Novels like The Northern Hero
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Northern Hero, best match first.
- 1 Blood Will Tell 将血 Have you not seen Han Zhongjun, who at twenty bound a captive and asked for a long tassel to seize the enemy? Have you not seen Ban Dingyuan, who led light cavalry into distant lands and stirred up the clouds of war? A true man should dare to face danger, not let his scholar’s robes ruin his life. With the nation teetering on the brink, urgent dispatches race back and forth without pause! Zhao Shi’s life was destined to be spent amid slaughter and bloodshed. From the vast northern deserts to the 0Votes501.5kRecs236.4kFans
- 2 The Broken Rifle Beneath a Horse's Hooves 马蹄下的断枪 In the Dark Ages, a man either dies on the battlefield or endures hardship in the countryside. Some rise to rule, while others remain unknown. Beneath the thunder of iron hooves, no one can stand apart. This is... the fate of men! In another world, a legend is told of the iron cross on the crown of the Holy Father King. His life is an immortal legend! (This is an alternate history set in a foreign land; everythin 0Votes10.2kRecs18.4kFans
- 3 Blood of Taiping 太平血 0Votes36.3kRecs25.9kFans
- 4 The Great Shun 顺明 A discharged soldier arrives in the Ming dynasty. While he was in the military, he was merely a noncommissioned officer. After leaving the service, he became an employee of a financial courier company. What can he do? Will he drift with the currents of history, or defy heaven, change his fate, and alter the destiny of this age... 0Votes562.7kRecs548.4kFans
- 5 The Revival of Shu Han 蜀汉的复兴 He transmigrates as Guan Yi, the grandson of Guan Yu, and transforms Shu Han into the Han Dynasty. 0Votes90.7kRecs55.6kFans
- 6 Ming Dynasty 1630 大明1630 Heroes rise from humble beginnings, turn the tide when all seems lost, shore up a tottering realm, and save the people from disaster. 0Votes155.2kRecs56.4kFans
- 7 A Farmer's Three Kingdoms 农夫三国 A struggling student from a poor, remote mountain region in western China, he graduated from junior high and, as luck would have it, transmigrated to the end of the Han dynasty, where he became a Yellow Turban rebel. With limited knowledge and ability, he can’t turn the world upside down, so he’ll just have to do his best to survive in these chaotic times. 1Votes197.4kRecs56.1kFans
- 8 The Sinister Hero of the Late Sui Dynasty 隋末阴雄 The son of a Sui dynasty merchant wore his legs out traveling to buy stock and shouted himself hoarse selling goods. He ran into officials and bandits while doing business, and after losing money gambling, got beaten until he regretted it. He tried the honest path and walked the crooked one. Since this damned world wouldn’t let him get ahead, he would conquer it and usher in an age of chaos. From then on, he was calculating and dark-hearted, a master of schemes who killed without hesitation: a s 0Votes123.8kRecs150.3kFans
- 9 Bounty Hunter 赏金猎手 Bounty hunting is a legal profession in that den of iniquity, the United States. Based in Chinatown and centered on Chinese Americans, this novel begins with a makeshift band of bounty hunters and opens up a mysterious, colorful, and magnificent world of professional hunters. For the law, for justice, or simply for the bounty. As long as the price is right, hunters fear nothing, even when facing master thieves and cold-blooded killers. You get what you pay for. A work by Xia Zhi. More than ten V 0Votes779.6kRecs148.4kFans
- 10 The Fog City Detective 雾都侦探 This book goes from heaven to earth, sees ghosts and toys with people, and includes counterterrorism, antidrug operations, criminal investigations, espionage, plotting, conspiracies, serial killers, sky-high heists, and more. The story is set in Europe. It involves no discrimination and has nothing to do with our country, so please don’t read anything into it. Also, the Xia-Ou continent may differ in a few minor details from the European continent as people generally understand it. Important: Do 3Votes741.3kRecs271.4kFans
