Novels like Water Margin: Starting as a Constable in Yanggu County
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- 1 I Become a Big Shot in Uncle Jiu's World 我在九叔世界做大佬 The martial world has one less demon king who likes to smash skulls. I deserve a lot of the credit for that. Because Uncle Jiu caught me. 0Votes52.9kRecs853.9kFans
- 2 Late Ming: So What If I, Chongzhen, Give Up?! 明末：我崇祯摆烂怎么了？！ After transmigrating into the body of the Chongzhen Emperor, Zhu Youjian, I immediately started slacking off. Other people only pretend to slack off. I'm the real deal. My elder brother, the carpenter emperor, died at twenty-three before even finishing college. My father barely lasted a month as emperor before kicking the bucket. My grandfather, the Wanli Emperor, went thirty years without attending court, was sickly, and still lived to fifty-eight. Isn't it obvious which one I should learn from 8Votes112kRecs359.4kFans
- 3 EN Hong Kong Movieverse: The Man Who Runs the Force 港综警队话事人 [Ding! Earth Online has been updated. The Life Achievement System is now active!] [Ding! A mysterious change in the player's consciousness has been detected. Congratulations, you have earned the achievement reward: Martial Arts Champion!] [Ding! The player has entered the police academy. Congratulations, you have earned the achievement reward: Firearms Mastery!] From Quan Zai of Wong Chuk Hang, to Inspector Quan of West Kowloon, and then to Grandpa Quan of the force! If you want to know who 0Votes97.1kRecs454.9kFans
- 4 The Grandmaster of the Siheyuan 四合院里的大国宗师 Gao Zhendong transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard". There, he is a true son of the people: strong and healthy, handsome, a veteran with a distinguished military record, university-educated, technically skilled, financially secure, and backed by a System. He has the knowledge from his previous life before transmigrating, supplies guaranteed by the System, and occasional flashes of future wisdom from lucky draws. He doesn’t want to spend his days scheming over trivial matters and pocket 19Votes180.9kRecs480.7kFans
- 5 The Rise of Chinese Showbiz's Grand Slam Best Actor 华娱大满贯影帝的诞生 Everyone says an Actor of the Year trophy is hard to win. You need careful campaigning and public relations, not to mention insider arrangements and influential people behind the scenes. Fine, then let me see just how hard it really is to win. Huh? Haven't I already won it? One, two, three... the Golden Rooster, the Golden Horse, Venice, Cannes... the Golden Globe and the Oscars?! I accidentally achieved the grand slam! 0Votes109.5kRecs523.6kFans
- 6 1986: My Happy Life in Provence 1986：我的普罗旺斯幸福生活 Growing crops, building, brewing wine, making pottery, fishing... Looking at the skills in the System, Luo Nan decisively chose to leave Paris and start a new pastoral life in beautiful Provence. But he had a rough start, with just eight acres of vineyards, a century-old stone house, and 130,000 francs in debt. Luckily, the [Happy Life] System was great. He could grow stronger just by eating and drinking, befriending cats and dogs, sightseeing, and getting close to beautiful women! He planted gr 0Votes114.7kRecs187.2kFans
- 7 Why Does My Career Profile Look Like It Came from an Anime? 我的职业面板怎么是二次元画风？ The Federation, the Empire, and corporate alliances: this was an incomparably dangerous interstellar age. Every intelligent being could use a special ritual to take up a profession with extraordinary power. Such people were known as professionals. Li Ang was both unlucky and lucky to transmigrate to this world. He was unlucky because, as an ordinary person, his chances of dying a natural death in such a dangerous world were basically zero. He was lucky because he awakened two powerful talents. T 7Votes108.7kRecs693.4kFans
