Palace and Household Intrigue, Historical Romance. Looking for Palace-Intrigue Stories with a Clever, Resourceful Female Lead 宫斗宅斗，古代言情，求宫斗文，女主斗智斗勇的书
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Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规
[Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th
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The Consort Is All Charm and Cunning, Scheming Her Way to the Top 娘娘又茶又媚，一路宫斗上位
Signed for print publication In the third year of the Yifeng era, a concubine-born daughter of the Ningyang Marquis’s household enters the palace. The palace is a vast, treacherous place, where the one thing you must never do is give your heart away. Ning Shuyan is clear-eyed: she wants wealth and prestige, along with the emperor’s favor. For three years, she carefully plots each step, wins the emperor’s attention, and rises from Talented Lady to Noble Consort. Rumor has it that the emperor only
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The Scheming Regent Reads My Mind and Forces Me to Win Him Over 腹黑摄政王读我心，强行攻略我
[Marriage Before Love] [On-screen comments + inner monologue] [Both leads strong and devoted to one another] Political intrigue, business, sweet romance, adorable baby, satisfying wish fulfillment, harmless on the outside but calculating underneath Meng Chenyin, a screenwriter for short dramas, somehow transmigrated into an NPC from her own story, a supporting daughter of the Ministry of Revenue’s vice minister whose only line was a single sentence. To make matters worse, her stepmother was abou
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The Consort’s Laid-Back Daily Life 娘娘的佛系日常
[A lazy, carefree little schemer who just wants to lie flat + historical fantasy + palace intrigue + heroine devoted to one man, hero not devoted to one woman] The charming and clever favorite consort Lin Jingran refuses to work herself to the bone. She’s got the Noble Imperial Consort position lined up, and plans to enjoy the drama and lie flat her way to becoming Empress. Family? She’s a treasured darling of her family, too. The emperor? He openly favors her and helps her navigate palace intr
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A Sudden Breeze Stirs the Mandarin Ducks Along the Fragrant Path 风乍起，闲引鸳鸯香径里
Palace intrigue + not a mutually faithful couple + pure historical romance Qingyin once loved the emperor, but that was long ago. Now she only wants to live peacefully as his empress, yet he refuses to leave her alone. She has no idea why scumbags always pretend to be devoted. Qingyin thinks that if the emperor is no good, she can just replace him. Becoming the Empress Dowager herself might not be so bad.
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Whose Favored Concubine Doesn't Get Herself Killed? 谁家宠妾不作死啊
Pei Shiyuan had always thought that, as a concubine-born daughter, she thrived at her family home because she knew a little tea ceremony and all she had to do was flatter her father, the head of the household. She had been quite pleased with herself about it, right up until she entered the Eighth Prince’s household. The Eighth Prince’s mother, the Noble Consort, was so favored that the Empress had no room to stand. His maternal family wielded so much power that the court officials could barely b
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You Want Me as a Concubine? I'm Done Playing Nice, Sister 让我做妾？姐姐不装了
[Transmigration + marriage first, love later + face-slapping and falling hard + everyone has one-sided feelings] Lu Xuanzhao is a prince of a different surname, powerful enough to rule the realm. He’s decisive and ruthless, and has always despised romantic entanglements. But he promised to look after his late friend’s beloved, only to discover that the woman is prickly and calculating at every turn. It’s been barely two months since news of his friend’s supposed death reached the capital, and sh
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The Capital's Most Notorious Beauty 京城第一祸水
Currently being published [rival suitors in a dramatic love triangle + top-tier schemer + supporting villainess fights back + everyone comes around] [Historical romance + told entirely from the wicked supporting female character’s perspective] ❣️Blurb One Qiao Wanyan learned from a storybook that she was nothing but a wicked supporting character who abandoned her childhood sweetheart and chased after wealth and status. She sowed discord, poisoned her elder sister, and committed every imaginable
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The Crown Prince Is Ruthless Out There, but Kneels to Placate Me Back at the Palace 太子在外杀伐果断，回宫跪地哄我
