Changing History and Ascending the Throne 改变历史，登基为皇

1. 1 我 I Truly Am Not a Wise King! 我真不是明君！ Wei Huo危火No CP877k WordsCompleted [Complete. Bonus chapters will be released at the end of September.] Blurb: In his previous life, Qu Dubian made his debut after fans obsessively voted for him, thanks to his acting skills and his ability to play a helpless, scheming green tea. One day, he transmigrated and became a little prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, whose mother had died early. Not only did he have just three days left to live, he was also bound to a [Disease Simulator] that could extend his lifespan. There were three w 281.2kFavorites377.7kClicks/ch1.2MGifts
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
3. 3 我 [Three Kingdoms] I Can Command the Wind and Rain [三国]我，呼风唤雨 Gold and Jade Fill the Courtyard金玉满庭Romance818k WordsCompleted She’s in the chaotic Three Kingdoms era, but she’s a goddess. Things seem pretty good from the start… Wait, which faction’s goddess is she, exactly? Chen Zhao stared at the people in front of her, all wearing yellow turbans and charging forward as they shouted, “The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! In the year of Jiazi, good fortune shall reign!” She fell silent. So… she was a rebel? Chen Zhao rolled up her sleeves. Since she was here, what else could she do but make the b 101.6kFavorites108.6kClicks/ch525.2kGifts
4. 4 吾 I Am the Han Crown Prince, Champion of Filial Piety, Brotherhood, Benevolence, and Righteousness 吾乃孝悌仁义汉太子也 Mulan Bamboo木兰竹Romance1.3M WordsCompleted At the age of five, Liu Ying awakened memories of his previous life as a modern person and learned the “history” of his current life. His memories were hazy. Aside from knowing he had been born five years earlier than in “history,” he vividly remembered that his father, Liu Bang, would try to depose him as crown prince and drive him to his death, while his mother, Lü Zhi, would keep a human pig in the toilet to try to scare him to death. How could he put up with that?! Liu Ying immediately stol 65kFavorites105.4kClicks/ch620.4kGifts
5. 5 我 I, Qin Ershi, Am Broadcast Rebelling on the Sky Screen 我秦二世被天幕直播造反 Clothes in September九月有衣Romance381k WordsCompleted Ying Yunman transmigrates as the daughter of Qin Shi Huang. She won’t try to convince Ying Zheng that the elixirs are poisonous, or warn Fusu not to believe Hu Hai’s forged imperial edict. If she wants to rewrite history completely, the only way is to become emperor herself! Rising against the First Emperor would make it difficult to use her advantage as someone from the future. Rising against Hu Hai, on the other hand, means competing with the Chu and Han kingdoms. Even with her imperfect know 61.6kFavorites158.9kClicks/ch128.9kGifts

