Looking for Real Palace-Intrigue Dramas, No Need for Mutual First-Timers 求真正的宫斗剧，不需要双洁
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The Professional Ethics of a Concubine 为妾的职业操守
[Main Story Complete] Ye Qingzhi, an overworked office drone, transmigrates into the body of a concubine in the Jiangyang Marquis’s household. Since she’s here, she might as well go crazy. Being a concubine is just changing workplaces. She doesn’t need to get emotionally involved. She can simply treat herself like a tool. Ye Qingzhi’s career goal: convince both the marquis and the principal wife to take responsibility for her and protect her. Ye Qingzhi’s workplace motto: Life is short. We’re al
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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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I Was Reborn, and This Time I'm Going on a Rampage 我重生了，这一世我嘎嘎乱杀
In my past life, I was schemed against and killed by Bai Lianhua and Liu Ruyan! This time, I'll send every one of the people who hurt me straight to hell! Seeing them hate me to the bone yet be powerless to do anything about it is so satisfying! This time, let me weave the path that sends you all to hell! I'm the head of the Wen family business. Watch me put men aside and focus on my career. I'm the leading lady of my own story! I just love building my business! When I try to put men aside, they
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After Marrying the Gloomy Powerful Minister's Younger Brother 嫁给阴郁权臣弟弟后
[The print edition is now available under the title Why Not Ride the Wind Together] Xu Yunjia and Pei Youqing grew up together. After they married, she managed the household and cared for his parents, doing everything a wife could be expected to do. She never imagined that one day a woman would arrive at her door with Pei Youqing’s child. Only then did Yunjia realize that she had been living a joke all these years. She returned to the time before she married Pei Youqing. Xu Yunjia no longer want
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Between Towers and Misty Rain 楼台烟雨间
[Turbulent times + medicine + court intrigue + personal growth + two strong leads + fast-paced + sweet at first, angsty later + a later-stage battle for love + a refreshingly straightforward plot] [A gifted young physician who knows how to read the situation vs. a cold-blooded prince with unfathomable depths] I only meant to save a badly injured man on a whim. Who knew that one act would drag me straight into the storms of court politics? Wait, what is going on here... The Second Prince wants
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Under the Palace Eaves 宫檐
She promised to glimpse the future of the Qing empire for the man she loved deeply.
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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 Legend of Consort Ling in Qianlong's Harem 乾隆后宫之令妃传
He inherits a splendid empire and commands a harem of countless beauties, yet he knows that every smiling face is only there to keep up appearances. “Your Highness, His Majesty's shoes don't seem to fit.” One honest remark no one else dared to make changes the course of a beauty's life. Her father says no one in the palace can be trusted, yet Empress Fucha treats her with complete sincerity. In the eyes of the world, she betrays her mistress and seduces the emperor. But they don't know that pity
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Tortured into a Locked Love 虐锁清欢
Leng Qinghuan was forced to marry the notorious Prince Yan. But she wasn't some naive, helpless girl. Crying and accepting her fate just wasn't in Leng Qinghuan's nature. She seized every opportunity, with the courage to burn her bridges, fought scheming women, fought the empress, opened shops, learned to solve cases, and more... Through her words and deeds, she proved herself. The woman Prince Yan had once sneered at ultimately became someone far beyond his reach!
