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- 101 The Humble-Born Top Scholar 寒门状元 Tired of flashes of blades, clashing horns and drums? Then perhaps you can sample the harsh livelihood of an ordinary person at the bottom of society. This book tells the story of Shen Xi, who transmigrated into a down-and-out poor family in the Great Ming. In an era when everything was considered inferior except scholarship, he changes his fate step by step through his own efforts, finally reaching the pinnacle of life! Tianzi's grand historical work of 2016, worth making your own! 8Votes1.2MRecs575.2kFans
- 102 Brocade-Clad by Night 锦衣夜行 I was everywhere during the Jingnan Campaign, the reduction of the vassal princes, the capital’s relocation, the compilation of the great encyclopedia, the campaigns against the Mongols, and the expeditions to the South Seas, yet no one knew I was there. The whole world fit in my sleeve. I walked unseen in brocade, keeping a low profile. A low profile was the way to go. A convoluted line of inheritance and a fate passed down through generations, one over which he had no control, set the stage fo 6Votes3.1MRecs890kFans
- 103 The Carefree Tang Dynasty 唐朝小闲人 A master of the Thousand Gates is inexplicably transported by a bolt of lightning to the fourth year of the Yonghui era in the Tang Dynasty. From then on, one enormous lie after another makes the whole world dance to his tune. Whether it’s Emperor Gaozong, who has only recently taken the throne, Changsun Wuji, who currently wields immense power, or Wu Zetian, who will one day become the greatest empress in history. “The truth is painful, reality is cruel, and honesty hurts. So I tried to let the 0Votes925.1kRecs420kFans
- 104 The Yu-Song Dynasty 余宋 Let’s try a new blurb, one that’s easier to understand. This is a story about a local boy, Little Gao Yanei, who gets a golden finger and runs riot in the final years of the Northern Song. It’s all one person’s wish fulfillment. If you like it, come explore the world with me. If you don’t, do whatever you want. You can even say I’ve run out of ideas. I’m no banknote, after all. That’ll do. Writing a blurb is exhausting… 0Votes138.8kRecs55.8kFans
- 105 A Han Man Will Never Be a Slave 汉儿不为奴 With ninety-nine steel blades in hand, I’ll stop only when every barbarian is slain; Let drums and gongs thunder as the masses roar, we’ll never rest until Huanglong is taken! In the twelfth year of the false Qing Shunzhi era, Zhou Shixiang, a Han Chinese from Xinhui, Guangdong: “Our Han people will never be slaves!” 0Votes332.2kRecs124.8kFans
- 106 A First-Rank Official 官居一品 Count the heroes, weigh their triumphs and defeats: a century passes like a dream, yet their hearts burn with purpose. They strive to govern wisely and save a crumbling realm, even if a flood of infamy follows them beyond the grave. They scorn death and cherish the rise and fall of nations, traveling alone through storms and tempests. Who wouldn't wish the Great Wall to stand forever? Yet none can know if the River of Sorrow will flow eastward, back into the sea. 43Votes1.4MRecs892.1kFans
- 107 Grand Marshal of the Warring States 战国大司马 The Rites of Zhou: “The Grand Marshal is responsible for establishing the nine laws of the feudal states, assisting the king in bringing order to the realm.” Experience the most gripping era of the Warring States: rival states at war and a hundred schools of thought in contention. 0Votes344kRecs160.7kFans
- 108 EN The Physician Who Rules the Realm 医统江山 A doctor who died of overwork in his previous life is reincarnated into the household of Da Kang's greatest traitor, possessing the body of an idiot boy who had been deaf and mute for sixteen years. Is this his good fortune or his misfortune? Having worked too hard in his past life, all he wants now is a beautiful wife, lovely concubines, and grandchildren gathered around his knees, living comfortably as a wealthy second-generation heir who muddles through each day. Yet he never expected his fam 2Votes2.2MRecs979.1kFans
- 109 A Laid-Back Early Tang Dynasty 懒散初唐 In the fifth year of Wude, the Tang dynasty has just been founded. Li Yuan stays in his harem, surrounded by beautiful women, enjoying the hard-won fruits of victory. Li Jiancheng is busy consolidating his position as Crown Prince, while Li Shimin covets his elder brother’s throne. The generals are busy waging war, the ministers are busy governing the country, the merchants are busy trading with foreign merchants, and the farmers are busy reclaiming wasteland… Amid all this hustle and bustle, Li 0Votes329.5kRecs449.1kFans
