After Watching Empresses in the Palace, Today's Palace-Intrigue Stories Feel Pathetically Weak 看完《甄嬛传》后，现在的宫斗完全弱爆了。
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Empress Yixiu’s Tactics: She Rules the Court and the Inner Palace 宜修娘娘手段高前朝后宫尽落掌
After decades of dreaming, an emperor's life reaches its end. Looking back, he sheds regretful tears and urges the new emperor not to follow in his footsteps. He praises Yixiu as a good daughter-in-law, securing her glory for the rest of her life! Yixiu has plotted for half her life to reclaim the phoenix throne. Looking back, she sees only desolate scenes. Yet, at the heart of imperial power, she cannot avoid being swept into one political storm after another. There is only one road open to her
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My Sister Was Framed? Her Devoted Brother Storms the Palace on a Killing Spree! 长姐被冤？姐控进宫杀疯了！
[Palace intrigue + heroine’s growth + revenge] After her older sister, Ying Fuyao, is falsely accused of causing Consort Chen to lose her baby, younger sister Ying Chaoying enters the palace as a consort to investigate the truth and clear her sister’s name. The palace is a dangerous place. Starting out as a cautious and respectful lower-ranking consort, Ying Chaoying gradually wins the emperor’s favor, rises step by step, and climbs to the heights of power alongside her sister. The early story f
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- 53 Fat Orange, the Gluttonous Consort Chun Has Stolen Your Harem 胖橘，吃货淳小主偷了你后宫 [Empresses in the Palace Fan Fiction + The Whole Harem Dislikes the Emperor + A Cute, Feel-Good Power Fantasy] The foodie Consort Chun wouldn’t dare say it out loud! Compared with a boring old man, she much prefers delicious food that looks, smells, and tastes amazing. After witnessing Consort Hua take bribes and drown someone in the lotus pond, she was reborn and finally understood! Her family is incredibly powerful, and she entered the palace at thirteen and was immediately made a First-Class 219Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 An Lingrong Is Reborn into a Disastrous Start 安陵容重生到天崩开局 Reborn into the disastrous opening scene of a blood test to determine parentage, An Lingrong works to unite everyone she can. First, she gets the useless An Bihuai out of the way, then gradually takes revenge on each person who humiliated her in her previous life, ultimately finding happiness. 1. An Lingrong is still An Lingrong, and she is not a good person. 2. An Lingrong’s appearance draws on the original work’s descriptions. She has a very bewitching face. 3. Zhen Huan’s intelligence is not 8.1kReads9.3Score688Shelves
- 55 Empresses in the Palace: Lingrong Is Reborn and Becomes the Empress Dowager 甄嬛传之陵容重生做太后 Her dream of becoming a beloved imperial consort shattered, An Lingrong returned to the age of sixteen, before the selection of palace women. No longer weighed down by an illusory father-daughter bond. No longer blinded by the false favor of the imperial harem. In the end, she would forge her own path to becoming Empress Dowager. 6.4kReads9.0Score564Shelves
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Empresses in the Palace: Yunli, the Reborn Tsundere Young Prince 甄嬛传之允礼重生傲娇小王爷
“One lifetime, one generation, one pair of hearts. Why must fate keep us apart? We yearn for each other, gaze at each other, yet cannot be together. For whom does spring bloom?” In my previous life, I was parted from Huan’er by death. In this life, I wish to win one person’s heart and stay together until our hair turns white. Prince Guo is reborn beyond the Great Wall, where he finds the treasure left behind by Li Zicheng. Fortunately, he is rescued by Princess Qiluoge... “I hope everyone gets a
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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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- 58 The Empress Is Alluring and Bewitching, and the Emperor Gives In to Pleasure 娘娘撩人魅惑，帝王纵情堕落 The Tomato short drama Kun Yi is now streaming~ [Transmigrate into a book, male lead is not a virgin but female lead is, palace intrigue, psychological games, happy ending] The Crown Prince, Jun Zechen, has seen his fair share of calculating women, and loves only those who are pure and kind. While campaigning beyond the frontier, he meets Ling Yue and is captivated by her free-spirited kindness. He promises to spend his life with her alone. But two years pass, and the Crown Princess has yet to c 120.1kReads9.5Score11.3kShelves
- 59 Bough of the Phoenix Perch 栖凰枝 [Short drama now available. Search "A Sigh for Youth". Starring Mi Qi and Wang Kang] Also known as "I'm a Psychology PhD, and I'll Slaughter My Way Through the Palace" Palace intrigue + sweet romance + not both leads' first relationship + heroine focused on her career On her first day after transmigrating into the harem, Jiang Xinyue fell out of favor. Everyone said she was nothing but a pretty face, a vase. On her second day after transmigrating into the harem, Jiang Xinyue regained the emperor 36.9kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves
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Beauty That Slays the World 艳杀天下
She killed Han Xin and executed Peng Yue, clearing away every one of Liu Bang’s “brothers” for him. She poisoned the King of Zhao and turned a rival into a human pig, leaving no one in the harem daring to challenge her authority. Before her husband died, he made her swear that only members of the Liu clan could be kings, yet she personally placed members of the Lü clan on the throne. Her son hated her, the ministers feared her, and the people of the realm called her a “poisonous woman.” But so w
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A Palace for a Thousand-Year-Old Fox 千年狐一世宫
