Novels like Seizing the Qing: My First Love Was Empress Dowager Cixi
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Seizing the Qing: My First Love Was Empress Dowager Cixi, best match first.
- 1 Longevity: Starting by Marrying a Demoness 长生：从迎娶魔道妖女开始 With a worthy ruler on the throne, both sovereign and ministers are wise. A transmigrator originally just wanted to coast through life, but who could have guessed his wife was a witch and his brothers were all remnants of a defeated faction? Every one of them was far too eager to get ahead, and so he embarked on the path of rebellion. Also known as: “My Brothers Are Too Strong,” “It's Not Easy Being the Boss,” and “My Wife Wants to Get Ahead Too” 0Votes11.6kRecs64.9kFans
- 2 You Said You Were Just Bragging, So Why Did You Make It Real?! 说好吹牛，你怎么来真的！ Su Wei transmigrated with a bragging System... Brag No. 2: “I’m a martial arts master with eighty years of internal energy.” Trust: 0/50,000 Brag No. 3: “I’ve got three million in my bank account.” Trust: 0/30 “I’ve got over three million in pocket money. What’s that to me?” “Quit flexing. Send me 50 and show us what you’ve got.” “Pfft, I’ll give you 500! Line up, there’s enough for everyone!” “Holy crap, he really is loaded!” [Three million has been deposited.] Su Wei let out a sigh of relief. 0Votes12.7kRecs92.2kFans
- 3 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
- 4 The Nine Bestowments 九锡 [The new book, Nine Tripods, is now out. … The Nine Honors are: first, the black bull; second, the imperial robes and crown; third, music and ceremonial instruments; fourth, vermilion doors; fifth, steps into the palace; sixth, the Tiger Guards; seventh, bows and arrows; eighth, axes and halberds; ninth, black millet wine. Those granted the Nine Honors may be praised without being named, enter court without hurrying, and wear a sword and shoes before the throne. Lu 0Votes193.6kRecs572.6kFans
- 5 The Nightless Marquis of Lin'an 临安不夜侯 “Yang Yuan requests that Chancellor Qin die!” “What evidence do you have to accuse me of a crime?” “None whatsoever!” Yang Yuan of Youqiu Media accidentally wanders into Lin’an during the Southern Song dynasty. He intends to return to his old line of work and become the first crisis PR expert in ancient times. Instead, he ends up expanding the empire, uniting Xia and Jin, and making waves across the realm. I shall be the Son of Heaven! 33Votes1.1MRecs836.6kFans
- 6 Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Journey to the West 龙族：从西游记归来的路明非 After swearing brotherhood with Sun Wukong, the Bull Demon King, and the other Six Great Sages on Flower-Fruit Mountain, Lu Mingfei proclaimed himself the Flood Demon King, the Great Sage Who Covers the Seas. Because of Sun Wukong's Havoc in Heaven, the Heavenly Court sent its forces down to launch a purge. Lu Mingfei fought Nezha, but was ambushed by Leizhenzi and died, his body and soul destroyed. However, he did not truly die. Instead, he returned to his original world. At that moment, he was 0Votes24.9kRecs121.7kFans
- 7 The Great Song Dynasty's Great Detectives 大宋神探志 After transmigrating to the early years of Emperor Renzong’s reign in the Northern Song, before the luminaries from his language textbooks had made their mark, he was preparing to take the imperial examinations and hopefully become one of the era’s shining stars when he heard about the young Bao Zheng’s crime-solving exploits. A few casual words could clear up a mystery? Some inexplicable urge could make me keep searching? … Bao Zheng, Zhan Zhao, Gongsun Ce: one familiar stranger after another a 4Votes168.4kRecs327.7kFans
- 8 EN Decree of the Immortal Official 仙官有令 A dynasty spanning a thousand years has enshrined countless immortals. The imperial court is filled with ministers of immense talent. Across the vast martial world, heroes possess the lofty spirit to reach the heavens. The land of Jiuzhou is caught in a turbulent time. Beneath the prosperous age, hidden currents surge like the sea, while gods, ghosts, demons, and monsters loom above. The three teachings and the mysterious sects descend into the mortal world in the guise of immortal officials 17Votes254.7kRecs730kFans
