Lazy Tang

Qiannian Longwang LQidian2019

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Male-Oriented Fiction Alternate History Institutional DesignTime TravelBargainingLi ShiminXuanwu GateLight ComedyWeb Novel80 Years

Summary

Yun Hao, a man of the modern age, is prematurely summoned to the underworld by a clerical error on the part of a judge. After some hard bargaining, he returns to the living world with eighty years of lifespan ahead of him, only to be reborn as a sickly seven-year-old boy in the Yun family village in the Yanmen Mountains at the close of the Sui dynasty. No sooner has he “risen from the dead” than he runs into the family patriarch and his uncle Yun Da, who, while his father lies barely cold in death on the battlefield, plot to swallow up the family estate by claiming the ten mu of paddy fields belonging to his mother, Lady Zhao. Using the terror of his ghostly return to overawe the clansmen, Yun Hao flees with his mother into exile. On the road he meets Qin Qiong, Shan Xiongxin, Hou Junji, and other gallant heroes at the cattle and horse market in Luzhou, and establishes himself through his medical skill and daring. He is soon drawn into the suspicions and power struggles of Li Yuan and his son Li Shimin. Thereafter he lives through the uprising at Jinyang and the Xuanwu Gate Incident, aiding the Tang with gunpowder, engineering, medicine, and institutional design, rising to the rank of Duke of Chu. In the final years of the Zhenguan era he secures firm control of the capital region, and after helping Li Zhi ascend the throne, he retires to seclusion in Lintong.

Editor's review

This book suits readers who enjoy lighthearted historical time-travel and love stories of small figures stirring great history. The opening underworld bargain and the "corpse" counterattack move briskly, while the scheming Changsun Wuji and the racketeer-style rewrite of Qin Qiong are good for laughs, and the tech-driven overhaul of the Tang has its satisfactions. The weak points are that the later chapters grow long and the intrigue and invention lists feel piled up, and the pirated watermark at the start hurts readability. Readers who want strict historical accuracy or a tight main plot will need patience.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the prologue and first three chapters to get the tone of the underworld bargain and the corpse counterattack, then decide whether to finish
  2. Take Changsun Wuji, Qin Qiong and others as comedic rewrites rather than checking them against official history
  3. The invention and intrigue threads are dense in the middle and later sections; skim chapter titles and pick the technologies or historical turning points that interest you

About the publisher

Qidian

Qidian is a platform whose catalogue brings together online literature, with about 45,000 titles in the library spanning categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, xianxia and wuxia, science fiction, selected fiction and quality web novels. Representative titles include Reincarnation Paradise, War Soldier Leon, The Fairy Is Fierce (also known as Tai Mang), The Expert Is Right Beside Me, Dragon Herder, You Should Cross the Mountains Like a Hero, The Adventures of a Clever Girl and Summoning Heroes of All Ages in Another World, with themes extending from fantasy and xianxia to science fiction and adventure. Representative authors available in the library include Na Yi Zhi Wen Zi, Chi Gua Zi Qun Zhong, Guan Guan Gong Zi, Chenxing LL, Luan, Chen Mo De Ai, Piao Yi Dao Zhang and Dong Tian Bu Leng. Their works mostly appear as serialized web fiction aimed at readers who prefer long genre fiction. Public information on its founding background and scale is limited, so no inferences are made here; the description is based solely on the library's titles and categories.

FAQ

Is this book strict history or light comedy? It leans toward light, comedic historical time-travel; the characters are much rewritten for fun and history is only a backdrop.
Does the protagonist Yun Hao become emperor in the end? No. He rises to Duke of Chu, helps Li Zhi take the throne, and then retires to Lintong.
Is the pirated watermark at the start normal? It is common in early pirated sources; the official Qidian version is authoritative and the watermark does not affect understanding the story.

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About the author

Qiannian Longwang L Author

Qiannian Longwang L is an author active on Chinese online literature platforms, with limited publicly available information; details such as birth and death years and nationality remain unclear. Based on the works held in the library, the author focuses on historical and alternate-history fiction. Representative titles include Liaodong zhi Hu, Lan Tang, Han Xiong, and Cuan Qin. The six works are mostly historical novels aimed at male readers, commonly categorized as premium fiction, alternate history, and male-oriented novels. Judging from the titles and categories, the author tends to set narratives against periods such as the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and Tang eras, and the Liaodong region, building alternate scenarios within a historical framework to develop themes of power struggle, rivalry, and national affairs. The writing emphasizes historical atmosphere and plot momentum, and the works have attracted a certain following among readers of historical fiction.