Looking for Serious Palace and Household Intrigue Novels Like Scheming for the Crown Prince 求像谋嫡那样的正经宫斗宅斗文
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The Princess Is Fierce and Beautiful, and Her Shadow Guard Keeps Crossing the Line 公主暴戾绝色，影卫日日以下犯上
[Strong heroine + Feel-good power fantasy + Yandere + Devoted loyalist] Fate played a cruel trick: the most powerful imperial princess on the Jiuzhou Continent was reborn in the body of a lovesick little princess from Western Qi. The moment she awoke, the world was shaken. A scumbag points at her and curses? She orders coldly, “Drag him out and give him fifty more lashes!” The overlord of the business world is her subordinate, the most revered emperor in Jiuzhou is her older brother, the mighty
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The Empress Keeps Wanting to Take More Consorts 女帝她又又又想纳妃
[Matriarchal World + Harem + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Satisfying Wish Fulfillment] As the most honored imperial princess in the Great Liang Empire, Xing Lan has had only one ambition since childhood: to marry the man of her dreams, live in loving harmony, and grow old together. She never expected to be ordered to inherit the throne. Well, ruling an empire that stretches for thousands of miles isn't so bad. But why are all the handsome men keeping their distance? Xing Lan: “What do you thi
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The Palace Maid Keeps Embarrassing Herself Every Day 宫女她每天都在社死的路上
[Transmigrate into a book + inner thoughts + System + regret-and-redemption arc + secret identities] As the story’s disposable cannon-fodder bug, Zhou Shengsheng thinks she can reincarnate perfectly as long as she keeps the plot on track. But these three men are each stranger than the last. When she was a palace maid, they treated her like a plaything. She thought she could put on a new secret identity and get back at them for everything she had endured. But their reactions leave her baffled. Th
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Three Years After My Death, the Regent Prince Dotes on Me Like His Ancestor 死后三年，我被摄政王娇养成祖宗
Completed In the previous life, Mu Rujiu worked hard for the prince, but in the end his position was taken away, his military symbols were handed over, and he died in the cold palace with a glass of dove wine. Three years later, Mu Rujiu came back to life again, vowing to bring down the emperor and disturb the peace of the country! I heard that the regent Qi Junxian, who had always been aloof, had a cute and willful little girl around him, and he even called her "uncle". "Your Majesty! The lady
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A Palace Maid’s Daily Struggles 宫女奋斗日常
Ling Huan has skin as smooth as ice and looks like a goddess, yet she has no interest in power and thinks only of leaving the palace. In the end, neither she nor her child meets a good end. Given another chance, her goal is to raise her child well and become Empress Dowager herself. A palace-intrigue story with a strong female lead. The heroine is ruthless and clever. A thoroughly satisfying read.
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After I Transmigrated, I Helped My Best Friend Win the Emperor’s Heart 穿越后我帮闺蜜攻略皇上
Xu, the no-nonsense doctor; Fang, the kindhearted, guileless chef; and Lin, the fair-skinned beauty with a string of admirers. An accident sends the three best friends transmigrating to ancient times together. From the start, it's a living hell: they open their eyes in the Cold Palace, where the emperor has ordered them executed. They're bullied by vicious servants and beaten by a favored consort. The miserable trio hatch a plan: if they want to survive, they have to cozy up to that emperor! Uni
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My Goose Is a Master of Palace Intrigue 本宫的鹅会宫斗
[Historical Romance Writing Contest] Gu Mo Yun accidentally transmigrates into a clichéd palace-intrigue drama, becoming a brainless cannon-fodder villainess who is a thorn in the emperor’s side. What’s more, in the story she’s the emperor’s perfect shield. She takes the full brunt of every storm on behalf of the emperor’s true beloved. After transmigrating, Gu Mo Yun thinks: Whoever wants to be this cannon-fodder villainess can have the job! All she wants is to be the most delicate little white
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Once We’re Rich, We’ll Take Care of Our Sisters 苟富贵，养姐妹
[Ridiculous comedy] [No romance] [Food fiction] [Everyday money-making] (Synopsis: “By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Empress Shen has harmed the imperial heir, a crime beyond forgiveness. She is to be confined to the Cold Palace and reflect on her actions. So decreed!” Xu Yao: … Shen Ning: ???? Kid, got a lot of questions, huh? The commotion caught Shen Ning’s attention. She turned around and eyed Pei Xingchuan, dressed head to toe in black. “An assassin??” Pei Xingchuan: “…” Woul
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Falling Plum Blossoms Return 落梅归
An early work. I don’t recommend reading it. You’ll want to curse me if you do. [Traditional household-intrigue revenge with a slow pace. The heroine carefully plots her revenge step by step. The heroine was unfaithful in her previous life; the male lead is devoted. Includes vicious female rivals.] In her previous life, Mei Qingzhu went along with everything and never fought for herself, only to become a stepping stone for her legitimate elder sister. When she fell in love with the Eighth Prince
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Noble Hues 嫡色
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Heaven Above 上邪
Fu Jiuqing is hiding a huge secret: he secretly picked up his own wife... Everyone knows that the Fu family of Hengzhou is richer than the emperor, yet its heirs are a sorry lot. The eldest legitimate son died young, the second is a wastrel, the third is obsessed with food and women, and the fourth is an idiot. The youngest, Fu Jiuqing, is a concubine's son and a sickly child by nature. Everyone says the Fu family must have done something wicked in a past life to deserve this. Jin Yue didn't wan
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The Legitimate Daughter's Allure 嫡女媚
Her birth mother was murdered, and her younger brother died a tragic death. She had swallowed her pride and become another’s plaything, only to be tortured and abused to death in the end. Her heart had screamed in anguish, but she’d been powerless to fight back. Now reborn, Wu Yue swore she would carve out a bright future for herself. Those who had bullied and humiliated her would pay back every last debt, with interest. There was a beauty whose face I’ll never forget; a single day apart, and I
