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- 1 The Four Gates Killing Game 四门杀局 Just because you’re rich, you think you can do whatever you want and trample on other people’s dignity? Don’t forget, poor people have pride too! Lu Dongyuan, a retired agent, had planned to retire to the mountains and enjoy a few peaceful days. But he was accidentally drawn into a conflict between the Four Secret Sects, whose legacy in Xia Country stretches back a thousand years. For no apparent reason, the Wu family began hunting him down right away... 33Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 2 Fighting the War of Resistance with Ironclad Troops 抗战之铁将雄兵 [Anti-Japanese war + War of Resistance + passionate + wish fulfillment + story + reborn + no System] Modern soldier Ma Rulong was reborn in Northeast China at the start of the 20th century. At sixteen, he enlisted and became the leader of the brigade commander's personal guard company at Beidaying. Tensions between China and Japan were mounting, and the Japanese army grew increasingly arrogant, baring its sharp fangs. In 1931, when Japanese invaders brutalized civilians, Ma Rulong and five of hi 636Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 3 War of Resistance: The Liberation of China Begins in Shanxi 抗战：解放全国从山西开始 Yang Fan transmigrated to the War of Resistance era and became the eldest son of a landowning family in northwestern Shanxi. With his father's help, he raised an army and established the Lüliang Mountain base area and the Taihang Mountain base area, one to the east and one to the west. After successfully capturing half of Shanxi, he suddenly realized that something about this world was off. Yang Fan: “I've already taken half of Shanxi, and now you're telling me this is the world of Drawing Sword 151Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 4 Fighting the Japanese: Unlimited Building Materials from the Start 抗日之开局无限建筑材料 Liu Shan, a modern man, transmigrates to 1931. When he opens his eyes, he has become Liu San, a bandit's descendant, facing the threat of his stronghold being destroyed and himself killed. He gains an unlimited construction warehouse and sets about building on a grand scale, creating an impregnable fortress, wiping out bandits, killing Japanese invaders, and forging a great empire! 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Killer’s Survival 杀手的生存 While everyone else was living happy lives, he was taken to a mysterious training camp, where he was to be trained as a cold-blooded killer. He believed that a perfect person had to have a perfect personality, or else they should be destroyed! Years later, he entered society, only to find himself facing a fog-shrouded world where reality and illusion intertwined. How long could family bonds and love endure the trials of blood and fire? Finding our way forward and knowing who we are is truly diff 333Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 6 The Iron-Blooded Resistance War 抗战之铁血无双 Xue Jianqiang is blasted back to the War of Resistance era by a 160 mm mortar shell! The wind cuts to the bone, and the padded coat he strips from an enemy corpse leaves him speechless: this damn thing is way too short!!! 106Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 7 A Fantasy of the Divine Realm 神域奇幻 [No System + Classic Mortal Cultivation + Rigorous Logic + Revenge + Passion + A Brand-New World] Become an emperor, or die… From the moment they are born, the princes of the Northern Xia Empire have only two possible fates: fight with everything they have to seize the throne, or be sacrificed and killed. Everyone, every race, cultivates desperately just to survive. Qin Xiaobai was born into the Northern Xia imperial family, but his mother sealed away his powerful strength when he was you 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Assassin 杀手 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Years I Didn't Work as an Assassin 我不当杀手的那些年 “One last job. When it's done, I'm out.” But Ye Chu unexpectedly fails while carrying out her final mission... And so she is swept into a turbulent world of passions and upheaval. Even a hero can’t resist a beauty’s affection! 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 War of Resistance, 1937: Infinite Body Enhancements 抗战1937：无限强化身体 [Lone wolf + War of Resistance + power fantasy + major battles + upgrading supplies + upgrading his body + brutalizing the Japanese invaders] This novel is also known as "Tearing the Japanese Invaders Apart by Hand Is Fake? I'll Tear One Apart Myself." Zhang Chuyang transmigrated to Wanping City on August 1, 1937. By then, the city had already fallen. Zhang Chuyang obtained a System that rewarded him for killing Japanese invaders. He could earn coins by killing Japanese invaders and traitors. Th 17.3kReads7.0Score1.4kShelves
