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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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Transmigrated as a Concubine's Daughter: Becoming the Empress Dowager Isn't So Hard 穿越庶女之苟成太后也不难
[Sign-In System + Pocket Space + Harem + No Angst + Alternate Setting + Childbirth] Transmigrated into the body of a poor little concubine-born girl who starved to death in an ancestral hall? No worries, the Sign-In System is here to help. Bullied by her legitimate mother and groomed to be a pretty but useless ornament? No worries, the Sign-In System is here to help. At long last, she grows up, only for the whole family to agree to send her off as a concubine. Ha! Did anyone ask me? If I'm going
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With My Reborn Son's High-Stakes Schemes, Becoming Empress Dowager Is No Dream 重生儿子手段高，晋升太后不是梦
[Fictional Imperial Harem Drama + No Romance + Giving Birth and Raising Kids + My Son Must Be Crown Prince + Ambitious + Clear-Eyed] Content warning: The romance isn’t mutually exclusive, she doesn’t love the male lead, and there are painful, heartbreaking parts. The male lead is a scumbag emperor. Song Yuyan was hooked on a palace-harem management game. She never expected to open her eyes and find she had transmigrated to ancient times. After keeping a low profile for three years, she entered t
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- 4 The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱 [Available in print. Search "Zhaohua Rebellion" on any platform to purchase.] [Strong female lead, satisfying revenge, high-IQ palace intrigue, the heroine schemes against the entire harem, a dangerously unhinged antagonist] Song Zhao has always been a woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals, and she has always seen the world more clearly than anyone else. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was crystal clear: "I en 87.1kReads9.5Score9.7k14d adds
- 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
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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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The Empress Dowager Reborn: A Phoenix’s Plot for the Empire 太后重生：凤谋天下
[Strong heroine + ensemble cast + political intrigue] Reborn, she turns the world into a board and all living beings into pieces. She is the one pulling the strings behind the scenes. Slender, pale hands, an icy gaze She moves her pieces, a faint smile on her lips Why should beauty worry? Reborn, risen from the ashes A phoenix’s schemes hide in her lotus-bloom bones Her name will live on in the annals of history Willow branches in her hometown, the moon a hook She watches generals and princes
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The Empress Is Far Too Ambitious 娘娘她太有事业心了
[Palace intrigue! Palace intrigue! Scheming + palace intrigue + sweet romance + slight ensemble cast] [You won’t regret getting invested!!] Watch a sweet, ambitious girl work her way up, one step at a time! From an Attendant to an empress who rules the realm! A sweet girl who plays dumb but is really a wolf in sheep’s clothing × a cold, cunning emperor! His sole favorite? Can you really believe the emperor has just one? True love? The palace is a deep sea. All Lin Yueqing can do is seize the emp
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Wishing You Peace and Prosperity Year After Year 祝卿岁岁荣安
Before her birth mother died, she pointed at Zhu Qing'an in front of everyone and cursed her for bringing misfortune to her six relatives. She ordered Zhu Qing'an to keep vigil for her for three months after her death, then shave her head and become a nun at Jingyun Convent, never to leave the convent or return to secular life. So three months after her birth mother’s death, Zhu Qing'an ceased to exist. At Jingyun Convent, a young nun named Jingchen struggled to survive in this world. Given anot
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- 10 Reborn: Fragrance Falls on Splendid Brocade 重生之香落锦绣 Yang Lishu had plenty of regrets in her previous life. Reborn, her first order of business was to delay her mother’s trip back to her hometown for her great-uncle’s wife’s birthday celebration, avoiding a deadly trap. Yang Lishu’s life changed along with it, but after all the twists and turns, it was still that same person who took her hand and led her toward a life of splendor. 5.1kReads9.2Score58014d adds
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The Legitimate Daughter of the Jingyuan Marquis Household 靖远侯府的嫡女
Su Ruowan spent her whole life being cautious, planning every step, and exhausting herself before finally earning a peaceful death in old age. When she opens her eyes again, she’s back in the Jingyuan Marquis’s Manor as the legitimate daughter. She vows to resolve the mysteries of her past life, avenge her mother’s murder, protect her elder brother’s career, ensure her grandmother’s health and longevity, and help her best friend set the household in order. As for a husband, this time she’ll choo
