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- 101 Learn Chinese History Without Memorizing a Thing 不用背照样学好中国史 One game for every key concept: learning history is as fun as playing. Carefully selected core concepts make it easy to understand the patterns behind the development of Chinese history! If you were a leader in primitive society, how would you guide a group of people in surviving on a deserted island? If you were playing a management simulation during the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, how would you expand your power? If you went back in time to become an emperor of the Ming dyna 2.5kReads9.5Score47214d adds
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A Final Wish 临终之愿
[Not for everyone: a niche novel with no harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincible hero, and no wish fulfillment. The storytelling is detailed, but the pacing is a little slow.] [Why I write: I'm not after money. I don't have much, but I have enough. What I hope for is understanding, and I sincerely look forward to thoughtful readers.] [Keywords: hard science fiction, rigorous logic, wit and humor, critical thinking, and knowledge from seventeen academic disciplines to broaden your perspective]
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- 103 A Half-Hour Cartoon History of China (Complete in Seven Volumes) 半小时漫画中国史（全七册） Read comics for half an hour and learn the history of China and the world! This is actually a rigorous, minimalist history of China plus a minimalist world history. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods to the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and from the Four Great Ancient Civilizations to Europe, Japan, and the United States... Open this book and learn history while laughing until your abs hurt. Half-Hour Comics: Chinese History 1–5: The Spring and Autumn and Warring State 2.5kReads9.6Score72214d adds
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Monster Codes: Journey to the West 妖怪密码：西游记
How many demons are there in Journey to the West? The White Bone Spirit, Tiger Vanguard, the Red-Rumped Macaque, Red Boy... Only after enduring the Eighty-One Tribulations can one look upon the world's fortunes with a smile. What are their true forms? What becomes of them? Is there a connection between demons and natural phenomena? Here, I'll reveal the answers to all these questions, one by one.
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- 105 The Three Kingdoms: History So Addictive, You Can’t Put It Down 一读就上瘾的三国史 The Three Kingdoms era was marked by endless warfare and rival warlords, and is now familiar to everyone thanks to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But the novel isn't history, and some of the famous stories we all know never actually happened! Did Zhuge Liang really borrow arrows with straw boats? Why is Zhang He known as “the Three Kingdoms strength tester”? How did Fei Yi live a life worthy of the title “master of pacing”? Did Cao Zhi really love his sister-in-law? Why is Cao Cao's life said to 1.1kReads9.5Score10014d adds
- 106 Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance: Zhou Chronicle, Modern Chinese Edition 资治通鉴·周纪（白话版） Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government is a monumental chronological history of ancient China, compiled by Sima Guang during the Northern Song dynasty. It covers 1,362 years of history, from the Warring States period to the Five Dynasties. This book presents the “Zhou Annals” as a standalone work, translated in full into clear, modern language for contemporary readers. This edition covers all five volumes of the “Zhou Annals,” from the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BCE) to the 17Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 107 The Song Dynasty, Told with a Twist 趣说大宋王朝 The emperor's art of statecraft in a single cup of wine, the fateful legend of the “fragrant boy's birth,” a prophetic monk who foretold that “the inspector would become emperor,” and the schemes and ambitions behind a yellow imperial robe... The founding of the Song dynasty was far more fascinating than the history books suggest! Discover Zhao Kuangyin's rise from street urchin to founding emperor: his “forced” ascension at Chenqiao Station, the mysterious prophecy at Xiangyang Temple, the lig 4.9kReads9.5Score22314d adds
- 108 Tales of Treacherous Ministers: The Five Fiends and Six Bandits of the Northern Song 奸臣传之北宋五鬼六贼 [A roll call of treacherous ministers, with a touch of spicy humor and theatrical satire!] The Biography of Treacherous Ministers: The Five Ghosts and Six Bandits of the Northern Song is like a blacklist of history's ultimate “villain club”! No need to transmigrate to the Song dynasty. You can “watch remotely” as these self-serving, scheming power brokers stir up trouble. Wang Qinruo, Ding Wei, Chen Pengnian, Liu Chenggui, and Lin Te, along with Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng, Zhu 7Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 109 This Tang Dynasty Is a Little Chilly 这个唐朝有点冷 [Lesser-known Figures + History for Fun] Don't imagine the Tang dynasty as just officials and scholars leaning on railings along Chang'an's avenues to compose poetry, a noble consort gently waving a fan, and Emperor Taizong solemnly surveying the realm. This book opens the “refrigerator door” of history to show how the celebrated figures presented so seriously in official records may actually have been jokesters, master wisecrackers, and purveyors of astonishing twists. Come along, and you'll di 22Reads9.2Score—14d adds
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The Story of Xu Jiayin 许家印传
He came from the countryside. Through his own hard work, he pursued an education and built a business, creating the Evergrande commercial empire from the ground up and becoming the richest man in China. What did he do right, and what did he do wrong? Taking a neutral perspective, this book offers a comprehensive analysis in the hope of providing useful insights and lessons for readers and related businesses.
