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- 101 Great Ming: Zhu Yuanzhang and I Go into Business Together 大明，我和朱元璋合伙做生意 Synopsis: Farming + transmigration + System Chen Lin transmigrates into the Hongwu era and becomes the newly appointed county magistrate of Jurong County in Yingtian Prefecture. He also gets bound to the DingTalk System. He clocks in and out on time from nine to five every day, and at the end of the month he collects a salary and rewards from the System. Even if he works overtime until nine at night, he gets paid extra. With the overtime System, Chen Lin spends nearly a year taking it easy in Ju 497Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 102 I Begin Ruling Another World with an Armory 从军火库开始统治异世 After transmigrating to another world with a Super Empire System, Yunchuan, a penniless adviser, was given an Italian cannon by the System from the start. But just as he was about to shout, “Fire!”, he realized his enemies had already fallen before he could even take aim. While managing his own territory, he also grows closer to a beautiful bandit chief, until Yunchuan discovers that this world is far more complicated than he imagined… 894Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 103 Dual Transmigration: Starting a Revolution in Another World 双穿：我在异世界闹革命 Urban + Pocket Dimension + Longevity + Wild Imagination “If you won’t pay a 580,000-yuan bride price, drink the foot-washing water!” “Otherwise, forget about taking your bride home. Hmph!” “Fine! Fine, fine! Then I’m calling off the wedding!!” The protagonist is pressured into rejecting the marriage proposal and chooses a life between two worlds. He has a mysterious pocket dimension. When other people don’t understand something, they ask questions. He doesn’t understand? He just gives it a f 2.6kReads8.1Score343Shelves
- 104 Reforming the Great Ming 调教大明 Throughout the Ming dynasty, the empire never sent princesses to marry foreign rulers, paid no indemnities, ceded no land, and paid no tribute. The emperor guarded the gates of the realm, and the monarch died for the state. In the fifteenth year of the Hongwu era, Lan Bin transmigrates into the son of Lan Yu, the most notorious man in history for having people skinned and stuffed. Ten years later, his family will be confiscated and exterminated, and he will lose his head. Desperate to stay alive 164Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 105 Great Ming: The Zhu Family's Sixth Son Cultivates the Dao and Seeks Immortality 大明：修仙求道的朱家老六 [Transmigration + imperial grandson + filial father and son + cultivation] Zhu Zhankan transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and becomes the sixth son of Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi. He is bound to a mission System. He plans to use the System’s help to guide the Ming dynasty toward a steampunk cyberpunk future. He will become a sage remembered throughout history. But then [Ding!] [Congratulations, you have obtained a cultivation manual: Spring Renewal Guidance Technique] A cultivation manual? Then to he 3.2kReads6.1Score105Shelves
- 106 I Became an Emperor and Started a Courtwide Rivalry by Renovating the Toilets 穿成帝王，从修厕所开始内卷全朝 [Woman Transmigrates into a Man + Farming and Nation-Building + Shop System + Food + Very Little Romance] A no-nonsense, satisfying nation-building story [Elegant emperor x rugged, wolfish general] Good news: I transmigrated into an emperor! Bad news: it's a poor place, and I'm a puppet emperor! The female special agent Yun Ran transmigrates into a male emperor, and just as she's settling into a grand dream, she discovers that the whole country is poor and weak. A powerful neighboring nation is 35Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 107 Narrating the Tragic History of the Southern Ming, Driving Old Zhu Mad 解说南明痛史，老朱气疯了！ An explanation of the Ming Dynasty’s fall: Who should take the blame, Zhu Yuanzhang, Wanli, Tianqi, or Chongzhen? Seeing the wretched lot in the Southern Ming Hongguang court, the sixteen Ming emperors bitterly regretted that two hundred years of raising pigs had been such a failure. Watching the fates of Longwu and Yongli, the sixteen Ming emperors were left speechless and weeping... 114Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Zhang Koukou Transmigrates to the Great Tang 张扣扣穿越大唐 After his execution, he transmigrates to the late Tang dynasty. With modern wisdom and knowledge, and the help of several women, he writes his own epic legend in an era engulfed by war. 61Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 109 EN Inter-Realm Swap: A Demonic Disciple's Rapid Ascent 两界互穿，我魔教弟子升级贼快 After transmigrating to the cultivation world and becoming a demonic cultivator, Ye Xiu is at a loss. Still, life goes on, so he decides to take things one day at a time. Who could have guessed that a year later, a gate would appear in his sea of consciousness, linking to the world he came from before transmigrating? He can travel between the two worlds freely! But for some reason, his old world has been reduced to a wasteland, overrun by zombies. What's more absurd is that the zombies have soul 1.8kReads—Score192Shelves
- 110 I’m in the Great Ming, So Why Worry? My Senior Brother Is Zhu Yuanzhang 人在大明我不慌，我师兄叫朱元璋 [Lighthearted comedy + turning every danger into good fortune + invincible + winning the love of a beauty] Jiang Xiaoyu transmigrates to the end of the Yuan dynasty and the beginning of the Ming, opening his eyes beneath a gleaming executioner's blade. With his life hanging by a thread, he is rescued by his senior brother, Zhu Chongba. From then on, Jiang Xiaoyu clings tightly to Zhu Yuanzhang’s coattails. In an age of collapsing empires and rising rebel armies, he joins Zhu Yuanzhang in roaming 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Borrowing Heaven to Change the Ming Dynasty 借天改明 I transmigrated right in front of Emperor Chongzhen. With my heaven-defying status as a transmigrator, I helped him reform the government, withstand natural disasters, crush the Later Jin, and make our power felt overseas! Could I finally erase the regrets of late Ming history? 13Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 112 Transmigrating Between Two Worlds: Is Buying Planes and Tanks Really Too Much? 两界穿越，买飞机坦克不过分吧？ Traveling back and forth between two worlds, he starts out miles ahead by trading all kinds of goods. In the past: Planes fly overhead, tanks roll across the ground. He goes abroad to buy all kinds of weapons... Through a series of reforms, he builds a modern world. Japan refuses to submit? Want to try out a Little Boy? In the modern world: He becomes the richest man on Earth, then partners with the country to trade for minerals, oil, and more... leading China to become the world’s number one. 516Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 113 Back to Ancient Times: Ginseng for a Wife 回到古代：人参换老婆 [Farming + Multiple Heroines + Regret + Lighthearted and Relaxing] “Chu Tian! Let’s break off our engagement. You’re not good enough for me!” When Chu Tian opens his eyes, he discovers he has transmigrated to an ancient era much like China, and his fiancée breaks off their engagement right from the start. His father and older brother died serving in the army, and the county commandant has withheld their compensation. The only ones left at home are his beautiful, frail sister-in-law and him, depe 4.5kReads7.7Score390Shelves
- 114 A Guide to Transmigrating into the Apocalypse 末世穿越指南 (A two-way transmigration story between the modern city and a wasteland, no System, plot-focused, power fantasy, one man against the world in the city) Chen Yan, twenty-four years old. Sex: male. Interest: women. A standard office drone. He should have spent his whole life quietly and obediently as a green onion, ripe for anyone to chop up. Instead, he gained the ability to travel freely between the present-day real world and a future wasteland apocalypse. Before he could travel freely between t 5kReads8.1Score351Shelves
- 115 A Middleman Between Two Worlds: One Lighter for a Century-Old Wild Ginseng Root 两界倒爷，一个火机换百年野山参 (Two Worlds + Satisfying Read + Decisive and Ruthless + Ultimate Genius + Crushing Emperor Ruyan Like Smoke + Cultivation in the Canglan Realm, Indulgence in the City) Ye Mo transmigrates into the body of a lovesick fool who was dumped by Emperor Ruyan. Fortunately, on the day of the breakup, the 007 System drops into his lap, giving him the ability to travel back and forth to the Canglan Realm. The Canglan Realm is dangerous? He has modern weapons to protect himself: AK-47s, Desert Eagles, Barr 810Reads6.8Score104Shelves
