Historical Figures, Feel-Good Stories, Imagination, and Political Scheming 历史人，爽文，有脑洞，权谋

1. 501 全 Everyone Digs for Treasure, but Only I Can See the Hints 全民挖宝，只有我能看到提示 Thirty Thousand a Day一日三万Urban6.0M WordsOngoing [First release anywhere online + no saintly heroine + satisfying story + decisive and ruthless + gleefully slaughtering everything] “Shocking! Shocking! The whole world is shocked! Daddy Ma spent one billion yuan to buy ten Super Treasure Maps and finally dug up a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. He has now attained immortality!!!” “Good news, good news! A high school senior used a Treasure Map to dig up an ancient golden elixir. From now on, my fate is mine to control!” “Rumor has it that netizen Ye us 72kReads8.8Score4.7kShelves
2. 502 末 Doomsday Rebirth: Stockpiling Supplies and Building a Fortress 末日重生：从囤货建堡垒开始 Fish Ball Noodles Without Fish Balls鱼丸面没鱼丸Sci-Fi & Apocalypse4.3M WordsOngoing [Memories restored + scorching heat + bitter cold + stockpiling + zombies + technological machinery + no bleeding heart + scheming, sharp-tongued protagonist + modest golden finger] Abnormal solar flares, scorching heat, extreme cold, and a virus. They destroyed the civilization and order humanity had built. A technological sphere from a higher civilization carried Li Fan's memories back to his college-age self. Reborn into a new life, will Li Fan unleash chaos upon the world with a twisted hear 108.4kReads7.8Score7.9kShelves
3. 503 笑 This Is Hilarious! Everyone Wants This Guy Dead 笑疯了！这哥们人人喊打 Leisurely Evening Breeze晚风悠人Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [Funny + lighthearted + wicked + absurd + at war with the whole world + come in for a laugh] Ling Chen is a born troublemaker whom everyone naturally dislikes. A fortune-teller said his fate was so harsh that his father would die when he was three, his mother would be doomed when he was seven, and he would never have a complete family. So his father ran away, and his mother cut ties with him too. After finally making it into college, Ling Chen is hated by the entire school and sent to the fronti 37.6kReads7.8Score3.1kShelves
4. 504 恋 Dating Show: Why Are You Picking on Him? He’s Deficient in Virtue 恋综：你惹他干嘛？他五行缺德啊 Shui Yexiang水耶香Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Goofy + hilarious + showbiz + variety shows + meme jokes + dating show + straight-talking guy] Chen Yang transmigrated. He landed in the body of a man on the day he was about to be coerced into sleeping with someone for a career opportunity. He thought he was finally about to reach the pinnacle of life, but after seeing the wealthy woman’s face, the teachings of Mencius he’d learned ten years earlier struck him right between the eyes. Wealth cannot corrupt him, poverty cannot make him abandon h 129.1kReads9.0Score14.7kShelves
5. 505 我 My Landlord Is a Pop Idol 我的房东是偶像歌手 131313Urban3.2M WordsCompleted Gu Zhinan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an online novelist. Could his beautiful landlady really be a washed-up idol singer? One day, she leaves her guitar in the living room... "I can't write songs. I'm just a novelist. I was only messing around." That is, until his landlady is left stunned by the song Gu Zhinan wrote. "Didn't you say you couldn't write songs?" "I know a little, I know a little." 51.6kReads9.2Score5.7kShelves
6. 506 国 National Survival: I Keep the Nation Afloat with an Intelligence System 国运求生，我靠情报系统养活国家 Sea of Mist雾海Urban2.2M WordsOngoing [National destiny + livestream + wilderness survival + primeval wilderness] A higher civilization has sealed off Blue Star’s resources! A livestreamed wilderness survival challenge begins, binding each pioneer to their nation’s destiny! If a contestant dies or finishes last, their nation will suffer a natural disaster! The Dragon Kingdom’s pioneer is dropped into a harsh environment. Earthquakes and extreme cold plague the country, making it the laughingstock of the world. Pioneer Lin An is sent 373.3kReads9.1Score41.8kShelves
7. 507 高 High Martial: From the Start, I Work Part-Time at a Restaurant, and Killing Chickens Makes Me Stronger 高武：开局饭店兼职，杀鸡变强 Get Rich Overnight, Ah Ah Ah一夜暴富啊啊啊Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Decisive and ruthless] + [Fast-paced, no dragging] + [Immersive, epic-length story] + [Over one million characters already published] P.S. The author has completed a novel over one million characters long. Its Level 5 quality is guaranteed, so readers can enjoy it with confidence. “Li Jingchen, we’re breaking up!” “You’re only an E-rank ability user. You’re too useless. I don’t want Young Master Bai getting the wrong idea!” “With my looks, you should consider it a blessing just to take me out f 3.9kReads6.9Score334Shelves
8. 508 开EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Urban8.9M WordsCompleted [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 336kReads9.7Score45.7kShelves
9. 509 开 Sleepwalking Through the Void from the Start, I Broke the Female Emperor 开局梦游太虚，女帝被玩崩了 Herding Cows and Eating Melons放牛吃瓜Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [No System + Realm Lord + No groveling + No saintly protagonist + Crush cockroaches with a horizontal swing + Chop ants with a vertical slash + Pure exhilaration] Ye Chen wakes up in a fantasy world after transmigrating, with a golden finger: the Void Realm he has visited in his dreams now exists in his mind. As long as he sleepwalks through the Void, he can grow stronger. He plans to keep his head down and develop in secret, but an unparalleled Empress accidentally peers into the Void Realm and 4.7kReads6.8Score413Shelves
