I’ve Recently Gotten into Historical Romance, and I’m Out of Books to Read 最近迷上古言了，书荒了
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Pillow of Beauty 枕姝色
Now published under the title The Young Man in Fine Clothes and on Fine Horses [Stoic general x fallen noblewoman, mutual healing, traditional historical romance, with no rebirth, transmigration, or golden finger] She was a noblewoman from a powerful family, beautiful and radiant, but when her family fell into decline, she became an orphan everyone could bully. Gu Lin protected and pampered her, but refused to marry her. Later, when the young man went away and matchmakers crowded her doorstep, s
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- 52 After Seducing the Loyal General, I Make Him Beg to Marry Me Every Day 诱撩忠犬将军后，日日缠着我成亲 [A pampered, mischievous proprietress x a loyal, protective young general] [Mutual firsts] [Spoiled darling + sweet romance + winning her back + loyalty + possessiveness + jealous possessive type + happy ending] On the day General Pei returned to the capital victorious, You'an, proprietress of the Moonshadow House, slowly blew a puff of smoke toward him in front of the people of the capital. The capital erupted: the vixen You'an was openly seducing their cool, noble general! Pei Zhiyi's expressi 528Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 53 Spring Robes in Disarray: Only to Unravel the Chancellor's Desires 春衫乱：只为奸臣解风情 [Traditional historical romance + reborn to change fate + devoted husband + political intrigue and revenge. The heroine is gentle yet resilient, kind and perceptive. The hero is a noble, powerful minister, beautiful and tragic. Many foreshadowed clues and twists.] Lin Shu was a noble young lady from the capital, raised without ever having to lift a finger. When disaster struck the Lin family, Lin Shu became a government slave. She was put to washing and dyeing cloth in the Imperial Household Dep 12.1kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
- 54 Offering to the Abyss 献京渊 [Print edition releasing October 25] “He taught me to kill, seize power, and look after myself. I taught him what it means to have a weakness.” [Serious drama + political intrigue + the fate of the nation and its people + I’m terrible at writing blurbs] Jiang Qingyu was born into wealth, and her family’s love had made her naive and pampered. It wasn’t until the day the entire Jiang family was executed that she realized how foolish she had been! When she opened her eyes again, she was determined 25.2kReads9.5Score4kShelves
- 55 The Handsome Man in the Coffin Forced Me to Marry Him 被棺材里的美男强娶了 [A 20,000-word sweet bedtime novella: love at first sight + a fated encounter] Yan Qingluo fell off a cliff while hiking. Not only did she survive, she also got stuck with the handsome man in the coffin, who insisted that since she'd removed his talisman, she had to become his wife. A quick heads-up: This is a sweet novella with a fast-moving plot, perfect for bedtime reading. 386Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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After Being Reborn, I Threw Myself into the Powerful Minister's Arms and Cried, and He Turned Red with Anger 重生后扑到权臣怀里哭，他红温了
[Sweet and Gentle Girl VS Steady, Restrained Powerful Official] [Mutually devoted, childhood sweethearts, years of secret love finally returned] Shen Mingshu grew up cherished by Jiang Xun, but his stern, cold nature made her fear him more than anything. After someone drugged her, her childhood friend, a young general, took her away. When they were discovered, she had no choice but to marry him. But the young general loved someone else and took a concubine on their wedding day. He doted on his c
