Novels like I Found the First Emperor
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- 1 I Want to Become the Ming Shizu 我要做明世祖 Reborn as the five-year-old crown prince Zhu Jianji, who died young during the Ming Dynasty, he decides he can't just give up on himself. The Great Ming has just emerged from the Tumu Crisis, and the future has yet to take shape: The civil officials have not yet risen to power, and the nobility have not yet lain flat. He is going to change the Ming Dynasty! With him, Emperor Jingtai will never be a mere “placeholder.” And the famous master of micromanagement and peddling, Emperor Yingzong, can s 0Votes9.9kRecs57.1kFans
- 2 My Big Brother Says I'm Unrivaled 大哥说我天下无敌 My name is Li Xuanba, the third son of the Duke of Tang. I was frail and sickly from birth, the weakest child in the family. Then one day, my eldest brother rode out and took a fall. When he woke up, he started talking nonsense. Grabbing my hand, he told me that I would become the greatest warrior under heaven, capable of slaughtering a million rebels by myself. If my eldest brother says so, it must be true. Also known as The Legend of the Tang Dynasty Overlord, From Li Xuanba to Li Yuanba, The 1Votes132.2kRecs248.8kFans
- 3 The Young Emperor’s Growth Plan 少帝成长计划 In people's minds, emperors are born sacred, worshipped by all, and supreme above everyone else. But there are always a few unlucky emperors who have no power to shape their own fate. Liu Hong was one of them. At this very moment, he sat on the imperial couch in a rear hall of Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, in 180 BC, looking helplessly and bitterly at the wine cup before him, unsure what to do. Just one wall away, in Weiyang Palac 0Votes54.7kRecs67.4kFans
- 4 Cultivating Zhenguan 耕耘贞观 Li Shimin: “I’m building the Luoyang Palace!” Zhang Xuansu: “Your Majesty! When Epang Palace was completed, the Qin people scattered; when Zhanghua Palace was finished, the people of Chu deserted; when Qianyang Palace was completed, the Sui dynasty collapsed. Please think this through!” Li Tai: “I’m building the Myriad Manifestations Divine Palace!” Fang Xuanling: “Your Highness, as long as the money doesn’t come from the imperial treasury and the laborers aren’t conscripted, you may do as yo 0Votes32.9kRecs95.8kFans
- 5 The Iron Waist 悍腰 The football world has a hundred jokes, and my club has eighty of them! The Gunners, once dominant in the Premier League and record holders of 49 games unbeaten, began their decline. It was the start of the nightmare for countless Arsenal fans! “Our club,” “Nana,” “Europa League leaders,” “temperature-difference signings,” “selling the captain,” “fourth-place specialists,” and so on... The Gunners said goodbye to the Henry 2Votes90kRecs978kFans
- 6 Liu Xie: I Really Just Want to Abdicate! 刘协：我真的只想禅让啊！ I am Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of Han. I really just want to abdicate! Why does everyone think I'm a great restorer of the dynasty? Why is everyone at court so prone to wild speculation? Cao Cao, don't run away! I really do want to abdicate! 0Votes28.7kRecs117.6kFans
- 7 I Am Wang Fugui 我是王富贵 I am Wang Fugui. In the Ming dynasty, no one has more money than me, and no one has a higher official rank… But to achieve either of those things, I first have to help Zhu Houcong ascend the throne and protect his birth father. Protect the best Zhu Houcong, and firmly defend Prince Xing’s status as his birth father… To sum it up, this is the struggle of two chuunibyou teenagers. No matter how hard it gets, I’ll make every court official vanish without a trace! Reader group: 284,427,642 0Votes88.9kRecs82.1kFans
- 8 Laying Low 200 Million Years Ago 苟在史前两亿年 Transmigrating to the Triassic Period, 230 million years ago, he becomes a small modern-day extinct Gobi lizard. In this savage age, the Synapsids are in decline, the Pseudosuchians are at their peak, and the Avemetatarsalians are just beginning to rise. As a Squamate lizard, an ancient relic and ancestor of the lizards and snakes of later eras, should he lie low and scrape by until modern times, or lead his kind into a struggle for supremacy against the dragon-beasts? An evolution story (simil 0Votes15kRecs48.8kFans
