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  1. 1 The Crown Prince Is a Treasure Trove, but She Flirts and Runs 太子浑身是宝,但她撩完就跑 Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Clever revenge + ensemble court drama + male lead fakes his death and reveals his identity, then goes mad + heroine is his one true love] [Power couple comedy | Strategic mind games | All the right ingredients | Fictional setting] Axiang, a huntress, bought herself a live-in husband. He was handsome, with a fine figure and a noble, radiant air, like an immortal crane descended from the heavens, or a jade-faced gentleman from a storybook. But he had no idea how to show affection. When she offer 1.5kReads9.2Score185Shelves
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  2. 2 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 Ancient Romance400k WordsCompleted [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 11kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
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  3. 3 I Opened My Eyes and Became the Flirtatious Side Character Who Abused the Down-and-Out Prince 睁眼!成虐待落魄皇子的轻浮女配 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The short drama “Reborn as a Flirtatious Widow, I Tormented My Younger Brother-in-Law Until He Ascended the Throne” is now streaming. Prince Ding, Xiao Nanshen, was the Great Xuan's God of War. But people close to him set him up, leaving him gravely wounded and disabled, then pursued him. When poison reached his brain, his subordinate disguised him as a long-lost younger brother and brought him home to hide him. The subordinate died of his injuries, and Xiao Nanshen found himself face-to-face wi 46kReads9.3Score5.4kShelves
  4. 4 Steal from the Imperial Palace to Raise the Prince: Anyone in My Way Dies 偷皇宫养皇子,谁挡路谁就死 Ancient Romance603k WordsCompleted [Thieving Maid ✖️ Prince of the Cold Palace] Two equally formidable leads, fiercely protective, raising him first, then fighting for power After dying, Shan Zhi transmigrates and is reborn in the Cold Palace. The moment she opens her eyes, Si Huaizheng is hoping she’ll die. Not the best start. … She hadn’t really planned on looking after him. But he calls her big sister… What can she do? Since she’s here, she might as well make a go of it. She can only take him along for the ride~ ❗Before she 55.2kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
  5. 5 Marrying Up 攀高枝 Ancient Romance424k WordsCompleted [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
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  6. 6 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 Ancient Romance565k WordsCompleted [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 86.4kReads9.6Score11.3kShelves
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  7. 7 Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河,贵妃不想负责 Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied 45.4kReads9.5Score5.7kShelves
  8. 8 The Darling in the Palm 掌上娇娇 Ancient Romance907k WordsCompleted [Print edition preorder opens July 17] [Film and TV rights sold] [Reader's guide: sweet romance, devoted couple, feel-good wish fulfillment, with clever schemes and political intrigue, many clues and details, and a large cast of well-developed characters. The heroine never gets the short end of the stick; anything that doesn't make sense will be explained later] Prince Xuan, He Junting. In the novel Devoted to the Imperial Consort, the author wrote of how he slaughtered the entire Northern Di co 84.3kReads9.5Score9.6kShelves
  9. 9 Storing Charm 储媚色 Ancient Romance512k WordsCompleted Li You transmigrated into a book, becoming the delicate, flowerlike heroine of a historical romance about political intrigue and tragic love, a heroine the male lead would torment in body, heart, and soul from beginning to end. But the moment she arrived, Li You discovered that her cousin, the story's wicked second female lead, had been reborn. So she was about to be demoted to a mere cannon-fodder character? Li You: "..." Fine, let me lie down for a while. On her wedding day, her cousin didn't 8.8kReads9.1Score982Shelves
  10. 10 EN Big Gossip! The Paralyzed Man Stood Up After Reading My Thoughts 吃大瓜!瘫子读我心声后站起来了 Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Gossip + mind reading + beloved by the whole family + household intrigue + palace intrigue + pocket dimension] Jian Ruonan transmigrated into a novel as its wicked female supporting character, the real heiress secretly switched at birth by a concubine in the marquis's household. The fake heiress was good at everything. Jian Ruonan could do nothing but eat and drink, making her the useless foil. Luckily, she bound herself to a gossip System. Every day, she could just lie flat and enjoy the gossi 39.7kReads9.2Score5.4kShelves