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- 57 I Entered the Wrong Bridal Chamber with My Sister, and the Cold, Powerful Official Became a Loyal Puppy 和嫡姐进错婚房，清冷权臣变忠犬 (The rating has only just been released and will rise) [Sisters switch marriages + marriage before love + devoted to each other + husband’s regret and pursuit + a touch of household intrigue + aloof beauty brought down from her pedestal] [Adorable, airheaded beauty vs. cool, calculating powerful official] Pei Muyin, the second daughter of the Marquis of Yongning’s household, is promised to Xie Linheng, the eldest son of the Duke of Ying’s household. The former is dignified and virtuous; the latt 20.4kReads7.9Score8.6kShelves
- 58 EN A Slender Waist, a Hidden Beauty 细腰藏娇 [Historical romance + marriage before love + devoted couple HE + sweet romance + children later on + both leads speak their minds] Su Luoqian was the daughter of the richest family in the Great Jin Dynasty, cherished by her parents from the day she was born. She was lively and clever, bright and openhearted. But after a natural disaster exposed the Su family’s wealth, their prominence attracted envy and greed. Surrounded by wolves, Su Luoqian gritted her teeth and accepted the emperor’s arranged 27.2kReads9.3Score3.1kShelves
- 59 The Empress’s Peerless Beauty: The Cold Emperor’s Beloved Wife 娘娘绝色：冷情帝王的娇娇皇后 [Traditional historical romance + palace and household intrigue + alternate history + exclusive devotion + childhood sweethearts + long-planned love + secret admiration] As the legitimate daughter of a duke’s mansion and the future crown princess, Li Yunshu has been doted on by everyone since birth. Everyone in the capital knows that no one can match Li Yunshu’s radiant beauty, and that her spoiled temperament is just as singular. Then, one day, the Crown Prince dies. The duke’s mansion, whi 12.5kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 60 His Beloved Frowns, and the Heir Apparent Rushes to Comfort Her 心尖宠她一皱眉，世子夫君追着哄 [One-on-One Romance, Both Pure, Sweet Romance, Childhood Sweethearts] Print edition of Jin Shi Jin Yu signed, and the comic adaptation is now online. Yuan Rongjin was the daughter of a general, but when she was young, her stepmother framed her and sent her away from the capital! Everyone thought she would suffer terribly out in the world and live a miserable life. But no one expected that during the ten years she spent away from the capital, Yuan Rongjin never looked the least bit down and out. 30.6kReads9.1Score2.3kShelves
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Homegrown Flowers Can't Match Wild Ones: The Irresistible Duke Keeps Flirting 家花哪有野花香，尤物国舅撩不停
Two years into her marriage, Liu Fuying was still a virgin. Her husband had even suggested that she go keep a handsome young lover, with only one condition: she couldn't make their affair public. He had someone else in his heart, so why should Liu Fuying keep herself chaste for him? One day, after a rainstorm, Liu Fuying fell off a cliff and met Pei Zhou Wu, a handsome nobleman who had been imprisoned on Mount Xiang for treason. He was so good-looking! The moment Liu Fuying saw him, she underst
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- 62 I Took My Sister's Place in the Prince's Manor, and My Disabled Husband Fell for Me 替姐姐嫁进王府，残疾夫君沦陷了 [Love after marriage + historical romance + sweet, doting love story + putting scoundrels in their place + having a baby + both leads grow together] Jiang Xintang is the third daughter of the Marquis of Xuanping’s household. She has been unrivaled in beauty since childhood, but her father doesn’t care for her and her mother doesn’t love her. They cast her off to a country estate and leave her to fend for herself. Just after she comes of age, her parents suddenly seek her out and tell her to mar 11.3kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
