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- 1 After Transmigrating into a Princess, She Goes All Out Building Up Her Fiefdom 穿成公主后，她在封地疯狂搞基建 When she wakes up, Liu Yushi discovers that she has transmigrated into the body of a princess of the Dali Dynasty. Before she can even celebrate, she learns that she has already been banished from the capital and sent to her fief. Her fief lies in the barren northwestern frontier. Its only two cities are occupied by the border army and guarded by court officials, respectively. When she arrives, she discovers that her princess’s residence doesn’t even exist. She earns her first fortune by turning 1Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 2 The Substitute Ghost King: Ruling a Chaotic Age as Empress 代班鬼王，乱世争霸做女帝 [No romance, strong female lead, an overpowered golden finger] This was Song Yuan’s second time transmigrating to ancient times, and before she’d even gotten her feet under her, her whole family had to flee. Halfway through, her pocket dimension evolved into a shelter for wandering souls. Song Yuan was forced to take up the post of acting Ghost King. At the time, the dynasty was collapsing, warlords were carving up the land, and the country was engulfed in flames of war. So what did the acting G 14Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 3 I’m the Female Lead, Yet I Don’t Fit In With the Main Cast 身为女主的我，和主角团格格不入 [Infrastructure and farming + alternate setting + competing for supremacy and becoming emperor + romance, with a low-profile love interest + strong female lead + System] Reborn in the womb, with a System, a master who excels in both medicine and poison, peerless martial arts, and men who admire her wherever she goes: by all appearances, Qi Sigui is a successful Mary Sue transmigrator heroine. But something is wrong! Everything is wrong! Awakening from a soul-deep immersion in a life like a wish- —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Picked Up a Tyrant to Farm, and Now I Have Money, Kids, and Power 捡个暴君来种田，有钱有娃又有权 Infrastructure building + System + wish fulfillment + family squabbles + Back to Field + two strong leads (Creating a new city in an ancient post-apocalyptic world) Wang Xiaoxiao, a leading figure in the medical field, transmigrates. She transmigrates into an ancient wasteland. The good news: The ancient Wang Xiaoxiao is tall, strong as an ox, and young. The bad news: She has three children and a terrible in-law family who bully and exploit her. The first thing this medical luminary does is deal —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 From the Start, I Knock Out My Foolishly Loyal Father: The Throne Is Mine 开局放倒愚忠老爹，这皇位我要定 [A strong female lead: smart, composed, decisive, and no saint. No romance. Read with care if that's not your thing!] Song Yuxi died, then came back to life! The good news: She transmigrated into a book and didn't die. The bad news: She became a disposable character who dies in the very first chapter, and she's about to die all over again! No problem. My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's. Time to get ready and start a rebellion! Years later: Old Song: “Yuxi, if you do this, the whole world w 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Exiled With Her Spatial Realm, the General’s Wife Becomes Empress 带着空间去流放，将军夫人称帝了 Five years into the apocalypse, Shen Qingwan was so hungry that she took a bite of a mushroom. She didn’t see any little people, but she was transported straight to another plane: the Great Jing Dynasty, where disasters struck one after another. As the wife of the Divine Might General, who had died in battle, she faced exile from the start. Fortunately, her System storage space came with her. At first, Shen Qingwan only wanted enough food and warm clothes to survive the troubled times. Later, be 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Strip Me of My Heirship? The War God Faked His Death to Help Me Claim the Throne 废我储位？死遁战神助我登基 Luo Qing spent ten years as crown prince, mastering the arts of imperial rule. She could steady the court and keep the officials in line. But the late emperor favored his youngest son. A single edict changing the heir shattered her lifelong ambitions and glory. Her younger brother ascended the throne and saw her as a thorn in his side. With a political marriage decree, he betrothed her to Pei Jing, the frontier’s celebrated general. On the eve of the wedding, news spread through the capital that 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The County Magistrate 女县令 Wen Zhesang, the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites, has been well-read since childhood and has always looked up to the only female official of the previous dynasty. After making a three-year pact with the emperor, she transforms from a pampered young lady of the Minister’s household into a county magistrate responsible for everything from murder cases to the smallest everyday disputes. When an ambitious young female magistrate meets a bandit chief who wants to