A Palace Peril: The Consort Wants Power

Please, I Really Want to Read About a Scheming Woman, the White-lotus and Green-tea Types

Honestly, this is exactly the kind of thing I want to read right now. This sort of calculating, scheming vibe just doesn't hit the spot for me, so I keep picking through books. Have I found anything I like yet? Now I'm in a bit of a reading slump.

Any Proper Palace-Intrigue Historical Stories? 😭 The Kind Where Everyone's Scheming Eight Steps Ahead

Everyone, Recommend Some Real Palace-Intrigue Stories

I’ve read so many stories where the leads are each other’s only partners, the female lead gets ridiculous later on, the emperor favors her for no reason, and her family is low-ranking but somehow she can skip several ranks at a time. I want a palace-intrigue story that makes a bit more sense, please, I’m begging you.

Palace Intrigue, Pure Palace Intrigue, the Kind That Takes All Your Brainpower

Are there any pure palace-intrigue novels without reborn or transmigrate plots, and without an overpowered protagonist aura? Lately everything has been about transmigration and rebirth, and I’m sick of it.

Pure Palace Intrigue, From Palace Maiden to Favorite Consort and Empress: A Highly Intelligent, Ruthless Female Lead Who Isn't a Doormat

Pure palace-intrigue stories, with ruthless, high-IQ heroines who aren't saintly.

Looking for Palace Intrigue, Pure Palace Intrigue!!! No Mutual Chastity and No Exclusive Favoritism!

Looking for books like *Playing Along? I Can Do That Too (Ninefold Brocade)*. Thanks for the recommendations, girls!!!

I’m Tired of Female Leads Traveling to the Qing Dynasty. Are There Any Set in the Tang, Qin, Han, Song, or Ming Dynasties?

It can be palace intrigue, household intrigue, or a female-led story. The female lead shouldn't be too clueless.

The Male Lead Is an Emperor with Many Consorts, but He Favors the Female Lead and Has Eyes Only for Her!

Palace Intrigue: The Real Deal, Scheming at Every Turn, With a Transmigrated Female Lead

A female lead who's deeply calculating, and was already used to family power struggles before she transmigrated. Any time period is fine.

Pure Palace Intrigue, with a Smart, Clear-Headed Female Lead Who Loves No One

A female lead who's not a self-sacrificing saint.

Palace Intrigue, Not a Pure Couple, Clear-Headed Heroine, Not a Doormat

Pure Palace Intrigue, with Cutthroat Scheming. The Female Lead Must Be Clever

Looking for Harem-Intrigue Stories Focused on Court Rivalries and Favor. I Don't Mind Whether the Couple Are Each Other's First

I want pure palace intrigue with a plot that fits the historical setting, all that competing for favor and climbing to the top, like *Empresses in the Palace*.

Pure Palace Intrigue: The Female Lead Enters the Palace Through the Selection, Loves No One, and the Couple Isn’t Each Other’s First

Highly Rated Palace-Intrigue Novels

Looking for books similar to Palace Intrigue.

Looking for Palace-Intrigue Novels Focused Entirely on Palace Intrigue: No Transmigration, No Rebirth, and the Leads Don’t Have to Be Each Other’s Only Ones

Looking for Harem-Intrigue Novels: No Love for the Emperor, Just Palace Scheming

Please Recommend Palace Intrigue Novels, Preferably Long and Complete

Looking for stories about a high-ranking concubine who's a green tea schemer. In her past life, the female lead was tormented to death by her and the male lead. In this life, she enters the palace through the selection and gives the green tea schemer a face-slapping, eventually rising to a high position.

Pure Palace Intrigue, Either Chaste or Not Is Fine, with a Clearheaded Female Lead Helping Her Son Take the Throne

Looking for books like Reborn Son Has Serious Skills: Becoming Empress Dowager Is No Dream.

Palace Intrigue with a Smart Female Lead

A smart female lead who isn't a hypocritical goody-two-shoes or a naive sweetheart.

Palace Intrigue with a Clear-Headed Heroine Rising Through the Ranks

Pure Palace Intrigue, Please: No Favorite Consorts and No Golden Fingers

Please recommend pure palace-intrigue novels. The heroine should only care about scheming her way to the top, and the emperor shouldn’t favor her exclusively. Thanks. Three things I don’t want: 1. No golden finger. 2. No heroine who’s all-powerful and has never faced any setbacks or hardships. 3. No emperor who dotes on the heroine alone.

Any Novels Like Empresses in the Palace or Empress Wu Zetian, Where the Male Lead Gets Absolutely Destroyed?

Looking for Palace-Intrigue Stories with Smart Leads, Preferably Transmigration or Transmigration into a Book

Looking for books like *The Consort Is Both Sassy and Seductive, Climbing Her Way to the Top Through Palace Intrigue (The Noble Consort Is So Alluring)*.