Novels like The Ming Dynasty’s Black Sails
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Ming Dynasty’s Black Sails, best match first.
- 1 Online Game: The Wandering Swordsman 网游侠客行 “Online game” “Martial arts” “Esports” In the seventh season of the online game The Wandering Swordsman, three exceptionally gifted prodigies appeared at once. The Blood-Handed Butcher, who slaughtered every master under heaven! The Shaolin hero, who sent countless fiends to their next lives! And the undefeated prodigy who went all the way to claim the championship! “...Are you saying all three of them were you?” “No. Absolutely not.” Chen Shuo’s expression was utterly serious. I’m no good a 102Votes1.1kRecs8.3kFans
- 2 You’ve Truly Made Things Difficult for Me, Your Majesty 你们真是害苦了朕啊 At the end of the Northern Song, on the eve of the Jingkang Incident, Chen Shao, who came from another world, has a clear goal. To stop the Great Song from being destroyed by the Jin, he decides to seize the throne first! Without the Great Song, how can you destroy Song? When the Jurchen cavalry rides south, a hundred thousand soldiers bare their blades in the courtyard and declare: “Our armies have no sovereign. We wish to proclaim Chen Shao emperor.” 201Votes69.6kRecs261.2kFans
- 3 The Forty-Eighth Year of Qianlong 乾隆四十八年 Book discussion group: 656942331. A group transmigration? Don't be ridiculous. Zhao Xin simply found a bunch of transmigrant workers. Opposing the Qing? Absolutely! But would the ruler of such a vast empire really be that stupid? After ten years of hardship, a group of transmigrators from the modern era, along with starving refugees from every corner of the land, rise up in the mountains and forests of the northeast. They stir things up here and there, throwing the whole world into turmoil. Not 1Votes61kRecs60.6kFans
- 4 The Winds Rise in North America, 1625 风起北美1625 A group of Chinese people from the future accidentally arrive on the west coast of North America in the seventeenth century. They go on to change the course of world history, embedding the mark of Chinese civilization deep into one land after another. “The entire continent of the New World, the Americas, is the land chosen for us Chinese!” “The vast Pacific Ocean is our Chinese inland sea!” “The Caribbean Sea is our Chinese washbasin!” “The continent of Australia is our Chinese mining ground!” “ 411Votes120.3kRecs105.8kFans
- 5 After the System Malfunctioned, I Became the LPL's Savior 系统出错后，我成了LPL救世主 The good news: Lin Dongyang has awakened a System. The bad news: It's called the [Climb to Champion System], and rewards only unlock when he defeats formidable champions. Lin Dongyang reads the System's description and points at himself. “Me, beat champions? Seriously? If you don't want to give me rewards, you can just say so.” Just as Lin Dongyang is about to give up after seeing the System's requirements, he realizes something is off. He looks at the twelve-year-old boy next door and sees a Sy 120Votes16.9kRecs152.1kFans
- 6 Viking: Master of the Icy Sea 维京：冰海霸主 The fjord lay calm, reflecting the leaden gray clouds overhead. Flocks of ravens wheeled back and forth, foretelling that the bitter northern winds would soon sweep south. This was the first scene the protagonist saw after transmigrating to ninth-century Northern Europe. He had become an ordinary freeholding farmer, with nothing but a barren, desolate field of wheat. For centuries, the glory of the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust, and the world had fallen apart. Kings waged endless wars agai 4Votes29.1kRecs50.3kFans
- 7 The Heroic Ming Dynasty 大明豪雄 During the Wanli reign, the land was at peace. Liu Jin, a young man from the countryside of western Henan, had a touch of ambition. The curiosity, arrogance, and obsessions of a modern person had brought him to this era. “Anping Liu Jin delights in chaos and takes pleasure in disaster.”, Ming dynasty, Anonymous 209Votes16.7kRecs31.1kFans
