I Can Tolerate the Leads Not Being Each Other’s First Love, but the Writing Must Be Good in an Ancient-Era Romance! 可以忍受不是双洁，但是文笔一定要好的古言！
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The Saintess Is No Innocent 圣女不纯洁
Lansisi is the runaway saintess of the Jialan Cult, a demonic sect. She is the lover of one martial arts overlord and is carrying the son of the cult leader. Caught between two great martial arts overlords, she fights to survive. A ruthless heart is her weapon, and so is her beauty. Xiye: Si’er, I can give you anything except the title of Cult Leader’s wife! Jian Chen: Lan’er, you ungrateful wretch!
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The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱
[Available in print. Search "Zhaohua Rebellion" on any platform to purchase.] [Strong female lead, satisfying revenge, high-IQ palace intrigue, the heroine schemes against the entire harem, a dangerously unhinged antagonist] Song Zhao has always been a woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals, and she has always seen the world more clearly than anyone else. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was crystal clear: "I en
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- 3 The Consort Is All Charm and Cunning, Scheming Her Way to the Top 娘娘又茶又媚，一路宫斗上位 Signed for print publication In the third year of the Yifeng era, a concubine-born daughter of the Ningyang Marquis’s household enters the palace. The palace is a vast, treacherous place, where the one thing you must never do is give your heart away. Ning Shuyan is clear-eyed: she wants wealth and prestige, along with the emperor’s favor. For three years, she carefully plots each step, wins the emperor’s attention, and rises from Talented Lady to Noble Consort. Rumor has it that the emperor only 56.6kReads9.5Score7kShelves
- 4 The Imperial Terrace's Charm: The Noble Consort Is Beautiful and Well-Behaved 帝台娇：贵妃娘娘她又美又乖 [Harem intrigue + climbing the ranks and crushing the villains + doting romance. The male lead knows his own heart. He'll devote himself to her alone later on.] [The heroine rises through the ranks quickly at first, then more slowly later on.] [The heroine comes from a noble family, is the most beautiful woman in the harem, and already has two adorable children. The Emperor falls for her first and favors her from early on, before devoting himself to her alone in the middle and later parts.] By a 20.2kReads9.4Score2kShelves
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You Want Me to Be Your Concubine? After I Faked My Death, the Playboy Marquis Went Mad 哄我做妾？死遁后纨绔侯爷发大疯
The short-drama rights have been sold. Now just waiting for it to premiere~ "A taste of ancient China · devoted lovers · clear-headed heroine" "Romance and intrigue · household and palace rivalries · the fate of the nation" Su Tan is the top courtesan at the Fragrant Pavilion in the capital of Great Wei, blessed with otherworldly beauty, porcelain skin, and a flawless complexion. After transmigrating here eight years ago, she has endured humiliation and bided her time, hoping to auction off her
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The Saltless Empress 无盐为后
She was the only empress personally appointed by the Wanli Emperor. History describes her as gentle, virtuous, and dignified, with the bearing of an empress. She passed away in attendance in the forty-eighth year of Wanli. Five days later, the emperor fell ill and died in July of the same year. At last, the couple were reunited. According to rumor, the household of Wang, a thousand-household commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, had a daughter as beautiful as a celestial maiden, with deli
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Elder Sister, Your Emperor Is Mine Now 长姐，你的陛下是我的了
Original title: Tell Me, Your Majesty, Exactly How Many Men Have You Had Children With? [Palace intrigue + the male lead’s redemption arc + neither lead is chaste + three sons and one daughter + physician consort + scheming, delicate beauty] Yun Yan’s death was the unanimous decision of her entire family, made solely to use her child to pave the way for her elder sister, the empress. Five years later. Defying death, Yun Yan returns with a new face and takes the name Shen Zhiyi. On the surface, s
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[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
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The Youngest Daughter, Changle 幺女长乐
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!
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- 10 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 48.6kReads9.7Score7.1kShelves
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Reborn, I Become My Arch-Enemy's Living Widow Sister-in-Law 重生后，我成了死敌的活寡嫂子
[Both leads are reborn + sister-in-law and brother-in-law + an aloof beauty brought down from her pedestal + emotional push and pull + winning her heart and her body + devoted couple] The Eastern Palace has no crown prince, and the princes are locked in a fierce struggle for the throne. Ning Miao and Yan Mobai are the top strategists of their generation, each serving a different master. They cross paths over a map of iron mines and kill each other. Only after her death does Ning Miao learn tha
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- 12 No Consort in the Six Palaces (Complete in Three Volumes) 六宫无妃（全三册） Amid the turmoil of the north and south, love and hatred intertwine. He is heaven’s favored son, ascending the throne at five over the blood of his parents. She is the grown-up gift personally chosen by the Grand Empress Dowager, carrying a secret she cannot speak of as she marries into the imperial family. Rumor has it he lavishes favor on the Feng clan, promising that Feng women will reign as empresses for generations. But the young emperor’s eyes are full of warning: “I will never allow a 1.2kReads9.1Score173Shelves
- 13 The Splendor of Great Zhou 大周风华录 After three years of drought, the land was strewn with the dead. Her parents sold Qin Fengyao as a “two-legged sheep.” Faced with certain death, she sold herself into servitude and escaped with the human traffickers. Sold to the Chang family, she accompanied their eldest daughter through confiscation of their property and desperate flight, then their restoration to favor. She helped the young lady establish herself in her husband’s household, became embroiled in the struggle for the throne, and, 21.3kReads9.2Score2.8kShelves
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Everyone’s a Villain, and I Chose the Craziest One 全员恶人，我选了最疯那一个
[Ensemble cast, oppressive and dark, intense angst ahead] [Not both leads’ first time, no saintly heroine, smart characters, vicious male rivalry and a chaotic love triangle, pregnancy escape, brothers poaching each other’s partners] “The child is innocent, but his father absolutely cannot be someone like Jiang Wang.” Her pregnancy was the beginning of everything. Lin Que took her childhood friend’s advice, got married to him to hide from Jiang Wang, and entered a marriage in name only while car
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