[Devoted couple, sweet romance + top-tier green-tea teaches the dog to heel + wolfhound submits + only after his body, not his heart + keep the child, discard the father + domineering abduction] Black-hearted, silver-tongued little seductress VS cold, sinister Crown Prince In her previous life, Chu Yunxi was left with nothing when her husband’s family took all her property. In this life, she’s paying handsomely for a child. She doesn't care about honors or silver notes. He just has to look good,
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She Was Given as a Gift 做为礼物的她
She was nothing more than a gift from the empress to the emperor, yet she became the last woman standing in the imperial harem. A sweet romance! (A short biography of Imperial Noble Consort Lingyi, amid the harem battles of the Qianlong reign. An attempt to unravel the mystery behind the Empress’s hair-cutting.) For readers who have experienced being loved. Not for those who cannot accept that other people have love in their lives, or for those expecting to see a lovesick doormat and believing i
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Ten Years as a Consort 为妃十载
[Palace intrigue + ruthless, formidable female lead and unhinged villainess + no golden finger, no System] Dongfang Li has always been a femme fatale. “If someone hurts me once, I’ll make them pay a hundred or a thousand times over.” “If I were plain-looking, that would be one thing. But Heaven gave me a beauty unlike any other. Why shouldn’t I fight and seize what I want?” Dongfang Li is an unfavored daughter born to a concubine, so from the moment she enters the palace, she treads carefully, r
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The Palace Is Deep as the Sea, but the Noble Consort Shows No Mercy 宫门深似海，贵妃毫不手软
Two noble daughters in one family, and everyone says the Marquis of Cheng'en's household is blessed with good fortune. But Liang Nianfu knows that beneath this fortune lie captivity and confinement, and a road from which there is no return. Red walls and green tiles, a pampered and precious life: once those who deserve to be hated and the things that need doing have all been dealt with, how can a cage hold a flying bird? A cage cannot hold a flying bird, but a person can! One moment of poor ju
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Well, the Tyrant Flower of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Manor Has Been Reborn! 嚯，镇国公府那朵霸王花重生了！
[Both leads reborn + sweet romance + cozy vibes + fictional dynasty + devoted to each other + ensemble cast] [Scheming, icy-faced hero with an uncaring father vs. beautiful, bold heroine adored by everyone] Among the noblewomen of the capital, who was luckiest to be born into a good family? Jiang Yuemian, without a doubt. Her grandmother was the emperor's eldest princess, her grandfather the Duke Who Guards the Nation, her maternal grandfather a great general, and her father a high-ranking offic
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The Empress Dowager's Retirement Life 太后的退休生活
[Palace intrigue + female lead is the mastermind behind the scenes + no romance + plot-driven + ensemble cast] After transmigrating to the Great Jing dynasty, Su Minqing entered the palace as the empress. She worked tirelessly at palace intrigue for over a decade and finally fought her way to becoming the Empress Dowager. The only catch was that there was another Empress Dowager in the palace besides her. As the emperor’s adoptive mother, she was named the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces. The
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Empresses in the Palace: Yixiu Is Reborn and Becomes Empress Dowager 甄嬛传之宜修重生当太后
Her frail sister, who couldn’t even look after herself, stole the position of primary consort from her while she was pregnant. Her only son died of an incurable illness because her sister was pregnant. Her coldhearted husband had not an ounce of true affection for her. “Never again will she and I meet in this life!” Reborn, she will turn his white moonlight into mere rice grains, and his cinnabar mole into a mosquito’s blood. In this life, she will claim the position of primary consort, keep Hon
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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The Crown Prince Dotes Only on His Childhood Sweetheart 太子殿下独宠小青梅
Shen Yuyao is the only daughter of a great general and the Consort Shu's niece. She has been doted on her whole life, but when the general falls gravely ill, her aunt gradually reveals her true nature. Everyone waits to see Shen Yuyao humiliated. Then the Crown Prince proves them wrong.