- 8 The Raven of Naples 那不勒斯之鸦 Return to the past and become a crow. Naples in the 1960s: the Mafia runs rampant. Amid the spring breeze of the “economic miracle,” the ancient trade welcomes change. Vendettas, revenge, rebellion, conspiracies; alliances, sieges, threats, reprisals. “Zarathustra, come back and eat your pizza!” The black crow beats its wings and dives into the house. Many people in Naples know that the Rundle family keeps an iconic crow. However, many years later, the people of the Rundle family would rather ca 0Votes17.6kRecs82.4kFans
- 9 EN 1422: The Revival of the Eastern Roman Empire 1422：东罗马的复兴 In 1422, the Eastern Roman Empire had long since lost the glory of Justinian’s age. Its territory had dwindled to Constantinople and a few isolated enclaves such as the Morea. Like a vast ship sailing across a sea of time, its hull riddled with holes, it struggled to stay afloat amid history’s raging waves. At this turbulent moment, a stranger’s soul drifted into the empire. He vowed to change everything and breathe new life into this ancient empire, now in decline. 244Votes43.1kRecs78.1kFans
- 10 Sweeping the Origin 扫元 Rise to power at the end of the Yuan dynasty: The protagonist, Shi Shan, transmigrates to Xuzhou in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Zhizheng, six months before Zhu Yuanzhang gets his start. But he is only a lowly soldier guarding the city. Before he can even figure out his identity, the spies have already taken their positions, and Zhima Li is about to attack the city? Overthrow the Yuan, starting from the walls of Xuzhou! 0Votes54.1kRecs62.8kFans
- 11 American Medicine: I Survive the Kill Line by Relying on Demons 医学美利坚：我靠恶魔度过斩杀线 An average of 15,000 paid subscribers, and it’s not just about the kill line. Hell is empty. The demons are in America. Lin En was reborn in America. Unfortunately, the timeline was already too far along for him to turn his fortunes around by trading crypto. All he could do was focus on his work as a doctor, but then he stumbled upon a human trafficking operation... His life was hanging by a thread. [New demon detected: Succubus] System, don’t make things up. There’s no demon here. I only see an 643Votes74.8kRecs456.6kFans
- 12 My Father, Emperor Wu of Han 家父汉武帝 Liu Jia kicked the bucket. A sheep killed him. He swore that in his next life he would never study animal husbandry, never research sheep breeding, and absolutely never chase an escaped breeding ram in the middle of the night, only to fail to catch it and tumble headfirst into a ravine, bringing his miserable life to an end. He never imagined things could get even worse. He opened his eyes in some godforsaken ancient era. He had become a son of Emperor Wu of Han who didn't exist in the history b 449Votes16.6kRecs116.9kFans
- 13 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
- 14 The Boiling Point Era 沸腾时代 This is the best of times, and this is the worst of times. Dragons and snakes emerge from the wild. As they grow savagely, ambition and desire intertwine, forever forging legends that turn the world upside down. A microcosm of reform and opening up, and a dazzling miracle of ordinary people rising to prominence. 1.2kVotes438.3kRecs401.7kFans
- 15 EN Doomsday America 末日美利坚 “No System, no supernatural powers, no saintly do-gooder.” Serious version: It takes at least tens of thousands of years for beasts to evolve into humans. But how long does it take for humans to devolve into beasts? A year? Let's find out. Then the zombie crisis erupted, and civilization's order collapsed completely. And so, civilization left us behind. The dead walk among us. Comedy version: A zombie crisis has broken out in America? A cause for nationwide celebration! This is fantastic news! 94Votes49.2kRecs161.3kFans
- 16 EN America: The Godfather of Game Development 美利坚：游戏制作教父 Lin Lixin transmigrated to Los Angeles in 1984. That year, North America's gaming hegemon Atari collapsed. That year, the new king, Nintendo, held the Famicom in its hands and was full of ambition. It was the darkest day in video game history, but it was also Lin Lixin's opportunity. From Tetris to Minecraft, from Civilization to Hearts of Iron; that year, Lin Lixin punched Nintendo, kicked Sega, and scared Sony, which had not yet entered the market, into trembling... "On my business card, I am 509Votes48.4kRecs198.6kFans
