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A Cup of Poisoned Wine, and Drunk with You 鸩酒一杯与君醉
Blurb: When they first met, he was a subject, and he risked his life to take a sword meant for the other man. Later, that man became emperor, wiped out his entire family, stripped away his pride, and forcibly kept him by his side. He waited, full of hope, for his elder brother to return victorious, but all he received was a cold corpse. In the end, he drank poison in front of everyone, smiling like a spring breeze. “Your Majesty, I offer my life as the price of regicide. May you live for all ete
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The Illness Called Love 病名为爱
Lin Chi has cancer, and the doctor says she has only six months to live. As she grieves, Lu Shenyuan tells her he’ll give her a grand funeral. Sick with love for him, Lin Chi is willing to give him everything, even though her life is about to end. But all he gives her in return is, “Do you think you deserve me?” Whether or not they are a good match, she chooses to love him with all her heart. So when her time finally runs out, she can only forgive him for not loving her.
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The Royal Family Is Truly Heartless 最是皇室无情人
For generations, the Mu family had loyally served the country. In the end, their entire clan was sentenced to execution. The official presiding over the execution was her husband, the most brilliant and extraordinary of the Great Jing Kingdom's Third Princes. Then she awoke to the truth: The man she loved was a member of the royal family, the most heartless people in the world...
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis
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- 5 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 48.6kReads9.7Score7.1k14d adds
- 6 Late in the Day 行止晚 [Devoted love + emperor and empress + tragic palace romance] 145,000 readers gave it top ratings, and countless readers cried their way through it! The year’s breakout historical romance, a heartache readers can’t forget. A clear-eyed, sweet empress VS a proud emperor whose love never wavers. Born into the imperial family, how can everything ever go as you wish? May we remain together forever, and may I keep you safe and at peace. A gentleman’s word is his bond. In a daze, I saw the moon rise. 25.7kReads9.6Score3.3k14d adds
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I Want Us to Be Together 我想和你好好的
On the day Yun Rumeng is sentenced to six years in prison, Lu He'an has a grand wedding. The husband she was married to for five years finally gets the divorce he wanted and marries the woman he has always cherished. Afraid of the dark, she enters a prison where the sun never shines. He visits her for six years. She only sees him once. "Lu He'an, if I survive these six years, I'll make sure you and her never know another peaceful day!" Later, he writes a letter to his wife in prison every week a
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- 8 Young Master Ye, Stop Tormenting Me. Your Wife Is Already Gone 夜少别虐了，夫人已尸骨无存 [Elite Family Tragedy | Obsessive Love | CEO’s Regretful Pursuit | Faked Death and Rebirth]“Su Yan, a wicked woman like you might as well be dead.” Su Yan had loved Ye Xiaohan for twelve years, but Ye Xiaohan despised her in every way. Su Yan thought that one day, Ye Xiaohan would realize how good she was, but he continued to hurt her without restraint. After suffering endless humiliation and abuse, and even having the child they shared taken away from her... Su Yan finally understood that Ye Xi 1.6kReads8.3Score15814d adds
- 9 I Love You, and I’m Guilty 我爱你，我有罪 Tang Xiaoran says: “My feelings run too deep. If I’m alive but can’t hold you, I’ll go mad.” Everyone has something they can’t let go of. For Tang Xiaoran, it’s Shen Muyan. Tang Xiaoran is too single-minded. Her devotion turns into an obsession, and obsession hurts both the person who holds it and the person it’s directed at. … Shen Muyan says: “Good riddance to that woman. Let’s go have a drink to celebrate.” But when he’s drunk, he asks his friend, “Did I miss something really important?” “Yes 1.1kReads7.0Score10014d adds
- 10 Alas, the Years Have Wasted My Love 奈何流年枉情深 “Manman, Jin Liang isn’t someone you can afford to love.” Three years ago, Xia Man ignored her father’s advice and stubbornly fell in love with Jin Liang. From then on, she flew straight into the flames, doomed to ruin. She endured humiliation and went to prison just to protect the person he held dearest. His heartlessness left her utterly despairing. After she was left battered and bruised, she stopped loving him. But he searched the ends of the earth for her, arriving before her, weary fro 551Reads6.0Score—14d adds
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The Scumbag Can't Have Me, Quick Transmigration 渣男对我求而不得【快穿】
After a car accident leaves her in a vegetative state, Lin Ruo is forced to bind herself to the Scumbag System and begins a masochistic quest to cling to the scumbag’s coattails. First World The scumbag emperor destroys her family and leaves her to die in a sea of flames in order to seize military power. After she dies, the emperor undergoes a dramatic change in personality and spends more than a decade consumed by regret. Lin Ruo rolls her eyes in disdain. [Scumbag Experience: 10%] Second World
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Liu Jingyue 柳惊月
[Ending] At first, he thought he had merely fallen in love with an assassin, and waited for the day they would meet again. Little did he know that the girl he was waiting for had already been sent by his own hand to marry for peace. He had taught her the difference between good and evil, and shown her compassion. Looking back, he could only think how hypocritical he had been. “I was a fool to think I could save you.” Now she had become a princess revered by all, while he was left consumed with r
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The Phoenix Has Yet to Return 凤未归
She had her whole life destroyed by a tyrant and ultimately died in battle at the city gates. She reminded herself not to drink Meng Po's soup: if she ever got another chance, she would make them pay in blood. To her surprise, she was reborn ten years in the past. This was going to be fun. She could still remember every one of her enemies, but when it came to her family... she drew a complete blank.
