Scheming Palace-Intrigue Stories With a Reborn Heroine Who Starts Plotting Before the Selection 宫斗文，女主重生，选秀前就开始谋划的，有心机
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- 201 Life Is a Play, and the Empress Is All About Her Acting Skills 人生如戏，娘娘她纯拼演技 [Palace intrigue + witty banter + sweet, delicate beauty + calculated mind games] The leads are not each other’s only partners. If that bothers you, don’t read. Be prepared for suspicion in the early chapters, followed by affection later. The pacing is slow, so proceed with caution if you prefer fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories. As a double award-winning actress and a seasoned star of palace intrigue dramas, how could Shi Yan possibly lose her nerve after transmigrating into the imperial hare 4.9kReads9.4Score54914d adds
- 202 How Can Anyone Resist the Noble Consort's Alluring Charm? 怎敌贵妃百媚千娇 [Palace intrigue + sweet romance + heroine transmigrates] In the fifth year of Yongyan, the emperor ordered a selection of consorts. Wen Wanyu was the most beautiful among the candidates. With her charming looks and soft, lilting voice, she was as delicate as a flower and soon won the emperor’s favor. She had once been the apple of her father’s eye, but when he was framed and her elder brother humiliated, she defied her whole family and asked to enter the palace to protect them. From the darling 2.2kReads8.9Score19414d adds
- 203 The Noble Consort Rejects Romance: While Others Fight for Favor, I Seize Power 贵妃不入爱河，别人争宠我夺权 [Female-Lead Wish Fulfillment + Unfeeling Persona + Ruthless Revenge and Face-Slapping] Years later, the history books would describe Ming Tang as a master strategist with an iron fist, the ultimate winner of the harem struggles and the vast empire. Only Ming Tang knew she had never wanted to be that winner in the first place. From a young girl to the ruler of the realm, all she had wanted at first was to avenge her elder sister. The harem was full of danger. On one side was Consort Jin, who had 7.3kReads9.4Score86914d adds
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The Noble Consort Is Sweet and Soft, and the Theatrical Emperor Dotes on Her 贵妃娇又软，戏精皇帝宠入骨
(Transmigrate into a book + villainess + palace intrigue early on + political machinations later + marriage before love + the husband chases his wife to win her back + HE ending) [A clever, money-loving substitute consort × a cold, suspicious, melodramatic emperor] After transmigrating into a book as a substitute villainess, Su Zhenzhen got a winning hand from the start and became the emperor's favorite. But having read the original novel, she knew she was merely a pawn Chen Qi used to bring dow
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The Green Tea Legitimate Daughter Takes the Harem by Storm 绿茶嫡女卷翻后宫
Su Yunqing was once the neglected legitimate eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo’s household. But she came out on top in the imperial selection and became the only woman bestowed with a title: Lady Rong. There is no true love in the imperial family. A woman is favored in the harem for profit or beauty, nothing more. Su Yunqing intends to use the emperor and become the most powerful woman in the Great Xi Dynasty. The harem has women who think they can share a hundred years of true love with th
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The Reborn Crown Princess, and the Crown Prince Gets Jealous Every Day 重生太子妃，太子每天都在吃醋
(Complete) Important: Please don’t read this with omniscient knowledge. This is just a sweet romance. (Only devoted to each other + sweet romance) In her previous life, Shen Musheng, the prime minister’s legitimate daughter, lived in constant fear while spying in the Eastern Palace. She kept passing information to Prince Qin, finally enduring until the end, when she thought everything had worked out perfectly. The man who had promised to make her empress one day, and often whispered sweet nothin
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- 207 I'm Not the One You Love: The Crown Prince's One and Only 非我倾城：独宠太子妃 In her previous life, she helped him ascend the throne. In return, he stripped her of her title as empress, took her beloved child, tore her family away, and had both her legs cut off. As she lay dying, she gripped the tip of a sword and stabbed herself five times, severing every last thread of love she felt for him. The final wound was delivered by his own hand, straight to her heart. She died with her eyes open. When she awoke, she had returned to the year she was fifteen. Given another chance 12Reads9.0Score55214d adds
