Novels like I Saved the Empress, Then Came First in the Imperial Exams
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- 101 Journey to the West, Skeleton Soldier of White Tiger Ridge, I Block the Road and Become a Saint 西游，白虎岭骷髅兵，我拦路成圣 [Not based on the original Journey to the West] What should I do after being reborn as a skeleton? Don't panic. First, let's see what the situation is. Journey to the West, White Tiger Ridge. So I'm the White Bone Spirit? Oh. Sorry, I got that wrong. I'm just a skeleton soldier. Yun Zhao nearly cried when he learned his situation. If I'm not running now, when am I? Do I really want to wait for the Monkey King's Golden Cudgel to smash me to dust? [Ding! Roadblock Simulator loading] Huh? What the 109.1kReads8.7Score12.1k14d adds
- 102 Reborn: I'm a Samurai in Japan's Warring States Period 重生之我在日本战国当武士 Are you tired of Chinese historical novels that all feel the same? Follow the author's writing and step into the world of Japan's Sengoku period! This book does not touch on Ming dynasty politics, nor does it involve invading the Ming dynasty or Korea. Please be a rational patriot. If you don't like it, just move on to another book. Here is the synopsis! Li Shan, a martial arts fanatic from the Celestial Empire and an outdoor survival enthusiast, ventured deep into the Amazon rainforest to film 115kReads9.2Score9.5k14d adds
- 103 Reforming the Qing: The Jiaqing Restoration 革清：嘉庆维新 Those who know Qing history all say that the Qing dynasty was already doomed by the Qianlong era. Its deep-rooted internal problems were impossible to reverse, the distribution of resources was wildly unequal and rife with conflict, and it shut its eyes and ears to the outside world, abandoning its own strength. A scholar from the late Qing transmigrates to the first month of the fourth year of the Jiaqing reign. Watch as he rewrites the course of history. Tags: Domestic reform, tributary diplom 2.8kReads—Score26814d adds
- 104 Cultivating Through Reincarnation: Starting with the Imperial Examinations 轮回修仙：从考科举开始 [The rating has just been released, and will probably rise later...] Changsheng transmigrated to another continent and obtained the golden finger of reincarnation and rebirth. Isn't that the standard package for a protagonist? In another world's immortal cultivation realm, he reincarnates again and again, ultimately embarking on the path of cultivation, reaching the summit, and proving the Dao of immortality. 71kReads8.2Score4.5k14d adds
- 105 Global Awakening: I Started Searching, Fighting, and Extracting with Special Operations 全民：从觉醒特勤处开始搜打撤 [The rating has only just opened and will rise later] [Illustrations included, so enjoy] From the start, he transmigrates to Blue Star, which is undergoing a cataclysm in an age when everyone is a pioneer. The initial skill everyone else sees as having no rank awakens a golden finger, [Special Operations Division], thanks to Chu Hong's arrival. All he has to do is register real-world secret realms, and he can run them endlessly in the Special Operations Division. While everyone else is terrified 149.7kReads8.8Score19.6k14d adds
- 106 Celebrating Song 欢宋 I, Qi Wu, like to speak the truth. I am a disgraced soldier from the northwest, yet I have served as an honest and upright official. As for my faction, my senior fellow disciples Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Zhou Dunyi, and my junior fellow disciples Zhang Heng, Su Shi, Lü Huiqing, and others all belong to it. You ask about heroes? My teachers are my heroes: Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo, and many others! I’m just a scholar. I don’t know much. If you have a problem, go talk to my 141.4kReads9.4Score17.2k14d adds