- 9 EN Laying Low in the Demon Realm: Cultivating One Stat Point at a Time 苟在妖界加点修行 The Primordial Wilderness, the Nine Realms, and the Eight Desolations across the Four Seas. Countless demon clans gathered together, determined to kill the greatest demon lord in the demon realm and restore clear skies and peace to it. All of this was witnessed by a figure above the Ninth Heaven, its body touching the earth, it 0Votes70.8kRecs379.1kFans
- 10 1997: Crime Chasers 1997：罪案追凶 Summer 1997. Torrential rain! A dismembered body! A murderer! Yang Jinwen is reborn in 1997. Faced with the torrential rain and the dismembered body of a woman in the reed marshes from more than twenty years ago, he is determined to catch the killer! 2kVotes202.5kRecs550.8kFans
- 11 EN The Urban Horror Game Designer 怪谈游戏设计师 “Doctor, the game I made seems to have become reality.” “Isn't that a good thing? People are under so much pressure at work these days, yet you can escape all that, play at life, and live the life you've always dreamed of.” “But I'm a horror-game designer. I've devised 126 murder cases and created dozens of killers with different personalities. To find material, I've also watched 95 thriller films, read more than 400 horror comics, and collected over 2,000 urban legends. Now they all seem to hav 80Votes1.1MRecs1.5MFans
- 12 EN Martial Overlord 霸武 Chu Xisheng transmigrates to Great Ning and is resurrected inside the mausoleum of the Overlord of Martial Arts. (This book is complete.) 3Votes457.4kRecs439.6kFans
- 13 EN After the Skyfall 天倾之后 Our world has been corrupted. The appearance of supernatural creatures, tales of ghosts and monsters, cultivation and evolution, strange artifacts clashing with sorcery, and the opening of gateways to other realms. Some fight to cross over, while others flee… It all began after the sky fell. 50Votes553.4kRecs2.2MFans
- 14 I’m a Teacher in Tokyo! 我在东京当老师！ Chen Zhen transmigrated and became a teacher at a Japanese school named Yoshizakigawa. At first, he thought everything seemed normal. Then he discovered that the girl who’d been bullied by the previous owner of his body and came to collect the rent every month was named Kayako. There was also a student named Tomie in his university class who kept making eyes at him. And his neighbor was an autistic girl named Shirai who didn’t like people calling her by name. Then there was a transfer student na 0Votes65.6kRecs347.6kFans
- 15 I Roam the Ancient Dragon World as a Woman 我以女儿身闯荡古龙江湖 The world is like a tide, and people like water. I can only wonder how many who enter the jianghu ever make it back. Gu Changsheng was suddenly thrown headfirst into the jianghu, and not just any jianghu: this was one set to nightmare difficulty. The Twelve Zodiac Beasts had been wreaking havoc for years, half the Ten Great Villains were roaming outside Villain’s Valley, a whole nest of Yellowflower Bees had taken over the Yangtze, and most escort agency chiefs had banditry as a side gig… G 11Votes93.8kRecs272kFans
- 16 A Father Can Rival a Nation 父可敌国 A broken bowl from the start, and a whole empire won through battle. That's my dad. The steadiest crown prince in history. That's my big brother. The only vassal prince in history to pull off a successful rebellion, the General-in-Chief of the Northern Expedition, and living happily ever after. That's still my big brother. The only emperor in history to be overthrown by a rebellious vassal prince. Your Majesty, I'll show you just once how you can lose when the enemy's already in your face. That' 5Votes348.7kRecs1.5MFans
- 17 My Identity Is Becoming More and More Twisted 我的身份愈发变态 “Great Mr. Chen Yu, you were elected leader of the human race last night. Is there anything you’d like to say to the world?” Chen Yu got out of bed in a daze, without even putting on his clothes. “I have no idea. I just woke up...” … VIP group: 419402072 (requires a subscription score of 2,000) 0Votes57.4kRecs1.2MFans
- 18 EN These Players Are More Sinister Than Ghosts 这群玩家比诡更诡 Monsters run rampant, and evil spirits are everywhere. Ning Zheng, who controls the Sword-Forging Manor, summons a band of lunatic blacksmiths from another world. “This Sword-Forging Manor reminds me of Palworld.” “Mine ore, forge metal, haul bricks, build houses.” “Be a blacksmith in life, become raw materials after death, then die again and become a weapon spirit.” “We didn’t die two or three times. We’re players who advanced to level two and turned into swords, spears, sabers, and halberds.” 4Votes114.7kRecs385.7kFans
