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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- 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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- In the second year of Yongzhao, Xingyuan Prefecture, a woman named Shen Qing, formerly Imperial Concubine Chen of the reigning emperor, is quietly released from the palace. The young emperor, deeply devoted to the empress, dismisses his harem, and Shen Qing is given a new identity: Su Ningxin, the eldest legitimate daughter of the third branch of the Xuanning Marquis Manor. This identi...
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- Meng Tingyue, daughter of the Meng family, lost her mother at age six and was raised by her stepmother Madam Meng and stepsister Meng Qingjiao. In her previous life, Madam Meng and Meng Qingjiao conspired to switch marriage partners on the wedding day, forcing Meng Tingyue to marry the ailing Fifth Prince while Meng Qingjiao wed the Crown Prince. Believing the Fifth Prince’s promises,...
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- Chu You, once the abandoned ninth miss of the Chu manor, assassinates He Mingwu in the Pear Garden of Qinghua Alley using two silver needles, one piercing his mute point and the other striking his heart. As the audience erupts into chaos, she calmly blends into the fleeing crowd, but is intercepted by Prince Yi, Feng Yin, and his attendant, Wu You. Feng Yin confronts her about the murd...
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- Su Wanyan originally Su Qin a modern medical student transmigrates into the body of a concubine's daughter forced to marry the paralyzed Prince Gong Yu Nanqing as a substitute for her sister She awakes from a hanging suicide attempt in the wedding chamber kills a man sent to dishonor her and flees to the prince's isolated courtyard There she discovers Yu Nanqing severely neglected emac...
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- Wu Ming, a formally trained chef working as a second-stove cook, fails to be promoted to head chef and resigns in anger. He returns to his grandfather Wu Zhenhua’s long-closed “Chuan Flavor Restaurant,” a small shop that has been shuttered for a year after his grandfather fell ill. Against his parents’ wishes, he makes a six-month agreement to revive the business on his own. While clea...
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- The story opens in a famine-stricken village during a fierce windstorm. Granny Wei, wife of Old Man Yu, finds a three-year-old girl lying dazed on a dry rocky beach at the foot of the mountain. The child, who has floated down from the upper reaches of the nearby river and suffered scrapes from the rocks and damage to her memory, can recall only her name, Xing Xing, and a vague sense th...
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- General Duan Qingfeng, still wearing his bloodstained armor, storms into the imperial court carrying a heavy black coffin and demands that Emperor Gu Rongzhan reinvestigate the death of his sister, Consort Ying, who died in the palace while pregnant. The emperor coldly refuses, insisting she died of illness, and a tense confrontation erupts. Suddenly, an infant’s cry echoes from the co...
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- Ling Chuan, a Special Forces King from modern times, dies covering for his comrades and wakes up in the body of Ling Erdog, a bullied private in the Great Zhou border army at Wolf Beacon Pass. His parents died in war, and he has served three years, only to have his military merit stolen repeatedly by Corporal Liu Wu. On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, a blizzard rages....
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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...