- 11 Raise an Army and Seize the Tripod 纵兵夺鼎 In the fourth year of Zhongping, Yan Bei leapt into the rushing current of the world’s great tides. From then on, with the strength of his two hands and fists, he went from an ordinary ripple to a towering wave that churned the seas, striving to rise from obscurity and become a hero known throughout the land. - Readers’ group: Deer-Taking Marquis and friends welcome you with open arms. [102341981] - 0Votes65.9kRecs58.3kFans
- 12 Destroying the Ming Dynasty 诛明 His surname is Zhu. He lives during the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming. He thinks this is a peaceful era. He is wrong. He discovers that the only thing he can rely on is the blade in his hand. 0Votes245.3kRecs75.8kFans
- 13 China Chic 1980 国潮1980 (The author's previous book, I Got Kicked by Time, is complete.) What incredible miracles would a modern-day swindler, notorious for ripping off countless people, create if his soul suddenly transmigrated forty years into the past? What kind of life would he lead? It all begins in 1980, beneath the archway at Qianmen in the capital. It begins with an orphan named Ning Weimin, living in abject poverty... (Important: The main focus isn't collecting antiques, but speculation and business.) 140Votes722.4kRecs298.3kFans
- 14 Thunderclap 惊雷 “The world of espionage is fraught with danger. We must hear the thunderclap in the silence.” Yu Jingque, code-named Thunderclap, is like a spring thunderclap exploding in the ears of countless people on Ice City’s smokeless battlefield. He is a thorn in the enemy’s heart, stabbing them painfully from time to time while remaining nearly impossible to remove. When thunder shatters the pillars, heaven and earth change color. In the darkness that watches over the dawn, the thunder sounds first. 0Votes103.8kRecs92.5kFans
- 15 Conquering Heaven at the Dawn of an Era 征服天国之曙光时代 That year, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa had yet to reveal her captivating smile. That year, Michelangelo's David had yet to stand before Florence's town hall. That year, Martin Luther's earthshaking Ninety-Five Theses had yet to shock the papacy. That year, the Ottoman sultan who had conquered Constantinople was eyeing all of Europe. That year, the distant New World had only just begun to unveil its mysterious face. It was the moment when the lon 2Votes239.7kRecs53.2kFans
- 16 The Great French Literary Master 法国大文豪 Paris, 1860: the heart of Europe's literary and artistic world. This was the best of times. Hugo, Alexandre Dumas fils, Maupassant, and Flaubert were among the literary giants who appeared one after another, transforming Paris into a flourishing center of the arts. An impulsive transmigrator arrives in this age. With no other talents to his name, he puts his youthful literary enthusiasm to use by copying books. His fellow writers resent him for taking work away from them, publishers compete to s 0Votes47.4kRecs40kFans
- 17 Reborn in a Legendary Era 重生之传奇时代 Family, love, friendship, two sets of memories, one life. Watch as an unassuming student transforms in spectacular fashion and makes an extraordinary name for himself in the world of business, surrounded by powerful tycoons. 0Votes296.6kRecs171.8kFans
- 18 The Little Lord of the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋小领主 The Spring and Autumn period was the root of Chinese civilization. More than half of China's surnames took shape during this era, as did more than half of its idioms. The origins of our culture lie in the Spring and Autumn period... This history left us with one of the most magnificent legacies in human history. By chance, a man transmigrates to the Spring and Autumn period, becoming a minor feudal lord. He is lucky, for he has arrived in this great era... in the hegemon state, where he becomes 0Votes231.8kRecs146.9kFans
- 19 A Ming Dynasty Warrior 大明武夫 Zhao Jin had lived an ordinary life, never imagining that he would get a new beginning at the end of the Ming dynasty. He is determined to make a name for himself in history. With the spear in his hand, he will pacify a realm stretching ten thousand li. This is the Ming Dynasty Warrior. 0Votes181.3kRecs132.5kFans
