Royalty Aren’t Interested in Love, Only Power Plays and Schemes: Power Is Their Lifelong Pursuit 帝王家不谈情，谈得是权谋和算计，权利是一生所求
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I Became the Wanli Emperor's Crown Prince, So Whoever Wants the Red Pill Can Eat It 穿成万历太子，这红丸谁爱吃谁吃
Reborn as an emperor who has only been on the throne for a month, he faces the Palace Coup and the Red Pill Incident, with treacherous officials within and bandits without. From crown prince to emperor, he plans every step. Great Ming, are you ready to welcome your Emperor Taichang? Nurhaci, are you ready to be put through the wringer?
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- 52 The Longqing Restoration 隆庆中兴 I transmigrate as Zhu Zaihou, but I won’t be a little sycophant. For the sake of tribute and trade, I dare to wage righteous war. I open the passes and command the four seas, my proclamations reaching the eight directions. The people receive sweet rain, and the dynasty flourishes forever. Alas! I would rather be a man of the Longqing era than aspire to rule like Yao and Shun. 8.4kReads8.5Score71414d adds
- 53 I Wrote History as a Novel Just to Copy Ancient Poems 为了抄古诗词，我把历史写成小说 This is a world with very few historical records. Its history is almost identical to Earth's: the Qin and Han dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. But the historical figures are completely different, and the records are brief, with much of them lost. Even the poems of its writers and poets have rarely survived. The lack of historical heritage has made both the nation and its people even more deeply and fervently devoted to history an 9.5kReads6.9Score51414d adds
- 54 In the Name of the People: The Han Dong Decentralization Plan 名义：散装汉东计划 Xu Changlin: I came to Handong for one thing: to develop the economy, develop the economy, and develop the economy! Call me Xu the Copycat or Warden Xu, but I still hope you’ll call me Xu the God of Wealth! 8.7kReads9.2Score84014d adds
- 55 Warlord: The Feng Family’s Eldest Son, Feared by Warlords and Foreign Powers Alike 军阀：冯家长子，军阀列强都怕我 [Warlords] [Rise to Power] [Feel-Good] [Republican Era] [Ruthless] [Invincible] He woke up to find he had transmigrated to a parallel world called Longguo, an era of warlord strife, and become a warlord’s son. With national humiliation and family hatred before him, Feng Yong spent ten years carefully laying the groundwork. At last, the day came for him to make his name known. A weak army? Build a powerful one! A chaotic system? Reform it! A lack of infrastructure? Build it! A struggling industry 178.4kReads8.2Score13k14d adds
- 56 Wandering Through Mythology, and You Want Me to Steal Jesus' Corpse? 游走神话，要我偷耶稣尸体？ Yu Lin awakened a mythic book that let him travel through the world of myths. By completing missions, he could obtain special abilities. His first mission was… “Steal Jesus’ body?” “Earn a random trait of Jesus’?” “Yu Lin, would you like to attend my banquet?” Yu Lin looked at Jesus, who had just invited him. He smiled and nodded. “I’d be delighted.” 59kReads8.4Score6.7k14d adds
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Great Ming: The Murderous Prince Scared Old Zhu Half to Death from the Start 大明：杀星皇子，开局吓疯老朱
After an accident, Zhu Su transmigrates to the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty and becomes Zhu Yuanzhang’s fifth son, Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou, the full brother of Zhu Di, Prince of Yan. He is bound to a rather troublesome System that grants rewards for exposing secrets. And so he starts doing all sorts of strange things! "Congratulations, Host, on exposing the love-hate affair between Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu, the daughter of the wealthy Liu family of Fengyang" "Exposure successful! You have received
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The Humble-Born Hero: From a Fallen Youth to Power over the Court 寒门枭雄：从落难少年到权倾朝野
A painstakingly written, deeply researched historical novel about how civilization and rules came into being, how people were shaped by rules and institutions, and how they gradually lost their freedom and souls. Read closely, and it may well be the best book you ever read. (A realistic, hard-edged political power struggle) (Not a brainless power fantasy) (A vivid, weighty world) (Every character has a clear stance, and everyone is smart) Who knows the terror of having someone point at you and s
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The Sinful Sea of the Capital 京门孽海录
The enmity between the Zhao family and the Emperor, the Chancellor, and the Empress has always been a thorn between them. They must trust and work together, yet they keep rubbing against that thorn. Can a unity born of pain endure into the next generation?
