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- 101 I Embrace the Moon Reflected in the Clear Huai 挽月映清淮 In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, foreign invaders’ iron hooves shattered the land. Beiping fell, Nanjing was under threat, and flames of war spread across the nation. He told her, “I want to be someone who lives to see tomorrow with you.” 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Righteous Path of the World Is One of Vicissitudes: Adrift Across the Four Seas 人间正道是沧桑之四海飘零 Meng Jia wakes up one day in the body of a young student from a century ago, who opposed an arranged marriage and starved herself to death. To keep escaping marriage, she follows her cousin to Guangzhou to study. By chance, she meets Chu Cai, a secretary in the principal's office at the Whampoa Military Academy. He is a shadow operative behind the KMT's Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, a powerful division chief who pulls the strings. Cold, calculating, obsessive, and willing to do 22.3kReads8.9Score2.1kShelves
- 103 Blood of the Land: Code of the Flames of War 山河血：烽火密码 In 1945, a Japanese military aircraft carrying a top-secret cipher machine crashes in the mountains of northern China. Liu Jiangong, a guerrilla commander; Shangguan Yufei, a female special envoy; and Lei Zifeng, a bandit chief, are three people with nothing in common, yet fate binds them together over a “black box.” They fight to seize, protect, and crack the secrets, going from distrust to fighting side by side, from a mountain stronghold to Tuancheng, and from a fake wedding to life-and-death 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Knowing You in the North 北地知意 [Alternate-history Republic of China setting + marriage first, love later] [Local warlord × heiress returned from overseas + renowned anti-Japanese general × agent for the cause] Lin Zhiyi, newly returned from studying abroad, marries Gu Shijun, a warlord of the northern lands, at her father’s behest, all to find conclusive proof that he is a traitor to his country. After several brushes with death, she sees not a man selling out his country for wealth and glory, but one secretly working behind 293Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Pear Blossoms in Bloom 一树棠梨花开 For seven years of war, she kept watch over a flowering tree, waiting for someone who would never return. Across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, he passed through smoke and death to honor a promise left unfulfilled. That spring, “the flowering pear tree bloomed, its beauty captivating the city; willow fluff danced in the spring breeze.” Beneath blossoms white as snow, their eyes met, and each was struck by the other’s beauty. The beauty of mountains and rivers could not rival the gen 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Bloodbath at Songhu: Every Inch of Land Is Paid for in Blood 血染淞沪：一寸山河一寸血 Mercenary king Lin Hao accidentally transmigrates to the battlefield in Shanghai in 1937, becoming a major battalion commander under the Nationalist Army’s 88th Division. This vast land of China, with its eight thousand li of magnificent mountains and rivers, was won with the blood of our forebears. Now that Japanese invaders are attacking and the nation is on the verge of ruin, how could the men of our generation let a few Japanese devils from those three islands humiliate us? For the homeland 11.9kReads7.5Score813Shelves
- 107 The Bandit Hunt 擒匪记 Let me tell you a tale of love and hatred set in the Republican era, where the characters’ fates twist and turn and the story keeps you on the edge of your seat. Is he an official or a bandit? Is he good or evil? You might guess wrong unless you read to the very end. Everyone is welcome to read and leave a comment. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Expeditionary Force: Guerrilla Warfare in Burma 远征军之我在缅甸打游击 [Expeditionary Force]+ [Flying Tigers]: Zhan Youwei, company commander of the guard company in the 288th Regiment, 96th Division, 5th Army of the Expeditionary Force, and Gou Desheng, a veterinarian, are left behind in the Burmese jungle and forgotten. By chance, they rescue James, a Flying Tigers pilot who has parachuted down. Determined to rejoin the main force and return home as soon as possible, they wage a grueling guerrilla war against the Japanese in the Burmese jungle… 3.4kReads8.8Score264Shelves