- 208 After Being Reborn, I Was Spoiled by the Lovestruck Crown Prince 重生后，我被病娇太子宠上天 Her mother died young, and her father favored others. Under the schemes of her father's concubine and half-sister, Chu Yunjiao was falsely accused of losing her virtue and leading a dissolute life. She finally managed to get the Crown Prince on her side, only for that powerful ally to fall from grace. She's a shining star in the world of bad luck! But after you've been unlucky long enough, your luck has to turn! After dying, Chu Yunjiao was fortunate enough to be reborn, returning to a time befo 89Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 209 Your Majesty, the Empress Doesn't Want to Leave the Cold Palace 皇上，娘娘她不想出冷宫 When Su Mumu opened her eyes again, she was back at age seventeen, just as she had entered the palace. She resolved to enjoy herself and have fun this time around, stay out of worldly affairs, and be a carefree slacker. Who knew that being reborn was already a miracle, and yet she would also get a golden finger? And that still wasn't all: the emperor, whom she had barely seen three times in her previous life, just had to cling to her in this one. Blurb One: Palace maids and eunuchs: “You're an u 617Reads9.2Score10014d adds
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Your Majesty, Is This Target Really Impossible to Win Over? 陛下，这个目标非攻略不了么？
The rating is low because the book just started receiving ratings. [Not your traditional palace intrigue + the male lead falls for her on his own + love comes later + no one sleeps with anyone but the female lead] Best wishes to the heroine, who’s chosen a target with a one-hundred-percent failure rate. Rumor has it that Ye Wujiu is moody, cold-hearted, ruthless, and indifferent to others. But ever since she entered the palace, Ye Wujiu has been attentive to her in every way. Whatever she wants,
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Wanfeng Palace 菀凤宫
[Doesn’t love the emperor + aims to become Empress Dowager + wants her own child to be crown prince + later receives exclusive devotion + palace intrigue, eliminates every consort in the harem] Note: They are not mutually faithful at first. The heroine gradually wins the emperor over with her schemes and tactics. Jiang Zhiwan was a general’s daughter who studied the art of poisoning, then accidentally poisoned herself to death. She transmigrated into a different fictional era, only to
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- 212 After Entering the Palace, the Obsessive Emperor Dotes on Consort Yuan 入宫后，偏执皇上盛宠元妃娘娘 [A violent emperor + a feigning-fool, ruthless concubine-born daughter + not mutually exclusive in the early stages + favored above the entire harem later] An Qingyu was the fourth daughter of the prime minister. Her mother, Concubine Lan Yue, had been brought into the household as the prime minister’s wife’s dowry maid. As a concubine-born daughter, An Qingyu had grown up at the First Madam’s side, keeping her head down and ingratiating herself, just like Concubine Lan. Then a twist of fate rui 1.8kReads9.0Score19414d adds
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Qing Transmigration: The Fourth Prince, a Workaholic, Dotes on His Beloved and Fertile Side Consort 清穿：卷王四爷的娇养好孕侧福晋
[Complete] [Qing dynasty setting + golden finger + gentle, gradual romance + devoted love in the later chapters] Yan Qing transmigrates as a young lady of the Xilin Gioro clan, a person who never existed in history. Her eldest brother is E'ertai, a trusted high-ranking minister of the Yongzheng Emperor, the sort honored in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. As a Manchu girl, she has to attend the imperial selection. She had hoped to be dismissed and go home to marry on her own, but things don't go a
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The Earl’s Household Turns Its Fortune Around 伯府翻身记事
Lin Yunzhu lands in a novel written for male readers as the second-born illegitimate daughter of the villainous Yongning Earl’s household. Her legitimate elder sister is a snobbish woman who broke off her engagement when the male lead was down on his luck. The original character is a scheming woman who seduces the female lead’s fiancé. Her younger half-sister is a little white lotus. Her eldest brother is bad at business, and the family is so poor they’re about to run out of food. Her second bro
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
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After Getting a Healing System, I Went on a Rampage in the Imperial Harem 获得治愈系统后，我在后宫杀疯了
Lin Xiaowan, a palace maid in the laundry rooms, is envied for her beauty. Trapped in a desperate situation and on the brink of death, she unexpectedly gains a System golden finger. She advances step by step, winning hearts as her first priority, and becomes a favored consort. From then on, she proceeds carefully and plots with cunning, laying her plans and winning the emperor's heart one step at a time until she rises to become empress.