- 20 Autumn of the Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen 崇祯十七年秋 In the Jiashen upheaval, the emperor died for his country, and Wu Sangui led Qing troops through the pass. As the realm descended into chaos and the barbarians sought to seize the imperial throne, could the land of Huaxia truly have no loyal subjects? Beneath the walls of Qingzhou, enemy troops laid siege to the city. He Tuo urged Wang Shiheng to surrender: “Wang Shiheng, give in! You’ve fought your hardest, and there’s nothing more you can do!” In the isolated city of Yangzhou, Dodo shot a surr 0Votes114.7kRecs41.4kFans
- 21 Make My Name Known Across the Land 明扬天下 In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen’s reign, the land was truly in chaos: hooves fell like rain, shouts rolled like thunder, and blood poured in torrents. The Central Plains’ mothers grayed with worry; in the spring boudoirs of Jiangnan, women gazed into the distance; in Hunan, children wept through the night. Farewells beneath the willows of their hometowns, generals’ eyes blazing with fury, and war banners snapping in the northern wind. Clouds of dust rose one after another as the land of Huaxi 0Votes463kRecs230.9kFans
- 22 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
- 23 A Life of Wealth and Glory 一世富贵 After transmigrating to the Northern Song during Emperor Renzong's reign, Xu Ping places first in the imperial examinations. But after offending the Empress Dowager, he is sent to Lingnan to serve as an official. Starting out as a minor border official, he rises step by step until he finally comes into his own, writing his own legend in the Song Dynasty. The Northern Song emerged from the chaos of the Five Dynasties, with the great aristocratic clans swept away. The gentry had yet to take shape, 0Votes542.3kRecs242.6kFans
- 24 The Clan Leader Has a Lot on His Plate 族长压力大 Some debts always have to be repaid. The sins committed by the first generation of transmigrators, for instance, can only be borne by the second. Gui Chongyang, a second-generation transmigrator, returns to Mu Family Village and sets out on the path to becoming clan head. Where are the legendary main and collateral branches, the clan elders, and the clan lands? There is a house: three thatched rooms. There is land: two mu of saline-alkali flats. And there are people: a houseful of old and young, 0Votes231.4kRecs86.8kFans
- 25 The Han Dynasty's Founding Emperor 汉世祖 Transmigrate into Liu Chengyou, the Hidden Emperor of the Later Han, and assist in founding the dynasty. Thereafter, while still young, inherit the newly established enterprise, preserve the fortune of its great expansion, and guard its unshakable foundation. P.S. If his father and elder brothers had not died so young, he might have become a Li Er reborn. 1Votes323.7kRecs267.2kFans
- 26 Tang Cavalry 唐骑 The gale rages, sweeping across ten thousand miles. Wherever the horses’ hooves tread, there lies the Great Tang! 0Votes401.3kRecs211.1kFans
- 27 Back to 2006 返回2006 The story of a failed author who goes back to 2006. After that... he stops being a failure! But he still thinks writing novels is a dead end, and keeps wanting to try something else. Then he actually does... 0Votes312.8kRecs206.2kFans
- 28 The Iron Bones of the Ming Dynasty 大明铁骨 “Throughout the 315 years of the Ming Dynasty, we never sent princesses to marry foreign powers, paid indemnities, ceded territory, or paid tribute. The emperor guarded the nation's gates, and the ruler died for his country.” Unyielding and iron-willed, only the Ming! The cataclysm of 1644 brought the Central Plains to ruin; our great lands were stained by foreign filth; the sons of Han swore they would never be slaves! In the thirteenth year of the Yongli reign, Zheng Chenggong launched his nor 0Votes195.8kRecs147kFans
- 29 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
- 30 Usurping the Tang 篡唐 Born into a world in turmoil, with a mysterious past. I never sought wealth and power, but wealth and power came looking for me... Come see a modern man’s tale set in the Sui and Tang dynasties! There will be grudges and romance, warhorses and weapons, and countless tales of passion... Geng Xin’s new novel for 2010, Usurping Tang, makes its grand debut. I hope you’ll enjoy it. 0Votes383.2kRecs379.6kFans