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The Crown Prince's Beloved Concubine Is Sweet and Gentle 太子家的宠妾又娇又软
From concubine to secondary consort, crown princess, and finally empress, adored by all. With status, power, and affection all within easy reach, Lin Xian thinks that at last the heavens have dropped a huge windfall into her lap. All she can think about is how to spend her stipend. Little does she know she is only a stand-in for someone else’s first love… When her enemies kidnap her and force Song Qi to choose between the two women, he chooses his first love without hesitation. “Let her live for
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After Slacking Off in the Palace Harem Struggle, I Win by Reading Minds 宫斗摆烂后我靠读心术躺赢
I Won by Reading Minds After Slacking Off in the Palace Harem
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The Empress Is So Sweet and Charming, Who Still Cares About a Lost Love? 娘娘又娇又媚，谁还稀罕白月光
[Villainess Transmigrates into a Book + Top-Grade White Lotus + Winning Hearts and Minds + Not Both Leads' First Love] [The heroine looks like a pure, sweet little bunny, but she's actually a scheming temptress who knows how to play her cards.] When Xu Zhuohua is named crown princess, Crown Prince Qi Hecang and his secondary consort Lu Wanning are at the height of their love. As the hero of a male-oriented novel, Qi Hecang only cares about building his career, and his heart belongs solely to Lu
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Years in the Palace 岁岁宫阙
Liu Yuetang was sent to a country estate by her legitimate mother the day she was born. When she came of age, her older half-sister gave up her chance to enter the palace because of a dream, stole her match, and spent the night with her betrothed. Liu Yuetang went along with it and decided to enter the palace to carve out a bright future for herself. Once inside, she kept a low profile, learned the arts of the bedchamber, and mastered the art of playing hard to get, pouting coquettishly, and put
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From Palace Maid to Imperial Consort: Her Majesty Is on a Killing Spree 从宫女到贵妃，娘娘她杀疯了
It’s bad enough that she’s transmigrated into a palace laundry maid. Who knew a eunuch would take a fancy to her, too? Jiang Zhiyi decides that lying low in the palace is out of the question. She’ll just have to climb the ladder to success. When a eunuch lusts after her, she sends him to his grave. When the concubines vie for favor, she’ll stop at nothing. Jiang Zhiyi knows the imperial harem is a cutthroat workplace where only the capable survive. The palace is full of deceit and intrigue,
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Qing Transmigration: The Noble Consort Takes Down Consort De and Becomes Empress Dowager 清穿：贵妃娘娘她灭了德妃成太后
[Child-rearing (not self-sacrificing; willing to go after her mother, but never schemes against children) + Harem intrigue] After transmigrating into the Qing Dynasty as Noble Consort Tongjia during the reign of Kangxi, Ruirui's first thought was to go find that poor child... Ruirui didn't like the Qing Dynasty. But if she had to choose one person in all of Great Qing, it would be the Fourth Prince, later the Yongzheng Emperor. Not because she liked him, but because she felt for him. She felt fo
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Your Delicate Concubine 妾身娇贵
[Marriage First, Love Later + Political Intrigue + Feel-Good Revenge] Zhuang Wan always believed she would marry Prince Qin, the most talented man in the capital. They would be perfectly matched, and she would bear him children and build a happy life with him. But in a single night, the man she wanted to marry destroyed her family. After saving her, he gave her away to someone as a concubine. Huo Shixuan, son of Yangzhou’s richest man, was a troublemaker, a spoiled wastrel gone bad, and a hopele
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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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A Qing Dynasty Rebirth: The Big Shot Helps Me Win Over Zhen 清穿复仇，大佬助我谋禛心
[Transmigration + historical setting + sweet romance + court intrigue + a little household and harem drama + brotherhood] (Completed) I crossed three hundred years of time just to meet you, while you endured three hundred lonely years, waiting in vain for my return... Jianing wakes up one morning to find that she has transmigrated, and is forced to inherit the tragic memories of the original owner's final moments. Bullied and abused! Her belly cut open to save someone else's unborn child! The or
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The Sweet and Seductive Concubine Climbs to the Top Through Her Acting! 宠妾又甜又媚，一路靠演上位！
[The rating is low because it just opened, but it'll rise.] [Historical Palace Intrigue + Clear-Headed Heroine Who Isn't Blinded by Love + Exclusive Devotion in the Later Story] One-line summary: Transmigrated into a doomed concubine who dies from the start? She goes on a rampage! Shen Yundai, a small-town exam ace and career-obsessed overachiever, had just gotten a promotion and a raise, reaching the peak of her career. Then she opened her eyes and found herself in the body of a doomed concubin
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Reborn: Whoever Wants to Be Empress Can Have the Job 重生之这个皇后谁爱当谁当
(The story has just started gaining traction, and the score will rise later.) [Alternate history + rebirth + wish fulfillment + playing the fool to catch the tiger + romantic rivalry] [Bright and shrewd Second Young Lady × ??????] [Reborn for the fourth time, she finally wakes up? I’m done being empress!] Feng Xishu died three times. The first time, she died of misery. The second time, she died consumed by her obsession with becoming empress. The third time… She gave her whole heart, only to h
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Scheming for the Phoenix: The Empire as a Game, You as My Pawn 谋凰：江山为局，卿为子
