The Refined Self-Serving Life of the Imperial Harem
精致利己的后宫生活
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- Ancient Romance
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- Palace & Household Intrigue
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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.
Any Stories Where the Heroine Transmigrated Many Years Ago?
Historical romance. The female lead transmigrated here many years ago and has already built up her own power base. Both leads are strong. Please, please!
Palace Intrigue Where a Low-Ranking Concubine Rises Through the Ranks with Her Wits
Something like Empresses in the Palace would be great. I want a palace-intrigue story that starts with the selection of consorts, with a clearheaded heroine who's sharp and emotionally intelligent.
Cunning, Cruel, Possibly Vicious, Self-Serving, Willing to Use Any Means to Get What She Wants
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.
Any Really Great Palace-Intrigue Novels?
Historical Romance with Political Intrigue
Looking for books similar to *Why Not Cross the River Together*. Are there any ancient political intrigue stories like it, with a romance plot too, but mostly focused on capable heroines and heroes pursuing their ambitions?
Palace Intrigue
Palace-intrigue stories where the heroine doesn't love the hero, like The King's Woman. Please recommend some!!!
A Self-Interested Female Lead With a Brain: She Can Be Wicked, and Doesn't Have to Be Too Kind
Looking for books similar to *The Villainess Kills with Her Beauty*. I don’t want a story where the characters have no brains.
Gong Douwen, Superior,
Don't be reborn, don't travel through time, the author's writing is good. It's the epitome of superiority. For example, the story of the palace maid's rise to the throne, the side concubine's rise to the throne, the maid's rise to the throne, the imperial concubine's rise through the ranks, etc.
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.
Do You Know? Do You Know? The Leaves Should Be Lush and the Flowers Lean
Looking for stories like Do You Know? Do You Know? The Leaves Are Green and the Flowers Are Fading.
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*.
Looking for Palace and Household Intrigue! A Clever Heroine All the Way Through, No Dumbing Her Down!!!
I want something like *The Wise Don't Fall in Love, and the Noble Consort Won't Take Responsibility*.
Please Gong Douwen, Please Don't Be Brainless.
I want to read a book like "The Queen Mother despises this palace battle every day for being too bad".
Household Scheming, Multiple Children, and a Rise from the Lowest Ranks to the Top
I'm looking for books like *The Empress Is Sickly, Cunning, and Alluring, Fighting Her Way to the Throne*. The heroine shouldn't love the male lead or be romance-obsessed, and she should always get revenge.
Looking for Palace Intrigue: A Sweet Story with a Spoiled, Arrogant Heroine
The female lead must be especially doted on. Her rank being low is fine. What matters is that she is arrogant and spoiled by favor, the type who can openly vent her temper at the emperor, while he still goes to coax her. However, her arrogance and spoiled behavior must not be based on the emperor having hurt her in the past.
Palace Intrigue with a Proper Wife Who Isn't Jealous, Doesn't Love the Male Lead, and Isn't His Only Favorite
Palace Intrigue! The Heroine Is Clear-Headed and Works Hard to Have Children and Rise in Rank!
Looking for books similar to The Empress Is Wild and Wily, Raising Children Amid a Harem Showdown. The heroine is clear-headed in the harem. Sweet romance or doting romance are both fine.
Scheming Palace-Intrigue Stories With a Reborn Heroine Who Starts Plotting Before the Selection
Looking for Period Dramas Where the Female Lead Is Reborn as a Concubine
Looking for period novels where the heroine transmigrates into the role of a concubine, set not long after Liberation.
Looking for Household-Intrigue Novels Where the Heroine Becomes the Principal Wife or a Concubine and Fights for Herself and Her Children
I want palace-intrigue household drama. Nothing where the heroine simply lies flat or clings to someone's coattails. If clinging to someone's coattails lets you be treated as an equal, then you might as well not write an ancient-setting story at all: how fake is that? Life before marriage and scheming for a marriage alliance are fine, such as the perspectives of Lin Xiaoniang and Molan in The Story of Minglan.
Any Good Historical Romances About Imperial Consorts or Favored Concubines? Recommendations, Please!
Any recommendations for historical romances about noble consorts or favored consorts?
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
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This book really describes the ruthlessness of the emperor. For that position, all the love between father and son and brotherhood can be thrown away. It also writes about the misery of the low-level people in the palace.
It's good to read. This book is better than other Gong Dou Wen. After reading it, I am very happy. The power struggle in this article is more exciting than the male and female lines.
You have lived a refined and self-interested life, and with your current behavior, no one would say that you value love and justice. It is simply to trick readers into it. The title of the book is like this, but the content is like that.
Overall pretty good. It's just that at the beginning, the heroine's exquisite self-interest is too implicit, like a virgin. As a result, a number of readers were lost and the rating was lowered. This is good now!
It is a very good Gong Dou Wen in Tomato. The plot is not like playing house. The only bad thing is that in the early stage, she manages a silly and selfish palace maid. The later explanation is to make foreshadowing in advance so that there is someone around who can be bribed. I think it was a patch because it was not used later. She was bribed, but she didn't affect the overall situation at all. The later it gets, the more exciting it is. There are really few people watching it. It should have thousands of comments and a rating of 9.2 Or above. I think it is qualified.
Leave a mark. I don't want to read it after reading Chapter 74. The heroine is too kind and kind to the people around her. Even if these people will bring her a lot of trouble in the future, she will still treat them as sisters. Sisters are not egoistic. Of course, she is full of scheming towards the male protagonist. Occasionally, she will be tempted.
The writing is quite good, I don't know what's going on with the rating, but it's better than many others with a score of 9 or above. It's a serious palace fighting story. The heroine is not a good person, and she always knows what she wants. Then she can also see the oppression of women in feudal society. The ending was a little rushed, but overall it was pretty good.
As for the quality of the novel, I won't say much more. I think this book is quite consistent with my view of love, so I'll talk about it. Many female protagonists attack the male protagonist as soon as they go up and say that I am crazy about you, I will live and die for you, and then the male protagonist will say wow, I am so touched, so I suddenly fell in love with you, and I am so infatuated with you. I just want to say, at least in my opinion, it is definitely impossible. You may like him, maybe you may also be very attracted, but he cannot reach that level. I read a sentence and I thought it made sense. It's just a matter of weighing the pros and cons, but when you put aside everything else and go see someone you fall in love with at first sight, you still feel like you really like them You have a little kitten, and you get very angry when it scratches you, but when you see it again, you still think it is so cute. So the love between two people does not depend on what you do. What really matters is whether he likes you and whether he loves you. If he really likes you so much that he blushes every time he looks at you, and thinks you are really beautiful, it is entirely in his aesthetic point of view, and he loves you more every time he looks at you. If you are sad, he thinks you are pitiful, if you are angry, he thinks you are cute, and if you slap him, he will think he is cute even when he is angry. Although it's a bit perverted, this is what I like. No matter what, no matter how I look at you, no matter how I try to persuade myself, I still feel that I really like you when I see you.
It looks good, the author's writing is good, it is a classic, the plot and palace battles are very exciting, the male protagonist and the female protagonist have no less than 800 ideas, they are really suitable [laughing] Miaoying, who was very scandalous about her, actually looked okay. The heroine only helped her wipe her butt once or twice. After she became a concubine, she was not allowed to interfere in important matters or do anything bad. In the end, she died a worthy death! From the looks of it, it should be over soon. It just depends on when the queen will fall. [Thoughts]
Looking forward to further development Although I know that the harem cannot be the only one doting favor, I also hope that the male protagonist will be more interested in the female protagonist than others [laughs]