Novels like I Was Born a Commoner
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- 51 I Became the Wanli Emperor's Crown Prince, So Whoever Wants the Red Pill Can Eat It 穿成万历太子，这红丸谁爱吃谁吃 Reborn as an emperor who has only been on the throne for a month, he faces the Palace Coup and the Red Pill Incident, with treacherous officials within and bandits without. From crown prince to emperor, he plans every step. Great Ming, are you ready to welcome your Emperor Taichang? Nurhaci, are you ready to be put through the wringer? 7.4kReads7.3Score537Shelves
- 52 The Ning Empire's Army 长宁帝军 This world is divided among hundreds of countries, large and small. When it comes to warfare on land, the Ning Kingdom is virtually invincible. Its fierce armies, drawn from the four frontiers and four arsenals, sweep across the realm. Wherever the land stretches, Ning's banners can be planted. But beyond the sea, where its armies cannot reach, there are always those who refuse to submit. And so a young man took up his blade and halberd, and crossed the sea on a single reed. 488Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 53 My Lord, It's Cold. Put on a Yellow Robe! 大人，天冷了加件黄袍吧！ Zhou Yi transmigrated to an ancient dynasty. As a transmigrator, he didn’t do anything particularly momentous. He simply made sure the laborers conscripted to repair the city walls got steaming bowls of rice porridge with pickled mustard greens every day, and that the border troops could enjoy braised beef noodles and pickled cabbage noodles. He also expanded the territory by a thousand li and captured the invading Xiongnu Chanyu along the way. Zhou Yi never imagined that his subordinates would 34.8kReads8.7Score3.1kShelves
- 54 The Tiger of the Generals’ Clan 将门枭虎 A mercenary transmigrates to the Great Chu Empire and becomes Wu Nian, a soldier registered to a hundred-household post. His family is so poor they can barely scrape by, and he has a child bride whom his predecessor beat every day. The Mongols to the north are growing stronger and raiding farther south with increasing frequency. The Great Chu Empire is on the brink of collapse. 11.1kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves
- 55 Chongzhen: My Life Has Been on Thin Ice 崇祯：我这一生如履薄冰 (An immersive experience of Zhu Youjian's life and the true nature of the chaos at the end of the Ming dynasty! Not a power fantasy!) At the end of the thirty-eighth year of the Wanli reign, a report that Liaodong postal couriers had frozen to death was being used by a eunuch to prop up a table leg. The rice wasted at banquets by wealthy gentry in Jiangnan was worth more than three years of disaster relief in Shaanxi. Nanmu timber for the construction of the three great halls in the Forbidden Ci 668Reads6.4Score103Shelves
- 56 A God of Slaughter from the Start: Why Is the Emperor Rebelling? 开局成杀神，陛下为何造反？ Framed, reduced to slave status, and sent off to serve in the army. Fine, fine. So that’s how you want to play? Then what can you do when I pull out my Godslayer System? Why should those high officials in court be allowed to lord it over everyone else? I’ll take up my butcher’s knife and carve my way through this chaotic age! “Host has slain an elite enemy and gained 1,000 experience points.” “Host has achieved the Thousand-Kill milestone and received a reward: Eight Hundred White Snow Dra 32.8kReads8.3Score2.7kShelves
- 57 The Little Sunshine Is Selfish and Sharp-Tongued 小太阳她自私又毒舌 The Little Sun Is Selfish and Sharp-Tongued 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Fierce Heir: This Young Lady Is Mine 世子凶猛：这个小娘子，我抢定了 Original novel of the short drama “The Heir Is Fierce: I’m Claiming This Young Lady” One moment he opens his eyes, and he’s in Great Yan. Yang Shu is quite pleased with his identity: the sole heir of the Prince of Dingguo’s household. The emperor suspects him and the noble families shun him, but that’s no big deal. He’ll just rebel. If you’re going to be a spoiled young master, you have to act like one. First, beat up your future father-in-law... Second, smash up a gambling den... And third, sna 13.7kReads8.5Score851Shelves
- 59 The Prodigal Son of Great Zhou 大周败家子 [The author has completed works totaling over one million words, so you can trust their track record] Just as Shen Yi was about to reach the peak of his life, an accident brought him to a completely different world, where he became a notorious... spendthrift! With five thousand years of culture at his back and a treasury of scientific knowledge in hand, he might not unify the world in this life, but surely he could at least become the richest man alive, right? Shen Yi excitedly imagined the futu 1.4kReads9.1Score235Shelves