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On the Day of My Funeral, I Smashed the Coffin and Married the Regent 出殡日！砸棺椁！转身嫁摄政王
[Beloved by everyone + powerful heroine] In her previous life, she trusted the wrong people. A conspiracy turned her from the pampered eldest daughter of the Bai family, envied by all, into someone everyone despised as disloyal and unfilial. Her six brothers, who loved her dearly, lost their heads because of her. Her maternal grandfather, who cherished her like a precious jewel, was framed because of her, and his lifelong reputation was ruined! She seethed with hatred! Reborn on the day of her g
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Dominating the Harem by Bearing Children 靠生子称霸后宫
In her previous life, Huameng's childhood sweetheart, the boy next door, betrayed her before their wedding. After watching him marry the daughter of a princess, she put on the bright red wedding dress she had spent two years embroidering and hanged herself. But her soul drifted through the world for twenty years after her death before she learned the truth: her childhood sweetheart had broken off their engagement after accidentally hearing that the childless emperor intended to adopt the princes
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The Marquis's Estate Forgot Its Gratitude? The Regent Backs Me, and I Won't Forgive Them 侯府忘恩义？摄政王撑腰，不原谅
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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Every Concubine in the Palace Is Scheming, Except the Mad Empress 满宫嫔妃心机，唯有娘娘疯批
[Empowered heroine + reborn to crush her enemies + heroine takes on the entire harem alone + heroine starts out as a scheming innocent and turns unhinged later + unpredictable + not a pure romance] In her previous life, Cheng Wan entered the palace to help her elder sister win the emperor’s favor. After giving birth to a prince, she was thrown into the Cold Palace, disfigured and maimed. Her sister, meanwhile, used the child to rise to power and become the revered Empress Dowager. She died full
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The Fertile Imperial Consort: The Emperor’s One and Only Favorite 好孕贵妃：独得圣宠
Noble Consort Jingmin: the highest rank many women in the imperial harem could dream of attaining. But what if it was a posthumous title? Who would want that? Given another chance, Wanran had no desire to become empress. She only wanted everyone who had harmed her in her previous life to receive their due punishment, and for her children to live in peace, never again to suffer through those dark days. As for the emperor, she would never again give him her whole heart.
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A Qing-Dynasty Concubine's Rise from Cannon Fodder 清穿之炮灰升职记
Wei Ruolin is tricked by the System into quick transmigration. After several lifetimes of reincarnation, he gives up hope of returning to life in his original world. In the end, the malfunctioning System dumps him in the Qing dynasty, where he becomes the uncle of Yinsi, the Eighth Prince destined for a tragic life, and the brother of Liangfei, a palace maid from the Imperial Household Department. Determined only to make a better life for himself, Wei Ruolin proceeds cautiously and ultimately re
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The Legitimate Daughter Cries, and the Prince Is Ready to Overthrow the Dynasty for Her 嫡女一哭，殿下就要为她改朝换代
Su Li is the beloved daughter of Su Mu, a first-rank general of the Great Chu Dynasty and Defender General of Zhenyuan. With her flawless beauty, rosy lips, pearly teeth, and exquisitely drawn features, she outshines all the pampered noblewomen of the capital. Born and raised on the frontier in a family of military commanders, she becomes famous far and wide. Sadly, she is blind to the truth and gives her heart to the wrong man, a faithless, heartless bastard. Using her family's influence, he ri
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- 224 I’m to Be Buried Alive at My Wedding? I’ll Bring the Crown Prince Back to Life 新婚就要殉葬？我直接复活太子 [Transmigration with a personal space + two powerful, devoted leads + satisfying revenge + one-on-one romance + sweet pampering] One day, Jiang Yijing, leader of the Xuan Medicine Sect, transmigrated and became the unlucky Crown Princess, who was about to be poisoned and buried alive as a sacrifice. They’re trying to force her to drink arsenic? Do they not know she’s a master of poison? With a silver needle in hand, she brings the Crown Prince back from the dead, stunning the entire capital with 3kReads9.1Score49514d adds