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The Sunflower Princess’s Book of Delights 葵花郡主欢乐宝典
Xiao Kuihua has a name as common as they come for a noble young lady, but her parents are both highborn and utterly unreliable. They raised her into a “green melon,” someone who speaks without thinking and invites gossip, and whose hopeless conduct makes marriage difficult. Yet, by a twist of fate, she wins herself a young husband, and so begins her delightful life of stirring up the capital and teasing young dandies before marriage, then making mischief with her in-laws and battling her mother-
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The Marquis's Daughter Died Wrongfully, and After Being Reborn, She Went Crazy Every Day 侯府千金含冤而死，重生后日常发疯
[Satisfying Revenge + Sweet Romance + Strong Male and Female Leads + Medical Consort + System Space] Medical prodigy Tang Muxi transmigrates into the body of a dimwitted girl everyone despises. When she wakes, she’s being buried alive in a mass grave. Luckily, she has a medical System to help her! The transformed Tang Muxi returns, tearing into fake white lotuses and humiliating scheming green tea bitches. Why bother with men? Isn’t it better to shine on my own? Why bother with a mother-daughter
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Transmigrate Into a Book: I Became the Sickly Villain’s Elder Sister 穿书之我成了病娇的嫡姐
[Delicate young heiress × sickly, possessive green-tea male lead] [Sweet romance] Luo Yiran transmigrates into a book. She becomes the story’s greatest beauty, a highborn young lady with a noble status, an arrogant and overbearing manner, and no brains: the villainess. Later, she successfully turns her image around and becomes a gentle, delicate aristocratic lady, kind but not saintly. But this also attracts the male lead’s attention. The stunningly beautiful, frail young man smiles tenderly. “B
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The Imperial Harem: The Story of Consort Qin 后宫：勤妃传
Chen Wenxin is lazy and loves good food. After transmigrating into the Qing dynasty as a low-ranking palace maid, all she wants is to live a quiet, comfortable life doing nothing. But after one night serving the emperor, she discovers she is exactly his type! He even uncovers her secret laziness and gives her the title of Consort Qin! QAQ I feel like the emperor just hit me with a massive dose of sarcasm. I’m falling apart inside... Am I really going to have to embark on a life of bearing and ra
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After Being Reborn, I Raised a Villain in the Palace 重生后我在宫里养反派
She is the Princess of Chang'an, a woman revered by all. In her previous life, Luo Chang'an's fearless devotion came to nothing, and the man she loved brought her kingdom to ruin. Reborn, she resolves to cast love aside and devote herself to protecting her country. She finds him when he is young. He not only saves her, but smiles with innocent sincerity. Fine, she thinks, I'll keep him by my side. She has no idea that he will press closer at every turn, drawing her into his arms. “Ye Lanxing, yo
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Husband, I Have Quite a Few Disciples 夫君，本宫徒儿有点多
Shen Yao transmigrated into the body of a princess who had nothing but her beauty. She promoted education and founded academies, stirring up a whole pond of spring water. One day, Shen Yao’s students wanted to visit Chang’an and see the world. When they arrived, they discovered Why did it take so long to solve these arithmetic problems? You don’t even know how to use an abacus? You can’t even tell that two stones dropped at the same time will hit the ground together? They returned to the academy
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The Prince Suddenly Turned Into a Puppy, Leaving Her Stunned 王爷忽变小奶狗，她错愕了
[Pure historical romance + happy ending + only ever been with each other + sweet romance + mutual devotion + domineering, devoted prince + quick-witted heroine when escaping, but loses her wits in love] Lou Xinyue became a spy for an enemy kingdom against her will. Her mother tattooed the mark of the Shadow successor between her toes, then passed away before she could give her any instructions. From then on, she was all alone. The childhood sweetheart she thought she'd marry turned around and to
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Married First, Love Later: The Substitute Bride, the Heir's Wife, Wants a Divorce 先婚后爱，替嫁世子妃要和离
[Marry First, Fall in Love Later + Mutual Fidelity + Face-Slapping + Sweet Romance + Transmigration + Passionate Entanglement] After transmigrating, Jiang Zhixi's life is full of twists and turns. She takes down her cousin, drives off the scheming women, and faces a clingy fox on the outside and a den of wolves and tigers within. Her husband is not what he seems. By day, he leisurely rides horses, appearing to outsiders as a good-for-nothing playboy who will never amount to anything. But in t
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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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The Tale of Empress Hui 惠后传
The daughter of a minor eighth-rank official is ordered to enter the palace for the selection of consorts, but unexpectedly fails to make the cut. By a twist of fate, however, she becomes the empress and helps the young puppet emperor reclaim his power. See how the lowborn empress and her personal maid use their wits to outmaneuver noblewomen in the palace... The title’s meaning: the life of a virtuous empress who understands the greater good. The sequel, The Palace Maid’s Phoenix Power, is in t
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A Chill Wind Blows Through Bianjing 风吹汴京凉
In her dream, the relatives who were supposed to be family coveted her brother’s title as heir and her mother’s lavish dowry. They drove her brother to an early grave and her mother to hang herself. Her marriage was a stepping stone for Marquis Yang to win over the powerful. For three years, she suffered torment, denied even the right to die. When she wakes from the dream, she is no longer a pawn for others to manipulate! She will live well! Her scheming aunt, greedy and selfish elders, and domi
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