- 60 The Song Dynasty's Greatest Warrior 大宋第一武夫 Di Qing, the great general of the Song dynasty: What fearsome might he showed on the battlefield! What glorious deeds he accomplished! Yet he lived in constant terror, unable to find peace, and died in fear! The Song dynasty's troubles are close at hand. Someone has to turn the tables! Di Yong has arrived to change everything! Ouyang Xiu, Bao Zheng, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Zeng Gong, Su Shi, Su Zhe... This is the flourishing age of the Song. Ride down the Tanguts, crush the Khitan, subdue the Ju 14.8kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
- 61 Secrets of the Three Kingdoms: The Truth Behind Zhuge Liang's Downfall of Li Yan 三国机密：诸葛亮废李严的真相 The Hidden Truth of the Three Kingdoms: Why Zhuge Liang Stripped Li Yan of His Power 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 A Fearsome Man in Commoner's Clothes 布衣凶猛 [War + Passion + History] “Mu, do you want a wife? Just say the word and I’ll bring one to you in a bit.” A streetwise young rascal crosses paths with a rich girl fleeing disaster. I transmigrated into a chaotic age. Armed with blades, bows, and horses, I’ll protect my family and keep us alive. 5.7kReads8.8Score570Shelves
- 63 Reborn, Yet Still Unable to Escape That Freak 重生了还是摆脱不了那个变态 Even After Being Reborn, I Still Can’t Get Away from That Freak 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 I Simulated Helping the Empress, Got Rejected, and Became a Traitor 模拟想辅佐女帝被拒成为乱臣贼子 After three straight days of grinding away at the game Empress Development Plan, Wu Xin died suddenly and transmigrated, only to become a refugee who had to rely on government relief to get by. But at least there was one consolation: the game had transmigrated with him, giving him something to enjoy in his spare time. 2.6kReads8.3Score240Shelves
- 65 The Misadventures of a Cultivator 苦逼修仙传 Unable to visit a brothel, unable to die, he unexpectedly obtains a useless immortal artifact: "Young man! From this day forward, you will defy fate, crush every genius in your path, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life!!" From martial arts to qinggong, internal arts, heart sutras, flying on swords, riding dragons and treading on jiaolong, spiritual power, immortal arts... Not an invincible protagonist story, not mindless, not a System story, mostly lighthearted and f 1.1kReads—Score105Shelves
- 66 Madness Is Great: I'm a Medicine Vessel from the Start! 癫点好啊：开局就是药人圣体！ [Fantasy Brainstorming] [Unhinged] [Unorthodox Cultivation] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Shameless] While everyone else transmigrates and gets to be a genius from the start, he transmigrates into the cultivation world's biggest pyramid scheme: the Myriad Medicine Sect. Here, every disciple is short-lived, the elders are leading the charge in going crazy, and the slogan is, "Cultivate with pills, reach the top of the world." Just as he's about to grab his bucket and run, the System awakens. He sw 221Reads—Score153Shelves
- 67 In an Apocalypse Prison, I Train Goddesses Into Warriors 末世监狱，将女神驯服成战士 My name is Zhao Linyu. Before the apocalypse, I was a low-ranking prison guard. After it began, I awakened a System, and now I manage a base with more than 3,000 people. My daily routine: an AI nags me into going to all sorts of places to rescue beautiful women: universities, hospitals, film studios, research institutes. It's like collecting stamps. My problem: the women always want to rebel when they first arrive. The professors talk to me about human rights, the celebrities talk to me about th 2.7kReads—Score219Shelves
- 68 The Fanfic I Wrote Actually Replaced the Original!? 我写的同人文竟然代替了原著！？ The fanfiction I wrote actually replaced the original work!? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Ruling the Realm 宰执天下 The ruler governs as prime minister; the executor administers the state. Serving the monarch above and bringing peace to the common people below, with all ministers yielding the way and receiving honors above every official: this is the prime minister. Assisting in government, setting national policy, and countersigning imperial edicts, second only to the prime minister: this is the chief administrator. After an air disaster, He Fang leaped a thousand years into the past, returning to the Northe 518Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 70 Dragon’s Roar in the Northern Frontier 朔北龙吟 Transmigrated into a frontier army scout, he found himself facing tens of thousands of Tiele cavalry from the start. A series of covert battles and mysteries unfolds around a royal secret: twenty years ago, someone tried to force the Grand Princess into marriage. The emperor enters the game himself, pitting his wits against all the powers at play. Schemes within schemes, plots within plots, each conspiracy linked to the next. See how the protagonist faces this treacherous crisis, growing from a 17kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
