Palace Intrigue, the Female Lead Treats Being a Consort as a Career, Never Falls for the Male Lead. Please! 宫斗文，女主把妃嫔当职业。没有爱上男主的，求求
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A Journey Through the Qing Dynasty's Consorts 综清穿之娘娘得天独厚
(Transmigration + space + System + no fixed male lead + everyone’s favorite + childbearing System. The heroine transmigrates into different people in various dynasties, who aren't necessarily all concubines in the imperial harem. The author is sensitive, so if you don't like it, please click X and don't curse the author. The author can't bear to curse back, and more importantly, really can't win an argument!) A car accident sends Mu Sili into ancient times, where she is bound to a childbearing S
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The Entire Court Longs for the Empress to Attend Court and Rule 满朝文武盼着皇后娘娘上朝理政
(The live-action series is out!) After her elder sister dies in palace infighting, Shen Shixi enters the palace by imperial decree to be selected as a consort. Within the palace are the powerful and virtuous Empress, born to the imperial in-laws; Consort De, born to an aristocratic family and exceptionally prolific; Consort Rong, the Emperor's favorite, with a strong artistic streak; Consort Qiong, whose superb cooking has won the Emperor's heart; and Consort Xiurong, known as a learned woman an
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- 103 Qing Transmigration: The Crown Prince’s Palace Opens a Kindergarten 清穿：储秀宫幼稚园开业了 [Qing Dynasty setting + raising children + special ability] Fan Ying has the ability to enter people's dreams. She transmigrates to the Kangxi court and becomes Ping Consort, the maternal aunt of Crown Prince Yinzreng. Having lived another life, all she wishes is for her loved ones to remain healthy year after year, while spring grass grows anew with every passing season. The focus is on family bonds and raising children. Old Kangxi is just part of the act, with very little romance~ Readers ca 1.3kReads8.7Score11014d adds
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A Hundred Ways to Win the Emperor's Heart in the Harem 在后宫征服皇帝的一百个技巧
Ever since entering the palace, Yun Li has become a shameless schemer. Two-faced and insincere, she puts on an act every day. When dealing with the emperor’s favorite consort, she tears into her until she’s furious, then clutches her chest with a wounded look and says, “I’m so envious that His Majesty dotes on you.” When someone tries to frame her, she casually slaps them, then bursts into tears. “Why would you treat a kind person like me this way?” When speaking with the empress, she nods absen
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- 105 With a Pocket Dimension, the Fourth Fujin Defies Fate 拥有空间后四福晋逆天改命了 After Fang Na unexpectedly gained a spiritual spring dimension, she transmigrated into the Qing dynasty as Wuyunna, the wife of the Fourth Prince, Yinzhen. The little moments of daily life between Wuyunna and Yinzhen changed the historical ending in which the Fourth Prince’s only son died young and his relationship with Yinzhen, though seemingly respectful, was actually ice-cold. They didn’t quite achieve a lifelong union between just the two of them, but they did stay devoted to each other. (Wa 6.1kReads8.2Score43314d adds
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Your Majesty, Don't Love Me So Much! I Win the Harem's Favor Through Good Fortune in Childbearing 陛下别太爱！我靠好孕独宠后宫
[The short drama adapted from this novel, Your Majesty, Don't Love Me Too Much! I'll Win the Harem's Favor with My Fertility, is now available.] [The animated drama adapted from this novel, Darling, Enter My Heart, is now available.] [The leads are not faithful to each other. He becomes devoted to her later + The heroine is stunningly beautiful and clear-eyed, and aims to become an empress + Fertility and childbirth + Multiple babies in one pregnancy + Intelligent palace intrigue + Political man
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Surviving Day to Day in the Qing Dynasty 清穿之苟命日常
[Lifespan: 1 month] [Lifespan can be exchanged for vitality points] “Why do I only have one month to live?” Yituma Shushu was startled. [Ding! The original host's lifespan has run out. The Shop has advanced vitality points.] [Ding! Sign in every day to collect vitality points.] An alternate-universe Qing dynasty transmigration story with a golden finger, multiple children, no romance, no palace intrigue, and a slower pace. [Note: This novel takes place in a parallel universe.] A note about th