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The Crown Prince Is a Treasure Trove, but She Flirts and Runs 太子浑身是宝，但她撩完就跑
[Clever revenge + ensemble court drama + male lead fakes his death and reveals his identity, then goes mad + heroine is his one true love] [Power couple comedy | Strategic mind games | All the right ingredients | Fictional setting] Axiang, a huntress, bought herself a live-in husband. He was handsome, with a fine figure and a noble, radiant air, like an immortal crane descended from the heavens, or a jade-faced gentleman from a storybook. But he had no idea how to show affection. When she offer
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Reborn as a Concubine: I Want to Leave the Palace 重生之宠妃要出宫
The heroine's family depends on an ambitious prince who plots to usurp the throne, yet she falls in love with the emperor. In her previous life, her family was destroyed, and she died in despair in the Cold Palace. After being reborn, she decides to steer clear of trouble and live peacefully with her family. But as an ordinary person, she is merely a pawn in the hands of those in power. When she chooses love once more, how will she fight against fate?
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After Running Away from My Wedding, I Became the Ruler of the World 逃婚之后我成了天下共主
[Destroy every injustice under heaven, then rise from bandit to empress] [The legendary life of Emperor Xuanwu, the Shizong of the Great Jing Dynasty] Born a bandit, Sang Zhen had only two goals in life: get a proper household registration and find a steady job. More than anyone, she wanted to turn over a new leaf. So she obediently followed her brother’s arrangements, preparing to marry into a powerful family and live the comfortable life of a wealthy lady. But who could have guessed that she’d
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Reborn as a General's Legitimate Daughter, I Slay with the Voices of Objects 穿成将门嫡女，靠器物心声杀疯了
Su Yanqing can hear objects speak. Not prophecies, but memories: objects remember everything they've witnessed. The jade pendant her mother left behind says that there was more to the incident back then. Beside her brother's letter, there's a wax seal that has been broken and resealed. The capital's noble families are all waiting to see the legitimate daughter of a military house make a fool of herself. Only she knows: Behind every compliment lies a blade, and behind every "coincidence," someone
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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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The Sweet and Beautiful Imperial Concubine: The Abstinent Fourth Prince Dotes on Her 福晋娇又美：禁欲四爷宠上瘾
[One devoted couple + sweet romance] Tong Jia Ning Chuge, the legitimate daughter of Longkodo, was getting married. But on her wedding day, a princess snatched her groom right off the street. The poor girl fell out of her bridal sedan and died on the spot! The woman protested, “I just got here, and a bunch of people are already laughing at me for being a discarded wife. I can’t stand for this!” Just as she was racking her brains for a way to put them in their place, an imperial edict from Empero
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Dump the Romance Hero, Seduce the Emperor from a Male-Oriented Novel 踹掉言情男主，勾搭男频帝王
[Transmigrate into a book, revenge, scheming, stunning heroine, seductive mastermind] The short drama His Heart on a String is now streaming! Shen Yuling transmigrated into a romance novel as its heroine. Unfortunately, she was a heroine whose luck had been stolen by a woman who transmigrated into the story. She would die in a fire, taking her unborn child with her, while her entire family would be wiped out. It was a fate the original heroine had failed to change, even after being reborn twice
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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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Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责
Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied
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Trapped in a Book as the Demon Queen: The Sickly Regent Is No Gentleman at Night 书穿妖后：病娇摄政王每晚不当人
After transmigrating into the Great Zhou’s most notorious empress, Su Ruo barely has time to enjoy herself before her life is in danger. A patriotic System comes knocking, asking her to support the young emperor and change the fate of the Great Zhou’s fall. ??? She’s the wicked empress everyone wants dead! Never mind that the young emperor is hopelessly incompetent. Picking a fight with the regent, who holds all the power at court, is just asking to die young, isn’t it? Patriotic System: The reg