- 116 Transporting Between Two Worlds: From Xingyi Boxing to Transcendence 两界搬运：从形意拳开始超凡入圣 [System + Travel Between Two Worlds + Stat-Allocation Panel + Decisive and Ruthless + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Power Fantasy] A bizarre murder case and the jade thumb ring his older brother left behind. They gave Zhou Yunxiao the ability to travel freely between Blue Star and another world. He had thought it was an ordinary ancient world, and all he wanted was to live off the profits of transporting goods between the two worlds, become a wealthy layabout, take a few concubines, and enjoy a life of l 528Reads6.9Score105Shelves
- 117 Apocalypse: Crossing Between Two Worlds, From Black-Market Trader to the Top 末世双穿：从当倒爷开始走向巅峰 [Apocalypse + Dual transmigration + Pocket dimension + Superpowers + Decisive and ruthless + System + Modern cultivation + Goddesses] Chu Tian travels between an apocalyptic world with advanced technology and his original world. Using his mental pocket dimension, he trades gold, technological products, and other goods between the apocalypse and reality. By using technology from the apocalyptic world, Chu Tian establishes a tech company in his original world and becomes a leader in its tech indus 1.1kReads7.1Score101Shelves
- 118 Merchant Between Two Worlds: Growing Stronger, Starting with My Beautiful Senior Sister 两界倒爷：从美女师姐开始变强 [Dual Transmigration] + [Urban] + [Xuanhuan] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Power Fantasy] + [No Torture for the Protagonist] + [Fast-Paced, No Filler] Shen Lang obtains a mysterious pearl and travels to the enigmatic world of Great Qian. In this world, you either eat others or get eaten. Shen Lang chooses to become the most ruthless “middleman” of all. 327Reads6.8Score233Shelves
- 119 My Courtyard Leads to the Ming Dynasty 我家院子可以去大明 Huang Xiao, a medical student, transmigrates to the fifth year of the Tianqi era of the Ming dynasty with a farmhouse. Using medicine far ahead of its time, he successfully treats the carpenter emperor, Zhu Youxiao. A wooden toy steam train turns Zhu Youxiao into his devoted fan. The late Ming is a world in chaos, plagued by natural disasters and human calamities, with flames of war blazing everywhere. It is an age woven from blood and fire! Backed by the abundant resources and advanced technolo 1.1kReads8.4Score101Shelves
- 120 Dual Transmigration: Inheriting Everything from the Start 双穿：开局继承一切 Formerly titled: [Ming Dynasty: From the Start, I Was Given Five Sisters-in-Law] [From the start + two worlds + transmigration + lots of beautiful women + spatial storage + System + modern weapons + a city] [An extremely energy-hungry bracelet System + what could the method of gathering energy be?] [Inheriting a city + building up strength early on + invincible in the later stages] [More Children, More Blessings] Zhou Yi, a programmer on Blue Star, accidentally encounters an alien spacecraft and 1.5kReads8.4Score126Shelves
- 121 Reborn in the Wilds, I Can Travel Back and Forth to Earth 重生蛮荒后能往返地球 On Earth, Yang Yi died saving someone. He never imagined he would be reborn in a vast, boundless primordial world teeming with countless races, much less that he would be able to travel back and forth between it and Earth... 411Reads8.7Score118Shelves
- 122 A Quest for Survival at the End of the Ming 明末求生记 By chance, Zhang Xuan found himself in the late Ming, and all he wanted was to survive. But for himself, for his wife and daughter, and for the people of the realm, he took one step after another on the road to seizing the throne! The land lay shattered, its mountains and rivers adrift like willow catkins in the wind. All under heaven looked to Lord Zhang. 64Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 123 Transmigrating Between Two Worlds, Doing Business in the Ming Dynasty 两界穿越，我在大明做生意 Invincible protagonist + urban tycoon + travel back and forth to the Ming Dynasty + System lottery + marrying wives and taking concubines + sweeping the world in the late Ming. Li Feng activates a transmigration System that lets him travel back and forth between the modern city and the late Ming Dynasty. From then on, Li Feng smuggles supplies between the two worlds and makes money like crazy. The System also has a lottery feature, with every kind of treasure up for grabs. Immortality is no long 228Reads7.9Score110Shelves
