I'm Desperate for Something to Read! I Want a Palace Intrigue Novel With a Clear-Headed Heroine 最近书荒了救命啊，我要宫斗女主清醒的
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Cao Qinmo Reborn: Slaughtering Her Way Through the Harem 曹琴默重生后杀穿后宫
[A Catmao Production]: Two wicked women team up + renounce love + high-IQ palace intrigue Cao Qinmo, a concubine who died in the struggle for power in the imperial harem, opened her eyes and found herself reborn. This time, she would find a good ally and protect her daughter!
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Forced to Give Up the Throne, She Surrenders the Imperial Seal and Leaves the Court in Tears 被逼让位，她献出玉玺后群臣大哭
“Pay attention: this is a story with a strong female lead, no male lead, and no romance.” After transmigrating, she became the most exalted woman in Yun Zhao. She thought she could live a carefree life of wealth and luxury, but danger closed in from every side, with pitfalls everywhere. It was not just her reputation at stake, but her life. The emperor dreams of ruling in his own right? Here, take the imperial seal. Go play by yourself, kid! The consorts are fighting for power in the palace? Tos
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The Widow's Sister-in-Law Has Nowhere to Run, and the Mad Chancellor Vomits Blood Again 寡嫂无处逃，疯批丞相又吐血了
[Beautiful, decisive young widow vs. refined, deranged villainous minister] [System + fleeing while pregnant + transmigrate into a book + male lead reborn] Song Yao transmigrated into a book as the villainous minister’s widowed sister-in-law. She was caught red-handed while eloping with another man. The villainous minister, who would one day hold power over the entire court, was currently nothing but a sickly young man. Remembering the tragic fate of the original owner, Song Yao immediately deci
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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）
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
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A Dazzling Beauty, the Spy Princess Can’t Escape the Emperor’s Embrace 娇丽动人，细作公主难逃帝王怀
When the emperor of Dayan first ascended the throne, Ning Shuang was bundled off by Beiqiang and sent straight to Xiao Shiyan’s bed. The stunning beauty earned his favor as soon as she entered the palace, bewitching the emperor until he lost his senses. But rumors in the harem claimed Ning Shuang was merely Consort Qin’s double, destined to be cast aside once the consort and Xiao Shiyan made up. Ning Shuang was clear-eyed about her position: she was a spy planted in the harem by Beiqiang, and sh
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Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Refuses to Play by the Rules 快穿炮灰她偏不按套路来
No fixed pairing, Qing-dynasty setting + historical eras + other worlds, with a pocket dimension Note: The heroine is a hedonist and a self-serving perfectionist. Her motto is that she can eat anything but hardship and endure anything but suffering. She tries to live comfortably in every world. After more than twenty years of bad luck, college student Shen Anning finally catches a break, only to die the day before her fortune is due to arrive. Perhaps her resentment is too great: just before sh
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Captivating Supporting Characters Across Film and TV 综影视之配角迷人
What changes will happen when supporting characters get a second chance at life? Each world is independent and written from the perspective of the female supporting character. The stories do not reflect the author's personal values, so please don't attack the author. World 1: Mo Lan from The Story of Minglan; World 2: Xuan Nu from Three Lives, Three Worlds; World 3: Wu Huan from Ancient Love Poetry; World 4: Wei Yanwan from Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace; World 5: Su Jin from Three Lives, Three
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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 Harem: Consort Hua Reborn 后宫之华妃重生
Consort Hua, Nian Shilan, died with a heart full of resentment in her previous life. Unexpectedly, she was reborn. When she woke again, she knew that Consort Duan had not harmed her child. She still both hated and loved the emperor. She hated him for using her feelings and devotion to bring down the entire Nian family, but loved the man she had sincerely given her heart to when they were young. But if she hadn’t been so foolish in her previous life, how would she have made so many enemies? When
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The Noble Consort Rejects Romance: While Others Fight for Favor, I Seize Power 贵妃不入爱河，别人争宠我夺权
[Female-Lead Wish Fulfillment + Unfeeling Persona + Ruthless Revenge and Face-Slapping] Years later, the history books would describe Ming Tang as a master strategist with an iron fist, the ultimate winner of the harem struggles and the vast empire. Only Ming Tang knew she had never wanted to be that winner in the first place. From a young girl to the ruler of the realm, all she had wanted at first was to avenge her elder sister. The harem was full of danger. On one side was Consort Jin, who had
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A Hundred Ways to Win the Emperor's Heart in the Harem 在后宫征服皇帝的一百个技巧
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
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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
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After Faking His Death, He Went Mad 诈死后，他疯了
The heroine was transmigrated into a book before birth + the hero is a native of the world + young love and marriage + rekindled romance + two hopeless romantics + always choosing each other To put her gravely ill father at ease, Jiang Wan married the man he had taken in. After her father passed away, the man said he would take her home. She never imagined he would take her straight to Prince Duan's residence in the capital. Only then did she learn he was Zhao Zhixing, the emperor's fifth son a
