Novels Like the TV Dramas Story of Minglan and The Journey of Chongzi 类似于电视剧《知否》《嫣语赋》的小说
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What Can I Do? What Can I Do? Fate Is Shallow, but Love Runs Deep 何奈？何奈？应是缘浅情深
The Story of Minglan From a street-side cook to a legendary figure who holds sway over the court, watch how Yun Yingxue uses her abacus to shape the fate of the realm! Yun Yingxue was born into a merchant family and accidentally became embroiled in the struggles of aristocratic clans. With superb culinary skills and an extraordinary talent for mathematics, she takes on the jianghu as the “cook princess consort.” While accompanying the army to the frontier, she earns respect with pickled vegetab
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As the Records of History Tell: The Complete Story of Minglan 知否青史载红妆：明兰全传
In The Story of Minglan, Minglan, an illegitimate daughter of the Sheng family, loses her mother as a child. In the depths of a grand household, she survives by staying cautious and concealing her talents, fortunate to have her grandmother’s protection and guidance, which teach her the wisdom to survive and the art of managing a household. After coming of age, she marries Gu Tingye, the Marquis of Ningyuan. From a new bride in the marquis’s household to the woman in charge of the family, she use
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Know No More: The Green Grows Lush, the Red Fades Away 知否？知否？应是绿肥红瘦
Synopsis of The Story of Minglan In the Northern Song dynasty, Sheng Minglan, the illegitimate daughter of the Sheng family, loses her mother, Wei Xiaoniang, when a favored concubine, Lin Qinshuang, schemes against her and causes a fatal labor. Her mother’s last words, “Staying alive matters most,” become Minglan’s guiding principle. Taken in and raised by Old Madam Sheng at Shou’an Hall, she learns from her grandmother to keep a low profile, endure, and establish herself by managing a househol
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After Being Cast Out, She Farms to Survive in a Broken Courtyard 被休后，她守着破院种田求生
A letter of repudiation demoted her from the Chen family's eldest daughter-in-law to a cast-off wife with no household registration. The torrential rain washed away more than the wooden hairpin that held up her hair. It swept away sixteen years of the rules that a woman must obey her father before marriage and her husband afterward, half a sack of mold-blackened wheat hidden in a ruined kiln, and the shackle carved into her bones: a woman is virtuous only if she is uneducated. Li Qinghe crouche
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Know No More: The Green Grows Lush, the Red Fades Away, Transmigration Edition 知否？知否？应是绿肥红瘦穿越版
The story follows Yao Yiyi, a modern-day clerk who transmigrates into the body of Sheng Minglan, a concubine-born daughter of the Sheng family. Armed with modern knowledge, she navigates the intricate schemes of a grand household ruled by strict hierarchies. From the first signs of danger surrounding Concubine Wei’s mysterious death to hiding her talents while studying at Shou’an Hall and outwitting Lin Qinshuang and her daughter, Minglan carefully plots each step, keeping a low profile and endu
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Reborn After a Horrible Death? I Won't Be This Perfect Wife Anymore 惨死后重生归来？这贤妻我不当了
[Revenge on scumbags + sweet romance + switched marriages + reborn heroine vs. transmigrated heroine + a seemingly aloof, secretly twisted beauty] In her previous life, Chu Mingyuan learned only as she lay dying that the younger sister who had secretly been sleeping with her husband was not born to her late mother. She was actually a concubine-born daughter who had been switched at birth by a concubine. Chu Mingyuan died with regrets. Thankfully, Heaven took pity on her, and after her death she
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Leaning on the Perilous Pavilion 倚危庭
Just how hard is it to raise an outstanding young woman? That depends on who’s raising her. If an entire clan, or even a whole country, throws its support behind her, that’s another matter entirely. Ye Qingjiu is a woman with all sorts of jumbled memories and a knack for baffling people with her behavior. She thinks she’s clever, until she somehow gets married and finally realizes Li Tingye has been playing her all along...
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The Return of the Legitimate Daughter: A Stunning Rebirth 嫡女归：惊风华
[Household intrigue + revenge + two equally formidable leads + no mindless wish fulfillment] At the age of eight, Su Wanxi, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, was framed and sent to the countryside, where she was forgotten by everyone. Ten years later, to secure a legitimate return to the prime minister’s residence, she had someone break the leg of her younger half-sister’s fiancé, Xie Yunqi. With careful planning and martial skills, she methodically brings down everyone who framed h
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The New Story of Minglan 明兰新传
[Also known as: The Double Emperors Hold Court in The Story of Minglan] [One-on-one romance + devoted couple + original male lead + woman transmigrates into a man + satisfying power fantasy + treats Minglan well + heroine Sheng Minglan + imperial storyline + follows the drama] Reborn into ancient times as a man, Xiu Wen thought he had landed in the script of an imperial-examination novel. The year he passed the county-level exam, his father told him to attend the Sheng family's school. The Sheng
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May Every Year Bring Peace and Lasting Serenity 岁岁安澜绵长
A modern police detective was killed in a car accident while on a mission, only to transmigrate into the youngest daughter of the eldest branch of the loyal and brave Earl’s household. Her biological mother had also switched her at birth, making her the family’s adopted daughter. How will she survive in ancient times? This is my first time writing, so please be kind, everyone! I don’t know the platform’s rules either, and the first chapter turned out too long!