10. 510 赠 Ten-Thousandfold Gift Returns: I'm the Number One Simp in the Immortal Realm! 赠礼万倍返还：我，仙界第一舔！ Eunuch Yuchen雨晨公公Eastern Fantasy4.7M WordsOngoing “Gave away a Qi-Gathering Pill, received a ten-thousandfold return: rewarded with a Nine-Turn Golden Pill!” “Gave away a Fireball Spell, received a ten-thousandfold return: rewarded with a World-Destroying Buddha Lotus!” “Gave away a low-grade magical artifact, received a ten-thousandfold return: rewarded with an Axe of Creation!” After Ye Chen obtained the System, giving gifts to female cultivators was all it took to earn rewards. All Ye Chen wanted to say was, I never meant to be a simp. But t 160.4kReads8.6Score15.7kShelves
11. 511 穿 I Transmigrated into a Beggar and Even Picked Up an Ugly Wife? 穿越成乞丐，还捡个丑媳妇？ Tired乏了Historical1.5M WordsCompleted [Fictional setting, farming, everyday life, a man backed by his dog, sweet and savory, building a faction, fighting on the battlefield] The early chapters focus on everyday life, with a slow pace. We’ve all seen dogs throwing their weight around on behalf of their owners. A man throwing his weight around on behalf of his dog is a one-of-a-kind sight! After waking up, scoundrel Chu Yuan found himself reborn as the only son of a barefoot doctor in the Great Xia Dynasty. All he had from the start w 4kReads8.7Score449Shelves
12. 512 刚 I Just Became a Zombie and Found a Female Emperor to Raise as My Daughter 刚成僵尸，捡了个女帝当女儿 Chen Miaowu陈喵呜Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted I, Gu Yan, am an ordinary person. By accident, I transmigrated to a world where the supernatural was returning. A wicked cultivator captured me and refined me into a zombie. Just as I was losing all hope, I came across an abandoned baby wailing her heart out. The baby's arrival helped me reclaim the humanity I'd nearly lost and showed me a new hope. I decided to adopt her. I, the zombie daddy, began spoiling my daughter. … I, Xie Qingwu, was once the female emperor of the Immortal Realm. I died 8.4kReads7.4Score906Shelves
13. 513 邪 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Three Winds 11三风11Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca 154.1kReads9.3Score16.1kShelves
14. 514 开EN Starting as a Jailer, I Represent the Court in Slaying Through the Martial World 开局成狱卒，我代表朝廷杀穿武林 Hua Jiuzhi花九枝Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted [Decisive and ruthless + body refinement + slaying demons and exorcising evil + dominating the martial world] Ye Kang accidentally transmigrates to a high-martial world where heroes use their martial arts to flout the law, warriors bully ordinary people, and the people live in misery. Ye Kang awakens a Comprehension System and rises from a death prison. Martial arts that take others ten years of hard training to master, he learns in a second, effortlessly. In a world where might makes right, Ye 26.9kReads8.2Score2.2kShelves
15. 515 还 Unable to Pay My Mortgage, I Was Forced to Survive on a Deserted Island! 还不上房贷的我，被迫荒岛求生！ I'm Your Ninth Brother我是你九弟Urban2.1M WordsCompleted “Just let it all end. I’m tired!” Because of a family crisis and his own personal problems, Zhang Yu could no longer keep up with his mortgage payments. He chose to jump into the river and end his life, but unexpectedly transmigrated into another version of himself in a parallel world. He washed ashore on an isolated island where contestants compete to survive, and, faced with the survival rewards on offer, chose to join the competition... [One heroine, bickering couple, no System.] 22kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
16. 516 第 The Ninth Empire 第九帝国 Honored Guest of the Qing Tower清楼贵客Urban3.6M WordsOngoing [Alternate Empire + War Among a Hundred Races + Supernatural Powers + Battles Across Different Worlds + Hunter Guilds + Slow-Burn Opening + Ensemble Cast + Both Thrills and Heartbreak] God gave life to all things and created the world. As God lay dying, humanity betrayed the divine, seized greed and wisdom, and founded an empire. The successor inherited the gods' power, swore to destroy the world, and founded the Church. From then on, the Empire and the Church waged war for ten thousand years. T 170.1kReads9.4Score14.8kShelves
17. 517 逆 The Reverse Maze 逆位迷宫 Peng Pai彭湃Urban1.7M WordsOngoing On the day of his eighteenth birthday, Bai Ze's life begins a countdown. Survive or perish: that is the choice. // Three lives, six paths, a mist-shrouded maze. Nothing is harder than choosing one's fate. 92.3kReads9.5Score7.3kShelves
18. 518 序EN Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路：不要掉队！ Roaring Mountains and Seas山海呼啸Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing [Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e 618kReads8.5Score41.5kShelves
19. 519 三 Three Thousand Iron Cavalry, I Am Their King 三千铁骑我为王 Baby Bai Loves to Eat白宝宝爱吃饭Historical603k WordsCompleted A modern-day special forces soldier is reborn as a worthless prince. At a victory banquet, he is falsely accused of treason, and everyone within and beyond the court wants him dead. Yet with a special forces soldier’s iron resolve and strategic brilliance, he turns the tables in three days, reclaims the military command seal, and uncovers a glimpse of the massacre that wiped out the Yan Yun Guards thirty years ago. War erupts on the northern frontier as the Turkic cavalry bears down on the bord 873Reads6.4Score102Shelves