- 11 Huo Yufeng: Reborn in Republican-Era China 霍御风之重生民国 Huo Qubing died of illness in the sixth year of the Yuanshou era, but transmigrated to the Republican era in 1932. During the January 28 Incident, the Central Army and Japanese forces fought a major battle at Miaohang. Huo Qubing’s soul entered the body of a company commander who had been severely wounded in the battle. The couple Chen Molin and his wife rescued him, and since he had transmigrated to the Republican era, where the name Huo Qubing was far too famous, he changed his name to Huo Yuf 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Iron and Blood, 1928: Eagles Cry Over Shanghai's Outskirts 铁血1928：沪郊鹰啸 Zhao Li, a Falcon special forces soldier, plunges from a modern battlefield when a Z-10 attack helicopter tears through time and space, hurling him into the outskirts of Shanghai in 1928. Foreign concessions dot the city, Japanese scouts prowl like wolves, and civilians struggle to survive amid bombardment and looting. He arrives with steel wings beyond the reach of the era, along with the Iron-Blooded Resistance System. Kill Japanese soldiers to earn points, sell gold for ammunition, and summo 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Urban Soul Sovereign 都市魂尊 No face-slapping, no endless nesting plot twists, no mindless showing off. Insect cultivation + soul cultivation + sword cultivation: a different path to immortality, with an entirely new cultivation system! It's all about thrills, fear, and mystery! 18Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 14 War of Resistance: My Little Sister Is Rather Strange 抗战：我的妹妹很古怪 No one knew whether he had transmigrated or whether this was a dream of Zhuang Zhou's butterfly, but Lu Zhiyuan woke up in the body of a fool from the War of Resistance era. He thought he was the chosen one. Who could have guessed that after arriving, he would discover his younger sister was the strange one? A pocket dimension? A spirit spring? He couldn't make heads or tails of it. Lu Zhiyuan had never seen anything like it. Yet inexplicable things kept happening around him. The only thing he k 3Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 15 1943: Heading South from Guangdong 1943，从广东开始下南洋 This is the story of a male protagonist who transmigrates back to Guangdong in 1943 and builds an ideal nation in Borneo. No System, one heroine. A slow burn. The author is a longtime reader, now taking the first steps into writing. Please be kind! 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 In Another Space-Time, Grandpa and I Fight the Japanese Pirates Together 异时空，我和爷爷一起灭倭寇 Yun Feiyang, deputy commander of a reconnaissance battalion, transmigrates to the parallel world of Blue Star's Longguo during a military exercise and is reborn as Yue Zhendong, an adjutant to a warlord. Faced with troubles at home and threats from abroad, he relies on knowledge as his golden finger to mobilize the whole country, train talent, reform the military, and revive the economy. In the fight against the invasion of the Ghost Nation, he restores the people's fighting spirit, then seizes 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 From the Bloody Battle of Shanghai to the Decisive Battle in the Pacific 从血战淞沪到决战太平洋 Special forces soldier Qin Feng accidentally transmigrates into the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and awakens a weapons arsenal exchange System. Killing Japanese soldiers earns him points, which he can use to exchange for advanced weapons and equipment. From the bloody Battle of Shanghai to the decisive battle in the Pacific, every inch of the land is soaked in blood... 156Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 18 Slay the Invaders and Become a God 杀鬼子成神 A chef armed with a cleaver accidentally arrives in a parallel world: Shanghai, the Far East’s greatest city in the 1930s. It’s a dazzling world where a man can become a god or a demon, and in the end, he becomes a god who slaughters the Japanese invaders and Chinese collaborators. 9Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 19 War of Resistance: With a Holographic Battle Map, I Lead the Sichuan Army to Victory 抗战：全息战图，我带川军杀疯了 [No female lead + cathartic resistance-war story + unbreakable brotherhood + victory against the odds + characters with brains] Peacekeeping soldier Gu Yan transmigrates to a battlefield in the War of Resistance against Japan and awakens a holographic battle map. As the Japanese launch their fifth assault, the company commander raises his gun and roars, “Sichuan-born soldiers die with their boots planted right here!” “Who says we can only sit here and wait to die?!” Once the holographic battle m 164Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 War of Resistance: My System Is Incredibly Powerful 抗战：我的统子很强大 Synopsis: An utterly ordinary man surnamed Wu loses his job, then his phone explodes and sends him hurtling into a parallel world of wartime dramas. A system arrives just in time to save Wu De, who is shivering in the freezing wind. Unfortunately, his system is a cut-down version, but at least it’s powerful and very generous. With his cheat activated, Old Wu declares: “I don’t know any other tactics. I’ve got one: blow them up, keep blowing them up, and blow them up some more!” The problem of in 5Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 21 War of Resistance: The Landlord's Foolish Son Defies Heaven 抗战，地主家的傻儿子逆天了 Zhao Gang is a mercenary. After dying unexpectedly during a mission, he transmigrates to another timeline in the Republican era, taking over the body of a foolish son from a landlord family in Jin Province. After obtaining the Martyr Resistance System, his fight against the Japanese begins. The Martyr Resistance System draws its power from various minerals and comes with an automated factory and a space of ten million square kilometers. It can be used not only to grow crops, but also to store al 785Reads6.2Score101Shelves
- 22 A Republican-Era Private 民国大头兵 These events all truly happened in history, and now they are replaying before your eyes. Pick up your weapon and fight like a true soldier. Everything you do comes from the most instinctive call within you. The protagonist, Ma Chenggong, transmigrates to the Republic of China era as a common soldier and fights the Japanese. 98Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 23 The Great Bandit of Guandong Mountain 关东山大匪 (Not a wish-fulfillment novel, not a wish-fulfillment novel, not a wish-fulfillment novel. No System, no transmigration, no superpowers.) We were originally a family of tenant farmers. During a famine, we joined the crowds heading east to seek a new life. My kindhearted mother even took in an orphan along the way, who later became my big sister. At last, after enduring natural disasters and man-made calamities, our boatload of fellow villagers reached this land of forests and mountains, where we 402Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 24 War of Resistance: From the Start, I Land a Critical Hit on a Japanese Bitch 抗战：开局暴击女八嘎 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Undercover in 1936: Call Me King of Hell Ning 谍战1936：请叫我宁阎王 Straight-laced version: Ning Yan is reborn, back in 1936 Nanjing, as a student at the Army Officer Academy. It is assignment season, and through a twist of fate, Ning Yan saves a Japanese member of the Communist Party and obtains an identity badge. From then on, he joins the Military Statistics Bureau, assumes the identity of Ito Hirobumi, and launches the Cuckoo Plan! Bearing the hopes of the Ito family’s revival, he undertakes a decades-long infiltration deep in enemy territory. The Military S 95Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 26 Blood and Gunpowder: Fourteen Years of Resistance 铁血硝烟之抗战14年 Special forces soldier Lin Aofeng transmigrates back to China during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Drawing on his special forces expertise, he trains ordinary soldiers into a formidable force that strikes fear into the enemy. His knowledge of the war's history also lets him anticipate the Japanese invaders' movements with ease. He avoids strongholds and attacks weak points, launches surprise raids and harassment operations, and