Historical Romance With Equally Matched Leads Who Love and Fight Each Other 古言男女主势均力敌，相爱相杀
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Transmigrated as the Wicked Fake Heiress, I Make the Royal Families of Every Nation Bow 穿成恶毒假千金，各国皇室俯首称臣
[Anti-pampered-by-all + secret identity + strong female lead] Shen Xingwan transmigrated into the body of a fake heiress and cannon-fodder whose life had been arranged from birth right through to her funeral. Under the System’s supervision, she was forced onto the path of no return: taking down the pampered female lead. She just wanted to lie flat and live like a salted fish, but accidentally got entangled with a frail heir who couldn’t take care of himself. “Wanwan, the doctor says I’m deficien
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He Has Someone Else Kneeling at His Feet 裙下之臣他另有其人
To uncover the truth behind her father and brother’s deaths in battle, she abandoned her life of finery and fine horses and spent five years plotting. She pointed her sword at his throat. “You were the only one I never doubted.” He smiled, running his fingers along the blade. “The road to kingship is paved with bones.” In that moment, she finally saw clearly: beyond the mist lay no truth, only the torture he had prepared for her with his own hands. The vast realm ran red as blood, but it could n
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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
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Walking with Cherished Memories 与惜行
[Historical Fantasy, Adorable Family Favorite, Beast Speech, Pocket Dimension, Getting Revenge on Scum, Growing Stronger, Patriotism] Entirely written by hand, an original work with not a single AI-generated character. Any similarities are purely coincidental. A short drama adaptation is out now, so go check it out! The unlucky and penniless Li family finally has its only baby girl in a hundred years. From then on, their bad luck ends, and Grandpa is made a noble. The moment little Xibao is born
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After Tearing Up Her Canary Script, She Went on a Rampage 撕碎金丝雀剧本后她杀疯了
[A career-driven heroine who thrives in both the light and dark + no romance + martial world + mystery-solving + court intrigue + no System + male rivals] A 21st-century sanda champion transmigrates into the role of a martial arts alliance leader’s kept woman. She dumps him and sets out to found her own sect. She wants power, fame, and to make the whole world bow before her. Three years later, everyone knows Yun Shangyue, the master of Buyun Tower, as a remarkable woman: brilliant and resourcef
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Reborn with Mind-Reading: The Marquis Pretends to Be Frail While Secretly Doting on Her Day and Night 重生读心：侯爷他日夜装弱暗宠
[HE with both leads devoted only to each other + secret identities + reborn with the ability to read minds + political schemes + past and present lives + mutual devotion] The moment she opened her eyes, Jiang Wei, a princess of the former dynasty, had been reborn in Su Zhenwan's body. Her fiancé, Xie Qizhou, was known throughout the capital as a weak, timid young marquis. But she unexpectedly discovered that she could hear his thoughts. He acted weak and played the coward, then confessed his lov
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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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The Day I Killed My Husband, I Fled to the Ends of the Earth with My Devoted Companion 弑夫当天，我带忠犬亡命天涯
[Unhinged heroine + devoted shadow guard + intense push and pull + political intrigue] On her wedding night, Xie Zhiying kills her beast of a husband, becoming the unhinged black-lotus beauty wanted across the city. During her escape, she picks up Song Lan, a down-and-out shadow guard who is loyal to the death and does exactly as he's told. She warns him coldly, “Don't fall for me. I'll only use you and scheme against you.” He clings to her humbly. “I'll be your blade. I do it willingly.” Wh
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My Bandit Wife 我的土匪娘子
[Rough-and-tumble bandit magistrate × shamelessly tenacious, eccentric, crooked lawyer] Hua Xiaodao, the boss of Blackwind Stronghold, is ruthless and never wastes words. Halfway through a robbery, the county magistrate drops dead. To keep her brothers from having to beg for food, she grabs the official seal and stuffs it into her arms. “I’ll take the job!” But the waters of officialdom run deeper than she imagined. The art of governance? What the hell would a female bandit know about that? She
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The Treacherous Minister 奸臣
Zhao Wuyou was the son of a treacherous minister, and everyone at court had to respectfully call him “Little Chancellor.” Father and son controlled the court and toyed with political power, so plenty of people wanted him dead. Mu Baili was the eunuch in charge of the Directorate of Ceremonial and the governor of the Eastern Depot. He seemed respectful, mild-mannered, and kind to everyone, but in truth he was a wolf who devoured people without leaving a bone. What a shame that such a ruthless ma
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Marrying Up 攀高枝
[Film and TV rights sold] [Print edition published] Zhang Zhixu had everything from birth. A family with a century of prestige, enviable talent, and a career that kept rising step by step. But he found life terribly dull. Then, one day, an accident struck, and his soul entered a woman's body. A woman who couldn't read a single character, yet dreamed of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix. · Chen Baoxiang had traveled a thousand miles from the countryside to the capital, hoping
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Spring Affairs in the Capital 上京春事
Ning Chaoyang rises to become a fourth-rank female official, yet still can’t escape the fate of being traded into a political marriage. She decides to take in a lover to fight back. He must be lowborn, handsome, and preferably too frail to look after himself. She glances to the side and spots a charming young doctor in white.