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- 111 Steel and Golden Bowls: Xu Jiayin's Comeback 钢铁与金碗：许家印的逆袭人生 Steel and the Golden Bowl: Xu Jiayin’s Comeback Story —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Private Life of Xu Jiayin 许家印之私生活 Xu Jiayin’s Private Life 1Reads—Score13514d adds
- 113 The Story of Xu Jiayin: A Hard-Hitting Life from Rags to Riches to Prison 许家印传——从草根到首富再到囚徒的硬核人生 The Biography of Xu Jiayin: A Hard-Core Life from Rags to Riches, and Then to Prison —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Author Mitian's 13th Book 作者米田第13本书 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Sailing Far Across the Sea of Business 商海远帆 Tags: Urban legend, business battles, career comeback, passionate growth Synopsis: This is an epic tale in which one man's fate intertwines with the tides of his era. It follows Chen Yuan, the son of a powerful family, as he falls from the heights of privilege and starts from nothing amid mockery and ruins. With extraordinary courage and intelligence, he rises from a street vendor to the founder of a vast business empire, then transforms into a top investor who can turn anything into gold. In t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Real Estate Saga 地产风云 This business novel centers on the real estate industry in Jiangcheng and reveals many of the secrets behind how China's property market operates. It tells how Jin Haifeng, head of Hancheng Group, a Jiangcheng real estate developer, rose above the fierce competition to take his company public. The story is full of business savvy, love, and hate. 44Reads—Score—14d adds
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After Marrying Zeus 嫁给宙斯以后
This book’s winding, suspenseful plot follows the powerful heroine Hera as she grows from a “queen” defined by her marriage into a “ruler of the divine realm” who defines herself, transforming from a “goddess of vengeance” into a “maker of rules.” It reveals a strength that depends on no one else and stems from inner wholeness. Hera’s story shows that true healing begins with accepting every part of one’s experience and choosing to grow from it. In the end, Hera’s perspective expands beyond an i
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- 118 The Strategist's Game 谋士纵横 Through its portrayals of figures such as Guan Zhong, Shang Yang, Li Si, and Baili Xi, this book reveals the heroic stories of those who could turn the tables in an instant. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were times of great change and unprecedented intellectual freedom, an age that produced heroes in abundance. If the era’s hegemonic rulers were extraordinary heroes rarely seen in any age, then the outstanding political strategists who helped them govern were gifted statesmen. 688Reads9.3Score25814d adds
- 119 Abandoning Chang'an 弃长安 This accessible account of the An Lushan Rebellion explores the history of the Tang dynasty during the upheaval and the fates of those who lived through it. Its central thread is the experience of abandoning Chang’an shared by several key historical figures, including Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, An Lushan, Yan Gaoqing, Geshu Han, Yang Yuhuan, Li Heng, and Zhang Xun. Focusing on the major issues behind the Tang dynasty’s decline, it uses the experiences of people caught in the chaos to explain how t 741Reads9.5Score25914d adds
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The Five Tigers Pacify the South 五虎平南
The Five Tigers Pacify the South is set during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Great Song, when the southern barbarian king Nong Zhigao rebelled and war engulfed the southern frontier. Di Qing, Prince of Pacifying the West, received the imperial order to lead the army and set out once more with the Five Tiger Generals. But they were thwarted by the sorcery of a strange martial expert from the southern tribes: Duan Hongyu, daughter of Duan Hong of Mengyun Pass. Trained in the Way of the Immor
