Novels like The Decaying Han
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Decaying Han, best match first.
- 1 Building an Economic Empire in the Three Kingdoms 我在三国搞经济霸权 As Zhuge Liang launches his fifth northern expedition and the star of his life is about to fall at Wuzhang Plains, Li Heng, a transmigrator, presents him with a bottle of cough syrup. From then on, he begins transforming the Ji Han state. He turns a bureaucratic bloc into a capitalist one, which begins exporting its economy to Wu and Wei and engaging in strategic deception. 0Votes27kRecs101.7kFans
- 2 Contending for Wei 争魏 After Zhuge Liang fell at Wuzhang Plains. The great age of rival warlords and rising heroes also drew its curtain. The magnificent Three Kingdoms era entered its final forty years. It seemed that Heaven’s mandate had all gone to the Sima clan. Yet while the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole lurks behind. Before the very last moment, how can anyone know who will emerge victorious? 0Votes71.1kRecs201.7kFans
- 3 EN Marvel: My Warhammer Simulator 美漫：我的战锤模拟器 Luo Xia transmigrated into the Marvel universe. He had only wanted to live a peaceful, uneventful life. But why was this universe such a mess? Even if Luo Xia managed to avoid every war and conflict on Earth, there was still Thanos lurking in the depths of space, collecting the Infinity Stones... As a transmigrator, Luo Xia didn't dare leave anything to chance! Fortunately, he obtained a life simulator from Warhammer 40K! Bolters and Dreadnoughts were his for the taking! Poisonblade tanks, Thund 0Votes62.1kRecs326.9kFans
- 4 Wanli Protects the Ming 万历佑明 Zhu Yijun: I am the Wanli Emperor. In this life, I have decided not to neglect the affairs of state! I will safeguard the Great Ming, live up to my teacher, and prove worthy of the formidable imperial authority entrusted to me! 1Votes45.9kRecs222kFans
- 5 My Younger Brother Is Zhuge Liang 舍弟诸葛亮 This is a story about the Zhuge clan, the "teachers of all ages." In Xuzhou during the first year of Jian'an, Lü Bu secretly seized Xiapi while Yuan Shu attacked Huaiyin. The transmigrator Zhuge Jin was accidentally surrounded by Yuan's army inside Huaiyin City and had no choice but to help Liu Bei, who was trapped in a desperate situation, counterattack and kill the enemy. Since thos 0Votes148.6kRecs368.6kFans
- 6 The Last Light of the Later Ming 后明余晖 Thanks to an elder whose origins are unknown, the decaying dynasty is reborn in another form, surviving for more than two hundred years thereafter. Then, across the vast Pacific, steel, explosives, and oil will compose the most magnificent tableau in human history. So, for the ancient Ming Empire, is this truly a final resurgence before its death? ˉˉˉˉˉˉˉˉˉˉ "How can this Z Fleet have five battleships?" "Can the Shermans still run rampant on the islands?" "Can the Mustangs and Corsairs still dom 2Votes109.3kRecs258.9kFans
- 7 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
- 8 The Outcast: You Asked Me to Cultivate Qi, and I Became an Immortal? 一人之下：让你炼气，你成仙了？ After transmigrating into the body of Li Muxuan, a young ruffian, he planned to join the Three-One Sect and become an ordinary Qi practitioner. He never expected that, as he continued practicing, he would actually become an immortal. 0Votes78kRecs571.6kFans
- 9 The North American Gunfighter Detective 北美枪侠警探 A story about a firefighter reborn in America who becomes a detective. Nothing says romance like a revolver. A slow-burn American police story, and definitely a complete one. 2Votes146.5kRecs231.9kFans
- 10 I Am Kaka Kaka Kaka Kaka 我是卡卡卡卡卡 I’m Kaka. I’m the most dazzling guy on the field, the strongest mid laner in solo play. I’m peerless, born powerful. But just as I reached the top, my best friend and fiercest rival left me far behind. I had the best script, yet I was only the protagonist for half the show. This time, every story will be rewritten. 3Votes138kRecs105.5kFans