- 63 Bringing Fortune to Her Husband and Glory to His Clan! The General's Wife Is a True Lucky Star! 旺夫！兴族！将军夫人真锦鲤！ [A dangerously unhinged, handsome and tragic general × a delicate beauty who cries at the drop of a hat; marriage first, love later + sweet romance + age gap] Cheng Yang is the Liang dynasty’s greatest general: stern, ruthless, and utterly brutal in his methods. People in court call him the “Fourth Chancellor.” Despite his outstanding military service, he is cursed with the fate of a lone star. His father and brothers are all dead, his birth mother is gravely ill, and his sister-in-law has gone 12.5kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 64 The Emperor Waited a Thousand Years, but She Refused to Enter the Palace 陛下等了千年，她却拒绝入宫 The rating is low because the story just started, but it’ll go up later! [Not a strong female lead! Not a wish-fulfillment story! Devoted to each other + past and present lives] [The heroine is weak at first and will gradually grow stronger. There’s a full section about her past life in the middle, and it’s a little heartbreaking. Feel free to skip it if you don’t like that.] In her previous life, after entering the palace, Jiang Yunyan lived in constant fear, terrified that the young, imposing 2.3kReads8.7Score182Shelves
- 65 After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Regent. Regrets? I Won't Forgive You 退婚后改嫁摄政王，后悔？不原谅 [Long-Planned Romance + Sweet Love + Secretly in Love with Her] Song Tinghe, daughter of the Grand Tutor and the most distinguished young lady in the capital. Everyone says she must be blind to have set her heart on a son of a concubine, helping him study and rise through the ranks. When the Song family falls into disgrace, that man sneers arrogantly, "A criminal's daughter wants to be the principal wife? You should be grateful to be taken as a concubine." Song Tinghe comes to her senses, leaves 3kReads8.7Score450Shelves
- 66 You Forced Me to Marry the Regent, So Why Are You Crying Now That I'm Pregnant? 逼我嫁摄政王，我有孕你哭什么 The short drama “Where the Mountain Has Trees, the Trees Have Branches” is now available. [Publication deal signed + male lead fights to claim her + second male lead begs for her back + marriage before love] Jiang Chuyue has been in love with Xiao Ji for ten years. As his nominal “younger sister,” all she can do is watch him take one concubine after another. At a palace banquet, Xiao Ji protects his beloved concubine by forcing Jiang Chuyue to marry the regent. Xiao Ji tells her, “The regent is 25.8kReads8.7Score2kShelves
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I Wandered Into His Bedchamber and Was Seized by a Mad Villain 误入寝帐，被疯批反派强取豪夺了
[Unhinged, Obsessive Villain × Sweet, Timid Little Softie] [Transmigrate into a book + 1v1 sweet romance + Powerful man becomes her devoted dog for love + Intense sexual tension and possessiveness] [Su Ruan (Jiang Luyi) × Yan Chen] Jiang Luyi transmigrated into the vicious supporting character Su Ruan, who was doomed to die by the third episode. It was hell mode from the very beginning. Not only had she ended up in the wrong bed, she'd also cracked open the head of the deranged villain. Su Ruan
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Shu Huai Beneath the Setting Sun 抒淮落斜阳
A cute, lively, beautiful-voiced, sweet-talking, haughty young princess VS a handsome, rugged general who seems cold but is warm inside, and says one thing but does another (female-lead-focused, read with caution) Li Shuyang is the only daughter of the Prince of Jin and his wife. She is her brothers’ precious darling and the Empress Dowager’s beloved little sweetheart. Raised in luxury from birth, she is a true, heaven-blessed young lady born with a silver spoon in her mouth. An accident in her
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- 69 Abandoned as a Concubine, She Turns Around and Takes Command of a Hundred Thousand Troops 做小妾被弃，她转身手握十万大军 [A beauty bent on rebellion, a menace who wreaks havoc vs. an ethereal beauty who leaves everyone in the dust, the undisputed champion of male rivalry; her aloof, clear-headed brother-in-law falls into passion; her ex, who hates her with a passion, becomes the third party for love; one-on-one ending] Su Wantang is breathtakingly beautiful, yet born a lowly concubine’s daughter. To climb the social ladder, she acts as a surrogate for her elder half-sister, the heir’s wife, and dumps her fiancé af 32.3kReads9.1Score5.1kShelves
