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- 1 Zhu Youjian, Who Only Knows How to Make Money 只会捞钱的朱由检 I'm a lunatic, and you want me to be emperor? But you can't make me Emperor Chongzhen, either! Fine. Since the organization has sent me here, I'll become emperor and show you what I can do. No money? Easy. We can borrow some. The land is crawling with refugees? Easy. Put them all to work. Not enough silver? Easy. We can print paper money. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. 166Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Hearts of Iron: I Save the Nation with a System in Late Ming 钢铁雄心：我在明末用系统救国 Zhang Ye opens his eyes to find himself a guard standing in front of Chongzhen, taking a blade for him. The moment the blade pierces his chest, the Late Ming Revival System activates. "Starter pack: one first-aid spray, ten jin of potato seeds." Clutching his wound, he kneels and petitions the emperor: "Your Majesty, give me three years, and I'll give you back a Ming dynasty forged in blood and iron!" When the court officials mock him for dreaming, Zhang Ye uses a steelmaking method traded from 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Transmigrating to the Late Ming: Did I Come With a Europa Universalis System? 穿越明末：自带欧陆风云系统？ [A satisfying System novel, but not brainless] + [Kill the Tartars] + [Redistribute the land and punish the landlords] + [Restore the Han] + [Fight the Qing with blood and iron] “Host transmigration detected. Checking information. Host: Wu Peilin of the Wu family, obsessed with the imperial examinations but lacking talent. Era: Late Ming Dynasty. Situation: The Jurchen raiders are invading the borders, rebel bands are rampaging, and the Ming Dynasty is in crisis! Region: Huang’an County, Huangzh 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 A City of Iron and Bone: Yan Yingyuan and the Eighty-One Days of Jiangyin 铁骨孤城：阎应元与江阴八十一日 Iron-Boned Fortress: Yan Yingyuan and the Eighty-One Days of Jiangyin 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Chongzhen: Building the World's Strongest Nation 崇祯：打造全球第一强国 Wang Xiaowei, a Peking University scholar with two postdoctoral degrees, wakes up as Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian. Facing a nightmarish situation from the start, he laughs. Internal strife and foreign threats? Just a list of bugs to fix! Corrupt officials? Watch me write an “Anti-Corruption Scan Program”! A rotten army? Quantify new recruits' training with KPIs, and tie their pay directly to performance! The civil officials tremble as they hold their “Job Responsibility Agreements.” “Your Majes 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Chongzhen Has Three Days Left Before He Hangs Himself, and All I Can Do Is Read People 崇祯还有三天上吊，而我只会看人 He spent eight years tightening screws on an assembly line, then dropped dead at his station. When he opened his eyes again, a gazette lay spread across the table, dated the sixteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. Three days later, Li Zicheng would breach Beijing. Seven days later, the Chongzhen Emperor would hang himself on Coal Hill. And his new identity was Zheng Sen, Zheng Zhilong’s son, a Fujianese provincial graduate in the capital to sit the metropolitan exa 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Great Ming Inspector 大明巡检 This is a slow-paced farming story. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip it. The protagonist, Li Zheng, farms, trains troops, and builds up his strength. The story spans from the Chongzhen era to the Southern Ming. He won’t fawn over Zhu or rebel. He’ll watch dynasties rise and fall, then ultimately claim the Central Plains. 102Reads6.9Score10014d adds
- 8 I Become the Chongzhen Emperor at the End of the Ming, and Just Want to Slack Off 明末成崇祯我只想摆烂 Zhu Youjian, a modern young man, worked late into the night for so long that he eventually died suddenly! By chance, he transmigrates to the end of the Ming Dynasty and becomes the Chongzhen Emperor. It is already the seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, just one month before the emperor is due to hang himself. Faced with internal strife and threats from abroad, Zhu Youjian declares that he can’t turn things around and just wants to lie flat. Heaven apparently can’t bear to see how dispirited 173Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Great Ming: My Brother Entrusted Me with His Heir, and I Changed My Fate at the End of the Dynasty 大明朝：皇兄托孤，我在明末改命 [Explosive Transmigration! Inheriting a Ming Dynasty on the Brink of Collapse from the Start] When a modern soul transmigrates into the Chongzhen Emperor, he has barely accepted his elder brother's dying charge to "rule like Yao and Shun" when he faces a triple death trap: Wei Zhongxian colluding with the enemy and plotting regicide, Later Jin's cavalry at the gates, and starving peasants in northern Shaanxi rising in revolt! Watch me use imperial statecraft to balance the Donglin faction and th 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Chongzhen Is Reborn, and I've Become Li Zicheng? 