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If You’re Not Ruthless as a Concubine, You’ll Never Rise 为妾不狠，地位不稳
[Reborn + Scheming + Ambitious Heroine] Zhao Youyou and her legitimate elder sister were both reborn. In their previous lives, Zhao Youyou married a newly appointed top scholar from a humble family, while her sister became a concubine to Prince Qi. When Prince Qi ascended the throne, her sister became Consort Shu. She should have enjoyed a life of glory, but she couldn’t hold her own against the women in the imperial harem and eventually died in despair. Meanwhile, Zhao Youyou, who had married b
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- 152 Ode to the Journey Ahead 将行赋 At court, he is praised by all as a gracious gentleman, yet he insists on taking her as his wife. She is already married to another man, who cherishes her beyond measure and protects her with his life. But he refuses to give up. One scheme after another, one conspiracy after another, he vows to crush their marriage beneath the weight of imperial power. The Crown Prince watches them like a tiger stalking its prey, while the Third Prince conceals his sharp edge. The court is a storm of blades, whe 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Courtesan Consort: The Prince's Precious Snow 勾栏罪妃，她是王爷掌中雪
❗️❗️ [The Long Road to Winning Her Back] In this life, the one thing he never did was tell her, “I love you.” She was snow in the palm of his hand: the moment he had her, he lost her. 🔥 [The Memory-Devouring Twin Gu: One Swallows the Past, the Other Buries the Rest of Your Life] It all began with a conspiracy! He was the emperor’s younger brother, the only prince of the direct imperial line. He was deeply in love with the current empress, his sister-in-law. Overnight, she became the daughter of
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Snowbound in the Capital 风雪京华
Disaster strikes the border town. After losing both her parents and enduring countless hardships, an orphaned girl travels to the capital to seek refuge with relatives, only to be driven from their home. A face resembling her birth mother's brings old secrets to light, and a pair of Buddhist prayer beads entwines their fates. Second Young Master Gu: “I watched her grow up!” General Xiao: “Love doesn't come with first dibs.”
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The Tarnished Young Noble 蒙尘贵公子
[Historical Romance + Sweet Romance + Winning Her Back + Happy Ending] Ming He thought her husband was the most remarkable man in the world. He could recite poems like the most learned teacher at the academy, lines she didn’t fully understand but found utterly lovely, and even his offhand references to old stories carried an elegant, literary charm. He could also move like the fleetest hunter in the mountains, leaping and climbing with astonishing skill, as if these towering peaks were his own
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- 156 The One Destined for Me: The Crown Pact 命定之人：王冠契 The day they first met, the snow had stopped and the sky was clear, with the golden sun just rising. She seemed like a fairy who had accidentally fallen from the ninth-tier Jade Lake into the mortal world. By chance, she stepped through the pristine snow, bringing an air of cool purity to this ordinary place. He reined in his horse at the corner of the bustling street. Seeing her breathtaking beauty and hearing 115Reads6.7Score—Shelves
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I Pledge You the Azure Clouds and Moon, You Owe Me Blood for My Beauty 许君苍云月，还君红颜血
For a hundred years, the land has been divided between north and south, and the fires of war have raged for a thousand miles. The Cangyun River cuts across the Central Plains. Southern Chu holds the fertile lands south of the river, defending itself behind natural barriers; Northern Qi commands the iron cavalry of the north and eyes the whole realm. Humanity has slaughtered its own for a hundred years, leaving rivers of blood, unaware that an even greater catastrophe is brewing in the shadows. I
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My Bandit Wife 我的土匪娘子
[Rough-and-tumble bandit magistrate × shamelessly tenacious, eccentric, crooked lawyer] Hua Xiaodao, the boss of Blackwind Stronghold, is ruthless and never wastes words. Halfway through a robbery, the county magistrate drops dead. To keep her brothers from having to beg for food, she grabs the official seal and stuffs it into her arms. “I’ll take the job!” But the waters of officialdom run deeper than she imagined. The art of governance? What the hell would a female bandit know about that? She
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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- 160 After I Transmigrated, My Whole Family Turned Out to Be Villains 穿越之我全家都是反派 Content warning: Lots of crude bathroom humor. Don't read while eating. Version One: Jiang Mianmian transmigrates. Her father is a scheming scholar with the face of a kindly man. Her mother has the face of a bodhisattva and the heart of a ruthless killer. Her eldest brother looks simple-minded but is cunning at heart. Her second sister is selfish and sharp-tongued. They were born destined to be villains. To highlight the protagonist's justice, kindness, and greatness, they work hard to do all so 137.8kReads9.6Score16.6kShelves
