Imperial Exam Novels Loved by 15-Year Veteran Bookworms 15年老书虫都爱看的科举文
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The Marquess's Wife Wants to Die of Old Age in Peace 侯府主母要寿终正寝
A history major pulls an all-nighter and dies suddenly, only to become Chen Yuhu, the matriarch of an ancient household, with no golden finger whatsoever. But you have to learn to be content. As a modern, clear-eyed college student, Chen Yuhu wants to tell the original matriarch: don't be such a lovesick fool. Treasure your life of immense wealth and status. She certainly does. She sends her biased mother-in-law away to cultivate in seclusion, keeps the obedient and pretty concubine around to pl
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Tombs of the Mountains and Seas 2 山海妖墓.2
In the earliest days of Huaxia, Chiyou ruled the land and enslaved humanity. The leader of the human race, Huangdi, chanced upon a strange tome called The Classic of Mountains and Seas. From it, he learned the power to stand against demons, defeated Chiyou, and became the new ruler of Huaxia. From then on, the demon race fell into decline. As time passed, the demon kingdoms became ruins, and tomb raiders gradually discovered the ancient tombs of many of them... I awoke inside the coffin of a dem
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- 53 The Candlelight Pavilion 烛幽台 [Historical fantasy + parallel worlds + soul swapping + endless loops + Mobius strip. After "A Thousand Peach Blossoms Bloom in One Lifetime", acclaimed author Sui Yu Er An returns with another fantasy hit! Jiang Hui × Qi Huan: three lifetimes of entanglement across parallel worlds, as they seek the essence of love in intersecting timelines.] At nineteen, Jiang Hui set out to avenge her father’s murder. On her wedding night, she and Qi Huan died together. But though she was gravely wounded, she 4.9kReads9.5Score74314d adds
- 54 Joy in the Tang Dynasty 喜唐 Bright and glorious is the Tang, favored by Heaven to rule the myriad lands. Our founding ancestors answered Heaven’s call, and the four imperial clans followed its ways. Heaven granted us boundless blessings, and our clans share a common virtue. Our descendants carry on the legacy, offering sacrifices to the gods and matching the Pole Star. What did it really mean for all nations to pay tribute? Was it about uncritically worshipping foreign languages, or going abroad and being treated as honore 122.5kReads9.4Score12.7k14d adds
- 55 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1k14d adds
- 56 The Interloper 间客 The Interloper 167Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令 [Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave 226.6kReads9.5Score27.3k14d adds
- 58 He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！ [Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot 116.6kReads9.2Score9.7k14d adds
- 59 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 168.8kReads9.8Score19.3k14d adds
- 60 Dashing Youth 少年白马醉春风 The long street was steeped in danger, loud and chaotic. A butcher wielding a cleaver brought it down, carving flowers into bone. An old woman selling embroidered shoes teased a flame from her candle with a needle. Not a soul could be found a hundred feet away. Then there was the oil seller, with eighteen swords hidden in his sleeves, always watching the steamed-bun shop across the street and its little beauty, whose hands could tear away one face and give her nine new ones. At the end of the st 11.5kReads9.4Score1.3k14d adds
- 61 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
- 62 The Official’s Journey 官场之征途 Three months ago, Ye Qingze graduated from the Chinese department at Kyoto University and was assigned to Xicheng County. The county magistrate immediately took a liking to him and made him his personal secretary at the county government. A rising star in politics seemed poised to shine. But three months later, the county magistrate was arrested, and Ye Qingze, the new favorite at the Xicheng County government, fell into the dust! When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. When the wall falls, ev 30kReads9.0Score2.8k14d adds
- 63 Northern Song Son-in-Law: I Rescue a Princess from Drowning from the Start 北宋驸马，开局救下落水公主 [One female lead!] [No System] [Historical figures come with bite-sized facts. Northern Song history fans, don’t miss this!] Shen Yu, a double master’s graduate in history and Chinese language and literature from Peking University, worked himself to death in the rat race. His soul transmigrated into the body of a penniless scholar who shared his name in the fifth year of the Huangyou era of the Song dynasty. It was hell mode from the start! His home was bare, a local bully was at the door, and h 1.9kReads8.8Score17414d adds
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Livestreaming Tidal-Flat Foraging in Ancient Times 我在远古直播赶海
Wang Yang: Godfathers, I’m standing on an ancient island right now, livestreaming the real deal of beachcombing with my life on the line! Fans: Yeah, sure, sure. Your special effects are pretty good! That trumpet shell is bigger than the watermelons we grow at home! And that mermaid... ahem, even bigger! A mermaid sings at the guesthouse, while an electric eel takes over when the power-generating windmill breaks; An ancient scorpion clone sweeps the seabed for treasure, while a sky-darkening