崇祯重生，朕成了李自成？ [No System] [Wits and Courage] [Not Mindless] [Revenge] [Villains with Brains] [Restore the Ming, Defeat the Qing] I am the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian! I hanged myself at Coal Hill, all hope lost. When I opened my eyes again, I had become Li Zicheng?! The throne is the same, but the realm is no longer the one I knew. In my previous life, I worked tirelessly day and night, yet ended up betrayed by everyone, with my country destroyed and my family dead. In this life, my soul inhabits a rebel. 25Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 11 The Late Ming Is Rife with Infighting, and I, the Young Marquis, Keep Making a Run for It 残明总内讧，小侯爷我总跑路 Reborn at the end of the Ming dynasty, the protagonist lives through the rebel army's capture of the capital and the extortion of officials, then joins the rebels in the Battle of Shanhai Pass. After their defeat, he flees with them, but following the Battle of Qingdu Mountain, he leaves the Great Shun and escapes all the way to Jiangnan. He takes part in the Sui Prefecture upheaval, the defense of Yangzhou, the training of troops in Jiading, the battle to relieve Jiangyin, the recapture of Taiw 177Reads5.7Score10014d adds
- 12 I Reveal the Fate of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang Falls Apart 我剧透大明国运，朱元璋心态崩了 [Ming Dynasty + Zhu Yuanzhang + Teaching Future Descendants a Lesson + Restoring the Nation’s Fortune + Building a Glorious Ming Dynasty] Yang Fan transmigrated back to the Ming dynasty and revealed the fate awaiting the dynasty. Yang Fan: “Empress Ma is going to die.” Zhu Yuanzhang: “How dare you spread such outrageous lies! I’ll chop your head off.” Yang Fan: “Your Zhu family produces all sorts of characters: a student who studied abroad with the Oirats, an animal keeper, a cultivator, a carpe 341Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 13 Mastering the Ming 控明 In the turbulent final years of the Ming, there are always heroes who turn the tide and tales that stir the soul. In this age of blood and fire, an ordinary man takes the stage, and an epic drama of empire and beauty begins… 525Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 14 Chronicle of the Eastern Ocean's Pacification 东洋伏波记 Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu… Like fish swimming upstream, the Japanese daimyo of the Warring States period devoted their lives to scheming, only to leave a few tiny ripples in the river of history. Zhu Mingliang, a modern man who transmigrated to the past, unexpectedly finds his fate intertwined with theirs and, before he knows it, becomes the protector of the Ming dynasty's interests in Japan. Japan is in a state of chaos, but to the high officials at the Ming court, 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Last Ruthless Man of Southern Ming 南明最后一个狠人 [No System + political intrigue + ruthless decisiveness + conquest and colonization + defying fate] Reborn at the end of the Ming, I became Wu Yingxiong, the ill-fated man destined to die in history? The most miserable Prince Consort of the Qing ever? No. I'm going to be the ruthless man who topples the Qing dynasty! In this chaotic age, I deserve to rule! Wu Chenxuan, a graduate student in Ming history, is struck by lightning and reborn as Wu Yingxiong, the Prince of Pingxi's heir who is about 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Transmigrating to the Late Ming as a Military Household: Survival as a Yingzhou Captain 穿越明末军户求生计颖州百户 The protagonist transmigrates through time to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty, becoming a military household. He struggles to survive amid the massive social upheaval of the late Ming, to endure an age when rites and music have fallen into ruin, and to find a way forward amid oppression and the whirlpool of competing powers. When simply going along with the course of history offers no chance of survival, he strives to rise up and fight for the people, for his family, his friends 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Reborn in Yongli's Body: I Restore the Realm with a Modern Mind 魂穿永历，我靠现代思维重整河山 [No System]➕ [High-IQ protagonist]➕ [Passionate]➕ [Conquest] When I transmigrated into the body of the Yongli Emperor, the Great Ming held only half its territory, and Qing cavalry had already crossed the Li River. My personal eunuch wept as he cried, “Your Majesty, wake up! The Tartars have crossed the Li River!” As I gazed