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Yi Xiu Is Reborn: Driving Her White Lotus Half-Sister Mad Ninety-Nine Times 宜修重生：逼疯白莲嫡姐九十九次
Villainous heroine ⭐ Cunning palace intrigue ⭐ No pampered romance! Empress Yixiu was reborn a year before her elder sister entered the household. The first thing she saw when she woke was Fourth Master tenderly holding her hand. He said, “Xiao Yi, once you give birth to a boy, the position of principal wife will be yours!” Yixiu sneered. Did he think she didn't know what would happen next? Now that she had a second chance at life, she would never hand over her position as principal wife or her
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- 109 The Viperous Favorite Consort: Scheming Her Way to Rule as Empress Dowager 蛇蝎宠妃心机深，垂帘听政做太后 [Content warning! The female lead is a wholly evil villain, cruel and scheming, and will stop at nothing to climb to the top.] “[Don't randomly bring up women competing against women. This is a palace-intrigue story!! The harem is a workplace, and the imperial consorts are all rivals!]” Bu Xingruo was the most favored consort in the palace. In her previous life, she let the Emperor's favor go to her head, throwing her weight around and acting arrogantly in the harem. Lost in the Emperor's fleeti 658Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 110 I Am the Very Model of a Virtuous Consort 本宫贤良淑德 [Perfectly Composed, Performative Big Sister VS Sweet, Simple, Big-Bear Little Brother] Wu Mingli spent decades fighting for survival in the imperial palace. After being reborn by sheer luck, she chose to marry a prince who was expected to die young. All she had to do was wait for her husband to die for his country, and she would be elevated to Imperial Dowager Consort. Her life would be perfectly settled, just as she wished. Unexpectedly, the husband who had died young in her previous life asce 985Reads8.9Score10314d adds
- 111 After Cutting Off My Romantic Delusions, I Became Invincible in the Harem 斩掉恋爱脑后我在后宫无敌了 [Palace intrigue is the main focus; the heroine doesn't love the emperor] After becoming a palace candidate, Lin Yanzhi counts her advantages on her fingers. Beauty? None. At best, she's a modest, unassuming beauty. Family background? None. Her father is a seventh-rank county magistrate, and her mother is descended from a disgraced official. Money? Even less. Talent? Traditional characters are so hard to write! Besides, there's a genuinely talented woman in the palace who's skilled in poetry and 543Reads8.7Score10314d adds
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The Consort Is All Charm and Cunning, Scheming Her Way to the Top 娘娘又茶又媚，一路宫斗上位
Signed for print publication In the third year of the Yifeng era, a concubine-born daughter of the Ningyang Marquis’s household enters the palace. The palace is a vast, treacherous place, where the one thing you must never do is give your heart away. Ning Shuyan is clear-eyed: she wants wealth and prestige, along with the emperor’s favor. For three years, she carefully plots each step, wins the emperor’s attention, and rises from Talented Lady to Noble Consort. Rumor has it that the emperor only
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Empresses in the Palace: The Cannon Fodder Concubine's Rise to Promotion 甄嬛传之炮灰的贵妃升职记
Noble Lady Fang was an inconspicuous background character in Empresses in the Palace, the previous owner of the Broken Jade Pavilion. Shallow, a standard-issue extra, and unlucky. Until she died in the Cold Palace and was chosen by the System to live her life over again. To be honest, she had always thought of herself as an ordinary little nobody in the imperial harem. The System must have picked her by mistake out of inexperience. But the System said, “Choosing you is the most rigorous and opti
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A Heart Caged Behind Palace Walls: Consort Yuan Is Promoted Again 宫墙锁心宠，元妃娘娘又晋位了
No one is completely devoted to one person in the early part of the story, so don’t read if that’s a dealbreaker. The emperor is a scoundrel at first, but utterly doting later. More sweet than angsty. [Palace intrigue and rising to power + many children + absolute favor + climbing to the top one step at a time] Su Zhitang, the daughter of a general, enters the palace as a beauty after the selection. Her father is already a second-rank official, so she only wants to heed her mother’s advice, keep
