Looking for Novels About Concubines Rising to Power, Harem Scheming, and Palace Intrigue 求小妾上位、宅斗、宫斗的小说

1. 301 职 Who's the Best Professional Concubine? Just Look at Concubine Shen of the Marquis's Residence 职业小妾谁最强，且看侯府沈姨娘 Melon Egg瓜蛋Ancient Romance135k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + back-home scheming and workplace grind + keeping a low profile] Shen Yao, a wage slave, transmigrates into the heir's household and becomes a favored concubine. Her family is of humble standing, and she has little money to rely on, so she can only make her way forward one step at a time. The heir's household is home to a double-faced madam, dignified on the surface but vicious underneath, as well as a concubine who, after leaving her village to marry for love, discovers that ma 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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2. 302 后 The Harem's Couch Potato Sits Bolt Upright: The Favorite Consort Is Me! 后宫咸鱼惊坐起，宠妃竟是我自己 Carefree Smile笑心闲Ancient Romance318k WordsCompleted If dying suddenly from overwork was unfortunate, then transmigrating to ancient times after death was even more torturous in Zhu Xintong’s eyes. Life without a phone, Wi-Fi, air conditioning, or food delivery had made her feel there was no point in living. But the family she had in this life eventually touched her heart, and she decided to make the most of the time she had. Women in ancient times faced plenty of hardships. Fortunately, her father was capable and enjoyed the emperor’s favor. With 219Reads6.0Score—Shelves
3. 303 快 Quick Transmigration: The Lucky Concubine Wins Favor Through Her Child! 快穿：好运小妾，母凭子贵！ Moonfield Grass月野草Ancient Romance180k WordsOngoing A great body saddled with a lousy brain. Yin Shixu can't handle the scheming in the inner quarters. But who could have guessed? She's got a talent for sleeping, and before long she's hooked… While other women fight for power in the household and palace, the emperor holds a baby in one arm and her in the other. The concubines rise to power, only to find themselves repeatedly carried to the empress's seat by the emperor! The emperors say, “Even if your birth is lowly, I alone adore your gentleness 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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   🌻The concubine takes the position, the palace fights and the house fights, 🍒①The heroine is dressed as a concubine, Ye Qingzhi's career goal: to convince both the Marquis and the mistress, and let the two leaders take the blame for her and protect her. 🍒Ye Qingzhi's workplace principles: Life is so short, I'm just a concubine, why should I have to give you face? 🍒Ye Qingzhi's workplace mantra: Lord, help me, madam, help me, I don't want to die early, I still have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to spend... Ye Qingzhi's workplace persona: a fig-leaf talker, frail and bloody, who goes crazy when she doesn't agree with her words. 🤣🤣

4. 304 太 The Crown Prince Asks Every Day: Has My Concubine Improved Today? 太子每日一问，小妾今日上进了吗 Honey Pomelo Tea0蜂蜜柚子茶0Ancient Romance344k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate + no golden finger + all female characters are villains + male lead is a tool] Lu Zhiyan transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder concubine in the crown prince's household. In the novel, the original owner is killed for bullying the clever, patient heroine. The first thing Lu Zhiyan does after coming to her senses is cling tightly to the heroine! This is the future queen of palace intrigue. Stick with her and coast to victory! While the heroine of the original nove 30Reads5.7Score—Shelves
5. 305 皎 Jade in Radiant Splendor 皎玉昭昭 Zhang Xuan张煊Ancient Romance285k WordsOngoing Also known as Black Lotus: A Harem Promotion Chronicle. No transmigration, no rebirth, not a pure-couple romance. The heroine is a native of this world, and no saint. Fang Siyu, a hunter’s daughter, enters the palace one day and starts as a palace maid. She changes sides, becomes a consort, bears a child, and steadily brings down a Noble Concubine, wins over the Ladies, takes on the Empress, and ultimately reaches the pinnacle of power. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 306 后 A Laid-Back Concubine in the Inner Palace, Calmly Turning Her Life Around and Sunbathing 后宅小咸鱼，淡定翻身晒太阳 Orange Turned Orange橘子橙了Ancient Romance262k WordsOngoing Su Zhiyuan looked up at the person holding her around the belly and lifting her up, then lowered her head and kept nibbling on the pastry in her hand. Her father had said that everyone here was an important person, so she had to behave. Her mother had said that her father was the head of the family, and that if she listened to him, she’d get pastries. She’d been very good today, so she’d get another pastry when she got home. Six-year-old Feng Chen hugged Su Zhiyuan around the belly from behind a 17.3kReads8.6Score1kShelves

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   ✨①The heroine looked up and stared at the man who was holding her belly and picking her up, lowered her head and continued to nibble on the shortbread in her hand [admiration]. Dad said that everyone here is a noble person and must be obedient [laughing]. Grandma said that daddy is the god of the family, and if you listen to daddy, you will have cakes to eat [laughs]. She was obedient today, and she got another shortcake to eat when she got home [laughs]. The six-year-old male protagonist hugged the female protagonist's belly from behind, took her home and hid her [laughing evilly]. What he picked up was his [laughing] and he had to hide it well [full].

