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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- In the 38th year of Nanwu, a three-year famine leaves the land barren and the people desperate. Starvation drives the villagers to extreme measures, including cannibalism and the trading of children for food. In Hutuoya Village, seventeen-year-old Han Luoxue, eldest daughter of Han Mingyuan, the crippled third son of the Old Han family, becomes a target. Her grandmother, Old Madam Han,...
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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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- Su Nuannuan lived only twenty-three years as a devoted foodie, spending her life savoring delicacies and cooking across China until she died on a bus to a fishing village. She transmigrated into the Great Yin Dynasty as Su Mengnuan, the legitimate daughter of Duke Ping’s residence, who three years ago married Duan Tingxuan, the young marquis of Anping Marquis residence. Their marriage...
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- In the tenth year of Chun Jia, the second branch of the Ruyang Bo Mansion hosted a flower viewing banquet. A shabby carriage with a straw canopy and an old, mangy horse stopped at the entrance. The driver, an ugly, coarse old woman named Zhang Ma, refused to move and shouted at the steward. She announced that the madam and young master of the mansion were inside, demanding the main gat...
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- In Tai'an Year 12, Shen Xingnong, a sixteen-year-old peasant girl from Plum Blossom Village, lies on a long bench in the Futai County yamen, receiving five strokes of the board for daring to file a lawsuit against her great-grandmother, Li Shi. Li Shi, along with her granddaughter Shen Mingzhu, insists that Xingnong and her mentally unstable mother are "vile bastards" whose presence in...
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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...
