Novels like The Mighty Dragon in Troubled Times
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- 51 The Blood of the Northern Dynasties Has Yet to Grow Cold 北朝血未冷 When Chen Chong woke up, he was clutching a knife. It was covered in blood. Bodies lay scattered around him, every one of them killed by his own hand. In the Heyin Incident, more than two thousand people died. He had been the sharpest blade in Er Zhu Rong's hand. From executioner of the Northern Dynasties to a figure who would shake the world: this path had to be paid for in blood. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Code Name: Legend 代号传奇 He’s slept on a graveyard hill, stood on the execution ground, acted like a bastard, and played the hooligan. He’s traveled to the ends of the earth and walked the line between life and death... It is an early autumn morning. The rain has passed, and the sky is high and clear. A train racing from the far south of the country toward the interior roars past villages and towns, forests and fields, speeding across this vast land... A mysterious unit of legend. The legend of a soldier king begins wit 29.1kReads9.3Score3.9k14d adds
- 53 The Dragon Kingdom's Frontier 龙国边界 In 1960, in a small village on the northeastern border of Longguo, a born hunter and a ghost on the battlefield comes into the world on the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival. He handles a gun at ten, goes up the mountain to study martial arts under a master at thirteen, joins the army at sixteen, and at nineteen takes an enemy’s head on the southwestern frontier without a fight. After the war ends, just as he is about to be promoted, he resolutely chooses to leave the army and return home to ho 456Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 54 Iron-Blooded Dragon Soul 铁血龙魂 The sequel to the traditional novel The Border of the Dragon Kingdom. From one generation to the next, they protect their home and defend their country, giving their lives to embody the meaning of being a soldier! Even if they face death nine times, they have no regrets! Fans of traditional novels, come give it a read! 525Reads7.5Score10414d adds
- 55 Bright Sword: I Became Li Yunlong's Former Regiment Commander 亮剑：我成了李云龙的老团长 Cannons are used to measure the size of a nation's territory. Dignity lies at the tip of a sword, and truth exists only within the range of a cannon. Chen Hao transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword" and takes on the Japanese invaders! 94Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 56 War of Resistance: A Hundredfold Return, I Really Don't Want to Be a Marshal 抗战：百倍返还，我真不想当大帅 [Feel-Good Story + Passionate Action] Liang Xin transmigrated by accident and successfully activated the Hundredfold Return System! He could get unlimited loot drops just by killing enemies, and everything came with a hundredfold return! Months later, a mysterious force rose to power, shaking the world! Li Yunlong: "Brother Liang, I want to come work as a gatekeeper for you!" Chu Yunfei: "Marshal Liang, you're the one idol I've wanted to follow my whole life!" Shinozuka Yoshio: "I want to go hom 4.6kReads8.6Score23614d adds
- 57 Blood and Iron in the War Against Japan 抗日之铁血狂兵 Those who invade China, however far away, must be punished. Special forces soldier Zhao Zhiguo unexpectedly found himself on the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Drawing on his extensive combat experience, he led his troops to repeatedly defeat the Japanese invaders. Zhao Zhiguo and his men showed the Japanese that the descendants of Huaxia were not to be trifled with. With their burning passion, they forged an iron Great Wall of resistance! 408Reads9.1Score10014d adds
- 58 The Working Doctor 打工医圣 He is a man who makes the CEOs of the world's biggest conglomerates tremble at the sight of him. He is a miracle doctor who has healed countless patients. Cultivators in Earth's cultivation world bow down when they meet him. Beautiful women from every walk of life chase after him. Yang Donghao is helpless. He's really just a wage earner who followed his master's orders to enter the city, work a job, and cultivate on the side! 5.8kReads9.1Score87614d adds