- 110 The All-Around Athlete 全能运动员 Track and field, basketball, soccer, tennis... I am proficient in every sport. The Olympics are my battlefield for breaking records. I am the person who has won the most gold medals in the world. I am the person who has won the most championships in the world! I am an all-around athlete. I am a miracle! A brand-new concept in web fiction, bringing you the all-around competitive sports genre! 0Votes725.3kRecs342.2kFans
- 111 Drunk on a Pillow Beneath the River and Mountains 醉枕江山 Empress Wu Zhao rules beneath the sun and moon, while Shangguan Wan'er weighs the affairs of the realm. Li Guo'er is more beautiful than any flower, and the Five Great Clans scheme against one another. Princess Taiping can find no peace, while the third son of the Li family is none other than Longji. Di Renjie, Zhang Yizhi, Feng Xiaobao... Talented men, lovely women, and rough-and-ready sorts! Red sleeves beckon, and wandering heroes roam beneath the skies of the Great Tang, Drunk, they rest the 0Votes2.9MRecs598.9kFans
- 112 The Ming Princess of My Household 我家的大明郡主 The ordinary college student Xu Yan sets out on a path that is anything but ordinary, embarking on an incredible adventure that will shake the world! 4Votes555.8kRecs116.2kFans
- 113 Super Sports Expert 超级运动专家 I’m a professional sports expert. I own a world-class third-rate research institute and a fifth-rate sports stadium, yet all the big-name actresses come to me for fitness and weight loss, and all the star athletes come to me for professional training. It’s such a headache! Even worse, people have started asking me to be their godfather... I’m only in my twenties! A supposedly famous boxing champion comes in for a consultation: “How much do you charge for training?” “Our gym is running a promotio 0Votes136.9kRecs93.8kFans
- 114 Beauty and the Realm 江山美色 Mo Wu's new urban novel for 2020, Extreme Vigilance, is now available on Qidian. The characters' dialogue is witty and humorous, and the story is tense and tightly paced. All you generous readers are welcome to check it out. Thank you. He had thought being a bandit in troubled times was a promising career. He never expected to become a favorite of the imperial court, and the person Yang Guang trusted most. By the time he was wildly successful and ready to make his mark, he could only watch 0Votes2.8MRecs422.1kFans
- 115 Conquering Five Thousand Years 征战五千年 A mysterious tiger tally brought Li You to another world and gave him the ability to summon armies from across time. Beneath Hulao Pass, Li Yuanba hammers Lü Fengxian; outside Bianliang, the Qi Family Army crushes Wanyan Wushu; before Shanhai Pass, Huang Taiji is driven to exhaustion... Five thousand years of Chinese history: as long as I live, the battles will never cease. Five thousand years of war! With powerful armies gathered from different eras, Li You begins his own campaign for supremacy 0Votes138.5kRecs153.6kFans
- 116 Reborn: From Foot-Scratching Slob to Handsome God 重生之抠脚大汉变男神 As a successful, hairy, middle-aged man, he was reborn in his student days. Having to sit the college entrance exams all over again was bad enough, so why had the chest hair and leg hair he’d been so proud of vanished too? He’d even turned into a weak, pretty-faced boy. Life wasn’t worth living anymore. Er Bao’s completed novel: The Right Way for a Couch Potato to Make a Comeback Er Bao’s new novels: the urban story I Can Only Transmigrate Halfway and the contemporary story A Commoner in the Rep 0Votes364.4kRecs300.4kFans
- 117 The Materials Empire 材料帝国 Materials are the foundation of industry and the cornerstone of an industrial power. Qin Hai, a materials science expert from the twenty-first century, transmigrated to a small agricultural machinery factory in 1985. From then on, every regret would finally be erased, and every glory could be rewritten. Electrical functional materials, optical functional materials, biomedical functional materials, superconducting materials, nanomaterials, chemical thin-film materials, smart materials, sensitiv 0Votes521kRecs590.7kFans
- 118 Police Officer Han 韩警官 Back to 1996, with my memories in fragments, like Zhuang Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly. I remember things a little at a time, like squeezing toothpaste from a tube, and seize every chance to get ahead. We start from the same place, but our experiences differ. Follow Han Bo through his life as a police officer. 2Votes733kRecs498.4kFans
- 119 Reborn in the Late Kangxi Era 重生于康熙末年 Xiao Jiu's new book, My Father-in-Law Is Called Kangxi, launches on Qidian on May 1, 2022. He woke from a dream to find himself in the Cao family's Jiangning Weaving Bureau residence, three hundred years in the past. Kangxi was growing old, and great changes were on the horizon. The Nine Princes were watching, ready to make their move. Some families were flourishing, others were on the brink of collapse. The Cao family of Jiangnan was at the height 3Votes1.3MRecs350.7kFans
