Palace Dramas!!!! Pure Palace Drama, Full of Angst 宫廷文！！！！纯纯的宫廷文虐疟虐
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The Road Ahead Is Hard 荨路难
“Emperor and consort” “Angst” “Daughter of a great clan” “Young emperor” “Childhood sweethearts” “Both pure” In all my life, the most naive thing I ever did was believe that there could be a way for both sides to win on the chessboard.
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Love That Cuts to the Bone: The Bloodthirsty Tyrant's Cherished One 蚀骨虐爱，嗜血暴君的心尖宠
[An unparalleled beauty of a heroine + tragic romance (BE) + not mutually devoted + scum male lead + second male lead takes over later] In the first half of her life, Su Li is tortured until she’s covered in scars. After having flesh cut from her, being drained of blood, and having her face disfigured, she’s thrown into a river in a pig cage. In the second half, she is reborn from the flames and returns to Ye Yihan’s side. She swears to become a clearheaded, independent woman. In his vast harem,
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Prisoner of the Snowfall Palace 雪烬宫囚
[Historical Fantasy] [Romance] [Revenge] [Angst] [Plot Twists] [Redemption] [Mutual Firsts] [Happy Ending] I am the most beloved Ninth Princess of Liang. The day the capital fell, my father, who had doted on me beyond measure, shoved me off the Star-Viewing Tower, hoping to trade my life for his own escape. Qin Yi, the rebel leader, caught me below. Emotions I couldn't understand surged in his bloodshot eyes. "Tell me, who threw you down?" I fainted in his arms, which reeked of blood. The man be
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- 4 Pagoda: The Lord Steals His Minister’s Wife 浮屠：君夺臣妻 Futu: The Lord Takes His Minister's Wife 936Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Nine Lifetimes of Reincarnation, A Love Begun and Lost 九世轮回，缘起缘灭 Nine Lifetimes of Reincarnation, Fate Begins and Ends 590Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 He Slaughtered My Entire Family, So I Stabbed Him Through the Heart 他屠戮我满门，我给他穿心一剑 He Slaughtered My Entire Family, So I Stabbed Him Through the Heart 617Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Crown Princess Again 再为太子妃 Become the Crown Princess Again 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 He Doted on His Concubine and Neglected His Wife, So I Divorced the General 宠妾灭妻，我把将军给休了 He Dotes on His Concubine and Neglects His Wife, So I Divorced the General 608Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Kept as a Fox Concubine, I Ran Away 囚狐为妾，我直接逃了 I Was Kept as a Fox Concubine, So I Ran Away 394Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Canary That Flew Away 飞走的金丝雀 The Canary That Flew Away 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Lost in a Trance 魂不守舍 Distraught 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Where the Hills Are Green, the General Has a Heart 山有扶苏，将军有情 There Are Fusu Trees on the Mountain, and a General with a Heart 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Simple Storm: It Started with a Peep 简单风暴：从一次偷窥开始 “You gave yourself to me just to protect that man?” A storm of fury rose in the man's eyes as he stared at the silent girl. “Do you think I'll still marry you? Get out!” On a stormy night, the coldhearted man mercilessly drove her out of the villa... 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Sword Dance for the Demon-Subduing Consort 剑舞镇妖妃 The Sword-Dancing Demon Queen 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 An Assassin’s Love and Revenge, Beyond Romance 暗卫情仇，无关风月 A Dark Guard's Love and Grudge, Beyond Romance 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Forced to Marry the Ninth Prince 迫嫁九王妃 Forced to Marry the Ninth Prince 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I Was His Blade, and He Shattered My Soul 我为他刃，他断我魂 I Became His Blade, and He Shattered My Soul 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Shatter the Inverted Qilin 碎逆麟 Shattered Reversed Scale 192Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Grudge Written in Broken Bones 断骨之怨 A Grudge Carved in Broken Bones 811Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Took in a Foolish Prince as My Live-In Son-in-Law 捡个傻王爷做赘婿 I Picked Up a Foolish Prince to Be My Live-In Son-in-Law 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Dark Night Emperor 暗夜帝君 The Dark Night Emperor 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Foes Have a Way of Crossing Paths 冤家路宽 Fated to Be Rivals 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Beautiful Chambermaid Rises Through Childbearing [Transmigrated and Reborn] 貌美通房靠生子上位【穿越重生】