- 59 A Clash of Wolves 狼性的较量 The author enjoys putting stories told by the elderly into clear, accessible prose, turning spoken words into black and white on the page for readers to see, hear, and feel with their hearts. It is a way to experience the brutal years of Japan's invasion of China, and all those painful memories that can never be revisited... 1.7kReads9.2Score23914d adds
- 60 The Immortal Emperor Returns, and the Gods Are Punished 仙帝归来，神明伏诛 [Urban Superpowers] [Slaying Gods] [Investiture of the Gods] [No System] Twenty years ago, divine statues descended from the heavens, and gods appeared in nations around the world, greatly increasing their power. Except in Daxia. Not a single god appeared in this great Eastern nation, which was scornfully dubbed the Godforsaken Land. Foreign gods repeatedly invaded Daxia, while the nation struggled to hold out in dire circumstances. But all of that is over now, because that man has returned! Mo 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Starting in the Savage Mountains, I Lead Bandits in the Fight Against the Japanese 从野人山开始，带着土匪打鬼子 [War of Resistance] [Jungle Special Operations] [No Golden Finger] [No System] A rocket blast hurls Wu Shanfeng, commander of a special operations company, sixty years into the past. He transmigrates into the body of a wounded platoon leader in the expeditionary force. Surrounded and cut off by the Japanese, short on food and ammunition and without medicine, he faces the harsh natural environment with just twenty-two brothers at his side, and rises to prominence. From then on, a commander who ha 7.2kReads8.2Score51414d adds
- 62 War of Resistance: A Hundredfold Return, Beating the Agent Squad from the Start 抗战：百倍返现：开局吊打特工队 Li Yunlong, a modern special forces soldier, dies and transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword"! He becomes Li Yunlong, commander of the Independent Regiment! Brigade Commander: “Li Yunlong, you’ve struck it rich again, you rascal!” Li Yunlong: “Brigade Commander, you know my Independent Regiment is so broke we can barely put food on the table!” Brigade Commander: “Cut the nonsense. You captured plenty of good stuff this time!” System: “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have awakened the Hu 6.9kReads8.7Score48914d adds
- 63 Iron-Blooded Special Forces Soldier Transmigrates to 1933 to Fight the Japanese 铁血特种兵穿越抗日1933 When the soul of a former special forces soldier from Huaxia crashes into Shanhaiguan in January 1933. The Northeast has already fallen, Xiao Zhang has abandoned his homeland and retreated west, and the Japanese invaders' iron hooves are poised to trample the pass beneath the cold stars. He is a man from Hebei, from the future. With the edge of modern tactical thinking in his grasp, he stands shoulder to shoulder with the national heroes beneath the Great Wall, taking up rusted rifles with them. 1.2kReads6.3Score10514d adds
- 64 Dreaming of the Pearl River 梦回珠江 This work is based on the revolutionary history of the Guangdong Army. Its characters and relationships were inspired by stories passed down by word of mouth among the elders. It tells of soldiers’ choices between their country and their love during the revolutionary era… 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 The Fox of Hengyang 衡阳之狐 Zhang Wenyuan, a hitman in his previous life, was betrayed by his handler. Ambushed while on a mission, he somehow found himself transported back to the battlefield of the 1944 Defense of Hengyang. 289Reads6.6Score10814d adds
- 66 Resistance Against Japan in 2037 2037年的抗日 [War of Resistance espionage + film and television + transmigration + science fiction + wild imagination] Tang Jingyi, a sharp-tongued film-review blogger, is tricked into a fake transmigration from 2037 to 1937, arriving in Hejiang just as the nationwide War of Resistance breaks out. The land of the Northeast has already been ravaged into despair... But take note: this isn't actually a transmigration story, nor is it a real anti-Japanese battlefield. It's a film studio overrun by robots. This i 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Strongest Mad Soldier in the City 最强狂兵混都市 Yu Fei, a special forces soldier in Huaxia's most elite Tiger-Wolf Brigade, goes by the codename Sky Wolf. On orders, he is sent to Yunzhou City, where undercurrents run deep and bandits are rampant. Under