The Scheming Phoenix: The Princess Moves the Pieces and Rules the Realm

A Cool, Powerful Female Lead in an Ancient-Style Setting, Ruthless and Decisive, Controlling Everything

A powerful female lead whose intelligence and combat ability are both off the charts. She is skilled at keeping control of the entire situation, dominant, set in an ancient-style world, and of noble status. Anyone foolish enough to provoke her will end up wishing they were dead.

A Cold Heroine Who Treats the World as a Chessboard, and a Crazy Villain. I Want the Villain!!

I'm looking for books like "Cold Moonlight? No! I'm the Villain Chosen by Heaven (Sinful Divine Altar)". A villain who treats the world as a chessboard, sees through everyone's schemes, and acts in their own self-interest.

Strong, Laid-Back Heroine of Noble Status

Looking for Novels with a Naturally Brilliant, Machiavellian Heroine!!!

Any Stories About Couples Who Truly Hate Each Other? They're Both Vicious, No-Good People

A married couple who are pure enemies: ruthless, manipulative, playing with people's hearts, one face in public and another behind closed doors. An exciting, fast-paced plot, and a pair of villains known to everyone. Both leads are strong, female-oriented fiction, with the woman stronger than the man. No stories that claim to have a strong heroine only to make her suffer‼️ The characters have secret identities.

Any Novels with a Brilliant Female Lead Who Excels at Power Plays and Scheming?

A Powerful Female Lead Playing the World as Her Game Board and Its People as Her Pieces, or an Assassin With a Secret Identity

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?

The Male Lead Doesn’t Love the Female Lead at First and Wants to Kill Her

Looking for books similar to "Tenderly Crushed". Are there any stories where the male lead doesn't love the female lead at first and wants to kill her, but then she acts pitiful in front of him, or is genuinely pitiful, making him feel sorry for her and unable to bring himself to kill her? Ideally, the female lead also saves...

Looking for a Strong, Cold, and Aloof Heroine Who Stays Powerful From Beginning to End

No angst and no saintly characters. Preferably, the kind where trash villains are killed the moment they stick their heads out.

The Female Lead Is the Big Villain, Masterminding Everything and Playing Everyone in the Palm of Her Hand

Stories That Torture the Male Lead!!! He Loves Her So Desperately, but the Female Lead Keeps Hurting Him

Any kind of story is fine.

I Want a Cruel, Selfish, and Vicious Female Lead, with a Male Lead Who Loves Her but Keeps His Feelings Hidden

A Stunningly Beautiful, Vicious, Cruel Heroine Who Loves the Male Lead but Torments and Humiliates Him

Novels With a Heroine Who's Cold and Indifferent to the Core

No CP. When necessary, the female lead will cut off all her feelings. In plain terms, she’s cold-blooded and heartless.

The Eldest Princess: Strong, Stunning, and Powerful

An Unflinching Heroine Stronger Than the Male Lead: Cold, Detached, and Set in Ancient Times

She's powerful from the start and shows no mercy, not even to her family. If anyone threatens her, she kills them and tortures them mercilessly.

Looking for a Cold, Powerful Female Lead Who Sees Through the Ways of the World and Holds a High Position

Please, nothing with a protagonist who has to grow stronger over time.

A Clever, Cool, Martial-Arts-Skilled Heroine and a Dominant, Highly Skilled Male Lead

Looking for a completed novel where the female lead transmigrates into ancient times as a child, is abandoned, gets picked up by a master, and becomes his disciple to learn martial arts. She should descend the mountain in her teens.

Any Books That'll Make Me Cry My Eyes Out?

I’m picky and can’t get into palace intrigue or supernatural stories anymore. Please recommend something really, really angsty, the kind that gives you heart palpitations.

The Female Lead Is a Princess Who Can Fight: Fierce and Absolutely Iconic

The female lead is a princess and the male lead is her shadow guard. It couldn't be any better!

Looking for Princess Stories: She Can Fight on the Battlefield, Isn’t a Goody-Two-Shoes, and Is Pampered by Everyone

The princess's father dotes on her. She's powerful in her own right and comes from a very influential family. She can even go to war and fight enemies. I want something passionate and exciting, and the male lead should be strong too.

A Beloved Princess and a Humble Hostage Prince, a Healing Story With a Little Angst and Lots of Sweetness, Happy Ending

The heroine is especially doted on and comes from a noble background. The hero is lowborn and obsessive. There's a little angst, but later it gets incredibly, incredibly sweet. Please, please, please!!!

Looking for Power Couples. No Systems, Transmigration, Palace Intrigue, or Household Battles

Looking for books similar to Building Forgetting River. Two equally strong leads. No System or transmigration, and no palace intrigue or household intrigue. There are many things to do in life; romance is not the only thing. Less angst, please. No love-hate relationships. I cannot understand how people can still love each other after stabbing each other repeatedly.