Novels like The Great Song’s Literary Giant
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Great Song’s Literary Giant, best match first.
- 1 The New Han Dynasty, 1834 新汉皇朝1834 In the waning years of the Qianlong reign of the Great Qing, a foolish emperor ruled while treacherous ministers seized power. Heavy taxes and levies left the people destitute. With nowhere else to turn, the White Lotus faithful of Sichuan and Hubei were the first to raise the banner of rebellion against the Qing. Our Great Ancestor Emperor rose with the tide in Shangqiu, Henan, and ascended the throne in Dingtao, Shandong, founding the era of Xinghan. He appointed officials, distributed land, a 4Votes19.9kRecs71.1kFans
- 2 The Ming Dynasty's First Brother-in-Law 大明第一国舅 In the spring of the second year of Hongwu, a young man arrived in Xinfengli, leading a donkey and carrying a coffin. Zhu Yuanzhang became my brother-in-law? Then I’m the Ming Dynasty’s foremost royal uncle! 339Votes88.9kRecs735.3kFans
- 3 The Immortal Ascension Exam: From Nobody to Immortal Official Through Relentless Effort 大考登仙，从草芥肝成仙官 “In the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, all power belongs to the court.” “Important spells require a license to practice. Every cultivation craft must be graded and ranked through examinations.” “A single edict can appoint a mountain or river deity. One examination can determine the course of a lifetime.” “You’re no more than a blade of grass. How dare you aspire to immortality?” The examiner gazed at him over the seal in his hand, his eyes blazing like torches. Su Qin possessed a proficiency panel 94Votes25.1kRecs214.5kFans
- 4 I Spread Behelit in the Modern World 我在现世播撒贝黑莱特 [Set in a parallel version of the real world] [Only I Have Supernatural Powers] [Behind-the-Scenes Plot] [Not a Berserk fanfiction, but its setting was inspired by Berserk and includes some original interpretations. You can enjoy it even if you haven't read Berserk.] Su Yuan thought that once he died, he would be free and could sleep forever. But after death, he found himself trapped in another world, a dark realm composed solely of memories gathered by humanity over millions of years. He had no 0Votes10.4kRecs52.6kFans
- 5 Great Tang: From the Start, I Offer Li Er a Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls 大唐：开局为李二献上避坑指南 Wen He never imagined that he would transmigrate to the ninth year of Wude. He never thought he would one day rise through the Tang court and become an official, either. Until that day. With nowhere else to turn, he went to the Prince of Qin's residence. “Your Majesty, the future Heavenly Khan, I really am from the future. You have to believe me!” “This Tang Dynasty Survival Guide doesn't cost 998 or even 98. Just have Li Yuanji killed, and you can take it home for free.” Li Shimin looked at the 245Votes55.8kRecs430.5kFans
- 6 The Poker-Faced Man Has It All Planned, I Just Want to Lie Flat 冷脸男算无遗策，我只想躺平 Legend has it that whoever obtains the Dragon Map commands all things. The divine dragon perished, and the Dragon Map vanished. Darkness draws near as a silent game of strategy begins. She lost her memory and fell into the mortal world, stepping into the game one move at a time. Is she a pawn, or the one pulling the strings? He moves between light and shadow, his schemes unfathomable. Is he devoted, or luring his enemies into a trap? A hidden hand pushes them both into an endless abyss. When the 0Votes16.1kRecs0Fans
- 7 EN This Demon Lord Is Not Right 这个魔头不对劲 Monsters ran amok, and the town was massacred. My childhood sweetheart and fiancée became a dazzling prodigy of a prestigious orthodox sect. My childhood friends went off to the bustling cities, each forging a future of their own. And I, all alone, silently ventured into the dark and terrifying mountains, where strange horrors lurked… 1Votes33.2kRecs179.3kFans