the command of his goddess-like superior, he goes undercover alongside a kindhearted, pure-hearted beauty of a manager, gradually uncovering the secrets behind her. When every secret comes to light, a violent storm of blood and chaos engulfs Yunzhou City. To protect his loved ones and the woma 12kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 68 Years Without Regrets 无悔岁月 In 1936, dusk settled over Xiangcheng, steeping it in the smell of rust and blood. The late-autumn wind cut like a knife, piercing to the bone. Xu Chengyang tugged down the brim of his police cap. The collar of his coarse wool uniform chafed his neck raw. This black uniform was both his prison and his armor… 459Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Chinese Labor Corps: A Coppersmith’s First World War 华工军团：一名铜匠的第一次世界大战 [Cross-border romance + an underdog's rise + a hero of World War I + rural life + bandits] From a wedding hall in Shandong to the trenches of Europe, an epic expedition by an ordinary man! On the day of his wedding, Shandong coppersmith Li Zhongfu discovers that soldiers and bandits have joined forces to massacre Wuji Town, where his fiancée Su Huizhen lives. At the brink of life and death, Li Zhongfu saves the townspeople, but Su Huizhen disappears. After accidentally uncovering the secret behi 481Reads9.5Score4114d adds
- 70 Dark Blade 暗刃 [A top-rated completed novel + ruthless hero + no filler + no saintly do-gooder + no System + no cultivation + all kinds of modern high-tech weapons + nonstop thrills] Dragon Guard Security! The company handles security for major overseas projects originating in Huaxia. Its captain, Xiao Feng, is a former commander of an elite special forces unit and a world-class soldier, code-named Dark Blade. With a band of battle-hardened brothers, Xiao Feng provides high-quality security services for Huaxia 132Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 71 The New Boss of Thirteen Provinces 十三省新掌包 Zhang Wenyuan, a graduate of the National University of Defense Technology’s Pontoon Bridge Command Department, had just been assigned to his unit when a once-in-a-century flood struck. He met with an accident while taking part in flood relief operations, only to transmigrate to Northeast China in 1935... 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Shop System: Slaughtering Japanese Soldiers on the Anti-Japanese Battlefield 商店系统之抗日战场屠杀鬼子兵 Unlimited power fantasy + System Shop + No-brainer fun + Slaughtering Japanese soldiers Jiang Chen accidentally transmigrates to Hebei in late 1937 and activates the Invincible Shop System. The more Japanese soldiers he kills and the more territory he occupies, the more powerful the goods he can buy become. Troops, food, guns, tanks, cannons, warships, aircraft carriers, planes, atomic bombs: it has everything. Slaughter the Japanese soldiers... 1.4kReads6.9Score10014d adds
- 73 War of Resistance: A Special Forces Soldier Transmigrates to Hunt Japanese Soldiers from the Start 抗战：特种兵开局穿越赶山打鬼子 This book is also known as The Anti-Japanese War: Transmigrating to the 1930s to Fight the Japanese / The Resistance: From Transmigrating into a Book to Hunting in the Mountains and Fighting the Japanese / The Era: A Guerrilla Force Behind Enemy Lines in Shandong Province [Resistance and spy warfare + Anti-Japanese War + opening arc + special forces + transmigration + period setting + transmigrating into a book + countryside + mountain hunting + genius] Special forces soldier Zhang Qi transmigra 609Reads8.4Score10214d adds
- 74 Starting with Bright Sword, I Lead My Nation in Conquering the Myriad Worlds 从亮剑开始，带领国家攻略诸天 Xu Ze unexpectedly obtains a System that lets him conquer worlds across the heavens. Once he develops a world he has transmigrated to by 60%, he can unlock the next one. Yet the first world he transmigrates to turns out to be The Battle of Changsha! Faced with this brutal historical world of blood and fire, Xu Ze decisively reveals himself to the country and asks for help, proposing that they work together to develop the worlds across the heavens and bring their talent and resources back to the 771Reads7.2Score10214d adds