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- 60 Water Margin: My Family Was Slaughtered? Then I'll Bathe Liangshan in Blood! 水浒：满门被屠？那就血洗梁山！ [No System]+ [Crush Liangshan]+ [Farming]+ [Officialdom]+ [Power Struggles] When Hu Cheng woke up, he smelled burning flesh and saw flames. His six-month-pregnant wife lay by the well, her belly split open and her blood already drained away. His father lay sprawled across the stone steps, head severed from his body. Of the more than three hundred members of the Hu family estate, only twenty-three had survived. The murderer was called Li Kui. The group was called Liangshan. Hu Cheng crawled out o 5.6kReads8.4Score22214d adds
- 61 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 49.1kReads9.4Score6.1k14d adds
- 62 If Father Doesn't Die, How Can His Daughter Ascend the Throne? 父皇不死女儿怎么登基 [Court Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Villainous Heroine + Dark Younger Brother, a Powerful Team] A scorpion and a venomous snake carve out a path through the treacherous imperial harem. When Li Ruyue was seven, she watched helplessly as the people from the Court of Judicial Review fabricated evidence to frame her mother. Her mother was sent to the Cold Palace, the Qin clan was charged with treason, and all 142 people in Zhaoyang Hall were slaughtered before her eyes. She sat in the blood, watching 3.3kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
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No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话
An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the
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In My Next Life, I Won't Be Born into the Imperial Family 来世不生帝王家
Although this book portrays the rise and fall of imperial power through the dynasties of feudal society, it is always bound up with human relationships and the ways of the world, with political schemes and stratagems, and with suspicion, infighting, usurpation, and intrigue, often ending in bloodshed. Yet this book does not aim to teach people how to scheme or manipulate. Instead, it focuses on depicting the harrowing struggles of those in power as they wrestle with their own humanity. It reveal
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- 65 The Supreme Emperor 九五至尊 A hit historical novel from new media, also known as Reborn as the Emperor! Qin Hao’s soul transmigrates into ancient Great Xia, only for him to discover that he has become the shortest-lived emperor in history. With internal strife and external threats piling up, trouble is everywhere. When vipers close in, he has no choice but to raise the butcher’s knife and embrace the path of a tyrant, becoming an unrivaled emperor who rules over all! 3kReads8.4Score29314d adds
- 66 A History Major's Biggest Sucker Is Reborn as Liu Ju on the Night of the Witchcraft Curse 历史系大怨种重生成刘据在巫蛊夜 As a graduate student in history, Zhou Ji fainted during his thesis defense and woke up in the body of Crown Prince Liu Ju. Just yesterday, Zhou Ji had been holding forth about his book, A Textual Study of the Witchcraft Disaster. But now, the copper clepsydra on the desk showed that it was the autumn of the eighth lunar month, Renwu day, in the second year of Zhenghe. The tragedy would unfold tomorrow. Fragments of memory came crashing into his mind: the cowardly crown prince of his previous li 31Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 67 The Emperor Has Just Stripped the Princes of Their Fiefs, and I’ve Raised an Army in Rebellion! 皇帝刚削藩，我就起兵造反！ An alternate history with no System or cheat powers, focused on strategy and warfare. A ruler vies for the realm, the nobles for territory, the scholar-officials for power, the people of the world for status, and the common folk for food and clothing. If you are not in their position, you cannot understand what they are fighting for. Become a feudal lord, and think you can live the carefree life of a prince? That is merely what you imagine you would do as a lord, because you are not in that posi 710Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 68 Reborn as a Tyrant: From the Start, I Force the Former Emperor to Abdicate 重生暴君：开局逼先皇退位 Humiliate scholars and beat military officers to death? Force the late emperor to abdicate and make the people perform corvée labor? What you say is true. I did all of that. You call me a tyrant? Ha! I have never denied that I am a tyrant. But only I can make the foreign tribes tremble at the mere mention of my name. Only I can keep the Great Qian dynasty ruling for all eternity. Only I can make the glory of Great Qian shine upon every land under heaven. North, south, east, or west, every living 26Reads—Score214d adds
