Novels like The Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and the Infinite Divine Machine
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and the Infinite Divine Machine, best match first.
- 1 Tang Dynasty 40K: High Tang Warriors Unleash Their Light Blades 大唐40K：盛唐武士亮出光刃 The Han Emperor prized beauty and yearned for a woman who could topple a kingdom, yet after ruling for many years, he could not find one. This matter is also recorded in The Song of Everlasting Sorrow. In ancient times, the war in heaven between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou set the stars ablaze across the Milky Way. At the transition from Shang to Zhou, the Investiture War laid the foundation for the Celestial Court of the Chanjiao. Now, it is the thirtieth millennium of the Great Tang's rule o 0Votes17.8kRecs65.3kFans
- 2 The Pale Knight of Night City 夜之城的苍白骑士 A Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Cyberpunk 2077 fanfiction. The end of the 20th century. The future of Night City was a modern metropolis free of crime, poverty, and corruption, a city of freedom. It was a paradise for the young and idealistic, a beacon lighting the way for those pursuing their dreams. The year 2076. Night City had everything anyone could ask for. Clashes between megacorporations, endless gunfights, and a city awash in terror and chaos. Before our eyes lay a scene of boundless vital 0Votes12.1kRecs42.4kFans
- 3 My Dreams Descend Upon the Heavens 我的梦境驾临诸天 The sea of stars is boundless, and countless worlds stand among one another. Outer gods peer into the present world from beyond the veil of reality. The wrathful master who thirsts for blood, the primordial mother tree that devours all things, the god of fate who toys with causality, the Lord of Ten Thousand Plagues who controls life and death... Every one of them possesses unfathomably uncanny abilities, and every one of them is enough to make the world tremble. Facing these demonic beings and 1Votes25.7kRecs71.9kFans
- 4 Tokyo: Simulation Begins with the Big Sister Next Door 东京：模拟从隔壁大姐姐开始 He transmigrates to Tokyo and binds himself to a career simulator. Starting with simulations of the big sister next door, he explores the future and sets off on a different path in life. "No, this isn't a kept-man simulator. This is just one part of my career." 0Votes15.7kRecs147.4kFans
- 5 A Retired Savior Falls into Warhammer 40,000, So Much for Retirement 退休救世主掉到锤四万哪算退休啊 One-sentence summary: After saving humanity, Gudako falls into Warhammer 40K and sets out to save humanity on a galactic scale. Things to note: · It started as a joke along the lines of, “Most people who transmigrate into Warhammer turn into huge guys, but I want to see a tiny human struggling to keep up, height-wise, among all those Warhammer giants.” But as the story went on, it gradually had less and less to do with that joke (sad). · Since I don’t know enough about Warhammer, I tried to mak 22Votes50.8kRecs63.4kFans
- 6 A Little Priest Containing Divine Aberrations 小牧师在收容神性诡异 [The novel isn't too long, and is expected to wrap up within 700,000 to 1.2 million words] Chamberlain, an anomalous humanoid from Earth with the talent “Special Attack: Divine Entities,” accidentally finds himself in the world of Nightfall, a single-player pseudo-DnD game, and becomes a cleric chosen by a god. The game world begins to reveal its bizarre, surreal nature: Chamberlain discovers that the world around him is becoming “gamified,” and that the blessings of the gods of time and knowled 0Votes15.9kRecs52.8kFans
- 7 Miss Player, Please Don't Cast Spells on Me 玩家小姐请不要对我施法 After Qingye Hui arrived in a parallel-world Tokyo, he discovered that this world had a supernatural ritual called the “Performance” competition. This ritual periodically selected a few lucky people and tossed them into virtual video game worlds of all kinds. The performers had to play NPCs in the games and rack their brains to entertain the players who came to visit. In the end, the performer most loved by the players would win countless rewards in the real world. Qingye Hui was lucky enough to 0Votes8.2kRecs65.5kFans
