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- 151 A Cheap Import Who Studied Abroad? Call Me the Father of Chips! 归国留洋水货？叫我芯片之父！ [The 1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] A young man from the new century transmigrates to 1955 as an overseas student returning to China, becoming one of the same group of ocean-liner returnees as Qian Xuesen. The original list of twenty-four people has inexplicably gained one additional name: his. However, this Stanford graduate in his former life actually graduated through his family's donations. He has no real knowledge in his head and is already someone about to be eliminat 389.1kReads8.7Score28.9k14d adds
- 152 Reviving the Great Ming: A Lone Minister Founds Constitutional Rule 中兴大明，我以孤臣开宪政 The protagonist, Su Ran, transmigrates into another world when the Tianqi Great Explosion occurs. Through a stroke of fortune, he takes over the original owner’s body and enters the chaotic final years of the Ming Dynasty. See: A modern transmigrator versus the chosen one of the age. Heaven itself seems determined to help the Qing, the chosen ones of this world, sending one disaster after another: droughts, locust plagues, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis... A whole new game of political intrigue, 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 After Emperor Taizong, Rebuilding the Tang Dynasty 太宗之后，再造大唐 "The streets are carpeted with the bones of nobles; the imperial treasury has burned to ashes of brocade! Chang'an has fallen six times, and the Son of Heaven has fled nine! The Huang Chao Rebellion erupts; the Tibetans, Dangxiang, and Khitan run rampant. The late Tang and Five Dynasties plunge the realm into chaos, with warlords ruling unchecked and foreign tribes running amok as the common people wail in misery! In an age of chaos, the world is a furnace and all things are copper. Massacring c 84.8kReads9.2Score6.3k14d adds
- 154 A History of the Ming Palace 明代宫闱史 Venture deep into the palace to explore the love and hatred between emperors and their consorts; delve into history and discover the twists and turns of feudal dynasties. Understand this series, and you understand the palace. Understand the palace, and you understand history. Understand history, and the realities of the world become clear. Palace romances are an important branch of traditional historical fiction. 33.9kReads9.6Score58814d adds
- 155 Falsely Accused of Cheating in the Imperial Exam? One Essay on the Six Kingdoms Shocks the World 被诬科举舞弊？一篇六国论惊天下 [No System + Court Intrigue + Literary Plagiarism + Rigorous Logic] Lu Linchuan, a top student in classical Chinese literature, unexpectedly transmigrates to the fictional Great Yu dynasty and becomes a poor scholar falsely accused of cheating in the imperial exams. Faced with oppression by the powerful, he takes up his brush and writes On the Six States, every word as sharp as a blade, stunning the entire court. From a dark prison cell to the steps of the Golden Hall, he uses his modern knowled 17.1kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 156 The Mountains and Rivers Endure, Dyed in Ink 墨染山河在 In the final years of the Dasheng Dynasty, the court falls into chaos and the realm crumbles. The emperor is obsessed with eternal life, neglects the affairs of state, and cares nothing for the people. Regent Zhu Heng seizes the opportunity to monopolize power. His allies fill the court, and he controls both the military and the government. Crushing taxes and forced labor burden the people, driving them from their homes and leaving the realm in misery. The once-prosperous dynasty teeters on the 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Steady Chongzhen, Starting with Saving Wei Zhongxian 稳健崇祯，从救下魏忠贤开始 [Ming dynasty + contending for supremacy + no System + Chongzhen] Transmigrating to the Ming dynasty, he becomes Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian, at Coal Hill. The land is in ruins, the sun and moon have lost their light, and the people are suffering. If that is how things stand, then I shall bear the stars on my back and shoulder the sun and moon! From the start, I save the dying Wei Zhongxian and confiscate the estates of the eight great Shanxi merchant clans! Rebellion? Kill! Manchu invaders? 27.3kReads8.6Score2.9k14d adds