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- 14 Return of the Swallow 锦堂归燕 As the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, she was switched at birth and forced to struggle for survival among the common folk. At long last, she was reunited with her family, only to be caught up in endless domestic power struggles. She wanted to get along with her sisters, honor her elders, and live a peaceful life of her own, but every one of those awful people was determined to thwart her! So she faced reality: if she wanted a good life, she would have to scheme and fight within the h 2.3kReads8.4Score31914d adds
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The Reborn Legitimate Daughter Returns 重生嫡女归来
Banxia, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Medicine, was murdered by her sister and the Crown Prince she loved. When she awakens, she has been reborn a few days before returning to the capital. With the memories of her past life, she tears away her sister’s beautiful facade and exposes her stepmother’s false piety. The capital says she’s a country bumpkin, but she’s more fashionable than anyone. They call her a village girl, but she’s more graceful than them all. They say she’s illiterate
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- 16 The Reborn Empress Wants to Plot a Rebellion 皇后重生要谋反 This book was originally titled The Empress Is Reborn to Plot Her Revenge. The short drama adaptation is titled The Reborn Empress Is Not to Be Trifled With. In her previous life, she used her medical skills to win people over for him, and her maternal grandfather lent him troops to help him seize the throne. In return, her entire family was massacred, and she met a tragic end. Given a second life, she will never let herself become a laughingstock again. With five years' worth of memories and he 3.9kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
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A Year of Lifespan in an Instant, Burning My Life to Cultivate at Lightning Speed 秒增一年寿元，燃命光速修仙
Synopsis: [Fast-paced power fantasy + sword immortal + invincible + decisive and ruthless, no womanizing or harem] Du Tianle transmigrated to a world of immortal cultivation. Not only does his lifespan increase every day, he can also steal lifespan by killing demons and monsters. He can pour that lifespan into cultivation techniques to gain the corresponding benefits. With such an overpowered System, Du Tianle kills anyone he can beat on the spot. If he can't win, he lays low for a couple of mon
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- 18 Divine and Demon Tattoos! 神魔刺青！ A cat that eats human hearts, a snake pretending to be someone's son, an emperor who treats people like grass, a god dismembered and sealed away, a Buddha who guides people to their deaths... In this world overrun by demons and monsters, Luo Li, a young blacksmith, finds an ancient bronze mirror that lets him kill demons to steal their lifespans and endlessly deduce and improve his martial cultivation. From then on, demons became his staple food, and immortals and gods his delicacies. He will fe 10.8kReads8.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 19 From the Start, I Had Only Eight Years to Live, So I Bet It All 开局只有8年寿命，我选择梭哈 [Concept Enhancement + Decisive and Ruthless + No Brain-dead Moves + Cold-Blooded and Merciless + Rock-Solid Caution + No Simping] After mysteriously transmigrating to another world, Ding Yi grew more and more uneasy by the day. He noticed that the elderly couple who had kindly taken him in kept peeping at him outside his door in the middle of the night. The suppressed, excited breathing and sounds of swallowing from beyond the crack in the door left Ding Yi in no doubt that the old couple would 45.4kReads8.8Score4.3k14d adds
- 20 I Borrowed a Brain from the Immortal King 我向仙王借了个脑子 While burying a corpse, Chen Jie discovers that he can “borrow the dead person’s mind” and gain their memories! “So that’s where Steward Wu hid the Nine-Orifice Golden Pill!” “So the Third Madam and the Third Young Master have that kind of relationship… Yikes!” “So this is what it feels like to master the Eighteen Dragon-Slaying Blades!” … With one borrowed mind after another, Chen Jie transforms himself and soars to greatness. Later on, he even borrows the mind of an Immortal King. While others 3.3kReads6.5Score60914d adds
