Any Stories About a Concubine’s Son Striving to Get Ahead? 有没有庶子之类挣前途的
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- 51 I Worked My Way to the Top Scholar in the Imperial Exams, and Now You Say I Have a Powerful Identity 拼命科举成状元，你才说我有身份 (A cathartic power fantasy: the protagonist never takes anything lying down, and never lets a grudge wait until tomorrow!) No romance + nation-building + imperial examinations + farming + alternate history + court intrigue A no-holds-barred power fantasy, with a decisive, ruthless protagonist!! If there's no justice in this world, then I'll carve it out with blood! If the great clans leave everyone with nowhere to turn, then I'll cut a path through them. The county magistrate's son toys with peo 33.7kReads9.0Score4.1kShelves
- 52 Your Majesty, the Top Scholar Is Slacking Off Again and Again 启禀陛下，状元郎他又又又开摆了 [Imperial Exams and Farming]+ [Family Matters]+ [Building Wealth]+ [Scheming]+ [Alternate Ancient Setting] Lu Qilin, a modern enthusiast of intangible cultural heritage, unexpectedly transmigrated. When he woke up, he had become an eight-year-old village boy with a dim mind, whose mother had died young and whose father had disappeared. Fortunately, his grandparents and uncle and aunt truly loved him, and his two older cousins genuinely cared for him. It wasn't the worst start imaginable. Unfortu 13kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 53 The Abandoned Heir Places First in the Imperial Exam, and Ten Thousand Riders Storm the Marquis’s Mansion 被弃世子中状元，万骑踏平侯府门 [Imperial Examinations + Reborn in the Womb + Court Politics + Revenge + System] Shen Shufan was reborn in the womb as the heir to a marquis’s estate, only to be knocked unconscious and thrown into a river. No problem: ever heard of the Proficiency System? The impoverished Shen family, a humble family of scholars, found a poor child in a freezing river. Little did they know he was an imperial-examination genius! Other families considered it a blessing from their ancestors if even one person pass 22.6kReads8.7Score2.6kShelves
- 54 This Road Leads Straight to the Azure Clouds 此去直上青云路 Li Yu, courtesy name Zixuan, originally named Shen Dakui, was from Shunqing Prefecture, Sichuan, and his ancestral home was Huangzhou Prefecture, Huguang. He ranked twenty-sixth in the second-tier examination in the second year of Xing'an. A politician, financier, firearms expert, hydraulic engineer, military strategist, educator, and more in the early years of the Dayong dynasty... Li Yu lost his father at an early age and followed his mother when she remarried Li Gang, the patrol inspector of 25.7kReads8.6Score2.4kShelves
- 55 Dream of the Red Chamber: From the Start, a Martial Champion Who Conquers All with One Slash 红楼：开局武状元，一刀镇天下 He transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia Huan, a concubine-born son. His own father, Jia Zheng, looks down on him, his stepmother, Lady Wang, oppresses him at every turn, and no one in the entire household can stand him. Fortunately, he awakens an extraordinary gift for insight. He can master martial arts manuals in a second and pick up any move or technique with ease. From the start, he is already a martial arts grandmaster! At the military examinations, the might of a 5.3kReads7.5Score397Shelves
- 56 From Little Kid to Top Scholar, I Cheat My Way to the Top 从幼童到状元，我一路开挂 [Alternate-history fiction + imperial examinations + slice of life + no golden finger] Here, clan ties are more important than life itself, and clan rules take precedence over the law. When Qin Haoran was three, his father was killed in a bloody fight over water rights. According to clan rules, the entire clan was supposed to raise the family that had lost its breadwinner. But fate's cruelty was far from over. Three years later, his young mother, unable to bear a life of loneliness and widowhood 59.6kReads8.6Score4.5kShelves
- 57 My Entire Clan! Supports My Imperial Exams 全族！供我科举 Imperial exams + transmigration + imperial exams + no golden finger, no System. The story draws on the privileges enjoyed by scholars in the Ming dynasty! The clan elder was a licentiate, and that was the only reason Baihu Village was protected. Now the elder is gone, and no new licentiate has appeared. The entire clan can only pool its strength to support one child. Just one licentiate can improve life in the village, give the children a future, boost the village economy, and make officials thi 13.8kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
- 58 You Mock My Clan for Never Passing the Imperial Exams? What Are You Crying For Now That I Passed All Three with Top Honors? 笑我全族不中举？三元及第你哭啥 Zhang Yan, the top scholar of nine provinces, has just earned his doctorate when he opens his eyes and finds himself in a poor village in the Great Yong Dynasty. His clan has spent generations taking the imperial examinations, but after decades, not one of them has even passed the first degree. They have become the laughingstock of the entire village. But Zhang Yan sees the clan elders' good intentions. People say studying is hard, but how can it be harder than farming? He secretly swears, “Sinc 314Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 59 Transmigrate, Become the Great Qian Crown Prince's Eldest Son 穿越，大乾第一世子 [Parallel Martial Arts and Political Intrigue + Reincarnated in the Womb + Hegemony + No Harem (Politics First, Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment)] Li Cheng'an wakes up as the heir of the Great Qian Dynasty. In his previous life, he worked himself to the bone. In this life, all he wants is to be a wastrel who indulges in wine and women. But fate has other plans. As a child, he learns an unreliable Daoist cultivation technique, and the wheels of destiny begin to turn. He acts recklessly in his youth, 55.4kReads8.7Score5.8kShelves