[Completed] [Not a strong heroine: sweet and delicate heroine + childbearing System] Qiao Zhiyi transmigrates into ancient times, then gets reborn. In her previous life, the Princess Consort took a liking to her and wanted her to compete with the prince's favored concubine. But Qiao Zhiyi didn't want to become a concubine, so she refused. To her surprise, this enraged the Princess Consort, who tormented her to death. After being reborn, Qiao Zhiyi comes to her senses. Since she can't escape her
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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
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The Adorably Clumsy Imperial Consort Is the Emperor's Sole Favorite 蠢萌帝妃，陛下独宠
Not faithful to each other! Sweet and angsty! No rebirth, transmigration, golden finger, or wish fulfillment! [Palace Intrigue + Political Scheming + Age Gap + Ensemble Cast + Healing + Family and Country + Slow-Burning Romance + A seemingly silly, adorable, pitiful heroine who's actually wise and perceptive vs. a clear-headed, rational emperor who dotes on her] Su Chao is sent into the palace as the family's “little pebble,” and things go disastrously from the start. Her paternal aunt is the em
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Stop Tormenting Me, Your Majesty: Your Deposed Empress Is Your Precious Darling 皇上别虐了，废后是你的心肝宝
[Both leads are faithful to each other] She traveled a thousand miles to marry him. She gave him everything and helped him seize the throne. But once he wore the imperial robes, all she received was an edict deposing her as empress. When he viciously told her she wasn’t even worthy of dying, she saw in his icy eyes nothing but the deepest disgust and hatred. She finally understood: he had never loved her. With war raging everywhere, the army of Beichen breached the walls of Southern Shu. Dressed
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The Royal Family Is Truly Heartless 最是皇室无情人
For generations, the Mu family had loyally served the country. In the end, their entire clan was sentenced to execution. The official presiding over the execution was her husband, the most brilliant and extraordinary of the Great Jing Kingdom's Third Princes. Then she awoke to the truth: The man she loved was a member of the royal family, the most heartless people in the world...
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Empress Xiao: Win the Emperor and Bear Him a Son 萧氏皇后：拿下皇上生皇子
More children, more blessings. [The fiercest rise to power through palace intrigue + Winning the emperor's heart + Having all the children in the imperial palace + Having children nonstop] Every child who survives in the end is the heroine's. After breaking all ties with Prince Ling, she enters the palace. Two years go by, and she avoids the emperor's favor, wanting only to live out her life in peace. She never expected the empress's banner to sway in her direction and choose her. Xiao Wan'er kn
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- 29 The Tale of Consort Jin: Put Down Your Blade, Your Majesty, I Can Still Kill 锦妃传：皇上刀放下，本宫还能杀 In her previous life, she trusted the empress and helped her eliminate her enemies, only to be cast aside once she was no longer useful. In this life, she’ll hold on to the emperor and topple the empress. Consort? Noble Consort? If she’s going to be anything, she’ll be empress. Your Majesty, here I come! 137Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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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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A Sigh Across Reincarnations 轮回叹
[Palace intrigue + fantasy + romance + fatalism + everyone suffers, every beauty eventually falls to dust] “You and your descendants, from generation to generation, will never again find love. Deep love shortens life.” Han Yuan Chenhun, a mighty ruler who beheaded the Celestial Emperor and bathed Heaven in blood, spent his entire life losing the people he loved most. At last, misunderstood by his own family and left alone, he burned through the final drop of his imperial blood. Han Yuan Liusha
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis
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- 33 Into the Azure Clouds 入青云 Ji Bozai thought Ming Yi was an exceptional blade. She was breathtaking and sharp, yet utterly devoted to him. He would use her to wipe out every traitor, then make her the brightest medal on his crown. A playboy king vs. a woman with a checkered past 4.9kReads8.9Score692Shelves