- 70 Spring Tide Night Crossing, the Cousin Miss Is Clearly a Scoundrel 春潮夜渡，表姑娘渣得明明白白 Forbidden love #Intense Push and Pull #Beautiful and Broken #Mutual Redemption It wasn't love at first sight, nor was it planned from the start. It was love that grew over time, and love that grew over time! - Wen Yizhen, the jewel of a Jiangnan tea merchant family, is sold as a coveted courtesan in Yangzhou after her family is destroyed. After escaping, she takes her unmentionable skills and intoxicating, bone-deep fragrance to seek refuge with her aunt at the marquis's estate, only to become 80.9kReads9.2Score10.7kShelves
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The Boss Puts on a Secret Identity and Takes the Court by Storm 大佬她披上马甲A爆朝堂
To avenge her elder brother, she disguises herself as a man and enters the government as an official. The officials soon notice that Lord Yuchi, once as gentle as jade, has become bold and dazzlingly cool. The cute, soft-spoken young woman is sweet on the outside but ruthless within: clever, calculating, wealthy, and armed with plenty of secret identities. She doesn't even blink as she takes down her powerful political rival. As she keeps tormenting him, the feared minister falls for her... Qin,
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- 72 The Emperor's Cousin Says He Must Refuse 皇上表弟说他恕难从命 [Completed] Younger man + sickly male lead + hapless cousins + a little palace intrigue + lighthearted Ye Su never imagined that because her fate was so strong, it would claim the lives of two fiancés, leaving her unmarried even at twenty-two. After her parents went to the palace to weep to her aunt, the Empress Dowager, it was decided that she would become a consort to her sickly cousin, the emperor. The reason was that a holy monk had declared Ye Su and the emperor’s destinies to be one strong 88.6kReads9.2Score10.9kShelves
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Love After Marriage: The Crown Princess Keeps Pretending to Be Good Again and Again 先婚后爱，太子妃又又又又在装乖
[Sweet Romance] Song Yao, who was born into this world, got married to Nangong Yi, the notoriously violent crown prince. After their wedding, they acted like a proper couple, treating each other with courtesy and respect. Gradually, Song Yao discovered that the crown prince was nothing like the violent man of the rumors. He was gentle, considerate, and easy to get along with. So she let her true nature out and started doing as she pleased. - At first, when facing the crown prince: Song Yao: gent
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- 74 Beauty in the Bedchamber: The Tyrannical Eunuch Is Crazed and Dotes on Me 帐中娇：暴戾九千岁又疯又宠 The comic adaptation is now available! (Also known as The Mad, Brutal Eunuch Turned Around and Gently Coaxed Me) [Abusing scumbags + reborn + happy ending + both leads untouched + a vicious, cold-blooded Chief Eunuch who is ruthless to everyone else but a broken, devoted puppy to her vs. a clear-eyed heroine who has been reborn and learned from her mistakes. This novel is entirely fictional.] Pei Min, Chief Eunuch of the Eastern Depot, wielded absolute power and was bloodthirsty and brutal. The 93.9kReads9.3Score7.4kShelves
- 75 Stop Flirting, Chancellor: The Empress Only Wants to Build Her Empire 丞相别撩：女帝只想搞事业 Yuan Xin transmigrates into a book as Yuan Xiheng, the early-story villain and the male lead’s doomed older sister. Just who is Yuan Xiheng? The seventh emperor of the Qi Kingdom. The trouble is, this empress… She neglects affairs of state and the people, and lives in extravagant excess. All across the kingdom, people complain, and the common folk can barely survive. The male lead has a miserable time cleaning up her messes later on, leaving him no time for romance. The readers aren’t happy abou 619Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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My Boyfriend Has a Female Best Friend, and I Have a Male Best Friend 男朋友有女兄弟，我有男闺蜜
My boyfriend has a girl best friend, so I have a guy best friend.
