Gentle Male Leads in Historical Novels Are So Rare 温柔古代男主真的少见
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Transmigrate to Ancient Times and Become a Writer 穿越到古代当写手
Modern novelist Qiao Mo unexpectedly transmigrates to an impoverished farming family in ancient times. To make money, she returns to her old trade and starts writing fanfiction about the capital’s notorious Ninth Prince. The Ninth Prince, who plays the pig to eat the tiger: “This story almost exposed my revenge plan. Find out who wrote it!” Qiao Mo: “I shouldn’t have written all those things that were way too true!” The Ninth Prince: “Then I’ll punish you by making you my favorite consort. You c
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The Little Palace Maid's Art of Slacking: My Prince Is Simply the Best 小宫女摸鱼有道:我家王爷千千岁
[A palace maid who loves to slack off vs. the frail Ninth Prince] Palace maid Su Ye spends ten months’ savings greasing a few palms and finally gets transferred to Prince Chu Yi’s Qining Palace. She isn’t looking for a promotion or a raise. She just wants to lie flat and slack off! When they first meet, Chu Yi says, “Qining Palace is a bleak place. Spending money to come work for me sounds like a bad deal.” Three months later, Su Ye asks, “Your Highness, how many times have you rewarded me now?”
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Spring Runs Deep in the Golden Palace 金阙春深
[Gorgeous, timid crown princess × dark, unhinged emperor × radiant crown prince] On the day of the imperial selection, Emperor Chengming, Xiao Ke, unexpectedly ran into a “young palace maid” in the imperial gardens. The “young palace maid” was drawn into a struggle within the royal family, beginning a life of political maneuvering in which she would turn the tides. Several months later, the Eastern Palace held a grand wedding. The “young palace maid,” dressed in her phoenix coronet and red weddi
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Come Here and Give Me a Kiss 过来亲一下
[Print edition now available] [Published as Summer's Lucky Charm] ☆Cool, gentle boy × world-weary, listless girl☆ [One-on-one sweet romance | School life, comedy, doting romance, redemption, healing] Wen Jibai always sincerely believed her new deskmate was a handsome, aloof heartthrob who took advantage of his looks and treated everyone coldly. Until one day, she saw this search in his Baidu history: [This is so annoying. What should I do if I've fallen for my deskmate?]
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Burning Hot! 炙热沦陷!
(The print edition, titled Song of Sheng, is now available, and the online comic of the same name is complete.) [Flirty Romance]+ [Reborn School Life]+ [Mutual Healing]+ [Obsessive Sweet Romance] A striking, warm, and gentle girl with vivid features × a brooding, handsome, and rebellious young man Only when Shengge was dying did she learn that a boy had loved her with all his heart. The first time they met in her previous life, the carefree boy asked her, “Hey, new student, what's your name?” Sh
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After Turning into a Cat, I Spoiled the Great General 变成猫后,我娇养了大将军
[Complete. The rating will rise, so enjoy!] When Jing Yuan woke up, she found herself at a frontier post thousands of li from home. That would have been bad enough, but she had turned into a little cat! After the great general Chu Mo, stationed there, brought her back to his residence, she enjoyed a carefree life as the household's beloved pet. In her eyes, Chu Mo was a mighty, omnipotent hero, like a god. Later, though, she discovered that her great hero was a fool who wouldn't put medicine on
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The Sound of Spring 闻春声
[Taciturn, stammering country hunk VS vivacious, fiery widow. Farming romance, one-on-one, both leads’ first relationship] [She makes the first move, and the unyielding tree finally blossoms. A period farming romance] At the matchmaker's urging, young Yao Chunniang took her dowry and married into the Zhang family in Lishui Village. Who could have guessed that on their wedding night, her sickly husband would close his eyes and die? Before Yao Chunniang could even process what had happened, she ha
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If the Male Lead Is Out of Reach, the Villain Is a Better Deal 不是男主要不起,反派更有性价比
The short drama adaptation of Quick Transmigration: Spoiled and Cherished is now available on Fanqie, the comic is out, and a print edition is in the works. Please show your support. [Sweet romance + yandere, one-on-one] To stay alive, Sheng Nuan must transmigrate into different worlds, play doomed cannon fodder, and save the darkest villains. They're cold-blooded, obsessive, and ruthless, capable of leaving a million corpses in their wake with a laugh and destroying the world with a wave of the