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Film and TV Crossover: I Began My Slaughter with An Lingrong 综影视：从安陵容开始杀疯了
Su Wanwan was a consummate workaholic. Just as she had achieved success, she unexpectedly died from overwork and gained a System that let her survive in TV dramas. What? She could go home once she completed her missions? Then she'd better get right to work! Mission worlds: An Lingrong in Empresses in the Palace, Wei Yanwan in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, with the next world yet to be decided. This is a slow transmigration story, slow transmigration, slow transmigration! I'll say it three tim
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Role-Playing in Empresses in the Palace 我在甄嬛传玩角色扮演
Su Man is accidentally pulled into a palace game created by a System. She enters the world of Empresses in the Palace and experiences it firsthand through role-play. Noble Lady Qi, An Lingrong, Meng Jingxian, Yixiu, Huanbi, Zhen Huan... From the start, she is cast as the cannon-fodder Noble Lady Qi, a beauty with more looks than sense who loves to stick her neck out. In the end, she loses the palace battle and is beaten to death with clubs. Su Man: I’d rather go back to matchmaking, sob... S
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The White Moonlight Noble Consort’s Daily Life in the Harem 白月光贵妃的后宫日常
(Cover used with permission) With an illustrious family background, breathtaking beauty, and the distinction of being the emperor’s moonlight, Jiang Hui should have found life as a Noble Consort effortlessly easy. Unfortunately, the sisters in all but name in the Eastern Palace, wave after wave of beautiful candidates from the provinces, and the supposed substitutes who resemble her in looks and bearing all tell her the same thing: no one can walk unscathed through the imperial harem. [Alternate
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The Pretty Palace Maid's Step-by-Step Rise to Empress 娇娇宫女，步步为后
[Palace intrigue / not both partners’ first time / devoted love in the later story / not a strong heroine; the female lead cries easily and isn’t particularly clever, so don’t expect too much!] After three years in the palace, Yue Li has worked carefully and waited for a chance at promotion. Just before she is promoted, a palace maid sharing her room is sentenced to death for offending a consort. Thunder crashes and rain pours that night as blood spatters everywhere. Terrified, Yue Li cannot sle
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Life Is a Play, and the Empress Is All About Her Acting Skills 人生如戏，娘娘她纯拼演技
[Palace intrigue + witty banter + sweet, delicate beauty + calculated mind games] The leads are not each other’s only partners. If that bothers you, don’t read. Be prepared for suspicion in the early chapters, followed by affection later. The pacing is slow, so proceed with caution if you prefer fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories. As a double award-winning actress and a seasoned star of palace intrigue dramas, how could Shi Yan possibly lose her nerve after transmigrating into the imperial hare
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The Empress Consort's Every Move Wins the Emperor's Heart 娘娘步步为营，缓缓登帝王心尖
[Palace intrigue and revenge, a slow-burn, slow-payoff story + stunning heroine + exceptionally clearheaded heroine with an unwavering goal] [The hero always favors the heroine + dotes on her exclusively in the middle + disbands his harem later] After Shen Qingtang’s aunt is schemed against and killed by Madam Shen, her goal becomes perfectly clear: she will enter the palace, become the most honored woman in the land, and make everyone who plotted against her aunt pay. She is also perfectly clea
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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
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The Concubine’s Code of Conduct 妾室职业守则
Ke Rong is a dedicated, third-rate actress who transmigrates and becomes a concubine in a prince’s household. The handsome, dashing prince provides her with food and lodging, occasionally shares her bed, and even pays her a monthly salary for doing nothing. She cannot quit this job and leave, and it would be hard to find another one if she did... Ke Rong decides that she must do her job as a “concubine” conscientiously and diligently, lest she get fired and lose the chance to live a leisurely,
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The Imperial Consort Smiled Over Her Shoulder, and the Cold-Faced Emperor Fell for Her 贵妃回眸一笑，冷面君王沦陷了
Palace intrigue + historical romance + not mutually chaste + marriage first, love later She is the general’s younger sister, with an excellent family background and beauty to match. After she transmigrates, she wakes up caught in the schemes and betrayals of the imperial palace. To protect herself, she resolves to become the emperor’s favorite consort. When they first meet, he tells her, “I will never like a woman like you in this life.” Gu Qingyan successfully presents herself as somewhat
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A Noble Consort in the Deep Palace 深宫有贵妃
When they were young and love stirred in his heart, he took her in. Once he held power, he had no choice but to hide her away. In the lonely inner palace, she waited quietly, day after day and year after year. For power and status, he feared nothing. He overcame every obstacle and held her close. Behind layer upon layer of palace gates and red walls, a dream within a dream awakened the lovers from their reverie.