- 107 Warhammer Age: The Burning Crusade 战锤纪元：燃烧的远征 Every time you are reborn, a new expedition begins. Planets burn, time and space tremble, and civilizations are sacrificed. We are all mere specks of dust in this struggle for supremacy, arriving in silence and departing just as silently. Who will rule the tides of fate? Wherever the Pope’s will points, there lies a battlefield. 74Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Beast Taming: From E-Rank to Billionaire, I Get There by Reselling 御兽：从E级到首富我就靠倒卖 [Beast Taming for Everyone] [Raising Beast Companions] [Invincible] [System] [No Female Lead] [Beast Tamers Don't Turn Human] Zhou Ye transmigrates to a world of beast taming, and things go terribly wrong from the start. He awakens an E-rank talent, the lowest there is, and his companion beast, hatched from an egg, is a Dark Crow, a trash breed everyone despises. Everyone around him sighs, convinced his life is over before it begins. Just as he reaches rock bottom, he discovers an extra gray pag 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 You Call Austria-Hungary a Great Power? 你说，奥匈是列强？ To transmigrate and be born as Karl I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, a “second-generation royal,” is truly wonderful! But since I’ve enjoyed all this glory and honor, I’ll have to find a way to restore the empire’s splendor and save it from collapse, so I can avoid the miserable fate that awaits me! Though I may seem weak right now, my ending is destined to be magnificent! So Karl swore. 65.7kReads8.6Score4.7k14d adds
- 110 The Divine Beasts Are Coming 神兽来潮 A story inspired by the Classic of Mountains and Seas, where the path to godhood is forged from divine beast bloodlines, while ferocious beasts stand in the way. See how Bai Feiliu faces the challenge. No saintly hero, no harem, one female lead. 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Ming Dynasty: The Impostor Prince Who Saved the Empire 大明，冒牌皇子挽天倾 On the eve of the Ming Dynasty’s fall, the Qing already controls most of the realm. After transmigrating, he awakens to find himself mistaken for a dead substitute for one of the Chongzhen Emperor’s surviving descendants. The vast realm lies in ruins, and the heroes within its borders have all fallen. The Qing army’s unification of the realm seems all but certain. But circumstances are ever-changing. When the order to shave their heads and adopt Qing hairstyles tears apart the Han people’s tradi 148.3kReads9.0Score17.5k14d adds
- 112 Valorant: I’m Still the World’s Best Duelist 无畏契约：我依旧是世一决 “Do you still consider yourself the world’s number one duelist?” When a reporter asked him that, Su Ming thought for a moment. Even though he had played every role in this tournament, he had never forgotten why he started. With a resolute look, he turned to the camera and said: “I’m still the world’s number one duelist!” A Valorant esports novel by a 1997-born old-timer. Ranked Immortal 3 at peak on the Chinese server, and played Premier on the Asian server for a while. I’ll do my best to make 206.5kReads9.6Score19.6k14d adds
- 113 Even Rule Horror Wants to Build a Family Business 规则怪谈也想经营家族 Reviews have just started coming in, so this will rise [Nonhuman Protagonist + No Couple + Eldritch Horror + Farming + Faction Management + A Little National Destiny in the Early Story, None Later + Dice Goddess Blessings + Game Invasion] Rules stem from the rights granted by one's identity. Rights bring both power and responsibility. The weak can only gain a foothold in this world where rules reign supreme by banding together. The rules of the Strange Tale Collective's home collapsed after inte 53.6kReads9.0Score6.8k14d adds
- 114 You Say Card Sequences Are Weak? My Dark World Slaughters the Wasteland 说卡牌序列弱？我暗黑界杀穿废土 The protagonist’s current decks include Floowandereeze, the anime version of Sky Dragon, Cyber Dragon, Golden Chest, Masked HERO, Zombie World, Dark World, Red Dragon Archfiend, Dark Magician, the Four Heavenly Dragons, Raidraptor, Rock-type monsters, and more. He even has a spirit wife, so if you’re interested, just open the lid and dig in! [Yu-Gi-Oh! + wasteland + Sequences, pure wish fulfillment] [You don’t need to know Yu-Gi-Oh! to enjoy this. The card effects are explained in full.] In the 46.6kReads9.0Score3.9k14d adds