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Apocalypse Road Survival: Super Dad Charges Ahead 末世公路求生：超级奶爸向前冲
[Highway Survival] [Childcare] [One heroine] [Teamwork] [Decisive and ruthless] [Game instances] [Heads-up: Readers looking for a lone-wolf story may be disappointed. The male lead will rescue his comrades, so please don't complain if you can't stand a male lead who saves people. The child is an 11-month-old boy. There will be a fair bit of everyday life. I've laid out the potential deal-breakers. If it's not your thing, please don't leave nasty comments. Thanks.] After the apocalypse began, Luo
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- 66 I Transmigrated Into a Book as a Stepmom, and Won Over Both Husband and Son 穿书当后妈，老公儿子双丰收 [A devoted couple + raising a child] Song Wushuang has barely transmigrated into the body of a real heiress abandoned in the countryside when she is told to marry someone in place of her stepsister and become a stepmother. Her sister complains, “The kid is spoiled and mischievous, and my husband has nothing going for him except his money and looks.” Her: “Perfect. Let me handle it.” She easily wins over her proud little stepson, turning him into a well-behaved big boy. After just a few happy day 630Reads8.7Score10414d adds
- 67 The Prince's Manor Has a Skilled Cook, and the Young Heir Is Wrapped Around Her Finger 王府厨娘手艺好，小小世子拿捏 [Sweet romance + food + heroine building her career + business management + a little melodrama] [Sweet, clever little chef vs. seemingly innocent but secretly calculating young lord] Ye Zhiwei had just competed in the national cooking championship. After overcoming every challenge, she finally won first place. Before she could even get home to brag to her father, she was hit by a car while helping an old lady cross the street. When she woke up, she had become a little kitchen maid tending the fi 2.7kReads8.4Score29214d adds
- 68 A Celestial Gossip-Loving Koi Fairy Falls from the Sky: Mr. Shen Is Smitten 天降吃瓜锦鲤仙女：沈爷心动了 The Celestial Court’s top-tier star gossip queen, Fairy Lingxi, gets in trouble for being too enthusiastic about gossip and constantly fleecing the immortals. The Heavenly Emperor, her father, can’t bear to let her go, but can only give her a ruthless kick: “Lingxi, there’s a much bigger melon patch in the mortal world, and it’s all yours!” The little lucky-star fairy shrieks as she tumbles down to the mortal realm. “Aaah! Father, I hate you!” At the same time, Shen Yuhan, the business world’s Y 179Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 69 After Coming to the Modern World, I Became a Top Tycoon 穿到现代后，我成了顶级富豪 [Ancient Times to Modern Day + Two Male Leads + Male Lead Pursues the Love Interest + Mindless Wish-Fulfillment] Book Four in the series Ye Chuheng, the young grandson of the Celestial Realm, is ordered by his grandfather to descend to the mortal world and find a cultivation partner. He can't argue with him, so he obediently packs his things and heads down to the mortal world. Whether he's unlucky or it was fate, he ends up in a mortal realm without a trace of spiritual energy. His grandfather a 6.8kReads8.9Score76614d adds
- 70 Apocalypse: I Rely on the System to Stockpile Resources and Support My Partner! 末世：我靠系统攒资源养对象！ (Two male leads + Younger seme + One-on-one, both pure + Everyday life in the apocalypse + Sign-in System + Lighthearted + Possibly a slower pace?) Heads-up: There will be a team, not a lone wolf. Don't read if that's not your thing!!! When Wen Yao wakes up, the apocalypse has arrived. He stares at the bizarre zombies outside his door and the little food left at home, and his vision goes dark. Just as he starts worrying, his golden finger arrives! With the sign-in System, Wen Yao thrives in the 2.5kReads8.4Score37114d adds
- 71 From the Start, I Get Everything for Free, Adopt Adorable Beasts, and Make the Apocalypse Cozy 开局零元购，收萌兽，温馨度末世 [Post-Apocalypse + Rebirth + Adorable Beasts + Space + Decisive and Ruthless + Strong Female Lead with No Romance + Beast Speech] Surviving the apocalypse was no easy feat. Over ten years, Ning Ke suffered countless setbacks and injuries, only to be betrayed just as she was about to make it through. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the early days of the apocalypse, and her space and supplies from her previous life had come back with her. Using her memories of her past life, sh 8.1kReads9.3Score1k14d adds
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The Fast Track to the Top 选调生之青云直上
“Zhi” represents steadfast resolve and lofty ambitions, while “Lin” evokes blessings spread far and wide, nourishing all things. After earning his doctorate, Zhang Zhilin becomes the ultimate civil servant! The grassroots are both a crucible and a melting pot. Watch as a commoner tempers himself in the fire of grassroots work, turning his trials into poetry and forging himself into gold as he climbs step by step to the pinnacle of power!
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