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6. 6 我 I Took the Throne Before the Spoilers 我比剧透先登基 River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风No CP677k WordsCompleted [You can read this as alternate history. Although the sky screen offers spoilers, there’s plenty of action in the real world; at heart, this is still a tale of seizing power and vying for supremacy in a time of chaos! Updates daily at noon, with at least six thousand words a day.] Wang Shenai transmigrates. She finds herself in an extraordinarily noble position. Her father is a dashing member of the Langya Wang clan, her mother is a princess, and she herself has already become Crown Princess. Un 59.2kFavorites66.5kClicks/ch107.5kGifts
7. 7 玩 Players Conquer the World with Secret Identities 玩家靠开马甲一统天下 Wei Chaojin魏朝瑾No CP1.3M WordsCompleted For the sake of a ten-million prize, Zhu Ling joins a full-dive game called The Contest for the Throne. But with terrible luck from the start, her initial identity is a princess fleeing her homeland amid turmoil in the Qiang Kingdom. It pours with rain, and pursuers are closing in behind her. All she has is an empty player interface and a System that does nothing but nag. Zhu Ling: … Heaven wants her dead. After barely completing the hellishly difficult beginner quest, she unlocks the player f 54.4kFavorites72.2kClicks/ch131.2kGifts
8. 8 手 Phone, Did I Successfully Win the Succession Battle Today? 手机我今天夺嫡成功了吗 Cumin Meee孜然咩No CP1.1M WordsCompleted Originally titled How Does a Smartphone Spirit Become a Prince and Seize the Throne? 1. Xue Jin'an is the magical artifact smartphone of a transmigrated cultivator, a domineering hero in the modern world. After an accident shatters his physical form, the artifact spirit transmigrates into a doomed prince who dies at the very start of an unfinished novel about a struggle for the throne. Xue Jin'an doesn't want to die so soon, so he decides to join the main plot, fight for the throne, and become e 42.4kFavorites57.2kClicks/ch82.1kGifts
9. 9 西 [Woman-to-Man] A Western Han Prince's Rise Through the Ranks [女穿男]西汉皇子升职记 Bamboo Grove Courtyard竹林院No CP1.7M WordsCompleted [Content warning: Female transmigrates into a male body. Please proceed with caution. Set in a parallel world, where the protagonist transmigrates into a game. Not connected to official history.] When Liu Rui learned that the game she was playing wasn't the Concubine's Promotion game, complete with a bonus pack, but an Emperor's Growth game that started on hard mode and ended with a hellish start, all she wanted before beginning her studies was some peace and quiet. At the time, she... no! He 39.1kFavorites101.7kClicks/ch93.6kGifts
10. 10 咸 After This Good-for-Nothing Got the Script of a Fallen Tyrant 咸鱼拿了亡国暴君剧本后 Ji Nian极年No CP357k WordsCompleted Jiang Cundu transmigrated into a book and became the newly enthroned tyrant who would bring his country to ruin. The book’s male lead was Prince Zhengan, who guarded the northern frontier, while the female lead was a modern woman who had transmigrated into the story. After arriving, she used her modern knowledge to go into business and provide Prince Zhengan with financial support. In the end, she helped him march back to the capital and claim the throne. The original tyrant, meanwhile, was pla 27kFavorites38.6kClicks/ch20.2kGifts
11. 11 女 [Three Kingdoms] I’ll Be the Empress [三国]女帝我来当 Dinosaur Flower恐龙花Romance908k WordsCompleted Complete, with bonus chapters still updating... [Female-led power struggle] [A parallel world made up on the fly] The fifth year of the Xiping era. Yang Qiu was reborn as a child in a peasant family at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty. Then she started gathering pigweed and raising pigs, working the fields and pulling weeds, pounding grain to remove the husks, hauling manure to fertilize the land... If you’re asking about Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Cao Cao, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and the rest... T 19.3kFavorites22.7kClicks/ch19.3kGifts