- 115 Great Ming: The Cold, Aloof Female Scholar Draws Her Sword and Forces a Marriage? 大明：高冷女诸生？你竟提剑逼婚 (A fusion of the TV series “The Long River of the Moon,” “Zhu Yuanzhang,” and “The Hongwu Case Files”) After transmigrating to the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, he becomes Zhu Yuanzhang’s fifth son, Zhu Su, Prince of Wu. He died suddenly at his desk in his previous life. Heaven gave him a prince’s body and a head full of knowledge from 650 years in the future. Since he’s been given a second life, he’ll make the most of it. The eight-legged essay examination system will ensure Old Zhu never run 61.2kReads8.7Score5.6k14d adds
- 116 A Bandit in Late Ming China: My First Heist Was Sun Chuanting 在明末当山贼第一次就抢了孙传庭 While traveling, Zhou Yan's mind wandered for a moment, and he found himself in the eighth year of the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty. Forced to become a bandit, he never expected the first person he robbed to be Sun Chuanting, the last pillar of the Ming Empire. With Zhou Yan's arrival, will the crumbling Han dynasty still fall? Will Sun Chuanting, whose death was said to mark the fall of the Ming, still die in battle at Tong Pass? Will Lu Xiangsheng, praised as a once-in-a-generation talent 69.2kReads8.6Score7.8k14d adds
- 117 The Tenth Year of Wanli: Taking Up My Post in Liaodong 万历十年：就藩辽东 The tenth year of the Wanli reign was a watershed moment for the Ming Empire. A host of upheavals converged that year, sending the dynasty down a path wholly different from the one laid out by history. Zhang Juzheng, the “Duke of Jiangling,” passed away. With the reformer who had upheld the “Wanli Renaissance” gone, a pillar of the empire collapsed. His unfinished reforms came to an abrupt halt, and old abuses in the bureaucracy returned. Ma Fang, a renowned general on the northern frontier, die 3kReads7.5Score20014d adds
- 118 Reborn as the Yongli Emperor at the End of the Ming, I'm Back Again 重生明末永历帝，朕又回来了 Only after dying once do you learn who would die for you, and who wants you dead. Only after being reborn do you understand that being emperor isn't about sitting on the dragon throne. It's about bearing the weight of an empire. On the first day of my reign, I issued these orders: Open the maritime trade ban and exchange with the red-haired barbarians for firearms. Put an end to empty talk. Add practical firearms examinations to the imperial civil service exams. Secretly order Li Dingguo to head 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Transmigrated as a White-Haired Girl, She Raises Her Right Hand 穿越成白毛她向上举起了右手 (A powerful physique, a people-centered historical perspective, slow burn, farming, revolutionary spirit, epic length, nearly 200 years of revolutionary history) In the autumn of 1120, the second year of the Xuanhe era, Fang La led his followers in a rebellion, setting in motion the last major uprising within the late Northern Song dynasty. It became known as the Fang La Rebellion. On the eve of the uprising, Xuan Yuanqi transmigrated to the Northern Song. In the history he knew, China suffered 1.8kReads—Score28114d adds
- 120 HP: The Marauders Era: Potter, His Mortal Enemy, Falls for Him HP亲世代：死对头波特他心动了 [Harry Potter Marauders Era | Slytherin x Gryffindor | Sirius's Former Fiancée x Male Lead James Potter | Sweet Romance, 1v1, Happy Ending, Voldemort Appears] The thing Sirius Black regretted most in his life was not running away from home, nor being sorted into Gryffindor, but speaking so cruelly to his childhood friend, Aglaia Selwyn, on the day of their engagement. He could have been gentler. He said, "Marry her? I'd rather marry the armor in the Gryffindor tower." Her father scolded Selwyn: 4.5kReads—Score66214d adds
- 121 Journey to the West: I Was About to Shed My Mortal Body and Become an Immortal When the Monkey Came Looking for Me 西游：刚准备尸解成仙，猴子来找 After transmigrating into the world of Journey to the West, Tao Qian spends sixty years searching for immortals without success. He obtains a method of corpse liberation and is just about to use it when a monkey suddenly comes running up from below the mountain, claiming to be from the Water Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain and asking to become his disciple. 61.3kReads7.5Score5.1k14d adds