- 8 Am I the Only One Who Hasn't Ascended? 只有我没飞升吗？ When he wakes up, everyone on Mount Lingshan has ascended. Wang Luo, the rookie champion, is automatically appointed as the next mountain lord. Is this what you get for not fitting in? 0Votes32.9kRecs108.7kFans
- 9 EN Avatar: The Strongest Firebender 降世神通之最强御火师 Water, earth, fire, and air: those who can control one of these elements are known as benders. The world is home to four nations and tribes: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Only the Avatar can master all four elements. As a bridge between the four nations, the Avatar maintains balance in the world. But a hundred years ago, the Avatar suddenly vanished, and the Fire Nation, 0Votes20.6kRecs43.6kFans
- 10 The Hogwarts Madman’s Diary 霍格沃茨狂人日记 “You have three wishes. What would you wish for? Immortality? World peace? True love?” Edmond Soman laughs and shakes his head. “I'd make those who wish for immortality die miserably in the wilderness; make those who hope for world peace witness the world descend into chaos; and finally, I'd take someone who wants true love to the wedding of the person they love. You know, the groom won't be them.” Hogwarts in 1971 is still fairly peaceful, and this year's new students are an exceptiona 0Votes11.7kRecs25.3kFans
- 11 A Cybernetic Galaxy of Immortals 修仙的赛博银河 He wakes to find himself in a strange and distant future, with no family or friends, yet a path to immortality lies open before him. But what’s with this overwhelming cyberpunk vibe? Since when does cultivating immortality require installing an extra brain as an add-on? 0Votes69kRecs82kFans
- 12 I’m Definitely Not a Chaos God in Warhammer 我绝对不是战锤邪神 “I’m going to build a ninja village of my own!” “I’m going to form my own pirate crew!” “I’m going to start a magic school!” The few people in the corner were passionately discussing their futures, but Liu Haodong paid them no mind. He was busy wondering, “Warhammer 40K? What kind of world is this? We’re all ‘eleventh tithes’ here. Are people being taken as taxes?” The organization receiving their human tithes was called the World Eaters Legion. People as taxes? What kind of insane world was thi 0Votes12.3kRecs64.5kFans
- 13 The Beast-Eared Girl from the Tang Dynasty 来自大唐的兽耳娘 Liu Gong was originally planning to serve his country loyally. Then he met a beautiful Western Regions girl with cat ears. And she really was a catgirl. Ah, life here is so delightful. Who needs the Tang Dynasty? Here’s the official version: This is a different kind of Tang Dynasty. Catgirls, centaurs, winged folk, snake women, and merfolk are everywhere, from Liangzhou to Chang’an, from Youyun to Lingnan. And yet this is also a familiar Tang Dynasty. In the late Tang, the military governors 249Votes17.3kRecs77kFans
- 14 The Age of Heroic Spirits: Guaranteed in Ten Pulls 英灵时代，十连保底 My name is Bai Yu, and I have a superpower. It’s called the Guaranteed Bonus Rule. Buy ten drinks, and the last one is guaranteed to have a “Buy one, get one free” offer. Skip class ten times in college, and the professor is guaranteed not to call roll the tenth time. Then one day, I got hit by a car for the tenth time... 0Votes39.7kRecs257.3kFans
- 15 The Deception Game 欺世游戏 When the cost of changing history is astonishingly low, and every deceiver can make a wish and alter the past... what will this world become in the end? What if your friend hadn't gone out the day of the car accident... What if your parents' terminal illness had been discovered sooner... What if I'd known as a child what was going to happen in the future... What if the internet had been invented a hundred years earlier... What if World War III had already begun... What if it were possible to ret 312Votes77.9kRecs165.7kFans
- 16 Time Stop Is Just One of My Archaeology Skills 时间停止只是考古学技能的一部分 There is a view in cybernetics. Humans, like gears, can also be regarded as machines. They can even serve as feedback hubs controlled by machines, acting as the core of information processing. Such is the relationship between the world and people. And so, after waking from a hibernation pod following an accident, Lin Xia discovered that whenever he didn't move, time stopped! 183Votes13.8kRecs76.4kFans
