Novels like The Splendor of the Red Chamber
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- 1 Dream of the Red Chamber: Half a Move Ahead of Heaven 红楼之胜天半子 [A must-read Dream of the Red Chamber story] Yingchun gains a younger brother blessed with the physique of Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Chu. The strongest carbon-based life-form descends upon Dream of the Red Chamber. Tonight, a dream in red mansions; tomorrow, a song in the watery realm. White bones pile up like mountains, their names long forgotten… 0Votes20.5kRecs99.3kFans
- 2 The Son of Heaven of the Red Chamber 红楼天子 By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: “Qing Bai, the third son of Prince Zhongwu, is a heaven-blessed prodigy. Among all the imperial grandsons, the late Sacred Ancestor, His Imperial Majesty, cherished him most, raising him in the palace and favoring him far beyond the norm. He is dedicated to good governance and excels in both civil and military affairs, and will surely prove worthy of inheriting the great throne. He shall succeed me and ascend the imperial throne. In accordance with 0Votes8.8kRecs193.4kFans
- 3 A Dream of the Red Chamber at Dawn 红楼晓梦 A wisp of a remnant soul is reborn in this world. To make ends meet, he becomes a thief, then gets swept up by a band of thieves and dragged into the Rongguo Mansion. “Steal a hook and you’re executed; steal a kingdom and you’re made a lord.” He steals an identity and becomes a distant relative of the Rongguo Mansion; he steals poems and songs, and the whole city sings his “borrowed verses”; he steals secrets and quietly amasses a fortune; he steals a marriage, and the sisters of the Twelve Beau 0Votes88.5kRecs156.6kFans
- 4 Dream of the Red Chamber: From Foot Soldier to Ruler of All 红楼：从小卒到万人之上 He closed his eyes and opened them again. The good news: he had arrived in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber. The bad news: a palace coup was underway. Worse still, he belonged to the emperor's faction, the side being overthrown... Faced with this disastrous start, Li Hu could only raise the knife in his hand... 0Votes38.2kRecs179.4kFans
- 5 Dream of the Red Chamber: I Found a Lin Daiyu 红楼：捡到一只林黛玉 Reborn into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, I thought I’d have nothing to do with the Jia family. Instead, I ended up with a Lin Daiyu in my care right from the start. Yue Ling: “I’ll raise your daughter. Don’t worry about her.” Lin Ruhai: “She’s already reached adulthood. Isn’t it time you sent her back?” Lin Daiyu: “Father, I...” Lin Daiyu never entered the Jia household or got entangled with the Jia family. How did she live happily by Yue Ling’s side? Find out in Dream of the Red Chamb 0Votes36.9kRecs211.5kFans
- 6 Rising Above the Rivers and Mountains 扶摇河山 [Ten Thousand Subscriptions] [Dream of the Red Chamber] [Alternate History] Reborn as an illegitimate son of a noble family, he rises from humble beginnings through hardship and makes his way to the top. Time and space fall into chaos, and history branches into an obscure new path; Countless heroes and great figures who once made their mark on history are buried in the dust of time; A new realm rises from the ashes, its road stretching skyward as the old order is swept away; What of fated love a 407Votes234.9kRecs484.3kFans
- 7 EN From Atlas Corporation to Human Empire 从巨神公司到人类帝国 “I am a member of Atlas. I serve Atlas and its clients. I will always put Atlas’s interests first. I am invincible. I will never fall behind in equipment or weapons. I stand ready at all times to eliminate Atlas’s enemies… I am Atlas.” The Oath of Allegiance of an Atlas (Titan) Soldier. Atlas, or the Atlas Corporation, was supposed to be the “villainous faction” in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. But what if it existed in the world of “Homelander,” “Soldier Boy,” and Vought, and i 9Votes72kRecs301.6kFans
- 8 The Glory of the Red Mansion, Ruling the Realm 红楼芳华，权倾天下 [Set against the true history of the late Northern Song. Over 10,000 subscriptions, one Glory Star, 10,000 words a day, quality guaranteed.] [The Dream of the Red Chamber is featured as a harem drama, so you can enjoy this even if you haven’t read it. A fusion of The Dream of the Red Chamber and Water Margin.] After transmigrating as Ximen Qing, the stunning beauty he encounters is not Pan Jinlian, but Qin Keqing from The Dream of the Red Chamber. The Jingkang Disaster is coming for the Song dyn 1.6kVotes353.9kRecs542.9kFans
- 9 Pillow Blade 枕刀 Resting my head on a blade outside the woodcutter’s gate, listening to cicadas in the evening breeze... It was nothing but a dream of the martial world! (A Gu Long fanfic, set after The Sentimental Swordsman.) 0Votes42.9kRecs240.6kFans