7. 307 王 Princess, Stop Lounging Around! You Have a Regency to Run! 王妃别躺了，您要垂帘听政了！ Jiang Nanyi姜南忆Ancient Romance500k WordsCompleted [The rating was just posted, but it’ll go up later!] She became a stepmother at a young age, and everyone said Shen You’an was doomed to a hard life. Just as everyone expected her to wreak havoc in Prince Yi’s manor, she went and lay flat instead. When Prince Yi got hurt, she put on a show of mourning. When his concubines fought, she sat back and watched. Her only goals were to eat, wait for death, and retire early. Shen You’an believed life’s three greatest joys were getting promoted, getting r 702Reads7.5Score—Shelves
8. 308 冲 I Married to Bring Good Luck, Then My Husband Returned from the Dead 冲喜嫁人后，战死的亡夫回来了 Little Hétang小禾棠Ancient Romance479k WordsCompleted Jin Ning transmigrated to ancient times and charmed a general into becoming her boyfriend. Later, she discovered that he was far too possessive and thought about bedroom antics every day. Luckily, he was devoted and faithful, so she put up with it! Unfortunately, her general boyfriend died on the frontier, and she was forced to marry his late friend to bring him good fortune. Her sickly husband was gentle and considerate, and she gradually fell for him. At the Qingming Festival the following y 188kReads8.9Score24.2kShelves
9. 309 替 I Took My Sister's Place and Married the Eunuch Lord 替姐姐嫁给九千岁 Oil-Run Salted Egg咸蛋流油Ancient Romance330k WordsCompleted [Both leads are each other’s first and only + exclusive devotion + sisters swap marriages + ruthless Chief Eunuch vs. easygoing beauty] Jiang Yunshu transmigrates into the illegitimate daughter of the Marquis of Xiping’s household. She has food and shelter and can laze around to her heart’s content. All she wants is to remain an invisible nobody in the marquis’s household forever. Her legitimate older sister, Jiang Zhaohua, is famous throughout the capital. A decree from the palace summons her 28.6kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
10. 310 带 After She Flees with Their Child, the Heir Comes After Her with a Blade 带娃跑路后，世子爷提着刀就来了 Today's Jiu'er今天的九儿Ancient Romance332k WordsCompleted Su Ruowan didn’t want to marry because she thought no man could keep his legs under control. The flies outside would always seem more enticing than the pearls at home. She despised men because her father was the height of hypocrisy. He had made the most heartfelt promises to love her mother and her alone, tricking her into giving him all her property. In the end, they were driven out of the household, and only then did she learn that he had a son older than her. Whenever her mother saw someone e 55Reads6.3Score—Shelves
11. 311 冲 After Our Auspicious Marriage, My Husband Became Irresistible 冲喜后夫君真香了 Moon Gazing at Lotus望月荷Ancient Romance329k WordsCompleted What’s it like to transmigrate into a marriage as a good-luck charm? On their wedding day, her husband despises her, her in-laws dislike her, and even her sister- and brother-in-law and sister-in-law look down on her. Hah! How could Zhou Ruolin let them get away with that? Just as she’s about to show her in-laws what she can do… It turns out her good-luck charm act works a little too well. Her husband, who had been on the verge of dying, is up and bouncing around the very next day. Now her in-la 3.1kReads9.2Score263Shelves
12. 312 她 After She Ascends the Throne, She Takes a New Husband, Leaving Her Ex to Weep 她登基后换了夫，新夫不见旧夫哭 Rabbit Purple Moonrise兔紫月上Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Power! It's a woman's second face! She loves it!) (1V2 + advancing the nation through technology + two men competing for her, only to end up regretting it) Lu Jichen: He is an ill-omened man. On the day his elder brother got married, they smeared dog blood all over his face and locked him in a cellar. Later, she brought him out, washed his hands, let him sit at the table, fed him, and paid for his education. Wei Chiyuan: He is the young lord of an aristocratic clan; she is a young widow. One sc 19.3kReads9.3Score2.6kShelves
13. 313 娘 The Empress Is So Charming, the Emperor Holds Her in the Palm of His Hand 娘娘多娇，帝王捧在掌心宠 Fox's Dream狐狸梦Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [The leads are not faithful to each other at the beginning, so read with caution] [Palace intrigue at first, favoritism in the middle, exclusive devotion in the later part] [Palace intrigue + sweet romance + a stunningly beautiful, charming consort x a workaholic, devoted emperor] Qu Wanning was a die-hard fan of palace-intrigue novels. Just because she left the author a comment asking them to continue the story, she transmigrated into a new book whose blurb she had just finished reading! She ge 2.6kReads8.8Score299Shelves
14. 314 糟 Oh No! My Former Lover Is the Crown Prince 糟糕！我始乱终弃的恩客是太子 Sleepy Meow Meow睡不醒的喵喵酱Ancient Romance559k WordsCompleted Original Title: Oh No! The Patron I Used and Abandoned Is the Crown Prince [Sweet Romance] [Mutual First Love] [Devoted Husband] [Love Grows Over Time] [Many Foreshadowing Twists] [Comedy] A quirky, down-on-her-luck heroine who grows into herself + a gentle hero Shen Yuan grew up in a small town in the south. Only when her mother died did she learn that her biological father was the powerful Marquis Shen of the capital. With no one to rely on, the orphaned girl set out on a thousand-mile journe 11.3kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
15. 315 冰 Frost-Kissed Beauty: A Journey Through the Palace to Win the Emperor’s Heart 冰霜绝艳：辗转宫闱征服帝王心 Zhou Dudu舟渡渡Ancient Romance406k WordsCompleted [A note up front: This isn’t good, this isn’t good, this isn’t good. It’s brainless, brainless. Don’t click! Don’t click! Don’t click! Don’t click] The emperor, Li Yi, has just one standard for choosing his concubines: they must be beautiful. Song Yunchu, a concubine-born daughter who has suffered abuse since childhood, is chosen by Emperor Li Yi to enter the palace because of her stunning looks. Before entering the palace, her mother is looked down on by the servants, and her younger sister bu 963Reads9.0Score102Shelves
