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- 1 In the Great Ming, I Conquer the Nine Frontiers 人在大明,横推九边 [Rousing Action] [Political Intrigue] [Conquest] [Ensemble Cast] (The rating just came out and will rise later.) In the Tianqi era of the Ming Dynasty, the empire was beset by internal strife and external threats... Wang Ma transmigrated to this world and rose from a humiliated concubine-born son of a military officer to an unmatched God of War who struck fear into the Nine Frontiers. At the bloody Battle of Hun River, he fought alongside Qin Liangyu and dealt a crushing blow to Huang Taiji, Nur 32.4kReads8.2Score3.4kShelves
- 2 Reborn in the Ming Dynasty, I Become the Emperor Everyone Calls a Tyrant! 魂穿大明,天下成我为昏君! (The Spirit of the Ming Dynasty) No System, no golden finger. Everyone says I am a foolish, reckless emperor who indulges in pleasure. But who knows that beneath this body's surface lies a soul from the modern world? I feign madness to fool the court, while secretly making plans, reforming the government, opening up the seas, and expanding the realm. When the day comes for sails to stretch across thousands of miles, the whole world will kneel at the feet of the Ming Dynasty! 1.7kReads—Score101Shelves
- 3 Great Ming: I Swore Brotherhood with Wanli, and Zhang Juzheng Laughed in Exasperation 大明:我和万历结拜,张居正气笑 In the seventh year of the Wanli reign, there were occasional droughts and floods across the land, but all in all, the weather was favorable. Zhang Juzheng’s reforms were already bearing fruit, and the wealth and opportunities brought by Longqing’s opening of maritime trade hinted at a revival of the Great Ming. Everything was proceeding along its destined course, until Lin Lang transmigrated into this world. … Xu Wei: Lin Lang is my friend despite our difference in age. We forged imperial edic 134.7kReads8.6Score13kShelves
- 4 Ming Secrets: The Worthless Rule the Land 大明秘闻,刍狗当道 [Schemes and Intrigue] [Dark Power Struggles] [Imperial Palace Secrets] [The Shifting Nature of Humanity] [No System, Not Pure Wish Fulfillment] [No Idiots, No Dumbing Down] The Zhu Ming Dynasty was once the world's wealthiest, strongest, and most populous feudal dynasty, ruled by absolute imperial authority with power balanced to perfection. But the Zhu Ming Dynasty also bore every sign of an impending dynastic collapse: land seized into the hands of a few, the treasury in ruins, border threats 2.1kReads8.8Score171Shelves
- 5 Late Ming: Tear the Realm to Pieces, Then Rebuild the Great Ming 明末:山河全部打烂,再建大明 Historians of later generations divided the Ming dynasty into three periods: the Northern Ming, the Southern Ming, and the Later Ming. Zhu Changrun, founder of the Later Ming, has received mixed assessments from China and abroad. A cold-blooded ruler, a racist, an emperor who rode the wave of industrialization, an Eastern Caesar... Western scholars often call him cold-blooded because, as the Northern Ming neared its end, he stood by without lifting a finger while members of the Zhu clan in the n 42.9kReads8.1Score4.2kShelves
- 6 The Ruthless Hero of Northern Wei 北魏枭雄 The Jin dynasty’s fortunes crumbled, plunging the Central Plains into chaos. The Five Barbarians vied for control of the heartland, and turmoil engulfed the land. Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital and introduced reforms, blending the customs of the Hu and Han peoples in an effort to usher in lasting peace. Yet the reforms sowed trouble. The nobles grew alienated, undercurrents churned at court, and cracks began to form in the foundations of the state. Since ancient times, prosperity and decline 225.3kReads9.1Score25.7kShelves
- 7 Blazing Flames Sweep the Plains: Whose Ming Dynasty Is Burning? 烈焰燎原,谁的大明在燃烧 [Historical Setting] [No System] [Transmigration] [Ensemble Cast] [Struggle for Supremacy] [A nation's fortunes at the bottleneck of civilization] [The budding of capitalism entangled with tradition] [Less court politics, more focus on ordinary people] History isn't about romance and beauty. It's where human nature collides. It's about surviving with no resignation, no surrender, and no regrets. In the Great Ming dynasty, wastrels, hypocrites, and selfish men held power. Nurgan, the Hetao r 15.1kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