- 122 Everyone's Survival Quest on a Haunted Highway 全民诡异公路求生 [Growth-Oriented Golden Finger] [Horror Survival] [Farming] [Dungeon Challenges] [Supernatural Vehicles] [Collecting Inanimate Objects] All of humanity transmigrates to a world called the Supernatural Highway. There is only one road in this world, stretching endlessly forward. Everything that appears on it is extremely dangerous, and using any item comes at a price. Draw blood to drive vehicles, sacrifice flesh to command the dead, and burn your soul to fight the supernatural. On this eerie high 66.3kReads8.9Score5.5k14d adds
- 123 Honkai: Star Rail: My Alternate-Timeline Self Is Exposed on the Sky Screen 星穹铁道：if线的我被天幕曝光 (The rating just came in, so it may go up) (Multiple heroines) (There will be a main plot, but I don't know how much) (The arcs are generally quite long, so consider yourself warned. If that's not your thing, don't read) (The romance isn't very nuanced, and the first chapter feels a little abrupt. Just bear with it, and don't flame me if you don't like it. It gets a bit better later) (The beginning isn't particularly amazing, but it gets a little better later) (One last thing: I absolutely will 85.3kReads8.5Score7.4k14d adds
- 124 World War I: I Became the White-Haired Kaiser’s Wheelchair for Governing the Country 一战：我成了白毛德皇的治国轮椅 [World War I + Second Reich + white-haired Kaiser + gray line + old-school tsundere] [An old favorite returns: the previous book had 11,000 reviews and a 9.6 rating, so you can count on the quality] When Claude woke up, he discovered that he had returned to Germany on the eve of World War I, as a struggling second-rate writer. To make a living, he published radical essays in newspapers and gave impromptu speeches on the streets. But his good fortune didn't last: his activities caught the attenti 120.8kReads9.5Score21k14d adds
- 125 The Necromancer Doesn’t Want to Become a Lich 亡灵法师不想成为巫妖 Edmund awakened memories of his past life and had hoped to scrape by in this world using what he remembered. But who could have guessed that supernatural beings existed here? Elemental mages, druids, demon hunters, monsters... Fortunate enough to become a necromancer, Edmund gained supernatural powers, but he also had to face the troubles that came with being one. The death magic corroding him had drastically shortened his lifespan. It seemed there was only one path before him: become a lich and 73.1kReads8.3Score8.6k14d adds
- 126 Overthrowing the Tang: Transmigrate into Emperor Ai, Who Abdicated the Throne 覆唐：穿越禅位天子唐哀宗 A modern soul transmigrates into Li Zhu, the last emperor of the Great Tang. In the fourth year of Tianyou, Zhu Wen usurps the Tang throne, and the dynasty collapses after 289 years. In name, Li Zhu is the Prince of Jiyin who abdicated the throne. In reality, he is a prisoner trapped in a cage. The history books are unequivocal: just three months later, a cup of poisoned wine will be his end. Given a second life, he refuses to sit still and await death! Imprisoned in his residence, he uses polit 3.1kReads—Score31114d adds
- 127 Reborn as Chao Gaitian, I Make Hu Sanniang Lay Down Her Arms 魂穿晁天王，让扈三娘卸甲 My soul transmigrates into the world of Water Margin, where I become Chao Gai, the Heavenly King. Shi Xiu and Yang Xiong have just come to the mountain. I see through Song Jiang’s hypocrisy. Before I’m struck by a poisoned arrow, I must rebuild my Liangshan Marsh. How could a peerless heroine marry the Short Tiger? I’ll take that good fortune off your hands! I run into Zhao Fujin, Princess Maode, the most beautiful woman in the Great Song! Even this An can be negotiated into the harem. One hundr 1.1kReads—Score10014d adds
- 128 Identity in the Mirror 惊悚之镜中身份 A Terrifying Identity in the Mirror —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 High Martial: This Game Is So Realistic, Where's the Exit Button? 高武：游戏很真实，我退出键呢？ [Legendary Lover King] + [Great Xia Night Watchers] + [A Demon Lord Feared by the Myriad Worlds] + [Even aliens have to pay taxes.] Boiling water burns red fire ants and still gives EXP. So when Gu Bai was blasted into another world, he thought he was playing a video game. After putting on an impressive performance during an anomalous incident, he was talked into joining Great Xia's official Night Watch organization. In this era of supernatural forces returning, the Night Watchers have just land 54.3kReads8.7Score6.2k14d adds
