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- 101 The Splendor of the Tang Dynasty: My Father Is Li Shimin 锦绣盛唐：我的父亲是李世民 My surname is Li, my given name is Tai, my courtesy name is Huibao, and my childhood name is Qingque. I am the legitimate second son of Emperor Taizong of the Great Tang. My mother is Empress Wende, and my uncle is Zhangsun Wuji. I was favored above all the princes from a young age, and as I grew up, I proved to be exceptionally talented and brilliant. My useless elder brother, the crown prince, ruined himself and lost his position. Naturally, I am the most suitable, reasonable, and legitimate h 2.1kReads9.2Score269Shelves
- 102 Three Kingdoms: Yuan Shao's Rebellious Son Smashes the Imperial Seal from the Start 三国：袁家逆子，开局摔玉玺 He transmigrates to the end of the Han dynasty and becomes Yuan Yao, son of Yuan Gonglu, a dead man walking in his own coffin. With a father who’s dead set on rebelling and becoming emperor, Yuan Yao immediately sees no future for himself. If he wants to survive, he must stop his father, Yuan Shu, from repeating history. He’ll have to oppose him at every turn. “Sun Ce wants to trade the Imperial Seal for Father’s elite troops? I’ll smash the seal myself and see how he plans to make that trade!” 54.7kReads8.7Score5.3kShelves
- 103 Three Kingdoms: Reborn as a Yellow Turban, I Kill Liu Bei from the Start 三国：重生黄巾，我开局杀了刘备 [Transmigration] + [No System] + [Power Struggles] + [Farming] + [Harem] + [Powerful Official] + [Overthrowing the Han] [Based on official history, not Romance of the Three Kingdoms.] Zhang Xin transmigrated to the end of the Han Dynasty and became a Yellow Turban rebel. He had planned to pack up and run, then pass his days following the script of history. Instead, he was forced to become commander of the last Yellow Turban army. From then on, a great warlord emerged from nowhere. He crushed the 68.2kReads8.7Score6.5kShelves
- 104 I’m Just a Foolish Emperor. What Bad Intentions Could I Have? 我就一昏君，能有什么坏心思？ [Tyrant + Political Scheming + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Misinterpretations + Farming] Luo Lin opens his eyes and finds himself the new ruler of the Qian Kingdom, bound to a Tyrant System. If he ruins the kingdom’s fortunes, he can live forever? Being a wise ruler might be difficult, but being a tyrant should be easy. Just do whatever you want with your eyes closed! Then he looks around: a bewitchingly beautiful empress, a fiercely loyal minister, and a powerful eunuch. So Luo Lin starts causing 11kReads9.1Score777Shelves
- 105 Three Kingdoms: My Brother Is Dian Wei, and I Take on Lü Bu from the Start 三国：家兄典韦，开局硬刚吕布 Dian Mo transmigrates to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and becomes Dian Wei's younger brother. To join Cao Cao's camp, Dian Mo sends a letter that leaves Cao Cao stunned. Cao Cao: “Find the person who wrote this letter, no matter what. This must be the peerless genius I've been looking for!” While the whole camp launches a search, Dian Mo comes to Cao Cao of his own accord and begins his career as a strategist. Yuan Shao: “The Dian brothers are one a civil genius, the other a military geniu 45.6kReads9.6Score4.6kShelves
- 106 Great Tang: Only Defying the Emperor's Order Makes You Stronger 大唐：抗旨才能变强 He transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty and gets a frustrating System: the only way to grow stronger is to defy imperial orders. It's like dancing on the edge of a blade, constantly courting death. Yet, against everyone's expectations, no matter how recklessly he acts, Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun dote on him and indulge his every whim. Even the protagonist himself has no idea why. As it turns out, he is the first child Li Shimin and Zhangsun had together, a poor little boy wh 109.6kReads8.8Score13.3kShelves
- 107 Three Kingdoms: My Laid-Back Strategist 三国：我的咸鱼军师 [Three Kingdoms] + [Farming] + [No Harem] Li You, a history student, transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms and unexpectedly strikes up a friendship with Guo Jia. Serving Liu Bei and waging war across the land, watch how this cunning student creates a legend unlike any other in the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang: “Li Bochuan is a heaven-gifted genius. I am no match for him.” Cao Cao: “If only I had known Bochuan's talent sooner. Things would never have come to this.” Guo Jia: “All that talk about Li B 31kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves
- 108 Three Kingdoms: Xiao Qiao, Call Your Sister In 三国：小乔，把你姐叫进来 Zhou Ye transmigrates to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and becomes the governor’s son, gaining the Strongest Life-or-Death System. While others spend money, I spend my life! All he has to do is recruit famous generals, strategists, and other renowned figures to earn more lifespan. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have recruited the first-rate warrior Zhao Yun. Complete a history-making mission and receive five hundred days of lifespan...” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have recruited th 33.4kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 109 No Three Kingdoms After the Han 汉后无三国 Liu Xia transmigrates to the end of the Han dynasty, but refuses to become emperor or king. With fifty cavalrymen, he slaughters five thousand Xiongnu. Beneath Xiapi, one strike of his halberd leaves Lu Bu crippled. He casually tosses aside the Imperial Jade Seal: "Just a broken stone. Can it put food on the people's tables?" His motto is: "Whoever dares threaten our mighty Han, no matter how far away, must be destroyed!" "The people are the true masters of the Han. The Son of Heaven is just the 10.7kReads9.4Score887Shelves
- 110 Three Kingdoms: I Am the True Imperial Uncle, Reviving the Han Dynasty for Three Generations 三国：我，真皇叔，三兴大汉 [Three Kingdoms] [Invincible] [Warring for supremacy] [The real imperial uncle] [System] Do all dynasties perish because they grow weak, while the Han alone falls because it is strong? After four hundred years, beacons of war burn across the land. Everything lies in ruin, and the people wail in misery. Thirteen provinces are strewn with bones, so numerous that even the fertile fields beside the roads cannot contain them. Some maneuver through the world of politics, while others roam as heroes wi 42.1kReads9.3Score3kShelves
- 111 The Nation-Protecting Prince Consort 镇国驸马爷 [System + political intrigue + mind games! The story only gets better as it goes] Ji Ping’an, a die-hard Three Kingdoms Kill player, passes out while gaming. When he wakes up, he’s transmigrated to the Dayu Dynasty and, by some fluke, become its biggest doormat of a son-in-law: the princess’s husband. He also activates a Three Kingdoms Heroic Spirit System. With enough gold, he can summon any general, strategist, warlord, or beauty from the Three Kingdoms. From then on, Ji Ping’an sets out to ge 67kReads8.9Score5.1kShelves
- 112 Three Kingdoms: Ten Times Faster, and Diao Chan Says I’m Too Fast 三国：十倍速度，貂蝉说我太快了 After transmigrating to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, Duan Yu opens his eyes to find that he has been taken in by Diao Chan, the most beautiful woman of the Three Kingdoms. Looking at the humble home and the beautiful woman, Duan Yu awakens the [Tenfold Speed] trait and decides to repay her with everything he has. [Ding! System notification: You have awakened the [Tenfold Speed] trait. Everything you do is now ten times faster!] [Ding! After diligently farming ten times, you have obtained 54.2kReads9.0Score7kShelves
- 113 A Commoner Conquers the Nine Provinces 布衣镇九州 Zhao Ce transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty, becoming an impoverished scholar with a terrible reputation. He also discovers that he borrowed money to get married, then squandered it all, and ended up buying a pitiful little cripple on the way back to make up the numbers. The little cripple has mismatched eyes and is treated like a monster. Zhao Ce: What kind of miserable life is this? A disastrous start? But when he takes another look at the little cripple, so tiny and thin, blinking those big eye 26.2kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
- 114 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 51.6kReads8.9Score6.4kShelves
- 115 Three Kingdoms: Liu Feng's Comeback from Cannon Fodder 三国：炮灰刘封逆袭之路 [This book is being published. Stay tuned.] (Conquest, strategy, iron-blooded heroics, beauties, System) After transmigrating as Liu Feng, Liu Bei's adopted son, he knew the fate that awaited him: losing favor, being marginalized, becoming a pawn to be discarded, and ultimately falling into a deadly trap. In this life, he chose to endure and bide his time, then turn the tables when all seemed lost! From the start, he risked his life to save Liu Shan at Changban Slope, earning a reputation across 72.4kReads9.6Score7.3kShelves
