During the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang received multiple reports that Li Fan, the county magistrate of Fengyang, was extorting excessive taxes and living off the state while the people suffered. This top scholar, personally appointed by the emperor, had his integrity questioned, prompting Zhu Yuanzhang to investigate personally.... more>>

Li Fan was accused of blocking roads to collect tolls, arbitrarily imposing harsh taxes, paying lip service while disobeying imperial orders, inventing excuses, and extorting excessive taxes.

Tax collection had become so excessive that it felt like it had continued into the year 2050. The people of the Ming Dynasty had become impoverished, raising concerns about their ability to live well.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Today we will execute this treacherous official Li Fan. I doubt the Ming Dynasty can last two thousand years with such corruption.

Empress Ma: Li Fan is a crucial minister of the state! Ensuring the continuity of the Ming Dynasty for two thousand years!

Zhu Biao: Father, Li Fan only collects taxes from the wealthy, allowing the common people to live in peace and prosperity!

Zhu Di: Father, Li Fan helped me defeat the Franks and said we should collect taxes for five thousand years first! <<less

He was able to repeatedly reincarnate due to the effect of the Nine Lives Reincarnation Spell, which allowed him to have nine lives. After defeating... more>> the Hell-Blood Demon who drove the entire murim to chaos, the patriarchs of the Seven Great Clans betrayed him and killed him. Following that, he was reincarnated for the ninth time as Baek Mu-Gun. Now, his last journey across murim begins. <<less

A bloodbath takes Lu Qing's parents, but gives him the love of his life.... more>>

He is always willing to give everything he has to him, not wanting him to be cold or hungry.

The more he looks at his brother, the more contradictory feelings he has towards him.

How can he smell his brother's scent and feel restless inside?

A quest for revenge has left Lu Ziqu an orphan for the second time, but fortunately, this time he has Lu Qing. He is pampered even when he is naughty, and he is used to him even when he is naughty, because he is Lu Qing.

But... while watching his younger mentor having a good time with another woman, he felt a pain in his chest?

Is it possible that he is lovesick?

A pair of brothers who depend on each other for their lives, a unique love story between them, revolving around a fight in the forest. <<less

This is a story about love, friendship, ambition, betrayal and fearsome weapons.

The Snowblade Vagabond, Long Chengbi, along with his friend the Valleylord of Healer Valley, Xu Qiaozhi, are tasked by Dongfang Wuyou, the martial world alliance head, to kill the alliance head of the Thousand Demon Alliance. Along the way, Long Chengbi enlists the help of his friends, the professional killer Sima Xue, and the Head Chopping Xia Wei Kongkong. But there are many twists and turns that await them, as the situation becomes more and more complicated and unexpected...... more>>

This is the first book in the 50-book Snowblade Vagabond series by Hong Kong author Long Chengfeng. <<less

Thrown in prison and awaiting death for a crime he didn’t commit, Fan Kuzhu must now find a way to escape and find out who... more>> framed him. But when he gets out he learns that losing everything is just the beginning of his heartache. <<less

Confucius did not speak of extraordinary things, valor, rebellion, and spirits.... more>>

Analects, Xue Er chapter <<less

The Story of a Soon-To-Be God Of Food transmigrated into the world of Soul Land After his death, 5.000 Years after Oscar, the previous God... more>> of Food ascended alongside Tang San, the protagonist of Soul Land, and the rest of his friend.. <<less

After meeting his demise, Ye Ning finds himself in the body of a low-ranking official. However, he is far from unlucky. He has received an all-powerful system that will allow him to become the invincible Heavenly Official.... more>>

The only catch is that he must first succumb to death without committing su*cide.

Surely, that isn’t so hard, right?

But he soon discovers that this world is toxic.

Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty: “One glance at Ye Ning leads to a lifelong mistake. If he dies, I absolutely refuse to live.”