[Reborn + political intrigue + palace and household drama + the hero's desperate pursuit of his ex + strong female lead] In her previous life, Shen Yu, an illegitimate daughter in the household of the Vice Minister of Personnel, suffered a cruel fate and watched her closest family die. She helped the Third Prince, Xiao Jue, ascend the throne, only for him to end her life with a bowl of lethal poison. Reborn with all her bitterness intact, she returns to three years earlier, when her adoptive mot
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You Wouldn't Protect Me as Your Beloved Concubine, and Now You Regret It When I Rule the World? 娇妾时你不护，权倾天下谈后悔？
[Traditional historical romance + no transmigration or rebirth + a husband’s long road to redemption + personal growth and revenge + competing for favor + competing for power + fictional history] Important: neither lead is sexually inexperienced! Ye Huanzhi was picked up off the street by the Fifth Prince, Song Jiuzhou. No one knows who she really is. From the moment she entered his residence, Song Jiuzhou told her to endure and yield. She agreed, enduring the bullying, torment, insults, and bea
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The Commoner's Path to the Heavens 摆烂庶女的通天路
New book, just rated... [Anti-cliché transmigration + growing protagonist + serious tone] How deep within the ladies’ quarters! Watch how a laid-back concubine’s daughter carves out a path to the top! After six years being left to her own devices on a country estate, she thought she was destined for a peaceful life in the countryside. Then an order arrives, and she is brought back to the family’s sprawling mansion, becoming an unexpected pawn on the family chessboard. Beauty is her only weapon,
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You Must Not Be Mistaken 君不容错
New book! The low rating will go up! Qi Huan is the decisive, ruthless emperor of Great Jin. He has seen more than enough faces eager to curry favor, yet he has fallen for the cool and aloof wife of the Heir of Anping Marquis. It isn't a passing impulse, nor shallow desire for her beauty. The way he treats her is with respect held close to his heart, tenderness hidden in his eyes, and a devotion that runs deep in his bones. If he takes one step closer, he fears he will offend her and scare away
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Slacking My Way from Palace Maid to Empress! 摸鱼，从宫女到皇后！
[Main story complete] Also known as The Empress Is Cold and Ruthless, and the Emperor Can't Handle Her! and The Clear-Eyed Female Lead, Who Torments the Emperor Without Mercy [Transmigration, modern to ancient times, harem vibes, tormenting men, goofy comedy, winning back your wife, love at first sight, the one true love, fake substitute] Su Muzhi was the head of the Su family in the twenty-first century. She had already handed over all her work to her younger brother and was ready to enjoy a ca
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The Silly Beauty Is Sweet and Soft, and the Regent Is Smitten 笨蛋美人乖又软摄政王他沦陷了
Su Ningning is simple-minded and innocent. On her wedding day, she stumbles upon rebels slaughtering her family and crashes straight into the arms of Lou Shengxue, the regent who holds power over the entire court. Cold and bloodthirsty, he was about to take her life when he unexpectedly discovered that she carried a secret remedy for breaking curses. He had no choice but to keep her by his side. Everyone laughs at her as a useless, foolish princess consort, but only Lou Shengxue knows that this
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After the Emperor Is Reborn, the Empress Becomes the Apple of His Eye 陛下重生后，娘娘成了掌中娇
“Your Majesty, if there is another life, I hope never to have known you, and never to meet you again in any lifetime.” Yujing Chen detested her. Yet the last thing she did before dying was take the fatal sword strike for him. She said, “Your Majesty, could my life leave a vivid mark in your heart?” Perhaps Heaven believed his task was unfinished and granted him a new life. After being reborn... he discovered that she had once been bright and beautiful, too... [No System + No transmigration + Mal
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You and I, Heart to Heart 你侬我侬
A hazy dream left Qiaoqiao unable to see things clearly, but one thing was certain: Mo Henghuan was a massive scumbag! So why wait? She should dump him! But why did trouble follow right on his heels, and why was it so hard to deal with? Well, having an ally was important, and the heir of the Bai family seemed like a good choice. But I’m only joining forces with you, not marrying you. How about we renegotiate the terms? The Bai heir: “Qiaoqiao, whether we’re cooperating or plotting together, you
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The Peerless Little Princess Consort 绝世小俏妃
[A funny, charming princess consort + a scheming prince who fiercely protects his own + a manipulative woman + a wickedly seductive and mysterious Holy Lord, and more...] [Sweet romance + comedy + from scum to love + perfect ending] What does it feel like to fall in love with your enemy? The day he led his troops to invade her country, the sun shone brightly. The seventh prince of Beijiang, Mu Beiming, cut an imposing figure in his black armor. Even with a fearsome mask hiding his face, his shar
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Empathy Is Great, Empathy Is Grand, and the Emperor Turns It into Romance 共感好，共感妙，共感陛下当情调
[#Shared sensations #Palace intrigue #Feel-good fiction #Strong male and female leads] Wen Ciying transmigrated. When she regained consciousness, she was at a crime scene, holding a hairpin as she tried to assassinate a beauty and then the emperor, perfectly completing the achievement “Wipe Out the Entire Clan.” She had thought she was sure to die, but the emperor gave her a new identity and raised her outside the palace. Then the palace staff discovered her, and she had no choice but to return.