- 158 I'm in the Spring and Autumn Period, and I Really Don't Want to Transmigrate! 人在春秋，我真的不想穿越啊！ Other people are overjoyed when they transmigrate. When it happens to Lou Ling, he can only look miserable. The moment he opens his eyes, Lou finds himself in the middle Spring and Autumn period, more than 2,500 years in the past, in an era when food, drink, and clothing are hard to come by, and anyone who isn’t a noble is treated like an insect. This is an age when gentlemen are as refined as jade and unskilled in deceit, and wars between states are governed by countless rules. Watch how Lou Li 8.7kReads8.6Score64114d adds
- 159 Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云 Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent 3.1kReads7.5Score19414d adds
- 160 The Art of Imperial Politics: The Jiajing Era 帝王心术：嘉靖时代 This novel offers a profound look at Jiajing’s transformation from an energetic reformer into an emperor obsessed with Daoism. Daoist priests such as Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen used mysticism to manipulate his inner world; Yan Song and his son won favor with Daoist prayers and monopolized power for twenty years; Xu Jie bided his time before finally bringing down the treacherous ministers; and Hai Rui risked his life to submit a memorial condemning the ills of the age. Together, these vivid ch 1.2kReads6.9Score11414d adds
- 161 Survive by Drawing Cards: One Legendary Card a Day for Everyone 全民抽卡求生，每天一张传说卡 [Survival + Ensemble Cast + Cards + Sane Values + Chinese-Style Incubus + Growing Protagonist + Classic Heroic Adventure] The Endless Road opened, and the entire world was plunged into an unstoppable death march. Monsters were everywhere, danger lurked at every turn, puzzles arose in desperate situations, and madness stretched on without end. It was a road to hell with no end, walked on foot as the sun and moon turned, year after year. Forward! Keep moving forward! Don't stop! Stop, and you die! 79.8kReads8.4Score8.9k14d adds
- 162 In Southern Ming, Beating the Qing Emperor Kangxi 人在南明，搓打康麻子 At the end of the Southern Ming, the last dynasty of Han Chinese rule, the Yongli Emperor fled west to Burma. The dynasty was doomed from the start. After transmigrating as a member of the imperial clan, the protagonist forms marriage alliances with warlords, outwits powerful ministers, schemes and deceives, seizes military command, and trains his troops to the limit. In the final showdown between the Ming and Qing, he turns the tide, slaughters Wu Sangui, drives the Shunzhi Emperor to his death 1.6kReads8.1Score10014d adds
- 163 National Fate: A Biological Aircraft Carrier Still Counts as an Aircraft Carrier, Right? 国运：生物航母也是航母吧？ [Raft Evolution] [Seafaring] [Parallel Universes] [Infinite-Flow] [Team] [No CP] [Mystery] (The world unfolds as the protagonist explores it, rather than following familiar tropes) A comic adaptation is out! This isn't a traditional national-destiny survival story, so please give it a few more chapters ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ Renyi transmigrated from the apocalypse. "Wait, what do you mean, an apocalyptic national-destiny game set in a parallel world? (눈‸눈)" "Wait... you're saying all I have to do is fish? 113.3kReads9.2Score13.3k14d adds
- 164 My Brother Is Calling for Help, but Grandpa Says Never to Look Back 弟弟在求救，祖父却说千万别回头 My younger brother was calling for help, but Grandfather said, "Whatever you do, don't look back." 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 EN Immortal Cultivation: This Is How the Unorthodox Do It 修仙：旁门左道就是这样的 [Classical-style cultivation] [No System] [Growth] [The clash between new and old cultivation methods] [The passage of time] [Some farming and management] [No level suppression] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fellow Daoist, rent a set of internal organs and a brain to help you cultivate!] [When you practice the Golden Core, you can dig up your ancestors and have them help you cultivate] [My family has a lineage stretching back ten thousand years, with the bones of a hundred thousand grandmaster martia 146.8kReads8.5Score12.8k14d adds
- 166 Zhao Gouzi's Struggles in Ancient Times 赵狗子的古代奋斗史 At the end of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Gouzi was born. The Ming was visibly in decline, while the world hurtled into the Age of Discovery, with wealth pouring in from across the seas. Zhao Gouzi lifted his chin and resolved to catch the last wave of the Age of Discovery, sending the peoples of Huaxia sailing across the seas to conquer new lands! 8.1kReads8.9Score67414d adds