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- 12 The Phoenix Paints the Realm: The Bloodstained Legitimate Daughter 凤绘江山之浴血嫡女 The disfigured legitimate daughter returns reborn, willing to stain her hands with blood and tread over piles of bones. She swears to make everyone who persecuted her in her past life pay in blood! What? You want to know why I'm so ruthless? Sorry, as a spirit of the dead, I threw my mercy away to feed the little ghosts long ago. But why does this crown prince, who likes to play the fool while hiding his true strength, keep clinging to me? I can't shake him off! Could it be that you know you acc 6Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 13 The Cannon Fodder Legitimate Daughter's Face-Slapping Rules 炮灰嫡女打脸守则 In her previous life, Shu Qing was the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor's household, yet she was sent to a country estate and wasn't brought back until she was fifteen. From the day she returned, she trusted the wrong people and lived at the mercy of others' schemes. She was branded talentless and immoral, crude and vulgar, unchaste and impure, and a traitor who colluded with the enemy. One stain after another was cast upon her until she died a miserable death, with no one even claiming her 77Reads8.3Score—14d adds
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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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- 15 Shocking! The Heir's Chambermaid Is a Total Knockout 惊！世子小通房是尤物 [One-on-one romance + sweet and satisfying + funny + a husband’s long road to winning his wife back] As the Prince of Li’s young concubine, she knows the Rules for Women and Lessons for Women by heart. The young lady wants to offer herself to him? Clutching a chicken leg, she hides in the corner to watch. “Wow, this is exciting!” With a beauty so graceful and so many sweet words, even a sage would be unable to resist, right? So why hasn’t that man made a move? “Go on, hold her tight and kiss her 262Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 16 The Imperial Terrace's Charm: The Noble Consort Is Beautiful and Well-Behaved 帝台娇：贵妃娘娘她又美又乖 [Harem intrigue + climbing the ranks and crushing the villains + doting romance. The male lead knows his own heart. He'll devote himself to her alone later on.] [The heroine rises through the ranks quickly at first, then more slowly later on.] [The heroine comes from a noble family, is the most beautiful woman in the harem, and already has two adorable children. The Emperor falls for her first and favors her from early on, before devoting himself to her alone in the middle and later parts.] By a 20.2kReads9.4Score2k14d adds
- 17 I'm Exhausted! To Fool Him, I Pretend to Be Sweet and Innocent Every Day 累死！为了骗他，本宫日日装娇纯 “If you want to win, you have to learn how to lose first.” Meng Xianxiang lost a life, and learned to struggle, to seize what she wanted, to scheme and plan, and to claw her way up. Looking back on her previous life, she had lived in a stable, eaten pig slop, served tea and emptied chamber pots, enduring abuse and humiliation at every turn. Each memory was a stab to the heart. Given another chance, she wants status and power, and a world where no one dares bully her again. Behind the palace’s re 3.6kReads9.2Score30214d adds
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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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The Political Bride Slaughters Her Way Through the Realm 和亲公主嘎嘎乱杀
[Fictional setting + System + Revenge to the extreme + Asura Princess + Decisive and ruthless + Strong female lead + Female emperor] Chu Nian'an was a low-ranking princess. When the imperial decree ordering her to marry into Beishuo arrived, everyone in the palace waited to see her make a fool of herself. Beishuo was her birth mother's homeland, the place that dazzling woman had spent half her life trying and failing to return to. At a banquet in Beishuo's royal court, a powerful minister's daug
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The Sickly Crown Prince's Darling 病娇太子的掌中欢
Shen Qinghuan is a famously delicate beauty. She can't stand the cold or heat, wind or rain. She gasps for breath every few steps and coughs every few more. Her mother died young, her father disdains her, and after her fiancé breaks off their engagement, no one is willing to marry her. Then The Crown Prince, Fu Yunzhou, takes this fragile flower into the Eastern Palace. * Rumor has it that Crown Prince Fu Yunzhou is violent, avoids women, and loves nothing more than killing. When Shen Qinghuan m
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- 21 The Phoenix-Reborn Princess 浴火王妃 Mu Xuefu has never been able to forget the massacre that destroyed her family ten years ago. It was the driving force that kept her going through those ten years. Now she has returned, fully grown and ready to turn the court upside down and send her enemies plunging into an abyss. Jing Rong has long been consumed by the mystery of his parents' deaths. His secret ambition is to claim the highest seat of power. Ruthless, unscrupulous, and secretive: these are traits they share. An imperial decree 42Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 22 The Princess Has a Soft Waist and a Ruthless Heart, and She Tames the Tyrannical Minister 公主腰软心狠，暴戾权臣被驯服了 [Reborn Strong Female Lead + Political Scheming That Defies Convention + Everyone’s Darling + Beautiful, Ruthless Ambitious Woman + Satisfying, Sweet Romance] Ming Huang had deposed and installed five emperors, governed two kingdoms as regent, and wielded power over the court for eleven years. The moment she died, the Great Qi empire she had devoted her life to supporting actually fell! Reborn in a new life, she acquired a strange book and finally learned the truth. She had been married off at f 40Reads8.9Score—14d adds
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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.
