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- 1 Sky Screen: East Asia's Monster House Leaves the Ancestors Stunned 天幕：东亚怪物房惊呆老祖宗 Li Yi was an ordinary food delivery rider. In his spare time, he loved scrolling through short videos while eating. One day, his phone recommended a history explainer about The Great Peace Era: Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and Shi Chonggui provoked the Khitan until he was captured and forced to perform the goat-leading ritual... Watching, he cursed: “Idiot! Without the Yanyun defenses, the Central Plains are like an open door for invaders!” Unbeknownst to him, the sky 2.5kReads5.3Score108Shelves
- 2 Watching TikTok with the Ancestors on the Sky Screen 天幕观影和老祖宗们一起刷抖音 The protagonist is a human tool, and the story features short videos and historical videos. In this harsh society, Zhang Yuheng graduated from college only to find himself unemployed. After being rejected at his fifteenth job interview, Zhang Yuheng lay on his bed, disheartened, scrolling through short videos. Then he suddenly noticed an unknown app had appeared on his phone. Its description said he could earn money just by watching videos, but Zhang Yuheng scoffed at the idea. Still, with barel 12.1kReads8.0Score194Shelves
- 3 The Sky Screen Reveals the Future, and the Emperors Can't Sit Still 天幕曝光未来，皇帝们坐不住了 [Sky Screen + Historical Roundups + History + Videos + On-Screen Comments] (The protagonist is mostly just a tool for showing the sky screen. The content includes not only historical roundups, but also viral internet videos and memes.) Chen Yu transmigrated to a parallel world and acquired the “Video-Scrolling Tycoon System.” By scrolling through videos, he achieved financial freedom. But Chen Yu had no idea that his life was being broadcast across the myriad dynasties of history, and that peopl 1.2kReads5.7Score115Shelves
- 4 The Sky Screen Was Just Showing a Video, So Why Are the Three Realms in Turmoil? 天幕，刷个视频而已三界咋动荡了 [No romance + ensemble cast + history + Chinese culture + entirely fictional; any resemblance is purely coincidental + heroine is a plot device] Chen Meng'er is an ordinary wage earner. By chance, she buys a secondhand phone on a resale platform, and from then on, without her knowing, her phone “stabs her in the back.” System 007 is a fortune-collecting System. On its way back to the Space-Time Administration, it is caught in a temporal storm and forced to crash-land on Earth. With its energy de 4.9kReads7.5Score146Shelves
- 5 Live Across Time: My Modern Everyday Life Amazes the World 古今直播：我以现代日常惊天下 Gu Yunlan, a corporate drone who works nine to five, has one greatest wish: to lie flat and give up trying. One day, a System called [Six Six Six] suddenly drops into her lap, and begins projecting her daily livestream to every dynasty in ancient China! As scenes of her ordering takeout, watching videos, and riding high-speed trains appear before the likes of Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Taizu of Song, the royal courts erupt and the court historians lose 11.9kReads8.0Score317Shelves
- 6 Sky Screen: From the Start, It's Freestyle Fighting! 天幕：开局自由搏击！ Along with historical video compilations and short clips, there are also unofficial histories and comedy videos, and the ancients get to see modern life, too! Chu Lintian accidentally binds himself to a video-watching cashback System. By watching videos every day, he can achieve financial freedom. What he doesn't know is that the System is broadcasting his life and the videos he watches across the Myriad Worlds. From the start, he watches the Ming Dynasty's no-holds-barred fighting tournament. T 52.3kReads7.6Score1.6kShelves
- 7 Sky Screen: Live-Streaming the Su Super League, Leaving the Ancestors Dumbfounded 天幕：直播苏超，老祖宗全破防了 Su Ming, an unemployed young man and a creator who specializes in obscure historical facts, decides to ride the wave of a trending topic and livestreams his hometown's "Su Super League." "Welcome to my livestream! Today's showdown is the 'Chu-Han Contention': Xuzhou versus Suqian, and the tension is electric! As they say, 'There are no fixed matches, only feuds that go back generations.' This rivalry has thousands of years of history behind it!" The moment he finishes speaking, the ancestors acr 21.1kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 8 Livestreaming Short Videos, I Leave the Ancestors in Utter Shock 直播刷下短视频，老祖宗们破大防 [Irreverent take on history + unserious comedy + wild antics + don't think, just have fun] [Some errors are left in because the review system won't let them through. Nothing I can do~] One perfectly ordinary afternoon, a bizarre app suddenly appeared on Shen Shu's phone. He scrolled through short videos and coins started dropping?! What he didn't know was that the short videos he watched were being broadcast simultaneously throughout every dynasty. [Can you spot a lying man in one second?] Emper 512Reads6.2Score101Shelves
- 9 The System Returns With a Sky Screen, and History Goes Off the Rails 系统携天幕归来，历史画风崩了 [System + livestream + absurd comedy + historical fantasy] After Su Mingxi completes three missions with the System, she returns to the modern day with fifty million yuan and a face of breathtaking beauty. She thinks she can lie flat and live like a lazy fish, but the System’s little Starry unexpectedly returns with an upgrade and adds a “Myriad Realms Sky Screen Livestream” feature: Every short video she watches is broadcast simultaneously across every dynasty! And so Ying Zheng comes acros 21.9kReads7.7Score670Shelves