- 167 A Soul's Journey to the End of the Jin Dynasty, Starting at Yumenguan 魂越晋末，从玉门关开始 She transmigrates into the chaotic final years of the Jin dynasty and starts by finding an oasis and recruiting refugees. Tang Yu swears to put an end to this blood-soaked age of chaos. He will unite the Western Regions and enter the Central Plains. The court and its people have already fled south; from the north, I will reclaim the Han spirit. The story begins with a ten-year-old body stationed at Maquankou within Yumen Pass. It follows a passionate young man from a later age on his journey to 3.3kReads6.4Score29114d adds
- 168 My Nephew Is the Chongzhen Emperor: Building an Everlasting Ming Dynasty 家侄崇祯，打造大明日不落 He transmigrates into the Ming dynasty and mistakes Emperor Chongzhen for his nephew. From then on, he becomes an overprotective uncle! A faction called the Donglin Party bullies my nephew and seizes his family’s property? Kill their leader and wipe that accursed faction off the map! A postman named Li Chuang forces my nephew to hang himself? I’ll rebel! Let this uncle beat him until he loses all his teeth! The Tungusic savages killed my nephew’s people and want to take his empire, too? Don’t be 7.7kReads9.1Score57814d adds
- 169 I Bragged on Bihu, So Why Did the Government Take Me Seriously? 我在逼乎吹牛，国家怎么当真了 [No System + Slow Pace + White Moonlight + No Harem + Building the Nation Through Industry] In 2011, just before the high school class divisions, Gu Yu was reborn. The first thing he did wasn’t buy lottery tickets or invest in property. He switched to the humanities track and took the seat beside Su Nian. The second thing he did was borrow her computer and post a prediction on Zhihu that no one would believe. The European debt crisis, mobile internet, digital payments, new energy vehicles, artif 173.4kReads8.8Score15k14d adds
- 170 You Wanted Me to Be a Treacherous Official, but My Entire Family Is Loyal? 让你当奸臣，你满门忠烈？ Other people transmigrate to the Ming Dynasty and become powerful ministers for beautiful wives, concubines, and authority over the whole court. Mu Zhengju became a powerful minister for the blessings he could earn in the next life after death! To rack up enough blessing points, he lived to a hundred, becoming a living fossil, a veteran of six reigns, and tutor to three emperors. [Ding! You tricked Prince of Yan Zhu Di into successfully launching the Jingnan Campaign. The Ming Dynasty’s military 56.2kReads7.6Score3.8k14d adds
- 171 The Martial World Is Way Too Dark 武道人族还是太阴间了 In the interstellar age, martial arts flourished throughout human civilization. The Five Martial Gods stood at its pinnacle, with countless Divine Realm experts guarding them as they ruled over more than a hundred galaxies. As a hegemonic civilization, humanity had produced one talented generation after another over millions of years. In a society where everyone practiced martial arts, geniuses were as numerous as the stars. Beyond humanity, the threat of cosmic disasters loomed close, while cou 58.4kReads8.4Score5k14d adds
- 172 My Grandpa Is the Daoist Emperor 我爷爷是道士皇帝 His grandfather practices Daoist arts and seeks medicinal remedies. He won't live in the imperial palace, preferring a Daoist temple... His father is a womanizer who stays in the palace, working tirelessly as a busy little bee in the imperial harem... Young Zhu Yijun quietly watches them perform from the sidelines, thinking to himself, “Now that you're done, it's my turn to put on a show...” 69.6kReads9.0Score7k14d adds
- 173 Great Ming: I Beg the Emperor to Punish Me Every Day, and Zhu Yuanzhang Is Losing It 大明：我天天死谏，朱元璋人麻了 On the eve of Crown Prince Zhu Biao's death, Lin Hao unexpectedly transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes a censor. He also activates a time-travel System: if Zhu Yuanzhang executes him, he'll return to the modern world and enjoy the pinnacle of life. Lin Hao embarks on a reckless campaign to get himself killed. He lambastes Old Zhu for ruining the country, declaring that the maritime bans, the Ancestral Instructions of the Ming Dynasty, the civil service examinations based on the Eight-Le 13kReads8.5Score99614d adds
- 174 A Junior Banner Soldier in the Late Qing 清末小旗兵 Transmigrating to the late Qing was bad enough. To make matters worse, I became a soldier in the Eight Banners! Fu Ning thought he'd reached the end of the road, but since he was here, he might as well leave something behind. This is the story of a university student in an obscure field struggling to survive in a time of chaos, and of an ordinary person striving to change things in that era. 12.1kReads8.7Score92614d adds