- 11 EN Lord of Mysteries: The Good Witch 诡秘：善魔女 A bloodstained “Assassin” takes a potion and advances to “Witch,” only to die on the spot... A body that should have rotted rises once more, now inhabited by a soul from another world. “I'm a Templar Knight. I can accept being transmigrated, but how did I end up an Assassin too?” The first problem Angel faces is figuring out how to get along with her new Nighthawks neighb 143Votes253.8kRecs421.1kFans
- 12 The Merit of Qin 秦功 A young man’s soul transmigrates to the late Warring States period, where he finds himself in Qi, born into a life of suspicion and mockery. Fortunately, he has lived two lives, and can therefore see the spirits of the dead. Yet the “achievements” of the seven Warring States amounted to little more than hereditary privileges, the preserve of the nobility. He had thought that, for all his life, he would struggle to shake off the contempt others felt for him, let alone become a high-ranking offici 3Votes240.8kRecs907.4kFans
- 13 Showbiz: I’m Just an Actor 文娱之我只是个演员 I don’t understand music, can’t dance, am no good at writing, know nothing about calligraphy, and can’t paint. I’m an actor, Xu Rong. 3Votes135.9kRecs245.6kFans
- 14 Xuande 玄德 Before you stands a scion of the Han imperial house, descendant of Emperor Jing, street brawler of Zhuo County, personally taught by the great Confucian Lu Zhi, romantic poet of the Eastern Han, the man directly responsible for making paper dear in Luoyang, master debater of the Old Text School, young leader of its reformist faction, founding ancestor of the Liu clan of Zhuo County, Zhuo Commandery, the seventh generation to inherit the Zuo Tradition of the Spring and Autumn Annals, and the Old 0Votes223.7kRecs724.5kFans
- 15 Jingming 靖明 The Ming Dynasty was on the verge of ruin. The Forbidden City, completed just a hundred years earlier, welcomed a new master, while Yang Tinghe often reflected through tears: What kind of monster did I choose? Once Jiajing stopped wasting his intelligence on cultivating immortality, a wise ruler took the throne and fierce ministers filled the court. The might of the sovereign and father spread far across the seas! 0Votes183.3kRecs621.2kFans
- 16 Why Has Your Highness Rebelled? 皇兄何故造反？ In the eighth year of the Jingtai era, at the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Zhu Qiyu stood atop the imperial steps. Behind him was a ten-year-old child. Below the steps stood the civil and military officials, all wearing impassive expressions. He sighed, then looked up at his panic-stricken elder brother. At last, he asked the question he had kept buried in his heart. “Your Majesty, why have you rebelled?” P.S. Warning: the protagonist is a schemer and won’t be pursuing technological advancement 24Votes295.7kRecs622.5kFans
- 17 I Studied Abroad in the Modern Era 我在现代留过学 The Son of Heaven is born of Heaven and Earth, and is Heaven’s own son! Some say the Son of Heaven is the father and mother of the people, and rules the world as its king! And I was once the Son of Heaven! I inherited the legacy of six generations and carried forward the late emperor’s ambitions. I punished the western rebels and put the old faction in its place. Whatever I set out to do, I accomplished; whoever I attacked, I defeated. I swept away a century of accumulated ills in the Great Song 152Votes553.1kRecs961.2kFans
- 18 The Northern Ode 北颂 Kou Ji’s soul transmigrates to the Northern Song Dynasty, where he becomes the great-grandson of Kou Zhun, the legendary prime minister. As the son of a third-generation official, he should have been riding horses and hawks, living the most brazen life of a spoiled heir. But after he arrives in the capital, Bianjing, with a letter from his dirt-cheap father inviting him to come enjoy the good life, he discovers... His grandfather, Kou Zhun, seems to be in trouble! 3Votes468.3kRecs475.5kFans
- 19 The Rogue 顽贼 The second year of Chongzhen, Great Ming Empire. The once-powerful empire stood on the verge of collapse. Within its borders, a courier from Yinchuan raised his arm and took up arms, splintering the realm. Beyond them, the new ruler of Jianzhou waged war in every direction, leading his forces through the passes. Amid the drought that swept across Shaanxi, Liu Chengzong strode across the parched, thousand-mile wasteland, head held high. 20Votes465.9kRecs258.7kFans