- 109 Northeastern Tales: The Bandit Suppression in Hegang 东北往事：鹤岗剿匪记 October 1945, Hegang, Northeast China. The Japanese collaborators left behind are scrambling for their own gain. The Kuomintang is ruthless and treacherous. Bandit gangs lurk in the shadows, watching for an opportunity. And the first Communist Party director of the Mining Bureau, appointed just two days ago, has disappeared without a trace... Called to take charge in a crisis! Call them demons and monsters, or ghosts and ghouls, this is the people's city, this is the people's land! I, Zhang Xiao 160Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 110 The Whampoa Campaign 黄埔征程 Cheng Yuanzhi, the son of a wealthy merchant, refused to accept the marriage his family had arranged for him. He stole the family's treasured copy of The Art of War and ran away from home, heading south to apply to Huangpu Military Academy and begin his military career! 72Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 111 Phantom Moth 幻蛾 Phantom Moth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Blue Jade and Smoke 蓝玉生烟 Jiang Yu'er and Jiang Lan'er are daughters of the Jiang family in the capital. The elder sister, Jiang Lan'er, took over the family company just a year ago, while her younger sister, Yu'er, had just returned from overseas. Their father, Jiang Shan, is a refined and courteous chairman of the Jiang Group. To celebrate Yu'er's return from studying abroad, the family held a traditional-style banquet. At the banquet, the sisters couldn’t help wondering how pleased their mother would be if she could 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 What They Wrote 她们写下的 She used to be a criminal defense lawyer in the modern world. She knew how evidence could be edited, and understood how a single sentence could determine whether someone lived or died. After transmigrating, she became an anonymous clerk tasked with copying treaties. She did not plan wars or command massacres. Her only job was to make “decisions” sound legal, clear, and beyond dispute. Every treaty she wrote erased a city from the history books. She knew she was doing evil, but she understood 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Chenzhou Talismans: Starry Stone in the Hanging Coffin 辰州符：悬棺里的星芒奇石 In 1978, Liu Tiehan, a young man from western Hunan, encountered a ball of white light on Yun Chuan's Mount Erlong. He accidentally entered a secret realm and was rescued by He Yima, a mysterious Miao woman. He also found a strange stone in a stream, neither iron nor jade. The stone was a protective artifact left on Earth after a battle between ancient gods. Its computing power surpassed every super AI of later generations. It could gather energy autonomously through holographic means, and afte 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 The Children of the Guan Family 关家儿女 This book is the sequel to my historical novel, The Guan Family Compound. It follows several generations of the Guan family's children through their joys and sorrows against the backdrop of the times, from 1939 to more than a century later, in the twenty-first century. If you're a longtime fan of The Guan Family Compound, please start reading from Chapter One. If you've never read it, I recommend reading that book first, then coming back to The Guan Family's Children. The story will flow better 1.6kReads8.0Score241Shelves
- 116 From the Start of the War: Reborn in Jinling to Crush the Japanese Devils! 抗战开局：魂穿金陵暴虐小鬼子！ Chen Yang was the top marksman of the Fourth Company, Iron Fist Regiment, in the Southeast Military Region of Great Xia. While on leave, he went to see the latest movie, Jinling Photo Studio. On his way back to the unit, he came across an out-of-control heavy truck. He rushed to save a little boy on the crosswalk, but the truck sent him flying more than ten meters. He fell into a pool of blood! When Chen Yang woke up again, he found himself back in Jinling in 1937, now the commander of the First 562Reads7.7Score120Shelves
- 117 From the Start, My Exchange System Gets Me a Million-Man Army 开局置换系统，我换出百万大军 Alternate universe + System After transmigrating to one of the darkest periods in history, Qin Ye awakened a trading System that could exchange for planes, artillery, and more. From then on, the army had another commander who firmly believed that firepower always came first. This synopsis doesn’t do the story justice. Please go straight to the main text. 14.6kReads8.5Score804Shelves