  11. 11 The Book Transmigrator Tears into the Reborn Woman, Even Ripping Out Her Hair Ornaments 穿书女手撕重生女,头花都扯掉了 Ancient Romance507k WordsCompleted (Don’t worry about the rating. New books have few readers at first, but it will rise.) [A transmigrated woman takes on a reborn woman] [Fictional ancient setting, no need to nitpick] Gu Qingli transmigrated into a satisfying revenge novel about a woman reborn. She wasn’t the heroine, but the wicked supporting character who had killed her, and the first person the heroine would take revenge on after being reborn. Gu Qingli herself had been born into a political family. She was gentle, quiet, an 12.9kReads8.9Score996Shelves
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  12. 12 The Ferocious Young Taoist Nun Tears Through the Capital, While Disabled Princes Come Bearing Blades 凶狠小道姑手撕全京城残王来递刀 Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [Palace intrigue, household intrigue, medicine, feel-good revenge, and a strong female lead] Two lotus blossoms grow from one stem, one yin and one yang, never meeting. Tang Zhaozhao grew up in a Taoist temple on Mount Yunwu. When she was sixteen, she received a letter from home: her twin sister, whom she had never met, was dead. Without hesitation, Tang Zhaozhao came down from the mountain. She not only opened the coffin to examine the body, but also turned the whole capital upside down. “My fa 22.4kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
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  13. 13 Everything I Do Is Right. How Many Horses Do You Have to Oppose Me? 我做得都对,你有几个马敢反对? Urban392k WordsCompleted High martial arts, invincible protagonist, satisfying power fantasy, crushing opponents, fast-paced action, spectacular violence, and an imposing style. The protagonist is decisive and never plays the saint, putting every sore loser in their place. No talking, just fighting! Everything I do is right. Anyone who disagrees is an enemy. The more my enemies oppose me, the more it proves I'm right. Lin Yun transmigrated to a high-martial-arts world and gained a golden finger that rewards him for doin 16Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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  14. 14 A Female Demon Cultivator Picked Up My Right Hand 我的右手竟被女魔修捡走了 Eastern Fantasy371k WordsOngoing The game world of Hongyuan Continent had only just opened its portals to the real world when an unknown malfunction forcibly kicked out every player. But player Shen Yan realized in shock that his body hadn’t fully returned. His right hand was still in Hongyuan Continent, and his game interface hadn’t shut down either. He kept receiving notifications that he had killed monsters and acquired drops, and his strength continued to grow. It turned out that someone had picked up his right hand and was 59Reads7.1Score—Shelves
  15. 15 Do What You Want: If You're Reborn, Live Life Your Way 想干就干,重生就要过得顺心如意 Urban3.6M WordsOngoing After more than a decade of hard work, Lin Xiangdong finally built a fortune worth over a hundred million and achieved financial freedom. But just as he began to enjoy life to the fullest, he inexplicably found himself reborn in 2008. From the start, Lin Xiangdong goes all in with high-interest loans, uses one resource to generate another, and builds his fortune. From Brother Dong to Uncle Dong, from a nobody to a titan! 29.7kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves
  16. 16 The Child Bride in Our Home 家有童养媳 Ancient Romance661k WordsCompleted [No rebirth, no transmigration, a chance encounter in troubled times, and a family blessed by heaven] When Xiangsui was eight, her father died. A rebel king had risen up, taxes were increasing, and life was unbearably difficult. Xiangsui's mother was a frail woman. Seeing that her mother couldn't possibly raise her and her younger brother, Xiangsui decided to make sure they could all survive. She sold herself to the Cheng family as a child bride, in exchange for a sack of wheat and twenty taels 2.6kReads8.9Score307Shelves
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  17. 17 Life Is Amazing After I Marry a Hunter 嫁给猎户后,日子爽翻了 Ancient Romance505k WordsCompleted After Magpie, a farmer’s daughter, broke off her engagement, her father immediately arranged for her to marry a poor hunter. Poor? That’s only because you don’t know the truth. Would someone Old Man Li took a liking to at first glance really be an ordinary farmhand? The poor hunter Shi Bufan never expected to be chosen. Delighted to see his fair-skinned, delicate bride, he was completely won over after just a few meals. The newlyweds lived a sweet life, but before long, disaster struck. “Don’t w 191Reads9.2Score166Shelves
