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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
696Reads9.0Score101Shelves
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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
339Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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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!
282Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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The Legend of Jinru in the Harem 后宫晋如传
Xu Jinru was chosen as a palace maiden and sent to the Crown Prince's residence by her father for the sake of the family. Unfortunately, the Crown Prince's residence already had a gentle and virtuous Crown Princess, a charming and beautiful Concubine Zhao, and plenty of other concubines. Xu Jinru was hardly favored. The peaceful Crown Prince's residence was like a placid green pond, disturbed only by the occasional ripple. Concubine Zhao's open hostility and the schemes hidden from view kept Xu
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An Unconventional Palace Intrigue 非传统宫斗
Imperial selection from the start / Pure palace intrigue with a touch of household intrigue / Ensemble cast / Realistic style [Pure palace intrigue begins after chapter 20] Not the emperor’s sole favorite / Not a virgin couple / No romance pairing [The emperor is a scumbag with the power of life and death. The first few chapters establish his character and contain potentially uncomfortable scenes. If that bothers you, skip to chapter 20.] Everyone is caught up in palace intrigue. The consorts an
2.2kReads8.2Score288Shelves
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Oh No, Fourth Master from Empresses in the Palace Has Transmigrated 不得了，甄嬛传四大爷穿越了
[System] [Transmigration] [Empresses in the Palace] [True Harem] Ye Shu has watched Empresses in the Palace countless times, and her greatest pleasure is reading the live comments. Without them, the show just isn't as fun. As usual, Ye Shu turned on the live comments, only to spot an amusing one: “If the emperor could be reborn, what would he do?” Ye Shu chimed in, “Guard against fire, thieves, and getting cheated on. Hahaha.” Ding! Congratulations, you've been granted the chance to transmigrate
648Reads5.5Score—Shelves
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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
249Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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A Lowly Palace Maid's Rise to Power 粗使宫女升职记
[A new writer and a new novel. The rating has just appeared, so it’s quite low. My family is struggling, and writing isn’t easy. I hope you’ll be patient with me. I’m deeply grateful to you all.] [This story features a large ensemble] [No rivalry between women, no love-brained heroines, and no adoration of men] [Women supporting women] [An unconventional palace drama] [A heroine who grows] Please note! The emperor in this story is extremely [human] (bolded for emphasis!), and lacks basic moral
416Reads8.8Score112Shelves
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She Was Given as a Gift 做为礼物的她
She was nothing more than a gift from the empress to the emperor, yet she became the last woman standing in the imperial harem. A sweet romance! (A short biography of Imperial Noble Consort Lingyi, amid the harem battles of the Qianlong reign. An attempt to unravel the mystery behind the Empress’s hair-cutting.) For readers who have experienced being loved. Not for those who cannot accept that other people have love in their lives, or for those expecting to see a lovesick doormat and believing i
410Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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Lady Guo Has Cracked the Secret to Climbing the Ranks 郭才人，她掌握了晋升流量密码
[Sweet romance, adorable children, palace intrigue; the male lead dotes on the heroine] When her family was in danger, Guo Xuan was summoned to the palace by an imperial edict. She thought this was simply how her life would be from then on. But after entering the palace, she unexpectedly discovered that the emperor had a secret crush on her. Under his gentle pursuit, her heart slowly opened to him, and her rank rose at rocket speed until she became the empress. She and Consort Shu became close f
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Farming in the Cold Palace 我在冷宫忙种田
After transmigrating, she becomes an unwanted empress discarded in the Cold Palace. What? The palace has stopped providing her with food and clothing? No problem, she has a pocket dimension and plenty of grain. What? The emperor is a greasy, overweight middle-aged man? No problem, she’ll sell steamy little books, save up enough silver, and leave the palace. What? The impossibly handsome man before her is actually the emperor? His handsome face draws closer and closer. “My beloved consort, where
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Reborn, the Noble Consort Only Wants to Be the Villain 重生后贵妃她只想当反派
[Mutual devotion + sweet romance + no angst] After being reborn, Ye Jiujiu takes her brash, don’t-mess-with-me attitude to the extreme: She kicks the meticulously dressed Consort Li into the water; She slips laxatives into the tea of the coquettish Consort Yun; She wreaks havoc at the flower-viewing banquet the Empress painstakingly prepared; The consorts all rush to the emperor to complain: The cool, dignified emperor says, “I established this harem solely to give the Noble Consort something to
3.7kReads9.1Score359Shelves
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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
10.8kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
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A Palace Maid’s Daily Struggles 宫女奋斗日常
Ling Huan has skin as smooth as ice and looks like a goddess, yet she has no interest in power and thinks only of leaving the palace. In the end, neither she nor her child meets a good end. Given another chance, her goal is to raise her child well and become Empress Dowager herself. A palace-intrigue story with a strong female lead. The heroine is ruthless and clever. A thoroughly satisfying read.