- 69 Reborn: The Honest Confession of an Official 官路之重生坦白局 An accident gave Zhang Hao a new lease on life, giving him the chance to rewrite the years of mediocrity and helplessness behind him. With the advantage of knowing what lies ahead, watch as Zhang Hao plans every move and secures victory from afar. A dragon may lie hidden in a pool, but when the winds and clouds gather, it will soar into the heavens. 5.8kReads9.3Score39714d adds
- 70 The Second Book by Tan Jian Ting Chao 弹剑听潮的第2本书 In the world of fame and fortune, he keeps his resolve hidden beneath a steely exterior. He never compromises his principles, and every move reveals his true mettle... He plans before he acts, breaks deadlocks through hard work, and builds his reputation with foresight. Through the ups and downs of officialdom, he never forgets his original purpose. 124.8kReads9.4Score14k14d adds
- 71 A Bank Wage Slave Transmigrates and Becomes Emperor 银行牛马穿越当皇帝 Wang Yuan was a bank account manager. He spent every day writing credit assessments, checking transaction records, and poring over financial statements, until he died suddenly in front of a report investigating a fifty-million-yuan loan. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Xiao Jingheng, the new emperor of the Great Sheng dynasty. On his first day on the throne, the entire court submitted a memorial requesting fifty thousand more troops for the northern frontier. Some said Pei Zhenbe 1.4kReads6.9Score10514d adds
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Yesterday Flowed into the City 昨日流入城
[Officialdom] + [Workplace] + [Business World] + [Family] A scholar, two business magnates, three boxing champions, four great families, the Gao family's five tigers, the Twelve Beauties of Jiangling, and 108 concubines... A man who had lost all hope and decided to lie flat is thrust into officialdom overnight, only to become the talk of the whole city as he indulges in wine, women, wealth, and power... Where does his path ultimately lead? Will there be an ending?
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The Benevolent Ancestor of the Tang Dynasty 【大唐仁祖】
[Golden Finger] [Transmigration] [Li Ke] [Political Intrigue] [History] This is the only alternate-history novel anywhere to feature a protagonist who fulfills the ideals of "establishing a moral compass for Heaven and Earth, securing the lives of the people, carrying on the lost teachings of the sages of the past, and bringing peace to all generations." From the start, he is caught in a dead-end situation: Zhangsun Wuji has already begun laying the groundwork to frame him, and fewer than six y
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I Transmigrated to the Great Ming: Commanding Troops from a Humble Background, I Shape the Realm with Schemes 穿越大明：寒门掌兵，权谋定江山
A modern history and military enthusiast unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a poor family’s son, whose father is a disgraced official in the final years of the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty. His family has fallen into ruin, he is bullied, powerful local clans surround him, bandits lay siege to the city, and the officials abandon it and flee. The people within are on the brink of disaster. In this desperate moment, he is called upon to take command of the troops. Though the son of a co
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Suiyang 绥阳
[Ensemble Cast + Political Intrigue + Multiple Viewpoints + Long-form] An alternate-history ensemble inspired by the histories of the Tang and Song dynasties. The title means “to pacify and settle” and “vitality and prosperity.” Twelve years ago, Wang Zhizhou, the Grand Pillar State, died in Chang'an. The Fourth Prince was crippled overnight and sent to the frontier. This sudden turn of events shocked the court and triggered a series of earth-shattering upheavals that left officials throughout t
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The Rise of the Late Ming: A Reborn Man’s Celebration 明末崛起：重生者的狂欢
What should you do after arriving in the late Ming dynasty? The last unified feudal dynasty founded by the Han people was already nearing its end. Productivity was low, there was no industry, most people couldn't even read, and there was a severe imbalance between men and women. The only solution was to give the people land so they could eat their fill, then build schools where children could learn to read and do arithmetic. Next, establish a system that could be continuously improved, rebuild p
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If Wang Ruofu Turns Violent, Empress Guo Is Doomed: Renzong, I Suffer 王若弗成暴力郭皇后：仁宗，朕苦