- 8 Thirteen Years as King of Great Song, Then I Learned It Was Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils 大宋为王十三年，方知是天龙 Zhao Ti is the eighth son of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty and the younger brother of Emperor Zhezong. He’s got a lot on his mind. Twelve years have passed since the five-pronged campaign against Western Xia, and less than a year remains before Empress Dowager Gao Tao Tao dies. In seven years, Emperor Zhezong will die, and Empress Dowager Xiang will insist that Prince Duan take the throne. He will later become Emperor Huizong, the Daoist ruler. In twenty-seven years, the Liangshan outlaws 6Votes111.8kRecs686.2kFans
- 9 League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, I Train the Entire League LOL：重生S3，调教全联盟 New book: [LOL: In the LPL, My Struggle!] After accidentally returning to Season 3, I enter the professional scene to earn a hero skin, then start a club and build an esports powerhouse. No System? No problem. In the savage age of esports, opportunities are everywhere. Don't believe me? Just watch me sell him one hundred thousand pork floss cakes first! 2Votes108.4kRecs336.6kFans
- 10 The Imperial Court's Eight-Hour-Shift Hounds 八小时工作制的朝廷鹰犬 “It's you!” The martial arts expert who stepped into the inn turned pale with shock, then went ashen. “I never thought I'd end up in the hands of a lackey of the imperial court like you!” Li Miao picked up a piece of beef with his chopsticks, took a sip of wine, and waved a hand. “I don't have time for you. I'm off the clock. Even a lackey of the imperial court deserves a personal life, you know.” “I only work eight hours a day.” 5Votes125.4kRecs893.2kFans
- 11 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
- 12 EN The Only Player in the Marvel World 漫威世界的唯一玩家 For a ten-million-yuan prize, Du Mu was working his way through a massive virtual game called “Marvel Universe.” Little did he know that the moment the game began, he had transmigrated into the real Marvel Universe and become its one and only player. Nick Fury: Du Mu is an excellent agent, but he never listens. Every time I give him a mission, he skips the briefing. Tony Stark: I have no idea what happened. Du Mu and I teamed up that day, and when I got back, I was wearing nothing but my underwe 431Votes100.7kRecs485.7kFans
- 13 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
- 14 EN Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn 奥特曼任意键：启明 [Ten Thousand Subscriptions] [Illustrations Throughout] [No Torturing the Protagonist] [No Distorting the Original Characters] In this world, the Defense Force is made up of all kinds of heavyweight members: The director is deep and calculating, and loves to micromanage: Yu Tsuchibashi The strategists are impatient for results, bold and reckless: He Zhi and Gondo The captain is physically disabled but determined, and speaks his mind: Dan Moroboshi The deputy captain hates evil and is stubbornly 84Votes291.1kRecs395.4kFans
- 15 EN I Am Not Goblin Slayer 我不是哥布林杀手 [Fantasy world, slow-paced adventure, mages, monster encyclopedia collection] After arriving in a fantastical otherworld, Gauss received an adventurer's handbook that grew more powerful the more monsters he killed and collected. He'd thought he'd embark on a classic adventure: slay dragons, kill devils, and save kingdoms. Instead, he found himself facing goblins that bred like vermin and could never be completely wiped out. As the number of kills and rewards in his monster encyclopedia shot up, 25Votes154.7kRecs557.1kFans
- 16 Twenty Years in the Underworld of Republican-Era China 民国江湖二十年 [Everyday life in the martial world, bandits of the greenwood, and strange folk customs] If someone greets you with “You must be tired,” you know you’re in the martial world. In the late Qing and early Republican era, the nation was crumbling and chaos reigned. Beyond Shanhai Pass, greenwood heroes rose in droves. In the streets of Beijing and Tianjin, extraordinary figures of the martial world emerged one after another. In times like these, every hero ought to have a bit of a bandit in him!!! … 315Votes249.3kRecs237.8kFans
