Novels like I Dare Not Dream of Chang'an in This Fleeting Life
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- 51 Espionage: I Became the Biggest Secret Agent 谍战：我成了最大的特务头子 In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic, Xie Yanlai transmigrated back to Beiping. As a Whampoa Military Academy graduate assigned to reinforce the Beiping branch, he foiled Major Ishikawa of the Special Higher Police's plot to buy off Beiping's political leaders within half a month, breaking the record for the fastest promotion of a Whampoa graduate. A month later, he took down the North China Army's secret treasury. Three months later... Xie Yanlai was able to repeatedly earn outstanding mer 3.5kReads8.8Score33014d adds
- 52 Espionage: I Accidentally Became the Head of a Military Intelligence Bureau Station 谍战：我一不小心成了军统站长 No one knows his name, but his achievements will never be forgotten! Others who go undercover become objects of suspicion. When he goes undercover, he suspects everyone else! He is a military intelligence station chief, a traitorous secret agent, and a steadfast Communist Party member, all at once. Through a twist of fate, he infiltrates the Japanese puppet regime's secret service bureau. Three identities, one conviction: to fight the War of Resistance to the very end! 16.5kReads8.9Score99214d adds
- 53 Taking Pinduoduo to 40 带着拼夕夕在40 [Farming + Infrastructure Development + Beloved by All + War of Resistance Against Japan] She woke up in the 1940s, with a Pinduoduo System? An Yu thought for a second, then decided to come clean: “I’m from the future, and I have a golden finger.” Canned luncheon meat, work boots, motorized tricycles... Fertilizer, canned luncheon meat, military coats... If Pinduoduo sells it, you can get it here! This time, she absolutely wouldn’t let their forebears fight the Japanese invaders on empty stomach 79.6kReads9.1Score12k14d adds
- 54 Transmigrated Into a 1940s Book: From the Start, It's Just Me, My Little Sister, and a Baby Fleeing for Our Lives 穿书四零：开局就剩妹妹带娃逃命 High school student Jiang Jiyun was innocently caught in the crossfire while watching an incident out of curiosity, then transmigrated to an era torn apart by war. It was the setting of a historical novel she had read, where she became a nameless passerby who was killed off without ever appearing in the story. From the start, Japanese soldiers swept through the countryside, massacring the entire village. After burying the original owner’s mother, Jiang Jiyun set out with the child entrusted to h 14.3kReads9.1Score98614d adds
- 55 1938: From the Start, It's Hell 1938：开局地狱 Patriotic tale + wartime resistance and espionage + multiple identities + strong female lead + System + no romance After Kong Qianrou dies by accident, she transmigrates to the Republican era. She knows how to choose between dying right away or waiting a little longer to die. Looking at a land torn apart, she wears an innocent expression as she takes up the butcher's blade, becoming someone who strikes terror into the Japanese. On the outside, the protagonist is a Republican-era Lin Daiyu. In re 17kReads9.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 56 Espionage: Body in Cao's Camp, Heart with Han 谍战：身在曹营心在汉 Long Yan transmigrated, and woke up in the body of a Japanese man. And one with a little royal blood, at that. He swore to the heavens that even if he was wearing a Japanese man's skin, he would defend the land of China to his dying breath! A fake Qiu Chan is in mortal danger? Long Yan says with a serious look, “Comrade, I’m Qiu Chan! I’ll cover you, so hurry and run!” The real Qiu Chan, whose identity has been stolen, is completely dumbfounded? Ye Chong raises his hand and shoots someone dead 604Reads9.4Score10014d adds
- 57 Republican Era: The Last of the Jianghu 民国：最后的江湖 From an outlaw to a high-ranking general in the Republic of China, then into the War of Resistance against Japan, he walks the loneliest path of all. He seeks no place in the history books, only for the land and rivers to bear witness: on this black soil, there will always be those who refuse to kneel! (Xiang Bei, formerly known by the pen name Lao Zei) 32.5kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 58 Espionage: 2,000 Deaths from the Start 谍战：开局死亡两千次 Xie Shu, male, formerly an Olympic shooting champion in the twenty-first century. One day, he kills himself and wakes up in 1940. Reason: Unknown. Identity: Unknown. Status: Being buried alive. Xie Shu: ...What a disastrous start! The good news: He gains the ability to rewind time whenever he dies. The bad news: He wakes up at a live burial site and has to die two thousand times before he escapes. While helping a passing guerrilla unit complete its mission, he somehow ends up as the illegitimat 38.4kReads9.3Score5.7k14d adds
- 59 Spy War: Only I Can Eavesdrop on People's Thoughts 谍战，只有我能偷听心声 [Not a formulaic spy thriller. A feel-good story about growth, with an original plot. If you don’t like it, don’t argue.] In 1931, as the War of Resistance was about to break out, under pressure from the situation on all sides, Dai Yunnong traveled to Beiping in person to establish an intelligence network in the three northeastern provinces. Who could have guessed that the secret would leak? The three spy teams sent into the region were exposed, and all thirty Huangpu Academy elites were wiped o 37.5kReads9.0Score5.5k14d adds
- 60 Transmigrating into a Spy War: My Codename Is God of Wealth 穿越谍战，我的代号是财神 [Espionage + Political Intrigue + Undercover Agent + Supply Trading + The Ultimate Power Fantasy = A Must-Read] Chen Yang, a disposable agent from the Fuxing Society's military training brigade, is ordered to infiltrate Shanghai and gather intelligence. By chance, he gets into a collaborationist Japanese agency and is put in charge of transportation. To better conceal his identity, Chen Yang puts the art of trading money and sex, perfected in a later era, to good use. He conspires with logist 2.2kReads9.3Score26914d adds