- 19 EN After Signing with AC Milan, I Started Slacking Off 签约AC米兰后，我开摆了 Lao Ye has a new book out. Title: If You’re Brothers, Come Play Soccer Kaka: Huang was the biggest hero of the Istanbul night, even if he didn’t play much. Ancelotti: Huang is a super talent. It’s a shame he’s not in great shape. Maldini: Huang is the team’s most important player. I recommend the club renew his contract for another five years. Barcelona: To show our sincerity in signing Huang Kaiwen, we’ve decided to offer his cousin a salary of one million euros a year. Milan’s team doctors are 9Votes232.9kRecs361.3kFans
- 20 Shadow of the Eclipse 日食之影 Hello, everyone. My name is Ji Yun. I'm trapped on the day I went to school ten years ago. I know that in 30 seconds, a soccer ball will come flying in. It'll hit the mushroom-haired girl in the corner of the classroom. She and I grew up together. She hasn't grown into herself yet: she's a little spacey and timid, and nobody in class pays her any attention. But I'm the only one who knows that ten years from now, she'll become a classical beauty and a superstar. Under the banyan tree in five minu 14Votes183kRecs825.9kFans
- 21 EN My Immortal Dad 仙父 “I transmigrated, and so did my dad.” Li Ping'an had already arranged everything. He'd secured a solid livelihood for his old man back in the mortal world and pulled strings to get himself into an immortal sect. Then he planned to dedicate himself to the path of immortality and stake everything on his chance to become an immortal. But on the day he went for an aptitude test in the mortal world, everything changed... [A lighthearted xianxia comedy with an everyday-life feel. The author has comple 5Votes438.2kRecs1.6MFans
- 22 A New Rule Every Month for the Whole World 全球每月一个新规则 “Blue Star Version 4.0 will begin its uninterrupted update at 12:00 a.m. on April 1. The main additions and adjustments are as follows.” “New rule for this month, ‘Social Butterfly’: All players must speak 1,000 sentences with other people every day...” When a sudden prompt rang in the ears of everyone on Blue Star, the world underwent a baptism. With every monthly version update, a new rule descends for that month, and all players must obey it. Chen Yi, who had struck it rich just before th 0Votes50.5kRecs613.7kFans
- 23 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
- 24 Immortality Begins with Taking a Wife 长生从娶妻开始 After transmigrating to an immortal-hero world, Shen Ping practiced with extreme caution for more than twenty years. But without a golden finger and with only ordinary aptitude, his cultivation progressed slowly. It was only after he decided to completely lie flat and married a wife that he realized in astonishment that he had been approaching the immortal-hero world all wrong! P.S.: Completed ten-thousand-subscriber hits [Martial Artists of the Marvel Universe] and [Swallowed Star: Thirty Tho 0Votes202.9kRecs774kFans
- 25 EN Desperate Dark Night 绝境黑夜 There are monsters and ghostly shadows everywhere outside. I’m so scared. I just want to stay in my safe house until the end of time... The ghostly shadows can’t be killed, and the monsters are endless. Yu Hong came here with a mysterious black seal. Using its power to strengthen anything, he slowly built an absolutely safe zone of his own inside his safe house. As everyone voted, this book is a fusion of eerie cultivation and extreme-path cultivation. Lao Gun keeps his word. 27Votes861kRecs1.7MFans
- 26 EN The Demon Lord is Inscrutable 魔王大人深不可测 Succubus Reporter: “Your Excellency, Demon King, I recall that the Demon God ordered you to spread panic among our enemies. So why have I heard that you bought an entire street in the heart of their city?” Luo Yan: “Fool! Ever heard of a tactical house swap? If I buy up the human city, won’t the humans have to move into my dungeon?” Succubus Reporter: “B-but I heard that when people learned even the Demon King had bought a house in the Holy City, it didn’t cause panic at all. Instead, property p 372Votes1.1MRecs1.4MFans
- 27 EN Green Mountains 青山 In this age, fame and fortune have stripped the world of nine-tenths of its chivalry. Everyone, this is the story of the last remaining tenth. 9.4kVotes3.5MRecs5.4MFans