- 10 My Ancestors Watch Me Lose It on the Internet 祖宗围观我在互联网发癫 [Male lead + no romance + livestreaming + history] Overworked wage slave Li Zhe dragged his exhausted body home after work, riding his little electric scooter through the evening breeze with his mind elsewhere. One moment of carelessness, and, crash!, he ran straight into a roadside utility pole, passing out and dying on the spot. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself bound to a mysterious System. What does the System do? Simple: it livestreams his everyday “unhinged” behavior, both on 37.5kReads7.6Score1.1kShelves
- 11 The Substitute Crown Princess Livestreams for the Ancients in the Modern Era 替身太子妃在现代给古人直播 [Livestreaming + System + Entertainment industry + face-slapping + patriotism + melodrama] Gu Qinghan helped Prince Chen, Mu Yanchen, ascend to the position of Crown Prince, and everything changed. Mu Yanchen took concubine after concubine, then forced her to give up her place as Crown Princess to a widow who had returned from a political marriage. When Gu Qinghan finally came to her senses, she learned that she was nothing but a substitute Crown Princess. Since she had never belonged in this wo 2.2kReads9.0Score185Shelves
- 12 History: Watching Videos and Roasting Every Dynasty 历史：刷视频吐槽历朝历代 Su Shishuang has always been an overworked corporate drone in the 21st century. She never imagined that one day she'd be betrayed by her former self from before reincarnation. One order was all it took for the thoughtful System to play the videos she'd watched to every dynasty throughout history. At first, the people of every dynasty were delighted when the glowing screen in the sky finally started showing something different. They thought the gods had finally descended. And then... [Charcoa 7.6kReads8.8Score384Shelves
- 13 Videos Connect to Ancient Times, and the Ancients Are All Left Stunned 视频通古代，古人集体破防 (Historical what-if + short-video livestreams + no romance + male lead as a tool) Su Ye has no idea that the short videos he scrolls through are being broadcast to every dynasty. He scrolls to [Sexy young woman dancing]. Cao Cao narrows his eyes: “Is she married?” Liu Bang swallows: “This guy’s alright.” He scrolls to [Military training for university freshmen]. Zhuge Liang weeps: “Give me a hundred thousand university students, and I’ll surely succeed in the northern expedition.” He scrolls to 31.5kReads8.3Score791Shelves
- 14 History Livestream: Randomly Taking Out an Ancestor 历史直播间：随机创死一位老祖宗 Tang Xinxin graduated with a history degree only to find herself unemployed. She decides to travel and livestream history lessons, never imagining that her broadcasts would reach across all of history, where the ancestors themselves could watch. [Today we're visiting Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum!] Qin Shi Huang: “My mausoleum!” *faints.jpg* [Come on, Li Erfeng, the Young Master of Taiyuan: here's the stone carving of a steed that was stolen!] Emperor Taizong: “My Zhaoling steed, Sa Lu Zi!! Mobilize 32.6kReads8.2Score2.5kShelves
- 15 Sky Screen: Watching Short Videos, Ying Zheng Gets the MVP 天幕：刷短视频，嬴政得了MVP The protagonist isn’t just a prop. Besides short videos and historical video compilations, the story also focuses on showing people from the past modern life! Lin Qi has no idea that videos of his daily life are being shown to audiences across every dynasty. And so, beneath the sky screen, Lin Qi’s life becomes entertainment for countless ancestors during their downtime. An AI short video titled “Oh no, Ying Zheng got MVP” makes Ying Zheng lose it. A video of “The Song Dynasty’s dragon standard 120.9kReads8.4Score5.6kShelves
- 16 A Historical Recap: Spoiling Emperor Shi Huang with the Secret That His Dynasty Ends in the Second Generation 历史盘点：给始皇帝剧透二世而亡 [Historical rankings] + [Blood-pressure-raising comparisons] + [Spoiler comments] + ... Chen Yuan acquired a time-traveling historical video-editing System that let him edit videos and broadcast them to every dynasty through the sky screen! An idea struck him. He thought ranking videos were boring, so why not make a truly nasty comparison? It would be much more fun to pit emperors praised through the ages against those reviled for all time! First, show Zhu Di, who conquered the Mongols at Langj 75.6kReads8.9Score5.5kShelves
- 17 Marching Out of the Ten Thousand Mountains to Reclaim Our Homeland and Expand Our Borders 兵出十万大山，复故土拓新疆 Liu Yongfu went up the mountain to gather firewood. In a dream, an old man told him that he was a mighty general who should defend his home and protect his people. When he woke, he also had a new set of memories from the future. Liu Yongfu decided that, besides defending his homeland, he should find the Han people a place to settle, help them survive more than a decade of war and natural disasters, and fight against imperialism... [Some parts of this story take liberties with history, or happen 5.4kReads—Score385Shelves
- 18 After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪 By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life! 2.8kReads—Score110Shelves