- 17 Naruto: Turning Lies into Truth and Deceiving the Shinobi World 火影：弄假成真，欺诈忍界 [Lies Come True] [Read the First Three Chapters] [A Wild Imagination] When Hinata Unsen saw that his golden finger could make his “lies come true,” he quietly made a decision. “I’m going to tell a gigantic lie and make the entire Shinobi World dance to my tune.” In the very end, the figure of “Hinata Unsen,” the savior trusted by all, merged with that of “Otsutsuki Unshiki,” the Shinobi World’s public enemy. At that moment, every lie became reality, and every hope turned to despair. “From n 82Votes111.8kRecs495.2kFans
- 18 Literary Giant 1879: Lone in France 文豪1879：独行法兰西 Victor Hugo: “You all call me ‘the conscience of France,’ but right now it’s beating in Lionel’s chest!” Émile Zola: “‘Naturalism’ or ‘Realism’? No, only Lionel’s ‘Modernism’ belongs to the twentieth century!” Gustave Flaubert: “Maupassant is my finest student. Lionel is my kindred spirit.” Guy de Maupassant: “Lionel’s only flaw is that he hasn’t contracted the noble, virile disease of syphilis.” Anton Chekhov: “What else do we need in this life besides sunshine, air, water, and laughter? Why, L 1.1kVotes127.1kRecs337.9kFans
- 19 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
- 20 The Stormy Song Dynasty 风雨大宋 A soul crossed a thousand years and arrived in the mid-Northern Song, during the reign of Emperor Renzong. He starts a business in a small county town to improve his family's circumstances, then passes the jinshi exam and becomes an official, taking one steady step after another. During the Song dynasty's most prosperous age, this soul from a later era fulfills his life's ambitions and rises to the highest ranks of government. 0Votes333kRecs78.6kFans
- 21 EN Hogwarts: Not Even Voldemort Can Stop My Learning 霍格沃茨：伏地魔也别阻止我学习 Vader: I only have seven years to study at Hogwarts. Take away the holidays, and that's just 266 weeks! Even if I can master one book a week, that's only 266 books! How many magic books are there in the Hogwarts library? Thousands upon thousands! Time waits for no one. How could I not make the most of every moment to study?! I will not let anyone ruin my study environment, not even the Dark Lord! No, no, no. It's not that I simply love knowledge. I'm just greedy. Title 1: "Hogwarts: I C 869Votes290.5kRecs687.5kFans
- 22 The Sword Emerges from the Tang Dynasty 剑出大唐 Zhou Yi woke up to find himself in the Taiping Daoist Temple. The Old Heavenly Master said, “Heaven is dead, and the Yellow Heaven shall rise. From now on, you will be the leader of the Taiping Sect.” Zhou Yi said, “What, me?” … In the world of Twin Dragons of Great Tang, a failed art student sets out to bring order to a chaotic martial world! 34Votes743kRecs1.3MFans
- 23 I Became a Literary Giant in Russia 我在俄国当文豪 (The first foreign-literary-giant novel on Qidian to average over 10,000 monthly subscriptions) Many years later, when Nabokov was teaching Russian literature in America, this was how he did it. In a darkened room, he first switched on a lamp in the corner and said, “Pushkin was the first beacon of Russian literature.” Then he switched on a lamp in the middle of the room and said, “This is Gogol.” He turned on another lamp and declared, “This is Chekhov.” Then he strode to the window, yanked ope 734Votes169.4kRecs430.8kFans
- 24 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
- 25 Fame and Fortune in America 美利坚名利双收 Get famous early, make money early, and enjoy the good life in America with both fame and fortune. America, Hollywood, business battles, showbiz, stars, and movies. 0Votes305.3kRecs335.9kFans
- 26 EN The Immortal Devourer 食仙主 The mysterious and uncanny swords scattered across the land await swordmasters whose names will shake the world. Who can comprehend the wondrous arts and lost scriptures passed down through the ages? Among the hundred wards of Chang'an, people who can raise fire and swallow the sun lie hidden. In the Central Plains stand vast and decaying thousand-year-old clans. In the north, the silent and battle-hardened barbarians sharpen their blades, while the southern kingdoms revel in song and dance amid 860Votes523.6kRecs874.9kFans
- 27 The Han Songs of the Boundless Wind 长风万里尽汉歌 0Votes247.2kRecs120.5kFans