- 120 There Is a Sword in Kunlun 昆仑有剑 The Kunlun Sect is a classic bit of background scenery in all kinds of wuxia novels. It has produced cannon fodder, legendary martial arts, divine weapons, and miraculous medicines, but never a protagonist. Wang Qing only realized he was in trouble after arriving at Kunlun Mountain. Other sects have hundreds of millions of players. We’ve got barely two or three cats in Kunlun. How are we supposed to play? Other sects are charging across the battlefield again and again, while I’m stuck on the mou 0Votes134.6kRecs97.6kFans
- 121 The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest 凤回巢 Xiao Qing’s new book, Reunited with You, is underway. Readers, come on over! O(∩_∩)O~ Gu Wanning’s life was full of ups and downs. She experienced every hardship and enjoyed every luxury. At the moment she closed her eyes, exhausted in both body and mind, she finally found peace. Unexpectedly, when she opened them again... 0Votes601.2kRecs644.7kFans
- 122 A Quiet Life in the Boudoir 闺宁 Xie Shuning died. She and her young son died together in the third month of spring. But when she opened her eyes, she had returned to the day she first entered the capital with her mother. The sky was white with snow, and the road lay under a thick blanket of it. Her mother, who had died of sorrow in her previous life, and her brother, who had died young, sheltered her on either side. The carriage rocked beneath them, carrying them toward the nightmare of her past… 0Votes209.4kRecs302.4kFans
- 123 Super Training Master 超级训练大师 “Young man, want to make a name for yourself? Veteran, hoping for a second wind?” “Not fast enough? Not strong enough?” “Injured? The doctor says it could even affect your career?” “You don’t have a shred of talent!?” He held up a finger. “No problem!” As long as you play under Wan Sheng, every problem can be solved. This is the story of Wan Sheng, a generation-defining master of soccer training! 1Votes403.3kRecs166.2kFans
- 124 Fan Jin's Ordinary Life 范进的平凡生活 Transported into the world of The Scholars, I become Fan Jin in his younger days. Ha, I passed! 0Votes151.9kRecs83kFans
- 125 The Young Grand Secretary 小阁老 Standing before you is: The guardian of the Ming dynasty, the Wanli Emperor's close ally, the beloved son of the Grand Secretary, and the richest man in the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The hidden power behind thirty years of control over the Ministry of Personnel, the gravedigger of the vassal-state system, the second Yan Shifan in the eyes of the Donglin faction, and a man whom Zhang Juzheng hailed as invincible. Hai Rui's confidant, Xu Wei's patron, Matteo Ricci's spo 26Votes2.5MRecs1.7MFans
- 126 Lost in 1629 迷失在一六二九 You! Yes, you. Take a look at yourself. What can you do? What do you know how to do? If you were dropped into the year 1629, the second year of the Chongzhen reign in the Ming dynasty, in the age of Li Zicheng and Hong Taiji, could you survive? Without a golden finger, without a protagonist’s destiny, relying entirely on your own skills and knowledge, could you survive? The one stroke of luck is that you wouldn’t be fighting alone. Behind you would be a group, a community of modern people. Come 4Votes884.8kRecs229.9kFans
- 127 The Ambitious Hero of the Late Eastern Han 东汉末年枭雄志 The late Eastern Han dynasty in Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a tumultuous age of grand drama. There were valiant generals, brilliant strategists, cunning warlords, benevolent rulers, and alluring beauties. It was a world to dream of. But the late Eastern Han in Guo Peng’s eyes was cold. It was neither kind nor just, much less civilized. Danger lurked everywhere. He saw hunger, poverty, war, and plague. He saw bones strewn across the fields and not a cock crowing for a thousand miles. He saw 5Votes408.9kRecs519.5kFans
- 128 Striving in Dream of the Red Chamber 奋斗在红楼 In the winter of the seventh year of the Yongzhi reign of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the beautiful, haughty little girl Lin Daiyu has just entered the Jia household. A modern science graduate transmigrates into the body of Jia Huan, a bastard son in the Jia household from Dream of the Red Chamber. If he doesn’t want to be dragged down by his useless Jia relatives and have his family confiscated and his head chopped off, he needs to prepare early. This is the story of a bastard son making a comeback 3Votes1.7MRecs524.4kFans
- 129 The Superstar Family 巨星家族 Shen Qiushan, already past forty, unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world. When he wakes up, he discovers he was born into a dazzling “entertainment family”... His second younger brother is a singer, though he’s past his prime. His third younger sister is an actress, though she only gets bit parts. His fourth younger brother is a stunt double, though he never shows his face. His youngest sister is a livestreamer, currently an intern. And that’s not all. He also has a son and a daughter. H 0Votes296.5kRecs194.4kFans