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- 24 Princess Consort of Chu 楚王妃 She had died seven times in all. Standing by the River of Forgetfulness, Ning Shu asked, “Your Highness, King of Chujiang, will I have a husband in this life? Will he be as handsome as you, as beautiful as you, as clever and capable as you, as tender and affectionate, and as understanding of romance?” King of Chujiang: “Yes. He'll have all of that.” Only later did Ning Shu realize he really did have all those qualities, especially the “capable” part. It nearly killed her, over and over. 128Reads8.4Score—14d adds
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The Side Consort Arrives, Joining the Crown Prince in Rebellion, War, and the Rise to Emperor and Empress 侧妃驾到，携太子造反出征成帝后
My first book wasn’t very well written. [Harem intrigue + political scheming + two powerful leads + revenge] He is Xiao Junze, a warm and gentle yet calculating Crown Prince with a devoted heart. She is Lin Qingyue, a cool-headed, clever side consort who has no desire to enter the palace. He says, “Qingyue, I’m afraid you’ll destroy the obsession I’ve held onto for ten years.” She says, “Junze, I’m willing to build a golden age with you.” As dangers close in at court, their feelings for each oth
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The Woman in Charge 女掌事
Shen Qingdi, who disguises herself as a man, willingly enters the Ninth Prince’s residence and becomes the sole support of Cui Lanxi, who is paralyzed from the waist down and has a fiery temper. With the household on the verge of running out of food, she takes it upon herself to earn money to support the prince. When he falls ill, she studies medicine on her own to treat him. Since Cui Lanxi is helpless, Shen Qingdi will protect him. There is no wealth or treasure here, and no one understands wh
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- 27 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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The Record of Hairpins (Complete in 4 Volumes) 簪中录（全4册）
The little red fish Agashnie, which feeds on human blood; the mysterious talisman that had followed Li Shubai for years; Empress Wang, the peerless beauty of the Daming Palace; three clusters of doodles written by the late emperor himself before his death; a marriage contract made with Wang Yun in their youth... Every mystery returns to its point of origin. Every choice remains beyond anyone’s control, as impossible to resist or escape as fate itself. Yang Chonggu has returned to the palace and
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- 29 Lost in the Depths of Spring 误入春深 Prince Yu, Yu Huaiji, believed he had spent his life acting decisively, plotting every move, and leaving himself no weaknesses. He was sure he was invincible. But Heaven was about to show him that there was always someone greater! It sent him a delicate young lady from the Song family: Song Nao. She looked so fragile and soft that anyone could bully her, but in truth she was clever in her own way. After meeting him only twice, she had already found and firmly grasped his one fatal weakness. Yet 5.6kReads9.4Score60914d adds
- 30 What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统：全二册（王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著） What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his 40kReads9.7Score6.1k14d adds
- 31 The Illegitimate Daughter 外室女 Before she transmigrated, Shen Yi had lived through one hardship after another. Then she was reborn as a baby into a happy family. What could be more carefree? She never imagined it was all a lie. Her father’s love for her mother was fake, and so was the marriage contract he gave her. He had merely come to the Duke’s household to experience life, while Shen Yi, her brother, and her mother were just byproducts of that experience. That would have been bad enough, but her scumbag father also had a 7.8kReads9.3Score89314d adds
- 32 Palace Intrigue: The Story of Qing Zhi 深宫策·青栀传 Her eyes can see through sinister tricks and schemes, but she cannot fully see the changes in people's hearts. His hands hold the fate of all under heaven, yet all he wants is to hold on to the few who truly care for him. How far is it from being the daughter of a powerful official distrusted by the emperor to becoming a virtuous empress remembered throughout history? Once she enters the imperial palace, her past ties are severed. Half a lifetime of ups and downs conceals the green of the garden 1.9kReads9.2Score29514d adds
- 33 The Villainess Kills with Her Beauty 反派她以美貌杀人 (The heroine is a true villain. If you prefer morally upright characters, read with caution.) She was the villain of a book, but she never knew it. But what did that matter? Her beloved was dead. How could those responsible for his death be allowed to live? She toyed with the world in the palm of her hand, laying schemes within schemes and concealing deadly intent at every turn. Her gentle nature and ethereal beauty were both weapons, and no one could stand in the way of her revenge. The person 4kReads9.4Score48014d adds
