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The Imperial Exam Routine of a Poor Butcher's Son 寒门屠户之子的科举日常
The Wang butcher family is full of burly men, all tall, broad, and muscular, like a whole den of reincarnated black bears! But their youngest son, Wang Sanniu, is the odd one out: frail, delicate, and liable to fall over in a breeze. Standing beside his family, he looks like a little fox that wandered into a bear’s den. Butchering pigs? The moment pig’s blood splashes over him, he faints! Farming? The hoe is taller than he is! With the family fearing he’ll become a good-for-nothing, his mother m
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Transmigrated with Three Kids! A Ruinous Start, a Road to Riches! 穿越带仨娃！天崩开局致富路！
Li Tianming was done for. He lay motionless in a drafty thatched hut. He was a graduate student researching traditional Chinese medicine and herbal remedies, but after a loose-lipped remark, he tasted an herb and somehow transmigrated into the body of a pauper. Being poor wasn't the problem, and he could even accept being in his thirties. But the body was in terrible shape: its former owner had drunk himself to death, leaving Li Tianming with three children outside, wailing their hearts out! A d
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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
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Chaos and Famine: My Daily Divinations Fill My Storehouse with Food and Meat! 乱世荒年：我每日一卦粮肉满仓！
Hunter + farming + stockpiling grain before making a move + rebellion and conquest + ten kingdoms, countless beauties [Current fate star: Mountain dweller] [Today's fortune: Blessings and misfortune intertwined] [Great fortune: At the northern foothills of Second Black Mountain, a deer has died of old age in the mountains. Go there to claim its entire hide and carcass.] [Fair: At the foot of Little Black Mountain, a pheasant is caught in the brambles. Hurry over and you might find something extr
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This Top Scholar Plays by His Own Rules 这个状元路子有点野
[Farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + lighthearted] My Parents Flipped the Table and Quit, So I Want to Take the Imperial Exams Too Just as Wang Xuezhou was about to reach the peak of his life, he transmigrated. The good news: in this life, his parents were loving, and his siblings got along. The bad news: the whole family was pinching pennies to fund his eldest uncle's studies. They had next to nothing and were living on coarse grain and wild greens. But before he could flip t
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Chen Sanbao's Daily Struggles in Ancient Times 陈三宝古代奋斗日常
A modern-day hoodlum transmigrated into an unknown era and became Chen Sanbao, a member of the Chen family in Chenjia Village, at the foot of the Beilu Mountains! No golden finger, no pocket dimension, no protagonist’s halo. All he has is the everyday struggle of an ordinary person at the bottom of society! The protagonist is far from perfect. He’s impulsive and quick-tempered, has no advanced education or exceptional intelligence, longs for family affection, and feels compassion for the disadva
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Ming Dynasty: My Years as Zhu Yuanzhang's Heckler 大明，我给老朱当喷子的那些年
If there’s anything you think could be improved, please point it out gently. I’ll make changes. Thank you. The protagonist’s official career: Investigating Censor, Supervising Censor, County Magistrate, Inspecting Censor and Deputy Censor-in-Chief, Censor-in-Chief, Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Grand Secretary of the Hall of Cautious Diligence and Minister of Personnel. Gu Chen opens his eyes and finds himself in the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, as a low-ranking remonstrance official. He ha
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Detective Lu Yong 明侦探陆用
Lu Yong, 25 years old. Occupation: military police. Position: criminal investigator in the Military Commission's Security Department. On March 1, 2023, he entered the Kunlun Mountains while pursuing a major military spy accused of stealing secrets and murder, and vanished without a trace. The Great Ming Dynasty, 1699, the sixth year of the Mingwu reign. Lu Yong appeared in the Daqing Mountains of Taiping Prefecture, in what is now Dangtu County, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province. At the time, all L
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Chronicles of the Great Yao: The Concubine-Born Son Shines 大曜风云录：庶子惊华
Shen Zhiyi, a top student in modern finance and a self-described "slash youth," transmigrates by accident to the fictional Great Yao Dynasty, where he becomes Shen Jinghong, the eldest legitimate son of the Duke of Zhenguo, one of the capital's most powerful noble families. The original Shen Jinghong was a notorious wastrel, skilled in every vice. He squandered the family fortune, offended powerful people, and was even placed under house arrest by imperial order for flirting with a princess. In
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Sword Shadows Startle the Swan: Tales of the Nine Realms 剑影惊鸿：九域风云录
Sword Shadows in Flight: Chronicles of the Nine Realms Ling Chen, a blacksmith's apprentice, unleashes a fist infused with pale golden inner energy and accidentally obtains half of a Nine Realms jade pendant. This uncovers the secrets behind the destruction of six major sects and the prophecy: “When the Blood Moon appears, chaos will engulf the Nine Realms!” Carrying the Star-Shattering Art, he is hunted by multiple factions, encounters beautiful women, and receives covert protection. He ventur
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Great Tang: In the Second Year of Zhenguan, I Made Li Er Call Off the Attack on the Turks 大唐：贞观二年，让李二取消攻打突厥