7.5kReads9.2Score942Shelves
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Reborn to Scheme for a Flourishing Era 重生之盛世妃谋
To preserve her family's honor, she is sent into the palace to help her aunt, the favored consort, win the emperor's favor and seize power, and to put her own cousin on the throne. Who could have guessed that he would turn around and marry her cousin as his empress? After exhausting every scheme, she ends up losing her closest kin to a tragic death. Then, amid a great fire, she returns to the days before she entered the palace. Lou Huayu gazes at the enemies from her past life, lowers her head,
600Reads8.3Score109Shelves
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Reborn, I Flirted with the Ascetic Little Monk 重生后我撩了禁欲小和尚
[Reborn + palace and household intrigue + marriage before love + face-slapping the scum + devoted to each other] After being reborn, Shi Sangruo marries a good-for-nothing prince to stay away from a scumbag. After the wedding, everyone laughs at them. They laugh at her for throwing herself at him, even though he looks down on her. They laugh at him for being useless in bed. But once they fall in love, he dotes on her fiercely and proves quite “capable.” Once Shi Sangruo has secured her place, sh
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Palace Intrigue: The Story of Qing Zhi 深宫策·青栀传
Her eyes can see through sinister tricks and schemes, but she cannot fully see the changes in people's hearts. His hands hold the fate of all under heaven, yet all he wants is to hold on to the few who truly care for him. How far is it from being the daughter of a powerful official distrusted by the emperor to becoming a virtuous empress remembered throughout history? Once she enters the imperial palace, her past ties are severed. Half a lifetime of ups and downs conceals the green of the garden
2.3kReads9.2Score348Shelves
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Palace Beauty 宫姝
She dared not love too deeply, afraid it would all turn out to be nothing but a dream. She thought that once she entered the imperial palace, she would be like the other consorts, scheming every day to win the emperor's favor; She thought that once she entered the imperial palace, she would be like the other consorts, with invisible blood staining her hands; She thought that once she entered the imperial palace, she would be like the other consorts. In the end, it was only what she had imagined.
11kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
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One Smile from His Sweet Princess, and the Cold Regent Goes Mad 娇滴滴王妃一笑，冷冽摄政王疯批
[Sweet Everyday Romance] + [Both Leads Are Untouched] + [Healing] + [Devoted Husband] Su Wan, who knew ancient martial arts, transmigrated by accident after saving a little girl who ran across the road. Su Wan: I saved a disabled man. He’s so stunningly handsome. Let me take a closer look. Yuan Shang: That look is so intense. I can’t take it. But whenever this woman deals with medicine and poisons, she’s especially earnest, composed, and calm, completely focused. It reminds me a little of how I
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From Talented Lady to Empress: Your Consort Knows Court Intrigue Best 从才人到皇后，爱妃最懂宫斗
The author's first book, so please don't mind the low rating. Zhao Xiyao is a fashion designer. Maybe she'd watched too many palace-intrigue dramas, because she actually transmigrated to an ancient imperial harem and became a low-ranking concubine. The palace intrigue she faced was far crueler than anything she'd ever seen on television. A death sentence from the start, all kinds of plots against her, and endless scheming... As someone from the modern world, Zhao Xiyao could write poetry and mak
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The Prince’s Darling: His Substitute Bride Is No Easy Target 王爷娇宠：替嫁丑妃不好惹
Born into a general’s household, she was raised by a female slave. Orphaned young and terribly ugly, she barely managed to survive in the vast general’s residence. Amid the palace’s treacherous intrigues, she had no choice but to take her legitimate elder sister’s place and marry the equally neglected Seventh Prince. One was ugly, the other cold and indifferent. It suited their plans and pleased them both. She had thought she would spend her whole life in obscurity, but the wheel of fate took an
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The Phoenix of Destiny Defies Fate in Huadu 天命之凤逆华都
He was a wild boy from the Marquis’s household, a nuisance to everyone, doing as he pleased from heaven to earth. Everyone said the esteemed Marquis of Boling had raised a rebellious son! But at a literary gathering, a faint silhouette behind a folding screen captured the boy’s heart. From then on, he laid his whole heart before her, hoping to win even the smallest favor. He didn’t care if it meant offending the Crown Prince. Just as he began to believe she felt the same way, she cruelly humilia
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Empresses in the Palace: Jingbai Is Reborn as a Charming Nun Who Wants to Be Summoned 甄嬛传静白重生之俏尼姑要侍寝
In her previous life, Jingbai helped Guarjia Wenyuan frame Zhen Huan and Wen Shichu for having an affair. Her tongue was cut out, and she was beaten to death. After dying, Jingbai’s vengeful spirit refused to dissipate. She wandered the imperial harem, unable to control where she went, as if pushed along by an unseen hand. From the emperor’s accession to the throne and the selection of consorts, she witnessed the lives of every woman in the harem. Reborn, watch as Jingbai rises from a humble nun
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Scheming for the Heir 谋嫡
From being a pawn sent by her elder half-sister to the Third Prince's residence to climbing over a mountain of blood and claiming the empress's throne, Lin Wanying did just one thing: she kept Zhao Xuan firmly by her side.