- 31 The Reclusive Boy's Completion Plan 自闭少年补完计划 This is a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic. The first fanfic young people should read; An EVA fanfic you can read a hundred times and never tire of; An EVA fanfic everyone should read at least once in their life; The most moving EVA fanfic; An EVA fanfic that grows up with you; An EVA fanfic that has influenced generations; An EVA fanfic that can cure addiction; An EVA fanfic that touches readers' hearts; An EVA fanfic you can't put down; The EVA fanfic that has sparked the most discussion; An EVA 0Votes107.8kRecs60.5kFans
- 32 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
- 33 I Walk Alone in the Martial World 江湖我独行 You can check out My Path to Crafting Artifacts in the Cultivation World. Zhang Fang only ever wanted to become a professional life-skill player. By a twist of fate, he became the counterfeit prodigy of Zhenyuan Escort Agency, one of the lowest-ranking forces in the martial world. And so the poor nobody embarked on a grassroots path that defied the heavens. 0Votes175.6kRecs144.3kFans
- 34 The Silence of Ten Thousand Chariots 寂灭万乘 Seeking the path to immortality and standing at the apex of the myriad heavens, creating achievements that will endure for ten thousand generations and passing down an immortal legacy. Tan Weiran asks only this: What use is immortality? It is better to embrace annihilation. Then slaughter all living beings and bring annihilation to the myriad realms! 0Votes320.6kRecs132.7kFans
- 35 The Han Songs of the Boundless Wind 长风万里尽汉歌 0Votes247.2kRecs120.5kFans
- 36 Conquering the World 席卷天下 At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, the warlords fought among themselves. How many heroic tales were merely struggles for power and profit, with the various sides attacking one another? They may have seen only the authority to decide life and death from a lofty position, but not the exhaustion of the nation's lifeblood. After the Sima clan usurped the realm, the War of the Eight Princes opened the gates for the northern tribes to descend south, and the Central Plains entered a dark age. Liu Y 0Votes254.8kRecs114.4kFans
- 37 A Common Soldier of the Northern Army of Eastern Jin 东晋北府一丘八 The wheels of history rolled past the magnificent era of the Three Kingdoms, and the Central Plains entered a peace unseen in a century. Everyone thought a golden age was about to arrive, but no one could have imagined that what awaited them would be a thousand-year nightmare the Han people would never wish to face. The Yongjia Disaster plunged the Central Plains into chaos, with tigers and wolves running rampant! The children of Huaxia wailed in pools of blood. Unwilling to live as slaves, the 0Votes1.1MRecs1.9MFans
- 38 The Fierce General 悍戚 I would gladly lead the finest cavalry under heaven across these vast lands. For a warrior, dying on the battlefield, wrapped in his horse’s hide, is a worthy end! In the name of Liu Chuang, imperial uncle of the Great Han, I will trample flat any obstacle ahead, be it a mountain of blades or a sea of fire! I am Liu Chuang. This is my story! +++++++++++++++++++++++++ The final installment of the Three Kingdoms trilogy, The Fierce Warrior, makes its grand debut in 2013. Let’s revisit that age of 0Votes834kRecs219.6kFans
- 39 The Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece 古希腊之地中海霸主 This is an age of rising powers: the vast Persian Empire, Sparta, a nation founded on military might, Athens, dominant in trade, up-and-coming Thebes, ambitious Macedon, the twin powers of the western Mediterranean, and the newly risen Rome... This is an age of brilliant generals: Agesilaus, Sparta's last great king; Epaminondas, the famed general behind Thebes' rise; Philip, the founding king who laid the foundations of Macedon's hegemony; Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse; and Camillus, the di 1Votes281.7kRecs123.1kFans
- 40 The Eagle of Humble Origins 寒门枭士 Splendor is about to take its final bow, while a poor-born youth quietly rises. Striding across time and space, a brilliant strategist plots for the realm. 0Votes1.1MRecs270.4kFans
