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In the great dynasties of China there are many tales of corruption, espionage, and intrigue, but perhaps no tale is more intriguing than the rise of China's first and only female Emperor, Wu Zetian (624-705) .In the hierarchies of Imperial China, there are many who call themselves empress, and there are many who held sway over their weak-minded emperor husbands, but only Wu Zetian reached the pinnacle when at the age of 65 she usurped her son and became the undisputed Empress of Tang Dynasty China.Empress Wu Zetian was the only female emperor in Chinese history, honored as the Holy and Divine Emperor of Wu Zhou. Her original name was Wu Mei Niang, and she changed her name to Wu Zhao after ascending the throne.She entered the palace as a concubine of Emperor Taizong of Tang, but she had a close relationship with the future Emperor Gaozong, Li Chih. After Emperor Taizong's death, she entered the Gan Ye Temple and became a nun. The power struggle in the harem brought her back to the palace, where she successfully eliminated her rivals and was made Empress in 655. She participated in politics and was known as the "Two Saints" along with Emperor Gaozong. After Emperor Gaozong's death, she controlled the government. In 690, she ascended to the throne and proclaimed herself the Holy Emperor, changing Luoyang to the Divine Capital and the country's name to Zhou. This period is known as the Southern Zhou or Wu Zhou in history.This book starts its plot from the time when Wu Zetian was constrained in Gan Ye Temple after the former Emperor (Taizong) was deceased and how the new Emperor (Gaozong) brought her to the court again. Later, she gradually realized her dream of becoming the most powerful woman in the palace through bloody struggles and bold strategies.She had outstanding abilities in governing the country, but in the power struggle within the palace, she showed an extremely cruelty, being ruthless and killing innocent people. In order to clear obstacles and eliminate political enemies in the struggle for imperial power, she carried out bloody killings time and time again, not even sparing her own descendants.

This is a love story between two men from two well-known families engaged in tea business. Shrewdning Wong, the influential female manager of tea business of the Fangs, sets fire to the mansion and kills the parents of Geson Fang. As a result, Geson becomes the crippled puppet head of the Fang family, and he is determined to fight back and awaits an opportunity. He, however, has to cut himself off Gem Fore for whom he has had affections since his childhood because he does not want to get his sweetheart involved with his revenge. Gem becomes the substitute for the bride, who should have been his younger sister in an arranged marriage, and marries Geson. Since then their love has grown deeper and deeper. Moreover, Gem assists Geson in bringing Shrewdning down. At last the couple have a happy ending.

The story happened about one hundred years ago in a remote small town. In the town there was a hostel run by the owner and his wife and only another staff who acted as a manager, a cashier, a cleaner, a chef etc. The staff was an intelligent and vigilant person, his name was IntelligentOne Wang. In one rain night a guest came in with a worn-out thick pelt hat, a dirty black cotton padded jacket, a working apron around his waist and a pair of straw sandals covered with mud, a broken umbrella and a small cloth package. IntelligentOne Wang noticed the guest took a pile of cash, silver coins and gold jewelry out of the package in the room, hid the wealth under a remote corner of the bed. He framed the guest up as a sorcerer of White Lotus Society with three paper dolls and let the guest's heart and liver be cut out while he was alive. IntelligentOne Wang took all the wealth left by the guest, about thirteen thousand dollars, sneaked out of the town and into Shanghai with a new name of BrilliantTalent Wang as a rich gentleman. The guest made a swear before he was executed:" Though I will die, my vengeful ghost will climb out of my grave in daytime, I will find my enemy and claim his life!" The words were nailed down into his mind and became an indelible memory. Could he keep his wealth? Could he keep his life? Could the murdered kill his murderer in the end?

The last memory she had was that she inhaled toxic gas due to the betrayal of her companion in a covert assassination, WateryJade Li heard someone was yelling, partly opened her eyes, noticed everything was unfamiliar, before she could open her eyes fully, she felt something was forced into her brain and heavy about her head, then fell into sleep again. When she opened her eyes again, she noticed people around with shattered clothes of ancient time, why she was in the place of an ancient time, then she realized she had a time travel. A young maidservant called her Princess, as she did not know much information about the princess, then she pretended had a percussion, thus she could forget every related information. Before she could get her body recovered a bit, she heard galloping sounds of horses, people around began to scatter and run for lives, a batch of soldiers were chasing to kill with arrows. She bumped into her future bridegroom Prince Qi when she was straggling the head of the soldiers within a forest, then they together came across the bullying of people by the daughter of a castle owner, then a group of assassins with a blue fox head tattooed on their buttock, then an assassination by people and a pack of wolves in Royal Palace, then an illusory maze set up for her by someone, could Consort WateryJade Li survived the whole process in a time when people were treated as grass and butchered like pig and sheep with another person's body and mission?