- 9 Hogwarts’ Sunny, Cheerful Snape 霍格沃茨的阳光开朗斯内普 "Come with me." "I will be your teacher before you enter Hogwarts, taking you in advance to see that colorful magical world and meet all kinds of wizards." "I will teach you everything I know: potions, spells, transfiguration, and even dark magic." "And if one day you can grow on your own and become a truly great, genuine Chosen One, then point your wand at me." "Use everything I have taught you, give it everything you have, and kill me!" "Do you have the courage?" "The son of Lily Evans and Jam 0Votes27.5kRecs112.4kFans
- 10 Revere the Teacher, Confucius 尊师孔仲尼 In 504 BC, the hegemony of the Jin state was gradually declining, the struggle for supremacy between Wu and Yue was beginning, Yang Hu was causing trouble throughout the state of Lu, and the seeds of the Hundred Schools of Thought were germinating amid widespread ignorance. When Zai Yu awoke from his dream, he received the memories of two thousand years in the future. His teacher was Confucius, the teacher of all ages. His classmates were the seventy-two worthies of Confucius's school: Zigong, Z 0Votes41.2kRecs105.2kFans
- 11 The First Crown Prince of Great Ming 大明第一太子 In the first year of Hongwu, at the Fengtian Hall, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, seated on the Dragon Throne, waved his hand. The Minister of Rites lifted the investiture edict and began to read: "By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: My eldest son, Zhu Biao, born of the Empress, is the first heir of the imperial clan. His natural talents are pure and admirable, and his character is noble and weighty. Now, respectfully following the original edict, examining the established rites, humbly co 0Votes206kRecs333.5kFans
- 12 The British Literary Master 英伦文豪 Lu Shi returned to Edwardian England in 1900 and accidentally swept the literary world, leaving behind this saying: When it comes to acting like human beings, the British have always been anything but human. Whenever people in later generations think of it, they are deeply moved. They marvel at what kind of international spirit could have made a Chinese man so heartsick over Britain that he left behind such a prophecy... 0Votes38.5kRecs138.6kFans
- 13 Reborn, Starting with E-Commerce 重生从电商开始 A senior executive in e-commerce returns to his college campus. Facing the sweeping, turbulent age of the mobile internet, Luo Xiu sighs and says: “I have face blindness, I’m not interested in money, and I come from an ordinary family. My only distinction is that my house is a little bigger...” 0Votes53.5kRecs91.1kFans
- 14 EN The Ancestor Rises from His Coffin 老祖出棺 Xia Yi transmigrated to the Holy Soul Continent, where he discovered cultivators who could soar through the skies and burrow into the earth, miraculous Holy Souls with abilities like video game skills and martial arts techniques, and cultivators who lived for centuries and were revered as earthly immortals! After falling into a deep sleep and spending eight hundred years in a dream, Xia Yi woke to find that a new 0Votes117.3kRecs100.8kFans
- 15 EN Evil Dragon: My Adopted Dragonling Always Wants to Be an Empress 恶龙：我捡来的幼龙总想当女帝 “I turned into a baby dragon and was taken in by an evil dragon. The longer we spend together, the stranger the way he looks at me becomes. I think... he’s raising me to be his wife!” Princess Lucia, now a baby dragon, trembled as she wrote down her discovery in her notebook. The evil dragon Lance has recently become fixated on one thing: getting the baby dragon he picked up to call him “Dad.” 0Votes71kRecs391.2kFans