submit to the imperial c 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Reborn Empress: Father, It's Time to Step Down 女帝重生，父皇，你该退位了 [Reborn in Another World + No Romance + Strong Female Lead + All-Rounder + Building Her Power Early, Becoming Emperor Later] The last female emperor of the age of declining cultivation is reborn in another world. She transmigrates to the dawn of the martial arts era. And becomes an ordinary princess. You think refining top-grade pills is difficult? Isn’t it as easy as lifting a finger? You say you have ancient techniques and sacred arts? Then what would you call the Imperial Canon I have? Ha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 From the Start, I Had a Little Farmhouse, and the Myriad Worlds Helped Me Become a God 开局一座篱笆院，万界助我成神 [A touch of ensemble cast + cultivating the Dao through rulership + satisfying read] Transmigrated as cannon fodder in a chaotic age? She'll defy fate and change her destiny, cultivating the Dao through rulership! Shi An transmigrates into the body of a peasant girl in an ancient age of chaos, a girl fated to die a miserable death. Natural disasters loom, and the world is a furnace. From the start, is she stuck in hell mode? She gives a cold laugh. No big deal. She thinks this is just about —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Apocalypse Infrastructure: Summon Famous Generals and Become the Richest 末世基建：召唤名将，卷为首富 Red mist blankets the apocalypse. Zombies run rampant, resources are running out, and Lin Mo, a construction engineer who has just been ground down from the design institute to the job site, is suddenly tossed onto the razor's edge of survival! After activating the Civilization Reboot System, while everyone else summons people with superpowers, he brings legendary generals and beauties like Yue Fei, Xi Shi, and Zhuge Liang straight into the apocalypse to fight alongside him. Yue Fei shoulders 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 She Wants to Be Emperor 她要做皇帝 The main story has no romance. Even if there is an afterword, it will only involve a daughter and an unknown father. The important supporting characters are mostly women, and the men with the most screen time are the emperor and the crown prince. Qin Jin is a princess, but she does not want to be just a princess. She wants to become emperor. 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Little Brother, You Can't Handle the Throne. Let Big Sis Take Over 老弟！这皇位你把握不住，让姐来 (The rating just came out, so it'll go up! [Strong female lead + pocket dimension + satisfying story without emotional stress + fictional setting]) Yan Jiyue, the eldest daughter of a crime syndicate, transmigrated into a book with an entire arsenal, becoming the cannon-fodder eldest princess of the Great Xia Dynasty. But at the age of eight, she was kidnapped and lost her memory. The cult leader took her in, and she became the cult leader herself. After snatching a frail young husband and bring 122.6kReads7.7Score24.7kShelves
- 14 Oh No, the Female Emperor Is Going on a Campaign in Person Again 不好了，女帝又要御驾亲征了 A transmigrated empress + an Imperial Campaign System + a strong female lead + a battle for dynastic supremacy + farming, infrastructure, and commerce. With powerful enemies at the border and the city on the verge of falling, Ji Fengying led her ministers to retreat to the last remaining fortress, Wanghai. She personally commanded the army defending the city. Amid the flames of war, she organized the troops and fought off the enemy, while also ordering the land to be reclaimed and high-yield swe 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 You've Unlocked the Empress's Top-Up Manual 您已解锁女帝充值手册 [Alternate-world transmigration, no romance, an empress who grows into her role, clearheaded and career-minded, a strong heroine who isn’t invincible] [Supporting characters aren’t made stupid just to serve the plot, and the golden finger stays reasonably low-key] Spend money! Level up! Stay alive! After dying of exhaustion from staying up all night and transmigrating into a high-risk empress, Gu Wushu laughs. Thank you for asking. I came with a top-up manual as my golden finger! The harem is in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 A Rebel's Life from Scratch 从零开始的反贼生涯 Rebellion + Farming + Hegemony + No System + Empress Protagonist + No CP + Career-Focused Story + Slower Pace The protagonist transmigrates as the daughter of a bandit chieftain. Starting on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, she slowly builds her strength, takes over a county seat, repels government forces, and grows a bandit camp of fewer than fifty people into a unified dynasty. “That’s how the Great Zhou court works. The common people just need to devote themselves wholeheartedly to farming, pay the 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Transmigration in Troubled Times: Don’t Tell Me to Pick a Side, I’ll Conquer the World 乱世穿越：别劝站队，我要定天下 [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [No Romance] [Strong Female