- 175 I Am a Tyrant in the Ming Dynasty 我在大明当暴君 You think I don't know you're secretly colluding with the Manchus? You think I don't know you've been hiding your commercial taxes? The southeast is lost in drunken revelry, while Shaanxi lies barren for a thousand miles, strewn with starving corpses! The court's ministers care nothing for the people's lives or the fate of the realm. They suck the lifeblood from the Ming and carve the flesh from the people! Even an ordinary man's fury can drench the ground in blood. Do you know what happens when 4kReads8.9Score24114d adds
- 176 The Great Ming's Number One Troublemaker 大明第一搅屎棍 [No System + No cheat abilities + Saving the Ming + Farming + Hegemony + Colonization + Lie-flat lifestyle] He transmigrates to the spring of Chongzhen Year 11 and becomes the youngest son of the Duke of England's household, doted on by everyone. Having been given a second life, Zhang Shikang refuses to work himself to the bone again. All he wants is to live honestly as a wastrel. But the Ming dynasty is doomed to collapse in just six years, and his whole family will perish without a trace. For 4kReads8.8Score32114d adds
- 177 Reborn, I Decide to Become a Monk from the Start 重生归来，开局我要出家 73Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 178 From the Start on a Late Ming Battlefield: Three Kills in My Debut 开局明末战场，首秀三连杀 [Late Ming + war + a soldier's perspective + not a power fantasy + an ordinary man's resolve to defend his home and country] The whole court curses and vows to destroy the barbarians; a mighty army marches forth from the borderlands! What is the use of grand ambitions? At Sarhu, a lake of blood was left behind. I am Wang Jiu, one of the most ordinary people in the great tide of transmigrators, and an utterly inconspicuous foot soldier on the battlefields of the late Ming. In historians' account 2.7kReads9.0Score18314d adds
- 179 EN What Do You Mean I Turned Evil After I Washed Away My Sins? 什么叫我洗白后，她们全部黑化了 [Japanese-Style Western Fantasy + Sword and Sorcery + Multiple Heroines + Dungeons + Misinterpretation Comedy + Hilarious + Love Rival Showdowns] Good news: I've transmigrated into the world of a yuri visual novel, and I'm the only male character with a handsome portrait. Bad news: I've transmigrated into Greg Sass, a villain whom the developers maliciously gave a whopping 1,380 death CGs in the original game. To escape all sorts of deadly endings, he has no choice but to enter the equally dange 228.5kReads9.0Score27.3k14d adds
- 180 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
- 181 Great Ming: You Punch a Warhorse to Death, and You Say You Want to Be a Civil Official? 大明一拳打死战马你说要当文官？ Chen Dong transmigrates to the Yongle era. During Zhu Di’s first northern campaign, he starts out tending horses in the rear with Yu Qian and awakens the Immortal Civil Official System. Since he is on the battlefield, why is the System’s first reward the strength of a hegemon? What? The System is only active for three days? If he doesn’t become one of Zhu Di’s civil officials within three days, the System will shut down automatically, take back his rewards, and start a death countdown. Just then 2.6kReads—Score11614d adds
- 182 EN Swords & Sorcery: My Adventurer's Guide 西幻：我有一本冒险者指南 [DND-Inspired + Adventurers + Warriors + Fantasy] A soul from Earth unexpectedly transmigrated to a world of swords and magic. The good news: He has a golden finger, an obscure book called The Adventurer's Guide. Complete quests to earn experience, level up, and gain feats and attributes. The bad news: He transmigrated right into a cult's sacrificial ritual, and he himself is the offering. Things aren't as grand and glorious as he imagined. Renato's life in this otherworld isn't going smoothly. 133kReads9.1Score16.8k14d adds
- 183 Six Hundred Million Years of Evolution: From Trilobite to Mythic Progenitor 进化六亿年，从三叶虫到神话始祖 [Beast Protagonist] [No System] [No Romance] [Never Takes Human Form] (Also known as Supernatural Evolution: Beginning 600 Million Years Ago) In 2030, humanity finally discovered the secret of evolution. Aether: a strange energy that spreads from the planet’s core in the form of tides. It can accelerate the rate of mutation in a population millions of times over, enabling a leap in life’s evolution and entry into the supernatural realm. Just as the Awakened defeated the other species that had e 122kReads9.1Score12.7k14d adds