Immortal of the Upper Realm: “People in this world are mostly indifferent, only Mr. Ye has never abandoned me, so I will do my utmost to protect him.”

Countless people: “Anyone in the world can be dispensable, only Mr. Ye must be protected. He is a saint for all ages!”

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Ye Ning: “Please, can we not add any more drama? I’m almost invincible, why can’t I die yet?” <<less

A newlywed couple are mu*dered in their bridal chamber on their wedding night leads to open fighting between Ouyang and Sima Manors. Amazing Constable Shen Ying personally takes on the case.... more>>

A gold hairpin holds the key to finally exposing the truth of this mu*der case…

The Bloody Bridal Chamber is Book #4 of Hong Kong author Ximen Ding’s Amazing Hawk Constables wuxia mystery series. <<less

In this fifteenth installment of Long Chengfeng’s Snowblade Vagabond series, there is trouble in the Tang Sect, the famous hidden weapon and poison sect of... more>> wuxia novels from Bai Yu to Liang Yusheng to Gu Long to Wen Rui’an. Tang Zhi thinks himself smart, but he’s not selected as the Tang Sect successor. So he starts his own sect. Now the Tang family is pitted against itself, and the Snowblade Vagabond Long Chengbi and company are in the middle of it… <<less

A young man plagued by recurring nightmares finds himself visiting a blind fortune teller, who sends him to a world of martial arts that looks a lot like the wuxia stories he used to read.... more>>

In the sky of this world, a tome shines every now and then, revealing the hierarchy of mighty beings that seek power amid troubled times. Determined to unravel the mysteries of his involuntary journey and the secrets of the world he has ended up in, he endeavors to ascend the tome’s rankings, all while looking for a path back home.

Official Chinese blurb

Wandering the jianghu with a blade and wine, where beauties’ grace is filling one’s mind.

A youth, saber on his back and wine gourd at the waist, strides forth, yet the jianghu of his heart seems only more elusive;

With each flipped page of the Tome of Troubled Times, decades of nights soaked in rain pass over the jianghu.

As he suddenly turns to look back, he finds that the mortal world has shattered in his wake. <<less

That woman was a beautiful one.... more>>

That sword was a good one.

In jianghu, there were very many people that walked into Fu Wanqing’s line of sight, yet there was only one person that had truly fallen into her heart.

The Whitepath Alliance? The Head of the Demonic Creed? She didn’t care about those things one bit.

She wanted that sword, and the beauty wielding it even more so. <<less

Ye Kai, the protagonist of the second novel, is Li Xunhuan's apprentice.... more>>

He inherits his master's Little Li Flying Dagger. His best friend is Fu Hongxue.

The novel begins with the mu*ders of a notable martial artist and his family. Ye Kai and Fu Hongxue set out to investigate and solve the case.

During their adventures, they meet their respective romantic interests: Ding Linglin and Cuinong. <<less

Story Tian Sisi is the spoiled, only daughter of a rich businessman who dreams of adventures and of Qin Ge, a famous hero from the Meteor Clan.... more>>

However she is forced to marry Yang Fan, the son of her father's friend.

Sisi, who doesn't think highly of Yang Fan, opposes the marriage and wishes to roam the world and live the great adventures she dreams of. <<less

Beng San is a orphan, aside from his name he didnt remember anything else.... more>>

For years after he lost everything from the great flood, he only want to survive. But fate have different way for him.

One fatefull encounter (thanks to his stomach) change everything in his life.

Follow beng san as he travel around the world and face his fate. <<less

"...This is insane."... more>>

Join the former Heavenly Demon from the murim world, as he embarks on an epic journey through Greek mythology. Reborn from the abyss with immense power, he navigates a landscape of gods, monsters, and shifting alliances. This gripping saga promises grand battles, mystical powers, and captivating confrontations. <<less

Cultivating truth, uncovering true self. Those who achieve this are known as "True People", reaching their Original Soul and transcending life and death.... more>>

Record of Extinction Destiny, a guide to extinguishing destiny?