- 71 Better Than the Clouds 莫若凌霄 Tang Congxin, an art school reject, unexpectedly arrives in a world ruled by an empress and becomes a fallen imperial grandson whose life is hanging by a thread. But even an abandoned child can aspire to greatness. A fallen imperial grandson should rise like a dragon. If my grandfather could be emperor, and my grandmother could be empress, then I, an abandoned child, can do it too. 27.2kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
- 72 You Said We’d Focus on Technology, Yet You’ve Been Secretly Raising Dragons 说好拼科技，你们居然偷偷养龙 Qin Shi transmigrated into a dragon and handed himself over to the government so he could make a living. Just then, a secret realm appeared beyond the heavens, and the consciousness of Blue Star manifested, calling on every nation to explore it. Countries raced to develop high-tech weapons, while the Dragon Kingdom poured its resources into raising a dragon. On the day the secret realm opened, the other countries sent out high-tech weapons, including steel mechs, super soldiers, intelligent mach 265Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 73 What? That Kid Doesn’t Want to Inherit the Throne? 啥！那小子竟然不想继承帝位？ [No System + one heroine + passionate action + no saintly do-gooder + decisive and ruthless] A harsh, bitter fiefdom? Not a chance! Surrounded by wolves on every side? No, they’re merely whetstones for my blade. The winds of change rise again. With iron resolve and tender heart, watch as I ride the surging tide and protect you for a lifetime! At a single thought, heaven and earth change color. Smoke rises across a thousand miles, and ten thousand horses whinny in unison! 35.1kReads8.6Score53.3kShelves
- 74 What Do You Mean, Wicked Heiress? That’s How We’ll Always Love Her 什么恶毒千金，那是我们永远爱她的心 What do you mean, wicked heiress? That's the heart that will always love her. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Chip-Controlled, the Goddess Becomes My Maid 芯片控制，女神成为我的女仆 When an encrypted alien code is accidentally implanted in him, ordinary programmer Zhao Yunfeng becomes a target for elimination by the Kronos, a race of “time raiders.” In his darkest hour, ten extraordinary women implanted with “guardian chips” gather around him under a command they must obey absolutely, from an icy executive director to the daughter of a martial arts family, from a top-tier star to a genius hacker. The chips grant them unrivaled combat power, while also linking them through h 388Reads—Score160Shelves
- 76 EN Who Removed the Exit Button from My Xianxia Game? 谁把我仙侠游戏退出键扣了？ At first, I only wanted to create a fresh account for a holographic xianxia game... I had already selected the highest difficulty, simply to roll a better spiritual root and sell the account. But then... can someone tell me where the exit button is? Where did my enormous game exit button go? 366.2kReads8.5Score41.9kShelves
- 77 Heshen: Master of Power 和珅：权力的玩家 As a miniature reflection of the power structure during the Qianlong era, Heshen's life was forever entangled in the shadow of absolute imperial authority and the deep-rooted ills of the bureaucracy. From a penniless orphan living under another's roof in Lvrou Hutong to rising to the center of power through his gift for languages and financial acumen, his ascent was shaped by both the banner system and the emperor's political machinations. He was once a capable official who cleaned up the Minist 5.3kReads8.7Score407Shelves
- 78 We’ll Break Up Eventually. Who Are You Talking About? 迟早要分——你说谁？ We’re Bound to Break Up Sooner or Later, Who Are You Talking About? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 The Finest Crown Prince 极品太子爷 The original novel behind the hit short drama Crown Prince of Ancient Times. This hit web novel is also known as Crown Prince Regent. After transmigrating into the crown prince of Great Qin, I refuse to be a 996 wage slave in this life. I'll hold the power of the world in my waking hours and sleep in the embrace of beauties after a night of revelry. I'll execute treacherous ministers, destroy enemy kingdoms, and sail east to conquer Japan. The mighty authority of Great Qin will resound across 1.3kReads8.7Score266Shelves
- 80 This Road Leads Straight to the Azure Clouds 此去直上青云路 Li Yu, courtesy name Zixuan, originally named Shen Dakui, was from Shunqing Prefecture, Sichuan, and his ancestral home was Huangzhou Prefecture, Huguang. He ranked twenty-sixth in the second-tier examination in the second year of Xing'an. A politician, financier, firearms expert, hydraulic engineer, military strategist, educator, and more in the early years of the Dayong dynasty... Li Yu lost his father at an early age and followed his mother when she remarried Li Gang, the patrol inspector of 25.7kReads8.6Score2.4kShelves
