Novels like Strangle the Bright
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Strangle the Bright, best match first.
- 1 The Gourmet Empire 吃货大帝国 This is the story of a food lover who arrives at the end of the Sui dynasty, sweeps away the chaos, and builds a great empire. “Your Majesty! The Turks have grown too brazen. They provoke us again and again and invade our borders. We are willing to lead our brave troops and destroy these barbarians, bringing glory to our nation!” With their eyes shining, Li Jing and Xu Shiji made their plea, chewing on lamb skewers with bamboo sticks strewn all around their feet. Their fighting spirit soared to 0Votes18.3kRecs14.7kFans
- 2 I Killed Cao Cao from the Start 开局就杀了曹操 (The protagonist starts out with the might of a legendary overlord.) At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, Cao Cao fails to assassinate Dong Zhuo, presents him with the Seven-Star Sword, then flees Luoyang alone... On the way, he stops at his uncle Lü Boshe’s home. Lü Boshe goes out to buy wine and has his family slaughter a pig to treat their guests. Hearing the sound of a knife being sharpened, Cao Cao thinks they mean to kill him, so he and Chen Gong go on a killing spree... Liu Cheng, ca 0Votes47.3kRecs449.6kFans
- 3 I Become a Dragon God in the Three Kingdoms 我在三国当龙神 The Three Kingdoms era was the most magnificent period in Chinese history, with strategists as numerous as clouds and fierce generals as plentiful as rain. Cao Mengde, Liu Xuande, and Sun Zhongmou contended for supremacy. Liu Dalu says: This has nothing to do with me. I'm just a snake. With the Dragon God System, I can lie low until I outlast all of you. You fight and kill each other. I'll change the world... 0Votes40.9kRecs62.3kFans
- 4 The Peerless Commoner 无双庶子 Li Xin, the illegitimate son of the Marquis of Pingnan. After his mother died of illness, he followed his great-uncle to the capital to seek out his relatives. The Marquis of Pingnan's household called him a bastard and threw him out. With nowhere to go, the young man froze to death in a ruined temple. When he awoke again, another Li Xin had come to this world. As a proud transmigrator, Li Xin set himself two goals. First, survive. 0Votes293.8kRecs334.9kFans
- 5 Rise of the Primitive Age 崛起原始时代 [Grand Nation Chronicles: The Legend of Qin essay contest gold medalist] Reborn in the primitive era, he teaches grain cultivation, passes on medical knowledge and martial arts, makes bricks, builds houses and cities, and leads his people to rise upon the land. Note: A primitive-era farming and conquest story, with no mysterious supernatural powers, only the martial arts brought by th 0Votes65kRecs71.5kFans
- 6 I am a Primitive Man 我是一个原始人 (This is a genuine historical primitive farming novel. I don’t know how the category got changed.) The sky is a clear, flawless blue, sunlight bathes the mountain forest, and the whole world seems peaceful and still, cloaked in a tranquility all its own. Watching the chief, dressed in a sexy tiger-skin miniskirt and carrying a club, lead more than a dozen people in a raucous chase after a woolly rhinoceros, Han Cheng can’t help raising his slightly curled right hand to his parted lips and excl 0Votes190.1kRecs197.2kFans
- 7 A Common Soldier of the Northern Army of Eastern Jin 东晋北府一丘八 The wheels of history rolled past the magnificent era of the Three Kingdoms, and the Central Plains entered a peace unseen in a century. Everyone thought a golden age was about to arrive, but no one could have imagined that what awaited them would be a thousand-year nightmare the Han people would never wish to face. The Yongjia Disaster plunged the Central Plains into chaos, with tigers and wolves running rampant! The children of Huaxia wailed in pools of blood. Unwilling to live as slaves, the 0Votes1.1MRecs1.9MFans
- 8 The Immortal Qin Multiverse Empire 仙秦多元宇宙帝国 Long live Brother Zheng! This is the story of Brother Zheng, who chances upon a fragment of the Great Luo Heaven, bringing Qin law to the Myriad Worlds, restoring order across the heavens, standardizing written language and axle widths, and unifying currency, weights, and measures. One day, I shall plant the black-water dragon banners of Great Qin in every corner of the Myriad Worlds: Ancestral Dragon, First Emperor, Lord of Immortal Qin, Ying Zheng of the Zhao clan. Your Majesty, your infamy is 0Votes289.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 9 I Found a Book of the Three Kingdoms 捡到一本三国志 In the ninth year of Yanxi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, nine-year-old Liu Hong caught a goldfish in the river. When he cut it open, he found a heavenly book inside, titled Records of the Three Kingdoms! And so, the Han Dynasty gained an entirely different Emperor Ling, and the world took a different turn. 6Votes242.6kRecs491.5kFans
- 10 I Want to Become a Powerful Clan 我要做门阀 In the middle of the Western Han dynasty, the people were struggling to make ends meet, and the nation was in decline. Countless celebrated scholars cried out: "If Zhang Sheng does not emerge, what will become of the world?!" And so the saying went: "Zhang and Liu share the realm." 0Votes1.3MRecs474.3kFans
- 11 The Matrilocal Husband 赘婿 In the final years of the Wu Dynasty, the age was turbulent and the realm was in chaos. Jin and Liao faced off against each other, the situation was unstable, and after a century of humiliation, the first faint glimmer of dawn signaling its end had finally appeared. Emperor Tianzuo, Wanyan Aguda, Wuqimai, Genghis Khan Temujin, Jamuka, Chilawen, Mukhuali, Bo'erhu, Bo'ersu, Qin Hui, Yue Fei, Li Gang, Zhong Shidao, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong, and Zhang Bangchang: loyal ministers and treacherous 337Votes13.5MRecs5.1MFans