16. 316 穿 Transmigrated as the Top Scholar's Poor Wife, I Eloped with the Villain 穿成状元糟糠妻后，和反派苟合了 Green Mountain Has Its Say青山有辞Ancient Romance588k WordsCompleted Liu Zhiheng, a female scientist on a geological survey team, transmigrates into a book and becomes the wretched wife of a top scholar, destined for a tragic ending. To make matters worse, she's been saddled with a knack for brewing sauces. To avoid becoming a mere tool for making sauce and to save her whole family from a miserable fate, one snowy night Liu Zhiheng brings home Duan Wujiao, the Prince of Yan and the story's biggest villain, hoping to rewrite a key plot point. Unexpectedly, after l 5.1kReads9.0Score677Shelves
17. 317 清 Daily Life of a Qing Dynasty Secondary Consort 清穿侧福晋日常 The Moon Loves Drinking月亮爱喝酒Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [A sweet romance, favored early on and adored exclusively later A cold, rigid, and strangely minded Fourth Prince vs. a little concubine who just wants to eat, drink, and lie flat] Li Shenjiao, the daughter of a prefect, entered the Fourth Prince's household as a concubine after the selection. Her family background wasn't impressive, but she was quite content. Being a concubine was great: low status meant nobody paid attention to her, and she could spend her days eating and drinking. She'd plann 3kReads8.2Score254Shelves
18. 318 清 After Transmigrating to the Qing Dynasty, Fourth Master Has Three Babies in a Year 清穿后四爷一年抱仨 Flowers Blooming in the Snow雪中繁花Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted A wealthy young woman from modern times is reborn in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi era after a car accident, becoming Wanyan Wunaxi. With a loving mother, a doting father, and a crowd of protective older brothers, plus a portable pocket dimension, she has a life of pure bliss. All she needs to do is get passed over in the palace selection and marry some honest fellow. Then her life will be complete. Who knew the transmigration god would play a joke on her? An imperial edict comes crashing d 16.5kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
19. 319 替 After the Proxy Marriage, the Possessive Prince Lied to Me for Three Years, Then We Had Twins 替嫁后，偏执王爷骗我三年抱俩 Nanmen Yi南门毅Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Female lead takes charge + hidden identities revealed + sweet romance + mutual salvation] Medical luminary Nan Wuyou transmigrates one day. She becomes the substitute bride of a brutal, bloodthirsty prince known as a jinx. On their wedding night, she uses her unique golden-needle technique to awaken him from a two-year coma. From then on, he has two faces. When Nan Wuyou is away, he is the irritable, short-tempered Great Yan God of War, feared by all. When she is around, he has no memory of his 738Reads8.9Score128Shelves
20. 320 瞎 My Blind Husband Is a Hopeless Romantic. I Can Lie to Him and Deceive Him, but He Won’t Leave 瞎子夫君恋爱脑，欺他骗他都不跑 Deer in the Deep Forest深林的鹿Ancient Romance357k WordsCompleted Shen Zhixi only wanted to have a child with Song Lianzhou, not take responsibility for him. Men were all worthless and could never be relied on. Their only use was helping women get pregnant. Her own father taught her the first lesson in hating men. She had never met her biological father. He got her mother pregnant out of wedlock, then abandoned them, leaving mother and daughter to endure everyone’s scorn. Later, her childhood sweetheart betrayed and set her up, making her give up on men for g 10.5kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
21. 321 清 The Qing Dynasty: Consort Yin’s Exclusive Favor from the Fourth Prince 清穿尹氏之四爷独宠 Shi Yu Yan时与宴Ancient Romance438k WordsCompleted Q: What's it like to transmigrate into a novel you wrote yourself? Yin Qingyi: Hard to put into words. Q: What's it like to transmigrate into a cannon-fodder character in a novel you wrote yourself? Yin Qingyi: I want to die eight hundred times a day. Yin Qingyi really never expected something this absurd to happen to her! Transmigrating into a book she'd written was one thing, but couldn't she at least have gotten a better role? Instead, she was a princess, and a cannon-fodder one at that, the 1.4kReads7.3Score100Shelves
22. 322 换 After the Marriage Swap, I Married the Memorial Tablet of a Young General 换亲后，嫁给少年将军的牌位 A Drunken Glance at the Glazed Moon一醉琉月Ancient Romance176k WordsCompleted Reborn into a household power struggle + heroine with yin-yang eyes + hero killed in battle + bride swap Zhu Changsheng died on the third day after being appointed Noble Consort, trapped in a carefully plotted scheme by Prince Jing. Before her death, a sorcerer had altered her fate. Her healthy body wasted away overnight, while the ailing Princess Jing recovered as if by a miracle. The following year, Princess Jing gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, helping Prince Jing become heir to the t 1.5kReads9.0Score149Shelves
23. 323 宫 From Palace Maid to Imperial Consort 宫女成妃 Noodle Puppy面条小狗Ancient Romance449k WordsOngoing [Read before starting: This story is set in an entirely fictional dynasty. Some details are original, while others are inspired by various historical dynasties, but it has no connection to actual history. This is just an ordinary romance novel. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Avoid starving to death, live peacefully as a little palace maid, leave the palace when she came of age, use her savings to find an honest man to marry, and spend the rest of her life in quiet contentment. That was 139Reads7.5Score—Shelves
24. 324 都 It's the Apocalypse, So Having a Few Extra Powers Is Only Reasonable 都末世了，有亿点异能很合理吧 Lousy Uncle辣鸡的uncleSci-Fi & Apocalypse912k WordsCompleted [Apocalypse + Natural Disasters + Powerful Protagonist + Satisfying Read with No Logic + No Romance + Word Spirit] Ling Ran, a powerful word-spirit master, unexpectedly transmigrated into a book set in an apocalypse, and she found the new world fascinating. When surrounded by zombies, Ling Ran: “God says I can fly.” The ability users watched as she rose into the air, despite having no wings, and slowly dropped their jaws. When they needed to retrieve research materials but the ability users were 31.2kReads8.9Score3.2kShelves