- 8 Year Eleven of Chongzhen: From the Start, I Save Lu Xiangsheng 崇祯十一年:开局先救卢象昇 Strong logic + meticulous historical research + partly wish-fulfillment + political maneuvering + war + no System + struggle for supremacy + no transmigration No System, no transmigration. He relies entirely on his knowledge of history and his ability to read people, step by step forging a different future for the realm. When Chongzhen wakes from a dream, he discovers that he can see the historical epitaphs above everyone’s heads. [Lu Xiangsheng], Made his last stand at Jiazhuang. His army was w 144.2kReads8.6Score25.6kShelves
- 9 Great Ming: Bandit General, Sage of War, Great Rebel 大明,山贼大将军,兵圣大反贼 [No mindless characters, no pure power fantasy] [The dark side of human nature in the halls of power] [The truth behind the Ming emperors' frequent untimely deaths] [Monsters and demons at the end of a dynasty] [Cunning] [Scheming for the realm] The Ming Dynasty is incredibly unlucky: internal strife, foreign threats, natural disasters, man-made calamities, fiscal collapse, factional infighting... every condition for a dynasty's fall has come together. In the first year of the Taichang reign, a 2.5kReads8.4Score194Shelves
- 10 Late Ming: Chongzhen the Rebel 明末:造反者崇祯 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 31.8kReads8.3Score2.4kShelves
- 11 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 69.3kReads8.6Score7.9kShelves
- 12 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 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Transmigrating to the Great Ming to Become an Emperor Who Runs a Business 穿越大明当个老板皇帝 In the ninth month of the forty-eighth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty welcomed an emperor who ran the country like a business: Zhu Youxiao. (This book has no internet conspiracy theories.) But this boss had a bit of a temper. As soon as he transmigrated, Li Xuanshi tried to stop him from meeting his ministers? He personally smashed a eunuch to death, walked out of the Qianqing Palace, and put an end to the Palace Transfer Case. He didn’t know how to be an emperor on his first day on the throne? 21.3kReads8.4Score2kShelves
- 14 Transmigrating as Chongzhen: Only Three Months of Imperial Rule Remain 穿越崇祯:只剩三个月国祚 [A happy ending for the heroes of the late Ming + Industrial Revolution + global rule + no System + no harem] (The story is mainly about saving a nation on the brink of collapse and uniting the world under one rule!) Transmigrate as the Chongzhen Emperor with only three months left before the dynasty falls? Then defy fate and change history! Zhu Mingyuan, a modern physics researcher, opens his eyes to find himself as the Chongzhen Emperor. Li Zicheng's army is at the gates. The imperial treasury 99.7kReads8.6Score12.4kShelves
- 15 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 141.4kReads9.4Score17.2kShelves
- 16 Oh No! His Majesty Is Leading the Peasant Army in Rebellion! 不好啦!陛下率领农民军造反啦! In the final months of the tenth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming dynasty, the capital fell. A million peasant rebels surged into the imperial palace like a flood and stood at attention, saluting Emperor Chongzhen as one. "Comrade Emperor! We have completed the task of liberating the capital. Awaiting your instructions!" Under the bewildered gazes of the entire court, Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "You've all worked hard, comrades!" Yes, even though he had transmigrated into this life as a 116.3kReads9.4Score14.4kShelves
