Novels like Republic-Era Paranormal Files: Starting at the Southern Archives
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- 1 Tomb Raiding: Starting at the Archives, I Conquer the World! 盗墓：从档案馆开始，横推世界！ [Southern Archives + Nine Gates + Warlords + National and Family Feuds + No Saintly Protagonist] Chen Yingxiong transmigrates into a chaotic era where human life is worth less than grass, and becomes the young marshal of Nanyue. On the first day after binding to the System, it tells Chen Yingxiong: “As long as you raid tombs, you can exchange for anything.” Other transmigrators raid tombs and loot gold to make a fortune. Chen Yingxiong transmigrates and tricks Zhang Haiqi and her two “sons” into 1.4kReads—Score100Shelves
- 2 Southern Archives: Thirty Years Beneath the Sea, Then Out of the Coffin to Rule the South Seas 南部档案：沉海三十年出棺镇南洋 [Tomb-Raiding Fan Fiction + Republican-Era Nanyang + Faked Death and Return + Overwhelming Advantage + System + No Saintly Hero] After transmigrating into The Southern Archives, he became Zhang Haiyi, an outsider to the Zhang family. Just after sharing an unforgettable first love with Zhang Haiqi, he was ambushed by the Zhang family proper, sealed inside a bronze coffin, and sunk into the Strait of Malacca. Thirty years later, as Nanyang was swept by turmoil, the chains on the bronze coffin aboa 2.1kReads—Score171Shelves
- 3 Southern Archives: From the Start, Zhang Haiqi Digs Me Up! 南部档案：开局被张海琪挖出来！ After transmigrating into the body of Zhang Qianzhang, who had been buried after spending his entire life secretly in love with Zhang Haiqi, he wakes to find that Zhang Haiqi and her disciple, Zhang Qianjun Wanma, have just dug him up. To stay alive, he must absorb all kinds of sinister things from time itself, and the Twilight Grass poison in Zhang Haiqi’s body is one of them! 584Reads—Score103Shelves
- 4 Tomb Raiding: The Dragon King Who Emerged from Behind the Bronze Gate 盗墓：从青铜门后走出的龙王 [Southern Archives] + [The Lost Tomb] + [The Nine Gates] + [The Complete Lost Tomb Universe] + [Dragon Clan Word Spirits] (The protagonist has no memories of the plot, so please don't ask why he doesn't do this or that. For now, Zhang Haiqi is the sole female lead, though that may change later. If that bothers you, read something else.) There is a game afoot in this world, with moves laid over a thousand years. The Nine Gates are the pieces, and the Zhang family holds the strings. From ancient t 403Reads—Score108Shelves
- 5 Southern Archives: I Became Zhang Haiyan's Senior Brother 南部档案：我成了张海盐师兄 [Southern Archives + The Mystic Nine + The Grave Robbers' Chronicles + Candle in the Tomb] Zhang Haiyue had transmigrated into the Nanyang Zhang family years ago and become a disciple taken in by Zhang Haiqi in her youth. After trouble struck at Panhuahai Reef, Zhang Haixia was poisoned by vines and lost the use of both legs, left with barely half a life. Zhang Haiyan carried him across Nanyang, asking everyone for help, and eventually found a senior fellow disciple their master had never menti 2.7kReads5.3Score160Shelves
- 6 Southern Archives: Haiqi, I’m Here to Take You Home! 南部档案：海琪，我来接你回家！ [Nanbu Archives + Fanfiction + Max-Level Expert + One-Sided Identity Reveal + Wife-Doting Madman + Decisive Killing] A hundred years after falling off a cliff, Zhang Haichen returns to the world of the living and boards the fog-shrouded Nan'an. There, he discovers that his former beloved, Zhang Haiqi, has become “Miss Dong” and is struggling to hold a hopeless situation together, while her bargain apprentice, Zhang Haiyan, is being hunted by assassins. Watching his apprentice use a clumsy versio 2.7kReads—Score188Shelves