ForQualification Yang tried very hard to accomplish his dream to become an official. He tried with every means available to him, through repeated setbacks, finally his dream came true, he became the chief of the Logistic Department from a driver and then a confidant of a director. When he was riding on the crest of his success, he went to prison for himself and the director for taking bribery. When he was released from prison, he found his wife had already slept with Director ForGood Dong, after thinking the whole thing over, he made up his mind to rip off the sanctimonious cover of ForGood Dong and expose his crime of taking bribery....

East Capital is buried more than eight meters deep under current Kaifeng city in Henan Province of China based on archaeological evidence. As the biggest capital in the world around 1120 AD with about 1.5 million people, the book described the capital from various angles about its location, rivers, people, Emperor, royal palace, custom, festivals, honor of guards and garrison armies etc. It was one of the best books telling about the capital. It is very interesting for us to know if one opens a shop in nearby place, he only comes to your place for two to three times as your customer, then you dare to let him take liquor away from your shop with silverware costing about several hundred taels of silver as one tael of silver could buy sixty kilo rice at the moment. Everyone in his profession had to wear a uniform representing his career, even a beggar had to follow the rule. Of course if one pays attention to what you read in the book, you will know there are so many restaurants and brothels in the capital, and other many interesting things...

Late in night a sharp knife was pierced into the heart of an investor from other place by a mysterious killer, police had put all its efforts to solve the case without making any progress. From then on many dead bodies were left in street by the mysterious killer with a knife, and people in the city were scared by what they heard about the cases. Instructor FineElegance Li of the group of the criminal investigation of the municipal bureau of public security just joined the group to solve the case, but the sharp knife was pointing at his heart, through his own vigilance, courage and fight, he barely missed the knife, thus he could continue his investigation. At the same time he found there is(are) a mole(moles) inside the bureau... Under extremely difficult situation, he focused his attention on the cases as hard as he could, he persisted in his investigation despite various interference, in the end he found the identity of the killer, after a life or death fight, he caught the killer, exposed the evil and the corrupted behind the killer. The truth is really unbelievable...

From soil to cloud, from valley to peak,From dark to bright, in this complex and changeable world,What one could take as life,What one could take as an enlightenment.The story revolves around two characters: Guang He and Sheng He: Guang He was abandoned by his mother and abused by his stepmother when he was a child, and after he grew up, he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for injuring a person by mistake, and after his release from prison, he searched for the road to redemption; Sheng He was born in the darkness, but preferred to be bright, and was trapped in the valley, but his heart belonged to the mountains; she is a ray of light that shone through the jungle when Guang He sunk in the darkness of the fog, and she is a resilient straw when Guang He plunged into the dangerous shoals. She is a soft straw when Guang He falls into the dangerous shoals of the rapids. Do people who have made mistakes deserve to be forgiven? How can the goodness drowned by the prejudices of the world seek redemption?Please don't let your words become the knife that kills.How to achieve salvation for others and salvation for oneself?Who pays for the sins of all?

On the way to the imperial power, is it calculating and weighing each other's suspicions, or is it true love that promises each other, the emperor and the queen travelling together?In order to avenge her mother's death, LINGYIN disguises herself in the palace as a queen and nearly loses herself for the emperor's love.They once drank alone on a moonlit night, and he invited her to watch the mountains and rivers with the promise of the mountains and rivers; they also pretended to be an ordinary couple, travelling to the lantern festival and enjoying the scenery together.However, the deep hatred has become an obstacle between them.The time will come when the pleasure of life will come to an end.She planned a storm, abandoned her husband and children.Returning to the palace, she was forced to be a servant girl and lost her dignity.She used her warmth as a blade and stabbed him all over his body.The emperor and the queen hurt each other, when the curtain fell -He said: "The ministers advise to severely punish the chaotic party, beheading in the chaotic city to warn others, will you blame me?"She said, "Even if I become a lonely ghost, I am not willing to enter your dreams."