- 118 War of Resistance: I Really Do Have a Division Going to Fight at Taiyuan 抗战：我真有一个师去打太原 “Wolves travel a thousand miles and eat meat. Dogs travel a thousand miles and eat shit. If you’ve got what it takes, eat meat; if you don’t, eat shit!” Li Yunlong had barely shouted those words when Zhou Dafas's breath nearly knocked him out in the latrine. “Commander, give me a squad. In six months, I'll give you a crack battalion in return.” … 109.2kReads8.5Score7.6kShelves
- 119 Transmigrated into a Slave: Watch Me Rise to Become the Female Lead 穿越为奴看我如何翻身成女主 A white-collar worker on a trip gets into a car accident. She thinks she’s had all the bad luck she can take, then wakes up after a nap to find she’s transmigrated through time and turned into a child. And that’s not all: she’s sold straight to a pleasure boat. She figures she should focus on staying alive, but then she’s sold again to bandits. This is way too intense! Fortunately, she’s rescued and taken into the wealthy Song family. They say entering a rich household is like plunging into a se 711Reads8.1Score113Shelves
- 120 War of Resistance: In Shanghai from the Start, I Use a Lucky Draw to Fight the Japanese! 抗战：开局淞沪我靠抽奖打鬼子！ [From the Start in Shanghai] + [War of Resistance] + [Sign-In] + [Lottery System] Huo Linchuan, an extra, transmigrates to Shanghai in 1937 in a parallel world. With the bloody Battle of Shanghai about to erupt, he knows history well and understands that if the battle is lost, Nanjing will fall too. Determined to keep that painful chapter of history from repeating itself, and to ensure that the people of this land will never again suffer the invaders’ oppression and abuse, he uses the [Lottery S 78Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 121 Warlord: The Road to a Strong Army 军阀：强军之路 Zhou He, born in 2000, transmigrates to a parallel world in the early twentieth century. What should he do? Faced with a world and history so similar to his own, will he help bring about the founding of the nation, or… 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 From the Start with a Nuclear Submarine: Undercover in the Spy War of 1937 开局核潜艇：谍海潜航1937 In 1937, as the land runs red with blood, a nuclear submarine from the future transmigrates into the past. Cut off from its command, unable to unlock its nuclear warheads, its ultimate weapons become useless. Though its weapons are advanced, every shot is one less, and there is no way to replenish them. Across thousands of miles of coastline, flames of war burn everywhere, leaving no safe harbor to be found. With no reinforcements and supplies running low, the intelligence bureau chief and dep 7.6kReads8.2Score728Shelves
- 123 The Invincible Artilleryman in the War of Resistance 抗战之无敌炮兵 An artillery battalion taking part in military exercises in the northwest suddenly transmigrates to 1933. Forced to face reality, they follow Battalion Commander Chu Tianming, developing technology and forging a powerful army as they act out one thrilling tale of resistance against the Japanese after another. 11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 124 You Told Me to Forget My Roots? I'll Livestream the War of Resistance and Make the Whole Internet Weep 让你忘本，我直播抗战，全网泪崩 [Live-stream face-slapping]+ [Passionate War of Resistance]+ [Positive-energy streamer]+ [Shocking and tearjerking]+ [Contrast between past and present] In the year 2137, Huaxia stands at the summit of the world. Technology flourishes, but in their comfortable lives, its people have forgotten the scars and glories of history. Huazhixia, a history streamer, is mocked as a “hopeless old fossil” for teaching the history of the War of Resistance in his livestream. His detractors jeer, “If you’re s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Rise of a Clan: Starting with Radio Calisthenics 家族崛起：从做广播体操开始 Ding! Your [Myriad Worlds Supreme Clan-Building System] has been bound. System: “Newbie task: Perform a solemn set of ‘Hopeful Sails’ exercises in front of your ancestors.” Ji Hao: “...Are you serious?” So, under the bewildered stares of the entire clan, young and old alike, Ji Hao began his “sacred ritual.” But when the tune of the broadcast exercises began, the clan's long-lost spiritual seed of fortune really did stir... From then on, things took an increasingly bizarre turn. Other young clan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 As If Falling into an Icy Abyss 如坠寒渊 (No System, no heroine, not historical, not wish fulfillment, with a bleak tone) If good fortune is bestowed on me alone, then it is no blessing. It is more like a curse, a spiritual torment that targets only those capable of