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Love and Romance Have Nothing to Do with Me 风月不相关
What kind of people can you find at Dream Return House? Yin Gezhi wore a gloomy expression. “I hate spineless people more than anything!” But fate had other plans. Guan Fengyue was exactly the sort of spineless person he despised. She had meant to drape a length of red silk around the Crown Prince of Wu, but after eating too much and gaining a couple of pounds, the silk couldn’t hold her. With a loud thump, she fell right into Yin Gezhi’s arms. Many years ago, someone had ridden into battle with
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A Blood-Soaked Reckoning: Twin Sisters Return for Vengeance 【血色满门】双生姐妹踏血归来
An entire family of loyal officials is framed, and a century-old marquis’s estate is turned into a living hell. Twin sisters plunge from a cliff into the water, surviving against all odds. Once cherished young ladies who lived behind closed doors, they now tread a thorny path through the world. One struggles to survive on a sheer cliff, honing her edge; the other wanders in a foreign land, maneuvering at every turn. The court is rife with deceit and schemes, while the martial world flashes with
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Back from Cultivating Immortality to the City, Bad News: My Cultivation Is Gone 从修仙回到都市，坏消息修为没了
On the day he finished the college entrance exam at eighteen, Chen Xuan was gravely injured and fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from a runaway car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had transmigrated to the cultivation world. Over sixty years, he rose from a mine slave at the very bottom, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, until he unexpectedly obtained all the memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formatio
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Planet of Wonders 奇遇星球
A twist of fate granted a retired soldier extraordinary abilities. Faced with a nation of tigers and wolves and a world overrun by demons, he fearlessly raised the banner of revolt, conquered the battlefield, unified the nations, and remade the world, finally fulfilling his long-held dream of establishing a global system of democracy and freedom. From then on, beautiful women from every country vied to declare their love for him, and his romantic fortunes knew no bounds... ...
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The Solitary Sword That Locks the Sea 定海锁孤剑行
Seventeen members of the Liu household were wiped out overnight. There were no wounds or blood, and they looked as if they were asleep. The authorities blamed a vengeful ghost. Su Wan didn't believe them. The Sea-Calming Lock around her neck had grown hot in front of the Liu residence. This wasn't a ghost. It was a person. A single dusky-blue poison needle led her to the massacre at Luoxing Village ten years ago. She used the lock to identify the culprit and her sword to investigate the case. Th
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The Tyrant’s White Moonlight Is a Black-Hearted Lotus 暴君的白月光是朵黑心莲
The ratings have only just come in, and they’ll go up! The original title was Snow Seeping into the Bones of a Beauty. Updates are very slow. [A young emperor who is cruel, suspicious, and full of schemes × a bewitching, calculating villainess who ensnares his heart and plots to seize the throne | He has other women; she is faithful] “I am a demon who devours flesh and bone; you are a prisoner who drinks poison to quench your thirst.” The daughter of a powerful minister wears a beauty’s face as
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Moonlight Shimmers, Dreams Ring Clear 月华苍苍有梦铮然
Powerful families + love and hate + love triangle + love of country and family + pure love + mildly tragic ending No matter how you see me, I would shatter mountains and seas for you. No matter where your heart belongs, mine will belong only to you. Among the countless lights of home, one will always shine, kept alight for us. I ask nothing of the past, nor dwell on right and wrong. I crossed mountains and seas to come to you.
