Looking for a Historical Romance with a Powerful Male Lead Who's a Scheming Court Official, but No Angst. He Should Be Cunning. 求男主是权臣，古言，不虐，男主腹黑
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The Crown Prince Is Infertile? Reborn to Marry His Brother and Usurp His Throne 太子不孕？重生嫁他哥，覆他皇权
[A short drama of the same name is now available] Shen Mi, the most beautiful woman in Yanjing, is set up and loses her chastity. The Crown Prince of Great Yan comes to claim the child in her womb. She enters the Eastern Palace, only to fall into an abyss. The Crown Prince is a master schemer who uses her as a stepping stone to the throne. Once he gains power, he kills his wife and child and massacres her entire family. Her fake heiress of a younger sister has their father’s affection all to her
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The Mad Chancellor’s Beloved Has Given Up on Him 疯批权臣的白月光不认他咯
[Obsessive Minister Pursues His Wife + Delicious Food + Sweet Romance] They were childhood sweethearts, but years apart passed before they met again. Xiao Xingyuan had become a bloodthirsty minister feared throughout the capital, pining for his old love day and night. When Wei Yunyao returned, wary of his ruthless reputation, she had no choice but to pretend she'd lost her memory and didn't recognize him. He didn't get angry or pressure her. He looked for chances to get close to her every day, h
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- 153 Being Left to Die With Nothing? I Picked Up a Husband Who's the Chief Minister 被吃绝户？捡个相公是首辅 Chaoyan was a top agent trained by the nation. She could fight on the battlefield, cook in the kitchen, take on mistresses, and catch hooligans. After transmigrating, Chaoyan became Bai Chaoyan, an orphan whose relatives were already scheming to seize her inheritance the moment she woke up. Her grandmother was cruel, her aunt stingy, her grandfather cowardly, and her uncles greedy… Her little sister was skin and bones, and was about to be sold as a child bride… Damn it! Just because the tig 1.8kReads8.3Score203Shelves
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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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Lord Shaoqing 少卿大人
Although Shen Liuting was the eldest daughter of the prime minister’s household, she had an unusual dream: to travel through every kingdom and write a book about her journeys. On her fifteenth birthday, Shen Liuting packed her bags in the middle of the night, took her banknotes, and really did leave the country. That journey lasted a full three years... When Shen Liuting returned home on her eighteenth birthday, her parents told her they had already found her a fiancé and even had their birth da
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After Faking Her Death in Disguise as a Man, She Starts Playing the Frail, Scheming Green Tea 女扮男装死后，她开始演柔弱绿茶
The print edition of [Playing Coy] is available on all platforms. [The heroine is everyone’s beloved, with maximum “moonlight in the heart” appeal + doted on by all + universally adored + strong female lead] Qin Buwen disguised herself as a man and played the part of a treacherous official for sixteen years. At the height of her infamy, everyone in Chang’an, even the dogs, would go out of their way to avoid her. Then she was betrayed and abandoned by everyone. She leapt from a tall building, onl
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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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- 158 Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter: The Cold-Faced Powerbroker Insists on Spoiling Me 重生嫡女不好惹，冷面权臣偏要宠 Scheming noble-family daughter vs. aloof, ascetic powerbroker [Face-slapping the scum + defying fate + double standards from the male lead + willingly becoming her dog + doting exclusively on the heroine + both leads are romantically inexperienced] In her previous life, Shen Yunqing grew up abused by her scumbag father, stepmother, and stepsister. Convinced she had found true love, she chose to marry beneath her station to escape the Shen family, since her beloved came from a less prestigious f —Reads—Score—Shelves
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After His Human Antidote Ran Away, the Cold Prince Turned Dark 人形解药出走后，高冷王爷黑化了
[Big Bad Wolf + Little White Rabbit + groveling romance] Wan Hong is afflicted with a poison bug, and the only way to keep himself alive is to spend every night with a naive, simple-minded village girl. She's pitifully foolish, yet loves him to the point of obsession, her every “Brother Hong” making his heart flutter. But he is a prince, high above everyone else, while she is nothing but a lowly country girl... When they meet again, she's become the charming owner of a pastry shop, but she has
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After Breaking Off My Engagement to a Scumbag, General Gu Won’t Stop Fighting for Me 与渣男退婚后，顾将军他又争又抢
After Breaking Off My Engagement to the Scumbag, General Gu Started Fighting to Win Me Back
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- 161 The Treacherous Minister Is Expecting 奸臣有喜 She is the short-tempered, shameless Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, skilled at embezzlement, bribery, and abusing her power for personal gain. Her hobbies include attacking people from the shadows and sowing discord. She is the dynasty's infamous number-one villain. Then one day, the officials were relieved to discover that she had finally set her sights on someone else: the renowned Imperial Preceptor. To arrange a chance encounter, she starts lurking outside his residence every 2.8kReads9.2Score378Shelves
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After the Estate Was Confiscated 抄家以后