- 17 The Comprehensive Network: A Chosen Warrior Begins with Speedrunning and Grinding 综网：从速刷打灰开始的战斗天选 They say there’s a post on some virtual-reality forum that goes: “If you could have the abilities of any extraordinary profession, which would you choose?” Having just finished the timeless classic How to Pick a Mythic+ Tank, Yi Qingfeng had “pulling the pack together” on his mind, so he casually chose paladin. The next day, as he stared at the status panel appearing before his eyes, Yi Qingfeng fell into deep thought: Wait, why is this paladin’s aura blood-red...? And so the adventure begins? “ 60Votes82.1kRecs152.7kFans
- 18 Resist the Qing 抗清 In the third year of the Kangxi era, Kuitung, the last anti-Qing stronghold on the Chinese mainland, is on the verge of falling under the Qing army’s overwhelming assault. The land of Huaxia is already crawling with the stench of blood and barbarity. Is there still a chance to resist the Qing? There is! The last chance: the Revolt of the Three Feudatories 0Votes112.6kRecs229.6kFans
- 19 Who Said I Had to Swear Allegiance to the Witch? 谁说要向魔女效忠？ You wretched Aslan, what on earth have you been doing all day? What could possibly be so important that you've been too busy to write another letter to your noble and esteemed patron? What feelings have smothered and driven out the loyalty you promised her, and your vow to come to her side? What marvelous thing could it be? Money? Status? Fame? What could possibly take up every minute of your time, monopolize every day, and keep you from sparing even a little thought for your patron? Aslan, you' 82Votes76kRecs170.4kFans
- 20 A Wizard's Rules for Making Friends 法师的交友守则 No one could have imagined that it all began with an investigation into the disappearance of some utterly ordinary stray cats. So said the Lord of Ten Thousand Laws (About this book) A pure, old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery world, with no battle energy, no System, no stats, and none of the other assorted nonsense. There's not even any technology that trounces magic. And finally, no Cthulhu! What, you want to know if there's romance? There isn't, I promise! What? Then why is that the title? Oh, we 1Votes24.3kRecs99.9kFans
- 21 My Book Friend, Long Aotian 我的书友龙傲天 I’ve lived my whole life walking on thin ice, because one whisper has always echoed in my ear. “Young hero, you wouldn’t want your fellow disciples and family to find out you’re writing this kind of book, would you?” I must never let the authorities discover my identity, never let my fellow martial artists uncover my pen name, never let twisted haters dox me, and never lose my good name. I’ll stake my reputation as a peerless genius of the righteous path, teeter on the edge of social death, and 0Votes32.3kRecs150.2kFans
- 22 Stardew Valley’s World Tree 星露谷的世界树 Link, a Wall Street vampire living in New York, fled an attempt on his life and took refuge in a rural farm he’d inherited by chance. There, he adopted a new identity and a different way of life. Gradually, Link discovered that the place was not only rich in resources and full of beautiful, kind people, but also uncannily similar to a game he’d once played... A chance encounter awakened more of his memories. So the assassin hunting him was Bullseye? The spoiled rich kid whose supercar he’d beate 33Votes84.8kRecs72.1kFans
- 23 After the Players Are Reborn 玩家重生以后 After being reborn, I, a man guilty of every imaginable evil, decided to turn over a new leaf. Within three days, I paid off the gambling debts my father had racked up, joined the greatest sect under heaven, and found my nemesis from my previous life. I was going to take revenge on her. To achieve my goal, I became her fellow disciple, helped her kill her enemies, and saved her parents. Her fondness for me grew day by day, but I kept resisting her advances and refused every kindness she offered. 277Votes49.7kRecs233.5kFans
- 24 What? You Say His Majesty Is a War Criminal!! 什么？你说陛下是战犯！！ “Neutron annihilation, planetary detonation, angels of bliss, Colossus apocalypse, dimensional strikes, black hole annihilation. Open your eyes and look! How many races across the galaxy have been wiped out by that tyrant’s ambition? The Holy Emperor is a vicious human supremacist, nothing less than a war criminal!” “What? You’re saying His Majesty is a war criminal? Good heavens, you damned heretic! 0Votes22.2kRecs185.6kFans
