Novels like Records of the Qin Dynasty
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Records of the Qin Dynasty, best match first.
- 1 Proud Plume 骄翎 With the enemy at the gates, Chu Ling stood atop the walls of Shangyuan City and looked back on her short life. At sixteen, her eldest brother died unjustly. She argued her case, but was branded arrogant, extravagant, and pleasure-seeking, then sent to Qingxu Temple for two years of reflection. At eighteen, she rejected an arranged marriage meant to buy off a powerful official. Accused of political scheming and defying her superiors, she was banished to her fief and forbidden to return to the ca 6Votes154.6kRecs23kFans
- 2 Asking the Mountains and Rivers 问山河 In the final years of the Jing Dynasty, natural disasters strike again and again, wars rage on, corvee labor is harsh, and the people are destitute. Pei Qinghe leads hundreds of her clanspeople in their struggle to survive amid the chaos. All she wants is to stay alive, but before she knows it, she has set foot on the irreversible path to conquering the world. With no one to support my lofty ambitions, I will climb thr 2Votes89.6kRecs44.2kFans
- 3 A Little Prosperity Is Enough 小富则安 (Revenge + household intrigue) Lu Jia spent five years plotting her escape from her husband’s family. At last, she made it out of the manor. But who would have thought that the ruined temple where she was hiding would already be occupied by a man carrying a long sword and dressed like a peacock? What? The peacock had come to wipe out her husband’s entire family? Why couldn’t he have come sooner or later? Why show up just as she was making her escape? With swords flying all around, she had no cho 6Votes183.6kRecs57.8kFans
- 4 A Fine Season 好时节 Zhao Shiqing was born with an extraordinary gift: she could understand the language of beasts. When her family was murdered in her childhood, she was lucky enough to survive and was adopted by Prince Liang. From then on, she had a wealthy and powerful father, a delicate mother who couldn’t manage on her own, a scheming eldest brother, a second brother who was a mama’s boy, a virtuous and gracious older sister, and a beautiful master as cold as ice. Then one day, her father died, her family fell 0Votes59.2kRecs25.6kFans
- 5 The Villainous Concubine’s Daughter Is Not to Be Trifled With 反派庶女不好惹 Transmigrated as the illegitimate daughter of a minor official, Han Shengyu always thought she had landed in an inspirational story about striving against the odds. It wasn't until a letter summoned her family to the capital that she realized she had transmigrated into a book. Her role was to be the villain sacrificed to the heavens. That meant, among other things, giving up her peerless beauty, brilliant mind, dignity, and precious life for the earth-shattering love between the hero and heroine 8Votes26.8kRecs60.7kFans
- 6 My Liege, Stay Your Blade 主公，刀下留人 [We Are Hiring] Due to the business development needs of this royal dynasty, we are now sincerely recruiting for the following positions: The elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, the pregnant, swindlers, kidnappers, con artists, and thieves. The number of openings for the above positions is not fixed. The more, the merrier. Salary negotiable, excellent benefits. Our sole goal is to go public and become the only dynasty in the world! Those interested should contact Ms. Zhang, who is lo 540Votes493kRecs93.9kFans
- 7 Six Years After the Catastrophe, I Built a Farm by Growing Bean Sprouts 灾后第六年，我靠发豆芽攒下农场 Synopsis: Huai Yu, who remembers nothing, walks out of a forest and discovers that the world suffered a catastrophe six years ago. The city is in ruins, and everything needs rebuilding. And she has been given six hundred mu of land and a handful of soybeans. [Also known as Huai Yu’s Record] [Male lead: Lin Xuefeng. He gets little page time, less than the villain] [Farming, building up a farm, everyday life, slow burn] [No grand ambitions, just tending her own fields] Thank you for reading! I’m g 1Votes259.8kRecs100.7kFans
- 8 When Clear Days Come 逢晴日 In the twelfth year of Tianhe, on a snowy night in the dead of winter, eleven-year-old Shaowei cut off her ties to her family with a single slash and went down the mountain alone. That night, Prince Liu Qi, who had inexplicably been beaten by her like some unlucky stray dog on the roadside, got to his feet and wiped the blood from his nose. Standing in the snow, he watched her blood-soaked figure disappear. … [Note: The heroine grows over the course of the story; she is not an empress or a domin 17Votes257.9kRecs124.8kFans
- 9 EN I Rewrite the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the Starry Skies 我在星际重著山海经 Xia Chujian: Men will only affect the speed at which I draw my gun! Xia Chujian: The abyss gazes into me, and I will slaughter my way through the abyss! *, *, *, *, *, * Xia Chujian, a native of the Beichen Star System, has always thought she was utterly ordinary and unremarkable. But Huo Yushen, the youngest marshal in the Beichen Empire, does not agree. Because he has never seen anyone stare directly at those indescribable beings in the depths of the starry sky without collapsing into madness. 3Votes1MRecs195.6kFans