- 20 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
- 21 EN Building a Thousand-Year Dynasty: From King Wu’s Conquest of Shang 从武王伐纣开始建立千年世家 Ji Zhao transmigrated and found himself in the Zhou dynasty, three thousand years in the past. His elder brother, King Wu Ji Fa, had just overthrown the Shang dynasty and was now gravely ill, on the brink of death. Ji Zhao was enfeoffed as a marquis and tasked with assisting the young ruler. Looking at the eight-year-old Son of Heaven and the eight hundred feudal lords of the Ji and Jiang clans, Ji Zhao was full of ambition. Through hardship, he would open up the wilderness and usher in a new ag 1Votes604.1kRecs1.1MFans
- 22 Zhao of the Warring States 战国赵为王 A soul from two thousand years in the future transmigrates into the body of King Xiaocheng of Zhao, Dan, in 260 BC. To escape the fate of becoming a stepping stone for Qin Shi Huang's unification of the realm, Zhao Dan decides he might as well take the burden of unifying the realm onto his own shoulders. But before that, Zhao Dan has an urgent problem to deal with. The decisive moment of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao is at hand. So should Zhao Kuo replace Lian Po or not? QQ reader 0Votes189.3kRecs166.6kFans
- 23 EN Reborn 99 Days Before the College Entrance Exam 重生高考前99天 Chen Zhe, a provincial civil servant, unexpectedly returns to the year he was in his final year of high school. Once a wooden, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to a girl and knew nothing but studying, he suddenly becomes adept at handling people and situations, always saying and doing just the right thing. Not only does he change the course of his life, he also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Chen Zhe, what are your strong points? Chen Zhe: I’m honest, and I don’t talk m 4.3kVotes2.7MRecs4.6MFans
- 24 The Whole Mountain Is My Hunting Ground 整座大山都是我的猎场 Reborn in 1986, an era when guns and hunting weren’t banned, wildlife wasn’t protected, and bears and wild boars were even wrecking the fruits of the people’s hard work. The higher-ups encouraged and urged every village to actively hunt. Zhao Jun, a low-ranking soldier in the Yong’antun militia platoon and a member of the local hunters’ squad, slings his rifle over his shoulder and heads into the mountains, where he takes up a life of hunting with dogs. This story is based entirely on true event 2.3kVotes1.3MRecs990kFans
- 25 The End of the Song Dynasty 终宋 The Song Dynasty never recovered Yan and Yun, and throughout its reign it was bullied by foreign enemies… As the Southern Song nears its fall, he will accomplish the great deeds that eluded the dynasty from beginning to end. 81Votes996.2kRecs2.3MFans
- 26 EN Red Chamber: Defying Heaven's Fall 红楼之挽天倾 A thousand beauties weep, ten thousand fair women mourn. White bones pile like mountains, their names long forgotten; all were once young lords and lovely ladies. A young man from a later age transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, taking the place of a distant relative of the Ningguo House. To avoid being dragged down by the Jia family, he must tread carefully at every turn. Yet when he looks around, he sees a nation on the brink of chaos. To keep the Central Plains from falli 22Votes1.1MRecs1.4MFans
- 27 Starting with Detective Li Yuanfang 从神探李元芳开始 After transmigrating into Li Yuanfang, the greatest joy of being a great detective comes from two things: First, when I expose a criminal’s true face and he panics and tries to attack the detective, I smile and draw my saber. Second, having the chubby Di by my side. Whenever we come across a case, I can’t help asking: “Huaiying, what do you think?” 0Votes405.4kRecs414.7kFans
- 28 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 29 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
- 30 I Only Wanted to Retire, but Was Forced to Become a Fleet Admiral 只想退休的我被迫成了大将 The Great Pirate Era. The seas are turbulent, the mighty can destroy heaven and earth, and everyone is locked in brutal battles. Honestly, it makes people lose all motivation! I, Lucilfer Kuro, am twenty-four years old. My greatest dream is: to live out this entire life safely! 6Votes673.8kRecs1.2MFans
