Historical Setting, Modern-Day RPF / Alternate Universe 古代现背/架空

1. 1 满 Echoes of My Heart Throughout the Court 满朝文武都能听到我的心声 White Wood白色的木No CP818k WordsCompleted I have a completed novel next door, The Empress Consort System Made Me the First Emperor's Imperial Tutor. Take a look if you're interested. *Light ancient fantasy novel Bad news: Xu Yanmao has transmigrated to ancient times, and he's completely useless at physical labor or farming. His specialty, cybersecurity, is no use to the ancients. Good news: He's bound to a System. Bad news: It's called the Gossip System. Not gossip in the sense of fortune-telling, but gossip involving people's priva 499kFavorites1.1MClicks/ch2.7MGifts

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   The side stories were a bit boring, but the main story was quite interesting.

2. 2 大 [Tang Dynasty] Chang'an of the Great Tang [唐]大唐长安 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭Romance1.1M WordsCompleted When Li Chang’an opened her eyes again, she was in the Tang Dynasty. The good news: It was the Kaiyuan era, the golden age of the Tang, and she was a daughter of Emperor Xuanzong. The bad news: The An Lushan Rebellion was just around the corner, and her father disliked her so much he wouldn’t even give her a princess’s title and made her become a Taoist nun. Princess Shou’an was born to Cao Yena Ji. She was born in the ninth month of pregnancy. The emperor hated her and ordered her to be dress 175.8kFavorites238.2kClicks/ch656.8kGifts

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   The plot is good, and there's a lot of research involved.

3. 3 谋 [Three Kingdoms] Can Strategists Not Ascend the Throne? [三国]谋士不可以登基吗？ River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风No CP2.9M WordsCompleted [Three Kingdoms power struggle. The heroine isn't a strategist, she's a ruler.] [Complete. Anti-piracy measures cover 50% of the text. The full story is being polished and proofread. I take no responsibility for pirated versions.] The seventh year of Guanghe. The Yellow Turban Rebellion. Qiao Yan is bound to Strategist System No. 068 and awakens in the body of a dying little girl amid the starving dead. The System tells her that her goal is to become the greatest strategist under heaven. Sitting 189.2kFavorites328.2kClicks/ch829.9kGifts

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   It was great! I forgot the plot and the details, but I enjoyed watching it.

4. 4 我 I Became the First Emperor of Qin's National Preceptor with a Favorable Consort System 我靠宠妃系统当了秦始皇的国师 White Wood白色的木Romance1.8M WordsCompleted My new novel, Everyone at Court Can Hear My Inner Thoughts, is currently being serialized. Interested readers can visit my author page to check it out. (The synopsis of this novel is below.) She was the person dearest to Qin Shi Huang. She was Emperor Wu of Han's one true love. She was the one Tang Taizong could never bear to hurt, not even a finger's breadth. She was… Qin Shi Huang: That's right. Emperor Wu of Han: The empire means less to me than she does. Tang Taizong: I would gladly sha 276.5kFavorites596.4kClicks/ch1.3MGifts

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   The Qin and Tang Dynasties are good; for other dramas, it depends on your personal taste.

5. 5 早 Good Morning! Three Kingdoms Wage Earner 早安！三国打工人 Vastness of the Underworld蒿里茫茫Romance2.7M WordsCompleted “The land is in turmoil, and the people are suffering.” Lu Xuanyu doesn't really understand what those words mean. Ever since she landed face-first in the earth in the sixth year of Zhongping, the brief dream she'd once had has long since vanished. She has an unremarkable face, poor social skills, no family background, and a strange debuff that makes everyone hate her. Not becoming some warlord's unattainable dream girl isn't a big deal. She has two good hands and two good feet. She can do a 195.9kFavorites205.7kClicks/ch993.3kGifts

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   Subsequent weakness

6. 6 二 Half a Spoiler 二分之一剧透 Tianze Shiruò天泽时若Romance657k WordsCompleted As a game addict who transmigrated into a game, Wen Yanran has a unique advantage that countless other transmigrators lack. First, she starts at the top: she’s the emperor from the start. Second, she comes with a game-assistance System, a standard feature for any protagonist. * Just as Wen Yanran was fretting over her ability to manage a large team, the World Will that had helped her transmigrate offered a friendly reminder: to prevent the current world from restarting over and over, the transmi 164.9kFavorites283kClicks/ch317.8kGifts

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   Like a science student's writing

7. 7 武 [Great Tang] The First Female Official of Empress Wu [大唐]武皇第一女官 Gu Simu顾四木Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Jiang Wo sat in one of the palace gardens within the Taiji Palace. When she woke one day, she discovered that she had become a low-ranking female official in the Tang dynasty during the Zhenguan era: a seventh-rank record keeper in the Palace Discipline Bureau, responsible for recording palace rules and punishments. Her first assignment was to explain palace etiquette to the newly arrived consorts. After she had finished reading through the regulations, one young woman stepped forward. “Could 128.3kFavorites184.4kClicks/ch724kGifts

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   Successful people are indeed very energetic.

8. 8 跟 Falling in Love with the Tech Tree [Three Kingdoms] 跟科技树谈恋爱[三国] Rock Candy Squirrel冰糖松鼠No CP729k WordsCompleted (For the author’s Weibo account, search “Bingtang Songshu on Jinjiang.”) New story: Childhood Friend Wants to Compete in Esports. Please save and follow! This story is exclusively licensed to Jinjiang Literature City. The top student A Sheng was very unhappy with the transmigration story she’d been given: Her father was a liberal arts scholar. Her father’s three wives and concubines were practically illiterate. Ninety-nine percent of the servants in her hou 106.6kFavorites262kClicks/ch151.7kGifts

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   It's still limited by the times.