- 75 War of Resistance: From the Start, My Special Forces Battalion Would Eventually Rule the World 抗战：开局特战营最后傲视全球 [Group Transmigration + Building Up Alone + Special Forces + System + Fighting the Japanese + A Different Take on "The Kite", "Drawing Sword", and "Snow Leopard"] During a military exercise, all eight hundred-plus members of the Longyan Special Forces Battalion accidentally transmigrate to a parallel world. They discover that Japan is invading Huaxia, and they’ve landed in the middle of the Battle of Shanghai. Equipped with modern gear and backed by a War God System, the battalion decides on t 111Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 76 After Twenty-Five Years of Cultivation, I Lured My Stunning Junior Sister Down the Mountain 修炼二十五年，把绝色师妹拐下山 [Hot-blooded power fantasy + decisive vengeance + fast-paced + invincible face-slapping + master returns from the mountains for revenge] Twenty-five years ago, I was cast out of my family and abandoned, with my parents’ fates unknown! Twenty-five years later, Wei Qing mastered extraordinary skills and came down from the mountains to take revenge with an iron fist. Everything they owed me, I’ll take back a hundredfold, a thousandfold! The world’s top financial tycoons? Rich enough to rival nation 12.6kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds
- 77 Riding Across the World 策骑天下 He is tender and gentle with the women he loves, but ruthless and decisive toward his enemies. As the Xi Yan Dynasty teeters on the brink of collapse, he saves the people from a living hell. When petty factions covet the Central Plains, he leads hot-blooded warriors to defend their homeland. He blazes a new trail, drawing merchants from every corner of the world to the Chinese heartland in a race to do business. The finest minds of every people gather in Zhongdu, truly making it the center of th 502Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 78 The Goddess’s Super Son-in-Law 女神的超级赘婿 I followed my mother’s wishes and became a live-in son-in-law for someone else, for a term of three years. Now, the three years are up... 2.5kReads8.2Score82714d adds
- 79 I Knew Nothing About the War Against Japan at First, but the Japanese Were Out to Get Me 开局不懂抗日，奈何命犯鬼子 He knew nothing about fighting the Japanese from the start, but fate had it in for him and the Japanese! Read the story of Little Eighth Lord and you'll laugh until you spit out your food, then quietly shed a tear. Best of all, let him fight for you with all the passion in his heart, performing acts of chivalry in a world torn by war! At the beginning, Little Eighth Lord loses his memory and stumbles onto the anti-Japanese battlefield in the Central Plains, convinced he's Li Yuanba, the greatest 1.4kReads—Score14814d adds
- 80 Five Years in Prison, Invincible the Moment I Get Out 入狱五年，出狱即无敌 [War God + invincible protagonist + decisive and ruthless + fast-paced, wildly satisfying] No saintly do-gooder routine, just one satisfying win after another. Anyone who wrongs me gets payback. Five years ago, my beautiful senior sister tricked me into going to prison to train. Since then, I've become the most badass War God in the world! After I got out, my junior martial aunt gave me an arsenal, and I became the biggest arms dealer on Blue Star! The Empress made me a prince and granted me the 3.6kReads9.1Score43714d adds
- 81 Junior Brother, Please, Don't Be So Invincible! 师弟，求你，不要太无敌！ A classic urban power fantasy! Ruthless and decisive, with exhilarating action, blazing passion, no saintly hero, and a triumphant sweep from start to finish! Three years ago, Ye Qingcang, young master of the Ye family, was betrayed by his fiancée, hunted down by his enemies, had his kidney stolen and his blood drained, then was left for dead in the wilderness. Three years later, Ye Qingcang returns with peerless medical and martial skills. He tears through his enemies, determined to uncover the 1kReads9.2Score32714d adds
- 82 The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母 [A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw 610Reads9.3Score10414d adds
- 83 The Ghost of the War of Resistance 抗战之幽灵 Wei Ping transmigrates to a smoke-filled battlefield in the War of Resistance Against Japan. With exceptional combat skills and tactical expertise, he trains a special forces unit known as the Ghosts. Bearing the immense suffering of a nation and the anguish of four hundred million people, they answer an eye for an eye and blood for blood. 360Reads9.1Score11014d adds