    Reader note

    It's pretty good. It's not an invincible, wish-fulfillment story, but I think it's well-written and worth following.

20. 520 天 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 The Leaf Riding the Wind御风而行的葉子Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 273.3kReads9.5Score22.8kShelves
21. 521 全 Global Transmigration: I Crush the Great Song with My Warship 全球穿越：我靠军舰碾压大宋 qzuser Is Meqzuser就是我Historical125k WordsOngoing [Slow burn, mass transmigration, liberate everyone, nation-building, steel torrents versus cold weapons] [What’s it like when the strongest municipality in China is sent back to the Jingkang era and takes on the Jin army with warships?] One moment, you’re asleep. The next, all of Chongqing, its people and city alike, has crashed into the year 1126. So what if strange omens fill the sky? Can’t even a giant pipeful of tobacco be put out? The hotpot keeps bubbling, and the light rail keeps running. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I found a book about cross-dressing that's quite interesting.

22. 522 我 My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客 Super Big Tank Kobe超级大坦克科比Urban2.1M WordsCompleted After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem. 120kReads9.7Score13.9kShelves
23. 523 别 Don't Let Scholars Talk, the Talented Ladies Can't Take It 别让书生动嘴，才女们扛不住 Purple Flames Rising紫火飞扬Historical310k WordsCompleted A friendly warning: reading this book comes with risks. You might laugh hard enough to get abs because the male lead is such a flirt, or end up with high blood sugar because the romantic rivalry is so sweet. I accept no responsibility for any such symptoms. Want to come after the author? Vote and add the book to your collection first, then take a number and wait in line! [Alternate Ancient Setting] [Book Transmigration] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Scheming, Sharp-Tongued Hero] [Romantic Rivalry] [Pow 9Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 524 这 This Protagonist Won't Take Orders, So I'm Done 这届主角不服管，老子不干了 Maple Drifts Past Chang'an枫过长安Urban2.2M WordsCompleted [Recruiting protagonists + ensemble cast + slow start] The black-hearted System gives me an impossible mission: make the urban war god, the miraculous doctor, the martial arts prodigy, the Dragon King God of War, the reincarnated emperor, the blind Sword Sovereign, the reincarnation, the reborn one... submit to me. What the hell? They’re all absurdly powerful protagonists. You expect them to take me as their boss? I quit! 101kReads9.6Score11.4kShelves
25. 525 纸 The Paper Effigy Shop Owner Is a Powerful Occultist 纸扎店老板娘她是玄门大佬 A Xia, Beautiful and Talented阿夏貌美且有才Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The second installment, Gods Cannot Save Themselves 2, is now available! Strong female lead, no CP (a monk with unrequited feelings approaches the heroine with an ulterior motive) + wish fulfillment + plot-driven. The heroine isn't a self-sacrificing saint, so if you like that type of heroine, please look elsewhere. The heroine, Chen Zhaoyuan, owns a paper offerings shop. She's a “person” who has lived for a very, very long time. Some of her memories are missing. She's no good at music, chess, c 31.3kReads9.0Score3.8kShelves
26. 526 全 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 235.3kReads9.7Score27.5kShelves
27. 527 列 Train Survival: Activating the Foresight Module from the Start! 列车求生：开局激活预知模块！ Grape-Flavored Yogurt葡萄味酸奶Urban1.7M WordsOngoing Qi Xiao wakes up in a world where people must survive aboard trains. Every day at eight, the train stops at a random station. You can get off and explore, or stay aboard and wait for it to depart. There are endless treasures here, along with unknown dangers. Explore stations, gather supplies, upgrade your train, and do your best to survive. Qi Xiao's newcomer gift isn't food like everyone else's. Instead, he gets a module card that activates a special module: Station Forecast. Whenever the train 73.1kReads8.3Score5.6kShelves