- 34 I Crossed a Thousand Years to Love You 穿过千年来爱你 When she fell in love with him, she thought she had found a reason to stay in this dynasty. But the sincere love she gave him was repaid with betrayal and deceit. She was merely a pawn he used to seize power. Utterly devastated and heartbroken, she could only leave for a distant land. Yet wherever she went, his shadow followed her like a ghost. Only after losing her did he realize that all the lands under heaven meant nothing compared to her. But by then, it was too late. He did everything he co 968Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 35 There Are No Shortcuts on the Road to Reincarnation 投胎的路上没有捷径 Spirit Envoys are ghost officials who can travel between the worlds of the living and the dead and fulfill the wishes of the deceased. Mo Li is a ghost official in the underworld, diligent, hardworking, and unstoppable, all for the sake of reincarnating. But one day, she encounters the legendary Rakshasa King, renowned for his unmatched bravery and arrogance. From then on, her career takes a nosedive, and she nearly becomes the enemy of every ghost! Whenever she runs into him, she always ends up 932Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 36 Master, Your Romance Luck Has Blossomed 大师，你桃花开了 [Silly Comedy + Sweet Romance + Fallen Princess + Fake Monk + Devoted Couple + Sharp Tongues] Before meeting Wuchen, Qin Yueliang only wanted to stand on her own two feet and take down anyone who coveted her beauty. After meeting Wuchen, all Qin Yueliang wants is to cling to him and let him take down anyone who covets her beauty. They first meet outside Jing'an Temple. “Master, I’m just a helpless young woman. If you don’t help me, I’ll die!” “Benefactor, take another look at the corpses at your 5.1kReads9.1Score700Shelves
- 37 After My Whole Family Transmigrated into a Book, the Regent Became Obsessively Attached to Me 全家穿书后，摄政王对我病娇了 [Everyone's darling + feel-good power fantasy + sharp-tongued goofball + irresistible charm] Si Yin wrote a novel, and readers cursed her whole family to transmigrate into the family of the villainess because the story had a bad ending. To enjoy what remained of her life, she decides to stay away from the male lead. She spends her days playing with cats and dogs, neglecting her studies, and flirting with handsome men, becoming the capital's most notorious and pampered princess. One day, she fina 79Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 38 The Sickly Crown Prince's Darling 病娇太子的掌中欢 Shen Qinghuan is a famously delicate beauty. She can't stand the cold or heat, wind or rain. She gasps for breath every few steps and coughs every few more. Her mother died young, her father disdains her, and after her fiancé breaks off their engagement, no one is willing to marry her. Then The Crown Prince, Fu Yunzhou, takes this fragile flower into the Eastern Palace. * Rumor has it that Crown Prince Fu Yunzhou is violent, avoids women, and loves nothing more than killing. When Shen Qinghuan m 9.5kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 39 The Eunuch Who Rules the Court by Taking It Easy 九千岁靠躺赢权倾朝野 [Strong Leads + Feel-Good Story + Sweet Romance and Comedy + Transmigration + Disguised as a Man] After transmigrating, Su Beining became the powerful chief eunuch of Nanlin. She refused to redeem herself and was determined to be a proper villain, diligently muddling through each day. She flattered people in her daily life, annoyed political rivals whenever she could, and outsmarted everyone when schemes were afoot. Who could have guessed that she would end up wielding power over the whole court 333Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 40 The Long Wind Blows for Tens of Thousands of Miles 长风几万里 Kunyi fell for someone. Monsters ran amok at the palace banquet. The man arrived with the constables of the Shangqing Bureau, standing right beneath her favorite bronze lamp shaped like a flying crane. Radiance fell across his broad shoulders, and when the wind stirred the hem of his dark robe, it fluttered like an eagle circling a cliffside. Sometimes love at first sight really is that simple. She hadn't even seen his face clearly, yet she had already thought of names for their children. A ser 2.7kReads9.2Score413Shelves
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The Imperial Consort of the Great Sheng Dynasty 大盛皇妃
Ensemble cast + revenge + black lotus heroine + not both virgins + high-IQ palace intrigue rising to political power struggles + tragic romance + alternate history + love rivals The palace is the main battleground: beneath its dazzling, extravagant facade are witty, charming daily moments and a brutal core of deadly conflict. Palace secrets are portrayed in meticulous detail. Some content may be upsetting. A bad ending. If you enjoy it, please leave a five-star review. Ling Longxiu was born to a