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    It's good-looking, and it's an anime that appeared on Douyin. It's a post-apocalyptic survival, and it's easy to follow your words. Really nice

25. 325 娇 The Sweet Little Promise Who Rose Through the Ranks by Bearing Children 娇娇小答应靠生子一路晋升 Purple Cat紫色猫Ancient Romance355k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + System golden finger + multiple births + silly beauty + laid-back palace intrigue + doted on exclusively later + not a pure romance] Guys, how is this fair? Other women fight for favor with their family background, beauty, and talents... Qing Luo does it by getting pregnant. She spends her days having babies, raising them, and doting on them, gradually earning the emperor's exclusive favor. With her children by her side, she climbs to the top of life... 16.2kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
26. 326 上 A Romance in the Capital 上京缘 Between, Li Ke之间礼可Ancient Romance557k WordsCompleted [Not a transmigration or rebirth story. An old-fashioned setting, a stunning, delicate newly titled noblewoman VS the Seventh Prince, a cold and abstinent man who seems like a spoiled playboy. Scheming within the marriage, intense push-and-pull, devoted one-on-one romance, sweet and indulgent.] When Jiang Jiuchu was little, bandits took her hostage to threaten her father, who was leading a campaign to suppress them. A young man appeared and rescued her, but she missed her chance to repay him. Ye 6.3kReads8.8Score735Shelves