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- 115 Life Is a Play, and the Empress Is All About Her Acting Skills 人生如戏，娘娘她纯拼演技 [Palace intrigue + witty banter + sweet, delicate beauty + calculated mind games] The leads are not each other’s only partners. If that bothers you, don’t read. Be prepared for suspicion in the early chapters, followed by affection later. The pacing is slow, so proceed with caution if you prefer fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories. As a double award-winning actress and a seasoned star of palace intrigue dramas, how could Shi Yan possibly lose her nerve after transmigrating into the imperial hare 4.9kReads9.4Score54914d adds
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Empresses in the Palace: I'm Determined to Be This Empress Dowager 甄嬛传之这个太后我当定了
[Clear-Eyed Heroine + Raising Three Children + Master of Drama + Winner of the Harem Wars] Alternate setting: An Lingrong is a concubine's daughter. Also known as: Empresses in the Palace: I'm Destined to Be the Empress Dowager! Su Qin was a D-list actress. By a twist of fate, she transmigrated into An Lingrong from Empresses in the Palace. Since she had transmigrated, why not outdo them all? 1. First goal: Take everyone else's path and leave them nowhere to go! What? The Wonderful Sound Lady? G
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Back to Her Audition Year, She Rises Through the Harem 重回选秀当年，她在后宫步步高升
In her previous life, Su Ningwan, daughter of the chancellor, was far too innocent. Though she was greatly favored after entering the palace, it was all a ploy to lull her into a false sense of security. In her fifth year there, she was framed for poisoning the imperial heir, thrown into the Cold Palace, and left to die a miserable death. Her family suffered because of her, enduring terrible hardships in prison before they died. She never expected to open her eyes and find herself back in the ye
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The Empress Leaped to Her Death, and the Mad Tyrant Wept Until His Eyes Were Red 皇后纵身一跃，疯批暴君哭红了眼
[One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we
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Qing Transmigration: The Noble Consort Wins by Doing Nothing with Her Golden Touch 清穿：贵妃靠点金手躺赢了
[Qing dynasty transmigration, golden finger, palace intrigue, heroine stands alone] One morning, wealthy woman Song Ruche woke up transmigrated to the Qing dynasty as the only legitimate daughter of the Fucha family. She was born with a golden finger that could upgrade anything she touched, transforming it completely. Unfortunately, she could only use it once every three years. To use it more often, she had to raise her own status. So she decided to take a shortcut: In a feudal society, what fas
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Reborn in The Story of Ruyi: Life Is Better Without Being a Saint 重生如懿传不做圣母的日子好极了
1. Palace-intrigue novel, palace-intrigue novel, palace-intrigue novel. No romance. 2. No lovestruck fools, no lovestruck fools, no lovestruck fools. This applies only to certain characters. No saintly do-gooders, no saintly do-gooders. 3. A Ruyi reborn story. No plagiarism, no padding, quality comes first. There will be changes. It may not fully follow history, or it may not follow it at all. The reason: no plagiarism. Synopsis The Ruyi from "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", who always conside
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The Empress of the Central Palace 中宫元后
[Transmigration + marriage before love + palace intrigue] (This is a fictional setting, written as I please. Please don't hold it against me if it doesn't fit history.) Qiao Shanshan, who lived to thirty on Blue Star, died while saving a child. Only after reaching the underworld did she learn that it wasn't her time to die. The soul reaper had taken the wrong person. To make it up to her, the King of Hell promi
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Urging the Empress to Have a Baby: The Female Lead Is an AI 催生皇后，当女主是个AI
[AI Empress] [Ridiculous palace intrigue] [All about raising kids] “Empress Ai.” “I... am... here...” The woman's voice is stiff, each word spoken separately. An AI from the year 3026, seeking to prevent humanity from dying out, travels through a parallel timeline to... The year 1132, when human reproduction is at its peak, during the Great Ming Dynasty, known as the “Golden Age of the Great Ming.” She becomes Empress Ai of the Great Ming. The little AI's mission is simple: get people to have ch