- 60 Awakening the Learning System at Three: Study, Take the Imperial Exams, and Become an Official 三岁觉醒学习系统，读书科举做官 [Imperial exams + study System + farm boy + one heroine] (The ratings have only just come in, and the book is still growing. Don’t let them fool you! It’s good, really good, really, really good.) Wang Yuan had just passed the entrance exam for a master’s program at a top university, but before he could bask in the admiration of his whole village, an accident sent him into the womb of a peasant family in ancient times. Fortunately, an earlier transmigrator had established a new dynasty and encour 4.5kReads7.5Score338Shelves
- 61 The Imperial Tutor's Road to the Civil Service Exams 农门帝师的科举之路 Imperial Examination, One-on-One Romance After an accident, a young man from the modern era transmigrated into the Great Qian Dynasty. Looking at his family’s dilapidated brick house, Qi Wenyu wondered how he would make a living from then on... 21.3kReads9.2Score2kShelves
- 62 An Ordinary Person’s Daily Life Taking the Imperial Exams in the World of Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼背景下路人科举日常 A second transmigrator appears because the plot requires it, but he'll be written out soon. If you don't like that, don't read! Wang Xin, a mediocre university student, transmigrates to an unknown ancient world. His family owns only a few acres of good farmland. His father, Wang Cheng, is a former playboy who doesn't know how to run a household, while his mother, Madam Zhang, is cheerful and outgoing. His grandfather spends every day reminiscing about the time their family was affiliated with a 6.4kReads8.3Score574Shelves
- 63 Transmigrated to Ancient Times: A Concubine-Born Son’s Rise 穿越古代，庶子的逆袭人生 Modern special forces soldier Qin Lang opens his eyes to find himself the least noticeable son born to a concubine in the General of the Western Guard's residence in the Great Chen Dynasty. His mother is alive, but her low birth leaves him with a stepmother who regards him coldly and elder brothers who look down on him. He lives like a ghost in the household, facing harsh reprimands at the slightest misstep. Meanwhile, Great Chen is beset by powerful ministers forming factions and fighting among 35Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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My Dad Is Su Dongpo, My Wife Is Li Qingzhao, and My Bro Is Emperor Huizong 老爹苏东坡老婆李清照老铁宋徽宗
Tags: No System, not a mindless power fantasy, meticulous historical research, slow burn, personal growth, one heroine An utterly ordinary art student transmigrates as Su Dun, the prematurely deceased youngest son of the legendary Su Dongpo. A quick calculation tells him When his father goes to Huizhou to eat lychees, he’ll be eleven. When his father goes to Hainan Island to eat clams, he’ll be fourteen. When his father is pardoned and dies in Changzhou, he’ll be seventeen. When Cai Jing erects
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Tao Dian, the Transmigrator, Is a Little Crazy 穿越的陶巅有点儿癫
[Transmigrated lunatic + no female lead + higher-dimensional black technology + hilarious, wildly satisfying madness + god of slaughter + soul power + time-adjustable space] Tao Dian transmigrates into the body of Nineteen, a bastard son of the Left Chancellor’s household who was nearly killed by his stepmother. He has barely crawled out of a pile of corpses when someone casually sells him as a girl to a brothel. He discovers that his tears can bring the dead back to life and flesh can grow back
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A Figure from the Dream of the Red Chamber: Jia Huan's Rise to Power 红楼梦中人：贾环要翻身
Jia Huan, a man from the 21st century, was accidentally transmigrated into the book Dream of the Red Chamber in a car accident, becoming Jia Huan, an unwanted son born to a concubine. His father doesn't care for him, his mother doesn't love him, and he has neither a personal space nor a System. Jia Huan is in tears. Is he supposed to just keep his head down and wait to be arrested and imprisoned when the family is confiscated a few years from now? Fortunately, there's always a way forward. With
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- 67 Sons of Commoners 庶家子弟 Born a concubine’s son in the Chen family, Chen Zhengqing’s name seems to define his fate: poor, insignificant, and overlooked. He and his mother huddle in a corner of the family estate, clinging to twenty mu of barren, drought-stricken land so poor even the tenant farmers shake their heads. Year after year, they struggle to make ends meet. His fortunes begin to turn when he happens upon a tattered farming manual. While the legitimate sons recite poetry and study the classics at the clan school 839Reads—Score104Shelves
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The Power-Wielding Concubine's Son of the Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼之庶子掌权
(This isn’t a wish-fulfillment novel. There’s no showing off or face-slapping, and the female leads, Baochai and Daiyu, aren’t ranked above or below each other. If that’s not to your taste, please don’t flame me. Thank you!) Jia Jie wakes up to find he has transmigrated into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia She’s illegitimate son. Thinking of the Jia family’s downfall and the tragic fates of the Twelve Beauties, Jia Jie has no choice but to fight with all he has. He resolutely joins