Lead] [爽文] [System] Jiang Zhao transmigrates into the chaotic Western Jin era and finds herself on the road fleeing famine. Before she can get her bearings, bandits descend to rob and slaughter at will. With no other choice, she raises her saber to protect the desperate refugee women behind her. To secure a chance at survival, she has to venture deep into the mountains. She clears land and farms it, builds waterwheels, weaves cloth 278Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Builds Infrastructure in the Qing Dynasty 炮灰女配在大清搞基建 Strong heroine + nation-building + farming + management and strategy + overthrowing the Qing + overseas conquests Chuchu will eventually reach the top. My dears, will you join her in conquering the world? First, a little about what inspired me to write this: I’ve read a lot of Qing Dynasty transmigration novels. The female-oriented ones usually place the heroine in Kangxi’s harem or in one of the princes’ households. Most of the male-oriented ones have the protagonist transmigrate as one of the 37Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 19 The Evil Spirit Princess 恶灵公主 [Female-led story, no romance, strong heroine, career-focused + development in another world + cool beauty + no System] In the modern world, Wu Juehuan has heart disease. After devising the chilling Glass Bead Plan, she is banished by an unknown force into another world, inhabiting the body of an evil spirit. She thought that having a healthy body would finally let her live life to the fullest. Instead, her unusual identity makes good people wary of her, while her own kind, who are considered vi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Truth Is Out: The Murderous Crown Prince Is Actually a Woman 摊牌了，杀人魔太子竟是女儿身 [For female readers] Female-led power fantasy, no romance, no male lead. After ascending the throne, Li Sheng finally comes clean. I won't pretend anymore. I am a woman. So what if I don't have children? So what if I'm a woman? Anyone who dares say another word will have their entire clan exterminated, down to the tenth degree! Watch Li Sheng establish a women's academy, allow girls to serve as officials, practice medicine and save lives, enlist in the army and fight in wars... Emphasis: This bo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 After Endless Death Rewinds, Refugees Raise the Banner to Bring Order to the World 无限死亡回档后流民举旗定乱世 [Ancient-era flight from famine + settlement building and farming + heroine’s growth + death regression + infinite loops + strong heroine + female-led story] Jian Mingxi transmigrates and is immediately attacked by bandits. They hack her to death on the spot, only for her to regress to the moment before her death. This time, she raises her woodcutter’s axe and swears to kill everyone in front of her. Every last one of them can die! Can she take on ten people at once while fleeing disaster? No. W 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I’ll Be Empress and Shine with Confidence! 我要做女皇自信放光芒！ Feng Huang was an ordinary person who transmigrated twice: once from the modern world to the cultivation realm, and once from the cultivation realm to ancient times. Yet in her first transmigration, the god of fate assigned her the role of a villain, along with heaven-defying talent and a tragic ending. Fate dealt her a heavy blow, but it also stirred her rebellious spirit. If she was meant to be a villain, then she would be a proper, first-rate villain. And so she became the fearsome Demon Empe 162Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 23 Empress of a Golden Age: From Refugee to Ruler of All 盛世女帝：从流民到万民之主 [Not even a full bowl to start with, just half a sack of moldy grain!] Ling Xi transmigrates into a chaotic age and lands in a living hell! Corpses litter the ground, and human lives are worthless. She has barely arrived when a riot breaks out among the refugees, and she is about to be trampled into a pulp! [Ding! Activate the Grand Era Compendium? No! This old lady will get by with sharp words and half a sack of grain!] At the brink of death, she snatches a broken gong, climbs onto a grain cart 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 From the Start, I Fake My Death and Conquer the World by Making Bricks 开局假死，我靠烧砖一统天下 [Infrastructure-building + political intrigue + female emperor] Since childhood, Su Jue had believed that she made her own fate, not heaven. In her previous life, she had worked her way up from a kiln worker to a business magnate running several companies, with an empire spanning the globe. Then she transmigrated into the body of a “criminal’s daughter,” whose father had been discarded and killed by the emperor once he was no longer useful. Exiled three thousand li from the start, she still had —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Empress Awakens: From the Start, She Sees the Blood and Tears of Future Feminism 女帝觉醒：开局看到后世女权血泪 The Empress Awakens: Seeing the Blood and Tears of Future Feminism from the Start 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Supporting