[A clever, levelheaded noblewoman vs. an honest, straightforward, fiercely loyal guard] [Historical Romance + Revenge + Healing + Political Intrigue + Love That Grows Over Time + Devoted Guard] Cheng Ming'an was the daughter of a general. On the eve of her wedding, the Cheng family was arrested and their assets confiscated for treason. Her father and brothers were executed, her eldest sister took her own life, and her married sisters were put through one hardship after another. Her fiancé change
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- 163 Let Them Fight! The Matriarch Just Wants to Lie Flat and Slack Off 你们争吧！主母负责躺平摆烂 Six years ago, Shen Yu'an married into the impoverished Ping'an Marquis household. She used her dowry to pay off her in-laws' debts and exhausted herself keeping the entire family afloat. She honored her parents-in-law, cherished her husband, and bore children for the marquis household. But just after she gave birth to a daughter, while she was still in confinement, her mother-in-law claimed that the birth had ruined her health and she could no longer conceive, then hurried to take three concub 980Reads8.9Score111Shelves
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Foolish Princess Marries the Ninth Lord with Her Four Maids 退婚后，傻妃携四大丫鬟嫁九千岁
[Palace Intrigue + Household Intrigue + Historical Romance + Princess Consort + Legitimate Daughter + Medical Skills + Two Powerful Leads + Cunning + Playing the Fool + Reborn + Fiercely Protective + Political Scheming] 99% of the comments are positive! Read with confidence! Su Qian, once the leader of a special forces unit in the apocalypse, died unexpectedly while carrying out a mission. With her portable medical space, she transmigrated to ancient times and into the residence of a great gener
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The Cunning Female Doctor Wants to Rise to the Top 心机医女想上位
[A shrewd, resilient physician vs. an aloof young lord, two strong leads, a pure historical romance] So what if she was born to a lowly family? If fate was unfair, why shouldn't she fight back? She was determined to carve out a path for herself through the mud. Jiang He came from humble origins. When she was very young, her parents sold her to another family. Her adoptive parents never showed her the slightest kindness, subjecting her instead to endless servitude and beatings at the drop of a ha
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- 166 The Young Lady Never Meant to Be Your Princess Consort 姑娘她没想当您的王妃 Cool-headed legitimate daughter Zhao Luoci VS cold-blooded Prince Lin Xichen: mutual salvation No love at first sight, no falling in love after marriage, no rebirth, and all characters are from the ancient world. (Enter with caution if this isn’t your thing.) After breaking off her engagement, Zhao Luoci only wants to take revenge and then leave the capital far behind. She wants no part of any more messy troubles. She could return to Gusu or settle somewhere else. Whether she gets married or not 112Reads6.2Score—Shelves
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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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- 168 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 135Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Prince’s Bedchamber Maid 通房娇婢
Yunhua, a maid, didn’t want to be assigned to the household’s notoriously foul-tempered, lame servant. But through a twist of fate, she ended up in the room of the Marquis’s second son, whose reputation as a cold-hearted demon was well known. Nanny Zhang told her that Second Master Chen Chuhuai belonged to Princess Junyang, someone she couldn’t afford to offend. So Yunhua kept to her place and didn’t dare entertain the slightest improper thought. But this aloof and unyielding Second Master just
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Peaceful and Unending 安乐永逸
She had been given a rare second chance at life and planned to spend it carefree, like a wandering cloud or wild crane among the mountains and rivers. But fate had other plans: her adoptive father was imprisoned while seeking vengeance for her family's murder and his own country's humiliation. To save him, she had to disguise herself as a man and enter the imperial court, where she was forced to work for the cold-faced royal prince, Luo Yunyi. She never expected to find herself working for a hea
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You Stole My Trash Ex? Taste the Massacre First 抢我渣前夫？6，灭门惨剧你先尝
[Rebirth, revenge, family intrigue, sweet romance, satisfying read, one-on-one romance] Also known as "My Reborn Half-Sister Wanted to Switch Marriages, So I Let Her. Now She’s the One Crying" Lu Jintang and Lu Zhaoyue were both reborn. As soon as she returned, Lu Zhaoyue eagerly declared, “I’ll give you the Xie family match. I’ll marry into the Xiao family in your place!” Lu Jintang happily agreed and married without hesitation into the seemingly doomed Xie family. Lu Zhaoyue was overjoyed. At
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Love in the Apocalypse 末世儿女情
[Traditional Wuxia + Traditional History and Culture + Political Intrigue + Love of Country and Family + Talented Scholars and Beautiful Women + Mutual Redemption + Quiet Endurance and Comeback + Overwhelming Martial Prowess] This book has only just received its first rating, so it's normal for the score to be low. She is the reincarnation of the Lord of a Hundred Flowers, a phoenix destined for greatness, yet she has fallen to the station of a maid. Unaware that she possesses the Sacred Hundred
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The Lady Master of the Yellow Springs Express 黄泉快递的当家女先生
Plot-driven fantasy anthology | Deities undergoing tribulations × ten lifetimes of reincarnation | Spirit communication and fortune-telling | Subverting expectations | The early chapters focus on the heroine's growth. After experiencing supernatural events and schemes, she gradually uncovers more secrets about her past life and origins. Spoiler: the story is told in reverse chronological order. Take your time and enjoy!