- 130 CS2: When You Push Your Efforts to the Limit CS2：当你将努力做到极致 [System] [Esports] [Everyday Life] [Slow Burn] [One Female Lead] Nobody would call someone a prodigy when they'd played for four years and five thousand hours but had only reached ranks A to A+. Lin Yu was an ordinary college student, and he thought he'd never make it to the professional CS scene in his lifetime. But an accident changed everything. He was reborn in 2021, on the day of the Stockholm final, and awakened a System at the same time. The System told him that as long as he worked hard, 71.1kReads9.3Score3k14d adds
- 131 Mecha: Starting with the Ultimate Iron Cavalry, I Am a Genius Machine Master 机甲：开局终极铁骑，天才智械师 [Absolutely No AI] [Mecha] [EVA-Inspired Setting] [Mobile Iron Cavalry] [Single Female Lead] [No Mindless Protagonist] [No System] [Ensemble Cast] [Rigorous Logic] [Slightly Slow-Burning] [Alternate Title: Crimson Annihilation] At the end of December, 2025, crimson descended from the sky. The Tree of Life, the Apostles, the Mobile Iron Cavalry… When crimson falls, the world changes, and civilization crumbles, someone must step out of the light and into the shadows, take command of the sacred i 238.1kReads9.0Score35.7k14d adds
- 132 Lord of the Divine and the Strange: From the Start, I Grew a Scorpion Tail 神诡之主：开局长出一条蝎尾 [Multiple transformation forms] + [Friends and family sacrificed to the heavens] + [A brand-new version with no imitators anywhere online] + [No female lead, no harem] “What matters most after you transmigrate? Talent? Background? A golden finger? No, no, no. Friends and family matter most. If you don’t sacrifice them to the heavens, your magic will never know bounds. I’m Gu Xin. Don’t call me a jinx. I’d die for my friends and family.” Gu Xin transmigrates into the body of a lowly knife sla 27.5kReads8.1Score3k14d adds
- 133 Transmigrating to Peach Blossom Spring: Only the Gods Know 穿越桃花源：只有神明才知道 [Male Lead Transmigrates with His Car into an All-Female World] [Honest and Down-to-Earth] [No Harem] [Light Novel] [Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Single Female Lead] The male lead arrives in Peach Blossom Valley with his car and becomes the darling of the whole village. But there is no harem: he works hard to help the valley overcome disasters and improve village life, while enjoying a cozy farming life with the female lead. Together, they slowly uncover the truth about the gods, and in the end, 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The System Was Delayed by a Century, and I Became a Global Shareholder 系统延迟一坤年，我成了全球股东 [Urban tycoon + System + college life + lighthearted comedy + connections and business rivalries + low-key power fantasy + no female lead] [Over a million words already serialized, with a guaranteed minimum of regular updates for months. This author's ongoing work is dependable.] Lu Yibei wakes up with a start and finds that he has transmigrated from Earth to Blue Star. He thought he could reach the pinnacle of life by plagiarizing works from his old world, but he can't remember enough to produc 54.3kReads8.7Score1.3k14d adds
- 135 My Trainee Class Became Top of the School, and Now the Parents Want a New Homeroom Teacher 实习教出金牌班，家长要换班主任 [Wild ideas + System + no pent-up frustration + buffs + cards + traits + wish-fulfillment novel] After graduating, Lu Qian becomes the intern homeroom teacher of Senior Two, Class Seven. On his first day at work, he awakens the [Strongest Teacher System], which gives students buffs to improve their learning efficiency and talent. What other students learn in a day, the students of Class Seven learn in an hour. While other students grow tired from studying, the students of Class Seven remain ener 505.4kReads9.2Score53.6k14d adds