strikes down enemy leaders behind their lines. His troops are 193Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 27 Bright Sword: An Eight-Year-Old Patriarch Leads a Gang to Fight the Japanese 亮剑：八岁小太爷组团打鬼子 Wang Ye transmigrates into Bright Sword. To stop the Japanese from breaking through the flank at Cangyun Ridge and launching a surprise attack on Li Yunlong, he has no choice but to lead the children’s corps into battle. At the critical moment, the System comes online right on time. Wang Ye looks at the learning System and feels his heart sink. I’m in the middle of a war. What good is a learning System going to do me? System: Infantry, artillery, tank crews, pilots... Kill Japanese soldiers, and 2.8kReads8.7Score147Shelves
- 28 War of Resistance: The Infrastructure Maniac Connects Two Worlds 抗战：基建狂魔链接两界 Chen Yu, a hapless construction engineer from another space-time, suddenly awakened a Space-Time Construction Engineering System, which appointed him project manager for space-time construction projects. The System can take its Host, his team, and the infrastructure materials required by their plans to another space-time, where they can carry out construction. 10Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 29 One Man's Flames of War 一个人的烽火 Chosen for no apparent reason and sent for no apparent reason through numerous FPS games, he thought clearing them all would let him return to reality. Instead, he arrived in a tragic, heroic era teeming with legends. Just what kind of whirlwind will this little butterfly stir up? The golden finger is only a supporting tool + decisive and ruthless + mildly comedic + one female lead 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Wugui Pavilion: I Became the Head of an Assassin Organization 无回阁：成为杀手组织阁主 [Low-profile System + strong female lead + no CP + historical strategy + assassin organization] Shen Luo transmigrates into a parallel world as an orphan named Yan Luoyue. After awakening an assassin System, she establishes the world’s greatest assassin organization from the start: No Return Pavilion. She also creates No Return Teahouse, an intelligence network that “surveys the past and present, and knows all there is to know under heaven.” Everything in the world is under No Return Pavilion’s 899Reads—Score101Shelves
- 31 The Great Powers: This Warlord Is Not to Be Messed With 列强：这个军阀惹不起 “Army Group A: 1.8 million soldiers.” “Army Group B: 1.5 million soldiers.” “Army Group C: 1.3 million soldiers.” The great powers: Give us back our homeland. 8Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 32 I'm a Deserter: My War of Resistance 我是逃兵我的抗战 His soul transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking soldier, while his own soul comes from his previous life. He was basically good for nothing, and when he is suddenly reborn, he is afraid of hardship. Separated from his unit, he becomes a deserter who is as good as dead, yet somehow still alive. Because he knows how history unfolds, he spends the early days hiding and running for his life. Through a twist of fate, he ends up as an intelligence agent for the Nationalists. With no connections —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Glory Shines Bright, Starting with Bright Sword 荣耀从亮剑开始闪光 [Even a shooting star should blaze with dazzling light] [A different take on Bright Sword, with a different perspective] I long for a life full of passion and fire, transmigrating through a hail of bullets... I love thunderous battles and refuse to waste away in an ordinary life... I pursue justice and righteousness, where glory is everywhere... {Updates are slow, so please consider the story carefully. Thanks for your support!} 313Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 34 From the Start, I Merged with Yan Shuangying and Tore Through the Espionage World 开局融合燕双鹰，我把谍战杀穿了 [Spy thriller + System + feel-good power fantasy + high ratings + a veteran author with ten million words who never leaves a story unfinished] Shen Qingshan accidentally transmigrates to the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China and becomes cannon fodder in the Lixing Society's action squad. Just as he hesitates over whether to run for it, he gains all of Yan Shuangying's abilities. From then on, his fate is in his own hands, not Heaven's! 382Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 35 Espionage: A Flirt? I'm the Ultimate Agent! 