- 17 Great Ming: From Humble Beginnings to Duke of the Highest Rank 大明:从寒门到超品公爵 Lin Wenyuan, a modern scholar of Ming history, died suddenly and awoke in Suzhou in the fifth year of Hongzhi, inhabiting Shen Yan, a penniless orphan whose parents were dead and who was near death with a raging fever. From the start, he was caught in the great Su-Song flood recorded in the history books. He used a dream from his “father” to report the disaster, traded his mother’s keepsakes for food, and plugged the walls with plant ash. Even in desperate straits, his talent began to shine. At 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Iron Hoof's Lament 铁蹄哀明 [Hunted by the Tartars from the start, later I hunt them down] Han Lin transmigrates to the dying days of the Ming Dynasty, just as the Battle of Ningyuan takes place. Captured and made a booi, he spends six months building up his strength before leading a group of fellow booi in rebellion! But by a twist of fate, he ends up killing the chieftain and embarking on a completely different life. Nurhaci: “Who was the one who made him a booi in the first place?!” Hong Taiji: “Han Lin, you've brought 10.9kReads8.6Score872Shelves
- 19 His Name Is Zhu Youtang 他叫朱佑樘 There are so many emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone writes about Hongwu, Yongle, Jiajing, and Chongzhen, but I insist on writing about Zhu Youcheng. A nearly perfect emperor, with one point deducted for dying young. Zhu Youcheng: Being crown prince is so hard. My mother died early, I didn't meet my father until I was six, and my position as heir is hanging by a thread. Noble Consort Wan: I am a good person. I've never hurt anyone. I'm not some wicked viper! Zhu Jianshen: I am a good emperor 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Transmigrating as Liu Yizhen: Joining Liu Yu’s Northern Expedition 穿越刘义真:从跟随刘裕北伐开始 [Historical Transmigration] + [Political Intrigue] + [Farming] + [Good Governance] + [Expansion] Liu Yu, founder of the Song dynasty, rose from humble beginnings. He destroyed Southern Yan, put down Lu Xun, and swallowed Later Qin, his ambition as boundless as a tiger's. He had already won eight tenths of the realm! At the time, the Song army was elite, its banners blotting out the sun. It could march north at any moment, unite China, and restore the glory of the Han. But! His achievements arous 103.8kReads8.7Score11.1kShelves
- 21 The Ming Dynasty in the Wake of the Tsunami 海啸大明 Heroes need not worry about what comes after them; the history books should resound with songs of their deeds. Blood-soaked warriors on the battlefield, demons and monsters in the bureaucracy, the tangled romances of courtesans and sea lords: all are brought to life as the Ming Empire is struck by a catastrophic wave of raids and calamities. Beset by troubles at home and abroad, the Ming Empire faces the ferocious Tatar Altan Khan in the north, whose forces raid and pillage with savage brutality 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 From the Start, I Take Yang Guifei by Force, Then Bring Peace to the Tang Dynasty 开局强纳杨贵妃,还给大唐太平年 No System. Real court intrigue. Meticulously researched. Faced with the three-way struggle between Li Longji, Li Heng, and Li Chu, and a value system already beginning to collapse, how will Li Tan, after transmigrating, restore the glory of the Tang Dynasty, step by step? In real history, no one was an NPC. Everyone chose the option that served their own interests best. A genuinely satisfying story told with historical realism. The Xuanwu Gate succession tradition has found its most outstanding 78.9kReads8.2Score10.2kShelves
- 23 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 72.3kReads8.6Score5.8kShelves
- 24 The Rise of the Clans 阀明 During the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty, the empire teetered on the brink of collapse. In the heartland, rebels crossed south from Mianchi, sweeping across the land like a flood bursting through a dam, with starving people caught in the torrent. In Liaodong to the north, the Later Jin repeatedly broke through the frontier, crossing the Great Wall to plunder at will. Mighty China could not muster a single general able to stand against them. The vast realm was on the verge of ruin, and the he 15.6kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 25 In the First Year of Jingkang, He Survived the Flames of War 靖康元年,他从战火中活了下来 After an accident, Wang Xun is thrown into the most brutal meat grinder of the Northern Song: the siege of Bianjing. Outside the gates, a hundred thousand foreign troops seethe with bloodlust. Inside, the absurd court tries to defend the city with "magic spells." He has no System or cheat, knows no peerless martial arts, and can barely make sense of the local dialect. His only bargaining chip is the vivid memory in his mind of the cataclysm about to unfold. The day the city falls, wails fill 851Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 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 3kReads7.5Score194Shelves
