I’m Out of Things to Read. Any Good Books Like Palace Wall Willow or What’s Wrong with Your Etiquette? 书荒了，有没有类似于《宫墙柳》《成何体统》的书

1. 1 蠢 The Adorably Clumsy Imperial Consort Is the Emperor's Sole Favorite 蠢萌帝妃，陛下独宠 Fish in the Sea海里鱼Ancient Romance2.3M WordsOngoing Not faithful to each other! Sweet and angsty! No rebirth, transmigration, golden finger, or wish fulfillment! [Palace Intrigue + Political Scheming + Age Gap + Ensemble Cast + Healing + Family and Country + Slow-Burning Romance + A seemingly silly, adorable, pitiful heroine who's actually wise and perceptive vs. a clear-headed, rational emperor who dotes on her] Su Chao is sent into the palace as the family's “little pebble,” and things go disastrously from the start. Her paternal aunt is the em 8kReads8.7Score529Shelves

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   It's a sweet and sadistic story, the male protagonist is the emperor, and the female protagonist is Concubine Chen who was born into a noble family. Not both clean, but the male protagonist loves the female protagonist alone after meeting her. The abuse points mainly come from the feudal environment and machinations. There are no definite good guys and bad guys. Everyone has their own position.

2. 2 我 I Was Twenty-Eight When I Died 我死的时候二十八岁 Yi Mo Yao以沫瑶Modern Romance416k WordsCompleted At twenty, Song Jiniao was hailed by the entertainment world as the “Nation's Goddess,” while Lin Ti died unexpectedly at an awards ceremony. She would never forget what happened that day, or the bone-chillingly cold look in that man's eyes. From then on, Shen Jiulin dragged her from her pedestal and plunged her into the abyss. The Nation's Goddess fell from grace overnight, her fame as fleeting as a flower that blooms for one day. At twenty-one, forced to choose between her mother and stepfathe 892Reads8.5Score102Shelves

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   All three books are BE. The female protagonist is calm and finally separates from the male protagonist. In the first book, the female protagonist commits suicide at the age of twenty-eight just like the title of the book. After reading it, I feel very depressed. The female protagonist is obviously about to be happy, but she is ruined by the male protagonist.

3. 3 你 You Broke Your Promise 你失信了 Shi Qingyao十清杳Modern Romance138k WordsCompleted The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily 69kReads9.5Score13kShelves
4. 4 系 System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊 Song Xiangbai宋象白Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ... 41.9kReads9.6Score5.3kShelves

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   The top novels of ancient Chinese literature are intelligent novels. The heroine's brains are not in vain so that you will not read them in vain. The first and second books are classics that you can read with your eyes closed. The third book has a golden finger and is humorous. The heroine of the fourth book sheds her blood, and the country will not be destroyed until the family is

5. 5 簪 The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their 11kReads9.6Score1.7kShelves

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   These books are all very good, the writing is very delicate, and the stories are also very interesting, the characters are very three-dimensional, and there are a lot of foreshadowings.

6. 6 缚 Bound by Spring 缚春情 Ren Huanyou任欢游Ancient Romance603k WordsCompleted [The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef 119.1kReads9.6Score16.2kShelves

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   It's a very nice book, with delicate writing style. A woman who grew up in a feudal background accepted her family's arrangement to marry her childhood sweetheart, the prince of the Hou family. When the prince went to war, she stayed in her boudoir and waited for him for six years. The crown prince returns and brings back a woman. Her love for him gradually faded away. (One night, I packed my baggage and left) [Understood] In the serialization, if you want to know what happened after the funeral, just read the book. After reading the introduction, the heroine left the prince.

7. 7 凰 The Phoenix's Grand Design 凰图 The Dream Speaker寐语者Ancient Romance194k WordsCompleted A bitter love from long ago, a marriage pact spanning half a lifetime, and an eight-hundred-mile fiefdom: could all of it really erase a promise made in the underworld? An emperor and empress who are strangers, a husband and wife bound by blood: after countless partings and reunions, life and death, will anyone return as promised beneath the smoke of war and the setting sun? It began in a sea of blood and rose and fell amid love and desire. The parasol trees of the south, the towering trees of t —Reads8.5Score—Shelves

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   These two books can be divided into one or two volumes. Phoenix Blood is the first volume and Phoenix Picture is the second volume.