- 16 Illegitimate Son of a Noble House 高门庶子 [Alternate history + over 10,000 first-month subscriptions] I transmigrated to a dynasty called Dayu and became a well-known young nobleman from a powerful family in the capital, Sheng'an. My father is the magistrate of Sheng'an, a third-rank official. My stepmother is from the Cui clan, one of the Five Great Families of the capital, an illustrious noble house. Their son is a dashing young genius, handsome and talented. Before he was even fifteen, he passed the provincial examinations as a juren 11Votes113.2kRecs1.1MFans
- 17 EN I Thought This Was Scientific 俺寻思这挺科学的 The original title of this book was A Certain Unscientific Marvel Scientist A playboy with an LED light built into his chest, an iron shell covering his body, and a habit of flying wildly through the sky; a bespectacled shut-in in a skintight mask who constantly swings between skyscrapers; an armless doctor who turned into a lizard while trying to retrieve his little right hand; an outdated frozen food who spent seventy years lying in the Arctic while retaining a superb physique; a bald doctor w 0Votes106.5kRecs163.1kFans
- 18 A Nineteenth-Century Guide to Medicine 十九世纪就医指南 “We live in an innovative city, an age filled with miracles, and the surgery this royal theater brings you is equally epoch-making. Ladies and gentlemen, appearing today is an outstanding young surgeon, a young man renowned for performing more than a thousand operations and repeatedly setting records in various fields, a true pioneer of medicine. Very well, without further praise, please allow me to introduce Professor Kavi Friedrich Heins to you without reservation!” This book is also known as 22Votes75.1kRecs143.8kFans
- 19 Three Kingdoms: Mount and Blade 三国骑砍 Tian Xin arrives in Jingcheng in the spring of the twenty-fourth year of Jian’an. The impending Battle of Xiangfan will determine whether the realm truly becomes tripartite, or whether one power will dominate while two remain weak. After hearing that Cao Ren has massacred Wan City, Tian Xin resolutely answers the Jingzhou army’s call to arms. He fights not only to fill his stomach, but also for his own sense of justice, conscience, and courage. 0Votes159.5kRecs115kFans
- 20 Everyone Wants Me to Be Emperor 大家请我当皇帝 I’m not being modest. I’m just an ordinary citizen, so how could I possibly become emperor? What? You say I was born with extraordinary features and am the true Son of Heaven? That’s feudal superstition, okay? Hey, don’t kneel! Rebellion is punishable by death! Hey, officer, please don’t kill me! I was forced into this. I didn’t truly mean to rebel. Huh? Why are you kneeling? You’re giving up your fine job as an official to join my rebellion? Gentlemen, go right ahead. We’re just passing through 1Votes102.7kRecs82.2kFans
- 21 Master of France 君临法兰西 An Ning transmigrated to a parallel timeline in 1780. At first, he planned to use his knowledge of history to hedge his bets and become a wealthy landowner, content to stay out of the turmoil of the age. But events seemed to be getting a little out of his control. “Honored General, you are the only one we recognize.” So said the young captain surnamed Bonaparte. 0Votes61.9kRecs212.8kFans
- 22 Restoring the Han Dynasty 匡扶汉室 In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, at Changban Slope in Dangyang, the Liu Bei faction faced its darkest hour. Cao Cao’s army had won a great victory, Liu Bei had suffered a crushing defeat, and he fled, leaving his wife and children behind. But A Dou was not the only child left behind. A transmigrator, reborn for a second life, became Zhang Shao, Zhang Fei’s second son, only to find himself imprisoned in Cao Cao’s camp. Ten thousand cavalry thundered by the river as fierce tigers roared; a thous 0Votes67.7kRecs104kFans
- 23 EN In Naruto, I Am Aizen 人在火影，我是蓝染 (Keywords: mastermind behind the scenes, Aizen Sosuke, invincible) Konoha, the Forbidden Forest. “Aizen, have you fallen into darkness?” “You’re far too arrogant, Minato Namikaze.” The figure slowly rising within the glowing barrier looked down at the man below, whose face was twisted with pain, and spoke calmly. “No one stands in the heavens from the beginning. Not you, not me, not even a god. No one begins at the summit. But the vacancy on the throne of heaven is about to end.” He reached up, 0Votes32.9kRecs185.1kFans