feeling. Because this good fortune is never a gift that comes from nowhere. It is a form of shifting plunder. I gain, he loses. I survive, he dies. And every time I escape by a hair's breadth, it makes me count with full awareness: whose chance I stole, whose fate I took ov 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 1950: The Steel Torrent System Goes to Korea with Me 一九五零：钢铁洪流系统伴我入朝 Tags: Steel Torrent, Transmigration, Military In 2023, military game enthusiast Meng Xiangwu is trying on a tactical combat suit when a sudden flash of light sends him, along with the “Steel Torrent Soldier System,” to Andong in 1950, on the eve of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. First mistaken for a scattered Kuomintang soldier, he wins the People's Liberation Army's trust by repairing buckets and standing night watch. With the System, he enhances his physique and scans for enemy 24Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 128 Broken Thorn 断刺 When the Japanese invaders strike, a rebellious young man runs away from home and is swept by the tides of history from one perilous situation to another. He maneuvers between military intelligence agents, underworld gangs, and Japanese spies; makes choices between conflicting beliefs; sacrifices love and friendship; and transforms as he grows through loneliness... 140Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 129 Butterfly Shadows in the Republican Era: No Return for the Green Bamboo 民国蝶影：青竹无归期 Shadows of Butterflies in the Republican Era: Green Bamboo, No Return Date 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Espionage: I’m Desperate to Improve 谍战：我太想进步了 Having a golden finger is no big deal. He's one of the countless people to transmigrate, and by chance, he became a military intelligence agent. Through a twist of fate, he infiltrated a Japanese puppet agency. To better conceal his identity, he put the art of trading sex and influence to work, colluding with Japanese puppet officials and using money and women to corrupt the Japanese military's upper ranks. Of course, he didn't leave the military intelligence agency out of it either. Superior: “ 1kReads7.3Score103Shelves
- 131 The National Defense Army's God of War in 1937 国防军神在1937 Xie Peng, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Defense University, woke up as a junior adjutant in Jinshanwei in 1937. With just 25 days until the Japanese army landed and massacred the locals, he had only four hundred poorly equipped soldiers. While everyone else fled, he led the people in digging traps, planting mines, and making explosives. The System simulated every bloody battle in his mind: eight thousand enemies killed in the first battle, nine thousand in the second, and in the thir 645Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Hidden Dragon in Raging Seas 怒海潜龙 Your battlefield is the vast land. Mine is the boundless sea. Your enemies are infantry, armored vehicles, and tanks. Mine are sea beasts, submarines, and warships! Tang Wei, a young man born into a family of pearl divers with exceptional underwater combat skills, joins Sea God, an elite underwater mercenary group. From the depths of the ocean to the icy waters of Antarctica, from volcanic lakes to rainforest swamps, he makes covert underwater assaults, salvages nuclear bombs, and tracks sea mon 336Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 133 Blood and Mountains of Guizhou 黔血山河 They were the Guizhou Army, nicknamed the “straw-sandal soldiers.” They were considered an “irregular force” in the Nationalist government’s ranks, with shoddy equipment and scarce supplies. Yet at the most perilous moment in the history of the Chinese nation, they shouldered their rifles and marched out of the mountains of Guizhou. Told through the eyes of Chen Erwa, an ordinary soldier, this novel spans a series of major campaigns, including Shanghai, Xuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, and the Yunnan-Bu 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Warlord's Cherished Wife: His Lady Is a Sickly, Dark Lotus 军阀权宠，夫人原来是病娇黑莲花 Love affairs and marital entanglements are, for the most part, just like this. No one can always be in the stronger position, and no one can always have everything under control. Loving someone more may put you at a disadvantage, but everything has two sides. Sincerity will always be the ultimate weapon. I dedicate this story to myself and to Wanxiang. This is the final chapter of the Republican-era saga. Until