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You Want to Imprison Me and Make Me Love You? Dream On! 囚禁我，还想让我爱你，你做梦！
[The Regent Prince’s Sweet Facade Turns Dark, and He Tricks the Minister’s Legitimate Daughter into Marriage] [The Regent Prince’s Forceful Love + A Wife Who Just Wants to Escape Every Day] [The Tyrannical Owner of Yuefeng Tower, Who Fought His Way Out of a Sea of Blood and Has No Idea How to Treat a Lady Gently] [The Yuefeng Tower Owner: Dark to Light + Realizes His Feelings Too Late + Loves Her but Cannot Have Her] [The Third Male Lead: The Silent, Unspoken Love of a Young Master from the Lu C
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Three Years of Foolishness: The General’s Legitimate Daughter Returns Home and Goes on a Rampage 痴傻三年：将军嫡女回府杀疯了
Historical fantasy + adored by all + strong heroine + understands animals + face-slapping + punishing scum + legitimate daughter Song Yue, a PhD in medicine, transmigrates by chance and becomes the legitimate daughter of a general’s household, a young woman who had been mentally impaired for three years. Her concubine stepmother and stepsister poisoned her, then left her in a nunnery to be beaten and treated like a madwoman. Her stepmother seized the family fortune, while her stepsister took her
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I Ran Away Pregnant After Becoming His Bedchamber Maid 穿成通房后我带球跑
[Transmigrate into a book + green tea schemer + white lotus + stand-in for his beloved + palace intrigue + power struggles + satisfying wish fulfillment] A novelist who had never been in a relationship transmigrated into the Great Zhou Dynasty, becoming Chu Wuhen, Prince Qi's bedchamber maid. Every day, she struggled to stay alive. The original owner was the illegitimate daughter of a mistress. After her family fell into ruin, she was sold to Prince Qi's manor to warm his bed. Su Wanqing was jea
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A Mistake, A Meeting 错，相逢
That year, I first came into the world, and the balance of power across the realm was suddenly overturned in silence. The new emperor of Xilu ascended the throne, determined to bring about reforms. In Xidan, the young Emperor Yuan Xi also inherited the throne that same year. They all said I smiled at everyone from the time I was little. Yet at the grandest of enthronement banquets, I looked up and saw a handsome young man in imperial robes, with clear, bright features, and burst into tears. He p
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Scheming for a Beauty 谋红颜
A flood swept away Ru Yu's mother. Everyone said it was a natural disaster, but she alone knew for certain that someone had lowered the iron floodgate with a sneer as the waters surged in. To uncover the mystery behind it, she resolutely descended from Mount Kuocang. Making herself a pawn, she stepped into the treacherous game of power unfolding across the land.
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The Mad Eldest Princess Reborn, Making a Stunning Comeback at Court 疯批长公主，重生后飒爆朝堂
Historical rebirth##Unhinged Eldest Princess#Cold, Powerful Minister Pursues His Wife#Court Intrigue: In her previous life, Eldest Princess Jiang Jingshu was madly in love and forced Xiao Tingyan to marry her. He avoided her at every turn and despised her from the bottom of his heart for her erratic ways, arrogance, domineering nature, and brutal methods. He thought she was a madwoman. The court was rife with undercurrents. Noble Consort Rou and the Second Prince’s faction seized control of the
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I Was a Psycho in My Past Life. Reborn, I Take the Financial World by Storm 前世我是疯批，重生后飒爆财阀圈
Mad beauty heroine / Reborn revenge power fantasy / Possessive CEO pursues his wife In her previous life, she was the top-tier star of the wealthy elite, a crazy heiress who was arrogant and unrestrained. Using her money to abduct handsome men and force Fu Heting to marry her, she was so domineering that no one dared cross her. In the end, her own family betrayed her, leaving her destitute and dead with bitter resentment. Reborn, she put her madness aside and focused on her career and revenge. A
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Where Qingyun Meets 卿云见
Just after she transmigrates, her husband nearly destroys her body to cover up his crime. After barely escaping with her life, she finds that the one who helped her was her husband's younger brother. Is it a political scheme or a transaction? Each takes what they need and relies on their own abilities. How can she carve out a life of her own in this world?