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Mad Empress: I’ll Be the Harem’s Number One White Lotus 疯批皇后，争做后宫第一白莲花
[Transmigration into a fictional setting + highly intelligent heroine in palace intrigue + face-slapping + a volatile, multifaceted personality + not a clean romance] Lin Junxue transmigrated to the Xie Dynasty, an era that had never existed in history, and ended up as an unloved empress who had no idea how she died. She’d thought she was a powerless, unloved empress, but it turned out the original owner’s father was a first-rank military marquis, a loyal servant of the court for three generatio
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- 124 Time-Traveling to the Qing Dynasty: Getting By in the Imperial Harem 清穿，我在后宫混日子 Wang Bing is a college student who's recently gone viral online as a "crispy shark." After losing twenty-five games of Honor of Kings in a row, he got so furious that he landed in a hospital bed. In a daze, he gets bound to some contraption calling itself the Palace Intrigue Advanced System. All he has to do is complete its missions to trade for a body with an "Iron Man" skin. Wang Bing: "Youth has no price tag. The System is my dad." 6.4kReads8.9Score36514d adds
- 125 A Qing Dynasty Tale: The Tenth Prince Just Wants to Eat Watermelon 清穿之十阿哥只想吃瓜 [Set in an alternate Qing dynasty, so some details differ from history] After going from an overworked office drone to the useless tenth prince in the struggle among the nine princes for the throne, Yinsi was quite pleased. With such a powerful maternal family, and an equally powerful clan through his future wife, no one would dare provoke him lightly. And thanks to his consort’s Mongolian heritage, there was little chance he’d get dragged into the succession struggle. As long as he didn’t cause 11.4kReads9.1Score88814d adds
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I Transmigrated as An Lingrong: Joining Hands with Huanhuan to Take Down Big Orange 穿成安陵容：和嬛嬛联手干掉大橘
This is just for fun, so please read without overthinking! (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡ A Zhen Huan superfan works herself to death, then blinks and becomes An Lingrong, waiting to be selected as a consort. Yes, that An Lingrong, the one whose sister treated her so well that she could only repay her kindness with betrayal. To change her fate and survive to the ending, she makes alliances, builds connections, and alternates between feigned and genuine affection. But then she discovers that the only way to clear the
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The Golden Palace Locks Away the Spring Breeze 金阙锁春风
Her entire family perished, she was left dependent on others, the dynasty fell, and she married and divorced. In just eighteen years, Yu Zheng has endured things most people never face in a lifetime. A noblewoman of the former dynasty, all she wants now is to stay alive. She plans to enter the palace as a maid, then use her literacy to earn a post as a court official and support herself. She never imagined that the new emperor would send her to the Fourth Prince’s residence as a gesture of goodw
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- 128 A Manchu Noblewoman’s Rise Through the Ranks 清穿之万琉哈氏升职日常 After being killed by a drunk driver, Wan Qing opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated into the Kangxi Emperor’s harem as a low-ranking palace maid named Wanyan. Wanyan was a member of the Plain Yellow Banner of the Manchu Eight Banners, born in the first month of the eighteenth year of the Shunzhi reign. In the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi reign, she gave birth to the emperor’s twelfth son, Yintang. In the fifty-seventh year, she was invested as Consort Ding. She died in the twenty 9Reads7.1Score314d adds
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The Noble Consort Rejects Romance: While Others Fight for Favor, I Seize Power 贵妃不入爱河，别人争宠我夺权
[Female-Lead Wish Fulfillment + Unfeeling Persona + Ruthless Revenge and Face-Slapping] Years later, the history books would describe Ming Tang as a master strategist with an iron fist, the ultimate winner of the harem struggles and the vast empire. Only Ming Tang knew she had never wanted to be that winner in the first place. From a young girl to the ruler of the realm, all she had wanted at first was to avenge her elder sister. The harem was full of danger. On one side was Consort Jin, who had