- 17 From Taming the Fox Immortal to Welcoming Ten Thousand Immortals 从收服狐仙开始万仙来朝 I am an immortal of heaven and earth, bearing a sword as I cross mountains and rivers. The Dao lies in ancient graves, old trees, and fox dens; village tales tell of strange and uncanny things. Look, an old dragon emerges from its pool, a fierce tiger sits atop a hill. Hear me, by the command of the Thunderbolt: summon the gods, then send the ghosts away. I ride the wind through the void, free and unrestrained. The immortals feast with me; I roam the White Jade Capital. Neither celestial wine no 0Votes73.5kRecs222.3kFans
- 18 EN The Crown Prince of France 我在法兰西当王太子 Welcome to check out the completed novel, My Lady, Please Stay! [Over 16,000 top-tier subscribers] [An alternate-history power fantasy, with the setting kept as close to the original timeline as possible] I’m in France, just arrived at Versailles, and I’m the crown prince. The only problem is that my father is Louis XVI, and he’ll be executed in a few years... Since neither my father nor the ministers can be relied on, I’ll just have to set France in order myself! First, I’ll make a little money 134Votes125.4kRecs257.2kFans
- 19 The Coach Is a Beast 教练凶猛 (A League of Legends esports novel) Li Shu, a celebrated player in a parallel world, transmigrates to 2016. Apart from League of Legends itself, everything is unfamiliar to him: the major regions and every single player. With a completely blank resume, the first problem Li Shu has to face is... finding a job. 363Votes67.5kRecs306.6kFans
- 20 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
- 21 A Dream of the Beiyang Fleet 北洋之梦 After transmigrating into a hopeless student in the Beiyang presidential preparatory class in the fifteenth year of the Guangxu reign, Chang Desheng looked at his classmates, including Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, Cao Kun, and Wang Shizhen, and made up his mind: I’m going to be president! A new work from Da Luoluo. Read it now, and don’t save it for later! 1.8kVotes157.7kRecs356.9kFans
- 22 The Wallfacer, but at the Nascent Soul Stage 面壁者，但元婴期 [Canon-focused]+ [Ensemble cast]+ [When the Stars Shine] “The first Wallfacer in history was obviously Luo Ji.” “Rey Diaz? The pioneer of the mental seal, makes perfect sense.” “Zhang Beihai? A civilian Wallfacer, sure, I can buy that.” “What do you mean, a Wallfacer smashed a droplet with one swing?” When more than two thousand stellar warships drifted through space, the droplet wasn’t greeted by two thousand New Year firecrackers, but by a human holding a geological hammer. Luo Ji gripped the 33Votes96.5kRecs319.9kFans
- 23 EN Turns Out I'm a Cultivation Prodigy 原来我是仙道天骄 July, 14994 of the Immortal Calendar. Chen Zhuo was admitted to Taiqing City's Vocational Technical College of Alchemy. Approved for an artificial spirit root, he became a cultivator with a single wood-aspected artificial spirit root. At first, Chen Zhuo could already see his future clearly: spend a hundred years or so cultivating honestly, work for a company on an assembly line, and maybe reach the peak of Qi Refining and collect a little retirement money. But not long after his spirit root was 6.9kVotes115.3kRecs754.5kFans
- 24 Back to the Prosperous Years to Live an Ordinary Life 回到红火岁月做俗人 A glutton transmigrates to an era of scarce food and clothing, and strives to live as an ordinary person with plenty to eat and drink. A sensible story, with little brutality and characters who have their wits about them. No multiverse, no double transmigration, no System, no farming space, just a portable warehouse that could starve a mouse to death. No copying, pasting, or plagiarism. Entirely handwritten, not produced by a studio. A slow-paced slice-of-life story that reflects the era. Aside 331Votes210.3kRecs418.7kFans
- 25 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
