Courtly Scheming in the Beginning, Sole Devotion in the End 前期宫斗，后期独宠
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Quick Transmigration: The Second Personality 快穿第二人格
Female lead + dual personality + no saintly martyrdom + takes down scumbags regardless of gender or age + lighthearted and funny Synopsis: Jiang Yan, a female cultivator, was bored when she happened upon a System. She transmigrates through three thousand worlds, disguising herself as the original host's second personality to help them change their personalities and escape their tragic fates. She takes down scumbags, delivers face-slapping comeuppances, completes missions, and explores the myster
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Coexisting with a Big Shot, I Became Unstoppable 与大佬共生，我强到飞起
One day, I woke up with a man in my head. It wasn't a hallucination or a split personality. He was the real deal, a top-tier boss: Lu Yunzhou. The ruthless business tycoon who ruled the corporate world was now nothing more than a ghost trapped in my mind. And so, things started looking like this: When someone gives me a hard time, he scoffs in my head: [Third file from the bottom left. Throw it in his face.] When someone frames me, he directs me remotely: [The recorder's in the right-hand drawe
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Taking Her by Force! The Flirtatious Princess Is Out of Control 霸王硬上弓！钓系长公主撩疯了
[Flirtatious, alluring older woman VS calculating young wolf] [Married first, fall in love later + devoted love + one-on-one, both untouched + older woman/younger man romance] Nangong Qing, the eldest legitimate princess of Great Qi, was entrusted with the young emperor and the regency by the dying former emperor. All of the capital laughed at her for being twenty and still unmarried, calling her an old maid left on the shelf. When the young emperor took the reins of power, the ministers pressur
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The Palace Consort Is Reborn 宫妃重生
The male lead has no romantic history, while the female lead is inexperienced. In her previous life, Qu Yuntang was envied for the emperor’s favor. The Noble Consort used another woman’s child to frame her, and she was eventually banished to the Cold Palace. She thought she would spend the rest of her life there, but the Noble Consort still wouldn’t let her go. She had the Cold Palace set ablaze, burning it to the ground. When Qu Yuntang woke again, she was back before her marriage, looking as s
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The Sweetheart Uses Her Beauty, and the Cold Emperor Falls Hard for Her 娇娇略施美人计，清冷暴君强制爱
Synopsis: [Palace intrigue + reborn and taking revenge on scoundrels + falling deeper at every turn + a powerful man humbles himself for love + possessive pursuit + devoted love in the later stages] Qin Yiyan, the Noble Consort Chen, is dead, hacked to death with a flurry of sword strikes by her childhood friend, younger sister, and political rival... She opens her eyes and finds herself back more than a decade earlier, amid a raging fire. She thinks, Let the flames spread until they consume eve
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Dominating the Harem Through Childbearing 靠生子称霸后宫
In her previous life, Huameng's childhood sweetheart, the boy next door, betrayed her before their wedding. After watching him marry the daughter of a princess, she put on the bright red wedding dress she had spent two years embroidering and hanged herself. But her soul drifted through the world for twenty years after her death before she learned the truth: her childhood sweetheart had broken off their engagement after accidentally hearing that the childless emperor intended to adopt the princes
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The Consort’s Laid-Back Daily Life 娘娘的佛系日常
[A lazy, carefree little schemer who just wants to lie flat + historical fantasy + palace intrigue + heroine devoted to one man, hero not devoted to one woman] The charming and clever favorite consort Lin Jingran refuses to work herself to the bone. She’s got the Noble Imperial Consort position lined up, and plans to enjoy the drama and lie flat her way to becoming Empress. Family? She’s a treasured darling of her family, too. The emperor? He openly favors her and helps her navigate palace intr
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I Ran Away Pregnant After Becoming His Bedchamber Maid 穿成通房后我带球跑
[Transmigrate into a book + green tea schemer + white lotus + stand-in for his beloved + palace intrigue + power struggles + satisfying wish fulfillment] A novelist who had never been in a relationship transmigrated into the Great Zhou Dynasty, becoming Chu Wuhen, Prince Qi's bedchamber maid. Every day, she struggled to stay alive. The original owner was the illegitimate daughter of a mistress. After her family fell into ruin, she was sold to Prince Qi's manor to warm his bed. Su Wanqing was jea
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Beauty and Strategy in a Land of Rivers and Mountains 山河美人谋
[Proud young lady who always gets even vs. frail, scheming Ninth Prince] Her fiancé was a total jerk, and he was planning to kill her to keep her quiet. Ye Jiao decided to strike first and find a scapegoat while she was at it. She thought the scapegoat would be a transparent, sickly “living corpse,” but rumors were misleading. He was clearly a two-faced, deeply cunning Ninth Prince. After Ye Jiao used the Ninth Prince’s name to punish her scumbag fiancé, Li Ce, the real Ninth Prince: “Miss, I be