- 61 Espionage: From the Start, I Could Hear People's Thoughts and Expose Japanese Spies 谍战：开局偷听心声，识破日谍 Su Mu wakes up one morning and finds he has transmigrated to the Republic of China, becoming a low-ranking agent for the Military Statistics Bureau! Just as he’s losing hope, he gains the ability to read people’s thoughts! Agent at No. 76: Damn it, how did our secret plan to arrest the deputy chief of the Military Statistics Bureau get leaked? Chief of the Special Services Section: Damn it, who exposed the top-secret agent infiltrating Mountain City? I’ll kill him! Headquarters of the Plum Bloss 65.3kReads8.8Score5.1k14d adds
- 62 Quick Transmigration: We Fought to the Death Back Then, Now We Set Sail Again 快穿：当年死战，又是扬帆起航 [No CP] [Some worlds involve taking down scumbags] [Patriotic themes] [Big-picture perspective] [Ancestors transmigrate] [Healing] [Many worlds, but may our country always know peace and prosperity] [Personal growth] Lu Zhou was a young soldier who died in battle. All she saw was the shining Five-Star Red Flag. The world comes in a thousand colors, but she loves only one shade of red. World One: The villainous rich girl at an elite school? A spoiled rich kid with nothing to do? No problem. All o 7.2kReads9.3Score65614d adds
- 63 Transmigrating to Republican-Era China: The Spy Enters the Game 穿越民国：谍影入局 Transmigration to the Republic of China era + resistance-war espionage + multiple identities + spies within spies + mutual devotion (Main story complete, bonus chapters in progress) One day, Lin Ruotang suddenly transmigrated to the Republic of China era. She wasn’t a young lady from a wealthy family, a concubine, or a schoolgirl. She was a refugee who had nearly starved to death. She had barely transmigrated before she was on the brink of starvation. Luckily, a kind stranger gave her a sesame f 23.5kReads9.2Score2.6k14d adds
- 64 The Everyman’s Rise to Greatness Through Quick Transmigration 快穿之路人甲奋斗成大佬 [No Romance + Quick Transmigration + Gender-Flexible Protagonist + Building a Strong Nation] When Shui Miao (Si Shui) was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, she encountered Shi Lei (Rock), a hapless passerby A System. They signed a contract and began traveling through myriad worlds. The protagonist has no plot armor or golden finger (probably). Each transmigration is a life of its own. I’ll do my best to avoid simplistic writing, so please go easy on me. Quick Transmigration World One: Money 35.6kReads9.2Score2.8k14d adds
- 65 Espionage: I Can Earn Rewards by Playing the Villain! 谍战：我当恶霸能爆奖励！ After transmigrating into a minor secret agent at Beiping Station, he unexpectedly awakened the Tyrant System!! As long as the System judges something to be bad behavior, he gets a reward! Kidnap a dog traitor and torture him for information. Ding! For using serious violence against another person, reward: the Japanese devils’ top-secret military intelligence! Lin Ze: ??? Beating up traitors counts too? “Mrs. Miyamoto, I have a new assignment for you!” Ding! For coercing an innocent young woman, 171kReads9.4Score15.5k14d adds
- 66 After His Wife Divorces Him, the Warlord Goes Gray Overnight 夫人离婚后，军阀大佬一夜白头 The short drama of the same name, “Qi Mi,” is available by searching on Tomato. Ning Zhen is forced to marry the warlord Sheng Changyu. Sheng Changyu has a beloved first love, as well as two concubines, and the Sheng household is rife with danger. Ning Zhen is a young heiress who has returned from studying abroad. She can’t adapt to the infighting in the household, and everyone is waiting to see her make a fool of herself. Less than three years later, just as everyone predicted, Ning Zhen wants 78.3kReads9.5Score9k14d adds
- 67 I Got the Villainess Script, and Now I'm Terrifyingly Unhinged 手拿恶女剧本，我现在癫的可怕 [Quick Transmigration] + [No Romance] In her previous life, Pei Ling passed the civil service exams and worked diligently her way up from the grassroots to a senior provincial position, sweeping out organized crime and cracking down on every kind of illegal activity. She was upright to the core. Then she entered a Quick Transmigration world and was handed the script of a villainess: a born bad seed who did every evil under the sun, so terrifyingly powerful that the protagonists could only scrape 33.2kReads9.0Score3.9k14d adds
- 68 After a Mad NPC Set Its Sights on Me, I Took Control 被疯批NPC盯上后，我直接拿捏 [Female lead grows over time] [Male lead is thoroughly rotten] [One-and-only relationships] [Games include survival, horror, and rule-based mysteries…] A strange bus travels through time and space, crossing into another dimension… Jiang Song never imagined that her life as an overworked office drone would end on the day she finally clocked out. To survive the terrifying games, she must complete every mission without making a single mistake. The games are already perilous, but then an NPC s 35.5kReads9.3Score4.6k14d adds
- 69 The Spy's Daily Life After the System Dumped Me in Republican-Era China 【被系统坑到民国的】间谍日常 An ordinary office worker gets a System, but before she can enjoy any of its benefits, it dumps her into a parallel-world version of Republican-era China. That's where her life as a spy begins. From an ordinary field operative to an undercover agent, from a regular spy to a triple agent, she goes from reluctant to willing, writing her own legend in the great metropolis of Shanghai... Check out the new book next door: The Village Girl, the Grand Diviner, also known as After Getting a Puppet Space 46.6kReads9.5Score4.9k14d adds
- 70 The Little Spy's Rise to Power 谍战小特务的逆袭 He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation... 185.4kReads9.5Score20.4k14d adds