- 124 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Have a Two-Way Portal, and the Americans Are Stunned 四合院：开局双穿门，鹰酱懵了 After returning from the Peninsula War, Li Jianye became the director of the Red Star Rolling Mill, only to discover that the world he now lived in was the world of the Courtyard House series. As a veteran of countless campaigns, Li Jianye declared, “My mission is to make the country strong!” Confronted by the Venerable of Morality? Is the gun in my hand not loaded? The Saintly White Lotus? Does this slap I just gave you hurt? The Courtyard House God of War? Want a bullet to eat? Granny Deaf? I 1.1kReads5.1Score103Shelves
- 125 Great Ming: My Dad Is Zhu Gaozu, Known Across the Jianghu as the Rebel Emperor 大明：俺爹朱高煦，江湖人称造反大帝 A devoted son from the late twenty-first century transmigrates to the last Han Chinese dynasty in history because of a countdown timer, and becomes the beloved son of Zhu Gaochi, a notorious master of self-destruction. Ji Yang says, “With my father around, staying alive is the hard part. The Prince of Han’s sweeping leg trips up three generations, and even after he dies, his name lives on.” Ji Yang: “Dad, stop tempting fate.” Zhu Gaochi: “Son, bail me out!” 813Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 126 Great Ming: I Only Want to Marry My Childhood Sweetheart, but You Want Me to Become Emperor 大明：我只想娶青梅，你让我称帝 [Original Poetry + The Splendor of the Ming Dynasty + Political Schemes + A Loving Zhu Family + Six Dragons at Court!] Zhu Yu transmigrates to the Yongle era of the Ming Dynasty. After ten years of hard study, he places first in the imperial exams! He dreams of settling down somewhere quiet and spending his days with his wife by a warm hearth. Unexpectedly, on the very day he passes the exams, Xie Jin accuses him of cheating! Luckily, his [Intelligent AI System] awakens. [Ding-dong! System AI an 338Reads6.3Score101Shelves
- 127 Late Ming: A Portal Between Two Worlds, Saving Chongzhen from the Start 明末双穿门：开局救下崇祯 After his parents died in a car accident, Tang Yi inherited their machine shop, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. Burdened by enormous debts and nearly driven to despair, Tang Yi stumbled upon a portal that could take him to the late Ming dynasty. But he never expected that, from the start, he would arrive just as the Chongzhen Emperor was about to hang himself. After saving the emperor, Tang Yi used his imperial status to control the feudal lords in his name. Decades later, thanks to the po 281Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 128 Ming Dynasty: Kill the Enemy to Restore the Ming, Defending Jiangyin from the Start 大明，杀敌复明，开局死守江阴 [Late Ming] + [Slay the Enemy] + [Restore the Ming] In the summer of 1645, the Hongguang regime fell, and the Southern Ming teetered on the brink of collapse. Zhou Qian, a history student, transmigrated into the body of the fugitive prince Zhu Cixuan. The isolated city of Jiangyin was trapped in a desperate situation. An eighty-one-day battle to the death was about to begin. In this desperate hour, he awakened the [Ten Thousand Horses Trample the Barbarians] System. Slay enemies to obtain elite 5.5kReads7.3Score486Shelves