- 81 Surviving the Ordeal 熬过劫难 First, be certain that you can reach the summit. Then believe this book can rewrite your fate, and believe in the power of belief. By the time you read this book, the identity you have now will already have begun to loosen its grip. The moment you choose to begin, you have already left mediocrity behind. Can my story help you find your own path to salvation? May words reveal the power they truly hold. 60.7kReads9.2Score12.7kShelves
- 82 A Thousand Faces in One Performance 一戏千面 Stabbed through the heart by the master he revered most from the start, I somehow survived! Instead, I transmigrated to another world and awakened the [Thousand-Faced Divine Core]! [Divine Core awakened. Illusory Disguise activated!] [Warning: This Divine Core is widely recognized as the most useless. It can only change your appearance and has no offensive power!] Good-for-nothing? With a B-rank ferocious beast chasing me, I panicked on the spot. [Activating: Illusory Disguise!] [60% of spiritua 470Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 It All Started with a Chili Pepper Trade 从辣椒交易开始 On modern-day Blue Star, in a coastal village in the southwest of Huaguo, the countryside was poor and remote but rich in produce. Chen An, 22, had graduated from high school and spent several years working away from home, but couldn’t make ends meet. He returned to his hometown to help his parents grow chili peppers. That year, they had a bumper crop, but buyers drove the price down to just a few cents per jin, and nobody wanted to buy them. Just as he sat worrying on the ridge between the fiel 3.5kReads6.2Score206Shelves
- 84 I'm Already the Lord of the Universe, and You're Still on Earth? 我都宇宙之主了，你们还在地球？ Xu Que awakens his golden finger and gains the ability to draw talents! Talent One: [Immortality] Gain one year of life every day, with no limit. Talent Two: [Heaven-Defying Insight] Gain one point of insight every day, with no limit. Talent Three: [Hundredfold Critical Hit] Your cultivation progress gets a hundredfold boost every day! Talent Four: [Your Life Is Mine] Kill someone and gain an extra life, with no limit. Talent Five: [I Carry a Healing Spring] Recover 1% of any injury every second 433.6kReads8.5Score51.8kShelves
- 85 The Cat-Paw Martial Heroine: Fleeing Her Way to the Top 三脚猫女侠，逃命成为天下第一 The Three-Legged Cat Swordswoman: Fleeing for Her Life to Become the Greatest Under Heaven 256Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 A Fleeting Moment 寸阴 [Infinite-loop adventure in the early stages + an intelligent villain + detailed supporting characters + haven't figured out the later stages yet ^_^] Urging someone to study medicine is a recipe for disaster! Even with a golden finger, you still can't overcome human nature! So let it go. Take off that white coat, as if shedding the shackles weighing you down, only to fall into a cycle, an apparently endless loop. Within the cycle of 2015, you uncover a shocking secret from hundreds of years ago 6.7kReads—Score535Shelves
- 87 The Emperor’s Favorite Minister? No, I’m Rebellious to the Bone! 皇帝宠臣？不，我一身反骨！ [Power Struggles] + [Political Scheming] + [High-Stakes Play] + [Not Mindless] The great clans grew powerful and took control of the imperial court. The emperor wanted to use me as a weapon to reclaim imperial authority, but he devised countless ways for me to die. Once he realized how useful I was, he even wanted to castrate me and turn me into a eunuch, so I could continue serving as his blade. The Left Chancellor, head of the great clans and a man of unfathomable depths, pointed to the fish 7.5kReads9.0Score714Shelves
- 88 My Wife Exposes My Secret Stash on Livestream, Shocking the World 老婆直播曝光我私房钱，震惊世界 Also known as: Oh No, I Can’t Keep My Secret Stash of Money Hidden Anymore [Urban life + livestream + sweet romance + doting love + tycoon] Su Bai married the campus goddess Lin Qianyu. After the wedding, Su Bai became a rideshare driver, while his wife stayed home as a full-time streamer. They’d been married for years, but every day still felt like dating. They were happy enough. Until one day, Lin Qianyu opened a tub of instant noodles and found it full of bright red 100-yuan bills. The viewer 1.5kReads8.7Score129Shelves
- 89 My Family Was Seized and Exiled: I Emptied the National Treasury and Fled the Famine! 抄家流放：我搬空国库去逃荒！ Just after transmigrating here, Yan Yun’s father, eldest brother, and second brother were beheaded at the border by the emperor on charges of plotting rebellion, because their achievements had become a threat to the throne! But in consideration of the three men’s illustrious military service, their family was spared. They escaped the death penalty, but couldn’t avoid punishment! The whole family, young and old, was exiled to a desolate land! Fine, exile us, then! But his eldest and second brothe 32.3kReads8.8Score2.8kShelves
