Are There No Historical Romance Novels with a Smart, Capable Female Lead Who Never Holds the Team Back? 就没有女主双商都高，实力超强不拖后腿的古言
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Be Good! Sweetheart, Don't Run! The Mad Tyrant Coaxes You in a Hoarse Whisper 乖！娇娇别逃！疯批暴君低哑缠哄
[Also known as The Phoenix Returns to the Luan] [Both Reborn + Both Transmigrate + Yandere + Power Couple + Everyone’s Favorite + Sweet Romance and Power Fantasy] After dying tragically in her previous life and transmigrating to the modern world, Yun Li unexpectedly transmigrates back. When she opens her eyes, it’s her wedding night! “A Li... why can’t you try to love me?” The yandere regent grips her waist, his eyes red-rimmed, and swears he’ll pamper his little darling with his life in this li
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- 2 The Reckless Abandoned Daughter: The Poisonous Consort Strikes Hard 弃女轻狂：毒妃狠嚣张 A 21st-century all-around agent transmigrates and nearly falls victim to her own mother’s murderous hand. They call her a good-for-nothing who can’t cultivate, worse than a beggar? Bai Huang gives a cold laugh. With a rare treasure in hand, all five of her elemental talents are unleashed. Even the War God has to step aside if he wants to take her as a disciple. She adopts adorable spirit pets, and all beasts bow to her as a crowd of underlings eagerly awaits her favor. A master of both medicine 18.6kReads9.5Score3.6k14d adds
- 3 Reborn as the Beloved of Everyone: The Movie Emperor's Wife Is Poor and Fierce Again 重生团宠：影帝夫人又穷又凶 [Print edition signed for publication] [Insanely outrageous wish-fulfillment + a few secret identities + savage online roasts + devoted romance with both leads’ first love + dazzling the world] In her previous life, she died with regrets. Now she has been reborn in the middle of a massive online hate campaign! If they’re going to hate on her anyway, she might as well stop pretending! Her scumbag fiancé gets shoved into a cold pool, then coughs and blames her? Sheng Wenyin: “What, caught a cold? 137kReads9.6Score14.4k14d adds
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Reborn as a Physician Consort, I Opened My Eyes to the Whole Capital Lining Up to Fight for My Hand 重生医妃一睁眼，全京城排队抢亲
[Rebirth + Revenge Against Scumbags + Sweet Romance] In her previous life, she was blind and foolish, helping her husband rise to power. But once he had achieved success, he discarded her like a used tool. Her grandfather’s entire family and her upright father, the Minister of Rites, were branded with infamy and executed. She herself died with child, unable to rest in peace. At last, Heaven takes pity on her, and she is reborn. In this life, she will protect her family and crush the scumbag man
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- 5 Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter: The Prince Regent's Consort Is Bullying the Scum Again 重生嫡女：摄政王的王妃又在虐渣 [Reborn + revenge on scum + sweet romance + feel-good fiction: both the main and secondary couples are monogamous and faithful to each other] With a grandfather who was the reigning dynasty's prime minister and an uncle who held the rank of great general, Gu Nanyin had plenty of powerful people in her corner. Yet in her previous life, she trusted the wrong people and met a miserable end. Reborn, she saw the true faces of the scum and wicked women around her. Everyone who had hurt her would pay a 4.6kReads9.2Score57714d adds
- 6 The Legitimate Daughter Is Reborn: Uncle, You Spoil Me to Death! 嫡女重生：皇叔，你宠死我算了！ [Reborn + Strong heroine and hero + Satisfying romance with lots of sweetness] In her previous life, Gu Yuechao was framed by her scumbag husband and his mistress. She watched her son torn apart by chariots, her family executed, and her personal maid mutilated into a human stump. She was reduced to living like an animal, eating alongside pigs and dogs, and wishing she were dead. But her scumbag husband’s uncle defied public condemnation and an imperial edict to take her in, a woman whose reputat 3.4kReads9.0Score65614d adds
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Reborn to Scheme for a Flourishing Era 重生之盛世妃谋
To preserve her family's honor, she is sent into the palace to help her aunt, the favored consort, win the emperor's favor and seize power, and to put her own cousin on the throne. Who could have guessed that he would turn around and marry her cousin as his empress? After exhausting every scheme, she ends up losing her closest kin to a tragic death. Then, amid a great fire, she returns to the days before she entered the palace. Lou Huayu gazes at the enemies from her past life, lowers her head,
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Lucky to Have Met Your Peach-Blossom Face 幸得识卿桃花面
Wei Qing transmigrated. Her principle was simple: if you can settle it with your fists, don't waste your breath.