- 25 Reincarnated Witch and Reborn Heiress Save the World 转生女妖，与重生千金拯救世界 I left the prosperous, modernized alchemical capital and headed for a remote land with beautiful scenery, where the only daily entertainment was baring my teeth at wyverns. All because of a letter from my senior schoolmate. “Hello, transmigrator. I’m reborn.” 10Votes127.2kRecs72.3kFans
- 26 A Blessing for the Beautiful Stars 为美好群星献上祝福 The stars blaze across the sky. Among four hundred billion star systems, six million civilizations raise their warhammers and surge into deep space. The timing is just too perfect. It makes you wonder if the Milky Way is merely a chessboard casually laid out by demons in the void. So no matter how grand your ideals may be, they seem small. And maybe I just want to indulge my terrible tastes a little. 0Votes25.3kRecs100.2kFans
- 27 Witch of the Cyber Age 赛博时代的魔女 In the cyberpunk age, corporate alliances rule the world, and humans and witches alike are fuel for the corporate machine, enslaved by advanced technology. The winds of change are beginning to blow. Xu Yang refuses to become a corporate lackey and resolves to escape. Along the way, he will rescue adorable yet powerful witches from the clutches of megacorporations and embark on a path of revolution! 2Votes38.5kRecs133.9kFans
- 28 The Cultivation World's Only Spirit Medium 修仙界唯一出马仙 A rainy night, a highway, a semi-truck. No Odin, no Nibelung, none of that foreign stuff. Just a yellow-skinned rat in a raincoat, popping the truck's tire with its head. The man and the rat both died in the crash, then transmigrated together. Only after arriving in the other world did Zhou Li realize this thing wasn't a so-called yellow-skinned rat at all. It was a Huang Daxian. Then the Huang Daxian invited Zhou Li. “To stay alive, become a spirit medium.” 503Votes40.7kRecs159.9kFans
- 29 EN They All Call Me Master 祂们都叫我大师 The prolonged witch hunt faded away with the end of the Seven Years’ War. The mysteries of the East Coast began to retreat into hiding, while gunpowder rapidly rose to prominence. Mo Qishang should have been utterly bewildered, but instead he stood at the crossroads of fate under the name Arthur. He stared in astonishment at charging knights, wizards atop towering spires, and strange beings roaming the wilderness. He could clearly feel the keen edge of a longsword and the recoil of a musket, and 0Votes75.7kRecs270.3kFans
- 30 The Hangman of Heaven 天堂刽子手 451Votes27.5kRecs101.6kFans
- 31 Since the Founding of the Camp: Chronicles of the Roman Khanate 自建帐以来：罗马汗国记 Welcome to the metaverse. After Guo Kang arrived in this world, he gradually discovered that history seemed a little off. In the former lands of the Eastern Roman Empire, a state called the “Roman Khanate” had emerged. His adoptive father, Guo Daxia, one of the Khanate’s most powerful lords, was waging campaigns in every direction for its sake. Across the lands, all kinds of strange “Yuan” regimes had turned the world into a scene of vibrant life and fierce competition. Yet beyond the distant mi 38Votes232.7kRecs133.9kFans
- 32 EN Abyss Express 深渊专列 Dear passenger, please present your ticket. The express train bound for the abyss is about to depart. P.S. In simple terms, this is an underground adventure story full of the warmth of everyday life, cooking and household chores, harmony, affection, healing, and kindness. 8Votes83.3kRecs289.8kFans
- 33 EN The Long Road of Ten Thousand Paths 万道长途 Green weeds grow on a mound of earth. A thousand years bury the bones, but not the shame. In this world, with so many eyes and ears, how many can truly hear and see? Heaven shuts its eyes, and people have no worries. Yet the world insists on keeping its eyes open. The world is a riot of color, impossible to take in all at once. Beyond Mount Wu, how many autumns lie ahead? A few names fill the pages of history; countless barren mounds lie at Beimang. The fields of those who came before are claime 1Votes90.2kRecs225.2kFans