[Historical comedy] [Lighthearted] [Blunt, hot-tempered matriarch Wang Ruofu × kindhearted, somewhat spineless Zhao Zhen] [Inspired by Serenade of Peaceful Joy, The Story of Minglan, and the historical Song dynasty] A domineering empress takes charge of the emperor, sending history down a turbulent new path. Wang Ruofu is reborn as Emperor Renzong’s empress, Guo. This not-so-bright matriarch spends her life rampaging through the palace, ruling by sheer volume and overwhelming force. To hell with
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A Tragedy in the Imperial Court 宫廷之殇
[Family Affection + No CP] Born into the imperial family, Yuntang was aware of the world around him even as an infant. When his father, the emperor, took him in his arms, he felt an instinctive closeness, as if his soul had returned to its rightful place and he had known him before. This strange bond meant that even after he vaguely sensed the emperor's hidden schemes, he remained immersed in the deliberately cultivated fatherly love, sincerely growing close to his elder brother, the crown princ
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Great Ming: Tyrant Chongzhen Executes the Vassal Kings from the Start 大明之暴君崇祯开局先诛藩王
[No System!] [Ruthless!] [Shadow Warfare!] [Unification!] The Later Han had a succession of child emperors, while the Ming emperors suffered one unexpected death after another! This emperor is no longer rash and suspicious, nor stubbornly overconfident. He stabilizes the court and slowly consolidates power! First, control of the military. Then, new faces in the court! He gives Sun Chengzong important posts to lull the Donglin officials and balance the court. When someone wants to levy commercial
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- 80 Year Eleven of Chongzhen: From the Start, I Save Lu Xiangsheng 崇祯十一年：开局先救卢象昇 Strong logic + rigorous historical research + partly feel-good + political scheming + war + late Ming + late Ming + saving the country + vying for supremacy + no transmigration No System and no transmigration. Relying solely on historical knowledge and an understanding of human nature, he will forge a different realm, one step at a time. When he awoke from a dream, Chongzhen discovered that he could see the historical verdict above every person's head. [Lu Xiangsheng] - Died fighting at Jiazhuan 150.9kReads8.6Score26.7k14d adds
- 81 Transmigrating as Chongzhen: Only Three Months of Imperial Rule Remain 穿越崇祯：只剩三个月国祚 [A happy ending for the heroes of the late Ming + Industrial Revolution + global rule + no System + no harem] (The story is mainly about saving a nation on the brink of collapse and uniting the world under one rule!) Transmigrate as the Chongzhen Emperor with only three months left before the dynasty falls? Then defy fate and change history! Zhu Mingyuan, a modern physics researcher, opens his eyes to find himself as the Chongzhen Emperor. Li Zicheng's army is at the gates. The imperial treasury 99.7kReads8.7Score12.3k14d adds
- 82 Great Ming: Zhu Biao Turns Evil, and the Jingnan Campaign Is No More 大明：朱标黑化，靖难没了 History records that Crown Prince Zhu Biao died of illness in the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu. What history does not record: he died once, then came back to life. His soul wandered for three days, and he saw the entire fate of the Ming dynasty over the next 276 years: The Jingnan Campaign, the burning palace, Tumu Fortress, and the strip of white silk hanging from a tree on Coal Hill. When he opened his eyes again, he was in his sickbed in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu. The charcoal fire blaz 49.7kReads8.8Score4.2k14d adds
- 83 Great Ming: If the Tianqi Emperor Lives, Great Ming Will Never Fall 大明：天启不死，大明不灭 [Rating just released, and it’ll rise later] [Handcrafted] + [No System] + [No mindless protagonist] + [Power struggles] + [Imperial court] + [Battle for supremacy] The soul of the Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming dynasty drifted through four hundred years before he was reborn on the eleventh day of the eighth month of the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, just eleven days before his historical death. At this point, the Ming dynasty had just won the Battle of Ningjin. The Mongol tribes had 102kReads9.0Score13.7k14d adds
- 84 Great Ming: Your Son Zhu Changluo Requests That Wanli Abdicate 大明：儿臣朱常洛，请万历退位 [Not a beginner-friendly read + historical power struggles + no farming + court factional battles. The author is a seasoned political operator who used to work in government, and knows power games inside out.] After transmigrating, he discovers he has become the most pathetic Crown Prince in the Ming Dynasty. For thirty-two years, he has been everyone’s punching bag. His court robes are patched, his mother has been imprisoned until she went blind, and his father lavishes forty thousand qing of f 42.8kReads8.5Score4.1k14d adds