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Who Says She's a Villainess? She's Clearly the Moonlight in Everyone's Heart 谁说她恶女，明明是皎皎白月光
(Print edition goes on sale at 7 p.m. on September 19 / Several short animated adaptations are now streaming) [Wicked Villainess Transmigrates into a Book + Total Control + “Training Dogs” Romance + Male Rivals in a Shura Field + Exes Begging for Her Back + Face-Slapping and Scumbag Punishment] [The heroine is a true villainess: a stunning, calculating temptress who never hesitates to manipulate others] Jiang Chuji, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, was an ill-fated girl sent to a t
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Rest, My Love. I'll Take Down Those White Lotuses for You 爱妃歇着，朕替你干趴那群白莲花
[Both leads are inexperienced + the heroine can read men's minds + the hero wins himself over + plenty of silly fun] In her previous life, Yu Huan spent three years in the imperial palace fighting to win and keep the emperor's favor. She tried every trick in the book, but still couldn't get the attention of the emperor, who cared only about gold, silver, and jewels and was endlessly greedy. In this life, she just wants to keep her head down in the harem and stay out of trouble. When the empero
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No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话
An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the
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Reborn After My Own Son, the Cruel Empress Dowager, Stabbed Me to Death 恶毒太后被亲儿子捅死之后重生了
The vicious Empress Dowager Jiang Mingzhu was reborn. In her previous life, to put her son on the throne, she poisoned and tried to assassinate the emperor, colluded with court officials, drugged a pregnant consort to make her miscarry, and plotted against the young crown prince. Every time she schemed, she put her own life on the line to grind her stepson's face into the dirt. But when the plot to put the son she'd worked so hard to support on the throne was exposed, he stabbed her in the back
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How Does a Strong Concubine Maintain Her Self-Respect? 论大力小妾何如保持自我修养
The heroine, Wen Xuerou, nicknamed Zhuangya, is the second daughter born to a concubine in the Wen family. She is plump and charming, so the Empress Dowager thinks she looks strong and will have an easy time bearing children, and assigns her to Prince Cheng as a concubine. On her first day in the manor, Wen Xuerou says, “I’m so nervous. What should I do?” She pulls out a few bricks and squeezes them. “Ah, much better.” On her second day, she hears Side Consort Li making snide remarks about her o
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She Opened Her Eyes, Reborn as the Royal Family's Most Adored Little Princess 睁开眼，她重生成皇室最宠小公主
As the daughter of a Grand Princess, she was born a commandery princess, and her engagement to the heir of the Duke Who Guards the Nation made them the envy of everyone in the Great An Dynasty. Then, overnight, more than a hundred members of her family were branded traitors and beheaded at the Meridian Gate. He and her half-sister even gave her a cup of poison. It turned out everything had been a conspiracy. Reborn, she joins forces with her beloved to protect all her loved ones and ensure every
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My Idiot Husband Makes Me Prepare for Pregnancy Every Day 傻子夫君天天让我备孕
In her previous life, Lou Jiyue was rescued from a human trafficker by the simple-minded Jin Duqiu. Who knew the fool would stubbornly insist she become his wife and bear his children? Lou Jiyue was not only ungrateful, but also greedy for wealth and status. Knowing the fool loved her, she threw her weight around at home every day, making him work from dawn till dusk while she lived like a pampered lady, never lifting a finger. By day, the fool obeyed her in everything. At night, however, he wou
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A Devoted Emperor Chases Love from Ancient Times to the Modern Day 痴情帝王，从古代追爱到现代
"The ancient-era portion of this book is not a clean romance and takes a realistic approach, with an emphasis on plausibility. Readers who insist on both leads being untouched should read with caution. Once they reach the modern era, both leads are untouched. The story is a slow burn, but the later chapters are exciting, so be sure to read to the end." The heroine, Lin Wan, is a woman of unparalleled beauty and a celebrated history professor at a modern university. Not only is she exceptionally
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The Tyrant's Darling Is a Black-Hearted Lotus 暴君怀里的娇娇是黑心莲
[Two Powerful Leads + Reborn + Fake and Real Heiresses + Gentle Yet Strong, Ambitious Favorite Consort × Heartless Tyrant Emperor + Harem Intrigue] She was a highborn young lady who had grown up away from home. When she entered the palace, she became a pawn discarded to secure the fake heiress’s position as empress. Only when poison touched her throat did she realize that family affection, favor, all of it had been a lie! Reborn, she entered the palace once more. Everything from acting pitiful t