8. 8 凤 Phoenix Blood 凤血 The Dream Speaker寐语者Ancient Romance183k WordsCompleted At fifteen, everyone looked down on her because she was the princess deliberately forgotten in Xinyi Palace. Her life consisted of her beautiful, mad mother and the cold, trembling bamboo outside. But on that night, a desperate thrust in the darkness, a flash of dazzling blood, stained every day and night that followed. Palace assassins, an exiled prince, a new emperor restoring the realm: her heart swayed and wandered until it became a long, scarlet scar across that man’s chest. At twenty, eve —Reads8.5Score—Shelves
9. 9 卿 My Beloved, Through Every Dawn and Dusk 卿是朝朝暮暮 Sugar-Roasted Little Deer糖炒小鹿Ancient Romance332k WordsCompleted Shen Yunshu studied archaeology and had been working for just two years. She loved history, and her favorite dynasty was the Rong Dynasty. A few days ago, she had read an unofficial history of the Rong Dynasty's royal family. Little did she expect that after falling asleep, she would wake up in the Rong Dynasty, sent there by the heavens, as Shen Yunshu, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Prince Zhenbei's residence. She had transmigrated to her favorite dynasty and become a descendant 35.1kReads9.4Score4.1kShelves

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   Highly recommended, both male and female protagonists have online IQs, and the pitfalls dug by the author can be filled in the extras. The writing is not impressive

10. 10 燕 Swallowsong 燕子声声里 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance592k WordsCompleted At five, Shen Guiyan could recite the Thousand Character Classic. At six, she played the qin and composed her own music. At seven, she wrote poetry while burning incense. At eight, she was betrothed to the son of the serving chancellor. Everyone said she had been born with a phoenix jade in her mouth and was destined for a blessed life. But then a woman arrived from the modern world, turning Shen Guiyan’s haughty younger sister into a clever and vivacious girl. She stole Shen Guiyan’s husband, 364Reads7.7Score—Shelves

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    It's really beautiful and the writing is delicate. It's especially suitable for those who are yang-positive. Please give it a try late at night.

11. 11 穿 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 Yun Lu云绿Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [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 6.8kReads9.0Score611Shelves
12. 12 庶 The Concubine's Plan for the Legitimate Daughter 庶女嫡谋 Bei Mu Nan Qiao北木南乔Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The Grand Empress Dowager, who had ruled the court for more than a decade, passed away. Reborn as the unloved, impoverished daughter of a marquis’s concubine, she had no desire to strive in this life. All she wanted was to marry a husband with a short life expectancy and enjoy widowhood after he died. Yang Yue died in battle. After death, his soul lingered on, witnessing the shifts of power in the Great Qing dynasty and watching the Grand Empress Dowager be poisoned by her own grandson. When he 17.8kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
13. 13 一 A Lifetime of Rong An 一世容安 Qing Xueyao卿雪瑶Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Li Rongan’s husbands, both in this life and her previous one, were peerless warlords. At first, they all loathed her, despised her, and wanted nothing more than to kill her. Later, they all fell for her... * After being reborn, Rongan fled her former husband’s clutches by marrying far away to Yanbei, where she became the wife of a prince. She knew the Prince of Yan would rebel in two years. When he did, he would divorce the princess consort appointed to him and marry his childhood sweetheart, hi 12.4kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
14. 14 春 Spring Banquet 春日宴 Egrets in Pairs白鹭成双Ancient Romance664k WordsCompleted She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis 16.1kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves

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    The top novels of ancient Chinese literature. The novels are intelligent. The heroine's brains are not in vain so that you will not read them in vain. The first and second books are classics with your eyes closed. The third book has a golden finger and is humorous. The heroine of the fourth book sheds her blood, and the country will not be destroyed until the family is