- 85 The Descendants of the Hongwu Emperor 洪武朝的子孙们 After an accident, his soul travels a century into the past. On an ordinary day in the seventh year of Hongwu, he is born in the imperial palace of Yingtian Prefecture. He is the most honored child in all of the Ming dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang’s beloved grandson. Zhu Biao’s eldest legitimate son. And yet, in the history books, he is merely a passing mention: Prince Yu Huai. Looking at the still-healthy Crown Prince Zhu Biao, at Hu Weiyong and the Blue Jade case, which have yet to unleash their blood 102.5kReads8.3Score7.4k14d adds
- 86 Father, Don't Hang Yourself. Your Son Has a Plan 父皇，别上吊，儿臣有办法 “You accuse me of usurping power? Fine, I’ve taken it!” With two thousand personal guards entering the northern frontier, Crown Prince Zhu Cilang of the Ming Dynasty launched a campaign of slaughter. He confiscated the Shanxi merchants’ wealth, executed the regional commander, reformed the frontier army, and secured Xuanfu! The court berated him as “brutal and heartless”? He shot back, “Without brutality, the Ming would have fallen long ago!” An imperial edict summoned him back? He burned it and 52kReads8.6Score5.2k14d adds
- 87 Great Ming: I, Chongzhen, Will Never Hang Myself! 大明：朕，崇祯，绝不上吊！ [Reborn + hard-edged history + decisive and ruthless + naval hegemon + no System, but with memories of a past life] On Coal Hill, a strip of white silk brought an end to the Ming Dynasty's last shred of dignity. When Zhu Youjian opened his eyes again, he had returned to the seventh year of the Tianqi era. That year, he was still only the sixteen-year-old Prince of Xin. His imperial brother was gravely ill. Wei Zhongxian wielded power across the court, the eunuch faction controlled the government 67Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Chongzhen: My Life Has Been on Thin Ice 崇祯：我这一生如履薄冰 (An immersive experience of Zhu Youjian's life and the true nature of the chaos at the end of the Ming dynasty! Not a power fantasy!) At the end of the thirty-eighth year of the Wanli reign, a report that Liaodong postal couriers had frozen to death was being used by a eunuch to prop up a table leg. The rice wasted at banquets by wealthy gentry in Jiangnan was worth more than three years of disaster relief in Shaanxi. Nanmu timber for the construction of the three great halls in the Forbidden Ci 651Reads6.4Score10314d adds
- 89 Chongzhen! Reclaim the Throne! 崇祯！重征！ After Zhu Youjian hanged himself at Coal Hill, his soul returned to the day his elder brother, the Tianqi Emperor, died in the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, just as Zhu Youjian was about to ascend the throne. He is not a transmigrator with modern knowledge. His only golden finger is the memory of the seventeen years he spent as emperor in his previous life: he knows which decisions led to the fall of the dynasty, whom he can trust, and whom he must not put to use. Every memory was bought wit 3.5kReads6.3Score28714d adds
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Passing Myself Off as a Zhuge: Heavens, Why? Rebuild the Han! 冒姓诸葛：悠悠苍天？再造大汉！
In Jianxing Year Twelve, Zhuge Liang, the peerless genius known as the Sleeping Dragon and chancellor of Shu Han, fell ill and died at Wuzhang Plains, lamenting, “Vast heavens, why have you treated me so unfairly?” He had devoted himself completely and worked until his dying day, making six campaigns against Mount Qi in an attempt to restore the Han and return to the old capital. But fate was cruel, his ambitions unfulfilled, and he passed away. Zhuge You, a history undergraduate from the twent
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- 91 I’ve Transmigrated into Gao Yang: No More Holding Back! 魂穿高洋：我不要藏拙了！ He transmigrates as Gao Yang, the infamous beast of an emperor and madman in history, but fourteen years before the founding of Northern Qi. The Northern Wei has only recently split, and three states stand across the Central Plains. Even the Battle of Xiaoguan between Eastern and Western Wei has yet to begin! Forget becoming emperor. Unless he keeps a low profile and conceals his talents, there may not even be a future for him under the thumb of his older brother, Gao Cheng! He has before him th 21.8kReads7.7Score1.3k14d adds