- 10 My Whole Family Has a Golden Finger 我全家都带金手指 The Zuo family had no sons, only three daughters. People from every village nearby made fun of them: “Just wait. One day they won’t even have a man to shoulder the family’s burdens. They should’ve adopted a son years ago!” But the villagers didn’t know that all three of the Zuo girls’ husbands had golden fingers. The eldest son-in-law was reborn. He could do more than just shoulder the family’s burdens: he could even carry his father-in-law up a mountain for a stroll. The second son-in-law had a 8Votes431.7kRecs98.2kFans
- 11 The Chronicles of Song Tan 宋檀记事 Synopsis: Wrapping up the ending. My new book, Su Su, is currently being serialized! After transmigrating back from the cultivation world, I returned to my hometown to farm, livestream, and sell vegetables! Song Tan had formed a Golden Core, but failed her tribulation. Back in the modern world, she found herself at the scene of a pileup and only narrowly escaped death thanks to someone who saved her life. What was there to think about? Forget being a wage slave. I’m going back home to farm! Draw 65Votes2.6MRecs634.3kFans
- 12 The Cannon Fodder's Path to Self-Reliance 炮灰当自强 Tear down the scum, but grow stronger yourself. Make scumbag men and wicked women pay the price, and set life on the path to a brighter future. A hundred different lives, a hundred kinds of splendor: from an ignorant, inexperienced intern who knows nothing but carrying out missions to a top-tier time-space manager. She travels through the worlds of domineering CEOs, seductive princes, and interstellar civilizations. Life is exhilarating beyond belief. This is a thrilling and endlessly wonderful 0Votes102.5kRecs53.3kFans
- 13 The Lucky Little Girl of the Farming Family 农家小福女 The fourth brother of the Zhou family lost money gambling, their mother became seriously ill, and the people from the gambling house even wanted Manbao to repay the debt. The villagers all said that the Zhou family’s precious darling had reached the end of her good days, and even her old mother clutched Manbao’s little hand and sobbed. But Manbao had the System on her side. She led her brothers and sisters-in-law to clear wasteland, farm, grow medicinal herbs, open shops, and more... Their lives 50Votes2.9MRecs541.5kFans
- 14 After the Big Shot Retired 大佬退休之后 [New novel, "Step Aside, Let This Empress Handle It", now updating. Fantasy setting, literary hearts and martial courage, power struggles and nation-building] When other people retire, they raise their grandkids and dance in the square. When Pei Ye retires, she spends money raising paper-doll characters. Before spending money: What a trash game. They can't even be bothered to fleece players properly. After spending money: This game is amazing! I can spend money, and I can grind, too! Raising pap 1Votes2.9MRecs1.3MFans
- 15 Riding the Phoenix 乘鸾 In her previous life, Mingwei struggled to make ends meet, but in the end she couldn’t change her fate and lost the person dearest to her. When she opened her eyes, she found she had returned to a time seventy years earlier. 1Votes1.5MRecs315.7kFans
- 16 Reborn: The Villainess Boss 重生反派女boss She solves every psychological problem, no matter how difficult. She has won every major psychology award. She’s the most expensive psychologist in the field, charging by the second. She’s the undisputed queen of psychology, recognized around the world. Then she’s reborn, standing at a crossroads at eighteen. Determined to become a villainous boss and make money for her treatment, she can’t help 0Votes589.1kRecs356.5kFans
- 17 The Empress’s Livestream Strategy Guide 女帝直播攻略 [The new novel, Step Aside, Let Me Take the Throne, is being serialized] [A different story, just as exciting] Jiang Pengji acquired something called a palace-intrigue livestream System. Jiang Pengji: “All right, System. No problem, System!” Many years later, Jiang Pengji finally achieved her goal: she became the emperor’s woman, the female emperor. Jiang Pengji: “Praise me!” System: “(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ I told you to fight for favor in the palace! Who told you to conquer the world?” #The future’s top g 14Votes3.7MRecs1.5MFans
- 18 The Future King 未来天王 An old legion commander who died in battle during the apocalypse is reborn as a fresh-faced young celebrity in the new century, five hundred years after the apocalypse ended (?)… “Whenever a BGM starts playing in my head, I feel like there's nothing I can't face.”, Fang Zhao. Author of three novels: Star Rank Hunter, Return to the Past and Become a Cat, and Primitive Wars. 4Votes6.6MRecs905.3kFans