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The Empress's Allure Captivates the Cold Emperor at First Sight 娘娘娇媚，清冷帝王一见倾心
[The emperor is not chaste in the early chapters. If that's a dealbreaker, don't read.] The early chapters focus on palace intrigue, the middle leans toward doting romance, and the later chapters feature exclusive devotion. Jun Lingxiao will dismiss his harem by the end. She is the daughter of the Duke's legitimate daughter. She should have grown up surrounded by love, but her mother's life was taken from her when she was young, due to her father's schemes and the struggle for power. Her mother,
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The Tyrant Can Read Minds, and His Palace Maid Rules the World with His Love 自带暴君读心术，小宫女娇宠天下
Transmigrate into a book + Tyrant + Hear His Inner Thoughts + His One and Only + Palace Intrigue + Wild Rewrite Overnight, An Xin, a college student from a village in northern China, transmigrates into a book! She lands in an obscure novel. She has arrived in the era when the tyrant Gao Gong rules all of Northern Wei! Ten minutes until Gao Gong suffers food poisoning and executes every palace maid and eunuch present! After barely escaping disaster, An Xin discovers that she has the role of a
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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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A Spring Courtyard's Silken Ties 春庭绾
Don’t read this. I don’t want to write it anymore. It’s abandoned, so stay away. Synopsis: [Traditional historical romance + household intrigue + revenge + coming-of-age story of a formidable heroine] Alternate title: Spring Courtyard Embroidered Sash Tang Wan is a mistreated concubine-born daughter in the prime minister’s household, and has been looked down on since childhood. It is only after Jing Huan unexpectedly enters her life that she finds a little light. Less than half a month after the
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The Cousin Miss Only Wants to Survive 表小姐只想活下去
[Childhood Friends, Past and Present Lives, Mutual Secret Crushes, Imaginative Fantasy, Both Chaste, Happy Ending] Yan Xuan, a young lady who grew up in the Duke of Song's household, was afflicted by an evil spirit. Frail and sickly, she had little time left to live. Her eldest cousin, whom she hadn't seen in years, returned from the battlefield with glorious military achievements. His return brought honor to the family, and his powerful masculine aura made evil spirits flee wherever he went. To
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I Played the Emperor My Whole Life, and After Being Reborn, He Still Wants the Crown Prince 演了皇上一辈子，重生他还要太子
Original title: Only After His Death Did He Learn That the Empress Did Not Want to Be Buried With Him [The heroine transmigrates, the hero is reborn] As he lay dying, Emperor Tianhe looked back on his eventful life. He had risen from humble beginnings to become the founding emperor, and the world praised his achievements. In his fading consciousness, he saw his virtuous empress, his beautiful consorts, and his weeping children. He felt that his life had been complete. But after he died, his soul
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The General’s Entire Family Fell in Battle, and the Whole Capital Is Waiting for Me to Break Off the Engagement 将军满门战死，全京城都等我退婚
Chu Ruoyan, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Chu’s household, is engaged to a man whose entire family has fallen in battle. Her fiancé survived, but was left disabled. Everyone assumes the engagement is doomed, but the Chu family’s daughter marries as planned, saying only two words: “I’ll marry him.” * No one knows that Chu Ruoyan had a nightmare. In the dream, she breaks off her engagement to Yan Zheng. Three years later, she meets the heir of the Marquis of Pingjing, only for rebels to l
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Mom, Open the Door! I Studied for Three Years and Passed the Exam to Become Emperor 娘亲开门！我读三年，考上皇帝了
The print edition of The Marquis’s Elite Class is now available [adorable children + parenting + doting in-laws + lighthearted + healing] Xu Wan becomes a widow the moment she marries into the family. All she wants is to keep her head down and enjoy the freedom of being a marquis’s wife. But on the very day she arrives, her stepson, a notorious little menace throughout the capital, gives her two nasty surprises in a row. Xu Wan grabs a knife and charges out, making a name for herself across the
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Your Majesty, I Think Your Palace Maid Is Cursing You Again 皇上，你家宫女好像又在骂你
[The irresistible appeal of what you once rejected + powerful men bowing their heads + a double-standard male lead + raising her before a story of power and statecraft + romantic push and pull + he truly doesn’t love her at first, but gives his all once he does] Su Nanchu is unruly. Shen Jingzhi has always known that. But life in the palace is dull, and he doesn’t mind having a little plaything who can kick and scream. She becomes his daily amusement: reading memorials, practicing calligraphy, a
