Palace Intrigue: Starting with Pretending to Be Innocent

High-Quality Historical Romance Novels!!!

Something like "The Guide to Capturing a Black Lotus", "Attack Jade", or "How Is This Proper"? The author's writing has to be good, and the plot needs plenty of twists and turns. Key point: lots of reversals.

Pure Historical Romance

No transmigration, no being reborn, no System.

I’ve Been Obsessed with Palace-Intrigue Stories Lately. Ladies, Hand Over Your Books!

I've Been Into Palace Intrigue Lately 😍 Hand Over Your Top Palace Intrigue Picks!

Looking for books like "The Empress's Consort Is Cunning, and the Emperor Can't Resist Her". The leads don't have to be each other's firsts!!! They don't have to be each other's firsts!!! But the female lead must be clear-headed and strong, not weak. Some angst is fine. I like stories set in fictionalized historical worlds, as long as the plot is well-crafted and detailed, hehe.

Any Stories With a Scheming, Calculating, Coolheaded Female Lead?

Any stories with a female lead who's skilled at political intrigue, extremely calculating, and calm and collected?

Historical Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Romance!!! You Have No Idea How Long It's Been Since I Read One 😂

I can’t find any good historical romances! Preferably not too long, no more than a little over a million words. It has to be good! Ideally, the heroine is reborn or transmigrates, gets revenge on the scumbags, and has a doting hero. One-on-one romance, both leads faithful to each other!!! No angst! A little angst at most! The hero must not have any other consorts.

The Heroine Isn’t the Legal Wife, but the Hero Spoils Her Rotten

Looking for books similar to The Delicate Noble Consort Has Her Ways (also known as: The Wise Don't Fall in Love, and the Noble Consort Won't Take Responsibility). The male lead should dote on and protect the heroine, but she shouldn't be a naive, airheaded sweetheart.

Household-Intrigue Stories with Proper Manners and Etiquette, Like Real Life in Ancient Times

Looking for books similar to Her Husband Died in Battle, So She Raised Two Sons and a Daughter and Became the Pride of the Capital. After finishing Her Husband Died in Battle, So She Raised Two Sons and a Daughter and Became the Pride of the Capital, I’m seriously out of books to read 💔 Does anyone know stories like this, with aristocratic families that observe proper etiquette and characters who act logically?

The Emperor Falls in Love With Her at First Sight, Seizes Her for the Palace, and Dotes on Her Alone

Palace Intrigue with Open, Unabashed Favoritism and Exclusive Devotion

Looking for books similar to The Beautiful and Soft Lady-in-Waiting Is Spoiled Endlessly by the Cold-Blooded Crown Prince. Palace intrigue or entertainment-world crossovers are both fine. I want open, obvious affection, not a heroine who's a target in plain sight. From the start, she should be the favored one, preferably the only one he favors. Ideally, once he has or falls in love with the heroine, they should both be sexually inexperienced.

Palace and Household Intrigue with Smart Characters! Rated 9.5 or Higher!

Looking for something like Zhaohua's Chaos. Rated 9.5 or higher! The female lead should be a concubine's daughter who gradually rises from a low rank, or works her way up in the prince's household. She should be clear-headed, have no love for the emperor or prince, be ambitious, ruthless, and quick to avenge herself. And she has to be smart, smart, smart! She pretends to be a pushover and then...

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 Real Palace-Intrigue Dramas, No Need for Mutual First-Timers

I really don’t understand why people insist on both leads being virgins and still call it a palace-intrigue drama. If both leads are virgins, it’s not even palace intrigue anymore. Please recommend some real palace-intrigue dramas.

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!!!

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.

Pure Historical Romance: A Gentle, Composed, and Cunning Female Lead, and a Male Lead Who Isn’t Cold or Expressionless

The male lead shouldn't be the emperor, and the female lead shouldn't transmigrate or be reborn.

Looking for Novels About Concubines Rising to Power, Harem Scheming, and Palace Intrigue

Handsome Guys And Beautiful Women, I’m Out Of Books, Please Recommend Palace Intrigue And Household Intrigue Novels

Transmigrated into the body of an overweight young woman from a prestigious family, raised badly by her stepmother, she turns her life around and makes a comeback.

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.

I've Been Really Into Palace Intrigue Lately. Any Recommendations?

Palace intrigue. I don't care whether the male lead is pure or not, as long as the female lead is involved in palace intrigue.

The Female Lead Is Favored Early On, Then Becomes the Emperor's Sole Favorite Later. Both Leads Are Smart.

Looking for books like The Noble Consort's Waist Is Soft and Alluring, and the Emperor Kisses It Every Day.

Looking for Stories with a Well-Behaved, Sweet, and Gentle Palace Maid as the Heroine

Something where the heroine is a palace maid and the hero is the emperor, that sort of thing. The heroine should be soft and sweet.

Palace Intrigue, Palace Intrigue, Pure Palace Intrigue

I’m trying to find a palace-intrigue novel. I think it involved transmigration. The heroine didn’t love the emperor, though he seemed to love her. Later, once their son had grown up, the emperor grew wary of her. She gave him a drug that made him impotent and left him irritable, and so on. He eventually died suddenly.

Palace Intrigue and Childbirth: The Emperor Has Trouble Producing Heirs. No Qing Dynasty Setting!

Looking for books like Quick Transmigration: The Fertility Empress. I've really been into this type lately: the emperor can't have children, or has only daughters, and the heroine can give birth.