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The Metaphysics Master Shakes the World After Coming Down from the Mountain 玄学大佬下山后轰动全世界
[Mysticism + satisfying read + sweet romance] Everyone in the industry says the newly reunited eldest daughter of the Su family is a menace. One sentence from her can break up a marriage, shatter a family, drive someone into bankruptcy, or land them in jail, so people steer clear of her. What’s more, she has opened a Taoist temple and does fortune-telling, face-reading, feng shui, sells talismans, and catches ghosts. She’s done every sort of scam imaginable! Later, word gets around that the elde
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Reborn, I Won't Indulge Anyone 重生了，本宫谁也不惯着
[Reborn, revenge on scoundrels, both sexually inexperienced, sweet romance, adorable child] Wen Ning was reborn a year before her imperial husband, his concubine cousin, and her own son had cruelly murdered her by cutting out her heart and draining her blood. They still expect her to don armor for the Great Ye Dynasty, battle across the land, and expand its borders? Dream on! After getting a second chance at life, Wen Ning only wants to slack off. In her previous life, she bore the title of empr
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After Dying, I Return to the 1970s to Keep Myself Alive! 嘎了后！回到70年代续命！
Transmigration, both leads are faithful to each other, a military marriage, the heroine has a personal supermarket, grow a little ginseng and raise a cute pet One moment, she was being groped by a handsome 180-centimeter-tall guy in a mask. As he groped her, he confessed his love with deep feeling. “Get the defibrillator!” The next moment, she’d been handed a whole new life, waking up shivering on a heated kang bed in Northeast China. From then on, her merit points were maxed out and she shone
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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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- 229 Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷 [The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he 18.2kReads9.6Score4.2k14d adds
- 230 Why Not Sail Together 何不同舟渡 "The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten 142kReads9.7Score112k14d adds
- 231 Beauty and Strategy in a Land of Rivers and Mountains 山河美人谋 [Proud young lady who always gets even vs. frail, scheming Ninth Prince] Her fiancé was a total jerk, and he was planning to kill her to keep her quiet. Ye Jiao decided to strike first and find a scapegoat while she was at it. She thought the scapegoat would be a transparent, sickly “living corpse,” but rumors were misleading. He was clearly a two-faced, deeply cunning Ninth Prince. After Ye Jiao used the Ninth Prince’s name to punish her scumbag fiancé, Li Ce, the real Ninth Prince: “Miss, I be 18.3kReads9.5Score2.6k14d adds
- 232 Nothing More Than That 不过尔尔 Er’er is a weak little immortal. She can’t fight monsters, and she can’t meditate either. With barely eight hundred years of cultivation, she loses it all the moment she ascends to the Ninth Heaven. But she has the gift of foresight. She knows that one day, the man before her will destroy heaven and earth and slaughter every living thing. Before he turns demonic, she must bind her little life tightly to his. Li Ye is a powerful High God. He ranks first at fighting monsters, first at meditati 6.7kReads9.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 233 The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐 Miss Zhu Si’s rough fighting skills have always made her the laughingstock of the capital’s noble families. In everyone else’s eyes, that’s the sort of work meant for household guards. Zhu Changle, who considers herself invincible, isn’t ashamed of it. She’s proud. Not everyone can protect their own home, but she can! And then some! She’d even turn the whole capital upside down to protect it! Don’t believe her? Try her! 18.8kReads9.5Score3.2k14d adds
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The Empress Ran 冉后
Ran Hu was made a Jieyu concubine as soon as she entered the palace. On her very first day, she was summoned to the emperor’s bedchamber and granted the title of Chen, cherished like a rare treasure. Her peerless beauty and her younger brother’s illustrious military achievements as Marquis of Chang’an gave her the confidence to act as she pleased in the harem. The two souls who had come from a later age ultimately left a lasting mark on this strange world.