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    The gilt fox face covered the mole at the corner of Jiang Jiu's eyes, but it could not hide the ambition growing under the silk shirt. When Ji Shuting was leaning on the railing and looking around, she had already entangled the silver thread into the jade buckle around the seventh prince's waist. At the moment when the lanterns dimmed, her embroidered shoes "accidentally" caught the hem of his python-patterned clothes. "Your Highness, forgive me." When she fell into his arms, half of the rouge mark was imprinted on the silver-threaded embroidered lapel. Her fingertips "panicked" across her Adam's apple, but she stuffed the sachet with the love note deep into his sleeve. He grabbed her wrist that was about to retract, and the scent of ambergris mixed with the smell of alcohol brushed his ears: "The girl's hairpin hooked on this prince's clothes." However, the jade ring finger crushed open her palm, revealing the hidden private seal of the prince. The noise in the street was distant and near. She raised her neck and chuckled, letting him pull off half of her mask: "Your Highness has seen through this situation, why are you still holding on to the evidence?" When the fireworks lit up the sky, he bit the begonia on her temple and pressed his private seal heavily into her bleeding palm. #Esthetics #hunt #thorns entangled dragons →The concubine holds chess in her hands, but she wants to kill the moon and become a phoenix

27. 327 翎 Where the Feathers Return: Transmigrated, Yet Still a Wage Slave 翎羽归处：穿越还是打工人 Four Joyful Little Dumplings四喜团团团Ancient Romance346k WordsOngoing Fresh out of college, Shu Ling [no System, no pocket dimension] has only a “brain” and a heart full of “enthusiasm.” [Transmigration + ensemble cast + career + unconventional plot + romance] She transmigrates into the “Miss Shu Ling,” who shares her name and appearance and lives in a general's household! Before she can catch her breath, she's summoned to the palace to “work.” From the start, the princess appoints her CEO, and she gets two handsome “nepotism hires.” One is as gentle as water, wil 5Reads9.2Score—Shelves

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    Prepare to join the job before time travel, and go to work directly after time travel!😇🤣🤣👍😈😈

28. 328 祸 Turmoil in the Six Palaces: The Mad Demon Consort's Daily Meltdowns 祸乱六宫：疯批妖妃发癫日常 Bing Xiayun冰夏云Ancient Romance677k WordsCompleted [Palace intrigue + male lead has had other women, heroine is chaste + doted on exclusively later + heroine is sweet on the outside but dark within, wicked and a good actress, occasionally goes off the rails, happy ending] With skin as pure as ice and bones as fine as jade, her beauty could topple a city, stunning all who saw her… That year, she entered the palace by imperial decree to keep her pregnant elder sister company. She never expected to be trapped there for good, reduced to a fish on he 11.5kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves

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    🌸In the previous life, the concubine Zhou Lingge was ordered to enter the palace. She was supposed to accompany her eldest sister, but she was framed, had a child in her belly, and was made into a human pig. She was tortured and ended up unable to survive or die. 🌸After her rebirth, she vowed not to be manipulated by others, to put aside all her kindness and weakness. She would be the demon concubine who brought disaster to the country and the people, seizing the title of eldest sister, standing at the pinnacle of power, overlooking thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

29. 329 穿 I Became the Heroine of an Angsty Novel, and the Cannon Fodder Prince Can Read My Mind 穿成虐文女主，被炮灰王爷读心了 Little Zhe小哲子Ancient Romance467k WordsCompleted [One-on-one, both untouched + transmigrate into a book + mind-reading + kept mistress + sweet romance + pursuing his wife] Su Ruanruan transmigrates into a book and becomes the heroine of The Marquis’s Pampered Wife, a woman who is tormented in body and heart by the marquis yet remains devoted to him. Su Ruanruan says, “Whoever wants to be the heroine of this miserable romance can have the job.” So after being drugged with an aphrodisiac, she decisively abandons the male lead and throws herself 56Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The superior position in the outer room, fighting in the house

30. 330 女 Who Needs a Heroine When a Fox-Spirit Wife Is So Much Better? 女主哪有狐狸精老婆香？ Cha Xirao2茶夕娆2Modern Romance345k WordsCompleted The rating has just been posted and will rise later. [Quick transmigration, childbirth in some worlds, selfish female lead, no fixed couple, stunning heroine, adored by all, no moral boundaries] After cultivating for a thousand years, fox spirit Jiang Tinglan hit a bottleneck and was bound to a System. To help those wicked supporting women escape their tragic fates, she had no choice but to seduce the male leads and steal away those who were already in love or had families of their own. She play 3.2kReads5.5Score108Shelves
31. 331 娘 The Empress Is on a Rampage: 15 Top-Tier Palace Intrigue Stories 娘娘她杀疯了：15个顶级宫斗故事 Read a Little Editorial Team读点编辑部Ancient Romance294k WordsCompleted [Historical romance + strong female lead + reborn + palace intrigue + court politics + tragic romance] She was Consort Hua, who lost the palace struggle and died by banging her head against a wall in the Cold Palace. After dying with regrets, she was reborn before her clan's downfall. Now that she knows how all the palace intrigues will end, can she defeat Zhen Huan and have the last laugh…? She was Yang Guifei, the woman blamed for bringing ruin to the country. Everyone knows she lived in luxur 5.5kReads9.1Score108Shelves