28. 528 手 With the Notable Ministers System in Hand, I Disguise Myself as a Man in Ancient Times 手拿名臣系统，我在古代女扮男装 Tianyang Peak, Who Loves Handmade Wheat Dumplings爱吃手工麦饺的天阳峰Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to 115.9kReads9.6Score11.3kShelves

    Reader note

    The first book is set in a fictional historical period. Although the protagonist is a woman disguised as a man, she appears as a man throughout the entire book, and there's no romance, or at least a one-sided crush on the protagonist. The second book is set in the Song Dynasty. The protagonist travels back in time to the day before the city falls, manages to turn the tide, and the capable ministers of the weak Song Dynasty finally usher in their own revival monarch. The third book is set in the Ming Dynasty. I read it a long time ago, but the protagonist is also very interesting, so it's worth reading.

29. 529 黄 Blondie Transmigrates Into a Book, and Even a Top Student Can Throw Their Weight Around 黄毛穿书，学霸也是霸 Master Lu of the Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge七彩虹桥的吕师傅Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted daily life + healing + multiple heroines + transmigration into a book] Zhang Chen was an ordinary student who had topped the college entrance exam rankings for years. After growing tired of taking countless exams, he decided that a life where everything went smoothly was far too dull, so he resolved to take it easy and enjoy his school days! Gaming all night, sleeping in class, staying up late to watch videos! He’d enjoy all the things he’d never gotten to enjoy before! But on 46.7kReads8.9Score5.4kShelves
30. 530 我 I Turned My Superstitious Father into the Chief Councilor 我把神棍老爹卷成首辅 Beyond the Mountain山的那边Historical1.7M WordsCompleted [Ensemble cast + imperial examinations + daily life + farming + court politics later on] Father and son join forces to build a Ming dynasty on which the sun never sets. Yan Xun transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and discovers that his father can do everything except study. His dad has so many secret identities, like an onion with layer after layer to peel back. Huh! If I push Dad hard enough to make him Grand Secretary, can I become a Junior Grand Secretary? The filial son Yan Xun sells everythin 22.7kReads9.5Score2.7kShelves
31. 531 路 Lu Mingfei, If You Can't Save Them, What Kind of Supreme Being Are You? 路明非，救不了他们你算什么至尊 When Yun's Song Ends允歌唱罢Male-Channel Fanfiction2.6M WordsOngoing [Dragon Raja + Good-for-Nothing Makeover Plan] “By the sword shall all royal blood be ended?” “No, Your Majesty. All royal blood shall pave the way for you.” Lu Mingfei, a second-year high school student, had been worrying lately. Some so-called Dragon King Development Plan had inexplicably bound itself to him, insisting that he was a young Dragon Ancestor and starting him on a hell-level makeover. Fail a mission? Odin's lightning spear, the Sea King's drowning, the Mountain King's collapse: one 116.5kReads8.8Score17.4kShelves
32. 532 乱 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！ Rising From the Abyss风起于渊Historical2.0M WordsOngoing 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 291.4kReads8.3Score23.8kShelves
33. 533 黄 Laojun Cave on Huangmao Mountain 黄茂山老君洞 Icebound Demon River冰天魔川11k WordsCompleted Huangmaoshan Laojun Cave 8Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    It has a certain level of brain-teasing complexity, involving adventure and time travel, and exploring historical anecdotes, geography, and local chronicles. The short stories serve as side stories to aid in understanding the longer ones.