- 136 Borderland Veteran: I Pick Up a Fallen Empress from the Start 边关悍卒：开局捡个亡国女帝 (The comic adaptation, The Lonely City Shines Across Mountains and Rivers, is now available. Please check it out.) More than a decade after the Yu Dynasty was founded, aristocratic clans dominate the court and govern through civil rule. The border troops go unpaid year after year, and their lives are worth less than grass. Shen Lie was an elite soldier in his previous life. After transmigrating, he becomes a dull-witted frontier soldier whom everyone can bully at Heihe Fort, the foremost outpost 73kReads8.6Score5.6k14d adds
- 137 EN Immortal Cultivation: I Attest to the Path of Immortality with a Dao Fruit 修仙：我以道果证仙途 [Classic cultivation] [No System] [Steady, slow-burn progression] [I beseech the Lunar Deity: using the Jade Spring Breath Cultivation Method as a foundation, derive a fundamental technique suited to my path!] [Taking water's yielding nature, the moon's revolving phases, communion with the seasons, and the reflection of the soul's intent, I obtain the Moon-Worshipping Illumination Method!] [I beseech the Lunar Deity: using the Heavenly Frost Heart-Washing Record as a foundation, derive a fund 67.8kReads8.4Score7.1k14d adds
- 138 1853: Reshaping the Han People's Realm 1853，重塑汉人天下 [Late Qing Dynasty] [Struggle for Supremacy] [Development] [No System] The third year of the Xianfeng reign, 1853 in the Western calendar. That year, Jinling fell, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officially took control of Tianjing. Anti-Qing forces reached their peak. That year, Sun Huai'an formed a local militia in the name of defending his home and country, training his own new army. That year, the Small Sword Society launched an uprising in Shanghai, and Sun Huai'an knew his opportunity had 41.3kReads8.1Score3.4k14d adds
- 139 My System Cheated on Me, So I Got Half the System 系统劈腿，判给我半个系统 Once upon a time. A brilliant Host like me was right there in front of the System, but it didn’t cherish me. Instead, it chose to keep two relationships going at once. Only after I grew into a mighty power through going it alone did the System regret everything. There’s no greater pain in the world of Systems. If the System could have another chance, I think it would stop and turn back to wait for me. 5.6kReads8.0Score20314d adds
- 140 Frontier Army: From Claiming a Convict Woman to Unifying the World 边军：从领取罪女开始，一统天下 [Not a good person] [Multiple heroines] [Decisive and ruthless] [Frontier power struggle] [Blood-and-iron scheming] [Alternate history] [Imperfect protagonist] (The protagonist makes mistakes and suffers defeats.) Transmigrating to the frontier isn't a dream of waking up with the world in your hands. It's a struggle to survive with your head on the line. Briquette coal, the Mo Dao, fine steel: in a time of chaos, technologies that can enrich the country and strengthen its army aren't just source 198.8kReads8.6Score25.3k14d adds
- 141 The Ward Boss Only Wants to Serve the People 坊主大人只想为民服务 Other people cultivate immortality by meditating, refining qi, and slaying demons for their treasures. Ye Guanqing cultivates by fixing public toilets, handing out coupons, and teaching the Eight Brocades. After failing the civil service exam five years in a row in his previous life, he transmigrated and was promptly parachuted in as the head of the shabbiest market town on the Canglan Continent. Faced with a Grade D market town on the verge of closure, dozens of freeloading rogue cultivators, a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 In a Chaotic Age, the Mohists Take Up Arms to Protect the People 乱世墨者持器守苍生 In a chaotic age, a Mohist wields his weapon to protect all living beings. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Water Margin Demon Stars Are All My Resources: From Traits to Kingship 水浒魔星皆我资粮：从词条到王业 The Oath of the Liangshan Brotherhood? A legacy of loyalty and righteousness? Wang Ying, the Short-Legged Tiger, takes hearts and livers to sober up. Zhu Gui, the Dry-Land Crocodile, uses human fat to light his lamps! Deng Fei, the Fiery-Eyed Lion, eats human flesh until his eyes turn red! Song Jiang plots to cut off Qin Ming's escape route. Wu Yong kills Zhu Tong's young master to force him up the mountain! Dong Ping steals a man's wife and daughters, then wipes out his entire household! Sun Er 97.7kReads8.6Score12k14d adds