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    These two books! Highly recommended!!! [Adoration][Adoration][Adoration][Admiration]

32. 332 开 From the Start in the Song Dynasty, the Emperor Discovers the Noble Consort Has a System 开局大宋，官家发现贵妃有系统 Tianyang Peak, Who Loves Handmade Wheat Dumplings爱吃手工麦饺的天阳峰Ancient Romance496k WordsCompleted Xue Dongyu transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking concubine in Emperor Renzong of Song's harem. The palace is blooming with flowers, but Xue Dongyu, saddled with a malfunctioning System, trembles alongside it until the old ghost Zhao Zhen arrives because of a System error. With one king and two useless sidekicks, Xue Dongyu lays the System's existence bare to the emperor. The emperor then takes it upon himself to help her achieve the title of most favored woman in the harem... P.S. The Sys 4.6kReads8.8Score370Shelves

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    The heroine's initial status was low, but she eventually became the queen.

33. 333 就 Now This Is Palace Intrigue! Thirty Heroines Topple the Harem 就这个宫斗爽！30个大女主掀翻后宫 Read a Little Editorial Team读点编辑部Ancient Romance429k WordsCompleted [Palace and Household Intrigue + Anthology Stories + Strong Female Leads + Feel-Good Revenge + Face-Slapping] She waited three years for the general to return from war, only for her husband to come home with a pregnant woman and announce he was taking her as a second wife?! Dream on! I’m the daughter of the richest man in the land. From now on, I’m getting a divorce and building my own career! She was the exalted crown princess, yet on the very day she gave birth, the crown prince and her mother 335Reads8.5Score—Shelves
34. 334 小 The Concubine Rises to Power: The Chancellor Dotes on Her 小妾上位，丞相大人轻轻宠 The Girl Who Mended the Sky女娃补天Ancient Romance303k WordsCompleted Completed [Cunning, Chaste Prime Minister × Rational, Brave Transmigrated Woman + Marriage Before Love + Political Scheming + The Prime Minister Pursues His Wife Much Later] (P.S. The heroine grows over time. She's a little weak at first, but rises up and crushes everyone in the middle and later parts.) After transmigrating into the Prime Minister's household as an unfavored concubine, she gets caught up in court politics. She rises step by step, battling concubines, ministers, and even the empe 21Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's a new book. The female protagonist travels through time and becomes a concubine in the prime minister's palace. The male protagonist is a shady prime minister. I think the setting is interesting. I guess it's a sadistic style. You can read it [shy]

35. 335 宠 The Beloved Concubine Is Delicate and Alluring, Climbing Her Way to the Top Through the Rat Race 宠妾她娇弱又妩媚，一路内卷上位 Siberian Big Fat West西伯利亚大胖西Ancient Romance131k WordsOngoing [Not a virgin couple + Domestic and palace intrigue + Scheming heroine + Hero falls for her on his own + Sweet romance] After transmigrating into the role of an unfavored concubine in a prince's manor, Nan Qiao was rejected after her very first night with the prince. She became the Great Jin version of An Xiaoniao. Everyone in the manor waited to laugh at her. They all thought Nan Qiao would waste her life in the rear courtyard and grow old without ever winning the prince's favor. But, against a 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Take a look at these books, they will definitely meet your requirements and they are all acceptable.

36. 336 腹 The Scheming Prince: The Fierce Girl Plans to Turn the Tables 腹黑王爷：彪悍丫头要翻天 Meng Xuan Xuan孟暄暄Ancient Romance3.6M WordsCompleted Ye Zhenzhen became Prince Jing Qi You's personal maid, and everyone said her lowly birth meant the prince would tire of her sooner or later. A young servant: "Don't worry, Zhenzhen. Once the prince gets tired of you, he'll give you to me as my wife!" A guard: "Zhenzhen, when the prince no longer wants you, I want to take care of you for the rest of your life!" Zhenzhen rolled her eyes. She had plenty of money. When the prince got tired of her, she would buy her freedom, open a shop, and become a 3.8kReads9.1Score462Shelves

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    🥥Ding dong~Didi is here to recommend books ⸜(๑'ᵕ'๑)⸝ 🥥The heroine became Prince Jing's familiar girl. Everyone said that her background was too low, and Prince Jing would get tired of her sooner or later. It was just a matter of time [smiles], but the heroine wanted to become a strong woman! Unexpectedly, the prince fell in love with her in the end [thinking] 🥥Recommended star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