- 129 The Keyboard Immortal's Path: I Copy Books to Transcend the Mortal World 键盘仙途：我靠抄书超凡入圣 A xianxia take on the Hundred Schools of Thought + lordship + System + unlimited troop production + cross-world warfare + travel between two worlds + multiple heroines Wang Feng, bound to the Two-World Transmigration System, discovers that he's arrived in a cultivation world reminiscent of a mythic version of the Hundred Schools of Thought: Confucian scholars can write to command the cosmos; Legalists speak, and heaven and earth obey; Military strategists can slay saints with a single formation; 72Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 130 The Great Ming Empire: A Flourishing Realm 大明帝国之盛世江山 This book recounts the glory of the Ming dynasty, from Zheng He’s seven voyages to the Western Seas during the Yongle era and the Ren and Xuan reigns to the upheavals of the Zhengtong and Jingtai years. It follows the fortunes of five emperors, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qiyu, and depicts the thrilling history of the voyages to the Western Seas. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Through Space: I Have a Home on an Alien Planet 穿梭空间之我在异星有个家 He's not human! When he was a teacher, he launched a billion-yuan education drive so the children in his class could drink clean water. What kind of person does that? To help his fiancée make a movie, he built a spaceship from scratch. What kind of person does that? You think he comes from a poor family, but in truth, he's born into a powerful clan. You think he's timid and weak, but in truth, he's killed countless people. You think he's dirt poor, but in truth, he's richer than an entire n 1.9kReads8.3Score183Shelves
- 132 Cultivation for All: The Trader Between Two Worlds Becomes an Immortal Emperor 全民修仙：两界倒爷成为仙帝 After Blue Star’s spiritual qi revival, the world entered an era in which technology and cultivation advanced side by side. Ye Fan had only a five-element mixed spiritual root, so getting into university and obtaining the resources for Foundation Establishment seemed nearly impossible. One night, he discovered that a dragon-blood talisman his parents had left him could let him transmigrate to another cultivation world. By taking advantage of the enormous price difference in cultivation resources 4Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 133 Reborn as Zhu Biao: Building the Greatest Ming Dynasty 重生朱标，打造巅峰大明 Lin Yu, a modern scholar of Ming history, is devoted to studying Zhu Biao and has achieved remarkable results. An unexpected encounter on a rainy night sends his soul into the recently deceased Zhu Biao. Facing the grief-stricken Zhu Yuanzhang, Lin Yu is reborn as Zhu Biao. At court, powerful meritorious officials watch like tigers, while rival factions stir beneath the surface. Among the common people, a land ravaged by war is desperate for a chance to recover. Drawing on modern knowledge and h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty: I Reveal My True Immortal Identity from the Start 穿越大明：开局自爆真仙身份 Ming Dynasty + Transmigration + Wish-Fulfillment + Ancient Times + Modern Times + Immortals Ye Tiance transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and obtains a System that lets him travel between two worlds. The more real gold and silver he earns, the more powerful the System's functions become. In pursuit of immortality, Ye Tiance starts transporting goods from the modern world to sell in the past... Until one day, the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang walks into his shop with a lighter in hand. “The Ming Dyn 8.8kReads7.8Score541Shelves
- 135 Dual Transmigration: The Zombie King Rises and Builds a Tech Empire! 双穿：尸王崛起，打造科技帝国！ [Apocalyptic Zombies, Evolvers, Paranormal Invasions, Black Technology, War] Tang Feng is betrayed by his girlfriend, and his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Just then, the Apocalypse System activates. Every three days, he transmigrates, and can take gold, jewelry, and beautiful women as he pleases! Technology in the apocalypse is far ahead of ours. Even a single one of its inventions can crush Blue Star technology. Tang Feng: What apocalypse? This place is practically paradise! Love riva 3.1kReads8.1Score243Shelves
- 136 Great Ming: Obtain Xiang Yu's Template from the Start 大明：开局获得项羽模板 He transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and becomes Zhu Qiyu, a famously ill-fated emperor. He unlocks a Choice System, receives Xiang Yu’s template, personally leads his troops into battle, slaughters the steppe tribes, and conquers the world! 492Reads6.1Score105Shelves
