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- 1 I Hijacked the Late Qing: You Can Leave, but Leave Your Money! 截胡晚清，人可以走，钱留下！ Transmigration + history + treasure appraisal + scheming protagonist + patriotism Your Qing dynasty is doomed. I know! But transferring your assets overseas? That’s a bit hard to justify, isn’t it? Gold and silver, antiques, documents, and all those resources… My lords and princes… You can leave, but the money stays! Thieves who raid people’s homes get their backs broken! This story is entirely fictional, an artistic work based on a historical setting, with no political allegory intended. 8Reads—Score11514d adds
- 2 Founder of the Beiyang Government 北洋创始人 Xu Fei transmigrates to the waning years of the Qing dynasty, just as the Taiping Rebellion is underway. To take advantage of the good times when local officials are granted the right to recruit troops, Xu Fei lies low for three years. After Emperor Xianfeng announces that local authorities may recruit militia to fight the Taiping forces, Xu Fei uses his golden finger to enlist local volunteers and train soldiers. He leaps from being a low-ranking ninth-grade official to the top man in the regio 250Reads6.9Score32614d adds
- 3 The Warlord of Late Qing: Shu Marshal 清末枭雄：蜀帅 In 1905, he was the finest student at a Sichuan military academy, yet also the most notorious playboy in Chengdu’s pleasure quarter. He had meant to drink and make merry until the end of his days, but then came devastating news from home: his father had been killed by bandits. The flames of vengeance for his family burned away his reckless ways. He abandoned his prospects in the New Army and returned home, beginning his path to warlord rule by organizing a local militia. 727Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 4 I Raise an Army of Soldiers, Young Marshal: I Am the One Who Rules the World! 爆兵少帅，我，才是列强！ [Warlords] [System] [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Republican Era] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] When I woke up, I had somehow landed in Fengtian in a parallel world. The War of Resistance hadn’t begun yet, but old scores and future grudges were already staring me in the face. The Japanese were itching to make a move, so I struck first. While the Northeastern Army was still hesitating, I raised another invincible, battle-hardened force. 206kReads8.2Score22k14d adds
- 5 War of Resistance: Defending Greater Guangdong 抗战之保卫大广东 The year is 1932 by the Western calendar. The land of China struggles to survive under the Japanese invaders from across the sea. Hope has become the most precious thing in this world, while progressive ideas are gradually fading from the lands of the Northern Expedition, like shadows from days gone by. Then the soul of someone from another world comes to inhabit a body. From that moment on, the rising sun becomes night, and the long night begins to break. 30kReads8.8Score2.6k14d adds
- 6 The Gunshots of the Republic of China 民国的枪声 The gunfire that rang out across the three towns of Wuhan in October 1911 tolled the death knell of the Qing Dynasty. Zhao Hu, from the Dragon Nation of a later age, grips the rifle in his hands. What will he choose? To remain an obscure nobody, or to ride the crest of a great era? Reclaim our lands and restore the golden age of the Han and Tang dynasties? 60.1kReads7.2Score5.2k14d adds
- 7 Warlord Li Xiao: Starting in 1916 军阀李枭从1916开始 [No System + Hard-core military + Extreme infiltration + Bloody resistance war + Rich historical detail + Grassroots development] “Li Xiao is the greatest opportunist in the Republic of China, the most bloodthirsty wolf in the northwest!”, The Nationalist government newspaper’s assessment of him. “General Li is a pillar of the party and state, the bedrock of the northwest!”, Chiang Kai-shek’s words at his decoration ceremony. “Chief, without the penicillin and radios that man supplied, we could 4.4kReads7.5Score31214d adds
- 8 Reborn in the Late Qing: Looking Down on the Great Powers 重生清末之傲视列强 Battleships and Big Guns + Industrial Technology + The Rise of the Far East After transmigrating to a parallel world, I was always one step ahead technologically, with one advanced weapon after another! See how Chu Chen turns the tide in the most desperate of times! 8.6kReads8.3Score43614d adds
- 9 1890: Starting the Great Voyage by Climbing the Tech Tree 1890从爬科技树开始大航海 [Slow burn, national industry, rural development, great-power rivalry, hard-hitting naval warfare] Tang Xiaoyi found himself in a parallel world where the Age of Discovery had reached the late nineteenth century. The technology, wealth, and rivalries accumulated by every nation were on the verge of a final tipping point, ready to erupt. “The introduction of steam engines as ship propulsion ushered in a new revolution in navigation.” “Shipping grew faster and faster. It took just dozens of hours 157Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 10 The Late Qing in Turmoil: I Conquered the World with an Escape Pod 清末乱世，我靠逃生舱称霸 [The best title turned out to be The Red Dragon's Rampage