- 130 The Immortal Court's Edict of the Dao 仙庭封道传 The young Su Ting carries Lu Ya's legacy as he transmigrates to a world of immortal heroes and myths. He forges the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and achieves a body of thunder and fire. He shakes the heavens above and strikes terror into the netherworld below. No god across the heavens dares offend him. “I have a blade that terrifies every god, demon, and monster throughout the Myriad Worlds!” 0Votes221.3kRecs176.5kFans
- 131 Sky Screen Divine Constable 天幕神捕 Lu Sheng acquires the Edict of Punishment and possesses a scholar returning home in glory. A dazzling martial world: who will rule its fortunes? You say your iron palms have conquered the world? Come on, take my Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms first. Sword immortals and sword gods, locked in a decisive battle at Jinling! How could the legendary Flying Immortal from Beyond the Heavens be left out? Punish the evil of this world and obtain peerless techniques! Li’s Flying Dagger is lost forever? One 0Votes194.9kRecs246.6kFans
- 132 EN Spy Across the Multiverse 诸天谍影 (Over ten thousand words every day, more prolific than a sow) The myriad worlds and espionage: two things that sound unrelated. How did they end up together? After their opportunities were snatched away, their legacies stolen, their beauties abducted, and all manner of other plundering, the myriad worlds finally fought back, launching an infiltration of the Temple of the Lord God behind the Reincarnators. As the first spy to infiltrate the Temple of the Lord God, I have to admit, I’m pretty nerv 0Votes462.9kRecs327.5kFans
- 133 Urban Hunter 都市猎人 Is the world really the way it looks to us? Among all living things, are humans truly the only intelligent species? We always think we understand the world, but do we really? In modern cities, there are always strange beings we know nothing about, and there are also hunters we know nothing about. Come and step into this book, and discover a different kind of city and a different collection of strange tales! 0Votes113.2kRecs197.5kFans
- 134 Splendid Tang 天唐锦绣 Transmigration can be a lot of fun, but when Fang Jun transmigrated into the body of his Tang dynasty namesake, a man practically glowing green from head to toe, he felt like his whole life had gone wrong... 23Votes1.4MRecs761kFans
- 135 The Ming Dynasty's Spoiled Brat 明朝败家子 Important notice: The Ming Dynasty's Spoiled Heir, also known as Ming Song. The eleventh year of Hongzhi. It was a beautiful morning. Zhu Houzhao had just come of age. Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu were sharpening their blades, preparing for the imperial examinations. The Little Ice Age had arrived, and its prolonged cold was ravaging the land. And at the Nanhe Earl's residence, Fang Jifan, the landlord's foolish son and the legitimate heir of the Nanhe Earl... began his shameless life of squanderi 14Votes4.4MRecs2.2MFans
- 136 Dragon City 龙城 In the age of mind control, powered armor has become humanity’s new body. People say steel forges the throne, but can impenetrable alloy armor protect a tender heart? With the rise of AI, new human citizens who pass the Standard Emotion Test begin to experience human joys and sorrows. How will they break free from the constraints of zeroes and ones? Across the boundless depths of interstellar space, warships advance beneath the light of blazing stars, while their pilots forge their own legends. 3Votes1.1MRecs321.9kFans
- 137 Special Incident Task Force 特殊事件专案组 “I’m just a scientist,” Monkey said earnestly. “At most, I’m a scientist who knows martial arts.” 0Votes458.5kRecs120.8kFans
- 138 Bright Moon Over the Warring States 战国明月 The sun and moon rush onward, never lingering; spring and autumn take their turns. Time turned back, and a minor civil servant was reborn in the Warring States period as Zhao, the Lord of Chang’an. As the queen dowager’s favorite, he could have enjoyed a life of luxury, tinkered with little inventions, and chatted merrily with the Hundred Schools 1Votes202.6kRecs148.6kFans
- 139 Transmigrating as Ning Caichen 穿越宁采臣 Ning Fei had a dream. He dreamed he was in Lanruo Temple, where there was a female ghost named Nie Xiaoqian, a big-bearded man named Yan Chixia, and a thousand-year-old tree demon... Then Ning Fei woke up and discovered that he had become Ning Caichen, dressed in white with long sleeves, like a scholar from ancient times! 0Votes235.7kRecs216.8kFans