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The Tyrant's Medicine: His Boundlessly Spoiled Consort 宠妃无度：暴君的药引
After more than a decade of fighting through a hail of bullets, Lou Qi decided to hang up her weapons and leave the underworld for good. But one day, on a whim, she took a plane out to cross the mysterious Black Triangle. She was swept into a deep-sea whirlpool and then… landed in a man's arms. She was sick of all the bloodshed. Now she wanted to play the frail little flower, but he tore away her disguise piece by piece, forcing her to show her tough, tomboyish nature. Lou Qi said, “Your Majesty
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The Cast-Off Princess's Comeback 下堂王妃逆袭记
“Rong Li, marrying you is already the limit of what I can tolerate. If you dare climb into my bed again, next time you’ll get a divorce decree.” “No need to wait until next time. Write it now.” She was the Chancellor’s daughter, and she’d done every foolish thing imaginable for the man she loved, becoming a laughingstock across the land. She was also a modern special forces instructor, and now she’d arrived in this world in all her glory. How could she let anyone bully her? The prince despised h
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After Flirting with the Prince of War, the Physician Consort Failed to Escape the Wedding 撩了战王后，医妃她逃婚失败
When Yun Suran, a genius physician for national defense, opened her eyes, she had become the foolish legitimate daughter who had been dumped in a mass grave. Meanwhile, her fiancé was making a grand show of betrothing himself to her half-sister. Trapped in the mire, Yun Suran had a pocket dimension and mastered both medicine and poison! Her scumbag father, concubine stepmother, and scheming white lotus could bring it on. She would crush the villains and slap them in the face without mercy. An id
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The System's a Clown, I Make Things Worse: Rebellious to the Core 系统沙雕我添堵，一身反骨离大谱
They came from distinguished families and were beautiful, talented, and exceptional. But whenever they crossed paths with the male and female leads, they became brainless cannon fodder, burning themselves up to make the leads’ romance flourish until their dying breath. And now Gu Mo has become all those women from countless novels. System: Boss, you can face-slap the villains and break up those couples! Go get ’em! Gu Mo: I’m awesome! I can do this! Much later, the System stares in bewilderment
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- 13 I Died Tragically in My Past Life, Then Was Jilted Again After Being Reborn 前世惨死，重生后又被退婚 [Complete] 1. This story focuses mainly on palace and household intrigue, with very little romance and not much screen time for the male lead. The leads support each other and join forces against their enemies, with no misunderstandings or love rivals. One man and one woman, both pure; a strong heroine and an even stronger hero. The male lead spoils the heroine. 2. This is a fictional setting with no connection to real history. Synopsis: Everyone in the capital knows that the eldest daughter of 9kReads9.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 14 Body Swap: The God of War Prince Takes Over My Household Battles 身体互换：战神王爷替我宅斗 [1v1, Fun Romantic Comedy, HE, Wise and Cool-Headed Young Lady vs. Adorable God of War Prince, Both Chaste, Happy Ending] The people of the Jiang household notice that their young lady has been acting strangely lately. The young lady used to be quiet and gentle. Now she’s still quiet, but there’s a murderous aura about her. In the garden, her sweet-talking younger sister affectionately reaches to link arms with her. Ye Zhan dodges at once, her voice full of disdain. “If you want to talk, then ta 10.9kReads9.1Score1.6k14d adds
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The Scheming Ninth Thousand-Year Lord Was Found by a Young Female Doctor and Spoiled Rotten 捡到腹黑九千岁小医女宠成掌心娇
[Sweet romance + One-on-one + Both leads are inexperienced + Fake eunuch + Fatherly boyfriend] He Tiantian is a medical PhD from a top university. She wakes up one morning to find that she has transmigrated. From the start, she has nothing to her name, except a father with a timid, apologetic personality. What a headache! Luckily, she happens to pick up a handsome man. Now she has a way to earn a living, and just as she's congratulating herself, she discovers he's the infamous Eunuch of Nine Tho
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- 16 Reborn as a Little Chef: I Lured a Prince Into Farming 重生小厨娘：拐个王爷来种田 [One-on-One Romance + Devoted Couple + Sweet Romance + Mutual Pining + Foodie Story] An Ran, a modern chef at a five-star Michelin restaurant, transmigrates as a pitiful village girl whose parents are dead and who has a little brother to care for. Her relatives have even driven them out of their ancestral home. Her grandmother is cruel, her aunt is vicious, and her extended family is full of awful people... She looks up and starts cursing the heavens. A bolt of lightning strikes, and who would h 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Spicy Wife of the Farm: Buying a Prince for a Husband 农门辣妻：买个王爷当相公 Modern special forces soldier Su Wanwan fails a mission Transmigrates and is reborn And from then on becomes an unknown village girl By chance, she picks up a troublesome man who is Good for nothing except his handsome face. Thus begins an entirely different journey: Taking on bandits, rounding up outlaws, and putting wicked women in their place, while helping him lead troops to reclaim the realm. She thought she was just a nobody, never expecting to be a lost jewel of the imperial family. Now s 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Charming Heroine Is a Big Shot 娇媚女主是大佬
Mu Qianxue transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder supporting female character who's about to be killed off. She's utterly devastated... To change her doomed fate, she immediately decides to cling to the original story's heroine. But the longer she clings, the more something feels off. The heroine looks at her strangely, with an overwhelming possessiveness.