- 24 EN Shelter in the Blade's Edge 托身锋刃里 In this mad and chaotic age of endless slaughter, Du Chengfeng thinks he might be the only normal person left. He just wants to live his own life in peace. That shouldn't be too hard, should it? 0Votes56.7kRecs187.5kFans
- 25 The Rise of Liu Shan, an Internet-Addicted Teen 网瘾少年刘禅之崛起 In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Liu Shan discovered a strange door in his bedroom. From then on, he lived the life of a chuunibyou shut-in, guzzling Coke, slurping instant noodles, munching spicy strips, and spending his days glued to the internet. From now on, don't call me A Dou. Call me Emperor Dou, Liu Shan! 0Votes107.9kRecs133kFans
- 26 CSGO: This Player Takes Advice Too Seriously! CSGO：这个选手太听劝了！ Synopsis: “A 21-year-old prodigy with 1,200 hours in CS and a C+ rank. Can I go pro at this level?” “You can work the assembly line.” “If you’re out of ideas, chew on a lighter.” “Just go get buried.” “At least start practicing your aim. Do 10,000 bots a day and spend an hour running around the map...” “Too old for anyone to want you? Just go get first place in FPL...” As Xu Beifang tries to take his first steps, following one piece of advice after another, some furious, some gentle, his life gr 4Votes66.8kRecs357.1kFans
- 27 Starting with a Fake University 从冒牌大学开始 Ding Yue had barely transmigrated to a parallel world when he failed the college entrance exam. To avoid getting beaten up by his parents, Ding Yue forged an admission letter, built a fake university website, and rented a plot near the university district. He hastily opened a sham university, hoping to get away with it. But to his surprise, the enrollment fair at his fake university was packed on opening day... P.S. A lighthearted entrepreneurial story with everyday life, a tycoon protagonist, t 0Votes118.7kRecs252.1kFans
- 28 The Ming Dynasty: Starting with Caution 大明从慎重开始 In the eleventh year of the Hongzhi era, the Hongzhi Restoration was declining after its period of prosperity. Worthy ministers were retiring in old age, the three members of the Grand Secretariat were growing frail, and despite Emperor Hongzhi’s tireless efforts to govern, he could not lead the Ming Dynasty into an even greater age of peace and prosperity. At that time, in a dilapidated courtyard in the northwest corner of the capital, a scholar was poring over historical records, checking whet 0Votes146.6kRecs158kFans
- 29 The Legend of Qin: Dominating the World 秦时明月之雄霸天下 I'm an assassin. Why do I have to wear tank gear? Zhao Shuang looked at his own bulk and was speechless with grief. 0Votes198.3kRecs162.1kFans
- 30 EN No Retreat South 衣冠不南渡 The ancient empire has fallen, and jackals watch hungrily from the sidelines. Cao Mao never wanted to become an emperor. It is just that the Wei and Jin dynasties know no elegance, and white bones lie everywhere. Thinking of the great catastrophe that will befall Huaxia fifty years from now, Cao Mao can only mount the war chariot once more and launch a final charge. The Han and its traitors cannot coexist! The cultured people must not flee south! Sima clan, aristocratic families, Five Barbarian 6Votes403.4kRecs3.4MFans
- 31 Start Over, Spider-Man! 重开吧！蜘蛛侠！ First-generation Spider-Man: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Second-generation Spider-Man: “Heroes are always lonely.” Third-generation Spider-Man: “My dad is Iron Man!” Spider-Man from some universe: “This run’s busted again. Restart! Restart!” Xia Luo transmigrates to the Marvel Multiverse and is lucky enough to become that universe’s Spider-Man. But he’s also unlucky in plenty of ways. He doesn’t have the first Spider-Man’s super strength, enough to stop a train. Nor does he ha 0Votes40.8kRecs312.5kFans