- 140 Regent of the Ming Dynasty 摄政大明 He transmigrated and became a notorious, corrupt official. The people's curses, the Crown Prince's hostility, the upright officials' slander, the powerful ministers' exclusion... and an emperor intent on killing the hound once the hunt is over. The situation is dire, and the future looks bleak. This is where the story begins. 9Votes779.9kRecs275.5kFans
- 141 Disciplining the Song Dynasty 调教大宋 In the sixth year of Qingli, the Zhao Song dynasty was awash in song and dance. Then a madman arrived… He saw with his own eyes the Great Song's splendor, grace, and warmth. At first, Tang Yi just wanted to enjoy this era. The Jingkang Incident, the Mongol cavalry, none of it had anything to do with him. History would follow its own course, no matter how much he meddled. A thousand years later, China would still be China! It couldn't fall! But when an old man, worried for his country and its 2Votes1.2MRecs990.3kFans
- 142 The Night Emperor 夜天子 He inherits his position generation after generation, but is no prince. He comes from an illustrious family, but not one of the great clans. As a jailer in the Six Doors, all he wants is to pass down the iron rice bowl his ancestors left him, one generation to the next. But then a charlatan talks him into leaving his little corner of the world, and from that day on, a scourge is born. Yang Ling is known as Yang the Headsman, while Yang Fan is called the Plague Doctor. But he has many more nickna 10Votes2.8MRecs838.9kFans
- 143 Return to Song Times 宋时归 A legend. An adventure. Once again, a thoroughly satisfying alternate-history novel. Look forward to Angel Oscar’s latest offering for 2010. Officially serialized on January 1, 2010. 4Votes826.1kRecs396.2kFans
- 144 Reborn as an Ordinary Nobody 重生之俗人一枚 P.S. A big recommendation for my new book: Did I Really Become the Heir to the World's Richest Man's Fortune? In this vulgar society, if you want to live with dignity, you have no choice but to go along with the vulgarity! Before he was reborn, Wang Bo didn't quite understand that. So: His family fell apart! He lost his life! His wife wanted a divorce! After being reborn, Wang Bo finally understood this vulgar society! So he decided to be a happy, cheerful ordinary guy, make money, m 0Votes414.7kRecs290.8kFans
- 145 Showbiz's Strongest Brain 娱乐之最强大脑 At the Idiom Contest, he's a “living dictionary”; at the Poetry Contest, he's the “King of Poetry.” He's the “Top Brain King” on The Brain, and the “Invincible Champion” on Who's Still Standing? Time magazine says: “He's not only a holder of multiple Guinness World Records and a core member of Mensa, but also the nation's dream man: handsome enough to get by on his looks, yet determined to earn his living with his talent.” 0Votes170kRecs194.1kFans
- 146 The Great Wei Palace 大魏宫廷 New book, Zhao's Tiger Son. Born a prince of Great Wei, I would rather be an idle lord in an age of peace. My ambitions lie in wine, women, and song, but my heart holds the fate of my country and its people. If my elder brother is worthy, if my younger brother is wise, you can rule while I take it easy. But if you cannot make the nation strong, then I’ll ascend the throne and become emperor! Hongrun, You Can’t Do It, So I’ll Take Over 1Votes2.1MRecs1.1MFans
- 147 The Turmoil of the Qing Dynasty 乱清 A solitary lamp, A crescent moon hanging high, A beauty fair as jade, Rivers and mountains stretching for thousands of miles. A part-time guide at a small museum undergoes the most miserable transmigration in history. Returning from the dead and surviving against all odds, he vows to plunge the palace into chaos, topple the dynasty, and usher in an entirely new age, all by his own efforts Today I take up my mighty brush to rewrite the Spring and Autumn Annals. If the world is in such a state, wh 1Votes722.6kRecs312.7kFans
- 148 The Entertainment Industry's Golden Touch 娱乐点金手 Transmigrate to a parallel world, starting with those outrageous street-vendor ads! My new book, You Were Told to Write About a Deal, So You Made the Protagonist Sell Scrap, is now out. Please give it your support! 0Votes119.6kRecs174.3kFans
- 149 Invincible Iron Palm Wang Xiaojun 铁掌无敌王小军 Wang Xiaojun, the fourth-in-line heir to the Iron Palm Clan, does not believe that the martial world still exists in modern society. His greatest hope is to inherit the clan leader's position, sell the clan's courtyard house for a good price, and travel around the world. But things do not go as he wishes. The police, the Divine Thief Sect, and the Tang Sect all come knocking at his door. Only then does Wang Xiaojun learn that his sect holds an important position within the mysterious organizatio 0Votes596.2kRecs348.3kFans
- 150 Usurping the Qing 篡清 This is a pretty satisfying alternate-history novel... Well, it should be, anyway. 0Votes836.7kRecs938.3kFans