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- 235 Role-Playing in Empresses in the Palace 我在甄嬛传玩角色扮演 Su Man is accidentally pulled into a palace game created by a System. She enters the world of Empresses in the Palace and experiences it firsthand through role-play. Noble Lady Qi, An Lingrong, Meng Jingxian, Yixiu, Huanbi, Zhen Huan... From the start, she is cast as the cannon-fodder Noble Lady Qi, a beauty with more looks than sense who loves to stick her neck out. In the end, she loses the palace battle and is beaten to death with clubs. Su Man: I’d rather go back to matchmaking, sob... S 2.7kReads8.7Score11014d adds
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Reborn After My Own Son, the Cruel Empress Dowager, Stabbed Me to Death 恶毒太后被亲儿子捅死之后重生了
The vicious Empress Dowager Jiang Mingzhu was reborn. In her previous life, to put her son on the throne, she poisoned and tried to assassinate the emperor, colluded with court officials, drugged a pregnant consort to make her miscarry, and plotted against the young crown prince. Every time she schemed, she put her own life on the line to grind her stepson's face into the dirt. But when the plot to put the son she'd worked so hard to support on the throne was exposed, he stabbed her in the back
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Demote the Wife to a Concubine? The Reborn Legitimate Daughter Wipes Out His Entire Family 贬妻为妾？重生嫡女嘎了他全家
[Strong female and male leads + both leads' first and only love + satisfying reborn story + nation and family] She was a renowned female war god, formidable in battle and unmatched in strategy. After being reborn in the body of the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household in the Great Yong, whose honor had been besmirched, her supposedly gentle and refined fiancé came to break off their engagement and demote her to a concubine. Every one of her relatives regarded her as a disgrace
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A Minor Official's Daughter's Guide to Wealth 小官之女的富贵手札
[Born into the Story as a Baby + Daughter of a Minor Official + Retired Court Lady + Mistress of the Household][No System, No Golden Finger, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story (If you like a fast pace and nonstop thrills, read with caution)] [A daughter of a minor official’s coming-of-age story. The heroine isn’t perfect, and she gradually changes. Early on, the focus is on her family and life as a court lady; later, she leaves the palace.] (If you’re looking for a heroine who enters the story already
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Better to Be a Concubine 宁为妾
She dreams of a thousand years ago, and when she opens her eyes, she finds herself reborn as a concubine-born daughter. Bo Yuqiao understands: the higher a concubine-born daughter sets her ambitions, the more fragile her fate. She could live quietly with her gentle-natured aunt in the residence, find a man of modest status, become the wife of a poor scholar, and settle for a peaceful life. Who knew that a case of mistaken identities would leave her birth mother dead and her younger brother missi
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The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了
[Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has
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The Spoiled Concubine's Daily Death Wish 宠妾作死日常
You have to die once to realize what you’ve missed, especially in a back courtyard full of endless intrigue! Before the selection, Wanyan Wanxi was the apple of her family’s eye. After she was chosen and entered the imperial household, she remembered her mother’s teachings: respect the principal consort and tread carefully in everything. She never sought the limelight. But who could have guessed that this very respect and sense of propriety would lead to her downfall? Returning to the beginnin
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What Kind of Concubine Bears Four Sons and a Daughter, Then Becomes a Noble Consort? 谁家通房生四儿一女，还当贵妃啊
[Both leads are devoted only to each other + One-on-one romance + Many children + Sweet romance + Inner- and imperial-palace intrigue] In the fortieth year of the Xihe era, Lüqing became a concubine-in-waiting to Prince Jin. She knew full well that she had to earn Prince Jin's favor and give birth to a child as soon as possible if she wanted to secure her place in the prince's household. For eight years, she contended with the other women in the inner court, using every means at her disposal to
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Reborn on My Wedding Night, the Sickly Prince Regent Warms My Feet 重生新婚夜，病娇摄政王给我暖脚