- 90 Dual Transmigration: There Are Too Many Goddesses, So I Level Up at Lightning Speed 双穿：女神太多，我升级太快了 [System + Original Worlds + Multiple Female Characters + Lighthearted Power Fantasy] During his internship, Ye Kai is deliberately pushed out by his department supervisor and quits. But he unexpectedly binds to a System, setting off on a journey through multiple worlds. Apocalypse: A wealthy young lady trapped at home, terrified of zombies and starvation, is tossed a pack of food. Then she begs him to stay! From there, things get out of hand, and he meets more and more beautiful women in the apo 27.5kReads8.2Score2.9kShelves
- 91 Bearing the Five Turbidities, I Walk Through a Wicked Age 身负五浊，行于恶世 [Xuanhuan] [Superpowers] [Single Heroine] [Two Powerful Leads] [Pseudo-Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Slow Burn] “When you look back on your life, how would you define yourself?” In 2050, alien species invaded Blue Star. Led by the “Dream Masters” who had awakened their “Strange Eyes,” humanity raised the banner of resistance against the all-consuming tide. The Five Turbidities: the turbidity of kalpas, views, sentient beings, afflictions, and life. As you journey through this evil world of the Fiv 2.3kReads—Score230Shelves
- 92 After I Chose Divorce, My Wife Regretted It 我选择离婚后，老婆她悔疯了 After I Chose Divorce, My Wife Regretted It Too Late 290Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 After Graduating from a Top University, I Turned Around and Took a Security Job 从985名校出来，转头扎进保安岗 Graduated from a top-tier 985 university, then turned around and took a security guard job 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Wuxia Crossover: Starting as Dong Tianbao, I Become a Ruthless King 综武：开局董天宝，成为一代狠王 [This book is wild] + [Ruthless] + [Wulin] + [Court politics] + [Struggle for supremacy] + [Doesn't grovel to women] + [Schemer] + [Wuxia Crossover] Zhang Fan takes over Dong Tianbao's body from Tai Chi Master from the start. As luck would have it, he is reborn just as Zhang Sanfeng creates Taiji. Fortunately, he awakens the Ruthless King System. As long as he's ruthless enough, he can keep earning benefits from the System. [Ding! Host, you're ruthless enough. You killed y 26.1kReads8.5Score2.5kShelves
- 95 Shocking! The Prodigal Son’s Secret Stash Is Bigger Than the Imperial Treasury 震惊！逆子的私房钱比国库还多 [The short drama of the same name is now streaming. Dear supporters, sit back and enjoy!] After transmigrating, he became the young duke of the Zhen Guo household, despised by everyone. At first, he only wanted to make a little money, stay out of trouble, and live a carefree life. But once he became engaged, everything changed. The emperor wanted him to inherit the throne, and the chancellor's daughter refused to marry anyone but him. Tibet wanted his head, while the Liao Kingdom wanted him dead 14.8kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
- 96 What Are You Jealous About? 你醋什么？ What Are You Jealous About? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Reborn as a Tyrant in the Great Ming 重生大明当暴君 You think you can secretly collude with the Jian Nu and I won't know? You think you can conceal your commercial taxes and I won't know? The southeast is prosperous, while Shaanxi lies barren for a thousand miles, littered with the starving dead. The court's ministers care nothing for the people's lives or the fate of the realm. They suck the blood of the Great Ming and strip the flesh from its people! Even an ordinary man in a fit of rage can spill blood three feet high. But do you know what hap 17.2kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
- 98 Grab It! If You Don’t Snatch the Golden Finger, Who Will? 抢啊！金手指都不抢，要留给谁？ She is Daipa, the strongest shaman of the Black Miao tribe. She can divine the future and is skilled in poisons and gu magic. Her moods are unpredictable, and a pure black kitten is always at her side. She is Gu Qingcheng, a timid educated youth sent to the countryside after being set up. Someone schemed to make her take another woman’s place as a bride, and she lost her life as a result. She is Ma Xiaotiao, an older single woman whom her relatives think will never get married. She has been stuc 343Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Demon Lord Is Here to See His Junior Disciple Again. Quick, Shut the Door 魔尊又来找小师弟了，快关门 The Demon Lord Is Here to See Our Junior Brother Again. Quick, Shut the Door! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 You Want Me to Pretend to Be Your Boyfriend and Go Home? I'll Make the Act Real! 让我假装男友回家？我假戏真做！ [System] [Single heroine] [Urban] [Adorable kids] [The short drama based on this book is now online. The actresses are gorgeous, and the show looks even better than what I wrote. Feel free to check it out, and if you like it, remember to leave a like! _(:з"∠*)_] I saw through my childhood sweetheart, a money-hungry little green tea. Just then, my gorgeous, long-legged Northeastern best friend, whom I'd known for years, was being pressured by her family to get married. She asked me to go home wit 26.2kReads8.4Score1.7kShelves