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- 19 Reborn as the Villainess: The Sickly Prince's Beloved 重生女配：病娇皇子的心尖宠 Reborn | Male and female leads | Sweet romance | Fluff She was a modern-day miracle doctor... but an accident... She was reborn in a novel as the emperor's daughter, the Ninth Princess? Not bad, she was nobly born... But wait... she was just a short-lived, wicked supporting character? And she came with a System? Fine. Want to live to see the ending? Then watch her defy fate, change her destiny, and take control of the realm. Years later, as the new emperor of Nanyang ascended the throne, “ 11Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 20 Smitten with the Heaven-Chosen Noble Lady: The Empress Consort in Her True Colors 萌上天命贵女：帝妃本色 On her wedding day, she was naked and covered in blood, thrown into a mass grave on a broken mat! When she opened her eyes again, all trace of timidity had vanished from her gaze. She was the orphan of the mysteriously vanished Yun Clan, and also Yun Qianye, an intelligence officer at headquarters. Reborn from the ashes, she awakened extraordinary abilities: reading the heavens, deciding life and death, and seeing the fate of every person in the world with her clairvoyant eyes. Given a second ch 60Reads7.0Score—14d adds
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The Night We All Transmigrated, I Led My Classmates in Flirting with the Great General 群穿夜，我带同学们强撩了大将军
[Historical romance, System, entire class transmigrates, princess consort, genius, empress, top student, beloved by all, sweet romance] Feng Jiuge, who has cancer, receives a System mission to transmigrate to the ancient past, thousands of years ago. If she fulfills the Ninth Princess’s wish and completes the mission, she’ll receive a prescription that can cure her. The System malfunctions, and the entire class transmigrates together. Feng Jiuge and several classmates end up scattered across the
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Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Actress Is a Master at Crushing Scumbags 快穿：女配她可是虐渣圣手
[Quick Transmigration + Adorable Baby System + No Fixed CP + Female-Led Scum-Bashing] Ruan Xing, a sharp-tongued, scheming supporting actress who died a miserable death. Perhaps even Heaven thought it wasn't her time to die, because even after she was dead, a System showed up to save her. What surprised her even more was that the System was an adorable little boy with a terrifyingly powerful background. Ruan Xing: Come on, where do you want to go? Big Sis will take you around. She punches scumba
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I Woke Up and Somehow Became a Girl 一觉醒来，竟然变成了女孩子
Feng Xiaoxuan had just started his sophomore year of college. After breaking up with his girlfriend of six months, he got drunk and stumbled back to his dorm. When he woke up the next day, he discovered that he had somehow become a girl, and awakened a System that refused to give him any money...