of 1900, so now I have two titles. They're both mine. It's fine if you let the chapters build up, but remember to come back and read them! ♪٩(´ω`)و♪] A group of aliens accidentally swept Yuan Cheng into a temporal rift while completing their survey of Blue Star. They managed to rescue him in a frantic scramble, but then stuffed him straight into an escape pod and sent him back to Blue Star. It was only after he landed that Yuan Cheng disc 37Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 11 The Ten Thousand Mountains: 1840 十万大山：1840 A logistics park transmigrates as a group to parallel-world Blue Star in the late Qing era, where they lie low and build strength in the mountains. They fight pirates, battle foreign devils, and establish a naval base in Nanyang. Step by step, they grow stronger, taking root like a fierce tiger and emerging with the force of a soaring dragon. 1.1kReads7.6Score14214d adds
- 12 Someone Else's Beloved? The Commander Will Still Take Her by Force 他人挚爱？督军照样强娶豪夺 (Male stand-in, possessive pursuit, forced love, intense push and pull, powerful man bows his head, two strong leads, both devoted to each other) Transmigrated into a warlord-ravaged era, Ruan Xiaoxiao only wants to keep her head down and survive. But disaster strikes: her comrade is framed and thrown into the police station. With nowhere else to turn, she has no choice but to humble herself and beg Huo Yunting, the governor of three provinces, who holds the power of life and death. Everyone s 2.7kReads—Score22414d adds
- 13 After Becoming a Rich Woman in the Republic of China, I Caught the Eye of a Rowdy Soldier 在民国卷成富婆后，被军痞盯上了 (Republican-era setting, military marriage, one-on-one, both pure) Fourth Young Master Huo Mingyuan is a flirtatious, carefree man. He dotes on cats and dogs, keeps crickets, frequents dance halls and brothels, gambles, sponsors celebrities and opera stars, and keeps mistresses. He's a typical playboy in the Northwest Army, all appetite and no ability. Even on his wedding day, his family had to drag him away from a crowd of women in an opera house and force him into wedding clothes to go through 473Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Nanjing Photo Studio: I Won't Take This Kind of Crap 南京照相馆：劳资不受窝囊气 [System Conquest] [Alternate World War II] [Founding a Nation Overseas] = [An Emperor Unifies the World] On the eve of World War II, Su Lie transmigrates and activates the War Replication System! Copy skills, armies, weapons, and industry! While everyone else fights tooth and nail in World War II, he quietly establishes a nation overseas and crowns himself emperor! He stays out of the chaos and reaps the rewards! With the System's power, he sweeps aside all opposition, subdues the great powers, 580Reads7.2Score11214d adds
- 15 That’s Right, I’m Fighting the Great Powers 没错，我打的就是列强 The book has just been released, and its rating is still fluctuating. Please add it to your library and follow along. Liu Tianqing, a special forces soldier assigned to an escort mission, unexpectedly transmigrates back to 1900. Armed with his equipment and the escort case, he fights decisively through the chaos, struggling with all his might against the foreign powers. 15.6kReads6.9Score89214d adds
- 16 I Transmigrated as the German Emperor: I'll Restore Germany to Glory! 穿越德皇：我重振德意志！ Zhao Zheng, a PhD in history, wakes up to find that he has taken over the body of Wilhelm II, Germany’s last emperor, in 1918! He has only two days before his abdication! Berlin is in turmoil, mutinous sailors seize power, and the Entente powers mass their troops at the border. The once-glorious Second Reich is on the brink of collapse! But armed with a century of historical knowledge, Zhao Zheng refuses to repeat the tragedy! He kicks the arrogant powerbroker Ludendorff aside and seizes iron-fi 46.5kReads8.0Score4.3k14d adds
- 17 The Sino-Japanese War of 1894: The Rise of the Far East 甲午风云之远东崛起 Yue Tian, a PhD in military machinery, transmigrates to the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 and becomes a vanguard soldier protecting the nation. Using his knowledge from the future, he takes control of the lands beyond the Shanhai Pass, establishes a republic, unifies the country, and helps the nation rise as a great power in the Far East. 10.6kReads7.7Score48314d adds
- 18 Crossing Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九 Drop the pretense of being a decent person and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to waste your energy on inner turmoil; if something’s wrong, just lose it. Rather than make yourself suffer, make life difficult for someone else. That’s Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrates to Beiping on the eve of liberation. The booming economy of 2026 and the war-torn year of 1949: two vastly different eras lie before him. 5kReads5.8Score21614d adds
- 19 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.9kReads5.8Score33814d adds
- 20 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score14914d adds
- 21 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score13514d adds