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- 69 Dream of the Red Chamber: Jia Cong's Rise 红楼：贾琮崛起 [Dream of the Red Chamber + transmigration + Jia Cong + many beautiful women + garden intrigue] A graduate student in traditional Chinese medicine transmigrates into the body of Jia Cong, an illegitimate son of the Rongguo Mansion. He plans to use his extensive knowledge to make a name for himself in the imperial examinations and change his fate, but fate has other plans, cruelly thrusting him onto the battlefield. Watch as he fights against the odds, breaks free from the shackles of his destine 1.3kReads6.7Score100Shelves
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Dream of the Red Chamber: You're Just a Concubine's Son, So How Did You Become a Marquis?! 红楼：你一庶子，咋成侯爵了？！
Ma Zhongye, an illegitimate son of the Fuyuan Marquis’s household, is sent by his stepmother to a country estate, but he has the Shennong Cauldron Farming System! Others rely on experience to farm; he uses the System to become a “farming expert.” On the Western Frontier battlefield, he draws blueprints and builds weapons, becoming a “tactical genius.” He crushes Western Xia in a single battle and is made Marquis of Xingqing. Back in Bianliang, he turns down the emperor’s offer to make him comman
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- 71 Life in Ancient Times as a Posthumous Child 遗腹子的古代生活 [No golden finger + farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + court politics in the later stages + everyday family life] He wakes up as the posthumous son of a county deputy in the Great Zhou dynasty. He may not be born into an official family, but surely the assets his father left behind are enough to make this only child rich. So he happily decides that in this life, he’ll coast to success. Things don’t go as he expected. His father died young after only a few years in office, leav 11.5kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
- 72 My Clan Raised Me to Greatness, So I Gifted Them Purple Robes 全族扶我青云志，我赠族人朱紫袍 After dying suddenly from overwork, workaholic Chen Yan is reborn as the only son of a newly born provincial graduate in the Great Liang Dynasty. His father is successful, so Chen Yan promptly decides to lie flat and enjoy the good life, with food brought to him and clothes laid out for him. But when he learns at the age of six that he was switched at birth with a farmer's child, his life takes a turn. The day the fake young master returns to the Chen family, he goes out to work in the fields an 214.1kReads9.3Score21.3kShelves
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The Unparalleled Illegitimate Son 绝代庶子
[Alternate World + Transmigration + Ancient Setting] After transmigrating, he finds his mother brutally murdered and his younger sister unconscious beside her. When she wakes, she has developed a split personality. He heads to the capital to find his biological father, only to discover that his father's family is the source of all the hatred. Watch as a concubine-born son avenges his mother and drives his father into an inescapable corner, step by step. Once his revenge is complete, where will h
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Transmigrating as Aunt Daiyu 穿越之我是黛玉婶婶
Xu Shuang was doing the right thing by helping someone in danger in the modern world when, in a ridiculous twist, she transmigrated. Just like that? Seriously? And she’d landed in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels. When she read the story before, she’d always felt it was a shame that Lin Daiyu’s whole family met such unhappy ends. And all those lovely girls, one after another, had terrible fates. Now that she was here, she would do her best to protect
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Film and TV Crossover: A Shi 综影视：阿十
World 45: Tang Dynasty, Li Mao (ongoing...) The Great Dao gives rise to fifty, of which forty-nine are manifest, while the last remains elusive. Those controlled by fate give everything they have for a chance to change their destiny and rewrite their lives. This time, at last, they find the perfect ending! World 44: The Glory, Yin Yuji World 43: Chong Zi, Wen Zi World 42: Story of Yanxi Palace, Chen Bi World 41: The Knockout, Jiang Nianyi World 40: A Dream Behind a Crystal Curtain, Wang Lvp ping
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Kicked Out of Her Family: The Middle School Dropout Strikes It Rich 滚出家后：初中学历的她，发财了
[Period setting, farming] + [Family and neighborhood drama] + [The 1990s] + [Everyday modern life, no golden finger] + [Female entrepreneur] She was the second daughter, overlooked by her family, with an ordinary appearance, an ordinary background, and only a junior high school education. He was born into an eminent family and had power and prestige to spare. She was the least promising daughter in the Li family, and her parents were certain she would never amount to anything. With only a junior
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The Marquis's Illegitimate Son Turns the Tables in the Imperial Exams 侯府庶子科举逆袭
Wen Rugui is a concubine in the Ningyuan Marquis's household. Seeing that the household's ship is about to go down, she spends all day trying to use connections to secure her position, terrified that if the child she's carrying is a girl, she'll be traded away too. She watches the women in the household live shackled by rules, their lives worth no more than grass. When she gets a chance to go out, she runs away with the baby she is carrying. And Xun Huan is that baby...