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What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统：全二册（王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著）
What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his
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- 162 Marrying Up 攀高枝 [Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping 163.8kReads9.6Score22.8kShelves
- 163 Spring's Joy, Year After Year 岁岁春欢 [The print edition of Years of Spring Joy is now available on all platforms] [Heroine and scumbag reborn + male lead transmigrates + mutual salvation + play the pig to eat the tiger] At seventeen, Shen Jiasui married Lu Yunzheng. The Shen and Lu families were both military dynasties, making them a formidable match. Two years into their marriage, Lu Yunzheng defeated the enemy kingdom and won renown across the land. But the Shen family was condemned for treason and executed to the last member. On 266.6kReads9.6Score31.2kShelves
- 164 Joy with You 与君欢 [Palace Intrigue and Political Scheming + Marriage Before Love + Mutual Devotion] A young king and queen join hands to bring peace to the realm, brimming with ambition! A sinister, calculating ruler versus a clever, decisive queen: evenly matched, they win the world together! Jiang He, daughter of an envoy from Qi, was forced to enter the palace as a servant after her mother died and her father disappeared. Then, just before the marriage alliance, the princess of Qi died a tragic death, leaving 27kReads9.5Score3.5kShelves
- 165 Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷 [The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he 18.6kReads9.6Score4.2kShelves
- 166 The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎 When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their 10.4kReads9.6Score1.6kShelves
- 167 Ride Out to Battle, Peach Blossoms in My Wake 桃花马上请长缨 The short drama adaptation of June's novel, Power and Favor 3: Power and Favor in the Capital, is now available on Hongguo App. She cared for her in-laws and used her dowry to support the General's household, only for him to use his hard-won military achievements to ask for the female general's hand as his equal wife. Zhan Beiwang mocked her. “Song Xixie, do you know that your fine clothes, rich food, and glittering jewels all come from General Yi Fang and me fighting bloody battles to hold back 15kReads9.5Score5.5kShelves
- 168 Green Shoots on the Branch 绿上枝头 [Signed for print] [Brave, steadfast transmigrated heroine VS cool, clearheaded young noble] [Transmigration + rebirth + prominent family + household intrigue + feel-good + career building + strong heroine + light comedy] Jiang Lübao, daughter of a censor, was unexpectedly kidnapped and had her reputation ruined. The marriage that had already been arranged for her was called off, too. For a young woman from a prominent family, this was a devastating blow. But she burst out laughing. No one knew 86.2kReads9.6Score9.6kShelves
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The Tale of Wen Tan 文檀传
A perceptive, worldly beauty × a jade-faced marquis Wen Tan thought this was all life had to offer: scheming against the other girls in the training house, waiting for some rich man to buy her, and rotting away in the mud. Then Marquis Jiarui offered her a chance to work together. “I need a fiancée, and you need somewhere to belong. Why not make a deal?” And so she transformed from a Yangzhou beauty bred for sale into an official's daughter in the capital, nervously navigating a world of power a
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Please Take a Number, Immortal Venerable Treats Heart Demons 请挂号，本仙尊专治心魔
Xie Lin, a psychology PhD who failed his tribulation, transmigrates into the body of a crippled nobody in the cultivation world. Here, might makes right and inner demons run rampant, yet no one understands psychological counseling. So he returns to his old profession and hangs up a sign: [Appointments available. Inner demons treated, guaranteed results]. The Sword Venerable is tormented by love, his Dao heart on the verge of shattering? He uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help him break free
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The Revelation of Qingcheng Fuyao 倾城扶摇启示录
Every crisis is a chance to rise higher. She goes from being a brothel girl to a servant in the Chancellor’s residence, becomes a princess consort through a substitute marriage, and helps a foolish prince to save her own life, only to become queen. Choosing practicality over a chivalrous hero or an emperor, she takes an unconventional path to become the queen who unifies the Central Plains.