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Dugu Jingyao Is Reborn as Li Chu’s Beloved 独孤靖瑶重生成为李俶的心尖人
Reborn and transmigrated, this story is a reimagining of the TV series The Glory of Tang Dynasty. Dugu Jingyao is reborn and makes up for the regrets of her past life, meeting and coming to know Li Chu as they grow old together. She becomes close friends with Shen Zhenzhu, while a modern beauty blogger transmigrates into Dugu Jingyao's younger sister, setting off a series of exciting events. Sweet from beginning to end, with as few scumbags as possible...
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The Peerless Little Princess Consort 绝世小俏妃
[A funny, charming princess consort + a scheming prince who fiercely protects his own + a manipulative woman + a wickedly seductive and mysterious Holy Lord, and more...] [Sweet romance + comedy + from scum to love + perfect ending] What does it feel like to fall in love with your enemy? The day he led his troops to invade her country, the sun shone brightly. The seventh prince of Beijiang, Mu Beiming, cut an imposing figure in his black armor. Even with a fearsome mask hiding his face, his shar
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Five Years of Waiting Came to Nothing: My Husband Brings His New Love to Demand a Divorce 五年痴等成空，夫君带女逼我和离
[Both Chaste] [Romance with His Older Brother's Wife] [Male-Male Story] [The Male Lead is repeatedly seen completely naked but stays faithful. Later, what looks like infidelity is actually a guard in disguise; the male lead remains devoted to the female lead throughout.] [Dear readers, we're very sorry! When you reach Chapter 139, please skip straight to Chapter 146. Chapters 140 to 145 are inconsistent and can be ignored.] On their wedding night, unrest broke out at the border, and her husband
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Story of Minglan: Marrying Hualan 知否：迎娶华兰
A derivative of The Story of Minglan + the Imperial City Bureau + daily life + one heroine + rise to marquis and chancellor. Xu Chun transmigrates to the Song Empire, becoming a distant relative from a collateral branch who depends on the Marquis of Yongyi’s household for a living. He gives up the civil service examination and devotes himself to the law, setting his sights on the Imperial City Bureau. Bianjing’s splendor stretches long beneath the Song’s elegant charm; lanterns along the imperia
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Spring Ripples 折春漪
Luo Ning took a blade meant for the Empress Dowager and suffered severe injuries, trading her life for her family's noble title. She went south to recuperate for three years, but when she returned, she discovered that her maternal cousin had taken over her courtyard. Her cousin had even replaced her in every aspect. Luo Ning's parents and elder brother adored her, her grandmother favored her, and even Luo Ning's childhood sweetheart secretly admired her, saying that she surpassed Luo Ning in eve
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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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An Orphaned Girl Takes the Family Reins: Ruling the Realm from the Inner Chambers 孤女承家：从后宅定天下
[A score of 6.9 on May 25, 2026. A special milestone, and here's hoping it rises! A strong female lead, a cast where everyone shines, no one is reborn, and there is no System] Who says women are inferior to men? Why be confined to the inner courtyards and their rivalries? Women have a world of their own to conquer. Her father and brother returned victorious, only for their deaths to be announced. When their coffins came home, she became an orphan overnight. Everyone laughed at her for having no
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After Being Dumped, She Devotes Herself to Making Money, Getting Rich, and Marrying Up 被渣后，她沉迷搞钱暴富又高嫁了
[Completed] As the daughter of a merchant, Fu Mingyu is jilted at twenty. Everyone laughs that she'll probably spend her life as a lowly concubine, filling in for a wife. Fu Mingyu turns her attention to making money, thinking only that once she becomes the richest person in the world, if she still can't find a husband, she can buy herself a few handsome, strong, obedient young men: one to romance her, one to whisper sweet nothings, one to make her laugh, and one to have fun with... She does bec
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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
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The Hostage Prince She Once Tormented Ascended the Throne 那个被她狠虐的质皇子，登基了
A possessive, brooding hostage prince with a yandere streak + a spoiled, arrogant, willful Grand Princess + a cold, aloof young chancellor + transmigration into a book + System + raising a villainous male lead + defying fate College student Zhang Susu transmigrated into a book as Su Yingxue, the vicious female antagonist and Grand Princess. In the original novel, Su Yingxue met a tragic end. She abused and tormented Chu Xingchen for years, turning the male lead into a cold-blooded, cruel, and si
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You and I, Heart to Heart 你侬我侬
A hazy dream left Qiaoqiao unable to see things clearly, but one thing was certain: Mo Henghuan was a massive scumbag! So why wait? She should dump him! But why did trouble follow right on his heels, and why was it so hard to deal with? Well, having an ally was important, and the heir of the Bai family seemed like a good choice. But I’m only joining forces with you, not marrying you. How about we renegotiate the terms? The Bai heir: “Qiaoqiao, whether we’re cooperating or plotting together, you
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The Legend of Duoyi 朵依传
A girl who grew up in hardship is fortunate enough to be acknowledged by the Khan and become the flower of the grasslands. To protect her people, she is sent away as a princess to marry a Khitan king in his fifties, exiled to the desolate frontier. There, she struggles through hardship alongside A Yan, whose fate has been just as cruel. Together, they fight their way out of darkness and toward the dawn. Family, lovers, tribe, homeland: when looking back on the years gone by, which of these is th