we meet again in the jianghu, may we both return with a brand-new story to tell. 66Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 135 1940: The Thin Line Between Life and Death in the War 1940：抗战生死线 In 1940, the flames of war engulf the land, and the smoke from the Hundred Regiments Offensive has yet to clear. Liu San has only seven bullets, while Ma Dazhuang keeps thinking about the half a flatbread tucked against his chest. In Zaolin County, right under the Japanese army’s nose, surviving until tomorrow is a victory. But what about the day after? This is no charge on the front lines. It is the harshest fight for survival behind enemy lines: every step requires calculation, and every mouth 724Reads6.3Score105Shelves
- 136 The Heiress Is Sweet but Ruthless, and the Young Marshal Is Obsessed 大小姐甜切黑，少帅追疯了 A Republican-era romance! A Republican-era romance!! A Republican-era romance!!!! A Republican-era romance!!!! A Republican-era romance!!!!! 3Reads—Score468Shelves
- 137 War of Resistance: Starting with a Journey to the Northeast 抗战：从闯关东开始 If you transmigrated to the Republican Era with a pocket dimension, what would you do? Build your own power, or help the various factions? Readers, please share your suggestions in the comments. The author will read them carefully. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Republic-Era Record of an Evil Cultivator 民国邪修录 This is a story set in a parallel world. Chen Kun transmigrates and obtains a lazy evil-cultivator System. It’s the story of an ordinary man with a few evil-cultivator tricks, struggling to survive and grow. Mostly slice of life, with multiple women and no single heroine. There will be all kinds of women. Chen Kun! He is like an alloy thrown into the furnace of this era, its composition complex: the rationality and detachment of a modern person, the ruthlessness and pragmatism of someone survivi 7.3kReads7.0Score747Shelves
- 139 The Emerald Green Planet 那颗翠绿的星球 I transmigrated straight into a hellish situation from the start: my wife was frail, I was a bankrupt noble drowning in debt, and I couldn’t even afford next month’s bread! Just as I was losing hope, a divine investor descended from the heavens and activated my golden finger, the [Dream Space]! I thought it was just a completely secure “private room,” but one slip of the hand and I forcibly pulled in the “agents” of other gods! Looking at the future bigwigs staring warily at me, I could only —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The Grand Mansion: The Rebellious Concubine Turns the Tables 大宅门：刁蛮小妾反了天 Yang Hongyan, born into a humble family, is unexpectedly chosen by the wealthy Bai family to marry their foolish eldest son and bring him good fortune. But not long after she joins the household, the young master dies in an accident! The Bai family is a sprawling mansion with a vast fortune, many heirs, and a harem of concubines. Because Yang Hongyan is beautiful and voluptuous, the concubines resent her and each plots against her. She finds herself living in constant fear, with wolves at her he 646Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 141 War of Resistance: My Troop-Building Makes the Japanese Say This War Is Impossible to Win 抗战：爆兵打的鬼子说这仗没法打 [Raising a massive army]+ [System]+ [Power fantasy]+ [Invincible]+ [Over-the-top anti-Japanese war drama] By a stroke of fate, Lin Yan arrives in a parallel world during the War of Resistance and obtains the Heroic Company System, which lets him summon soldiers and weapons from every faction. Seeing the German-equipped division opposite them, the Japanese ask: “Weren't they supposed to have German helmets? Where did those MG42s and Tiger tanks come from?” Seeing the American- and Soviet-equipp 350Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 142 The Special Forces Immortal King 特种仙王 Lin Yu, an elite soldier known by the codename “Dragon King,” transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation, where he finds himself an ordinary mortal. The sect is bullying me? I’ll teach you a lesson with modern tactics! Monsters are running rampant? Just watch me turn you into a wilderness survival exercise. As he tempers his Dao heart with an iron will and uses a special forces soldier’s mind to devise cultivation techniques, the entire cultivation world begins to change beyond recogniti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 The Bizarre Murder at the Roadside Inn 大车店诡异命案 Bizarre murders, men and women in turbulent times, tangled love and hate, and the legend of the resistance. During the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, on the northern Manchurian frontier, stood a mountain called Big Butt Mountain. Two semicircular peaks joined together, and the locals were plainspoken: they named things exactly as they looked. For forty li in every direction, it was the only horse-cart inn around: the Big Butt Mountain Inn. Men and women shared the big northeastern kang beds 406Reads—Score100Shelves