- 8 EN Demonic Cultivator 魔修 [I humbly beseech the Heavenly Book to show me what opportunity awaits me today.] [In a cold pool fifty miles beyond the mountain gate, there is a spirit fish you can catch.] [I humbly beseech the Heavenly Book to show me the cultivation method best suited to me.] [Mount Lu Sword Sect’s seventh-grade The White-Robed Yuan, A Sixty-Year Song of Slaying Dragons; Qixia Mountain’s fifth-grade The Rainbow-Gathering, Mist-Refining Profound Scripture; the Innate Demon Sect’s third-grade The Profound Lor 6Votes70.4kRecs421.1kFans
- 9 Chi Dragon True Lord 螭龙真君 Swallowing clouds, it bears the rain of a thousand peaks; exhaling mist, it gathers mountains that tower ten thousand feet. Lying high on the azure cliffs, close to the stars, it brings rain to the heavens while waters and sky lie calm. One day, the stone carving of a chi-dragon in the peach grove at Fulongping gained sentience. It discovered how vast the world was, and decided it wanted to become an immortal too. Essences are creatures of the world: flying or swimming, growing or moving, metal 2Votes21.7kRecs152.5kFans
- 10 Great Ming: I Asked You to Die in Protest, So Why Did You Really Die? 大明：让你死谏，你怎么真死啊？ At court, Emperor Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, wanted to establish Zhu Yunwen as the imperial grandson and asked the ministers for their opinions. It was really just a formality. But at that very moment, someone stepped forward, prepared to die. “Zhu Chongba! You favor a concubine’s son and abandon the rightful heir, violating human ethics. The Great Ming will perish in the second generation!” Zhu Yuanzhang flew into a rage. “Guards! Drag him out and execute him by slow slicing!” “Hee-hee, I’m bac 180Votes73.7kRecs540.4kFans
- 11 EN The Path to Longevity Begins with Inheriting a Qi Refining Sect 长生从继承练气宗门开始 From 200 first-month subscriptions to over 10,000 peak subscriptions, from earning 400 yuan in my first month to writing four million characters. This old bookworm's first novel, and I'm not dropping it. I lost my job in middle age, and I'm too timid to gamble on it. [Business Management] [Farming] [Ensemble Cast] A lone goose on the road to immortality, a thousand thunders in the trials of the mortal world. An ordinary man is reborn in a chaotic immortal realm, where danger is everywhere and ev 341Votes184.9kRecs235.8kFans
- 12 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
- 13 Memoirs of the Heavenly Khan 天可汗回忆录 “How should we fight this battle?” “This time, the Heavenly Khan is on our side.” “Then we’ve got this in the bag!” A report from the Chang’an Dance King Association’s working-group discussion 17Votes76.6kRecs198kFans
- 14 The Top Scholar 状元郎 A man may rise from a farm boy in the morning to the emperor’s court by night. But when the emperor is away, he spends every night in the Leopard Room. Tang Yin: My adoptive father saved me. Wang Shouren: If he hadn’t saved me, the Embroidered Uniform Guard would have killed me on the way. Yang Shen: Since there is Yu, why must there be Liang? I think he stole my top scholar title and my wife... Yan Song: My adoptive father taught me how to be an official and saved my career. Zhu Shou: Fa 898Votes597.2kRecs694.8kFans
- 15 Reborn Before Doomsday: My Backer Is the State 重生末日前：我的后盾是国家 The apocalypse arrived without warning. Everyone across the world died in agony for reasons unknown. Jiang Yang woke to discover that he had been reborn ten days before the apocalypse. Ten days, and I alone am supposed to save the world? Jiang Yang abandoned that idea without hesitation and immediately reported the apocalypse intel. From this moment on, my backing is the entire nation! 39Votes97.8kRecs469.9kFans
- 16 Splendor of the Five Dynasties 五代风华 After transmigrating into the Five Dynasties, he finds that human lives are as cheap as grass and dynasties rise and fall like flowing water. Though he is an ant, he will shake a towering tree. Though he is a pawn, he will break the game that rules the realm. With the ambitions of a commoner, he asks: Who will place the imperial robe upon my shoulders? 1.2kVotes283.2kRecs432.5kFans