- 84 Dragon-Slaying Hall 屠龙殿 [The Dragon-Slaying Hall, an explosive masterpiece] His daughter has been wheeled into the operating room, and his goddess-like wife is being forced to marry again. He is no longer a stray dog. He is the Dragon-Slaying War God, and he has come with a million soldiers to slaughter his way through everything. 3.3kReads9.0Score38614d adds
- 85 Senior Sister, Please Show Some Restraint! 师姐，请自重！ [Decisive and Ruthless + Passionate to the Extreme + Deep Emotions + Senior-Sister Romance + Maximum Showmanship] In a single night, disaster strikes Qin Xuan’s family, and both his senior sister and the Xuan Sect’s greatest treasure disappear. Armed with astonishing abilities, Qin Xuan makes a powerful descent from the mountain! Peerless medical skills: he can bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh on bare bones. If the King of Hell says you’ll die at the third watch, I’ll keep you alive 9.3kReads9.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 86 Reborn in the Age of War 重生战争年代 (Rebirth, space, strength-based ability, playing the fool to catch the tiger, historical era, parallel world) In the apocalypse, Lan Xinyue survived thanks to her strength and spatial abilities, only to be betrayed by her closest friend while fighting a high-level zombie. “Xiao Yan, why?” Lan Xinyue couldn’t believe it. Reborn in the 1940s, she joins the revolution, helps the country fight the Japanese and capture enemy spies, and works undercover. The male lead is a soldier who protects his cou 6kReads9.1Score43814d adds
- 87 War Rages Across the Land, Yet We Laugh Beneath the Bright Moon 烽火连天笑明月 Liu Zhengfeng is a former special forces soldier. By accident, he transmigrates onto the battlefield of the Battle of Wuhan. The hatred of his country and the blood feud against his family cannot be reconciled. He has no other choice. Life and death mean nothing to him. If you don’t like it, fight! 17.4kReads9.1Score1.7k14d adds
- 88 The Ancient Martial Arts Berserker 古武狂兵 [New novel: The King of Hell's Divine Needle, by Gongzi Rulong. Just search for it~~] Eight years ago, he was chosen by the Yanhuang Organization. After enduring brutal, hellish training, he became their deadliest blade! Eight years later, he returns with grave injuries and is reduced to a cripple! With his meridians destroyed and his beloved murdered, he transforms into a bloodthirsty Asura in the depths of despair. The day he rises like a dragon and commands the winds and clouds, the whole wor 8.5kReads7.5Score90414d adds
- 89 The New War God of Southern Anhui 皖南新战神 He Dazhi is a directionless young man with no ambition, whose birthday banquet turns into a lavish feast. With the help of the System, he goes from an aimless nobody to a new God of War, making waves in a parallel world and taking southern Anhui by storm... 390Reads6.6Score10314d adds
- 90 Villain: I Went Wild with Joy After Marrying the Comatose Empress 反派：娶了植物人女帝后我乐疯了 My name is Chu Lingxiao. I transmigrated to the Dragon Fortune Dynasty, where martial strength reigns supreme, and somehow became the “Chosen One.” Then I was forced to marry the empress of the Mystic Goddess Sect, Gu Ruoxue, who was in a vegetative state, and was chosen to bring her good fortune and be buried alongside her. If the empress lived, I would care for her. If she died, I’d be sealed in her coffin and buried with her. Everyone pitied my miserable fate, but I was over the moon! Because 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Disciple, You’ve Reached the Pinnacle. Go Down the Mountain and Raise Hell 徒儿你已登峰造极，下山豪横去吧 [Urban power fantasy + invincible war god + genius doctor son-in-law + ruthless decisiveness + master descends the mountain] This story is all about one thing: satisfaction! A wildly entertaining power fantasy, distilled from a humorous style and a plot full of twists and turns: He’s so talented even his master fears him, and has tried every trick in the book to send him down the mountain to become a live-in son-in-law. What should he do? Easy. He’ll learn every one of his master’s lifelong secr 192Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 War of Resistance: I Have an Arsenal 抗战：我有个军火库 A food-delivery rider transmigrates back to the War of Resistance era with the Bandit-Hunting System. The Japanese are his enemies, but also a source of points: kill them to earn weapons, then use those weapons to kill more of them. And so begins a vicious cycle that leaves the Japanese in endless misery. 9.9kReads8.4Score83714d adds