2.2kReads9.1Score310Shelves
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A Peaceful and Prosperous Age 盛世安稳
In her previous life, Xie Yixin had been blind. Ignoring everyone’s warnings, she married Zhu Congyu, the heir to a marquis’s household. She thought he was a cold-faced man with a warm heart, but for the sake of the woman he loved, he disregarded the lives of their children. Only when news arrived that her family had been condemned and wiped out did she finally understand how foolishly she had lived. Her family was destroyed, her children were gone… She had so much hatred and resentment… If she
10kReads9.1Score754Shelves
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There’s a Kind of Harem Called Consort De 有种后宫叫德妃
All Wu Yalanqi wants in this life is to be a good palace maid. To become one, she's even willing to risk her life and trick the emperor. Certain she's doomed, she opens her eyes and finds herself lying on the imperial bed... Everyone thinks she's nothing but a pawn the emperor is using to spite his new empress and the court officials after the death of his beloved first wife. But Xuanye cherishes this pawn in the palm of his hand, and keeps her there for a lifetime.
3.2kReads9.0Score326Shelves
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The Heaven-Blessed Noble Lady 天命贵女
In her previous life, she entered the palace in splendor as the Princess Consort of Prince Liang. She helped her husband seize the throne, rising to glory step by step. For seven years, they shared life and death, supporting each other through countless trials. Little did she know that she was paving the road to her own death with her own hands. On the day their ambitions were fulfilled, her own younger sister donned the phoenix robes and delivered a cruel verdict: “Zhan Huanyan, I kept you aliv
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The Central Palace 中宫
“You are a gift from Qiu Zhenyu to the throne, offered in exchange for his head. Did your father not tell you that you must obey me?” With a light flick of the jade-handled fan in his hand, Xiang Ye removed the empress’s phoenix robe. “Grandmother said the daughters of the Qiu family don’t need to obey.” Min’er looked up at the king who had come drenched in blood, not the slightest bit afraid. On their wedding night, the emperor slept in another woman’s arms. Yet his neglect, humiliation, and bu
3.7kReads8.8Score528Shelves
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I Am the Consort 妾为后
Wu Xiaoyan was not beautiful. For a woman, she was far too tall, and her skin was too dark. She was stronger than a man and ate more than one, too. As she grew older, all she wanted was to marry an ordinary man and live an ordinary life. But this little wolf cub she had raised... really was a little wolf cub!!
3.8kReads9.0Score454Shelves
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100 Techniques to Conquer the Emperor 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
14.8kReads9.5Score1.7kShelves
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The King's Woman 王的女人
A consort who doesn't want to monopolize the emperor's favor is no good consort at all! My goal is to charge down the path to winning all his affection and ruling the Six Palaces! At least three chapters a day. A jade pendant donation earns one extra chapter; a crown earns ten!
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Empresses in the Palace: Consort Hua Reborn 甄嬛传：华妃重生
“Your Majesty, you’ve made life so miserable for me!” Betrayed by the person closest to her, she sees her family executed and then dies by smashing her head against a wall in the Cold Palace. Reborn, she casts off her foolish romantic obsession and rises step by step through the imperial harem. What does an emperor matter? What does his favor matter? None of it is as important as holding power in her own hands. In this life, she will turn the tables and rewrite the fate of herself and the Nian f
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