37. 337 当 I Became a Concubine, but I Can’t Keep My Virtue for Even a Day! 当个妾室，这妇德一天都守不住！ Flowers After the Rain雨后繁花Ancient Romance330k WordsCompleted [Not a mutually exclusive relationship, but all the men are virgins. Not 1v1, enter at your own risk. Best friends transmigrate together; romantic rivalry] Ning Yu's biggest traits? She's greedy for money and a sucker for handsome men. She transmigrates into a book and gets both. That's right, Ning Yu transmigrates into a book as a general's orphaned daughter who is about to be stripped of her inheritance. A marriage swap is proposed right from the start. If her cousin wants to switch, then let 943Reads8.7Score178Shelves
38. 338 手 With a Beloved Concubine's Iron Rice Bowl, I Make the Perfect Carefree Life 手握良妾铁饭碗，咸鱼当的正正香 Wengweng Shizhou翁翁识舟Ancient Romance408k WordsCompleted Xue Yuanling, a hapless soul whose family had been bleeding her dry, transmigrates into the body of an unlucky concubine in a duke's household. Living by the creed of never taking the initiative, never turning anything down, and never taking responsibility, she refuses to make herself miserable and rejects every unreasonable demand. Push her any further and she'll lose it. After cozying up to a few powerful people in the household, she sets her sights on securing the steady job of a favored conc 131Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 339 宫 A Palace Maid Rises to Power and Becomes the Tyrant’s Beloved 宫女上位，成为暴君心尖宠 Ming Yan明烟Ancient Romance418k WordsCompleted [Harem intrigue] [The leads are not each other’s first] [He only dotes on her in the later part] Overworked office worker Fang Ziluo transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid named Fang Zhilu. Three years earlier, the emperor had exchanged a few words with her. That alone was enough to offend Noble Consort Liu, and she spent the next three years tending the kitchen fire. The original Fang Zhilu had died a miserable death after enduring all that humiliation. Fang Zhilu thought, Now that 749Reads8.8Score105Shelves
40. 340 将 Cast-Off Daughter of a Military Family? I'm the Moon in His Heart 将门弃妇？她是本王的心上月 Song Jiujiu宋玖玖Ancient Romance683k WordsCompleted [Dual Rebirth] [The Ex-Wife Wants Him Back] The short drama adaptation is now online: The General’s Abandoned Consort Qu Jinshu married the great general He Xiujun at eighteen. To protect him, she became a prisoner of an enemy nation, her face disfigured and her martial arts skills destroyed. On the day the city fell, what awaited her was his arrow through her heart. He said “I married you only to take revenge.” “If you hadn’t refused to marry the foolish Prince Jing, your elder sister wouldn’t 9.4kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
41. 341 穿 Transmigrated as a Lazy Concubine: The Art of Doing Nothing 穿越之咸鱼妾室的摆烂日常 Tantangzi檀糖子Ancient Romance144k WordsCompleted Chu Yao worked herself to death from overtime and transmigrated into the concubine of Song Yanxi, an obscure prince. As a former overworked 996 wage slave, she quickly accepted her new status. Who cared who she had to serve? To survive in the prince's manor, she kept her head down and her life safe, never competing or fighting, and clung tightly to the Princess Consort's coattails. All she wanted was to live out the rest of her days in peace. Of course, the one thing she feared most came to pass 39Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 342 小 The Sweet and Obedient Maid Has the Chaste Heir's Heart Racing 小通房又乖又软，禁欲世子心狂跳 Water, Clouds, and Mist水云雾Ancient Romance580k WordsCompleted [Both leads sexually inexperienced, household and palace intrigue, growing-up romance, arrogant young heir × clever maid who plays the pig to eat the tiger] In her fifth year at the marquis’s residence, Youli has risen from the lowest-ranked maid responsible for sweeping and cleaning to the most favored senior maid at the side of the heir of the Marquis of Yong’an. She has reached a small peak in her career as a servant. She is quite content with her life and dares not ask for much more. She pl 3.2kReads8.8Score326Shelves
43. 343 侯 The Marquis's Concubine Gossips, and the Emperor's Underwear Is at Risk 侯门小妾吃瓜，皇帝裤衩保不住了 Half a Cotton Flower半朵棉Ancient Romance683k WordsCompleted Synopsis: [Everyone can hear her thoughts + hilarious antics + gossip + palace intrigue + household scheming] Important: The sleazy womanizer is NOT the male lead!!! Chu Xun is timid, money-loving, and a coward. All she wants is to laze around and enjoy the gossip. While everyone else is competing for favor, sucking up, and scheming against each other, she can never get enough gossip. From princes and ministers to commoners, she can dig up dirt on anyone. Even the emperor's underwear isn't safe 2.5kReads8.9Score247Shelves
44. 344 朕 My Empress Weighs Ninety Jin, and Eighty-Five Jin of That Is Rebellion 朕的皇后九十斤，有八十五斤反骨 Li Xiaoju鲤小橘Ancient Romance552k WordsCompleted [Both leads are devoted to each other + contrasting personalities + self-serving heroine + satisfying and sweet + mutual pampering] Lin Xiaoxiao, an overworked corporate drone, transmigrates into the body of a wicked empress. The emperor has ignored her for four years, despises her, and sees her as the greatest shame of his life! The crown prince hates her as his mother and plans to whip her corpse once he grows up and turns evil! The empress dowager is deeply calculating, treating her like a lo 862Reads8.9Score137Shelves