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The Jade Pendant: The Little Eunuch Who Holds My Heart 玉玦——朕的情衷小太监
Jade Pendant: My Affectionate Little Eunuch
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The Enchantress Who Bewitched the World 魅姬惑天下
Chu Xiao, regent of the Yan Dynasty. Yu Ge, a peerless dancer. He used her as a pawn to win over the powerful, climb to the heights of power, and marry the treacherous chancellor's daughter. They took her body, killed her child, and murdered her mother. She swore to make these hypocrites pay for their blood debt. Then, in a single day, her astonishing true identity was revealed. Three thousand bewitching women, five hundred poison masters, and over ten thousand elite soldiers knelt throughout th
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- 44 I Only Wish We’d Part Ways in the Next Life 只愿来生与君绝 She was determined to die. That night, she set a fire and killed more than a hundred people. The Emperor ordered, “Execute her at once.” She was dragged to the execution ground, where she gave him a faint smile. As the white silk fell and her life slipped away, the Azure Dragon jade pendant appeared in that very instant. At that moment... he went mad! 636Reads5.3Score101Shelves
- 45 Palace in Chaos 宫乱 I went to great lengths to make him a man of greatness, yet it still wasn’t enough to compete with the one he loved, who only had to stamp her foot... Later, I died. Then I came back to life. And later still, nestled in the arms of the bewitchingly handsome Eunuch Qian Sui, I asked him, “I’ve always been generous. Pick a way to die.” 18Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 46 Willows Behind the Palace Walls 宫墙柳 Lonely in an empty courtyard, spring is drawing to a close; pear blossoms carpet the ground, yet the door remains shut. With her most moving prose and wondrously clever ideas, the new queen of historical romance, Wu Yu, weaves one heartbreaking tale of palace love after another. From the heavens to the depths below, love alone endures! 17Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 47 Ashen Bones, Passionate Embrace 烬骨合欢 I still remember the years when we were children, laughing and talking without end, close as we played in the courtyard with its swings. We shared sour plums, and leaned together by the pine-framed window through many a spring. Now each of us has grown old in a different corner of the world, yet still searches for warmth on the page. Sometimes I turn to the verses on red leaves, and we look at each other, recalling old tearstains. The first ten years of Jiang Wanqing’s life were blissfully happy 205Reads—Score—Shelves
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When the Clouds Rise: Spring Mountains in Sight 云起时：春山可望
A concubine enters the palace, expecting to become a favored consort. Only later does she discover that the emperor is playing a game of chess, and she is meant to be the one who flips the board. The Yun family of Jinan has an unwritten rule: their only daughter must be cherished like the apple of their eye. Yun Ruowu is that precious daughter. So what if she was born to a concubine? Her father and brothers doted on her, her stepmother indulged her, and for sixteen years, there was nothing she c
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- 49 A Mistake in the Rainbow Garment 霓裳错 Before Fengyi Palace, Consort Yun walks with a lotus-like grace, dressed in a nine-tailed phoenix robe. That dazzling touch of rouge-red is her silent rebellion against palace rules. Her answer is the emperor’s icy gaze and thirty strokes of the rod, leaving her flesh bloody and mangled. Everyone thinks this harsh punishment is because she covets the empress’s throne. Only Xiao Lingye knows the truth: what made him lose control was glimpsing the secret she had struggled to hide beneath that phoe 2.3kReads5.4Score122Shelves
- 50 He Wanted My Body, Then He Wanted My Heart 他贪我身子，后来贪了心 A Wu was breathtakingly beautiful. So beautiful that the first time the Crown Prince saw her, he summoned her to his bedchamber. So beautiful that the Crown Princess slapped her in front of everyone, striking the face that had supposedly "seduced His Highness." So beautiful that she knelt by the bed all night, observing the rules, while the Crown Prince never even glanced at her. "What's the use of a pretty face?" The Crown Princess laughed as she pressed a foot against A Wu's forehead. "In the 54Reads—Score—Shelves
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