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The On-Screen Comments Teach Her to Act Cute as She Wins Over a Powerful Official 弹幕教她嘤嘤嘤，疯狂攻略权臣心
[Sweet, soft, ditzy beauty x cold-faced minister who's secretly ruthless] In a dream, Jiang Qingning is taken by a man. When she opens her eyes, she sees golden words called “comments” floating before her, and a man pinning her down. Pei Ji was her substitute teacher three years ago. Three years later, he's the powerful Left Chancellor who commands the court. She is the fake heiress of the Jiang family, cast out of her home, with fair skin, stunning looks, and a gentle disposition. To change her
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After My Half-Sister Swapped My Betrothal, I Became the Powerful Minister's Cherished Love 被嫡姐换亲后，我成权臣心尖宠
[Sisters swap marriages + love after marriage + sweet romance] Liu Fu transmigrates into the unloved second legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yongchang's household. With a face like a celestial maiden, she happily lazes around until the age of fifteen. Her mother picks a promising young top scholar to be her future husband. But after a high fever, her elder legitimate sister suddenly refuses to marry the heir of the Duke's household and insists on switching marriage partners with her. The he
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What?! I Became the Regent’s Stand-In for His One True Love 惊！我成了摄政王的白月光替身
[Both leads are devoted to each other + political intrigue + female-centered + a universally adored heroine + romantic rivals battling it out + loyalty to country and family | possessive, jealous regent x bright, resilient ray of sunshine] Luo Jinshu lost her parents at a young age and spent years studying martial arts with her master deep in the mountains. She became a force to be reckoned with, able to split mountains and cleave peaks, and to capture bandits and slay beasts. A year ago, her
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Reborn as a Substitute Bride, the Prince Dotes on Me Without Restraint 重生替嫁，王爷他娇宠无度
She was sent as a substitute bride to a man rumored to bring death to his wives and leave no heirs. The entire capital wagered she wouldn’t survive her wedding night. But with memories of her past life, Su Wanning helped Gu Yanci avoid traps, root out spies, and defeat political rivals, transforming from a discarded daughter forced into marriage into the sole mistress of the Prince Regent’s household. He held power over the court, never took another concubine, and devoted himself to her alone. O
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Forced to Marry a Man Who Can't Have Children, I Was Born to Bear Many at Once 逼嫁绝嗣，我天生孕体一胎多宝
On the first night after her soul transmigrates, Yao Mingxi is sent to her brother-in-law's bed. Rumor has it that her brother-in-law, the God of War Quan Xiuyuan, is hideously disfigured, unable to have children, and near death. And she is his antidote. After taking her by force, he says, "The Yao girl is quite disappointing." From then on, Quan Xiuyuan keeps her in his manor. He intends to make use of her in every way. But he never expected that she and he are alike, the only two of their kind
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Who Says I Want to Be Empress? Get Lost! The Throne Is Mine 谁说我要当皇后？滚！帝位是我的
[Feel-Good Romance + Putting Trash in Their Place + Revenge + Sweet Romance] The heroine ends up thriving on her own! Feng Dianwei is driven out of the marquis's estate with no money to her name. With her younger siblings and her parents' bodies in tow, she has nowhere to go, so she turns to her childhood friend Murong Heng, only to be heartlessly turned away! Later, she is taken in by Prince Su, Murong Che, who is rumored to be a madman. But she refuses to be hidden away like a canary in a gild
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Ancient Ancestor in Another World, Showered with Love 异世先祖，又宠又爱
[1v1 sweet romance + historical fantasy + transmigration + two powerful leads + all-consuming love] Su Xinyue was a lowly gravekeeper whom everyone in the modern world avoided. With her violet eyes, she could see the dead. Si Chen was her “ancestor” from a painting, a prisoner from another world. She risked her life to rescue him from the Ruoshui Realm, where he had been half a step from the Yellow Springs. She never imagined that the “ancestor” she had worshipped for nineteen years would one da
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