Period Stories, Ethnic Minorities, and Multiple Male Leads 年代文，少数民族，多男主

1. 101 陷 Fallen Rose: The Dark Moon and Her Counterattack 陷落玫瑰：黑月光与她的反杀局 Light-Sugar Jinjin微糖金金Modern Romance508k WordsCompleted [Revenge Against Scum] [Forced Possession] [Awakening to Her True Identity] [Rivalry for Her Affections] [One Woman, Four Men] [Sweet on the Outside, Dark and Scheming on the Inside, a Seductive Strategist × Her Possessive Adoptive Brother / Abstinent CEO / Gentle Young Nobleman / Capitalist Predator] ▲ Her true identity awakens, and a bloody revenge begins Abandoned at an orphanage as a child, she was later molded by the Song family into a tool for a marriage alliance. She bides her time, turni 318Reads—Score—14d adds
2. 102 藏 A Tibetan Romance: The Buddha's Son-in-Law Is Obsessed with His Wife 藏地热恋：佛子宠妻成瘾 Calm Sesame Paste淡定麻酱Modern Romance172k WordsCompleted [Eloping to Find Love | A Powerful Tibetan Tycoon Falls Hard | So Sweet You’ll Lose Your Breath] Shanghai socialite Lu Qianqian flees to Tibet alone to escape her parents’ attempts to force her into marriage, only to turn a corner at the Jokhang Temple and collide with the hormone-fueled head of a Tibetan family. He grips her chin, his voice low and husky. “Lu Qianqian, dare to come to my house tomorrow?” At thirty, Luo Zhui Jiacuo is the cold, domineering heir to a Tibetan family, yet he person 22.6kReads9.0Score3.1k14d adds

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   The first book, although it doesn't have multiple male leads, is still quite good; both are worth reading.

3. 103 殖 Colonizing the Ming Dynasty 殖民大明 Shang Bigmouth尚大嘴Historical1.7M WordsOngoing Wang Ding obtains a magical piece of jade that can open a spatial rift, creating a gateway to the Ming dynasty. There, Wang Ding finds wealth and glory in a new world. This is the story of how he saves people and kills them. 6.3kReads8.8Score42314d adds
4. 104 超 Surviving on a Cross-Time Highway, My Teammate Is Little Xizi 超时空公路求生，我的队友小兕子 Next Door to Old Wang's老王家的隔壁Sports724k WordsOngoing [Two-person road survival] [Team-up in the later stages] [Transmigration across time and space] Everyone transmigrates into a road-survival world, where each person is paired with a historical figure as a teammate. While others are matched with emperors, famous generals and strategists, and beautiful courtesans from the ages, Li Jie is lucky enough to be paired with the little princess of Jinyang from the Tang Dynasty. With a three-year-old in tow and riding a rickety old bicycle, Li Jie is havi 1.3kReads8.9Score10014d adds
5. 105 重 Reborn in the 1950s: A Rich Heiress Brings Her Spatial Realm and Becomes a Blessing to All 重生五零：千金带着空间当福气包 A Little More, A Lot More多多亿点Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted A story set in the past, with a focus on spatial storage and stockpiling. The golden finger is ridiculously powerful. No romance. Qian Duo'er unexpectedly acquired a storage space. After an accidental bout of looting that cost her nothing, she prevented the apocalypse that was supposed to befall her world. She thought she could finally live in peace, but a careless mistake by an underworld official sent her to the hardest years of the 1960s. She was a newborn baby who wouldn’t see her father unt 9.9kReads8.7Score1.2k14d adds
6. 106 钢 Steel Fortress: From Famine-Stricken Farm Girl to Infrastructure Tycoon 钢铁堡垒：从逃荒农女到基建领主 Cute Little Daydreamer萌小呆啊Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Technical farming and pocket-dimension infrastructure development (a hard-nosed development story) When agricultural PhD Qin Zheng opens her eyes, drought stretches for thousands of miles and corpses litter the roads. Her pocket dimension holds no miraculous pills, just all the modern farming equipment from her experimental plots, a seed bank of high-yield crops, and half a cabinet of agricultural literature. Fleeing famine? No, this is the launch site of a large-scale, real-world agricultural t 84Reads—Score—14d adds
7. 107 时 The Time-Space Tycoon Takes 1950 by Storm 时空巨子玩转1950 Half a Lifetime with the Gods半生伴神Urban1.2M WordsCompleted After unlucky Liu Xu accidentally fell into a deep pit, he acquired a System that let him travel freely to the 1950s. Before long, he found himself swept up in this magnificent and passionate era. The stark contrast between his comfortable modern life and the people struggling to survive in those times made Liu Xu swear he would do something for the era. And so the story began... 2.3kReads7.5Score14814d adds
8. 108 红 Song of Red Mountain 红山之歌 A Chirping Bird一只啼鸟Modern Romance107k WordsCompleted Told through the perspectives of A Meng and Sha Na, this book, originally titled Song of Hongshan, follows two generations of Hongshan healers as they save lives, and tells the stories of the generations of Hongshan people around them as they face birth, aging, illness, death, and struggles against fate. Through these stories, it also reveals the Hongshan people's simple kindness and their resilience in the face of hardship. 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Miao and Yi ethnic groups