- 21 The Boundless Path of Martial Arts: Hard Work Makes Up for Lack of Talent 无尽武道之勤能补拙 After transmigrating to the Martial Arts Continent, he gains the Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent System. Anything related to martial arts can continually improve through training. Martial techniques can break through the Perfection Realm, cultivation methods can surpass perfection, and when the experience bar for his current side profession is full, it automatically levels up... Years later, when Qin Dong looks back, he finds himself standing at the pinnacle of the continent. 817Reads6.4Score10314d adds
- 22 In a Strange World, I Grow Strong by Stacking the Odds 诡异世界：我靠堆满概率修炼变强 [Fantasy + Body Cultivation + Bloodthirsty Maniac + Eldritch Monsters + Proficiency] After transmigrating, Ye Yu discovers while practicing his techniques that he can see the odds of success and even train on autopilot. Master the martial path and cultivate immortal arts. Talismans shake the ghosts of the world; arrays break the demons of myriad realms. Overpower all immortals, slay all demons with magic! Slay every wicked spirit and stamp out every evil sect! Stop killing with killing! Drench t 9Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 23 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Gifted Opportunities, Critical Hits Returned 凡人修仙：赠送机缘，暴击返还 Ye Xuan transmigrates into a cultivation world as an ordinary young man and obtains the Gifted Opportunities, Critical Returns System. He gives a spiritual fruit to an elder of a sect and triggers a fivefold critical return, receiving five spiritual fruits in return. After consuming them, his inner power surges and he becomes a martial arts expert. He gives a beautiful woman a powerful martial arts technique and triggers a tenfold critical return, receiving a cultivation method. With a single st 187Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 24 Venerable of the Gu Dao: I Can Raise the Success Rate of Gu Refining 蛊道天尊，我能提升炼蛊成功率 Humans are the spirit of all things, while Gu are the essence of heaven and earth. Li Si transmigrated to a world ruled by Gu and awakened a Gu Refining System. By spending spirit points, he could increase his chances of successfully refining Gu, but spirit points could only be obtained through killing... 3.2kReads6.3Score23414d adds
- 25 EN Cultivating Immortality: My Path to Unrivaled Power 打坐就能涨法力，贫道要无敌 [Not a mindless power fantasy] [Crushes every opponent] [From setbacks to triumph] [One explosive breakthrough after another] [The ways of the world] [Rapidly becomes invincible] Under a gloomy sky, demons run rampant and evil spirits abound. Ordinary people struggle to survive under the protection of extraordinary forces. Cultivation sects stand high above the world, Dao Lords look down on the ants with indifference, and the word “immortal” has become the greatest taboo. Young Li Qingyun is an 53.3kReads8.7Score4.8k14d adds
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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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May We Grow Old Together, Zhaozhao 愿与昭昭共白头
Zhaozhao got married. For five hundred copper coins, she was bought to bring good fortune to a sickly man. Who could have guessed he would still die, leaving her a young widow? Zhaozhao married again, this time to a strong, strapping man. Hopefully, this time they can grow old together and stay by each other's side forever. The ten-thousand-year-old iron tree has finally bloomed. The eminent general has fallen in love, but the woman he has set his heart on is a young widow. His advisors: “Gener
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- 28 The Phoenix Empress Returns 凰后归来 In her previous life, Xiao Xiwei died at the hands of her husband and younger stepsister. Only just before her death did she learn that her life had been a falsehood, painstakingly fabricated by someone else. Reborn through fire, she proceeds cautiously at every turn, learns to read people’s hearts, and sees through their schemes. Together with the Seventh Prince, who has pursued her from her past life, she builds a splendid life. 21Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 29 Madam Jinning 瑾宁夫人 Meng Jinning wasn't exactly the laid-back type, but she understood the principle of not bothering others unless they bothered her first. She also knew that being a stepmother was no easy task. She figured the children's maternal relatives and their own father could take care of them, and the most she could do was turn a blind eye. She never expected that, even though she had no intention of meddling, someone else would insist on dragging her into their business. 309Reads7.7Score10514d adds