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The Brocade Calamity: Kindling 锦绣劫之火种
A bloodstained painting of “A Hundred Lotuses” and an old, dark teal seal lead to the massacre of the entire family of the Northern Frontier’s God of War fifteen years ago. Embroiderer Xiao Xiu sets out to uncover the truth behind her family’s destruction, joining Pei Qi, a guard of mysterious origins, on a perilous journey north across the snowy wasteland. From Lin’an to Heishui City, from mountain mines to the towering imperial palace, they carry the secret of “Snowbound Green,” powerful enoug
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The Belated Return of the Old Sword 迟归故剑
The Late Return of the Ancient Sword
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- 174 Record of a Thousand Lanterns 千灯录 [Mystery solving + palace intrigue and household scheming + face-slapping and revenge + powerful families + court and kingdom] Fifteen prospective husbands are locked in a fight to the death in my family’s back courtyard, while all I want is to become a nun. Schemes and deceit, suspicion at every turn, bloodshed and tragedy piling up, a deadly battle in the back courtyard with no survivors allowed. [The high-born judge of the Court of Judicial Review, who loves wiping out entire households] x [T 22.7kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves
- 175 A Rhapsody of Palace Flowers 宫花赋 [A no-nonsense, trope-defying palace-intrigue drama + no love for the emperor + ensemble of women] Everyone has their own ambitions. I have no interest in fighting other women over a man. She was little Qing Luo, a girl who valued her life above all else. Abandoned by her parents as a child, she had wandered through hardship until she entered the Forbidden City, where she met the beautiful, gracious Yue Ren and the clever, perceptive Lü Zhu. At last, her wandering heart found a home. The three s 30.1kReads9.6Score4kShelves
- 176 The Record of Hairpins (Complete in 4 Volumes) 簪中录（全4册） The little red fish Agashnie, which feeds on human blood; the mysterious talisman that had followed Li Shubai for years; Empress Wang, the peerless beauty of the Daming Palace; three clusters of doodles written by the late emperor himself before his death; a marriage contract made with Wang Yun in their youth... Every mystery returns to its point of origin. Every choice remains beyond anyone’s control, as impossible to resist or escape as fate itself. Yang Chonggu has returned to the palace and 17.3kReads9.7Score2.8kShelves
- 177 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 29.5kReads9.6Score3.5kShelves
- 178 Song in the Mirror: The Female Regent’s Beloved Slave Husband 镜中歌：女摄政王的奴隶宠夫 [Strong heroine + mutual devotion + powerful heroine + stunning twists + happy ending] In the Tianling Kingdom, women ruled, and one woman could have several husbands. She, Bai Jinghe, was the true power behind the Tianling Kingdom. Accomplished in both letters and arms, beautiful and talented, she held the court in her grasp. He, A Mo, was a slave offered as tribute to Tianling by Jingyan. He was dressed in rags, sickly and broken, with a shattered arm. Angry after a quarrel with her secondary 51Reads—Score—Shelves
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Playing Chess with You: The Phoenix's Power 与君奕：凰权
(The rating has only just opened and will rise later) “Political intrigue + evenly matched leads + marriage before love + traditional war for supremacy in a chaotic age + ensemble cast + powerful female lead + nation and family” In these chaotic times, even a monarch can hardly hope for a lifetime of peace. Crowned heir to the throne at six, named crown prince at eight, and enthroned at twelve, Yan Xi was the “future savior of the Yan Kingdom” foretold by an astrologer, blessed with the Purple
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- 180 Has the Grand Tutor Forced Anyone to Love Him Today? 太傅大人今天强制爱了吗 [Yandere obsession + coercive possession + extreme possessiveness + brooding male lead + mutual firsts + tragic ending] [Clear-headed beauty vs. aloof madman] Chu Yanchen was born cold and indifferent, yet a dazzling, proud princess was the one person who could cloud his mind. He plotted every step carefully, becoming her tutor and putting on an air of cool propriety, gentle and courteous. He had meant to win her over slowly, but this hopelessly obtuse girl followed those hidebound rules of etiq 2kReads—Score106Shelves
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Moonlit Flower 明月花
She once held back a thousand troops with a single sword. Her white robes stained with blood, she was breathtakingly beautiful, more stirring than the setting sun on the city wall. When the battle report reached the Northern Yan camp, the Yan Emperor dropped the wine cup in his hand. “How could a woman like this be hidden in my realm?” I vaguely remember: [They first met on a snowy night. With just a few words, she sent a band of thugs running and saved the escort convoy he was leading. The you
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The Scumbag's Whole Family Is a Menace, So I Became Empress and Reduced Them to Ashes 渣男全家是祸害，我封女帝扬其灰