- 28 EN The Immortal Craftsman's Creation 仙工开物 Deep inside a volcano, an immortal palace of mechanisms left behind by ancient sages awaits its successor. His mother risked her life to obtain its immortal seal, entrusting it to Ning Zhuo with her dying breath. The Buddha’s Heart-Demon Seal! Save yourself and become a Buddha; save others and turn them into demons. With the seal in hand, one can lightly imprint the heart and command mechanisms as easily as feathers. Others grow weary and burdened when controlling them, but Ning Zhuo can command 550Votes3.6MRecs4.4MFans
- 29 EN 10,000 Ways to Eliminate Players 一万种清除玩家的方法 The world I transmigrated to was crawling with players, making survival difficult enough as it was. But the System had latched onto me, turning me into the most conspicuous NPC of them all... The natives couldn’t stand me, and the players saw me as a thorn in their side. To enjoy a good life in this other world and avoid being bullied by players, I had no choice but to do everything I could to turn my own hardships into everyone else’s, keep every gain for myself, and grow stronger until I becam 2Votes190.9kRecs372.9kFans
- 30 I Told You I Could Turn Back Time 我说了我会时光倒流 Lin Xing has the ability to turn back time. Whenever his life is in danger, he returns to the past. He falls to his death, and goes back five seconds. He’s crushed to death by falling debris, and goes back one minute. He’s hit by a dump truck, and goes back twenty minutes. Then one day… he discovers that he’s gone back a whole year. 2Votes179kRecs758.1kFans
- 31 I Have to Teach This World a Lesson 我得给这世界上堂课 That year... Zhang Sheng, betrayed by the organization's leader, arrived in this world... That year... Facing a catastrophic start, he saw the bloody struggle of capital, the beasts lurking in the cruel, dark forest, and the bewildered entrepreneurs left in the wake of the financial crisis... He instinctively flashed a savage grin. 0Votes194.1kRecs549.1kFans
- 32 EN How Am I Still Alive? 我怎么还活着？ Spiritual qi revival. The gods descend? Disaster after disaster, and all living things suffer? What’s that to me? I’m just a terminally ill patient who’s been given a countdown to death and has given up on treatment. I set out to exorcise demons and slay immortals in this battered body, not to defend my country, but because the hazard pay is too tempting, especially the death benefits... “This evil god’s profession system is cursed. Even if you make good progress at first, anyone who trains in i 13Votes318.8kRecs493kFans
- 33 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
- 34 EN Homo Sapiens 智人 The spiral that runs through the evolution of life. The base pairs that hold the secrets of evolution. A mutation at a single moment, millions of years ago, bestowed the prefix “wise” upon an ape beneath the order of primates. But the true power of evolution seems to remain hidden within those pairs of bases. 2Votes185.5kRecs254.4kFans
- 35 EN Glitch Utopia 故障乌托邦 Metal prosthetics, AI girlfriends, neural networks inside your head, cyberspace. This is a world of ultra-advanced technology, where all kinds of tech can change your life like magic. The terminal cancers that once plagued people are nothing in the face of nanomedical robots. But new levels of technology bring new problems and new troubles, including a new kind of… cyberpsychosis. “What is capitalism, anyway?” Sun Jieke said, hands on his hips, leaning back. 75Votes632kRecs1.6MFans
- 36 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
- 37 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
- 38 A Hundred Lifetimes in Search of Immortality 百世求仙 Across a hundred lifetimes among mortals, I do not vie for the splendor of one life, but for every moment across a hundred. I seek immortality in the mortal world. My name is Li Qing. I transcended the mortal realm in three lifetimes, entered the Dao in nine, and attained immortality in a hundred. [A cultivation novel about longevity, not a simulator, not a story about reincarnation and rebirth.] [A hundred lifetimes of allotted years, one life in each lifetime.] 12Votes112.6kRecs752.6kFans