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The Imperial Exams: A Concubine-Born Son's Rise from Lowly Officialdom 科举：小官庶子逆袭之路
[Civil service exams + System + heroine appears in the middle and later parts + feel-good power fantasy + making a name in history] In his previous life, Li Runping was abandoned at the entrance to an orphanage and later adopted by it. Growing up there, he learned early on that you had to fight for everything. But things never went his way, and he always fell just short of success. Whether it was an exam or a promotion review, he was always just a little behind. As he got older, he realized he h
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- 79 The Poor Scholar's Rise 寒门贵子 After transmigrating into the body of a penniless scholar, Jiang Feng thought about how his computer science degree from his previous life was utterly useless here… Then it occurred to him: “Of all pursuits, studying is the noblest. I’ll just have to grit my teeth and take the imperial exams!” He kept going, and when he suddenly looked back, he had risen to the highest offices, expanded the empire’s borders, and built an unprecedented legacy! P.S. The new book, A Poor Scholar of the First Rank, 34.2kReads9.1Score3.4kShelves
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I’m So Rich, the Emperor Won’t Even Pay My Salary 因为我太有钱陛下就不给发俸禄
Yang Jingyun was born into the Great Qian dynasty. He never expected to find himself in a family packed with brothers, where every day was a struggle of schemes and calculations. Hoping to build a better life for himself, Yang Jingyun began setting up workshops to make sugar, brew liquor, and produce candles and soap, leading his clan to prosperity. Unexpectedly, he caught the emperor’s attention and earned the emperor’s favor. Not only was he granted noble status, but his whole family was ennob
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A Woman in a Man’s Body: Reborn as the Legitimate Second Son, I Rule the Court 女穿男：穿成嫡次子，我权倾朝野
[Female transmigrates into a male body + born into a new life + doted on by everyone] [Chronicles of the Legitimate Second Son] Zhou Yan died, then came back to life, only this time as a boy. Unfortunately, when he was born, his grandfather was still a down-and-out Marquis of Anding. His father had only just managed to marry a princess through sheer shamelessness, and his princess mother was a pitiful little thing with a burden from her previous marriage in tow
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- 82 The Bastard Son of Great Sui 大隋庶子 The Great Sui dynasty was an age of prosperity, but also an age of chaos! Heroes rose in droves, and the tides of history washed away one generation of outstanding talents after another, only for new ones to emerge. Heroes such as Cheng Yaojin, Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, and Luo Shixin... Famous generals such as Zhang Xutuo, Yang Yichen, Li Jing, and Su Dingfang... Warlords such as Dou Jiande, Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Xiao Xian, and Du Fuwei... Foreign tribes watched like tigers poised to pounce. It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Strongest Illegitimate Son 最强庶子 Zhou Yihuang was delivering takeout when a private car that ran a red light sent him to his death. When he slowly came to, he found himself in a dynasty that had never existed before, as the lowest of the low among sons born to concubines. He was even driven out of his home. Once he had built up the beginnings of a livelihood in this place with memories of his past life, he somehow managed to cause trouble again and ended up on the Douyuan Continent, becoming a disciple of a minor sect. Only aft —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Bastard Duke's Son Fights His Way to the Top 国公庶子的逆袭
After transmigrating into the household of a duke as an invisible son born to a concubine, Li Xiuyuan just wants to lie flat, eat his fill, and wait to die. But with war raging and factions at court vying for power, he is forced to bring out his modern way of thinking and his historical golden finger. From a lazy nobody to a prince with power over all under heaven, he doesn't want to get caught up in the struggle, but he has no choice!