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She Keeps Teasing Me 她总调戏我
The print edition of Wishing Upon a Star is now available [One-on-one sweet romance + reborn school days + mutual salvation + healing doting romance] Only when Xu Yuan was dying did she realize that the quiet, sickly boy everyone overlooked had made his first act after getting his sight back dragging the demons who had bullied and humiliated her straight to hell. After being reborn, aside from getting revenge, Xu Yuan’s greatest pleasure was… repaying his kindness, pfft… Teasing an innocent youn
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The Fox Eyes Its Prey 狐视眈眈
Of the three wealthiest families in S City, the Xiao family’s young master was the first to have a marriage arranged. But their families were far from equally matched, and no one had faith in the couple. Even Young Master Xiao disliked his fiancée and had someone else in mind. Then Young Master Xiao was dumped by his fiancée. After that, his ex-fiancée got together with his childhood friend. Before long, a story spread through S City about two brothers turning against each other over one woman,
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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A Gentle Love Blossoms in My Heart 栀上心头,轻轻宠
[Sweet, delicate dancer × dashing, carefree young master] Seven-year age gap #sweet romance #both leads are each other’s first love #happy ending #everyday life * Su Wenjing was a young master from one of the wealthiest families. He was talented but wild and carefree, with people constantly coming and going from his life, yet he never seemed to care about anyone. He truly lived by the saying, “Though he walks among a thousand flowers, not a single petal clings to him.” His friends teased him, as
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Cast-Off Daughter of a Military Family? I'm the Moon in His Heart 将门弃妇?她是本王的心上月
[Dual Rebirth] [The Ex-Wife Wants Him Back] The short drama adaptation is now online: The General’s Abandoned Consort Qu Jinshu married the great general He Xiujun at eighteen. To protect him, she became a prisoner of an enemy nation, her face disfigured and her martial arts skills destroyed. On the day the city fell, what awaited her was his arrow through her heart. He said “I married you only to take revenge.” “If you hadn’t refused to marry the foolish Prince Jing, your elder sister wouldn’t
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Her Beauty Is Hard to Resist! The Dali Temple Chief Is as Fierce as a Wolf 姝色难逃!大理寺卿他如狼似虎
[Beautiful, Resilient Fallen Noblewoman × Stern, Devoted Minister of the Court of Judicial Review] [Historical Romance + Devoted Couple + Sweet Romance + Long-Laid Plans + Mutual Pining] [Male Lead’s Perspective: Long-Laid Plans; Female Lead’s Perspective: Each Gets What They Need] Meng Yunzhi, daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites, was famous in Luojing for her graceful beauty, with glossy dark hair and a slender, delicate figure. She was engaged to a young master of the Qi family. Once he
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The Sweet Yet Fierce Young Hunter 又奶又狼小猎户
[The main story is complete. The out-of-character sections mentioned in some reviews have all been deleted and rewritten. If you love sweet, doting romance, dive right in!] Warm and affectionate, lighthearted and funny. A younger puppy-like guy who puts all his energy into his big sister. The heroine transmigrates into another body and dotes on a young hunter. The young man drops to his knees before his brother and sister-in-law. “Big Brother, Sister-in-Law, I want her. Please let us be together
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I'm Done Pretending: Mr. Jiang Wants to Cuddle His Wife Every Day 不装了,江总每天都想和老婆贴贴
A gentle beauty from a scholarly family x A reserved, deep-minded power player from the capital [Flash Marriage + Married First, Love Later + A Steady, Everyday Married Life + Eight-Year Age Gap + Both Pure + Sweet 1v1 Romance] Everyone at Jing University knows that Song Yining is a delicate beauty who's hard to pursue. Jiang Cheng refuses to give up. After going to great lengths for three months, he finally wins her over. But later, he casually tells someone else, “She's so boring. There's noth
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The Crown Princess, Chosen by Imperial Decree? The Crown Prince Can't Compare to the Grand Tutor! 钦定太子妃?太子哪儿有太傅香!