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Qing Transmigration: The Short-Lived Empress Is Determined to Live Longer This Time 清穿：短命皇后这次要长寿
[Alternate Qing Dynasty + Reborn with a Golden Finger + Harem Leveling Up + Everyday Life Raising Kids] Entered the palace at fifteen, became empress at sixteen, and died at seventeen. Kangxi's Empress Xiaozhaoren, Niu Hulu Mingzhu, near the top of the rankings of short-lived empresses, has been reborn! This time, she vows to make her debut as the low-ranking concubine Uya, never to lose her head over love, and to focus entirely on her career! Xuanye: “My beloved consort, I will protect you for
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A Concubine's Rise to Power in the Imperial Harem 深宫庶女上位记
She was the illegitimate daughter of a fifth-rank official, and one day she entered the palace as a consort; The struggle was not confined to men. The battles between women were always the cruelest of all; These women were intelligent, beautiful, and well-born; For love, wealth, and power beyond compare, they fought each other to the death, even turning against their own sisters and leaving their youth and beauty amid the red walls and green-tiled roofs of the palace;
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- 132 The Spoiled Concubine's Daily Death Wish 宠妾作死日常 You have to die once to realize what you’ve missed, especially in a back courtyard full of endless intrigue! Before the selection, Wanyan Wanxi was the apple of her family’s eye. After she was chosen and entered the imperial household, she remembered her mother’s teachings: respect the principal consort and tread carefully in everything. She never sought the limelight. But who could have guessed that this very respect and sense of propriety would lead to her downfall? Returning to the beginnin 3.6kReads8.8Score26714d adds
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The Delicate, Scheming Medicine-Jar Consort Has the Sickly Tyrant Begging for Mercy 药罐贵妃娇又作，病娇暴君乖乖认怂！
Transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder concubine, Xiao Xiruo is destined to die of rage and leave her entire family dead? And she’s sickly, coughing up blood every day? Xiao Xiruo: Keep it together. Don’t panic! With powerful backing, I’ll take the court by storm and rule the imperial harem! Feng Wuyan, the puppet emperor of Great Yan, is a deranged villain who slaughtered everyone in the book until only its title remained. He does the cruelest deeds and strikes with the deadliest hand.
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Huan Bi Becomes a Consort 浣碧为妃
When Huanbi was reborn, she no longer lost herself in the lonely waiting of her previous life. What would her future hold? Would she leave the palace with her elder sister, as she had in her previous life? Her greatest wish was to become a daughter of the Zhen family openly and honorably, and to have her mother’s memorial tablet placed in the ancestral hall. After careful thought, Huanbi decided to stay in the palace and find a chance to get close to the emperor. She would use his power to prote
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Luring the Emperor: The Consort Is Alluring and Witty, and the Emperor's Favorite 诱君宠:娘娘媚且茶，陛下心尖宠
[Transmigrate + Feel-good revenge + Palace and household intrigue + play the pig to eat the tiger + Not a one-true-pairing story] Jiang Zixi and her legitimate elder sister, Jiang Ziying, were born on the same day. On the day of their birth, strange celestial signs appeared, and an expert declared that a daughter of the Minister's household was born with the destiny of a phoenix and a bright future ahead. But Jiang Zixi was not the lucky one. Her birth mother died in childbirth, so while her eld
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Life Simulator: I'm a Pro at Rising Through Palace Schemes 人生模拟器：宫斗升职我专业
[Transmigration + Palace Intrigue + System + Golden Finger + A Story That's 30% Indulgence and 70% Playing It Safe] (Important, important, important!!! Content warning: The heroine is an ordinary person who grows over time. At first, she has some girlish romantic notions; she isn't highly intelligent from the start. Not a mutually exclusive first-love story, and the male lead doesn't dote on her alone. Don't read if these bother you.) From the start, she's in the hardest difficulty mode. After s
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Have a Child! Get a Raise! Become Empress Dowager! 生子！加薪！当太后！
