The four classic novels are the most classic examples. A Dream of Red Mansions, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin The Journey to the West are the most classic vernacular novels, and their language is more popular and understandable than historical books such as Zuo Zhuan and Historical Records.
There are some classical Chinese fantasy novel in ancient China, which are also very interesting to read. Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is the most familiar exotic literature. In addition, there are The Search for God by Gan Bao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Woods Language by Yuan Mei in the Qing Dynasty. They are all short and pithy classical Chinese, and the stories are concise and easy to understand.
There is also a kind of short classical Chinese novels that tell anecdotes, namely, Tang legends and Tang legends. Famous book titles include Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying, Shen Jiji's Biography of Ren Shi, Chen's Away from the Soul, Li's Biography of Liu Yichuan, Huo Xiaoyu's Biography and Xue Diao's Biography of Wu Shuang. The content involves love, chivalry, monasticism and many other categories.
After the legend of the Tang Dynasty, China's ancient classical Chinese short stories and scripts of the Song Dynasty were mostly written by literati or Mr. Shu Hui, whose representatives are Mo Yu Guan Yin and CuO Jian Cui Ning. In addition, when the scripts of the Song Dynasty spread to the Ming Dynasty, there appeared three collections of short stories edited by Feng Menglong, namely Yu's Ming Yan, Shi Jing and Xing Yan, each with 40 scripts, including the scripts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the scripts of the Ming Dynasty. Later, in the late Ming Dynasty, Ling Mengchu's Er Pai appeared, that is, a series of classical Chinese novels such as Surprise in a Moment and Surprise in a Second Moment.
Finally, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are the most representative works in classical Chinese, such as The Romance of Ghosts and Demons by Xu in the Ming Dynasty, Flowers of Evil by Qing Dynasty, Travel Notes of Lao Can by Liu E and Scholars by Wu, all of which are very good works in classical Chinese.
Finally, if you are interested, you can look at the Yuan Zaju works again. Classical Chinese is very beautiful because of the combination of lyrics. The most representative works of the four masters of Yuan Qu are Dou E Yuan by Guan Hanqing, A Single Knife Meeting, Wangjiang Pavilion, Golden Thread Pond, Xie Tianxiang, Zheng Guangzu's Away from the Soul, RoyceWong's Climbing the Building, Bai Pu's Climbing the Wall Immediately, Wu Tongyu, Ma Zhiyuan's Autumn in the Han Palace and so on. Then there is Wang Shifu's The West Chamber, which is also very good. Each one is 60% off and a wedge, not too long.