at the cold jade seal in my arms, modern memories surged through my mind, colliding violently with the art of imperial intrigue. Using modern tactics, I laid an ambush at Mo 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Qing Dynasty Ends, the Ming Rises 终清覆明 [No System + Group Transmigration + Political Intrigue + Hard-Core Technical Focus + Decisive and Ruthless] Good news: The four-person team of Wang Xiang, Lin Mo, Qian Fei, and Wang Na has transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty with modern knowledge. Bad news: It's the first year of the Tianqi reign. They're deep in the mountains of Guizhou, the Ming Dynasty will fall in seventeen years, and the bandits right in front of them could kill them at any moment. They have no identities, no resources, and o 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 I, the Chongzhen Emperor of the Great Ming: Both Debonair and Domineering 朕！大明暴君崇祯，既风流也霸道 Ming dynasty + political intrigue + passionate action + ruthless killing + struggle for supremacy + romance + no System. “Chongzhen, off you go. I'll take care of your wife, children, and sisters-in-law. I'll quell the internal rebellion and crush our foreign enemies. I will make the Ming dynasty stand tall atop the world...” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Ming Dynasty Tutor: The Answers My Director and I Found in Troubled Times 大明辅导员：我和主任的乱世答卷 Setting: Mizhi, in the fourth year of the Chongzhen reign at the end of the Ming dynasty. Both the male and female leads transmigrate. No harem or womanizing; the heroine is no mere ornament, and the romance develops naturally. There is no System, and the golden finger is restrained. The protagonist struggles at every step. The story has over a hundred chapters so far: the protagonists have just broken out of Mizhi County, defeated Buzhan Ni, and become a local power entrenched around Mizhi, Jia 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Spy King of the Late Ming Saves the Empire 明末谍王挽天倾 I transmigrated to the first year of the Chongzhen reign and became the lowest-ranking banner officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. My predecessor was framed and killed for being too blunt. As for me, I came from the Night Owl unit of the National Security Bureau. At a glance, I could see that this imperial capital was riddled with vulnerabilities: The Shanxi merchants’ mule caravans were smuggling iron goods to Later Jin; The troupes in Jiangnan were hiding spies for the Donglin Party; Even —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Late Ming: My KPIs Will Save the Great Ming 明末：我的KPI拯救大明 A top modern management consultant transmigrates to the turbulent final years of the Ming dynasty, becoming a disgraced county magistrate awaiting his death. He sees the crumbling Great Ming as a corporation on the brink of bankruptcy, and saving it as the ultimate KPI he must achieve. From then on, a barrage of modern management strategies, from audit crackdowns and KPI assessments to currency wars and state-owned enterprise reform, slams into the corrupt old world. He must not only keep the Gr 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Ming Dynasty's Embroidered Uniform Guard: Shangguan Shen Lian and My Neighbor, Xi Yu 大明锦衣卫：上官沈炼，邻居细雨 A practitioner of traditional Chinese martial arts is reborn in the Ming Dynasty. From the start, he inherits the rank of Commandant in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. His immediate superior is Shen Lian, wielder of the Embroidered Spring Sabre. His neighbor is the Black Stone assassin Yu, also known as Zeng Jing. Fortunately, he activates the sign-in System. Otherwise, he might not have survived three chapters. What? The emperor fell into the water? The Director of Palace Affairs has been murder 39Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 24 Transmigrated as Zhu Yuanzhang: Rebuilding the Hongwu Dynasty 穿成朱元璋：重铸洪武 Programmer Zhang Ziyang was pressed against the wall of his rented apartment, eavesdropping on the couple next door. His hand trembled, his vision went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself before a dragon throne, dressed in a dragon robe, with Ming officials kneeling all around him. He had become Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, the Son of Heaven of the Great Ming. Before he could even celebrate, he learned something even more terrifying: it was the fifteenth year of Hon 34Reads—Score14814d adds