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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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The Carefree Imperial Son-in-Law 逍遥驸马爷
(Set in a fictional world, drawing mainly on the Ming and Tang dynasties and the Three Kingdoms era) Qin Feng, a doctor skilled in every field, transmigrates into the body of an unwanted illegitimate son in the Grand Tutor's residence. He only wants to become a secret tycoon in this dynasty and find a chance to establish his own household. Unexpectedly, he becomes a royal son-in-law, entering a sham marriage with a princess. Each gets what they want from the arrangement, and Qin Feng only has hi
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Turns Out I’m the Marquis’s Fake Young Master 原来我是侯府假少爷
[Two male leads, transmigrate into a book, little ones, love, friendship, and family affection, everyone’s favorite] Gu Zhiwang was born into a marquis’s household and grew up surrounded by flowers and affection, the family’s little darling. His father indulged him, his mother doted on him, and his older brother looked out for him. At seven, Gu Zhiwang only had to worry about what to eat and what to play. He knew nothing of sorrow. Until he discovered he was the fake young master and a sacrifici
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- 88 The Concubine's Plan for the Legitimate Daughter 庶女嫡谋 The Grand Empress Dowager, who had ruled the court for more than a decade, passed away. Reborn as the unloved, impoverished daughter of a marquis’s concubine, she had no desire to strive in this life. All she wanted was to marry a husband with a short life expectancy and enjoy widowhood after he died. Yang Yue died in battle. After death, his soul lingered on, witnessing the shifts of power in the Great Qing dynasty and watching the Grand Empress Dowager be poisoned by her own grandson. When he 9.5kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
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I Strive for the Imperial Exams, But My Slacker Dreams Never Change 努力考科举，咸鱼梦想从未改变
[Imperial exams + everyday life + lighthearted] Lu Yang, a rich second-generation heir, wakes up one day as the youngest and most cherished son of the Lu family. This youngest son is a scholar, yet selfish and self-centered, turning a blind eye to his family's sacrifices and caring only about his own future. Lu Yang may be a slacker with little conscience, but he knows who's good to him. He keeps his dream of being a slacker tucked away and works hard to pass the imperial exams, hoping to become
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Jiang Yan’s Dream: Flowers Bloom from His Brush 江淹一梦笔生花
In the winter of the seventh year of the Daming era (463 AD), Jiang Yan was gathering firewood in the biting wind by the Qingxi River. Suddenly, he spotted a young woman stumbling along the main road, clutching her wounded left arm, with three constables from the Court of Justice in hot pursuit. Jiang Yan pulled her into a reed bed, helping her evade the officials’ deadly grasp. It turned out she was Xie Wei’s daughter. Xie Wei had been implicated in the Fan Ye case because of his poetry and pro
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The Little Sixth’s Struggle 小老六的奋斗
A carpenter who doesn’t want to be emperor isn’t a good carpenter. Ma Xigao unexpectedly transmigrates into the past and becomes the son of Ma Yin, the carpenter emperor of Southern Chu. So what if I’m the sixth son? Am I proud of it? Am I boasting about it? The young man secretly murmurs, “With me as the sixth son, the Five Ma sons fight over the trough. What are you all thinking?”
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The Daily Life of a Minor Official's Son Preparing for the Imperial Exams 小官之子科举日常
[Woman Transmigrates into a Man + Imperial Exams + Farmer's Son + No Problematic Family Members + No Pocket Dimension + No Golden Finger] Lin He, a graduate student in history, transmigrates into the Great Qi, a dynasty that never existed in history, and goes from being a woman to a man. His family has nothing to its name: his father is a catlike academic prodigy, his mother a tigerlike farmer, and Lin He's life is a constant struggle. Fortunately, his father earned the jinshi degree early on, a
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Reborn! The Prince Regent Gives Her a Blade and Has Her Back 重生！摄政王为她递刀为她撑腰
[Legitimate Daughter + Reborn + Face-Slapping Revenge + Political Scheming + Palace and Household Intrigue + Satisfying Read + Sweet Romance] In her previous life, Song Yuan was flattered into ruin by her stepmother, betrayed by her stepsister, and ultimately burned to death by a scumbag man. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time before her wedding. Her stepmother was a hypocrite, so Song Yuan would tear away her good-person mask. Her stepsister was a fake white lotus, so
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- 94 Eight Years as a Ghost: The Reborn Legitimate Daughter Levels Her Enemies’ Ancestral Graves 做鬼八年：嫡女重生，仇家祖坟铲平了 866Reads8.9Score308Shelves