A fan-created palace-intrigue story based on Story of Yanxi Palace. She is a thousand-year-old fox spirit. During the Qianlong era, beside a cold pool outside the Forbidden City, Bai Rou, a white fox who has practiced the righteous path for a thousand years, takes human form and enters the mortal world. With an innocent heart, she accidentally eats a sacred fruit offered in a royal sacrifice and gains a human soul, then is captured and taken into the palace. Bai Rou knows nothing of palace rules
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Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云
Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent
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Unbending: An Lingrong 不折枝：安陵容
After ten years in the imperial palace, An Lingrong was weary in body and soul. When she gave up on life, she truly wanted to turn into a wisp of smoke, drift away beneath the blazing sun, and never ask for another life. This world was just too cruel. Whether through Heaven’s mercy or a twist of fate, her weary soul awoke centuries later, carrying its memories. A loving family and a tolerant society slowly healed the small but searing wounds in her soul. After achieving success and fame, sh
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The Swallow's Pecks, the Emperor's Grandson, and a Kingdom Beneath Her Skirts 燕啄皇孙裙下江山
A tale of the Han palace + satisfying palace intrigue + breathtaking beauties + a powerful heroine and political scheming + a fight back from the brink. Zhao Feiyan has been branded by history with the shameful accusation of “swallowing the emperor’s grandsons,” and reviled for all time. Yet no one knows that it was not cruelty in her nature, but a necessary step on her path to the pinnacle of power. An emperor’s favor is merely the sharpest blade in her hand; even the bonds between sisters can
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, the Foolish Princess Marries the Ninth Lord with Her Four Maids 退婚后，傻妃携四大丫鬟嫁九千岁
[Palace Intrigue + Household Intrigue + Historical Romance + Princess Consort + Legitimate Daughter + Medical Skills + Two Powerful Leads + Cunning + Playing the Fool + Reborn + Fiercely Protective + Political Scheming] 99% of the comments are positive! Read with confidence! Su Qian, once the leader of a special forces unit in the apocalypse, died unexpectedly while carrying out a mission. With her portable medical space, she transmigrated to ancient times and into the residence of a great gener
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The Martial Emperor Comes to Qing: Wielding Dream of the Red Chamber to Restore the Ming 武皇临清：手执红楼复大明
“My empire! Who’s kneeling down and handing it over to someone else?!” Outraged by the late Qing’s incompetence and treachery, Wu Zetian and Zhu Di rise from the dead and travel through time in a fury. With the cipher key to Dream of the Red Chamber in hand, they restore the Ming dynasty…
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Meng Jingxian Reborn: The Story of Consort Zhen 孟静娴重生之贞妃传
The rating is low because it has only just opened + a background character is reborn + the heroine is the best actress in the Great Qing harem + marries Fat Orange and has Little Orange + Qing Ying enters the palace, as in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace + for fans of Shilan + Guo Ziyu fights Mao Qian + Hu Yunrong makes a special return In her previous life, Meng Jingxian gave her heart to the wrong man. Desperate to marry Prince Guo, she didn't care that she made her whole family a laughingsto
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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Zhen Huan and Prince Guo Build Their Empire, Slaughtering Their Way to the Top! 甄嬛带果郡王搞事业，杀疯了！
Also known as Rewriting Zhen Huan’s Fate: Toppling the Qing to Build a Golden Age At the age of eighty-seven, Zhen Huan is actually angered to death by Emperor Qianlong! Heaven takes pity on her, and she is reborn on the very day of the imperial selection! This time, she refuses to enter the hell of the deep palace again. She manages to escape just before meeting the Emperor, but a year later, the Fourth Prince himself still insists on seeing her. Her fate is still hanging by a thread! Fate brin
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- 70 Operation Save Consort Hua: Lingrong Becomes Empress 营救华妃企划之陵容称帝 Love is compassion, salvation, and companionship~~ What happens when the self-conscious, sensitive An Lingrong meets the overbearing Nian Shilan, Consort Hua? Are they fighting for the emperor’s favor? An: The only thing I care about is what’s in Elder Sister’s heart. A man’s affections are as hard to fathom as the sea. I come from a lowly family, so I wouldn’t dare dream of winning his love. (A sweet-talking little rabbit seeks the protection of a powerful woman in the imperial harem. If I can 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 The Clear Skies of Days Gone By 旧日晴明 [Healing + slow burn + simple school romance + slice-of-life fun] A book I think turned out really cute, haha. It’s on the healing side, without many big ups and downs. Keeping things simple is just right. Not many people read it, so it ended relatively early. Li Zhu & Lin Ci: a cool, passive, well-behaved top student and a bright, decisive sweetheart who takes action What kind of ending will our unexpected meeting and parting ultimately bring? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Sophia 索菲娅 Sophia —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Empresses in the Palace: The Fake Huan Enters the Palace, Leaving Nothing Alive 甄嬛传之假嬛入宫，寸草不生
The Entire Imperial Palace Is Full of Lunatics [A Girl Who Doesn't Want to Fight for the Emperor's Favor Can't Become a Good Empress Dowager] The twelfth day of the eighth month of the first year of Yongzheng's reign, an auspicious day. Today was an important occasion: the first selection of consorts since the emperor's enthronement. The purpose of the selection was to ensure the royal family had many heirs, so they needed to choose beautiful young women to fill the imperial harem. Wu Hula Hu Yi
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