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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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Li Chengdao 李承道
Special forces soldier Li Chengdao accidentally transmigrates into a strange valley. He transforms the valley and ventures out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he establishes his own Heavenly Dao Group in the cultivation world. He opens the Li Medicine Hall to heal the sick and help the people. He makes his fortune through spirit-root wine, branches out into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes the free Heavenly Dao Academy and trains a wealth o
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Star Pupil: A Beast-Taming Pact Across Dimensions 星瞳：跨越次元的御兽契约
Starry Eyes: Beast-Contracting Across Dimensions
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The Moonlight's Dreamweaver 白月光的织梦人
The Dreamweaver of the White Moonlight
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The Walled City of a Broken Home 原生家庭的围城
The Fortress of a Dysfunctional Family
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Laughter Behind Vermilion Walls: A Concubine-Born Daughter’s Palace Intrigue 朱墙笑：庶女谋宫
Laughter Behind the Vermilion Walls: A Concubine's Plot for the Palace
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Beauty in the Mist and Rain of the Golden Wind Pavilion 烟雨楼台金风之美人烟雨
A powerful female lead and the final victor of the harem: countless lives and countless minds paved her way to the top. The heroine appears late, after readers have called for her time and time again. [Game of Thrones in the Northern and Southern Dynasties! A tale of revenge! Historical political intrigue + ancient workplace drama + historical romance (including an older woman-younger man romance, a white moonlight, and a political marriage) + espionage. Plot-driven, with multiple storylines. No
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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
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
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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
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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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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
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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
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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 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
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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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The Sound of Spring 闻春声
[Taciturn, stammering country hunk VS vivacious, fiery widow. Farming romance, one-on-one, both leads’ first relationship] [She makes the first move, and the unyielding tree finally blossoms. A period farming romance] At the matchmaker's urging, young Yao Chunniang took her dowry and married into the Zhang family in Lishui Village. Who could have guessed that on their wedding night, her sickly husband would close his eyes and die? Before Yao Chunniang could even process what had happened, she ha
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Climbing the Social Ladder 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
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
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Listening to Spring Rain All Night in a Small Tower 小楼一夜听春雨
A critically acclaimed historical romance ensemble that topped the annual charts! A calculating, lovesick beauty versus a dark, scheming top scholar! A historical take on Pride and Prejudice: life in the inner household isn't all scheming and rivalry, but also deep sisterly affection. The clever and capable Second Madam Lou takes the greatest pride in her life in having three beautiful daughters. To marry her three marriageable girls into “good” families, she travels a great distance to the capi
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Bewitching the Golden Branch 惹金枝
(Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo
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The Commoner's Path to the Heavens 摆烂庶女的通天路
New book, just rated... [Anti-cliché transmigration + growing protagonist + serious tone] How deep within the ladies’ quarters! Watch how a laid-back concubine’s daughter carves out a path to the top! After six years being left to her own devices on a country estate, she thought she was destined for a peaceful life in the countryside. Then an order arrives, and she is brought back to the family’s sprawling mansion, becoming an unexpected pawn on the family chessboard. Beauty is her only weapon,
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Moonlit Nights at the Fan Estate: A Concubine-Born Daughter's Household Rivalry 范府烟月：庶女的宅斗传奇
In a family that does good deeds, blessings linger in secret, yet within this sprawling mansion they are as elusive and mysterious as mist. A legacy of blessings remains, a legacy of blessings remains: a cherished daughter in peril suddenly finds help from a benefactor. Thank her mother, thank her mother: the good deeds of the past seem to reach out from the unseen world to lend a hand. We urge people to help the poor and aid those in need, but who could have guessed that behind these good deeds
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Do You Know? Do You Know? The Green Should Be Plump and the Red Lean 知否！知否！应是绿肥红瘦
The Story of Minglan: Her birth mother was murdered, her legal mother suppressed her, and her half-sister framed her! As Sheng Minglan, a concubine-born daughter trapped in a deep inner household, she had no golden finger or miraculous opportunity. She survived in the narrow cracks of a cruel family through her keen intelligence and unyielding spirit! While keeping a low profile and biding her time, she exposed embezzlement in the accounts and foiled a poison plot at a banquet, crushing those w
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