Ya Tao never wanted to spend her whole life as an assassin in the martial world. By a twist of fate, she blunders into the imperial palace and is named the crown prince's fiancée. The palace walls are silent and its rules strict. The only person worth savoring is the gentle, jade-like tutor, a man who is humble and scrupulous about propriety. One evening at dusk, Song Xu kneels in her chambers and looks up at her, the corners of his eyes red. He says, “The palace nobles are untouchable, but I
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After I Changed Targets, the Cool and Collected Chief Secretary Turned Dark 更换攻略对象后,清冷首辅黑化了
[Dark Pursuit After Betrayal + No Getting Back Together + Rivalry Between Men for the Heroine + Second Male Lead Wins] Thirty days remained on the conquest countdown when Shen Lanyin decided to replace her with the real heiress as his betrothed. Unwilling to be erased, she drugged Shen Lanyin. At the height of their passion, she wrapped her arms around his neck. “Lanyin, you’ll marry me, won’t you?” He said nothing. She settled for less. “Would you take Zhu Yue as your second wife?” Shen Lanyin’
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Reborn, I Become My Arch-Enemy's Living Widow Sister-in-Law 重生后,我成了死敌的活寡嫂子
[Both leads are reborn + sister-in-law and brother-in-law + an aloof beauty brought down from her pedestal + emotional push and pull + winning her heart and her body + devoted couple] The Eastern Palace has no crown prince, and the princes are locked in a fierce struggle for the throne. Ning Miao and Yan Mobai are the top strategists of their generation, each serving a different master. They cross paths over a map of iron mines and kill each other. Only after her death does Ning Miao learn tha
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Transmigrating into a Book Set in the 1970s: On My Wedding Night, I'm Sent Next Door to Stay 穿书七零:新婚夜被送到隔壁借宿
[Period setting + transmigrate into a book + face-slapping + beloved by all + devoted couple + no golden finger] On the day of her wedding, Lin Jianchun is suspected of bringing bad luck to her mother-in-law, so her new husband sends her to spend the night at the Lu family’s house next door. Unexpectedly, the owner of the bed comes home in the middle of the night… That’s when she transmigrates into the story. Remembering that she was punished with transmigration just for cursing out the author,
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I Fell for a General Online, and Now I'm Living the Good Life 和将军网恋后,我躺赢了
[One-on-one romance + Sweet indulgence + Otherworld] After her newly purchased phone met with a tragic end, Feng Qingyi got a beat-up, eighteenth-hand phone for twenty yuan. To her surprise, the piece of junk was transformed in the blink of an eye. It now had a mysterious shop and a handsome man who claimed to be a general. To earn points and buy things, Feng Qingyi had no choice but to chat and video call with the handsome man. She never expected to fall for him along the way. Qin Yuchuan, a gr
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Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女,她本色出演
[Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the
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After Nearly Dying, I Become a Healer and Investigate the Truth 险死还生后,我化身医女查真相
Scheming Prince vs. Fallen Noblewoman, household intrigue and palace strife + historical romance + sweet indulgence + political scheming. A traditional historical romance with no rebirth and no transmigration. She is a noblewoman from a prestigious family, with a refined, beautiful appearance. But when her family falls into ruin, she becomes an orphan everyone can bully. A cruel servant pushes her off a cliff, and her fiance suddenly breaks off their engagement to marry her cousin. Then she
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I’d Be Content to Serve at Her Feet: I’ll Make My Lord Empress 愿为裙下臣之奉主为帝
Political intrigue + romance (the leads aren’t each other’s first, and there are no obstacles in the way. This is definitely not a road to kindergarten). The sweetest romance ever!!! She teases him, and he tells her she has no manners or shame. Then she stops pursuing him, and he panics.
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Liu Jingyue 柳惊月
[Ending] At first, he thought he had merely fallen in love with an assassin, and waited for the day they would meet again. Little did he know that the girl he was waiting for had already been sent by his own hand to marry for peace. He had taught her the difference between good and evil, and shown her compassion. Looking back, he could only think how hypocritical he had been. “I was a fool to think I could save you.” Now she had become a princess revered by all, while he was left consumed with r
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Plum Blossoms Fade, Yet Their Secret Fragrance Returns 梅烬又有暗香来
[Old-school flavor + slow-burn, richly layered romance] I said, “This is for the best. This way, you’ll remember how good I was to you forever...” He said, “This is not for the best. Just when you loved me most, I chose to let you go...” The bright moon over Shengjing shines upon my borderland armor... In the storybooks, she is the woman general who has renounced love and shed blood on the frontier; In the powerful chancellor’s eyes, she is a red plum that does not vie with peach or plum blossom
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The General Crosses the Jade Gate 将军度玉关
In the twenty-first year of the Tianxing era, Qi Mingyue had been at Yumen Pass for nine years. Yumen Pass was the Great Yu dynasty’s first line of defense against the Xiongnu. Nine years ago, her parents died in battle there. Ten-year-old Qi Mingyue came alone from the capital and, as a woman, held Yumen Pass.