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45. 345 机 A Motorcycle Kiss with a Butterfly 机车吻蝴蝶 Bala La Chen巴啦啦晨Modern Romance266k WordsCompleted The short drama is now available (sweet romance and healing + mutual pining + contrasting sides) [Cool, classical-dance beauty boldly pursues love & carefree playboy secretly loves her] Everyone in the capital says Xia Shisheng, the heiress of the Xia family, is its brightest jewel: elegant, refined, and beyond reproach. They all believe no one in the world could ever be worthy of her. Who could have imagined that this untouchable beauty would be won over by Xiao Heng, the notorious playboy heir 7kReads9.4Score921Shelves

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    Youth sweet pet, mutual salvation

46. 346 超 So Sweet! The Campus Heartthrob Coaxes His Adorable Crush in a Husky Voice 超甜！校草哑声诱哄小可爱 Peach Branch Tea桃枝茶Modern Romance406k WordsCompleted [Bad-boy school boss × sweet, soft-spoken top student] [A sweet campus romance, two strong leads, lighthearted and affectionate, healing each other] Rumor has it that Jiangcheng No. 8 High has a school boss named Gu Cilan: unruly, arrogant, and looking down on everyone. In their second year of high school, a sweet transfer student arrives. Li Su is beautiful with a honey-sweet voice, and she takes first place in her grade on her very first monthly exam. She’s just far too bold, always picking on 25.8kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves
47. 347 为 For the Sake of Marrying My Cousin 为了和表妹成亲 Recognizing Flowers at Dawn朝花夕识Ancient Romance416k WordsCompleted Ye Wanning was reborn as an orphan forced to live under someone else's roof, with only her unparalleled beauty to her name. In her previous life, she had been born into a noble family. Her childhood friend was a talented scholar from Sanjiang who silently protected her; her fiancé was a junior minister at the Court of Judicial Review who landed in prison for her sake; and the crown prince had fallen in love with her at first sight. Then all three stood by and let her father and brothers die. Reb 15.4kReads9.2Score2kShelves
48. 348 小 The Adorable Little Princess, Doted on by Her General Again and Again 小公主美颠颠，大将军宠宠宠宠宠 Southeast Scenery东南形胜Ancient Romance421k WordsCompleted [Pure historical romance + no transmigration or rebirth + devoted couple and sweet romance + lighthearted comedy] [Deadpan-cute heroine VS young general hero] Nie Ju was the little princess the emperor had raised himself, and his most beloved child. One day, she had a stomachache and fainted in a side hall. In a daze, she saw a half-naked man and begged him for help, but he coldly refused. When she woke up, she found herself betrothed to Xie Xuan, the very same half-naked man. She protested vehe 3.2kReads9.1Score371Shelves
49. 349 蛇 The Snake Lord Dotes on Me Alone, Yet the Scumbag's Family Still Dare to Swindle Me Out of My Inheritance? 蛇君独宠，渣男全家还敢吃绝户？ Number One Steamed Bun第一馒头Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Only as Ji Chang’an lay dying did she realize that the husband she had so carefully chosen was a rotten scoundrel, a beast in human form. All these years, Wen Yesong had repaid Duke Ji’s kindness in raising him by devouring the Ji family’s wealth piece by piece. The Ji family, once the richest in the Great Sheng dynasty, had long since become an empty shell. And that wasn’t all. Wen Yesong had been secretly seeing another woman for ages. The pair of children they had together were both his. In t 20.7kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves

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    Pamper you alone. It has to be you, it can only be you. Very dedicated emotion. Imaginative love. Friends who like it can watch it together

50. 350 瞒 Behind My Ex-Husband's Back, I Marry the Crown Prince of Beijing's Elite Circle! 瞒着前夫，我二嫁京圈太子爷！ Sanyingli三樱里Modern Romance489k WordsCompleted Three months after Ruan Wan got married, a crowd of suitors suddenly appeared out of nowhere. A rich young heir confessed his love to her. A scheming pretty-boy was willing to be the other man for love. A top-tier star declared his love for her in public. But when she actually got divorced, all those men vanished. * At her ex-husband's wedding, Ruan Wan saw those “suitors” again. They discussed her casually: “Ruan Wan? We were just having a little fun with her.” “If it weren't for making things 21.7kReads8.9Score3.3kShelves

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