- 28 Heroes of the World 天下枭雄 This is an age of heroes: Li Shimin, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, Li Mi, Xiao Xian, Zhang Xutuo, Li Jing, Su Dingfang… Great figures rise and fall like waves, leaving their names throughout history. It is also an age full of opportunity. At the end of the Sui dynasty, heroes vie for supremacy, beauties are like jade, and the land is a picturesque prize for the strong alone. A soul returns after a thousand years to inhabit the illegitimate son of a powerful family. Through a hundred battles in the 1Votes534.9kRecs377.1kFans
- 29 The Sword Leaves Hengshan 剑出衡山 As a member of the Hengshan Sect, Zhao Rong's determination to reform the workplace grew ever stronger. As the saying goes, the jianghu is treacherous and people's hearts are complicated. When it comes to artistry, our Hengshan Sect is packed with big names. We have Xiaoxiang Night Rain and research the Guangling San. Our voices are very loud. But when it comes to combat power, who can afford to check their DPS? Even Shangguan Yun, the demonic cult elder who drops dead in a single second, has so 25Votes241.4kRecs861.7kFans
- 30 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
- 31 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
- 32 A Survival Tale of the Water Margin 水浒求生记 Where are all my trusted men!? These were the last words cried out by Wang Lun, the founding chief of Liangshan Marsh, as he lay dying in the original course of history. But a lightning tribulation sent history veering off its destined path. The Song Dynasty is in turmoil, its moral order and political institutions are crumbling, the Jurchen neighbors eye it hungrily, and domineering outsiders are taking over. With troubles within and threats without, will it survive or fall? White-Clad Scholar 18Votes543.9kRecs236kFans
- 33 EN Back to 1982: A Second Chance in a Fishing Village 重回1982小渔村 A fishing-and-seaside-life story set in the 1980s, with an average of 35,000 paid subscribers. The animated series of the same name, Back to 1982: A Small Fishing Village, launched on Hongguo on August 7! [Everyday life in the 1980s: fishing, farming, raising kids, and family squabbles. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read or leave hate!] It’s the same familiar little fishing village, but Ye Yaodong is no longer the young man he used to be. Reborn into the pas 221Votes2.1MRecs2MFans
- 34 A Guide to Time-Traveling in the Northern Song 北宋穿越指南 If you transmigrate back to the Song Dynasty, should you compose poetry and enjoy romance? Or raise an army and vie for supremacy? Either way, first things first: fill your stomach. 55Votes1.4MRecs2.6MFans
- 35 Han Watchtower 汉阙 Looking back across a thousand years, the palaces of the Han still stand! It is the third year of Yuanfeng under Emperor Zhao of Han. Powerful ministers dominate the court, while the Xiongnu remain unconquered and the Silk Road hangs by a thread... Wei Qing and Huo Qubing may be gone, but the Han people’s pioneering spirit will never die. New heroes are about to emerge! At a post station ca 21Votes1.5MRecs516.4kFans
- 36 A Lowly Soldier on the Ming Frontier 明末边军一小兵 In the third month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, a severe drought struck Shanxi and Shaanxi. A thousand miles of land lay barren, and the people were starving. In the fourth month, Li Zicheng entered Henan and joined forces with Zhang Xianzhong to seize Chengcheng. In the seventh month, the Later Jin army laid siege to Xuanfu and raided Datong, taking many border forts. The Ming faced internal strife and external threats, teetering on the brink! That July, Wang Dou unexpectedly arrived in th 16Votes656.2kRecs585kFans
- 37 A Certain Hogwarts Professor of Runes 某霍格沃茨的魔文教授 Three years after graduating from Hogwarts, Felix walks into the magical school once more, but this time he is a professor! What sparks will fly when Muggle ingenuity meets magic? PS1: Professor of Ancient Runes; PS2: The timeline is set in the trio's second year; 33Votes483.9kRecs845.5kFans