- 26 The False Man of Jiangzuo 江左伪郎 The realm was divided into three, then reunited under Jin. Who could have known that the Rebellion of the Eight Princes would follow, then the Humiliation of Yongjia, the uprising of the Five Barbarians, the fall of the north, and the southward flight of the aristocracy? To secure a full meal and protect his brothers, the young slave made up a little lie, hoping to pull off a clever trick. But he overdid it. The lie grew bigger and bigger, until it deceived the entire realm. 832Votes131.5kRecs347.7kFans
- 27 The Zombie Calamity of 1644 尸祸一六四四 In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, a meteor fell over Kaifeng, and the dead began to eat the living. Terrified, the Shun army breached the Majia Kou embankment and flooded Kaifeng, unleashing disaster far and wide. Two years later, Wang Zhiming, a fourteen-year-old eighth-grader, arrived in the chaotic final years of the Ming dynasty, only to discover, to his astonishment, that he had transmigrated into Zhu Cilang and was on his way to Nanjing, accompanied by Mu Hu, a servant of Gao Men 1.5kVotes106.4kRecs365.5kFans
- 28 Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明 In the final years of the Ming Dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial economy and smallholder farming economy that coexisted under the dynasty were both struck by deflation. The effects of the Little Ice Age piled on, and one domino after another fell into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, roving rebels crossed south over the Mianc 789Votes375.3kRecs378.2kFans
- 29 The Struggle for the Throne in the Jiajing Era 夺嫡在嘉靖朝 In the twenty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming, the Crown Prince died, leaving the succession vacant. The struggle between Prince Yu and Prince Jing would determine countless lives, fortunes, and reputations. On one side stood Zhu Zaiji, Prince Yu, first in line by age. Backed by the court’s upright officials and invoking ancestral precedent, he was regarded by the scholarly world as the obvious choice for Crown Prince. On the other stood Zhu Zaizhen, Prince Jing. With Grand Se 887Votes132.3kRecs446.7kFans
- 30 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
- 31 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
- 32 The Peninsula Asteroid 半岛小行星 I came to become a star. I saw it, and I know I can make it. I conquer... Forget it, this place is too complicated to conquer. I'll just focus on romance instead. 362Votes393.5kRecs255.3kFans
- 33 Armor-Piercing Bullets Don't Believe in Carbon-Based Monsters 穿甲弹不相信碳基怪物 An ordinary training exercise sent Chen Jian and his squad into a completely different time and space. In this post-apocalyptic world, monsters roamed everywhere, while the few surviving humans struggled to stay alive beneath their terrifying claws and fangs. To fight back against the monsters, the survivors abandoned everything. Humanity no longer existed; animal instinct ruled instead. To defeat the monsters, they first had to become like them. Chen Jian should have pursued the maddening evolu 0Votes185.3kRecs443.6kFans
- 34 I Am the Gunslinger! 我，枪神！ Gao Fei has failed at many things. His family's factory went bankrupt, leaving him with debts instead of an inheritance. He delivered takeout and drove for a rideshare service. Eventually, with no other choice, he went to Russia to collect a debt, only to be forced into the Russia-Ukraine war. Everyone has a stage that's right for them. Gao Fei found his on the battlefield. Becoming a mercenary was the beginning of his success. He fights his way through the Russia-Ukraine war, takes on drug cart 2.7kVotes563.1kRecs921.5kFans
- 35 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
- 36 EN The First Wizarding World War 第一次魔法世界大战 Charlotte Mecklenburg transmigrates to the Fars Empire and only wants to be a civil servant on another continent. He isn’t even a combatant... But who would have thought that even civil servants have to go to war! Announcement: The physical edition of The First Magical World War goes on presale on May 24. 5Votes347.2kRecs1.6MFans
- 37 EN In a Hong Kong Movie World, You Call This Undercover? 人在港综，你管这叫卧底？ A fake undercover agent: Carefully hides his identity, swallows his conscience to play the lowlife, and occasionally sneaks off to do good out of pity. Meeting his handler feels like sneaking around with a lover. A real undercover agent: Bold yet meticulous, ruthless and merciless, openly slips the cops a note to report his rivals. 0Votes162.3kRecs443kFans