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- 121 Record of the Pacification of Wu 平吴录 This is a confidential historical dossier that overturns the orthodox view of history! Writing from the perspective of an eyewitness, Sun Xu of the Qing dynasty unveils the power struggles and betrayals behind “a fit of rage for the sake of a beauty.” The book not only reveals Wu Sangui’s true motives for inviting the Qing army through the pass, but also exposes for the first time the secret of Chen Yuanyuan’s abduction, the inside story of the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming being strangled 2Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 122 Record of the Pacification of Song 平宋录 The Records of the Pacification of Song is a vivid firsthand account of war written by Liu Minzhong, a renowned official of the Yuan dynasty. In sweeping prose, it chronicles the glorious campaign in which Bayan, the Yuan chancellor, led his troops south in 1274 and brought about the fall of the Southern Song. Divided into three volumes, it is not merely a work of military history, but a heroic tribute to the union of strategy and courage. The book vividly portrays Bayan as a commander who could 5Reads7.6Score—14d adds
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The Meaning of the White Tiger 白虎通义
The Baihutong, also known as the White Tiger Discussions or the White Tiger Treatise on Virtue, is a collection of proceedings from an officially convened meeting on Confucian studies during the Eastern Han dynasty, as well as an imperially sanctioned work interpreting the Confucian classics. It holds an exceptionally important place in the history of Confucian thought and Han political thought. In 79 CE, the fourth year of Emperor Zhang of Han’s Jianchu era, the emperor personally convened a la
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Like a Dream: Late Spring 如梦令·暮春
Like a Dream: Late Spring
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- 125 In This Life, I'll Tear That Two-Faced Green Tea Bitch Apart 这一世我要手撕绿茶 What could possibly be impossible? Can anyone tell me? In my previous life, I endured humiliation after humiliation. I was kind and gentle, yet an outsider bullied me, and even my fiancé betrayed me. Fortunately, Heaven gave me the chance to live again. How could I let it slip away? Watch the female lead tear that scheming green tea bitch to shreds! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 I Am the Landlord's Second Daughter 我是地主家的二小姐 I Am the Landlord's Second Daughter 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Hong Geese Fly South 鸿飞归南 Gao Hongfei, daughter of the influential royal clansman Gao Shize, is beautiful, talented, and secretly skilled in martial arts. Free-spirited by nature, she cherishes her independence. To keep her unruly third son, Zhao Kai, in check, Empress Dowager Zheng decrees that he marry Gao Hongfei. To escape the confines of the imperial palace, Gao Hongfei and her father hatch an elaborate scheme: she pretends to be foolish and unruly to refuse the match. Having heard the rumors, Zhao Kai travels incog —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Shanghai Dragon Awakens: A Reborn Young Gang Leader 淞沪龙醒：重生少帮主 Reborn young gang leader Lin Chen rises to prominence as Shanghai falls, founding the Xinghu Gang to resist the Japanese. Using his modern mindset, he outmaneuvers senior Japanese officer Sato Yuki, joins forces with the Communist underground agent “Poison Eagle,” and persuades Nationalist officers to switch sides. He thwarts assassination attempts, crackdowns, and plots by infiltrators, uniting people through business battles in the foreign concessions and guerrilla warfare in occupied territor —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Xia Dongchun's Reborn Path to Revenge 夏冬春的重生逆袭之路 In this life, you had me beaten with the Red-Hot Iron. In the next, I'll pay you back twice over! Watch me use a modern person's way of thinking to turn my fortunes around, step by step, in ancient times and build a life everyone envies. Who knew life in ancient times could be so exciting! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Zero's Pursuit 零号追踪 In medical history, the term “Patient Zero” refers to the first person infected during the outbreak of a new disease. But when faced with a virus that continually adapts and evolves, with an unpredictable incubation period, how can we trace its origins, find the first infected person, and understand the virus's original form? 19Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Prime Minister in Sichuan People's Eyes: Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Liang Alone 四川人口中的丞相，专属诸葛亮
The chancellor in Sichuanese lore is none other than Zhuge Liang.
