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A Good Husband in the Ming Dynasty 明朝好丈夫
I know things, I'm cultured, I can heal, and I can kill. I'm passionate, wicked, powerful, and damn impressive. I'm a Brocade Guard, a live-in son-in-law, an imperial bodyguard, and the crown prince's mentor. I'm just me: a good husband and a powerful minister. I made the Zhengde era more colorful and more exciting.
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The Eldest Daughter 长嫡
The Xie family is scheming to claim the Fu family's century-old fortune. Marquis Fu is scheming for power and a bright future. In her dreams, she is a discarded pawn, sacrificed in their power game. Her mother takes her own life by jumping into a well, and she is hastily married off to the Lu family's impoverished son, a man renowned throughout the land. Yet she dies young, in the prime of her life. When she opens her eyes, she lets out a cold laugh. You'd all better repent!
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The First Virtuous Wife 第一贤妇
She can be a capable wife who manages the household finances, or a fierce shrew who can fight and shout in the street. She can even be both a guy pal and a girl’s best friend. Like men? She’ll help you find a lover and sneak off for a secret tryst. Want children? She’ll help you take in concubines by the dozen, and she won’t get jealous. … Jian Ying’s goal is to become the perfect, one-of-a-kind wife who can do it all! She thought that as long as she had a proper title and status, plenty to eat
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Reborn: Wen Wan 重生之温婉
After being reborn in ancient times, she not only became mute and unable to speak, but was also disliked by her grandmother, unloved by her father, tormented by her stepmother, and branded an inauspicious person who brought misfortune to her father, mother, and entire family. Faced with all kinds of hardships and difficulties, she rose to the challenge and resolved them one by one. Poisoning, assassinations, and framing followed one after another, yet she remained fearless. She had originally wa
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- 5 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
- 6 Divine Radiance 神煌 Zong Shou awoke from a dream to discover that he had transmigrated to ten thousand years in the past, an era just before the God Emperor was about to emerge. What is a God Emperor? An invincible ruler across the six directions and eight wildernesses of the universe, lord of millions of worlds in the ten directions! As a half-demon, Zong Shou began struggling to survive and find his footing in this bloody and merciless age, where heroes rose in great numbers, embarking on a life that would place 2Votes1.2MRecs525.1kFans
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The Yi Cauldron 易鼎
Dragon aura is the fundamental principle of humanity. An accident brought him back to this world, eighteen years in the past, accompanied by a shattered soul. It was a time of breathtaking landscapes and rival heroes, when the vast land awaited the one who would rule it. With the secret art of dragon aura, he breaks through the limits of his destiny and sets out to “change the dynasty.”
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- 8 Su Can's Journey Through Time 苏灿的时光羁旅 Su Can returns to a summer from years ago. The key question isn’t how he will adapt to this fresh start. It’s that, come tomorrow, the entrance exams will arrive whether he’s ready or not, leaving him no choice! Having crossed the boundaries of time and space, he stands on this side of time, facing a past that once brought him to tears. How will Su Can reclaim his lost chances, one step at a time, and soar like an eagle through this era, carving a brilliant arc across the sky? 0Votes843.5kRecs572.4kFans
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The Outsider 间客
There are two things that deeply stir the human soul: the lofty moral law within us, and the brilliant starry sky above us., Kant When Xu Le looked away from these words and saw for the first time the countless stars scattered like sesame seeds beyond the dust, he wasn’t moved. On the contrary, he was furious: the stars beyond the District’s sky were so dazzling, who could stand it? Being blinded by their light every day would turn him into one of those feral cats on the mining roads, brain-fri
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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
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The Finest Houseboy 极品家丁
[How to read this book: Take your cue from Flirting Scholar!] A young sales manager has an accident and ends up in a completely different world, where he becomes an honorable... servant in the Xiao family mansion! Spring arrives late at dusk, Yet comes before the flowers know. Year after year, peach trees are planted, Blooming when hearts are breaking. “Peach Blossom Poem”, it belongs to Third Brother!
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The Convict 刑徒
The Chu-Han Contention. Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to rule?
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The Struggle for the Throne of Chu and Han 楚汉争鼎
A veteran of the People's Liberation Army nicknamed “The Butcher” dies in a border conflict. His soul transmigrates to the era of the Chu-Han contention, where he becomes Xiang Zhuang, cousin of Xiang Yu. By then, the struggle between Chu and Han is nearing its end, and Xiang Yu is already backed into a corner. At the Battle of Gaixia, a hundred thousand Chu troops are wiped out, and Xiang Yu takes his own life at the Wu River. Xiang Zhuang is entrusted with command in this desperate moment, b
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- 14 I Rule Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms 三国之蜀汉我做主 This is the story of Liu Feng kicking Liu Bei aside, going it alone to build up Shu Han, and rising to achieve hegemony. PS: New book: The Later Three Kingdoms: Slay Deng Ai and Revive the Han 0Votes280.3kRecs389.5kFans
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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
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A Joyous Match 喜良缘
Reading people's expressions and getting along with everyone? That's our strong suit! Playing dumb and pretending to be a fool while secretly outsmarting everyone? That's our specialty! So what if I transmigrated into the body of a lowly, unloved concubine's daughter? I'll borrow the east wind, secure a match as precious as gold and jade, and live a life of glory and freedom!
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A Match Made in Heaven 妙偶天成
(Published in both simplified and traditional Chinese editions.) The Fourth Miss of the Zhen family was competitive, selfish, and vain, and she went to great lengths to scheme her way into falling into the water alongside the heir of the Duke of Zhenguo's family. Then, after Fourth Miss Zhen fell into the water, a clueless little foodie transmigrated into her body… This is not a traditional tale of household power struggles. The heroine i
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Reborn as Wu Dalang, Taking the Song Dynasty by Storm 重生之武大郎玩转宋朝
Wu Zhi takes on the identity of Wu Dalang, bringing to life one stirring tale after another! A blood-forged manor, the age-old feud between the Song and Liao, a life of thrilling adventure, and beauties rushing into the fray! Read The Legend of Wu Zhi, Noble King of the Great Song! Parts of this novel draw on historical facts, but it is an alternate history and not intended to be rigorous. There's no need to scrutinize it too closely!
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- 19 The Song Dynasty's Illegitimate Son 大宋私生子 “Welcome to the Song dynasty. Here you'll find Su Dongpo's poetry and Li Qingzhao's lyrics, the mighty winds of the northern frontier, and the misty rains of Jiangnan.” “Can't you tell me something else?” “Are you even a man? You're not interested in any of that? Fine, I'll tell you something else. Here you'll find the righteous crying out in fury, treacherous ministers laughing wickedly, and powerful emperors. There are the Khitan palace guards and the Western Xia's iron hawks. Corpses choke th 0Votes65.3kRecs88kFans
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Korean Entertainment: Intertwined Light and Shadow 韩娱之光影交错
This is a story about encouraging people to study hard and keep striving every day... Doing bad things is wrong...
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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
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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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