- 184 Gathering the Talents of the Three Kingdoms to Battle Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing! 聚三国之才，战秦汉唐宋元明清！ What would happen if all the great figures of history lived in the same era? Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng has just unified the six states. Seeing powerful Han, prosperous Tang, Mongol Yuan, cultured Song, and great Ming realms spring up around him, he falls into deep thought. Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, points his sword straight at the peerless Genghis Khan: “If the enemy can come, so can I!” Zhu Yuanzhang silently sets down his bowl. Watching Cao Cao slaughter his way across the land, his eyes blaz 11.5kReads8.0Score54214d adds
- 185 The Rise of the Late Ming: A Reborn Man’s Celebration 明末崛起：重生者的狂欢 What should you do after arriving in the late Ming dynasty? The last unified feudal dynasty founded by the Han people was already nearing its end. Productivity was low, there was no industry, most people couldn't even read, and there was a severe imbalance between men and women. The only solution was to give the people land so they could eat their fill, then build schools where children could learn to read and do arithmetic. Next, establish a system that could be continuously improved, rebuild p 786Reads8.0Score10914d adds
- 186 The Chuang King Besieges the City, Bringing 1 Billion Taels of Silver to Transmigrate Into the Chongzhen Era 闯王围城，带10亿白银穿越崇祯 [No System + No Harem + Bloody Battles + Suppressing Pirates + Political Intrigue + Conquest] Mei'er... why were you born into the imperial family? Zhu Long, a university student and soldier, transmigrates as the Chongzhen Emperor, and from the start, he’s supposed to kill a princess. With Li Zicheng’s million-strong army surrounding the capital, Zhu Long glares at the sea of rebel troops and raises the Son of Heaven’s sword in fury. He won’t hang himself! He won’t accept his fate! He’ll kill co 8.3kReads8.6Score77014d adds
- 187 My Given Name Is Zhang Haogu 学名张好古 In Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, there lived a wealthy man. The rich man had only one son, named Zhang Haogu. Though he couldn't read, he passed the imperial examinations and entered the Hanlin Academy. Somehow, he even became a princess's husband. He only wanted to survive in a time of chaos, but had no choice except to rack his brains and find a way to end the war quickly. Yet war was everywhere: struggle, life and death, country and family. A man should be full of fiery spirit, riding through b 71Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Great Ming: I Told You to Hang Yourself, Not Rebuild the Ming Dynasty 大明：让你上吊，没让你重建大明 He opens his eyes on the eve of the Jiashen upheaval. Li Zicheng has already breached Beijing, the Manchus beyond the passes are eyeing the capital, and court officials are closing in to force the issue. Faced with a nightmare from the start, what should the Chongzhen Emperor do… This work’s style: history as its bones, art as its wings. It respects real history and does not rewrite established events, using artistic storytelling to fill the regrets history left behind. A note for readers: This 5.7kReads8.9Score47614d adds
- 189 I’m the Emperor, What Do I Have to Fear? 我是皇帝我怕谁？ He woke up to find that he had transmigrated into the body of the empire's last crown prince. When his useless father abandoned the country and fled, Lin Feng led his subordinates in a fierce counterattack. Many years later, as the empire rose once more from the ruins of defeat, his subordinates draped the imperial robes over his shoulders. Lin Feng could not help but exclaim, “You people have really made a mess of things for me!” 252.1kReads9.1Score17.5k14d adds
- 190 The Tang Crown Prince 大唐皇太子 One day a crown prince, the next a commoner. Li Chengqian ultimately brought about his own downfall. Then one day, I suddenly became him. In this unfamiliar era, I had planned to settle down and live quietly. But someone wanted to wipe out every last trace of me. If that's how it is, then I'll have no choice but to risk everything. I'll stake my life to reclaim all that I've lost. 2.9kReads8.3Score18514d adds
- 191 A Rookie Forensic Doctor Cracks Major Cases, and Bigwigs Line Up to Back Me 小法医破大案，大佬排队给我撑腰 Shen Ming, a forensic pathologist who has just joined the criminal investigation unit after graduating, discovers that his eyes can always spot details others overlook. At crime scenes, important clues always appear in his vision with strange red borders. So here’s the question: if something is boxed in, do you take the shot? My name is Shen Ming, a forensic pathologist with a cheat ability who walks alongside the dead. 311kReads9.1Score47.6k14d adds