- 93 War of Resistance: Oh No! Sichuan Dad Is Here! 抗战之：不好！川爹来啦！ With the nation in peril and the Japanese invaders showing their fangs, every man is responsible for the rise and fall of his country. I wished to enlist, but I was too old. Fortunately, I have a son, and he has volunteered. I give him this banner to carry at all times: wipe away blood with it when wounded, and be wrapped in it when he dies. March ever forward, and never forget your duty. The Death Banner 1.3kReads6.6Score—14d adds
- 94 Ruling the World in the War of Resistance 抗战之君临天下 Luo Weimin, an ambitious young man, transmigrates to the eve of the War of Resistance and unexpectedly awakens a weapons exchange System. It has every kind of weapon, military equipment, and civilian supplies imaginable. Luo Weimin will lead an ironclad force backed by 155 mm heavy artillery to tear the Japanese invaders to pieces. This isn't a war, it's a crushing victory! A slaughter! The reshaping of the world order! 2kReads8.3Score16914d adds
- 95 War God at the Peak 巅峰战神 In an age of greatness, an invincible royal clan stood above the rest, swallowing up all creation. A mighty imperial clan loomed like legendary gods, looking down over the vast world. That year, snow blanketed the land, and Su Xuanyuan was granted the title of Lord of the Northern Frontier at Kunlun in the North. 11.5kReads8.6Score89714d adds
- 96 Number One Dragon Soldier 一号龙兵 The man who should have died five years ago stood on the battlefield years later, representing Huaxia. Dragging himself forward with just one arm left and gripping Dragon Fang, he cried, “I am Sun Tan! I have done right by the people! I have done right by Huaxia!” (This story is fictional. The world inside the book and the world outside it are separate. Please do not confuse the two.) 1.6kReads8.8Score16614d adds
- 97 My Brother-in-Law 上门姐夫 Chu Tianshu is a master of both medicine and martial arts. He commands a global network of power and is revered as the Godfather. After being ambushed and losing his memory, he ends up on the streets and becomes a live-in son-in-law, enduring humiliation and mockery. When his memories suddenly return, watch as he turns the tables, wins his beautiful wife's heart, and makes his way back to the pinnacle of the world with her by his side! 10kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 98 Reborn: The Cold-Blooded Hardliner of the War of Resistance 重生：抗战冷血杠头师 I transmigrated into the War of Resistance against Japan and rallied over a thousand routed soldiers as a second lieutenant to form an iron-blooded special task force! At the beginning, those around me were scattered remnants, battered equipment, and hopeless morale. I turned this weak force into an iron-blooded army that would stand and fight any enemy, never retreating even in death, earning it the fearsome name "Hardhead Division" across the land! During the Defense of Nanjing, the Japanese a 23.8kReads8.5Score2.1k14d adds
- 99 North Gate, South City 北门南城 The front line stretches from north to south, and the story begins in a small town in the Northeast. Decline, hope, redemption, hardship, pain, and love reaching ever farther: it all feels like a dream. The story unfolds through its male and female leads, depicting the helplessness of wartime. 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 War of Resistance: Rising from New Recruit to Company Commander 抗战：从新兵连长开始崛起 After the full-scale War of Resistance broke out in 1937, Chu Feng transmigrated into the past with a System and became a newly commissioned company commander in the Eighth Route Army. Looking at the broad saber and old rifles in his hands, and the recruit company of fewer than a hundred men, Chu Feng was dumbfounded. Worse still, headquarters ordered him to lead this rookie company in blocking an reinforced Japanese squadron, buying time for the division headquarters to evacuate. Obeying ord 7.1kReads8.8Score41214d adds