- 137 Late Ming: My Dad Won't Listen, So My Ancestors Will Step In! 明末：我爹不听话，祖宗会出手！ The Sixteen Ming Emperors, Nuclear-Harmonious Family, Old Zhu and His 1,382-Year-Old Rattan Cane, The Ming-Qing Showdown, Zhu Qizhen: Stay Away from Me!, and The Eternal Ming. Zhu Yong transmigrates into Zhu Cilang, the last Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and gains the ability to travel between the sixteen Ming eras. At this point, the rebel bandit is closing in on the capital, with rebels inside the country, Jurchen invaders outside, and an unruly father at home. So he makes a decision that 374Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 138 The Gate Between Two Worlds: I Become a Prince in the Late Ming Dynasty 两界门，我在明末当王爷 I have a door that leads between the Ming Dynasty and the modern world. Make a fortune by moving goods back and forth? As long as I have a gun, your home is my granary! Can’t get guns in the country? No problem, I’m overseas! 98Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 139 Back to Ancient Times to Play with Machines 回到古代玩机械 The same old transmigration, but with a different kind of brilliance. An accident sends a worker back to ancient times. Refusing to give up, he applies his knowledge and the advanced experience of a later society to help his country grow strong, while making his own fortune along the way. This is a rational transmigration novel that succeeds through its plot. Machinery ties the whole story together, with episodes involving food, wuxia, business battles, reform, war, and the imperial family. It a 261Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 140 Writing a Diary in the Ming Dynasty, I Leave the Zhu Family Speechless 人在大明写日记，老朱家都破防了 After keeping a diary in the Ming Dynasty for six years, she still had no idea her father was Zhu Yuanzhang. To stay alive, Ma Zhenzhen diligently wrote in her diary every day. Then one day, with nothing left to write, she copied down a list of major events from a history book. [Ding! Diary usefulness: three stars. Reward: one set of jacquard loom blueprints!] Ma Zhenzhen: !!!! There’s a reward for that? Meanwhile, Zhu Yuanzhang, who could hear the diary’s contents: !!!! There’s a reward f 643Reads6.8Score106Shelves
- 141 The Cellar in My House Connects Two Worlds 我家地窖通两界 Transmigration + trading between worlds + conquest of another realm + cutting-edge technology + cultivation: everything you could want is here! The cultivation world comes into play starting from Chapter 410. By chance, Liu Ming discovered that he could enter another world through the cellar in his home. Using the technological gap to sell modern goods for astronomical prices in the other world, he amassed wealth and rose to rule it. He brought advanced medical technology to the future other wor 1.4kReads8.0Score101Shelves
- 142 Bridging Past and Present: Getting Rich Is Inevitable 打通古今，想不暴富都难 My girlfriend A-Zhen ran off with A-Qiang the chef, taking all our savings with her. With nowhere else to turn, Jiang Hao accidentally opened a passage connecting the past and present. Li Ziqi: “When have I ever been short on money for drinks? Here, take these ten taels of gold as a tip!” Liu Bowen: “Shopkeeper, I’m a little short on cash these days. How about I use this folding fan to cover the bill?” Li Shimin: “Waiter, bring me your strongest liquor. I need to get drunk so I can go do somethi 2.6kReads8.1Score310Shelves
- 143 Late Ming: The Steel Tide Rolls On 明末，钢铁的洪流滚滚向前 [No Romance + No System + Has a Golden Finger (Does an armory count?) + Invincible + Farming and Development + Slow-Burn but Packed with Conflict] Ammunition-disassembly expert Zhong Qing survives an explosion by sheer luck, only to be transported with his warehouse to the third year of the Tianqi era, at the end of the Ming dynasty. When he opens his eyes, he sees no beautiful women in his harem, only dust kicked up by Mongol cavalry. His System? Doesn’t exist. His golden finger is the clas 2.2kReads7.2Score162Shelves