[Ancient-era homesteading + Building a fortune + Unmasking identities + Hidden expert] Lin An's little restaurant put the Sha County snacks on its left, Lanzhou noodles on its right, and even the braised chicken-and-rice shop and Longjiang pork-knuckle rice shop across the street out of business. It also landed him in the second year of the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty, where he became the owner of an eatery in Chang'an. Two regulars at the shop, Old Li and Old Sun, often asked him about aff
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I Became a General in the Northern Song Dynasty 我在北宋当将军
Pei Jingchen jolted awake in the piercing cold. The humid air of a twenty-first-century tropical rainforest seemed to cling to his skin, yet before him hung a brocade canopy embroidered with intertwined lotus vines, and the cool scent of sandalwood drifted past his nose. His keen instincts as a special forces soldier told him this was not the battlefield where he had died. Unfamiliar memories surged through him like a flood. Northern Song. The third year of Zhidao. Third young master of the Pei
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The Good-for-Nothing Third Young Master? My Path to Immortality Begins! 废柴三公子？我修仙之路开启了！
Chen Feng was a martial arts prodigy from a family of fighters, but his sworn enemy, the Du family, drove him off a cliff. When he opened his eyes again, he had become the six-year-old, good-for-nothing third young master of the Chen family in Qinglang City, in a world of immortal cultivation. The original owner had been abandoned by his family for failing to draw Qi into his body by age six. Even the servants dared to mistreat him. As the memories of a grandmaster from his previous life awakene
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The Heavenly Mandate Within the Feng Shui Trap 天命风水局中局
This is the story of Xiao Ming, who cultivates feng shui and physiognomy to resolve supernatural incidents. Xiao Ming is a high school senior who has always lived in the countryside. His family’s feng shui and physiognomy traditions were passed down through the generations, but were lost by the time of his father. Forced by poverty to work away from home, Xiao Ming’s father, Xiao Weize, rarely returned. When Xiao Ming was young, his grandfather often told him about feng shui and physiognomy. Too
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A Lone Swan Beneath the Cold Moon Roams the Martial World 寒月孤鸿入江湖
On the night Xiangyang fell, Guo Xiang was placed in a bamboo basket by a mute servant and sent drifting down the river. Eighteen years later, a mute swordswoman appeared in the martial world, dressed in white as pure as snow and accompanied only by a white ape. She rescued a young beggar being hunted down, but drew the frenzied pursuit of the Mongol prince Huo Tianqing. “Hand over the surviving heir of the former dynasty, and I'll spare your life.” Huo Tianqing pressed his curved saber to the b
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Undercurrents in M City 暗涌M城
Time: 1933–1937. Setting: M City, a fictional small town on the northeastern border. The era: Japanese military control is tightening, and the policy of “using Chinese to control Chinese” is being enforced. The streets are marked by oppression under the Japanese and their puppet regime, while ordinary people struggle to survive and resist on their own. At sixteen, Erbengzi has lost both parents and grown up among the dregs of society, with an ear for everything. A small-time hoodlum in M City, a
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When Code Meets the Sword Scabbard 当代码遇见剑鞘
Zhang Zixuan, a computer prodigy from M City, and Shen Yating, an Emei disciple from L City, become roommates in the history department at SD University. At first, they can hardly stand each other, but gradually they come to appreciate one another’s strengths. Each tackles the challenges of university life in her own way, and as they deal with campus crises and social issues, they develop a deep friendship and an effortless understanding.
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Honor Student License 优等生执照
In 1997, in the rainforests of Myanmar, Lin Mo trained his sniper rifle on a drug lord's head. Before he could pull the trigger, a family photo fell from the drug lord's arms. It was identical to the one in Lin Mo's pocket. Six years ago, his family had been killed in Myanmar. He was the only one his uncle had managed to save. His uncle had trained him to become an elite assassin: “Kill only those who deserve it.” Now his uncle had sent him back to China. “It's time you lived a normal life.” At
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Infinite Save-Loading: From the Start, Fighting to Survive in a Hospital 无限回档：开局医院求生
[Thrilling ➕ Transmigration ➕ Infinite Rewinds ➕ Mystery and Suspense ➕ Horror and the Supernatural] Please read to the end and leave a review. If it's not good, I'll admit defeat! Each chapter is a standalone instance, so feel free to skip around if you don't like one. You can offer me ideas. Infinite rewinds aren't a curse, but a chance to defy fate! An abandoned hospital, a sinister school, an abandoned amusement park, a strange old town, a deep-sea voyage gone wrong, an endless train, the Sc
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Great Tang: I'm Li Ke, and I Win by Collecting People's Last Words 大唐：我，李恪，靠收遗言躺赢
After 36 straight hours of overtime, Li Ke, a burned-out 996 office worker, dies suddenly. When he opens his eyes, he has become the most ill-fated prince of the Tang dynasty: Li Ke, Prince of Shu! He carries the bloodlines of both the Sui and Tang imperial houses, and history marks him as a high-risk figure who was wrongfully executed. It’s hell mode from the start! Fortunately, his golden finger, the “Kind Words App,” comes online. It senses regret within five zhang, and collecting it earns re
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