- 17 Reborn as an Antiques Appraiser: I Never Wanted to Be an Expert 重生鉴宝：我真没想当专家 The good news: Lin Sicheng is reborn. The bad news: Before his rebirth, he was the youngest archaeologist in the country, a leading expert in artifact identification, conservation, and restoration. He had won numerous national research awards and served as an advisor to several state-level archaeological research institutions. After his rebirth: he’s a terrible student. The good news: This is the year the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck has yet to be salvaged, with nearly a hundred thousand exquisite Son 302Votes151.3kRecs406.4kFans
- 18 Commanding the Ancestors: Building an Immortal Clan Since the Eastern Han 操控祖宗，从东汉开始创不朽世家 Gu Yi, who had just graduated, received a strange game console. Then he discovered that the things inside the game console could not only be manifested in reality, but that the characters he controlled within it were all the founding ancestors of his own family. From that moment on, an immortal clan whose legacy had been passed down since the beginning of the Eastern Han began to rise slowly through the river of history. He personally controlled his ancestor as the ancestor conquered the rea 13Votes111.9kRecs556.9kFans
- 19 EN The Secret Buyer 隐秘买家 My name is Zhang Fusheng, an ordinary man in the High Martial Era. But I can buy anything, and sell anything. Innate potential, comprehension, cultivation, luck, lifespan, identity, and destiny. All it takes is a contract. But the other party must enter the deal willingly. So I sell wealth to the poor and buy their health, while selling health to the gravely ill and buying their comprehension. I kept the comprehension for myself. I bought decades of hard-earned swordsmanship from hundreds of swo 0Votes63.4kRecs543.2kFans
- 20 I Brought the Mount Shu Game to Life 我具现了蜀山游戏 Also known as: “I Openly Cultivate Immortality on Douyin,” “Casting Spells Under the Guise of Special Effects,” and “With AI Around, I Fly Without Hiding It” … Chen Han obtains a game System that is supposed to take him to the game world of The Swordsmen of the Shu Mountains. But the transmigration fails, leaving the game System acting rather strangely. [The dog demon is right in front of you, releasing a powerful aura of demonic energy. Drive it away at once!] Chen Han stares blankly at the li 9Votes206.7kRecs439kFans
- 21 EN The Heretical Path to Immortality 方仙外道 The young Daoist was sixteen, in the springtime of his life, when desire stirred his troubles. Each day he saw the suffering of aging, sickness, and death, and the pangs of love, hate, anger, obsession, and resentment. I do not want my beauty to wither and fade. I do not want age spots to mark my skin. I do not want my limbs to shrivel, my organs to rot, and my bones to stink. The young Daoist was sixteen, and all he wished for was eternal life. A tale of an ordinary mortal refini 471Votes142.9kRecs473kFans
- 22 World of Mysteries: I Ascend Through Lies 秘诡世界：我靠谎言成神 Cthulhu + cards + mind games + fateful gambits + ascending to godhood through the Sequences “Fate is a fraud, and I am the one who weaves it.” Behind the real world lie hidden doors. Ordinary people never notice them. Only the chosen can open them in the name of cards and embark on the path through the Sequences to godhood. Known as Arcane Mystics, they use cards as their medium and sanity as their stake, moving through the shadows of the city in pursuit of mystical powers and forbidden truths. 0Votes407kRecs26.1kFans
- 23 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
- 24 My Portable Ming Dynasty Court 我的手提式大明朝廷 Su Ze transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and becomes a second-class jinshi in the second year of Longqing, entering the Hanlin Academy as a junior compiler. The good news: no more grinding through the imperial exams. He has transmigrated straight to the end point of an exam-focused novel, and this year’s cohort is exceptionally distinguished. More than half of the grand secretaries who serve during the Wanli reign will be among these jinshi. The bad news: the second year of Longqing is when court 188Votes122.9kRecs284.4kFans