12. 12 最 The Last Emperor 最后的帝王 Green Rabbit青色兔子No CP900k WordsCompleted A max-level expert absolutely wrecks the newbie village Transmigrated into the body of a young emperor at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, he faces war, epidemics, locust plagues, and droughts. It seems Heaven means to destroy the Han. The male lead smiles calmly and tells Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yang Biao, Sun Jian, and the others to send their sons to the palace first. A successful emperor is a master of keeping his options open. He has Cao Ang on his left, Yang Xiu on his right, Sun Ce in 17.1kFavorites39.2kClicks/ch25.5kGifts
13. 13 用 Using the Idol System to Ascend the Throne in Ancient Times 用偶像系统在古代登基了 Spring Feather春羽No CP611k WordsCompleted [Main Story Complete] Good news: Transmigrating really does come with a System. Bad news: He’s in ancient times, but Song Yanqing’s top-idol System is a modern version and isn’t much use. Second piece of good news: He transmigrated as a prince. Second piece of bad news: The prince has a foolish emperor for a father, and the dynasty is teetering on the brink of collapse. He’s also young and inexperienced, with no maternal relatives to speak of. Song Yanqing, who had just debuted in the center 13.1kFavorites27.1kClicks/ch6.1kGifts
14. 14 我 I'm a Student, Give Me the Throne 我是学生，皇位给我 Orange Juice Thanks橙汁感谢No CP662k WordsCompleted This novel is also known as I Got 13 Kills in a Succession Struggle Story. Li Muge transmigrates into a political intrigue novel about a succession struggle, becoming the fourteenth daughter of Emperor Zhuang Kang. Her entire description in the book is just one sentence: "The fourteenth daughter is gentle, clever, and kind. I love her, but alas, she died young." A princess who dies before the story begins, setting off the first battle in the succession struggle. Now, Li Muge, a modern college s 8.5kFavorites9.3kClicks/ch7.3kGifts
15. 15 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
16. 16 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
17. 17 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
18. 18 定 [Wu Zhou] Founding the Dynasty [武周]定鼎 River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风Romance2.1M WordsCompleted [Current arc: Wu Zhou] Wu Qingyue never imagined that one moment she’d be grabbing her keyboard to argue with someone that the claim Empress Zhaoyi had murdered her daughter was complete nonsense, and the next she’d be reborn as Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of Tang’s third daughter. In other words... the daughter of Wu Zetian who died before her first birthday. [Good news: You come with a System.] [Bad news: The System has just one function: convert 153.4kFavorites216.6kClicks/ch503kGifts
19. 19 无 Regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties 无论魏晋 Moon Beneath the Nine Provinces九州月下Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Wei Jin has spent sixteen years in ancient times after transmigrating there when chaos suddenly breaks out. Entrusted by the head of the household to take the young master and flee to Lingnan, she is living from day to day when, by chance, her cheat ability awakens. She can summon people from the modern world a thousand years in the future to develop a base, as long as they agree and don’t ask to be paid. Today’s headline: The real-world game No Matter Wei or Jin launches, taking you on a t 148.9kFavorites327.4kClicks/ch554.8kGifts
20. 20 清 Did the Qing Crown Prince Court Death Today? 清太子今天作死了吗 Mulan Bamboo木兰竹Romance1.3M WordsCompleted After being reincarnated, Yinreng spent twenty years as a young man in modern society. One day, after a brave act to help someone, he returned to his previous life. Little toddler Yinreng swings his feet and sorts through the memories of his past life, newly awakened: When he was little, the people who served him changed almost every month. Any servant who dared advise him to watch his words and behavior would be the first to be driven out for “disrespecting the Crown Prince.” When he studied, 102.1kFavorites281.3kClicks/ch533.1kGifts