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She Tried to Escape the Palace, but the Cruel Tyrant Kept Her Close 出宫失败，被狠戾暴君囚在掌心宠
After transmigrating into the palace as a maid, Qin Jianjian works diligently, flatters those above her, and deceives those below her. In the end, she becomes the top-ranked maid serving the Empress Dowager. She has undoubtedly reached the pinnacle of her profession. Money she’s openly entitled to, along with money she shouldn’t have, keeps flowing into Qin Jianjian’s pockets. Delighted, she just has to wait until she’s old enough to leave the palace and retire early. Who could have guessed the
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Tale of Two Souls: An Lingrong's Green Tea Path 双魂记，安陵容的绿茶之路
[Palace-intrigue power fantasy] [Master of disguise] [White lotus × black lotus × two souls with divided personalities: I’ve got a tea-art cheat for palace intrigue] The moment An Lingrong swallowed the bitter almonds, I, Lin Anxin, a master of high-society scheming, transmigrated into her. The good news: I know every episode of Empresses in the Palace by heart. The bad news: she’s about to be written out of this episode. I quickly shouted to Zhen Huan, “The Empress killed the Empress,” and
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The Eastern Palace's Beauty: This Favorite Consort Is Mine! 东宫姝色：这宠妃我当定了！
[The heroine is doted on from the very beginning. The story focuses on sweet romance, not scheming palace intrigue. The hero adores the heroine and is even a little lovesick. If that's not your thing, please move along, and don't leave a bad review over it. The heroine rises from a junior consort to a favored consort, Crown Princess, and Empress. The hero is a crown prince at first and becomes emperor later.] Su Niannian has landed in a male-lead-centric novel! Her new identity is Su Ling, the
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Empress of the Xie Family 谢家皇后
In her first year in the palace, she is a Talented Lady. In her fifth, she is a Jieyu. In her tenth, she wants to become empress. As empress, she can hold on to everything she treasures and keep it from being taken away. She can protect herself and her child, and she can... stay by his side. This is a road with only one direction: take a single step back, and all will be lost. The bright yellow ceremonial parasol moves forward, and the emperor's procession slowly enters the city gate. A yellow p
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Quick Transmigration Through Film and TV: My System Is Part-Time 影视快穿，我的系统是兼职
Tong Yao is chosen by a multi-universe drama System and bound to it to complete missions. A part-time System: just set aside two hours to complete a world based on a TV drama. Complete missions to earn amazing rewards! [Empresses in the Palace] Gua 6 [My Fair Princess] Han Xiang [Fated to Love You] Anna [Ode to Joy] Fan Shengmei [Empresses in the Palace: I Am the Empress Dowager] Wuya Chengbi [The Smiling, Proud Wanderer] Dongfang Bubai [Scarlet Heart] Maertai Ruoxi [Dreams Link] Lv Ping [Romanc
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Film and TV Crossover: From the Start in Empresses in the Palace 综影视：从甄嬛传开局
[Crossover with multiple TV dramas + slow transmigration + scheming heroine + single-minded ambition to rise to the top] The little demon Bai Lian failed her tribulation and was saved by a jade pendant. She transmigrates to different worlds to fulfill the wishes of doomed supporting characters. World One: Empresses in the Palace, An Lingrong (complete) World Two: Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, Gao Xiyue (currently ongoing) Updates as often as possible, ideally every day
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Supporting Characters in Film and TV Get Their Big Break 影视配角大翻身
Minor characters in dramas are often dragged into tragic fates because of the protagonists and the plot. Now these supporting characters have a chance to make up for past regrets and change their destinies. There may be quite a few original details, and the original protagonists are generally not portrayed favorably. Each short story will be fairly brief.