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Reborn as the Legitimate Daughter: Playing the Fool in the Scheming Regent’s Arms 重生嫡女：在腹黑摄政王心尖装傻
In her previous life, she was the most talented woman in the capital, yet her entire family was executed. Reborn, she hides her claws and pretends to be a greedy, sleepy “little fool,” vowing to crush her enemies one by one. Everyone laughs at her for being stupid, except the regent who wields power over the entire court. He plays along with her act while backing her into a corner, eyes full of amusement, voice low: “Little liar, keep acting. I… enjoy the show.” [A scheming regent × a seemingly
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After Her Tragic Death as a Concubine Brought in to Bring Good Fortune, She Empties the Marquis's Estate and Flees Famine 冲喜姨娘惨死后，搬空侯府去逃荒
Fleeing famine + natural disasters + special abilities + pocket dimension + strong female lead + farming and infrastructure building + conquest + reverse harem + feel-good story Ji Wushuang transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the ill-fated concubine brought in to bring good luck to the heir of the Yong'an Marquis's household. They say revenge shouldn't wait overnight. That very night, Ji Wushuang sneaks into the marquis's residence, kills her enemies, and empties its treasury. It is a yea
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His Wild Desires Were Only for Her Return 他的野妄，只为今归
[Apex predator falls hard + two strong leads flirt with each other + intense rivalry for her affection + groveling to win her back] [Clear-eyed, self-made female architect x powerful, ambitious magnate] He Jin, a gold digger who only cares about money, took two million yuan from Yang Geng's mother and broke up with him. Afraid He Jin might want both the money and her son, Yang Geng's mother turned to his cousin, Li Wenye, to keep an eye on the breakup. Li Wenye, heir to the powerful Li family of
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The Silk Thread’s Call 缠丝引
“A whore dressed up as a refined lady from a noble family!” That was the Matron’s judgment of her. When Nu Qi was dying, he said, “Don’t be afraid… If there’s another life… I’ll marry you early… in Taiping Alley…” “Taiping Alley.” Four words, a dream no one in that era dared to dream. Hua Yao survived. She lived to see the Sui Dynasty unify the land, to stand at the threshold of an age when “all things would be clear and bright.” But she never entered it. At the threshold, she looked back: b
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The Sinking Carp Startles the Cattails 沉鲤惊蒲
He calculated that today was “a day to avoid people in red.” Chi Jingpu immediately pulled out his red undershirt. “You’ve been standing there in a red undershirt this whole time, and now you’re telling me to avoid people in red?” Scientific-minded constable × Feng Shui master × little princess lost in the human world Hilarious mystery romance, one-on-one pairing, both leads pure and devoted, incredibly sweet
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On the Great Swan 谓鸿鹄
[A Power Couple × Political Intrigue × The Fate of the Realm] [Unconventional Good-Girl Heroine × Ruthless, Cunning Hero] Love born in humble beginnings always comes on fiercely, leaving one tossing and turning through the night. Born the son of a disgraced official, Xu Fuzi rode on the coattails of Miss Song of the Marquis’s estate to rise to prominence. With a new name, he became Xu, the Chancellor whose fame shook the land. And Song Tongfeng, the overlooked legitimate daughter of the Marquis
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A Catastrophic Start: I’m Forced to Marry a Lame, Mad King 天崩开局，我被迫嫁给瘸腿癫王
[One-on-one, both with no past relationships: the woman transmigrates into a book, pretending to be a vixen but really just a laid-back slacker; the man is reborn, pretending to be a madman but secretly a true romantic. They spar and fall in love, flirt to the extreme, enjoy endless sweet indulgence, and clash over court politics.] No bitter drama, just sweet, over-the-top romance. Their clashes are mostly battles of wits. Su Xu accidentally transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder
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The Sweet, Delicate Heiress and the Yandere Heir Who Keeps Her Busy Every Night 绿茶千金软又酥，病娇世子夜夜忙
[A delicate flower in public, a big boss in private heroine x a sickly cat in public, a crazy, jealous man in private hero | Substitute marriage revealed, two strong leads, sweet romance] To save her father and brothers, Di Xiaorou gritted her teeth and took her sister’s place in marrying the sickly, short-lived Ling Yuheng, planning to run away at the first opportunity. On their wedding night, they were both drugged. One night of passion later, they fell deeply in love. The supposedly sickly gr
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The Cast-Off Princess's Comeback: The Wicked Prince Chases His Wife Every Day 弃妃逆袭：邪王日日追妻忙
Also known as “The Evil Prince Won't Let Go: The Divine Doctor's Poisonous Consort Is Not to Be Trifled With”; Xiao Lingyue, the foolish and vicious eldest daughter of the Xiao family in the Northern Qin Kingdom, is hopelessly in love with Prince Yi. She schemes to force him to marry her, but dies a tragic death in the bridal sedan on her wedding day, her blood staining the long street! When she opens her eyes again, an heir to a modern family of medical and poison arts has transmigrated into he
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Boundless 无疆
As the Eastern Depot’s second-in-command, Su Mu has crawled out of a mountain of corpses. She’s brimming with bloodlust, sees nothing but the dead, is ruthless in her methods, and has never lost. Until she meets her sworn enemy, Shen Dongzhan, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. They fight over account books, storm bandit dens, hunt for tribute goods, and quell rebellions. Neither is willing to yield. A broken silver hairpin brings to light a miscarriage of justice from more than twe
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Being a Treacherous Official Is Hard, and I'm Done with It 佞臣难当，姑奶奶我不干了
(The protagonist is ruthless and utterly amoral early on, with no humanity and no interest in anything without profit. Later, the story turns to family and country. Both leads are each other’s only romantic partners. The plot is deliberate, not mindless.) Shen Yun is reborn! In her previous life, she did everything she could to seduce Pei Yanjin and obtain the umbilical cord blood from his child. In the end, he poisoned her, and she died in his arms. After returning to life, she discovers... Go
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Journey of the Cold Blade: From Refugee to Ruler of the Realm 寒锋行：从流民到摄山河
A hidden heir lurks in the refugee camps, while the Nine Cauldrons fracture the land and set the beacon fires alight. Xiao Yu, a lowborn refugee struggling to survive in a border camp in the state of Yan, has no idea that his blood carries the loyalty and grievance of a renowned general from the former dynasty. A forced conscription sweeps him into the meat grinder known as the Battle of Canglang Plains. Amid mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, his innate “Eye of Insight” lets him spot a g
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