- 32 Strange Tales of Northern Qi 北齐怪谈 In the tenth year of Tianbao, Gao Yang, the heroic emperor, began playing a pipa made from a human thigh bone. He sang along to his own accompaniment, and the tune was grotesque, absurd, terrifying, despairing, and agonizing. That year, Liu Taozi, who lived by the Zhang River, caught a few fish, and the story began. 51Votes476.8kRecs942.9kFans
- 33 Shu Minister 蜀臣 O heavens above, why have you treated me so cruelly…. This is a story about a chancellor finally fulfilling his lifelong wish. 0Votes101.5kRecs158.8kFans
- 34 The Qin General 秦将 The King of Qin swept across the Six Kingdoms, his gaze as fearsome as a tiger! At the end of the Warring States period, with the age of chaos nearing its end, he was reborn as a member of Jing Ke’s entourage. The wind sighs, the Yi River runs cold. The hero departs, never to return! Having taken part in the legendary assassination attempt on the King of Qin, what will he choose? 0Votes75.4kRecs348.1kFans
- 35 My Lord, I Don't Want to Work Overtime 主公我不想加班 Mighty generals have the strength to move mountains. One man can hold a pass against ten thousand. Strategists are so clever they seem almost supernatural, summoning wind and rain and turning beans into soldiers. Looking at this world that seemed familiar yet strangely different, Chen Chen resolutely decided to become an expert at slacking off! 0Votes86.5kRecs189.9kFans
- 36 New Book 新书 At the end of the Xin dynasty, Wang Mang's reforms had failed and the realm was on the brink of chaos. The Red Eyebrows and Green Forest rebels raised their banners, while the Liu brothers set out to restore the Han. What should one do after being reborn in such an era? The Xin dynasty is rotten. Nothing can be built without first tearing the old down. Only those who come after can write the story in bold strokes! P.S. This is a story about a transmigrator battling the chosen one of the world. 25Votes989.2kRecs571.8kFans
- 37 The Rules-Based Top Student 规则系学霸 [Given that Lin Xiaoqing can lift an eighty-jin object, what is the strength of her arms?] Answer: 49 jin in her left arm, 67 jin in her right. [Given that one plus one equals two, what is 491 times 709?] Answer: 348,119. Other people use logic to deduce answers. My logic is cause and effect. The moment a difficult question is asked, the answer is already obvious. I’m no good at writing introductions. An unconventional, imaginative science-and-tech story about a top student. Dive in! Group numbe 0Votes209.4kRecs296.2kFans
- 38 A New Ming Dynasty Under Wanli 万历新明 Is it great to transmigrate and become an emperor? Honestly, not at all. You have more responsibilities and more obstacles to overcome than even someone who starts from nothing. It’s hard to repaint a ruined canvas already covered in garish colors. Zhu Yijun says, “If Heaven gave me another chance, I’d want to do this for another five hundred years!” Book group: Thanks to Xiao Long V for their support. 10Votes173.5kRecs128.3kFans
- 39 The Monkey King Is My Junior Brother 孙猴子是我师弟 Sun Wukong: “Senior Brother, teach me a spell.” Jin Si: “I’ll teach you a Tailed Beast Bomb. Here, open wide.” Patriarch Bodhi: “Why did you bring back a little fox?” Jin Si: “I’m checking whether it has the potential to become a fox spirit.” 2Votes207.9kRecs202.7kFans
- 40 The Great Lord of Spring and Autumn 春秋大领主 He wakes up in the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period, reborn as a minor lord. Not long before, the ruler of Jin had called on several noble houses to join forces and wipe out the Zhao clan. The turmoil at home had yet to subside, and the world beyond its borders was in constant upheaval. Lü Wu, now a minor noble after his soul transmigrated into the past, decides to use knowledge from later generations to improve his life before setting out to become a great lord… It is an age whe 0Votes226.1kRecs150kFans
- 41 EN The Fox of France 法兰西之狐 A timid engineering major transmigrates to France on the eve of the Revolution for reasons unknown, and becomes the older brother of the future Emperor Napoleon. Should he ride his brother’s coattails and spend the rest of his days living off him, or seize this opportunity to forge a great legacy of his own? 0Votes176.5kRecs132.5kFans