- 41 The Southern Ming Continues 续南明 “The Great Ming has unified the four seas, surpassed the Three Dynasties and outshone the Han and Tang. Its reach extends to the ends of the earth, and all under Heaven bow as its subjects...” In the sixth year of the Xuande era, Zheng He set sail on his seventh voyage to the Western Ocean. He proudly proclaimed these words on the Stele of the Heavenly Consort’s Divine Manifestations. At the time, the might of the Ming dynasty was at its height. But by the end of the Chongzhen era, the great edi 2Votes722.2kRecs228.1kFans
- 42 A Prestigious Ming Clan 大明望族 Xiao Jiu's new book, My Father-in-Law Is Kangxi, launches on Qidian on May 1, 2022. As the saying goes, the Shen clan of the world comes from Wuxing. The Shen clan of Wuxing, the Zhou clan of Runan, the Gu clan of Kuaiji, the Li clan of Longxi, the Chen clan of Donghai, and the Zhang clan of Zhongshan are known as China's Six Great Clans. By the mid-Ming dynasty, the prestige of the great clans had long since faded. A branch of the Shen clan made i 0Votes234.6kRecs126.3kFans
- 43 Pure Yang 纯阳 The God of Death invades the vast world of immortal cultivation, wielding the laws of death and forming a burial ground, pressing forward step by step. Countless cultivators rush to the outer realms to wage war against the gods. Across the boundless land, who follows the true path, and who commands pure yang? 0Votes457.5kRecs142.9kFans
- 44 Back to My Boyhood 回档少年时 12Votes404.3kRecs506.1kFans
- 45 The Splendor of the High Tang 盛唐风月 I recall the glorious days of Kaiyuan, when even small towns held thousands of households. Rice gleamed with fat, millet was white, and public and private granaries alike were full. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan, the Tang Empire stood at the height of its power, and the capital, Chang'an, was the world's most prosperous city, bar none. Yao Chong, Song Jing, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Zhang Xu, Wu Daozi, Yan Zhenqing, Gongsun Daniang, Pei Min, Guo Ziyi... The skies of the High Tang were bright with stars. 0Votes50.6kRecs80.3kFans
- 46 When the Golden Scales Unfurl 金鳞开 A seasoned professional manager is reborn as Zhu Cilang, the last crown prince of the Great Ming. A soul that has never accepted defeat therefore sets off a storm to revive the Ming dynasty. From this moment on... The age when other peoples carved up the lands and seas is gone forever. The mighty Great Ming also needs more land to line up its cannons! 8Votes247.7kRecs196.5kFans
- 47 The Ultimate Prophecy Master 超级预言大师 Zhang Yang posts on Weibo and becomes an internet celebrity; he comments on a match and becomes a popular host; he takes up coaching soccer and wins a whole pile of trophies. Whatever the job, if it's related to soccer, he does it to perfection. A lot of people wonder how he became so successful. They just can't figure it out. Zhang Yang would never tell them the reason is... ahem. Anyway, this is the story of a soccer rookie who takes on the world of professional football with an overpowered ch 0Votes218.6kRecs89.8kFans
- 48 The Directorate of Ceremonial 司礼监 Never look down on a poor young man. My uncle is Wei Zhongxian. A masterpiece from Ao Gu, guaranteed. 1Votes584.3kRecs320.4kFans
- 49 The Hu Horse 勒胡马 The Battle of Ningping City marked the final chapter of the Western Jin regime. According to the history books, from princes and ministers down to officers and soldiers, all were slaughtered by the Hu army, and “not a single person escaped death”… No. Amid the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, a young man still managed to rise to his feet. Gripping a ruyi scepter, he smashed it hard against the Hu commander's forehead! As the Central Plains fell and the people fled south, in this hellscape 0Votes333.6kRecs115.3kFans
- 50 The White Dragon’s Winter Lord 白龙之凛冬领主 New book: The Evil Dragon's Record of Cultivation Dragon wings blot out the sky, and their breath freezes souls. Traveling bards sing of dragons' legends, while the will of winter endures forever. The main races include dragons, humans, barbarians, orcs, elves, dwarves, fish-men, naga, mermaids, ogres, demons, devils... The main locations include the northern ice fields, overseas archipelagos, the Underdark, the undersea world, the great glacier, xx, xxx, xxxx. The protagonist is a white dragon, 0Votes134.4kRecs212.2kFans