谍战：花心萝卜？我是最强特工！ [Spy drama: Lurk] + [Triple agent] + [Rewrite the ending] + [Awakened System] In the final days of the War of Resistance. The transmigrator and underground Party member Chen Shen infiltrates the Military Statistics Bureau’s training class, becomes brothers with Ming Tai, and develops feelings for Yu Manli. His exceptional abilities also lead Poison Bee Wang Tianfeng to call him a natural-born agent! Then, on orders from the Bureau Chief and Sixth Brother, he heads to Shanghai, impersonates the t 165Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 36 Reborn in Another World: Becoming an SSS-Rank Assassin 重生异界：成为SSS级杀手 [Decisive and ruthless + do-gooders, stay away + no heroine] Long Hao, an assassin on a mission, was betrayed by his superior and killed. By chance, he was reborn on another world’s continent. This was a land filled with powerful warriors. The very strongest could split mountains and rivers and tear through the void! Just as Long Hao thought he was destined to live an ordinary life, a voice rang out in his mind. “Assassin System binding successful!” “Mission issued: Assassinate the ancestor of t 73Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 37 The Assassin's Guide to Immortality 杀手好修仙 This is not an invincible-protagonist story. The first volume focuses on cultivation. Having just arrived in a cultivation world, the protagonist has to be cautious at every turn. If he can’t win, he runs. 1.9kReads8.7Score122Shelves
- 38 Reborn in 1931: To Hell with Dying for the Cause 重生九一八，滚犊子的挺身成仁 Rousing battles + airtight logic + no mindless wish fulfillment + a little golden finger The September 18 Incident: a wound that will never heal for the Chinese people. Xu Feng, a modern special forces soldier, transmigrates into the body of a company commander in the Northeast Army's Beidaying barracks in Shenyang, a man who had been poisoned to death. “What do you mean, ‘Don't resist. Let us all sacrifice ourselves with dignity!’?” To hell with that! Xu Feng and his company fire the first shot 231Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Espionage: I Ran Amok in the Juntong 谍战：我在军统杀疯了 [Invisibility + pocket dimension + ruthless decisiveness + sharp intellect + steady growth] He is the most inconspicuous nobody at the bottom of the Juntong, and no one knows his true identity. Ordered to infiltrate the Japanese and puppet secret service agencies, he spends every day outwitting the enemy to obtain intelligence, dancing on the edge of a blade. He is also an elusive master assassin who never shows mercy to his enemies. He eliminates traitors and kills Japanese invaders. Known as t 4.4kReads6.6Score230Shelves
- 40 My Sister Is a Warlord’s Concubine 我姐姐是军阀姨太太 Reborn in a parallel version of the Beiyang era, my elder sister is the beloved Fourth Concubine of Marshal Lu, the King of the Northwest. As a transmigrator, Ye Shiguan enters the marshal’s residence thanks to his sister. He then unexpectedly awakens a Military System, bringing him artillery, rocket forces, special forces, aircraft carriers, and stealth fighters one after another... In this life, he is determined to revitalize Yan Hua and bring an end to the age of chaos! From the countryside t 19Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 41 The Extraordinary Agent 非凡特工 He's lost his memory. His origins are unknown, his past a mystery, and he's broke in an unfamiliar city, with no choice but to haul bricks for a living. While earning enough to get by, he also tries to recover his memories! But by sheer chance, he ends up as a temp at a special affairs agency, where he's forced to play all kinds of roles. As his memories slowly return, he discovers that his background conceals a shocking conspiracy! 4.6kReads8.8Score445Shelves