- 144 My Master Died Suddenly, So I Had to Inherit the Martial Arts School and His Wife 师父暴毙，我只好继承武馆加师娘 Lin Ye transmigrates to the Great Chu world and discovers he possesses a spatial portal treasure that can also take him back to Earth. In the Great Chu world, gold is known as Immortal Gold, a rare treasure. His master, Li Xuanfeng, is killed while fighting someone over a grain of Immortal Gold, leaving Lin Ye to inherit his master's martial arts school, as well as his lovely master's wife. Immortal Gold is rare in the Great Chu world, but Earth has plenty of it. Lin Ye crafts many ancient secre 4kReads7.4Score282Shelves
- 145 The Ming Dynasty: The Tianqi Empire 大明之天启帝国 Glorious Ming, ruler of all nations; may our mountains and rivers stand forever, guarding our borders. Lofty China, its light reaching the four corners; may sun and moon shine forever, blessing our emperor. By a twist of fate, the protagonist transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty and becomes the Tianqi Emperor. The Ming has just won a great victory at Ningyuan, but the Later Jin have already grown into a tiger poised to devour the realm. Meanwhile, a Shaanxi uprising that will sweep across the 12Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 146 Traveling Between Past and Present: A Bag of Grain for a Wife from the Start 双穿古今，开局一袋粮食换老婆 [Alternate World + Empress + Dual Transmigration + Time Control + Spend Money to Get Stronger] After years away from home working himself to the bone, one serious illness sent him right back to square one. Lin Yi was done being a wage slave. He chose to lie flat back in his rural hometown. Then he discovered that a mobile game on his phone was connected to the ancient world. A new dynasty had just been established, and a famine had struck. Food had become the hardest currency. Trade corn for a w 8.2kReads8.2Score743Shelves
- 147 Rural Myriad Worlds Trading System 乡村万界交易系统 Du Mu: “Riding through the dust, the imperial consort smiles. No one knows the tomatoes are why!” Li Yunlong: “Those Japanese devils are blockading us again! Boss, hurry up and get me 500 jin of cornmeal so I can kick their asses!” Taiyi Zhenren: “Ah, my disciple’s acting up again. He got into a duel and lost an arm. Boss, please, give me a piece of that immortal lotus root so I can grow him a new one!” The little farmer Lin Jun stumbles upon the Myriad Worlds Trading System, and suddenly all th 203Reads8.3Score161Shelves
- 148 A Corpse from the Start, and You Want Me to Revive the Ming Dynasty? 开局一具尸体，你让我中兴大明？ He lived for a man who was about to die, and for a country that was about to perish. College student Zhu Yuanwu transmigrated from the start into the body of a corpse on its last breath: the Tianqi Emperor, Zhu Youxiao. No System, no golden finger, just a sickly body that should have been dead and a set of memories belonging to someone else that had appeared in his mind. Wei Zhongxian wept by his bedside. The court awaited his death, starving people in Shaanxi had already raised their banners, a 2Reads—Score199Shelves
- 149 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: I Am the Great Ming’s Sagely Founder! 崇祯十七年：朕乃皇明圣祖！ He transmigrates back to New Year’s Eve in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. The Ming dynasty is on the verge of collapse, officials are corrupt, rebel armies press on, and the Manchus watch like tigers poised to pounce. In his previous life, he governed diligently for seventeen years, only to become the ruler who lost his country. In this life, Zhu Youjian will endure no more! Confiscate corrupt officials’ fortunes to raise a million soldiers’ pay; Take in the refugees outside the city and put —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Becoming a Middleman in the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界当倒爷 From the start, Qin Chuan is left with his kidney harvested, but gains the Myriad Worlds Trading System and becomes the Blue Star region's trader. He can trade freely with beings across the universe and exchange what each side lacks. One box of instant noodles can buy pills and talismans. One excavator can buy ten tons of gold. One poem helps a concubine-born prince return to the political arena and rise to the top. One gun lets a rebel army cut through another world and reshape the balance of p 1.9kReads8.0Score118Shelves