- 144 An Orphan Girl from the Late Qing Ventures into Republican China 清末孤女闯民国 This is a long novel about a woman struggling to survive and take revenge amid the chaos of war, fleeing, standing up to gangsters and warlords, and finding love. Today, she happily sets out to seek refuge with her older sister in another city. The next day, she risks everything to save her sister by storming an execution ground alone. Within two days, she kills the prefect and the county magistrate, along with their daughters, becoming a wanted criminal for murdering officials of the imperial c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Anti-Japanese Warlord: A Great Wall Built of Flesh and Blood 抗日军阀：血肉铸就的长城 [No System, One Female Lead] This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel. It's a tribute to the veterans who truly fought with their blood on the battlefields of the War of Resistance Against Japan. I hope to transmigrate through time and, using knowledge from my past life and a more advanced understanding of the future, fight shoulder to shoulder with them, kill more Japanese invaders, and protect more Chinese civilians. Note: The Japanese soldiers in this book are highly capable, not stupid, and know 253Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 146 Daring to Borrow the Bright Moon from the Green Mountains 敢向青山借明月 [Alternate Republican-era setting + marriage first, love later + two formidable leads] A money-loving little blind woman who plays dumb × a cold-faced warlord who is calculating but deeply devoted After her family is destroyed, Lin Jingshu pretends to be blind to survive, playing music on the street with her eyes fixed only on the coins she needs to get by. Shen Yanqing, a cold, calculating warlord with a powerful army at his command, takes in a little blind woman for a monthly allowance of tw 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Twilight of the Empire and the Dawn of the Republic 帝国的黄昏与民国的序幕 In the endgame that was late Qing China, some wanted to become emperor themselves, some wanted to overthrow the emperor, some wanted to restore the monarchy, and others secretly colluded with the foreign powers. Meanwhile, along the railway lines in the north, imperialist armies had already planted explosives. When the man at the helm fell, it was not only jackals that came rushing in, but also poisonous snakes lurking in the shadows. 66Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 148 Red Alert: The War Years in a Parallel World 红色警戒之平行世界的战争年代 205 mm self-propelled artillery, Katyusha rocket launchers, aircraft carriers, bombers, Tiger tanks… The most advanced weapons and the strongest troops will give you a different perspective on combat. See the battle through the eyes of a military force fighting a war of resistance in another world. 309Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 149 The Flames of War Burn Again 烽火再续 [Realistic | No System | No Golden Finger] This is a war novel about resistance behind enemy lines. In occupied territory under the tight control of Japanese and puppet forces, the Eighth Route Army struggles to fight and survive amid shortages of food and medicine and constant casualties. They rely not on grand speeches, but on discipline, mutual support, and faith. In the harshest conditions, they hold on to their principles, keep their ranks together, and preserve the people's chance to survi 731Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 The Story of Haitang, the Beautiful Widow 俏寡妇海棠的故事 The novel The Great Family: Spirit and Flesh, also known as The Story of Haitang the Pretty Widow, is a sweeping epic with a female protagonist and a rural setting, set against the backdrop of historical change. Volume One, Storms over Dianbei, follows three storylines: Haitang’s growth as she struggles against fate forms the main plot, supported by two secondary threads that deepen the narrative. One traces the trials and tribulations of the Fate-Changers, led by Wenzhiwu, while the other follo 159Reads—Score—Shelves