Actress Who Transmigrated into a Book Just Wants to Build Infrastructure 穿书女配只想搞基建 Top student Li Yuhe transmigrated into a clichéd historical romance as the dim-witted supporting character, Princess Guangling. With her country destroyed and her family dead, her life was out of her hands, and she was destined to die in the palace. Li Yuhe’s response: No problem. She could play the villain just fine. With the Nation-Building System at her disposal, why enter the palace? Wouldn’t it be better to build a country and become its emperor? Later, while everyone else was caught up in 154Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 27 After the Infrastructure Maniac Got a Rebellion System 基建狂魔她拿了造反系统后 Lu Yunheng died young and, in one moment, transmigrated into the body of a concubine-born daughter in a wealthy merchant family. Her father didn’t care for her, and neither did her mother. Her shameless father even forced her to become a county magistrate’s concubine so he could climb the social ladder. On her wedding day, Lu Yunheng was tied up and carried in a bridal sedan. Just as the fat, big-eared magistrate was about to kiss her... Ding-dong! Her useless System had finally come online. 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Little Daughter Protects Her Crippled Father, Topples the Dynasty, and Crowns Herself Emperor 小小女儿护残爹，改朝换代自称帝 [Born into the Body + Personal Space + Fleeing Disaster + Growing Stronger + Farming + Female Emperor] The head wife's abuse leaves a broken leg on the Liao family's son born to a concubine. His six-year-old daughter has always protected him. In the residence, father and daughter are bullied. After the war leaves everything in disarray, they support each other through one brush with death after another. The appearance of a personal space brings her countless advantages. She's eager to learn, and 170Reads—Score110Shelves
- 29 A Princess of a Fallen Kingdom? I Won This Empire with the Plow 亡国公主？朕的江山是犁出来的 [Transmigration | Empress | Nation-building | System golden finger | A chaotic era | A touch of ensemble cast] Lin Xi transmigrates into an age of warring lords and becomes Zhao Lingxi, a princess of a fallen kingdom. The knowledge provided by the System is her greatest golden finger. Think "curved-plow design" and she gets the plans; think "blast furnace ironmaking" and she gets the formula... A chaotic age doesn't need a princess who wants to restore her fallen kingdom. It needs a new emperor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Your Majesty, She Really Dares to Say It 陛下，她是真敢说 Reincarnated as a princess of a fallen kingdom, she kneels in the palace hall with iron chains around her ankles. The System orders her to incite the enemy army to rebel within three hours. Ji Mosha looks at her frail body, too weak to even wring a chicken's neck, then at the Northern Desert army glaring at her. She chooses the weapon she's best at: her mouth. "General in silver armor, that old knee injury will leave you crippled if you don't treat it." "You, the cool guy in black, I can reforge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Empress Has Unified the World 女帝她一统天下了 Ying Shi transmigrates into a novel she only got halfway through reading the night before, landing in a completely unfamiliar dynasty amid a lawless era where people are starving. For miles, not a single rooster crows; for a hundred miles, not a wisp of cooking smoke rises. And the first thing she sees is a vile scene of abuse. It really is the worst possible start. Fortunately, she gets a golden finger. The construction-loving spirit in her very bones awakens! In the end, she achieves the great 94Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 32 Transmigrated as a Bandit Wife, I Build Up the Borderlands 穿成土匪婆，我在边关搞基建 [Pocket dimension + woman disguises herself as a man + two strong leads + both leads are chaste + sweet romance] Tang Xiaoqiu spends all her savings stockpiling enough supplies to fill a room, only to kick the bucket on the very first day of the zombie horde's arrival. When she opens her eyes again, she has brought that roomful of supplies with her and transmigrated into the body of a bandit chieftain's daughter, in a mountain stronghold with nothing to its name. Looking at her brothers, who nev 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Building Infrastructure in a Famine-Stricken World 我在灾荒位面搞基建 [No Romance, Strong Female Lead, Business, Farming, Infrastructure, Incredibly Satisfying!] After getting into an online fight with haters at home and passing out, Zhu Qing wakes up to discover that she has cancer and only a few days left to live. In her despair, she binds to a System and begins a new life running a shop in another world. Disasters and wars plague the Liang Dynasty, driving the people to despair. Countless families sell their children just to afford a meal. A strange shop appear 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Stay Calm: With Knowledge on Our Side, We Have Nothing to Fear in Chaotic Times 稳住，咱知识在手，乱世不带怕的 [No CP + Political Intrigue + Turbulent Times + Flight + Nation-Building + Teamwork + Empress] When Zhu Nanjiao opened her eyes, all she saw was yellow dust swirling across the sky. She wasn't even dead yet, but this living King of Hell was already burying her just like that! Only after waking up did she realize she had transmigrated. She had transmigrated into the body of a fourteen-year-old girl. Enemy troops had breached the border, her general father had died beneath their blades, and the th 51Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 35 In a Chaotic World, If I Don’t Become Emperor, Who Will? 