- 42 War of Resistance: The Rise of a Young Man 抗战之少年的崛起 [Transmigration] + [System-driven] + [Slow burn] + Slow pace early on (Brain parking lot d(ŐдŐ๑)) Zhao Shao lives in peaceful times and is a university student. He happily starts college, thinking he can finally enjoy a safe and happy life. As it turns out, he really does. During a class on modern Chinese history, he pays tribute to the martyrs and says, “If I took part in this war, maybe my superior knowledge could help change its course as much as possible.” So he writes down a vow: If I ever 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 War of Resistance: Three Robot Dogs from the Start. How Could I Lose? 抗战：开局三条机器狗，怎么输？ Zhang Mu was an orphan in the modern era. After graduating, he won five million yuan in a lottery and donated it to the kindergarten that had raised him. That act earned him a chance to be reborn in the War of Resistance era. When he arrived in northwestern Shanxi, he opened the beginner's gift pack and got three robotic dogs. Throwing his head back, he laughed, "Ha ha ha! From now on, I'll recite the Cyber Sutra and tap my electronic wooden fish. Tell me, Heavens, how could I possibly lose?" Ye 3Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 44 Espionage: The Ultimate Undercover Agent, Night Hawk of the Military Intelligence Bureau 谍战：最牛潜伏，军统夜鹰 [Original Characters + Intelligence + Assassinations + Sweeping Through Shanghai’s Foreign Concessions] Zhao Haifan transmigrates to Shanghai during the isolated-island era and becomes a Juntong agent, codename Night Hawk... The story strives for realism, and most characters are based on historical figures. The ten great female agents of Juntong, the ten female fiends of the 76th, and the Imperial Flowers of Japan’s Tokko. A heroine who supplies the Nationalist Army with vital resources. Chinese 8Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 45 War of Resistance: I Conquer with Eight Hundred Battle Spirits 抗战：我，靠八百战魂称霸 Independent development, founding a nation overseas + snow leopards + the three iron pillars of northwest Shanxi + a global perspective + naval and aerial warfare, Tactical simulations and strategic planning. The cheat is modest, and the Battle-Soul Warriors are capped at 800. 279Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 46 War of Resistance: Sniping Through the Flames of 1937 抗战：1937烽火狙击 Synopsis: In 1937, by the Marco Polo Bridge, the land was shattered and the nation faced disaster! The Japanese invaders advanced relentlessly, and Beiping stood on the brink of falling! Liu Ziye, China’s finest sniper, returns without hesitation at this moment of national peril. With a lone city as his battlefield, he vows to fight the invaders to the bitter end! No supplies. No reinforcements. Only the rifle in his hands and a heart burning with patriotism! From the streets and alleyways to t 350Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 47 War of Resistance: The Independent Field Regiment 抗战之野战独立团 Li Hongyang was an outstanding special forces soldier in the Lone Wolf Special Operations Brigade of the Southeast Military Region of the Republic of Huaxia. Patriotic and merciless toward the Japanese, he was decisive and rebellious, and familiar with all kinds of military skills. During a mission in South Africa, terrorists destroyed his vehicle with a rocket launcher, killing him. His soul then transmigrated into the body of one of dozens of prisoners captured by Japanese troops in 1938. It w 838Reads5.6Score100Shelves
- 48 Anti-Japanese War: The Special Forces' Ace, Old Six 抗日之特战军神王牌老六 Warrior king Wu Liu transmigrates to the blood-soaked battlefield of the War of Resistance against Japan, becoming Old Six, a man who delivers sesame flatbreads to the front lines. “So what if I'm Old Six? Old Six is the ace!” “To fight the Japanese, you ought to use Old Six's methods. Wipe them out!”... 2.6kReads8.3Score148Shelves
- 49 Fighting the Japanese: From the Start, I Had a Dog 抗日之开局一条狗 (This book includes content from films and TV series such as Cliff, Above the Cliff, and Razor.) Zheng Jingren somehow transmigrated to Northeast China during the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and successfully activated the System. Its principle was simple: as long as you had money, anything could be achieved. From then on, the vast forests and mountains of Northeast China became the invaders’ graveyard, and Zheng Jingren became their nightmare. I have nothing against the Japanese. I believ 430Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 50 Hunter of Shanghai 上海滩猎人 Chen Ke transmigrates into a world where espionage stories converge and gains a Spy-Hunting System. Report to the Chairman: Members of the Shanghai Black Dragon Society are disappearing one after another. Report to General Toihara: Our agents hidden in Shanghai have gone missing. 65Reads5.4Score—Shelves