- 27 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 143.9kReads9.0Score16.8kShelves
- 28 A Survival Guide to the Late Ming: From the Start, I Pretend to Be a County Magistrate 明末生存指南:开局假冒知县 [Just Started Getting Ratings] [Multi-Character Dialogue] [Late Ming] [Rise to Power] [Farming] [Dual Transmigration] [Wild Imagination] Lin Mancang transmigrates, starting out as a lowly page. Before his young master can even take up his post, he is shot dead by bandits. Taking the young master's appointment papers, Lin Mancang impersonates him and becomes a county magistrate. But the county seat is crumbling, nine out of ten homes stand empty, and food and money are scarce. By chance, he obtai 6kReads8.0Score655Shelves
- 29 Ming Dynasty Overseas Soldier: Slapping Chongzhen from the Start 大明海外悍卒:开局掌掴崇祯 [Alternate History] + [Parallel World] + [Great Ming] + [System] + [Multiple Heroines] On the nineteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, a white silk noose atop Coal Hill was about to bring an era to an end. Just as Chongzhen kicked away the stone he was standing on, a lowly soldier from a Great Ming overseas garrison teleported back and slapped him across the face! “Die? Who gave you permission to die?!” “Dying is easy. The hard part is living to fight the Q 2Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 30 Carving a Path Through Blood, from the Kaihuang Era to Zhenguan 杀出血路,从开皇到贞观 No transmigration. No alternate history. No fictionalized retelling. No golden finger. In the eighth year of the Kaihuang era, 510,000 Sui troops launched a massive invasion of Chen from eight different routes, advancing south from Bashu in the west to the Canghai in the east. At the Battle of Baitugang, the Sui cavalry trampled the Chen army. Five hundred elite horsemen stormed Jiankang and captured Chen Shubao alive. Thus Jiangnan was pacified, and the realm was unified. Yang Guang vied for th 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 A Tang Dynasty Immortal, But Starting at Xuanwu Gate? 大唐长生者,但开局在玄武门? Three Hundred Tang Poems, two hundred of them recalling the glorious Tang! There is no one who doesn't love this magnificent dynasty, just as no one fails to yearn for Chang'an in its golden age! This is an age woven from poetry and song, an age awash in blood and fire! The camel bells along the Silk Road, the flickering lights in the bustling streets, the warmth of everyday life, the banners snapping in the wind along Vermilion Bird Street: together, they paint a picture of unparalleled splendo 329.6kReads8.3Score33.3kShelves
- 32 I Have a Secret Realm Connected to Every Dynasty 我有个秘境通各朝各代 At 76, he’s still working for the Heavenly Dao. He is Yang Guang reborn, making amends for Yang Guang’s sins. Zhu Yuanzhang arrives, Li Shimin arrives, the First Emperor arrives, and so do the Han founder and Emperor Wu... He discovers that historical figures are more than names or labels. They are real people, with virtues and flaws shaped by their times, not something to be judged on a whim. He takes crown princes as disciples, hoping to carry on their policies and build a golden age of Chines 1.7kReads—Score100Shelves
- 33 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 41.3kReads8.1Score3.4kShelves