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- 132 The Former Lord Returns to Rongcheng 蓉城故主来 The old master of Rongcheng has arrived. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 The Soul of the Hibiscus Flower 芙蓉花魂 The soul of the hibiscus flower —Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Bizarre Tale of Feng Shui! 风水奇谭！
Chen Yan, a top student at a 985 university, suffered a devastating blow at just twenty-two: His roommate set him up and framed him, driving him into a dead end; His girlfriend of three years cheated on him; his father was hospitalized with a serious illness, and he couldn't even scrape together the 5,000-yuan deposit. His loan payments were overdue and collectors were after him. He was about to become... Just as he sank into utter despair, a mysterious old Daoist appeared, opened his heavenly e
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I Transmigrated and Became the Beloved Bride of a Crippled Marquis 一朝穿越，替嫁残侯成团宠
[Historical transmigration + medical skills + marriage before love + two strong leads who dote on each other + suspense and court intrigue] Shen Qingci, a top surgeon, transmigrates into the body of a bride forced into a marriage swap. She becomes the new bride meant to bring good fortune to Xiao Yan, the blind and crippled Marquis of Dingbei. On their wedding night, she takes his pulse and immediately sees through it: “My lord, you’ve been poisoned. Someone wants to keep you in darkness forever
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- 136 Coexisting with a Big Shot, I Became Unstoppable 与大佬共生，我强到飞起 One day, I woke up with a man in my head. It wasn't a hallucination or a split personality. He was the real deal, a top-tier boss: Lu Yunzhou. The ruthless business tycoon who ruled the corporate world was now nothing more than a ghost trapped in my mind. And so, things started looking like this: When someone gives me a hard time, he scoffs in my head: [Third file from the bottom left. Throw it in his face.] When someone frames me, he directs me remotely: [The recorder's in the right-hand drawe 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Quick Transmigration: The Second Personality 快穿第二人格 Female lead + dual personality + no saintly martyrdom + takes down scumbags regardless of gender or age + lighthearted and funny Synopsis: Jiang Yan, a female cultivator, was bored when she happened upon a System. She transmigrates through three thousand worlds, disguising herself as the original host's second personality to help them change their personalities and escape their tragic fates. She takes down scumbags, delivers face-slapping comeuppances, completes missions, and explores the myster 41Reads—Score—14d adds
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Sealing the Heavenly Dao 封天道
The young master of a powerful family has his spiritual roots stripped away, leaving him crippled. Forced to honor a marriage contract and become a live-in son-in-law, he finds that the bride’s family has switched the bride, making her deaf-mute twin sister take her place. On his wedding day, instead of sharing the wedding night, he is thrown into the Spirit Beast Valley, where he must eat and live among spirit beasts. The moment the deaf-mute sister finds him, she is like a ray of sunlight pier
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- 139 A Cultivator in the Mortal World 红尘修士 One day, Yun Xi's soul left Blue Star, and she fell into the vast world of cultivation. She never expected to start out as a lowly nobody, with a life as fragile as a blade of grass. In the face of despair, she seeks out opportunities, rises from the dust, and gradually stirs up the entire cultivation world! 6.1kReads8.5Score61014d adds
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Years Have Passed, and I Know Not When the Flowers Fell 已过数载，不知花落
Years have passed. Who knows where the flowers have fallen.