- 42 The Nameless Commoner Clan 庶族无名 Every era has a few geniuses who shine like comets. Those whose names go down in history are undoubtedly brilliant, but how many talented people have been lost in the river of time? At first, Chen Mo’s only dream was to bring glory to his family and elevate his humble clan into a true gentry family, overtaking the main branch and reducing them to commoners. He never imagined he would come so far. Sometimes he wonders: if the “god” who chose him in the shadows hadn’t done so, would he have achiev 0Votes309.1kRecs220.8kFans
- 43 Hollywood in the Making 好莱坞绘制 “Film noir? Yes! Those extreme cinephiles say my work is always full of crime, violence, and death, with sadistic, explicit scenes, protagonists who are both good and evil, and anxiety and unease as its central emotions. It always revolves around greed and deceit, ending in death or destruction. But these things aren’t found only in my films. They reveal the dark side we all share as human beings!”--- 0Votes61.1kRecs137.7kFans
- 44 The Ming Dynasty's Eldest Legitimate Son 大明嫡长子 Fighting spirit is easiest to extinguish amid the ordinary, while ambition grows most easily beneath power. As the heir of Zhu Youtang, the Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Houzhao possessed every advantage. Wouldn't it be a pity to leave the country in that state? It is precisely because there are regrets that change is worth pursuing. When an ordinary soul collides with an opportunity capable of shaping an era, he resolves to become a great ruler of his generation. The brush of history 3Votes117.7kRecs477.9kFans
- 45 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
- 46 The Sun and Moon Endure Forever 日月永在 The early Ming dynasty, when the empire was at the height of its power. In this year, Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen, ascends the throne. The following year, Zhu Di rebels, in what history calls the Jingnan Campaign. And in this year, a transmigrator arrives in this era. Transmigrate into Zhu Yunwen and lead the Great Ming to sweep across the world. 0Votes187.3kRecs242.7kFans
- 47 Academic Gathering with Lich Colleagues 和巫妖同僚的学术聚会 In an age when knowledge is forbidden, the physician Lyle must be cautious even in his academic research. Then an invitation from Andrei Academy appears before him. Andrei Academy in Cassandale? Lyle takes a closer look at the tombstone in front of him. Hiss, scholars sure know how to pick a place. 0Votes64.5kRecs161.4kFans
- 48 The Farming Madman 农业狂魔 This is a proper farming novel. From the start, there are two strong men and a plot of land: growing vegetables, melons, mushrooms... Many years later. The Four Great Grain Merchants: “???” The Six Major Seed Companies: “???” The Ten Biggest Arms Dealers: “???” 0Votes276.6kRecs272.3kFans
- 49 The Northern Song Dynasty's Young Literary Prodigy 北宋小文豪 Su Lu is in the Northern Song dynasty, and his hometown is Meishan. Born into a wealthy official's family, Su Lu has lived in luxury since childhood. Spoiled and pampered, he has no lofty ambitions and is only cut out to live off someone else. He is actively looking for a partner to take him on so he can spend the rest of his life as an unambitious couch potato. He's already made a thorough plan for his future: if he really can't find a wife who can support him, he doesn't mind staying home and 0Votes114.6kRecs66.3kFans
- 50 My Big Brother Is Zhu Youxiao 家兄朱由校 In 1620, the Ming Dynasty changed emperors three times, while the iron-headed Nurhaci was still locked in a fierce struggle with Xiong Tingbi over Shenyang. The finest troops on the East Asian battlefield, the White-Pole Soldiers and Qi Family Army, had only just set off north. The situation was still favorable. Lu Xiangsheng was buried in his books, while Sun Chuanting was still a humble county magis 6Votes82.5kRecs383.3kFans