- 31 I Found the First Emperor 捡到一只始皇帝 What could be more of a headache than transmigrating to the pre-Qin era to face off against Bai Qi? The Qin hostage Yiren wants to entrust his concubine, Zhao Ji, to me. Also titled The First Emperor's Development Plan and I Absolutely Refuse to Become Lao Ai. 10Votes283.1kRecs500.1kFans
- 32 The Ambitious Hero of the Late Eastern Han 东汉末年枭雄志 The late Eastern Han dynasty in Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a tumultuous age of grand drama. There were valiant generals, brilliant strategists, cunning warlords, benevolent rulers, and alluring beauties. It was a world to dream of. But the late Eastern Han in Guo Peng’s eyes was cold. It was neither kind nor just, much less civilized. Danger lurked everywhere. He saw hunger, poverty, war, and plague. He saw bones strewn across the fields and not a cock crowing for a thousand miles. He saw 5Votes408.9kRecs519.5kFans
- 33 Reforming the Song Dynasty 革宋 The realm belongs not to the Zhao clan, but to all of Huaxia. I raise an army not to reclaim the Zhao clan’s throne, but to restore Huaxia’s realm. 2Votes701.4kRecs178.3kFans
- 34 Reborn in the Late Kangxi Era 重生于康熙末年 Xiao Jiu's new book, My Father-in-Law Is Called Kangxi, launches on Qidian on May 1, 2022. He woke from a dream to find himself in the Cao family's Jiangning Weaving Bureau residence, three hundred years in the past. Kangxi was growing old, and great changes were on the horizon. The Nine Princes were watching, ready to make their move. Some families were flourishing, others were on the brink of collapse. The Cao family of Jiangnan was at the height 3Votes1.3MRecs350.7kFans
- 35 My Father Is Emperor Gaozu of Han 家父汉高祖 The new book The Court Does Not Move South is now being serialized. Your support is appreciated! A great empire has just been born, and a new era is about to begin. Liu Chang once wondered whether he should compete for the throne and lead this brand-new empire himself. But then he looked at the people around him: Liu Bang, Empress Lu, Liu Ying, Liu Heng... Well, isn’t it better to stay alive? And so Liu Chang earned himself the title of the most shameful transmigrator and settled into 160Votes1.1MRecs3.9MFans
- 36 EN I Never Intended to Become an Immortal 我本无意成仙 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. I am a stranger in this land, with no intention of becoming an immortal. After twenty years of cultivating the Dao in the mountains, Song You's master sends him down the mountain to witness demons and monsters, the many faces of life, and the famous mountains and rivers, and to seek out the immortals of legend. He says that is what true cultivation is. Who would have thought that after traveling the length and breadth 192Votes1.2MRecs4.1MFans
- 37 Restoring the Song Dynasty 绍宋 To inherit is to continue; to guide is to lead. In 1127, the Northern Song fell. Soon afterward, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amid great expectations, inheriting the Song dynasty and adopting the Jianyan era name. Yet within three months, Li Gang was dismissed as chancellor, Chen Dong was executed, Yue Fei was driven out of the army, Zong Ze was abandoned in the capital, and the plans to resist the Jin in Hebei were scrapped wholesale... After all that eff 1.4kVotes3.6MRecs20.9MFans
- 38 I, the Emperor 朕 Back in the late Ming, reduced to slavery. If an emperor can be a beggar, a Manchu invader, a rebel, or a household slave, why can’t a household slave become emperor? 30Votes1.5MRecs3MFans
- 39 EN 13 Mink Street 明克街13号 I like sitting alone on an empty street at night, listening to “them” whisper and enjoying “their” clamor. 73Votes3.4MRecs5MFans