- 192 The Sage of the Late Han Dynasty 汉末圣人 In the final years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the court is in turmoil, people have lost their old ways, but morality has yet to disappear. At this time, Cao Cao is still the impassioned young man who has endured a decade of hardship without letting his ardor fade. Yuan Shao is still living in seclusion, waiting for the world to change. Dong Zhuo is still leading the charge and defending the Han Empire. Liu Bei is still a boy studying under Lu Zhi, fond of dogs, horses, and music… An age of chao 409Reads8.6Score12314d adds
- 193 An Identity-Buying System? I’ve Been Raking in Black Market Loans from the Start 身份购买系统？我开局狂撸黑网贷 [Decisive and ruthless]+ [No female lead]+ [Villain???] Lin Fei was all set to go to college, but when his train passed through a tunnel, it brought him to another world. This was a world where rules reigned supreme. And those rules were controlled by people with one privileged identity after another. When Lin Fei transmigrated, he received the Identity Purchase System, a gift from the will of Blue Star. It let him buy any privileged identity. [Identity: Police Officer Privileges: 1. Issue fines 57.3kReads8.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 194 Lida's Wish 丽达的心愿 [A serf girl accused of witchcraft after breaking up a couple from the start: how can she survive the medieval witch-hunting frenzy?] [Alternate history | Western Middle Ages | A turbulent era and its many characters | Vocational ideals | Love and friendship | Realism] [If this time we choose love, kindness, and courage, could things turn out differently?] Theme: A story about love, growth, understanding, and healing Events: The witch hunts, the Renaissance, the Reformation Elements: A serf r 174Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 EN Who Removed the Exit Button from My Xianxia Game? 谁把我仙侠游戏退出键扣了？ At first, I only wanted to create a fresh account for a holographic xianxia game... I had already selected the highest difficulty, simply to roll a better spiritual root and sell the account. But then... can someone tell me where the exit button is? Where did my enormous game exit button go? 366.6kReads8.5Score42.1k14d adds
- 196 Scheming for Power in Northern Wei: This Xuande Is Too Powerful 北魏谋国：这个玄德太强了 (An alternate-history story, not based on official history) Liu Jing transmigrates to the city of Sishi in Northern Wei during its final years. There he unexpectedly meets the teenage Yang Zhong, still a farmer, and the rich young heir Gao Aocao. Thanks to the Liu family’s ancestral secret art, he successfully fools the two brothers into swearing brotherhood over chicken in a field of chrysanthemums. History would call them the “Three Chrysanthemum Brothers.” Later, Liu Jing becomes Er Zhu Rong’ 3.6kReads7.3Score23114d adds
- 197 Warlord: I’m from Fenghua, So What If I Become President? 军阀：我奉化人，当个总统怎么了 In the nineteenth year of the Republic, Li Xuewen, county magistrate in Fujian Province, was forced to flee overseas to Nanyang after offending the Song family. He led eight hundred elite members of his security corps across the sea to Borneo, planning to restore the Lan Fang Republic and establish a nation abroad. President Li says, “No one understands nation-building better than I do.” Is nation-building difficult in its early stages? No matter. There will naturally be fools eager to come to t 303.5kReads9.0Score32.9k14d adds
- 198 EN This Great Wei Could Also Bear the Xiahou Name 这大魏，亦可姓夏侯 In the late Three Kingdoms period, the realm is divided among three powers. The Wei imperial clan is dwindling, while the great families watch hungrily from the sidelines. Xiahou Xian is reborn as Cao Cao's grandson. As a third-generation official of Wei, he will never let the Sima clan seize the imperial throne in this life. Sima Yi: Even if I wanted to seize power, where are my trusted followers? And where are my sons? Sima Shi: Father, when will I be able to enter government service? Sima 15.8kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 199 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Party Struggles Throughout Chinese History 中国历代党争 Chinese Factional Struggles Through the Ages is a history of power struggles between factions, between factions and imperial authority, and between individuals. Using strategy as its thread and history as its fabric, it recounts a host of tangled stories. Covering three thousand years of factional strife, from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods through the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the book details major events, rises and falls, triumphs and humiliations, and 296Reads7.7Score10014d adds
