general! Meeting him was the bond of fate from her past life, and the tribulation of this one. A tearjerking tale of a white plum blossom in the immortal realm of Qilian, a true dragon, and a snowflake reincarnated to endure a trial. The white plum
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
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The Imperial Consort Who Weighs Two Taels, Long Live a Thousand Years 二两皇妃千千岁
As a wandering soul, she watched Mu Zisu live and die, die and live again. In her first seven lives, Mu Zisu was killed by her own family every time. In her seventh life, Mu Zisu was tragically given a ghost marriage to the late Crown Prince. As the coffin was lowered into the earth, she, a mere onlooker, saw the Crown Prince lying beside Mu Zisu inside the coffin. At that single glance, her soul merged with the hapless, foolish Mu Zisu. And so, in Mu Zisu's body, she was reborn for the eighth t
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The Thousand Phoenixes Decree 千凰令
Luo Qianhuang, who could summon every beast in the world, was born with both a righteous and an evil soul. After years of loving devotion to her husband, Qianhuang was driven from home with a letter of divorce. Her former husband married another woman, and Qianhuang left with her beloved pet, Linlin, without looking back. They were ambushed along the way, and Linlin was pierced by a thousand arrows while saving her. The one who killed her was none other than the bride-to-be her former husband wa
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Fragrance in His Palm 掌中香
[Over-the-top traditional historical romance + a little angst for sweetness + groveling husband] Ditang was an assassin raised by the Rakshasa Hall. Years ago, she failed a mission to assassinate Prince Qi. He had her thrown into a snake pit, where she was poisoned. The doctor said she had no more than five years to live. To leave the Rakshasa Hall, Ditang struck a bargain with its master. She would impersonate Zhao Wanyi, the legitimate daughter of the General’s Residence, and marry Prince Qi.
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Ultraman Koros Ultraman柯罗斯
Entirely original! Original characters! Chapter 107 is packed with highlights! Extra: Ultraman: I, Koros, Will Turn the Tables on the Absolutians! Koros Ultraman is a powerful warrior from a distant, unknown galaxy, young and bold enough to defy fate! Amnesia, a hunter's instincts, a little protagonist's luck, a guardian's heart, luck with the ladies, an old Showa geezer, and a handsome look with silver skin, blood-red stripes, and menacing hunter's eyes. His height reaches an astonishing 50 met
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Transmigrate? You've Got to Be Kidding 穿越？就离谱
Lin Yao is a popular singer in the 21st century. One dark and stormy night, for some utterly ridiculous reason, she transmigrates into the body of Di Lingyao in another world. Romance included. A perfect ending. Feng Yunche: “Yaoyao, wipe off your drool.” Di Lingyao: “Sorry, my drool has a mind of its own.” Watching the singing and dancing at the palace banquet… Di Lingyao: “Ooh, ooh! Tsk, tsk, that tiny waist, that pert little bottom!”
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Forced to Marry by Her Stepmother, the Lucky Koi Delicate Wife Brings Prosperity to the Whole Family 被继母逼嫁后，锦鲤娇妻旺全家
Du Wanchun lost the perfect match to her stepsister, and her stepmother forced her to marry a disabled man from the Zhou family. She thought she was walking into a living hell, but after she married into the family, the Zhou household, once so poor they couldn’t scrape together a penny, suddenly changed. Ducks that had been poisoned came back to life and laid clutch after clutch of eggs. Crops sprouted in their rocky fields, where nothing had ever grown before. Their granary filled up, and they
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The Story of Fang Ming and the Four Sisters of the Fang Family 方明和方家四个姐妹的故事
The story mainly follows Fang Ming's grandfather, covering his life in the 1850s and events in the palace, then Fang Dong, Fang Ming's father, and finally Fang Ming's story, set forty years later in 1934. It also follows Fang Ming's children and their lives in modern society.
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The Official Has Been Demoted Again 大人又被贬官了
Originally titled The Official Has Been Demoted Again On the day the Left Chancellor's daughter was to be married, she was dismembered inside her bridal sedan in full view of the crowd. Everyone said the crime had to be beyond human capability. So the most famous Master He in Chang'an was thrown into jail. He Jingxin: ...But I'm not really a master of the occult! I'm just a con artist! He Jingxin couldn't tell fortunes. She'd never read the Book of Changes and didn't know how to read faces. Song
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The Coroner’s Daughter 仵作千金
[The animated series of the same name is now available] By day, she is the best forensic examiner in the Embroidered Guard. Though a woman, she is decisive and skilled: she performs autopsies, examines bones, and upholds justice. No one dares question her. By night, disguised as a man and impersonating her missing older brother, she is the capital’s most renowned physician. She treats the sick and saves lives, unwittingly capturing the hearts of countless young women and married ladies, and ear
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A Zombie Transmigrates and Gets Tricked by a Villain into Becoming a Stepmother 丧尸穿越后，被反派诓去当后娘
What should I do after transmigrating? Chu Chi held her head in her hands and thought for ages. A zombie's brain has only just grown in, so she has to make good use of it. When in doubt, sleep on it first. After Lin You'an woke up, the first thing she did was grab her little sister and escape the wolf's den. Along the way, she also found herself a stepmother. “So, you’re saying you’re my son?” “Mm-hmm.” “How old am I?” “Eighteen?” “How old are you?” “Eight.” “I’ve read plenty of books, so don’t
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Before the Family Is Raided, the Little One Empties the Capital and Heads Into Exile 抄家前，小奶包搬空京城去流放
[Spatial powers and medicine + supernatural abilities + adored by everyone + play the pig to eat the tiger + powerful heroine with a satisfying story + one-on-one, both leads devoted only to each other] Sheng Nanxi, a special forces medic from the 24th century, transmigrates into a male-oriented novel as a three-year-old princess doted on by her entire family. The powerful woman with supernatural abilities from her previous life hasn't even had time to enjoy all this incredible fortune before sh
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I Was Forced to Become Emperor, but the Handsome Men Offered Themselves to My Bed? 我被迫称帝，美男们却自荐枕席？
[One woman and multiple men + the heroine ultimately becomes emperor and builds a harem + no competing women + the heroine is the strongest + some male leads fall for her at first sight, while others fall for her soon after]“I can give my heart to all the people of the world, but how innocent are those who love me...” Wen Tangjiu offered her divine heart to the people, only to watch her loved ones and friends die because of her. When she wakes again beneath a cliff, she remembers nothing of the
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The Beloved Junior Sister Returns to Save Her Entire Sect of Grudge-Bearing Villains 团宠师妹归来，拯救满门怨种反派
[Signed for publication, under the title “Clear Day, Boundless Light.” Strong female lead + light ensemble cast + everyone’s darling + putting scumbags in their place] On the brink of death, Ji Qingzhou regains the memories of her past life and learns that she has transmigrated into a tragic cultivation novel, where she is the male lead’s doomed first love. Ji Qingzhou: I have no interest in becoming part of some jerk’s tragic romance. The plot is about to kill her, and she is about to breathe h
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Transmigrated into The Legend of the Condor Heroes as Mu Nianci 穿越射雕，成了穆念慈
[Female lead's growth + transmigration across worlds + wuxia + cultivation] P.S. 1: The female lead has a pocket dimension, but it gets temperamental whenever it feels like it; she also has a System, but it appears late. All in all, her golden finger is of limited use and can't let her coast to victory. What enables her to cut down enemies left and right is her own hard work! P.S. 2: 1. World One (The Legend of the Condor Heroes): A lonely girl who depends on her adoptive father. After becoming
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