- 40 The Han Legacy and the Noble Houses 汉祚高门 Shen Zhezhi arrives in the early Eastern Jin dynasty and takes over the body of a son from a powerful family in Jiangnan. He has ten thousand mu of fertile land, a fortune in wealth, and servants by the dozen. It’s an exceptionally privileged start for someone who transmigrates, but unfortunately, his father is a habitual rebel. The aristocracy flees south, the Five Barbarians wreak havoc across China: a dirge for the land of Hua Xia, a lament for the Han dynasty. The great clans can’t be truste 0Votes825.6kRecs424.6kFans
- 41 Late Ming 晚明 In the final years of the Ming dynasty, the northern frontier is shrouded in the smoke of war, with mountains of corpses, while the south of the Yangtze enjoys tranquil streams, stone bridges, song, and dance. Amid the internal strife and external threats of a dynasty on the brink of collapse, a calculating office director rises to power and sounds the last call for China. A true hero can change fate. Brutal, bloody ancient wars and authentic scenes of everyday life in the Ming, where ordinary p 93Votes767.7kRecs829.1kFans
- 42 The Ming Dynasty's Literary Champion 大明文魁 Before the Forbidden City stand nine gates in succession. Officials in their caps and finery arrive from the southern gate. With palace flowers tucked in their hats, they face the emperor; in the Golden Hall, their names are announced for all to hear. They ride through the imperial avenue for ten miles, hailed as the Ming dynasty’s top scholar. 10Votes1.6MRecs544.3kFans
- 43 I Am God! 我就是神！ Five hundred million years ago. The Cambrian Period. Yin Shen descended upon the most ancient wilderness and primordial oceans. He was the beginning of all things. He created life and intelligence, the Creator of all living beings. As time passed, stories became epics, epics became myths, and in the end, even myths were buried by the ages. Only the divine is eternal. 23Votes2.7MRecs1.7MFans
- 44 The National Forensic Doctor 国民法医 Corpse: Have you no manners? 110Votes4.1MRecs2.4MFans
- 45 Museum of Demon Suppression 镇妖博物馆 What defies the natural order of the world is a yao. What possesses the spirit of a living creature is a jing. What lingers after death is a ghost. What is abnormal in an object is a monster. The Commandant of Retainers, once known as the Crouching Tiger, was an office established by Emperor Wu of Han to investigate witchcraft and capture treacherous criminals. As spiritual energy and the supernatural revive across the globe, humanity gropes its way toward cultivation. The yaoguai, spirits, ghos 42Votes1.2MRecs6.9MFans
- 46 My Healing Game 我的治愈系游戏 Comrade Officer, if I told you this was a casual healing game, would you believe me? 133Votes2.9MRecs6.9MFans
- 47 Closer to My True Form Every Day 每天都离现形更近一步 “If a venomous snake uses its venom to poison a venomous snake, will the venomous snake be poisoned to death by its own venom?” When Feng Yi’s startup hit a snag and he found himself in dire straits, his grandaunt’s private butler arrived with a massive inheritance. Feng Yi: “She had so many relatives of my generation. Why did she leave it to me?” Butler: “Because you’re the most pleasing to look at.” Feng Yi touched his own sharp, angular face. “She certainly had excellent taste!” Yet after inh 17Votes3.3MRecs1MFans
- 48 The Dawn of Lingao 临高启明 They transmigrate to an age of chaos by choice, not because they were struck by lightning. Some want to become kings and conquer the land. Some want to rescue the people from their misery. Others want to use their own strength to stop the final conquest of civilization by barbarism, and thereby rewrite the history of the Chinese people. Of course, some only want to enjoy the extremely decadent life they can’t have in the present day, with three wives and four concubines. This group of ordinary p 120Votes2.5MRecs552.7kFans
- 49 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
- 50 Conquering the Han 覆汉 Strive to make a name among the lords, if only to preserve your life in a chaotic age! As a posthumous child, Gongsun Xun received his guiding principles for life early on from his mother, who claimed to be a transmigrator. But after following the tide of history year after year, he began to realize that things were gradually going very wrong! This is the story of a man who is half native, striving amid a momentous age! 286Votes2.2MRecs1.4MFans