- 38 EN Wizard: Starting with Synthetic Gems 巫师：从合成宝石开始 [White Wizard Opening] [Complete Demon Plant System] Explore the unknown, pursue the truth, transcend life and death, and control people's hearts: that is what it means to be a wizard. In this wizarding world, where resources are desperately needed, transmigrator Locke Augustine relies on his golden finger, a synthesis cube, to continually transform low-grade materials into high-grade ones. He sets out to explore every path toward the truth, including breeding, potion-making, and alchemy, develo 1.8kVotes229.1kRecs660.5kFans
- 39 The White-Robed Chancellor 白衣卿相 Clad in white, he entered Bianliang; half a lifetime as a minister, and he shaped the realm. 3.4kVotes298.2kRecs571kFans
- 40 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 41 When Pride Still Mattered 当骄傲仍然重要时 Some people exist proudly, and some struggle proudly. Some compete proudly, and some fail proudly. But few can walk away with pride. By the time you finish reading this, congratulations: you’ve already seen the lives of many players. This passage took shape in Stephen Curry’s words after his 2021 defeat: “Nobody wants to face us next season.” It was Tim Duncan, certain before the 2014 Finals began that they wouldn’t mess it up. It was Kobe Bryant promising at Old Man Buss’s memorial to get the L 5Votes234.7kRecs386.1kFans
- 42 EN In the Name of Divine Abilities 以神通之名 In the lunar year 3230, the Cataclysm erupted. Humanity fell from its position as ruler of the world, and Shenzhou became its last refuge. In 3255, Marquis Lu Zhao was under investigation. “By rights, an extraordinary like you, at your level, has no authority to investigate me.” 11.3kVotes377.1kRecs2.1MFans
- 43 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
- 44 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
- 45 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
- 46 EN Wulong Mountain Cultivation Chronicles 乌龙山修行笔记 A day-to-day chronicle of a rogue cultivator from Wulong Mountain, recording the little moments of a cultivation life... A woman fears marrying the wrong man; a man fears choosing the wrong career. Since Liu Xiaolou became a lowly rogue cultivator from the start, one from Wulong Mountain, notorious for its bandits, he can only accept his lot and struggle to survive in a world ruled by prestigious sects. He busies himself for a single spirit stone, pill, artifact, or spirit herb. The daily necess 1.4kVotes981.3kRecs619.4kFans
- 47 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
- 48 EN Clearing Jin 廓晋 To clear the way means, first, to open it up, and second, to sweep it clean. Having arrived in the Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms era, one should strike out into the current, set one’s heart on the Northern Expeditions, drive the Five Hu tribes from the Central Plains, and then sweep away the aristocratic clans from the imperial court. Such is the way to clear the realm, build a new enterprise, and carry on Chinese civilization. That is the theory. But in the autumn of Yonghe 5, AD 349, when a 13.7kVotes901.7kRecs1.1MFans
- 49 Beyond the Bubble Era 飞越泡沫时代 A Japanese entertainment-industry novel. From talent agent to entertainment mogul, this is a story about dreams coming true. The author has already completed the million-word classic The Japanese Entertainment Mogul, so you can read with confidence. 22Votes721.2kRecs205.3kFans
- 50 Azeroth’s Shadowy Trails 艾泽拉斯阴影轨迹 (My new books, My Players Are So Fierce and The Dawn Trail in the Marvel Universe, are now available. Come check them out!) A hardcore gamer transmigrates into Warcraft and becomes Jaina's elder brother. Now he's a prince, too. For the sake of his family's survival, should he break his own sister's legs first, just to stop her from growing up to become a kin-slaying monster? Wait, what? Why do I have to die once as soon as I get here? Let me check the walkthrough. Right, touch my forehead to ope 5Votes383.8kRecs523.8kFans