- 34 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 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Heavenly Master's Fate-Changing Water Margin: A Side Story 天师改命水浒别传 With a casual divination, he foresaw the Jingkang Disaster, the Southern Song retreating to the south, and even the hundred thousand soldiers and civilians at Yashan leaping into the sea to die for their country. He saw the fate of the Great Song a hundred years later in its entirety. So he gave up being an immortal and transmigrated into the body of the wastrel Yan Qing, taking matters into his own hands to change the course of history. He saves Pang Wanchun at the martial arts arena, becomes 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 I'm a Military Engineer, and You Want Me to Save the Ming? 我一搞军工的,你让我拯救大明? [Traditional history] [Historical farming and development] [Survival in a chaotic age] [No System] [Military-industrial system] [Late Ming power struggle] Qin Feng, a technician at an arms manufacturing group and a major military history forum influencer, opens his eyes to find himself a low-ranking border officer in the second year of the Chongzhen reign, with only ten men under his command. Three days later, Hong Taiji’s fifty thousand Eight Banners troops breach the frontier. Historically, no 3.4kReads6.8Score207Shelves
- 37 The Great Ming's Lord of the Seas 大明镇海王 [Ming dynasty, soul transmigration, saving the Crown Princess, saving Zhu Ying, saving Zhu Biao, saving Empress Ma, saving Xu Da, saving Lan Yu] Zhang Wuxian transmigrates to the eleventh year of Hongwu. He plans to lie flat and do nothing, but his severe obsessive-compulsive disorder won’t let him tolerate anything “illogical,” so he has to fix it all. Even more absurdly, he has a System in his head that automatically provides solutions and supplies every time his compulsions flare up, and it d 2.3kReads—Score192Shelves
- 38 Rules for Transmigrators: I Become an Online Keyboard Warrior in Great Ming 穿越者守则:我在大明当键盘侠 (Alternate history + no System + no golden finger + imperial examinations and political intrigue + one female lead) Chen Ke, a transmigrator, enters the Jiajing era. From a boy who tended cattle to top scorer in the imperial examinations, from Hanlin compiler to Earl of Jinghai, he cuts a path through one challenge after another, navigating the treacherous court with care at every step. With a brush in his left hand and a sword in his right, he uses modern knowledge to maneuver among the uprigh 4.6kReads8.7Score299Shelves
- 39 The Ming Dynasty's Chief Strategist: Liu Bowen Reborn and Transmigrated to Set the World Right 大明首谋:刘伯温重生穿越定乾坤 [Reborn Power Fantasy] + [High-Martial Great Ming] + [Liu Bowen] + [System Comeback] + [Ender of Regrets] + [Tormented Romance and Political Intrigue] + [A Long Road to Winning Her Back] Zhu Biao dies in the Eastern Palace, Empress Ma passes away in her prime, and Liu Bowen drinks poison in bitter despair. Open the history books of the Ming, and every page is filled with regrets. What if he could live again? In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Liu Bowen, poison coursing through his body, is reb —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Father, Don't Hang Yourself. Your Son Has a Plan 父皇,别上吊,儿臣有办法 “You accuse me of usurping power? Fine, I’ve taken it!” With two thousand personal guards entering the northern frontier, Crown Prince Zhu Cilang of the Ming Dynasty launched a campaign of slaughter. He confiscated the Shanxi merchants’ wealth, executed the regional commander, reformed the frontier army, and secured Xuanfu! The court berated him as “brutal and heartless”? He shot back, “Without brutality, the Ming would have fallen long ago!” An imperial edict summoned him back? He burned it and 51.6kReads8.6Score5.2kShelves
- 41 The Meddlesome Troublemaker of Late Ming 明末搅屎棍 In the fourth year of Hongwu, the land lay in ruins. Yangzhou was particularly devastated, with corpses everywhere and people driven to eat their own children. To understand the people's suffering, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled incognito to Shanghu County. There, he seemed to have entered a paradise beyond the mortal world. Highways, skyscrapers, a world of delights: the county had it all! The elderly were cared for, children were educated, and when he saw Shanghu County Experimental Primary School, Zh 10.8kReads8.7Score682Shelves
- 42 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 726Reads—Score123Shelves