- 25 The Age of Heavenly Craft: Rising Amidst Chaos 天工纪元：乱世崛起 **He is the “Idle Prince,” a good-for-nothing in the eyes of the world.** Dressed in a plain robe and tapping a folding fan, he constantly declares, “All I want is to lie flat.” Zhu Mingyuan, a transmigrant bearing the name of the last scion of the Ming imperial house, seems to pass his days in lazy idleness, yet hides tiny gears and compasses capable of turning the world in his sleeve. The restraint he learned as an overworked office drone in his previous life, combined with the “Industrial Rev —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Revive the Ming Dynasty, Rebuild China 中兴大明，再造华夏 After transmigrating to the end of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yihuang becomes the heir to the Prince of Taixing. The Great Ming is like an elephant, being torn apart by the Mongols, Burma, the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the Western barbarians in turn. To survive, Zhu Yihuang has Qi Jin train his troops, fighting fire with fire. He defeats Lin Danhan of the Jianzhou Jurchens, appoints the Fengguo Commandants as new leaders, and raids Japan for money and provisions. He seizes money, supplies, and land in t 182Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 27 Late Ming Chongzhen: I Rule the World with a Panda! 明末崇祯：朕与熊猫共天下！ Ye Chen transmigrates to the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign at the end of the Ming Dynasty. When he wakes up, he’s a three-month-old panda cub, being cuddled like a pet by Princess Zhaoren! A desperate situation from the start: Li Zicheng’s forces are at the gates, and Chongzhen is slaughtering his way through the imperial harem with a sword. At this life-or-death moment, the Chaos Beast Evolution System activates! The beginner’s pack is maxed out, awakening the bloodline of the Chaos 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: I’m Back, and This Is No Joke! 崇祯十七年：朕回来不是搞笑的！ After transmigrating to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, he finds bandits rising on all sides, the Tartars eyeing the border passes, corrupt officials running rampant at court, and the Ming dynasty teetering in the storm. He wakes to find that Zhu Youjian has turned the tide of despair. In his previous life, he worked tirelessly as a diligent ruler, only to see his country fall and himself die. This time, he has finally let go of that burden and refuses to repeat the same tragic path! 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Great Ming: Fourth Brother, You Transmigrated Too? 大明：老四你怎么也穿越了 At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang opens his eyes and discovers that he has transmigrated into the body of his descendant, Chongzhen. By now, rebel forces have already broken into the capital. Looking at the rotten Ming Dynasty on the brink of collapse, furious Old Zhu declares, “I’m joining the rebels!” Overthrow the old Ming and build a new one! While Old Zhu works to establish his power in the north, far to the south, a prince opens his eyes: Emperor Yongle 169Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 30 The Assassin Emperor Chongzhen 杀手崇祯 In his previous life, he was an elite special forces soldier known as the Nation’s Hidden Blade. After retiring, he became the number-zero assassin of an organization, codename Zero, ranked first on the world’s assassin list. During his final mission, his employer betrayed him. An explosion sent him transmigrating into the body of the newly enthroned Chongzhen Emperor... Chongzhen took the opposite approach, arranging the assassinations of Wang Tichen, Qian Qianyi, and other eunuch faction and D 6Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 31 The Vastness of the End Times 末明其渺 The late Ming era was rife with natural disasters, man-made calamities, schemes, and madness. To survive, you have to fully adapt to the times. The three-hundred-year-old Ming dynasty is teetering on the brink. See how Ye Ning stirs up the winds of change in this chaotic age. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Riding into Battle in Great Ming 跃马大明 In the fifth month of the fourteenth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Great Ming, a new recruit arrived at the Ningyuan front in western Liaoning… Five thousand years of wind and rain, eight thousand miles of mountains and rivers. How many heroes have there been?! Give your life for your country and family. Even nine deaths would not make you regret it!!! 28Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 33 Transmigrated to the Late Ming to Destroy the Treacherous Qing 穿越明末灭苟清 [Transmigration + Late Ming Dynasty + Rise to Power + Strategy + Destroying the Qing + System] Transmigrating into the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty, history PhD Li Rui rises from a small frontier post to contend for the Central Plains, destroy the treacherous Qing, and rebuild China. 441Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Modern Life for the Common People of the Late Ming 明末百姓的现代化生活 A different kind of Ming Dynasty transmigration story. What is it like to teach Emperor Chongzhen and Ming officials to scroll through short videos? You! Yes, you! If you transmigrated to ancient times, how would you survive? How would you grow rich and reach the pinnacle of life? Soap? Fine salt? Refined sugar? Gunpowder? Or would you plagiarize poetry and prose? If an entire country could transmigrate to an ancient parallel world, what would become of it? Would it crush everything with forekno 388Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 35 War Flames over the Ming: A Special Forces King Rebuilds the Tang Dynasty 大明烽烟：特种兵王再造大唐 Li Mo, a modern special forces commander, had his soul transported into the body of Li Mo, a poor scholar and distant clan relative from Dacun Village, Shiqiao Township, Jiahe County, Guiyang Prefecture, in the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637). Although the original owner’s family had fallen into decline, the clan genealogy clearly recorded his descent from Li Sheng, a famous general of the mid-Tang dynasty. This became an important source of inspiration for the protagonist’s rise. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Great Ming: My Choices Summon the Greatest Ministers in History 大明：朕的抉择召唤千古名臣 On a snowy night in the first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian transmigrates and jolts awake before the empire falls. Beneath the Dragon Throne lies a land strewn with corpses, its people starving for miles. At court, the Donglin faction and the eunuchs endlessly brawl for power. Beyond the passes, the Jianzhou Jurchens sharpen their blades. At his waist hangs the white silk sash with which he will hang himself on Coal Hill seventeen years later. At this desperate moment, the Mandate of Heave 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Chongzhen: I Bloodbath the Donglin Party from the Start 崇祯：开局血洗东林党 A special forces soldier transmigrates into Chongzhen. He hasn’t even warmed the dragon throne before petitions demanding donations pile up like a mountain. The treasury is so empty even rats have run off, the soldiers guarding the nine frontiers are starved to skin and bone, and the whole Donglin faction knows only how to kowtow and plead poverty. Looking at these “loyal ministers,” all fat and soft, Lu Feng laughs. He draws the emperor’s sword. “Fine, if none of you have money, then I’ll start 16Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 38 Late Ming: I Rebel and Crown Myself Prince of the North 明末：造反自封镇北王 You're lucky. When you transmigrate, you become an emperor or a crown prince. I transmigrated as the son of a notorious traitor. I had no choice! Fine, then I'll start a rebellion... History trembles beneath my feet... 1.5kReads6.8Score—14d adds
- 39 System Thinking Rebuilds the Ming Dynasty 系统思维重构大明 Lin Che, a modern-day PhD in philosophy, transmigrates into the late Ming dynasty as a minor official in the Ministry of Rites. He has no gunpowder technology or imperial charisma, only a deadly arsenal of ideas: systems theory and data modeling. When Chongzhen is overwhelmed by the cost of supplying the Liaodong front, Lin Che presents him with a “Twelve-Step Flowchart of Military Pay Diversion.” When the officials bicker over the Shaanxi unrest, he produces a “Livelihood Pressure Risk Forecast 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 War God at the End of the Ming Dynasty: Kill, Break, and Wolf 明末战神杀破狼 I am Wang Xiaowei, codenamed “Fang,” China’s strongest soldier. During the Zhurihe military exercises, a bolt of lightning struck me and sent me back to the blood-soaked battlefield of Sarhu, where I possessed a low-ranking soldier on the brink of death. Before me stretched the Later Jin cavalry, covering the hills and plains. Behind me, my fellow Ming soldiers were falling apart and scrambling to survive. A hellish situation from the start? No, this is my hunting ground! The Revive-Ming System 260Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 41 The Ming Dynasty's General Manager 大明总经理 In my previous life, I was the CEO of a business empire. In this life, I’m at the helm of the Ming Group. The emperor is the chairman, and the realm is a corporation. You want to talk ancestral laws and regulations? I only care about performance and financial statements! You want to play court politics? I’m an expert in corporate warfare! This is a crushing, one-sided assault on a decaying dynasty using KPIs, audits, and mergers and acquisitions. Watch me rise from humble beginnings and become t 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Invincible Soldier King of the Late Ming Saves the Empire 明末无敌兵王挽天倾 A modern strategic forces veteran codenamed “Dragon King” transmigrates into the body of the most formidable commander in the Ming