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    Five stars

21. 21 召 Summoning Players to Build the Realm 召唤玩家搞基建 An Bi Lian安碧莲Romance2.0M WordsCompleted Luo Sha became the youngest duchess in the empire and gained the largest territory. She thought she was on her way to the pinnacle of life, but her lands were beset by trouble from within and without, falling into ruin and constantly teetering on the brink of being barbecued by dragons. At this critical moment, a game System from another world came knocking. [Here is your golden finger. Please accept it.] To 82.6kFavorites193.7kClicks/ch215.6kGifts

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22. 22 哥 [Western Crossover] Gotham City Mayor Simulator [综英美]哥谭市长模拟器 Ye Juefei夜觉非Romance738k WordsCompleted [Updates are for proofreading typos] The game City Mayor Simulator has a very interesting design. As a city-building game, it lets NPCs kill the protagonist, who can then revive without any conditions. But Vivi’s game had a bug: after she revived, her corpse didn’t disappear. Looking at the body in front of her, she came up with one, two, three, four, five bold ideas Being mayor of Gotham City is a high-risk job. But their new mayor seemed to be doing well. More than a month had passed, and she 73.6kFavorites160.3kClicks/ch106.4kGifts

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    Few

23. 23 弹 The Live Comments Insist I Ascend the Throne 弹幕非要我登基 Red Leaves Like Fire红叶似火Romance1.0M WordsCompleted As the emperor's most beloved son, Zhou Jiarong thought the throne was his for the taking, until one day he saw on-screen comments. [He's counting the money even after being sold. Doesn't he know the male lead tampered with his horse?] [What a great assist! The emperor already favored the male lead, and this little stunt only made him more determined!] Only then did Zhou Jiarong realize that he was a cannon-fodder stepping stone in an imperial succession novel. And these on-screen comments seem 66.8kFavorites142.3kClicks/ch95.9kGifts
24. 24 不 If I Don't Ascend the Throne, I Can't Get Out of This Alive 不登基我很难收场 Red Leaves Like Fire红叶似火Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Liu Ziyue was sixteen when he finally learned he was a cannon-fodder character in a novel about a struggle for the throne. After being used over and over as a scapegoat, he was destined to lose his head. He tossed the script aside. Whoever wanted to be a sacrificial lamb could take the job. He just wanted to get as far away as possible, eat his fill, wait for death, and lie flat in retirement. But the longer he lounged around, the more he realized something was off. One day the court exiled a 66.2kFavorites166.3kClicks/ch130.8kGifts
25. 25 今 [Tang Dynasty] Working Hard to Be the Crown Prince Today, Too [唐]今天也在努力当太子 A Thousand Mountains Unconcerned千山不关Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Three-and-a-half-year-old Li Chengqian was bound to a powerful nation-building System designed for the twenty-first century. During the years he was forbidden to leave home because a fortune-teller had read his fate, Li Chengqian used the System to learn about the outside world. He learned that it was peaceful and stable, with flourishing technology and a convenient life for its people. It was far better than his own impoverished home. Later, when Li Chengqian finally left home and saw the rea 65.4kFavorites124.6kClicks/ch78.9kGifts
26. 26 冒 The Fake County Magistrate Is Forced to Take the Throne 冒牌县令，被迫登基 Red Leaves Like Fire红叶似火Romance1.1M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the body of a newly appointed top scholar who had been demoted, Chen Yunzhou worked diligently for three years before suddenly receiving a letter: Big Brother, you've had it rough all these years. Tonight, distract the guards at the treasury, and once we pull off this big score, we'll quit for good! Damn it! I can't keep doing this job. Just as Chen Yunzhou was planning to run for it, chaos erupted across the land and war broke out everywhere. He could only hole up in 53.6kFavorites95.2kClicks/ch76.4kGifts
27. 27 得 [Three Kingdoms] After Offending the Entire Wei Kingdom, I Rose to the Top [三国]得罪魏国全员后我走上了人生巅峰 Many Feathers Make a Fan积羽成扇No CP339k WordsCompleted [Complete, including 1 bonus chapter and 13 bonus extras. Chapters 115-127 are free bonus chapters; read as you wish] (On January 25, at the request of some readers, comments have been enabled on the completed novel.) Mi Heng, a celebrated scholar at the end of the Han dynasty, was gifted at debate and quick with words. At just twenty, he had already earned the admiration of the renowned Kong Rong, and the two became close friends despite their age difference. He was excellent in every way, exc 51.1kFavorites133.7kClicks/ch28.4kGifts
28. 28 所 Everyone Knows I’m Plotting a Rebellion 所有人都知道我要谋逆 Twenty-Seven Days Away二十七天外Romance578k WordsCompleted [Reader comments enabled] Blurb: Seventeen years into his reign, the emperor still hasn’t named a crown prince. The country is unstable, and the adult princes have long been locked in a bloody struggle where they would gladly kill one another. Fortunately, the current emperor is vigorous and virile, with a thriving brood. He has fifteen sons, and Xie Zhao is eleventh in line. Unless something unexpected happens, the succession has nothing to do with him. So he decides to lie flat and wait to 40.7kFavorites82.5kClicks/ch58.1kGifts

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    He ascended the throne through spoilers.

29. 29 太 The Crown Prince's Everyday Life of Lying Flat 太子殿下躺平日常 Halfway Through the First Month元月月半Romance1.3M WordsCompleted My dad is the emperor, my mom is the empress, my uncle is a renowned great general, and my cousin is the Champion Marquis who made his name at Langjuxu. You ask who I am? I am the legitimate son of the emperor and empress, the current crown prince, and the future Son of Heaven of the Great Han, Liu Ju. I do the math on my fingers: Looks like I never became emperor. I do the math again: The more I do, the more mistakes I make, until not a bone is left of me. Do nothing, do nothing wrong, and live 38.9kFavorites107kClicks/ch110kGifts
30. 30 朕 My Great Qin Is About to Fall! 朕的大秦要亡了！ Green Rabbit青色兔子Romance767k WordsCompleted Zhao Gao: Your Majesty! Li Si is going to sell out the country! Li Si: Your Majesty, look at the rats in the granary. They're so big and fat, and they aren't afraid of people. This teaches us a lesson... Male lead: Give it a rest. The Qin Empire is about to fall. What's the point of saying all this? (waves goodbye) Life had forced a philosopher to become a politician. The Second Emperor: Heh. You people who play politics have filthy hearts! The male lead's second book: "The Last Emperor" Blurb: 33.6kFavorites82.7kClicks/ch68.4kGifts
31. 31 赶 I Was Thrust Into Power and Became an Emperor for the Ages 赶鸭子上架的我成了千古一帝 Man Mian满面No CP400k WordsCompleted After traveling back to ancient times, to a martial world where people could still cultivate, Qin Yuanyu became an utterly ordinary prince. Truly, utterly ordinary. Meanwhile, all his brothers and sisters were exceptionally gifted. His eldest brother was wise and benevolent, his eldest sister extraordinarily talented, his youngest broth 8.2kFavorites17.3kClicks/ch3.7kGifts

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