Palace and Household Intrigue Novels, Preferably Rated 9.5 or Higher, With a Tight, Fast-Paced Plot 求宫斗宅斗文，最好是9.5分以上剧情紧凑不拖沓的
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The Beloved Lucky Star: The Princess Consort Only Wants to Be the Richest 团宠锦鲤：王妃她只想当首富
Transmigration + Beloved by All + Lucky Charm + Pocket Dimension + Sweet Romance When the rare celestial spectacle of five planets aligning arrives, Mu Ge accidentally transmigrates into ancient times as the infamous “love-struck young lady.” She not only brings a modern storeroom spanning 100,000 square meters with her, but also binds herself to a mysterious lucky carp jade pendant. From then on, prey walks right into her traps, fish leap into her nets, and even her business ventures make money
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I'm Addicted! Cultivating Demonic Arts Is Too Much Fun to Stop 魔怔了！修魔爽到停不下来
Yun Xiyue, the eldest young lady of the Celestial Palace, was struck dead by lightning while undergoing her tribulation. Her body lay shattered, while her soul drifted through the sky. Shen Xingyao knelt in a pool of blood, crying until she had no strength left. Si Xiangyi spat blood and passed out, while the Heavenly Emperor scolded her as a little vixen, his hands shaking uncontrollably. Then someone told her: The man who cursed you is your biological father. She was tired. She didn’t want to
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The Black Lotus Consort: My Acting Reigns Supreme in the Harem 黑莲花宠妃，本宫演技冠绝后宫
Palace intrigue + black lotus + crushing scumbags and rising to power + everyone is evil + favored consort Other transmigrators become daughters of noble families, raised in luxury and blessed with lives free of hardship. Xia Jinhua, however, transmigrated as an impoverished concubine-born girl, adrift like a duckweed and forced to scheme at every step to secure her future. From her first dazzling encounter with the emperor at a country estate to taking the phoenix seal and firmly claiming the t
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The Edict of Yongxu 咏絮令
During the Yonghe era of the Eastern Jin dynasty, Xie Daoyun, a legitimate daughter of the Chen Commandery Xie clan, was born on a snowy night. Born into a distinguished family, she nevertheless set out to break free of the constraint that “a woman's lack of talent is a virtue.” Her line, “It is like willow catkins dancing on the wind,” made her famous south of the Yangtze, and her talent for poetry became a legend through the ages. Yet beneath her renown lay the heavy shackles of the great aris
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Nan Jingchun 南景春
A princess who commands armies and wields great power X a poor-born statesman who claws his way to the top Lu Nanjing is the Great Xi’s Goddess of War, a princess who rides through the imperial city with a mighty army at her back and the world beneath her feet. Du Ruolan is a statesman from a humble family, ruthless and cunning, who fights his way into the heart of power with sheer courage and ingenuity. One spring day on the street, she casually tossed him a fortune and rescued him from the mud
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After I Transmigrated, I Reunited with the General in the Modern World 穿越后，我和将军在现代重逢
Eight hundred years ago, she was Princess Lingxi of the Bai Kingdom, and he was Sha Chi, the general charged with defending its city. On the day the city fell, they drank poison and promised to find each other in their next lives. Eight hundred years later, she was Li Ruoxin, a graduate student in archaeology, and he was Mo Haoqian, an investigator with the national security agency. A golden hairpin unearthed from Heishui City awakened their memories across the cycle of reincarnation. In those m
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The Frail Legitimate Daughter Returns from Cultivation 病弱嫡女她修仙归来
(The rating just opened, so it will rise later.) (A household-intrigue story with faux cultivation.) A Nascent Soul powerhouse from the cultivation world was stuck at a bottleneck in her state of mind, unable to advance to Spirit Transformation. She returned to the mortal world and became Lin Shuyin, the frail eldest daughter who had just returned home to the Minister of Rites’ residence. She may look delicate and weak, but she is really an elder of the Shangqing Sect who has lived for 271 years
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An Ugly Girl and a Spoiled Scion Join Hands to Rule the Capital 丑女纨绔手牵手，整个京城横着走
The score has just come out and will rise. The capital’s top young heir transmigrates overnight, becoming a wretched young nobleman framed and poisoned by his father’s second wife, then driven from the marquis’s residence and left on the brink of death. To turn the tables, he has no choice but to use his good looks to seduce Yi An, a vicious and ruthless ancient-era female tycoon. With one shoulder bared and a bewitching gaze, he clings to Yi An’s leg: “Sis, let’s get married. I’ll help you join
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The Reed Chronicles 蒹葭纪