34. 534 开EN I Start by Handing Over a Cultivation World, and the Nation Wants Me to Become an Immortal First 开局上交修仙界，国家让我先成仙 Beautiful Onion美丽的洋葱Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsOngoing “Chief, I request permission to hand over an unclaimed cultivation world.” “This world is rich in resources and abundant in spiritual energy. I recommend taking it over as soon as possible.” Lu Li transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a low-ranking mine slave in a demonic sect. Without an old master or a System to guide him, he thinks he'll have to cultivate the hard way. But by chance, he awakens a twin-fish jade pendant that can contact Huaxia. The news shocks the entire country, an 259.2kReads9.2Score31.2kShelves
35. 535 妖 Demon Corpses Aren't Edible? Quick, Send It to My Family's Crematorium While It's Still Warm 妖尸不可食？快，趁热送我家火葬 Sallow Little Face小脸蜡黄Urban2.9M WordsCompleted [High Martial] [Passionate] [Demonic beasts invade] [Not reborn] [Funny] If you want a lone-wolf protagonist, you can swipe away. The protagonist, Jiang Ping, is a passionate young man. He can be calculating, and he can be moved. He’s a real person, with classmates, friends, parents, and teachers. Spatial rifts opened, and demonic beasts invaded the land. Everyone knew that demonic beast corpses were inedible, and eating them would turn you into a contaminated being. By chance, Jiang Ping obtain 108.1kReads8.8Score15.2kShelves
36. 536 铁 Iron Deeds, Rivers and Mountains: The Dying Embers of the Southern Ming 铁券山河：南明余烬 Zhong Mingzhou钟鸣洲Historical118k WordsOngoing The Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, but the embers on Coal Hill had yet to die out. Half of an iron tally reveals the secret of the Jianwen Emperor's descendants; a former dynasty's eunuch and a young peddler girl stumble upon a conspiracy between the Qing court and a rebel general at a ghost market in a mass grave. Should they uphold the Zhu family's rightful claim, or protect the people's hearts? Heroes of the martial world, remnants of the Southern Ming, and veterans of Hongwu's armies wage 1Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    The last hope of the Ming Dynasty

37. 537 高 The Blind Sword Girl of the High-Martial Thief God Clan 高武盗神家的盲眼剑娘 The Bird Who Loves Collecting Stamps爱收集邮票的飞鸟Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [One heroine + equally matched leads + action and romance] One is a thief who loves stealing precious gems. The other is a blind swordswoman who does nothing but practice her swordsmanship. Lin Chuan, known as the God of Thieves in Longxia, unexpectedly acquired a bag that could trade for anything. As long as he put in enough treasures, he could get whatever he wanted. SSS-grade gene enhancers, top-tier breathing techniques, coveted combat skills... He had planned to use the trading bag to go fr 168.6kReads9.2Score25.5kShelves
38. 538 书 Master Calligrapher? Poet Immortal? Chief Minister? That's Right, I'm All of Them 书圣？诗仙？首辅？没错，都是我 Sunlight on the River日照前川Historical834k WordsOngoing In his previous life, Cui Xian was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature at a top-tier university. In this life, he transmigrated to ancient times, into a poor family with no connections: A destitute home, a pregnant mother, young siblings, an uncle who had failed the exams six times and was hopeless at studying, a grandmother so obsessed with imagining her son placing high in the imperial examinations that she had become delusional, and Cui Xian, who was only eight years old. Cui Xian: This 28.3kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves

    Reader note

    The fourth book is technically the only historical fiction; since the previous ones all had historical elements, I've included it here as well.