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The Blind White Lotus Mistakes Her Husband, Driving the Sickly Power Minister Mad 瞎眼白莲认错夫君，逼疯病娇权臣
[Mutual devotion + political intrigue + revenge + punishing scoundrels + testing and push-pull + two strong leads + secretly ruthless and unhinged + yandere + forced love + possessiveness] Fake innocent white lotus with a truly dark heart VS fake aloof man who’s truly a yandere Mu Yan is the daughter of Mu Kun, the Grand Secretary of the Great Jin. Six years ago, a coup drove Mu Kun to his death through the combined oppression of the court and the imperial family. Overnight, he became a disgrace
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- 78 Transmigrated into the Beast World as a Rare Female, She Is Forced into Love 穿成兽世稀有雌性，她被强制爱了 [Reverse harem + planar trading system + farming and settlement building] Su Qianqian transmigrated to the primeval Beastworld, where she became a rare female. She refused to become a breeding tool for the beastmen and fought desperately to escape. By chance, she activated a planar trading System, using the Beastworld's specialties to trade with merchants from other planes. She exchanged for rice, flour, cooking oil, and everyday goods from the modern world; mechs and warships from the interstel 3.3kReads9.0Score392Shelves
- 79 You Laid Off Your Top Salesperson? After I Poached the Entire Core Team, My Former Boss Went Mad with Regret 裁员裁销冠？我把整个核心团队挖走后，前老板悔疯了 You Fired Your Top Salesperson? After I Poached the Entire Core Team, My Former Boss Regretted It Like Crazy 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Only After Dad Brought His Illegitimate Daughter Home Did I Understand Why a Mother's Love Can Disappear 爸爸把私生女接回家后，我才明白母爱为何会消失 Only after Dad brought his illegitimate daughter home did I understand why a mother's love can disappear 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 When He Learned I’d Secretly Taken Contraceptive Soup, the Powerful Minister Turned Dark 得知我偷喝避子汤后，权臣黑化了 [Household intrigue + sweet romance + rise to power + age and height gap + a touch of healing] Tan Yin is the third daughter among the Song family's concubine-born daughters. When she was twelve, she accidentally ate crab roe and broke out in a rash all over her body. A plague was sweeping through Jiangnan at the time, and everyone feared it might be smallpox. So they sent Tan Yin to Puhua Mountain outside the capital, leaving her to fend for herself. Five years passed, and no one came to see he 15.1kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
- 82 I'm the Unwanted Child in My Family 我是家里多余的孩子 I'm the Unwanted Child in My Family 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 After the Empress Flees, the Regent Goes Mad with Jealousy 皇后私逃后，摄政王疯红眼 [Traditional historical romance + possessive love + coercive love + mutual chastity + sweet and angsty] [Powerful, strategic hero vs. strong, intelligent heroine] (The heroine has a hidden identity. The hero wants her body, but gives her his heart too.) She was the woman he had chosen for himself when they were young, but on his deathbed, the late emperor chose her to be the new emperor’s empress. At the investiture ceremony, he humiliated her in every way and seized her place as empress. Ever 1.3kReads8.4Score100Shelves
- 84 I'm Not the Grim Reaper of Obstetrics and Gynecology 我不是妇产科死神 I'm Not the Grim Reaper of Obstetrics and Gynecology 233Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 The Beautiful, Sweet Princess of a Fallen Kingdom and the Mad Emperor Who Loves Her Obsessively 亡国公主美又娇，病娇疯帝强制爱 (Main story complete) The groveling chase for a wife + the beloved of everyone + forced love + taking by force + devoted to each other Rebellious princess of a fallen kingdom VS possessive, sickly tyrant On their wedding night, the Chu army broke through the city walls. Dressed in her bright red wedding gown, Su Mian had waited six years for Chu Junqi, only to receive his furious revenge. She became a prisoner, a caged bird, and the new emperor of Chu's plaything. Three years ago, that man had l 8kReads7.6Score533Shelves
- 86 I'm the One Who'll Deal with the Wicked Neighbor 恶邻自有我来磨 Leave It to Me to Deal with the Wicked Neighbor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Disfigured Concubine's Daughter Turns the Minister's Mansion Upside Down 毁容庶女掀翻尚书府