[Reborn + sweet romance + obsessive love + mutual devotion + secret identities, one couple] Nan Xi, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, was a fool in her past life. She fell for a treacherous scumbag who was handsome on the outside but full of sinister schemes within, and ended up abandoned by everyone, dying miserably at the hands of him and his mistress. Given a second life, she gets her brains back! Looking at the powerful, handsome regent by her side, she cannot help questioning h
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- 244 Transmigrated as a Bedclimbing Palace Maid in a Palace-Intrigue Novel 穿成宫斗文里的爬床宫女 No prestigious family background, no peerless beauty. After transmigrating, film queen Li Songyue finds herself cast as the most expendable bed-climbing maid in a palace intrigue novel. The transmigrated heroine is ahead of her, the reborn supporting female lead is behind her, and there’s also a demanding emperor to contend with. From bed-climbing maid to empress dowager of the realm. She won’t know how cold it is at the top until she climbs there. 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 245 A Qing Dynasty Time-Travel Tale: Consort Chun’s Easygoing Path to Victory 清穿之纯妃躺赢日常 [Qing dynasty transmigration + palace intrigue + sweet romance] Transmigrated into the residence of Hongli, the Fourth Prince, as a maid, Su Yushan trembled with fear. She had realized that once Hongli ascended the throne, she might become Consort Chun, Lady Su. In history, Consort Chun's son was despised by the Qianlong Emperor and met a tragic end. To avoid repeating that fate, Su Yushan had no plans to bear children. Who could have guessed that Hongli would come to her room every single day, 163Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 246 Beauty in the Bedchamber: The Tyrannical Eunuch Is Crazed and Dotes on Me 帐中娇：暴戾九千岁又疯又宠 The comic adaptation is now available! (Also known as The Mad, Brutal Eunuch Turned Around and Gently Coaxed Me) [Abusing scumbags + reborn + happy ending + both leads untouched + a vicious, cold-blooded Chief Eunuch who is ruthless to everyone else but a broken, devoted puppy to her vs. a clear-eyed heroine who has been reborn and learned from her mistakes. This novel is entirely fictional.] Pei Min, Chief Eunuch of the Eastern Depot, wielded absolute power and was bloodthirsty and brutal. The 87.4kReads9.3Score6.7k14d adds
- 247 Springtime in the Brocade Tent: Hidden Away by a Chaste and Powerful Official 锦帐春：被禁欲权臣金屋藏娇 [Sweet romance, no angst, happy ending + mutual devotion + a protective male lead + a gentle, beautiful heroine who isn’t a naive pushover] The first thing Xiao Ce did after becoming a regent was ask the woman he had long cherished to marry him. But she didn’t understand her feelings for her childhood sweetheart, so he had no choice but to resort to a few tricks. When Shen Zhizhi saw Xiao Ce suddenly appear, she was afraid. But he told her: “Zhizhi, marry me. The Shen family will be safe.” “Zhi 1.2kReads8.8Score16914d adds
- 248 They Wanted Me to Be a Sacrificial Stepmother, but I Chose to Make My Own Way 让我当炮灰主母，我偏另谋高枝 [Historical Romance / Household Intrigue / Sweet Romance / The Male Lead Is Head Over Heels] In Ruyi's Beloved Concubine, the heir apparent Xie Yunzhix is a brave and formidable warrior, always dashing across the battlefield in fine clothes, with no one able to stand against him. Sadly, he is only a supporting character. The story opens with him in a vegetative state, leaving behind three adopted sons. Xu Qingyi discovers that she has become the foil to the beloved heroine of a sweet romance. On 143.6kReads9.4Score20.6k14d adds
- 249 Reborn, I Married the Powerful Regent 重生后，嫁给权倾天下的摄政王 Wen Jiu woke up reborn at fifteen, only to find her sworn enemy arriving with a bridal sedan to marry her?! Luckily... He was only there to escort his sickly younger brother's bride. Wen Jiu knew her fiancé was short-lived, that the Xie family would one day be a house of powerful nobles, and that the young man before her would become a regent with power over the entire court... With her heart pounding, Wen Jiu secretly tried to win over the future regent. “I'll earn the money and support the 1.1kReads9.1Score20614d adds
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The Heavens as My Betrothal: The Eight-Aspects Empress Rules the World 苍穹为聘：八相女帝倾天下
In the Great Wilderness of Dongze, Ye Ling, the Eight-Aspects Female Emperor, was persecuted by the four great families. On the brink of death, she fought back with everything she had. Like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, her soul transmigrated into the body of a young Zhao family girl. She defies the heavens, upends the world, slays jackals and wolves, hunts tigers and leopards, tames spirit beasts, and concocts pills. She uncovers the shocking conspiracy from years ago, rises from the ranks o
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