- 34 Wanderer of the Abyss 深渊漫游者 After accidentally blowing up the global internet with one slip of the hand, Jiang Zhou became the worst criminal in human history and fell into a long slumber. When he wakes again a hundred years later, he finds himself in an out-of-control age where the primitive and the civilized intertwine, and control and resistance collide. In the abyss, countless out-of-control AIs run rampant. Above Olympus, supercorporations that consider themselves gods look down on the masses. In baseline reality, ord 33Votes64.2kRecs116.4kFans
- 35 EN I Became an Ancient God in a Cultivation World 我在修行世界当古神 Many years later, Xu Yuan would recall the night when he had just transmigrated into this world and was pinned to a bridge by a flying sword. At the time, he thought this was a cultivation world and that, like the other transmigrators, he had obtained a golden finger. He did not know that there was no such thing as a golden finger in this world. What he had obtained was the power of an ancient god... 25Votes157.1kRecs366.1kFans
- 36 EN Reversing the Yellow Springs 黄泉逆行 Calamity descends, swallowing the world. With their last reserves of strength, humanity builds towering walls and mighty cities to preserve the final spark of civilization. Now calamity stirs once more. Humanity will go on the offensive! Witness the heroes, follow their example, become a hero yourself! (For readers who don't like passionate stories, the post-apocalypse, or multiple heroines, please don't flame the author.) 205Votes135.2kRecs556.4kFans
- 37 The Secret Doctrine of Monsters 怪物们的密教准则 Autumn, 1840. The world was a whale rising from the depths, and in the boy’s eyes, it burst into flames. A letter from a dozen miles away, a traveler from a foreign land, and several wondrous tales of imagination. Ritualists, curios, strange species, invisible arts; Curse-killing runes, pointy-eared cat dragons, little people beneath the floorboards, castles that walk in dreams; Science and the occult, fantasy and reality. The boy tapped his cane lightly and passed across the currents of the age 5Votes31kRecs141.6kFans
- 38 Hold On, Let Me Start a Game First 别急，容我先开一局游戏 After Lin Qianxing transmigrated to another world, he discovered that both his gaming platform and cheat platform had come along for the ride. Beating a game earns him a character template and its abilities. In Ascending Mount Shu, he used the [Midair Footwork] cheat to beat the game and gained the ability to jump endlessly. “Kid, even if you had wings, you couldn’t escape today.” “I don’t have wings, but I should be able to fly anyway.” In Flying Daggers, he obtained the [Hidden Blades] cheat: 0Votes30.7kRecs201.1kFans
- 39 Give the Cultivation World a Taste of Hilarious Antics 给修仙界来点整活震撼 Interviewer: “Immortal Zhou Li, may I ask why you mastered the righteous arts, established the Twelve Righteous Paths, gathered the Twelve Talismans, and settled disputes from ancient times to the present?” “To put on a show.” Interviewer: “Uh, I mean, when you restored order to the Ming court, planted seven immortal gourds using the art of all spirits as your foundation, and nurtured a spring of spiritual energy, was it for the glory of humanity, or...?” “To put on a big show.” Interviewer: “No 2Votes25.6kRecs225.4kFans
- 40 My Everyday Travels with Beautiful Girls, Despite My Hatred of Women 厌女的我和美少女旅行日常 Song Wenbin is a well-known online streamer with a fear of women. After a mishap during a livestream got his channel banned, he thought he was about to lose his job and die of idleness. But a strange job interview dragged him into an extraordinary series of adventures. These adventures include, but are not limited to, selling used cars in Africa, searching for treasure in Indonesia, eating hot pot in space, riding a motorcycle across the Indian subcontinent, flying a plane over China, taking a s 4Votes44.5kRecs95.4kFans
- 41 My Summons Are Really Strange 我的召唤物很奇怪 Why are the things you summon always so strange? Can't you make them a little more normal? Lu Yu helplessly stared at the creature before him, which was waving all of its tentacles. Who can I blame when I get to see you every time I look up... 0Votes74.6kRecs197.1kFans