9. 109 到 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.3kReads—Score10714d adds

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   Good-looking and pleasing to the eye

10. 110 史 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Ancient Romance993k WordsCompleted Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 611Reads7.0Score—14d adds
11. 111 渡 I Became a God After Surviving the Trial of Love 渡情劫后成功封神 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Bai Yan, the legitimate daughter of a family of military commanders, came down from the mountains after mastering her art so she could return to her home in the capital and overcome her romantic tribulation. At the city gate, the emperor stopped her and ordered her burned as a sacrifice to Heaven and Earth. She also learned that her birth parents had abandoned her because of rumors calling her an ill-fated poison maiden. To clear her name, Bai Yan took responsibility for treating the plague and 155Reads—Score—14d adds
12. 112 灵 Spirit Spring Space: In a Year of Famine, I Take the Kids to Find Their Commander Father and Reunite 灵泉空间，荒年带娃找首长爹认亲 Xuanji Bright Moon璇玑明月Modern Romance2.3M WordsOngoing [1960s + military marriage and joining the army + spiritual spring space + devoted couple + transmigration and rebirth, turning the tables + punishing scoundrels + marriage first, love later + becoming beautiful and strong + cooking and raising children + real heiress + medical skills] Her adoptive mother pushed her into the water, and she played along with the act, swindling a military officer into becoming her husband. After they married, she lived at her parents' home for years and gave all t 107.1kReads8.5Score9.4k14d adds
13. 113 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5k14d adds
14. 114 烟EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.5M WordsOngoing [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
15. 115 大EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban4.0M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
16. 116 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
17. 117 诸EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
18. 118 游EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 The Cat Isn't Bald猫不秃Sports3.1M WordsCompleted [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8k14d adds
19. 119 下 The Days I Went to the Countryside to Catch Ghosts 下乡抓鬼的日子 Hao Yi Luo Shen皓衣洛神Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Reborn in the 1970s? No problem! She’s the eighteenth-generation heir to a Taoist lineage, skilled in all five arts of metaphysics! She just didn’t expect to get hit and killed after helping a rich man find the perfect burial site, all because she hadn’t checked the almanac. When she opened her eyes again, she was a high school girl, and her family was arguing over who would be sent to the countryside. The System bound itself to her and demanded that she spread Taoist teachings in an era opposed 15.4kReads8.3Score2.3k14d adds

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    A hilarious and terrifying thriller: a young ghost-hunting master goes on a rampage through the city.

20. 120 天 The Heavenly Realm 天域 Lazy God懒神Eastern Fantasy482k WordsOngoing Shen Dong lives in seclusion deep in the mountains with his alcoholic father. He has made his living chopping wood since he was ten, though his father has secretly taught him a wealth of knowledge. When Shen Dong turns eighteen, his father passes away. Following his father’s dying words, Shen Dong goes down the mountain. At an inn, he meets Cai Qingquan, a transmigrator, who cheats him out of all his money. Later, the head chef arranges for him to enter Shenglin Academy. His outstanding literary 47Reads9.4Score—14d adds

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    Are you stuck in a vicious cycle of "wanting to read -> not being able to find it -> just lying down"? Let me pull you out of that trap.