39. 539 穿EN Transmigrating to a Small Country and Developing Its GDP to Number One 穿越小国，发展GDP到第一 Won a Wisp of Tea Fragrance at Book Gambling赌书赢得缕茶香Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Farming + Development + War + Ensemble Cast + Ideals] To borrow Sankara's words: What was the Republic of Bujinia like before he took over? Its national GDP was just 7.26 billion dollars. Its land area was a pitiful 274,000 square kilometers. Its entire armed forces numbered fewer than 100,000! The navy? What's a navy? Can a landlocked country even have one? And what was Bujinia like after he took over? Its GDP surpassed that of the United States Federation, accounting for 40% 30.1kReads9.3Score2kShelves
40. 540 天 Heavenly Chess: The Path to Chess Sagehood 天弈：棋圣之路 Xuan Chen玄尘Urban4.0M WordsCompleted [A brand-new setting] [Heroes at the Chessboard] What happens when chess meets heroic battles? When civilizations collide, would you dare to play against Heaven? After transmigrating, Zhuge Yi discovers that although modern Huaxia is prosperous and powerful, its people know almost nothing about their own history. The game Tian Yi, a chess game built around the heroes of the people, has become the world's mainstream pastime. At that time, the Huaxia chess world is weak, while Western chess dom 43kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves
41. 541 这 This Prince Has Gone Mad. Why Would You Provoke Him? 这皇子都疯了，你惹他干嘛？ Before the Wind Rises风未起Historical4.0M WordsCompleted [No System + High-Stakes Scheming + Laying Low to Build Strength + Logical Plot + Brains and Brawn + Suspense + Ancient Espionage] His mother consort dies suddenly of an illness. His older brother dies mysteriously in battle. All his backers are gone!! His father distrusts him, and his other brothers all want him dead! Not a single court official is on his side? In that case, he has no choice but to carve out a path to survival from between the cracks! After transmigrating to another world, he b 62.3kReads8.8Score5.1kShelves
42. 542 选 You Chose Me as Censor, Li Shimin, So Why Are You Crying? 选我当御史，李世民你哭什么 Zhang Invincible张无敌Historical4.1M WordsOngoing [Hilarious, satisfying, lighthearted, historical, ancient China] Cheng Jun transmigrated to the third year of the Zhenguan era in the Tang Dynasty, becoming the son of the military officer Cheng Yaojin. As it happened, Li Shimin was recruiting imperial censors! Years later, Li Shimin said to the Crown Prince, “Cheng Jun is a peerless sword of our Great Tang. Only a virtuous person can wield him. You're young, so I'll leave him to you.” The Crown Prince burst into tears. “I don't want it anymore! 45.4kReads9.0Score3kShelves
43. 543 快 Run! Wei Zheng Is Bringing His Son to Court! 快跑，魏征扛着他儿子上朝了！ My Bumpy Journey磕磕绊绊的我Historical1.2M WordsCompleted Year Seven of the Zhenguan era. A thunderous boom sounded in the sky, and I transmigrated into Wei Shuyu. As Wei Zheng's beloved son, shouldn't I help my father with his troubles? Li Shimin secretly hiding spending money? Take a break, Dad. I'll chew him out. Li Shimin wanting to take a concubine? Take a break, Dad. I'll chew him out. Li Shimin wanting to lead a personal campaign? Take a break, Dad. I'll chew him out... In short, whatever Li Shimin does, we oppose it. That's how you earn a reput 22.7kReads9.0Score2.6kShelves
44. 544 大 The Tang Dynasty’s Fine Prince 大唐好贤王 The Six Arts of the Gentlemen君子六艺Historical3.3M WordsCompleted [Funny and Stress-Relieving + Fiery Battles + Alternate History + “A Loving Father and Filial Son” + Top-Tier Jokesters Teaming Up + No System, Just a Golden Finger + Deep Grandparent-Grandchild Bond] In an alternate universe, in another Tang dynasty, the blood of the Xuanwu Gate Incident stained the flagstones beneath the palace walls red, and a different legend of the prosperous Tang began! Li Kuan, the second prince raised by his grandmother, Empress Dowager Taimu, survived a brush with dea 56.2kReads9.4Score4.8kShelves