  18. 18 Shocking! The Legitimate Princess Defies Fate Every Day! 惊!嫡公主她每天都在逆天改命! Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Female-led power fantasy + ruthless, unhinged heroine + an extreme “I’d rather betray others than let them betray me” mentality] Xuan Mingyao was reborn at the age of seven, back before anything had happened. Though she was the empress’s legitimate daughter, a princess treated like royalty, her younger brother, the crown prince, was about to die of illness. Her mother would soon be consumed by worry, grow estranged from the emperor, and eventually be deposed in the witchcraft scandal. Overnight 28kReads9.4Score3.8kShelves
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  19. 19 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 30.8kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
  20. 20 The Villainess Studies Hard at the Aristocratic Academy 反派大小姐在贵族学院狠狠学习 Modern Romance216k WordsCompleted [The male lead is Chi. The romance develops slowly, and until anyone confesses, it's just friendship.] He Ying regains her memories in an old-school campus novel and is horrified to realize she's the vicious rich young lady. Instead of inheriting a fortune worth trillions, she's been chasing men and bullying the sweet, innocent heroine. What a ridiculous way to live. After learning that inheriting the family fortune depends on her academic performance, He Ying declares, “If I don't earn this mon 8.4kReads9.4Score989Shelves
  21. 21 Midsummer Hidden in a Letter 藏在信笺里的盛夏 Two Male Leads463k WordsCompleted [Dual Male Leads + Campus Story + Both Pure + Mutual Yearning + Secret Crush + Older Top + Happy Ending + Slow-Paced Slice of Life] [Gentle, Reserved, Beautiful Bottom x Deeply Devoted, Cool, Forbearing Top] Wen Zhu has an anonymous pen pal. They’ve known each other for years. In this age of long distances and hurried lives, they’ve exchanged letters in the most old-fashioned way for years, yet never met face-to-face. When his family suddenly fell on hard times, Wen Zhu had no choice but to 22.8kReads9.5Score4.2kShelves
  22. 22 Beast Taming: My Beast Companion Is a Grind King 御兽:我的兽宠是卷王 Modern Romance687k WordsCompleted [Female-oriented beast-taming novel + no romance + genius protagonist + the ultimate overachiever] After transmigrating into a beast-taming world fifteen years ago, Fu Chu finally contracted her first transcendent creature. Her dormant golden finger finally awakened, too. Train for 8 hours a day, and gain an extra 4 hours' worth of training. Train for 16 hours, and gain an extra 16 hours' worth. Fu Chu: “!!!” Are you trying to kill me?! Is there even a choice? Fu Chu decisively goes for 16 hour 5.1kReads9.1Score548Shelves
  23. 23 The Unparalleled Little Scapegoat 绝世小冤种 Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Also known as: I Pay, You Risk Your Life, and We Both Go Crazy; The Ultimate Scapegoat; Power Over All, Sword to the Heavens Someone has set a trap to make everyone turn against me. "It's fine. I have a System..." Luo Yinyou comforted herself. "Even if the System is a total troll!" The world order had changed drastically, and the flow of destiny had been redistributed. Countless geniuses emerged, but the most dazzling of them all was the young lord Ye Ci of Dragon Island, hailed as the greatest 32kReads9.6Score4.4kShelves
  24. 24 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Finally Became Sisters with the Fake Heiress 穿书后,我终于和假千金做姐妹了 Modern Romance410k WordsCompleted [A true heiress who rules the school × a company heir who dotes on his wife, from school to college, with a bit of supernatural fantasy. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] 1. The moment the housekeeper came to pick up Jiang Jingchun, she knew this transmigration wasn’t going to be simple. She’d read too many novels, so Jiang Jingchun assumed that after the real heiress returned home, the fake heiress would target and frame her, and everyone would ostracize her. But who could have guess 297Reads8.7Score108Shelves
  25. 25 Reborn at the Turn of the Millennium: The Beloved Prodigy's Mentor System 重生千禧,团宠小学霸的名师系统 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted “No male lead! A male supporting character appears later, and there are side couples to root for too.” Qin Zhaozhao, a doctoral student struggling with her studies and taking extra time to graduate, wakes up one day to find she’s traveled back from 2022 to the year 2000. For some inexplicable reason, she’s also acquired a System. In this life, she not only has a golden finger that gives her one-on-one lessons from renowned teachers, but also the ability to help the people around her choose bette 5kReads9.4Score557Shelves