[Childhood Friends + Love and Hate + Rekindled Romance + Sweet Romance + Happy Ending] Gu Jiaqi is decisive, while Pei Lang is ruthless. Despite their very different natures, the two once shared a sweet romance. But to save her family, Gu Jiaqi resolutely entered the palace and became an imperial consort. Pei Lang hated her for betraying him and using him as a stepping stone to power. He used his influence to make Gu Jiaqi Empress Dowager, then controlled her and the young emperor as regent. The
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The Zither's Unending Mystery 锦瑟无端
[Clear-headed, rational heroine × Devoted, possessive second male lead; SC; HE] [Power couple | Play the pig to eat the tiger | Marriage first, love later | Everyone gets their comeuppance] [The heroine is no angel, and she's good at striking back and stirring up trouble] [He enjoys mistreating his wife at first, then runs himself ragged chasing her later] My name is Jin Se. By imperial decree, I married the capital's most famous lovesick second male lead. He was devastatingly handsome and brill
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Awakening from a Nightmare: The Eunuch Prince Consort Keeps Trying to Win Me Over 惊梦自救，太监驸马总想攻略我
In her dream, Ye Susu was humiliated to death by her younger sister and her sister's consort, Li Chou. They even made a scarecrow out of her bones. When she woke, she decided to strike first: she knelt before the palace hall and insisted that a young eunuch become her consort. The court was in an uproar, the princess had gone mad, and the whole world was laughing at her. Only Ye Susu knew that the blade that had stabbed her in her past life needed to be wielded by someone else this time. “Susu,
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The Thief on the Dragon Throne 龙榻贼女
“Choose one: the emperor’s bed or the Ministry of Justice’s dungeon.” A mischievous female thief accidentally stole something right off the “tyrant” himself... Good heavens! Is it too late to say I’m the Grand Preceptor’s youngest daughter? “Kneel. Hold out your hand, ” “Hey, hey, don’t tie me up!” “Who told you to play ‘The King of Qin Circling the Pillar’ with me?” “Do you know how runaway slaves are punished?” A “bet” with her group of friends led her to steal the jade pendant of an empero
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The Cold, Powerful Official Bows to Me 清冷权臣，他为我折腰
Also known as: Bewitching the Capital: The Powerful Brought to Their Knees #Rival Suitors #Multiple Male Leads, All Chaste #Making Money #Beautiful Black Lotus #Feel-Good Power Fantasy The main romance is one-on-one, with Fu Tingnan as the official pairing. The other male leads are emotional entanglements, creating a battlefield of rival suitors. Read with care if that bothers you. Fu Tingnan is the heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, the youngest powerful minister in the court. Ruthless and decisive,
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Cherished in the Palm of His Hand 掌中娇宠
[Possessive Love + Obsessive Devotion + The Wrongfully Accused Vindicated] Her parents were unjustly condemned and died in the Grand Canal. Xu Wanqing observed mourning with her young brother for three years, then went to Jinling for one reason: to break off her engagement to Fu Mingshen, the sitting Minister of Justice. Everyone says Fu Mingshen is Jinling’s living King of Hell. He commands the courts and prisons, and kills without hesitation. Even the sound of his name can stop a child from cr
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Betrothed to the Mad King, the Legitimate Princess Turns the Tables 赐婚疯王，嫡妃掀了棋局
The whole capital was betting on how many days the legitimate daughter of the Shen family would survive after marrying into Prince Jing's household. An imperial decree announced that I was to marry Xie Shaochen, the Seventh Prince, a madman plagued by coughing fits and notorious for slaughtering without mercy. People pitied me, saying I'd walked straight into the Prince Jing household, a den of death. They didn't know this wasn't a den of death at all. It was a trap, laid by the man on the th
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Entering the Imperial Harem 入春宫
[Palace intrigue + villainess with a career-driven mind + fluffy mind-reading + men competing for her] Su Fuqu was the legitimate youngest daughter of the Grand Preceptor. She and the Crown Prince, Qin Zhaolin, grew up together and were deeply in love. But after she came of age, Qin Zhaolin abandoned her, chose her cousin as his wife, and asked Su Fuqu to become his concubine. She turned around and schemed her way into the emperor's bed, sowing discord between father and son and throwing the pal
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The Substitute Bride Princess Is a Drama Queen, and the Whole Household Is Speechless 替嫁王妃是戏精，全府破防
[Lighthearted and funny] [Subverts expectations] [Household intrigue] [Marriage Before Love] [Wish fulfillment] From the start, she transmigrates as the unloved legitimate daughter of the Grand Tutor’s household. Her father despises her, her stepsister bullies her, and she’s forced to marry in place of someone else, going undercover as a spy in the household of her sworn enemy, a prince? A hellish start, but she isn’t fazed in the slightest! As a modern reader who’s devoured countless web novels
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