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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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Palace Intrigue Begins Before the Selection 宫斗从选秀前开始
In her previous life, she endured a life of hardship and instability. From the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Wu’an to a government courtesan available to any man, she finally escaped a life of being passed from one man to another, only to jump from the tiger’s jaws into the wolf’s den. She walked on eggshells at every step until she finally became the real power behind the prefect’s household. But the misery of her first half of life had already left her body broken beyond repair. Only o
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Travel Back to the Ancient Life of Chicken and Dog Jumping 穿回古代的鸡飞狗跳生活
[Everyone’s Darling + Adorable Kids + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy]: Transmigrating into a lovesick woman, Tang Zhuyun wakes up in the middle of a scene where she’s climbing into a man’s bed. She turns around and runs. Forget this bed, she’s not getting in! Who needs a man when her father is the top scholar, her brother is the top scholar, and even her son will be the top scholar? They’ll protect her, so she can do whatever she wants! As a master physician, she’ll focus on her career, save lives, and k
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Quick Transmigration: The Empress Keeps Making the Emperor Infertile 快穿之娘娘总是给皇帝绝育
Some emperors really can’t have sons. But some emperors are capable of having sons, only for the protagonist to make sure they can’t. After all, not every emperor in every world deserves to be treated like a person. Some emperors are downright dogs, so when it’s time to be ruthless, be ruthless. If a woman isn’t ruthless, she’s only being cruel to herself. Shen Qingsu is a wood-element ability user from the apocalypse. Regrowing severed limbs is just a basic skill for her. After she dies, the Sy
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Rising Through the Ranks in the Great Qing 我在大清升职加薪
Our goal is to get promoted and earn a raise!
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A Guide to the Supporting Female Lead's Reversal 综影视之女配逆袭手册
Story of Yanxi Palace: Gao Xiyue, complete Empresses in the Palace: Noble Lady Fucha, ongoing
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Film and TV Crossover: The Unhinged Boss Puts All the Naysayers in Their Place 综影视：疯批大佬专治各种不服
[Film and TV quick transmigration + satisfying revenge on scumbags + all-powerful heroine + lots of golden fingers] Also known as: [Film and TV Worlds: A Mad Boss Deals with Every Kind of Trouble] Content warning: pure brainless power fantasy!!! Ling Yuwei was a recent college graduate and an office drone. After struggling to stand out among countless cutthroat competitors, she finally landed a cushy nine-to-five job with weekends off. But before she could even start, System Xiao Ba, on its firs
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The Bedchamber Maid 通房丫鬟
As a bedchamber maid, Hua Rong has always remembered her place. She mustn't fall in love with her master, let him become addicted to women, or compete with his future young madam for his affections. After finally enduring until age and fading looks let her buy back her freedom, Hua Rong sets her sights on an honest, decent widower and plans to share a simple life with him. But her highborn master pins her to the wall, eyes red, and asks, “You'd rather have that old man than me?” Hua Rong: “...”
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Transmigrated as a Bedclimbing Palace Maid in a Palace-Intrigue Novel 穿成宫斗文里的爬床宫女
No prestigious family background, no peerless beauty. After transmigrating, film queen Li Songyue finds herself cast as the most expendable bed-climbing maid in a palace intrigue novel. The transmigrated heroine is ahead of her, the reborn supporting female lead is behind her, and there’s also a demanding emperor to contend with. From bed-climbing maid to empress dowager of the realm. She won’t know how cold it is at the top until she climbs there.
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Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己
In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her.