[No brainless plot, no transmigration, no System, no rebirth] With the Duke’s estate on the brink of collapse, Lu Fengzhou enters the palace as a male favorite to serve the empress, willingly becoming a caged songbird for others’ amusement. He does it to preserve his family’s power and glory and keep his younger sister Qingyu safe. Qingyu had only wanted to honor their mother’s dying wish: support each other as siblings, become a wife and mother, and be content with that life. But people are dri
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The Tale of Nan Xin 南心记
He does everything he can to avoid marrying her, while she plots every which way to wed him. He wants her dead, but she fights to survive in the cracks like a resilient blade of grass. He sees through everything, yet still lets her slowly take root in his heart, where she lingers, impossible to forget and impossible to resist…
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I Brought My Family North, and the General Fell for Me 携家北上，将军为我动了心
Wei Shu was a noble young lady of the capital, awaiting marriage, with an enviable match that countless people admired. But after her father offended a powerful court official, he had no choice but to resign and leave the capital. Everyone in the capital sighed over Miss Wei's misfortune. With her family fallen on hard times, surely her marriage was doomed. Meanwhile, Wei Shu, the object of everyone's pity, was riding in a carriage as the procession slowly made its way out of the city. A pair o
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I'm Luo Yujin! Come Fight Me If You Dare 我叫洛玉锦！不服来战
[Innate super strength + dependable best friend + special abilities + guiding threads + backing from a mysterious world] I am the First Female Official of the mighty Zhaoguo! The top-ranked martial arts champion! And yet the empress drove me out of the capital to carry out some ridiculous, important mission of hers. I don't want to! I can't bear to leave the capital's pork knuckles behind!!! Isn't a life of good food and drink wonderful? After more than a decade spent wandering far from home, wh
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- 186 With Jin Chang’an (Based on the Screen Adaptation Starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei) 与晋长安（宋轶、丞磊主演影视原著） The hit drama starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei is now airing! A beloved historical romance by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang! Female general vs. puppy-like boy. The child she casually picked up turns out to have two sides? A cold little gentleman by day, a loyal black knight by night. Is he a puppy turning into a wolf, and which side is the real him? A tale of love and hate between a female general and the heir of an enemy state! Li Shuang, the adopted daughter of a great general, guards the borders of the Grea 5.9kReads9.6Score957Shelves
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After I Swindled the Crown Prince Out of Five Thousand Taels, He Refused to Take It Lying Down! 讹了太子五千两后，他不干了！
Crown Prince Xiao Chen was furious the moment he met Shen Yunxiu: How dare she step on his face? How dare she swindle him out of five thousand taels of silver? She thought that fatso was cuter than him! She loved gold ingots most of all! She was blind! And then, he went blind too! All he could see was Shen Yunxiu!
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All or Nothing, Then Love at First Sight 孤注一掷遇到一眼万年
[A rugged, domineering prince who rules his own domain + a gentle, kind-hearted noblewoman] [No transmigration, no rebirth, protecting family, sweet romance, sweet romance, extra-sweet romance] Lu An Nuan is the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yongning. She wants a free, peaceful life, safe and happy, with nothing to worry about. But the deaths of her mother and maternal grandfather weigh on her heart. To lay those burdens to rest, she must play the part of a noblewoman in the capital and
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A Thousand Miles of Bright Moon: Rising Amidst the Chaos 皓月千里之乱世崛起
A noblewoman rises amid the chaos of war [Empress x Great General] [Power struggles] [Two equally strong leads] [Growth] [The court officials curse me as outrageous. I smile and put an arm around his waist: “We keep each other as lovers. Any objections, gentlemen?”] [Every day, I push myself without rest so I can stand proudly by your side and become someone worthy of you. But no one told me that a Great General can't marry a princess!] [How can a woman like you ascend to the halls of government
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- 190 Scheming for a Beauty 谋红颜 A flood swept away Ru Yu's mother. Everyone said it was a natural disaster, but she alone knew for certain that someone had lowered the iron floodgate with a sneer as the waters surged in. To uncover the mystery behind it, she resolutely descended from Mount Kuocang. Making herself a pawn, she stepped into the treacherous game of power unfolding across the land. 37Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 191 A Mistake, A Meeting 错，相逢 That year, I first came into the world, and the balance of power across the realm was suddenly overturned in silence. The new emperor of Xilu ascended the throne, determined to bring about reforms. In Xidan, the young Emperor Yuan Xi also inherited the throne that same year. They all said I smiled at everyone from the time I was little. Yet at the grandest of enthronement banquets, I looked up and saw a handsome young man in imperial robes, with clear, bright features, and burst into tears. He p 35Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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The Pitiful Little One I Brought Home Is Spoiled Rotten 捡回来的小可怜被娇养了