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45. 545 侯 The Marquis's Son Fails at Lying Flat 侯府郎君躺平失败记 Pi Xiaobai皮小白Historical791k WordsOngoing Just after Feng Yanchu transmigrates, he hears a series of smacks before feeling a stinging pain on his butt. How embarrassing! His pants have been pulled down and he’s being spanked! Then he hears several children wailing. Three other kids are getting beaten nearby, too. Looks like they got into trouble. At least he isn’t the only one being punished, which makes it a little less embarrassing. The male lead transmigrates into the body of an illegitimate son in a marquis’s household. He expects t 69.9kReads8.5Score6kShelves
46. 546 大 Great Ming: The Village's Little Top Scholar, Whom Old Zhu Absolutely Adores 大明：乡村小状元，老朱贼稀罕我 Scholar Who Wins a Marquisate封侯书生Historical2.0M WordsCompleted During the Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Qiniu, an ordinary four-year-old farm boy, accidentally comes across a silver bell. From then on, he dreams every night of entering a room filled with books: the Thousand Character Classic, the Hundred Family Surnames, the Four Books and Five Classics, collections of successful candidates’ exam essays from every dynasty, and more. With his golden finger and relentless effort, he becomes the top scholar before the age of ten. Beloved by Old Zhu, Litt 18.8kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
47. 547 穿 Transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty, I Rule the World With a Divine Selection System 穿越大明，靠神选系统雄霸天下 I'm So Fired Up我老火了Historical1.9M WordsCompleted Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty, he becomes Lan Wu, the eldest legitimate son of Lan Yu, and awakens a Divine Choice System. From the start, at the grand court assembly, he submits a memorial directly to the old Zhu, stopping him from choosing Zhu Yunwen as his heir. Back home, he tells Lan Yu to fake his death and hand over his duke's title. Zhu Yuanzhang: “Excellent. Lan Wu, you really have some nerve.” Lan Yu: “You're really going to make your old man die of filial piety.” The entire court 7.5kReads8.1Score561Shelves
48. 548 嘉 Jiajing: I Really Am Cultivating Immortality 嘉靖：朕真的在修仙 Boiling Wine in a Cold Hut寒庐煮酒Historical1.3M WordsOngoing An emperor obsessed with cultivating the Dao? I'm cultivating immortality! After transmigrating into the Ming dynasty as the “Daoist Emperor,” he initially resolves to become the greatest emperor in history. But cultivation is real, and immortality is within reach. With a scroll of the Way of Peaceful Ascension, he concocts the elixir of immortality in a golden age! From then on, new rites flourish, and the Three Palaces stand together. The jade seal passes through the ages, and fortune soars ac 1.8kReads8.7Score102Shelves
49. 549 大 Great Ming: I Transmigrate as the Chongzhen Emperor, Starting with a Rope 大明：穿越崇祯帝，开局一根绳 An Illiterate Writes a Novel文盲写小说Historical2.8M WordsCompleted [No System + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + Ruthless Combat + War] Good news: Zhu Lian transmigrated and became Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming dynasty. Bad news: It was the tenth day of the third month of Chongzhen’s seventeenth year, just seven days before Li Zicheng’s rebels stormed the outer city. The Ming dynasty was already on the brink of collapse, in grave danger. The Jurchens threatened from the north, rebels from the west, with one natural disaster after another an 60.3kReads9.3Score6.3kShelves
50. 550 老 I, Fan Jin, Am Retiring in Great Ming 老夫范进，在大明退休养老 Beyond the Mountain山的那边Historical223k WordsCompleted (Already published under the title Madcap in the World of Scholars) (Third Prize in the “Reviving Ancient Books, Passing Down a Love of Reading” writing contest) Good heavens! I passed! Fan Jin from The Scholars is traveling through the Ming Dynasty. “Would you like to live a different life? Want to avoid thirty years of detours? Step out of The Scholars and begin your own journey.” At seventeen, Fan Jin opened his eyes and found himself fifty-four. The next time he opened them, he was thirty. H 5.3kReads9.5Score520Shelves

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