- 25 EN Deity Investigation Report 神明调查报告 A kidnapping from the past, thirteen phantoms standing tall in an ancient castle A life caught in a cycle of reversals, and a catastrophe unleashed by the gods in retaliation against humanity! Reason is fragile in this world. Humanity needs to be handled with care. "A real investigator isn't judged by how well they handle the bizarre, but by how well they write their reports!" 23Votes269.7kRecs1.2MFans
- 26 History Is Sick 历史病了 An unknown affliction struck the long river of history, sinking it into the reflections of the present. Ancient Celestial Venerables awoke from the past, seeking forbidden secrets. Great masters used the years as their game board and all living beings as pieces, plotting across the ages. Familiar ancient legends, folk monsters, and even the heroes people once worshiped became warped by the affliction, turning into eerie beings sunk in the abyss of the past. A once wise and mighty emperor became 8Votes166.4kRecs338.9kFans
- 27 The Ming Dynasty, 1627 大明王朝1627 In 1627, in the Ming Dynasty, pig iron cost 9 wen per jin, wheat cost 0.7 taels per shi, and millet cost 0.5 taels per shi. In 1627, the Ming central government collected roughly 10 million taels of silver and 4 million shi of grain tax. Local revenues from corvee levies, militia levies, community levies, and relay-station levies amounted to around 10,000 to 20,000 taels of silver per county. In 1627, the population was around 150 to 200 million, still far short of the 400 million it would reach 32Votes223kRecs810.3kFans
- 28 Transmigrating to the Northern Song Dynasty with Them 我和她们穿越到北宋 This book was originally titled I Transmigrated to the Northern Song Dynasty with Five Gorgeous Women, and is also known as The Best Hunters Often Appear as Their Prey and I Pretend to Be a Local in Front of the Five Gorgeous Women Who Transmigrated with Me. Zhang Chუნ, a top creator in the field of history; Li Lin, a leading military commentator; Ye Shiyun, a top financial news host; Ma Xiaojiao, the tech world’s queen of mediocrity; and Yuan Qingcheng, a goddess of agricultural grafting and se 0Votes115.7kRecs445.2kFans
- 29 EN Wasteland of the Otherworld 异度荒尘 In this otherworld, the top of the food chain is nowhere to be seen. People are no more than grains of sand in a desert. 3Votes320.1kRecs677.5kFans
- 30 EN National Arts: Gain a Year of Power Every Day! 国术：一天涨一年功力！ “I, Huo Yuanhong, will become the greatest man in Tianjin!” In the year 369 of the Celestial Dynasty, the great families were corrupt, the class system was rigid, and the common folk had no hope of ever rising above their station. Meanwhile, the foreigners’ ironclad ships and cannons were poised to strike. That year, Huo Yuanhong looked up at the lofty aristocratic clans, feeling as insignificant as an ant. To live like a real man, he kindled the fire in his heart and transformed martial arts in 9Votes128.5kRecs496.8kFans
- 31 Notes on a Corpse Monster's Cultivation 尸怪修行笔记 That year, I awoke beneath the earth, with the ground for a blanket and the quiet for my bed. Years later, The mountain’s demons gather, while I sit alone in the tower and pass the long, clear night. 24Votes146.5kRecs371.7kFans
- 32 Observe the Mountain! 观山！ [True Immortality] + [Vast Spans of Time] The mountain is still that mountain. The people are no longer the same. Xu Ran obtained the Dao Fruit of Immortality and embarked on a cultivation journey with no end in sight. He watched prodigies fall and sects rise and decline. Those who once drank and laughed with him eventually became bones in their graves. On the road to immortality, old friends all depart, and the Great Dao is walked alone. Seas turn to fields and worlds change, but he alone remai 469Votes67.9kRecs568.8kFans
- 33 Our Apartment Complex Transmigrated… Again 我们小区又穿越了 [Homesteading, survival, gathering, evolution, development] Overnight, an entire residential complex was transmigrated to a primeval wilderness where life had gone haywire. Survival became the first hurdle. Food, water, disease, ferocious beasts, mutated creatures... Once the residents had struggled to adapt, they discovered in despair that this was only the beginning. After surviving for a certain amount of time, the complex would transmigrate again, this time to an even more dangerous region. 5Votes78.7kRecs298.4kFans