15. 15 幺 The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted Miss Zhu Si’s rough fighting skills have always made her the laughingstock of the capital’s noble families. In everyone else’s eyes, that’s the sort of work meant for household guards. Zhu Changle, who considers herself invincible, isn’t ashamed of it. She’s proud. Not everyone can protect their own home, but she can! And then some! She’d even turn the whole capital upside down to protect it! Don’t believe her? Try her! 22.1kReads9.5Score3.5kShelves
16. 16 将 The Bride-to-Be 将嫁 Echoes Linger for Three Days绕梁三日Ancient Romance287k WordsCompleted Three years ago, to pacify the western frontier, he married the daughter of the Governor-General of Yongzhou as his empress. But during his lifetime, he met Huo Shiying, the one and only woman of her kind, and the sole female general in the Great Yan dynasty. She doesn't know, and no one else does either, that he has followed her life for twenty whole years. When he was six, he first heard his mother and eldest sister mention her name, and wondered how a two-year-old girl could have been taken t 15.5kReads9.6Score2.1kShelves
17. 17 宫 The Palace Makeup Artist 宫廷化妆师 rainis Yulinrainis雨淋Ancient Romance119k WordsOngoing Promotion and advancement, spreading makeup techniques in ancient times, and making a fortune in business Connected eyebrows? Yellow forehead paint? Lead powder? Good heavens! What kind of bizarre beauty standards are these? After transmigrating, a modern celebrity makeup artist takes one look at the chaotic makeup worn by everyone in the palace, from the Noble Consort down to the palace maids, and nearly faints in horror. For the sake of her own eyes, she decides to start a beauty revolution an 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Not bad [blowing kiss]

18. 18 湖 A Dreamlike Journey Through a Lakebound Wonderland 湖中梦游仙境 Xiao Gan小敢Ancient Romance96k WordsCompleted Li Chanjun has been the unwanted daughter of the Li family since childhood. Then, out of the blue, the emperor decrees that she must marry Tang Yunlian, an idle prince, and grants her a place in the imperial register and the title of a noblewoman. Overnight, she becomes the Li family's most cherished daughter. Only Li Chanjun knows this isn't the end, but the beginning. Secrets shrouded in mystery come surging toward her like dark clouds covering the moon. In this world, what is right and what i 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Each character has his or her own personality. It's not a simple palace-fighting-house-fighting novel. Maybe you must read it.

19. 19 叶 Fallen Leaves, Wasteland 叶落成荒 Yi An亦岸Ancient Romance220k WordsCompleted [BE + Pure Historical Romance + Older Hero] He traded his life for her freedom and peace for the rest of hers. Cheng Yu, the great general of Nanjiang City, bears a blood feud. Cold and steady by nature, he gives all his tenderness and love to one person alone. During a mission that goes wrong, Cheng Yu accidentally takes away Ye Li, a newborn baby girl from the household of Grand Secretary Ye in Beiyuan. He never expected her to be his own newborn betrothed. From that moment on, their fates are 270Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Pure ancient saying! The general and his beloved wife ~ Sweet love ~ The plot is fast paced ~

20. 20 成 What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统：全二册（王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著） Qi Yingjun七英俊Anime Fanfiction314k WordsCompleted What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his 38kReads9.7Score6.2kShelves

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    These three books are amazing

21. 21 宫 The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳 Dream Doll梦娃Ancient Romance166k WordsCompleted Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held 59.6kReads9.7Score8.8kShelves
22. 22 在 100 Techniques to Conquer the Emperor in the Harem 在后宫征服皇帝的一百个技巧 Cai Wangwang菜汪汪Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Ever since entering the palace, Yun Li has become a shameless schemer. Two-faced and insincere, she puts on an act every day. When dealing with the emperor’s favorite consort, she tears into her until she’s furious, then clutches her chest with a wounded look and says, “I’m so envious that His Majesty dotes on you.” When someone tries to frame her, she casually slaps them, then bursts into tears. “Why would you treat a kind person like me this way?” When speaking with the empress, she nods absen 16kReads9.5Score1.9kShelves

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    Maybe the fourth one? But this is really, really, really, really beautiful, the third one!