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Offering to the Abyss 献京渊
[Print edition releasing October 25] “He taught me to kill, seize power, and look after myself. I taught him what it means to have a weakness.” [Serious drama + political intrigue + the fate of the nation and its people + I’m terrible at writing blurbs] Jiang Qingyu was born into wealth, and her family’s love had made her naive and pampered. It wasn’t until the day the entire Jiang family was executed that she realized how foolish she had been! When she opened her eyes again, she was determined
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I’m Just a Concubine, So Why Is Everyone Clinging to Me? 我是小妾哎，怎么都来抱我大腿？
[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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How Strange, His Perfect Princess Suddenly Went Mad 有趣，他好好的王妃怎说癫就癫了
[Cool, aloof hero who falls hard and falls first; both leads are virgins; transmigration; pocket dimension; no strong female lead, no palace intrigue] The doomsday war goddess Lu Jiuwan died on the first day the light returned... 1 The quiet, graceful, seductive Princess Consort who killed without blinking woke up one day with a completely different personality. Princess Consort: Want to do it? Cold-hearted Prince: Insolence! A moment later, the cold-hearted Prince was in disarray... 2 With her
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After I Save the Villainous General, He Can’t Bear to Leave Me 救醒反派将军后，他离不开我了
[One-on-one romance, both devoted to each other] Shen Luoyao transmigrates into the role of a villainess. She schemes to marry the male lead, commits every kind of misdeed, and eventually dies with arrows piercing her heart, her corpse left exposed in the wilderness. When Shen Luoyao wakes up, she discovers that the plot is controlling her. The things she says and does aren’t what she wants at all. Then she discovers that as long as she gets close to the villain, Lu Jingyu, she can speak her m
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The Great Yu's Master Strategist 大渝筹算师
[Strong female lead + revenge on scumbags + lighthearted + pure romance + playing the fool to catch the tiger + happy ending] Good news: Her betrothed came first in the provincial exams and earned the title of Jieyuan. Bad news: Her betrothed, now a Jieyuan, wanted to break off the engagement without losing face, so he schemed against his fiancée, who came from a merchant family. Fine. If you want to break things off with dignity by scheming against someone, then neither of us is going to have a
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I Could Easily Rely on My Martial Skills, but My Wife Insists on Using Her Brain 明明可以靠武力，娘子非要靠脑子
[Modern woman in ancient times + transmigration with her body + love after marriage + sweet and satisfying] [A male lead who never stops rescuing his wife + a mindless heroine who kills at the slightest provocation] Jiu Yue, the greatest assassin of the twenty-second century, is blown off a cliff while carrying out a mission. With a splat, she lands in the backward Great Qi Dynasty. The wicked step-grandmother finds Ji Yiqing a wild girl she picked up and makes her his bride, hoping the marriage
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The Lazy Princess Returns to the Capital, and the Whole Dynasty Follows Her for the Gossip 咸鱼郡主回京，全皇朝追着吃瓜
[Everyone’s Favorite + Sweet Historical Romance + Fun and Lighthearted + Palace Politics with a Light Touch + Both Leads Are Each Other’s Only One + Equally Matched Leads + No Transmigration, Rebirth, System, or Inner Thoughts + Everyone Is Native to This World] A seemingly sweet and gentle daughter of a vassal king vs. a truly delicate and frail eldest imperial grandson For the old emperor’s birthday, vassal kings from across the land are ordered to come to the imperial capital and celebrate
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This Life, Just to Meet You 此生，只为遇见你
[Signed Contract] [Romance] [Quick Transmigration] [Mutual Devotion] [Short Story] [Both Pure] Ling Ran unexpectedly transmigrated to another world, where she met Lin Chen. Before long, they fell in love and began a romance. Ling Ran couldn't help bursting into tears. She sobbed and pleaded playfully, "I can't take it anymore. Hold me~." Hearing her voice, Lin Chen's heart softened at once. He quickly let go of her and pulled her tightly into his arms. Ling Ran leaned against his shoulder and b
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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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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 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 Bride in Disguise: A Mad Doctor Tames Her Husband 替嫁娇妃：疯癫医女驯夫记
“On our wedding night, blood stains the red candles. The mad consort presses a silver needle to her throat: ‘Marquis, are you going to inspect my virginity mark?’” Lin Shuying, her hair hanging loose, tears up the marriage contract, only to see Shen Yan pinch the cinnabar mole on her wrist. “Madam, do you know that pretending to be insane is a crime of deceiving the emperor?” Medicinal dregs in the manor conceal the secrets of the struggle for the throne. The mad consort wields her needles to br
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