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- 141 Bearing a Sword, I Patrol the Heavens 负剑巡天 A speck of dust, a world. A pair of cultivator partners, a legend. The Twofold Dust Realm, a real world within a speck of dust. Here, they are its creators, able to still heaven and earth, and each other’s hearts. The world outside covets them, hunts them, and schemes against them without end. But as long as he is there, she is unafraid; as long as she is there, he will not retreat. Because the greatest power has never been the ability to destroy heaven and earth. It is this: You are by my si —Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Have an Immortal Mountain in the Countryside 我在乡下有座仙山
[Urban cultivation + rural underdog comeback + thrilling wish fulfillment] Zhang Wei, a poor young man from the depths of the mountains, was patient and devoted to his parents from childhood. But on his third-year college birthday, a rich classmate set him up and beat him to death. He thought his life had ended, but a gray stone slab that gathered souls, hidden in a cave in the backyard vegetable garden of his family home, pulled him back from the morgue. It also unexpectedly unlocked a vast tro
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- 143 Stop Training, You Cultivate Immortality Slower Than I Level Up by Killing Monsters 别练了，你修仙没我杀怪升级快 From the start, a broken body. The ultimate slash slays a god! Every level you break through is a prelude to the Heavenly Dao trembling! Chen Baxian, a man from Earth, has his soul transported to another world, only to become a dying ant at the second level of Qi Refining. His skull is shattered, his spine broken, and as he teeters on the brink of death... “Ding! Game System activated!” Slay demons in the Green Bamboo Snake Valley, smash crocodiles in the Rotbone Marsh! Every battle can turn the 5kReads9.2Score55614d adds
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Tales of Hong Kong’s Underworld: Starting in Kowloon Walled City 港岛江湖往事！从九龙城寨开始
On a stormy night, I row a ramshackle smuggling boat and narrowly escape the jaws of a shark. After I come ashore, a boss from Kowloon Walled City tells me I'm the chosen one from a century-old prophecy, destined to unite Hong Kong's underworld. My name is Zheng Zhiyong. I'm just a mainlander trying to earn enough to eat. They save me, give me a name, and push me onto a road of blood and fire. I think it's gratitude I owe them, until I discover... The armored-car heist was a setup. The wins
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Gentle Breezes, Northern Light 清风徐徐，北光照拂
A story concept I got from spinning a roulette wheel one day: Ling Beiyao: a teacher in an era of future technology Xu An: a doctor from another world Lin Yingchu: a demon king from an era of super-civilization (The protagonist was supposed to be just one person, but I ended up writing three.) The story is divided into the main storyline and individual character arcs. The main storyline follows the three protagonists from different worlds on their adventures in an era of super-civilization. The
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Steel Rose 钢筋蔷薇
A workplace epic about the construction industry, as real as it is brutal A story about one man spending twenty years building his ideals in a concrete jungle and staying true to himself amid the struggle of human nature If you've ever bowed your head to life, but never given up on looking up at the stars, this book is for you. “This isn't a wish-fulfillment story. It's the long journey of an entire generation.” Open it, and you'll see your own reflection among the steel and concrete, where a ro
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The Code Immortal Realm: I Am the Heavenly Dao 代码仙域，我即是天道
My name is Tian Yingxue, and this is the tenth time I've been reborn. The Heavenly Dao played a cruel joke on me. On one hand, it granted me a golden finger of an opportunity, giving me a natural fire spirit root, letting me establish my Foundation at ten, form my Golden Core and keep my youthful appearance at nineteen, and reach the threshold of ascension at a hundred. On the other hand, it made me perish in the tribulation lightning as I ascended, then sent me back to the day before I was to j
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The Constant Register of Parables 恒籍寓鉴
Synopsis of The Book of Constant Records: Tales to Awaken the Mind and Discern the Truth With “drawing wisdom from the classics to illuminate the questions of today” as its guiding principle, this book selects over a hundred classic fables and anecdotes from the various schools of philosophy, historical biographies and notes, and folk tradition. These include “The Frog at the Bottom of the Well” from Zhuangzi, “Making Up the Numbers” from Han Feizi, and “The Man from Qi Who Worried the Sky Would
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After Returning to Yunnan, I Was Unemployed for 1,361 Days 回到云南后，我失业1361天
After years of making his way in the world and achieving considerable success in both his career and love life, a man decides to return to his hometown in Yunnan at the age of thirty. He expects his hometown to welcome him with open arms. Instead, his career suffers a precipitous decline. He goes from being the “Boss Nian” everyone talks about to an “outsider” everyone avoids. A workplace upheaval like an earthquake leaves him blacklisted throughout the industry... Looking back on his career is
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Her Majesty the Empress! 女皇陛下！
Your Majesty, the Empress!
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