- 34 Venerable of the Turbid World 浊世武尊 In the third year of the Great New Republic, the nation is falling apart. The southern government has just been established, while northern warlords carve up the land and fight among themselves. Western ironclads batter at the gates, and the ghosts of the previous dynasty refuse to fade. This is an era when firearms and physical prowess vie for supremacy, and rebels dance alongside evil spirits. Beneath the undercurrents of revolution, folk cults flourish, alongside martial warriors, demons, str 65Votes113kRecs669.3kFans
- 35 Looking North at the Rivers and Mountains 北望江山 A story about a modern person struggling to survive in the late Yuan dynasty, in every sense of the word. 6.2kVotes745.2kRecs592.5kFans
- 36 Starting a Business in Late Tang 创业在晚唐 Two hundred and fifty-seven years after the Mandate of Heaven passed to the Li clan. The once-glorious Great Tang, to which all nations had paid homage, stumbled into the winter of the first year of the Qianfu era. That winter, only three months remained before Wang and Huang raised their banners, and just thirty-three years before the fall of the Tang. That same winter, Chang’an’s nobles remained lost in the fading glow of a golden age, while in the southwest of the empire, the petty kingdom of 697Votes162.9kRecs411.9kFans
- 37 EN Beneath the Fist 拳之下 What is martial prowess? The exertion of strength. What is the martial-arts spirit? The exertion of will and courage. … With a raised foot, victory and defeat are decided; beneath a fist, life and death are settled. "I am Lian Youming. Please enlighten me!" 327Votes136.3kRecs507.2kFans
- 38 EN Cultivating Immortality: A Tortoise at My Side 长生修仙，与龟同行 [A top-tier mortal cultivation novel with over 20,000 premium subscribers and an average of 7,000 subscriptions per chapter. Readers can dive in with confidence.] Chen Jianghe's version: Chen Jianghe transmigrated to a cultivation world and became a fisherman in a cultivation family. By chance, he exchanged lifespans with a spirit turtle. Not only did he gain a spirit pet, but his lifespan was also three times that of cultivators at the same realm. So Chen Jianghe spoke and acted with caution, a 588Votes142.6kRecs483.6kFans
- 39 EN Invincible Under Heaven! 天下无敌！ Whenever I'm persecuted or exploited, I feel genuinely happy and delighted. Because if someone still dares to persecute and exploit me, it can only prove one thing: I'm not strong enough! Someone is still stronger than me! I'm still not truly invincible! There is still a road ahead of me! This... How utterly delightful, I tell you! 65Votes243.1kRecs619.5kFans
- 40 EN The Mad Demon of Myriad Lives 万生痴魔 Get a bowl, fill it with soil, count one, two, three, four, five. Plant a toad and grow a train, plant a soybean and grow a tiger. Cultivate a fine craft, and you'll enjoy a life of ease, free from hardship. There are three hundred and sixty trades among all living things. Which path is the one to rule them all? That carpenter has real skill, snapping a chalk line to divide yin from yang, joining mortise and tenon to subdue the eight wilds. This blacksmith has a knack, making iron and fire ring 5.3kVotes400.6kRecs723kFans
- 41 EN Hound of the Immortal Dynasty 仙朝鹰犬 The Great Yu Immortal Dynasty has endured for a thousand years. A wise ruler sits on the throne, and a court full of powerful ministers serves him. Beneath this age of prosperity, undercurrents swirl. Gods and demons watch from the shadows, while monstrous beings creep through the land. Born into a momentous upheaval unseen in a thousand years, Lianshan Xin enters the game with his own life, rising above the dynasty to hunt emperors and their ministers, and subdue the true dragons of the mortal 3.6kVotes142.4kRecs703.1kFans