A time-traveling wanderer who stumbles upon ancient immortal techniques embarks on a journey of cultivation across countless worlds and realms. <<less

These series presented a beautiful dancer girl in a birthday-party of an old-man. But her presence was followed by another young mu*derous girl who was also very beautiful who wanted to kill the host party. But the young mu*derous girl didn’t know that the dancer girl had preceded her to kill her great enemy and then chased after the dancer girl who was escaping after succeeding to mu*der the host party.... more>>

In fact both of them had a bond that connected to a single one which was one as disciple and the other was the daughter of that person i.e a man whose his name was Pat-jiu Kiam-ong (Eight Handed King of Swords) Ong Han Cu who was a master and a father of each one of them and who had been mu*dered brutally by five people fraudulently.

After knowing each other through a fierce battle, the dancer girl challenged the young mu*derous girl to each other race in searching and killing the remaining of their great enemies.

On their way to fulfill their oath, the two met a young man who was valiant, in different times, different places, and different situations. This young man was able to tear down the hearts of these two girls. The mu*derous girl really fell in love but was ashamed to express her heart firstly to the young man because she was a woman, while the dancer girl actually also fell in love to the young man but because of an obstacle which had she already been matched with a young noble-man, then she tried her best to resist this feeling. <<less

The 13th generation disciple of the Great Mount Hua Sect. One of the Three Great Swordsmen. The Plum Blossom Sword Saint, Chung Myung.... more>>

After slicing the head of the peerless Heavenly Demon, who threw the world into chaos, he slept an eternal sleep on the peak of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. Jumping over a hundred years, he comes back in the body of a child.

But… what? Mount Hua declined? What the hell are you talking about!?

It’s only natural to want to live if you’re going broke.

“Decline? Even though I’m here? Who would dare!”

Plum blossoms eventually fall.

But when the cold winter passes and spring comes, plum blossoms shall bloom again.

“But I’m gonna die first before Mount Hua gets revived! If you’re gonna go bust, might as well do it right, you bastards!”

The beginning of the Plum Blossom Sword Saint, Chung Myung’s solitary struggle to save the thoroughly declining Mount Hua Sect. <<less

Storywise, this novel has initial premise for a duel between two swordsmen, Yan 13 and The Third Master of Xie Family (the title of the book is The Third Master). But then to make it a long story, the duel can't be happening at the first part. Then the sub-plots appeared and rolling continuously.... more>>

It's a good read from Gu Long, with his distinctive writing style. There're lots of betraying and plot twists in such a short novel, sometimes resulting in confusion for readers. The Third young master is a good character, with his personalities unravel mostly through other characters.

Long story short, the duel was inevitable. The surprise at the end of duel was made this wuxia story uncommon. <<less

Martial god Kang Hyun, born into a world where science and magic coexist, carrying memories of his past lives, dreams of a life of... more>> playing and eating. <<less

My second life as a fighting streamer!... more>>

Following his unfortunate death while setting up his first stream, Song Tae-min is reborn as Zhao Gangho in the wuxia world of Chinese martial arts! With his mysterious ability to stream his ancient Chinese life in the present time, he sets out to become both the greatest merchant and martial artist. <<less

I've ended up inside the novel I always enjoyed reading.... more>>

But, this is a side story that happens after the main story ends!? <<less

Baek Yigang is a son of the Baek Clan, one of the seven great clans of Zhongyuan. Afflicted with the Taiyin Qi Blockage, he is... more>> cursed with a shortened lifespan and the inability to collect internal energy. He had been peacefully spending the rest of his days indoors when he was ambushed by a group of masked people. During the ambush, he lost his servant who was like a sister to him. Chased by the attackers, Baek Yigang escaped through a secret underground path. When he came across a blocked path, he decided he’d at least die fighting and picked up a rusted sword that was stuck in the ground… <<less