  26. 26 On Our Wedding Night, the Obsessive Crown Prince Took Me to the Eastern Palace 成亲当晚,偏执太子夺我入东宫 Ancient Romance504k WordsCompleted The aloof, possessive Crown Prince × the dazzling beauty who loves money Everyone in the Eastern Palace knows that the Crown Princess was snatched away from someone else by the Crown Prince. Once the Crown Prince, as elegant as jade and as clear as moonlight, fell into the sea of love, there was no climbing back out. He Yue transmigrated to ancient times and became the owner of a rouge shop. She wasn’t rich or powerful, but her life was peaceful and carefree. Then one day, the woman she liv 35kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
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  27. 27 The Big Shot Suspects I’m a Spy from the Neighboring Sect 大佬怀疑我是隔壁宗门卧底 Ancient Romance760k WordsCompleted Transmigrate into a Book + System + Everyone's Favorite Fuyue never dreamed she would transmigrate into the male-lead cultivation power fantasy To Become an Immortal. Before transmigrating into the book, Fuyue thought: This male lead is amazing. He focuses entirely on cultivation and isn't swayed by women at all. He's so handsome, I want to have his children! It goes without saying that this passerby should take a sword for him. After transmigrating into the book, Fuyue thought: What is this mal 565Reads8.8Score105Shelves
  28. 28 Ao Guang: Investiture of the Gods, Snatching Princess Longji from the Start 敖光传:封神,开局截胡龙吉公主 Female-Channel Fanfiction220k WordsCompleted [Published | Marriage First, Love Later | Political Marriage | Princess Longji, a banished goddess from the Heavenly Court × Ao Guang, a patient and long-suffering dragon with an unexpectedly adorable side] A thousand years ago, I was banished to the mortal realm for falling in love with a mortal. For a thousand years, I cultivated in the Azure Phoenix Palace on Phoenix Mountain, far from worldly troubles, until an imperial edict arrived, granting me in marriage... My father said that after the 44Reads—Score—Shelves
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  29. 29 Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世:全公司否认18楼存在 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse783k WordsCompleted [Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn 3.4kReads8.7Score290Shelves
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  30. 30 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse6.3M WordsCompleted Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 27kReads8.9Score2.3kShelves
  31. 31 A Century of Upheaval 百年丧乱 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.6M WordsCompleted [Zombies + no saintly protagonist + decisive and ruthless + multiple narrative threads + ensemble cast + apocalypse fortress + war + survival + slow-paced] No rebirth, no supernatural abilities, no System or pocket dimension, no plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a power fantasy. It focuses more on realistic portrayals, particularly the story of humanity's resistance in an age overrun by zombies, and accounts of people trying to survive the apocalypse from multiple perspectiv 16.2kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
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  32. 32 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 Urban6.1M WordsCompleted After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.5kReads9.6Score22.9kShelves
  33. 33 After Her Ex-Husband Dies, the Ascetic Prince Starts Seducing Her 前夫死后,禁欲王爷疯狂引诱 Ancient Romance389k WordsOngoing [Both leads are devoted to each other + Happy ending, sheltered young lady + Abstinent, calculating prince, light political intrigue + revenge, historical romance] Qing Yue, the only daughter of the wealthiest family in the city, has come of age. But her marriage prospects are awkward. Suitors are lining up to marry into her family, yet they treat her as nothing more than a free bonus with a fortune of ten thousand strings of cash. When she first falls in love, the heir of the marquis’s househol —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  34. 34 Help! My Husband Has Rebelled Again and Again 救命!我家夫君又双叒叕造反了 Ancient Romance124k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + strong female lead + political intrigue + one-on-one romance + villain] Meng Bingling has barely transmigrated when her father dies. Her uncles and clan elders come to demand their share of the family fortune, hoping to take everything for themselves. Her mother is angered to death, and her unborn little brother is lost too. With nowhere else to turn, she grabs a handsome man she likes off the street and makes him marry into her family. She'd rather burn the family fortune or t —Reads—Score—Shelves
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