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The Tale of Nan Xin 南心记
He does everything he can to avoid marrying her, while she plots every which way to wed him. He wants her dead, but she fights to survive in the cracks like a resilient blade of grass. He sees through everything, yet still lets her slowly take root in his heart, where she lingers, impossible to forget and impossible to resist…
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A Book by Chang Sheng Ru Gu 长笙如故的一本书
[Spirit Spring, Space, Farming, Fleeing Famine, Sweet Romance, Power Struggles] Yan Shu died unexpectedly and transmigrated into a book, becoming the vicious widowed sister-in-law of a crazed villain. Her husband-to-be died before they could even hold the wedding ceremony, leaving behind only a frail younger brother. The original Yan Shu fled in the middle of the night with the last of the family’s money. Before leaving, she even sold the younger brother, whose bearing was as refined as moonligh
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The Fourth Miss Is a Brilliant Doctor, Yet an Illegitimate Daughter 四小姐医术精湛却是私生女
In the eleventh year of the Chenghua reign, on the day the crown prince was formally appointed, the Liu and Sheng families of imperial physicians were massacred. Sheng Miao, the Sheng family's only daughter, survived because her father hid her in a secret room. After witnessing her parents die before her eyes, she lost not only her memory but also her voice. That day, he followed his father's dying wish and went to Jianzhou to bring home the Mei family's illegitimate daughter who had been living
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After Becoming the Family’s Darling, I Exposed the Villain’s Secret Identity! 团宠后我把反派大佬的马甲扒了！
Transmigration + two powerful leads + identities exposed + everyone's favorite + push and pull (half sweet, half angst, with smart characters) Ruthless hostage prince x princess skilled in medicine and poison Mo Qingqing: She transmigrates as the Seventh Princess of Beilin and breaks off her engagement from the start. Dugu Yunche: The gloomy, astute hostage prince of Xiqi seems weak, but is actually ruthless. He weaves a web of schemes under two identities, only to fall in love. Chen Yi'an: Crow
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A Devoted Emperor Chases Love from Ancient Times to the Modern Day 痴情帝王，从古代追爱到现代
"The ancient-era portion of this book is not a clean romance and takes a realistic approach, with an emphasis on plausibility. Readers who insist on both leads being untouched should read with caution. Once they reach the modern era, both leads are untouched. The story is a slow burn, but the later chapters are exciting, so be sure to read to the end." The heroine, Lin Wan, is a woman of unparalleled beauty and a celebrated history professor at a modern university. Not only is she exceptionally
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The Imperial Academy’s Fallen Woman 国子监破鞋
136,543 people have already missed this book because of its title... One-of-a-kind pure heroine + nobody is innocent + romance and desire + the fate of the nation. Beauty fades, and with it, love. Golden fingers are just something people say to fool the gullible. She is a soul from another world, sharp-eyed and streetwise. In this decaying dynasty, she aims to amass a fortune beyond imagination and avoid the humiliation China suffered over the past century.
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The Bride in Disguise: A Mad Doctor Tames Her Husband 替嫁娇妃：疯癫医女驯夫记
“On our wedding night, blood stains the red candles. The mad consort presses a silver needle to her throat: ‘Marquis, are you going to inspect my virginity mark?’” Lin Shuying, her hair hanging loose, tears up the marriage contract, only to see Shen Yan pinch the cinnabar mole on her wrist. “Madam, do you know that pretending to be insane is a crime of deceiving the emperor?” Medicinal dregs in the manor conceal the secrets of the struggle for the throne. The mad consort wields her needles to br
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On the Ridge of Jingling 静岭上
Jingning has a dream in which she sees another life she once lived. To escape the predicament in her dream, she writes a book warning of natural disasters, saving an entire county. She also hints at the fate of a famed general, never realizing that he had long since put life and death out of his mind. But this makes the emperor wary. An imperial edict decreeing their marriage binds her to the crown prince from then on...
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