都到乱世了，我不称帝谁称帝？ [Female-led story, strong female lead, ancient-to-modern transmigration, war for supremacy in a chaotic age, alternate-history serious drama, empress rising to power, disguised as a man in the early chapters] When Li Rushuang awoke, she found herself in a strange world... People suffered from disasters, and calamities struck one after another. A hundred states stood side by side, competing for supremacy in a chaotic age. She should have been seated upon the dragon throne, with all her ministers 130Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 36 With a Staff in Hand, the World Is Mine 一棍在手，天下我有 [Disguised as a Man + System + Fleeing Famine + Chaotic Times + Becoming Emperor] From Famine Refugee to Empress At first, after arriving in this chaotic world, Li Yuan only wanted to survive. But little by little, she grew resentful. A bunch of fat, rotten scoundrels who cared only about enjoying themselves looked down on her, wanted to seize the power in her hands, and acted as though they were doing her a favor. So why shouldn't she overthrow them and take charge herself? Little scene: One da 193Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 37 System: Watch Her Build a Nation in Chaotic Times and Become Empress! 系统：看她乱世基建做女帝！ [Empress + infrastructure building + System + power struggle in troubled times] Fang Li transmigrates into a chaotic era. Her father has just breathed his last, her mother died long ago, bandits are everywhere, warfare rages, and human lives are worth less than grass. Fang Li: “...” Does Heaven even want me to survive?! To scrape by in these troubled times, Fang Li has no choice but to roll up her sleeves and work like mad. But things don't seem to be going the way she expected. “Congratulations 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Commandery Princess Builds Up Her Fief 郡主在封地搞基建 Turbulent times + nation-building + farming + war + political intrigue + no romance The isolated city of Shuofang, abandoned by the empire and standing on the brink of national ruin, awaits a modern female engineer. She feeds the city with grain, crossbows, and simplified Chinese characters, then declares to the northern frontier with nine-hundred-pace Fubo crossbows and a thousand-strong Mo Dao battalion: “Even mortals can forge blades, and a single spark can start a prairie fire.” 16Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 39 From the Start in a Bandit Stronghold, I Cheat My Way to Empress 开局土匪寨，一路开挂成女帝 [Strong female lead transmigrates + no romance + empress + female lead has maxed-out combat power] She had just been fighting a boss with her team in the apocalypse when she suddenly transmigrated, only to be picked up by bandits. But who was she? She was a force to be reckoned with in the apocalypse. Did the bandits really think they could control her? In no time at all, a pile of bandits lay sprawled around her. She glanced at the little girl trembling nearby, then planted a foot on a bandit a 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Empress Runs Rampant in a Chaotic Age 乱世女帝杀疯了 [Disguised as a man + political intrigue + chaotic times + strong female lead] A natural disaster makes every feudal lord realize that only by holding power in their own hands can they avoid being at the mercy of others. As chaos approaches, Jun Nianbo takes up her sword and points it at the emperor and the lords, climbing step by step to the highest position. Once she holds absolute power, she sheds her disguise and rules the realm as an empress. Note: The harem is about physical pleasure, not 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Chancellor Made Me a Puppet Emperor, So I'll Wipe Out Your Entire Family 丞相当女帝傀儡，朕抄你全家 (Not a strong female lead. Read with caution if that bothers you. A woman who bides her time, an empress, and many handsome men.) A princess with practically no advantages becomes empress overnight. With internal and external threats closing in, she is in danger of losing not only her throne but her life. On the night of her coronation, a nation-building System comes to her aid, and the empress immediately stops panicking. . The handsome rulers are all rebellious, while powerful ministers covet 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Cao Cao: My Daughter Can Set the World Right 曹操：我家女郎可定乾坤 [Beloved by her whole family, builds a nation from the start, turns farming into