- 42 Ming Dynasty 1805 大明1805 On the fifth day of the first month of the thirty-fourth year of the Taiping era of the Great Ming, February 4, 1805, by the Western calendar. Today is the Start of Spring. The weather turned from cloudy to clear. “Napoleon Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Asian Armies of France, Prussia, and Russia, Sets His Sights on the Ili River Valley.” “Nelson Leads a Joint British and French Fleet into the Indian Ocean, Threatening the Strait of Malacca.” “Duke Wellington of Britain Leads British, Fren 0Votes48kRecs198.1kFans
- 43 The Charlatan Mage’s Thirteen Trials 诳言法师的十三试炼 [90% of campus life is a romantic comedy, and the other 10% is a heroic legend!] 1. Shamelessly impersonate a descendant of an immortal 2. Make the evil organization eat its fill 3. Reveal your divine nature in broad daylight 4. Drink the entire school under the table 5. Steal the imperial jade seal of the magical world 12. Shoot down the maddening Sun of the Apocalypse 13. Confess to the girls who like you, like you, like you “Of these New Era’s Thirteen Trials, twelve are just idiots doing 4.1kVotes148kRecs356kFans
- 44 Yes, Great Witch 2077 是，伟大魔女2077 If making my two daughters into great witches would mean letting me reach the summit, live a fulfilling life, have a happy family, and become good girls steeped in sweetness, then I would gladly do it, a thousand times over! 2.2kVotes120.8kRecs104.2kFans
- 45 EN The Grand Supernal Lineage 超凡大谱系 We create gods and establish faith, using them to chart our salvation. We hold the genealogies and decipher the aether, thereby becoming the All-Knowing One. 102Votes117.7kRecs377.2kFans
- 46 EN A Door to Another World 致异世界 Swords and magic, gods and dragons, demons and the abyss, humanity and the races. A door appeared in this fantastical, uncanny world, bringing someone who did not belong here. When the consciousness of two civilizations collides, what will emerge between them? A druid stands before a wheat field several meters tall, while the fishfolk chase shoals through their fishing grounds; A rune-lit magic train crosses the plains, and students in the academy chant their multiplication tables; Ogryns and ch 16Votes153.5kRecs590.9kFans
- 47 This Lousy Wizard Has Had Enough 这破巫师不当也罢 … Lin An's life took a dramatic turn. The basketball under his bed turned into a blood-dripping head that hopped beside his pillow in the middle of the night and softly hummed in his ear. The subway train hurtling into the station became a giant lizard, jaws gaping as it waited for him to line up and be fed to it. The world wasn't as simple as he'd imagined. Behind the bustling city, the Witch-Hunting Knig 0Votes33.7kRecs196.2kFans
- 48 The Tower of Collapse 倾覆之塔 In a cyberpunk world ruled by seven mega-corporations, seven floating islands that are prisons unto themselves, an immortal race that has governed the world for a thousand years, and a future on the brink of resource exhaustion... In a world without hope, people yearn for the birth of a “hero,” while coldly waiting to watch that hero fall from grace. Once someone is hailed as a hero, any crime can be forgiven. People obsessively hang on their every word, and even the haughty elves dare not chall 0Votes121kRecs571.2kFans
- 49 EN 40k: Blade of Midnight 40k：午夜之刃 This is the thirtieth millennium of the Imperium of Man. Under the leadership of the Emperor, the Master of Mankind, humanity has finally left its homeworld once more and ventured into the cold, merciless universe. They yearn to reclaim their lost colonies, and hope to bring those suffering in agony back beneath the Emperor’s light. At this moment, humanity still holds bright hopes for the future. At this moment, no one knows what the future will bring. And the story begins on a remote planet ca 31Votes104.2kRecs252.1kFans
- 50 I Bring Destruction and Rebirth to the World 我给予世界毁灭与新生 When the first superhuman appeared, people thought it was a miracle; when the first superhuman criminal appeared, people thought it marked the beginning of unrest; when superhumans made up 0.42% of the population, everyone realized this would be a revolution that overturned the existing order. But it was only when the first player to possess a superhuman’s consciousness appeared that the world understood: this was an unprecedented natural disaster... the Fourth Calamity. The AFK author is back. 4Votes134.2kRecs204.6kFans