[Transmigration + Palace Intrigue + A Heroine Who Treats the Concubine Harem as a Career and Becomes Empress Dowager + Support-Only System + Lighthearted Daily Life] One day, Xunzhen transmigrates into the body of a concubine-in-waiting and is utterly apprehensive. The harem is a place where those with low status have no say over their lives, while those with high status become targets for everyone. So she can only set herself one goal: climb to the rank of consort and at least make it into midd
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The Crown Prince Dotes on His Concubine and Neglects His Wife: The Empress's Daily Life After Bearing Twins 太子宠妾灭妻，娘娘双胎上位日常
[There are a few typos, so please skip this if that bothers you.] A deranged, ruthless heroine and an obsessive Crown Prince, with exclusive devotion later on, clear-headed palace intrigue, and multiple births. Jiang Shiruo is stunningly beautiful, but only a concubine’s daughter. Still, even a concubine’s daughter deserves to live. Jiang Shiruo has no interest in the other princes. She only wants to enter the Eastern Palace, because that’s the only way she can reach the highest position. After
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The Lin Family Sisters in Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼之林家双姝
A Dream of Red Mansions + Qing Dynasty transmigration + golden finger + pocket dimension + planes Swept by a typhoon into the world of A Dream of Red Mansions, she becomes the Lin family’s eldest daughter, a character who never appeared in the original story. Knowing the tragic fate of the Lin family, she wants to change things. Little does she expect to be the very butterfly from Zhuang Zhou’s dream. The plot changes, and the Lin family gets a different ending. Since she is a member of the Li
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- 140 The Emperor Fell for Her at First Sight: The Bewitching Consort Becomes Empress After Bearing Many Heirs 皇上一见钟情，尤物娘娘多胎封后 [The emperor falls in love at first sight + the emperor begs the heroine to manage the harem + heroine with stellar acting skills + strong, intelligent heroine + lots of children] Whoever harms me, I’ll make them pay! Hua Yunchu loves only herself. The right way to deal with a man is to use up every last bit of his value. But the emperor wants to make Hua Yunchu a Noble Lady, while the empress’s throne sits empty. And he wants me to manage the harem, too? What is going on? I’d planned to coast o 2.7kReads9.1Score30314d adds
- 141 After the Crown Princess Conceives Twins, the Crown Prince Favors His Beloved Concubine and Makes Her Empress 灭太子妃怀双胎，太子宠娇妾封后 [Traditional historical romance. Not a virginal couple! + Clear-headed heroine gradually grows stronger in palace intrigue + Twins + Winning the Crown Prince’s heart, aiming for the empress’s throne] An Ruyan clutched her book of Thirty-Six Stratagems and set out to win over the tyrannical Crown Prince!!! An Ruyan was rescued by Prince Yan when she was robbed while visiting a temple. She had long been in love with him, but an unexpected incident made her see what a scumbag he was. Determined to 2.3kReads8.9Score23514d adds
- 142 The Alluring Consort Climbs to the Phoenix Throne and Captures the Emperor's Heart at First Sight 尤物娘娘爬凤位，让皇上一见钟情 [Devoted love + the emperor falls at first sight + palace intrigue and rising to power through favoritism + heroine’s acting skills + strong, clever heroine] Wen Shuyao loved only herself. Only losers loved men. Now that she had been granted the title of Attendant and ordered into the palace, she would make use of the emperor’s love at first sight. The emperor was merely a stepping stone for Wen Shuyao. It wouldn’t be hard to act like someone deeply in love with him. Wen Shuyao was the legitimat 5.1kReads9.0Score58714d adds
- 143 The Eastern Palace's Pampered Concubine: The Crown Prince Dotes on His Concubine and Neglects His Wife, and She Sets Her Sights on the Empress's Throne 东宫娇妾：太子宠妾灭妻目标后位 Not a pure pairing, not a pure pairing [The prince’s concubine is not a pure pairing at first + she enters the palace soon after, and becomes his sole favorite after the palace struggles] [The heroine is clear-headed and career-minded, working her way up to the empress’s position] Since I’ve been granted the title of Worthy Lady, my goal should be the empress’s throne. The Crown Prince has been married for two years, but the Crown Princess has yet to bear him a child. The Empress personally choo 2.2kReads8.9Score18314d adds
