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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- Shi Yiguang, the legendary beauty Xi Shi from the Spring and Autumn period, was betrayed by her lover Fan Li and drowned in a river after the fall of Wu, becoming a water ghost for a thousand years in complete darkness and isolation. A passing Goddess took pity on her and gave her a system named 001. The system’s mission was for Shi Yiguang to travel through different fictional worlds...
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- Qiao Nian: The protagonist, a survivor from the apocalypse who transmigrates into the body of a twenty‑one‑year‑old peasant woman in the Great Qian Dynasty. She is married to Li Yongnian and is the mother of four‑year‑old twins, Da Bao and Da Niu. She is resolute, resourceful, and fiercely protective of her children after discovering that her mother‑in‑law tried to sell them.Cui Shi: T...
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- In the third year of the Taiqing era of the Liang dynasty, the imperial capital Jiankang was besieged by the rebel Hou Jing. The city descended into a living hell of carnage and starvation, with aristocratic clans massacred. Xie Yuqing, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Xie clan, fled in a carriage with her younger siblings to save them. When soldiers came to capture her, she entru...
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- A 26-year-old female doctor from the 21st century awakens from a long sleep to find herself in the body of a 13-year-old girl named Yue Moyuan in a remote mountain area called Yunshui Wo of the Great Wu Dynasty. She suffers from leg injuries from a fall and is cared for by Granny Qin and her handsome grandson Qin You Shi, a straightforward young man with a sharp tongue. As she recovers...
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- Ya Ya is a five-year-old orphan living in Lotus Village, a remote mountain community cut off from the outside world after a disaster. The village suffers from a severe salt shortage, leaving its twenty-one residents weak, listless, and near death. Her foster grandmother Granny Liu is bedridden with a fever, barely conscious. Desperate to save her, Ya Ya clutches the small sachet her mo...
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- After her fall, Nian Shilan woke with memories of her previous life—a lifetime of scheming as a concubine in the Fourth Prince's manor, losing her child, and witnessing her entire family executed. She was sixteen again, before she had ever met Yinzhen. Determined to avoid the same fate, she initially planned to stay far from the prince and marry an official to live a stable life. But t...
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- Song Yaoshi, a modern PR department head who perished from overwork, transmigrates into the female lead of the angst-filled novel The Downtrodden Wife of the Black-Bellied General. She read the book in high school and clearly remembers the original plot's tragic trajectory. The heroine, born the beloved daughter of the powerful Imperial Chancellor, is deeply infatuated with the orphan...
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- Chou Chou, a little koi fish, transmigrates into a newborn baby girl in a novel where her entire family is destined to be tragic cannon fodder. She is born to Yun Jinglan, the wife of Su Junyao, the heir of Wen Yang Marquis. Her mother is grieving because her father seems cold and distant, having brought his cousin Zheng Shi into the household. On the day of birth, Yun Jinglan vows to...
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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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- Shu Yue died after being poisoned by her daughter, Cheng Hui. On her deathbed, Cheng Hui revealed that she was not her biological child but the daughter of Cheng Jing’en and Huang Fang. The babies had been swapped at birth. Shu Yue’s own son had drowned at three or four years old, and the entire Shu family, including her aging relatives, was poisoned together. Overcome with hatred and...
