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Restoring the Song Dynasty 绍宋
To inherit is to continue; to guide is to lead. In 1127, the Northern Song fell. Soon afterward, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amid great expectations, inheriting the Song dynasty and adopting the Jianyan era name. Yet within three months, Li Gang was dismissed as chancellor, Chen Dong was executed, Yue Fei was driven out of the army, Zong Ze was abandoned in the capital, and the plans to resist the Jin in Hebei were scrapped wholesale... After all that eff
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Conquering the Han 覆汉
Strive to make a name among the lords, if only to preserve your life in a chaotic age! As a posthumous child, Gongsun Xun received his guiding principles for life early on from his mother, who claimed to be a transmigrator. But after following the tide of history year after year, he began to realize that things were gradually going very wrong! This is the story of a man who is half native, striving amid a momentous age!
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Emperor of the Great Song 大宋帝王
If I have sinned, let the blame not fall upon the people of the realm. If the people of the realm have sinned, then the blame falls upon me! After a failed reign, Zhao Xin returns to the beginning of the story. Looking over the assembled court officials, he solemnly declares: “I have received the Mandate of Heaven. I am the king of all the people under Heaven and the emperor of all nations across the seas. You ministers shall bow your heads, receive this decree, and obey it without fail!”
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The Crowned Emperor of Tang 冠冕唐皇
In the fourth year of Chuigong in the Tang dynasty, Li Tong arrived in this world. A noble young master, handsome as jade, yet unfortunate enough to be born into the imperial family. A woman rules from the throne, and the Zhou revolution is underway. Either you are the meat on the chopping block, or you hold the knife. I will not let others claim the throne. I will shape a golden age with my own hands. A tale of remarkable figures and unrestrained verse, recounting sixty years of tumult from the
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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.
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I Found a Book of the Three Kingdoms 捡到一本三国志
In the ninth year of Yanxi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, nine-year-old Liu Hong caught a goldfish in the river. When he cut it open, he found a heavenly book inside, titled Records of the Three Kingdoms! And so, the Han Dynasty gained an entirely different Emperor Ling, and the world took a different turn.
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The Great Man of Northern Song 北宋大丈夫
… Later generations all said that the Great Song had no men of courage, and that was why it was a weak dynasty. Unable to defend itself, the weak Song clung to a corner of the realm, allowing the heartland of China to fall. This is a story about a great man striding across his age. This is a story about giving the Great Song a backbone. … Jue Shi's completed novel, Bringing a Warehouse to the Ming Dynasty, runs over five million
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The Dream of the Red Chamber: Founding Era 红楼之开国篇
I arrived fifty years early. The age of chaos is already upon us, and a new dynasty is about to be founded. Among the founding Four Princes, Eight Dukes, and Twelve Marquises of the Red Chamber, where should I stand? I shall ascend the throne and be crowned emperor!
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The Imperial Legacy of Northern Qi 北齐帝业
After an accident, a rising star in politics was reborn as Gao Wei, the famous good-for-nothing in Northern Qi history. The realm was now divided in three, the court was corrupt, and Northern Zhou was watching like a tiger from beyond the borders. With the difficulty set to hell mode, how could he get out of this?
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Zhao of the Warring States 战国赵为王
A soul from two thousand years in the future transmigrates into the body of King Xiaocheng of Zhao, Dan, in 260 BC. To escape the fate of becoming a stepping stone for Qin Shi Huang's unification of the realm, Zhao Dan decides he might as well take the burden of unifying the realm onto his own shoulders. But before that, Zhao Dan has an urgent problem to deal with. The decisive moment of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao is at hand. So should Zhao Kuo replace Lian Po or not? QQ reader
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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
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The Warlord of the Warring States 战国野心家
After transmigrating to the early Warring States period, he has no family name and a status so lowly, yet he dares to harbor ambition. To make that ambition a reality, he becomes Mozi’s disciple, then spends years enduring hardship within the Mohist school as he schemes to seize the position of Grand Master. Mozi passed down teachings but wrote nothing, so he compiles the Mohist Canon and changes it beyond recognition. Amid the rivalry of the feudal lords and the tumultuous age, he alone believe
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The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏
At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately
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The Great Literary Master 大文豪
After years of backstabbing in the cutthroat world of business and double-dealing over drinks, literary young man Chen Kaizhi returned to ancient times. Everywhere he looked, he saw song houses and taverns, glittering nightlife, talented scholars, and beautiful women. Well, none of that had anything to do with Chen Kaizhi for the time being. He was a poor young man with an awkward status. Watch as this penniless youth turns the tables and makes his way toward becoming a great literary master.
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Han Village 汉乡
We inherited the legacy of our ancestors, and it made China glorious for thousands of years. We accepted it all with complete peace of mind, never once considering returning to that age when they struggled desperately to find a way forward through slash-and-burn cultivation. Repaying our suffering ancestors and finding the true meaning of home through them: that is the story this book will tell. The web series “Tang Brick,” starring Zhang Jianing and Wang Tianchen, will be exclusively streamed a
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I Want to Become a Powerful Clan 我要做门阀
In the middle of the Western Han dynasty, the people were struggling to make ends meet, and the nation was in decline. Countless celebrated scholars cried out: "If Zhang Sheng does not emerge, what will become of the world?!" And so the saying went: "Zhang and Liu share the realm."
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The Han Legacy and the Noble Houses 汉祚高门
Shen Zhezhi arrives in the early Eastern Jin dynasty and takes over the body of a son from a powerful family in Jiangnan. He has ten thousand mu of fertile land, a fortune in wealth, and servants by the dozen. It’s an exceptionally privileged start for someone who transmigrates, but unfortunately, his father is a habitual rebel. The aristocracy flees south, the Five Barbarians wreak havoc across China: a dirge for the land of Hua Xia, a lament for the Han dynasty. The great clans can’t be truste
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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
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Elegant Dissipation 雅骚
He transmigrates to the forty-first year of the Wanli reign, hoping both to eat, drink, and be merry and to save the country by taking the most direct route. That’s right: this is a story full of zest and contradictions. The late Ming, Jiangnan, and the splendor of a world on the brink; the refinement of "The Roots of Wisdom" and the vulgarity of "The Plum in the Golden Vase"; an old monk in business and a famous courtesan worshipping Buddha. Yuan Hongdao savors tea and arranges flowers to expre
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A Top-Rank Scholar of Humble Birth 上品寒士
A seasoned modern-day backpacker transmigrates to the Eastern Jin dynasty, inhabiting the body of Chen Caozhi, a poor young man. His family’s farmland is about to be seized, and his virtuous widowed sister-in-law is being forced to remarry. How can Chen Caozhi overcome prejudice against his low-born status and change his fate, while protecting the interests of himself and his clan? Watch as this young man rises step by step through the rigid hierarchy of the Nine-Rank Official System, befriends
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I Want to Be Emperor 我要做皇帝
By the Mandate of Heaven, may the dynasty endure forever. I have drawn on the hard-won achievements of three generations and invoked the great cause of all under Heaven. With a three-foot sword in hand, I shall become ruler of all the world. The head of the Wiman king of Joseon now hangs above the northern gate of the Han capital. The Zhao rulers of Nanyue have surrendered their lands and submitted to the empire. The Central Empire, the Celestial Empire above all nations, is about to take shape.
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I Rule in the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋我为王
Reborn in the Spring and Autumn period as an illegitimate son of a noble clan, I was sent to live with the cattle and horses in the stables. Little did anyone know that this would lay the foundation for my hegemony. What does the partition of Jin matter? Watch as my Zhao clan takes its place! Laozi rides west on an ox, Confucius is full of ambition, and Wu and
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