23. 23 百 The Hundred Demon Manual 百妖谱 Shaluo Shuangshu裟椤双树Ancient Romance165k WordsCompleted A man, a monk, and a fox wander the world, laughing and arguing along the way. White demons, countless affairs, and every kind of human emotion: a world of strange wonders and the warmth and hardships of human life. 9.6kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves
24. 24 不 Unwilling to Let Go of Day or Night 不舍朝夕 Time Is a Lonely Blade of Grass岁月是颗孤独草Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted She thought a man like Lu Zhizhan was only playing around on a whim. That day, beneath the dim lights, Jiang Kehua sat demurely at his side, willing to be his plaything. To learn the truth behind her father's imprisonment, she struck an intimate bargain with Lu Zhizhan. When both sides have gotten what they want, the last thing they should do is fall for each other. So she kept reminding herself to put away those feelings she shouldn't have. Until one night, when passion swept them away, the man 69.7kReads9.5Score8.2kShelves

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    This is really good to read, the story of the first book is very exciting. I'm still reading the second one now, and it's also very good. I recommend you to read all three books.

25. 25 被 Forced to Become a Concubine, She Is Spoiled by the General Every Day 被逼做妾后，她被将军日日娇宠 Sweet Potato with Plum Powder甘梅地瓜Ancient Romance434k WordsCompleted When her aunt was on her deathbed, she entrusted her child to Wanqing. Out of gratitude, Wanqing became the concubine of the general’s eldest son. The rules for concubines in the general’s household: be dutiful and proper, and have no children. The household had no need for children born to concubines. Yet Wanqing bore four sons and a daughter, then took her place as the eldest son’s principal wife. The Empress Dowager personally bestowed on her the title of First-Rank Lady of Virtue. Someone sc 50kReads9.5Score6.7kShelves
26. 26 内 The First Lady of the Cabinet 内阁第一夫人 Mo Tangtang墨汤汤Ancient Romance618k WordsCompleted In her previous life, she married into the imperial family in a high-status match, only to meet a tragic end. Her family was destroyed, and she lost everyone. In this life, all she wants is revenge, yet she becomes the wife of a Grand Secretary, the spouse of a powerful chancellor... 2kReads8.7Score179Shelves

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    This book is a little bit cruel, but it's quite interesting.

27. 27 曾 Once Promised (Complete in Two Volumes) 曾许诺（全二册） Tong Hua桐华Ancient Romance447k WordsCompleted I Promise, the first book in the Shanjing Haiji series, is a major romance novel by renowned author Tong Hua, marking her return to the genre. The God of War Chi You lived his life bound by promises: a promise to spend his life with the woman he loved, a promise to help his king pacify the realm, and a promise of deep loyalty to his brothers... A master of both strategy and warfare, he was undefeated in battle and could have unified the world, yet at the final moment he let go of all its splendo 2.9kReads9.6Score596Shelves

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    The story unfolds slowly, and it is both heart-wrenching and understanding to read. Zeng Promise is a heart-stirring entanglement of love and hate (I prefer the original Chiyou Aheng and don't like the new name). Sauvignon Blanc is a slowly unfolding story about just one person. I tried to read it, I couldn't put it down, I thought about it for a long time, and I could read it back many times. I was obsessed with the novel when I was in junior high school (it shows my age). Every time I read it, I have a new experience. I can always read out the feelings I didn't experience before. Maybe it's because of my different mood. I want to finish reading it happily, but I also want to slow down and chew it slowly.

28. 28 十 Fourteen Sentences 十四句 Eat More Vitamin C多吃维CModern Romance201k WordsCompleted [The print edition of Fourteen Lines, bearing the same title, is now available on multiple platforms.] Life is like duckweed on the water, so why doubt that people will meet and part? Morality and ethics clash with matters of the heart. A realistic story. If that’s not your thing, don’t read. The greatest regret isn’t that people enter your life at different times, but that you’re meant to meet without being meant to be together. A remorseful husband tries to win back his wife. Written as realis 4.6kReads8.9Score441Shelves

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    These books are all selected recommendations with a score of 9 or above. The writing style is good, the words and sentences are carefully chosen, and the language is exquisite. It's not a novel. The protagonists are all smart and can analyze situations calmly. The plot is full of twists and turns and is touching. Some of them are very humorous and make people smile knowingly.

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