- 7 Southern Archives: The Qilin Illuminates Mountains and Seas 南部档案：麒麟照山海 [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles] [Ghost Blows Out the Light] [Southern Archives] [Gold-Touching Captains] [Native's Story] In 1931, Japan invades China, forcing the Zhang clan, who carry the generation name Shan and have lived in seclusion in the Northeast, to move. To buy the other members of his clan time to escape, Zhang Pingshan stays behind to hold off the pursuers. He fights dozens of men alone, then collapses from his injuries and blood loss. A foreigner named John Halls happens upon him a 828Reads6.5Score100Shelves
- 8 Tomb Raiding: Starting by Teaching the Zhang Clan to Finish Them Off 盗墓：从教张家人补刀开始 [The Southern Archives] + [Single heroine: Zhang Haiqi] + [System] + [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles world] After staying up all night to finish half of The Southern Archives, Jiang Qing was so furious about Zhang Haixia's failure to finish off his enemies that his blood pressure shot up. He ordered some fried chicken to cool down. But before the delivery arrived, a heavy truck came flying through the window on the thirteenth floor and sent him straight to the afterlife. When he opened his eyes 1kReads6.9Score102Shelves
- 9 Southern Archives: I Really Don’t Want to Be the Zhang Family’s Head 南部档案：我真不想当张家主事人 [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles] [The Mystic Nine] [A fusion of multiple tomb-raiding worlds] Zhang Haiyun transmigrates into the world of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, becoming Zhang Haiqi's apprentice at the Southern Archives. He gains a Qilin tattoo and is hailed as the most gifted martial artist in the Zhang family. Before long, his master brings home two junior apprentices: Zhang Hailou, a demolition-obsessed beagle, and Zhang Haixia, a clever and considerate border collie. But... wasn't th 10.3kReads8.7Score651Shelves
- 10 Southern Archives: I’m Really Out of Ideas 南部档案：我真没招了 [Southern Archives + OOC + Original Female Lead + All about eating, none of the cleanup] The Panhua Sea Reef case was a story Zhang Nanxu had only heard fragments about. Now it was playing out right before her eyes. Good heavens, she’d only ever heard the words Southern Archives! At most, she knew Zhang Haixia died in the Nanyang. Anything else? She was begging them, she really didn’t know! * While investigating the Panhua Sea Reef case, Zhang Haiyan and Zhang Haixia discovered a Zhang family gi 5.3kReads8.4Score658Shelves
- 11 Tomb Raiders of the Southern Region: Junior Sister, Please Stop Shipping Them! 南部盗笔：师妹，求你别磕了！ [A Southern Archives Fanfic] [Tomb Raider Notes] [Original Female Lead] [Zhang Haiqi x Female Lead] [Shrimp and Salt] [Two Powerful Leads] [Fun Couple Shipping] [No System] [Lighthearted Ensemble Cast] [A Touch of Mystery] Zhang Luoning was robbing tombs...no, doing archaeology. She tried to save someone, only to be ambushed and knocked out with poison. When she opened her eyes, a cold and beautiful woman had taken her in. The woman was called Zhang Haiqi. "Oh my god! I've fallen into the world 15.3kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves
- 12 As the King of Hell in Republican-Era China, I Make the Nine Gates Bow Their Heads 人在民国当阎王，九门见我皆低头 [Southern Archives] [The Weasel's Grave] [The Mystic Nine] [The Grave Robbers' Chronicles] Chen Yan transmigrates into the lowliest job in the Southern Archives. He goes hungry nine times in three days and gets beaten half to death by old agents. On the brink of death after arriving in this world, he binds himself to a System. This lousy System does everything it can to make him humiliate himself in public. [Pin the curator, Zhang Haiqi, against the wall.] Chen Yan looks at the cold, beautif 1.3kReads—Score106Shelves