dynasty, Xiong Tingbi’s own son! It is the first year of the Tianqi reign. Liaodong is in ruins, the court is riven by infighting, and the empire teeters on the brink of collapse. Other transmigrators get a hellish start, but I’m at my peak from the start! With command of Liaodong’s strongest army and military knowledge from centuries in the future, I’ll use flintloc 2Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 43 The Crown Prince Awakens 天子启明 Struck by lightning while camping, he transmigrates into the body of the Carpenter Emperor! He thought he’d be waking up with beauties in his arms and ruling the realm by day, but he’s exposed from the start! A tiny twist sets off a butterfly effect. What should Zhu Ziming do now? Should he sweep across the land and unite the realm, or do some woodworking and die by drowning? Life is hard, and being a transmigrator is even harder! 290Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 44 Great Ming: My System Is Invincible 大明：我的体系强无敌 Special forces king Wang Xiaowei transmigrates to the late Ming dynasty and becomes a low-ranking official in the Ministry of War, looked down on by everyone. While others rely on a System or their knowledge of poetry after transmigrating, he has a copy of Modern Military Organization and Management. Killing enemies? That’s far too basic. What he wants to do is perform a “system overhaul” on the decaying Ming dynasty. He replaces corruption with standardized procedures, uses a general staff to s 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 All Men Under Heaven Are Brothers: The Great Ming Empire 四海之内皆兄弟之大明帝国 (Entirely handwritten, with no AI. I aim to portray the realities of society in the late Ming. This is my first novel, and its rating only appeared after I finished it, so my score is just the baseline.) A reincarnation mishap on the Silver Bridge sends me to the late Ming, where I become the eldest legitimate son of the Tianqi Emperor. In the late Ming, the peasant rebels, the Ming army, and the Jianzhou Jurchens are three paupers robbing one another. So the disasters and chaos of the late Ming 2kReads8.0Score11914d adds
- 46 A Woman in Chongzhen's Reign: I Survived Long Enough to Become an Old Monster! 女穿崇祯：苟到活成老妖精！ I got hit with a bottle while breaking up a bar fight. When I opened my eyes, I'd become Chongzhen, just as he was about to hang himself. What the hell did I do to deserve this?! A System suddenly popped into my head: “Hang on and hold on to the south of the Yangtze. Every year you survive adds five years to your life!” Lin Lan kicked over the imperial throne. “Hang on? I'll hang on until the Qing army is begging for mercy!” The moment she arrived in Nanjing, she melted down her dowry gold bangl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Chongzhen, Is My Dragon Throne Comfortable? 崇祯，朕的龙椅坐着舒服吗？ (No cheap melodrama, no brainless characters, no System, no invincible protagonist, and not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy. Qing loyalists and those who may be offended, proceed with caution.) On the twenty-fourth day of the eighth month of the seventh year of Tianqi, Chongzhen sat high upon the dragon throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, receiving the court officials’ homage as he prepared to ascend the throne. A thunderclap jolted the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao awake in his coffin. Look 8Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 48 Back in the Late Ming Dynasty as a Warlord 回到明末当霸王 A nobody from the peaceful modern era: what would you do if you could travel back and forth between the end of the Ming Dynasty and the present day? Win beautiful women across the land... amass untold riches... or perhaps recreate Emperor Wu of Han’s glory, destroy the Manchu queue, and wage war in the South Seas? Write a Chinese dream of the ocean across the Seven Seas! 904Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 49 Late Ming: Flames Across the City 明末之烽火连城 The rebel army rises against the Ming! Kill the gentry and seize their silver! Kill the Manchus! Wipe out the Mongols! Only in his old age does Zhao Chengwu realize that his enemies' bones have already piled up like mountains! [This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.] [Upright moralists, move along.] 220Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 50 The Heroes of Bright Sword Transmigrate to the Early Qing 亮剑群英穿清初 When Li Yunlong transmigrates to the late Ming and early Qing. When the heroes of Drawing Sword transmigrate to the early years of the Kangxi reign. In an era when the realm has fallen into ruin and nearly all resistance to the Qing has been wiped out, how will the heroes of Drawing Sword embark on a new journey? 231Reads7.5Score—14d adds