- 42 EN Borrowed Sword 借剑 "Just now, my sword was summoned away by a shout of 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to Their Origin.' What should I do?" "Waiting for an answer, and I'm in a real hurry. I wonder if I'll get it back..." 18Votes454.3kRecs1.9MFans
- 43 The Tang Crown Prince's Leisurely Life 大唐太子的悠闲生活 New book out: "The Ming Dynasty Crown Prince’s Entrepreneurial Journey" (Farming + Family + Reform) This is the age when the Tang Empire is rising, just about to stride forward. Everything is only beginning. It is like a child who has just learned to walk, knowing nothing of storms and feeling no fear. If the Tang Empire takes a wrong turn on the road ahead, so what? Then let it take a few more steps in the wrong direction. Li Chengqian told everyone, “It’s all right. Things will work out e 0Votes91.8kRecs602.9kFans
- 44 Reborn in 2014: I Am the King of Criminal Investigations 重生2014：我，刑侦之王 At the commendation ceremony, a fat man whose police uniform was stretched tight stood onstage, speaking with impassioned fervor. Below the stage. “Master, I heard you used to work with him. What kind of person is he, in your eyes?” “When he’s wearing his uniform, he’s the most lovable person there is. When he takes it off, he’s not human.” “How can you say that? He’s a hero. I think you’re just jealous.” “Jealous?” The veteran detective’s mouth twitched. “Have you ever seen someone ride an old 11Votes188kRecs504.6kFans
- 45 The Ming Dynasty's Spokesman 大明话事人 In an age when rituals and music have fallen into ruin, though I, Lin Tailai, come from a gang, I’m still a scholar who can pass the imperial examinations and enter officialdom! I still love the Great Ming, and I want to delve into a critique of the feudal dynasty’s corruption! It’s just that, before I knew it, I had become corruption itself. 2Votes450.1kRecs335.7kFans
- 46 EN Mountains, Rivers, and the Grain Altar 山河稷 Heaven and earth are the furnace, and creation is the smith; yin and yang are the fuel, and all things are the metal. One day, the flames that refine this world will be replaced by a fire of my own. Ji means sacrifice: make offerings to the land and to the grain. 403Votes1.1MRecs3MFans
- 47 We Agreed to Develop Match-Three, So What's With the Earth War? 说好开发消消乐，地球战争什么鬼 P.S. Set on a parallel Blue Star, with no history of world wars. Anti-war themes. Fictional setting for plausible deniability. Scene One Inside a game livestream somewhere in the Great Xia Federation. “All right, that’s it for this anti-war game. I’d give it a four out of ten. Let’s check out the next anti-war game... Huh?” “An immersive story from the start? It’s called... D-Day.” “Looks like a landing operation. The streamer’s on a landing craft, but he’s too far back to see what’s going on up 13Votes307.7kRecs1.7MFans
- 48 EN The End of the Immortal Path 仙道尽头 A talking ox, me stealing clothes, and a fairy forced into marriage. Looking at all this, Jiang Man, who had just transmigrated, felt that it seemed strangely familiar. 3.4kVotes369kRecs956.2kFans
- 49 EN My Overly Unique Class 我的职业太有个性 In a universe buried beneath black fog, towering figures roam the stars, whispers murmur in people's ears, and mountain-sized metal wreckage litters the world. Professionals struggle to survive. Fortunately, Su Chen has a career panel to help him. By collecting career information and meeting the requirements, he can take up a profession. [Stonewall Fighter] advances to [Flesh Emperor]! [Puppeteer] advances to [Mech Saint]! With a clear road ahead, he proceeds cautiously, one step at a time, unti 36Votes165.1kRecs714.9kFans
- 50 Technology Invades the Modern World 科技入侵现代 1960: Lin Ran opens his eyes on a New York street in the 1960s. He has six decades’ worth of future technological data, but no legal identity. He becomes the head of NASA in the 1960s, spending ten percent of America’s GDP every year, taking on Congress in fierce debate, rallying talent from universities around the world, and leading global scientific collaboration. 2020: He returns to China to build a corporate behemoth, establishes a base on Mars, assembles a crew of astronauts bound for Europ 494Votes264.8kRecs475.6kFans