Fortunes of Officials is a story about the whole process of StrongIdeal Gao to become the most powerful person-- the secretary from deputy secretary of municipal committee of Near Violet City with a population of seven million people and to resign from the post. Like other place, Near Violet was filled opportunities, restlessness and uneasiness in the transformation period. As the most powerful person in the city, StrongIdeal Gao had to face various enticements and schemes and sufferings, but he withstood various challenges, took the great opportunities of the Reform and Opening Door Policy, and made a great contribution to the economic development of the city under the tenet: As the most powerful person in the place, local people must benefit from his performance, thus he was well loved by the people of the city.

The book collects 6 short stories with themes from love to life, which demonstrates people's struggle against the life, society and other pressures. Through this book, you can grasp a basic understanding of Chinese people's lives, their challenges and tenacity.This first short story happens in the era of the Republic of China. A girl named Vainhope falls in love with a married man named Mirage. Her affections for him are deep and strong even at the expense of losing her reputation. The passion, however, can't last long and it is sublimated into the devotion to the Revolution.The second story happens in two college girls' friendship blossoms into love but the socially unacceptable relationship has to break up. Affections end up with agony. Reching's parents convince her to marry a man, leaving Lish with a broken heart.Other stories tell the difficult situation of underprivileged Chinese student in Japan or describe the conflict between an intellectual husband and his peasant wife, and their eventual mutual understanding.However, not all stories have beautiful endings. Sometimes, tragedy is more common. How do Chinese lives look like in previous years? If you have such a question, this book is your best option.

In an isolated mountain-top villa, guests mysteriously vanish from locked rooms. Bizarre occurrences follow in rapid succession. Doubt, suspicion, and panic ensue, as each individual seems to harbor a secret. Every person becomes a suspect. With police intervention, the murderer is believed to be among them in the villa. Despite the investigation hitting several roadblocks, detectives, tracing the most minute clues, eventually uncover the concealed truth.

In an exhilarating tale of love and triumph, a psychologically burdened sharpshooter and a headstrong sports anchor find their paths intertwined on the competitive stage.Austyn, a gifted marksman, had been haunted by a tragic childhood incident that left his mother in a vegetative state. Through grueling training, he honed his skills to become an infallible sharpshooter. Yet, with every shot, he battled guilt and inner turmoil, maintaining a distance from the female protagonist due to a misunderstanding.Emily, a sports anchor of exceptional caliber, harbored secret feelings for Austyn. Her past heartbreak in high school left her with a stutter whenever she faced him. As a newcomer to the workforce, Emily encountered challenges but overcame them one by one.Through a series of heart-stopping competitions, their hearts gradually drew closer. Emily conquered her stutter through live streaming sports events, ultimately helping Austyn overcome his psychological barriers. Together, they ascended to the champion's podium, hand in hand.

A formidable woman warrior faced adversity, her fortunes turned unexpectedly, and she found herself recast as the most blessed "Cautious lady" in history. Determined to assert herself and make a new start, she inadvertently provoked the attention of the most "formidable" individual in court!Prime minister: Do you wish to become my bewitching princess, my dear?Cautious lady: How could I dare to refuse... One of the high points of this book is its intriguing character conception: a general's daughter + a prince's strategist + a king. The heroine navigates her way to survival in ancient times using modern thinking, eventually becoming a woman strategist. In the process, she recognizes her wisdom, fosters a spirit of gender equality. It underscores that our heroine remains unbowed and unyielding, unencumbered by feudal etiquette, her authentic self shining through.In terms of plot, both the male and female protagonists bear the weight of restoring their country and seeking revenge. Their partnership as a warrior and a cunning strategist is persuasive. The resistance they face from royal families of different nations further amplifies the tribulations of their destiny. In the end, they attain their rightful positions and become a couple, bringing the tale to a satisfying conclusion.

Joseph and George were once university classmates. Back then, Joseph was the prodigal sun, shining brightly for all to see, while George was but a commonplace student. In a twist of fate, George stumbled upon a fragment of a photograph featuring Joseph. From that moment, a silent, one-sided love was kindled, a flame that would burn quietly for a decade.