an empire and becomes an empress] Cao Zhao transmigrated as Cao Cao’s three-year-old daughter, opening her eyes to a world torn apart by the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Luckily, she was bound to the [Little Agricultural Officer System]. Make Dad happy, and gain 1 point of prestige! Make Mom smile, and gain 1 point of prestige! After finally saving enough points, she activated the God-Tier Farming System. Cao Cao was go 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Three Kingdoms: From Orphaned Refugee to Supreme Ruler 三国：从孤女流民到九五之尊 [No Pairings + Three Kingdoms + No System + Ensemble Cast + Conquest] Liu Heng will not disguise herself as a man. From the very beginning, she will establish herself as a woman. The page of history has been turned, its ink still wet, filled with the achievements and ambitions of men. No one knows that in the ruins of Xu Province in the first year of Jian'an, a woman rose to her feet. She will set out from here and enter the annals of history, standing shoulder to shoulder with those brilliant n 65Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 44 Shock! The System Forces Me to Take Three Thousand Husbands and Conquer the World 惊！系统逼我纳三千夫君打天下 [Strong Female Lead, Empress, Harem of Three Thousand, System, War-Torn Times, Nation-Building] The moment Shen Xiaolan opened her eyes after transmigrating, the local authorities forced her to marry a handsome man as elegant as jade. Even more absurdly, the villagers believed a fortune-teller's lie that she was destined to become emperor. And so, on her wedding night, the day she ascended the throne, Shen Xiaolan became the most impoverished emperor in five thousand years of history. The Go 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I’m the Fake Princess Among the Real and Fake Princesses. 我是真假公主中的假公主。 I'm the fake princess in a story about a real and a fake princess. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The County Magistrate Builds a Tourist Paradise, Leaving Foreigners Stunned 女县令打造旅游胜地，惊呆外国人 After dying a tragic death in the apocalypse, the heir to a medical family transmigrates to an alternate dynasty, where she becomes the female magistrate of its poorest county. Luckily, she has two Systems to back her up. The people have nothing to eat? Then she'll introduce high-quality crop seeds to solve the food shortage. The county yamen is so poor it can't pay salaries? Then she'll partner with merchants to open a papermaking workshop, producing household paper for the wealthy. She'll also 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Our Entire Sect Transmigrated to Ancient Times, and I Led the Rebellion 全宗门穿到古代后我带头造反 [Strong Female Lead + Farming + Infrastructure + Group Transmigration + Turbulent Times + No Romance] Mu Qing, a graduate of an agricultural sciences institute, opens her eyes to find that she has transmigrated into a baby’s body. Mu Qing, who has gone from the modern world to a cultivation realm and then to ancient times, joins her entire sect in launching a rebellion amid the chaos, pushing hard for an industrial revolution. With her Chinese roots awakened, Mu Qing figures: why not farm while 56Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 48 The Empress Is Rebellious to Her Core 女帝她一身反骨 This is a story about an empress and infrastructure development. A modern science graduate accidentally inherits the throne, then uses her modern knowledge to develop industry and real estate, turning a country plagued by hunger, cold, and crushing debt into the world's leading power. Other families' royal inheritances: gold and silver, jewels, fine silks, countless mansions, and supreme power and wealth. The Southern Jin royal inheritance: Gold and silver, jewels? None. Fine silks? None. Mansio 311Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Building Infrastructure in an Otome Game 穿进乙女游戏搞基建 Other people transmigrate and marry powerful men, clinging to a golden thigh. She, on the other hand, ends up in the body of a disabled person. The emperor actually ordered the top scholar, who had earned first place in all six exams, to marry her and bring her good fortune! Maybe it wasn’t such a bad deal? Wait! The top scholar was here to assassinate her? Why was she so unlucky! What was she supposed to do about the four men she’d successfully won over, now clinging to her? Who needs romance w 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Demoted, the Fourth Young Lady Leads Her Whole Family in Rebellion 贬官后，四小姐带着全家谋反了 After eating a Mysterious Herb, Wen Yiren returns to two months earlier. Racing against time, she saves the lives of everyone in the general’s household. Their extermination becomes exile, but before the Wen family can even settle in, the despicable emperor packs them off to a border town to fend for themselves. The journey is treacherous, and bandits are on their trail. But their Fourth Miss has roamed the martial world for years and isn’t afraid in the least. One comes, she sends them flying; 56Reads6.8Score—Shelves