She is the eldest daughter born to a concubine in the Minister's household, but has few close family ties and is not well liked. When she was five, she caught her mother meeting a man in secret. Already distant from her, her mother became even more estranged from her after that. When she was thirteen, her father's enemy slashed her face, turning her into a laughingstock in the capital. No wealthy young man in the city dared marry her, and everyone called her an old maid. On her eighteenth bir
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- 88 I Followed My Wife to a Hotel, and I Regretted It 跟踪老婆到酒店后，我后悔了 I followed my wife to a hotel, and regretted it 6.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Your Majesty, I Think Your Palace Maid Is Cursing You Again 皇上，你家宫女好像又在骂你 [The irresistible appeal of what you once rejected + powerful men bowing their heads + a double-standard male lead + raising her before a story of power and statecraft + romantic push and pull + he truly doesn’t love her at first, but gives his all once he does] Su Nanchu is unruly. Shen Jingzhi has always known that. But life in the palace is dull, and he doesn’t mind having a little plaything who can kick and scream. She becomes his daily amusement: reading memorials, practicing calligraphy, a 11kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
- 90 After a Whirlwind Wedding, I Became a Rich Woman and Didn't Have to Work Night Shifts 闪婚后我成了富婆，还不用上夜班 After a Whirlwind Marriage, I Became a Rich Woman and Didn't Have to Work the Night Shift 11.7kReads—Score100Shelves
- 91 Breaking Her Bewitching Bones 折她艳骨 Completed [Pure Historical Romance + Possessive Love + Amoral Hero with a Virtuous-Husband Side + Groveling Reunion + Dark, Angsty Romance with Sweet Moments] (Controlling! Goes mad with jealousy! Both are romantically inexperienced! A seemingly gentle but secretly dark, lovesick power minister vs. a resilient heroine who plans every step) Jiang Yu married the gentle and refined Chief Councillor. He cooked for her and combed her hair before the mirror. Because she was frail, he never went anywhe 11.2kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 92 After I Left the Family Chat, My Daughter-in-Law Fell Apart 我退出家庭群后，儿媳崩溃了 After I left the family group chat, my daughter-in-law fell apart 1.7kReads—Score—Shelves
- 93 After My Husband Returned from a Business Trip to Chengdu, a Casual Short Video Made Me Go Viral 老公从成都出差回来后，我随手发个短视频爆火了 After My Husband Returned from a Business Trip to Chengdu, a Short Video I Posted on a Whim Went Viral 13.3kReads—Score101Shelves
- 94 My Lord Chancellor, the Princess Has Your Baby 丞相大人，长公主她怀了您的崽儿 [Devoted couple + sweet romance + palace and household intrigue + both transmigrate into a book] [Movie-star Grand Princess × movie-star powerful minister] Feng Xun, a star from the entertainment world, transmigrated into a book and became a villainous Grand Princess destined to be skinned alive, dismembered, and reduced to a human stump! The cruel Grand Princess kept male favorites and killed loyal officials, earning everyone’s hatred. She even turned her vicious attention toward the handsome m 681Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 95 After My Husband Cheated, I Ran the Company into Bankruptcy 老公出轨后，我把公司搞破产了 After My Husband Cheated, I Ran the Company into Bankruptcy 5.8kReads—Score—Shelves
- 96 After I Was Rumored to Have Slept My Way Up with a Beautiful CEO 被造谣靠美女总裁上位后 After Rumors Spread That I Rose to the Top by Relying on a Beautiful Female CEO 1.5kReads—Score—Shelves
- 97 After the Million-Yuan Year-End Bonus Was Canceled, the Whole Company Regretted It 百万年终奖取消后，全公司都后悔了 The Million-Yuan Year-End Bonus Was Canceled, and the Whole Company Regretted It 2.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 98 My Comatose Husband Woke Up After I Married Him to Bring Him Good Luck 植物人老公被我冲喜冲醒了 My Vegetative Husband Woke Up After I Married Him for Good Luck 2.5kReads—Score—Shelves
- 99 While I Was Away on a Business Trip, My Home Became Their Love Hotel 人在外地出差，我家成了他们的钟点房 While I was away on a business trip, my home became their hourly hotel 3.5kReads—Score—Shelves
- 100 The Perfect 50-50 Split 完美AA制 The Perfect 50-50 Split 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
