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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- Shen Sangning, the former Old Madam of the Ningguo Duke’s Mansion, regains consciousness on her wedding night. The piercing pain from her waist jolts her awake, and she finds herself in a dark bridal chamber with a man on top of her. Shocked and furious, she bites his shoulder hard until she tastes blood. The man calls for a maidservant, and when the lamp is lit, Shen Sangning recogniz...
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- Wen Hao, the mute second miss of Wen Manor, is stabbed to death on a snowy street after seeking the truth about her elder sister's suicide from a former maid. A masked man dies with her, leaving her with only a glimpse of his eyes. She wakes from the darkness to find herself three years in the past, falling from a wall and landing in the arms of Prince Jing's son, Qi Shuo. The shock of...
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- Liu Wenying transmigrated from a modern nursing professional into the body of a destitute widow during a famine era. The original owner was sold as a child bride, married, gave birth to a daughter, and then lost her husband in a fall. Her in-laws called her a jinx, resented her for not bearing a son, and threw her and her infant daughter out during winter confinement. Penniless and hom...
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- On the day Gu Yanzhi returned to the capital after completing his southern inspection tour, he looked forward to seeing his wife, Shen Weiyang. He brought her a red coral hairpin, imagining the bright color would suit her. However, when his carriage arrived at the Marquis Wei Yuan Manor, Shen Weiyang was not among the welcomers. He found her in their courtyard waiting at the dinner tab...
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- Du Yu, a 26-year-old state-owned enterprise worker, dies when a runaway truck crashes into the bus he is riding, killing him instantly while everyone else remains unharmed. His soul floats outside his body, confused and alone. Two women in black and white work uniforms arrive in a battered flying minivan—Xie Jin of the Xie family and Fan Xiaoguo of the Fan family, the Black and White I...
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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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- 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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- Gu Jia Ning is reborn after a devastating past life, her soul bound to the Childbirth System that returned her to the moment she jumps into an icy river in 1973 to force her older brother to give his job to Wen Zhuqing, the intellectual youth she loved. In her previous existence, she married Wen Zhuqing, became infertile from the cold water, and was used by him for gain, leading to her...
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- Lin Xiaoxiao, a modern office worker who died after being hit by a car while working overtime, awakens in an unfamiliar antique bed. Initially believing she has been rescued by a wealthy tycoon, she soon realizes from the words of an elderly woman called Granny Gui that she is the Empress Dowager of an ancient palace, rendered disoriented by a recent high fever. Panic sets in when she...
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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...