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Stone-Shattering Thunder 石破惊天
How could the stone of the Goddess Nuwa be worthless...! The moment it split the heavens and shook the earth...! He possessed an endless supply of spiritual energy. His extraordinary nature stirred strange changes in the heavens, and countless experts hunted him down at any cost. Yet this pursuit was no simple struggle over who would claim him. A being of a higher order was pulling the strings behind the scenes. Humans, ghosts, Buddhists, Daoists, Earth Immortals, demons, and other factions all
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- 25 After Leaving the Village, I Trapped a Yandere Prince with Formations 出村后，我用阵法圈到个病娇皇子 [Two powerful leads + both play the pig to eat the tiger + sweet at first, then angst] On the Yunze Continent, the world is divided into three, and the art of sorcery has been lost. It’s just a matter of leaving the village to find a stone. Watch me take out my homemade rotating formation. Is there anything I can’t catch? When two masters who play the pig to eat the tiger meet... Who’s the better actor? Han Rongyue: “You’re even better at pretending than I am?” The Second Prince, all aggriev —Reads—Score—14d adds
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All-Round Big Shot, Your Secret Identity Has Been Exposed Again 全能大佬，你马甲又掉了
[Wish fulfillment, secret identity, sweet romance, gorgeous and cool heroine, and villains getting what they deserve] The Chen family's eldest daughter, who was sent away to the mountains in Nancheng as a child, is coming home. Everyone calls her a country bumpkin. But the young lady arrives with flowing hair and stunning looks, gentle and reserved on the surface, yet unhinged and as ruthless as a beast in private. No one is more brazen than she is. They say she can't even lift a finger? Ever he
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- 27 Six Years Later, the Young Lady Returns with a System to Take Her Revenge 六年后，大小姐带着系统杀回来了 [Reborn + System + adorable baby + punishing scumbags] Lin Qingyue dies a tragic death. After being reborn, she is bound to the Heiress System. In her previous life, she and her four younger brothers were like sworn enemies. In this life Oldest brother: Sis, whatever you want to do, I’ll support you! Second brother: Anyone who sets their sights on my sister will have to answer to me. Third brother: If you want to marry my sister, you’ll have to step over my dead body! Fourth brother: You can mar 8.4kReads9.3Score1.3k14d adds
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After Being Reborn, My Five Brothers Beg Me in Tears to Return Home 重生后，五个哥哥哭着求我回府
[Currently being published] [She chases him after the breakup + sweet romance + satisfying read] In her previous life, Jiang You'an was a cannon-fodder side character in a novel where the whole family doted on the heroine. Her entire family favored her younger sister, and she was beaten to death with clubs. After being reborn, she refuses to repeat her past mistakes, only to discover that her family regrets everything and begs for her forgiveness. Everyone wants to make amends? Hah, I’m not int
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- 29 The Poisonous Heiress: The Regent’s Beloved 嫡女毒妃：摄政王的心尖宠 She’s the real heiress of the marquis’s household, yet the fake heiress deceives and manipulates her until everyone turns against her and she meets a tragic end. Reborn, she returns to the marquis’s estate to take on her wicked older sister and punish the scumbag, while also cozying up to the future regent. But the longer she clings to him... Wait, Your Highness, why are you standing so close? The regent forcefully pulls her into his arms and sneers, “You flirt with me and then run away? Too lat 1.1kReads8.8Score32514d adds
- 30 After We Transmigrated Into a Book Together 和闺蜜一起穿书后 She was walking down the street with her best friend when an advertising sign fell from the sky and knocked them both unconscious. When she woke up, she discovered she'd landed inside a book and had been tasked with getting a general's daughter and the emperor she'd picked up for free together. But why does the general's daughter look exactly like her hapless bestie?! Even more ridiculously, the general's daughter is also tasked with matchmaking her with a notorious corrupt official, unaware tha 1.1kReads9.4Score15414d adds
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Returning from Darkness, the Legitimate Daughter Is Doted on by All the Princes 黑化归来，嫡女她被诸王团宠了
Mu Li was cherished by her family for over a decade. Then, one sudden change of fortune brought her crashing down. Everyone turned on her, and her fiancé wanted to break off their engagement? No matter. She'll call off the engagement and get her revenge, without showing an ounce of weakness. Her medical skills are miraculous, and she is full of cunning plans. With one decisive move, she turns the tables and shocks the entire nation. She thought no one would dare marry her with her reputation as
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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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My Master, the Leader of the Righteous, Is Actually a Demonic Overlord 身为正派领袖的师尊竟是女魔头
This book is also known as "Martial Soul: The Nine Divine Swords". A young man awakens his Martial Soul and discovers nine scabbards of different colors. When he releases his Martial Soul, a blood-red scabbard suddenly flies from his palm, grazing the Pope’s shoulder. A drop of blood seeps into the scabbard, and a beam of crimson light shoots into the sky. In an instant, the Sword of Slaughter within the blood-red scabbard awakens!
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Reborn: Who's the Mastermind? 重生：谁是幕后黑手
In the vast cosmos, Earth is no more than a drop in the ocean. Though countless lights shine across it, each is merely admiring its own brilliance. The five celestial stars correspond to the five organs of the human body. Are we individual living beings, or mere specks of dust within a greater life-form? Could what we are experiencing now be nothing more than the memories of someone on the verge of death? Mount Tai, the foremost of the Five Great Mountains, is where ancient emperors held their f
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