21. 121 带 Leading Southern Tang to Conquer the Realm 带领南唐去争霸 Azure Eagle in a Clear Sky晴空苍鹰Historical2.8M WordsCompleted [Ensemble Cast + No System + Ruthless Battles + Contest for Supremacy + Historical Figures] Zhou Lei transmigrates to the Southern Tang during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, becoming its sixth prince: Li Yu, the legendary poet-emperor. Knowing that Li Yu will one day lose his kingdom and family, endure humiliation to survive, and see his wife violated, he is determined to change his fate! The chaotic final years of the Tang dynasty are filled with heroes vying to rule the land. The 361Reads8.6Score—14d adds
22. 122 这 I Didn't Have to Be Transmigrated to This Tang Dynasty 这个唐朝也不是非穿不可 Jia Jilang家己郞Historical676k WordsCompleted After transmigrating: “King Qin, being a wise ruler is exhausting. Why not become a foolish king instead? Eat well, sleep well, have fun, do nothing, lie flat and slack off. It’s wonderfully relaxing. Pick up a girl now and then, listen to some music, go out for a meal, and have a drink or two. That’s the life.” “That’s not a bad idea. But what about the affairs of state?” “Easy! We’ll follow the teachings of Huang-Lao and rule through non-action.” “Wow, Eunuch Ha really is the chief eunuch of t 1.3kReads9.2Score10314d adds
23. 123 异 Alien Star: Let the Galaxy Feel the Steel Tide! 异星歧途：让群星感受钢铁洪流！ Type 95 Bullets九五式的子弹Sci-Fi & Apocalypse209k WordsOngoing [Science fiction] + [No power-level nerfs] + [Wish fulfillment] + [Natural disasters strike] The Maya lacked iron ore, so they had no choice but to carve tools from stone. The Chinese lacked glass, and their medicine remained stuck at the level of herbal remedies. So is it possible that the Solar System, an unusual single-star system in the universe, is missing a resource too, one that has trapped humanity in its cradle? That’s exactly right. Earth, or rather the entire Solar System, lacks a spe 168Reads6.5Score—14d adds
24. 124 京 Strange Clouds over Beijing and Hong Kong: Special Case Squad 京港奇云：特殊专案组 Quiet Night, No Noise宵安勿噪Mystery225k WordsOngoing Beneath the sunlit skyscrapers of Jingang City, the prosperous yet dazzlingly chaotic capital of Yangguo, lurk currents of evil unknown to the public. When the bizarre case of Luo Ke, a top-tier star who falls to his death, comes to light, the scene is riddled with clues that go far beyond an ordinary suicide: a deadly new drug is found in his body, yet the scene bears signs of an impossible suicide. The baffling case is swiftly handed over to a mysterious, elite department: the Special Cases Ta 5Reads8.1Score—14d adds
25. 125 重 Back to the Carboniferous Period 重回石炭纪 Golden Leaf Ground金叶地Sci-Fi & Apocalypse352k WordsCompleted The doomsday countdown begins. In the depths of winter in Guang City, Nanshan Province, Xin You nervously paced along the street on his way to a blind date. A jumble of fakes filled the antiques stall. He spotted a woman in red being harassed by an old woman trying to scam her. It was Lin Xi, his secret crush from high school. “That's a family heirloom vase worth three hundred thousand!” the old woman wailed. Xin You snatched up a replica from the stall and smashed it in front of everyone. “If t 2Reads6.6Score—14d adds
26. 126 请 Please Kill Me Before I Wither 请在我凋零前杀了我 Ji Nongdong季浓冬Mystery455k WordsCompleted A series of bloody cases unfolds around the struggles of three women from the lowest rungs of society. Poverty-stricken families are like a curse, twisting into a cold, terrifying chain that follows them like a shadow and weighs heavily on the whole family. Will fate offer them a key to break the code? Can Shu Yunyan, Chen Xuanlan, and Chen Jingyun break the chain that passes misfortune down through generations, find redemption, and escape the tragic paths laid out for them? “Officer Peng, this 40Reads9.3Score—14d adds
27. 127 慕 The Murong Clan: A Legend of Yan 慕容世家之燕国传奇 Moon Over the Northern Qinling Mountains秦岭北山月Historical552k WordsCompleted Drawing on the historical legacy of the five Yan states of Former Yan, Later Yan, Western Yan, Southern Yan, and Northern Yan during the era of the Five Barbarians ravaging China, this epic tells the story of Murong Xuan, a descendant of the Yan people, and Lin Wanqing as they work together to promote peace and trade. The story begins in the northern deserts, where the two lead a Eurasian alliance to pacify the Hephthalite wars and break up an encirclement by Central Asian tribes. Throughout, th 47Reads9.1Score—14d adds
28. 128 我 My Years in Dongguan 我在东莞的岁月往事 Second Brother of Liaocheng聊城二哥Urban952k WordsCompleted It was the year 2000, in a luxury KTV room in Guancheng. Looking out at Guancheng's bustling nighttime streets and prosperous cityscape, Wang Lei raised a glass of XO, then set it down again. He was already used to the fine liquor in his glass. The Cuban cigar between his lips had burned down until it was almost too hot to hold. Thinking back on the hardships and setbacks of his entrepreneurial journey, Wang Lei was overcome with emotion. 62Reads6.2Score—14d adds

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    The author of this book is really daring! The content is rich, the women are numerous, and the plot is full of twists and turns. If it were made into a TV series starring Wang Baoqiang and Sun Honglei, it would definitely be a huge hit!

29. 129 藏 Cangzhou Du Eats Vegetarian Tonight 藏舟渡今夜吃素 Cangzhou Ferry藏舟渡Modern Romance511k WordsOngoing (Mature man and woman / intense romantic push and pull / road-trip story / rural teaching / Tibetan culture) During her three years teaching in a rural school, she met three Tibetan men. One was a ski instructor, a wolf on the snowy mountain who taught me what it meant to lose control. One was a dance student, a god on stage who took me to dance the wildest Guozhuang. And then there was the young wolfdog who had just received his university admission letter. His eyes red, he asked me: “Teacher P 31Reads8.6Score10314d adds

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    This book is so good I wish the author would write a thousand chapters.

30. 130 饥 The Famine Years: The Spy with the Divine Needle 饥荒年代之神针谍影 Happy Zhou周快乐Urban905k WordsCompleted The modern special forces soldier “Phantom Blade” dies while covering his teammates during a high-risk demolition mission. As his consciousness fades, he binds to the “Divine Doctor” System. When he awakens, it is late 1959, and he is in a Shanghai slum, inhabiting the body of a boy named Lin Fan. —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Historical fiction, featuring a male protagonist who is both a real and fake young master, and a legendary doctor.

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