- 34 Oh No! The Day Before I Flee, I Get Pregnant by the Heir 糟！跑路前一天，我怀了世子的崽 Mu Chunqing is a passionate woman of the jianghu who believes in repaying kindness and vengeance. But at twenty, she’s considered an old maid. Her mother worries that she’ll die without anyone to burn paper offerings at her grave, so she wants Mu Chunqing to find a man and have a child. After a long search, Mu Chunqing chooses a handsome, powerfully built, unruly subordinate to father her child. But she never expected him not only to cooperate without a fight, but also to become impossible to sh 4.8kReads9.3Score51114d adds
- 35 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 24.1kReads9.4Score2.3k14d adds
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After Her Engagement Was Broken, She Married Her Scumbag Ex's Archenemy 被退婚后，她怒嫁渣男死对头
[Brave, Clever Heroine vs. Lovesick, Self-Conquering Hero] The hero’s secret crush finally comes true. The goofy and lovesick sides of the hero and heroine are just their ways of protecting themselves; otherwise, their hatred would drive them both mad. [One-on-one romance + happy ending + no love rivals] In this era of transmigration into a book, Chi Xia also transmigrates into one. In the story, every man in the Duke of Zhenguo’s household dies on the battlefield, and the once-glorious family
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After a 996 Workaholic Transmigrates, She's Forced into Family Feuds 996社畜穿越后被迫宅斗
Shen Huining, an unlucky modern office drone, dies suddenly, but is lucky enough to transmigrate and be reborn. She thinks that becoming the daughter of an official means she can coast through life, eating and drinking to her heart’s content. In reality, her stepmother dislikes her, and her sisters scheme against her. Fortunately, her concubine mother knows how to keep the master’s favor and protect her, so life is still manageable. She had hoped to be an unambitious woman who could live quietly
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- 38 Where Does the Light Boat Go? 轻舟何岸 Are the four princes of Rui Kingdom really going to marry four common women from Chan Kingdom? Could it be because every woman in Chan Kingdom is beautiful and fertile? She has the talent to be a chancellor in a matriarchal kingdom, yet marries the “intellectually disabled” prince of a patriarchal kingdom, entering the marriage as a spy under the pretense of a political union. He is a prince with exceptional intelligence who hides his true self. But even after he regains his true self, is that r 15Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Abandoned Consort Turns to Business 弃妃从商
Fu Qian is a jinx. One candied plum is all it takes to make her transmigrate. If she had to transmigrate, why did she have to end up as a princess consort whose father doesn’t care for her, whose mother doesn’t love her, and whose prince husband wants to divorce her? What is she supposed to do? She decides to make money and find herself a good match. The handsome general looks promising, and the rich playboy might do too. But when will that scumbag prince finally give her the divorce papers? As
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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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- 41 The Phoenix Consort Rules the World 凤妃天下 In her previous life, Lan Yue was used by a scumbag and her half-sister, then died in a sea of flames. In this life, she will tear the people who hurt her limb from limb and grind their bones to dust. As for the man who loves her deeply... "Your Highness, the Princess Consort says she's gotten used to living there. She doesn't want to move out!" "Move my things in. I'm moving in too!" "Your Highness, what happened to your eyes?" "I accidentally bumped them against the wall!" 1Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 42 The Secret History of Consort Dong'e 董鄂妃秘史 Mingyue is a Han Chinese woman, and Fulin is the emperor of the Great Qing. They meet by chance at Fayuan Temple and fall for each other at first sight, but through a twist of fate, she becomes the wife of the Eleventh Prince. An imperial edict arrives at the manor: The entire household is to be executed. From the day she fakes her death and escapes, she becomes a eunuch serving at the emperor’s side, Xiao Mingzi... From that day on, she treads on thin ice, terrified that her identity will be ex 3.2kReads8.8Score18914d adds
- 43 A Peaceful and Prosperous Age 盛世安稳 In her previous life, Xie Yixin had been blind. Ignoring everyone’s warnings, she married Zhu Congyu, the heir to a marquis’s household. She thought he was a cold-faced man with a warm heart, but for the sake of the woman he loved, he disregarded the lives of their children. Only when news arrived that her family had been condemned and wiped out did she finally understand how foolishly she had lived. Her family was destroyed, her children were gone… She had so much hatred and resentment… If she 7.7kReads9.1Score64514d adds
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The Vicious Villainess in a Matriarchal World Raises Her Fish Online 女尊恶獠在线养鱼
[Matriarchal society + sweet romance + one-on-one + devoted to each other] [Calculating and ruthless princess × obedient, loyal guard] The capital's good-for-nothing Second Princess is beaten in the street by another woman for pursuing a man, then crashes into a stone lion. After recovering from her serious injuries, the Second Princess seems like a completely different person: kind to others, uninterested in competing, and always helping her sisters. It isn't until the day this powerful princes
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