9. 9 昏 A Tyrant Needs to Go Offline 昏君就要君主离线制 Gu Simu顾四木Multi-Orientation524k WordsCompleted An app called [The Emperor's Simulated Life] suddenly appears on Jiang Li's phone. APP: [Please select a historical ruler to load (Note: not a wise ruler).] Jiang Li is extraordinarily lazy. After thinking it over, she picks Liu Shan. If she ends up by Zhuge Liang's side, she can just say, “I'll leave everything to you, Prime Minister!” APP: [Host has selected Liu Shan, ruler of Shu Han. System transporting Host (bzzzt)... System error... Host transported to the wrong time and place... Host h 78.7kFavorites150.5kClicks/ch100.5kGifts

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   Quickly share, I like the battle royale scenario.

10. 10 被 After the Emperor Read My Inner Thoughts Diary 被皇帝偷看心声日志后 Three Fools, Two Madmen三傻二疯No CP859k WordsCompleted 80% anti-piracy threshold After signing a shady contract with a dogshit System, Mu Qi was sent to ancient times. The good news was that the body the System had prepared for him belonged to the heir of a duke in the current dynasty. He was born into a life of wealth and privilege, at the very top of an alternate dynasty. The bad news was that the emperor was obsessed with alchemy, the upright officials and the corrupt faction were locked in fierce conflict, and the realm was in decline under a 73.4kFavorites135.8kClicks/ch195.6kGifts

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    It's finished, and it's about as good as Bai Ze's book.

11. 11 力 A Rousing Case for the Nation 力荐河山 Retreating Halberd退戈Romance517k WordsCompleted When Fang Shifei was a junior official in the Ministry of Revenue, everyone who rubbed her the wrong way ended up being investigated and punished for corruption. After Fang Shifei was promoted to Vice Minister of Revenue, everyone she couldn't stand ended up being investigated and punished for corruption. The Minister of Revenue was at his wits' end. He hooked an arm around the Imperial Censor's shoulder and said, “Lord Censor, I have a brilliant investigator in my departm 61.3kFavorites121.7kClicks/ch58.6kGifts

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    Lighthearted with a touch of melancholy

12. 12 大 The Ming Dynasty's Crown Prince in Waiting 大明预备天子 A Little Shell一只贝壳No CP851k WordsCompleted Next book: The Utopian Lie-Detecting Detective Old Zhu started with nothing but a bowl and built an empire. With his simple ideals, he devoted himself to raising his successor, stuffing the crown prince's hands with both civil and military officials, and guiding him through matters big and small. The more popular the crown prince became, the happier Old Zhu was. Unfortunately, Zhu Biao died young in history. Old Zhu went into full-on killing mode, slaughtering 54.1kFavorites139.5kClicks/ch60.7kGifts

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    It's kind of ghost-themed? I've forgotten, it's been too long.

13. 13 直 Livestreaming Exams, Starting with the Founding Emperor 直播考试，从开国皇帝开始 Dreaming Back, Chasing the Light迴梦逐光No CP503k WordsOngoing A parallel universe, not real history. After her death, Gu Qinglan discovered that she had become an Exam System. She had to keep binding Hosts and helping them pass one exam after another to become top students, completing her mission and obtaining the energy she needed to survive. Her first Host was love-struck, with nothing but romance on the brain and no interest in exams. The second was a lazy slacker who just wanted to give up and do nothing. The third was useless, with knowledge that nev 51.7kFavorites110.1kClicks/ch50.5kGifts

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    A fairly decent live stream post; check out the pinned author comment! Lightweight

14. 14 每 Famous Teachers Lecture Me Every Day 每天都有名师为我授课 Hu Tu湖涂No CP1.2M WordsCompleted Synopsis: Xie Lailai transmigrates and becomes Xie Lai, the foolish son of a landowning family. His legal mother has no children of her own. So all his brothers and sisters are born to concubines. As one of many sons born to concubines, Xie Lailai just wants to grow up without a fuss, get on his legal mother's good side, and inherit a few more fields so he can live a quiet life as a small landowner in this ancient society. Having children is out of the question. In his previous life, he was a wo 45.9kFavorites115.7kClicks/ch60.6kGifts

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    There was an indefinite hiatus in the middle, and I didn't read the ending, but the beginning was good.

15. 15 帝 Emperor and Empress Simulator 帝后模拟器 Ji Lingshan季灵山Romance784k WordsCompleted An Lin is a fan of strategy and management games. One day, someone recommended a game called Emperor Simulator to her. Excited, she stayed up all night playing it. Build infrastructure, establish the imperial examinations, develop agriculture, train troops, unify the realm... The game offered many ways to play, but An Lin was obsessed with infrastructure and had no interest in building a harem. She put all the funds meant for selecting consorts into agriculture instead. Then, as she played, peop 41.4kFavorites77.1kClicks/ch51.5kGifts

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    A bit narcissistic? But the author writes well.

16. 16 第 The First Female Marquis of War 第一女军侯 February Desolation二月萧瑟No CP2.0M WordsCompleted This book is also known as Blossoms Across the Mountains and Rivers. One-sentence synopsis: From an oppressed concubine-born daughter to the founding marquess, she tears open a rift in a world where women are deemed weak. Blurb: A time of chaos. Warlords divide the land, the people are displaced, and natural and man-made disasters abound. If men can barely survive, women suffer even more abuse. Born a concubine's daughter, she cuts ties with her past and enters the palace in her sister's plac 8.1kFavorites9.5kClicks/ch15.9kGifts

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    It's a serious drama, very good. The female lead is like a great tree that grows from the mud.

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