Genre:Historical
Novels whose setting is in the past. Frequently these follow historical tales, sagas or facts.
World with kingdom setting that are not from actual history saga, tales, are not included.
Top Novel about Historical
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- Autumn of 1969, in Haicheng. An Min is reborn in the small house she shared with her fiancé Zheng Tianyou, just before their marriage registration. She remembers clearly how he and her stepsister An Lu schemed to seize her mother’s inheritance, a trap that led to her tragic death in her previous life. Now she sees through his false affection and refuses to marry him, claiming pre-weddi...
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- In a remote ancient village, Song Lian'er, a frail girl on the verge of death from illness and starvation, suddenly awakens on a broken bed. Her mother, Qiao Yunni, a crippled widow abandoned by her husband who never returned from army service ten years ago, kneels in the courtyard begging Old Mrs. Song not to drive her out. The accusation: Qiao Yunni stole a single steamed bun from th...
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- Xu Jingyang was the eldest daughter of General Xu. At fourteen, she disguised herself as a man and took her father’s place in the army. Over ten years, she won twenty-nine battles without a single defeat. She lifted a siege, captured enemy generals, recovered lost territory, and finally captured the enemy king alive, forcing him to shave his head and commit suicide, avenging the Empero...
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- Yuan Ziyou opens her eyes after a three-day fever to find herself back in her twelve-year-old body, in her old room in the general’s mansion. The moment she sees her maids Qingying and Qingzhi alive, and her mother and grandmother rushing to her bedside, she understands: she has been reborn into the past, carrying every scar of her previous existence. In that former life, her cousin Yu...
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- Wen Wan, a concubine in the General’s Mansion, overhears her mistresses discussing a Taoist priest’s prophetic pouch left after a ritual for the Old Madam. The priest wrote “Yin and Yang harmony, only then can one achieve lasting peace.” Wen Wan immediately understands this means the Old Madam should send women to the borderlands to bear the Grand General’s child. The ladies relay her...
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- At Tai Zhen Temple, three-year-old Yan Luo and her senior sister Chu Yue receive magical artifacts from Master Ziyang Daoist Master: a red Jade Plate bearing Koi Luck and a black one holding Yin-Yang Eyes. Both girls have been reborn. In the previous life, Chu Yue chose the black plate, but the Yin-Yang Eyes attracted fierce ghosts that drained her spiritual energy and lifespan, causin...
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- Sun Jian, a takeout deliveryman from modern Earth, dies in a car accident and wakes up in the body of a penniless scholar in the war-torn Great Qian Empire. The original host was weak, orphaned, abandoned by his fiancée, and nearly starved to death. Immediately after taking over, Sun Jian is forced by imperial decree to participate in a wife distribution for war widows. Every eligible...
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- Ruan Ningyu died as Empress Ningde, her demise celebrated by the nation. She lay on a zitan bed, clinging to life with the rarest medicinal herbs. In her past life, she was a beautiful but notorious empress, accused of colluding with sycophants and using her beauty to seize power. Among the countless crimes penned against her, eloping with Young Master Shen in her youth was a minor det...
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- Zhao Li, a modern elite special agent at twenty-eight, is betrayed by her own organization after a final mission and shot dead. She awakens in the body of Xiao Jiu, a sixteen-year-old girl sold for two taels of silver to become the stepmother of Gu Mohan, a widowed hunter with a broken leg. The family lives in the impoverished Xiaohe Village. Gu Mohan broke his leg in a fall while hunt...
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- Shen Fei, a 20-year-old chemistry PhD from the year 2280, time-traveled into the body of Sun Mengxia, a 14-year-old girl giving birth in a ruined temple during a rainstorm. The original owner died during childbirth, and Shen Fei woke up in agony, realizing she was now a mother. The infant boy was small and purplish, but alive. After fainting again, Shen Fei discovered her high-tech pla...