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Leaning on the Perilous Pavilion 倚危庭
Just how hard is it to raise an outstanding young woman? That depends on who’s raising her. If an entire clan, or even a whole country, throws its support behind her, that’s another matter entirely. Ye Qingjiu is a woman with all sorts of jumbled memories and a knack for baffling people with her behavior. She thinks she’s clever, until she somehow gets married and finally realizes Li Tingye has been playing her all along...
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The Legend of Duoyi 朵依传
A girl who grew up in hardship is fortunate enough to be acknowledged by the Khan and become the flower of the grasslands. To protect her people, she is sent away as a princess to marry a Khitan king in his fifties, exiled to the desolate frontier. There, she struggles through hardship alongside A Yan, whose fate has been just as cruel. Together, they fight their way out of darkness and toward the dawn. Family, lovers, tribe, homeland: when looking back on the years gone by, which of these is th
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Are You Crazy? You'd Throw Away a Lucky Kid Who Can Play the Suona? 疯了吧？会吹唢呐的福宝都敢扔？
(The rating just came out and will keep rising) [Lighthearted and Funny + Power Fantasy + Everyone's Favorite + Hapless Dad + Ridiculous] After being struck by lightning, the wicked little demon lost some of her memories and became the real daughter reclaimed by the Marquis's household. Her fake father and mother disliked her and drove her out. The Marquis's household would rather raise a fake daughter than keep her, and even her biological brother sees her as a harbinger of disaster. With a lit
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The Lucky Little Star: Her Prince Father Is Strong, Handsome, and Tragic 锦鲤小福星，王爷爹爹美强惨
[Everyone’s favorite] [Blessed child] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Comeback] No one knew just how far the Prince of Yue’s household had fallen! Nothing went right wherever they went, they failed at everything they tried, and their bad luck clung to them like a curse. Then they picked up a three-year-old beggar, and it was as if they’d suddenly unlocked cheat mode. The economy boomed, and one stroke of good luck followed another. “Your Highness! His Majesty says your governance has been excellent a
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Reforming the Harem, Starting with the Cold Palace’s Most Stubborn Resident 整顿后宫，从冷宫钉子户开始
A lighthearted comedy. No need to think too hard. From the start, she lands in the Cold Palace. Out of my way! I'm taking the empress's guide to the top and whipping the harem into shape. A modern professional assassin, she is transported into the cutthroat imperial harem. She slaps the all-powerful seal-holding eunuch and makes bombs by hand. She gets the imperial consorts in line and leads the abandoned women of the Cold Palace to wealth. She believes that if you can settle things with y
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You Can Keep That Trash King. I'll Marry His Imperial Uncle in Style 渣王你爱送给你，华丽转身嫁皇叔
The rating has just come out a little low, but don't worry, it'll rise soon. [Both are pure] [He'll regret it endlessly] [Crush the scum] [Doted on by everyone] [Pin the Imperial Uncle against the wall] In her past life, she was an orphan who endured every hardship the world had to offer. No one cared for her or loved her. She had no friends or family, was utterly alone, and in an age when connections ruled, she could only struggle to make her way on her own. How unfortunate she was... After
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Fallen Blossoms in the Forbidden City: The Tale of Consort Dong'e 紫禁花落董鄂妃传
As the crabapple blossoms first open in Shengjing, the banner woman Wuyunzhu has no idea that the threads of fate are already tightening around her. A selection ceremony draws her into the vortex of power. She first marries Prince Xiang, but amid the coldness and suspicion of his household, she glimpses the depths of human nature. A chance encounter in the snow and wind of Nanyuan with the young Emperor Shunzhi will determine the honors and calamities of the rest of her life. The shadow of Princ
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The Villain Transmigrates into a Psycho, and the Regent Blushes Red 反派穿疯批，摄政王被亲红温了
[One True Love for Each + Conquering the World] She gave her heart to the wrong man! The man she loved most severed the tendons in her hands and feet, gouged out her eyes, and threw her off a cliff. She was dead! What kind of ridiculous melodrama was this? “Author, I’m sending you a box of knives! Can you even write? If not, let me take over!” The moment she finished commenting, she transmigrated. A major villainess transmigrated into the body of a cannon-fodder character and instantly became a
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The Spy Phoenix: Always One Step Ahead 谍凰，防不胜防
She was once the most dangerous intelligence chief in the modern world. In a single moment, she transmigrates and becomes the daughter of a tenant farmer, invisible to everyone in an ancient dynasty. An adult’s wisdom is trapped in a frail young body. The chaotic world is a web, yet she quietly becomes the one weaving it. From rural fields to the turbulent imperial court, no one knows that behind those clear eyes she is spinning an intelligence network vast enough to overturn the world. In a wor
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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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