- 10 The Imperial Enterprise of the Northern Dynasties 北朝帝业 The end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the age of the Later Three Kingdoms. He Liuhun rules the roost in Hebei, Yuwen Tai dominates Guanzhong, and Xiao Pusa devotes himself to Buddhism in Jiangdong. Ambitious heroes are fired with purpose, while the people shed blood and tears! The fires of war flare up again at Mount Mang, and heaps of bones lie strewn across the River Bridge! In an age of chaos, division must eventually give way to unity. Cross the Taihang Mountains, ford the Yangtze, 5Votes304.6kRecs289.8kFans
- 11 Dream of the Red Chamber: Daiyu and I Swapped Bodies 红楼：我和黛玉互穿了 [Male-Oriented Novel] [Multiple Heroines] [A Dream of the Red Chamber] After Li Chen, the second young master of the Marquis's household, awakened memories of his past life, he somehow switched bodies with Lin Daiyu. From then on, Li Chen played Lin Daiyu, stirring up trouble and enjoying life in the Rongguo Mansion, while Lin Daiyu had no choice but to play him, throwing herself into her studies and pursuing an official career. After years of entanglement and switching bodies, Li Chen rose stea 478Votes175.6kRecs374.1kFans
- 12 So Many Proud Beauties in Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼如此多骄 My old book, Red Chamber Detective, is now complete. Having transmigrated into the Rong family mansion as a servant, how could Lai Shun set his sights too high? He decides to start with a modest goal, like gaining his freedom. Then he can think about choosing Chai or Dai, whether to start with just four in business or go straight to summoning the Divine Dragon… 4Votes312.6kRecs226.8kFans
- 13 EN Super-Dimensional Player 超维度玩家 [Capturing a Human Avatar] [Infiltrating the reality universe...] [Infringing upon the root laws of the world!... Detecting higher-dimensional life forms!... No life forms from other dimensions detected...] [Loading human avatar!] You are a player who can transmigrate beyond all dimensions, wielding authority almost like God's illegitimate child. You have countless identities: beggar, lowborn, pirate, gladiator, ranger, northern dragon, infernal executioner, interstellar wanderer, monster hunter 3Votes295.6kRecs705.7kFans
- 14 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
- 15 My Superpowers Refresh Every Week 我的超能力每周刷新 Chen Yuan discovered that his superpower refreshed once a week. In the first week, he saw a red number hanging over every living thing, ranging from hundreds and thousands to tens of thousands. The smallest number he'd ever seen was above a teddy bear: 0.00001. The next second, it was crushed to death by a large truck. In the second week, he discovered he could hear other people's thoughts, and he couldn't control it. Whatever was on their minds streamed straight into his head, so he no longer d 153Votes484.1kRecs2.9MFans
- 16 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
- 17 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 18 The Charismatic Concubine’s Son of the Red Chamber 红楼之庶子风流 After working himself to death, surgeon Jia Cong awakens in the Rong household. He composes a haunting dream of the Red Chamber and lives out a life of carefree elegance as a concubine-born son. 4Votes832.4kRecs353.5kFans
- 19 Bright One 明尊 Great is the primal origin: all things receive their beginning from it, and through it the heavens are governed. Supreme and exalted Lord, at times riding the Six Dragons, never straying from the path. This is the story of a transmigrator's old man awakening in a world with a native protagonist, and the golden finger gaining a mind of its own. I've made it this far, Qian Chen, relying on no one but myself! Great Lord Taishang, save me! 731Votes1.7MRecs785.8kFans
- 20 Drunk and Enchanted by the Dream of the Red Chamber 醉迷红楼 One drunken night in the Red Chamber, even a concubine-born son can become a dragon. A dream of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling, a soaring empire in the making. Reader group: 379, 303, 076 0Votes652.6kRecs331kFans
- 21 Striving in Dream of the Red Chamber 奋斗在红楼 In the winter of the seventh year of the Yongzhi reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the beautiful, haughty little girl Lin Daiyu has just entered the Jia household. A modern science graduate transmigrates into the body of Jia Huan, a bastard son in the Jia household from Dream of the Red Chamber. If he doesn’t want to be dragged down by his useless Jia relatives and have his family confiscated and his head chopped off, he needs to prepare early. This is the story of a bastard son making a comeback 3Votes1.7MRecs524.4kFans