- 30 The Enchantress Who Bewitched the World 魅姬惑天下 Chu Xiao, regent of the Yan Dynasty. Yu Ge, a peerless dancer. He used her as a pawn to win over the powerful, climb to the heights of power, and marry the treacherous chancellor's daughter. They took her body, killed her child, and murdered her mother. She swore to make these hypocrites pay for their blood debt. Then, in a single day, her astonishing true identity was revealed. Three thousand bewitching women, five hundred poison masters, and over ten thousand elite soldiers knelt throughout th 823Reads8.8Score17414d adds
- 31 After She Lost Her Memories, the Cold Emperor Went Gray Overnight 她忘情后，凉薄帝王一夜白头 In the tenth year of my marriage to Feng Ye, he made my elder sister the empress. To help her purge poison from her body, he even coaxed me into swallowing a medicinal parasite. “Ranran, it’s just a little medicine. It’ll make you forget all your sorrows. Isn’t that a good thing?” Later, I truly forgot every sorrow. I forgot how I had gone from wife to concubine. I forgot the bowl of medicine he gave me that forced me to lose our child. I forgot how I had once given him all my heart. But why is 38Reads9.0Score—14d adds
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Fragrant Thoughts Beneath the Silk Quilt 念香衾
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- 33 Husband, Spare Me Your Blade 相公，刀下留我 Ye Qingcheng transmigrated, and couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. Later, she realized that someone had been setting her up all along. Qin Shao was reborn, with every detail of his past life still vivid in his mind. If he let a woman set him up again in this life, he might as well give up on life. “My lord, what will it take for you to let me go?” the alluring woman asked with a charming smile. “If you die, I'll be done for.” “Come on, you've loved me so much you want to kill me. 10Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 34 A Splendid Mistake 繁华错 If I had another life, I would never put my hand in yours again. Never. · Hengzhou’s richest man, the Yun Sect’s Iron Cavalry, Qiongzhou’s pleasure quarter, the Four Great Houses of the capital: what earth-shattering secrets lie hidden among these people and places, so seemingly unrelated? What turmoil does a peerlessly beautiful woman, moving through the world of courtesans, stir up with her delicate hands? Everything should have been in the palm of her hand, effortless and under control. But t 570Reads8.4Score10314d adds
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The Phoenix Rules the Ninefold Heavens 凤倾九重
In her previous life, Chi Jingshu was dutiful and kept to herself, yet still suffered endless torment and ultimately earned the title of “the disastrous seductress who brought down a kingdom.” When her country fell and she was strangled to death against the towering red-lacquered walls of the imperial city, she thought, If I get another life, I'll live up to the name “calamity who ruins kingdoms and brings disaster to the people”! Reborn one day at the age when girls wear their first hairpin, Ch
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- 36 The Phoenix of Wu 芜凰 "If this girl is born in the north, the Phoenix will dance across the heavens, and her status will be beyond measure. If she is born in the south, the Phoenix will break a wing, bringing ruin upon her clan from below and chaos to the imperial court from above." Grandmaster Tian Yi's words came true. The "Song of Great Song," the most exalted young lady in Jiankang, never did manage to "spread her golden wings and bring peace to the world..." A Che said, "You may not be fit to be empress, but you 7kReads9.1Score69214d adds
- 37 The Calamity Consort 祸妃天下 She was a scheming, calculating spirit. He was a ruthless, sinister prince lying low in a corner of the empire. Born for revenge, she laid a vast web of traps and plotted to overthrow the dynasty. He was the most obedient piece on the board, yet he bound her heart with love, advancing step by step until she could never leave his side. Xuan Yuan Mo wrapped his arms around the woman from behind. “I know you’ve always been using me, but I like being useful to you…” Ye Qingwan’s lashes fluttered, bu 516Reads8.6Score10114d adds
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I Told You I Love You in Heaven 我在天堂说爱你
At fifteen, Junxi accidentally got blood from an AIDS patient into one of his wounds and contracted the disease. From then on, his normal life was completely upended, and he lived in constant fear that he could die at any moment. But Li Poxiao never left his side, giving him the courage to carry on. Through his pain, he smiled through his tears. “Brother Junxi, my greatest wish is to become your bride. You have to fight to stay alive, because… this is a dream only you can help me fulfill.” A lov
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