Any Good Historical Romance Novels? I'm Really Out of Things to Read 有没有那种古言的啊，真的书荒了
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
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The Concubine’s Daughter Takes Her Place: The Regent’s Beloved Princess Consort 庶女替嫁，摄政王的娇宠王妃
[Historical Romance]+ [Marriage Before Love]+ [The Regent Prince Dotes on His Wife] Rumor has it that Regent Prince Qin Jingxiao brings death to his wives. Three princess consorts have already died in succession. Now he is to marry again, and an imperial decree arrives at the home of a low-ranking official of the fifth rank. The legitimate daughter refuses to marry at any cost, so the official’s family dares to pass off a concubine-born daughter as legitimate. To save her mother, who is a servan
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Childhood Sweethearts to Lovers: Returning with a Jade in His Arms 青梅变竹马，朝阳抱玉归
[Female Disguise, Iron-Blooded Heir × Male Disguise, Downtrodden Sixth Prince] [Historical Romance, Alternate Setting | Pure Historical Romance, no transmigration, no System | Both are chaste in body and heart, each other's first and only love | Includes war and court intrigue. The plot is fictional, so please don't nitpick the details.] Xie Yu is the "only son" of the Marquis of Dingyuan's household. She has disguised herself as a boy since childhood and is destined to defend the northwest in
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
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
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The Prince Is Here: The Frail Young Duke Is Doted On 王爷在上：小郡公病弱得宠着
[One-to-one romance + rebirth + sweet, satisfying romance] Chi Yu is the only legitimate son of the general's household, but he was born with a delicate constitution. Sickly since childhood, he wheezes after three steps and coughs after five. Among the young gentlemen of Kyoto's prominent families, he's famous for being frail and delicate. Reborn, the frail Chi Yu finally gets back on his feet! He had planned to take revenge and punish the villains step by step on his own, but unexpectedly, he c
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I Transmigrated and Became the Beloved Bride of a Crippled Marquis 一朝穿越，替嫁残侯成团宠
[Historical transmigration + medical skills + marriage before love + two strong leads who dote on each other + suspense and court intrigue] Shen Qingci, a top surgeon, transmigrates into the body of a bride forced into a marriage swap. She becomes the new bride meant to bring good fortune to Xiao Yan, the blind and crippled Marquis of Dingbei. On their wedding night, she takes his pulse and immediately sees through it: “My lord, you’ve been poisoned. Someone wants to keep you in darkness forever
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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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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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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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You Cross 君渡
[A world-beating fighter with a weary disdain for life VS a scheming prince of a fallen kingdom] Lu Yu, the Arbiter of the Desolate Heavens, enters a new world to slay ghosts and clashes with the prince of a fallen kingdom. The prince tricks Lu Yu, then imprisons him. Lu Yu: When did that happen? How come I don't know?
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Fuqing 扶卿
Former Dynasty Chancellor / Usurping Emperor The former dynasty's chancellor, whose fate was unknown, reappears in the palace two years later and is trapped in the harem. He protects the realm for the emperor who usurped the throne. A mad, brutal, and ruthless sister-obsessed prince, born with a heart condition, who loses his secret identity and faints at the smell of garlic. Proud, pampered, unruly, unpredictable, and vindictive, he never lets anyone get the better of him. He meets the gentle,
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Reborn as the Crown Prince of a Fallen Kingdom, I Throw Myself into the Enemy’s Arms 穿成亡国太子我直接投入敌军怀抱
Completed. Search “Fanqie Listen” for the full-cast audiobook. [Manic, unhinged, vicious beauty vs. proper, restrained, aloof Buddha-like lord] [Two male leads + equally matched + mutual secret crush + both virgins] From the start, he was on an ancient battlefield, surrounded by soldiers and generals splattered with blood. He was the crown prince of a fallen kingdom. With a sworn enemy ahead, pursuers behind, and the burden of restoring his country on his shoulders, who could stay sane? While he
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A Pear Blossom Weeps with the Spring Rain 梨花一枝春带雨
Luo Xi is a top assassin in the martial world, and no saint. Through a twist of fate, she marries the emperor's own younger brother and becomes his consort. He is a prince of a great nation, immensely powerful at court and commanding a mighty army, upright, impartial, and just. Perhaps it began when he changed his tea-drinking habits because she loved pear blossom tea. Luo Xi fell helplessly in love with him. The prince was always good to her, accepting and indulging her, and showing her special
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The Eunuch Consort Is Her Childhood Friend 宦官驸马是竹马
Six years after they parted, a childhood friend discovers that her sweetheart has become the head of the Eastern Depot. She thinks they are destined to remain close yet worlds apart, but the Empress Dowager has other plans and pairs them up. The Empress Dowager makes a perfect match: a princess and a eunuch find love. The emperor's own sister is marrying the Eastern Depot's commander, but it was the princess herself who asked for the match. At the birthday banquet, she confesses her feelings bef
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The Minister of Dali Temple 大理寺·卿(姚筱筱、程相、何明翰等主演网剧《与卿行》原著等)
Su Moyì, son of Princess Anyang and a senior official at the Dali Temple, was the Southern Dynasty’s foremost detective, a man of refined elegance and heavenly beauty. Yet in the official circles of Shengjing, he had earned a fearsome reputation as someone who feared neither ghosts nor gods and yielded to neither immortals nor demons. He was aloof and impersonal, and when he investigated and judged cases, he was impartial and unsparing. The words he heard most often were “Please spare me, my lor
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A Princess of Distinction 公主有品
[Princess + General + Sweet Romance + Everyone’s Favorite + Reborn + Childhood Friends + Faked Death + Secret Identity + Reunited Lovers + 1v1] A pampered but strong-willed, outspoken Third Princess x A young man with a Guanyin-like face and a heart bent on vengeance Third Princess Yan Qiong, known as Zhaoyang, was born in the northwest and raised in the imperial palace. Her father doted on her, her mother adored her, and her brothers cherished her. She washed her hands in jade basins and wore
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Book Transmigration: I Win Over the Villainous Big Shot by Disguising Myself as a Woman 穿书：我靠男扮女装拿捏反派大佬
[Hilarious Comeuppance + Pampered by Everyone] After transmigrating into a book, he found himself shoved into a bridal sedan chair from the start. To save his life, he was forced to take on the role of a cannon-fodder female character, carefully playing the part of a princess sent off for a political marriage. He’d heard the person he was marrying was a notorious villain, a powerful leader of the demonic cult. If his true identity was discovered… With the wedding ceremony fast approaching, who w
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Unawakened 不悟
The disgraced minister Gu Hongjian died in battle at Huzhou. After death, a wisp of her ghost returned to the side of her king, Lin Sizhe. Everyone called her a treacherous minister who deserved to be reviled. Only she knew that she had spent nearly her entire life living for Lin Sizhe. But even she never expected that she wouldn't let Lin Sizhe go, even as a ghost. She was supposed to watch him enjoy the spoils of victory she had won for him, then carry on sweet-talking another woman. Gu Hongji
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You and I 君与卿
(Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion + Both Pure + Romance) The stern marquis, rumored to have schemed for power and persecuted anyone outside his faction for a thousand years, starts spouting flirtatious lines after a chance encounter during the Qixi Festival... “Sheng’er, I can’t afford to die just yet. I still have to live long enough to marry you and take responsibility for you.” “Alas, you missed the whole point. My plan to make you take responsibility for me has fallen through again.” “I long
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