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A Noble Daughter? She'd Rather Seize the Desert with Her Blade 金枝玉叶?她偏要刀定龙沙
Slow-burn, old-school romance · The imperial princess Shen Mianmian She was the most honored princess of the Great Sheng and the fiercest blade on the western frontier. Her father said she belonged among silks and brocades, counting stars, but she insisted on riding out with a blade in hand, scattering blossoms into the yellow sands. He was gentle as a teacher! A secret romance that grew into love? He was a scheming fox of a man! A love he would seize by force? He was determined to marry a princ
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The Delicate Princess Is Coddled by the Chief Minister Every Day 郡主是个小娇矜,首辅日日哄
[One-on-One Romance, Both Inexperienced, Sweet Romance, Marriage Before Love, Everyday Romance] [Bold, Proud Little Commandery Princess × Gentle, Refined Former Chief Minister] Her father was a prince, her aunt the empress. Commandery Princess Fu Lingjun of Chaohua had been doted on and spoiled since childhood, surrounded by every luxury. In the capital, she could do whatever she pleased. Li Qian, a rising star at court, was born to a poor family. He passed the highest imperial exam at eighteen
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Let the Past Drift Away 既往随风散
The married life of a gentle, upright official and a gracious young lady who understands others. Follow their quiet, sweet journey of mutual healing as these soulmates support each other through life. The calculating, devoted young heir of a marquis’s household × the dignified, clever daughter of a prominent family
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Transmigrated as the Sweetheart of a Healing-Eyed Assassin 穿成治愈异瞳杀手的小蜜糖
[Insecure, Loyal-Eyed Assassin × Considerate, Gentle Young Lady] They say that monster with the different-colored eyes is cursed, a demon who kills without blinking. Anyone who gets close to him will be trapped in a curse and meet a gruesome end. But right now, the great demon is averting his gaze, too shy to look at her. When their eyes meet, he nervously turns his face away. And when he smiles, he even has a pair of dimples. Zhou Mi (shouting): Have you ever seen a demon this sweet? As a chil
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Body Swap: The God of War Prince Takes Over My Household Battles 身体互换:战神王爷替我宅斗
[1v1, Fun Romantic Comedy, HE, Wise and Cool-Headed Young Lady vs. Adorable God of War Prince, Both Chaste, Happy Ending] The people of the Jiang household notice that their young lady has been acting strangely lately. The young lady used to be quiet and gentle. Now she’s still quiet, but there’s a murderous aura about her. In the garden, her sweet-talking younger sister affectionately reaches to link arms with her. Ye Zhan dodges at once, her voice full of disdain. “If you want to talk, then ta
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I Transmigrated into an Old-School Tragic Romance, and I'm Giving Everyone a Happy Ending 穿进古早虐文,本红娘要全员HE
[Both leads are devoted to each other + comedy + transmigrate into a book + female supporting character + sweet romance + System] (A silly transmigrated heroine × a crafty, clever hero) (This story doesn't vilify the original leads, break up the original couple, or steal the original protagonists' opportunities. Everyone gets along.) After spending eighteen years bedridden, she suddenly dies. When she wakes up, she has become Hua Qingsu, the third daughter of the Minister of Revenue's household
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The Crown Prince's Consort Turns Dark After Being Reborn 世子妃重生后黑化了
My new novel, The Chancellor Who Betrayed Me Is Reborn and Begging Me for a Meal, is now available~ [Fake and real heiresses] Chu Miao was born the eldest legitimate daughter of the Chancellor's residence, but her life was switched at birth with a village woman's daughter. When her family finds her, she becomes a pawn of her parents and the imperial family. She is deceived into marrying Xiao Rongjin, the legitimate son of the Prince of Pingnan. Her father-in-law is a war god who has never known
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A General Is No Boy 将军非少年
If “I love you” is good fortune, then for her, “You’re free” is salvation. “Si Youjin, you can protect these splendid rivers and mountains, you can protect these beautiful years, but can you protect yourself?” She sat atop the city wall and gave no answer…
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Clear Skies, Abundant Joy 霁色逢盈
[One-on-One, Both Leads Are Virgins + Happy Ending + Heroine Truly Falls for His Looks ✖ Male Lead Pretends to Be Vengeful] After her first marriage fell apart, Qian Fengying got drunk and spent one night with Shen Jichun, a poor scholar. When she woke, she tossed him some gold as payment and left without a backward glance, never realizing the debt she had left behind. Shen Ji rose through the ranks at court and took charge of the Court of Judicial Review, his vermilion brush deciding who lived
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A Floating Life in Blue Robes [Female-to-Male Transmigration] 青衣浮生【女穿男】
Reader’s note: A woman transmigrates into a man, marries, and there is one couple throughout. The story is low-key, with no major twists, no inner-courtyard scheming, and only basic political machinations. Please read only if you’re okay with all that. I was a modern-day overworked teacher who suddenly died and transmigrated into the lowly illegitimate son of the Marquis of Daqi’s household. The moment I opened my eyes, I was faced with the terrifying reality of having the wrong gender, and I’d
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
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