[Female-led romance. She rescues him, then they fall in love. Mutual pampering in everyday life. A slow, steady relationship. One-on-one, happy ending] Reader's guide: GB does not mean a matriarchal society. The platform automatically tagged this as a story with two male leads. Liu Qiaoniang had a scar on her face and immense strength. She was the town's famous female butcher, and at twenty-six, no one had married her. Zhang Wenyun's family had fallen on hard times. With a limp and his face cake
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Phoenix of the Ashes 烬上尸凰
She was the most ill-omened presence in the imperial palace. The words “Corpse Princess” were the hatred her father had carved into her. Min Shiji knew the human heart inside out and planned every step, all for the chance to survive. He was the empire’s youngest guardian. Beneath Chang Jinyao’s mild-mannered exterior lay the ruthless resolve and cunning of a master strategist. A marriage contract was what he needed, and an opportunity for her. After their wedding, they treated each other with re
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Plucking Flowers in the Dream of the Red Chamber 我在红楼窃花海
What's so bad about being the son of a eunuch? Shen Lang is going to show everyone exactly what's wrong with it! Ever since he took a godfather, his godfather has saved his life, given him money, and paved the way for his future. "Son, don't worry. Whatever happens, I'll back you up. Go ahead and do it!" "I'll help you win over the Jia family's young ladies!" Shen Lang arrives in Dream of the Red Chamber and meets Zhinen'er. What?! So she's the biggest golden finger of all????? Steal them, snatc
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I Pounced on the Scheming Prime Minister 腹黑相爷被我扑倒了
[No-Brain Fun] + [Historical Political Intrigue] ≈ [Sweet Romance] Slow burn! Lighthearted sweet romance. The heroine is a lovable goofball, always positive and optimistic. The hero is a scheming powerful official who plots to rule the world, but the heroine is the one person who leaves him helpless. #Historical Sweet Romance #Scheming Powerful Official #A Blackhearted Hero Beneath a Gentle Facade #Mutual Healing #Feel-Good Power Fantasy #One-on-One, Both Pure #Historical Political Intrigue #Liv
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I Was Reborn, and This Time I'm Going on a Rampage 我重生了，这一世我嘎嘎乱杀
In my past life, I was schemed against and killed by Bai Lianhua and Liu Ruyan! This time, I'll send every one of the people who hurt me straight to hell! Seeing them hate me to the bone yet be powerless to do anything about it is so satisfying! This time, let me weave the path that sends you all to hell! I'm the head of the Wen family business. Watch me put men aside and focus on my career. I'm the leading lady of my own story! I just love building my business! When I try to put men aside, they
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Reborn, I Dump the Young Master, and the Cool, Sweet Second Young Master Spoils Me Rotten 重生踹飞大少爷，冷萌二少宠我到疯狂
Reborn, I Kick the Young Master to the Curb, and the Cool, Adorable Second Young Master Spoils Me Like Crazy
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He Has Someone Else Kneeling at His Feet 裙下之臣他另有其人
To uncover the truth behind her father and brother’s deaths in battle, she abandoned her life of finery and fine horses and spent five years plotting. She pointed her sword at his throat. “You were the only one I never doubted.” He smiled, running his fingers along the blade. “The road to kingship is paved with bones.” In that moment, she finally saw clearly: beyond the mist lay no truth, only the torture he had prepared for her with his own hands. The vast realm ran red as blood, but it could n
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Tao and Li Chronicles 陶李记
My new work is now available! Please visit Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well. The Peach and Plum Chronicles follows the young Junze and the girl Yuqiao as they leave the village that protected and raised them, venture into the martial world, and then enter the imperial court, all in search of the truth: the mystery of their origins and the truth behind the young man's father's death. But lurking behind
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Chronicles of the Netherworld 幽冥记
Set against the backdrop of Song dynasty mythology, the story begins with a journey through the underworld and unfolds through a series of characters and tales. As the Buddha says, “Goodness is the root of all things,” and so loyalty and filial piety are the foundations of being human. Holding on to a single good thought is the righteous path of this world. The Buddha also says, “Desire is the source of resentment in the human heart.” Love can fill the heart with the joy of blooming flowers, but
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