- 144 The Noble Consort Rejects Love, Yet the Emperor Dotes on Her and Decrees Her Empress 贵妃不入爱河，皇上盛宠下旨封后 [The leads aren't both chaste at first + he pampers her devotedly later + the emperor secretly helps her navigate palace intrigue + the heroine has no interest in loving the emperor and focuses on climbing the ranks.] Alternate-era setting [The emperor personally raises his future empress, then claims her in the night] The Yun family has a legitimate daughter, a peerless beauty hidden away in the general's manor. The prime minister's son came to propose, but didn't even get to see her. “I don't 1.5kReads9.1Score20914d adds
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Empress of the Song Family: The Legend of Yuyao 宋家皇后——钰瑶传
The leads are not each other’s first partners!!! The heroine is neither a naive innocent nor a particularly kind person!!! The emperor hero is a jerk!! Set in an alternate history!! This is not a feel-good story!!! She transmigrates straight into the role of empress. If she rises in rank, she becomes the empress dowager; if she fails, she is deposed and banished to the cold palace. That is the reality of the inner palace: failure leaves almost no chance to recover. A twenty-first-century fashion
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- 146 Empress of the Xie Family 谢家皇后 In her first year in the palace, she is a Talented Lady. In her fifth, she is a Jieyu. In her tenth, she wants to become empress. As empress, she can hold on to everything she treasures and keep it from being taken away. She can protect herself and her child, and she can... stay by his side. This is a road with only one direction: take a single step back, and all will be lost. The bright yellow ceremonial parasol moves forward, and the emperor's procession slowly enters the city gate. A yellow p 8.8kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 147 The Concubine’s Code of Conduct 妾室职业守则 Ke Rong is a dedicated, third-rate actress who transmigrates and becomes a concubine in a prince’s household. The handsome, dashing prince provides her with food and lodging, occasionally shares her bed, and even pays her a monthly salary for doing nothing. She cannot quit this job and leave, and it would be hard to find another one if she did... Ke Rong decides that she must do her job as a “concubine” conscientiously and diligently, lest she get fired and lose the chance to live a leisurely, 712Reads8.3Score10514d adds
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The Noble Consort Is Alluring and Teasing: The Emperor Dotes on Her Every Day 贵妃茶又媚：皇帝日日娇宠轻哄
Gu Xian opened her eyes and discovered that she had not only transmigrated into a book, but had also become a minor character with the lowest rank in the emperor's harem in a palace-intrigue novel. Her legitimate half-sister kept setting traps for her in the palace, and the other concubines were all at odds with her too. Gu Xian's new life in the harem was a living hell. Fortunately, she had a golden finger, a spirit spring that could keep her alive. She figured surviving to a ripe old age in th
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The Concubine with Maxed-Out Skills Is Turning Herself into an Empress? 技能拉满的侍妾，卷成皇后了？
Empress Wenzhao was a famously bewitching consort and the most talented empress. The way she has been judged and defined throughout her life has changed many times, but that has never diminished her status or the value of studying her. [System + Raising Kids + Relentless Competition] Thanks to being well fed at home, Qi Jiao was plump and rosy-cheeked. After a flood, she was sold into the palace as a maid, and when she got a little older, she was assigned to the empress’s palace. A few years lat
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The Empress Is Charming and Lively, and Wins the Emperor's Heart 娘娘娇媚灵动，惹得皇上心动
[Palace intrigue + sweet romance + not both leads’ first time + clear-headed heroine focused on living well + doesn’t love the emperor] Xiao Zhaoyuan asked with interest, “What do you usually like to do, my consort?” Cui Qingwan beamed. “I like eating, drinking, and having fun!” Sincerity really is a lethal weapon! Xiao Zhaoyuan couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing. He had never met anyone so genuine. And yet this very genuine woman gradually claimed his heart. But then he realized that she
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