An ill-fate lady's love story……The protagonist of this book is He Mengxia, a primary school teacher. He lived in the home of a distant relative, Cui Shi, and also served as a tutor of his family. He Mengxia and Bai Liying fell in love from admiration. However, this is a love that is doomed to be hopeless. Due to her frustration, Bai Liying introduced her sister-in-law Junqian to He Mengxia and forced them to marry by using "the scheme of grafting trees and removing flowers, and the scheme of replacing Li with a stiff peach".He Mengxia, resided in the distant relative Cui's home and also served as the coach of his family. Cui's widowed wife, Bai Liying, came from big family, and her son Penglang was couched by He Mengxia. Bai Liying felt sorry for her dead husband. On one hand, she killed herself in order to cut off He Mengxia's feelings for herself. Junqian was a new woman trained by the school. She yearned for free marriage, and was not satisfied with her widowed sister-in-law's arranged marriage. Later, he found out the love between Bai Liying and He Mengxia and felt that she had killed Bai Liying, so she also killed herself. He Mengxia also wanted to die for love, but thought that a true man should die for state affairs, so she went abroad to study and participated in the Wuchang Uprising after returning home and at last he died for her country.

FineElegance Li is a protagonist in a series of novels of WeiJian Zhu. After he solved many major cases while facing life threatening situations, he was transferred to be the director of Bureau of Public Security of Green Hill in a coal mining area, and faced again unprecedented problems: Severe environmental pollution and social ecology, caved-in style corruption, corrupted police force, which posed great challenges to him. In the first day to his office, he was intentionally challenged by local evil force, then met a group of unidentified people coming to the bureau to see him to file complaints, and later on his direct superior, the secretary of Municipal Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs put a lot of pressures on him to interfere with his law enforcement activities... When facing the various problems, he decided to begin and focus his attention to an unsolved murder case of a policeman. During his investigation, he found the case was not a simple criminal case, and was related to an in-house robbery which was involved in the cover-up of the amount of the robbery. Just as he was about to get to know the critical information from a beautiful copyist at his side, she was killed with the same gun which was used to kill the policeman. He continued to put great efforts to investigate the case, then found a local enterprise had been unscrupulously embezzling state-owned asset, and the local enterprise was an actual criminal syndicate, the syndicate had powerful protection offered by officials from city, province and central government. At the crucial moment, when he was about to make a great breakthrough, he was relieved from the post by the protective group, and had to take off his police uniform, at the same time, an evil muzzle was pointing at him and his loved ones.....

Daisy, an internet sensation, harbored a unique trait that could only be described as "reversal constitution." A mere sneeze from her would turn events on their head. Isaac, on the other hand, was a counselor with an uncanny "coincidence constitution," consistently finding himself amidst improbable events.Having been childhood friends, Daisy and Isaac were now navigating the uncertain waters of university graduation, secretly harboring feelings for one another, though neither realized the depth of their mutual affection. Daisy's "reversal constitution" led her to believe that she would be destined for a life of solitude, a notion that weighed heavily on her heart. Fate intervened when Isaac joined the university faculty as a psychology lecturer and, in an assertive yet endearing manner, enlisted Daisy as his teaching assistant.Together, they embarked on a transformative journey, as Isaac employed his expertise in psychology to counsel an array of eccentric clients, gradually healing Daisy's emotional wounds in the process.

GreatWave Yu was a chief of investigation department of discipline inspection and supervision of communist party of Talent City, Provincial Capital of Talent Sea Province. During his investigation of GoodVirtue Miu, the director of Central Hospital of the city, he found six millions yuan in coffin and twenty three millions in burial ground prepared by GoodVirtue Mu to his mother who was in very good healthy condition. In the process he found GoodVirtue Miu in cooperation of WhiteDew Lu, the chief of ICU department and the wife of TrustYouth Cao, Vice Mayor of the city let the wife of SmartGenius Zhou, Mayor of the city die under name of another woman, and leave the country with a passport issued to the woman to take care of a surrogate mother for SmartGenius Zhou's baby. With the ingenious thinking, TrustYouth Cao and SmartGenius Zhou got about one thousand acres land through diverging of rivers in the city, which became a hot spot for investment. With six billions TrustYouth Cao found in a company from Beijing, the project was a complete success. Thus a new two rivers district was founded in the area, BroadIntelligence Company which was founded by the sons of former governor of the province and current chairman of Provincial Political Consultative Conferences, and a senior leader of Central Government. With the powerful connection, BroadIntelligence Company was unscrupulous in development of the district, which led to ten thousands Toad Lamps incident, the arrests of TrustYouth Cao and SmartGenius Zhou, and the lethal injection of one of the sons. GreatWave Yu found more than eighty millions in cash and over one hundred millions in value of things collected by TrustYouth Cao, and dozens tons of paddy and corns stored by SmartGenius Zhou in ...