- 144 From the Start: From Delivery Driver to Secret Agent 开局上岸，从外卖员成秘密特勤 (Not a pure spy thriller + Urban power fantasy + Reporting crimes + Catching spies.) Gu Cheng'an, a man in his thirties who has accomplished nothing, accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the [Justice Assistant System]. Under the most inconspicuous guise, he walks the line between light and darkness, upholds justice, and protects his country and people. 13.2kReads8.8Score55714d adds
- 145 I'm in High School, So What Is This Incense-Based Cultivation Thing? 人在高中，香火证道什么鬼？ [Not high-martial arts + daily life + school + comedy + unhinged antics + memes + absurdity + campus belle + multiple heroines] Lu Haonan, sixteen, is a new first-year student at Yanchuan High School. On the first day of school, a System dropped out of the sky and insisted that he'd transmigrated to the primordial world and become the local Earth God. The iced tea his childhood friend gave him? It called it ten-thousand-year-old spiritual liquid. The English textbook his teacher handed out? It c 174.2kReads8.9Score23.7k14d adds
- 146 Reincarnating Across Myriad Worlds, I Gain Countless Mythic Blessings! 轮回万界，亿万神话词条加身！ [Multiverse Reincarnation + Traits + Transmigration + System] Yun Yi transmigrates to a world of the supernatural. The good news: he has a System. The bad news: the System only activated after he transmigrated, and it refuses to recognize anything that happened before. The even worse news: the System spends all day urging him to “travel to another world,” like a maniac. The worst news of all: he’s about to lose his mind. When he was eighteen, a gravely wounded supernatural woman barged into his 28.3kReads8.0Score3.6k14d adds
- 147 Late Ming: Stop Rushing Me! This Governor Just Wants to Slack Off 明末：别催了！我这巡抚只想摸鱼 Chen Du, a modern office drone, transmigrated into the late Ming Dynasty as the son of a Sichuan merchant. He spent all forty thousand taels of silver he had just to buy an easy government post in Zhejiang, where he could lie flat and stay alive. But Chongzhen issued an order transferring him straight to Shanxi, making him governor of the province: a northern frontier death trap that his predecessor had failed to escape despite submitting seventeen resignation letters. Beacon fires blazed acros 751Reads—Score12314d adds
- 148 I Become the Chieftain of Liangshan Marsh 我在水泊梁山当寨主 At the end of the Northern Song dynasty, he transmigrates into the world of Water Margin. From the start, a group of brothers urge him to rebel. Wenren Yan can only smile wryly. “You lot have really put me through the wringer!” Wenren Yan’s roar shakes the heavens, his power commands the world and strikes fear into the eight directions. See how a peerless warlord rises from a bandit stronghold on Mount Liang to claim the imperial throne! 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Dreams Entrusted to the Realm: From Foot Soldier to Pillar of Peace 山河寄梦：从义军小兵到太平基石 After accidentally transmigrating to Shandong, under Jin rule during the Southern Song, programmer Shen Zhi seems to have neither a golden finger nor a System. But what he does have is a sincere heart and the resolve to protect others. He joins the rebel army, fights the Jin, swears brotherhood with Xin Qiji, and travels far across the grasslands, watching Temujin grow up. Returning to the Central Plains, he enters the imperial court and navigates the treacherous divide between power struggles a 442Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 150 Great Ming: I, Chongzhen, Will Never Hang Myself! 大明：朕，崇祯，绝不上吊！ [Reborn + hard-edged history + decisive and ruthless + naval hegemon + no System, but with memories of a past life] On Coal Hill, a strip of white silk brought an end to the Ming Dynasty's last shred of dignity. When Zhu Youjian opened his eyes again, he had returned to the seventh year of the Tianqi era. That year, he was still only the sixteen-year-old Prince of Xin. His imperial brother was gravely ill. Wei Zhongxian wielded power across the court, the eunuch faction controlled the government 67Reads—Score—14d adds