- 38 The Undisputed Number One 绝对一番 “Always be number one” means “fight for first place forever and never give up”! After transmigrating to Japan just as its bubble economy collapses and the country enters a severe recession, Lu Zhishou takes a look at his empty wallet, next month’s rent bill, and transmigration perks. He promptly heads for a TV station and begins his quest to claim the top spot. He also finds the woman of his dreams. He makes plans, enlists accomplices, and doggedly pursues her, but the outcome... Disclaimer: Thi 10Votes2.6MRecs736kFans
- 39 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
- 40 Starting in 1983 从1983开始 A story with a touch of nostalgia. The old reader group is full. 14Votes4.3MRecs1.1MFans
- 41 I Rule in the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋我为王 Reborn in the Spring and Autumn period as an illegitimate son of a noble clan, I was sent to live with the cattle and horses in the stables. Little did anyone know that this would lay the foundation for my hegemony. What does the partition of Jin matter? Watch as my Zhao clan takes its place! Laozi rides west on an ox, Confucius is full of ambition, and Wu and 7Votes688.3kRecs389.2kFans
- 42 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
- 43 The World’s Top Movie Star 全球影帝 "He's the iron-blooded hero in Fist King." "He's also the lonely old man in A Century of Love." "He's the debauched financial tycoon in Stock Market Tycoon." "And he's the crazed, ruthless, cold-blooded killer in Atonement." "He came from humble beginnings, and he's an internationally acclaimed master of modern method acting." "But once he steps off the screen, he's just an ordinary man who enjoys a drink or two." "Even someone from humble beginnings can make it onto the big screen. This is a st 10Votes1.4MRecs889.7kFans
- 44 The Shadow of Espionage 谍影风云 An ordinary civil servant returns to 1936 by a twist of fate. He searches for underground resistance groups and tracks down Japanese spies, contributing his share to the liberation and revival of his country and people amid an extraordinary era. Thus begins his legendary career in the world of espionage. Spy Tide readers’ group 1: 833528943; Spy Tide readers’ group 2: 879936725; Spy Tide helmsman group: 940510849 43Votes7.9MRecs2.1MFans
- 45 The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏 At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately 131Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
- 46 EN The Game of Fate 烂柯棋缘 Fallen leaves beside the ancient Go board, an old tree where no one plays. A move at the center of the board, made on a whim; look back, and mountains and seas stretch into the distance. … When Ji Yuan woke up, he had become a half-blind beggar in a dilapidated mountain god temple. A sword in the hands of a true immortal, a glib tongue in the hands of a charlatan: these are Ji Yuan’s means of making a place for himself in this terrifying world. VIP verification group: 72Votes4.1MRecs3.5MFans
- 47 EN My Senior Brother is Too Steady 我师兄实在太稳健了 *The annual Youku season of the animated adaptation, My Senior Brother Is Too Steady, is about to conclude.* Reborn in ancient times, before the Investiture of the Gods War, Li Changshou became a minor Qi Refiner. He had no great fortune bestowed upon him, nor was he a chosen one destined to face a catastrophic tribulation. All he had was a cultivation dream: to live forever. To make a living in 120Votes11.5MRecs9.8MFans
- 48 I’m a Big-Time Player 我是大玩家 Even a plagiarist has to put in the work! Have you ever heard of a transmigrator who gets forced by the System to risk their life just for copying a novel? Have you ever heard of a transmigrator who gets forced by the System to undergo physical punishment just for quoting a famous line from their past life? All I want is to make some money. Why is it so damn hard? System, can you stop stirring up trouble? I might be a fake transmigrator! General group: 623108320 (no restrictions) VIP group: 7Votes888.4kRecs1.2MFans
- 49 My 1979 我的1979 When you wake up, you’re back in that era. Facing the past once more, can you guess how it will end… 8Votes6.7MRecs2.2MFans