- 116 Historical War of Nations: The Yellow Turban Rebellion from the Start 历史国战：开局黄巾起义 (History + nation-versus-nation war + famous generals + livestreaming + national destiny + political scheming + passion) The historical nation-versus-nation war begins. Having lost its historical records, Huaxia forfeited the initiative and spent twenty years mired on the battlefield, losing all its accumulated strength. Li Chen, who transmigrated here, is inexplicably chosen as the sixteenth contestant. Bearing the name of Huaxia, he enters the battlefield to fight for a glimmer of hope. Lookin 68.6kReads9.0Score5.5kShelves
- 117 Great Tang: Li Shimin Begs Me to Start a Rebellion 大唐：李世民求我造反 Li Ke transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty. He plans to use his skills as a motivational speaker to brainwash a loyal crew and keep his head down as an unremarkable prince. But eight years after transmigrating, he discovers that he brought along an entire national strategic reserve warehouse. So Li Ke throws caution to the wind. If he’s going to be a prince, he might as well be one who fears nothing and lives as freely as he pleases! First, he starts a newspaper to build his rep 156.4kReads9.5Score16.9kShelves
- 118 Back to the Song Dynasty to Be a Tyrant 回到宋朝当暴君 In the halls of government, rotten wood holds office. Between the palace steps, beasts feast on their salaries. Men with hearts like wolves and the ways of dogs crowd the halls of power. Toadies and bootlickers fill the ranks of government, bringing the state to ruin and the people to misery! You dare demand to know whether the sword in my hand is sharp? 169kReads9.4Score19.6kShelves
- 119 On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位 [Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak 4.6kReads8.8Score183Shelves
- 120 Fake Eunuch: I Am the Ming Dynasty's Ninth-Thousand-Year Lord 假太监：我乃大明九千岁 [Mythic Great Ming] [Alternate History] [High Martial] [Great Ming] [No System] Yang Fan transmigrates to the Great Ming Dynasty and becomes a lowly eunuch, witnessing with his own eyes the grand, turbulent age of humanity! A dynasty that has endured for millennia, immortal aristocratic families, heroes of the martial world, mighty commoners, and dragons and serpents rising together! If that's how it is, then I, Yang Fan, will become the greatest man under heaven! I'll shatter the clouds and bec 132.2kReads9.2Score12.9kShelves
- 121 My Grandfather Is Zhu Yuanzhang 我祖父是朱元璋 I have the most illustrious name: Zhu Yuntong. I am the legitimate grandson of the founding emperor of Great Ming, and the legitimate son of Crown Prince Zhu Biao. My mother is the daughter of Chang Yuchun, and my maternal granduncle is Lan Yu. I am the most illustrious imperial grandson in Great Ming, and the most influential and legitimate heir to the throne. I will usher in a different Great Ming, magnificent beyond compare, its sun and moon shining bright. It will embrace all rivers and welc 236.3kReads9.4Score27.6kShelves
- 122 Great Qin: Emperor Qin Shi Huang, I Really Don't Want to Live Off You! 大秦：始皇帝，我真不吃软饭啊！ [The Analects + Hilarious + Cunning + Lighthearted + His Majesty Zheng + Shamelessly Stealing + Absolutely Outrageous] Qin Feng inexplicably transmigrates to the Qin dynasty before Qin unifies the six states, and the First Emperor overhears his thoughts. The two then embark on a hilarious daily battle of wits. “Qin Feng, tell me, what does ‘The Master does not speak of prodigies, force, disorder, or spirits’ mean?” “It means the Master doesn’t want to talk to you, and will use brute force to bea 45.1kReads9.5Score4.5kShelves
- 123 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 694.2kReads9.6Score146.3kShelves
- 124 The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令 [Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave 228.3kReads9.5Score28.1kShelves
- 125 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 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 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 126 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 127 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