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Shocking! The Cast-Off Canary Is the Most Sought-After Woman in Beijing’s Elite Circle 震惊！被弃金丝雀竟是京圈万人迷
[The groveling ex gets reduced to ashes + one devoted couple, both chaste + the second male lead wins + sweet and satisfying, no angst] [Clear-headed, sweet heroine × refined scoundrel whose secret crush comes true] To repay her father's debts, Shi Sheng willingly signed a contract to become the stand-in for rich playboy scumbag Qi Ye. The rich playboy was handsome, hot-tempered, and wild. Shi Sheng accepted it all. She was gentle, considerate, kind, and forgiving, playing both father and mother
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Sinking with Eyes Wide Open 清醒着沉沦
[Book 2 in the series, complete] [Younger man + neither lead is inexperienced + each other's first love + rekindled romance] Lu Yanming, a fickle playboy, has one great humiliation in life: when he was young and foolish, he mistook a beautiful young man in women's clothes for a girl and fell hopelessly in love with him. Ten years later, just as Lu Yanming was ready to leave his playboy days behind and get married, he ran into his first love again. Because of his looks and sexual orientation, Sha
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The Supporting Actress Has Come to Her Senses 女配她清醒了
Jiang Weiqing only realized she had transmigrated into a book after waking up. To change the fate written for her, she hurried to get a divorce and stay away from the male and female leads. After falling out with her father, she took her younger brother and started over. She entered the entertainment industry to build a career of her own, but stumbled upon the fact that her stepmother was keeping a lover. Even the son her stepmother had given birth to wasn’t her father’s child. There was more to
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The Softly Alluring Sin Slave Has the Cold General Hooked 罪奴软诱娇，清冷将军上瘾了
Obsessive, overbearing male lead + gentle, refined second male lead + sweet, doting romance with a yandere + a love-triangle showdown One needle from Imperial Physician Shen, and the noblewoman was bedridden! Overnight, some members of the Shen family were killed and others arrested. The elderly, women, and children left behind were exiled to a bitterly cold land. The pampered eldest daughter of the Shen family was driven to use her body to secure medicine for her younger brother. Once the capit
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Reborn as the Cunning Seventh Princess 重生之腹黑七公主
In her previous life, she was the beloved Seventh Princess of the Ling Kingdom, dazzling and glorious. But she gave her heart to the wrong man. Her own son was crippled by her husband’s mistress, and that scoundrel of a man had both her hands severed. She died consumed by hatred. Reborn ten years in the past, she vows to kill her enemies with her own hands, make the scoundrel suffer, and beat the mistress with a cane. Anyone who stands in her way will die, be they mortal or god. In this life, sh
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Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷
[The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
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
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The Tale of Floating and Sinking 浮沉传
[Household and palace intrigue + play the pig to eat the tiger + revenge and a comeback] A heroine in the vein of The Story of Minglan, this acclaimed historical domestic-intrigue novel has racked up over ten million plays as an audio drama. For a story that understands reason and human nature, read The Tale of Fushen! Her father shows her no affection, her mother dies a tragic death, her stepmother spoils her rotten, and her half-sister schemes against her. In this treacherous household, watch
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Late in the Day 行止晚
[Devoted love + emperor and empress + tragic palace romance] 145,000 readers gave it top ratings, and countless readers cried their way through it! The year’s breakout historical romance, a heartache readers can’t forget. A clear-eyed, sweet empress VS a proud emperor whose love never wavers. Born into the imperial family, how can everything ever go as you wish? May we remain together forever, and may I keep you safe and at peace. A gentleman’s word is his bond. In a daze, I saw the moon rise.
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The Princess Is Fierce and Beautiful, and Her Shadow Guard Keeps Crossing the Line 公主暴戾绝色，影卫日日以下犯上
[Strong heroine + Feel-good power fantasy + Yandere + Devoted loyalist] Fate played a cruel trick: the most powerful imperial princess on the Jiuzhou Continent was reborn in the body of a lovesick little princess from Western Qi. The moment she awoke, the world was shaken. A scumbag points at her and curses? She orders coldly, “Drag him out and give him fifty more lashes!” The overlord of the business world is her subordinate, the most revered emperor in Jiuzhou is her older brother, the mighty
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