- 92 Han Cavalry: A Warrior's Unwavering Heart 汉骑：戎马丹心 [Transmigration + Passion + Ensemble Cast + Political Intrigue + War + Farming + A Powerful Han Dynasty + Not a Power Fantasy + No System] This book starts a little slowly, so please give it a chance. The early chapters spend too long on development, but from the middle to the later chapters, after chapter 141, it becomes a power fantasy! Main characters: Zhao Ji, Liu Che, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing A thousand years pass in the blink of an eye, yet the palaces of the Han still stand! Modern young ma 21.7kReads8.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 93 Top-Tier Project Management in Ancient Times: From a Fallen Kingdom to Revival 古代顶级项目管理，从亡国到中兴 What’s it like for an art student to transmigrate into a rotten country and become its emperor? Well… Nangong Haoxuan can give you just one answer: a disastrous start, and utterly miserable. What the heck! A rotten country with an army of five hundred thousand soldiers! What kind of empire lets a single county have three or four bandit strongholds? What kind of country lets you seize a million taels of silver just by executing a few officials? As luck would have it, the bizarre state of Zhao has 2.4kReads7.6Score11114d adds
- 94 Everyone Wants to Be a Powerful Minister? Then I'll Just Slack Off! 都想当权臣？朕摆烂不就是了！ [Court intrigue] [Emperor] [Lying low] [A touch of villainous transformation] [No System] After transmigrating into the body of a puppet emperor, surrounded by powerful ministers at court, I decided to simply give up and coast. You want power? I'll give it to you! But if I give it to you, how can I not give some to him? If I give it to the Left Chancellor, won't the Right Chancellor be lonely? So I went to each of my most trusted ministers and said, “My dear subject, I hear your daughter has j 10Reads5.2Score—14d adds
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Great Qin, You Haunt My Dreams 大秦，让我魂牵梦绕
Great Qin + political intrigue + quick transmigration + a power fantasy No System: relying solely on his own knowledge and workplace experience, he rises to a position above countless others! I was an overworked wage slave, pulling a sudden death while my boss was rushing me to meet a deadline. Then I transmigrated to Great Qin, where I was in the middle of being physically castrated. With my peerless good looks, how did I end up forced into celibacy? Damn it, they even call me Zhao the Eunuch
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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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The Marvelous Northern Wei 神奇的北魏
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, rival powers carved up the land and the political situation was chaotic. The Tuoba Xianbei, nomads of the grasslands, rose with the tide, unified the Central Plains, and established a remarkable dynasty that governed the heartland through the rites and music of Chinese civilization. The Remarkable Northern Wei is a popular history of the Northern Wei, set against the backdrop of the Wei, Jin, Northern, and Southern Dynasties. Drawing on historical sour
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- 98 I Hold Power in Eastern Wu 我在东吴当权臣 My soul transmigrated to the end of the Han dynasty, where I became a lowly soldier in the Jiangdong camp, likely to end up in a mass grave at any moment. In my previous life, I read history and laughed at “Sun of Ten Thousand,” mocked as he was chased by eight hundred of Zhang Liao’s men. I thought him incompetent. In this life, with a cold blade pressed against my neck, I finally understood: in these chaotic times, human lives are as worthless as grass. Since I’ve come here, I can’t let his 48Reads—Score414d adds
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Reborn as Emperor Zhezong of Song: From Puppet to Power Player 重生宋哲宗：从傀儡开始逆袭
In the eighth year of Yuanyou, Empress Dowager Gao died. Zhao Xu, Emperor Zhezong of Song, finally took power after eight years under her thumb. At court, the Old Party was entrenched. On the borders, Western Xia watched like a tiger ready to pounce. Everyone was waiting to see the young emperor make a fool of himself. But no one knew that his soul came from a distant future. He renamed the era Shaosheng, recalled Zhang Dun, purged the Old Party of Yuanyou, and restored the New Policies. At the
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Sima the Old Rogue 司马老贼
He is the gravedigger of Cao Wei and the founder of Western Jin. He is the “old rogue Sima,” and the last winner of the Three Kingdoms. Centered on Sima Yi, this novel unfolds a sweeping panorama of the late Han and Three Kingdoms era. Witness how he treads carefully under the suspicion of three generations of powerful rulers: Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui; how he and Zhuge Liang wage an ultimate contest of will and national strength at Mount Qi and the Wei River; and how, in his twilight years,
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