- 43 From the Start, I Live-Stream the Great Ming, and Huaxia Civilization Leads by Ages 开局直播大明,华夏文明断层领先 (This book is not intended to disparage the present or glorify the past. The world I've created is fictional, so please don't conflate it with reality. My goal is to work toward China's rise! Nothing else is intended!) My name is Han Bixing, and I transmigrated into the Ming Dynasty as a fool. Everyone calls me crazy and pelts me with stones because I hold up a battered bronze mirror and talk to the air. They don't know that the other side of the mirror is connected to more than six hundred year 6.7kReads9.3Score638Shelves
- 44 The Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen: The Empire's Collapse 崇祯十七年:帝国的崩塌 The Great Ming was at the height of its power and prosperity, yet collapsed overnight. What happened? This book is not a simple account of a dynasty's decline. It is a panoramic dissection of how a complex civilizational system crashed completely. Through the interwoven fates of more than twenty central figures, including the Chongzhen Emperor, Li Zicheng, Yuan Chonghuan, Wu Sangui, and Johann Adam Schall von Bell, we are drawn into the scene of an irreversible collapse. You will witness with yo 7.8kReads8.8Score582Shelves
- 45 War Game: I Unlocked the Entire Huaxia Civilization 战争游戏,我解锁了整个华夏文明 [War game] [Academy] [Civilization] [Cards] [Age of Empires] [National destiny contest] [Real-time strategy] The War Game begins. Civilizations become cards, and history is transformed into the edge of a blade. Every barracks, every warhorse, every commander will determine a civilization’s rise or fall. Some pursue a single, strongest unit type. Some blindly trust in overwhelming stats. But Zhong Yi chooses the hardest and most dangerous path of all: unlocking the entire Chinese system of warfar 44.4kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
- 46 Republican Era: The Divination Was a Disaster! 民国,卦了! [Entirely handwritten] [No System] [No harem] [A story for readers who like to think] [A panoramic portrait of Republican-era China] By Heaven’s decree, may he live long and prosper. His destiny belonged to Heaven. Yuan Fan took a furtive peek at it, only to stir up chaos across the Republic of China. Our story begins in 1923. That spring was quite lively… 48.7kReads8.9Score4.9kShelves
- 47 Listen, Let Me Explain! I'm Really Not a Fetishist! 你们听我解释,我真不是恋物癖! [Lovecraftian Supernatural] [Not Mindless] [No Repetitive Plot Loops] [No Formulaic Writing] One day, Li Yi opened a door and stepped into a strange world. The good news: supernatural beings exist here! The bad news: the supernatural is seriously messed up! What do you mean, you were stumped, so you opened your skull and reached inside to feel around? What do you mean, studying was too hard, so you tore pages out of a book and ate them? Oh... you're digesting knowledge. Friend, you just farted o 63.1kReads8.6Score9.9kShelves
- 48 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 61.5kReads8.8Score5.6kShelves
- 49 Great Ming: I Reform the Law with the Clan Genealogy 大明,我以族谱变法 During the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Shi transmigrates into the body of a scholar. He would never have believed that one day he would be bundled off to the Imperial Prison along with chickens and dogs. P.S. One female lead [a plot device, no romance]. No dumbing down, no System. 531Reads9.2Score102Shelves
- 50 Great Ming: Reborn as the Chongzhen Emperor, I Choose to Give Up 大明:开局穿成崇祯,我选择摆烂 (No System!! Not a naive, inexperienced protagonist!! Not a wish-fulfillment story!! If that bothers you, read with caution!! This is a Chongzhen transmigration story rooted in the historical facts of the late Ming!!) (Absolutely no System! Don't believe the bad-faith review-bombing from black PR studios! I've been targeted!) History's dead ends are never rewritten with a casual stroke of a transmigrator's pen. Yuan Chonghuan's crimes and contributions, Sun Chuanting's life and death, Li Zich 1.8kReads6.1Score107Shelves

















