- 39 Splendor Across the Tang Dynasty 满唐华彩 The Tang Dynasty flourishes in all its splendor, but a cataclysmic upheaval is imminent. In the fifth year of Tianbao, he opens his eyes to the majestic prosperity of “radiant Tang, favored by Heaven, with all nations beneath its sway.” Famous generals abound, its borders stretch far and wide; capable ministers are plentiful, its granaries overflowing; poetry shines brilliantly, its culture dazzles; beauties take your breath away, and song and dance fill the land. He also sees a court utterly in 39Votes987.8kRecs2.5MFans
- 40 EN Doomsday: My Keyword is One More Than Everyone Else's 末世：我的关键词比别人多一个 Brave, cowardly, kind, cunning, generous, greedy, elegant, cruel, cheerful, perverse, upright, a shameless hypocrite... In this apocalyptic world, resources can only be obtained by winning on alien battlefields, ensuring the survival of civilization. Every warrior entering an alien battlefield is randomly assigned a keyword of their own. When their words and actions match that keyword, their attributes grow rapidly and they gain superhuman abilities. But if they break character, their abilities 11Votes285.2kRecs854.6kFans
- 41 You’re Forcing Me to Be Reborn 逼我重生是吧 Young and successful, Cheng Zhu came across a question online: “If you had the chance to go back in time and be reborn, would you take it?” Known around his circle for being the biggest show-off, Cheng Zhu saw thousands of people in the comments saying they wanted to be reborn. He couldn’t resist showing off, replied “No,” and attached a screenshot of his impressive bank balance. But the very next moment… He was reborn! … Also known as "Don’t Let Down Good Girls, Don’t Waste Bad Girls", "W 58Votes953.8kRecs5MFans
- 42 EN Night Without End 夜无疆 That day, the sun set and never rose again… 25.2kVotes12.7MRecs8.1MFans
- 43 Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角 New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 44 Arc of Artillery Fire 炮火弧线 Wang Zhong arrives in another world and gets caught up in its world war. His special ability gives him an overhead view like a real-time strategy game, and even lets him see through the eyes of his troops! So he immediately starts micromanaging: “Move the machine-gun nest five centimeters to the left! Put the anti-tank gun in the woods on the right!” Three years later, Wang Zhong looks at the marshal’s baton in his hand, then at the double-headed eagle flag behind the emperor’s envoy. “There’s a 44Votes7.5MRecs2.1MFans
- 45 My Brother-in-Law Is the Crown Prince 我的姐夫是太子 During the Yongle reign of the Ming dynasty. Zhang Anshi is ignorant and good-for-nothing, with crimes too numerous to count. His brother-in-law is the Crown Prince? Oh, then it’s fine! 2Votes1.8MRecs3.1MFans
- 46 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
- 47 Starting with an Escape Room Game Shop 从剧本杀店开始 The print edition of From Script-Killing Shop to Theme Park is now crowdfunding. . Question: How do you run a script-killing shop? Jiang Qi: Easy. You just need to start with a script-killing shop, then bring the characters from the scripts out to work as your game masters. That's how you run a script-killing shop properly. At first, Jiang Qi thought he was playing a card-based management game, and the business he was running was a script-killing shop. Later, he realized it was actually a restau 11Votes514.1kRecs428.4kFans
- 48 EN Where Will You Run, Demons? 妖魔哪里走 New book: "Daoist Priest, Times Have Changed". Please check it out. The human way declines, while the uncanny way runs rampant. A hundred ghosts roam the night, and the people suffer terribly. I, Wang Qilin, am willing to wield a ghost-slaying blade and carve a path to peace for humanity through the demons and monsters lying in wait! 5Votes755kRecs577.3kFans
- 49 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
- 50 Necromancer 死灵法师 The divine kingdom falls, and heaven and earth are torn asunder! I walk the boundary between life and death, uncover secrets buried for countless millennia, and wield the powers of nature and immortality. In an age when order has collapsed, I will become a legend. This is the fate of a Guardian. And the path to my own legend! Part One, Mark of the Dead, is complete. Part Two, Odd-Day Upheaval, is ongoing. Original blurb: After transmigrating into the world of a game, Matthew discovers that somet 7Votes335.1kRecs1.5MFans
